199 - Demo Matt Quits YouTube, Police Mishaps & Unsub At The Pentagon? | Unsubscribe Podcast 199

Summary

Unsubscribe Podcast Episode 199 Summary

Release Date: February 10, 2025

Hosts:

• Eli Doubletap
• Brandon Herrera
• Nick Power (The Fat Electrician)
• Cody Garrett (Donut Operator)

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1. Farewell to Demo Matt

The episode opens with the hosts bidding farewell to their long-time YouTube counterpart, Demo Matt, who is retiring after an illustrious 15-year career. The discussion highlights Matt's decision to step away from the platform to focus on his family, showcasing his admirable work-life balance.

• Cody Garrett shares, “He just wanna make a... I've made my millions. I just want to watch my kids grow up. That's just such a good attitude, man. He's living the dream.” ([04:05])

The hosts reminisce about Matt's professionalism and the strong bonds they've formed over the years, emphasizing his impact on their community and personal lives.

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2. Navigating Police Mishaps and the Legal System

A significant portion of the episode delves into critical discussions about police misconduct, flawed prosecutions, and systemic issues within the legal framework. The hosts dissect several high-profile cases to illustrate their points.

a. The Eddie Gallagher Case and Jury Manipulation

The conversation centers around the controversial case of Eddie Gallagher, a Navy sniper whose trial exposed deep-seated issues within military justice. The hosts discuss how prosecutors employed unethical tactics, including the use of a Trojan horse to spy on Gallagher's defense team, ultimately undermining the integrity of the prosecution.

• Nick Power explains, “They sent a trojan to spy on us to see what we're doing, which is tracking everything... it’s illegal, especially for court proceedings.” ([24:23])

This segment underscores the dangers of prosecutorial overreach and the erosion of fair trial standards.

b. Plea Deals and Judicial Discretion

Brandon Herrera leads a passionate critique of plea bargains, describing them as a flawed mechanism that often forces innocent individuals to accept unjust deals to avoid harsher sentences.

• Brandon Herrera asserts, “I almost don't think that plea deals should be a thing because plea deals are literally just... if I let somebody off with a plea deal that ruins their life, even though I know they're innocent...” ([25:54])

The hosts debate the ethical implications of plea bargaining, advocating for reforms to ensure justice is served without coercion.

c. Castle Doctrine vs. Duty to Retreat

The hosts explore the varying self-defense laws across states, particularly contrasting Texas’s Castle Doctrine with California’s Duty to Retreat. They argue that restrictive self-defense laws in states like California unfairly penalize individuals defending their homes.

• Cody Garrett mentions, “If you have a weapon in my house and I don't know you, you're gonna die.” ([41:24])

This discussion highlights the inconsistencies in legal standards and calls for a more uniform approach to self-defense rights.

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3. Behind the Scenes: Online Presence and Personal Anecdotes

The episode transitions into lighter topics, where the hosts share personal stories about their online presence, including unexpected Wikipedia mentions and interactions with their audience.

• Brandon Herrera humorously notes, “I just like how my Wikipedia page was updated... ‘This is now a boss’... These are my favorite things.” ([11:27])

They also discuss the challenges of maintaining a coherent online persona, managing past content, and the dynamics of their fan interactions.

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4. Gaming, Humor, and Community Bonds

Shifting gears, the hosts engage in a lively conversation about their favorite video games, gaming mishaps, and the evolving landscape of console versus PC gaming. They share anecdotes about playing cooperative games, dealing with toxic player bases, and the nostalgia of older gaming systems.

• Nick Power shares his frustrations, “I just couldn’t get into it, man.” regarding playing "League of Legends" ([84:37])

The banter continues with humorous takes on gaming culture, mods gone wrong, and the camaraderie that gaming fosters among the hosts.

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5. Future Plans and Speculations

In the latter part of the episode, the hosts brainstorm future content ideas, including potentially filming at the Pentagon and inviting high-profile guests like J.D. Vance and Elon Musk.

• Cody Garrett expresses excitement, “I would love to have him on Unsub.” when referring to J.D. Vance ([107:12])

They also touch upon conspiracy theories, historical anecdotes, and plans for upcoming videos that blend their interests in military history and current affairs.

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Notable Quotes

• Brandon Herrera (04:05): “He just wanna make a... I've made my millions. I just want to watch my kids grow up. That's just such a good attitude, man. He's living the dream.”

• Nick Power (24:23): “They sent a trojan to spy on us to see what we're doing, which is tracking everything... it’s illegal, especially for court proceedings.”

• Brandon Herrera (25:54): “I almost don't think that plea deals should be a thing because plea deals are literally just... if I let somebody off with a plea deal that ruins their life, even though I know they're innocent...”

• Cody Garrett (41:24): “If you have a weapon in my house and I don't know you, you're gonna die.”

• Nick Power (84:37): “I just couldn’t get into it, man.”

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Conclusion

Episode 199 of the Unsubscribe Podcast offers a compelling blend of heartfelt goodbyes, critical examinations of the legal and policing systems, and the enduring camaraderie among the hosts. Through engaging discussions and candid storytelling, the episode provides valuable insights and entertainment for both longtime listeners and newcomers alike.

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Note: Advertisements, intros, outros, and non-content segments have been excluded to focus on the core discussions of the episode.

Transcript

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[Brandon Herrera]

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[Brandon Herrera]

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[Eli Double Tap]

Today we're talking about Mexicans.

[Brandon Herrera]

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[Nick Power]

You're about to give me all my soapbox about.

[Cody Garrett]

Cody's about to explode. You can't find me a jury of my peers. My peers. Get out of it.

[Nick Power]

What's kind of consensual, kind of makes.

[Cody Garrett]

It very hard for your attorney.

[Brandon Herrera]

Say hi to Eli. He's racially ambiguous. Brandon, his hair is fucking fabulous. And donut a dark joke disposition. And there's a fat electrician. Welcome to Unsubscribe.

[Eli Double Tap]

Well, we can just start it right? Ready?

[Brandon Herrera]

3, 2, 1.

[Cody Garrett]

Always in the eye.

[Nick Power]

Oh, gosh. This has been a minute second. Hi, everyone. Welcome to the Unsubscribed podcast. I'm joined today by Eli Double Tap, Nick Power, electrician, Brandon Herrera, myself, donut operator. Thank you so much for being here.

[Cody Garrett]

And before you ask, we didn't coordinate shirts, so please stop.

[Eli Double Tap]

Let me see your phones. This is a picture of Cody in a mirror.

[Brandon Herrera]

You guys are wearing matching shirts.

[Cody Garrett]

Yeah. God, even you've been around us since.

[Brandon Herrera]

11Am Dude, I've been drunk since 7. So.

[Eli Double Tap]

Tyler running in him today, like, Tyler, just when he came up today, he was like. I'm gonna be honest, I just now found out Cody and Brandon are different people.

[Cody Garrett]

We weren't on that podcast.

[Eli Double Tap]

No. So, yeah, I was like, oh, that's hilarious. Holy.

[Nick Power]

Speaking of Shot Show, I think that was.

[Cody Garrett]

We did that in the Shot show episode where that guy can or was convinced he came up to you convinced that you were me.

[Nick Power]

Yeah. He gave me a challenge coin. It's like, brandon, thank you for so much. Behind him, I was just like, ye turns around, sees you.

[Cody Garrett]

Oh, sure.

[Eli Double Tap]

The best one we did talk about, you weren't there, but when they thought you were Brandon Herrera.

[Cody Garrett]

Oh, you don't know about this story?

[Brandon Herrera]

No.

[Cody Garrett]

What happened at the USCCA thing when you were there? We were. What's up?

[Eli Double Tap]

He was there. Oh.

[Cody Garrett]

Oh, God. Yeah. Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

You don't know about this story that happened to you.

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh, no, I was there for that.

[Cody Garrett]

I'm. I'm so tired, dude.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah. Where they thought I was Brandon Herrera.

[Cody Garrett]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

For the whole time.

[Cody Garrett]

The. The lady.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah.

[Cody Garrett]

Like, went up to you. Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

My son loves you. He's a huge fan of ak.

[Cody Garrett]

Keep doing what you're doing in Texas.

[Eli Double Tap]

That's the thing.

[Cody Garrett]

I was like, he lives in Iowa.

[Eli Double Tap]

That was one of. That was the first time. I think that will. And probably last time that will happen.

[Brandon Herrera]

Me and Brandon, a lot of physical characteristics in common.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah.

[Cody Garrett]

I mean, if you count the ink. I mean, you're kind of brown.

[Brandon Herrera]

That's fair.

[Cody Garrett]

How y'all doing?

[Eli Double Tap]

Nick, welcome back. We've been chaotic. This is. When's the last time you were in Texas?

[Brandon Herrera]

Months. It's been months.

[Cody Garrett]

Range day. Probably.

[Brandon Herrera]

Probably. Yeah. Range day was the last time I was in Texas because then it was the tour and then Vegas for a shot show, and now I'm here.

[Nick Power]

Yo, speaking of rain, Shay, our boy Matt, he's peacing out.

[Eli Double Tap]

I know. We got. Thankfully, we'll have a closeout episode with him in Monday, right? Monday.

[Brandon Herrera]

Monday, we'll film that.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah, that'd be a good one. I'm just. We crazy. 15 years. How long did he do it for?

[Brandon Herrera]

Forever.

[Cody Garrett]

Since, like, I don't know, what, like 2007.

[Brandon Herrera]

It was pretty Google owning YouTube. I know that.

[Nick Power]

Yeah.

[Cody Garrett]

He. I'm proud of our boy, though. Like, he, like the way he's going out, he's like, man, I just. I wanna. I've made my millions. I just want to watch my kids grow up. Like, that's just such a good attitude, man. He's living the dream.

[Eli Double Tap]

And for most of the Internet, they. Yeah, more content. Like, some of the comments.

[Brandon Herrera]

The whole, like, I took out a pretty big loan to buy into bunker branding, but, like, the whole, like, I'm dead serious. Like, the whole. The whole reassuring thing to me was like the, like the second or third time I ever talked to Matt, I was like, hey, man, I'm in town. Can we come talk about this? And he's like, killing me. I fly out. I fly in Friday night, I fly out Monday morning at like 6am you want to get together? And he's like, I'm really sorry, man. I can't. Weekends are for my family. And I was like, I respect it. I like that. So that was awesome.

[Cody Garrett]

My. My first story or the first time I ever came out to Bernie to go hang out with. With Matt. I remember it was it was right after he fully, like. And he'll. He said this to me, like, in the beginning. He's like, I totally ripped your AR guys versus AK guys that he did with you, Eli. He's like. He texts me. He's like, hey, I got this number from a friend. Hopefully this isn't awkward. I totally stole your video. And meanwhile, I was like, a nobody YouTuber. I was like, that's so cool. Devil Ran stole my video. And he was like, yeah, do you want to come out and, like, we'll do in, like, another variation or whatever? I'm like, yeah, dude. Like, just let me know and I'll. I'll be there. And after we filmed, like, normally, like, I. I had already met you at this point and, like, a bunch of other, like, I. I figured, like, oh, we go out, like, you know, have a couple drinks or whatever. We went to. I think it was like, Cibolo Creek brewing in Bernie. Which, like, now I know, but back then it was like, oh, crazy. We did trivia night and he had two beers over, like, three hours. He's like, whoa, shouldn't be driving home. Like, like, just complete family man. Like, opposite end of the spectrum of the dichotomy of YouTubers.

[Eli Double Tap]

He's.

[Brandon Herrera]

We did. We did a celebratory shot when I became a part owner of Bunker, and it was fire. Can you do Fireball?

[Cody Garrett]

I'll survive.

[Brandon Herrera]

I'll make it.

[Nick Power]

I'll survive.

[Cody Garrett]

His fascination with Fireball will never not be funny to me.

[Nick Power]

Is his character a college chick?

[Cody Garrett]

I think so.

[Brandon Herrera]

The most wholesome gun YouTuber for sure.

[Eli Double Tap]

He's such a good dude. He's like, the first time cursing. Like, I think we had the first curse we ever said on the.

[Cody Garrett]

On the Internet.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, Frick.

[Nick Power]

Frick.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah, he said Frick. Like, oh, my God.

[Cody Garrett]

He started ranting about Jews. That was really uncomfortable.

[Eli Double Tap]

Way to cut that segment. He's like, not when I'm retiring. He can't defend himself, so we gotta control his narrative. Now.

[Cody Garrett]

We get to make up our own mat more.

[Nick Power]

Let me tell you guys why he's retiring. Monday.

[Brandon Herrera]

When he shows up for his retirement unsub episode, we should just have a Burger King crown there for. Did. Did you want to wear this for no reason in particular?

[Nick Power]

Wait, wait. Why don't you want those people on this plane, man? That what?

[Cody Garrett]

Or who?

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh, my God.

[Cody Garrett]

Kill us.

[Nick Power]

We love character, dude.

[Cody Garrett]

He's such a. He's like, him and Kentucky Ballistic Scott.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh, Scott.

[Cody Garrett]

Like, they're probably, like, two of the most Wholesome people I've ever met.

[Brandon Herrera]

Scott.

[Eli Double Tap]

I don't cuss when I'm on the phone. I so, like, heck yeah, man. Like, I catch myself being a better version of my talking to him and then it goes away. The second I hang up that phone, I was like, oh, that was difficult.

[Cody Garrett]

He'll be talking about somebody he's actively like fucking beefing with. And he'll just be like, man, he's just got. That guy's just so silly.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah. He's so stinking. Oh, I'm angry. Huh? What?

[Cody Garrett]

And he looks like he could club you to death with his hands.

[Brandon Herrera]

Bench press is like £500. He's a humongous human being.

[Eli Double Tap]

Have you seen his dad? The genetics?

[Brandon Herrera]

Yes. And his brother. They both came out for Tiny Guns. All three of them were like, hi, I'm Nick. Hi, I'm Nick.

[Cody Garrett]

They're not even that tall. They're just fucking wide, dude.

[Eli Double Tap]

His dad is like 60 and looks like a 30 year old bodybuilder. Yeah, that weighs like 280 pounds at 5 10.

[Brandon Herrera]

Only time he's ever hit me up first was like, hey, Nick, this might be weird, but when you come out and we do a video together, would you. Would you mind saying hi to a kid from my church? He's a really big fan of yours. I was like, sure, man, no problem.

[Eli Double Tap]

He's such a good dude.

[Brandon Herrera]

I love it.

[Eli Double Tap]

Even demo. He's missed the. On the podcast, he had to leave. We got him too drunk. I think for softball practice. He was doing something for the kid who's like, I have to call out. I am not going to be able to do soccer coaching or whatever it was. It was one of the episodes we got him. Shit wrecked. He does have a good time with us.

[Cody Garrett]

Yeah, he's always understood like the work life balance side of things. And I think, I think that's where this is coming from. Which is like, honestly really good for him, man.

[Eli Double Tap]

A lot of people been. I mean even your guys, like how long you've been in the game, you two, like, Nick's still a fresh whip a snapper just I hungry.

[Cody Garrett]

I started my current channel in 2014.

[Nick Power]

Yeah, yeah, I'm like 2017. Yeah, I've been doing it for a minute now, buddy.

[Brandon Herrera]

Somebody found my high school YouTube channel the other day. So I had to go through and private all the videos.

[Cody Garrett]

What was on it?

[Brandon Herrera]

There was like a couple of my GS.

[Eli Double Tap]

Today we're talking about medications.

[Cody Garrett]

We'Re gonna talk about wooden doors. Oh, God damn.

[Brandon Herrera]

No it's just like. It was a bunch of, like, jiu jitsu tournaments and that I'd competed in. I had all the footage up, and then, like, a couple of skits I filmed when I was in high school for, like, videography class. And somebody kind of skits emailed me the links. They were just like, goofy, like, like super, super knockoff version of Whitest Kids, you know, vibe. And they just emailed me the links, like, hey, bro, I found this. I was like, private. All those videos reply, fuck you.

[Eli Double Tap]

Deprive it everything.

[Brandon Herrera]

There was one pretty good video where one of my friends in high school dressed up like a banana and I dressed up like a gorilla. And it was just me chasing him through stores and shit in town, tackling him in aisle seven.

[Eli Double Tap]

What year was this?

[Brandon Herrera]

It was like 2010.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah, that sounds like 2018.

[Cody Garrett]

I don't think anything will ever beat finding your Nickelodeon ads.

[Nick Power]

Yeah, you know what? No one's found my original YouTube channel.

[Brandon Herrera]

Did you see that your Wikipedia page was updated by that, by the way?

[Nick Power]

Jesus. Did you do it?

[Brandon Herrera]

No, I didn't do it, but it was posted on the Unsub subreddit.

[Cody Garrett]

You have a Wikipedia.

[Brandon Herrera]

He has a Wikipedia page. And the introduction section was updated that he first found his fame in doing advertisements for Nickelodeon Digital Blue, blah, blah, blah. And they link the videos on YouTube page. Somebody posted the subreddit like, y'all are autistic.

[Cody Garrett]

What does a guy have to do to get a Wikipedia page at this point? My God, I don't.

[Eli Double Tap]

Do you not have one?

[Cody Garrett]

I don't.

[Eli Double Tap]

Nick, do you have one?

[Brandon Herrera]

I don't.

[Eli Double Tap]

How do we make one? Jake? What is the. How do you make.

[Brandon Herrera]

I. You've already done it. They're gonna. They're gonna be up by the time this episode's over.

[Eli Double Tap]

Is it Brandon Rare? Yo, you have a Wikitubia?

[Cody Garrett]

I have a Wikitubia. Oh, my God. I did. I did see that the other day because I was applying for press credentials for the White House. I asked by a Wikipedia and I looked for it, and, like, I don't. But I link that instead.

[Brandon Herrera]

I have a. I am referenced on several historical findings on Wikipedia, however. Oh, high points of my career. Yeah, me and pewview are linked on Carlos Hathcock's Wikipedia page for that. Proving that you can, in fact, shoot through a scope. And we. I'm also. I think last time I checked, I was linked on Sergeant Reckless, his Wikipedia page, because I was technically the one that pointed out that Sergeant Reckless, the marine horse was in fact, the first ever gender reveal party thrown by the Marine Corps.

[Eli Double Tap]

God, people are. I love all of you. You're also terrifying. If we fuck up in any way possible.

[Cody Garrett]

You are now listed under the Wikipedia for gender reveal.

[Brandon Herrera]

I'll take it.

[Eli Double Tap]

Cody, what happens? I have. I. I'm a TV personality. Donut. It's like rocket jump. So that is old IMDb. Old IMDb Cody is. Dude, you have a full ass Wikipedia dog.

[Brandon Herrera]

Cody's got a full Wikipedia page.

[Nick Power]

Hey.

[Eli Double Tap]

Also known as Donut operator is racist. That's it. Yeah, it's just one sentence.

[Nick Power]

All right, while we're here, let me talk about minorities.

[Brandon Herrera]

Wow, they cited every time. Dude. The Digital Blue's still here.

[Eli Double Tap]

Cody's start to media was in 2002 in a commercial, notably the Digital Blue digital movie creator commercial.

[Brandon Herrera]

Straight up.

[Cody Garrett]

Is that actual Wikipedia?

[Eli Double Tap]

That is actually.

[Cody Garrett]

Oh my God. Yes, it is.

[Eli Double Tap]

That is the first thing it says about our boy.

[Cody Garrett]

Mine is Brandon Herrera, YouTuber with a very suspicious my heart goes out to you looking photo. And then people also search for Cody Garrett and Tony Gonzalez.

[Eli Double Tap]

Now I'm actually wondering, Cody, you're worth. These are my favorites. Like you're worth 3 million. 2 million. A former SWAT team member and police officer who has a net worth of 2 million dog doll hairs. Doll hairs.

[Cody Garrett]

What metric are we. Which, which. Which website are we using?

[Eli Double Tap]

That one's a. That's a resourceful one. Famousbirthdays.com so deep diving that information.

[Brandon Herrera]

Social Blade, super accurate all over the place.

[Nick Power]

Social Blade says I'm worth like 30 million. It's like God.

[Eli Double Tap]

Nick, fat electrician. You don't have anything yet, Nick?

[Brandon Herrera]

Nope.

[Eli Double Tap]

What's your net worth?

[Brandon Herrera]

I don't know. Not keeping track.

[Eli Double Tap]

Well, they are pretend.

[Brandon Herrera]

Allegedly.

[Eli Double Tap]

Allegedly. These are my favorite things. Dang. That was your average retention. What is that?

[Brandon Herrera]

What?

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh, you average length. I thought that was your retention. I was like, how the do they got that?

[Cody Garrett]

This is riveting content.

[Eli Double Tap]

I know. Like we. I'm so tired, like trying to wake up right now. We did cooking yesterday. We got what Tyler's episode. You're filming your which gun tomorrow.

[Cody Garrett]

So tomorrow we're going to be doing a video with. I think we're doing the. This is like a googleable thing, which is my favorite part. I got my hands on one of the AK slash ppsh 41 hybrids where somebody made a. An AK. It's functionally. It is an AK 47, but it's got the front shroud of a ppsh and is like the most Cursed shit ever.

[Brandon Herrera]

I like it.

[Cody Garrett]

Nick likes.

[Brandon Herrera]

I think that's a terrible. I think it's cool as. That's a gun where if you're like, what if World War II lasted five more years, that's the gun that the Germans would be running around with. Think it looks neat.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh, what the.

[Brandon Herrera]

Tell me that's not neat. It looks cooler than a regular. Okay.

[Eli Double Tap]

How hot does that shroud get?

[Cody Garrett]

Probably not at all.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh, really? I would assume that's definitely, like, German and Russian had a thing together.

[Brandon Herrera]

Well, they're both r. But called the ribbon.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah, I forgot. Yeah.

[Cody Garrett]

Oh, that actually looks sick with the drum. I. I hadn't seen that.

[Brandon Herrera]

See? Told you that.

[Cody Garrett]

Oh, I hate that. I like that. Yeah, but it's. It's just a weird looking gun. And this was like a meme. This is like a cursed gun. Like, it's been on the Internet for 20 years. And I just so happened to see one on Gun Broker. And I was like, mine. But there was like 20 ever made.

[Eli Double Tap]

Did you get a good deal?

[Cody Garrett]

It wasn't bad because I don't think anybody wants them. And I'm like, I'm retarded enough to want that.

[Eli Double Tap]

And then we finally. I agreed not to paint if Brandon makes me a gun. Not to paint it. Finally. And then I'll get a seat. I won't paint it. No, I want, like, I'm over the painting phase. I have all my pink guns I need and my Call of Duty guns. I think they're maxed out. So now it's like, I want Brandon to design his autistic level of detail gun.

[Cody Garrett]

There's like. There's been like, a podcast Cold War, where I've given everyone on the podcast a gun, but Eli's like, you know, I'm just gonna make it pink and anime. And I'm like, no. Stalemate.

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh, did you see the. The thing? I. Dude.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

Your Christmas present showed up.

[Cody Garrett]

What is it?

[Brandon Herrera]

This Christmas present finally showed up the other day to the podcast the Hand of the God.

[Nick Power]

Oh, that's cool.

[Eli Double Tap]

It's like the berserk. The hand that comes up.

[Nick Power]

Yeah. With a bailif right here. Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

That's where Griffiths was born. Spoiler alert.

[Nick Power]

He's a good guy.

[Eli Double Tap]

He's a good guy.

[Nick Power]

He's cool. Am I right, dude?

[Eli Double Tap]

I see. I was like, what the. This is dope. As. And then you got the mask from. We're gonna hang on that.

[Nick Power]

Yeah, dude. Alex the Terrible sent me one of the masks from Slaughter to Prevail. And it's got the. The bizarre symbol on it, the brand on it. Yeah, dude, we got some cool friends.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh, and then I hung up young Billiams things real quick.

[Cody Garrett]

You pinned it with Nams.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah. What do we have extra of Nams? Brown has so many names, it became.

[Cody Garrett]

A meme because, you know, that's. That's your.

[Nick Power]

Your medal that you're like, Yeah, I got one NAM.

[Cody Garrett]

I've got like 9 billion.

[Nick Power]

Has two. Brandon has nine NAMs now. Navy Achievement medal.

[Brandon Herrera]

Billion.

[Nick Power]

Dude, look at this little dick.

[Eli Double Tap]

Also, we'll get a shadow box for it. Make it all nice.

[Cody Garrett]

But our friend Cody Garrett, flipping off a literal infant.

[Nick Power]

He's like, he didn't earn them goddamn names.

[Cody Garrett]

Jesus Christ. These are always fun episodes though, because, like, we just like, do the boys. We don't have to worry about a, you know, a guest dynamic or anything. We just catch up with our friends.

[Eli Double Tap]

It's been. Who are you talking with the other day about being in war at the age of nine? Was that what you guys.

[Brandon Herrera]

No, that was on kind of consensual, that. Dude, that was.

[Eli Double Tap]

Bro, tell that.

[Brandon Herrera]

So we were. We were bullshitting on kind of consensual. And the youngest.

[Nick Power]

What's kind of consensual?

[Brandon Herrera]

It's the exclusive.

[Cody Garrett]

Makes it very hard for your attorney.

[Eli Double Tap]

Well, kind of two nights ago.

[Brandon Herrera]

No, that's the exclusive podcast for Pepperbox for me, Eli. Angry cops and habitual line crosser. But I forget what we were talking about, but we ended up talking about being young in war. And I brought up General Clem. General Clem was literally a drummer boy in the Civil War that took shrapnel and then a Confederate officer demanded that he surrendered. So he killed him at the age of 12. And he was. He was an NCO by the time he was 13, right? It was. Yeah, it was like.

[Cody Garrett]

That was, I think, the surrender thing. Who killed him? What? Do what?

[Brandon Herrera]

The drummer boy at the age of 12 killed a confederate officer that demanded that he surrendered. So he became an NCO and then he stayed in the military until 1915 and retired as like a three star general, which, like, to be fair, in.

[Cody Garrett]

The American military, good time to retire.

[Brandon Herrera]

Like, but imagine like 18.

[Eli Double Tap]

You're like 18 and you're joining this eight. This 12 year old's like, what the.

[Brandon Herrera]

Could you imagine, like, boys line up getting suited up for like World War I and like, Bro, General Clem was a drummer boy in the Civil War. He was. He was an NCO at 9 and it's like you're joining at 18, it's like, bro had nine years in the military and confirmed kills already.

[Cody Garrett]

Jesus.

[Eli Double Tap]

He took shrapnel, right?

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, I think he took shrapnel as a drummer boy that killed a Confederate officer.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah. At 9 and 12 or as heck.

[Cody Garrett]

My boy.

[Nick Power]

John, listen up.

[Eli Double Tap]

I was like, man, my kids have no excuse.

[Brandon Herrera]

General Clem that's worried about your Roblox.

[Cody Garrett]

This kid's getting it.

[Eli Double Tap]

I don't know, hardship these kids.

[Cody Garrett]

And then meanwhile, Eddie Gallagher gets in trouble for, you know, a 17 year old with an AK 47 as a child.

[Eli Double Tap]

I mean, that Cody did a good story on that one. That was.

[Nick Power]

I saw Eddie at shot show.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yep.

[Nick Power]

Yeah. Gotta say hey to him, chill with him for a couple minutes and. Yeah, yeah. Good guy. Good guy.

[Eli Double Tap]

That's one of the first times I've seen how like, media can spin in a. If you know what you're looking at, you automatically it's like, oh, he's just lower enlisted that doesn't like what they were. They hated their leader. And a couple of them just like, let's get him back. You just read the paperwork. It's like we messed with his optics every day. I would have known. Like, if you're a sniper at his level, when you go out to shoot your weapon or train, you're like, huh, that's weird. Every time I'm shooting it, it's not zeroed.

[Nick Power]

Yeah. If I remember correctly, he was one of the first Navy people to pass Marine Corps sniper school. So, like, if someone fucks with your optic in a theater, and he had been doing it for years, you're probably going to see that someone with your optic.

[Cody Garrett]

I also really cannot imagine the thought process of. This guy is my overwatch. Let me make him worse at killing the guys who were shooting at me.

[Eli Double Tap]

Dubious.

[Nick Power]

That's a. That's a whole thing, man.

[Eli Double Tap]

Scoring privates, I mean, enlisted, that E4, E5, I think was what they were at, but it was two. And then the. The biggest thing was Jaguar with the Trojan that they say that's the wild thing.

[Nick Power]

Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

That's how I got. You know, that they got dismissed because.

[Brandon Herrera]

No. Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

They're legal. Not every team. The Navy's team.

[Nick Power]

Yeah, the. The Jag dudes or whatever they are.

[Cody Garrett]

The Ed, to quote Pete Hegseth, the Jag offs.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah, the Jago.

[Brandon Herrera]

Would you like to explain what that is? I don't think I need to, to be honest.

[Cody Garrett]

I think the men and women watching know what. They know what that means.

[Nick Power]

Yeah, dude.

[Cody Garrett]

They put a hip to quote the Secretary of Defense. God, I love this timeline.

[Brandon Herrera]

I. I don't think I need to.

[Nick Power]

Well, it's like one of the big things that. Because I did a video about Eddie Gallagher back in the day and was talking about like the, the main way for the jagoffs to get medals or to go forward with promotions is to get prosecutions. And so they were like working really.

[Brandon Herrera]

Hard to prosecute him whether it was right or wrong.

[Eli Double Tap]

This is to a point they did not give a right. They were like, we are prosecuting this dude no matter what.

[Nick Power]

And then. Yeah, they put the trojan horse in the emails and they actively were trying to spy on his defense, like on his defense prosecutors and things like that.

[Eli Double Tap]

And yeah, they see it, they go and like, what the is this? This is a trojan sent through. They sent a trojan to spy on us to see what we're doing, which.

[Brandon Herrera]

Is a type of virus.

[Nick Power]

Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

You're tracking everything your spot. It's illegal, especially.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

With.

[Brandon Herrera]

For court proceedings. Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

So they get that and they're like.

[Cody Garrett]

What do they call that? Fruit of the poison tree.

[Nick Power]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Fruit of the poisonous tree. So it's like, if there's one wrong thing in the beginning of a prosecution, none of the other ship matters.

[Eli Double Tap]

Okay.

[Nick Power]

Unmissable.

[Eli Double Tap]

So yeah, they walked in, they found the Trojan, like, yo, what the is this? And they're like, wait, this is from.

[Cody Garrett]

Let'S say Trojan horse. Because when you say they found a trojan, it really just sounds like a condom.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh, they found.

[Nick Power]

They found his condoms.

[Eli Double Tap]

A virus spyware on an email attached. And they kept it just attached. So when they went in, they're like, hey, they're spying on us. Like, what the. Is this true? Dude, this will drop everything. No one got in trouble, though. That's the crazy thing. Like, no one. That entire prosecution team did not get in trouble.

[Brandon Herrera]

This is my issue with like the current legal system and like prosecutors in general. Like, prosecutors have way too much power as far as just like, I want to go after you or I don't. You know what I mean? Like, you could, you could get away with like pretty, probably pretty blatant murder in like Florida in a self defense shooting, just because that's how the prosecutors in Florida interpret it versus like California. You could have a hundred percent justified self defense shooting and they're coming after you for murder just because that's how the prosecutor feels about it.

[Nick Power]

You're about to get me on my soapbox, but I think that's.

[Cody Garrett]

Oh, let's go.

[Brandon Herrera]

I'm Here for.

[Eli Double Tap]

Cody's pumping.

[Nick Power]

No. Okay.

[Cody Garrett]

I just saw Cody do the Henry Cavill armor.

[Brandon Herrera]

Let's go. I want to hear it.

[Nick Power]

Daniel Penny. Yeah. New York. You had a guy who was threatening old women and other people on the train. He put him in a chokehold. The guy just happened to die, and then he was drugged through the dirt.

[Cody Garrett]

For months because homeboy was saying, like, somebody on this train's gonna die.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah.

[Nick Power]

He was like, someone's gonna wait.

[Brandon Herrera]

Somebody's gonna.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh, my God. He could read the. Could read the future.

[Nick Power]

If that happened in Texas.

[Cody Garrett]

Yeah.

[Nick Power]

Like, any prosecutor in Texas, hopefully any prosecutor except for some in Austin, they probably would have been like, yeah, okay. Yeah, he was. He was. He was completely taking care of the women and the children and the people on that train. But in New York, if. Choke some dude out who's threatening poor people, like. Like young poor people, like, old people. And no, he gets put in fucking prison the next day. It worked out. It worked out, though.

[Brandon Herrera]

Like, I've brought this up before, but, like, I'm so close to Minnesota. Like, it's an issue because, like, you go to Minnesota so much, and they don't recognize a concealed carry permit, and they have super strict gun laws. And, like, in Minnesota, there was a court case I was following where a woman was at home alone with her kids, and she heard something in her garage, so she grabbed her gun, went out to her garage to investigate, and it was a burglar that then attacked her, and she shot him and killed him.

[Nick Power]

Good.

[Brandon Herrera]

Prosecuted for murder because it was a detached garage.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh, yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

She didn't have the legal. She had a duty to retreat, and she shouldn't have went out there and got.

[Cody Garrett]

No, that was some attorney that was just like, oh, well, by technicality, but, I mean. Well, are you not looking at the fact that a woman was defending her, but, like, house and family? That's.

[Brandon Herrera]

My whole thing is like, I almost don't think that plea deals should be a thing, because plea deals are literally just like, oh, I'm an attorney with a 98% conviction rate, blah, blah, blah. And if I let somebody off with a plea deal that ruins their life, even though I know they're innocent, I'm gonna get them to plead guilty and lose gun rights and have to be on probation instead. Then I get to maintain my record or whatever.

[Cody Garrett]

Cody's about to explode.

[Brandon Herrera]

I want to hear it.

[Eli Double Tap]

Old man episode. I like it.

[Nick Power]

Yeah. The other subway thing that just happened, man, you had these five.

[Cody Garrett]

Daniel Penny, part two.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah, well, you had These five dudes questioning stuff. He went back down and choked somebody else out.

[Nick Power]

There was a subway as a New York. Of course, a New York City fucking subway again. And you had these five guys, they wouldn't. They stole. A homeless man fell asleep, and they went and they stole his bag. So he wakes up, he hits one of them. He just like slaps him across the mouth. And so they beat the fuck out of him. And he falls down. And then they go to their car with his bags, and he goes back to retrieve his bags. And they start punching him in the back of the head. And so he stat. He pulls out a knife and he stabs two of them, kills one of them, and they fucking. They arrested him and like, everything was fine. They're like, yeah, this is total self defense. But his attorney, remember that attorney on that video I showed you? The attorney said it's a garden variety robbery. And he turned it into a murder, though.

[Cody Garrett]

The prosecution, Prosecutor.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh, God, yeah.

[Nick Power]

The attorney. Or the attorney of one of the guys that robbed him.

[Cody Garrett]

Right, right.

[Nick Power]

He was like, this was just a garden variety robbery. Why did he have to hurt someone? Like. Like the. The sheer fact that someone has to say garden variety robbery. That is.

[Eli Double Tap]

So he escalated it to that next level. He was just gonna take his bag and leave. Versus the idea. And a lot of people I know, California, they have that duty to retreats.

[Nick Power]

Yeah. In some states and not in others.

[Eli Double Tap]

But with the duty of retreat it is. And you get to see it. Even with Castle, I gotta run. I gotta get out. Even I have a gun. They're breaking in. My job is to get my family.

[Brandon Herrera]

Out safe to run away and let them stay.

[Cody Garrett]

I don't necessarily think that that's true for your. Your domicile.

[Eli Double Tap]

No.

[Brandon Herrera]

So, no. It depends on what doctrine, your career. Traditional Castle doctrine. If you are in your residence where you sleep, you can defend yourself. But some, like California, I don't think, recognizes Castle doctrine to that degree. And California has a duty to retreat. So you literally have to be backed into a corner with no reasonable exits before you're allowed to fire.

[Cody Garrett]

Because I know that there's. There's certain other states too, where it's like, even though they recognize Castle doctrine, if you're in public, let's say you get into an altercation in public and somebody pulls out a knife, you have a duty to try to get out of the situation, legally speaking, before you're allowed to shoot the person, which is insane.

[Nick Power]

And like, like I said, it depends on what. It depends on what state you're in, which is fucked up, dude.

[Eli Double Tap]

Appropriate.

[Nick Power]

Like I. I feel like if someone steals a candy bar from me, I should be able to kill you. I mean, well, I'm sorry, that's mine.

[Cody Garrett]

My. The finger for it drives me crazy when people make that argument. They're like, oh, so you're saying that somebody's life is less valuable than your stuff? I'm like, yes.

[Brandon Herrera]

No, it's not what I am.

[Cody Garrett]

What I said was the minute you're willing to take my stuff, the life of someone who's willing to steal my shit is worth less than my stuff.

[Nick Power]

Yeah, exactly.

[Eli Double Tap]

Makes perfect sense.

[Brandon Herrera]

You made that decision, not me.

[Cody Garrett]

Yeah, you. You killed yourself the minute you tried to break into my.

[Nick Power]

You made that decision.

[Eli Double Tap]

Appropriate force in self defense is the one California has.

[Cody Garrett]

Weird.

[Eli Double Tap]

They get tied up a lot of time. It's like, well, and you had a gun, they had a knife that was. You used more.

[Brandon Herrera]

That's the dumbest thing on the planet.

[Cody Garrett]

Sorry. I'm better at it.

[Brandon Herrera]

You want to know the knives are terrifying. You want to know.

[Cody Garrett]

Video where the guy gets it in the throat and like you just. Oh, yeah. Like.

[Nick Power]

Yeah, I've only done, I don't know, 10, 22 videos on this. Yeah. A knife is dangerous. You get a poke. Like you were talking the mall video. The dude just went, boop. And guy was dead in 30 seconds.

[Cody Garrett]

The guy was dead the moment that knife left his.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah. You can't stop it. You're screwed.

[Brandon Herrera]

You want to know the hardest marketing campaign of all time? This Samuel Colt, when he came up with the revolver. The Colts marketing campaign after Colt came up with the revolver. So like, this is like the first time that it became practical to stray away from muskets. You know what I mean?

[Cody Garrett]

So the market, the Colt Patterson, I believe it was like, like 1841 or some like really early.

[Brandon Herrera]

Their marketing slogan when the revolver came out was God created man. Samuel Colt made them equal. And it's the hardest marketing campaign of all time.

[Nick Power]

That makes me think, that's awesome.

[Cody Garrett]

What's.

[Nick Power]

What's the Last Samurai? Remember Tom Cruise? The first of it. Yeah, I think that was. That was what he was marketing then.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh, yeah, the.

[Nick Power]

Yeah, the repeating rifle.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah, just like wreck.

[Cody Garrett]

I haven't seen that in a while, man. Wasn't he like a little bighorn survivor or something like that?

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Nick Power]

He went through a lot, which I.

[Cody Garrett]

Didn'T realize until recently. That Red Dead video I did where like the. We had one of the. Was it the Springfield trapdoors Yeah, I had the same ejector malfunction or extractor malfunction. Like it broke the gun. And everybody in the comment was like, that's what lost Little Bighorn. Straight up, the same malfunction. They're like, yep, no, no, that's not your reproduction. That just happens.

[Eli Double Tap]

Dude, that. That day was. That was probably supposed to be like two hours of film an hour. And then all the old guns were having every issue. Brandon would go to do something, he'd be like, and it's not working again.

[Cody Garrett]

Like, C96 don't work. The trapdoor don't work.

[Brandon Herrera]

You guys.

[Cody Garrett]

Damn it.

[Brandon Herrera]

Have you guys seen American Primeval? No, dude, it's a new. It's like it's not a series. It's like, well, it is like a series, but like, it's over. It was like a one and done six episode thing. Like, kind of like how HBO does it, but Netflix did it and it was American Primeval about the west and westward expansion. And like, I've talked about this a little bit before where it's like one religion doesn't really get their own state. Unless they did some sketchy during westward expansion, talking about Utah in particular.

[Cody Garrett]

Which state could that be?

[Eli Double Tap]

They did some stuff.

[Nick Power]

The Mountain Jews.

[Brandon Herrera]

The entire series is about like a big caravan of pilgrims moving west and they get attacked by the Mormon Church dressed up as Native Americans on horseback. And then the army trying to prove that the Mormons did it, while also, like dealing with potentially the Native Americans doing it. So, like, there's like three entities. Like the Native Americans are trying to prove the Mormons did. The army is just trying to figure out what the is going on. It's like, it's a really good series, but the Mormon Church is pissed about it because they kind of, God forbid.

[Cody Garrett]

They told what happened.

[Eli Double Tap]

Right.

[Brandon Herrera]

Well, that like, they like slandered. I forget his name, but he's like the second prophet of the Mormon religion. Bring him young perhaps. I don't know. But they like kind of slandered his name in the Mormon Church is like, well, I mean, it's kind of accurate, but we apologize for that. Also, that guy was pretty cool. They're really pissed off about it, but it's a really good series.

[Cody Garrett]

Yeah, I know. I saw a comment on Pepperbox that got pissed at us for. For saying Mountain Jews. I was like, dude, you know, I. First of all, I find that phrase hilarious. Second of all, the person I learned that phrase from is a mountain. Is a Jew.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah.

[Cody Garrett]

In the presence of a Mormon Yeah. And I thought it was the funniest shit in the world. Like, how can you get fucking mad at that? Like, you think it's funny. It's really not. I'm like, I don't think you can tell me what's funny.

[Eli Double Tap]

He couldn't have said. It was like. Well, he was allowed to say. Evan reading. Dude, that is hilarious. Reading that story of, like, all that. Because I filmed that video and I know everything. I was like, oh, man.

[Cody Garrett]

Did you really?

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah, that was. I. I watched all that.

[Cody Garrett]

Do we want to give a little.

[Eli Double Tap]

Background for the background is. What was the article? It was.

[Cody Garrett]

There was a lawsuit.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah, a lot.

[Cody Garrett]

A lawsuit against Black Rifle. Specifically saying. And it was one of my favorite things I've ever read.

[Brandon Herrera]

Because you had the hardest YouTube video title in the history of YouTube. Ye remember opening up YouTube and having to pull over. I was laughing so hard because I couldn't believe you did that.

[Cody Garrett]

I. I called him and he didn't pick up, so I sent it anyway. It was a gun meme review called Evan Hayford doesn't want your butthole. It was just about, like, the Black Rifle lawsuit because some guy was going after him. They ended up making up like, everything.

[Nick Power]

Was fine, but, like, they're homies now.

[Cody Garrett]

Yeah, it's like. I mean, good, but, like, people were like, oh, can you believe all this happened? And reading, like, I'm reading this about my friends, like, about Evan and Matt Best and like that. And like, the only thing going through my head the entire time I'm reading is, this all happened.

[Brandon Herrera]

Every line of this is true.

[Cody Garrett]

I can see it happening. And I'm like. I'm just thinking of it in my head. I'm like, that total. That happens all of this chat.

[Nick Power]

Does that not sound like us just bantering?

[Cody Garrett]

Nobody means anything by it. That's just like, if you pulled anything we said out of context. Never happened to me before. If you pull anything we say out of context, it sounds terrible, but you're just bantering with the guy.

[Eli Double Tap]

Dude, that's what I read in that lawsuit. I was like, oh, I filmed that video. That's not what happened. Huh? We forced him to strip. I don't remember any of that part. They were very excited to be in this video. It was. Hot Dog Party 2 was the title of that video. I remember shooting that dumbass commercial not helping your case. And we did it. This is the small office. This is before it went to the big office. This is a tiny little office.

[Cody Garrett]

Oh, yes. The cult classic Hot dog Party.

[Eli Double Tap]

Too. After no one could forget Hot Dog Party one, which needed a sequel.

[Cody Garrett]

This time it's personal.

[Eli Double Tap]

I remember filming that. It's just everyone's in the bathroom shirtless and no pants. They have underwears and they're working out and that's when I opened the door.

[Cody Garrett]

I remember that video. I. People just really don't understand, like the military, Leo. Whatever. Like that sense of humor is just so different. Dude.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah, that was reading a lawsuit, but that was not how that. Okay, well.

[Brandon Herrera]

Party too. Not on Joseph Smith's plates.

[Nick Power]

Dude, if you're laughing, you're not crying. That's how we all deal with. Also a lot of really gay humor.

[Eli Double Tap]

Just a smidge amount.

[Cody Garrett]

What if we close. I think the, the direct quote from Evan Hair was, what if we close this door and butt the out of each other. This is a man who is married with children.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah, this is very much one of many, Evan.

[Cody Garrett]

A bunch of these, A bunch of these kids who like have never banter like that are just like, oh, so he's gay. It's like, no. Which led to the title. Evan Hayford does not want your butthole.

[Eli Double Tap]

I just like. You gave him laser eyes.

[Cody Garrett]

And I put the. The eye. Funny hands.

[Brandon Herrera]

The funny part is like, I like this was like my. Around the time of like my second or third trip down to San Antonio. So like I'm new, new to this world and I was like, I can't do anything or I'm gonna get in trouble and open YouTube. First recommendation. Evan Haford doesn't want your butthole.

[Cody Garrett]

He called me after that video went live and I was just like, oh, hey, sorry dude. Like I said, it was getting late and he was just like, yeah, I watched your video. It's pretty fucking funny.

[Eli Double Tap]

Evan left. That's the terrifying part with California law. Read that out loud. That's, that's the second part.

[Brandon Herrera]

This is back to gun laws.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah, just a real quick why the California laws? Scared.

[Cody Garrett]

You are not required to retreat from.

[Brandon Herrera]

A fight if reasonably believed you or someone else is in imminent danger. The force you use must be proportional to the threat.

[Cody Garrett]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

So if you're a hunter, if you.

[Eli Double Tap]

Cannot retreat, if you're a 120 pound.

[Brandon Herrera]

Woman with kids and a 250 pound man with a machete comes after you, you're only allowed to use knives.

[Cody Garrett]

You're allowed to Deploy your own 250 pound man with a knife.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh, there it is. There is. When the force used is reasonable and escape is not a viable option, you.

[Nick Power]

Just keep them in your Corner.

[Eli Double Tap]

That is part of the.

[Brandon Herrera]

That's so stupid.

[Cody Garrett]

You're trapped in a corner and you.

[Brandon Herrera]

Have to use proportionate force when you're trapped so somebody can break into your house. Not only do you get to break into my house while I'm sleeping, you get to choose the weapons. So if you're a master sword fighter, you need to come in with a sword. And I'm not allowed to just Indiana Jones. Your ass is absurd. Well, if you don't have so stupid.

[Cody Garrett]

I'm gonna break this down. If you have a weapon in my house and I don't know you, you're gonna die.

[Nick Power]

If you're in my house.

[Eli Double Tap]

Anytime, probably shooting you, I'm gonna ask one question. Hi. Who are you? Then, depending on your response, if you're.

[Cody Garrett]

Confused, waking up to go get water at 3am, that's new.

[Brandon Herrera]

Sorry.

[Nick Power]

You're gonna die, dude.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's funny.

[Cody Garrett]

Asking them who they are is called due process.

[Eli Double Tap]

I don't. But I would have to say that I asked. I would never tell the cops I said that. Did you say anything? No.

[Nick Power]

Let me. Let me teach you guys out there in the audience, something it's called I was scared for my life. That's it.

[Cody Garrett]

I feared for my life.

[Nick Power]

Yeah.

[Cody Garrett]

Which I mean, to be fair, if there's a stranger in your living room at 3:00 in the morning. Yeah. I fear for my life too.

[Nick Power]

Yep.

[Cody Garrett]

You're gonna eat seven rounds of eight, eight, six, blackout.

[Brandon Herrera]

I'm gonna fear for my life for a second.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh, I'd be so. The only thing I'd be so angry.

[Cody Garrett]

Now I'm going to fear for my carpet cleaning bill.

[Eli Double Tap]

Literally what I'd be most mad about. I have to stay up now an extra couple hours while this gets sorted.

[Nick Power]

Yeah. Your brains are on my wall getting checked out.

[Cody Garrett]

I fear for my circadian rhythm because I'm gonna have to stay up all night dealing with paperwork associated with what just happened.

[Eli Double Tap]

Sir, how are you handling. I don't. The staining is not cool.

[Cody Garrett]

Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

No.

[Cody Garrett]

The blood spatter on my wall sucks ass.

[Nick Power]

I don't know what to do with this.

[Cody Garrett]

I was out of extra panels of the wood flooring, and now I'm gonna have to reflow the whole goddamn living room. This guy was so inconsiderate when he broke into my house to take my.

[Eli Double Tap]

I just like everyone now uses 86 as their bedsides, I think.

[Nick Power]

Yeah.

[Cody Garrett]

After that. That range day, that became my bedside immediately.

[Brandon Herrera]

Is that. Is that a controversial take? Like, I just don't think Plea deals should be a thing. Like, either you're guilty or you're not. Prosecute them for what you said or don't. And fucking.

[Cody Garrett]

I feel. I feel like plea deals are only a thing nowadays. Like, is as widespread as they are because we have so many stupid laws on the books, so many, like, just absurd, obscure crimes that are being prosecuted, that we've overloaded the court system. And plea deals just make sense.

[Brandon Herrera]

Well, like, to oversimplify it, I'm just thinking about, like, even in, like, the. The arena of, like, self defense, like, I think it's absurd for a dad that shot somebody breaking into his house to be put in a situation where the prosecutor comes forward and is like, hey, we're trying to put you in jail forever. But if you just admit that you're guilty and do two years, and then you'll get to see your kids go through high school, or even, like, oh.

[Eli Double Tap]

Take the plea deal, because you'll. We'll let you out. You don't do jail time, but you're admitting to this. And then you have six months probation.

[Brandon Herrera]

And then I get. I get my win as a prosecutor, and then I get to maintain my accurate percentage score or whatever.

[Eli Double Tap]

Jake, does this sound right? Or we just.

[Cody Garrett]

That's absolutely.

[Eli Double Tap]

Absolutely. Okay, perfect. Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

That's kind of absurd to me.

[Nick Power]

Yeah, it's gay. But you don't have to accept a plea deal.

[Cody Garrett]

It just sucks that you're presented with the option where it's, like, it becomes gambling at that point where they're like, all right, you have two choices. I know you wanted a cheeseburger, but now you have the option of either getting that cheeseburger, like, rolling the dice, getting that cheeseburger, or eating a turd. Or you could have a cheeseburger that just has, like, a little piece of turd in it. Well, I would just like the cheeseburger.

[Eli Double Tap]

What's the percentage I'm gonna get that cheeseburger? 50. 50.

[Cody Garrett]

Oh, and most.

[Brandon Herrera]

Red or black, Based on the opinion of 12 people that are too stupid to get out of jury duty. That's horrifying.

[Nick Power]

Thank you, Nick.

[Brandon Herrera]

Well, I mean.

[Nick Power]

No, I agree. Trust me, I've been. I know about the criminal justice system. It's gay.

[Cody Garrett]

You can't find me a jury of my peers. My peers get out of it.

[Nick Power]

Yeah.

[Cody Garrett]

Constitutionally speaking, this can't happen. Am I wrong?

[Nick Power]

No.

[Cody Garrett]

I wonder if that's ever gone to court.

[Eli Double Tap]

These are my peers. You're not winning them over.

[Cody Garrett]

These dipshits are at. In jury duty.

[Eli Double Tap]

These Are peers make you guilty now no matter what?

[Cody Garrett]

I really hope I don't have to go to court for anything.

[Nick Power]

I mean, I think pull this up. Jake will agree me on this. Like, jury selection is so lame in the first place.

[Cody Garrett]

Dude, it is a game.

[Nick Power]

You. Because you're. You're looking for the dumbest motherfuckers to sit there. I know.

[Eli Double Tap]

It's like we're going law. Everyone getting heated up. Like.

[Cody Garrett]

I know this is. This is a comedy podcast. We've been making jokes the whole time, but I'm pissed off now.

[Eli Double Tap]

I get it out of the last time I had, what, a year ago? I had.

[Brandon Herrera]

Me and Cody were up till three in the morning, and somewhere between us drinking and him going, like, you want to watch Roadhouse? There was a guy.

[Eli Double Tap]

That's what that text was. Okay, Jim, Jesus.

[Brandon Herrera]

There was a Never stop.

[Eli Double Tap]

I'm gonna stop you right there, Nick. I was.

[Cody Garrett]

We got another Nick text. A Nick drunk text.

[Eli Double Tap]

I was so confused at.

[Nick Power]

I mean, Nick ate cheeseburgers at 2 in the morning.

[Brandon Herrera]

They were sliders. Okay, okay. In my defense, did I eat half a loaf of bread? Don't worry about it.

[Eli Double Tap]

Where's your text about Roadhouse? What group was that in there? It is dead ass. We need to do the gang gets drunk and watches Roadhouse House.

[Brandon Herrera]

That's probably where that came from.

[Cody Garrett]

Would you guys like to see the gang gets drunk and watches Roadhouse exclusive. Could you run that by me again, Jay? Was that.

[Eli Double Tap]

Exclusive?

[Nick Power]

All right, guys.

[Brandon Herrera]

Somewhere that also happened. But then Cody's also like, man, I just. I feel like the Founding Fathers was our friend group. Like, we fed up with the federal government and started saying no.

[Cody Garrett]

Yes. More people should do that.

[Eli Double Tap]

What's our tea?

[Brandon Herrera]

Huh?

[Eli Double Tap]

What's our tea? We're gonna throw in?

[Cody Garrett]

Well, the Founding Fathers didn't do that.

[Eli Double Tap]

One, but, yeah, let's get it started, though.

[Cody Garrett]

So you're saying we should do red Face and start damaging property?

[Eli Double Tap]

I like it. Is that where we're going, Brandon?

[Cody Garrett]

We know some Elton Jews who apparently did the same thing.

[Nick Power]

Last time I got drunk, I started watching movies. Someone ran for Congress. That's all I'm saying. I love that I'm gonna go down in history as the drunk guy that talks all my friends into running for elected office.

[Cody Garrett]

Well, because you were talking about running against that senator, right?

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah. That was shockingly close to happening for a second.

[Cody Garrett]

Why did you decide not to?

[Brandon Herrera]

Apparently, she started voting correctly.

[Cody Garrett]

Good.

[Brandon Herrera]

She took a ton of backlash. And then I got a ton of. I got a Ton of motivation or a ton of good PR on Twitter and a bunch of people. Like, I got contacted if I was serious, and then she started voting correctly.

[Cody Garrett]

I was part of that. For the record, I talked to a lot of people like, hey, this guy. They're like, you really think so? I'm like, look at what I did. They were like, heard I'm a little.

[Brandon Herrera]

Bit more brand safe than you. Also, like, I feel like it.

[Cody Garrett]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

Did you really say that? Communists aren't people. Yeah, and I stand by it. Fight me. Like, I don't give a. Like, it's the worst thing I've said.

[Cody Garrett]

Like, the Pinochet Aviation Club. You want some shirt?

[Nick Power]

That's what you were telling me because you're like, cody, just run for some office. I'm like, yeah, what if they look.

[Brandon Herrera]

At my Twitter and you're like, just stand by it.

[Nick Power]

Yeah.

[Cody Garrett]

Just tell them.

[Nick Power]

Yeah.

[Cody Garrett]

I feel if Cash Patel can drop the hard ride, fuck it, we can get away with anything.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah. I just, like, that was really fast in the friends group.

[Cody Garrett]

Don't get me wrong. He's. He's right about everything he's saying. And, like, I understand. The point is making, like, behind it.

[Eli Double Tap]

He's like, I was called this.

[Nick Power]

The.

[Cody Garrett]

The message here.

[Brandon Herrera]

Say it.

[Eli Double Tap]

What'd he say?

[Cody Garrett]

Fuck you, dude. Verbatim, Brandon Cash Patel's like, he's awesome. Like, I believe in everything behind it. But, like, if you had. If you made me bet on who was going to drop a hard R in senate chambers, I don't think I would have had my money on Cash Patel.

[Eli Double Tap]

I was surprised, like, well, they just came back from the group. I was like, oh, okay.

[Nick Power]

Well, they kept pressing him. He was like, oh, you. You actually want to hear what people were sending me? Okay. And he just went full send hard R. I really.

[Cody Garrett]

I. At time of recording, he hasn't been confirmed yet. I hope he fucking gets in, man. He is such a. A good dude. I really want that to happen.

[Brandon Herrera]

I just want the Epstein list out. It's all I want.

[Cody Garrett]

He's.

[Brandon Herrera]

That broke. That broke my brain since it happened. Like, it's. It's horrible. Do you remember before the whole Epstein thing when you just had the agency to be like, that's. That didn't happen. And then the Epstein thing happened, and it's like, well, maybe. I don't know. You know what I mean?

[Cody Garrett]

What do you mean?

[Brandon Herrera]

Like, if somebody came to you in 2008 and was like, there's a. There's an iron island where a bunch of Kids on top of a pyramid.

[Cody Garrett]

To be perfectly honest, I've been on this train. I've been on this train for a long time.

[Brandon Herrera]

You know what I mean? Like, you. You could have been like, that's not true. And then it came out that that was in fact true.

[Cody Garrett]

Dollar bill in the Alex Jones was right jar.

[Brandon Herrera]

Right?

[Eli Double Tap]

That's the scary part. It's like Alex Jones 2008. You're like, fucking crazy, dude. Alex Jones now you're like, still crazy, dude. But is he like.

[Cody Garrett]

The fact that he's right about so much really should concern everyone.

[Eli Double Tap]

And I. He popped up in my feed the other day and just listening to a. A rant, I was like, wow, okay.

[Cody Garrett]

He got cut, dude. I don't know if it's the colloidal Silver.

[Eli Double Tap]

No, it's me. What's the.

[Cody Garrett]

Talk about? Ozic?

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah, oic. Ozic, dude.

[Cody Garrett]

He got pretty caught. I'm not gonna lie. Cuz for a minute there he was. It was getting a little rough.

[Eli Double Tap]

I loved when he would do his ads showing his before and after. When he was on his, like, colloidal sober before, after, he's just red. It's the exact same photo. Have you seen those? Oh, God.

[Cody Garrett]

It's pretty funny.

[Eli Double Tap]

Have you seen.

[Brandon Herrera]

So like, it was the same day. A little bit more into, like, Jiu Jitsu than you guys, but, like, do you guys know who Craig Jones is?

[Cody Garrett]

I know the name.

[Brandon Herrera]

Okay, so Craig Jones is like the number two or number. Like, he's been in the running for the number one, best Jiu Jitsu guy on the planet for like five years. Like, he's really good. I think he lives out in Austin, but, like, he's incredible at Jiu jitsu. And him and Alex Jones were on a podcast together. You know how Rogan and Eddie Bravo were on Rogan together and Alex Jones, like, choke me out, Eddie. And yeah, like, Logan wouldn't let happen. Rogan wasn't there and Craig Jones was on a podcast with him and Craig Jones choked him unconscious.

[Cody Garrett]

I think it was on Alex Jones show.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, on his own podcast. Just choked him out. Cold.

[Cody Garrett]

One'S just better lighting.

[Eli Double Tap]

40 days later, 45 days later, days later. And the dude is just the exact same. Just red.

[Cody Garrett]

Send that one to Chase. It was wild being at the inauguration, just like randomly, like, I'm hanging out in like different circles and just seeing like GSP and Gordon Ryan. Just everybody like, oh, hey, I've made a lot of money betting on your fights. Good to see you, dude.

[Eli Double Tap]

There was a lot of fighters out there. So, like, a surprising amount like, damn, there's nothing, guys.

[Brandon Herrera]

There's nothing. He has. Do you guys know Colby Covington?

[Cody Garrett]

Yeah, yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

Have you seen the video where he, like, won a fight a few years back? And he's like, getting interviewed after the fight and the UFC like, commentators, like, blah, blah. And his phone rings and he looks at. He goes, oh, hold on. The White House is calling me. And the commentator is like, why don't you go ahead and put it on speaker? Colby obviously not believing him. And he puts it on speakers, like, is this Colby Covington? Yes, ma'am. Please hold for the President of the United States. And fucking Trump picks up the phone, call me. That was a great fight. The commentators like, like, what is happening right now?

[Cody Garrett]

It's like. It's just like when one of our friends jumps into a discord call, we immediately have to tell him, like, we're streaming. We're streaming.

[Brandon Herrera]

Immediately.

[Cody Garrett]

Donald, Donald, you're live on tv.

[Eli Double Tap]

Hey, hey, hey.

[Cody Garrett]

Just in case. Not saying you were say anything weird, but, like, just so you know, I.

[Eli Double Tap]

Have specific friends when I call, like.

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh, you're on speaker.

[Eli Double Tap]

So first things.

[Nick Power]

Is that why.

[Cody Garrett]

That's the first thing every time.

[Brandon Herrera]

Do not. Do not repeatedly yell the password in all caps.

[Cody Garrett]

The best one.

[Nick Power]

Oh, no, dude. Don Jr. Gave us a white claw. That was kind of cool. That was really neat.

[Cody Garrett]

Don Jr. Is such a cool guy.

[Eli Double Tap]

Because you could tell, like, he's down to hang out.

[Cody Garrett]

Don Jr. And Eric are like, the gun guys. So even Kevin Britain was telling me at one point, he's like, dude, he's like, eric. Eric Trump like, reloads in his garage, like, 36 different calibers. Like, those guys are, like, legit, like, hunters. Like, gun guy, gun guys. It's not just like a facade. Like, they. They live and breathe that.

[Nick Power]

Well, He. He gave me a white call and, like, gave you a white call? And I'm. I was like, I. You know, I never met the man. Like, in passing, I've said hey to him before. But, like, he came up to us, gave us white claws. And I was like, yeah, so Brandon does the gun stuff. I do the cop things on YouTube. He was like, yeah, I know who you guys are.

[Cody Garrett]

He, like, cuts you off. He's like, yeah, no, no, I. I know you guys. It's fun.

[Brandon Herrera]

I was with you guys at lunch with the. The thing. Oh, Eli doesn't know this. So do you know the whole. It's like a conspiracy theory, but the was like some book written in. Written in the 1800s about like, Savior of humanity is named Baron.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh, no, I haven't seen that. There was the one, the Mars. The first person it wasn't like, to take over Mars or like bring life to Mars was Elon. And it's a book from like a hundred years ago, but I haven't heard the Baron.

[Brandon Herrera]

So there's like a book from like 100 years ago.

[Cody Garrett]

Baron Trump, time traveler book.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah. So like, there's a book about a dude named Baron that saves the world because he's a time traveler. Everybody like, thinks it's Baron Trump or whatever. But I was like, you want to know the crazy part about that? You know, Nikola Tesla had his laboratory where he supposedly, like, built an earthquake machine and a death ray and figured out time travel, right? He had like, I forget the exact amount, but it was like he had 32 bankers, boxes full of files of his findings, and when he died, the FBI went out and they only recovered like seven. Yeah, like, whatever. They recovered like a very small amount of what he supposedly had. Do you know who the FBI agent that was in charge of that was?

[Eli Double Tap]

Is it Trump?

[Brandon Herrera]

It was Donald Trump's uncle. Dead ass. Serious. That's a real thing. Donald Trump's uncle is the guy that closed out Nikola Tesla's death and recouped all of his findings.

[Eli Double Tap]

Just reading stuff. We got some tech here that we need to explore. Also the genius in the family, dude. I just like the Baron Trump. The tall memes that we're making of him walking. Did you see that? Oh my.

[Cody Garrett]

We were talking about him earlier. I think we're like, every time we. Every time Donald Trump takes a W, Baron Trump gets an inch taller. And so like, every time they have a press conference now, he's like a fucking 300 foot giant in the background.

[Eli Double Tap]

Where is it? It is, it is terrifying. It's hilarious. Like this. I think it's this one.

[Nick Power]

Oh, yeah, Walking into the White House. He's 8ft tall.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh, no, it's not that one. It is the White House one. You've seen the, the VFX one. There's one where they're like 20 foot tall, like, towering over everyone because.

[Cody Garrett]

Well, it's funny because, like, I got in trouble, like they tried to. During my congressional campaign. They tried to get me in trouble because of the meat canyon episode we did in Vegas last year. I'm like, like, I. All I said was Baron's tall, which, like, objectively, like, I'm five, 10. I feel like I'm okay, but me, I Would love to be over six foot. That's dope. That's a good thing, man.

[Eli Double Tap]

How dare you make fun of them?

[Nick Power]

Yeah, dude, they tried to.

[Cody Garrett]

Yeah, they tried to say like Brandon Herrera made fun of Donald Trump's underage. It's like, are you kidding me? First of all, he's second 17. Second of all, I said he's tall and I'm jealous.

[Eli Double Tap]

Did you ever see that one? No, that's the one. I love that one.

[Brandon Herrera]

He showed. He found it. Yeah, Twice the height. How tall is. Trump's a tall guy, isn't he?

[Cody Garrett]

He's like 6:3 or something.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, yeah. I mean he's like above average height. Dude, I got a picture.

[Cody Garrett]

Hold on. This is like an old.

[Brandon Herrera]

Isn't it like there's only been two presidents ever that were under 6 foot foot or some crazy stat like that.

[Eli Double Tap]

I can tell you, like 70 or 80 were left handed. I do know that random factor. Or really 90.

[Cody Garrett]

That's how tall he is compared to me.

[Brandon Herrera]

Damn.

[Cody Garrett]

So he's like, he's pretty, I mean, like pretty tall. Like six two. Six three.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah.

[Nick Power]

Six three.

[Eli Double Tap]

Is it 90%. A majority have been left handed. That's what like everyone's like, oh, let's.

[Brandon Herrera]

Love how this entire gang episodes for this podcast is literally just the same conversations we'd have if we were sitting at Cody's house on the couch watching Roadhouse.

[Cody Garrett]

I feel like that's rad though. Like, this is. You want to know what it's like to hang out with the gang? It's this. We literally do this all day.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, let me go.

[Cody Garrett]

7 of 45 people have been left handed. 77 of 45.

[Eli Double Tap]

Why did I just read another one that just said the exact guys.

[Nick Power]

Eli makes up eight present.

[Eli Double Tap]

Eight. There's eight. This is 47% which at least seven.

[Cody Garrett]

Of 45 persons who have held the office United States.

[Brandon Herrera]

The other thing with that is like, until very like literally our general Eli's generation was like the first generation where you were allowed to just be left handed. Like my father in law told me vividly. Like my father in law was like, yeah, I. Whenever the left handed kids did whatever, they would just fucking tie their right arm to their body and not let them do anything with their left hand or tie their left arm to their body and not let them do anything.

[Nick Power]

Yeah. Like my mom would tell me the same thing. Like they would slap them with a ruler if they use their left hand.

[Cody Garrett]

I. To this day I, I still write and like, I really wish that, like My second grade teacher would have, you know, beat me with a ruler because, like, I hold. I hold a pen. Fucking stupid.

[Brandon Herrera]

When you write it, do you write it in all ca. Or how do you prefer to spell it?

[Cody Garrett]

I hate that. I know your sense of humor.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's okay. It's fine. It's all good.

[Eli Double Tap]

Mr. Cody, what are you working on right now with your stuff? I know you're like, living that dream life right now. You're like, man, just. When we got. Wait, did you break down the. In the leg?

[Nick Power]

Oh, God, no. I'm coming up on that one.

[Cody Garrett]

Accidental discharge.

[Nick Power]

You want to talk about the.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yes, yes, I did.

[Cody Garrett]

In the last episode in Vegas, all.

[Brandon Herrera]

I did was I read that the. The. The officer had, and I quote, multiple fingers inside the trigger.

[Nick Power]

Well, yeah, you guys haven't heard about this one yet. We can just talk about it a little bit. It's a basic traffic stop. They pull dude out of the car.

[Cody Garrett]

I mean, it was a basic traffic stop.

[Nick Power]

Yeah, they get like. I. I'll be honest with you. I don't know the.

[Eli Double Tap]

Where it came from.5 of 7 last. I was like, where did I get my number from?

[Nick Power]

I don't know the. The. Everything that has to do with it right now. But they pulled the dude out of the car. He's super compliant. He's being a really nice guy. The female officer goes to take his gun off of his right hip, which he was legally carrying, and she shoots him in the leg with his own gun. Yeah.

[Cody Garrett]

He's gonna get paid.

[Nick Power]

Oh, he's gonna get money, dude, and.

[Cody Garrett]

I hope he does, especially as that video got. He's getting paid, dude.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah, Last year she got fired and happened last year.

[Nick Power]

Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

That was 20, 24.

[Nick Power]

Yeah.

[Cody Garrett]

Oh.

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh, well.

[Cody Garrett]

Oh, well. I mean, like, so a month ago.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah. Yeah. But it was. She did get fired. I do know that, But I don't know if that means she can get another job someplace else. Cody, that's.

[Nick Power]

Well, you know what? She might be able to go to the next county over and get another job being a fat piece of female police officer. But, you know, we'll see.

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh, my God.

[Cody Garrett]

What is.

[Brandon Herrera]

What is your recommendation for that? Like, I mean, do you think it should just be like, like, like kind of like.

[Eli Double Tap]

Are you talking about being stopped by a female officer?

[Brandon Herrera]

No, no, no. I mean, like, officers that are fired for doing a bad job of being dirty cop or what? In the situations like that. Like, you know, if you have a, you know, a sexual assault case, you're like a red Dot on this website. Should that just be.

[Nick Power]

Like, there should be a national blacklist list for shitty cops.

[Brandon Herrera]

And they're just done.

[Nick Power]

They're done. Done.

[Brandon Herrera]

I like it forever.

[Cody Garrett]

I remember the one time we got pulled over coming back from brunch. Do you know the story? No. We got pulled over, and, like, I. Like, I. I literally had nothing to drink the entire day. Like, I was like, we. We just got pulled over for my registration, and. But Cody had been drinking.

[Brandon Herrera]

Like, they just ran it behind you at a stoplight or whatever.

[Cody Garrett]

Yeah. Which. I'll be fair. Like, I'm not very good. No.

[Nick Power]

Okay.

[Eli Double Tap]

That's.

[Nick Power]

Waited in the.

[Brandon Herrera]

In the parking lot.

[Nick Power]

No, remember, she waited in the parking lot of the gas station because you had to stop by and get gas or do something, and she followed me out. Well, yeah.

[Cody Garrett]

Waited for you to leave, because I think it was. I. I don't know what I was doing at the time, but, like, I. I was driving. I wasn't. Like, I was going through, like, a couple weeks of sobriety or whatever the. I was doing, but, like, I. Like, no reason to pull me over other than the fact that I was. I. I had my registration out of date because she was just doing, like, scanning license plates or whatever. She pulls me over.

[Nick Power]

Hold on, Let me. Hold on, hold on. Let me stop you there real quick. Okay. Do you remember the crackhead that came up to us at the. The. While she was sitting there? The crackhead that came up and tried to ask us for money? Oh, yeah, that was clearly cracked out of his goddamn mind and harassing people. But. But no.

[Cody Garrett]

Yeah, but my registration was.

[Nick Power]

Your registration was bad.

[Cody Garrett]

Yeah.

[Nick Power]

Okay.

[Cody Garrett]

No, she's. She's making sure this is a nice neighborhood. I. She. She pulls me over, and, like, you. You've. You've been drinking at brunch. I was doing, like, a fitness thing or whatever.

[Eli Double Tap]

The.

[Cody Garrett]

I. I hadn't been drinking at all. And so, like, I'm just like, all right, get through this. Whatever. I'll figure out my registration. I remember rolling down the window as she's approaching, and the moment you find out she's a female cop, Cody audibly goes, oh, God, you're gonna die. And I. I try to almost, like, roll the window back up, but it's too late. I'm like, no, just gonna let that one sit out there. And it was fine. Like, me and her having this perfectly normal interaction. I'm like, all right, I'm gonna have to pay a ticket. Yes, ma'am. No, ma'am. And she goes, Back to her car. And he's like, you know, I bet I could dart out of this truck, sprint to the wood line, and then put my hands behind my back on the ground next to that tree and she'd have no idea what to do. And I just want this all to go away. I'm like, man, I don't want to have a bad day. Cody, please don't do that. He's like, you know, I could like, I am fully aware you could.

[Brandon Herrera]

Have you seen the video where the cop pulls somebody over for something? So like nothing. Something similar, just like a BS traffic stop or whatever, like totally standard. And the. They pull over and the passenger gets out and sprints to the wood line. And the deputy is like, why is he running? He's not the one in trouble. And the deputy like just does the normal traffic stop and ends it with like. You can call your friend and tell him like, whatever, I don't give a shit. He gets it back in his car and leaves.

[Nick Power]

Exactly. That's the cop I was. I'd be like, I All right, man, here's your ticket.

[Cody Garrett]

Officer Garrett's just like, well, that's weird.

[Nick Power]

That's fucking odd right there. All right, buddy, here's your ticket. But I guarantee you, if I would have done that, she would have been freaking her mind.

[Cody Garrett]

You might have gotten shot fucking running.

[Nick Power]

After me with a taser.

[Eli Double Tap]

You just get Brandon shot, take her.

[Nick Power]

Taser for a gun. Kill me, shoot me. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

It just automatically watches you right out. Pulls gun out, shoots Brandon in the head.

[Cody Garrett]

All right, while I'm applying pressure, this was a 200 traffic stop that turned into a twenty thousand dollar hospital bill.

[Nick Power]

Guys, I have nothing against female police officers whatsoever.

[Brandon Herrera]

Taser clock.

[Eli Double Tap]

I hate that it happened more than once or twice.

[Cody Garrett]

Blocks that famously feel like tasers. Well, Cody, they're even the same bright yellow color.

[Eli Double Tap]

It is the action. The worst is how you have to draw them compared.

[Nick Power]

So if you're, if you're right handed, your gun is here. And also if you're right handed, your taser is here. It's a cross draw, so. Ah, that's crazy. We're getting confused.

[Cody Garrett]

Bigot.

[Nick Power]

Sexist.

[Cody Garrett]

Sorry. I hold everyone to the same standard, no matter their, their race, religion, sex.

[Brandon Herrera]

That's illegal. Can't do that.

[Nick Power]

I'm just, I don't know, I'm just speaking from personal experience.

[Cody Garrett]

Sorry. I just want, no matter who you are, I just want you to be competent at your job.

[Nick Power]

I want you to be really good at your job. I want you to have your flashlight. On night shift, when I'm going into a house where someone's getting choked to. To death. That's all I'm saying.

[Cody Garrett]

No personal experience.

[Nick Power]

No personal experience there.

[Eli Double Tap]

I can't even picture that. Did you have to do raids with inadequate people?

[Nick Power]

I'm not going to get into the entire story, but I specifically remember one time where I was the trainee, and there was an officer.

[Cody Garrett]

You were the trainee.

[Nick Power]

Trainee.

[Cody Garrett]

Oh, wow.

[Nick Power]

Who happened to have a vagina. And it's nighttime and there's someone being choked to death. And I needed to go into this house, and I pulled my gun and my flashlight out. And she said, I left my flashlight at home.

[Brandon Herrera]

I was like, well, it's a good spot for it.

[Nick Power]

Yeah. Yeah. That's all I'm saying. That's all I'm saying. And that wasn't the first time. Like, that.

[Cody Garrett]

Glad your living room is illuminated.

[Nick Power]

Yeah. Really, really happy that I'm alive today.

[Eli Double Tap]

That'd be. It's like going on a combat mission. And like, we were like, okay, everyone ready? And look, I forgot my nods. Like, huh?

[Nick Power]

When?

[Eli Double Tap]

Where? What? And you can't smoke the out of them, I'm guessing.

[Nick Power]

Mmm. I'm the trainee, buddy. What am I gonna do? Should. Here's the funniest part. I forgot my flashlight at home. Okay. I can hear someone in there screaming. Should I boot the door in? She says, I don't know.

[Cody Garrett]

Oh, my God. You of all people know the power of a mag light. Wanna pride prompt applied properly.

[Brandon Herrera]

Holy.

[Nick Power]

All right, I'll tell the rest of the story then.

[Eli Double Tap]

Go for it.

[Cody Garrett]

Go for it, man.

[Brandon Herrera]

Please.

[Eli Double Tap]

Sorry, my mind is blown here. Now of all, I'm here for it.

[Nick Power]

All right, so how.

[Eli Double Tap]

Hold on.

[Brandon Herrera]

How old are you? And how long have you been doing the cop?

[Eli Double Tap]

How big was your mustache?

[Nick Power]

I had a huge mustache.

[Cody Garrett]

Hell, yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

But that's how we measure Cody's age.

[Cody Garrett]

I'm already on your side of the story, bro.

[Nick Power]

I've been out of the academy for, like. Like, three weeks. And I was riding with my training officer.

[Cody Garrett]

You're like, 22 out of the Navy?

[Nick Power]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was like, 22, 23, something like that.

[Eli Double Tap]

John's like one.

[Nick Power]

Yeah. And so I can hear a woman screaming inside. And I'm like, do I. Do I boot it? Do I. Do I do the thing? It's like. I don't know. Fuck's sake. Do you have your flashlight? I left it at home. Me, dude. Boot the door in. Find the guy. He's strangling his wife. And so, like, I tune him up, and I turn to her, my training officer, and I'm like, hey, clear the house. She's like, what do you mean? I'm like, clear the house. What do you mean? Like, all right, cool. And so, like, I tuned this dude up. He fell down some stairs. Doesn't matter. Get him in. Cops. He tripped, and then I clear the house.

[Eli Double Tap]

He got the cuffs after he fell down the stairs, right? Yeah.

[Nick Power]

Yeah, dude.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah.

[Nick Power]

He just fell downstairs.

[Cody Garrett]

It was a single story building.

[Nick Power]

So I clear the fucking house and I come. I come back and it's. I'm sorry.

[Eli Double Tap]

One big step.

[Cody Garrett]

Yeah, one small step for shithead balcony, sir.

[Nick Power]

Anyways, that wasn't the first time I had to do everything myself because I had a backup officer who was a female.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, some of y'all never had your dad yell at you after he got home from working construction and pouring concrete all day to hold the flashlight at the right spot and it shows, right?

[Cody Garrett]

He wouldn't have left it at home.

[Brandon Herrera]

Point the flashlight over here. I forgot the flashlight, dad. He'd be pissed.

[Eli Double Tap]

Never in a million years do you ever forget that.

[Cody Garrett]

That flashlight, dad, smells like I shouldn't forget the flashlight.

[Brandon Herrera]

I don't know what an alternator is, but at least I have the flashlight.

[Eli Double Tap]

Dad's making up words, but I'm pointing it in this direction.

[Brandon Herrera]

Huh.

[Eli Double Tap]

That's a terror as a child.

[Cody Garrett]

You mean that's like a joint memory.

[Eli Double Tap]

We all have the Phillips screwdriver, and you're like, was that the straight one right there?

[Cody Garrett]

I remember, like, my dad's like, that looks. That looks like a five, eight. I'm just like, he's a wizard.

[Eli Double Tap]

I don't know what that means. I'm sorry. Even that righty tiny lefty Lucy, y'all.

[Brandon Herrera]

I was the fat kid. I got to be the counterweight on the cherry picker every time he was pumping an engine out.

[Cody Garrett]

Come out here.

[Brandon Herrera]

Quit playing Tony hawk Pro Skater 2. Building your own skate park. I need you to stand on this cherry picker for three hours.

[Cody Garrett]

Dude, have you ever actually grown up in the south if you haven't had your dad do sketchy with a cherry picker. The cherry picker, I feel like, is, like, the most abused tool.

[Brandon Herrera]

Dad, this is the same thing we pulled shrubs out of the front yard with last week. Yes. Shut up.

[Cody Garrett]

Just kick it. No. Kick it harder. God. It's right there.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh, our childhoods way too similar, bro.

[Brandon Herrera]

My dad, my. So, like, when I was growing up, my dad, he Raced figure eight track. Like, you guys know what figure eight is? It's racing with a intersection.

[Eli Double Tap]

It's the most. If you. This is. Imagine where you're like, you know what's cool?

[Cody Garrett]

You know the actual. Actual race cars.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yes. Yes. So you know RC tracks. Yeah, RC tracks where there's like a bridge and you go there. They're like, the bridge is too much. Let's just. Where they have to watch each other.

[Brandon Herrera]

Let's just have an intersection. My dad did that the whole time. I grew up. And it would be like my dad and his two buddies every day after work. Monday through Friday. Racing is on Saturday. My dad's buddy's a welder. Pull. Every. Every time Matt comes out from underneath the car, pulls his welding hood up. He's smoking underneath his welding hood while he's fixing my dad's race car.

[Cody Garrett]

Famously non flammable material called acetylene.

[Brandon Herrera]

It was a good time. It was a great childhood.

[Cody Garrett]

Jesus. I was thinking the same thing.

[Nick Power]

The piss tube. The piss tube is garage.

[Brandon Herrera]

You guys laugh. I have a video of the piss funnel. My dad sent it to me after that last.

[Cody Garrett]

I know you sent it to the chat.

[Eli Double Tap]

Dude.

[Brandon Herrera]

That piss funnel's been there for like 14 years.

[Cody Garrett]

If you've never pressed a rivet, if you've never used a drill press or a mill or a welding machine, you shouldn't be able to tell the average American what the to do with any part of their life.

[Nick Power]

You.

[Eli Double Tap]

That blue collar life. Is that the only one that had to go in the basement and then set up like a. What is it?

[Cody Garrett]

The.

[Eli Double Tap]

To shoot water out because their basement.

[Brandon Herrera]

Floods A sump pump.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah.

[Cody Garrett]

We didn't have basements where I was from.

[Eli Double Tap]

Ours. Basement is a very loose. You walk like a crawl place. No, it was a basement. It's just mud. Like just. There was no concrete. It was just like dirt walls.

[Brandon Herrera]

Mud people.

[Cody Garrett]

Yeah, mud people.

[Eli Double Tap]

Mexicans. But it was like a sumptuous pump. We just have to go there once a week or if it rained.

[Cody Garrett]

And actually once a week is wild.

[Eli Double Tap]

Dude. My childhood was a dope. Lots of manual labor. But you just get in.

[Cody Garrett]

At least you don't have to crawl far.

[Eli Double Tap]

And now I look back and my dad had like. Like waiter boots. And then he. But I would have to walk in with just normal, like no shoes on. So he's like, go put it in the hole. So I walk it, drop it in there, Run the hose to him. I'm like.

[Cody Garrett]

My childhood was I. I remember like doing the. Doing the crawl Space with my dad or like we're having to do something under the house. And like, dad, there's. There's a spider down here. And he asks me to describe it to see if it's a problem. That's real America, dude.

[Eli Double Tap]

My dad, when I was playing in the garage with his that he didn't want, he taught me a good lesson because I never touched his again. I was fifth grade and I was playing with like stuff that was on the thing was like, oh. I was playing with it. He got me. He's like, what are you doing? I was like, oh, nothing. So I go take a nap and then he just puts like paint on me. Like green paint where it dropped and it spread. He made it look like it spread when I was sleeping. So I wake up and I have like this green weird stuff on my arm, like, oh. And I go down like, dad, what happened? He's like like, told you not to play with my. Like that. We'll see what we can do. Never touch for like the next three years. I'm like, I'm not touching anybody.

[Cody Garrett]

I'm picturing your dad as I know him. I'm picturing your dad as I know him now. And that is the funniest in the world doing this to grown 40 year old Eli.

[Eli Double Tap]

It pops.

[Nick Power]

It's like after meeting your dad. I can see that and it's hilarious, dude.

[Eli Double Tap]

After meeting at the Dallas show, Ying Long Johns himself.

[Cody Garrett]

Papa Cuevas, Papa Ques.

[Eli Double Tap]

He the best. I miss him. There's blood on my carpet.

[Nick Power]

He looks like always.

[Eli Double Tap]

There's blood on my carpet. Don't get blood on my carpet, dude. He.

[Nick Power]

He looks like the Mexican member of ZZ Top.

[Eli Double Tap]

He's a good dad to have walk downstairs. I think Luke and them told you like we'd walk like dad walk downstairs.

[Cody Garrett]

L sharp dressed man.

[Eli Double Tap]

Me and my friends are beating the out of each other in the living room because we just do MMA. Just from like 7th grade till 12th grade, we beat the.

[Cody Garrett]

I know I've sparred with you. It shows.

[Eli Double Tap]

We. So it was like midnight. My dad walks there and we are beating the at each other. He's like, hey, like opens the door. He's in his long john underwear. He's like, don't get blood on my carpet. And then he walks upstairs and that was it. I was like, huh, My first like, man, your dad's really cool. I'm like, ah, he's not very present. I don't think he works a lot. I don't think we should be Allowed to do this at this age. Now that I reflect, that'd be like my kiddos just beating the out of each other at 14. Like I don't know how the typical.

[Cody Garrett]

Mexican father like well they're around kinda.

[Eli Double Tap]

He's upstairs.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, there's that and then there's like. So like my dad did construction, yours did whatever but like dollar does new construction.

[Cody Garrett]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

Okay, so we're all construction. My wife, I literally married the farmer's daughter. And farming is a little bit different because like I don't know, I see a 2,000pound animal and I'm like. Or a herd of 2,000 pound animals that my father in law is raising and I'm like like probably not gonna with them. You know, reasonable. My wife, who's this tall, who's like why are you so worried about them? And then just starts chasing an entire herd of cows going like what the is going on?

[Eli Double Tap]

Giant animals are terrified.

[Brandon Herrera]

I agree.

[Eli Double Tap]

My wife.

[Brandon Herrera]

My wife.

[Eli Double Tap]

Because I'm like, nah, that could kill me.

[Brandon Herrera]

My wife horrified of a spider. 2000 pound animal. 2002000 pound animals that could trample her. Not phased at all. Doesn't give a spider buddy.

[Nick Power]

Right.

[Brandon Herrera]

Like daddy long leg, we're calling me a bunch of cows. Not an issue.

[Cody Garrett]

Speaking of like that, that fear of spiders. I didn't know know it until I watched that Wendigoon video about Lethal Company. Did you see that? He did like a full like manifesto about Lethal Company but he did one where they apparently have arachnid mode.

[Eli Double Tap]

Explain Lethal. Oh, the game Company.

[Cody Garrett]

The game.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh yeah. Okay, okay.

[Cody Garrett]

They have a. Like one of the enemies in the game is a giant spider. Like eight foot big ass spider.

[Eli Double Tap]

Explain Lethal company Again. Maybe I'm not thinking the right game.

[Cody Garrett]

It's. It's just like a. I guess there's a VR mode or whatever. But like it's a game where you go and collect resources and whatnot. Like you've seen a bunch like it's a four player.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh, okay. It's not. I was thinking a World War II game. I don't know.

[Brandon Herrera]

Why?

[Cody Garrett]

No, no, no.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's bad company.

[Nick Power]

Yeah, that's what I.

[Cody Garrett]

It's kind of like Hell Divers is where it's like four. Four guys go out, get resources, like that sort of thing. But it's like more like horror sl. Whatever.

[Eli Double Tap]

They wear the suits.

[Cody Garrett]

Yeah, yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

And the monsters. Okay, okay, okay.

[Cody Garrett]

Now one of the enemies is a spider. Like a giant like eight foot spider or whatever. I didn't know that you can actually set it to arachnophobia mode where you can just click a button and instead of a spider enemy, like they have like a full like full resolution spider. It changes into the word spider. And so you're being chased by the word spider. It's like really kind of funny.

[Eli Double Tap]

I just like there was like in a horror game, like, oh, you're afraid of that? We got you.

[Cody Garrett]

It's such a good bit. I'm like, I'm not even mad at it. It man.

[Eli Double Tap]

How about what games have you been playing?

[Cody Garrett]

You.

[Eli Double Tap]

You beat Red Dead, you beat cyberpunk like a billion times.

[Cody Garrett]

I got back into cyberpunk and I'm like, I'm having a hard time playing it. I mean hell, Divers is always fun, like just to jump on with the boys. Hell or not. Hella loose, Ready or not. I've actually, I enjoyed the out of that for a while. Oh yeah, the SWAT game. Yeah, that we still need to play that at some point.

[Nick Power]

We do. I've been playing it with John.

[Cody Garrett]

I know. I. I played it with John a couple times. It's. It's fun as. It's just like I to me, like I s tiered all the. And then I got bored.

[Nick Power]

We went into the. The. That. That one map and I was like, nope, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill.

[Cody Garrett]

We do that as a palate cleanser. We go in like you're supposed to save the civilians, but it's like if you're a civilian on Epstein Island. Are you? Are you. I'm supposed to apprehend you, but I don't know. There's a map, there's a couple maps. Like basically you're a SWAT team.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah, that I know. And you get a kit. You're like realistic environment but your kids bad ass.

[Nick Power]

You can choose whatever you want. So like I run around with an MP7, but there's every gun imaginable in there. And it's cool because you can customize them and stuff.

[Cody Garrett]

And you can choose to do non lethal.

[Nick Power]

Yeah, you can do non lethal. You can like tase people, pepper ball them, stuff like that.

[Cody Garrett]

Flashbangs, like beanbag rounds, everything. Or you could just go into the MP7, just kill them.

[Nick Power]

Yeah. Well, it's kind of fun going in the mouse with an MP7 just being like, nope, you don't belong here. Just killing everyone.

[Cody Garrett]

It's like eight, eight rooms out of the house are like dedicated to making, you know.

[Eli Double Tap]

No.

[Cody Garrett]

Yeah, so it's like every civilian is like, come on.

[Nick Power]

Yeah. There's like cameras with like Cribs beside them. Like it's. It's nasty.

[Cody Garrett]

In the basement, there's like 55 gallon drums like acid and with like kids clothes in it. And like you're like, no, there's no civilians on this map.

[Eli Double Tap]

That's when you're like, you clear up top of your ass. People go downstairs, see the vats. You're like, huh?

[Brandon Herrera]

Stop.

[Eli Double Tap]

No longer, Jake.

[Cody Garrett]

I believe I'm going to have to make a plea deal.

[Eli Double Tap]

We're gonna undo those handcuffs real quick. Here you go. Here's a gun. What's that for? Okay, next.

[Cody Garrett]

I just need you to hold this.

[Eli Double Tap]

I didn't know about that. What the.

[Cody Garrett]

It gets pretty dark.

[Eli Double Tap]

What games have you.

[Brandon Herrera]

You just leagues League and Mobile Risk. That's about it.

[Cody Garrett]

Mobile Risk.

[Eli Double Tap]

That somehow the most nick thing I've ever heard, what you're playing. Mobile Risk.

[Brandon Herrera]

You guys know my league handle, right?

[Eli Double Tap]

It is it Mobile Risk.

[Brandon Herrera]

I've been playing since like high school. And my name for like 10 years was filthy Communist. And I finally got reported and had to change my name. I don't know why after a decade, after 10 years, I finally got reported. Like, you have to change your name. And I'm like, all right, it. So I just like shoot for the stars, you know, spend 30 minutes like typing in, only to find out, oh, that name's taken. That name's against the rules. Whatever. First name I tried after being filthy communist for 10 years was Karl Marx. Just Karl Space Marx, period. That name's available. Bing. I am Karl Marx on League of Legends.

[Cody Garrett]

How many friend requests?

[Brandon Herrera]

Fucking every time I get in game all chat. Who's read my book? I'm retarded. Running around stealing kills. What the fuck that was.

[Eli Double Tap]

We can share these our kill.

[Brandon Herrera]

I love it.

[Cody Garrett]

Where are my homie Ingles at?

[Eli Double Tap]

You so much as a guy so good though. He's stacking bodies.

[Cody Garrett]

Stacking bodies better than anyone.

[Brandon Herrera]

Karl Marx is on a killing spree.

[Cody Garrett]

That's accurate.

[Eli Double Tap]

I will never get in the league, like period after. Do you guys think got. Cody, did you ever play league much?

[Nick Power]

Dude, I tried to get in the league. I couldn't get into it.

[Eli Double Tap]

It is a. Like a learning curve. That is.

[Nick Power]

Yeah. Because Hunter. Hunter is big in the league too. Huge. Yeah, I. I just. Dude, I just couldn't get into it, man.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

I mean, I'm not good. I just piss people off. I love it.

[Cody Garrett]

I hear it's sweaty as.

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh, yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

It's the most toxic player base you will ever meet. And that is probably now I Want.

[Cody Garrett]

I want to get.

[Eli Double Tap]

Dude, you cannot. I again, you can stress. It's like, it's a toxic. It was like, oh, I've. I've done Call of Duty. You're like, oh, that does not amount to no compared to ranked league matches. You make one mistake and you're just the biggest bag in the world. Oh, I don't miss that game.

[Brandon Herrera]

How do you play that? Huh?

[Eli Double Tap]

How do you play that?

[Brandon Herrera]

Still, that's all I play.

[Eli Double Tap]

You play with me, papa.

[Brandon Herrera]

Me, I haven't. I probably should.

[Eli Double Tap]

Papa meets a top.

[Brandon Herrera]

I started playing a bunch of cod when I was. When I was in the sling. Cuz I couldn't, I couldn't do this. So I literally couldn't play computer games. So I could only play Xbox right here. So I was playing a bunch of cod, but that was about it. You know who's ungodly good at cod?

[Nick Power]

Who?

[Brandon Herrera]

Like alarmingly good at cod? Nick Peu View.

[Eli Double Tap]

Weird.

[Nick Power]

Really, bro?

[Brandon Herrera]

I played, I played with him one day. He was like 39 and 3 in.

[Nick Power]

Every game, slaying everyone.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's like as good as he's shooting in real life, he's better in cod.

[Eli Double Tap]

It makes sense.

[Nick Power]

Eli, who's your friend that played with a track ball?

[Eli Double Tap]

I had two friends that played with track Box. Chris was one of them. And like I told it was the most disgusting thing watching this dude play with a trackball because you look at it and you're like, you're to play like this, you know, trackball fight with your thumb. And then you play him and he is just melting souls with headshots. Like just bored, just bored stacking bodies. And that was going from Counter Strike into Call of Duty. Like Counter Strike just Diamond Rank slaying. Going into Call of Duty slaying, I was like, okay, well me, I'll just get used to the normal mouse.

[Nick Power]

For those of you that don't know a trackball, so think of a mouse. You got the ball on the bottom of it, right? A trackball is just a ball on top of the mouse and you move it with your thumb. And Eli, I think I played with you guys like one time, two times.

[Eli Double Tap]

Maybe Brandon did the best.

[Nick Power]

And this dude, this dude with the.

[Cody Garrett]

Track too sweaty for me, dude, he.

[Nick Power]

Was just fucking everyone up, just moving this little track ball around. Ridiculous. This. I mean, if you grow up with, I guess you, you know, you got the muscle memory for it.

[Cody Garrett]

I think we look at that like old people look at us playing computer games.

[Nick Power]

Yeah, that's true.

[Eli Double Tap]

Well, I think you probably get used to it. It's like, Brandon, when you literally the first times you playing first person on a keyboard your birthday, I jump. Oh God.

[Cody Garrett]

I was about to say this unironically, but it hurt my soul like before it came out of my mouth. Half a decade ago.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah.

[Cody Garrett]

At your birthday party.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh, yeah, that was half a decade ago.

[Nick Power]

Oh, what are you talking about, Bess?

[Eli Double Tap]

No, that was him playing.

[Cody Garrett]

Yeah, well, my first time playing PC games because I didn't even own a gaming PC at that point. So you're like, oh, let's play the new Call of Duty Modern Warfare. I'm like, oh, cool. I'm like looking for space bar.

[Eli Double Tap]

I'm like, it was looked out for a space bar, bro.

[Cody Garrett]

I not played PC. I was a console gamer. I was lame.

[Brandon Herrera]

I hadn't played console in like 10 years until I tore my pass tech to play COD. Like I got a PS3 just to have something to do. And PS3 sucks. Or PS4, whatever the it is. Now it's five. I have now whatever like the entire notion of like, oh, you wanna, you wanna play that new game you just bought on a disc. Cool. You need to Download it for 7 hours before you can play the game.

[Cody Garrett]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

I was like, what the happened?

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh, yeah. Now that is. You probably experienced that. Well, even. Well, your kiddos don't play video. No tablets and Game Boy color. With John, when you give him new games, you have to like set up the system, install everything. It is like a day procedure to give them a Christmas present.

[Cody Garrett]

Yeah, Christmas Day. Like, okay, I think we all remember like Christmas day getting a video game. We're just like, oh, this is so cool. And you pop it in, you play it for the first time, you get the PlayStation 2, whatever. Fucking like that's cool. Kids don't have that now where it's like, okay, cool. It'll be downloading for the next 17.

[Nick Power]

Hours and then you, you got to go to like depending on what game you're doing, you got to go to the PlayStation Network and set up an account. And then you got to do this and this and this. Then wait eight hours for the game to download.

[Cody Garrett]

Like remember when Helldivers required like, like a year into the game or whatever, they required you to get a Sony account.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh, the play.

[Cody Garrett]

And sign up for the PlayStation Network or whatever. And then they basically all the entire player network became eco terrorists overnight.

[Eli Double Tap]

That. Did you watch that?

[Brandon Herrera]

Like, no.

[Cody Garrett]

Oh, it was a meltdown.

[Eli Double Tap]

You went from like the top rated game on Steam to PlayStation, Sony there you can't bleep that word. They said, hey, in order to be on this, in order for you to have this game where cross. What's across. Cross platform. Cross platform. If you want to be on cross platform, you have to make a Sony account. So everyone has to make a Sony account. Like if you want to be on this. And immediately now it's like, enter your email, do all this. The player base, they revolted.

[Cody Garrett]

Like a game. It went down like, like 2.1. Like it was a review bomb. Like, understandable.

[Brandon Herrera]

Console gaming is like, it's got to be close to dead.

[Eli Double Tap]

No, it's bigger than ever. Oh yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

I just, I don't understand because it's like you can. Consoles are to the point now where like the new PlayStation is basically a fucking decent gaming computer. So it's like, like, what's the point of a console anymore when you can just play with a Xbox or a PlayStation controller on your PC? It's like, I don't understand why you would get a console over a PC.

[Nick Power]

The real question, it's just, it's easy. Yeah, it's easy to go to the, you know, go to Target and buy a PlayStation 5 over building a gaming PC.

[Cody Garrett]

Especially like parents, they're just like, oh, yeah, that's Game Machine.

[Nick Power]

Game Machine.

[Eli Double Tap]

Did John just real quick on the thing. Did John make you ever install mods or anything on games before?

[Nick Power]

I mean, yeah, in the past, not recently.

[Eli Double Tap]

Okay, that's riding. I need the no break mod on Grand Theft Auto Daddy. That is my Christmas present.

[Cody Garrett]

Like bigger titty mod on Pac Man.

[Nick Power]

And you just, you just, you just, you, you just hope you don't break the entire game installing one mod. Okay, buddy? I got this for Fallout.

[Brandon Herrera]

Mods were the best. It's like, what if I made my minigun shoot pool balls?

[Cody Garrett]

The AK50. The AK50 is available on like a Fallout New Vegas mod, whatever. I've never been able to play with it because every time I've tried to do mods on New Vegas, it broke in my game. Like one time I got like. Most recently, the most recent time I tried to play New Vegas, it was like a year ago, I tried to do a playthrough, installed some mods, like the better graphics mods. And then like I tried AK50 and everything, it started lagging. And then like an hour, hour, two hours, three hours into just killed it. And I, I tried to delete the mods and it was like, oh, you cannot because you did so much of your playthrough with the mods. You can't restart this save without mods. Like, all right, it. I just threw up my hands.

[Nick Power]

Brandon can't even play the gun. He's developed for the past.

[Cody Garrett]

It's my. I can literally drive 10 minutes down the road and go shoot the gun, but I can't do it on the computer. Make it make sense. Liberal.

[Brandon Herrera]

Have you seen God? There's like. There's one podcast where the guy's like, when the new Grand Theft Auto comes out, it would be a legitimately good investment of your time to just get really good at the new Grand Theft Auto. Because, like, I mean, the current Grand Theft Auto has been up for like 10 years and there's people literally making a living, like, just selling, like, not a living.

[Eli Double Tap]

They are. It's like counter strike skins that really do counter strike.

[Cody Garrett]

Underage gambling, bro.

[Eli Double Tap]

The people that make this game, they're.

[Brandon Herrera]

Saying the new Grand Theft Auto, if it ever comes out, is gonna actually have like a real crypto coin attached. And that, like, that crypto coin that's only. Only good in the game is actually going to be worth a ton of real money in real life.

[Cody Garrett]

What's crazy is that actually makes sense. Yeah, it makes more sense than half a crypto, frankly. It's at least functional outside of just, like, perceived value.

[Eli Double Tap]

You artist. That goes on to state, depending on the popularity of the case for making a Counter strike skin, if you have a popular one, on average, you'll earn 420,000 per year per skin.

[Nick Power]

What the.

[Cody Garrett]

I can't wait to see, like, FEC versus Rockstar Games.

[Brandon Herrera]

Why are we not making dude 400k per skin?

[Nick Power]

I'm still a little hurt personally that the dude blocked us.

[Cody Garrett]

The AM180 guy.

[Nick Power]

Yeah, yeah.

[Cody Garrett]

What the. The. The developer or one of the. One of the game developers that was responsible for bringing the AM180, the American 180 into fallout new Vegas is on Twitter pretty active and blocked you.

[Nick Power]

Yeah, Never talked to the guy in my life.

[Cody Garrett]

It's like we wanted to invite him to range day and he looked and it's like, has donut operator blocked?

[Nick Power]

It's like, God damn, dude, I just want to invite you to range day.

[Cody Garrett]

I really. It was probably a saving grace. It's like, damn.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh, Nick. How goes your. By the way? We found this out. Also a new. What's the difference between nuclear bomb and atomic bomb?

[Cody Garrett]

Nuclear George Bush. Riveting, man.

[Eli Double Tap]

No, it was literally because we all.

[Cody Garrett]

That's my pay grade. I don't know because I know, there's a. There's like the, the original atom bomb and then there's the hydrogen bomb.

[Brandon Herrera]

And I did that VT fuse video and there's been like a bunch of comments. Actually, the atomic bomb isn't a nuke. And it's like, yes, the. It is. According like, it's. It's been the meme since memes have been a thing. We nuked Japan. Like I. I said, the biggest weapon of World War II. Wasn't. Wasn't us. Wasn't the nuke. And people are like, actually the atomic bomb isn't a nuke. And it's like, I hate you guys.

[Cody Garrett]

Even if you're right, I'm still right.

[Brandon Herrera]

Right. Like, everyone knew what I was talking about. You're just being that guy.

[Cody Garrett]

I mean, to be fair, you have cultivated an audience of actualies.

[Brandon Herrera]

I get it. I get it. But Glasses.

[Cody Garrett]

Bu.

[Brandon Herrera]

The atomic bomb still correct.

[Eli Double Tap]

You made that audience.

[Nick Power]

Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

You built it brick by brick. Actually by has been being that guy. And now you're caught off guard.

[Brandon Herrera]

I was like, oh, that sucks. It's okay. I'll hit him with the keyboard warrior next time. It's going to work out.

[Eli Double Tap]

What's your next video you're working on?

[Brandon Herrera]

I haven't decided yet. It's either going to be Billy Wa or the Sergeant York.

[Cody Garrett]

Sergeant York is red.

[Brandon Herrera]

So. Billy Wa.

[Eli Double Tap]

How do I not know either of those?

[Brandon Herrera]

Billy Wa.

[Cody Garrett]

I don't know Billy Wa.

[Brandon Herrera]

Billy Wa is OG Delta. Like the foundations of Delta. So homeboy joined the military as soon as he could. He tried to enlist at 15 for World War II. Wanted to be a paratrooper more than anything and then ended up up joining goes to the Korean War. Ends up. He imported his car that he bought right before he shipped off to Korea. He had it shipped over to Korea and he went to this port and picked it up. And there were like these guys with these weird patches and he's like, what do you guys do? And they're like, it's a secret. You want to apply? And he's like, yeah. So he applied. Just becomes one of the OG Delta guys has.

[Eli Double Tap]

Wait holding. So he just ran into people with no tapes and was like, what is this?

[Brandon Herrera]

No, they had a unit hatch that he'd never seen before.

[Cody Garrett]

What year was this?

[Brandon Herrera]

This was the Korean War.

[Cody Garrett]

Like, like 55ish.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

Like this was like the origins of like the US Government was like, oh, the. The British had the Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare. We should probably copy that. And they like working with The OSS and the predecessor to the CIA. And he ends up becoming like one of the OG Delta guys. Like he is the one, one of the guys that pioneered HALO jumps. He's like all the. That spec ops now. This dude was a pioneer of through Korea, Vietnam. The dude was operational into his 70s.

[Cody Garrett]

I didn't realize you could HALO jump out of a helicopter until like a couple days ago. That sounds scary.

[Brandon Herrera]

As his final mission that he went on in his 70s, he was in Afghanistan tracking down Osama bin Laden. The in his 70s and tracked him down like three times. So like.

[Cody Garrett]

Well, yeah, all they had to do was ask the CIA to call a meeting with Tim Osmond.

[Brandon Herrera]

So I'm doing a video on him.

[Cody Garrett]

Crazy. Now we know where he is.

[Brandon Herrera]

And then the Sergeant York, which is just a hilarious story of just government corruption.

[Cody Garrett]

Alvin York, right?

[Brandon Herrera]

No, this. Yeah, it was named after Alvin York. So the Sergeant York was, was a tank. It was an anti aircraft tank specifically designed to go hand in hand with the Abrams into the theater. And it was supposed to keep up with the Abrams and be able to just shoot down any air support that comes for the. Comes for the normal Abrams. And it was able to shoot him down. So they had this. It has two 40 millimeter Bofors on it on a tank. And it was. Congress was like, we're trying to save money, put it on a patent chassis which is a World War II tank. So like, okay, I guess, whatever. So they did it. And they use those a bunch.

[Cody Garrett]

Like Vietnam era. Yeah, yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

So they were trying to. They came up with this system and it was supposed to be the shit. And they had a. The system was, it had two, two ways of tracking. It could track motion and it could track heat. So the primary one was motion. So it would, you know, it would see the helicopter rotors or whatever from, you know, a MiG or whatever. The attack helicopter was coming for him and it would be able to. It would literally be able to just track it. And all the gunner had to do was hit fire. Like there was no math, no calculations. All the gunner had to do is pull the trigger. And then it back up, it had thermals. So they, they bring out Congress on like these aluminum bleachers and then they have Sergeant York's widow in the bleachers with the congressional guys to show off the tank that we named after your deceased husband.

[Cody Garrett]

I remember this story actually now you say that.

[Brandon Herrera]

So they're doing this show off thing and like they've already rigged it out of the gate because it's such a piece of shit. They put. They have like a Blackhawk or an Apache fly out and they have. They put radar deflectors on it. The NCO I see in charge of the range is like, putting radar deflectors on top of this plane is the equivalent to covering a dude in stakes take and having him stand in a Walmart parking lot and seeing if a bloodhound can find him. Like, it's completely unrealistic. That was a real quote I found, like, researching for the video. So this helicopter has radar deflectors on it, and it flies out. They turn on the system that's supposed to track motion from the helicopters, but the system automatically locks on to the closest thing. So the system is like. And instead of aiming at the helicopter, it aims on the exhaust fan on the. The house for the range, aims at the latrine. And they're like. So they're like, okay, it's fine. It's no big deal. Switch over to thermals.

[Cody Garrett]

Alvin York's widow's taking a. Alvin York's.

[Brandon Herrera]

Widow sitting with Congress, like, botched one. They're like, it's okay. We're fine. We're going to switch over to thermals. It'll pick up the helicopter because the engine's hot. They switch over to thermals. The closest thing is all the congressional members in Alvin York's wo sitting on an aluminum bleacher. So then the guns, like. And aims right at him. And yeah, it killed the whole project.

[Eli Double Tap]

Okay, okay. The project that was for the project and that's how she died.

[Cody Garrett]

It was just like the, the R2D2 unit on the, the. The Navy ships where it's just like.

[Brandon Herrera]

Like, keeps locking onto the commercial airlines.

[Cody Garrett]

Exactly.

[Nick Power]

Like, no.

[Cody Garrett]

Like, you sure, Dad? I want to eat the sea whizzes. The Seawiz. Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah. I mean, there was all kinds of like, I'll get into it in the video, but there was like, there was so much political corruption involved because, like, three different companies submitted their product because, you know, like, the government is like, here's $50 million. Develop a prototype to these specs. And they give to like, X amount of companies. They gave it to three companies. They gave it to General Dynamics, Ford and somebody else. And the General Dynamics prototype shot down like, 19 of 23 drones or whatever that it was testing. The Ford version shot down like four. And they're like, we're going to give it to Ford. Like, I just. Complete political corruption.

[Cody Garrett]

I fucking. I dare you to find one scenario of like, weapons acquisition for the Government that isn't riddled with political corruption. Oh, since fucking.

[Brandon Herrera]

Obviously the current military sidearm.

[Cody Garrett]

It's really good at shooting people, period. It just.

[Eli Double Tap]

It's really good at shooting by itself.

[Nick Power]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

No fingers in the trigger.

[Cody Garrett]

Well, people are harmed. I mean, if that's your. Your goal, it succeeds.

[Eli Double Tap]

What are we gonna do in D.C. when we go out to D.C. why.

[Cody Garrett]

Are we going to D.C. eli February.

[Brandon Herrera]

I was actually going to ask you why there's any chance that when we film.

[Eli Double Tap]

Can we say what we're. I don't know what we're allowed to say.

[Cody Garrett]

I don't know either.

[Eli Double Tap]

That's some great stuff.

[Cody Garrett]

Interesting shaped buildings.

[Brandon Herrera]

When we film Unsub Drunk from the Pentagon, do you think there's any chance that they'd let us film, like, in the. In the room where they keep all the filing cabinets? I hear there's a blank spot right around 2001 where we could probably set up the table.

[Eli Double Tap]

We can ask. It's a nice big opening.

[Cody Garrett]

I just want to, like, do that, like, early 2000s movie, like, Punch cut, where it goes black and white. It's like Nick was killed in a vehicular explosion in February 2025.

[Eli Double Tap]

We do get a. I think we.

[Cody Garrett]

Cody opened an institute to train female police officers.

[Brandon Herrera]

We might have to cut this part and closed out.

[Eli Double Tap]

I think we should be able to say where we get a. If we're filming at the Pentagon, we get to say we're at the Pentagon. Right. For episodes.

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh, yeah. The title is going to be Unsub Drunk from the Pentagon. Yeah, obviously.

[Eli Double Tap]

Okay, good. And then we do have some cool people coming on because bleep the name just for now wants to be on it.

[Cody Garrett]

Hell yeah. Sleep.

[Nick Power]

All that.

[Eli Double Tap]

But they're all, like, super excited while we're bleeping shit.

[Brandon Herrera]

Did you guys hear the. The leaked audio where the pilots forgot they left the intercom on. On the plane?

[Nick Power]

Which plane?

[Brandon Herrera]

The. The one where one pilot's like, man, I'm kind of hungover. And he. And he's like, quick question. Who would you trust more to pilot this plane? Me after five cocktails or a female pilot and the other pilot goes, I would trust you on a heavy dose of fentanyl over a female. By the way.

[Eli Double Tap]

You got John laughing. You had John doing this. John's doing his chicken laugh. He got some nuggies in his mouth and dining right now.

[Cody Garrett]

Do we have to bleep that?

[Eli Double Tap]

That's a great.

[Cody Garrett]

That's funny.

[Brandon Herrera]

The leaked audio.

[Eli Double Tap]

That's a. You didn't Say that. That was the leaked audio quote. What are we going to do? Who do you want to interview for, like, the C pack thingy? When we're on the floor for that thing, that's your enemy. We get to do a gang episode there, which is what the goal was. Just a gang with chaos all around us.

[Cody Garrett]

I would love to get people like Tucker on. I feel like that would be a lot of fun.

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh, me too.

[Cody Garrett]

I know you would.

[Brandon Herrera]

Me.

[Cody Garrett]

You guys have some World War II opinions that I.

[Brandon Herrera]

We're gonna argue about World War II.

[Cody Garrett]

I would love to get, like, J.D. vance is like, my. My new. Like, him and Elon Musk are my dream podcast guests, though, because J.D. vance is, like, just such a normal guy. I just. I would love to have him on Unsub.

[Eli Double Tap]

I wonder. That's the one. I wonder how is ran? Because it is. Do we just get to grab people as they walk by? Do we have to schedule out who's coming on certain times? I didn't. I thought it was in, like, a room. And then they showed us the photos. I was like, oh, we're on, like.

[Cody Garrett]

The, like, the show floor. Like, it was like, like those little podcast studios or whatever at shot show. Like that little alley.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah, but we get a big one. Do you see, like, the space is actually, like. Did you see it?

[Brandon Herrera]

That's this month.

[Eli Double Tap]

You seen it this February, dude. Yeah. Good. We got a big space. A very big space.

[Cody Garrett]

But, like, it's literally, like, that's where people do do stuff.

[Eli Double Tap]

So did that show.

[Cody Garrett]

He hasn't seen it? No, it's like, there, like, on the floor. Good, good, good. Audio is gonna be interesting, but. Yeah, no, it's gonna be lovely.

[Eli Double Tap]

Wow. Probably laugh and do this. Yeah, actually, I think we're pretty good. We can close this out. All right, Cody, if you want to close it out.

[Nick Power]

Do the thing.

[Eli Double Tap]

Do the thing.

[Nick Power]

Bye, everyone. Thank you for coming to the unsubscribed podcast. I was joined today by Eli Double Tap Up, Nick Fat electrician, Brandon Herrera, and myself, donut operator. We love you.

[Brandon Herrera]

I gotta pee.

[Nick Power]

Yeah. You can join us on Patreon to see the after show.

[Brandon Herrera]

My name.