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

Summary

Unsubscribe Podcast Episode 208 Summary

Title: Which History Era Is The Best? ft. Nick Freitas & The Fat Electrician
Release Date: April 14, 2025
Hosts: Eli Doubletap, Brandon Herrera, Nick Freitas, Fat Electrician

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1. Episode Kickoff and Introductions (00:00 - 02:00)

The episode begins with the hosts engaging in light-hearted banter, establishing a relaxed and humorous atmosphere. Nick Freitas introduces himself alongside Eli Doubletap, Brandon Herrera, and Fat Electrician, setting the stage for an engaging discussion.

Notable Quote:

• Nick Freitas (00:30): “California's gonna be a great place to move to after the war.”

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2. Nick Freitas’ Military Background and Political Career (02:00 - 09:00)

Nick Freitas delves into his extensive military career, detailing his time in the 82nd Airborne Division and his decision to reenlist to serve in Kosovo. He shares personal anecdotes about his service, including challenges faced during his tenure and the impact of post-9/11 events on his career trajectory.

Notable Quotes:

• Nick Freitas (07:29): “What's the worst that can happen?”
• Nick Freitas (08:25): “I volunteered for SF out of the 25th and yeah, went to first group.”

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3. The Pitfalls of Legacy Media and the Rise of Social Media (09:00 - 18:00)

Nick discusses his experiences with legacy media, highlighting instances where his statements were misrepresented. He emphasizes the power of social media as a tool for direct communication, bypassing traditional media distortions.

Notable Quotes:

• Nick Freitas (14:14): “The only things worth saving.”
• Nick Freitas (16:49): “The press will always screw you, and two, you don't need them.”

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4. Homeschooling and Educational Reforms (18:00 - 33:00)

The hosts transition to discussing the shortcomings of the traditional education system and the benefits of homeschooling. Nick shares his experiences teaching at a homeschool co-op, focusing on individualized education and practical learning. He stresses the importance of personal responsibility and tailored curricula that cater to each child’s strengths and interests.

Notable Quotes:

• Nick Freitas (25:53): “Dreams are theirs. They're nobody else's.”
• Nick Freitas (30:25): “You learn from losing.”

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5. Raising Resilient Young Men and Traditional Masculinity (33:00 - 50:00)

A significant portion of the episode centers on the challenges young men face in modern society. Nick and Eli discuss the erosion of traditional masculinity and the societal pressures that undermine male confidence and responsibility. They advocate for instilling resilience, responsibility, and strong values in young men through disciplined upbringing and hands-on experiences.

Notable Quotes:

• Nick Freitas (76:44): “Men thrive under responsibility.”
• Nick Freitas (80:10): “I will tell you this much. If you would ask us, when we started, like, homeschooling, we were super intimidated.”

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6. Historical Insights and Personal Anecdotes (50:00 - 80:00)

The conversation shifts to various historical topics, including the Civil War, World War II, and the influence of historical events on modern education and societal values. Nick shares his passion for history, recounting his fascination with documentaries and reenactments. The hosts also exchange stories about military museums and historical battles, providing rich historical context and personal perspectives.

Notable Quotes:

• Nick Freitas (35:27): “I love Roman history because...”
• Nick Freitas (69:27): “Look at this stuff and, and here's what it comes down to. You go look at the House right now...”

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7. The Role of Government and Public Services (80:00 - 100:00)

Nick critiques the inefficiencies within government institutions, particularly focusing on public education and media. He argues for a more responsible electorate and better-educated voters to ensure effective governance. The hosts discuss the importance of personal accountability versus reliance on government solutions.

Notable Quotes:

• Nick Freitas (92:04): “It should be a Congress should be that way.”
• Nick Freitas (100:05): “If you would ask us, when we started, like, homeschooling, we were super intimidated.”

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8. Personal Reflections and Future Plans (100:00 - End)

As the episode concludes, Nick shares his decision not to seek re-election after ten years in the Virginia House of Delegates. He reflects on the importance of responsible leadership and the need for new voices in politics. The hosts express their support for Nick and discuss the impact of his work on their lives.

Notable Quotes:

• Nick Freitas (88:54): “Ten years is enough.”
• Nick Freitas (133:31): “I love it all.”

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Conclusion

Episode 208 of the Unsubscribe Podcast offers a deep dive into topics ranging from military service and political integrity to homeschooling and the challenges of modern masculinity. Nick Freitas brings a wealth of experience and passion, fostering a thought-provoking and insightful discussion. The episode underscores the importance of personal responsibility, effective education, and the power of direct communication in shaping a resilient and informed society.

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Note: Advertisements and promotional segments interspersed throughout the episode have been excluded from this summary to focus solely on the substantive content.

Transcript

[Nick Freitas]

Location? The lab.

[Brandon Herrera]

Quentin only has 24 hours to sell his car.

[Nick Freitas]

Is that even possible?

[Brandon Herrera]

He goes to Carvana.com.

[Nick Freitas]

What is this, a movie trailer? He ignores the doubters, enters his license plate. Wow, that's a great offer.

[Eli Double Tap]

The car is sold, but will Carvana.

[Nick Freitas]

Pick it up in time for it?

[Eli Double Tap]

They'll literally pick it up tomorrow morning.

[Brandon Herrera]

Done with the dramatics.

[Nick Freitas]

Car selling in record time. Save your time.

[Brandon Herrera]

Go to Carvana.com and sell your car today. Pickup fees may apply.

[Nick Freitas]

California's gonna be a great place to move to after the war.

[Eli Double Tap]

You say something about my mom and I'll beat your on the steps of the Capitol.

[Brandon Herrera]

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

[Fat Electrician]

What's the worst that can happen?

[Eli Double Tap]

War, babe.

[Fat Electrician]

Like, war can happen.

[Nick Freitas]

Nuclear weapons are less disastrous than socialism.

[Eli Double Tap]

Nick's getting me fired up on Friday.

[Brandon Herrera]

Good. Say hi to Eli.

[Nick Freitas]

He's racially ambiguous. And Brandon, his hair is fucking fabulous.

[Brandon Herrera]

And donut octo disposition.

[Nick Freitas]

And there's a fat electrician. Welcome to unsubscribe.

[Brandon Herrera]

We doing this?

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah.

[Fat Electrician]

Everyone ready?

[Eli Double Tap]

Somebody clapped.

[Fat Electrician]

Yeah, I already clapped. Come on.

[Brandon Herrera]

We cracked my first rodeo dog.

[Nick Freitas]

207.

[Eli Double Tap]

Is this 207?

[Nick Freitas]

No, no, you got.

[Brandon Herrera]

You got to put it back down.

[Fat Electrician]

You didn't wait for the count to.

[Nick Freitas]

God damn it, Nick. This is why we can't have nice things. All right, all right.

[Fat Electrician]

We're going to hold it up.

[Nick Freitas]

Pretend new one, okay.

[Fat Electrician]

Oh, no, you can't pretend death.

[Brandon Herrera]

You got to drink both.

[Fat Electrician]

Okay, on the count of three. Three, two, one.

[Nick Freitas]

There we go.

[Fat Electrician]

We did it.

[Nick Freitas]

Now I've gotta, like, shotgun one of these.

[Eli Double Tap]

Hi, everyone. Welcome to the unsubscribed podcast. I am joined today by Eli Double Tap, Nick the fat electrician, and other Nick, Nick Freitas, and myself, Brandon.

[Brandon Herrera]

Brandon.

[Eli Double Tap]

We've finally morphed into the same person.

[Brandon Herrera]

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

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah, listen here.

[Fat Electrician]

He wore his shirt, his watch.

[Nick Freitas]

You know?

[Fat Electrician]

Like, really? This is how this is starting, right out the gate?

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

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

[Eli Double Tap]

Really?

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah.

[Nick Freitas]

Were you really born in Chico?

[Brandon Herrera]

Yes.

[Nick Freitas]

You're kidding me.

[Brandon Herrera]

I swear.

[Nick Freitas]

Oh, so was I. Yeah. Yeah. That's nuts. It'd be weirder if you weren't, right? Wow. What are you talking about?

[Eli Double Tap]

What a cool, fun fact.

[Fat Electrician]

I was born in Texas.

[Nick Freitas]

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

[Brandon Herrera]

Today we're talking about. We're going to talk about. Yeah, to the fat politician.

[Nick Freitas]

Did you live there for a while?

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, I was lived there for like the first five years of my life.

[Nick Freitas]

I grew up.

[Brandon Herrera]

I grew up in California for the first 12 years of my life. Chico, Orland, Orville. Reading.

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

Palermo. Yeah.

[Nick Freitas]

All right, so when was this? I don't know.

[Brandon Herrera]

1994 to early 2000.

[Nick Freitas]

We were there the same time. Yeah.

[Fat Electrician]

Wow, you're just.

[Brandon Herrera]

How old are you out of school?

[Nick Freitas]

45.

[Brandon Herrera]

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

[Fat Electrician]

Look at me. My parents could afford a power.

[Nick Freitas]

Look at me.

[Brandon Herrera]

My dad stole the neighbor's battery powered Jeep and spray painted it so he could say it wasn't theirs.

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah, well, look at me.

[Eli Double Tap]

My parents could afford electricity.

[Fat Electrician]

I just, I. Never mind your dad. Look, son. Guess what?

[Nick Freitas]

Strange. Guess what?

[Fat Electrician]

I was missing one.

[Brandon Herrera]

Guess what I got for Christmas one year. Somebody else's PS2. It's a good dad. For legal reasons. That was a joke.

[Fat Electrician]

When kids exactly.

[Eli Double Tap]

Steal your father stealing hearts and property.

[Brandon Herrera]

This is true.

[Fat Electrician]

Welcome back. You just flew in last night. You just got in today, this morning. This is the first week we haven't had to travel a whole bunch.

[Brandon Herrera]

Speak for yourself.

[Fat Electrician]

Long time.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh yeah, that's true.

[Brandon Herrera]

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

[Fat Electrician]

It sucks.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, it's all right.

[Eli Double Tap]

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

[Nick Freitas]

So fucking stoked for it.

[Eli Double Tap]

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

[Fat Electrician]

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

[Eli Double Tap]

They memorized the last four of my phone number.

[Fat Electrician]

Yeah, like, oh, hey, what's up?

[Brandon Herrera]

Fuck.

[Fat Electrician]

So, Mr. Nick, you. You flew in from.

[Nick Freitas]

I flew in from Virginia. Yeah. So I live in Culpepper, Virginia, which is about 70 miles outside of D.C. so it's like close enough for the airport, but outside of blast radius, which is what I was going for. So.

[Brandon Herrera]

Perfect.

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah, I said they're kind of quasi hoping, but you get front seat tickets. Yeah, like, oh no, that's horrib. And all of our country's problems are sold.

[Eli Double Tap]

Wait, honey, give me five more minutes.

[Nick Freitas]

I want to see this.

[Fat Electrician]

Don't ruin it.

[Brandon Herrera]

Getting in a hazmat suit. What are you doing? Honey, I'm gonna steal the Declaration. It's not guarded right now.

[Nick Freitas]

Still. The only things worth saving.

[Eli Double Tap]

I played Fallout 3. I know how this goes.

[Fat Electrician]

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

[Nick Freitas]

That'd be weird.

[Fat Electrician]

I know. I was like, oh, not much.

[Nick Freitas]

Really knows. I was a little. A little creeped out by that.

[Brandon Herrera]

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

[Nick Freitas]

You were also born in Enloe Hospital.

[Fat Electrician]

I was more surprised you did the Special Forces route.

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah.

[Fat Electrician]

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

[Nick Freitas]

No.

[Brandon Herrera]

Okay.

[Fat Electrician]

I was like, you are like, the 1% that I've ever known.

[Nick Freitas]

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

[Fat Electrician]

You did an 18x ray contract and made it all the way.

[Nick Freitas]

We actually. There was actually a lot of people making it through 18x ray at the height of the war because even though one of our principles is you can't mass produce soft, apparently they wanted to test that during the height of the war period. But, no. No. I was. I went to infantry basic training, then airborne, then 82nd Airborne Division. I was actually going to get out at the 82nd because it was peacetime army, and then that was 90. Well, 2000. 2001 is when I reenlisted. So it was. The crazy part was I looked at my wife, and I had re enlisted. I was in the 82nd Airborne, second of 325. I had. I just graduated Ranger School, and I came back and I said, all right, it's time to reenlist, but I'm gonna go over to 1st Battalion. Because they were going to Kosovo, and that was the closest thing to a war going on. And so I got it all approved because, you know, when your first enlistment, they let you go kind of anywhere. And then my sergeant major brings me, and he goes, you're not going one battalion over. Like, Sergeant Major. What are you talking about? He's like, we've sent you to all these schools and stuff like that. We're not going. You're not going one battalion. I don't care what you do, but you're not going one battalion over. So I was pissed. I came home and told my wife, Tina. I was like, babe, I'm getting out. Like, screw this. She goes, what are we gonna do? I said, I'm. My dad was lapd. I'm like, I'm go lapd and she goes, baby, we haven't saved up any money. We. This wasn't part of the plan. Why don't we do one more enlistment? Because they'll let you go wherever you want. I said, okay, you want to go to Italy or Hawaii? She goes, Hawaii. Get to Hawaii. Four months later, nine, 11.

[Fat Electrician]

What's the worst that can happen?

[Nick Freitas]

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

[Fat Electrician]

25Th is for anyone that doesn't know. It's a lot of road marching. That was like my biggest fear was getting attached to anything like that because it's like Hawaii, beautiful beaches, road marching and road marching. And this is not like. How far would you road march? A week? Probably.

[Nick Freitas]

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

[Fat Electrician]

Pretty cool.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah.

[Nick Freitas]

Good.

[Fat Electrician]

Peacetime.

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Fat Electrician]

And then you got just spun up and then did you do appointment with them or did you just go 25th?

[Nick Freitas]

No, I went over to. So I went through the Q course, became an 18 Bravo, which is a weapons sergeant, and then did two tours in Iraq, one in 06 and one in, oh, eight.

[Eli Double Tap]

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

[Nick Freitas]

So. Yeah. Well, 911 happened and I hung out for a little while and then I decided I want to go to the Q course because that had to be a conversation with my wife as well because she was like, oh, three years in Hawaii, I'm like. Or a year. That's also. And then we get to go back to your favorite place in the world. Fayetteville, North Carolina. Oh, yeah. Wow. I mean, you, you born and raised there, right?

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah, I grew up on Fort Bragg.

[Nick Freitas]

Okay.

[Eli Double Tap]

@ least on the periphery of it because, you know, military families and shit like that. So I might. My joke is that my parents were army brats who never had the sense to leave for Bragg. Yeah. Not necessarily the greatest place in the planet.

[Nick Freitas]

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

[Fat Electrician]

But anyway, someone broke into your house and fenced.

[Eli Double Tap]

Wait, so they used not Mexican fencing? It can be. I want these robbers, senor.

[Brandon Herrera]

We have to practice getting over it. Come on. He had to go scale the fence to his own property.

[Nick Freitas]

Gosh damn, landscapers.

[Brandon Herrera]

Fencing is the video game term for selling.

[Eli Double Tap]

You can only think in, like, Mexican construction terms, like, hey, Eli, you want to go mudding? He shows up with Sheetrock, baby.

[Fat Electrician]

We gotta get these guys out of here. Hold on, hold on. Dude.

[Brandon Herrera]

That's one fence already done. That's an entire series for this. For shorts.

[Eli Double Tap]

Absolutely. It is.

[Brandon Herrera]

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

[Eli Double Tap]

Where's the hole in the wall?

[Fat Electrician]

Okay, sorry. Now. Now I'm tracking the story a bit better.

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah. Yeah. So then. Yeah. End up going first group.

[Fat Electrician]

Yeah.

[Nick Freitas]

I always joke that I've seen my wife cry four times. We have three kids, and the fourth time was when I told her I was gonna have to go back to Fort Bragg.

[Fat Electrician]

It's not a. Yeah, no.

[Eli Double Tap]

There's a reason I left.

[Fat Electrician]

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

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah, it just made sense. I just really the. The final straw because I've got a bunch of family that, you know, are still there because, you know, like, my grandparents, they military or anything. So, yeah, Covid was the last straw. Yeah, it's like, I've got, like, my family, at least on my mom's side, from Texas, like, all the way back to before it was Texas or before it was United States. So I'm like, all right, well, I'm gonna go to Texas, because Covid was just a nightmare with the. The governor there. Roy Cooper.

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

Piece of you.

[Brandon Herrera]

Iowa was awesome. We didn't do. Yeah, we didn't do a thing. Yeah, they were like, 14 days. We're like, fine. And that was it. Nothing else happened the entire time.

[Eli Double Tap]

North Carolina was a red state at the time still, but they had a blue governor, so they had, like, Republicans controlled both houses but you had Roy COOPER Because Pat McCrory got ousted.

[Brandon Herrera]

I'm partially scared, but partially looking forward to the day where I have grandkids and they get the assignment at school where they have to go home and interview their grandparents about living through the great pandemic.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

And like my, my grandchild. How many dead bodies did you have to step over on your way to work, Grandpa? Like literally none.

[Eli Double Tap]

It's crazy. In the states that stayed open, you didn't really notice anything different.

[Brandon Herrera]

They all stayed open. They just.

[Nick Freitas]

Except their economy. Yeah.

[Fat Electrician]

Jake, when Jake moved from California to here during that. So he went from LA to Spring Branch. We. Spring Branch is tiny. There's a Walmart and like a Thai restaurant and a Home Depot. That's it. Out in the middle of the country. I had to drive 15 minutes to there and go back. Not much change you didn't have. Everyone wasn't rushing for baby wipes, toilet paper, water. It was all there. Jake moved. He's like, do people just not wear masks here? I was like, what?

[Nick Freitas]

No, why would we.

[Fat Electrician]

Why? Yeah, Confusion. He did not know what was going on. Coming from LA to that world and L. A. Just that 90% of small businesses, they still do.

[Eli Double Tap]

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

[Fat Electrician]

Yep.

[Eli Double Tap]

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

[Nick Freitas]

California is going to be a great place to move to after the war once we can go in and just like secure property again. I want to colonize California. That's.

[Brandon Herrera]

That's Larry.

[Nick Freitas]

This is, that's what it needs. It needs some colonization.

[Eli Double Tap]

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

[Fat Electrician]

And they just took that.

[Nick Freitas]

California is my favorite state in the country. Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah. They're really good at that three second sound. I'm sure you're familiar.

[Nick Freitas]

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

[Fat Electrician]

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

[Nick Freitas]

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

[Eli Double Tap]

Really?

[Nick Freitas]

Oh, yeah. So right after this was in 2018, so was Parkland. Yeah. So Parkland takes place. And I'm, I'm on the gun subcommittee in the General assembly. And this is when the Republicans were in charge of the House. And we just kill. I mean, we had all the pro gun guys on the subcommittee. So we just, you know, we listen, we were polite, we listened to testimony, the whole deal, but we were there to protect your gun rights. And so I'm listening to just Democrat after Democrat get up. And if you don't want to do one gun, you know, one gun a month, then you're supporting terrorists because they're trafficking guns and you don't care if kids get shot. And I mean, just over and over and over again, I just got pissed. And so I got up and I went on like, this is probably the first thing I ever did that went viral on social media, like super viral, and just did a seven minute diatribe because I was furious. And, and I, I take special pride in this speech because I thought I gave a pretty good defense of the Second Amendment. But then I also caused three of my Democrat colleagues to leave the floor and tears. And the entire, the entire Democrat caucus requested a 15 minute recess to gather their composure. And I didn't even realize it was in response to me. Like, we all go down into our respective bullpens, right? And the speaker comes in, he goes. So they're pretty mad. I'm like, about what? About what you said. I'm like, what the hell did I say that was so bad? They've spent the last two weeks calling us terrorists and every other damn thing. And all I said was, you know, this is why we have the second. Okay. I might have also said that I wanted to remind my colleagues on the other side of the aisle that they were the party of slavery and fought against women's suffrage, put a bunch of Japanese people in internment camps and Jim Crow, not us. That, that part made him mad. Wasn't. Wasn't false, though.

[Brandon Herrera]

I really don't like facts.

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah, no, no. So. So the press gets up and one of the things I talked about is he said, if you want to talk about crime, then why don't we talk about like father or fatherlessness? Why don't we talk. Why don't we go look at the prisons right now and see how many people in there, how many young men are in there that don't have dads in their life. And so I went through this Whole thing. And this reporter comes up to me on the floor, and I still had no idea that I just set up a. Like, set off a bomb. And he goes, did you just claim that abortion causes mass shootings? And I looked. I'm like, how the hell did you come to that conclusion? I said, no, that's not what I said. This is what I was talking about. This is. And all of a sudden the headline is, delegate Freighter suggests that abortion leads to mass shootings. Like, okay. And.

[Eli Double Tap]

And the mental gymnastics.

[Nick Freitas]

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

[Fat Electrician]

You can't defend it.

[Nick Freitas]

I'd have to publish the. The speech.

[Fat Electrician]

Yep.

[Nick Freitas]

On Facebook. And. And just so people know exactly what I said. And the next thing I know, like, that. That ended up getting, like, a lot. 70, 80 million views. And. And all of a sudden, I learned two things. Like, right off the bat, it was, one, the press will always screw you, and two, you don't need them. Like, the power of social media is. Is, like, new media is huge right now. And I still fight. I still fight this battle with, you know, other members of the Republican caucus. We're like, well, we need to have a press conference. I'm like, oh, why? So the Washington Post can quote you out of context and make you look like an ass clown?

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah.

[Nick Freitas]

I said, we can just go to Instagram right now, give them our message, and it'll be seen by more people in 48 hours that. That Washington Post article will be seen in its entire existence, 100%.

[Eli Double Tap]

It's like the. You ever seen the movie Almost Famous?

[Nick Freitas]

Yes.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah, the Enemy. As soon as they know he's a journalist. Journalist, they're like, oh, hey, it's the Enemy.

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

How's it going, Enemy?

[Nick Freitas]

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

[Fat Electrician]

Brandon, you look like a man that loves the stonks.

[Eli Double Tap]

I'm something of a stonkin. Tist myself. Eli, what do you use to track your stonks?

[Fat Electrician]

Moomoo.

[Eli Double Tap]

Bless you. But what is moomoo.com it's an Internet.

[Fat Electrician]

Technology brokerage with a strategic partnership with nasdaq.

[Eli Double Tap]

Ah yes, I agree. Heard of NASDAQ Stonks?

[Fat Electrician]

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[Eli Double Tap]

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[Fat Electrician]

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[Eli Double Tap]

They have things like the heat map feature.

[Fat Electrician]

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[Eli Double Tap]

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[Fat Electrician]

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[Eli Double Tap]

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[Nick Freitas]

Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

Content.

[Nick Freitas]

Oh yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

Where you can hear people in their own words and make up your own decision. You don't need fucking legacy media anymore.

[Fat Electrician]

No, viewership's dead anyways. Dropping 18 to 22% every year. And then we looked at it the other day. Is your ESPN during prime time? Because we were looking at that one dude, how much he was making a year.

[Eli Double Tap]

McAfee.

[Fat Electrician]

McAfee?

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah, Pat McAfee.

[Fat Electrician]

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

[Nick Freitas]

It's nuts.

[Fat Electrician]

Just to do it to a lower audience.

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah.

[Fat Electrician]

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

[Eli Double Tap]

There's a reason people watch it.

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah, exactly. And it's not really for the commentary.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah, I watch MSNBC for, you know, it's. It's that unfettered access to real people in real Time without, you know, getting it spun. And if you do, even. If you do well, even just allegorically. I mean, look at our parents. They're starting to watch YouTube more than TV and things like that. They're. We're aging up. The Internet generation.

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah, finally.

[Fat Electrician]

Yeah, the YouTubes. Like, I. I want to see your numbers compared to prime time history right now. Prime time history has to be.

[Brandon Herrera]

I beat them biz. Oh, yeah, it's by a lot.

[Nick Freitas]

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

[Eli Double Tap]

Do you have another channel for that?

[Nick Freitas]

Right.

[Brandon Herrera]

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

[Eli Double Tap]

Can you approve it manually through the copyright.

[Nick Freitas]

I tried to see if it's a whole separate channel.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's a whole separate channel.

[Nick Freitas]

Could you make it a separate playlist algorithm?

[Brandon Herrera]

Maybe on the main channel?

[Eli Double Tap]

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

[Fat Electrician]

Oh, for teachers.

[Brandon Herrera]

That could be good.

[Nick Freitas]

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

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah.

[Fat Electrician]

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

[Eli Double Tap]

So there's.

[Nick Freitas]

Get in here. Yeah.

[Fat Electrician]

Like the Hannah ads going.

[Brandon Herrera]

My favorite.

[Nick Freitas]

The home school co op. Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

All the people that get mad are like, this is just American propaganda. I go, yes, but did I lie about any of it?

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

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

[Eli Double Tap]

Sorry. We're actually better.

[Nick Freitas]

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

[Brandon Herrera]

This is true. I love communism. Let me.

[Fat Electrician]

Did you say I missed?

[Brandon Herrera]

I didn't. Ama.

[Nick Freitas]

Oh, my God.

[Brandon Herrera]

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

[Nick Freitas]

Absolutely. Because that solves so many of the Other.

[Brandon Herrera]

Exactly. It solves everything except for Hirohito.

[Nick Freitas]

Like.

[Eli Double Tap]

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

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah, exactly.

[Brandon Herrera]

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

[Nick Freitas]

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

[Eli Double Tap]

Like, yes, that's parenting. W. That's my favorite.

[Brandon Herrera]

You know, if Jesus was alive, he'd be a communist. Really? Really?

[Eli Double Tap]

Show me.

[Brandon Herrera]

Show me in the Bible where Jesus was like, you know what? The Romans should steal all your money and give it out. How they see counterpoint.

[Eli Double Tap]

He did go hungry for 40 days.

[Brandon Herrera]

There is that.

[Fat Electrician]

Testing it out.

[Eli Double Tap]

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

[Nick Freitas]

No, no. That wasn't even communism because he did it voluntarily and only doing so.

[Eli Double Tap]

That's true.

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah.

[Fat Electrician]

Oh, I love it already.

[Eli Double Tap]

Like the. The American dad. Like that he's looking at the meter or whatever. Like, blasphemy's getting close.

[Brandon Herrera]

Let's change topics.

[Fat Electrician]

With homeschooling. What are you, big history buff? Math.

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah.

[Fat Electrician]

What's your thing?

[Nick Freitas]

Oh, no, not math. I hate math. Fiery passion. Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah. Yeah, Matt, math. Or. Excuse me, History, theology, philosophy. Like, I like that stuff. And. And. And again, it's a lot of. It's more like the practical component. But no, that math was the thing that my wife and I both, like, subbed out to. Like, the co op. It was as soon as one. And here was the other thing, too. Like, I remember my oldest daughter, she's like, sophomore year of high school, and she's doing algebra 2, and she is hating life. And I totally get this because I hated algebra, too. It's freaking. Stop putting letters in my freaking math. Like, I hated it.

[Fat Electrician]

You're gonna need it one day. No, no. You know, I have a.

[Nick Freitas]

She's sitting there, she's just so stressed out. I finally looked her, I'm like, sweetheart, what do you want to do? And she starts listening off. Well, you know, dad, I'm thinking about these various things. I'm like, you know what? None of those require algebra 2. So you know what? This is done now. And you're a sophomore in high school. We're going to now direct your curriculum toward the things you want to do. And we always told our kids, like, right off the bat, a couple of things was one, I don't owe you a college education. You want to go to college, You Get a good opportunity. I'm not saying I won't help, but I don't owe you that. And you're not going to have that attitude.

[Fat Electrician]

Good.

[Nick Freitas]

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

[Brandon Herrera]

And I about it on social media, like, a lot. Then will the government do it for me? Is that.

[Nick Freitas]

Apparently for some. Yeah. But, you know, so they. They had that. They had that mindset and. And it was great because you could just adjust curriculum on the fly. You could do things and. Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

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

[Fat Electrician]

Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

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

[Nick Freitas]

Oh, sure.

[Eli Double Tap]

So probably something not a lot of.

[Fat Electrician]

People had no idea.

[Nick Freitas]

Okay. So homeschool co op is generally what happens is you get a bunch of parents together and they realize that. Okay, hey, like, so, for instance, the kids at our homeschool co op, for a while, they got taught civics by me because I was a legislator. So I'm the one going in there and teaching them about, like, American government and civics and how it actually works. And they were not getting the Schoolhouse Rock version because the real version is like, I'm just a bill on Capitol Hill. But I pissed off someone on appropriations, and so now I'm going to get sent to a subcommittee where I'm going to die. Like, they got the real version of it, but that's what.

[Fat Electrician]

Teacher. What?

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah. Oh, no. They loved it because the Schoolhouse Rock.

[Eli Double Tap]

Version is the way it's theoretically supposed to work.

[Nick Freitas]

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

[Fat Electrician]

Today, we are teaching math. Okay, everyone.

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah. Yeah. Hey, look, I cheered the US Math team when we won. Doesn't matter. They're all trying to use. The point is we import the best of everything, baby.

[Eli Double Tap]

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[Nick Freitas]

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[Eli Double Tap]

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[Nick Freitas]

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[Eli Double Tap]

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[Nick Freitas]

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[Fat Electrician]

America.

[Eli Double Tap]

Usa number one.

[Fat Electrician]

Usa, number one.

[Brandon Herrera]

Okay, that was my argument on the, on the, the space little, like, video I did. Somebody's like, I don't know why you're bragging that America put a man on the moon. You guys use Nazis to do it. I'm like, yeah, but so did the ussr, so penalties offset. First down. Learn how to pick the better Nazis.

[Fat Electrician]

Sorry, you picked the wrong.

[Eli Double Tap]

Their brains work better when you can feed them.

[Nick Freitas]

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

[Eli Double Tap]

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

[Nick Freitas]

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

[Brandon Herrera]

Well, because they like the Rick.

[Nick Freitas]

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

[Brandon Herrera]

I'll make your kid cry. Can I watch?

[Nick Freitas]

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

[Fat Electrician]

You learn from losing.

[Nick Freitas]

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

[Eli Double Tap]

And you learn.

[Nick Freitas]

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

[Eli Double Tap]

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

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah. Holy crap.

[Eli Double Tap]

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

[Brandon Herrera]

And let's say there are guys we don't like right here, and I want to put white phosphorus behind him and then march gunfire towards them.

[Eli Double Tap]

I'm dead serious.

[Nick Freitas]

Fast.

[Fat Electrician]

Does the plane need to be moving to drop?

[Nick Freitas]

You can practice.

[Eli Double Tap]

It was not that intense, but it was basically like, all right, let's say your drop is X meters per, blah, blah. At this distance. What are you, you know, how are you going to do ballistic calculations if.

[Nick Freitas]

You can't do this?

[Brandon Herrera]

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

[Eli Double Tap]

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

[Nick Freitas]

Let's say you're Assad. You've got a lot of Muslim Brotherhood in Hama.

[Brandon Herrera]

Let's just say theoretically oh, no, no.

[Nick Freitas]

But, but that's, that's true. Like you can adjust your curriculum based off of your students interest and what works and it's awesome.

[Eli Double Tap]

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

[Nick Freitas]

Yes.

[Eli Double Tap]

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

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, that's my design.

[Nick Freitas]

Oh yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

Guys, when you leave your dogs at.

[Fat Electrician]

Home, do you ever worry that they might find your firearm?

[Eli Double Tap]

Damn. Maybe the ATF is onto something. No, I never thought about that.

[Brandon Herrera]

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[Nick Freitas]

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[Eli Double Tap]

I'm sure a lot of you guys and gals have a handgun for self defense, as we all do. And if do, it probably fits into one of two categories.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's locked up but not within reach.

[Eli Double Tap]

Or it's just laying around where anybody could have access to it.

[Brandon Herrera]

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[Fat Electrician]

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[Eli Double Tap]

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[Nick Freitas]

What I love about this is it's TSA approved. Most gun cases, when you want to.

[Eli Double Tap]

Fly with a weapon has three or four little holes. This one has one. So you only need one lock and, and then you do your.

[Fat Electrician]

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[Eli Double Tap]

That's a crazy deal. That's 10% off and a free Stopbox Pro. When you use code [e-mail] 10% and.

[Fat Electrician]

Buy one, get one, they have to.

[Brandon Herrera]

Be operating at all.

[Eli Double Tap]

One of my favorite parts about Stopbox is that it is actually Made in America.

[Nick Freitas]

Made in America.

[Fat Electrician]

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[Nick Freitas]

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[Eli Double Tap]

Starbucks Stop Box.

[Nick Freitas]

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

[Eli Double Tap]

Yep.

[Nick Freitas]

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

[Eli Double Tap]

Previous.

[Fat Electrician]

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

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah.

[Fat Electrician]

And then whatever the you have to.

[Eli Double Tap]

Learn is The Department of education thing, where it's like, oh, yeah, cool. I don't know anything. Government's just the black thumb of industry. It's like anything it touches just turns to.

[Fat Electrician]

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

[Nick Freitas]

Like, I love it that I'm now getting your generation.

[Fat Electrician]

You, hey, you want to do, like, film, you want to do video games or play video games for a living? Like, that was like. Oh, no.

[Eli Double Tap]

Still. Yeah, it was. Still was one of those. Like, oh, well, you. You need to learn video arts. And this. This. You don't need to. Which understandably, at the time, YouTube made $0. So, like. But yeah, they. I'm sure they still continue to teach that. Probably not so much nowadays because it's like an accepted thing. But back in, you know, back when I was in school, that was not a thing that was encouraged.

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah, I remember still taking, like, typing. I remember playing Oregon Trail when it first came out on the old Apple. Yeah, dude.

[Fat Electrician]

Dysentery.

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah. Every time, man.

[Brandon Herrera]

Did anybody ford the river every time your family's gone.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah, I know, but I have all this bacon still.

[Fat Electrician]

Yeah, Buffalo.

[Nick Freitas]

Oh, man.

[Fat Electrician]

Got that game. So you got into Nick's because. History buff. What segments of history are your favorite? Like, oh, wait.

[Nick Freitas]

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

[Eli Double Tap]

I did it for Civil war, World War I, all sorts of stuff. Secret major history.

[Nick Freitas]

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

[Eli Double Tap]

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

[Nick Freitas]

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

[Fat Electrician]

But what was your first video? You watched the Heads where you're like, okay, this dude's proportional.

[Nick Freitas]

Proportional. Proportional means something else in American vernacular. Well, I got a proportion for you.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah. Say proportional to what?

[Brandon Herrera]

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

[Nick Freitas]

That says that.

[Brandon Herrera]

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

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah. No, it's. No, that. That was great. And then. Well, and then again, you got me interested in history. I never would have thought I was interested in, like, the history of Waffle House. Like, I just thought it was. I just thought it was the most delicious breakfast at 2:00 in the morning.

[Brandon Herrera]

In Fort Bragg colluding with FEMA.

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah. So a good buddy of mine. A good buddy of mine is like number three at fema. And I saw the video. I'm like, hey, Cameron, is this. He's like, dude. Yeah, he's a. He's a former SEAL and he's kind of running the place now. And like, great, dude.

[Eli Double Tap]

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

[Fat Electrician]

Nick's gonna disappear. Disappear.

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

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

[Eli Double Tap]

They're gonna send a polar bear after you.

[Nick Freitas]

Confederate cocaine water.

[Fat Electrician]

This is true, you know.

[Nick Freitas]

You know, by the way, speaking of cocaine, I've been enjoying one of these echelons.

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh, no.

[Nick Freitas]

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

[Brandon Herrera]

I mean, it's bad. I like it when you pick it up.

[Fat Electrician]

You're like, I've been.

[Eli Double Tap]

It's like he's shaking.

[Nick Freitas]

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

[Eli Double Tap]

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

[Nick Freitas]

Oh, yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

Well, I told him I was like, fair warning, this is spicy and it's banned in Canada.

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

He's like, what? Yes.

[Eli Double Tap]

That's the best marketing pitch that nobody talks about with Echelon. I didn't know that until last night.

[Brandon Herrera]

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

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah.

[Nick Freitas]

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

[Eli Double Tap]

It's too cool for Canada.

[Fat Electrician]

It's a great ad.

[Brandon Herrera]

I know.

[Fat Electrician]

Pepper spray stuff or what?

[Brandon Herrera]

No, it's. There's too much caffeine in. Per ounce in Echelon. It's banned in Canada because we were trying to. So. Because it's on every military. Every U.S. military base in the world sells Echelon. And the Canadian military was trying to import it.

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

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

[Nick Freitas]

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

[Brandon Herrera]

I mean, but they're always on our side, so I mean, you know what I mean?

[Eli Double Tap]

Like, just give them some, some preventing.

[Brandon Herrera]

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

[Nick Freitas]

Here's a soccer ball right here.

[Eli Double Tap]

Is this gonna make my skin burn? No.

[Fat Electrician]

This one.

[Brandon Herrera]

These are.

[Nick Freitas]

I was wondering if this was Moon.

[Brandon Herrera]

Will you hand me the experimental Echelon?

[Eli Double Tap]

B lock?

[Nick Freitas]

Right.

[Brandon Herrera]

B is my favorite.

[Nick Freitas]

I had a buddy of mine, Jason Ballard, he represents. He actually represents the area of like with Virginia Tech, but he was trying to. He was trying to make it. We have really, really strict, like, ABC alcohol. Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

Because you guys don't have the private liquor stores.

[Nick Freitas]

No, it's all government. It sucks. I know. I carried a bill once to get rid of abc. That didn't. That didn't go very far.

[Brandon Herrera]

You just want to start off at D or what?

[Nick Freitas]

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

[Brandon Herrera]

Hell yeah.

[Nick Freitas]

For a bill that was making it legal to make so much of your own moonshine for your own consumption, basically. And, and. And he's a. I think he's a lieutenant colonel in the guard, but he was. I was like, that was the best subcommittee testimony I've ever seen.

[Eli Double Tap]

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

[Brandon Herrera]

I don't.

[Nick Freitas]

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

[Eli Double Tap]

I think it was in North Carolina.

[Nick Freitas]

Okay.

[Eli Double Tap]

I wasn't sure about Virginia.

[Nick Freitas]

We have a. We have a distillery in Culpepper, Virginia.

[Eli Double Tap]

Where.

[Nick Freitas]

And one of the things about Culpepper is we have the first Gadsden Flag.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah, the.

[Nick Freitas]

The Liberty or death gas and flag.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yep.

[Nick Freitas]

So we have a distillery there called Belmont. And you go in there and great people you go there. I remember talking. I'm like, hey, man, how long. How long you been moonshine? He goes legally for 25 years now. They still have a pro prohibition era copper still at Belmont Distillery in Culpepper, Virginia.

[Eli Double Tap]

That's rad. I know. I used to. In my. In my travels as a young man, there was a. I used to go to Thaxton, Virginia, or. And like just that whole area up in the mountains, like Roanoke area and whatnot.

[Nick Freitas]

Okay. Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

I was seeing a girl there at the time, and I didn't realize that one of those counties. I don't remember if it was Bedford County, Thaxton, something like that.

[Nick Freitas]

That Franklin's another one.

[Eli Double Tap]

That might have been Franklin. One of those is like the. The wettest county in the world. In the country or whatever. Because all the moonshine stills.

[Nick Freitas]

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

[Eli Double Tap]

I think that's. Yeah.

[Nick Freitas]

That was Franklin County. Franklin County, Virginia. In fact. My. My seatmate in the General assembly represents Franklin.

[Eli Double Tap]

No.

[Nick Freitas]

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

[Eli Double Tap]

Nice.

[Nick Freitas]

And he brought in moonshine. I was like, oh, yeah, that's Franklin, baby. That is Franklin. So he had an assortment of moonshine. And by the way, none of this actually happened. This is theoretically great comedy bid.

[Fat Electrician]

Love this comedy.

[Nick Freitas]

I just announced that not running for reelection. So I can give you all the dirt now. Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

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

[Nick Freitas]

It was all legal. It was all legal perfectly.

[Eli Double Tap]

Number 73.

[Brandon Herrera]

So, you know, it's good.

[Fat Electrician]

See what brand?

[Brandon Herrera]

That's the B. Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

Pretty decent.

[Fat Electrician]

That's B. I'll write down what's.

[Nick Freitas]

What is the flavor?

[Brandon Herrera]

Berry.

[Eli Double Tap]

Berry.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's like sour berry.

[Fat Electrician]

I wouldn't go off of flavors. Because they have changed. Like what we said with the one which just now. Apple.

[Eli Double Tap]

Apple.

[Brandon Herrera]

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

[Nick Freitas]

I bet that one I like. Is that like licorice?

[Brandon Herrera]

Huh?

[Nick Freitas]

Is that like licorice?

[Brandon Herrera]

No, it's like a Japanese fruit. It's like a Japanese apple fruit.

[Eli Double Tap]

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

[Brandon Herrera]

No, it's fine.

[Eli Double Tap]

Wired up.

[Nick Freitas]

Everybody had coffee and a full.

[Fat Electrician]

I want to bet Hill that one. That one's crazy idea.

[Brandon Herrera]

This is only making a mass appeal to.

[Nick Freitas]

It actually gives you adhd. All right, watch.

[Eli Double Tap]

Did you have it before you do that?

[Brandon Herrera]

Water.

[Fat Electrician]

That's water.

[Brandon Herrera]

This is water. Bottle. This is water.

[Nick Freitas]

I grabbed a water bottle. What?

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah. Wait a minute.

[Nick Freitas]

Although. Okay. Are any of you old enough to remember when there a time before bottled water?

[Brandon Herrera]

No.

[Eli Double Tap]

No.

[Fat Electrician]

Yes.

[Nick Freitas]

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

[Fat Electrician]

It was a crazy concept when it first came out.

[Nick Freitas]

I remember I first saw bottled water coming out. The idiot is going to buy bottled water. Water. All of us.

[Eli Double Tap]

It comes from the sky.

[Nick Freitas]

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

[Fat Electrician]

But I mean, what was it like a 30 billion or 52 billion dollar marketplace in 2023? It was like a ridiculous number. Bottled water is.

[Eli Double Tap]

Well, yeah, because Nestle took it and they're like, I could sell the. Out of that.

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah.

[Fat Electrician]

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

[Nick Freitas]

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

[Fat Electrician]

Oh, not a fan of that one anymore.

[Eli Double Tap]

That. And you know, as soon as they realize that. Yeah, as soon as they realized that California would subsidize their water.

[Fat Electrician]

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

[Nick Freitas]

What are the notes? This is not like, I'm not. I don't. Notes of. I don't like it. No, your notes. Okay.

[Brandon Herrera]

I. I don't like it.

[Fat Electrician]

Change flavor.

[Nick Freitas]

Oh, yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

I was just going to say, what would I change the entire flavor?

[Fat Electrician]

This is like it. That's great.

[Nick Freitas]

This is me at the winery. I'm getting notes of. This sucks. This isn't bourbon.

[Fat Electrician]

Aged. This sucks. Wow.

[Nick Freitas]

Did you guys ever watch Parks and Rec? Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah.

[Nick Freitas]

Where Aubrey Plaza's character is like signing up to be a sommelier and she's like, oh, oats. You know, notes of like, you know, raven's foot and making words. That's me at the wineries. Like, I don't know.

[Brandon Herrera]

By the way, 8, 86 ejects out of a gun very fast.

[Fat Electrician]

Yes, it does.

[Brandon Herrera]

That's what the cut my head is. It's the perfect ass end crescent of an 86 round.

[Eli Double Tap]

We both have 86 scars.

[Brandon Herrera]

I was standing behind Peu filming yesterday and I was standing like over his right shoulder. Dink right now I was like, that hurt more than any other brass ejection I've ever felt. Too bleed. No, they're subs. And it punched me in the forehead. I look like the American Harry Potter right now. It's absurd. Kevin's Dumbledore. I'm have to go fight the CEO of sig.

[Eli Double Tap]

The boy who comes to die. All they have to do is. Never mind. I've made enough dropping 320 jokes lately.

[Fat Electrician]

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

[Brandon Herrera]

Never have enough dropping 320 jokes.

[Fat Electrician]

Do you take a shower and still smell bad?

[Eli Double Tap]

Do you suffer from thigh folds?

[Fat Electrician]

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[Nick Freitas]

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[Fat Electrician]

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[Eli Double Tap]

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[Fat Electrician]

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[Eli Double Tap]

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[Fat Electrician]

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[Eli Double Tap]

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[Nick Freitas]

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[Eli Double Tap]

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[Fat Electrician]

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[Eli Double Tap]

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[Fat Electrician]

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[Brandon Herrera]

Was the video we're doing? We're doing PE's boombox video and we Were trying to catch a hollow point, a subsonic hollow point. We're trying to catch it in a block of ballistics gel.

[Fat Electrician]

Oh, how many? Dude, that's like through. No, like big.

[Brandon Herrera]

Eli. We took a 4 inch thick piece of hard barn wood, stuck it on the table, stuck three feet of ballistics gel behind it. It went through the barn wood, through the ballistics gel. The trajectory in the gel didn't change. Like a laser beam went 40 yards downrange, hit the steel target and sounded.

[Nick Freitas]

Like a car wreck through the cameraman. It was crazy.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, cameraman's fine because it wasn't on set.

[Fat Electrician]

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

[Brandon Herrera]

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

[Fat Electrician]

5.

[Brandon Herrera]

Do you? That would probably stop it. Yeah. We only had four kids.

[Nick Freitas]

Kidding.

[Brandon Herrera]

No. So we make gummy bears. Five pound edible gummy bears.

[Nick Freitas]

Okay.

[Brandon Herrera]

We were. We were around. Weird.

[Eli Double Tap]

I want a photo. Like, these are the little ones.

[Nick Freitas]

I'm like, why are we buying all this heavy ceramic crap? Yeah. What the. Yeah.

[Fat Electrician]

Just running out with like a thin sheet of gummy bears.

[Nick Freitas]

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

[Eli Double Tap]

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

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

Where your body armor go? I ate it. No. So £5 gummy bears, really? We were around, and they are shockingly resistant to bullets. Guess how many £5 gummy bears it takes to stop. 9 mil supersonic full metal jacket at point blank.

[Nick Freitas]

Oh, really?

[Brandon Herrera]

One 12 gauge birdshot point blank.

[Nick Freitas]

Oh, yeah. I imagine one. Jeez.

[Brandon Herrera]

The second gummy bear caught. 223.

[Nick Freitas]

This would be so much better than sandbags.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's crazy.

[Fat Electrician]

Minus. They might melt overseas.

[Eli Double Tap]

We should probably now disclose that we're being sponsored by Big Gelatin.

[Brandon Herrera]

Big Harbo.

[Nick Freitas]

Big Carbo. Harbo. The.

[Eli Double Tap]

The company that makes the gummy bears.

[Nick Freitas]

No, I'll never. When I was. When I was still in the 82nd, we had a commander that he wanted to do. He wanted to demonstrate to all the guys, like, kind of the. The ballistics impact of everything that, you know, basically, what can you hide behind? And so he did like sandbags. He did, you know, concrete walls. He did like, reinforced concrete walls. Wood, like everything. Everything you can imagine. Just shot stuff through all of it. Like your flak vest. And. And it was crazy. How like, well, first of all, it ruined any movie you've ever seen. Because now whenever they're like, oh, I'm gonna hide behind this car, like the car, it's the Eng got bad news, hoss. But yes, sandbags were the things that, you know, really held up the best. I mean, and it makes sense once you start to understand ballistics. But gummy bears, wow.

[Brandon Herrera]

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

[Nick Freitas]

Wow.

[Brandon Herrera]

Gummy bears. They're shockingly bullet resistant.

[Eli Double Tap]

Well, because you're thinking like at home, you're thinking like the super like squeezable gummy bears. These are like almost like rock hard. Like no gelatin bears.

[Fat Electrician]

This is a big gummy.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's literally a five pound gummy bear.

[Eli Double Tap]

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

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, I mean, can.

[Nick Freitas]

But they can also absorb. I mean, they can. I mean, absorb. A lot of the sandbags is like they're absorbing it instead of just like rigid.

[Fat Electrician]

It's like water.

[Nick Freitas]

I mean, froze the gummy bird probably go through them a lot faster.

[Fat Electrician]

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

[Nick Freitas]

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

[Fat Electrician]

And then they. Dude, very disappointing underwater immediately.

[Brandon Herrera]

Do you know how shark hunting harpoons work?

[Fat Electrician]

The one with the bullets that are long and the.

[Brandon Herrera]

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

[Nick Freitas]

Oh, there's a.

[Eli Double Tap]

That's not going to show at the.

[Brandon Herrera]

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

[Eli Double Tap]

So it's boom, boom. Yeah, that's cool.

[Brandon Herrera]

It dope.

[Fat Electrician]

That's gangster.

[Eli Double Tap]

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

[Brandon Herrera]

Just blow a baseball bat full of frozen gas into them.

[Eli Double Tap]

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

[Nick Freitas]

Oh, that sucks. Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

Then they float up.

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

Real crazy.

[Nick Freitas]

I've seen Jaws. I know how it works.

[Fat Electrician]

It went through four gummy bears and.

[Brandon Herrera]

It went through four gummy bears and caught it in the BL show when the 86 went through. True. So the four gummy bears, we.

[Fat Electrician]

That's subsonic, by the way.

[Brandon Herrera]

That's the only way.

[Nick Freitas]

That's the part that blows my mind.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's the only way we were able to catch the. The hollow point 86 was we went through all four gummy bears and then we caught it in the ballistics gel. But through the gummy bears, it lost the three big petals and it was just the ass end of the round in the ballistics gel. The petals got lost in the gummy bears and the exit wound coming out of the last gummy bear was half dooll sized gash, like a blender.

[Nick Freitas]

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

[Brandon Herrera]

That's basically exactly what happened. So we, we put a, we put a glock switch on a 22 LR Glock legally and got 30 round mags. Yeah, my Glock switch. I don't know why my friend with an SOT did it.

[Fat Electrician]

Yeah, it just sounds illegal. We didn't call it a Glock switch.

[Brandon Herrera]

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

[Eli Double Tap]

Iowa, not the south side of Chicago.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, we're literally just in a cornfield.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

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

[Eli Double Tap]

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

[Brandon Herrera]

Gummy bears.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yes. They're not what they like a flamethrower.

[Brandon Herrera]

They start melting from the rounds come passing through.

[Eli Double Tap]

So we, we, we tried torching it with one of those like little like throw flame, whatever. Not throw flame like xm42n. Those are like just big like grow lighters, essentially the ones that actually spit the gasoline.

[Nick Freitas]

Okay.

[Eli Double Tap]

And we like, we sat there for like a minute, minute, trying to get this thing to melt and we just gave up because it looks so boring on camera. The new KFC dunk it bucket with.

[Nick Freitas]

Juicy original recipe tenders. New mashed potato poppers, Crispy fries. Plus three sauces that fit right on top of the lid. So you can dunk anywhere.

[Eli Double Tap]

You can dunk at the game.

[Nick Freitas]

Dunk while security points to the no outside food sign. And dunk as 20,000 people watch you and your Dunkin bucket get removed from the stadium. Deal.

[Eli Double Tap]

Dunk almost anywhere with the new $7 KFC Duncan bucket or get the double Duncan bucket for 25.

[Nick Freitas]

Prices and participation vary. While supplies last. Taxes, tips and fees extra.

[Brandon Herrera]

So we, we took Zach Veteran with a sign and Eric Bartel out to the range and we were filming this video and we shot it and they were blown the away that it was catching 9 mil in like an inch of the gummy bear. It was catching nine mil point blank. Like full automatic. Like executioner style. Like boof. Just stops it. And Zach's like, we're feeding these to children. What the.

[Fat Electrician]

I hope not. I've never bought any. Like, here's a five pound gummy bear.

[Brandon Herrera]

They're wild.

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah, that's.

[Fat Electrician]

Yeah, that gun is.

[Eli Double Tap]

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

[Brandon Herrera]

I've eaten a couple years.

[Fat Electrician]

How many calories is it? Like 20. 20,000 calories in that?

[Nick Freitas]

We don't have to wonder.

[Brandon Herrera]

Solid gelatin.

[Fat Electrician]

5.

[Brandon Herrera]

How many calories on a 5 lb gummy bear?

[Fat Electrician]

5. 20? 10.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah.

[Fat Electrician]

20,000.

[Nick Freitas]

What is a 5 pound.

[Brandon Herrera]

5 pound gummy bear?

[Eli Double Tap]

6120 calories.

[Fat Electrician]

Wow. And a 5 pounder.

[Eli Double Tap]

It's equivalent to roughly 1400 regular size gummy bears.

[Nick Freitas]

Wow.

[Brandon Herrera]

Huh.

[Nick Freitas]

That's impressive. How many?

[Brandon Herrera]

1400.

[Fat Electrician]

Oh yeah, I can see that.

[Eli Double Tap]

Okay, well, I'm seeing conflicting.

[Nick Freitas]

I just got the AI overview.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah, same.

[Nick Freitas]

We should ask Sean Ryan. He would know.

[Eli Double Tap]

Just off the top of his head.

[Nick Freitas]

I would know.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah.

[Fat Electrician]

Now everyone's.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh, apparently one of. There's another one that's 12,000 calories.

[Fat Electrician]

Wow, that's crazy. What's different on.

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah, that scares me more.

[Eli Double Tap]

It probably tastes better.

[Nick Freitas]

Who was the guy that was like 600. 6,000 calories? It's not enough. That's not enough. It needs those stuff more. More. £5 g bear in Vancouver airport. Over 12,000 calories. That's on Reddit though. Who knows?

[Brandon Herrera]

I don't trust anything on Reddit.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh, well, you'll sell that in Vancouver. 12,000 calories of gummy bear energy drink.

[Brandon Herrera]

I try to give you an energy drink. That's awesome. And you guys get mad at me. I see.

[Nick Freitas]

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

[Brandon Herrera]

This is also true. Know I didn't realize that like 60% of the Canadian population lives further south than like Minnesota.

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's wild.

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah. It's nuts. Like 90% of Minnesota population. Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

Like right there, east coast. That's like 60% of the Canadian population right there.

[Nick Freitas]

I think it's 100% of the entire.

[Brandon Herrera]

Canadian population lives like maybe 60 miles from the US border. They're huddled up next to us for warmth and safety.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah. Understandably.

[Brandon Herrera]

Frankly.

[Nick Freitas]

Well, I don't know.

[Brandon Herrera]

Was it Tosh Point? I was like, Canada's got the best border fence in the world. America.

[Nick Freitas]

It's cool to be the little hippie when you've got a Kevlar of dare in the world. Yeah. When Trump kept talking about like, we're gonna, we're gonna make Canada the 51st state. I'm like, I'll take Alberta. I'll take that at a time. But I don't want Quebec.

[Brandon Herrera]

I have a theory.

[Eli Double Tap]

Canada doesn't want Quebec.

[Brandon Herrera]

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

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

It's a funny, like, it's a funny concept and he. I love the fact that he's just trying trolling the out of like judo with it. We don't want Canada.

[Nick Freitas]

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

[Eli Double Tap]

They're pretty based. The Lando Peterson.

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

But I, we would never like, say goodbye to gun rights. Say goodbye to everything. Like, do you really want Canadians voting territory?

[Nick Freitas]

But yeah, like a Puerto Rico.

[Eli Double Tap]

Puerto Rico, Sure.

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

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

[Eli Double Tap]

Yes.

[Nick Freitas]

They're not wrong. Correct. They're not wrong.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh, you pay extra for blood diamonds.

[Brandon Herrera]

This is the most savage marketing I've ever seen.

[Nick Freitas]

That's pretty brilliant.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah.

[Fat Electrician]

Is calling everyone a piece of.

[Nick Freitas]

These are cheaper and yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

You know, maybe we didn't have to kill a kid to get it. That's pretty, pretty cool.

[Brandon Herrera]

I think they're just as sparkly, just as hard. Not blood all over them. But you still think it's worth less because of it and weird.

[Eli Double Tap]

I just, I, I love.

[Nick Freitas]

That is savage.

[Eli Double Tap]

That's great with the cobalt and livium and everything like that. All the, the new mineral wars in Africa. Yeah, it's like, you know, this is just blood diamond all over again. Except. But instead of a shiny rock, it's so you can play GTA 6 on a 4090.

[Nick Freitas]

I just, I think it's ironic. I think it's ironic that I get a graphics card.

[Fat Electrician]

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

[Nick Freitas]

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

[Fat Electrician]

But electricity just comes out of the earth. It's natural. It's how we all think it works at least. Yeah, it costs a little bit of money to run that.

[Brandon Herrera]

Don't get me started on electricity.

[Eli Double Tap]

I. Oh, you might know something about it.

[Brandon Herrera]

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

[Eli Double Tap]

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

[Brandon Herrera]

The Internet gets really upset when I do it. When I do it.

[Eli Double Tap]

I figured it out.

[Brandon Herrera]

Why?

[Nick Freitas]

Why?

[Brandon Herrera]

Because people are stupid.

[Eli Double Tap]

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

[Brandon Herrera]

All the hippos got scared.

[Nick Freitas]

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

[Eli Double Tap]

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

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

Everyone below them is just the useful idiots.

[Nick Freitas]

Agreed. Agreed.

[Brandon Herrera]

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

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

You drive. Iowa's got so many wind turbines it's insane. Half of them work and when they're working, they're so ungodly. Godly inefficient. It's fucking insane.

[Eli Double Tap]

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

[Nick Freitas]

Well, it's like the number of. The number of oil, petroleum based products that you need to actually keep that thing in operation. Yeah, that isn't Greece itself.

[Brandon Herrera]

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

[Nick Freitas]

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

[Brandon Herrera]

Ungodly.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

What was. There was a guy they brought on like a literal carpenter, like the British version of King Trout on the BBC. And this BBC journalist is smoking a pipe. Fat guy with like glasses was like trying. He like brought on this carpenter. Like he was just getting eat them alive on air. Because it was like some debate over in Britain between using concrete and using wood to construct some building or whatever. And the carpenter's just like, yeah, I mean, wood's more renewable. And he's like, oh, really? You're just going to cut down a bunch of trees to build this building? Yes. Yeah, the trees grow back. You ever seen concrete grow? All right, we're going to cut. Commercial break. It just ends the interview just torches him on his own show.

[Eli Double Tap]

God, I love that.

[Fat Electrician]

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

[Brandon Herrera]

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

[Eli Double Tap]

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

[Brandon Herrera]

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

[Eli Double Tap]

They didn't have the HBO miniseries back then, so it was a little hard.

[Fat Electrician]

Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

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

[Fat Electrician]

They've done that surprisingly, a lot of times. Washington state, beautiful places to do photos or shoots at because you can rent them for like $800 for an entire day. And these are everything. Like, buildings to run it. The. The big tunnels. Like, they'll have like two. How many did that one have?

[Eli Double Tap]

It was huge.

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

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

[Fat Electrician]

But they don't. And then they don't ever demolish it. They will. Washington abandoned theirs in the 80s and then never touched it again. People still use it for photography. I didn't even know that one exists.

[Eli Double Tap]

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

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

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

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah, yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

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

[Brandon Herrera]

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

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

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

[Nick Freitas]

Yep.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's gonna be awesome.

[Fat Electrician]

What's the reason the Japanese one failed? It was user error. Oh, yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

It got hit by a record setting earthquake and then a record setting tsunami at the same time. All of the safety features were like, it took two literal acts of God to bring that thing to its knees and it still turned out pretty okay.

[Nick Freitas]

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

[Eli Double Tap]

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

[Fat Electrician]

Dude.

[Brandon Herrera]

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

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

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

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

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

[Eli Double Tap]

Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

[Brandon Herrera]

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

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

And it's like, they have mult. They study it every year. You could just live there. There is no radiation. It was an air burst.

[Nick Freitas]

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

[Brandon Herrera]

This is science.

[Fat Electrician]

We did people saying there's still nuclear fallout. Yes.

[Brandon Herrera]

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

[Nick Freitas]

There's a bunch of Japanese ladies still.

[Brandon Herrera]

Getting, like, walking around with three panther. And it's like, no, it was an air burst explosion. The nuclear. The nuclear material went kaboom. It's gone. There is no. Like, when a. When a reactor melts down, it's because the radioactive material melts, and then the radioactive material sits there emitting neutrons for a million years. That's the issue that exploded it's gone.

[Eli Double Tap]

It's like, I wouldn't recommend exposure while pregnant, but other than that, I'm not.

[Nick Freitas]

Saying you should go to like a hell spot.

[Eli Double Tap]

I'm just saying you can visit it. Yeah, you've been able to visit it for a long time.

[Brandon Herrera]

Like ground zero.

[Nick Freitas]

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

[Eli Double Tap]

But I also understand takes only.

[Nick Freitas]

But I also, but I also understand. I also understand that if you look at the projected casualty list for invading the Japanese main islands and if you look at what the Japanese plan was for defending the main islands, they were going to give back bamboo spears to 14 year old girls. Like, this was that they were ready to fight. This is millions of casualties.

[Eli Double Tap]

We talked about it on.

[Brandon Herrera]

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

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

So they could rebuild an army and do it again. Obviously that was never an option. The USSR told them that was not them trying to surrender. And then you get all the kids are like, actually Japan only surrendered because Russia attacked you.

[Nick Freitas]

Really?

[Brandon Herrera]

Russia attacked Northeast China with the Japanese sea in between. And that's why Japan surrendered real quick. What was the Russian Navy like in World War II? Oh, there wasn't one. I remember because the only way they were going to be able to shuttle traffic troops was because of the US Operation Hula where we were going to transport it Forum. So shut the up. It doesn't make any sense.

[Eli Double Tap]

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

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

An invasion.

[Nick Freitas]

1.2 million.

[Eli Double Tap]

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

[Brandon Herrera]

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

[Eli Double Tap]

We have so much discipline.

[Brandon Herrera]

Some, some 19 year old from Nebraska with a bar like, I want to go home.

[Fat Electrician]

Warrior class. It's part of taking over mainland would have been a huge problem we talked about before. So that was a completely different society. Like their warrior society was a war society. Never seen.

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah. Ever.

[Fat Electrician]

What was his name? The dude that stayed 30 years hero on. And he wasn't the last one. Like there was people, there was two or three people that decade. In the 70s, right?

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, I think so.

[Fat Electrician]

In the 70s that were still fighting.

[Brandon Herrera]

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

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, that's, I was.

[Eli Double Tap]

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

[Nick Freitas]

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

[Fat Electrician]

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

[Nick Freitas]

So we, we like, I didn't, I didn't push, I didn't, I didn't push the military with, with my kids. But yeah, my son did you love them. But no, my, my son, he was, I thought he was gonna go like, he likes welding. He likes like again, another cool thing about, you know, homeschooling, like we did a blacksmithing class and like he fell in love with it. So we had a little forge and stuff like that.

[Eli Double Tap]

It was, it was teach them practical skills.

[Nick Freitas]

Yes. And he was like, I want to learn how to weld. I want to do this other stuff. So I figured like, okay, if he's going to go in the military, he's probably gonna go into like a, you know, a field that's going to put him in that. Yeah. And then he's like, yeah, Dad, I want to go infantry. I want to go airborne. And then he was talking about the 18x ray side. I was like, hey, bud, why don't. How about you do rasp, right, like ranger assessment? How would you do that? I said, it's a four year enlistment, not a six year enlistment. I said, if you want to go to select selection, they can't stop you. You can go to selection. It's one of the few things in the military you can go to if you want to go to it and they can't stop you. And he goes, okay, so yeah, he's an infantry basic. He'll go to Airborne after that. I'll go to Raspberry after that. And he, he, he put the hand up when before the election. And yeah, his, his mother and I both were like, he's like, dad, I prayed about it. This is where I feel like I'm being led to go. I'm like, all right, son, you got to do what you got to do, right? You're a man. So. But I was definitely. Yeah, it is, it is a different thing. Like, I, I won't. When he was sitting there at 30th AG waiting to go off to infantry basic at Sand Hill and he sends us the picture of. I see the freightest name tape on him, man, Mosquito.

[Brandon Herrera]

I'm not crying. You're crying?

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. It was.

[Fat Electrician]

Yeah, dude, like what, four more months, then you'll get those calls like, dad, this sucks, dude. Why didn't you me.

[Nick Freitas]

We got it. Well, the funny part is we got, we got the first call when he actually got to basic. And, and he's, you know, his, his mom's there and I'm there, and he's describing what's going on. She's like, oh, are you okay? And I'm like, sucks, doesn't it? But, no, but there, but I will say this. There, there is something. There is something that will give you a great sense of pride when your son is going through this. And he, he's like, you can tell by his voice and how he's describing it that, yeah, it sucks, but he's into it.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah.

[Nick Freitas]

And it's like, it kicks.

[Fat Electrician]

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

[Nick Freitas]

I think, well, and there's something to like, I really believe this for. I mean, always exceptions to rules, but young Men in general, young men in general need to do hard stuff. They need to do challenging stuff. They need to overcome it. Men thrive when we have responsibilities. Men thrive when we have responsibilities. And we absolutely suffer and become the worst versions of ourselves. And we don't.

[Fat Electrician]

So I think reality check for me, like, military, war, blah, blah, blah. But the kiddo, when you had that, like, when I had riding, that was my biggest. Like, I did another switch. I was like, oh, I have to focus everything on this. I have to start dedicating my life to make sure this little thing is taken care of and good for however long. I'm probably going to it up, but I'm doing my best to not it up.

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah.

[Fat Electrician]

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

[Nick Freitas]

Oh, yeah, well, when. When Luke was like, seven, we were watching. Have you seen that movie? Oh, what's it called? Freaking with Hugh Jackman. It's one with the robots. No, no, it's the one with the robots.

[Eli Double Tap]

Real steel.

[Nick Freitas]

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

[Eli Double Tap]

Four years in Dagestan. Forget about it.

[Nick Freitas]

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

[Fat Electrician]

Dad's got to take over that testosterone.

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah. Yeah. Okay.

[Eli Double Tap]

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

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

That's when you have. Catastrophic life trajectory.

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah. Yeah. Many challenges.

[Eli Double Tap]

Not every case. Not every case, obviously, but.

[Nick Freitas]

Oh, vast majority. Vast majority. I. Again, I mean, I. I'll tell you what. Like, I. I got married at 19, went in the military, got married at 19. One of the best decisions I ever made. But that whole idea of having responsibilities early on and challenges and things you had to go through and in an environment where nobody cared if it sucked, nobody cared if it was hard, nobody cared about your feelings, nobody cared about anybody of that. That was hugely developmental. And I look at a lot of challenges I think young men are facing right now, and I can't help but thinking to myself, bro. Yeah, it's like. It's like, you know, we. This is. I was actually listening to somebody. He was. He was talking about. He had. He had talked. Actually, it was Dennis Prager. It was Dennis Prager he was talking about. He was giving a. He was giving a speech, and he was talking to World War II vets, and he said, World War II vets, he used. They focused a lot because they grew up through the Great Depression and they went into World War II, and they were talking about giving their kids, you know, the things they never had. And he. And he said, you know, I had this moment where I was talking to him. I said, I get it. But as you're giving them the things they never had, please remember to give them the things you did, like the resilience, the. The challenges, the no sense of entitlement. And we see what happens when. When you get everything handed to you, you don't become back. Better for it. You don't become better for it.

[Eli Double Tap]

That's what we say all the time. As far as, like, wanting to give your kids enough. You know, give them the things you.

[Nick Freitas]

You.

[Eli Double Tap]

You never had, but also want to make sure they have enough trauma that they're funny.

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah, right. That's a great way to put it. Yeah. Yeah. It's boys shits. Yeah. Yeah. And you can see it, too, because when you raise your kids that way and they see other kids in the way they behave, they look at them, they're like, with you going, the hell's up with that?

[Brandon Herrera]

Is this.

[Nick Freitas]

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

[Brandon Herrera]

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

[Nick Freitas]

You're helping. Don't shake your head.

[Brandon Herrera]

We're at the park. Don't shake your head. We're at the park and somebody runs up and like, it was like, I don't know, probably like six or seven year old. But they were like running around. And he shoves my four year old. And the mom is like, oh, little Timmy, don't do that. Play nice with others. And then he. I'm watching. And he runs around and does it. Intentional again.

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

And I look at the mom and she looks at me and hey, quit. And that kid starts crying and they leave. It's like, that's what you look at.

[Nick Freitas]

And be like, it takes a village, right?

[Eli Double Tap]

You do the. The True Detective Season two. It's like, hey, anything you do to my kid, I'm doing your dad, bro.

[Brandon Herrera]

That was one of my favorite interviews. Is Daniel Clark Cormier. Champ, champ, light heavyweight, heavyweight UFC champ, big Olympic, go bronze medalist, Olympic wrestler. Like, badass dude. And he's talking about being at the park and like, very similar situation. Like a bigger kid's picking on his kid. And then like the dad doesn't do anything about it after the second or third time. And Daniel Cormier just like allegedly looks at this dude's like, hey, just so we're clear, whatever your kid does to my kid next, I'm gonna do to you. And the other comment is like, daniel, you can' that he's like, well, I did. Which is weird because he's like one of the friendliest, like nicest, like, dad dudes on the planet. Just like, nope.

[Eli Double Tap]

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

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, it's fair.

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah.

[Fat Electrician]

Daniel Cor. Be terrifying, dude.

[Nick Freitas]

So funny.

[Fat Electrician]

I'm gonna hit my kid real quick.

[Brandon Herrera]

Sorry.

[Fat Electrician]

He's funny like, Tammy, come here, dude.

[Brandon Herrera]

He's hilarious because he has like, there's been like multiple reels that get uploaded by like just, just normal, everyday people because he teaches his little kids wrestling team. And there's like other dads that are just like, like, I wrestled in high school dads that are like filming a reel of them like this with Daniel Cormier in the back of the. The other team's coach is Daniel Cormier. So I guess I'll just go myself.

[Fat Electrician]

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

[Eli Double Tap]

Like, whenever I need to send roses.

[Fat Electrician]

That are guaranteed to make someone day.

[Eli Double Tap]

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[Nick Freitas]

My friends and family always receive stunning.

[Brandon Herrera]

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[Eli Double Tap]

Go to 1-800-flowers.com Spotify.

[Brandon Herrera]

That's 1-800-Flowers.com Spotify. Spotify.

[Fat Electrician]

As such, when you look across, you're like, okay, you're gonna beat that.

[Nick Freitas]

His dad.

[Fat Electrician]

You're gonna learn about losing. It's a good lesson.

[Eli Double Tap]

It's about having fun.

[Nick Freitas]

We're gonna learn how to get back on that horse.

[Fat Electrician]

Are you big in MMA or boxing?

[Nick Freitas]

So my, my son and I, we did Brazilian jiu jitsu and boxing for a little while and whatnot. And it, it was, it was great. I wish we would have started a lot earlier. Earlier. And then I got to travel in so much. But I, I'm trying to get back into it because I thought it was one. It was one of the best workouts ever.

[Eli Double Tap]

How much traveling do you have to do as a delegate? Sorry. Not to derail. Oh, no, no.

[Nick Freitas]

As a delegate. Not, not a lot. I mean some, some within. But a lot of it's flying around the country and doing other things associated with that. But, but no, I, I need to get back into it because one it's running on a treadmill is unacceptable. I. But. But the cardio you get with freaking jiu jitsu and boxing, like, oh my gosh, that. And I just think mention know how to fight. And so. Yeah. Yeah.

[Fat Electrician]

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

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah.

[Fat Electrician]

Ter. Ter way or on the ground. They're just trying to like, dude, when somebody doesn't know how to tap somebody out, it's just like, it's like you're squeezing them harder and then you're awkwardly hitting them with usually here breaking a bone.

[Eli Double Tap]

Like all the Twitter fight videos where it's just dudes doing that.

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

Flailing, like, I mean, yeah, I guess you can get lucky and that's gonna hurt a lot. But what the are you doing?

[Nick Freitas]

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

[Fat Electrician]

And then black.

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah.

[Fat Electrician]

And then light.

[Nick Freitas]

And then nothing. Yeah. You wake up. Your family is mine now.

[Fat Electrician]

Like, we're getting.

[Nick Freitas]

That's the other thing too. Like, again with my kid, I remember when we. We. He started doing Brazilian jiu jitsu and boxing. Like, the confidence level with everything, not just with that, but the confidence level with everything goes up significantly.

[Fat Electrician]

And yeah, dude, there's a little kid that's with our kiddos, nine year old classic boxing. And there was two Mexican kids. Kids that are like, when they get in, like, I'm like, bro, they will.

[Eli Double Tap]

Cheat out of you.

[Fat Electrician]

You, like, listen to them. Like, those kids are monsters. They grew up hard. And you just seem like teeing off on the back. I was like, oh, man. Those kids did not get bullied ever. One might be a bully.

[Eli Double Tap]

That's the kid that bullies your kid.

[Fat Electrician]

Your little kids are already two and.

[Brandon Herrera]

Four, but they're cutters starting jiu jitsu.

[Fat Electrician]

Yeah. Just rolling around. They got.

[Nick Freitas]

I wish we would have started.

[Brandon Herrera]

Tiny geese.

[Nick Freitas]

How old are your kids?

[Fat Electrician]

Nine and 13 going years two and four.

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah. Mine are 22, 19, and 17.

[Fat Electrician]

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

[Nick Freitas]

That's blowing my mind, man. That is blowing my. Because for. For. You know, my. My daughter got married at 20, 21, and. And then she left, you know, at 20, you know, and then eight months later, my son left. And, you know, now my daughter's about to graduate high school, and my wife and I are looking at each other like, oh, my gosh. Because we weren't just used to having our kids around all the time, which we love our kids, but, like, all their friends and the whole deal. And then all of a sudden. And I mean, it's. It's exciting for Tina because we're going to this next area of life, and we like each other. Like, my wife's hot. Like, I like spending time with her, but that helps.

[Eli Double Tap]

Consider.

[Fat Electrician]

Name three things.

[Nick Freitas]

She. He's hot.

[Eli Double Tap]

Spending time with her.

[Brandon Herrera]

What's the movie with Terry Bradshaw?

[Eli Double Tap]

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

[Brandon Herrera]

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

[Nick Freitas]

All the rooms, all the rooms in the house. Couldn't get back into play, Right? It's like looking outside. Is my youngest daughter off to work? All right, baby. It was. The kitchen is now in play.

[Eli Double Tap]

We have so much room for activities.

[Fat Electrician]

Ruin this place. Oh, man.

[Nick Freitas]

My kid will say this, like, really dad like, hey, it's nice to know that mom and dad like each other.

[Fat Electrician]

That's why a priest came over.

[Eli Double Tap]

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

[Brandon Herrera]

Well, hold on.

[Nick Freitas]

Are both Christmases double the present?

[Fat Electrician]

Sounds pretty good.

[Brandon Herrera]

Otherwise, I got to hear you guys.

[Nick Freitas]

Way less drama on one of those.

[Eli Double Tap]

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

[Nick Freitas]

Still. Yeah, still am. Yeah. I'm in the Virginia House of Delegates, The. The oldest continuously legislative body in the western hemisphere.

[Eli Double Tap]

So you are from there. You. You just announced last night that you're no longer seeking reelection.

[Nick Freitas]

Not seeking reelection. Yeah. Ten years is enough.

[Eli Double Tap]

I mean, like, that's, that's crazy amount.

[Nick Freitas]

Oh, yeah. And it. It feels. It feels longer than it was sometimes, but for.

[Eli Double Tap]

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

[Nick Freitas]

Well, and that's. I. One, one of the things that whenever people ask me now, like about like, oh, I'm thinking of running for office, like, the first question I always ask is, what are you willing to lose your seat over if you can't tell me what you're willing to lose your seat over? The answer is nothing. And you will compromise in order to keep your seat because you'll convince yourself that you can't get anything done if you can't get reelected. And that's the slippery slope. Like, if you can't, if you can't. If you can't list off right now the things where, like, I would take that vote, lose my seat and smile about it. I don't want you anywhere near elected office. Yep. But. Yeah, but some people, not, not all. There's. There's good. I serve with some really good people, but there's a lot of people, they get their identity. They get their identity from serving in public office. And I, I'm like, dude, my identity. I get my identity in Christ. Then I get in being like a husband to my wife, a father to my children, you know, a vet, you know, whatever. But I mean, it's. Look, I. Speaking of history earlier, right, Like, I represent James Madison's district.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh, that's right.

[Nick Freitas]

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

[Eli Double Tap]

The imposter syndrome kicks.

[Nick Freitas]

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

[Brandon Herrera]

But anyway, did you try wearing a tuxedo tank top while you did it? I did not.

[Nick Freitas]

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

[Eli Double Tap]

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

[Nick Freitas]

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

[Eli Double Tap]

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

[Nick Freitas]

It should be a. Congress should, should be that way.

[Eli Double Tap]

Congress should be 100%. I wanted to Propose something where I was like, yeah, I want your, the, the salary cap of congressmen, like elected representatives to be the median income of their district.

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah, yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

That's the salary cap.

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah. I think you should get. I think you should get lodging per diem for staying in D.C. but that's only enough to like, when you're there, you don't get it. So you're not buying houses in D.C. and then staying there's.

[Brandon Herrera]

I want them to have barracks. Yeah, you're a public servant. I want this to be service like the military carry.

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah, Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

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

[Brandon Herrera]

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

[Eli Double Tap]

The argument I heard against it, that's.

[Brandon Herrera]

The fastest way to get rid of all the 70 year olds.

[Eli Double Tap]

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

[Brandon Herrera]

I approve the. I, I like it.

[Eli Double Tap]

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

[Brandon Herrera]

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

[Eli Double Tap]

Exactly.

[Brandon Herrera]

That's a maritime democracy. Good.

[Fat Electrician]

Crazy.

[Brandon Herrera]

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

[Eli Double Tap]

People who have, you know, had employees and like, built businesses and know how to balance a budget. Nick's getting me fired up on Friday.

[Brandon Herrera]

Good. This is the earliest unsub we've ever filmed.

[Fat Electrician]

What time is it? Oh, it is.

[Brandon Herrera]

Almost 2pm I'm already upset. Usually we're still just getting to brunch. Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

Normal.

[Brandon Herrera]

Brent Renner.

[Fat Electrician]

What are you going to do anything. Since you've been kind of in that wheelhouse of politics again, are you thinking like, maybe do it?

[Eli Double Tap]

I really still don't know. I have a lot of people trying to do it. I have a lot of people trying to bully me into running again. And I feel like we would do really good if I did do it. But I, man, it's the question of. I've met with a couple of people that are looking at running in that district too. And I'm like, I'm happy to give them Advice. Advice. Like, say, like, you know, this is what I learned. You know, here are the pitfalls, you know, but like, here. Here's the. Basically the road map. Here's what I did. But I. I told him flat out. I'm like, I don't know what I'm gonna do right now because I don't know if I want to run back the worst nine months of my life because that sucked. Running for office is. Is. I really want to hear Nick's opinion on this too.

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

Because they were. Basically, I was being asked if. If I was going to run for. For House. House again.

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

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

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

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

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah, bro.

[Brandon Herrera]

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

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's a Photoshop picture of him. And it says, brandon Herrera is all hat and no cattle. And it's him in a cowboy outfit with, like, a comically large turd Ferguson. And they sent that out as, like, slander. It's the funniest ad I've ever seen.

[Eli Double Tap]

And I bought a turd Ferguson hat.

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

I was like, hell, yeah, brother.

[Nick Freitas]

I. So I'll say this. I. I do again, not having done a deep dive into the race and just what I know about it, I do think if you ran against and you win, because I don't think the smear campaigns work the second time around. Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

It's the eight mile thing.

[Nick Freitas]

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

[Eli Double Tap]

So it is like you could shoot someone on live tv.

[Nick Freitas]

Right.

[Eli Double Tap]

As long as you win the primary.

[Nick Freitas]

Got it.

[Eli Double Tap]

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

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

Now it's like a plus 15.

[Nick Freitas]

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

[Eli Double Tap]

You ran for House or Senate?

[Nick Freitas]

House. Really? Okay. I didn't know the house in 2020. I knew you did, Spanberger. Okay. And that was a $20 million race because it was considered one of the top five races in the country because of how close the district was.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh.

[Nick Freitas]

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

[Eli Double Tap]

Fundraising, dialing for dollars, miserable, Absolutely miserable. I always felt so weird about that. I would rather, in the way, and this is where I guess I was kind of unique in that way. But I hated doing that. I didn't really do it. Yeah, what I was, I told my consultant, I'm like, I'd rather just work harder on my own businesses and make more money and put my own money in.

[Nick Freitas]

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

[Eli Double Tap]

Why is that, Nick?

[Nick Freitas]

Why do we not have enough people want to do it? Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

Why do they get rid of their money? Why are they not willing to. Willing to do it? I, I low I know where this.

[Nick Freitas]

How much time we got left.

[Fat Electrician]

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

[Nick Freitas]

Oh, it was wild. The IRS spent 15 billion on an IT modernization program that's 30 years overdue. It's still not there. It's still not there. But, but you look at this stuff and, and here's what it comes down to. You go look at the h, look at the house right now, right? We have the House by what, like five seats so they're going to look at it from the perspective of how do we maintain the majority? So they're going to look at everybody in purple districts and they say we can't do anything that puts people in purple districts in jeopardy. And so now the entire House is going to be subject to whatever those 50, 15 seats need or don't need, and everything is going to be, how do we maintain the majority?

[Eli Double Tap]

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

[Nick Freitas]

Yes. Like, yes. And this is, this is the part that. This is the one thing that I hold out hope. Right. There are so many people, and if you look at Trump's approval ratings, there's. There's a ton of people that didn't really like Trump but voted for him because he wasn't Kamala Harris, who now like him. Why? Because like the guy or hate the guy guy, he does what he says he's going to do, and people are seeing action. And if there's one thing that people actually appreciate, especially. Especially a wide swath of people that don't necessarily follow politics but are tired of business as usual, they like somebody that actually says they're going to do something goes and does it. Not to mention the fact that they've actually done an excellent job with new media and highlighting the absolute waste. It is really, really hard to have any sympathy for. Oh, my gosh, I can't believe that poor person at USA lost their job. You were sending $50 million a year to DEI scholarships in Burma. Burma's a military junta. They're committing atrocities against Karen tribesmen. Right.

[Eli Double Tap]

20 years civil war.

[Nick Freitas]

Right.

[Eli Double Tap]

They have bigger issues.

[Nick Freitas]

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

[Eli Double Tap]

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

[Nick Freitas]

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

[Eli Double Tap]

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

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah, right.

[Eli Double Tap]

A billion dollars.

[Nick Freitas]

The Department of Interior. Well, it gets worse.

[Fat Electrician]

That's the one.

[Nick Freitas]

The Department of the Interior spent all of this money on an internal. So they had an internal contract to develop their own customer satisfaction survey, and they in. They contracted out to a company to do customer satisfaction surveys. Right. This is the sort of stuff that is going on. And they're like, oh, my gosh, we're. We're Cutting this. Yes. Good. Cut more. Somebody asked me once, they're like, well, well, Nick, what would you cut from the federal government? This will be far quicker if I tell you what I keep. Right. You. You can have. Defense.

[Eli Double Tap]

Is still my favorite.

[Nick Freitas]

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

[Eli Double Tap]

You'll lose your base.

[Nick Freitas]

Yes.

[Eli Double Tap]

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

[Nick Freitas]

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

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah.

[Nick Freitas]

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

[Eli Double Tap]

Those always feel like mommy and daddy are fighting.

[Nick Freitas]

Yes.

[Eli Double Tap]

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

[Brandon Herrera]

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

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

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

[Eli Double Tap]

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

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

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

[Eli Double Tap]

Hey, now, you're an all star.

[Nick Freitas]

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

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah.

[Nick Freitas]

And so a big part of this now my belief is, is that if you want better politicians, you got to have a better electorate and you got to have people that actually understand what the government is actually there for. And this is another reason why I usually, look, I trash government run schools a lot because for the same reason I trash state run media. If you want kids to be skeptical of government. Right. Not understanding that, yes, some government is necessary and there's legitimate functions of government. But if you want to be skeptical of government, but then you're handing them over to the government for seven to eight hours a day for their education, what do you think they're going to be taught about government? And, and I think that's a big problem. What we have right now is they're just absolutely convinced that of course the government feeds me, of course the government educates me, of course the government takes care of me. I just got in this fight last night with some label. Well, what are you going to personally do for. I'm like, I don't know. Sounds like a family issue. Yeah, well you can't say that like the government's got it. No, that's the reason we're in this problem is because the government assumed you tried to replace dad with a government program. And guess what? It didn't work. It didn't work.

[Eli Double Tap]

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

[Brandon Herrera]

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

[Fat Electrician]

What, what do we know here?

[Brandon Herrera]

Like, wait, my teachers, maybe they didn't know everything.

[Nick Freitas]

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

[Eli Double Tap]

You're a contractor?

[Nick Freitas]

Yes, because, well, and again, what do we always say in the military? You can delegate. Delegate authority. You can't delegate responsibility. I am ultimately responsible for the education of my children. Again, I can use outside expertise for subjects I'm not as good on. Fine. But I'm still an educational authority in my child's life. Now, two things. One, okay, that's a big responsibility. Two, I better be worthy of it. Right? So I better do. I better know a little something about this world. I better be able to model for my kids. Kids. What it means to be a man, what it means to be a husband, what it means to be a father, what it means to be an educator. And yeah, that's going to require some work. But. But I will tell you this much. If you would ask us, when we started, like, homeschooling, we were super intimidated. Oh, my God, super intimidated. I'm right out of the military. Tina's like, what the hell? I didn't sign up for this. And, and we had all these grandiose ideas, like our kids are each going to speak three foreign languages and learn a musical instrument and play two sports.

[Fat Electrician]

By the end, they're not Asian.

[Nick Freitas]

By the end, we're like, do you love Jesus and hate communism? Yeah. Mission accomplished. Right? Like, we have, we have done it. But honestly, I, I will. I will say this over and over again, and I always get a little bit, you know, the, the, the greatest compliment that I can give my wife, especially, is not one that I give her. So one of my kids give her. Because if you ask each one of my kids, they all have different objectives. They all have different professionals. Goals. But if you ask each one of them what do they want out of life, one of the first things they'll tell you is, I want to get married and I want to have kids. Why? Because my wife created a home for them that they cannot wait to replicate for their own family. That's awesome. What is a better compliment than that for. For any parent that your kids want to replicate the life you built for them? And one of the things that we accomplished with this is we didn't get it always right. They didn't always have the same resources that they, they wouldn't have went to some other area. Yeah, they would have had. They would have had better labs and they would have access to more Musical instruments and whatnot. But I gained back thousands of hours with my children through the most formative years of their life. And now I have a relationship with them that I want to trade for anything. And there's something to be said for that.

[Brandon Herrera]

I, I talked with Hannah's uncle, my wife's uncle. He's been a like school teacher and school administrator for like over 20 years in Minneapolis, Minnesota. So I mean he's pretty left leaning. So like if me and him agree on something, I was like, okay, well it's got to be right if we're. But I, I asked him like what he thought about homeschool and he goes, it's, he goes, it's just better if you do it right. It's better. He goes, there's not a single study that's reputable that says otherwise. He said, In 15 minutes, in a one on one or update till either 1 to 4 or 1 to 6 setting, you can achieve in 15 minutes what a public school can achieve in about an hour. And he goes, so if you actually legitimately homeschool your kids, you can achieve an eight hour school day in six hours and then you can take another four hours to go explore anything else? Yeah, yeah. So two hours you can accomplish what an eight, what a public school does in eight. And he's like, then you could take another four hours to explore anything else. Martial arts, sports, anything you want. And then you study. Can still gain two hours extra at home with your kids.

[Nick Freitas]

Well, it's, and it's, and look like take us, take aside any like, let's not, I won't assume the nefarious nature, even though I think some of that is, is there within the education system. Let's just say everyone's doing their best. It's still a mass production model approach to education. It's mass production. That's what it is. It has to be. Because that teacher, what is that teacher supposed to do? Give individualized attention to all 20 students in the classroom. That's an unrealistic expectation. So what it affords you is an individualized model of education. And one of the most important things your kids can learn is that education is not a building you go to. Education takes place. Education is merely the transference of knowledge, hopefully useful knowledge and wisdom to go along with it. That's what it is. And so now everything, whether you're making dinner or where you're doing, you know, Brazilian jiu jitsu or whether you're doing a math problem because you're teaching your kids how to run a small business business, like all of that is now education. It's not. Sit here. This is another thing I think too, especially with, with young boys, we have all these things that we now classify as learning disabilities. Add, adhd. And look, there's, there's, there's clinical definitions of these things, and I'm not taking anything away from that. But how many, how many learning disabilities all of a sudden become capabilities in a very, very different circumstance or environment? Environment, Right. Yeah. If you're going to put that, if you're going to put that kid, if you're going to put that rambunctious boy in a chair and say, sit here, be quiet, listen and do your, do.

[Fat Electrician]

Your stuff that you don't care for.

[Nick Freitas]

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

[Eli Double Tap]

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

[Brandon Herrera]

Now, there's a, there's a TED talk about the, about adhd. Exactly, Pretty much exactly what you just said. But the story they used was in, like, the 1920s, I think it was Britain. There was a girl that just couldn't pay attention in class and they couldn't get her to do it. And ADHD obviously wasn't a thing then. And the teacher told the parents, parents, your, your daughter needs to be a dancer.

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

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

[Eli Double Tap]

Not everything's a square hole.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah.

[Nick Freitas]

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[Eli Double Tap]

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[Eli Double Tap]

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[Nick Freitas]

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[Brandon Herrera]

Wow. And so it's almost like the entire education system was built to turn out factory workers crazy.

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah. And conscripts. Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

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

[Nick Freitas]

Print, guns, not money.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh, we're putting that on a shirt that's like a. That's a renowned libertarian.

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

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

[Fat Electrician]

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

[Nick Freitas]

Oh, so he had. He had a more difficult time reading and spelling. I give him crap about it still. I'm like, but like, I know it sucks, but you still got to get it right, else you going to look like an idiot. But when. Whenever it came to anything with construction, anything with, you know, again, we. We went to a homeschool fair once and they had a blacksmith there. He's out there a forge, hammering away, making stuff. And he's like, could we, could we try that? Like, yeah, let's do it. And I figured because again, I grew up in a schooling model, so I figured when to show up. We're going to get a PowerPoint presentation on the, the, you know, the history of blacksmithing. We get there, and homeboy at Platinum Stars Forge goes like, all right, so here's the forge. Here's some I pro. Let's go beat some metal. Like, this is awesome. And so, and so we bought a little one and now like, my son's out there and it was funny. I was in. I was in session. So I was gone and I was giving him assignments. I'm like, hey, I want you to, you know, you're going to develop this. You're going to do your Best job developing this. Watch this, you know, channel on how to do it. And my wife calls me up, she's like, baby, I just want you to know it's so great. And it's so and so inspiring to see Luke just really passionate about something. But when you give him a deadline that causes him to be in the garage pounding steel at 2 in the morning, that kind of impacts the rest of the family, babe. I'm like, oh, okay, my bad. That was. But no, he was just. Why? Because I, I didn't tell him to do that. I gave him a deadline and he was passionate about it and he's out there just hammering away. And so, yeah, it was stuff like that. And. And again, it's not that it was like, oh, well, son, you have difficulty reading. I guess we won't worry about literacy. No, you still gotta learn how to read and you still gotta struggle through this. Right? But yeah, it was just incredible when you, when you put those other opportunities out there. And he can do it in a way that I just can't. Like, he can see a project and imagine it in his mind and then make it work in a way that if I was doing it, like, I'm gonna be honest, I was that dad where I was putting together like the girls bicycles on Christmas morning. Morning. Like.

[Fat Electrician]

But still that way.

[Nick Freitas]

But yeah, he could just see it.

[Eli Double Tap]

It's always crazy how you get wrapped on Christmas day. You have a bicycle minus a tire and then a tire.

[Brandon Herrera]

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

[Fat Electrician]

Do dyslexia. Did you working with true dyslexia is the weirdest, like, wild. And it's. Every part of their life is taken over by that thing. You're like, why? I can't. And they just see everything backwards. Years later, it will still write and S A5.

[Eli Double Tap]

Like everything just blends in, like sporadically with different fonts. And the only thing that I can think of is like, wow, having true dyslexia would suck.

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah.

[Fat Electrician]

Yeah, it's wild. I've never seen it. And then I have now, and I'm.

[Nick Freitas]

Like, oh, this is different.

[Fat Electrician]

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

[Eli Double Tap]

Why have you stopped?

[Fat Electrician]

Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

Schedule.

[Brandon Herrera]

Schedule violated your posting schedule.

[Eli Double Tap]

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

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah. I'll tell you what.

[Eli Double Tap]

To re upload Insane Gats.

[Fat Electrician]

Insane Gats shout out to you for dealing with my son. Thank you. Well, if Insane Gats is not posting GTA5.4 videos, then how could I re upload insane gats GTA4 videos to YouTube? Right in first question. Oh, dang it. It's been like four weeks. That's so long that Insane Gates is still not posting GTA 4 videos anymore. This is a disaster and it's all my fault. What am I going to do? You know what? I'm going to just give up and go to sleep. Thank you for just saying go to sleep. I'm proud of you for that because I am so tired. It's like all. And then he. He finishes. I'm just going to go to sleep in my bed for 1000 years right in text. Mom. I was like, yeah, we're going to have to work on him commenting us a Japanese anime.

[Nick Freitas]

Go on.

[Eli Double Tap]

Just Eli just sitting, sitting there like, what? What is the reply to that? I was just like, ah, sounds good, son.

[Fat Electrician]

I love you, but we can't talk like that. We can't blame people for them not uploading what you want and then also saying you're going to re upload their content. I wouldn't be a fan of it.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's okay. It's definitely not Eli low key bullying another YouTuber into making more GTA 4 content. Now there's going to be a hundred and unsub people.

[Eli Double Tap]

You, you knew what you were doing.

[Nick Freitas]

When you did that. Don't even play.

[Fat Electrician]

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

[Eli Double Tap]

Don'T want him to make more content. Let me read off his channel name so people don't.

[Brandon Herrera]

He's had a shout out.

[Fat Electrician]

He does some like goes and thanks him. He actually replied to one over. Hey, thank you for actually mentioning. I appreciate it. Everyone was like, nice. Because I apologize for riding in one of the past episodes.

[Eli Double Tap]

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

[Nick Freitas]

We want our four videos. You know what would be a shame?

[Brandon Herrera]

You know what I remembered the other day that I had completely just forgotten about for like two years. The first time we bullied a company together, on which second unsub appearance? The RIM company that wouldn't give eli something wheels. Getyourwheels.com oh, it was so funny.

[Fat Electrician]

Let's see what the reviews are, right?

[Eli Double Tap]

Have they recovered?

[Nick Freitas]

That's the free market. Yep.

[Fat Electrician]

Hey, do you know that story, bro?

[Brandon Herrera]

He. He had this shock. He had this set of rims. One of them was at a round. And he went to like four different tire shops to get his car rebalanced over and over again. Every time he gets over 45, whole car starts shaking.

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

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

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

So he hits up the rim company.

[Fat Electrician]

This is after I sent them back, by the way, and showed them dialed. Had you pay for shipping. Big ass wheels. Yeah, just here, like, here's a video of it wobbling. Here's the issues. They send it back like, nope, it's good. And then.

[Brandon Herrera]

And then. So he's like, you gave a proportional response. He told him. He was like, hey, we're like, I don't want to like, talk about on the podcast or whatever. Just, you know, can I just like, get what I paid for? And they're like, they told him there's no such thing as bad publicity. Oh, and then we got.

[Eli Double Tap]

Is that really what I really. I forgot. Is that what.

[Brandon Herrera]

Say that they said there's no such thing as bad publicity.

[Eli Double Tap]

And then I determined that was a lie.

[Nick Freitas]

Fact check, false.

[Brandon Herrera]

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

[Nick Freitas]

Oh, that's awesome. Four months, dude.

[Fat Electrician]

Four months of like, back and forth, trying to be like, hey, I don't want to bring this up. Yeah, can you get. Yeah, I just want that one wheel. It's one up wheels of custom one, but it's a paper weight outside of it. Yeah, we'll take 10 off your next wheel purchase. I was like, yeah. And then dial indicator, everything showing its band. I was like, it's like, no, they're check. They just checked out their balance. It was like, you can balance something you can balance the square. It is not the second. It is on the road at a certain speed. Here is what's going to happen.

[Brandon Herrera]

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

[Nick Freitas]

Here it's pie.

[Fat Electrician]

They were like, oh, yeah, it's, it's. And I was like, there. What can we do?

[Eli Double Tap]

The radius of the circle is different at different point, and then you have a different shape.

[Brandon Herrera]

The funniest part is even. Even the RIM company, that was not the. The website, the manufacturer, the salesman, what the problem was that the salesman, even the RIM company reached out to you and apologize.

[Fat Electrician]

They what, Dude? The, like, video uploaded. Next day call from said RIM company on, like, the one that owned it.

[Nick Freitas]

And four Star.

[Fat Electrician]

I will give a shout out to four Star and Logan for, like, all the help because they're like, yo, we're all in an office right now watching a video about we can't make wheels.

[Nick Freitas]

We don't want a fat electrician video on the history of the circle. What happened?

[Fat Electrician]

So they were just. Just like, we, hey, we got your wheels next, like, here. And I was like, thank you.

[Nick Freitas]

We even put them on a car for you, dude.

[Eli Double Tap]

Eli tells this entire story as if he didn't just bully a GTA 4 car crash YouTube channel.

[Fat Electrician]

It's nothing but GTA 4 videos from here on out. Thank you, daddy. The plan has worked.

[Eli Double Tap]

Like, the credits are always going to say, thank you, Ry.

[Nick Freitas]

That.

[Fat Electrician]

That's all I want, boy. I just want thank you R. Anytime GTA 4 video pops up in that channel.

[Nick Freitas]

Thank you.

[Brandon Herrera]

What's the channel? Insane Gats. Insane G. That's the new Unsub shirt. Wear more Insane Gats content, question mark. Unsub branded merch.

[Fat Electrician]

Just like, I'm not even making money from this.

[Eli Double Tap]

With great power comes great responsibility.

[Brandon Herrera]

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

[Nick Freitas]

It's Ryden re uploading his content for Insane Gats.

[Fat Electrician]

Insane Gats.

[Brandon Herrera]

Are you leaving the comment now?

[Nick Freitas]

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

[Fat Electrician]

God, I always forget about the wheel company. Those poor, not the. The other people that. That did find out there is bad publicity dude for dude and that anytime when it comes to car. That's also. They drove the forklift through my Y body kit and, like, broke it and then they dropped it off. I had to call them. I was like, hey, y'all this up? Like, no, we didn't. I'M like, well, who signed for this? Cuz I want to. You signed for it? I was like, the.

[Nick Freitas]

I did? Yeah.

[Fat Electrician]

Your name is. Oh, it was the driver's name. Never mind. You didn't sign for it.

[Nick Freitas]

It. Yeah.

[Fat Electrician]

So then I had to get it taken.

[Nick Freitas]

They.

[Fat Electrician]

They fixed it really, really fast. Thankfully, one of the few times RIM company. Thank you.

[Nick Freitas]

Dude, it's a whole new level of bullying, you know.

[Brandon Herrera]

I know what eth. Habitual line crosser. Ethan's wife, she's like. So we, we. We flew out to Oklahoma. Oklahoma. So we have, we have a show on Pepperbox called Habitually Fat where me and Ethan just go to like, military museums and like, get a guided tour. It's like two hours long. It's really fun to shoot. But we flew out to Oklahoma to. Do they have an Air Defender? It's technically not a museum because everything in there isn't demilled.

[Nick Freitas]

Oh, it's.

[Brandon Herrera]

But it's like a museum where they take all the air defenders and they walk them through and give them the whole history from like World War I. Oh, wow. Modern era through. Really cool.

[Eli Double Tap]

It's just, it's not a museum if it's not demilled. So it's basically just an armory.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, it's just an antique armory, essentially up to modern era. And we. I flew out to Oklahoma to go to Fort Sill. I flew Fen, our camera guy out and I'm like, woke. Got there at night, went to the hotel, woke up. I was at a Waffle House across the street and I get a call from Ethan. He's like, hey, Public affairs just found out that you were coming and they pulled it, even though I had permission from the Air Defender chain of command and.

[Nick Freitas]

Why.

[Brandon Herrera]

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

[Nick Freitas]

And he's like, well, now I will.

[Brandon Herrera]

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

[Eli Double Tap]

It turns out, whole lot. Fort Sill, right?

[Brandon Herrera]

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

[Eli Double Tap]

Really?

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah. So I immediately back in, I called Eli and Eli's like, I could, I could call that one number of the guys we know. I was like, do it. And so Eli calls and like 15 minutes later Fort Sill gets a call from. You have to bleep this part out. Fort Sill gets a call from the telling them to let me on to base to do whatever the I want.

[Nick Freitas]

And give him a white clip.

[Brandon Herrera]

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

[Eli Double Tap]

Only when bullied.

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah, exactly.

[Brandon Herrera]

Be the bigger bully.

[Nick Freitas]

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

[Eli Double Tap]

Is that where they, they put up all the. Or they display all of the German equipment they left behind.

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah, you. You go. What's cool about it is that you've got like the medieval period, so they've got like a full on horse in armor with a mounted knight. So you've got that. And then you go to like the Napoleonic era. They've got like all of the various units within the grand army me that are like just decked out with authentic uniforms and the whole deal. That's super cool. But surprisingly, one of the coolest military museums I ever went to was South Korea.

[Eli Double Tap]

Really?

[Nick Freitas]

South Korea's. South Korea's military museum is better than anything I've ever seen in the United States. As far as a military museum, it's like five stories where you go back and they've got like, like, you know, like, what is it? Euni, he was like a fan. Famous admiral that like fought the Japanese.

[Brandon Herrera]

The turtle boats.

[Nick Freitas]

Yes. Yes. So they've got all this stuff.

[Eli Double Tap]

Why is that familiar?

[Brandon Herrera]

It's like a whole.

[Nick Freitas]

There was, there was a. There was actually a movie called the Admiral, which is a South Korean movie. It's about like he literally had 13 ships against like over. Technically it was 300 Japanese ships, but it was really like 120 like combat ships for. But still like he had 13 ships. One turtle ship.

[Eli Double Tap]

So. And almost kind of one.

[Fat Electrician]

What's a turtle ship?

[Nick Freitas]

Right now it, it's like think of like a, like it's a big boat that like has an ironclad component on it with like spikes and then it has a cannon. Yeah, it's.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's pretty basically like, okay, when was this battle? It's like, what The Spartans do with their shields and just have the spears pointing out. But it's the boat version.

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah. Okay.

[Fat Electrician]

What is this story? I've never. Dude.

[Nick Freitas]

The Admiral. Master and commander, I think. No, no, that's. That's that one with freaking. What's his face. But no, it's called the Admiral. It's like South Korean. It's movie. But this, it is a badass movie. It's awesome. I've seen it like six times. But you go to their museum and like I said, it is like. It is one of the best war museums I have ever seen.

[Fat Electrician]

This is Japan just.

[Nick Freitas]

No, this is South Korea.

[Fat Electrician]

Well, no, but Japan trying to infiltrate.

[Nick Freitas]

When Japan did their invasions, it was right after like the waring. Well, not the Warren states periods of China.

[Fat Electrician]

But you had right before the Ido period.

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah, yeah. So you. You had like the shogun period and whatnot. And. Oh, I'm trying to remember the guy's name. But anyway, they launched the several invasions of Korea. And Yisun, She I think is his. And C, I think is the. The name of the South Korean admiral. But just in epic stories like incredible like Yunxi, there. There was a. The. The Japanese managed to infiltrate the South Korean court. And the first time Yi sun. She saved South Korea from a Japanese invasion. They infiltrated the Jap. The South Korean court convinced them that Yunxi was a traitor. Literally, like they tortured him and retired him. And then the Japanese invaded again, destroyed a South Korean fleet. They brought him back. He had like 13 ships to work with. He was ordered to abandon the fleet and basically cannibalize his troops to become a part of the. The South Korean like army or not South Korea, Korean Army, Joson period. He basically, you know, refused to follow the orders. And then with his 13 ships turned back a 300 ship Japanese invasion fleet. And. And you look at the story of it, it's just. It's just incredible. The guy eventually died defeating like the third Japanese invasion. And he essentially ordered himself to be propped up up as he was dying as he had like he was mortally wounded because he didn't want his. His, you know, the sailors to. You lose, you know, heart. Yeah. Won the battle. And then it was like, oh man, he's dead. Right? But that's wild. Oh dude, it's. It's a like. And again the way they did the Admiral, I. I gotta tell you man, the Chinese and the Koreans, they just some badass war flex.

[Fat Electrician]

Yeah. Very, very good.

[Nick Freitas]

Especially if you like that era. Like Red Redcliffe was a great, great.

[Eli Double Tap]

Woman, you are speaking Eli's language.

[Fat Electrician]

I love, like, any of their war movies. They've been doing it for so long. And from martial arts movies to war movies.

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah.

[Fat Electrician]

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

[Nick Freitas]

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

[Fat Electrician]

That's why you have.

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah, yeah.

[Fat Electrician]

My guy knows it.

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Fat Electrician]

Tishiro Mifune is the main actor in Kira.

[Nick Freitas]

He's the Clint Eastwood.

[Fat Electrician]

Yeah, exactly.

[Nick Freitas]

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

[Fat Electrician]

Oh, even Star wars is based off of.

[Nick Freitas]

I didn't know that.

[Fat Electrician]

Oh, yeah. Star wars is based off of Kira. Kurosawa's the.

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah. Janice films.

[Brandon Herrera]

So I think it. No, we're getting into my favorite conspiracy. Every. Every Jedi is supposed to have, like, a different fighting style that's supposed to be mirrored off of Kung Fu, the Hidden Fortress, literally.

[Fat Electrician]

What is based off when a Tashiro.

[Nick Freitas]

Oh, dang. I'm gonna look that up. You know.

[Brandon Herrera]

You know about Darth Jar Jar, right?

[Fat Electrician]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

Well, that's what that's like. Part of it is because every Jedi is a different kung fu style. Like Crane, Mantis, blah, blah. Well, he's Drunken Fist.

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah. Just being an idiot. Yeah. Somehow being outrageously.

[Nick Freitas]

Com feel like they are just trying to rehabilitate a horrible character.

[Brandon Herrera]

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

[Eli Double Tap]

I thought J.

[Nick Freitas]

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

[Fat Electrician]

And did you hate that, like, Phantom Menace and stuff?

[Nick Freitas]

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

[Fat Electrician]

Okay, so it's that older dude watching, like, everyone that is younger, like, ah, it's great.

[Nick Freitas]

No, it is not great. No, I was like, is not great.

[Brandon Herrera]

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

[Fat Electrician]

I was a child.

[Nick Freitas]

Look, I will say this. It's exciting for you.

[Fat Electrician]

I was in sixth grade when it came out.

[Brandon Herrera]

You were in sixth grade? You weren't six, but. Sorry.

[Fat Electrician]

What year were you born?

[Brandon Herrera]

Nine. 94. I was like. I was like six.

[Fat Electrician]

No, you were like one.

[Nick Freitas]

Wait, when were you born?

[Brandon Herrera]

Phantom Menace came out in 1999. Almost positive.

[Nick Freitas]

I'm the only one here.

[Brandon Herrera]

Came out in 1999 because I was five or six.

[Fat Electrician]

Okay. You were five.

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

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

[Nick Freitas]

That. Really?

[Brandon Herrera]

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

[Nick Freitas]

That's. That's acceptable. I'm not.

[Brandon Herrera]

That was Star wars for me also.

[Fat Electrician]

That's why you like it.

[Brandon Herrera]

The thing that drives me nuts and, like, a big part of the reason I think I'm, like, as successful I am with youtub is I hate telling stories out of chronological order. Like, books. Everybody else, like, anytime we're doing flashback autism. Like, I hate. No, we're doing. He was born here, he died here. We're filling in chronologically the entire time. So, like, part of me is just like, okay, episode. We're starting at episode one, because obviously. And then I get to episode four, and it's like, why the. Is this made out of clay now? This is horse.

[Nick Freitas]

These are puppets. What the hell?

[Brandon Herrera]

You're wrong. Like, as I got older, I can appreciate the actual storytelling of it or whatever, but, like, as a child trying to understand, like, why what the happened between 3 and 4? Why did the graphics suck? Y. A Muppet. Now I'm pissed.

[Nick Freitas]

Well, it's. You ever heard you're so ocd, you're CDO because you got to put it in alphabetical order.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah.

[Nick Freitas]

No budget we had. I could appreciate. Appreciate that. But it's like we're at a point right now where exist.

[Eli Double Tap]

Computers do not. Sorry.

[Nick Freitas]

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

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah.

[Nick Freitas]

Somebody needs to be beaten.

[Brandon Herrera]

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

[Fat Electrician]

What's the. Who played Gimli? That he was allergic to it, so he hates that movie with a passion.

[Nick Freitas]

Oh, wow.

[Fat Electrician]

The main actor of Gimli. Good.

[Brandon Herrera]

It bled through in the character.

[Fat Electrician]

Oh, dude.

[Brandon Herrera]

Exactly what I want.

[Nick Freitas]

An angry dwarf.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah.

[Fat Electrician]

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

[Brandon Herrera]

I still enjoyed the Hobbit, though.

[Nick Freitas]

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

[Brandon Herrera]

I enjoyed it. I hate the elves. Nothing made me hate the elves more than the Hobbit it's like, oh, here's the. Here's the dwarves showing up riding war pigs. Pigs with warhammers.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh.

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh, my God. They built a three level high perfect goddamn shield wall. What do the elves do? Let's jump over it. What a move ever, right?

[Nick Freitas]

Yes. Holy.

[Brandon Herrera]

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

[Nick Freitas]

Shield wall. What are you doing? Yes. Dumbest thing ever.

[Brandon Herrera]

You know what I mean? You think China built the Great Wall there? You know what would be really good? If we sent all the soldiers on the other side of it. That'd be perfect. Oh, stupid.

[Nick Freitas]

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

[Eli Double Tap]

Fire any of the.

[Nick Freitas]

Before we fire any of them before we fire.

[Eli Double Tap]

Don't use your artillery first. Send the horses.

[Nick Freitas]

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

[Eli Double Tap]

They do the surprise Pikachu when all the cavalry die.

[Nick Freitas]

Whoa.

[Eli Double Tap]

We sent them into battle unsupported and all the lights went out.

[Fat Electrician]

What Operation Human Shield Operation.

[Nick Freitas]

We can't say the other one. Right? I remember that particular sound.

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh, no, wait.

[Nick Freitas]

What? Human Shield battalion.

[Brandon Herrera]

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

[Eli Double Tap]

Last night.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, I did a video on Joe Foss. So he was the other hero of Guadalcanal after John Basilone. So Joe Foss was a Marine aviator in the Cactus Air Force. Dude shows up and they pull up off of Gule Canal and they wake him up at like midnight. They're like, hey, we're just going to have to launch your ass. Ass in your Wildcat fighter at night, which is not. You're not supposed to fly Wildcats at night. They're not night fighters. They don't have night. They're like Japanese navy surrounded the island. We can't get any closer. We're just gonna have to get you. You're gonna have to fly in there and sneak in so he flies in and sneaks in, and, like, his first nine days, I think he shoots down, like, 12 Japanese planes, and he ends up tying Eddie Rickenbacher for 26 and setting the American record. He became, like, America's first ace of aces of World War War two. And. But he has this story where he goes up and he shoots down. He shoots down two Zeros, and his guys shoot down the other four, and they just wipe out this whole flight of Japanese Zeros. And he goes and, like, banks and turns around, and when he turns around, there's just, like, several empty Japanese parachutes with, like, the back rig just floating empty. And he's like, the. He had no idea at the time. This was 19. 1942 or very early 43, before anybody understood, like, the Bushido. Like, Japanese would, like, rather die than surrender or be captured or whatever, the whole dishonor thing. So he's just like, the. Where'd the guys go? And then he comes up on one dude still in his parachute, and he's like, I watched him unbuckle and plummet to his death.

[Nick Freitas]

Wow.

[Brandon Herrera]

And he's just like, huh. All right. And then he just goes and lands his plane.

[Fat Electrician]

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

[Brandon Herrera]

Jump out the parachute and then do like.

[Eli Double Tap]

All right, what's the clip you're going to use after that?

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh, yeah, the clip that I'm having Fluck edit in the thing is from.

[Eli Double Tap]

The good guys or the nice guys?

[Brandon Herrera]

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

[Fat Electrician]

Is that your next big story you're doing?

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, it should come out here in a couple days. I think the 31st over come out.

[Fat Electrician]

Get that good Nick content.

[Nick Freitas]

I think.

[Fat Electrician]

On that note, we can close it down and go to the.

[Eli Double Tap]

Before we do that, I've got one question, though. So you've got all of the. Your political stuff. You're kind of. It's coming to a close. Yeah. You know, your kids are going off and, you know, starting to become successful in their own right, which is awesome. What's next for you, man?

[Brandon Herrera]

He's hanging out in the naked room.

[Nick Freitas]

I already told you. My wife question, I suppose know. How did that nurse outfit show up, honey?

[Eli Double Tap]

Kitchen counters back.

[Nick Freitas]

He must have ordered that on Amazon.

[Eli Double Tap]

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

[Nick Freitas]

No surface is safe.

[Brandon Herrera]

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

[Fat Electrician]

Yeah, that can visit me.

[Nick Freitas]

That one's for a different kind of charcuterie.

[Fat Electrician]

Oh, my God. You said what?

[Eli Double Tap]

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

[Nick Freitas]

She. Yeah, sometimes. Anyway. No, I, I think two. Two things. I mean, how do I get serious now? Well, you know, something we already kind of talked about, like the homeschooling and the whole young men thing. I think we're at a point just kind of culture in the United States where young men are going to revolt. There has been this absolute onslaught on what I would you might call traditional masculinity, what I call biblical masculinity. It's the idea that men are supposed to protect, we're supposed to provide. We're supposed to do these things and, and that's the way it's supposed to be. And. But we're at, we're at a point right now where I think a lot of young men have just been told that there's something wrong with them and that they're responsible for. I think it's fascinating. They've been simultaneously told that they're stupid, fat, lazy and worthless, but they've also somehow managed to infiltrate every single social, economic or political institution to uphold the patriarchy. Like, which is it?

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah, but if you're not stupid, fat and worthless, then you're alt, right?

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah, yeah. And. And so work out and try to.

[Eli Double Tap]

Build something of yourself and climb the social hierarchy.

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah, you're, you're. There's something wrong with your bad. And so some of it. We were very, my wife and I, both very, very passionate. Passionate about trying to provide like, greater capability or resources with respect to people, the parents that want to take a little bit more control of their, their kids education. I, I think there's a huge market right now for, you know, reinforcing to young men that, yeah, you are supposed to be strong, you're supposed to be competent, you're supposed to do all these things, but it has to be in service to something. Right. It can't just be in service to your own, like, hedonistic pleasures. It has to be in service to, to, you know, you know, God, your family, your country. Because again, men thrive under responsibility. And we, we started doing. When we started really getting into social media, it was funny. I was talking to Tina a while back, and obviously we talk about politics a lot and we'll continue to. But I call it, what do I get stopped at the airport for? And what I've noticed is I don't get stopped at the Airport for people saying, I really loved your political hot takes.

[Eli Double Tap]

It's usually your cool gun by ts.

[Nick Freitas]

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

[Eli Double Tap]

So your goal is to crash the Next Generation only fans market?

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Completely just destroy that.

[Eli Double Tap]

It's like, yeah, raise a generation of good fathers.

[Nick Freitas]

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

[Eli Double Tap]

Hell yeah.

[Nick Freitas]

Yeah.

[Fat Electrician]

Love it.

[Brandon Herrera]

Sweet.

[Fat Electrician]

Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

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

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah.

[Fat Electrician]

And then we'll go after show. Have fun there.

[Eli Double Tap]

Thank you guys so much for watching the Unsubscribe podcast again. I was joined today by Eli double tap fat electrician Nick Fredis. Where'd we find you?

[Nick Freitas]

Virginia. Oh, we made a. Virginia. Virginia. Virginia dot com. No. Yeah, they supported Nick J. Fres. We made it easy. If you just type in Nick Fredis or anything close, you'll, you'll find us on YouTube, Instagram and everywhere else.

[Eli Double Tap]

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

[Nick Freitas]

Love you.

[Brandon Herrera]

Peace.