Brandon Is Running For Congress! (Round 2) | Unsubscribe Podcast Ep 226

Summary

Unsubscribe Podcast Ep 226 — Brandon Is Running For Congress! (Round 2)

Date: August 17, 2025
Hosts: Eli Doubletap, Brandon Herrera, Donut Operator, The Fat Electrician
Summary compiled by an expert podcast summarizer

---

Main Theme & Episode Overview

This episode centers on Brandon Herrera’s (a.k.a. "The AK Guy") official announcement that he’s running for Congress again in the 2026 election cycle. The hosts dive into behind-the-scenes campaign realities, smear tactics, their personal experiences with live shows, fitness journeys, and more—sprinkled with their trademark humor and candid banter. There are also insightful reflections on veteran advocacy, the role of new media in politics, and why Brandon is stepping back into the political arena despite the chaos it brings.

---

Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. Live Shows & Community Hype

• Tour Announcement & Sellouts: The hosts celebrate how quickly their live show tickets—especially VIP and meet-and-greet—sold out (05:02). They recall past antics, crowd energy, and the challenges and exhaustion of double shows (07:16).
• Audience Stories: Hilariously recall when someone brought an AT4 rocket launcher replica to a Nashville show, emphasizing both the rowdiness and loyalty of their crowd (05:51).
  • Quote: “Our crowd would rip them apart with their bare hands. It would be Dawn of the Dead.” – Eli (06:33)

2. Travel and Public Speaking Growth

• Eli’s D.C. Trip: Eli shares his experiences speaking at an American Warrior nonprofit event about the transition from military to civilian life (14:27). He reflects on overcoming public speaking fears due to experience from podcasting and tour shows.
  • Quote: “Our practice is in front of y’all every time.” – Donut (15:39)

3. Veteran Advocacy and Media Smears

• Brandon on Smear Campaigns: Brandon details his frustration with being targeted by millions in negative ads suggesting he "hates veterans", despite his extensive charitable work (33:04–34:44, 36:31).
  • Quote: “I don’t think for a f**ing moment you believe I don’t support veterans...if you actually believe it, say it like a man. Don’t just attack behind super PACs and sht.” – Brandon (35:30)
• Receipts: The show has raised ~$1 million for veterans and special needs causes (37:01).

4. Congressional Campaign Announcement

• Official "Coming Out": Brandon makes it official and discusses the chaos and leaks leading up (31:16).
• Grassroots Movement: Emphasizes the campaign’s reliance on thousands of small individual donors, not big PAC money. Explains why established political consultants "glitch out" at his digital support model (45:11).
• Motivation to Run: Brandon discusses how he doesn't "need" to run but is driven to do so out of principle (46:54).
  • Quote: “He could sit in his office, make amazing GunTube videos, and be a millionaire all day long... He is taking a pay cut because he truly cares about what he's doing.” – Donut (46:53)
• Response to Opponent Tony Gonzalez: A recurring segment pokes fun at Tony’s social-media attempts to be "edgy" and use online lingo, contrasting it with the Unsubscribe crew’s authenticity (38:23–41:18).

5. Term Limits & Political Rot

• Term Limits Stance: Strong support for congressional term limits; frustration with career politicians’ disconnect from constituents (49:53–53:33).
  • Quote: “There’s a lot of rot that happens in D.C.—at best you stay the same, most get worse.” – Brandon (52:06)
• Reflections on Old Politicians Running the Show: Colorful comparisons of career politicians to the elderly at the DMV or behind the wheel (52:52), calling for a refresh in leadership.

6. Fitness Challenge & Community Building

• Reddit-driven Positivity: The hosts show pride in their community’s fitness challenge success—members supporting each other, losing significant weight, and overcoming social anxieties (59:06–63:10).
  • Quote: “It’s so awesome to see...just a wall of positivity... lifting each other up....” – Eli (59:26)
• Personal Updates: Brandon has lost nearly 20lbs, Donut has gained muscle, and everyone is ramping up boxing and training.
• Philosophy on Bro-ship: Discussion on the importance of friends one can be silent with; how strong community is built on authenticity (19:04–20:19).

7. Gun Collecting & Nerding Out

• Live Gun Auction: Hilarious rundown of Brandon buying a rare HK PSG1 sniper rifle for Eli live via Rock Island Auction (72:01–73:48). The hosts geek out over rare guns, Metal Gear Solid references, and matching gun serial numbers (74:54–78:28).
  • Quote: “I was just cresting £20 [lost],...but it was 19 pounds [cut in the last two days].” – Brandon (60:11)

8. Behind the Scenes—Billionaire Friends & Flying Jets

• Alpha Jet Adventure: Brandon shares flying in an Alpha Jet with billionaire pilot/friend Jared Isaacman—who might become NASA chief. They muse about "billionaire tism" and what it’s like to be around galaxy brain types (96:09–98:48).

9. Announcing Eli’s Engagement

• Life Update: Eli casually announces his engagement to Sav, noting the struggle to keep it off the internet thanks to enthusiastic fans leaking the news (66:28–66:52).

10. Travel and Airport Rants

• TSA & DMV Fails: Extended complaints about airport incompetence and DMV bureaucracy, with stories about managing anxiety, encountering entitlement, and bureaucratic nightmares (86:35–93:03).
  • Humorous Quote: “I brought the literal deed with all the paperwork...being told that proof of ownership of a house doesn’t count.” – Brandon (93:03)

11. Existential Tangents: Space, Aliens, and Time Travel

• Big Brain Talk: Spirals into deep thoughts on spacewalks, alien civilizations, and Stephen Hawking’s time travel "experiment"—with the Unsubscribe crew’s trademark irreverence (99:22–102:16).

---

Notable Quotes and Timestamp Highlights

• [06:33] Eli: “Our crowd would just rip them apart... It would be Dawn of the Dead.”
• [15:39] Donut: “Our practice is in front of y’ all every time.”
• [31:16] Brandon: “I’ve decided to ruin my life for the second time. One of the poorest guarded secrets in unsub history…”
• [33:26] Brandon: “Just watching on ESPN...’Brandon Herrera hates veterans and kicks puppies.'"
• [35:30] Brandon: “I don’t think for a f***ing moment you believe that I don’t support veterans… Say what you mean. Alright, I’m done with my soapbox.”
• [37:01] Eli: “$972,000 in total for veterans and special needs.”
• [46:53] Donut: “He truly believes in what he’s running for. He could...make YouTube videos and be a millionaire all day long... He is taking a pay cut because he truly cares.”
• [52:06] Brandon: “Nobody gets better the longer they stay in DC...most people get worse.”
• [59:26] Eli: “Met with a wall of positivity…all the boys are getting checked.”
• [72:01] Brandon: “I call Eli... do you want a PSG1 for [X] dollars?”
• [93:03] Brandon: “Being told that proof of ownership of a house doesn’t count [as proof of residency at the DMV]…”
• [99:22] Donut/Brandon: “Doing a spacewalk on the space station would be amazing.”

---

Flow & Tone Notes

True to "Unsubscribe," the conversation is irreverent, bro-y, and self-aware. The tone is playful, densely referential for longtime fans (in-jokes about guns, pop culture, and their own sub-communities), but regularly pivots to serious issues—veteran mental health, political disillusionment, the grind of campaigning.

---

Key Timestamps

• [05:02] — Tour sellouts and audience stories
• [14:27] — Eli’s DC experience & public speaking reflections
• [33:26–36:31] — Brandon on being smeared, response to veteran attacks
• [37:01] — Nearly $1M donated to charity
• [41:18] — Mocking Tony’s "edgy" online posts
• [46:54] — Why Brandon is running (principles over profit)
• [52:06] — DC’s political rot & need for term limits
• [59:26–63:10] — Fitness community encouragement and personal gains/losses
• [72:01–73:48] — Gun auction for rare PSG1
• [96:09] — Flying with billionaire Jared Isaacman
• [99:22] — Existential musings on space/aliens/time travel

---

Closing Thoughts

This episode blends the usual chaos of Unsubscribe with newsworthy announcements and raw insight into modern politics. Brandon’s Congress run forms the narrative backbone, but the heart of the show remains the crew’s camaraderie, self-deprecating humor, and their bond with listeners—whether geeking out about rare weapons, bemoaning air travel, or supporting each other (and their fans) through real life changes.

Transcript

[Brandon Herrera]

Look, if you're still buying weed from some guy named Trevor in a parking.

[Eli Double Tap]

Lot, you're doing it wrong.

[Brandon Herrera]

Mood.com delivers legal THC products straight to your door. Gummies, vapes, flour, the good stuff. No sketchy DMs, no med card. Just add to cart checkout and boom, it's at your doorstep. It's legal in all 50 states thanks to the farm bill. And Mood's products actually work. Seriously? This isn't gas station garbage. It's small batch lab tested, real results. Go to mood.com, use code first20 for 20% off and never run dry again. That's mood.com. go get lit legally. Can the White House reschedule Purple Heart day?

[Donut Operator]

I get anxiety. I'm jerking Brandon off. It's perfectly normal. I have anxiety sometimes. Make hard men. You're hard or something. Question my mortality.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah.

[Donut Operator]

Thanks, Eli.

[Brandon Herrera]

Mother, by the way. Hi, Tony.

[Eli Double Tap]

Say hi to Eli. He's racially ambiguous.

[Brandon Herrera]

Brandon.

[Eli Double Tap]

His hair is fabulous. Donut, a dog joke disposition. And there's a fat electrician.

[Brandon Herrera]

Welcome to Unsubscribe.

[Eli Double Tap]

What is up, everyone? Tickets are officially live for everyone. Head over to unsubcrew.com live shows. Get your tickets now. Come hang out, have a drink. Oh, it's going to be so fun. Also, big shout out to Rodrigo for this amazing poster. Rodrigo and I stayed up for many hours finalizing that amazing picture. It was a lot of back and forth, but it turned out fantastic. And that is 100% right in stemming his little butt off as the silhouette. See y' all there. Today's Unsubscribe episode is brought to you by booking.combooking.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, it's in the read.

[Donut Operator]

From vacation rentals to hotels across the U.S. booking.com has the ideal stay for.

[Eli Double Tap]

Anyone, even those who might seem impossible to please.

[Brandon Herrera]

Whether you're booking for yourself, your partner.

[Eli Double Tap]

Your sleep light rise, early mom, or.

[Donut Operator]

Your high maintenance group chat, you can.

[Brandon Herrera]

Find exactly what you're booking [e-mail] 2, 1. Yeah, you got the double crack, Cody. Start us off, Eli.

[Donut Operator]

Double crack. Hi, everyone.

[Brandon Herrera]

Beat me to it.

[Donut Operator]

Hi, everyone. Welcome to the Unsubscribe podcast. I'm joined today by Eli Double Tap, Brandon Herrera, myself, donut operator. Thank you so much for being here.

[Eli Double Tap]

Today is. Man, we have so much. This is going out tomorrow. We're filming on a Friday. It will be edited and kicked out tomorrow. That is why it is a day late, because we have like. Everyone's been working, traveling, busy. Brandon just got in.

[Brandon Herrera]

It turns out this has been a busy week for some of us.

[Eli Double Tap]

What?

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh.

[Donut Operator]

Which makes it cooler for you guys, because this is a fresh podcast. You guys are getting the deets tomorrow.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah.

[Donut Operator]

Oh, today for you.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah. Today this is gonna be as fresh as it.

[Brandon Herrera]

Button up that shirt before you hurt somebody. Whoa.

[Eli Double Tap]

The taco meets out. Holy shit. Cody got that taco.

[Donut Operator]

That's the opposite of what you usually ask, but that's okay.

[Brandon Herrera]

It was that number. I was just like, oh, damn nipple. Dang. Damn.

[Donut Operator]

It wasn't the bad.

[Eli Double Tap]

Here. Do we have. Well, first off, the live shows. Jesus. I think a couple are sold out already, including Iowa. Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

Which Nick is going to be incredibly smug about. We were talking about.

[Donut Operator]

Knickers are going to be really happy.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah. They're going to be like, ah, there we go.

[Brandon Herrera]

Do we have to blur that now?

[Eli Double Tap]

You just have to.

[Brandon Herrera]

Those are just Nick fans.

[Donut Operator]

He doesn't just call his fans.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

I don't know. He probably should.

[Donut Operator]

We got the pepperbacks.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah.

[Donut Operator]

We can't have the knickers.

[Brandon Herrera]

We just say it a third time. Why?

[Eli Double Tap]

We just have to really put in the font. Just like.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, there you go. Finn put that on screen. Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

Every time, just alarms going off, showing what word he is saying.

[Brandon Herrera]

And I see apostrophe.

[Donut Operator]

I'm just. I'm just seeing how many Red Bulls I can make Finn drink tonight while he's editing this podcast.

[Eli Double Tap]

Curse of all night.

[Brandon Herrera]

That's not better.

[Donut Operator]

C.K.

[Eli Double Tap]

Dude.

[Brandon Herrera]

C. Just C. C. Right?

[Eli Double Tap]

C. Oh, yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

We might have to cut some of this, like, legitimately. That's pretty.

[Donut Operator]

The live tours are coming up, though. That's what we're trying to say. And then we had the Patreon and the Pepperbacks. They balled up so many before we even released it to the general public.

[Eli Double Tap]

Today, I think with meet and greets and VIPs, y' all sold out in less than two hours. Because you amazing humans are wild. It's awesome talking to WMN and all of them and especially the theater. So, like, yo, what the Wait, this isn't. To everyone. Yeah. I was like, no, that's just, like, part of the audience that they just hang out dirty plops.

[Brandon Herrera]

And you think that it's good now, like, for the theaters. Like, just wait till you see how much they drink.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh, yeah.

[Donut Operator]

Oh. Oh, no. Do you guys remember Nashville show?

[Brandon Herrera]

Nashville remembers Nashville.

[Donut Operator]

Yeah. Where the manager of the Nashville venue came up and said, the people who work here are terrified of you guys. Because we had someone bring in, what.

[Brandon Herrera]

A. AT4, I believe an AT4 rocket launcher tried to. Then I think that one guy in the bathroom.

[Donut Operator]

Of course, we're all like, that's awesome. But the people that worked at the venue, they were terrified.

[Eli Double Tap]

Like, this is called a mass shooting. Like, no, they got our back.

[Donut Operator]

Yeah, we got Colazzo here. Dude, in Nashville, nothing bad's gonna happen.

[Eli Double Tap]

Trust me. If someone pulls a gun that at 4 will be used against that individual. Be dope to see.

[Donut Operator]

I think we talked about it before where the person tried to rob the gun store and then everyone in the gun store shot them. It would be that times. How many people do we have in Nashville?

[Brandon Herrera]

Like a thousand people.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh, yeah.

[Donut Operator]

Someone just gets shredded pulling a gun.

[Brandon Herrera]

Our crowd would just rip them apart with their bare hands.

[Eli Double Tap]

It would be dawn of the Dead. Intestines getting pulled out. An arm flies up on stage.

[Brandon Herrera]

You got our hands walking out, like, with intestines around their neck. It's like a souvenir.

[Eli Double Tap]

Well, that's for Pepper Box only.

[Donut Operator]

You filled a room with drunk G White veterans. Good job.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah. To watch the uncensored cut. Go over to Pepperbox.

[Eli Double Tap]

It's a great time. But we are actually pitched it to the guys today, and we'll see if this even stays in immediately. Iowa or Des Moines, saying, hey, you guys can do a double show. We're like, double shows are so rough.

[Brandon Herrera]

Nashville was horrible. That was. I'm sure they enjoyed it, but my.

[Eli Double Tap]

God, it is a lot. And I know what you're thinking, why you just get a drink for. For an hour and a half. Yes. And then you have to drink again for another hour and a half. And then you're shit wrecked and don't remember.

[Brandon Herrera]

But while being on, like being, you know, presenting.

[Donut Operator]

While you're turned on.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, exactly. While you're turned on. Imagine being turned on for more than four hours. Apparently on It's. It's a. It's a problem that. God damn it. I will have to bow out of.

[Eli Double Tap]

This podcast at some point.

[Brandon Herrera]

I'm convinced now.

[Eli Double Tap]

Go on, Cody.

[Brandon Herrera]

Knock on wood. That.

[Donut Operator]

That was a rough one for us because we. We have a little drinky doodle. I don't do great with crowds. I know. We all got to loosen up a little bit, but then. Yeah. When number two rolls around. Oh, no, we're already a little. You know, we're a little toasty. And then number two rolls around.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah, yeah. That's why we're discussing that. And now you get to see this reaction because I found out two days ago about it. Our Phoenix show. Our Phoenix show, guys, is we're in the center, and it's a 360.

[Donut Operator]

They're behind us.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, that's worse than in front of us.

[Eli Double Tap]

That's every. Every sign. I seen it yesterday or two days ago. I was like, oh, fuck. What? We are in the set, we walk out, and we are in the middle of everyone, and they're looking from every angle.

[Brandon Herrera]

So that was my number one concern, because you always wanted to. You keep saying, like, oh, I want to do Madison Square Garden. I'm like, I don't know how we do our sitting at a table, talking to each other bit when there's people behind us. That was my biggest reservation. So now we get to figure out how the fuck we do that exactly. Without just doing, like, the Pedro Pascal, like. And you should hear this, too. Like, how do we do that?

[Donut Operator]

I'm not getting anxiety.

[Brandon Herrera]

Weird. He never gets anxiety around Bella Ramsey.

[Donut Operator]

I get anxiety. I'm jerking Brandon off. It's perfectly normal. I have anxiety.

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh, I'm sorry. It's kind of like the Family Guy. Like, it's okay. I'm trans. No. In that case, do whatever you want.

[Donut Operator]

All the time.

[Brandon Herrera]

All the time.

[Donut Operator]

Cheat on Battlefield 6 all the time. It's fine.

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh, that did happen. Yeah. Your vlog was so funny about that, where you're just like, yeah. I don't know which. If John did all of those things, I'm not sure which I'd be more disappointed by the fact that he was turning into, like, some, you know, dressing up as a woman in cat ears or he was cheating in Battlefield 6. As a father, I don't know where to draw the line.

[Donut Operator]

I left the part out where I said I would beat the shit out of him if I called him in cat ears, acting like a girl, whatever.

[Eli Double Tap]

I wasn't cheating. I was like, huh? And people are actually defending. That's wild. It's like, they're just really good people.

[Brandon Herrera]

Phobe.

[Donut Operator]

I'm not scared of them.

[Brandon Herrera]

Was. That wasn't exactly what I meant, but it came out very funny.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh, Twitter. I don't get on that app at all anymore. Like, I never got on too much, but every time I hop on.

[Brandon Herrera]

I'm not beating the allegations, but I'm about to do the gay thing. Yeah. There you go.

[Donut Operator]

Thank you.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

Make a wish.

[Donut Operator]

We haven't seen each other in a week.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah. You know, so cute.

[Eli Double Tap]

You get to rekindle it here.

[Donut Operator]

Do you want to talk about the Battlefield six thing?

[Brandon Herrera]

Which thing?

[Donut Operator]

The what? We're talking about.

[Brandon Herrera]

Fucking Go for it.

[Eli Double Tap]

Obviously there's really good. Not cheating.

[Brandon Herrera]

No, it's.

[Donut Operator]

It went super viral on Twitter this week because that's where I live. I know it's not a place anyone should live ever, but I bear this cross for all of us.

[Brandon Herrera]

The albatross around your neck.

[Donut Operator]

No, there's this dude that dresses up like a cat girl and like, obviously hacking. And even people who developed hacking apps came out and was like, no, that's hacking. I'll explain exactly how they're hacking. It was. It was just weird stuff.

[Brandon Herrera]

They're talking about field of view.

[Eli Double Tap]

They're like, you're hacking because of this field of view. Because of this response each ever. And again, how I know they're hacking is no one snaps like that in first person shooters unless you are shroud level. And guess what? We would know your name if you're shroud level. Players play.

[Brandon Herrera]

Not only that, but like snapping, doing like a 180. Not like perfect 180, but close to it. And pre firing people behind walls. And it's like, come on. Yeah, that's.

[Donut Operator]

Well, the Internet was mad at first because they're like, oh, you're hacking. And then it came out, oh, you're like this cat girl thing, dude, whatever the they are. And they're like, oh, no, they're not hacking. Or they are hacking, but it's fine. Exactly. The family guy bit that you're saying.

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh, in that case, do what you want.

[Donut Operator]

Do what you want. Do what you want all the time. What a wild week on the Internet.

[Eli Double Tap]

Fucking jobs. I was like, ah. Oh, man. We have. What? We have. You going. You just announced, which is wild. We have.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, that did happen.

[Eli Double Tap]

The DC trip. I was just at dc.

[Donut Operator]

Let's talk about that first, because we haven't brought that up because you didn't even plan that. No, you went out there for what, Your first trip to dc. What'd you do on your first trip?

[Eli Double Tap]

First trip, it was for a speaker engagement with Clint. So Romesha, who's like, hey. And the. The group he works with, which is the. Should have fucking.

[Donut Operator]

We've had a Romache on here before, right?

[Eli Double Tap]

Yes.

[Donut Operator]

Medal of Honor recipient.

[Eli Double Tap]

God, now I gotta remember what is his.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's some sort of like Medal of Honor foundation, right?

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah, he has two. So he has the Medal of Honor foundation and then he also has the American. Actually, I can.

[Donut Operator]

You were just being a cool guy, going out to that. Just having a good time.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah, it was the American Warrior nonprofit. And that's another foundation he works on. And they asked if I want to do a guest speaking for them. I was like, 100%. I'll do that. No problem.

[Donut Operator]

Because we love veterans. Brandon Herrera loves veterans.

[Brandon Herrera]

Well, not if you ask the people who hate me and spend millions of dollars to make sure bad Republican stays in office. In that case, they'll say whatever the fuck they need to say. Like, these people don't actually believe what they're telling you. They just. They know it sounds bad on tv.

[Eli Double Tap]

We'll clip this one segment, and we'll just try to erase any good he's done for the veteran community, and we'll be fine. There, there. He hates this.

[Brandon Herrera]

Let's clip it out of context and make sure we don't know. You know, we'll just. We'll clip it for the seven seconds to be shared around on Facebook by a bunch of bots that we pay for. And then everybody will think, yeah, there you go.

[Eli Double Tap]

The boomers will be like, he hates them. I knew it.

[Donut Operator]

I seen that clip.

[Eli Double Tap]

That damn.

[Brandon Herrera]

Whoa.

[Donut Operator]

These damn Facebooks.

[Eli Double Tap]

Grandpa George, calm down.

[Donut Operator]

Ah, chill out, man.

[Brandon Herrera]

You gotta love it. That's. That's the stuff that. I don't know. We'll get into that later, I'm sure. But anyway, sorry, you're. You're in D.C. yeah.

[Donut Operator]

You went to D.C. to hang out with Medal of Honor people.

[Eli Double Tap]

Got to see the homies. Great catching up. And then the next day, did a speaking engagement, and it was just that transition period from military to civilian life, and then how to stay motivated, blah, blah, blah. Which was great to talk about. It was an hour long, whole room of people way small. It was great because it is a room of people. But, dear God, because of everything we've done so far, I was way more comfortable where in the past I would have been terrifying. I was like, oh, thank God it's only like 100 people got this.

[Donut Operator]

Oh, you mean like with public speaking, you feel more comfortable?

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because it's still not fun. We, none of us, I think we're, like, terrifying. This is our job. This is what we want to do in life, is do public speaking or shows. Never said that once in my life.

[Brandon Herrera]

No.

[Eli Double Tap]

Now we do that. We're like, okay, let's just check this. Let's just check it off the box.

[Brandon Herrera]

I think we're all way better at it now. But, like, it's.

[Donut Operator]

Yeah, practice makes perfect, buddy.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, it's still not fun.

[Donut Operator]

Throw yourself into out, you know, Throw yourself out of your comfort zone. And.

[Eli Double Tap]

And we don't Practice.

[Donut Operator]

No, no, no.

[Eli Double Tap]

Our practice is in front of y' all every time.

[Donut Operator]

Yeah, yeah. Just to throw that out there. When we did the live shows the last time, we didn't practice any of that. We just were like, let's have fun.

[Brandon Herrera]

Our practice show is literally just doing the San Antonio show because it's like, okay, well, we don't have to fly. It's 20 minutes from where we live.

[Donut Operator]

All our friends are here. We're comfortable.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, we're as comfortable as you can.

[Donut Operator]

Show this butthole to everyone.

[Brandon Herrera]

That really did set the tone.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah, look, we're good. We're good. And then we just warm up and refine the craft live. We don't even do rehearsal shows.

[Brandon Herrera]

No.

[Eli Double Tap]

Which when you tell other people that. That do this for a living, they're like, what the fuck?

[Brandon Herrera]

At most we'll sit in the green room and like, oh, yeah, by the way, I just thought of this bit. When you introduce it like this, I'll hit you with this joke. Like, we'll do that like four or five times in between. There's no rehearsal, no set list, nothing.

[Eli Double Tap]

No, we have a rough idea going in. It's like, here's the beats and then let's fucking have fun. And the pivot. Really quick pivots, just. Or we'll throw away segments all together at once. And then new segment. Cody, go.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah.

[Donut Operator]

I start choking. I'm just like, rich, start making fun of the audience.

[Brandon Herrera]

He's like, all right, Brad, grab your fucking microphone.

[Eli Double Tap]

He's the only one that lives and thrives off of everything that unfolds. 20% rich. 20%, cuz.

[Donut Operator]

Cuz when we're at home, it's like, hey, man, you playing hill divers? Yeah, man, I'm playing hill divers.

[Brandon Herrera]

That.

[Donut Operator]

That's our home life.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

It's like, so the amount of times.

[Brandon Herrera]

Like, we'll be sitting at, like, brunch and, like, just taking care of whatever work we got to be doing for the day, whatever we're doing. It's like there will be multiple times. There will be five minute stints where nobody says a fucking word to each other.

[Eli Double Tap]

Hey, guys, you want to see something?

[Brandon Herrera]

Not again.

[Eli Double Tap]

Those are true classics. Oh, you want to touch it, Brandon? Cody, you want to touch it?

[Donut Operator]

Oh, Brandon, show.

[Brandon Herrera]

You have a degree in hr, right?

[Eli Double Tap]

That's right. Today's sponsor is True Classic. Cody, what are you wearing?

[Donut Operator]

I'm wearing a True Classic shirt right now. And it fits really well around the arms and the chest. It makes you look bigger than you are.

[Eli Double Tap]

New Cody, you actually look jacked right now.

[Donut Operator]

On a personal note, with my personal endorsement to True Classic, that's no. All the pants and the shirts that I wear, like the undershirts, always wear True Classic. The pants, always True Classic. They're stretchy. BLI is wearing True Classics right now.

[Brandon Herrera]

A lot of shirts that you get just off the shelf, like, aren't really cut. They're just generic unisex stuff. They're not really cut to look good. True Classic stuff is actually tailored to fit the male form, which is, you know, actually helpful if you want to not look like a slob.

[Eli Double Tap]

Peak male performance. But now imagine my dick. Cuz that's where I'm wearing underwear.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah. Now imagine my dick. Eli Cuevas 2025 trueclassic.com use code unsubbed.

[Donut Operator]

Now we've been messing around with T shirts and been in that industry for years now. And we can truly say that True Classic has some of the greatest material and greatest fitting that we've ever seen.

[Eli Double Tap]

So forget overpriced designer brands. Skip the cheap throwaway stuff. True Classic is built for comfort, built to last, and built to give back.

[Brandon Herrera]

You can even find them at Target or Costco. Or you can go to trueclassic.com unsub to try for yourself.

[Eli Double Tap]

If you want to level up your clothes for the summer or coming into the fall weather, head over to trueclassic.com unsub I like quiet.

[Brandon Herrera]

Just it's.

[Eli Double Tap]

This is my night.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's a level of comfort too.

[Donut Operator]

We found our vibe with each other.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah. It's just the nightmare is being interacting. And it's not because of y'. All. It's just social anxiety. And then being an introvert, you just get super tired really quick. You're like, smile.

[Brandon Herrera]

But I think there's something to be said about that though. Like finding people that you're comfortable being silent around.

[Donut Operator]

That is kind of cool how you aren't shitters.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah.

[Donut Operator]

Surround yourself with wonderful people.

[Eli Double Tap]

That's how you know they're really good friends or in a good relationship when you can just live in silence next to each other. You're like, okay, that's a good friend. I don't. They're. It doesn't have to be constant affirmation, talking, noise. We can just sit here, do our own thing. They do their own thing. Ten minutes. Oh, shit. Have you seen this? Oh, that can actually exist in a friendship. Fucking wild. Fucking wild. But we did Tuesday meet or talking to everyone, having that great conversation, interacting with others. And a lot of Medal honor recipients, which was always an honor to be around. And then the text, hey, Viraldo group. And what's their organization?

[Brandon Herrera]

The Independence Fund.

[Eli Double Tap]

Independence Fund. They are always amazing people. They're like, eli, hey, Thursday, and I'm flying home Tuesday, Thursday, can you be in dc? I'm in DC to go to the White House for the.

[Brandon Herrera]

You're like, on a plane, right?

[Eli Double Tap]

Yes. I was like, what?

[Donut Operator]

So introvert. Eli was coming back home to his quiet place to play video games and hang out with his family.

[Eli Double Tap]

So happy.

[Donut Operator]

Like, no, we need you out in, like, a day.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah. So happy to be home. So happy. And I think my response is. My first response is like, is there any other day we can do this? Because I didn't know it was Purple Heart day. I was just like, maybe the White House can move it for dumbass next to me.

[Brandon Herrera]

You're literally asking, like, can the White House reschedule?

[Donut Operator]

I need to ask. Favorite.

[Eli Double Tap]

Your boy's tired.

[Brandon Herrera]

I know the president's supposed to be, like, speaking or something, but, like, can he move it back?

[Eli Double Tap]

Just like. So, yeah, would love to. Fuck. That is in. Okay, well, I'm going to land and buy plane tickets.

[Donut Operator]

But the second part was cool as fuck, wasn't it?

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah, because we got to go to the White House, which we've been before, which also amazing experience. And also it's one of those things. It's. It's weird talking to other individuals because it's like, oh, I forget who asked. They're like, hey, Thursday, what are you doing? Or this week, I need you for this meeting. It's like, oh, I gotta go to the White House. Sorry, I can't make that meeting. They're like, what? And it's not, you got another meeting. It's you gotta go to the White House. And then, like, why the are you going to the White House?

[Brandon Herrera]

So you want to pick that up, you just drop that name pretty hard, dude.

[Eli Double Tap]

Exactly. And that's what I was like in my head. I was like, I just, like, feel. Oh, yeah, that. Never mind. Rewind. Why the Would anyone ever turn down. Turn that down. Because that is a opportunity you do not get in your lifetime. And it is a bucket list. You get to tell your kids about, like, all that dumb. You're like, yeah, I got invited to do this, and then I got to sit and meet all these individuals.

[Brandon Herrera]

They're like, you mean like, on a tour, right? Like, no, no.

[Eli Double Tap]

You get stopped a whole bunch on your way to the White House.

[Brandon Herrera]

A good point.

[Eli Double Tap]

I didn't Think about that. You just stopped a whole bunch on your way.

[Brandon Herrera]

I mean, we remember what happened last time. They didn't. Yeah, oh, yeah, I saw that. There was. I don't remember if that was Babylon B or whoever it was, but it was. You know, you remember the memes that came out of like, Trump on the roof, and he was just talking shit to reporters and stuff like that. They said, you know, Secret Service stands in awe watching President Trump walk on a slanted roof.

[Donut Operator]

Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

And then like in line going through checkpoints. I have like old ass Medal of Honor recipients from World War II. And then I'm with Major Cappers and like, they're willing him through and talking to him because he was part of our group. And that dude is a fucking badass. That is one dude. When I went in to shake his head, hey, what's up, man? I told you guys, it's like, oh, I seen his Purple Heart. And then the five like Oakleys are stars, meaning he has five Purple Hearts. And my response was like, holy shit, you got a hit. How many times? He's like, homeboy laughs about it. And then I did research about him and his one quote is, you gotta kill them all. Oh, oh. That's why you are the poster for the marines in the 80s and 90s.

[Brandon Herrera]

Literally on the poster, literally the poster.

[Eli Double Tap]

For the Marines, you have five.

[Donut Operator]

Or he had five.

[Eli Double Tap]

Five purple.

[Donut Operator]

You have one.

[Eli Double Tap]

I know this guy, fucking dick cheese over here. And they're putting him in for the Medal of Honor right now. There's that actual whole thing going on right now. Yeah, there's a whole thing going on for him to get a Medal of Honor. And it's because this is like during Vietnam and because he was black and it was. Oh, well, he didn't go above and beyond. And then you read his story and you're like, yo, this dude, hundred percent Medal of Honor.

[Brandon Herrera]

Like, how much more did you want him to do? Kind of thing.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yes, yes. Homeboy stack fucking bodies. He has and he's coming on the podcast.

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh, no shit, that's gonna be really cool. Yeah, Love that.

[Donut Operator]

What's his name again?

[Eli Double Tap]

This is Major Cappers. Yeah. This dude has a confirmed knife kill and a confirmed two sidearm kills.

[Donut Operator]

That's my new Battlefield 6 name. Major Cappers. Yeah, yeah, sounds cool as dude.

[Eli Double Tap]

John C. Cappers.

[Donut Operator]

Confirmed with a knife.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah, dude.

[Donut Operator]

So someone has to see you get that kill. That's nasty.

[Eli Double Tap]

They're COD his handlers and they were fantastic people. But these are like CAG, it was amazing. Seeing the JTACs and everyone around him that help him and just living legend. So got to interact with him, talk all that stuff got back. Or that was during the White House. Hey, we're going to meet the President. Pete. The Secretary of Defense.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, everyone. I didn't know you're on a first name basis now.

[Eli Double Tap]

Op.

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh, that was.

[Donut Operator]

That was super cool. Eli's like, I'm going to this, you know, this purple heart thing. And then we suddenly get a text message and it's Eli with Pete Hegset. Like, oh, oh, you're just going to a purple Heart thing, huh?

[Brandon Herrera]

I think it was you text me a picture of just like a selfie of you and Pete Hegseth. You're just like on sub taken over the world.

[Eli Double Tap]

What the fuck, dude? Here the guys haven't seen any of this one, sir. One of these. Oh, no, because it is still now.

[Brandon Herrera]

When you say that. Was it major. Major Cappy.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah, Cappers Cap.

[Brandon Herrera]

Major Capper. Sorry.

[Eli Double Tap]

He.

[Brandon Herrera]

He was in your group. Was that just like with the independence fund they brought. Oh, that's. That's super cool.

[Eli Double Tap]

They had. It was a few special forces guy that got hit in Afghanistan, these dudes. And it was on their fifth and last deployment. Sixth and last deployment. And then they got hit. But hearing their story, I was like, holy shit. And they immediately just back with the boys. Because the level of shit talking all of them were doing.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

Amongst each other because they've been hit together. And I was like, oh, okay. You guys are like OG friends that have done this together. Like done this for a decade. And you were in war for a decade together. And you got like shot and ID went off together. And then watching them interact was like one of the best things. Just the level of shit talking. And then introduced me to that group. They didn't know who the fuck I was. And I go in just shit talking. Everyone's just having a blast. But you have like.

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh, wow.

[Donut Operator]

Oh, they had the band out there and everything.

[Eli Double Tap]

Dude. Yes. That piano was like since the beginning of the White House.

[Brandon Herrera]

Holy beautiful. So I imagine if you like if you're the pianist who up while you play it, they just execute.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

How bad they put you in the tunnel. Yep.

[Eli Double Tap]

This was the crazy one.

[Brandon Herrera]

You go down in the tunnels with the list.

[Eli Double Tap]

This was the bathroom. So the men's bathroom and the women's bathroom are on separate sides. And there's a library to each one. Like to the bathroom and like the.

[Brandon Herrera]

Library to the bathroom.

[Eli Double Tap]

American story right here. Beautiful. This is Absolutely stunning. Nick would love this.

[Brandon Herrera]

I'm sorry to make.

[Eli Double Tap]

I'm sorry.

[Brandon Herrera]

I love how you're being like an obnoxious vlogger in the White House. You're like, sup, gang? I made you in the White House.

[Eli Double Tap]

I know.

[Donut Operator]

I saw that.

[Eli Double Tap]

No one's here. I was like, no one's around, and I will do it, but holy. I gotta get this for the gang because what the is going on?

[Brandon Herrera]

I'm glad you did, but I had to make fun of you for it. 100. I hate that. Like, if I have to record part of an ad or something. And I'm like, like, the Denver Airport, like, look, I need to do this for work, but I'm so sorry. I hate to be that guy. I hate.

[Donut Operator]

I could see Nick pulling one of the books off the wall where you were at and be like, I don't know about this.

[Eli Double Tap]

I. Dude, I see Nick touching everything. I touched the Washington statue, and I didn't think about it. Like, I was touching. I was like, oh, okay. No one's. I knew in my head. I was like. And then I did get in trouble because we went somewhere. Place we weren't. We didn't realize it was cordon off.

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh, yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

And it. They let us film there. And there is only three of these, so.

[Brandon Herrera]

And so you're literally doing the thing.

[Eli Double Tap]

I am doing the thing, literally. So there's only three in the entire White House with that. And that is for the wartime, because I think it is the way he's facing or something. There is something according to that. And there's only three locations in the.

[Brandon Herrera]

Entire direction that the eagle is facing.

[Eli Double Tap]

And then the security guy's like, why are you guys over there? We're like, oh, I am so sorry. He's like, oh, oh, oh. It's good. It's good, but you have to get over here. I was like, I'm so sorry.

[Brandon Herrera]

Like, we went to a cordoned off area, and they let us know politely as soon as the prongs from the taser hit my pectoral muscles. Sorry.

[Eli Double Tap]

It was fucking wild. It's just a. It's one of those experiences where you're just like, holy shit. And then shout out to Alex. He gave me that. I think I sent in the group chat. The Secret Service coin. That dope.

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh, yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

He. I. I was just hearing, like. I was like, ha, ha. He ran out. He's like, hey, dude, just want to give you a coin also. Just thank you for everything on seven. You guys do. But if here do you want this coin? 100%. One of the most dope coins. Like 160 years of service.

[Brandon Herrera]

No.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah. Really, really cool coin. So thank you. Shout out to you, brother. And just an amazing experience to be part of, like, especially to myself again, like getting out of the military and being where I got out as a specialist and being in the White House for a Purple Heart ceremony and then having the President Talk literally 10ft and then shaking everyone's hands from that. I'm like, what the fuck is going on in my life right now?

[Donut Operator]

Well, they need to start realizing the E4 mafia can just push themselves into anything they want.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah, it's a fucking wild, wild. Okay. And now you go in for you just announced congressional run, my guy.

[Brandon Herrera]

One of. Yeah, I've decided to ruin my life for the second time. One of probably the poorest guarded secrets in unsub history. So many comments. I've seen so many, like, little. Little things that just slip and I guess you have to know. But like in previous podcasts, like, little things that get like, oh, well, when you do this. And I just like, watch myself go opsec0. But yeah, and I saw a couple people pointing out in the. The comments, like, there's been a couple, like, on the unsub subreddits, like, I think Brandon might be running for Congress again. Did you see this timestamp? Like, son of a.

[Donut Operator]

This last second timestamp out of a two hour podcast.

[Brandon Herrera]

Honestly, I didn't know if I was going to do it. I didn't know after last time.

[Eli Double Tap]

But this bunker release.

[Brandon Herrera]

I forgot about that. Oh, my God. Two days before the announcement bunker. And like, in fairness, they needed to make sure that, you know, all the credit card process and everything was going to work. Right? But apparently somebody had notifications set up or something. They had the Brandon Herrera for Congress 2026 T shirts up for like 30 seconds to test the portal and then took it down. And there was a screenshot that hit one of the discords immediately, like the pepperbox discord. I think, like, hey, just so you know, bunker has the shirt up. I think Brandon's running again. I'm like, what the fuck?

[Eli Double Tap]

Y' all are fucking psychopaths.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's fucking crazy.

[Donut Operator]

I know. A group were like, wait, Brandon's running?

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah.

[Donut Operator]

What? What? Crazy.

[Brandon Herrera]

That must be a fluke. But, yeah, no, it's. I really didn't know if that was something I was ever going to do again. It was. It was something after the last time, you know, it was. It was really, it was rough the last time, you know, getting $13 million spent slandering you, where you live. I tell that story a lot now. Like at the, the Texas Roadhouse. Just me and you sitting at the bar, trying to get some dinner, just have a steak. And just watching on ESPN too. Like sitting there for an hour and watching two, you know, 20 ads run in the hour. You know, Brandon Herrera hates veterans and kicks puppies. It's just, it's, it's shitty. Like it's, it's hard to deal with.

[Donut Operator]

Yeah, dude, them veterans. Am I right? I think through all of our years in business on the Internet, we've all used Shopify. I've used used it for merch and my skate shop and a couple other businesses.

[Eli Double Tap]

I will actually agree 100% on that. Everything we do is run through Shopify.

[Brandon Herrera]

Even bunkers run through Shopify.

[Eli Double Tap]

Our shoes, which is a separate company is run through Shopify and they talk together because of Shopify.

[Brandon Herrera]

Shopify runs the world.

[Eli Double Tap]

Did you know Shopify will actually help you design a website also, Cody?

[Brandon Herrera]

I know.

[Donut Operator]

I didn't know about starting an online store when I started my career online. And Shopify just made it super, super easy for my dumb.

[Eli Double Tap]

Brandon, what happens if people haven't heard about my brand? No, that's actually easy, Eli.

[Brandon Herrera]

Shopify helps you find your customers with easy to use email and social media campaigns.

[Eli Double Tap]

Step Cody, what happens if I get stuck?

[Donut Operator]

Shopify is always around to share advice with their award winning 247 customer service tech support.

[Brandon Herrera]

Bro, you got my back and your front.

[Eli Double Tap]

Shopify helps millions of businesses around the.

[Donut Operator]

World and 10% of all e commerce.

[Brandon Herrera]

In the US from household names like Mattel or Gymshark to new brands.

[Eli Double Tap]

Just getting started on some shoes on some merch bunker.

[Donut Operator]

No, we've all been doing this for over a decade and Shopify is the easiest e commerce platform we've ever used.

[Brandon Herrera]

I think every single one of us has used Shopify at one point.

[Eli Double Tap]

I think all our businesses right now.

[Brandon Herrera]

Are using Shopify except mine. But that's because it's guns can't do that.

[Eli Double Tap]

Just one of them can't turn those dreams into sfx. Cha Ching Shopify New cell sound and.

[Brandon Herrera]

Give them the best shot at success with Shopify.

[Donut Operator]

Sign up for your $1 per month trial and start selling today at shopify.com.

[Eli Double Tap]

Unsubpod shopify.com unsubpod Eli, just got back.

[Donut Operator]

From the White House. Like supporting veterans. You don't like veterans?

[Brandon Herrera]

I'm a veteran. I just, I Hate them so much. They're almost exclusively who I hang out with and who we raise tons of money for so bad. Right?

[Donut Operator]

These veterans.

[Brandon Herrera]

That's. That's what pisses me off. All right, now I'm gonna go.

[Donut Operator]

I'm gonna go into it, right?

[Brandon Herrera]

Thank you, sir.

[Donut Operator]

I'm gonna go ahead and stand on.

[Brandon Herrera]

That soapbox real quick. Tony, I've met with you before, right? Like, I don't think that we're both unreasonable people by any means. I've only ever attacked you on policy. Some of my friends. Well, I can't speak for them, but as far as advertising and, you know, politics and whatnot, I've literally only ever attacked on policy. I don't think for a fucking moment you believe that I don't support veterans or veterans causes. I don't fucking believe that. The fact that you continue to attack on that and the fact that you spend so much of your money attacking me, trying to pretend like I don't like veterans or that I don't support veteran causes, that I actually believe any of this shit just proves that you're an actual disingenuous piece of shit. If you attack me there straight up, like it's. It's actually. It annoys the hell out of me because you're misleading your voters intentionally. Now, if you actually believe it, by all means, come out and say it, but actually say it like a man. Don't just attack behind these fucking super PACs and shit. Say what you mean. All right, I'm done with my soapbox. There you go. You can have it back.

[Donut Operator]

My favorite part of this whole thing, this whole recent development of you running. Is Tony trying to be edgy.

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh, that did happen real quick.

[Eli Double Tap]

Also put up Finn. We're at like, 975, $972,000. And in donations for veterans and special needs and autism. Autism, special needs, in that order. So just put that up really quick. How much, unsub? $972,000 in total.

[Brandon Herrera]

By the end of the year, we should probably be at like 1.2, 1.3, hopefully.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah, yeah, Just put that real quick.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's almost like that Brandon hates veterans.

[Eli Double Tap]

And then Brandon standing next to all the checks.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's almost like that's been important to us for a very long time, and we've all been working on that for.

[Donut Operator]

A while as his best friends. For me and Eli, he hates veterans.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yes, it's fucking laughable. Like, it's just a laughable smear campaign. That's the other thing, too. It's like, Brandon Herrera is a neo Nazi and all this shit. I'm like, then, then why did you have, why did you meet with me? Why did you have lunch with me if you thought I was a fringe neo nazi? It's like, it's all political posturing and this is the shit people are tired about. This is the shit that people don't like about politics. It's, it's just, it's, it's lying and it's purposely deceiving people that you think are stupid and the voters are a lot smarter than you think they are.

[Donut Operator]

Damn, Brandon, when the campaign ran the last time, I don't think you ever took any of Tony's clips on his videos out of context and tried to deceive voters, did you?

[Brandon Herrera]

No. It's kind of crazy. I only ever attacked on his record, his voting record. There's a lot of shit, trust me, there's a lot of shit I could have attacked that was, you know, personal or otherwise. Never did because I don't believe in that. I, I only attack on policy. The only problem I have with Tony, truly, like I, the only problem I have is the voting record. And I think that's the only thing that matters, to be honest. It's weird.

[Donut Operator]

Tony Gonzalez said retard.

[Eli Double Tap]

I just, him doing the edgy shit, that was the most wild thing to see. It's like, yo, homie, wait, you haven't said this post.

[Donut Operator]

Can we put up, put up the post real quick.

[Eli Double Tap]

Seeing this and then knowing what if the last time he's ever said this, period, fucking ever on his Internet career.

[Brandon Herrera]

Never. Which don't get me wrong, I agree with the sentiment. No, like it's talking shit about gun buybacks. Gee, you wonder who's done that before. Could you also put in the video of me and Cody and Eli going to gun buybacks and talking about how stupid they are. And also the fact that my boy Wes Verdell has put legislation forward that passed that actually banned state funded gun buybacks in the state of Texas. So this is going to be the last taxpayer funded gun buyback in the state.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh, no.

[Donut Operator]

As it should be.

[Brandon Herrera]

As it should be. Because they're stupid, they don't work or retarded. If that's.

[Eli Double Tap]

I didn't realize they were tax funded.

[Brandon Herrera]

Taxpayer funded or taxpayer subsidized. At least a lot of them.

[Donut Operator]

Well, I want to press on that in here in a second about the gun buybacks, but first, I'm not going to leave this alone. Tony thought he could be edgy. And it just didn't work out. According to the Internet, this was what.

[Brandon Herrera]

Two days after I announced?

[Donut Operator]

Two days after you announced with like, you know, we. We say retard because we.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's in our vocabulary. We.

[Donut Operator]

We say it sometimes. We never stop saying it. Even when it was canceled.

[Brandon Herrera]

Grew up in the early 2000s. It's just the way you talk.

[Donut Operator]

Yeah, it was just funny. Someone who has never said that before was like, oh, this gun thing is retarded. This is like, oh, you're trying to out edge Brandon. That was the first thing I was thinking. It's like you met an edgy Internet guy who ran it up against you and almost one last time. But now you're trying to say retarded.

[Eli Double Tap]

Can we really start the Brandon or Tony hates retards because he never used it.

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh, my God.

[Eli Double Tap]

He's never donated to the cause. He did the same to you with the veteran side, but now we just start this entire campaign against him for anything. It's like he hates special needs and autism.

[Brandon Herrera]

That's how it feels.

[Eli Double Tap]

He's like, why do you say that?

[Donut Operator]

The scathing commercial that says Tony said retarded.

[Brandon Herrera]

And I honestly thought, like, because, you know, obviously that's something that we all care about. Like, we have, you know, autism that, you know, is impacting our families. Like, that's something that we've raised a lot of money for. It's something that, like, all jokes aside, we genuinely care about in this community. I. But again, if you clip little shit out of context, if you're a piece of shit that doesn't care about the truth and you just want to hurt your political adversaries. Yeah, that's something that I was like, yeah, man, they'll probably bring that up this time around. And here comes Tony with a steel chair taking away like 20% of his own ammunition. I'm like, okay, sure, brother. Whatever. Whatever floats your fucking boat.

[Donut Operator]

Now we gotta get him to say the N word.

[Brandon Herrera]

Comments that were like that. They're like, if we could just gaslight him into thinking that this is the.

[Eli Double Tap]

Way you win, it'd be a wild turn. I'd be like, huh?

[Donut Operator]

If we can even to say the soft a.

[Brandon Herrera]

You know, what if it's in Tony's favorite song, can he say? Enlightens it. But what if Tony.

[Eli Double Tap]

Tony's favorite song.

[Brandon Herrera]

God, it's. It's just so funny because they had so many people text me after that. Like, in the. In the political realm, we're just like, oh, my God, he's Trying to be you.

[Donut Operator]

Yeah. Well, that made me think of that old video, you remember the church rap song where they're like, that's why Jesus Christ is.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah, that's why Jesus loved.

[Donut Operator]

Yeah, that's what that made me think of.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's. I immediately thought of the Steve Buscemi, like, what is up, my fellow edgelords?

[Donut Operator]

Edgelords. I can say retard tell.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's. How did. It's so pathetic. I don't know.

[Eli Double Tap]

I just like, how much does he spend on this team for this? I have an idea and like him, it's a really good idea. Okay, thank you for that check. I'm gonna cash it now. Because as his team, I would have been like, you look like Brandon if you do. Okay. You're doing it anyway, Scott. Okay, let's go down that path. But as fucking wild to think that is a good path to choose.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's. It was funny to see the, the news articles because they were like sitting congressman calls El Paso retards. There was like an actual CBS article that said that. And I'm like, yeah, that's how it feels, motherfucker.

[Eli Double Tap]

And then he doesn't have the backup of doing a good thing.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah. And well. But here's, here's my thing. It's like I, I agree with the sentiment too. And like, I don't care about being edgy. Like, that's fine. Like I don't actually hold it against him. It's just, it's the clutching your pearls for some stuff and then choosing to, you know, attack people for the same shit in other places. Just be fucking consistent. On top of that, like the fact that he was one of the biggest anti gun votes in the state of Texas. Him and John Cornyn were the ones who teamed up on the bipartisan Safer Communities act, which was the post Uvalde gun control from the Biden administration, which is a misnomer because it was neither bipartisan, it was just a handful of like turncoat Republicans. And nor did it make the community safer. It was just flat out gun control. And so like, he doesn't actually believe this. He's just playing a part. Like he just, he knows he's playing the part that he, he knows he needs to play to, to get reelected. And that's, that's what bothers me about it.

[Donut Operator]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

Sorry.

[Eli Double Tap]

I'm still. You're still. It's awesome to see you run again. We've been. He's not lying when he said, hey, I wasn't sure what I was going to do because that lasted until recently because it was a lot of stress, a lot of work. On top of everything else that is going on, it's that extra layer of like, I'm going to have to travel, I'm going to have to set up all of this, do a campaign. And that is also a fucking way more than 40 hour work week.

[Brandon Herrera]

So everything else, it's another business to run. Like you got a whole staff of people and everything. And on top of that it's, it's your, it's different when it's your reputation and it's like people that are talking about your character directly.

[Eli Double Tap]

And it's very strange, very different because so if you're going into business a lot of the times you are hiring or these individuals know how to handle that operation because they have done it for years. Here is a. The individuals you brought aboard, they've done it for years, but not in this space, which is completely different. So you're now changing how that formats run. Entirely.

[Brandon Herrera]

Truly there's. I can't emphasize this enough. There are so many people that I know that are in like the DC world that handle political analytics and like data and all sorts of stuff for a living. This is what they've done professionally for years. They didn't believe some of the numbers that I threw at them. As far as like number of individual donors. I truly believe like this. We might have broken it last cycle. I think we will break it this cycle. A record for number of individual donors for a congressional campaign. Because most people are used to like if you're raising big money, hundreds of thousands of dollars, millions of dollars, they're used to you going up to the big oil money guys or like just the big whale donors and the big political action committees. And your average donation is in the thousands of dollars, tens of thousands of dollars, something like that, depending on where your limits are. Like I think our average donation, I don't quote me on this, it was like $40 or something like that. But we just had thousands of them, thousands of individual people who just like they believe in something and that's fucking scary because they don't know what to do with that. And they were like, well, how much money did you spend to get those donors? You know, think we did like mass. Like I'm dead serious time is what we spent. They said, how many, how many hundreds of thousands of dollars did you spend on acquiring these, these donors?

[Eli Double Tap]

The fuck are you talking about?

[Brandon Herrera]

I genuinely didn't know. There was a disconnect. Like, what do you mean like, oh, the ads that you ran to get people to donate. Like, oh, I didn't. And they're just like fucking glitching out because they had no idea. Like, oh, these people just actually know you and they know what you stand for and they just want to donate.

[Donut Operator]

And I'm like, yeah, my favorite part about Brandon. So box. Give it here.

[Brandon Herrera]

There you go, Eli. Pass along.

[Donut Operator]

Hand it over here. The past couple years with Mr. Beli, Brandon and myself, we have wonderful opportunities. We get to do our live shows in front of thousands of people. We get to have a great time. We get to make a lot of Money just making YouTube videos and we don't need any of this shit. Brandon doesn't need to run for Congress whatsoever, but he truly believes in what he's running for. He could sit in his office and make amazing gun tube videos and be a millionaire all day long and it would be fucking great. And we would all love him for it. He is taking a pay cut because he truly cares about what he's doing. And that's why me and be like. And the rest of the community supports Mr. Brandon Barber.

[Brandon Herrera]

And you know, the support really has been fucking amazing this time around. I do, I do appreciate it. Like, it's, it's, it's been crazy and I think people are just getting sick of, of people that go to D.C. just to, you know, they say the right things, they, they, you know, they campaign on the stuff that the voters want to hear and then they don't do it. And then the leadership packs and all the big DC money come in and preserve. Help them preserve their seat so that they can't be in unseated by people like me. And well, the, the problem is there really haven't been a lot of people like me. Exactly. Because we have our army of autists and really just truthfully, millions of people who know what we actually stand for. And like, that's, it's. I feel like this is the return of open source politics. Their money doesn't spend like it used to. They can't just spend millions of dollars. These super PACs can't come in, spend millions of dollars. They can try, but I don't think their money goes as far as it used to.

[Donut Operator]

So when you win it next cycle, are you gonna stay there until you're 83 years old and can't fucking speak or walk around?

[Brandon Herrera]

Fuck no.

[Donut Operator]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh, you're gonna, you gonna get a place in dc? I'm like, God, I hope I don't have to spend that much time there. Like, I'll spend as much time there as, like, well, that I need to. To do the job properly. But I want to be in Texas every moment I'm physically able to.

[Donut Operator]

I can't even stand. But here's the laws, Youngin.

[Brandon Herrera]

Well, that's the, the thing. I keep saying.

[Eli Double Tap]

Just that, like that reset and you're like, where am I?

[Brandon Herrera]

You had Dianne Feinstein.

[Donut Operator]

Where am I? Vote, vote.

[Brandon Herrera]

Dianne Feinstein, the California senator, Massive, massive anti gun chick. Just recently, she cast a vote on the floor of the Senate and then died of old age later that day. Dead fucking serious. It was last year, a couple years ago, something like that.

[Donut Operator]

Yeah, I remember that.

[Eli Double Tap]

That was a thing.

[Brandon Herrera]

No, that actually happened.

[Donut Operator]

Yeah. Cast, vote, dies.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, it's that, like, Holden blood feast. Like that fucking meme that's been circulating around.

[Eli Double Tap]

Jesus Christ.

[Donut Operator]

God. All right, so, Brandon, what are your views on term limits and our term limits? First of all, what's, what's your views on term limits?

[Brandon Herrera]

I don't know. Well, I feel like term limits are just the. The establishment fucking hates the idea of term limits. And I know why, because they have predictable people that they have in and they're like, oh, as long as I can protect this incumbent, I have a company guy, you know, I got a guy I can rely on to do whatever the fuck I need to do. Whether that's what they're consistent. Fuck me. Constituents want or not, they'll do whatever we want them to do.

[Eli Double Tap]

As a House leadership, they do not have your back. At the end of the day, like, this is like, I do not give a about politics. I hate it because of this, because there's no term limits. It's all the things set against. And anyone that's been in war, military, they're like, oh, okay, fuck. I'm just a pawn in the scheme of things. It doesn't matter. At the end of the day, I'm just a pawn.

[Brandon Herrera]

You like a mouthful of hard wood?

[Eli Double Tap]

Yes. Go on then.

[Brandon Herrera]

Boy, do I have a product for you.

[Donut Operator]

I'm reenlisting in the Navy.

[Brandon Herrera]

No, not this time.

[Donut Operator]

Oh.

[Brandon Herrera]

The product is Fume.

[Eli Double Tap]

What's Fume?

[Brandon Herrera]

It's an amazing device for those trying to kick those nasty habits.

[Eli Double Tap]

When you said hard wood, you actually meant hard wood.

[Brandon Herrera]

I'm sorry to disappoint, but yes, I mean literal hardwood.

[Eli Double Tap]

I love hard wood in my mouth.

[Brandon Herrera]

Wait, you know what's gayer than hard wood in your mouth? Dying from cancer.

[Eli Double Tap]

Fume has an award winning design there's.

[Brandon Herrera]

No battery, no chemicals, just flavored air.

[Eli Double Tap]

Dial that airflow with the clickies. Brandon, you ever tried maple pepper?

[Brandon Herrera]

No, I like crisp mint because I'm a coward when it comes to flavors.

[Eli Double Tap]

Cody, what's your favorite?

[Donut Operator]

I don't know about flavor, but John C. Fume told me it was sexy and sleek.

[Eli Double Tap]

That is a sexy and sleek piece of wood right there, Cody. Oh yeah, put it in your mouth. Suck that flavored air.

[Brandon Herrera]

Quit cranking your wood on camera. Start your guilt free journey with good habit and use code unsub where you can get a free gift with purchase and start your long overdue breakup.

[Eli Double Tap]

Just head to try fume.com unsub and use code UNSUB to start your good habit today. And that is one of the biggest things like term limits. It should just be, hey, oh, president gets eight years. That should be a thing. That should just be across the board.

[Brandon Herrera]

Or governors a lot of times only get eight years.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah. Or reduce it. It's not where you're dying. After you cast a vote, you're like, Exactly.

[Brandon Herrera]

If you, if you, if you limited it to. So for example, if you lim limited the Senate to two terms, okay. Senators get six years apiece. Okay. That's 12 years. You've officially gotten three terms in presidential years. That's a long fucking time. Yeah. I feel like that's more than reasonable. Limit that at two years. I feel like term limits are just an easy way that you just. There's a lot of rot that happens in D.C. and somebody that I won't mention on the podcast, but somebody that I respect who's been there and done that has told me like nobody gets better the longer they spend in D.C. at the best, best case scenario, you stay the same and you stay as principled as you were. A lot of people get worse. Nobody gets better.

[Eli Double Tap]

No. Have you ever seen I asked this question, how many good driver. How many people on the road you like? That person fucking sucks. And then you pass them and they're 80. Why the are these people doing anything for us in dc? That's why I'm like, this is per. Today just getting on the highway. There's a. I seen someone merging on at 50 and I'm pissed. I'm like, oh, you're around you. And then I look and it's just an old ass lady 90 driving. I'm like. And they're. They're setting the tone for America. No, I'm good on that.

[Brandon Herrera]

And that. Well, that's.

[Donut Operator]

I saw an 80 year old cyclist today and I ran them over because I never wanted them to be in Congress.

[Brandon Herrera]

They were in danger of winning an election.

[Donut Operator]

Yeah, dude.

[Brandon Herrera]

Well, I mean that's. And that's. That's the scary part about it though is that those people, do you really think they're in control? Like those, those 80, 80 something year olds? It's all run by staffers.

[Donut Operator]

I was about to say the hundred staffers that they have.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah, he's getting petted. It's like, yeah, there we go. Also going just back to. Just really quick with how your donos went. And then it's individually funded just from amazing people out there. We had. I forget one of the ad spins reached out and they're like, hey, we need access for this for meta. And then YouTube so we can do ad spends to get the campaign out so people know to buy tickets. And I.

[Brandon Herrera]

For unsub.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah. And I had to talk. I was like, yo, we don't need that. Like, what do you mean? And then day one hit and they're like, what the is this? They were blown away by the idea of not having to pay for an audience.

[Brandon Herrera]

Like, we don't need it.

[Eli Double Tap]

No, they were like, sorry, we 99 of the time, this is what we have to do to sell some tickets. So to see you say, what are you all talking about? And see immediate, it's like, oh, your shows are selling out behind a paywall first. What the is going on? Okay, we have to take note of this. They were like, yo, kudos to your audience and you guys because we've never seen this before. I was like, yeah, yes, yes. This is dope.

[Brandon Herrera]

Absolutely. Which if I can take a moment to plug that too. If you would like to help out with the campaign, it's Brandon Herrera for Congress.com. we're doing monthly giveaways for stuff like, I don't know, like tickets to like our range day, like our creator range day that's coming up. Who. If we haven't announced the giveaway for this month yet, but whatever it is, you will automatically be entered to win that. But really it's. It just builds the war chest further and further because last time we saw what happened when we were out spent so radically, we had a fucking amazing team. They punched above their pay grade. You guys were awesome. We definitely want to use more of a volunteer base this, this time around too. There's a. I have so many notes. I'm so excited. Like, don't want to give away all the strategy here, by the way. Hi, Tony. And Hi, Tony. Tony's interns. But we. I'm really excited. We want to knock it out of the park. We want to win by multiple, Multiple points at this point, and I think we can do that very easily. But money really is. I hate that money is such a big part of politics, but it really is. People ask, why didn't you say this last campaign? Why didn't you get this message out there? The truth is, we did. A lot of times the answer was, we did. You just didn't see it, because for every one ad that we ran saying that point, he ran 12 saying the opposite, and you just didn't see it. So that is one thing that we are trying to ramp up. Fundraising is just incredibly important. And so we genuinely. I appreciate it. It, like, from. From the bottom of my heart, I do. The. The response we've seen so far has been incredible. And, you know, if last time was a sucker punch, this time we're just sneaking up with a brick. It's. It's going to be. It's going to be a bunk. This is going to be the winter of bonk. I'm looking forward to see where this goes.

[Eli Double Tap]

Just picturing a dude getting bricked in the head, but with the sound, it's just, bonk. He's dying. 100.

[Brandon Herrera]

I literally saw somebody reply to, like, Tony. Tony had posted something, and somebody had posted a meme of a cat that.

[Eli Double Tap]

Just was, like, bricking. Wait for. This is the chaos that is going to be the next six months of our lives.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's going to be rough again. Like, don't get me wrong. Like, I already. Like, I'm like, oh, God, here comes the cortisol. Like, it's all coming back. Like, it's. It's stressful, but it's at the same time, it's important. And if you ignore the things you should be doing, you're not going to be better off.

[Eli Double Tap]

Thank God. Next week's going to be nice and easy for us.

[Brandon Herrera]

All the podcasts and filming and everything, we have to do, like, three times a day for the next five days now.

[Eli Double Tap]

It's the best part no one gets to see is literally we're about to hit a wave of just, like, podcast, podcast, podcast guests in town. And it's okay. We have this. We have to do the gang. We have to do this filming on top of everything else. Oh, by the way, here's all the business meetings on the back end that are going on, and you're like, oh, wow. Okay. Side note, the y' all Are crushing. Crushing the fitness. Oh, yeah, dude, Right now. I could not be more proud right now.

[Brandon Herrera]

Speaking of fitness. I'm okay, thank you.

[Eli Double Tap]

We haven't drank in so long.

[Donut Operator]

No, no, that's. That's why I'm drinking. I haven't seen you guys in, like, a week, and, dude, I'm feeling like.

[Eli Double Tap]

My two drinks I've had today.

[Donut Operator]

Yeah, good.

[Eli Double Tap]

Right now.

[Donut Operator]

My. My two drinks.

[Eli Double Tap]

Dude. But the fitness challenge, y' all are stepping up, and then seeing the weight loss, and then these big names that are getting into it. We have redhead. What's his name?

[Brandon Herrera]

Which one?

[Donut Operator]

Joey Swole.

[Eli Double Tap]

No, big boy.

[Brandon Herrera]

Redhead. God damn it.

[Eli Double Tap]

I think it's Ethan Bernard. Ethan. That's our boy. Ethan.

[Donut Operator]

Oh, yeah. Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

Which one is he?

[Eli Double Tap]

Ethan is down. He just hit 493 pounds.

[Brandon Herrera]

I know who you're talking about. Yeah, no, that guy's. That. He's got such a really good attitude.

[Eli Double Tap]

Dude, it is so amazing to see. And then you see when people post on that subreddit, everyone is motivating each other. They. And you have people saying. It's like, man, I was so scared. Or I was embarrassed. X, Y, and Z. I. I wasn't sure on how to approach this. And then I was just met with this wall of positivity that is so awesome to see. And then everyone's lifting each other up, posting what they're doing, how their journey's going. It's just awesome. Awesome. And then all the boys are getting checked.

[Brandon Herrera]

Everyone's getting up. The last couple days, I've been on the road for, like, eight days, so, like, I need to get back to it. But I'm. I'm excited you lost.

[Donut Operator]

How much do you lose?

[Brandon Herrera]

I was just cresting £20.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

So I think last time. Last time I weighed in, which it's probably I it up. The last couple days, I've been traveling. I've been doing a bunch of. But it was 19 pounds.

[Donut Operator]

Nice, dude.

[Brandon Herrera]

But it's. That's, what, two and a half, three months of work? Especially, like, just, like, eating. Eating properly, which means, like, only vitamins, protein shakes, grilled chicken. Just miserable schedule on that and working out and boxing and all that.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yep.

[Donut Operator]

See, I go the opposite way that a lot of these dudes do. I've normally been a skinny guy my whole life, so I try to gain weight. So I've gained 15 pounds since I started this.

[Eli Double Tap]

Finn put up cody from episode 10. We call him Low T Cody.

[Brandon Herrera]

Remember, kids, eat clean and trend hard.

[Eli Double Tap]

Navar, give up now.

[Donut Operator]

I've been doing nothing but eating and just lifting.

[Brandon Herrera]

Hell, yeah. Yeah.

[Donut Operator]

So I gained my 15 pounds. I'm happy with it, dude.

[Eli Double Tap]

And then boxing's been going really good. We're gonna be boxing this week. We'll be doing a live one again because Nick's in town, and Nick was like, wait, JD Delay is going to be in town and so is angry cops. We all need to. To do a live stream of boxing against, like, yeah, we. We can make that happen.

[Brandon Herrera]

Dude, I would be terrified to box JD I know he looks like a. I mean, that. That looks like a scrappy.

[Eli Double Tap]

Just, I. I would say just wear him out on round one. Round two is going to be winded.

[Brandon Herrera]

Hopefully by then, by round two. The warden's normally broken it up. Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

I'm super excited. But everyone's doing really good exercises. They're kicking ass. And then if you have any questions on what to do, I mean, y' all been helping each other. And then we tried to do the video where we gave, like, tips, eating advice and all that and that. It went really good seeing how hard y' all are going. Super proud.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's been awesome. It's. It's really cool, too, to like, take this platform that we just, you know, we. We're a bunch of boys, like a bunch of dudes who just sat around and started making dick jokes. At some point, we're like, oh, let's make a podcast. And to be able to make an impact, like a positive impact on thousands of people's lives, not just in the money we raise and shit like that, but, like, something that's free. Like, literally just motivating you guys to, you know, maybe eat a little healthier, do some more push ups. Try to. Try to, you know, get on this fitness journey with us too. And, like, that's just been. It's been a real privilege just to see how inspiring it's been to a lot of you guys, and it's inspired us to keep going. I know that's true for me. Yeah.

[Donut Operator]

Community, right?

[Brandon Herrera]

Community.

[Donut Operator]

There's just a lot. There's a lot. Fuck me.

[Brandon Herrera]

You did it this time.

[Donut Operator]

Hey, there's a lot of lost boys out there that doesn't know how to find their friend group or figure out what's going on in life. And hopefully we can be a positive influence on that too. Just find a group of people that are not shitters and people that lift you up.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yep.

[Eli Double Tap]

Literally a crazy concept. All it takes. And when you're going to the gym, you feel better. Start doing reading Mental health exercises, hanging out with people that also go to the gym. It's each one of those things. You feel so much better at the end of the day and you're like, oh, okay. This was the small change I needed to better myself. And now I can start influencing my friends and family to be better individuals. And it is like one of the best things possible because then they're off to the races. Off the races. I love it. It's the. I live for. I'm like, let's go. So I go to the gym and don't stop.

[Donut Operator]

I mean, just. Just touching grass is the best therapy that you can have out there. Even if you're not going to the gym. And lifting, just going outside, going, going for a walk. Even if that's the bare minimum. Yeah, it's just, it's way better than sitting at home.

[Eli Double Tap]

All the takes, all the takes.

[Brandon Herrera]

When's the last time you sat in a place that didn't have air conditioned air?

[Eli Double Tap]

Whoa, calm down now.

[Brandon Herrera]

Hey, hey, hey.

[Eli Double Tap]

Our boxing gym has zero.

[Brandon Herrera]

Like, even just like sitting outside at a restaurant. Like, so much. I missed that so much when I was like traveling. This whole week is. I spent 95 of my time in places that were just inside, just between airports and hotels and shit like that. Like, I. It bothers me now. Like in Texas. I just love spending time outside. Even if it's just sitting outside at a restaurant, something that easy.

[Donut Operator]

Like, Even today it's 109 degrees in Texas. It's nice just sitting outside.

[Brandon Herrera]

I love it. You don't have to be in the sun, but, you know, just breathe real air again.

[Eli Double Tap]

Our boxing gym has zero ac. They have one fan. And that place gets hot and sweaty really quick.

[Brandon Herrera]

I'm gonna be real. I don't enjoy that.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah, I know. I'm getting a good shape from it, though. Like, hey, my cardio is going really high. Daniel making me do a hundred punch combos. This is wild.

[Donut Operator]

And that's why you don't come over to my gym.

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh, I'm so bougie. I hate. I just love sweating. I'm like, why? Like, I can lift the same amount of weight without being, you know, fucking drenched.

[Donut Operator]

Calories. They're coming off of your body.

[Brandon Herrera]

I don't think that's how it works. I don't think. All right, listen.

[Donut Operator]

Look, look. Soft times make hard men. You're hard or something.

[Brandon Herrera]

I don't feel like the fact that you're sweating means you're burning cows. Be hard for me if you're stop it Reddit.

[Eli Double Tap]

God, you're so hard for me.

[Brandon Herrera]

I feel like if you're like I.

[Donut Operator]

Can'T get him to be hard.

[Eli Double Tap]

Eli, look at these calories you're burning.

[Brandon Herrera]

It'll be right back.

[Donut Operator]

Come over my gym and be hard.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah, come.

[Donut Operator]

Come to my sweaty gym.

[Eli Double Tap]

Be hard.

[Donut Operator]

Brandon. It's just come.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh, I love it.

[Donut Operator]

I miss my friends.

[Eli Double Tap]

Dude. We have also Brandon. When he gets back, we're going to talk about a one minute call he had. Sav doesn't know this yet. She's going to about. She's going to find out right now.

[Donut Operator]

It was with the president.

[Eli Double Tap]

It was with the president. Also, me and Sav are engaged. I don't know if we've announced that on sub. Have we?

[Brandon Herrera]

No.

[Eli Double Tap]

Well, now the world knows better. Congratulations.

[Donut Operator]

We still haven't made a post.

[Eli Double Tap]

I know. It's been a month and a half.

[Brandon Herrera]

Happy birthday. Well, I had my family at and then someone leaked it on Twitter.

[Eli Double Tap]

I was like, I should probably say something. I forgot it.

[Brandon Herrera]

Did they really already?

[Eli Double Tap]

How do you ever struggle with tiny toiletry bottles?

[Brandon Herrera]

No.

[Eli Double Tap]

Well, with mando. Struggle no more. I would not want to spread whole body deodorant on you, Nick. It's gonna get all clumpy in my chest hair, but looks like I've been rolling around in mashed potatoes.

[Donut Operator]

How well does it lubricate?

[Eli Double Tap]

It's developed by a doctor and it works for 72 hours. Show some respect.

[Donut Operator]

I'm gonna tell that to everyone at the Magic the Gathering tournament.

[Eli Double Tap]

I wish I was there when they figured out that it wasn't good for 73 hours. I like to imagine just a fat guy on a treadmill for 72 hours. Straight up, he's turned. Time to shower.

[Brandon Herrera]

Finally, fatty curdled.

[Eli Double Tap]

Thanks to Mando.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's also named after Mount Fuji.

[Eli Double Tap]

Really? Mine's bourbon and leather. Because I'm a man, though.

[Brandon Herrera]

Couldn't even get through an ad without a pun. What?

[Eli Double Tap]

Do you want to sell the deodorant or not? Brandon.

[Brandon Herrera]

I'm just waiting for the sweet release of death.

[Eli Double Tap]

Not gonna come for at least 72 hours.

[Brandon Herrera]

Listen, we did a lot of meet and greets during the live tour. Y' all could use some mando for.

[Eli Double Tap]

A strong, independent woman. You can do everything a man can do. You can still use some mandalf our kids are Nick. Dead.

[Donut Operator]

The cops are coming.

[Eli Double Tap]

We've got 72 hours to hide the body before it starts to smell.

[Donut Operator]

Actually does smell pretty damn good.

[Eli Double Tap]

This one smells like the body wash. Smells actually really good.

[Donut Operator]

I Have bourbon leather.

[Eli Double Tap]

Anybody find the body? No, but that ditch over there smells delicious. There's no way there's a body over there.

[Brandon Herrera]

You said we can ad lib. Joke's on you. We're into that.

[Donut Operator]

This isn't your average deodorant or antiperspirant.

[Eli Double Tap]

You can try Mando's starter pack. It's perfect. It comes with absolutely everything. Stick deodorant, cream, deodorant. Two free products of your choice like a mini body wash or deodorant wipes. And free shipping as a special offer. You'll get 20% off site wide with our exclusive code unsub. That's code unsub. [e-mail]. i forgot I said something quickly on kinda. And then I got a text about like, what the fuck? And like you said on kind. I was like, oh. And then Twitter started saying stuff was like, babe, I'm so sorry. You better tell your family real fucking quick because the Internet knows and I didn't know that.

[Brandon Herrera]

No, but for real, congrats, you guys. That's awesome.

[Eli Double Tap]

Congrats. Finally. Four years it took. Take your time. There's no rush.

[Donut Operator]

No rush right into it. Go on.

[Eli Double Tap]

Rush right into it. Three months, she's a stripper, you're happy.

[Donut Operator]

No, that's also say, go off base, get that dodge charger for 72% APR.

[Eli Double Tap]

Fucking. You're an American soldier.

[Brandon Herrera]

Earn that reenlistment bonus.

[Donut Operator]

Join the marines. You have a stripper.

[Eli Double Tap]

So, Brandon, what happened on the. Me driving here and you driving here after brunch?

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, so I'm. I'm a chronic gun buying addict. I'm sorry, It's. It's my. That's. That's my passion. And it's not a problem.

[Donut Operator]

You're addicted to gun broker.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's not a problem. So I have a lot of venues for a gun broker. This particular case was Rock island auction and I have text alerts set up for certain things that I find interesting or that things that my friends have said that they are interested in.

[Donut Operator]

Hold on, hold on. Segue, real quick.

[Brandon Herrera]

Segue?

[Donut Operator]

Yeah, hold on.

[Brandon Herrera]

Segue away.

[Eli Double Tap]

God, we haven't even talked about.

[Donut Operator]

I'm searching the Rock island most expensive guns before.

[Brandon Herrera]

I think we did the MP7, I.

[Eli Double Tap]

Think about on the podcast.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, Yeah, I think so.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh, yeah, we did.

[Brandon Herrera]

That one was. Yeah, I think that was Broker.

[Eli Double Tap]

You just got that. Okay.

[Brandon Herrera]

But Rock island, yo, they like. Rock island is where you go. It's like. So if you know the Barrett Jackson auctions for cars Rock island is like Barrett Jackson for guns. It's some of the.

[Donut Operator]

All right, hold on.

[Brandon Herrera]

I don't even know this one.

[Donut Operator]

Rock island, the most expensive guns ever sold. This is Rock Island. This is where Brandon likes to buy his things from the king. Louis 8th of France will lock gun.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh, my God.

[Brandon Herrera]

1.5, 3.7 88,000. That's not the most expensive gun they've ever sold, I promise you that.

[Donut Operator]

Oh, it's probably not. I'm just going through some of their emotions. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt. Smith and Wesson number three, bro.

[Eli Double Tap]

I don't know, because I don't know. Is that more or less than the last one?

[Donut Operator]

$910,000. I thought it was going to be more than this. I mean, it was the most you've seen. They sell shit like that. Like Theodore Roosevelt.

[Eli Double Tap]

I mean, a million dollars for guns.

[Brandon Herrera]

A while ago they, they sold the original Han Solo blaster.

[Eli Double Tap]

How much was that one?

[Brandon Herrera]

Let me look it up.

[Eli Double Tap]

Dude. Theodore Roosevelt.

[Brandon Herrera]

It sold for $1,057,000.

[Donut Operator]

So that's the price of their gun. What did you do on Rock island, my friend?

[Brandon Herrera]

Well, I've done quite a lot. They're who. I got like the, that M79, you know, 40 millimeter, you know, grenade launcher and everything like that from. I, I dabble on some of the auctions with some of the stuff that I don't have in my collection.

[Donut Operator]

You dabble in dupers?

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, you know, guys gonna have a little bloop tube from, you know, time to time. Anyway, I know that my buddy Eli is super big into guns from Metal Gear Solid, which, you know, he's gotten me into, and reluctantly I have.

[Eli Double Tap]

I'm sorry.

[Brandon Herrera]

He has always wanted. And I understand it because they're fucking cool as hell.

[Donut Operator]

The.

[Brandon Herrera]

The. It was the sniper rifle.

[Donut Operator]

I know. I was about to say the rifle.

[Brandon Herrera]

The PSG1, the HK PSG1, which is basically just a sniper variant of the G3. There's only like 200 of them. I don't, don't. I don't mean to misquote that. I'm pretty sure that's accurate. 200 of them in the country currently or that were ever imported. They sell for a lot of fucking money. I call Eli and there is a live auction going on because I'm like, I'm going to prove bidder on Rock Island. I could just pull up the live stream. I'm watching them in Texas, like doing the. We have 20,000. 20,000 now 22. 22. I'm like, oh, I call Eli, super quick. I have him on the loudspeaker. And so I'm listening to two audio feeds of Eli talking and this auctioneer talking. And I have the live bidder. Like, my phone is hot. I press a button and I'm like, the highest bidder now like, Eli, do you want a fucking PSG one for thousand dollars?

[Eli Double Tap]

I was like, do they have a. Wait, what? It does have a case.

[Brandon Herrera]

I don't know, probably what, thousand now do you. Do you want it? Like, go there, going, last call. Do you want it? Yes. All right, it's. It's. Are you sure? Do you. Do you want to fuck it. Done and hold. All right, you got it.

[Eli Double Tap]

So I own a PSG one.

[Brandon Herrera]

You got a PSG one now. And then we. Then I. Then I did actually look into the. The realistic. I'm like, oh, shit. That's like. Condition is like. Yeah, 99% condition.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh, shit.

[Brandon Herrera]

Has the case, the original optic, everything. Like it's everything.

[Donut Operator]

Because that's the one. It's like a kind of a blocky type sniper rifle.

[Eli Double Tap]

It is.

[Brandon Herrera]

Let me see.

[Donut Operator]

It's the first mission that he has in Metal Gear 1. Right.

[Eli Double Tap]

Metal Gear Solid. You get it. To fight Sniper Wolf.

[Brandon Herrera]

I remember the.

[Donut Operator]

The pistol grip on that. It's got that little fucking. Yeah, lucky thing on the.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yep. The base plate. Yeah, it has a very unique grip.

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh, wait a minute. I can show you the exact one.

[Eli Double Tap]

God, you get it from the bottom.

[Donut Operator]

So now you got.

[Brandon Herrera]

This is Eli's PSG1.

[Donut Operator]

You got the PSG1, brother.

[Eli Double Tap]

I know I have the.

[Brandon Herrera]

Ivan showed you.

[Eli Double Tap]

I know I get to see my gun.

[Brandon Herrera]

That's your gun. That's awesome.

[Donut Operator]

So now you have mark 23. You have two. Oh, can I say two? Yeah, I have two mark 23s. Now you have the BSG one.

[Eli Double Tap]

And then once Brandon finishes the Famas.

[Brandon Herrera]

I haven't even announced that.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh, which.

[Brandon Herrera]

I don't care. I don't give a fuck. We didn't put that out there. We're working on Famas. I've had a parts kit for a minute now. We've. We've been working on a receiver for a minute. And our last hold up is the barrel. But we've been, We've been working on that rebuild. That'll be on the channel as soon as we get it finished. And I'm sure Ian's gonna love that as soon as we get him on. On Unsub. I would love to do an episode with Ian from Forgotten Weapons. I think that would be A lot of fun he's got. Oh, is he already scheduled? Yep. Oh, no. Shit.

[Donut Operator]

Hell, yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

I know. I knew that was kind of, like floating around in the. In the.

[Eli Double Tap]

He did a video on Universe, announced it.

[Brandon Herrera]

Really?

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh, fuck. I didn't know that. Oh, well, fuck. I'm behind the curb, but, Ian, I'm glad you're coming on.

[Eli Double Tap]

Excellent. Plus overall retaining 99. Plus original black finish with limited minor handles.

[Donut Operator]

That's fucking dope, man. Congrats.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh, man. And then that just stacked with the Mark 23. I'm.

[Brandon Herrera]

Because I. Now I will say your Mark 23, the one that you have that, like, you. You showed it to me at one point, and you're like, don't clear it. Because for those who don't know, with, like, tilting, like, barrels that unlock when you. When you clear the gun, like, you just run the slide, the barrel tilts down, and the slide goes over it, and it kind of, like, scratches the surface of it, and it takes the paint away. If you do it a bunch of times, the paint is still perfectly preserved on yours. I'm not sure this gun has ever been racked, like, since it was built. And so, like, he's just like, don't clear it. Even the magazine, like, to remove it, you just pull the magazine release down. And to put it back in, you put the magazine all the way in, and then release the mag release so it doesn't scrape the paint on the. Like. That is probably the most pristine pistol I have ever seen in my life. It is more pristine than most pistols you see on the shelves of gun.

[Eli Double Tap]

Stores that are brand new from 1996. That's, like, the first year it came out because.

[Brandon Herrera]

What was that, a SEAL contract gun or. What was that?

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah, it was the. Well, so Navy contract or Navy Seals made it. They started production 92 for that, and then. Or started the contract and building it in 92 and then released to the civilian market in 1996. And that's how you have those markings of the GK, I think, is the nomenclature. So those are specific to the numbers at that they're released. So I have, like, the.

[Brandon Herrera]

You win the Scrabble word of the day on nomenclature, but keep going. Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

And it is, oh, hey, here's a matching serial number with your cat can. Matching serial number even more rare. And then you have the lamb with it even more rare, everything matching together. And then it's never been fired in its existence. And then keeping it all where. Oh, the magazine, we don't slide it out because you can look at the magazine, Brandon, you've seen it. There is no marking bearing on it because it has been taken care of.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's absurd.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah, for almost 30 years now. Holy. Yeah. 30 fucking years. That has been just babied to the.

[Brandon Herrera]

Degree I wouldn't want to own it.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah. And now like I'm like hey, you go in the gun safe, that is the whatever is temperature controlled and can't have humidity. And then I wrapped it in one of these bags. Have that anti rest anti ocean.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

Just made sure.

[Brandon Herrera]

I don't know what they're called, but I know what you're talking about.

[Donut Operator]

You're like one of the car collectors that puts their cars in like the bubbles. So like the, the climate control bubbles that nothing can touch. Like Goldberg puts his cars in.

[Eli Double Tap]

I was like, I just don't want this thing to ever get up in any way possible. And then we'll store it same for the PSG one. And now you have the Famas coming which that Metal Gear Solid video is just going to be like.

[Brandon Herrera]

Because there's certain guns from that video and I think we've, we've probably even mentioned this on the podcast before but there's certain guns from that video like for the Famas that's very hard to get here in the states. The Barrett M82A2, there's like 12 in existence. One of them's on my fucking gun wall.

[Donut Operator]

The shoulder fire guy. Yeah, yeah, the helicopter hunter which by.

[Brandon Herrera]

The way fucking, you know, Hideo being autistic as fuck and choosing that gun to be the anti material rifle for what is it? Metal. Metal gear 4 I think.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah, it's wild that he was like oh I need this gun. Even the from any of those guns he chose is fucking wild. Like oh, here is what I want in 1998 for MGS1. It's like I want the Mark 23 with a slam device. I want every gun he's at the famas of all fucking weapons.

[Brandon Herrera]

And you know, big shout out to the French on the Famas, I gotta say. Having a. An assault rifle that fires in three round burst with a magazine that is indivisible by three. Fucking awesome design. You guys really knocked it out of the park.

[Eli Double Tap]

Fuck yeah, gangster.

[Brandon Herrera]

Appreciate you've been an all right ally.

[Donut Operator]

Just, just memeing on guns. The engineers were like this should work.

[Eli Double Tap]

It's fine, it's fine. Fuck it, it's okay.

[Donut Operator]

Yeah, I did my Caleb Francis voice there. We saw Caleb the other day that Was true.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah. Why the other night Danny came to town.

[Donut Operator]

Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

I miss that because I was in D.C. yeah.

[Donut Operator]

Danny Warsaw asking Alexandria, how was that? They came to town. It was fucking cool, man. Chevelle was with them. It was a good time. Ran into Caleb Francis. He's still as big as ever and just an awesome.

[Eli Double Tap]

Hey, you guys.

[Brandon Herrera]

Hey, guys.

[Donut Operator]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

I could crush you with my hands.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

He's literally like the mountain. And Pedro Pascal, just the lightest of.

[Eli Double Tap]

Voice, the sweetest of voices.

[Brandon Herrera]

I know.

[Donut Operator]

Still just the most delightful. We got to say hey to Danny and all those guys. How's he doing? Ah, he's good, man. They were just ramming up their. Their first tour that they're doing for or the first show that they're doing for the tour that they're about to.

[Brandon Herrera]

To go on. I always feel bad because, like, every time we see them, they do the same thing that we do.

[Donut Operator]

Start off in San Antonio.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah. They start their tours in San Antonio.

[Eli Double Tap]

I did not know that.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah. This is the second time we've seen them there, that this is the first.

[Eli Double Tap]

Show in their tour, but they go on a couple more than we do. Yeah, that's dude. Again, shout out to any rock star that does that life.

[Brandon Herrera]

Because, dear God, it was.

[Donut Operator]

It was funny. He showed up. Remember he came to the Nashville. He came backstage and we were in Nashville and we're like, we know, Danny. You've never seen a green room before, but this is what it's like.

[Eli Double Tap]

Shout out to Danny for singing our interest.

[Brandon Herrera]

I think he was just happy to be in a green room where he didn't have to be the one on stage. Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

He's like, I can do this. I just get. Okay. I just sit here 100%. Dude, they. Because you're looking at. How many shows do they do once they start?

[Brandon Herrera]

30.

[Donut Operator]

Fuck me.

[Brandon Herrera]

Dude, they're doing a show every other.

[Donut Operator]

Day or something like that. It's wild.

[Eli Double Tap]

Because they'll do like, one or two in one location, then drive and then do another one or two.

[Donut Operator]

Yeah. Because they went from here. I think they. They went from here. They went up to Dallas the next day and did a show and they're just. Yeah, they got the tour bus thing.

[Brandon Herrera]

I understand now, like, why they do tour buses instead of, like, commercial flights and all that shit. They just drive and, like, plan it that way. Like, that doesn't make sense for us if we're only doing, like, six shows at a time or something like that. And it's, you know, it's. It's worse, probably, but you know, to be able to sleep on the buses and like, postie and people like that, I guess it makes sense.

[Eli Double Tap]

And you're only interacting with your clothes, like, for those time when you're. It's your time off. You're only interacting with each other. So you get like, hey, guys, I'm gonna just go in my little pod, put my headphones on.

[Brandon Herrera]

Sleep. Yeah, you don't have to deal with.

[Donut Operator]

The general public and airports.

[Eli Double Tap]

Me, dude, I hate.

[Donut Operator]

I would be so happy with these. I'm not complaining. I love what we get to do, but airports. I wish there were airports for people who have been in airports before.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah, that's the best way to put it. People who have been to airports before because you're like air ragers, right? If you've never been on there, holy shit. I've never seen how bad airports can be. But you get to see the bad side of, like, flights, airports, flights getting delayed because one individual wanted to be unique or special. It's bad, bad. And you get to hear the entire. The entire plane being like, sit the down and shut the up.

[Brandon Herrera]

Don's Burger King.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah, yeah. They're just like you. And you get to hear the people come up to them like, sir, we're gonna have to d plane the entire airline. Don't shut the fuck up and get off right now. Like, no, dude, we're all getting off. We're all getting off. Yeah, yeah, That's.

[Donut Operator]

That's those individuals who have never been punched in the mouth before. Just one time. Just one good pop.

[Eli Double Tap]

Just the hardest pop. I'd be like, can we all leave now? If I knock him out, can you take him off the plane and we just resume our normal schedule flight or do we have to deploy? We're going to have to deplane. Well, now I'm punching him either way.

[Brandon Herrera]

Can you sure? You sure you can't just, like, shove him in, like, the little coat rack container and we just pretend like that didn't happen?

[Eli Double Tap]

Beat him up, put him in the overhead. Close it. We're good, right? Can we land on time now?

[Brandon Herrera]

Ding, ding.

[Eli Double Tap]

Today's unsubscribe episode is brought to you by booking.combooking.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, Cody, how much do we have to travel?

[Eli Double Tap]

We travel a lot, actually, with the live tours. We use booking.com to set up everything as we go on this next journey of life.

[Brandon Herrera]

Because God knows it's a lot of travel and anything to make it easier is much appreciated.

[Eli Double Tap]

Brandon. So when you have to book for your Partner. But they only want 800 thread count sheets.

[Brandon Herrera]

Well, that's easy, Eli. Get a new partner.

[Eli Double Tap]

No, go to booking.com.

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh, before we had any sort of relationship with booking.com I have used the service before, genuinely. Sometimes they have really good deals.

[Eli Double Tap]

One of the great things about booking.com is it provides really accurate reviews. Like really detailed reviews. It saved me once Cody did use booking.com when we stayed at that sweet vacation home.

[Donut Operator]

Heck yeah. What else would I use other than booking.com?

[Brandon Herrera]

Find exactly what you're booking for booking.combooking.

[Donut Operator]

Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

Book today on the site or the app.

[Brandon Herrera]

Dude.

[Donut Operator]

A lot of the videos I've been looking at on stream, like we look at a lot of now, because I can't do shootings on my streams because the platforms, the streaming platforms, they don't. You can't show shootings.

[Brandon Herrera]

Can't be.

[Donut Operator]

Show people getting shot and stuff like that. A lot of it is drunk people just getting arrested by the cops. 90% of it is in airports.

[Brandon Herrera]

Really? Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah.

[Donut Operator]

It's wild. The videos of people. Exactly what you were saying. Just this one individual who is holding up the flight for I don't know what, 90 people, 100 people, 120 people.

[Eli Double Tap]

And you have a risk. And then the no flight list on top of that where you're doing a ground bus no matter what, is wild to fucking do that.

[Brandon Herrera]

That's. That's terrifying. Well, it's just like the thought that you could never fly again.

[Donut Operator]

From. From the police perspective, it's always, you're an adult babysitter. That's all you are. And it's just toddlers who have. I don't know what their parents taught them or said to them, and they just hold it up for the rest of the hundred people on that plane. And they do it every time, just entitled people. It's so weird, man.

[Eli Double Tap]

Dude, it pisses me off so fast and to do that and then again, never flying again. And that's what's going to happen immediately after this. You're like, I'm gonna hold this up, get arrested and then get on no flight list. Or I could just shut the up and be like, hey, I'm sorry, what do you need done? Okay, I'll do that. Nope. They choose violence.

[Brandon Herrera]

I think. How hard is it to be a normal fucking person? It's really not that bad. I had. I had one guy that I. So I've been in and out of. I think I did eight states in eight days is the way that that just worked out. It's been a. Yeah, I literally haven't been to my house yet. We came, we went straight to lunch and went straight to the podcast.

[Eli Double Tap]

And he's telling the truth. He got off the airplane, we did lunch, and we came straight here to film. He has not been home.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

To reiterate the schedules right now, it's.

[Brandon Herrera]

It'S, it's a little hectic at the moment. It's been a few things going on, but there was one airport I went to where I'm going through tsa.

[Donut Operator]

Atlanta.

[Brandon Herrera]

It was not Atlanta. Okay, yeah, good guess. But it was not Atlanta. There was this kind of older gentleman. I'm like, you know, maybe there's some people that have some stuff going on, so I don't want to immediately hold it against him, but you'll see where I'm going with this. I got to see lack of object permanence in real time where he's like looking around, he's looking at his ticket like it's going to tell him where to go in tsa. He's looking at his ticket and he goes around the corner. And you know how they have that, like the Snake game through TSA where it just, you know, doubles back and doubles back and doubles back even if there's nobody in line. Every time he went to an end, he would, like bump into the rope and look around trying to figure out where to go and. Oh, and went down the next pathway. And he wasn't old enough to where, like, you know, if you're in your 80s or something like that, I'm like, okay, obviously there might be a problem here. He was not old enough for it to warrant this just immediately. Every time, every time he bumped into another edge, just like, look, looked around terrified and like, somebody needs to help this guy. But it was just wild to see, like, that actual, like, lack of awareness. And I'm just sitting there like, like just being as patient as I can behind him, but I'm like, oh, I'm just thinking, oh, I waited. Yeah, I'm just thinking of like, okay, if this guy. Okay, this guy's either an asshole or he actually has a problem and some member of his family decided to let him fly alone. Because I'm like, if you can't figure out a cue line that, you know, 40 year olds can kind of figure out, you should not be in public.

[Eli Double Tap]

Who were we with? I think I met up with you guys at whatever airport, but I told the story of old guy in front of me going through metal detectors and I just Seen how long it was that. Oh, yeah, you got to get that. Everything out. And I look, look, look, look, look, look. I was like, I'm going around him. I don't give a. And at first, the people behind me like, that dude's rude. I went through. Other guy waits for, like, five minutes, and then he goes through. And he's like, bro, I thought you were rude at first. And then homeboy is still standing like, they're forks. Why do I gotta put those out? He's just like, unpacking, goes through, comes back. Everyone is just stopped in line for, like, probably 20. I was already gone before that one dude made it out of just TSA clearing everything.

[Brandon Herrera]

I'm just picturing you waiting behind an old man who's just, like, putting out his set of titanium Russian nesting dolls. Dude.

[Eli Double Tap]

I was like, three minutes. I was like, no, this is gonna take way longer. I can read this individual. He is not understanding anything this person's gonna say. And he is pulling out one metal thing at a time. And then he got pulled back once and put down his wallet. I was like, yeah, I'm good. I'm fucking going around him. And I'm just. I'm good. I don't have time for this. And then everyone else started to walk around him like, oh, that dude's on. I was like, yeah, sorry. Not me. Being a dickhead. Don't got time for.

[Donut Operator]

All right, is it just us being responsible adults or like you? Eli, you and I, we've been in the military before. Before you approach the situation, something or something like that. You always have your things ready. Even if we have to go to the dmv. You read the website and you're like, all right, I have to have my things ready to do this. I'm going to make sure I'm ready. It's anything in life, you make sure your things are ready. I have a trouble understanding people that get to the thing where they need to go, the most important place they need to go on an airplane, whether it be the DMV or anything. And it's like, oh, shit, I didn't bring the things that the website told me to bring.

[Eli Double Tap]

You mean planning ahead, Cody.

[Donut Operator]

Oh, planning ahead. That's.

[Brandon Herrera]

You mentioned.

[Donut Operator]

People do that.

[Brandon Herrera]

You mentioned dmv.

[Donut Operator]

Oh, tell me about dmv, brother.

[Brandon Herrera]

I had an experience.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh, you just went.

[Brandon Herrera]

I brought. I was told that the deed to my house did not count as an approved form of residence.

[Donut Operator]

Your deed?

[Brandon Herrera]

The deed to my house.

[Donut Operator]

You brought your deed to the dmv?

[Brandon Herrera]

I Brought. The reason I brought.

[Eli Double Tap]

Hold on.

[Donut Operator]

I sounded like an asshole there.

[Brandon Herrera]

I. I brought everything. I brought, like, my literal, original copies of, like, my birth certificate, Social Security number, everything I could possibly conceivably need. Because I didn't want to go back.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah, you're, like, here.

[Brandon Herrera]

And you should have seen the 12 seconds of airtime between me and this guy at the DMV when he told me that that was not an acceptable form of a proof of residence.

[Eli Double Tap]

Just the gray static just.

[Brandon Herrera]

This is not your fault. You didn't make the rules. I'm gonna go outside and scream now.

[Eli Double Tap]

They didn't take that.

[Brandon Herrera]

The guy ended up. He was very helpful. I will say, this guy was really cool. But, yeah, that was being told that proof of ownership of a house doesn't count.

[Donut Operator]

All right, I'll take back everything that I just said. Sometimes, all the time, the government is fucked up. I just fucking hate airports, guys.

[Eli Double Tap]

That's all.

[Donut Operator]

It comes down to stinting.

[Eli Double Tap]

I just hate that Brandon waited months to get to the DMV and told immediately. So, bruh, sorry, this is not good enough.

[Brandon Herrera]

The literal deed with all the paperwork associated with, like, I had an entire manila envelope filled with all the paperwork.

[Donut Operator]

That you have physical property in Texas. Do you ask for their manager?

[Brandon Herrera]

Like I said, the guy was cool. He actually ended up helping me out.

[Eli Double Tap]

But it was.

[Brandon Herrera]

He was. You could tell, like, there was pain in his eyes too. He's like, dear God. Like, I know you're telling the truth and I really want to help you, but I have a list and I'm sorry.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh, it's like when I brought the. The figure through tsa.

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh, yeah. Dude, that was wild. That was after the Boston live show or San Diego. Oh, yeah, San Diego.

[Eli Double Tap]

That was San Diego coming through. And then them being like, you gotta open. I was like, you're not opening that. If you're opening that, you're giving me X amount of money. Why? Why can't we open this? It's called a collectible. It's never been opened. That's worth a lot of money. So why can't we open it? Okay, fucking open it. You're writing me a check from the second you open that. Why can't we open it? Okay, so there's these things called collectibles that have never been open. And it's worth a lot. Why? What is the issue? Run it through your fucking X ray standard.

[Brandon Herrera]

I understand it if it was made of steel and you couldn't see into it, but it's made of cardboard and there's a giant fucking transparent window that shows you exactly what's inside of it. Yeah.

[Donut Operator]

If it was made of bomb and.

[Eli Double Tap]

It'S guts, just holding a sword. Like, my tattoo shows who that is. Unless one of my fans was really fucked up and was like, I'm gonna put a bomb in this.

[Brandon Herrera]

I understand. If the collectible was like, inside this box was what looks like a live hand grenade, but fucking what?

[Eli Double Tap]

And then they're like, well, we're gonna have to run it again. That's fine. Run it as many times as you want. I assure you there are zero bombs in that. What the fuck is the problem? We're gonna have to cut it open. Okay. Holy shit. Have you ever heard of a collectible? We stood there for what, 20, 30 minutes. That was a good fucking.

[Brandon Herrera]

We were all taking bets on the side. We just saw how angry Eli was getting. Like, oh, oh, man.

[Eli Double Tap]

Like, peaceful, peaceful, peaceful.

[Brandon Herrera]

All we know is 20% chance. That's no fly list on this one.

[Eli Double Tap]

Like, okay, now I'm getting really pissed off at this. I am having to repeat myself. Okay. Tism or. Just calm down. Just calm down, man. We've had a crazy week, and now we're about to have a more crazy week with next one. We figure we do this one is a more short one because we have zero in the backlog. We literally. This is like Friday. We're going to record earlier this week. Your week took off, though. Were you like, hey, I'm not even in town.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, sorry about that. It was just a. It was a lot of stuff going on. Although we do get to, like, another thing that we didn't. Haven't talked about yet, though, is we did get to go up with Jared Isaac, man. Up in Bozeman. The. The jet stuff.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh, yeah, you got a fucking flying what?

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, and alpha jet. So it's actually my second time going up. A Jared who's like, just an awesome guy. Like, I can't give the dude enough kudos. Like, he's like, you'd never know that the guy's a, you know, billionaire with all these, you know, founded a very, you know, big tech company and stuff like that.

[Eli Double Tap]

He was a billionaire with owning a jet.

[Brandon Herrera]

Well, that. That was. All right. So on that note, do you laugh? On that note, with the first time I went up there, I didn't know what the guy looked like. I just knew his name and I knew everything like that. I thought he was one of the pilots.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh, shit.

[Brandon Herrera]

Because he was dressed exact. He was in the flight Suit. Like, all the rest of the pilots was sitting there, like, bullshitting with his employees. Like, I thought he was just one of the guys who worked there.

[Eli Double Tap]

No shit.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah. Like, he's not just showing up like, oh, hi, I'm John C. CEO of, you know, whatever.

[Donut Operator]

I'm John C. Airplane.

[Brandon Herrera]

The guy just fucking loves to fly. Like, he's just. Just loves planes. Loves aviation. It, like. Like, my tism with guns. I was gonna say artism, but, like, be honest. With my tism with guns. His tism with planes. Like, he's just. He's a really cool dude in that regard. And so he just loves, you know, teaching people about planes and stuff like that.

[Eli Double Tap]

And I love Bill.

[Brandon Herrera]

I'd love to bring you guys up there.

[Eli Double Tap]

Dude. 100%. And billionaire Tisms are hilarious. Like, you're like, have you seen this AK? He's like, have you seen this MiG? Yeah, well.

[Brandon Herrera]

Straight up, like, I'm just looking around. I'm like, man, this has got to be what people think. Like, walking into my shop times 100.

[Eli Double Tap]

Because he owns a whole bunch of.

[Brandon Herrera]

Planes, bunch of L39s, Alpha jets. I thought he had one. MiG 29. Turns out he's got three. It's. It's crazy. Like, he's got a really crazy story. I'd love to delve into it one day. I'd love to have him on the podcast. I feel like he would be a.

[Eli Double Tap]

Very cool guest motivational.

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh, yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

Also just really dope topics, because without saying, he achieved greatness at a very young age. Because I want him to tell that story. You've kind of divulged it.

[Brandon Herrera]

I don't want to misquote anything, and I don't want to say anything that's not true. But to my understanding, he started his first company, which was like, a payment processing thing. He started at, like, 16. The guy's actually just very fucking smart.

[Eli Double Tap]

Thank God I wasn't a billionaire at 16, right? I wouldn't know any of you.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, sure. The meme, like, I just want to blow up and act like, I don't know nobody.

[Eli Double Tap]

I've been the biggest shit.

[Brandon Herrera]

But no, I just. Super fucking cool guy. Just can't give it. Like, I really hope he does end up being head of NASA, because, man, the guy's got some ideas.

[Eli Double Tap]

Is that what he's going for right now?

[Brandon Herrera]

He was. He was the. Originally, he was the one of the picks for. For head of NASA, which is cool, because to my understanding, the guy's been to space, like, five times. I think he was the first civilian to ever do a spacewalk. Like he would be like the most.

[Eli Double Tap]

Guys got a spacewalk.

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh yeah, yeah. Origin. What is it? Origin 4 or what is it? I'm. I'm getting that wrong. It's something for. He's got like a Netflix documentary of him with NASA.

[Eli Double Tap]

That's wild. That is. Being in space would be one of the. Doing a spacewalk on the space station would be amazing.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's crazy.

[Eli Double Tap]

Like I. Terrifying. You are strapped in by one material where you could free float to your death no matter what. Yeah. No one's going to find. You're just gonna float out to space.

[Brandon Herrera]

Inspiration. Inspiration for inspiration 4 is what it was. You're terrifying.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah. Just literally you just float out and you run out. Run out of oxygen.

[Donut Operator]

Okay, okay. But there is the chance that aliens find you one day and revive you.

[Eli Double Tap]

That's true. If you're floating out.

[Brandon Herrera]

So you wake up just in time to get anally probed.

[Donut Operator]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

Dude.

[Eli Double Tap]

Dude. I will say one of the things when you have right now going on, this is going to be like exit, like that big, big brain. Somewhere in the universe there is a species that can teleport, can do all of that. I don't know why I love space stuff. I love astronomy, I love like anything like that. But there is a type, whether it be a type 3 civilization out there right now that could do like teleportation. Any of that shit would be right now where we would look at them like a sci fi experiment. Like they're. We cannot conceptualize what they can do. And that happened. That's happening right now at this moment.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah.

[Donut Operator]

You're gonna hit me with three body problem again. Make sure I don't sleep for a week.

[Eli Double Tap]

Literally going on in this universe right now. 100.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah.

[Donut Operator]

Give me to read that book.

[Brandon Herrera]

I'm really glad you guys brought.

[Donut Operator]

Question my mortality. Yeah, thanks, Eli.

[Brandon Herrera]

Because I did see this the other day. That, you know, Stephen Hawking's old experiment where he disproved time travel because he like threw that party where he made a big deal of like, hey, if time travel exists, show up at this date, this whatever. And he announced it after it had already happened, made this big announcement like, hey, this party's happening four days ago. If you're a time traveler from the future, show up. And if you show up, then I know that time travel is real. And he basically used that as a thing like, look, you know, this is a proof that, you know, I'm a scientist, a very high profile. Like, there's. There's no way that somebody wouldn't have gone back even just to say hello. I know for a fact now that time travel isn't real, or at least it doesn't work that way, like, linearly. And people said, you know, now it kind of is an irrelevant experiment because now that everybody knows he's on the Epstein list, they're like, oh, why would I show up to his fucking party? Why would I show up to go hang out with a guy who's now in the future? People would know, like, oh, God, yeah, know the Epstein guy.

[Eli Double Tap]

You know, find out about that, going to that party.

[Brandon Herrera]

So, like, the experiment now is completely moot.

[Donut Operator]

Also, he can't dance.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah, that's kind of parties that.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah.

[Donut Operator]

Get the fuck out of here, dude.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah. What was the thing that they said it was? His kink was, I don't know if any of this was real, but it's.

[Donut Operator]

Still putting math equations up on a.

[Eli Double Tap]

Chalkboard out of their reach.

[Donut Operator]

So higher, so high that they can't reach them.

[Brandon Herrera]

It was the way it was written. It was on a slightly too high whiteboard.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yes, yes, yes. Reach the number edging well. And I think on that note, we will close this episode out, get it ready for today, tomorrow, and then do a 10 minute after show where we talk about. I'm not sure yet. Cody, close us out, you beautiful.

[Donut Operator]

Hey, guys, thank you for joining the unsubscribe podcast. I was joined today by Eli Double Tap, Brandon Herrera, myself, donut operator. Thank you so much for joining us. We're going to be on the unsubscribe after show. Sorry, I forgot. Patreon. Patreon after show. The word eluded me.

[Eli Double Tap]

Go check us out. We love you. Life is a workout and Smoothie King is here to help you power through. Whether you're grinding out bicep curls or.

[Donut Operator]

Muscling the couch across the living room.

[Eli Double Tap]

Crushing morning miles, or sprinting through back to back meetings, Smoothie King has fuel to help you maximize your workouts, own your recovery and elevate your game. Give your body the energy, protein and power it needs with a lineup of delicious smoothies made to help you conquer your goals. Only at Smoothie King.