139 Forgotten Firearm, New Mayor, And A Rant-Fueled Week

A sealed box by the dining table set the tone: one of us almost bought a new gun… before realizing we already had. From that laugh, we roll straight into New York’s political jolt and what it means for people who stay, people who leave, and the income brackets that feel the squeeze most. We compare “blue states” to “blue cities,” unpack why urban centers can flip the map inside red states, and ask whether the real divide ahead is geographic rather than purely ideological.

Down in Texas, we take a hard look at the new constitutional amendments—citizenship to vote, parental authority, and bail reforms that spark real due process questions. We talk timing too: how long early voting windows can lock in choices before late-breaking news lands. On the culture front, we wrestle with free speech, platforming edgy guests, and what happens when advertisers walk. Is that “canceling,” or just the market doing its job? If audiences are the boss now, creators have to live with consequences as much as they enjoy freedom.

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Transcript

The Forgotten Gun In The Box

SPEAKER_02 0:24

How'd he been? How are you today? Oh man, you know, considering the way elections went.

SPEAKER_00 0:32

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 0:33

Okay. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 0:35

I'm I'm a happy camper.

SPEAKER_02 0:38

Why?

SPEAKER_00 0:39

I was thinking about buying a new gun.

SPEAKER_02 0:44

And and now you decided you should?

SPEAKER_00 0:46

I got pretty close to buying a new gun. I was looking at prices, looking at stores. And then I saw a box that wasn't open sitting next to my dining room table. Mm-hmm. I thought, huh, what's in there? I already bought this gun. What gun was it? And how did you it's possible? It's the Carmel from IWI, because I had to. I did. I did. I bought it a while ago. Somehow I neglected to open the box. And so I had forgotten that I bought it. I I thought, oh, I must have thought about buying it without pulling the trigger. Get it? Pull the trigger.

SPEAKER_01 1:28

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:30

Well, apparently I did pull the trigger and I just never uh never opened the damn box when it showed up. So yeah, there we go. So yeah, I was happy because I feel like I just saved myself like a thousand bucks and then some. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:46

But you still haven't shot it.

SPEAKER_00 1:48

So no, I still have not shot. Dude, I just opened the box today. So definitely had the shot.

SPEAKER_02 1:55

I could never ever have that situation happen to me. Like I would I would open the box at the gun store, dude.

SPEAKER_00 2:03

Yeah, I guess. I I don't know, man. I I just I guess I got busy with other shit.

SPEAKER_02 2:12

You know, so many guns, he doesn't care.

SPEAKER_00 2:14

I know, right? It's sad. Sad. Well, I probably what what happened is I probably had that show up the same day as like a new joystick. And the joystick obviously is gonna take priority here.

SPEAKER_02 2:30

Only in a very messed up way, but okay.

SPEAKER_00 2:34

Well, it's just more useful on the daily basis, so you know. It is what it is.

SPEAKER_02 2:39

But disagree.

SPEAKER_00 2:41

Point is look, if you want shooting every day, then I give you the disagree, but I'm not gonna give you the disagree because you don't shoot your guns every day either. I do use guns. I carry my guns every day. Every day. Well, I I carry a gun sometimes. Not every day. But we got some stuff to talk about.

SPEAKER_02 3:03

Yep. You got your wish. Yeah.

New York Election Results Reactions

SPEAKER_00 3:09

Well, I was kind of a no-brainer. I mean, it was a 96% guaranteed according to uh whatchamacallit stats. Polymarkets. So it was obviously gonna happen. And having been in New York earlier this year, I saw a lot of people that would be voting for him. So and the type of people that vote for him fall in two categories. They're people Foreigners and women. Well, uh not not using those categories, but they basically they people that are making under$60,000 a year, and people making over$260,000 a year. Because one group has ask aspirations to something better and are willing to trust in this guy, even though he's saying shit that he can't deliver, and the other group is just financially insulated enough that it doesn't really matter to them what happens because they're still gonna be their lifestyle's not really gonna change much. So I but the people that are screwed are people between 60 and a quarter million a year. Those people are screwed.

SPEAKER_02 4:33

Well, I think the billionaires are all leaving.

SPEAKER_00 4:38

Billionaires don't have their money in New York anyway. It should do. Even multi-millionaires don't have their money in New York. It's when you get to a point where you have not a generic financial advisor that's just there to hold on to your money, but someone that's actually advising your money is gonna be diversified and moved into places to minimize any kind of tax burden future. So I they're not too worried about it. That's the same reason that I know multiple millionaires, quite a few millionaires actually, that all live in California. Because they're not really affected by California taxation, other than little things like you know, gasoline and whatnot.

SPEAKER_02 5:26

That's a pretty big one.

SPEAKER_00 5:28

Yeah. Or I wonder if that ringing sound is recorded.

SPEAKER_02 5:33

I heard it, so probably. Yeah, what is it?

SPEAKER_00 5:35

Probably. It's somebody calling me on on uh freaking uh signal. So I need to there, there we go. Quit out of signal. Yeah, so there you go. Uh if if that was audible, which it probably was, I apologize for that. But but I'm not gonna re-record it. So we'll just keep going here. So yeah, I think I'm I I mean, I'm not ecstatic about him winning, but I I guess I'm I'm reasonably happy enough. I was certainly supporting him being the the uh the winner.

SPEAKER_02 6:16

Apparently, real estate listings went up.

SPEAKER_00 6:20

Oh, really? Interesting.

SPEAKER_02 6:21

Yeah. And the fire chief, the Jewish fire chief, already resigned and retired. They don't need fire chiefs there.

SPEAKER_00 6:29

What do they need those for?

SPEAKER_02 6:30

Okay, well, I'm just telling you. And then there were uh in since the the news article, one of the news articles today was that over 170 NYPD put in for their retirement in the 24 hours after his election.

SPEAKER_00 6:43

Well, that just saves them you know having to fire those people, so it makes total sense. Yeah. Because they'll they'll have no fire protection and no police there. So the the thing that I was just typing on X right before this is commenting on this same exact event is since some people don't learn from history, they will learn from first hand experience. And that is a totally okay thing.

SPEAKER_02 7:18

Yeah, but I mean, people didn't learn from Chicago.

SPEAKER_00 7:23

If you uh well has it gotten bad enough in Chicago yet?

SPEAKER_02 7:30

Chicago's pretty fucking bad, dude.

SPEAKER_00 7:32

Yeah, it's pretty fucking bad. I tell you, the people that did learn from Chicago and moved out are the people that used to live in Chicago that were the upper middle class. They all left Chicago.

SPEAKER_02 7:43

Yeah. So and then went somewhere else to try and screw that place up.

SPEAKER_00 7:48

Well, not necessarily, but they definitely went somewhere else.

SPEAKER_02 7:51

And I really I really like what Nick Freitas had to say the other day about parasites versus refugee.

SPEAKER_01 8:02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 8:03

Or locusts versus refugee, right? You know, if someone's fleeing a state, okay, well, is it a locust looking for the next meal, or is it you know, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 8:15

Yeah, yeah. Well, and you know, believe me, living in Austin, I I saw a lot of locusts from California.

SPEAKER_02 8:23

Exactly. So and in fact, I mean I'm sure we'll see some from New York.

SPEAKER_00 8:27

And and quite a few of them have left already. I mean, like they only stuck around Austin for a few years.

SPEAKER_02 8:33

Yeah, the Austin property values are dropping, I hear.

SPEAKER_00 8:37

Exactly. For the first time in like 18 years. Yep. Yeah, I I don't think this is a bad thing. I I think that there are regions that I mean, maybe deserve is a harsh word, but regions that certainly act as though they were oblivious, that are going to have to live with the consequences of their choices. And uh hey, maybe we'll both be wrong, and he'll be the best mayor New York's ever had.

SPEAKER_02 9:15

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 9:16

I kind of doubt that, but you never know.

SPEAKER_02 9:19

I feel I had to go find this meme just for you because I feel like this is you. And it's a it's literally some people have guardian angels. I have a drunken round croon with a crowbar whispering, let's make it worse.

Who Leaves Cities And Why

SPEAKER_00 9:35

Okay, I'll I'll take it. I'll take it. Burn it all, baby. I mean, I I have those feelings sometimes too, but I just uh I'm right now tired of giving a shit about anybody other than me or people immediately in my vicinity. I spent too many years giving a shit about Russia, too many years at this point giving a shit about Israel. I'm done, man. I don't give a shit about anybody. Let it all burn.

SPEAKER_02 10:09

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 10:10

I'm done. Yeah. That's it's gonna happen one way or the other. So it's just a question of uh is it happening this year, or is it happening next year, or is it happening five years from now? So there you go. What do you wanna do you wanna keep talking about Mundami? I don't have anything else on him. I just barely watched a little bit of the headlines, that's about it.

SPEAKER_02 10:39

Well, I mean, he's he he's a communist. There's no there's no how do I say this? There's no hiding it anymore. That's for sure. I don't think he was ever hiding it. He had backed off some things.

SPEAKER_00 10:59

So I'm trying to pull up a typical rich kid, you know, grew up in a upper class family, which is usually where communists come from.

SPEAKER_02 11:09

Yeah, so all 17 of the Texas state propositions passed. Some with pretty vigorous support, some with less. So, yeah. There are a couple propositions I was not happy that passed, but that's fine. Because there were a lot of good ones that were like, for instance, it is now going to be in the const Texas State Constitution that you have to be a citizen to vote in any election in the state of Texas. Seems like a no-brainer. Well, that will prevent Austin from saying, Oh, well, we'll let them vote in municipal elections. Can't do it. Violates Texas State Constitution. Yep. And also an amendment saying that parents have final say on their children. Which is huge.

SPEAKER_00 11:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 11:55

Meaning a doctor can't override you.

SPEAKER_00 11:57

Exactly. Uh, which is I know we talked about the guy, I forget his name right now, but the guy that uh was in Dallas whose ex-wife took him to uh California. Yeah, exactly. I mean, she just basically after fighting for the kids in Texas, she managed to be allowed to take the children out of state, at which point then, you know, it's a done deal. She's in California, kids in California, and their judges out there are basically saying that if her ex-husband steps one foot in California, he'll be arrested. So that's done.

SPEAKER_02 12:39

Anyway, there were some good things. There was a lot of tax stuff on there. The one that I didn't want to pass but did was on bail reform. So basically, certain felonies you are held without bail, right? Period. And that needs to be adjudicated because you know, murder is one of those felonies, and if I'm in Harris County and I have a defensive shooting and it's a good shoot, yeah, I shouldn't be held without bail automatically. But people aren't thinking of these things.

SPEAKER_00 13:14

Uh I I don't think it's that big a deal. I'm okay with you being held in there.

SPEAKER_02 13:25

Go spend a night or two in jail.

SPEAKER_00 13:28

No, thank you. It it's not that big a deal, dude.

SPEAKER_02 13:33

Well, I I disagree. You know, it I mean, you're you're making it so that if a DA decides to screw you, you're really screwed. So anyway, I I think it needs to be adjudicated.

SPEAKER_00 13:52

I think that should be actually struck down as well why that was in there.

SPEAKER_02 13:59

Why?

SPEAKER_00 14:00

It's because way too many judges are too lenient.

SPEAKER_02 14:03

I I yes, I understand, but it is better to let a hundred. Yeah, and I think that's a good thing. I've never agree with that.

SPEAKER_00 14:10

I've never agree.

SPEAKER_02 14:11

Hey, well, that's black's maxim. That is out of the Bible. That's so literally Sodom and Gomorrah. No, it isn't. Yes, it is. That's black's maximum is derived from Sodom and Gomorrah.

SPEAKER_00 14:24

Well, it's derived poorly because in Sodom and Gomorrah it was a lot more than 121.

SPEAKER_02 14:29

Right, but that's the point. God would not destroy the city if even like that's the entire point.

Texas Amendments And Bail Debate

SPEAKER_00 14:38

Yeah, but it's somewhat mood because God knew exactly beforehand how many people were gonna be not doing what he said. So yes, I I don't I I think that it's it's very easy to go from libertarianism to insanity by having these needs for absolute perfection. I I think that there's a point, and I I mean you're saying it's a hundred to one. I I think that number could be a lot lower before I would start disagreeing with you. Or agreeing with you. So let's say it was like 10 to 1. I I could see how 10 to 1 is getting to the point where too many innocent people are getting trapped. 100 to 1? Yeah, I'm okay with it. Honestly, dude, in war it's one to one. Right. One innocent person dies for every person that's actually actively combatant.

SPEAKER_02 15:43

Well, anyway, I I just don't like it. I I think it needs to be adjudicated. I don't like that. I did like the changing in the state judicial misconduct commission. So there will be now a panel reviewing judges, and yeah, judges will be more easily disciplined and taken out.

SPEAKER_00 16:05

So yeah, and I I'm definitely for that. I've never been a big fan of the sort of judicial isolation doctrine.

SPEAKER_02 16:15

Well, and so the panel is gonna consist of six judges from six different court levels, two attorneys appointed by the state bar, and then five citizens appointed by the governor who aren't attorneys. They can't be attorneys or judges.

SPEAKER_00 16:31

Yeah. Where are they gonna find those?

SPEAKER_02 16:35

Uh me, you.

SPEAKER_00 16:39

Yeah, but I my guess is they're gonna be coming from donor class.

SPEAKER_02 16:45

Yeah, I'm sure. But the point is that that I think that's a good thing. Yeah, I think that's a decent way of structuring it.

SPEAKER_00 16:52

Yeah, I well, anything's better. Anything's better, honestly. You can't you cannot have people being in charge of their own discipline.

SPEAKER_02 17:01

Right, which is essentially what they are now.

SPEAKER_00 17:03

Which exactly. That's exactly what they are now. It's it's the old we promise kind of idea. And so this is this is better. Did you see if we're done with Texas that Florida also is gonna be issuing a hundred percent tariffs on any New Yorkers moving there?

SPEAKER_02 17:23

I have not.

SPEAKER_00 17:24

Yeah. So both DeSantis and our governor have said that now.

SPEAKER_02 17:29

Uh how are you gonna do that?

SPEAKER_00 17:33

Well, I don't think they've said how they're gonna do it, but they've both announced that they're gonna have 100% tariffs on New Yorkers moving. So I've talked, did I talk to you? I talked to somebody about this. I I have come up with some strategies on that. Let me let me grab my notes here. Hang on.

SPEAKER_02 17:52

Look at signal.

SPEAKER_00 17:55

So uh I I again not sure who I was talking to, but here's the the possible way they could do this is by having uh and I I guess I didn't talk to you, I was talking to somebody else. The way they could do this is by having a special fee on U-Haul trucks coming into the state. They can also have a special fee on vehicles that are registered in this state that are coming from New York. So it would truly be for people that are moving, not people obviously transiting. You can't.

SPEAKER_02 18:56

Unless New Yorkers don't have a car.

SPEAKER_00 18:59

So they would be buying one then. That's right. But you know, it's it's meant obviously as a joke, but I think there are potentially some actual ways that some additional funds could be levied.

SPEAKER_02 19:20

Yeah. Well, I I think that the state legislature, at least in Texas, would definitely have to be involved, and they're not gonna do that. So unless there's something that Abbott thinks he can use, I don't see it happening.

unknown 19:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 19:39

Well, it makes for a funny name anyway. And especially when both Florida and Texas are saying it. Now it's it's actually more likely that people from New York are gonna move to Florida.

SPEAKER_02 19:51

I I actually think like Kentucky and Tennessee have a real good shot of exploding because Texas is pretty full, and so is Florida.

SPEAKER_00 20:03

Yeah, we got those signs up at the border.

SPEAKER_02 20:05

Yeah, yeah. We need to put them more up at the border.

SPEAKER_00 20:09

Start start putting the signs out in Oklahoma. Hey, turn around, we're full up down there. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah, it it's uh I I think I think it'll definitely motivate some folks to move. You ever watch Lewis Rossman?

SPEAKER_02 20:31

I have no idea who that is.

SPEAKER_00 20:33

He's a guy that that's been leading the fight for the last decade or so for repair. He's got a YouTube channel where he's always bitching about Apple and other companies that make it part of the.

SPEAKER_02 20:52

I'm sorry, what was that? Say that again.

SPEAKER_00 20:54

Jewy. That's that's a technical term for New York looking people.

SPEAKER_02 20:59

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_00 21:00

Anyway, I'm not even sure if he's Jewish, honestly, but he kind of looks like it.

SPEAKER_02 21:06

Funny, she doesn't look Jewish.

SPEAKER_00 21:08

Yeah, exactly. But he moved, you know, he had a shop in New York when he started his channel, and he was bitching about all the crazy ass requirements and taxes and everything else they had on there until he finally shut it down and moved to Austin. So, you know, I guess he went from New York to New York light, but now he's down here. Actually, right in downtown, which is kind of surprising. But so if I ever have a computer that dies, he's definitely gonna be the guy I bring it to.

SPEAKER_02 21:40

Okay, and where where is this going?

SPEAKER_00 21:43

Well, it's not going anywhere. I'm just saying that there have been plenty of people that have moved from New York to Austin. Not just from in fact, uh Adam Curry's buddy, the New York banker. Banker. Yeah, yeah. Now, you know, a lot of them moved to Austin, not actually to be in Austin. They're gonna be on the lake in the nice suburbs, sitting in a whole, you know, try selling their three-bedroom condo for two and a half million so they can buy a house for two and a half million here in Austin. Right. But it's certainly been a thing. There have been plenty of people that I've met that have moved here from New York. I I would think if you like the New York lifestyle, you're not gonna like the Austin lifestyle. Because New York lifestyle is a lot more diversified, with there's a lot more options of everything. Like you're not limited to just which brisket place you want to go eat at. In Austin, it's you you gotta like a lot of the southern stuff to really enjoy Austin, otherwise, you're you're gonna feel like there's just not enough here. So I think a lot of people, if they're gonna move to Texas, they probably end up like in Houston.

SPEAKER_02 23:03

Which well, but Houston is not anything like Texas does not have anything like the New York lifestyle.

SPEAKER_00 23:09

It doesn't, but I think Houston is the closest. Houston's the only city really when I was looking to leave Austin. I looked at all the three other big cities, quote unquote. And Houston is the only Texas city that has actual neighborhoods. Dallas does not have neighborhoods, San Antonio does not have neighborhoods, Austin does not have neighborhoods.

SPEAKER_02 23:32

Well, Houston has neighborhoods. Dallas has neighborhoods, they're just called the mid-cities, and they're just cities.

SPEAKER_00 23:38

They're but they're identical, there's no real difference. If you look at like, you know, sh other than Addison, which is barely a neighborhood, but it's Flower Mound. Flower Mound is exactly like where I was living in that grapevine. Not anymore. When I moved to Dallas, Grapevine definitely had its own flair, but it's they've all so merged that it's just one ginormous metroplex.

SPEAKER_02 24:11

Yeah, but Houston's that way too.

Mayors, Tariffs On Movers, And Mobility

SPEAKER_00 24:13

Not really, because if if you go to Houston, different neighborhoods, different areas, whether you're in the northeast side or the southeast side or southwest side, and I know they all have names, I just don't know what those names are, but they have very distinct flavors. Like when I was looking, the area that I liked the most was on the it'd be on the I guess the the northwest side of Houston between where the museums are and where the Cats delay is. So I I like I really liked the idea of living on a block away from cats. A very nice little neighborhood out there, but also not much parking. That was the big negative down there. So it's just you know, on-street parking, none of the houses are really set up for parking. But other than Houston, I like that doesn't exist anywhere in Elson, Texas. And I I get what you're saying, like the neighborhoods are not nearly as uh different and separated as they would be in New York, but at least there's some neighborhoods. But like, you know, when I was in Frisco, going from Frisco to Grapevine to anywhere really on the outskirts of Dallas, it was all the same. It was just a different, the only difference was how new or old the houses were.

SPEAKER_02 25:39

That was it. See, I think it looks totally like I I disagree because there's a lot of flavor difference to me in just the neighborhoods of Dallas proper, like you know, uptown Dallas is very different than Deep Album.

SPEAKER_00 26:01

Uptown's a little different, but it's not that different. There are a lot of places that that look, what's Uptown have? What's the biggest difference? It wasn't meant to be residential, it was meant to be commercial. That's really the main difference between Uptown and other neighborhoods. But it's not, but it's commercial, but it's not like warehouses. That's one thing I was looking for, actually, is when I got divorced, is I I had this idea that something I always liked in Minneapolis were the old brick warehouse buildings, like the 10, 12-story buildings that were all brick. Like they were actually built from brick, and and so you know, they ended up getting subdivided into residential and commercial space. And so I started looking around. There, there's nothing like that in Dallas, except for places that are fake, meaning they're just normal buildings, they're not old warehouses, but the interior was done with the the fake brick, you know, the the stuff that's about half an inch thick and put on the side of the wall to make it look like it's a brick wall. But there's no actual warehouse buildings there.

SPEAKER_02 27:17

You know why, right?

SPEAKER_00 27:18

Yeah, because there weren't any warehouses.

SPEAKER_02 27:21

No, that's not true. Dallas has a major hub. But he, you know, see, here in Texas, we're not so stupid as to keep such a worthless old building around. We tear it down and build something new.

SPEAKER_00 27:31

Well, whatever it is, I couldn't find anything like that.

SPEAKER_02 27:35

So you can still find some, but again, most of it's just because it's been torn down. Like Dallas was a pretty major railroad hub, kind of like Chicago in a lot of ways.

SPEAKER_00 27:44

I thought Fort Worth was more of a hub.

SPEAKER_02 27:47

Dallas, Fort Worth, DFW, same place. To your point. But anyway, the the point is, you know, that existed, but it it got torn down for more valuable buildings.

SPEAKER_00 28:03

Yeah, and that that's fine.

SPEAKER_02 28:04

My my point with all this is simply that you can drive all over you're moving to New York to support your candidate Zentami.

SPEAKER_00 28:13

Yeah, exactly. I want to live in a goddamn Italian neighborhood, man. So where else am I gonna find one of those?

SPEAKER_02 28:19

You know, that's the only thing that I think might save New York is the mob.

SPEAKER_00 28:23

The mob? Yeah, maybe. I don't know if there's much mob left in New York, dude. I think a lot of the mob is retired.

SPEAKER_02 28:33

Someone's still running that.

SPEAKER_00 28:36

Maybe, yeah. Yeah, what's the company? Waste Disposal Incorporated or something? Yeah. Yes, I forget what their actual name is. Waste management. Waste management, that's right. Waste management incorporated.

SPEAKER_02 28:51

Now, waste management is a completely legitimate company. Of course it is, not a front for anything.

SPEAKER_00 28:56

Not a no, who would imagine such a thing? But yeah, I want to get sued, dude. Yeah, yeah. And you know, the the this is the other thing that's interesting, is New York when I was there, and then I was mostly in Manhattan and Queens, but it doesn't smell like garbage. Which was surprising.

SPEAKER_02 29:20

Last time I was in New York, it smelled like sour milk.

SPEAKER_00 29:23

Well, it didn't smell like that when I was there this this uh spring, but you know what does smell like garbage is New Jersey. When you cross over the Hudson, that smell just hits you. And it stays with you all down the turnpike. Like, why does the whole state just smell like garbage?

SPEAKER_02 29:47

Yeah, so since we're clearly done with New York, yeah. Virginia. Holy shit, Virginia is lost.

SPEAKER_00 29:57

Yeah, yeah, that was more of a surprise to me. I was not really expecting it.

Culture Clash And Early Voting Frustrations

SPEAKER_02 30:03

But I've been spending quite a bit of time in Virginia, yeah, and everyone now I'm in a more conservative area. Everyone thought, oh no, those there's no way, there's no way whoever who's gonna be the new prosecutor, secret or attorney general. Yeah, I mean there's no way he's gonna win, but the problem is they have 47 days of early voting, dude.

SPEAKER_00 30:26

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 30:27

That's a huge problem.

SPEAKER_00 30:29

Oh, yeah. Yeah, you can print up a lot of ballots in that amount of time.

SPEAKER_02 30:33

Well, no, not even that, just that the news hadn't even broke. Yeah. So a lot of so a lot of people had cast their ballots before that news broke. Well, this is why we need election day. Not month.

SPEAKER_00 30:49

Yeah, and I'm okay with election day as long as you could do it on your phone.

SPEAKER_02 30:54

No, make it a national holiday. Everything shuts down. Everybody who can go vote goes vote. Finger in the inkwell, so you're marked a thumbprint on the ballot, so it's tied to you, and your ballot record is public record.

SPEAKER_00 31:11

You could totally do that on the phone.

SPEAKER_02 31:13

No, I want a paper ballot.

SPEAKER_00 31:15

Your phone uses the bottom. I want a paper ballot.

SPEAKER_02 31:18

I want a paper ballot with a fingerprint on it.

SPEAKER_00 31:21

Yeah. I don't think that's practical.

SPEAKER_02 31:24

And if you don't have any finger, if you don't have any fingers, you can't vote.

SPEAKER_00 31:27

What? That's racist.

SPEAKER_02 31:30

How is that racist?

SPEAKER_00 31:31

It's racist again, fingerless people.

SPEAKER_02 31:34

It's not a race.

SPEAKER_00 31:36

Well, it might be. You never know. There's gotta be somebody out there that doesn't have any fingers. What are they supposed to do?

SPEAKER_02 31:45

I don't know. Not have been dumb and lost their fingers.

SPEAKER_00 31:48

There was a video that I reposted today that somebody did kind of saying what I've been saying for a long time, but they actually did a good job with a video with statistics as well to back them up, demonstrating why we need to get rid of the 19th Amendment. And that the vote should be restored to one vote per family. Well, that's a family. Yeah, well, it's it's it's a good video. I I support the guy. He's he's thought it through, and they he said the exact same shit I say, which is if you look at election results from the last hundred years worth of elections, ever since women got the right to vote, you can see that every Democrat president that we've ever elected was only elected because women overwrote the band's vote. There would have never been a Democrat president, there would have not been an FDR, there would have not been a Kennedy, there would not have been a Clinton, there would not have been an Obama, not have been Biden, none of them would have been elected if women didn't vote. And again, and he takes it from a religious stance where you know women were made to care, men were made to think. There's a difference there, and it's the way God designed them.

SPEAKER_02 33:31

Yeah, I I in I Women care more about people, men care more about things, men are more logical, women are emotionally driven. Agreed.

SPEAKER_00 33:40

Yeah, women are supposed to be nurturing. The problem is in the absence of having something to nurture, i.e. children, they want to nurture everybody around them. Like all the all the illegals. You know, they they have too much compassion. Too much compassion for people that really shouldn't be compassionate about there. We as a country shouldn't be compassionate towards.

SPEAKER_02 34:13

Speaking of someone that I have zero compassion for, don't worry, Dick. It's a dry heat.

SPEAKER_00 34:22

I I'm lost. Dick Cheney died. Oh, yeah, Dick Cheney died. Well, he died a long time ago, technically.

SPEAKER_02 34:28

Yes, but I mean he's been officially dead in hell.

SPEAKER_00 34:32

Well, you know, Dick Cheney was one of the first guys that followed me on my first Twitter account.

SPEAKER_02 34:41

Uh-huh. I'm sure it wasn't a parody account.

SPEAKER_00 34:43

No, it wasn't a parody account. It was it was Dick Cheney. I don't remember what I said, but it was in the because remember, I signed up for Twitter when they launched it here in Austin. I was I was here at the launch. And that was one of the first political accounts that followed me. It was Dick Cheney.

SPEAKER_02 35:04

And so because one of his staffers.

SPEAKER_00 35:07

Well, whoever was running his account, dude, I don't care who it was. The point was it was the point is it was an official Dick Cheney account. And and I, you know, because of that, I followed him back and I never got rid of him. Now, Dick Cheney did a lot of nasty evil shit. But at the same time, you gotta you gotta admire the uh this guy managed to push through pretty much everything he ever tried to push through, including getting a president elected.

SPEAKER_02 35:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 35:41

He's a very successful politician, even if what he did was bad stuff. So, yeah, but he's been running on borrowed time for a long time. So I I'm I w I didn't realize he wasn't dead yet. When they made the announcement, I was like, shit, I thought he died years ago.

SPEAKER_02 36:03

All I can say is as certain people have exited, I have it's just I'm glad to see the evil people finally dying. I felt the same way when Daddy Bush died.

SPEAKER_00 36:15

Mm-hmm. Yeah, but you don't want to celebrate people dying, though.

SPEAKER_02 36:22

I'm not gonna have any empathy.

SPEAKER_00 36:25

Right, but I mean that's what we've been talking about people doing with Charlie, and that's just bad. Bad form.

SPEAKER_02 36:33

Charlie was murdered, and it's just different. Uh anyway, Nancy Pelosi is not going to run for re-election.

SPEAKER_00 36:44

Oh my god, that's a miracle.

SPEAKER_02 36:46

Yeah. Trump called her an evil woman and that she was doing the country a great service by not running again.

SPEAKER_00 36:53

That evil woman is doing the country a great service. Yes. Well, somebody already, I think the Babylon B or E was talking about how Nancy Pelosi worried about the price of everything in California now that she can't do insider training.

SPEAKER_02 37:11

Yeah. I think they're gonna be okay.

SPEAKER_00 37:15

What's she worth, like a north of a hundred million?

SPEAKER_02 37:17

Oh, easily, yes. Yeah, several hundred million. So a West Virginia West Virginia senator has put a bill out for West Virginia to accept the 20 some odd counties, conservative counties, the border that are directly connected. So now we have from Virginia. Yeah. So now we have you know the Greater Idaho movement, and now we're gonna have the greater West Virginia movement.

SPEAKER_00 37:46

The Greater Idaho movement would damn near double Idaho. I mean, that's a good chunk of Oregon that wants to leave. We also have the uh Canadian provinces that want to become states.

SPEAKER_02 37:59

Or at least leave Canada.

SPEAKER_00 38:01

Well, I think that's getting more and more realistic because they're not happy.

SPEAKER_02 38:07

Dude, you have you know, you've got the four boxes of freedom, right? You've got the ballot box, you've got the soap box, the jury box. We're only left right now with two. The other two have failed.

SPEAKER_00 38:25

Yep, yep. Yeah, it's getting this is a phrase that I think in as much as I I despise quoting the angry gay Mexican, the uh one thing he said, I think is And by angry gay Mexican Gene means Nick Fuentes. Well, who else would it be? How many other angry gay Mexicans are there?

SPEAKER_02 38:48

I don't know that he's gay or angry.

Tucker, Platforms, And Backlash

SPEAKER_00 38:51

I do. Anyway, he he said something that did it does have a ring to it, I have to admit, which he said This is the war you get. It may not be the war that you thought you won't were gonna have, but this is the war that you got in in replying to uh Ben Shapiro. And I think that's uh actually very true.

SPEAKER_01 39:15

All right, say that again.

SPEAKER_00 39:19

You this is the war that you got. It may not have been the war you thought you'd get, but it's the one that you have now. So it basically saying that what is that war? It's a civil war. He's so he's talking about American Civil War in the context, and referring to Ben Shapiro, and basically saying, You thought the Civil War would be with the liberals. No, the Civil War is gonna be between the Jews, the Jew lovers, and then all the white people. And it's a it actually it sounds it sounded better coming out of his mouth than it does something out of mine, but but there is a ring of truth there that you gotta agree with, which is you know, we've been talking about civil war for a long time. Tim Poole's been talking about civil war, but everyone's been assuming that the civil war is going to be between the socialists and the non-socialists. But I think there's a pretty good chance that that's not the case. I think it is it is quite possible that the civil war will actually be between people that all voted for Trump, and the socialists will be picking sides to join, not being the primary adversary on one of the sides.

SPEAKER_02 40:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 40:50

And because it is there are people that have more in common, like Nick, with Mandani than he does with Trump. Alright, say that again. You think Nick Fuentes has more in common with Mandani than he does with Trump.

SPEAKER_02 41:12

I don't think so. Well, I I do. Okay, why do you think that? Because I thought that's what you said.

SPEAKER_00 41:20

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, if you go down to what Nick wants, so Nick wants to have an what what's uh what's the word for uh religious government? A uh a theocracy. Theocracy, right. So Nick is a big supporter of theocratic government. Now, in his case, that theocratic government is run by the Pope. He has this dream of a Catholic America, but that is his goal. That is also absolutely the goal of Mandani, is that Sharia is based on Islam, is the law that is going to be the law of the land in America, if he has his way. They both have exactly the same perspective on Jews. Yeah. I don't think you can argue with that. They both are critiquing Trump right now. Both of them are. I think push comes to shove that both of them are a lot closer to authoritarian and being okay with it than libertarian. I don't know, man. I I think if you put them side by side, they're gonna be a lot closer together than they are compared to Trump. There's not a whole lot that Nick agrees with Trump on.

SPEAKER_02 43:03

Well, I don't want a theocracy. I wouldn't mind a Christian nation, but you know. We'll see.

SPEAKER_00 43:13

Yeah, but do you want the Catholic nation?

SPEAKER_02 43:17

No, I want a Christian nation. I didn't say Catholic.

SPEAKER_00 43:20

Well, the Catholics would call you heretics.

SPEAKER_02 43:23

Okay, well, again, I don't want a theocracy. I just want again, I it's like the the abortion issue. I don't want it to be illegal, I just want it to be morally unthinkable. But interestingly enough, House Republicans are now pushing to strip Mandani of his U.S. citizen, rep Andy Ogles of Tennessee, is pushing to have him deported as well.

SPEAKER_00 43:47

Yeah, and it's again, I think these are great memes.

SPEAKER_02 43:50

Which would be hilarious.

SPEAKER_00 43:51

I don't think it's realistically possible to do that.

SPEAKER_02 43:54

They're saying they no, they're asking no, actually, all Marco Rubio has to do is look at the statements, and if he made false statements, it is at the Secretary of State's discretion to remove a naturalized citizen citizenship.

SPEAKER_00 44:13

I don't know if that's true.

SPEAKER_02 44:14

It is. Like all they have to give him is basically a pro forma hearing, and that's it.

SPEAKER_00 44:28

Yeah, I don't see it happening. I think there's a lot of rhetoric that is.

SPEAKER_02 44:34

I think it's time. I think it's I think it's time to get rid of the filibuster, as much as I have been against that for a very long time. I do deserve it.

SPEAKER_00 44:44

You've been against it on this show.

SPEAKER_02 44:46

Okay, well, I'm at the point where no we we we have to start acting like we're in a war, and unless we want it to become a kinetic one, we better fight it ideologically.

SPEAKER_00 45:00

I think it's gonna be kinetic no matter what. I don't know, there's a point in slowing things down.

SPEAKER_03 45:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 45:11

Well, we'll see. So I think I sent a video to you. Maybe I didn't. There's a video I ran across a few days ago that was a what would happen if the US had a civil war based on red states and blue states.

SPEAKER_02 45:32

And he kind of oh yes, you you did send that too.

SPEAKER_00 45:35

Okay, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 45:36

Did you watch it? Yeah, I did. Okay. I don't agree with his three outcomes.

SPEAKER_00 45:41

So the yeah, the the deeper he went, the less believable it got. But I think his initial like first few months was pretty accurate. But once it got to like over a year, I think he was just pulling straws out of thin air and overloading the camels knees.

Eye Tracking Tech And Gaming

SPEAKER_02 45:59

Yeah, I think what it comes down to is the blue states have way we don't have blue states, we have blue cities.

SPEAKER_00 46:07

We do have blue cities, that's exactly right.

SPEAKER_02 46:09

Yeah, and that's the point he missed.

SPEAKER_00 46:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 46:13

So in that video, he you know claims these coalitions and things like that. That's not what it would look like because the red portions of the blue states would be in utter revolt and joining the red states.

SPEAKER_00 46:23

Or or joining, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 46:26

New Mexico is a pretty red state with Albuquerque in it.

SPEAKER_00 46:31

Well, it's an empty state with Albuquerque.

SPEAKER_02 46:34

Right, but I'm just saying, yeah, you you wouldn't have the battle lines drawn the way he had them. No, he had them by state lines at the end. And it would be urban versus rural, so like Austin would definitely be blue aligned. Oh, yeah. You know, I I I don't believe his new capital of Dallas would be the logical place at all. Like there were there are several things in that. And if you want to read a really good fiction book that explores the second civil war, it's the Empire series by Orson Scott Card. It's two books. And it's really good.

SPEAKER_00 47:08

I think I already bought them last time you mentioned it.

SPEAKER_02 47:11

Yeah, and probably haven't read them yet.

SPEAKER_00 47:13

No, of course not.

SPEAKER_02 47:15

Oh, by the way, our little religious episode we did, we got some listener feedback from a listener in Poland who's Catholic and has never really been exposed to Protestant ideas. And he really enjoyed it and is learning more.

SPEAKER_00 47:32

Really? That's cool. Yep. Yeah, it's I I know that you know CSB may find it hard to believe, but I've always been a big fan of Poland. I I think Poland was one of those countries that had a history and a pretty proud history, and I've always respected the fact that they just kind of don't go along with the crowd. I've never understood why Americans have Polish jokes, because I never considered Polish people dumb. In fact, there have been a lot of great mathematicians coming out of Poland and scientists, but for whatever reason, and I was surprised when I first came to the US and I I saw these Polish jokes popping up. It's like, what why are the I mean, shouldn't these be Irish jokes? Because Irish are stupid, but why would Polish jokes be a thing? That doesn't make any sense.

SPEAKER_02 48:28

Uh well, you you want to hear a Polish joke?

SPEAKER_00 48:33

Sure, go ahead.

SPEAKER_02 48:35

So these two Polaks were digging a ditch, and one Polak says to the other, why does our supervisor get to sit there under that tree in the shade drinking lemonade while we do all the work? I don't know. Go ask him. So the first Polak walks over there and goes, Why do you get to sit under this tree drinking lemonade while we do all the work? Intelligence, my boy, intelligence. What's intelligence? Well, I'm gonna put my hand in front of the tree and I want you to hit my hand as hard as you can. So the Polak swings, and last second the supervisor moves his hand and Polak hits the tree and he's shaking his hand, heard his hand, and he goes, That's intelligence. And the Polak walks back to his buddy and his buddy goes, What do you say? What do you say? Intelligence. What's intelligence? Well, I'm gonna put my hand in front of my face, and I want you to swing that shovel as hard as you can.

College Football And Broadcast Bloat

SPEAKER_00 49:25

Yeah, yeah, that's kind of the to our Polish listeners.

SPEAKER_02 49:30

I apologize. It's just a joke. We make Aggie jokes all the time, and Agggies are kind of the Polarock in the South. I do. Well, you don't know the show.

SPEAKER_00 49:42

You don't on this show.

SPEAKER_02 49:43

All right. Aggie and Venters walk into the world's first two-story outhouse.

SPEAKER_01 49:48

Moments later, oh God, stop.

SPEAKER_00 49:53

Yeah, yeah. That's uh definitely a dad joke. So so the no sense of humor. Oh no, no, not me. No sense of humor at all. So just trollism. Exactly. Exactly. So yeah, the bottom line is well, that's good. That's good. We'll we will do some more of those episodes as well, because I uh I I've definitely got a lot more material to talk about. Yeah, all I do uh during the day is sit in front of my computer and I've got some kind of apologetics channel running on YouTube all day long and a video game in front of my main screen. So I I've got a lot of a lot of topics we can talk about. But we also don't want to convert into a religious podcast, that's not the point of this. Well, it's uh it you know, we're still gonna talk about guns and politics and things, but throw a little religion in there as well. So uh what else we want to talk about here? You already brought up the Texas politics, the uh you know our election was really more for for I guess amendments. Were they these actually constitutional amendments, or are they just sort of they were okay? I couldn't even tell.

SPEAKER_02 51:25

Yeah, you saw Yeah, so the and there were school board elections and some special precinct stuff and some areas that depended, but the only statewide thing was the 17 amendments.

SPEAKER_03 51:35

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_00 51:37

Yeah, and uh I I guess yeah, I think there was some some other local questions that were on there.

SPEAKER_02 51:44

So do you see that Argentina is preparing? Preparing what they've moved their trips to the coastline.

SPEAKER_00 51:55

No, I haven't.

SPEAKER_02 51:56

Yeah, they're preparing for a US invasion.

SPEAKER_00 51:58

Really?

SPEAKER_02 52:00

Yelp. Which is the dumbest thing ever.

SPEAKER_00 52:04

What would be the point of that?

SPEAKER_02 52:06

To put all your troops in one spot so that it's really quick and easy for us to take them out on the first wave.

SPEAKER_00 52:13

Yeah, but I mean, what's the point of U.S. invading Argentina? There's no point to that.

SPEAKER_02 52:19

We want Maduro gone.

SPEAKER_00 52:21

We could take out Maduro without invading Argentina, and I think that's what we do.

SPEAKER_02 52:25

We got Argentina, Venezuela. I'm speaking the wrong one.

SPEAKER_00 52:30

Oh, oh, okay, okay. I was gonna like I was gonna say, why aren't we trying to take out Argentina? Yeah, Venezuela, that one makes a little more sense. Plus, it's closer. Argentina, didn't we just do a massive loan deal to them or something?

SPEAKER_02 52:44

Yes, well, we did a currency exchange.

SPEAKER_00 52:46

Yeah, that exactly. Now, I had a uh a guy serve me food the other day who's from Venezuela. And so I, you know, I had to ask him, it's like, so what what's what's the deal? What's going on? And he says that the country's just being mismanaged like crazy, and that frankly, even if US didn't do anything, there probably ended up being a revolution there.

SPEAKER_02 53:22

But there hasn't been.

SPEAKER_00 53:23

Well, no, there absolutely hasn't been. There have been people leaving, but there hasn't been a revolution. But so he's obviously all for US intervention. Because, you know, when you have Uber guys, you they're usually not locals.

SPEAKER_02 53:40

Um depends on what part of the country.

SPEAKER_00 53:43

In Austin. There's sure there are no local Uber drivers. Every time I have an Uber driver, it's either somebody from Pakistan or Afghanistan or some South American country or something. There's not been an uh American Uber guy in a damn long time. Was it something somebody oh so the other thing that there seems to be some bruha? So the Jews are definitely getting the brunt of the racism lately, but the Indians are getting their fair share as well.

SPEAKER_02 54:25

I've not seen this.

Gaza, Foreign Aid, And “No More Money”

SPEAKER_00 54:26

Oh, Vivek is every time he posts, just start reading the replies. It's it's it varies between go back to India, even though he was born in Ohio, to way worse than that. You know, basically hoping for him and his wife and his kids to get killed. It's and these are not lefties that are leaving these comments, these are America Firsters. And the same thing with JD's wife. He's basically, if you read the comments when he posts, a lot of comments are you need to start making a choice here. You either get right with Jesus or you're not going anywhere. And by get right with Jesus means he's got to ditch his wife and marry a Christian woman. See, I I call bullshit on that because the comments are there. You can read them yourself. Just go to anybody.

SPEAKER_02 55:28

But I don't think that's a I don't think that's a very big movement because I don't know. I I don't see like this is all driven by the Carly Charlie Kirk's wife and JD Vance P.S. that I just don't I don't see it.

SPEAKER_00 55:42

It's it is obviously a much smaller movement than Tucker would have you think, but it is absolutely the people that are on X. I mean, X is so full of people that are just so excited to finally be able to, without consequences, start saying things like this. You know. Hitler was right. Get rid of all the foreigners, get rid of all the darkies, get rid of all the slant eyes, get rid of everybody who's not white. The funny thing is, if you look at the people that are actually saying this, I'm whiter than most of them. It's that's the part that's so damn funny. How anybody that has brown eyes and skin that gets suntanned very easily thinks that they're white is beyond me. Like Italians aren't white. No way.

SPEAKER_02 56:49

100% not they were until the you know Muslims abated.

SPEAKER_00 56:53

They're not white right now. I mean, I'm just telling you, it's not that hard. If you lot if you want to use the charts, we have the charts back from Germany. We can use all the measurements. I guarantee you, I'm gonna be passing a lot more weight tests than a lot of these dudes. I got blue eyes because they're basing more than you, so it's a I don't think so, bud. I don't think so. I I do, I got blue eyes.

SPEAKER_02 57:17

I I do too. Yeah, they're blue, green, hazel eyes, kind of hazel, yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_00 57:26

Exactly. So, but you look at a lot of these dudes and they look pretty damn Mexican to me. And uh and they're the ones that are all for you know, um America needs to be a white country. Okay, well, that means you're not gonna be a part of it, you realize that, right? So now are they still a fringe? Obviously.

SPEAKER_02 57:48

The problem is they're definitely a fringe. Like, I I I don't know anyone who believes America should be a white country.

SPEAKER_00 57:57

I don't really know those people, but that's more by choice. But I'm I spend a lot more time on X than you do, and I have definitely talked to a lot more of these people. I know, I know, but I've definitely like they're they're on X, dude. They're all over X. And I don't think they're trolling. I think there's a few of them that are trolling, right? There always is. But most of these people are just replying with with perfectly serious about their answers because they kind of feel a certain freedom to be able to say things like this now without being and why do you think that is? Well, I think that that is mostly because Tucker Carlson platformed a guy who is absolutely not part of the mainstream, but he sold them as part of the mainstream. You're talking about Nick Fuentes. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 59:00

I think Nick Fuentes okay.

SPEAKER_00 59:01

The angry game X guy.

SPEAKER_02 59:03

Yeah, yeah. Okay, is what's his face over there in Hungary or wherever?

SPEAKER_00 59:10

What's his face in Hungary? Which guy?

SPEAKER_02 59:13

Who the guy who's accused constantly of trafficking and stuff like that.

SPEAKER_00 59:18

Oh, Andrew Tate.

SPEAKER_02 59:19

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So do you think Andrew Tate is mainstream?

SPEAKER_00 59:23

Another guy who's not white. His dad is 100% black.

SPEAKER_02 59:27

Yeah, yeah. Do you think that Andrew Tate is mainstream?

SPEAKER_00 59:31

I think he's more mainstream than uh Fuentes.

SPEAKER_02 59:35

I think Fuentes has an equal, if not more so, following.

SPEAKER_00 59:40

I mean, he does now. Yeah, Fuentes has definitely been growing.

SPEAKER_02 59:44

And I I think you ought to have anyone on your show that you want to have on your show and have whatever debate you want to have. I agree. It should be more telling to people who thought Tucker was more of a moderate that they agreed as much as they did. But I'm not gonna say, oh, Tucker Carlson, how dare you platform da-da-da-da-da. That's nonsense.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:04

I think you should have anyone you want on, and you ought to be prepared for people realizing who you are when you have certain people on. Like freedom of speech is a two-way, two-way, I don't know, what's the phrase? Two-way something.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:24

Street.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:24

Yeah, I guess. It's like everybody has not just freedom of speech, but freedom of association. And if a whole bunch of people don't want to associate with Tucker Carlson anymore, that's also part of the freedom of speech. So there should be no like, oh, woe is me. Why am I being Canceled. No, you're not being canceled. You're being disassociated with because of what you're doing. And that's perfectly to be expected, frankly. And you're a moron if you don't expect it. People don't like hanging out with degenerates. You don't want to head out with pedophiles. You don't want to hang out with murderers. You don't want to hang out with people that think that it's perfectly fine to put on an animal costume and have sex. Like, no. Yeah, they may not do anything.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:21

I love that you're equating these things, right?

SPEAKER_00 1:01:23

They're all on the same level. Pretty much. You know. Okay. Wait, wait, I are you are you saying furries are somehow, you know, less than pedophiles?

SPEAKER_02 1:01:39

If it's a good idea.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:40

Do I need to know something about you?

SPEAKER_02 1:01:42

Yeah, I would not equate those two.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:46

I think it's all part of the same degeneracy. These are things that we used to put people into institutions for. And God knows we need to build a lot more institutions.

Markets, Tariffs, And Groceries

SPEAKER_02 1:01:57

I I think what two consenting adults do is very different than if we're talking actual pedophiles.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:05

Well, yeah, the the there's no victim, but these are both mentally deranged people. Yeah. This is abnormal psychology. So I I think that when you start platforming people like that, you may no longer be accepted into play company. And I think Tucker is gambling on this idea that he's immune from this because he is the most popular media personality on the internet. He doesn't have a boss, he just has an audience. And as long as his audience are happy to watch the ads that run when he's doing things, then he gets paid. But he doesn't have an actual boss. Well, the audience is his boss.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:06

Well, but if his opinions get such that the ads don't want to be associated, exactly.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:12

Exactly. And I think there is, but that, but that is what they're going to call canceling. So there the Tucker Carlson, you know, the pro-Carlson folks out there are definitely going to be bitching when YouTube or even potentially X will no longer run ads on his programs. They're going to be, ah, these, these, you know, these Jews are canceling Tucker Carlson. Yeah, and what's so what? Like every action has consequences. We don't live in a consequence-free world. Children live in the consequence-free world. And our job as adults is to get those children ready for the real world. The real world has consequences for actions. So if the actions you perform are such that you end up pissing off a bunch of people, or potentially not a bunch of people, but the people that are responsible for you making a living, you piss them off, there will be consequences.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:18

I think Tucker has enough money he can say and do whatever the hell he wants and be okay for the rest of his life.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:22

Well, you would think that, but he doesn't. Why not? Because all it takes. Sure, he can he can live there for the rest of his life and have no media presence. Yes. That's true. He does have enough money for that. He does have enough money for that. So I think right now Tucker is taking a gamble. He's walking on the wild side. And I also think that Tucker is not gonna stick to his guns if he starts getting pushed on. In fact, we've already seen Tucker backtracking just yesterday. Where he said, Oh, you know, I have to apologize. I misspoke. I I was kind of angry, and I really didn't mean it when I said it. When I get angry, I say stupid shit. So when I said I really hate Zionist Christians more, I didn't really mean that I hate Zionist Christians. I some of my best friends are Zionist Christians. This is literally a quote from him. So how long did that take? About three days for him to backtrack? Okay. So I I think that's I don't think it's that big of a deal. I think that's the likely scenario for Tucker is that he's just gonna start backtracking and he's gonna have a very different opinion of uh Nick Fuentes the angry gay Mexican than what he originally was saying when he interviewed him. That's my prediction. Because Tucker is not willing to just stop making money tomorrow. You say, well, he's got enough he can live on. Yeah, he does, but I don't think he wants to stop making money. Okay. So what else you got, Gene? Uh what else do I got? There was something game related, I'm trying to think. Well, I guess I can mention this. I don't have a code or anything, but I I got contacted by a company called Be My Tracker. And they have a software-based product that uses a webcam that you already probably have to do the same basic functionality of tracking head and eye movement that in the past you needed to have specialty hardware products for.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:55

And why would you want this?

SPEAKER_00 1:06:57

So the biggest reason is for video games that make the game more immersive when they're tracking what you're doing by changing the view in the game to correspond to what you're looking at. So, like let's say you're flying an airplane in a game, like some kind of flight sim DCS or something like that. You can move your head left to right, and your perspective in the game will be of you looking outside the left window or the right window of the cockpit.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:35

So I just wouldn't want my I wouldn't want that on me constantly.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:41

You don't have to put anything on, it's just a camera looking at you.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:44

Exactly. I wouldn't want that.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:46

Well, yes, yes. It's not for paranoid people that don't play video games. Fair enough. So this is a product for people that do play video games and do have cameras. But my point is it's 30 bucks, which is freaking super cheap. It's available on Steam, it's called Beam Eye Tracker. I tested it and compared it against my hardware solution, which is a Toby. Toby is a company that makes actual eye tracking for military for helmets, so that like when you're a fighter pilot and you're tracking uh or you're able to target with your eyes. Well, I use the same product in the Apache, yeah, or like in the Apache, exactly. I use the same product to target with my eyes in video games, same idea. Uh from the same company, in fact. But it's but that's like a$350 product. So instead of spending$350, you can spend$30 and do it with a camera, and it's pretty much there. It's it's very close. It's just a little bit longer delay, I would say. You're going from a few milliseconds delay to maybe like$50, 50 or 60 milliseconds delay from when you actually change what you're looking at till the game responds. So on that front, and it's not an ad because I don't make any money off this. It's just something I think is worth mentioning because it's basically just saving money to anybody that wants that that didn't want to spend the big bucks on the hardware, now can actually do it 99% of the same functionality through purely software and an existing webcam. Very it's the same kind of tech that Tesla uses, right? So Tesla uses just vision, whereas other companies use LADAR. Well, it that's the best way to look at it. Like the Toby hardware unit I have is basically shooting a laser in my eyes and then measuring what my eyes are doing.

SPEAKER_01 1:09:56

This does not sound like things I want.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:58

Yeah, that's it's great. And it's a good, very good commercial solution. But they it they also make products used for looking at what consumers look at on websites or television shows to determine where placement of different items should be to optimize your sales and marketing stuff. It's really the industrial marketing complex, is what you could refer to. The military industrial marketing complex. There you go. And now there's a software-only solution for this called Beam Eye Tracker. Check it out on the screen.

SPEAKER_02 1:10:38

Um well, I'm looking forward to tomorrow since you're talking about your games. I'll talk about mine.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:43

Yeah.

Airports, ATC Cuts, And Security

SPEAKER_02 1:10:44

So AM is undefeated. We are 8-0, the first time in a long time. And we are going into Missouri tomorrow at 2 30 p.m. And it is it is we're seven and a half point favorite. And you know, but there's still upset potential there.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:08

What time's the game?

SPEAKER_02 1:11:09

2 30.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:10

2 30 central and what channel?

SPEAKER_02 1:11:12

CBS Sports.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:14

CBS. There you go. Is it on ESPN as well or not?

SPEAKER_02 1:11:18

Yes.

unknown 1:11:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:20

I am hoping, you know, we come out of there with a W and remain undefeated. But I think out of the four games left, the two most losable is Missouri and Texas. So, but regardless, I think we're in the playoffs no matter what.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:36

Is Missouri old Miss?

SPEAKER_02 1:11:40

No, it's Missouri.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:41

Oh, I'm thinking Mississippi, aren't they?

SPEAKER_02 1:11:44

Yeah. Missouri. Who's the Missouri?

SPEAKER_00 1:11:46

What's the Missouri team called? What are they called?

SPEAKER_02 1:11:48

The Tigers.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:49

Okay, I haven't heard of them. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:53

We already we already got two Tiger pelts on the wall, so we'll add a third. We already beat LSU and Auburn.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:58

So that that fat dude that does all the funny Southern stuff. You know what I'm talking about?

SPEAKER_02 1:12:05

Does some SEC football stuff?

SPEAKER_00 1:12:07

He does football. Like, I find his football stuff's actually really funny.

SPEAKER_02 1:12:11

And it's good. And yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Uh the SEC shorts this year have been pathetic, but he's been good. So anyway, I'll be uh drinking beer and watching the football game.

SPEAKER_00 1:12:23

Yeah. I watched a little football with you at your mom's house.

SPEAKER_02 1:12:28

I like football.

SPEAKER_00 1:12:29

Yeah, yeah. You, I mean, you didn't watch much of it. I was watching most of it, but yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:12:35

It wasn't the game I was interested in.

SPEAKER_00 1:12:37

I guess. I don't know. But yeah. Yeah, it's my biggest issue with watching football is that I would want to fast forward through all the commercials and shit and and not watch it live, but actually just get a much tighter version of the game. Because there is an awful lot of pausing going on.

SPEAKER_01 1:13:05

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 1:13:06

You know what I mean? Like if you watch Australian rugby, there's a lot less pauses. Like the action just happens a lot a lot more tightly together. And in American football, I don't it's a good thing.

SPEAKER_02 1:13:22

And I think the commercialization model of American football takes an hour-long game. Yeah, an hour and a half of playtime. Playtime and halftime. And it makes it three plus hours.

SPEAKER_00 1:13:35

Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. And and I get it. This is what makes all the money for football, right? That it's not magic. But also, it just takes too damn long. I would prefer to go a lot faster. So if you could just scrunch that game back into about an hour, I would totally watch it.

SPEAKER_02 1:13:55

So on replay, like ESPN has a service where you can do the replays where it's just drives.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:07

It's like podcasting. You just got to listen 3x. Uh I can't. Watch football at 3x. There's only one sport you really have to watch in real time, that's curling.

SPEAKER_02 1:14:23

Why? Why curling?

SPEAKER_00 1:14:24

It's the nuance. It's it's it's seeing exactly where they're brushing. You would miss it if it goes too fast.

unknown 1:14:32

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:36

I'm only half kidding there. I mean, it obviously I'm joking about sports stuff in general. But curling, because it's a fun sport, dude. Curling is actually pretty exciting to watch. It's it's about strategy and precision.

SPEAKER_02 1:14:56

Yeah. Did you see that uh Trump is pushing for peacekeepers, UN peacekeepers in Gaza?

SPEAKER_00 1:15:03

No. Did not see that. That doesn't make any sense to me.

SPEAKER_02 1:15:08

You're getting typhus.

SPEAKER_00 1:15:10

Yeah, pretty much. Exactly. That's the worst case scenario for everybody. Everybody ought to be opposed to that. UN peacekeepers tend to bring bad things with them. Every time. Yeah, I don't I don't know, man. I I am kind of burnt out on the whole Israel thing. I mentioned that at the beginning. It's like just whatever. We're done. They're done. Everybody's done. Let's just move on. You know, and no one's gonna listen to my advice, which I've been saying since day one, and you can cor collaborate this, corroborate this. I said from the get-go. Israel should not be taking any American money. We shouldn't be sending any money to Israel. What Israel does then becomes none of our fucking business. But as long as they take American money, there'll always be somebody bitching.

SPEAKER_02 1:16:15

Well, I'm fine to stop paying for it.

SPEAKER_00 1:16:18

Yeah, and we should. And I and that's the thing. I and I've been replying to a lot more people that are prominent, like Marjorie Taylor Green and stuff on X. And and because she's, you know, we need to stop sending money to Israel. I'm like, yeah, we need to stop sending money to everybody. How about you put a you know, sponsor a bill that literally just says America will not send any money to foreign governments, period. There's no way that any of those guys would agree to it. I mean, we're focusing on Israel, but dude, that they're all in somebody's pocket, and none of them will ever agree to a blanket, no money going anywhere else. Except for the guys that are already out. Like, what's his face? The guy from Florida. He was the one that was kind of tapped for attorney general and then pulled out Matt Gates. Matt Gates. So now that he's not in office, Matt Gates is all like, we shouldn't be taking any money from anywhere. Yeah, why weren't you saying this when you were in office, bud?

SPEAKER_02 1:17:24

I agree. By the way, if anyone's interested, Poly Markets has the AM Missouri game. You want to know what the odds are?

SPEAKER_00 1:17:32

Oh, what are they?

SPEAKER_02 1:17:33

Eight to nine? There it's 72% Aggie win.

SPEAKER_00 1:17:37

Oh, well, there you go. 72% is pretty good. I tried to register on there today. It wouldn't let me register.

SPEAKER_02 1:17:45

Why?

SPEAKER_00 1:17:45

I it kept airing out. Have you tried registering on there?

SPEAKER_02 1:17:49

No, I have no interest in doing anything on there. Really? You could bet on the game. I could also go to FanDuel and bet on the game or do whatever. I don't do sports betting.

New York Promises Versus Timelines

SPEAKER_00 1:17:59

But it's not sports betting. Polymarkets is just affecting opinions.

SPEAKER_02 1:18:05

Right. And making money. I don't, I don't, I don't care about that. Well, okay.

SPEAKER_00 1:18:11

Well, anyway, I couldn't register on there. I'm not sure why. Because I my understanding is they're totally legit and kosher now in the US, right? They got through all the hurdles. Because we couldn't, for a while, we couldn't register as Americans on there because the fucking FTC wouldn't let us. But unless I'm mistaken, that hurdle got cleared and we're supposed to be able to register, and it wouldn't let me.

SPEAKER_02 1:18:35

What was the error it was giving?

SPEAKER_00 1:18:37

The error message was very nondescript saying user canceled.

SPEAKER_02 1:18:45

Which obviously.

SPEAKER_00 1:18:49

I didn't cancel. I tried multiple accounts. Didn't work. I tried multiple browsers. I'm not gonna no, that one I'm not touching. That's emergency money. That's money for when I'm standing in a BRICS country. And not not any other time.

SPEAKER_02 1:19:13

Why would you ever be standing in a BRICS country?

SPEAKER_00 1:19:16

I don't know, man. Country's going to hell. You never know.

SPEAKER_02 1:19:20

Yeah, I don't know. BRICS country would be the place I'd flee to.

SPEAKER_00 1:19:24

Well, wouldn't you rather have money in every country you flee to?

SPEAKER_02 1:19:30

Yeah, hence Bitcoin.

SPEAKER_00 1:19:32

Yeah, Bitcoin's not really liquid. Not in the same way. But Bitcoin is up though, right? What's it at right now?

SPEAKER_02 1:19:46

Uh it's not up. It's at 101.

SPEAKER_00 1:19:48

I thought it went up. I had a message from my uh Coinbase saying they were up. My relative to my Steam Deck is still not showing Bitcoin for some reason.

SPEAKER_02 1:20:00

You mean you mean your Stream Deck?

SPEAKER_00 1:20:02

Yeah, my what did I say? Steam Deck? Steam Deck. Yeah, Stream Deck. Yeah, my Steam Deck isn't showing it either. Oh, it is fixed? Maybe I need to refresh it then.

SPEAKER_02 1:20:10

The latency uh tracker I have is rendering wrong, but it's fixed.

SPEAKER_00 1:20:17

Yeah. I'm now it is showing other stuff. Like I see Tesla's at 445. So that's good. Nvidia is not anywhere near where I want it to be, which is not good. NVIDIA is under 200. That needs to be at about 275 before I sell it. But uh yeah, I think, you know, the the big shocker for me is freaking Ford. Ford's at 1312 right now.

SPEAKER_02 1:20:45

Why is that such a big shocker?

SPEAKER_00 1:20:47

I bought Ford as a stock that isn't gonna go up back in uh like May for 10 bucks. It's up 30%. 1312.

SPEAKER_01 1:21:02

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 1:21:03

It's up about 30% since May. And I bought it just because I didn't think it would go down. So that's a surprise for me. I know, but I didn't think it would go up either. So I mean I'm not complaining, man. I'm just surprised. I'm just surprised. Like I knew Tesla would get to 500. I didn't think Ford would get to 13. Why? Because it wasn't showing any indication of that happening. It's been a pretty damn stable stock at right around 11 bucks.

SPEAKER_02 1:21:44

I think Ford is getting out of the EV game pretty quick, so I you know, I think that's gonna be good for them long term.

SPEAKER_00 1:21:53

Are they? I haven't even paid attention. Have they cut down the number of cars that are EV?

SPEAKER_02 1:22:00

Yeah, yeah. Really? They've backed off EV quite a bit.

SPEAKER_00 1:22:03

Oh. Interesting. Are they still only making trucks? No. They got rid of their passenger cars.

SPEAKER_02 1:22:15

You're thinking of Ram.

SPEAKER_00 1:22:17

No, not Ram. Ford. Ford still has passenger cars? They got rid of Taurus. They got rid of other I think they got rid of most of their passenger cars.

SPEAKER_02 1:22:30

Well, I mean, like, do you consider it an escape?

SPEAKER_00 1:22:34

That's an SUV.

SPEAKER_02 1:22:35

But it's like a hatchback, dude.

SPEAKER_00 1:22:38

It's still in the SUV classification. Okay. Yeah, I mean, you wanted to call it a tall station wagon, that's fine.

SPEAKER_02 1:22:46

I'd call it a hatchback.

SPEAKER_00 1:22:48

Okay. I mean, it's bigger than most hatchbacks.

SPEAKER_02 1:22:53

Anyway, they have but they have passenger cars, so have they made any new ones?

SPEAKER_00 1:22:59

I guess that would be a better question. Or are they just whatever they've kept? I know they still have the Mustang, but I think that's an SUV now as well. How is that an SUV? It's a sports car. A crappy one, but that's a sports car. The Mustang? No, I think it's an SUV now. Have you looked at it?

SPEAKER_02 1:23:18

It's not an SUV.

SPEAKER_00 1:23:21

Alright, let me pull up an image. 207 2026 Mustang. Yeah, that's not an SUV. What am I thinking? It's not the Mustang. What's the other one they got?

SPEAKER_02 1:23:34

They have the GT and the the only two-door cars that they have is the Mustang and the GT. Everything else, they do have a Mustang hatch back that they did. But you know, every and if you're putting like the escape in an SUV territory, then sure, they are pretty much all SUV and trucks. But I wouldn't call that I would I the escape to me is a hatchback. Even the Broncos Sport is not really an SUV to me. Oh, come on. The Broncos an SUV. The Explorer's an SUV. The Expedition's an SUV.

SPEAKER_00 1:24:11

Okay, so I'm looking at him here. Escape is considered an SUV. Bronco's considered an SUV. Broncos Sport's considered an SUV. Explorer is considered an SUV. The Mustang Mach E is the one I was thinking of. That's an SUV. And the Expedition is an SUV. The only one that isn't the regular Mustang. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:24:32

The Mustang and the GT.

SPEAKER_00 1:24:33

Yep. Yep. Everything else is an SUV of different sizes. Oh, you know what else I saw? Speaking of cars, might as well. Have you seen the Toyota Land Rover?

SPEAKER_02 1:24:48

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 1:24:49

The new one.

SPEAKER_02 1:24:51

What about it?

SPEAKER_00 1:24:52

You've seen it? Yeah, I've looked at them. Oh, you did? Okay. I haven't.

Inflation At The Checkout And Layoffs

SPEAKER_02 1:24:57

I would love to have one of them, but they're extraordinarily expensive.

SPEAKER_00 1:25:03

They're not that expensive, dude. They're under 60K.

SPEAKER_02 1:25:07

That's pretty expensive, dude.

SPEAKER_00 1:25:08

That's dude. Come on. That's cheap. Grand Cherokee is pushing 100k right now.

SPEAKER_02 1:25:16

It's uh right, but I want the$30,000 one that they have in Japan. It is. Yeah, well, the farm truck model Japan.

SPEAKER_00 1:25:25

Yeah, in Japan. But dude, it looks awesome. I love that look. I'm glad they brought it back. It's definitely retro-ish.

SPEAKER_02 1:25:35

Yeah, I'm hopeful that with the$10 billion in plant increases that Toyota has promised Trump, maybe we'll get a Land Rover.

SPEAKER_00 1:25:45

They've got plants in the U.S. already. They've had them for years.

SPEAKER_02 1:25:47

Right, but not producing the Land Rover. The Land Rover's important.

SPEAKER_00 1:25:50

No, probably not.

unknown 1:25:51

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:25:52

Yeah, I think they're making like all the the cars, you know, curls.

SPEAKER_02 1:25:58

The cars and the tundras. Like my tundra was built in Texas.

SPEAKER_00 1:26:02

Oh, well, there you go. Yeah. That's a good car too. But the Tundra, or not the Tundra, what's the sport you'd version on the Forerunner? Is that no? Yeah, Forerunner.

SPEAKER_02 1:26:15

Well, and there's also the FJ Cruiser and stuff like that.

SPEAKER_00 1:26:18

Yeah, that thing's ugly. But the the Forerunner. Forerunner, you can push that up to 92k now. It's insane. It's actually more expensive than the Land Cruiser if you option it correctly. Which is pretty crazy. If you go with like a TRD Pro Platinum.

SPEAKER_02 1:26:49

Alright. So are we done early considering this is the subject we're talking about?

SPEAKER_00 1:26:53

What car? We could talk cars, guns, it's all part of the conversation. I think that the uh it looks really nice right now. The 2026 Forerunner looks great. They've got black and they've got white, which is the two colors you care about.

SPEAKER_02 1:27:12

But why are those the two colors I care about?

SPEAKER_00 1:27:15

Not you, but people should care about because they're not froofy. They also have a color called Wave Maker for the gays. But for everybody else, you got black and you got white. But I like I think it's a nice looking vehicle, finally. For a long time, I think they were kind of behind the curve in their interiors. The interior of the 2026 with its 13-inch screen, very nice. Dual-color interior, red and black, full 12-inch touchscreen, 13-inch, whatever this is, touch screen, and a digital panel.

SPEAKER_02 1:27:55

Man, it it's but see that I don't want that, so I would want an older model.

SPEAKER_00 1:28:02

Well, why don't you just wait 10 years, then you'll want this model?

SPEAKER_02 1:28:06

No, because then the all the tech will be failing.

Signoff And Next Week

SPEAKER_00 1:28:09

Yeah, I don't know, man. I've got a 10-year-old car and all the tech stick still works. Nothing's failed, knock on wood. In 10 years. No, no, no, no, no. It's well, it'll get super expensive to fix if it does fail. But so far, nothing's failed. My GPS still works, my all the remote shit still works. The radar cruise still works. Like every it's all when I got it, all this stuff was fairly new. Now everything has the same features and more. But all the 10-year-old shit's still working. I'll tell you what what failed on my car is the whatever you call the area above your dashboard. Like the panel above there.

SPEAKER_02 1:29:03

The dash.

SPEAKER_00 1:29:04

I guess. I mean, I guess is that called the dash? I don't know. Yeah. It's whatever is above like your instruments, above the GPS. The dash. I guess the dash, yeah. That's the part that failed.

SPEAKER_02 1:29:17

The leather on it, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:29:19

Yeah, I mean the leather's fine. The thing, the glue that was holding the leather down, all dried out and popped. So I need to at some point get it all re-glued.

SPEAKER_02 1:29:31

Yeah, but just getting reupholstery done is expensive.

SPEAKER_00 1:29:34

I know. That's why I haven't done it. It it failed like a year ago, and I still haven't done it. It just looks crappy, but it doesn't change the, obviously, and you have the functionality of the car. But the rest of the stuff works. Oh, and then my seatbelt. That's the other part. Like the spring to pull in the seatbelt back is super slow. Like it takes probably five minutes to get for it to get sucked back in. So maybe you should get that replaced at some point.

SPEAKER_02 1:30:04

Yeah, I mean, seatbelt functionality is kind of important.

SPEAKER_00 1:30:07

Yeah, I mean, well, again, it didn't affect the functionality, it just affects it getting sucked back in when you're not sitting and using the seatbelt. Like you get out of the car and you got the seatbelt still sitting there, not sucked back in.

SPEAKER_02 1:30:22

Why do you care?

SPEAKER_00 1:30:23

Well, it's just, you know, shit that should get fixed at some point. But you can get an onboard compressor for 1300 bucks.

SPEAKER_02 1:30:35

Why would you want an onboard compressor?

SPEAKER_00 1:30:37

Why wouldn't you want an onboard compressor? That's a dumb question. You can refill your tires without getting out, that's great.

SPEAKER_02 1:30:49

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 1:30:52

I don't know, man. I think we're done done. I keep thinking there were other topics that we're gonna cover, but I honestly I think maybe I'm just kind of pooped out on politics.

SPEAKER_02 1:31:03

You being pooped out on politics, and then yeah. I don't know. It's been a busy week.

SPEAKER_00 1:31:11

Yeah. It's been a busy week.

SPEAKER_02 1:31:13

I'm glad I wasn't traveling this week. I will say what's going on in the airspace, we can talk about that real quick. The airspace curtailments that they're talking about is going to be massive. Like they're asking DFW to curtail 20% of their flights. That's one of the largest.

SPEAKER_00 1:31:28

Did you see they shut down the Guardia?

SPEAKER_02 1:31:30

What did they shut them down?

SPEAKER_00 1:31:32

Just shut it down LaGuardia.

SPEAKER_02 1:31:34

Why?

SPEAKER_00 1:31:36

Well, the joke, obviously, that I had to reply with is well, that's where all the flights to Texas and Florida are from. So obviously, no flights means no point in having it running. But no, because they don't have enough people. They said they're prioritizing the other airports.

SPEAKER_02 1:31:53

Well, I know IAH shut down all security checkpoints except A and E. So that would have been annoying as hell.

SPEAKER_00 1:32:02

And that's a decent sized airport.

SPEAKER_02 1:32:06

Yep. It's smaller than DFW, though, right? It is. It's smaller than DFW. Yeah. So it's interesting, though, on the FAA list that was put out, they're having hobby cutback flights, but not IAH. Hmm.

SPEAKER_00 1:32:29

I don't I I don't understand why we don't just have airport private flight people. What do you call them? Flight controllers. Yeah, we should. Yeah. Because wasn't that something that Reagan did as they Yes, he nationalized, yeah. Yeah. Well, he nationalized them because they were striking. And that's a job that can't strike. That should not be a thing.

SPEAKER_02 1:32:56

Right, but that doesn't mean you need to nationalize them.

SPEAKER_00 1:32:59

But I think that was the way that they got around it. Yeah. But ultimately, I think we need to have like there's no reason for states like Texas to have their airports be affected by something stupid like this. We ought to be able to privately pay for that.

SPEAKER_02 1:33:20

Agreed.

SPEAKER_00 1:33:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:33:22

And security.

SPEAKER_00 1:33:24

Yeah, exactly. Or just get rid of them. They're not doing anything anyway. Security is a joke.

SPEAKER_02 1:33:33

Yeah. It unfortunately is, but you know, one of the things I would say is I want a uh a free market approach to security. I want airlines to say, hey, we're the most secure, or hey, we're the most convenient. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:33:50

And, you know, let me choose how I think it all just should be AI driven. Have tons and tons of cameras, facial recognition everywhere, and not bother people.

SPEAKER_02 1:34:01

Until that gets turned against you.

SPEAKER_00 1:34:04

Well, you know, it everything gets turned against you eventually. But if you can at least enjoy some convenience right now before it gets turned against you, that would be good too.

SPEAKER_02 1:34:15

Do you use clear gene?

SPEAKER_00 1:34:16

I used to. I don't anymore.

SPEAKER_02 1:34:18

Uh why would you use clear?

SPEAKER_00 1:34:21

Because they give it to me for free.

SPEAKER_02 1:34:23

But you have to give a private company your biometrics and all your info.

SPEAKER_00 1:34:27

I know. But I I've done that already. And I've always argued against using biometrics for private companies, but you know, sometimes it's a choice between do you want this job or not? And and so, yeah, my biometric info is out there and been in a lot of companies. Not dude, the US government's had my biometric info since the 90s.

SPEAKER_02 1:34:54

I'll ask you and one last question, and then we can go. If Zoran Mandani does what he says he's gonna do, and let's say he's successful in executing his agenda, yeah. How long till we see the New York City wall?

SPEAKER_00 1:35:07

Right? To keep him in?

SPEAKER_02 1:35:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:35:10

Yeah. I mean, they're gonna have a hard time building a wall after telling Trump not to.

SPEAKER_02 1:35:17

I mean, all really all they gotta do is put checkpoints at tunnels and bridges.

SPEAKER_00 1:35:21

They they do, yeah, and that's a good and they very well could do that. Or they can just shut down the tunnels. Just shut them down altogether. I don't know, man. It it's the thing is because there were so many promises of completely far out things, like we're gonna have city-owned grocery stores so people will be able to buy groceries for cheap, right? Like, if let's say you actually want to implement that and forget about for the time being all the lawsuits that would come from you know suing the city for non-competitive practices and stuff like that from existing stores. But let's say you don't even think about that, just logistics-wise, what's the time frame to secure locations, get leases put up, outfit the stores for full retail, and then start the deliveries of food to those stores, and then open the stores out to the public. Like that should take six months minimum. That's if every chip falls exactly where it should. It could easily take a year, and especially given the duration of regulatory things in the city. His term could be more than half over before anything, before the first store opens, and that's assuming best case scenario. So when you promise a lot of outrageous things, you kind of don't really have to worry about actually delivering them because even if you were to want to deliver them, you may not be able to deliver them until your term's over.

SPEAKER_02 1:37:17

Well, and that's kind of the interesting thing, is some people are talking about campaign violations for promising things that are not in the mayor's program.

SPEAKER_00 1:37:25

But every politician does that. I mean, that Trump did plenty of that too. That there's not you you can't you can't do anything about that. We're gonna build a wall with Mexico, and Mexico's gonna pay for it. How'd that turn out?

unknown 1:37:43

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:37:44

Considering the tariffs fairly well, actually, right now.

SPEAKER_00 1:37:47

But that was from eight years ago, nine years ago at this point.

SPEAKER_02 1:37:53

I understand, but Trump increased tariff revenue during his first term, too. Did he though? Yeah, he did, and Biden kept it in.

SPEAKER_00 1:38:03

Well, it didn't really help much then.

SPEAKER_02 1:38:06

Tariff revenue skyrocketed. I don't know what you mean by helped.

SPEAKER_00 1:38:10

Well, compared to what Biden did, it sure as hell didn't help.

SPEAKER_02 1:38:15

Biden didn't impose any additional tariffs, but he didn't cancel many of the Trump tariffs either.

SPEAKER_00 1:38:21

Yeah. Well, how much, okay, you're saying they helped. Well, how much did he raise in tariffs?

SPEAKER_02 1:38:29

During his first term?

SPEAKER_00 1:38:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:38:33

I would have to Google that.

SPEAKER_03 1:38:35

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 1:38:41

I have a hard time believing that was very much.

SPEAKER_02 1:38:50

Great radio here.

SPEAKER_00 1:38:51

Well, you know, people people enjoy hearing us talk about a variety of topics.

SPEAKER_02 1:39:04

So they don't have it just a good total number, but for instance, from China alone during his first term, he raised tariffs over uh 50%. And which came out to 34 billion and imposed tariffs on China alone.

SPEAKER_00 1:39:28

So looks like tariffs increased by 34 billion after Trump's presidency, the first term. Under Biden, yeah. No, so during Trump, so though those four years. So the tariffs went up by 34.6 billion.

SPEAKER_02 1:39:48

Well, that's not what Wikipedia says.

SPEAKER_00 1:39:50

Well, um Wikipedia is not a source you should trust anyway. And the Biden administration maintained most of those AI. You remember, I pay for Grock now. Absolutely. That's better than Wikipedia. Yeah, so 34.6 billion times four years, so it's 120 million. It's a decent amount of money. Yeah, scratching the surface. All right. 129 billion is not that much. Did you listen to no agenda by chance today?

SPEAKER_02 1:40:28

No, I haven't listened to it.

SPEAKER_00 1:40:30

So there's something Adam said on there I thought was pretty interesting. About what? So they were talking about the the money that we spend on feeding poor people. What's that called? The Swift or whatever? Snap. Snap. Yeah. So Adam pointed out that that three months of Snap payments are equivalent to the entirety of the money that we send to Israel for weapons. Sorry, three three weeks, not three months. Three weeks of snap payments.

SPEAKER_02 1:41:07

Again, way too many people on Snap.

SPEAKER_00 1:41:08

It's an insane amount of people that are on Snap. Yeah. Either that or they're getting way more money than I spend on food. I don't know how that they how that money is calculated, but Yeah. It seems like a lot. So I wonder if this means the grocery stores are actually suffering now because they're the amount of money that they're bringing in are down.

SPEAKER_02 1:41:38

Oh, I'm sure.

SPEAKER_00 1:41:41

Check to see if H E B's mention anything about that.

SPEAKER_02 1:41:47

Great time for food banks.

SPEAKER_00 1:41:49

I was at at what's that grocery store with all the weird food in there?

SPEAKER_02 1:41:58

Whole foods.

SPEAKER_00 1:41:59

The other one.

SPEAKER_02 1:42:00

Aldi.

SPEAKER_00 1:42:01

The other one.

SPEAKER_02 1:42:03

Central Market.

SPEAKER_00 1:42:04

The other one. What the hell's it called? It's it's the one that's Halal Market? I don't know. No, the one that's got all its own brands of shit there. Damn's Club? No. God damn it. Costco. How am I blanking out? No, it's it's like Aldi, but it's American.

SPEAKER_02 1:42:26

Publix? I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 1:42:29

Publix? Kroger? Like No, no. Kroger. Albertson's? No. Dude.

SPEAKER_02 1:42:37

Like high-end, low end, wherever high market mask.

SPEAKER_00 1:42:40

High-end, high-end.

SPEAKER_02 1:42:42

The two high what I would consider higher-end grocery stores in Texas, Central Market and Whole Foods.

SPEAKER_00 1:42:48

I know. Whole foods, yeah. But right below that is No Fucking. A nationwide. Nationwide food chain. Jesus Christ. Roasteries.

SPEAKER_02 1:43:02

I am sorry to all the listeners. Hopefully we got it. People enjoy this. Like, this is something we should edit. This is one of the only episodes that I think we should edit.

SPEAKER_00 1:43:13

No, it's uh I'm gonna I'm gonna get it here in just a second. God damn, I even took a few. And there's gotta be somebody listening that's already calling it out saying it's this is this has gotta be what you're thinking of. I'm gonna pull up a photo that I sent earlier today to somebody with the prices. Organic Elderberry Juice Shot. What the hell is the name of the store? It's oh man.

SPEAKER_02 1:43:46

Anyway, what were the this mystery store that when it comes to you, what was the point you were going to make?

SPEAKER_00 1:43:52

The point that I was going to make is that the prices in the mystery store, which used to be okay priced, are getting retardedly high. Like seriously retardedly high. And it's it's getting to a point where shopping there is uh like I'm gonna stop doing it basically. Because we were talking about the the cost of groceries, that's why we jumped to talk about it.

SPEAKER_02 1:44:29

So interesting fact, my wireless, my switch, my firewall rules, all that is imposing a whopping total of about four milliseconds of latency. If I saw if I'm looking at latency to 8.8.8.8 from my computer and from my firewall.

SPEAKER_00 1:44:53

Well, that's good, right?

SPEAKER_02 1:44:55

That's yeah, that's pretty fucking low latency.

SPEAKER_00 1:44:58

Yeah. So what are you complaining about?

SPEAKER_02 1:45:01

I'm not. Considering Windows itself is probably introducing the majority of it.

SPEAKER_00 1:45:08

I think that's probably true. I mean, Windows is is the most likely culprit there.

SPEAKER_02 1:45:18

By the way, I think I am gonna try and move off the Mo 2. Okay. Just because I've been having Trader Joe's, goddammit. Trader Joe's. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:45:28

Was I right? So it's below those two, but it's not cheap.

SPEAKER_02 1:45:32

It's not cheap, but I wouldn't put it above fucking Kroger.

SPEAKER_00 1:45:38

Oh, it's definitely above Kroger, price-wise for sure.

SPEAKER_02 1:45:41

Sure, price-wise, not quality-wise.

SPEAKER_00 1:45:43

No, no, no. I didn't say anything about quality, I just said about price.

SPEAKER_02 1:45:47

Anyway, so my you know, Trader Joe's for those who want to pay for pay more for less.

SPEAKER_00 1:45:53

Yeah. So my my measurement for food prices is generally based on bags, like how much per bag of groceries. And I I've been told this is not an accurate measurement system, but I think an accurate measurement system it is in the long term. I've been using the system for 30 years, and it's it's shows you and indicates a trend in food prices. Anyway, so we we're now at a point where it is roughly$85 per bag per food at that store. Now at H E B it's closer to$60 per bag. When I moved to Texas, eight or not to Austin, not Texas, because I didn't shop at HEB before. But when I moved to Texas, I only shopped at Whole Foods, I didn't go to cheap stores, but I've been making less and less money here, so now I'm like a pauper. And I'm to scrape by with Trader Joe's and stuff. But HEB, when I first started shopping there, was$25 a bag. It's up to 60 bucks a bag right now. Some serious inflation going on.

SPEAKER_02 1:47:06

Yeah, and raises and stuff are not nearly keeping up, but I will say I uh got my info and I'm happy.

SPEAKER_00 1:47:14

Good. Well, and and I saw Amazon just let go another 30,000 people.

SPEAKER_02 1:47:20

Yeah, but my but no one important. Almost all in warehousing.

SPEAKER_00 1:47:28

Warehousing, yeah. So just replacing them with robots?

SPEAKER_02 1:47:31

Pretty much.

SPEAKER_00 1:47:32

That's good. And then Dell had some layoffs too. See that?

SPEAKER_02 1:47:38

No, I didn't see that.

SPEAKER_00 1:47:39

I don't know who they were getting rid of, but it definitely feels like there's a few companies that are cleaning house.

SPEAKER_02 1:47:46

Well, a lot of people hired a lot of people during the pandemic to keep up with shifts, and that's shifted. So yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:47:54

I think so as well. All right. Well, anyway, we've been trying to finish this thing up, wrap it up for the last 15 minutes, so let's actually do it. Unless you got anything else, Ben, we'll catch you next week. See you, Gene.