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S1E10: The War on Warriors by Pete Hegseth
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In this episode, the book boys become book men. Grab a drink, or maybe 15, and join us wrangling with the Minister of War Crimes' 2024 manifesto on military masculinity.
Intro
SPEAKER_00He says, Americans used to love cowboys. Now they seem like a quaint part of our past. Cowboys were our heroes, as were soldiers, explorers, and astronauts. Now it's Tony Fauci and Michelle Obama who get the hero treatment.
SPEAKER_01It's the other part.
SPEAKER_00I don't know about the sort of like cultural cachet that Fauci has or compared to Cowboys.
SPEAKER_02You don't remember all those John Wayne movies where we played Tony Fauci.
SPEAKER_03Welcome in to all members, present and worldwide. I'm calling this meeting of the Piece of Shit Book Club to order. I am your decorated chair, Mac Douglas. And if you attended the last meeting, you'll be pleased to know that cash and the rest of the menophiles have been dislodged. Once again, this podcast is a safe space for soft boys. And to underscore that, let me bring in the mushiest men I know. This week's panel of so-called experts. Let's see who we have. Welcome in, Mr. Chip Wilson.
SPEAKER_00Hey, good to be here, Mac. I gotta send my my flowers to the talent agency that we keep getting you hosts from. Um, but we keep needing to fire people or or they uh they get they're too hot, they get hired somewhere else right away.
SPEAKER_03So it's it's tough cycling, but Cash just wasn't a good fit, but I think I'm in for the long haul. But uh good to see you, Chip. Thanks for coming in. We also have joining us this week, Jane Lynch. Welcome in, Jane. Always a pleasure. Thanks, Mac. Thanks, Jane. And let's see, uh, last but not least, we have our esteemed military expert, Dr. Bo Dashington, PhD. Welcome in, sir.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, thanks for having me. I'm feeling extra soft today. We were before we hit the record button, we were discussing Bill Cosby. And uh, ooh, yeah, that's a that's a rough one. I'm feeling very soft.
SPEAKER_03He definitely makes you soft and not hard. I'll give you that. Well, all right, you maggots, take a knee and listen up. Because the brass is too busy checking boxes. It's up to me to tell you the truth. Our military is being systematically dismantled by wokester Antifa loving radicals. While we were fighting for your freedom, they infiltrated from the rear and packed their ranks with gays and ladies. And this week's book is ready to fix this mess. Yes, it's the Grievance Manifesto War on Warriors, behind the betrayal of the men who keep us free. From alleged date rapist and former assistant weekend trailer park supervisor at Fox and Friends, Pete Hexeth. He also runs the U.S. military now as Secretary of War. But before we cover the waterfront and
The Book Report
SPEAKER_03all things, Pete, let's first jump into the book report segment. Yes, the book report is a regular roundup of doings in the world of books. If our producers are listening, we need an audio theme or something for the book report. Something that says like, the book report.
SPEAKER_00I'm Kevin O'Leary, and this is the Piece of Shit Book Report. I thought you renamed this like the Perineum scan or something.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, the Perineum scan. No, went back when this was the um what what what was last week's show? The blue chip club? Primal the Primal Systems Blue Chip Club. Yeah, it was the perimeter scan, but as I said, the the menophiles are out, and we have retaken PSBC for us book club and boys. So let me open it up. Boys, what items do you have for the book report this meeting?
SPEAKER_05A book on the radar, which I haven't read yet, is there is a big maybe you guys saw in the news as well, that JD Vance has announced that he's he's publishing another book, which is due out. I'm not sure when it's due out. It's do out sequencing. It's about religion. It's about how it's called community. That's fun. And it's about how he found his way back to being religious. So it's probably really similar to the Rush V book that we read last week.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I'm excited for that. Uh definitely never read Hillbilly Elogy. Um, and I won't read this one, but uh, you know, I'm I'm happy for him.
SPEAKER_04Well, if it's anything like Rouchevi, then I would be interested to know what he thinks about the libraries around the States.
SPEAKER_03All right, thank you for that, Dr. Dashington. Uh let me pass it over to uh Jane Lynch. Jane, have you done your homework this week?
SPEAKER_04I have not, I'm afraid. I've had a very busy work week. Three weeks now, so it's been we all got shit going on.
SPEAKER_03Chip Wilson, what I am Zaphor as Chip.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I read The Late Great Planet Earth by Al Lindsay from like the 70s. It was like the first of these apocalyptic Christian rapture kind of millenarian books that that I think like was a huge mainstream success and kind of entered uh that whole end of days thing into like popular popular discourse uh in the US a little bit. So it was pretty interesting. The guy basically, you know, figured the world was gonna end in 1988. He had these grand theories of uh, you know, of a big old war in the Middle East, Russia invading Israel, China jumping in, Europe being taken over by uh sort of Hitler 2.0, who's like the Antichrist. Yeah, it was okay.
SPEAKER_03Seems to have missed the mark on every single one.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah. He's turns out he was wrong about most of it.
SPEAKER_04Uh right. Is this the one that you were just kind of gonna take a cursory glance in, and then you just got sucked in and read the whole thing?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, it was not to call it a page turner, but you know, it did suck me in and uh yeah.
SPEAKER_03All right, well, uh, I got a few things I wanted to share. Um, some news. We said we weren't doing news, but uh we got news. So Big Five Publishing House Hashet just got caught with its pants down. They spent months hyping Femgore horror novel called Shy Girl by a writer named Mia Ballard, only to pull it from the shelves last week after readers realized it was 78% AI-generated slop. Ballard is blaming a quote acquaintance editor for the unintentional bot work, which is, I think, a funny kind of excuse. It's like, well, I I didn't plan to write a 78% of it, but I expected that my ghostwriter would. Book's been pulled from the shelves. Uh big loss for the femgore horror community. Sorry, femgore horror? What are you can you say that? Yeah, femgore horror? Femgore horror. Femgore horror. Yeah, that's femgore horror horror.
SPEAKER_00That's like the it sounds like the name of the lead orc in like uh some fantasy novel, Femgore Horror.
SPEAKER_03Femgore horror, yeah.
SPEAKER_00That that's kind of like that's like the new uh just like blaming the aides for a bad tweet. Blaming your political aides for like, oh yeah. Yeah, totally.
SPEAKER_06Blaming the AIDS, missing work again, just blame the aides. Yeah, but yeah, blaming the aids.
SPEAKER_00Oh, yeah, sorry, it's our ghostwriters use the AI.
SPEAKER_03Moving on, uh, we sometimes like to take a look back at previous PSBC luminaries. Uh so this week we're spotlighting Steven Sagal, who we profiled a few episodes ago for his fantastic work. Wave of the Shadow Wolves. Wave of the Shadows. Well, uh, our City Hall, if you remember him, talk show host from the 90s, he just released a new memoir in which he claims Sagal arrived at his birthday party once in a helicopter. And then the man later appeared as a guest on his show carrying a gun. Says a hall, quote, I dapped him up and thought, this motherfucker's packing. I never got it. What's up with bringing your gun on the air?
SPEAKER_05What's up with like, no disrespect to Arsenio Hall, but hasn't he been off the air for like 30 years? Like it's him, it feels like a little bit late for his uh his tell-all biography about celebrities from the early 90s.
SPEAKER_03It's it popped up on my newsfeed. I mean, people must be interested, um, but I'm sure people want to hear all about how Bill Clinton sounded playing the sacks and you know, stuff like that. Anyhow, Seagal celebrates his 74th birthday uh this Friday, April 10th. Happy B Day to you, Mr. Seagal. Happy birthday. Okay, a few new releases we're keeping an eye on. When I saw this one, I thought 100% we have to talk about this. I ages ago hosted a short-running podcast on loads. And the thing was, it wasn't all just about ejaculate, it was about different kinds of loads, you know, like laundry. Yeah, loads of laundry, you know, like a load bearing bridge, something like that. On this podcast, we've really only been focusing on bad books. We're taking pieces to mean bad books, but coming out April 7th is You've been pooping all wrong, how to make your bowel movements a joy. Um, so a book actually that's about shit. Uh, from the back cover, no one would expect you to have stunning teeth if you were never shown a toothbrush. You would struggle to fall asleep if you never knew how to turn off the bedroom lights. But no one talks about the fundamentals of pooping. A GI guide, excuse me, a GI's guide to how anyone can achieve poop fora.
SPEAKER_04GI the gastrointestinal, or like a military? General infantryman.
SPEAKER_05Yes, it's Pete Hetseth, right this? G I G I.
SPEAKER_00It's probably the same target demo as Pete Hegseth. There's just people in their 50s that are struggling to shit all the time.
SPEAKER_05Is this the book that Hegsath was referring to and telling everyone to read when he called them all to qu call them all to quanticum? Quantico? Quanticum, whatever that base is.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, all these fat, constipated generals.
SPEAKER_03So poophoria, it's like when you take a large bowel movement and it stimulates your vagus nerve. Like some people like we talked about retaining a few episodes ago, and this was like an ejaculate retainer, but some people actually enjoy retaining their poo, and they they get puphoria from it.
SPEAKER_00Okay. This is like activating the penal gland in your forehead.
SPEAKER_03Your vagus nerve. That's like in your butt what does it give you?
SPEAKER_00It's just it's just pleasure, or is this puphoria? All right. Is it like a path to transcendence?
SPEAKER_03No, it's just about like holding in a big shoot and then like letting it go and feeling good about yourself.
SPEAKER_00Well, that's awful to know about.
SPEAKER_03Uh comes out April 7th, uh, 2796 on hardcover. It's number one on Amazon in digestive organ diseases. 256 pages. Uh, also of interest, 18 days in heaven. I left my body, I met Jesus. What he told me will alter you, excuse me, will alter your eternity by a fella named Gabe Poirot. That's a young guy. At just 20 years old, Gabe Poirot flatlined after a catastrophic accident. No doctors were able to revive him. Gabe remained in a coma that would last 18 days. One moment he lay on the pavement, blood pouring from his ears, and his spirit was lifted through a tunnel of living light, carried straight into the radiant throne room of heaven. You don't have to be afraid of heaven. Excuse me, you don't have to be afraid of death. Heaven is real. Um, this is number 12 on all of Amazon. Uh, this guy is a um, I don't know if you know, well, you probably don't know this guy because none of you guys are kind of into this genre, but he is an end times TikTok youth preacher. He's got millions of subscribers on YouTube, on whatever platform, you know, IG and all this sort of stuff. And he's a young fella. He, as I said, he's like maybe 22, 23. So gotta give this guy a lot of respect. He is grift and hard and is successful at a very young age. 178 pages. Uh, the last book we're looking at here this week, there has just been an explosion of hockey erotica. And we covered, yeah, we covered some of it recently with Sean Avery's piece of chip book. Um, but also available is A Puck Between Friends by J.R. Gray. Quote, when my best friend offers, and if you can make sense of this sentence, you're better than me. I'm reading this properly. When my best friend offers to come as my date to my sister's wedding to get back at my sister for breaking his heart, I agree, thinking it will be hilarious. What I didn't consider was that I've been in love with him half my life and all the consequences of us fake dating. Between the unexpected sexual attention, hockey, and secrets we are keeping, I don't know how we're gonna make it through the season. Uh, 20 bucks on paperback, 410 pages, which is maybe too many pages. Uh, available. Oh, you're in luck. It came out April 1st.
SPEAKER_00I'm just taking a look at the some of the tropes in this one. You've got like fake dating, bye awakening, and then idiots to lovers. I'm not sure about what that trope is.
SPEAKER_03That caught my eye too. They lay it out right in the uh the Amazon page. It's like, yeah, whatever your I don't know, you say trope, maybe like whatever your kink is, but yeah, idiots to lovers. I don't I've never I've never gone on Plum Hub and typed in idiots to lovers.
SPEAKER_00Like I also like that another trope is just goalie.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_05Another I'm just looking up like hockey erotica on Goodreads, and apparently, I guess it's uh maybe I don't know if this is a general trend with hockey erotica or erotica in general, but where they you know the titles are all weird puns, pucking around, taking shots, trying to score, empty net, breaking the defense.
SPEAKER_03Like this one here, this is part three of a four-part hockey erotica series, and they all use puck for fuck.
SPEAKER_05Oh, is that what it is?
SPEAKER_04A puck between friends, doctor. Look forward to the Netflix adaptation of this series.
SPEAKER_02Don't hold your breath.
SPEAKER_03All right, well, uh, that was the book report. I'll now
Feature Review: The War on Warriors
SPEAKER_03pass it over to my book club buddy Chip Wilson, who's gonna lead us through a discussion of Pete Heggseth's fantastic book, War on Warriors Behind the Betrayal of the Men Who Keep Us Free. Over to you, Chip.
SPEAKER_00All right. Well, I'll do my best to lead, but I think we were just discussing before, I think three of us read it. Jane obviously didn't, but uh, I'm I'm really impressed you pushed through this one as well. I think it was kind of tough sledding. It does suck. It sucks in a lot of ways. One is that uh it's hard to pull too much interesting from it. Uh, I think the whole thing is pretty cookie-cutter, uh, but we'll kind of do our best here. Major Pete, not to be confused with Mayor Pete, but born in uh 1980, Army vet, Fox News host, and now Secretary of War. Uh part of the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches. Uh, he's like an ultra-conservative evangelical Christian. He has some really dorky sort of crusader role-playing tattoos. I think that's what he's known for.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Um, known for showing up to work drunk.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, point of order. I I've got a long list of all of his drunken shenanigans. Once you're done your general overview, I'd love to get into it.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Well, this seems if you if you search him, because if you're like doing any secondary research or anything, this is the most popular topic. Yeah. And I actually think it's kind of the thing that's most likable about him is showing up to work drunk.
SPEAKER_04If you're a Fox News host, I mean.
SPEAKER_03Well, let me let me let me go through the list then. So we go through. Some of these are likable, some of these are are maybe less likable.
SPEAKER_00Sure.
SPEAKER_03A lot of these are from a New Yorker article by a lady named Jane Mayer called Pete Heggs' Secret History. Quote, I've seen him drunk so many times, I've seen him dragged away, not a few times, but multiple times. This is from a coworker when he worked for a veterans NGO. According to the complaint at one such event on Memorial Day, okay, so it was Memorial Day. Hegess was quote, totally sloshed and needed to be carried to his room because he was, quote, so intoxicated. So you'll see it's kind of a recurring theme that he's he likes to have a few cocktails, but he can't seem to handle himself, which is like the the gang of us, we've had drinks together lots of times. I don't think I've ever had to carry any of you guys back to your room. Um, but continuing, uh, quote, among the staff, the discuss for Pete was pretty high. Most veterans don't think that he represents them or their high standards of excellence. Okay, eh, whatever. Quote, treats the organization funds like they're a personal expense account for partying, drinking, using CVA events, that's his NGO, as little more than opportunities to hook up with women on the road. All right, well, it's kind of greasy because it's work. At an alternate altercation at a casino and a hotel Christmas party in which food was thrown from the balcony. That's good clean fun, I think.
SPEAKER_00And like tossing a watermelon.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, we've we've tossed a water.
SPEAKER_03We've all been there.
SPEAKER_01We have done that, so that's uh okay.
SPEAKER_03So we've done that. Following month, um, during an event in Cleveland, Heg says who had gone with his team to a bar around the corner from the hotel was described as, quote, completely drunk in a public place. We've done that. Well, on an official tour through Ohio, he was drunkenly chanting, quote, kill all Muslims, kill all Muslims. Eh, all right.
SPEAKER_00I'm starting to regret what saying this was likable.
SPEAKER_03Less endearing. Um, Heg Sess took the CVA team to a strip club where he was, quote, so drunk he tried to get on the stage and dance with the strippers. Quote, yeah, we had to get him off stage. Uh, she had to intervene with security to prevent him from getting thrown out. I'll give him a pass for this one.
SPEAKER_07Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Who among us hasn't tried to get on stage at a titty bar and almost got thrown out or did get thrown out?
SPEAKER_00I'm sorry, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't a titty bar. I believe it was a Dick and Balls bar. Yeah, we were at a gay strip club when we were.
SPEAKER_05It was a gay strip club that you were, yeah, you were ejected from while I was standing in the corner having a heart to heart with a veteran. That's very topical. Who was also one of the strippers?
SPEAKER_03Could have happened to any of us. And also in Pete's Defense, he may have just been trying to give a toonie tap, right?
SPEAKER_00A toonie for the so for the audience. Toonie tap.
SPEAKER_03A two toonie tap? A toonie tap is like where you so you put a toonie is a two dollar coin. A toonie tap is where you put the two dollar coin in your mouth and you lay backwards on the stage, and the dancer takes it out of your mouth one way or another. It might be, you guys are looking at me like you don't know what I'm talking about. It might be like a Toronto thing. You get Google Toonie Tap. That's a that's a time honored tradition. I although inflation may have killed it. I don't know if it still goes on. It's been a while. Um, okay, continuing on, so we'll give him a pass for that one. Um another time uh at a hotel Christmas party, he was, quote, no noticeably intoxicated, had to be carried up to his room. And this the these next ones are from the congressional record during his confirmation. Uh, Fox News employees have reported that after this one's funny, after a St. Patrick's Day segment on St. Patrick's Day, after being on TV, Hegeth drank several beers that have been sitting out for hours. These employees also noted that the segment finished before 10 a.m. and they were shocked at Heg Seth's behavior. It's not too bad. One current and two former Fox News employees told NBC News that they felt they had to, quote, babysit Heg Seth in order to mitigate the effects of his drinking. We'd have to call him to make sure he didn't oversleep because we knew he'd been out partying the night before. And also in November of 2024, one Fox in place said they smelled alcohol on him as recently as this past uh three months ago. So the guy kind of gets carried away. And can get racist. And can get racist.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, and occasional sexual assault allegations as well.
SPEAKER_03Yes, and I didn't get into that. Uh there is also a more serious allegation about him uh sexually assaulting uh some lady at some Republican event as well.
SPEAKER_05Um I think it's multiple ladies, not just one.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, is that right?
SPEAKER_05Could be yeah, what what I was just reading is uh it was two incidents at just before midnight and just before 7 a.m. on essentially the same day.
SPEAKER_03Well, Dr. Dashington, then you'll be pleased to know that he has publicly avowed to not drink a drop of alcohol during his time as uh Secretary of War. Quote, I need to make sure the senators and the troops and President Trump and everyone else knows that when you call me 24-7, you're getting fully dialed in Pete, just like you always did in Iraq and Afghanistan. So this is the biggest deployment of my life, and there won't be a drop of alcohol on my lips while I'm doing it. So problem solved.
SPEAKER_04Great.
SPEAKER_05What about the racism?
SPEAKER_04How what what was his rank when he was in the military before he was appointed to the how how high did it like you called him a major start of this? Was he a was he a major?
SPEAKER_00I don't know the that much about the ins and outs of promotion in US military, but I believe he was up to up to captain, and then he was back in the US in the um National Guard. In the National Guard and was promoted to major. But I think it's like an automatic kind of uh promotion system by um seniority.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, it's it's pretty his his military. I was trying to make sense of it. It's it's pretty he was in and out of the military for a long time. I think it sounds like he was the way he writes about it, it sounds like he was in the military for like 20 years, but he actually wasn't. He he went from Princeton um and received a commission, and then I think that's when he did his first tours in Iraq and stuff, when he was a second lieutenant, which is I think the lowest level of commissioned officer you can have. Uh, it is in the in the Canadian British companies, I presumably it's the same in the US. And then he kind of went out and kind of came back in. And then yeah, as Chip said, it was later on that he and when he was in the National Guard that he uh was, I guess, promoted to major through seniority and years of experience, I guess. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00I think he started at Guantanamo Bay, didn't he? It was like his first.
SPEAKER_05Yeah.
SPEAKER_00For Iraq. He was like a supervisor there or something.
SPEAKER_04And then you typically become the you typically run the Department of Defense. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's a standard so they have gone back to their meritocracy that they were all talking about. That it's all merit based now.
SPEAKER_03Yeah those major weekend Fox and friends co-host secretary of defense. Then Secretary how Namera did it, how Rumsfeld did it. Yeah. It's a well worn path.
SPEAKER_06Oh Rummy. Do you miss the days of Rummy? I didn't even occur to me that we might be speaking about Donald Rumsfeld. Oh my god. The no and knowns.
SPEAKER_00Hexeth misses his rum right now, I think. Yeah hey oh but um overall like this is a real kind of headache this book uh to get through is it's kind of like you're like encountering the Borg when when you interact with the this this style of like culture war media because it just feels like this checklist of going through the same talking points using the same kind of language.
SPEAKER_03And again and again and again over and over.
SPEAKER_00It's it's it's this so repetitive. It's kind I guess you know because he's he's a presenter and things like that and it's like rage bait media is what he comes from. So the the style chapter by chapter is sort of like escalating rants about a given topic and then like a few kind of punchy jokes or whatever thrown in there. But then he continues to sort of repeat the same conclusion. Like I don't know I don't know how many chapters there were that basically just concluded by saying the military was too woke.
SPEAKER_03Yeah I get I guess it's it's maybe worth highlighting like the central thesis in the book which is military too woke. Military is too woke but the military allowed itself to become too woke. We were all busy fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan and protecting freedom and the left came in and fucked it all up and now it's woke and now nobody wants to join the military standards are falling. The sort of main themes are he doesn't like trans people a lot he's really really into trans people but not in a positive way he doesn't like women in active combat he uses you know the boys in the military the men in the military repeatedly throughout the whole book he doesn't like the idea of um he's really for a guy who says he's not racist he's really concerned with what black people are doing. So he doesn't like um I don't know what's common like affirmative action but but any sort of um black guy who seems to get ahead in the military seem to think that it's some sort of political uh agenda to bring down Whitey. And then and then he gets he gets into some stuff about the Bible like the the book I don't know it ends with a whole bunch of like Bible talk and it just that's where it it all went sort of south for me.
SPEAKER_05Go back to like the the first thing that that you the chip said in that that you said Mac is that like like we're the source of the problem is that yeah the left the liberal leftist crazies did all this and then the military let it happen. And he never kind of said says or explores this explicitly but the implication is that the military sh shouldn't have been following what they were told to do by the Democratic government not just the Democrats but they they are the military of a democratic state. So the implication that he never really says out loud is that the military shouldn't be listening to what they're told to do if they're being told to do it by the by by the Democrats essentially which is kind of a scary proposition.
SPEAKER_04So they should have what just mutinied like he prefers the old like Turkish model of the military stepping in doing some coup yeah but he doesn't even allow beards how can you if you're going to support Turkish are you going to be like Turkish military you got to allow beards. Yeah curl mustaches.
SPEAKER_00Yeah the other thing I would add is that there's sort of like the B plot or additional goal of this book which is his it's like his C V. The myth making in any C V like I don't I don't blame anyone for embellishing their own accomplishments or anything if you're if you're putting in kind of a job application but it's really about that like you know I 30% I'd say is just about it's about Pete about how Pete rose up you know against adversity to have his own success and and so on and so forth. Pate's adventures.
SPEAKER_03Exactly he waits until like halfway through the book to get into any of that it's sort of jarring in terms of the flow of the book because it's like it's these thematic chapters okay we're kind of complaining about trans people now we're going to complain about women and then once you're like already halfway through it's like okay yeah I also you know I was in Guantanamo I was in Iraq and blah blah blah.
SPEAKER_00I played college basketball.
SPEAKER_03Yeah if he had mixed in these anecdotes or these kind of life stories throughout all of the political whinging I think it would have made for a more readable book.
SPEAKER_05Don't agree at all the stories are so dull. If they're supposed to be like war stories like proving his mettle like they're boring stories where there where nothing really happens. It's it's he he was doing essentially desk work uh and a few points doing intelligence which can sound very sexy and exciting but most intelligence is just reviewing data and then reporting on it. You know so like his stories are dull.
SPEAKER_00You're totally right like there's a point where he was talking about like I had all this information coming in that I had to pass on to my you know to to to my uh fellow warriors I looked at the laptop and it was 3 a.m and like I'd never felt happier than this moment never felt like I was doing more. And like when I when I was reading that I looked and it was like 4 a.m while I was reading this book just basically doing the same thing in my like the shitty room I'm staying in. So but yeah the the the the stories themselves are super super boring. Um I wanted to do maybe we could do like a little game kind of like family feud uh we could call it control F feud maybe so I wanted to throw out a topic and then ask you guys to pick a word and I'll search the doc. So whoever picks the the the most used word that falls under this category wins.
SPEAKER_03We need more gives on this podcast. Yeah I'm trying to do one right now choices I know I'm just I'm I'm I'm saying it's a good idea I'm I'm on board.
SPEAKER_05Yeah sorry sorry Bo I'm just double checking the the rules are you're gonna give us the words then we each pick one and we see who picks the best one.
SPEAKER_00We're gonna do it family feud style. So I'm gonna name like a theme. So it's as if we're polling the book. So okay oh okay okay right so I if I were to like you know things if I were to ask you know things associated with pigs you might be you might pick pork you might pick slop you might uh pick dye right that's getting cut oh my gosh inappropriate holy moly um okay so go Jane we'll go jane bow mac all right um so the first one the theme here is the enemy within Pete has a big issue with the military can you guess what it is um I'd go with a woke damn it um black woke black okay and Mac I'm gonna go with ideology okay that's pretty good so we've got black seventy six times ideology 20 times sorry match and woke appears a total of 75 times so we'll say Bo takes it although I I think I think probably some of those black he might just be talking about a black hawk helicopter or something.
SPEAKER_05He does mention black hawk down as well. Okay so that'll we know at least one of those is taken off so but it could have been in a racist reference to Somalis so we can't count that at I that's true.
SPEAKER_00Okay uh next question be what makes a man uh let's let's start with Mac Mac Bow then Jane.
SPEAKER_01Tough yeah I was gonna say strong and I will go with courage.
SPEAKER_00All right so tough we've got 20 times that's pretty good. Uh strong we've got 22 times and courage courage 29.
SPEAKER_03So we'll see Jane takes that one man he he does like men I'll give him that loves them I got I got a little I got a little man excerpt oh yeah it was the most special moment I'd ever experienced looking at these men strong tough from nowhereville america just like me my men they're all individuals but tonight in the here and now no excuses no medications no women just men trained to fight men tough as nails men with no distractions yeah he he loves men and he wants to like be a man so badly this that's kind of like the third strain of it for me it's like this book is kind of like a a gender affirmation project um where like he dedicates it to his his kids yeah like he really wants it to sort of just prove that he is a man. Well let's be honest I mean he's he he's he's a he's a macho man I'll give him that right like he would he's more cash Donnington than Mac Douglas right is it uh sure I mean he still still puts puts it on a whole lot like I yeah like I don't think he's as I that there's some kind of deep insecurity with that comes across with Pete for me like if uh if you're um you know standing on standing on the rooftop yelling that you're a man I feel like it's yeah it just seems like you really need to prove it my final one let's just try one more so the world at war you know so what what words do you think would be like relevant to evolving warfare for a man that's uh expert Islam China okay uh Jane I'm just gonna say bomb okay that's pretty good Islam surprisingly uh only six times in the book and that's that's one thing when he was drunkenly shouting it at the hotel uh bomb eleven results China eight results Islam's only six times in the whole book that's something that came through to me was that that like that whole discussion was just sort of uh like treated as common knowledge or something that doesn't need to be touched upon like yeah I think that's exactly it I was thinking the exact same thing like you don't have to to his audience you don't need to convince anyone that Islam is bad they already think that in the same way that you don't have to when he mentions al-Qaeda he doesn't explain anything about them he knows the audience hates al-Qaeda and so there's no need to explain.
SPEAKER_00Wait you don't turn the fence don't hate I al-Qaeda to what Islam never forget I'm talking about al-Qaeda yeah I'm I'm anti-terrorist organizations I'm not anti-world religions and also I the word drone is only used five times if you want to talk about like priorities for uh for someone uh in in the field at this point in time he's more concerned about like people doing support for childbearing members of the military than uh any kind of discussion of like drone warfare or something yeah it's it's DEI is the problem it's like the drones are fine we don't need to discuss that what what was your um you said that the book was like a real slog and there wasn't much in there that actually was enjoyable what was there anything that stuck out to you that you thought was kind of funny though I I chuckled once or twice I have to admit um intentionally rather ones I mean he's trying to be funny and at a few points it's almost funny.
SPEAKER_05I'm trying to remember what what the what the mo the parts are like his his his stupid joke and I think it's a chapter heading that he's um he thinks that leftists are trying to turn the military into the very special forces um but yeah it's just it's so dumb it's almost kind of funny it's like I don't agree with his worldview but there was some other I can't think what it is there was some other joke he made that almost made me smirk. As a general the tone of the book is very kind of wiener ish. It's not the humor is not actually funny.
SPEAKER_03I meant more kind of unintentionally funny or anything that was like it's like it's so over the top.
SPEAKER_00I've I've got one I've got the passage here. He says Americans used to love cowboys. Now they seem like a quaint part of our past cowboys were our heroes as were soldiers explorers and astronauts now it's Tony Fauci and Michelle Obama who get the hero treatment and just the other part. I don't know about the sort of like cultural cachet that that Fauci has or compared to Cowboys you don't remember all those John Wayne movies where he played Tony Fauci I don't think there's a lot of like Tony Fauci erotica getting pumped out every single week either compared to cowboys.
SPEAKER_05One other part that's like um maybe almost unintentionally funny that I just remembered as well because it made me reminded me of a running joke that we've made many times. But there's a part where he's where he's complaining about diversity and he says you know the the military slogan was diversity is our biggest strength and he's saying that's the dumbest slogan and he's kind of technically right because you know diversity is not the American military's biggest strength nuclear weapons are their biggest strength but it also reminds me of that it's a dumb joke that we've made a whole bunch of times there's that famous quote by Malala where Malala says why is it so hard to build a school and so easy to build a tank it's like well actually tanks are really complicated.
SPEAKER_02They're really hard to build yeah man an A1 abroms like it's not that's not something you can just put together in a weekend by yourself you and your buddies that's not something you send a bunch of high school kids to to a to a country with a leader to build my favorite passage was and I don't I don't know why it struck me as so funny but it's just like for a man to be complaining about this stuff is his June rant about the month of June it used to be for yeah what's he got against June he fucking loves June but like the gays ruined it quote June has always been an important month for the U.S.
SPEAKER_03Army the anniversary of D-Day is always a day for reverence the army's birthday is a week later in June a large sheet cake would be cut by whatever officer had the cleanest cavalry sword and often we did it live on Fox News June's the month of four-day weekends and training holidays that was until 2012 when the Obama Biden administration reversed don't ask, don't tell and the military adopted the entire month as Pride Month just like we used to fucking love getting drunk on D-Day.
SPEAKER_02We used to love fucking cutting cake with a big sword it was it was fucking great guys long weekends and then the gays had to ruin it all there's this Tony has thrown it that's like this really back in my day thing that annoys me because he's he's oh he's only like for being right about it.
SPEAKER_03Yeah like and he he talks like like he was in the military in like the the 50s or something just cutting cut I I think just cutting a big first of all who wants the sheet cake cutting a big cake with a sword really that fun and who saw it that sounds awesome what are you talking about when you're drunk you're drunk and you're on the news yeah yeah you can put a pride pride flag on a on a sheet cake yeah he could be I don't know seems like the guy's being overly pessimistic because that's my point exactly who's who's stopping him from cutting big sheet cakes on Fox and friends with a sword.
SPEAKER_00But that actually speaks to I think a lot of the grievances in this book are like it just seems so minor. Even when he's talking about the DEI thing in the military I I would say there's probably a cynical angle to that stuff from the from the US military like uh for DEI recruitment if you're like recruiting from let's say like sort of marginalized groups I think that the US has actually done that kind of thing in the past. I think it's been sort of policy to do so. Um but but yeah I was looking at it and like you know like one thing is big complaint is like this like sort of sensitivity training and so on that that people do in the military now. I'm pretty sure this stuff is like a couple hours a year or once yeah like an hour you know you you do one sit down and like a brief PowerPoint presentation. And like this this is not you know this is not some kind of like woke takeover of of the whole system.
SPEAKER_03That was my thought as well like I I literally I thought it was like what percentage of his time at work was spent in DEI PowerPoint seminars where they were pushing you know the trans gay feminist wokester agenda it's gotta be nothing. You still get to spend most of the time polishing your gun and like you know talking about your dick. Yeah just like cleaning stuff and sitting around and cleaning your dick and sitting around yeah isn't that what most of their time in the military is like the army basically yeah his logic isn't really sound too so like one of the reasons he doesn't like the DEI stuff is because it affects it it prevents people who are really well suited for the military from joining because they don't see the values this is his argument they don't see the values as being aligned with their own values of serving the nation and becoming a strong man and this kind of thing.
SPEAKER_05And he says because of that recruitment is way down because people don't want to join but if they're trying to recruit from minority groups and that's the whole push wouldn't recruitment kind of even out yeah and and if the military is just like some soft cushy job now wouldn't you get more people applying yeah yeah that's that's one of the one of the craziest things is like his his basic very basic argument is the military needs strong men to be strong fighters and therefore we need to recruit strong men and make them stronger but like that's a this really bizarre view of the military that actually sees everyone involved in fighting the enemy on the front line which is a really low proportion of of the people actually in the military. There's some statistic I can't even remember I have to look it up to double check it.
SPEAKER_04But it's something like for every soldier deployed in an active conflict zone, you need like 10 or a dozen to to support them in order to maintain those to serve the chow and isn't it no no I'm talking about section is logistics like just trying to like move people and equipment around is like the largest employment it's logistics.
SPEAKER_05It's HR it's it's purchasing it's it's all that type of stuff. It's the many many people that you need to do all that really boring stuff so that you have your however many guys deployed in active conflict zones. And from that angle what does it matter what the drone operator who sits in Colorado like they can be 300 pounds but if they're 300 pounds and they're the best drone operator in the world then who gives a shit and the same thing if it's like the like like the cook at Fort Knox or whatever Fort Bragg whatever Fort we're talking about if their career is doing that then it doesn't really matter how much they can bench press. You know it's it's it's really odd.
SPEAKER_00There was like a headline really recently that was like the Iran conflict because of all the US military personnel moving off bases in the region.
SPEAKER_04It was like the headline that was like Iran war you know moving more US soldiers into working remotely sorry is it are we on the uh is it now officially the term war I thought it was still like a special military operation targeted conflict operation or something like that. I don't think that uh the US government is at war according to them.
SPEAKER_00Right. Yeah it's special military operation that's what they all are now right nobody's actually at war.
SPEAKER_05The Iranians are calling it a war.
SPEAKER_00If you can believe what they're saying. They are too he has this idea of the military and this is like how he speaks about the military. It's like this this fantasy thing of this small group uh that are that are fighting and everything's about like the bravery of those men that are like in the midst of the battle and it's like it's it just that drove me nuts is so disconnected from like the entire structure underpinning it. So I was saying before about like drone being mentioned five times like you're not gonna talk about the fact that that's like where wars are moving to is people just driving drones around.
SPEAKER_03Yeah he does say specifically though in fairness that he could be in favor of having tiered standards for different positions and and he explicitly says well if you're a drone operator you could be a little bit fatter. But he argues that the he used the term gender cultist the gender cultist wouldn't be into this because then you have fewer women qualifying for infantry.
SPEAKER_00But but but the thing is like the principal sort of dogma in the US is to have as few troops on the ground as possible like for worry about political ramifications and so on. Right? Right. I mean there's sometimes there's you know aberrations there but still it's something to try to avoid so like what's the goal here is to have your whole military focused on like hot guys that don't go into combat.
SPEAKER_03Yes please thousands of platoons of weekend fox and friends host just fighting Muslims like that's that's not even fine you can't send them in though because you can't they're too precious.
SPEAKER_04It's kind of like the uh the marchers in China you know the Chinese marchers that's their whole gig there they work for the military and they just march. They do a damn good job at it too. So good.
SPEAKER_00Yeah it's just a Way the US is becoming China.
SPEAKER_05I was just gonna say on the on the on the point about like the women in the military, his stuff about like he's against women in the military because and he because and he says this many times women are weaker, women have lower bone density. He mentions that a surprising number of times, they're less aggressive, they can't carry, you know, a wounded man, they're less capable, um, and they're you know, etc. etc. And you know, potentially, and I'll admit I don't know, but potentially, yeah, that's an argument for not, you know, making a 50-50 gender split in the special forces or or even in the infantry in general, like parts of the military that are actively engaged in like hand-to-hand combat, but that's really not very much uh of the military. So that argument that, oh, if they're involved in hand-to-hand combat, women won't be as good. Therefore, we shouldn't be trying to recruit women for the rest of the military, is just obviously doesn't really make any sense. It's taking that one unique situation, and it is, it might not sound like it is counterintuitive, but hand-to-hand combat and fighting is a unique situation for the American military, for the average soldier.
SPEAKER_03He'll he'll take sort of uh a data point or a nugget of fact and then extrapolate it beyond uh reason. Like he's he's he said, Well, I used to be in in favor, I didn't really care when they repealed don't ask, don't tell, which allowed gays to openly serve, gays and lesbians to openly serve in the military. He said, But I changed my mind because I realized that it was just a thin edge of the wedge for all of this uh woke social engineering, and it was just a back door to get trans people into the military. And I and I've talked to a gay guy who says the same thing. You know, he said we weren't protesting the repeal of don't ask, don't tell us, so they could bring in all the trans people and they used me, and I feel as though I've been exploited. And it's so it's like it's something that he does again and again in the book, where he'll take, for example, he speaks about the fact that the number of uh or the proportion of new recruit new white recruits has decreased in the last few years. And he says, Well, that's gotta be because we're not advertising to white guys anymore, and white guys don't they don't see any sort of appeal in joining the military because it doesn't reflect their values and because it's too woke in DEI. Could be true, but there's he doesn't sort of offer any data for it. It could be a million different reasons why white guys aren't going in the military in the same proportion that they were a few years ago.
SPEAKER_00I was just gonna say, I think there's not a single citation in the book. Like he doesn't actually have uh he doesn't have a audio book, so I don't know.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, is is are there references at the end of the book?
SPEAKER_00No, there's none. This this is kind of this is Pete's style, you know. He's like a little bit bit of a maverick.
SPEAKER_02Fully dialed in Pete. That's what you get in 24-7, it's fully dialed in Pete. And he's off the sauce, so you know it's good stuff.
SPEAKER_05No, I was just gonna say on the on that point about data when he talks about the declining numbers of of like white recruits, I it's not clear what that means. Like, is it decline relatively? Because technically, relatively less of the population are white males, so is like the decline in recruitment a product of that. It could also be a product of the military trying to recruit more educated people. Uh and the you know, the white male population is likely to be less educated than than much much of the rest of the of the population. So, yeah, there's it's it's just taken as a as a given that you know the the woksters are trying to get the the the tough, beautiful white guys out of the army and turn it over to the to the trans folks.
SPEAKER_00I think he's you doing a little bit of uh fuzzy math there. Um because I I was I was trying to look at it, look up the like recruitment numbers or whatever to see. And it seems like there's like a downturn in the US post-COVID, largely attributed to post-pandemic, you know, economic disruption or whatever. But like we're talking about like a couple percent difference uh in in you know women entering the military or like minority groups versus versus white people, like it's very, very small. Recruitment's down a little bit, but then the way they're fixing it now is that they've just increased the maximum recruitment age. So he's not even targeting uh you know young men. They're trying to get old guys into the military now.
SPEAKER_05Yeah. Beautiful old men.
SPEAKER_03Another thing on getting a bit older, you know, you gotta get those those like age guys in the military. Like when you're when you're 45, you can't be just running after 20-year-old beautiful old men. You sometimes you want to look at 45 beautiful men. Keep keep the gaze out. We want the beautiful men in, put the gaze out.
SPEAKER_02Beautiful white men.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, sorry. Uh about the recruiting, how like recruiting used to target white men. And he's he has like a bunch of gripes about this, but he doesn't like that recruitment now is all about like like this will help you grow in your career. He talks about the old be all that you can be commercials and how he, you know, he says, like, oh, back then it was like all about being a warrior, not now, where it's like, hey, join the military and it'll help you, you know, get a professional degree and blah, blah, blah. He sees that as kind of uh part of this whole softening of the military. So I wanted to share a clip from uh a be all that you can be commercial from the early 90s, which I think I think this would have been likely one of the commercials that Pete watched as a young boy. Um made an impression on him. Yeah, so I'm hoping my audio works here. Let me know. I tap some of your computer expertise, son. So you finally gave in. Yeah, for starters, how does the disc fit into the disc drive?
SPEAKER_03Okay, the army can train you to program, upgrade, or fix computers.
SPEAKER_00What does the printer interface do?
SPEAKER_03It lets the computer talk to the printer. They talk to each other. What do they say? And the computer training you get is yours forever.
SPEAKER_07You're not gonna be the only computer expert in the army.
SPEAKER_03Dad's firing up his 14-4 modem so he can download some porn from AOL.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, but that that's the really badass, you know, warrior uh military recruitment that misses soft teaching you to plug in a printer.
SPEAKER_03But but in his defense, they were all white.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, it's true.
SPEAKER_01For the audience, just to clarify, uh, they were all white actors. I don't know. Some of those kids might have been Irish.
SPEAKER_02Couple eye ties sneaking in.
SPEAKER_04This is getting quick question. When was this book written again? When was it released? 2020? Oh, is that that recent? Okay.
SPEAKER_05It's recent. Yeah, it's 2024. I think one one thing that's interesting about the book is uh interesting is a generous word, but there's nothing interesting about the book. It it's clearly like you realize how much of the changes that have taken place over the last year come from Heg Seth. Like the idea of renaming it Secretary of Defense or Secretary of War is right in here. All the everything he's been saying since he's been in the position of Secretary of Defense, it's all kind of in this book. Um, it it really makes you realize like, oh wow, this shit all comes from Heg Seth. Like it's not it's not from Trump, it's from Hegseth.
SPEAKER_04Installing a green room with a makeup table or makeup chair and stuff in the war beers at St.
SPEAKER_03Patrick's, eh? No, but it they they kicked out all the trans from the military. Like, yeah, the guy got his wish.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, yeah, yeah. And the I guess the one the one other thing that's clearly in this book and is as clear as he is in is you know in a position, it's kind of one of the last big themes of the book that we haven't really touched on, is his idea about like how fighters are allowed to fight. Like one of his favorite phrases that he uses constantly and really makes him sound like a wiener, um, is he's like the goal should be maximum lethality. Yeah, he uses that phrase a lot, but he uses it a lot now in public, and he's basically just the idea that our our soldiers are not dogs on a leash. We need to we cut them loose and let them do what they want and let them fight how they know how to fight, which basically and he gripes a lot about like the rules of engagement that were used in in Iraq.
SPEAKER_03100%.
SPEAKER_05We've got to give no quarter, and like give no quarter, yeah. That's another one. Fucked. Um, which is fucked for it's fucked for many different reasons, right? It's fucked because of like how morally wrong it is to shoot innocent civilians or to or to torture torture prisoners, but there's also like the utilitarian logic to it, that they if you do that to your prisoners, then your enemy is gonna do it to theirs.
SPEAKER_03And he justifies it in the book by saying that they're already doing it, so we can't fight with one hand tied behind our back. And I'm glad you brought this up. This is chapter 11. This is the most important chapter in the book.
SPEAKER_00Definitely. He always says maximum lethality, not tepid legality. Yeah, which is it's it sounds like a bad like beat poet, like slam poetry or something. Like Whitey's on the moon.
SPEAKER_06Whitey is on the moon. Whitey's bat, white is black on the moon. Fucking whitey. My sister Nell got bit by a rat, but whitey's on the moon.
SPEAKER_02Whitey's on the moon.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah. He's he says, Hey, Al-Qaeda, if you surrender, we might spare your life. If you do not, we will rip your arms off and feed them to hogs. Really tough, man. But it's also tough guy.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, but that's what he sounds like a wiener. But there's also the other point that is being completely missing here is like his view of war, like the the one in Iraq, is just tough white guys finding the bad guys. And he uses the phrase the bad guys, while completely forgetting the fact that that like those that you're your enemy, the guerrillas or the insurgents, live in a civilian population. And the goal of the counterinsurgent is not just to kill the bad guys, it's also to win over the civilian population, right? That's partly why the US lost in Afghanistan, in Iraq, in Vietnam. It maximum lethality was never their issue. They killed a hell of a lot of people, and they did it constantly. Part of the problem with that is you kill the wrong people, and then you mobilize more people against yourself. And and his only wiener story in the book, which is actually based around action, is where he tells the story of sometime at night, they get they're in a helicopter, they get dropped into this little village or this hamlet, and he's looking for the bad guys. And him and his goons go around kicking down doors, and all they find are women and children. And there's no comment about how obviously more terrified all those people would be and how radicalized every single one of them would have been against the United States. And his brilliant master plan is they get helicopters to come in and take away most of his guys, but he hangs back with three or four uh of his of his best boys, and then a couple of men return uh to the house. And in his in his explanation, it's because they're you know, they're sneaking back because even dogs like to smell their own vomit. And I'm not even sure what that line was supposed to mean. But yet they're also just men returning to their homes. Yes, they left because they know you'll shoot them, and then they came back. And yeah, this is completely missing the fact that part of the reason for these rules is so that you don't kill innocent people. There's that moral side of it, but there's also the practical element, so that you don't just mobilize everyone against you and create hundreds more recruits for your enemy.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, it's like the opposite of learning any lessons from U.S. occupations. It it he also, you know what's funny too is um when he's talking about the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, and they had there was a suicide bombing and the U.S. retaliatory strike that killed a family UN worker as well. He mentions that earlier in the book, talking about the Biden administration. He's like, there was no accountability for this, there's no internal review. Like, what are they doing? They're committing war crimes. It's like and then goes on to just say that's what they should be doing.
SPEAKER_05And then goes on to bomb a school in Iran while he's the Secretary of Defense. Yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER_03Of war, excuse me.
SPEAKER_04Quick aside, have you guys watched Folding Ideas, one of his latest videos about Jarhead in their sequels and stuff? Um, really great little uh YouTube move uh piece about uh Jarhead being like this really, really good film about and critique of the US military, and then some company purchased it, the rights to the to the films or the books or whatever, and then just made like a bunch of sequels that are just the complete opposite, that are just like really shitty action flicks. And I feel like Heg Seth really, really likes the sequels and just hates the original kind of guy.
SPEAKER_00Right. So it's kind of like how like the the beginning of the Ride of the Valkyrie scene in Apocalypse Now is like in isolation, like a badass scene. Yeah. If you if you don't know anything else about the film or point, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_03So I'll I'll leave you guys with this. Uh, this is from 2019. Uh while he was co-hosting Fox and Friends weekend edition, I think it's important. I used to watch a lot of Fox and Friends because it came on in the evening where I was, and I always look down on the weekend crew as just being like the B squad. So I think it's important when you say that he's a Fox and Friends co-host to point out he was the part-time weekend Fox and Friends co-host. Anyways, from 2019, he says, quote, I don't think I've washed my hands for 10 years. Really, I don't wash my hands ever. I inoculate myself. Germs are not a real thing. I can't see them, therefore, they're not real.
SPEAKER_04Wow, I love it.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, something to uh something to mull over. Yeah. He's a he's a tough guy. He does not wash his hands, he does not believe in germ theory. His hands, right? All right, well, yeah. Chip, Jane, Bo, anything else you guys want to add before we wrap this one up?
SPEAKER_00Final thoughts. I think that this book is just the same fucking shit that gets pumped out like every two weeks. It's applied to kind of a unique institution, the US military, but it's still just the same culture war drivel. Pete, I think what's interesting maybe is the same as a character. He's part of some kind of like male superficial superficiality kind of arms race. Everything is like a performance.
SPEAKER_03I think there's a good chance he may have read Day Bang and applied its learning.
SPEAKER_01He thought it was about fighting day bangs. I think he I think he read Day Drink, actually. That's right. Got him mixed up.
SPEAKER_03I'm gonna cast any dispersions about Day Drink, and let's, you know, let's stay on track here, fellas. Uh Dr. Dashington.
SPEAKER_05One last one last thought in, as just a final thought, because there was a quote that was a good one. Yes, absolutely.
SPEAKER_03As our esteemed military expert, uh, please.
SPEAKER_05There's a part in the chapter titled The Left's Very Special Forces, where he's complaining about women in the military, where he kind of he says, all of the following statements are simple realities, which means the left finds them oppressive ideologies. Men are stronger than women. Men and women are different. Men like women and are distracted by women. Men respect other strong, skilled, dedicated men. Men don't give a shit what your skin color is as long as you get the job done. Um, which all sounds ridiculous. But the last one, especially, is like men aren't racist. So, like, obviously, not all men are racist, but some of them sure are. But in this like, his implication is that men aren't racist. So I guess the women and children are the ones who are racist.
SPEAKER_03He's too busy getting distracted by ladies to be racist.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. I've met some racist kids in my day, to be fair.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, true.
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