208 - Which History Era Is The Best? ft. Nick Freitas & The Fat Electrician | Unsubscribe Podcast Ep 208
02:27:13 Share

Always know your car's worth with Carvana Value Tracker.

California's going to be a great place to move to after the war. You say something about my mom and I'll beat your ass on the steps of the Capitol. I look like the American Harry Potter right now. It's absurd. What's the worst that can happen? War, man. Like, war can happen. Nuclear weapons are less disastrous than socialism. Nick's getting me fired up on a Friday. Good!

Say hi to Eli. He's racially ambiguous. Brandon, his hair is fucking fabulous. Don't I? A dark, dope disposition. And there's a fat electrician. Welcome to Unsubscribe.

Are we doing this? Yeah. Everyone ready? Somebody clapped. Yeah, I already clapped. Come on. We crapped. That's a second. First rodeo, dog. 207. Is this 207? No, no. You got to put it back down. You didn't wait for the count. God damn it, Nick. This is why we can't have nice things. All right. All right. We're going to hold it up. I'll pretend. New one. Oh, no. We can't pretend. You got to drink both, though. Here we go. Okay. On the count of three. Three, two, one.

We did it. Mission accomplished. Hi, everyone. Welcome to the Unsubscribed Podcast. I am joined today by Eli Doubletap, Nick, the Fat Electrician, and other Nick, Nick Freitas, and myself, Brandon Dornan. We've finally morphed into the same person. I'm glad you're wearing a shirt for this. Listen here. He wore his shirt. His watch. Yeah.

You know, it's like, really, this is how this is starting right out the gate. Up until now, I was the only Nick born in Chico, California to be on the podcast.

Really? Yeah. Were you really born in Chico? Yes. You're kidding me. I swear. Oh, so was I. Yeah, yeah. That's nuts. It'd be weirder if you weren't. Wow! What are you talking about? What a cool, fun fact, Nick. I was born in Texas. Well, now I'm waiting for him to break into like a five-minute explanation of my life. Like, funny enough, Nick Freitas. Today we're talking about... What's that? Today we're going to talk about... Yeah. This is...

I'm the fat politician. Did you live there for a while? Yeah, I lived there for like the first five years of my life. When was that? I grew up in California for the first 12 years of my life. Chico, Orland, Orville, Redding, Palermo. All right, so when was this? 1994 to early 2000s. We were there at the same time. Yeah. Wow. How old are you? Out of school. I'm 45. Okay, so you were a little bit older than me. You were driving a car. I was driving a fucking...

battery-powered Jeep by PlaySchool. It's fine. Look at me. My parents could afford a battery-powered Jeep. My dad stole the neighbor's battery-powered Jeep and spray-painted it so he could say it wasn't theirs. Look at me. My parents could afford electricity. Never mind. Your dad? Look, son! Strange! The neighbor's missing one.

Guess what I got for Christmas one year? Somebody else's PS2. It's a good dad. For legal reasons, that was a joke. Statute of limitations. Your father's stealing hearts and property. This is true. Welcome back. You just flew in last night. You just got in today. Yeah, actually this morning.

We were, this is the first week we haven't had to travel a whole bunch. Speak for yourself. Oh yeah, that's true. I've traveled more in the past six weeks than I think I have ever. It sucks. Yeah. It's all right. I think this is the first time we're going to have like two weeks staying in Texas. So fucking stoked for it. So looking forward to it. I haven't got, I haven't had to get on a plane in like a week and a half.

It's bad when the valet people know you and not just you, your family, everyone. They have memorized the last four of my phone number. Yeah. Hey, what's up? Fuck. So Mr. Nick, you, you flew in from, I've learned from Virginia. Yeah. So I live in a cold pepper, Virginia, which is about 70 miles outside of DC. So it's like close enough for the airport, but outside of blast radius, which is what I was going for. So perfect. Yeah.

I said they're kind of quasi-hoping, but... You get front seat tickets? Yeah, like, oh no, that's horrible. And all of our country's problems are solved. Wait, honey, give me five more minutes. I want to see this. Don't ruin it. Just do the talk, baby. Getting in a hazmat suit. What are you doing, honey? I'm going to steal the Declaration of Independence. It's not guarded right now. It's still the only things worth saving. I played Fallout 3. I know how this goes.

That is, you joined, I don't know your childhood at all because there's not much about it. That'd be weird. I know. I was like, oh, not much on this. This guy really knows. I was a little creeped out by that. Yeah, I made it four inches down the Wikipedia page. You were also born in low hospital. I was more surprised you did the special forces route. Yeah. From the reading of it, it sounded like you actually got

selected out of basic trading? No, no, no. Okay, I was like, you are like the 1% that I've ever known. No, no, that's exactly what happened. Like, my drill sergeant just looked at me and said, you son, you son are a warrior. Yeah, like, no, that's not at all. You did an 18X-ray contract and made it all the way? Fuck. There was actually a lot of people making it through 18X-ray at the height of the war because even though one of our principles is you can't mass produce soft, apparently they wanted to test that during the height of the war period. But no, no, I was...

I went to infantry basic training, then airborne, then 82nd airborne division. Um, I was actually going to get out at the 82nd cause it was peacetime army. Um,

And then that was 90, well, 2000, 2001 is when I reenlisted. So it was the crazy part was I looked at my wife and, uh, I had reenlisted. I was in the 82nd airborne second, the three, two, five. I had, um, I just graduated ranger school and I came back and I said, all right, it's time to reenlist, but I'm going to go over to first battalion because they were going to Kosovo. And that was the closest thing to a war going on. And so, um,

I got it all approved because, you know, when you're first enlistment, they let you go kind of anywhere. And then my Sergeant Major brings me and he goes, you're not going one battalion over. I'm like, Sergeant Major, what are you talking about? He's like, we've sent you to all these schools and stuff like that. You're not going one battalion. I don't care what you do, but you're not going one battalion over. So I was pissed. I came home and told my wife, Tina. I was like, babe, I'm getting out. Like, screw this. She goes, well, what are we going to do? I said, I'm going to, my dad was LAPD. I'm like, I'm going to go LAPD.

And she goes, baby, we haven't saved up any money. We, this wasn't part of the plan. Why don't we do one more enlistment? Cause they'll let you go wherever you want. I said, okay, you want to go to Italy or Hawaii? She goes, Hawaii.

Get to Hawaii four months later, 9-11. What's the worst that can happen? War, baby. I know what I'm doing for the next 10 years. And that's when I, so I volunteered for SF out of the 25th. Yeah, with the first group. 25th is, for anyone that doesn't know, it's a lot of road marching. That was like my biggest figure, always getting attached to anything like that. Because it's like Hawaii, beautiful beaches. Oh, yeah.

- Road marching. - Yeah. - And road marching. And this is not like how far would you road march? A week probably? - I mean, no, I mean the nice thing about, like you said, it was beautiful. But the nice thing about Hawaii was coming from the 82nd where they did stupid stuff just to do stupid stuff. You go to Hawaii and you'd have commanders out there like, all right, we're going to a four day field problem, but we just got the wave report back. So I think we've accomplished everything we need to. And you'd come in and have a four day weekend. Like it was a different world.

Oh, that's good. Pretty cool. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And then you got just spun up and then did you do employment with them or did you just go straight? No, I went over to, uh, so I went through the Q course, uh, became an 18 Bravo, which is a weapon Sergeant. And then, uh, did two tours in Iraq, one in oh six and one in oh eight.

So you were in Hawaii for four months and then you had to go to a little bit longer. So yeah, well, nine 11 happened and I hung out for a little while and then I decided I want to go to the Q course. Cause that had to be a conversation with my wife as well. Cause she was like, Oh, three years in Hawaii. I'm like, or a year. That's also interesting.

And then we get to go back to your favorite place in the world, Fayetteville, North Carolina. Oh, yeah. Wow. I mean, you were born and raised there, right? Yeah, I grew up on Fort Bragg, or at least on the periphery of it, because, you know, military families and shit like that. So my joke is that my parents were Army brats who never had the sense to leave.

Fort Bragg. Yeah. Not necessarily the greatest place in the planet. No, no. Well, when I was going through the Q course, we bought our first house and my wife took my daughter and went home while I was going through like phase two or something. And somebody broke into my house, lived there for three days, used my car to fence all of my stuff.

And then I had to leave like for a day of the Q course. And they were like, you get one day. And I had to go back, like fix it all. I mean, thank God she wasn't home when it happened, but of course she would have probably shot him. Go save us a lot of trouble, babe. Thanks a lot. But anyway, someone broke into your house and fenced. Wait. So they use not Mexican fencing. Senior, we have to practice getting over. Come on. He had to go scale the fence to his own property.

I was so confused. Gosh damn landscapers. Fencing is the video game term for selling. You can only think in Mexican construction terms. Like, hey, Eli, you want to go mudding? He shows up with sheetrock. Babe, we got to get these guys out of here. Hold on, hold on. Dude, that's an entire series for shorts. Absolutely, it is. Me, you, and Cody. Let's go mudding.

Where's the hole in the wall? Okay. Sorry. Now I'm tracking the story a bit better. Yeah. So then I went to end up going to first group. Yeah. I always joke that I've seen my wife cry four times. We have three kids. And the fourth time was when I told her I was going to have to go back to Fort Bragg. It's not a. Yeah. No, there's a reason I left.

Yeah. God, yeah. You stayed there for a while, didn't you? Yeah, it just made sense. Really, the final straw. Because I've got a bunch of family that are still there. Because my grandparents, they never left after the military or anything. So...

um but yeah covid was the last straw yeah it's like I've got like my family uh at least on my mom's side from Texas like all the way back to before it was Texas or before it was the United States so I'm like all right well I'm gonna go to Texas because covid was just a nightmare with the the governor there Roy Cooper yeah piece of shit thank you Iowa was awesome we didn't do shit yeah we do a thing yeah they were like 14 days we're like

Fine. That was it. Nothing else happened the entire time. North Carolina was a red state at the time still, but they had a blue governor. So they had like... Republicans controlled both houses, but you had Roy Cooper because Pat McCrory got ousted. I'm...

partially scared but partially looking forward to the day where i have grandkids and they get the assignment at school where they have to go home and interview their grandparents about living through the fucking great pandemic and like my my grandchild how many dead bodies did you have to step over on your way to work grandpa like literally none it's crazy in the states that uh stayed open you didn't really notice anything different they all stayed open they just except their economies didn't tank

Jake moved from California to here during that. So we went from LA to Spring Branch. Spring Branch is tiny. There's a Walmart and a Thai restaurant and a Home Depot. That's it. Out in the middle of the country, I had to drive 15 minutes to there and go back. Not much changed. Everyone wasn't rushing for

baby wipes, toilet paper, water. It was all there. Jake moved. He's like, do people just not wear masks here? I was like, what? No. Why would we? Yeah. He did not know what was going on coming from LA to that world. And then LA just,

Is it 90% of small businesses? They still do. We have to go to LA for, you know, once every blue moon, unfortunately. And there's still like, I'd probably say 5% of people still mask everywhere. Yep. Crazy. I think it's just an excuse for ugly people now. Yeah.

California is going to be a great place to move to after the war. Once we can go in and just like secure property again, I want to colonize California. That's what it really needs. That's what it needs. It needs some colonization. I made a joke and this, this was actually used by my campaign opponent. They took this out of context because I had said, California is probably my favorite state in the country. If everyone who lived there didn't.

And they just took that. They just, California is my favorite state in the country. Yeah. They're really good at that. Three seconds sound. Oh yeah. I'm sure you're familiar. Oh yeah. Yeah. I've had some real good times. Yeah. With selective editing of, of political statements. Oh God. I want to know like, what is your two worst ones on that? Because we didn't know. You always hear the level of, Oh, legacy media or, Hey, they, they edit shit.

When you see it firsthand or when you watch your buddy experience it firsthand from jokes to whatever and watch how hard they push that to just the general audience, it's mind-blowing. Well, the first time they did it to me was actually on a Second Amendment issue. Really? Oh, yeah. So right after – this was in 2018. So it was Parkland? Yeah. So Parkland takes place, and I'm on the gun subcommittee in the General Assembly, and this is when the Republicans were in charge of the House.

And we just kill. I mean, we had all the pro-gun guys on the subcommittee. So we just, you know, we listen. We're polite. We listen to testimony, the whole deal. But we were there to protect your gun rights. And so I'm listening to just Democrat after Democrat get up. And if you don't want to do one gun, you know, one gun a month, then you're supporting terrorists because they're trafficking guns and you don't care if kids get shot. And I mean, just over and over and over again, I just got pissed.

And so I got up and I went on like this is probably the first thing I ever did that went viral on social media, like super viral. And just did a seven minute diatribe because I was furious.

And I take special pride in this speech because I thought I gave a pretty good defense of the Second Amendment. But then I also caused three of my Democrat colleagues to leave the floor in tears. And the entire Democrat caucus requested a 15-minute recess to gather their composure. And I didn't even realize it was in response to me. Like, we all go down into our respective bullpens, right? And the speaker comes in and he goes, so they're pretty mad. I'm like, about what? About what you said? I'm like, what the hell did I say that was so bad? They've spent the last two weeks calling us –

terrorists and every other damn thing. And all I said was, you know, this is why we have the second. Okay. I might've also said that I wanted to remind my colleagues on the other side of the aisle that they were the party of slavery and fought against women's suffrage and put a bunch of Japanese people in internment camps and Jim Crow, not us. Um,

That part made him mad. Wasn't true. Wasn't false though. I really don't like facts. Yeah. No, no. And so, so the press gets up. And one of the things I talked about is he said, if you want to talk about crime, then why don't we talk about like father than this or fatherlessness? Why don't we talk? Why don't we go look at the prisons right now and see how many people in there, how many young men are in there that don't have dads in their life. And so I went through this whole thing and this reporter comes up to me on the floor.

And I still had no idea that I just set up a, like set off a bomb. And he goes, did you just claim that abortion causes mass shootings? And I looked, I'm like, how the hell did you come to that conclusion? I said, no, that's not what I said. This is what I was talking about. This is. And all of a sudden the headline is delegate freight has suggested abortion leads to mass shootings. I'm like,

Okay. And, and the mental gymnastics. Oh my gosh. And so I looked at this, I'm like, well, I guess I'm going to have to, you can't defend it. I'm going to have to publish the speech on Facebook. Um, and, and just so people know exactly what I said. And the next thing I know, like that, that ended up getting like 70, 80 million views. And, um, and all of a sudden I learned two things, right, right off the bat. It was one, the press will always screw you.

And two, you don't need them. Like the power of social media is like new media is huge right now. And I still fight. I still fight this battle with other members of the Republican caucus. We're like, well, we need to have a press conference. I'm like, oh, why? So the Washington Post can quote you out of context and make you look like an ass clown. Yeah.

I said, we can just go to Instagram right now, give them our message, and it'll be seen by more people in 48 hours that Washington Post article will be seen in its entire existence. 100%. It's like the, you ever seen the movie Almost Famous? Yes. Yeah. The enemy. They treat that little kid that as soon as they know he's a journalist, they're like, oh, hey, it's the enemy. How's it going, enemy? No, but it's true. It's true. The odds of you being quoted correctly in context are absolute nil.

And so, yeah, it was a big lesson for me, though, that it's like, look, social media is a powerful tool to be able to talk directly to people on what you mean, why you mean it. And what's crazy is that I probably have, like compared to my colleagues at this point, thousands of hours of like me saying exactly what I think. And so it's almost like they don't even bother trying to clip it now because there's just so much.

Brandon, you look like a man that loves the stonks. I'm something of a stonkentist myself. Eli, what do you use to track your stonks? MooMoo. Bless you. But what is MooMoo.com? It's an internet technology brokerage with a strategic partnership with NASDAQ. Ah, yes, I've heard of NASDAQ. Ha ha ha. Stonks.

I didn't realize I was dealing with an expert. Stonks! Stonks! Are you telling me with just one click you can view stocks related to various themes? And filter stocks by price, growth rate, trading volume, and more? Stonker! Stonker! MooMoo is created for beginners, for advanced investors, and fundamental analysis. For technical analysis, they have things like the heat map feature. Brandon, what is a heat map?

Well, Eli, the heat map is generated based off of market capitalization, trading volume, and transaction value, helping you identify industries that are potentially on the rise. So you can enjoy zero delay, real-time quotes with zero additional fees. So are you ready to take your trading to the next level? Join over 25 million users worldwide and start trading smarter with MooMoo.

Use code on sub 60 or sign up using the link in our comments. Make a qualified deposit and claim your Revard now. That's right. Head over to MooMoo.com. Use code on sub 60 and claim your Revard right now. Brandon, what's a Revard? I don't know, but you're Revarded.

don't be rewarded check out moomoo i don't think ever before in human history the average person has had so much access to non-curated yeah content oh yeah where you can hear people in their own words and make up your own decision you don't need legacy media anymore no viewership's dead anyways dropping 18 to 22 every year and then we looked at it the other day it was you know

Your ESPNs during prime time, because we were looking at that one dude, how much he was making a year. McAfee. McAfee. Yeah. Pat McAfee. Yeah. Pat McAfee. His viewership, you see, it's like, oh, he gets about 300,000 peak. 300,000.

And then everything else is after that. And he is the number one, but he's getting paid like, what is it, 18 or 20 million per year? Yeah, it's nuts. Just to do it to a lower audience. And ESPN is probably one of the last things we will see legacy media actually still talking about because they have the rights to NFL, UFC. There's a reason people watch it. Yeah, exactly. Everything else is. And it's not really for the commentary. No. Yeah.

I watch MSNBC for, you know, it's that unfettered access to real people in real time without, you know, getting it spun. And if you do, even if you do, well, even just allegorically, I mean, look at our parents. They're starting to watch YouTube more than TV and things like that. They're, we're aging up the internet generation. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. The YouTubes. I want to see your numbers compared to primetime history right now. Primetime history has to be abysmal. Oh, yeah. There's no question. By what X? I've checked. It's by a lot. Abysmal. I think the whole reason I'm here is I contacted you on Instagram and I sent him a message. I said, dude, if we could get just a couple of yours with a few less F-bombs, I would use it for my homeschool curriculum.

Do you have another channel for that, right? I didn't keep doing it. The problem I ran into was with the YouTube algorithm. Nobody could find it because the YouTube algorithm – I had my editor go through and just censor a couple videos, and the YouTube algorithm just kind of interprets it as like copyright infringement. So you can't even find it if you're trying to. Can you approve it manually through the copyright? You can't. I tried to see if I could find it. Is it a whole separate channel? It's a whole separate channel. Could you make it a separate playlist? Yeah.

Maybe on the main channel? What if you did an unlisted playlist on your main channel? Oh, for teachers. That could be good. I'm just telling you right now. The first video I ever saw of yours was talking about the naval strikes against Iran. I can't wait for teachers to be like, they pull up the not unlisted ones for class now.

My- My- Hannah, get in here! Yeah, I like the Hannah ads going. My favorite thing- That would go over all the homeschool co-op. Yeah. All the people that get mad are like, this is just American propaganda. I go-

Yes, but did I lie about any of it? Well, no. Well, fucking, what do you want me to do? Sorry, we're actually better. Well, the schools are giving the kids communist propaganda. I don't see why they shouldn't get American one. This is true. I love communism. Let me fuck off. Did you say Nick's shoes? I didn't AMA.

I did the Cody. I did the ask me anything on the flight on Twitter. And somebody asks, if you could be sitting in a room with a gun with three bullets with Marx, Mao, Stalin, Hitler, and Hirohito, who are you shooting? Marx three times. Yeah.

Because that solves so many of the other problems. Exactly. It solves everything except for Hirohito. All the other ones just wouldn't exist. And even he's not going to do anything on his own. Yeah, exactly. Jesus. Hirohito was the one that decided to surrender. So, I mean...

Oh yeah. No, my, that, that was, that was one of our primary reasons for homeschooling is I wanted my kids to have a healthy disdain for Karl Marx and mission accomplished. Nice. They love Jesus and hate Marx. Like, yes, that's parenting. W that's my favorite. You know, if Jesus was alive, he'd be a communist. Really? Really? Show me, show me in the Bible where Jesus was like, you know what? The Romans should steal all your money and give it out how they see. How about that? Counterpoint. He did go hungry for 40 days. Yeah.

testing it out just after 40 days decided communism wasn't for him no no that wasn't even communism because he did it voluntarily and only to himself that's true yeah oh I love it already like the American dad like he's looking at the meter or whatever like blasphemy is getting close let's change topics

With homeschooling, are you a big history buff? Math? What's your thing? Oh, no, not math. I hate math. History? With a fiery passion. Yeah, yeah. So, yeah, yeah. Math or, excuse me, history, theology, philosophy. Like, I like that stuff. And, again, a lot of it's more like the practical component. But, no, that math was the thing that my wife and I both, like, subbed out to, like, the co-op. It was as soon as – and here was the other thing, too. Like, I remember my oldest daughter. She's, like, sophomore year of high school.

And she's doing algebra too. And she is hating life. And I totally get this because I hated algebra too. It's freaking stop putting letters in my freaking math. I hated it. You're going to need it one day. No, no, no. She's sitting there and she's just so stressed out. I finally looked at her and I'm like, sweetheart,

What do you want to do? And she starts listening off. Well, you know, dad, I'm thinking about these various things. I'm like, you know what? None of those require algebra too. So you know what? This is done now. And you're a sophomore in high school. We're going to now direct your curriculum toward the things you want to do. And we always told our kids like right off the bat, a couple of things was one. I don't owe you a college education. You want to go to college, you get a good opportunity. I'm not saying I won't help, but I don't owe you that. And you're not going to have that attitude. Okay. And there's two things. Dreams are a wonderful thing, but they don't feed you.

I said, so you got to do one of two things. You either got to find a dream that feeds you, or you got to find a career that allows you to pursue your dream. But your dreams are yours. They're nobody else's. They're not the government's responsibility. They're not my responsibility and that society's responsibility. They're yours.

What if I bitch about it on social media like a lot? Then will the government do it for me? Is that – Apparently for some, yeah. But so they had that mindset and it was great because you could just adjust curriculum on the fly. You could do things and yeah, I mean –

So my last two years of high school, I was homeschooled. Yeah. So for those who don't know, would you like to explain what a homeschool co-op is? Oh, sure. So probably something not a lot of people had no idea. OK, so homeschool co-op is generally what happens is you get a bunch of parents together and they realize that, OK, hey, like so, for instance, the kids at our homeschool co-op for a while, they got taught civics by me because I was a legislator. So.

So I'm the one going in there and teaching them about like American government and civics and how it actually works. And they were not getting the schoolhouse rock version because the real version is like, I'm just a bill on Capitol Hill, but I pissed off someone on appropriations. And so now I'm going to get sent to a subcommittee where I'm going to die. Like they got the real version of it.

But that's what it was. I'm not a teacher. What? Yeah. Oh, no. They loved it because – The schoolhouse rock version is the way it's theoretically supposed to work. That's how it's supposed to work. I love it. It's great. But that's what it was is you had different parents with different like either educational backgrounds or life experience and they would come in and they would just – they would teach stuff they were passionate about. Today we are teaching math, okay? Okay.

Every wonky out here. Yeah. Hey, look. I cheered the US math team when we won. Doesn't matter if they're world training. The point is, we import the best of everything, baby. All right.

The NBA playoffs are here, and I'm getting my bets in on FanDuel. Talk to me, Chuck GPT. What do you know? All sorts of interesting stuff. Even Charles Barkley's greatest fear. Hey, nobody needs to know that. New customers bet $5 and get $250 in bonus bets if you win. FanDuel, America's number one sportsbook.

21 plus and present in Arizona. Must be first one line real money wager. $5 deposit required. Bonus issued is non-withdrawable bonus bets that expire seven days after receipt. Restrictions apply. See full terms at fanduel.com slash sportsbook. Gambling problem? Call 1-800-NEXT-STEP or text NEXTSTEP to 53342.

Where are you from? America. USA number one. USA number one. Okay. That was my argument on the space landing little video I did. Somebody's like, I don't know why you're bragging that America put a man on the moon. You guys used Nazis to do it. I'm like, yeah, but so did the USSR. So fuck penalties offset. First down. Learn how to pick the better Nazis. Learn how to pick the better Nazis.

Sorry, you picked the wrong. Their brains work better when you can feed them. So anyways, parents will sign up and you say, okay, I want this class, I want that class. Like in ours, it was one day a week and they would come in. It was $25 per month for your kid to come in.

And I taught economics. I taught civics and I taught like Christian apologetics. And so you come in, that's what we did. And then the rest of the week, you know, they're with their parents. So that's like one model of a co-op. Some do two days a week, whatever. But that's the nice part is it's free market. Like I would tell the parents, I'm like, look, this, in fact, when I was teaching him apologetics, which was largely debate, I said, I'm gonna tell you right now, there's going to be days where your kids might come home in tears.

because we're going to, I'm going to play the antagonist and they're going to have to defend what they believe. And they're going to have to do so much. You didn't have to hit them. Well, you know what? Look, you know, how hard is it to make a correct sandwich? Anyway, the point is, the point is, so they would get in and debate. But here's the funny part is because it's, it's not a government school model. Parents are coming in and I'm like, look, you don't got to take my class, but this is how I teach it. This is the curriculum. This is what I do. And,

And parents would be like, can we watch? Like it wasn't, they weren't like, oh, my poor baby. They were like, can we watch you? I'm going to make your kid cry. Can I watch? Which is good parenting. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But the great part about it was, is that, I mean, and we had to, again, the students loved it because it was, it,

It wasn't no participation trophies, right? You show up with a good argument, you win. You show up with a bad argument, I make you feel bad about yourself, right? And then I teach you how to make a better argument so you can feel good about yourself, right? Because winning is great and losing sucks.

You learn from losing. You do. You do. And it's not like we were being cruel. And you learn it sucks. Yeah. We weren't being cruel, but like that was the sort of thing. So like a parent would sign up, they'd pay their tuition and you'd teach and they'd go home and they'd help, you know, but that's what it was. It was great. And so I didn't have to like, I didn't have to worry about parents coming in. I'm like, well, you know, Mr. Freitas, I'm really concerned about why I told you what this was.

right if you don't like it you know your kid doesn't have to be here and but i never had a problem as an example when i was a senior uh in and one of the co-ops i was going to

physics was taught by an artillery guy. Yeah. Holy crap. And he, like, straight up went, like, he knew I was into guns and shit. Let's say there are guys we don't like right here, and I want to put white phosphorus behind them and then march gunfire towards them. I'm dead fucking serious. How fast does a plane need to be moving to drop? It was not that intense, but it was basically like, all right, let's say your drop is X meters per blah, blah, blah. At this distance, what are you...

How are you going to do ballistic calculations if you can't do this shit?

How did you end up designing guns for a living? I wonder. I was building them in my garage before that, but it just happened to coincide pretty well. Let's say you're Assad. You've got a lot of Muslim Brotherhood and Hama. Let's just say. Theoretically. Oh, no. No, but that's true. Like, you can adjust your curriculum based off of your students' interests and what works, and it's awesome. And you can actually teach your kids financial literacy. Yes. Which is, like, the biggest misstep that, you know, public schooling doesn't do.

Yeah, that's my design. Oh, yeah. Guys, when you leave your dogs at home, do you ever worry that they might find your firearm? Damn, maybe the ATF is onto something. No, I never thought about that. Introducing Stopbox. Stopbox. Stopbox. Stopbox. I'm sure a lot of you guys and gals have a handgun for self-defense, as we all do. And if you do, it probably fits into one of two categories. It's locked up, but not within reach. Ah!

Or it's just laying around where anybody could have access to it. Well, Stopbox USA solved the problem and they came up with the Stopbox Pro. It's all mechanical, so you don't have to worry about it. It's battery-less. Ribbed for your pleasure. What I love about this is it's TSA approved. Most gun cases, when you want to fly with a weapon, has three or four little holes. This one has one, so you only need one lock and then you do your...

Our listeners are getting 10% off if you use code UNSUB. And right now, they're doing buy one, get one free. Oh, that's a crazy deal! That's 10% off and a free Stopbox Pro when you use code UNSUB at stopboxusa.com. 10%! And buy one, get one! They have to be operating at a loss! One of my favorite parts about the Stopbox is that it is actually made in America. Made in America! Ha ha ha!

Discover a better way to balance security and readiness with Stopbox. Stopbox! Stopbox! Stopbox! Stopbox. Well, yeah, our public school system, and I call it a government school system because that's what it is. Yep. The thing I like to tell people because people always look at me like, well, you know, I said, look, do you like state-run media? Do you think we should have state-run media? No, of course not. Like, okay, now do the same for education.

You don't like state-run media because it's the government controlling the flow of information to its citizenry and not being able to hold it accountable. What do you think happens with government-run education?

So I mean, we talked to I think we were talking about that last week, two weeks ago. It was, hey, no student left behind. Hey, and they just started incorporating all those things. Yeah. And then whatever the you have to learn is the Department of Education thing. Oh, yeah. Cool. I don't know anything. Government's just the black thumb of industry. It's like anything it touches just turns to shit. Yeah.

I like the idea of being able to learn what you want or your passion at that age, because that sets you up for success. I know your art, any entertainment was a big no-no, probably your generation. I'm not sure. Was it more hit or miss for you? I love it that I'm now getting your generation. Hey, you want to do film, you want to do video games or play video games for a living. That was a f***ing...

No. Still, yeah, it was still was one of those like, oh, well, you need to learn video arts and this, this. You don't need to. YouTube? Which, understandably, at the time, YouTube made zero dollars. So, like, but yeah, I'm sure they still continue to teach that. Probably not so much nowadays because it's like an accepted thing. But back in, you know, back when I was in school, that was not a thing. It was encouraged. Yeah. I remember still taking, like, typing. Yeah.

I remember playing Oregon Trail when it first came out on the old Apple. Yeah, dude. Dysentery. Every time. Did anybody see? Ford the River. Every time. Your family's gone. Yeah, I mean, no. But I have all this bacon still. Yeah. Down in Buffalo. Oh, man. Got it. Fucking game.

So you got into Knicks because of history. But what segments of history are your favorite? Like, oh, I... So it started off that I came across the Ken Burns Civil War documentary when I was like 11 and just became obsessed, dude. Like, I'm like...

Oh, I did the reenacting. Like I was like, this is awesome. I'm going to go play with black powder and bayonets. So it was, I did it for civil war, world war one, all sorts of stuff. Major history. Oh God. It's so much fun, man. It is, is apps, absolute blast. And then going out to moving from Cal,

I don't know if you know this, California, not a lot of Civil War history, it turns out. But Virginia, like you can't walk five feet without running into another historical marker. Like I have the district that has the largest cavalry battle in the Western Hemisphere, Brandy Station. And so like I just, yeah. So that was the entry point. And then it went into American Revolutionary War history.

Then the old World at War documentary series was just awesome. And then got into more of the ancient history as well. So like Roman history, Alexander, Persia. I still haven't crested that yet. Oh, my tism has its, its periphery there. And I'm like, that's still like, I know enough, but I haven't, I haven't done the full deep dive. Like I love Roman history because I'm a dude, but yeah,

But now it's starting to move into like, you know, Holy Roman Empire and the whole deal. But so I love it all. I love it all. But what was your first video? You watched a his where you're like, okay, this dude's proportional. Proportional. Proportional means something else in American vernacular. Well, I got a proportion for you. Yeah.

We didn't say proportional to what? That's literally a meat. Like it's a, that video got so big. It's outrageous. Cause like it's all just like the Yemen Houthi shit and the amount of people that just comment, things are about to get proportional constantly. Do you have a shirt that says that? I did for a while. I sold it for a couple months. Yeah, no, it's no, that, that was great. And then, well, and then again, you got me interested in history. I never would've thought I was interested in like the history of Waffle House.

Like, I just thought it was, I just thought it was the most delicious breakfast to two o'clock in the morning in Fort Bragg. Colluding with FEMA. Yeah. So a good buddy of mine, a good buddy of mine is like number three at FEMA. And I saw the video. I'm like, Hey Cameron, is this, he's like, dude,

yeah he's a former seal and he's kind of running the place now and it's like great dude so your video has made it to the upper echelons of fema nick's gonna disappear yeah yeah after that coca-cola video i might have issues i'm waiting for that they're gonna send a polar bear after you confederate cocaine water this is true

By the way, speaking of cocaine, I've been enjoying one of these echelons. I didn't realize that the active ingredient was meth. I like when you pick it up and you're like, I've been...

yeah yeah yeah it's not like he's shaking I was feeling a little down and I thought I might want to rob a bank it's basically the same thing it's 300 milligrams of caffeine oh yeah well I told him I was like fair warning this is spicy and it's banned in Canada yeah he's like what yeah that's the best marketing pitch that nobody talks about with Echelon I didn't know that until last night yeah this is the best marketing pitch on the planet Echelon's banned in Canada is it yes yeah

You know what's also banned in Canada? Freedom. That's why I drink it. It's too cool for Canada. It's a great ad. I know. Is it the pepper spray stuff or what? No, there's too much caffeine per ounce in Echelon, so it's banned in Canada because we were trying to...

So, cause it's on every military, every us military base in the world sells echelon and the Canadian military was trying to import it. Yeah. And we were trying to get it like through the actual official channels. And they're like, you can't import this in Canada. It's illegal here. But in all fairness though, given the Canadians history with war crimes, that might be a, I don't need them committing war crimes even faster than they normally, but they're always on our side. So I mean, you know what I mean? Like just give them some, uh, some preventive, uh,

Here, drink an Echelon. You can throw that can of food a little bit further into the next trench. Right.

Will you hand me the experimental echelons? Here's a soccer ball. Is this going to make my skin burn? No, this is... I was wondering if this was moonshine. Will you hand me the experimental echelon B? B is my favorite. I had a buddy of mine, Jason Ballard. He represents... He actually represents the area with Virginia Tech. But he was trying to make it... We have really, really strict ABC alcohol laws. What are we doing? Yeah.

Because you guys don't have the private liquor stores. No. It's all government run. No, it sucks. I know. I carried a bill once to get rid of ABC. That didn't go very far. You just want to start off at D or what? Jason Ballard. This is B.

Jason Ballard actually shows up to a subcommittee meeting with Moonshine for a bill that was making it legal to make so much of your own Moonshine for your own consumption. Based. And he's a, I think he's a Lieutenant Colonel in the Guard, but I was like, that was the best subcommittee testimony I've ever seen. Now, is Virginia one of those states where it is legal to have a still, but not to produce Moonshine? Or like it was just possession of a still as a crime? I don't, ooh, I don't think so. I don't think possession of a still is a crime.

I think it was in North Carolina. Okay. I wasn't sure about Virginia. We have a distillery in Culpeper, Virginia. And one of the things about Culpeper is we have the first Gadsden flag. Yeah. The liberty or death Gadsden flag. Yep. So we have a distillery there called Belmont. And you go in there and...

Great people. I remember talking to him like, hey man, how long have you been moonshining? He goes, legally for 25 years now. They still have a Prohibition era copper still at Belmont Distillery in Culpeper, Virginia. That's fucking rad. I know I used to...

In my travels as a young man, there was a – I used to go to Daxton, Virginia and like just that whole area up in the mountains like Roanoke area and whatnot. I was seeing a girl there at the time.

And I didn't realize that one of those counties, I don't remember if it was Bedford County, Thaxton, something like that. Franklin's another one. It might've been Franklin. One of those is like the, uh, the wettest County in the world in the country or whatever. Cause all the moonshine stills. Yeah. Do you remember watching the movie? Do you ever see the movie lawless? I think that's, yeah, that was Franklin County, uh, Franklin County, Virginia. In fact, my, uh,

My seatmate in the General Assembly represents Franklin. No shit. And so we did this thing for a while called the hall crawl. So when we had crossover, which was when all the House bills got to go to the Senate, Senate bills go to the House, I started doing this thing where it was, okay, each office had to bring a drink that was representative of their district and an appetizer.

And so I did smoked old fashions with bacon and I brought in a girl, like I made bacon in the general assembly building and he brought in moonshine. I was like, Oh yeah, that's Franklin baby. That is Franklin. And so he had an assortment of moonshine. And, uh, by the way, none of this actually happened. This is theoretically. I just announced I'm not running for reelection so I can give you all the dirt now. And it came in like a

mason jar with like masking tape on it it was all legal it was all legal and perfectly number 73 so you know it's good see what brand that's uh the b yeah pretty decent that's b all right what's what is the flavor berry berry uh it's like sour berry i want to go off of flavors because they have changed or like what we said with the one which just now apple give me the yuzu i'm drinking all of it

I bet that one I liked. Is that like licorice? Huh? Is that like licorice? No, it's like a Japanese fruit. It's like a Japanese apple. I was thinking of Uzo. We're tasting a bunch of energy drinks right now. We're all going to be wired off. I bet he had coffee and a full-on shalom. That one, fucks. That one's a crazy idea. This is only 100 milligrams. Making a mass appeal to everyone. This actually gives you ADHD. Apple, watch. Did you have it before? You do now. Is that water?

That's water. This is water. I grabbed a water bottle instead of the right one. Nice try. Wait a minute. Although, okay, are any of you old enough to remember a time before bottled water? No. No. Yes. I remember when there was, like, you didn't, I remember when they- It was a crazy concept when it first came out. Yes, I remember when I first saw bottled water coming out. What retard is going to do that? What idiot is going to buy bottled water?

All of us. It comes from the sky. It's from a spring in Switzerland. I mean, Switzerland, Oregon, but I mean. What was it, like a $30 billion or $52 billion marketplace in 2023? It was like a ridiculous number. Bottled water. Well, yeah, because Nestle took it and they were like, I could sell the shit out of that. Now it's Fiji. Now it's this. How good is capitalism? Okay.

We can sell you bottled water. Oh, not a fan of that one anymore. That and, you know, as soon as they realized that. Yeah. As soon as they realized that California would subsidize their water. Yeah. See, I like that face. What's the notes? Tell me what you would change on that. What are the notes? This is not like I'm not. I don't. Notes of I don't like it. No, you're not. OK.

I fucking like it. The change of flavor. I was just going to say, what would I change? The entire flavor. All of it. This is great. This is me at the winery. I'm getting notes of, this sucks. This isn't bourbon. It aged this size. Wow.

Did you guys ever watch Parks and Rec? Yeah. Where Aubrey Plaza's character is signing up to be a sommelier and she's like, notes of ravens foot and making words. That's me at the winery. By the way, 8-6 ejects out of a gun very fast. Yes, it does.

That's what the cut in my head is. It's the perfect ass end crescent of an 8.6 round. We both have 8.6 scars. I was standing behind Pewview filming yesterday and I was standing like over his right shoulder. Right now, I was like, that hurt more than any other brass ejection I've ever felt. Was it a supers too? No, they were subs. And it punched me in the forehead. I look like the American Harry Potter right now. It's absurd. Yeah.

Kevin's Dumbledore. I'm gonna have to go fight the CEO of Sig. The boy who lived. The Battle of Hogwarts. Come to die. All they have to do is... Never mind. I've made enough dropping 320 jokes lately. No, no, no, no, no, no. I can never have enough dropping 320 jokes. Do you take a shower and still smell bad? Do you suffer from thigh folds? Do you know how to play Magic the Gathering?

If so, do we have the product for you? Today's sponsor, Mando. You know what makes Mando different from any other deodorant? It's whole body deodorant that is safe to use anywhere on your body. You can even use it in your butt crack. And trust me, I

I do. And you probably should. I've been to a Magic the Gathering tournament. You should. Mando comes in solid stick and spray deodorant that is aluminum free. Clinically proven to block odor all day. And it controls odor for up to 72 hours. That's three days you can go without having to take a shower. Choose from a variety of fresh scents like bourbon leather.

a.k.a. my father's hand. Want to try America's number one whole body deodorant right now? You can find them in Walmart, Target, and if you don't want to leave the comfort of your own home, which I imagine a lot of you Target audience don't, for the best deals, you can go to shopmando.com. Mando's starter pack is perfect for new customers. It comes with a solid stick deodorant, cream tube deodorant, two free products of your choice, such as mini body wash and deodorant wipes, and free shipping. Ah!

New customers get $5 off the starter pack with our exclusive code. Unsub! That equates to over 40% off your starter pack using special code. Unsub at shopmando.com. Boost your confidence from head to toe with Mando. What were you shooting yesterday? Or what was the video for? We're doing Pewview's boombox video, and we're trying to catch a hollow point, a subsonic hollow point.

We're trying to catch it on a block of ballistics gel. How many? Dude, that's like four. No. Eli, we took a four-inch thick piece of hard barn wood.

Stuck it on the table, stuck three feet of ballistics gel behind it. It went through the barn wood, through the ballistics gel. The trajectory in the gel didn't change like a fucking laser beam. Went 40 yards downrange, hit the steel target and sounded like a fucking car wreck. Through the camera, man. It was crazy. Yeah.

Cameraman's fine. Alec Baldwin wasn't on set. I'm like, I might have to reevaluate this bedside. You know how many gummy bears it took to stop it? Five. That would probably stop it, yeah. We only had four. Just for the record. You're kidding. Big gummy bears. Five pound edible gummy bears. We were dicking around. I want a photo. You said the little

I'm like, why are we buying all this heavy ceramic crap? What the fuck? Yeah, just running out with a thin sheet of gummy bears. Can you imagine how terrifying that would be? You kicking a door, flashbang the room. You shut up. There's some guy covered in gummy bears shooting you. We were joking before. You're rocking for three days and you're just like,

Chewing your body armor. Or did your body armor go, I ate it. No, so five pound gummy bears. Really? We were dicking around and they are shockingly resistant to bullets. Guess how many five pound gummy bears it takes to stop nine mil supersonic full metal jacket at point blank. Oh, really? One. 12 gauge birdshot point blank. Oh yeah, I imagine. One. Geez. The second gummy bear caught two to three.

this would be so much better than sandbags it's crazy minus they might melt overseas that we're being sponsored by big gelatin big carbo big car big carbo the company that makes the gummy bears

No, I'll never – when I was still in the 82nd, we had a commander that he wanted to do – he wanted to demonstrate to all the guys like kind of the ballistics impact of everything that – basically what can you hide behind. And so he did like sandbags. He did concrete walls. He did like reinforced concrete walls, wood, like everything. Everything you can kind of imagine just shot stuff through all of it, like your flak vest, your –

And it was crazy how like, well, first of all, it ruined any movie you've ever seen because now whenever they're like, oh, I'm going to hide behind this car. Like the fuck you are. I hope it's the engine block because I got bad news, Hoss. But yeah, sandbags were the things that, you know, really held up the best. I mean, and it makes sense when you start to understand ballistics, but gummy bears. Wow. Who knew? Gummy bears are wild. We did, we did 308 full metal jacket point blank, uh,

We had four gummy bears lined up with one three foot block of ballistics gel. It made it like two inches into the ballistics gel before it stopped. Wow. Gummy bears. They're shockingly bullet resistant.

Well, because you're thinking like at home, you're thinking like the super like squeezable gummy bears. These are like almost like rock hard. No. Well, gelatin bears. This is a big gummy bear. It's literally a five pound gummy bear. I'm saying they behave differently when it's that big versus those big ones because like they're fucking solid, like very solid. No, I mean – But they can also absorb – I mean they can –

I mean, that's the whole concept with the sandbags is like they're absorbing it instead of just like rigid. It's like water. If you froze the gummy bear, it'd probably go through them a lot faster. Was it water? You can shoot like from here. I would not kill Brandon with any gun underwater. I mean, we could try it, I guess, but I'm not going to do bullets. And then they do very disappointing underwater. Do you know how shark hunting harpoons work?

The one with the bullets that are long and they. So it's a harpoon. It's basically a underwater crossbow and it's a metal spear essentially, but there it's, it holds a 12 gauge shotgun shell at the end of it. So when it hits the, that's what ignites the shotgun shell at point blank range. And that's what fucking like shark hunting harpoons are. Oh, there's a,

That's not. Yeah, it was a shotgun shell at the end of it. So when it impacts, that's what strikes the primer point blank on the shark. So it's boom, boom. Yeah. That's cool. It's kind of dope. That's gangster. It's like the shark knives. You seen those where they're just got the CO2 cartridge inside of them? Just blow a baseball bat full of frozen gas into them. Yeah. You just stab them with it and it just releases all the CO2 inside their body. No kidding. Yeah. Oh, that sucks. Boom.

Yeah, exactly. They float up. I've seen jaws. I know it works. It went through four gummy bears and it went through four gummy bears and caught it in the boys control when the eight six went through. So the four gummy bears, we, that's the subsonic by the way. That's the only way. That's the part that blows my mind. It's the only way we're able to catch the, the hollow point eight six was we went through all four gummy bears and then we caught it in the ballistics gel, but through the gummy bears,

It lost the three big pedals and it was just the ass end of the round in the ballistics gel. The pedals got lost in the gummy bears and the exit wound coming out of the last gummy bear was fucking half dollar sized gash. I am just like a blender. I got to be honest. I am imagining you like standing like at CVS to go pick up something and looking at this big ass gummy bear going, we should shoot those. Yeah.

That's basically exactly what happened. So we put a Glock switch on a .22LR Glock. Legally. And got 30 round mags. Yeah, my S- When you say Glock switch, I don't know why. My friend with an SOT did it. Yeah, it just sounds illegal when you call it a Glock switch. But we were going to shoot gummy bears with .22. We're like, oh, this will be funny. It's Iowa, not the south side of Chicago. Yeah, we're literally just in a fucking cornfield.

I walked up with 30 rounds of .22 and a Glock switch and one gummy bear caught all 30 .22 rounds and we're like...

And then it turned into a we're testing the ballistics of gummy bears video. And it's kind of just been a recurring theme. I've also learned they're impervious to fire. Try that next time. Gummy bears? Yes. They're not. What? Like a flamethrower? They start melting from the rounds passing through. So we tried torching it with one of those little throw flame, whatever. Not throw flame. Like XM42. No, those are just big grow lighters, essentially. The ones that actually spit the gasoline. Okay.

And we sat there for like a minute trying to get this thing to melt, and we just gave up because it looked so boring on camera. Carla only has the best tech. Can't connect to network. But she didn't have the best internet. So she got Cox Multigig Spades to power all her... Now all her tech is... Connected.

Give your tech the speed it deserves. Get our top-tier internet with Cox Multigig. Two gig download speeds, individual speeds vary. See cox.com for details.

So we took Zach, veteran with a sign, and Eric Bartel out to the range, and we were filming this video. And we shot it, and they were blown the fuck away that it was catching 9 mil in like an inch of the gummy bear. It was catching 9 mil at point blank, like full-on executioner style, like, boom, just stops it. And Zach's like, we're feeding these to children? What the fuck? What the fuck?

I hope not. I've never bought any of them. Here's a five-pound gummy bear. They're wild. That gun is... I wonder how many calories are in one big-ass gummy bear. I've eaten a couple years. How many calories is it? 20,000 calories in that thing. We don't have to wonder. Solid gelatin. Five pounds. How many calories on a five-pound gummy bear? 5,000. Yeah. 20,000?

What is it, a five-pound? Five-pound gummy bear. 6,120 calories. Wow. In a five-pounder? It's equivalent to roughly 1,400 regular-sized gummy bears. Wow. Huh. That's impressive. How many? 1,400. Oh. Yeah, I can see that. Okay, well, I'm seeing conflicting... I just got the AI overview. Yeah, same. We should ask Sean Ryan. He would know. Just off the top of his head? Sean would know, yeah. Now everyone's like, who's this? Oh, apparently there's another one that's 12,000 calories. Wow. Wow.

What's different on that scares me more. It probably tastes better. Who was the guy that was like 600, 6,000 calories. It's not enough. That's not enough. It needs stuff. More, more five pound gummy bear in Vancouver airport over 12,000 calories.

That's on Reddit though, who knows? - I don't trust anything on Reddit. - Oh, well you'll sell that in Vancouver, 12,000 calories of gummy bear, but not an energy drink. - I try to give you an energy drink that's awesome and you guys get mad at me. - Well, they don't want them productive, they want them fat. - This is also true.

I didn't realize that like 60% of the Canadian population lives further south than like Minnesota. Yeah. It's wild. Yeah, it's nuts. Like 90% of the entire Canadian population. Yeah. Like that little dip right there on the east coast, that's like 60% of the Canadian population right there. I think it's 90% of the entire Canadian population lives like maybe- 60 miles from the US border. They're huddled up next to us for warmth and safety. Yeah. Yeah.

understandably frankly i don't know was it tosh point out it's like canada's got the best border fence in the world america it's cool to be a little hippie when you've got a kevlar of daring the world yeah when trump kept talking about like we're gonna we're gonna make canada the 51st state i'm like i'll take alberta

I'll take Manitoba, but I don't want Quebec. Canada doesn't want Quebec. I have a theory that he's literally just doing it because we have Guam, Puerto Rico. He wants Greenland, Panama, and Canada, and then he just wants to be the guy that ushers in the 55-star flag. That's his whole motivation. How cool would it be if we added another row? It's a funny concept, and I love the fact that he's just trolling the fuck.

Yeah.

There's a diamond company that makes lab-grown diamonds, and they have the most savage marketing I've ever seen because all of their commercials are basically like, it's literally the same thing, you're just mad that child labor wasn't involved. I was like, Jesus! Yes! They're not wrong. Correct! They're not wrong. I will pay extra for blood diamonds. Yes!

This is the most savage marketing I've ever seen. That's pretty brilliant. He's calling everyone a piece of shit. He's a cheaper and. You know, maybe we didn't have to kill a kid to get it. They're just as sparkly, just as hard.

Not blood all over them, but you still think it's worth less because of it. Weird. I just, I love it. That is savage. That's great. With the cobalt and lithium and everything like that, all the new mineral wars in Africa. Yeah. It's like, you know, this is just blood diamond all over again, except instead of a shiny rocket, so you can play GTA 6 on a 4090. Yeah.

I just, I think it's ironic. I think it's ironic that I got a graphic. Yeah. My phone. How do you like my blood phone? I like, I like, I like getting lectured. I like getting lectured on oppression by people that are driving around vehicles that require, you know, a 14 year old to be dumping into an artisanal mine and, you know, fricking DRC to grab their stuff for it. But electricity just comes out of the earth. It's natural. Yeah.

That's how we all think it works, at least. Yeah. It costs a little bit of money to run that. Don't get me started on electricity. Oh, fuck. You might know something about it. I'm just...

we need to use nuclear power we're not doing it it really bothers me I was about to go on the nuclear power rant I'm glad you got there the internet gets really upset when I do it when I do it why because people are stupid yeah that's true we figured it out 50 years ago the answer to all of our power problems and then we got scared scared yeah well okay so all right alternative theory

I do think that there's some people that are just ignorant and scared of it. I think there's other people that they want the issue. They don't want green energy. They want communism.

And that's why they oppose nuclear, because nuclear would be the cleanest, most efficient, most effective, cheapest long term. There's no question. You start looking at things like small modular reactors and stuff like that. There's no question that's the future. But then, gosh, what do you do if you can't sell centralized planning of the economy because we're saving the globe? So that thought is like a thousand people on the high level. Everyone below them is just the useful idiots. Agreed. Agreed.

it's just i don't know all the other green energy sucks like wind power is god awful yeah you drive iowa's got so many wind turbines it's insane half of them work yeah and when they're working they're so ungodly inefficient it's fucking insane there's a ton in texas too like in even just in in uh district 23 and even and down like especially if you go toward like corpus there's huge like wind farms and shit like that you see the blades traveling down the highway all the

time and the idea of seeing this giant diesel truck carting it out one blade at a time you start to wonder about the logistics well it's like the number of the number of oil petroleum-based products that you need to actually keep that thing in operation yeah that doesn't grease itself most of them are obsolete by the time they're built by the time you get all the permits and actually get the fucking thing built it's three generation old technology that's going up in virginia they passed the clean economy act

Which basically gives them an excuse to clear cut forests and carve up farmland to put up industrial solar fields. But then they have the offshore wind piece. And the reason why they can get this through, because all of a sudden we have the big energy companies going in like, oh, yeah, we'd love to do the offshore wind. Why? Because they're guaranteed 10% profit on construction. Anybody want to guess on how expensive it is to build offshore wind off of Virginia Beach? Uncarnately. Yeah.

There was a guy – they brought on like a literal carpenter, like the British version of King Trout on the BBC. And this BBC journalist, this big old fat guy with like glasses was like trying – he like brought on this carpenter like he was just going to eat him alive on air because it was like some debate over in Britain between using concrete and using wood to construct some building or whatever. And the carpenter is just like, yeah, I mean –

more renewable and he's like oh really you're just going to cut down a bunch of trees to build this building yes yeah the trees grow back you ever seen concrete grow all right we're going to cut the commercial break it just fucking ends the interview torches him on his own show

I love that. What is the main other than like the nuclear meltdowns? What is one of the big reasons they don't want nuclear energy as a whole? Well, you see, Vietnam happened and a bunch of people went to go fight Vietnam.

And then a bunch of people got out of going to fight in Vietnam because they got to go to college. And then they did a bunch of drugs and rolled around in the mud and f***ed each other like hippies. And then they decided that the thing that blew up Japan has to be bad. And then those are all the people that are now college professors. So they got to teach the next generation that nuclear power is scary. That's pretty much...

all of it. You have shit like Chernobyl, which led to a bunch of nuclear... Right. We're not going to bring up the fact that it was because of, I don't know, communism being violently retarded the entire time that led to it. That wasn't it. That had nothing to do with it. They didn't have the HBO miniseries back then, so it was a little harder to discern what happened. But people literally got scared. We did a photo shoot, an abandoned nuclear facility across from, I think, Louisville, Kentucky, at one point.

And it was like a facility that was built for like a billion dollars, right? And it was almost finished. Like they have the cooling towers. They've got everything. It's a massive facility. And there was a bunch of nuclear regulation that came in after Chernobyl. And they basically were told, oh, yeah, to comply with all these new guidelines, that's going to be another $2 billion to complete it. And they literally walked away. They said it is cheaper to just default and leave Chernobyl.

than it is to finish this out so it's like yeah you wonder why we don't have nuclear energy that's it they've done that surprisingly a lot of times washington state beautiful places to do photos or shoots at because you can rent them for like eight hundred dollars for an entire day and these are yeah because it's useless real estate everything like buildings to run it the uh the big tunnels or like they'll have like two how many did that one have uh

It was huge. Yeah. They let us go into the basement of the cooling towers and shoot machine guns at the concrete pillars. They're like, we don't care. Blow it up. We don't give a fuck. It's cheaper. We're going to demolish it eventually anyway. They're like, just don't die. We don't care.

And then they don't ever demolish it. Washington abandoned theirs in the 80s and then never touched it again. People still use it for photography. I didn't even know that one exists. It's crazy, too, because there are certain buildings you can go into, and they have those old computer data cards. Yeah.

the floor is just littered with them. And certain times you can get those like old, like photographs that like, you just hold up to the light, like the film reels and shit like that. You're like, man, there's probably some like sensitive information in some of this about nuclear shit.

I can't wait till like the government, you know what? Aliens are real. We're going to put one on Joe Rogan's podcast and I get to watch Joe Rogan explain to a fucking alien that we've got magic rocks that produce enough power for the entire planet. We just don't use it because people that can't do basic math or have a third grade reading level are scared by them. Yep. It's going to be awesome. Yeah.

What was the reason the Japanese one failed? It was user error. It got hit by a record-setting earthquake and then a record-setting tsunami at the same time. All of the safety features were like it took two literal acts of God to bring that thing to its fucking knees. And it still turned out.

Pretty okay. Yeah, even then it's not like all of Japan. Chernobyl was communism. Chernobyl was communism. This is what happens when you put communists in charge of anything. To be fair, Japan had some nuclear resistance built in. Dude, I did a college history course and we had to debate the ethics of the nuclear bombings and I made a girl cry in class. And the internet gets mad when I tell this story, but I don't care because I thought it was funny. She was just like, you don't understand the ramifications of the radiation and the blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And I was like,

you literally don't know what you're talking about at all. Like here's the municipal website for Hiroshima. And it's like, they study it every year. You can just live there. There is no radiation. It was an airburst. - Here's what I challenge people to do. Look at a picture of Hiroshima in 1945 and Detroit in 1945 and Hiroshima today and Detroit today. And what do you end up learning?

Nuclear weapons are less disastrous than socialism. That's what you end up learning. This is science. Did people say there's still nuclear fallout? Yes. Yes. A significant portion of these college kids think that you just, there's a chunk of Japan that you just can't fucking go anywhere near. That there's a bunch of Japanese babies still getting like 40 fans. Walking around with three pants. Yeah. And it's like, no, it was an airburst explosion. The nuclear material exploded.

fucking went kaboom. It's fucking gone. There is no, like, when a reactor melts down, it's because the radioactive material melts and then the radioactive material sits there emitting fucking neutrons for a million fucking

here's that's the issue that exploded it's gone it's like wouldn't recommend exposure while pregnant but other than that yeah I'm not saying you should go to like a health spa I'm just saying yeah you can visit it yeah you've been able to visit it for a long time like ground zero the the other thing the other thing too this is the part where I mean I get in fights with people about this because it's like yeah look I I don't like civilian casualties I don't like when innocent people die

Hot takes only. But I also understand that if you look at the projected casualty list for invading the Japanese main islands, and if you look at what the Japanese plan was for defending the main islands, they were going to give bamboo spears to 14-year-old girls. They were ready to fight to the death. This is millions of casualties.

their entire interpretation is literally, Oh, well actually what they don't tell you in school is the Japanese tried to surrender before America dropped the atomic bombs. And we just did it because we wanted to experiment. It's like, no, no, they didn't. They approached the USSR and said, Hey, we basically want to cease fire permanently and leave the entire Japanese Imperial government intact so they could rebuild an army and fucking do it again. Obviously that was never an option. The USSR told them that that was not them trying to

Surrender. And then you get all the kids are like, actually, Japan only surrendered because Russia attacked. Oh, really? Really? Russia attacked northeast China with the Japanese sea in between. And that's why Japan fucking surrendered. Real quick. What was the Russian?

Navy like in World War II. Oh, there fucking wasn't one. I remember because the only way they were going to be able to shuttle troops was because of the U.S. Operation Hula where we were going to transport it for them. So shut the fuck up. It doesn't make any sense.

But as far as the mainland invasion of Japan, we talked about it on the podcast before, but it's still a crazy stat that Eli's Purple Heart was made in 1945 when they were expecting an invasion. 1.2 million. Every Purple Heart awarded since World War II, I think, and still several in reserve, were made anticipating casualties of mainland invasion of Japan. I've read a lot of war memoirs and a lot of different

on the ground person perspectives of different wars and interpretations.

By far and away, by a hundred miles, my favorite fucking interpretation of on-the-ground events is reading Japanese people's opinion of when the Marines and the Army showed up during the occupation of Japan right after World War II, seeing the sheer level of just fucking grunt, smoking cigarettes, not giving a fuck, growing a beard, just disheveled, angry beard, like, how did they beat us? It was just fucking...

furious we have so much discipline some fucking some 19 year old from nebraska with a bar like i want to go home around that's a warrior class it's part of

Taking over mainland would have been a huge problem we talked about before. That was a completely different society. Their warrior society was a warrior society. Never seen. Ever. What was his name? The dude that stayed 30 years? Hiro Onoda. And he wasn't the last one. There was people. There was two or three people that decade in the 70s, right? Yeah, I think so. In the 70s that were still fighting. Running around the Philippines killing farmers thinking they were fighting World War II. Yeah. Yeah.

What's crazy is that there's so many stories of it. Like it's not just one isolated incident. Like it happened a couple of times. There was that one guy on some isolated Island. He still speaks to graduates of graduates of like Japanese. I don't know what their military Academy or their officer core school is, but talking about like loyalty and Bushido. And I look, I, I, I was, I was willing to put up with a, a lot more rules of engagement and,

When I was in, now that my son's going through infantry basic training and I do a reevaluation of a lot of the stupid stuff that we've gotten into, I'm a lot more, no, just drop the bomb. Your kid actually joined and he was like, yeah, I'm going infantry. So we, like, I didn't push the military with my kids, but-

Yeah. My son, you love them, but no, my, my, my son, he was, I thought he was going to go like, he likes welding. He likes like, again, another cool thing about, you know, homeschooling, like we did a blacksmithing class and like, he fell in love with it. So we had a little forge and stuff like that. It was, it was awesome. You can teach them practical skills. Yes. And he was like, I want to learn how to weld. I want to do this other stuff. So I figured like, okay, if he's going to go in the military, he's probably gonna go into like a, you know,

a field that's going to put them in that range. Yeah. And then he's like, yeah, dad, I want to go infantry. I want to go airborne. And then he was talking about the 18 x-ray side. I was like, Hey bud, why don't, how about you do rasp? Right? Like ranger assessment. How about you do that? I said, it's a four year enlistment on a six year enlistment. I said, if you want to go to selection, they can't stop you. You can go to selection. It's one of the few things that military you can go to if you want to go to, and they can't stop you.

And he was okay. So yeah, he's an infantry basic. He'll go to airborne after that. I'll go to raspberry of that. And he, he, he put the hand up when, before the election and yeah, his, his mother and I both were like, he's like, dad, I prayed about it. This is where I feel like I'm being led to go. I'm like, all right, son, you got to do what you got to do. Right. You're a man. So, but I was definitely, yeah, it is, it is a different thing. Like I won't,

When he was sitting there at 30th AG waiting to go off to infantry basic at Sand Hill and he sends us the picture of, I see the Freitas name tape on him.

Man. Mosquito wings. I'm not crying. You're crying. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It was, yeah. Dude, like, what? Four more months? Then you'll get those calls like, yeah, this sucks, dude. I want it, bro. Why didn't you tell me? It's like it. We got it. Well, the funny part is we got the first call when he actually got to basic and he's, you know, his mom's there and I'm there and he's describing what's going on. She's like, oh, are you okay? And I'm like, yeah.

Sucks, doesn't it? But no, but I will say this. There is something that will give you a great sense of pride when your son is going through this and he's like, you can tell by his voice and how he's describing it that, yeah, it sucks, but he's into it. And it's like,

It's a good kickstart for a lot of people. I think that really disciplines you and then puts your perspective of life. You're like, oh, yeah, man, I was handed a whole bunch of stuff and reality check. Okay, this is hard work. This is dedication. This is following other people's orders. I think there's something to like, I really believe this for, I mean, always exceptions to rules, but young men in general, right?

Young men in general need to do hard stuff. They need to do challenging stuff. They need to overcome it. Men thrive when we have responsibilities. Men thrive when we have responsibilities. And we absolutely suffer and become the worst versions of ourselves when we don't. I think...

reality check for me like military war blah blah but the kiddo when you had that like when i had riding that was my biggest like i did another switch i was like oh i have to focus everything on this i have to start dedicating my life to make sure this little thing is taken care of and good for however long i'm probably gonna fuck it up but i'm doing my best yeah do not get up yeah versus out in the wind you don't learn anything or if you don't have responsibilities day to day like

You get complacent as fuck. Oh, yeah. Well, when Luke was like seven, we were watching. Have you seen that movie? Oh, what's it called? Freaking with Hugh Jackman. It's the one with the robots. X-Men? No, no, no. It's the one with the robots. Real Steel? Real Steel. Yeah. So it's like Rocky, but with robots, right? And so I'm watching it. I got my two daughters, my wife and my son, and he's just sitting there watching this thing, thinks it's awesome, right? And I look over at Tina and he's seven.

six or seven. I look over at Tina, I'm like, "Hey, babe, you know what the agogae is?" She goes, "What's the agogae?" I said, "The agogae is where the Spartans sent their kids off

It was like their first stage of kind of like warrior training to be like a hoplite. Four years in Dagestan. Forget about it. Forget about it. But I said, do you know how old they were? And she goes, no. Like I'm asking my wife, do you know how old the Spartans are? No, honey. I'm like seven. She's like, why are you telling me this? I'm like, watch. I'm like, hey, buddy, come over here. Come on. Like we're watching that. So we're doing this. And it was the first time I ever like pop, not hard, but enough to like shake him up. And he just goes, ah.

And he's like fighting the whole deal we're doing. He's having a blast. And Tina looks at me and she goes,

what just happened to my little boy I'm like oh no no he's not yours anymore he belongs to me now and I will say this he still loves his mama like nothing else but yeah that was that was the there's a certain point where dad's gotta dad's gotta take over a testosterone yeah yeah and like you were saying earlier when they don't oh yeah that's when you have catastrophic yeah life trajectory yeah

Yeah. Not every case, not every case, obviously, but like vast majority, vast majority. I, again, I mean, I, I'll tell you what, like I, I got married at 19, went in the military, got married at 19. One of the best decisions I ever made. Um, but that whole idea of having responsibilities early on and challenges and things you had to go through and in an environment where nobody cared if it sucked, nobody cared if it was hard, nobody cared about your feelings. Nobody cared about any of that.

That was hugely developmental. And I look at a lot of challenges I think young men are facing right now, and I can't help but thinking to myself, yeah, it's like, you know, we, this is, I was actually listening to somebody. He was, he was talking about, he had, he had talked, actually it was Dennis Prager. It was Dennis Prager. He was talking about, he was giving a, he was giving a speech and he was talking to World War II vets.

And he said World War II vets he used, they focused a lot because they grew up through the Great Depression and they went into World War II and they were talking about giving their kids the things they never had. And he said, "I had this moment where I was talking to him. I said, 'I get it, but as you're giving them the things they never had, please remember to give them the things you did.'" The resilience, the challenges, no sense of entitlement.

And we see what happens when you give everything handed to you, you don't become better for it. You don't become better for it. That's what we say all the time as far as wanting to give your kids enough. Give them the things you never had, but also want to make sure they have enough trauma that they're funny. Yeah, right? That's a great way to put it. Spoiler shits. You sons of...

Yeah, it's true. And you can see it too. Cause when you raise your kids that way and they see other kids and the way they behave, they look at them. They're like with you going the hell's up with that kid. Yeah.

yeah we used to always point out the kid like screaming in the store like what would i do to you if you did that oh dad you'd crush me i'm like very good my wife gets mad at me i yell at other people's kids in public you're helping don't shake your head we're at the park shake your hand we're at the park and somebody runs up and like it was like i don't know probably like six or seven year old but they're like running around and he shoves my four-year-old and the mom is like

oh little Timmy don't do that play nice with others and then I'm watching and he runs around and does it intentional again and I look at the mom and she looks at me and I quit and that kid starts crying and they leave that's what you look at and be like it takes a village right yeah

You do the fucking True Detective season two. It's like, hey, anything you do to my kid, I'm doing to your dad. Bro, that was one of my favorite interviews is Daniel Cormier.

Champ, champ, light heavyweight, heavyweight UFC champ. Big, big boy. Olympic bronze medalist, Olympic wrestler, like badass dude. And he's talking about being at the park and like very similar situation, like a bigger kid's picking on his kid. And then like the dad doesn't do anything about it after the second or third time. And Daniel Cormier just like allegedly looks at this dude like, hey, just so we're clear, whatever your kid does to my kid next, I'm going to do to you.

And the other commenter's like, Daniel, you can't say that. He's like, well, I fucking did. Which is weird, because he's like one of the friendliest, nicest dad dudes on the planet. And just like, nope. Well, there's a difference, too, between friendliness and weakness. Yeah. It's fair. Yeah.

Daniel Korn may be terrifying, dude. He's so funny because... I might hit my kid real quick. Sorry. He's funny because like... Timmy, come here. He's funny because he has like... There's been like multiple fucking reels that get uploaded by like just normal everyday people because he teaches his little kids wrestling team. And there's like other dads

that are just like like I wrestled in high school dads that are like filming a reel of them like this with Daniel Cormier in the back of the other team's coach is Daniel Cormier so I guess I'll just go f*** myself remember fucking Mighty Mouse was talking Demetrius Johnson coaching for his kid like

This episode is brought to you by LifeLock. It's tax season, and we're all a bit tired of numbers. But here's one you need to hear. $16.5 billion. That's how much the IRS flagged for possible identity fraud last year. Now here's a good number. $100 million. That's how many data points LifeLock monitors every second. If your identity is stolen, they'll fix it. Guaranteed. Save up to 40% your first year at LifeLock.com slash podcast. Terms apply.

As such, when you look across, you're like, okay, you're going to beat that. You're going to learn about losing. It's a good lesson. It's about having fun.

We're going to learn how to get back on that horse. Are you big in MMA or boxing? So my son and I, we did Brazilian jiu-jitsu and boxing for a little while and whatnot. And it was great. I wish we would have started a lot earlier. And then I got to travel in so much. But I'm trying to get back into it because I thought it was, one, it was one of the best workouts ever.

How much traveling do you have to do as a delegate? Sorry not to derail you. Oh, no, no. As a delegate, not a lot. I mean some within – but a lot of – it's flying around the country and doing other things associated with that. But no, I need to get back to it because one, it's – running on a treadmill is unacceptable. But the cardio you get with freaking jiu-jitsu and boxing, like oh my gosh. That and I just think men should know how to fight. And so – yeah. Yeah.

It's crazy watching somebody that doesn't know how to fight try to fight. You're like, ah, yes. Yeah. Terrifying. Whoa. Yeah. Or on the ground, they're just trying to like... Dude, when somebody doesn't know how to tap somebody out, it's just like...

It's like you're squeezing them harder and then you're awkwardly hitting them with usually here breaking a bone. Like all the Twitter fight videos, Rich's dudes doing that. It's like, I

I mean, yeah, I guess you can get lucky and that's going to hurt a lot, but what the fuck are you doing? Well, it's the guys that believe that, well, if I ever really had to, I would just see red and then get your ass kicked. And then black. Yeah. And then light. And then nothing. When you wake up, your family is mine now. Like, fuck. We're getting back. That's the other thing too. Like, again, with my kid, I remember when we started doing Brazilian jujitsu and boxing, like the confidence level with everything.

Not just with that, but the confidence level with everything goes up significantly. And yeah. Dude, there's a little kid that's with our kiddos, nine year old class at boxing. And there's two Mexican kids that are like, when they get in, they're like, I'm like, bro, they will shit out of you. Do you like to listen to them? Like those kids are moms. They grew up.

And you just see him like teeing off on the back. I was like, oh man, those kids do not get bullied. Ever. One might be a bully. That's the kid that bullies your kid. Your little kids are already two and four. Cutters start in jujitsu. Yeah. Just rolling around. They got the little tiny geese. How old are your kids? Nine and 13 going on. Two and four?

Yeah. I got mine. There's 22, 19 and 17. Oh, there you're about to be an empty nest. That's blowing my mind, man. That is blowing my, cause for, for, you know, my, my daughter got married at 21 and, um, and then she left, you know, at 20, you know, and then eight months later, my son left.

And now my daughter's about to graduate high school and my wife and I are looking at each other like, oh my gosh. 'Cause we weren't just used to having our kids around all the time, which we love our kids, but like all of their friends and the whole deal. And then all of a sudden, and I mean, it's exciting for Tina 'cause we're going to this next area of life and we like each other. Like my wife's hot, like I like spending time with her. - That helps considerably. - Oh my gosh.

Name three things. She's hot. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What's the hot? We said he likes spending time with her. That's not what I know, though. What's the movie with Terry Bradshaw? You can have a hot wife and not want to spend any fucking time with her. What's the movie with Terry Bradshaw where he's the dad and his kid finally moves out and he's like, finally, now that you're out, this is going to be my naked room. Watching TV in the naked room all day. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

All the rooms in the house couldn't get back into play, right? It's like looking outside. Is my youngest daughter off to work? All right, baby. The kitchen is now in play. We have so much room for activities. I'm going to ruin this place. My kid will see this and be like, really, dad? Like, hey, it's nice to know that mom and dad like each other.

That's why a priest came over. Would you rather occasionally hear stuff like this or have two Christmases? Well, hold on. Are both Christmases dope? Wait.

Double the present sounds pretty good. Otherwise, I gotta hear you guys fucking. Way less trauma. Oh, man.

So, man, so you were in the Virginia – you were a delegate in Virginia for 10 years now, right? Yeah, still am. I'm in the Virginia House of Delegates. The oldest continuously legislative body in the Western Hemisphere. So you are from there –

You just announced last night that you're no longer seeking reelection. Not seeking reelection. Yeah. Ten years is enough. I mean, that's that's crazy amount. Oh, yeah. And it feels it feels longer than it was sometimes. But for somebody like us, it's a crazy amount. Yeah. For your average lifelong politician. Oh, gosh. Getting started. Well, and that's one of the things that whenever people ask me now, like about like, oh, I'm thinking of running for office. Like the first question I always ask is, what are you willing to lose your seat over? Hmm.

If you can't tell me what you're willing to lose your seat over, the answer is nothing. And you will compromise in order to keep your seat because you'll convince yourself that you can't get anything done if you can't get reelected. And that's the slippery slope. Like if you can't list off right now the things where like I would take that vote, lose my seat, and smile about it, I don't want you anywhere near elected office. But some people, not all, I serve with some really good people.

Um, but there's a lot of people, they get their identity. Um, they get their identity from serving in public office. And I'm like, dude, my identity, I get my identity in Christ. Then I get it and being like a husband to my wife, a father to my children, you know, a vet, you know, whatever. But I mean, it's look, I,

Speaking of history earlier, right? Like I represent James Madison's district. Oh, that's right. And in a, in a legislative body that tracks its history all the way to the house of Burgesses, which means we've been in operation for over 400 years.

There is something truly cool about that. And believe me, the first time I walked in the Virginia House of Delegates, it was, I remember that they escorted me in, said, you know, delegate elect, wait here. I'm going to go find the other people because I was a military guy. So it was, of course, it was like 30 minutes early. And I remember sitting there, it was just quiet. And I'm sitting in that chamber going, there's got to be a mistake.

There's gotta be a mistake. The imposter syndrome kicks in. Oh yeah. Big time, big time. Um, it goes away quickly when you meet your colleagues, but anyway, did you try wearing a Tosito tank top while you did it? I did not. I didn't have that kind of, but, um, but yeah, no, it was, I looked at it. It was, you know, 10 years and, um, and there's still stuff I want to do. And, you know, obviously the things I believe in and there's a lot of ways to fight for it. It doesn't have to be politics. Um,

Because I think the cultural component is what's the part that is most in dire right now. But I think it's good to just

Pick a time where it's like, look, find somebody that you think will do a good job, find a good replacement, and then, you know, bow out and let them let them take a crack at it. I think politics is better when we don't have a bunch of people that are trying to do it for 30 or 40 years. Yeah, because a lot of those people don't have anything else. Yeah, they've never had anything else. Their entire like you said, identity. That's all they've ever been. They've never produced anything in the free market. They've that's that's their claim to fame. That's all they've ever done. Yeah.

One of the things about – the other thing too about a state legislature is that with the exception of four states, all of your state legislatures are part-time. I mean you still got full-time constituent services requirements and whatnot, but –

And in Virginia, you get paid $17,600 a year to be a delegate. It's not supposed to be a full-time salary. You go down, you have 60 days in even years. You have 45 days in odd years. You go through 2000 bills in that period. And that's it. You're done. Go back to your district. That's where you live. That's where you work. Get a real job. That's how, that's what, that's the way it was supposed to be. Congress should be that way. Yeah. Congress should be 100%. I wanted to propose something where I was like, yeah, I want the, your, the, the salary cap of Congressman, like,

elected representatives to be the median income of their district. Yeah. Yeah. That's the salary cap. Yeah. I think you should get, I think you should get lodging per diem for staying in a DC, but that's only enough to like when you're there, you don't get it. So you're not buying houses in DC and then staying there. That's bullshit. I want them to have barracks. You're a public servant. I want this to be service like the military. Yeah. Yeah. I don't want this to be fun for you. Cause it's not supposed to be. I want him to bring back when politicians that actually fight each other. Yeah.

Just saying. I think that'd be way cooler. The argument I heard against it. That's the fastest way to get rid of all the 70 year olds. Yeah. Yeah. The caning of Charles Sumner. It's like you say something about my mom and a beat your ass on the steps of the Capitol. We used to be a proper country. I approve.

I like it. The argument I heard against that was that if you lower their salary, like, well, now you're just giving them incentive to be corrupt and take deals on the side. I'm like, they do that already. Yeah. Well, I mean, that's the point is like, or I'm increasing the incentive for people that are actually successful outside of politics and can now afford to go and just do the right thing for fun to go and do that. Exactly. That's a meritocracy. Good. Oh,

Crazy. Fuck, I want people good at their job. Horrible person. People who have, you know, had employees and like built businesses and know how to balance a budget. Nick's getting me fired up on Friday. Good! This is the earliest unsub we've ever filmed. What time is it? Oh, it is. It's almost 2 p.m. I'm already upset. Usually we're still just getting to brunch.

Yeah. What are you going to do anything since you've been kind of in that wheelhouse of politics again? Are you thinking like maybe do it? I really still don't know. I have a lot of people trying to do it. I have a lot of people trying to bully me into running again. And I feel like we would do really good if I did do it. But I, man, it's, it's, it's the question of, uh, I've met with a couple of people that are looking at running in that district too. And I'm like, I'm happy to give them advice.

Like say like, you know, this is what I learned, you know, here are the pitfalls, you know, but like here, here's the, basically the roadmap. Here's what I did. Um, but I, I, and I told him flat out, I'm like, I don't know what I'm going to do right now because I don't know if I want to run back the worst nine months of my life.

Cause that fucking sucked running for office is, is shit. I really want to hear a Nick's opinion on this too. Yeah. Cause they were there. Basically I was being asked if, uh, if I was going to run for, uh, for a house again. Yeah. Oops. I'm like the, the big decision is like, ah, I feel like I do a lot better this time. Cause I, I missed it by 407 votes. Oh yeah. Primary runoff. Yeah.

but i'm like i also don't know like that was the worst nine months of my life by far yeah yeah bro he has the funniest smear campaign i've ever seen in a mailer cody has it framed on his wall yeah it's a photoshop picture of him and it says brandon herrera's all hat and no cattle and it's him in a cowboy outfit with like a comically large turd ferguson and they sent that out as like slander is the funniest

And I bought a turd Ferguson hat. I was like, hell yeah, brother. So I'll say this. I do, again, not having done a deep dive into the race and just what I know about it, I do think if you ran again, you'd win.

because I don't think the smear campaigns work the second time around. Yeah. It's the eight mile thing. Yeah. The other thing too is that, and from what I understand, it's a solid red district, right? It is like,

you could shoot someone on live TV as long as you win the primary. You're got it. It used to be a close district. It used to be like a, maybe a plus two. Now it's like a plus 15. So I ran for Congress and it was during COVID. That was fun. You ran, you ran for house or Senate house. Really? Okay. I didn't know that house in 2020. I knew he did a Spanberger. Okay. And, um,

That was a $20 million race because it was considered one of the top five races in the country because of how close the district was. Oh, shit. And I'll tell you right now, you don't want to be in that kind of district. That sucks. Your whole life is going to be fundraising. When I had to run that race, I hate fundraising with a fiery passion. I despise it. And when I had to run for Congress in order to try to be successful, six hours a day, six days a week, I was on the phone fundraising. Dialing for dollars. Miserable. Absolutely.

Absolutely miserable. I always felt so weird about that. I would rather in the way, and this is where I guess I was kind of unique in that way, but I hated doing that. I didn't really do it. Yeah. What I was, I told my consultant, I'm like, I'd rather just work harder on my own businesses and make more money and put my own money in. Yeah. It's like, I, I, yeah, it's tough. It sucks. Um, so here's what I'll say. Like, I mean, I think, I think you'd win. And, um, obviously I think you'd be a,

an excellent voice of Congress and God knows we need people, especially in Congress. Cause my biggest fear right now is I see all these people. We have a program we do called Doge watch and we highlight everything Doge has done for the week. And I have all these people going like, Doge is finance, but why aren't they acting? I'm like, because they're an advisory committee. They don't have any executive authority. They can make recommendations and the executive branch can do certain things. But the only way any of this lasts is if you have legislation, which means you have to have members of Congress willing to actually carry the bills.

And the number of people that we have willing to do that is nowhere near what I think most people think it is. And so we definitely need people that are willing to do it. Why is that, Nick? Why do we not have enough people willing to do it? Why are they not willing to do it? I know where this is. How much time we got left? The amount of money on your doge watch of spending your last one you just did. It was $25 million or $18 million to hire...

The people that do the same thing for like $25 million. Oh, it was wild. The IRS spent 15 billion on an IT modernization program. That's 30 years overdue. It's still not there. It's still not there, but, but you look at this stuff and here's what it comes down to. You go look at the house, look at the house right now, right? We have the house by what? Like five seats. So,

they're going to look at it from the perspective of how do we maintain the majority so they're going to look at everybody in purple districts and they say we can't do anything that puts people in purple districts in jeopardy and so now the entire house is going to be subject to whatever those 15 seats need or don't need and everything is going to be how do we maintain the majority the majority doesn't matter if you don't do anything with it yes like yes and this is this is the part this is the one thing that i hold out hope right

There are so many people. And if you look at Trump's approval ratings, there's a ton of people that didn't really like Trump, but voted for him because he wasn't Kamala Harris, who now like him. Why? Because like the guy or hate the guy, he does what he says he's going to do. And people are seeing action. And if there's one thing that people actually appreciate, especially a wide swath of people that don't necessarily follow politics, but are tired of business as usual, they like somebody that actually says they're going to do something, goes and does it.

Not to mention the fact that they've actually done an excellent job with new media and highlighting the absolute waste. It is really, really hard to have any sympathy for, oh my gosh, I can't believe that poor person at USAID lost their job. You were sending $50 million a year to DEI scholarships in Burma. Yeah.

Burma's a military junta. They're committing atrocities against Karen tribesmen right now. 20 years civil war. Right? They have bigger issues. Yes, but is the genocide equitable? That's the part that we're really concerned about. We want to make sure the executioners are equal parts male and female. Exactly. Do you have any trans executioners? Like, if you don't, that's a real gap in your DEI, you know,

My favorite one recently was the almost $1 billion, I think it was, that the national park system wasted on a survey to ask people if they liked national parks. Yeah, right. A billion fucking dollars. The Department of Interior, well, it gets worse. The Department of the Interior spent all of this money on an internal, so they had an internal contract to develop

their own customer satisfaction survey. And then they contract it out to a company to do customer satisfaction surveys, right? This is the sort of stuff that is going on. And they're like, oh my gosh, we're cutting this. Yes, good. Cut more. Somebody asked me once, they're like, well, Nick, what would you cut from the federal government? This will be far quicker if I tell you what I'd keep. Right? You can have defense. Afuera, afuera. Javier Malay is still my favorite. Right now, right now.

Like, why do you call these socialists? Because they are. But no, but I mean, that's really where we're at right now. We got too many people that are so concerned about maintaining the majority that they don't do anything with it. And then they lose the majority. And it's like, that's not where people are at right now. Not to mention the fact that it's just cowardly. Eventually, you're going to lose anyways, because if that's your mindset, you're never willing to actually provide an alternative. You'll lose your base. Yes.

Your base wants you in because you're going to do these things. If you don't do those things because you're worried about losing...

It's so circular. Yeah. It drives me crazy. We did an interview with Rand Paul. And Rand Paul and Thomas Massey were the two guys to vote no against the continuing resolution. And Trump really went after Massey. Yeah. And look, I'm a big fan. But I'm like, dude, don't go after Massey. Massey was one of the guys that was fighting this fight when he was the only one doing it. Like, holy hell. Those always feel like mommy and daddy are fighting. Yes. I'm like, God, I like both of you. Please.

Please just listen to each other. This is why career politicians shouldn't be a thing. Because they get elected to go do a thing and then they get there. It's like the knight goes to slay the dragon but then the knight realizes if he kills the dragon he'll be out of work so he becomes a dragon conservationist. No, just kill the dragon and go back to your farm. It's right there. Here's a sword. Now the donkey's the dragon. We've got little half donkey dragons running around. Shrek is pissed. Things are horrible.

Hey, now you're an all-star. I mean, we need more people in Congress that are actually willing to, again, they're willing to lose their seat in order to accomplish something significant. But then the other side of it is, look, the inextricable reality about representative government is you get the government you deserve. And so a big part of this now, my belief is, is that if you want better politicians, you've got to have a better electorate.

And you got to have people that actually understand what the government is actually there for. And this is another reason why I usually look, I trash government run schools a lot because for the same reason I trash state run media. If you want kids to be skeptical of government, right? Not understanding that. Yes, some government is necessary and there's legitimate functions of government, but if you want to be skeptical of government, but then you're handing them over to the government for seven to eight hours a day for their education, what do you think they're going to be taught about government?

And I think that's a big problem. What we have right now is they're just absolutely convinced that of course the government feeds me. Of course, the government educates me. Of course, the government takes care of me. I just got in this fight last night with somebody. Well, what are you going to personally do? I'm like, I don't know. It sounds like a family issue.

Yeah. Well, you can't say that. Like the government's got to know. That's the reason we're in this problem is because the government assumed you tried to replace dad with a government program. And guess what? It didn't work. It didn't work. You can't legislate it. There are certain things you cannot legislate. You cannot legislate personal responsibility, period. That might be the most jarring thing about being an adult for me was.

I don't know. Like when you're a kid, like second grade, third grade, like the fucking homeroom teacher is like the hive mind of humankind. Like he or she knows everything. Like there's a disagreement. You go and you ask the teacher, whatever the teacher said that determines who's right. And then,

around 25 people I went to high school with and partied with are becoming teachers. It's like, I've seen you do cocaine. Wait, my teachers, maybe they didn't fucking know everything. I would say one of the, one of the biggest, regardless of how you raise your kids, one of the biggest problems I see right now is when kids don't see their parents as an educator.

Right. And so you'll see kids come home and their parent will say one thing. The teacher will say another thing. The kid will side with the teacher. Why? Because you told them that's your teacher. That's your expert. That's the person that knows things. They've got the college degree in education. What could you possibly know? No, no, no. I am the primary educator for my child. That doesn't mean that doesn't mean I can't utilize resources outside of myself. You're a contractor. Yes.

Well, and again, what do we always say in the military? You can delegate authority. You can't delegate responsibility. I am ultimately responsible for the education of my children. Again, I can use outside expertise for subjects I'm not as good on. Fine. But I'm still an educational authority in my child's life. Now, two things. One, okay, that's a big responsibility. Two, I better be worthy of it.

Right. So I better do. I better know a little something about this world. I better be able to, to, to model for my kids what it means to be a man, what it means to be a husband, what it means to be a father, what it means to be an educator. And yeah, that's going to require some work, but, but I will tell you this much. Um, if you would ask us when we started like homeschooling, we were super intimidated. Oh my God. Super intimidated. I'm right out of the military. Tina's like, what the hell? I didn't sign up for this.

And we had all these grandiose ideas like our kids are each gonna speak three foreign languages and learn a musical instrument and play two sports. By the end, we're like- - They're not Asian. - By the end, we're like, do you love Jesus and hate communism? Yeah, mission accomplished, right? Like we have done it. But honestly, one of the- - Check that, the other box. - I will say this over and over again and I always get a little bit, you know, the greatest compliment that I can give my wife especially

It's not one that I give her. It's the one that my kids give her. Because if you ask each one of my kids, they all have different objectives. They all have different professional goals. But if you ask each one of them, what do they want out of life? One of the first things they'll tell you is I want to get married and I want to have kids. Why? Because my wife created a home for them that they cannot wait to replicate for their own family. That's awesome. What is a better compliment than that for any parent that your kids want to replicate the life you built for them?

And one of the things that we accomplished with this is we didn't get it always right. They didn't always have the same resources that they would have went to some other area. Yeah, they would have had better labs and they would have access to more musical instruments and whatnot. But I gained back thousands of hours with my children through the most formative years of their life. And now I have a relationship with them that I wouldn't trade for anything.

And there's something to be said for that. I talked with Hannah's uncle, my wife's uncle. He's been a like school teacher and school administrator for like over 20 years in Minneapolis, Minnesota. So, I mean, he's pretty left leaning. So like,

If me and him agree on something, I was like, okay, well, it's got to be right if we're agreeing. But I asked him what he thought about homeschool, and he goes, it's just better. If you do it right, it's better. He goes, there's not a single study that's reputable that says otherwise, he said.

in 15 minutes in a one-on-one or up to either one to four or one to six setting, you can achieve in 15 minutes what a public school can achieve in about an hour. And he goes, so if you actually legitimately homeschool your kids, you can achieve an eight-hour school day in six hours. And then you can take another four hours to go explore anything else. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. So two hours, you can accomplish what an eight, what a public school does in eight. And he's like, then you could take another four hours to explore anything else. Martial arts, sports, anything you want. And then you still gain two hours extra at home with your kids. And it's, and look like, take us, take aside any, like, let's not, I won't assume that nefarious nature, even though I think some of that is, is there within the education system. Let's just say everyone's doing their best.

It's still a mass production model approach to education. It's mass production. That's what it is. It has to be because that teacher, what is that teacher supposed to do? Give individualized attention to all 20 students in the classroom. That's an unrealistic expectation. So what it affords you is an individualized model of education. And one of the most important things your kids can learn is that education is not a building you go to.

education takes place. Education is merely the transference of knowledge, hopefully useful knowledge and wisdom to go along with it. That's what it is. And so now everything, whether you're making dinner or where you're doing, you know, Brazilian jujitsu or whether you're doing a math problem because you're teaching your kids how to run a small business, like all of that is now education.

It's not sit here. This is another thing I think too, especially with, with young boys, we have all these things that we now classify as learning disabilities, ADD, ADHD, and look, there's, there's, there's clinical definitions of these things and I'm not taking anything away from that. But how many, how many learning disabilities all of a sudden become capabilities in a very, very different circumstance or environment, right? Yeah. If you're going to put that, if you're going to put that kid, if you're

And say, sit here, be quiet, listen, and do your stuff. That you don't care about. For six hours a day that you don't care about. Oh yeah, his behavior is going to look a whole hell of a lot like a learning disability. You take that same kid, you put him in a different environment that is far more kinetic, far more interactive. And then all of a sudden, all of the things that inhibited learning in that environment, all of a sudden become capabilities and advantages in a different environment.

I don't think it's ridiculous to consider that. So I can't wait to see Huffington Post tomorrow. Nick Freitas says abortion causes ADHD. No, there's a TED talk about ADHD, pretty much exactly what you just said. But the story they used was in like the 1920s, I think it was Britain. There was a girl that just couldn't pay attention in class and they couldn't go to do it. And ADHD obviously wasn't a thing then. And the teacher told the parents –

your daughter needs to be a dancer. Yeah, I remember seeing that. And they sent her to dance school and she became a ballerina. And then like fast forward in life, she ran the most successful ballerina academy like in the world that's like still renowned to this day. And it's like, and then if you would have sent her to school in 2020, they would have gave her meth and told her to fucking do math quietly in the corner. Not everything's a square hole. Yeah. You may get a little excited when you shop at Burlington. Woo!

Burlington saves you up to 60% off other retailers prices every day. Will it be the low prices or the great brands? You'll love the deals. You'll love Burlington. I told you so. And there's, they're finding out what's really fascinating too is they find out things like dyslexia.

Yes, dyslexia will make it more difficult for you to potentially read on a flat page. But if you actually put someone in a different environment, because my son had mild dyslexia,

Put that kid. Yeah. Reading a book. It's difficult. He's got to focus more in order to do it. Put that kid behind a 3d printer or give him some sort of like, you know, three dimensional thing. He can think and see things in a way that like, I can't put it together the same way. And so again, it's yes, it makes this thing more difficult, but it makes this thing way more easy, way easier.

It's almost like the entire education system was built to turn out factory workers. Crazy. And conscripts. I don't even have to ask what your son is 3D printing. Print guns, not money. Oh, we're putting that on a shirt. Print guns, not money. That's a renowned libertarian has to go up.

Yeah. What are your political values? Print guns, not money. What was your, uh, with your son? What was his weaknesses? And as you were saying, he's like, ah, he sucked at this, but he really shined in these things. What were a couple of other? Oh, so he had a, he had a more difficult time reading and spelling. I give him crap about it still. I'm like, but like, I know it sucks, but you still got to get it right. Else you're going to look like an idiot. Um, but when, whenever it came to, um, anything with construction, anything with, you know, again, um,

We went to a homeschool fair once and they had a blacksmith there. And he's out there in Forge hammering away, making stuff. And he's like, could we try that? Like, yeah, let's do it. And I figured, because again, I grew up in a schooling model. So I figured we're going to show up. We're going to get a PowerPoint presentation on the history of blacksmithing. We get there and homeboy at Platinum Starch Forge goes like, all right, so here's the Forge. Here's some iPro.

Let's go beat some metal. I'm like, this is awesome. And so, and so we bought a little one and now like my son's out there and it was funny. I was in, I was in session. So I was gone and I, I, I was giving him assignments. I'm like, Hey, I want you to, you know, you're going to develop this. You're going to do your best job developing this, watch this channel on how to do it. And my wife calls me up. She's like, baby, I just want you to know it's, it's so great. And it's so inspiring to see Luke just really passionate about something and

But when you give him a deadline that causes him to be in the garage pounding steel at two in the morning, that kind of impacts the rest of the family, babe. I'm like, oh, okay, my bad. But no, he was just – why? Because I didn't tell him to do that. I gave him a deadline and he was passionate about it and he's out there just hammering away.

And so, yeah, it was stuff like that. And again, it's not that it was like, oh, well, son, you have difficulty reading. I guess we won't worry about literacy. No, you still got to learn how to read and you still got to, we still got to power through this. Right. But yeah, it was just incredible when you, when you put those other opportunities out there and he can do it in a way that I just can't, like he can see a project and imagine it in his mind and then make it work in a way that if I was doing it, like, I'm going to be honest, I'm not going to be able to do it.

I was that dad where I was putting together like the girls bicycles on Christmas morning, like, but I'm still that way, but yeah, he could just see it. It's always crazy. You get wrapped on Christmas day. You have a bicycle minus a tire and then a tire. I wonder what my kids got for Christmas. Oh, more shit for me to do. Terrific.

Do dyslexia. Did you working with true dyslexia is the weirdest, like wild. And it's every part of their life is taken over by that thing. You're like, why can't, and they just see everything backwards. Years later, it will still write an S a five. Like everything just blends in. I'll get it like sporadically with different fonts. And the only thing that I can think of is like, wow, having true dyslexia would suck. Yeah.

Yeah. It's fucking wild. I've never seen it. And then I have now. And I'm like, Oh, this is a different. Yeah. Ryan's brains because Ryan's brain works again, completely different autism. So it is what he likes, what he doesn't like, how he can fake stuff, how he can't fake stuff. And then day to day activity. I just got text today that, uh, he's been commenting on the one channel he does watch. Cause they do like GTA recs and he hasn't done a GTA rec in, uh,

A month? So Ryan has to tell that in every comment. Why have you stopped?

Yeah, literally violated your posting schedule. He's just going to start texting or commenting their IP address. Yeah. I'll tell you what. You need to re-upload. Insane Gats. Insane Gats. Shout out to you for dealing with my son. Thank you. Well, if Insane Gats is not posting GTA 5, 4 videos, then how could I re-upload Insane Gats GTA 4 videos to YouTube? Right in the first question.

Oh, dang it. It's been like four weeks. That's so long that Insane Gates is still not posting GTA 4 videos anymore. This is a disaster and it's all my fault. What am I going to do? You know what? I'm going to just give up and go to sleep. Thank you for just saying go to sleep, Brian. I'm proud of you for that. Because I am so tired. It's like all... And then he finishes, I'm just going to go to sleep in my bed for 1,000 years. Wow.

write in text mom i was like yeah we're gonna have to work on him commenting on some japanese anime go on just eli's just sitting there like what what is the reply to that sounds good son i love you but we can't talk like that we can't

blame people for them not uploading what you want and then also saying you're going to re-upload their content i wouldn't be a fan of it yeah it's okay it's definitely not eli low-key bullying another youtuber into making more gta4 content now there's going to be a hundred unsubbed people you knew what you were doing when you did that don't even

I don't want him to do more content. I was like, I told Kyler. I don't want him to make more content. Let me read off his channel name so people don't go over. He's had a shout out. He does. Like goes and thanks him. He actually replied to one over. Hey, thank you for actually mentioning. I appreciate it. Everyone was like nice because I apologize for riding in one of the past episodes. Eli's like docks him if he doesn't upload. We want our four videos.

video you know what i would be ashamed you know what i remembered the other day that i had completely just forgotten about for like two years the first time we bullied a company together on my second unsub appearance the rim company oh yeah something wheels what was it get your wheels.com so funny let's see what the reviews are right have they recovered that's the free market yep hey

Do you know that story? Bro, he had this set of rims. I would be shocked if he did. He had this set of rims. One of them was at a round, and he went to like four different tire shops to get his car rebalanced over and over again. Every time he gets over 45, whole car starts shaking. Yes. And then he finally takes the rims to a machinist and puts them on dials. And like, you're going to see it. And I mean, the dial is just going like this. Like, it's not a round rim. Yeah, yeah. So he hits up the rim company. This is after I sent them back, by the way, and showed them.

dial. Had you paid for shipping big ass wheels? Like here's a video of it wobbling. Uh, here's the issues. They send it back. Like, Nope, it's good. And then, and then, uh, so he's like, you gave a proportional response. He told him, he was like, Hey, we're like, I don't want to like talk about on the podcast or whatever. Uh, just, you know, can I just like get what I paid for? And they're like, they told him there's no such thing as bad publicity. Oh,

Is that really what I'm realizing? I forgot. Is that what you said? Did they really say that? They said there's no such thing as bad publicity. We determined that was a lie. Fact check false. I go off on a fat electrician rant about how society is built around technology. First we unlocked thumbs, then we unlocked pointy sticks, then we unlocked fucking circles and wheels and you guys are

up level three and they got a hold of him like the next day and Eli's like well your guy said there's no such thing as bad publicity and well we fired that guy and when your friend insinuated that a rim company didn't know how circles worked apparently that was in fact

bad publicity. Um, that's awesome. Four months, dude, four months of like back and forth trying to be like, Hey, I don't want to bring this up. Can you get, I just want that one wheel. It's one fucked up wheels, a custom one, but it's a paperweight outside of it. Yeah. We'll take 10% off your next wheel purchase. I was like,

Yeah. And then dial indicator, everything showing it's bad. I was like, he's like, no, they're check. They just checked out their balance. It was like, you can balance something. You can balance the square. It is not the second. It is on the road at a certain speed. Here is what's going to happen. It's not a balance issue. It's a circle. Yes. Here's pie. They were like, oh yeah, it's fucked. It's.

And I was like, there, what can we do? The radius of the circle is different at different points. And then you have a different shape. The funniest part is even the RIM company that was not the website. The manufacturer, the salesman, whatever. The problem was that the salesman, even the RIM company reached out to you and apologized. Dude, they're like...

video uploaded next day call from said rim company on like the one that owned it and four star i will give a shout out to four star and logan for like all the help because they're like yo hey we're all in an office right now watching a video about we can't make wheels we don't want a fat electrician video on the history of the circle

So they were just like, hey, we got your wheels next. And I was like, thank you. We even put them on a car for you. Eli tells this entire story as if he didn't just bully a fucking GTA 4 car crash YouTube channel.

It's nothing but GTA 4 videos from here on out. Thank you, daddy. The plan has worked. The credits are always going to say thank you, Ryan. That's all I want, boy. I just want thank you, Ryan, and anytime a GTA 4 video pops up in that channel, thank you, Ryan. What's the channel? Insane Gats. That's the new unsub shirt. Wear more Insane Gats content, question mark. Unsub branded merch. You're just like,

It's like, I'm not even making money from this. With great power comes great responsibility. Some poor YouTuber out there is like, what do you do? I make content for Raiden. That's my whole job now. I make stuff that'll change his Raiden face. It's Raiden re-uploading his content for him.

insane gats insane gats are you leaving the comment now no no no i'm just writing it down so i know what uh god i always forget about the wheel company those poor not the other people that did find out there is bad publicity before dude and that anytime when it comes to car that's also they drove the forklift through my y body kit and like broke it and then they dropped it off i had to call them i was like hey y'all fuck this up like no we didn't like

Well, who signed for this? Cause I went out, you signed for it. I was like, I did. Yeah. Your name is, Oh, it was the driver's name. Nevermind. You didn't sign for it. Yeah. So then I had to get it taken. They, they fixed it really, really fast. Thankfully. One of the few times rim company. Thank you. It's a whole new level of bullying. You know, I know what habitual line crosser Ethan's wife.

She's like – so we flew out to Oklahoma. So we have a show on Pepperbox called Habitually Fat where me and Ethan just go to like military museums and like get a guided tour. It's like two hours long. It's really fun to shoot, but we flew out to Oklahoma to do –

uh they have an air defender it's technically not a museum because everything in there isn't demilled oh it's but it's like a museum where they take all the air defenders and they walk it through and give them the whole history from like world war one oh wow modern era it's really cool it's just it's not a museum if it's not demilled so it's basically just an armory yeah it's just an antique armory essentially up to modern era and uh we i flew out to oklahoma

to go to Fort Sill. I flew fan or camera guy out and I'm like, well, got there at night, went to the hotel, woke up. I was at a waffle house across the street and I get a call from Ethan. He's like, Hey, uh, public affairs just found out that you were coming and they pulled it. Even though I had permission from the air defender chain of command and, um,

And the museum. They're just like, well, we need 90 days to review his content. He might be doing a hit piece for the military. I was like, fucking Google me. It'll be overwhelmingly apparent that's not what I'm doing. And he's like, well, now I will. Right. I'm like scrambling to like,

find a different museum that we can just make something get a piece of content because i paid for these flights i got my camera guy out here like just trying to get something out of it turns out not a whole lot fort silve right yeah there was a cowboy museum we were gonna go to really yeah uh so i'm immediately back in i called eli and eli's like i could i could call that one number of the guys we know i was like do it and uh

So Eli calls and like 15 minutes later, Fort Sill gets a call from, you have to bleep this part out. Fort Sill gets a call from the...

telling them to let me on the base to do whatever the fuck i want and give them a white cloth and uh so i got to go on boat on base and ethan's like explaining it to his wife and she's like i love how these guys just strive to be the bigger bullies all the time only when bullied yeah exactly be the bigger bully yeah yeah

So let me ask you something. Have you ever been to any of the really big international military museums? So the two that I've been to that really stand out is one in Paris. I think it's the École Militaire. And then they have the Inflatis. That's where Napoleon's tomb is. Is that where they put up all the – or they display all of the German equipment they left behind? Yeah. Yeah.

What's cool about it is that you've got the medieval period. So they've got a full-on horse in armor with a mounted knight. So you've got that. And then you go to the Napoleonic era. They've got all of the various units within the Grand Army that are just decked out with authentic uniforms and the whole deal. That's super cool. But surprisingly, one of the coolest military museums I ever went to was South Korea. Really? South Korea's military museum is...

better than anything I've ever seen in the United States as far as a military museum. It's like five stories where you go back and they've got like, um, like, you know, like what is it? He, he was like a famous, uh, Admiral that like fought the Japanese, the turtle boats. Yes. Yes. So they've got all of this stuff. Why is that familiar?

It's like a whole story. There was actually a movie called The Admiral, which is a South Korean movie. It's about like he literally had 13 ships against like over technically it was 300 Japanese ships, but it was really like 120 like combat ships. But still like he had 13 ships. Holy. One turtle ship. So almost kind of one. What's a turtle ship? I'll show you right now. It's like think of like a

It's a big boat that has an iron clad component on it with spikes and then it has a cannon. It's basically like a... When was this battle? It's like what the Spartans do with their shields and just have the spears pointing out, but it's the boat version. What is this story? I've never heard of this. Admiral Master and Commander. That's that one with freaking what's his face. It's called the Admiral. It's like

South Korean. It's a movie, but this, it is a bad-ass movie. It's awesome. I've seen it like six times, but you go to their museum. And like I said, it is like, it is one of the best war museums I have ever seen.

um, this is Japan. No, this is South Korea. Well, no, but Japan trying to infiltrate. Yeah. When Japan did their invasions, it was right after like the warrants, uh, well, not the warrants periods of China, but you had, um, yeah, yeah. So you, you had like the Shogun period and whatnot. And, um,

I'm trying to remember the guy's name. But anyway, they launched the several invasions of Korea. And Yi Sun-si, I think, is the name of the South Korean admiral. But just epic stories like that.

Like Yi Sun-shin, the Japanese managed to infiltrate the South Korean court. And the first time Yi Sun-shin saved South Korea from a Japanese invasion, they infiltrated the South Korean court, convinced them that Yi Sun-shin was a traitor. Literally, they tortured him.

and retired him. And then the Japanese invaded again, destroyed his South Korean fleet. They brought him back. He had like 13 ships to work with. He was ordered to abandon the fleet and basically cannibalize his troops to become a part of the South Korean like army or not South Korea, but Korean army, Joseon period. He basically, you know, refused to follow the orders. And then with his 13 ships, turned back a 300 ship Japanese invasion fleet.

And you look at the story of it, it's just incredible. The guy eventually died defeating the third Japanese invasion. And he essentially died

ordered himself to be propped up um as he was dying as he had like he was mortally wounded because he didn't want his his you know the sailors to you lose you know heart yeah won the battle and then it was like oh man he's dead right but uh that's wild no dude it's it's a and again the way they did the admiral i i gotta tell you man the chinese and the koreans they just did some badass war flicks

Yeah, very, very good fucking war movies. Especially if you like that era. Like, Red Cliff was a great, great war movie. You are speaking Eli's language right now of any of their war movies. They've been doing it for so long. From martial arts movies to war movies, you think America for war movies. But they do really, really good World War II flicks, too.

So, you know that most of the Clint Eastwood movies, most of the cowboy movies are based off of Japanese samurai movies. Akira Kurosawa. That's why you have... Yojimbo, Sanjuro. Yeah. My guy knows it. Oh, yeah, yeah. Toshiro Mifune is the main actor and Akira Kurosawa is the main director. He's the Clint Eastwood. Yeah, exactly. Oh, they're awesome. They're awesome. Even Star Wars is based off of... I didn't know that. Oh, yeah. Star Wars is based off of Akira Kurosawa's...

Janus Films. So I think we're getting into my favorite conspiracy. Every Jedi is supposed to have a different fighting style that's supposed to be mirrored off of Kung Fu. The Hidden Fortress. Literally what it's based off of. When a Toshiro...

Oh, dang. I'm going to have to look that up. I just thought I would geek out about that. You know about Darth Jar Jar, right? Oh, yeah. But he's actually a Sith Lord. Well, that's like part of it is because every Jedi is a different Kung Fu style. Like Crane, Mantis, blah, blah, blah. Well, he's Drunken Fist. Yeah, he's his dumb ass. Yeah, just being an idiot. Somehow being outrageously combat effective. I feel like they are just trying to rehabilitate a horrible character.

I don't care. I loved him. He was hilarious. I didn't even watch the last Star Wars. Like, I refused to. Like, I remember watching, what was it? Freaking, what was the first one that came out under the, uh, the Force Awakens. Oh my gosh. I watched that. I'm like, this is the worst retread of a new hope I've ever seen. And did you hate that? Really? Like Phantom Menace and stuff.

I didn't hate it. I didn't like it. Okay, so it's that older. Dude, watch it. Everyone that is younger, they're like, oh, it's great. No, it is not great. It is not great. I was a child, so it was awesome to me. I was a child. Look, I will say this. I was in sixth grade when it came out. You were in sixth grade. You weren't six, asshole. Sorry. What year were you born? Ninety-four. I was like six.

No, you were like one. Wait, when were you born? Phantom Menace came out in 1999. I'm almost positive. I'm the only one here. Phantom Menace came out in 1999 because I was five or six. Okay, you were five, yeah. It was the first memory I have of going to a movie theater with my parents ever. Really? Yes. So like, I love it.

because of that. That's acceptable. I'm not. That was Star Wars for me. Also, that's why you like it. The thing that drives me nuts and like a big part of the reason I think I'm like as successful I am with YouTube is I.

hate telling stories out of chronological order like books everybody else like anytime we're doing flashback shit autism like hey no we're doing shit he was born here he died here we're filling shit in chronologically the entire time so like part of me is just like okay episode we're starting at episode one because obviously and then i get to episode four and it's like why the fuck is this made out of clay now this is horses

These are puppets. You're wrong. As I got older, I can appreciate the actual storytelling of it or whatever. But as a child trying to understand, like, what the fuck happened between three and four? Why do the graphics suck? Yoda's a Muppet now. I'm pissed. Well, it's... You ever heard you're so OCD, you're CDO because you got to put it in alphabetical order? Yeah.

No, I can appreciate that. But it's like we're at a point right now where exist computers do not. I will say the Kennedy era needs to just be like locked in a box thrown in the ocean and forgotten about for 20 years and then they can rehabilitate it.

Same thing with freaking Rings of Power. What they did to Tolkien, I just want to... Somebody needs to be beaten. Complete opposite on that side of the spectrum. I don't enjoy the film as much if I know every actor didn't have to sit in makeup for 17 hours before filming. We can CGI it. No, you can't. Sit your ass in the chair. No, you can't.

Who played Gimli that he was allergic to it, so he fucking hates that movie with a passion. Oh, wow. The main actor of Gimli. Good. It bled through in the character. That's exactly what I want. I want an angry dwarf. They did a great job. He despised that role just because of that. I still enjoyed The Hobbit, though.

The Hobbit gets trashed a lot. I thought it was good. I enjoyed it. I fucking hate the elves. Nothing made me hate the elves more than the Hobbit. It's like, oh, here's the dwarves showing up riding...

War pigs? Pigs. Yeah. With war hammers. Oh, my God. They built a three level high perfect goddamn shield wall. What do the elves do? Let's go over it. What a fucking idiot. Dumbest move ever. Right? Yeah. Holy shit. Why don't you just stand over the short guys with spears and go like this, you idiots? Shield wall. What are you doing? Yeah.

Dumbest thing ever. You know what I mean? You think China built the Great Wall? You know what would be really good? If we sent all the soldiers on the other side of it, that'd be perfect. No, it'd be fucking stupid. It was almost as bad. It was almost as bad as season eight

Game of Thrones. Game of Thrones, where it's like, you know what we should do? We should take all of our trebuchets and put them way out front where they can be eliminated first. And then you know what we should also do? We should just take all of our cavalry and just run them headlong into the army of the dead. Before we fire any of the trebuchets. Before we fire any of them. Don't use your artillery first. Send the horses. It's like you could have called two nerds and they could have walked you through the process of how to do this correctly. Yeah.

But I love they do the surprise Pikachu when all the cavalry die. Whoa, we sent them into battle unsupported and all the lights went out? What? Operation Human Shield. Operation. We can't say the other one, right?

I remember that particular stop. Oh, no. Wait, what? Human shield. I have a great story for you. I finished the video before I came here. Flux finishing the edit for it now. So I did a video. I told you this last night. Last night. Yeah. I did a video on Joe Foss. So he was the other hero of Guadalcanal after John Bass alone. So Joe Foss was a Marine aviator in the Cactus Air Force.

Dude shows up and they pull up off of Guadalcanal and they wake him up at like midnight. They're like, hey, we're just going to have to launch your ass in your wildcat fighter at night, which is not – you're not supposed to fly wildcats at night. They're not night fighters. They don't have night – they're like, Japanese Navy surrounded the island. We can't get any closer. We're just going to have to fucking eat you. You're going to have to fly in there and sneak in.

So he flies in and sneaks in and like his first nine days, I think he shoots down like 12 Japanese planes and he ends up tying Eddie Rickenbacker for 26 and setting the American record. He became like America's first ace of aces of World War II. And, but he has this story where he goes up and he shoots down, he shoots down two zeros and his guys shoot down the other four and

and they just wipe out this whole flight of Japanese zeros. And he goes and like banks and turns around. And when he turns around, there's just like several empty Japanese parachutes with like the back rig just floating empty. And he's like, the fuck? He had no idea at the time. This was 1942 or very early 43 before anybody understood like the Bushido, like Japanese would like rather die than surrender or be captured or whatever, the whole dishonor thing. So he's just like,

the fuck where'd the guys go and then he comes up on one dude still in his parachute and he's like i watched him unbuckle and plummet to his death and he's just like huh all right and then he just goes and lands plane they would jump out and then they would just fucking oh they would jump out of the parachute and then be like

Alright. And what's the clip you're going to use after that? Oh yeah, the clip that I'm having Fluck edit in the thing is from the good guys. Or the nice guys. The nice guys when the dudes when they go back in the elevator and the dude falls from behind him and then it's going to immediately cut to Dana White at the press conference. That was weird, huh? Is that your next big story you're doing? Yeah, it should come out here in a couple days. I think the 31st it'll come out.

Get that good Nick content. I think on that note, if I can, we can close it down and go to the page. Before we do that, I've got one question though. Oh, so you've got all of the, your political stuff. You're kind of, it's coming to a close. Yeah. Uh, you know, your kids are going off and, you know, starting to become successful in their own right, which is,

awesome what's next for you man he's hanging out in the naked room i already told you my wife and i yeah well how did that nurse outfit show up kitchen counters back he must have ordered that on amazon i know the kitchen counter's back in play but no surface is safe no no no not that cutting board the other cutting board

Yeah, my dad can visit me. That one's for a different kind of charcuterie. You said what? Your wife doesn't watch your interviews at all, does she? She, yeah, sometimes.

Anyway, no, I think two things. I mean, how do I get serious now? Well, you know, some of we already kind of talked about like the homeschooling and the whole young men thing. I think we're at a point just kind of culture in the United States where young men are going to revolt.

Um, there has been this absolute onslaught on what I would, you might call traditional masculinity, what I call biblical masculinity. It's the idea that men are supposed to protect. We're supposed to provide, we're supposed to do these things. And, um, and that's the way it's supposed to be.

And, but we're at, we're at a point right now where I think a lot of young men have just been told that there's something wrong with them and that they're responsible for, I think it's fascinating. They've been simultaneously told that they're stupid, fat, lazy, and worthless, but they've also somehow managed to infiltrate every single social, economic, or political institution to uphold the patriarchy. Like, which is it?

Yeah. But if you're not stupid, fat and worthless, then you're alt-right. Yeah. Yeah. And, and, um, so work out and try to build something of yourself and climb the social hierarchy. Yeah. You're, you're, there's something wrong with your bad. And so some of it, we were, we're very, my wife and I are both very, very passionate about trying to provide like greater capability or, um, resources with respect to people, the parents that want to take a little bit more control of their, their kids' education, um,

I think there's a huge market right now for reinforcing to young men that, yeah, you are supposed to be strong, you're supposed to be competent, you're supposed to do all these things, but it has to be in service to something. It can't just be in service to your own hedonistic pleasures. It has to be in service to God, your family, your country, because again, men thrive under responsibility.

And we started doing when we started really getting into social media. It was funny. I was talking to Tina a while back and obviously we talk about politics a lot and we'll continue to. But

i i call it what do i get stopped at the airport for and what i've noticed is i don't get stopped at the airport for people saying i really loved your political hot takes it's usually your cool gun by tsa but um no no it's it's the stuff that always has the most the stuff that always has the most meaning to me is when it's usually a young father coming up going i got i have a little girl

And I've been watching your videos on how to be a good girl, dad. And it's really impacted me. And I'm doing those things you suggest. I'm telling my daughter I love her. I'm spending time with her. Or it's something with like I got a little boy and I'm trying to help teach him how to be a man. So your goal is to crash the next generation OnlyFans market? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Completely just destroy that. It's like, yeah.

Raise a generation of good fathers. Yeah, yeah. Good. Yeah, no. And it's true. There are very few problems that you see with an American society right now that can't be solved by, I think, a good God-fearing dad that's strong, competent, and intelligent. And we need a whole lot more of it. And men need to know that it's not only okay, it's absolutely necessary.

There is no, this whole idea that we don't need men in society. Okay. Until you got to fight a fire, a war, a police streets, then all of a sudden we're popular again. Screw you. And so I, the more we can do to kind of build that where we're building strong families, strong young men, strong young women. That's what, that's what we're passionate about. So hell yeah. Yeah. Love it. Sweet. Well, now that we're,

Now that I'm fired up early Friday afternoon, we're going to go ahead and call it? Yeah, then we'll go after show. Have fun there. Thank you guys so much for watching the Unsubscribe podcast. Again, I was joined today by Eli Double Tap, fat electrician. Nick Freitas, where do we find you?

Virginia. Oh, we made it easy. Virginia. Virginia. You're like, Iowa.com. No, yeah, they did support Nick J. Freitas. We made it easy. If you just type in Nick Freitas or anything close, you'll find us on YouTube, Instagram, and everywhere else. Well, thank you guys so much for joining us. We will see you either in the next episode or on the Patreon after show.

Bye-bye. Love you. Peace. Bye.