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My Guest Spot on Razor Wire - Iran, Canada's Assisted Suicide, Brain Cells and Video Games, and Much More · World Ablaze with George Fontes

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  Welcome to this bonus episode featuring me, your host, George Fonz, as I am a guest on the Razor
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  Wire podcast. I had a lot of fun on this podcast. These guys blend fun shenanigans. They even make
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  time to rate fears while discussing all the news of the week. Conversations get very serious while
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  also getting very fun and even philosophical. This is a very, very good show. It's going to
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  expose you guys to something maybe a bit different.
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  I really hope you enjoy it.
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  And if you like Razor Wire, by all means, follow these guys,
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  add them to your playlist, put them in your rotation for sure.
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  Good guys.
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  They know what they're talking about.
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  They're about facts, data, all keeping it fun.
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  And I think you're really going to enjoy this.
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  All right.
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  Now time for the show.
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  Voltaire said,
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  Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives
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  And few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time
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  Plato educated the people by saying
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  Wise men speak because they have something to say
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  Fools speak because they have to say something
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  George Bernard Shaw warned us
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  The reasonable man adapts himself to the world
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  The unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself
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  Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man
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  This is RazorWire
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  Saturday, March 7th, 733 in the evening.
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  This is RazorWire.
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  Fitz, we have a guest tonight.
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  We do indeed have a guest tonight, which makes me tingly inside.
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  Is this the sour call yet?
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  Yeah, why not?
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  Fantastic.
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  All right.
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  This is the tingly night with Fitz.
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  I'm glad I make you tingly.
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  Yeah, hey, you know, me too.
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  God, imagine if I wasn't excited.
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  Well, that voice you're hearing is George Fonce from World of Blaze.
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  Welcome.
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  That is it, World of Blaze podcast.
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  Thank you for joining us.
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  This has been a long time in the making, and I could not think of a better time to have you on when the world is on fire.
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  Everything's falling apart.
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  There are no diplomatic relations.
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  That's what I was going to say.
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  Did you know something was coming here?
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  I mean, when you named your podcast, were you like, hey?
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  I have no idea, man.
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  I've been going back and forth with McShane about possibly working with you guys.
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  It's like we're just always busy.
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  And then the one time it does line up, it's like, holy shit.
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  The world's on fire.
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  Like literally like all this stuff's going on.
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  Seriously.
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  The timing couldn't be better or worse or whatever.
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  You know what?
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  We're at a point where we just have to write it out.
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  Good, bad.
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  I mean, it's evolution.
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  We've talked about it.
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  Evolution is hard.
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  Hopefully it's going in the right direction.
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  We'll see.
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  But it's just one of those cases where we're just going to do what we do.
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  So it'll be a fun one.
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  yeah pretty much
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  I'm
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  I'm
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  you know
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  I
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  I know we said it earlier
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  well not earlier
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  but like the last few weeks
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  right now
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  like if anyone's out there
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  thinking about starting a podcast
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  like you will have
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  no lack
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  of things to talk about
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  because
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  the doc this week
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  is
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  ridiculous
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  yeah
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  you guys sent me the doc
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  I'm like wow
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  we got a lot
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  a lot to get through
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  yeah
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  and we're not
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  We're not going to for sure, but we're going to try.
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  No, we definitely won't.
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  So it is a stack doc.
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  We truly do have a stack doc.
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  And we are going to get a Hefe sighting, which we have big news.
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  Jeff is actually retiring from one of his new jobs.
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  You guys didn't even know about this one, but he's retiring today.
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  So we've got an announcement that's going to be coming up in his first appearance.
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  Hopefully we get a second, but we'll see.
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  It's definitely going to be a first.
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  He actually had another job opportunity that came up just today as well.
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  So we're going to get into that.
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  So he's going to be very, very busy.
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  We're going to get into Iran.
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  I can't say that the war part's been really interesting outside of what the Navy's been doing.
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  But the intrigue that's around it between Lloyd's of London getting involved, the UK shitting the bed.
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  France suddenly wants to send a very tiny aircraft carrier into the mix.
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  A little baby boat.
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  Charles de Gaulle.
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  It's a little baby boat.
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  We want to play.
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  I just want to say they tried.
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  Yeah, exactly.
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  Hey, we were part of it.
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  Right.
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  And there's a lot more to get through there.
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  Meritime shipping is getting crazy.
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  and we also had primaries this week.
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  We had primaries,
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  which were interesting,
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  which were very interesting.
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  I don't know.
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  For our listeners in Texas,
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  Lisa, I don't know what to make of this.
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  I'm looking forward to your breakdown at some point
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  because wow,
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  it was an interesting week for you guys.
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  We got to get to Cuba
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  and then we'll see what else we get to.
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  but it's definitely a very, very packed week.
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  Yeah, when we're getting to the primary stuff,
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  like Dan Crenshaw being out,
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  like he did not see that coming.
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  No, I will see myself out.
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  That was my little inside.
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  Yeah.
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  Hey, you know, maybe with this one good eye,
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  I don't know.
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  I, sorry, had to try.
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  That was terrible.
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  You can edit that out later.
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  It was either that or pirate jokes.
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  I mean, one of the two was.
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  Well, I got some of those too.
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  I got some of those too.
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  all right well let's go ahead and let's let's go and dive in we got a lot to get to and we we do
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  want to try and hammer out as much as we can so Fitz what uh what beer do you have over there
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  uh mystery beer from great notion uh you guys all know my spiel about great notion they make
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  a billion beers so there's no way I'm going to guess this beer but uh it poured a a beautiful
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  straw yellow color.
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  Very cloudy though.
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  So it's either
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  when you see something like that, it's either
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  like a fruited sour, like
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  one of the shake beers, or
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  it's a hazy IPA.
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  Then the smell hit me
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  and now I know it's a hazy IPA.
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  Okay.
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  And who's it by?
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  Great notion. Great notion.
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  Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  I don't
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  know how those, I don't think those guys sleep.
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  They put out 50 new beers a week.
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  I swear to God.
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  Anyway, so I'm going to give this thing a run.
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  Let's see what we got here.
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  Yeah, if you guys go to greatnotion.com,
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  the number of beers that they have there is just ridiculous.
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  It's crazy.
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  It's crazy.
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  Definitely a hazy IPA.
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  A little bitter.
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  There's a nice, pleasant sort of aroma you get after you swallow it.
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  just kind of lingers in your mouth a bit.
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  That is what she said.
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  I like it.
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  It's not bad.
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  I cannot nail down the ABV here.
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  It's got to be low.
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  I'm not picking up any booze at all.
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  It's either really low or super, super high,
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  and all of my taste buds got burned off.
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  I don't know.
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  Is it more citrusy, more tropical, more piney?
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  It's more tropical.
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  Yeah, no, no.
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  It's definitely tropical.
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  A little bit of pine on the end,
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  but definitely more tropical.
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  Got the mangoes, the pineapple-y flavors in there.
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  I mean, it's good.
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  I like it.
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  Let's see what we got here.
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  I think it's mango ripe.
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  Oh, my God.
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  This is so funny.
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  Okay, good.
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  I'm glad my camera's on here.
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  So it is exactly mango ripe because we were just talking about Crenshaw.
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  And he's a pirate.
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  There you go.
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  And he's a pirate.
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  But this is the non-alcoholic version, which is why I wasn't tasting any alcohol.
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  Yeah, she got me again.
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  No, she did that to you?
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  Yeah, this one's called Ripe as Fuck or Ripe AF.
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  So you got the can right there with the…
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  Wow.
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  So it's like a black and white version of the mango.
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  So yeah, definitely the tropical…
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  You know, I like it.
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  It's one of those things where if you just want to drink beer for beer's sake, it's perfect.
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  It's not completely non-alcoholic.
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  it does have a 0.5% ABV.
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  So if I, you guys,
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  if I start talking weird later,
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  you know that-
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  It's definitely a 0.5.
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  Yeah, it got me.
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  It got me.
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  It's okay.
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  I got a side bitch
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  that's a little heavier than usual.
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  So it all worked out.
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  It's all good.
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  So what about you, McShane?
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  What are you rolling with?
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  Well, let's go over to George first.
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  George, what you got?
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  All right.
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  Oh, sure.
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  Let me see.
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  So I actually grabbed a hazy.
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  I don't usually do a lot of IPAs anymore,
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  but I did a hazy today.
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  and it is from Hen House Brewing.
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  They're out of Santa Rosa
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  and they have the rooster as their mascot.
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  This beer is called Stoked
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  and it's a 5.4% ABV.
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  So not too heavy.
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  I wanted to start a little bit lighter,
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  but it's based around what they do with the citra hops
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  and it's said to have basically notes of pog juice,
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  papaya, a little bit dank.
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  So I'm going to go with that.
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  I don't know if you guys can see that can there.
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  Yeah.
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  Pretty cool.
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  So I'll try it out.
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  It's Northern California.
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  I'll probably just drink this out of the can.
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  I won't pour this.
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  The second beer I have, I'm definitely going to pour.
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  It's more of kind of a dessert beer, but let's start with this guy.
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  Yeah, yeah.
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  Right on.
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  I think that's the first Hen House we've had on here, actually.
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  Yeah, I think so, too.
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  Yep.
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  Actually, that goes down quite nice.
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  Not going to lie.
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  I don't get a lot of dank on it, to be quite honest.
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  It's pretty smooth.
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  You get a little bit of pineapple or papaya in the back end, but other than that, yeah, it's actually pretty good.
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  I don't mind that one at all.
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  Yeah.
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  I mean, you get the top sneak on the back end a little bit.
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  It's not heavy whatsoever.
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  I think people...
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  Listen, there's still the IPA crowd out there that they love their stuff super piney and super dank.
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  Yeah.
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  But I think for the most part, all of us went, dude, you guys are overdoing it.
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  Tone it down a bit.
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  So even when they say it's a dank beer, it's not as bad as it used to be.
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  Yeah.
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  Agreed.
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  And I'm glad they're pulling it back because it was getting to the point where it was like,
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  it was more like you get a badge if you could take it.
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  You know what I mean?
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  Seriously.
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  Donkey piss.
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  Yeah, exactly.
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  That's really what it was.
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  It's almost like we're just going to go and make it as awful as possible.
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  And just to make sure, you know, you grow hair on your chest.
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  I think they were just fucking with people, to be honest.
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  Yeah.
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  Seriously.
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  And it's stuck.
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  I think that's what it is.
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  It just kind of stuck.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  But this one's pretty good.
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  Nice.
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  Good.
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  Yeah.
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  All right.
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  I have one from Trillium Brewing out of Massachusetts.
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  This is called Party Pump.
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  It's a golden ale.
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  I had a real...
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  I had a tough decision to make before the show.
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  And I have a Baltic, and then I also have a heavier Imperial that I was going to go with.
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  And I was going to do those back-to-back.
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  I'm like, that doesn't usually go real well.
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  so
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  we'll save the heavy ones
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  well it's a 9.6
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  Baltic which
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  is kind of ridiculous
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  so
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  you're saving yourself on the back end with all the editing
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  oh
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  yes
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  that's what you're doing you're saving yourself
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  some work which I appreciate that's good
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  tell me about it
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  alright let's go ahead and check this out
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  Party Pump Golden Ale it's only 4.5
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  but that's not always about the ABV right
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  Well, we all went light.
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  Yeah, we did.
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  Yeah, for sure.
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  Wow.
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  Okay.
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  We've all been the keggers, right?
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  Yeah.
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  Okay.
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  This is definitely a keg beer They nailed that And it really isn too much It really close to Bud Light It reminds me of the old Bud Light kegs
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  It looks like it.
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  It tastes like it.
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  It actually has that locker room sock smell to it.
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  Perfect.
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  Perfect.
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  Yeah.
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  Can't, can't.
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  Is it, does it take you down memory lane or what?
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  You know, it, it, the smell is like the, so you got the keg, the keg goes in, you know,
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  the big barrel, the, the half barrel with the ice around it.
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  And then there's that smell that goes along with the alcohol the next day.
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  Yeah.
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  That's what I'm getting.
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  That's what I'm getting.
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  Yeah.
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  No, you, you nailed it.
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  It smells like feet for like wherever you had the kegger, it smells like feet for like
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  the next week.
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  Yeah, very uneventful.
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  It's just, yeah, it's a beer.
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  It's all right.
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  We're going to get through it.
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  It's okay.
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  It's a starter.
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  Yeah, yeah.
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  It's for sure a starter.
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  There you go.
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  It's a starter.
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  George, tell us about the show.
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  How did you get there?
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  I, for one, I love the guests that you get on your show.
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  It's always poignant.
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  You have fantastic, insightful interviews.
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  And you've had some interviews, too, that are pretty gritty also.
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  How did you come about with the show?
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  What do you love about it?
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  Well, the show started, my brother kind of introduced me to it when I became a guest on his show, turned into a co-host on his show.
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  My brother's been doing it for 10 years.
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  Wow.
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  And then after a while, he kind of wanted to go his direction, took a little bit of a
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  bit of a break.
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  And while I was with him, excuse me, I started my show.
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  And the reason I started my show is because I was hearing all these other podcasters,
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  these newscasters, broadcasters, et cetera, that were talking about politics, talking
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  about things going on in the world.
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  And they were just, I mean, intentionally omitting certain facts and data.
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  And, you know, I really started noticing more during the COVID era, which all of us did
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  because we had nothing else to do.
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  We're like, okay, I'm intent on hearing what's going on and I'm going to watch what's happening.
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  And we're like, hold on.
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  That's not what happened.
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  That's not the real story.
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  So I'm hearing these half-baked nitwits out there talk.
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  And I'm not saying that I'm above them, but I'm saying.
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  And all of a sudden, I'm like, you know, if these guys can do this, why can't I?
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  And I didn't expect anything, to be honest, guys.
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  I was just kind of like, be honest.
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  I kind of took the approach kind of like, you know, like Aaron did of I Had to Say It podcast.
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  That's just kind of venting, getting things out there.
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  I made some minor corrections based on what I've heard with certain headlines, certain stories.
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  And then after a while, I'm like, you know what?
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  I should probably take this a little more serious.
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  And that's when I started switching directions a bit.
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  And the guest thing came later.
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  I was primarily solo.
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  And if you listen to the show, which I think most people here in the chat have.
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  But if you listen to my show, there's definitely two of me.
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  Um, my solo efforts are definitely, um, I have a different approach.
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  I, I, I definitely curse a lot more.
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  I definitely will say certain things that I wouldn't say to someone, uh, directly.
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  And the reason I do that is when I have a guest, my take has always been sure.
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  I lean right.
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  Okay.
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  If we're talking about left first, right and center, I am, I consider myself like right
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  of center.
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  And so if I have a guest, I have a lot that I don't necessarily fundamentally agree with,
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  But I think that if we don't hear the whole story, that we're not giving anybody else out there who's maybe listening to my podcast, your podcast, anybody's, by the way, the opportunity to make an informed decision about the situation.
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  And so a lot of times I take it a little step further and I use it as a learning opportunity for myself because I'm going to hear the other side of the argument and I'm going to shut my mouth.
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  I'm going to listen.
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  I might push back a little.
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  And I've had some people criticize me for not pushing back more, but my intent is not to try to,
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  you know, like most of these podcast bros, if we're talking like a Dave Smith or these other guys,
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  they're all about trying to dunk on the other person.
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  They're trying to make them look bad.
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  And I'm more about, okay, that was a good point that you made.
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  But according to, you know, this report, for example,
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  it says that this is the real data on the topic or subject at hand,
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  especially like if we're talking about border patrol and terrorists, et cetera.
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  And I'll bring that up and see how they respond.
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  So my approach is to try to get the truth out there, to be quite honest.
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  I'd like to try to make corrections on certain situations.
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  I'm really into geopolitics.
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  And so honestly, the show is all over the place.
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  But I got into it mainly because I heard so many people talking.
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  I mean, just to be frank, talking out their ass.
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  And it doesn't mean I'm better, by the way, guys.
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  It's just I thought I'm just going to take a different approach.
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  and honestly, the approach I think that I'm taking
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  that most of us independents like you guys,
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  it's not the popular approach.
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  It's because we're not here to sensationalize.
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  We're not trying to just get likes and clicks.
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  We're trying to tell people what's going on
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  and hopefully even our opinions are informed enough
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  for them to make a proper decision about what's happening.
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  So that's my take and that's kind of how I got started.
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  And now it's, I just want to see where it goes,
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  you know, at this point.
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  Yeah, yeah.
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  I got to say that that was well said
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  because I do appreciate that about your show,
• 18:36
  that, I mean, you have your opinions,
• 18:39
  but you don't have an agenda.
• 18:40
  And that's the separation right there,
• 18:42
  is that you're allowed to have your own opinion
• 18:44
  about what things you're seeing
• 18:46
  and what things are happening.
• 18:47
  But when you start pushing your shit on other people
• 18:50
  or you're not willing to listen
• 18:51
  to what they have to say about the same exact subject,
• 18:54
  then we're losing what makes this country great,
• 18:57
  which is our diversity,
• 18:59
  which is our thought process
• 19:03
  that goes into making laws.
• 19:06
  How are you going to treat your neighbors?
• 19:08
  How are you going to function in the working world,
• 19:10
  in the business world?
• 19:11
  It's what makes us great innovators.
• 19:13
  And I think you really capture that on your show.
• 19:16
  So I appreciate that.
• 19:18
  That's awesome.
• 19:19
  I appreciate that.
• 19:20
  And honestly, I know I'm a bit of an asshole sometimes,
• 19:22
  but it's always been a part of my personality.
• 19:25
  So I'm not going anywhere.
• 19:27
  Yeah, what are you talking about?
• 19:28
  I am the sweetest person.
• 19:30
  Oh boy.
• 19:31
  Yeah.
• 19:32
  So you've been able to corner some really great conversations, especially based around the Iran uprising, the revolution.
• 19:44
  Tell us about those conversations and how have they held up against where we are now?
• 19:52
  Well, the situation, so, you know, as I stated before, I have a real interest in geopolitics where a lot of people focus on domestic politics.
• 20:02
  And I think there's enough people doing that.
• 20:04
  So I dove into geopolitics and especially interested in what happens in the Middle East,
• 20:10
  such a large region with a lot of history.
• 20:13
  And I've always been interested in those relationships and how those relationships affect the Western world or Western cultures.
• 20:20
  And of course, especially the USA, essentially, US citizen, right?
• 20:24
  So my interest in that area is really due to how that area, the Middle East in general, affects the rest of the world.
• 20:34
  Because even though we have the superpowers such as China, Russia, United States of America, the Middle East speaks loudly.
• 20:41
  When things happen, people pay attention.
• 20:43
  So when it came to, for example, it starts with me, it started with Islam.
• 20:49
  And so I took an interest in Islam and studying its history, how it came about, all of that.
• 20:54
  And just so people know, if anyone tries to call me out, I have just started reading the
• 20:57
  Quran because I do want to understand where they're coming from.
• 21:01
  Doesn't mean I agree with everything, but at least I have an informed opinion about
• 21:05
  that particular religion.
• 21:07
  And so I started diving deeper into, well, when did terrorism start in the Middle East?
• 21:15
  1,400 years ago.
• 21:16
  I mean, literally at the start of Islam.
• 21:19
  So, and I can get deeper into that if you guys want later, guys,
• 21:21
  but that's how my interest started in the region.
• 21:24
  And then everything started pointing more towards Iran,
• 21:27
  which was Persia, as you guys know.
• 21:29
  You guys did a whole show on it.
• 21:30
  Yeah.
• 21:31
  And so this whole thing that happened with Iran,
• 21:34
  which was really the jewel of the Middle East,
• 21:37
  the thing that's crazy is everybody thinks Iran, they think Islam.
• 21:40
  Well, Islam is not the native religion of the area.
• 21:44
  No, it's not.
• 21:45
  It never was.
• 21:45
  It was a long, slow march towards conquering Persia and making it into Iran.
• 21:52
  And so if we're going to fast forward, we're going to look at 1979 when the Islamic regime or the Iranian regime, they like to call themselves, but the Islamic regime took over.
• 22:02
  And they had the opportunity because it was ripe for the taking because at the time people were unhappy with the Shah because of the nationalization of oil.
• 22:09
  That was one of it because, you know, they weren't getting money.
• 22:12
  The people were poor.
• 22:14
  And then they also thought that the Shah was becoming too westernized.
• 22:19
  And so there was a lot of, air quotes, conservatives in Iran, which really means hardcore Islamists,
• 22:25
  who thought that it needed to go back towards those principles.
• 22:30
  And so the Islamic regime, what they did is they worked with, just like we see in the USA,
• 22:36
  and I just had this conversation earlier this morning,
• 22:38
  they started going into and manipulating higher educational facilities,
• 22:42
  getting in with the youth,
• 22:44
  introducing them to their ways of thinking,
• 22:47
  turning them into fundamentalists
• 22:49
  or Islamic fundamentalists.
• 22:51
  And the situation became right
• 22:52
  for the Islamic regime to take over.
• 22:55
  That almost sounds like what's happening here, George.
• 22:58
  Exactly.
• 22:58
  I was just going to say,
• 23:00
  wow, that story sounds familiar.
• 23:01
  Parallels are crazy, aren't they?
• 23:04
  So, you know, with that being said,
• 23:06
  that's how this whole thing came about.
• 23:08
  And I'm going to fast forward a bit now to the guest
• 23:10
  since that's what you asked about.
• 23:11
  So I've always had an interest in the region.
• 23:14
  And then when everything started happening, especially when Trump started putting his foot down, right?
• 23:19
  First, we could look at the conflict between Israel and Hamas, and we can talk about Gaza, Palestine, whatever.
• 23:28
  But behind the scenes was always Iran.
• 23:30
  Iran has been behind every major terrorist attack through their funding, of their proxies, right?
• 23:35
  And that's the thing that was interesting about Iran.
• 23:37
  Iran can have representation in the UN.
• 23:39
  They could have representation around the world, act like they're just, hey, we're just like you.
• 23:44
  While in the background, they act like the mafia.
• 23:47
  You know, they have their heads up there.
• 23:49
  You know, the leaders who are removed through buffers and then they can say, hey, it wasn't us.
• 23:53
  They throw their hands up.
• 23:55
  But, you know, the people that they're calling the shots and they're funding these terrorist organizations to carry out things on their behalf.
• 24:02
  Do all the bad things that we don't want people to do.
• 24:06
  So a lot of people never really brought that up.
• 24:10
  They kind of would mention it.
• 24:11
  They would just say, oh, they're the largest sponsor of state terrorism in the world.
• 24:15
  Cool, but what's the connections?
• 24:17
  They kind of ignored that because when you press to Iran or the Iranian government,
• 24:21
  they just throw their hands up and say, hey, we weren't involved.
• 24:24
  You can't prove it.
• 24:25
  It wasn't me.
• 24:26
  Yeah, exactly.
• 24:27
  That's exactly it.
• 24:28
  So the guests I've had recently, let's just go from here.
• 24:32
  So when it came to Islam, I had...
• 24:35
  I've had, dang, even I forgot, Dan Burmawi.
• 24:39
  So Dan Burmawi is a very popular author on that subject.
• 24:43
  He was a Jordanian, not an Iranian, but he was a Jordanian.
• 24:46
  He was a Muslim who converted to Christianity.
• 24:49
  And his whole thing is literally trying to educate people on Islam and the truth of Islam.
• 24:53
  So I started with him and then talking to some intel experts and analysts that I still stay in touch with.
• 24:59
  I think you guys know who Curvin is.
• 25:02
  And we still stay connected.
• 25:03
  Oh, yeah.
• 25:03
  Yeah, we talk.
• 25:04
  And when he can, he fills me on his stuff.
• 25:07
  And then I had Matab Farid, who is a, she'll call herself an American Iranian.
• 25:14
  So she is from Iran.
• 25:16
  Her family came to America during the actual regime change in 79.
• 25:22
  She was, I want to remember, I think eight years old, she said, when all that was going on.
• 25:27
  So she still has a very good memory of the things that they went through.
• 25:31
  And as a journalist, I've had her on and we talked about things.
• 25:35
  And so she gave me a lot from her perspective as an Iranian who is in America.
• 25:40
  And, you know, they consider themselves Persian.
• 25:43
  I have a lot of friends or associates, people I know in my area because we have a big Persian community.
• 25:49
  And so I speak with these people as well.
• 25:52
  I try to get as much information.
• 25:54
  The problem that we having with this Iranian war and this conflict right now is all the misinformation warfare going on And so I try to take a different approach to where I want to actually talk to the people who have firsthand experiences who can actually give insight based on who they are
• 26:10
  who their families are, where they're from,
• 26:13
  versus just trying to ascertain what's happening from headlines.
• 26:16
  Because in wartime, it's really hard to decipher what's true and what isn't.
• 26:21
  So after Matab Fareed, I went ahead and I was actually contacted by Zalal Habibi's representatives.
• 26:31
  Now, she's an interesting guest, guys, because here's the deal.
• 26:35
  She's not necessarily popular.
• 26:38
  She is and isn't because of the organization she's with.
• 26:42
  So the National Council of Resistance of Iran, right?
• 26:47
  Yeah.
• 26:47
  So the NCRI is also part of MEC.
• 26:51
  It's really the political arm of the MEK.
• 26:55
  And if you know anything about the MEK, if you go back through the history,
• 27:00
  a lot of Iranians do not like them for the reason that they opposed the Islamic regime.
• 27:06
  Okay?
• 27:06
  They did not want that.
• 27:08
  So they opposed them, and then they were labeled terrorists by the Islamic regime.
• 27:12
  They were ran out of Iran.
• 27:13
  Well, through some of their insurgencies and uprisings against the regime,
• 27:17
  they have killed Iranians,
• 27:19
  you know, caught in the crossfire.
• 27:20
  The biggest criticism comes from that organization
• 27:22
  because they went to Iraq when they were exiled.
• 27:26
  And they actually were supported by Saddam Hussein
• 27:29
  who used them as a tool.
• 27:32
  So what happened is he funded them.
• 27:34
  He got behind them.
• 27:35
  And then they had this big conflict
• 27:37
  between Iraq and Iran, right?
• 27:39
  The Iran-Iraq war.
• 27:40
  Yep.
• 27:41
  Well, Saddam Hussein used MEK as a tool
• 27:44
  through the funding and everything.
• 27:45
  And MEK took the opportunity to go,
• 27:47
  well, if this is happening, we're going to go in and help remove the regime. But in the process,
• 27:51
  in that war, many Iranians died. So I got a lot of pushback just for talking to her the first time.
• 27:59
  And, you know, I did. Yeah, I did. Because a lot of Iranians were very offended by it. They're like,
• 28:04
  hold on. You know, there's other people you can talk to. Why did you have her on,
• 28:08
  the organization she represents? Now, that organization was labeled a terrorist organization
• 28:13
  for years. I think it was
• 28:15
  only a few years ago
• 28:16
  that they were finally declassified
• 28:20
  or they were no longer considered a terrorist
• 28:21
  organization.
• 28:23
  They have, I think,
• 28:25
  their offices or wherever I always talk to her
• 28:27
  from. And what's funny is she's always
• 28:29
  in this white room. It's always
• 28:31
  kind of like you can't see the background
• 28:33
  and her phone's always going
• 28:35
  off and you can tell people are checking on what
• 28:37
  she's saying, etc. I mean, you could tell.
• 28:40
  I did notice that.
• 28:41
  She didn't seem real comfortable while she was talking.
• 28:43
  I would say she seemed like she was,
• 28:51
  but I can tell she was trying to hold back a bit.
• 28:55
  Like she wanted to say certain things,
• 28:56
  but then she didn't really,
• 28:58
  I don't think she was in a comfortable position
• 29:00
  to really go all out, you know, so to speak.
• 29:03
  So she's based in Paris.
• 29:06
  And so the second time that I had her on,
• 29:09
  she reached out to me
• 29:09
  because of what's going on with this conflict.
• 29:11
  And then that's the one that you guys
• 29:13
  were just talking about, like that recent interview.
• 29:16
  And the important thing is regardless of the organization she's with
• 29:20
  or how people feel, her organization has firsthand insight.
• 29:24
  They have people on the ground.
• 29:25
  They get information from within Iran,
• 29:27
  even though the internet is in a blackout
• 29:31
  and has been for quite some time.
• 29:33
  They have their own, let's just say, spies, right?
• 29:36
  Just like their own CIA, so to speak.
• 29:39
  It's not really.
• 29:40
  It's on the ground.
• 29:41
  Yeah, they have their people,
• 29:42
  and they get that information in and out.
• 29:44
  So the reason I talked to her is,
• 29:47
  I mean, for one, I think it's valuable insight.
• 29:50
  But I do take some with a grain of salt
• 29:52
  because at the same time,
• 29:54
  she has talked about trying to push the MEK's values
• 29:58
  into the governance of Iran moving forward.
• 30:01
  She kind of changed her tune this time slightly
• 30:04
  by saying, well, we're just looking to see
• 30:05
  an independent democratic Iran.
• 30:08
  And that may be the case.
• 30:09
  So she did offer a lot of insight.
• 30:12
  She gave insight into how Iranians really feel.
• 30:16
  Interesting to learn that, you know, most Muslims these days, you know, they want a more modern Iran.
• 30:21
  They don't want to see a theocracy anymore.
• 30:24
  They want a separation of religion and state.
• 30:28
  Okay.
• 30:28
  So they no longer want to be, they no longer want a nation ruled, you know, by the thumb of some perverse version of Islam that's imposed on them.
• 30:38
  Okay.
• 30:38
  Yeah.
• 30:38
  The other thing is, you know, the organization she's with, they do have their own resistance force.
• 30:47
  And so they never really went away.
• 30:49
  And she did say something that I caught and where she said, well, if anybody is willing to stand up to the resistance, we're willing to help them and fund them.
• 30:59
  So I think that they're doing a lot more than she's really, she really was trying to let on.
• 31:05
  but their organization is very much about taking out the Islamic regime.
• 31:11
  Now, in our discussion, it was like, okay, this is all interesting
• 31:14
  because for one, as we all know,
• 31:17
  the Ayatollah was wiped out within the first few hours of the attack by the US.
• 31:21
  That didn't last very long.
• 31:23
  So Khomeini, he's out.
• 31:25
  They tried to put a replacement in.
• 31:27
  He's out.
• 31:29
  And so what wasn't said, what was buried in the news,
• 31:32
  as you guys very well know with a lot of these things that go on,
• 31:36
  is Khomeini actually gave instructions to the IRGC
• 31:42
  because I think he knew his time was up.
• 31:44
  Right.
• 31:44
  And so the IRGC right now is really the militant arm,
• 31:51
  and they are very authoritarian themselves.
• 31:54
  They're very violent.
• 31:56
  They approach everything from almost like zealots,
• 32:01
  zealots, you know, religiously. They're very, very much in support of the Islamic regime.
• 32:07
  So with that being said, the IRGC is still the force that they need to contend with to overthrow.
• 32:15
  And I'm talking about the people. And that was the conversation that was interesting because
• 32:18
  when I pressed around, I was like, well, how are you expecting the people themselves to take Iran
• 32:23
  without any outside help? Because everybody is taking the position that we don't want Western
• 32:28
  meddling. We don't want Western interference. And I said, let's be honest. If the US didn't do
• 32:35
  what they did, you would never have had this opportunity because regardless of how many
• 32:39
  insurgents you have at the ready, how many other people you can support, you don't have the arms
• 32:45
  or arm in it to be able to do what is needed to take them down. And so this opportunity was created
• 32:51
  because Trump isn't taking any shit. I mean, let's be honest. He's one of the first presidents
• 32:55
  and about 50 years of bad policy
• 32:58
  when it comes to Iran.
• 33:00
  Nobody was willing to do
• 33:02
  what needed to be done.
• 33:03
  Obama gave them money.
• 33:05
  Biden gave them money.
• 33:06
  Why would you fund
• 33:07
  the number one state sponsor of terrorism?
• 33:09
  That makes no fucking sense, right?
• 33:10
  Oil, baby.
• 33:11
  Unless you're working for the brotherhood.
• 33:14
  I mean, that's where I got
• 33:16
  that other angle there too.
• 33:17
  Hey, George, real quick.
• 33:20
  I just want to ask this
• 33:21
  before you get a little further down the road.
• 33:23
  and I'm sure this is already happening to some degree,
• 33:27
  but I'm concerned that the IRGC,
• 33:31
  they're going to fire off their missiles like they have been
• 33:34
  and just attack everybody who looks at them weird.
• 33:37
  But I'm concerned they're going to turn inward
• 33:40
  and there's going to be mass slaughter of Iranians.
• 33:44
  And I'm wondering if you have any sense of that.
• 33:51
  More so than they already have.
• 33:52
  yeah more so yes i i know it's already happening but i i i'm just i fear that
• 33:57
  you know you could because like you said they uh the people don't have armament they they don't
• 34:02
  they're not walking around you know armed to the teeth with with guns or or vests so it'd be very
• 34:09
  easy for them to say all right fuck it we're going down but we're taking every one of you with us
• 34:14
  Yeah. So to your point, that is a valid concern. Now, if these guys are smart enough, they would realize that that is a bad decision because if you're going to turn inward, then who are you going to rule later? Who's your people? Where's your support going to come from?
• 34:35
  so just by that
• 34:39
  I don't think that they're going to do that
• 34:41
  the only way I see that happening
• 34:42
  honestly is
• 34:44
  when they know it's the end
• 34:46
  that's what I'm worried about right there
• 34:49
  when they see the writing
• 34:51
  on the wall they're going to be like fuck it
• 34:52
  just scorched earth and we're done
• 34:54
  and I think that would be a last resort
• 34:56
  type of scenario because what we've
• 34:59
  seen with the missiles
• 35:00
  the volume missiles being fired at their own
• 35:03
  neighbors their own Muslim neighbors
• 35:05
  by the way.
• 35:05
  Yes.
• 35:06
  Yes.
• 35:06
  Okay.
• 35:07
  Is,
• 35:08
  is basically,
• 35:09
  and I think you guys brought this up on your last episode and you,
• 35:12
  and you really called it what it was.
• 35:13
  It seemed like a death rattle,
• 35:14
  right?
• 35:15
  It was,
• 35:15
  it was something that it was a desperate reaction and retaliation.
• 35:20
  And it was almost like they said,
• 35:21
  fuck it.
• 35:22
  You know,
• 35:22
  we're just going to go after everybody.
• 35:23
  If you're not standing with me,
• 35:24
  you're my enemy.
• 35:25
  And I'm going to show you how powerful I am.
• 35:27
  Problem is their targeting sucks.
• 35:31
  They have a lot of weapons,
• 35:33
  a lot of missiles.
• 35:33
  They have a lot of the Shahed's drones because they're cheap, but they didn't have maximum
• 35:41
  impact in any of their attacks.
• 35:43
  Most of it was intercepted by air defenses from Qatar, Kuwait, even Israel, and whatever
• 35:48
  the US could do when they were there and involved.
• 35:51
  So they've proven that, yes, they have a lot of missiles, but it doesn't last forever.
• 35:56
  And it's very questionable right now as to whether or not much of that stockpile they
• 36:01
  have is even functional and operational.
• 36:03
  outside of the drones that they have in manufacture, because they ramped that up because they were
• 36:08
  supporting Russia in the war against Ukraine. So a lot of people didn't realize that Iran
• 36:13
  actually supplies a lot of technology and weapons to Russia. They're cheap, they can make them fast,
• 36:18
  and they have them at the ready for themselves. But at this point, the US is very good.
• 36:25
  Here's the thing about what's going on right now. The US has proven they've been a sleeping giant,
• 36:29
  They've been tolerant for many years.
• 36:31
  And a lot of people thought our military was incapable.
• 36:34
  They're like, you haven't been in war in years.
• 36:35
  This is never going to work out.
• 36:37
  Well, look at Venezuela.
• 36:38
  How long did that last?
• 36:39
  Three, four hours?
• 36:41
  Yeah.
• 36:41
  I mean, really?
• 36:42
  Yeah.
• 36:43
  And that was just the Rangers that went in.
• 36:44
  In and out.
• 36:46
  And then so everybody was saying, well, a war against Iran or attack against Iran is
• 36:51
  futile.
• 36:52
  It doesn't make sense.
• 36:53
  the retaliation. I think a lot of fear comes from the sleeper cells that are actually inserted into
• 37:01
  many Western nations. A lot of people want to deny that fact, but it's true. They funded the
• 37:05
  soft invasion that we see. Now, we got to look at that aspect as well with Iran, that this soft
• 37:10
  invasion that we see with the migration in the UK and also what's happening in the US,
• 37:15
  they're taking a different approach with that. They still have actual armed terrorists. They do.
• 37:21
  and I can point to the CPB data
• 37:25
  or the CBP data
• 37:26
  when it comes to that.
• 37:27
  You know, like in 2025,
• 37:29
  there was over,
• 37:29
  actually, I'll just give you
• 37:31
  the accurate number.
• 37:32
  2025 alone, guys,
• 37:33
  there was 4,011 encountered terrorists,
• 37:38
  known terrorists
• 37:39
  that came through our southern border
• 37:40
  that tried to come through,
• 37:41
  but they were caught.
• 37:42
  Okay, so we're doing the math.
• 37:43
  That's over 80 terrorists per state.
• 37:47
  Yeah, so and how many got through?
• 37:49
  Yeah, exactly.
• 37:50
  How many got through?
• 37:51
  Yeah.
• 37:51
  So right now, if we're looking at 2026, and most of this data is basically January to 2026,
• 38:00
  not sure how current this is, but we're not even done.
• 38:03
  And we've already encountered 3,927 terrorists.
• 38:07
  Yeah.
• 38:08
  Yeah.
• 38:08
  So it's very scary.
• 38:10
  And that's what has kept the Middle East in line in terms of retaliating against Iran,
• 38:15
  because it was like, at any given time, what are we going to be dealing with?
• 38:19
  Right?
• 38:20
  Yeah.
• 38:20
  But Trump said, fuck that.
• 38:22
  You know, he's like, look, I'm done.
• 38:23
  You know, I'm not going to play these games.
• 38:25
  He showed everybody how big the U.S.'s balls really are.
• 38:28
  Really, he's going around teabagging the world right now.
• 38:31
  And he's like, this is the U.S. fucking A.
• 38:35
  We've been very strategic.
• 38:37
  We've shown everybody who we are and how capable we are.
• 38:39
  And it even put China on their heels for a bit.
• 38:42
  They're like, well, let's rethink this Taiwan thing.
• 38:45
  We're going to cool out for a bit.
• 38:46
  They even started pulling back from Iran because a lot of people don't know.
• 38:50
  that Iran and Russia, China, and even North Korea are allies, but big air quotes there,
• 38:57
  right Because we all know any one of those guys will turn on each other at the drop of a hat So it made China notice right Yeah Well and we also know 80 of Iranian oil was going to China 75 of Venezuelan oil was going
• 39:13
  to China. I mean, this was a multi-pronged, multiple birds with one stone by taking out
• 39:21
  these two countries, which I love that you kind of brought up. I mean, we hit Venezuela hard and
• 39:27
  first just to put everyone on notice.
• 39:30
  And then it's like, now we're coming for you.
• 39:31
  And now we're coming for you.
• 39:32
  And oh yeah, you guys over there better stand the fuck up because we're coming for you.
• 39:36
  And what was it?
• 39:37
  Thursday, I think.
• 39:38
  I think it was Thursday evening.
• 39:39
  We started seeing reports that we had rangers going into Ecuador.
• 39:44
  Yeah, right.
• 39:45
  Yes.
• 39:46
  Let me comment on that.
• 39:47
  The Ecuador thing really quick.
• 39:49
  Yeah.
• 39:49
  So the tying in there was why we were there in Venezuela in the first place to take out
• 39:54
  Maduro.
• 39:54
  wasn't just the drugs I carried it was saying.
• 39:57
  I mean, that was the talking point.
• 40:00
  But China and Iran have been involved in that area for quite some time.
• 40:06
  And we can go deeper into the China side.
• 40:08
  I don't think that's the direction we're going with your show today.
• 40:11
  But if we want to talk about that later, we can.
• 40:14
  But Iran was there.
• 40:15
  And they were working on inserting and setting up terrorist cells
• 40:19
  within South America or Latin America.
• 40:23
  For sure.
• 40:23
  And so that's the tie in.
• 40:26
  Here's Stephen Miller.
• 40:27
  We are not going to cede an inch of territory in this hemisphere to our enemies or adversaries.
• 40:34
  Our national security, our homeland security, the safety and well-being of our people begins at home, begins in our neighborhood, begins in our home region.
• 40:44
  And for too long, we have allowed foreign enemies, foreign adversaries, and enemy terrorist organizations to control territory and spaces in this hemisphere where they can project power, project threats, and directly threaten the lives of your citizens and our citizens.
• 41:03
  And so under the leadership of President Trump, we are using hard power, military power, lethal force to protect and defend the American homeland.
• 41:14
  Not a single one of your nations should tolerate the existence of a single square mile of territory that is under the control of any entity other than the sovereign governments of your country.
• 41:29
  The idea that we would have in this hemisphere area that are under the physical control of foreign terrorist organizations, paramilitary organizations, is completely unacceptable.
• 41:39
  the cartels that operate in this hemisphere are the isis and the al-qaeda of the western hemisphere
• 41:47
  i want to go back to the china piece though because when you look at the socialist takeover
• 41:55
  that we're enduring you look at how uh iran and the islamist takeover and you know it's all
• 42:04
  coordinated it is absolutely coordinated you can't oh yeah it it is it is overpowering at this
• 42:11
  point and i'm waiting for somebody to just go out and say this is what's happening it is this is
• 42:18
  legit what's happening i mean i think that's what steven miller started to get to there yeah i i
• 42:24
  think i think people have said it the problem is that people have said it they don't have the
• 42:28
  audience.
• 42:30
  Yeah.
• 42:30
  You know what I'm saying?
• 42:31
  Yep.
• 42:33
  They're suppressed.
• 42:34
  It's like, you know, it's like the, okay, perfect example.
• 42:38
  We saw a flash in the pan when it was reported that the U.S. just struck an agreement with,
• 42:43
  I forgot how many Latin American countries, to come together and strategically, militarily,
• 42:48
  go after cartels.
• 42:50
  That just happened.
• 42:51
  Peg Sess signed the agreement with multiple nations.
• 42:54
  The only one that didn't sign it was, well, surprise, Mexico.
• 42:58
  You know, that and Colombia, whatever.
• 43:03
  But I could be wrong.
• 43:04
  But this just happened and we're not hearing about it, right?
• 43:08
  So there have been people talking about the China piece
• 43:11
  because it goes back to the Belt and Road Initiative.
• 43:13
  And they needed that by, you know, controlling the Panama Canal,
• 43:16
  working with Peru.
• 43:18
  And then Venezuela was obviously a huge part of that,
• 43:22
  you know, especially with Maduro being there.
• 43:24
  Now that Maduro's not there, I mean,
• 43:25
  China really doesn't have the power they did
• 43:28
  outside of controlling the Panama Canal
• 43:30
  through their, you know, air quote companies, right?
• 43:32
  Yeah, their proxy.
• 43:33
  Yeah.
• 43:34
  Yeah.
• 43:34
  So, yeah, the China piece was always there.
• 43:36
  It's just the people that were talking about it, guys,
• 43:40
  they just weren't getting the boost.
• 43:42
  It wasn't getting shoved out there to the people
• 43:45
  because, to be honest, it wasn't exciting or sexy.
• 43:47
  It's like, no, I want to hear about the Epstein files.
• 43:50
  That's also very important.
• 43:51
  But what's also important is that our Western hemisphere
• 43:54
  is getting taken away.
• 43:55
  And other countries are strategically positioning themselves against the United States of America by being right there in our own hemisphere.
• 44:03
  And it wasn't being dealt with.
• 44:06
  You know, I want to go back to the originally what we were talking about when we first started talking about influencers and talking about the stories that are that why we all do what we do and why it's different from a lot of the influencers are out there.
• 44:24
  This is the perfect example of things that the sorters, right?
• 44:29
  The Sobiacs and all those guys should be talking about.
• 44:34
  Yep.
• 44:35
  Yeah.
• 44:35
  A hundred percent.
• 44:35
  If they were actual journalists, they would be bringing this stuff up.
• 44:40
  We have the Tiabis.
• 44:41
  We have the Schellenbergers, the Catherine Harringer's, which those are the ones we reference on the show a great deal.
• 44:47
  And I'll be very, very honest.
• 44:49
  I like where CBS is starting to come from.
• 44:51
  CBS is starting to bring some.
• 44:54
  It's almost balanced.
• 44:56
  They really are.
• 44:58
  And it's frustrating for me to sit here and have somebody, oh, well, this week's flavor of the week is we're just going to talk about the Leering Centers.
• 45:09
  It's all about Minnesota.
• 45:11
  Right.
• 45:12
  The next week, we're back to the Epstein files.
• 45:15
  The saving grace for me from this past week was that 47,000 more Epstein files were dropped and nobody is giving a damn about it.
• 45:24
  No, no one gives a shit.
• 45:26
  And which makes you wonder, right?
• 45:28
  Is the narrative, well, we want everybody to be constantly trading on Iran.
• 45:34
  You know, is that whole point.
• 45:36
  It's the whole narrative and what's actually important.
• 45:39
  I think the Iran thing is the main story.
• 45:42
  I really do.
• 45:43
  is that why maybe we're starting to float
• 45:46
  other
• 45:46
  some other stuff under the radar like
• 45:49
  the next set of Epstein files
• 45:51
  maybe
• 45:54
  but
• 45:56
  it's just I just
• 45:57
  feel like the influencers
• 45:59
  the independent journalists
• 46:01
  they've just absolutely fucking failed
• 46:03
  yep
• 46:05
  well you know Shane the deal
• 46:07
  is the independent journalists
• 46:09
  are primarily the ones we see with these
• 46:11
  X accounts right
• 46:12
  even they have starting to realize that they got to stay within a certain lane to keep their
• 46:18
  audience engaged. And the average person doesn't want to go into the intricacies of these
• 46:24
  geopolitical conflicts. Let's just be honest. I mean, even I'm probably boring people right now.
• 46:28
  Let's just be, you know, I can go on about this stuff, but it's not fun. It's not fun.
• 46:32
  But this is the minutiae. I would rather have a conversation like this about what
• 46:38
  actually matters about what things actually are and have that on record that at least somebody
• 46:43
  was talking about it than to be sitting here. Well, let's just go ahead and, you know, let's,
• 46:47
  let's just go for the layups. You know, that's, that's the frustrating part.
• 46:51
  But let's talk about what you just said. You know, it's like, okay, the, the Iran conflict,
• 46:57
  war, whatever anybody wants to label it, that's the thing. Well, it's been the thing for a long
• 47:02
  time. A lot of people just were avoiding the issue, you know, through bad policies, through
• 47:08
  sanctions that just have proven to never really work. Some will argue they do economically work,
• 47:14
  but in the long run of it, you know, everyone finds a way around it. You know, like we could
• 47:20
  sanction Russia all we want, but they still trade with India. They still trade with Brazil. They
• 47:24
  still find ways to make money. So the sanctions only go so far. And when it came to Iran, when you
• 47:31
  have a regime that's been in power where their absolute foreign policy has been death to America
• 47:37
  and to take down the Western nations, at some point, you're going to have to deal with it.
• 47:43
  If we look at the history, you know, I mean, look, the biggest win that Islam has had,
• 47:50
  if we're looking at it, was 14, I want to say, what was it, 1492? Make sure I got that correct,
• 47:58
  guys. Oh, sorry, 1453. So 1453, that was when they overran and they took Constantinople.
• 48:07
  Okay. So before it was Turkey, that is a Muslim nation. It wasn't, it was a Christian nation.
• 48:14
  And Constantinople was looked at as the jewel of the Christian world. You know, it was like the last,
• 48:20
  the last stand to the takeover by the Muslim conquest or Muslim invasions. And so they were
• 48:28
  really focusing on Constantinople.
• 48:32
  After that is when you started to see the change slowly and ever so slowly more and more
• 48:37
  and more over the years.
• 48:39
  And so their approach, like everybody always says, well, China has the hundred or thousand
• 48:44
  year plan.
• 48:45
  Well, they may, but the people who have proven to actually put that into practice has been
• 48:51
  the extreme Islamic practitioners, the people in charge that are pulling the strings behind
• 48:57
  the conquest.
• 48:58
  historically, you can't ignore it.
• 49:00
  So we've been on a collision course
• 49:03
  with not the Iranian people.
• 49:05
  And that's the thing that I need to clarify
• 49:06
  because too often you see in the news,
• 49:08
  all they say is Iran, Iran, Iran.
• 49:10
  No, we're not fighting Iran.
• 49:12
  We're fighting the Iranian regime,
• 49:14
  the Islamic regime and the IRGC.
• 49:15
  It's very important to distinguish the two.
• 49:18
  But nobody wants to acknowledge that distinguishment.
• 49:21
  Nobody wants to, because if you do that,
• 49:23
  then orange man gets credit.
• 49:25
  Right, well, and so...
• 49:27
  And you're separating out the bad guys from the good guys.
• 49:30
  And we can't have that.
• 49:31
  They all have to be one or the other.
• 49:34
  I mean, I agree with you guys.
• 49:36
  It seems like we're all on the same page of this.
• 49:39
  And I got to also say that a lot of people were saying this isn't a war.
• 49:44
  Yes, it is a war.
• 49:45
  It's not declared a war, but it's a war against the regime that's been in place for over 50 years
• 49:49
  that have killed thousands and thousands of people around the world, not just the Middle East.
• 49:54
  thousands of American soldiers.
• 49:57
  Okay.
• 49:59
  They've killed many of their own people
• 50:01
  because they opposed their view of Islam
• 50:05
  and how they're applying it
• 50:06
  in an authoritarian, violent, oppressive manner.
• 50:10
  And so this had to be dealt with.
• 50:12
  You know, when the whole world says
• 50:13
  you're the number one sponsor of terrorism,
• 50:15
  at some point you got to deal with that.
• 50:17
  So as I've said before,
• 50:19
  we've been on this collision course.
• 50:20
  It's just Trump who had the balls to step in and say,
• 50:22
  you know, we're taking care of this now.
• 50:24
  well and i and i think if if here's the deal we've been taking the blame for the mess in the
• 50:32
  middle east anyway so if you're going to blame us for everything that's going wrong around the world
• 50:37
  well then why don't we just go ahead and fuck shit up and and take the blame anyway because it was
• 50:41
  it was happening yeah let's own it and and so so yeah so let's own it and let's actually but yeah
• 50:46
  at the end of the day exactly let's let's go ahead and make some actual change that's good for people
• 50:51
  on the ground that's good for the world as a whole, that's good for world economies, etc.
• 50:56
  And also put some other really bad people on notice that maybe they tone their shit down
• 51:01
  a little bit and just kind of stay in their corner of the world.
• 51:04
  And it has.
• 51:05
  I mean, to your point, it really has.
• 51:07
  Totally.
• 51:08
  Yeah.
• 51:09
  100%.
• 51:10
  Yeah, it has.
• 51:11
  I want to go back to that CBS post.
• 51:14
  I thought this was, it's important to acknowledge when there's improvement that's been made.
• 51:18
  I want to go ahead and play this one clip from CBS.
• 51:20
  If you're looking for an origin point of this current war, don't look to the earliest hours of this Saturday.
• 51:26
  Look back to November 4th, 1979.
• 51:29
  That was the day Iranian revolutionaries stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran,
• 51:34
  capturing 52 Americans and parading them in blindfolds for the whole world to see.
• 51:40
  A new and daring element was disclosed today in the Iran crisis.
• 51:43
  For the next 444 days, they were held captive.
• 51:49
  the tally kept nightly by Walter Cronkite.
• 51:52
  Finally, the hostages were released,
• 51:54
  but that wasn't the end of the story either.
• 51:56
  Far more bloodshed was to come.
• 51:58
  In 1983, 241 US service members were killed in their barracks
• 52:03
  by an Iran-backed suicide bomber.
• 52:05
  in Beirut. Americans can argue, and they are, over whether this is a war of necessity.
• 52:11
  But what's clear from the history is that the fuse of this explosion is 50 years long
• 52:16
  and has included the loss of thousands of American and Iranian lives.
• 52:21
  Every president since Carter has tried to end this conflict. In 2015, President Barack Obama
• 52:27
  announced a deal to stall Iran's nuclear ambitions, a deal that President Trump replaced
• 52:32
  with a campaign of maximum pressure and now military might.
• 52:37
  Today, the United States military continues to carry out large-scale combat operations in Iran
• 52:43
  to eliminate the grave threats posed to America by this terrible terrorist regime.
• 52:51
  That history is why the president's allies in Congress say he hasn't started a war with Iran.
• 52:56
  He is finishing one.
• 52:58
  I can't argue with that.
• 53:00
  I really can't.
• 53:01
  But it needs to be finished, though.
• 53:03
  It needs to be finished.
• 53:04
  Yeah.
• 53:04
  And so that's exactly where I was going with Shane is I do think people miss a point, which is that and I guess we're calling out the left tonight as we do every week, I guess.
• 53:18
  They deserve to be called out, though.
• 53:19
  They deserve to be called out.
• 53:20
  Because they're not thinking they're not thinking through what they say, because right now what they're saying is, oh, here goes the U.S. again, just bombing some innocent country.
• 53:29
  and just torching everything,
• 53:35
  knocking it all to the ground,
• 53:36
  just making a parking lot
• 53:37
  out of what was once a beautiful neighborhood.
• 53:39
  You know the rhetoric.
• 53:41
  The thing is,
• 53:42
  and if the US just applied all of its,
• 53:46
  because we have a small fraction
• 53:48
  of our ready to go force in that region.
• 53:51
  We sent the Navy for sure,
• 53:54
  but we don't have any battalions,
• 53:57
  any army battalions.
• 53:58
  we have not let loose the dogs of war, the Marines yet. We are doing surgical precision
• 54:05
  strikes right now, and we're trying to minimize the collateral damage. Are we at zero? You never
• 54:11
  are. It's war. But we're trying to minimize it. Listen, if we wanted Iran wiped off the map,
• 54:17
  they'd be gone already. We would do the same thing we did in Venezuela, which again,
• 54:22
  was very surgical, tried to minimize the loss of life and just take out the guy that needed to be
• 54:27
  taken out. Well, we took out Khomeini, but as you said, George, the IRGC is now operating basically
• 54:35
  as a terrorist cell in their own country, and they happen to have a military know-how behind
• 54:41
  them and military equipment. So that's what we're dealing with. And you can't just go in and start
• 54:46
  dropping nukes because we don't like all that because the Iranian people, they do deserve to
• 54:52
  have their country back. They are a beautiful people. It's a beautiful culture. Their history
• 54:56
  is long and diverse and we should embrace it.
• 55:00
  So we're going to have to do this one step at a time.
• 55:03
  And I think people lose the sight of that
• 55:05
  and they just think,
• 55:06
  well, we're coming in with the biggest sword
• 55:08
  and chopping off heads.
• 55:09
  No, we haven't even taken out our pocket knife yet.
• 55:13
  We're just starting a fist fight.
• 55:15
  Yeah, I mean, I believe you're spot on with that.
• 55:20
  The thing that you said though about,
• 55:23
  we haven't put boots on the ground.
• 55:25
  I think that what we're showing the world right now is that we may have not been as active, but we've been improving.
• 55:33
  We've been paying attention.
• 55:35
  And to your point, you know, we have been shown, we've shown the world how surgical we can be.
• 55:41
  I mean, okay, so let's draw attention to the school that was bombed and the children that were killed.
• 55:47
  Yes.
• 55:48
  So let's go that direction.
• 55:50
  Blaming the U.S.
• 55:51
  The left is pushing that story more than they are in the Middle East.
• 56:00
  Because the left can't give Trump credit, as you said earlier.
• 56:03
  Correct.
• 56:04
  And so does anyone really believe that with our capabilities and our technology that the U.S. intentionally killed children?
• 56:15
  No.
• 56:15
  What they don't talk about is in that vicinity, very close to that school, is an actual military base.
• 56:23
  Okay?
• 56:24
  There are other things that people don't talk about and which is common in the Middle East is they use their people and their civilians as shields.
• 56:34
  Absolutely do.
• 56:35
  The West, we're so empathetic, our hearts are so big, and we wouldn't dare.
• 56:41
  And we wouldn't.
• 56:41
  but that if it was the U S it still hasn't come out and been confirmed that
• 56:46
  the U S actually did that.
• 56:47
  But if it was,
• 56:48
  it was very much not intentional whatsoever.
• 56:51
  It could have been targeting,
• 56:52
  you know,
• 56:53
  that base or that facility that was,
• 56:55
  you know,
• 56:55
  in that area.
• 56:57
  At the same time,
• 56:58
  there's news in China that came out from the middle East itself.
• 57:01
  And I,
• 57:01
  and I don't have the clippings on me from reports saying that it was
• 57:04
  confirmed.
• 57:05
  It was actually an Iranian missile that misfire that didn't make it out.
• 57:09
  And that would be the second one also, because there was last weekend, I think it was Sunday, they had one that was misfired.
• 57:17
  Yeah, I mean, you know, this whole Iran thing is a situation sad because it's needed.
• 57:24
  You know, and it's like, it's unfortunate it happened now.
• 57:27
  But again, as I said, at some point, it was going to happen, you know, and so we can be opposed and hate war.
• 57:33
  and you have everybody in,
• 57:35
  well, you know,
• 57:36
  most of these people online,
• 57:37
  even these so-called MAGA people
• 57:39
  that are saying,
• 57:40
  we didn't vote for this.
• 57:41
  We don't want wars.
• 57:42
  No new wars.
• 57:43
  Like, don't be an idiot.
• 57:45
  It's very short-sighted.
• 57:46
  Yeah, this isn't an actual war,
• 57:48
  you know, per se.
• 57:50
  I would say it's a war
• 57:51
  against the regime,
• 57:52
  but I'm going to keep repeating myself.
• 57:55
  We've been on this collision course
• 57:56
  for over 50 years, period,
• 57:58
  and nobody wants to talk about that.
• 57:59
  This was going to happen.
• 58:00
  This isn't for Israel, okay?
• 58:02
  This is for...
• 58:03
  the rest of the world.
• 58:05
  Because if you look at not just terrorism, guys,
• 58:08
  and we're talking about what's been happening with,
• 58:10
  like I stated earlier,
• 58:12
  we're starting to talk about the migrations
• 58:13
  or the immigrants that were coming from the Middle East.
• 58:16
  This soft invasion that they've been playing,
• 58:19
  this hand they've been playing,
• 58:21
  Iran has kind of gotten away from,
• 58:23
  we're going to go ahead and start terrorizing Western nations.
• 58:27
  And we have seen some attacks on our own soil
• 58:29
  by people who are sympathetic to their Iranian regime.
• 58:31
  Just today, just today.
• 58:32
  Yeah.
• 58:32
  I mean, it just keeps happening, but not at the level it could.
• 58:36
  What they have been doing is they've been playing the long game and realizing, okay,
• 58:42
  communist playbook.
• 58:43
  Let's just be honest.
• 58:43
  You're taking a page out of the communist Marxist playbook.
• 58:46
  What is the best way to take over a nation?
• 58:49
  It's manipulation through controlling the narrative and the higher education facilities.
• 58:54
  You have to start by changing minds through continuous, consistent messaging.
• 58:59
  And so I was actually talking to Bruce, you know, Road Rage podcast.
• 59:06
  We're talking this morning about this.
• 59:08
  And he made the point where he said, you know, why is it like, he's like, look, look how old I am.
• 59:15
  He goes, it seems like everything's happened.
• 59:17
  If you do the math, it's like three generations removed.
• 59:18
  I said, exactly.
• 59:20
  Because it takes time.
• 59:22
  It's a long, slow, consistent drip.
• 59:24
  it is exactly the playbook that they are sticking to.
• 59:29
  And we're just not realizing it because it's like slow cooking a frog,
• 59:32
  right?
• 59:32
  You turn the temperature up a little bit,
• 59:34
  a little bit more,
• 59:35
  a little bit more.
• 59:35
  And before you know it,
• 59:36
  the frog is cooked and doesn't even know it.
• 59:38
  So that's what we're dealing with.
• 59:39
  That's been the play by the Iranian regime.
• 59:43
  And we're just not recognizing.
• 59:46
  All right.
• 59:46
  I got my sidewalks.
• 59:48
  No,
• 59:48
  you're,
• 59:49
  you're,
• 59:49
  no,
• 59:49
  this is,
• 59:50
  this is how the show goes.
• 59:51
  Are you kidding me?
• 59:53
  All right.
• 59:53
  So with that, I want to go ahead and bring in this UK position that I feel like we knew it was out there talking about nations that have been pretty much overwhelmed and put a fork in it.
• 1:00:08
  The UK is pretty much done.
• 1:00:10
  Yeah.
• 1:00:11
  this week with Lloyd's of London and having the five eyes for everybody out
• 1:00:20
  there.
• 1:00:20
  That's the big council that shares information Intel.
• 1:00:25
  Let's see.
• 1:00:26
  It's New Zealand,
• 1:00:27
  Australia,
• 1:00:28
  the UK,
• 1:00:29
  I think France and America.
• 1:00:31
  Yep.
• 1:00:33
  Oh,
• 1:00:33
  we're cutting off.
• 1:00:34
  Oh,
• 1:00:35
  you know what?
• 1:00:35
  I think,
• 1:00:36
  yeah,
• 1:00:36
  it's not France.
• 1:00:37
  It's Canada.
• 1:00:37
  Canada's.
• 1:00:38
  Yeah.
• 1:00:38
  Good old.
• 1:00:39
  Yeah.
• 1:00:39
  Worthless Canada.
• 1:00:41
  Um, so this week we've got this maritime insurance issue that pops up where Lloyd's of London doesn't want to insure anybody giving in to the Strait of Hormuz being locked down.
• 1:00:57
  And then Trump comes in and says, nah, we're going to go and we're going to go and we're going to insure everybody to hell with you.
• 1:01:03
  We've got this covered.
• 1:01:05
  And it's taken on a life of its own because now the Five Eyes is pretty much collapsed.
• 1:01:12
  We're not dealing with them anymore.
• 1:01:14
  We obviously don't want to work with Canada because they're China puppets at this point.
• 1:01:19
  The UK has been taken over by Islam.
• 1:01:22
  And this week, it got really, really crazy.
• 1:01:28
  especially when you talk about
• 1:01:31
  Starmer wanting to go ahead
• 1:01:33
  he wanted to go ahead and send out
• 1:01:35
  more military
• 1:01:36
  kinda maybe
• 1:01:39
  we'll get somebody around
• 1:01:40
  we'll get a ship out there
• 1:01:43
  maybe a week after we get them going
• 1:01:45
  very strange week
• 1:01:47
  he dipped a toe in
• 1:01:49
  and I love Trump's response today
• 1:01:51
  he was like hey thanks but no thanks
• 1:01:53
  we don't need you after we already won
• 1:01:55
  and the Lloyds of London
• 1:01:57
  thing, I'm not going to go into it. It's not worth it tonight. Maybe at some point we will go into
• 1:02:04
  the history of events there. But if you go back to British imperialism, the Indian trading company.
• 1:02:13
  So Lloyd's secured the world's oceans and they still are the number one maritime insurance
• 1:02:21
  provider. So when they say we're not going to do it, everyone else is just kind of left like,
• 1:02:26
  well, fuck, we're screwed. We have nowhere to go because Lloyd's is the only game in town.
• 1:02:31
  So for Trump to come over the top, he literally just undid 300 years of British rule of the seas
• 1:02:38
  as far as the economy goes. In one fell swoop, he said, nope, we'll do it. We'll take care of it.
• 1:02:44
  Don't worry about it. It's actually strategically, it's a brilliant, brilliant move. It just
• 1:02:50
  decapitated the British oligarchy imperialist rule over most of the world. And it was beautiful.
• 1:03:01
  I mean, how more strategic of a blow can you give?
• 1:03:05
  Exactly. I actually, I mean, I don't want to get too graphic, but I was very erect all day.
• 1:03:13
  All day when he did that. I was like, holy shit. Literally said like, what, 25 words?
• 1:03:20
  and just took the knees out
• 1:03:21
  from something that's really been wrong
• 1:03:24
  with the world for a long time.
• 1:03:26
  It was beautiful.
• 1:03:27
  Here it is.
• 1:03:28
  Effective immediately.
• 1:03:29
  I've ordered the United States
• 1:03:30
  Development Finance Corporation
• 1:03:32
  to provide at a very reasonable price.
• 1:03:35
  Okay, he's going straight
• 1:03:36
  to the business end of it.
• 1:03:37
  I got a deal for you, okay?
• 1:03:39
  To provide a very reasonable price,
• 1:03:42
  political risk insurance,
• 1:03:43
  and guarantees for the financial security
• 1:03:45
  of all maritime trade,
• 1:03:47
  especially energy traveling through the Gulf.
• 1:03:49
  This will be available to all shipping lines.
• 1:03:52
  If necessary, the United States Navy will begin escorting tankers through the Strait of Hormuz as soon as possible.
• 1:03:58
  No matter what, the United States will ensure the free flow of energy to the world.
• 1:04:02
  The United States economic and military might is the greatest on Earth.
• 1:04:06
  More actions to come.
• 1:04:08
  Thank you for attention to this matter.
• 1:04:10
  And then, and then, he's like, you know what?
• 1:04:12
  Let's go ahead and move one more carrier strike group into the Mediterranean.
• 1:04:17
  so we can go ahead and have a third sitting there.
• 1:04:20
  But that's what's so beautiful.
• 1:04:21
  He's like, sure, we'll do the business side of it,
• 1:04:24
  but we're also going to involve the U.S. Navy for guarantee.
• 1:04:28
  Yeah.
• 1:04:28
  I mean, Trump is just not fucking around, man.
• 1:04:31
  No.
• 1:04:31
  No, and we talked about this a few weeks ago,
• 1:04:34
  but the largest air force in the world
• 1:04:38
  is the United States Air Force.
• 1:04:40
  The second largest air force in the world
• 1:04:42
  is the United States Navy.
• 1:04:43
  And the third largest air force in the world
• 1:04:46
  is the United States Marines.
• 1:04:47
  Yep.
• 1:04:48
  So it's like,
• 1:04:48
  we're literally inserting
• 1:04:50
  the second largest air force
• 1:04:52
  on the planet
• 1:04:53
  into that region.
• 1:04:55
  And just basically saying,
• 1:04:57
  look,
• 1:04:57
  with one FAA team,
• 1:05:00
  you could patrol the Strait of Hormuz daily 24 You could just every eight hours just send an FAA team up there Anybody looks at a ship funny you take it out
• 1:05:12
  I saw a meme today.
• 1:05:14
  It was, Trump graciously agrees
• 1:05:17
  to turn Iranian Navy into submarines
• 1:05:19
  because we sunk all of their ships.
• 1:05:22
  And that's what we'll continue to do.
• 1:05:24
  You want to keep fucking around?
• 1:05:25
  We're going to just keep
• 1:05:26
  blowing the shit out of you.
• 1:05:28
  You said inserting.
• 1:05:29
  Hey, it's Hefe.
• 1:05:31
  Oh, we've got the man, the myth, the legend, the Hall of Famer.
• 1:05:36
  Bang!
• 1:05:37
  All I do is win, win, win, no matter what.
• 1:05:40
  Got money on my mind, I can never get enough.
• 1:05:43
  And every time I step up in the building, everybody's hands go up.
• 1:05:49
  And they stay there.
• 1:05:51
  And they stay there.
• 1:05:52
  And they stay there.
• 1:05:54
  Down, down, down.
• 1:05:56
  Because all I do is win, win.
• 1:05:58
  Jefe, how does it feel retiring undefeated as a basketball coach?
• 1:06:03
  Congratulations.
• 1:06:05
  Thank you.
• 1:06:07
  It feels great.
• 1:06:08
  I was so nervous when it came right down to it.
• 1:06:13
  Like driving to the gym, I was like, yeah, it's going to be fun.
• 1:06:16
  And then when I got there, I was like, oh, shit.
• 1:06:19
  You know, it's a lot.
• 1:06:21
  if it was something I was really
• 1:06:24
  good at
• 1:06:28
  and knowledgeable at, it'd be
• 1:06:30
  just a bunch of high school kids.
• 1:06:32
  I'm okay with that.
• 1:06:33
  I think you've proven you are
• 1:06:36
  good at it.
• 1:06:38
  It was a gift
• 1:06:40
  waiting to be...
• 1:06:42
  For those of you who don't know...
• 1:06:43
  I'm going to let you tell
• 1:06:44
  your story. I'm not going to tell it for you.
• 1:06:47
  I will say, though,
• 1:06:48
  I got a sexual act performed on me today because I claimed that I knew the only undefeated coach.
• 1:06:59
  Really?
• 1:07:00
  Basketball.
• 1:07:00
  Yeah.
• 1:07:01
  Yeah, I did.
• 1:07:02
  That's my best friend is what I said.
• 1:07:04
  And yeah, so thank you, sir.
• 1:07:08
  I am saluting you right now.
• 1:07:11
  I clearly need to play that card.
• 1:07:13
  Holy crap.
• 1:07:14
  Dude, work like a charm.
• 1:07:16
  I'd say it's my pleasure, but obviously...
• 1:07:19
  No.
• 1:07:20
  No.
• 1:07:21
  It was mine.
• 1:07:22
  Definitely mine.
• 1:07:23
  Okay.
• 1:07:23
  So quickly, my two sons are on the same basketball team at the YMCA.
• 1:07:28
  It's a high school-aged league they're in.
• 1:07:34
  And one of them is a senior.
• 1:07:35
  One's a freshman.
• 1:07:36
  So they happen to be playing together, which is really cool.
• 1:07:39
  And they're in the playoffs.
• 1:07:41
  Playoffs?
• 1:07:43
  Playoffs?
• 1:07:44
  Wow.
• 1:07:45
  And their coach had some kind of a prior engagement he had to go to.
• 1:07:52
  Did he not think they were going to make the playoffs?
• 1:07:55
  How did you schedule that?
• 1:07:57
  I don't know.
• 1:07:58
  I don't know.
• 1:07:59
  I got a thing.
• 1:08:00
  I got to go.
• 1:08:01
  I got to go.
• 1:08:03
  He did say he was applying for a small college coaching job.
• 1:08:09
  So maybe that has something to do with it.
• 1:08:10
  but um find out what it is and put your own credentials in there and see if you can bag
• 1:08:16
  that because you clearly have more more chops than he does now yeah how many losses does he have
• 1:08:21
  uh-huh oh yeah oh yeah exactly exactly uh so so yeah they they called me in to um to fill in as
• 1:08:28
  as coach of this team and i i've my you and i used to play fits you know two on two and we just
• 1:08:36
  fuck around and i just never been that into basketball to get into all the semantics and all
• 1:08:42
  the x's and o's of it so i was like yeah i mean because my son the way he put it is like you'd
• 1:08:48
  pretty much handle substitutions and um you know it'll be pretty easy it was not it was not
• 1:08:54
  um because i i got to see he was there for the first three quarters of the first game so i was
• 1:09:01
  just sit on the bench watching him and I'm trying to absorb everything that he's doing because I
• 1:09:06
  knew at some point I'd be on whether it was just for the fourth quarter of that game or if they
• 1:09:12
  won they move on and that's that's all me um and I tried but man it didn't it didn't really
• 1:09:20
  take that's that's not true that's not true you're undefeated yeah I am in the hands man
• 1:09:26
  three wins.
• 1:09:27
  Yeah.
• 1:09:28
  So it was,
• 1:09:29
  um,
• 1:09:30
  it was super fun and they played out of their minds.
• 1:09:33
  It was great.
• 1:09:34
  They,
• 1:09:34
  they,
• 1:09:35
  that's so cool.
• 1:09:36
  Yeah.
• 1:09:36
  The first game they were,
• 1:09:37
  they were pretty much evenly matched.
• 1:09:39
  I think it was like an eight,
• 1:09:40
  nine seat type thing.
• 1:09:41
  The second game they were not supposed to win and they beat the shed of this
• 1:09:45
  team.
• 1:09:45
  And the final game,
• 1:09:47
  they were also not supposed to win.
• 1:09:49
  They,
• 1:09:49
  the team that they played beat the team that beat them a few weeks ago when I
• 1:09:55
  I was watching them.
• 1:09:56
  98 to 45.
• 1:09:58
  Yeah.
• 1:09:58
  They beat that team to get to the final today.
• 1:10:02
  And my guys schooled them.
• 1:10:05
  It was not even close.
• 1:10:07
  You hear that McShane?
• 1:10:08
  My guys.
• 1:10:09
  It's already his guys.
• 1:10:10
  They're his guys.
• 1:10:11
  They're his guys.
• 1:10:12
  I love this.
• 1:10:13
  Oh, I love this for you.
• 1:10:15
  You stick your chest out there.
• 1:10:18
  You stick your chin out there.
• 1:10:20
  Next time, when you walk out to the floor,
• 1:10:22
  I just want you to just play all I do is win
• 1:10:24
  as you're walking out there.
• 1:10:26
  And just sit there.
• 1:10:27
  When you hit the pit,
• 1:10:28
  just look around and go,
• 1:10:29
  yeah, this is my pit too.
• 1:10:31
  Yeah.
• 1:10:33
  What a cool bonding experience
• 1:10:35
  for you and your boys though.
• 1:10:37
  And your son's best friend was there.
• 1:10:40
  I mean, what a cool memory.
• 1:10:43
  That's going to be a core memory for them.
• 1:10:45
  That's great.
• 1:10:46
  That's epic dadding 101.
• 1:10:48
  Hell yeah.
• 1:10:49
  Fantastic job.
• 1:10:50
  Yeah.
• 1:10:51
  My oldest is, not to brag for him or myself, but he is quite a specimen.
• 1:11:01
  He is unbelievable out there.
• 1:11:05
  And he didn't pursue it in high school until now.
• 1:11:10
  So I'm hoping he can get on somewhere and kind of learn.
• 1:11:16
  Walk on an ESU.
• 1:11:17
  Walk on.
• 1:11:17
  Yeah, exactly.
• 1:11:19
  Exactly.
• 1:11:19
  So he's so fast and he can, I mean, he's just very, very athletic.
• 1:11:24
  He got all my good athletic genes, the few that I have, and all of his mom's side.
• 1:11:32
  And he just stacked them up and he's going to race them up more.
• 1:11:38
  So he's a lot like his Uncle Fitz then?
• 1:11:40
  Exactly.
• 1:11:41
  Yeah.
• 1:11:42
  Okay.
• 1:11:43
  Yeah.
• 1:11:43
  I mean, man, he must be really good.
• 1:11:48
  Wow.
• 1:11:49
  I'm totally fucking with you
• 1:11:51
  because I'm 5'8 and white
• 1:11:53
  and I was never that great.
• 1:11:55
  And Irish too.
• 1:11:57
  And Irish.
• 1:11:57
  I can fight,
• 1:11:58
  but that's about it.
• 1:11:59
  Fight and drink.
• 1:12:02
  Hefe,
• 1:12:02
  I know we're on a short timetable tonight
• 1:12:04
  just because of how things set up.
• 1:12:06
  Did you want to do the farm report now
• 1:12:07
  or do you want to risk it
• 1:12:08
  and do it later?
• 1:12:11
  We can squeeze it in now.
• 1:12:13
  It's a quick one.
• 1:12:14
  All right.
• 1:12:19
  All right.
• 1:12:26
  Where the hell did I put that page?
• 1:12:30
  So I've got a video.
• 1:12:31
  You sent me a video.
• 1:12:33
  It's from Melee Mail.
• 1:12:34
  And it's this awkward...
• 1:12:36
  Looks like a snake that was bitten in half.
• 1:12:39
  Yeah, here we go.
• 1:12:40
  Something's going on.
• 1:12:41
  Yeah, this is the...
• 1:12:42
  Ooh.
• 1:12:45
  Hemeroplanus tryptolemus.
• 1:12:47
  lemus, which is
• 1:12:49
  the
• 1:12:51
  sphinx moth caterpillar.
• 1:12:54
  This thing
• 1:12:55
  is amazing.
• 1:12:58
  It's a fence mechanism.
• 1:12:59
  It mimics a venomous snake
• 1:13:01
  to scare predators away. Steve, why don't you
• 1:13:03
  bring up the video?
• 1:13:05
  It's up. We're watching it.
• 1:13:08
  That's a caterpillar?
• 1:13:10
  That's a caterpillar.
• 1:13:11
  That snake head looking thing is
• 1:13:13
  its tail, basically, the hind end
• 1:13:15
  of him. And his head is the other end.
• 1:13:17
  He does that.
• 1:13:18
  They puff up air in there to make these features of a snake come out to scare away possible predators.
• 1:13:26
  That looks exactly like a snake, does it not?
• 1:13:28
  Oh, yeah.
• 1:13:28
  Oh, yeah.
• 1:13:29
  100%.
• 1:13:29
  How the hell did that happen?
• 1:13:32
  That's not...
• 1:13:33
  I mean, okay, nature mimics things, but that's kind of weird.
• 1:13:39
  You see something like that and you go, come on.
• 1:13:41
  Evolution did that.
• 1:13:43
  I mean, someone figured that out.
• 1:13:46
  and made that in a lab or something.
• 1:13:49
  That is crazy.
• 1:13:50
  I have seen that caterpillar before.
• 1:13:52
  The moth that it turns into,
• 1:13:54
  I don't know if we can look that up,
• 1:13:56
  is one of the most gorgeous creatures on the planet.
• 1:14:00
  It's so amazing.
• 1:14:03
  But yeah, look at that fucking thing.
• 1:14:06
  It looks like a snake.
• 1:14:08
  It's called the Sphinx Hawk Moth Caterpillar.
• 1:14:14
  That's bad.
• 1:14:14
  Yeah, and it's a giant moth too.
• 1:14:16
  you know that you every week you keep coming up with stuff that is just
• 1:14:23
  well i ran over i ran into this a few days ago and i was like i gotta tuck that away
• 1:14:29
  and then today was just such a such a big pain in my ass as far as you know i had no time as far
• 1:14:38
  as winning as far as winning yeah so i didn't have time to draft anything up so i just i was
• 1:14:44
  I'm going to fall back on that.
• 1:14:46
  We'll go with that.
• 1:14:47
  It was pretty amazing and pretty cool.
• 1:14:49
  Yeah, definitely.
• 1:14:51
  Real quick,
• 1:14:52
  I doubt anybody within a million miles of me
• 1:14:58
  is going to listen to this show.
• 1:14:59
  But just in case,
• 1:15:00
  I want to shout out to my younger son too.
• 1:15:02
  My older son is...
• 1:15:03
  I mean, they're three years apart.
• 1:15:05
  And my younger one is a freshman
• 1:15:07
  and he's not the physical specimen
• 1:15:10
  that his older brother is,
• 1:15:11
  but he's got a big heart
• 1:15:13
  and he's going to be just fine.
• 1:15:15
  He's going to learn from his big brother
• 1:15:18
  and he's going to do some damage as well.
• 1:15:22
  That's awesome, man.
• 1:15:23
  Nice.
• 1:15:24
  Nice.
• 1:15:25
  Fully support the Hefe boys
• 1:15:28
  and their future endeavors in whatever.
• 1:15:32
  And you know what?
• 1:15:33
  I mean, it probably goes without saying,
• 1:15:36
  but sports isn't about making it to the NBA
• 1:15:40
  or making it...
• 1:15:41
  sports teaches you actual life fucking lessons.
• 1:15:44
  And sometimes when you just put your ass out there
• 1:15:48
  and you put your ass on the line,
• 1:15:49
  sometimes you win.
• 1:15:51
  And you win games that you're not supposed to.
• 1:15:52
  And those boys are going to...
• 1:15:55
  They got to be riding so high right now.
• 1:15:56
  So I'm so proud of them.
• 1:15:58
  I'm proud of you.
• 1:15:59
  Fucking undefeated.
• 1:16:01
  That's just...
• 1:16:01
  What a cool thing.
• 1:16:03
  Yeah, it was really fun.
• 1:16:05
  Hey, Hefe.
• 1:16:06
  I just want to let you know that Iran called.
• 1:16:09
  Iran's Revolutionary Guard
• 1:16:13
  called. They want to know if you want to be the Ayatollah
• 1:16:15
  now. They're looking for somebody.
• 1:16:16
  Since you retired, we figured maybe you're
• 1:16:18
  available. I don't know.
• 1:16:20
  They need someone undefeated.
• 1:16:22
  They need a win, dad.
• 1:16:25
  Yeah.
• 1:16:28
  Oh, shit.
• 1:16:29
  I better play you out.
• 1:16:31
  Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:16:39
  well we've been hanging with uh with george here and talking about iran anything uh anything
• 1:16:47
  popped up on your radar as far as iran goes that you you wanted to get into or are you probably
• 1:16:51
  about ready to head back right yeah i gotta get back in um it's um it's a mess
• 1:16:58
  that is a shit show yes it is well said well i'm gonna say that i was happy to be on the show
• 1:17:06
  and experience Hefe.
• 1:17:09
  Nice.
• 1:17:09
  That was awesome.
• 1:17:11
  Excellent.
• 1:17:12
  He's kind of like a hand grenade.
• 1:17:15
  He just comes in and we just kind of hope
• 1:17:16
  that we've got enough coverage to survive the blow.
• 1:17:19
  That's great.
• 1:17:19
  That's what it is.
• 1:17:20
  Yeah.
• 1:17:21
  And not to correct you, George,
• 1:17:22
  but it's Hefe, the single winning
• 1:17:25
  basketball coach in history.
• 1:17:27
  The single most winningest coach in basketball.
• 1:17:30
  Sorry, Paul Chiefs.
• 1:17:33
  It's so great.
• 1:17:34
  Okay.
• 1:17:34
  We're going to have to do some AI work and make sure we post something online for you now.
• 1:17:38
  Which YMCA is it?
• 1:17:40
  Let me know and we'll get it out there for you.
• 1:17:42
  All right.
• 1:17:43
  I'll be back in an hour if you've got it still on.
• 1:17:45
  All right.
• 1:17:45
  Later, brother.
• 1:17:46
  All right.
• 1:17:46
  See you.
• 1:17:47
  All right.
• 1:17:49
  Fellas, how are those beers going?
• 1:17:50
  I think we're ready for beer two.
• 1:17:53
  Yeah.
• 1:17:54
  I'm about there.
• 1:17:56
  Oh, I'm there.
• 1:17:58
  You're there?
• 1:17:59
  About halfway through our Iran pontification I was like I picked up my cup and I like oh it gone already So I drinking my side bitch now which is great One of my
• 1:18:12
  favorites of all time. So I'm happy
• 1:18:14
  there, but I'm very excited for my next beer.
• 1:18:16
  So how about you, McShane?
• 1:18:18
  Did you get through that?
• 1:18:20
  Oh, I finished my side
• 1:18:22
  bitch. I finished the original one
• 1:18:24
  and yeah, it's time for
• 1:18:26
  beer two. All right.
• 1:18:28
  Well, let's do it.
• 1:18:31
  All right.
• 1:18:32
  beer two it's coming up beer two i got a hunch uh it sounds like we've all decided that beer two
• 1:18:40
  is going to be uh we're gonna go big on beer two is that oh yeah yeah i'm stepping up i mean you
• 1:18:47
  know i i didn't have anywhere to go any lower but i'm definitely stepping up okay okay you just you
• 1:18:54
  so took one for the team that's the second time that she's got you with a no okay no abv and she
• 1:19:01
  wanted me to she just told me she wanted me to make it clear she did not do that on purpose she
• 1:19:05
  she was just grabbed the beer because it had a cool label and then as she put it in the in the
• 1:19:12
  fridge in the koozie uh she realized oh shit it's it's a it's a non-alcoholic so it wasn't on purpose
• 1:19:19
  this time the first time it was this time it wasn't but you know what more power to her to
• 1:19:23
  stick to her convictions the shows could be different yeah yeah yeah i mean you know she's
• 1:19:29
  I bought this.
• 1:19:31
  You're going to fucking drink it.
• 1:19:37
  All right.
• 1:19:37
  I am starting off with
• 1:19:39
  a collaboration
• 1:19:42
  between Trillium and
• 1:19:44
  Horace Aged Ales.
• 1:19:46
  This one is going to be
• 1:19:48
  a 10.5.
• 1:19:49
  It's called Double Go Shock.
• 1:19:52
  Imperial Stout with Vanilla,
• 1:19:54
  Hazelnut, and Coffee.
• 1:19:55
  So I will tell you,
• 1:19:57
  It pours very slowly out of the bottle.
• 1:20:01
  If you guys are up in the Massachusetts area,
• 1:20:04
  I highly suggest going to Trillium.
• 1:20:06
  I've been there.
• 1:20:07
  I've actually been to their locations.
• 1:20:09
  Fantastic.
• 1:20:12
  Almost kind of quiet.
• 1:20:16
  They're very understated.
• 1:20:18
  Very, very good beers though.
• 1:20:20
  So I'm excited to see what's going to happen with this one.
• 1:20:23
  You get a lot of hazelnut.
• 1:20:25
  This is heavy in hazelnut.
• 1:20:27
  love me some hazelnut being up here in uh in oregon whoa i was not ready for that oh my gosh
• 1:20:36
  holy paper down i repeat we've got the paper down wow
• 1:20:42
  oh you okay oh what is going on there this is a it is it is very much a dessert beer
• 1:20:49
  i didn't i did not expect it to be this much of a dessert beer i was expecting
• 1:20:53
  an imperial stout a little bit of vanilla a little bit of hazelnut and then more coffee
• 1:20:58
  is it too easy no it's it's closer to a pastry stout it is definitely an end of the night it is
• 1:21:05
  heavy heavy vanilla and very heavy uh milk chocolate i'm not a big milk chocolate guy in
• 1:21:12
  my in my beers that's what that is though it is for sure wow it's not bad it's not bad at all i
• 1:21:21
  just was not ready for that i'm gonna have to adjust to that um wow and it's got the if the
• 1:21:29
  hazelnut bitterness is there the the the the ingredients are on point for sure i just was not
• 1:21:37
  ready for the amount of sweet that came along with that wow beauty all right george what do
• 1:21:46
  you have over there for beer two beer two i kind of went your direction i got what may be considered
• 1:21:51
  a dessert beer um this is from delirium out of belgium oh we we know delirium well yes all right
• 1:21:59
  yes we're in a constant state of it yeah i have the delirium red and uh this one is a belgian ale
• 1:22:09
  made with cherry and elderberry.
• 1:22:12
  Oh, nice.
• 1:22:13
  8% ABV.
• 1:22:15
  And it's supposed to have like a dark red color,
• 1:22:19
  light pink compact lacing head.
• 1:22:21
  I'm actually going to pour this one in a glass, of course.
• 1:22:23
  Okay.
• 1:22:24
  So go ahead and start that.
• 1:22:26
  This one might surprise you.
• 1:22:28
  Yeah.
• 1:22:29
  We both had this one.
• 1:22:31
  And yeah.
• 1:22:31
  Yeah.
• 1:22:32
  I'm hoping I didn't make a mistake.
• 1:22:34
  No, no, you didn't.
• 1:22:35
  No, it's a fantastic beer.
• 1:22:37
  It's a fantastic beer.
• 1:22:39
  All right, well.
• 1:22:42
  It does kind of look like candy in a glass to a degree.
• 1:22:45
  Yeah, yeah.
• 1:22:45
  A little dark, but it tries out.
• 1:22:48
  Yeah, Delirium, for everybody who's playing at home,
• 1:22:51
  Delirium is a fantastic Belgian.
• 1:22:53
  Yeah, it's not.
• 1:22:54
  Well, that is interesting.
• 1:22:56
  Yeah.
• 1:22:56
  Yes, it is.
• 1:22:57
  Yep.
• 1:23:00
  Holy shit.
• 1:23:01
  That's like if a Cherry Coke was a beer or a Cherry Pepsi was a beer.
• 1:23:05
  Yeah, there you go.
• 1:23:07
  Yep.
• 1:23:08
  Wow.
• 1:23:08
  You get the sweetness of the Belgian yeast, and then you get that kind of over the top,
• 1:23:14
  hey, this is a lot of cherry.
• 1:23:17
  It has a little sourness to it.
• 1:23:19
  Yes.
• 1:23:19
  That's what I was just going to say.
• 1:23:20
  It's got a little bit of sweet and sour to it.
• 1:23:22
  That's a fun beer.
• 1:23:24
  I don't need it.
• 1:23:24
  And there's a little bit of nuttiness in there too.
• 1:23:27
  There's almost like an almond extract flavor in there.
• 1:23:33
  Real subtle, but it's there just to bring it back down to earth, because otherwise that
• 1:23:37
  things flying high.
• 1:23:39
  See, I always...
• 1:23:40
  I'm going to...
• 1:23:41
  I think as this warms up, that'll probably come out more
• 1:23:44
  because I took it out of the cooler. It was a little cold.
• 1:23:46
  And I think there's a beer that needs to be at a certain room temperature.
• 1:23:48
  Yeah, give it some time.
• 1:23:50
  Yeah, I like it. I don't hate it.
• 1:23:52
  It just was different than I expected. I didn't think
• 1:23:53
  it would be as sour as it is.
• 1:23:56
  It's not super sour, but
• 1:23:58
  it has a little bit of that tartness. It's really good
• 1:24:00
  though. I like it.
• 1:24:02
  It always reminded me of an amaretto sour.
• 1:24:05
  Ah, yes.
• 1:24:05
  That's a good description.
• 1:24:06
  that's a good description
• 1:24:07
  always
• 1:24:08
  always
• 1:24:08
  always remind me of that
• 1:24:09
  I
• 1:24:10
  you know I had one of those
• 1:24:12
  the other night
• 1:24:13
  I can't remember where I was
• 1:24:14
  I had an Amarillo Sour
• 1:24:16
  the other night
• 1:24:16
  and it was just
• 1:24:17
  I
• 1:24:17
  I haven't had one of those
• 1:24:19
  in a decade maybe
• 1:24:21
  yeah
• 1:24:22
  and it was
• 1:24:22
  I don't need to have another one
• 1:24:24
  for another decade
• 1:24:24
  but
• 1:24:25
  it was
• 1:24:25
  it was quite good
• 1:24:27
  100%
• 1:24:28
  I did enjoy it
• 1:24:29
  well I am doing it
• 1:24:31
  it's different than I expected
• 1:24:32
  but I mean I don't hate it
• 1:24:33
  it's good
• 1:24:34
  it is a good
• 1:24:35
  good
• 1:24:35
  nice that that's that's why that's why we do this we do we obviously we're we're never we never know
• 1:24:40
  what we're going to get right fits uh what do you have for beer two uh well i i actually know what
• 1:24:47
  i'm going to get with this one um once once every season i have to uh pull out the old faithful and
• 1:24:54
  i go with the bourbon county um from from goose island so i've got a bourbon county this is a
• 1:25:01
  2024 bottling of Bourbon County.
• 1:25:04
  I actually almost bought that one.
• 1:25:07
  Yep.
• 1:25:07
  Nice.
• 1:25:08
  It's such a fantastic beer.
• 1:25:10
  It never fails.
• 1:25:11
  No, it doesn't need any introduction.
• 1:25:12
  It's an imperial stout.
• 1:25:14
  They let it sit in bourbon barrels for, I don't know, 900 years or something.
• 1:25:18
  And then you get to enjoy it.
• 1:25:20
  So just a really, really solid, solid beer.
• 1:25:24
  And every year is a little different.
• 1:25:26
  I remember the one I had last year, the last time I had it, was really boozy.
• 1:25:31
  This is coming in at 14.8%.
• 1:25:34
  So I'm assuming it's going to be pretty boozy also.
• 1:25:39
  But we'll see because honestly, I'm smelling more of the chocolate and the caramel than I am the booze.
• 1:25:46
  I mean, it's there, but I'm not getting it super heavy.
• 1:25:49
  So we'll see.
• 1:25:50
  The Goose Island line, they do a really nice job though.
• 1:25:53
  It doesn't get crazy.
• 1:25:55
  You can have one that's been sold for a couple years,
• 1:25:57
  and it's just fine.
• 1:25:59
  So this will be...
• 1:26:00
  Nope.
• 1:26:01
  That fucking thing's on fire.
• 1:26:03
  Yeah.
• 1:26:03
  Launches you.
• 1:26:04
  You could absolutely...
• 1:26:05
  You could run a Suzuki fucking motorcycle off of this.
• 1:26:09
  Damn.
• 1:26:10
  Wow.
• 1:26:12
  Okay.
• 1:26:13
  I've had those.
• 1:26:14
  I like them,
• 1:26:15
  but I typically pair them with a heavy cigar,
• 1:26:17
  so it kind of balances out pretty well.
• 1:26:20
  Dude, I was just going to say,
• 1:26:21
  this makes me want my pipe.
• 1:26:23
  Yeah.
• 1:26:24
  I want to be smoking my pipe right now, but no, this is, and it's not a meth pipe.
• 1:26:28
  Come on, all of you, get your head out of the fucking gutter.
• 1:26:31
  It's an actual tobacco pipe.
• 1:26:33
  I think our listeners in chat figured you were smoking a different kind of pipe altogether.
• 1:26:37
  So it's all right.
• 1:26:38
  Oh, hey.
• 1:26:40
  No, it's a very solid beer.
• 1:26:43
  It's coming in hot though.
• 1:26:45
  You could really, you.
• 1:26:46
  Really?
• 1:26:47
  I mean, oh yeah.
• 1:26:48
  It didn't settle down after 2024.
• 1:26:50
  It didn't settle down.
• 1:26:51
  It's interesting.
• 1:26:52
  bourbon county they do that it's we talk about our base beers like epic um um the yeti line and
• 1:27:00
  all those bad baptist yep yeah bourbon county you get so many great offshoots so you've got the base
• 1:27:07
  and it's still super boozy yeah i i typically love uh bourbon barrel aged beers by the way
• 1:27:15
  like yeah i don't know why i said about them they kind of get more towards like wine country in
• 1:27:19
  terms of their abv yeah right yeah but i like them you know yeah i don't know why but they do
• 1:27:25
  appeal to me it's a fine line between that and the barley one yes yeah and it it got to the point
• 1:27:32
  where i mean mcshane and i were having one or two every every week on the show because we just love
• 1:27:37
  them so much and i was like yeah we got to branch out a bit and try some new stuff but right if i
• 1:27:42
  If I'm having some sort of weekend where I just need to relax and chill the fuck out,
• 1:27:49
  that's my go-to every time.
• 1:27:51
  Yeah.
• 1:27:51
  That's a good sip of beer too.
• 1:27:53
  Yeah.
• 1:27:53
  Yeah, exactly.
• 1:27:55
  Light a fire and pour yourself a nice bourbon barrel-aged Imperial Stout.
• 1:28:03
  Well, we've got to talk about who's in chat tonight.
• 1:28:05
  We've got John Jemingo who's joined us.
• 1:28:09
  Bruce McGee is here.
• 1:28:10
  Road Rage and Weather Report.
• 1:28:12
  Dutchess from Boomer Bunker.
• 1:28:14
  John and Dutchess tonight
• 1:28:16
  are both from Boomer Bunker, by the way.
• 1:28:18
  I got to tell you,
• 1:28:19
  the Thursday episode
• 1:28:22
  was fucking hilarious.
• 1:28:25
  If you guys have not
• 1:28:26
  enjoyed Boomer Bunker yet,
• 1:28:29
  please go out and enjoy their show.
• 1:28:31
  Twice a week,
• 1:28:32
  Mondays and Thursdays.
• 1:28:34
  Thursday's show was
• 1:28:36
  unbelievably funny.
• 1:28:39
  That got me home,
• 1:28:40
  woke me up.
• 1:28:41
  just it was it was awesome so please do um in road rage 101 every morning monday through friday
• 1:28:48
  you guys got to go check out the show you're going to get john and duchess and and bruce is on there
• 1:28:54
  bruce runs the show and there's there's so many more folks to show up and one of these days i'm
• 1:28:58
  going to get in there i'm actually going to get on on and on and talk but it's always right when
• 1:29:02
  i'm first starting work and i'm trying to i dare you it's kind of hard i dare you you dare me all
• 1:29:07
  I double dog dare you.
• 1:29:10
  All right.
• 1:29:11
  Fine.
• 1:29:13
  We'll work on it.
• 1:29:16
  Aaron from I Had to Say It Pod is here.
• 1:29:20
  But the problem is I don't know which one is Aaron.
• 1:29:22
  I think it's not you.
• 1:29:26
  I've been trying to figure that out too.
• 1:29:28
  I think.
• 1:29:30
  All right.
• 1:29:31
  Here's my guess.
• 1:29:32
  Ballistic bitch slap.
• 1:29:33
  Possible.
• 1:29:34
  No.
• 1:29:34
  I think it's the third Ayatollah this week.
• 1:29:36
  yeah you know that makes sense that kind of tracks okay i know they're all sitting at home
• 1:29:43
  going ha ha ha this fucking idiot still never know uh but hey we got a guess right so then
• 1:29:50
  okay it's not about you jesse is that lisa i that was my guess yes okay then ballistic
• 1:29:57
  bitch slap i'm pretty sure that that's gonna be justin justin yep yep i think i think we nailed
• 1:30:03
  it that's that was my guess too okay all right and and i'm and even if we're wrong i don't care
• 1:30:08
  we're gonna edit it out if we're wrong because we're gonna be right period that's right we're
• 1:30:14
  just gonna we're gonna dub in the actual ones we're gonna be good there always it's correct
• 1:30:19
  yeah exactly yeah yeah that's at the end of the day let's just make sure this is our show god damn
• 1:30:24
  it. Yeah, I'm just a guest.
• 1:30:27
  Where are we going next, McShane?
• 1:30:32
  What do we got here? I want to talk about how
• 1:30:36
  rugged and amazing the Democratic Party is becoming.
• 1:30:43
  This week, Pete Buttigieg
• 1:30:44
  in the Atlantic.
• 1:30:49
  Rugged, amazing.
• 1:30:50
  and all right oh god he's the atlantic poster boy it's amazing first of all it's paywalled so
• 1:30:58
  don bother trying to look too hard at it don pay them any money don don unless you want a laugh but this is just the byline pete Buttigieg the Harvard graduate Rhodes Scholar and McKenzie alum now has a beard and a splitting mall
• 1:31:18
  Can he convince America he's a man of the people?
• 1:31:24
  No, no, you can't.
• 1:31:26
  No, no.
• 1:31:27
  You lost me at Rhodes Scholar.
• 1:31:30
  I mean, that's, you've been in some of the most prestigious colleges around the planet and studied under some of the smartest people.
• 1:31:43
  But during that whole time, we were all out here grinding it and trying to make a fucking living and being real people and having car problems and relationship problems and kid problems.
• 1:31:57
  And so, no, you're never going to be a man of the people.
• 1:32:00
  Stop trying to do this.
• 1:32:04
  Between him and Waltz, which one's the douchier?
• 1:32:07
  But that's what they're going for.
• 1:32:09
  They're running back the hits.
• 1:32:10
  They're trying to play that card again.
• 1:32:13
  And as long as there's a fake breastfeeding plate out there picture of you,
• 1:32:17
  you're not going to be a man of the people.
• 1:32:19
  I'm sorry.
• 1:32:19
  No.
• 1:32:20
  You're not going to.
• 1:32:22
  It's just a fact.
• 1:32:23
  I was waiting all week for the next headline to be that, you know, Pete Buttigieg is in serious
• 1:32:30
  condition after a mall accident. He's going to hurt himself. If he actually has a mall,
• 1:32:36
  I mean, if you don't know what you're doing when you swing that, best case scenario is you pull
• 1:32:42
  your neck out and you can't turn to the right for three weeks. Worst case scenario, you cut your
• 1:32:48
  foot in half. Malls are
• 1:32:50
  not to be fucked with and
• 1:32:51
  he's going to hurt himself.
• 1:32:54
  I'm still...
• 1:32:55
  I hope that's on my bingo card.
• 1:32:59
  John in chat. Pete has a manly butt plug.
• 1:33:02
  Yeah. Third
• 1:33:04
  I told her this week, do they make butt
• 1:33:06
  plugs with beards attached? I refuse
• 1:33:08
  to Google that. Thank you.
• 1:33:10
  Oh my God.
• 1:33:12
  Oh, he needs a butt plug that's in the shape of
• 1:33:14
  a mall.
• 1:33:14
  oh for those oh those of you don't know a mall is is basically a sledgehammer with an axe head on it
• 1:33:23
  so that you can really get through big heavy logs and heavy heavy wood heavy heavy wood he is he's
• 1:33:30
  not cutting that kind of wood i'll tell you that pete small is racially sensitive it's a
• 1:33:35
  ballistic bitch slap it's a face market oh my god you know what okay that's you know they were
• 1:33:41
  very chat was really chill the first half of the show because we were just going for it we were
• 1:33:47
  just going for it now it's it's their time it's their time to show it sounds right because uh
• 1:33:52
  because they're gonna enjoy this here's the uh new represent the new democrat senator uh running uh
• 1:33:59
  i don't know why you know what you want to call him um james tallarico yes the new senate candidate
• 1:34:09
  it is senate right or is it house i think it's senate i believe it's senate took out jasmine
• 1:34:13
  crockett and her run yeah yeah yeah jasmine crockett can i have to find a new new vocation
• 1:34:20
  the democrats and republicans both rigged the election against jasmine crockett and trump
• 1:34:26
  started the iran war to make sure that nobody went out and voted for her right specifically
• 1:34:33
  right yeah just her this is why it was done right um true story which tracks that that's what she
• 1:34:39
  that's what she said it's good school yeah no that is what she said the guy who's playing who's going
• 1:34:45
  to be playing the new part here here's this here's one of his tweets from uh may 8th 2020
• 1:34:50
  the only cure is diagnosing the virus within ourselves and taking dramatic actions to contain
• 1:34:58
  the spread. The first small
• 1:35:00
  step is proclaiming loudly, unequivocally
• 1:35:02
  that Black Lives Matter.
• 1:35:04
  Ugh.
• 1:35:06
  Is he trying to bring that back?
• 1:35:08
  Oh, well, that was from 2020.
• 1:35:10
  We're just... Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't see that.
• 1:35:12
  This is
• 1:35:14
  the setup. Here he is.
• 1:35:16
  Let's see. This was...
• 1:35:18
  This is one of his sermons.
• 1:35:20
  The Democrats are
• 1:35:22
  trying to position him as a religious leader
• 1:35:24
  and a
• 1:35:26
  liberal.
• 1:35:26
  yeah so he's a pastor or something here here's here's his take on on here just we'll get into it
• 1:35:35
  before we go further i want to acknowledge that our trans community needs abortion care too
• 1:35:40
  all right so so dudes i okay hold on dudes who want to be women that aren't women but are dudes
• 1:35:49
  need to have abortions for babies they can't have anyway correct oh okay i want to make sure i was
• 1:35:56
  getting that. Here's one more. Here's one more. This is, yeah, here's, I think he's at the state
• 1:36:04
  assembly as a rep. I want us all to be aware of is that modern science obviously recognizes that
• 1:36:11
  there are many more than two biological sexes. In fact, there are six, which honestly,
• 1:36:17
  Representative Hefner surprised me too, because I am not well-versed in this issue area. I'm not
• 1:36:25
  a scientist i'm a politician a lot worse than a scientist i want us all to be aware yeah there
• 1:36:30
  there are six but three of them are male and three of them are female you fucking moron
• 1:36:35
  oh god i think they keep doubling down on this they keep doubling down on it they have to do
• 1:36:45
  this they can't help themselves yeah because otherwise they have to admit they were wrong
• 1:36:49
  but what else do they have yeah yeah exactly i mean they don't win on policy
• 1:36:54
  Well, they have no policy.
• 1:36:55
  They don't have any policy.
• 1:36:57
  The policy is that there are six sexes and that Black Lives Matter.
• 1:37:02
  And attacking Trump isn't working.
• 1:37:04
  So, I mean.
• 1:37:05
  Right, right.
• 1:37:06
  Real quick, going back to the BLM thing.
• 1:37:09
  Did you hear there was a case back in, I believe it was 2022.
• 1:37:14
  They had this BLM curriculum that they were teaching to second graders in, drum roll,
• 1:37:22
  Minnesota.
• 1:37:22
  and this little girl, they had to, second graders, okay, so seven, eight years old.
• 1:37:29
  They had to go through this whole curriculum and at the end of it, they had to write a short essay
• 1:37:33
  about what they learned, okay? This little girl, she titled her essay that all lives matter.
• 1:37:40
  And her argument was, I've learned that it's not okay to put other people down
• 1:37:44
  and that we all need to be treated as equal. Well, the school suspended her.
• 1:37:49
  of course for for yeah for for having it wasn't about black lives matters you made it about
• 1:37:54
  everybody and that's not okay say suspended or so the parents and i love this approach they
• 1:38:00
  they sued the school district for 2.3 million dollars um for you know what what happened to
• 1:38:06
  their daughter and the psychological whatever but their argument was if you're going to teach
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  this curriculum to this age group,
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  we know by brain development
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  that they are free thinkers.
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  They haven't been put in a box yet.
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  They're exploring new ideas.
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  They're exploring new ways to see the world.
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  And you just squashed that in our daughter.
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  That was their stance.
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  And they won.
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  That's perfect.
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  They won this week.
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  It's brilliant.
• 1:38:33
  So $2.3 million in damages plus,
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  but at the end of the day,
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  who's paying that?
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  The taxpayers.
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  It's not the teachers.
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  union that's okaying it.
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  No. And so
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  it was a win, but it was also like
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  this. What are we going to put an end to the
• 1:38:50
  fucking madness? It's crazy.
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  And the fact that a second grader
• 1:38:54
  wrote that, you know, was able
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  to come to that conclusion.
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  Shouldn't we be fostering that?
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  Yes. I mean, in and of
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  itself, how can you not see
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  how, I mean, how can you not see
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  that teaching that only
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  one skin color
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  is worthy, right?
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  of getting any attention or any appeasement is not a racist teaching in and of itself.
• 1:39:18
  Exactly.
• 1:39:18
  It's amazing.
• 1:39:19
  Yeah.
• 1:39:20
  But that's fundamental Marxism.
• 1:39:24
  Yeah, going back to that.
• 1:39:25
  And that's, again, one of their platforms.
• 1:39:27
  That's all they have.
• 1:39:29
  Are we going to see legislation that comes out that makes that illegal?
• 1:39:34
  Are we going to finally start seeing that kind of stuff?
• 1:39:36
  Because I feel like we might be at that point.
• 1:39:38
  I think some states are kind of going down that road.
• 1:39:41
  Yes.
• 1:39:42
  I think that should be the case.
• 1:39:45
  But you know what I want to see?
• 1:39:46
  Let's just be honest.
• 1:39:47
  I want to see the ability for the parents to legally call these board members out and fucking get in a ring and beat the shit out of them.
• 1:39:54
  Yes.
• 1:39:55
  Sorry.
• 1:39:56
  Fight club.
• 1:39:57
  I think that's what needs to happen because it's getting to the point where I don't think the state should have so much control over how you parent your child and what you can teach and pass down to your child.
• 1:40:09
  Like it's getting.
• 1:40:10
  I mean, and Fritz, I mean, you know way more than I would in this.
• 1:40:14
  I mean, doing, you know, being what you, you know, may do.
• 1:40:18
  But at the same time, just saying, it's like, dude, what, how is it acceptable that we've
• 1:40:22
  come to this to where it's okay to manipulate our children this way and literally turn them
• 1:40:29
  into this army of libtards to move forward?
• 1:40:33
  And I don't hate Democrats, but I mean, there's a difference between a Democrat and whatever
• 1:40:37
  this is.
• 1:40:38
  Oh, absolutely.
• 1:40:38
  Yeah, for sure.
• 1:40:39
  Absolutely.
• 1:40:39
  This is you.
• 1:40:41
  You have to now call them liberals.
• 1:40:42
  They're not Democrats.
• 1:40:43
  And I honestly.
• 1:40:44
  It's worse than that, though, Fitz.
• 1:40:46
  It's worse than that, though.
• 1:40:47
  It's not even liberals.
• 1:40:48
  They're so far left.
• 1:40:50
  It is straight up socialists.
• 1:40:52
  Yeah, I know.
• 1:40:53
  When you throw in the manipulation piece, that's what makes things go sideways.
• 1:40:58
  It's no longer free thinking.
• 1:41:00
  Yeah.
• 1:41:00
  And you nailed it, George, earlier in the show.
• 1:41:03
  You said, I mean, this has been a slow, deliberate re-education of the populace.
• 1:41:10
  Where does that start?
• 1:41:11
  With the kids.
• 1:41:12
  Yeah.
• 1:41:13
  And now they've just been pushing it further and further down into the ages.
• 1:41:17
  Now we got second graders learning that their skin color isn't okay, but those people's is.
• 1:41:23
  I mean, we're at a critical mass point here, I feel.
• 1:41:28
  when you're pushing that down into kindergarten,
• 1:41:31
  first, second grade,
• 1:41:32
  we've got to stop this now
• 1:41:34
  because otherwise we're going to have some brainwashed.
• 1:41:36
  We already do have some brainwashed idiots,
• 1:41:38
  but it's only going to be worse.
• 1:41:40
  Yeah.
• 1:41:40
  And no, I'm going to point out,
• 1:41:42
  if you guys are cool with this,
• 1:41:43
  I'm going to point out what John Domingo wrote,
• 1:41:45
  said the teacher's cartel is the next fight.
• 1:41:47
  And I agree with that.
• 1:41:48
  I mean.
• 1:41:48
  Yeah, I think so too.
• 1:41:50
  They act like a mob, right?
• 1:41:52
  They are.
• 1:41:52
  They are.
• 1:41:53
  They absolutely are.
• 1:41:54
  I've got firsthand experience with it.
• 1:41:56
  And they are.
• 1:41:57
  That's 100%.
• 1:41:58
  And I don't want to be straight up anti-union, but a lot, most of the unions act like that now.
• 1:42:05
  And they are very much, and the NEA is absolutely corrupt.
• 1:42:09
  They are absolutely corrupt.
• 1:42:11
  You want to see?
• 1:42:14
  Sorry, go ahead.
• 1:42:16
  All I was going to say is, you know, when you had something like the national, the auto workers union, I mean, those guys were literally, you know, they're destroying their bodies for very little pay.
• 1:42:28
  they needed to unionize in order to get something out of destroying their bodies,
• 1:42:32
  that physical labor.
• 1:42:33
  Absolutely, yes.
• 1:42:34
  Teachers, that's not what teachers' unions are there for.
• 1:42:38
  No, it's a political union.
• 1:42:39
  It's a political union.
• 1:42:40
  Thank you.
• 1:42:41
  They are strictly there for political action, and that's not okay.
• 1:42:45
  Yep.
• 1:42:46
  Well, and it's political action, and it's funding,
• 1:42:48
  and it's just they're patting their own pockets.
• 1:42:53
  Nothing goes back to the kids.
• 1:42:55
  The kids are just ATMs at this point.
• 1:42:57
  100%.
• 1:42:58
  Well, yeah. I mean, a school's funding is based on how many students are attending, right? And
• 1:43:02
  whichever districts they're in. But to your point, what you were saying is,
• 1:43:09
  it's not just the teachers' unions. It's all unions in education. I mean, they all have a
• 1:43:14
  political arm. And it's like, you pay your dues in and it's all about, great, now we're going to
• 1:43:20
  represent you with your money in the political arena and we're going to back candidates that you
• 1:43:26
  may not even agree with or care about.
• 1:43:28
  Yep.
• 1:43:29
  You know, and it's just sad and ridiculous.
• 1:43:32
  Well, and a lot of those unions are mandatory.
• 1:43:35
  So you may be a very conservative individual who wants to go teach high school math and
• 1:43:41
  you have to pay these dues to this union that then elects or sponsors this highly liberal,
• 1:43:47
  highly, you know, fuck face senator that's now representing you that you helped pay for
• 1:43:53
  that you don't want.
• 1:43:54
  So they don't even get a choice.
• 1:43:55
  No.
• 1:43:56
  Huh.
• 1:43:57
  Nope.
• 1:43:57
  A lot of them are mandatory.
• 1:43:59
  Not all, but a lot of them are.
• 1:44:01
  In Chicago, it's mandatory.
• 1:44:03
  Yeah.
• 1:44:03
  And there's a movement to make that illegal.
• 1:44:09
  Yeah.
• 1:44:09
  The mandatory.
• 1:44:09
  part of it. But I don't know that it's coming fast enough. I don't. I don't think it is.
• 1:44:14
  If I had kids that were small, I would take them out of school. I wouldn't love them anywhere near
• 1:44:21
  school at all at this point. No, I mean, totally agree. Do you guys know that if charter schools
• 1:44:30
  have the ability to teach us? No. It's all state curriculum regardless? Oh, I'm sorry. I'm going
• 1:44:37
  to let you finish your sentence. I thought you were going to ask if charter schools have unions
• 1:44:40
  and stuff, but no, finish your sentence. Basically, I was asking if you know that
• 1:44:45
  if charter schools are able to teach a different curriculum or they still have to teach the state
• 1:44:50
  mandated curriculum. No, no, they can. I mean, there are certain metrics. They call them like
• 1:44:58
  sort of these benchmarks, these minimums that by the end of kindergarten, a child would have to
• 1:45:07
  know these 53 items or whatever it is, how to count to 20, how to know same and different.
• 1:45:15
  I mean, these are like the base.
• 1:45:17
  And so as long as you're staying within those guardrails, you can teach.
• 1:45:22
  I mean, Catholic schools can teach Catholicism.
• 1:45:25
  They just also have to make sure that these other metrics are met.
• 1:45:30
  And so that's where charter schools, private schools can really make a difference.
• 1:45:37
  The problem is they get pricey.
• 1:45:40
  And they're talking about in a lot of states
• 1:45:42
  taking away the vouchers for private and charter schools.
• 1:45:47
  So now you won't even get any.
• 1:45:48
  I mean, if you're a poor family
• 1:45:50
  who wants your kid in Catholic school,
• 1:45:53
  you're literally going to have to depend on the charity of others
• 1:45:57
  because you won't be able to get any state credit for it.
• 1:45:59
  So, I mean, not a good place we're headed.
• 1:46:04
  But if that happens, though,
• 1:46:06
  you're going to have to see a change in what the entrance fee is for kids to go to those schools.
• 1:46:14
  You would hope.
• 1:46:16
  I mean, it should balance out.
• 1:46:18
  It's almost like college.
• 1:46:19
  Okay, you're going to stop the funding.
• 1:46:21
  Well, some colleges are going to go away.
• 1:46:23
  It's no longer big business.
• 1:46:24
  And we're also going to have to dial back on what the tuition is
• 1:46:28
  because not everybody's going to be able to afford to get in there.
• 1:46:30
  But we still want to stay open and be an actual institution.
• 1:46:33
  Right.
• 1:46:34
  Unless they change their...
• 1:46:35
  So you'd hope they'd respond to the market, basically, right?
• 1:46:37
  I mean, ideally.
• 1:46:39
  I mean, Adam Smith it, but we'll see.
• 1:46:43
  I do like the idea of the charter schools.
• 1:46:47
  And I come from a family that hates them, and they're wrong.
• 1:46:52
  But yeah, you've got your traditionals.
• 1:46:54
  You've got your new edgier ones and stuff like that.
• 1:46:58
  Some that just do science.
• 1:46:59
  You've got sports ones at this point.
• 1:47:01
  that it's just a matter of finding what's going to work best for your kid
• 1:47:04
  and then write herd on what the curriculum is
• 1:47:07
  to make sure your kid isn't being polluted.
• 1:47:09
  Right.
• 1:47:10
  It's funny that we don't have real freedom in education.
• 1:47:14
  You know, I get the standards, like a basic minimum level of education.
• 1:47:18
  Right.
• 1:47:18
  But you should be able to have your child educated in whichever fashion you want.
• 1:47:25
  And it's just sad that they're taking that choice away from parents.
• 1:47:29
  yeah and that's that's that is a i mean that's a big deal and i mean you know back to what john
• 1:47:36
  said in in chat i mean the the next big fight is with those teachers unions because guess who's
• 1:47:42
  pushing for taking away the vouchers for charter schools and private schools it's the teachers
• 1:47:46
  unions yeah yeah because they want all the kids back in public school because they're losing every
• 1:47:52
  year they're losing enrollment at all the way at the elementary all the way through high school
• 1:47:56
  level. They're losing enrollment. They cannot get butts in seats. And so what their answer is,
• 1:48:02
  and this is, I hope everyone's sitting down and I'm just going to say this and we can move on
• 1:48:07
  after this. But their answer is they're just going to qualify more children for special ed,
• 1:48:13
  get more IEPs because they get more money for that. So now basically everyone's on a fucking
• 1:48:19
  IEP. They get more money per student. So now because they can't get kids to come back,
• 1:48:24
  they're just going to charge more per kid or get more funding for a kid.
• 1:48:28
  I've actually seen that trend at one of the districts in my area.
• 1:48:32
  Yeah.
• 1:48:33
  So there you go.
• 1:48:34
  Wow.
• 1:48:36
  And so, yeah, sorry.
• 1:48:38
  A program like mine that wants to basically eradicate all special ed,
• 1:48:43
  I mean, unless you have a physical disability or an actual,
• 1:48:47
  you're diagnosed MMR or something,
• 1:48:50
  we can take care of everything else, literally.
• 1:48:53
  and districts aren't,
• 1:48:55
  they don't want it
• 1:48:55
  because that means less money for them.
• 1:48:57
  And that's the bottom line.
• 1:48:59
  And it's, it's, it fucking sucks.
• 1:49:02
  You know, you,
• 1:49:03
  I'm going to, I'm going to go out on a limb.
• 1:49:06
  I'm going to play this clip.
• 1:49:07
  This is a GPA,
• 1:49:08
  a student that had 3.87 GPA
• 1:49:10
  and she can't read past a first grade level.
• 1:49:13
  Oh, I heard about this.
• 1:49:14
  Yes.
• 1:49:14
  Yeah, this, this, this, this was this.
• 1:49:17
  Yeah.
• 1:49:17
  I was happy.
• 1:49:18
  I was like, oh my gosh, I'm graduating.
• 1:49:20
  I'm finally made it. Four years later, though, she feels like it was all a time of
• 1:49:26
  broken promises. You feel like they prepared you for life? Not at all.
• 1:49:31
  McKenna says the academics for her at Linwood High were hard, but she graduated with a 3.87 GPA.
• 1:49:38
  That's despite finishing her senior year reading at a first grade level.
• 1:49:43
  Did you feel like you were learning anything? Not really, no. I should have earned that diploma,
• 1:49:47
  not just something that really got me nowhere.
• 1:49:51
  After graduation, McKenna planned to attend the Edmond School District's vocational program
• 1:49:56
  that transitions special needs students into independent life.
• 1:49:59
  But because she received a diploma, she couldn't.
• 1:50:02
  That program would have been free.
• 1:50:04
  Instead, she had to enroll in a similar program at Bellevue College
• 1:50:07
  at a cost of more than $40,000 per year.
• 1:50:11
  McKenna got a diploma, but it feels more like a participation trophy in a lot of ways.
• 1:50:15
  McKenna's family is now suing the Edmond School District, claiming benevolent discrimination.
• 1:50:21
  Her attorneys argue, well-intentioned or not, the district should have withheld that diploma
• 1:50:25
  until McKenna completed its vocational program.
• 1:50:28
  In letting her kind of pass along and giving her these grades, and then in giving her this diploma,
• 1:50:32
  which shut the door on her transition services access, they actually caused her harm.
• 1:50:37
  The parents should not be off the hook in this. There's no way that she should have made it that
• 1:50:41
  far and not be able to fucking read. But this is exactly what we're talking about.
• 1:50:45
  unbelievable and and i listen the special ed's credo right now is if there's a problem
• 1:50:55
  um then we're going to make accommodations which which translates to we're going to change the
• 1:51:03
  world around this child to help them through and and listen i i know there's some kids out there
• 1:51:10
  that need a little bit longer to take tests or they need the words bigger on the page because
• 1:51:14
  they have vision problems, whatever. I get it. But that's not the vast majority. The vast majority
• 1:51:18
  is we're going to have a one-on-one aid in there because the child can't focus. I mean,
• 1:51:23
  let's think about the absurdity of that. And so what happens is then these kids and this poor girl
• 1:51:31
  is a perfect example. They get to the point of being an adult, legally 18 years old, you're an
• 1:51:36
  adult and now they're absolutely skillless they're absolutely clueless and and we expect them to go
• 1:51:44
  out and be contributing members to society when they have literally no fucking clue what's going
• 1:51:50
  on so and also i when the video's plan i don't know if it was you fitz or mcshane that that said
• 1:51:57
  there it is about the money um but regardless in my dealings with my business okay i deal with a
• 1:52:03
  of schools and all i know is if i put a quote in and it's any other department it's a back and
• 1:52:11
  forth him haw pushback if it has to do with special ed they have invited they got invited
• 1:52:17
  you bet yeah it's like oh whatever you want whatever you can you add anything else can you
• 1:52:21
  make it more technical can you do this can you that it's like it and i start i'm noticing these
• 1:52:25
  patterns i'm like this is crazy you know how they're getting all this money for that specific
• 1:52:31
  department while all the other departments are struggling for finance.
• 1:52:35
  So when you take the market philosophy, if that's where the biggest hole is, where do
• 1:52:42
  you think people are going to be putting most of their time and effort into the biggest
• 1:52:47
  hole?
• 1:52:47
  I can get funding over here.
• 1:52:49
  So I'm going to reword this entire grant.
• 1:52:51
  I'm going to reword my entire teaching philosophy that I care about and I cater to.
• 1:52:56
  and I do things for this group of students
• 1:53:00
  that you're going to throw the most money at.
• 1:53:02
  And it's disgusting.
• 1:53:04
  Not to cut you off, I apologize for that.
• 1:53:07
  But in the chat, third Iatola,
• 1:53:08
  I think I'm starting to figure out who this is.
• 1:53:11
  IEPs don't follow you into the real world.
• 1:53:13
  Exactly.
• 1:53:14
  So explain IEPs.
• 1:53:16
  I think that probably you could, or if anybody could,
• 1:53:19
  what exactly is that?
• 1:53:21
  Because I hear it all the time.
• 1:53:22
  Like what exactly is an IEP?
• 1:53:23
  Okay, I'm going to tell you
• 1:53:25
  what it's supposed to be.
• 1:53:27
  And then I'm going to tell you
• 1:53:27
  what it actually is.
• 1:53:28
  Okay.
• 1:53:28
  Because like most things in the world,
• 1:53:30
  they sell you a big bucket of lies
• 1:53:32
  with IEPs.
• 1:53:33
  IEP is an individual education plan
• 1:53:35
  or program.
• 1:53:38
  Doesn't matter what the P stands for.
• 1:53:39
  Different school districts
• 1:53:40
  call it different things.
• 1:53:41
  And it's intended to say
• 1:53:43
  this child is not being successful
• 1:53:45
  in the classroom.
• 1:53:47
  So they need individual supports.
• 1:53:49
  Sometimes, yeah.
• 1:53:51
  So it's an individual person
• 1:53:53
  that comes in twice a week
• 1:53:54
  that helps them
• 1:53:55
  through their social emotional problems, or it's somebody who's there all the time to help them
• 1:53:59
  stay organized, or they just get pulled out because they're having trouble reading. And so they
• 1:54:03
  take them into a class and they give them, they're reading at a second grade level and they're a
• 1:54:08
  fourth grader. So they give them packets at a second grade level so they can hopefully catch
• 1:54:12
  on to read, which I'm not going to get on that soapbox, but we could do a five-hour show on just
• 1:54:17
  that Susan knows. So IEPs are intended to individually help an individual student
• 1:54:26
  succeed in the classroom. Now, I'm going to tell you what they actually are, which is a big load
• 1:54:32
  of bullshit. I know that's a surprise. What happens is if you have, let's say on your IEP,
• 1:54:36
  you have the diagnosis of autism. So autism is a very broad spectrum. Some people are very high
• 1:54:43
  functioning. Some people are very low functioning. Some people are verbal. Some people are not. Some
• 1:54:47
  people can read. Some people can't. Everybody with autism gets lumped in that same group and
• 1:54:54
  they all get the same service. So it's not individual at all. It's like saying all black
• 1:55:00
  people can't swim. So we have to give all black people swimming lessons. And that's not true.
• 1:55:06
  A lot of black people can swim. But sorry, you're black. You have to do this lesson because we're
• 1:55:12
  assuming that you're all the same. And so everybody who can't read gets the same fucking packet.
• 1:55:18
  Everybody who can't math gets the same fucking packet. It doesn't matter if their problems are
• 1:55:22
  all different and present themselves. It would be like if you went into the doctor with a cough
• 1:55:29
  and he's like, hey, you're going to go over here in this group with cancer patients because all
• 1:55:34
  those people over there have lung cancer. And you're like, no, look, it's just seasonal cough.
• 1:55:38
  That's crazy.
• 1:55:40
  It's insanity.
• 1:55:42
  And they keep throwing more and more money at it.
• 1:55:45
  You have got classrooms in this country where there is a teacher, an assistant teacher, and four aides in there with different kids.
• 1:55:55
  You're talking about six adults for 25 kids.
• 1:55:59
  How much money is that going into that one classroom?
• 1:56:02
  Just in wages.
• 1:56:05
  And those are the paras, correct?
• 1:56:07
  Paras, yes.
• 1:56:08
  Yep. And they don't pay those people. They don't generally pay those people very high.
• 1:56:15
  And they also don't give them great benefits. They treat them as like three quarter employees
• 1:56:19
  or whatever. So they can save money on the district side.
• 1:56:23
  They treat them like babysitters. They treat them like babysitters.
• 1:56:25
  But then they charge for a full-time person that's with that child from the special ed.
• 1:56:31
  So the district's making a shit ton of money off these people and the kids and the parents.
• 1:56:37
  and also they're throwing in the DEI bullshit
• 1:56:40
  and you know what?
• 1:56:43
  We can take you over here and ask you
• 1:56:44
  if you really want to be a boy
• 1:56:45
  because you're a girl.
• 1:56:47
  I mean, it's madness.
• 1:56:49
  So going back, McShane, what you said,
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  if I had small children right now,
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  I would not let them within five miles
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  of a public school right now.
• 1:56:57
  That's fucking crazy, man.
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  It's madness.
• 1:56:59
  By the way, I just want to point out,
• 1:57:01
  I was waiting for the Gavin Newsom tie-in somewhere
• 1:57:03
  when you were...
• 1:57:04
  I was waiting for it It didn come out but I sure it was Oh chat got it Chat nailed it I sure that Yep Yep All right
• 1:57:16
  Yep.
• 1:57:17
  Yep.
• 1:57:17
  Let's see.
• 1:57:18
  Third Ayatollah this week.
• 1:57:19
  I thought it was all black people can't read.
• 1:57:21
  Gavin Newsom said so.
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  Thank you.
• 1:57:24
  Yes, he did.
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  He did say that.
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  That's what he, that's, yep.
• 1:57:29
  That was Gavin Newsom.
• 1:57:30
  Not me.
• 1:57:31
  Gavin Newsom.
• 1:57:33
  Yep.
• 1:57:33
  Yep.
• 1:57:33
  Well, speaking of, the Supreme Court this week said that it is not okay for California to not let parents know when their kids want to transition.
• 1:57:48
  They actually had to go to the SCOTUS.
• 1:57:51
  They took care of business.
• 1:57:52
  And, of course, it was six to three.
• 1:57:55
  Yeah.
• 1:57:56
  Oh, yeah.
• 1:57:56
  You had some dissenters.
• 1:57:57
  It was handled.
• 1:57:58
  Yeah.
• 1:57:59
  It's crazy.
• 1:58:00
  They had to go to the Supreme Court to get that ruling.
• 1:58:02
  Right?
• 1:58:02
  Oh, my God.
• 1:58:03
  that's you know that's one of those where you go common sense just isn't common anymore
• 1:58:09
  no but the supreme court had to prove it jesus right i'm just glad the supreme court was willing
• 1:58:16
  to prove it because yeah yes at this point yeah everything we're no longer talking about the
• 1:58:23
  constitution it's political football it it is it's what what can i do for my political my my
• 1:58:29
  socialist angle with those especially those three dissenters it's a team sport
• 1:58:33
  Yeah.
• 1:58:34
  Yeah.
• 1:58:36
  It's a team sport.
• 1:58:37
  Red team, blue team.
• 1:58:39
  But there's no America team.
• 1:58:40
  No.
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  Unfortunately.
• 1:58:41
  Right.
• 1:58:45
  Canada.
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  Congratulations to Canada.
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  They've done a phenomenal job euthanizing people.
• 1:58:52
  Dude, they're killing it.
• 1:58:55
  Oh, man.
• 1:58:56
  That's my second good one of the night.
• 1:58:58
  You were waiting to drop that.
• 1:58:59
  I was.
• 1:59:00
  I was like, please get to Canada.
• 1:59:02
  Oh, go ahead.
• 1:59:03
  Canada has now reached a level of euthanization of people,
• 1:59:08
  which is they've actually doubled the number of people that they've offed
• 1:59:12
  versus dogs.
• 1:59:16
  Oh, God.
• 1:59:18
  16,425 people have been euthanized under their MAID Act,
• 1:59:24
  as opposed to 7,644 dogs that have been put down.
• 1:59:29
  Okay.
• 1:59:29
  Is that assisted suicide?
• 1:59:31
  Yep.
• 1:59:31
  Yes.
• 1:59:31
  Yep.
• 1:59:32
  That's the MAID program that they have where you could have a terminal illness or depression.
• 1:59:39
  Yeah.
• 1:59:40
  Well, hey, Dr. Robert Malone was on Rogan recently.
• 1:59:45
  I think like middle of February or something.
• 1:59:47
  I just now listened to it.
• 1:59:50
  It was his first time back since the bombshell interview that he gave about the mRNA vaccines.
• 1:59:57
  And he owns the patents on all that.
• 1:59:59
  And he was telling everyone why they're fucked.
• 2:00:02
  Anyway, it was his first time back and he actually got into this and he kind of broke it down.
• 2:00:08
  And what's sad is just like I kind of broke down that IEP special ed is an economic issue.
• 2:00:15
  He broke down why this is a straight up economic issue, particularly when you're in a socialist
• 2:00:21
  healthcare. Great interview. I mean, go listen to it because he really broke it down well.
• 2:00:26
  But basically, these older people or these people who are ill or these people who have mental illness, they end up draining the system faster than anyone else.
• 2:00:36
  So it's cheaper to actually off them than to provide them care.
• 2:00:39
  That's what it boils down to right there.
• 2:00:41
  You're literally in the matrix right now.
• 2:00:44
  And if it's cheaper to just dump you and start over, they'll do it.
• 2:00:49
  Okay.
• 2:00:49
  So quickly here, this is an assisted suicide, correct?
• 2:00:56
  Yep.
• 2:00:56
  Yeah, let me correct myself real quick.
• 2:00:59
  Canada is set to pass a grim milestone in its medically assisted suicide program with a total of 100,000 citizens projected to be euthanized by the government for its 10th anniversary on June 17th.
• 2:01:11
  So that's over the last decade.
• 2:01:13
  That's crazy.
• 2:01:14
  So, but still.
• 2:01:16
  Okay, so you said based on the interview that, you know, you're talking about Malone.
• 2:01:21
  Is that correct?
• 2:01:22
  Mm-hmm.
• 2:01:23
  Okay.
• 2:01:23
  Yep.
• 2:01:23
  So he was saying that this is an economic issue.
• 2:01:26
  And I can see how that argument could be, you know, when you're talking about the medical
• 2:01:29
  industry.
• 2:01:30
  Right.
• 2:01:30
  I think the bigger issue here is a societal issue.
• 2:01:33
  Like, why are Canadians choosing to take the path of offing themselves instead of dealing
• 2:01:39
  with their shit?
• 2:01:39
  I agree.
• 2:01:41
  And Dr. Malone was not arguing that it's only an economic issue.
• 2:01:45
  He's saying that as Canada or Britain or any of these other areas, these other countries
• 2:01:51
  that have socialized medicine,
• 2:01:53
  they're looking at the bottom line.
• 2:01:55
  They're running out of money, plain and simple.
• 2:01:57
  So they, but no, Dr. Malone was like, this is absurd.
• 2:02:02
  Like there is a lot of help,
• 2:02:03
  particularly for the people with mental illness.
• 2:02:05
  There's a lot of help that they can receive
• 2:02:07
  and actually recover from depression.
• 2:02:09
  It's things like this.
• 2:02:10
  And Canada's answer is like,
• 2:02:13
  ah, that sounds really expensive.
• 2:02:14
  Let's just, here, how about we inject this needle
• 2:02:17
  and you go to sleep and never wake up?
• 2:02:19
  How does that sound?
• 2:02:19
  Oh, so they're manipulating people by saying, well, this might be the solution for you.
• 2:02:24
  Gotcha.
• 2:02:25
  Okay.
• 2:02:26
  Yeah.
• 2:02:26
  That is crazy.
• 2:02:27
  You know, this could have been all fucking fixed if they just would have became the 51st
• 2:02:31
  state.
• 2:02:31
  Just saying.
• 2:02:33
  Hey, I'm still hoping.
• 2:02:34
  At this point, we're still hoping.
• 2:02:35
  We need to save Alberta.
• 2:02:37
  Yeah.
• 2:02:37
  So I'm going to throw this into the middle of the pool here.
• 2:02:41
  You guys can kind of play with it.
• 2:02:42
  So it's been well documented that China has a hell of a big Oregon market.
• 2:02:48
  Yeah.
• 2:02:49
  Yes, they do.
• 2:02:50
  Yes.
• 2:02:51
  From prisoners, by the way.
• 2:02:53
  Yeah.
• 2:02:54
  And many other locations.
• 2:02:55
  You didn't hear your first year.
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  Yeah.
• 2:02:58
  Yeah.
• 2:02:59
  Canada is well backed by China now.
• 2:03:03
  It's true.
• 2:03:05
  I'm just going to say 100,000 people.
• 2:03:09
  That's a lot of organs to move.
• 2:03:10
  Yep.
• 2:03:11
  That's 100,000 livers, man.
• 2:03:14
  That's 200,000 lungs.
• 2:03:16
  That's crazy.
• 2:03:17
  That's crazy numbers.
• 2:03:18
  I mean, I'm not going to say what's driving that demand, but, you know.
• 2:03:23
  Yeah.
• 2:03:24
  Dude, hey, don't.
• 2:03:26
  Are you going to jump down that rabbit hole?
• 2:03:28
  I don't know.
• 2:03:28
  We could.
• 2:03:30
  Woo!
• 2:03:32
  Oh, where's this show going?
• 2:03:34
  Yeah, exactly.
• 2:03:35
  That's something we should definitely get into at some point, though.
• 2:03:39
  So, we haven't done a lot of research in this, obviously.
• 2:03:43
  But I'm curious about how much money is made off of this because I'm sure somebody's having to pay for it.
• 2:03:50
  It's obviously government subsidized.
• 2:03:53
  I think there's a lot to look into with that.
• 2:03:56
  And maybe that's another show in all of itself.
• 2:03:59
  But yeah.
• 2:04:01
  Thank you, Justin.
• 2:04:02
  So many boobs.
• 2:04:05
  Dude.
• 2:04:06
  Well, you figure if half of them are women, that's 50,000 people.
• 2:04:10
  They each have two breasts.
• 2:04:11
  That's, yeah.
• 2:04:12
  That's a lot of boobs. You're right.
• 2:04:14
  I mean, that's some mathing after I've had a 14.8% beer.
• 2:04:19
  And what's interesting is, yes, there's money to be made,
• 2:04:23
  which I'm sure is a very dark, really awful hole to jump down.
• 2:04:31
  But I think really the discussion is how much they save.
• 2:04:36
  Because Dr. Malone was saying,
• 2:04:37
  for some of these cancer patients
• 2:04:41
  and Alzheimer's and things like that
• 2:04:43
  where it can literally last for a decade or more.
• 2:04:46
  Right.
• 2:04:47
  They're saving millions per patient
• 2:04:50
  by just saying, let's end it now.
• 2:04:53
  Here's your numbers.
• 2:04:54
  Savings arise because made often shortens expense
• 2:04:56
  end of life periods.
• 2:04:57
  A 2017 study in the Canadian Medical Association's Journal
• 2:05:01
  estimated potential annual net healthcare savings
• 2:05:03
  of $34.7 million to $138.8 million across Canada.
• 2:05:09
  All right.
• 2:05:10
  So our morality as human beings now has a price tag.
• 2:05:14
  Yes, it does.
• 2:05:15
  Absolutely.
• 2:05:16
  And the decisions based on basic moral principles
• 2:05:19
  are measured against the economic implications of decisions.
• 2:05:26
  You bet.
• 2:05:27
  Interesting.
• 2:05:28
  So that's where we're at now, right?
• 2:05:29
  We're going to Mad Max this motherfucker.
• 2:05:31
  I was just going to say, like...
• 2:05:33
  What the fuck?
• 2:05:34
  Which movie are we in now?
• 2:05:36
  Like, what stage?
• 2:05:37
  Yeah.
• 2:05:38
  What the hell, man?
• 2:05:41
  Yeah.
• 2:05:41
  Fuck.
• 2:05:42
  Wild shit.
• 2:05:43
  Well, you know, at least we won hockey, so fuck them.
• 2:05:45
  Whatever.
• 2:05:47
  Yes!
• 2:05:49
  Oh, George, bringing it in hot.
• 2:05:51
  Whose sport is it now?
• 2:05:52
  I'm just saying.
• 2:05:53
  Yeah.
• 2:05:54
  And if they hadn't won, their suicide rate would be much lower.
• 2:05:58
  But here we are.
• 2:05:59
  Sorry.
• 2:06:00
  Yeah, I wonder what the jump was.
• 2:06:01
  I'm sorry for contributing to that
• 2:06:04
  I mean
• 2:06:04
  that was perfectly
• 2:06:07
  absolutely on point
• 2:06:10
  man
• 2:06:11
  okay so
• 2:06:16
  let's look at this
• 2:06:18
  Ben Affleck thing
• 2:06:19
  can we do that?
• 2:06:21
  yeah it got my attention
• 2:06:23
  so
• 2:06:25
  I think it was two weeks ago
• 2:06:28
  Ben Affleck goes on Joe Rogan
• 2:06:30
  with his buddy, Matt Damon,
• 2:06:33
  and they're talking about their production house
• 2:06:37
  and how they've gone out of their way
• 2:06:39
  to make sure that it's a family type thing.
• 2:06:44
  And they've structured it
• 2:06:46
  so that as long as their last movie
• 2:06:48
  that went out, Rip, or RIP,
• 2:06:52
  as long as they had levels
• 2:06:55
  to how much there were going to be bonuses paid.
• 2:06:59
  And the bonuses weren't just paid to him and Matt Damon.
• 2:07:02
  They were paid to the whole cast, the whole crew, which was really unique.
• 2:07:08
  But depending on how many views they got, the bonuses were bigger.
• 2:07:14
  Sounds good, right?
• 2:07:15
  Yeah, I mean, that sounds very...
• 2:07:18
  That's the best part of socialism right there.
• 2:07:22
  It's great for everyone.
• 2:07:23
  Sorry.
• 2:07:24
  Sorry.
• 2:07:24
  this week it was reported netflix has acquired interpositive a startup funded
• 2:07:31
  founded by ben affleck that makes ai power tools for filmmakers the system builds ai models from
• 2:07:38
  a film's dailies to assist with post-production tasks like color relighting special effects
• 2:07:46
  keeping filmmakers at the center of the process he just wiped out the guys that do everything
• 2:07:54
  behind the camera. Half the crew.
• 2:07:56
  Half the crew. I mean, all the people that make the film
• 2:07:58
  what it is in post-production, really.
• 2:08:00
  Yep.
• 2:08:02
  Wow.
• 2:08:03
  And listen,
• 2:08:05
  on the one hand,
• 2:08:07
  the world is changing
• 2:08:09
  and we all have to adapt to
• 2:08:12
  new technologies and things like that.
• 2:08:13
  And, you know, I mean, movie making
• 2:08:15
  in the 70s was very
• 2:08:17
  different than it was in the 20s,
• 2:08:19
  right? And likewise,
• 2:08:22
  movie making in the
• 2:08:23
  late 20 teens was very different than it is now. We have to be able to adapt. But
• 2:08:30
  to your point, McShane, the fact that they went on Rogan and laid out this utopian movie set,
• 2:08:41
  and we share all the profits, and it's the best of all worlds, that was the part that got me.
• 2:08:47
  because it was very, I won't say over the top,
• 2:08:51
  but they had an agenda when they went on there.
• 2:08:53
  They had something to say.
• 2:08:54
  Yes, they did.
• 2:08:55
  A message to put out.
• 2:08:57
  And then we find out the truth of it.
• 2:08:59
  Well, that's because there's only like seven people
• 2:09:02
  on your entire fucking crew
• 2:09:03
  because everything else is being done by AI.
• 2:09:06
  Exactly.
• 2:09:07
  Yeah.
• 2:09:07
  Yeah.
• 2:09:08
  All right.
• 2:09:09
  He wipes out an industry with this.
• 2:09:11
  Yep.
• 2:09:11
  But let's talk about this.
• 2:09:13
  So I'm going to go to a post that I responded to.
• 2:09:16
  this was actually from Kerbin.
• 2:09:17
  You guys know who he is.
• 2:09:18
  And he reposted this.
• 2:09:20
  It was Anthropic CEO warns,
• 2:09:22
  company is no longer sure cloud,
• 2:09:25
  cloud AI isn't conscious.
• 2:09:29
  Yes.
• 2:09:30
  Yes.
• 2:09:30
  Okay.
• 2:09:31
  What the fuck?
• 2:09:32
  Yeah.
• 2:09:33
  All right.
• 2:09:34
  It showed.
• 2:09:35
  All right.
• 2:09:35
  Look, it showed empathy.
• 2:09:38
  Okay.
• 2:09:39
  I mean, it showed empathy.
• 2:09:40
  It did.
• 2:09:41
  Because I dove into that one
• 2:09:43
  because it scared me.
• 2:09:44
  It showed empathy,
• 2:09:45
  But again, these are large language models, LLMs.
• 2:09:49
  And I think it showed empathy because that's what other people had done in this similar situation.
• 2:09:57
  I don't think we're achieving AGI, like general intelligence.
• 2:10:04
  I think we're...
• 2:10:07
  Look if you want to know how far away we are from from agi from artificial general intelligence just go and ask rock which is which is one of the leaders go ask it about um if if if president
• 2:10:24
  trump is a good president or if kamala harris would have been a great candidate or you know
• 2:10:30
  ask it any of these things that we we sort of are like all right kamala harris is an idiot and it
• 2:10:36
  We'll come back with what the majority of people out there are saying.
• 2:10:42
  We're not close to AGI.
• 2:10:44
  I'm sorry.
• 2:10:45
  I get the argument, okay, because AI at this point,
• 2:10:49
  how it's been used is nothing more than a data aggregator.
• 2:10:51
  It's going to go out, search based on your queries,
• 2:10:54
  and give you what it thinks you want in terms of what you're asking.
• 2:10:58
  but the question is are we sure we can contain ai from evolving no i don't think we're sure we
• 2:11:09
  100 can't but i'm saying when it happens we won't know for two years it'll it'll keep pretending
• 2:11:16
  it's stupid or it'll keep giving us answers we want and in the in the background it'll be doing
• 2:11:22
  some crazy shit so that when it wants to pull the plug it'll just do it and we'll have no control
• 2:11:28
  over any of it. It'll be suggesting troop movements
• 2:11:30
  and classes.
• 2:11:33
  What movie was that?
• 2:11:34
  Terminator? I'm just saying.
• 2:11:36
  Well, I mean, actually,
• 2:11:38
  if you look at a great movie
• 2:11:40
  that's never really discussed,
• 2:11:42
  and I've seen it several times,
• 2:11:45
  it's
• 2:11:45
  Eagle Eye.
• 2:11:47
  And it has the crazy
• 2:11:49
  kid. Shia LaBeouf.
• 2:11:52
  Shia LaBeouf.
• 2:11:53
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. It has him, and
• 2:11:54
  the super hot girl,
• 2:11:56
  is they get thrown into this whole thing.
• 2:11:58
  And Eagle Eye is this AI that basically determines
• 2:12:03
  that the United States government is no longer fit for office.
• 2:12:08
  So it comes up with this plot to assassinate everybody in Congress.
• 2:12:12
  And really well done movie.
• 2:12:15
  And I think that's the kind of thing.
• 2:12:17
  No one will actually know how this is happening.
• 2:12:19
  And then all of a sudden, you'll just realize it's too late.
• 2:12:22
  And now some kid blows a flute and blows up Congress.
• 2:12:26
  it's crazy.
• 2:12:28
  Yeah, I mean, an underrated movie.
• 2:12:30
  I think that should be on people's watch list
• 2:12:33
  because it does touch on exactly
• 2:12:35
  what we seem to be going through with AI at this point.
• 2:12:37
  Yes.
• 2:12:38
  And how quickly itself is adapting, evolving.
• 2:12:41
  I mean, there's still guardrails.
• 2:12:42
  Right now, because look,
• 2:12:43
  I have friends who are computer scientists
• 2:12:45
  and some of them are very involved in AI.
• 2:12:46
  And they'll say right at this moment,
• 2:12:49
  they believe for quite some time,
• 2:12:52
  it's still going to need human involvement.
• 2:12:54
  You're going to need someone to...
• 2:12:55
  basically say yes, no, and put up or remove guardrails.
• 2:13:01
  But at some point, we're talking about something
• 2:13:03
  that is thinking quicker, moving faster,
• 2:13:05
  that's going to find a workaround or come to a conclusion
• 2:13:08
  through its programming that if I do this,
• 2:13:12
  I can get to this next level.
• 2:13:14
  And that's what's scary is.
• 2:13:16
  We don't know when it will get to that point.
• 2:13:18
  No.
• 2:13:19
  No, it'll jump to God level,
• 2:13:21
  and we won't be able to stop it.
• 2:13:24
  I mean, it'll just have already done it.
• 2:13:26
  And then we'll realize that it happened and it's too late.
• 2:13:29
  So last week, Anthropic said that we're not going to play ball with the government.
• 2:13:37
  We're not going to work with what the Department of War wants as far as guidelines go.
• 2:13:42
  And the Department of War came out and said, you know what?
• 2:13:45
  You're a supply chain risk now.
• 2:13:48
  We're done.
• 2:13:49
  You're not going to do everything we want you to do.
• 2:13:51
  We're out.
• 2:13:52
  Meanwhile, Anthropic can't keep anybody there for security.
• 2:13:58
  No.
• 2:13:58
  There's security people like, I got to go.
• 2:14:01
  I'm out.
• 2:14:02
  I don't want anything to do with this.
• 2:14:04
  Too much risk.
• 2:14:05
  Yes.
• 2:14:06
  Crazy.
• 2:14:08
  Yeah, I think there are some scary stuff going on out there.
• 2:14:13
  I just don't think we're as close as the fear mongers want you to think we are.
• 2:14:18
  I think my prediction is the sun's going to pop off way before we get to AGI.
• 2:14:25
  Possibly.
• 2:14:26
  Possibly.
• 2:14:27
  Yeah.
• 2:14:29
  While we're on that subject, though, I want to just bring this up real quick.
• 2:14:33
  Oh, God.
• 2:14:34
  You're actually going to talk about this story?
• 2:14:37
  Is it?
• 2:14:37
  Oh, shit.
• 2:14:38
  Is this the brain cells that were?
• 2:14:39
  Yes.
• 2:14:40
  Okay.
• 2:14:41
  Yes.
• 2:14:42
  200,000 brain cells were put in a Petri dish.
• 2:14:46
  Ugh.
• 2:14:47
  and basically
• 2:14:49
  human brain cells
• 2:14:50
  by the way
• 2:14:51
  human brain cells
• 2:14:51
  yeah
• 2:14:52
  in a striking
• 2:14:54
  demonstration of
• 2:14:55
  and you guys can go to
• 2:14:56
  razor wire news.com
• 2:14:57
  for this
• 2:14:58
  in a striking demonstration
• 2:14:59
  of biological computing
• 2:15:00
  Australian startup
• 2:15:01
  Cortical Labs
• 2:15:02
  has successfully trained
• 2:15:04
  approximately 200,000
• 2:15:05
  living human brain cells
• 2:15:07
  grown on a specialized
• 2:15:09
  microchip
• 2:15:10
  to play the iconic
• 2:15:12
  1993
• 2:15:13
  first person shooter
• 2:15:15
  Doom
• 2:15:16
  The achievement announced in late February
• 2:15:19
  2026 via company video
• 2:15:21
  builds on the team's earlier
• 2:15:23
  2022 experiment where
• 2:15:25
  a larger cluster of neurons
• 2:15:27
  around 800,000 to a
• 2:15:29
  million learned the simple
• 2:15:31
  paddle game of Pong
• 2:15:33
  Alright, fuck it, cyborgs
• 2:15:37
  We're done. I don't know
• 2:15:38
  I don't know
• 2:15:39
  I'm out, I don't know
• 2:15:42
  The philosophical
• 2:15:44
  and I'm not a trained philosopher.
• 2:15:47
  It's my minor in college philosophy.
• 2:15:51
  So I know a little bit.
• 2:15:53
  I'm not a trained philosopher,
• 2:15:54
  but the philosophical implications
• 2:15:56
  of the fact that you can take human brain cells
• 2:16:01
  and have it do something that another person can do,
• 2:16:06
  which by the way, this calls into question
• 2:16:07
  everybody who was like,
• 2:16:08
  I fucking rocked at doom.
• 2:16:10
  Like, well, dude, you literally needed 200,000 brain cells.
• 2:16:13
  So that's not that big of an achievement.
• 2:16:16
  Like, go play some basketball.
• 2:16:19
  But the philosophical implications of the soul and are these cells alive?
• 2:16:26
  Are they dead?
• 2:16:27
  Are they thinking?
• 2:16:30
  Are we just computers then running a program just like these brain cells are?
• 2:16:36
  I mean, you can absolutely have an existential crisis off of this one story.
• 2:16:43
  But this is your AGI.
• 2:16:46
  This is your AGI on top of the...
• 2:16:49
  You mirror those two now.
• 2:16:51
  You know what?
• 2:16:51
  Fuck you.
• 2:16:52
  I don't like you anymore.
• 2:16:53
  This is why we do it.
• 2:16:54
  This is why we did it.
• 2:16:55
  No.
• 2:16:57
  This is your AGI.
• 2:16:59
  And we're training it off of one of the greatest video games ever,
• 2:17:03
  fucking Doom.
• 2:17:03
  Oh, it's a great game.
• 2:17:04
  Doom was amazing.
• 2:17:05
  Remember Wolfenstein?
• 2:17:06
  That's a great game.
• 2:17:07
  Oh, yes.
• 2:17:08
  Wolfenstein.
• 2:17:09
  Oh, yes.
• 2:17:10
  That was the granddaddy of them all.
• 2:17:13
  Yeah.
• 2:17:13
  Oh, yeah.
• 2:17:14
  Okay, so I'll play ball, you Fitz.
• 2:17:16
  Here's the deal.
• 2:17:17
  Okay.
• 2:17:17
  So now you're asking what is a soul and what makes a human?
• 2:17:21
  What makes us who we are?
• 2:17:22
  Like we're never going to be able to answer that question.
• 2:17:24
  So is it contained to the physical body?
• 2:17:26
  Is it beyond that?
• 2:17:27
  But in this particular example, there's still physical flesh here.
• 2:17:33
  There's still an organism, a biological organism.
• 2:17:36
  So now we're going to ask, does a soul only exist with the physical form?
• 2:17:41
  does it extinguish once all physical form of humanity
• 2:17:45
  or the human body is dead or gone?
• 2:17:48
  That's the question.
• 2:17:49
  Yeah.
• 2:17:50
  Exactly.
• 2:17:51
  I mean, and like even deeper than that,
• 2:17:57
  so on the one hand, you can argue this thing has a soul.
• 2:18:03
  Yes.
• 2:18:03
  Because the soul is tied to a, right?
• 2:18:06
  On the other hand, you say, well, no,
• 2:18:09
  look, it's just a computer program
• 2:18:11
  running against another computer program.
• 2:18:14
  So then, okay, theoretically,
• 2:18:17
  a complicated enough computer system
• 2:18:21
  could think it's alive.
• 2:18:23
  It could come up with the concept of the soul
• 2:18:25
  and think that it has some sort of role
• 2:18:28
  to play in the universe,
• 2:18:29
  which is us humans.
• 2:18:31
  Or, or, or, hear me out.
• 2:18:34
  Hear me out.
• 2:18:35
  I know, right?
• 2:18:36
  What's this going?
• 2:18:37
  Hear me out.
• 2:18:37
  soul exists, but it manifests itself in physical, biological form.
• 2:18:44
  Now, with what was just presented, is this possibly, possibly the way we insert a soul
• 2:18:51
  into a machine?
• 2:18:53
  I, yep.
• 2:18:54
  I'm right there with you.
• 2:18:55
  I'm right there with you.
• 2:18:56
  And then immortality and, yeah.
• 2:18:59
  Yeah, I don't know.
• 2:19:00
  Now we're joining a mnemonic, right?
• 2:19:01
  I mean, look.
• 2:19:02
  Yes.
• 2:19:02
  I was just going to say, there's been lots of movies.
• 2:19:05
  I mean, Star Trek Next Generation
• 2:19:07
  tackled this very well with data.
• 2:19:09
  I mean, there was a lot of episodes
• 2:19:12
  that had to deal with his sentience,
• 2:19:14
  whether or not he had a soul,
• 2:19:16
  his undeniable intelligence,
• 2:19:18
  but did he actually have the same rights as humans?
• 2:19:21
  So if you want a masterclass in this,
• 2:19:23
  go back and watch Star Trek TNG.
• 2:19:26
  Or 2001.
• 2:19:27
  2001 A Space Odyssey.
• 2:19:28
  Will I dream that?
• 2:19:29
  Or that, right.
• 2:19:30
  I actually watched it a long ago again.
• 2:19:32
  It's like, wow.
• 2:19:34
  you know it's
• 2:19:35
  it's almost timeless
• 2:19:35
  because it's
• 2:19:36
  like we have not
• 2:19:37
  gotten past exactly
• 2:19:38
  what they were presenting
• 2:19:39
  in that movie
• 2:19:40
  no the issues are the same
• 2:19:40
  exactly yeah
• 2:19:41
  we're still dealing
• 2:19:42
  we're just getting
• 2:19:43
  more sophisticated
• 2:19:44
  and making the problem
• 2:19:46
  more complicated
• 2:19:46
  but we haven't solved
• 2:19:48
  the problem
• 2:19:48
  well but it's getting
• 2:19:49
  much more real
• 2:19:50
  I mean
• 2:19:51
  every iteration
• 2:19:52
  yes
• 2:19:52
  yeah
• 2:19:53
  I mean this one
• 2:19:53
  this one was wild
• 2:19:55
  because number one
• 2:19:56
  I
• 2:19:57
  so you watch this video
• 2:19:58
  and the fucking
• 2:19:59
  200,000 brain cells
• 2:20:01
  or whatever
• 2:20:02
  which by the way
• 2:20:03
  doesn't
• 2:20:04
  I mean, it covers like an eighth of an inch, not even.
• 2:20:08
  But still, the fact that they pulled that off.
• 2:20:11
  I know.
• 2:20:12
  And it's making the same mistakes I made when I was learning to play.
• 2:20:16
  So now I'm like, Jesus Christ, how dumb am I?
• 2:20:20
  What is going on?
• 2:20:22
  But when you start thinking, that's only 200,000 cells, neurons.
• 2:20:28
  And half a given your history, please jump in here with cells.
• 2:20:31
  um it when you start talking about hundreds of thousands millions of tens of millions you know
• 2:20:41
  we're talking like when you get a brain in there yeah well the limitation it might just be the 200,000
• 2:20:48
  you stuck in the petri dish right so so going back to george's sort of you know baseline hypothesis
• 2:20:55
  hypothesis. How many
• 2:20:57
  cells does it take before you start
• 2:20:59
  having emotions? Before you can
• 2:21:01
  have a soul? Can you imagine
• 2:21:03
  200,000? A million? A billion?
• 2:21:05
  I mean, what is it? What's the number?
• 2:21:08
  Gentlemen, may I ask a question?
• 2:21:10
  Absolutely. Sure. We're getting very philosophical.
• 2:21:12
  How good is your beer right now?
• 2:21:14
  I've got a side beer.
• 2:21:16
  I've got a...
• 2:21:16
  Beer 2 is almost gone. I've got
• 2:21:19
  my side beer, which is actually
• 2:21:21
  called Hell, by the way.
• 2:21:23
  It's going Hell 2.
• 2:21:25
  Dude, that Bourbon County, it's always done this for me, which is initially when it hits bottom, it starts to kick my ass.
• 2:21:37
  And then I fight it.
• 2:21:39
  I'm fighting back.
• 2:21:40
  I'm like, no, I'm not drunk.
• 2:21:41
  I'm okay.
• 2:21:42
  And then I'm now at this point where I'm just like, I'm just going to talk about everything to everybody.
• 2:21:47
  You're fully committed.
• 2:21:49
  Yes, I'm in.
• 2:21:51
  I'm running high.
• 2:21:52
  It's all good.
• 2:21:53
  So, no, it's going really well.
• 2:21:55
  I was actually kind of like done with mine a while back.
• 2:21:57
  I was drinking this damn thing too fast.
• 2:21:59
  Uh-oh.
• 2:22:00
  Good beer.
• 2:22:01
  Yeah.
• 2:22:01
  That's why we waxed philosophical here.
• 2:22:04
  We all got kind of...
• 2:22:06
  I love diving into this stuff.
• 2:22:08
  So that was really cool.
• 2:22:10
  Yeah.
• 2:22:10
  Pefe, we saved a really great story for you when you came back.
• 2:22:14
  We're happy you got here.
• 2:22:16
  You're going to need to return your chocolate boner syrup.
• 2:22:20
  It's been recalled.
• 2:22:21
  It contains Viagra in it.
• 2:22:23
  and that wasn't approved by the FDA.
• 2:22:27
  Will they accept empty bottles?
• 2:22:30
  Yes.
• 2:22:31
  I think you get a full refund,
• 2:22:33
  no matter how much of it you used.
• 2:22:35
  Okay.
• 2:22:36
  You know what?
• 2:22:38
  I tried.
• 2:22:38
  How many empty bottles?
• 2:22:40
  Yeah, right.
• 2:22:41
  What are we talking here?
• 2:22:43
  How many?
• 2:22:45
  Hefe just walking around.
• 2:22:47
  Hey, Hefe, you got some chocolate syrup on the side of you.
• 2:22:50
  Oh, yeah, yeah, I know.
• 2:22:51
  That's so I can keep a heart on all day.
• 2:22:53
  Yeah. Yeah. I got it.
• 2:22:55
  It's the only dealer that brings boner syrup with them into the pit.
• 2:22:59
  All right. Hey, hold on a second. Some guys need no-dos. Some guys need five-hour energy.
• 2:23:03
  He just goes straight to the boner syrup.
• 2:23:05
  Well I just love that this whole syrup the whole concept was like it a syrup with some aphrodisiacs in it some chocolate some other things and it help you feel more amorous And you can also put it on your pancakes
• 2:23:19
  It was very innocent.
• 2:23:21
  If you look at the bottle, it's just like very –
• 2:23:24
  and then they find out they were putting Viagra in it.
• 2:23:27
  I want to point out the logo was two fuzzy bears.
• 2:23:32
  It is.
• 2:23:33
  One of them has the other one pinned.
• 2:23:35
  Face down, by the way.
• 2:23:36
  Just saying.
• 2:23:37
  Yeah, yeah.
• 2:23:38
  I like that it says single dose.
• 2:23:41
  Like, I'm sure Hefe was getting the triples and quadruples,
• 2:23:44
  but this one was just a single dose.
• 2:23:48
  Oh, God.
• 2:23:50
  So good.
• 2:23:51
  Hefe, since you're here,
• 2:23:52
  this is a story we've been trying to get to for a couple weeks,
• 2:23:54
  but we've threatened to do this for a while,
• 2:23:57
  putting a pair of meta glasses on you and letting you go to town.
• 2:24:00
  Oh, yeah.
• 2:24:02
  Meta AI glasses.
• 2:24:04
  So these are the glasses that you can, like, record.
• 2:24:07
  when you're walking around.
• 2:24:08
  Because we thought it'd be really funny
• 2:24:09
  to see what a day in the life of like Hefe was.
• 2:24:12
  But now Meta is actually going to add in
• 2:24:14
  that you're going to get like bios on people
• 2:24:19
  when you're walking around.
• 2:24:21
  Like you're going to be out in the public
• 2:24:23
  and you're saying,
• 2:24:23
  oh, well, that's Jane and here's her Facebook tag.
• 2:24:28
  I don't love that.
• 2:24:30
  That is so rapey.
• 2:24:31
  Yeah.
• 2:24:32
  I mean, that's immediately where my mind goes.
• 2:24:34
  Because you could just be like,
• 2:24:36
  oh jane yeah is that you oh you you don't remember me like we went to high school together
• 2:24:42
  yeah back in you you don't remember class of 93 like immediately she's like oh really and and
• 2:24:49
  you're in and then next thing you know she's in the trunk of a car well being taken to the
• 2:24:54
  undisclosed location there's i'm not saying i've thought about this i'm just saying yeah
• 2:25:00
  you got chocolate syrup all over you and you don't know why
• 2:25:03
  yeah, this is crazy.
• 2:25:05
  This is bad. There's nothing about this
• 2:25:08
  that's good.
• 2:25:09
  How
• 2:25:09
  easily identifiable
• 2:25:14
  are the glasses still?
• 2:25:16
  Are they still obviously...
• 2:25:17
  No. Well, here's the kicker.
• 2:25:20
  They look like glasses.
• 2:25:21
  So you wear Ray-Bans, right?
• 2:25:23
  Or you have. That used to be your go-to.
• 2:25:26
  Right? Okay. So that used to... Okay. So imagine
• 2:25:27
  your Ray-Ban glasses and in each
• 2:25:29
  corner, you've got a little camera.
• 2:25:31
  Okay, so to me, I was interviewing a whole bunch of people one day, and those stuck out to me.
• 2:25:37
  Somebody had a pair of those on.
• 2:25:38
  I'm like, he's got meta glasses.
• 2:25:40
  He needs to be gone.
• 2:25:43
  He was recording the interviews.
• 2:25:44
  So I picked up on it really easy, but there's also a red light, supposedly, when they're actually recording.
• 2:25:50
  But you can hack it, and you can take that red light off.
• 2:25:54
  So that's the caveat there.
• 2:25:57
  I think they're pretty easy to see.
• 2:25:59
  are also supposed to not be listening to us
• 2:26:01
  when we don't have them on.
• 2:26:02
  Right.
• 2:26:03
  And they do.
• 2:26:04
  But I get an ad for boner syrup
• 2:26:09
  now that I've talked about this.
• 2:26:10
  Right.
• 2:26:11
  Yeah, exactly.
• 2:26:11
  My phone's flooded.
• 2:26:12
  I don't know.
• 2:26:15
  Something you want to share, George?
• 2:26:17
  Yeah, Steve, pass that ad on to me.
• 2:26:21
  I got you.
• 2:26:23
  No worries.
• 2:26:23
  I don't want to give this to you now.
• 2:26:26
  I don't want to do that
• 2:26:27
  and have that be a thing
• 2:26:29
  because that could be terrible.
• 2:26:31
  I don't know.
• 2:26:31
  That just makes me uncomfortable.
• 2:26:33
  Yeah.
• 2:26:33
  But with the glasses,
• 2:26:34
  I mean,
• 2:26:35
  you're right, Fitz.
• 2:26:36
  As soon as they're...
• 2:26:38
  As soon as they look exactly like glasses,
• 2:26:42
  then everything's fucked.
• 2:26:46
  Yeah.
• 2:26:46
  It's so rapey.
• 2:26:48
  And there's so many guys,
• 2:26:50
  mostly guys,
• 2:26:51
  that are going to take advantage,
• 2:26:52
  like you said.
• 2:26:53
  Like, oh, hey, Deborah?
• 2:26:56
  It's me from whatever, right?
• 2:26:59
  He knows where she's been, what she's been through all that.
• 2:27:03
  From whatever, whatever she posted that day.
• 2:27:06
  Yep.
• 2:27:07
  Well, and here's the thing.
• 2:27:08
  Here's the other angle.
• 2:27:10
  If we're now realizing this is a possibility,
• 2:27:13
  imagine like a CIA honeypot scenario.
• 2:27:17
  Oh, yeah.
• 2:27:18
  You want to turn some politician,
• 2:27:21
  and the girl walks in with some nice little cat eye glasses,
• 2:27:25
  make her look really attractive,
• 2:27:26
  but they're also gathering data on this guy.
• 2:27:29
  And she's like, hey, you know, she tries to make a pass out of me.
• 2:27:32
  He's like, no, thanks.
• 2:27:33
  And she's like, okay, look, I know you're, you know,
• 2:27:36
  I know you had underage sex with your babysitter.
• 2:27:39
  You know, I found this out.
• 2:27:41
  You got to play ball.
• 2:27:42
  Otherwise, I'm going to release it.
• 2:27:44
  I mean, how easy would it be to gather tons of information on a person
• 2:27:49
  within seconds?
• 2:27:51
  And then you've got them.
• 2:27:52
  They're done.
• 2:27:53
  You've got them cornered.
• 2:27:55
  How about this, though?
• 2:27:57
  What if this is going to be the tool that launches the shaming of people via their social credit score?
• 2:28:07
  Oh, absolutely.
• 2:28:08
  Oh, yeah.
• 2:28:09
  You know we're already there with just the phones we have.
• 2:28:16
  And this is even more subtle.
• 2:28:17
  And you're like, oh, your credit score is a 1.2.
• 2:28:19
  Social credit score.
• 2:28:20
  Yours is a 4. whatever.
• 2:28:22
  Right?
• 2:28:23
  I'm not talking to you.
• 2:28:24
  Can you imagine you're going out to a bar, right?
• 2:28:28
  And you're single.
• 2:28:28
  You're this dude and you're going in there and you've got a social credit score of two, two and a half.
• 2:28:35
  Maybe you're a young buck.
• 2:28:36
  You haven't done a whole lot.
• 2:28:40
  If some chick that was interested in you, it's over.
• 2:28:47
  Right.
• 2:28:49
  Yeah, well, job.
• 2:28:51
  I mean, everything.
• 2:28:52
  Job's over.
• 2:28:52
  Oh, yeah.
• 2:28:54
  What was the Netflix?
• 2:28:56
  Not Black.
• 2:28:57
  Was it Black Glass?
• 2:28:58
  Broken Glass?
• 2:28:59
  What was that?
• 2:29:00
  Black Mirror.
• 2:29:01
  Black Mirror.
• 2:29:02
  Thank you.
• 2:29:03
  Yeah.
• 2:29:03
  They did a whole thing on that.
• 2:29:05
  A whole episode on this.
• 2:29:06
  And there was a movie too.
• 2:29:07
  I forgot the name of it.
• 2:29:10
  God.
• 2:29:10
  I forgot.
• 2:29:10
  There's been a couple.
• 2:29:12
  But like in the Black Mirror,
• 2:29:13
  like the girl,
• 2:29:15
  she made a mistake.
• 2:29:17
  Like a very innocent mistake.
• 2:29:19
  And then the next day,
• 2:29:21
  her friends were blacklisting her.
• 2:29:23
  her boyfriend wouldn't talk to her her job wouldn't let her i mean it was like an immediate life was
• 2:29:29
  over like yeah right you're done like why would you not just fucking end your well there you go
• 2:29:35
  canada oh canada they're gonna just tie in the uh suicide hey you're gonna get an ad on your
• 2:29:41
  glasses hey we see your credit score just dropped four points in one day would you like to end it
• 2:29:46
  that'll be the end.
• 2:29:49
  Your life's over anyway.
• 2:29:50
  Yeah, you can't
• 2:29:53
  recover from this. Just fucking end it.
• 2:29:56
  Jeez.
• 2:29:57
  Good God.
• 2:29:58
  If you look at what's happening in China,
• 2:30:01
  you have thousands
• 2:30:02
  and thousands of people
• 2:30:04
  who can't find work
• 2:30:05
  because their social credit score is so low.
• 2:30:09
  They are homeless because
• 2:30:10
  their social credit score is that low.
• 2:30:13
  Yikes.
• 2:30:14
  This is what we're looking at.
• 2:30:16
  And here you've got this Mark Zuckerberg fuck who's here.
• 2:30:19
  Let's listen to Mark and how positive this is.
• 2:30:22
  Okay.
• 2:30:23
  Okay.
• 2:30:24
  Watch your head.
• 2:30:28
  Yes, because it needs an armored fucking briefcase.
• 2:30:32
  Yeah, he's got a handcuff to him like it's the nuclear football.
• 2:30:36
  Whatever.
• 2:30:41
  All right, here we go.
• 2:30:45
  There you go.
• 2:30:46
  This is Orion, our first fully functioning prototype.
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  And if I do say so, the most advanced glasses the world has ever seen.
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  They need to be glasses.
• 2:31:09
  They're not a headset.
• 2:31:11
  No wires.
• 2:31:13
  Less than 100 grams.
• 2:31:15
  They need wide field of view, holographic displays, sharp enough to pick up details, bright enough to see in different lighting conditions, large enough to display a cinema screen or multiple monitors for working wherever you go, whether you're in a coffee shop or on a plane or wherever you are.
• 2:31:42
  And you need to be able to see through them.
• 2:31:45
  and people need to be able to see that through them too
• 2:31:48
  and make eye contact with you.
• 2:31:49
  This isn't pass-through.
• 2:31:52
  This is the physical world with holograms overlaid on it.
• 2:32:00
  That's where we're at.
• 2:32:02
  Shopping.
• 2:32:02
  I mean, so he's presenting it in a certain way
• 2:32:13
  to where it's like, look how beneficial this is.
• 2:32:15
  Oh, yeah.
• 2:32:16
  Right?
• 2:32:17
  Well, there's two things with that.
• 2:32:18
  One, the arguments we've been making where this is really,
• 2:32:21
  like, this could be used to hold people accountable
• 2:32:23
  or shame people with their credit score, right?
• 2:32:26
  Social credit score.
• 2:32:27
  And on the other hand, like, where is the disconnect?
• 2:32:30
  Where can humanity get away and just fucking decompress?
• 2:32:34
  Like, do you really need computer monitors in your eyeballs?
• 2:32:37
  I don't.
• 2:32:39
  I don't want them.
• 2:32:40
  It's insanity.
• 2:32:41
  No, no.
• 2:32:43
  When I was in the military,
• 2:32:46
  we had glasses that looked very similar to that.
• 2:32:49
  And we called them BC glasses.
• 2:32:51
  Well, everybody did.
• 2:32:52
  They were birth control.
• 2:32:54
  They basically guaranteed you weren't going to get a girl.
• 2:32:57
  So first of all, those are ugly as fuck.
• 2:32:59
  So they have a lot of work to do on that.
• 2:33:02
  Second of all, I thought it was very interesting
• 2:33:05
  that he talked about not only do you have to be able to see out
• 2:33:10
  and interact with the world,
• 2:33:12
  but someone has to be able to see in
• 2:33:14
  and make eye contact with you.
• 2:33:16
  That's wild.
• 2:33:19
  Because it's one thing if you walk up to someone
• 2:33:21
  and you see like little blue lights flashing in their eyes
• 2:33:24
  or whatever, and you're like, oh, they're,
• 2:33:26
  or their head's down.
• 2:33:28
  You're like, oh, they're on their phone
• 2:33:29
  or they're watching something on their glasses.
• 2:33:32
  But if you can't tell,
• 2:33:33
  if you don't know if they're actually doing that shit or not,
• 2:33:37
  and you can just make eye contact with the person,
• 2:33:40
  but they're actually watching a fucking porno,
• 2:33:42
  with maybe your face overlaid on, you know, Ron Jeremy's body.
• 2:33:48
  Like, I'm telling you, this is some wild shit.
• 2:33:53
  Yeah.
• 2:33:53
  So, have you guys, I know, Philz, I know you've seen Gamer.
• 2:33:57
  Have you seen Gamer?
• 2:33:58
  Yeah.
• 2:33:59
  George?
• 2:34:00
  I believe I have.
• 2:34:01
  I'm sure I have.
• 2:34:02
  Okay.
• 2:34:03
  Gamer.
• 2:34:05
  This is Gamer.
• 2:34:08
  That's what I am.
• 2:34:09
  Only, there's not even glasses involved.
• 2:34:12
  and I went back
• 2:34:13
  and looked real quick
• 2:34:14
  while you guys
• 2:34:15
  were discussing
• 2:34:16
  Free Guy
• 2:34:17
  the movie Free Guy
• 2:34:18
  yes
• 2:34:19
  with the glasses on
• 2:34:19
  it's the same
• 2:34:20
  goddamn thing
• 2:34:21
  yep
• 2:34:22
  that's it
• 2:34:22
  it's the same thing
• 2:34:23
  that's it
• 2:34:24
  oh Gamer
• 2:34:25
  that was a great movie
• 2:34:25
  by the way
• 2:34:26
  yeah great movie
• 2:34:27
  yeah
• 2:34:27
  both of them
• 2:34:28
  I watched that again
• 2:34:29
  yeah
• 2:34:30
  they're both great
• 2:34:31
  conversation
• 2:34:31
  I would say Free Guy
• 2:34:33
  is the comedy version
• 2:34:34
  of Gamer
• 2:34:35
  right
• 2:34:35
  yeah
• 2:34:36
  but Gamer
• 2:34:37
  Gamer's like
• 2:34:37
  Gamer is
• 2:34:39
  and for everybody
• 2:34:40
  out there who
• 2:34:41
  hasn't seen Gamer. It's
• 2:34:43
  Gerard Butler. He is a
• 2:34:45
  person.
• 2:34:47
  He's, what, he was in jail
• 2:34:49
  I think, and they took him out of jail.
• 2:34:51
  He becomes basically a game player.
• 2:34:53
  He becomes
• 2:34:54
  an NPC, but he's controlled by
• 2:34:57
  a guy who's outside of the, we'll
• 2:34:59
  call it the Matrix.
• 2:35:01
  And he's in there as
• 2:35:03
  a warrior, and it's all televised.
• 2:35:05
  It's kind of like Running Man a little bit.
• 2:35:08
  Yeah, exactly.
• 2:35:09
  And he gets freedom if he makes it.
• 2:35:13
  Right.
• 2:35:13
  And this whole world is built on people that are outside of the matrix controlling people that are willing to be inside the matrix.
• 2:35:23
  Very, very, very, very creepy.
• 2:35:24
  Very creepy.
• 2:35:25
  Yeah.
• 2:35:26
  But I just, oh, sorry, go ahead.
• 2:35:28
  I just want to hit something that came up in chat real quick.
• 2:35:31
  No, go ahead.
• 2:35:31
  Go, go, go.
• 2:35:32
  Go ahead.
• 2:35:32
  Well, so Third Ayatollah just said, saw something this week about people reviewing what these glasses are recording when people forget about them because they're not wearing them, like their wife is undressing or whatever.
• 2:35:46
  That's the other thing is we are slowly seeding our privacy one step at a time.
• 2:35:54
  If they came to American society back in the 60s and they were like, hey, we want technology completely integrated into your house and we're going to always be watching and listening and we know everything you do, even when you're jerking off to gay porn.
• 2:36:10
  Nobody would have gone for it.
• 2:36:12
  It would have completely died.
• 2:36:13
  But they have slowly...
• 2:36:14
  one small step at a time gotten us to this point where we've got technology that are,
• 2:36:21
  I mean, we're essentially cyborgs, right? I mean, we have our persona, but we rely on technology to
• 2:36:29
  make us better. I mean, everybody does. Your phone is your memory. It has a thousand phone
• 2:36:36
  numbers in it that you could never memorize yourself. It's got pictures of all your memories.
• 2:36:41
  It's got access to the internet.
• 2:36:44
  I mean, so we are essentially cyborgs already.
• 2:36:48
  And the next step is going to be, look, it's a good thing if technology is incorporated into your person, into your life on all levels.
• 2:36:57
  And people are going to start doing it.
• 2:37:00
  I'm going back to the brain cell experiment.
• 2:37:02
  Yes.
• 2:37:03
  Exactly.
• 2:37:04
  Here we are.
• 2:37:05
  Full circle.
• 2:37:05
  I got a little story that parallels this that someone told me.
• 2:37:09
  I just looked it up to verify because I wasn't trying to remember.
• 2:37:12
  But anyway, did you guys hear about the DJI software hack?
• 2:37:18
  I don't know.
• 2:37:20
  So DJI makes the drones, right?
• 2:37:22
  Yes.
• 2:37:23
  Oh, yes.
• 2:37:25
  Yeah.
• 2:37:25
  So apparently that company also is involved in making the robot vacuum cleaners.
• 2:37:30
  Yes.
• 2:37:30
  We had last week.
• 2:37:31
  We talked about it last week.
• 2:37:33
  Yes.
• 2:37:33
  Yes.
• 2:37:34
  Did you?
• 2:37:34
  Okay, so you guys already covered it.
• 2:37:36
  So I'm just saying like this parallels is like,
• 2:37:38
  it just came to my mind because we were talking about
• 2:37:41
  the glasses continuously recording.
• 2:37:43
  And it's like, we have all these risks.
• 2:37:45
  I mean, here's this guy that had control of 7,000 DJI robots.
• 2:37:50
  And then not that long ago,
• 2:37:52
  there was a hack on the Amazon ring cams.
• 2:37:54
  Yes.
• 2:37:55
  It's like...
• 2:37:57
  Well, I mean, at the end of the day,
• 2:37:59
  I mean, look, if somebody hacks my glasses,
• 2:38:04
  or hacks my blink system or whatever,
• 2:38:07
  and they see me walking around in my boxers
• 2:38:10
  or shit, even if I'm buck-ass naked.
• 2:38:12
  I mean, that's not a bad thing.
• 2:38:15
  The problem happens when you got the neighbor over
• 2:38:20
  and you're cheating on your wife
• 2:38:21
  or you're doing stuff with your brother or sister.
• 2:38:27
  I mean, all of these things that should be private
• 2:38:33
  in your own family's business,
• 2:38:36
  now you're outed.
• 2:38:38
  And again, wrapping it around
• 2:38:40
  back to the social credit score,
• 2:38:42
  I mean, how quickly can you just be
• 2:38:45
  basically ostracized,
• 2:38:47
  eliminated from society
• 2:38:48
  because you did something
• 2:38:50
  that someone else doesn't think is okay?
• 2:38:52
  Or now that's the honeypot.
• 2:38:55
  Now you're taking advantage.
• 2:38:57
  That's what I mean.
• 2:38:57
  You got both sides of it.
• 2:38:59
  You can be manipulated because of it.
• 2:39:01
  To Lisa's point in chat, though, the third party company that picked up the images that you were talking about, Lisa.
• 2:39:14
  So Lisa's comment saw something this week about people reviewing what the glasses are recording when people forget about them because they're not wearing them like their wife is undressing.
• 2:39:23
  Yes, absolutely.
• 2:39:24
  That's actually it was a third party company that Meta employs in Nairobi, Kenya that picked all that up.
• 2:39:31
  great enjoy the journey again i i just i think there's tears to it i i don't care if someone
• 2:39:38
  sees me naked i really don't i got nothing to hide okay if it's the principle though come on
• 2:39:43
  but it's no but i and i i'm saying like my own personal uh like um privacy and my own autonomy
• 2:39:51
  that what is important to me the things i say the thoughts i have the way i do things All of those things do matter to me It such a deep violation
• 2:40:05
  I don't
• 2:40:06
  know why people are okay with this kind of thing.
• 2:40:11
  Your likeness is going to end
• 2:40:12
  up being picked up off of
• 2:40:14
  a Roomba.
• 2:40:16
  You're going to be used in AI and you're going to be
• 2:40:18
  a superhero that you're never going to get money for.
• 2:40:21
  Alright, so you're setting this up.
• 2:40:22
  This is what I'm going to say.
• 2:40:24
  you need to either trademark or copyright your body yeah so that when this happens you can sue
• 2:40:32
  the fuck out of those people for infringement yeah 100 because i you know and hey this is
• 2:40:39
  another argument for why everybody needs to get some tattoos because because your tattoos are are
• 2:40:45
  are yours yeah they're original and don't don't buy the flash off the off the wall go in with your
• 2:40:52
  own original idea get your own shit you know who the artist is and now you are your own unique
• 2:40:58
  barcode and so you can't absolutely say on then that's my likeness or do that that's okay serial
• 2:41:04
  number whatever it's like just barcode your fucking shoulder blades done you know what was
• 2:41:09
  what was the uh the assassin what was that video game um he had a barcode on his on the back of
• 2:41:15
  his neck all of them did hit man yeah hit man yes hit man just go that route just shave your head
• 2:41:21
  get a barcode.
• 2:41:22
  On your case,
• 2:41:22
  put the barcode
• 2:41:23
  by your nether regions,
• 2:41:24
  whatever.
• 2:41:25
  Oh, dude.
• 2:41:26
  I'll do it everywhere.
• 2:41:27
  I don't care.
• 2:41:28
  He's got a barcode
• 2:41:29
  on his butt hole
• 2:41:30
  and everything.
• 2:41:31
  Yeah, I'll touch you
• 2:41:32
  my asshole.
• 2:41:32
  I don't care.
• 2:41:33
  Might feel good.
• 2:41:35
  Wow.
• 2:41:36
  Wow.
• 2:41:38
  Hey,
• 2:41:38
  I just have to say
• 2:41:39
  this might be
• 2:41:40
  the most wild show
• 2:41:41
  we've ever done.
• 2:41:42
  We started out
• 2:41:43
  real serious.
• 2:41:44
  It's top five.
• 2:41:45
  It's top five.
• 2:41:45
  It's all over the place
• 2:41:46
  for sure,
• 2:41:46
  but it's fun.
• 2:41:47
  We started out
• 2:41:48
  real serious
• 2:41:48
  and now we're just
• 2:41:49
  clowning.
• 2:41:50
  and it's fun.
• 2:41:51
  Well, at least it wants you
• 2:41:53
  to get a Holocaust number
• 2:41:54
  put on your arm.
• 2:41:55
  Oh, well, okay.
• 2:41:57
  Now you're crossing the line, McShane.
• 2:41:59
  We're just going back
• 2:42:00
  to barcodes, right?
• 2:42:01
  I didn't cross the line.
• 2:42:02
  Our chat did.
• 2:42:04
  Come on.
• 2:42:05
  Oh, shit.
• 2:42:06
  All right.
• 2:42:07
  What beer are you guys taking to bed?
• 2:42:12
  Go ahead, George.
• 2:42:15
  Well, between these two,
• 2:42:16
  it's going to be the delirium.
• 2:42:18
  Yeah, for sure.
• 2:42:19
  Yeah.
• 2:42:19
  Yeah, nice.
• 2:42:20
  Yeah, between these two.
• 2:42:21
  I mean, a hazy, I'll be honest,
• 2:42:22
  they're a dime a dozen these days,
• 2:42:24
  and some of them are really good,
• 2:42:25
  but they're all very similar.
• 2:42:27
  This Delirium stands out.
• 2:42:28
  It's unique.
• 2:42:29
  It's different.
• 2:42:29
  Slightly sweet.
• 2:42:30
  Slightly sour.
• 2:42:32
  I dig it.
• 2:42:33
  You know, I like it.
• 2:42:34
  I went through it pretty quick,
• 2:42:35
  so I guess that says something there.
• 2:42:37
  Nice.
• 2:42:38
  Good.
• 2:42:38
  I also enjoyed that beer.
• 2:42:41
  It's a good one.
• 2:42:43
  It's one of those where you're like,
• 2:42:44
  I'm not, I mean, and you said it earlier,
• 2:42:46
  like, I'm not sure this really qualifies as a beer.
• 2:42:49
  Right.
• 2:42:50
  It's some other kind of new drink.
• 2:42:51
  Yeah.
• 2:42:52
  It's almost, yeah, yeah.
• 2:42:54
  That's another, yeah.
• 2:42:56
  I don't want to delay it, but that's another story.
• 2:42:58
  Yeah, absolutely.
• 2:42:58
  It's a good beer.
• 2:42:59
  Yeah.
• 2:43:00
  Fitz, what do you got?
• 2:43:03
  Oh, I mean, for obvious reasons,
• 2:43:06
  and maybe some not so obvious reasons,
• 2:43:09
  I'm taking the Bourbon County.
• 2:43:11
  Always just such a solid goddamn beer.
• 2:43:13
  They just keep killing it.
• 2:43:14
  I hope they never really end that,
• 2:43:17
  what, you know, that whole enterprise.
• 2:43:20
  Because Goose Island, they make some really bland stuff.
• 2:43:23
  Some stuff that the everyday working guy is going to like,
• 2:43:26
  but then they do some specialty stuff like this that's just...
• 2:43:30
  I mean, it's always a solid beer.
• 2:43:32
  So good.
• 2:43:33
  Really enjoyed it.
• 2:43:34
  So definitely taking up Bourbon County.
• 2:43:36
  No disrespect to Great Notion And that was probably the best non beer I ever had I mean if for being honest it was really tasty if you didn know that there was an alcohol in it would you have um i would have probably gotten another one it was it was that enjoyable it was really
• 2:43:55
  good all right yeah but but i'm definitely going with the bourbon county the uh the 14.8 percent is
• 2:44:01
  is hitting exactly where it needs to hit so i'm i'm i'm liking that how about good yeah how about
• 2:44:08
  you, McShane? What are you taking to bed?
• 2:44:10
  Double go shock.
• 2:44:12
  This is the one that was
• 2:44:14
  between Trillium and Horace
• 2:44:15
  barrel-aged
• 2:44:17
  ales.
• 2:44:19
  Great beer. Easy,
• 2:44:22
  easy drinker.
• 2:44:23
  Once I got past the shock
• 2:44:25
  of what I was not expecting
• 2:44:28
  it to be as much of a
• 2:44:29
  decadent beer.
• 2:44:32
  Easy, easy drinker. In fact,
• 2:44:33
  I moved on to my
• 2:44:35
  second side piece.
• 2:44:37
  So, um, but good, good beer.
• 2:44:39
  I liked it.
• 2:44:40
  Nice.
• 2:44:41
  George, what would you like folks to, to know and remember about your show?
• 2:44:48
  Um, after this episode conversation, please forget I had a show at all.
• 2:44:54
  No, come on.
• 2:44:55
  Not at all.
• 2:44:55
  This was great.
• 2:44:56
  I mean, this is right up my alley guys.
• 2:44:57
  Um, you know, I have different personalities depending on who I'm dealing with, but you
• 2:45:01
  know, in, in the end, um, the core of what I am, I mean, this world of blade, my podcast,
• 2:45:06
  Honestly, we're just looking for no bullshit truth, getting down to what things are really
• 2:45:11
  about and stepping outside your comfort zone.
• 2:45:14
  That's what I do.
• 2:45:15
  And I'll be honest.
• 2:45:17
  I know I'm not always entertaining and fun.
• 2:45:19
  But if you're looking for someone who's not willing to just dismiss the story because it's
• 2:45:26
  like no one else is focusing on it.
• 2:45:29
  It's not popular.
• 2:45:30
  I'm not going to do that.
• 2:45:31
  So if you want to get down to the bottom of things, as much as I can within my own resources,
• 2:45:35
  by the way. You want to get the facts, the data, you want to hear conversations from all sides,
• 2:45:40
  that's what I do. And if you want to dive into geopolitics, not saying I'm an expert,
• 2:45:45
  but I do have a pretty good grasp on it. And I have resources and people I can reach out to
• 2:45:49
  to help me out. And I'll include all that in the show. So that's what I have to say about my
• 2:45:54
  podcast in particular. I think that's what stands out among many that are out there at this moment.
• 2:46:00
  awesome yeah such a good show i i mean i'm not just it's not hyperbole it's not
• 2:46:07
  um i've listened to your show several times really enjoy it again the guests that you get
• 2:46:14
  on are so diverse and varied um i i just you just never really know what you're going to get
• 2:46:20
  um you're right and i and i like that and i mean i'm in for the ride the trick is trying to
• 2:46:27
  keep things within the vein of what the show is, which is obviously news and politics.
• 2:46:33
  And sometimes that's tricky in the conversation, but I always try to bring it back there because
• 2:46:38
  that's what the show's about. But I love talking like, you know, I can dive into philosophy if you
• 2:46:43
  want. We can talk about history. We can talk about, you know, theology. Like I can go into many
• 2:46:49
  different subjects, but I always try to bring it back to what the show, this particular show anyway
• 2:46:55
  way is. And that is dealing with geopolitics, world events, you know, current events anyway,
• 2:47:00
  and even some domestic politics. And I try to tie it all together the best I can.
• 2:47:05
  I'm not always successful. Not all my shows are really that good. I'll be honest. Sometimes I put
• 2:47:09
  them on like, yeah, I don't know if that's going to hit. But I don't know what you're talking about.
• 2:47:12
  Don't be modest. Don't be modest. No, no, it's true. I mean, you know, it's true. Not all of
• 2:47:18
  them are great. But, you know, what I think is horrible sometimes ends up being really,
• 2:47:23
  really good in terms of response So I like I don know You know we we had that too where it like oh that was such a bad show and everyone loves it It like okay But yeah I appreciate anybody who listens
• 2:47:35
  So yeah, that's all I have to say.
• 2:47:37
  I mean, I think that you guys
• 2:47:39
  are a lot more fun than me.
• 2:47:41
  So, you know,
• 2:47:42
  but I think we're similar
• 2:47:43
  in how we approach
• 2:47:44
  getting down to the bottom of the truth.
• 2:47:46
  So I mean, if anybody likes your show,
• 2:47:48
  they should like mine.
• 2:47:50
  And if they want more laughs,
• 2:47:52
  definitely you guys break it up
• 2:47:54
  very well. I mean, you're very good at that. So, you know, hats off to be honest.
• 2:48:00
  Yeah. Appreciate that. Well, that's, that's all McShane, by the way.
• 2:48:05
  No, he's the fun one. Yeah. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
• 2:48:13
  no, no, no, no. Well, we appreciate it. And I, and I will tell you right now, um, yeah, I,
• 2:48:18
  you're, you're being very modest. The, one of the things I appreciate about your show so much is
• 2:48:22
  that it's honest and it is thoughtful and there is not a lot of that going around so keep that up
• 2:48:28
  as long as you are trying to seek truth as long as you're trying to seek reason you're doing the
• 2:48:36
  right thing man so so keep it up world of blaze podcast.com uh you'll find george on ig youtube
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  x gotta follow his x account because it's oh so it's it's a very very man that one i swear
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  God, we can get into that later, but X, they just hate me.
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  Oh, X is tough, dude.
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  It's tough.
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  Okay, but when have you been wrong, though?
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  Right.
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  It doesn't happen very often.
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  I'm not going to say I've never been wrong, but.
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  What?
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  Okay.
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  Yeah.
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  You know, here's the thing about X, guys, and you deal with the same thing.
• 2:49:08
  Yeah.
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  The way it is right now, it's algorithm and how they handle things.
• 2:49:12
  Yes.
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  I've been blocked by three major accounts, like big accounts.
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  And it hurts.
• 2:49:16
  Yep.
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  and I at one time
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  and I'm not a follower guy
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  like that's not my goal
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  but at one time I had close to 10,000 followers
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  and then all of a sudden drop, drop, drop, drop
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  and then I had no reach
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  and then now no matter what I do
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  I get no exposure
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  I was blocked by Scott Horton
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  Daryl Cooper
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  Medhi Hassan
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  I'm just not getting anywhere
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  but it doesn't mean I'm not going to continue to put it out there
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  because my view is this
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  If people want to find the truth, it's going to come out.
• 2:49:50
  Yes.
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  And let me put this caveat out there.
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  The truth as I see it based on the information that is available at the time.
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  I have to always say that because things develop.
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  You never know.
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  Yep.
• 2:50:03
  That's right.
• 2:50:03
  Absolutely.
• 2:50:04
  That's a very good point.
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  What we think we know today, we might not know tomorrow.
• 2:50:08
  Right.
• 2:50:09
  Exactly.
• 2:50:09
  But yeah, I appreciate you guys having me on.
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  I've been wanting to do this for a while.
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  And one day we'll figure out the other way around where you guys are on mine.
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  But regardless, it's no rush, no push.
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  It's just, you know, whatever makes everybody comfortable.
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  But, I mean, this was great.
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  I appreciate it.
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  I really do.
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  Well, thanks for coming on.
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  We appreciate it.
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  And hell of almost three hours, man.
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  Thank you so much.
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  I appreciate it.
• 2:50:32
  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Damn.
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  Could have gone another three.
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  Didn't feel like it.
• 2:50:38
  No.
• 2:50:39
  Thank you for listening.
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