0082 Sir Gene Speaks with Dude Named Ben

This is sir Jean during me, once again, this is Ben. Ben, when are we gonna get a new name for the podcast?

As soon as we can agree on one, man, we need some suggestions.

yeah, suggestions are good. I think I've shot down. Just about all the ones you had

Yeah,

Uhhuh.

Thanks.

You're welcome. I'm just trying to do my job

and, and how much how many suggestions have you come up with?

too

I that's, that seems like a big number for that, but okay.

Just trying to keep, keep it going.

how you been

I've been busy. I'm like, I'm not working. I'm

supposed to be unemployed.

Exactly. And I've been freaking busy because I've been meeting with potential clients and, and people I can get me potential clients. So it's been a little, little hectic unplanned, but Hey, I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna not take a meeting with somebody that I may wanna end up working for.

So are these like lunch meetings or what

lunch dinner, I've spent some fricking good meals.

yeah. Who, who who's paying?

Not me, which is the best.

Hmm. Okay. All right. Interesting, good.

Yeah. I mean, these are places where the last time I went there with the two people and no drinks, it was 400 bucks.

Geez.

Yeah.

Well, yeah.

The cost of everything's going up, you know, I, I just kind of did the math in my head the other day, you know, like a dual income family right now where, you know, let's say the, the they're both professionals,

Mm-hmm

that's a $300,000 a year income.

ish. Yeah.

Yeah. Ish. And

I'd say closer to two, but

mm, well, the one I'm thinking of is probably over three, but let let's

I mean, depending on the level of professional, it could be over five, so

could be, it could be, but I'm talking like management. So 150, 180 K a year. Thereabouts

Yeah. But I mean, even in big corporations you've got in taxes, at least you've got some manager level positions only at like 120 K a year.

yeah.

So it, it vastly gyrates on

two 50. Yeah. But either way, either way, it's up in that range these days

mm-hmm,

where like dual income family years ago, you know, this is how inflation works used to be a little over a hundred K

mm-hmm

like maybe 130

well, in the late eighties and early nineties, my parents were making around 120. With their, you know, my mom not really working, but running the corporation and you know, that was really good money then

It was exactly cars were significantly cheaper

mm-hmm

along with everything else. But anyway, I don't wanna get stuck on the whole reminisce thing about boy of inflation's really screwed over everybody cuz it, it, I mean, it kind of has, but also salaries have gotten up. So it's really, the only thing that's happened is the dollar's been devalued.

well, but salaries have not kept up with inflation though. That's the problem.

That is true. That is true.

you know, when with our current bout of inflation, they're really not keeping up. And I guess, I don't know if you saw the, some of the bricks announcements on their new banking system that they're setting up

no, I I've been kinda unplugged. I mean, I was already prepping to be on vacation. I mean, unemployed and therefore not really keeping up with any news, so fill me in.

so I'll, I'll just keep it simple, but we really need to start handling show notes better, and I put in links for what I'm saying, but essentially they are going through and creating their own payment system for not

can add footnotes.

I'm sorry.

You can add footnotes

Yeah. They're. Oh, Zencaster

Yeah, yeah,

can it's right now. All I have is the chat though. I don't have the footnote section that's

Oh you don't. Oh, okay.

Anyway, as I was saying, the

Before you started rudely interrupted.

the bricks

Go right ahead.

a competitor

tell us what, what you wanna say.

So the bricks nations are setting up a competitor swift and this competitor would encompass basically half of the nations on earth. And there are talking about very bluntly saying, Hey, we can, and we'll move this set of trade off the Petro dollar.

Amazing. It's taken them this long,

well, I mean, it's a pretty big move and it takes a lot to get, you know, a hundred country. Well, you know, 60 countries to make that move. The, the scary thing here is if we, if they all they would really have to add into their current Alliance is Saudi Arabia. And then we're, we're done

Oh, that's happening

Right? So what

when the

to inflation? What happens to inflation when half the country's on the face of the earth go, you know what? I don't really need this dollar anymore.

no, we know what happens.

Yeah. We become third world

We are a third world. Yeah. Yeah. We, we become what we deserve to be at this point. The decisions that have been made in government are consistent with a banana Republic right now,

Yeah.

rating your political enemies compounds.

Well, you know, interesting thing on that, the division of the FBI that did the raid is the same division of the FBI that did crossfire hurricane.

Mm-hmm

Huh? How interesting is that?

well, and then the judge that authorized the raid is the same judge that represented the pedophile.

Well, it wasn't a judge at the time and he didn't rep he didn't represent Epstein. He represented Epstein's pilot and some other

Oh, whatever the point is, it's all connected. It's a big cabal. That's what I'm saying. It's a cabal, not political advice. So what should we be surprised at all or not really?

I don't think we should be surprised. And I don't think we should be surprised, especially with current global tensions that China and Russia are threatening this, but the American people really do need to wake up and understand the reality of the situation

No, they'll wake up her right

they will. I

blows up next to them.

well, when when inflation, literally, you know, your money is cut in half it'll be a very interesting day. So, you know, the only, the, the big problem is, is we don't produce a lot here. I mean, we have enough food in. You know, the us, we don't import a whole ton of food, you know, other than fruits and tropical things like that that'll go away.

Mm,

you know, right now when you have literally ranchers that I know taking half their herd to slaughter right now, cuz of the water and hay shortage when you have farmers plowing under at least a third of their crops,

Yep.

not looking great for next year

And they still have to pay manta to replant.

oh man. Talk about an

I mean, bear.

Yeah. Whatever don't care bear,

Yes. We need to pay the Germans to be able to plant crops.

Yes. And to use glyphosates that, you know, kill people,

Mm-hmm

allegedly,

allegedly.

you know, I'm,

I, I think whether you wanna put it in the in the more religious context and say a day, reckoning is definitely coming for the us.

absolutely, you know, it, it's interesting just on the whole Monsanto glyphosate thing. I really try to, I, I don't use Roundup. I don't, I, I refuse to

plant enough stuff to even need.

Yeah. I mean, in, in the flower beds and yeah, there's lots of places where it would be nice.

Why would you use it in flower beds? Would you care if, if critters eat your flowers?

Roundup is not about critters. It's about weeds.

Oh, well, I see. This is how much I plant.

Yes. Okay. So right now I've got some nuts edge that is just keeps coming up, keep coming up. And I have fricking tried everything. I've got one more pest one more herbicide to try before I finally break down and use Roundup and I'm hoping to not, but yeah.

Why don't you just use pests? Get the, get a bug that eats it.

Anyway,

Why there's gotta be bugs that eat it.

well, it's just a very hearty Africanized African grass that is just a pain in the rear to get rid of. So

What's it called? I'm gonna look it up. What's it called?

nuts S edge.

Nutsack.

No, I'll send you a link. Jesus

All right. Good enough. It's a Cyprus. ESUs interesting. Okay. And it looks ugly.

yeah. I mean, it's just a grass

Oh, I know what you need. You need a sheep.

Yes, that will also eat the roses and everything

Well, okay. But you can fence off the roses, but the wait, the roses, you, this thing is not killing your roses.

I'm sorry.

This thing is not killing off your roses.

No, it's just growing in amongst the roses and the other bushes and things

But the, how tall does it get?

all, if I let it it'll get three feet

Really? Okay. I didn't realize that. Yeah. Cause I was gonna say, I mean the best thing to do for roses my dad used to grow those things is just to put a cover the soil with vinyl

Mm-hmm

and uncover the vinyl with rocks or wood chips or something that looks nice. And then the rose just is the only thing sticking through the vinyl.

mm-hmm

Have you tried that?

mm-hmm the problem is the mulch that the, I had the company re mulch, the flyer beds, cuz we were, I was traveling a lot and didn't have time this spring and apparently the than nets edge was in the mulch. So yeah. Anyway, not good pain in

so, okay. You can try rocks

Yeah, I'm not redoing the entire flower bed right now. I'll next spring. When it comes to it, I'll remove all the mulch. I'll nuke, everything. I'll put down a weed barrier and then

yeah.

but that that's just not gonna happen. Mid Midsummer

No, I hear you. I hear you. It's I, I, when I was young, the all the like roses and

mm-hmm

what do you call the type of, it's a plant. It's not really a flower. All that stuff had weed barriers. And then with rocks on top, actually. What are the white rocks?

Limestone

no, no, no, like actual white.

gypsum.

It's the Flint.

Flint's black

I'm pretty sure it's white. What, what's the white rock that sparks.

Flint sparks, but it's black.

Okay. But what's the white thing that sparks.

I, I don't know what

Anyway, we have those, cause you could just pick up any two rocks kind 'em against each other and you'll get sparks.

yeah

and then when my parents retired the house, they bought had a fully rocked in yard.

no, thank you.

So it was all rocks with some areas for plants.

Yeah, I like my grass.

You like grass, I've never been a fan of grass. I don't like mowing,

Yeah, I like grass. I like a nice thick lawn that you can just,

honestly. You know, the thing that I, I think looks the nicest that I, maybe it's just a childhood memories is I, I love. The flooring on the inside of tall pine forests where it's just pine needles and nothing else on the bottom, it's just cuz they kill off the grass. So

off for the pine needles, the acidity of the pine needles kills off pretty much everything.

they look it's like this orange kind of covering that I've really like

well, I'll tell you a story. So I was hunting a few years back and I, I shot a

you hunting wabbit?

no deer, and anyway, I shot this dough. It was on a pipeline on some property I have in these Texas and she F flopped down and like, okay, good hit. Anyway, she got up and walked into the little pine Grove, right beside the I'm like, okay, great. So I wait a little while, let her, you know, bleed out and and the lights failing and I go hunt trying to find her and then fall on the blood trail and all that. But you know, the color of a deer's.

Oh yeah. I never

those pine needles. I mean, I got the dog area, never found her. It, it was, and I guarantee you, we were within a few feet of her

Oh my God. Yeah, the dog didn't find her.

Well, he, this, this, my dog at the, this dog at the time, it was my dad's dog was not trained. He was just a dog.

He was just walking around with you.

Yeah. But

How do you put the earmuffs on them when you're shooting?

I'm sorry.

How do you put the earmuffs on the dog when you shoot?

Why would you do that?

Because you're gonna ruin this earring.

So,

Well, what do you mean? So,

I mean, I might hear my, my left ear is D pretty deaf

and you consider that a positive thing.

No, it's just comes from shooting guns a lot

Yeah. Yeah. You should be wearing ear protection.

and I do now, but you know, as a kid and hunting, I don't wear ear protection.

you don't

No, the only time I wear ear protections at the range,

Oh my God. Well, you're nuts.

no, I just need my ears when I'm

You're gonna your ears already suck as you're doing this. No, no, no. You ought to be wearing electronic hearing protection. That amplifies sounds and cuts off loud. Sounds.

Mm-hmm

Yeah. Cuz then you can hear like a fricking, you know, coyote where you can hear everything for 20 miles around you. You can hear the grass wrestling, you know where to look and then you you're totally safe shooting because it's gonna cut out.

Yeah. So when I'm

shocked. You're a high tech guy. I'm surprised you don't do this.

so the only time I wear ear pro hunting is when I'm bird hunting, because bird hunting, you know, I'm not really listening for them. It's much more visual. And I'm gonna be firing multiple rounds, but when I'm deer hunting, it's usually one round.

it's 145 decibel round that permanent ear damage. Every time you pull the trigger,

Yeah.

ah, I don't get it, dude. You're a smart guy. You, you, you did all that science and math stuff. You gotta be able to calculate it.

Huh.

Exactly. Huh? That's I, okay. I know what

time I wear earbuds. I'm

know what to get. I know what to buy you for your birthday.

Uhhuh. I mean, I wear earbuds a lot, you know, just walking around the house, listening to stuff. So I, I, man, we, the act of hearing itself is damaging. So

okay. Now you're just being hyperbolic. The act of living is death Uhhuh.

Well, it's true.

it is every minute you're live. It kills you murder. Mer. It kills you more. I was gonna say further. And then I started saying more. So I got Mer or Mer

it's a little early in the morning for gene

oh, it's super early. You know, we do this at like 4:00 AM. I don't think people realize how early we do this.

yeah, yeah. It's 10:00 AM gene. It's 10:00 AM.

Well somewhere it's 4:00 AM.

Oh yeah.

What else is going on in the world?

well, I've got a movie review for everybody,

Oh, nice. I have not been watching any TV at all for last month.

well, so I haven't either. But my son is a huge toy story fan and he loves buzz light ear and

a good character.

he walks around, you know, if he sees the buzz light ear movie or something like that, buzz light ear buzz light ear. So, okay. You know, I'm aware of the stories that are going on around the lesbian kiss and oh my God. And everything

There's a lesbian buzz light ear.

there is a lesbian kiss in buzz light ear.

What? Okay. Who are the female characters? I don't even remember.

So this, this is the spoiler alert for anyone who has not seen it and gives a crap. I'm sorry. I'm not gonna

a crab. Being the keyword

I'm sorry.

gives a crab being the keyword there.

Right. It, it, I, if you give a crap then fast forward, do whatever, but I, I wanna talk about the subject and it's kid's movie and I don't think it's that important. All right. So the buzz, the entire premise of the movie buzz light year is that. Andy in the original 1995 movie saw a movie ha that buzz light year was in. And that was his favorite movie. And that's why he got the buzz light year toy.

Andy's the little kid.

Yes. And this is supposed to be that movie. So it's totally outside the toy story universe. It's supposed to be an actual, like sci-fi. Yeah. Yeah. It's an interesting premise that they totally screwed up.

Ha

But anyway, so this is the story of buzz light ear. Sci-fi not buzz light ear the toy, right?

Got it. Got it. So it's a cartoon.

Yes. But it's a, you know, I mean the, the premise of the story and everything could have been pretty good,

Yeah.

the first 25 minutes of the movie buzz has this partner, this buddy, who's a female. And

buddy?

like,

Like he's in the friend zone,

no, like he's a space ranger and she's a space ranger and they're doing this mission together.

so, okay. So like a she's his kind of

He's the captain. She's the commander

course she is. Go ahead.

anyway, of course, yeah. Yeah. Black, by the way.

A black lesbian commander.

yep. So she saves his rear end a couple of times and all that, which is fine. He goes on this mission to try and save them cuz they're stranded and ends up going through time dilation, which their understanding of relativistic time dilation is absolutely asinine.

Uhhuh.

But regardless, well, I mean, he goes on this flight, that's supposed to be four minutes and he's gonna shoot around the sun and come back to the planet and he's gonna be trying to hit hyper speed and coming back and he time highlights and it, it takes four years.

Yeah. That makes sense.

No, it doesn't the distance and the speed. No does not.

No, because he's, he's slowed down to the point where time barely moves.

the, his relative, no, no, no, no, no, no. Anyway, the, he would experience,

away from him. You see, you don't understand the finer complexities

experience time dilation, but it would not be four years for the planet. I mean the, anyway, it doesn't matter. Moving on the, that's a different critique of the movie, but as soon as he comes back, she's met someone and in their initial conversation, she's like, yeah, I met someone and he, without a beat says, oh, who is she? Like totally normal, no chance of it being a male.

he knew he was a lesbian that he was working with.

but it's the, it's it, it it's the, the, the most, the most insidious part of this that I found was just the absolute normalization of it. And they go through and he does these missions and it's a four year hop, four year hop, four year hop, and it's kind of a montage and her life is evolving and it's a major focus of every time he returns and, you know, one time she's pregnant, never addresses, you know, Hey, how did that happen? Because you know, two

Virgin birth,

exactly. But you know, who knows men can get pregnant too.

you know, zoos has come down from the mountain and impregnated with plenty of women.

Uhhuh, anyway, the montage keeps going until finally she's dead and gone and you know, he's still going. And the kiss was the least insidious part of this movie because the kiss could have been a greeting kiss between two friends. The kiss does not bother me.

There's no tongue visible.

well, it's just a Peck and the, but the whole focus on the lesbian relationship and the very

the whole movie is basically about the lesbian relationship.

The first 25 minutes, it, it gets worse though. So the, he ends. Finding the solution, which the solution is a rainbow colored crystal and all the regular colored crystals never worked, but the rainbow color one is the one that works and it's gonna save them. So that's an interesting little subplot line there

oh, I can imagine how somebody came up with that

yeah, exactly. There's an emotional support animal

No.

in the form of a robot cat. That also is the one that comes up with the solution, by the

The robot cat. That actually makes sense.

How so?

Well, it's a combination of the two best things you can have cats and robots.

Yeah. Which by the way, totally makes R two D two noises and other things and

Mm. Well, they do own the franchise.

So then get away with it. But you know,

can, I don't know if somebody's been sued for that boo boo beep noises.

I wouldn't be surprised given Lucas',

Huh.

but anyway, so he, he's got this emotional support cat and then

Now how do we know? It's an emotional support

because it is literally given to him to help him deal with after the first four year jump, the, the, the whole stress of I I've missed out on four years of my life,

is there a reason he keeps going every four years, like this,

cuz he wants to get them off this planet cuz they've crashed land.

Oh, but wait, if they crash landed, how did she marry somebody?

Because it's a whole big ship. It's not just those two,

But he's in a separate ship

he's flying a little experimental, like think of, you know, an X craft to try

his solution to save them is to outlive them all.

No, he's te trying different fuel crystal types to try and get them back off the planet. Cuz they destroyed their fuel crystal

Oh, so.

trying to remanufacture it.

they're they need di lithium spheres is what you're saying.

It's not what they call it in the movie, but sure.

Okay.

Anyway so there's the emotional support animal. He ends up running into her granddaughter in the future and which, you know, that's a whole thing. And she talks about, you know, her grandmas and you know, all this and just yeah, great normal. And there's no discussion of her parentage whatsoever, which that's interesting in of itself. And then she's a screw up and everything else, but they've gotta fix it. And Zurg the evil emperor ZG is in here and It it's a version of light year that's ZG.

That is horrible. I mean, not the budget part, but the story you just described, it's pretty crappy.

mm-hmm It is. And it could have been a good one.

Yeah. They could have just knocked off a star Trek episode

They could have.

that would've been better. So I'm, so he goes flying around the sun to test some crystal and then he goes back in time with the crystal.

No zer goes back in time with the crystal. So Zurg is his evil counterpart.

So the intelligent one. Got

Yeah. Yeah.

the Z character is him.

Yes

Oh, that's that's a plot twist.

it is. And it's a sucking one. And you know, they could have done it differently. They could have handled everything. It's just, yeah, it's ridiculous.

Do you watch, or have you watched raised by wolves?

I have not,

Have you heard of.

no,

I'm trying to remember what channel it's on. I think it's on Amazon eventually. But it's a, sci-fi sort of psychological philosophical series done by Ridley Scott. You know who he is?

I guess I know who red Scott is. I'm a big

checking. I don't know what kind of sci-fi person you are. So

I am a anyway, so just real quick, before we get off the light ear topic, they had a production budget of 200 million. They had a domestic box office of 118 million.

mm-hmm

They had a worldwide box office of only 218 million. So talk about a flop.

yeah, that's pretty crap. That's good. I mean, you know, it was good

Ridley Scott and raised by wolves.

yeah, you should check it out if you haven't seen it is. It is in a good sense, disturbing

Okay.

in the same way that alien is disturbing,

Yeah.

meaning

only alien movies, what's the best one.

I think the first one

No aliens. The second one,

really why.

it just is way better

Okay. And I'm not sure in what way?

because it's not. Yeah,

Cause it has an S and end

yeah, no, it's just, it, it's a more complete movie to me, you know? The first one's good. Don't get me wrong,

mm-hmm

you know, there's the first one should have been probably about an hour longer than it was. If

yes.

to tell a more

agree with that. I think the storyline and the first one seemed more probable to me than the second one,

Why is that

because they were going on a mission that had nothing to do with aliens.

correct?

Yeah. Right there. it's more

then they found some and, you know, but they should have, there should have been more detail around that, you know? But the second one to me is plausible because, you know, they, they send a colony to that planet and Hey, yeah, you should have learned from our first movie here, bub.

yeah. That exactly. Somebody didn't watch. The first movie is what it sounds like to me.

Well, I mean, the corporation that they describe in that movie is which I really wish they would've gone into more detail about really what that structure is. And it's only in the ancillary universe that you learn anything

Mm-hmm

But the corporation that they describe in those movies definitely is the evil Corp that would go and try and find and weapon weaponize that Xeno form,

Well, of course the same people that doing genetic experiments in Ukraine.

the same people who are doing genetic experiments on us now,

Mm-hmm

anyway,

makes total sense. What was the corporation name

I don't even remember, man.

you don't remember?

Ah, it's been a long time since I watched the alien movies.

I guess raced by Wellsville was HBO. I forgot that it was HBO.

Done some good stuff.

yeah. Yeah, they have, but I would recommend you watch. I would be very curious to get your take on it because it is I'll give you the premise without spoiling anything. There is a, a spaceship that leaves a ravaged earth with a couple of Androids and a handful of embryos and stasis for a new world to recolonize the world with humans.

Interesting,

Yeah. And this happens after the great religious wars. So the two factions on the earth are the atheists and the religious zealots.

Which, you know, it'll be interesting to see if that ever comes. Did, did you watch the Peterson interview with the ambassador under Trump that was working on the Abraham Accords

I don't recall. I just watched a little bit of the Peterson interview with Lex the other day,

with who?

Lex.

Okay. Not sure who L is.

You kidding? You don't watch those.

Don't watch what

The the Lex Freeman interviews.

I, I, I I'm

Oh, I thought we talked about it.

interview, but I don't know who that is.

Well, Le Lex is a, okay, so I'm, I'm surprised a little bit here. Lex is a 20 something millennial dude. He may be 30 by now, but he was he's a AI expert. He was teaching at MIT and started I can't remember if he was on Joe Rogan or if he met Joe Rogan or something, but anyway, he started doing his own podcast of doing long form interviews. And at this point, he has surpassed Rogan in terms of the people that are coming on to do interviews.

So, no, I was listening to Peterson's podcast. I I'll have to go and look at licks Friedmans then,

Peterson puts out a shit ton of stuff these days.

he ever since he joined daily wire.

They actually pay him for content and he's generating content.

Yep. And it's all been really good stuff lately, too. But anyway, he, his interview with the guy that was behind Jared Kushner and the Abraham Accords,

Mm.

Or David David Friedman. Anyway, it's a pretty interesting story to see how the Abraham

This must be a relative of Lexus.

maybe anyway that is, you know, just a pretty common

Friedman

name. And when I say assumed name, I'm talking generations back, but anyway, the, the story basically goes, you know, Trump being as matter of fact, as he was and really pushing the envelope, like there was a story he told, and I didn't even really recognize this, that he was leaving Saudi Arabia on in his first year as president. And they all told him, Hey, you've gotta stop. And Riyad why. We're going to Israel. Yeah. But you can't fly from, you know, Saudi Arabia to Israel directly.

of the United States. God damn. I'm gonna do whatever I fucking want.

exactly. So he said, no, let's ask the king. So Trump asked, you know, the king of Saudi Arabia, Hey, can I just do this? And the king said, yes. And that was a first step towards this whole piece process that is still in place and still really working. And, you know, it, it, it, the, they really made it pretty simple and it's, the us should take the, the basis of this Abraham Accords.

Cool. And then you will provide me with a link. I gather

Sure.

that I

I already

in the show notes.

more than, you know, a while back, but

Oh, you did?

Let, let me go back and

Yeah, you didn't, I'm looking at it. I don't see it. Nothing in the chat at

our chat on signal buddy there.

Oh, oh. I'm supposed to be, how many chats are we doing here? Come on. Come on, man.

we need our own select channel.

Alright. Yes, I see it in the slack channel. Cool. Alright. We done talking about raised by wolves so people can check that out and if somebody's watched it let us well, let Ben know what you think.

Yeah. Yeah, dude named ben.com. Apparently since you know,

Does anyone ever send

I'm my email address, isn't in the show notes. Billy bones sent us a note and he had to wait till I mentioned my email again.

ah, you couldn't replay an episode?

eh, whatever

Not a lazy dude.

yeah, he didn't wanna have to go looking for

All right. And so he sends you something. He didn't send me anything

Okay. Well anyway, he, he, he just sent us a nice little note here. He he came up with a couple topics that he wanted to comment on. The first one was the battle of Athens post war II, where some returning soldiers took back over a town that was corrupted,

in Georgia,

history of that. I'm sorry.

in Georgia

Athens, Tennessee.

now, Tennessee. Well, there's Athens, Georgia. There's also Athens Greece.

Yes. And there's also a Paris, Texas. What's your point?

Well, I don't know what the hell you, you mean by Athens? You have to clarify what city that

The battle of Athens though, this is a history thing.

There's a battle of Athens and the Greece as well.

I'm sure there's more than one battle of Athens agrees

mm-hmm

here. I'll send you the link

so what do you have to say about it?

Well, I, if I wasn't so rudely interrupted.

Oh my God.

The first one

yourself.

in the morning Sur named Ben. Anyway, he goes on to, I'm not gonna read this verbatim, but the first one more enjoyable topic, the battle of Athens to, to sea in a nutshell, Billy bones rights in 1946, world war II veterans came home to discover their towns, ballot boxes had been stuffed and they weren't going to take it. They took up arms and overtook the governor's mansion, locked him in jail.

wait the governor or the mayor.

He said governor, but I think he met mayor

Okay.

anyway, the last topic, he backs you up on the trends in porn discussion. We were having the other day and apparently I'm just not watching the right stuff here. But he also points out a book that was going through and saying and normalizing incest. And the book was called my body is growing a, a guide for children. And it's a target ages is four to eight.

Jesus. Grace.

Yeah. So. Anyway appreciate the feedback, Billy bones. It was a good email. Really appreciate it. And yeah, I just wanted to touch on those couple of things.

Cool. Yeah, no, it's I'll have to add your email to the show notes. I, I hadn't even occurred to me that anybody would bother sending either one of us or anything. So

well, regardless. So I, I think the theme of this episode so far really has been what we're normalizing our children to. Right. And as much as I like the show bluey,

mm-hmm

my, my

another kid's show I imagine.

yeah, it's actually a pretty good one and it's out of Australia of all places.

Oh no.

But they had this episode called phones or

Mm-hmm

it's in the new season watched it with my son and the grandpa comes over and the girls are playing phones. So they've drawn phones on paper and they're acting like they have a smart phone and he's supposed to sit and they're playing restaurant and he's supposed to order and they're gonna deliver his food and all this. And he is just like, what the fuck is this? He keeps trying to go. And like, I'm here to pick up the food or all the they're like, no, grandpa, you're not doing it. Right.

To pick up food.

Yeah. Or to have it delivered or, you know, you like having your groceries delivered instead of going to the grocery store

know I did it both yesterday. In fact, I had my groceries delivered and then an hour later I went to the grocery store.

Why did they miss

I don't know. No, I was just bored.

I'm bored. I'm gonna go to the grocery store. See, usually when I'm bored.

around there. You can watch humans.

yeah. Yeah.

I mean, you know, others like me is what I meant.

I'm sorry, say that again.

you know, human people.

Did you say like you,

Yeah.

it, I didn't know. You're human gene.

No, well, I I'm totally human. Everybody should not consider anything else. Being the case. my age. That was standing.

Mm. Yeah. You're like what 102

what I'm 27. What are you talking about? Trying to make me seem old?

you wouldn't even date a 27 year old. What are you talking about?

That's true. Well, I didn't date a 27 year old when I was 27 either.

Yeah.

I'll tell you when I did date a 27 year old. It didn't happen once I was 19 when I was 19, I, my girlfriend was 20.

Yeah. You know what? I can totally see gene being one of those guys. It's like, you know what I love about high school chicks. I keep getting older and they stay the same age.

College chicks college chicks. Yes. Yes, indeed. Yes.

close enough.

do stay the same age. I mean, the college chicks are the same age.

Yeah. Yeah.

you know, I only say the things that other people don't dare to

You and me both. But you know, at the same

and Matthew McConney

yeah.

mm-hmm or really more like link, link letter writing it,

Mm-hmm anyway. So what have you been up to other than your business meetings? My friend

I've been eating a lot of expensive meals and and you know, having meetings, talking to people talking to a company that does space stuff, which I definitely wanna get involved in,

mm-hmm

uh, talking to another company that does health stuff that could have some work for me talked to a couple other guys. So it was, it was a fairly busy week that I was planning on being off, but turned out not to be the case. That's all right.

you've rearranged your Mexico trip.

I did I'm

you're setting up the drug run.

so because, oh my God. So, because I was damn I'm lazy or slow to buy my airplane ticket, I ended up buying a full price ticket. The advantage of that is of course I can literally move it to any day with no penalties. And I, so I've taken full advantage of that

what airline.

American

Okay. I can't stand American

that's where my miles are at.

Really?

Yep.

Yeah. I, when I lived in DFW, I was forced to use American,

Mm-hmm

I've always, I was a continental guy until the United merger and I've stuck with United cuz

I prefer American over United. I like continental over both of 'em, but I prefer American over United.

why.

I think that the the service is better. So keep in mind, everything I say relating to, or for is applicable from a first class perspective,

Okay.

I am phone coach in 20 years.

Well good for you. I haven't flown first class, so

so when I say an airline is better than another one, it has to do with either quality of food or service in first class.

well I play I fly coach, so yeah,

Oh, well, so you probably fly Southwestern

mm-hmm I can't stand Southwest. Hell. No, I, I like United. I like United because I have enough, a little bit of status still with them. And it's enough that I get early bored. I get some upgrades and, you know, I get to put my bags and not have to worry about it. And

Mm-hmm mm-hmm

So do you always travel with a roller bag? Let's say you're going on like a two day trip? What do you, what's your

I always travel with the carryon.

That

I don't have anything other than the carryon.

Right, but are you always using a wheeled bag as a

Yeah, of course my,

Well, see, so some of my business trips take me to like, you know, Tulsa or Oklahoma, so,

they don't have wheels there.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry. I've said they don't, they don't have wheels. You can't use wheels in Tulsa.

Nope. The plane that goes from Houston to Tulsa, you literally have to gate check your carry on roller bag.

Okay. And,

I, I recently added a, basically a leather duffle bag to my travel equipment for the purpose of, I don't wanna fricking wait and check gate, check that bag anymore. It's a pain in the rear, especially when you're only going for one or two days.

if you're doing a day trip, you might as well do a backpack.

Well, I've got my backpack, but that's full of other things

Oh,

that always get me searched at the airport.

So you, you carry your equipment in your backpack.

Oh yeah,

Oh, okay. I have just like a computer bag for that.

No, I, my, my laptop and all my full kit is in my backpack, which I'm carrying less than I used to. So when I was, you know, liable to be walking into a power plant and, you know, reconfiguring things or actually doing something like that the amount of equipment that I would take and you know, that that's a totally different story.

mm-hmm

Now it's far paired down, you know? So

well, I I just did that. I've kind of paired down myself a little bit. I took three cables outta my bag the other day.

I, I, you know, I, I, since my peak traveling around the country, going to power plant days, I took out a lot of stuff. I mean, I used to have, you know, fluke meters in there for troubleshooting things. I had, you know, various network cards and just lots of add-ons lots of cables, you know? I wouldn't fly with the scissors, but I'd fly with crimpers at times.

no that's pain in the ass.

Yeah. You've got a lot of stuff in

you could put everything into clear bags.

Oh, yeah. I had actually mesh bags. So the backpack I have, you know, has some Velcro places and some mesh bags and things like that to make it real clear to 'em. But anytime they put it through the x-ray, they had to do a secondary search cuz of just all the junk in there,

bought any new guns.

new. But I am looking at optics, I'm looking at optics for my so I, I I've decided thanks to you. You, you got me off my Duff and I'm doing constitutional carry. I never did concealed carry because I never wanted to have the license before. And you know, you, you made me rethink of, well, why aren't you doing this? So I've really been going down that road.

I think you really only have two choices on that.

No, I totally disagree. I, I think there are lots of good choices for optics. There are people who are, it's either Le uphold Delta point pro or Tricon RMR. Those are your only two

It's I think tri is one of 'em also, since you have a SIG SIG actually makes an optic for that

Yes they do. And so here's what I'm looking at. The, the two optics that will fit on that gun right now, out of the box, no adapter plate are the SIG Romeo one pro and the Leopold Delta point pro. Now the Leopold, I would be immediately drawn to over the SIG, just because I've owned a ton of Leopold optics, and they've never disappointed me, but the battery life distance difference is so drastic

definitely go with a SIG on that account. Yeah. Or you could go with Tricon and have something better.

yeah, the Tricon requires you the modification of the slider and adapter plate and the Tricon the Romeo and the Delta point have really big windows. And that's interesting to me. A lot of people are telling me not to discount Hollon, which Hollon is Chinese. You know, it's China

it is, but, but they're, they're really good knockoffs of everything else.

That's what everyone says is for the price that they are fantastic optics.

I would not go with them just only for the simple reason of not sending money to China, but I don't think the quality is an issue there from what I've seen of. They're actually pretty good.

Yeah. And they, they even incorporate some solar cells and things

Yeah. They, they have more solar options than any other.

Yes, they do. And it, you know, it's okay. But no I'm leading, I'm really heavily leaning towards the S Romeo one pro

Yeah, just get it. It's not that expensive.

no, it's not, but I, I just, it's one of those things that I'm not gonna buy and swap out a bunch of optics on this gun. I wanna make the right choice. So anyway, if anyone has any recommendations or reasons why I shouldn't get

recommendations.

You know, I, I, I'm just not like that gene, I, you know, have a wife to answer to on purchases and things like that, you know, so,

you have a wife and dude it's 300 bucks. Just buy it.

I mean, by the time I'm done with it, getting the options, I want,

Now. Would you get the three MOA or the six MOA

that's another good question.

I go for the six MOA.

so if I want to, it, it, this gun,

It's not a target again.

exactly, you know, this is, this is gonna be a carry gun. This is gonna be a defense gun, six Mo a I think is the way to go.

Yep. I think so.

Yep. And, you know,

Yeah, it's waterproof. IPX seven six, my 1632 battery,

20,000 hours of battery life,

which is basically forever.

It's got motion sense on it and all that. So when it's sitting on the dresser at night, when I'm not wearing it, it's off

Well, so you're, you're questioning about that being 300 and $350 looks like is the retail so pre you probably get it for three. So I, I just did the the estimated charge on my two scopes from Trijicon

mm-hmm

to get the Tridium replaced.

mm-hmm

Any, any

And please tell me where you see the flat dark earth, six MOA, or the black for that matter six hour Romeo, one pro for 300 bucks, cuz the cheapest I founded is 400 and then you gotta add in the steel shroud, which is another 60

SIG directly. It's 3 54. So I guarantee you can find it for the black one. Yeah.

Yeah,

Oh, you want the, the other color?

I will just to match the gun was my thought. I really don't care that

do have to pay more money for the other colors.

yeah. Anyway,

Yep. But,

can find the black six MOA for 300 bucks, let me know where.

so you would buy the black one for 300?

Yeah, absolutely.

No, I thought you wanted to match color.

I I'm not that picky, man. Jesus

No, I'm not even gonna tell you where you should match color. Nope.

gee, thanks friend.

You're welcome, friend. I'm gonna make you not look stupid.

Okay.

All right. So, yeah, so just for, for two scopes to get them serviced, which is a about once every 10 year service is going to cost me $850.

okay. I mean, that's the cost of a scope.

Nope. That's, that's certainly less than the cost of a scope, but, well, a

on the scope.

depends on the scope. It's probably the cost of like four Victor scopes or whatever vector Victor. What, what is that company call starts with a V vortex. That's the one.

Vortex has come a long way, man. I could not stand their first generation stuff, but I, I, I gotta tell you the, this new generation stuff they're doing pretty good. They've got really good glass. They've got a great warranty.

I just, I like using scopes that are made for actual scope use, meaning, meaning their they're battle tested and made to army standards.

yeah. So first of all, I don't put a scope on most semiautomatics you know, I've so I, I don't know. I, I think that there are some good optics out there,

Mm-hmm

whatever.

Yeah, so I gotta get those through service and then I can't find my. My Tricon handgun optic. I seem to have misplaced it.

so like on my SOCOM 16, M one a I've got a a low power variable scope on there. That's you know, zero to six or one to six power and it's a vortex and it's been good to me. I've got a vortex on one bolt gun. Everything else is either Leopold or Nikon. Cuz I did like a lot of the Nikon products,

mm-hmm

um, just cuz Nikon had such great glass, but yeah, I, I don't have any Tricon anything. It's just never, I, I don't, I don't go spend three or four grand on a rifle. That's just not me when I can get a rifle and scope for around two that I can do everything that 90% of people can do with the three or four grand rifle. You know,

well, but see here's the difference is I only have one gun per caliber.

mm-hmm

You have multiple guns per caliber.

Usually yes,

yeah. So in aggregate, you're spending the same amount of money as I am,

but I have more guns.

but you have more guns and have you, have you purchased more hands in arms?

well, I have more than just me

Well, okay. So if you break it into a family situation, then yes, of course. Do you need to arm the whole family? Not just yourself.

under certain circumstances. Absolutely.

That's true.

And you, you have different guns in the same caliber for different purposes. So for instance, 3 0 8, I've got 2, 3 0 8 battle rifles that I could choose depending on what sort of scenario I'm going into. One being an AR 10, one being my SOCOMM 16 which the AR 10 has, you know, iron sites and scope the M one a, like I said, has a, essentially a zero to six power variable. And then, you know, I've got my Begar bolt action, 3 0 8 that, you know, that's a thousand yard gun all day long. So

Mm-hmm yeah, I've got I've got a hunting 3 0 8 and I have a,

you've got the divorce.

I got two war 3 0 8. That's the only 3 0 8. I got

Yeah. Now the real question is if I really want to go out and hit something hard at a thousand yards, that's the, that's the 300 rum. That's when that 300 rum comes out,

mm-hmm

man, that, that, that cartridge is, you know, people talk about 3 30, 8 lap and everything. They're essentially the same cartridge, just the 3 38 Lupu is necked up to a 3 38 versus 300 rum is at 30 caliber. So when you're talking about velocity, the, the velocities you can get out of that gun is just insane. I mean, you know, anyway, so yeah, when you can push a 150 grand projectile over 3000 feet per second, that's pretty, pretty awesome

Yeah. I, I guess, I don't know. What do you use it for?

hunting, target practice anything in north America that I want.

Okay. Have you hunted anything bigger than the deer with it?

Yeah. Elk.

Oh, okay. Well that's, that's reasonable. So how big of an elk have you gotten down?

I'm trying to remember the, you talking about weight or what?

Sure.

Fairly large cow elk, Idaho. I, I don't remember the exact

trying to think of how much meats involved in those

a lot.

Yeah, I would think that would be a lot of meat. So now I sent you two photos here, which nobody can see except for you, cuz we don't have video. And one shows a a SIG with the SIG site that's match color

Mm-hmm

and the other one is of a retarded person's gun now.

there's black furniture on the gun too. So it doesn't look that bad.

can I, can I encourage you not to be retarded?

sure Jean,

Okay, good.

because the gun is such a fashion statement after all,

Well, if there's a reason you chose that color, it must be

I chose that color because I wanted a manual safety and that's the color it came in. So the SIG P three 20 is the only ones that have the manual safety are the M 17 and M 18. And they come in the flat dark earth because that's what the army wanted. So, you know, and people are, you know, this is a, this is a subject that is a, people will think I'm nuts, but I like a manual safety. It's just the way I grew up. It's what I have always had.

Yep. Well, the, the 1911 absolutely has to have manual safety because of its design. The more modern guns, like a. Do not

And why do you think that

because there are mechanisms to prevent accidental discharge in these guns, like Glocks the Nuss the XDS that didn't exist in 1911

yeah, here here's the thing. So when I go to draw a gun and practice a draw stroke,

mm-hmm

one of the reasons why I like to have a safety is I go to pull that I, you know, discipline making sure my finger doesn't go into the trigger or housing until I'm coming level. And as I'm coming level, I flick that thumb safety down and my trigger finger goes in at the same time. If for whatever reason, something I'm rehosting, whatever I've got that safety,

mm-hmm

there is no way. Even if something bumps that trigger, I'm gonna have an accidental discharge. And when you look at the accident rates and the re holster rates, and it, part of that is 100% people using crappy leather holsters that they haven't broken in correctly, or that doesn't have a good trigger guard and things like that. A lot of the problem is the holster,

no, there's another problem, which is something that in the training that I've been to, they really push, which is you never re holster at high speed. A re ster is a gentle movement.

and it should be a very deliberate paying attention to it movement a hundred percent and people make mistakes, but I, I just, a physical safety is something I like personally

I get it. So you were willing to get a gun in a desert 10 or whatever the color that's called

flat dark

the safety. Yeah. Flat dark earth.

Cuz I'm not worried about the, the guns, the gun, the guns colored means nothing to me. You know, it really doesn't.

Well, what do you, what kinda uniform do you wear when you shoot?

I, I uniform

A

do you think I'm a Harper?

That would go well with that particular color again.

I don't LARP Jean

Mm-hmm

mm-hmm

no, that's true. That's

when you go to the range, do you you know, wear your plate carrier and all that

Yeah. Range clothes. You wear a range clothes. So you put on a t-shirt that has

and a t-shirt

I usually put on a Glock hat and like a t-shirt that has something about guns and like, you know, your freedom.

Mm-hmm

I don't wear those clothes anywhere else.

why not?

Cause that that's range clothes.

Nah, nah,

Mm-hmm

I'm I'm the kind of guy that I. I'm constantly on customer calls and everything. And I will be wearing with my company, you know, a t-shirt's fine or whatever, and I'll be wearing something, you know, like, this is why we can't have nice things and it's gotta picture of Congress and, you know, things like that.

Oh, that's, that's a great shirt.

Yes it is.

Mm. So let's see. I I think I told you a while ago. I, I finally got my my Gole

Mm-hmm

and now I'm starting to think it maybe a little too long.

isn't this? The pistol.

Yeah.

Why is it too long?

I don't know, man. I just, I thought this would be perfectly fine, but now I'm thinking it just looks a little long.

Hm.

So I'm still kinda looking for the short version.

Okay.

So this is a 13 inch,

Mm-hmm

which is actually probably the best performance cuz you get full benefit of the powder in a 12 inch barrel on this gun.

and this is chambered in 7, 7 62 by 39.

39. Yeah mm-hmm

Okay.

But I kind of want to get the eight inch barrel as well

Hm. Well, How much you want for it.

for the gun.

yeah.

I probably get two grand for it. It's a never shot.

What'd you pay for it?

I paid 1800 for it.

Ah, so you're gonna profiteer off of it. You bastard

I am. What am I come on, man?

come on, man. All right. Joe Biden.

Come on, come on. Now the six hour AR 15 MCX rattler is pretty nice gun too, but they, they like that. I would have to go to the 300 a seek for

Yeah, 300 blackout, which I, I can't

which is not a, I don't think it's a bad cartridge. I just

It is a subsonic it's if you're going to suit suppressed and in my mind, and people can roast me on this. That is a sub hundred yard gun.

Yeah. What it's meant to be. It's a, it's a replacement for an MP five.

A crappy one, but, okay.

I don't know that. It's I think it's probably better than an MP five dude, better than nine millimeter. Why would you, why would you, I mean, they've done test, dude. This is empirical evidence is that the, the 300 blackout does have better performance at that the a hundred meter range than the nine millimeter

but why not go five, seven by 28?

Well,

90 is a good replace. That is the answer

yeah. The P 90 E was also created for the exact same purpose, which is to, to sell against the MP five.

Yes. And it's a better, better choice,

It's yeah, maybe. Yeah. I mean, it's, it's certainly more compact. I think the gun itself is better, but you know, they didn't sell any of them. There's very few militaries using those or very few police departments.

you know, but

So your, your price per bullet is about the same,

I just can't stand the 300 blackout. I mean, lots of people love it. I, it's just not my favorite. I would prefer six, eight SPC over 300 blackout

but six eight is not for that range. That's that's a much longer range.

No, but the reason why I like six, eight SPC is you can go all the way down to like a 90 grand bullet. That's traveling very fast, or you can go all the way up to like 180 grand bullet that is traveling subsonic

mm-hmm really, you could, I didn't think you could do a subset income. Six, eight,

You absolutely can.

really? I'll have to read up on that.

It suppresses, well, you can do it in a fairly short barrel. Depending on, you know, what you're wanting to do, 16 inch barrel is what it's really optimized for, but you can go as low as an eight inch barrel. You really don't gain anything over 20 inch barrel. There's lots and lots of things. But yeah, you can do subsonic with six, eight and. Ballistically performs better in all categories than 300 blackout, but 300 blackout is more popular. So there's that,

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, that's, that's a good point, cuz there you're really talking about A cartridge that is expensive because not very many people shoot it and I'm sure the subsonics even more expensive.

If you can find it. Yeah. Most of the six, eight ammo that you're gonna find commercially available is all right. In that one 15 grain range.

Well, and this is one of the reasons I went with the 7 62 by 39. Is that the ammo availability in prices? Just off the roof.

yeah. I mean, it's the most common ammo in the world. Yeah.

Although I, I wanna make sure that I pick up some subsonic. I've only bought regular ammo at this point, but I need to get some subsonic for it as well.

Mm-hmm

Uh, I do wanna get a, do you know anything about sensors?

suppressors. Yes. A little bit.

Any brands you like? Cuz I need to pick one up

There are a ton of really good brands that are being manufactured around. I would look at what's available first of all, because there is definitely a shortage. The you're, it's still gonna be for the majority of the purchases and NFA item. If you can find a dealer in Texas that manufacturers in Texas and only sells in Texas, you with the new law, you might be able to not do an NFA, but I haven't heard anyone

I don't mind doing an

do that.

I'm totally fine. Doing an FA.

Yeah. I just don't want the damn tax stamp in going through all that process, but

Yep. I know.

You know,

But I've had friends that have had 'em I've shot plenty of guns with, with suppressors, but I've never bought one previously. And I think that is kind of one of my thoughts in, in sticking one on the the 7 62 by 39.

mm-hmm so since the, since it's a piston gun you know, you, you could always just do a threat adapter which there are threat adapters that are registered NFA, Atos and do the oil can suppressor route. That's always kind of fun.

Do a what?

the oil can suppressor

Oh yeah.

that I may or may not know why that is incredibly effective, but yeah.

So I've watched a few videos of tests and everybody says the opposite.

I okay. If you're shooting subsonic, ammo, bull crap. And it depends on what oil filter you're using and

they're comparing the oil filter to a real suppressor.

oh, sure. A real suppressor's gonna be way better. Cool. But it's still very effective

Well versus nothing you mean? Okay, sure. Of course, of course. But so's the two liter Coke bottle,

Yeah.

especially if there's some water in it.

Anyway. Yeah. And then you've got other issues that you're slowing down your projectile and everything else. I, I think there's some really good options out there. The suppressor design that SIG is doing for the new the new rifle Army's rifle is pretty interesting. They're doing some 3d.

over barrel one.

Yeah. It's 3d printing and it's zero back pressure. So one of the things that I would look for for you it, it depends. What, what, so here's the question is getting gas back in your face. Since that's a, you know, pissed and gun, it's not gonna be

Yeah. It's, can't

bad. Well, it can cuz you've still got a gas block coming back, angled towards you. Or do you,

no it's fully covered with everything. It's still it's well, we'll find out, I guess.

Do you have an adjustable gas block on that gun?

Yeah.

Okay. You do. So it's already set up first.

Well, I, it has an option for it. Sure.

Okay, because you're gonna have to change the gas settings

same thing with the Tavo that, that also has adjustable. I mean, all of 'em are adjustable.

cool. Then what I was about to say is really irrelevant. Get whatever the quietest suppressor you can get is

Well, that's, that's kind of what I was getting at. Do you know who makes the quietest one?

they're all pretty equally quiet. It's just design. If you want back pressure or not back

And I don't, I don't mind if it's big either. I, I don't know why people like the long skinny ones. I think that the sort of the big fat ones probably do a better job.

Yeah, but it gets in the way of a site picture.

Oh, forgot about that. Yeah. So you'd have to put site on the risers or something

Yeah. I mean, you don't want something that's in your,

Yeah.

yeah.

I mean, I, I couldn't imagine shooting with iron sites and the suppressors, so I wouldn't worry about that, but definitely the, the scope may need to be higher up.

Mm-hmm so pew, pew, tactical they've got some pretty good reviews most of the time. They have, I'm gonna send you, excuse me. Send you a link to their top six suppressors.

Okay.

So I haven't been shopping for suppressors, so

Sure, sure. I get it

you could always go the solvent trap route.

new. Definitely not those things don't work.

Yeah, they do.

I watched videos, dude. They don't work.

Okay.

Yeah. It's look, if your goal is to say, Hey, look, I'm shooting with a suppressor. You could throw anything on. If your goal is to shoot. So you don't have to wear hearing protection then? No, they don't work,

okay.

but you're a guy who shoots with no hearing suppression without one. So you don't, you're not eligible for any determination of this.

So, there was some pretty interesting talk on Tim castle last night, which I don't normally listen, but I was bored and it was Friday night and the kids

I, I, I heard about half of it,

Yeah. So one of the suggestions that they had was and I did not realize this till they brought it up, but the FBI wasn't created by Congress.

you know?

Were you aware of that?

Well it's a government agency. I mean, it wouldn't have to be.

It most certainly should have to be created by Congress, but no, it was created actually by an attorney general that formed the investigatory bureau. And it's funded through the attorney general, not as, I, I think at this point they do have some direct budget line items, but it's interesting because it wasn't done by a congressional law. So that means

Yeah. But most departments were not created by congressional law.

absolutely they were

Oh, come on. All right. I'm gonna have to check this while you're talking.

So the interesting concept here is that a president could literally sign an executive order and abolish the FBI.

Okay.

Someone

be

to do

and the Supreme court wouldn't let 'em next.

Why,

Cuz an institution and Supreme court does not just worry about the constitution. They pretend they protect the institutions of America as well.

Yeah. Well, screw them anyway. The the, the joke on Tim Kas last night, which I, I laughed at this and that's why it's good enough to bring up on the show is that Trump should immediately abolish the FBI and then create the the federal bureau of justice.

FBJ

Yep. F Joe Biden.

oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

justice bureau. Sorry. Yeah. Les Dixie.

fuck Joe Biden. Got it. Got it.

that would be hilarious. You know, basically, you know, just reform the FBI in a different fashion and, you know, avoid the whole Supreme court thing. But by just saying, Hey, we're gonna change this. There's been some corruption. We're gonna clean it up. We're gonna create a new agency and, you know yeah.

So

be, that would just be so good.

yeah. Interesting. So the white house press office Created by Congress?

No, but that's a function of the presidency. That's not, that's not a entire separate that's that's not a federal police department.

Sure. It's not a federal

Okay. So what you should look at is, was the ATF created by Congress, was the CIA created by Congress? Was the NSA created by Congress? That's the level of agency I would say

Were they?

yes. I believe go check me on that, but what

I think the ATF was not created by condre.

I'm sorry.

I don't think the ATF was, me look at the history of the ATF.

Yeah, BLM would be another one.

Yeah. BLM was definitely not created. That was a couple of lesbian chicks in California,

oh my God, no gene, no gene. You're thinking of something totally different.

Yes, the bureau land management. That was part of Indian affairs division, I believe.

Yes. And was created by Congress.

Yeah,

Yeah. Yeah, yeah. And the ATF was also created by Congress. I do believe I could be wrong. It's happened before

sure. Nope. War revenue act.

mm-hmm

Um,

in fact, I think the ATF creation stemmed out of the a

yeah, it might have, let's see. See, I'm looking at their history and they have a lot of history that has nothing to do with them cuz they, they go back to the 17 hundreds.

this is, you know, our origin story.

so yeah, May, 1930 prohibition reorganization act of May 27th, 1930 was sort of the Genesis of the,

so it was from a act of Congress.

so, and in 19 May 27th, 1930, it transferred the bureau of prohibition from the us department of treasury to the us department of justice. So department of justice, what the hell created that?

The department of justice is the justice department has been around for a long time, but it's always been under the attorney general, essentially. So it, you know, but anyway, what it comes down to is the history of the FBI and how this got formed. I, I was ignorant too. I didn't realize that a attorney general had just created this out of thin air. And what, what just shocks me is how did this ever survive the first few years, without someone going, Hey, that's not constitutional.

Because that, the only way that would happen is if somebody sued and went all the way up to the Supreme court,

and why didn't that happen?

because you have to have a case that you're willing to take up to the Supreme.

Okay. I'm a gangster when the FBI, the FBI is coming after me and I'm a gangster and they come after me and they find me, you know, guilty of whatever. Why can I not Sue and say, Hey, you had no right to do this.

you can Sue, but you can't use, it'll get in gains to Sue

It's not ill gotten gains. It's you know, I'm

pay and pay the lawyer for, with your gangster. You're gonna pay the lawyer with what,

okay. Fair

Bringing a case up to Supreme court is about at least a half million

Oh, well, it's gotta be more than that.

It it's a bare minimum. That's why I'm quoting a number. I heard a lawyer talk about. But yeah, realistically could be much more than that. And it's usually three to four years.

Mm-hmm

So when a law gets passed, that's clearly

wasn't a law. This wasn't, this wasn't even a presidential

I know, but just hear me out when the law gets passed is gonna constitutional. It's gonna be at least three or four years before the first challenge, which may not go through, which may be not heard, not elected to be heard by the Supreme court. So yeah, that's not a law, that's fine. But there's all kinds of things that are done through administrative actions. Like the definition of a gun, for example,

Yep,

it changes. And now it, it means literally pieces of plastic parts

yep.

are now fully functional, automatic weapons by the. And this is not the only agency. I mean, in general in the us agencies have way more latitude than presidents. They're the ones that are around eternally presidents come and go.

Why this whole system is so screwed

it's the same system that we've had for the last 2000 years. People in power rule and by being in power, they stay in power.

Yeah. But a mid-level bureaucrat has never been this powerful.

Oh, really? Tell that to the me. Mechi

I had the, what?

the, the Meese mechi

still not following you. Sorry.

the they were the, the Venetian oligarchs.

Okay. I, I, I don't know much about Venetian history. Sorry that isn't one of those that, isn't one of those that I've really focused on very much. So

Well, I mean, it's, it's all part of, sort of the enlightenment age. But there there's a, a lot of power that comes from activities that aren't necessarily. Government based themselves. And then once people get in power, then they get into government or they end up buying government. So there there's a I guess my point is once you have power, you're less willing to give it up regardless of how you got there.

Well, yeah,

And so,

corrupts.

yeah. And so when you build a new organization, space force is another example. It will never shrink. It will only grow. It will consume more money and more of the economy, and it will insulate the people that work for it from any kind ups and downs. It will create a separate class of citizens. And that's exactly what's been happening. This is not a problem. Unique to the United States. It's happens to every single country out there.

but there has to be some readjustment at some point, you know,

It's called a revolution.

well, and I think we're, so for instance, I, I, the whole FBI thing looking at the, the, the jump, the shark moment just keeps getting worse for the justice department. The more that comes out about the Mar AR Lago raid. So the, the, the portion of the FBI that did the raid Mar Lago is the same group that did crossfire hurricane. How insane is that?

Maybe

so he, he, he I'll just say this,

it's not gonna change by people voting. I can guarantee you that.

Well, I did. Here's what I'll say. I think if there is a red wave or a red tsunami during the midterms, I think if the presidential election goes the way of DeSantis Trump, then I think we avoid an all out civil war. I think if the elections are manipulated enough to where neither one of those things happen, I don't know. I, I think there are a lot of people who aren't gonna just allow this aggressive liberal March to the sea.

I think that this, this raid gives Trump a great out, gives him an awesome exit.

How's that?

It, it lets him. Not run

Why would he not run? I think this is the impetus for him to

no, not at all. Nobody wants him running, well, you want him running? I don't want him running, but here's the thing. If he doesn't run, if he says, you know what, I'm an old guy at this point, I may be the best old guy, total winner, but I've already been president. And I think it's time to bring in some young blood come here, young blood DeSantis.

yeah, I, by the way, I'm not a core Trump supporter. I think he has done a lot of really good things and he has shocked me as a as he's the only Republican president I've ever voted for. I'll put it that way.

Jesus.

What,

No, that's just shocking.

why

Well, I never took you for a non, non Republican voting guy.

I'm a libertarian?

Yeah, I know. But the libertarian party's just been presenting shit candidates for a long.

Yeah, well, but so is the Republican party.

Yeah, fair enough.

I, who was I gonna vote for? Romney Bush really?

not.

McCain. You think I would ever fucking vote for John McCain?

Okay. Well, fair enough. I haven't voted for those guys either, but I did vote for Ross Perro.

I, that I was not eligible to vote at that time.

No, yeah.

So when you look at the presidential candidates that the Republican party presented me since I've been legally allowed to vote. Yeah. No, thank you.

I did vote for Bush once

why Like the crime families? I mean,

I mean, well, compared to the alternative,

well, I mean, just compared to Al gore, you know,

well, yeah, I would definitely not vote for Al gore.

but I, I would probably vote, I don't know who the libertarian candidate was for the first one. That was, I was not eligible

It was a yeah, I don't remember either, but I, I remember I, after after getting off Clinton, I definitely wanted nothing to do with anybody on that side, Dale, so, yeah. And then he, and it proved to be a you know, it a, a as much of a crime family guy, as you mentioned. So I definitely didn't vote for him the second time, but I'm trying to think. Was there anybody El cause I didn't vote for his dad cuz he was a trader.

Oh yeah. This is da Papa Bush. When, when, when the wizard died, I was not sad. And you know, here in college station, you know, this is Bush family library, all at Bush presidential library, all that. And by the way, Hey, Hey, another dynasty died, lose Cheney, losing. Oh my

Yeah, that was

By, by a fucking landslide. Now she's talking about running for president. How fucking laughable is

that's what you do when you're losing the local election is you run in the national election. Mm-hmm yeah.

my God.

And all the Democrats that were crying about her losing, because this was the first time they ever voted Republican. I thought that was hilarious. People actually switching parties to vote for somebody. And then that person loses

yep.

pretty funny.

Well, and the fact that they called that race at like 4% reporting was just hilarious.

Oh, I didn't know

oh, yes. That they called it so early. Cuz it was so overwhelming. Oh. Like I was, I was, I was watching the poll results, you know? Cause I was interested like, okay, how's this gonna go? And oh my God, like I thought, I thought they would, I thought she would lose, but I didn't ever estimate that it would be by that big of a margin.

Oh. I figured people don't like her. She's not lik.

No. And her dad is not likable either and you know? Yeah.

Yeah, but I understand her dad more. I mean, I think she was just a clinger on,

What do you what do you, what do you like about her dad?

I didn't say like, I mean, I understand, I mean, the guy, he had a, a specific path in life.

Yeah. Abusive alcoholic.

Well, down aside you know, I mean, he's also a robot.

He is very least cyborg

Yeah. He definitely side

I mean, how he is still alive, given his heart conditions and everything else is just

I think they replaced over half his organs.

I, I don't know.

It just goes to show you that really what it comes down to is if you have the willpower, you can maintain life.

Yeah. Will power and money.

Yeah. Well, yes, but fair enough. You probably need a little more than just willpower.

Yeah. Also CNN, I don't know if you've noticed this, but they canceled reliable sources.

Which is what, I don't know what that is.

You don't know about reliable sources, so,

don't have a TV.

yes you do.

No, I only have computer monitors,

Okay. And you can watch TV on a computer

but I, I would never watch CNN.

No, but you could pay attention to the news of them canceling stuff.

I I've been out of it this week, dude. What's going on?

Okay. Well, anyway, Brian seltzer

Seltzer, water

Fired, canceled. Yep. No longer with CNN.

or was he laid off?

They let him go and canceled his.

So they must have laid him off then. So you can still get unemployment,

I would say he's probably fired, but yeah, I mean, okay. Unemployment, if someone like that ever files for unemployment, they should be slapped.

what you think he shouldn't be allowed to just cuz he is white.

exactly. No, to me, first of all, I, I, I, I have whore that unemployment exists at all. That that to me is not a function of the government

it's not, it's an insurance paid by companies.

administered by the government.

Sure. Administered by the government, but it's, you're like you're literally paying for that unemployment insurance

And if I, and if I choose to take part of my paycheck and pay for unemployment insurance, that should be my choice.

Mm-hmm

And if I choose to not pay for it, that should be my choice, but that's not the case.

I agree.

Yeah. So for instance, at this point in my life, establish as I am in my career with the options that I have with the money in the bank, I would never, if I had the choice of not paying for unemployment insurance, I would never pay for it. I would invest that money elsewhere.

Yeah, no, that's a fair thing. And I like when you know, COVID interrupted my business and everybody else is getting unemployment because of COVID I couldn't get it

Why?

because I don't pay unemployment insurance.

No, cuz you do Corp to Corp.

I, I could. Yeah, well, I, cuz I, yeah.

Yeah,

so I don't, I don't pay myself a salary.

right.

So consequently but which is fine. I mean, again, I'm not complaining, I'm just saying that it's

should have filed for the small business relief.

yeah. There's a lot of people. I actually know people have made tons of money

I, I do too. It it's, it's insane. The amount of bull crap. Yeah.

Yeah. I did not file or get a dime during COVID. I, I actually haven't gotten a dime from the government ever in my life. So

I have never been unemployed long enough to ever even file for unemployment insurance.

I, well, I filed for it once and it was denied because my employer was being a Dick.

Hmm. So I, the only time I have ever even looked into it this was Jesus to this was a long, long time ago. I, I had a managed service provider that me and a business partner had started. He was technically the owner of the company. I Had some stake in it, but I was listed as an employee. He had over 51% and he decided to go a different way and that it would be cheaper and better to do it without me. And anyway hired someone and literally tried changing passwords at midnight one night.

cool.

Yeah. I L literally less than a week so, but yeah, man, it it's one of those things. If you're gonna divide and you decide you wanna go a separate way, do it a amicably, do it as an adult. Don't try and pull that crap,

I, I think I

especially when you're not the technical person in the relationship. you

yeah, exactly. I think I mentioned

the way, this is where good network and Sims come in, because when you see account changes and things happening, you know, if you're monitoring and actually paying attention,

I should see that happening. So if they were smart, they would've shut that off first. Yeah, so I had in my twenties, my, my first real company that I'd started with another guy where we were a Microsoft solution provider and just really focusing on, you know, techy shit. This is doing my techy phase is probably. Two or three months after we started the business, I was doing, I had some ongoing contract work that I was doing, bringing money into the business.

Gee. Thanks buddy.

would what do you mean to, yeah, well, you just kind of talk through and, you know, they wanna move in this direction and they want me to manage their their it side for the company. I mean, at that point I was kind of speechless for the first time ever,

Right.

because like, well, I, I mean, on the one hand, you're a buddy, so I should say congratulations. On the other hand, you just fucked me royally.

Yeah.

Cuz we're we just started the business and now you're leaving immediately after starting the business. So

if they were gonna act like that and do that to you, you're probably better off

I know, I know, I know, but it was it like, this was a guy that I used to work with and we probably, we were also good friends. We hung out all the time. We, yeah, I mean we probably saw each other like five days a week, so it was very unexpected to me that he would do this. And I guess what the lesson learned from there was is that I have a fairly high tolerance for the unpredictable and the chaos. And I think that he.

and have something that he perceived as stable.

but it would literally be doing the exact same thing that he was doing in our company, except that he's trading ownership for a paycheck

Mm-hmm

and you know, more people immediately that will be supporting him so I can see how he arrived at that conclusion. The sad part of he didn't say, well, that sounds fascinating. I need to think about it.

right. And I need

And then talk to me

Yep.

yeah, that would've been more of what I would've expected, but instead I, I guess the offer was so good and he was not willing to walk away from it without saying yes. That he went as far as to literally say yes. So, so I bought him out for peanuts, but it still wasn't good. Cuz more than the value of, of his ownership, it was, you know, him doing the work that was interesting and unique. And then I, you know,

Mm-hmm

was very disappointed in that. Plus I got hit with lawsuit, which suck.

What did you get sued

not, not from him. Oh, it was non-compete So I couldn't work with any previous clients while we're going and dealing with a lawsuit.

yeah, so non-compete is interesting because it's, it's enforceability varies so much depending on, you know, was there actual consideration given for it and things like that and then the state law. So, you know, basically what I'd say is in, for instance, in the state of Texas, just some advice, if anyone's ever going up against the non-compete, if, unless they paid you a specific bonus for the non-compete and saying that this was consideration for that non-compete,

mm-hmm

then it basically means nothing in the state of Texas.

Yeah. Which literally is what I describe in my book about writing good non-compete agreements,

and that, that, that bonus can be a dollar. It doesn't really matter, but as long as there's something tied saying, you are agreeing to this, and here's the consideration, we are paying you for

it's not the initial job offer. So, and I, I didn't, you know, like I got sued, right. So unfortunately I didn't get a lawyer until after the first court hearing, at which point they already put in a tier or none of Tero they put in a. Cease and desist thing what the hell they call it? When the, when basically they say you have to stop doing this until the matters resolved. So, is it, I thought it was something else now cease and desist.

previous ones, but you could go prospect new ones.

yes, yes, absolutely. But my, my 80% of my work was coming from a client that I'd been working with forever

Mm-hmm

through that firm. So plus I had to find a new guy to work with the client.

mm-hmm

Uh, and then my, my contention on the case was that I wasn't doing the same job. Yes. It was the same client, but it was doing a different job. So I wasn't simply just doing the

you weren't taking the client away from them. You're going into a different role for

Well, I kind of was because my job, I went from doing it, work to teaching how to do it work.

Hmm.

So I was training an internal person to do it.

Okay.

Right. It's, it's similar but different. And and I had a good, good law firm did a two days of deposition, which is. Where they tried to catch me and say something that, you know, would show that I'm and their, their, their thing is like, well, you didn't know how to do this stuff before you came here. And my point was, I've been doing this for literally six years before I joined you guys.

Lawyers are so hit or miss man.

well, even the good one that like, you gotta realize that it's just a job and for you, if you're the one getting sued, this is your life.

Yeah.

And so the lawyers, the expectation needs to be just tempered in that regard. And then the, yeah, after that you know, they had the, the dates for the hearing and they're like, everybody wants to settle. It's like, well, they'll take legal fees and $10,000 and then get it all wrapped up. I'm like, are you kidding? No, we're gonna go to trial. Like, no, I really don't advise you to go to trial cuz you know, there's. Could be a lot more. I'm like, no, we're not settling.

Yeah. And to

purely to try and settle. Yeah. Yep. Exactly.

there, you know, lots of lawsuits end up that way.

I think do.

yeah. Well, and I'll, I'll just take my own case. I've got some issues with the house that we've found and we keep having repeated challenges

Mm-hmm

based off of. Issues from the builder and trying to get them to resolve the issues. And you know, it's no one thing is at all worth a lawsuit to me, but when I start adding it up and I start looking at, okay, I'm gonna have to add an AC unit upstairs because the AC unit can't keep up upstairs. So for instance, by this afternoon, we'll be close to a hundred. It'll be, you know, it'll be several degrees off the set point.

use latex.

I'm sorry.

They use the latex paint.

No water based

Yeah. That is water based.

anyway, I don't know what the, the exact finish is on these cabinets, but it's peeling. It's not holding up. So the cabinets need to be refinished. And again, this is a brand new

Should do. Yeah.

And anyway, and there's just lots of little things there. There was issues with the garage door openers, and anyway, it all adds up to probably around 25, 30 grand worth of stuff to be done and fixed. And, you know, I'm, I'm trying to work with the builder to say, Hey, we, we need to resolve this. And they've sent their AC guys out here three times to do their tests and all this. And basically he's, I know he is gonna come back and say, well, that's just what it is.

well, but okay. I will say just play devil's advocate that sometimes size appropriately for legal contents is different than ideal context. So

be able to maintain 75 in the upstairs office when it's a hundred degrees.

So mine struggles at that.

Yeah, this one cannot, it, it will be 78, 77 in here. And if it's 110, it's over 80 and that's just not acceptable.

Well, you're literally describing my house.

Yeah. Well that, okay. That downstairs stays fine. Downstairs zone stays

here. Same here. Yeah. I think the issue is you need multiple air conditioners

Agreed.

and clearly when this house was built, it was sized appropriately that they deemed a single air conditioner was.

Well, they were

I'm talking about my house.

Yeah. Well, but my house was built, you know, here in 29 2019 finished in 2020,

mm-hmm

this is not a 1990s house.

well, neither is mine, dude. My house 12 years old.

Okay.

I mean, it's like, I'm just saying that they take the square footage, they buy an AC that is labeled for that square footage and they plop it in and no one gives a shit that it's 110 degrees in

yeah. So actually the the, the unit that they have is actually undersized for the square footage of

Well, then you got a

And their argument is, well, we build such a tight house that, you know, well, obviously not.

Obviously not mine is sized appropriately, but it's still struggles.

mine is undersized for the square footage. If you go BA purely based off a

And you got a big house, right.

Yeah. Yeah.

And that's so it's surprising that you only have a single air conditioner

they, they went with the zoning and they undersized it. Yeah, it really should be two smaller units than the one big unit. It really should be. It'd be far better.

yeah. Well, if you're gonna stick around that house for a while and just pick up a second AC

yeah, but it, I don't think, I don't feel like it should be at my cost is the entire thing here,

did you get a good deal on the house?

Compared to current market value. Sure.

Okay, well, I don't feel sorry for you then.

well, anyway, yeah. It's, it's just, you

yeah. Yeah. First

of the upper middle class,

Yes, exactly. First world problems.

indeed.

Yeah, it, so this is, I only built one house in my life and I know that the builder absolutely was sick of me by the time it was done, because I was one of those guys that went to the construction site every single week and did a walkthrough of the house and provided my notes

Mm-hmm yeah, it, I would never have a client like you, I would've fired you as a client immediately.

that I don't think you could afford to do that when you have contracts in place. But

it depends.

they definitely told me that they would like to have a consolidated single, you know, set of changes and feedback coming from me, not a weekly dribble of stuff coming in. And I said, I don't see that contractually being the case.

I would've charged you for every change order possible.

well, the problem was, I mean, you, you would think that if I was just making changes, but I wasn't, what I was doing is pointing out things that were out of contract spec

yeah.

because, and they can't do anything about that. you know, it's just, most people wouldn't notice. I was like, hold up. And, you know, I remember when we went through this, we talked about putting in this many leads for water and not using a single tap with, or single line with five taps off of it. And I, I just walked through the house and I only see two and it should be four. So what gives, well now they gotta get the plumber out there and then fix it. So it's all shit like that.

Ever pull fiber in the house,

because I want to be able to have options

but why would you ever pull fiber in a house? And I don't understand the options.

well, I may want to have you know, servers separate from a ice feed computer somewhere.

Okay, but you can do 10 gig on cat six. So, I mean, what server are you putting in?

well, we had cat five E at the time, but I don't know. I wanna

But still, what are you gonna saturate a gig a bit

Oh, for fuck's sake, who cares? Doesn't matter if it's much easier to pull everything when there are no drywall

yeah, 100%. 100%.

try and pull it after drywall's been

So would you go single molder or multi mode?

For the fiber I'd put full I'd pull four strands through every room.

Right. But single mold or multi mode.

I don't know.

It should definitely be multi mode if you're not going over a mile. So there's that. And then then what termination are you gonna use? Are you gonna use MTR?

know what I would use, I'd tell you the termination I would use is an expert to come and fucking do shit that I'm not doing myself. That's the termination mode I would use. Oh my God. Who gives a shit? You know, the last time that I had to crawl through a, a crawl space to pull cable, I was in my early twenties. Okay, dude. So, my, my point is simply that if you're building something from scratch, that that gives you a tremendous opportunity for not just customization, but future proofing.

Yep. And all terminated in a central closet with decent enough ventilation and everything else. Yep.

Yep. I had a rack in there. I had a rack in the house as most techy guys would.

I've got a rack in the room I'm in

There you go. yes. And, and then there's no female connected to it, but I'm pump. So, like all these things, I think are a pain in the butt for the builder, but man, do they make your house better to live in and better to resell?

Yeah. And one thing people should always realize is in, you should always pull at, so if you want a cable per wall, like Jean's talking about, you should pull two to each location. And the reason why is because the contractor's gonna have some crappy people pulling cable, it's not gonna be in cable tray in a house. And it's, you're going to end up with broken cables. So you don't wanna have to repo

yeah. And even basic stuff for people that aren't all nerdy and need like fiber in the house you know, the, there are minimum legal requirements on outlets and it's one, I think every nine feet or something and one every 12 feet, whatever it is.

Oh, it's not a legal requirement. It's a building code.

building codes require, well, that is a legal requirement.

Well, and okay. Depends on the county you're

you get fined if you don't do it. Right. Right. So the point is, it doesn't mean that's all they can do. So if you're building a house, double it up, but cut that size in half, or just tell 'em. I want two outlets in that wall instead of one, because from a practical standpoint, they're already running the cable. So having a junction off that cable to another location, that's six feet away is not that much work,

Yeah. But there,

a lot of.

but there is, you know, you gotta load balance on the breakers and everything else. You gotta take all that into consideration.

I don't know about your house. Every room in my house is just a single breaker.

Right. But depending on the size of the room and how many outlets you're talking about that could end up being more than one,

Well then you, it again, much easier to do that when they're building the house than replacing this shit later.

a hundred percent agree.

So that's my only point is that if you go to the trouble of actually building take full advantage of it, don't just trust somebody that quote unquote knows what they're doing to build you a nice house, because remember, first of all, a builder's gonna try and do everything as cheap as possible and give you less air conditioning than you need. That's where this conversation started.

Yeah, well, you know, we're, we're nerdy on this, but you know, for instance, when we moved into this house, I pulled I've got ceiling mounted, access points throughout the house. And you know, I pulled cable and to the closet and everything else. And, you know, I've got nice managed network here and I've got four access points throughout the house and, you know,

but wouldn't it have been cool. If when the house was built, they prewired all that stuff.

oh, sure. Just saved me some sweat and tears, but you know, it's all good. I, I can, I can pull cable in my own house if I need to.

Right. But my point is that it's better to not need to because to there.

yeah. Yeah. Agreed.

Yeah. And then, and then by having the coax there, I could actually have like, my video game console at the time be plugged into a different TV than the one that was right next to it. So there there's definitely, I mean, I don't know how much you need coax these days, but back in the

I, I only need one drop and that's where my cable modem sits for my internet connect.

Yeah. Yeah. So that, that makes sense.

Literally everything else is wireless at this point with a couple of exceptions. So

yeah, I don't like wireless

I, I don't either, but is a practical standpoint,

if I lived on the 40 acre you know, ranch or ranchette would be probably a more correct term. Then wifi would be great, but living in the city, like I do, where I can see about 30 other access points from my house.

well, you need a better access point.

Well, I have a good access point, but I actually, I actually, I have multiple access points and they run on every band, from six to five

But what are you, what, what, what, what style access point are you using?

What do you mean.

What access point are you using?

It's a here I'll log into it. I think it's a NAIS.

Well, yeah, there's, there's part of your problem. So

I have no problem here, dude. I know why you're creating a problem.

for instance looking at my network traffic around here the direct Roku someone is putting out on 2.4 gigahertz is the biggest. Competitor I have, but 2.4 gigahertz is where there's any overlap. And I have all my access points doing channel hopping, but both my, all my access points also do five gigahertz. And

you have low access neighbors. I

literally there's only one other access point that I'm seeing on this, that on five. So, you know, I have no problem.

Yeah. Well, again, that's where you live. Your neighbors. Aren't particularly tech savvy, cuz I have 11 on five gigahertz. And so I, I have I'm running right now. Two, two gigahertz, two, five gigahertz and one six gigahertz

Are these all separately managed?

yet, yeah, totally.

Go get you some unify access points and run the unify manager and have it do advanced channel hopping have 'em all have the same SS I D and you'll, you'll be

that works like shit. It's way worse to do that. No, I've done. It's much better to manually be able to flip, flip from whichever one you want to, if you trust the system to do it, you'll inevitably end up having slowdowns,

I mean, what throughput do you need?

As fast as possible.

Okay.

And so what I do is I look at the spectrum and I figure out which part of the spectrum is the least used. And that's where I have my my high speed channel set to, and I do that at least once a month. And then everything else literally fills in the rest of it. I have every piece of the available spectrum filled in with my access points. And you know, those are effectively backups for the, the one that's the least utilized.

Mm-hmm, so running on this laptop, which is not the most up to date. I think I've got an AC card in here, but I'd have to look over wireless you know, and I rate limit in each individual user. So for instance, my firewall, I will only allow an individual device max out at 200 megabits per second, because I've got a, you know, bunch of people here and over wireless, you know, no problem here in the office, just running the Google speed test. I was hitting 1 73.

Yeah, I'm hitting three 80 and that's not good enough

Why?

because I want the speed that I'm paying for.

But so the, okay. I, I have a gigabit internet connection here.

Mm-hmm

If I go on my firewall and I open everything up and I plug directly in, I can usually get around 900 and something.

yeah, that's what I get from my hardwired computers.

Right. I'm never going to use that on an individual computer.

Oh my God. I use that every day.

Why, what files are you

I download things.

what are you downloading? That is, I mean,

Okay. Two things. First of all, I have large size downloads that I do on a regular basis.

why are you downloading your foreign gene?

it's the believe me, you don't need to download porn. There's

you can stream

of it out there. You can stream. It does not require high

okay. So what are you downloading? That's

Game updates, game updates. On an average day, there are three to five different games that have been updated. And the, the typical download is, is gonna be between one and 20 gigabit.

Okay. So at couple hundred megabits for a

Now the other thing. Yeah. And I don't like waiting, so I want that to be done instantly. The other thing is I want not just high speed, but I want really good ping times.

well, yeah, I mean, your ping time should be very low, but wireless isn't gonna have, so this is gonna geek out and we

Oh, we're Don. We lost half the audience at this point. This conversation

So the, the worst part, the worst part of wireless is that you have collision avoidance, not collision detection. Right? So, yeah. Anyway for what I'm doing,

of the things, yeah, you're just looking up websites and typing things that requires no bandwidth.

I download quite a bit of content. Thank you. And do lots of things and you

Disney movies.

no, no, no, no, no, no. You know, 30, 40 gig ISOs to test the latest XYZ iteration of my company's platform, things like that.

okay. Sure. So, point being, get this shit put into your house when you're building it. Don't wait until later and don't just rely on wireless. The other thing about wireless is I also have a wireless jammer, so. If I would like to fuck with my neighbors, I can do that pretty easily.

you know, that's illegal.

Not this kind, this kind's totally legal,

How so?

grandfathered in.

Mm-hmm

It was a registered device that just happens to have a lot of power

Mm. Well,

that, and I'm also a ham.

Yeah.

So I have special, right?

What, what's your what's your call signed?

KF, no KF, five TB. That's actually a Dallas number cuz that's where I got it.

it's not kilo whiskey, tango Foxtrot

No, why?

whiskey, tango Foxtrot.

It's definitely not what the fuck. No,

Okay.

No. And I, I thought about you know, getting one of the custom signs,

mm-hmm

I just never been into it is enough to do that.

I, you know, I've, I've thought about getting my ham license a couple of times,

may need to renew soon because it's probably gonna expire this year or next year.

just never been a radio guy where I, you know, the tech I've always been interested in has been, you know, on the computer.

I I'll tell you the main reason I got it is because back in the early days, back in the olden days, It was the, like, you had to have a ham license to receive video from a drone.

Yeah.

Like that was, that was the only way you could do it because video broadcast was not allowed for civilian broadband

the last time I looked at getting a ham license was in the early two thousands, late 1990s, because where we were living, there was not cell phone availability and being able to make a call using a ham radio was a thing.

yeah, yeah. But I already had a satellite phone before I became a ham.

Yeah. Well, I did not have a satellite phone and

Oh, well there there's your problem right there?

dude satellite phone in the 1990s. How much was your bill a month. And why did you think you needed that?

No, not it was in the nineties. Oh no, it was in the nineties. Yeah, it was in nineties. It was in the late nineties was in the early nineties. But no, I got a cell phone in,

Probably in Iridium network phone,

Nope, Nope,

some Russian network. I mean,

no, no, it's it wasn't Iridium. It was the other one. Iridium is lower abit. This was the higher theba. This is a high powers. Satphone that literally worked anywhere. Unlike Iridium, but I got, I got a special deal on it because I had certain. Needs that were authorized for it. And so I actually had unlimited air time, which is something unheard of for satellite

okay. What what three letter government agency were you working for at the time?

Yeah. Not all agencies have three letters, but but that may have had something that, that may have had something to do with my getting that phone.

almost have to be, especially with the unlimited air.

was also, it was also set up with a breakthrough priority. So that calls originating from that phone in case of a emergency in the us would always go through

Yep. You know what? I, I will bet you 10. I, I would bet you some money that my cell phone is still has not been removed from my previous employer's

Yeah. I'm sure. I'm sure that's probably true. I don't think they ever remove 'em

No.

it's too much work to track that shit. And yeah. Yeah. In fact, I even had I kinda invited Adam to sign up for that back in the day he, he had a priority push through, but,

and what we're talking about for those that don't know is when the cell network with something happens and too many people try to use the cell network work at once that you, you can't

it prioritizes government services

government services. And then key industry players are also prioritized.

Yep.

So for instance, me working at a utility is why I ended up with

Yeah, or me being unemployed either or so. Yeah, that was so I get my ham after having that phone and you know, mostly what I found that was annoying with that is while the phone worked fine, when you were stationary anywhere in the world. So whether I was in Europe or middle east or somewhere else, everything worked fine. But if I was on the boat, going from the us to Canada, it didn't work I was

making a drug run

God, damnit, this is so stupid. Well, apparently the boat speeds too fast or something. And I I'm trying to make a, a set phone call and it, it it's like just, I don't know if it's changing satellites or what it's doing, but it didn't work very well.

Mm. So why were you on a boat going into Canada?

I go into Canada on boats all the time. Doesn't everybody.

Mm-hmm mm-hmm

How do you go to Canada?

usually in a car and, you know, going through the border,

well, sometimes the boat is a faster way to go.

yeah. Yeah. Especially if you're wanting to avoid certain inspections.

Yeah. There's usually not any extensions on, on, on boats. Although you do have to call it in

Hmm.

and if it's, if it's not a us registered boat, then you do have inspections. So you actually are better off having us.

Yeah, well, having been on some in inspections by the coast guard, I, I can say that fuck the coast guard. I'm not a fan.

Fuck the ghost. Yeah, they are kind of pricks it. I think they've

coast guard in

not a real agency mentality going

The coast guard in Alaska where they actually save people's lives and things like that are, you know, fine. But as a kid, I remember it being held at gunpoint by some landlocked asshole that grew up in, you know, probably Iowa and didn't know anything about boats while they searched while they searched our boats. So yeah, not, not a fan.

what are they looking for? The emergency flare.

Yeah. They were looking for drugs and it, it was a drug inspection cuz we were off the coast of Texas, you know, down near Brownsville and you know, it was just a routine inspection and you know, if you, they immediately ask you, if you have a firearm on the vessel and of course you say, you know, yes.

He shouldn't be pointing at you. He

No, he shouldn't have been, it should have been low ready but this is, this is the fucking problem I have with the coast guard. You know, they, they, they are a military agency that man, they just don't

they technically are, but they're, they're the least respected military agency.

Space force I think space force says that new title, but

Um, I don't know, man. They're, they're spending money left and right here in Austin space force is just like setting up all kinds of programs.

all right. Anyway I also, when the coast guard showed up, when our vessel was sinking they screwed up and were pumping water into the boat for three and a half hours. So

okay. That has to be bullshit. There's no way they can't know the difference.

They literally fucked it up and were pumping water into the boat for three and a half hours. The deck hand had all the electronics

Did, did you Sue them?

you can't Sue the governments.

Yes, you can.

No, you really can't.

happens all the time.

Okay.

If dust coast guard San your boat, you could totally Sue them.

Here, here. Here's the, here's the other thing, they also hit us with a $500,000 oil spill. Fine after.

What,

Yep,

how did you just spill that much oil?

because it was a 75, a 75 foot shrimp boat going out for the, you know, the, the opening and was full of fuel.

Yeah. And the fuel was leaking. It wasn't contained.

The, the boat sank

Right. But the fuel should be inside. Not outside.

it still. Yeah. Okay. Well anyway, long, long story long. Well, my parents did and they, but it was a huge financial loss to our family at the time.

Well, yeah, losing your boat would be a big loss.

well, it's more than that. So they had just redone the ice hold on. The boat, did a lot of upgrades was heading out for the Texas open. It was one of the first times my dad wasn't on the boat and thank God he wasn't cuz he probably would've. It would just not have gone well. And anyway, hit a underwater obstruction. Someone was, they were dredging the, the channel and they had lost some pipe and well, we found it and knocked about a three and a half foot hole right behind the fuel tank.

of.

all three, what?

Electronics

Oh, no. Plotters radios lot radar systems. I mean, probably about 50 grand at the time worth of electronics. Anyway, it was a huge financial loss to the family

I bet. Do I? You didn't have insurance.

it didn't matter. It's inside coastal waters inside protected waters, no insurance policies pay out and stuff like that.

What do you mean?

I mean, in the maritime insurance policies would not pay out on

Oh, okay. Cause I had insurance on my boat and that was, you know, that would pay out in the like,

You weren't operating a commercial

no, that's true. Yeah. That was a pleasure, pleasure craft.

There's a big difference.

So they don't, they, they only cover while you're in open water.

Pretty much.

Aren't like 90% of boating accidents. Not in open water,

Yeah. Well, but that's not for commercial vessels, you know,

but you're still coming in and out.

All right. But

Oh, you get to the intercostal

So here, here's the thing you would have. This is why the ship channel pilots and association and so on is such a thing is because the only way you can get insurance to cover it. And most ports require,

of the board.

a pilot, a board to actually operate for the, that water. But that's for the big boys for the, the small, you know, shrimping vessels, commercial fishing, stuff like that. It's a very different story, but you still fall into those categories where, you know, you're a ship, not a boat. And you know, it, it, it gets real murky real quick,

Hmm. Yeah. That sucks, dude. So what'd your parents end up doing?

Saying, fuck it. And move to Idaho.

Oh, that's how you ended up in that L

They, they had bought some property up in Idaho that they were planning on retiring to and decided to have a major life shift.

I can't believe the coast guard San your boat though. That's insane.

Yeah.