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#202 After 2 Beers: From Love Bots To Fireworks, Welcome To The Midwest
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Facebook puts us in “timeout” over an old meme and it instantly raises a bigger question: what happens to your show or your small business when your entire marketing plan lives on a platform you do not own? We talk through the ugly side of content moderation, surprise enforcement, and why buying ads still does not protect you. The solution is not panic, it is infrastructure: a real website, multiple channels, and a direct relationship with your audience so you are not one report away from disappearing.
From there, a scene from American Gangster sparks a time jump thought experiment. If you walked out of prison 10 to 15 years from now, what would feel unrecognisable? We trade predictions about the AI future, automation, driverless vehicles, drone delivery, and household robots that do the boring stuff. It gets funny fast, but the underlying theme is serious: technology is changing work, relationships, and everyday routines, whether we feel ready or not.
We also dig into online sports betting and how apps make gambling frictionless, especially for younger users who grow up with promos baked into every game. Then we pivot hard into Fourth of July reality: fireworks prices, massive shells, and why professional pyrotechnics and basic safety beat “hold my drink” energy every time. Finally, we nerd out on wild military and CIA history like the Korean DMZ tree incident, Operation Mincemeat, and the Howard Hughes submarine claw mission, before ending on heat, hot car rescue laws, and a reminder to check on people who might be struggling.
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Welcome, Sponsors, And House Rules
SPEAKER_03Welcome to the After Two Beers Podcast. I'm Chris Dalton, joined as always by Kimberly Rawls.
SPEAKER_06Not speech.
SPEAKER_03Mr. Michael Summers. What's going on? We got a packed house in the control room tonight. Mr. Jeremy Scretti. What up? I'm Buddy Daniel Landon. And of course, Mr. Shook here at Global Media Enterprises. If you're looking to do one of these amazing shows, make sure you reach out to Kevin and he will get you hooked up to do one of these. All right. Just don't do it on Facebook. Yes. Thanks to our sponsors. The big one is for us is the Moose. So thanks. Shout out to the Moose. And we got a lot of events coming up here shortly. Tons of guys.
SPEAKER_02You'll find us somewhere in this town.
SPEAKER_03I just got to get it right there in front of your mouth. In your suckle. Excuse me. Thanks to the bottle shop. Provided us these uh smearing off ices tonight. Um is it ices? It's a new enough ice. It's not ice, right? It's just i all of them. We have multiple ice cubes.
SPEAKER_06It's still just ice cubes. Ices?
SPEAKER_03Ices is a vet group and a plethora of ice.
SPEAKER_06We have a plethora of ice.
SPEAKER_03We have a bunch of ices um from uh the bottle shop. Thank you to those guys. It's called Sunny Days. Sunny Days. There you go. It's good. They are good. The orange one right here. You can tell him that he's stepping his game up because for a couple months he sent trash in. And this stuff's pretty good.
SPEAKER_01Oh, the minute made was good.
SPEAKER_03That's what I'm saying. He stepped his game up. That wine was rough. He said some shit in here. That Indiana wine. Was that with the Indiana one? I hope not. Oh, it was bad. It tasted like the plastic fries.
SPEAKER_06I don't want that to be the representative of us.
SPEAKER_03That plastic fryer. Oh, all right. Coming up on this week's uh, thank you again uh to our sponsors. Um, I want to make sure I get those guys thinking. And also thanks to our uh Patreon supporters. If you want to support After Two Beers, you can go to after2beers.com and uh you can find a link there. It's the number two, or you can go to patreon.com backslash after two beers, and again, that's the number two, and uh you can help us.
SPEAKER_02Get over there and check it out. He's redesigned it, everything's awesome.
SPEAKER_03Well, we're gonna talk about that right now. Okay,
Facebook Timeout And Old Posts
SPEAKER_03because the fact that we're live right now on Facebook is impressive to me.
SPEAKER_02It surprises me. It is surprises me today this morning.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. So I wake up this morning and found out that we're all assholes again. Apparently from about three years ago, which is nothing new. That's wild to me.
SPEAKER_06I can't remember what I did last week at alone. Three years ago.
SPEAKER_03I can remember a song from the 90s, but I can't. Can you imagine if your boss was able to go back and look at all the shit you've done? God. And they're like, you know what? We uh we got to go in through some of your files from four years ago, and we didn't like the way you answered this particular email. Why are you looking? Yeah. Nobody's going back and looking at shit from three years ago, and then they drop uh some shit on that. It's probably because we started talking about TJ Miller again or something.
SPEAKER_02Oh, probably. Somebody I don't know. Somebody we talked about and had a hair up their ass and was like, no. Right before, you know, right when I said, Hey, you're growing, you're rising, we're gonna start promoting you. You might have said something about COVID.
SPEAKER_03No, it was a meme.
SPEAKER_06No, it's 2023. It was a meme like three days before Christmas or two days before Christmas.
SPEAKER_03We've been doing this show now for a little over eight years, and uh, I can truthfully say that I've only had one person give me some negative feedback about our program. Lizzo. No, well, no, it wasn't even about that. It was uh, well, it came about a you know that, but uh regardless, um memes. Memes will take you down. Absolutely, and it only takes one Karen out there to report something, or somebody that goes and looks for something, or maybe they put in a new AI system at uh at Meta and it went back through and it grabs something. Right.
SPEAKER_06It had to have been because what it like reports. It was a meme.
SPEAKER_02They mess on me all the time three years ago.
SPEAKER_01Well, you know, in the most they mess with me all the time about explosives, like I'm breaking the rules because I'm posting about fireworks or they say they're gonna take our page down. I mean, it's all joke.
Why You Cannot Rely On One Platform
SPEAKER_03Well, the the one thing I would tell anybody that's out there that's a a small business, regardless of what you do, do not let one particular entity of social media basically become your marketing plan. Because it just like in this scenario, if they shut us down on Facebook, if that's all we relied on, we'd be screwed. We would be done. We wouldn't go live. It doesn't matter how much money you spend with. I buy ads from them all the time to push our events. Yes. So I'm even putting money into the machine. Into the machine. Apparently it's like.
SPEAKER_02Go from there.
SPEAKER_03Well, this is short. That's what I would tell anyone that uh, and I'm sure Kevin can back me up. He runs a digital arts company for uh digital media for local companies as well. You can't rely on something you don't own. You don't own it. Yeah. I mean, it uh it doesn't matter if you use TikTok exclusively to generate your revenue, or if you're using Facebook or if you're using Instagram, whatever, unless you own the platform, at any moment someone can come and take it away from you. Yeah. I mean, just like what you went through with the TikTok thing where they were gonna take it down, there was a lot of people pissed. They're like, Well, that's how I make my money. Right. Like, well, you need to figure out another way to make your money. Yeah, there's another source. You've got, I mean, there's you can utilize that as an asset in your process, but you have to have another way.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, it can't be your main.
SPEAKER_03And and really, when it comes down to it for us, the best thing that we could do is just push our webpage. Yeah. After2beeers.com. Awesome. It is great. Just go to after2beers.com and YouTube. YouTube seems pretty legit. And uh Spotify. Uh yeah, Spotify. Let's just want to listen. Yeah, I mean, you can listen to Gimme That Nut on Spotify. So there's nothing I'm gonna say on here that's gonna be worse than you know, E D E. That's what I'm saying. Right? Yeah, I love it. You know, I mean, Facebook's probably gonna kick us off anyways because we have alcohol and fireworks on the table.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_03If this podcast doesn't scream Midwest, I don't know what does. America. But uh the whole point is, you know, everyone you've got to have a passion in life. And I realize that this has really become the thing that I aspire to. Right. Whether it's this podcast or the events that we do. What is there anything all right? Your eyes got big. No, I'm just chilling. Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_01Could be a concussion.
SPEAKER_03Concussion. Yeah, it's she's fine.
SPEAKER_02CD, it's good.
SPEAKER_03It's been weeks ago. Um, just you gotta have a passion. And uh don't let someone squash your passion. No. And I'm not gonna let Mark Zuckerberg or any of those guys over at Meta do it again. It is what it is.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, we've got other outlets, and that's just one of them we utilize. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03If they don't want us, well, yeah. I mean, we'll figure it out. I mean, uh speaking of which, uh, we do have some shows coming up which are available to look at on Facebook. Are they still on there? They are. Fortunately, I got all that shit scheduled right before they blocked us again. They put us in timeout. Yeah, it's essentially just standing in the corner. Three days of, you know, go sit in a timeout. Yeah.
SPEAKER_06Yeah. Anybody's birthday out there, we can't tell you happy birthday.
SPEAKER_03But then that's the that's the other messed up part, too, that I just picked up on. I realized in this whole situation, is uh if you're tied to a page in any way as an an admin, if that page gets taken down, it basically shuts down your personal. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Oh, yeah. I can't do nothing. I like anything. I can't care anything.
SPEAKER_03I can't share what I really think about that reflecting pool online right now. Oh my god. I know people want to hear what I have to say.
SPEAKER_02You know, the best thing is I can't talk about the people that planted the flag. Planted the flag. On the Empire State Building.
SPEAKER_06Oh, they climbed the flag. Yeah, it was a big giant flag. So they're fine.
SPEAKER_03I was thinking of the flag of uh like of a country.
SPEAKER_04No, yeah, no, no, no, no.
SPEAKER_03I you know, I don't have a problem with it. It was hard to read. Screw it up. The only people that could have heard is themselves. Unless they land on something.
SPEAKER_02It was hard to read. Oh, I don't like everybody else's memes they're posting. Right. What was on it?
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_06I think it was good.
SPEAKER_03I I didn't have a problem with it. Did you it did people have they got arrested? Oh, yeah. They got a shit ton of money, so they're already out. Oh, they're fine. Yeah.
SPEAKER_06They're good.
SPEAKER_03It's pretty yard. It's a cool story.
SPEAKER_02They probably had their Facebook shit down to be for post to her up there, so it's cool.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I bet that was planned. On one knee. Yeah. Can you imagine if she turned him down up there? And he just like screw it and he jumps. Pushed.
SPEAKER_01He said, baby, you marry me. I'm out of here.
SPEAKER_02Oh, Sparkle. Is this a no?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, is this a no?
SPEAKER_02Remember how high we are. I can't take this.
SPEAKER_03Uh coming up on this week's show. Uh, we've got uh, you know what? We're just gonna go through it's like a uh I don't really have a whole lot planned. It's a holiday week. Yeah, so I'm not real sure how many people were gonna listen anyway. But uh I'm gonna give you guys the option. I've got all kinds of shit planned that we could discuss.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, all right.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. I've I do have one thing that I do want to talk about, and I'd love to get everyone in their opinion, especially Landon. Landon's a young kid, so um he can give us a different idea or a view of the said question. Look, he's he's gonna be able to do that.
SPEAKER_06He just said uh he sat up.
SPEAKER_03He said he's like here.
SPEAKER_06It's like he's been called on in class.
SPEAKER_03Hey, don't worry, buddy. Only dozens and dozens of people watch. It's not like you're gonna be fine. Uh the question here's what I have for everybody, and I'd love to get everyone's
Prison Time Jump And The Future
SPEAKER_03opinion. Kevin, you too, especially when it comes to the business side of things. This just doesn't all have to be about fun and ha's and things. I was watching a film called American Gangster the other night. It's got uh Denzel Washington and uh uh Russell Crowe. And it's a great movie. It's about a uh a gangster in Harlem that um sold drugs, sold uh heroin that he was getting from Vietnam. Yep. And uh Denzel plays the main character. Does phenomenal, but the whole point of the film is um it's following him along. But at the end of the film, not it's not a uh spoiler alert. It's yeah, you know it's been out for a while.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, it's been out for a minute.
SPEAKER_03It's been out for a minute. He got arrested and he goes to prison. What? And uh he goes for 15 years, and as the final scene of the movie is as he's coming out of prison, they open the doors, he walks out, and they shut the doors. And you can just see him looking around. Denzel's an amazing actor anyway, arguably top three. Oh, absolutely. You know, yeah, and um he's he's looking around, and you can just see he's kind of like it's kind of like the the old man in Shawshank Radio.
SPEAKER_06Yes, or now what?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, like and then I got to thinking about it. We were just on vacation, my family and I, just last week for a couple days, two days, yeah, right? And coming back to Richmond, it's like, man, I feel like I haven't been here forever.
SPEAKER_02Well, how do you think about all these people over here uh for the World Cup? And they go home after being here and experiencing all of us and being like Well, they're gonna have to detox after having American looking.
SPEAKER_03It's gonna be hot. One of the shitty ass gas tickets. What I was thinking about as as I came back to Richmond was I'm like, man, it feels like a lot has changed, even though it's only been two days, right? And then I was thinking, what about a guy that goes to prison for 15 years? And comes out, everything. So my question to all of you is where you stand today. If we got arrested, convicted, everything, you go into prison right now. You come out in 2041. Jesus. 2041.
SPEAKER_06If I live that long. How long is that? 15 years?
SPEAKER_0315 years. 2041.
SPEAKER_06That's questionable for me.
SPEAKER_03Let's just do five. Let's start with five. With AI and everything else, you're gonna have a new president coming in, regardless of who it's gonna be. All right on either side. You've got that coming up. What do you think the world would look like? Let's just do 10. 10 years from now.
SPEAKER_0210 years. Ooh, 10 years, five years. I wouldn't think much, but 10 years might be a little different. I don't know.
SPEAKER_01Ten years.
SPEAKER_06You're gonna have to take out a second mortgage just to be able to buy gas.
SPEAKER_01Well, I kind of told you what I thought. You won't have uh partners anymore at all these sex bots.
SPEAKER_02There's I'm telling you that shit's coming. They came out with, I just read an article about one today here. They came out that will never turn on you as soon as well.
SPEAKER_01That bitch could be fucking good, yeah. She turns on me on turning her fucking batteries off.
SPEAKER_06I don't know that anybody, I don't even think a bot would want to put up with me or him. So I think we're safe.
SPEAKER_03Well, you gotta train them. I uh I I'm you know, there's a lot of truth to that. It's uh more and more young people aren't having sex now or aren't having relationships. There we go.
SPEAKER_04They're having sex, they're just not having like full-ass relationships.
SPEAKER_03No, no, no, no. It's it has plummeted. Or working. Or working. Well, we can look up stats on that, but uh it's the world is gonna change for sure.
SPEAKER_02Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_03And that's what like with the advent of AI and as it continues to jump ahead. And I saw a conversation I was watching today. It was uh about the possibility that everyone will have their own AI in their home. And fucking Jetsons? Come on now, more or less, right?
SPEAKER_06It's it's like having um I mean, I have a couple robot vacuums, but um all right.
SPEAKER_03Tell me, what do you guys think ten years from now? Seriously, Landon, what do you think?
SPEAKER_01Man.
SPEAKER_02I mean flying cars. You really think so? I can't trust people to drive now. I don't want nobody flying. Fuck that.
SPEAKER_06I'm I'm gonna tell you right now, as a female, there are times that I'm like, oh shit, my car is pretty close, pretty far down on E. Like, what if you don't charge your shit? Then you just start falling from the sky. I don't think that he should trust everybody for one of those.
SPEAKER_03Would you ride in a plane that had no pilot?
SPEAKER_02Oh, I don't know about that. Like Waymo. Waymo. So they can have those driverless semis. Yeah. To go from Indy to Dayton or Columbus.
SPEAKER_06You know what? I'd probably trust one of those driverless semis that's already been through some of those methed up semis. I think it'll be driverless.
SPEAKER_01I think there'll be some driverless stuff going on. There'll be a lot more than that.
SPEAKER_03Probably. Well, that's where I wonder about flying cars. And the only reason I say that, Lane, I don't know, I don't know that individuals will, but I think there could be a situation where you get into a pod and that pod will deliver you places. Like a drone. Yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER_06Well, anyway, delivery drivers.
SPEAKER_02I just want to see a big ass drone with a claw come down by the back of your shirt. Little crangame, no crane game fucking action, and I'm just dangling like me. Send me down at the doctors or whatever. Believe me, you spent 10 years looking at me out and tell me the doctor.
SPEAKER_05I ain't going anywhere else. They're gonna drop me off at the funeral home.
SPEAKER_03That'd be weird to see a bunch of corpses flying through here.
SPEAKER_05Drop them off. Are we dropping off at the funeral home or the incinerator?
SPEAKER_03That's like the opposite of a stork.
SPEAKER_05See?
SPEAKER_03You come flying in, come flying out. Okay.
SPEAKER_05It's all rotational life. It's a suck.
SPEAKER_03Oh man, the robots would just drop us in their machines so they can collect our plasma or whatever they need. Yeah. Yeah. It's uh oh, that's pretty good. No, I honestly I think that they're the flying will be more prevalent, whether humans are involved in it or not. Drones for sure. Deliveries will be made. The savings I would think you could if you're uh a manufacturer uh like Amazon, with drones, yeah. Right. And I don't have to put a vehicle and a driver in a vehicle like on 70 and and worry about stops and backups with traffic and all that. I can fly in a straight line and drop off material, whatever it is, and then straight back, and I use charge. Right. That's it. Come back, charge it, I know.
SPEAKER_06I'd have my deliveries like up in the tree and such.
SPEAKER_01Blue Buffalo uses AI dogs. I have these AI AI dogs, and it can predict when things break, it can predict like, hey, you need to get this fixed. It walks around uh yeah, right. Clint told me about it, but he said the other day, um, and they're like $500,000 or $350,000 for these dogs. It predicted one of their main machines, the bearings were going out. And it said you need to change the bearings immediately. Yeah. And you're talking about thousands and thousands of dollars if it was to break. Oh, yeah. And they checked it and it was right. I had to fix it. So it's kind of cool. You know, AI it's coming.
SPEAKER_03Well, that's already automation in manufacturing is already really prevalent.
SPEAKER_02But uh seen one thing about these people in India who are wearing these cameras on their head and they're and they're sewing, and that's so they could take videos and feed it into an AI system to teach an AI how to sew and shit.
SPEAKER_03I saw the same thing in China where they're teaching robots how to fold laundry and and take and that honestly sign me up for that one. I'm gonna tell you there's a very put it away too. There's a high likelihood that when we hit a certain age, let's say it's in our 70s, okay? And I I can truly see in my lifetime, in my personal experience, where you may have a robot in your house that does tasks for you. Just like iRobot, just like the movie Iron. Yeah, I I don't think they're that far off on it. I think Elon is already working on it.
SPEAKER_06I was gonna say my my uh vacuum has AI on it so that it can detect things that are on the ground and avoid it. And it's that's it.
SPEAKER_03It's gonna be just a giant one of those. I want a Bruce Lee robot. Bruce Lee. Bruce Lee. You're gonna kick somebody's ass.
SPEAKER_01Kick his ass, robot.
SPEAKER_03Oh man. I would love a robot that like I'll go to the grocery with it and pick out the shit. And then when it's time to pay for it, I'm just gonna leave, go home, and I'm gonna let it go through takeout and then bring it home and put everything away.
SPEAKER_06I don't mind the I don't mind the checkout. I don't mind taking it home, putting it away. Would you trust a frame of the grocery?
SPEAKER_01What's that? Would you trust a frame? Fuck no, dude. Only once.
SPEAKER_00Only once.
SPEAKER_02Slow down, mad casualty of guys going to the hospital with their dicks ripped off.
SPEAKER_03Bunch of bobbins. Hit the wrong setting, didn't you? Hit the bottom cleaner. Somebody put this thing on needing bread. What the hell's going on?
SPEAKER_02Rip that shit right off. I said needing bread, not toting a mower. Right, lawnmower starter.
SPEAKER_05You ripped it off. Oh my gosh.
SPEAKER_03There's a there you go. Hey, do what hey. See, Kim is already into it. She's like, sex robots don't have to be for just dudes. Yeah, I know. She's like, technically, we have one now. I just have to hold it in place. It does all the work. See? I'm kidding. We're not that far-fetched. I'm telling you.
SPEAKER_01You can buy whatever you want. I want an upgrade.
SPEAKER_02That's an upgrade. You can have sandpaper. Yeah, and real hair.
SPEAKER_01Ooh, that's kind of gross.
SPEAKER_03I'd always want to know where it came from.
SPEAKER_01They have them already with real hair on it. It's nasty. It is nasty.
SPEAKER_06It's ferret hair.
SPEAKER_01Is it ferret hair?
SPEAKER_06I don't even know. I don't. I'm just kidding.
SPEAKER_01Hey, would you get a landing strip or what would you want?
SPEAKER_05Oh my god, really? Come on.
SPEAKER_01Could you like make the order or whatever you want, I guess? Um, yeah, it's all made to order. Small nipples, big nipples, big areolas.
SPEAKER_03You could flood that out chargeable BBL. I know whatever you want, but here's the problem though. I know how dudes are. They'd get tired of it. You would need a place like Blockbuster where you can rent them for the weekend.
SPEAKER_01I've seen a model, it's been used. I know.
SPEAKER_02Well, yeah. You can buy a fresh one, right? They can all come guaranteed fresh. Right, fresh out of the microwave when they clean them or whatever. Oh, we just sprayed this one off.
SPEAKER_03Right. That's what they do with that. They just run it through a germicide. It's basically like a car wash that's an automatic car wash, but it's just for sex robots.
SPEAKER_01Well, they could do a car wash. I don't like this one. We gotta change this one after the 14th one.
SPEAKER_03I'm telling you, we are human beings and we get bored with shit, man. And I'm telling you, could you you'd spend five grand on one, you're like, ugh.
SPEAKER_04She's this model saves you from the I know how dudes are.
SPEAKER_03There would be a day, even if you program that shit yourself, you'd be like, get.
SPEAKER_02Tired of her shit. Turn it off.
SPEAKER_01You do the same thing over and over. Oh, do you have any robot friends? Kiss me on the neck next time, jeez. Why do you always get straight to it? Why can't you finish it?
SPEAKER_03Oh, that's funny. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Online Betting And Addictive Design
SPEAKER_03Yeah. The other thing that's really interesting, I wouldn't, I'm really curious, especially I watched Landon the other night. We're playing bingo, which is gambling anyway. But he uh he's of age, he's allowed to gamble, and he's doing online betting, which I do, so I'm not hate-notting for it, but his generation is gonna make that thing explode. If you want a a uh an opinion on where you put your stocks, look at DraftKings and things like that. Yeah.
SPEAKER_06Check out Polymarket.
SPEAKER_03Well, that's on one specific. I'm talking about, I think online betting is gonna be it's gonna be bad for a lot of kids. There's gonna be a lot of kids that are a little boy from Banks. What's that?
SPEAKER_02Like a little boy from Texas Tech. What is it? See, tell me quarterback. Uh yeah, he didn't play well. No, he got caught gambling. Well, he played at Indiana, but he's betting on the teams he played for, like Pete Rose. And well, he went to one school, transferred to Texas Tech. He can't play there. He goes, Well, I'm gonna enter the draft, the supplemental draft. And Vale said nope.
SPEAKER_03Really?
SPEAKER_02So he just kind of stuck out there in limbo.
SPEAKER_03That's kind of like uh gambling. The um the longest yard with the Adam Sandler and you know, or but I'm talking about kids like Landon that they'll get a job and they're gonna get addicted to the the endorphin drop of winning. Hitting that eight-leg parlay?
SPEAKER_04Yeah, just twenty dollars more. Just twenty dollars more. Right. Just twenty dollars more.
SPEAKER_03No eight legs. I think it's there's gonna be a lot of kids that are gonna struggle with it, and I'm I think there's gonna be a lot of financial issues. Yeah, it's too easy to gamble, and we push it down people's throats. You watch any four like preview before any game now? It's all DraftKings brought to you.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, you got Kevin Hart out there promoting it.
SPEAKER_03Well, it's even on news, they'll tell you what the line is on the game. Yeah, the funniest part is the fact that Pete Rose isn't in the Hall of Fame, and he shouldn't be, by the way. But uh he's not in because of gambling. And then they'll have the Reds that are sponsored by DraftKings.
SPEAKER_02Like, uh, what do we do here?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, anyway. Uh moving on to our next topic.
Fireworks Prices And Safety Stories
SPEAKER_03Uh, we're not live anymore, so it really doesn't matter. Uh, I want to talk about fireworks.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_03Jeremy's here. This is arguably his favorite time of the year.
SPEAKER_02I just want to say sorry to everybody that loses a finger this weekend. Like I was looking up somebody's last weekend with 10 fingers.
SPEAKER_03It's true. It is. I I was looking up some uh stats on it, uh preparing for the show. One of the other things that I was shocked is the price of these things. So, Jeremy, the largest um shell you're gonna shoot is 10 inches. Yep. And they're 500 apiece. Yep. Wow.
SPEAKER_01Now I sent how many D do uh just two on this show. Just two? I mean, it gets pretty pricey when you get into eights and sixes and as many shells as we throw up in 40 minutes, it's it's a price. It's a price tag.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, but the uh I sent him an Instagram video of these kids that were just launching fireworks in the street. Yeah. And there's a ton of them. I bet you there's 50, 60 kids, it looks like, in this block area just letting off fireworks. And they have a 16-inch ball.
SPEAKER_02What the hell?
SPEAKER_03And it's just in the tube. The tube is just sitting on the street. It's a thousand dollars. It's just sitting there. You should the the the explosion. Here, I'll show it to you. The explosion that comes out of it is probably 30 feet into the air. Oh, is that oh wow. Just the fire that shoots it up into the sky and the sound of it. It's fucking crazy, man. It'll rumble you. Oh, yeah, I guarantee you. You can feel it. Look at the size of it, first of all. If you guys get a chance, you can look this up. Said 16 inch. Look at it. Good lord.
SPEAKER_01That's circumference.
SPEAKER_03You know, that's not small. Yeah. So yeah, that's around, yeah. Now watch this thing when they launched. Now we sound like the Joe Rogan podcast.
SPEAKER_02I know.
SPEAKER_03Hey, Jamie, bring up that video. Now watch that thing come up out of that tube.
SPEAKER_02Oh, it's just in that little ass tube.
SPEAKER_01That little ass tube that could fall over. Yeah, they can just get that down in the ground.
SPEAKER_03Watch the flame.
SPEAKER_01Look at the flame.
SPEAKER_03Now, do you have to bury that?
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, these guys haven't just sitting in the middle of a two-lane street. That looks like one of them.
SPEAKER_01Because if that thing were to blow up like in that tube or fall over, that'd take out a city bullet.
SPEAKER_02That just looks like a little concrete form you get from loaves.
SPEAKER_01That's exactly what it is. One time, one time we had an eight-inch shell, and I didn't do it, but I'm just going to tell you what happened. Um, we rolled it down a hill. Oh shit. Because we wanted to see what it would do on the ground. Yeah. It was it was crazy. It it took a crater in the field. Like you could step down in it. The guy that was running was was Johnny White. He was running, he's the one that lit it and rolled it and ran. It looked like dumb and dumb or uh jackass. As they're running, he's running, and then it blew up like the brush back knocked him down. Right. Like it was intense. Holy cow. The spread of the of it on the ground was like a hundred yards. Holy shit. From one end to the other. Oh wow. On the ground. How big was that? Eight inch. Jeez. It was crazy. Now, how much does an eight inch cost? They're about 250 bucks. Yeah. There's 16 of them going off at Richmond this weekend.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. Nice. Now, how much is a show typically? Like not divulging your prices, but if you're doing a big show like Richmond, Hagerstown, 30 to 40,000.
SPEAKER_02That's wild. Or ain't nothing. Like my grandma's birthday was on July 4th, and my uncles were stationed in Kentucky. So every year they would come up there and the trunk just full of fireworks. Come up here because they were all illegal up here, so they would bring their shit up here and we'd have to do that.
SPEAKER_01Really? A lot of people.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, because you saw the public now, too.
SPEAKER_01There's a lot. And uh there's just and we didn't we all have a store, you know, we have wholesale and not yet, you know, but it's I just can't imagine how many fireworks will be let off this year.
unknownOh yeah.
SPEAKER_02Of course, it's 250, buddy.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, everybody's complaining on Facebook and I get so tired of hearing that.
SPEAKER_02They know what's coming. I don't know. What are you bitching about? You know it's the fourth. Quit fucking bitching. It's the fireworks.
SPEAKER_03Well, I'll tell you what, like I said, we just kind of threw this show together last minute, but uh, I want to go through and talk about a few uh history moments.
Wild Military And CIA Operations
SPEAKER_03We've talked about wanting to jump back into history.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_03And um I thought we could go through. I looked this up. I was curious about operations that have been done by the military or by the CIA. Right. Right? Because you and I have talked about uh um what's the one? Um MK Ultra. Oh, yeah. We've talked about that one before, but I found some others, and I thought I could go through some of these with you and uh we could just chat about them. Now, this one came from 1976. This is uh it almost started World War III. It was inside the uh DMZ, the demilitarized zone uh in Korea. So between North Korea and South Korea. And um, there was a tree that had grown large enough that it had blocked the view between UN checkpoints. So the U.S. Army sent a work crew out to trim a few branches off this tree. They weren't gonna cut it down, they were just gonna trim it, right? The North Koreans grabbed the workers' own axes and attacked them with them. These were military soldiers. There you go. And they killed two of them. Holy shit. Captor, uh, Captain Arthur Boniface and first lieutenant Mark Barrett were killed. Several others were seriously injured. Now, three days later, the U.S. responded. Yes, how did we respond? We blew up.
SPEAKER_06We normally blow blow it up when we respond.
SPEAKER_03This is the problem. It's North Korea. Yeah, they have nukes.
SPEAKER_02If you respond, well 76.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, they may have, but they decided they weren't gonna do that. They were gonna send out another chainsaw crew to cut down this tree. The one, but this is where America gets freaking awesome. Shoot fireworks out. They uh they decided they were gonna give these guys some backup so that they didn't have to worry about being attacked again. Right. And so what they did is they sent out hundreds of American and South Korean troops, they sent out attack helicopters, cobra gunships. Oh my god, they had fighter jets because they had moved, they had moved an aircraft carrier into position. Yeah, they had B-52 bombers ready, they had snipers, tanks, overkill special forces to cut down one tree. Absolutely. What else we got going on? Fuck it. They said they everything. They had all this shit right around there as this guy's out there cutting down this tree. And they said the North Koreans just watch. Nobody fires.
SPEAKER_02What are you gonna do? Like, you know what, bud? We weren't gonna set this one out. We're not gonna, yeah, you know what?
SPEAKER_01Faifo there's no way I'd cut that tree down, though. Why? Find out with all that shit going on. What do you mean?
SPEAKER_03Didn't you say that they were they were just guarding, they were just like flying around and they're watching. Can you imagine having hundreds of trooper troops behind you?
SPEAKER_02They got a troop that can help the tree down.
SPEAKER_01Snipers. You're like, something's gonna happen. Something is gonna happen.
SPEAKER_02I got Johnny's long care out here trying to trim my tree.
SPEAKER_03And homeboy's just like, uh I just can't imagine doing a job that you have to have fighter jets protecting you while you're out there like, man, I had to cut this tree down one time. Like, that's who doesn't cut down a tree? You don't understand. I had a B-52s flying overhead in case shit got out of hand. Like, why didn't you just drop a bomb on it and blow that tree out of the car? You could have used dynamite.
SPEAKER_06Shoot that tree down. Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_03You know, they still teach this in military school, and it's because what they proved was they didn't want to necessarily fire back at North Korea. Right. Because they didn't want it to start a war. They didn't want to escalate. So they just wanted to show them it's that overwhelming force that you fuck with us again. You're fucking fuck around and find out. That's exactly what it was. Wipe you off. The face that's right. And that's Trump says it out loud. These guys just showed them. Yeah, everybody else was scared. He says it, you know, we'll blow you up. We don't care. Oh, that's that's wild to me. All right, here's the next one. This one is called Operation Mince Meat.
SPEAKER_02I think I've heard about this one.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, this is um this is the weirdest thing ever. Here's the pit. Like this it sounds like a movie that's gonna sound stupid.
SPEAKER_06I was gonna say, is this a Vienna sausage eating contest or what?
SPEAKER_03No, they uh well, here's what it is. In 1943, the Allies wanted to invade Sicily. The problem, the Germans expected it. Yep. So the British intelligence needed Hitler to think the invasion was happening somewhere else. Their solution, they obtained a body. I think it was a homeless man in London.
SPEAKER_06Okay.
SPEAKER_03They just found a dead body. I wonder if he was dead before they found him. Probably not. They uh created an entirely fake identity. They gave him a fake military ID, love letters, receipts, ticket stuffs, photos, even overdue bills, everything someone might carry in their pockets. Then they handcuffed the fake invasion plans to the body. So it was like when you carry it around.
SPEAKER_02And a briefcase, yeah.
SPEAKER_03Right. A submarine released the body off the coast of Spain. The Spanish authorities found him. They shot it out the tube. That's this is a human being. They're found on the street. They found on the streets in London. Yeah, the uh Germans uh secretly copied the documents. Hitler believed every word. This, if it's too good to be true, yeah.
SPEAKER_02And it's just like they did that one time where the Germans were building a fake uh base. Everything was out of wood. Then England found it, they dropped a wooden bomb and it said boom.
SPEAKER_03That's funny. Right that is pretty good. Uh could that happen today?
SPEAKER_06No, not with technology, not with everything.
SPEAKER_03All the technology.
SPEAKER_02Oh I don't think that could happen.
SPEAKER_06They analyze everything. I mean, I don't know a lot of stuff prior to now.
SPEAKER_01I'd say it could. Uh with all the spies and whatnot. I'd say it could. The way they they try and declassify everything and try and we don't know everything, obviously.
SPEAKER_03We'd probably don't even know.
SPEAKER_06Oh, we don't know half the stuff that goes on right now.
SPEAKER_02We don't know half the missile locations are in the US.
SPEAKER_01Not to disclose anything, but I thought it was kind of interesting. Someone disclosed the other day their brother's a Navy SEAL, and I'm gonna tell you who it is, but then they're on a secret mission right now in the sub. They have to spend like six to eight months in the sub.
SPEAKER_02Oh, that's nice. You spend six to eight months underwater, yeah.
SPEAKER_01And they're SEALs, and they're like he says the worst. He said they have to it's uh they're in like the missile room, it's like a top seeker, and it's like 94 degrees in there. Yeah, like it's horrible.
SPEAKER_02I had a buddy that was in the military when he joined the Air Force. We got he uh the Department of Defense had to come and interview us before he got the job.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_02His friends were like, hey, do you trust him? Where was he born? What's he like when he gets drunk? All this other stuff.
SPEAKER_06Like, well, I mean, essentially you are if you're like in a submarine for six to eight months, yeah, you have no contact with anything, anybody, anyway, they take their features. Like you do almost go to where you're like clinically saying.
SPEAKER_01He said they wake them up and like they try and keep them like their minds, right? Like he said they'll wake them up and they have a Thanksgiving feast.
SPEAKER_02Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_01And then he said, then four hours later, they'll do something else. And then they just they're always guessing they don't know, they don't know what's going on, they don't know time. It's he said it's really crazy. Yeah. I don't know why you would do that to your own troops, though.
SPEAKER_06It's so they don't go crazy, so they don't go crazy.
SPEAKER_01So they they don't they're gonna go to the crazy crazy underwater.
SPEAKER_06You have no idea, you don't have any connection to the real world at all for six to eight months.
SPEAKER_03It's funny you say that though, because I I don't disagree with you, but there's people that go into solitary confinement that spend 23 hours in a six by eight cement block with nothing, with nothing, they don't have and they go crazy. That's the point, but that's we're allowed to do that.
SPEAKER_06Well, we want them to go crazy, we want them to like have punishment, but the others could you do it?
SPEAKER_03These people are doing that shit sometimes 50, 60 years. Think about that. They're 20 years old and they do something like that.
SPEAKER_06Like those kids that I would want to be like electrocuted or give me the fucking I would like give me the death sentence at that point.
SPEAKER_03They get an hour out of the cell where they take them out into the yard, which is basically you're just walk locked into a dog kennel.
SPEAKER_06And you probably don't even get focused by that time because you've been locked in a dark room for how long?
SPEAKER_03And then you're gonna be like, Well, it's not dark, they have lights on. Some of these guys they never turn the lights off. You could be in a light room for the rest of your life. Like at night when you're trying to sleep, that light is on. And you've and they say those people in that area, they're crazy. Like you said, some of them are crazy as shit. And they're banging on the doors all night long, and you've got to do that every day for the next 60 years.
SPEAKER_01I'm with you.
SPEAKER_06I'd rather take the death penalty.
SPEAKER_01Well, that one guy killed uh what three pedophiles in the same day just so he could die. Like he's like, I saved you guys, I did you guys a favor. Like, I just want to die. Like he was on a life sentence and some of those guys just don't give two shit.
SPEAKER_03They're not in in like California, they're not gonna be put to death. So what's killing another one to them? Killed three pedophiles in one day. That's a good deal.
SPEAKER_06Good for them.
SPEAKER_03That's a good day. I think Utah just did a deal where uh I want to say it was Utah, where they passed a law that they can bring back the firing squad now for uh child molesters. So it's not even somebody that kills somebody, it's someone that harms a child. Yep, get rid of them. Yeah. All right, here's our next one. The CIA, they took a submarine. The uh apparently this happened, I think, in the 70s as well. The uh Soviet Union lost one of its nuclear subs in the Pacific Ocean. It sank nearly three miles underwater. That's down there.
SPEAKER_02That's a that's a little bit.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. The CIA had an insane idea. They said, what if we steal it? That's how they found the Titanic. Well, it's when you say that. Nobody had ever lifted something that heavy from that depth, so the CIA created an elaborate cover story. They convinced the uh eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes. You know Howard Hughes. Yeah, Johnny uh Leonardo DiCaprio played him. Good movie. Yeah. Yeah. Uh he was building a ship to mine valuable minerals from the ocean floor. The ship actually contained a giant mechanical claw hidden underneath it. So the Russians think that this thing is grabbing minerals, and in reality, it's a giant claw machine. The uh the mission was to grab the Soviet sub without anyone knowing. The project cost hundreds of millions of dollars in 1970s money, so it would have cost more than several billion today. The claw actually grabbed the submarine. Unfortunately, part of it broke apart while being lifted. So even so, the CIA recovered valuable material before the mission ended.
SPEAKER_02I cannot confirm nor deny what you're saying comes from.
SPEAKER_03Is it really? Yeah. From this particular thing?
SPEAKER_02I cannot confirm nor deny what we are doing out there.
SPEAKER_03Really? Yeah.
unknownThat's wild.
SPEAKER_03That's how all that started. What would be the craziest thing that you would try to recover from the ocean floor?
SPEAKER_01Treasure.
SPEAKER_03Well, obviously, but I mean all the pirate treasure.
SPEAKER_06That would be it's been 80 years.
SPEAKER_03There's gotta be some aliens down there, yeah?
SPEAKER_02Oh, that's where they're all at.
SPEAKER_01That's where all the bases are. That's what I've heard. Dude, how cool would be I know it's a movie, but uh what is it? Um where the warships they fight in the Pacific Ocean, and then the aliens are in the ocean, they pop up out of the water. Oh, battleship. Battleship. That movie was awesome. That'd be cool to see.
SPEAKER_02Godzilla.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_02I go try to find Godzilla. He lives in the ocean.
SPEAKER_06Oh my gosh.
SPEAKER_03They say that's where the aliens are at.
SPEAKER_06I just want to check out the Bermuda Triangle. Like, what's the big insane? Like, what's the big deal about anything?
SPEAKER_03Nobody even says it anymore.
SPEAKER_06No, nobody talks about bad. Nobody talks about quicksand, all of the things that we were afraid of as a kid.
SPEAKER_03I had a story I didn't include it this week where uh somebody thinks they'd found the remains of a Bigfoot. Ooh. Yeah.
SPEAKER_06Josh is still alive.
SPEAKER_02There's something to look at. Nope. Josh just left him.
SPEAKER_06Josh is still alive. He's good.
SPEAKER_02I heard uh Bigfoots are now interdimensional beings. Um, they use the Bigfoot suit to cloak themselves.
SPEAKER_06So they're like skinwalkers or whatever?
SPEAKER_03I listen to all the shapeshifters or yeah, shapeshifter, skinwalker, yeah.
SPEAKER_02I listen to all kinds of shit at work. It's funny. I just laugh. What do you listen to? All kinds of just podcasts about cryptids and everything. Werewolves, vampires, werewolves.
SPEAKER_03I love how I love how people say werewolves. Werewolves.
SPEAKER_06Wolves or wolves.
SPEAKER_03Wolves. Wolves.
SPEAKER_06I did get made fun of multiple times because I said wolves.
unknownWolf.
SPEAKER_03Why would somebody make fun of you? You pronounced it right.
SPEAKER_06That's F. It's a V, right? Wolves. Not wolves.
SPEAKER_03All right. All right. I'm gonna give you one more history nugget, and uh we will move on to what we got. This one I just learned this. There were some survivors of the Jonestown massacre. Yeah. It happened on November 18, 1978.
SPEAKER_02There's several got away.
SPEAKER_03They stuck out. There was a People's Temple basketball team. Oh jeez. They had their own basketball team. They had their own AAU team.
SPEAKER_06Did I tell you that I recently found out that my grandfather went on a double date with Jim Jones?
SPEAKER_03Really? Yeah.
SPEAKER_06Are you serious? I just literally found this out like in the last month that no, him and Richmond. Yeah. No, he graduated with him.
SPEAKER_03Well, apparently they had their own basketball team. They were playing an away game in Georgetown, Guyana during the mass suicide. Suicide event. Jim Jones radioed the team demanding they commit revolutionary suicide. Nah, we're good. Nah, man. We'll run suicide.
SPEAKER_02Who wants to run suicides?
SPEAKER_05Oh my God.
SPEAKER_02Drank the grape stuff and run suicide.
SPEAKER_03One last one here.
Heat Waves, AC Gaps, And Hot Cars
SPEAKER_03They're talking about how hot it is in Europe. It's hotter than shit here. Right.
SPEAKER_06Like it is this week, especially my brutal cash.
SPEAKER_03And uh one of the things Europeans have talked about is uh how much they love air conditioning. Yes. Right? Do they not have it? I've looked it up. Nobody does. Uh apparently, total household ownership of air conditioner units in Europe is relatively low, sitting at an average of just 20%.
SPEAKER_06Oh, I'd die.
SPEAKER_03I couldn't do it. Like, how do you sleep?
SPEAKER_02Well, Germany just built you saw a story about Germany and a new hospital they built.
SPEAKER_01That's why I wouldn't go over there.
SPEAKER_02This hospital is known for doing heart surgeries, brand new hospital. They don't have AC, so the surgeons are having to wear these ice vests that are leaking all over the floor. And they're slipping, yeah, because they don't have AC and it's so hot in there. It's like 90 degrees in this.
SPEAKER_06It's not new technology. Why in the shit do we not have it over there?
SPEAKER_02And you're doing heart surgery.
SPEAKER_01Hey, that's why it's cheaper over there.
SPEAKER_06Well, their health care is as well. I mean, obviously.
SPEAKER_02But I mean, here's the last one. I uh oh, I can't believe it.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, here's one more. I do have another one. Um, this one I just don't even understand this one. But um here lately, my weather app sends me stories of things weather related that are going on throughout the world. And um one of them lately, and it happens every year, and I just don't understand it, are people that leave their kids in the backseat and forget about them. Oh and they die, they pass because they're sitting basically in the world.
SPEAKER_06Well, they just made new ruling as of July 1st, even for animals. If you break into somebody's car because they have their animal in it, as of July 1st in Indiana, no, no rules. Like you're allowed to do it.
SPEAKER_03Oh that's the thing. So I found it's called a good Samaritan state law that allows people to break car windows, and this is for kids. Yeah, okay, absolutely. The wildest part to me is there's like a handful, 10, 12 states that they don't they don't protect you. No, no care. That's one of them's Alaska. I'm sure that doesn't happen a lot. But Louisiana, Mississippi, Mississippi, Arkansas, New Mexico, yeah, um, and New Jersey. If you break the window out to save that kid, you could be sued, I guess, to pay for the window.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_06In New Jersey, a lot of them don't drive.
SPEAKER_01In in my new car, before, you know, when you shut it off, it dings. Hey, check the back seat. Check your rear seat.
SPEAKER_06Check your rear seat. Mine does too. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03I was driving uh Kim's car one time and I put like a seatbelt or a uh backpack and shit in the dinged. Yeah. I had to like set it in the floorboard so the car wouldn't bitch at me.
SPEAKER_02Uh yeah, I just seen a story about that too. I mean, just talking about that, where a grandfather put his grandson in the backseat, went in to do something, seen something on TV, started watching it for a second, ended up falling asleep, taking a nap. This was like in Arizona, I think. I'd have to check.
SPEAKER_06Oh, gosh.
SPEAKER_02And by the time he came out, yeah. That's why. And the judge was like, hey, no, we're not gonna he's already miserable enough. There's nothing I can do that's gonna help or hurt it any more than how he feels right now.
SPEAKER_03So last
Fermented Horse Milk And Wrap Up
SPEAKER_03one. You guys like these little ones?
SPEAKER_02Yeah, on a good note.
SPEAKER_03All right, this one's funny. Uh uh, there's a tradition I got a picture of this, a traditional Central Asian drink. It's called Kumis, K-U-M-I-S. Hell yeah. And it's made from fermented horse's milk. It has a tan taste. And rumplemens with a light champagne fizz like fizziness. And a suddy, no subtle, nutty and almond-like finish.
SPEAKER_02I was gonna say a nutty type finish.
SPEAKER_03And is mildly alcoholic. Horse semen. It no, it's it's the Kumis. Could you would you drink a drink made out of horse milk? Yes. I like. We're gonna have to get some. I'm gonna order. I wonder how much Amazon is to get a sh uh let's look.
SPEAKER_01Get some camel milk.
SPEAKER_02Can we buy some Kumas? Let's find out where's Amazon. I never get on there anyway, so it doesn't matter.
SPEAKER_06I was gonna say I have gifts for it.
SPEAKER_01That's where Ashley gets it every day. I don't I don't order anything off Amazon.
SPEAKER_06We do actually, like when Amazon rolls into our, I'm like, did I order anything? Did you order anything?
SPEAKER_02Uh they don't. It's probably at my house. I'm sorry. They don't have no cumus?
SPEAKER_03No. We'll find it. That's why you go to jungle gyms. They got they got all that.
SPEAKER_02They probably do have some cumus. You got that cumus in here.
SPEAKER_03All
Events Plug And Kindness Closing
SPEAKER_03right. Uh, we're gonna wrap it up. Thanks everybody for uh hanging out with us. It's been an interesting week. We uh we weren't live. We were shocked. We didn't expect to go live. All that happened today. And uh we wanted to talk some fireworks and and uh it was pretty mild the show.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, should have gone to YouTube and just yeah, well, we're on YouTube.
SPEAKER_03If you're listening to us, uh we greatly appreciate it. Make sure you check out our webpage, after twobeers.com. Lots of events coming up in uh end of July and August. And basically, we have one more weekend off, and I think it just ramps up because we're gonna head to the fall. Yeah, we're gonna do all kinds of stuff coming up. So check all that out. Make sure you check out my buddy Kevin Shook if you're looking to do something like this. Uh, if you're looking for some last minute residential fireworks that you can shoot off your locally, reach out to old Screddy PyroTetnicks. Indiana fireworks shows.com. And uh you can go right there or you can find him on Facebook. All right. We see it at the end of every show. And it is very true. The world is tough, the world is hard, and uh sometimes we all get down. And if you see someone in your life, you feel like they might be struggling, just reach out to them. Tell them you love them, tell them you care about them, tell me you appreciate them, and uh, well, we can go from there. Yes, life would be better. Yeah. All right, be the kind. Yes, there you go. All right. I think without further ado, Gibler, we will talk to them all next time.
SPEAKER_05After two beers. Take me home, take me home home.