The Fat Electrician Vs Tactically Acquired | Unsubscribe Podcast 267

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• 0:00Speaker 00

  Hi there, I am fully charged and here to tell you Toy Story 5 is now on Disney+

• 0:06Speaker 01

  It's been too long cowboy.

• 0:08Speaker 00

  Woody, Buzz, and Jesse are back for a brand new adventure with some seriously cool new tech.

• 0:13The Fat Electrician?

  What? Holy butterscotch!

• 0:15Speaker 00

  You said it Jesse, so save your batteries and watch the global phenomenon at home. And the best part, it's perfect for the whole family. Power up your movie night and watch Disney and Pixar's Toy Story 5, now streaming on Disney+ Rated PG.

• 0:30Speaker 03

  The Army's trying to bring back the XM-25.

• 0:32The Fat Electrician?

  Hell yeah, should've never been cancelled in the first place.

• 0:35Speaker 03

  We're only at a level 2 in the races, we gotta get those numbers up.

• 0:38The Fat Electrician?

  Inward? What? Oh! They jerked themselves off to death. They became like the [bleep] 55th Goonin Brigade.

• 0:45Speaker 04

  I'll be such a jerk! Say hi to Eli. He's racially ambiguous and random. His hair is fucking fabulous and donut. A dark oak disposition and there's a fat electrician. Welcome to Unsubscribe. Doctors, doctors, everyone ready?

• 1:11The Fat Electrician?

  3, 2, 1.

• 1:15The Fat Electrician?

  Hi everyone, welcome to the Unsubscribe Podcast. I'm joined here today by Eli Double Tap, Chris Cappy from Cappy Army, Nick Davis from Tactically Acquired, and I am Donut Operator.

• 1:28Speaker 05

  Donut, what an amazing intro. Black Nic, great to meet you. It's good to meet you, man, it's not the first time we met. I know. It's good shit. We met in the, actually the bus on the way back from, um, Ranger. And we got to nerd out on cameras. Yeah, I know.

• 1:45Speaker 05

  Black Nic, great to meet you. White Nick, great to meet you. Hi. God, it's like looking in a mirror. It's very similar. It's like, mm. It's uncanny. I love how we're just super stoked, uh, I mean, super happy you're here. I'm very stoked you're here. This is just gonna be a nerd autism episode of war history.

• 2:12Speaker 05

  Got a lot of questions for you. Oh, God. And then our boy Nick over here!

• 2:15The Fat Electrician?

  Hi.

• 2:17Speaker 05

  How was, how was filming last night?

• 2:19The Fat Electrician?

  It was good, it was fine. I got blood all over me, it washed out though, except for on my boots, which, you know, thankfully they were like new a week ago, so that works out.

• 2:30Speaker 05

  Typical. So you did, uh, what, what were you filming yesterday?

• 2:34The Fat Electrician?

  Oh, we had a skit for the new pepper box thingamajig. I had an idea. I've been, I've talked about it before. It's the same skit I've talked about forever. It's like, the concept is like Red Dawn. China invades, paratroopers come down, whatever. Me and like a couple other American soldiers get captured. We're getting interrogated and then I'm not going to say exactly how it happens, but basically the Chinese are very excited about their upcoming offensive because they believe that the area that they're going to be invading next is going to be a lot easier than the combat they've seen so far. Because this area of the country has the strictest gun laws. And then we're all tied up with like blood all over us. And then the Asian guy's like, it's called Chicago. And we just all started dying laughing like.

• 3:20Speaker 05

  The safest place. Easy. It's called a Chicago. Doing a Japanese accent for the Chinese people, but whatever.

• 3:28The Fat Electrician?

  Potato, potato.

• 3:30Speaker 05

  I, I'm dude, I'm so stoked.

• 3:31The Fat Electrician?

  I thought New Jersey was going to catch a stray with that one.

• 3:35Speaker 05

  It's never too late.

• 3:35The Fat Electrician?

  It's never a stray when it comes to New Jersey. It was intentional.

• 3:39Speaker 03

  An aimed shot, a well placed.

• 3:41The Fat Electrician?

  You're not catching strays. You were catching what was thrown.

• 3:48Speaker 03

  The pitcher, pitcher's aiming there.

• 3:52Speaker 05

  Oh yeah. Well, I'm fucking stoked for that. Oh yeah. We got the new, uh, double tap T, uh, came out, what? Two weeks ago now, and then is the new one out? We have Goth Girl Spit should be a launching also today. When you watch this, which is the most wild energy drink.

• 4:10The Fat Electrician?

  It's pretty rad.

• 4:11Speaker 05

  It, it's a really dope cover.

• 4:12Speaker 03

  It's called Goth Girl Spit. Yes. Yes. It brings back memories. It reminds me of high school.

• 4:17The Fat Electrician?

  Yeah.

• 4:20Speaker 03

  Yeah. No one else went through a Goth girl phase? No, that's.

• 4:24Speaker 05

  Did you just dress up one like one?

• 4:26Speaker 03

  That was a different phase. Tell us, tell us more about it.

• 4:30Speaker 05

  I just kept chappies of Goth.

• 4:32Speaker 03

  In high school, I had a little bit of a thing for the Goth women. Yeah, there's something very dark about them.

• 4:38Speaker 05

  Daddy problems?

• 4:40Speaker 03

  Yes, yes, exactly. And that, uh, the low self-esteem, I guess, is kind of what allowed me to get in there in the first place.

• 4:48Speaker 05

  Why targeted? They were my prey. They were weak. That it is. Didn't that face stuff for like 10 or 20 years?

• 4:56The Fat Electrician?

  Yeah, it's, it's, it's a economic recession indicator. This, this is my going theory.

• 5:03Speaker 05

  Wait.

• 5:04The Fat Electrician?

  You gotta elaborate. Before 2008. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Whenever the Goth starts showing back up and baggy pants are in style, the economy's about to crash.

• 5:14Speaker 03

  Coming back again now, right?

• 5:15The Fat Electrician?

  That's what I'm saying. The housing market's gonna crash in any minute. We've got three years. Like I saw a pair of jean coasts for the first time in 15 years the other day. I was like, that's not fucking good. I'm about to short real estate.

• 5:26Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 5:26Speaker 05

  Hot topics blowing up.

• 5:30Speaker 05

  Oh, no.

• 5:31The Fat Electrician?

  I'm telling you right now, as soon as the Juggalos become popular again, we've got like, we've got four minutes.

• 5:37Speaker 03

  If you see parties out in the woods and like a dim fire or somewhere and they're all chanting their Juggalo shit, you know, it's time. You know, it's, the days are numbered.

• 5:46The Fat Electrician?

  This is true.

• 5:47Speaker 05

  Oh, Juggalos, we love you.

• 5:51Speaker 05

  That's a hell of a theory.

• 5:52The Fat Electrician?

  That's just saying.

• 5:53Speaker 05

  I mean, I mean.

• 5:54The Fat Electrician?

  History repeats itself. Although I did have the, uh, the, I'm, I'm gonna toot my own horn here. I, I made the greatest call of all time on Twitter last year and it came true. It was creepy.

• 6:08Speaker 03

  Which one?

• 6:09The Fat Electrician?

  In 2024, in like November or like early 2025, there was an article that orcas are wearing fish on their heads again.

• 6:21The Fat Electrician?

  Which was a phenomenon that we haven't seen since, I forget the year, it was like 1985 or whatever the fuck it was. And I was like, 1985, orcas are wearing fish on their heads. The president is a Republican former TV celebrity. The US Navy destroys all of Iran's navy. And then I was like, 2025, the orcas are wearing fish on their heads. The president is a Republican former celebrity. Dot, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot. And then six months later, we destroyed Iran's navy. I was like,

• 6:55The Fat Electrician?

  it was the greatest call of all time.

• 6:57Speaker 06

  Be a great Cowshy bet.

• 6:59Speaker 03

  It really does feel like the eighties is coming back again. I mean, we're all back in South, in South America again. Invading countries there, doing, doing basically like Panama version two, electric bugaloo.

• 7:11The Fat Electrician?

  We should take it back.

• 7:12Speaker 06

  All of it.

• 7:13The Fat Electrician?

  Unpopular opinion, we should take back Panama. I'm just saying, I'm for it.

• 7:17Speaker 06

  I think less people think that's unpopular. I think they don't want to say it out loud.

• 7:22The Fat Electrician?

  No, no, no. We dug the giant trench. It's ours.

• 7:25Speaker 06

  Yes.

• 7:26The Fat Electrician?

  Just saying.

• 7:27Speaker 05

  How is now with, or I guess on your side, because that's what you deep dive into. What are you seeing with the cartel and then the US? So you just did a video on kidnapping or assassinating.

• 7:39Speaker 03

  The cartel stuff is crazy. They just, so CIA ground branch is in Mexico right now, just murking dudes. Just blowing up cartel vehicles. They have it on camera. Yeah. So I'm flipping through Instagram the other day and this, this video comes up and, and you know, casually a car explodes and then it says, you know, US officials say that they have CIA paramilitary in Mexico, killing cartel bosses. It's fucking wild.

• 8:09Speaker 05

  Hell yeah.

• 8:10Speaker 03

  Yeah, right?

• 8:11Speaker 05

  Hell yeah. So this is like seventies, eighties, this is what we did, right?

• 8:14Speaker 03

  Well, the, the beautiful thing about the eighties and, and Latin America was that we were just everywhere. We were, yeah, the CIA had like death squads everywhere in El Salvador. They were, they were just killing bot, fields of bodies and we're, we're back at it again. You know, because every time, every, you had to go back and mow the grass every once in a while and that, that's what they're, but they're doing it smarter now. They're doing it a little bit smarter. Um, instead of, yeah, instead of like wholesale killing and arming groups that might, might have blowback, just go and they take out one cartel boss and yeah, a little more surgical.

• 8:53The Fat Electrician?

  CIA is over here playing Guess Who?

• 8:55Speaker 05

  Sicario, which is crazy. You have a, some of those bosses, they don't even know what they look like. I always find that fascinating. They hid themselves that well throughout their life that they just don't have pictures of them like.

• 9:07Speaker 03

  You want to hear a hilarious story of how they killed El Mencho? In, in, so El Mencho was the biggest cartel boss in Mexico. They killed him like two months ago. And the way they did it was the CIA fricking, cause they don't know what, what he still looks like. He might've gotten facial reconstructive surgery.

• 9:25The Fat Electrician?

  We don't know what he looks like.

• 9:26Speaker 03

  But they, they do know.

• 9:27The Fat Electrician?

  We got him. We got him. After the drone hits, bad news. We still don't know what he looks like.

• 9:35Speaker 05

  Definitely one of those five bodies.

• 9:37Speaker 03

  They went through, he was meeting up with an OnlyFans chick and they triangulated his position based on going through the metadata of him talking to this OnlyFans girl to have her come and meet him.

• 9:51The Fat Electrician?

  We don't know what this guy looks like. I bet he likes, we can figure it out.

• 9:56Speaker 05

  One thing we are for sure on.

• 10:01Speaker 05

  And that they just blow up the fuck, like how, how did that raid go down?

• 10:05Speaker 03

  So the great thing about the way we do operations, a little bit smarter now is we work through by with and through. We work through the Mexican military. So they send in the Mexican Marines to kill everybody and they advise it.

• 10:17Speaker 05

  Oh, no shit.

• 10:18Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 10:19Speaker 05

  So it's them still like, hey, we're not doing it. I mean, it's like the end of Iraq where it's like, hey, CIA is taking over or these little communities hand off.

• 10:29Speaker 03

  We've, it's exactly that. We took the Iraq Afghanistan model and we're just applying it to Mexico.

• 10:36Speaker 05

  It worked really good both times. Especially when we left.

• 10:40Speaker 03

  Yeah. I don't remember a single problem with that.

• 10:44The Fat Electrician?

  I sent you something. That's, that's what the CIA was like.

• 10:48The Fat Electrician?

  As soon as the OnlyFans girl showed up.

• 10:53Speaker 03

  Missing.

• 10:56Speaker 05

  You're gonna make me cowabunga?

• 11:00The Fat Electrician?

  Dude, what the?

• 11:02Speaker 05

  How I'm surprised they're still doing that tag to go. It's like this hasn't worked yet. So what's going to change this time if we'll back them?

• 11:11The Fat Electrician?

  I mean, not to address the the whore in the room, but is the only fans girl? Okay.

• 11:16Speaker 03

  You know, I don't actually know. Yeah, I don't think she died. I don't know for for certain, but hopefully.

• 11:22Speaker 05

  Did she know any of this was going on?

• 11:23The Fat Electrician?

  Two girls, one drone.

• 11:25Speaker 05

  She didn't even know.

• 11:26Speaker 03

  They followed her to the to the like lake house in.

• 11:30The Fat Electrician?

  Talk about an asset.

• 11:34Speaker 05

  Yeah, I'm gonna go see this guy. Um, here's my location. Just make sure that call me in five minutes. Yeah, calls back in five minutes. Doesn't answer, then trying to explain that to anyone after the fact. How'd your date go?

• 11:51Speaker 03

  People.

• 11:53The Fat Electrician?

  That's the future of warfare is just exploiting dudes trying to get laid. That's what the Ukrainians were doing to the Russians.

• 11:59Speaker 05

  Yes.

• 11:59The Fat Electrician?

  That's what they were all getting on there pretending to be hot girls on Instagram and shit.

• 12:04Speaker 05

  We've done this every time. World War, like Cold War.

• 12:07The Fat Electrician?

  I know, but it's just so much easier now with cell phones because like that they were literally getting all the Russian soldiers to be like messaging these girls on Instagram. And they're like, oh, when are you coming through my town? Maybe we can meet up, blah, blah, blah. And they're like, oh, my unit will be there in three days. Now they're tracking troop movements because some dudes trying to get laid.

• 12:25Speaker 03

  They're sending like High Mars fucking US provided missiles right to their coordinates based on that. It's wild.

• 12:31Speaker 05

  And it doesn't matter if you tell them not to do this because it's dudes. And when you see even the catfish, the guys that get catfished, you're like, oh, like, doesn't matter how obvious this is a ploy. They're going to fall for it. Well, yeah, I'm going to meet her in two years.

• 12:48Speaker 03

  It's easy for me to laugh at them, but I if I'm a Russian soldier, I would hunt and I'm like 20 year old hundred percent sure I I'm gonna get missle. I'm gonna match with that chick and be like, yeah, I'm gonna be here tomorrow.

• 13:02The Fat Electrician?

  The other unfair part that like I I don't think I've ever seen anybody bring this this aspect up. Whereas like if we actually did go to war with Russia or China or any of these adversaries, our troops have a massive advantage at spotting bullshit because of internet literacy because they've dealt with it their whole lives because we have unrestricted internet. Imagine us trying to fuck with Chinese soldiers that have had extremely strict censored internet their entire lives. They're falling for level one scams out of the gate because they've never seen it before. You know what I mean?

• 13:37Speaker 03

  Yeah, it's like no different than what North Korea with when they got access to the internet.

• 13:43The Fat Electrician?

  Tell me more.

• 13:44Speaker 03

  When they first got access to the internet, North Korean soldiers out of Russia. Oh, yeah. And they like they jerked themselves off to death.

• 13:51Speaker 05

  They were to do they just went on masturbation.

• 13:54Speaker 03

  They they they became like the fucking 55th Gooning Brigade.

• 13:59Speaker 05

  I think such a good shirt. The 55th Goonie Brigade. Dude, they had to like cut phone restrict. They like started restricting phones because they're like, oh, oh, oh, oh.

• 14:13Speaker 03

  They sent the North Koreans to Kursk and they couldn't handle it. They couldn't. It was taking them out more than the Ukrainians. Oh, my God. But like, okay, so.

• 14:22Speaker 05

  So much proof on that's all unique.

• 14:25Speaker 03

  If World War Three happens.

• 14:28The Fat Electrician?

  I'm sorry. It's literally like, like when, you know, the colonists or whatever come over and they're like, our immune system can't handle these new diseases.

• 14:36Speaker 05

  Boom. It's that, but it's the internet. Just like that's what it is.

• 14:40Speaker 03

  It is more of a disease. Yes.

• 14:43Speaker 05

  They're invading. What do we do? Turn on the internet. Give it free, open internet.

• 14:49The Fat Electrician?

  We don't need nukes. We have fucking Starlink.

• 14:54Speaker 05

  Hand out cell phones.

• 14:55The Fat Electrician?

  Let's give the enemy free internet. What? Why? We're helping them. No, we're not.

• 15:00Speaker 05

  Drop some iPads, some phones, and free internet.

• 15:06Speaker 05

  Has the password on the back for the wifi. Connect here. Do this. Picture of underneath it.

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• 16:32Speaker 03

  I just, I want, when that big war happens, I want to be part of that, that. Propaganda unit.

• 16:39The Fat Electrician?

  Oh, bro.

• 16:40Speaker 03

  That like, you know how they, um, they basically knighted a bunch of Silicon Valley dudes and they made them.

• 16:46The Fat Electrician?

  Yeah, I was there for that.

• 16:47Speaker 03

  Oh, so you.

• 16:47The Fat Electrician?

  I was there.

• 16:48Speaker 03

  Right.

• 16:48The Fat Electrician?

  I was in the room when it happened.

• 16:50Speaker 03

  And they made them generals or some shit.

• 16:52The Fat Electrician?

  Lieutenant Colonels.

• 16:53Speaker 03

  Okay, so I wanted them to make us like lieutenant colonels of the propaganda brigade.

• 16:58The Fat Electrician?

  We're calling in a group of specialists, just completely like goon squad of YouTubers walking in. Trust me.

• 17:06Speaker 03

  In slow motion.

• 17:07The Fat Electrician?

  I trip. It's, it's like Monsters, Inc. When the scares are walking into the room in slow motion.

• 17:17Speaker 05

  Yep, the lieutenant colonel things. We have no idea anything about that.

• 17:21Speaker 03

  We, we, we need experts in propaganda. I got you.

• 17:26Speaker 05

  I know a guy. I mean, we could do some damage real fast.

• 17:31The Fat Electrician?

  I would love nothing more than to pitch giving the enemy free internet and iPads to a room full of generals. I know this sounds crazy. They're gonna jerk themselves off to death. I promise you.

• 17:44Speaker 05

  Promise.

• 17:46Speaker 00

  Hi there. I am fully charged and here to tell you Toy Story 5 is now on Disney Plus.

• 17:52Speaker 01

  It's been too long, cowboy.

• 17:54Speaker 00

  Woody, Buzz and Jesse are back for a brand new adventure with some seriously cool new tech. What? Holy butterscotch. You said it, Jesse. So save your batteries and watch the global phenomenon at home. And the best part, it's perfect for the whole family. Power up your movie night and watch Disney and Pixar's Toy Story 5, now streaming on Disney Plus, rated PG.

• 18:18The Fat Electrician?

  They're going to die. You're an officer. How would you respond to that, bitch?

• 18:22Speaker 05

  Oh, yeah.

• 18:23The Fat Electrician?

  It's all about marketing.

• 18:26Speaker 03

  What do I get out of this?

• 18:29Speaker 03

  Sir, we're gonna need thirty seven million dollars for this, this mission.

• 18:33The Fat Electrician?

  We, we came up on an entire company. It looked like they'd just been drained of life. I don't know what happened.

• 18:38Speaker 05

  Did it suck you?

• 18:40Speaker 03

  Mummify an entire army.

• 18:44The Fat Electrician?

  There's tissues everywhere.

• 18:50Speaker 05

  No casings, it's just tissue, water tissues. What is this?

• 18:56Speaker 06

  You can see where grounds is.

• 18:58Speaker 03

  See where it was.

• 18:59Speaker 05

  Yes.

• 19:01Speaker 03

  Our morale patch is just like the sploosh emoji.

• 19:04Speaker 05

  Yeah, it's just the sploosh, yeah, the three drops.

• 19:06Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 19:11Speaker 06

  You can do a, like, skill badges, like, like you level up, like, basic branch.

• 19:16Speaker 03

  Mm-hmm.

• 19:17Speaker 06

  The expert.

• 19:17Speaker 03

  Expert splooge.

• 19:20The Fat Electrician?

  God, that's a skip by itself, just walking up, turning around, vomiting.

• 19:23Speaker 05

  Whoa, what happened here? Don't go in. You don't want to see.

• 19:30Speaker 05

  Does that slow, like, walk in, one guy's like.

• 19:34Speaker 05

  Turning, just drained.

• 19:37The Fat Electrician?

  Whatever you do, don't put your nods on, you'll go blind. It's cum everywhere.

• 19:41Speaker 03

  Was this a concentration camp?

• 19:43Speaker 05

  No, just jerked themselves off to this level.

• 19:53The Fat Electrician?

  The archaeologists are digging up the bones, like, whatever career field this man had, he really used his right arm a lot more, you can tell by the bone density on his right side.

• 20:03Speaker 03

  It's a lack of calcium, Frankie.

• 20:07Speaker 05

  I just, archaeologists, it's just this room, it's dude side by side with a square object, we have no idea what happened. They seem to be grasping at something to save their lives while also grasping their penis.

• 20:22Speaker 03

  Sir, why are they in a circle with each other? They all, what are they doing there?

• 20:27The Fat Electrician?

  Uh, wimp biscuit.

• 20:29Speaker 05

  A ritual.

• 20:30Speaker 03

  What's that biscuit?

• 20:30Speaker 05

  From the nineteen hundreds.

• 20:37The Fat Electrician?

  I'm glad you guys are here. Black, Black Nic, why do we call you Black Nic, by the way?

• 20:42Speaker 05

  Actually, introduce yourself, I need you guys to tell your storyline.

• 20:46The Fat Electrician?

  Storytime.

• 20:47Speaker 06

  Yeah, so tactically acquired, name's Nick, uh, I saw him doing something on YouTube, I was like, I could rip that off, so.

• 20:54Speaker 05

  I love you so much.

• 20:55Speaker 06

  And I was like, that was it. Had to wade through all the people talking shit and uh now here we are. Sitting next to the OG Nick.

• 21:03The Fat Electrician?

  I thought it was funny, so I brought him here.

• 21:07The Fat Electrician?

  He even named his channel tactically acquired because he stole my shit.

• 21:10Speaker 05

  I know. He's always spoke so positive of you. He's like, hey, you guys see this dude? We should have him on. I'm like, like, can we? Looked at you guys like, yeah, if you're down. It's like, yeah, he's fucking really good, but his name's Nick. He's black and he does exactly my thing and he admits to what he does.

• 21:27The Fat Electrician?

  It's funny. That's great.

• 21:29Speaker 06

  Ca- capitalism.

• 21:31Speaker 05

  Dude, I'm, I, it's so much better to do that because a lot of the times then you're honoring that person because you're like, dude, I love what you did. I love what you did and it inspired me to do the same thing.

• 21:40Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 21:41Speaker 05

  And then there is enough internet.

• 21:43Speaker 06

  Yeah. What's crazy is it's coming in full circle because like he helped me out and I've got a guy who reached out to me and I'm helping him out.

• 21:51Speaker 06

  That guy I told you about, uh, that you met at the live show.

• 21:54The Fat Electrician?

  Oh, yeah.

• 21:54Speaker 05

  Yeah. That's awesome, dude. Oh, can you scoot your chair forward just a smidgen?

• 21:58The Fat Electrician?

  No, no.

• 22:02Speaker 05

  There we go. I was like, making sure those mics are good.

• 22:05The Fat Electrician?

  No, my whole thing was I was like, I watched one of his videos and I was like, because I was going to do a video on, I think it was Chuck.

• 22:11Speaker 06

  Chuck Maweni.

• 22:12The Fat Electrician?

  And I was like, every time I go to do a video, like I'll do all my research and then I'll go through and I'll watch. All or most of the YouTube videos on YouTube about that person just to like read the comments. Because the comments, like if they fucked anything up, the comments let them know. So it's like, I don't want to make the same mistake. Or the comments will be like, I can't believe you didn't talk about this. I'll be like, well, what the is that? Sometimes it's a real thing that should be talked about. Sometimes it's just like a rumor, whatever. So like, it gives me all the like, I don't want to, want to give the most of the story or whatever. So I go to look at this Chuck Maweni and there's like three videos on him and one of them is by him. And I watched his video. I was like, this motherfucker hit every talking point that I would have hit. This is bullshit. I just didn't even do the video after that.

• 22:56Speaker 06

  You hate this guy already.

• 22:59The Fat Electrician?

  The first time it's ever happened, because every time I go to do a video on a war hero, it's like, okay, here's the first one. Here's five other YouTubers that just watched that guy's video and regurgitated what he said. And it's just obvious. It's like, okay, you read the Wikipedia page and that's it. You didn't go read the fucking book. You didn't do any research whatsoever. And it's like, he was the first other YouTuber I'd ever come across. It was like, god damn it, this motherfucker knows what he's talking about. It pisses me off. So then I like reached out and then started working with him more.

• 23:30Speaker 06

  Well, he commented on that video. I was driving down, shouldn't text him, don't text and drive. N word? What?

• 23:43Speaker 06

  Nick is the N word. So what you meant? I'm picking which one down. I got it. No, like, I don't, I don't know.

• 23:54The Fat Electrician?

  How have I not come up with the Nick is the N word joke yet?

• 23:57Speaker 06

  I have not come up with that.

• 24:00Speaker 06

  We're only at a level two on the racism. We gotta, we gotta get those numbers up.

• 24:05Speaker 06

  Okay.

• 24:07Speaker 06

  No, like it just popped up on my YouTube studio, like, you know, Fat Electrician commented, and I'm just reading this. The most hyped I've ever been. Just ever.

• 24:15The Fat Electrician?

  I bet. He saw that hell, this guy is gonna be really good or really bad. I'm sure there was that feeling at first.

• 24:22Speaker 06

  Dude, the comment section, people talking on someone else's behalf, like ripping off Fallett. I have them on my phone. I've saved, I used to save all the native comments like David Goggins style, just looking at them. I still have them in my phone. You guys are wild for that. I love.

• 24:40Speaker 05

  It motivates me.

• 24:42Speaker 06

  One hundred percent. Timu David Goddard.

• 24:46Speaker 03

  When did you get originally into like World War Two history stuff? Was it from watching Nick's videos? Or was it like old school history channel?

• 24:53Speaker 06

  So I've been trying to do like something entrepreneurial wise for like 10 years. And everything builds and builds and builds. Like that's how I learned about cameras and shit. I used to do like fidget spinners. And that's how I got into cameras and just all kinds of random stuff, dropshipping.

• 25:07Speaker 03

  Fidget spinners? You say naturally, that's a good open door for cameras.

• 25:11Speaker 06

  I got into fidget spinners like right, like before they got hyped up.

• 25:15Speaker 05

  You're the only black dude that used a fidget spinner.

• 25:18Speaker 06

  I was selling them. I was selling.

• 25:20Speaker 05

  I'm trying to think. I was like, I've never seen a black dude be like.

• 25:26Speaker 06

  First of all, first of all, now you have.

• 25:32Speaker 05

  I like, I was just like fidget spinners. Entrepreneurial journey and you're like this.

• 25:38Speaker 06

  Look, they were the hot, because they were those fidget cubes. Like when they first came out, the fidget, I was like, man, what's the next thing? It's fidget spinner. So I got them from, how's Trump saying it? China. Went China.

• 25:48Speaker 05

  China.

• 25:49Speaker 03

  Wait, wait, this, this is how you got into World War Two?

• 25:52Speaker 06

  Oh, no, no. Yeah.

• 25:56Speaker 06

  Of course. It's a circle. Um, not like fucking, um, I told my wife I wouldn't cuss. All right. Anyway, uh.

• 26:03Speaker 05

  Why?

• 26:04Speaker 03

  He's gonna cuss.

• 26:05Speaker 06

  That's bad. Uh, there's number one. Now, like, so I started a YouTube channel with my wife. It was a baking channel. And then she didn't want to do that anymore. So then I was doing like a.

• 26:16Speaker 05

  Suddenly got a divorce now.

• 26:22Speaker 05

  He's like, if you don't want to YouTube with me. Why did I come on?

• 26:26Speaker 03

  It's over.

• 26:28Speaker 05

  Babe, they deleted the episode. Why?

• 26:30Speaker 06

  I don't know what happened.

• 26:31Speaker 05

  Don't watch it.

• 26:31Speaker 06

  I don't know what happened.

• 26:34Speaker 06

  It was going good and then it wasn't. Oh.

• 26:37Speaker 06

  But then I did my own channel. I was trying to do like, like the whole motivational crap or whatever. And I didn't know what to do next. And then my wife, she said, stop trying to separate your military job from like a business, just lean into it. And that's when I ran across your stuff and I was like, this doesn't suck. I really like this. So then I got into it.

• 26:57Speaker 05

  I like, this doesn't suck.

• 26:59Speaker 06

  I'm feeling it. Hundred percent. Mine. Hundred percent.

• 27:04Speaker 05

  So instead of bicycles.

• 27:11Speaker 06

  I was like, we'll see how long that joke takes. That registered. It just registered.

• 27:17Speaker 05

  What's, what's funny? Military too. So like, as you're saying, you did, uh, officer.

• 27:22Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 27:23Speaker 05

  And then how long were you in? What, can you go in depth? How much depth?

• 27:27Speaker 06

  Show some respect. This is major black neck. That's, thank you for your service. You're welcome.

• 27:34Speaker 05

  Like it's Brandon C too.

• 27:38Speaker 05

  Only the highest rank goes there.

• 27:39Speaker 06

  Is that what I'm feeling right now? Yeah. Just emanating from this chair.

• 27:43Speaker 05

  You should run for Congress.

• 27:46Speaker 06

  Black Brandon.

• 27:50Speaker 06

  Don't make that a thing. No, uh, man, I did all my stuff backwards. Uh, I went to college first. And then I went to, uh, let me back up a little bit. A girl I was dating for a long time, thought I was gonna marry this girl. We broke up. She had two things that she didn't want me to do. Join the military, get tattoos. This is the one with the cooking channel, right? Uh, this was before that. This was before that. Yeah. But, but it was just interesting. Like, it was like, as soon as you broke up, I was like, well, I'm getting a tattoo. I'm joining the military. That's. Yeah, just, just immediately went to do that.

• 28:21Speaker 05

  What were you going to college for?

• 28:22Speaker 06

  Uh, mechanical engineering.

• 28:25Speaker 05

  Damn.

• 28:26Speaker 06

  Yeah. So I used, I used to be a mechanical engineer before, before I went military full time.

• 28:33Speaker 06

  I'm not smart enough to be a mechanical engineer.

• 28:35Speaker 05

  Dude, that's crazy to me. Way smarter than me. That's the Bezos.

• 28:40The Fat Electrician?

  And you're an engineer, right? In the military?

• 28:42Speaker 06

  Yeah, engineer officer. So I went in.

• 28:44The Fat Electrician?

  It's a different type of engineer.

• 28:45Speaker 06

  Yeah, well, I wanted to blow stuff up. I just wanted to be a twelve Bravo. I wanted to go hunt IEDs. That's what I wanted to do.

• 28:50Speaker 05

  No shit.

• 28:51Speaker 06

  And I I hand the guy my paperwork. Um, fun fact, the guy who put me in the recruiter, he's still a friend of mine. Um, but I handed my paperwork and he's like, oh, you have a four year degree. Thought about being officer. I was like, I guess, I don't know. What does that entail? You gotta go to Fort Benning. Okay. I had no idea what I was getting into. None.

• 29:12Speaker 05

  Yeah, that's again, uh, engineers.

• 29:15The Fat Electrician?

  It fascinates me just the luck of the draw with the military shit. Cause we've interviewed so many like Delta, CAG, like tier one operators have done crazy shit and eighty percent of the time, it's always, I had no idea. The recruiter asked if I wanted to be a Navy SEAL in the nineteen eighties. Had no idea what that was. Anyways, I halo jumped out of a plane and saved Captain Phillips.

• 29:41Speaker 05

  Yeah, he did not know what a Navy SEAL was. Like he, he was like, I didn't know what a SEAL was. I thought it sounded cool though.

• 29:47The Fat Electrician?

  He's like, they showed me a video of them like doing some dirt bikes and cool shit. And I was like, yeah, it looks fun. Like, fast forward fifteen years, he's tier one Delta operators.

• 29:58Speaker 05

  Dev grew and he's, uh, Terry's the one that, uh, he did one of the shots, you know, on the

• 30:03The Fat Electrician?

  Yes.

• 30:03Speaker 05

  The boat, that's, that's, he was in command of the boat.

• 30:07The Fat Electrician?

  Him talking about that is so funny. Cause Terry's like, I just halo jumped into the ocean and boarded this boat. And they're like, okay, you're the captain now. He's like, What? I don't know what the fuck. I don't know how to captain a ship. Like I'm here to shoot somebody.

• 30:20Speaker 05

  They thought it cause Navy, they're like, obviously he knows boats.

• 30:24The Fat Electrician?

  They're like sailor. All the sailors, what do you, what do you want us to do? Set a heading? I don't fucking know.

• 30:31Speaker 06

  Go right. I mean, starboard. I mean, I know some of those nautical terms.

• 30:37Speaker 05

  Oh, man. So you did, uh,

• 30:41Speaker 05

  Nate or sorry, army or?

• 30:43Speaker 06

  Army.

• 30:43Speaker 05

  Yeah, army. And then you just like recruiters like, oh, okay, you're gonna go to Benning, go through leadership course.

• 30:50Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 30:50Speaker 05

  Did you have to go to Ranger?

• 30:52Speaker 06

  No. So, uh, so the only ones that have to do in the officer world, um, armor and infantry officers have to go through engineers. We have Sapper.

• 31:00Speaker 05

  Um, did you go through Sapper?

• 31:02Speaker 06

  So I had orders to go to Sapper school when I was at, um, so our version of A I T is called Bolick, Basic Officer Leader Course, and I went to E. Bolick at Fort Linnorwood. Um, I had orders to go, but I had, I could not figure out, uh, how to manage my knee pain back then. So I just dropped out. I was like, I'm not gonna go.

• 31:20Speaker 05

  I mean, a lot of the schools, it looks cool on paper. If you're staying in, you're trying to climb the ranks, but.

• 31:26Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 31:26Speaker 05

  If that's not the overall goal.

• 31:28Speaker 06

  Well, really, the reason I wanted to go is I wanted to learn more the advanced demo or Sapper school, but then fast forward a few years, that book is public domain, like the Sapper book.

• 31:36Speaker 05

  Oh.

• 31:36Speaker 06

  Along with the, there's an improvised explosive book that's also like out there now too. And I was like, oh, so I don't have to go to Sapper school to learn this stuff.

• 31:45The Fat Electrician?

  Yeah, but what if you could do it really tired and hungry? That's, that's about what most of that training is.

• 31:52Speaker 05

  Yeah, all training is that.

• 31:56Speaker 05

  I can do this, but can you do it on two hours of sleep for a week starving?

• 32:01The Fat Electrician?

  While you're constipated and hungry at the same time.

• 32:04Speaker 05

  And all your friends are judging you and grading you at the same time. Well, we yell at you. I don't, I think, I don't know. Why am I doing this? Actually, we want to know you can handle the stress.

• 32:15The Fat Electrician?

  Okay.

• 32:17Speaker 06

  We have no need to ever be that, that tired. We don't walk anywhere. We're, we're armor. We don't walk anywhere. So.

• 32:24Speaker 03

  Mm hmm.

• 32:24Speaker 06

  There's no point.

• 32:25Speaker 03

  We mechanized, mechanized is the way to go.

• 32:27Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 32:29Speaker 05

  Crunchies. I was happy to get in vehicles anytime we got the opportunity. It's like, ah, do you want to walk back or do you want to hop in a vehicle?

• 32:37Speaker 05

  Does it have A C?

• 32:38Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 32:38Speaker 03

  I want my seat. My, I have my, my special seat. That's mine.

• 32:45Speaker 05

  Hey, you ever just wake up and felt like you're?

• 32:47The Fat Electrician?

  mattress sucks and it beat your ass punched you in the face?

• 32:51Speaker 07

  That's crazy. Does the mattress also your mom? You ever wake up feeling like you slept in a swamp because you're disgusting nasty ball sweat? I see most of you on Reddit, so I know you have.

• 33:02The Fat Electrician?

  Time to break up with that mattress.

• 33:04Speaker 07

  Get divorced from your mattress. Get a ghost bed.

• 33:07The Fat Electrician?

  That hoe.

• 33:09Speaker 07

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• 33:10The Fat Electrician?

  Well, guess what? Ghostbed just launched their new mattress line.

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• 33:21The Fat Electrician?

  The beds are built with its patented cooling technology, Brandon.

• 33:26Speaker 07

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• 33:28The Fat Electrician?

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• 33:30Speaker 07

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• 33:52The Fat Electrician?

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• 34:19The Fat Electrician?

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• 34:21Speaker 07

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• 34:23The Fat Electrician?

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• 34:28Speaker 07

  This is a threat.

• 34:29Speaker 05

  So you military, how long were, uh, did you do that for total?

• 34:33Speaker 06

  Oh, I'm still in. So I'm, I'm AGR. I'm active duty guard.

• 34:41Speaker 06

  Which all that means is we have the same active duty requirements, but we do it with like a quarter less of the staff.

• 34:49Speaker 05

  Okay.

• 34:49Speaker 06

  So like, like an S1 shop in active duty might have, I don't know, 10 people in it. We have three.

• 34:57Speaker 05

  No shit. Oh, yeah. I, I, so, uh, after I got in the military, I did a, um, I was gonna do a job reclass. So I didn't get called back. I was like, dude, every, all my friends are getting called back. So I was like, okay, I'm gonna turn down. Sorry. And then I'll get out and then I just, I think three or four of my friends at that time had already got called back in that. Like two months after I've been out. I was like, oh shit, they're calling back everyone right now. So I was like, okay, let me see what options I have. And I was like, oh, I can do, uh, welding. I can just reclass as a welder for active or in act.

• 35:31Speaker 06

  Guard.

• 35:32The Fat Electrician?

  Eli flipping through the job book.

• 35:34Speaker 06

  I think we're.

• 35:35Speaker 05

  Well, drywall with metal. I'm in.

• 35:39Speaker 05

  Lawnmower, lawnmower, lawnmower.

• 35:44Speaker 05

  It's welding. Instead of drywall, it's metal. Got this all day. So did that. Basic. And again, it was that, uh, I had to go to a school for it, which was the easiest. I love that school. I was like, okay, this. Nope. Then went to my unit and it's as you're saying, like tiny, tiny.

• 36:02Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 36:03Speaker 05

  And.

• 36:04The Fat Electrician?

  I can't wait for the comment section now. Eli, Eli just said welding was easy on the internet.

• 36:11Speaker 06

  See your well.

• 36:12The Fat Electrician?

  They're gonna hate you.

• 36:13Speaker 05

  I don't lay quarters. It's like someone threw change on the steel. And that's it.

• 36:21Speaker 06

  Stacking little change.

• 36:26Speaker 05

  I love it. So did that and then showed up to the unit. I was like, okay, this is nice and chill. Cause everyone, there was like one dude that was. A Hua. There was like an E six and he was just trying to be very Hua. And I was like, oh, calm down, homie. Like, don't.

• 36:42Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 36:42Speaker 05

  Please don't.

• 36:43Speaker 06

  Guards are totally different vibe.

• 36:45Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 36:45Speaker 06

  It's totally different vibe.

• 36:46Speaker 05

  Okay. So that's what you're doing. And how long have you done that for now?

• 36:49Speaker 06

  Uh, I've been, been in the guard 13 years, but I've been AGR like four or five.

• 36:57Speaker 05

  No shit.

• 36:58Speaker 06

  Something like that.

• 36:59Speaker 05

  That's awesome. I just like, I volunteered to go, thought I'd do something cool, but we just went to Kuwait. So.

• 37:04The Fat Electrician?

  You know, you know how I met him? Like actually met him? Like we talked through the internet before. Fluck hits me up one day. He's like, yeah, guess what? I just ran into Nick from tactically acquired. Cause they live in the same area. They just bumped into each other.

• 37:20Speaker 05

  That's fucking wild.

• 37:23Speaker 06

  I've tried to get chat GPT to run the numbers on the statistics.

• 37:26Speaker 05

  Three hundred and forty million people and then you just go like this. Now they're both gonna walk here at the same time.

• 37:33Speaker 06

  I have, I have one editor and he happens to run into him in person.

• 37:38Speaker 05

  Yes.

• 37:40Speaker 03

  That's astronomical.

• 37:43Speaker 05

  So you run into him and then you're like, oh shit, we'll hang out.

• 37:46Speaker 06

  Yeah. This fucking so.

• 37:48Speaker 05

  Yeah. So you go through that and then at the same time, that's when you're like, oh, I'm gonna do YouTube, Instagram reels, TikTok or?

• 37:57Speaker 06

  Yeah. So you're talking about when I decided to start the channel?

• 37:59Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 38:00Speaker 06

  Well, so looking at his back catalog or what I could rip off first. So I was like.

• 38:10Speaker 03

  Yeah. By the way, there's so many people that do this and do not, are not open about it. So.

• 38:14Speaker 06

  Oh, you, you gotta, you, you've, you've gotta have a starting point to learn.

• 38:18Speaker 03

  It's an inspiration.

• 38:19Speaker 06

  You have to learn, like people.

• 38:21Speaker 05

  Don't reinvent the fucking wheel. Sorry. That is the dumbest thing you can do.

• 38:24Speaker 06

  Look, it's, it is, it is super easy to sit here and say like, oh, you just, the, the ripping, ripping you off thing pisses me off the most because it's like, you have no idea what it goes into making a video.

• 38:34Speaker 05

  Oh, no.

• 38:35Speaker 06

  No.

• 38:35Speaker 05

  God, no.

• 38:36Speaker 06

  It's, it's like the dude I was talking to that I'm trying to help out. I said, well, you know, how, how long do you want your videos to be? He said, I was thinking like a little bit shorter, like forty five minutes. And I said, do, do you have editing experience? He said, no. I said, you might want to temper your expectations like a lot.

• 38:52Speaker 05

  You get it because you do camera and editing and you, you know, the entire process and it is time consuming, especially when you start getting forty five minute videos and hour videos. Like research alone, how much time do you guys spend it? Like even with you, it's like, how much time do you guys spend per episode?

• 39:11Speaker 06

  Fucking forty to eighty hours.

• 39:15Speaker 06

  Yeah, it's so. I think my research is sh- I think my research is shorter than that. But I I eat up the rest of that time because I script my videos.

• 39:25Speaker 05

  Oh, yeah, he does.

• 39:26The Fat Electrician?

  I do not.

• 39:27Speaker 06

  Yeah, I don't have that. What was that word you used?

• 39:29The Fat Electrician?

  I just have a good memory.

• 39:30Speaker 06

  I I I did it or something like. It's got that tism. It's got that tism brain. I don't. I can't. I ain't got it like that.

• 39:40Speaker 05

  Dang. And then Cappy, were you like?

• 39:42Speaker 03

  It will combine with all the people that work on the videos. It's a lot of hours. Yeah.

• 39:47Speaker 05

  Because everything has to be right with you guys like otherwise comments and the internet will.

• 39:52The Fat Electrician?

  I was telling him before we started the podcast, like, I'm not jealous of him at all.

• 39:57Speaker 05

  No.

• 39:57The Fat Electrician?

  Because like I have the luxury of being like, this happened fifty plus years ago. We know everything we're gonna know about this. There will be no new developments, really. You know what I mean? Like, I it's very easy for me to be. Well, easier for me to be correct and on the right side. Because it's all twenty twenty. He's like, he's putting out updates on an active war where it's like, so he constantly has the.

• 40:23Speaker 03

  I'm flying by the seat of my pants. I feel like all the time. I'm like, am I gonna, am I gonna get this one right? Or am I gonna be on the wrong side of this one? And his people are gonna look back one day on my videos and be like, wow, he really.

• 40:34Speaker 06

  Have you seen Hitler two? You know what I mean?

• 40:39Speaker 05

  I would love to see your comments, actually.

• 40:41Speaker 03

  It's it's actually they're more mature than I would. I would, you know, current events is very, it's emotional. And like people get very emotional about things that are happening today. So it can be touchy, but they're they're they're mature boys. They're good boys.

• 40:56Speaker 05

  You have a good. I think that's one of the keys is having that strong, dedicated. Community or audience that then they rally behind you and they also have the patience is like, oh, he's going off this information. That's what was given to him.

• 41:09Speaker 03

  And a lot of times I'll say, I'll say that, that like this is what we know right now is what we think we know. And I will be proven wrong tomorrow. Probably turn out that I fucking I'll eat my shoe on this.

• 41:21Speaker 05

  So then you. And then you were like, OK, continue to grow. How many videos had he done before you?

• 41:28The Fat Electrician?

  Over a hundred, probably. I'm sure.

• 41:30Speaker 06

  Oh, no, I'm not at a hundred.

• 41:31The Fat Electrician?

  No, I, oh, sorry. I thought you were saying, how many videos did I have already?

• 41:35Speaker 05

  Oh, OK, so you had a hundred.

• 41:37The Fat Electrician?

  I had over a hundred for sure by the time he's he had started.

• 41:40Speaker 06

  Yeah, I probably. That chuckle anymore, maybe. Twenty, thirty.

• 41:46Speaker 05

  Still dope feeling, I bet. You're like.

• 41:48Speaker 06

  Yeah, that was a big jump to go from like, because I didn't want to do like really short videos right off the bat. I knew the goal was forty five minute videos. So that Chuck Mawhinney one was, uh, that was a big one to be forty five minutes. Side note, that also got me off of, uh, uh, Trump did that TikTok ban.

• 42:05Speaker 05

  Oh, yeah, yeah.

• 42:06Speaker 06

  So TikTok's owned by ByteDance, I think is the parent company. So we call it a TikTok ban. It was really a ByteDance ban. My Chuck Mawhinney video was in a program called CapCut and I was locked out of it. I was almost done and I was locked out. No, just a week sunk into editing this thing.

• 42:27Speaker 05

  Damn. I, oh my God, I didn't even think about that. That would be like Adobe just cancelling everyone. And you're like, oh.

• 42:35Speaker 07

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• 42:52Speaker 07

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• 42:57Speaker 07

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• 43:05Speaker 06

  Okay, the hell?

• 43:06Speaker 05

  Uh.

• 43:06Speaker 06

  Yeah. So it came back up, exported it, immediately stopped everything I was doing and was like, am I going to Ventura's all or Premiere Pro?

• 43:16Speaker 05

  Someone's had, they probably had like a movie up to this point. They were mid edit and they're like, yeah, this is the week. And then just, you can't do it. I'd be like, huh, huh. So then you did that and then fucking keep crushing now. Cause I mean, where you, uh, what's your numbers now? You're doing great.

• 43:35Speaker 06

  Sixty, sixty two thousand, something like that. It's.

• 43:39Speaker 05

  There's a lot of fucking, I hate when people, it's like, it's only this. And then I go,

• 43:45Speaker 05

  imagine in a stadium and sixty two thousand people are watching you.

• 43:48Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 43:49Speaker 05

  Yeah. Two thousand feels like a lot.

• 43:52Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 43:54Speaker 05

  Sixty thousand, you're like.

• 43:56Speaker 06

  Yeah. It's a lot of work, like just people just don't think about. I know when I wanted to start it. I wanted to get better like at speaking and stuff. So I started volunteering, you know, like when you do military ceremonies and someone has to read all the scripts and stuff. I started volunteering to do all that, just so I could get better at speaking. Um, I started reading books on like, uh, how to script write better. So you can kind of like, like, okay, why did Nick do this with the hooks and stuff? The best lesson I did was when, so the first video that we talked about was the, uh, Bob Howard.

• 44:34Speaker 05

  What happened?

• 44:36Speaker 06

  Uh, he's like, if we were, we just started talking and we're, oh yeah, what video you're working on. I was like, oh, I fluck. I just uploaded all my clips to fluck on my, uh, Robert Howard video. And he's just like, fuck. He, his, the same video that he happened to be working on.

• 44:56Speaker 05

  They're impotent.

• 44:57Speaker 06

  But it worked out perfect. Cause app, cause app, the book is so fresh on my mind. I got to see like, how do you, how do you take a three hundred and fifty, four hundred page book and condense it down to where like, you don't leave too much out and all that. And it was, it was really interesting seeing the process. Like, I was like, oh shit, he just combined like, four paragraphs into one sentence.

• 45:20Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 45:20Speaker 06

  It's just little things like that.

• 45:21Speaker 05

  It's a, and that can translate. I mean, all y'all know it's that, how do I get all this information as quick as possible? And it covers everything. It's no different than lines, reading lines, acting. It is, how do I convey this as fast as possible? Cause a lot of people just add word group just to add it. And you're like, no, get rid of that. Keep those hooks going the entire time. And I like, I love these style of, uh, podcast episodes. Cause I just get to learn the entire time. I don't have to talk that much. I'm like, oh, oh, oh, this is fucking dope. This is great. So in, uh,

• 45:59Speaker 05

  When you actually started, uh, when did, when would you say you started blowing up? Like, oh, it's taking off now.

• 46:07Speaker 06

  Oh, it was, uh, I know exactly when it was. It was about this time last year. Uh, I was in the field. Uh, I was in the field. I was really down on myself about it because I really was trying to put more videos out like consistently. And then you had commented on, I think you did a, a, I don't, I don't know Instagram.

• 46:29The Fat Electrician?

  A reel?

• 46:29Speaker 06

  A reel, yeah. Saying, hey, X, Y, Z did a good job on it. And then I just saw it like skyrocket, like, like a good, good size spike.

• 46:41Speaker 06

  That's the first time you see that, you see that money that's in the thing. I was like, oh, this is a real thing. That's legit.

• 46:47Speaker 05

  Better than the army? Way better than the army.

• 46:50The Fat Electrician?

  Trying to get him to quit. It's my new passion, unrecruiting. I got Ethan. I'm working on Rich. I'm going to get him.

• 46:57Speaker 06

  Not there yet.

• 46:59Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 46:59The Fat Electrician?

  Yet.

• 47:00Speaker 06

  Not there yet.

• 47:00The Fat Electrician?

  Yet.

• 47:01Speaker 05

  It switches real quick.

• 47:02The Fat Electrician?

  I'm going to get him.

• 47:05The Fat Electrician?

  You're not making it to 20. You're not getting a full pension.

• 47:08Speaker 05

  You get a certain part. Would you join again right now?

• 47:11Speaker 03

  Not right now, and I don't think, uh, not at the moment. No.

• 47:16Speaker 03

  I'm going to go back. Maybe as, maybe as an officer, if, if it was just like, uh, yeah.

• 47:20Speaker 05

  Weekend job?

• 47:21Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 47:22The Fat Electrician?

  No, period.

• 47:24The Fat Electrician?

  Only reason I'm going back in is if somebody invades here and then the options are, do I want to join the military or run a guerrilla operation? And one of them sounds way funner.

• 47:34Speaker 05

  I bet that other one makes a lot of money if we stream it.

• 47:38Speaker 05

  Do tutorials on that.

• 47:41Speaker 05

  Be a good ass time.

• 47:42Speaker 07

  I think through all of our years in business on the internet, we've all used Shopify. I've used it for merch and my skate shop and a couple of other businesses.

• 47:49Speaker 05

  I will actually agree 100% on that. Everything we do is run through Shopify. Even bunkers run through Shopify. Our shoes, which is a separate company, is run through Shopify and they talk together because of Shopify. Shopify runs the world. Did you know Shopify will actually? They help you design a website also, Cody?

• 48:08Speaker 07

  I know I didn't know about starting an online store when I started my career online. Shopify just made it super, super easy for my dumb.

• 48:17The Fat Electrician?

  Brenda, what happens if people haven't heard about my brand though?

• 48:20Speaker 07

  That's actually easy, Eli. Shopify helps you find your customers with easy to use email and social media campaigns.

• 48:26The Fat Electrician?

  Step Cody, what happens if I get stuck?

• 48:28Speaker 07

  Shopify is always around to share advice with their award winning 24 seven customer service.

• 48:32Speaker 05

  Step support, bro. You got my back.

• 48:34Speaker 07

  And your front.

• 48:34Speaker 05

  Shopify helps millions of businesses around the world and

• 48:38Speaker 07

  10% of all e-commerce in the US. From household names like Mattel or Jim Shark to new brands just getting started.

• 48:44The Fat Electrician?

  Unsub shoes, unsub merch, bunker.

• 48:48Speaker 07

  No, we've all been doing this for over a decade and Shopify is the easiest e-commerce platform we've ever used. I think every single one of us has used Shopify at one point.

• 48:56Speaker 05

  I think all our businesses right now are using Shopify.

• 48:59Speaker 07

  Oh, except mine, but that's because it's guns. Can't do that.

• 49:02The Fat Electrician?

  Just one of them can't. Turn those dreams into SFX. Cha-ching. Shopify new sell sound.

• 49:10Speaker 07

  And give them the best shot at success with Shopify. Sign up for your $1 per month trial and start selling today at Shopify.com/unsubpod.

• 49:18The Fat Electrician?

  Shopify.com/unsubpod.

• 49:21Speaker 05

  Mr. Cappy, what are you doing? You have Cappy Army going for how long now?

• 49:25Speaker 03

  It's it's almost been exactly a year. Our our first year and yeah, it's going great, man. We're we're killing it. We're crushing it.

• 49:34Speaker 05

  Your jump like it's awesome to see that everyone was like, oh, okay. You switch positions or switch channels, started something new and.

• 49:41Speaker 03

  That, by the way, I can say this now, that was terrifying. And I thought for sure, I was like, it's a non-zero chance. I was doing the, I was actually like a year ago, I was doing the podcast with you guys. And I'm like, this is a non-zero chance in my head, thinking like this could all just fucking fall apart. And no one follows me over. It's a goddamn disaster. And also not just would it be a disaster, it'd be a very public disaster. It's like, not you. You know, when you switch jobs at work and you're like, I'm going to go from IBM to Cisco. It's like, if I fail at Cisco, no, no one's gonna know, whatever. Like, I'll just bury that in my LinkedIn. It would be a monstrous, like, public humiliation ritual for myself.

• 50:22The Fat Electrician?

  Well, it is scary because it's like, you gotta be doubting yourself as far as like, okay, are these my fans or are they fans of the show? And I'm just the current talking head. You know what I mean? Like,

• 50:33Speaker 03

  Yep.

• 50:33The Fat Electrician?

  Anybody on SportsCenter could leave SportsCenter.

• 50:38The Fat Electrician?

  They're they're not the new SportsCenter. You know what I mean?

• 50:40Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 50:41The Fat Electrician?

  Like, there's gotta be that.

• 50:41Speaker 05

  But the hindsight was, on the outside looking in, I'm pretty sure I was like a lot of other people where it was like, I thought you were task and purpose.

• 50:49Speaker 03

  Yeah, cuz I so I was following you. So I didn't start. The thing, it's weird cuz obviously you don't start every video with like, hey, I'm Chris Cappy and I don't own this channel. By the way, now we're gonna talk about.

• 51:01Speaker 05

  I just work here.

• 51:02Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 51:04Speaker 03

  I just started the channel and.

• 51:06Speaker 05

  Hey, underpaid employee here.

• 51:11Speaker 03

  Yeah, so a lot of people thought that that I owned it and. Yeah, it was so it's been a year now and it's been very freeing to be able to kind of. Before I I picked every topic, I made every video myself, but now it's a little bit different. Because I can also choose how much money to invest in everything, so that's a huge benefit, which is kind of like the one thing I couldn't do before.

• 51:41Speaker 05

  And you, I mean, we had talks even leading up to your split cuz I I was very much. You're going to be fine. Yeah, I was like you, everyone is going to follow you. We've watched this happen time and time again. But yeah, it was some conversations cuz it is that worry. I mean, everyone's experienced it, like you leaving. Even when you're starting and you're like, ah, hopefully, how will I do long form? And it takes off. You, oh shit, how much stress goes into, okay, I'm starting something new. I am making this, but this is an unknown. I have my family to worry about.

• 52:18The Fat Electrician?

  Yeah, cuz wasn't your wife pregnant at the time?

• 52:20Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 52:20Speaker 03

  Yes, she was three months pregnant and I ran it by her, you know, I was like, I'm not gonna do this unless you believe in me and you think that we should do this. Obviously, I'm not gonna do it without your blessing. And she said, I believe in you, you know, you gotta you gotta see this through. And I was terrified becau- and now looking back, I I don't think you look before you have a kid, you know, before you have a kid, it doesn't feel real. You don't fully understand the responsibility. Now I'm like, what was I thinking?

• 52:46Speaker 03

  Oh, my God, like, these diapers cost money. What was I gonna do if I fell? I was like, what a stupid thing to do. Thank God it worked out.

• 52:55Speaker 03

  Um, but yeah, she's she she's a beautiful girl. I'm now a a girl dad. And it's a beautiful thing.

• 53:02The Fat Electrician?

  Congrats. How old right now?

• 53:04Speaker 03

  She's 11 months. She's almost a year. Yeah, I I saw I see on Instagram other girl dads and so apparently Kim Jong-un is a girl dad and he takes his little daughter out to to see his like the rockets they fire. And I'm like, what what? You know, I actually, he's kind of growing on me.

• 53:24The Fat Electrician?

  Someone's gonna clip that. He's grown on me.

• 53:27Speaker 03

  He's a good, he's a good girl dad. Come on, leave him alone.

• 53:34The Fat Electrician?

  What a warped sense of reality you draw in his dance. Just every time I walk in the room, people clap like they're Wii Sports characters. Frank, that's normal.

• 53:46The Fat Electrician?

  Yeah, imagine trying to find her a date for prom. Oh, my God. You're not breaking up with her? Nope. Not allowed to.

• 53:54Speaker 03

  What do you need, honey?

• 53:58The Fat Electrician?

  Be like a like.

• 53:59Speaker 03

  Just a tear. One, one tear slowly falling down.

• 54:05The Fat Electrician?

  Open the door like Mike Lowery.

• 54:07Speaker 03

  Who is this Reggie?

• 54:11The Fat Electrician?

  Kim Jong-un doing the bad boys. With his with his military police in the background.

• 54:23The Fat Electrician?

  Oh, that'd be a good AI clip.

• 54:27Speaker 03

  But yeah, I hope one day to take my daughter to missile launches and, you know.

• 54:32The Fat Electrician?

  Maybe you two could go together.

• 54:33Speaker 03

  That'd be nice.

• 54:34The Fat Electrician?

  He might watch this invite you.

• 54:36Speaker 03

  Please, yes. If you're if you're in charge of High Mars launches, I would I would love to take my daughter to Seonong, you know, as an American, I feel like we should be able to do that.

• 54:46The Fat Electrician?

  You're not talking to Kim Jong-un right now, right?

• 54:48Speaker 03

  Actually, now that you mention it, I wasn't, but also the invitation is I'm putting this out there for Kim Jong-un as well.

• 54:55Speaker 05

  Be a hard one to accept.

• 54:57The Fat Electrician?

  I still think the US military would get way more support if they treated it like it was one of those like charity programs, you know, where it's like, oh, donate 16 cents a day to sponsor this child in this impoverished country. And then, you know, every year at Christmas, you get like a picture and like an update. I want that with like my tax. I'm like, you bought a Hellfire missile that we shot at some cartel member.

• 55:16Speaker 05

  Yes.

• 55:18The Fat Electrician?

  This is dope.

• 55:19Speaker 05

  Yes.

• 55:20The Fat Electrician?

  Be way more popular.

• 55:22Speaker 05

  Do you want to buy another?

• 55:23The Fat Electrician?

  You bought seven screws on a B2.

• 55:25Speaker 05

  Imagine that you're like, I might, why am I writing a check to the IRS?

• 55:30The Fat Electrician?

  Fuck.

• 55:31Speaker 05

  Happened so quickly.

• 55:35Speaker 05

  Your pictures are next to your family photos. They're my missiles.

• 55:38The Fat Electrician?

  I was thinking about that the other day, like back in World War II, like actually like going around and trying to sell war bonds to the civilian population to get everybody in on the war. Like they never have to do that again because now they can just print more money. But like, what a cool notion of like, we're no, we're going to get, this could be a popular idea. Actually, we're going to crowdfund war.

• 55:57Speaker 05

  It was the Kickstarter of World War II.

• 55:59The Fat Electrician?

  Yeah, we go, we go fund me stopping down Nazi Germany and Japan. Like, it's literally what happened.

• 56:06Speaker 05

  Well, I actually don't know. How did all of that work? Like war bonds? So you just, they would?

• 56:11The Fat Electrician?

  They would have fundraisers. So like I talk about in my videos, like a lot of the big war heroes, like John Basselone, after he got his Medal of Honor, like as soon as dudes were getting the Medal of Honor, same thing with Dick Bong, same thing when they captured U-boat 505, whenever something incredibly cool happened, they would bring that person back from war and they would go on a war bonds tour. And it was a full PR tour across the country, going on radio shows, doing rallies. And you would have John Basselone telling his story of, you know, stopping the Japanese up on the hill by himself with a machine gun and Dick Bong shooting down 38 enemies. And people were in the crowd like, oh shit. And then they're like, you guys want to buy war bonds? And it was basically like a, um, any other

• 56:53The Fat Electrician?

  bond where it's like, yeah, give us $20 now. And in 10 years it matures and you get $30. And that's how they got raised money to keep building shit for the US military because they didn't have, you know, fractional reserve banking yet. So they couldn't just be like, print us 15 trillion more dollars, please. So like, they actually literally crowdfunded war.

• 57:16Speaker 05

  And it worked to a scary degree.

• 57:19The Fat Electrician?

  War was also way more popular.

• 57:21Speaker 05

  Well, I mean, that's a really good idea, though. Even if you did that, why do, why do we get rid of the, like, the hero?

• 57:26Speaker 03

  Say, imagine trying to war fund, bond fund the Iran war. Like, we need more missiles.

• 57:31Speaker 05

  Yeah, I don't think many people are signing up for that one.

• 57:35Speaker 05

  I think the Iran one would be a hard sell.

• 57:37The Fat Electrician?

  That's my whole point is like, now that they can just print money, there's no need for it to be a popular, there's no need for it to be a popular endeavor, which kind of fucking sucks. I kind of like the notion of like, hey, the civilian population is not paying for it. We can't go to war. I kind of like that.

• 57:52Speaker 03

  I learned something interesting that you might, you might find this interesting, both, everyone here, really. Uh, so the National Guard, the way they re- recently reorganized it was for that reason. They put a bunch of the combat arms into the National Guard so that if there's like a major war, it would very quickly start to in, in, uh, like, impact the civilian population and families. And it was ki- kind of like, the doctrine of why they split it that way was to try to maintain some type of, like, popular support for the war.

• 58:24Speaker 05

  It's a good idea.

• 58:25Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's a, there's a cool document on it out there that only the people here would find interesting.

• 58:32Speaker 05

  Dude, I, well, I find, like, again, why get rid of that system? As you're saying, that's a great idea. Does the po- population, does the, we do a democracy? We see what we want to do as a nation, and then we fund that. And I do like even bringing the soldiers, like, the, the Delta dudes that did the raid on, uh, in South Argentina, right?

• 58:54Speaker 03

  In Venezuela, that'd be so sick.

• 58:55Speaker 05

  That'd be so sick. They're on radio, they're doing their talks, and they're trying to influence or at least get some, like, a hero, as you've said before, when we were, General George.

• 59:05The Fat Electrician?

  Korea, uh, after World War II for the most part, but definitely after Korea, we quit having war heroes. Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu is now streaming on Disney+.

• 59:17The Fat Electrician?

  What are you waiting for? Hop on. The must-see galactic adventure comes home on Disney+. This is the way. Our only chance is to Work together. I like this kid. Always wear your seatbelt.

• 59:33The Fat Electrician?

  Star Wars The Mandalorian and Grogu now streaming on Disney Plus rated PG 13.

• 59:41The Fat Electrician?

  Like we just stopped. We quit doing it. And I don't know if it's because we didn't need to raise money anymore or what, but like, I think it's a like, it's a whole re- Obviously, I didn't start my channel with the motivation of doing this, but like, as something's going successful, you like, look for reasons why to keep doing it. And like, mine is definitely like, okay, why did we quit highlighting these guys? Why did we quit teaching about these guys? Like, and then you wonder why all the kids today aren't proud to be an American. And it's like, oh, because you guys don't know any of the fucking stories that got you here. Like, look at this badass and tell me that's not awesome. You know what I mean? And then you went, oh, all, none of the kids care. None of the kids are patriotic anymore. But yeah, no shit, Sherlock. Like, obviously.

• 1:00:24Speaker 05

  Yeah. Look what they're fed. I mean, that's.

• 1:00:28Speaker 05

  I had what I wanted to join and this wasn't the age of information. No, I was like, watch videos or

• 1:00:36Speaker 05

  nine 11 just happened. So it's just, oh, I want to jump out of planes, watching a lot of movies. It's like, I want to do more and be the cool guy. And now is there, they rarely war movies or portrayed in that.

• 1:00:52Speaker 03

  And when there are, I feel like a lot of times the first thing people do is they just tear them down. They look for a reason why, like, oh, that guy was actually flawed in this way. It's like, oh, he wasn't perfect.

• 1:01:00The Fat Electrician?

  Well, you want to, you want to hear the scary stat? There's a new study that came out and basically they polled living people from different generations on what was like the defining historical moment of your generation. So for example, Gen X said the defining cultural moment of their generation was the Berlin Wall coming down. Okay. Makes sense. Millennials was nine 11. You know what? Gen Z's cultural defining moment is when they asked kids.

• 1:01:33Speaker 05

  Oh, God.

• 1:01:35Speaker 03

  Covid?

• 1:01:36Speaker 05

  Oh, I'm.

• 1:01:37Speaker 03

  TikTok shut down for a bit.

• 1:01:40Speaker 03

  Two weeks without.

• 1:01:41Speaker 05

  Mr. Beast.

• 1:01:43The Fat Electrician?

  School shootings in general.

• 1:01:46Speaker 05

  Hmm.

• 1:01:47Speaker 03

  School shootings in general.

• 1:01:49Speaker 05

  They just thought that that's wild and because uh we've discussed in the past um Dr. Fox, he did a research paper on this. The nineties were the highest peak of school shootings, the nineties. When we were

• 1:02:05Speaker 03

  Which really like kinda like Gen X is more

• 1:02:07Speaker 05

  Yeah, that's what's crazy. It's like this is before nine eleven, but people. That's we treated it like the uh like uh the monster in the closet. If you have a kiddo and you never talk about the monster in the closet, guess what? They're never going to know about the monster in the closet. If you walk in, tell your kids like, hey, good night, be careful of the monster in your closet. And then you walk out. Now kids like, the fuck did dad just say?

• 1:02:30The Fat Electrician?

  Also, think about like school, like during world, the Cold War during the Cold War, kids would have like nuclear fallout drills, like they they had the government cartoons with the little turtle duck. And remember, kids, what do you do when you see the flash? Like? What's the closest thing parallel to that that a kid today would be going through an active shooter drill?

• 1:02:53Speaker 05

  Right.

• 1:02:54The Fat Electrician?

  You know what I mean? So like, it's, I don't know, it's just weird to think about. It's like, and what? What's the war? Obviously, the Berlin Wall is the Cold War, potential war with Russia, nine eleven is what started GWAT. Like, what's the war outcome? Or motivation for somebody to join the military service if the biggest cultural event of your childhood and upbringing is a local problem?

• 1:03:17Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:03:18Speaker 06

  So it's I I it's it's tough um recruiting right now. So like two, yeah, so like two assignments ago, I was a associate professor, military science, glorified ROTC instructor. And then after that, I was actually recruiting commander. So like I was in charge of like the recruiting for the southern part of the state. Never thought I'd do that in my career. Didn't want those assignments, but you go where you're told. It it does what it's told. So so anyway, that was ROT. It was wild, the things you find out about. So like COVID and has messed these kids up.

• 1:03:53Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:03:53Speaker 06

  It has absolutely messed these kids up. I was the class I taught for a lot of my students, I was the only in-person class they had on campus. The rest were all online.

• 1:04:03Speaker 05

  Oh, damn.

• 1:04:04Speaker 06

  Paying full college prices, but like I was the only one in person.

• 1:04:10Speaker 03

  It's gotta be hard to recruit.

• 1:04:12Speaker 06

  Like, oh yeah, so yeah, so on the recruiting part, you're talking like, why, so why did these kids join? Like it's, it was kind of hard to get some of these old timers to understand like, no, these kids don't care about patriotism. Anymore. That's not where they're joining. They don't have that in a finding moment. A lot of them are joining and it's the only thing I could sell. Was educate, was either education benefits, like go to college or get a skill that could translate into a job. So like the two hottest things that are easy, or really the three hottest things to sell right now is cyber, signal and military intelligence. Cause all those translate into like, you know, three letter agency, jobs, like, those are easy sells.

• 1:04:53Speaker 03

  The biggest geopolitical event in their lives has been school shootings.

• 1:04:57The Fat Electrician?

  And COVID, yeah, but I mean, the most impactful school shootings and then COVID happened and it's like, how many fucking kids didn't get to go to prom? How many kid, you know what I mean? Like arguably the point of your life where you learn the most socially and deal with the most rejection and the most everything. Stay in the house, cover your face.

• 1:05:20Speaker 06

  Don't interact.

• 1:05:20The Fat Electrician?

  Why are you guys so weird? I wonder, you know what I mean?

• 1:05:25Speaker 03

  Yeah, couldn't be anything that you guys did to us.

• 1:05:28The Fat Electrician?

  Stand six feet apart, even though it's an airborne illness that can travel fucking 80 yards away. Yeah. Why Fauci said so? He also said it didn't make sense. He didn't know where it came from, but fucking do it.

• 1:05:40Speaker 06

  Thankfully it really doesn't hurt you little ones at all.

• 1:05:46Speaker 06

  COVID was wild. Being still serving when it first happened.

• 1:05:50The Fat Electrician?

  I was so, I had just gotten out. I was so fucking happy that I wasn't in for COVID in the military.

• 1:05:57Speaker 06

  You couldn't walk anywhere in uniform without people going like, is it martial law? What's happening right now?

• 1:06:02Speaker 07

  Brandon, what shirt are you wearing? Well, I'm glad you asked Eli. I'm wearing my poncho shirt.

• 1:06:06Speaker 05

  That's not what a poncho looks like.

• 1:06:10Speaker 05

  It looks lightweight and breathable.

• 1:06:11Speaker 07

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• 1:07:03The Fat Electrician?

  Bro, it's so funny. You know what the thing was when I was in National Guard?

• 1:07:07Speaker 03

  What's that?

• 1:07:08The Fat Electrician?

  It was right when Obama was leaving office. So 2016. Do you remember Jade Helm?

• 1:07:15Speaker 03

  Yes, yes. I've always wanted to do a video on Jade Helm. I love, that's such a great.

• 1:07:19Speaker 06

  I need to have my memory referred from it.

• 1:07:21The Fat Electrician?

  National Guard, I'm up in Iowa. Operation Jade Helm, you know how, uh, every like mock military field exercise has a mission. It's run like a real military operation. So like, yeah, we're doing this mock mission, Operation Arctic Anvil, Operation Slippery Fist, whatever the [__] is, right? So the Texas National Guard, their annual training exercise was to provide disaster relief in either Houston or Dallas. And the mock mission's name was Jade Helm. And they had the maps drawn up of like, okay, the units are going to go into this part of the city or whatever, whatever, like whatever this fake mission was. Obviously they weren't actually going out into the city, but all the maps were drawn up. That was what the intel briefs were, yada, yada, yada. It's all fucking fake.

• 1:08:04The Fat Electrician?

  These got leaked to the press and it turned into all the like super crazy right wing people being like Barack Obama is gonna instill martial law so he doesn't have to leave office and he's gonna become a dictator and blah, blah, blah, blah. And it got so hyped up that Texas has like the actual federal army, National Guard, but there's also the Texas Guard that just works for the state of Texas. And they, they do not like they're not technically associated with the US Army, none of that shit, just a militia group for the state of Texas, basically. They were fucking posted up like outside of Fort Hood, ready to go to war with the United States Army in case Barack Obama tried to instill martial law. And I had people coming up to me like, is

• 1:08:49The Fat Electrician?

  this, is this true? Are, are you gonna try to enforce martial law? I was like, bro, I'm an apprentice electrician. You think I'm gonna get a call one day and hop in a Humvee with a megaphone and tell everybody to go to bed? Absolutely not. Like, fuck, no.

• 1:09:05Speaker 05

  That would not work.

• 1:09:08The Fat Electrician?

  No, it was like a real, I got asked about it multiple times when this was all going on. It was fucking crazy.

• 1:09:14Speaker 05

  God, what year was this?

• 1:09:15The Fat Electrician?

  2016.

• 1:09:15Speaker 03

  And I think they do it every year, right? They do a version of it kinda and they have special forces come in with their helicopters and they do a mock invasion of a, of like a town. And then people, they, they go crazy every year about how.

• 1:09:28The Fat Electrician?

  Oh, because they.

• 1:09:28Speaker 03

  The government's planning.

• 1:09:29The Fat Electrician?

  Every year, the government's planning something. Look at all these tanks on trains. It's like, bro, the military is just moving equipment. Why is it dirt? Why is it now? Because it's summertime and that's when we train. I don't, what do you want me to say? Like, we've.

• 1:09:43Speaker 03

  Cause you'll tear up the roads if you try to drive a convoy of Abrams, like down frigging 81 highway all the way to wherever it fuck.

• 1:09:51Speaker 05

  People freak out going to Yakima because Seattle to Yakima, we'd have to do a drive with. All the strikers. So you have an entire brigade driving on the road highways there and you just get to see people freaking the fuck. I didn't think about that. They don't even look at it like, oh, it's a military exercise.

• 1:10:09Speaker 03

  It's great. You see it on X. You see it on Twitter all the time. There's people, it'll have like thirty seven thousand likes and something. It's just a video of tanks going on a train trussel. And people are like, it's happening. It's World War Three, guys.

• 1:10:23The Fat Electrician?

  See, they're thinking that. I'm looking at that and going, there are some poor E four who's been in the heat. Binding down chains.

• 1:10:31Speaker 03

  The worst railhead.

• 1:10:32The Fat Electrician?

  For minimum wage.

• 1:10:34Speaker 05

  Below minimum wage. Hating life.

• 1:10:37The Fat Electrician?

  They're like, all these strikers on the road. It was like, somebody is in there having to drive that hate in life right now.

• 1:10:43Speaker 05

  Oh, dude. Fuck.

• 1:10:45The Fat Electrician?

  No, I'm good.

• 1:10:48Speaker 05

  Man, I forgot all about that.

• 1:10:52Speaker 05

  What do you? Okay, so

• 1:10:55Speaker 05

  now that you're doing that, do you get in any trouble with the military?

• 1:11:00Speaker 03

  Like, Nick's out.

• 1:11:03Speaker 03

  Ethan was the we had some fun times with Ethan depending on what was going on.

• 1:11:07Speaker 06

  No, I don't know what it is. If I'm just lucky or it's the content that I do because it's history. Everyone's either neutral or really receptive. I haven't gotten a single.

• 1:11:20The Fat Electrician?

  I think again, it's a history thing. Yeah. I think if you were doing like current events or what a lot of other military influencers do, which is just like being in your uniform, reading headlines from Newsweek that are like right forty percent of the time, you would get a lot more shit.

• 1:11:38Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 1:11:40Speaker 05

  Oh, a hundred percent.

• 1:11:41The Fat Electrician?

  You're also not in your fucking uniform in every video.

• 1:11:44Speaker 05

  I'll say, oh, man.

• 1:11:47Speaker 06

  I think.

• 1:11:47Speaker 05

  Smart.

• 1:11:48Speaker 06

  I think I showed maybe in the whole tactically acquired channel, there's maybe like.

• 1:11:53Speaker 05

  Forty five seconds total.

• 1:11:55The Fat Electrician?

  And they're like.

• 1:11:55Speaker 05

  Uniform.

• 1:11:56The Fat Electrician?

  They're like skits usually too.

• 1:11:58Speaker 05

  But even then, like I've done like, I'll just have the tan shirt.

• 1:12:01The Fat Electrician?

  Yeah, but I mean, it's still there's like, there's plausible deniability. Like if I did a skit, nobody would be like, that's stolen. Like, no, obviously I'm doing a skit. You know what I mean? There's still plausible deniability.

• 1:12:10Speaker 05

  Right.

• 1:12:10The Fat Electrician?

  The fact that you had to come here and say, oh, no, I'm still in is the whole reason why it's okay.

• 1:12:16Speaker 05

  Right.

• 1:12:16The Fat Electrician?

  Whereas like a lot of the other military influencers is like, your whole thing is you're in the military. So we should trust you and know. And that's why you're a reliable source.

• 1:12:25Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:12:25The Fat Electrician?

  Which is when you get in trouble.

• 1:12:26Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:12:27Speaker 06

  Angry cops.

• 1:12:30Speaker 05

  Rich is gonna be like, you what the fuck?

• 1:12:35Speaker 05

  Wild his content that he does, his jokes he makes even on kind of this. And then he is a detective and a drill sergeant. Like, you just like playing with gas, homie?

• 1:12:48The Fat Electrician?

  He is, he is, and I've had this conversation with him before. He's Norm MacDonald.

• 1:12:53Speaker 05

  Yes.

• 1:12:54The Fat Electrician?

  He is the Norm MacDonald of the game. He's one of the first military influencers. Like he pioneered a lot of this, if not all of this. So it's just like, by the time they caught up to being like, that's not okay. He'd already done it. So it's like, he just gets like the forever pass of like, he's the loose cannon. We didn't catch the rest of you motherfuckers need to listen.

• 1:13:19Speaker 03

  He's just grandfathered in. I remember watching Rich years ago. Yeah.

• 1:13:22The Fat Electrician?

  Same. He's been doing it for 12 years now.

• 1:13:25Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:13:25The Fat Electrician?

  Yeah. He's been doing it since Vine.

• 1:13:27Speaker 05

  Yep. I remember talking, I think me and Rich started talking like 2014 for military content.

• 1:13:33The Fat Electrician?

  Yeah.

• 1:13:33Speaker 03

  Wow.

• 1:13:34The Fat Electrician?

  Like in its infancy of social media.

• 1:13:37Speaker 05

  Yeah. Like drunken debrief was the retelling of history, military story. Like you, I'd get you drunk. You tell a story and then we'd reenactment with ADR or it's like drunk history, but.

• 1:13:47Speaker 03

  Comedy, not Comedy Central.

• 1:13:49Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:13:49Speaker 03

  Where was it on?

• 1:13:49Speaker 05

  Comedy Central, yeah. Drunk history, but it was drunk.

• 1:13:52Speaker 03

  Comedy Central was a thing? Yeah.

• 1:13:54Speaker 05

  And.

• 1:13:54Speaker 03

  For the days.

• 1:13:55Speaker 05

  And that was the first of its kind. All those. It's like, you get to see the first of their kind. And it's like, oh, yeah, this is OG. And then other than Rich.

• 1:14:06Speaker 05

  I think Rich is the only one that made it past.

• 1:14:07The Fat Electrician?

  Rich is the only one that's still around. Like Rich was one of the first ones there and he's, I can't think of anybody else that's had as long of a career successfully as he has in this.

• 1:14:20Speaker 05

  Age. Everyone else, uh, like, I mean, started doing other shit. Combat veteran.

• 1:14:24The Fat Electrician?

  Right.

• 1:14:25Speaker 05

  Remember him?

• 1:14:26The Fat Electrician?

  Oh, yeah.

• 1:14:26Speaker 05

  Um, you, uh, the other drills aren't you, you.

• 1:14:33The Fat Electrician?

  Oh, you, you should Thomas.

• 1:14:34Speaker 05

  You should Thomas?

• 1:14:35The Fat Electrician?

  Yeah.

• 1:14:36Speaker 05

  I don't know, like any of those guys are doing anymore.

• 1:14:38The Fat Electrician?

  Yeah, like even, I mean, he was before and after Black Rifle, like Black Rifle, I feel like was the,

• 1:14:43Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:14:44The Fat Electrician?

  The turning point when it became like mainstream and like he was there before he's thereafter. I mean,

• 1:14:49Speaker 05

  It's crazy. Long, yeah. And still doing both of those jobs.

• 1:14:53The Fat Electrician?

  Still doing it. Yeah.

• 1:14:54Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:14:56Speaker 05

  That's what it's the most, the weirdest part is he is the one that will, he has the least likely chance of quitting anything.

• 1:15:03The Fat Electrician?

  No.

• 1:15:04Speaker 05

  He loves.

• 1:15:05The Fat Electrician?

  It's never gonna happen.

• 1:15:06Speaker 05

  Being a police officer loves training privates.

• 1:15:10Speaker 03

  Doesn't feel love of the game.

• 1:15:13The Fat Electrician?

  He really does.

• 1:15:14Speaker 05

  He's a hundred percent.

• 1:15:17Speaker 06

  It's gonna be interesting from his perspective because he's been doing it for so long. It's like going back. What was it like? Back then, grandpa, like just seeing how everything's progressed.

• 1:15:25Speaker 05

  I mean, you're.

• 1:15:25Speaker 06

  As far as like.

• 1:15:26Speaker 05

  Uh, dude, ad revenue didn't exist. Like a lot of that stuff was not what it is now. Like I look at, OG, like 2010, you had Freddie and how the money would be made was not, we were not looking at ad revenue for YouTube. It was, getting deals to do videos for or commercials. That's how the money was brought into rocket jump.

• 1:15:49Speaker 05

  Ad revenue is like, uh, like no one really gave a shit or the CPMs would have been, trash donkey. And then that was probably till, fuck, 2016, 20, I'm trying to think when ad revenue actually made a difference.

• 1:16:05Speaker 05

  Man, I was. I know this is like a lot. I've done this forever now at this point in my life.

• 1:16:10Speaker 06

  I, I don't, I don't see how some of these guys like they'll do like those skit channels and stuff and they make, like pennies on the dollar. And then like all these Tik Tok influences and stuff. I mean, they don't make.

• 1:16:22Speaker 03

  Yeah, the, the CPMs are, are lower for I think that kind of thing.

• 1:16:26Speaker 05

  It's like seven cents.

• 1:16:28The Fat Electrician?

  Damn.

• 1:16:29Speaker 05

  Shorts don't pay dog.

• 1:16:31The Fat Electrician?

  I don't.

• 1:16:31Speaker 03

  Cold out here.

• 1:16:36Speaker 05

  What's so Cappy, what's one of the going to your style of content? What's like one of the scariest things going on right now to you since you're active in the going on?

• 1:16:50Speaker 03

  So there's there's kind of two things I think you guys might find cool. Um, this is I'll get to the scary thing in a second if it's all right.

• 1:16:57Speaker 05

  Go for it.

• 1:16:57Speaker 03

  Something that you guys might find really interesting is the army's trying to bring back the XM 25. They're trying.

• 1:17:03The Fat Electrician?

  Hell, yeah. Should have never been canceled in the first place.

• 1:17:07Speaker 03

  Amen. Amen, brother.

• 1:17:09The Fat Electrician?

  I looked into it. It was bullshit. The reason they canceled that. They were worried about us committing too many war crimes because it was awesome. That's my theory.

• 1:17:17Speaker 03

  It's not just a theory. I got it confirmed.

• 1:17:19The Fat Electrician?

  Did you really?

• 1:17:19Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 1:17:19The Fat Electrician?

  So I did that in my video and I was like, sorry, can I? The XM 25 is a grenade launcher, right?

• 1:17:26Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:17:26The Fat Electrician?

  Yeah. So it all started out with the Army Futures Weapons Program. And then they had this futuristic grenade launcher that basically every 40 millimeter grenade, is that what?

• 1:17:35Speaker 03

  It was a 25.

• 1:17:36The Fat Electrician?

  25 millimeter grenade. You can fire it and then it blows like you could.

• 1:17:41Speaker 03

  Airburst.

• 1:17:42The Fat Electrician?

  You could laser the target, like say it's a window, you could laser the window and then program the grenade to explode 18 inches past the window. So then shoot through the window and it blows up right in the in the hole. Right? But my whole theory was it's technically a war crime because it's exploding ammunition.

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• 1:18:30Speaker 03

  So I learned, I'll get to, I'll tell you, I learned the, the, so it is that and it's a thing on top of it. But basically, uh, so the XM25 was canceled for a couple of reasons. That was the, like, the company that made the XM25 Punisher was in a contract with another company and they wanted to stop making it because the army was a pain in the ass to work with. So they used the Geneva Convention thing as kind of like a way to get out of the contract. Okay. And they snuck out of this like multi-million dollar contract that they were stuck. This is, this is just what was told to me by, uh, somebody who works at the company for the XM30 that I went and fired. I would test fired the XM30, first civilian to shoot

• 1:19:13Speaker 03

  it. And it's crazy because it really is like a sniper rifle grenade launcher where I was putting rounds at 300 meters consistently on the target's face. And I was hitting, and you can hit out to 500 meters, the range was only 400 meters. So I was accurately putting semi-automatic grenades at 400 meters within a one meter radius. And it's a five millimeter radius kill range. So instead of 25 millimeter, it's now 30 millimeter, which is like twice the volume, twice the lethality, buzzword lethality. But

• 1:19:46Speaker 05

  Is there any, like, when you're tracking, is it just because you were like, hey, I'm dialed in? Or is it, hey, this knows what it needs to hit?

• 1:19:54Speaker 03

  So I didn't shoot the laser range find airburst ammo. I shot training ammo because you can't just like blow shit up in Montana and burn down a field apparently.

• 1:20:02Speaker 05

  Gay.

• 1:20:02Speaker 03

  Gay.

• 1:20:06Speaker 03

  But, uh, so the, the, it's semi-automatic, has five 30 millimeter grenades in the clip, or in the magazine, sorry. And Ohhhhh. I'll see myself out. Thank you guys. It was really nice to be here.

• 1:20:24Speaker 05

  It just gets it.

• 1:20:29The Fat Electrician?

  I love how we're all YouTubers and we all know there's 500 comments angry at him immediately.

• 1:20:35Speaker 05

  This second you're like, Clint, they were like, I'm turning so red right now.

• 1:20:40The Fat Electrician?

  Just like the welding thing earlier.

• 1:20:42Speaker 05

  Yeah, I said welding was easy. Yes.

• 1:20:50Speaker 03

  Just ruined my credibility here on unsubscribe today. Dude, such a cool grandma. So cool to hear that story about how, yeah, it's, you know, exploding bullets below a certain amount are supposed to be a war crime.

• 1:21:04Speaker 05

  Twenty five, dude, sorry. Like again, 300 yards and you're hitting a face.

• 1:21:09Speaker 03

  Yeah, that's, that's ridiculous.

• 1:21:10Speaker 05

  Forty mic mics, you would have a fucking leaf that you were just guess that it's gonna maybe hit.

• 1:21:16Speaker 03

  Your CEP or circular error probable is within four meters to the left and right and for horizontal and vertical. You know, you're, you're aiming for an area. This is your, your, the difference between aiming at an area. Cause you're kind of just kind of winging it and like putting your finger up like, oh, is it, which way is the wind blowing?

• 1:21:33Speaker 05

  It's an open leaf sight for anyone that's never seen it. It is literally like this.

• 1:21:39Speaker 03

  And now.

• 1:21:39Speaker 05

  Yards, like 50, 100 and it's giant.

• 1:21:43Speaker 03

  Yeah. Now you're, you're hitting the silhouette and you're choosing where to hit on the silhouette. It's an insane capability. There also this counter drone version to it. So I shot, people were giving me shit in the comments for this because I shot the, the inert sort of the, just it shoots out these razor blades on the side.

• 1:22:00Speaker 05

  It was like the one missile.

• 1:22:01The Fat Electrician?

  The flying Gensu.

• 1:22:02Speaker 03

  It's like, that's what I said. It's this mini version of Hellfire. I shot a drone that my buddy gave me the drone that I could shoot. And so I didn't have it flying at me at 300 miles an hour, obviously. Cause I'm like, I only got two of these shots and I want to miss. So yeah, it was kind of looked stupid, but I did shoot this drone into oblivion. And there is an airburst version of it, a proximity version where it detects when it's within five meters of a drone automatically through like radio frequencies. And then it just explodes itself. So that's cool.

• 1:22:30Speaker 05

  Oh, that's.

• 1:22:31Speaker 03

  But, uh.

• 1:22:32Speaker 05

  I like how they shit on you for doing something.

• 1:22:34Speaker 03

  Don't think this is cool. Cappy, you're such a loser. It's not flying at you at 600 miles an hour.

• 1:22:43The Fat Electrician?

  MMA guys. Well, you can't eye gouge and bite his dick off. So this is a real fighting. It's like, dude, shut up. Like, I'm sorry.

• 1:22:50Speaker 05

  You hit with the bottom of your fish.

• 1:22:52The Fat Electrician?

  It's not called training if we're actually doing the thing like.

• 1:22:57Speaker 03

  I'm also again, should I have done it that way? Sure. But you know, it was just kind of just me out in Montana with like.

• 1:23:03The Fat Electrician?

  Doesn't matter. Then, then it would be, yeah, but you didn't actually have explosives on it. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like that's it's never gonna, it's, it'll never be enough. What you do, it will never be enough.

• 1:23:15Speaker 03

  When will it be enough?

• 1:23:16The Fat Electrician?

  Never.

• 1:23:17Speaker 05

  You're not in an active war zone. You don't understand what's going with the heart rate of those soldiers.

• 1:23:21Speaker 03

  What the fuck? It's gotta be a zone too. You have to take 17 Adderall to make sure that you just recreate that feeling of being under fire.

• 1:23:30Speaker 05

  Do you do it in a war zone, under fire? And then it's like murderer?

• 1:23:36The Fat Electrician?

  Okay, cool.

• 1:23:38Speaker 05

  Lose no matter what.

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• 1:25:16Speaker 06

  Okay, so that's you gotta play with that.

• 1:25:18Speaker 03

  Dude, the recoil was insane, by the way, and they they're they don't even try to hide it. It it feels like somebody actually like stood up and

• 1:25:26Speaker 06

  It's a fucking thirty.

• 1:25:27Speaker 03

  Donkey kicked you like in the shoulder.

• 1:25:29Speaker 06

  It's a thirty mic mic.

• 1:25:30Speaker 03

  Yeah. Yeah.

• 1:25:31Speaker 06

  It's bad. I want to see what those do like when the air burst because it has to. How much does it fuck up?

• 1:25:38The Fat Electrician?

  Well, I had I had joked in my video talking about the XM 25. I was like, technically, the airburst is supposed to be airburst. But because you can program the bullet to explode when you want. There's nothing preventing the grunt from lazing the bad guy. And then making it detonate six inches inside the bad guy, which is exploding ammunition. And then I put the clip from Terminator two when the grenade goes into him and he like blows off.

• 1:26:05Speaker 03

  Looks down.

• 1:26:07The Fat Electrician?

  Yeah, exactly.

• 1:26:10Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 1:26:11Speaker 06

  So is this like a, I mean, not not going to give it to every grunt. It's like a squad weapon or?

• 1:26:16Speaker 03

  This is interesting. I love talking about the doctrine side of it that I find that fascinating. So they're gonna, they're basically they're remaking the whole army squad where it's gonna be the XM seven. And they're gonna get rid of two XM sevens in the squad. And instead of your Grenadier role, you're just gonna be carrying one of these. It's called the precision grenade system.

• 1:26:33The Fat Electrician?

  Grenade launcher guy.

• 1:26:34Speaker 03

  Right. Grenadier. The Grenadier is back.

• 1:26:36The Fat Electrician?

  No grenade launcher guy. It sounds cooler.

• 1:26:38Speaker 03

  Grenade launcher guy.

• 1:26:39Speaker 06

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• 1:26:43Speaker 05

  I'm the GLG. No big deal.

• 1:26:45Speaker 06

  There you go.

• 1:26:46Speaker 05

  Well, shut up. So now, wait, when you say redoing the squad.

• 1:26:50Speaker 03

  So in each fire team, you'll have one of these and you don't you don't carry. I asked about it and they said you don't care. You wouldn't carry like a. Um, an AR or a rifle, you would just have this because there's also shotgun round shells. And this was the one lethal round that I did get to fire was it so it get this. It's like firing four 12 gauge buckshot rounds. It has 48.

• 1:27:14Speaker 06

  That's hell yeah.

• 1:27:15Speaker 03

  Forty eight.

• 1:27:16Speaker 06

  That's gotta be a war.

• 1:27:17The Fat Electrician?

  Uh, in 40 years, there's going to be some dude with zero cartilage or bone density in his shoulder. I'm not sure it was service related.

• 1:27:27Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 1:27:27The Fat Electrician?

  A hundred percent like.

• 1:27:30Speaker 05

  It's like the Gustaf giving you, you're not allowed to shoot the Gustaf so many times because of.

• 1:27:36The Fat Electrician?

  Brain damage, yeah, concussions.

• 1:27:39Speaker 03

  It has that kind of energy to it. It's a.

• 1:27:42The Fat Electrician?

  Four. And you shot it?

• 1:27:44Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:27:44The Fat Electrician?

  How'd that feel?

• 1:27:46Speaker 03

  Beautiful. Yeah, it really gave me a run for my money.

• 1:27:49The Fat Electrician?

  The gun knows you're from New Jersey too.

• 1:27:53Speaker 05

  When I had to shoot the, we built a 10 or an eight gauge, but we were doing blank rounds, which found out that sucks way more because you'll throw in, um, we were putting an object in front of the blunderbuss. It was like eight or 10 gauge blunderbuss we built. And we were filming it.

• 1:28:12Speaker 05

  My shoulder was bruised.

• 1:28:17Speaker 05

  Like the entirety of it and I shoot everything. I do not get bruised shoulders. That was one of the first times I actually told them, I was like, hey, I got like two more shots. I can't do this anymore because they're like, I had action filming. Bah, like, oh, that really, really sucks.

• 1:28:33Speaker 03

  It has a serious recoil mitigation system in it where the barrel moves back nine inches. And there's also a massive like buffer spring in it. Uh, I'll try to shoot here, I'll show you the, this you could see right here.

• 1:28:50Speaker 03

  Yeah, it kicks.

• 1:28:52Speaker 05

  That shows that that fucking moves you, homie.

• 1:28:55Speaker 03

  Yeah. This is, this is, I think the barrel is in slow motion, but.

• 1:29:00Speaker 05

  Damn.

• 1:29:00Speaker 03

  It's just boom.

• 1:29:02Speaker 05

  When in slow motion, the frame goes like. Is

• 1:29:07Speaker 05

  like you're here from here.

• 1:29:08Speaker 03

  So it looks like the Warhammer bolter gun and they they have that at their offices is like the Warhammer forty K bolter.

• 1:29:16The Fat Electrician?

  Have you seen the Chinese version that I've made fun of on unsub before and the internet got super butthurt at me?

• 1:29:21Speaker 03

  They gets they get really butthurt about that because if people were commenting on this video, they're like, oh, people are making fun of the Chinese. The Chinese version, by the way, is based on an American version that failed that we were like.

• 1:29:32The Fat Electrician?

  Barrett, it was one Barrett made.

• 1:29:34Speaker 03

  The XM one on nine that Barrett made. And we walked away from it because we're like, it's thirty pounds. It has ungodly recoil. This this new version that we have, yeah, I did it. Yep.

• 1:29:46The Fat Electrician?

  You have to see it fire because the scope is on a slide and it's got this big plunger thing. So when the Chinese dudes fire it, the scope hits them in the face. And then you see the whole scope slide forward because they had to design it that way. Because the eye relief on the scope, if they mounted the scope far enough ahead to where it wouldn't check them. They couldn't see anything. So every time they're getting punched in the orbital bone by this scope.

• 1:30:12Speaker 05

  He's not lying. You have to have the eye relief to look at. It's like one of the OG sniper like, um, like a night vision.

• 1:30:18The Fat Electrician?

  It's like the night vision nod where you have to put your eye into it.

• 1:30:21Speaker 05

  And then that night vision kicks you in the face every time you pull the trigger and not a like.

• 1:30:27The Fat Electrician?

  Not a little bit.

• 1:30:28Speaker 03

  This thing, this new thing that we're working on is only it's eleven pounds versus that, which is thirty pounds. So people trying to say they're like, why are we making fun of China for doing this when we're doing this? No, we're not doing the same thing.

• 1:30:40Speaker 05

  Watch this dude's.

• 1:30:43Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:30:44Speaker 05

  Just got Mike Tyson right in the face.

• 1:30:47The Fat Electrician?

  And they have to carry that.

• 1:30:50Speaker 03

  Mm hmm. Not good for the eye.

• 1:30:52Speaker 05

  No shit. Yeah, I didn't even know that. Why do people get mad about that?

• 1:30:56The Fat Electrician?

  Because everybody that has the attitude that America is bad anytime America does anything, it's because somebody else did it first. Just they just don't like America, so they jump on any opportunity they can they can to shit on it.

• 1:31:08Speaker 03

  The Chinese communists.

• 1:31:11Speaker 05

  It is wild watching, uh, people.

• 1:31:16Speaker 05

  Underestimate the US military and then what we can do. It is mind blowing.

• 1:31:22Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 1:31:23Speaker 05

  Like, we do war re- like, really good. Plus, we've been doing it, it was like 12 years we've not been in war since our.

• 1:31:31Speaker 06

  I think it's eighteen. Also, we're do- we're do. We're do for.

• 1:31:37Speaker 05

  No, shut up.

• 1:31:42Speaker 05

  But it's one of those things even where new, when recruiting, did you see any of that? Like, people joining in? Like, younger kids are like, but what if, do I have to go to war? Or, well, aren't they better than us?

• 1:31:55Speaker 06

  Yes. Not, not the better, they weren't, you're giving them too much credit that they were digging that deep.

• 1:32:02Speaker 06

  But they were like, you know, we'll have to deploy. And then like, it's like, well, I mean, that's what you're, Uncle Sam's just not giving you these free benefits for nothing. Like, I mean, you may deploy, you may not. Most deployments really aren't that bad. GW, like especially.

• 1:32:16Speaker 05

  Yeah, I had a blast. It was a great, easy deployment.

• 1:32:19Speaker 06

  Little bit different era. A little bit different.

• 1:32:24Speaker 05

  When we were with Randy, we went to dinner with Randy as he was like his going away party thingy. And that's what I was like, he was like, what unit were you? I was like, oh, two ID for this, uh, in oh seven in Mokta Dya in Baghdad. He was like, oh, you guys fuck, holy shit, this first strike, they got hammered. I'm like, yeah, it was great.

• 1:32:43Speaker 06

  No, but my war stories are so different. No shit. There I was, green bean and wifi everywhere.

• 1:32:49Speaker 05

  I know, that's why you're like, it's like a deployment. I'm like, wah.

• 1:32:54Speaker 06

  Just go over there and work out.

• 1:32:56Speaker 05

  I mean, and that's, uh, that's what happened a lot of times. I mean, when my guys went back the second time, that's all. They were like, dude, just get jacket, tan.

• 1:33:02Speaker 06

  Yeah. What's crazy though is what, what are, cause at the time we were like, I don't understand this mission. Like, what are we doing? And we were just like a presence for Iran and we were protecting some of the stuff. Some of those strikes hit those places that we were protecting. And like, just looking at that in hindsight, cause it, it felt like there was no reason to be over there. And I'm sure a lot of people feel that way, but it's like, holy shit, that could have been like a thing.

• 1:33:28The Fat Electrician?

  What? What are we doing? We're trying to get them to start voting and quit fighting. Oh, how long they've been not voting and fighting forever? Oh, I should be able to get this done in nine months then, I'm sure.

• 1:33:38Speaker 05

  I got a PowerPoint presentation.

• 1:33:41The Fat Electrician?

  It'll persuade them.

• 1:33:42Speaker 05

  If you see slide two.

• 1:33:51Speaker 03

  That is such a good idea.

• 1:33:54Speaker 05

  So going back to like for you, what's one of the scariest things that you've been?

• 1:33:59Speaker 03

  I think the biggest, the scariest thing right now is the straight up for moves for everyone. That has everybody, you know, in a tiffy, pretty worried about what's going to happen there. It's unclear at this point. That's, that's what I'm most worried about probably is, uh, and I think a lot, there's a lot that we've learned from that war with Iran in terms of what you can kind of paste that on to what it would look like in a war with China. Because it's, it's pretty similar.

• 1:34:23Speaker 05

  They have all their Chinese, they have all their equipment.

• 1:34:25Speaker 03

  It's the same thing would happen, kind of be they, they fire these huge volleys of missiles at all of our bases that are in that region.

• 1:34:33Speaker 03

  So that's, I think a microcosm of what we might see in the Pacific. And I would say, doesn't look great in terms of interception rates, you know, because it's, it's just a losing proposition. I think right now, offensive wins, you're going to want, you can't intercept every missile that's coming and we've kind of learned that. So that's what I'm most worried about is a straight up for moves. Straight up for moves is fucking lame. It's just.

• 1:35:00Speaker 05

  I think Ethan's talked about, uh, they complained for a long time. This is the stuff we need to get into. Like missile defense system or interceptions. And then that's what they kept pushing off. We're saying, we don't need that.

• 1:35:11The Fat Electrician?

  Well, also just the entire notion of like, they're not playing to win. So you're not gonna win. You know what I mean? Like if you're not willing to go in there and blow up the systems that fire huge volumes of missiles and blow up the factories that make the missiles, you're never gonna fucking win because the technology and the cost of a missile that's capable of detecting and intercepting a dumb unguided missile and it takes a $7 million missile to shoot down a missile that costs a hundred grand, they're gonna keep throwing a hundred thousand dollar missiles at you all day long and they're gonna bleed you dry first. So it's just the attitude of like, if you, if they would fucking play to win, they would win really fast and in a hurry, but they're gonna sit there and bleed themselves out for as

• 1:35:55The Fat Electrician?

  long as they want because nobody wants to actually just commit and do the thing.

• 1:35:58Speaker 05

  Which is wild. That's the biggest change with war.

• 1:36:00Speaker 03

  You would need ground troops, I think, at this point, basically, to shut that down. No one wants that, yeah.

• 1:36:07Speaker 05

  Which thank God it hasn't happened.

• 1:36:08Speaker 03

  It's that quote that I think Kissinger, a lot of people give it to, which is like the guerrilla army wins if it does not lose and the conventional army loses if it doesn't win. So we would basically have to go in there and, and completely win. All they have to do is just kind of survive.

• 1:36:23The Fat Electrician?

  I mean, has America ever lost when the objective was go win? No. But when it's like, okay, well, go over here and just kind of walk around and like,

• 1:36:34Speaker 05

  Hearts and minds.

• 1:36:34The Fat Electrician?

  Yeah, you can shoot people, but you have to wait until they rack their gun and then point it at you. And then even then, we should probably wait till they fire first and then you can return fire. And then if you do shoot somebody and his family members say that, oh, it was celebratory gunfire, then we're gonna give that guy $50,000 of your tax money. Like, fuck that. Either go do the thing or leave him alone. Like,

• 1:36:56Speaker 03

  Yep.

• 1:36:57Speaker 05

  Hearts and minds never won.

• 1:36:58Speaker 03

  No.

• 1:36:59The Fat Electrician?

  Ever.

• 1:37:00Speaker 05

  And this,

• 1:37:00The Fat Electrician?

  That's not true. It worked in Japan. It worked in Germany.

• 1:37:04Speaker 05

  But what was that? What did we do before?

• 1:37:06The Fat Electrician?

  That was because we did the fucking thing first. It was like, okay, you guys learned your lesson? You want a sandwich now? Okay, cool. Now we're gonna be buddies. Like, do it or don't.

• 1:37:15Speaker 05

  And then you had, hey, okay, Emperor, do something you've never done. Like, that was, and it was highly successful and still, I mean, you've discussed it, we've discussed it, where we gotta see a culture people that we've never seen, where we're going to not believe the American won and still defend 20 years after 30 years?

• 1:37:34The Fat Electrician?

  Uh, 1976, I think, was the last guy, Hiro Onoda, in the Philippines.

• 1:37:39Speaker 05

  Would you fuck, like, that level of, what is that, national pride or?

• 1:37:43The Fat Electrician?

  Radicalization, yeah.

• 1:37:45Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:37:46The Fat Electrician?

  Indoctrination.

• 1:37:47Speaker 05

  But on the flip side, it was, oh, look how Japan prospered after that. Yeah, we did, uh, what 10 years?

• 1:37:54The Fat Electrician?

  Yeah.

• 1:37:54Speaker 05

  How long we helped?

• 1:37:55The Fat Electrician?

  When, uh, we were there, like boots on the ground for 10 years, but I mean, we continue to help forever. I mean, it was basically like, all right, we won fuckers. Start making Toyotas. Worked out great.

• 1:38:08The Fat Electrician?

  I need Seiko watches, Toyotas.

• 1:38:11Speaker 05

  Nintendos.

• 1:38:12The Fat Electrician?

  Nintendos. I also, hear me out. I want a company. I want one fucking store where I can buy a dirt bike and a piano. All right? Get to it. Chop chop. We'll call it Yamaha. It's gonna be great.

• 1:38:24Speaker 05

  We also draw this, um, girl.

• 1:38:26The Fat Electrician?

  Bigger tits. Fantastic. Hear me out. What if she had an octopus? No, never mind.

• 1:38:36Speaker 05

  Do we blur it out?

• 1:38:40Speaker 05

  Just enough and only their private parts. Why? I don't know.

• 1:38:50Speaker 05

  God, so the, how do you think the straight's going?

• 1:38:55The Fat Electrician?

  Yeah, that's what I'm looking, what I'm trying to think.

• 1:39:01Speaker 05

  Just people on the side protesting with this is gay.

• 1:39:04The Fat Electrician?

  The gayatola shirts are on here somewhere.

• 1:39:10Speaker 06

  I don't think you've seen them.

• 1:39:11The Fat Electrician?

  Oh, I gotta, they're over there, but, uh, I should be where.

• 1:39:15Speaker 06

  Someone brought them in here. They're, they're amazing.

• 1:39:18The Fat Electrician?

  Where are they?

• 1:39:19Speaker 06

  Finn come in here with them?

• 1:39:20The Fat Electrician?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:39:20Speaker 05

  Who did? Wait.

• 1:39:21The Fat Electrician?

  Uh, Finn walked in here earlier. They might be on the stairs right there unless they were moved.

• 1:39:25Speaker 05

  What?

• 1:39:27The Fat Electrician?

  Oh, right here. We got them?

• 1:39:31Speaker 05

  Amazing.

• 1:39:35Speaker 05

  Gayatola.

• 1:39:39Speaker 05

  My god, are these yours?

• 1:39:41Speaker 03

  No, I don't know. I don't know.

• 1:39:42Speaker 05

  Oh, someone just made these?

• 1:39:43Speaker 03

  Yeah, there's a bunch of them in here somewhere.

• 1:39:46Speaker 05

  So good.

• 1:39:48Speaker 03

  It's my favorite toll. Uh, but yeah, I'm looking forward and thinking, where does this end? Does this end with Iran basically has a toll booth there and they're allowed to kind of just charge two million bucks to whoever goes through? Or are we going to blockade them for 12 months? It's just, it's, it's a standoff and nobody kind of wants wants any part of it. It's, it's not good for anyone right now. So it's shutting down Iran's most of their economy and it's driving up all the gas prices here. I think some, some of us may have noticed it's, uh, no bueno.

• 1:40:20The Fat Electrician?

  What a good idea. What if the enemy was more desperate?

• 1:40:24Speaker 05

  That works good.

• 1:40:25The Fat Electrician?

  Yeah.

• 1:40:26Speaker 05

  Don't give up then.

• 1:40:27The Fat Electrician?

  Yeah. And I got. That works based on my extensive knowledge of, I don't know, basic psychology of every living creature on the fucking planet. It's always when animals are desperate that they're most reasonable.

• 1:40:41Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:40:42Speaker 05

  Didn't the last barrels just start arriving? Cause it's like a three to six month process?

• 1:40:47The Fat Electrician?

  Yeah.

• 1:40:47Speaker 03

  They said in the next few weeks to expect maybe some kind of catastrophic spike in the prices, but uh, yeah, it's, I, I think they were hoping for regime change really quickly. I think they were like, let's go in, let's pound here, kill that, and then we'll set up somebody like similar to in Venezuela. They'll come in. They won't be democratic, but who gives a shit? They'll be more pliable to the US. It'll be great. And um, listen, like whether I'm, whether I agreed with the war or not, the reasons for starting it or like any of that, it kind of, that's a different conversation, but I think how it's going right now is, is not well. Whether it was the right choice or not, that's kind of how I feel about it.

• 1:41:29The Fat Electrician?

  Also, even if you did agree with the war, you're, you kind of get to be like, I agreed with it, but they're not doing it. You know what I mean? Like? Do it or don't shit or get off the pot like are we doing this or not? We're just dragging this out and making miserable for fucking everybody.

• 1:41:47Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:41:49Speaker 03

  It almost because it's almost like a no win situation for us where you can't if we walked away now, then Iran has control. There's no freedom of navigation there. And that is a nonstarter for the US and at the same time they're never gonna agree. I mean, I think what happens is I think we bomb them again.

• 1:42:09Speaker 03

  I don't know.

• 1:42:09Speaker 05

  I would bet on that. I don't think that's a hard.

• 1:42:13Speaker 03

  I don't know.

• 1:42:14Speaker 05

  It's like, well, the first round didn't work.

• 1:42:16Speaker 03

  Right.

• 1:42:18Speaker 05

  Let's try again.

• 1:42:20Speaker 03

  Maybe it'll be different.

• 1:42:23The Fat Electrician?

  They're putting underwater mines out. It's like I've seen this happen before. I saw what happened last time they did just put some mines out and one US ship got too close. USS Samuel B. Roberts almost got sunk and then they flattened their whole fucking navy in eight hours.

• 1:42:42Speaker 03

  So that's what I think could happen is if when we bomb them again and then maybe we send some escorts in and then I think if a ship gets hit by a missile, that might maybe create the political will for some kind of ground troops. But I think what Iran's been doing is they've been purposely trying to not create mass casualty events purposefully so that we don't have that kind of rah rah like they killed a hundred US troops. Let's go in there, fuck them up. It's smarter for them to just let's keep, let's bomb their airplanes. Let's bomb their equipment and not get them all jazzed up on on fucking invading us.

• 1:43:17Speaker 05

  It's a hard one because right now I think this is one of the wars going into it. No one wanted. Like that was, that's one of the main issues.

• 1:43:24The Fat Electrician?

  There was a different Middle Eastern country that like had a massive military that was committed to controlling Iran. I just wish that existed in the region.

• 1:43:32Speaker 03

  If only.

• 1:43:40Speaker 05

  Whoops.

• 1:43:43Speaker 05

  Poor Nick, you're like, I can't say anything. I support Marmee America.

• 1:43:52Speaker 05

  He's sweating over here.

• 1:43:54The Fat Electrician?

  Just sitting over here in a reverse Oreo trying to not get fired.

• 1:43:59Speaker 06

  I've read everything on the back of that damn can.

• 1:44:04Speaker 05

  Don't smile Nick.

• 1:44:05Speaker 06

  Don't make eye contact.

• 1:44:07The Fat Electrician?

  Oh my god, you gotta go on some, how was it? My wife's pissed and the army's pissed. It's not great.

• 1:44:12Speaker 06

  Great time though, but themselves though.

• 1:44:16The Fat Electrician?

  My views are up, YouTube has to work now. Everything else is officially on the rocks.

• 1:44:23Speaker 05

  Oh man, again, it's one of those, I haven't met a vet or GWAT vet that was like, okay, let's do this thing, but a lot of the young people, it was crazy watching that reaction, they're excited for it, which I remember that, I'm sure all you remembered that. It's that, oh, I want to join, I want to do war, and it's that twenty years, how long has it been some like heavy combat in Iraq, Afghanistan?

• 1:44:48Speaker 03

  It's Afghanistan ended, what was it, over ten years ago now? Or less than ten, sorry, uh, eight, seven?

• 1:44:58Speaker 03

  So, and really then it was kind of really quiet there for five years or so. So, people wanted their chance, I think, but I don't know that anyone was like, other than for wanting their chance, like, I don't know if there was a lot of, let's hit Iran, cause it's the right thing.

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• 1:45:46Speaker 05

  I think we just got, we seen how it plays out each time so far and this isn't gonna be magically different. That's what the hard part is.

• 1:45:55Speaker 03

  I also, it's not like I want Iran to have nuclear weapons at the same time, so.

• 1:46:02Speaker 05

  Why?

• 1:46:03Speaker 03

  It's, you know what, now that I think about it, I never thought about why, maybe they should have nuclear weapons.

• 1:46:09Speaker 06

  It's like, you know what? You did put a positive spin on Kim John earlier. I know, Kim John. I fucking hate the America bad people. Well, America has nukes, why can't they have nukes? The same reason my three-year-old can't have a fucking gun and I can. That's why, dickhead. Like, what are we talking about?

• 1:46:30Speaker 03

  You know what people forget about that as well is that America is one of the only places that goes around and stops our own allies from having nuclear weapons. We stopped Taiwan from getting nuclear weapons. We stopped South Korea from getting nuclear, Taiwan was a hair away from getting nuclear weapons. And we came in with the CIA and we were like, uh, stop that or we're done helping you.

• 1:46:52Speaker 05

  I've heard hair, I've never heard hair. So this is a new measuring system.

• 1:46:57Speaker 06

  New unit of measurement I'm adding to the toolbox for later.

• 1:47:00Speaker 05

  YouTube safe.

• 1:47:01Speaker 03

  I'm not comfortable saying this word. I'll turn red.

• 1:47:07Speaker 05

  I'll say teeth out.

• 1:47:12Speaker 05

  Fuck. What is, uh, so now you've been doing history for years now. What is one of your favorite stories you told up to this point?

• 1:47:20Speaker 06

  Ooh, man, I had to go back through my old videos. Ron Terry. I think that's, that's up there. Ron Terry. So Ron Terry was the, uh, father of the gunship. So like the AC forty-seven, C one thirty and all that. So it's.

• 1:47:36Speaker 05

  What's that, AC?

• 1:47:38The Fat Electrician?

  AC one thirty?

• 1:47:39Speaker 05

  I thought you said AC.

• 1:47:40Speaker 06

  The AC forty seven?

• 1:47:41The Fat Electrician?

  That's the predecessor to it.

• 1:47:43Speaker 06

  Oh, okay. No shit. Okay. Yeah. So it was like, I mean, it's that in and of itself, guy made gunship. That's cool. But like the, the intensity of how he got it done. Just, it was just this year after year, someone else kept trying it. And of course, military not wanting to change. They're like, that's not how we do things. Air Force is like, that's not how we do things. And another guy would pick it up, another guy would pick it up. And then this guy finally is like, I'm doing this.

• 1:48:09Speaker 06

  And he just finds an AC forty seven and some mini guns somewhere, shows these SOCOM guys. And somehow he bullshits his way into a meeting with a Curtis, is it Curtis LeMay? I don't think his first name.

• 1:48:22Speaker 05

  Yeah, I think so.

• 1:48:23Speaker 06

  General LeMay. He was like the guy over the air, air, air, air force at the time.

• 1:48:29Speaker 06

  And that, the rest was history essentially, but even then was like, he still, it was just one obstacle after another. Even after the air force signed off on it, people were still like, no, you can't, you can't do that.

• 1:48:41Speaker 05

  No shit.

• 1:48:42Speaker 06

  Like they, they said, go to Vietnam, your AC forty sevens will be there. And they were like blocking him from having.

• 1:48:47Speaker 03

  So much bureaucracy.

• 1:48:48Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 1:48:49Speaker 05

  And war was just wild.

• 1:48:50The Fat Electrician?

  It's not a hard pitch. Like what if I did a drive by out of a cargo plane? How dope would that be? I'm not feeling it.

• 1:48:57Speaker 06

  But it's always.

• 1:48:57The Fat Electrician?

  What do you mean?

• 1:48:58Speaker 06

  But it's like you're always, it, it comes down to can we do something better for cheaper? And that undermines someone's got interest, right?

• 1:49:06Speaker 03

  The AC one thirty has so much res. Love, love that.

• 1:49:10Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 1:49:11Speaker 05

  And so, uh, he's the individual that just like, I'm going to build a ship around a gun.

• 1:49:17Speaker 06

  So well, actually, uh, so there was a.

• 1:49:20The Fat Electrician?

  Like AC one thirty, C forty seven is, it's, it's a fucking cargo plane that they put mini guns and artillery out the side.

• 1:49:26Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 1:49:27The Fat Electrician?

  And it's just like, instead of having, you know, a fast mover, like a F four phantom fly over and throw some gunfire and drop a missile and be able to make two passes. And then like, okay, guys, don't die for five more minutes till the next sortie gets to you. It's like, what if we just had a fucking cargo ship with eight tons of ammo? Doing fucking death donuts around these guys constantly twenty four seven.

• 1:49:49Speaker 05

  And we see it in infrared.

• 1:49:51Speaker 06

  Yeah. I like, I like finding stories like that where someone that they just kept pushing the envelope, just trying to find, find a solution to it. Like, uh, one of, one of the early videos I did was on the ACH forty seven alpha. So it was called the guns agogo program. So it was a Chinook. So the Chinook was still like new back then. And someone was like, I can't remember who came up with the idea, but it was endorsed by like, uh, General Tolson, I think. But anyway, they were like, what if we just turn this cargo helicopter into a gunship? Cause all the, cause their theory was all gunships, they have to shoot forward and they can't shoot back. So you never fly over. What if we just put guns all the way around it and grenade launchers and rockets?

• 1:50:37The Fat Electrician?

  We'll stabilize the plane with gunfire from all sides.

• 1:50:40Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 1:50:41The Fat Electrician?

  Like I did the recoil forces.

• 1:50:44Speaker 06

  They'll cancel each other out.

• 1:50:45The Fat Electrician?

  It won't rip it apart.

• 1:50:47Speaker 05

  Enemies are on the right and a huge family having a picnic on the left. Son of a bitch. Let it rip.

• 1:50:55Speaker 06

  Thing was, thing was dope. I, I did the math on it and I had, I had some backlash in the comments, but you know, math, math doesn't care about your feelings. Uh, the power to weight ratio, uh, by my estimates, I don't think there's been a helicopter we've ever, uh, aircraft we've ever fielded had a higher power to weight ratio. Cause you could just carry so much, like it had a gross weight of like thirty three thousand pounds. And I think it could carry fifteen thousand pounds of ammo. Cause they stripped everything out of this thing.

• 1:51:23The Fat Electrician?

  There's a lot of ammo.

• 1:51:24Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 1:51:25The Fat Electrician?

  The pilot has to fucking readjust the throttle as they dump ammo. Cause they're constantly getting lighter.

• 1:51:31Speaker 06

  Oh my God, you're right. Yeah. There were only two seats in that thing for the pilot and copilot. No one else had seats. They were just sitting on ammo crates and stuff.

• 1:51:39The Fat Electrician?

  Sounds dangerous.

• 1:51:41Speaker 05

  I mean, you're, you're good, but also.

• 1:51:45Speaker 06

  Vietnam.

• 1:51:47Speaker 05

  That's true.

• 1:51:48The Fat Electrician?

  Same vibe. Have you ever seen my Ching Lee video?

• 1:51:50Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:51:51The Fat Electrician?

  He's like one of my favorites for doing that.

• 1:51:53Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:51:53The Fat Electrician?

  So Ching Lee, the general, he's like most known for being the battleship commander in World War II. So he was a, an Olympic sniper. He actually held the American and maybe the world record for like the most Olympic medals for a while. All for sharp shooting and he had a really, really bad eyesight.

• 1:52:11Speaker 05

  Oh, okay.

• 1:52:12The Fat Electrician?

  Yeah. So like prior to him, like really getting into battleships and pioneering all that, he got put in this like admin position leading up to World War II. Where they basically told him like, you're really detail oriented, whatever. Just go around the military and unfuck everything. Well, he got fed up with like the bureaucracy. So he's the reason that like every square free inch of space on the deck of a US ship in World War II was covered with AA guns and 50 cows. Cause like he knew that it was going to be an air fight. Like he was responsible for a lot of key decisions. He was pivotal in like the VT fuse getting developed, which was arguably a bigger deal than the nuclear bomb in World War II. Like all these decisions he was behind during this period of time.

• 1:52:51Speaker 05

  PT fuse.

• 1:52:52The Fat Electrician?

  Uh, variable time fuse, proximity fuse, what he was taught. So that came out in World War II. Basically, uh, it's an artillery round and prior to this, it was either mechanical or just free shot. So it was like, you would have to set the timer and tell the ammunition when to explode. So you had to fucking guesstimate. Oh, that plane looks three seconds away. Set the timer. And then if it, it, you miss all the time, like the odds of shooting down a plane were very, very low. The VT fuse is a proximity fuse. It emits a little radar transmission. And then once it gets, once it gets thrown back at it, it knows that the plane's within 15 feet or whatever, and then it explodes. So it was absolutely pivotal in World War II. The Germans, we used it against them and

• 1:53:38The Fat Electrician?

  cause you didn't just have to use them against planes. You could basically have your artillery be airburst then. So instead of having your artillery hit the ground and explode, it would explode 15 feet over everybody's heads.

• 1:53:49Speaker 05

  God.

• 1:53:50The Fat Electrician?

  So they, I mean, they were cutting down forests. The Germans were blown away by it. Nobody could figure out how we did it. Because the, the ammunition manufactures its own battery in mid-flight. That's it.

• 1:54:00Speaker 05

  Cause.

• 1:54:01The Fat Electrician?

  Yeah, so it's got the the lead wafers and then the acid inside of it, which I want to come back to the the vial of acid thing in a second. But so he was like behind all these decisions, but the funniest part is to cut through all the bureaucracy that he's talking about. He was getting mad that it was taking so long to get his paperwork through because there was like three rubber stamps you could hit it with. It was like standard, priority and urgent. Urgent was the most important. He was stamping everything urgent. Like, I'm fucking important. Let's get this done. It wasn't getting through fast enough. So he had a custom rubber stamp made that was frantic and he used red ink. That way, any any Joe Blow handling the paperwork be like, Fred, I've never fucking even seen this.

• 1:54:43The Fat Electrician?

  And like take off running and that's like how he like railroaded so much shit through.

• 1:54:48Speaker 05

  That's no doubt. That is no one knows. You're in the fucking military, he's like, I don't.

• 1:54:52The Fat Electrician?

  You're some E four. Go take this to general sell and sell. See how important it do. I have time for lunch. Oh, shit.

• 1:55:00Speaker 05

  Now, same line. We have to do it now.

• 1:55:06Speaker 05

  As E four, you're not gonna fucking know.

• 1:55:09Speaker 05

  Think when you're in the middle, you want to, how many generals have you met in your position right now?

• 1:55:14Speaker 06

  Then twenty, maybe.

• 1:55:17Speaker 05

  Okay, you've actually met quite a few.

• 1:55:19The Fat Electrician?

  He's a major, though. He's an officer.

• 1:55:20Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:55:20The Fat Electrician?

  Four stars?

• 1:55:22Speaker 06

  I've met two four stars.

• 1:55:24Speaker 05

  Which is still cra- like that.

• 1:55:25Speaker 06

  But I don't, man, I'm gonna choose my words carefully. Choose my words, I'm gonna get in trouble.

• 1:55:32Speaker 05

  Fuck them generals.

• 1:55:35The Fat Electrician?

  Well, I guess, okay.

• 1:55:37Speaker 05

  They're really tactical, tactical here. Fuck them all.

• 1:55:42The Fat Electrician?

  I'm gonna do, I'm gonna do an officer thing to caveat what you're saying.

• 1:55:46Speaker 05

  Nick said.

• 1:55:48Speaker 06

  Man, I I'm like a horrible officer. I do not care about the dog and pony show stuff. I don't look at the next rank like I.

• 1:55:56Speaker 05

  Great officer.

• 1:55:57Speaker 06

  It's it's it's some really uncomfortable conversations with like senior leaders sometimes. Like, you ever thought about X, Y, and Z? No, I haven't.

• 1:56:06The Fat Electrician?

  Ever thought about treating them like people? Absolutely not. Yeah.

• 1:56:10Speaker 06

  Dude, it is especially, I don't know why we don't treat them like people in the guard. Cause you could have like, there could be an E3 who's like a truck driver who has a business that makes like a quarter million a year. And it's like, well, why is he in the guard? Probably because he's bored or he just wanted to do something different. Or maybe he just wanted the insurance.

• 1:56:28The Fat Electrician?

  Yeah.

• 1:56:29Speaker 06

  Like, there's a bunch of, but you never know that if you just, they're people, just talk to them. That's gonna get me in trouble.

• 1:56:35The Fat Electrician?

  That's fine. No, you're good.

• 1:56:36Speaker 05

  That's a great thing to say. That is a proper leader, in my opinion.

• 1:56:40The Fat Electrician?

  So with like the, the vial of acid thing inside the BT fuse, you know what that vial was? Christmas lights.

• 1:56:50Speaker 06

  Oh, it was just.

• 1:56:51The Fat Electrician?

  They, they went to GE because they're like, oh, we need millions and millions of tiny little vials filled with liquid. So they went to GE, the biggest manufacturer of Christmas lights in the country. And I was like, hey, guess what? You're not making Christmas lights anymore. Start putting acid in these vials. Give them to us. Don't ask questions. And like, it, the reason I bring it up.

• 1:57:10Speaker 06

  Ah, yeah, yeah, we 100%.

• 1:57:13The Fat Electrician?

  But like, the reason I bring that up is like, one of the, we were talking about war bonds and just like the random shit that interests me. Cause I was an electrician that always worked in factories. So like, I've been around manufacturing, mass producing. It's always been like, super interesting to me. Like if I had a time machine, I would wanna go back and see what it was like working in a factory in World War II. Like, cause you go to a factory now, it's like, what are you guys doing? Oh, we make fucking the eggs that go inside Egg McMuffins every day and we watch them come out of the oven and then we freeze them and we package them. It's like, nobody's super motivated to do their job, you know, they're just showing up, they're punching the clock, whatever, but like, I don't know, what was, what was the workplace like when you're working at the Christmas light factory? And then one day, it's like, hey, we're building these so our boys over there can go fuck people up.

• 1:57:56The Fat Electrician?

  Tommy's super motivated because his son's on Guadalcanal right now. You know what I mean?

• 1:58:00Speaker 06

  Oh shit.

• 1:58:01The Fat Electrician?

  Like, what was the morale of the general workforce like when everybody knew?

• 1:58:06Speaker 06

  I bet it was through the roof. I bet that morale was, so there's a.

• 1:58:09The Fat Electrician?

  Like forward.

• 1:58:10Speaker 06

  Yeah, I was gonna, man, there's a wall in the National, um, World War II Museum in New Orleans. There's a wall and it shows like this many million like just this company made this many million crates like just things you don't think about like or just rifles or whatever. And yeah, I'd love to make a video about like Singer, the sewing machine company. They used to make like pistols, like nineteen elevens. Uh, like you said, Ford made the bombers. Uh, what were some of the, I, I made a video on the M eighteen Hellcat. I'm pretty sure that was Buick.

• 1:58:40Speaker 05

  No shit.

• 1:58:40Speaker 06

  Made that. It's just all these companies just spun up and they just did what they needed to do.

• 1:58:44Speaker 05

  And they manufactured a shit ton. Cause that's like Ford, I know they rolled out.

• 1:58:52Speaker 05

  A lot. A lot of planes, right?

• 1:58:56Speaker 06

  Yeah, I, I don't know the exact numbers. It's something I want to get into.

• 1:58:59Speaker 03

  That's another level of meaning and like purpose behind your work.

• 1:59:03The Fat Electrician?

  That's what I mean. Yeah. What, what is the workplace? Cause like, I don't know. We've all been to a job that we're just like, I'm literally just here for money. I'm not passionate about this at all. It's like, what is it like when? Everybody or damn near everybody knows a kid, whether it's their, their kid, a nephew, the kid down the street that they watched grow up for the past 10 years. It's like, oh shit, my car factory that I've worked at for 15 years, we're making tanks right now and that kid is gonna potentially drive in this fucking tank.

• 1:59:35Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:59:36The Fat Electrician?

  And like every little thing I do might save his life or whatever. Like that's crazy.

• 1:59:42Speaker 03

  There's a couple of times I feel in history where there's been a national spirit and, and it, I don't know that it even always like has to be war. I think sometimes there's just that kind of meaning and purpose behind something that we're building as a nation and it's important that we get this done.

• 1:59:57The Fat Electrician?

  I think the closest thing for like me would be like Hurricane Katrina. That's where like, yeah, I was from Iowa and we were doing like fundraisers and sending food and water and all kinds of stuff. Like it's the closest thing I've ever experienced. I don't think it's anything to the scale, but that was like the one thing from my own.

• 2:00:13Speaker 06

  I was literally gonna mention, cause I, I was down, I live on the, well, I'm not gonna say where I live, but uh, that's where I was from, that area and like, so I remember. That oh five era seeing, yeah, communities come together, but that also had a big impact of me wanting to join like the military because I saw the guard come out in force and just it's like, holy crap, just people all coming together. I like seeing that all the natural disasters and I don't like seeing natural disasters, but people coming together.

• 2:00:44Speaker 05

  I love seeing natural disasters.

• 2:00:49Speaker 03

  When we took all the land from the Native Americans, that might've been a good, that was like a national project that we could kind of all get behind.

• 2:00:57Speaker 03

  That was, that, that was kind of like a.

• 2:00:59Speaker 06

  Technically, you're not.

• 2:01:01Speaker 03

  I mean. We rallied together and.

• 2:01:04Speaker 05

  We rallied as a country.

• 2:01:05Speaker 03

  This place is ours.

• 2:01:07Speaker 05

  Your casinos are not.

• 2:01:12Speaker 05

  We're giving you $5 an acre. I don't know what the fuck the problem is. Here's some blankets. Why are they sick?

• 2:01:19Speaker 05

  It's like, Jesus Christ.

• 2:01:22Speaker 03

  All I'm saying is we need another national project like that. Not like, not exactly like that.

• 2:01:28Speaker 06

  Well. I mean. You're talking about. Talking about Greenland, trying to get that.

• 2:01:35Speaker 05

  A national project.

• 2:01:38Speaker 03

  Greenland, you're our next project.

• 2:01:40Speaker 06

  You're gonna pull us together.

• 2:01:44Speaker 05

  Dude, Ford nineteen forty-one made nine hundred or six hundred and ninety-one thousand automobiles and only a hundred and sixty thousand were for civilians.

• 2:01:57Speaker 06

  That's what I like to see.

• 2:01:58Speaker 05

  That's awesome. Or vehicles.

• 2:02:00Speaker 03

  You know, they're, they're going back to them again today now for the first time since World War II. They're going to Ford GE and they're asking them to start helping with uh military production at scale.

• 2:02:09Speaker 05

  Thank fuck. No shit?

• 2:02:11Speaker 03

  Yeah, but if you, if you take a look, there's all these articles about them going over the the Pentagon going to Ford.

• 2:02:17Speaker 05

  That was Randy, by the way. I mean, it's. Sounds like.

• 2:02:21Speaker 06

  It's like that he's.

• 2:02:22Speaker 05

  That was, well, what's the new army light vehicle called?

• 2:02:25Speaker 06

  IS. The ISV.

• 2:02:26Speaker 05

  ISV. The ISV is a Chevy Colorado.

• 2:02:31The Fat Electrician?

  That's what it is. And it's like, oh, well, let's have the Humvee where all the parts are different and unique and they have to be made by some contractor that manufactures shit very slowly. That way, if she does hit the fan, we run out of parts to fix it. Or we could just take the Chevy Colorado, which is already used to mass producing fucking everything. And then it's just, oh, it'll be harder for the civilians to find parts at O'Reilly's. It's like, why wouldn't you do that? It's what won World War Two. Why would you change that? I mean, so fucking Halliburton can make more money. Dick Cheney can buy an eighth heart.

• 2:03:05Speaker 05

  And he still has the other seven. It's crazy. Just all pumping inside. He's a space Marine. It is Randy got rid of what the helicopter two, because they were over budget. Remember the next generation helicopter that was supposed to happen?

• 2:03:23The Fat Electrician?

  Yeah, because every helicopter pilot I've talked to, including multiple guys from one sixty ninth, or what is, uh, one sixtieth, the night stalkers. Like, I talked to some dudes that are like living legends from there. And they're like, the VTOL doesn't fucking work. I showed you the videos like a year ago, because the Marines have the Osprey. And he's like, even the pilots were like, I don't know what the fuck it is with having two whirly gigs on top. But it creates this fuck cyclone current that fucks up everything around it. It's way worse. Like, when you watch the Marines try to fast rope out of an Osprey, the rope, you fast rope out of anything, the rope's hanging down by its

• 2:04:08The Fat Electrician?

  own weight. And then they slide down and Osprey, it's like the ropes out the back and it's coming down at like a forty five degree angle. And the first dude down has to lay across the rope to hold it for all the other guys to get down. And then there's, there's another video where they did an Osprey flyover for like a family FRG event. And it's like out at a park in the woods and they go to fly over and it's folding the trees down and the family has to take off running because the wind currents coming off this thing are ripping the trees apart, throwing shrapnel everywhere. Johnny, no. He's like, it just, it doesn't work. It's a bad idea. It's a bad design. The one by Bell, I think is the one that won it.

• 2:04:49Speaker 06

  The Valor.

• 2:04:49The Fat Electrician?

  Yeah. And it should have been the other one, the one that looks like a submarine fucked a Blackhawk. Do you know what I mean? It's got the submarine propeller sticking out the back to go faster.

• 2:05:00Speaker 06

  Yeah. Oh, that, uh, that pusher propeller. So man, I can't quote it directly, but so I made a video about the Apache. And I was looking into it. So the, I think I determined inadvertently the air force create, forced us to create the Apache. Cause we came out with the Cobra and that was, the plan was to do the, the Cheyenne that had that pusher prop. Then the air force said, no, can't have that. That's our lane. There's some kind of law or whatever. They got all butthurt about it. So we got rid of the pusher propeller, put winglets on it, put bombs on it, have the Apache. But then like fast forward, now we're looking at that pusher thing again. Personally, I think we should just go back to like turboprop planes.

• 2:05:46Speaker 06

  Um, like the fricking, what's that one they did? The, the sky warden or whatever?

• 2:05:50The Fat Electrician?

  Yeah.

• 2:05:51Speaker 06

  Just go to that. It's so much cheaper.

• 2:05:52The Fat Electrician?

  Well, they kind of are with that. What's the up armored crop duster they were making?

• 2:05:57Speaker 03

  The wing and ground concept you're talking about?

• 2:05:59The Fat Electrician?

  No, it's literally a fucking up armored crop duster prop plane that they were starting to go back to just because it's got some ridiculously high loiter time for like special forces guys.

• 2:06:09Speaker 03

  I know what you're talking about.

• 2:06:10Speaker 06

  The Super Takano?

• 2:06:11Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 2:06:12Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 2:06:12The Fat Electrician?

  A twenty, yeah. Yeah. Like it's just like, at least they'll have something there at all times.

• 2:06:18Speaker 06

  Right.

• 2:06:18The Fat Electrician?

  Especially if it's against a, a not a near peer enemy. You know what I mean? Like, why wouldn't you? Not everything has to cost a billion dollars.

• 2:06:26Speaker 03

  Well, yeah, it's why the A ten is just constantly staying, staying alive.

• 2:06:31Speaker 06

  I hate that they try to stop it though. Like, mm, no, it's like, please tell me when does this not work yet?

• 2:06:37The Fat Electrician?

  I get so annoyed. You know, it doesn't even work that great against tanks. When's the last time we fought somebody with tanks? First of all. It's got, it's got the highest kill rate of friendly fires of any other plane. Okay. A, that's horrible. That's awful. I completely acknowledge that. Also it's the only plane designed to shoot people on the ground. So kind of fucking makes sense. Not trying to be a dick about it, but. What do you expect?

• 2:07:03Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 2:07:04Speaker 05

  Ground soldiers still feel at ease when they know one's in the air too. Oh no, wait, we have A10s on, on, okay, yeah, fuck yeah, we're good. It's if something goes awry.

• 2:07:18The Fat Electrician?

  Hey, yeah.

• 2:07:19Speaker 05

  What's up, JTAG?

• 2:07:20The Fat Electrician?

  Yeah, when the Decepticons were about to win, what did we send? A10 Warthogs, play the scene.

• 2:07:25Speaker 07

  Man, have you seen this shit? We need air support and we need it now.

• 2:07:32Speaker 05

  It's the, the, the helicopter was the, what, it's the bell. So it was the Valor, the Skeller Sky, right?

• 2:07:41Speaker 06

  The bell, the Valor is what like won the contract.

• 2:07:44Speaker 05

  Yeah, it's the. Billion and then they just, and then Randy's the one that's like, hey, oh, so he's seen the, the bill. He was like, what the fuck? And then when it would come out, it was going to be out of date anyways, right?

• 2:07:56Speaker 06

  Probably.

• 2:07:57Speaker 05

  And then on top of that, his main focus was, okay, expensive. And then watching what was happening in Ukraine. Why are we doing this instead of like an unmanned system? And then spending money in that field and it was still like five or 10 years off. It was just a smart choice. It's like looking at something and be like, why are we doing this? Why are we investing?

• 2:08:18Speaker 06

  I don't know why we don't give units 3D printers.

• 2:08:22The Fat Electrician?

  I have things I'm not allowed to talk about yet, but I'll tell you later.

• 2:08:26Speaker 06

  I'm excited.

• 2:08:29Speaker 06

  She'll whisper it in my ear. I'm excited.

• 2:08:31Speaker 05

  Oh, this is great. Dude, what, so, uh, on your side, what's the, do you get to do anything new or cool? Or is it just like, hey, day to day activity is a normal job?

• 2:08:44Speaker 06

  So it, I cannot remember, the army changes its training cycle name like all the time. Like it used to be called rearm. I don't know what the hell it's called now. You probably know, I don't, I don't know, like.

• 2:08:54The Fat Electrician?

  I don't think so.

• 2:08:54Speaker 06

  Like, you know, it's a so the I'm just gonna speak for the army. So like the first year is like, you know, train up or whatever, or like reconsolidation, whatever the hell it's called. And then next two years, you're kind of training up and then you have your big cul culminating events. So it's like NTC is what we do for armor, JRC, whatever the hell, then you deploy or your ready year, mission year. Um, but you have a year in there that's called modernization and that's when you're getting all your new stuff. So, um, cause you know, everything's based on your, your MTO of your unit. So like, um, they may say, hey, now we want to add, like you, you mentioned Grenadier, like that's changing. Well, like a couple of years back, they said, hey, Sapper squads need a designated marksman rifle. So they gave us these new HK.

• 2:09:39The Fat Electrician?

  Four sixteens.

• 2:09:40Speaker 06

  Um, no, they, these were, no, but no, actually, yeah, I think they were. Yeah. But it was called the M110 DMR.

• 2:09:48The Fat Electrician?

  Hmm. Okay.

• 2:09:49Speaker 06

  Yeah. Which that, which by the way, that parts list on that thing, it was like every top tier off the shelf, like Geisley, this, LaRue, that, like everything.

• 2:09:57The Fat Electrician?

  Side note, you know, who's a designated marksman for their unit? Ethan.

• 2:10:03Speaker 03

  Really?

• 2:10:04Speaker 06

  For his.

• 2:10:04The Fat Electrician?

  Long balls was? He was, he was designated marksman when he was a tanker. And you know what he carried for his entire deployment?

• 2:10:13Speaker 03

  And 14?

• 2:10:14The Fat Electrician?

  Yes.

• 2:10:15Speaker 03

  No.

• 2:10:15The Fat Electrician?

  He's, he's got some of the hardest deployment pictures I've ever seen. Skinny Ethan rocking a decked out M14.

• 2:10:23Speaker 06

  Like with an EBR stock?

• 2:10:24The Fat Electrician?

  Yes.

• 2:10:24Speaker 06

  Hell, yeah. I'm surprised. I had, bro, Ethan looks hard as fuck in those pictures. It's awesome.

• 2:10:31Speaker 03

  Still trying to wrap my head. I didn't even know they had designated marksman in tanker.

• 2:10:35Speaker 06

  I didn't know. We got, uh.

• 2:10:38Speaker 03

  Hop open the hatch.

• 2:10:41Speaker 06

  M14s kicked in. Uh, I want to say like three or four months into deployment for us. So like, hey, switching these, if you're SDM, it's here, you're getting these. And we're like, oh, fuck yeah. These are dope. They work better too, for certain jobs. So we were, I did not know Ethan had one.

• 2:10:59The Fat Electrician?

  Ethan's got some gangster deployment pictures with his EBR fucking M14.

• 2:11:05Speaker 03

  Skeletonized.

• 2:11:07Speaker 06

  Sniper Ethan. His ball sacks in the air. So he knows when the winds change.

• 2:11:16Speaker 06

  So accurate.

• 2:11:21Speaker 03

  What the fuck?

• 2:11:22The Fat Electrician?

  No, I never knew that.

• 2:11:24Speaker 03

  Sorry, continue.

• 2:11:26Speaker 06

  Oh, no, it's no, if they give us, yeah, so they'll figure out if we need new stuff, whatever, like right now. Like I know our unit or our brigade, like they're filming the new tank, like the V three version. I think last year they got the new Paladins. One five fives, which by the way, like that was, that was the most, I think I can say this now, cause I had the biggest freedom boner at AT out in the field, man. Just those one five fives were going off in the distance, literally in a porta john. Feeling that thing rock. Literally scared the shit out of me. I loved, oh my god.

• 2:11:58Speaker 03

  Don't stop yet. One more volley.

• 2:12:01Speaker 06

  I love it.

• 2:12:02The Fat Electrician?

  The, the, I'm happy and upset at the, the Russian tank situation with the Ukraine war because I was so sick of here. Russian tanks are actually better than American tanks. And then it's just, oh, look at the Bradleys. Up all the Russian tanks.

• 2:12:18Speaker 06

  Look at our non tanks.

• 2:12:19The Fat Electrician?

  Yeah. Look at our aluminum infantry support vehicle shit rocking you guys.

• 2:12:25Speaker 06

  Those take people places.

• 2:12:27Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 2:12:28The Fat Electrician?

  But then on the counter side, it was like, I don't know, Russia was this big scary boogeyman in the closet for decades and decades and decades. And the whole reason NATO exists was to control Russia. And then Russia comes out swinging and not hard enough to take out Ukraine. And everybody's like, wait a minute, what's this whole NATO thing about again? And now NATO is like on the rocks, super hard.

• 2:12:53Speaker 03

  Yeah. Yes. Yeah. That's why I always said that exact same thing. People want to pretend that like Russia's going to invade Europe tomorrow. But I mean, it's the reason why we're seeing us pull back from Europe right now. Like we're pulling so many troops out because Russia revealed that they can sock at war and the Europeans don't kind of don't need us. And like they can do it on their own. But yeah, NATO is having like an identity crisis because of that.

• 2:13:19Speaker 06

  I think China would have, the same thing would happen. I believe that's exactly.

• 2:13:23The Fat Electrician?

  China's too embedded in Europe.

• 2:13:25Speaker 05

  No, I mean, like, if we seen what their capability was, because they don't do war. That's where you're gonna be like, oh, what the fuck were we afraid of? Military equipment failure, all those little things where.

• 2:13:38Speaker 03

  That's why they're trying to just build up and just an insanely large force that they can overcome their incompetence. It's that, it's so, is the point, same way that I used to play Command and Conquer when I was growing up. Real, great real time strategy game, but the, the strategy is, since I'm not good at strategy, I'll just build up an insane force of tanks that's so large that I can overcome the fact that like, I can't think three steps ahead.

• 2:14:03Speaker 05

  Cappy, what's your strategy? A bunch of Chinese.

• 2:14:04The Fat Electrician?

  Billion peasants.

• 2:14:07Speaker 05

  Asians as far as I can see.

• 2:14:10The Fat Electrician?

  I mean, that's what took out, that's why like knights in armor came to an end. Cause somebody finally figured out like, okay, well, these guys are unstoppable unless eight dudes unarmored with daggers jump on his back and open his face mask and stab him in the head. It's like, yep, that'll do it.

• 2:14:27Speaker 05

  So people that don't evolve in combat are the ones that lose, uh, what's his name, um?

• 2:14:32The Fat Electrician?

  Miyamoto Masashi?

• 2:14:33Speaker 05

  No, other, uh, the.

• 2:14:35The Fat Electrician?

  Sanzil?

• 2:14:37Speaker 05

  Uh, the Japanese general that before, uh, Yoshimoto unified, it was.

• 2:14:41The Fat Electrician?

  No, no, no.

• 2:14:43Speaker 05

  Nobunaga, Nobunaga is like, now we're gonna use guns. We're gonna use guns, just wait till they get here and they fucking shoot them. And then they're like, it's so dishonorable. And they're like, we don't care.

• 2:14:55The Fat Electrician?

  I don't care. Write it, write it on your tombstone. He cheated. Cool story.

• 2:15:01Speaker 05

  I'm like, you go back to like, he cheated. He shot at us. Did you lose? Yeah. He's coming here?

• 2:15:13The Fat Electrician?

  It's fucking wild. Well, where can we find both of you for, or where can the internet find you guys?

• 2:15:23Speaker 06

  Youtube, Youtube at tactically acquired.

• 2:15:26Speaker 03

  Follow me at CappyArmy on Youtube if you'd like to check out some of the videos there.

• 2:15:31Speaker 05

  And then I think if we have time for an after show, you guys go and do like a quick out?

• 2:15:35Speaker 03

  Yeah, we do. Can I pee real quick?

• 2:15:37Speaker 05

  After we close, hold on, what's that? You're about to pee? And then I'll join you. We'll sit together.

• 2:15:42The Fat Electrician?

  Thank you for coming to the Unsubscribe Podcast. I was joined here today by Eli Double Tap, Chris Cappy from Cappy Army, our new friend Nick over at tactically acquired because he stole my shit and I am Donut Operator. Thank you for coming.

• 2:15:57Speaker 05

  We love you! His name's Black Nic.

• 2:16:00Speaker 06

  Damn right, I stole that shit.

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