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It gets you a lot further in life than talent. You f***ing nerds. Say hi to Eli. He's racially ambiguous and Brandon. His hair is five. Fucking fabulous. Don't I. A dark joke disposition.

And there's a fat electrician. Welcome to unsubscribe. We ready to go, boys? Everyone ready? Holding it. Three, two, one. Oh, man, that's citrus. Holy shit.

Yes. Hello. Oh, yeah, shit. I'm in a dirty spot. Hello. All righty. Hi, everyone. Welcome to the unsubscribe podcast.

I am joined today by Eli double tap. Pewview, the Nick from Iowa. The fat electrician, the other Nick from Iowa. And myself, Brennan Herrera. Hi. What's up, bitches? We're here. It's day one. It's chill. I didn't drink last night. I've aged seven years already. And if I have, if I have one more person stop me and say, you're not that fat, I'm going to lose my mind. Well, your name is the fat electrician. I understand what you're saying. But they tell me that like I don't. I don't. know. They're just trying to boost your self-esteem, dude. Is it a disappointed? You're not that fat. Yes. Or is it like their heartbroken. Really? I don't know. I guess it's like, I don't,

I don't know. Have you seen the BMI of the average shot show inhabitant? Yeah. Yes, I have. Inhabitant. I'm convinced they live here. Let's make Nick fat. I would love like a 320 pound fat electric. Oh, I'm going to do it. I'm going to get fucking shredded. Not shredded. And then I'm going to Gained 50 pounds just like Mac from always sunny in Philadelphia. And then I'm, And then I'm gonna sell shirts to say I'm cultivating mass. That's my plan. 100% out for that.

Dude, Nick, this is like a year. I mean, last year, everyone's experiencing walking the floor and having a great time. You're like, oh, shit. What? It's my favorite. When somebody stops you and then you're like, everyone starts. Then you just get a crowd. Yeah, then like lines start forming.

That's the problem. It's alarming. Yeah. Because like it's no big deal. Like if somebody's oh, hey man, can I grab a picture real quick? It's like, yeah, yeah, sure. Like totally, man. Like obviously, you know, make time if you got it.

But, uh, yeah, when somebody stops you for long, you have like T minus 10 seconds. It's like, and some, there's sometimes where like, I don't know, I have this thing. Like I can usually tell if you recognize me, but I'm not going to be the one to approach you just because I've done that before and felt like an asshole because they actually didn't know who I was. And I'm like, cool, I'm never doing this again. I feel like a humongous douchebag right now. So you know who I am? Yeah, literally. And it was

just like, no, dude, I was just checking out your tattoos. I thought they were cool. I was like, cool. My favorite was when someone knew you and they're like, I don't know, Nick's like, oh, you want a photo? He's like, no, I'm good. No, I'm good. I will never ask somebody if they want a picture with me after that guy did that. I'm done.

Forever. If you want a picture, I'll gladly take one with you, but you're asking. One fucking dude ruined it for everybody. Everybody. Yeah, no, for sure. No, but like, I can like, I can tell when like, there's some like some people that recognize me. And then like, for whatever reason, they just don't approach me, which is fine. It's fine if you do. It's fine if you don't.

Just stop staring, please. Because I think you're going to shoot me in the running line. But then like one person finally does approach you. And then like opens the floodgate because like, oh, oh, he's not a dick in person and he's too happy to take video. And then it's just like now there's 12 people. I had to run away from the FN booth today. Because I just wanted to check out the new scar. and that like bolter 30 millimeter grenade launcher.

This is cool. Which was sick, by the way. It's pretty, and it's way lighter than you think. We're going to go see them tomorrow. FN? Yeah. At their booth? Yeah, we have a meeting with them.

Yeah, fucking you are. Okay, you don't want to scar. I talked to them today for like an hour. I think it, like, Christy's like, hey, we want to sit down and do a go over everything. I would, especially if we're like in like a back room or whatever, because we won't get anything done on the floor. Brant, wait. Why would I do a meeting on the floor? Eli.

I don't know. Eli, I'm about to make you very happy. I went to HK today. Did you get your scar or your fucking. Yeah, I got my breacher that I wanted. But more importantly,

he's like, how would you and some of your YouTube buddies feel about going out to Utah and going into the gray room? Sounds like a sex dungeon. And then he's like, and then if there's any guns that you guys want to shoot,

we can let you shoot some of them because there's a range 10 miles down the road. So we get to go into HK's fucking museum gray room of every HK experimental weapon they've ever made. And some of them are apparently on the table to shoot. Yeah, if you don't know what the gray room is, it is. Nick's beautiful. It's like the weapons library of like prototype weapon development for HK and like everything they've ever made, essentially.

Yeah. Also, Nick's the asshole that comes into this like a decade later with influence of content creation. Like, hey, you want a free gun? They do not do that with anyone. No. Like, even a conversation. It's like, hey, man, I'd love to work with you guys. They're like, cool, man.

Here's a patch. F*** off. That's been 10 years. No, they don't give a shit about anybody except this motherfucker for some reason. They like me. It's insane, dude. There's the only time I've ever seen that I was born away. I was like, you got a free gun for a what?

What the fuck? Yeah. You're over here with your purple heart. You're like one of the best trick shot guys in the world. You know how to make guns. you ever tried making dick jokes on the internet? It gets you a lot further. Yes.

It gets you a lot further in life than talent. You nerds. Oh yeah, we're going to repute with you. What's up, dog? Hey, man. Why you got your glasses on? I've had my glasses on the entire fucking day because I slept about four hours last night. You don't want to see what's under these things.

I'm just, I'm rocking the glasses. You're like, the Brendan Fraser like crying. If people like, oh my God, why is he not wearing his sunglasses? So I just keep them on. All shot show. I'm sleeping in these bitches. The whole time. How long before you saw him without his glasses?

I mean instantly. Have you seen him yet without his glasses? I did wear him getting married. I was there. Really? Oh, I was there. I sent it. You're like, no, honey, the sunglasses stay on.

Dude, the entire time, I'm telling you. She thought it was weird the first time in bed, but like after that she got used to it. Please just wear your socks like a normal weirdo. Just naked with the glasses on while. Honestly, that's kind of a vibe. I respected it. These glasses belong to you one day, kiddo.

Oh. Dude, I have 30 pair and everything, everywhere we go. I have sunglasses everywhere. Well, make sure you hold that mic up a little closer when you talk. I have, like, super sensitive bitch eyes. So even, like, fluorescent lighting will make my eyes, like, swell up. It's because they're finely tuned because you can shoot bullet. through fucking washers as they're falling through the sky you psychopath that's in that's the

yeah you're like you're like cyclops but with guns it's in the glasses dude which is a wild thing to be able to do you like how many times did that take you to know it i mean we've done it four times now and it was fairly quick uh everyone but the first one that's fuck you but i mean the part that you guys don't see is that when we get out there i sit there and shoot rocks out of the the air for five hours. As to all of us when we go train. I mean, that's like how I prepare for the shot. So then I can do it in one take.

I mean, we start with cans and then we go to rocks and then it just make sure I can narrow down like the horn washer. I've never lived in a place that was so remote and so flat that I could just shoot a handgun in the air without worrying about killing someone. I mean, I shoot at like a 90 degrees there across for me. So I still landing the bullet into the berm. but I mean we certainly could just launch him in the air because it's fucking a four mile empty section of cornfield so I love reading comments and Reddit threads about him people are just so mad they refuse to believe he's that good I've sainte it colio noir posted that short that somebody ripped out of a podcast of me and then everybody refused to believe that I could hit a target at like 150 yards with a concealed carry we were doing

damn near 200 that day and you went I know 15 for 15 so I fucking I fucking I fucking seen it. We actually got it in the video. And everybody's like, post the video. That didn't happen. It's like, it's literally, it's on the internet. You can watch them. Like, like, especially if you subscribe to Pepperbox. People just think shooting's way hard. And it's like, you, you see that sniper assassin to be able to shoot somebody a hundred yards? You need to be a trained professional to make a hundred and twenty five yards shot with a scoped rifle. Every dude from my high school class could do that at 50. Is it a pellet gun? Like what we're talking about? Why is this a difficult I mean, rifles are super easy for any beginner to get on and just to hit any distance, really, as long as it's like under a thousand.

It's not that fucking hard. Pistols are hard to shoot. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, people that have, like, experience on pistols assume that it's also as hard as, you know, on a rifle, but it's not the same thing. Pistol is the hardest thing to, yeah. And then would. Great at shooting pistols. Was it?

You are good at shooting pistols. Thank you. I don't even compete with you. You're just like on the A. You're fucking good. A-F-R, I just know if I sent you text that I'm above you in that game, I knew you would just quit what you were doing. Immediately beat me.

Dude, Adam from ballistic high-speed or high-speed ballistics. I get that mixed up every time. Sorry, guys. High-speed, low-drag. He keeps like, he just got the video game, so he's like, you'll get into a match and run the fuck out of that until he gets in, like, top 30 or something. He'll send me a text message, so I'll hop in there, like, live when he's streaming

and just shit on him quick. I love Adam. I just know that Eli will just sit there and do the repetitions until he's faster. I mean, that's the only way to get faster, right? And just burn them out until you get the score on it. Yeah, but that's the thing. He's like, all right, what's the one that I think I can do better than this person at? Okay, I'm going to sit here and do nothing but this for three hours until I can piss that person off with the text message.

And then I'll be like, oh, I beat him real quick. And now wait five minutes, new text message and I'm in third place or second place. Fuck, yeah, man. I got like last time I got hurt uh last time I tore my pack I started playing fucking cod and I started playing with him so annoying you get at cod bro I go like I'm okay at playing cod and I'd been playing like six hours a day because I was it hurt so I'm just listening to history audio books while playing cod and he's like oh yeah come jump on with me and my wife and I start playing with them I'm like 13 and three

13 and 5 like I'm doing okay decent check the scoreboard he's fucking 37 and 1 I don't play multiplayer either like I like Nothing nothing like fucking clocking out for the day After a long day of burning through 10,000 rounds so I can go home and decompress

by shooting virtual guns you fuck a psychopath bullying Chinese children on the internet But like video games are reaction time That's my thing it's just I'm good with reaction That's... What are you bad at? A lot of shit.

Just nothing with reactions. Deep. Depth perception and reaction is my game. Because I was a heavy equipment operator for forever. So like depth perception is how I made money. That also converts in a shooting fire. It helps with, you know, targets and, you know, science and shit. Didn't we...

Everything else? Terrible. Didn't we figure out that me and you ran into each other at work and didn't know it until after we became friends on YouTube? Correct. We were both on the same fucking job together I was a I don't know how public you are

No you're fine yeah Like I was digging through an alleyway And a city that he lives in And putting in power And then he'd come connect it In the junction boxes Like I swear I recognize them Because a Dalton my camera guy

Would send me his videos And he's like hey this guy's in The place you live And I'm like Everybody knows in Mason City Iowa This guy's also in Mason City I'm like oh fuck I've seen this guy before And then we didn't meet

like three years later, but... Yeah. I thought that was funny. hilarious. Same job, say. Small world. Well, it's smaller in Iowa. It is.

There's only seven of us, so it's bound to happen at some point, but... They're related. It's wild. You've been doing firearms or what? God, just since childhood. Yeah, yeah. He sent me a fucking, like, VHS video quality thing of, like, 10-year-old him doing a review of, like, a Mossburg 500.

He's been doing them since before YouTube was. a thing. I'm pretty positive. I have the first ever gun review on YouTube. It started in 2007. My first VHS videos were in 2006. You did VHS and then upload it. Oh yeah. Well, we uploaded digital versions of it a couple years later. But like then we got inspired by jackass and then it stopped to being so much gunship. But there's a bunch of just me and my friends being absolute degenerates on the internet still. So I hope that God nobody finds any of that. Dude, there was a $500 bounty on that right now. I look totally different.

Also not the same name, so good luck. I forgot that I had my YouTube account from when I was in high school and a couple years after high school where I uploaded a bunch of like jujitsu tournament footage that I did. And then people started sending me footage from like me in 2012 competing in jiu jitsu tournaments. I was like, I got to figure out how to fucking delete this account. I didn't have the logins or anything.

Oh, people will find it. I had to find it and like shut it. and like shut it down. Dude, I still had, uh, I shut it down forever ago, but I had like when I was in like sixth grade, seventh grade, me and my buddies had a, uh, I wasn't, I talked about it like before briefly, but like an airsoft like gun review channel where like I sat there and reviewed airsoft guns in a very alarmingly similar style to what I do now. So I've seen those and I absolutely love them.

I wish you kept them on the internet. Like way back in the day? Like, no, not really. How long ago did you delete them? Because I'm pretty sure. Really? They were gone forever ago. I'm pretty sure Texas blinking, Brandon. He was talking to me about some of that stuff, and I'm pretty sure he's the one that put me under the video. So, no shit.

You got something somewhere because I seen him and it wasn't that long ago. I would love to see him. Like, that's one of the things that. I just hope you're confusing another Mexican with Brandon. No, I'm possibly. Possibly. Or a different brand. But no, it's one of the things that, to my knowledge, like, they were scraped from the internet, like when I was just getting into high school because I realized that women smell nice and YouTube was lame. Oh, no.

Because that was before anybody was making money at it. It was just like some weird side quest you were doing. And like you were embarrassed about having a YouTube. With the hot electronics, did you? Yeah, a little bit. Your first time taste in the back of that PlayStation, it's a game changer. I wasn't embarrassed about it at all. You should see these 2006 VHS tapes.

Like, I thought I was a superstar on TV. I would like stop to like, we'll be right back after this short break. Like it was going to get sponsored. Mine was all jujitsu competitions. and then I had two videos of, I was like 190 pounds in high school and I dressed up as a gorilla and my 110 pound best friend

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I kept getting kicked out of stores. Jackass inspired so much. I need to see all these old videos. What the fuck? Have you ever woke up and felt like your mattress punched you in your sleep. I still think it was my wife, but yeah. Eli, do you have the mattress? Right here. A pillow? No, that's an Eli-sized mattress.

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Oh, you're a bit. Ghostbett.com. I have the oldest video content I have that's not on the internet is from... You're so old. You're literally a deep fried meme. 90. Oh, dude, that one. You're Mexican? Well, the funny part is, that's not that old.

That's from one of my videos. Dude, every time I see it every six months, it resurfaces, and somehow it loses pixels every time. What's the video you're talking about? We put the... He's got one where he's leaning up against the truck, and he just goes, damn, you're Mexican? Holy shit, you're Mexican?

I was like, hey, just roll the camera and pant to me. Editor, put this in the video. Or put this video in the, yeah, the super grainy, fucking reshared eight billion times. Holy shit, you're Mexican? It looks like an NES video. Like 8-bit at this point. I can't understand anything.

We put a, like, a chamber, Sabo or whatever you'd call it, like 3D printed little chamber insert in one of those like 812 gauge, like SIGA 12 knockoffs. And then probably Turkish. Funny enough. Panzer.

We put, and we put a 50 BMG inside of it and like actually got it to like lock up and we're like oh fuck so we we fired it and it exploded of course but it was from that video so it was only like three years ago yeah but it just got exploded oh yeah really well because we put the 3d printed chamber insert instead of just banana and you know yeah you had chamber pressure god oh no actually no no we didn't that's not what we did fuck now that i think about it we put uh we actually made a 50 bmg barrel i think we turned a 50 BMG barrel for this specifically. That's badass. So yeah, we just inserted the 50 BMG barrel and we're just like, this is

why you can't. They're like, oh, Zaga 12, similar size. We were trying to show basically like, look, no lockup is extremely important. Even if you could get it to run and like cycle and load one, it explodes immediately. And then it did in great fashion. Fair enough. It would have like killed the shooter. I found a, you know, typical Iwin story. I found an old double barrel shotgun in a barn. So, of course, you know, 50 BMG fits in that shit. A little string, a little behind. If God didn't want you to do it, he wouldn't have made it fit.

That's what I'm saying. We did it until it blew up because I wanted to, you know, this is got to look cool on video. It's working. I can't put it up because then everybody's going to want to do this. So we shot it until it blew up, and it was fucking gnarly. Oh, it was working? It was working flawlessly for way too long,

and 50 BMG is fucking expensive. So we had to do something. Now say it's awesome so we can cut this together really good for you. You should try it at home. Yeah, do it at home for sure. The, yeah, no, because it will work. Like, really well. It just doesn't.

How accurate? No, fuck no. Well, it's a smooth bore at that point. You know, it not only is a smooth bore, but the bullet doesn't, it's not even touching the ball. Oh, even doesn't touch the sides. Maybe 200 feet per second. Like, you can see it leave the barrel and it's maybe going 50 yards.

It's not doing anything. Is it just like, I bet it would. Yeah, I wouldn't want to get it. I mean, it's 750 grains traveling. It probably not be fun. Well, it's basically like you're sticking it in a vise and smacking the primer with a hammer. Yeah, pretty much. Like it's, you're losing all of your energy to the sides.

But it is a flamethrower like instantly like shoots out a fucking 10 foot flame. So that's, that's the cool part. Holy shoot. We got Mike Vining. We haven't talked about that yet. Yeah. Yeah, we have not. I don't think.

You got what? Mike Vining coming on the podcast. Who's that? Oh. The accountant. That's the accountant. That looks like a, that's an absolute F-G. That is awesome.

Yeah. I can't wait for you guys to do that. Oh, I also had an interesting meeting today. I guess I met somebody interesting. Uh, so I might be doing my first video on a GWAT veteran ever, which I've never done before. I met Chris Kyle's son. Oh, shit.

What? Yeah. No shit. And he's interested in me doing a video on his, dad and I was like well I like I need you and your mom's permission obviously and you guys got to like watch the video first make sure you're okay with it and it's accurate and all that and he's like yeah no totally no shit so I might yeah might get to do that video that is fucking vining and then Nick's gonna do one with vining it was uh because he's watching his stuff

and then he's like I was like a asked Nick first was like would you want to do one with him on him for his thing and Mike was like yeah I would enjoy that he's just my old he's he texts like You heard our phone call. It is, I'm talking to a 75-year-old grandpa that loves telling stories and they are the most wild stories you will ever hear. I'm like, uh-huh,

what? He's like, yeah. One of the running jokes in J-Soc was, I had to retire because I was costing too much because how much I traveled. I traveled more than the four-star J-Sach general.

I was the most moved asset in all of J-Soc during his time day. I'm like, what? That guy just seems so interesting. Like, I would love to sit down and get just absolutely hammered with that guy. Just listen to him. Just, I mean, I know that's the entire bit, but just he's so unassuming.

Right. And like the guy has such a storied career. Like, fuck. All right, I'll sit down and listen. Exactly. We might have to travel for an unsub if we want to do this. But do you remember my video on the 77th Infantry? division the old bastards yeah where like the average age was like 35 um my buddy that helped me

do the research for that video he found one that's still alive holy like all there and with it apparently he was 19 at the time and he was one of the reinforcements that got sent in so he showed up with a bunch of 35 year olds and this guy already like went and talked to him one of the stories he has is fucking hilarious so he showed up as a reenforcement enforcement and I want to say it was was it Guam not Guam maybe Guam one of the islands that they showed up to and they they cleared the island and they're going through all these cave networks that the Japanese were occupying and they keep finding like the officers chess and there's all this Japanese currency in it well they're Marines they're fucking using it his toilet paper they're playing

like playing poker and shit with it it's fucking monopoly money right yeah they're dicking around with it well he was playing poker and he won a bunch of it and he took it with him because he was just going to send it home to be a souvenir. So he had like, I forget, he had a shit ton of this money. And he was just like, oh,

it's a cool souvenir from the war, whatever, I'm just going to send it home. And it was just really quick. Now, even when we had to Narc, because it had, uh,

Saddam's face on everything. Even I have shit from when I deployed because it was funny money. Yeah. It was literal funny money. Yeah. You just find it like, oh, cool.

I have a worthless piece of paper currency. Yeah. It's a good, good memento. Yeah. You know what I mean? Take it home? have fun. See, and he's, you know, it's got like the bands on it. He's got stacks of it. Like, it's kind of cool. Like, whatever. Well, he follows them through the rest of the campaign and he ends up being in Japan during the occupation. And during the occupation, he was allowed to exchange it for U.S. dollars. And it ended up being like 30,000 US dollars in 1945. So he wired it back home and paid for him to go to medical school. And that's how he became a doctor for the rest of the rest of the time. So he wired. He wired it back home and paid for him to go to go to medical school. And that's how he became a doctor for the rest of.

of his life. Damn. How much is that in today's money? It was like 120 grand, I think. But this is also back before the price of college got inflated. Like, it was enough to pay for college five times. Yeah. Like 80 times.

Yeah. Like, Jesus. So in today's equivalent, it is approximately $30,000 in 1945 is equivalent to about $540,000 U.S. today. But you just love for my poker game that no one gives a... Homi had about a half million U.S. dollars in funny money. Damn. There was just the internet story I've seen last week.

It was 2015. Dude was trying to buy a house with Bitcoin. And the guy turned down the offer and it was like a $2 million house. So he's like, here's all this Bitcoin. I'll give you extra. I just want this house. And the guy's like, no, I'm not accepting that currency. Today's value of that Bitcoin was like $3 billion.

Oh, my God. Well, it's like the first thing ever commercially purchased. purchased with Bitcoin was a Domino's pizza. Yeah. And it's like 50 billion dollars worth of Bitcoin now. Thousands. Oh my God. Didn't the guy like just lose it or something?

Like he didn't like everyone. No, at that time, 2009, 2009, 2010, no one gave a fuck. This was peak fires of having nerd. We threw that currency away like it was nothing. There's this one tweet that gets like shared around all the time and it's this guy going, man, I sold all my Bitcoin at 50 cents and now it's worth $5. I wish I would have kept it.

And there's a fucking screenshot of this. It had been reshared. It just like goes viral every once in a while. And somebody commented on it. It was like, has anybody ever checked in on this guy? And this is like $50,000? Oh, no. Is this guy still alive?

And this guy responds in the comments, yes, but I'm dead inside. The Reddit account where the guy said, oh, I, I'm doing a giant risk. I'm spending my entire. life savings into Bitcoin and red's like you dumbass you dumbass that's never gonna pay out this is like 2010 or no 2000 and uh 14 because it went up to like a couple grand at that point and now it gets play back that reddit still exists and like homeboy's a billion right now do you know the the one where it's like the guy who went on reddit or one of one of those sites like that where he uh was talking about like hey guys i need help i've gotten a or uh

a cylinder stuck inside of an M&M's tube and just like real vague about it and everybody's like you f***ed an M&M's tube he's like no it is a cylinder but it's also important to me

that it comes out intact and it's like this whole fucking thread how do I remove the cylinder but the it was something years later like this is old internet shit right But it was something years later where it was the same guy, I guess somebody recognized the Reddit account.

But somebody's asking a question and the guy responds. And somebody responds to him responding just goes, don't you mean the inside of a cylinder? And he just replies, so I have to bear this cross forever, huh? That's awesome. Oh, my God. Do you like a mouthful of hardwood? Yes. Go on?

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You were like, oh, I have a story for you. Oh, it's my new Fat Files video. I got coming out soon. Go on. So I did like the internet myth that mattress firms are laundering money. And I like kind of busted it. So then I was like, oh, well, what else? What other memes can I bust?

And I've been sent this meme like 10,000 times about how during the Cold War, Pepsi had this world's sixth largest Navy because Russia. traded a bunch of warships. And I always wanted to do a fat electrician video on it. So I started researching it. And real quick. At one point you did research this a while ago because you've been planning this for a minute. I had just a list of video ideas at my house like on a whiteboard.

And one of them was Pepsi Navy. And at one point you would come over to my house. And when you had left, I noticed on my whiteboard next to Pepsi Navy was just a little dash that said fake and gay. Pretty much it. Yeah. Not really what happened at all. but now I like now that I'm like doing these myth busting videos um I figured I'd go through and the story is so much fucking funnier than like Pepsi had the sixth largest navy on the planet it's hilarious um because we talked about it a little bit yesterday but you said there's a bunch more details yeah so in uh in 1959 basically like Stalin had died at this point and the Soviets had nukes and everybody's just kind of like all right well maybe we should try to get along and not blow up the planet so they tried to do this they called

at a cultural exchange and basically it's like a trade show essentially like america was going to send a trade show full of american shit showing off american culture to the soviets in moscow and then the vice president was going to go over there because they weren't going to send the real president to moscow and then vice versa so in 1959 they sent over you know they're bringing over like the 1959 chevi impala and they build an american house and they're bringing over all these american companies and american food and whatever whatever well they they go to coca cola because They want to show off soda, obviously. And Coca-Cola's like, I'm not dealing with the commies.

No. So they're like-based. They're like, yeah, exactly. They're like, okay, well, we'll go with Pepsi then. Pepsi's like, yeah, sure, we'll do it. Just another reason to drink Coke. Yeah, exactly. So Pepsi shows up.

And Nixon's over there and he's like escorting Nikita Cruzeff through this trade show. And Nikita Cruzef is like being thoroughly unimused, unimpressed by everything. Like he can't let him know that he thinks America's awesome or whatever. And so it's going to be like fucking. impossible to get Nikita Khrushchev to try Pepsi. And if he does, he's going to say it tastes like obviously. But the Pepsi executive that they had at the time, Donald Kendall, he like waits for the opportune moment. And they're going through and they go into this mock American house and Nikita Khrushchev and Nixon get into, they call it a debate. It was just straight up a shit talking contest about

capitalism versus communism. And it's literally called the kitchen debate. And they like get into this heated debate and right at the end of this debate like Donald Kindle's like this is my shot. So he grabs two bottles of Pepsi. And he like finesses the fuck out of Nikita Cruzchev because he comes up to him. He's got two bottles of Pepsi. One of them's for Nikita. The other one is also for Nikita.

So when he comes up to Nikita Cruz Jeff, he's like, I want you to try Pepsi. This one is made with water from America. And this one's made from with water from the USSR. Which one's better? So he's forcing him to say it's good. Just genius. Brilliant. Fucking.

great marketing tactic. So Nikita tries it and he's like obviously the one with the USSR water is fantastic. And they snap it. They get the pick and Nikita Cruzchev drinking a Pepsi with a big fucking smile on his face. And it becomes like this mythical drink that capitalism has. It made a fucking communist dictator smile. Right. So like people want it.

And Pepsi like there's no soda there. So if Pepsi can break into that market, they'll have a monopoly. It'll be a shit ton of money. They don't have anti-monopoly laws or communist. Like so that's their plan. but then like shit heats up in the cold war and it doesn't end up happening. But Donald Kendall, this Pepsi executive and Nixon become homeboys. And then Donald Kendall becomes a CEO of Pepsi and like helps fundraise and for Nixon during his presidency and he gets elected.

So then in 1972, Nixon is having, uh, the salt one conference, uh, strategic arms limitation talks. Basically like, you've got 10,000 nukes. We've got 10,000 nukes. Let's just put a cap on it. We can blow up the world 30 times over. Let's quit manufacturing nukes for no fucking. reason is basically what it was. So this conference goes good.

And it's like the messaging to the commercial industries. Like we're working with the Soviets now. So Donald Kendall, the CEO of Pepsi comes in and he's like, this is my shot. And he goes to Russia. He's like, you guys want Pepsi? They're like, fuck yeah, we do. And they're like, okay, well, here's a problem.

We can't take the ruble because a ruble's monopoly money. Nobody else recognizes it. Well, apparently you can get half a million dollars in Monopoly money in Japan. This is true. This is true. So he goes to The Russians and they're like, well,

we've got monopoly money and vodka. And he's like, well, that'll fucking work. So he works a deal where they're trading Stolichnaya. Yeah, it's like Stolichnaya or something like that. Stolichnia vodka for Pepsi straight across. Because you can't get Soviet anything in the U.S. Because the sanctions and everything. So Donald Kendall goes to the U.S. government.

He's homies with the president. Basically goes to the president. And he's like, deal. If I trade the Soviets a bunch of Pepsi, basically give them diabetes and they give me vodka. Can Pepsi sell the vodka in the U.S. because we're keeping the money? It's not actually going to the Soviets to buy like gums and shit. And I're like, sure, why not? So when you originally told me the story yesterday, yesterday, I first thought I had was I would love to buy a bottle of whatever the fucking Pepsi Russian import bottle was. Yeah, from like 1970s. And then as soon as you told me it was Stulloch Naya, I was like, I never mind. I'm all right. Did you know that Staples Professional can tailor a custom program to make running your business easy?

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And they're drinking more Pepsi than Americans are drinking vodka. So it's like it's not paying for itself. So then they go to the Russians. They're like, what else she got? Like the vodka is not enough. And they're like, we got a bunch of old warships. And they're like, uh, fuck. Okay.

And like the meme plays it off like they traded Pepsi Co, 20 Russian warships, 17 submarines, a frigate, a cruiser, and a destroyer for Pepsi. That's not what happened. Pepsi does the same deal proposition they did with the U.S. government with vodka, but they do it with Norway. So they go to Norway and they're like, hey, if we get the Russians to sell you 20 junk military naval vessels, you guys can scrap them. You give us the money. and we're just going to give them diabetes. And Norway is like, well, yeah, as long as we're not giving them cash to buy more weapons and win the space race and shit with, yeah, sure, why not? So they do it.

They basically brokered a three-way deal so they could get a bunch of cash. And that's what they did. And that's where the meme comes from, right? But then it gets funnier because a year later, they run out of money again. And they're like, what else you got? Well, we're out of junk warships, but we do have shipbuilding capacity. so we'll build you 10 brand new oil tankers valued at a billion dollars if you keep selling us Pepsi and they're like oh okay dope and then we'll just sell it to the fucking Norwegians and it'll be fine

perfect right that was in 1990 what happens in 1991 yeah a certain thing happened with you know tearing down that wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union and all that so obviously it takes more than a year to build 10 oil takers. So the Soviet Union collapses before they get their oil tankers and they're already like giving them Pepsi and all this other shit. And so like overnight, it was one sovereign nation and then

now it's 15 separate nations. Nobody knows who's in charge. There's no governments. It's run by the fucking mafia. And like their whole supply chain is just shattered into a million pieces, right? Because the factory the factory that was making the bottles is in fucking Lithuania now. And the factory that put the Pepsi in the bottles is in Belarus.

And the only way to get the bottles from the Lithuanians is to pay them in hard cash and then to transport him. You have to bribe the mafia for permission. And then now you're not dealing with the Soviet government to bottle the shit. You're dealing with like the foreman that ran the factory because now he just owns it apparently. So it's like all mafia deals. They're like desperately trying to work out this fucking deal.

Which a lot of those guys like it was the the mad dash after the collapse of the Soviet Union to basically just embezzle and steal as much as they could. Yeah, absolutely. Because it wasn't their shit to start with. They're just like, oh, I now control $500 million worth of bullshit. Sell it immediately so I can move to a nice country. Okay, here's the crazy part that doesn't make sense to me. Like, if I was watching this as a movie, I would be like, this movie's stupid.

The plot doesn't make any sense. You know what I mean? Like, why didn't Gandalf just had the giant eagles take the fucking to the volcano? You got to bleep out. Do you can say that? Yeah. You can't say, no shit. Yeah.

Oh, I've said that so much. Sorry. Like, I had to have said that. The Russians literally stole the way to make nuclear warheads. Why the fuck didn't they just steal the recipe recipe for Pepsi? Did they not have the capacity to make it? No, they did.

They bottled it there. All Pepsi was doing was selling them the concentrated syrup and it was all bottled in the USSR. Pepsi showed them how to make a Pepsi like a bottling plant and how to make Pepsi with the concentrated syrup. Oh, well, In that case, well, what the fuck? The only thing they were selling them was a concentrated syrup. And they're like, the only thing I was protecting them was the secret recipe. And it's like, give that to your scientist.

They reverse engineered the secrets to split a uranium at them and blow up the fucking planet. You guys can't figure out Pepsi. Very funny, actually, when you put it in that way. Like, what the fuck are we talking about here? Like, what a weird moral compass of like, I don't mind stealing nuclear secrets. But the fucking recipe for Pepsi is. Some things are sacred. Yeah.

That's the line. What the fuck are we talking about here? We'll end the world. but come on. Yeah. So they go to the Ukrainians now, because that was part of the USSR,

because that's where the ships were getting built, was in Ukraine. And they go to them and they're like, hey, those 10 oil tankers that you're currently building are ours. And they're like, no, they're not.

Fuck you. So they're like, uh, we kind of need them. And they're like, what are you going to give us? Guess what the Ukrainians demanded in exchange for a billion dollars worth of oil tankers so Pepsi could get paid.

More Pepsi? Partially. what's that restaurant Pepsi owns? Oh, that's right. Fuck. I don't even know Pepsi owned a restaurant. They own Yum brands. Pepsi comes to the day, or the Ukrainians come to the table with Pepsi and they're like, fine.

We'll give you a billion dollars worth of oil tankers. But we want 100 pizza huts and five Pepsi plants. What the fuck? Americans will use anything but the metric system. The entire thing is just one thing. I told this to tackle. it last night on Mambor's morning. He's like, the entire thing is just one big drug deal. He's like, I'll give you this window air conditioning unit for a dime bag.

Like, what the fuck are we talking about? It's just like how many, what is it, uh, miles per hour? Like, uh, pizza huts per aircraft carrier. No shit. How many pizza huts per oil tanker? There's a number. So, uh, yeah, they work that deal out. They get their oil tankers. They sell them. And then also because now they're not communist anymore, allegedly, Coca-Cola comes in and then just mops the fucking floor with Pepsi. Well, because to my understanding, the only reason why Pepsi owns so many restaurants like Pizza Hut and whatnot is like, it's a marketing thing.

Yeah, like nobody would carry them. So they're like, oh, well, what if we just buy? What is it, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut? Taco Bell, KFC and Pizza Hut. They bought Young Brands for the sole purpose of forcing their way into the restaurant market to get people to try Pepsi so they could start to, because everybody else had to be. still don't like it.

And we still don't like it. Correct. Couldn't force their way to do it. That was their plan. It's fucking wild. Because all good ideas require force. This is the idea of a distributor.

It's like echelon being blah. Getting to that level where it is trading, which 100% you can buy as much echelon as you want for jets or can we say that?

Oil tickers. Oh, we can't. I mean, it's a baller move, though, to be like, oh, you guys don't want my shitty knockoff Coca-Cola in your restaurant? I'm going to buy your fucking restaurant. It's pretty gangster moves if we're being honest. Dude, it's, I mean, even buying a fucking oil tanker to trade for drink is wild. Getting the, getting the, getting the, yeah, the cool part is like Pepsi was the first

American product sold in the USSR. But then, like, and it's like, it's like, it's like, marketing backfire because like they were like you know oh well by the time communism falls will be ingrained in the culture we've been here for two decades already people have a habit of drinking Pepsi blah blah blah blah blah well then the fucking wall falls the Soviet Union collapses and everybody's like oh this is a knockoff they're willing to sell the commies they've been keeping the good shit for themselves we're drinking coke like and that's exactly what happened like Coca-Cola came in and just shit stomped him even with like the pre-pre for two well because that was that was the whole thing is it was like, you know, Pepsi was like sanctioned by the fucking commies and blah, blah, blah, blah, and it was like, oh, America's keeping the good shit for themselves. So everybody's like, oh, we want to try the American shit. Come on, guys, does loyalty mean nothing to you? I have literally shift my former boss.

Was it Pepsi or Coke that did the, hey, you get a free jet? That was Pepsi. Yeah. And then they used a Harrier jet or something. Yeah. And someone did the math and was like, wait, actually the point. Costs way cheaper than just buying it. Yep.

So I will do that route and then get the jet. And then they did not have the jet. Do you know the story? Yeah, they did a whole Netflix has a whole documentary on it, which is the only reason I haven't done a video on it. But like the kid, the kid sat down and did the math and came up with like how much it would cost to hire 50 employees and rent out warehouse space to buy massive quantities of Pepsi. And just to scan the codes.

and then like how much we could resell it for if they knew that they didn't have the Pepsi points and like how would we get rid of it and he did all the math and figured it out. And then he went to like his rich uncle who was like a venture capitalist with this idea and his like rich uncle was like backing him. And was like willing to give him like the millions of dollars he needed to buy all this Pepsi. And then like before they started, he re he goes in and reads a fine print and it's like, oh, you can just buy Pepsi points also. Now it's way cheaper because I don't have to actually buy the Pepsi. and hire the employees and scan all the codes and have a warehouse and do all this bullshit. So he just goes in with like a couple million dollars and writes a check for Pepsi points. And then goes, okay, I want my hairier now.

And Pepsi's like, uh, no. Like they went to court over it. Yeah. I don't know how the court or how the, the lawsuit went. But I also think it would be horrific to be the, the guy who's in charge of this marketing employee for Pepsi and just see somebody like, oh, man, these Pepsi point things are really like kicking. off and see somebody like delivers you a four million dollar check for Pepsi points like oh something's

wrong oh I sense a disturbance didn't they try to say oh well we thought it was just way too over the top we didn't know anyone would take the serious and then that's when they lost like obvious satire kind of thing they won in court yeah oh yeah wait Pepsi won or the other guy yeah Pepsi won no shucks oh I thought the guy won no Pepsi won because it was like um no no no reasonable person would take this seriously. It was basically their like line of argumentation and they ended up winning. That's insane. Supposedly,

behind closed doors, they offered him like a multi-million dollar payout to not take it to court. And he declined, took it to court and lost. No reason. Better regrets that. I mean, to be fair,

he didn't lose his own money, right? He lost his uncle's money. I mean, so like, potato. Yes, that's how to look at it.

The, uh, he had no reason. person would think that that's legit. It's like, well, to this America, first of all. Marvin Hemeyer, sometimes reasonable men must do unreasonable things.

I remember watching that shit points. Dude, I remember watching that shit on TV. It's like, oh man, that's a lucky son of this shit wins that thing. I was also like 10, I think, at this time frame. They should have just reached out to their Soviet buddies and said, hey, can we

barter a plane? Oh, fuck. How would you feel about a nice mig? Well, worse than a Harrier. Cody. Cody. Cody. Cody.

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Yeah. I don't know what he'd want to ask us, but... Well, you're the veteran, Brandon. Oh, fuck off. That would be... If you could put it as your quote as a veteran, whatever you want to say. I just say something nice about the book and like he doesn't get the joke and just puts like whatever the chat GPT says my rank is or whatever in the book. I mean, we have literally, he's like that's what he wants that.

And then we have it. It's like 100% golden. I'll give all he's asking whatever he wants. We will agree we've all said this. the book cover should be what, Nick? The meme. It's got to be the meme. It's got to be the meme.

They're like trying to make it like some cool bit. Like no, bro, just put the meme. Put the meme and label like the name of the book is I'm that guy. The account. I'm that guy. Like any of that. You're like, if I'm walking through the airport and I've seen that or at one, wherever. And I see that book cover.

I'm like, I need to buy that. Yeah, that goes hard as fuck. That meme goes hard as fuck. That's the only reason I like put the name to the. It's the meme. Do you have lime? Yeah. Because that made me curious enough to, like, research who that guy was.

And then I was just like, oh, holy shit. Yeah, so that is the book cover is the only way to go about that. That dude's the most crazy stories you will ever fucking. I can't wait for you as a release that podcast. I know the cliff notes. Like, I know, like, the two-sentence version of his career. But I'm, like, intentionally waiting because I want to hear, like, the details on the podcast. He's been to 80 countries, I want to say he told me, like, yesterday.

He's like, I've traveled to 80 countries. How many of them are left? I was just going to say, probably a good portion of those aren't the same countries as they were. What did he got there? That is insane. Oh, you know, just backpacking in Yugoslavia. It's all fun in games till the blacked out Chinook rolls up, Blair and Sosa.

He's just like the kind of guy. He's just like got his walk man, the big old glasses listening to Enya, all about to just end. Have you been on YouTube? and looked at the comment section of that song. Love Sosa by Chief Keefe. That's the song that Delta was listening to, apparently.

In the Venezuela, rate. All the comments are about Maduro. The last thing Maduro heard. He's still alive. Yeah, but he got earmuffs put on immediately after. So, yeah, literally the last thing he heard. I just, oh, God, again, that fucking chief marketing move with,

a jaco oh god dude with this sweatshirt hilarious I missed it what are you talking about after he was getting

like paraded around and all the pictures he's wearing a blue hoodie that's a jaco origin hoodie oh shit not released yet yeah yeah that was a

pre-released product and that's badass someone snuck that in and on him for all the photo shoots did he drop it like as soon as that got leaked Yeah.

Because that one of a heart Yeah, because I ordered one. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Naturally. The Maduro edition, bro. That's awesome.

That's fucking what. I wonder if there was any pushback on that. I know Jock probably was like, Jock got on Twitter. Some Patriot put it on him. I want to know how much that single shirt sold. Probably a ridiculous amount, right? Oh, dude, that is.

everyone's fucking buy one, especially when it is a pre-release that's not supposed to be out. It's like, hey, homeboy, yeah. We just brand this mission. Now it's part of this. Origin's such a cool company, though, to begin with. Like, I've been following them forever.

Like, even before I was on YouTube. Which ones? Is that just his clothing brand? It's, uh, him and, um, him and Pete, another, like, Jiu-Jitsu black belt guy, like, got together because they're both, I think Jocco's from, I don't know if Jocco's from New England or not, but this Pete guy's from New England and,

like New England had like a humongous, uh, textile industry back in the day. And like it all just got like sent overseas and shit after World War II. And he wanted to bring it back. And they literally like made a shop in his backyard of his house like out in the woods up in like, I think it's in like Maryland or it's in Maine. And, um, they have all these cool, like they have a cool YouTube channel. And like the YouTube channel is like you can't get the equipment to like ring spin denim and shit anymore. Like that equipment just doesn't exist in America. and like the machines are rare and all this.

It's like, it's like microchip machines today. You know what I mean? Like, there's only so many factories in the world that have these intricate machines. It's the same reason we can't go back to the moon. Yeah, exactly.

And, uh, so they like have these videos where they like go into like abandoned factories in like Maine and shit and find all these old machines and like refurbish them. And now they're like the only company in America that makes actual denim jeans, blue gene work jeans in America. And they're the only. I think they're the only American company that makes like Jiu Jitsu geese and all kinds of shit.

So there's one that Micah was telling me about that's in like, I don't know if it's in like an Oregon or whatever. Maybe I'm just associating that with the hipster ass thing that's about to come next. But he said like they had to find the machinery in like Japan or some shit. I don't remember where it was Korea. Because like again, we lost the ability to produce American denim like that.

But they got like a machine. Japan. Japan. Japan. Yep. But he was telling me that apparently. Apparently, the whole thing with denim is that you're not supposed to wash it, which sounds gross. Yeah, so you're backing me up on that.

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Wash it much at all. Yep. Holy fuck. Yeah. So like, to me, I'm just like, so those jeans you're wearing right now, you have never washed. He's like, nope. Like, that is disgusting. Like, that sounds just horrible.

Why would you want a material that you are going to, put on your sweaty ass and just never be able to watch. Gross. I did not know that about, I guess, traditional denim. So whatever the fuck Walmart makes is objectively better. The stretchies. Also, Nick, you got your low-income belt

from BJJ, right? Yeah. Yeah. No or yeah? That's the I-Wan yes. No, yeah, yeah, yeah. Purple? If you want to know, it's yeah, no. Yep You got that He's over your cat

Click Oh I got the joke You're doing purple No I got my brown belt And jujitsu Congratulations Thank you

Oh that's what it's called Yeah Just to my understanding They Like you You basically You're at the level Where you could

You could get your black belt It's just like There's nobody around I mean yeah More or less And it's just like That was kind of the thing So I

I went out to World of War ships because I'm in the video game and it's kind of a funny story. So World of Warships is doing this thing where they partnered up with the We Defy Foundation, which basically gets money and then like if you're a veteran and you want to try Jiu Jiu Jitsu, it's expensive or whatever, they'll pay for like your first years of tuition and buy your ghee at any like We Defy certified academy. So they partnered up with World of Warships and they're doing these like jujitsu seminar tournament things on like aircraft carriers and shit. like all these museum ships all across the country. And they wanted me to go out to one on the USS Lexington out in Corpus Christi. I was like, yeah, sure, I'll go. So I go and they're like, obviously the world of warships people don't really understand a lot about jujitsu.

So they pitch it to me and they're like, yeah, it's a, it's a tournament or a seminar or something. We just want you to be involved because like, we know you do jujitsu and you're in the video game. And I'm like, yeah, sure, like whatever you guys need. Like I'll go do like a charity match and you know, grapple somebody or I'll, I'll teach some moves at a seminar or whatever you want. Well,

then like I get a hold of the We Defy guy and he's like, yeah. So, and I was a purple belt at the time. And he's like, so you're a purple belt and he's like, I'm like yeah. And he goes,

what are you hoping to get out of this? I was like, I'm like, I'm happy to do whatever you want. He's like, well, they want you to like teach some moves. And I was like,

I can do that if you need to. He's like, he's like, that's fine. But just so you know, like the other people teaching the moves are Travis Stevens, one of the guys that got his black belt the fastest in the world

and is also a Olympian in judo. Victor Hugo, who's the best jujitsu practitioner on the world at this point in time. And then like some outrageously other world. And it was Gordon Ryan. World class, it wasn't Gordon Ryan. But it was some like other outrageously high

ranked black belt that's like world class like known name. And it was like, I don't want to go up with those guys. And then as a purple belt be teaching moves. He's like, yeah, I didn't think so. So I just got to be like the practice dummy. They showed the moves on, which is fine. That's also, that was kind of funny. Dude, terrifying when you're like, I'll teach. And then you hear those of instructors and the sheer gap, Nick can ball up anyone here in seconds. Also, that applies what they would do to Nick.

It's like a high school physics teacher being like, did you want to teach a seminar with Albert Einstein? No. No. Like, it's not the I'll teach the daycare class while he teaches the adults. So, like, that happened. But when I went out there, like, I met Victor Hugo and, like, we were hanging out and, like, he was a good dude. So then I started talking with him. And then so now I'm, you know, my, my gym in Iowa was under Victor Hugo and Steve in their, their affiliation. So we're under them now.

Nice. Okay. Came out, been training with them. They come out all the time. So do you own part of your jujitsu gym? Yeah. Nice. Wait, did you get?

Of course you do. We were talking about it. It was me and me and Chris would. Yeah, we're talking about this the other day. And it just so happened to get brought up with your jiu-jitsu gym. I'm like, I bet you anything that motherfucker owns a piece. I'm like, that's just Nick's entire personality is, huh. I like the way this works.

How much? How's your business go? Huh. Give me five minutes. Come back. All right, how much for 20%? Pretty much. It's about how it went.

Yeah. So. You do do that for sure. Yeah. Anything you like, you're like, I wanted. Let's do it. How much? So now that, did they come down and get help get your brown belt or how did that system work? I mean, it was just kind of like, you know, like explain the situation. They come down. They, yeah, you know, Steve, who runs the gym with Victor Hugo. He's a six time world champion. He's fucking so good. It's insane. And then he brought down his, uh, another black belt that's also a world. champion. So like they came down and we were rolling and like, you know, just seeing where we're at. And like I've been doing jiu-jitsu for 15 years. Usually it's supposed to take you 10 years to get a black belt. But, you know, like a significant portion of the time. I hadn't been under a black belt. We had a black belt for a minute. That guy moved away. So like I literally just didn't

have anybody to promote me ever. So, uh, they came down. We rolled a bunch. They beat the dog shit out of me. And I got 50 pounds on both of them. They just beat the f*** out of me the entire time. But apparently I did good because the next time they came down, they gave me and the other guy I owned the gym with, they gave us both brown belts. Oh, that's awesome. Yeah. Humbling experience when you're like, I think I can do decent against these guys. Never fucking much. It's just like it's stupid.

Well, it's like the average guy who could fight can fight until he's in the ring with Sean Strickland. It's like, all right, well. I mean, you can do. We've talked about it. It's just the average person that thinks they can do a bar fight and then they box. for the first time in their life with somebody that knows how to box and they're like,

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If you got a purple belt, I got a pretty good idea how good you are. If you got a brown belt, I got a pretty good idea how good you are. If you're a black belt, I have no fucking clue.

Like you're any, it's just the greater than symbol. Yeah. Like you're anywhere from Gordon Ryan to like some middle age to that just did it for 11 years. Like, I have no fucking clue how good you are at this and it's, it's bad. Oh, man. Yeah, it's a good time though. What are some of your New Year's resolutions? I want to cut back on stimulants. I'm horribly

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Tell them on sub or we'll fucking kill you. Then I brought the man versus morning boys down in Zach, and I convinced them to go to Jiu-Jitsu with me. How did they do? I was wondering that, because I want them to also go to box. Those boys have no cardio when it goes. Grappling is like a different type of cardio,

just from doing drills. By the time we got to doing live sparring, it was like they all had a good 30-second burst in. them before they were dead. I'm the laziest grappler fucking period because of that.

I'm like, I'm letting you expend all your energy and then I'm going to capitalize stupid ass mistakes. I am not putting it in even boxing I do the same time. It's annoying.

I'll be very aggressive in the most passive way. So it's like swinging through lots of swinging until you get tired. Okay, now I can fucking take advantage of your arms going like this.

That was the last time we sparred. because we had a really good, like, first round. Yeah. It was when we were with Ethan Bernard. Yep. And we were just kind of showing him some stuff. And first round was really good.

And I was just like, I wasn't like super prepared to go into the boxing gym that day. And so I'm like, oh, okay. And it's been a while because I can, you know, I'll take like a month or two break, you know, between times. Going on the second round about halfway through, my cardio is expended. I'm being very aggressive on Brandon. And he is swinging, which I love. Like he is punching. and swinging because I'm just pushing him,

I'm wasting no energy. I didn't have a chance. The second half of round two, I'm just getting the shit beat out of me. Eli's just having fun beating the brakes off me in front of Ethan. There were several times where I just like ran away. I can't do this right now. Look, I'm done.

Just give me a moment. I'm fucking wind up. My trident truth strategy is I'm tired, but I'm going to keep pressing forward, so maybe he won't notice. It's my strategy. Have you done any fighting? Other than street fighting? No, not for shit.

What? Have you not rolled with him? Do. Have you seen that fucking guy? I'm good. What do you think I shoot a gun? I weigh 180 pounds. I'm not fucking doing that.

What is the joke? Is like you got a black belt and click pow? Yeah. Clock 19. Glock 19. Benfu beats Jiu-Jitsu every time Never you were like

I'm gonna test this out You're like no I'm gonna just shoot again I mean a little bit when I was a kid I mean like they had a ring in a old fucking School In Iowa where they would like set up like you go have your mom Sign up a waiver and then you get in a ring and fight But it was with other people doing the same thing I was doing

So it was the same thing And a bunch of older guys betting cash on the sideline It sort of sounded like Yes It was exactly that So like kind of but not anything to like a higher level. Oh shit.

Like I've never fought anybody that actually knows how to fight. It's always just been like, you know, beer muscle jackass at a bar. That's... It's a humbling experience. Yeah.

I don't have the cardio for that shit, dude. Yeah. We talked about it the last time I was on this podcast. I can't. Cardio is not in my bloodline. I just can't fucking do it. Well, because that's the crazy part too, because you think about like,

you know, like bar fight, street fight, you know, stuff like that. Yeah, three, four swings, it's usually broken up. The whole thing lasts 15 seconds at most. You get somebody in there and it's like, all right, we're doing multiple three minute rounds and you can't get out until that timer's over.

It's like, all right, that's a completely different ballpark. You get a minute break out in between. Oh, hey, cool. Don't spend it all in one place. How'd Zach do? I just like Zach at Walmart or McDonald's. Did you see that? That was fucking funny.

That was a great. I was beating up on Zach a little bit for funzies. Did he shrimp? no I mean he kind of owed it to him he couldn't do shit shrimp is like an escape move army teacher what's it called an actual hip escape hip escape yeah hip escape hip escape shrimp yeah military's like shrimp shrimp shrimp it's combatants it's the dumbest shit in the world

but no Zach again we have like a promo for underwhelming it's just like me like I hit a barram bolo on Zach which is like not a move somebody as fat as me should be able to pull off Like it's funny. Poor sacks just getting torn up in a pretzel. Pretty bad. I mean, they were so gassed. It was like, I was being nice to him, but he was just so tired.

Everything felt aggressive to him. And like, I do this every week. I'm fat. Like I know how to do this for two hours and not get tired. And they do not. I was going to ask you to explain that move a little bit. And then I realized there's an open space over there that's big enough. to try it and I don't really want to do that with you.

I can show you it's fine. I just like, that's the day. Can we be the old guys putting pets on this? Well, that's the day. I know who I'm betting on. Zach Nolan and Tackett learned that

Nick and they can them. Yeah, I mean, that's not fighting Nick. Like, he did what he wanted. That's the saying is if one guy can hold you down.

Yeah, yeah. You guys can't. Who said that? I think that was Justin Gagey that said that. It was so funny. Isn't he fighting this weekend?

Yeah, he's fighting Patty Pibble. That's going to be an awesome fight. Wait, those two were, I didn't know. It was those two fighting Saturday. Whoever fights him gets to fight a... Who's like the super badass striker guy? I can't remember his name. Logan Paul?

No. He's in the UFC. He's been knocking out for everybody. I did watch that fight. Not Logan, the other one, just because I was super curious. My God. That was amazing to watch. Joshua.

Anthony Joshua. I told the guys they were like, I don't know. I was like Anthony Joshua was going to fucking. Standing to on the back. Destroy that man. What a great punch. I lost a significant amount of money. I'm not going to lie.

I was, I was fucking hopeful because it was so like a thousand dollars gave you 15. So like, of course I got to try a little bit. I was also going to, I didn't get it. It didn't go through, but I was going to bet on Paul again too because. All right. Let's fix it. like very decent odds

that all this shit has been fixed this entire. 100% and I was banking on that, literally. I was hoping to, yeah. Yeah, exactly. I said, I was like, fucking Anthony Joshua was an active boxer. Homeboy is going to destroy him if he can.

And sure, you see that. Once he's seen him in the corner and him dropping his hands, who's like, double broken jaw. A picture of his teeth sideways inside of his gum was the most gnarly shit.

The rumor is, is that Jake Paul sticking his tongue out is like the official signal of like lighten up because they go back to the Tyson fight and Tyson was like Tyson was starting to have the PTSD flash bag he was starting to actually box and then Jake Paul did the tongue thing and then Tyson like let up a ton and let Jake Paul hit him and then that's what happened in the Anthony fight too and then they're saying Anthony's just like nah I'm gonna fuck him up and then because I was gonna say just like the the moment where he starts flashing his tongue like the entire time like Jake is losing you're not doing good like it's just like really good at takedowns those double leg take down you was bro for a boxer Anthony Joshua's takedown defenses on point no stuff in everything stop and it instantly and then sure it was just one hands go down two just straight down well like the rumor is that like they're like in court because Anthony Joshua apparently there was supposed to be like a no knockout clause or whatever where like Anthony Joshua wasn't allowed

to knock him out and he did which technically what a bullshit technically he didn't he didn't knock him out he never lost consciousness he just broke his fucking jaw in two places which also props for Paul not getting knocked dude go out no shit and like the instant response of holy shit was baller oh he looked over he's like that sucked yeah that was fucking terrible Even his brother was like, oh. And then he opened his mouth. Have that thing in the corner where he's just like, you know, hey, am I f*** up?

And Logan's like, yeah. Yeah. The Paul, like Joshua said, or Paul was talking before he's like, I was in the corner talking shit to Anthony. And I think that pissed him off. And they just punched my brother in the fucking face as hard as he could. The Pepe meme. Joshua's so fucking funny.

The one, I haven't seen it. Winding back. The Anthony Joshua Pepe meme is so good. Fuck. God, that's, and you know what? Unpopular opinion, I don't think Jake Paul's a bad boxer. No, not enough. He's, I couldn't, you know, go to-to-to-to.

I'm not gonna fucking fight him. Guy's fucking great, he's just not to pro-boxer level, in my opinion. Champion boxer? Yeah. Like, the guys put in, you know, God, I don't know, a half a decade, decade of work at this point. If he sucked, it would be, that would be embarrassing. I think when to be with the greats.

It's like, dude, you know we're close. No, and you see that lineup when they actually stood side by side. I think that's when you realized, uh-oh. What's yeah? It's like a black belt and jiu-jitsu. But I mean, he's a black belt boxing for sure. Right. It's just, you know, nowhere allowed.

Black belt's a big spectrum. It's a world champion. That's why world champions in boxing would say it's like, yeah, I thought I had a chance against Pacchio and Paco was in his friend. He was like, I thought, it's like, I'm a world champion. So is he. I'm a beat his ass. They're, like, they're,

Like there's there's literally 15 seconds of a Pacquiao fight where Pacquio threw more punches than both Anthony and Paul in the whole fight. Jesus. Because what's Pacquiao's record like fucking 1,200 strikes in a round? Oh my God. Oh, my God. That's saying. 1,800 to 2,200 punches for an entire fight.

What the, he would average it. He averages a hundred at minimum 100 punches a round, which also I think Paul and they had, I think 80 the entire six rounds. So what is it the like percentage of people that are absolutely brain dead that fought Pacchio now? Because that is an incredible amount of damage to your brain. That's fucking crazy. My favorite fight is, um, oh,

what's a Mexican boxer that was caught cheating. Oh yeah, the guy that was making fun of Freddie Roach. Yes. And Pacquil f-ed him up. Margarito. Margarito. Margarito.

He got caught cheating against, he beat up Codo to a degree they were like what the fuck Cotto was winning and then they it was never proven but he wrapped his his wraps. He had plaster and his wraps. They hardened during the fight. Then Cotto starts

taking damage they're not used to or seen Codo loses at the end of the fight and then they catch it during the Sugar Ray I forget which fuck sugar Stevenson

what the fuck I know who you're talking about yeah now I forget but so they catch it before they're like yo those raps what the fuck wrong with him and make him change it

and now Margarita gets his ass beat and then he goes to fight Pacquale then Margarito makes fun of makes fun of Freddie Roe who has Parkinson's who's Manny Pacquil's coach and Mani Pacquil box him up

good good oh dude he looked like I always compare to like of the Christ. Margarito's entire face was reshaped during that fight. He had to retire because of it. Is he like,

his orbital. He had to quit afterwards because his orbital bone was broken. Eye vision, there was a loss in eye vision. Pull up Margarito after Paco. I'm looking at it. It's fucking gnarly. And the first thing that comes up is Margarito versus Paciow face.

And this is after Pacioteau's. went up eight weight classes. Damn. Eight. He's the only person to win eight. He was a world champion in eight different weight classes. That's a scary fucking dude. Dude, he looks like a Star Wars character.

Like show. This is after a boxing match. Like that looks like prosthetics. That guy looks like he's out of the movie. He'll have eyes. Holy shit. Dear God. I'm in propped for that guy for not

taking a nap on the canvas, though. shit he's yeah you could have smuggled him out of the country with a fake passport they did not have a good time they have pack out just throwing a hundred punches around now what did you guys you guys walk the floor today did you see anything revolutionary i want the new can i want it so bad it is pretty dope is that what you guys were talking about yeah canning did a collab with radian so it's got an after burner inside of the Canick Prime, which was already a pretty decent gun.

And Nick's carry his, his preferred camera. Yeah, I've been carrying it right now. I fucking love that gun. Now they got a Radian built in. I want it so bad. Yeah, sick. Radian makes that, they actually made a really good comp for the pistols.

Yeah, for sure. They claim 44% recoil reduction. I think they actually did that. A lot of people claim a lot of bullshit, but I think they are, they, they have that. I just put one of my 43X. Yeah, you're going to love that. After burner ramjet. whether it's with your besties or date night

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Is it worth a shit? I'm not. Dude, like, the idea of having a beaver tail on a Glock, like, when I go to draw, I wrap my thumb across the top of the slide. So being able to, like, get that over. the beaver tail is fucking stupid. It's just going to slow me down. Like, I like the idea. The reason I like Glock, like Glock, is because of how fast I can draw it and get on

tired. So you put your finger on the back, the thumb on the back of the slide. Yeah. So if you're, like, reaching for it and you're looping your thumb, then you're going to fuck up your grip 100% of the time. You wrap up to the top of it. You can adjust your grip as soon as you meet with your left hand to push out. Okay.

It saves you a shit ton of time and then you get your grip 100% of the time. with a beaver tail you can't do that interesting which is why like the bull armor you a cop is like what i carry because it's got the bob beaver tail and it doesn't fuck i just love how glock did that because they f***ed over so many people yes they did they came out with the glock the the the glock that can't take a switch right because what was that the five gen five gen v gen v they came out with the gen v they're like it can't take a switch whatever whatever immediately took a switch. Well, no, but the thing is, like, I think they did that shit on purpose

just so they could sell out all the backstock of all the gen 4s to free up space on the shelf. And then three months later, you announced the new Glock. So, like, everybody just went and bought out all the old stock of all the old shit. Because, like, oh, Glock's going woke and they're blah, blah, blah, blah, and then they changed it. And then they're like, oh, by the way, there's a brand new Glock. Now you've got to buy this too, fucking nerd. It's probably like, best of all worlds, because I know they were dealing with a lot of the, like,

the statewide lawsuits. They probably were just like, oh, I see this as an absolute win. Yeah. So clear inventory will create something that can go in these states. And then by the way, oh,

we aren't telling you until after the fact. After you've already bought all our old shit. After the panic rush. Yeah. Oh, by the way, hey, here. Just functionally as a handgun, though, I cannot tell the difference.

Like, I can tell the difference, obviously, but like, shooting it, like a Glock, uh, Gen 3 versus whatever is out now, like, or the Gen 4, Gen 4, like, I don't...

Dude, I have mixed feelings about Glock. I think that they're super modular, and if you want to actually stick some money into the fucking thing, so, like, you can get a decent pistol out of it, but, like, from the factory, the echelon, same price, and it's good to go right

away, like, buying a Glock, you get to stick so much money into it. I just can't wrap my mind around why people still go with Glock. I think I can't fucking do it. I think it is it just runs. It does run. It is the AK of the Glock world, but I have broke more Glockes than I have any other pistol. Then again, I have owned Glockes my entire fucking life. They're bound to break.

I shoot a lot. I get it. How many rounds would you say you shoot a year or like a month? We're about 10K a month right now. That will happen. Yeah. I shoot maybe a hundred a year. Really?

I do not shoot much. I need a hundred rounds a year? Yeah, I don't shoot much. A handgun or like anything? Anything. I don't do much. Mine is usually I just need to feel it like I'll run a mag and then once I feel how the gun recalls.

I'm like, okay, I can. I can't form an opinion until I run that thing into the dirt to find out where it fucking breaks. And then I'd be like, it's good. It broke. We have, you couldn't even fucking make it to 5,000. Remember when we went up to Q and we built honey badgers?

You should see his honey badger. He's shot 10,000 rounds and hasn't cleaned it. It's the dirtiest star chamber. I never found that thing until it breaks so I can tell people it's a good gun. No shit. It's the... I held the gun and my hands were dirty.

I didn't even shoot the motherfucker. Like, I held it. I still run it like a champ. I love that gun. It's like one of my favorite things that just go out and play because it's... It's a dirty kid off Charlie Brown.

Yes. A hundred percent. Especially as like a call of duty, you know, like into war zone and shit like that. You're like, all right. Naturally, like the honey badgers. Yeah, fucking out of the gate. And I decked it out.

It is so overly tactical. doesn't even make any sense. No shit. I love the boom box. Dude, Sam. Gun is so fun. But it's also fucking terrifying

because like... Overpin. It doesn't stop. Oh my God. Every time I want to go shoot it, I can't shoot the steel targets because that bullet's not like splattering like any other fucking lead projectile.

Splatter and I'll hit the ground. Yeah. That thing goes somewhere. God, we did the video. Us trying to catch it. I could not. I could not believe we couldn't catch that fucking bullet.

For a subsonic projectile, that's crazy. Sub-Sonic 8-6 blackout. We had three blocks. What are they? Like two feet wide each? Yeah. We had six feet of ballistics gel.

Zipped right through it like a fucking laser beam. Railroad tie. Didn't even slow down. So then we got a railroad tie and stuck it in front of the ballistics gel. Zipped through the railroad tie and then through the ballistics gel. And then to a steel target and then hit the grain bin behind us. And we're like, holy fuck, don't shoot the steel. Well, that's why.

Even when we were there, like, oh, yeah, we made AP subsonic. And it works. It works. Huh? Yeah. I don't know how much that we're allowed to talk about. It's public information, I think, because they allowed me to put it in the video that we released. You shot?

They were fucking AP? No, no. But they have videos. Yeah, which is that concept. Some of the armors are some of the armor plates that they were showing us to, like, of just the way it just, like, ripped the through a certain class of carrier or, or plate. I didn't think that that's a thing you could do. And fully intact too.

Like most of the time when that happens, it's like a core that passes through or it comes out mushroomed and fucked up. The full fucking projectile. Untouched. Which also great for a bedside, but not great because you don't know where it's stopping.

No, it's fine. My kids are on the second floor. Yeah. We did the video like testing. We did like a bunch of my wife's behind me and the kids are on the second floor. know where shit's at. Do you use a boom box?

Huh? Do you use a boom box for a little of events? I have, uh, no, not the boom box. I have, I have the poor neighbor's, man. I have the honey badger. I also have. I have the honey badger by my bedside, suppressed. A shotgun, 10 millimeter pistol.

I have. I literally have my baby scar, my 300 blackout, and my 86, my bedside. So I get to choose depending on what's going down and who's home. Yeah, fair enough. Like, I'm like, if I'm coming out and I know the kiddos of him, can't use the 86, because their walls are straight behind that. fucking wall on the journey to the front door. We did the fat pews video of like makeshift walls for like different

calibers to test like, are your children going to be safe in the house? Is it going to kill your fucking neighbors? The amount of ammo we got passed through everything is actually crazy. Like what did we end up with that had like decent luck? Was it just 300 blackout that didn't over penetrate? Because like everything was 300 blackout. Even 9-mell was going through like three fucking walls.

Yeah. I mean, realistically, if you, like, if you're living in like a country home or whatever, 8-6 blackout, fucking amazing home defense gun. If you live in an apartment building, you're an asshole. Well, we did, uh, me and demo Matt, because he had those junk houses where we, we did that video on the meme of like, what if, what if the bad guy's hiding behind the fridge at your neighbor's house? We did that. Nine mill was able to go through an exterior wall, a refrigerator, and penetrate like six inches into a chest. Bullets go through shit. Yeah, they do.

They do a very good job of doing that. Was that FMJ or? Oh, that was FMJ. Okay. That's the thing that drives me crazy. It's like in movies and shit. It's like people will just take cover like behind a car, like not an engine block, but like a car door or table. They'll flip it.

Yeah, flip a table in a gunfight. It's like, cool. You've made concealment. Not cover. Thank God I have there's a wooden table of plywood died behind. I have a, like I got a bunch of cops that I train in jujitsu and they were showing me like they went to this, um like tactical shield class you know like that because that's how like they're doing breaching now with the shield and shit and they were showing some of the tactics and i was like i mean they breach

with a that's that's cool for the guy holding the shield i'd be real pissed off being the other three guys in the stack if the guy with the gun knows how walls and guns work because those three dudes are getting lit the fuck up for sure like i don't know anyways about chacho uh did anybody else see anything like worth going to look at any like cool new innovation has a new car it was fucking sick but heavy it was a little heavy

that was no heavier than so I have a 17 at home like the old 17 with like a surefire I think like the titanium can it's like I don't know what the it's called 762 TI or something like that it felt about the same weight

frankly like I was I was pretty all right with it I was impressed there was a lot of little details that yeah that's kind of what we noticed too I just thought like Oh, you added an M lock handguard. That's what I thought. I'm like, okay. Well, now you've got, you know, a longer handguard too,

so you can actually, like, get a proper C clamp on it. Updated the iron sights. Suppressor ready. You know, a slightly upgraded trigger. The hydraulic buffer system on the inside with a skeletonized bolt carrier. Does it still have the ugboot buttstock? Yes, but that's iconic. You can't fucking get rid of that, dude.

No. But, dude, it's pumpkin spice latte. all the time when you rock a scar. God damn right it is. I love my favorite videos. It's like when you get your scar at and it's like the two scar boots going down and walking. Your little attitude. I'm talking, dude, I saw the new HK Breacher.

I fucking love that thing. I'm so excited to get one. Rub it in some more, Nick. Wait, what the fuck is that? It's, you know how they came out with the civilian 416 last year? Yes. They came out with the 308 version. That's the A.R. 10.

Yeah. Yeah, the 417. Yeah, the 417. And it comes in a, you can get it in a 16 or a 13 inch barrel. It's fucking dope. 13 inches on a 308 is pretty aggressive. I'm a huge fan. I like it a lot.

As long as it's suppressed. Hell yeah. Yes. And no suppresses. The fireballs are great. And FN has the bolter. Yeah, that 30 millimeter grenade launcher that I'm basically, I was on my hands and knees with knee pads and a bib saying, can I please, please, fire this fucking thing.

Because I was looking at it. The one thing I did notice, like, I know prototyping a little bit. Different things like the follower was, follower was 3D printed. A lot of the components on it, like the magazine release, the bolt release, stuff like that was like MJF, which is like an advanced form of like 3D printing. A bunch of little stuff, like the dust cover,

little sliding dust cover thing was 3D printed. I'm like looking at a lot of elements of this. I'm like, this is still, very much a prototype and that's fine as long as I get to shoot it when you're done. Do they have any working models out yet? I don't know. They said that they fired the ammunition. So like they've done testing with the actual

ammunition itself, but they didn't say if the gun was fully functional or yet not. Or not yet. Will you be able to buy that ammo? As a civilian? No. I would highly doubt it. But no, like with your classification. So I have an 0702 like SOT and everything like that,

manufacturers, FFL. Um, I think in order, like, especially if it's like high explosive ordinance, I think you either need a type 10 or a type 20. So you need like an explosive, like a magazine and shit like that. Maybe Mike can help you out when he comes on the podcast. Well, he knows it. He knows a thing or two because he's seen a thing or two. That's the first question. How many pounds of C4 you think you've detonated?

Because he's an EOD guy. I bet the number is fucking massive. How many pallets of C4 you think? you've gone through. Bro. Like asking him how many rounds he's gone through in a month? Like how much C4

have you flacked off? Dude, he's like Atlas holding up the entire Plastiques industry. It's the most expensive man in J-Soc right there. Show some respect. God, dude, it's going to be wild hearing

some of these stories from him because it's, no one knows any of them. Oh, and the best fucking part, the best part, he wrote every single one. he was very big on journals. Everything is documented. Oh my God. To a, like,

I want, we'll see what I can keep in. But Nancy said, um, every journal had like 32,000 words in it. Yeah. Oh, so he documented the shit.

Everything from Vietnam on. Dear diary. There was a dictator. Dear diary. Do you know what six pounds of seaflo does to a man? I do. Drawling. Yeah.

Little, Sick figure you said it. This is a really bad drawing. Red crayon. Yeah, I was going to say, hey, can I borrow your red? So I'm like, holy shit. And all the photos that have never been released of him, I'm so fucking stoked for that shit.

I'm like, yes, yes. How did you fucking land that? That is awesome. That was a random everything. He posted on fucking, he posted one on Twitter, and we've talked about him on the podcast multiple times. We all got tagged that day. Yeah.

And he went to like 150,000 subscribers in a day and a half. It was very quick. And it's such wholesome posts, too. It's such a, this is me and my wife after we climbed a mountain. It's just like, yeah, the whole internet. It's like, yeah. I was wondering too, because I'm like, man, I, because he travels the world with his wife.

They, like, do a bunch of, like, hiking and backpacking stuff. I'm like, that's awesome. Like, what a better way to spend your retirement, right? Or what better way? I'm curious if they just like, oh, yeah, going backpacking. and through Cambodia, and he sees this big open clearing with no trees and just goes, it's just how I left it. That's fucking awesome.

Just lucky and super excited. What other guns did you see or anything during shot? There's that fucking... I feel like shot show most at the time. Most of the gun company is releasing something. It's just a full-mill spec AR-15, but this one's taking. and pay me a $1,000 extra for it. So typically, Chacho's bullshit.

It's the same thing, Diverpayne job. I finally have seen some innovation in the gun world, and I can't stop fucking talking about. There's a guy named Travis Rideout, right out Arsenal. He made the pistol called the Dragon. It's got like a...

Have you seen a Lago alien? Yep. So super low bore access, it's even lower than that, and it's got like the red dot doesn't move. It's got like a diving board for a beaver tail. I think I know what you're talking about. Is this cheaper?

$3,200. How much? It's $3,200 for a base, and it shoots better than a Lago alien. It doesn't get hot. It's got a 1911 style trigger, so you got that stray pole. The Lago is already pretty fucking flat. Yeah, but this thing, like, I've never felt a recoil, because it's a lever delay system. It's not direct blowback, so it's got that weird delay.

So, like, you get rid of your gases before you feel the recoil impulse. Because the alien is gas delay. Yeah. Which is weird, too. So you still get, like, the punch, but you don't get as much muzzle rise. So, like, shout out to fucking Lago. They did make a good. pistol, but...

Yeah. No, it's just... It's absurdly expensive. And now they're doing like a compensator version, so like, it's an entire modular system. If you don't like anything about it,

pop the motherfucker off, it's like adult Legos. You can replace it. So like slide frame, fucking Magwell, aesthetics of anything, you can change the entire funny thing. What's it called again?

Right out Arsenal Dragon. Got it. Oh, yeah, I feel like I've seen like promos and shit like that on Instagram. It seemed interesting. It's super...

Like, at first when you look at it, you're talking up to be like the Halo Pistel pistol. Somebody made a gag fucking pistol, but we get your hands on it and see like the amount of like innovation that went into it, Tony Stark made a a fucking pistol and it shoots.

Frankly, like not to suck you off or anything, but you're like the best influencer possible when it comes to like, like high end pistols and shit like that. Oh, that's my that's my tism right there. I'm like as soon as I don't even have to have seen it as soon as you say like, oh, it's like the best thing I've ever shot and it was like, well, I guess I'm buying one. I do the same thing. I text it. I text him before I bought

any gun. It's hard to not title every video like that because like I am still a little fucking giddy kid when it comes to guns. So like somebody comes out with something. I'm like, yeah, it's the coolest thing ever. Like I got to sit on it for a couple months so I can calm them the fuck down. So I can give somebody like a realistic opinion on it. So like when I get a new gun, I'm like, let's go run a couple of throws around through this. Yeah. Wait a couple months and then I'll fucking talk about it. I'm the same way with like different firearms like throughout history and stuff like that. I'm like, oh dude, I'm so stoked. Like God, I cannot

wait to do a video on this. This is like one of the coolest guns I've ever shot. There's somebody comes up like, oh, well, like what's it good at? I'm like, nothing. It's dog shit. It's fucking awesome. It's actually fucking horrible. Like, it's objectively bad at everything it's ever tried compared to everything else. But it's so cool, it's so drippy. Dude, I say the same thing, like

a Socom 16 or an M1A and an EBR chassis. Pointless. You can't shit with them. They're unreliable. They're heavy as shit. Cool as fucking gun in existence. I love them. Yeah, B's are they're so cool. Are you ever going to make a stinger? Oh my God. That is a stinger. I've been asking you for five years.

What is it like is that? What is it A and M2? It's the fucking 30 caliber machine gun with the buttstock from a F-M-1 Grand, a custom trigger and the carrying handle from a bar or something crazy. There's something specific about it. I remember like it being like slightly hard to build because it's like it has to be like the anti-aircraft version because they lightened it or something. And it's got higher.

Yeah. Because it's not water cooled and it's got a higher cyclic rate. Yeah, there's some like particulars about it. But yes, we've looked into it. You know what we're talking about, right? The Stinger. The Marines, the Marines, the Marines,

the Marines magivered it together during World War II. Oh my God, that is amazing. It's a 1919. Let me look at it. Aircraft machine gun with a M1 Grand buttstock, a trigger, and a bail on it. We had a conversation with Zach, our SOT about this. and he says that he could make one if we could find a 19-19,

he'll make it fall auto and put the bar stock on it for us to run. Because I'm fucking down, dude. As long as it's chambered in 30-0-8, because I don't want to pay for 30 out six, Belfad. Smart. We can do that, all that. Oh, yeah, yeah, because it's got the B-A-R carry handle and the bipod and all that shit. That looks dope as f-up.

It's like super mad max, and I just want to run the shit out of it. Marines' mate. It was actually, like, the dude that came up with it was like a watchmaker that was a Marine. Oh, hey, look at that's a guy. together. Yeah. That wasn't cheap. So hot.

No, we got a good, like, that's the drippiest gun of all time. It's pretty fucking cool. That's the drippiest fallout gun ever. I would, I would love to get my hands on one.

Like, I don't know if there's any originals left. I don't know that there are either. I would imagine those didn't survive. There's no way you can't shoot that. The fans love it when we have two different conversations at once. It's fantastic. This is true.

Yes, but you'd be the first person to ever pull the trigger out again. I don't talk me in to shoot the, shoot the mark 23 or the PSG1. Oh, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. You'll never shoot his Mark 23. I can't even rack it. My new goal is to be drunk enough

to fire around through that fucking thing, dude. I've never racked it. Are you shitting me? It still has the paint perfectly intact. It's insane. On the mags. He's like, don't even press check it. He's like, don't, like.

Oh, my God. Don't even touch it. Oh, dude, the PSG1 still has the wax. Like the magazine. Oh, that is. awesome. So I've never been able to do that. So my dad, I'm not only one probably in the group that's like, I can buy and never touch. Dude, there's no chance. I had to like convince my dad because he likes to collect like pre-64 Winchester's is a huge thing in the gun community. I'm sure you know that.

But like that's his fucking thing. Pre-64 Winchesters. And he wants the early serial number that's still brand new in a box covered in fucking Greece. And that's like his thing. And he'll spend an ungodly amount of money on like low serial number pre-64. So we got like serial numbers one through three on a Winchester shotgun. It spent like 30 grand a piece on these motherfuckers. He got him home and he's like talking about it. I'm like, this coolest thing ever. And I'm like, you're going to shoot those?

He's like, no, no, they've never been shot. I'm like, so you're going to let somebody else be the first one to shoot these fucking guns? What are you doing? He's like, that's a good point. We went out and shot him. I don't believe in Save Queens. No. No. There's a couple. I would probably say out of my entire collection,

I've got some eclectic shit. There's maybe like 20 that I treat super well. Just because like it's, you know, like rare, expensive. The paint and like all the like wood and shit, it's very nice. You know, certain things you hold with like respect

and like especially like the more historic it is and the rarer it is. Like, okay, well you don't want to beat it up. But God, pretty much everything I'll shoot. The Fri Jarajette we shot. That's true. And that one, I mean, we did fuck it up. But like in my mind,

mind, it's like it's, I could not find good footage of it firing slow motion. So like to have ballistic high speed out there and like document this super rare pistol. It's like, man, even if we f*** up this one gun that there are thousands of, like just so anybody has access now to the footage to see what this thing was and how it worked. Like to me, that's a tradeoff on Melinda make. 100%. I feel like that video was going to hold more historical value than the actual pistol. The bullets aren't going to be functional in fucking what, 10 years? Nobody's ever going to be able to fire that. And you, you have a video for people 100 years from now to reference this pistol. We're about to do it again.

I have a gyrajet rifle. What? The gyrajet carbine. I didn't even know that was a thing. Most people don't. I didn't for a while. Did you find more ammunition for it? I have some that I kept in reserve.

And like you said, that ammunition is expiring. Yeah, for sure. It doesn't work all the time. No, no. I mean, we probably had, I think, one out of three misfired in one way or the other. Like some, like half the engines didn't go off. Like, it was just a... Just spirals out of controls?

like goes fucking 10 degrees off target. Dude, videos like that are so incredible to be able to make, though. That's a privilege. That's going to outlast the fuck out of you. You know what I mean? Oh, yeah.

People are going to be able to reference that when they're talking about guns like that. So I think it's worth it. To be able to make an impact on it. Like a firearm history like that and be able to preserve it too. It's pretty cool. See, I don't give a fuck about that.

My guns are getting shot. They stay in this. save. And that is my right. I'm going to get you drunk enough to fire that fucking H-G-N. Well, that's the fact that, like,

a lot of your stuff isn't even that particularly rare comparatively. It's the rarity is because the condition it's in. Right. Like, your Mark 23 is like, I've literally never seen. Oh, everyone could get one.

Yeah. I bought one from a gun store. Like, that's insane. But yours to be what it is and still be in that condition, like unracked, pristine, like all that stuff is unheard of. Original cat.

can and then an original lamb. You're like, oh, yeah, we'll never get touched, fired, moved. Okay, but to be fair, I've never had my hands on something like that, so I couldn't, like, say if I would be the same or not. The only experience I have with that is my father,

and I'm like, hey, I didn't fucking pay the $30,000 a piece. Let's shoot these motherfuckers. Dude, well, the W.A. 2000 came up, and that's the one that would be, like, all of us have to go in and buy. It's like $300,000. $360,000. Oh, my God.

For a rifle. Snipe rifle. it is one of the most gangster sniper rifles that would that you know what we're talking about no oh bro so two yeah modern warfare two two went up at the same time 360,000 dollars 320,000 dollars they're fucking rare but Jesus oh we don't touch it we should we would never fire that thing that will crush oh I love that thing oh I like that all I like that There is apparently like less than 20 in the United States. That's why they are.

Better enough. Bernie's like my friend selling one. I was like, yeah. Let daddy buy what $360,000. Never mind. I am not that rich. Yeah, fuck that. That's something like the company stuff and things can go in and recreate based off of a different platform.

And I'd be perfectly happy with that. Yeah. I mean, like, PSG one, because Brandon's doing a version of it, I think he's talked about it. but you're recreating a PSG 1. But there's weird shit on the PSG 1. Like, that is the biggest Ford assist you will ever see period on a rifle. I see now.

I was like, holy shit, that is a large Ford assist. Brandon was like, I don't think these had them because the 308 or the... Yeah, the G3. G3s don't have Ford assists. No. That's the weirdest gun ever. Dude. Yeah, like...

Zero. Yeah, like, for the clone of the PSG 1, because I think they're cool. I don't necessarily know, like, 40, 50 grand cool. I don't know about that. But, like, I could, we're going to spend, like, fucking $8,000, like, cloning it pretty fucking close. But it won't be, like, 100%. Whereas I know Eli is, like, autistic stickler about shit like that.

And, like, close is not good enough. It's fake and gay. Doesn't go. But, like, but, like, honestly, I probably would have bought. If you didn't buy it for that price, I would have. Oh, yeah. Because that was like a steal.

It was like 30 grand, 32 grand. Really? Yeah. And then literally a month later, one sold for, in way worse shape. 10 grand more. Yeah, I bet that is like significantly higher now. Oh, well, this was, that one was without a box, but it was on an auction that led up to it. This one was a last minute Brandon's calling me with the 32nd.

window on how much I'm spending on a gun and I'm like I don't I'm driving what are we doing right now I left breakfast yeah we just let breakfast and it will because oh so on my end of this it's like rock island auction so like it's a live auction and I had set a text reminder because I'm like oh I remember Eli wanted that I pop in it's going like up on the block and it's going for cheap and so I call Eli like I've got like a dual feed in the audio through my truck so like I got the auction like yeah do we have 30,000 30,000 30,000 now now 32 no 32. 32, I'm like, Eli, do you want, do you want a PSG one for 30 grand?

What? PSC1, 30 grand right now. Yeah, how about 32? Sure. You own one. Huh? It was a 40-second phone call. Yeah, I thought this was an eBay bid or something with way more time.

This is done in less than a minute. That's bad. It was like you were, theoretically that phone call cost $500 per second. That's fucking dope. You know, when I think about spending that much money, that much amount of money on a firearm, like, I've been trying to convince this fucker that we need to buy Whistling Diesel's tank because he keeps posting it on his Instagram. What is it like a chief?

Chiefden? I don't even know. I don't know. I keep tagging them in the comment section. What's he won for? Like a barred in the 70? Dude, half he's on a fucking tank. We can have a lawn orderment and something dope to put in the channel.

Like, just. A one-time purchase for a YouTube video. Oh, hell yeah. How'd be doing it. A lot ornament. I'm telling you. I already accidentally bought a replica of little boy and it's in my garage still. Yes.

I was with you. That was very intentional. We walked into a gun store. You walked in the gun store and you're just like, would you make another one? Yeah. Well, that, but I got it to my house. Just like hauling a trailer. I called my boss from my electrical contractor.

And I was like, hey, can I borrow your truck with that low boy trailer? He was like, yeah, no problem. Just swing by, pick it up whenever. Didn't ask me what it was for. Okay, cool. I show up in a... This is an open trailer? Yeah, so it's a, it's a, it's a trailer that it's really cool.

So it's for like scissors lifts and shit. So you like pull the pins out and the whole, and there's a button. And the trailer lowers itself to the ground. So there's no ramps. So you can just drive a scissor lift right onto it. And then it lifts it up with an electric fucking motor. So I just wheeled it into the bag of this trailer. It's like blank electric company on the side of the truck and trailer.

And I'm driving a nuclear bomb replica through the middle of town with it. I just send him a picture. He's like, what the fuck are you doing with my truck? You should buy another one and give it to Ethan as a gift. So when you deliver it, you have to drive through Los Alamos. They're like, not again. Not again. I love my train group so much.

I was with him when we were walking to that gun store. We had like a very deliberate plan. we were going to go in there and pick the guns that we're going to do and go shoot. He didn't give a fuck about anything else we were doing. He beeline it to that bomb. He's like, how much make me the way? When Nick went to your house for the first time, or still, does he go and look in different rooms and nooks and crannies?

We've noticed that. And Nick just goes in and open shit, pull shit out. Yeah, yeah. I mean, I have like a gun broom, like, of course. Well, this is like... Look at everything. Nick, the first time you came over, I think Sab just met you, and you're like, Yeah.

Okay. You're opening up our like silver word. I love how you're like mounting. I'm like a theoretical muffin. Okay. You got to know how stuff works. You got to know the environment around me. Oh, dude.

Dolm's fucking horrible. Really? Same thing. Oh my God. No, it's so much worse than that. Like when I get a package and like I'll step over it to go out. He will straight.

What the fuck? That's just a crime. He will have a mental breakdown if he doesn't open the box. He will free. What's in the box? What's in the box? Like we'll be driving somewhere. I'll get my mail thrown in the box.

backseat. He will not hold a conversation or do anything until he finds out what the fuck is inside of the box. It's okay. Eli gave me an edible and then fuck with me with his cabinet for like an hour. Oh, because it was every. Yeah, what? He gives me an edible.

And I'm like, okay, cool. And I take this out of, he pulls the edible out of cabinet A. Like, okay. That's where Eli keeps the edibles. That makes sense. That's what cabinets are for. I remember this story. And I take this edible.

And then we're sitting there bullshit and he's got like the island with that you can like sit down with like the. high, you know, like the high chairs and shit. And we're all just sitting hanging out in his kitchen. I've taken this edible. And then Eli's like, oh, have you tried my new protein fucking cookie? Whatever the fuck?

So I was like, no. So then he goes to cabinet A and pulls out the protein cookies. Okay. That's where he puts all the edible stuff. That makes sense to me. Okay. He's got the protein edibles and the edibles edibles. All right.

That makes sense. Dangerous game. And then we're talking for another 15 minutes. I'm getting progressively more high. And then we get on the topic eight six blackout. And he's like, Have you ever seen an 8-6 blackout that's been fired? No.

Tack, it's like, no. He goes, oh, check this out. He goes over to Cabinet A and pulls out an 8-6, a live 8-6 round, and then an eight-six round that's been fired. Depending on who you ask, also an edible. The world's most dangerous food. He pulls that out. And there was, like, there was three other ridiculous things that you just kept pulling out of this fucking cabinet. None of it was related to the shit prior.

Cabinet A holds everything. That's my emergency. Mary Poppins Badger. He's got the TARDIS drawer. Oh my God. So with you, what's your favorite firearm that you own? Fucking, period. Do you have your go-to?

I mean, I feel like you get a sanction of that off in different categories. Like favorite striker fire, favorite hammer fire, favorite PCC, favorite A-R, AK, bolt action. You can't just go one gun, right? My favorite to shoot of all times a Nighthawk terrorist. That's my go-to-you. take it out to the range. Have a good time. Nick's probably ran

2,000 rounds for that thing. The Nighthawk. Was that the nightmill? TRS, yep. Absolutely. What's your most sentimental gun? I don't really have a sentimental gun.

I still have all of the guns like I grew up on and learned with and none of them have fucking rifling anymore. But like, yeah, I can imagine. Yeah. Nothing crazy. I don't know.

There's an MP5, like when we first started doing the Pew View channel. I started to make a little bit of money. That's like the first gun I bought with money I made from the YouTube channel. So that one's like that gun fucking starts. That's your play button. Yeah, that's cool.

That one's still sitting up in the gun room. Yeah. What makes the the nighthawk just... Dude, I don't know. I swear to the other thing is voodoo magic because I've shot more expensive guns. I've shot more guns that like seemingly should be better than Nighthawk to your ass is just a perfect balance. Like the

return to zero, the trigger on it. Which is a wild statement from you. That is like... They crushed it with that. I can't... I can't put that in anybody's hands and them shoot bad with them. Like, I made a mistake.

Oh, it gave me a shot. No, dude, like... We've pushed the limits of this because I want to see what this fucking magical gun can do to people that don't know how to handle a firearm and they just rip with it. No shit.

Yeah. I made them mistake, I let my wife shoot her over there and now she doesn't want to ever shoot anything else because like once you get to the pinnacle of a nighthawk TRS, everything else feels like garbage. Which is the hardest part

about my job, by the way. Like, I have to review a little bit of everything. So going to San Viper or a Nighthawk TRS and then back down to a Gen 6 Glock, fuck that Glock. It was stupid, you know. But it's only $700. Yeah, I know. But, like, there's a lot of good guns for $700 that beat the shit.

It was $700. It's a clock. Oh, oh, God. Oh, you know. The T.R.S. is like $7. Excuse me. Holy shit, is it? Oh, it's ridiculous.

But unpopular opinion. The Sand Viper is better. Dude, I can't. The Sand Viper is a very close second. But the return isn't what the Nighthawk is. It was just about to ask. Like, you're thought about like the Sand Viper, Pit Viper. It's very good.

But like it's a little more sporadic. It's not tuned to return to zero when you're double-tapping with a 12 split. Well, as somebody who will never do that. Right, right. I mean, most people are going to see the difference. But you're worried about issues that most people don't have. Tommy. Right. You're just like, man, this steering call is a little tight in this F1. Like, dude, I will, no clue.

A little tight on turn three. Yeah. Okay. And there's a lot of really good 2011's out right now. And that's like the fucking fat of the gun community. And now we're seeing like $2,500 like the Kimber Pro Cop. Most people will shoot that and chalk it up to be just as good as the Nighthawk. We headed out with a couple guys the other day. I have a fun mental problem with Kimber in general. Really? Yeah. Oh, my God. I love the new shit they're doing though. Really? my job isn't to talk about like the companies or judge them or what they've fucking done or are they making a good pistol Kimber fucking.

There's a lot of just issues I have with different companies for different reasons that like whether it's like export like whether it's like claiming American made while all their shit gets like 80% of it's done in Korea. And it's like finished in America like different like little things that like does it make it a shit gun? No. But like just it's like a little ninging in the back of my head that just I can't let it go. dude I try like we've done kind of videos going back and forth on all of that shit like I'll want to absolutely rip a company about like this has made America and I know Desaun is the one manufacturing this entire fucking thing correct and I want to bring that to the attention but like that's not my job I got to shut the fuck up and just shoot the gun you know

which sucks because like I enjoy talking shit well speaking of Smith and Lessons fixing my pistol I know I love that what happened do. I bought their new shield X, their new kid again. It fits awesome in the hand. Like it's a it like holding it at the ghostro, I say if this shoots decent, this thing's awesome. And I bought it and I start shooting it. And like I start having a problem while I'm shooting that I've never fucking experienced where like I would go to like repeat rounds and I would like feel the reset and pull the trigger and no bang. I was like, what the fuck is going on? And I took the ammo out. I like, I'm, like, I'm,

in the reset and it's like my pistol had a false reset in it like the trigger would go click and I could pull it to click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click and then I can refire which not just for anyone that doesn't know that is very dangerous because you get so used to that reset when you're shooting once you feel it you know now I can pull back and then pull that trigger and engage the enemy yeah if it's a false reset it's a big fucking deal But like shout out to them for not seeing you and actually owning up to their mistakes and being public about that. No, they got to accept responsibility. Well, I sent it back and then like, I sent it back. They sent it back to me again and they're like, there's nothing wrong with it. So then I, you texted me. So then I put it up on Twitter and within an hour they had a hold of me and they were like, what's the serial number? Send it back.

We're going to fix it. That's not okay. But at least they went and found the incompetent person. Yeah, for sure. it back like that and made shit right. Yeah. Whether they offered improper training to get more suited. It does suck.

It does suck. That's a crazy way of saying face down in a ditch. Correct. That guy probably doesn't have a job anymore. But like I was trying to be a light about it. But it is because it is suck. They argued it first, right? Nick.

Well, no, they just, they didn't like, there was no like dialogue between us. It was just like I sent it back, assuming that it would get fixed. And, you know, like, I'm assuming my FFL wrote down on the paper like there's a false reset. something wrong with the trigger, check it out. And like in, in defense of them, like, I, I do think that for the, I'll say the average shooter, an average shooter probably wouldn't even notice a false reset because they're not shooting at the same speed that I'm shooting. You know what I mean?

Like that they're just jamming the. Yeah, you have to have a certain skill level to even notice that being an issue. So like, there's a good chance that whatever technician read the thing, like something's wrong with the trigger. and he's like, no, it's fucking fine. So like, you know what I mean? Like, it's not even, it's whatever. But like, if you shoot guns enough, like, you know what the fuck I mean.

And it is a big deal and it does fucking suck. So, like, it was just, it was something that fell through the cracks, but they're fixing it. Well, I, I, sorry to interrupt. I know we're not at the end of the podcast. We are actually. Oh, really? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Perfect.

I got a hard out. We're golden. That's actually a perfect time so we can wrap up. Mr. Brandon has a fancy dinner to do. Yeah, well, you know, it's doing everything we can. He's going to be a big congressman soon. I'm just going to stay the same size, I hope. No, we're going to, you and Nick really fat this year.

Oh, I did that last year. It sucked. I do, Brandon. I do, I love Washington, D.C. or Pentagon, Brandon. That was bad. Eight old Brandon. Oh, yeah. That was really bad. Yeah. How the fuck did none of you tell me I was getting fat? I did. I was like, go to the gym. You should go to the gym?

No, I just needed to stop fucking eating Waterburger every day. But, well, anyways, thank you all for coming to the unsubscribe podcast, live, not live here from Vegas. I'm joined today by Eli Double Tap, Pew View, Fat Electrician, and myself, Brandon Herrera.

Thank you guys. I love you. Bye.