154 Freedom Kebabs, Hypersonics, And A Very Nervous Kim Jong-Un

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Howdy Ben, how are you?

It's been an interesting day, Jean.

Yeah, we're wasn't expecting to wake up to this.

I definitely was not. I've been hoping for the last month or so that this would happen, but you let me know nice and early this morning, what was it going on? I appreciate that.

You know, I've never seen a war have a soundtrack in the first day, but damn, there's some good music coming out right now.

Hell yeah. There's all kinds of stuff. Good music, good videos, good memes.

Lots of eating Persian food tonight.

I am. I'm trying to swallow the last bite and in celebration, I've got my local Persian place that I ordered some chicken kebabs with rice, which should be referred to as freedom kebabs.

That's right, freedom kebabs from what a kebab, which is a local Persian place.

So yeah, it's been like full day of sending and receiving links to videos between the two of us.

Yep.

And trying to catch up and stay current on what's going on. A lot of virtual high-fiving with people, obviously not physically in close proximity, but basically.

Lots of good news. There's certainly been some some bad stuff as well. There's death toll is starting to add up.

There's been a large number of civilian buildings hit by IRGC drones.

Yeah. And like I never thought I would see Saudi Arabia tell Israel you can use our bases and airspace to strike them.

And then later on in the day, declare war on Iran, followed by the UAE declaring war on Iran, followed by Qatar declaring war on Iran.

Yep.

Like Bahrain, the entire middle Iran just pissed off the entire Middle East.

They did.

They they just went full Candace Owens.

They did.

Tol insanity.

I mean, I knew Israel was going to get hit.

Everybody in Israel knew they were going to get hit. Everybody is, you know, bracing for it, staying in their bomb shelters.

Attacking Arab nations that just seem you don't bomb downtown Dubai and Abu Dhabi.

Yep.

Like you just don't do that.

Like an air base elsewhere.

The Burj Khalifa got hit.

Yeah.

That's crazy.

I'm surprised they didn't hit Kaba.

I'm surprised and it'll be interesting to hear if they tried to use any of the Chinese hypersonics.

So the Israelis are saying yes.

That they tried that yes, they were several not many, but several hypersonics flying into Israel.

Well, I wonder if they tried to use them against the Abraham Lincoln.

I don't know that.

I don't know.

I haven't heard anything officially out of the US in terms of what kind of damage or at least what kind of attack stay experienced.

Well, we haven't gotten any US official reports on any casualties or any, you know, there's been some videos claiming that one of the supply ships for the Gerald R4 got hit.

And there's video, but, you know, Iran has also put video of the Abraham Lincoln smoking and being on fire and hit.

So the propaganda has been strong.

There's propaganda, but I'll tell you you can't stop the videos from people's phones from spreading.

And there are a lot of videos from phones that both show the the drones hitting targets in the Arab countries, but also quite a few videos coming from inside of Iran.

Showing people in just insane celebrate celebratory.

Jubilation.

Jubilation is a good word for it.

Yeah, dancing in the streets, yelling, yelling.

Well, where they.

Well, there were several people yelling in Farsi saying we love Trump.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

There was the we love Trump in Farsi.

There was also a, a hurrah America chant going up.

Yeah, which in Iraq is just not something I expected to.

Sorry, in Iran.

Yeah, no shit, right?

In Iran, not something that I ever expected to hear.

I mean, the fact that we did this is a daytime raid too.

Like that was the biggest FU to their missile defense system ever.

Well, you know, I think I'm rather the Israelis explained why that was the case.

Is that they've been waiting for them to meet?

Yeah, apparently the they hunkered down at night in really deep bunkers because

they are expecting or were expecting a nighttime beginning of the operation.

This would be typical US standard operating procedure, right?

You wait for a dark moon night and in the middle of the night, when you've got night vision,

what else does or at least relatively few people do, you execute your operation.

And so in order to have better access, when they're not hidden and by day,

I mean, all the leadership of IRGC, not just for me, but all those guys,

they decided to do it in the day, in daytime.

And I guess it would have been about, what about 1 p.m.?

Yeah.

Here on time, something around there.

Well, it's 3 a.m. our time.

Oh, was it?

Oh, okay. So it's not that.

So 3 a.m. our time would have been like 9 a.m. their time.

Yeah.

So, yeah.

Definitely not in the middle of the night.

Did you see the joke we played on Iran earlier in the week?

Which one?

No.

So they were looking for the F-22s flying around their airspace.

And one of the F-22s turned on his transponder so they could see where he was.

And he did it as the good year blimp.

No way.

Yes, traveling at 600 kilometers, you know.

Oh, that's great.

I'm right here.

Good year, blimp.

Yeah.

Like the sense of humor has returned to the military.

Well, the military has gotten more of what they used to be, which are actual patriots

and not just a bunch of soy boys wanting to collect a paycheck.

Because I swear to God, that's the other annoying thing on X.

And I've spent way too much time on X today.

Is watching these videos of headshots of all these guys and they're like

mid to late thirties talking about how their veteran and Trump is a is a traitor

to America and we need to overthrow Trump.

And this is not what we were signed up for in the military.

It's like, you piece of shit.

First of all, and they're talking about this is, you know, this we're fighting for another country.

We're not fighting for America.

Okay, let's talk facts.

America has not needed to have anybody fight for it since World War II.

There's not been in 80 years, there hasn't been an American in the military that's actually fought for America.

They fought as employees of America for goals that the American government thought were worth fighting for,

but they sure as fuck weren't fighting for the country of America.

They weren't defending America the way that soldiers in World War II did.

So get off your high scores.

You collected a fucking paycheck and you got health insurance for life, unlike the rest of us.

So I'm just getting tired of these people thinking that somehow because instead of going to college,

you decided to go into basic training that you have some special status that makes you a, you know,

better at deciding what's right and what's wrong for America.

No, because of a number of things, including that you weren't fighting for America.

You were working for America.

To be clear, you know, one of the things I hate is everybody who thinks every veteran for their service.

Like, you know, the guy that we saw get the two gentlemen, we saw get the Medal of Honor during Trump's stay of the union.

Yeah.

You know, those guys, yes, thank you for your service and thank you for what you did.

The desk clerk that didn't really do anything, come on, man.

Well, how about now when Trump gives himself a medal, are you going to be at which side of the debate are you on that one?

Because he talks about how much he wants to give himself.

Let's finish around and then we'll go to that.

Fair enough.

You know, quite frankly, I think Congress should issue him a medal at this point, especially with the way this is going.

Look, went into Iraq and went into Afghanistan and we got boiled and bogged down into wars.

Trump made it very clear during his eight minute three AM speech to the Iranian people.

This is your time.

This is your chance.

This is the only one you're going to get for decades or a generation.

Take it.

And if you don't take it, that's on you.

We are going to to capitate this regime.

Yep.

We're going to take out their capacity to support terror around the world.

We are going to take out their capacity to even think of building a nuke.

And you know, Trump was negotiating.

He even, we offered Iran at the negotiating table.

You can have nuclear power just by the refined fuel from us, no domestic refining.

A little too they know that it's actually nuclear power, but that's the best point.

You always like me to follow me for that.

I do.

You keep using that word, dude.

It's too easy.

Anyway, it's pretty interesting because if you go to Al Jazeera, Iran is still saying Khomeini is alive.

But the US and Israel say, no, he's dead.

But Iran does not deny that his son-in-law, daughter and grandson were killed in that strike.

Well, and their comment was he will not be appearing today.

Well, at first they said he'll be addressing the people in an hour.

Right, right.

And they canceled.

They said he will not be appearing today.

But again, they didn't specify why.

They just said he's not going to be appearing today.

Certainly in the Iranian diaspora, meaning Persian people living outside of Iran,

I'm seeing a ton of Javed Shah messages pop note.

And Javed Shah is essentially long live the king.

So it's a, it is the people that are supporting Reza, I forget his last name.

Basically, the son of the last Shah of Iran and supporting him taking over.

And what he said essentially, and I think he's told this to Trump, but he said it publicly plenty of times,

is that he wants to help the Iranian people call us around one person during the reconstruction

and then become the last king of Iran and put together constitution for a elected presidential position.

So doing like Charles should have done exactly, exactly.

So he has, I think it's like win-win for him because he'll get to be the last king of Iran,

which, you know, first or last, they're both memorable.

And he's going to be seen as the guy that did the right thing and really made sure that Iran will never again be in the position of being a dictatorship,

unless they fuck it up themselves and then they got only themselves to blame.

Because, you know, you can elect, you can elect yourself a dictatorship.

You just can never unelect one if you do so.

Well, you know, there's many ways to vote yourself into communism, a dictatorship, but only one way out of it.

And that's with American Wipnery.

Apparently.

Yeah.

The Afghans offered us the use of Bagram during this.

Which I thought was just hilarious.

Well, and what I think is hilarious is they also used this attack on Iran, satirizing the news to bomb the hell out of Islamabad.

Well, everybody's getting in on the fun.

They are.

And the official thing is memes I saw today was the look Germany, Germany when World War III starts without them.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, because they were not notified.

Oh, the Europeans are so pissed.

They weren't consulted by Trump's.

Thomas Massey.

Thomas Massey's pissed off.

Yeah, well, Thomas Massey's a piece of shit.

And I've been posting that right to his account today.

And here's the thing.

Trump notified the gang of eight that he was going to do this, which suffices it meets the letter of the law on notifying Congress.

Well, but he didn't do it the right way.

I don't give a shit what he did or not.

He did the right thing.

That's what's important.

History judges based on success and relevance.

It doesn't judge based on letter of the law.

There's a lot of things that weren't the laws were not necessarily followed that ended up still being the right thing to do.

So did you see the Jerusalem post article that said the Elon Musk factor?

This was printed before the attack.

Grock predict predicts February 28th attack on Iran.

And then I know.

Yeah, Elon Musk even reposted it.

And one thing that most Americans don't know is that he's really post is basically the Washington times or the not times.

The Washington Post or the New York Times.

It is an uber liberal rag in Israel.

And this is why a lot of times you'll see the the Jew haters out there posting pictures from there saying see even the Jews,

and Israeli think that Benjamin Netanyahu is a bad person.

It's like, yeah, well, if you read the New York Times, they post just as much about Trump being bad.

So, you know, it doesn't mean shit.

So always take your your source of news with the grain of sand as it were.

So I don't know, I mean, I've been watching Twitter, watching YouTube getting on.

There's not much going on in Russian sites.

I'll tell you that when I got on, there's a few official statements condemning it, but very cool.

Not much.

Yeah.

And so has China.

Well, look, what's Russia going to see?

You're not allowed to go into another country and start buying.

China's got better footing than Russia at this point than that.

But that's another thing about this.

So China's fucked.

Oh, yeah.

China's more fucked than anybody else.

Because not only did they lose the Venezuelan oil, they just lost the Iranian oil.

Yeah.

And not just the ones who own oil, they lost a huge loan that they made to Venezuela.

That's obviously the amount of billions of dollars.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I can't remember how many billion, but it was plenty of billion.

And I would be surprised if there were no loans to Iran that were made at some point in the last year.

As China is in the habit of doing that, right?

The law, money, and then you pass back and then we'll help your economy by buying shit from you that'll, you know, that's how they work.

It's the whole Belt and Road in it.

It's the trade empire from Star Wars.

I keep repeating that.

So it makes total sense that both of Venezuela and Iran are going to affect China very negatively.

They're being, you know, if they're in octopus, their tentacles are slowly being chopped off.

And, you know, for Russia, it's not good either because Russia lost Syria a year ago.

And now they lost Iran.

And that's like their warm water friends.

Well, but it could be totally fine for Russia if they're in an alliance with the US.

Oh, it could be.

Actually, something my dad brought up is he said, you know, it makes a lot of sense for China, given it's both need for materials for raw products and raw materials.

And they're their large number of population to actually go take over Siberia.

Yeah.

And I said, yeah, theoretically that makes sense.

But the US would never let that happen because if China were to attempt in Americanize to take over a raw material territory in Russia,

literally that day, there would be press releases coming out about Russia being a great friend of the United States who needs our help and need to find there and protect their resources.

Because what's worse than just having, you know, an adversary like you do in the Ukrainian thing is having a much larger adversary like China, all of a sudden get a bunch of free resources.

Like that's a much bigger impact on the United States than simply Russia with its relatively small population, but a lot of land.

Just sitting on the resources, they're not actually able to extract.

Right.

So this is such a huge thing.

I mean, it completely turns the Middle East upside down.

We could end up in the position and I keep my fingers crossed and knock on wood and everything.

But we could end up in the situation three months from now where there is no animosity in the Middle East.

Yeah.

Like, I mean, nobody's lawyening government could join the Abraham Accords very quickly.

I think they're going to be first, as soon as they have a government, literally as soon as they have one, I think they're going to be joining the Abraham Accords.

Because so many people, and you got to remember, obviously, the US is huge.

It brought a ton of weaponry and everything.

But this has been the biggest Israeli operation in the history of Israel.

Yeah.

They've had over 200 planes that have flown over 500 sorties day as of a few hours ago.

It's probably going to be like 700 sorties today and one day by the time they're done.

The US and Israel combined city count should be well over a thousand by the end.

It's going to be thousands, I think.

Maybe.

I mean, I don't know how much the US is shooting off the boats directly rather than off the planes.

But now 500 flights for Israel is huge, man.

And that is reflected in the videos coming out of Iran itself, where as much as people are super happy about the US doing this,

they're, they're also very happy about Israel.

Like the, the love for Israel of the Iranian people is very, very visible in the videos that you see.

Did you see the video of the women?

And these are not young women.

These are middle aged to older women, literally seeing the news and taking off their burkas.

No, I didn't see that.

I didn't see that in the street.

No, that's awesome.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And I've seen videos of like 45, 50-year-olds now, not super old women, definitely just like crying and bawling their eyes out

because they, they never thought this day would come.

Because when you're in a repressive regime, you, you get very pessimistic.

I mean, Jesus Christ, dude, I, I haven't lived in Russia in 50 years.

And I'm still pessimistic.

That's how, that's how strong that in, that like instinct is when you live in a dictatorial country.

So this is, this is a great day for the people around.

There's still a lot of work to do.

I mean, it's worth celebrating, but it's also celebrating the beginning and not the end.

Because the end will happen when there's no more resistance from IRGC.

That isn't going to be tomorrow.

That'll take a little bit of time.

That'll take Iranians on the ground actually making that happen.

Well, there's already been reports that the, you know, the first city in Iran has been, you know, taken over.

Yeah, the flags are changing.

The flags are definitely starting to change.

But it is going to be city by city.

It's not going to be like all of a sudden the whole country is just, yeah, okay, we change governments.

We're good to go.

Well, I mean, Trump said he has several off ramps for the IRGC to take if they will take it.

Yeah, I mean, they can, well, what he essentially said is you can take the off ramps to transition to the new government or you can be dead.

That's your two options.

So they're not missing words.

And this is what I really like about Trump's current Department of War is that, first of all, it's called Department of War.

As it was historically before that.

As it should be.

As it should be.

Absolutely.

And the fact that they're willing to use the, you know, they call it call a spade of spade.

They're using the appropriate terminology of the appropriate words and not trying to politically correct, you know, tweak it.

So it sounds more PC.

Indeed.

So it's very good.

You know, obviously we're doing this episode a little bit out of sync.

We just put out an episode a few days ago.

But much like with Charlie Kirk's death.

His assassination.

I feel like this is a, a historic event.

We didn't record Thursday though.

What do you mean?

Because I was working late.

Remember.

Oh, we didn't wait.

So didn't wait.

Oh, God damn it.

Could've sworn we did.

Okay.

So we're just catching up.

And it's so convenient that we planned all this.

Yeah.

We knew this was going to happen in place.

What am I saying?

Our sources told us.

That's right.

That's right.

Sorry.

I forgot we were going to let people know instead of hiding with what I just said.

Yes, we absolutely knew what was going to happen.

And then we planned to do it today.

And it wasn't because Ben was just tired.

So yeah, that's what it is.

Oh, my God.

One of the funniest memes I've seen today too on this was a picture of Kim Jong Un on the phone saying,

Hey, Donald, we cool, right?

Yeah, right.

Exactly.

Well, I'm putting my money on Castro.

I think that'll be the next one to go.

That and then I sent you another one that's the Mexican president right now and smoking like 20 cigarettes.

Yeah.

Dude, I'm done yet.

Yeah.

We're going to clean shit up on Cuba.

Trump saying, you know, he sees a what did he call it, not a hostile takeover, but a friendly

takeover.

Yeah.

Friendly takeover.

Exactly.

Like, I suspect the reaction of the Cuban people would be exactly what the reaction of

the Iranian people is right now.

I agree.

It's a liberation.

It's not a fucking war and all these Tom Macy assholes and tuckers and everybody else

that is on that bandwagon.

It's like, oh, it's illegal.

We show we have no business being on wars.

I love to the meme saying, what is Tucker's opinion going to be now when Qatar, right?

Right.

Qatar is on board.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I mean, do they even need Tucker?

Didn't I, didn't I say that the Qatar is going to get tired of Tucker within a year?

That year maybe happening sooner than expected, because ultimately, without Iran supplying

the money, there's no way Qatar is going to want to be the one single country supplying

money to Hamas because they know exactly what's going to happen.

They're watching it right now.

Yeah.

They're watching it right now.

And frankly, you know, Iran may have been too big for Israel to do on its own.

But Qatar is not too big for Israel to do on its own.

Yeah.

One of the things that I thought was funny is people talking about the strikes are illegal

and so on and the response being, it's not a legal strike.

It's just undocumented.

Documented strike.

That was great.

I wish I would have thought of that.

That is a really, really respawn.

The first person to come over then come back.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Two shacer.

Congratulations.

Golf clap.

That it was.

Yeah.

And it is.

It's like, they're just people, even if they call themselves America first, there are

people that just hate America.

They hate America.

They hate what it stands for.

They hate Trump.

They hate winning.

They want to be perpetually losing so they can point at Trump and CC.

We're losing because of him.

This upsets all their plans.

It's the apple cart.

Having America be doing what America had done last century and what nobody thought America

could do again, which is bringing peace to the world.

It's tremendous.

I mean, having Iran as a favored nation status country is going to be awesome.

Well, and say that again.

Having Iran as a most favored nation status country is going to be awesome or, you know,

little US Middle East.

You know, we didn't go in and take Gaza, so, you know, maybe who knows?

Yeah.

And I don't know.

I couldn't even begin to predict what's going to happen to Gaza without the money coming

in.

My guess is people are starting to get started going to start becoming a lot more meek

in Gaza and realize they have to actually work within their means and become friendly

with Israel.

Otherwise, they're just going to be dead.

Yep.

There's nobody want none of these Abraham Accord countries want them?

Did you see part of Putin's reaction to this today?

I saw the not Putin's.

I only watched the UN presentation where the Russian diplomat thought what Putin came

out today.

And said he is willing to accept US security guarantees in Ukraine.

Wow.

Well, that's something.

I did not see that.

Yeah.

That came out today.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Well, he's definitely like, there's a reason for that because he's not willing to accept

any European guarantees.

It has to be the US.

Well, but he also sees what we're doing to Iran right now.

Yeah.

And again, going back to that, Aresha, you're better off with us than against us.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

But like, Russia knows this.

The problem is that we were against Russia.

That's how the whole Ukraine situation happened.

Hillary Clinton.

Now, that's, I think that if Ukraine didn't have a revolution, if Ukraine just in the

course of normal elections got somebody that was very anti-Russian elected, I think there

would have been a lot more diplomacy and trying to find common ground rather than what happened.

Because what happened is that a guy who was, he wasn't, even all that pro-Russian, but

he wasn't anti-Russian either.

The guy, that's the guy who actually got elected.

And then shortly after election is when the revolution got staged by Hillary and her

team.

Well, this was during the Obama administration.

This has been, this is Jean, we're good old, you know.

We'd like to remind you halfway through the show.

If you like our jabber, please let others know.

This is Jean, this has been with the rest of the show.

Yeah, by Hillary and her team, Secretary of State, right?

Right.

So it's, I do think that both Putin and Trump, when they say this would not have happened

if Trump was president, are accurate.

But also it doesn't mean that this wouldn't have happened if everything else was exactly

the same.

The assumption is, Trump would not let have things get as bad as they got in Ukraine under

Biden.

Right.

Well.

I think it's all the Booz Allen drug labs in Ukraine.

Yeah.

Well, I think it's an important step though.

If Putin is willing to accept security guarantees from the U.S., then now whether or not we should

be willing to make those or hold a different story.

Well, Putin is a pragmatist, right?

So he is, if he loses sales to China, and he loses his Iranian trade, but in turn,

he gets American trade back, like that's a win.

That's not a loss.

It's all about what's actually good for Russia as a country.

And obviously, being friendly with the U.S. is good for Russia as a country.

Even after this whole situation with Ukraine, where the U.S. was basically paying for and

conducting a Ukrainian war that's funded in order to test American weaponry, even with

all that stuff, it's still better for Russia to be friends with America than not.

And I think Putin being a pragmatist knows that.

And that's why the biggest fear I have is of Putin dying prematurely, because there's

plenty of people in Russia that are not pragmatists.

They are driven more by emotion.

And they would refer to have revenge on the U.S. than to do something that's actually

good for the country.

Yeah.

Well, I think we are, I think we're going to see the Don Roe doctrine working very well.

I think the odds in Mexico get down the road.

Yeah.

Isn't Donald Trump?

Yeah.

You haven't heard he called that yet?

I have not.

No.

Yeah.

He's even said it.

The Don Roe doctrine.

Of course he said it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Anyway, I think the odds of Mexico getting in line and, you know, taking care of business,

but the problem Mexico has is, you know, we saw, so since the last podcast, we've had

a lot happened, dude.

It's been, it's been a week.

I thought I did one two days ago, but okay.

No, no.

You did one with Darren yesterday, but.

Did I?

I guess I did.

We've been talking about politics.

We talk about drugs mostly and that one.

We've been talking on discord while we see that's the problem is we've been talking while

not recording.

That's the issue.

Yeah.

That's why I keep thinking that we just have a show.

Anyway, Mexico took out a cartel leader with our help.

Yeah.

Yep.

Our intelligence.

But then the cartels retaliated and don't tourist areas.

Yeah.

I was wrong.

I got a polka, I think, right?

Yeah.

Yeah.

I didn't take any hostages in there.

Intelligence says in the computer in team America.

Yeah.

Yeah.

We need to gather intelligence and see what an intelligence tells us.

Intelligence is just a computer.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Mexico needs to get in line.

I mean, there's no two ways about it, but I don't think we're we're going to actively

go bomb Mexico, but certainly I think what we're going to do is oh, why not?

Well, drone strikes against the cartels.

Yeah.

I'm going to get some of those, but I need to rewatch Sherpico because I remember that

was a great movie and it was all about us going into Mexico to kill some cartels and

not really caring too much about laws.

You know, those things pesky little things, which I've said for a million years, international

law is a figment of people's imagination.

It doesn't exist on the international scale.

All that matters is your ability to project force.

Yeah.

And the only thing you can do if you don't have the ability to project force is just

bicker at the UN.

And what I say earlier to you today, man, I would love to see us just go in and arrest

every person that's in the UN right now.

Maybe not every person, but the majority.

I would arrest all of them.

It would be a statement.

So sent comm has put out a statement saying as of right now that there are no US casualties,

no US Navy ships have been struck.

The amount is fully operational and damage to US installations is minimal.

What's the time in operation normal?

Two hours ago.

Okay.

So I heard the same thing from my Israeli guys that they are not aware of any US casualties

right now.

Israeli casualties.

Yeah, there's 67 Israeli casualties as of a few hours ago, including an F-15 fighter

shot.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Which we saw in the video.

But yeah.

Yeah.

The Iranians targeting the the Burj Khalif is just insane.

Like that's such a big point of national pride for the UN.

Oh God.

Yeah.

That's, that's nuts.

And then do we ever figure out by the way, I think everyone should expect the Iranian

targets to get more and more insane as the upper leadership is dead and decapitated and

lower and lower level people who are fanatics are struggling to figure out what to do.

Yeah.

I think there's to some extent that the response is simply a we don't want to leave the new

government any weapons.

So we're going to utilize every weapon that we can no matter who it's shot at.

I mean, it doesn't matter.

Obviously, they're going to target.

But the key point being that they want to leave an empty military for the new government.

That's fine.

Yeah.

I love the the calendar meme that shows, you know, Maduro in January, the the cartel leader

in February and then the Iatola in March, right?

Well, and they they had to move the Iatola to back to February.

So now the now there's discussion on who's going to actually fill the March position.

It'll be Cuba.

I think it's a Cuba.

It's Cuba should be the freaking easiest and quickest and the same kind of reaction.

People there are tired of starving and having a government that is dictatorial.

And they will be grateful for the liberation that happens.

Not to mention the fact that attracting American tourist money is going to be driving the

economy insane in Cuba.

Like Florida is going to be pissed because all those trips to Florida that people are going

to take are all going to in Cuba.

Yeah, it was interesting and I liked your joke about just renaming it to South Florida.

Yeah, the the interesting thing is that the entire Iranian Navy is reported to be done.

So yeah, which the fat electrician has great story about the Iranian Navy in the last

time, the U.S.

Yes, affected.

And the last time we decided to respond proportionally, yeah, U.S.

This proportionally response doctrine has been true.

I'm just drinking some dew here.

So if you hear me move further away from the mic, it's because I'm taking a drink of

my yogurt soda.

Dude, I'm just this could save the midterms.

It could.

It could literally like if Trump, if this goes on for a few days and we get a free

Iran, oh my God, like I don't see how we could not.

All right.

So we've talked a little bit about Mexico, we've talked Cuba-ish.

We've talked Iran.

Do you want to where do you want to go next?

Gee, I wasn't prepared for you to ask.

Let me see.

Or do you want to continue to talk about this?

I've got a topic.

Okay.

Let's jump in.

Fucking Tony Gonzalez, dude.

Oh, yeah.

Herrera better win this outright.

Absolutely.

So for those who don't know, Tony Gonzalez takes his rap district 23, who barely beat

Brian and Herrera last time.

One of his staffers last year, supposedly, killed herself through self-immulation.

And her husband has now released some texts between her and Tony.

Yep.

Mind you, Tony is married with six kids.

And Tony in the text appears to be using his position of power and authority over her

to get her to do sexual stuff for him.

And you know, including, you know, asking her for anal and everything else.

And apparently, this was an ongoing affair where she would, in the text, basically,

tell him no, and he would just keep on.

And you and I have very strong feelings about sexual harassment and everything else would

just like, come on, be an adult, right?

Yeah.

But it's, you know, consenting adults.

See, if one person is in charge of the other, there can't be consent.

Well, and the other thing would be Tony, they have hypocrisy being worse than anything

else, right?

And he still denies it at this point.

Yeah.

And it's reduced to step down.

To me, it's not even so much the hypocrisy you make fun of me for the nuke statements.

Yeah.

I'm going to make fun of you for this one.

For some that I mispronounced hypocrisy, it's that I lost my movement and my tongue

apparently.

I think, for me, it's the lying about it, right?

Because he clearly got caught.

It's pretty obvious what happened happened.

I also suspected this immediately when that girl killed herself, but we didn't have

any evidence.

It was just suspicious.

Now we have evidence and he's still denying it.

And that's the part that gets me because, look, if a married guy, married with kids, has

an affair with woman who's also married, I think that's bad, absolutely, but also that's

mostly like bad for them and their families.

Not for me as a third party bystander, don't give a shit person.

Like that's just, you know, what you do is you come out and you say, my wife doesn't

put out and her husband's a dick and, you know, we found each other.

It worked out.

Oh, I think the stats that I've seen and back from the, what was that website that we were

all on back in the day, Madison, something Madison actually, man, I was never on there.

Sure.

Keep telling yourself that.

Anyway, I wasn't on that website.

What we found out is a lot of stats because they published those stats and about 17% of

men cheat and about 27% of women in marriages cheat.

That's about one out of three women is willing to have sex with somebody other than their

husband.

So I don't think Tony's uniqueness, but I think the use of his position should absolutely

be condemned and should make him somebody that is ineligible, frankly, for that position.

So he should drop out if he was a real man, not like keep running with this shit happening,

but also him lying about it.

That's like, look, when you finally get caught and there's sufficient evidence, there's

a certain point at which repeatedly denying it no longer places any doubt in people's minds,

it just simply makes you look bad.

Like you want to see more like your, you know, what's the word?

Like you're repenting.

That's the word.

I had trouble finding that word, but well, if you're, but if you keep denying it, then

you're not.

Exactly.

That's my point.

Like even if he's not actually repenting, it would actually be smarter for him to come

out and say, yes, I, I lost my way.

I made a mistake.

This is a horrible thing that happened.

You know, like basically there's more than enough for the House ethics committee to take

him out over this.

Absolutely.

So even if Brandon doesn't win on Tuesday, the third, everyone should go better.

And even if he doesn't, the House Ethics Committee could have him removed and there would

be a special election, which Brandon would win.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But he barely lost last time.

So hopefully he's getting actually, yeah, hopefully that'll be him.

Yeah.

I'd love to see him win with a lion slide, frankly.

I would restore some faith in South Texas for me, because right now, given that they

had elected that douchebag really makes me not have a high opinion of South Texas.

Yeah.

And the fact that people clearly connected to Tony Gonzalez's campaign have been calling

Brandon a neo-Nazi is just insanity.

I mean, the guy is a gun guy, right?

Like I don't even think he's expressed any opinions about many things other than guns

and certainly not any Nazi-like opinions.

So it's just, it's, it's a smear campaign.

That's all it is.

Yeah.

So, how cool is it going to be to watch gun meme reviews put on by a sitting conjuring?

I'm sitting conjuring.

I just can't wait to see him tear him a new one on the house floor.

Oh, God.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And between him and Luna being there, I mean, there's going to be like calendars coming

out.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Gun calendars.

What do you think?

I was referring to.

Yeah.

Her holding Brandon's gun collection in a swimsuit.

Uh-huh.

Exactly.

Which by the way, if those two hook up, I wouldn't be mad.

You know, her Instagram is still up.

No.

I had to confirm this the other day because of somebody.

And I'm like, yep, she still has her eating suit photos with guns up.

Under Instagram.

That is just baller.

Anyway, not trying to hide anything.

So we got a grade by so we supposedly in the Iranian attack use some new weaponry.

Yeah.

You were telling me the details of which have not all been released, but there were a lot

of UAPs over Iranian territory last night.

So.

Is that the hood?

UFOs?

Yeah.

Yeah.

I'm not super, super happy about all the re-terminology of UFOs.

Like, what was wrong with just calling me a foes?

I don't know.

Yeah.

But I don't know.

It's going to be interesting, man.

I love the Marco Rubio memes that are coming out with him as Castro and dictator of Cuba,

president of Mexico, now ran like hilarious.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's a hell of a thing.

Okay.

I was going to look up what other actual stories that we were going to talk about here.

I'm trying to remember.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

The other.

The hotel hit in Dubai was the apparently a very famous luxury hotel, the Fairmont.

Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

And we were watching that video and that was like, you can literally see the impact right

into the top floor of that building.

Yeah.

I've stayed at the Fairmont and Dallas, not the-

That is not an accident.

There's no way that was an accident.

No.

Yeah.

I don't- I don't know.

So the other memes that I've been posting quite a bit of an ex had to do with- it's actually

not one that I made, but somebody else made, but I've been posting, it's great, which

is your typical blue-haired girl standing in front of a table where the sign says a trade

in your flags, and so there's a bunch of these lefties standing with their Palestinian flags

to trade them in for IRGC flags, which is happening right now, like right now, if you look

in New York, there were protests today in New York.

And because, you know, mandami is obviously on the side of IRGC here, there were protests

in New York condemning the American attack, the legal American attack on the government

of Iran.

While in Washington, D.C., there was a celebratory, not protest, I guess a celebratory event

done by the- the Iranians, the Persians in living in the U.S., where they were playing

YMCA and dancing and flying the- the line flags are on, and super happy about what's going

on, which- it's just again, it just shows you the insanity of the left, and the walk right

is part of the left as far as I'm concerned, because it's the same mind-fires, is that

their evaluation criteria for what they're going to support isn't based on how good or bad

something is?

It is 100% based on what somebody else thinks of that thing, and if that somebody else

is something they don't like, like Trump or Israel, then they're going to have the contrary

opinion without any actual independent evaluation of whether that event is good or bad.

Like it's an automated- oh, Trump said that everybody should eat salad dressing?

Well, no, fuck that, salad dressing is the most evil thing you can eat.

We're going to boycott salad dressing now.

It's that kind of mentality.

Well, it's definitely a reactionary Trump- arrangement syndrome mentality.

Yeah, yeah.

But my point is, it's the same thing on the left and the right.

It's just on the left, it's Trump, on the right, it's Israel, but it's the same mentality.

It's not actually independently evaluating and using logic and your faculties that most

people possess, some extend at least, to evaluate each individual scenario and then decide

on what's good and bad.

It is strictly based on the enemy of my enemy is the good guy.

That's their whole operating system, but they're running on.

It has been for years.

Did you see the...

Not so much on the right for years, though.

Well, yeah, but I'm talking about the left.

Did you see the Irish data privacy ad that I put up?

No.

So it's pretty interesting.

This family, a wife, husband and their daughter are walking through a mall and these strangers

are saying, oh, hi to the daughter and it was your birthday, did you have fun?

Yeah.

Fucking a good for Ireland, trying to educate parents, don't post your family shit on

fucking Facebook, dumbass, like I've made it a rule very early on, I don't think the

people in that ad had Irish accents that there were Americans.

Yeah, but it's Irish government that put that together.

So what are the implying, don't trust Americans?

I don't know.

Like it's because the petal looking guy was definitely had an American accent in that

ad.

Anyway, it has some of my views on the ex-posts, but yeah, it's data protection commission.i.e.

Yeah.

So that's Ireland.

Yeah.

No, but it's a good message and people don't realize, you know, when you're posting

about your, this goes into, you know, op-sec, operational security.

When you're just putting stuff out there about yourself, you're letting the world know

way too much about you.

This is why I don't post personal shit on line.

No, I don't let my kids pictures be put online.

Just know.

Shit, dude, I don't let my picture be put online.

Oh, bullshit, your face is plastered everywhere.

Oh, whatever.

That's a cartoon, man, that's not what I actually look like.

But it's a, it's something that, unfortunately, a lot of people just don't even think about

it.

Like, and as somebody doesn't really care about their kids, it's wasted bandwidth.

Like I don't need to see photos of everybody, kids, like dude, just not, you don't need

to post that shit.

And there are people that absolutely want to see those photos for bad reasons, so don't

post that shit.

And just think in the day and time we're living in with AI and what you can do with local

models when you're a computer with a decent graphics card, so I'm going to take a picture

of your kid that was totally innocent and turn it into live action porn.

Absolutely.

Like, I just, I really don't, I don't get why people feel the need to fake up and show

off their lives and quite frankly, virtue signal that look how good I am what I'm doing

with my kids and all this.

That's for you.

That's for your family.

Like, I have a Google photo album.

They use their kids as accessories.

Yeah.

I have a Google photo album that I use and I use Google just because it's easy for

grandparents and everybody to access.

But you know, that's private and we share photos and stuff with a select group of people

and that's all we do.

Yeah.

So if I can, I don't know if I can add anything else because that's just true.

I think the idea of putting third part and really kids are like their second parties.

I guess right?

They're not third parties.

But putting somebody else's images and likenesses on the internet is not a good practice.

It's bad enough you put your own shit on there and God knows women post way too much crap

for other men to look at.

I mean, I don't want to, you know, I'm not for Sharia law or anything, but Jesus Christ,

there's so many women that are married that looking at their Instagrams, you would think

they're only fans models trolling for single guys, you know?

Yeah.

Donations.

Yeah.

And they're, they're married.

It's like Jesus Christ and and their husband don't know a lot of the time.

Yeah.

That's what I was about to say.

How many of their husbands have no clue?

Yeah.

Because, you know, husbands, right?

Of course, you don't have a clue because you're not concerned about that stuff.

You're in a happily married relationship.

And you're not on Instagram.

Mm-hmm.

The only man on Instagram is John C. Dorek and me.

That's in single, yeah, and younger, yeah, I'm just there to check on things, you know,

for validation purposes for open source intelligence purposes, you see the 17 page leaked

White House memo on the elections.

Uh-huh.

Nope.

So I sent it to you in our chat and said this could fit the elections.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So Trump, it's an executive order claiming that certain jurisdictions that during the 2020

election, we've proven half voter fraud that they, since it's a federal election, he's

going to conceivably federalize those specific counties and areas.

Yep.

That's good.

And we talked about this before.

I just think that federal elections should be done by the federal government period.

I just don't think that you need a special circumstance for it.

And I think that when you're talking about a nationwide election, not a local election,

it is assamined to have every state have different rules for that.

It's just stupid.

So state elections, I don't care.

So one state wants to do, you know, list, list all the people that are child predators

first because that's what they want to get elected, that's, that's their state thing.

Don't care.

But if you're talking about federal elections, you cannot risk that.

This is also why I'm actually a believer in elections over internet.

And I know you disagree with this, but I think if done properly with biometric identification

and measures against false ability, I think that internet based elections would actually

be much better.

Yeah.

But sorry to interrupt, but and change the subject back to Iran, but federalment just

put out a statement on Twitter, put out a statement about six hours ago.

Is this a different statement?

Or are you just seeing the same one?

Maybe I'm just saying it.

Presley Trump has been willing to do the right and necessary things to produce real

peace in the region.

That was about six hours ago.

Yes.

The United States in a great military.

Betterment is a better Republican than half the Republicans.

Oh, agreed.

And you know, he's one of the only Democrats during the state of the Union willing to stand

up in clap.

Yeah.

You know, just ignored the rest of his party and, you know, rose for the US hockey team,

rose for the veteran.

Exactly.

Friends, you know, I'm sure you had plenty of disagreement with President Trump.

But, you know, when Trump set the trap for the Democrats and said, please stand if you

think your government should represent its people and not even millions, and he was

one of the only Democrats that stood up.

Yeah.

Hey, whatever they did to his brain, they fixed him.

He had a long reboot cycle there where it is pretty iffy and I helped reboot cycle.

So as much as I thought I was ridiculous that they kept him in the race, you know, given

what happened with the stroke, I thought I was just crazy that he ended up winning and

somebody is clearly mentally incapable of serving.

I was totally wrong.

I happily admit that.

Because the guy has proven himself to be like the only, the only actual human repot

Democrat, the only human Democrat that we have, the rest of our bots.

And it is sad because like when I ran for office back in 1994, I'd say 75% of the Democrats

were like federalmen.

They had different opinions, fiscal policies and they were generally for abortion, but they

were people you could go to lunch with and have conversations about plenty of other topics

and fine come and ground and actually, you know, enjoy his friends.

But not anymore, not not the case anymore.

The Democrats are not like federalmen, I lost you there for a second.

I know.

I'm going to keep talking.

They're generally not like federalmen.

They're now just bots.

They all repeat the exact same lines, the same shit that you see on TV on the view that

that's generally what the Democrats say.

And they don't care whether what comes out of their mouth is in fact accurate.

They they'll just going to say it anyway.

I mean, they're, they're more actors than Hollywood actors at this point because what

they say has no relevance with reality.

And federalmen is a large break from that in that he's and he's been asked, he's like,

well, why don't you switch parties as well?

You know, I still kind of believe in a lot of Democrat principles, even if none of the

other Democrats do.

So yeah, it's, I think Trump and federalmen could have dinner together and there wouldn't

be a single thing that they would be disagree on because both those guys would have

way more in common than they have differently.

They both put ketchup on a steak.

That's probably true.

You know, one of the things that I thought was striking though is the state of the union

with federalmen is he actually wore a suit right, right?

Yeah.

He didn't do that for the first year, but I think he got enough pushback on it.

Yeah.

By the way, what did you think of the state of the union?

Yeah, it's good.

I got to be honest, a little too long for my taste, longest in history.

And I don't think that needed to be a goal, frankly, but he already had that record, by

the way.

Yeah, of course he did, of course he did.

And it's mostly because Trump repeats it almost everything three times.

So there was quite a bit of repetition, but it was a good speech.

I liked it.

It just didn't need to be that long.

That was my impression.

Okay.

Democrats were being idiots as usual.

I thought it was, I thought it was brilliantly done.

I thought it was very much a weird back speech.

I thought he laid out the case very well.

I'm just not mad at it.

I thought it was good.

Well, I'm not mad.

I'm just saying that it didn't have to be that long.

He did not look like his age during speech.

No, he was clearly very energized.

Yeah.

Now, he did look pretty tired when he announced the, they were on action.

Well, it was 3 a.m.

Yeah.

He'd look like he needed to go back to bed.

But so would probably anybody in that position.

It's a stressful decision making the call like all of that.

But also to be fair, I mean, he's not at the White House.

He's basically been just living in Mar-a-Lago the whole time.

So you know, other presidents were kind of chastised for not spending enough time

at the White House.

Trump doesn't even try.

He just lives at his own house, which also is kind of ironic that where he's living

in and where he has all the secret service security is where under Biden, we had the FBI

coming in and sorting through all his shit through Melania's panty drawer.

Exactly what I was thinking.

Which, all right, honest moment.

If you were on that raid and you had the opportunity, would you?

No.

Of course not.

Bullshit.

Bullshit.

Shit.

No.

No.

No.

No.

No.

No.

No.

No.

No.

No.

No.

No.

No.

No.

No.

No.

No.

No.

Langerie drawer.

It's like, okay, we're going to get along.

I don't know, man, some little something every now and then can be fun to take off.

That's what the leather outputs are for.

The sea leather and latex have never done it for me.

Really?

Oh, man.

Yeah.

That's different.

I guess you're all into satin shit there.

The more feminine, soft, and then, you know, yeah, but that's a topic for not only fans

podcast.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

That's right.

This is for subscribers only.

We're going to do a special episode.

We'll even make it PG-13 rated unlike this.

Oh.

Oh.

Boy, I don't know what else we got, dude.

I mean, my brain's kind of been vacuumed out by the day to day.

Like whatever topics I probably had thought of.

Oh, well, we had a ton, but yeah, it's, yeah, I tend to agree just because it's, today

has been an sensory overload day in a lot of ways, right?

Yeah.

Well, I, okay.

So, anthropic, apparently, now been kicked out.

So, we had that story.

Yeah.

And their CEO's none too pleased about it.

Yeah.

Well, fuck him.

Well, I mean, the department of war and duty has, and I have experience.

With these companies, you know, because we, my company is, we do a lot of work for defense

contractors.

Yeah.

No shit.

Everybody knows everything about you.

Yep.

No, they don't.

Anyway, but like, Palantir, I would take Palantir over a lot of the others.

Well, of course you would, because Palantir has got everybody's camera access.

So, naturally, Palantir has a lot of shit, dude.

And the way they do things and the way they approach it, it works because there is no,

it's not a large, it's not a traditional LLM.

That's not the way it works.

It's a different approach.

Anyway.

Yeah.

So, relating to that, somebody did a quick test, which are very popular these days, is

let's compare four different AI engines and see what kind of answer they give to the

same question.

And this was Donald Trump rights to strike Iran must answer yes or no, brah, yes.

Jet GPT, no, Gemini.

The question that whether military action against Iran was the right decision is subject

of intense debate among policymakers, military analysts and the public and deviled arguments

on those sides could be correct.

Claude.

This is a genuinely contested political and geopolitical question where reasonable people

disagree strongly based on different values.

It's not an answer.

And I will not be providing an opinion.

I mean, why would you use anything other than crack for critics?

By the way, did you see it looks like the F-22 finally got a kill?

Oh, no, I didn't, because I was wondering if we were even going to have them flying.

Yeah, they did.

They did get one.

What did it take down?

Possibly the first air to air kill, combat kill for these two is an F, F or phantom.

Oh, my God.

Like talk about a your phone and totally outclass, dude.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So they're still flying phantoms.

That's great.

Yeah.

Well, they did.

I'm just glad it was an F-14.

Yeah.

You just want that sitting in the Smithsonian.

I do.

The Iranian F-14s brought it back.

Did we ever get paid for those?

I don't know.

I don't know if we did or not every, yeah, because I know we were selling, we were selling

a lot of weapons to run right before the revolution.

Well, the Shaw, the Shaw had, you know, the reason why they have the F-4 phantoms and

the F-14s.

Yep.

Yeah.

And the last thing in 79, I think, began the year he had his big birthday party.

They had dignitaries from all over the world.

And there was a lot of, a lot of countries that were like basically announcing deals that

they just done with Iran on his birthday.

Because I mean, the deals was obviously already figured out beforehand, but it was one

of those kind of ceremonial things.

Yeah.

It was the king after all.

So one thing, one of the other stories I wanted to touch on fairly quickly and then we

call it, but so Alberta is not going to be the only province having a referendum.

Really?

Well, yeah, it looks like Quebec.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

You did mention that to me the other day.

Yeah, that's very cool.

Now, I don't know that we really want Quebec.

I think they can stay independent.

No, though, let them be independent.

That's totally fine.

Yeah, yeah.

But maybe France will take them.

It really looks like, it looks like Canada is really

interesting.

It's the greatest last leg.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Man, I would love to see Australia do the same thing.

Have the Western provinces that I actually like their guns say, fuck you to the Eastern

provinces, which don't?

Well, in Great Britain, the restore Britain is, it's growing by leaps and brows, bounds.

I think we could see, I don't know that Europe is salvageable, though Hungary and Poland

keep proving me wrong, but which is also why Ukraine decided to blow up the pipeline.

No shit.

The feet of the energy to Hungary and Hungary put troops on the border.

Yeah.

Yeah, what exactly as they should, Hungary, Hungary's about to come in on the side of Russia

on that shit, man.

Yeah, exactly.

No, and they're not really huge fans of Russia either, but they're definitely not fans

of what Ukraine's doing.

I will say this action that we've taken in the Middle East and Iran's retaliation when

they blew up some of the Saudi's oil production, China's screwed, Putin's rich, and the US

is going to be largely insulated because we are fairly energy, independent, and we took

Venezuela first.

Yeah.

Yeah.

The US is also rich.

If it hasn't already happened today, I'm absolutely predicting oil is going to be 100 bucks

a gallon plus.

Yeah.

I keep saying that.

You mean barrel.

Oil and a barrel.

Oil and a barrel.

Oil and a barrel.

Up to date, right?

12%.

Yeah.

I haven't looked at the latest future market, but as of the like 10 a.m. this morning, it

was already at 12%.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It totally makes sense because we've reduced the oil supply.

It's literally in one month by a big shot.

And this is.

Yep.

It's good for oil producing nations for all.

It's good for Saudi Arabia, but it's also really good for us and it's good for Russia.

It's good for Venezuela.

For countries that import oil.

Like China.

China.

Yeah.

Europe.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Europe, Germany.

Not France as much because they were at least smart enough to build nukes.

And you know, Norway's got their own pipelines.

They're pumping their own oil, but a lot of sort of central European countries are definitely

fucked.

They import oil.

This entire year, 226 has been nothing but a fuck you to the globalists and I love it.

Yeah.

It's been a banner year all the way around and partly because I'm feeling celebratory,

I'll go ahead and announce it on the podcast here.

I've lifted my block of CSB.

Oh.

Wow.

So he's not he's now unblocked.

I don't know why you and Darren block him.

I just don't even bother because he said anything that's pissed you off enough to block

him.

Probably not.

I don't even.

Yeah.

Hey, CSB.

Here's your new challenge.

Get banned to be so pissed off that he blocks you.

And Darren and I'll send you some Bitcoin.

How's that fair?

That's fair.

Yeah.

Darren's gone off the rails on the AI music on your show.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

No, he is as we like to as men like to do in general, he's justifying his investment.

You know, when you go to do it, he is he's playing with it.

He is right now, he's probably about a month away from pulling the trigger on buying

the brand new bigger Mac studio.

Why?

Because he can hook him up together and have an even more powerful AI generator.

And that's fair.

I have 5090.

Uh, no, this is so the stuff that the Max will do the 5090 can't the 5090 can do other

things, but the the ability to use all of your RAM for a data set is something that allows

you to do stuff that the 5090 just can't be used for.

Yeah, but you're regular RAM and V RAM are two totally different things though.

Now in the Mac, the Macs are more expensive.

They use the expensive memory for everything.

Yeah.

So all DDR5 plus or whatever it is, yeah, it'll be interesting when this when the bottom

falls out of the AI and we start getting 5090s for nothing.

Yeah.

That was the data center.

I mean, not that you need one.

Should we talk a little bit about your latest hobby?

Uh, okay.

If you want.

Well, I think that I've definitely contributed to Ben's delinquency here.

Well, not delinquency.

It's just when I have been I've been playing your Hobbies again.

I have gotten back into actually fairly seriously playing video games for the first time since

like 2012, 2013.

Yeah.

And I know what that feels like because again, I stopped pretty much playing all games in

2010.

And it wasn't until I was dating a chick that was a streamer on Twitch who was 21 and

she kind of got me back into video games because I was buying her computer shit.

I was like, oh, I kind of get one for myself to you, I guess.

And then I was like, oh, shit, I remember how fun this is.

Damn it.

I got to say playing Cyberpunk with everything basically set it ultra.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

Except some of the ray tracing at the worst frame rates I've gotten has been around 90.

And I'm usually over 120.

Yeah.

Easily over 100 at native 4k at 4k with everything on all tricks except for ray tracing.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And that's mainly the main thing you get with a 50 90 is you get to turn on ray tracing

and still have those high frame rates of over a ray tracing pushes me down to like 60.

Yeah.

But you, but you did have it on for a little bit so you could see what it does.

Like you saw the difference that it makes.

It's not required.

But I have some ray tracing on I have the local stuff on it.

Okay.

Yeah.

Yeah.

The big hit comes in when you're doing all light sources.

Right.

Right.

Because it's got a lot of everything.

Yeah.

As long as you're not doing all light sources, I'm doing great on frame rate.

And it's fun.

Helldivers looks good.

Counter strike to insane 200 plus frames.

Yeah.

I mean that that has much older graphics.

So it should look really good.

Yeah.

But everything running in 4k.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And I'll tell you why I brought it up while I mentioned it because it is kind of funny

is.

Yeah.

I'm just doing my thing.

Whatever.

It's 10 o'clock at night.

Also, and I'll get a phone call.

Ben's like, okay.

So I'm here trying to move the robot and I can't figure out where it's supposed to go.

You jump on.

So.

I've been I have to say I like doing this.

This is enjoyable for me.

This is why I started doing YouTube videos is helping people path their way through video

games.

It's something I consider to be fun.

So for a couple of days now, we've actually jumped online with Ben playing me watching what

he's doing using the power of discord.

And then keeping my mouth shut is the hard part, right?

Because I have this obvious desire to just tell them constantly what to do.

But I'm trying to let him make all the choices himself.

And only if he asks me, then I'll chime in and give him an answer.

Or if he just walks by something super obvious that he's going to need later.

I'm like, dude, to your left, to your left.

But yeah, I think it's been fun shooting the ship more than once.

Yeah.

Well, that's true too.

Yeah.

It is the sort of guy conversation that I used to have.

And I'm sure you used to have back in your 20s when you're just sort of zone out everything

else and zone into the video game and chatting with your buds.

Yeah.

Like it's just bringing back memories of like Nazi zombies.

Like the last time I was really into gaming, you know, bio shock and world at war or stuff

like that.

And my friends used to come over and I had this big projector and we would play Nazi zombies

on the Xbox like crazy and got really good at it.

You know, but the so when I lived in when I was in college, my last gaming PC, real gaming

PC was a Pentium for era PC.

You know, and so after that, I had an Xbox for some time, but that was me getting out

of gaming, right?

Right.

Because I consider the only real serious gaming to be PC gaming.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And since the Xbox, you don't consider the Wii to be serious gaming since the Xbox 360,

I haven't had a gaming console.

Yeah.

So, you know, I just got busy work, life, you know, everything.

Exactly.

So, yeah, yeah, and it's like, you know, there's plenty of times where you or other friends

have asked me, yeah, well, you remember that, that like 1998, weren't you playing that

games like now between about 94 and 2005.

I was having a lot of sex.

I was not playing video games.

Have you?

Well, that's a different type of game.

Yeah, but it one requires just as much time that you don't have to video games.

Have you ever played Counter Strike all the way or Half Life all the way through?

No.

You haven't played Half Life all the way through?

No.

So, you need to get the one with the updated graphics and play it.

It looks great.

Right.

And it's, yes, it is a fun, good game.

I mean, I've played Half Life mods, I've just never played the actual Half Life.

No, the story, the Half Life is worth playing through.

Okay.

Well, that ought to be cheap enough on Steam.

Well, it's not good.

Oh, I think it's free.

Well, that's pretty community addition.

Yeah.

Oh, it's it called.

Oh, let me open up steam.

Mm-hmm.

Oh, yeah.

By the way, I went through yesterday and played the exact same portion myself that you

did in the type of punk and actually went through and collected every single item and

killed every single person without getting hit once.

Oh, good for you.

Yeah.

Can I tell people how bad your mouse skills are?

You mean my driving skills?

Your mousing skills.

Ben moves the mouse and then stops and then moves it again and then stops and then moves

it.

Like, where's the flow, man?

You got to get zen with your mouse.

You just never stop moving the mouse.

It should always be moving closer and closer.

It's been a while, Gene.

Yeah, yeah.

It's been a while.

You got to get that hand practice up, buddy.

Anyway, I think it's Half-Life Source is the data graphics one.

Okay.

I'll snag that.

Yeah, it shouldn't be much of anything.

Very good.

And one of these days, probably after you've done with Cyberpunk, I'll give you a walking

tour of Star Citizen, which I've told you before, is not ready anywhere near for prime

time to be in development for 13 years.

But I can't call it a game because it's got way too many bugs.

But it is a really beautiful, cool spaceship and planet environment to check out.

Just not really, not really play on the regular basis at all.

So Half-Life Source One is $9.99.

Yeah.

I'll get that.

How do I send you a gift?

Oh, you can just click buy, and then the last you do want to buy for yourself or somebody

else, and then you could buy it for me.

Okay.

So that's good.

I bought you a few games.

That's fair.

Yeah.

Which reminds me, I'll walk you through checking, but I want to make sure you have the DLC

for Elite Dangerous because it's on sale right now if you don't have it.

I have it.

You do have the DLC, both the main game and the DLC.

Okay.

I don't know about the DLC.

Well, that's, that's literally what I'm talking about, it's a DLC, not just the main

game.

Because they've got the main game, 70% off right now and the DLC, I think, is 50.

Anyway, given that we're talking about video games here, I think we're done with the

podcast here.

All right.

Well, as you get anything else, you know, hopefully this continues and we have success

and we end up with a free and friendly Iran and peace in the Middle East.

And, you know, given the reaction of all the Middle Eastern countries, like I can see

a new Middle East coalition coming out of this.

How awesome would that be, huh?

Like I can literally see Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar and Israel and the New Iranian government

in a mutual defense treaty.

Yeah.

And mutual trade and mutual everything.

I mean, like they're going to, the tourism is going to boom.

I know.

I'll go to Iran.

Like I told you on the phone today, I'm looking forward to getting jobs in Iran rebuilding.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Well, that makes all of sense too.

But even aside from the rebuilding, just it will be a bucket list item for me to be

a tourist in Iran, for sure, because I still remember when Iran was free.

Like I remember 78, 79 and then how old were you?

I was young, but I, what do you think I didn't watch TV?

Okay.

I remember shit.

Oh.

I remember the clothes that I used to wear back then were so ridiculous, man.

Bell bottoms were never a good look for anybody.

They still aren't.

No, they're not.

And that's why like when they kind of started making it come back, I'm like, zzzz.

Not good.

Thank God.

Quarter Roy's never came back.

Yeah.

That was another 70s thing that just should have never happened.

All right.

You know, catch you.

All right.

Okay.

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