Latest / The Sense and Senseless Podcast / EP: 60 Are We Ready for What’s Next? Iran War, Oil, Munitions & the Rigged System
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- Bryan: President Trump, has said US munitions are virtually unlimited. Department of Defense Jason: 'Cause he w Hold on, he went up up down left right left right A B start and he's like Unlimited lives, baby, yeah Bryan: That's right. That's right. Contra. Contra. Yep. He did the cheat code, my friends. He did the cheat code. Jason: He did it, J Core. We're virtually unlimited, Bryan: Now we got Jason: dude. Bryan: unlimited munitions. You didn't know you had a cheat code on life, huh? Jason: Like Call of Duty hacker. He's a hacker. He's he's cheating, using cheat codes. He's got unlimited Bryan: Well he Jason: weapons. Bryan: Are you ready? Damn, it's already eight o'clock. Jason: Yeah, play that funky music white boy. Bryan: welcome back to the Sense and Senseless Podcast. I'm Brian. Jason: I'm Jason. Bryan: He is Jason. Jason: Yes, mother. Bryan: For all you old fuckers, y'all know what that is, Jason, Jason. Jason: Friday the thirteenth, baby. Bryan: It's your first time joining us. Welcome to the family. We're just two guys talking about real shit going on in the world in a way everyone can hopefully understand. All Jason: Mm. Bryan: right, in this episode, we're going to discuss the war in Iran, how the Houthis are trying to choke off Saudi oil exports, the state of America's munitions stockpiles after months of intense fighting. How our oil reserves stack up against China and Russia. And whether those two are just sitting back waiting for us to overextend ourselves. Jason: Gas prices are up again. Bryan: They're going up. Then we're gonna talk about the lobbying machine and why the system is set up the way it is. All right, well please like, share, comment, subscribe. We appreciate every one of you. Jason? Guy there? Jason: I didn't know we were still in a w are we in a war with Iraq or Iran? Bryan: I say yes. I mean we've been bombing them, I think, eleven days straight. Jason: I thought that was I thought we were done with that, sorry. I'm just joking. Bryan: No, we well well we were. But then we wasn't. Then we were then we wasn't, then we were. Then then we were were. Then we wasn't wouldn't. Jason: It's like a bad marriage. Bryan: Yeah, it's it's pretty fucking bad. What is that, that hall sex? That's that that's Jason: Yeah, that hallway sex where you pass each other and say F you Bryan: that's where we at with Rob Rand right now. We can get into the violent portion of the hall sex. Jason: Mm. Bryan: But basically we're just going back and forth tit for tat and Trump's talking about up in the anti stating that if we're gonna Gonna we're gonna start destroying their bridges and power plants for every vessel that Iran attacks. And he says he's even talking about striking Tehran. And then Iran basically says, okay, let's do this shit. And Israel, I don't know, some people say, even Trump, that, you know, they they don't want Israel involved right now, but Israel's just sitting back and just letting us lead the way of their fucking war. I wish we're stuck in this shit with no good way out. I don't know, man. If there was a good way out, we'd have probably already taken it, right? Jason: Yeah. I like when they threaten Iran. You d I just got a vision in my head and people please bear with me on this one. It's like watching paraplegic basketball. Listen to me. As as Bryan: Ha ha Jason: when people aren't paralyzed and you watch them playing basketball and they flip over in their chair and you're like, crap, wonder if he got hurt. He's already freaking paralyzed people. And that's Bryan: Yeah. Jason: how Iran is. I mean, stop threaten them with shit. They're like We already live in a shit box. You think you're gonna make it worse by dropping bombs on it? Well okay. I mean we don't need bridges with camels and Bryan: When I I I I like the analogy, but I thought paraplegic meant that all four limbs didn't work. Jason: I don't know. Like paralyzed. Bryan: I don't know either. That's why when you said paraplegic, I was thinking that Jason: No. Bryan: there's just people out there in a wheelchair, just fucking Jason: No. Bryan: torsils, just riding around with a ball. I was like, how the fuck they play basketball? Jason: No, no, that's that's they fit in the category, but no paraplegic is is it can they can be any any p form of paralysis Bryan: Mm-hmm. Jason: is considered paraplegic. Gee, you're like, the dude with the thing sorry, I'm gonna get in trouble for this. Bryan: Yeah I was like yeah they they blowing in a fucking tube playing basketball like how the fuck Hey I never said I was smart, Jason: Hey, sorry. I'm going all right. Bryan: you know? So when you said that I'd fucking yeah exactly Jason: You're gonna have to cut that out. I know you're not gonna cut that out, Gulk. Jeez. Bryan: I ain't cutting that out. Fuck that. Jason: Lord have mercy on me tonight. Dang man. Sorry. Bryan: All right. All right, so we'll move on from that real quick then. So what what what does a win look like? Jason: It ain't blowing in a tube in a wheelchair, I know that. Bryan: We've been told multiple times that Iran has lost this war and we have decimated them. You know, we obliterated everything that Iran has to fight with. Jason: Once again, they were decimated before we went over there. I mean. Bryan: That's what I'm saying. Yeah, and they still fighting. Well, I mean, we did everything to and Yeah, I I yeah I don't know. Yeah, we we're told that Iran can't have a nuclear weapon, but we're also told that we obliterated their nuclear stockpile last year, so I don't know what the fuck's true in that. So what's the end game? I mean trump has said in the past that the end game was zero uranium and unconditional surrender. Then they talk about maybe they can have nuclear capabilities for energy. So what is it? Is this you know? I I I get that we're not privileged privileged daughter conversations that they have in the White House. I I get it, you know, but I don't really think they have a plan for an end game. I just don't. I I think this is what I think. I think our war games that they that they played out in the war room. in that war room simul simulator didn't ha didn't work in real life. And now Jason: No Bryan: and now our leaders are Jason: I think people like freaking what's his name that passed away from South Carolina, Bryan: Lindsey Graham? Jason: Lindsey Grant, I think people like that got Trump well and probably B B too. Somebody's got pulling strings right, and we were talked into going and doing this and it's it was a bad decision. Bryan: I think, yeah, it was definitely a bad decision. And I don't really think that we can't you know, I joke a lot about us and like even you, we d we're destroying, we're blowing up the sand over there, right? We're just blowing up Jason: Yeah. Bryan: the sand. But I really think that if we wanted to, we could we have the military to where we could destroy Iran. I mean, we have the The capability of doing that. Why we would want to do that, I have no idea. And I think that would really look shitty to the world if we went over there and just took some humongous bombs, you know, and just flattened Tehran and all that shit. I don't think it would end well for us if we did that, because the world would hate us. Jason: Right. Right. Bryan: But I don't know any other way to get out of it without without putting boots on the ground. Yep. Jason: Other than just to pack your shit and say we're sorry we should have never been here in the first place. And I don't understand why we can't why can't we say that? We messed up. Is it I would respect him. It'd be a lot cheaper Bryan: It'd be a lot cheaper. It would save us lives. Jason: and I would have a lot more respect for the administration just to say just be transparent and say we screwed up. We should have never went over there. Bryan: Well, people today just can't admit they're wrong anymore. You know, they just gotta no one, you know, admit it's it's it's shameful to to admit you're wrong and do the right thing. You know, shame. Shame. Jason: It's like a marriage, Brian. You know, if people would just learn to be transparent and admit their faults and try to get better, marriages work a lot better. It just Bryan: Yeah, but right now this is the king. It's the king in the world. Jason: the king, yeah, I forgot. We Bryan: You don't have to ask for anything. I forgot to mention that this week Trump said that he was gonna allow Saudi Arabia to have a nuclear weapon. Jason: Sweet. Bryan: Yeah, huh? Jason: Isn't that where the cats came from that ran into the tire? Bryan: I'm glad I thought the same thing. So I I had to look it up just to make sure that we were correct. And it says, while the 9-11 Commission report concluded that there's no evidence that the Saudi government as an institution funded Al-Qaeda, it did find that 15 of the 19 hijackers were Saudi nationals. Osama Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: bin Laden was Saudi born. Some hijackers received money, housing, and help while in the United States. From Saudi donors and charities with Saudi government links. So technically, the Saudis didn't have any direct involvement with the tech on the US on 9-11. Jason: But they were all from Saudi. Bryan: Yeah, but that that might be fucking true, right? But technically, the Saudi government had nothing to do with 9-11. Jason: Didn't do nothing. Bryan: I didn't say they didn't do anything. So they didn't have a hand in it technically. Jason: Technically. Bryan: Well, let's just put it this way. If the Saudi government even knew there was a plan to attack the US, you know, because Jason: Right. Bryan: if they had all those people involved and it was all coming from Saudi and they had any kind of intelligence, they would have known that. They should have at Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: least let us know prior to the attack. And if you didn't, you're still complicit, right? Jason: Where would the fun have been in that to let us know? What what about Bryan: Well, I agree with you. Jason: what about Israel knowing about the Beirut bombing? They knew that was coming and didn't say Bryan: yeah. Jason: nothing to us. Bryan: I'm not saying that Saudi you didn't you didn't know or didn't know and didn't tell us, but if they search on Jason: And if you're new to listening to us and you listen to this whole thing, we thank you. But we'll just let you in on a little secret. We don't fully agree that it happened it played out the way it played out. I mean, I think I think there was some means that needed to be done overseas and they needed America to come together and support that. And that's how that's we gotta get the full United States on board with this. So how do we do it? We make it look like they attacked us. That's what I think. Bryan: I I I agree with you, but should given that and thinking that Jason: Yeah. Bryan: way, should Saudi Arabia be allowed to have a nuclear weapon? Jason: No, I name it ain't none of them over there should have one man, because like I said, Bryan: Ha ha ha Like kids running around with scissors over there. Jason: Yeah. Bryan: Dick Right, you ain't gonna have that. Jason: It's just like criminals over here, certain people that don't don't get to have guns after they've committed a felon or different things, right? That's that's your punishment. No nukeful yule. Bryan: No nuke for you. No nuke for you. Go. No nuke for you. Next All right. Jason: The nuke Nazi. Instead of the soup yeah, instead of the soup Nazi, we're the nuke Nazi. No nuke for you. Get out. Cheesebugger, cheeseburger, cheeseburger. Bryan: Bess it, best, best. Alright, let's talk about our munition Jason: Okay. Bryan: stockpiles. Jason: Do we have those two? Somebody's making Bryan: well I Jason: hand over fists on this shit. I'll tell you that, because we're going to a lot of stuff. Bryan: yeah. And I don't have of course I don't have any inside knowledge on any of this shit. But this is the from the best information I could find online. And maybe they have more out there that proves what I'm about to say wrong, but this is what the fuck I found. I that's that's how I'm gonna preface this. So the US entered Iran conflict with already strained stocks from years of support to Ukraine and defending Israel and the Gulf partners, right? But our commander in chief, President Trump, has said US munitions are virtually unlimited. Department of Defense Jason: 'Cause he w Hold on, he went up up down left right left right A B start and he's like Unlimited lives, baby, yeah Bryan: That's right. That's right. Contra. Contra. Yep. He did the cheat code, my friends. He did the cheat code. Jason: He did it, J Core. We're virtually unlimited, Bryan: Now we got Jason: dude. Bryan: unlimited munitions. You didn't know you had a cheat code on life, huh? Jason: Like Call of Duty hacker. He's a hacker. He's he's cheating, using cheat codes. He's got unlimited Bryan: Well he Jason: weapons. Bryan: the Department of Defense officials have said sufficient musician munitions are available and they keep of course all this classified so none of us can really know. But independent analysts disagree with this status of munitions. Jason: You don't say. Bryan: No, you don't say. All right, so most of the assessments we're about to cover have come from CSIS, which is the Center for Strategic International Studies. This is a nonpartisan think tank and research organization in DC. Now, according to the CSIS analysts, supplies are running low but have not reached a critical level. The U.S. has depleted its missile inventories. But still has enough to continue fighting under any plausible scenario. The real risk is future war against a peer competitor like China. A ceasefire in the spring helps somewhat, replenishment rates remain low, roughly fifteen new Tomahawks and twenty new Patriot missiles per month, with no thad deliveries forecast in twenty twenty six. Jason: No Thad? Man, we're out of stock on Thads. I went to order one and said out of stock. Like shit. But did you see the Dow? But did you see the Dow? Bryan: No thad. CS We Out of that. It's gonna take a few years to get some thads. Did you check your local store though? You can check other stores to see Did you see the dial? CSIS estimated it would take three or more years to rebuild inventories to pre-war Jason: Thori? Bryan: levels. Just three or four. Jason: I'm going somewhere else. Bryan: A former Pentagon comp troller put the full replenishment timelines at two to five years for most systems. One defense expert noted that as of mid-July, Congress had not yet appropriated funds to replace a single missile. Overall assessment today is that the stocks of critical precision guided munitions and missile defense interceptors are pretty depleted. The Iran operations created or widened a window of vulnerability. All right. So that's what is about our pre-war levels. But what has the Pentagon said? Officials from the Pentagon have stated sufficient munitions existed for plausible Iran scenarios, but officials treat exact figures as operational security. The government is ramping up production, but new deliveries face long lead times, often two to four years. So what is the answer? Well, according to the Pentagon, it is a one point five trillion dollar budget. They want they want another five hundred billion added to their budget. Right? Bil Jason: Brilliant. Bryan: billion. Jason: Brilliant. Bryan: Which you think it pass a fucking audit, I would stand behind this. Jason: No. Bryan: You know, but damn, you know how much money we gotta lose before we hold these motherfuckers accountable? Jason: The Pentagon dude just be spinning it like a damn like we we were talk I'm not naming any names now 'cause we're recording, but the people we were talking about early, you Bryan: Yeah. Yeah. Jason: know what I'm saying? They just spinning it like it's crazy. Like they don't they they'll never because you can't shut down defense. You can't shut down Bryan: Nope, exactly. Exactly. And and for those of y'all that that first time listener might not know, the defense department hasn't passed an audit since it became mandatory in twenty eighteen. All right. Now you gotta figure out your fucking taxes every year to the fucking penny, right? But Jason: Yeah. Bryan: the Pentagon, nah, Jason: Thing I do crap. Bryan: they can go tell you go fuck yourself. And and then just like you said, you they know why because they know you're gonna stand behind the troops. You're not gonna tell the we we're gonna cut your budget because we want the best for our troops. We love our country, you know, and we love the minute. yeah, yeah, they cut some shit, yeah. Jason: Right. Even though they did when we were in there we were told they were cutting shit all the time. Bryan: But I mean we love the men and women that protect us. Jason: Yeah. When we want to have the best equipment and the best gear and the best weapons and all that. So yeah. Write a check. You know where Bryan: And the Jason: our munitions are? They're they're they're with the covet ventilators. Bryan: I forgot about the COVID ventilators. Jason: Every time you were talking about that, I was like, it sounds like the ventilators back in COVID. I know they say we don't have any ventilators, Bryan: yeah, where did all them fucking things go? They spent a lot of fucking money. Jason: but we got a bunch. We got warehouses full. That's what Trump was saying. We're we we got they're beautiful. Yeah. He built Bryan: yeah. But yeah, but he was he was building all them. Didn't he get like a car Jason: some in his Oval Office. He had a little kid in there. He was building ventilators every day. Bryan: But after you built all they didn't need so they they never showed Jason: Yeah. They're beautiful though. I heard they're beautiful. They're the best. The best of the biggest. They got ventilators that'll run six people at a time. Bryan: The they're the best. They're the biggest. They're the big the biggest best. They're the beautiful the most beautiful Jason: You know, and aren't we giving Ukraine Patriot missiles like Bryan: what do we do with the ventilators? We send it to the same place that fucking makes those things that milk cows. So that's the only mold they had left, so it put the six Jason: Yeah dairy farms. Yeah. Bryan: people. Jason: Yeah. Sorry. Squirrel. Bryan: I'll go away off topic. Squirrel. Well, all where does all that money go? And it evidently it's not for what we want, you know, and and to protect our country. Jason: Right. Bryan: Since 2020, we the taxpayers have given the Pentagon somewhere between five point five and five point eight trillion dollars. All right. Hold on, let me let me I just thought about this. Since twenty twenty, we have given the Pentagon Five and a half to almost six trillion dollars. How many wars we had since twenty twenty? Us, the United States. Jason: No. Bryan: So where's all our fucking munitions? All this fucking money we gave them. Why are we low on anything? Seriously. Jason: Probably Israel, probably Ukraine. 'Cause we give it away, dude. Bryan: That is man. That that's my point, right? I Bandon just makes me mad. 'Cause now he wants five hundred billion more of our money because he can't Jason: Well I know you're yeah, and I know you're fixing to talk about the two powerhouses, the other two powerhouses Bryan: Yeah. Jason: and how they do stuff. Dude, they would take like four states and just wipe out and use those for stockpiles. Like four states worth of ground of w just nothing but bunkers and warehouses full of freaking missiles Bryan: Yeah. Jason: and munitions and military stuff. Bryan: And ours is Jason: They don't care. Bryan: is in somebody's bank. Jason: Yeah. Bryan: It's ridiculous when you think of it that way. Jason: Yeah. I remember when I was in the guard, we go on the range every year, same as the Marines, but they were worse on the guard. They would sit there like you try to sneak some rounds 'cause they'd only give you a set amount for the for the qualification, right? Well, Bryan: Yeah. Jason: c come on, man, give me more. So I would I'd I'd get back in line and get an and if they catch you, they'd be like, Man, come on now, like, dude, are we hurting? And they they act you had to go pick brass up because they wanted to reload that stuff. Bryan: Yeah, we had to pick Brazil. We they quit giving us rounds in Japan. and step on the fire line 'cause one of the guys, a sergeant ended up shooting himself in the fucking Portageon and in the berms. You just heard a round just go off like, what the fuck? Jason: That that's the worst death right there. I mean, 'cause if you took your life in a marine portage on, that's and I'm not making fun of this dude. That's nasty. Bryan: Yeah. Yeah, I get ya. Yeah, you yeah, that's nasty. Jason: Now you were really suffering if you went in there and committed sui. I mean, just to go in there was pushing committing suicide to begin with, much less putting a weapon. Bryan: Yeah, especially on a hot day. Jason: Ugh. Bryan: All right. So in twenty twenty four, the last audit I found Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: for the defense defense department, the Pentagon couldn't account for their eight hundred and twenty-four billion dollar budget. And and then they just voted to add support for Israel in our mandatory spending. I don't know. I I'd like to see our return on investment, but I'm pretty sure we're getting fucked on this investment. Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: But again, we want to protect our troops. We want to make sure they have everything they need. We love them. So they use that against us. You know? And remember just last week we were talking about those 155 millimeter artillery shells that they we spent what nearly 500 million dollars on. Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: Nothing ever come out of it. I mean they made some shit. It wasn't worth the fuck, so you couldn't use it. But where'd that money go? We don't get a refund Jason: Right. Well. Bryan: on that? And that that's just a small piece that we know about. Jason: You know, it it reminds me of child support. Bryan: Yeah. Jason: Like when your ex wife tries to jack your child support up and you're like, Nah, this is ridic and she's like, Well, you don't love your kids? You don't want your kids Bryan: Yeah, exactly. Jason: to have the best? Yeah, I guess I do. Yeah. Bryan: Yeah. I know I'm getting fucked. But you do. I mean, and you do everything you can, you know, as long as you can. But Jason: Yeah. Well. That's what our government does to us. They throw that over our head. Do you not want to take care of the troops? How about we not Bryan: And we do. Jason: put in stupid ass situations? That's how we take care of them guys. Bryan: yeah, it's Just imagine the scale of wasted money just in the Defense Department. That's just one department. I mean, it's a big chunk of change, but it's just one department. I mean, that right there tells you that our politicians and our government bureaucrats don't give a flying fuck about you. All they're doing is want to line their pockets. If we for us not to have the weapons we need in the time that we fucking need them, that means that we're not preparing ourselves for anything. All we're doing is looking at the almighty dollars just fucking passing through their hands. They don't give a shit what we have to actually protect ourselves. Most of them already have a bunker and Shit in place, should something fall out, you know? Jason: Yeah, no kidding. I mean, if if we rated our government like a business, dude, they would be in the like the top five worst businesses ever. I mean, they would have already bankrupt they wouldn't even make it a year without being bankrupt and falling falling apart. Bryan: Boy, can you imagine how corrupt their HR department would be? Jason: gosh. Bryan: I wouldn't want to even imagine that. man. Jason: Yeah, that'd be a nightmare. HR nightmare. Bryan: So I mean, am I wrong for being mad that we don't have the munitions that we need to protect ourselves, yet alone be over across the globe? Jason: I'm nervous if we're not if unless we're hiding stuff and really got a tight lip on it that this CSIS doesn't even can't even get a little inkling of of intel from. You know they're talking to some inside people. There's some people probably leaking shit out to them. If they're Bryan: Yeah. Jason: running if they're running this kind of report, they're getting some kind of information. Yeah. So Bryan: They have something. Yeah. They have something. Jason: It it makes me nervous. This shit just don't make itself. So unless you see all these factories rising up and building this stuff. Bryan: Well, I did see that somebody in the Jason: I mean, w where's it coming from? Does it have a shelf life? Bryan: that was the other thing, shelf life. But I did see that somebody in the Trump administration had mentioned that they were reaching out to Ford or maybe General Motors or something about munitions. I don't know how true that is, you know, if we already go into that. I don't know. But if if they Jason: I just bought a Ford Raptor with a frickin' rocket launcher on it, baby. Yeah. Bryan: You know, but i i if they are reaching out like that, that that tells me right now is yeah, we in a critical spot. Jason: Yeah. Isn't that what World War Two was? They they they converted a lot of regular factories into munition factories and things to for building military gear. I mean. Bryan: And yeah, and 'cause they wasn't making a lot because they they putting their money back into the people instead of the military after the depression, you know. And Jason: Right. I forget. Yeah. shoot. Vietnam or somebody somebody said there was a chance that you may grab a sixteen and pull the handguards off of it and it was made by Mattel or or Tonka or some of them toy factories, right? 'Cause of the plastic on them. Bryan: Yeah. Jason: It wasn't it was because like Vietnam or something, when they came out, they couldn't keep up with the production, so they had to entice these other companies that that were good with plastic and all that and send sent them the molds to mass produce those to help keep keep going. You know what I'm saying? I remember that now. I I was like, man, that just clicked in my mind when we were in the Marine Corps. Somebody said that. You there there might be a time that you see a you know, when you're breaking your sixteen down, you might see a toy factory stamp on the Bryan: Man, I had time to read what's inside my sixteen handgun. The f done. Jason: I put out a good tidbit, a good nugget of information there and you're like Bryan: That was a good nugget of information. I never heard that before. Jason: I got your nugget and I just threw it back in the damn ocean a nugget. Shut up, fucker. Did I say talk? You shut your mouth. You spoke a too pretty good. If I want any lip off you, I'll scrape it off my zipper. Now Bryan: well. Alright, so how does all this did I yeah, did I speak when spoken to, freak? Jason: drop down and give me twenty. Bryan: All right. So how does all this shit compare to Russia and China? And yeah, Jason: they have. Bryan: I'm not gonna bore everybody with the numbers, but these are some of the comparisons. So it says that Russia excels in mass conventional munitions, artillery dominant, and has demonstrated rapid wartime production increases, allowing it to sustain high expenditure and rebuild stock. It outpaces the US and raw artillery volume but trails in advanced precision. Systems. China holds the broadest advantage in scale and production, speed across missiles and munitions with proactive arsenal growth. It poses the greatest long term challenge to the U.S. stockpiles and a peer conflict. And U.S. maintains qualitative superiority and is actively rampant production funding, but faces longest recovery timelines due to complexity of its systems and prior commitments. All right, so if we end up Iran conflict, I mean, this would help us, you know, get our munitions up. And our munitions are superior weapons, but having munitions to keep fighting is the thing. So you can have the most superior weapons, but if you don't have any, you know, it it becomes a problem. And I think the US really understands this. And I say that because it was late this afternoon, actually, I read this article. And I threw it in here. Was is that where's this article from? TWZ. It came out yesterday and it says that the Pentagon is ordering the older style Patriot missiles from Raytheon. These missiles haven't been ordered in 20 plus years. All right. So they have the Pac Two missiles, and that's predates to Pac Three of what we have now for the Patriot missiles. Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: But the problem is is they still got a long lead time on the back tube missiles. So it still might be a year before we get those. But I should also note that it was mentioned in this article that the House Armed Services Committee asked the Secretary of Army to provide a briefing no later than March first, 2027, on the Patriot Interceptor inventories. They want to know the capabilities and limitations of both the PAC two and three, as well as the current stockpile levels, planned deliveries, and an assessment of the inventory. And they also want any recommendations to address shortfalls. So all that leads me to believe that our munitions are low. Or at least lower than we would like. You know? I mean, am I looking at that wrong? I don't understand why they're giving till March first, twenty twenty seven. Jason: I I don't know. Bryan: You know, I need to know exactly why we we don't have what we need right now, but I'm allow to research that for the next eight months, whatever. Figure it out. Yeah. Maybe you might find some in the back in the corner of the warehouse or something when you're looking. It's like Jason: We don't even get that where I work, man. Like the other night I was I get I get into work and I get an email stating me and the day shift supervisor, Hey, I need you guys to inventory everything and I need it by tomorrow. Bryan: Yeah, he didn't ask you, did he? Jason: And I'm talking, yeah, no. Bryan: He didn't request like Jason: We get told last minute. We don't get no dang eight, nine month chance to inventory our stuff. Bryan: Well you need to go pla complain to your government HR. They Jason: Yeah, I guess. Bryan: might be able to help you out. No, but the government HR is the one you need to complain to. I'm not talking about R HR. Well gotta find a government Jason: I actually like R HR. Yeah. Yeah, where's that? I've I've never found that government H HR. Bryan: one. Jason: Remember when you could request mass back in the day? That was a that yeah, you Bryan: Yeah, who the fuck was gonna do that? Jason: Yeah, y you're you're just asking for the i y Bryan: Yeah. Just take the ass whipping and move on. Jason: Yeah. Cause 'cause the higher you go up in mass Bryan: It's gonna be much easier for you. Jason: the the the the harder that ass whooping gonna be. You might as well just take the local ass whooping instead of getting jumped. Bryan: That's right. Yeah. Yeah. What they telling you is, yes, y you can ask. You might not like it, but you can do it. That's right. Jason: But the higher you climb, the harder the fall is, so you might as well just fall off the stepladder instead of the mountain there, homie. So Bryan: It's probably a little different though now, I would assume. Jason: dude, the stress cards and wonder if we get a hold of some of those. I'm I'm gonna look those up. Yes. It was. Bryan: Is that even real though? Are you sure? Jason: Yes. Bryan: I just can't see. Jason: I seen videos of it. This was yeah, and I'm telling you, I d I don't believe it was AI stuff. No, there was Bryan: No, I'm not saying it was. I just can't believe that you would have stress cards. You know, Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: I mean the whole reason to stress you the fuck out is to break you down to nothing. You know, I should Jason: Yes. To teach you how to pr operate in stress. Bryan: Exactly. Jason: Cause we made fun of what are you gonna do when you're in a firefight with the enemy? Raise your card up and say, could you guys stop shooting for at least ten minutes? I'm stressed Bryan: Yeah, so I just Jason: out. Bryan: I just thought that was like a running joke, that that wasn't real, that people, yeah, you got the stress card. Jason: Mm mm. No no. They had a little card or something, I forget what color. Bryan: You mean you say they had, so they still do it? They don't do it anymore? Jason: I don't know if they still let's see. Bryan: I'd be mad as fuck if they had stress cards and I was the next platoon going in and they pulled the stress cards. You you on the fucking base, you see all these other motherfuckers grabbing them stress cards and you sitting there fucking having to Jason: Does the military still use stress cards in the boot camp? Bryan: do all these push-ups and shit. Be mad as fuck. Jason: Mm-hmm. It says no, the US military does not use stress guards in boot camp today and there is little credible evidence that they were ever an official widespread policy. The idea of a stress card usually refers to a supposed card that recruits could show to a drill instructor to stop being yelled at or to report excessive stress. This has become a long running military myth. And here's here's what is known. I swear to God, I I seen it a lot of this stuff or heard about it back in the early two thousands. The Marine Corps has consistently denied ever issuing stress cards. Army, there have been stories that some Army basic training unit units e experimented with them. Bryan: Yeah, I I just could never understand, you know, when people say stress cards and it's like you can't you can't develop a a true fighter like that. You just can't. Jason: This some bitch knows that I was in the Marine Corps in nineteen ninety three. Bryan: But yeah, you talk to it every fucking day. You don't have to tell it that you talk to it. Jason: I never told it that stuff. I don't think no or no, I know but Brian, I talked to a lot of people. Just 'cause I talked to they don't know I was in the military if I didn't tell I never told this thing I was in the military. Bryan: That phone will, that phone can link everything together. And you tell it Jason: Gosh, it knows I got a three inch pecker. Bryan: and you tell it everything. Jason: Do you hear you didn't hear what I said? Bryan: Yeah, you said you had a three inch back. I heard you. Jason: Yeah, you wanna see my packer? Bryan: It probably seen you, Pecker. That's why y Jason: You probably remember it's a different environment. Today's marine boot camp still involves intense physical and mental stress, but instructors operate under more structured over more structured oversight and are pro prohibited from hazing. Physical abuse are unauthorized punishments. They can't do that, Brian. But anyway, sorry, phones down. Bryan: All right, you ready to keep going? All right. Let's talk about the oil. The oil. Jason: Ye yeah, let's keep going. Sorry for the squirrel sidetrack. Still, do me hey, do me some research. Find out why gas goes up and down that's in the tank, but the oil on the counter never moves. Bryan: I heard a guy talking about that the other day, and he said it's because the gas is so on a prediction of what they're gonna get out of it. Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: You know, so it moves like that. He explains it all, and I'm like, okay, it made sense, but it didn't make sense, so I don't really fucking know. Jason: All right. Well, I would like a l a l a little segment of one of our shows that you can Bryan: Well go ahead and take care of that. Jason: That's not my business. If we get into telecommunications, I will do a segment of that. Bryan: my God, so all of this is mine. You know telecommunications. Jason: You hadn't want to talk about internet and fiber optics and all that stuff. When you wanna talk about that, I'm your dude. You're the oil junkie. Bryan: I don't know nothing about fucking oil. I don't care about oil. Jason: You could throw a damn rock and hit a damn oil refinery from your damn house. Bryan: That don't mean shit. That don't mean shit. Somebody leaves lives next door to a fucking hospital don't mean he gives a shit about medical stuff. Jason: Well, I could talk about coal mining and I've never worked there 'cause I can see the coal chute. I know enough people, I've heard enough. Bryan: I didn't grow up around here. I grew up where people fucking commercial fish and work on shit. Not in plants Jason: Yeah, but you Bryan: where all this other shit goes on. Jason: Gosh, man. Bryan: Grew up over here in East Texas. Jason: East Texas. Eastside. Bryan: That's right. Let's talk about the oil. We discussed many times how our strategic oil level is low. And we use some of this oil to keep the oil prices down while we were fighting Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: for the straight off whole moose. Jason: The moose. Bryan: The moose. Now, currently, China has the largest strategic oil reserves in the world at around 1.4 billion barrels, a billion barrels. Jason: Babillion. Bryan: This equates to about 100 and 130 days supply for China. Now, currently, the US sits at around 337 million barrels of oil, which equates to about 18 to 40 days of supply as we are right now. So therefore, China has about four times the amount of oil reserves than the US. Now What happens if China's playing the waiting game? You know, what happens if China's waiting for us to commit to boots on the ground? And once we commit, they start shit somewhere else, you know? I mean, right now we're mobile, right? I mean we're we're about as mobile as we can get. We everybody's pretty much on a boat somewhere. And if we need to go somewhere, we can go somewhere. If we put boots on the ground, we commit it. You know, Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: you got to put a lot of shit behind that to support them boots on the ground. And it takes a lot longer to get off of that. So once we commit, I don't know how much we commit too. We're not just packing up and going see what the fuck's going on over here. You know, we got to send other, you know, forces in that area. It's really gonna split us up. I hope that's not the case. But I mean, what happens if they do are just playing the waiting game? Jason: I thought we didn't get our oil from anything coming out of that strait. Bryan: We don't. Jason: Okay, so why does that strait have to do with us? Bryan: As far as what? I'm talking about oil that's they have right now that they can use that's something we have to suck out the ground. Jason: I understand. Bryan: Okay. Jason: So to me, our reserves what I what I think of reserves is we got all these like stacks of oil tanks all over the place and we got X amount of of resource and it's eighteen to forty days is all it would supply. Bryan: That's our strategic reserve. We we could add to it as we pullin' oil out and processing it, but our strategic reserve, yes. Jason: Right. So if we're not getting from over there, why does that straight have anything to do with with our supply? Because we're still we're still getting it from wherever we're getting it from, right? Bryan: Technically nothing. But like we just it's it's about money. Technic yeah, ch Jason: I understand it makes the price go up and it's like stock market, like the stocks. Like if somebody gets nervous about a company Yeah. Yeah. Bryan: Why do we care? That that's the only reason why we would care. Is because of the money. It has nothing to do with our survival. We could survive like Jason: Yeah. Bryan: you said multiple times. I mean, we would take a hit, but if we just supported ourselves, we could survive. Jason: Yeah, we got enough oil in the ground around us to pull our own and run this country on for year like a long time, right? Bryan: yeah, we we we could easily do that. Yeah. That's not the problem. Jason: Yeah. Yeah. Bryan: But I guess the the bigger problem is is who owns that oil and wh who the fuck's running them people. Because, you know, it's the government doesn't own that oil, it's privately owned oil. Not the strategic oil, but you know what I'm getting at. All those oil that Jason: Right. And and well then my brain had a a epiphany again, you know, piphany's and yeah, I dated that girl once. Bryan: Piffney. I know Piffney, yeah, yeah. Jason: yeah, I I dated her once. She was all right. But anyways, Bryan: Sure there. Jason: if we don't get get it from the home or the straight, right? But other countries were and they can't get it from there, so they start taking it from whoever we get it from to, that person can't keep up with all of us, right? And and would that not deplete Some of the supply. Bryan: Say that again. Jason: Say say like say like make up a name like Country John over here supplying us Bryan: Mm-hmm. Jason: and all these other countries are getting supplied out of that strait and that strait shut down. So John's gotta start supplying all these other countries because of the strait being shut down. Now John is being strapped down real hard because he's trying to supply everybody. He he didn't have a He had enough to supply us, but he don't have enough to supply everybody else, but everybody else is hurting. You see what I'm saying? So the cost goes up, the supply goes down because this stuff here isn't Bryan: Yeah, supply and demand. Jason: yeah. Bryan: And and the demand is about to even go up higher because the supply is about to go down because I don't know if you saw that the Houthis start the they're starting Jason: Yeah, I I heard. Bryan: to attack the Saudi ships that's going into the Red Sea. So we is like one straight is the strait of Hormoose and then the the ha Jason: The most Bryan: and then the Yabadabadu, whatever the other one's called, the other strait where the Yemen people Jason: Yeah, but Bryan: at, where Yemen's at? The Houthis over Jason: Yeah. Bryan: there that The if they're a Saudi ship, they're shutting it down. They let a couple of Chinese ships go through. But Saudi ships, nope, they ain't going through there. Jason: So I guess we're gonna run over there and start beating up on the Houthis. Bryan: I drop talking about killing them too. I mean, this is all gonna drive all prices up again. Jason: Man, it almost Bryan: So the Jason: got under three dollars a gallon and it I filled up last night my work truck, it was three eighty a gallon. It's like, gosh, dang, we're fixing go on vacation too, driving to Nebraska. Bryan: They said that the exports out of Saudi Yanbu, the oil terminal that we're talking about, it Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: surged to 3.5 million barrels a day in June. That was up from 240,000 barrels a day a year earlier. So that was a 14,000% jump in oil export through that terminal. So since they couldn't get oil through the Strait of Hormouths, they were using that pipeline. We talked about this many weeks ago. They're using that pipeline to go across. land going to this refinery, this terminus, oil terminal, putting it on ships and they were able to still get it out. So they were making money hand over fist because they were still able to get oil out. Well now Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: they're not going to get any of the oil out. Now hold on, I can't say any, because they could still go through the Suez Canal. So that is another rope, but I don't think they can Jason: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Bryan: run as big of tankers through the Suez Canal. I could be wrong, but the Suez Canal is nowhere near the size of those two straights. So Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: it would still choke up. you know, it would delay oil. It if this shit keeps up, like you were saying, John dialing to John and supporting all, you're gonna run into one hell of a fucking shard at your oil. Jason: yeah. Bryan: And then at that point we might have to start looking at strategic oil. You know, now when you look at it that way, because we're gonna want to sell oil. So Jason: Yeah, why don't we? Bryan: Well we do. But it's not we. It's you know, the the companies. Yeah. Yeah, they don't want to sell Jason: Well, it's the Chevron and Mobile, yeah, it's all them big oil companies. Bryan: all, but you know what? That's the same one selling oil o overseas. That's the same companies. Jason: Yeah. Yeah. Bryan: You know, so they don't give a shit where they sell it. You know, they hope the prices go up. So I'm sure Saudi Arabia made a fuck ton of money off of, you know, shipping that stuff through the Saudi Yambo Hall terminal. They were now that they're cut off. I don't know how happy they're going to be. But Trump stated in a true social post that if the Houthis keep attacking Saudi ships, both the Houthis and Iran will pay the price. Because the Houthis are backed by Iran. No if you knew that. Jason: Well wonder if we can just can we not have people put Chinese flags on their tankers and just rock through there? Bryan: It's good. Falls flag. Jason: False flag, baby. Bryan: All right. Well, I hope that makes you feel better about the war in Iran. Jason: I'm yeah, I I'm gonna sleep well tonight. Thank you. Bryan: Ha ha That's what I'm here for. So let's talk about the fucking politicians. I I thought about this this week. Why why do senators fight so hard to keep their jobs? And it can't be their paycheck. So the paycheck's like $174,000 a year. That's good money. I'm not gonna say $174,000 in good in good money, but that that's not that's not money sell your soul. No. Jason: That's not life changing money, yeah. Bryan: No. So looking in it, I mean they so they got the power. They get leverage, they get access, they have perks while serving, so they get their good pension, they have a big staff and travel budgets, they have top-tier health coverage, and they treat it like fucking kings and queens. And Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: probably the biggest thing, they're able to trade stocks, you know, and this is the part that people find shady. Senators can legally buy and sell stocks while in office, even in the industries that they help regulate. So they they have all the information prior to anybody else. And they can make the trades that they want and it's all legal as long as they report it within forty-five days. So here's the fucked up part. Say you are following the Pelosi trend. And I I ha I I don't do stocks, but probably a good way to go. Following the Pelosi trend. But if she don't have to, you know say it publicly for forty five days, by the time you get on that trend, it might already went down. So they still, you know, have one hell of a fucking game against you. You know? Jason: Yeah, unless you can get somebody insider that knows what she's doing daily, that's leaking that stuff out, you're forty five days behind. You're never gonna catch what Bryan: No. Jason: she's doing. Bryan: It's fucked up. Jason: It is, dude. It it's it's like I don't know and I'm I I'm not trying to take this any further 'cause I d we try to keep these segments down to a you know, a manageable amount of time. But it's like the rumors that the NFL is rigged and scripted. Ever heard that one? I mean I I know it's rumors and it's probably tinful hat stuff, but It's it's like the government scripts like it's like, dude, they're just printing their own money. They're mak what did you say? They get a regular they get a vote on regulations and all and that drives prices up and down, up and down. You get it down, you buy a bunch, and then you lift those regulations up and let it soar, and then you you cash out. And then you do it again and you just keep doing this stuff. And it's dude, you're just your your parents said what Damn, Brian, you think money grows on trees? Politicians know they got money Bryan: For yep. Jason: trees out in the backyard. Bryan: Well, I mean, look what they've been doing with the oil prices. Jason: Yeah. Bryan: Remember all the money that we we talked about a few weeks ago about all the money they made when the oil prices just going up and down? Jason: Right. I mean, how many times did you watch a movie in the eighties and nineties dealing with the government that had government in there and it was like, They are so far fetched, man. There's no way that's a and now you're like, shit. That shit was real. Bryan: Yeah, it's it's the one with Will Smith and Gene Hackman. Jason: Yeah. Bryan: That one right there fucks me up now because of how they can just follow you everywhere with every camera. It's like that Jason: Yeah. Bryan: shit was not far fetched at all. Enemy of the state. That was Jason: Enemy estate, yep. And then anyone that you've seen where the politician is walking down the steps and then there's a limo down at the bottom and the window rolls in and all you hear is get in and they get in the car and they're getting told what they're gonna do and how they're gonna do this, and you're like, that's fetched and then you're like, no, that shit's real now. And it always has been. They were teasing us with it. Maybe they were conditioning They were conditioning us to that. Bryan: Probably so. They Jason: They were easing the tip in Brian so it didn't hurt as bad when we finally realized this is what's happening. And now they're like, what are you going to do about it? Like you Bryan: Well do nothing about it Jason: said, they're allowed to do this as long as they report it within 45 days of doing it. Bryan: And what you know is fucked up. That's not that's probably where they make the most money and shit. After they get out of office, Jason: No. They're getting paid off to do shit. Bryan: well yeah, after they get out of office, most of them become well, the good ones become lobbyists. Jason: Yeah. A bunch of your big five five or five hundred fortune, isn't that what it's called? Fort Bryan: Fortune five hundred. Jason: Fortune five hundreds. Sorry, listeners. a lot of them have pack teams in their company. To raise money through the employees, donate, right, to that PAC for that company, and that PAC team goes to the government and lobbies to get regulations and stuff set for that company to be able to be more profitable. Bryan: Yeah and Jason: Our company has one our company has one and they give away iPads and Xboxes and PlayStations and they have drawings every month, but they want people to donate. The company can't pay money into it, but the employees can. It's illegal for the company to pay into it. I don't do it. I'm sorry, I'm not about paying money to pay people off. I guess that that's probably what our tax money's going toward. Bryan: What's that? Pay it. Jason: Paying people off. Bryan: Yeah, you can't really prove it, but yeah. Here's a here's a quick good. Jason: It's it's no different than the cops, even down to your local police, Brian, that they they they seize money and drugs and guns and stuff off the streets. They turn around and put it right back out there. Bryan: Put what back out there to drugs and Jason: yes. well we're fishing for the big ones. We're fishing for the big people. Bryan: So you think they just giving them what you mean they putting the money back out there? Jason: Think sometimes they'll give it to damn undercovers and things like that to go back out. Yes. Bryan: and use it like that, yeah. But don't they still have to keep track of all that? Jason: They say they have to. Come on now. Bryan: You don't think they have to account for that? Jason: Come. Okay, does the Pentagon ha when's the Pentagon pass to nod it there, Brian? Bryan: No, I agree with you. I'm just curious. I I Jason: No. I mean who's seriously, who's reporting it? Bryan: Well, if if you are a law officer and you trying to hold me to a certain accountability, I expect you to be above and beyond the accountability you have to hold me to because just that's how it always should be. Anytime that you are over someone or you you ex you assuming power over someone, you should be better than that person. Period. Jason: Right. Bryan: You know? So if if your morals are worse than mine, how can you judge me on what I'm doing? Jason: Right. Yeah, but I'm telling you the stuff makes it back out. Bryan: I'm not saying it don't, I just it's just a flawed fucking system because the people the people are flawed. Jason: It is. It's crazy. I'm we're trying to get this off the street, but you keep recycling it. Bryan: All right, let's go over a quick overview of lobbying in Washington Jason: Wait, go ahead. Bryan: Night. So you take a handful of powerful congressional committees, control Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: big budgets, rules, and policies, and they get treated like kings by lobbying firms just to get your money. Industries pour hundreds of millions into influence every year through top lobbying firms. There's roughly four to five billion dollars every year spent on lobbyists. And that's just on our federal politicians. This is another one point four to two billion more spent nationally on state politicians. Nearly fucking four to six billion a year spent on politicians to get your tax money. So I'm gonna put that in perspective for you. The United Nations World Food Program estimated that $6.6 billion is needed to provide daily food aid to millions of people facing extreme food insecurity for a year. All right, so we could pretty much solve the world's hunger problem for a year with the money spent on lobbying. Or You can purchase roughly sixty commercial Boeing seven hundred seven airplanes on what we spent on lobbying. What spent on lobbying our fucking politicians every year. That's fucking sad. Jason: Imagine if we could buy one of those we could spend a lot more time together, dude. are you doing this Bryan: shit. Jason: weekend? I'll just fly down there to you, man. We'll hang out. Bryan: Yeah, so they got the most lobbied committees are your appropriations, house and senate. They have the armed services, which you can understand why they're fucking lobbied so much. They just hand money out, hand over fist. Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: energy and commerce, Jason: That's a big one. Bryan: the ways and means, which is your finance, and financial services, which is includes banking. These committees handle trillions in decisions. So defense contractors, pharma companies, hospitals, insurers target them heavily. But this is what I found that was fucking wild. And I didn't even think about all this shit. You always think about like the pharmaceutical companies and defense industries and all lobbying our politicians. But I didn't realize and just call me stupid. Like all major sports, major league, baseball, NFL, hockey, NBA, all of them lobby our politicians. gambling and sports betting, Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: tobacco, vaping, cannabis, payday lending. I would have never thought that. Jason: Dude, I I had to use them suckers one time like back in the day. That that takes like four paydays to get that thing straightened out. Bryan: Well, they call it it says payday lending or financial predators. Jason: Yeah. Bryan: They said they often call it alpha high interest loans. They fight caps and regulations. So they're fighting our politicians to be able to ash rape people more and pay payday lending. Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: well, hold on. We got exotic animal trade and trophy. Got funeral homes. Jason: Yeah, what the hell's up with funeral homes? Never heard of that one. Bryan: Balloon and party supply industry. Jason: What's this shit coming from, dude? Bryan: That's yes, really, it says yes really, they've lobbied against helium regulations and environmental rules on balloon releases. Professional cheerleading or minor sports leagues and porn. All of them lobby out all all these groups give money to our politicians to get your money. I I just everybody that has an industry somewhere is fucking paying our politicians to get business. Or get some regulations taken off of them. And that is just fucked up. Jason: I know. The funeral home one still cracks me up. We lobby for Bryan: And again, most Yeah, I mean, why do you Jason: dead people. Bryan: Yeah, well what do you need regulations on funeral home? I mean y is is your business that bad? Jason: Unless you're like EPA or something drank you know, because of the chemicals and all that. Well, no, the chemicals. Bryan: The cremator? yeah, that too, yeah. Yeah. Jason: Maybe how you have to handle that and all that. Maybe they're like it it's maybe it's a lot of money or whatever to dispose of the formaldehyde and all the stuff that they pump in you or whatever. I don't know. Bryan: Yeah, I just I didn't I didn't think I didn't think they had that many people trying to rob our fucking politicians. So I mean just think about Jason: Yeah. The helium with the balloons. Bryan: so once you get in that position, I mean everybody's throwing just money at your feet. And Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: so these lobbyists are mostly former politicians or staff, you know, that already know the system. Jason: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Bryan: And then there's just this big ass revolving door of all this skunk. That people Jason: Right. Bryan: stealing your money for their benefit from politician to lobbyists, they can go back to politician. All this shit's legal. Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: Like how? I mean the game is fucking rigged as fuck. You know, it's always been rigged. Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: The rich have always ruled the masses and the government has always stolen from the people. The only difference now is they don't go door to door to take your fucking shit. It's all stolen electronically man. Yes. The US is it's it's the closest civilized society ever to being totally free. I mean, I don't know if there's ever been a total free society ever created unless it was well before. Like any s like civilization, maybe like the cavemen or something. Yeah. Jason: The K Man, yeah. Uga Booga. Bryan: Yeah, 'cause there's always laws, regulations, and hierarchy, right? Now, this is the first video I'm gonna play for you this week. This is called the system created by society. I think it runs pretty fast, so you might have to listen fast. Ain't nothing you can do about it. Just fucking buckle up, buttercup. Jason: Bend over and grab your ankles. Bryan: It's true though. Jason: It is. Bryan: I guess whenever you you you accept it, you know, it it's not so bad, but it's just it's hard to accept. Yeah. I I don't I don't boo hoo about it. You know, it's not like damn man, you know, I'm not going fucking, you know. Yeah, I guess some people that just fucking hate the man, you know, goddamn man keeping me down. Like, yeah, you know, my life ain't that bad. You know, it's yeah, I complain about shit, you know, I'm gonna complain about our government and all this shit. I know where I'm at. Yeah, I accepted a long time ago that I'm just trash. I get it. I never thought I was more than what I am. You know what I'm getting? So it doesn't disappoint Jason: Right. Bryan: me to know where I'm at in my life right now. Jason: No, and I think what it is they just give us a sense of freedom. But we it it really isn't true freedom. Bryan: SPRIDO Jason: Feel no Bryan: Ha ha ha. Jason: What'd he what'd he say? crap mercy. Mercy Wallace. Kept trying to tell him to say mercy. And right when they were gutting him, Freedom and the little tear rolled down their eye, next thing a war scene. It was great. Let's go put our I know I cried a little bit on Braveheart. Bryan: Tier roll down. Everybody's everybody. I didn't cry when old yellow died, but I cried when they killed him. Mm-hmm. Jason: I cried when when when they killed his wife, when that dude slammed her up against that post and slit her throat, I was like, man, what the hell? Then I knew he was gonna go off. Mel ain't putting up with that shit. Anyways. Bryan: You ain't no gen Var goddamn though. Jason: No, he wasn't throwing no no roundhouse kicks and Bryan: Ha ha ha Jason: that Who get that stuck face out? Bryan: It's he always had Jason: Like it was just Bryan: to throw those hands out. Jason: Yeah. Yeah, like that. Bryan: he'd look away. Jason: Like it was exhorting all this force from that Bryan: He was. You don't know. You don't know. You don't remember when he hit Chung Lee? Chung Lee's all his muscles fucking Yeah. Jason: Yeah, that yeah, right right in his stomach. He he and you see his his his like that slow mo of all Bryan: Yeah. Jason: his muscle just vibrating like like it was like like this high impact like when they slow mowed somebody getting hit by something and it's that you see all that kinetic force go through him. He was like and it was like Bryan: Right. Jason: Or when it that big tall dude that was bear hugging him and he Went down in the splits and hit that dude in the nuts and he went like that. That guy goes fell backwards. Yeah. It was so dramatic. I love it. But you can't get enough of it. When you see it, you'll watch it like Tombstone. You can't tell me Tombstone wasn't one of the best movies with Val Kilmer. Bryan: No, I'll I'll watch the fuck out of some tombstone. I ain't watching the fuck out of some Bloodsport. Bloodsport was just too bad of acting. I mean, they even had Jason: Come on. Bryan: what was his name from Revenge of the Nerds on there? Ogre. Yeah, they even had Ogre on there. And he was and he was probably the best actor. You know? Jason: Augur. Yeah. Yeah, Jackson. Jackson. Yeah. Put up your Dukes. You you Frank Dukes? And Jackson. Bryan: Frame dukes. Jason: Yeah, you come with me. I I show you. Go. Okay, USA. The big free target Chinese dude. Okay, USA. Bryan: Okay, USA. Ha ha. Jason: Why you teach him not me? That look that Bryan: No. Jason: young kid they used, like when he was re reminiscing, like him breaking in that house and trying to steal that sword. Bryan: I don't remember all that. I remember the Jason: Hi his sensei, his sensei. He broke into a sensei's house with another group of kids. dude, yeah. Bryan: that's how he ended up being working for us since I? Jason: Well his the his sensei son came in there and whipped his ass and then and then he you know, since the boy stayed and took his punishment, his sensei took trained him or was gonna train him and then Bryan: You know, d at the end of that movie they showed it all was all about Frank Dukes and then I read not long ago, it was maybe a few years ago that all that shit was made up. Yeah. I'm telling you, when Jason: They acted like that that was true. That was the true story. Bryan: you get a chance, Google about Frank Dukes. Let's finish this and I'll let you do that, all right? No. Jason: Okay. All right. All right. Yeah. Bryan: All right, so let's keep moving forward. So I said said many times, and and I know you agree with me, Jason, that despite all the faults we have as a country, we still believe we live in the best country in the world. Just bar nine. Yep. Jason: More the best turd in the toilet bowl. Bryan: And yes, our government hates you. Yes, the elites don't think of you as a human. But we still Jason: Mm-hmm. Bryan: have a great country and it's just up to us to realize this and make sure that our future generations understand that we have something good here. And we need to keep this shit at all costs. And here's a lady describing how she feels about the USA. Tell me that's not beautiful. Jason: it is. Bryan: True Pager, I don't know Jason: No, it's bec I said it like when I went overseas to Iraq and came back, it changed my outlook. Bryan: yeah. Jason: And I was telling my therapist that the other day. And and I got shitty with family and friends and all that because they were sitting there whining and crying about little and I'm like, you guys have no idea how good we got it. Shut the hell up. Shut up. Bryan: We got a we got agree. Just to be able to sit sit on a podcast like this and criticize our government, Jason: Hell yeah. Bryan: we have a great we have a great country we live in. Jason: Yep. And a dog on blood sport. Bryan: Damn cool. Jason: Kumate. Bryan: Got anything else, Jason? All right. I hope everybody enjoyed it. it was a little wonky, but we enjoyed ourselves. I think we had fun, huh? Jason: I I I haven't laughed w y you've had some that we just can't joke and laugh around, so this was good to have one we could cut loose. Bryan: All right. Well, I'm glad everybody enjoyed themselves. At least we did. Thanks everyone for joining us tonight. It was a pleasure spending time with you. Till next time, this is the Sense and Senseless Podcast. I'm Brian. Jason: I'm Jason. Bryan: It's Jason. Peace. Jason: Peace.