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The facade has finally cracked. When Axios released portions of President Biden's deposition tape last week, it confirmed what many suspected but few would publicly acknowledge - we've had a president who wasn't mentally capable of fulfilling his duties. The shocking audio reveals a man struggling with basic facts, confusing timelines, and exhibiting clear signs of cognitive decline that should have triggered constitutional safeguards.

What's equally troubling is the system's complete failure to address this situation. The 25th Amendment exists precisely for instances when a president becomes incapacitated, yet those closest to Biden - including his Vice President - chose party loyalty over constitutional duty. This episode examines not just what this means for Biden's legacy, but the legitimacy of every executive order, international agreement, and policy decision made during his term.

We also explore Trump's recent diplomatic tour through the Middle East, which has secured approximately two trillion dollars in investment commitments for American goods and weapons systems - achievements that have received surprisingly little mainstream media coverage. These deals with Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE represent significant strategic victories that strengthen America's position while containing Iranian influence in the region.

The conversation ranges from practical travel advice for frequent flyers to deeper discussions about declining birth rates in Western countries and what this means for future generations. We debate whether modern comfort has undermined natural selection and created demographic challenges that will reshape society in the coming decades.

Whether you're concerned about the state of American leadership, interested in geopolitical analysis, or simply enjoy thoughtful conversation about current events, this episode offers perspective you won't find in mainstream coverage. Subscribe now and join us as we make sense of a world where institutional failures have become the norm rather than the exception.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Howdy Ben?
How are you today, gene?
I am better than I deserve.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Oh, you keep saying that I want to know about what
your deep, dark secret is, thatyou think you don't deserve
anything.

Speaker 1 (00:13):
Well, we've talked about plenty on this podcast,
but you can leave it to theimagination.
If that's what I'm willing totalk about publicly, fair enough
.
Oh man, what a week, what aweek, it's, uh, every week's the
week that's what I would sayyeah, but you, you saw or you

(00:39):
listened to the axios stuff,right?
No?

Speaker 2 (00:42):
what, I don't know which, what happened?

Speaker 1 (00:46):
the joe biden um interrogation tape.
Yeah, so when he was given hisdeposition I didn't even see
that next oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
So axios got a part of a tapeof joe biden's um and what year
position it just um the yearbefore the election.

(01:07):
So oh wow, yeah, uh, 2023, uhover, remember the.
The special prosecutor fordocuments.
Case for biden and they failedto bring charges because, yeah,
you know he was too senile atthe time.
Yeah, all right.
So everyone kind of okay, maybethat's an excuse, maybe that's
whatever.

(01:28):
Like I had no idea how bad hewas.
Like, to be honest, if you canplay the clip for Maxios and you
know listen to it, if we canlisten to it while we're doing
this and you know comment inreal time, I think that would be

(01:49):
very worth it.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
We can try.
I don't have that routing setup on my end I wasn't ready for
that, so it may not work for meeither here.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
I sent it to you in Signal but it's a five-minute
thing.
But the dude rambles on and onand on confuses dates on when
his son died lots of differentthings.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
All right, I'm going to play it.
Let's see if you hear it or not.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
Okay, you hear anything.
No.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
Okay, if you don't hear anything, we're probably
not going to do it right now,because it's going to mean I
have to reconfigfigure the trustme when I say listen to this.

Speaker 1 (02:27):
And I I will say I knew joe biden was senile yeah
right.
We all knew that.
I knew joe biden was incognitive decline, but to hear
such astonishing proof like thisis his entire presidency needs
to be wiped off the map uh-huh,yeah, no, he was not the

(02:48):
president, by any stretch no,but I mean this is utter proof
in anything signed with an autopin, like the case needs to be
made, that joe biden was not ofsound mind and consciousness no,
he was not the one signing shit.
Somebody else was signing withhis name exactly so like this
needs to go to the supreme courtpretty fucking quick, dude.

(03:12):
And if it doesn't, we're we'recooked as a country well, you
know so, anyway, the interestingthing is and this is I'll get
into a little bit of analysishere the interesting thing is
that news dropped on Friday.
Today, breaking news just cameout Joe Biden has cancer and is

(03:34):
going to die.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
Well, that's too bad.

Speaker 1 (03:38):
Well, I mean, it's like we got to kill this dude
off.
We got to get rid of thismemory.

Speaker 2 (03:42):
Memory hole.
Too much.
Yeah how that works.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
Yeah, so it's an aggressive form of prostate
cancer that's already in hisbones.
Is the report?

Speaker 2 (03:57):
Yeah, it's.
The American medical systemjust sucks.
They can't even catch somethinglike that for the president.
Yeah, uh-huh, right the guy.
He's got a private physicianthat does nothing but one
patient for four years.
Yeah, I mean, if it'sprogressive right now, it had
what it had time to develop outof nothing in the last six

(04:18):
months dude.

Speaker 1 (04:20):
this, this entire story is so messed up in so many
ways they don't care.

Speaker 2 (04:28):
Did you see the clip from Tim Pool's show with Adam
the Idiot?

Speaker 1 (04:35):
I only watched part of that, so I have no idea.

Speaker 2 (04:38):
You didn't miss anything, I don't think, even if
you only watched a part of it.
Yeah, quite frankly, I okay uhlistening to it last night this
guy used to have this show oflike adam brood yeah, yep, I'm
familiar yeah and uh.
Mostly what he ruined was uh uhhimself, but um, I don't know.

(05:03):
I mean, his answers were eitherI don't know, because I don't
track that, or well, so youdon't believe in free speech
then, tim, I'm glad you finallytold us that you're a Nazi.

Speaker 1 (05:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (05:20):
That's generally the only two things that he said.
It vacillated between those.
Yeah, that's generally the onlytwo things that he said Uh,
it's, it's vacillated betweenthose and I don't he.
He's in this thing.
He keeps calling himself acomedian.
I'm like I've never seen a damnthing.
That was funny that he did.
He, he was coming out intopeople's shows like Joe Rogan,

(05:44):
like he was a serious dudetalking about serious issues
Apparently not.

Speaker 1 (05:52):
Why would he be?
Why so serious?

Speaker 2 (06:11):
Tim was saying that they got very early into the
topic of the extradition of alot of different people, but in
particular they're talking abouthe was very upset about the
removal of the green cardstudent holders.
Yeah, I listened to that part,okay.
And then you saw that Tim'sexample was like okay, well, if
you believe in free speech, ifyou think that America is doing
something like Nazis did, butthe rest of the world,

(06:32):
especially good old liberalEurope, doesn't do that, why
don't you go and do a joke aboutMohammed in Europe and see how
that goes?

Speaker 1 (06:41):
Yeah, I saw that part and then eventually.

Speaker 2 (06:43):
Well, I'm glad you did what do you mean Tim?

Speaker 1 (06:47):
What's going on, tim?

Speaker 2 (06:48):
I don't find that funny.
I don't have any material aboutMuhammad.
I just don't see anything funnyabout Muhammad whatsoever.
I mean, you're a racist, tim,but I don't understand why I
would be expected to be makingjokes about Muhammad and Tim's
like.
Well, you know he had sex withyoung girls, right?
This guy's like I don't know, Idon't know anything about that.

(07:10):
I don't know anything aboutwhat you're talking about.
I've never heard a damn thingthat you keep bringing up.
I wouldn't believe it, becauseit's coming out of Nazi.
The bubble they're living in isjust it's getting thicker.
That's the best way I candescribe it.

Speaker 1 (07:28):
Well, it's TDS, and I'm going to tie this back Next
level TDS.
Yeah, I'm going to tie thisback, though, to the topic at
hand, because I don't want tojust gloss over the massive
cognitive decline of thepresident, a foreign president
yeah, but everybody knew it,yeah, and everybody fucking said

(07:52):
no, it wasn't true no, no, onlylike a handful of people said
that mostly they work in themedia.

Speaker 2 (07:58):
Everybody else knew he was in the middle there's
there's a bunch of like mildlypolitical but younger people
that were all seeing it.
They were all talking aboutit's like no old people, fuck
them both.
Let's get bernie instead.

Speaker 1 (08:13):
You know, there's a, there's a thing you want to
believe, and then there'sreality yeah, so what I was
going to say, though, is, if welook at, if we look at the
cognitive decline of biden, andthe fact that it didn't.

(08:35):
The 25th amendment did not work.
I'm very fearful of thisrelease, especially from Axios
of all places, actually being aplant.
Because, you release storieslike this on Friday when you
don't want them to be superpublic.
So what I think is going tohappen is, anytime Trump makes a

(08:58):
misspeech, says something funky, does something weird, the Dems
are going to be all over itsaying where are you, Vance?
Why aren't you?

Speaker 2 (09:07):
pulling the 25th Amendment.
Why aren't you pulling the?

Speaker 1 (09:09):
25th Amendment.
But this next level, tds.
What I would suggest everylistener do is go download the
Axios clip and anytime, anytimesomeone says a word to you about
what Donald Trump is doing inhis presidency, send them that

(09:29):
and say well, at least he'sfunctional yeah yeah, and I'm
sure somebody will point back atronald reagan's like.

Speaker 2 (09:38):
Well, you know, the last two years of his presidency
, nancy basically ran the whitehouse dude.

Speaker 1 (09:44):
I'm on x right now and there's literally a meme
that says they leaked the bideher tape.
Release the prostate cancernews, dr evil, like it's all you
mean, fauci no no, no, no drevil.
You said yes, but I, I'm.
I'm meaning in the uh austinpowers sense oh, gee sure yes

(10:07):
but I'm meaning in the AustinPowers sense Ouchy Sure.
Anyway, I have been on way toomany airplanes lately.
Yeah, I can tell, and it's notgoing away.

Speaker 2 (10:17):
Are you enjoying the airplane food?

Speaker 1 (10:23):
I have eaten at way too many United lounges lately.
I'll put it that way how arethey these days?

Speaker 2 (10:29):
I haven't been in one for years.

Speaker 1 (10:34):
I mean, it varies so much by airport.
Some airports are fantastic,some airports are just junk.
Dfw for being a big Americanhub and everything.
I would take the DFW UnitedClub over the Dulles United Club
any day.

Speaker 2 (10:56):
Over the Dulles one.
Yeah, that's true.
I would think that Americanclubs in smaller cities are
actually better than the ones inDFWw yeah, right.

Speaker 1 (11:07):
But when I'm saying the united club, so american, is
in dallas, right, that's wherethey're headquartered and
everything else, so they're indallas.
I fly united in and out ofthere and um, anyway, the and
anyway the United Club in DFW isbetter than the United Club in
Dulles.

Speaker 2 (11:28):
Virginia.
That's my point, dude, is thatthe American clubs in cities
outside of Dallas are alsobetter.
You mean United.
No, I mean American.
I fly American.
I don't fly fucking United, butI okay.
So my point is everybody'sclubs outside of their hubs are
better.
The hub clubs usually are worsebecause there's way too many

(11:50):
people using them and the staffgets uppity and the service goes
downhill.

Speaker 1 (11:56):
I will say the United Clubs in IAH are fantastic,
like the Polaris Club there dude, that's fucking awesome, it's
awesome.
Well, it's the Polaris Clubthere, dude, that's fucking
awesome, it's awesome.

Speaker 2 (12:07):
Well, it's the Polaris Club.

Speaker 1 (12:08):
Yeah Well, even the United Clubs there are great.

Speaker 2 (12:12):
Okay, Alright, and I mean to be fair, like the
American Executive Club in Miamiwas also very nice, but you
know it's not just a regularAmerican club, so know it's not
it's not just a regular americanclub.
All right, so it's um, I'm I'mjust glad that there is a club

(12:34):
in austin for american uh,because, uh, some marilines
don't even have clubs.
Now I actually flew, uh, flew,um what should we call it?
Uh, what's the other airlinedelta?

Speaker 1 (12:52):
in new york.
Fuck delta and their newbaggage policies.
Oh yeah, uh, I don't know whatthose are, but but no guns I.
I'll tell you in a second.
Continue with your story well.

Speaker 2 (13:04):
So delta, which I haven't taken in many years, I I
used to fly occasionally.
I would fly delta, if you know,if the flights on american
weren't, uh, comparable, butgenerally I would fly american
for most things for the last 18years.

(13:25):
I will say that Delta wasactually pleasantly surprising.
It seemed like all of the staff, all the stewardesses, were
significantly younger than whatwe have in America, like they
aged out, think sooner on delta,and so the replacements are all

(13:48):
in their 20s and maybe early30s and on an american, good
luck finding somebody youngerthan 50.
They're all in their 50s and60s so united, united.

Speaker 1 (14:00):
I had a couple flights here recently where it
was all young 20-somethingstewardesses.
Yeah, and attractive young20-something stewardesses.

Speaker 2 (14:11):
Well, it helps being young.

Speaker 1 (14:13):
Uh-huh.

Speaker 2 (14:14):
Yeah, that makes sense.
So United's also aged out.
I mean, they all kind of arecyclical because there's a union
.
If there was no union, theywould need to age out, they
would just naturally leave, butbecause there's a union, they
stay there until they retire.
Yeah, fuck unions, and that's aproblem.
For Well, it's not a problem,but it definitely makes the

(14:37):
airline worse for the patrons.

Speaker 1 (14:44):
Agreed, yeah, agreed.
I mean, you don't want to be,uh, on a flight with some old
crone who's busting your ballsfor every little thing.

Speaker 2 (14:52):
Well, and that that's the difference, right?
Is that the the women that areno longer young and no longer
hot, but used to be, becausethey're stewardesses back when
there was a lot more flirtinggoing on in the airlines uh,
they're all crotchety.
They all just want to bust yourballs.
Like you said, they all have abad attitude and their job, as

(15:15):
far as their concern, is not tobe a stewardess, it is to be a
police woman, it's to policethings you're not doing the way
they want you to be doing them,and make sure that you know
about it.
That's like uh, sir, uh, your,uh, your foot is sticking out

(15:35):
three and three quarters of aninch out from the aisle.
You need to move that or I'mgonna have to tell the captain
to land the plane yeah, so thenew delta baggage policy is very
much in that vein oh yeah whichI think is interesting, that
you're saying they're youngerstewardesses.

Speaker 1 (15:52):
Um so several traveler blogs have posted
recently because you know I readthat shit, because I travel too
much.

Speaker 2 (16:00):
Yeah, yeah and uh.

Speaker 1 (16:02):
Anyways, several of them have said recently that hey
, um, I am used to.
You know, I'm in an earlyboarding group, I get on, I know
, everybody says one bag underthe seat in front of you, one
bag overhead, but basically whatI've always done is just put my

(16:24):
bag under the.
You know both bags in theoverhead because I'm their first
bitches which I?
I will be honest.
I am one of these dicks like ifI'm in boarding group one or two
which I'm always in boardinggroup one or two, yeah, um, both
my bags are going in theoverhead because, even if I'm in

(16:45):
basic economy or economy plusor whatever it is, yeah, I'm
tall enough that, motherfucker,I need the goddamn leg room so,
and I fly enough that I get thisprivilege.
But uh no, they've literallykicked people off flights
recently and on delta because ofthis really wow, yeah, yeah,

(17:06):
that is crazy.

Speaker 2 (17:07):
Um, yeah, I have not heard that I.
I fly always in group one.
The problem is there's a groupzero and it's annoying as fuck
because I'm all lined up, readyto go I was like, all right,
we're gonna be recording soon.
Uh, all right, we're going towelcome anybody that needs
additional time to get to yourseat and it's like all these,

(17:31):
you know, coach peasants walkingin front of me for no good
reason.
They could take the time afterI'm on the plane, not before.

Speaker 1 (17:41):
Next.
Thing they start announcing ifyou're in the only flies first
class military uh, we welcomeyou aboard as a thank you for
your service.

Speaker 2 (17:49):
What service do you not get a salary?
You get paid, we all get asalary.
So why, why are you getting onbefore me?
That's bullshit.
So finally, then they, they say, all right, well, we're gonna
go ahead and, uh, before we callgroup one, we're gonna call our
uh, uh, what the hell do theycall it on american, our I don't
know american, but it's cool,it's global services on people

(18:12):
that have spent over 25 000 ayear.
You can get on.
I'm like, okay, oh, it's morethan 25 000 these days, but is
it.
It used to be 20, oh, so I'mlike well, at least that makes
sense, I'm okay with that.
And then finally, the the guyslike me that pay full price for
first class.
Finally, we're allowed on.
That's like I'm in group four,basically, even though it says

(18:35):
group one on my ticket.

Speaker 1 (18:38):
That's bullshit I'm trying to get to my account so I
can tell you what I've spent sofar this year, and I'm not even
gold on United right now, butit's something like $12,000 or
$15,000 so far this year.
So, yeah, it is no longer that$20,000.

Speaker 2 (18:59):
And I haven't spent anywhere near that for a long
time because I have not flownfor a client since covet for
five years, but before that Iwas flying quite a bit for
clients and so I was getting andyou know, my contract is first
class only so I was getting notjust many miles but I was also

(19:19):
qualifying points lots ofdollars.
Yeah, a lot of times I wouldactually get there by dollar
spend rather than by uh milespend.
Interesting, so I wouldn't haveto do the uh the puddle jumper
runs like I used to back in theold days well, unfortunately I
don't have that in my contractyou can't do that with large
company, like large companieswill never have a contract that

(19:41):
specifies, I guess maybe like alaw firm might um, so
interestingly enough, with ourwork with guam one of the things
that I made the company rightin uh to the contract.

Speaker 1 (19:54):
Was any us personnel going to guam business class
minimum?
That's good, yeah, uh, becausemy entire point was Is you knew
you were going?
Yes, there is that, but beyondthat there's also just the
functionality aspect of it.
So here's the economics of itand the way I lined it out in

(20:18):
the proposal.
Someone flies even economy plus.

Speaker 2 (20:21):
They're not sleeping on the plane.

Speaker 1 (20:23):
Not well, they're're landing it is a 20 hour flight
with a what?

Speaker 2 (20:30):
and it's usually not a day off from work.
It's usually like well, fly insunday.
We'll have a meeting on mondayright, that's my point your own
time flying there and you'remiserable and you're not getting
good night's sleep.
I agree, when I was at britishtelecom they had a policy where
any flight over eight hours isgoing to be business.

Speaker 1 (20:50):
Yeah, so anyway, Guam is a 15-hour time difference.
So my point and ours goes bylevel.
So for a flight like this, mylevel of management, I would
qualify for a business classticket anyway, but my team would
not.
So that's part of my motivationhere.
So you've got a 20 hour flightthat you can't get there direct.

(21:12):
You're walking as well and youhave a 15 hour time difference.

Speaker 2 (21:16):
So my point was you either accept two days of
downtime when we're there thatyou're paying for or you pay for
the business class flight which, yeah, you know you kind of
wonder like that may be a betterapproach.
Or you just tell people look,you're only flying during
business hours.
You can't, we don't expect youto get there early.
So you know you're gonna leaveon monday, you'll get in on

(21:41):
tuesday night or whatever.
Or you know you'll get it ontuesday but you're not going to
need to actually be at theclient side until wednesday.
Yeah, and you're flying backwednesday right after that to be
home on friday.
Yeah that's.

Speaker 1 (21:54):
That's.
No one's going to send anyoneanywhere for that I know.
I will say this one of the mostfucked up things I've seen in a
contract lately is uh withanother u U S territory.
That may or may not be a trashIsland, but that's neither here
nor there.

Speaker 2 (22:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (22:11):
The kill Tony joke.
If anyone gets a reference,yeah.
But you know, no weekendexpenses are allowed.

Speaker 2 (22:19):
No weekend, so you have to fly out.
Wait, so that means you don'tfly weekends.
You just only wait till Mondayto fly out.
Wait, so that means you don'tfly weekends.

Speaker 1 (22:25):
Then you just only wait until Monday to fly out.
Yeah, and then you fly outFriday because you can't expense
anything on Saturday, exactly.
That seems like a stupid policybecause, right, because, if I'm
going down there, I'm stayingfor a couple of weeks.
I'm going to enjoy my time onthe weekend, sure, but you know
what?
It's cheaper than flying meback and forth.

Speaker 2 (22:43):
So let me tell you what I did.
I didn't do this often, but Idid it often enough when I was
working in New York.
When I was young, I was flyingthere.
Monday through Friday, and Iwould usually leave Sunday night
because I would prefer to justget a good night's sleep anyway
rather than coming into theoffice.

(23:03):
Leaving on a 7 am flight, to bethere by 10 am prefer to just
get a good night's sleep anywayrather than coming into the
office at you know, leaving on a7 am flight, to be there by 10
am, like that, to me is stupid.
So I'd rather just fly outsunday night and then just stay
at a hotel next day.
But yeah, what I started doingwhen I was flying back and forth
literally every week.
I was only home on weekends.
What I realized is it doesn'treally matter where I fly back

(23:25):
to on Friday or where I fly fromon Monday or Sunday.
So I started flying from NewYork to Miami for the weekends
and of course I was still doingthe mileage calculations in my
head.
So the way I would do it is Iwould actually fly, I would get

(23:45):
a ticket from new york to miamibut you can imagine there's some
direct flights there but Iwould take that ticket and then
fly through o'hare, throughhouston and then to miami oh
fuck, that's a brutal day it's abrutal day of getting miles
that I need to get.

(24:06):
Brutal day.
It's a brutal day of gettingmiles that I need to get and
when you're in your 20s.
That's called an adventure thatthat's like you know flirting
at the airport.
That's drinking back in the day, when I'm drinking the entire
way, drinking the uh, the freebooze in every club along the
way it's like three clubs you'regonna stop at to have free
drinks at back.
Then it used to be.

(24:27):
You know totally.
Everything was so free shit,dude.
A lifetime membership was fivethousand dollars.

Speaker 1 (24:33):
I am kicking myself for not doing that I, I would do
that in a heartbeat if it wasobviously, but this is, you know
, granted.

Speaker 2 (24:42):
It's like in money translation back from the 90s
it'd probably be more liketwelve thousand dollars, but
still it was super cheapcompared to what it is right now
.
If they even do lifetime, Ithink some places stopped but,
uh well, I don't know of anyclubs that do lifetime
memberships?
Really not anymore what I usedto do.
Maybe this is why they don't doit.

(25:03):
What I used to do is uh,occasionally I would just uh
have a bit.
This is all pre-9-11, right?
So?

Speaker 1 (25:12):
yeah, when security was at the gate.
I would.

Speaker 2 (25:15):
I would just have uh like drinks after dinner, meet
up with folks at the airport atthe club where the booze is
being free and it's it's like by7, 8 pm there's fewer flights
coming in, there's not a wholelot of people.
I got the bar all to myself,getting boozed up and eating

(25:38):
snacks and whatnot, and talkingto somebody whether it's a cheap
date or whether it's uhsomebody in from out of town
that just wanted out.
I'm like, yeah, we'll do it forfree, and then you can claim
your per diem and keep thatyourself.
I used to be creative with howto get money from companies back
in the day.
These days I'm on the otherside of that, of course.

Speaker 1 (26:00):
Yeah, I don't.
All the abuse, damn it.
Yeah, I don't.
Uh, I I don't drink as much asI used to when I was traveling I
don't drink at all anymore andI I remember one of the flights
into utah because I was on myway to inl uh.

(26:20):
So I was going from houston tosalt lake city, then salt lake
city to idaho falls and I was inthe back because it was a last
minute flight and I got a shittyseat and I'm sitting next to
this dude who's obviously aboutto go on his first mission and
it's like an 8 30 am flight.
Oh wow, you know it's an early,it's an early enough flight and

(26:43):
uh, I'm just sitting there justlike, fuck my life, I hate this.
Why am I in the back of the busdoing this and all that?
Anyway, the stewardess comes byand I'm like, yeah, can I get
uh two bourbons and uh, you knowwhatever seltzer water or
whatever.
And he just kind of looks at melike this and I'm like, dude,
it's too early for your nonsense.

(27:04):
Change seats if you want.
I'm going to be drinking andsleeping right now.
That's what I'm doing, ofcourse.

Speaker 2 (27:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (27:14):
Which, by the way, the best thing to do on a long
international leg if you canLike the best international
flight I have had as far asrecovery time was coming back
from Dubai on Emirates businessclass.

Speaker 2 (27:30):
Yeah, the best thing you can do is take Emirates
business class If you want tohave a good flight back.
There's your advice right there.

Speaker 1 (27:36):
I've flown Singapore business.
I've flown Qatari business.

Speaker 2 (27:40):
I've flown lots of business classes.

Speaker 1 (27:41):
I've flown all the best businesses I have pretty
much until Riyadh gets theirairline businesses I I have
pretty much until riyad getsthere, like going.
I can pretty much say that but,what I would say is the
strategy was it was, uh, 18 anda half hour flight, yeah, and.
But the strategy was I got in,I ate a little something and I
started drinking and I slept andthat's all I did for the entire

(28:03):
flight is.

Speaker 2 (28:04):
I slept as much as possible.
And then I was fine.
I used to stay up the nightbefore a flight for the same
reason.
You essentially could be wornout so that after about half an
hour, maybe 20 minutes on theairplane, I would start dozing
off.
Naturally, and it happenedpretty normally, I mean probably

(28:25):
, I'd say, starting with myfifth or sixth flight I just
completely was relaxed and wasable to sleep on the airplane.

Speaker 1 (28:36):
And you know, everything was good I don't care
what time of day it is at thispoint, domestic or otherwise I
don't care if it's a 50 minuteflight, I'm taking it you can
sleep.

Speaker 2 (28:48):
My problem right now is I snore and I, and so I'm I'm
sort of self-conscious of, youknow, the person sitting next to
me all of a sudden hearing youknow next to him.
That would be annoying.
I don't want that.
So I I try to be in that.
What do you call that?
The zone where you're like halfasleep, where you're kind of

(29:11):
losing.
You're going in and out ofsleep every few minutes but you
you're still picking up a wordhere and there, like when
they're coming by with thedrinks.
You know, know, you kind ofhear that and you're like, yeah,
I'll have the Bloody Mary mix,and then but yeah, it's gotten
bad.
I don't drink booze on theplane, so I'm not getting my

(29:33):
money's worth.
Last flight I took, I didn'teven eat on the plane, so all I
paid for was an expensivetransport.

Speaker 1 (29:41):
Yeah.
So let me ask you somethingAisle or window?

Speaker 2 (29:46):
oh, I, I'm a very strategic about this.
If there's something worthseeing, like the flying in over
manhattan or flying back toaustin on the fourth of july
during fireworks, then I'll havea seat.
Otherwise it's going to be, uh,the aisle, so I can get out of
there quicker yeah, my, myentire tactic is as far forward

(30:08):
as I can be oh, I'm usually inone a and and an aisle or c.

Speaker 1 (30:12):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, one a or one.
So while we're talking, thisweek in travel, uh since we're
not since we're not doing ournormal shtick and I tried to
open with biden and hisretardation yeah um.
Did you see the brooklyn bridgeboat accident?

Speaker 2 (30:31):
uh, I saw a picture, but I didn't read anything about
it so this mexican sailingvessel, yeah was embarking and I
don't know if it's on purposeor not.

Speaker 1 (30:43):
it kind of looks like they were getting blown
backwards and it was a totalaccident that they hit.
But several sailors died,others very seriously injured,
boat damaged Like whoopsie.

Speaker 2 (31:02):
Yeah, that sucks, man .
I mean, boating accidents are,on the one hand, more common
than people think.
I mean, you've seen the videoright?
I haven't seen the video ofthis one.
I've seen other videos, likeI've seen the barge in Ohio and
yeah, look at this one.
You know, if you're going tosend me links to shit, you
should do it before the show soI can look at them rather than

(31:24):
saying, oh, you saw this rightwell, I didn't see it.

Speaker 1 (31:27):
We haven't talked, we didn't even confirm today's
time you were I can play videogames and I stream.

Speaker 2 (31:33):
No, I haven't seen the news well, okay, my, I'm not
like one of you people that'snot busy at all.
Busy at all.
Oh, I wish I could show you mytime sheet for the last few
weeks.
Yeah, I'll show you mine, dude.
I guarantee you I had more timeplaying video games.

(31:54):
I'm sure you did, and you know,just because it's called
playing doesn't mean it's notwork, okay anyway, bad accidents
not good.
Yeah, yeah, it's pretty fuckedup uh, have you seen the videos
ever of the?
Uh huge um ships transportsbringing shit over from china,

(32:16):
going through rough seas?

Speaker 1 (32:18):
uh, yeah, waves are like 100 feet tall.
Yeah, going over, going overthem.

Speaker 2 (32:22):
Oh my God, it's insane.
And they're like, yeah, we'llusually lose two or three of the
containers, but that's whatinsurance is for.
Well not for the people thatorder shit that's on there.

Speaker 1 (32:34):
Not for the people who are shipping their personal
goods over on there.
Yeah, that's not.

Speaker 2 (32:40):
no, nope should use an airplane for that.
Clearly Should not be usingthings like that.
Nope should use an airplane forthat.
Clearly Should not be usingthings like that.
Mm-hmm, so yeah, I don't know.
Man, it's been an interestingweek.

(33:01):
I've mostly gotten my news offof, uh, youtube.
As usual.
There may be things that that,and then your mom, she sends me
news.

Speaker 1 (33:14):
Oh, that sounds like a bad joke.

Speaker 2 (33:18):
Uh, yeah, yeah, If you, if you've seen enough
movies from the nineties, it isa bad joke.

Speaker 1 (33:24):
Yeah, she is freaked out about me going to max.

Speaker 2 (33:27):
I know she and I talked about this for quite a
while.
I was very reassuring to heryeah, I even sent her photos of
your hotel room.
Like how'd you get those?
It's like I got people checkeverything out, don't worry
uh-huh, uh-huh yeah, he's ingood hands.
There'll be folks right aroundhim the whole time.
It's actually a very touristy,which could be good or bad, but

(33:53):
since you're going with a family, that's probably a good thing.
But it's a very touristy area.
It's across from a huge touristmall where everybody speaks
English and the prices arelikewise made for tourists.
Decent food, though Obviouslyall the seafood is very good out
there.
I highly recommend.

Speaker 1 (34:15):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (34:15):
So yeah, I don't know it's, I think you will enjoy it
.
Don't step on the turtlesthey're laying eggs out there.
Don't step on the baby eggsbecause they're on the beach
hatching.
Yeah, and they're protected.
Yeah, which I figured.
They used to use them foromelets, but I guess not anymore

(34:37):
.
The water's nice, it's clean inthe gulf of america.

Speaker 1 (34:47):
Well, you heard about mexico sitting google over that
I know whatever, what, whateverguys.

Speaker 2 (34:54):
I told them uh, I told them I.
I tweeted back.
It's like yeah, yeah, keep,keep doing that.
We'll see if uh City becomesAmerica City next we're going to
take one Mexico off the map ata time until there is no more
Mexicos left.

Speaker 1 (35:13):
Uh-huh.

Speaker 2 (35:13):
We have the power because Trump can sign an
executive order to compel anAmerican company to do that but
sure An.
American company?
Yes, Well, that's the onlycompanies that matter's.
What maps do you think thateverybody else uses?
Hence why uh mexico's suing uh,well, how about they go get

(35:37):
their own ponce leone map andthen use that instead?

Speaker 1 (35:41):
maybe they can find them oh, I will say, you know
people like my dad, it stillbugs him.
It's like it's been the gulf ofmexico my entire life and what
doesn't mean anything.

Speaker 2 (35:53):
that's, that's exactly my response.
You know it didn't used to bethe Gulf of Mexico.
It used to be the Sea ofsomething else, as they used to
call it.

Speaker 1 (36:05):
What no, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (36:06):
Before they named it the Gulf of Mexico, it was the
Sea of something.
I can't remember the guy's name.
It was one of the earlyexplorers.
Mexico's a country.
It's actually a made-up country.
It's not a real country.

Speaker 1 (36:21):
How is it a made-up country.

Speaker 2 (36:22):
Well, they made it up .

Speaker 1 (36:24):
I mean Sea of the Cortez.

Speaker 2 (36:28):
Don't look at old maps, you won't find Mexico.
Yeah, so Cortez called it Seaof the.
North or Mar del Norte oh mygod, I hope you your accent is
better than that if you've beenstudying for six months first of
all, I'm very tired.

Speaker 1 (36:46):
We're recording this late and I'm not trying right
now now is it Elmar or Lamar?
Mar El Elmar Now is it El Maror La Mar Mar, el El Mar, el Mar
.

Speaker 2 (37:02):
First of all, you're rolling an R.

Speaker 1 (37:02):
That isn't a different word El Mar del Norte,
el Mar del Norte we speakMexican with a particular accent
.

Speaker 2 (37:07):
¿por qué tú no hablas español?

Speaker 1 (37:09):
bien, yo hablo español más o menos bien.
Necesito más práctica, pero máso menos bien.
No-transcript I speak Spanish,I enough because I'm tired god

(37:32):
damn, it all right, good enoughall right, like I said, I
haven't slept a whole lot, butyou know what.

Speaker 2 (37:37):
I'm glad they gave you an easy language to learn in
virginia.
That's all right.
So dude.

Speaker 1 (37:42):
First of all, I don't just speak spanish, thank you
okay I speak english, I speakspanish I well, you speak
southern english, but yeah Ihave a ton of Latin.

Speaker 2 (37:54):
Yeah, that's so useful.
So, speaking of the Latin Pope,who's American?
Yeah, woo, chicago.

Speaker 1 (38:03):
Chicago.

Speaker 2 (38:04):
Yeah, yeah, so how you know?
It's interesting because I keephearing these.
First of all, nobody liked thelast Pope while he was alive.
Nobody I knew that liked them.
Sure, Like actual Catholics.
But now there's all thesestories, these conspiracy

(38:29):
theories going around about howhe had written this treatise on
exposing all the the childpedophiles in the church and he
was going to publish it and hewas going to give a copy to our
VP and they killed him before hecould do that.
Now I like a good conspiracyevery now and then, but to me

(38:52):
that just sounds like graspingat straws that don't exist, Like
no, no, they all, they all boys.
That's the more realistic answerto this catholic.
Uh, long term, like not someyou know far off part-time
priest somewhere, but like allthese career Catholic priests I

(39:19):
just we've had this conversation, I think, before.
I think that it is a.
It is the natural outcome of arepression that starts when
they're young, and I think myrecommendation was, if you let
them have a rumspringer for likefive years where they can get
married, have kids, then theyhave to get divorced to become a

(39:40):
priest.
First of all, the priests wouldbe a lot more dedicated.
Secondly, I think they wouldprobably not become pedophiles.
I think I'm not saying this isa causality, but I'm pretty sure
that if you look at the stats,you will find that most

(40:02):
pedophiles don't have children.

Speaker 1 (40:04):
I would say that I can almost guarantee you that no
one, with no one who haschildren, could be a pedophile.

Speaker 2 (40:09):
Well, I'm sure there are exceptions.
I would be shocked.

Speaker 1 (40:14):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Because as soon as you like like
you would have to be so fuckedup in the head to have a kid and
not have the transitionalproperty to say there are people
who kill other people too sureyou know there are different
pathologies there, but my pointis, statistically that's the
case.

Speaker 2 (40:34):
So and so you have this whole class of priests that
have effectively been barredfrom participating in the most
natural act on Earth thatliterally every animal does on
the planet, every insect, everyfish.
Everybody does this, except forCatholic priests, and so I

(41:01):
think the likelihood of themessentially creating kinks for
themselves is much higherbecause of that.
It's like if you listen toserial killer interviews from
prison, most of them will tellyou that their first murder was

(41:27):
somebody that either did orreminded them of somebody that
was a bitch to them, them ofsomebody that was a bitch to
them.
It's, it's a response.
It's not like gee, I alwayswondered, I was curious, what
would it be like to killsomebody?

(41:47):
and don't be clipping this shitout of context but, but uh,
usually their first one is morelike I just got fed up, I
couldn't stand it anymore.
These women at my job were justtotal bitches.
They were making fun of myheight, they were making fun of
my whatever, and so they take itout on somebody that reminds

(42:12):
them of that person.
And then the part where theybecome serial is that they got
away with it and they realizethat, a it's not that hard and,
b that that was probably thebiggest adrenaline rush they've
ever had in their entire life,and their life has been pretty

(42:34):
miserable, it's been pretty sad,and so they want to keep
repeating the adrenaline rush.
It's not that they want to keepkilling.
They want to get the feelingthat they get when they kill
somebody.
Okay, and then we can.
I mean, if we're done with thattopic, we switched to the topic
you brought up.

(42:54):
So, and then we can uh, I mean,if we're done with that topic,
we switched the topic youbrought up, which was, um,
pedophilia, now considered a uma choice?

Speaker 1 (43:02):
Yeah Well, no, not a choice a sexual uh orientation?

Speaker 2 (43:06):
Yes, isn't that?
Aren't those a choice?

Speaker 1 (43:09):
Um, it depends on how you see it, but anyway, uh,
there were several, you know, uh, different um what, what's that
?
Um, eggs, no, but with tedtalks that were presenting this
at recently.
As you know, this is just asexual orientation and you can't

(43:33):
be blamed for your sexualorientation.
No, why would you be blamed forthat?
You know, yeah, and and what?
It's a stupid bad take so is it?

Speaker 2 (43:49):
is it actually just a back words, creative way to
point out that the whole conceptof a sexual orientation is a
mental disease?
Um, no, I think that would bemy takeaway I think these people
are being genuine well, genuineis in thinking that more people

(44:10):
ought to be pedophiles uh, thatwe, that society, should be
more accepting that societyshouldn't repress pedophilia
because it's, it's totallynatural correct.
I mean, I guess in the britishroyal family kind of it is, but
I don't know if it is aparticularly healthy thing, and
that's usually things that endup being considered unclean or

(44:35):
sins are things that are nothealthy.
Yes, right, like pork.
That was a joke, that was a.
Uh.
Yeah, you're supposed to laughat that okay, says the man who
likes shellfish I like dude.
Your mom sent me something aboutpork and I was like damn it,

(44:55):
I'm gonna have to fry me some up.
So I sent her a picture of uhbacon.
I cooked.

Speaker 1 (45:00):
There you go now anyway, did you see the uh james
o'keefe video?
I just sent you because Ihaven't watched it yet.

Speaker 2 (45:09):
But that alex is no ben.
I have not seen the video, youjust know.

Speaker 1 (45:14):
Well, I don't know if you're actually paying
attention or not.
The answer is obviously no.

Speaker 2 (45:20):
I will say James O'Keefe has been disappointing
people recently.
Okay, because he's doing thething that our Department of
Justice did, which is like we'vegot boxes and boxes of things
here to show you photos ofpeople from the internet looking

(45:40):
at, and then it turns outthere's nothing there, and
that's kind of what people havebeen saying is that you know
ever since.
But look, I like O'Keefe, Ilike the fact that he didn't let
other people kick him out ofhis own company.
But I will also say he clearlyhas narcissistic tendencies and

(46:02):
I think some of the things thathe does, he does mainly for the
reason of recognition and notfor the good of something coming
out of it.

Speaker 1 (46:16):
Okay, okay.
So I'm not going to argue that.
No, no, I'm just saying, but Ithink that there is plenty of
good that is coming out of the.

Speaker 2 (46:26):
O'Keefe Media Group and has come out of other stuff,
so I mean, I don't thinkthere's been nearly as much as
there was back in his oldcompany.

Speaker 1 (46:40):
In Project Veritas yeah.

Speaker 2 (46:42):
I don't know.
I just I think he was hungryback then.
I think he's making good moneynow.

Speaker 1 (46:50):
Yeah, but he's also not the one capable of getting
the videos anymore.

Speaker 2 (46:54):
Yes, yes, also not the one capable of getting the
videos anymore.
Yes, yes, although there areplenty of meme videos of
literally james with a bad trumpwig.
Out on a date with some dudeit's always guys for some reason
too but out on a date with someguy and the guy's totally
spilling the beans to him.
It's like have you never seensomebody who's like six foot

(47:15):
seven and looks like he is a uh,a, uh uh, what do you call it?
Uh he, just he looks like a guywho performs in in uh musical
theater.

Speaker 1 (47:37):
Okay, I don't know where you're going with this.

Speaker 2 (47:42):
I'm just saying he looks a little.

Speaker 1 (47:44):
Light in the loafers A little theory.

Speaker 2 (47:47):
He's not the guy working on your car.
Let's put it that way.
Sure, yeah, he's the guychecking out your back end while
you're working on your car andyou're the dude, but whatever I
mean, look, gay guys can bringplenty of good things to society
.
Nothing wrong with that.
I'm just saying that he'salways kind of struck me as

(48:10):
being a theater kid okay, I so.

Speaker 1 (48:17):
What's wrong with theater kids?

Speaker 2 (48:20):
well, they're a little theatery, aren't they?

Speaker 1 (48:23):
I really don't know what you mean by that, oh, you
know exactly what I mean, like Idid theater in high school,
yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, I Ifirst of all, I started with the
Fall of Spot and doing that.
Then I got talked into playingFelix on for just Felix, and

(48:47):
what was it?
The Odd Couple.

Speaker 2 (48:48):
Yeah, yeah, felix Unger, and what's the other guy?

Speaker 1 (48:55):
I forgot the other guy's name.
I was the preppy one.
Yeah, you were the gay one.

Speaker 2 (48:59):
Not the gay.
I mean, everybody knows Felixwas gay.
Come on, it's not a surprise.
They couldn't say it back inthe 60s, obviously, but that was
the implication.
He was the one that kept theplace clean.

Speaker 1 (49:11):
Uh-huh.

Speaker 2 (49:13):
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, they had a parasocialrelationship so what do you
think?

Speaker 1 (49:20):
uh, did you see trump's announcements?
Uh, here over the weekend thathe thinks we'll see a ukrainian
peace deal monday?

Speaker 2 (49:27):
no, no, I didn't see it and no, I don't think we will
.

Speaker 1 (49:34):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (49:36):
I think Ukraine is getting harder and harder to do
a peace deal for Because it iscollapsing.

Speaker 1 (49:48):
Agreed, which may make the country desperate
enough to kick Zelensky out tothe point where they can do it.

Speaker 2 (49:54):
Like that would be a good trigger, I think.
But right now for putin it'skind of like I'm.
I'm basically on the gates ofberlin in world war ii and
you're saying, okay, okay, okay,let's do a deal.
And uh, you give us back whatwas ours, um, and then, uh,
we'll just call it even no guys,I'm gonna walk into berlin.

(50:19):
There's no like.
I'm right there.
Do you not see me waving rightthere?
You can see me right from thecity.
So I think the incentive is notthere.
They should have done this twoyears ago.
They probably would have gottenthe peace deal well I?

Speaker 1 (50:34):
I think, had Trump been reelected, there never
would have been an issue.
It wouldn't have happened.

Speaker 2 (50:39):
Because what would have happened is Putin would
have basically said look, we'regetting fucked here by all these
Europeans lying nonstop, andI'm sorry, but we're going to
have to react and you'll getsucked into it.
You won't like it.
The whole NATO thing isbullshit.
You know the backstory on allthis stuff.
I'm just giving you a fairwarning that if this doesn't

(51:01):
change in the next six months,we're going to have to react and
Trump would have figured out away to wrangle the Europeans.
Russia didn't need to go thereif Ukraine wasn't shelling the
Russians that lived in Ukraine.
Agreed.

Speaker 1 (51:21):
It's not hard.
So are there any topics thatyou have paid attention to this
week that you want to talk?

Speaker 2 (51:27):
about.
I mean, let me think what hasbeen interesting here.
I really haven't been payingattention to much politics.
I'll tell you that.
Okay, I mean I don't.
We don't have to talk aboutpolitics.
You know, we used to talk aboutguns and food and other things

(51:47):
before.

Speaker 1 (51:48):
Well, uh, it's just been politics, non-stop well,
it's been one of those you knowbits, but one of the things that
me, uh, photos of of likesteaks and shit you cooked back
in the day.
Yeah, yeah, oh, I haven't cookeda steak in a while because I've
been traveling so much.
But one of the things I willsay is I'm very proud of a few
republican congressmen forholding up the big, beautiful

(52:10):
bill for the hush act and theshort, uh, short guns bill.
Which is what, uh?
So the hush act is suppressorsfrom the nfa and the short guns
bill is removing short barreledrifles from got it, got it and

(52:32):
what does that leave?
just machine guns pretty much inany other weapon, which any
other weapon is kind of a trickyone yeah, because if you put a
vertical uh grip on a pistol itbecomes any other any other
weapon.
Um, they also, you know,destructive devices would still
be on there, stuff like that.

Speaker 2 (52:50):
So what if I put like a dildo on the bottom of a gun?
Does that make it any otherweapon or is that still a pistol
?

Speaker 1 (52:58):
I mean, what we have now is people who are using, you
know, mag holders for a grip,stuff like that.
You know, there's lots ofthings like that.

Speaker 2 (53:10):
There's workarounds.
People will always come up witha workaround if it's possible.

Speaker 1 (53:14):
The forced reset trigger is a perfect example of
this.
The FRT is a great example offuck you government.

Speaker 2 (53:22):
I need to get that installed.
I got one, I just need to getit installed.
What do you mean get?

Speaker 1 (53:26):
it installed.
What are you installing?

Speaker 2 (53:28):
on One of my guns.

Speaker 1 (53:29):
Which gun.

Speaker 2 (53:30):
I don't know yet.
I'm picking one.
I got a lot of ARs Okay, I'llpick one.
I got a lot of ARs Okay, and Igot that.
And I also have the binary.

Speaker 1 (53:40):
Okay, but why do you need to have it installed?

Speaker 2 (53:44):
Because it's sitting in a box on my desk and I need
to get it installed.

Speaker 1 (53:48):
Right, but getting it installed sounds to me like
you're going to have someoneelse do it.
Yeah, you.
Is that not obvious from mytone?

Speaker 2 (54:01):
uh-huh why do you think I invited you to town?
Uh-huh which by the way, Idon't know if I'm gonna be able
to make it at this point but I'mI'm registered, but I'm gonna
try luckily, the registrationisn't gonna cost you any if you
don't exactly, but yeah it's.
And look we, we've been talkingabout doing a get together for
like a year, uh-huh, uh, I'malmost out of rabbits, so my at

(54:21):
the very least, my rabbit drivewill happen soon.
Um, but when you're, we need tojust sit down, figure out some
times, because I'm going to betraveling, you're going to be
traveling, you know, I'm goingto also, theoretically, mexico,
so we might not see each otherthere, but we'll be close, um,

(54:43):
but it's um, we still got to gettogether, like in texas at some
point.
I think the last time we gottogether was at the houston
meetup the houston meetup.

Speaker 1 (54:53):
Yeah, we need to have a meetup of our own and
realistically, we both should begoing.

Speaker 2 (54:59):
Uh, this, we should have gone to the fredericksburg
meetup, but yeah there's toomuch other stuff going on, so I
mean it's, it's probably aboutthe same distance for both of us
oh, it's way shorter for you.

Speaker 1 (55:11):
Are you kidding?

Speaker 2 (55:11):
me.
You know, I drive slower.

Speaker 1 (55:17):
Same distance for both of us, please don't you
know?

Speaker 2 (55:20):
distance depends on the speed uh no of light.

Speaker 1 (55:25):
Yes, it's a, einstein proved it uh-huh, uh-huh, no,
uh, that that's not what heproved at all okay, totally,
totally.

Speaker 2 (55:33):
it's right there.
I've seen the video.
Yeah, as you drive faster, timeslows down.

Speaker 1 (55:41):
Correct Time dilates, but that does nothing to change
the distance.

Speaker 2 (55:46):
Well it does, because from an observer standing on
the third point of view, itlooks like you're actually
moving longer range in that sameamount of time.

Speaker 1 (55:59):
No, you've got that backwards.
To an outside observer, thereis no difference and there is no
time dilation.
It is to the person in thecraft traveling at this near
speed of light that there's thetime dilation.

Speaker 2 (56:11):
It all depends on your perspective.
They're both the same thing.
It all depends on yourperspective.
They're both the same thing.
It's just.
If you have two differentpeople observing one event, it's
not that one of them is wrongand one of them is right.
It's that each one has adifferent perspective on it.
Okay, just saying Okay.

Speaker 1 (56:33):
We can argue about how general relativity works.

Speaker 2 (56:40):
Sure, it's been a while, but I'm sure I can get
back on the topic.
Yeah, I'm taking multipleclasses on that topic.

Speaker 1 (56:54):
Me too, just a few.

Speaker 2 (56:59):
Because it was one of the few fun things to do,
Agreed.
Actually, it's like okay, let'stalk without it being science
fiction, let's talk about shitthat sounds like science fiction
and then explain how it works.
You know, the latest thing Isaw is that apparently now

(57:19):
there's a push to say that blackholes don't actually exist.
Okay, they have mathematicallyshown that they don't exist well
, I mean, we're starting from aplace of saying that they
mathematically do exist and thatwe don't know uh you know that

(57:41):
we haven't observed them, soyeah, and we've we've certainly
had some observational thingsthat would agree with the fact
that that looks like a wormholebut it's not like you can fly
out and check one out.

Speaker 1 (57:53):
First of all, let's use terms uh, wormhole, but it's
not like you can fly out andcheck one out.

Speaker 2 (57:56):
First of all, let's use terms uh, wormhole very
messy term, sorry, not wormholeI am going on the four hours of
sleep yeah, eisenberg, einstein,rosenberg, bridge, but anyway,
and a black hole is not awormhole, no, no no, I I meant
the black hole, but it's aninteresting idea that it could

(58:22):
be that the interior of what welook at black holes is actually
like a tortoise.
No, you're on the inside andthe outside.
That's really not how thatworks but that's what I'm saying
is they're now mathematicallyshowing that that looks like the
right solution.

Speaker 1 (58:43):
Okay, well I send me what you've been reading.

Speaker 2 (58:47):
I look forward to reading it usually complain when
I send you too many videos perday.
You're like dude.
I can't watch eight hours ofvideos a day and do my job I, I
can't like, I don't watch, Idon't watch I'm actually
surprised my mom doesn't justrecommend all the videos I watch
to you anyway, because they dothat probably does.

Speaker 1 (59:06):
I don't look at the recommended stream hardly ever
okay.

Speaker 2 (59:09):
Yeah, because that's what most people find is that
once google figures out thatyou're friends all the shit that
you like or that you watchedall the way through and didn't
just stop it after two minutesthat will pop up on all your
friends recommended list, whichis brilliant.
That totally makes sense,because it gives you something
to talk about but.

(59:30):
I remember people starting it'slike dude, why am I getting a
whole bunch of tiger and bearvideos all of a sudden?
What the hell?
Well, it's like well I, becauseI'm watching those so have you
spent much time watching youtubelately.
I mean I'm I'm streamingusually like three hours a day

(59:50):
and then I'm watching usuallyabout 12 okay, did.

Speaker 1 (59:54):
Did you see the Military Arms Channel video
Mm-hmm On Sig Yep that you didat Sig?
What's your thoughts?

Speaker 2 (01:00:09):
You know, I'm not a Sig fanboy.
You know that.

Speaker 1 (01:00:13):
And you know that I like.

Speaker 2 (01:00:14):
Sig, and I do know that you like sig, but I also
think that the internet loves tobe black and white, right, um.
So I don't know.
I mean, I'm sure there's tonsof sigs that malfunction, but
there's also a hugely greaternumber of people that have never

(01:00:37):
had an issue, even though theydid the exact same thing to the
ones that malfunctioned yeah, Ithink the hey, it could be the
holsters issue is a legit thingthe.
The uh problem is between the uhthe left ear and the right ear.

(01:00:57):
Yeah, that happens a lot, um, Ibut.
But it's still to some extentit somewhat doesn't matter,
because if other brands glock,don't do that, don't have the
same issues, then does it reallymatter?
Why is it?
Is it simply the fact thatpeople who buy sigs aren't very

(01:01:21):
good at firearms?
Is that you think that's it?

Speaker 1 (01:01:24):
well, considering most of them got sold to the
police and military okay well,that's a true statement, then,
right there um, actually uhactually.
Yes, I think this is acompletely, completely realistic
sort of thing.

Speaker 2 (01:01:39):
Yes, I really wish that there was a way to to limit
gun sales.
Here's a gun bill.
I would be for.
Limit gun sales to onlyenthusiasts.
If you don't like guns, ifyou're not into firearms, uh,
you don't get to buy one yeah sodid.

Speaker 1 (01:02:02):
Did you see the trade deals that trump pulled off
while he was in qatar?

Speaker 2 (01:02:06):
I saw the highlights, but not the full deals.
Did you okay?

Speaker 1 (01:02:11):
I.
I looked into some of the fulldeals, so everybody's giving him
crap about the Qatari airplane,right?
I would still take that.
Why would you not take that?
Well, here's what you got torealize.
So part of the issue is we havetwo count them two Air Force
Ones, right?
Actually, any plane that thepresident's on is Air Force One.

Speaker 2 (01:02:31):
They're old man, they're seriously old, they are,
they're 747 generation 200.

Speaker 1 (01:02:36):
Yeah, so what the sod or the uh qataris are offering
him is a 747 800.
Oh yeah, the newest 747 is a900 class.
Boeing has delayed and delayedand delayed as usual, yeah, and
they can't.
Boeing can't build another 747.
They've lost the tooling, it'sover, yeah, so what?

Speaker 2 (01:02:55):
do you do tooling?
Aka, they're old engineers.

Speaker 1 (01:02:59):
Yes, yeah, yeah, but here.
So what do you do?
These airframes are aging, theycan't keep flying forever.
No, so you know, people arelike he can't fly on that plane.
It'd be a security risk.
It'd be this idea every timeair force one flies.
Both planes fly.
Yeah, one is a decoy, one isthe real one yeah, every time so

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meanwhile trump's flying on.

Speaker 2 (01:03:25):
Trump force one just fool everybody and yeah, okay,
fine, whatever.

Speaker 1 (01:03:28):
But the point is, what this gives you is you give
that plane a paint job.
You don't have to do basicallyanything else to it other than
verify there's no transmittingdevices.
That would be giving away thatit's the decoy.
And then you take the secondairframe that is in bad need of
maintenance.
But since they both fly everytime, you take it and you put it

(01:03:49):
in the shop and you retrofit itright and once it's retrofitted
, yeah, then you take the otherold air force one out and you
put it in the shop and retrofitit right, and once it's
retrofitted, then you take theother old Air Force One out and
you put it in the shop andretrofit it and then you fly
both of them and you give itback to the Qataris or go look
how smart I was and I'm puttingit in my presidential library.
Fuck you.

Speaker 2 (01:04:07):
Now.
I think, that all makes sense,which, by the way?

Speaker 1 (01:04:09):
Reagan's Air Force.
One is in his presidentiallibrary.

Speaker 2 (01:04:12):
Oh, I didn't know that.
Now I have a reason to go,that's cool.

Speaker 1 (01:04:18):
So this is not unprecedented.
Everything they're saying isjust bullshit yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:04:23):
I've flown the 747-204.

Speaker 1 (01:04:27):
I have not yet.
That's one thing I want to do.

Speaker 2 (01:04:30):
Yeah, I flew on one of those in 1979 where the
upstairs was a smoking loungeVery cool For smoking and of
course you could still smoke inyour seat as well.
But you know, up there you canflirt with the stewardesses and
drink alcohol and smoke like achimney.

Speaker 1 (01:04:52):
Yeah, like a chimney.
Yeah, so between saudi arabia,qatar and the uae.
First of all, he got qatar toorder from boeing the largest
single passenger jet order ever.
Yeah, yeah, which holy fuck.
But beyond that, he basicallygot about two trillion dollars

(01:05:15):
worth of investment in US goodsand weapons.

Speaker 2 (01:05:20):
Which they're all happy to do, because they just
don't want to be warred on.

Speaker 1 (01:05:24):
Well, it's not just that, it's really sending a
message to Iran.
You know, hey, we just cut youoff from China.
You don't have the contiguousborder you think you have with
allied states here.

Speaker 2 (01:05:42):
so but also remember the arabs are not the persians.
They agreed.
Historically hated each other,agreed, agreed.
So it's the arabs were bedouins.
The persians had an empire right, but my point is iran cannot

(01:06:04):
look for uh support from saudiarabia or yeah yeah, anyone else
yeah, and then, like, here'sthe thing that I think would be
the biggest gift that saudiarabia could give trump would be
to create the country ofpalestine inside of saudi arabia

(01:06:24):
.
They have so much sand therethat nobody's living on at all.
I mean, make like, give themall jobs building the 100-mile
city.
It's like they could literallymove that whole little you know
pretend country into SaudiArabia and assimilate them.

(01:06:46):
And Trump would have like if hewouldn't get two Nobel Peace
Prizes then I'd say he'd berobbed.

Speaker 1 (01:06:59):
Yeah, I just don't think that's going to happen,
but we'll see.

Speaker 2 (01:07:04):
I don't either.
I'm not saying it will.
I'm just saying like, of allthe countries that are capable
of doing it with the leastamount of disruption to their
own population, saudi Arabia isprobably the one.

Speaker 1 (01:07:21):
Okay, I haven't paid attention to this as a thought,
but cool.

Speaker 2 (01:07:31):
I guess that's the kind of videos I've been
watching more of.
I guess that's the kind ofvideos I've been watching more
of Alright man, and then we canfinally have the Trump Tower on
the beach.

Speaker 1 (01:07:44):
Oh, in Palestine, In Israel?
Yeah Well, we'll see what endsup happening, but he seems to be
on the outs with Netanyahu.
He seems to be holdingNetanyahu back.
Well, netanyahu, what ends uphappening?
But he seems to be on the outswith Netanyahu.
He seems to be holdingNetanyahu back.

Speaker 2 (01:07:58):
Well, netanyahu's a little bitch.
I mean, let's face it, he isacting a few pig rays above his
grade.
Sure you don't want to usezelensky as a copy, right?
That's not who you want to sellyourself over.
And uh, I, unfortunately Ithink he's, he's been playing

(01:08:19):
that card a little too much.
Um, I, I do think israel I saidthis from day one when somebody
gets that level of terrorismagainst them, uh, there's no
such thing as overreacting.
Like dropping a nuke would stillbe a possibility.
In my head, the US did way morefor way less.

(01:08:41):
But when you drag it out thislong and you keep like
pretending that you've all goteverything under control and
then somehow this is actuallymaking progress, I just think
he's, he's completely losing thepr war, even if he is killing

(01:09:02):
some of the uh, the terroristsout there, uh, it's, it's not
helping when you create 10 morefor every one you kill.
Like, what used to be goodabout the Mossad was the fact
that they could infiltrate andexecute and leave, and that's
definitely not what's beenhappening in the last year.
Yeah, so I'm prettydisappointed.

(01:09:29):
I think he's another guy thatneeds to get re-elected.
So Zelensky needs to getreelected Reelected, I'm
thinking unelected or re like,not reelected, but Recalled.
Recalled, yeah, I think Icombined the word elected and
recalled in my head.
Okay, yeah, but unelected wouldbe a better term, probably uh.

(01:09:55):
And then, uh it the number one,uh, uh, terrorists on twitch.
Uh, got stopped at the border,uh, and had a a little
conversation with the US bordercustoms patrols.

Speaker 1 (01:10:13):
That was good, which seems to be fairly exaggerated
from his side.

Speaker 2 (01:10:19):
Well, yeah, I mean he's trying to get the views out
of it, but I think that hedoesn't like.
He thinks this is still a game.
I think it's going to end oneof these days with him being in
handcuffs and we're talkingabout Hasan Piker.
Hasanabi, who's got a fairlylarge streaming following on

(01:10:45):
Twitch.
Hasan is the nephew of Cenk.

Speaker 1 (01:10:55):
Cenk Uygur of the Young Church.

Speaker 2 (01:10:57):
Cenk, however you name him, yeah, and so he kind
of rolled into that role fromhaving relatives in and knowing
kind of how to work the crowd.
But his views, which he is verypublic about, is that he
totally supports terrorist actsbecause they're done as a

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response to colonialism.

Speaker 1 (01:11:22):
Well, and that babies can be colonizers.
Well, sure, I mean, it's a veryWell I'm just clarifying when
you say colonialism, he wouldthrow the baby out with the
bathwater, is my point.

Speaker 2 (01:11:36):
Absolutely, Absolutely.
And the irony, of course, isthat it is the people that call
themselves Palestinians that arethe colonizers.
They're the ones that came induring the Ottoman Empire to
occupy the land that was ownedby Christians and Jews, and it
was.
I mean, that's just historicalfact.

(01:11:59):
You can look at old maps.
It's a.
It is only working in the PRsense because most people in the
West, both Americans andnon-Americans, but certainly all
Americans, have a very poorgrasp of international history.

(01:12:22):
I remember, even when I wasyoung, that we probably spent
about 85% of the history work onAmerican history and about 15%
on everything else, which wasmostly European, with just a
sprinkling of Asia thrown inthere.

(01:12:42):
I mean, it was sort of likewell, you're not really going to
need that at any point in thefuture, so you don't have to
worry about it.
And you know the old sayingabout those who don't learn
history, repeat it.
I think it's true, regardlessof where you live.

Speaker 1 (01:12:59):
What Are doomed to repeat it yes.

Speaker 2 (01:13:02):
Yeah.
So I think it's useful to knowhistory, and the history of
Europe is basically one of lotsof bloodshed and lots of
conquering by different tribesuntil they finally started
organizing into bigger than justtribes, into countries, and
then even more bloodshed andeven more conquering by the

(01:13:25):
countries and a few invasionsthrown in for good measure
Asians thrown in for goodmeasure.
And this kind of goes along withmy theory that the greatest
motivator to invent, to getahead of everybody else is war.
There's nothing like the fearof death to make somebody and by

(01:13:49):
somebody, I'm referring topretty much the whole country to
make them, and by somebody I'mreferring to pretty much the
whole country to make them getvery creative and try and get
ahead of their competition,which is how I think Europe
pulled away from all the othercontinents in terms of their
level of progress.
I agree, towards modernity,like if you took the war away,

(01:14:12):
if they were all peaceful, Idon't think we'd see the same
Europe Not saying that war isgood.
But if you're going to have war, you might as well at least get
something good out of it.

Speaker 1 (01:14:29):
Well, it's not just that, Because if you look,
china's been kind of the same.
But uh, it's interestingbecause china, but obviously
inventing gunpowder, yet in alltheir wars and everything else
that they were doing, never feelit really figured out a good

(01:14:49):
militaristic use for it yet theeuropeans see it and go ooh.
So I don't know man, I thinkthere's some bigger cultural
differences than just war.

Speaker 2 (01:14:59):
Well, Koreans, when they got gunpowder from China,
they immediately used it formilitary actions.
It was a no-brainer to thembecause they kept getting
invaded.
Yeah, so yeah, I think it's amotivator and, frankly, I think

(01:15:26):
you and I have both now got abit.
We're old enough now to haveseen what happens to generations
of men when there has not beenany real war for many decades oh
it, good times make weak men.

Speaker 1 (01:15:43):
Weak men make that.
Bad times.
Bad times make strong menstrong men make good times.

Speaker 2 (01:15:49):
It's a cycle yeah, exactly, exactly, and it's, it's
likely to be continue being acycle, but my fear is that the
progress of that cycle is goingto result in a much smaller and

(01:16:10):
weaker America, because thecurrent generations are having
no kids and they have way toostrong emotional feelings about
topics that they should havealmost no emotional feelings

(01:16:30):
about, like furry rights.

Speaker 1 (01:16:36):
Yeah, it's one of those things, man, it's again.
So Gen Alpha well, the Zoomers,because they're the ones
finishing.
You know, gen Alpha is going tobe the smallest generation
we've seen in a very long time.

(01:16:56):
The Millennials hey, at leastwe exist.

Speaker 2 (01:17:01):
right, we have the numbers, we're the second
largest generation livingDefinitely zero of your work,
that's your parents having a lotof kids.

Speaker 1 (01:17:15):
Right, zero of your work.
That's your parents having alot of kids, right, but you know
the baby boomers, they didn'thave a lot of kids.

Speaker 2 (01:17:20):
Gen x's fairly small, yeah gen x was, I think, one of
the first populations wherethere was not a there was a
contraction, yeah, and and I,anecdotally, I noticed it fairly
early on, like I was, I got toalmost 30 years old and not only
did I not have a kid, but I'dsay most of my friends, like
probably about 70% of my friends, uh, many of whom were married,

(01:17:44):
did not have kids and didn'thave plans for kids.
And no one hated kids, no one'slike oh, I I'm never having kids
.
Everyone was very sort ofambivalent about it, like, yeah,
you know, I'll have kidswhatever, if we do or if we
don't, that's fine too, and thatwas kind of my attitude, like I
I thought it'd be.
I certainly envisioned myselfhaving kids, but I never had a

(01:18:07):
stamp or a timeline on it.
And, um, you know, when wefirst got married, my, my then
wife, wanted kids right away andI was like, but don't you want
to explore the world and havefun?
And you know, keep your figurethe way it is for a little while
and then have kids later?
Um, so you screwed up.

(01:18:30):
I screwed up totally.
I I see it in the rearviewmirror, believe me.
And then that flipped aboutfive years later to where I'm
like, hey, you know, I've beenmarried five years, I think I
think it's time to pump up somebabies.
And she's like, uh no, I stillhaven't done all the stuff I
want to do.
So, yeah, but again, I don'thave huge regrets over it or

(01:18:58):
anything.
I think it would have been funto have kids, but at the same
time, I never really saw it aslike a.
It was never my mission in lifeto reproduce.

Speaker 1 (01:19:10):
Fair enough.

Speaker 2 (01:19:11):
Yeah, and I think that's part of the problem,
because whatever we were gettingtaught, that made a lot of us
think that only became amplifiedlater explain well, I mean are
you thinking like the populationbomb book?

(01:19:31):
I don't think yeah, I think thatthe future, many of the younger
generations, um, you know the,the, your generations, again,
you, you kind of, were theproducts of your parents.
But it definitely started thereand it kept the ball.
It didn't start there we, itstarted with us.
But the ball kept rolling tothe point where right now, there

(01:19:55):
was a photo I posted on X, Ithink, about a week ago, that
had a billboard that said youknow, if you love the earth,
then Don't have kids.
You should, no, then you shouldget a vasectomy.

Speaker 1 (01:20:15):
Well, you saw.

Speaker 2 (01:20:16):
Like a premeditated young age vasectomy, Like I will
never have kids.
That's crazy.
That's insane.
Why would you want to look likea?

Speaker 1 (01:20:25):
lesbian.
It's not just that, but we seethis bombing at the fertility
clinic.
Yeah, you know the guy was ayoung guy yeah, young guy who
thought there were too manypeople in the world and yeah,
and you know I also don'tdisagree with that statement.

Speaker 2 (01:20:45):
I just don't think you ought to do anything about
it.

Speaker 1 (01:20:50):
I think that I think there's not enough people in the
world.
I think population collapse isway worse than population
explosion.

Speaker 2 (01:20:57):
I think that's a very selfish position to take,
because population collapsereally only means one thing, and
that is there are more oldpeople than young people,
correct?

Speaker 1 (01:21:08):
And that is not a good thing.

Speaker 2 (01:21:09):
Well, it's not a good thing if you're an old person,
yeah, or young person actuallyboth, but uh, but I don't think
that that's the reason thatthere ought to be more people.
Okay, I think I this issomething that's a little
controversial, but we talkedabout it before and this is why

(01:21:31):
I, I would consider myself anold school like 100 year,
probably 150 at this point yeah,150 year old lesbian.
No, 150 year old, uh, leveleugenicist, because I, I
definitely think that thecurrent generation, starting

(01:21:53):
with probably about 50 years ago, 50, 60 years ago has
drastically started screwing upwith the natural selection
that's been going on formillions of years.
Rehabilitate everybody and notlet a single child die, or a

(01:22:16):
single person die out of suicide, for that matter, is a bad
policy.
It pollutes the gene pool, itit allows those traits that
naturally, for literallymillions of generations, would
have wiped people off and nothave them reproduce.
It actually encourages thereproduction of people with
those traits so that thosetraits keep getting passed on

(01:22:39):
and polluting the entirety ofthe population.
You know it's again, I don'tsee why it's controversial, but
I think it kind of is to say it,but there's a reason why
American black athletes arebetter than most white athletes.

Speaker 1 (01:22:56):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (01:22:56):
You know what that reason is right?
Well, the reason is because allthe weak genetic links didn't
make it to this country.
All the weak ones died on thebridge.
So when you have and you cancertainly say that this is, you
know, a horrible event- but thatcan be said.

Speaker 1 (01:23:18):
But that can be said of the pilgrims as well.

Speaker 2 (01:23:21):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
This is why Americans werebetter than the British.
There's no two ways about it.
And this is why I think themarshals, the Martians will be
better than the Earthers.
Because you have to haveadversity.
It's built into nature, it'sbuilt into survival of the

(01:23:42):
fittest, it's built into thisidea that not everyone is meant
to survive.
Because if you want to optimizefor survival, survival you have
to keep improving your lineageand you can't do that if a
hundred percent of you alwayssurvive okay, you're, you're a
genesis, it's okay I know, butI'm not.

(01:24:04):
I'm not trying to hide it, I'mjust saying like that term's
gotten a bad rap.
It didn't used to have a badrap.
It used to mean what I'mdescribing, which is the idea
that when you start fucking withnature, nature will fuck you
back.

Speaker 1 (01:24:22):
The history of nature is written tooth and claw and
that has to be understood forsure.

Speaker 2 (01:24:28):
For literally everybody.
No species gets away with it.
Agreed Same laws for everyone,it's you know.
So in retrospect, I think thisis where some of the Old
Testament is wrong.
They should have said eat morepork, eat more bugs from the sea

(01:24:53):
.

Speaker 1 (01:24:53):
Because if they did that, then the jews that would
have survived would have been alot stronger well, but you know,
I think it's okay I know you're, I get it depends on what you
mean by strong, because I haveyet to see a jewish bodybuilder,

(01:25:15):
but you know, I'm sure theyexist.

Speaker 2 (01:25:16):
Oh, you have.
You have, I've sent you one.
I'll send them again, okay?
Yeah, you do not want to be ina room with this dude on that
note gene is there anything elseyou want to talk about, because
everything I've brought up.
You're just like I've not seenit I don't know what you want me
to do.

Speaker 1 (01:25:35):
I don't know what you want me to do.

Speaker 2 (01:25:36):
I haven't I, and maybe I'll be back on the
political track next week.
But I, I will tell you I'vekind of gotten a little bit of a
political burnout going, likeI've noticed in the last couple
of months.
I'm just less interested, like,yeah, stuff's yes, most of it's
good, some of it's bad, butit's just.
If I don't look at politics forlike four to six hours, I just

(01:25:59):
feel better.
And I felt bad for a long timebecause we had to live for four
years with the results ofcrooked elections and that was
that was rough.
Well some would say that wasdepressing.

Speaker 1 (01:26:21):
Biden's entire term should be nullified based off of
this audio recording that cameout.
Yeah, like there.
There's no way, yeah, there'sno way he had any cognition
capable of making any decisions.
And, quite frankly, the 25thAmendment needs to have a
dereliction of duty charge addedto it if a vice president

(01:26:44):
knowingly does not do it, yeah,but everyone also didn't really
want her to be the president.

Speaker 2 (01:26:52):
Okay, I mean, honestly, most people were like
give it a choice, not her.
No, who knows.
All right, ben, let's wrap thispuppy up.

Speaker 1 (01:27:05):
All right, gene, we'll talk to you next week.
Sounds good.