AI Slop Has Gone Too Far, Indian Trains & The Board Game Argument | Unsubscribe Podcast 266

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Overview

Episode Title: AI Slop Has Gone Too Far, Indian Trains & The Board Game Argument
Date: May 31, 2026
Hosts: Eli Doubletap, Brandon Herrera, Donut Operator, The Fat Electrician (Cody)
Publisher: Daylight Media

In this lively and irreverent episode, the Unsubscribe crew dives into viral internet "AI slop," shares wild real-world stories about Indian trains and electrocution mishaps, discusses cultural differences in travel, AI disinformation, and the challenges of social media accuracy. The episode also features rants on hunting, World War I heroics, scam calls, and a passionate, comedic debate about the logic of a board game. Expect a blend of shooting-the-shit humor, smart cultural commentary, and military history, delivered in the group's signature unapologetic style.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. AI Slop and Internet Disinformation

• AI-generated viral content is the new weapon of misinformation, especially on social platforms like Facebook, rapidly fooling older generations with fabricated images and stories.
  • “AI is going to work so good. It went from Will Smith eating spaghetti to one shotting anybody over 60 so quick.” — Brandon Herrera [74:29]
• Boomers are routinely fooled by AI slop online.
  • “The boomers got one shot by that. They're like a mom always knows when to trust somebody.” — Eli Doubletap [75:20]
• The group discusses how elderly and less tech-savvy people are becoming vulnerable to scams and misinformation, especially with deepfakes and AI voice cloning.
  • “Older people get really gullible sometimes.” — Donut Operator [78:36]
• Government and veteran organizations are ill-equipped to combat the tidal wave of AI-generated scams and disinfo.
  • “Every influencer in that room was just like. Like, there's nothing we could do about that.” — Cody [75:57]
• Suggestion for verified ‘accuracy’ checkmarks for military/veteran creators as a partial solution, but skepticism remains about its effectiveness. [61:45]

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2. Wild Train and Electrocution Stories

• Hilarious but dark recounting of shocking train accidents and electrocutions, focused largely on viral Indian train and power line videos.
  • “They know that trains have to follow the tracks, right? You can't just get attacked by a train, bro.” — Brandon Herrera [51:54]
• American reactions vs. global reactions to accidental deaths and public safety—group observes a different cultural mindset around the value of life and risk-taking.
  • “If I watch somebody get smoked by a train in real life ... I'd be horrified ... These people, it's an everyday occurrence; there's just no reaction.” — Brandon Herrera [53:57]
• Tangent about police mishaps, including the infamous story of a suspect left in a car on train tracks.
  • [58:43] Detailed breakdown of officer negligence and its legal consequences.

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3. Travel Stories: Japan, Utah, and Lessons in Liquor Laws

• Donut Operator shares his Japan trip—highlights include bullet trains, polite culture, no tipping, great food, and the quirks of Japanese real estate (ghost houses are cheaper because of ghost fears).
  • “You don't have to tip anyone. Food's incredible. Quality is incredible.” — Donut Operator [06:01]
  • “If you can find a house that someone died in, then the house is like half price because the Japanese people are really scared of ghosts.” — Donut Operator [06:53]
• Stories from traveling through Utah's restrictive liquor laws and the bizarre, measured alcohol service.
  • “One drink at a time, and it measured out like it is ... Utah is measured.” — Eli Doubletap [24:07]
• Cody’s resistant to getting a passport, preferring U.S. travel and hunting: “At some point in my genealogy, my ancestors looked around and said, this shit's gay. I'm going over here and I trust them.” — Cody [86:12]

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4. Social Media, Shorts, and Clickbait

• The group vents about YouTube Shorts and Instagram Reels: how clips are taken out of context, contributing to misrepresentation and divisiveness.
  • “[Shorts] steal our shit and get the views, but B, thank you. They cut out all of, like, your hedging ... they'll just cut straight to, like, you saying it as definitive information.” — Brandon Herrera [09:57]
• Clickbait titles and the ethics of audience manipulation—joking about impossible title ideas.
  • “We can't use it because it's objectively wrong and it's the N word.” — Cody [11:48]
• They observe that readers’ comments are often funnier than their own jokes, and sometimes would love to steal them with time travel. [13:24]

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5. War Stories: World War I Heroics and Historical Insights

• Cody tells the gripping story of John Lewis Barkley, WWI Medal of Honor recipient who held off a German battalion solo in a tank.
  • “He holds up this counterattack for like four hours by himself ... He went through, he estimates, 4,000 rounds.” — Cody [32:33]
  • “He talks about how loud it is inside the tank. He said it sounded like a thousand people had hammers beating on it.” — Cody [41:27]
• Discussion on the personal and physical toll of war, technology like machine guns and cannonballs, and the importance of preserving veteran stories.
  • “There will be a day. I hope it's not soon, but there will be a day where we can't get that anymore.” — Brandon Herrera on WWII vets [46:13]
• Random walk into military surplus, cannons, and the mechanics of historical artillery.

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6. Podcast Banter & Board Game Debate

• Extended, passionate argument breaks out over the rules of a mind-reading party board game (Wavelength), specifically regarding the logic of "illegal" vs "prohibited" actions.
  • “Prohibited, Illegal. Okay, yeah, there I was on the prohibited side. ... That's not the most prohibited thing you can do. That's not illegal.” — Connor [105:19]
  • “This is either gonna be one of the most just controversial bits of the podcast or nobody's gonna give a shit about this.” — Brandon Herrera [103:38]
  • [99:20–109:42] — This whole segment is heated and hilarious, packed with insults, rule-book readings, and personal jabs.

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7. Politics and the Border Wall

• Quick update on Brandon Herrera’s real-world Congressional campaign, focusing on solving local issues in Texas’ District 23 before actually taking office, e.g., immigration, AI data centers, and border wall construction.
  • “We're already working hard on establishing like a ground game and solving problems ... If I can do all of these things and fix all of these problems before I even take office, just imagine what I can do when I've actually got the sway of a vote.” — Brandon Herrera [70:18]
• Reflections on newfound offline recognition and how political work is different from internet fame. [72:44]

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8. Hunting, Conservation, and Ethics

• The group debates the ethics of exotic animal hunts in Africa and the U.S., with a strong defense of regulated, conservation-based hunting.
  • “A lot of the conservation that we have in the United States and across the world that's great. Is because of hunters. Hunters pay for all of that shit.” — Brandon Herrera [90:50]
• Example: The story of Cecil the lion and how hunting fees fund local communities and wildlife protection. [90:36–91:08]

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9. Miscellaneous Highlights

• Osama bin Laden ‘baseball cards’ are now collector items fetching thousands of dollars online. [65:17]
• Tips on keeping cats hydrated, with random cat behavioral trivia and jokes about White Claw fountains for pets. [88:49]
• Segment about AI failures at basic fact-checking, especially in history topics—peppered with mockery of ChatGPT errors and discussions of prompt engineering. [81:09–84:11]

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Notable Quotes & Moments (with Timestamps)

• On the vulnerability of older generations to AI scams:
  “People been falling for the Norwegian prince scam forever.” — Cody [75:58]

• On travel in Japan:
  “If you can find a house that someone died in, then the house is like half price because the Japanese people are really scared of ghosts.” — Donut Operator [06:53]

• On social media clickbait and shorts:
  “The clickbait title was aggressive, but that's ... Sometimes I have that conversation with Delance ... I know that's going to get a lot of views, but we can't use it because it's objectively wrong and it's the N word.” — Cody [11:30]

• On outdated 'separation of church and state' arguments:
  “The term separation of church and state is from a private letter written by Thomas Jefferson to a Baptist minister in Connecticut is where that term originated from.” — Cody [25:25]

• AI joke (meta moment):
  “We don't know how that fucking happens. I never look at you both and be like, yep, brothers, Mexican and a white dude.” — Eli Double Tap [02:17]

• Board game fight (summarized):
  “This is either gonna be one of the most just controversial bits of the podcast or nobody's gonna give a shit about this.” — Brandon Herrera [103:38]

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Major Segments: Timestamps

• Open: Banter, Skits, Ad Reads (skip) [00:00–01:10]
• AI Slop & Scam Segment [12:45–15:00]; [61:45–77:00]
• Indian Train/Electrocution Stories [51:40–58:00]
• Japan/Travel Banter [05:05–07:49]; [85:22–87:14]
• Social Media Shorts & Commentary [09:57–13:42]
• WWI Stories — Barkley’s Tank Epic [27:01–44:27]
• Hunting/Conservation Anecdotes [86:53–91:14]
• Board Game Prohibited/Illegal Debate [99:20–109:42]
• Politics Update (Herrera Campaign/Borders) [68:38–73:01]
• Collectors’ Items/Rare Cards [65:17–67:04]
• Cat Care Interlude [88:43–89:38]

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Final Thoughts

This episode is classic Unsubscribe: a wild, discursive ride through military history, viral culture, personal travel tales, and contemporary social issues, all filtered through an unfiltered, sharp-edged comedic lens. Whether you’re interested in the dangers of AI misinformation, the marvels and mayhem of world travel, or just some passionate board game argumentation, there's something for every veteran, gun enthusiast, or podcast junkie here.

Best enjoyed with a strong drink and a deep appreciation for chaotic banter.

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Summary by:
Unsubscribe Podcast Summarizer AI - May 2026

Transcript

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[Donut Operator]

Why is this happening?

[Cody]

It gives me so much anxiety. Like, how are you this stupid?

[Connor]

That's how the game works.

[Eli Double Tap]

Holy sh.

[Cody]

People been falling for the Norwegian prince scam forever.

[Brandon Herrera]

Like, Nigerian.

[Cody]

Yeah, whatever.

[Brandon Herrera]

There's just Alexander Skarsgard. It's scamming your grandfather out of money.

[Eli Double Tap]

Say hi to Eli. He's racially ambiguous. And Brandon, his hair is fucking fabulous. Donuts. But a dog joke disposition. And there's a fat electrician. Welcome to Unsubscribe. Okay, everyone ready?

[Brandon Herrera]

Yep. The gang gets cracked.

[Eli Double Tap]

3, 2, 1.

[Donut Operator]

I've seen that film,

[Brandon Herrera]

the Gang cracking really good.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah, that one's so good.

[Donut Operator]

Corn tub.

[Brandon Herrera]

Hi, everyone.

[Donut Operator]

Welcome to the Unsubscribed podcast. I'm joined today by Eli Double Tap. Nick is in town. Brandon Herrera, myself, donut operator. Thank you so much for being here.

[Brandon Herrera]

Who's in town? Who's in Paris?

[Cody]

That's me.

[Brandon Herrera]

Now, hopefully now that you. Now that you've chopped all your hair off, hopefully people will stop confusing us.

[Donut Operator]

No, I got confused for you three times in Japan.

[Eli Double Tap]

Brandon, you're talking a lot this episode.

[Donut Operator]

Yeah, I know.

[Eli Double Tap]

Cody, can you start the episode?

[Brandon Herrera]

Hi, everyone.

[Cody]

That's.

[Brandon Herrera]

They think we all look alike.

[Eli Double Tap]

I still like Matt's dad. Confusing you both. That's the peak of confusion.

[Brandon Herrera]

Matt's dad, a man who has met both of us several times.

[Donut Operator]

Yeah, Demolition Ranch's father came up to us when we were at lunch a couple weeks ago. And he came up to me, he's like, hey, congrats on your race.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah. For context, I am sitting a foot to Cody's right.

[Eli Double Tap]

He sat directly next to me, Connor. And we were talking about that. We don't know how that fucking happens. I never look at you both and be like, yep, brothers, Mexican and a white dude.

[Brandon Herrera]

I was gonna say there's words I can say. He can't.

[Donut Operator]

That's true.

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh, wait, I can't.

[Eli Double Tap]

He can.

[Donut Operator]

Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah.

[Donut Operator]

I'm gonna pass now.

[Cody]

Wait, what? How you can.

[Brandon Herrera]

Sexually transmitted.

[Donut Operator]

Yeah, sexually transmitted racism for my Mexican.

[Cody]

Oh, okay.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah. See, you can Say it too. Go for it.

[Cody]

I don't know.

[Eli Double Tap]

Sounds right off.

[Cody]

I think I'm only allowed to say half of it. Why? Huh. Hannah's adopted.

[Eli Double Tap]

She's like a coconut, but she's like, hella looking.

[Cody]

Yeah, she's white on the inside, though.

[Connor]

Yeah.

[Cody]

Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

That's because of you.

[Brandon Herrera]

Well, well, welcome to the podcast.

[Eli Double Tap]

Hey, what's up, bitches? Fucking. This one tastes really good.

[Brandon Herrera]

Actually.

[Eli Double Tap]

It's the second one really good. This is really.

[Brandon Herrera]

I. I just realized that might be my first time trying it and it tastes really good.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah, Lemonade and tea.

[Brandon Herrera]

It tastes like an Arizona iced tea.

[Eli Double Tap]

It tastes like an BLEEP out me saying that though. Like, never let me say those words because they will sue the fuck out of us.

[Brandon Herrera]

Really.

[Eli Double Tap]

They went after liquid death for Armless Palmer, right?

[Cody]

Yeah, that was part of the joke.

[Brandon Herrera]

No.

[Cody]

Yeah, they had a new flavor that was like a flavor and they called it Armless Palmer. And they got sent a cease and desist by the Arnold Palmer foundation or whatever because they weren't authorized to use it. So they said, fuck it, fine. And renamed that flavor Dead Billionaire, which is great.

[Eli Double Tap]

It shows violence.

[Brandon Herrera]

I told you what I wanted to name it, right?

[Eli Double Tap]

We had. We had all those good names.

[Brandon Herrera]

I had a pulmonator. It's like a play on Arnold Schwarzenegger. The Terminator, you know, the Pollinator. They said that even then that they would probably go after us legally. Just crazy.

[Eli Double Tap]

We can't use any of the cool names.

[Cody]

I'm not going to lie. That's kind of lame.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah.

[Cody]

Just being like I'm the first person to ever mix lemonade and tea together. I own it forever. Is insane.

[Eli Double Tap]

It's like Joe Rogan going after all podcasts, cuz. Right? He started the first podcast, actually.

[Cody]

I'm the white guy with tattoos that talks about on the Internet.

[Eli Double Tap]

Going to have to have a discussion about this. Cody's back from Japan. You have any great questions to ask him about his country? Because we're going there all together next year.

[Cody]

No, we're not.

[Brandon Herrera]

So I said, I don't have a

[Cody]

passport and you can't make me get one.

[Donut Operator]

We're going to make him get a passport.

[Brandon Herrera]

I actually have some connections.

[Eli Double Tap]

We got some powerful connections. We can make this happen now. By the way, we got you a military id. I didn't even do anything.

[Brandon Herrera]

Guess who just got recalled.

[Cody]

No, if I was gonna go out of country, it would be Japan, though. That would be. You know, we've already set a tone. They know better.

[Brandon Herrera]

I was Just gonna say, like, not even. Not even for meme reasons. Just because I'd legitimately like to go see it. Like Hiroshima or Nagasaki.

[Eli Double Tap]

Which. Side note, America. That's so far away from Tokyo.

[Brandon Herrera]

That's the problem.

[Eli Double Tap]

I didn't realize that's a journey to go there.

[Brandon Herrera]

I don't even drive to Dallas anymore. Like, I fly, but it's like six hours.

[Eli Double Tap]

It's a six hour on the bullet train. Yeah.

[Connor]

It's a good.

[Cody]

Good drive is really, like, long.

[Eli Double Tap]

Just a. A boomerang. A long ass boomerang. But, I mean, Cody had nothing but he wanted. He hated coming back.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah.

[Donut Operator]

No, it was.

[Brandon Herrera]

It was.

[Donut Operator]

It was rad, man. Even on the bullet train. So those bringing beers and liquor and all the, like, food and everything, it's. It's super cool.

[Eli Double Tap]

And you can turn the chairs either which way you want to face and,

[Donut Operator]

like, everyone's just super nice. You don't have to tip anyone. Food's incredible. Quality is incredible.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah, you guys are real tall.

[Cody]

What's the, like, exchange rate, like, for money?

[Eli Double Tap]

I think we're.

[Donut Operator]

I think we're. We're more the US Dollar.

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh, it's a lot more. Yeah. It's almost double.

[Donut Operator]

Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

Into $63 cents for a yen dollar.

[Cody]

So you had, like, a lot more purchasing power.

[Brandon Herrera]

No, not. Not 63 cents.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh, my God. No. Holy. Yeah. Never mind.

[Connor]

Yeah.

[Donut Operator]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's point. It's 65 cents. Yeah.

[Donut Operator]

So like a thousand.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah.

[Donut Operator]

A thousand yen was like a dollar.

[Cody]

That's crazy.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

We're doing okay over there.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah. And houses are cheap. We're just looking at one that looks very American. Massive 177 grand Iowa stuff with no mountains. This had a mountain background.

[Donut Operator]

Yeah. I did learn, though, if you can find a house that someone died in, then the house is like half price because the Japanese people are really scared of ghosts.

[Brandon Herrera]

Which makes me wonder maybe Japanese ghosts are real if it affects the real estate price. You gotta wonder, Eli.

[Cody]

Do the. Just hear that coming down the halls at night.

[Eli Double Tap]

Holy. Holy. The fetter retrition is.

[Brandon Herrera]

You got to do the. The Ooh. In an Asian voice.

[Eli Double Tap]

They boo. Differently. Sounded Japanese. Oh, God.

[Brandon Herrera]

Getting haunted by a ghost. I can't understand. He's like, trying to warn me of danger. I'm like, ah, shut up.

[Eli Double Tap]

This is the ghost figure, but slits.

[Cody]

Oh.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's like the guy who's now the acting. The guy. What is it? Hong Kong? I think his.

[Connor]

Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

I don't think he can say that.

[Brandon Herrera]

What.

[Connor]

What is his.

[Brandon Herrera]

That's. I Think it's his name. It's Cao.

[Eli Double Tap]

Hunk. Cow.

[Cody]

Cow, yeah. Cao, I think, yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

Hunk. How he's the new acting director of the. Or acting Secretary of the Navy. I think his whole thing that they were trying to, like, dig back in his history and he made some joke on a podcast or on a new show that sounds familiar, but he's a very clearly Asian man. He's like, yeah, they're calling me a white supremacist. And this, this, this. I mean, I mean, I couldn't be a white supremacist because they'd need to custom cut a Klan hood with slits in it or something like that.

[Eli Double Tap]

Fucking love that shit. Oh, my God, Nick, you made the Reddit page. Because what'd I do? When we were super shitwrecked and you were talking about, like, one of the big nukes, the guy that reacts. The nuclear engineer that will react to videos. Okay, yeah, he watched one of them. And the comments, though, on that is, yo, that was like a four hour podcast and they were shit wrecked. It was drunk history. Oh, okay. Yeah. All the comments of you defending because they're like, what the. This guy's just spitting nonsense. He's lying. What a piece of shit reply. Homie was like 30 beers in at this point. He's doing an actually pretty decent job holding the story together.

[Brandon Herrera]

Which one was it?

[Eli Double Tap]

The submarine nuke. Which one was the big one Was

[Brandon Herrera]

like the nukes that we lost or something. Or like, what?

[Eli Double Tap]

It was one that was built that hadn't been deployed yet. It was like 200 megatons or something.

[Cody]

Like, you talking like the Sar Bomba, like the Russian one?

[Eli Double Tap]

No, no, no.

[Cody]

I have no idea. I don't know. That's why you're shit. That's my least favorite thing about shorts is, like, I see so many shorts where it's like, oh, no wonder some people hate me. It's like, here's a 30 seconds of me shitwrecked, obliterated, ranting with my friends about some random bullshit. And they're like, this guy doesn't know anything.

[Connor]

Well, my.

[Brandon Herrera]

My problem with those shorts too, is A, they just steal our shit and get the views, but B, thank you. They cut out all of, like, your hedging on it. You're like, I don't know. I think I read somewhere where they said, and they'll just cut straight to, like, you saying it as definitive information.

[Cody]

Coleon Noir did a video on one of the shorts taken out of context about me.

[Brandon Herrera]

Which one was that again?

[Cody]

I was on a podcast and I was like.

[Brandon Herrera]

I said.

[Cody]

I told a story about how, like, I hate going to shoot with somebody for the first time because I've had it happen multiple times where somebody's like, hey, do you want to go shoot at the range? And I'm like, yes. And it turns out that their version of going to the range is like, the very hunter version, where they want to sit up in a supported position on a chair and they want to shoot 12 bullets in an hour very accurately. Which isn't what I'm into and not what I hear when you say, do you want to go to the range? I want to go shoot 600 rounds of ammunition.

[Brandon Herrera]

Didn't he title it something like, the

[Cody]

fat electrician hates hunters?

[Brandon Herrera]

He said, like, hunters shouldn't be allowed to go to the range or something like that.

[Cody]

I was like, wait, I didn't say any of that. I was just like, there's a miscommunication in let's go to the range between different types of shooters. That was. That was all I was saying.

[Brandon Herrera]

What the Going on? You should still come on the podcast. We'd love to have you.

[Cody]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

He's like. He's like a friend of ours.

[Cody]

No, I know. He, like, he was cool about the whole thing. He's like, that's not what the fat electrician's saying.

[Donut Operator]

But unless you're a.

[Eli Double Tap]

Though he does end it with that. Yeah, like, cool. Thanks. Because the title is very different. Like, fat electrician says hunters shouldn't have guns. That's all it came.

[Cody]

The clickbait title was aggressive, but that's.

[Brandon Herrera]

Sometimes I have that conversation with Delance because we'll go back and forth on, like, title thumbnail of a video or something like that, and he'll. He'll propose a title. I'm like, I really. I know that's going to get a lot of views, but we can't use it because it's objectively wrong and it's the N word.

[Cody]

I need to find this.

[Brandon Herrera]

Those are my titles.

[Eli Double Tap]

No, I don't think Brandon heard it.

[Brandon Herrera]

No, I didn't. What did you say?

[Eli Double Tap]

I said, and it's the N word.

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh, no, that turns out you're just like. It would get a lot of views from other sources. I feel like it's an instant age restriction on YouTube.

[Eli Double Tap]

I.

[Brandon Herrera]

Unless you're Coleon, I think you get away with it.

[Eli Double Tap]

Then I don't think you can use the fucking. Yeah, there's a difference.

[Donut Operator]

Yeah, he can.

[Brandon Herrera]

I can't for some reason. Tried it. You're like, I keep ab testing it, and it never works out.

[Eli Double Tap]

Cody's like, a real good Dharma. Another one's just the N word. I never pick it.

[Donut Operator]

Why is this happening?

[Brandon Herrera]

He's like, got his goggles on, like, mixing test tubes. Like, I just can't figure it out.

[Eli Double Tap]

I was test that 12 minutes in.

[Connor]

We're already.

[Cody]

I was trending on Twitter two days ago for shitting on communists again, and all they did was prove my point. I just every. This guy's never even read Karl Marx. And it's like, first of all, yes, I have b. The notion that you have to read 3,000 pages of bullshit to acknowledge that it's bullshit is. And I believe my analogy was, if I write a 3,000 page essay on why slamming your dick in a car door cures cancer, you don't have to read it before you call me a retard.

[Brandon Herrera]

My favorite was the top comment is like, real car door dick slamming has never been tried.

[Cody]

I'm serious. If I could have, like, just a shitty superpower, my superpower would be to be able to post my videos and then go back in time 24 hours just so I could steal the funniest jokes from the comments section. Because it's always funnier than me.

[Brandon Herrera]

Some of y' all mother are really funny. Most of you aren't, but some of you are.

[Eli Double Tap]

IG Commons is probably one of my favorite places.

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh, dude. There's certain times I could just see and, like, something feel good's on my feed. And I'm like, I know why this was presented to me. Opens the I look.

[Eli Double Tap]

I'm like, look down 8,000. There's only 200 likes. That's wild.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's the whole, like, I sprained my ankle running to the comments.

[Cody]

I was just telling Cody before you guys got here, I was like, I think my favorite feature of Instagram at this point is whenever I see the most heinous reel of my life, and then I see that Cody's already liked it. I just feel like I'm following in your footsteps.

[Eli Double Tap]

Every time I go on Instagram, it's like a detective. I will do that. I'll get, hi, Eli. Like, I'm comment on one of the stuff. And then Cody's like, hi, Eli. They'll do the same thing.

[Brandon Herrera]

Gentlemen, we meet again, sir.

[Donut Operator]

I just rage bait on there at night. That's been my pastime lately.

[Brandon Herrera]

Vigorously rage baiting. Oh, yeah.

[Donut Operator]

I don't even believe in the things I'm saying. It's just like just funny.

[Eli Double Tap]

Literally Cody throwing a grenade in a

[Donut Operator]

room and then I'll mute the conversation.

[Brandon Herrera]

And I got one of the top comments and I still get notifications from it. One of the top comments on like a Netflix clip because it was from the roast of Kevin Hart and it was the one Chelsea Handler when she made that joke about like, oh, now that your favorite president's made the draft mandatory, I hope you go to Iran or whatever. And my comment was just, wait, did she not know that the draft has been mandatory since like 1948?

[Cody]

Yeah, forever.

[Brandon Herrera]

And just. Oh my God. Angry, angry lefties in the comments. I'm like, wait, all I. It was just a question. I'm like, wait, did she not know that the draft was mandatory already?

[Eli Double Tap]

Like when you turn 18 as a

[Brandon Herrera]

dude, you have to selective service.

[Donut Operator]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

Like there have been like couple years, stints where we didn't have it, but it was, it's been pretty consistent for the last, like, have we ever stopped it? We stopped it, I think, I think Carter re upped it. It was. We stopped it briefly for like five years after Vietnam, I think.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh, no, I didn't know that. I thought it was still mandatory. I know with females are the only ones that don't have to do it, right? Still. Yep, that's the one. It's females. That's always. Yeah, that's the. The hiccup is combat arms. If they want to be in that space, then they do need to do mandatory.

[Brandon Herrera]

So it's just a female from la. She's just so disconnected. She didn't know the draft was mandatory. Yeah, that tracks.

[Eli Double Tap]

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[Cody]

I've been.

[Eli Double Tap]

You were.

[Cody]

I've been everywhere in the past two weeks.

[Eli Double Tap]

You're with Mr. Zach. Just in.

[Cody]

I was with veterans. I was with Zach in Iowa doing underwhelming. I was in Savannah, Georgia, over in Parris island with Ethan and Fenn. And then we flew to El Paso so we could drive to New Mexico. Awful state, by the way. Not.

[Eli Double Tap]

Did you do that?

[Cody]

There was like, some planes. Well, no, there was planes that I wanted to look at in El Paso, but Ethan's like, ah, it's close enough to where I live in New Mexico. Would have stay at my house and to try drive there. Okay. So I got to go to New Mexico, stay at Ethan's house, then drive back to El Paso.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yay.

[Cody]

Yeah. It was a good time.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's not that close.

[Cody]

We did get to see a. It's like an hour from Ethan's house. Surprisingly, it's not horrible. Yeah. But no, we got. There's like a super cool museum in El Paso. I think we text you about it. It's called War Eagles. Yeah, it's like, right outside of El Paso. It's like every time I go to a museum, it's very. I'll say, like, professional, I guess. Not that these guys weren't professional, but it's very like the stuffy, clinical professional that's like, oh, and whatever. Some dude talking about stuff. They're like, yeah, you want to sit. Sit in it?

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah.

[Cody]

So I got. I got to sit in a P51 Mustang. Got to sit in a P38 Lightning. Got to sit inside a Rolls Royce car. Pretty much anything I wanted to sit in and dick around in, they let me. It was awesome.

[Eli Double Tap]

So those Are expensive ass cars.

[Cody]

Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh, yeah. Okay.

[Brandon Herrera]

Speaking of planes in El Paso, like, military planes. There is. So a lot of El Paso is in my district. So my district goes from, like, San Antonio all the way out to El Paso and, like, all the border in between. Last time I was there for one, I went to the original, like, the Roses Cantina, like, from the song El Paso, which is just kind of fucking cool. Like, you got to do a pilgrimage. Like, they've got, like, a tribute, like a shrine to Marty Robbins there. But while I was there in the parking lot, there was a truck, Big

[Donut Operator]

iron on his hip.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah. Like, out in the West Texas town of El Paso.

[Eli Double Tap]

Beautiful song.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah. Never mind.

[Cody]

Eli, renowned for his music knowledge.

[Connor]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

All right. Anime intro.

[Donut Operator]

You'll.

[Brandon Herrera]

You'll learn it.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah.

[Donut Operator]

I was gonna say real quick, we haven't talked about this in a while. Eli doesn't listen to music. He just listens to anime intros in his car.

[Eli Double Tap]

Ryden's the same way. He hates music. And I love it. Oh, turn that off, Daddy. Like, cool dog.

[Brandon Herrera]

That apple dropped directly to the ground. But there was a truck outside that had a wrap on it. Oh, God. There was a wrap on it that advertised there's somebody there that owns, like, a B29. I think I might be misremembering, but I think it's like, a B29.

[Cody]

I think that was parked at this

[Brandon Herrera]

museum because apparently it still functions like they fly it.

[Connor]

Yeah.

[Cody]

Which is pretty sure it was at that museum.

[Brandon Herrera]

No shit.

[Cody]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

Because I don't know if they do, like, charity rides or something like that, but they do shit like that. And they were advertising it, and I always wanted to see how expensive it would be to take the gang up in a B29.

[Cody]

I could probably make that happen.

[Brandon Herrera]

I think we should do it.

[Cody]

Yeah, we could probably make that happen. But, like, the cool part about this museum is they had, like, all These World War II planes, all these cold air, Cold war airplanes. They said it was, like, all but, like, one of them flew to El Paso to become a museum piece from all over the world.

[Brandon Herrera]

No.

[Cody]

Yeah, they, like, flew all of them there and parked them, and they're like, yeah, technically we could get any of these up and going again if we wanted to. He said the. The main problem is being able to get a pilot that's licensed and all the. You have to be licensed in to fly that type of plane because it's so different than a jet. So you have to be, like, prop driven and this and this and this. And this and this. He's like, and most people that do it, there's no money in it. So it's just commerc. Commercial pilots that have to maintain eight additional licenses and log all these flight hours just to be able to do it. He's like, we can't get people to that have that much time because they're all just dudes that work for airlines for a living. So.

[Brandon Herrera]

But, you know, like, the guys that are into flying like that, a lot of them think that's cool. As you know, there's a lot of people that have the licenses just because they want to be able to do it.

[Eli Double Tap]

I wonder how many hours they have to do. Because that was the one thing for skydiving, which was wild. You have to do, like, 25 jumps. You have to maintain, like, a jump every six months or three months. I was like, oh, shit. Okay. That's wild.

[Brandon Herrera]

I don't know what the maintenance is on it, but static line was only five jumps.

[Eli Double Tap]

But did you have any? So you could go do it now?

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh, no. Yeah. Free fall was like, you have to do it every six months.

[Brandon Herrera]

That's what I was saying. Like, I don't. I don't know the maintenance. I didn't. They didn't imply that there was anything crazy on that, but yeah. No, I just had to get my logbook and, like, did the five jumps over the course of, like, it was over like, a day and a half. I felt like I got hit by a fucking truck.

[Eli Double Tap]

You did?

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

Falling at, like, I only had one miles an hour.

[Brandon Herrera]

I only had one bad landing. That was the. I think was like my third jump, and I got overly cocky, and I hit the ground way too fast, and pl left very poorly.

[Eli Double Tap]

And you felt every moment of it the next day. Isn't it like 30 miles? How fast are you landing?

[Brandon Herrera]

I want to say it's like 18ft per second. Something along those lines.

[Eli Double Tap]

At nine miles an hour, dog too much. I would never do static. Like, no, it was fun.

[Brandon Herrera]

I want to do it again. I really do want to go back to Palatka. I think the gang should do it.

[Connor]

Nah,

[Eli Double Tap]

this so opposite into the spectrum.

[Brandon Herrera]

I had a great time, and that's one that, like, I do it.

[Cody]

Last time you guys did skydiving stuff in Salt Lake City, Me and Cody had a great time trying to get booze in Salt Lake City, Utah.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah, that was pretty fun.

[Cody]

We. They looked at me and Cody the same way I imagine people look at barbarians. It was like 11, 11, 45 yeah. Can we get two mimosas and a shot of Tito's? I have to go get my manager. The manager has to come explain to us. I can't legally serve you till noon, and then I can only serve you one drink at a time. And like, their liquor. Do you remember how they had to do the glasses?

[Eli Double Tap]

One drink at a time. And it measured out like it is. So just so people know, Utah is measured. And then you can use.

[Brandon Herrera]

To live in Salt Lake.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah. You cannot have two drinks at the same time. You have to.

[Cody]

Well, the. The weird part was, like, they would come with the new mimosas and we would have, like, I don't know, this much left in. And they're like, did you want to finish that? And we're like, yeah, we'll finish it. Just set those there. They're like, we can't.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh, I forgot about.

[Cody]

He's like, I have to legally pick the empty glass up off the table before I can put this one down.

[Donut Operator]

Yeah. It's like they had a electric spouts to get the exact amount of. Of liquor in there, too.

[Eli Double Tap]

Did you see that? Every spout for booze is electric. There is no heavy hands. It's like, nope, this is all you get.

[Cody]

Salt Lake City or Utah in general, I guess, is like, always the example I give when I'm trying to argue with people that are like, you can't have that law because of separation of church and state. It's like, that's not what that means. If you get enough people of any religion in a demographical or geographical area and they vote whatever the fuck they want into law, it doesn't matter what their reasoning is, whether it's because I feel like it or because God says so. That's not violating separation of church and state. That's not what that means.

[Brandon Herrera]

Also, people seem to think that, like, separation of church and state is in, like, a foundational document or something like that. It's like, that's.

[Cody]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

No, that's not actually like any legal.

[Cody]

The term separation of church and state is from a private letter written by Thomas Jefferson to a Baptist minister in Connecticut is where that term originated from.

[Brandon Herrera]

Right? I mean, the First Amendment, you do have, like, Congress shall make no law, you know, regarding the establishment, like, regarding religion, essentially. Like, you have the freedom to practice religion unimpeded by the state.

[Cody]

The only thing the separation of church and state is meant to refer to is because we had just separated from England, and in England, they had the Church of England, and church and politics got intermingled and it everything up. So we said we don't want to make that mistake again. So in order to not do that, we're going to make it a law that you cannot declare one particular religion or one particular branch of Christianity the official religion of the country or the state. That's not all that means.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's not saying you can't hang up the Ten Commandments in elementary school or just saying like, we're not going to have Handmaiden's Tale style, like state, state enforced religion.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah, interesting. Okay.

[Cody]

That's all that means. But nobody gets that because they don't want to.

[Donut Operator]

No.

[Cody]

And if you say it, they get mad.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah, that's one of those things. People get really pissed for words.

[Cody]

I know.

[Eli Double Tap]

Step away from that one. So what are you doing now for. You filmed all of that? I'm guessing you did habitually fat.

[Cody]

Yep.

[Eli Double Tap]

And now you're just. What's your actual Nick skate? Because you have to have one around the corner right now for fat.

[Cody]

Electrician. Yep, I did a guy by the name of John Lewis Barkley.

[Eli Double Tap]

White guy for sure.

[Cody]

White.

[Brandon Herrera]

He's the one who talks about San Antonio, right?

[Cody]

No, big old women.

[Eli Double Tap]

Famous basketball player.

[Cody]

Yeah,

[Brandon Herrera]

sorry.

[Eli Double Tap]

No, you're good.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's right there.

[Cody]

No, I mean, I don't know, just some dude that. He's one of the most decorated warfighters of World War I, but he got shafted just because he wrote the truth after the war, so everybody fucking hated him.

[Brandon Herrera]

What do you mean by the truth?

[Cody]

So after, after World War I, there was like two

[Brandon Herrera]

mean by the truth.

[Connor]

You ever heard of the Rothschild?

[Cody]

No. After World War I there was like the only opinion you were allowed to have was like very like all quiet on the Western front. Like, all war is bad. We're never doing this ever again. This was the war to end all wars. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Well, he wrote his memo and they were very much like. He talks about how he made a bunch of mistakes and how he screwed up missions and how he almost got himself killed and got other people killed. And he has a dark sense of humor and he did not feel bad about killing people that tried to kill him, which in 1930 I guess was like very jarring of a perspective to have. You were supposed to be very like Captain America esque. And so his book like flopped and everybody painted him as like this war hungry killer, which he absolutely wasn't.

[Brandon Herrera]

But it was just like an honest retelling.

[Cody]

It was like. Yeah, it was an honest, accurate retelling. And he actually goes on to make, like, a creepily accurate prediction about World War II because he became a journalist later in life, and in 1930, he writes an article basically saying Russia and Germany are going to start another world war. And this is still during the period of, like, that was the war to end all wars. We're never doing this again. And he's like, no, it's going to happen again. And he goes, it's going to start in Europe and then it's going to spread to America. And it's mostly going to be fought in the air. We're not going to have horses. It's all going to be tanks. And the chemical weapons are going to be so much worse, which isn't accurate. But we made nukes. Like, well, yeah, creepily accurate depiction.

[Eli Double Tap]

Everything else other than the chemical warfare is, like, spot on.

[Cody]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

Like, I think everybody just kind of looked around. We're like, well, let's not do that again. That was fucking horrible. But the. Well, that's one of my favorite little factoids about World War I is because World War I is, like, fascinating to me because it's. It's one of the least talked about wars, but it's the most interesting, I guess, underrated in.

[Donut Operator]

In that.

[Brandon Herrera]

That sense.

[Eli Double Tap]

Abraham Lincoln did a good job with it.

[Brandon Herrera]

Sure did. He was certainly there for it, according to Tecton. Oh, yeah.

[Donut Operator]

Jeez.

[Eli Double Tap]

We love you, Tag.

[Donut Operator]

Love our boy.

[Brandon Herrera]

That man's knowledge of history. All right.

[Eli Double Tap]

Least Cody got it.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, but. But one of the things that was interesting is that the French general, I forget his name, but he was technically, I think, commander of all Allied forces in Europe. He made a prediction about the Treaty of Versailles and basically said, like, this is so restrictive on the Germans. Like, this is going to ruin the German economy. The only thing we are doing is postponing this war 20 years.

[Eli Double Tap]

What was the restrictions on Versailles?

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh, it basically is like, German reparations. We destroyed their economy. That was why you had, like, the German. The Weimar Republic afterward, where their currency was worth less than nothing. You had a ton of, like, sex tourism and all sorts of, like, Germany was in shambles for a very long time. Like, they essentially, economically had no choice but to not follow along in those guidelines. And that's what allowed somebody like Adolf Hitler to take power is because that was a big selling point, is he's like, we're not going to listen to these restrictions anymore. And that's why a fringe or a radical ideology like that was able to take hold, which then again launched World War II. And so that French general fucking nailed it right off the rip.

[Cody]

John Lewis Barkley, he got the Medal of Honor. He was one of the most decorated guys of World War I. And his medal of honor action, he was a scout and he was out at like this observation post behind German lines by himself. And he had a field telephone. So he. Which is in itself is a wild notion of like, I'm going behind enemy lines, I'm going to string out cable, hope it doesn't get stepped on, and then have a string showing the enemy where I'm at. Kind of a crazy job, but that's what he was doing. And he's like overlooking this big field and a battalion of Germans show up in the wood line. And he goes to radio, radio's dead, so he has no way to communicate, so he can't tell him that this big attack is coming. And in this field like a hundred, 100 yards away, there's this French tank that's been knocked out. And he's like, I can't make it to this tank without them seeing me and killing me first and whatever. Don't know how it happens. But Allied artillery drops smoke in this field separating the line of vision. So he runs back the other direction towards his lines. But there's a bunch of German shit in the way where Germans have abandoned a bunch of equipment, grabs a German machine gun and a bunch of ammo, runs it down into this tank and gets inside of it and gets in a firefight with a German battalion for like four hours in their tank. In, in an, in a knocked out French tank. Oh, and he, he holds up this counter attack for like four hours by himself. And holy shit, he goes into detail of he went through, he estimates 4,000 rounds of ammunition.

[Eli Double Tap]

Now that barrel had a beef.

[Cody]

Well, that's the thing is I talk about in the video, like you have to realize this is like the most fucked up game of Red light, Green Light. Because he waits till all 4 to 600 guys get out in an open field and then he opens fire. He runs three belts through and then the barrels too hot to keep going. So then it turns into a game of like they're all laying down. Yeah. And the only way they can hurt him is if they get to the tank. So he has to manage the heat of the gun reloading and trying to convince all of them to stay the away from him at the same time. So every second he's not firing, the Germans are like, did he overheat the gun? Is he out of ammo? Is this my chance to get up and run at him and he fuck with him too? It's a super game of red light, green light for four hours that he had to play with these dudes.

[Eli Double Tap]

It's that one movie. What was it? Thank you. Squid games. Yeah. See? Holy.

[Brandon Herrera]

Except you got shot when you moved the first time.

[Eli Double Tap]

Brandon, do you need.

[Brandon Herrera]

Not one more time. You got this, buddy.

[Eli Double Tap]

Brandon, can you. Brandon, do you.

[Brandon Herrera]

Almost there, bud.

[Eli Double Tap]

Brandon, where do you store your firearms?

[Brandon Herrera]

All over my house. In every crevice.

[Eli Double Tap]

Well, do I have the product for you, Nick. Show them here.

[Cody]

Hand it to me Brandon, so I can show you. Brandon, this is Stop Box.

[Eli Double Tap]

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[Cody]

We love Box.

[Eli Double Tap]

You're selling me what's in the box?

[Cody]

You have to open it and find out.

[Brandon Herrera]

All right, well, let's see if I can do this. Oh, wow, look at that.

[Cody]

Oh, it did.

[Donut Operator]

Can I hide my goop in that?

[Eli Double Tap]

You can hide your goop in that. Cody. Cody, do you know why I love this thing?

[Connor]

Why?

[Eli Double Tap]

Why?

[Connor]

Why? God, why?

[Cody]

Because you don't have to.

[Eli Double Tap]

To use keys.

[Cody]

Gun not included.

[Brandon Herrera]

Cody, you've got multiple cats in your house, including Squirt, who's quite the scrapper. Would you want Squirt to have access to your firearms?

[Donut Operator]

No, he's violent.

[Brandon Herrera]

Well, then Stop Box is the perfect product for you.

[Cody]

No cats getting inside that or people without thumbs. The nice part is it is actually TSA compliant.

[Brandon Herrera]

I didn't actually know that part until a couple months ago. That is actually really cool. Just put a little lock through there.

[Cody]

Exactly.

[Donut Operator]

When you check in a pistol or any gun, if there's a hole that a lock can go through on whatever you're checking your gun in, you have to put a lock through that. This has one hole, so you just need one lock, easily accessible once you land on the ground.

[Brandon Herrera]

I know you're not normally a one hole kind of guy, but this is definitely an exception to the rule.

[Donut Operator]

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[Eli Double Tap]

Wait, what are tariffs?

[Brandon Herrera]

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[Eli Double Tap]

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[Cody]

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[Eli Double Tap]

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[Donut Operator]

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[Eli Double Tap]

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[Brandon Herrera]

It's one of those. The helmet on a stick trick.

[Cody]

But then, but then he talks about like he has to do a barrel swap at one point and like just how fast he was moving to swap out the barrels.

[Brandon Herrera]

And this is World War I.

[Cody]

This is World War I.

[Brandon Herrera]

What the fuck he was using?

[Cody]

It would have been a German Mark 8.

[Brandon Herrera]

I think the first I was thinking was the. Was it the MG08?

[Cody]

Yeah, yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

MG815. I was just about to bring that up because I just bought one.

[Eli Double Tap]

Of course.

[Cody]

Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

So he.

[Brandon Herrera]

So I'm actually in the process of doing a video on one of these right now.

[Cody]

That's what we think.

[Brandon Herrera]

A Maxim gun that was cut down to be like a relatively man portable. It was like the first one of. The first, like actual like light machine guns.

[Cody]

So like in his book, he took. Because that has a water jacket on it to keep the barrel cool. He talks about like running out of water now the gun's gonna overheat faster. And then he's. He's about to like, basically abandon it and just like run for it and hopefully that he doesn't get shot. And he crawls into the driver's section where there's another door that's gonna give him like the best shot. And when he gets in the driver's section, he finds some oil. So then he puts oil inside the water jacket. But then. So he keeps it in this firefight with oil in the water jacket. But then he talks about how like a. How hot it is inside this fucking tank in broad sunlight, shooting thousands of rounds of ammunition inside of a tin can. And then once he put the oil in, the fumes coming off the fucking gun, he's like, I couldn't breathe, dude.

[Eli Double Tap]

The burn.

[Cody]

Yeah, just him talking about all that shit. It's like so that.

[Brandon Herrera]

That would be contained for the most part.

[Eli Double Tap]

What would it is machine gun though.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah. So it's like a closed system or like a lot of, I don't know, our gaskets are kind of blown out, so like the water leaks and like that. But like at the time it would be pretty enclosed because even like with

[Eli Double Tap]

the like the 240 of the saw when we started shooting, when you're up to like 400, 500,000 rounds, there's just that gas cloud that hangs out because that's the gas.

[Brandon Herrera]

Because that's gas operated. So the gas is shooting back at you. So this is if I'm talking out of my ass a little bit. But like I think the maxim and the MG08 are short recoil. So there's no gas system. It's the jacket around the barrel is entirely there just to keep the barrel cool.

[Eli Double Tap]

No shit.

[Brandon Herrera]

In a perfect world it doesn't leave. But.

[Eli Double Tap]

But then the oil. I'm just getting heating up and everything.

[Cody]

Well, he talks. I mean he's also. It steams out, but then also like when he's putting the oil in, he's also got 600 dudes running at him. So he's. I don't know if he even put the cap back on, but he talks about dumping it in and it overflowing over the gun or over the water jacket. And then so I mean you have all the oil on the outside of the water jacket heating up, so you just couldn't fucking breathe. And then they finally get artillery sighted in on him.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh, fuck.

[Cody]

The tank gets hit with artillery and he survives and keeps fighting. It's crazy.

[Eli Double Tap]

How did he is just because they dropped the. He.

[Cody]

Well, they dropped the smoke. That's what let him get in there. And then he was in this firefight by himself for they don't know exactly how long is between two and four hours that he held off this entire battalion.

[Brandon Herrera]

Sure. It felt like days.

[Cody]

Yeah, bro. And he'd already been up for like three days already at this point on this recon mission.

[Brandon Herrera]

Just flow state of killing Germans.

[Cody]

Yeah. And like it's. Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

How did he leave?

[Cody]

Well, eventually, apparently after you get in a firefight by yourself with machine guns for two to four hours, the Allied force are like, there's something going on over there. Eventually guys showed up and. Yeah. He likes. So what happens is he's in this firefight and then right as shit's really going south, Allied artillery starts lighting up the Germans and they start retreating. And then Allied forces come in. Well then the Germans had already struck his tank with the artillery. He doesn't know how long he was out. He just wakes up. And when he wakes up, he's like, well, I'm not dead. But he hears gunfire going on. The allies had showed up and now they were getting in a fucking firefight up on the ridge with the Germans now. So the Germans thought he was dead in the tank. So then he gets back in the tank and starts opening up again. Nice to help him out. And then once the battle's like over. They show up and he like staggers out of the tank and as some infantry platoon gets to him first and the lieutenant's like, who the are you? Like what Barkley with the intelligence unit. And he's like what the fuck happened? He's killing Germans. So his original book is titled no Hard Feelings. The. The new name for solid. Yeah. Also why it didn't perform well at the time. The new name is Scarlet Fields. Referring to what the fucking field. Looked in front of this tank and he like staggers out and the lieutenant's like looking at this field of dead Germans. And then the tank that was knocked out and then hit with artillery again with him inside of it is like holy. And then he just like staggers two miles back to his HQ tent because I mean like goes to bed.

[Brandon Herrera]

Tanks in World War I were not armored by modern standards or even by World War II standards.

[Eli Double Tap]

Like mortars are a new standard. Gas is a new standard. Tanks are like that was everything interesting do. Yeah.

[Cody]

I mean he talks about all this. He's like I. He's like all I could do is hope that they didn't have mortars or an anti tank gun, because I was. And he's like they didn't. But he talks about them getting their Maxims set up in the wood line and they start just shooting. Basically the Germans were just throwing everything they had for suppressing fire trying to get them to stop so that they could get guys close enough with grenades or be able to shoot into this porthole that he was shooting out of. And he, he talks about how loud it is inside the tank. He said it sounded like a thousand people had hammers beating on it.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh my God. Just.

[Brandon Herrera]

And not service connected.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah, no, no. 100%.

[Cody]

Not World War I known for their earplugs.

[Brandon Herrera]

That's the crazy part. All the, all the things that our grandfathers and great grandfathers did and like World War II, World War I. None of those mother had earplugs.

[Eli Double Tap]

Is it mortars Are not you like artillery and everything? Even we didn't use it much. It's just when I heard the scale of like 60 to 65 million shells fired from both sides in a 10 month conflict in one battle.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, well, because that's where it was like fucking manufacturable and stuff like that. I mean we still like we had predecessors that like in the, in the Civil War, for example, like we had mortars like the cohorn mortar and like, like stuff that was for that. And then you had like airburst shells. Like it's not just a big steel ball. Like the exploded midair.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh, see, I didn't even know that was a thing.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, you would like cut fuses and that was one of the jobs for a lot of the guys in the canon crew is like you would have fuses sticking out of the cannon ball with the explosives inside. You'd cut the fuse based on the range you were trying to fire to get it to air burst over the top of infantry.

[Eli Double Tap]

Then that's when you said there's dudes that dialed the in on it where they.

[Cody]

Yeah, it's reversed. So like nowadays you would change the optic, you know what I mean? You would change the optic to the ammunition. Because you're using like match grade ammunition with like a sniper rifle was the example I use. The, the cannon guys were like, no, we're setting the cannon where it's at. And then the mathematician back there is going to add more black powder to the charge if we needed to go further or less if we need it. So like they were, they were, they were manufacturing the ammunition on the fly to the job as opposed to just changing the sight and having a fixed.

[Eli Double Tap]

It's fucking wild.

[Brandon Herrera]

Speaking of which, I may have made a purchase a cannon. Yes. Oh yeah it is. It's a big boy.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh my God. I didn't.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

Size comparison next to eye opening.

[Brandon Herrera]

I was warned in advance. They're like, you know this, this mother like with the carriage and all is like 12ft long.

[Eli Double Tap]

Right?

[Brandon Herrera]

Like yeah, I gotta clean up my garage. But yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

Are you shooting it?

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh fuck yeah. No, absolutely. That's the, the one thing I want to do. Like I got a lot of ideas and I don't want to put necessarily all of them on the Internet, but I do want to at some point. Like I've got a conjure of ideas. Yes, that's what we're going to do.

[Eli Double Tap]

That's why we bought it.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah. Strap into it like you're the British occupation of India. Strap them to the cannon wheels. But that's something I do want to do is like test a bunch of different loads on it. But the one I want to try to find a way that's a destructive device. And I don't, I know a lot of those limitations, legally speaking, but I don't know where this falls. Try to replicate like an airburst exploding cannonball like from the Civil War, like with the black powder inside with the fuses and just show impact on targets. If you were able to Actually get

[Cody]

one to shell, dummy.

[Brandon Herrera]

Just show what a fucking shard of CannonBall does at 300 yards.

[Cody]

So this is like another part of that John Lewis Barkley story that was just, like, interesting and cool to think about. He. He talks about when he. He first gets drafted, and he shows up to the train station on his way to basic training, and it's like, him and a cup. Another guy that's getting drafted, and they're just, like, hanging out at the train station, and he has this old white dude with a white beard down to here. Come up to him, and it's like, you boys in the. In the Army? And they're like, yeah. And he's like, yeah, I know soldiers when I see him. And then he's like, I'm a veteran of the War between the States. I want to give you some advice. And the Civil War guy tells him, stay spread out. Don't get grouped up, because they're gonna get up by grapeshot. And it's like he, like, implements that later on in the war, like, with machine gun fire. Same principle. But, like, it was just interesting. Like, God damn. It's a close. I don't know, muskets and cannons to tanks. And the rules so applied, it's like,

[Eli Double Tap]

hey, do this and you will be safe. Because even to this day, you have staggered formation by 6ft to 12ft, I think, between grenades. Right.

[Cody]

It was crazy for me to think about, like, my son is going to feel that way when I tell him when he's 20. Like, oh, yeah, I've talked to World War II veterans.

[Donut Operator]

Yeah.

[Cody]

You know what I mean?

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh, like, shit.

[Cody]

Because by the time my son's 20, every World War II veteran is going to have passed, and it's going to seem like something that happened 500 years ago to him. And I'm going to be able to feel like, no.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah.

[Cody]

Here's a video of me talking to more multiple World War II veterans.

[Brandon Herrera]

I mean, I remember the day when I saw the news article that said that the last World War I veteran had died.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

And that just kind of felt, like monumental. Like, oh. Like there's literally none of them left. Like, we cannot get those stories anymore.

[Eli Double Tap]

It was like, 2012. Right.

[Brandon Herrera]

I don't know exactly when it was, but it was. It's one of the reasons why I love what we do on the podcast where we get to platform World War II veterans to be able to tell those stories and, like, keep them forever. Cause there will be a day. I hope it's not soon, but there Will be a day where we can't get that anymore.

[Eli Double Tap]

Everyone's always blown away by that too. It's like, you talk to any veteran organization or just people in general, that's the coolest thing we do is holy. You gotta sit down with those guys and share a beer. It's like, yeah, it's fucking dope.

[Brandon Herrera]

Having a drink with World War II veterans is really fucking cool.

[Eli Double Tap]

And then I walk. What store did I go to yesterday? He knew who I was. And then the first thing he says, hey, it's the second guy to drink a White Claw at the Pentagon. I was like, fuck you. I never said that. And I started out like mother.

[Brandon Herrera]

So I went back to the Pentagon. After all that, I had some meetings going on in D.C. like fucking two weeks ago and had to go back to the Pentagon. And our tour guides cool as because like, before the meetings, we had like, some guys that were giving us like the official tour of the Pentagon. They were fucking rad on sub fans. You guys were awesome. Had a great time. And there was somebody that we were talking to, like, kind of passing in, passing in the hallway, and somebody had brought up the concept or the. The idea of like, oh, yeah, well, the alcohol, you know, it was something like, oh, well, can't wait to grab a drink later or whatever. Yeah, you guys have a bar around here? And they're like, no, can't drink in the Pentagon. And I just kind of like, well, you can if you got a permission slip. And she just goes, you. She's like, oh, we heard about you guys.

[Cody]

Mine's framed in my office. Yes, I'm keeping this forever.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's over a year and a half or about a year and a half later. Our reputation precedes us in the Pentagon.

[Eli Double Tap]

Good, good.

[Cody]

Hey, you ever just wake up and

[Eli Double Tap]

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

[Brandon Herrera]

That's crazy. Does the mattress also your mom?

[Connor]

You ever wake up feeling like you slept in a swamp? Cause you're disgusting. Nasty ball sweat.

[Brandon Herrera]

I see most of you on Reddit, so I know you have time to

[Eli Double Tap]

break up with that mattress.

[Connor]

Get divorced from your mattress.

[Eli Double Tap]

Get a ghostbed that hoe.

[Brandon Herrera]

You're worth more. You're so strong.

[Eli Double Tap]

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[Connor]

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[Brandon Herrera]

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[Eli Double Tap]

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[Brandon Herrera]

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[Eli Double Tap]

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[Donut Operator]

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[Connor]

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[Brandon Herrera]

Especially with as much as you smoke.

[Connor]

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[Eli Double Tap]

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[Brandon Herrera]

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[Eli Double Tap]

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[Brandon Herrera]

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[Eli Double Tap]

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[Brandon Herrera]

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[Connor]

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[Brandon Herrera]

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[Connor]

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[Brandon Herrera]

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[Cody]

What are we doing?

[Connor]

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[Brandon Herrera]

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[Connor]

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[Eli Double Tap]

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[Brandon Herrera]

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[Eli Double Tap]

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[Brandon Herrera]

This is a threat.

[Eli Double Tap]

Cody. What's the next thing? What's your next police breakdown, but then more importantly your podcast because you're covering the cool sh.

[Donut Operator]

Yeah, man, I had to. I feel bad about my audience for the crime is fun stuff because I had my wedding and then we went right in the honeymoon. I didn't have time to prepare anything. I'm supposed to be doing it weekly, but I think the next one is going to be crimes that happen in carnivals and then. Yeah, yeah. People that got murdered by like carnies and shit. And then also rides that killed people. You know, murdered them technically, I guess, just crazy like that.

[Eli Double Tap]

A lot of failures of rights.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Donut Operator]

There was. There was one case where a dude was harassing his co worker at a funnel cake stand and so she put. She. She throws batter in his face.

[Cody]

It's as.

[Eli Double Tap]

That is as corny as it gets too.

[Donut Operator]

Yeah. And so she. She throws.

[Cody]

That's such a good name for a country song. Harassing my co worker at funnel cake stand.

[Donut Operator]

But yeah, she. Yeah, by Zach Brian. Fingered by a carny bicep.

[Connor]

Brian.

[Cody]

What's that?

[Donut Operator]

She throws batter on him and he's like, fuck. And falls over and his head goes in the deep fryer. He literally funnel caked his face. It's pretty cool. Yeah, a lot a Lot of crime. I got that going.

[Eli Double Tap]

And then exactly how uncoordinated?

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh,

[Donut Operator]

it's like a fucking.

[Connor]

And then comes back out.

[Eli Double Tap]

Like trying to. That'd be $5, $15.

[Brandon Herrera]

Hand it to an obese child.

[Donut Operator]

You think, like, how can someone be so uncoordinated? But we've been watching all the Indians on Twitter lately, brother. That's getting out of control.

[Eli Double Tap]

I've been sending they know videos.

[Brandon Herrera]

They know that trains have to follow the tracks, right? You can't just get attacked by a train, bro.

[Cody]

I'm telling you right now, when you. At least when I went through school to be an elect, you get to spend a couple hours of your time watching Indian people get fried by electricity.

[Donut Operator]

Hell yeah.

[Cody]

Like, there's some videos where like, Like,

[Eli Double Tap]

what are they doing? And it's not like a one off where you're like, oh, and that's him paralyzed now.

[Donut Operator]

Yeah, I would think so. His homeboy jerking him up.

[Cody]

But I mean, the, the train ones, like, there's. It had to have been either an electric train or it was just a high voltage line running next to the train. And some Indian dude is standing on it, reaches up and just grabs a high voltage line. Just gone every time.

[Donut Operator]

Have you seen the. The 20 of them moving in like a shrine or something? The middle of a field where you can clearly see there's a line. And so they're all holding this giant shrine. All of them just.

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh, God.

[Donut Operator]

Drop.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh, wait, no, I haven't seen that. I thought you were talking about when they were like.

[Brandon Herrera]

No, they do that a lot.

[Eli Double Tap]

It's the huge tower everyone's riding over. Yeah, and it is. That's like a 50 foot tower.

[Brandon Herrera]

Have you seen the. The David Attenborough one where it's the fake documentary, but it's all the real voice. And here we have the Indian with its native predator, the train line. As there's clearly no indicator of where the train will be going in the future, its prey has no chance of survival. Let's see what happens. It's like, it's. It's very funny.

[Cody]

Nothing.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's not funny.

[Eli Double Tap]

I just picture Indian people like. Like deer. The train stops.

[Brandon Herrera]

It really does illustrate, though, the reactions on some of that, like, how different our mindsets are. Like just Americans versus, you know, other places in the world. On. On the value of life. Because, man, the reactions to that, like, if I would be horrified if I watch somebody get smoked by a train in real life. Right. But these people, it's like an everyday occurrence. There's Just no reaction whatsoever. I don't understand it.

[Eli Double Tap]

The video you showed me yesterday with the dude with the shotgun on his chest.

[Brandon Herrera]

I'm do that on Darwin. Yeah.

[Donut Operator]

Oh, that's. I think that's the one I see.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah.

[Donut Operator]

Dancing, having a good time with the shotgun on his chest.

[Brandon Herrera]

Pointing a loaded shotgun at his chest and fucking with the trigger guard.

[Eli Double Tap]

It goes off.

[Cody]

Have you guys seen.

[Eli Double Tap]

And then they dance it by

[Donut Operator]

and

[Brandon Herrera]

he's like, don't want to up everybody else's good time.

[Eli Double Tap]

What the fuck?

[Cody]

Have you guys seen all the videos where it's like. Like, it'll be like in America or whatever? And it's like, I don't know, a Chevy Equinox where they, like, the rail guards for the train station both fall and they're stuck in between them. You can just see the person has time to like, oh, I'll try to reverse. Oh, no, that rail guard's down. Okay, I'll try to drive for. Oh, that one's down too. And then they just sit there and for like 15 seconds, waiting for the train. I was like, drive through it. Like, I don't.

[Brandon Herrera]

Well, a lot of them, like, flex and bend outward for that exact reason.

[Eli Double Tap]

Anything can you. Literally, it is the most frustrating thing.

[Cody]

It gives me so much anxiety. Like, how are you this stupid? And then they just, like, get out and run. It's like, it's the one.

[Eli Double Tap]

I swear. One backed up and there's a vehicle and they backed up and then they just gave up because they're like, there's a car behind me, nothing in front. So they did not just go forward and get.

[Brandon Herrera]

Dude, there's one in my district. I think it's in Pecos, where it's at, like, an old train station. And there was a train derailment. I don't remember what it was. Like a truck in the road or some like that, but it sent a train into an antique train station, like, full on, like, train. And there were people in it. I forget what. I forget what they turned it into, but there were people inside this thing. As a train derails and just sails

[Cody]

into this antique building in Charles City, Iowa. The only time.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh, a show.

[Cody]

Similar story.

[Eli Double Tap]

A live show.

[Cody]

A small town near mine, Charles City, Iowa. There is a dive bar in an old train station. And the dive bar is called Derailed. I'm not you In, I believe 2014, a train derailed and hit the bar.

[Brandon Herrera]

I mean, you're asking for it at that point.

[Eli Double Tap]

What was the other.

[Brandon Herrera]

That is the train station that brick Building. Half of it's not there anymore.

[Donut Operator]

Oh, yeah.

[Cody]

Oh.

[Connor]

Oh.

[Eli Double Tap]

So it just hit. Oh, my God. Yeah, there's a. Did you ever.

[Brandon Herrera]

I don't think anybody died, though.

[Eli Double Tap]

Thankfully the police officer that forgot to pull the person out.

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh, no, they did get the driver.

[Donut Operator]

I think he had someone cuffed in his suv. Or she did, and she leaves it on the tracks and gets out and starts talking to someone and train just

[Eli Double Tap]

smacks it in the play. Oh, dude. Homies on the train tracks.

[Donut Operator]

Yeah. Yeah. I don't care. I don't know if they died or not. I can't remember. I. I don't think they got up really bad.

[Eli Double Tap]

They made a lot of money.

[Brandon Herrera]

Trains are notoriously quiet. Yeah. Yeah. She no horns or anything or you

[Donut Operator]

think, God, there wasn't an acorn there. She would have shot him too.

[Cody]

I thought the train would stop. I had my lights on. It was supposed to pull over to the side.

[Donut Operator]

I can't remember what her. Her thinking was on that one. That was a while back.

[Eli Double Tap]

Just imagine being the. You just get arrested and then put in a car on the tractor. Like, huh, that's weird.

[Brandon Herrera]

What kind of Scooby Doo, like, Dudley do right Death. Like, that's absurd. You're literally tied up on the train tracks.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah. And then her reaction to is like, oh, my God, there was somebody in my car. That was. The reaction is like, huh? Why the fuck did you park on the train track? You can do, like, as you said, five feet in either direction. Avoid the situation altogether.

[Brandon Herrera]

There's no way of knowing where a train will be. They move at all axises. Famously.

[Cody]

If you get hit by a train, it's your fault. He's the exception to the rule.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah, Cody's researching it right now.

[Connor]

Yeah.

[Donut Operator]

So they ended up being charged. The officer was charged. I'm trying to figure out.

[Eli Double Tap]

Wow.

[Brandon Herrera]

I would certainly hope.

[Donut Operator]

The woman suffered a fractured tibia, broken arm, nine broken ribs, and a fractured sternum in the incident they originally wanted to hit the cop with attempted. Attempted attempted manslaughter or reckless. Attempted reckless manslaughter.

[Brandon Herrera]

How do you attempt to manslaughter?

[Donut Operator]

I don't know, but they ended up

[Eli Double Tap]

getting reckless and put them in a train.

[Brandon Herrera]

Well, there were ever a scenario.

[Eli Double Tap]

Arthur Morgan here. Yeah.

[Donut Operator]

They ended up getting reckless endangerment and third degree assault.

[Eli Double Tap]

How did you park on the train tracks again?

[Cody]

You do a pull.

[Eli Double Tap]

You stop there after pulling somebody over and then march them into it.

[Brandon Herrera]

And the first thought is to run away. Be killing people. Like Red Dead Redemption Online.

[Donut Operator]

Have you seen the guy stack like 40 people up on the train tracks?

[Brandon Herrera]

The inverse trolley problem.

[Eli Double Tap]

What'd you guys do up in Dallas with Zach?

[Cody]

It was like, I don't know, it was some. The government's trying to figure out how to combat propaganda. So they brought in a bunch of YouTubers for advice and then didn't listen. I mean, some of them listened.

[Brandon Herrera]

Was that what that was basically?

[Cody]

Oh, I thought it was like a better mounted tail. Well, yeah, but it was, it was specifically about like propaganda. So like the examples that they had were like after the Maduro raid, that picture that was going around of like the dude that captured Maduro, it's just like some operator like smiling with somebody with a bag on their head. They're like, that picture was from 10 years ago. Like, that's not the guy. But everybody was sharing this on the Internet and like that guy's been retired. But now A, that guy has to deal with it and it's like, B, you don't want to be sharing around. Like people can figure out who that is now his family's at risk. So it was very much like how to keep family members and service members safe from which.

[Brandon Herrera]

Welcome to that Internet. Like that's.

[Cody]

Yeah, yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

How did that photo get out there in the first place? And then that's. I'd be like, where did that come from? Did he post on Facebook? Like, like that got in circulation somehow.

[Cody]

Right.

[Brandon Herrera]

But I wouldn't con. I wouldn't even consider that propaganda, like that's just getting shared around on the Internet because everybody wants to. The. Everybody wants the clicks of being first. Oh, we got the guy who was on the raid.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

And then it gets shared around. Even though like half of those were AI.

[Cody]

Well, so I mean, there was multiple, like, nice jobs. I won't say which ones, but it was, you know, like veterans organizations and like on non profit organizations. No, like they were being cool. Like they were asking us questions on how to solve stuff. And like my big piece of advice was like, you know, your issue is like people are putting out bad information. And even if journalists are putting out bad information sometime, I go, why don't a lot of you guys that are these non profits and like institutions that do work with government because they're like, we've tried talking to Meta, we've tried talking to X and they won't help us solve the problem. I'm like, yeah, that's never going to happen.

[Brandon Herrera]

No.

[Cody]

If you want to do anything that you could actually impact, get a bunch of you guys Together and actually come up with some type of stamp or verification and then potentially even get that to be a check mark on social media platforms where you could be like, hey, this military influencer or this independent journalist is. Has this check mark or this stamp of approval from all these organizations of actually putting out really accurate information all the time so that people know where to get, get reliable information from.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's gonna be funny the first time one of those gets yoinked, you're putting out AI bullshit and they just yoink your.

[Cody]

Yeah, but I mean, how useful would it be if there was actually a non profit organization out there that regardless of whether you're a, you know, left wing or right wing content creator, if they just gave the stamp of like this person puts out accurate information.

[Brandon Herrera]

Kind of like the MPAA in a way, like movie ratings.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah, that's a hard one though, because no matter what, like it's gonna happen. You can have an org that says, oh, you can trust us. But still, first people out. You'd almost just want the US military after a raid happens. It's like, here's the fucking dudes with blurry, blurred faces. They did it. It's done. Release it all out there. That's the only information you give and like, oh, okay, well the government did it. Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

Because if the only information out there is false information, then like that's very hard to combat. But you say, oh no, this is the real photo. It's just like, I mean, right after Bin Laden got killed, that was what, 2011?

[Eli Double Tap]

2011?

[Brandon Herrera]

2012. Something like that. Everybody remembers the shitty Photoshop of like a mangled Bin Laden face that was just completely fake. But that went everywhere on Facebook because there was no real.

[Eli Double Tap]

That was fake. That was fake.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

Did not know that. I thought that was the real thing.

[Brandon Herrera]

Nope, it was like an amalgamation of like prior photos mixed with. Yeah, somebody hamburger. Well that's. And to my point exactly, like if that's the only thing that floats out there, dude, it's hard to combat.

[Eli Double Tap]

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[Donut Operator]

Seen how much the Osama bin Laden baseball card is now the MVP card?

[Brandon Herrera]

What?

[Eli Double Tap]

What?

[Donut Operator]

Yeah, so they, they used to have like trading cards.

[Cody]

I have a ton of them at

[Donut Operator]

my house back in the day. And if you can get it PSA graded, like a PSA 8 or 9. Osama bin, like the most wanted thing. Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

Not MVP. Well, they're baseball.

[Donut Operator]

It's not the, it's not playing cards. It's actual, like baseball cards pretty much.

[Cody]

I have a ton of them at my house in the, in the box

[Connor]

tops during, during desert baseball car.

[Donut Operator]

Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

So it's different than the ones we got Cody right on top, the golf war cards. But they're like, they're Osama ones.

[Donut Operator]

Yeah, the ones that person gave to us. But the Osama one, if you get a PSA graded. Yeah, kind of like these, but nice. They graded like eight or nine. They're like two or three grand.

[Connor]

What?

[Donut Operator]

Yeah, I was looking at them.

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh, yeah, no, I'm looking at it, right? Yeah, no, it's like 2,500 bucks. Operation Enduring Freedom, 2001 tops. Enduring Freedom, Osama, Osama bin Laden PSA 10 Gem Mint 19 card. 2,500 bucks.

[Donut Operator]

There's one signed by Rob O' Neill on eBay right now.

[Brandon Herrera]

That's really funny.

[Donut Operator]

Four grand. Yeah, I messaged him. I was like, hey, can you get me one of these?

[Brandon Herrera]

Or hey, can I just get you five cards and you sign them.

[Eli Double Tap]

Drive up to Austin and be like, rob, sign these real quick. Thank you.

[Donut Operator]

Side hustle. We just start getting our guests to sign shift for us.

[Eli Double Tap]

I did not know any.

[Brandon Herrera]

The playing card. The, the, the playing cards of people that they've smoked.

[Cody]

Oh, we should get, we should have a Homie, print us another trophy skull that's like blank and then just have all the war veterans that we bring on sign it. That can be something cool for unsub.

[Eli Double Tap]

What's his name Skull.

[Cody]

I think it's called trophy skulls on Instagram.

[Brandon Herrera]

What a. What a niche.

[Eli Double Tap]

Trophy war skulls. Is it that guy?

[Cody]

Yes. Yep.

[Eli Double Tap]

Okay.

[Cody]

Trophy war skulls on Instagram.

[Eli Double Tap]

I hope so.

[Cody]

You can order from. He'll make you custom ones. Whatever you want, I think.

[Brandon Herrera]

I don't know what I'd want on a skull.

[Cody]

I just think it's cool.

[Eli Double Tap]

They look a hundred percent like it is. So. Yeah, his Instagram and they. We thought they were.

[Cody]

We thought they were real.

[Brandon Herrera]

When we first saw it in the box, it was like we all just kind of looked around like, do we cut this?

[Cody]

I remember Googling. Am I legally allowed to have this? When he first opened it up before we realized that it was 3D printed, like, they look scarily real.

[Eli Double Tap]

The joy on our faces is the more terrifying. No, we've never been that happy. Open than anything. One human skull and then disappointment. A.

[Brandon Herrera]

Well, that was the second thought. It was like. The first thought was like, oh, my God. The second one, like, cut.

[Cody]

Oh, my God.

[Brandon Herrera]

All right, we. It's like Hamlet. Like, we're, we're having to take custody. Like, who's got the skull this month? It's my week with the skull, dude.

[Eli Double Tap]

They look dope, though.

[Donut Operator]

Oh, yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

See, I love that shit. Mr. Brandon, what's your. The next good fun politics stuff?

[Brandon Herrera]

Do you get fun politics? None. I don't do any fun politics. But I, I mean, it's, it's, it's work. It's. It's another, you know, full time job on top of it, on top of everything else. But it's, it's, it's good stuff because right now we're, we're focusing really hard, you know, memes aside, you know, like it was, you know, oh, Tony this, this, that. But like, now we really are taking it very seriously because there is a. There's a vacancy in the seat right now. So there is nobody representing Texas District 23 because Tony resigned. I don't know if we've even said that on the pub, the podcast, but he publicly had to resign because of his actions. And so while it's good that bad things happen to bad people and there's still accountability in the system, I feel like that's a huge white pill. You know, there's accountability. You could still call out these people and if you have enough momentum behind it, you know, there are consequences. But now there's no representation for the district until the election. So we're trying to do everything we can. Because it's a Republican seat. I'm the most likely nominee. Well, I am the Republican nominee, but the most likely, the person that's going to fill that seat. So we're already working hard on establishing like a ground game and solving problems like the Big Bend border wall. We were big on that AI data centers, the Howard Solstice power lines cutting through the district. We're working on real issues that are, I mean, mostly bipartisan. It's not just like a Republican Democrat thing. It's like a real, real issues that impact people here. And if I can do all of these things and fix all of these problems before I even take office, just imagine what I can do when I've actually got the sway of a vote. And so that's kind of the tactic we're taking now is just solving the problems before we even have the fucking seat.

[Eli Double Tap]

That's what I was wondering, how that works, because I have again, no idea on any of that side. It's like no one's in the seat. So it's not on pause. As you're saying, you still have to show up and then try to sway it without.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, well, because I can still talk to, for example, the companies that run the data centers. I could still talk to the power companies I can talk to specifically with the Big Bend border wall is a great example. So I can talk to the folks that I know in the White House or in the Department of Homeland Security, which I went and I met with both in person when I went to D.C. and advocated for the district as far as not having the border wall in the Big Bend national park. Because it's a natural barrier already. Like they're talking about putting like a 20 foot fence on top of a 90 foot granite cliff. Like it's a natural barrier. It was responsible for like record low immigration. Like even during the peak of the border crisis. Out of all of the sectors of border, that one was responsible for like 1.3% of illegals. And I think they were like almost all stopped. It's just a very hard place to illegally immigrate. But it's a problem for agriculture, it's a problem for wildlife, it's a problem for tourism, which that economy in that county very, very heavily depends on. I don't want to get too boring with it, but it's like serious policy shit, right? And because of our advocacy and thanks to plenty of others that really helped in that we were able to get the White House and DHS to say that they are no longer seeking a border wall in Big Bend national park, which we're. I'm very proud of. And so now we're trying to move and make sure that that's the same for the state park as well, for the same reasons. But we're making progress. We're actually getting stuff done. And I don't even have a seat, so I mean, that's. Again, it's like just trying to solve the issues. Like, if I can solve this many issues before I'm in office, imagine what I could in.

[Eli Double Tap]

That's awesome. I. At the gym we go to, it's still. Well, we've talked about it before. It's just older individuals that do not watch YouTube, but now they know you specifically for that.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's very strange still.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah, great advice.

[Cody]

Sometimes it's getting awkward. You're Brandon Herrera. I love your work. Which work?

[Connor]

Thank you, man.

[Brandon Herrera]

What do you mean? Dude?

[Eli Double Tap]

It is like 60, 70 year olds walking up in the gym like. Like, you're Brandon Herrera. I'm like, that dude does not know what YouTube is. There's no way. And they're like.

[Brandon Herrera]

But it's good though to have permeated that because, you know, you can't win elections online. Like, it's stuff like this. So like, that's again, what a lot of the donations and everything go to is like permeating that culture where, you know, we're doing radio ads, TV ads, mailers, stuff like that, meeting the voters where they are. And it's been. I mean, clearly, have we fairly successful?

[Cody]

Have we considered pro Brandon Herrera AI slop? That seems to be very effective against the boomers. What if that. What if we could just get some AI videos of you, like, I don't know, saving children from trains or whatever. Like you flying.

[Brandon Herrera]

That's a horrible. This was a horrible podcast to bring that up on.

[Eli Double Tap]

No, the.

[Brandon Herrera]

So I. There was almost a lot I. To my understanding. I don't think almost Brandon.

[Eli Double Tap]

Almost Nick, go on.

[Connor]

Where they were.

[Brandon Herrera]

They basically would have banned these. I banned AI from. From political advertising in the state of Texas. I'm like, I wish it's because it's so crazy.

[Cody]

I didn't say advertising. I said, what if all your friends started shit posting AI?

[Brandon Herrera]

That's fine.

[Eli Double Tap]

On Facebook.

[Donut Operator]

Specifically Facebook.

[Eli Double Tap]

It's gonna be a. A lion, a female lion drops a lion cub in Brandon's arms.

[Cody]

Yeah.

[Connor]

All right.

[Eli Double Tap]

Don't do Runs off and Brandon nurses it back.

[Cody]

Bald eagles landing on your shoulder. And don't.

[Brandon Herrera]

Don't do literal slop. But I will say this, the. The new front of this all the time, too. The new front of this war is on Facebook. So just so you know, I have a campaign Facebook and so does my opponent.

[Cody]

So it's all the AI slop of, like, look at the new creature they found off the coast of Costa Rica. Blah, blah, blah, blah, like sea monster, AI slopping. It's just you beating the out of it. It's going to be great.

[Brandon Herrera]

I. AI is going to work so good. It went from Will Smith eating spaghetti to one shotting anybody over 60. So quick.

[Eli Double Tap]

Dude, there's this one. It's the bear. Have you seen the. The mother polar bear knows it's exhausted and going to die, so drops off cub into canoe of man.

[Brandon Herrera]

No, I've not seen that.

[Eli Double Tap]

And then.

[Brandon Herrera]

Why is that in your feet?

[Eli Double Tap]

The polar bear, like, walks up and it puts the cub in the canoe. And the guy's like, what? Oh, my God. It's a POV shot.

[Brandon Herrera]

Who's canoeing where a polar bear lives, Brandon?

[Eli Double Tap]

The polar bear dies. And then he goes like this. The polar bear, the baby polar bear is looking up and he's like petting it. And then the title is. It's like mother polar bear knows it's dying and gives its cub to somebody it trusts. And the boomers got one shot by that. They're like a mom always knows when to trust somebody.

[Brandon Herrera]

Those are the same ones that have.

[Eli Double Tap]

Like this.

[Brandon Herrera]

I shot my balls off at Cracker Barrel. It's like, sure, it's.

[Eli Double Tap]

Well, I love these.

[Cody]

And it's just. It's funny, he says, because at the. At the thing, a lot of like the. I don't know, like, I don't know if the correct terms, like VSO groups, like the older veterans organizations that are now, you know, worried about taking care of, like, older veterans. Their biggest concern was online scams with AI and old people getting tricked by AI. And every influencer in that room was just like. Like, there's nothing we could do about that.

[Connor]

I'm sorry.

[Brandon Herrera]

Like, no, really.

[Cody]

People been falling for the Norwegian prince scam forever. Like, this is just. There's Nigerian, whatever. What else?

[Brandon Herrera]

Niger or Norwegian? You said Norwegian.

[Cody]

Yeah, whatever. It's fine.

[Brandon Herrera]

There's just. Alexander Skarsgard is scamming your grandfather out of money.

[Eli Double Tap]

Sorry. It was. Guy saves polar bear cub because an orca is going to kill it.

[Donut Operator]

Are you fucking kidding me?

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh, bro, he saved it.

[Donut Operator]

Yeah, that's true.

[Connor]

And I love his.

[Brandon Herrera]

His speedboat, dude.

[Donut Operator]

The.

[Eli Double Tap]

The killer wall is trying to get it. He runs off with it. Let's, let's go to the.

[Donut Operator]

Why is it changing sizes?

[Brandon Herrera]

Wait.

[Eli Double Tap]

And then the mother bear ripped the tin open. But then seeing they were taking care of it, so then they left and said that.

[Donut Operator]

Dude, that's beautiful.

[Eli Double Tap]

Dude.

[Brandon Herrera]

Dude, there was one boomers we.

[Eli Double Tap]

It's their kryptonite.

[Brandon Herrera]

There was one I saw on, on X the other day where it was like a, a video of a shark jumping out of the water and attacking a helicopter that was like landing on an aircraft carrier and like took down the helicopter. And it just said like, he said, my mom just sent this to me with the caption, pray for our service members. I don't know and I don't have an answer for how to combat that.

[Cody]

You can't. That's the shitty part.

[Eli Double Tap]

Like, I just, I just like it went from princess in Nigeria to this.

[Donut Operator]

Those cameras are getting pretty gnarly though, man. They'll look up videos with the old people's like grandkids and they'll, they'll run their voice through AI and then get the eye to call and be like, Grandma, I need $5,000.

[Brandon Herrera]

I think there was a story, Bill,

[Eli Double Tap]

why are you in South Africa? I was arrested, grandma.

[Brandon Herrera]

Okay, I think it was Woody from, from PKA at one point where like he has a, he's got an autistic son that's like a grown ass man now. But like still, I think he still lives with them and everything, but his parents got a phone call using his son's voice saying he was in a car wreck and needed money or something. Like something along those lines using his voice, which is crazy. And I, again, if you don't know any better, how do you. How do you explain to an 80 year old person, dude, even, even before

[Donut Operator]

we had AI, like when I was a cop 10 years ago, we would have old people get scammed all the time. And two or three times I took the reports myself and I would say, well, did that sound like your grandchild asking for money?

[Brandon Herrera]

Well, no, dude.

[Donut Operator]

Why, why would you send it? They said they were a friend. It's like, okay, older people get really gullible sometimes.

[Brandon Herrera]

That's just sad. Like that's, that's just despicable to go after older people like that.

[Cody]

The AI thing aside, I still. And it's not even like 70 year old. I know 45 year old people that can't use a computer to save their life. It's just I can't talk about the mother of all bad decisions when computers were first coming out and you're just like, this is a fad. I'm not going to waste my time on it. And now you're completely computer illiterate.

[Brandon Herrera]

Well, I know how it happens though, because like, I've seen like some of, especially some of the AI stuff and, and with TikTok, I think that's where I drew my line in the sand. Like, I don't know, six, seven years

[Eli Double Tap]

ago, we hired people for TikTok specifically.

[Brandon Herrera]

Fuck you. I knew that was coming off, but. But I was like, for TikTok, I'm like, that was my line in the sand. I'm like, I'm not going to learn this. I. And then I, in that exact same moment, I'm like, ah, this is how it happens, huh? Yeah, you just, you find that line and then 20 years later you're getting one shot by just AI slob.

[Connor]

Have you ever woken up and felt the immediate need for a nicotine pouch?

[Brandon Herrera]

Slash and slash.

[Connor]

Or a cup of coffee?

[Cody]

I can't talk. It says no Nick on the can.

[Connor]

Yeah, no Nick allowed.

[Brandon Herrera]

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[Connor]

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[Donut Operator]

Well, if they don't have nicotine, what's in them?

[Eli Double Tap]

Great question.

[Connor]

Ultra partnered with leading neurosciences to develop these pouches.

[Donut Operator]

Cody, you mean they have nootropics and adaptogens?

[Connor]

I know you mispronounce nootropics, but yeah, they got those. Nootropics and adaptogens.

[Brandon Herrera]

They use nfinity. All rights reserved. PX Alpha, GPC, healtheanine. A totally naturally occurring amino acid and

[Donut Operator]

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[Brandon Herrera]

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[Connor]

and use code unsub. Uns you be. I can't spell.

[Eli Double Tap]

I hope you can.

[Brandon Herrera]

After your purchase they're gonna ask you where you heard about them. Tell them unsub sends their regards.

[Connor]

Please, for the love of God, show your support.

[Eli Double Tap]

Even AI right now. A lot of it's surprising how Many people do not incorporate it into their day to day and help. And it is wild to me. I'm like, I find the really good tech, it's very helpful if you use it right.

[Brandon Herrera]

I find it to be the opposite, frankly. I feel like there's a lot of, like, probably Gen Xers for the most part, who feel like they missed out on a lot of the. The social media boom and like the, the gold rush of social media and they don't want to miss. Miss out on the next thing. And they overuse the shit out of AI and they just think AI is the answer to everything. And they, they send these, like, horrifically. They post these horrifically edited reels and things like that, thinking, like, I'm cutting edge and everybody under 30s, like, do you guys notice that too, or is that just.

[Eli Double Tap]

I think there's a set. Again, it's. You do not have. It's like us trying to use TikTok or the people actually are studying and be like, hey, you can do this, right? And as long as a human is viewing it and then you train it properly, you can get some really good help out of it and it makes your job more efficient. But a majority of people don't do that. They're just like, I've already talked to people and they're like, oh, what do you mean, train your AI? I'm like, oh, okay, you have no idea how to use even Grok or Chat. Gtp, gtp, GPT. I'm gonna get it one day. One day I'm gonna nail that name.

[Brandon Herrera]

I just don't even correct it anymore. Just.

[Eli Double Tap]

It's like, whatever.

[Brandon Herrera]

ELI versus acronyms, chapter 37.

[Cody]

I'll tell you what, it's not good at history. It sucks dick at history. It's awful.

[Eli Double Tap]

You know what I'm saying?

[Cody]

I hate it.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh, you can't use it because then it's fucking. I've.

[Cody]

When it was first. Like, I'll check in on it every once in a while, like after I already know everything, and I'll just ask it a question. Horrifically wrong all the time.

[Donut Operator]

It does that with a lot of crime reports. I try to research too.

[Cody]

Like, I'll ask it be like, hey, where the did Audie Murphy grow up? And it'll like, start giving me all the information from like, Alvin York or like completely different war heroes. I'll be like, no, he didn't. He was born in this place. No, he was born in this place at this time. No, that's Alvin York. Oh, you're right. My bad.

[Connor]

It's like.

[Donut Operator]

And it always apologizes too, like that. It's like, oh, you're actually right. It's like, yeah, man.

[Brandon Herrera]

Do I cut the red wire or the green wire? Oh, you're right.

[Connor]

My bad.

[Donut Operator]

Wait, you're dead.

[Eli Double Tap]

It's Husk. Husk. Irl. The guy that argues with AI. Have you seen his videos?

[Cody]

No, no.

[Brandon Herrera]

This is the part where again, Eli shows something to us that the camera cannot see.

[Eli Double Tap]

What's Tony Hawk's brother's name?

[Donut Operator]

Tony Hawk has an older brother named Steve Hawk. Steve.

[Eli Double Tap]

No, I was thinking about his brother Mike.

[Cody]

Ah, got it.

[Donut Operator]

Yes, Tony also has a brother named Mike Hawk. He actually has three brothers.

[Eli Double Tap]

He asks, Hey, 80 or what? What letter had. What number has an A in it? And it will. It was like, 80 has an A in it. And he's like, really? This is chat gtp. Yes, it has chat GPT. GPT. Son of a fuck.

[Brandon Herrera]

And difficulty. Impossible.

[Eli Double Tap]

It has an A in it. First impression.

[Brandon Herrera]

Can you just let me.

[Eli Double Tap]

Shut up. It is struggling with baseline. Where's the other one? Simple obstructions.

[Brandon Herrera]

Can you laugh at everything I say

[Eli Double Tap]

just to make me feel. Doesn't have a counter either.

[Donut Operator]

I can definitely throw in some laughs if that makes you happy.

[Brandon Herrera]

Everything all right? I'm on it.

[Eli Double Tap]

Just warming up.

[Cody]

Feel free to say anything.

[Brandon Herrera]

I. It smells nice in here.

[Eli Double Tap]

Well, there you go.

[Brandon Herrera]

Even talking about nice smells. I just. Just crashed my car.

[Donut Operator]

Oh, well, okay. That one's a little dark.

[Eli Double Tap]

My grandma's dead. She's been dead. Oh, I'm really sorry to hear that.

[Cody]

No.

[Eli Double Tap]

Supposed to laugh. All his videos every day. Is that husk. You're crushing it out there. Laugh. Shut the up.

[Brandon Herrera]

You're crushing it out there. Shut the up.

[Cody]

So, Japan, Anything weird happen or what's the like? Food was good. I know. You said that.

[Donut Operator]

Nah, man, it was chill. It was just a good time.

[Cody]

What part of Japan were you in?

[Donut Operator]

We started off in Tokyo and then we went to Kyoto after that. So we like went up to the temples and saw the monkeys on top of the mountains and did the basic touristy and it was wonderful. Did you would love the food though. The wagyu over there. There's a wagyu stand every 10ft.

[Eli Double Tap]

It's incredible as a kid happened food district.

[Donut Operator]

Oh yeah, that market district with all the food on both sides. That's so good.

[Eli Double Tap]

What would.

[Brandon Herrera]

What.

[Eli Double Tap]

How do we get you to get a passport to do anything outside of the United States? You don't. Period.

[Brandon Herrera]

What is your resistance to leaving the Country?

[Cody]

Why. Why would I.

[Brandon Herrera]

Because I. I haven't. For one, I haven't left the country either.

[Cody]

Yeah, but I. I don't know. At some point in my genealogy, my ancestors looked around and said, this shit's gay. I'm going over here and I trust them.

[Brandon Herrera]

Well, yeah. No, nobody's telling you you have to move away from Iowa. I know that's a fool's errand, but just. I mean, visiting places isn't bad.

[Eli Double Tap]

I don't know.

[Cody]

It was bad enough they were like, you know what? I will take a covered wagon to California.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, but they didn't have access to first class on a 747.

[Cody]

No, they didn't. And they still decided to come here anyways because it's that bad out there.

[Eli Double Tap]

You can go to Africa. Sounds so dope.

[Cody]

With Kevin. No, it doesn't.

[Brandon Herrera]

Okay. South Africa with Kevin?

[Connor]

Yes.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yes.

[Brandon Herrera]

Okay. That. Yeah. That I would do.

[Eli Double Tap]

If we get to go hunt, I

[Cody]

can hunt in Iowa.

[Brandon Herrera]

Deer.

[Cody]

Yeah. What am I going to hunt in Africa every day? Have you seen the deer in Africa? They're a different color. Their horns are funnier shapes. I don't give a shit.

[Brandon Herrera]

Actually, I will say most of what you could hunt in Africa or a lot of what you would hunt in Africa, you can hunt in Texas because it's just all exotics.

[Cody]

I rest my case.

[Eli Double Tap]

Lions. Yeah.

[Cody]

What?

[Brandon Herrera]

Probably. No, you can't. I can find a guy, maybe.

[Donut Operator]

I don't know.

[Cody]

You got enough money, you can hunt whatever you want.

[Connor]

I swear.

[Eli Double Tap]

He hunt. Doesn't he hunt, like, everything there on his property?

[Brandon Herrera]

I don't know. If you could just hunt. Well, yeah, the pride.

[Eli Double Tap]

That's how I do it. You can kill the pride pictures.

[Cody]

He probably doesn't want you talking about it on the Internet.

[Brandon Herrera]

The.

[Eli Double Tap]

No, he takes photos of it. Kevin is very. He loves shitting on people when they, like, get about it.

[Brandon Herrera]

I would figure, like, lions, it, like, would fall into a similar category of, like, elephants, where it's like. If it's, like a problem animal or something like that, then you can take them. I don't. I actually don't know on that, but I know in the United States you can't hunt a flat lion.

[Cody]

What?

[Eli Double Tap]

They're not here. They're not native to the United States, Brandon.

[Brandon Herrera]

That's what I thought you were asking.

[Eli Double Tap]

No.

[Donut Operator]

Okay.

[Cody]

I was like,

[Eli Double Tap]

what can I hunt there that I can't hunt here? I'm like, lions.

[Brandon Herrera]

Because I know you got places like ox ranch where they've got, like, rhinos and. But like they have them just to have them. Like you can't just. Here's 50 grand. Can I shoot one?

[Eli Double Tap]

Kevin does not give a shit.

[Brandon Herrera]

That's a leopard, Eli.

[Eli Double Tap]

I know. I just.

[Cody]

Let me scroll further for a different

[Eli Double Tap]

large cat music acronyms. Large cats.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's just Kevin with a house cat

[Donut Operator]

Kevin. I have to put my foot down on that one, buddy.

[Brandon Herrera]

Where rip beans. Piano man starts playing.

[Cody]

Oh, I have a question for you about cats. Is your cat's water by its food?

[Brandon Herrera]

Yes.

[Cody]

Try moving it.

[Donut Operator]

Why?

[Cody]

Because I read something the other day that house cats are almost always in a constant state of dehydration. Because a cat's instincts are to not drink water near its food source. Because in nature, like contaminated water or whatever, he likes it.

[Donut Operator]

I have running water too.

[Brandon Herrera]

Okay.

[Donut Operator]

You always want to have them a fountain too. They'll drink more.

[Eli Double Tap]

Really?

[Donut Operator]

Yeah, because still water, they don't like it that much. So that's why they're hydrated too.

[Brandon Herrera]

That's why you got a White Claw fountain at your house too.

[Donut Operator]

Yeah, that's true.

[Eli Double Tap]

Cody's laughing. I hate that. Cody just walking on all fours to

[Cody]

the White Claw mountain.

[Brandon Herrera]

He's unlocking a genetic memory, spraying Cody with water.

[Eli Double Tap]

Giant lion.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, there you go.

[Eli Double Tap]

He kills everything out there.

[Brandon Herrera]

I. What? I. I just wonder what the circumstances are that you can kill a lion.

[Eli Double Tap]

Usually it's a.

[Cody]

You got a gun.

[Brandon Herrera]

Well, all right. You can do whatever you want. We got free will.

[Donut Operator]

I feel like we were hammering over Kevin one night and he was talking about. About a lion attacking villagers and he went out there with the whole village and they killed it.

[Connor]

Well, the males age up and they stop reproducing, but they fight off reproducing males. So there will be like a 60 year old lion that's killing all the young males that will actually breed and kill them.

[Donut Operator]

That was the story with Cecil the lion.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yep. It was an Alpha.

[Cody]

You can't explain that to an animal rights activist.

[Brandon Herrera]

No. Well, a. Because they're. It's just fucking irritating because like every. Every time I've ever gone on a hunt like that, Even the elk out in Utah, like you're going after specifically, like you're helping the species because you're going after one that's past its prime, that can't breed, but they're keeping all. In the elk's situation, like they're retaining the bulls. Excuse me, the calves, they're doing the cows. Excuse me, not the calves.

[Eli Double Tap]

So you're paying.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's not an Epstein Oak.

[Eli Double Tap]

There's a reason the doctored it. So, Cecil, it was a doctor that paid like $200,000, I think, to hunt that. That money then goes to the tribe that is in that area. They get all the meat, the skin.

[Brandon Herrera]

Well, a lot of them don't realize, too, that a lot of the conservation that we have in the United States and across the world that's great. Is because of hunters. Hunters pay for all of that shit. There wouldn't be money going to a lot of conservation if it wasn't for people that were willing to hunt stuff.

[Eli Double Tap]

That's how they pay for everything.

[Cody]

I've looked into a bunch of, like, different stupid government interfering with hunters and conservation stories since I did that cocaine hippos video. And every story ends the exact same way. People get upset that hunters are killing this animal. Hunters have to quit. The animal starts overpopulating and breeding, and then the government has to pay poachers to go in there and kill them anyways. And it's like, okay, cool. You were collecting tax revenue and getting somebody to do it for free and conserving the species. And now you have to pay a mercenary money to go in there and kill them with tax money. You know how the. The whole cow. Cows are bad because of cow farts for the environment. We have 60 million cows in America. Some cattle ranchers arguing with this person, what do we have before cows dip bison. And we had 80 million of them roaming around, eating grass and shooting and farting. This is not new. Like, just because it's a cow instead of a bison, it doesn't.

[Brandon Herrera]

But not only that, it was actually a huge. It was a huge push. Basically saying that, like, private ownership of animals is better for conservation in certain regards. Like the buffalo, because buffalo was just public property a lot of times, like, the army was just having them eradicated. They weren't owned. And so that's why we don't fucking have any of them, is because there was no ownership. If you own it, you protect it, you want to cultivate it, it. But if it's just public property, then. Well, you saw what happened to the buffalo, dude.

[Eli Double Tap]

Those. That's one of the most gnarly pictures. If you ever seen the buffalo wall, dude.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

That's like a bone temple. Yeah. Tiny, tiny little person. Did you watch the new bone temple movie? Is that. That one was apparently really good.

[Brandon Herrera]

It was very good.

[Cody]

You have to watch the first one first. But yeah, it's good. It's like a good series, I guess.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, I need to watch 28 years later that.

[Eli Double Tap]

Do I need to watch that one before? Okay.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's a very good.

[Cody]

You have to watch 28 years later, and then you can watch Bone Temple. It's directly related. There's not like a huge time gap with a different story like the other ones.

[Brandon Herrera]

It, like, it's picks up right.

[Cody]

Picks up right where it left off, but left.

[Eli Double Tap]

The reviews were fucking stellar. Also, Cody watched our movie. Connor left Project Hail Mary.

[Donut Operator]

Project Hail Mary was really good, man.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, yeah. See?

[Donut Operator]

Good movie. And then Connor. Yeah, Connors being all Negative Nancy over here.

[Eli Double Tap]

It's not that good of a movie.

[Donut Operator]

Yes, it is.

[Eli Double Tap]

I will say good.

[Brandon Herrera]

So you're gonna forget it in, like a year. I'm like, I do that to most movies, frankly, but that doesn't mean they're not good.

[Eli Double Tap]

I did hate. I was reading, like, some tweet or something, and it was talking about that, and then the top comment was like, the puppetry was really good.

[Brandon Herrera]

I was like, hannah, but the puppetry.

[Cody]

We're in the theater, me and Hannah. It's like we were like the only ones in this movie here. Hannah just leans over. You realize that rock is autistic, right? And I just fucking start dying. 100% accurate. Amaze, amaze.

[Brandon Herrera]

That's why all this. I do not like that name.

[Eli Double Tap]

I like that name, the Planet. That is a stupid name because they call it like, oh, I forgot about that rock.

[Cody]

It's 100% autistic. The more I think about it, the more autistic that movie is.

[Eli Double Tap]

100%.

[Cody]

I will 3D print you a tunnel so you can walk.

[Eli Double Tap]

What is this? Stop touching Rocky. He's like. The second he has his little thing, he's just like, what is this?

[Brandon Herrera]

What is this?

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh, oh, oh.

[Brandon Herrera]

I want some personal space here.

[Eli Double Tap]

I picture that as they watch each other sleep to wake up, right? It's autistic.

[Brandon Herrera]

Is it really?

[Cody]

We're talking about your favorite movie, the puppetry.

[Eli Double Tap]

Cody, What'd you think? Cody? What did you think of it?

[Donut Operator]

I thought it was a really good movie.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's so okay, you know, everybody on the planet's wrong. Connor's right.

[Eli Double Tap]

It's true.

[Connor]

It's like the most 7 out of 10 movie that's ever been.

[Brandon Herrera]

I think he upgraded that. I think he's upgraded it since. I think he's coming around, talks about

[Connor]

it like, it's the greatest goddamn movie that's ever been created on film. It's so okay. I'm not saying it's bad. I'm saying it's Fine.

[Brandon Herrera]

You seem to be very angry about it.

[Cody]

Ever.

[Brandon Herrera]

Cue the mommy.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

Star Wars, John.

[Connor]

What's that movie called? No Man's Sky. What's it called?

[Cody]

No country for Old Men.

[Connor]

No, what is this dumbass rock movie?

[Cody]

I already forgot the name of Hail Mary project. Hail Mary.

[Connor]

Yeah, it's okay.

[Cody]

It's named after a Tupac song.

[Connor]

I think it's named after the prayer

[Brandon Herrera]

which came first.

[Connor]

The mother of God is named after

[Eli Double Tap]

this movie because it's so goddamn great.

[Cody]

Apparently. Maybe she knew how good this movie was going to be.

[Brandon Herrera]

Jesus, the puppetry was good.

[Connor]

The Angel Gabriel came down from heaven and said, you're not gonna believe this. In 2026, a guy's gonna control a rock alien and everybody's gonna talk about it like it's the greatest thing that ever happened.

[Brandon Herrera]

He's literally the soy Jack with the glasses that just crying, screaming, I'm the

[Connor]

soy Jack with the non Reddit opinion that the movie's okay.

[Cody]

I hope you get to the point. Pearly Gates. And they're watching it because this is the favorite movie.

[Brandon Herrera]

I will say the amount of Redditors, like just the. The cringe types that are just obsessed with this movie is starting to kill it for me. It does amaze, amaze. It's like, dude, shut. Just enjoy the movie.

[Connor]

Welcome to Team Trout.

[Brandon Herrera]

I said it was a good movie. You're like, you're not allowed to enjoy it. It was mid.

[Connor]

That's not what I said. I reiterate. It's okay.

[Brandon Herrera]

Calm down before you pass out.

[Eli Double Tap]

Wait, what was the way. Pause here. Go over here real quick with him.

[Cody]

I was saying the same thing that ruined Batman. Heath Ledger's role in Batman. Yeah, you know, I mean, the people that were annoyingly obsessed about that in

[Brandon Herrera]

the movie theater shooting, but yeah, don't even remember that.

[Connor]

I remember the third Aurora, Colorado, but

[Eli Double Tap]

that was the third.

[Brandon Herrera]

But he was. Wasn't he dressed up like the Joker, though?

[Eli Double Tap]

No, he just had a gas mask and everything in.

[Brandon Herrera]

Because he was like crazy, like, color hair.

[Cody]

I thought he was dressed like the Joker.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, I think so.

[Connor]

They just had, like, died air, I think.

[Eli Double Tap]

I swore he wore a gas mask the entire time.

[Brandon Herrera]

Right.

[Connor]

I don't.

[Eli Double Tap]

I don't think so.

[Connor]

I think people conflate it, thinking that he, like, thought like, I'm the Joker,

[Eli Double Tap]

baby, But I don't think. Shooter from Dark Knight Rises. So he had tear gas. So tear gas canisters. That's why I thought he had a gas mask on to get tear gas at.

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh, they spared him the death penalty by a single vote. That guy or gal.

[Eli Double Tap]

So he's wearing tack gear, gas mask and body armor and deployed canisters to reach a gas like substance before firing into the audience. So you can just cut that part out. But yeah, that's why I swore.

[Brandon Herrera]

I was like, he was decorated with Batman. Or his apartment was decorated with Batman paraphernalia, quote unquote. I don't know what the fuck that means.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh, and then he had orange. He had orange hair.

[Cody]

He killed that guy.

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh, apparently. Oh, David what? Aragon.

[Eli Double Tap]

Aragon, maybe.

[Brandon Herrera]

An actor from the MTV television series Pimp My Ride stated that Holmes called him twice the month before the shooting took place. He was the writer, director and the star of the then upcoming film titled the Suffocator of Sins, which depicts a vigilante who shoots criminals. And Aragon claimed that Holmes showed interest in the movie's trailer. That's weird. What a weird note.

[Eli Double Tap]

And then how did he get his number?

[Connor]

1-800-Pimp- My Ride.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh, but Connor, what was the argument you were having with. With Brandon the other day about law the meter with. Oh.

[Connor]

Oh my God.

[Brandon Herrera]

Dude.

[Connor]

Dude, no, I. Dude, I'm gonna get fired up.

[Brandon Herrera]

He was screaming at me because you're wrong.

[Connor]

Let me grab my drink.

[Cody]

What did I just walk into?

[Brandon Herrera]

So there's this.

[Connor]

There's this game and I can't remember what it's called. Chase, I love making you work. Pull up the picture of this game I don't know the name of, you'll text me in two weeks asking me, but there's a wheel. I've seen it on like YouTube shorts and shit.

[Cody]

Wheel of Fortune.

[Connor]

No, no, there's a little. A little like ratchety wheel that you spin and it gives you a gradient of points. So it's like two points, two points, three points, three points, four points. And it's a left versus right thing. So let's say hypothetically, before I get to the argument that I have with Brandon, it would be like, I don't even know. Things that are white, things that are black. You spin the wheel without looking at it. Well, that would be in the middle because some people are white and some people are black. But you.

[Brandon Herrera]

You.

[Connor]

One person who has spun the wheel reveals where that gradient is. So let's say it's like,

[Brandon Herrera]

yeah, like

[Connor]

three quarters of the way on the black side. So you look at that and then you tell the other person an item or an idea that will get them to guess because they. They turn a dial that where they Think you're sitting on this gradient. So I'm saying this thing's like.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's called the mind reading or wavelength. The mind reading party game.

[Connor]

So something that's, like, more black than white, but it's not white. It's not black. It's, you know, like here. So I would say like an Oreo. An Oreo cookie. It's mostly black, but there's. There's white in it. So, yeah, 75%.

[Eli Double Tap]

Great.

[Connor]

Or like 33.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah.

[Connor]

Because two thirds of an Oreo cookie is black and one third is white.

[Cody]

Okay.

[Connor]

Boom, there we go. And then you reveal, and then the person who guessed gets the points. We had a card because Brandon and I play this when we are bored. Just in passing.

[Cody]

Totally platonic board game playing.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, well, dude, the relationship versus intimate board game. Yeah, dude, Monopoly.

[Connor]

Just me. Like Boardwalk. I don't know what I'm willing to pay for that. You owe me rent.

[Eli Double Tap]

This is my life friend Connor.

[Connor]

Platonic male life partner.

[Brandon Herrera]

I'm going for that, oddly enough.

[Eli Double Tap]

Doing my hand. Pulls out the hair band.

[Connor]

Ooh, too much teeth. Do not pass go. Do not collect $200.

[Brandon Herrera]

Community Chest. You say?

[Cody]

All right, go ahead.

[Connor]

So I don't even remember what the card was.

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh, it was illegal and prohibited.

[Connor]

Illegal and prohibited. Okay, so. So on the scale, let me. I'm trying to remember from the perspective of illegal. The camera.

[Brandon Herrera]

Prohibited.

[Connor]

Correct. Okay, so something that would be very

[Brandon Herrera]

illegal is over here.

[Connor]

Something that is prohibited is over here. I am of the belief. Correct belief that the middle point is where things and show agrees with me.

[Brandon Herrera]

She will.

[Connor]

I will ask her to confirm.

[Brandon Herrera]

She's Irish.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

Car bomb. Prohibited.

[Eli Double Tap]

Things that are mildly prohibited, they're legal.

[Connor]

Things that are illegal would be on the illegal side. And then the center point is where things transition into things that are prohibited but not illegal.

[Brandon Herrera]

I see it as a spectrum, but all right.

[Connor]

Yeah. Brandon's certainly on the spectrum.

[Donut Operator]

So.

[Brandon Herrera]

Original joke. Fuck you, dude.

[Connor]

I brought a screwdriver on set.

[Brandon Herrera]

Wondering about that.

[Connor]

This shit gets hot.

[Brandon Herrera]

Illegal.

[Connor]

Prohibited. The. The score range 22334 in the center is like over here, the gradient. So I'm trying to suggest something to get Brandon to put the needle where that would be before we reveal that's where that gradient is.

[Brandon Herrera]

This is either gonna be one of the most just controversial bits of the podcast or nobody's gonna give a shit about this.

[Connor]

Nobody's gonna give a shit, but I'm very passionate about it. So gradients here. I said not putting your shopping cart back when you leave the grocery store just being a fucking asshole. You unload your shopping cart and then you just kind of push it off to the floor side. You don't put it back in the little corral. Brandon in his infinite wisdom says. Or puts it over here on the illegal.

[Brandon Herrera]

No, I did not. Absolutely not.

[Connor]

Now we're to. Oh my God.

[Brandon Herrera]

There is no way.

[Connor]

Jamie, pull up the picture. Brandon suggested it would be there.

[Brandon Herrera]

No way. No chance. I. I would. I would bet quite a lot on this.

[Connor]

Oh, yay.

[Brandon Herrera]

Wait. Yes. You don't even remember what side of the argument you're on.

[Connor]

You were wrong as. No, let me pull this up. When was that? You don't know how to warn me.

[Eli Double Tap]

This is what I was like.

[Brandon Herrera]

Wait, let me show you.

[Eli Double Tap]

Like that they're together. I know.

[Cody]

I want you to know.

[Brandon Herrera]

Here it is.

[Cody]

This is exactly what your neighbors think you guys are doing in that house.

[Connor]

I accidentally might have implied that to one of the neighbors.

[Brandon Herrera]

That did happen.

[Connor]

Oh, wait, I can't play the audio on this because I said words I'm

[Cody]

not going to say on YouTube.

[Connor]

Two of them.

[Donut Operator]

One starts with an if one starts with an N.

[Brandon Herrera]

They were back to back, funny enough.

[Connor]

Prohibited, Illegal. Okay, yeah, there I was on the prohibited side. Chase will send this to you without audio and then you get. Oh, yeah, you're right.

[Brandon Herrera]

You guessed fully prohibited, remember?

[Connor]

That's still my point. Fucking stands, you dumbass. That's not the most prohibited thing you can do. That's not illegal.

[Brandon Herrera]

But it is the farthest away from illegal. Because if you're right on the border of illegal and prohibited, it's something that's almost illegal.

[Connor]

No, everything that's illegal is on the illegal side. Prohibited is on the.

[Brandon Herrera]

Thank you.

[Connor]

Everything that's illegal is prohibited, you dumb idiots. Kissing your sister on the mouth is legal. Much more prohibited than not putting your shopping cart back.

[Brandon Herrera]

Are we peeking the mic yet?

[Cody]

By your logic, perfectly up and down between prohibited and illegal would be. Would be perfectly legal. By your logic.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yes.

[Connor]

It's neither prohibited.

[Eli Double Tap]

Stupid.

[Brandon Herrera]

I think that's. It's a scale.

[Connor]

It's a scale. And illegal is over here. So what would be between the two things? Something that is neither illegal nor prohibited. That's how the f ing game works.

[Brandon Herrera]

We need to bar you from echelon.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh my God.

[Brandon Herrera]

No.

[Connor]

This is espresso every night. Oh, that's that me, Espresso. Love you, Sabrina. If you're watching, I'll fuck you. I volunteer myself as tribute.

[Eli Double Tap]

She's gonna get sent this.

[Cody]

How about we solve the argument and just pull up the instructions for the game.

[Connor]

Now if you find you follow the instructions to a board game.

[Cody]

Oh, that. Nothing says I know I'm wrong. Like, please, I don't pull up the instructions.

[Donut Operator]

I agree.

[Connor]

Yeah, let's follow the instructions. This segment of the podcast is called Brandon Googles the rules.

[Cody]

Legal, prohibited, illegal. It's not illegal legal, prohibited.

[Connor]

You're implying that all of the things on both sides of the scale are illegal. It stops in the fucking middle where

[Cody]

everything on the left where it becomes prohibited. So the closer you get to illegal, the more prohibited it is and then it becomes mildly illegal.

[Eli Double Tap]

Remember my bloody white argument right now.

[Connor]

Remember my black versus white argument?

[Brandon Herrera]

Hold on.

[Cody]

We're gonna pull up the rules Now I'm invested. Now I'm invested.

[Brandon Herrera]

I'm nerd. Cause it's shit like hot and cold.

[Eli Double Tap]

I was like, nick all the way.

[Connor]

Here's the, here's the really good to.

[Brandon Herrera]

Here's how you know you're fucking wrong. So like the example they gave is hot and cold.

[Connor]

Okay?

[Brandon Herrera]

So hot on this side, cold on this side.

[Connor]

Correct.

[Brandon Herrera]

And then let's say Shut the up. You had your monologue. If your example is okay, perfectly illegal. Perfectly legal would be in the middle. So it's opposite gets to the middle. Yeah, like perfectly opposite one second. Perfectly opposite of hot would be cold, which would be in the middle. But it's hot cold, meaning they meet in the middle. That's room fucking temperature.

[Connor]

So you would say that things that were cold were on the right hand side, but things that were hot or

[Cody]

on the left hand side. I love, love watching Conor know he's losing an argument.

[Connor]

I'm not losing this fucking argument. The comments will show. If you're watching this comment timestamp only fans. So what was the confirmation on those rules then?

[Cody]

There he was right.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yes.

[Connor]

No, you didn't change the rules.

[Brandon Herrera]

Who is the designer of this game? Can we get them to weigh in? I would really love the designer of this game to weigh in.

[Connor]

What your suggestion, by your implication that it should be all the way to

[Brandon Herrera]

the right is that it is absolutely in no way illegal, but it is prohibited.

[Connor]

So nothing beyond that. Ipso, facto, Brandon Herrera is suggesting you should kiss your sister on the mouth because that's fine. Nothing more prohibited. That would be more on the.

[Brandon Herrera]

Actually, no, I would say that's closer to Elizabeth illegal. Because in a lot of states you can't.

[Connor]

No, that's dog dog where you're putting it.

[Brandon Herrera]

That's all the way to the. That's illegal.

[Connor]

Yeah, that would be like in the illegal. It's both dumb idiot legal dogs. No, but it's not prohibited. And on that note, that's my second dog joke in the past two podcasts.

[Cody]

Poor Bo.

[Connor]

Don't put that evil on the screen. Welcome back to fucking Texas, brother.

[Eli Double Tap]

And that's how you end the podcast.

[Brandon Herrera]

Are we really ending?

[Eli Double Tap]

That's the perfect outro in my opinion.

[Connor]

Bye, everyone.

[Brandon Herrera]

Thank you for joining.

[Donut Operator]

Thank you for joining the unsubscribed podcast. I was joined today by Eli Doubletech app Nick Brandon a myself Donut. Thank you so much for being here.

[Eli Double Tap]

We love you.

[Cody]

Goodbye.

[Brandon Herrera]

I'm right.

[Eli Double Tap]

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