208 - Which History Era Is The Best? ft. Nick Freitas & The Fat Electrician | Unsubscribe Podcast Ep 208

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• 0:01Speaker 00

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• 0:27Speaker 01

  California's gonna be a great place to move to after the war. You say something about my mom and I'll beat your [bleep] on the steps of the Capitol.

• 0:33The Fat Electrician?

  I look like the American Harry Potter right now. It's absurd.

• 0:36Speaker 01

  What's the worst that can happen? War, babe. War can happen.

• 0:39Speaker 03

  Nuclear weapons are less disastrous than socialism.

• 0:42Speaker 01

  Nick's getting me fired up on Friday.

• 0:44Speaker 04

  Good. Say hi to Eli. He's racially ambiguous and random. His hair is fucking fabulous and donut. A dark, dark disposition. There's a fat electrician who'll come to unsubscribe.

• 1:06The Fat Electrician?

  We doing this?

• 1:07Speaker 05

  Yeah. Everyone ready?

• 1:08Speaker 04

  Somebody clapped?

• 1:09Speaker 05

  Yeah, I already clapped, though. Come on.

• 1:11The Fat Electrician?

  We cracked.

• 1:12Speaker 05

  Where's my [bleep] on dog?

• 1:14Speaker 04

  207.

• 1:16Speaker 05

  Is this 207?

• 1:17Speaker 01

  No, no, you gotta, you gotta put it back down. You didn't wait for the count to- God damn it, Nick! That's why we can't have nice things. Oh, all right, all right.

• 1:25Speaker 05

  We're gonna hold it up?

• 1:25Speaker 01

  Pretend.

• 1:26Speaker 05

  A new one? Oh, no, we can't pretend, yes.

• 1:28The Fat Electrician?

  You gotta drink both, Nick.

• 1:29Speaker 05

  All right, here we go. Okay, on the count of three. Three, two, one.

• 1:33The Fat Electrician?

  There we go. We did it! Mission accomplished!

• 1:36Speaker 01

  Now I gotta, like, shotgun one of these. Hi, everyone. Welcome to the Unsubscribe Podcast. I am joined today by Eli Double Tap, Nick the Fat Electrician, and other Nick, Nick Freitas, and myself, Brandon.

• 1:47The Fat Electrician?

  Brandon.

• 1:47Speaker 01

  Brandon. We've finally morphed into the same person.

• 1:51The Fat Electrician?

  I'm glad you're wearing a shirt for this.

• 1:53Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:55Speaker 01

  Listen here.

• 1:57The Fat Electrician?

  He wore his shirt. His watch.

• 2:03Speaker 05

  You know, it's like, really? This is how this is starting? Right out the gate.

• 2:07The Fat Electrician?

  Up until now, I was the only Nick born in Chico, California to be on the podcast.

• 2:12Speaker 05

  Really?

• 2:13The Fat Electrician?

  Yeah. Were you really born in Chico? Yes. You're kidding me. I swear. Oh, so was I. Yeah, yeah, that's nuts.

• 2:19Speaker 05

  It'd be weirder if you weren't.

• 2:24Speaker 05

  What a cool fun fact, Nick.

• 2:25The Fat Electrician?

  I was born in Texas.

• 2:27Speaker 05

  Well, now I'm waiting for him to break into like a five minute explanation of my life. Like funny enough, Nick Freitas.

• 2:36The Fat Electrician?

  Into the fat politician. Did you live there for a while? Yeah, I was lived there for like the first five years of my life. I grew up, I grew up in California for first 12 years of my life. Chico, Orland, Orville, Redding. Yeah, yeah. Palermo, yeah. All right. So when, when was this? 1994 to early 2000s.

• 2:54The Fat Electrician?

  We were there the same time. Yeah. Wow.

• 2:57Speaker 05

  You were just.

• 2:58The Fat Electrician?

  How old are you?

• 2:58Speaker 05

  Out of school.

• 2:59The Fat Electrician?

  I'm 45. Okay. So I mean, you're a little bit older than me. You're driving a car. I was driving a fucking battery powered Jeep by play school. It's fine.

• 3:07Speaker 05

  Look at me, my parents could afford a power.

• 3:11The Fat Electrician?

  Look at me, my, my dad stole the neighbor's battery powered Jeep and spray painted it so he could say it wasn't theirs. Yeah.

• 3:17Speaker 05

  Look at me, my parents could afford electricity. I just, I never mind, your dad.

• 3:24The Fat Electrician?

  Look, son.

• 3:26The Fat Electrician?

  Guess what?

• 3:26Speaker 05

  Strange.

• 3:27The Fat Electrician?

  Guess what?

• 3:28Speaker 05

  Missing one.

• 3:30The Fat Electrician?

  Guess what I got for Christmas one year? Somebody else's PS2.

• 3:37Speaker 05

  It's a good dad.

• 3:40The Fat Electrician?

  For legal reasons, that was a joke.

• 3:45The Fat Electrician?

  When kids.

• 3:45Speaker 05

  Statute of limitations. Steal, your father stealing hearts and property.

• 3:51The Fat Electrician?

  This is true.

• 3:52Speaker 05

  Welcome back. You just flew in last night. You just got in today.

• 3:56The Fat Electrician?

  Ashlyn this morning.

• 3:58Speaker 05

  We're this is the first week. We haven't had to travel a whole bunch.

• 4:01The Fat Electrician?

  Speak for yourself.

• 4:02Speaker 05

  Long.

• 4:03Speaker 01

  Oh, that's true.

• 4:04The Fat Electrician?

  I've traveled more in the best six weeks than I think I have ever.

• 4:07Speaker 05

  It suck.

• 4:08Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 4:08The Fat Electrician?

  It's all right.

• 4:10Speaker 01

  I think this is the first time we're gonna have like two weeks staying in Texas.

• 4:14Speaker 05

  So fucking stoked for it.

• 4:15Speaker 01

  So looking forward to it. I haven't got I haven't had to get on a plane in like a week and a half.

• 4:21Speaker 05

  It's bad when the ballet people know you and not just you, your family, everyone.

• 4:27Speaker 01

  They memorize the last four of my phone number.

• 4:29Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 4:30The Fat Electrician?

  Like, hey, what's up?

• 4:31Speaker 05

  Fuck.

• 4:33Speaker 05

  So Mr. Nick, you you flew in from?

• 4:36Speaker 03

  I've learned from Virginia. Yeah. So I live in Cold Pepper, Virginia, which is about seventy miles outside of DC. So it's like close enough for the airport, but outside of blast radius, which is what I was going for. So.

• 4:46The Fat Electrician?

  Perfect.

• 4:47Speaker 03

  Yeah. I said they're kind of quasi hoping, but.

• 4:52Speaker 01

  You get front seat tickets?

• 4:53Speaker 03

  Yeah, I had like, oh, no, that's horrible. And all of our country's bombs are sold.

• 4:59Speaker 01

  Wait, honey, give me five more minutes. I want to see this.

• 5:03Speaker 05

  Don't ruin it.

• 5:05Speaker 03

  Just do some talk, baby.

• 5:06The Fat Electrician?

  Just Nick getting in a hazmat suit. What are you doing, honey? I'm gonna steal the declaration of independence. It's not guarded right now.

• 5:12Speaker 03

  It's the only only things worth saving.

• 5:14Speaker 01

  I played Fallout three. I know how this goes.

• 5:18Speaker 05

  That is you. Uh, joined you. I don't know your childhood at all because there's not much about.

• 5:24Speaker 03

  That'd be weird.

• 5:25Speaker 05

  I know. I was like, oh.

• 5:26Speaker 03

  This guy really does. This is a little creeped out by that.

• 5:29The Fat Electrician?

  Yeah, I made it four inches down the Wikipedia page.

• 5:31Speaker 03

  You were also born in in low hospital.

• 5:34Speaker 05

  I was more surprised you did the special forces route.

• 5:38Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 5:39Speaker 05

  From the reading of it, it sounded like you actually got selected out of basic trading.

• 5:44Speaker 03

  No, no.

• 5:44The Fat Electrician?

  Okay, I was like, you are like the one percent that I've ever known.

• 5:49Speaker 03

  That's exactly what happened. Like, my drill sergeant just looked at me and said, you, son, you, son, are a warrior. Yeah, like, no, that's not at all.

• 5:56The Fat Electrician?

  You did an eighteen X-ray contract and made it all the way?

• 5:59Speaker 03

  Fuck. Actually, there was actually a lot of people making it through eighteen X-ray at the height of the war, because even though one of our principles is you can't mass produce soft, apparently they wanted to test that during the height of the war period. But no, no, I was, um. I went to infantry basic training, then airborne, then 82nd airborne division. Um, I was actually going to get out at the 82nd because it was peacetime army.

• 6:19Speaker 05

  What year was that?

• 6:21Speaker 03

  That was 90, well, 2000, 2001 is when I re-enlisted. So it was, the, the crazy part was, I looked at my wife and, uh, I had re-enlisted. I was in the 82nd airborne, second of three, two, five. I had, um, I just graduated ranger school and I came back and I said, all right, it's time to re-enlist. But I'm going to go over to first battalion because they were going to Kosovo. And that was the closest thing to a war going on. And so, um, I got it all approved because you know, when you're first enlistment, they let you go kind of anywhere. And then my sergeant major brings me and he goes, you're not going one battalion over. Like, Sergeant Major, what are you talking about? He's like, we've sent you to all these schools and stuff like that. We're not going, you're not going one battalion. I don't care what you do, but you're not going one battalion over. So I was pissed.

• 7:03Speaker 03

  I came home and, uh, told my wife, Tina, I was like, babe, I'm getting out. Like, screw this. She goes, what are we going to do? I said, I'm going to, my dad was LAPD. I'm like, I'm going to go LAPD. And she goes, baby, we haven't saved up any money. We, this wasn't part of the plan. Why don't we do one more enlistment? Cause they'll let you go wherever you want. I said, okay, you want to go to Italy or Hawaii? She goes Hawaii. Get to Hawaii, four months later, nine 11.

• 7:26Speaker 05

  What's the worst that can happen?

• 7:30Speaker 03

  I know what I'm doing for the next 10 years. And that's when I, so I volunteered for SF out of the 25th and, um, yeah, went to first group.

• 7:38Speaker 05

  25th is, uh, for anyone that doesn't know, it's a lot of road marching. That was like my biggest fear was getting attached to anything like that. Cause it's like Hawaii, beautiful beaches. Road marching. And road marching. And this is not like, how far would you road march a week probably?

• 7:55Speaker 03

  I mean, no, I mean, the, the nice thing about, like you said, it was beautiful. But the nice thing about Hawaii was coming from the 82nd where they did stupid stuff just to do stupid stuff. You go to Hawaii and you'd have commanders out there like, all right, we're going to a four day field problem. But we just got the wave report back. So I think we've accomplished everything we need to. And you'd come in and have a four day weekend. Like, it was a different world.

• 8:16Speaker 05

  Oh, that's good.

• 8:17Speaker 01

  It's pretty cool.

• 8:20Speaker 05

  Good peacetime, huh?

• 8:21Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah.

• 8:23Speaker 05

  And then you got just spun up and then did you do deployment with them or did you just go?

• 8:26Speaker 03

  Not with 25th. No, I went over to, uh, so went through the Q course, uh, became an 18 Bravo, which is a weapons sergeant and then, uh, did two tours in Iraq, one in 06 and one in 08.

• 8:39Speaker 01

  So you were in Hawaii for four months and then you had to go to, oh, a little bit longer?

• 8:44Speaker 03

  So, yeah, well, nine 11 happened and I, I hung out for a little while and then I decided I want to go to the Q course because that had to be a conversation with my wife as well because she was like, oh, three years in Hawaii. I'm like, or a year. That's also, and then we get to go back to your favorite place in the world, Fayetteville, North Carolina.

• 8:58Speaker 01

  Oh, yeah.

• 8:58Speaker 03

  Yeah. I mean, you, you born and raised there, right?

• 9:01Speaker 01

  Yeah, I grew up on Fort Bragg.

• 9:03Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 9:03Speaker 01

  Or at least on the periphery of it. Cause you know, military families and shit like that. So I might, my joke is that my parents were army brats who never had the sense to leave Fort Bragg.

• 9:12Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 9:13Speaker 01

  Not necessarily the greatest place on the planet.

• 9:15Speaker 03

  No, no, it was, when I was going through the Q course, um, we bought our first house and my wife took my daughter and went home while I was going through like phase two or something. And somebody broke into my house, lived there for three days, used my car to fence all of my stuff. And then I had to leave like for a day of the Q course and they were like, you get one day and I had to go back like fix it all. I mean, thank God she wasn't home when it happened, but of course she would have probably shot him. Cause it saved us a lot of trouble, babe. Thanks a lot. But anyway.

• 9:42Speaker 05

  Someone broke into your house and fenced? Wait.

• 9:44Speaker 03

  So they, they used my car.

• 9:45Speaker 01

  Not Mexican fencing.

• 9:51Speaker 05

  Senor, we have to practice getting over it. Come on.

• 9:55The Fat Electrician?

  He had to go scale the fence to his own property.

• 9:59Speaker 03

  What the hell?

• 10:00Speaker 05

  Gosh damn landscapers.

• 10:03The Fat Electrician?

  Fencing, fencing is the video game term for selling.

• 10:07Speaker 01

  Selling. You can only think in like Mexican construction terms. Like, hey, Eli, you want to go mudding? He shows up with sheet rock.

• 10:15Speaker 05

  Babe, we gotta get these guys out of here. Hold on, hold on. Dude, that's an. One fifth's already done.

• 10:20The Fat Electrician?

  That's an entire series for this, for shorts.

• 10:23Speaker 01

  Absolutely, it is.

• 10:24The Fat Electrician?

  Me, you and Cody. Let's go mudding.

• 10:29Speaker 05

  Where's the hole in the wall?

• 10:32The Fat Electrician?

  Okay, sorry. Now I'm now I'm tracking the story.

• 10:34Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah. So then, um, yeah, I went to end up going first group. Yeah, I always joke that I've seen my wife cry four times. We have three kids and the fourth time was when I told her I was gonna have to go back to Fort Bragg.

• 10:44The Fat Electrician?

  It's not a.

• 10:45Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 10:46Speaker 01

  No, there's a reason I left.

• 10:47The Fat Electrician?

  Yeah. I got, yeah. You stayed there for a while, didn't you?

• 10:51Speaker 01

  Yeah, it just made sense. I just really the the final straw, because I've got a bunch of family that, you know, are still there. Because, you know, like my grandparents, they they never left after the military or anything. So,

• 11:03Speaker 01

  yeah, covid was the last straw.

• 11:04Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 11:05Speaker 01

  It's like I've got like my family, uh, at least on my mom's side from Texas, like all the way back to before it was Texas, or before it was the United States. So I'm like, all right, well, I'm gonna go to Texas because covid was just a nightmare with the the governor there. Roy Cooper.

• 11:20Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 11:20Speaker 01

  Piece of shit. You.

• 11:22The Fat Electrician?

  Iowa was awesome. We didn't do shit. We didn't do a thing.

• 11:27Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 11:28The Fat Electrician?

  They were like 14 days. We're like, fine. That was it. Nothing else happened the entire time.

• 11:35Speaker 01

  North Carolina was a red state at the time still, but they had a blue governor.

• 11:39Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 11:39Speaker 01

  So they had like, Republicans controlled both houses. But you had Roy Cooper because, uh, Pat McCrory got ousted.

• 11:49The Fat Electrician?

  I'm partially scared, but partially looking forward to the day where I have grandkids. And they get the assignment at school where they have to go home and interview their grandparents about living through the fucking great pandemic. And like my my grandchild, how many dead bodies did you have to step over on your way to work, grandpa? Like, literally none.

• 12:10Speaker 01

  It's crazy in the states that stayed open. You didn't really notice anything different.

• 12:15The Fat Electrician?

  They all stayed open.

• 12:16Speaker 01

  Except their economies didn't tank.

• 12:18Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 12:19The Fat Electrician?

  Dude, Jake, when Jake moved from California to here during that. So he went from LA to Spring Branch. We Spring Branch is.

• 12:26Speaker 05

  Tiny, there's a Walmart and like a Thai restaurant and a Home Depot. That's it. Out in the middle of the country, I had to drive 15 minutes to there and go back. Not much changed. You didn't have, everyone wasn't rushing for baby wipes, toilet paper, water. It was all there. Jake moved. He's like, do people just not wear masks here? I was like, huh?

• 12:45Speaker 03

  No.

• 12:45Speaker 01

  Why would we?

• 12:46Speaker 05

  Why?

• 12:46Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 12:49Speaker 05

  He did not know what was going on coming from LA to that world and then LA just. Was it 90% of small business?

• 12:56Speaker 01

  They still do. We, we have to go to LA for, you know, once every blue moon, unfortunately. And there's still like, I'd probably say 5% of people still mask everywhere.

• 13:05Speaker 05

  Yep.

• 13:06Speaker 01

  Crazy. I think it's just an excuse for ugly people now.

• 13:09Speaker 03

  California is going to be a great place to move to after the war.

• 13:14Speaker 03

  Once we can go in and just like secure property again. I want to colonize California.

• 13:22Speaker 03

  That's what it needs. It needs some colonization.

• 13:24Speaker 01

  The, I, I made a joke and this, this was actually used by my campaign opponent. They took this out of context because I had said, California is probably my favorite state in the country. If everyone who lived there didn't.

• 13:37Speaker 05

  And they just took that.

• 13:38Speaker 03

  Of course, they just, California is my favorite state in the country.

• 13:41Speaker 01

  Yeah. They, they're really good at that three second sound.

• 13:44Speaker 03

  Oh, yeah.

• 13:44Speaker 01

  I'm sure you're familiar.

• 13:45Speaker 03

  Oh, yeah. Yeah. I've had some real good times. Yeah. With selective editing of, of political statements.

• 13:51Speaker 05

  Oh God, I want to know like, was your two worst ones on that? Because we didn't know, you always hear the level of, oh, legacy media or hey, they, they edit shit. When you see it firsthand or when you watch your buddy experience it firsthand from jokes to whatever. And watch how hard they push that to just the general audience.

• 14:10Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 14:11Speaker 05

  Mind blowing.

• 14:11Speaker 03

  Well, the first, the first time they did it to me was actually on a second amendment issue.

• 14:15Speaker 01

  Really?

• 14:16Speaker 03

  Oh yeah. So right after, uh, this was in 2018. So it was Parkland. Yeah, so Parkland takes place and I'm on the gun subcommittee in the General Assembly. And this is when the Republicans were in charge of the House. And we just kill, I mean, we had all the pro-gun guys on the subcommittee. So we just, you know, we listen, we're polite, we listen to testimony, the whole deal. But we were there to protect your gun rights. And so I'm listening to just Democrat after Democrat get up. And if you don't want to do one gun, you know, one gun a month, then you're supporting terrorists because they're trafficking guns and you don't care if kids get shot. And I mean, just over and over and over again, I just got pissed. And so I got up and I went on like the, this is probably the first thing I ever did that went viral on social media, like super viral.

• 15:00Speaker 03

  And just did a seven minute diatribe because I was furious. And I, and I, I take special pride in this speech because I thought I gave a pretty good defense of the Second Amendment, but then I also caused three of my Democrat colleagues to leave the floor in tears. And the entire, the entire Democrat caucus requested a 15 minute recess to gather their composure. And I didn't even realize it was in response to me. Like we all go down into our respective bullpens, right? And the speaker comes in, he goes, so they're pretty mad. I'm like, about what? About what you said? I'm like, what the hell did I say that was so bad? They've spent the last two weeks calling us terrorists and every other damn thing. And all I said was, you know, this is why we have the second. Okay. I might've also said that I wanted to remind my colleagues on the other side of the aisle that they were the party of slavery and fought against women's suffrage and put a bunch

• 15:45Speaker 03

  of Japanese people in internment camps and Jim Crow, not us. That, that part made him mad. Wasn't, wasn't false, though. Really don't like facts. Yeah. And no, no. So, so the press gets up and one of the things I talked about is he said, if you want to talk about crime, then why don't we talk about like fatherness or fatherlessness? Why don't we talk, why don't we go look at the prisons right now and see how many people in there? How many young men are in there that don't have dads in their life? And so I went into this whole thing and this reporter comes up to me on the floor. And I still had no idea that I just set up a, like set off a bomb. And he goes, did you just claim that abortion causes mass shootings? And I looked at him like, how the hell did you come to that conclusion? I said, no, that's not what I said. This is what I was talking about.

• 16:29Speaker 03

  This is, and all of a sudden the headline is delegate Freitas suggests that abortion leads to mass shootings. I'm like, Okay, and, and

• 16:38Speaker 01

  The mental gymnastics of it.

• 16:39Speaker 03

  Oh my gosh. And, and so I looked at this, I'm like, well, I guess I'm gonna have to

• 16:43Speaker 01

  You can't defend it.

• 16:44Speaker 03

  I'm gonna have to publish the, the speech

• 16:46Speaker 01

  Yep.

• 16:46Speaker 03

  On Facebook. Um, and, and just so people know exactly what I said. And the next thing I know, like that, that ended up getting like

• 16:54Speaker 01

  A lot.

• 16:54Speaker 03

  Seventy, eighty million views. And, um, and all of a sudden I learned two things right, right off the bat. It was, one, the press will always screw you. And two, you don't need them.

• 17:04Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 17:05Speaker 03

  Um, like the power of social media is, is like, new media is huge right now. And I still fight, I still fight this battle with, you know, other members of the Republican caucus. We're like, well, we need to have a press conference. I'm like, oh, why? So the Washington Post can quote you out of context and make you look like an ass clown.

• 17:19Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 17:20Speaker 03

  I said, we can just go to Instagram right now, give them our message, and it'll be seen by more people in forty-eight hours that, that Washington Post article will be seen in its entire existence.

• 17:29Speaker 01

  A hundred percent. It's like the, you ever seen the movie Almost Famous?

• 17:32Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 17:32Speaker 01

  Yeah. The enemy. They cheat that little kid that as soon as they know he's a journalist, journalist, they're like, oh, hey, it's the enemy.

• 17:38Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 17:38Speaker 01

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• 17:40Speaker 03

  No, but it's, it's true. It's true. Like they're, the, the odds of you being quoted correctly in context are like absolute, like nil. And so, yeah, it was, it was a, it was a big lesson for me though, that it's like, look, social media is a powerful tool to be able to talk directly to people on what you mean, why you mean it. And what's crazy is that I probably have, like compared to my colleagues, at this point, thousands of hours of like me saying exactly what I think. And so it, it's almost like they don't even bother trying to clip it now because there's just so much.

• 18:13Speaker 05

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• 18:16Speaker 01

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• 18:29Speaker 01

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• 19:52Speaker 05

  Viewership's dead anyways. It's dropping 18 to 22% every year. And then we looked at it the other day. It was your ESPN's during prime time, because we were looking at that one dude, uh, how much he was making a year.

• 20:05Speaker 01

  McAfee?

• 20:06Speaker 05

  McAfee. Yeah.

• 20:07Speaker 01

  Pat McAfee?

• 20:08Speaker 05

  Yeah, Pat McAfee. His viewership, you see, it's like, oh, he gets about 300,000, peak, 300,000 views. And then everything else is after that. And he is the number one, but he's getting paid like, what is it, 18 or 20 million for a person?

• 20:23Speaker 01

  It's nuts.

• 20:23Speaker 05

  Just to do it to a lower audience.

• 20:26Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 20:26Speaker 05

  And ESPN's probably one of the last things we will see legacy media actually still talking about because they have the rights to NFL, UFC.

• 20:34Speaker 01

  There's a reason people watch it. Yeah, exactly. Whereas like, and it's not really for the commentary. Yeah. I watch MSNBC for, you know, it's it's that unfettered access to real people in real time without, you know, getting it spun. And if you do, even if you do, well, even just allegorically, I mean, look at our parents. They're starting to watch YouTube more than TV and things like that. They're, we're aging up the internet generation.

• 21:00The Fat Electrician?

  Yeah.

• 21:01Speaker 05

  Finally.

• 21:02Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 21:02Speaker 05

  The YouTube's like, I want to see your numbers compared to primetime history right now. Primetime history has to be.

• 21:08The Fat Electrician?

  I'd be them.

• 21:08Speaker 05

  Biz. Oh, yeah.

• 21:11Speaker 05

  By what X?

• 21:12The Fat Electrician?

  I've checked. It's by a lot.

• 21:16Speaker 03

  I think the, I think the whole, why the whole reason I'm here is I contacted you on Instagram and I sent him a message. I said, dude, if we could get just a couple of yours with like a few less F bombs, I would use it for my homeschool curriculum.

• 21:29Speaker 01

  Do you have another channel for that, right?

• 21:31The Fat Electrician?

  Uh, I didn't keep doing it. The problem I ran into was with the YouTube algorithm. Nobody could find it because the YouTube algorithm, I had my editor go through and just censor a couple of videos and the YouTube algorithm just kind of interprets it as like copyright infringement. So you can't even find it if you're trying to.

• 21:47Speaker 01

  Can you approve it manually through the copyright?

• 21:50The Fat Electrician?

  I tried to see.

• 21:51Speaker 03

  Is it a whole separate channel?

• 21:52The Fat Electrician?

  It's a whole separate channel.

• 21:53Speaker 03

  Could you make it a separate playlist?

• 21:55The Fat Electrician?

  Maybe on the main channel.

• 21:57Speaker 01

  What if you did an unlisted playlist on your main channel?

• 21:59Speaker 03

  Ooh.

• 22:00Speaker 05

  Ah, for teachers.

• 22:01The Fat Electrician?

  That could be good.

• 22:02Speaker 03

  I'm just telling you right now, like I love, the first video I ever saw of yours was talking about the naval strikes against Iran.

• 22:09Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 22:09Speaker 03

  I can't wait for teachers to be like, they pull up the not unlisted ones for class.

• 22:18The Fat Electrician?

  My.

• 22:18Speaker 03

  Hannah, get in here.

• 22:21The Fat Electrician?

  Like the Hannah ads going.

• 22:22Speaker 03

  My favorite thing. The homeschool co-op.

• 22:25The Fat Electrician?

  Yeah. All the, all the people that get mad are like, this is just American propaganda. I go,

• 22:31The Fat Electrician?

  yes, but did I lie about any of it?

• 22:34Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 22:34The Fat Electrician?

  Well, no. Well, fucking, what do you want me to do?

• 22:37Speaker 01

  Well, sorry, we're actually better.

• 22:41Speaker 03

  Well, the schools are giving the kids communist propaganda. I don't see why they shouldn't get American.

• 22:45The Fat Electrician?

  This is true. I love communism. Let me.

• 22:49Speaker 01

  Did you say?

• 22:51The Fat Electrician?

  I didn't AMA. I didn't, I did the, I did the Cody. I did the ask me anything on the flight on Twitter and somebody asks if you had, if you could be sitting in a room with a gun with three bullets with Marx, Mao, Stalin, Hitler and Hirohito. Who are you shooting Marx three times?

• 23:13Speaker 03

  Absolutely. Cause that solves so many of the other problems.

• 23:15The Fat Electrician?

  Exactly. It solves everything except for Hirohito.

• 23:20Speaker 01

  And even he's not going to do anything on his own.

• 23:25The Fat Electrician?

  Hirohito was the one that decided to surrender. So, I mean.

• 23:29Speaker 03

  Oh yeah. No, my, that was, that was one of our primary reasons for homeschooling is I wanted my kids to have a healthy disdain for Karl Marx and mission accomplished.

• 23:36Speaker 01

  Nice.

• 23:36Speaker 03

  They love Jesus and hate Marx. Like, yes.

• 23:39Speaker 01

  That's parenting W.

• 23:40The Fat Electrician?

  That's my favorite. You know, if Jesus was alive, he'd be a communist. Really? Really? Show me, show me in the Bible where Jesus was like, you know what? The Romans should steal all your money and give it out how they see fit.

• 23:53Speaker 01

  Counterpoint, he did go hungry for 40 days.

• 23:59Speaker 01

  Testing it out.

• 24:03Speaker 01

  Just after 40 days decided communism wasn't for him.

• 24:06Speaker 03

  No, no, that wasn't even communism because he did it voluntarily and only to himself.

• 24:09Speaker 01

  True.

• 24:14The Fat Electrician?

  Oh, I love it already.

• 24:16Speaker 01

  Feel like the, the American dad, like the, he's looking at the meter or whatever, like blasphemy is getting close.

• 24:25Speaker 05

  With homeschooling, uh, what, are you big history buff math?

• 24:28Speaker 03

  Yeah. Oh no, not math. I hate math. It was a fiery passion. Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah, yeah. Math, math or excuse me, history, theology, philosophy. Like I like that stuff and, and, and again, it's a lot of it's more like the practical component, but um, no, that math was the thing that my wife and I both like subbed out to like the co-op. It was as soon as, well, and here was the other thing too. Like I remember my oldest daughter, she's like sophomore year of high school. And she's doing algebra two and she is hating life and I totally get this because I hated algebra two. It's frigging, stop putting letters in my freaking math. I hated it. You're gonna need it one day. No, no.

• 25:04Speaker 03

  She's sitting there and she's just so stressed out. I finally looked at her and I'm like, sweetheart, what do you, what do you want to do? And she starts listening off. Well, you know, dad, I'm thinking about these various things. I'm like, you know what? None of those require algebra two. So you know what? This is done now and you're a sophomore in high school. We're going to now direct your curriculum toward the things you want to do. And we always told our kids like right off the bat, a couple of things was one, I don't owe you a college education. You want to go to college? You get a good opportunity. I'm not saying I won't help, but I don't owe you that. You're not going to have that attitude.

• 25:32Speaker 01

  Good.

• 25:33Speaker 03

  And there's two things. Dreams are a wonderful thing, but they don't feed you. So you gotta do one of two things. You either gotta find a dream that feeds you or you gotta find a career that allows you to pursue your dream. But your dreams are yours. They're nobody else's. They're not the government's responsibility. They're not my responsibility and not society's responsibility. They're yours.

• 25:51The Fat Electrician?

  What if I bitch about it on social media like a lot? Then will the government do it for me?

• 25:56Speaker 03

  Apparently there's some, yeah. But, um, you know, so they, they had that, they had that mindset and, um, and it was great because you could just adjust curriculum on the fly. You could do things and yeah, I mean.

• 26:06Speaker 01

  So my last two years of high school, I was homeschooled.

• 26:09Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 26:10Speaker 01

  Uh, so for those who don't know, would you like to explain what a homeschool co-op is?

• 26:14Speaker 03

  Oh, sure.

• 26:14Speaker 01

  So probably something not a lot of people.

• 26:15Speaker 03

  I had no idea. Okay. So homeschool co-op is, is generally what happens is you get a bunch of parents together and they, they realize that, okay, hey, like, so for instance, the, the kids at our homeschool co-op for a while, they got taught civics by me because I was a legislator. So I'm the one going in there and teaching them about like American government and civics and how it actually works. And they were not getting the Schoolhouse Rock version because the real version is like, I'm just a bill on Capitol Hill, but I pissed off someone on appropriations and so now I'm going to get sent to a subcommittee where I'm going to die. Like they got the real version of it. Uh, but that's what. I'm your teacher. What? Yeah. Oh, no, it was, they, they loved it because.

• 26:52Speaker 01

  The Schoolhouse Rock version is the way it's theoretically supposed to work.

• 26:57Speaker 03

  But that's what it was, is you had different parents with different, like either educational backgrounds or life experience. And they would come in and they would just, they would teach stuff they were passionate about. Today we are teaching math. Okay.

• 27:11Speaker 03

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• 27:54The Fat Electrician?

  Where are you from? America.

• 27:56Speaker 04

  USA number one.

• 27:57The Fat Electrician?

  USA number one, okay.

• 28:00Speaker 03

  That was my argument on the, uh, on the, the space landing little like video I did. Somebody's like, I don't know why you're bragging that America put a man on the moon. You guys used Nazis to do it. I'm like, yeah, but so did the USSR. So fuck penalties offset first down. Learn how to pick the better Nazis.

• 28:19The Fat Electrician?

  Sorry, you picked the wrong Nazi.

• 28:20Speaker 01

  Their brains work better when you can feed them.

• 28:22Speaker 03

  Yeah. So anyways, kid, parents will sign up and you say, okay, I want this class and want that class. Like in ours, it was one day a week and they would come and it was $25 like per month for your kid to come in. And I taught economics, I taught civics and I taught like Christian apologetics. And so you come in, that's what we did. And then the rest of the week, you know, they're with their parents. So that's like one model of a co-op. Some do two days a week, whatever, but that's the nice part is it's free market. Like I would tell the parents, I'm like, look, this, in fact, when I was teaching him apologetics, which was largely debate. I said, I'm gonna tell you right now, there's gonna be days where your kids might come home in tears. Because we're gonna, I'm gonna play the antagonist and they're gonna have to defend what they believe and they're gonna have to do.

• 29:03Speaker 01

  Yeah, but you didn't have to hit them.

• 29:05Speaker 03

  Well, you know what? Look, you know, how hard is it to make a correct sandwich? Anyway, the point is, the point is, well, cause they would.

• 29:14Speaker 03

  So they would get in and, and debate, but here's the funny part is because it's, it's not a government school model. Parents are coming in and I'm like, look, you don't gotta take my class, but this is how I teach it. This is the curriculum. This is what I do. And parents would be like, can we watch? Like it wasn't, they weren't like, oh, my poor baby. They were like, can we watch?

• 29:31The Fat Electrician?

  I'm gonna make your kid cry. Can I watch?

• 29:34Speaker 01

  Which is not good parenting.

• 29:35Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah.

• 29:39Speaker 03

  But the great part about it was is that, I mean, and we had to, again, the students loved it because it was, it wasn't no participation trophies, right? You show up with a good argument, you win. You show up with a bad argument, I make you feel bad about yourself, right? And then I, and then I teach you, and then I teach you how to make a better argument so you can feel good about yourself, right? Because winning, winning is great and losing sucks.

• 29:59Speaker 01

  You learn from losing.

• 30:01Speaker 03

  You do. You do. And it's not like we were being

• 30:04Speaker 01

  And you learn it sucks.

• 30:05Speaker 03

  Yeah. We were being, we were being cruel, but like, that was the sort of thing. So like, a parent would sign up, they'd pay their tuition, and you'd teach and they'd go home and they'd help, you know, but that's what it was. It was great. And so I didn't have to like, I didn't have to worry about parents coming in like, well, you know, Mr. Freitas, I'm really concerned about, well, I told you what this was. Right? If you don't like it, you know, your kid doesn't have to be here. And, but I never had a problem.

• 30:26Speaker 01

  As an example, when I was a senior, in, and one of the co-ops I was going to, physics was taught by an artillery guy.

• 30:34Speaker 03

  Yeah. Holy crap.

• 30:35Speaker 01

  And he, like, straight up would, like, he knew I was into guns and shit.

• 30:39Speaker 03

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• 30:45Speaker 01

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• 30:47Speaker 03

  How fast does a plane need to be moving to drop?

• 30:50Speaker 01

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• 31:01Speaker 03

  How did you end up designing guns for a living? I wonder.

• 31:04Speaker 01

  I was building them in my garage before that, but it just happened to coincide pretty well.

• 31:09Speaker 03

  Let's say you're Assad, and you've got a lot of Muslim Brotherhood in Hamas.

• 31:13Speaker 01

  Let's just say.

• 31:14Speaker 03

  Theoretically.

• 31:15Speaker 01

  Oh, no.

• 31:16Speaker 03

  No, but that, but that's, that's true. Like, you can adjust your curriculum based off of your students' interest and what works, and it's awesome.

• 31:23Speaker 01

  And you can actually, you can teach your kids financial literacy.

• 31:26Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 31:26Speaker 01

  Which is like the biggest misstep that, you know, public schooling doesn't do. Yeah, that's by design.

• 31:31Speaker 03

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• 32:52Speaker 03

  Well, yeah, our public school sys... and I call it a government school system because that's what it is.

• 32:56Speaker 01

  Yep.

• 32:57Speaker 03

  The thing I like to tell people, because people always look at me like, "Well, you know..." I said, "Look, do you like state-run media? Do you think we should have state-run media?" "No, of course not." I'm like, "Okay, now do the same for education." "You don't like state-run media because it's the government controlling the flow of information to its citizenry and not being able to hold it accountable. What do you think happens with government-run education?"

• 33:16Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 33:17Speaker 03

  So...

• 33:18Speaker 05

  I mean, we talked, I think we were talking about that last week, two weeks ago. It was, "Hey, no student left behind." Hey, and they just started incorporating all those things.

• 33:26Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 33:27Speaker 05

  And then, whatever the... you have to learn is...

• 33:30Speaker 01

  The Department of Education thing, where it's like, "Oh, yeah, cool." I don't know, anything. Government's just the black thumb of industry. It's like, anything it touches just turns to shit.

• 33:39Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 33:41Speaker 05

  I like the idea of being able to learn what you're you want or your passion at that age because that sets you up for success. I know your art, any entertainment was a big no-no. Probably your generation. I'm not sure. Was it more hit or miss for you?

• 33:56Speaker 03

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• 33:59Speaker 05

  You hey, you want to do like film, you want to do video games or play video games for a living like that was like oh.

• 34:04Speaker 01

  Still, yeah, it was still was one of those like, oh, well, you you need to learn video arts and this, this, you don't need to YouTube. Which understandably, at the time YouTube made zero dollars. So like. But yeah, they I'm sure they still continue to teach that probably not so much nowadays because it's like an accepted thing. But back in, you know, back when I was in school, that was not a thing. It was encouraged.

• 34:28Speaker 03

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• 34:34Speaker 05

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• 34:36Speaker 03

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• 34:39Speaker 05

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• 34:42Speaker 05

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• 34:46Speaker 01

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• 34:48Speaker 05

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• 34:52Speaker 03

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• 34:57Speaker 05

  So you got into Knicks because history buff. What segments of history are your favorite like?

• 35:02Speaker 03

  Oh, I so it started off that I I came across the Ken Burns Civil War documentary when I was like 11 and just became obsessed, dude, like I like, um, oh, I did the reenacting like I was like, this is awesome. I'm gonna go play with black powder and bayonets. Um, so it was.

• 35:19Speaker 01

  I did it for Civil War, World War One, all sorts of stuff. I grew up major history.

• 35:24Speaker 03

  Oh, God, it's so much fun, man. It is. It is absolute blast. And then going out to moving from Cal. I don't know if you know this, California, not a lot of Civil War history, turns out, but Virginia. Like you can't walk five feet without running into another historical marker like I I have the district that has the largest cavalry battle in the Western Hemisphere, Brandy Station. And so like I just, yeah, I love. So that was the that was the entry point. And then it went into American Revolutionary War history. Then the old World at War documentary series was just awesome. And then got into more of the ancient history as well. So like Roman history, Alexander, Persia.

• 36:05Speaker 01

  I still haven't crested that yet. Oh, my tism has its its periphery there. And I'm like, that's still, I like, I know enough, but I haven't, I haven't done the full deep dive.

• 36:14Speaker 03

  Like, I love Roman history because, and I'm a dude, but, um, but now I'm starting to move into like, you know, Holy Roman Empire and the whole deal. But so I love it all. I love it all. But.

• 36:26Speaker 05

  What was your first video? You watched his where you're like, okay, this dude's.

• 36:29The Fat Electrician?

  Proportional.

• 36:30Speaker 03

  Proportional.

• 36:32Speaker 03

  Proportional means something else in American vernacular.

• 36:36Speaker 03

  Well, I got a proportion for you.

• 36:39Speaker 01

  We didn't say proportional to what?

• 36:41The Fat Electrician?

  That's literally a meat. Like it's a, that video got so big, it's outrageous. Cause like all, it's all just like the Yemen Houthi shit. And the amount of people that just comment, things are about to get proportional.

• 36:52Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 36:53The Fat Electrician?

  Constantly.

• 36:54Speaker 03

  Do you have a shirt that says that?

• 36:56The Fat Electrician?

  I did for a while. I sold it for a couple of months. Yeah.

• 36:59Speaker 03

  No, it's, no, that, that was great. And then, uh, well, and then again, you got me interested in history. I never would have thought I was interested in like the history of Waffle House. Like, I just thought it was, I just thought it was the most delicious breakfast two o'clock in the morning in Fort Bragg.

• 37:13The Fat Electrician?

  Colluding with FEMA.

• 37:14Speaker 03

  Yeah. So a good buddy of mine, a good buddy of mine is like number three at FEMA. And I saw the video. I'm like, hey, Cameron, is this, he's like, dude.

• 37:25Speaker 03

  Yeah. He's a, he's a former SEAL and he's kind of running the place now. And like, great dude.

• 37:29Speaker 01

  So your video has made it to the upper echelons of FEMA.

• 37:31Speaker 05

  Nick's gonna disappear.

• 37:33The Fat Electrician?

  Yeah. Yeah. After that Coca-Cola video, I might have issues. I'm waiting for that.

• 37:38Speaker 01

  They're gonna send a polar bear after you.

• 37:41Speaker 03

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• 37:43The Fat Electrician?

  This is true.

• 37:44Speaker 03

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• 37:49The Fat Electrician?

  Oh, no.

• 37:50Speaker 03

  I didn't realize that the active ingredient was meth.

• 37:52The Fat Electrician?

  That's I mean, it's bad.

• 37:54Speaker 05

  I like when you pick it up, you're like, I've been.

• 37:56Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 37:58Speaker 05

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• 37:59Speaker 03

  I was feeling a little down and I thought I might want to rob a bank.

• 38:02Speaker 01

  It's basically the same thing. It's 300 milligrams of caffeine.

• 38:05The Fat Electrician?

  Oh, yeah. Well, I told him, I was like, fair warning, this is spicy and it's banned in Canada. Yeah. He's like, what? Yes.

• 38:12Speaker 01

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• 38:17The Fat Electrician?

  Yeah, it's the best marketing pitch on the planet. Echelon is banned in Canada.

• 38:21Speaker 01

  Is it?

• 38:21The Fat Electrician?

  Yes.

• 38:22Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 38:22Speaker 03

  You know what's also banned in Canada? Freedom. That's why I drink it.

• 38:26Speaker 01

  It's too cool for Canada.

• 38:29Speaker 03

  It's a great ad.

• 38:30The Fat Electrician?

  I know.

• 38:30Speaker 03

  Pepper spray stuff or what?

• 38:31The Fat Electrician?

  No, it's there's too much caffeine in per ounce in Echelon. So it's banned in Canada. Cause we were trying to, so, cause it's on every military, every US military base in the world sells Echelon. And the Canadian military was trying to import it.

• 38:48Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 38:48The Fat Electrician?

  And we were trying to get it like through the actual official channels. And they're like, you can't import this in Canada. It's illegal here.

• 38:55Speaker 03

  But in all fairness though, given the Canadians' history with war crimes, that might be a, I don't need them committing war crimes even faster than they normally.

• 39:02The Fat Electrician?

  I mean, but they're always on our side. So I mean, it's all right. You know what I mean?

• 39:05Speaker 01

  Just give them some, uh, some preventin'.

• 39:08The Fat Electrician?

  Here, drink an Echelon. You can throw that can of food a little bit further into the next trench. Will you hand me the experimental Echelon?

• 39:17Speaker 03

  Here's a soccer ball.

• 39:19Speaker 01

  Is this gonna make my skin burn?

• 39:20The Fat Electrician?

  No, this is.

• 39:21Speaker 03

  These are. I was wondering if this is moonshine.

• 39:23The Fat Electrician?

  Will you hand me the experimental Echelon B?

• 39:26Speaker 01

  B love.

• 39:26The Fat Electrician?

  B, B, right? B is my favorite.

• 39:29Speaker 03

  I had a buddy of mine, Jason Ballard, he represents, uh, he actually represents the area of like with Virginia Tech. But he was trying to, he was trying to make it, we have really, really strict like ABC alcohol laws.

• 39:41Speaker 01

  Yeah. Cause you guys don't have the private liquor stores.

• 39:44Speaker 03

  No.

• 39:44Speaker 01

  It's all government run.

• 39:45Speaker 03

  It sucks. Um, I know, I carried a bill once to get rid of ABC that didn't, that didn't go very far.

• 39:50The Fat Electrician?

  You just wanted to start off at D or what?

• 39:52Speaker 03

  Jason Ballard, Jason Ballard actually shows up to a subcommittee meeting with moonshine.

• 39:58Speaker 01

  Hell yeah.

• 39:58Speaker 03

  For a bill that was making it legal to make so much of your own moonshine for your own consumption.

• 40:04Speaker 01

  Based.

• 40:04Speaker 03

  And, uh, and, and he's a, I think he's a lieutenant colonel in the guard, but, uh, I was like, that was the best subcommittee testimony I've ever seen.

• 40:11Speaker 01

  Now, is Virginia one of those states where it is legal to have a still, but not to produce moonshine? Or like, it was just possession of a still is a crime?

• 40:18Speaker 03

  I don't, ooh, I don't think so. I don't think possession of a still is a crime.

• 40:22Speaker 01

  I think it was in North Carolina.

• 40:23Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 40:24Speaker 01

  I wasn't sure about Virginia.

• 40:25Speaker 03

  We have a, uh, we have a distillery in Culpeper, Virginia. Where, um, and one of the things about Culpeper is we have the first Gadsden flag.

• 40:35Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 40:35Speaker 03

  The, the liberty or death Gadsden flag.

• 40:37Speaker 01

  Yep.

• 40:38Speaker 03

  So we have a, uh, distillery there called Belmont. And you go in there and great people. You go, I remember talking to him like, hey, man, how long, how long you been moonshining? He goes legally for 25 years now. They still have a prohibition era copper still at Belmont Distillery in Culpeper, Virginia.

• 40:58Speaker 01

  It's fucking rad. I know, uh, I used to, uh, in my, in my travels as a young man, uh, there was a, uh, I used to go to Thaxton, Virginia or, and like just that whole area up in the mountains, like the Roanoke area and whatnot. Yeah. I was seeing a girl there at the time. And I didn't realize that one of those counties, I don't remember if it was Bedford County, Thaxton, something like that.

• 41:21Speaker 03

  Franklin's another one.

• 41:22Speaker 01

  Might've been Franklin. One of those is like the, uh, the wettest county in the world.

• 41:26Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 41:26Speaker 01

  In the country or whatever, because all the moonshine stills.

• 41:28Speaker 03

  Yeah. Do you remember watching the movie? Do you ever seen the movie Lawless?

• 41:31Speaker 01

  I think that's, yeah.

• 41:32Speaker 03

  That was Franklin County, uh, Franklin County, Virginia. In fact, my, uh, my seatmate in the general assembly represents Franklin.

• 41:38Speaker 01

  No shit.

• 41:39Speaker 03

  And so we, we did this thing for a while called the hall crawl. So when we had crossover, which was when all the House bills got to go to the Senate, send a bill, go to the House. I started doing this thing where it was, okay, each office had to bring a drink. Like there was representative of their district and an, and a like a appetizer. And so I did smoked old fashions with bacon. And I brought in a girl, like I made bacon in the general assembly building.

• 42:04Speaker 01

  Nice.

• 42:04Speaker 03

  And he brought in moonshine. I was like, oh yeah, that's Franklin, baby. That is Franklin. And so he had an assortment of moonshine. And, uh, by the way, now this actually happened. This is theoretically.

• 42:15Speaker 01

  It'd be funny. I love this comedy bit.

• 42:17Speaker 03

  I just announced, I just announced I'm not running for reelection, so I can give you all the dirt now.

• 42:21Speaker 01

  Yeah, and it came in like a mason jar with like masking tape on it.

• 42:25Speaker 03

  It was all legal. It was all legal and perfectly.

• 42:28Speaker 01

  Number seventy three.

• 42:31The Fat Electrician?

  So you know it's good.

• 42:34Speaker 05

  See what brand that's the bee.

• 42:37The Fat Electrician?

  Yeah.

• 42:38Speaker 01

  Pretty decent.

• 42:39The Fat Electrician?

  That's beef.

• 42:39Speaker 01

  I write down what is the flavor?

• 42:42The Fat Electrician?

  Berry.

• 42:42Speaker 01

  Berry.

• 42:44The Fat Electrician?

  It's like sour berry.

• 42:45Speaker 05

  I want to go off of flavors because they have changed or like what we said with the one which just now apple.

• 42:50The Fat Electrician?

  Give me the yuzu. I'm drinking all of it.

• 42:53Speaker 03

  I bet.

• 42:53Speaker 01

  That one I liked.

• 42:54Speaker 03

  Is that like licorice? Is that like licorice?

• 42:57The Fat Electrician?

  Uh, no, it's like a Japanese fruit. It's like a Japanese apple type fruit.

• 43:01Speaker 01

  We're tasting a bunch of energy drinks right now. We're all gonna be.

• 43:04The Fat Electrician?

  No, it's fine.

• 43:05Speaker 01

  Wired off.

• 43:06Speaker 03

  Everybody had coffee and a full.

• 43:07Speaker 05

  That one I bet. That one fucks. That one's crazy idea.

• 43:13The Fat Electrician?

  This is only a hundred.

• 43:14Speaker 01

  Making a massive appeal to.

• 43:15Speaker 03

  This actually gives you ADHD.

• 43:17Speaker 05

  No, apple. Watch.

• 43:18Speaker 01

  Did you have it before? You do now.

• 43:21The Fat Electrician?

  Is that water?

• 43:24Speaker 05

  Yeah, it's water.

• 43:25The Fat Electrician?

  This is water. This is water.

• 43:27Speaker 05

  I grabbed a water bottle.

• 43:28Speaker 03

  Nice try. Nice try.

• 43:29Speaker 01

  Yeah, wait a minute.

• 43:30Speaker 03

  Although, okay, are any of you old enough to remember when there a time before bottled water?

• 43:36The Fat Electrician?

  No.

• 43:36Speaker 01

  No.

• 43:37Speaker 05

  Yes.

• 43:38Speaker 03

  I remember when there was like you didn't. I remember when they.

• 43:41Speaker 05

  It was a crazy concept when it first came out.

• 43:43Speaker 03

  I remember I first saw bottled water coming out like.

• 43:45Speaker 01

  Do that.

• 43:46Speaker 03

  Idiot is gonna buy bottled water. All of us.

• 43:49Speaker 01

  It comes from the sky.

• 43:51Speaker 03

  It's from a spring in Switzerland. I mean, Switzerland, Oregon, but I mean.

• 43:55Speaker 05

  So was it like a thirty billion or fifty two billion dollar marketplace in twenty twenty three? It was like a ridiculous number bottled water is.

• 44:02Speaker 01

  Well, yeah, because Nestle took it and they were like, I could sell the shit out of that.

• 44:05Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 44:05Speaker 05

  Now it's Fiji. Now it's this.

• 44:07Speaker 03

  I got. How how good is capitalism? We can sell you bottled water. You.

• 44:12Speaker 05

  Oh, not a fan of that one anymore.

• 44:14Speaker 01

  That and, uh, you know, as soon as they realized that.

• 44:17Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 44:17Speaker 01

  As soon as they realized that California would subsidize their water.

• 44:22Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 44:22Speaker 05

  See, I like that face. What's the notes? Tell me what you would change on that.

• 44:26Speaker 03

  What are the notes? This is not like, I'm not, I don't notes of, I don't like it.

• 44:31Speaker 01

  No, your notes? Okay.

• 44:32The Fat Electrician?

  I don't like it.

• 44:34Speaker 01

  The change of flavor.

• 44:36The Fat Electrician?

  Yeah, I was just gonna say, what would I change? The entire flavor.

• 44:39Speaker 01

  All of it.

• 44:41The Fat Electrician?

  This is great.

• 44:42Speaker 03

  This is me at the winery. I'm getting notes of, this sucks. This is a bourbon.

• 44:49Speaker 01

  Aged this size.

• 44:51Speaker 03

  Wow.

• 44:54Speaker 03

  You guys ever watch Parks and Rec?

• 44:56Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 44:57Speaker 03

  Where Aubrey Plaza's character is like signing up to be a sommelier and she's like, oh, oats, you know, notes of like, you know, Ravens foot and.

• 45:07Speaker 05

  Making words.

• 45:08Speaker 03

  That's me at the winery. He's like, I don't know.

• 45:10The Fat Electrician?

  Uh, by the way, eight, eight, six ejects out of a gun very fast.

• 45:16Speaker 05

  Yes, it does.

• 45:17The Fat Electrician?

  That's what the cut in my head is. It's the perfect ass end crescent of an eight, six round.

• 45:24Speaker 01

  We both have eight, six scars.

• 45:26The Fat Electrician?

  I was standing behind PewDiePie filming yesterday and I was standing like over his right shoulder. Dink! Right in the house. Like that hurt more than any other brass ejection I've ever felt. It was bleeding. No, there were subs and it punched me in the forehead. I look like the American Harry Potter right now. It's absurd.

• 45:46The Fat Electrician?

  Kevin's Dumbledore. I'm gonna have to go fight the CEO of Sig.

• 45:49Speaker 03

  The boy who lives.

• 45:50The Fat Electrician?

  The battle of cock.

• 45:51Speaker 03

  Comes to tie.

• 45:53Speaker 01

  All they have to do is, nevermind. I've made enough dropping 320 jokes lately.

• 45:58Speaker 03

  Like, no, no, no, no, no, no.

• 46:00The Fat Electrician?

  Can never have enough dropping 320 jokes.

• 46:02Speaker 05

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• 46:04Speaker 01

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• 46:19Speaker 05

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• 46:21Speaker 01

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• 46:23Speaker 05

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• 47:20Speaker 05

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• 47:27The Fat Electrician?

  We're doing, uh, we're doing, um, Pew View's Boom Box video and we were trying to catch a hollow point, a subsonic hollow point. We're trying to catch it in a block of ballistics gel.

• 47:40Speaker 05

  Oh, how many do that's like.

• 47:41The Fat Electrician?

  No.

• 47:43Speaker 05

  Like big.

• 47:43The Fat Electrician?

  Eli, we took a four inch thick piece of hard barn wood. Stuck it on the table, stuck three feet of ballistics gel behind it. It went through the barn wood, through the ballistics gel. The trajectory in the gel didn't change like a fucking laser beam. Went 40 yards down range, hit the steel target and sounded like a fucking car wreck.

• 48:07Speaker 05

  Through the cameraman. It was crazy. Yeah.

• 48:09The Fat Electrician?

  Cameraman's fine, cause.

• 48:12Speaker 05

  Okay, maybe do that. I'm like, mm, I might have to reevaluate this bedside.

• 48:17The Fat Electrician?

  You know how many gummy bears it took to stop it?

• 48:20Speaker 05

  Five.

• 48:21The Fat Electrician?

  That would probably stop it. Yeah. We only had four.

• 48:24Speaker 05

  Just work when it almost slowed down enough?

• 48:27Speaker 03

  You're kidding?

• 48:27The Fat Electrician?

  No, so we uh

• 48:28Speaker 05

  Big gummy bears, not like

• 48:31The Fat Electrician?

  Five pound edible gummy bears.

• 48:33Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 48:34The Fat Electrician?

  We were, we were dicking around, we just bought

• 48:36Speaker 01

  I want a photo, you're like

• 48:37Speaker 03

  These are the little ones of like, why are we buying all this heavy ceramic crap?

• 48:40The Fat Electrician?

  Yeah, what the fuck?

• 48:41Speaker 05

  Yeah, just running out with like a thin sheet of gummy bears.

• 48:44Speaker 03

  That would be, can you imagine how terrifying that would be? You kicking a door, flashbang the room, you shut up, there's some guy covered in gummy bears shooting you?

• 48:50Speaker 01

  We were joking before, like you're, you're rocking for three days and you're just like chewing your body armor.

• 48:56The Fat Electrician?

  Where'd your body armor go? I ate it. Uh, no, so five pound gummy bears.

• 49:00Speaker 03

  Really?

• 49:01The Fat Electrician?

  We were dicking around and they are shockingly resistant to bullets. Guess how many five pound gummy bears it takes to stop nine mil supersonic full metal jacket at point blank?

• 49:13Speaker 03

  Oh, really?

• 49:15The Fat Electrician?

  One. Uh, 12 gauge birdshot point blank.

• 49:18Speaker 03

  Oh yeah, I imagine.

• 49:19The Fat Electrician?

  One.

• 49:20Speaker 03

  Geez.

• 49:20The Fat Electrician?

  Um, the second gummy bear caught two, two, three.

• 49:26Speaker 03

  This would be so much better than sandbags.

• 49:28The Fat Electrician?

  It's crazy.

• 49:29Speaker 01

  I mean, they might melt overseas.

• 49:31The Fat Electrician?

  Four.

• 49:32Speaker 01

  We should probably know, disclose that we're being sponsored by big gelatin.

• 49:38The Fat Electrician?

  Big Harbo.

• 49:41Speaker 05

  Big Harbo?

• 49:42Speaker 01

  Harbo, the, the company that makes the gummy bears.

• 49:47Speaker 03

  Nah, I'll never, when I was, uh, when I was still in the 82nd, we had a commander that he wanted to do, he wanted to demonstrate to all the guys, like, kind of the, the ballistics impact of everything that, you know, basically what can you hide behind? And so he did like sandbags, he did, you know, concrete walls, he did like reinforced concrete walls, wood, like everything, everything you can kind of imagine, just shot stuff through all of it, like your flak vest. And, and it was crazy how like, well, first of all, it ruined any movie you've ever seen because now whenever they're like, oh, I'm going to hide behind this car, like The fuck you are, I hope it's the engine block because I got bad news, hoss. But, um, yes, sandbags were the things that, you know, really held up the best. I mean, and it makes sense when you start to understand ballistics, but gummy bears, wow, who knew?

• 50:31The Fat Electrician?

  Gummy bears are wild. We did, uh, we did 308 full metal jacket, point blank. We had four gummy bears lined up with one three foot block of ballistics gel. It made it like two inches into the ballistics gel before it stopped.

• 50:47Speaker 03

  Wow.

• 50:49The Fat Electrician?

  Gummy bears. They're shockingly bullet resistant.

• 50:53Speaker 01

  Well, cause you're thinking like at home, you're thinking like the super like squeezable gummy bears. These are like almost like rock hard.

• 50:59The Fat Electrician?

  No.

• 51:00Speaker 05

  Gelatin bears. This is a big gummy bear.

• 51:02The Fat Electrician?

  It's literally a five pound gummy bear.

• 51:05Speaker 01

  I'm saying they behave differently when it's that big versus those big ones. Cause like they're, they're fucking solid, like very solid.

• 51:11The Fat Electrician?

  No, I mean.

• 51:13Speaker 03

  But they can also absorb. I mean, they can, I mean, that's the whole concept of the sandbags is like they're absorbing it instead of just like rigid.

• 51:19Speaker 01

  It's like water.

• 51:19Speaker 03

  If you froze the gummy bear, it'd probably go through them a lot faster.

• 51:21Speaker 05

  Was it water? You can shoot like from here, I would not kill Brandon with any gun underwater.

• 51:26Speaker 03

  I mean, we could try it, I guess, but.

• 51:28Speaker 05

  They're bullets are like, whoa, and then they.

• 51:31The Fat Electrician?

  Dude.

• 51:31Speaker 05

  Very disappointing underwater. They just fall immediately.

• 51:35The Fat Electrician?

  Do you know how shark hunting harpoons work?

• 51:37Speaker 01

  The one with the bullets that are long and they.

• 51:40The Fat Electrician?

  It's so it's a harpoon. It's basically a underwater crossbow and it's a metal spear essentially. But there it's, it holds a 12 gauge shotgun shell at the end of it. So when it hits the. Then that's what ignites the shotgun shell at point blank range. And that's what fucking like shark hunting harpoons are.

• 52:00Speaker 01

  That's not.

• 52:01The Fat Electrician?

  Shotgun shell at the end of the harpoon. Shotgun shell at the end of it. So when it impacts, that's what's, that's what strikes a primer point blank on the shark.

• 52:08Speaker 01

  So it's boom, boom.

• 52:10The Fat Electrician?

  Yeah.

• 52:10Speaker 01

  That's cool.

• 52:11The Fat Electrician?

  It's kinda dope.

• 52:12Speaker 05

  That's gangster.

• 52:13Speaker 01

  The shark knives, you seen those where they're just got the CO2 cartridge inside of them?

• 52:17The Fat Electrician?

  Blow a baseball bat full of frozen gas into them.

• 52:20Speaker 01

  Yeah. It just, you just stab them with it and you hit the, and it just releases all the CO2 inside their body. Yeah.

• 52:26Speaker 03

  Well, that sucks.

• 52:27Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 52:30The Fat Electrician?

  They float up.

• 52:32Speaker 03

  I've seen jaws. I know it works.

• 52:35Speaker 03

  It went through four gummy bears and.

• 52:37The Fat Electrician?

  It went through four gummy bears and caught it in the ballistic shell. When the eight six went through, so the four gummy bears, we.

• 52:42Speaker 05

  This is subsonic by the way.

• 52:43The Fat Electrician?

  That's the only way.

• 52:44Speaker 03

  That's the part that blows my mind.

• 52:45The Fat Electrician?

  It's the only way we were able to catch the, the hollow point eight six was we went through all four gummy bears and then we caught it in the ballistics gel, but through the gummy bears. It lost the three big petals and it was just the ass end of the round in the ballistics jail. The petals got lost in the gummy bears and the exit wound coming out of the last gummy bear was fucking half dollar sized gash. It's like a blender.

• 53:12Speaker 01

  I gotta be honest, I am imagining you like standing like at CVS to go pick up something and looking at this big ass gummy bear going, we should shoot those.

• 53:21The Fat Electrician?

  Basically exactly what happened. So we, we put a, we put a Glock switch on a 22 LR Glock.

• 53:28Speaker 01

  Legally.

• 53:28The Fat Electrician?

  And got 30 round mags. Yeah.

• 53:31Speaker 01

  When you say Glock switch, I don't know why.

• 53:33The Fat Electrician?

  My friend with an SOT did it.

• 53:36Speaker 01

  Yeah, it just sounds illegal when you call it a Glock switch.

• 53:38The Fat Electrician?

  But we were gonna shoot gummy bears with 22. We're like, oh, this will be funny.

• 53:42Speaker 01

  Iowa, not the south side of Chicago.

• 53:44The Fat Electrician?

  Yeah, we're literally just in a fucking cornfield. Like I walked up with a 30 rounds of 22 and a Glock switch and went and one gummy bear caught all 30 or 22 rounds and we're like, and then it turned, it turned into a, we're testing the ballistics of gummy bears video and it's kind of just been a recurring theme.

• 54:03Speaker 01

  I've also learned they're impervious to fire. Try that next time.

• 54:07The Fat Electrician?

  Gummy bears?

• 54:07Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 54:08The Fat Electrician?

  They're not.

• 54:08Speaker 01

  What? Like a flamethrower?

• 54:10The Fat Electrician?

  They start melting from the rounds passing through.

• 54:14Speaker 01

  So we, we, we tried torching it with one of those like little like throw flame, whatever, not throw flame, uh, like XM 42. No, those are like just big like grill lighters essentially. The ones that actually spit the gasoline and we like, we sat there for like a minute trying to get this thing to melt and we just gave up because it looked so boring on camera.

• 54:33The Fat Electrician?

  The.

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• 55:04The Fat Electrician?

  So we we took Zach, veteran with a sign and Eric Bartel out to the range and we were filming this video and we shot it and they were blown the away that it was catching nine mil in like an inch of the gummy bear. It was catching nine mil at point blank, like full on like executioner style, like boom, just stops it. And Zach's like, we're feeding these to children? What the?

• 55:30Speaker 05

  I hope not. I've never bought any of it. Here's a five pound gummy bear.

• 55:34The Fat Electrician?

  They're wild.

• 55:37Speaker 05

  Yeah, that gun is.

• 55:38Speaker 01

  I wonder how many calories are in one big ass gummy bear?

• 55:42The Fat Electrician?

  I've eaten a couple years.

• 55:44Speaker 05

  How many calories is like twenty, twenty thousand calories in that thing?

• 55:47Speaker 03

  We don't have to wonder.

• 55:48The Fat Electrician?

  Solid gelatin.

• 55:51The Fat Electrician?

  How many calories on a five pound gummy bear?

• 55:53Speaker 05

  Five.

• 55:55Speaker 05

  Yeah. Twenty thousand?

• 56:00Speaker 03

  What is it, a five pound?

• 56:02The Fat Electrician?

  Five pound gummy bear.

• 56:02Speaker 01

  Uh, six thousand one hundred and twenty calories.

• 56:05Speaker 05

  Wow. In a five pounder?

• 56:07Speaker 01

  It's equivalent to roughly fourteen hundred regular sized gummy bears.

• 56:10Speaker 05

  Wow.

• 56:12The Fat Electrician?

  Huh.

• 56:12Speaker 05

  That's impressive.

• 56:13The Fat Electrician?

  How many?

• 56:13Speaker 05

  Fourteen hundred.

• 56:14The Fat Electrician?

  Oh.

• 56:15Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 56:16Speaker 01

  Okay, well, I'm seeing conflicting.

• 56:18Speaker 03

  I just got the AI overview.

• 56:20Speaker 01

  Yeah, same.

• 56:21Speaker 03

  We should ask Sean Ryan. He would know.

• 56:23Speaker 01

  Just off the top of his head.

• 56:26Speaker 05

  Now everyone's.

• 56:26Speaker 01

  Oh, apparently one of, there's another one that's twelve thousand calories.

• 56:29Speaker 05

  Wow.

• 56:32Speaker 01

  That's crazy.

• 56:32Speaker 05

  What's the difference on?

• 56:35Speaker 03

  That scares me more.

• 56:37Speaker 01

  It probably tastes better.

• 56:39The Fat Electrician?

  Who was the guy that was like six hundred, six thousand calories? Not enough. That's not enough.

• 56:43Speaker 05

  Up the bitch.

• 56:44The Fat Electrician?

  This needs stuff.

• 56:45Speaker 05

  More, more.

• 56:46Speaker 03

  Five pound gummy bear in Vancouver airport over twelve thousand calories. That's on Reddit, though. Who knows?

• 56:53The Fat Electrician?

  I don't trust anything on Reddit.

• 56:55Speaker 01

  Oh, well, you'll sell that in Vancouver. Twelve thousand calories of gummy bear.

• 56:59The Fat Electrician?

  I try to give you an energy drink that's awesome and you guys get mad at me.

• 57:03Speaker 03

  Well, they don't want them productive. They want them fat.

• 57:06The Fat Electrician?

  This is also true. I didn't realize that like sixty percent of the Canadian population lives further south than like Minnesota.

• 57:14Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 57:14The Fat Electrician?

  It's wild.

• 57:15Speaker 03

  Yeah, it's nuts. Like ninety percent of the entire Canadian population.

• 57:18The Fat Electrician?

  Yeah. Like.

• 57:19Speaker 05

  Really?

• 57:19The Fat Electrician?

  That little dip right there on the east coast, that's like sixty percent of the Canadian population right there.

• 57:24Speaker 03

  I think it's ninety percent of the entire Canadian population lives like maybe.

• 57:29The Fat Electrician?

  Sixty miles from the US border. They're huddled up next to us with warmth and safety.

• 57:33Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 57:35Speaker 01

  Understandably.

• 57:38Speaker 03

  Well, I don't know.

• 57:39The Fat Electrician?

  Was it Tosh point out? It's like Canada's got the best border fence in the world.

• 57:46Speaker 03

  It's cool to be a little hippie. When you've got a kevlar of.

• 57:51Speaker 03

  During the world.

• 57:54Speaker 03

  Yeah, when Trump kept talking about like, we're gonna, we're gonna make Canada the 51st state. I'm like, I'll take Alberta.

• 57:59Speaker 01

  Yeah, I'll take Manitoba, but I don't want Quebec.

• 58:01The Fat Electrician?

  I have a theory.

• 58:02Speaker 01

  Canada doesn't want Quebec.

• 58:04The Fat Electrician?

  I have, I have a theory that he's literally just doing it because he, we have Guam, Puerto Rico. He wants Greenland, Panama and Canada. And then he just wants to be the guy that ushers in the 55 star flag. That's a whole, that's his whole motivation. Like, how, how cool would it be if we added another row?

• 58:21Speaker 01

  Yeah, it's, it's a funny, like, it's a funny concept. And he, I love the fact that he's just trolling the f- kind of like Trudeau with it. I, we don't want Canada.

• 58:29Speaker 03

  No. Like, I want Alberta. I do want Alberta. I want the Texas of Canada.

• 58:33Speaker 01

  Yeah, they're, they're pretty based. The Lando Peterson.

• 58:36Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 58:38Speaker 01

  I, we would never, like, say goodbye to gun rights. Say goodbye to everything. It's like, do you really want Canadians voting in our elections?

• 58:44Speaker 03

  Territory, but.

• 58:45Speaker 01

  Yeah, like a Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico, sure.

• 58:48Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 58:50The Fat Electrician?

  There's a diamond company that makes lab grown diamonds and they have the most savage marketing I've ever seen because all of their commercials are basically like, it's literally the same thing. You're just mad that child labor wasn't involved.

• 59:07Speaker 01

  Yes, they're not wrong. Correct. Wrong. I will pay extra for blood diamonds.

• 59:17The Fat Electrician?

  Isn't it the most savage marketing I've ever seen?

• 59:20Speaker 03

  That's pretty brilliant.

• 59:23Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 59:24The Fat Electrician?

  Calling everyone a piece of shit.

• 59:27Speaker 03

  Hey, he's cheaper and.

• 59:28Speaker 01

  Yeah. You know, maybe we didn't have to kill, get to get it. That's pretty, pretty cool, I think.

• 59:33The Fat Electrician?

  They're just as sparkly, just as hard, not blood all over them, but you still think it's worth less because of it. Weird.

• 59:39Speaker 03

  I just, I love.

• 59:41Speaker 01

  That is savage. That's great. With the cobalt and lithium and everything like that, all the, the new mineral wars in Africa.

• 59:46Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 59:46Speaker 01

  It's like, you know, this is just blood diamond all over again, except instead of a shiny rocket, so you can play GTA 6 on a 4090.

• 59:55Speaker 03

  I just, I think it's ironic. I think it's ironic that I gotta get

• 59:59Speaker 01

  Yo, my blood phone. How do you like my blood phone?

• 1:00:02Speaker 03

  I like, I like, I like getting lectured. I like getting lectured on oppression by people that are driving around vehicles that require, you know, a 14 year old to be dumping into an artisanal mine and, you know, freaking DRC to grab their stuff for it.

• 1:00:16The Fat Electrician?

  But electricity just comes out of the earth. It's natural. It's how we all think it works at least.

• 1:00:23Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:00:23Speaker 05

  It costs a little bit of money to run that.

• 1:00:26The Fat Electrician?

  Don't get me started on electricity.

• 1:00:28Speaker 03

  I, oh, fuck.

• 1:00:29Speaker 01

  You might know something about it.

• 1:00:32The Fat Electrician?

  Just, we need to use nuclear power. We're not doing it. It really bothers me.

• 1:00:37Speaker 01

  I was about to go on the nuclear power rant. I'm glad you got there.

• 1:00:40The Fat Electrician?

  The internet gets really upset when I do, when I do it.

• 1:00:43Speaker 03

  Why?

• 1:00:43Speaker 01

  Figured it out.

• 1:00:44Speaker 03

  Why?

• 1:00:45The Fat Electrician?

  Because people are stupid.

• 1:00:46Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:00:47Speaker 01

  We figured it out 50 fucking years ago. The answer to all of our power problems and then we got scared.

• 1:00:52The Fat Electrician?

  All the hippies got scared.

• 1:00:54Speaker 03

  Yeah. Well, okay, so, all right, alternative theory.

• 1:00:59Speaker 03

  I, I do think that there's some people that are just ignorant and scared of it. I think there's other people that they want the issue. They, they don't want, they don't want green energy. They want communism. And they, and that's why they, they oppose nuclear because nuclear will be the cleanest, most efficient, most effective, cheapest, long-term. There's no question. You start looking at like things like small modular reactors and stuff like that. There's no question. That's the future. But then, gosh, what do you do if you can't sell centralized planning of the economy because we're saving the globe?

• 1:01:28Speaker 01

  So that thought is like a thousand people on the high level.

• 1:01:31Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:01:31Speaker 01

  Everyone below them is just the useful idiots.

• 1:01:33Speaker 03

  Agreed, agreed.

• 1:01:35The Fat Electrician?

  It's just, I don't know. All the other green energy sucks. Like, wind power is god awful.

• 1:01:40Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:01:40The Fat Electrician?

  You drive, Iowa's got so many wind turbines, it's insane. Half of them work.

• 1:01:45Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:01:45The Fat Electrician?

  And when they're working, they're so ungodly inefficient. It's fucking insane.

• 1:01:50Speaker 01

  There's a ton in Texas too, like in, even just in, in District 23 and even, and down, like especially if you go toward like Corpus, there's huge like wind farms and shit like that. You see the blades traveling down the highway all the time. And the idea of seeing this giant diesel truck carting it out one blade at a time, you start to wonder about the logistics.

• 1:02:10Speaker 03

  Well, and the number of, the number of oil petroleum-based products that you need to actually keep that thing in operation.

• 1:02:15Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:02:15Speaker 03

  That doesn't grease itself.

• 1:02:16The Fat Electrician?

  Most of them are obsolete by the time they're built. By the time you get all the permits and actually get the fucking thing built, it's three generation old technology that's going up.

• 1:02:26Speaker 03

  In Virginia, they passed the Clean Economy Act, um, which, which basically gives them an excuse to clear cut forests and carve up farmland to put up industrial solar fields. But then they have the offshore wind piece and the reason why they can get this through, because all of a sudden we have the big energy companies going in like, oh yeah, we'd love to do the offshore wind. Why? Because they're guaranteed 10% profit on construction. Anybody want to guess on how expensive it is to build offshore wind off of Virginia Beach?

• 1:02:53The Fat Electrician?

  Uncodly. Yeah. What was, uh, there was a guy, they brought on like a literal carpenter, like the British version of King Trout on the BBC and this BBC journalist, this big old fat guy with like glasses was like trying, he like brought on this carpenter, like he was just going to eat him alive on air because, uh, it was like some debate over in Britain between using concrete and using wood to construct some building or whatever. And the carpenter's just like, yeah, I mean, wood's more renewable. And he's like, oh really? You're just going to cut down a bunch of trees to build this building? He goes, yeah, the trees grow back. You ever seen concrete grow?

• 1:03:35The Fat Electrician?

  All right, we're going to cut to commercial break. It just fucking ends the interview. Torches him on his own show.

• 1:03:43Speaker 05

  What? I love that. What is the main, other than like the nuclear meltdowns? What is one of the big reasons they don't want nuclear energy as a whole?

• 1:03:52The Fat Electrician?

  Uh, well, you see Vietnam happened and a bunch of people went to go fight Vietnam. And then a bunch of people got out of going to fight in Vietnam because they got to go to college. And then they did a bunch of drugs and rolled around in the mud and each other like hippies. And then they decided that the thing that blew up Japan has to be bad. And then those are all the people that are now college professors. So they got to teach the next generation that nuclear power is scary. That's pretty much. All of it.

• 1:04:22Speaker 01

  You have shit like Chernobyl, which led to a bunch of nuclear.

• 1:04:26The Fat Electrician?

  Right. We're not going to bring up the fact that it was because of, I don't know, communism being violently retarded the entire time that led to it. That wasn't it. That had nothing to do with it.

• 1:04:35Speaker 01

  They didn't have the HBO mini series back then, so it was a little harder to discern what happened.

• 1:04:40The Fat Electrician?

  Yeah.

• 1:04:42Speaker 01

  But the people literally got scared. We did a photo shoot in abandoned nuclear facility across from, I think Louisville, Kentucky. At one point, and it was like a facility that was built for like a billion dollars, right? And was almost finished. Like they have the, the cooling towers. They've got everything. It's a massive facility. And there was a bunch of nuclear regulation that came in after Chernobyl and they basically were told, oh yeah, to comply with all these new guidelines, that's going to be another $2 billion to complete it. And they literally walked away. They said it is, it is cheaper to just default and leave than it is to finish this out. So it's like, yeah, you wonder why we don't have fucking nuclear energy. That's it.

• 1:05:24Speaker 05

  They've done that surprisingly a lot of times. Washington state, beautiful places to do photos or shoots at because you can rent them for like $800 for an entire day and these are.

• 1:05:36Speaker 01

  Cause it's useless real estate.

• 1:05:37Speaker 05

  Everything like buildings to run it, the, the big tunnels or like they'll have like two, how many did that one have?

• 1:05:46Speaker 01

  It was huge.

• 1:05:47Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:05:48Speaker 01

  They let us go into the basement of the cooling towers and shoot machine guns at the concrete, like pillars. Like they're like, we don't care. Blow it up. We, we don't give a fuck. It's cheaper. We're going to demolish it eventually. Anyway, they're like, just don't die. We don't care.

• 1:06:03Speaker 05

  But they, and then they don't ever demolish it. They will, uh, Washington abandoned theirs in the eighties and then never touched it again. People still use it for photography. I didn't even know that one exists.

• 1:06:13Speaker 01

  It's crazy too, cause there's certain buildings you can go into and they have those old, like, you know, the computer data cards.

• 1:06:20The Fat Electrician?

  Yeah.

• 1:06:20Speaker 01

  The floor is just littered with them and certain times you can get those like old like photographs that like you just hold up to the light like the film reels.

• 1:06:27Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:06:28Speaker 01

  And shit like that. You're like, man, there's probably some like sensitive information in some of this about nuclear.

• 1:06:32The Fat Electrician?

  I, I can't wait till like the government. You know what? Aliens are real. We're gonna put one on Joe Rogan's podcast. And I get to watch Joe Rogan explain to a fucking alien that we've got magic rocks that produce enough power.

• 1:06:46Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:06:47The Fat Electrician?

  For the entire planet. We just don't use it because people that can't do basic math or have a third grade reading level are scared by them.

• 1:06:54Speaker 03

  Yep.

• 1:06:55The Fat Electrician?

  It's gonna be awesome.

• 1:06:56Speaker 05

  Was the reason the Japanese one failed? It was user error.

• 1:06:59The Fat Electrician?

  It got, no, it got hit by two. It got, oh, yeah. It got hit by a record-setting earthquake and then a record-setting tsunami at the same time. All of the safety features were like, it took two literal acts of God to bring that thing to its fucking knees. And it still turned out pretty okay.

• 1:07:21Speaker 03

  Yeah, even then, it's not like all of Japan, like Chernobyl, Chernobyl was communism. Chernobyl was communism. Like this is what happens when you put commies in charge of anything.

• 1:07:29Speaker 01

  To be fair, Japan had some nuclear resistance built in.

• 1:07:32The Fat Electrician?

  Dude, I did a college history course and we had to debate the ethics of the nuclear bombings and I made a girl cry in class.

• 1:07:39Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:07:39The Fat Electrician?

  And the internet gets mad when I tell this story, but I don't care because I thought it was funny.

• 1:07:42Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:07:43The Fat Electrician?

  She was just like, you don't understand the ramifications of the radiation and the blah, blah, blah, blah. And I was like,

• 1:07:50The Fat Electrician?

  you literally don't know what you're talking about. Like at all. Like, here's, here's the municipal website for Hiroshima.

• 1:07:57Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:07:57The Fat Electrician?

  And it's like, they have mol-, they study it every year. You could just live there. There is no radiation. It was an airburst like.

• 1:08:04Speaker 03

  Here's what I challenge people to do. Look at a picture of Hiroshima in 1945 and Detroit in 1945. And Hiroshima today and Detroit today. And what do you end up learning? Nuclear weapons are less disastrous than socialism. I think that's what you end up learning.

• 1:08:24The Fat Electrician?

  This is science.

• 1:08:27Speaker 05

  We did people say there's still nuclear fallout.

• 1:08:30The Fat Electrician?

  Yes, yes. A significant portion of these college kids think that you just, there's a chunk of Japan that you just can't.

• 1:08:37Speaker 03

  There's a bunch of Japanese babies still getting like.

• 1:08:39The Fat Electrician?

  Walking around with three heads.

• 1:08:41Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:08:41The Fat Electrician?

  Yeah. And it's like, no, it was an airburst explosion. The nuclear, the nuclear material fucking went kaboom. It's gone. There is no like, when a, when a reactor melts down, it's because the radioactive material melts and then the radioactive material sits there emitting neutrons for a million years. That's the issue. That shit exploded. It's gone. It's like.

• 1:09:04Speaker 01

  Wouldn't recommend exposure while pregnant, but other than that.

• 1:09:07Speaker 03

  Yeah. I'm not saying you should go to like a health spa.

• 1:09:11Speaker 01

  You can visit it.

• 1:09:12Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:09:12Speaker 01

  You've been able to visit it for a long time.

• 1:09:14The Fat Electrician?

  Like grounds hero.

• 1:09:15Speaker 03

  Yeah. The, the other thing, the other thing too, this is the part where I, I mean, I get in fights with people about this because it's like, yeah, look, I, I don't like civilian casualties. I don't like when innocent people die. But I also understand.

• 1:09:25Speaker 01

  Takes only.

• 1:09:25Speaker 03

  But I also, but I also understand, I also understand that if you look at the projected casualty list for invading the Japanese main islands. And if you look at what the Japanese plan was for defending the main islands, they were going to give bamboo spears to 14 year old girls. Like this was not, they were ready to fight.

• 1:09:39The Fat Electrician?

  You don't.

• 1:09:40Speaker 03

  To death. And this is millions of casualties.

• 1:09:42Speaker 01

  We talked about it on the podcast.

• 1:09:44The Fat Electrician?

  Entire interpretation is literally, oh, well, actually what they don't tell you in school is the Japanese tried to surrender before America dropped the atomic bombs and we just did it because we wanted to experiment. It's like, no. No, they didn't. They approached the USSR and said, hey, we basically want to ceasefire permanently and leave the entire Japanese imperial government intact.

• 1:10:02Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:10:02The Fat Electrician?

  So they could rebuild an army and fucking do it again. Obviously that was never an option. The USSR told them that. That was not them trying to surrender. And then you get all the kids are like, actually Japan only surrendered because Russia attacked. Oh, fuck you. Really? Russia attacked northeast China with the Japanese sea in between and that's why Japan fucking surrendered. Real quick, what was the Russian Navy like in World War II? Oh, there fucking wasn't one. I remember because the only way they were going to be able to shuttle troops was because of the US operation hula where we were going to transport it for them. So shut the up. It doesn't make any sense.

• 1:10:41Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:10:42Speaker 01

  But as far as the mainland invasion of Japan, we talked about it on the podcast before, but it's still a crazy stat that like Eli's Purple Heart was made in 1945 when they were expecting

• 1:10:52Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:10:53Speaker 01

  an invasion.

• 1:10:54Speaker 03

  1.2 million.

• 1:10:55Speaker 01

  Every Purple Heart awarded since World War II, I think, and still several in reserve were made anticipating casualties of mainland invasion of Japan.

• 1:11:05The Fat Electrician?

  I've, I've read a lot of war memoirs and a lot of different on the ground person perspectives of different wars and interpretations. By far and away, by a hundred miles, my favorite fucking interpretation of on the ground events is reading Japanese people's opinion of when the Marines and the Army showed up during the occupation of Japan right after World War II, seeing the sheer level of just grunt, smoking cigarettes, not giving a fuck, growing a beard, just disheveled, angry to be here. Like, how, how did they beat us?

• 1:11:43The Fat Electrician?

  Furious. We have so much discipline. Some fucking, some 19 year old from Nebraska with a B A R like, I want to go home.

• 1:11:59Speaker 03

  Around.

• 1:12:01Speaker 01

  Warrior class, it's part of.

• 1:12:05Speaker 01

  Taking over mainland would have been a huge problem.

• 1:12:07Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:12:08Speaker 01

  We talked about before. So that was a completely different society. Like their war society was a war society.

• 1:12:13Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:12:13Speaker 01

  Never seen.

• 1:12:14Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:12:14Speaker 01

  Ever. What was his name? The dude that stayed 30 years?

• 1:12:17The Fat Electrician?

  Hiro Onoda.

• 1:12:18Speaker 01

  And he wasn't the last one. Like there was people, there was two or three people that decade in the seventies, right?

• 1:12:24The Fat Electrician?

  Yeah, I think so.

• 1:12:25Speaker 01

  In the seventies that were still fighting.

• 1:12:27The Fat Electrician?

  Running around the Philippines, killing farmers, thinking they were fighting World War II.

• 1:12:31Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:12:32The Fat Electrician?

  I was.

• 1:12:34Speaker 01

  What's crazy is that there's so many stories of it. Like it's not just one isolated incident. Like it happened a couple of times.

• 1:12:39Speaker 03

  Oh, there was that one guy on some isolated island. He still speaks to graduates of graduates of like Japanese, I don't know what their military academy or their officer corps school is, but talking about like loyalty and Bushido and, and. Look, I was, I was willing to put up with a lot more rules of engagement when I was in. Now that my son's going through infantry basic training and, and I, and I do a reevaluation of a lot of the stupid stuff that we've gotten into, I'm, I'm a lot more, no, just drop the bomb.

• 1:13:13Speaker 05

  Your kid actually joined and he was like, Dad, I'm going infantry.

• 1:13:16Speaker 03

  So we, we like, I didn't, I didn't, I didn't push, I didn't, I didn't push the military with, with my kids, but um, yeah, my son.

• 1:13:23Speaker 05

  Cause you love them.

• 1:13:27Speaker 03

  But um, no, my, my son, uh, he was, I, I thought he was gonna go, like, he likes welding. He likes like, again, another cool thing about, you know, homeschooling, like, we did a blacksmithing class and like, he fell in love with it. So we had a little forge and stuff like that. It was, it was awesome.

• 1:13:41Speaker 05

  So you can teach them practical skills.

• 1:13:42Speaker 03

  Yes. And he was like, I want to learn how to weld. I want to do this other stuff. So I figured like, okay, if he's going to go in the military, he's probably going to go into like a, you know, a field that's going to put him in that range. Yeah. And then he's like, uh, yeah, Dad, I, I want to go infantry. I want to go airborne. And then he was talking about the 18 x-ray side. I was like, hey bud, why don't, how about you do RASP, right? Like Ranger Assessment? How about, how about you do that? I said, it's a four-year enlistment, not a six-year enlistment. Um, I said, if you want to go to selection, they can't stop you. You can go to selection. Uh, it's one of the few things in the military you can go to if you want to go to and they can't stop you. And, uh, he was okay. So yeah, he's an infantry basic. He'll go to airborne after that. He'll go to RASP after that. And

• 1:14:20Speaker 03

  he, he, he put the hand up when, before the election. And yeah, his, his mother and I both were like, he's like, Dad, I prayed about it. This is where I feel like I'm being led to go. I'm like, all right, son, you gotta do what you gotta do, right? You're a man. So, but um, I was definitely, yeah, it is, it is a different thing. Like I, I won't, when he was sitting there at 30th AG waiting to go off to infantry basic at Sand Hill and he sends us the picture of, I see the Freitas name tape on him.

• 1:14:52Speaker 05

  Man. Mosquito wings.

• 1:14:53The Fat Electrician?

  I'm not crying, you're crying.

• 1:14:54Speaker 03

  Yeah, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, it was, um, yeah.

• 1:14:58Speaker 05

  Dude, like, to what, four more months, then you'll get those calls like, this sucks, dude. Bro. Why didn't you tell me?

• 1:15:05Speaker 03

  We, we got it, well, the fun part is, we got, we got the first call when he actually got to basic and, and he's, you know, his, his mom's there and I'm there and he's describing what's going on and she's like, oh, are you okay? And I'm like, sucks, doesn't it?

• 1:15:23Speaker 03

  But, um, no, but there, but I, I will say this, there, there is something, uh, there is something that will give you a great sense of pride when your son is going through this and he's like, you, you can tell by his voice and how he's describing it that, yeah, it sucks, but he's into it.

• 1:15:36Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:15:37Speaker 03

  And it's like.

• 1:15:38Speaker 05

  It kicks, it's a good kickstart for a lot of people. I think that really disciplines you and then puts you your perspective of life. You're like, oh, yeah, man, I was handed a whole bunch of stuff and reality check, okay, this is hard work. This is dedication. This is.

• 1:15:54Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:15:54Speaker 05

  Following other people's orders.

• 1:15:57Speaker 03

  I, I think, well, and there, there's something to, like, I, I really believe this for, um, I mean, always exceptions to rules, but young men in general,

• 1:16:06Speaker 03

  young men in general need to do hard stuff. They need to do challenging stuff. They need to overcome it. Um, men thrive when we have responsibilities. Men thrive when we have responsibilities and we absolutely suffer and become the worst version of ourselves and we don't, so.

• 1:16:19Speaker 05

  I think, yeah, reality check for me, like, military war, blah, blah, blah, but the kiddo, when you had that, like, when I had riding, that was my biggest, like, I did another switch. I was like, oh, I have to focus everything on this. I have to start dedicating my life to make sure this little thing is taken care of and good for however long. I'm probably gonna fuck it up, but I'm doing my best.

• 1:16:40Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:16:41Speaker 05

  To not fuck it up.

• 1:16:42Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:16:43Speaker 05

  Versus out in the wind, you don't learn anything, or if you don't have responsibilities day to day, like, you get complacent as fuck.

• 1:16:50Speaker 03

  Oh, yeah. Well, when, when, uh, Luke was like seven, we were watching, if you see that movie, uh, oh, what's it called? Freaking with, uh, Hugh Jackman, um, it's the one with the robots.

• 1:16:59Speaker 05

  X-Men?

• 1:17:00Speaker 03

  No, no, no, it's the one with the robots.

• 1:17:01Speaker 05

  Real Steel?

• 1:17:02Speaker 03

  Real Steel.

• 1:17:02Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:17:03Speaker 03

  So it's like, it's like Rocky, but with robots, right? And so I'm watching it. I got my two daughters, my wife and my son, and, and he's just sitting there watching this thing, thinks it's awesome, right? And I look over at Tina and he's seven, six or seven. I look over at Tina, I'm like, hey, babe, you know what the agoggi is? She goes, what's the agoge? I said, the agoge is where the Spartans sent their kids off to, it was like their first stage of kind of like warrior training to be like a hot bike.

• 1:17:27Speaker 01

  Four years in Dagestan, forget about it.

• 1:17:30Speaker 03

  But I said, you know how old they were? And she goes, no. Like, I'm asking my wife, do you know how old the Spartans sent the kids? Like, no, honey, I'm like, seven. She's, why are you telling me this? I'm like, watch. I'm like, hey, buddy, come over here. Come on. Like, we're watching that. So we're doing this. It was the first time I ever like, not hard, but enough to like, shake him up. And he just goes, ah, and he like, comes, he's like, you know, fighting the whole deal we're doing. He's having a blast. And Tina looks at me and she goes, what just happened to my little boy? I'm like, oh, no, no, he's not yours anymore. He belongs to me now. And I will say this, he still loves his mama like nothing else. But yeah, that was, that was the, there's a certain point where dad's gotta, dad's gotta take over.

• 1:18:12Speaker 01

  That testosterone.

• 1:18:13Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:18:14Speaker 01

  And like you were saying earlier, when they don't.

• 1:18:17Speaker 03

  Oh, yeah.

• 1:18:17Speaker 01

  That's when you have catastrophic life trajectory.

• 1:18:20Speaker 03

  Yeah. Yeah.

• 1:18:22Speaker 01

  Not every case, not every case, obviously.

• 1:18:24Speaker 03

  Oh, vast majority, vast majority. Again, I mean, I, I'll tell you what, like, I got married at 19. Went in the military, got married at 19. One of the best decisions I ever made. But that whole idea of having responsibilities early on and challenges and things you had to go through, and in an environment where nobody cared if it sucked, nobody cared if it was hard, nobody cared about your feelings, nobody cared about any of that, that was hugely developmental. And I look at a lot of challenges that I think young men are facing right now, and I can't help but thinking to myself, yeah, it's like, you know, we, this is, I was actually listening to somebody, he was, he was talking about, he had, he had talked, actually, it was Dennis Prager, it was Dennis Prager. He was talking about, he was giving a, he was giving a speech,

• 1:19:08Speaker 03

  and he was talking to World War II vets. And he said, World War II vets, he was, they focused a lot because they grew up through the Great Depression, and then they went into World War II. And they were talking about giving their kids, you know, the things they never had. And he, and he said, you know, I had this moment where I was talking to him, I said, I get it. But as you're giving them the things they never had, please remember to give them the things you did. The resilience, the challenges, the no sense of entitlement. And we see what happens when, when you give everything handed to you, you don't become better for it. You don't become better for it.

• 1:19:40Speaker 01

  That's what we say all the time as far as like wanting to give your kids enough, you know, give them the things you, you, you never had, but also want to make sure they have enough trauma that they're funny.

• 1:19:48Speaker 03

  Yeah, right. That's a great way to put it. Yeah. Yeah.

• 1:19:53The Fat Electrician?

  It's bullshit.

• 1:19:54Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:19:55The Fat Electrician?

  You sons of...

• 1:19:57Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:19:57The Fat Electrician?

  This is true.

• 1:19:58Speaker 03

  Well, and you can see it too, because when you raise your kids that way and they see other kids in the way they behave, they look at them. They're like with you going, the hell's up with that kid?

• 1:20:05The Fat Electrician?

  Fuck is this?

• 1:20:07Speaker 03

  Yeah. We used to always point out the kid like screaming in the store like, what would I do to you if you did that? Oh, dad, you'd crush me. I'm like, all right, good.

• 1:20:13The Fat Electrician?

  My wife gets mad at me. I yell at other people's kids in public.

• 1:20:17Speaker 03

  You're helping.

• 1:20:19Speaker 01

  Don't shake your head at that.

• 1:20:20Speaker 03

  We're at the park.

• 1:20:21Speaker 01

  Don't shake your head.

• 1:20:22The Fat Electrician?

  We're at the park and somebody runs up and like, it was like, I don't know, probably a six or seven year old, but they were like running around and he shoves my four year old and the mom is like, oh, little Timmy, don't do that. Play nice with others. And then I'm watching and he runs around and does it intentional again. And I look at the mom and she looks at me and, hey, quit. And that kid starts crying and they leave. It's like, I don't give a shit.

• 1:20:50Speaker 03

  That's where you look at it and be like, it takes a village, right?

• 1:20:55Speaker 01

  You can do the fucking True Detective season two. It's like, hey, anything you do to my kid, I'm doing to your dad.

• 1:21:01The Fat Electrician?

  Bro, that was, uh, one of my favorite interviews is, uh, Daniel Cormier.

• 1:21:08The Fat Electrician?

  Champ, champ, light heavyweight, heavyweight UFC champ.

• 1:21:11Speaker 01

  Big, big boy.

• 1:21:12The Fat Electrician?

  Olympic, uh, bronze medalist, Olympic wrestler, like badass dude. And he's talking about being at the park and like very similar situation, like a bigger kid's picking on his kid. And then like the dad doesn't do anything about it after the second or third time. And Daniel Cormier just like allegedly looks at this dude like, hey, just so we're clear, whatever your kid does to my kid next, I'm gonna do to you. And the other commentator's like, Daniel, you can't say that. He's like, well, I fucking did. Which is weird because he's like one of the friendliest, like nicest, like dad dudes on the planet. Just like, nope.

• 1:21:46Speaker 01

  Well, there's a difference too between friendliness and weakness.

• 1:21:48Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:21:48The Fat Electrician?

  It's fair.

• 1:21:49Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:21:51Speaker 05

  Daniel Cormier would be fine dude.

• 1:21:53The Fat Electrician?

  He's so funny cuz.

• 1:21:54Speaker 05

  I might hit my kid real quick, sorry.

• 1:21:56The Fat Electrician?

  He's funny cuz like.

• 1:21:58Speaker 05

  Tammy, come here.

• 1:22:00The Fat Electrician?

  Cause he has like, uh, there's been like multiple fucking reels that get uploaded by like just normal everyday people cuz he teaches his little kids wrestling team.

• 1:22:09Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:22:09The Fat Electrician?

  And there's like other dads that are just like, like I wrestled in high school dads that are like filming a reel of them like this with Daniel Cormier in the back of the, um, the other team's coach is Daniel Cormier. So I guess I'll just go fuck myself.

• 1:22:23Speaker 05

  Remember fucking Mighty Mouse was talking, Demetrius Johnson coaching for his kid?

• 1:22:28The Fat Electrician?

  Like.

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• 1:22:59The Fat Electrician?

  It starts when you look across, you're like, okay, you're gonna beat that kid's dad is to be.

• 1:23:05Speaker 05

  You're gonna learn about losing.

• 1:23:07The Fat Electrician?

  It's a good lesson.

• 1:23:08Speaker 05

  Remember, son, it's about having fun.

• 1:23:17Speaker 05

  We're gonna learn how to get back on that horse. You, are you big in MMA or boxing?

• 1:23:21Speaker 03

  Uh, so my, uh, my son, uh, we did Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and boxing for a little while and whatnot. And it was, it was great. I wish we would have started a lot earlier. Um, and then I got to travel in so much, but I, I'm trying to get back into it cuz I thought it was, one, it was one of the best workouts ever. Um.

• 1:23:37Speaker 05

  How much traveling do you have to do as a delegate? Sorry, not to derail.

• 1:23:40Speaker 03

  Oh, no, no, as a delegate, not, not a lot. I mean, some, some within, uh, but a lot of, it's flying around the country and doing other things associated with that. But, um, but no, I, I need to get back to it because one, it's, running on a treadmill is unacceptable. I, but, but the cardio you get with frigging Jiu Jitsu and boxing, like, oh my gosh. Uh, that and I just think men should know how to fight. And so, yeah. Yeah.

• 1:24:03Speaker 05

  Crazy watching somebody that doesn't know how to fight, try to fight. You're like, ah, yes.

• 1:24:07Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:24:08Speaker 05

  Terr- terrifying.

• 1:24:14Speaker 05

  Or on the ground, they're just trying to like, dude, when somebody doesn't know how to tap somebody out, it's just like,

• 1:24:22Speaker 05

  it's like you're squeezing them harder and then you're awkwardly hitting them with usually here, breaking a bone.

• 1:24:29Speaker 01

  Like all the Twitter fight videos, which is dudes doing that.

• 1:24:33Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:24:33Speaker 01

  It's like, I mean, yeah, I guess you can get lucky and that's gonna hurt a lot, but what the fuck are you doing?

• 1:24:38Speaker 03

  Well, it's the guys that believe that, well, if I ever really had to, I would just see red and then get your ass kicked.

• 1:24:43Speaker 05

  Yeah, and then black.

• 1:24:44Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:24:45Speaker 05

  And then light.

• 1:24:46Speaker 03

  And then nothing. Yeah. When you wake up, your family is mine now.

• 1:24:53Speaker 05

  Like, fuck.

• 1:24:54Speaker 01

  We're getting back.

• 1:24:55Speaker 03

  That's the other thing too. Like, again, with my kid, I remember when we, we, he started doing Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and boxing, like the confidence level with everything. Not just with that, but the confidence level with everything goes up significantly. And yeah.

• 1:25:07Speaker 05

  Dude, there's a little kid that's with our kiddos, nine year old class at boxing, and there's two Mexican kids that are like, when they get in, they're like, I'm like, bro, they will beat them out of you. Do you like, listen to them? Like, those kids are monsters. They grew up hard.

• 1:25:28Speaker 05

  And you just see them like teeing off on the back. I was like, oh man, those kids are not getting bullied. One might be a bully.

• 1:25:37Speaker 01

  That's the kid that bullies your kid.

• 1:25:40Speaker 05

  Your little kids are already.

• 1:25:42The Fat Electrician?

  Two and four.

• 1:25:43Speaker 05

  But they're.

• 1:25:44The Fat Electrician?

  Cutter's starting Jiu Jitsu.

• 1:25:46Speaker 05

  Yeah. Just rolling around, they got their little.

• 1:25:48Speaker 03

  That's great. I wish we would have started.

• 1:25:49Speaker 05

  Tiny gees.

• 1:25:50Speaker 03

  How, how old are your kids?

• 1:25:52Speaker 05

  Nine and 13 going on.

• 1:25:54Speaker 03

  He's two and four. Yeah. Mine are 22, 19 and 17.

• 1:26:00Speaker 05

  Oh, there you're about to be an empty nest.

• 1:26:02Speaker 03

  That's that's blowing my mind, man. That is blowing my because for for, you know, my my daughter got married at twenty one. And and then she left, you know, at twenty, you know, and then eight months later, my son left. And, you know, now my daughter's about to graduate high school and my wife and I are looking at each other like, oh, my gosh, because we weren't just used to having our kids around all the time, which we we love our kids, but like all of their friends and the whole deal. And then all of a sudden. And I mean, it's it's exciting for Tina because we're going to this next area of life and we like each other. Like, my wife's hot. Like, I like spending time with her.

• 1:26:34Speaker 01

  But that helps considerably.

• 1:26:37Speaker 03

  It's named three things. She's hot.

• 1:26:40Speaker 01

  We say you like spending time with her.

• 1:26:45Speaker 01

  You can have you can have a hot wife and not want to spend any fucking time with her.

• 1:26:49The Fat Electrician?

  What's the movie with Terry Bradshaw where he's the dad and his kid finally moves out and he's really finally now that you're out, this is gonna be my naked room.

• 1:26:57Speaker 03

  Watching TV in the naked room all day.

• 1:27:01Speaker 03

  All the rooms, all the rooms in the house could get back into play, right?

• 1:27:07Speaker 03

  It's like looking outside. Is my youngest daughter off to work? All right, baby. The kitchen is now in play.

• 1:27:14Speaker 01

  We have so much room for activities.

• 1:27:18Speaker 03

  We're gonna ruin this place.

• 1:27:25Speaker 03

  My kid will say this, but like, really, Dad? Like, hey, it's nice to know that Mom and Dad like each other.

• 1:27:33Speaker 05

  That's why a priest came over.

• 1:27:35Speaker 01

  Would you rather occasionally hear stuff like this or have two Christmases?

• 1:27:41Speaker 05

  Well, hold on. Are both Christmases dope?

• 1:27:48Speaker 05

  Double the present sounds pretty good. Otherwise, I gotta hear you guys fucking.

• 1:27:58Speaker 05

  Way less trauma.

• 1:28:01Speaker 03

  Oh, man.

• 1:28:05Speaker 01

  So, man, so you so you were in the the Virginia, you were a delegate in Virginia for 10 years now, right?

• 1:28:11Speaker 03

  Still, yeah, still am, yeah, I'm in the Virginia House of Delegates, the the oldest continuously legislative body in the Western Hemisphere.

• 1:28:18Speaker 01

  So you are from there, you you just announced last night that you're no longer going to be seeking reelection.

• 1:28:24Speaker 03

  Not seeking reelection, yeah, 10 years is enough. I mean, I

• 1:28:27Speaker 01

  That's that's crazy amount.

• 1:28:29Speaker 03

  Oh, yeah, and it feels it feels longer than it was sometimes, but

• 1:28:33Speaker 01

  For somebody like us, it's a crazy amount for for your average lifelong politician that's just getting started.

• 1:28:39Speaker 03

  Well, and that's I one of the things that whenever people ask me now, like about like, you know, I'm thinking of running for office, like, the first question I always ask is, what are you willing to lose your seat over? If you can't tell me what you're willing to lose your seat over, the answer is nothing, and you will compromise in order to keep your seat because you'll convince yourself that you can't get anything done if you can't get reelected, and that's the slippery slope. Like, if you can't, if you can't, if you can't list off right now the things where like, I would take that vote, lose my seat, and smile about it, I don't want you anywhere near elected office.

• 1:29:09Speaker 01

  Yep.

• 1:29:11Speaker 03

  But, yeah, but some people, not not all, there's there's good, I served with some really good people.

• 1:29:17Speaker 03

  But there's a lot of people, they get their identity, they get their identity from serving in public office, and I'm like, dude, my identity, I get my identity in Christ, then I get in being like a husband to my wife, a father to my children, you know, a vet, you know, whatever, but I mean, it's, look, I, speaking of history earlier, right, like, I represent James Madison's district.

• 1:29:37Speaker 01

  Oh, that's

• 1:29:38Speaker 03

  Right, in in a in a legislative body that tracks its history all the way to the House of Burgesses, which means we've been in operation for over 400 years. There is something truly cool about that, and believe me, the first time I walked in the Virginia House of Delegates, it was, I remember, the they escorted me in, said, you know, delegate-elect, wait here, I'm gonna go find the other people, because I was a military guy, so of course, I was like 30 minutes early. And I remember sitting there, it was just quiet, and I'm sitting in that chamber going, there's gotta be a mistake, man, there's gotta be a mistake.

• 1:30:09Speaker 01

  The imposter syndrome kicks in.

• 1:30:11Speaker 03

  Oh, yeah, big time, big time. It goes away quickly when you meet your colleagues, but anyway.

• 1:30:17The Fat Electrician?

  Did you try wearing a tuxedo tank top while you did it?

• 1:30:19Speaker 03

  I did not. I didn't have that kind of ball. But um, but yeah, no, it was, I looked at it was, you know, 10 years and, um, and there's still stuff I, I want to do and, you know, obviously the things I believe in, and there's a lot of ways to fight for it. It doesn't have to be politics. Cause I think that the cultural component is what's the, the part that is most in dire right now, but, um, but I think it's, it's good to just pick a time where it's like, look, find somebody that you think will do a good job, find a good replacement and then, you know, bow out and let them, let them take a crack at it. I think politics is better when we don't have a bunch of people that are trying to do it for 30 or 40 years.

• 1:30:53Speaker 01

  Yep. Cause a lot of those people don't have anything else. They've never had anything else. Their entire, like you said, identity. That's all they've ever been. They've never produced anything in the free market. They've, that's, that's their claim to fame. That's all they've ever done.

• 1:31:04Speaker 03

  Yeah. I, I, well, one of the things about, the other thing too, that about a state legislature is that with the exception of four states, all of your state legislatures are part-time. I mean, you still got full-time constituent services requirements and whatnot, but in, in Virginia, you get paid $17,600 a year to be a delegate. It's not supposed to be a full-time salary. You go down, you have 60 days in even years. You have 45 days in odd years. You go through 2,000 bills in that period. And that's it. You're done. Go back to your district. That's where you live. That's where you work. Get a real job.

• 1:31:35Speaker 01

  That's how, that's what, that's the way it was supposed to be.

• 1:31:38Speaker 03

  Congress should be that way. Congress should be that way.

• 1:31:41Speaker 01

  I wanted to propose something where I was like, yeah, I want the, uh, the, the salary cap of congressmen, like elected representatives to be the median income of their district.

• 1:31:51Speaker 03

  Yeah. Yeah.

• 1:31:51Speaker 01

  That's the salary cap.

• 1:31:52Speaker 03

  Yeah. I, I think you should get, I think you should get lodging per damn for staying in DC, but that's only enough to like, when you're there, you don't get it. So you're not buying houses in DC and then staying there most of the time.

• 1:32:01The Fat Electrician?

  That's bullshit. I want them to have barracks. You're a public servant. I want this to be serviced like the military.

• 1:32:08Speaker 01

  Yeah. I don't want this to be fun for you because it's not supposed to be.

• 1:32:10The Fat Electrician?

  I want them to bring back when politicians that actually fight each other. Just saying. I think that'd be way cooler.

• 1:32:16Speaker 01

  The argument I heard against it.

• 1:32:18The Fat Electrician?

  That's the fastest way to get rid of all the 70-year-olds.

• 1:32:23Speaker 01

  Is saying the caning of Charles Sumner. It's like you say something about my mom and I'll beat your ass on the steps of the Capitol. We used to be a proper country.

• 1:32:31The Fat Electrician?

  I approve. I like it.

• 1:32:34Speaker 01

  The, the argument I heard against that was that if you lower their, uh, their salary like, well, now you're just giving them incentive to be corrupt and take deals on the side. I'm like, they do that already.

• 1:32:44The Fat Electrician?

  Yeah. Well, I mean, that's the point is like, or I, or I'm increasing the incentive for people that are actually successful outside of politics and can now afford to go and just do the right thing for fun to go and do that.

• 1:32:57Speaker 01

  Exactly.

• 1:32:59The Fat Electrician?

  That's a meritocracy. Good.

• 1:33:02Speaker 01

  Crazy.

• 1:33:03The Fat Electrician?

  Fuck. I want people good at, good at their job. Horrible person.

• 1:33:07Speaker 01

  People who have, you know, had employees and like built businesses and know how to balance a budget.

• 1:33:13Speaker 01

  Nick's getting me fired up on Friday.

• 1:33:16The Fat Electrician?

  This earliest unsub we've ever filmed.

• 1:33:19Speaker 05

  What time is it? Oh, it is.

• 1:33:21The Fat Electrician?

  It's, it's all one forty two. It's almost two P M.

• 1:33:26Speaker 01

  I'm already upset.

• 1:33:27The Fat Electrician?

  Usually we're still just getting to brunch.

• 1:33:30Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:33:31Speaker 01

  Normal.

• 1:33:34Speaker 05

  What are you gonna do anything since you've been kind of in that wheelhouse of politics again? Are you thinking like maybe?

• 1:33:40Speaker 01

  Do it. I really still don't know. I have a lot of people trying to, I have a lot of people trying to bully me into running again. And I, I feel like we would do really good if I did.

• 1:33:48The Fat Electrician?

  Do it.

• 1:33:49Speaker 01

  But I, man, it's, it's, it's the question of, uh, I've met with a couple of people that are, are looking at running in that district too. And I'm like, I'm happy to give them advice. Like say like, you know, this is what I learned. You know, here are the pitfalls, you know, but like here, here's the basically the roadmap. Here's what I did. Um, but I, I, and I told them flat out, I'm like, I don't know what I'm going to do right now because I don't know if I want to run back the worst nine months of my life. Cause that fucking sucked. Running for office is, is shit. I really want to hear Nick's opinion on this too.

• 1:34:20The Fat Electrician?

  Yeah.

• 1:34:21Speaker 01

  Cause they were, they're basically, I was being asked if, if I was going to run for, uh, for a house again.

• 1:34:25The Fat Electrician?

  Yeah.

• 1:34:27Speaker 01

  I'm like, the, the big decision is like, ah, I feel like I do a lot better this time. Cause I, I missed it by 407 votes.

• 1:34:33The Fat Electrician?

  Oh, yeah.

• 1:34:33Speaker 01

  Primary runoff.

• 1:34:34The Fat Electrician?

  Yeah.

• 1:34:36Speaker 01

  But I'm like, I also don't know. Like, that was the worst nine months of my life by far.

• 1:34:39Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:34:39The Fat Electrician?

  Bro, he has the funniest smear campaign I've ever fucking seen in a mailer. Cody has it framed on his wall.

• 1:34:46Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:34:46The Fat Electrician?

  It's a Photoshop picture of him and it says Brandon Herrera is all hat and no cattle. And it's him in a cowboy outfit with like a comically large turd Ferguson.

• 1:34:58The Fat Electrician?

  And they sent that out as like slander. It's the funniest.

• 1:35:01Speaker 01

  And I bought a turd Ferguson hat.

• 1:35:08Speaker 03

  I, so I'll say this, I do, again, not having done a deep dive into the race and just what I know about it. I do think if you ran again, you'd win.

• 1:35:20Speaker 03

  Because I don't think the smear campaigns work the second time around.

• 1:35:22Speaker 01

  Yeah. It's the eight mile thing.

• 1:35:25Speaker 03

  Yeah. The other thing too is that, and, and from what I understand, it's a, it's a solid red district, right?

• 1:35:31Speaker 01

  So it is like,

• 1:35:34Speaker 01

  you could shoot someone on live TV, right? As long as you win the primary.

• 1:35:39Speaker 03

  Got it, got it.

• 1:35:39Speaker 01

  Cause it, it used to be a close district. It used to be like a, maybe a plus two.

• 1:35:43Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:35:43Speaker 01

  Now it's like a plus 15.

• 1:35:44Speaker 03

  So I, I ran for Congress and it was during COVID. That was fun.

• 1:35:48Speaker 01

  You ran for House or Senate?

• 1:35:49Speaker 03

  House.

• 1:35:50Speaker 01

  Really? Okay. I didn't know that.

• 1:35:51Speaker 03

  House in 2020 against Abigail Spanberger.

• 1:35:54Speaker 01

  Okay.

• 1:35:55Speaker 03

  And that was a $20 million race. Cause it was considered one of the top five races in the country because of how close the district was.

• 1:36:04Speaker 01

  Oh shit.

• 1:36:04Speaker 03

  And, and I'll tell you right now, you don't want to be in that kind of district. That, that sucks. You're gonna, your whole life is going to be fundraising. When, when I had to run that race, I hate fundraising with a fiery passion. Like I despise it. And when I had to run for Congress in order to try to be successful, six hours a day, six days a week. I was on the phone fundraising.

• 1:36:23Speaker 01

  Dialing for dollars.

• 1:36:24Speaker 03

  Miserable. Absolutely miserable.

• 1:36:26Speaker 01

  I always felt so weird about that. I would rather, in the way, and this is where, I guess I was kind of unique in that way.

• 1:36:31Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:36:32Speaker 01

  I, I hated doing that. I didn't really do it.

• 1:36:34Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:36:34Speaker 01

  What I was, I told my consultant, I'm like, I'd rather just work harder on my own businesses and make more money. And put my own money in.

• 1:36:41Speaker 03

  Yeah. It's, it's like, I, I, yeah, it, it's tough. It sucks.

• 1:36:47Speaker 03

  So here's what I'll say, like, I mean, I think, I think you'd win. And obviously, I think you'd be an excellent voice of Congress and God knows, we need people, especially in Congress, because my biggest fear right now is I see all these people, we have a program we do called Doge watch. And we highlight everything Doge has done for the week. And I have all these people going like, Doge is fine, is but why aren't they acting like because they're an advisory committee? They don't have any executive authority. They can make recommendations and the executive branch can do certain things. But the only way any of this lasts is if you have legislation. Which means you have to have members of Congress willing to actually carry the bills. And the number of people that we have willing to do that is nowhere near what I think most people think it is. And so we definitely need people that are willing to do it.

• 1:37:29Speaker 05

  Why is that, Nick?

• 1:37:31Speaker 03

  Why do we not have enough people willing to do it?

• 1:37:33Speaker 05

  Yeah, why do they want to get rid of their money? Why are they not willing to do it?

• 1:37:37Speaker 03

  I

• 1:37:39Speaker 05

  I know where this

• 1:37:40Speaker 03

  How much time we got left?

• 1:37:43Speaker 05

  The amount of money on your Doge watch of like spending your last one you just did, it was 25 million or 18 million to hire the people to do the same thing for like $25 million.

• 1:37:56Speaker 03

  It was The IRS spent 15 billion on an IT modernization program that's 30 years overdue. It's still out there. It's still out there. But but you look at this stuff and here's what it comes down to. You go look at the look at the house right now, right? We have the house by what like five seats? So they're going to look at it from the perspective of how do we maintain the majority? So they're going to look at everybody in purple districts and they say, we can't do anything that puts people in purple districts in jeopardy. And so now the entire house is going to be subject to whatever those 15 seats need or don't need. And everything is going to be, how do we maintain the majority?

• 1:38:31Speaker 05

  The majority doesn't fucking matter if you don't do anything with it.

• 1:38:34Speaker 03

  Yes, like, yes. And this is, this is the part that this is the one thing that I hold out hope, right?

• 1:38:41Speaker 03

  There are so many people, and if you look at Trump's approval ratings, there's, there's a ton of people that didn't really like Trump, but voted for him because he wasn't Kamala Harris, who now like him. Why? Because like the guy or hate the guy, he does what he says he's gonna do. And people are seeing action. And if there's one thing that people actually appreciate, especially, especially a wide swath of people that don't necessarily follow politics, but are tired of business as usual, they like somebody that actually says they're gonna do something and goes and does it. Not to mention the fact that they've actually done an excellent job with New Media on highlighting the absolute waste. It is really, really hard to have any sympathy for, oh my gosh, I can't believe that poor person at USA had lost their job. You were sending $50 million a year to DEI scholarships in Burma.

• 1:39:25Speaker 03

  Burma's a military junta. They're committing atrocities against Karen tribesmen.

• 1:39:30Speaker 01

  20 years civil war.

• 1:39:32Speaker 03

  Right.

• 1:39:32Speaker 01

  They have bigger issues.

• 1:39:33Speaker 03

  Yes, but is the genocide equitable? That's the part that we're really concerned about.

• 1:39:37Speaker 01

  We want to make sure the executioners are equal parts male and female.

• 1:39:40Speaker 03

  Exactly. Do you have any trans executioners? Like, if you don't, that's a real gap in your DEI, you know, facilitation.

• 1:39:46Speaker 01

  My favorite one recently was the, the one, almost $1 billion, I think it was, that the National Park System wasted on a survey to ask people if they liked national parks.

• 1:39:55Speaker 03

  Yeah, right.

• 1:39:56Speaker 01

  A billion fucking dollars.

• 1:39:57Speaker 03

  The Department of Interior, well, it gets worse. That's the one. The Department of the Interior spent all of this money on an internal, so they had an internal contract to develop their own customer satisfaction survey. And then they contracted out to a company to do customer satisfaction surveys. Right? This is the sort of stuff that is going on. And they're like, oh my gosh, we're, we're cutting this. Yes, good. Cut more. Somebody asked me once, they're like, well, well, Nick, what would you cut from the federal government? This will be far quicker if I tell you what I'd keep.

• 1:40:29Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:40:29Speaker 03

  Right? You, you can have defense.

• 1:40:31Speaker 01

  Afuera, afuera.

• 1:40:33Speaker 03

  Javier Malaya is still my favorite.

• 1:40:37Speaker 03

  Like, why do you call these socialist? Because they are. But, um, no, but, but I mean, that, that really, that's really where we're at right now. We got too many people that are so concerned about maintaining the majority that they don't do anything with it. And then they lose the majority. And it's like, that's not where people are at right now. Not to mention the fact that it's just cowardly. Eventually you're going to lose anyways, because if that's your mindset, you're never willing to actually provide an alternative.

• 1:41:00Speaker 01

  You'll lose your base.

• 1:41:01Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 1:41:02Speaker 01

  Yeah, your base wants you in because you're going to do these things. If you don't do those things because you're worried about losing, like, it's, it's so circular.

• 1:41:09Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah. Well, and this is, we did a, so we did an interview with Rand Paul and Rand Paul, Rand Paul and Thomas Massey were the two guys to vote no against the continuing resolution. And Trump like really went after Massey.

• 1:41:20Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:41:20Speaker 03

  And, and I look, I'm a big, like, I'm a big fan, but I'm like, dude, don't go after Massey. Massey was one of the guys that's like, like fighting this fight when he was the only one doing it. Like, holy hell.

• 1:41:31Speaker 01

  That, those always feel like mommy and daddy are fighting.

• 1:41:33Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 1:41:34Speaker 01

  I'm like, God, like, I like both of you. Please just listen to each other.

• 1:41:38Speaker 03

  This is, this is why career politicians shouldn't be a thing. Cause they get elected to go do a thing and then they get there. It's like, the knight goes to slay the dragon, but then the knight realizes if he kills the dragon, he'll be out of work. So he becomes a dragon conservationist.

• 1:41:53Speaker 03

  No, just kill the dragon and go back to your farm.

• 1:41:57The Fat Electrician?

  It's right there. Here's a sword, fucking.

• 1:41:59Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:42:00Speaker 03

  Now the donkey's in the dragon. We've got little half donkey dragons running around. Shrek is pissed. Things are horrible.

• 1:42:06The Fat Electrician?

  Hey now, you're an all star.

• 1:42:13Speaker 03

  Yeah, but to, to, to you, I mean, we need more people in Congress that are actually willing to, again, they're willing to lose their seat in order to accomplish something significant. But then the other side of it is, is look, the, the inextricable reality about representative government is you get the government you deserve.

• 1:42:29Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:42:29Speaker 03

  And so a big part of this now, my belief is, is that if you want better politicians, you got to have a better electorate. And you got to have people that actually understand what the government is actually there for. And this is another reason why I usually, look, I trash government run schools a lot because for the same reason I trash state run media.

• 1:42:47Speaker 03

  If you want kids to be skeptical of government, right? Not understanding that, yes, some government is necessary and there's legitimate functions of government. But if you want to be skeptical of government, but then you're handing them over to the government for seven to eight hours a day for their education. What do you think they're going to be taught about government? And, and I think that's a big problem of what we have right now is they're just absolutely convinced that of course the government feeds me, of course the government educates me, of course the government takes care of me. I just got in this fight last night with somebody, well, what are you gonna personally do? I'm like, I don't know, it sounds like a family issue.

• 1:43:21Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:43:22Speaker 03

  Well, you can't say that, like the government's got it. No, that's the reason we're in this problem is because the government assumed you tried to replace dad with a government program and guess what? It didn't work. It didn't work.

• 1:43:33Speaker 01

  You can't legislate it. There are certain things you cannot legislate, you cannot legislate personal responsibility. Period.

• 1:43:39The Fat Electrician?

  That might be the most jarring thing about being an adult for me was, I don't, like when you're a kid, like second grade, third grade, like the fucking homeroom teacher is like the hive mind of humankind, like he or she knows everything, like there's a disagreement, you go and you ask the teacher, whatever the teacher said, that determines who's right. And then around 25 people I went to high school with and partied with are becoming teachers. It's like, I've, I've seen you do cocaine. Wait, my teachers, maybe they didn't fucking know everything.

• 1:44:14Speaker 03

  I would say one of the, one of the biggest, regardless of how you raise your kids, one of the biggest problems I see right now is when kids don't see their parents as an educator. Right? And so you'll see kids come home and their parent will say one thing, the teacher will say another thing, the kid will side with the teacher. Why? Because you told them that's your teacher, that's your expert, that's the person that knows things. They've got the college degree in education. What could you possibly know? No, no, no. I am the primary educator for my child. That doesn't mean, that doesn't mean I can't utilize resources outside of myself.

• 1:44:47Speaker 01

  You're a contractor.

• 1:44:49Speaker 03

  Yes. Because, well, and again, what do we always say in the military? You can delegate authority, you can't delegate responsibility. I am ultimately responsible for the education of my children. Again, I can use outside expertise for subjects I'm not as good on, fine, but I'm still an educational authority in my child's life. Now, two things. One, okay, that's a big responsibility. Two, I better be worthy of it. Right? So I better do, I better know a little something about this world. I better be able to, to, to model for my kids, what it means to be a man, what it means to be a husband, what it means to be a father, what it means to be an educator. And yeah, that's going to require some work. But I, but I will tell you this much. If you would have asked us when we started like homeschooling, we were super intimidated.

• 1:45:34Speaker 03

  Oh my God, super intimidated. I'm right out of the military. Tina's like, what the hell? I didn't sign up for this. And, um, and we had all these grandiose ideas like our kids are each going to speak three foreign languages and learn a musical instrument and play two sports.

• 1:45:47The Fat Electrician?

  But they're not Asian.

• 1:45:48Speaker 03

  By the end, we're like, do you love Jesus and hate communism? Yeah. Mission accomplished, right? Like we have, we have done it. But honestly, one of the, I, I will, I will say this over and over again, and I always get a little bit, you know, the, the, the greatest compliment that I can give my wife especially, is not one that I give her, it's the one that my kids give her. Because if you ask each one of my kids, they all have different objectives, they all have different professional goals. But if you ask each one of them, what do they want out of life? One of the first things they'll tell you is I want to get married and I want to have kids. Why? Because my wife created a home for them that they cannot wait to replicate for their own family.

• 1:46:28The Fat Electrician?

  That's awesome.

• 1:46:29Speaker 03

  I, what is a better compliment than that? For, for any parent, that your kids want to replicate the life you built for them. And one of the things that, that we accomplished with this is we didn't get it always right. They didn't always have the same resources that they wanted, went to some other area. Yeah, they would have had, they would have had better labs and they would have access to more musical instruments and whatnot. But I gained back thousands of hours with my children through the most formative years of their life. And now I have a relationship with them that I wouldn't trade for anything. And there's something to be said for that.

• 1:47:00The Fat Electrician?

  I, I talked with Hannah's uncle, my wife's uncle. He's been a like school teacher and school administrator for like over 20 years in Minneapolis, Minnesota. So I mean, he's pretty left leaning. So like, If me and him agree on something, I was like, okay, well, it's gotta be right if we're agreeing. But I asked him like what he thought about homeschool and he goes, it's, he goes, it's just better. If you do it right, it's better. He goes, there's not a single study that's reputable that says otherwise. He said, in 15 minutes, in a one-on-one or up to either one to four or one to six setting, you can achieve in 15 minutes what a public school can achieve in about an hour. And he goes, so if you actually legitimately homeschool

• 1:47:45The Fat Electrician?

  your kids, you can achieve an eight-hour school day in six hours, and then you can take another four hours to go explore anything else. Yeah. Yeah. So two hours, you can accomplish what an eight, what a public school does in eight. And he's like, then you could take another four hours to explore anything else. Martial arts, sports, anything you want, and then you still gain two hours extra at home with your kids.

• 1:48:06Speaker 03

  Well, it's, and it's, and look, like, take us, take aside any, like, let's not, I won't assume the nefarious nature, even though I think some of that is there within the education system. Let's just say everyone's doing their best. It's still a mass production model approach to education. It's mass production. That's what it is. It has to be. Because that teacher, what is that teacher supposed to do? Give individualized attention to all 20 students in a classroom? That's an unrealistic expectation. So what it affords you is an individualized model of education. And one of the most important things your kids can learn is that education is not a building you go to. Education takes place, education is merely the transference of knowledge, hopefully useful knowledge, and wisdom to

• 1:48:49Speaker 03

  go along with it. That's what it is. And so now, everything, whether you're making dinner, or where you're doing, you know, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, or whether you're doing a math problem because you're teaching your kids how to run a small business, like, all of that is now education. It's not sit here. This is another thing, I think, too, especially with, with young boys. We have all these things that we now classify as learning disabilities, ADD, ADHD, and look, there's, there's, there's clinical definitions of these things, and I'm not taking anything away from that. But how many, how many learning disabilities, all of a sudden become capabilities in a very, very different circumstance or environment? Right? Yeah, if you're gonna put that, if you're gonna put that kid, if you're gonna put that rambunctious boy in a chair,

• 1:49:33Speaker 03

  And say, sit here, be quiet, listen and do your, do your stuff.

• 1:49:36Speaker 01

  But you don't care about.

• 1:49:37Speaker 03

  For six hours A that you don't care about. Oh yeah, his behavior is going to look a whole hell of a lot like a learning disability. You take that same kid, you put him in a different environment that is far more kinetic, far more interactive, and then all of a sudden, all of the things that inhibited learning in that environment, all of a sudden become capabilities and advantages in a different environment. I don't think it's ridiculous to, to consider that.

• 1:49:57Speaker 01

  So I can't wait to see Huffington Post tomorrow. Nick Freitas says abortion causes ADHD.

• 1:50:04The Fat Electrician?

  No, there's a, there's a TED Talk about the, about ADHD, exactly, pretty much exactly what you just said, but the story they used was in like the 1920s, I think it was Britain. There was a, a girl that just couldn't pay attention in class and they couldn't get her to do it and ADHD obviously wasn't a thing then and the teacher told the parents, your, your daughter needs to be a dancer.

• 1:50:24Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:50:25The Fat Electrician?

  And they sent her to dance school and she became a ballerina and then like fast forward in life, she ran the most successful ballerina academy, like in the world that's like still renowned to this day. And it's like, and then if you would have sent her to school in 2020, they would have gave her meth and told her to fucking do math quietly in the corner.

• 1:50:44Speaker 01

  Not everything's a square hole.

• 1:50:45The Fat Electrician?

  Yeah.

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• 1:51:16Speaker 03

  And there's, they're finding out, what's really fascinating too is they find out things like dyslexia. Uh, yes, dyslexia will make it more difficult for you to potentially read. On a flat page, but if you actually put someone in a different environment, because my son had mild dyslexia, put that kid, yeah, reading a book, it's difficult. He's got to focus more in order to do it. Put that kid behind a 3D printer or give him some sort of like, you know, three dimensional thing. He can think and see things in a way that like, I can't put it together the same way. And so again, it's, yes, it makes this thing more difficult, but it makes this thing way more easy, way easier.

• 1:51:52Speaker 05

  Whoa, it's almost like the entire education system was built to turn out factory workers.

• 1:51:58Speaker 01

  Crazy.

• 1:51:59Speaker 03

  And conscripts.

• 1:52:02Speaker 01

  I don't even have to ask what your son is 3D printing.

• 1:52:09Speaker 03

  Print guns, not money.

• 1:52:12Speaker 01

  Oh, we're putting that on a shirt.

• 1:52:15Speaker 01

  That's like, that's a renowned libertarian.

• 1:52:20Speaker 01

  Yeah. What are your political values? Print guns, not money.

• 1:52:25Speaker 05

  What was your, with your son, what was his weaknesses? And as you were saying, he's like, ah, he sucked at this, but he really shined in these things. What were a couple of other?

• 1:52:33Speaker 03

  Oh, so he had a, he had a more difficult time reading and spelling. I give him crap about it still. I'm like, but like, I know it sucks, but you still gotta get it right. Else you're gonna look like an idiot. But whenever it came to anything with construction, anything with, you know, again, we, we went to a homeschool fair once and they had a blacksmith there. He's out there and forged hammering away, making stuff. And he's like, could we, could we try that? Like, yeah, let's do it. And I figured, because again, I grew up in a schooling model. So I figured when I show up, we're getting a PowerPoint presentation on the, you know, the history of blacksmithing. We get there and homeboy at Platinum Starch Forge goes like, all right, so here's the forge, here's some Ipro, let's go beat some

• 1:53:17Speaker 03

  metal. Like, this is awesome. And so, and so we bought a little one. And now like my son's out there. And it was funny, I was in, I was in session, so I was gone and I, I was giving him assignments. I'm like, hey, I want you to, you know, you're going to develop this, you're going to do your best job developing this, watch this, you know, channel on how to do it. And my wife calls me up, she's like, baby, I just want you to know, it's, it's so great. And it's so inspiring to see Luke just really passionate about something. But when you give him a deadline that causes him to be in the garage pounding steel at two in the morning, that kind of impacts the rest of the family, babe. I'm like, oh, okay, my bad. But no, he was just, why? Cause I. I didn't tell him to do that. I gave him a deadline and he was passionate about it and he's

• 1:53:59Speaker 03

  out there just hammering away. And so, yeah, it was stuff like that. And again, it's not that it was like, oh, well, son, you have difficulty reading. I guess we won't worry about literacy. No, you still gotta learn how to read and you still gotta, we still gotta power through this, right? But um, yeah, it was just incredible when you, when you put those other opportunities out there and, and he can do it in a way that I, I just can't like, he can see a project and imagine it in his mind and then make it work in a way that if I was doing it, like, I'm gonna be honest, I, I was that dad where I was putting together like the girls bicycles on Christmas morning, like, but um,

• 1:54:35Speaker 05

  Still that way.

• 1:54:38Speaker 03

  But yeah, he can just see it.

• 1:54:40Speaker 05

  It's always crazy.

• 1:54:41Speaker 01

  You get wrapped on Christmas day, you have a bicycle minus a tire and then a tire.

• 1:54:50The Fat Electrician?

  I wonder what my kids got for Christmas. Oh, more shit for me to do. Terrific.

• 1:54:57Speaker 05

  You dyslexia, did you, working with true dyslexia is the weirdest, like,

• 1:55:04Speaker 05

  wild and it's every part of their life is taken over by that thing. You're like, why I can't, and they just see everything backwards. Years later, it will still write an S, a five, like, everything just blends in.

• 1:55:16Speaker 01

  I'll get it like sporadically with different fonts. And the only thing that I can think of is like, wow, having true dyslexia would suck.

• 1:55:22Speaker 03

  Yeah. Yeah.

• 1:55:23Speaker 05

  It's fucking wild. I've never seen it and then I have now and I'm like, oh, this is a

• 1:55:28Speaker 03

  Different.

• 1:55:29Speaker 05

  Yeah. Ryan's brains, because Ryan's brain works again, completely different autism. So it is what he likes, what he doesn't like, how he can fake stuff, how he can't fake stuff, and then day to day activity. I just got text today that uh, he's been commenting on the one channel he does watch, because they do like GTA wrecks and he hasn't done a GTA wreck in a month. So Ryan has to tell that in every call.

• 1:55:57Speaker 01

  Why have you stopped?

• 1:55:59Speaker 05

  Yeah. Schedules, man, schedules. Violated your posting schedule.

• 1:56:03Speaker 01

  He's just gonna start texting or commenting their IP address.

• 1:56:06Speaker 05

  Yeah. I'll tell you what.

• 1:56:08Speaker 01

  You need to re-upload.

• 1:56:09Speaker 05

  Insane Gats, Insane Gats, shout out to you for dealing with my son. Thank you. Well, if Insane Gats is not posting GTA V, four videos, then how could I re-upload Insane Gats GTA four videos to YouTube? Right in first question. Oh dang it, it's been like four weeks. That's so long that Insane Gates is still not posting GTA four videos anymore. This is a disaster and it's all my fault. What am I going to do? You know what? I'm gonna just give up and go to sleep. Thank you for just saying go to sleep. I'm proud of you for that. Because I am so tired.

• 1:56:47Speaker 05

  It's like all, and then he finishes, I'm just gonna go to sleep in my bed for 1,000 years. Wah.

• 1:56:58Speaker 05

  Right in. Text mom, I was like, yeah, we're gonna have to work on him commenting on some Japanese anime. Go on.

• 1:57:08Speaker 01

  Just Eli's just sitting there like.

• 1:57:12Speaker 01

  What is the reply to that?

• 1:57:14Speaker 05

  I was just like, ah.

• 1:57:15Speaker 01

  Sounds good, son. I love you.

• 1:57:19Speaker 05

  But we can't talk like that. We can't blame people for them not uploading what you want. And then also saying you're gonna re-upload their content. I wouldn't be a fan of it. That's okay. It's definitely not Eli low key bullying another YouTuber into making more GTA four content. Now there's gonna be a hundred unsub people in that conversation.

• 1:57:42Speaker 01

  You, you knew what you were doing when you did that. Don't even play.

• 1:57:46Speaker 05

  I don't want him to do more content. I was like, I told Kyle.

• 1:57:49Speaker 01

  I don't want him to make more content. Let me read off his channel name so people don't feel over.

• 1:57:54Speaker 05

  He's had a shout out. He does, like goes and thanks him. He actually replied to one over, hey, thank you for actually mentioning. I appreciate it. Everyone was like nice. Cause I apologize for riding in one of the passes.

• 1:58:05Speaker 01

  Eli's like dox him if he doesn't upload.

• 1:58:08Speaker 05

  We want our four videos. You know what? It would be a shame. You know what I remembered the other day that I had completely just forgotten about for like two years?

• 1:58:17The Fat Electrician?

  The first time we bullied a company together. On my second unsub appearance, the rim company. Oh, yeah. Eli, the. Something wheels, what was it? Get your wheels dot com. Oh. So funny.

• 1:58:30Speaker 05

  Let's see what the reviews are, right? Have they recovered? That's the free market. Yep. Hey. Do you know that story?

• 1:58:38The Fat Electrician?

  Bro, he had, he had.

• 1:58:39Speaker 05

  I would be shocked.

• 1:58:40The Fat Electrician?

  He had the set of rims. One of them was at a round and he went to like four different tire shops to get his car rebalanced over and over again. Every time he gets over forty five, whole car starts shaking.

• 1:58:49Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:58:49The Fat Electrician?

  And then he finally takes the rims to a machinist and puts, puts them on dials. And like, you're gonna see it. And I mean, the dial is just going like this. Like it's not a round rim.

• 1:58:57Speaker 05

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:58:58The Fat Electrician?

  So he hits up the rim company and is like.

• 1:59:00Speaker 05

  This is after I sent them back, by the way, and showed them. Dial, had you paid for shipping big ass wheels?

• 1:59:07The Fat Electrician?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 1:59:08Speaker 05

  Like, here's a video of it wobbling. Uh, here's the issues. They send it back like, nope, it's good. And then.

• 1:59:15The Fat Electrician?

  And then, uh, so he's like.

• 1:59:17Speaker 05

  You gave a proportional response.

• 1:59:20The Fat Electrician?

  He told him, he was like, hey, we're like, I don't wanna like talk about on the podcast or whatever. Uh, just, you know, can I just like get what I paid for? And they're like, they told him there's no such thing as bad publicity.

• 1:59:32Speaker 05

  Oh.

• 1:59:33The Fat Electrician?

  And then we.

• 1:59:33Speaker 05

  Is that really? Well, I'm real. I forgot. Is that what he said? Say that?

• 1:59:36The Fat Electrician?

  They said there's no such thing as bad publicity. And then I.

• 1:59:39Speaker 05

  We determined that was a lie. Yeah, fact check, false.

• 1:59:42The Fat Electrician?

  I go off on a fat electrician rant about how society is built around technology. First we unlocked thumbs, then we unlocked pointy sticks, then we unlocked fucking circles and wheels. And you guys are up level three and they got ahold of them like the next day. And Eli's like, well, your guy said there's no such thing as bad publicity. And they go, well, we fired that guy. And when your friend insinuated that a rim company didn't know how circles worked. Apparently that was in fact, bad publicity.

• 2:00:13Speaker 05

  Oh, that's awesome. Four months, dude, four months of like back and forth trying to be like, hey, I don't wanna bring this up. Like, can you get?

• 2:00:21The Fat Electrician?

  Yeah.

• 2:00:22Speaker 05

  I just want that one wheel. It's one fucked up wheels, a custom one, but it's a paperweight outside of it.

• 2:00:26The Fat Electrician?

  Yeah.

• 2:00:26Speaker 05

  Well, we'll take 10% off your next wheel purchase. I was like. Yeah. And then dial indicator, everything showing it's bad. I was like, he's like, no, they're checking. They just checked out their balance. It was like, you can balance something, you can balance a square. It is not the second, it is on the road at a certain speed. Here is what's gonna happen.

• 2:00:45The Fat Electrician?

  It's not a balance issue. It's a circle issue.

• 2:00:48Speaker 05

  Yes. Here. It's pie.

• 2:00:52Speaker 05

  They were like, oh yeah, it's fucked. It's and I was like, there, what can we do? The radius of the circle is different at different point. And then you have a different shape.

• 2:01:03The Fat Electrician?

  The funniest part is even, even the rim company that was not the, the website.

• 2:01:08Speaker 05

  Oh, the second.

• 2:01:09The Fat Electrician?

  The manufacturer, the salesman, what are the problems of the salesman? Even the rim company reached out to you and apologized.

• 2:01:17Speaker 05

  Day one, dude, they're like, video uploaded, next day, call from said rim company on like the one that owned it. And four star, I will give a shout out to four star and Logan for like all the help. Cause they're like, yo, whoa, hey, we're all in an office right now, watching a video about, we can't make wheels. We don't want a fat electrician video on the history of the circle. What? So they were just like, hey, we got your wheels next. Like here. Hole. And I was like, thank you. We even put them on a car for you.

• 2:01:50Speaker 01

  Dude, Eli tells this entire story as if he didn't just bully a fucking GTA four car crash YouTube channel.

• 2:01:59Speaker 05

  It's nothing but GTA four videos from here on out. Thank you, daddy.

• 2:02:07Speaker 01

  Credits are always gonna say, thank you, riding.

• 2:02:10Speaker 05

  That's all I want, boy. I just want, thank you. We didn't any time a GTA four video pops up in that channel. Thank you, man.

• 2:02:17The Fat Electrician?

  What's the channel?

• 2:02:19Speaker 05

  It's a GATS.

• 2:02:21The Fat Electrician?

  That's the new unsub shirt. Wear more insane GATS content, question mark. Unsub branded merch.

• 2:02:28Speaker 05

  I'm not even making money from this. With great power comes great responsibility.

• 2:02:32The Fat Electrician?

  Some poor YouTuber out there is like, what do you do? I make content for riding. That's my whole job now.

• 2:02:40Speaker 05

  Fuck, they'll change it to a riding face. It's a riding re-uploading his content for.

• 2:02:47Speaker 03

  Insane gas.

• 2:02:49Speaker 05

  Insane gas.

• 2:02:50The Fat Electrician?

  Are you leaving the comment now?

• 2:02:52Speaker 03

  No, no, no, I'm just writing it down so I know where to.

• 2:02:55Speaker 05

  God, I always forget about the wheel company. Those poor, not the, the other people that did find out.

• 2:03:02The Fat Electrician?

  There is bad publicity.

• 2:03:04Speaker 05

  Do for dude, and that anytime when it comes to car, that's also they drove the forklift through my Y body kit and like broke it. And then they dropped it off. I had to call them. I was like, hey, y'all fucked this up. Like, no, we didn't. Like,

• 2:03:18Speaker 05

  well, who signed for this? Cause I went, you signed for it.

• 2:03:22Speaker 05

  I did. Yeah. Your name is, oh, it was the driver's name. Never mind. You didn't sign for it.

• 2:03:26The Fat Electrician?

  Yeah.

• 2:03:28Speaker 05

  So then I had to get it taken. They, they fixed it really, really fast. Thankfully, one of the few times rim company.

• 2:03:36Speaker 05

  Thank you.

• 2:03:42The Fat Electrician?

  It's a whole new level, boy. You know, I know what habitual line crosser, Ethan's wife, she's like, uh, so we, we flew out to, uh, Oklahoma. So, uh, we have, we have a show on Pepperbox called habitually fat, where me and Ethan just go to like military museums and like get a guided tour. It's like two hours long. Uh, it's really fun to shoot, but we flew out to Oklahoma to do, uh, they have an air defender. It's technically not a museum because everything in there isn't de-milled. Oh, it's, but it's like a museum where they take all the air defenders and they walk it through and give them the whole history from like world war one.

• 2:04:17Speaker 05

  Oh, wow.

• 2:04:18The Fat Electrician?

  Modern era. It's really cool.

• 2:04:20Speaker 05

  It's just, it's not a museum if it's not de-milled. So it's basically just an armory.

• 2:04:24The Fat Electrician?

  Yeah. It's, it's just an antique armory essentially up to modern era. And, uh, we, I flew out to Oklahoma to go to Fort Sill. I flew Fen, our camera guy out and I'm like, woke, got there at night, went to the hotel, woke up. I was at a waffle house across the street. And I get a call from Ethan. He's like, hey, uh, public affairs just found out that you were coming and they pulled it. Even though I had permission from the air defender chain of command and, um,

• 2:04:51The Fat Electrician?

  And the museum, they're just like, well, we need 90 days to review his content. He might be doing a hit piece for the military. I was like, fucking Google me. It'll be overwhelmingly apparent. That's not what I'm doing. And

• 2:05:01Speaker 03

  He's like, well, now I will.

• 2:05:02The Fat Electrician?

  Right. I'm like scrambling to like, find a different museum that we can just make something, get a piece of content. Cause I paid for these flights. I got my camera guy out here, like just trying to get something out of it.

• 2:05:13Speaker 01

  Turns out not a whole lot. Fort Sill, right?

• 2:05:15The Fat Electrician?

  Yeah. There was a cowboy museum we were gonna go to.

• 2:05:18Speaker 01

  Really?

• 2:05:18The Fat Electrician?

  Yeah. So

• 2:05:19Speaker 01

  I'm immediately back in.

• 2:05:21The Fat Electrician?

  I called Eli and Eli's like, I could, I could call that one number of the guys we know. I was like, do it. And, uh, so Eli calls and like 15 minutes later, Fort Sill gets a call from, you have to bleep this part out. Fort Sill gets a call from the

• 2:05:39The Fat Electrician?

  telling them to let me on the base to do whatever the fuck I want.

• 2:05:44Speaker 01

  And give them a white claw.

• 2:05:46The Fat Electrician?

  And, uh, so I got to go on boat, on base and Ethan's like explaining it to his wife. And she's like, I love how these guys just strive to be the bigger bullies all the time.

• 2:05:58Speaker 01

  Only when bullied.

• 2:05:59Speaker 03

  Yeah, exactly.

• 2:06:00The Fat Electrician?

  Be the bigger bully.

• 2:06:01Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 2:06:01Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 2:06:02Speaker 03

  Yeah. So let me ask you something. Have you ever been any of like the, the really big international military museums? So the, the, the two that I've been to that really stand out is one in Paris, the, the, I think it's the Eco Militaire. Um, and then they have the Infalatus. That's where like Napoleon's tomb is.

• 2:06:20Speaker 01

  Is that where they, uh, they put up all the, or they display all of the German equipment they left behind?

• 2:06:26Speaker 03

  Yeah. You, you go, what, what's cool about it is that you've got like the medieval period. So they've got like a full on horse in armor with a mounted knight. So you've got that. And then you go over to like the Napoleonic era. They've got like all of the various units within the grand army that are like just decked out with authentic uniforms and the whole deal. That's super cool. But surprisingly, one of the coolest military museums I ever went to was South Korea. Yeah. South Korea's, South Korea's Military Museum is better than anything I've ever seen in the United States as far as a military museum. It's like five stories where you go back and they've got like, um, like, you know, like, what is it? Yisun she, um, he was like a famous Admiral that like fought the Japanese. The turtle boats? Yes.

• 2:07:11Speaker 03

  Yes. So they've got all of this stuff. Why is that familiar? It's like a whole story. There was actually a movie called, uh, The Admiral, uh, which is a South Korean movie. It's about like, he literally had 13 ships against like over technically it was 300 Japanese ships, but it was really like a hundred and 20 like combat ships for, but still like he had 13 ships. Holy. One turtle ship. So almost 10-1. What's a turtle ship? I'll show you right now. It's like, think of like an, uh, like it's a big boat that like has an iron clad component on it with like spikes and then it has a cannon. Yeah, it's, it's pretty.

• 2:07:47The Fat Electrician?

  Basically like, uh,

• 2:07:49Speaker 03

  Okay, when was this battle?

• 2:07:50The Fat Electrician?

  It's like what the smartest do with their shields and just have the spears pointing out, but it's the boat version.

• 2:07:55Speaker 03

  Yeah. That's okay. What is this story? I've never heard of this. Admiral Master and Commander, I think is, or no, no, that's, that's that one with fricking, what's his face? But no, it's called The Admiral. It's like South Korean. It's movie, but this, it is a badass movie. It's awesome. I've seen it like six times. Uh, but you go to their museum and like I said, it is like, it is one of the best war museums I have ever seen. This is Japan just. No, this is South Korea. Well, no, but Japan trying to infiltrate. Yeah, yeah. When, when Japan did their invasions, it was right after like the warnings, uh, well, not the war states period of China, but you had. Right before the Edo period. Yeah, yeah. So you, you had like the Shogun period and whatnot and, um, oh, I'm trying

• 2:08:36Speaker 03

  to remember the guy's name, but anyway, they launched the several invasions of, uh, Korea and Yisun she, I think is his, Yisun C, I think is the, um, the name of the South Korean Admiral, but just in epic stories like incredible, like Yisun she, there, there was a, the, the Japanese managed to infiltrate the South Korean court. And the first time Yisun she saved South Korea from a Japanese invasion, they infiltrated the Jap, uh, the South Korean court convinced them that Yisun she was a traitor, literally like they tortured him. And retired him and then the Japanese invaded again, destroyed his South Korean fleet. They brought him back. He had like 13 ships to work with.

• 2:09:16Speaker 03

  He was ordered to abandon the fleet and basically cannibalize his troops to become a part of the South Korean like army or not South Korea, but Korean army, Joseon period.

• 2:09:28Speaker 03

  He basically, you know, refused to follow the orders and then with his 13 ships, turned back a 300 ship Japanese invasion fleet. And, and you look at the story of it, it's just, it's just incredible. The guy eventually died defeating like the third Japanese invasion. And he, he essentially ordered himself to be propped up.

• 2:09:53Speaker 03

  As he was dying, as he had like, he was mortally wounded because he didn't want his, his, you know, the sailors to lose, you know, heart. Won the battle and then it was like, oh man, he's dead. Right. But.

• 2:10:04Speaker 05

  Wild.

• 2:10:04Speaker 03

  No, dude, it's, it's a, and again, the way they did the Admiral, I, I gotta tell you, man, the Chinese and the Koreans, they just have badass war flicks.

• 2:10:12Speaker 05

  They're, yeah, very, very good.

• 2:10:15Speaker 03

  Especially if you like that era, like Red Cliff was a great, great war.

• 2:10:19Speaker 05

  You are speaking Eli's language. Like any of their war movies.

• 2:10:23Speaker 03

  It's.

• 2:10:24Speaker 05

  For so long and from martial arts movies to war movies.

• 2:10:27Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 2:10:27Speaker 05

  You think America for war movies, but they do really, really good World War II flicks too.

• 2:10:33Speaker 03

  So you know that most of the Clint Eastwood movies, or most of like the cowboy movies are based off of Japanese.

• 2:10:39Speaker 05

  That's why you have, yeah.

• 2:10:43Speaker 05

  My guy knows it.

• 2:10:44Speaker 03

  Oh, yeah, yeah.

• 2:10:45Speaker 05

  Toshiro Mifune is the main.

• 2:10:47Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 2:10:47Speaker 05

  Kira Kurosawa.

• 2:10:48Speaker 03

  He's the Clint Eastwood.

• 2:10:49Speaker 05

  Yeah, exactly.

• 2:10:50Speaker 03

  Oh, they're awesome. They're awesome.

• 2:10:52Speaker 05

  Oh, even Star Wars is based off of.

• 2:10:55Speaker 03

  I didn't know that.

• 2:10:56Speaker 05

  Oh yeah. Star Wars is based off of Kira Kurosawa's.

• 2:11:01Speaker 03

  The Janus films.

• 2:11:03The Fat Electrician?

  So I think it's, oh, we're getting into my favorite conspiracy.

• 2:11:09The Fat Electrician?

  Every, every Jedi is supposed to have like a different fighting style that's supposed to be mirrored off of Kung Fu.

• 2:11:15Speaker 03

  The hidden fortress.

• 2:11:17Speaker 05

  Literally what is based off of one of Toshiro.

• 2:11:20Speaker 03

  Oh dang, I'm gonna have to look that up.

• 2:11:22The Fat Electrician?

  You know about, you know about Darth Jar Jar, right?

• 2:11:25Speaker 03

  Oh dude, yeah, but he's actually Sith Lord.

• 2:11:28The Fat Electrician?

  Well, that's what, that's like part of it is, uh, cause every Jedi is a different, uh, Kung Fu style.

• 2:11:32Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 2:11:32The Fat Electrician?

  Crane, Mantis, blah, blah, blah. Well, he's drunken fist.

• 2:11:35Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 2:11:36The Fat Electrician?

  And that's his thing. Yeah. Just being an idiot. Yeah. Somehow being outrageously combat effective.

• 2:11:41Speaker 03

  They are just trying to rehabilitate a horrible character.

• 2:11:43The Fat Electrician?

  I don't care. I loved him. He was hilarious.

• 2:11:47Speaker 03

  Did you, I didn't even watch the last Star Wars. Like I refused to like, I, I remember watching, uh, what was it freaking? What was the first one that came out under the, uh? The Force Awakens. The Force Awakens. Oh my gosh. I watched that. I'm like, this is the worst retread of a new hope I've ever seen. And.

• 2:12:05Speaker 05

  Did you hate their, like Phantom Menace and stuff?

• 2:12:08Speaker 03

  I didn't hate it. I didn't like it.

• 2:12:10The Fat Electrician?

  Okay. So it's that older, dude, eh, watch it. Like everyone that is younger, like, ah, it's great.

• 2:12:16Speaker 03

  No, it is not great. It is not great. No, it is not great.

• 2:12:20The Fat Electrician?

  I was a child, so it was awesome to me.

• 2:12:22Speaker 03

  I was a child.

• 2:12:24The Fat Electrician?

  Look, I will say this, it's acceptable.

• 2:12:26Speaker 03

  I was in sixth grade when it came out.

• 2:12:27The Fat Electrician?

  You were in sixth grade. You weren't six asshole. Sorry. What year were you born?

• 2:12:33Speaker 03

  Ninety-four.

• 2:12:34The Fat Electrician?

  I was like, I was like six.

• 2:12:37Speaker 03

  No, you were like one. Wait, when were you born? Wait, how old were you?

• 2:12:40The Fat Electrician?

  Phantom Menace came out in nineteen ninety-nine. I'm almost positive.

• 2:12:43Speaker 03

  I'm the only one here.

• 2:12:43The Fat Electrician?

  Phantom Menace came out in nineteen ninety-nine. Cause I was five or six.

• 2:12:46Speaker 03

  Okay, you were five. Yeah.

• 2:12:48The Fat Electrician?

  It was the first memory I have of going to a movie theater with my parents ever.

• 2:12:51Speaker 03

  That really?

• 2:12:52The Fat Electrician?

  Yes. So I got like, I love it because of that.

• 2:12:55Speaker 03

  You know, and look, that's, that's acceptable. I'm not.

• 2:12:57The Fat Electrician?

  That was Star Wars for me also.

• 2:12:59Speaker 05

  That's why you like it.

• 2:13:00The Fat Electrician?

  The thing that drives me nuts and like a big part of the reason I think I'm like as successful I am with YouTube is I.

• 2:13:08The Fat Electrician?

  Hate telling stories out of chronological order. Like books, everybody else, like anytime we're doing flashback shit.

• 2:13:15Speaker 03

  Autism.

• 2:13:16The Fat Electrician?

  Like, I hate, no, we're doing shit. He was born here. He died here. We're filling shit in chronologically. The entire time. So like, part of me is just like, okay, episode, we're starting at episode one because obviously, and then I get to episode four and it's like, why the fuck is this made out of clay now? This is horseshit.

• 2:13:33Speaker 03

  These are puppets.

• 2:13:34The Fat Electrician?

  We're wrong. Like, as I got older, I can appreciate the actual storytelling of it or whatever, but like, as a child, trying to understand, like, why, what the fuck happened between three and four? Why do the graphics suck? Yo, this is a muppet now. I'm pissed.

• 2:13:50Speaker 03

  Well, it's, you ever heard you're so OCD, you're CDO because you gotta put it in alphabetical order?

• 2:13:56The Fat Electrician?

  No, look, I can, I can.

• 2:13:57Speaker 03

  No budget we had.

• 2:14:00Speaker 03

  I can appreciate that, but it's like, we're, we're at a point right now where.

• 2:14:03Speaker 05

  Exist computers do not.

• 2:14:05The Fat Electrician?

  I will say.

• 2:14:06Speaker 03

  The Kennedy era needs to just be, like, locked in a box, thrown in the ocean and forgotten about for 20 years, and then they can rehabilitate it. Same thing with, same thing with freaking Rings of Power. Like, what they did to Tolkien, I just want to.

• 2:14:20The Fat Electrician?

  Yeah.

• 2:14:21Speaker 03

  Somebody needs to be beaten.

• 2:14:22The Fat Electrician?

  Complete opposite on that side of the spectrum. I don't, I don't enjoy the film as much if I know every actor didn't have to sit in makeup for 17 hours before filming. We can CGI it. No, you can't. Sit your ass in the chair.

• 2:14:38Speaker 05

  What's, who played Gimli that he was allergic to it? So he fucking hates that movie with a passion.

• 2:14:45Speaker 03

  Oh, wow.

• 2:14:45Speaker 05

  The main actor of Gimli.

• 2:14:47The Fat Electrician?

  Good. It bled through in the character.

• 2:14:48Speaker 05

  Oh, dude.

• 2:14:49The Fat Electrician?

  Exactly what I want.

• 2:14:50Speaker 03

  Just, they did a great.

• 2:14:52Speaker 05

  Angry dwarf.

• 2:14:53The Fat Electrician?

  Yeah.

• 2:14:53Speaker 05

  They did a great job. He despised that role just because of that.

• 2:14:57The Fat Electrician?

  I still enjoyed The Hobbit, though.

• 2:15:00Speaker 03

  I didn't, The Hobbit gets trashed a lot. I thought it was good.

• 2:15:02The Fat Electrician?

  I enjoyed it. I fucking hate the elves. Nothing made me hate the elves more than The Hobbit. It's like, oh, here's the, here's the dwarves showing up riding.

• 2:15:11Speaker 05

  War pigs.

• 2:15:11The Fat Electrician?

  Pigs.

• 2:15:12Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 2:15:12The Fat Electrician?

  With war hammers. Oh, oh my God, they built a three level high, perfect goddamn shield wall. What did the elves do? Let's.

• 2:15:20Speaker 03

  Go over it.

• 2:15:22The Fat Electrician?

  What a fucking idiot.

• 2:15:23Speaker 03

  Ever, right?

• 2:15:24The Fat Electrician?

  Holy shit. Why don't you just stand over the short guys with spears and go like this, you idiots?

• 2:15:30Speaker 03

  A shield wall. What are you doing?

• 2:15:34Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 2:15:35Speaker 03

  Dumbest thing ever.

• 2:15:36The Fat Electrician?

  You know what I mean? You think China built the Great Wall? They're like, you know what'd be really good if we sent all the soldiers on the other side of it? That'd be perfect.

• 2:15:42Speaker 03

  Oh.

• 2:15:42The Fat Electrician?

  No, it'd be fucking stupid.

• 2:15:44Speaker 03

  But that was, it was, it was almost as bad. It was almost as bad as season eight of

• 2:15:50Speaker 01

  Game of Thrones.

• 2:15:51Speaker 03

  Game of Thrones, where it's like, you know what we should do? We should take all of our trebuchets and put them way out front where they can be eliminated first. And then you know what we should also do? We should just take all of our cavalry and just run them headlong into the army of the dead.

• 2:16:04Speaker 01

  Before we fire any of the trebuchets.

• 2:16:06Speaker 03

  Fire any of them. Yeah.

• 2:16:07Speaker 01

  Before we fire in it. Don't use your artillery first. Send the horses.

• 2:16:10Speaker 03

  It's like you, you couldn't like, you could have called two nerds and they could have like walked you through the process of how to do this correctly.

• 2:16:19Speaker 01

  But I love they do the surprise Pikachu when all the cavalry die. Whoa, we sent them into battle unsupported and all the lights went out?

• 2:16:27Speaker 03

  What? Operation Human Shield.

• 2:16:32Speaker 03

  Operation.

• 2:16:34Speaker 03

  We can't say the other one, right?

• 2:16:37Speaker 03

  I remember that particular stop, probably.

• 2:16:41Speaker 03

  Wait, what? Human Shield Battalion.

• 2:16:44The Fat Electrician?

  I have a, I have a great story for you. Uh, I finished the video before I came here. Flux finishing the edit for it now. Uh, so I did a video. I told you this last night.

• 2:16:52Speaker 01

  Last night, yeah.

• 2:16:53The Fat Electrician?

  I did a video on, uh, Joe Foss. Uh, so he was the other hero of Guadalcanal after John Basilone. So Joe Foss was a marine aviator in the Cactus Air Force. Dude shows up and they pull up off of Guadalcanal and they wake him up at like midnight. They're like, hey, uh, we're just gonna have to launch your ass in your Wildcat fighter at night, which is not, you're not supposed to fly Wildcats at night. They're not night fighters. They don't have night. They're like, Japanese Navy surrounded the island. We can't get any closer. We're just gonna have to fucking get you. You're gonna have to fly in there and sneak in. So he flies in and sneaks in and like his first nine days, I think he shoots down like 12 Japanese planes and he ends up tying

• 2:17:35The Fat Electrician?

  Eddie Rickenbacker for, uh, 26 and setting the American record. He became like America's first ace of aces of World War II. And, uh, but he has this story where he goes up. And he shoots down, uh, he shoots down two zeros and his guys shoot down the other four. And they just wipe out this whole flight of Japanese zeros and he goes and like banks and turns around. And when he turns around, there's just like several empty Japanese parachutes with like the back rig just floating empty. And he's like, the fuck? Well, he had no idea at the time. Is this was 1942 or very early 43 before anybody understood like the Bushido, like Japanese would like

• 2:18:17The Fat Electrician?

  rather die than surrender or be captured or whatever, the whole dishonor thing. So he's just like, the fuck, where'd the guys go? And then he comes up on one dude still in his parachute and he's like, I watched him unbuckle and plummet to his death. And he's just like, huh?

• 2:18:33The Fat Electrician?

  All right. And then he just goes and lands his plane.

• 2:18:36Speaker 05

  Well, they would jump out and then they would just fucking, oh, I'm in my parachute.

• 2:18:39The Fat Electrician?

  They'd jump out the parachute and then do like, all right.

• 2:18:42Speaker 01

  And what's the clip you're gonna use after that?

• 2:18:43The Fat Electrician?

  Oh yeah. The clip that I'm having fluck edit in the thing is, uh, from the good guys.

• 2:18:48Speaker 01

  Or the nice guys?

• 2:18:49The Fat Electrician?

  The nice guys, when the dudes, when they go back in the elevator and the dude falls from behind him. And then it's going to immediately cut to Dana White at the press conference. That was weird, huh?

• 2:19:04Speaker 05

  Is that your next big story you're doing?

• 2:19:05The Fat Electrician?

  Uh, yeah, it should come out here in a couple of days. I think the 31st will come out.

• 2:19:09Speaker 05

  Get that good Nick content. Think on that note, fuckin', we can close it down and go to the.

• 2:19:15Speaker 01

  Before we do that, I've got one question though. So you've got all of the, your political stuff, you're kind of, it's coming to a close.

• 2:19:23The Fat Electrician?

  Yeah.

• 2:19:24Speaker 01

  Uh, you know, your kids are going off and you know, starting to become successful in their own right, which is awesome. What's next for you, man?

• 2:19:30The Fat Electrician?

  He's hanging out in the naked room.

• 2:19:32Speaker 05

  I already told you.

• 2:19:35Speaker 03

  Yeah. Well, how did that nurse outfit show up, honey?

• 2:19:38Speaker 01

  Kitchen counter's back.

• 2:19:41Speaker 03

  He must've ordered that on Amazon.

• 2:19:42Speaker 01

  I know the kitchen counter's back in play, but.

• 2:19:45Speaker 05

  There's no surface is safe.

• 2:19:48The Fat Electrician?

  No, no, no, not that cutting board. The other cutting board.

• 2:19:55Speaker 05

  Yeah, mom and dad can visit me.

• 2:19:57Speaker 03

  That one's for a different kind of charcuterie.

• 2:20:05Speaker 05

  You said what?

• 2:20:09Speaker 01

  Your wife doesn't watch your interviews at all, does she?

• 2:20:12Speaker 03

  She do, yeah, sometimes. Anyway, no, I think two, two things. I mean, we'll still, how do I get serious now? Well, you know, some of we already kind of talked about, like the homeschooling and the whole young men thing. I, I think we're at a point, just kind of culture in the United States where, uh, young men are going to revolt. There's been this absolute onslaught on what I would, you might call traditional masculinity, what I call biblical masculinity. It's the idea that men are supposed to protect, we're supposed to provide, we're supposed to do these things. And, um, and that's the way it's supposed to be. And, um, but we're, we're at, we're at a point right now where I think a lot of young men have just been told that there's something wrong with them.

• 2:20:53Speaker 03

  And that they're responsible for, I, I think it's fascinating. They've been simultaneously told that they're stupid, fat, lazy and worthless. But they've also somehow managed to infiltrate every single social, economic or political institution to uphold the patriarchy. Like, which is it?

• 2:21:06Speaker 01

  Yeah. But if you're not stupid, fat and worthless, then you're alt-right.

• 2:21:10Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah. And, and, um,

• 2:21:12Speaker 01

  You work out and try to build something of yourself and climb the social hierarchy?

• 2:21:16Speaker 03

  Yeah. You're, you're, there's something wrong with you. You're bad. And so some of it, we were, we're very, my wife and I are both very, very passionate about trying to provide like greater

• 2:21:26Speaker 03

  capability or, um, resources with respect to people, the parents that want to take a little bit more control of their, their kids' education. I, I think there's a huge market right now for, you know, reinforcing the young men that, yeah, you are supposed to be strong. You're supposed to be competent. You're supposed to do all these things, but it has to be in service to something, right? It can't just be in service to your own, like hedonistic pleasures. It has to be in service to, you know, you know, God, your family, your country. Because again, men thrive under responsibility. And, um, we, we started doing, when we started really getting into social media, um, it was funny. I was talking to Tina a while back and, and obviously we talk about politics a lot. Um, and we'll, we'll continue to, but I, I, I call it, what do I get stopped at the airport for?

• 2:22:09Speaker 03

  And what I've noticed is I don't get stopped at the airport for people saying, I really loved your political hot takes.

• 2:22:14Speaker 01

  It's usually your cool gun by TSA.

• 2:22:22Speaker 03

  But uh, no, no, it's, it's the, the stuff that always has the most, the stuff that always has the most meaning to me is when it's usually a young father coming up going, I got, I have a little girl and I've been watching your videos on, on how to be a good girl dad and it's, it's really impacted me and I'm, I'm doing those things you suggest. I'm telling my daughter I love her. I'm spending time with her. I'm, you know, or it's something with like, I got a little boy and I'm, and I'm trying to like, you know, help teach him how to be a man. Or

• 2:22:47Speaker 01

  So your, your goal is to crash the uh, next generation OnlyFans market?

• 2:22:51Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah, yeah. Completely just destroy that. It's like, yeah.

• 2:22:55Speaker 01

  Raise a generation of good fathers.

• 2:22:57Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah. Good. Yeah. No, and, and it's true. Um, there, there's, there are very few problems that you see within American society right now that can't be solved by, uh, I think a good, God fearing dad that's strong, competent and intelligent. And, um, we need a whole lot more of it. And, um, and, and men need to know that it, it's, it's not only okay, it's absolutely necessary. There is no, so this, this whole idea that we don't need men in society. Okay. Until you gotta fight a fire, a war, a police streets, then all of a sudden we're popular again? Screw you. Um, and so I, I, the, the more we can do to kind of build that, where we're building strong families, strong young men, strong young women. Um, that's what, that's what we're passionate about. So.

• 2:23:37Speaker 01

  Hell yeah.

• 2:23:37Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 2:23:39Speaker 05

  Love it. Sweet.

• 2:23:41Speaker 01

  Well, now that we're, now that I'm fired up, uh, early Friday afternoon, you are, we're gonna go ahead and call it?

• 2:23:48Speaker 05

  Yeah, then we'll go after show and have fun there.

• 2:23:52Speaker 01

  Thank you guys so much for watching the unsubscribe podcast. Again, I was joined today by Eli Double Tap, Fat Electrician, Nick Freitas. Where'd we find you?

• 2:24:00Speaker 03

  Virgin, oh, we made it easy. Virginia, Virginia, at virginia.com. No, yeah, they, Nick J. Freitas, we made it easy. If you just type in Nick Freitas or anything close, you'll, you'll find us on YouTube, Instagram and everywhere else.

• 2:24:14Speaker 01

  Awesome. Well, thank you guys so much for joining us. We will see you either in the next episode or on the Patreon after show. Bye bye.

• 2:24:21Speaker 05

  Love you.

• 2:24:57Speaker 00

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