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Why Every Pro Needs a USB Hardware Key | Ryan McBeth DSH #1146
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Discover why every pro should have a USB hardware key and how it’s revolutionizing online security in this episode of the Digital Social Hour with Sean Kelly! Joined by Ryan McBeth, we explore how this small device can protect your data, prevent...
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Maybe one of the reasons I can like both Sebastian Gorka and. And Stephen Bottles and Destiny, it's that you have two people who are very passionate, and you have two people who really care about America just in different ways.
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Right.
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You know, like they did and, you know, like, you can talk about left wing, right wing, but a bird needs both to fly.
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All right, guys, Ryan Macbeth is here today. We're back, and we got a lot to talk about. Show. And he brought some good advice.
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One of the smartest things you could get is a USB hardware key. You plug this into your computer, and essentially when you try to log into a website, unless this hardware token is detected inside your computer, you can't get in.
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B
Really? Wow.
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A
Everything. Everything I have is locked with a hardware key.
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B
Wow. But what if you lose that?
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A
Well, you have a second one. Oh, now I did. Sean, thank you so much for inviting me back. I did bring you gifts because.
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B
Wow.
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A
Because I love you so. Of course. Whiskey.
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B
Maker's Mark. This is Dana's, right? Dana White.
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A
This is correct.
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Yeah, I've seen him drink this stuff. Thank you.
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And my novel, the Wind Machine.
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Let's go. Number six in psychological thrillers, right?
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Financial thrillers.
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Financial thrillers.
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It is number six in financial thrillers on Amazon.
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I love it.
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I didn't even know that was a category, but imagine Dr. Strange owned a hedge fund. And that's essentially. Essentially my book. This guy, hedge fund manager, predicts a war with China.
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B
Really? So that's what you wrote about.
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And it's apparently like, people like it. And what's great crazy is this book is about 80% meetings and people freaking love it. I don't know what the heck it is. Like, why do you like this book so much? After I wrote it, when you write a book, and this is only, I guess, the second time I've written a book, I only did it because my fans asked for it. I'm not a writer. But after I read the book, wrote the book. You read it 20 freaking times during the editing process with the editor. And I was like, oh, my God, this whole book is about meetings. Because these people who work for the hedge fund, they just go to meeting after meeting after meeting to decide what's going on, but people freaking love it. And it's exciting.
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B
I mean, people like the show suits, and that was all meetings, I guess, you know.
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A
Yeah, you're right. Or maybe what was that other show? Succession.
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B
Succession. Yeah, the office, I guess there's a lot of office was more than meetings. But, yeah, I think people are captivated with the. The China possibility of a war. You know, it's, It's.
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It's very. It's terrifying in a lot of ways because they are slowly gaining this capability. Just recently, Hi, Sutton, who runs the COVID Shores. The COVID Shores Twitter account. He also has a YouTube account as well. He talked about landing margins. Have you been to Taiwan?
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I haven't. I've been to Beijing, not Taiwan.
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So apparently China's constructed these floating piers, floating barges, slash piers. And the idea is that these barges have a ramp, you know, like those siege towers. Like when you're watching those medieval. Yeah, you know, where the. Comes down. So if you look at Taiwan, they only have, like, three beaches, but the rest of the island is rocky. And there's usually like a ring road that goes around the island, at least on the. On the western, northwestern part of the island. So the idea is that these barges roll up, they drop the ramp down like that. The tanks come right off the ramp. And these barges, they are essentially jack barges where they put these jacks into the sediment and they're semi permanent. Right. Like, they're designed to be there for just as long as it takes to conduct the operation. And you throw the boat away. But there is no civilian use for these boats. Zero civilian use.
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B
Wow.
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So they've constructed at least six, I believe, jack barges. Five or six jack barges with roadways of different lengths, which might be because, like, hey, different areas of Taiwan need different lengths to reach out to that ring road.
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So.
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Hi. Sutton just did a video about that, and literally the other day I did a video about signs were we're going to see China considering invading Taiwan, one of which is blood drives. It's actually in this book.
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B
What is a blood drive?
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Well, you know when you go to the Red Cross and you donate blood. Oh, right. So when you go to the Red Cross and you donate blood, you're going to need to do that for soldiers who are wounded in China. Just culturally, you don't donate blood. And a lot of that goes.
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Really screen the blood that well and people who were donating plasma and blood got hiv.
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B
Okay.
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And so just like in China, it's, it's just not something you do. But if we start seeing the Chinese government encourage people to donate blood, we're going to have a Guinness book of world record for blood donated on one day.
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B
Yeah, because they got over a billion.
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Right. That's, that's a sign that China might be considering invading Taiwan. So is moving away from the swift banking system. They have their own system called chips which is mainly used by Chinese banks talking to other Chinese banks. But if China says, hey, you need to use our banking system if you want to do business in China, that's another possible indicator. But I feel like I'm overwhelming this conversation because this is your podcast.
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B
I'm interested. I'm interested. You know, there's always been talks of China, Taiwan, but it's seeming like it's increasing possibility as the days go on.
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I mean, if you're building invasion ships. Yeah. And I've said before that that the two most likely times to invade are 2017, 2000, 20, 2027. That's when President Xi has said China's the PLA and the PLAF. People's Liberation Plaque, People's Liberation Army, PLAF, People's Liberation Army Air Force Plan People's Liberation Army, Navy. They must be ready to invade Taiwan by 2027. If I were Chinese and China's culture is 5000 years old. You think America has culture? Wait till you hear about China. Right? 5,000 years of culture.
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Yeah.
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They can wait. They can wait an extra year. That's what I would do. I would wait an extra year until 2028. What happens in 2028? Presidential election. So now you're going to have, most likely, J.D. vance running for president, along with several Democratic contenders.
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B
They'll.
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They'll. They'll find someone, right? Gavin Newsome. They'll find someone.
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B
He's under a lot of heat right now.
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Literally.
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B
Yeah, literally.
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Literally. Literally a lot of heat. Maybe we should have cleared that brush. I think I told you that this is actually, this can. This can go both ways. You can talk about the wildfires. You talk about Tik Tok. So you had talked about, like, Ryan, you know, what were some of the items of misinformation.
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B
Yeah.
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That you saw in California wildfires. And one of the things I've seen, I've seen like three, basically. The first is I've seen people talk about, oh, California is only getting $770 payments. Sold out from the government they are getting. But it was the same in the Maui wildfires. It was the same in North Carolina. When the disaster happens, FEMA rolls into town, they say, here's a gift card for seven hundred and some dollars. Use that to buy infant formula, go to Walmart, get yourself some new clothes, medications, whatever you need. Come back tomorrow and fill out your stuff for the real aid that people are fixated on that $700 thing. So that's one of the things. The other was that it was Alex Jones, which. Okay. Who said that firefighters were using handbags to put out fires because their engines had been sent to Ukraine. And really, apparently there are these canvas bags that firefighters use almost like as a bucket brigade thing when you don't need to bring a hose. You just need like a little bit of water to dump on the fire. And so really that was what they were using. They're not handbags. They're. Well, they are hand bags. They're not like Birkin bags. Got it.
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Was there any equipment sent to Ukraine, though?
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I believe the US or other NATO nations have sent firefighting equipment and ambulances. I know that we've, we've had, I think Jake Bro, you know, Jake bro, I don't know. He's out of Las Vegas. You should have Jake bro on your show. I will get you in touch with Jake.
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B
Please.
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I love Vegas. An amazing human being.
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B
Jake, bro.
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Jake, bro. B R O E. He was a former. He's a former missile guy. Missileman in the Air Force. So he sat next to nuclear. Well, the. He didn't sit next to nuclear missiles. They're like a couple miles away. But he's in a capsule, his finger over the button of a nuclear. Nuclear missile. Learned a lot about nuclear missiles from him. But he's had fun drives where he's tried to raise money to bring ambulances, bring trucks.
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B
Got it.
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A
And the third thing, I just heard this in the Uber coming over here today, where this woman said, yeah, the government started the fires because the government started the fires in California because they wanted to create a smart city and put a chip in everybody's hand. And I mean, like, look, we already have a chip in our hand, right? We carry this around voluntarily. You know, we give up our data. Yes. Apple, Here. Here's our data. Please take it. You know, give me an easier way to check out by going like that with our phone. Really? On our wrist. I actually remember back when they said the sign of the beast was going to be on your head or on your wrist. Right. Something like that. Like this, this Christian notion of the Antichrist and you need something on your head or your hand to pay for goods and, you know, now you got your Apple watch and you got your freaking Apple goggles. What are those called?
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Oh, the Apple Google Glasses Pro or something. Apple Vision Pro. Yeah. And now the Facebook has one. The Meta glasses with Ray Ban.
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I don't know if you can pay for stuff, but maybe.
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B
Yeah, I'm not sure. I know it records people now.
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That's nuts.
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B
Yeah. So you could just be somewhere and recording people without them knowing.
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I can only imagine. Well, there's got to be a light that comes on, right?
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I don't know. Someone told me they had them on the other day and I didn't even notice it. So I think it's pretty subtle.
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A
That's amazing.
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B
Yeah. Obviously there's a lot of people saying there's foul play in that fire situation, but you pride yourself on being evidence based, so.
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Yeah, I mean, I wouldn't doubt that. There's probably people who, like, I know this happened in New Orleans where after the flood, Hurricane Katrina, some houses were flooded. And then I know some people were like paying cops, like, here's $5,000. Please go into my neighborhood, find this house, light this house on fire.
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B
What?
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Because if you don't have Flood insurance. But your house floods, you're out of luck. If you do have flood insurance, you're going to be okay. If you don't have flood insurance, your house floods and then it burns down. Now you get the money.
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Wow.
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So people were paying New Orleans police officers. Hey, go in.
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Yeah. I saw Andrew Huberman posted a video of someone literally lighting a fire.
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I could. I mean, I could picture that. I could picture something like, you know what? My ex wife lives in this neighborhood. Yeah, I'm gonna get her.
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But there's also people saying the actual start of the fires were like, you.
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Know, I mean, who could be anything? Careless, smoking, campfires, freaking. You have pyromaniacs all over the place, Right?
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Yeah.
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And that whole area. I mean, I guess we're at the point now we're kind of realizing this wasn't well managed. Right. Like you have. I'm not a forest person. I don't know how you manage a forest, but I assume keeping dead brush on the floor of the forest probably isn't a good idea.
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Yeah.
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You know, but I also. I don't know how you stop 100 mile an hour winds.
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True.
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Like, how do you, you know, if there's a small fire, winds make it into a big fire and the embers fly over. I don't know how you fix that. Maybe through tile roofs, like roofs that can't catch on fire. But you know, if you get vegetation catching on fire and then your windows melt or blow out because of the. Well, no, everything in your house is. It might be fireproof to a certain degree.
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B
Yeah. I saw a crazy video yesterday. Chinese government. I don't know if it's Chinese government, but the firefighters in China have these drones. I don't know if you've seen this video. We'll throw it up, but they can shoot water out of them. And there was a burning building and they used these drones to shoot water at it.
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How big are these drones? Because water is pretty heavy.
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Yeah, it's not a lot of water. They have to keep refueling coming back, but sounds like the Chinese have some very advanced drones. You would know about that more than me, though.
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Yeah, I guess I would know about that. I'm actually not familiar with that. I would think that firefighting drones would probably be more useful at spotting fires, using thermal cameras to say, hey, there's a hot spot here, there's a hot spot there. Let's get a water tanker on that. I don't see why you couldn't turn a drone into the size of a Helicopter and make that unmanned and have that. You know, take that with a Bambi bucket, which are those buckets that, you know, come down, they dip into the. Dip into the water and fly over whatever. I mean, the difference between controlling a small drone and controlling a helicopter, the Bambi bucket, that's. It shouldn't be that different. You're gonna have to account for the extra weight and the whole pendulum effect of the Bambi bucket.
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B
Yeah, these ones seemed pretty big. And it was a high rise building, so that makes sense because the fi. Regular firefighters wouldn't able to reach that high.
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A
Right. I. You know, when you take security classes, you know, when you work for the US Government, one of the things they say is don't ever get a hotel room above the sixth floor.
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B
Really?
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It's part of your security training. It's good to know, you know, like, ideally, like third floor, fourth floor, because you're. You're above where people can just like ground floor, walk into your hotel or smash your window and your stuff, or look for your stuff. And second or third floor, you're gonna survive a fall. Fourth floor, it's iffy. Fifth floor, you're not surviving that fall. You have to get out. Second floor, third floor, that's the optimum floor.
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B
That's so good to know.
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So if you. If. I mean, dude, anybody who works for the government, you've taken terrorist training. Like, they tell you how far away you should be from the exits of the hotel, because you want to be far enough away that people can't come up the stairs and quickly enter your room, but also close enough that you can reach the exit. Yeah, you should always know where the exits are. So when you get a hotel, you go like, all right, I'm here. Where's the closest exit? Where's the second closest exit? Because if there's a terrorist attack, where do I need to go?
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B
Yeah, and I watched the Shine Shawn Ryan show. There's that whistleblower. I forget her name, but she's basically talking about potential terrorist attacks. I don't know if you've seen that episode.
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I think it was Sarah Adams.
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I think it was.
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I don't really watch the show.
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Yeah, it was Sarah Adams. So, like, she's basically saying some weapons have gotten in the country. Have you seen that across the border?
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A
What kind of weapons?
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I'd have to look it up. But she was saying it got across the Mexican border.
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I mean, we have plenty of weapons here. You want a weapon, go buy one. She said, I'm not too concerned with like, you want to look, we. You. You can. You can go to a gun store, you can buy a semiautomatic rifle. It's a pretty darn effective weapon if you want to be a bad guy. And you look at the Mandalay Bay shooter, that guy might have. Oh, boy, I hope I don't get you demonetized.
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I think they're over that incident now.
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But you look at the Mandalay Base shooter, he probably would have been more effective if he didn't put a bump stock, you know, to simulate automatic fire on his weapon. He was in a perfect position, you know, an elevated position. So, yeah, I don't know if you need to worry about weapons getting into the country. We got plenty of guns here, and that's actually kind of a good thing. Right? Like, I'm armed right now. Really? Yeah. Wow. I have a carry permit in D.C. virginia, or in Maryland, so, you know, I, like. There is a terrorist attack, I mean, I'm going to be okay. Yeah, I'm sorry. Look, the gun isn't for killing the terrorists. It is if the terrorist is in my way. Between here and here and getting away, well, you know, at least I have a fighting chance, but. Yeah, you're not. You're. You're. You don't go and fight the terrorists. You use the gun to fight your way through any bad guys to get to safety.
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Yeah.
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You know I'm not John McClain, right? I'm not going after the terrorists. One good advantage about being in the United States is we are armed. And if there is a terrorist, he might not be a terrorist for very long. If there's a couple people in the crowd who aren't Mandalay Bay, that probably didn't matter because guys in the elevation, way high. You're not using a pistol against that.
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B
Yeah. I texted you before I came here because I was just seeing on X people were freaking out about the safety issues of the inauguration, you know, and now they moved it indoors.
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So it. I think there was. Who was it, Miller? Who was the guy? There was one president who died 30 days after the inauguration. I don't remember roughly a month after the inauguration because he caught a cold. Like they were in the cold. It's going to be really cold tomorrow, like 27 degrees. There's going to snow tonight. That's a safety issue. Not safety issue is like someone's going to shoot up the place. But think about safety issue in the sense of 27 degrees freezing cold. You have snipers? Really? Marksman, not snipers. Yeah, you have marksmen up on the roofs of some of these buildings laying there for hours in the cold. That is a safety issue for these guys. You have police officers out in the cold. You have soldiers out in the cold with. And some of our uniforms are really not designed for super cold weather.
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Right.
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They aren't Russians. You also have police. You have police horses. You know, think about. All right, can we bring a police horse out in 27 degree weather? Right. So that might be kind of an issue. Just, just. It's just. It's a force protection issue.
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B
Yeah.
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A
Right. So why not bring it inside? And I'm not too concerned about some sort of attack. I mean, B.C. dude, we do this all. Is this your first time here?
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Second, but.
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Second time here.
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B
The first time I was here for like a few hours. Yeah.
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Like this place is so used to it. I. I used to work on Connecticut or on. Yeah, Connecticut. Connecticut Avenue. And like we would see the Vice President's convoy go by all the time. Is his Suburbans. Right. All the time. And it just like the level of security is normal here. It. It's weird. You go into museums or just, just, just reg. Ever regular government buildings. Noah. The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, which is on my street.
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B
Yeah.
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In Silver Spring. Noah has armed guards. Right. Like, who's attacking Noah? It doesn't matter. It's a federal building. They have armed guards. You get X rayed when you walk into the building or you go through the metal detector. So you know, if there's one. One place that can handle some kind of crazy shooting incident.
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B
You see, we have cops, over 5,000 boots on the ground for the inauguration.
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A
It's a lot of people.
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B
Of military or police officers.
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It's a lot. Yeah, it's a lot of people. So that's more than. More than most towns.
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B
Yeah.
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When you think about it, I. What New York has. New York has 25,000 officers. It was 40. 25 or 45,000 officers.
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B
It's a lot. But New York, the public transit's not the safest right now. Being honest. And now with the congestion pricing. Yeah. I. I talk to women and they're scared to take the transit.
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A
Really?
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B
Yeah.
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A
I actually have to go up for another podcast on Tuesday, so I'm going up Monday. I'm going up Monday. I have a podcast on Tuesday. I'm doing up in New York.
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B
And you got your concealed permit, so you're good.
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A
Actually, my permit isn't valid in New York. If they get a separate.
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B
New York is pretty strict, I heard. Actually they're Pretty hard compared to other states.
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A
Well, that, that dude that goes back to the Sullivan act. So when, you know, New York was, was always mobbed up.
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B
Yeah.
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A
And when you, you pass the Sullivan act, essentially. So like these, these darn Irish immigrants don't get guns.
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B
Hey, I'm Irish.
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A
I know, I am too. Right. Well, we're, we're the, the right kind of Irish. They're from Northern Ireland. But the, the other kind of Irish that they didn't like, you know, they didn't want those guys to get guns. And Sullivan act was a way of preventing regular people from defending themselves. That way the gangsters who were paying the politicians would have Monopoly.
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B
Yeah. Do you think that was an effective thing to do?
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A
Doesn't seem like it. Right.
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B
Yeah. Because there's always that debate, if you ban guns, like, does it actually help?
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A
Probably not.
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Probably not.
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Right. But again, like if you, when you think about it, like, if you kind of. It's like this. It's a self fulfilling prophecy in a way. If it makes it, if you make it difficult to purchase firearms, then a lot of people will never grow up like that. How do most people encounter firearms? Well, their dad took them hunting. Right. Or they were in the military or whatever. But if you grow up without ever encountering a firearm, it's not a big deal to you. Years ago, I remember New Jersey banned the use of ATVs, altering, you know, those quads, you know, on state parks. And New Jersey said, don't worry, we're going to build three parks where you can ride these ATVs. I don't think they ever built them. Wow. But that was what they said. And I remember, I heard about that law and I thought, h, I don't care one bit about that. I've never been on an atv. I don't know anybody who owns an atv. And, and I, I don't. I have no intention of ever going on an ATV ever. Like, maybe if I'm on someone's farm, we need to go one place to the other. Right. Maybe I'll take an atv. I think a lot of people who grew up without firearms, whenever someone passes some wacky new firearm law, they go, I don't own a gun, I don't care.
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B
Good point.
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A
And then because something like Covid comes along and they go, crap, I need a gun. And they go, well, I thought I just go in the store and buy it. You mean I have to go through all this?
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B
It was the first thing I did when I moved to Nevada, straight to the gun store. Yeah.
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A
Really? Yeah, I remember the. Do you. Did you ever read that. That book by Blake Crouch? It was also. It was called Dark Matter was also series.
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B
Yeah, There.
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There's a scene in that where this guy, he lives in Illinois, goes to. He goes to buy a gun, and they essentially. Dark Matter is about multiple versions of this guy in multiple realities. You know, he invents a machine that can go into multiple dimensions, and pretty soon, other p. Other versions of him are hunting him in his dimension. Yeah. Because they all want his wife.
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B
What?
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Yeah, yeah. Like, apparently, like, he. It's a long story. Essentially, there was a dimension where this guy was a physics genius, and because he was a physics genius, he lost his girlfriend. And so he finds a way to go across dimensions, and he notices the girl in the main character's dimension, so he kidnaps the main character, and he kind of assumes his life.
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Interesting.
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A
So when the main character comes, finally finds a way back to his dimension, he goes to the gun store, and he's like, yeah, I want to buy a gun. What do you want? I don't know. Oh, here's a Glock. Okay. Where's your void card? Void firearms ID Card. What's a void card? That's the guy who votes for gun control, right? Like, that's like. Whoa, whoa, whoa. This is gun control? That's not what I voted for. Yeah, it kind of is, buddy.
- [26:28]
B
That's nuts, man. Oh, I forgot to ask this. When I mentioned Sean Ryan earlier, I know you guys had some back and forth. Are you guys on good terms now?
- [26:36]
A
I don't know the guy. I have no idea. I feel you on good terms. You have to be on terms in the first place to be on good terms. You know, I. You know, I. I don't really watch the guy's show. I'm pretty sure he doesn't watch my show. We're in, like, two different worlds, so I. I assume so. Yeah. I. I had. I had gotten something way wrong, and I made a whole video explaining where I went wrong. I apologized.
- [27:11]
B
I saw that.
- [27:11]
A
And he seemed like, you know what? I don't care, dude. And we're in just two separate worlds. Yeah, I don't really. I mean, I assume so. I'm never gonna go on a show, but I'm never gonna go on Joe Rogan either.
- [27:26]
B
Don't say that. I mean, that's possible.
- [27:28]
A
You know, I. I don't think I'll.
- [27:30]
B
Draw the ratings Rogan has on all sorts of people. People with no views. I mean, I. I could definitely see you on there, Maybe. I've had a lot of guests on.
- [27:38]
A
My show, and about the closest thing that I. I would be would be, like, Peter Zion.
- [27:43]
B
Okay.
- [27:44]
A
Peter Zion, he. I think he's been on Joe Rogan once or twice. I just don't think I'm controversial enough.
- [27:49]
B
I could definitely see you on Piers Morgan debating some conspiracy theorists. I think he would bring you on.
- [27:54]
A
I have never done a debate before. And, like, Destiny and I'm friend. It's weird. I' Destiny and I'm friends with Sebastian Gorka. I can like them both equally.
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B
Yeah.
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A
And, you know, Destiny, I think he asked me, like, you know, Ryan, you know, you should do a debate. Like, debate. Why would I do a debate? Look, this is the way it is. I'm not trying to. You can believe me or you cannot believe me, but the percentage chance of this being correct is this number. There's no debate to that.
- [28:23]
B
You're very logical. You're rooted in evidence.
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A
Yeah. And, you know, like, I think debate, like, you can maybe debate, like, is. I don't know, is gun control good? You know, like, there's. There is some personal experience with that or there's. You can. But. But from, like, a logical standpoint, like, like, is China preparing to invade Taiwan? There's no debate. Here's the. Here's the pictures of the ships now that they're building. I can't convince, you know, like. And, you know, when people say debate. Did you ever watch the Last King of Scotland?
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B
Last King of Scotland.
- [29:03]
A
Edi Amin. The Ed. I mean, movie.
- [29:05]
B
Can't say hob.
- [29:06]
A
So this Ida Idiomine, he was the. The dictator of. Oh, my gosh, Nigeria. Oh, my God, that flew out of my head. The. The country he was a dictator of. Pretty sure it was Nigeria. But this guy, he. He really loved Scottish culture. And one day he found this Scottish doctor who was, like, working in this country, and he essentially made this Scottish doctor his prized advisor. Well, one day, Idiom wants to kick all the Chinese out of his country because he needs someone to blame for something. And the Chinese run a lot of the stores and businesses and stuff. And so the Scottish doctor says, hey, if you do this, your economy is going to go to hell. Well, ID amine doesn't. And then afterwards, he blames, like, hey, our economy has just gone to hell. And the Scottish doctor says, well, I told you, don't do it. And edamine has, I think, one of the best lines ever in the movie. He goes, but you did not convince me. Oh, you did not persuade Me, but you did not persuade me and like, kind of that, that's my job. Right. My job is maybe it's not a debate. I have to persuade you. Look, here's this evidence, here's this evidence, and here's this evidence. And hopefully this will persuade you that all right, this is Daddy El Batty. This is where Daddy El Batty is living. This is the car that Daddy El Batty is driving. We can kill Daddy El Baddy at this crossroads when there's no traffic and there's, you know, we have to do it at 1 o'clock before the school lets out. The school down the road lets out.
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B
Yeah, I could see that. That's why Destiny is a good debater, because he'll bring studies, he'll bring evidence, he'll bring facts. Even though I'm conservative, I'll admit he's a really good debater, that guy.
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A
I think maybe one of the reasons I can like both Sebastian Gorka and Stephen Bonnells and Destiny, it's that you have two people who are very passionate and you have two people who really care about America, just in different ways.
- [31:08]
B
Right.
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A
You know, like they did and, you know, like, you could talk about left wing, right wing, but a bird needs both to fly.
- [31:15]
B
Yeah.
- [31:16]
A
Right. You know, but I think he does a heck of a lot of research before he, he rolls into his debates. And I've heard, I think I've heard two debates with him. It's not my thing. Like, I have a finite amount of time, you know, So I, I can't, I can't. I don't.
- [31:33]
B
I think you do. Well, honestly, you should potentially try it this year.
- [31:36]
A
A debate? Yeah, I wouldn't even, I mean, am I allowed to smoke at this debate?
- [31:40]
B
You'd be allowed to at the right setting.
- [31:42]
A
I, like, I can't smoke smoke here. I don't know what to do with my hands.
- [31:45]
B
I'm sure if you debate Andrew Tate, you'll both be smoking.
- [31:49]
A
Is he still around?
- [31:50]
B
Yeah, he's going at it with Ben Shapiro right now. I'm not sure if you've seen that. Yeah, it's pretty, pretty back and forth.
- [31:55]
A
I, man, I, I have been so stuck in.
- [31:58]
B
He just announced he's running for Prime Minister, actually Andrew Tate of the uk.
- [32:04]
A
Really?
- [32:04]
B
Yeah.
- [32:05]
A
What part?
- [32:07]
B
I don't know exactly, but he announced it a few weeks ago.
- [32:10]
A
Okay. I mean, okay. I mean, I suppose that is something a person can do.
- [32:16]
B
Yeah.
- [32:17]
A
I, I, I mean, it would be nice to smoke in airplanes again.
- [32:22]
B
I wouldn't like that. Actually, yeah, I'm good with that.
- [32:25]
A
I. I don't know. I look at. Yeah, I mean, I. I guess you could do something like that. I mean, maybe we might be entering a point where we're. The people are shaking up who they vote for. Right. Like, they just want some kind of change because the status quo doesn't seem to be working for the majority of Americans like that. My. My Uber driver, you know, speaking with this Uber driver, I mean, she had a cracked window, right. She was telling me she had a piece of pizza for breakfast and she's hoping to earn. I guess, I don't know if Lyft sends you money directly, like every time you do a ride. She was like, you know, like, hey, my. I'm. I'm glad you're in my fair because this is a good fair and I can get a cup of coffee afterwards. And I was like, damn, you know, here's like, let me give you some cash. Wow. I would, I would have stopped to get her coffee because I could have used some coffee as well, but, you know.
- [33:21]
B
Yeah.
- [33:22]
A
Like, I would have stopped to get her coffee if I wasn't.
- [33:25]
B
That's nice of you. It's good that you're dealing with everyday people because some people are in D.C. are so in their own bubble, you know. You hear that all the time about.
- [33:31]
A
D.C. like you I've D. Dating in D.C. yeah. So there was this girl, I remember we were. This one girl, she talked about the. The fad missile system. Like, she said there was a terminal high out.
- [33:46]
B
What kind of girls are you dating?
- [33:48]
A
Well, women in their 50s who were. I'm almost 50. Yeah. And I look young, but like women in their late 40s, early 50s, who are single, because. Of course. Course. Right.
- [33:59]
B
Yeah.
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A
And like their policy walks and all they do all day is they think about. They think about missile defense where they. I think one woman, she. I went out with her and she talked about how she works for like a. A group that does drone policy.
- [34:17]
B
Interesting.
- [34:18]
A
And you know, you have nod and you listen and they. And the one other thing about dating in D.C. if they don't know who you are, they say, who do you work for? Because they want to see where you are in the hierarchy. Because if you work for an ngo, non governmental organization, you're down here.
- [34:40]
B
Really?
- [34:41]
A
Yeah. You're the lowest of the low. If you work for an ngo, if you work for a law firm, maybe you're a little bit above. If you work for a contractor, you're a little bit below the law firm. If you work on the Hill, on Capitol Hill, a little bit more clout. Depends on who you work for and what your position is in their staff. Government agency below Capitol Hill, White House. It's kind of. You're getting to the top tier. It depends. You work in the Eisenhower Office Building or do you work in the White House? Where do you work? In the White House. So if you're working.
- [35:13]
B
Wow. So there's levels.
- [35:14]
A
So. Yeah. The question is, if I date you, where does that put me in the social hierarchy?
- [35:21]
B
So do you think about that, too? With the woman you date or.
- [35:23]
A
No, dude, I'm almost 50. You think I can. You think I can choose? You think I'm going, like, well, she only worked, like, no. All right. She's a woman and she likes me. I'm good. I feel that pretty. Yeah.
- [35:36]
B
I didn't know DZ was like. That reminds me of college, being a fresh freshman guy. They said you were always at the bottom of the totem pole because you couldn't get into parties.
- [35:43]
A
Yeah. Unless you have money, I guess. Right.
- [35:45]
B
Not even money. Like, you needed either five girls with you at Rutgers or you're screwed. Five to one ratio.
- [35:50]
A
There's. Wait, wait, wait, wait. Five guys for every girl?
- [35:53]
B
No. So five girls for every guy? If you're a freshman guy, that's how you get into parties. Yeah.
- [35:59]
A
Because you're at the bottom.
- [36:00]
B
Yeah. Because you're at the bottom of the totem pole.
- [36:02]
A
You. So you went to Rutgers?
- [36:03]
B
I did. In Jersey. Yeah. I grew up in Jersey.
- [36:06]
A
5.
- [36:06]
B
New Brunswick. I don't count the other ones.
- [36:08]
A
It's real. Rutgers.
- [36:10]
B
It's like New York. And, like.
- [36:11]
A
So I went to NJIT in New Jersey.
- [36:13]
B
Okay.
- [36:14]
A
I did 99 of my stuff. Distance learning. I was in the military at the time, but I did go to campus, like, a couple of times because, like, you had, like, back then, you actually, like, had to go to campus register or something before, like, the distance learning thing happened. So I remember, like, there was a Rutgers right across the street. Rutgers Newark.
- [36:35]
B
Yeah, Newark.
- [36:35]
A
Rutgers Newark. And, like, talking with, like, some of these dudes, it was like, if they wanted a girl, they went across the street to Rutgers Newark to. To get a girlfriend. Because, like, just at the time, like, no women went to nj. Oh, yeah, it was.
- [36:51]
B
I don't know if that's changed much either. Njit. I heard that one.
- [36:55]
A
Did you know they had a football team?
- [36:57]
B
I did not.
- [36:57]
A
I did not know that.
- [36:59]
B
Are they Division 1 or.
- [37:00]
A
I.
- [37:00]
B
Probably not.
- [37:01]
A
No clue. No.
- [37:02]
B
They gotta be like, D3 or something.
- [37:04]
A
I would. Dude, I was in the arc. Can you imagine, like the NJIT football team? Yes. Let us get out there and win one for Ganesha.
- [37:13]
B
That's funny, man.
- [37:14]
A
Like, I can't. All right. And that is that. That is. I guess they could have a football team.
- [37:21]
B
Yeah. So social experience did not play a role in your college decision making process? For me, it was a very military. For me, it was very high up.
- [37:29]
A
I once went, I took. I was at some community college. I forgot because I needed like, like three credits of a.
- [37:37]
B
Was it rbcc? Brereton Valley Community College?
- [37:40]
A
No. I don't remember where I went for this, but I had to take a sociology class because I need like one humanities. And so I just took like community college. Classic transfer. And I remember, like, I figured out the class like that. Like it wasn't computer science. You just, you show up, you listen to the professor, and then you parrot back whatever the heck the guy said on the test. Doesn't matter whether it's right or wrong. Doesn't matter whether you. You think what he said is stupid. You just paired it back and get an A. There were people who were failing the class. How the hell do you fail this class? Just go in, don't argue with the professor. Okay, that's. That's one of the things that kind of blows my mind about. About college or. People talk about, oh, these woke college professors. Oh, yeah, whatever. Yeah, you say what you want to say. All right, here's your answer. Boom. Give me my paper, please. Thank you. I'm going to get a job. Facts.
- [38:35]
B
Yeah, well, a lot of campuses I've gone woke, but. Yeah, you're right, though. It's how you interpret it. You know what I mean?
- [38:40]
A
I can't picture NJIT as a woke place. They probably don't even know anything else.
- [38:45]
B
He's not. I think. I think it's mainly like the state ones. I mean, you see Charlie Kirk on campus debating. Some of these kids, some of them are brainwashed.
- [38:51]
A
Who is Charlie Kirk?
- [38:53]
B
Turning Point.
- [38:54]
A
Had him.
- [38:54]
B
Had him on the show.
- [38:55]
A
I'm on the show, but I saw his name. I. I feel like I've heard his name before.
- [38:59]
B
Wow, you really are in your own world. That's impressive because Charlie Kirk gets like hundreds of millions of views.
- [39:04]
A
I mean, is Charlie Kirk a weapon system? How many road wheels does Charlie Kirk have?
- [39:10]
B
Yeah, that's why I respect what you do, because you stay in your lane. Like, you. You're all about weapons and intel. Like.
- [39:15]
A
Yeah, for the most part. And I'm, I'm actually, you know, people have asked, there are a number of people asked me like, hey, can you do a video about these new Chinese jack, you know, these, these jack ships that. With these siege towers, right? These new Chinese siege towers afloat. And I was like, no, because number one. Hi, Sutton and sub brief Aaron from subbreef already did two videos on it. I'm not going to steal content number two. I do stay in my lane. I don't know a damn thing about the Navy. I know a little bit about aircraft carriers. I've been on aircraft carriers. I've been on amphibious assault ships. I know a little bit about amphibious stuff.
- [39:54]
B
Amphibious assault ship, yeah.
- [39:56]
A
So, so the Marine, well, not the Marine Corps, the Navy has these ships, they look like mini aircraft carriers in some cases. And there's a different kind, LPDs, LCD, landing ship, LSDs, landing ship docks, landing ship platform, PDs, landing ship platforms, and then amphibious assault ships which look like mini aircraft carriers. These amphibious assault ships, they carry multiple helicopters or ospreys, which are the tilt rotor aircraft. And the amphibious assault ships also carry F35s that can take off and land vertically. Marine Corps F35s. And some of these ships have what are called well decks. So the idea is that you, the back of the ship has a ramp, you lower the ramp and you can put hovercraft inside that thing and you can float certain kinds of Marine Corps vehicles out. So if the Marine Corps wants to do a landing, they roll one of these LC or landing ship docks up near the beach, they put down the well deck and they have. This blows my mind because I look at the safety of something like this. They have helicopters coming off the top of the ship as they have amphibious vehicles leaving the well deck of the ship. The well deck of the ship floods and so they have like the semi flooded area of the ship and they just drive the vehicles out, go through the water.
- [41:21]
B
That's crazy.
- [41:23]
A
And there's a whole science to how the Marine Corps, they used to call them red patches. Although they, they, they, I think they, they got rid of that mos, so they changed the, the nomenclature for that. But red patches are the beast map beach masters, right? They're the ones they used to joke the red patches have AIDS. That was like an 80s kind of thing. We have a red patch. Oh, it means he has aids. But the red patchers were the guys who coordinated stuff on the beach. You can just imagine people look at like Saving Private Ryan. It's all the people hitting the beach. Right. The amount of coordination that they do is insane. You have your left and right limits set up. You've mapped out the currents on the beach. You've mapped out where any obstacles are.
- [42:11]
B
That's nuts.
- [42:12]
A
And then once you get onto that beach. All right, this is where we're going to set up our casualty evacuation point. This is where we're going to set up our supply point. And you know, these kids, 18, 19, 20 years old are doing this. Can't even buy alcohol, but they're coordinating where equipment goes on a beach. So I do know a little bit about amphibious stuff. I've done one with the Marine Corps. It was absolutely amazing.
- [42:40]
B
You were on one of those ships.
- [42:41]
A
It was on one of those ships. I came ashore on a hovercraft.
- [42:44]
B
Wow.
- [42:45]
A
On a lcd. On an lcd. The. Oh, my God. La. It's been a while. Yeah, it's been. Well, it's been about two years, but I came ashore on one of the Navy hovercraft. And that's kind of neat, too. They actually don't use those in combat. Like after the Marines hit the beach, then those hovercraft will go out to the ship and they'll just kind of do like this connector bridge. It can hold, I think, 70 tons of cargo. Yeah, something like that. And the hovercraft, it can go on the water and then it can come up a little bit on the beach. They'll. They'll turn off the hovercraft. The hovercraft will go down and they'll have these sky crane. Or they'll even take like a bulldozer. Not bulldozer, a front end loader with. They'll take the bucket off, they'll put forks on it and they'll just drive that right up onto the lcd. They'll pick up the cargo in a shipping container. Container. Move it, put it down, pick up this. And, you know, one is leaving, the other one's coming in. It's like this dance.
- [43:45]
B
That's impressive, man. Yeah. I've seen videos of planes landing on ships. I'm like, that's insane.
- [43:50]
A
I've been on an aircraft carrier and.
- [43:52]
B
It landed on the ship.
- [43:53]
A
Yeah, yeah. I mean, that's what aircraft carriers are. I landed on the ship. They actually did. They did. So what's funny, So I landed on what's called a C2 Greyhound, which is a. It's a. I was probably the last one of the last classes of journalists. Journalists that landed that will ever land on land and take off on a Catapult from an aircraft carrier.
- [44:16]
B
Wow.
- [44:16]
A
Because the C2 Greyhound, it's. They're being phased out in favor of the Osprey, which can land vertically. So the C2 Greyhound, you know, it lands on the ship and it's big cargo. Not a big cargo plane, but it's. It's a cargo plane. And they take off again via catapult. So they actually. People talk about the catapult. Oh, my God. It's, you know, you go from 0 to 150 in two seconds. You know, it was really just, oh, like, okay. When we were coming into land on the ship, there's this woman, Tess, on the radio, 93 4. This, this other journalist was right next to me and I was like, are you scared? She's like, yeah, a little. I was like, listen, these guys flying the C2 Greyhound, they are the best there is. Elk. That's the name of the hovercraft. Elkac. These people flying the C2 Greyhound, they are the best that there is. So if they've screwed up, we're never going to feel it. We're just going to slam into the back of the ship. We're dead. So don't worry about it.
- [45:18]
B
I'd imagine they don't have much room for error.
- [45:22]
A
I mean, when you think about it, you're trying to land. When you try to land on an aircraft carrier, there's, I think, I want to say it's about 30 yards of. Of area. So I think it's about 30 yards wide and then about 30 to 40 yards long. And I might be getting this wrong, so you have to check me on this. But every like 10 yards or so, there's another cable. There's cables that you have to catch. I ideally want to hit the third cable. So you have to not only land on a ship that is moving, you're moving, the ship is moving. The ship is also going side to side, rocking side to side like a cradle. And if the sea state is high, the ship is going up and down. So it's moving in three dimensions. And you have to land on this thing and catch the third wire from the stern of the ship.
- [46:25]
B
That's nuts.
- [46:26]
A
That's why these people are the best. That's why the Navy. Navy pilots are amazing. And, oh, and by the way, do it at night.
- [46:34]
B
That's so crazy.
- [46:35]
A
Do it at night.
- [46:36]
B
So you landed at night?
- [46:37]
A
Yeah, no, I landed during the day.
- [46:39]
B
Oh, God.
- [46:39]
A
I didn't land.
- [46:40]
B
Either way, it's still insane.
- [46:41]
A
Like, and this is normal. And here's the other thing. Every time you land on an aircraft carrier, you're graded.
- [46:48]
B
Really?
- [46:49]
A
So imagine people graded you for every single podcast. Right. And, like, if you fall below a certain number, you're cut.
- [46:55]
B
Yeah, well, in a way.
- [46:56]
A
Like, in a way. Yeah. You do. Right.
- [46:58]
B
YouTube comments will let you know what grade you get.
- [47:00]
A
Yeah.
- [47:00]
B
I just watched an episode where this guy was getting destroyed. I don't know if you're a basketball fan, but.
- [47:05]
A
Oh, yeah, yeah. Wizards fan. Which.
- [47:08]
B
Well, Patrick bet David, who's a big podcaster, he had Scotty Pippen on the show, and it was ruthless in the comments.
- [47:14]
A
Really?
- [47:14]
B
Yeah. Because he asked him about Michael Jordan the whole interview, so he got an F on that.
- [47:20]
A
Look, in order. Look, I don't know if Michael Jordan would have been Michael Jordan without Scotty Pippen.
- [47:25]
B
Yeah.
- [47:25]
A
Because. And. Oh, my God, the worm. Yeah. Like, you needed those two guys because you have the best defensive player probably ever. You say that.
- [47:38]
B
Yeah. Best rebounder for sure. And definitely at least top three defender, maybe the best.
- [47:43]
A
Yeah. And you need Scotty Peppin to do everything else.
- [47:47]
B
Yep.
- [47:47]
A
And you need Jordan to score and, like. Yeah.
- [47:50]
B
That's how you get six rings.
- [47:51]
A
Yeah, you're absolutely right.
- [47:53]
B
Yeah. I missed. I missed that era of basketball, man. I can't watch it these days.
- [47:56]
A
You know, I. I am of the. I'm. I am of that era. I'm 49. Right. I'm of that era. I'm also of the Allen Iverson era.
- [48:04]
B
2000.
- [48:06]
A
Never. He never quite got there.
- [48:08]
B
Yeah, he was close, but he needed someone else.
- [48:11]
A
He needed someone else. And this guy, I think, I. Look, I don't know if this is true. I don't want to spread misinformation, but supposedly Allen Iverson went to Penn State, and they hooked him up to machines. Check his breathing. And he was running on the treadmill and never got tired.
- [48:26]
B
Really?
- [48:27]
A
Wow. Allen Iverson was just so amazing, but he never could quite make it. Never could quite get a ring, and he was always. Well, he spent some time in exile from the Sixers, but when you think of Allen Iverson, he's a Sixer for sure.
- [48:44]
B
Yeah. Yeah. His last two years we won't talk about, but, yeah, he's a Sixer in my eyes.
- [48:49]
A
Yeah.
- [48:49]
B
All right, so Tik Tok is officially banned.
- [48:52]
A
Yes. And I. I would say Alhamdul a lot. Like, thank God. You know, the TikTok is a national security issue. And one of the. The problems with TikTok is that not only does it target people, but it's not accountable in the U.S. so if there's a problem with Facebook or something like that, we can bring them. We can subpoena the Facebook CEO, say, hey, come here. You're standing in front of Congress and explaining yourself. We can't do that with TikTok. We can't get Doyen in here. Stand in front of Congress. They're not answerable to us. I'll tell you something, if there was ever a war, I guarantee you that China would flood TikTok with messages saying, hey, the US is an imperialist, capitalist country that wants to, you know, Taiwan for their own. Their own minerals, their own resources, whatever. There's that. And also, like, look, if TikTok wanted the address of every single journalist that's using its platform so they can go kill them, do that.
- [49:54]
B
That's scary.
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A
Oh, look, we give our info, we get. Look, we tell this thing stuff that we wouldn't even tell our wives, right? Yeah, don't we?
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We do.
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I can look at you and I can say, do you watch pornography? Give me an answer. Do you watch pornography?
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B
I try not to.
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Okay, let me see your phone. Can't deny your phone tells the truth. Yeah, that's the truth teller right there. And we tell that thing everything. So If I were TikTok and let's say there was a journalist in the US that was making trouble. All right, let's see where their exact location is inside the US So we can kill them. Yeah, you can't really do that with Facebook or Instagram. You can with Tick Tock.
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B
Well, Zog. Did you watch Zuck on Rogan?
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A
I did not.
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B
Okay, so on Rogan, he said WhatsApp, basically, if the FBI wanted to read your WhatsApp messages, they would. They could go around Facebook to get that.
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A
So one of the things you should probably do if you have a Siri on your phone and also on your computer as well, it's. You should turn off archiving signal and archiving WhatsApp.
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B
Archiving signal. I'm doing that right now. You should do that archiving. What's the reason for that?
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A
Because Signal is encrypted end to end, and WhatsApp is encrypted from end to end. But if, if Siri. Siri. AI is reading your phone, then it's going to see that text come across your screen and it's going to remember that. Wow. So that encryption, that I should do a video about this, that end to end encryption, it doesn't matter if you're recording the message at the other end.
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B
Interesting. Yeah, because they got. I remember when Tucker Carlson did the Putin interview, they got in a signal or something.
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A
Trivial.
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B
Yeah. You thought it was trivial?
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A
Yeah.
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B
He was shocked.
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Look, your signal might be encrypted end to end, but if we can get on your phone and read your phone and read your signal messages, then that doesn't matter.
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B
So what do you think the safest messaging app is? Telegram.
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A
You know? No. You know, so for the most part. Look, do you know the difference between a code and a cipher?
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B
No.
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All right, so cipher is a mathematical representation of stuff. Of. Of encryption. A cipher. I'm sorry. A cipher is a mathematical representation of stuff. A code is something that only you and the other person knows. Like, you ever heard of the Navajo code? Code talkers?
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B
Code talkers? No.
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All right, so if I had some kind of mathematically based encryption using radios, the Japanese would eventually be able to break that if they put enough computing power behind it. Back then, computers were like people, right, Trying to do math. But if I have some dude that knows Navajo and I have some other dude that knows Navajo, and they're talking the Navajo language. The Japanese don't have any Navajo speakers. Guess what? You're not hearing that that's a code, right? So anything that uses a code would be a good way to. There's a reason a drug dealer might say, hey, you know, I have a kilo of. Have a kilo of that spice you want?
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B
Yeah, yeah.
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Like, well, you could go in front of the court and you could be like, hey, they're just talking about spices. This guy had a kilo of turmeric, right? That's a code, right? There's actually something called a one time pad. I actually wrote a piece of software that can use a picture as a key to a one time pad. I was actually using Lizzo's Instagram.
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B
What?
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That's the key? Yeah. So, all right, a one time pad. When it comes to encryption, imagine rolling a die. And you roll a die a certain number of times, and you write down the number that comes up on that die, and that is the number. You flip a letter. So let's say you roll a die and the first number is five. Then A becomes F, right? You roll the number again, and the number is two. All right, well, then B becomes the D, right? You do that enough times, you have general randomness. And as long as you know the number, that's random. And the space, you create two pads with the same numbers on, and that is theoretically, it is practically unbreakable.
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B
Wow.
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It's unbreakable because encryption relies. Usually encryption ciphers rely on mathematical algorithms. And once you get the mathematical algorithm right, everything unlocked. Yeah, but if you have something that is truly, genuinely, honest to God, random, then you can't really break that encryption. Because the word attack, which is what, six characters, the word attack might actually be the word laptop. You don't know. There's no. It can be any six letter word.
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B
Yeah, right.
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If it's truly random. The disadvantage of a one time pad is that you have to send that one time pad with the spy. So if that one time pad is intercepted and I actually wrote a program that did this, where the big problem with the one time pad is that you have to send the one time pad out with somebody and then once you use the one time pad, you have to destroy it because that message has been.
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B
So human error is always going to play a role.
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A
Well, yeah, human error if you're captured. But if I tell you, hey, every day, use Lizzo's picture on her Instagram as the code key. And when I send you a message, use the bits in that picture as the random key to unlock the message. Well, number one, the bad guys have to know which picture you're using. And number two, they have to know specifically, like which Instagram site or which.
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B
Yeah, that's interesting.
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A
You can also use the New York Times, the front page picture on the New York Times. You can use whatever. You theoretically use the stock market as.
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B
A. Yeah, you could use whatever image. I'm interested in that because I'm in crypto. And do you know about seed phrases for the wallets? Basically, when you make a crypto wallet, you get a seed phrase. It's I think, either 12 or 16 random words, and you have to write it down. And if you lose that, you can't log back in, basically. But the problem with that is they're saying with these quantum computers, people will be able to hack into wallets in the future because they'll just be spitting out so fast.
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A
Yeah, I mean, so one thing quantum computers, we don't really know how. I mean, what's funny is the wind machine deals with quantum computers. One issue, one. One issue with quantum computers right now is we don't really know how useful they are. They're pretty good at guessing random numbers, or they're not guessing, but they're pretty good at coming up with random numbers. And random primes is one of the ways we do encryption. And so I think the government has an initiative right now where all, all of its communication has to be quantum safe. I think this is the year. I might be wrong about that. I think this is the year all of our encryption has to be quantum safe. But essentially, when you pass keys in public key encryption, you basically give a public key and a private key. There's a prime number, this thing that adds up to and multiplies to. And so you're basically trying to guess that prime number. Now, if the prime number is 71, that's really easy to guess. Some of these primes are big. Well, a quantum computer might be able to guess those numbers really, really fast. And so that's kind of the. The issue of quantum computing. Crypto is interesting, too, because you. You. You have a system. I actually wrote a crypto program.
- [57:47]
B
Oh, really?
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A
Well, I did it. I did it, I guess, about two, three years ago. It's crazy, like. Like, that's one of the reasons that I have a challenge coin that I give soldiers, and I call it my butt pillow coin, because I have my bare ass on the back wearing, like, a pillow. So when the war in Ukraine first started, I had two videos.
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B
Yeah.
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A
One video I just put out where I created my entire crypto system to explain how crypto works. I created my entire blockchain, proof of work, all this stuff. Created that whole system. Put it up on my GitHub anybody could download. It's all written in C. And then I created another video about why Russian soldiers wear pillows on their butts. Guess which video got more views.
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B
The pillow on the butts.
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A
And that was what made me realize, like, wow. I mean, this is what people want. People want to know why Russian soldiers are wearing pillows on their butts. And that's how I. I'm serious. That's how I got into this whole. I mean, I was doing intel software work, but I was mainly doing YouTube videos about software. And once, you know, once I started answering, well, this is why Russian tank turrets pop off their hulls. This is why Russians on their butts. This is why this gun does this certain kind of thing. There was this hunger for that.
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B
Interesting.
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A
But one of the things I noticed about crypto is that if you're a criminal, crypto has got to be one of the stupidest fricking things you can ever do. Because, like, every single transaction is on the blockchain. Yeah.
- [59:27]
B
Especially if you're using a centralized exchange, and then you're sending it to your US bank account. I mean, that's so much evidence on you for money laundering.
- [59:33]
A
Can you imagine stealing money from a bank? And you can't cash it out. Like that's gotta be.
- [59:41]
B
Yeah. And you could freeze wallets now, these days, they could freeze your wallet if they catch you scamming or doing fraud. So it's not what it used to be back in the day, maybe for the black market stuff, buying illegal things, but no, not anymore.
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A
Yeah. And I just. I mean, now the government's kind of caught on to it. And the other weird thing about crypto is the amount of electrical power that we're using to find a number that we don't really need to find the mining. Well, yeah, I mean, when you mine for crypto, at least for the blockchain or for bitcoin, I think they're. What are they up to? 16 zeros, something like that.
- [60:19]
B
It's a lot. Yeah.
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A
Find a hash that starts with 16 zeros. This is a calculation that nobody needs to do. And we're spending a certain amount of energy to try to find that. That hash. And that. That is energy. That is not finding a cure for cancer. That is not, you know, whatever.
- [60:39]
B
Yeah, it is a lot of energy.
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A
It's a lot of energy to find. I think that's one of the. I think Venezuela actually was one of the biggest crypto mining.
- [60:49]
B
It saved them crypto.
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A
Yeah. Yeah. When you think about it, I mean, because the government subsidizes power.
- [60:57]
B
Yeah.
- [60:57]
A
Right. So they have these. At least. They used to have these crypto mining operations.
- [61:01]
B
Big margins if you're not paying for power. Yeah. Because that's the biggest expense when you're mining people. When bitcoin was low, like, people were going out of business because their mining wouldn't keep up with the price. But now that it's 100k again, I guess it's profitable.
- [61:14]
A
Are you just into bitcoin or.
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B
I have bitcoin, I have ethereum. Solana. I did not get Trump's coin yesterday. A lot of people made some good money on that one, though.
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A
Really? Yeah, I didn't. You know, the. I think the deal with a coin is that you have to have something to spend it on.
- [61:28]
B
Yeah. It has to have utility, they call it in crypto purpose. Yeah. Or else it's just a meme coin and then it'll die off. Which 99.9 of coins do the hawk to a girl. That one died quick.
- [61:39]
A
I gotta tell you, the. That is like, I am so happy I got famous slow.
- [61:46]
B
You know, it's a blessing in disguise. Yeah. Because if you get it overnight, the odds of failing are probably way higher.
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A
I mean, I Can still downtown.
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B
Yeah.
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A
You know, like, the jury's still out on that one. Yeah, yeah, right. Although, like, I look at. You know what's kind of. Kind of crazy is that I look at. With the new administration coming in, oh, my God, there's going to be so much disinformation coming from people who hate the president to an absurd. I did a video on Project 2025, which was this document put out. The Heritage foundation puts out this document every year, and they call it, like, the blueprint for America. Like, if a conservative president gets into power, what are you going to do? And Project 2025, I read the document, and there was this infographic that said, like, oh, Project 2025 is going to ban the teaching of slavery. No, it's not. Like, there's. There was plenty of stuff in the document that made me go, whoa, you shouldn't be doing that. Yeah, but, like, it's not going to ban slavery. Like, there are. Ban the talking about slavery in schools. So there was that. And I think just recently, there was this thing. I think it was a former baseball player who's an ultra conservative who said that, you know, Trump's first day in office, they're going to. They're going to medically discharge all the trans people. It's going to medically discharge 15,000 trans people. I was like, all right, number one, you have any idea what it takes to medically discharge someone from the Army? Because you better go have a cup of coffee, because it takes multiple meetings and hearings, and then you're paying for their medical. What do you call it if they get disability? Like, if being transgender is a disability now you gotta pay them for being disabled. There's a lot of steps to medically discharging someone. A lot. And also the number 15,000, that came from a study 15 years ago that was not. Like, 15,000 would be over a division and a half of transgender people in the military. Maybe they're. They're. They're including, like, reservists or something. Oh.
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B
So they. They did a study and they found 15,000 trans people that.
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A
Well, it was this study from, like, 20 years ago.
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B
Oh, wow.
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A
Wasn't. I don't even think, like, that Number was valid 20 years ago.
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B
Sounds really high.
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A
It sounds really high. I think the number, like, I think one of the issues that the military doesn't know, we don't know, but this number 15,000 keeps floating around because some study quoted it 20, 15 years ago. 15, 20 years ago. The number might be closer to, like, 25. Hundred, maybe across the entire National Guard, reserves, active duty, all branches. And even then, Even if it's 2,500 people and President Trump wants to discharge them, they have to go through all these medical hearings if you want to medically discharge them.
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B
Yeah.
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A
Even the COVID people, the people who refuse to take the COVID shot. Like. Like there is a process to getting someone out of the military, and it's not the next day.
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B
Yeah.
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A
You know, there's a whole process for that.
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B
That makes sense.
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A
So, like, that I am going to be busy for the next four years.
- [65:26]
B
Oh, yeah.
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A
Because, you know, these people are going to be saying, these people are doing this and these people are doing this, and both sides, me pointing at each other. I'm going to be in the middle going, I got the truth, boys.
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B
You'll never run out of content, you know.
- [65:40]
A
No. In a way, that's kind of a shame. But, you know, I've said, like, the good. I said this about Sal Mariano, who runs what's going on with Shipping, which is a. It's an excellent YouTube channel that talks about global shipping.
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B
Yeah.
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A
Cares about global shipping. Well, do you like this cup, you know, or like. Like this microphone? This microphone got here on his ship.
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B
We need it.
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A
All right, so Sal Martigliano hit when. When I watch his YouTube content, I leave smarter. That should be a sign.
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B
Yeah.
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A
That you're watching something good. Are you leaving smarter?
- [66:19]
B
All right. It's been really cool, man. We're done. I know you got the new book. Anything? Anything else?
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A
No. Hey, man, thank you so much. I hope you have some. I hope you have a good time while you're in D.C. for the rest.
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B
I'll try not to get snowed in today.
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A
We'll do this again.
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B
Yeah, we'll do it again in Vegas or D.C. all right, man.