Klarna Is Ruining Lives & The Army Is BACK! | Unsubscribe Podcast Ep 231

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Unsubscribe Podcast Ep 231

Klarna Is Ruining Lives & The Army Is BACK!
Date: September 23, 2025
Hosts: Eli Doubletap, Brandon Herrera, Donut Operator, The Fat Electrician (Nick), Rich High

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Episode Overview

This episode of Unsubscribe Podcast brings together the usual crew for a raucous deep dive into the return of “old-school” Army training, a deep roast of buy-now-pay-later services (Klarna) and the fallout from Brandon’s recent campaign shenanigans. The growth of their live shows, reflections on internet drama, and hilarious stories about military and life mishaps thread through a characteristically unfiltered, digressive hangout.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Podcast Opener & Community Check-in

• Eli thanks listeners for their support during his recent depression:

  “I just want to...truly, truly, truly want to say thank you for that. Even during those lows and pushing through it...I just got to see y'all being amazing.” (01:11)

• Encourages ticket sales for expanded live shows—San Antonio is now their largest planned event.

2. The Return of “Real” Army: Shark Attacks & Basic Training Toughness

• Rich narrates how Army discipline is making a comeback under new leadership, including “shark attacks” (drill sergeant intimidation tactics) at basic training:

  “Bring back shark attacks. I did a video on it...We're going to war.” (16:31)

• Discussion about Army memos banning “tossing bays” (drill sergeant barracks inspections that destroy recruits' stuff), the backlash, and quick reversal:

  “What that brigade commander was doing...he's taking away the opportunity for us to give people these rites of passage.” (25:44)

• Nick: “Nothing better than the person next to you leaving their wall locker unlocked...justice.” (26:13)

3. Military Pranks and Camaraderie

• The crew shares stories of classic Army pranks, such as spamming a cadet’s phone with Craigslist dick pics:

  “His phone had a seizure when he turned it back on. Miles and miles of dick got sent to that guy’s phone.” (28:42)

4. Live Show Expansion & Midwest Audience

• Rapid ticket sellouts prompt deliberations on adding second shows (Des Moines, Chicago), their Midwest drawing power, and how every show gets wilder:

  “The Midwest is populated by people that look at a five hour drive and go, ‘yeah, it’s no big deal.’” —Nick, (32:27)

• Stories of alcohol-fueled VIP encounters and mishaps (“white claw raining down on the crowd”).

5. Klarna & the Burrito Bubble: Buy Now, Pay Later Mayhem

• Nick launches into how buy-now-pay-later services like Klarna are “ruining lives” and could trigger an economic crash akin to 2008, but for “burritos”:

  “The burrito bubble is about to pop. Klarna is like $170 million in the red because nobody’s paying shit back.” (43:35)

• The group riffs on the absurdity of financing fast food:

  “If you want to finance a burrito, that’s the biggest red flag you could possibly have.” —Brandon, (44:25)

• Nick explains it doesn’t help credit and eventually lands in collections, tanking people’s scores over trivial amounts.

6. Debate Fallout: Rich vs. Michael Malice

• Detailed backstage and onstage breakdowns of Rich’s debate with Michael Malice—described as awkward, unproductive, and lopsided:

  “I let my faces do the talking for me...nothing like somebody going ‘I think this point’ and you doing a total, like, stink face.” —Rich, (73:25)

• Michael Malice’s combative and dismissive approach, odd personal jabs, and refusal to shake hands after.
• Audience and crew reactions: disappointment, amusement, and a sense Malice “shellacked himself.”

7. Military History, Books, and Upcoming Topics

• Nick and Brandon discuss gritty WWII memoirs and the author’s unfiltered, self-published style (“I’m genuinely not sure there’s a single page without something that would be considered a slur.” —Brandon, 82:39).
• Plan for upcoming videos:
  • Nick working on Klarna and a “Sergeant Stubby” story (famous war dog)
  • Potential interviews with major war heroes (Major Capers, Sammy Lee Davis from the real-life Forrest Gump Medal of Honor story).

8. Nerd Corner: Machine Guns & Tech

• Technical chat about historic machine guns, headspacing, water-cooling, and legendary American firearms inventors like John Browning:

  “So much stuff in modern firearm technology is because of that one person.” —Brandon, (103:41)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Rich on Army Investigations:

  “My first words out of my mouth to my battalion commander: ‘Fuck, what did I do now?’” (15:13)

• Eli on military rites of passage:

  “You’re taking away the opportunity for us to give people these rites of passage.” (25:44)

• Nick on Klarna:

  “Having a private chauffeur for your Chipotle is a necessity.” (47:13)

• Brandon on debating Malice:

  “My favorite part was the cutaways back to you because you look like the girl from that Chick-fil-A meme.” (51:44)

• Rich on killing with kindness:

  “I know when people really hate me. Like, I know.” (72:06)

• Brandon reflecting on wartime weapons:

  “You don’t need the 500, 600 yard capability of .30-06...you’re fighting dudes that weigh 90 pounds.” (84:44)

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Important Timestamps

• 01:11 – Eli opens up about depression, thanks listeners
• 15:00–28:00 – Rich’s Army “trouble” story, changes in basic training, “shark attacks” return
• 32:00–34:00 – Midwest live shows selling out, touring logistics
• 43:00–47:30 – Klarna and buy-now-pay-later comedy/rant
• 51:44–73:25 – Rich’s behind-the-scenes with Michael Malice debate
• 82:39–86:30 – Discussion of un-PC war memoirs, WWII history, Major James Capers, Medal of Honor stories
• 96:00+ – Machine gun history, mechanical nerding out over Lewis gun, Browning, headspace
• 108:31 – Closeout by Brandon (“I’ll be Cody for today…”)

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Tone & Style

The episode is loose, vulgar, and full of dark humor, sidebars, and bits only this group could pull off. There’s military nostalgia, classic internet edge, and genuine affection for each other and their fans. The crew riff on social absurdities, military stupidity, and the economics of fast food finance—all with thick sarcasm, inside jokes, and tangential storytelling.

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Takeaways

• “Old Army” is making a comeback in response to overcorrection/political pressure in training standards.
• The buy-now-pay-later phenomenon is reaching absurd, dangerous new lows and threatens the economy in “dumber” ways than the 2008 crash.
• The team’s live shows continue to grow thanks to a passionate audience, especially in the Midwest.
• The fallout and inside scoop from Rich’s debate with Michael Malice provides both cringe and lessons on debating with ideologues.
• The pod continues to combine military culture, current events, internet drama, and ridiculous antics for highly engaged fans.

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For next time: If you’re interested in the Klarna financial mess, stay tuned for Nick’s Fat Files episode diving even deeper. If you want more salty Army tales or live show debauchery, check Unsubcrew.com for tour tickets—if they’re not already sold out.

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Transcript

[Brandon Herrera]

Thanks for selling your car to Carvana. Here's your check.

[Rich High]

Whoa. When did I get here?

[Brandon Herrera]

What do you mean?

[Rich High]

I swear it was just moments ago that I accepted a great offer from Carvana online. I must have time traveled to the future. It was just moments ago.

[Brandon Herrera]

We do same day pickup. Here's your check for that great offer.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

It is the future.

[Rich High]

It's. It's the present.

[Brandon Herrera]

And just the convenience of Carvana. Sorry to blow your mind.

[Rich High]

It's all good. Happens all the time.

[Brandon Herrera]

Sell your car the convenient way to Carvana. Pick up.

[Eli Double Tap]

Times may vary and fees may apply.

[Rich High]

How are the boys gonna relax if they can't send each other pics from strangers on the Internet? Everybody knows that big Goliath black guy with the dong.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

It's almost the only thing you could look at and be like, wow, I wish that was Medusa.

[Rich High]

Actually, did you know that Tony moans when he wipes?

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

He won't even address the allegations.

[Rich High]

Tony's intern, Say hi to Eli.

[Eli Double Tap]

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

[Rich High]

Donut, a dog joke disposition. And there's a fat electrician. Welcome to Unsubscribe. Hey, what's up, everyone?

[Eli Double Tap]

First off, you all are doing amazing on the fitness challenge. Keep up the awesome work without going too much in detail. Been really busy. Really, really busy. And then complete transparency. Did get hit with a very heavy bout of depression. And I will say y' all really did help. Just seeing that positivity on the Reddit and helping and lifting each other up. I just want to. I truly, truly, truly want to say thank you for that. Because even during those lows and pushing through it and try to find that positive light, I didn't have to go far. And I just got to see y' all being amazing. Even doing these very trying and not so happy couple of last weeks. So with everything that's going on in the world, with just everything. So I just wanted to thank each and every one of you for being that ray of hope and that light at the end of the tunnel. I. That it's awesome to see. And also, the tickets are almost sold out, so if you haven't picked them.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

Up yet, go grab them, go snag them.

[Eli Double Tap]

And then definitely the San Antonio show we did, we made that way bigger, like, way way bigger, as we said. And we want that thing filled out. That is now our biggest show. So come hang out, have a good time, drink probably a little too much and just be part of that community because I cannot stress how freaking fun it is. Plus, we're doing some cool things during the show and interactions.

[Rich High]

Appreciate. Y' all go check out the tickets. I don't know, Finn.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

Show them where they can get them.

[Eli Double Tap]

Unsubcrew.com live shows. Come, hang out, have a good time. Can't wait to see you all and. And thank you again from the bottom, all our hearts up for everything.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

We love y'.

[Rich High]

All. Cheers.

[Eli Double Tap]

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[Rich High]

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[Nick the Fat Electrician]

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[Rich High]

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[Brandon Herrera]

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[Eli Double Tap]

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[Rich High]

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[Eli Double Tap]

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[Rich High]

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[Brandon Herrera]

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[Eli Double Tap]

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[Brandon Herrera]

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[Eli Double Tap]

Okay, now. Yeah, they actually asked us.

[Rich High]

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[Eli Double Tap]

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[Nick the Fat Electrician]

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[Rich High]

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[Brandon Herrera]

Welcome back to the unsubscribed podcast. I am joined today by Eli Double Tap Rich Angry Cops, myself, Brandon Herrera, and Nick the fat electrician.

[Rich High]

What's up, bitches? We're here again.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

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[Rich High]

Who would have thought the hot blonde in jeans with G tits would have been like, wow, Lot of eyes on that.

[Brandon Herrera]

Now give me Dylan Mulvaney.

[Rich High]

Yeah. I want street trans balls. You think he's still got his nuts, or is it just sausage and no beans?

[Brandon Herrera]

I try to spend very little time thinking about it.

[Rich High]

I constantly think about what's going between his legs. At least that's what Twitter says.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah, pillar and no stones.

[Rich High]

Did you guys see the New York Post? Had, like, this article kind of go Viral, where it's like, this girl now.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

All I could think in my head is Rich pulling him over. I need it for my police report.

[Rich High]

Pull it out. Get out of the car.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

Just Frank, or is there a side of beans, too?

[Brandon Herrera]

I'm going to have to pat you down.

[Eli Double Tap]

It's like an empty wallet. I'm so sad now.

[Rich High]

You think when I get, like, up and under in there to, like, pat him down, he just cough? I'm a lady, sir.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's ma'. Am.

[Rich High]

It's ma'. Am. Yeah, the New York Post did this article. It kind of went viral. And it's this Instagram hottie, quote, unquote, that's like, I go and date on dates with other dudes that are already married or dating somebody because the girl sets it up to see if they'll cheat on them. And then I looked at it, and I was like, these are very, very good airbrushed, like, perfect makeup photos. Who is this person? And it took me 30 seconds to be like, this chick's got a dick folded underneath her Sniz. And it was. It was a trans person with, like, huge fake tits. And. Yeah. So guys are being tricked by a.

[Eli Double Tap]

Dude and their girlfriend. Conference it.

[Rich High]

Like, you two are dating. Obviously, you're the man. And for sure, you're like, oh, my God, Richard.

[Eli Double Tap]

So much trans.

[Rich High]

Richard. You need to, like, ask him on a date and see if he goes and if he cheats on me. And you're like, hey, there's this hot broad who's actually a dude, and you're like, let me fuck up my life in two ways. Not only am I ruining my relationship, but you're gay now.

[Brandon Herrera]

I feel like. I mean, just try to figure out him.

[Rich High]

Yeah, don't worry about it. Don't.

[Brandon Herrera]

Don't be judgmentally. Like, I. I feel like they're just trying to figure out if their husband's gay.

[Eli Double Tap]

Did the women know? I think so.

[Brandon Herrera]

How do you not know?

[Eli Double Tap]

I don't.

[Rich High]

When I looked at, like, the photos on this person's Instagram that weren't, like, the perfect photo shot and, like, album things, I was just like, that's a dude. Why? Like, the first thing that set it off, too. Like, you know when people get like. Like porn stars get, like, implants and they're too big for the skin that they have, so it's just like, hey, here's a normal chest.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

Perfect cir.

[Rich High]

You know, and it's, you know, it's like Arnold, like, flexing. You can see, like, the striations. From the plastic tit. Like the serial number. Yeah, you're like, oh, the Johnson and Johnson. Very nice. Yeah, it was kind of like that for implants on this fella. And you're like. So that was the first thing that threw me off. And I was like, wait a second. And then I saw the bikini bottom half and I was like, you've got your dick taped into your butthole. I've seen that before.

[Eli Double Tap]

How much time did you spend on this?

[Rich High]

You know, I spent like five minutes. I'm a good investigator.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah.

[Rich High]

Detective Richard High is on the job. Nuts to butts. I'll find those dudes.

[Brandon Herrera]

I just thought of the. The Stonks guy. Detective.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

Detect.

[Rich High]

It's just detect with the Sherlock Holmes add on. Yeah, somebody make that.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh, man, oh man, do we have. You guys weren't here since Brandon announced. That's how I was like, the first topic was like, oh, they're gonna.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, sure, let's follow up that exact conversation.

[Rich High]

Speaking of trans Tony.

[Eli Double Tap]

See, he did it.

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh boy. Oh, just watching the. The Charlie bully again has been very funny. But it's like, look, I try to keep things professional, right? Like I've only ever attacked on policy now, my friends, I can't speak for anybody else. I can't say it's not funny though.

[Eli Double Tap]

The group chat.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

Frodo Baggins over here. I'm just trying to get the ring to the volcano. It's just us murdering orcs in the background the entire time.

[Eli Double Tap]

As we said, the group chat is.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

Like, can I do it?

[Eli Double Tap]

Can I do it?

[Brandon Herrera]

Brandon, you're not. That did happen.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

Hold.

[Brandon Herrera]

That did happen. The night before my announcement. Because you all knew this was happening.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

And I'm just headed in my calendar for months. I text because you changed the date. I literally had it in my calendar. Green light. Tony Gonzalez in my fucking calendar. And I text you, are we good now? He's like, no, I changed the date. I'm like.

[Brandon Herrera]

So I get a text from this guy. I'm at the hotel, right? Like, I'm just like sorting all my shit together. I'm like, oh, fucking big day tomorrow. I gotta do this, this, this, this. We gotta film all this stuff and, you know, do the thing. And I'm laying in bed in the hotel room and I get a text from Nick that it's just a screenshot of the tweet you want to send. Which. What was it again?

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

I don't remember.

[Brandon Herrera]

It was the Eye of Sauron.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

Oh, it was the eye looking at the cave and it just Said soon. Like the night before he was supposed to announce.

[Brandon Herrera]

And I was just like that. He's a. Can I. Can I say it now? I'm like, go for it. Just. Just do it.

[Eli Double Tap]

He's like, oh, you look at Mexican today in that way.

[Rich High]

Oh, yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

I mean, I'm looking Mexican today in my life.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

I'm having fun, okay? Leave me alone.

[Eli Double Tap]

That poor man. I always feel. I don't feel bad, but I would.

[Brandon Herrera]

Feel bad because, like, you know, again, you know, nothing personal. I would feel bad if he didn't go out of his way to purposely slander me, like, to say things that I know that he knows in his heart of hearts are not true, but it's gonna make me sound bad and, like, try to defame my name again where I live.

[Rich High]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

Like, these are. He's trying to get people to hate me in the town that, you know, I call home. And that's why I don't feel bad.

[Eli Double Tap]

The venue thing was shitty move. It's like, let's take this out of.

[Rich High]

Context from a cop standpoint. I'm used to seeing brown on brown crime. So, you know, I just kind of waited for it to eventually happen, and then there it was rearing its ugly head.

[Brandon Herrera]

That was some of my fe favorite parts of the last campaign was just very funny. Like, there was. There was one political action committee or something that was basically for the advancement of Hispanics and leadership, like, in leadership roles. And they were taking Tony. Tony's side to get Herrera away. Like, this feels like a little collateral.

[Rich High]

Yeah. Don't you think we like this Mexican.

[Brandon Herrera]

Better For one to have an entire political action committee based on, like, race is bizarre.

[Eli Double Tap]

I think you're trying to help him, Rich, not the other way around.

[Rich High]

A vote for Tony. Never mind.

[Brandon Herrera]

Remember last time we did this?

[Rich High]

Damn. That's why I said a vote for Tony. Oh, well, can't bring back a vote for Brandon because it didn't work last time. I take most of that on my shoulders. The loss really was my fault. I could have done better. Where.

[Brandon Herrera]

Where do we go from here?

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh, I know. Rich got in trouble.

[Rich High]

I got in trouble again. Yeah, you. We had to say.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

Shocking.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, you got in trouble.

[Rich High]

Yes.

[Brandon Herrera]

Weird when you first time.

[Eli Double Tap]

I'm used to Brown on Brown violence.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

As a cop.

[Rich High]

Statistically, I am used.

[Eli Double Tap]

To it, but yes, you got in trouble.

[Rich High]

I didn't say I supported it. Yeah, I got in trouble. I got an army trouble. Not police trouble. No, I got an army trouble. I said in the kind of consensual podcast. I said a story where how I got kicked off the trail last year for being a drill sergeant because I made corrective training for the female soldiers.

[Brandon Herrera]

And that was the same ordeal.

[Rich High]

Yeah. So it's. It's come back again. So I. That got closed out. They were like, yeah, it's. Drill Sergeant High is a drill sergeant. Yeah. He did corrective action. No fault. Nobody's in trouble. Carry on.

[Eli Double Tap]

It's like, OJ's like, I free. Yes.

[Rich High]

How I didn't do it. How I would have done it by the glove fit.

[Brandon Herrera]

So what was it if I did it? I think, yeah, this is my lucky stabbing hat.

[Rich High]

I can't throw away my stabbing it. I just love killing. Yeah. The Army. The army cleared me of everything and said, yeah, you're good to go. Whatever, no problems. And then I talked about it on the kind of consensual podcast, and then somebody in the army was just like, I got a problem with him talking about it. And now I have a commander's inquiry.

[Brandon Herrera]

Fucking seriously?

[Rich High]

Yeah. Because I said soldiers names that were in it. So they're. The premise of it is, I guess, of this investigation is that Drill Sergeant me said, Private Snuffy, or when I was reading questions from the investigation of, did you ask Private Snuffy to shut the fuck up? I said, Private Snuffy. So they're upset about that. And I'm like, these are. These are questions that you asked me in an investigation. Like, I don't know if they're foia able, you know, but like, I can't repeat the questions that were asked of me in an investigation.

[Eli Double Tap]

And it's not first, last name, any of that.

[Rich High]

It was just last name. It was Private so and so, which.

[Eli Double Tap]

Is a fucking very general.

[Rich High]

Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

Name.

[Rich High]

Well, except for one of them was pretty unique. Yes. But then again, so is Drill Sergeant High a fairly unique name. So, yeah, they there, somebody got butt hurt and made a complaint. And then my commander was just like, Drill Sergeant High. I'm like, sir, why are you calling me? That's never a good sign. Usually. I know I'm like, I'm calling you about something, and then you call me back. That's usually the way that it goes when it's good. It's not good when I just get a phone call unexpectedly from my battalion commander to be like, drill Sergeant, hi. I'm like, good afternoon, sir. How can I help you? He's like, hey, I gotta do an investigation on you. I'm like, you gotta. It's funny because I have A good professional working relationship with the people in my unit.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

So literally, Rich instinctively goes, I did it immediately.

[Brandon Herrera]

Which one?

[Rich High]

If I did it, my first words out of my mouth to my battalion commander were, fuck, what did I do Now? How bad is it? Is it really bad? Or is it just like, whatever? He's just like, they're upset that you said the names of the privates that were a part of this investigation, what I just explained, you know, Pride did Private so and so. Did you say this to Private so and so, or did you not say this to Private so and so? And you said private so and so's name? And I was like, you gotta be kidding me. So that's where it's at. I don't expect it to really go anywhere because there was no, like, malicious intent. But at the same time, like, if these people, these troops, like, go to their units and they're. Their NCOs are like, hey, maybe we don't bitch about being yelled at in basic training because this unit is the real army and we're going to say words to you. And maybe it could be a learning experience. Sure.

[Brandon Herrera]

Imagine being that sensitive in Pete Hegseth's Army. Really?

[Rich High]

Well, it wasn't Pete Hegseth's army back then. It was Biden's Army.

[Brandon Herrera]

But I mean, now, like, to. To advance that now.

[Rich High]

I'm very excited. I'm very excited. He just yelled at somebody doing PT the other day. It went on. It's on Twitter. He's like, in this shacked black NCO face as he's doing push ups. He's like, get up. Let's go, Sergeant. I'm just like.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

It'S coming back.

[Rich High]

Bring back shark attacks. I did a video on it. Last week's video or the week before? His video where we're going to war.

[Eli Double Tap]

The basic rules.

[Brandon Herrera]

We're going.

[Rich High]

Yeah, the basic rules of chance.

[Eli Double Tap]

I was actually going to ask about that one because it's like, okay, you. You have a giant blue sky.

[Brandon Herrera]

Some people think nature is like this.

[Rich High]

But actually it's like, Mother Nature is.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

Not all sunshine and rainbows. Nature can be hotter than a sauna.

[Brandon Herrera]

And colder than an arctic skinny dip. That's why Colombia engineers everything we make.

[Eli Double Tap]

For anything nature can throw at you.

[Brandon Herrera]

Colombia engineered for whatever.

[Eli Double Tap]

It's completely shifted. I was at the airport the other day. A group of troops were ready to go to basic training and binning, and they came up to me and they're like, oh. But I said, oh, well, the shark attacks are really quick and they're like, I don't think they do those anymore.

[Rich High]

Guess again. That's what I said.

[Eli Double Tap]

I was like, who did you hear that from? Our recruiters. We're going to Binning.

[Rich High]

You're all infantry.

[Eli Double Tap]

No, I'm a. There was like comms, guys. There's random people like, you got fucked, homie.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

History is repeating.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

We're about to have a massive economic recession. The Goths are back. Basic training's hard again. We're going to war.

[Rich High]

Nature's healing happen.

[Eli Double Tap]

We're going to war.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's all because we couldn't find a different island to make microchips on.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

It's not going to be a housing bubble either.

[Rich High]

We could start making microchips, but they're so damn expensive when they're made in the United States, everything. I'm not smart enough to know how to combat economics when it comes to a national slash global scale. I don't think like little Asian people are making these things that are really cheap that we need, but we try to make them and we can't compete because they've got tinier hands. I don't know what to do.

[Brandon Herrera]

I'm not sure that.

[Eli Double Tap]

Look how small they are.

[Rich High]

I said I'm not an ecologist. I don't know economies.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

The amount of Americans that have died trying to make Asians get along is too high.

[Rich High]

Oh, they're the most chance people ever.

[Brandon Herrera]

Let me open a book on the 20th century.

[Rich High]

Yeah. Asians hate each other.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh, yeah.

[Rich High]

Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

Very much so. So what are the new rules with basic?

[Rich High]

Well, there's no new rules yet. It's just that Sec Def Pete Hegseth has come out and said, we want the shark attack to come back. There was a memo that came out at Benning where it said no tossing the bays. Tossing a bay is basically you go back into your barracks bays anymore.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

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[Rich High]

That's right.

[Eli Double Tap]

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[Nick the Fat Electrician]

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[Eli Double Tap]

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[Brandon Herrera]

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[Nick the Fat Electrician]

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[Brandon Herrera]

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[Eli Double Tap]

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[Brandon Herrera]

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[Eli Double Tap]

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[Brandon Herrera]

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[Rich High]

I don't watch sports.

[Brandon Herrera]

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[Eli Double Tap]

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[Nick the Fat Electrician]

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[Brandon Herrera]

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[Nick the Fat Electrician]

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[Brandon Herrera]

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[Eli Double Tap]

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[Eli Double Tap]

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[Rich High]

Hold on. Oh, I'll give you the full story. So a brigade commander makes a memo and puts it out, and it says, drill sergeants are no longer going to be tossing bays. And infantry o it.

[Brandon Herrera]

This is not like, what is tossing bass.

[Rich High]

Tossing bass is when you go away for the day and the drill sergeants go in the barracks and they see if you fucked it up. Like, hey, did they take out the trash? Did they make their beds appropriate? Are their laundry bags, like, bloated and filled with dirty clothes? Or did they do laundry last night like they're supposed to and, you know, put them up in their bay and also make sure that their wall lockers.

[Eli Double Tap]

Are locked and if they're not hiding.

[Rich High]

Yeah. And when they go through that barracks inspection without the troops present, if there's a bunch of crap that's wrong and they're tired of it, we will make that bay look like a tornado hit it. And one of my favorite things that I. Yeah. Like you will flip bunks over. I was, because I'm an engineer, I would tie knots in their boots to connect the boots, and I would have clotheslines of boots going across the bay.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

Because I'm an engineer.

[Rich High]

Yes. I went to school for this. That's all you got?

[Eli Double Tap]

That was your takeaway from engineering?

[Brandon Herrera]

Six years of school, and I can tie boots together.

[Eli Double Tap]

Everyone slipped through. Wrong knot.

[Rich High]

I had a guy that was going through. He was preparing for sapper school, and you have to know all these different knots and what they're for and how to, like, talk yourself through them. And so he was teaching me because he was preparing himself for sapper school, and he was going through all the different knots and reteaching them to me, and I would do them as he would explain it to me. And if it wasn't the right way, I would intentionally do what he said and up the knot. Right. But then eventually I just got really good at all these different knots. And one day I was like, oh, let's make A clothesline with the boots. You know, like we just started tying boots together and then they got long enough to where you can make a clothesline. And I was like, oh, what if we just did it like back and forth, back and forth throughout the whole bay. He's like, we can do that. And so we did that.

[Eli Double Tap]

If you live stream just drill sergeant side of stuff, because all the privates are out during this and then it cuts to you guys like, oh my.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

God, I got the greatest ideal.

[Rich High]

Drills aren't.

[Eli Double Tap]

And then you have like chat getting super hyped for when the privates get back to their bay to see that reaction. You could dono for more fucked up stuff. I'm just saying there's a lot of money in that.

[Rich High]

Yeah, the army's really missing out on privatizing some of its streaming services.

[Brandon Herrera]

I love it.

[Rich High]

So this memo comes out from this.

[Brandon Herrera]

If only there was more private money involved in the dod.

[Rich High]

Private money involved in the non existent military industrial complex.

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh yeah, the one that doesn't exist.

[Rich High]

The one that doesn't exist.

[Brandon Herrera]

You know how much money McDonald's makes?

[Rich High]

Judo? Do you know how many tiny hands it takes to make a microchip?

[Brandon Herrera]

Nancy Pelosi does.

[Rich High]

Yes, she does. She's very good. I follow her trades. I'm doing okay.

[Brandon Herrera]

I guarantee it. Better than the S P. Yeah. Weird.

[Eli Double Tap]

So you tied these knots.

[Rich High]

Oh, so that was that. So that's like barracks tossing. So this infantry osit brigade commander, a massive amount of troops that are going through this basic training. This commander puts on a memo and says, no more tossing the bays. It degrades like good discipline and the relationship between a drill sergeant. They're a troop's first leader when they come into the army.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

Be a relationship.

[Rich High]

Right there shouldn't be a relationship. No, it's a training trainer that's specifically against his people.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

You're mythical terrorists. That hurt me and I'm just trying to survive. Yeah, that's how you're supposed to. Supposed to feel.

[Brandon Herrera]

Is that like specifically against the rules to have any sort of relationship?

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

Yeah, you're not supposed to like, you should not be buddies with the soldiers that you're training for multiple reasons.

[Rich High]

I do not like trainees. They're gross, they're disgusting. I do not like them at all. The only thing I do is I train them to not be trainees anymore and I make sure they don't die because I'll get in trouble if they die. So they can't die. Otherwise I'll get in trouble and Then they also have to not suck, otherwise I'll get in trouble. So it's this equal balance of don't suck, but also don't kill them while they suck because they need to stay alive. So it's a nice balance.

[Brandon Herrera]

Like a baby.

[Rich High]

Yeah. If you could shake a baby, you can shake a trainee.

[Brandon Herrera]

Angry cops 2026.

[Rich High]

Vote for me. A vote for shaking trainees is the vote for Angry Cops drill sergeant of the Army. Come on, Sergeant Major. You might have shot it down, but it sounded pretty good.

[Eli Double Tap]

Now Weimers, like, I'll comment below. Yeah, he's obviously watching this episode.

[Rich High]

He's on the phone. He's like, boom, boom, boom. Pete, this fucking idiot's got a good idea. He really seems to know what he's talking about. I thought he was a jokester at first, but now it kind of has a ring to it.

[Brandon Herrera]

What did he say in that?

[Eli Double Tap]

Mike kicking his legs up on this command's art major's desk, Bringing Pete down the hall.

[Brandon Herrera]

What did he say in that fucking episode where he's just like, they can't.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

All be good ideas.

[Brandon Herrera]

You sure do have a lot of ideas.

[Rich High]

Yeah, like, well, they can't all be good ideas. It was a great. It was a great moment. So that commander made that dumb rule, don't toss the barracks. And within a week, it had blown up on the Internet, especially because it was an infantry brigade commander for infantry oset. And. And everybody just. Everybody saw it, thankfully lost their minds, said, what the hell is this? Everybody gets their base tossed. There's a guy on Twitter, I forget his name. I mentioned him in the. It's like. It's like the buddy Christ, but it's like, buddy csm. And he said, like, tell me your favorite stories about you getting up in basic training and the incredible crazy that your drill sergeants made you do. And everybody talked about how much they loved it and how great it was and this great experience. And what that brigade commander was doing with that mount was he's taking away the opportunity for us to give people these rights of passage, to say that they're a soldier and to connect with the people around them in this community. Right. You're taking that away.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's that type 2 fun kind of thing where it's like, oh, yeah, no, it sucked in the moment, but, like, everybody bonds over it. And, like, you look back 10 years later, like, that was a great.

[Rich High]

Even in the moment when it's sucking, you're kind of looking at each other.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

Like, there's nothing better than the Person next to you leaving their wall locker unlocked, and all their shit is fucking everywhere. And you're like.

[Rich High]

Especially with the shit bird. Especially when it's like a shitty troop. You're like, justice.

[Eli Double Tap]

But you don't say it. Can't smile or anything. You're like, afterwards, I'm gonna make fun of this.

[Rich High]

Yeah. Because if I catch you smiling, I'd be like, oh, you don't like. You like your buddy stuff getting thrown around, huh? Oh, you like watching your buddy get up, but not you beat your face. Cuevas. Beat your face. You know? Exactly. So within that week, there was such a big pushback. And I'm. The rumor is I forget where I saw it, so I can't say it's 100% verified, but the rumor was that Pete Hegseth made a call down to that brigade commander who put out the memo and said. Or the guy that was above that brigade commander and said, stop, Stop the. It's infantry Basic. Oh, sit. They're. They're going to get their base tossed. And immediately, there was a rescinding order for that memo. Within a week, it was, as you know, regarding Previous memo number 419, memo rescinded C command. Sergeant major so and so.

[Brandon Herrera]

And you know what happened the day after?

[Rich High]

Oh, everybody. Everybody was watching that battalion or brigade commander and sergeant major walk through the freaking post and just going.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

When I was. When I was in guard, we had a new LT come in. And he's great. Dude liked him a lot. But his first day he comes in, he's like, oh, I'm pretty. Pretty easy going. I just have, like, two pet peeves. One, I don't like people sitting on tables. And, like, there was, like four of us sitting on a table. So, like, we hopped up, okay, no big deal. Whatever. He goes, second thing, I don't like you guys looking at or anything on your phones. And right as he says that, the commander was, like, poking his head in the door. And he goes, hey, that's. That's not a rule. Just a room, dead quiet, like, Jesus Christ.

[Rich High]

I. I like how your. Your commander came in, was like, let them see tits.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

Pretty much.

[Rich High]

That.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's a whole new. Whole new meaning to the word goon squad.

[Rich High]

I don't want to see any more penises on people's phones. You could put penises on phones.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh, man.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

Just seem like just smacking the layup right out of the air from the nosebleeds.

[Rich High]

Boys gonna relax if they can't send each other dick pics from strangers on The Internet, Everybody knows that. Big Goliath, black guy with the dong. We can't share that.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

Oh, my God. I think I've told this story before. The funniest army prank I've ever seen was one of our cadets was a college wrestler. He was jacked, absolutely shredded when he was shirtless. And he had just got back from vacation right before at. And he had all these pictures taken of him on the beach. Just jacked. His shit looked great. And he had just uploaded them to Facebook. He's a cadet, Mr. Squared Away. He had his phone put away way before everybody else, before we were going into the field. So some of the guys in the platoon took all those pictures off of his Facebook and put them on a Craigslist. Men seeking his men's ad with his phone number and asked for dick pics. And then we went into the field for seven days. His fucking phone had a seizure. When he turned it back on, miles and miles of dick got sent to that guy's phone.

[Rich High]

You know, it's a lot of dick, and you have to measure it in feet. That's 5,300 and some odd feet of dick.

[Eli Double Tap]

I've been so mad at my friends. So mad.

[Rich High]

I'd have been laughing. Really? Oh, yeah. I would have laughed. I would have laughed. I'd been like, oh, my God, those voice messages. The only thing that would have me up is like, the buttholes, you know, they're butthole pictures. Not a fan of butthole pictures. The man. A man's butthole is probably one of the ugliest creations God had ever made in his entire existence.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

Almost the only thing you could look at and be like, wow, I wish that was Medusa, actually.

[Rich High]

Yeah, I'd rather die. I've never. I've never intentionally looked at a men's butthole. A man's butthole. And the moments that I have looked at a man's butthole, I've been like, oh, oh, oh. Why?

[Brandon Herrera]

Well, thanks to you, all of San Antonio seen a man's butthole.

[Rich High]

That's not true. They can see through the forest. I combed all my hair inward that day so it just looks like a dark crack. You can't see anything through it.

[Brandon Herrera]

PG13 censorship.

[Rich High]

I got a thong of ass hair.

[Brandon Herrera]

What a horrible phrase. Terrible combination of words.

[Rich High]

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[Brandon Herrera]

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[Rich High]

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[Brandon Herrera]

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[Eli Double Tap]

Holy shit. God, I missed you guys so much. So, so much. Actually, with the San Antonio live shows, we're doing our first one here in San Antonio.

[Brandon Herrera]

Much bigger theater this time.

[Eli Double Tap]

Actually, we get to have this discussion because I called you yesterday about it and Cody and Brandon said they'd sleep on it because that was the first time Cody was like, wow.

[Rich High]

Hold on.

[Brandon Herrera]

I was shocked to hear Cody.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

I know.

[Brandon Herrera]

Like, oh, okay.

[Eli Double Tap]

And I put the ball in. I was like, ball in your guys's court. Des Moines. We can do a second one because they. They're like, hey, Des Moines.

[Brandon Herrera]

Des Moines.

[Eli Double Tap]

Des Moines.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

Des Moines.

[Eli Double Tap]

Des Moines.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

Des Moines.

[Brandon Herrera]

Plural.

[Eli Double Tap]

Des Moines. We can do two shows. Same.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

Chicago's the next day.

[Eli Double Tap]

This is the same night or the day before. We get to make the choice on all of it. Oh, same night.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

I fucking told you the Midwest would show up.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yes. There's nothing.

[Rich High]

There's two cities.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

Exactly. That's what I'm saying.

[Rich High]

There's like Kansas City and Des Moines.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

You're like, oh, there's not a lot of people. We need to go to major cities. You don't understand that the entire Midwest is populated by people that look at a five hour drive and go, yeah, it's no big deal.

[Brandon Herrera]

He was. He was doing the thing where he argued with himself in the shower. Like, no, damn it.

[Rich High]

There's a lot of people here.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

I'm not talking.

[Rich High]

I'm not.

[Brandon Herrera]

Shower door.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

I was at the airport in Minneapolis, four and a half hours away from Des Moines. And the TSA guys, like, I'm so mad. The Des Moines show sold out. Dude was gonna drive four and a half hours at the drop of a hat, he just couldn't get.

[Brandon Herrera]

Well, the way you're saying it now sounds like we have to do it.

[Eli Double Tap]

I mean, he. I already knew his answer.

[Rich High]

Yeah. I started laughing immediately. He's like, so, do you want it? I was like, you know what my answer is?

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

2 in the same day might be aggressive. I might do the day before.

[Rich High]

No, I kind of. No, no, no. I like to the same day. Nashville was funny.

[Brandon Herrera]

You.

[Rich High]

Dude, Nashville is a good time.

[Brandon Herrera]

Without vip. Without vip.

[Eli Double Tap]

It's not bad.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

Do we offer do we offer the tickets to the people that already bought tickets? So you can see Unsub and then Unsub, Super Up Wasted Edition. The bloopers real. We're going to tell the same stories, but this time we're hammered.

[Rich High]

So you know, there's going to be tangents.

[Eli Double Tap]

Last time we didn't even tell the same stories. We were too shit wrecked. And it changed.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

I don't remember. I can't tell you. They switched a lot.

[Eli Double Tap]

They're like, it was a different show.

[Rich High]

I remember two different shows specifically saying.

[Brandon Herrera]

Like, yeah, this is not scripted. None of this was. They were like, we had like an outline for the first show. This is like, we're an hour into the show and we've gotten a quarter of the way through the shit we had put down.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

How fast did Des Moines sell out yesterday?

[Brandon Herrera]

It was like within a.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

How big is the venue?

[Brandon Herrera]

Was it yesterday?

[Eli Double Tap]

Let me double check. I want to say it was yesterday. Yesterday at 12:05, Des Moines sold out.

[Brandon Herrera]

How many seats?

[Rich High]

Hard.

[Eli Double Tap]

It's a bigger venue.

[Rich High]

Hold.

[Eli Double Tap]

Des Moines, Nick Des Moines.

[Rich High]

Tony's intern.

[Brandon Herrera]

That was the other funny one too, I loved because I didn't even know about this part. Somebody else outside the group told me about it where Tony posted that thing that was like National Intern Day. And it was just him on the Capitol steps with his interns. And it just get. Nick, hi, Tony's interns.

[Rich High]

So ominous.

[Brandon Herrera]

Hundreds of comments underneath it, like, oh, we doing this again?

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

Because you text me, like two days later, you're like, I didn't even see this.

[Brandon Herrera]

Like, you piece of. I didn't even fucking catch that.

[Eli Double Tap]

14. 14 seats. So it's this one of the quote unquote smaller shows, which is bigger than.

[Brandon Herrera]

Any show we've ever done.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yes, it has. Yes, yes. Just adding two.

[Rich High]

I'm not good at economy.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

So what if we cancel Chicago?

[Rich High]

Jesus, just start a war. What am I going to do with the new pistol?

[Brandon Herrera]

I bought a war in Chicago.

[Eli Double Tap]

We're going to.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

I'm going to have a special merch made just for Chicago. It's going to be a deployment patch on the shirt.

[Eli Double Tap]

I'm just saying. I'm not saying. I literally wanted to give you guys the option on this one. And Cody's response was the most surprising because Brandon was there.

[Rich High]

What did Cody say?

[Brandon Herrera]

Do you like a mouthful of hard wood?

[Eli Double Tap]

Yes. Go on then, boy.

[Brandon Herrera]

Do I have a product for you. I'm reenlisting in the Navy. No, not this time. Oh, 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 hardwood, you actually meant hard wood.

[Brandon Herrera]

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

[Eli Double Tap]

I love hardwood in my mouth.

[Brandon Herrera]

Wait, you know what scariest than hard wood in your mouth dying from cancer?

[Eli Double Tap]

Fume has an award winning design.

[Brandon Herrera]

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[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?

[Brandon Herrera]

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.

[Brandon Herrera]

Put it in your mouth.

[Eli Double Tap]

Suck that flavored air.

[Brandon Herrera]

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[Eli Double Tap]

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[Brandon Herrera]

I was blown away.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

He was like, said maybe.

[Brandon Herrera]

Well, yeah, basically. He's like, oh, you know, maybe we'll look at that. I'm like, whoa.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah. At first it was a no, no, and then the amount of seats and everything.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's like before the question left your mouth, I said, no.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

You're like, all right, so just. Just put it out there.

[Eli Double Tap]

I have to.

[Brandon Herrera]

We have the ability. Because the Des Moines show sold out so quick. I said no.

[Eli Double Tap]

Everyone said, no, no. Like, here is everything.

[Brandon Herrera]

You laid it out. I'm open to it.

[Rich High]

Well. Well.

[Brandon Herrera]

I just.

[Rich High]

You're already there.

[Brandon Herrera]

Nashville was such a shit show.

[Rich High]

We only have to do two. The good side is there.

[Eli Double Tap]

It's only that day and the next day if we do.

[Rich High]

Yeah, it's kind of like when you bring a girl back to your house. Like, they're gonna leave. We're already here.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, but then it's like you have your whole, you know, night with the girl, and then you go back out for more spaghetti and do it again.

[Rich High]

Have you never lived?

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

Brandon, this is. This is my. This is my opportunity. The longer I can keep you guys in Iowa, the more you'll like it. And then you'll have to move there.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yes, by doing stuff we hate.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

Just wait.

[Eli Double Tap]

Go interact with people.

[Brandon Herrera]

Dude, I can't wait to see the beaches and the mountains and, oh, everything else.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

You guys, homeless people and the low property taxes. All the houses.

[Rich High]

Think of all the flat Land.

[Brandon Herrera]

Texas already doesn't have income tax. Like, we're pretty good here.

[Eli Double Tap]

Am I texting Ben? Yes.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

No, not yet.

[Eli Double Tap]

Okay.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

These are questions I need to run by my wife hold.

[Eli Double Tap]

Can I leave earlier in the day?

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

Oh, you're still thinking two in one day.

[Eli Double Tap]

I'd rather just knock it out.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

Oh, God.

[Rich High]

We're already there. Sauced up, lubed, ready for pleasure.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

And what you're saying we get like.

[Eli Double Tap]

A two hour break to sober up in between.

[Rich High]

Sober up. I know.

[Brandon Herrera]

No, no, no. That's actually worse. That's so much worse to do a two hour break in between.

[Eli Double Tap]

An hour break.

[Rich High]

Our break.

[Eli Double Tap]

Okay. Jesus.

[Brandon Herrera]

We wouldn't. I would not want to do. The biggest thing is like doing VIP and like having to people one on one, like, again, on top of that, like, because I remember that second VIP.

[Rich High]

In Nashville because there's 100 people walking.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

In, bright eyed, bushy tailed, excited to see us, and we're a fucking obliterated. Yeah, that's horrible.

[Brandon Herrera]

It literally, it looks like fucking all quiet on the Western front when these like, young kids are riding in and like the grizzled war veterans are leaving past them.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

I'm fucking leaning up against the alcohol.

[Rich High]

Hi.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

I'm really glad you came out to see us.

[Eli Double Tap]

Thank you for the gift.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

I'm out there.

[Rich High]

War with the crowd with shit shots. You guys need to catch up. Oh, you need to catch up.

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh. Kind of like they caught up in Norfolk where you tossed the white claw, this historic feeder and smashed it against the the banister.

[Eli Double Tap]

I can't believe down on everyone below.

[Rich High]

I can't believe that Virginians don't have hands like they couldn't catch at all. No one like, horrible.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

Renowned for their fumbles.

[Rich High]

Right. Music City Miracle.

[Eli Double Tap]

Also, I'm sure they were expecting you to throw a metal object to a second.

[Rich High]

I've done it several times before. I like, was tossing three or four out in the first few.

[Brandon Herrera]

I love how it caught. There's like four or five feet of wall underneath it. It smacks the bottom and he's like, should have caught it. First of all.

[Rich High]

First of all, it didn't hit the bottom. It hit the electrical light near the top.

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh, great.

[Rich High]

So they should have caught it and they didn't, which created a hazard that's on them. The one wife that had white claw rain down on her was not happy.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

Weird.

[Rich High]

Yeah. The guys were all down there. They were like, yeah, it's really funny. And the one wife was like, fuck, I fall.

[Eli Double Tap]

You know, that poor husband. She did not want to go to that show. She's like, no, this is not going to be a good time. It will be a blast. And then she gets fucking White Claw rained on.

[Rich High]

Don't go to a Gallagher concert and expect not to have watermelon.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

Expected a Gallagher concert.

[Brandon Herrera]

I did talk to somebody. I did talk to somebody from Boston while I was up in Cape Cod. Said, oh, we were at the Boston show. Rich made fun of our daughter right out the gate. I don't remember that particular interaction.

[Rich High]

I don't know.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, she's like, oh, yeah. No, she fucking hated that. I'm like, well, you know, I love.

[Rich High]

That she hated it.

[Brandon Herrera]

You just send the drill sergeant out to the crowd. It's. Yeah, it's. Shit happens in the fog of war.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

I will say I really enjoy. Enjoy getting to meet all of the women that show up to the show. Just because it's like, there's a distinct difference. 20 are there because there are fans, and the other 80 were dragged there by their husband.

[Rich High]

Yeah.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

By body language and everything else. And you know who loves targeting them? Rich, with the superhero bit at the end.

[Rich High]

My God, I love. Look, I can tell the. I can tell when people are uncomfortable. And it is so much fun to go up to the uncomfortable people and make them worse.

[Brandon Herrera]

Anxiety, man.

[Rich High]

Tell me.

[Brandon Herrera]

Odibus talk.

[Rich High]

A spear.

[Eli Double Tap]

Well, that's gonna happen. We'll see if we do, too, after this. I will figure it out. That's.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

Oh.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh, but, yeah, go buy your tickets now.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

It's.

[Eli Double Tap]

They might be sold out by the time you see this whenever it airs.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

This is true.

[Eli Double Tap]

Thank you. But, Mr. Nick, what was the segment you were talking about earlier? Because you were like, hey, depending on when this releases.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

Oh, the economy is going to crash. Oh, I'm convinced.

[Rich High]

Wow.

[Eli Double Tap]

That's more scary when it's. We're filming this right now. Go on.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

Yes.

[Rich High]

How's it going to crash?

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

Well, so is Arizona IC going up? Worse. Oh, how can it be worse? So in 2008, the housing bubble market crashed. Right. And the reason that it crashed was because banks were getting subsidized loans through the government. And basically banks were giving out home loans to people that probably shouldn't have been getting those home loans.

[Rich High]

Yep.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

To everyone. They would bundle those together and sell them as an asset. They did a movie on the housing bubble crash. So the root issue is finance people figuring out a way to loan people money that they probably don't have or shouldn't have and them not being able to pay it back. Right. That's what crashed the entire fucking economy. Me.

[Eli Double Tap]

Because they don't care if it defaults.

[Rich High]

I feel like you're about to hit on the Uber Eats thing.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yes.

[Rich High]

Do it.

[Eli Double Tap]

Wait.

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh, yeah, do it.

[Eli Double Tap]

Do it.

[Brandon Herrera]

The fact that you can get a loan on a pizza.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

The burrito bubble is about to pop.

[Rich High]

The burrito bubble is about to pop. Why you gotta say that?

[Brandon Herrera]

No.

[Rich High]

Oh, no. Wow.

[Brandon Herrera]

The burrito bubble already popped. Trump's in office.

[Rich High]

I thought that was code for pregnancy. Honey, the burrito popped.

[Brandon Herrera]

How?

[Rich High]

Gotta get the burrito pop like the condom exploded.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

So now, Klarna, One of the three buy now, pay later programs out there, is like $170 million in the red because nobody's paying shit back. Because weird. You let people finance burritos and you're shocked that they didn't pay you back for it.

[Brandon Herrera]

And it's like, look, if you're a credit institution and you're looking at all these signs of whether or not this person is, you know, dependable and pay their bills. Right? Well, here's my.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

Like, yeah, go ahead.

[Brandon Herrera]

Just. You're looking at credit. You're looking at payment history, like, all right. They're not the credit.

[Rich High]

Your credit history skin.

[Brandon Herrera]

I'm pretty sure the fact that they would want to finance a burrito is the biggest red flag you could possibly have.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

They're not. Then that's the other thing is, like, a lot of people do it because they think that if. Oh, I'm gonna finance this burrito because it'll positively impact my credit and I want to build credit. That's not how it works.

[Rich High]

That's 100% how it works.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

No, it's not. They're not.

[Rich High]

I know economic, so I know that. That's how it works.

[Brandon Herrera]

Just like you're an engineer as you can tie shoelaces.

[Rich High]

I'm very good at knots. Bridges are made with knots.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

They don't.

[Brandon Herrera]

They're not.

[Rich High]

Some of them are. What? Rope bridges. Haven't you ever heard of a rope bridge? This guy doesn't know anything about bridges. What an idiot. He's gonna try and run for mayor.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

Let's.

[Brandon Herrera]

Let's go around San Antonio and see how many bridges are made with knots.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

They're not.

[Rich High]

See.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

Now nobody knows whose side I'm on.

[Rich High]

They're all. They're all Bailey britches. A lot of them are Bailey bridges. You would know what a Bailey bridge is. You probably just think it's some place that Irish people drink cream. That was there. That was for me. That was for me. It Was not a good joke, but.

[Eli Double Tap]

That was for me.

[Rich High]

Go on.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

I don't know where I was.

[Rich High]

We were talking about burrito bubble popping, which is not an analogy of a Mexican condom burst.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

Yeah, no, it's gonna pop. They're like $150 million in debt and they're starting to. So when you buy a burrito, it. They don't report to the credit agency that you paid back the burrito. So it doesn't positively impact your credit.

[Brandon Herrera]

Can it negatively impact your credit?

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

Technically, no. Unless they report it to collections and sell off the debt, which is what they're doing with $150 million in debt. So now everybody that already can't afford anything definitely can't afford anything because they didn't pay back 75 cents on their fucking Chipotle order from February.

[Eli Double Tap]

And then that is going to be with fees immediately, like $30 and then affecting your credit for years to come. I did not know that you could also loan. Get a loan for a burrito.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

It's insane.

[Rich High]

But Nicholas, how can we prevent these people from the right that they deserve their God given right of getting food delivered to their home?

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

God, I knew that was coming. I did this on Twitter. I love posting like slightly related on Twitter before a Fat Files video. So I can hear all the stupid arguments. I'm gonna get beforehand. Some.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yes.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

Some idiot got on Twitter after. I like basically condensed this conversation down to a tweet and is like, doordash is a necessity. I swear to God, this was the real talking point. Doordash is a necessity. And you're a YouTube millionaire that can't understand the struggles of the 99%. And it's like I have the constitutional.

[Brandon Herrera]

Right to make a minority deliver me food for more money.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

Exactly, Exactly.

[Rich High]

Yeah. You got to pay extra for a white having.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

Having a private chauffeur for your Chipotle is a necessity.

[Rich High]

Yeah. And I don't, I don't want Imam Kaben and a gov sending it to me. I want Stephen Smith. So I'm going to pay that extra 10.

[Brandon Herrera]

I don't, I don't want a guy who sounds like he could beat Sean Strickland.

[Rich High]

I don't want to be the guy. I don't want a guy that sounds like Sean Strickland's making a negative racial stereotype about to deliver me food.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh my God.

[Brandon Herrera]

I don't want a guy who sounds like the guy who's going to kick the ass of the fighter I like.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

So.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah. So what was the other defense?

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

What?

[Eli Double Tap]

How Many people were defending this or thinking it was okay or.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

So it's. It's literally just people trying to justify their shitty behavior. So this guy's argument, because we got into it on Twitter, he said, you need to understand that disabled people, it's their only option. I'm like, first of all, no, it's not.

[Brandon Herrera]

The fuck did they do five years ago?

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

Disabled people have been around forever. Doordash is new. Meals on wheels is a thing. Most grocery stores deliver groceries. If you were ordering groceries and I was saying that grocery delivery services are bad. Absolutely. You have a great point. Getting fast food delivered to your fucking house is not a necessity. And he. And I was like, that's less than 1% of the population that is so severely disabled that they need a food delivery or they'll starve to death. He's like, well, you think only 1% of people are disabled?

[Eli Double Tap]

Yes.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

And then I go, at Grok, how many people are so disabled in the US that they have to have food delivered or they'll starve to death? And he goes, it's hard to narrow it down, but it's definitely less than 1%.

[Rich High]

I like how, like, Grok has become the new Google it. You know what I mean?

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah.

[Rich High]

Oh. Oh, you. Oh, you don't think so? You don't think that. Google it.

[Brandon Herrera]

You just have to be careful what you ask.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

Yeah.

[Rich High]

Was it a good or a bad thing that 6 million people disappeared in 1945-1950?

[Brandon Herrera]

Depending on which version of Gronk you ask, you're gonna get wildly different results.

[Rich High]

Yep, that's why I made that question specifically.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

I forgot about Mecca Hitler.

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh, my God, it was. And now a message from McAfee.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

Your package couldn't be delivered.

[Brandon Herrera]

You owe thousands in unpaid tolls.

[Eli Double Tap]

You want a free gift.

[Brandon Herrera]

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[Eli Double Tap]

I also like. You can make Grok do it in different accents.

[Rich High]

Yeah.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

Oh, that's my favorite. You never notice.

[Eli Double Tap]

You can say, now say it in a Jamaican accent.

[Brandon Herrera]

Hey, Ma.

[Eli Double Tap]

And it will do the entire response in that.

[Rich High]

Oh, but it won't spell. It won't say it out loud. It will type it as if yes.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, but you could tell. Hey.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

With foghorn Leghorn. Hey, Grock, will you Explain the second amendment like Foghorn Leghorn to this idiot.

[Rich High]

I see. I'm saying the free right of a people to get down God dang shotguns. Yeah, boy. I was really hoping that it would. Because I was hoping it was like going to be text to talk where it would give you a voice that it would respond with. And then I would be like, I want you to read this off as a person that has severe cerebral palsy. You know, it has to be fair. All right? While.

[Eli Double Tap]

Do you ever get in trouble?

[Rich High]

What's that? I'm a free speech absoluteist. How dare you not let the differently abled talk or have a voice for.

[Brandon Herrera]

Rich is the fucking guy from that skit where he's just like, all right, so I want the Second Amendment explained to me by Sydney Sweeney. Grown approximately 30% larger than normal with a full bladder, safety features off go.

[Rich High]

I just want a person of cerebral palsy to tell me about the second Amendment.

[Brandon Herrera]

Dear God.

[Rich High]

It's just. They have a station of a job ever. We have very good union.

[Eli Double Tap]

I'm with malice now.

[Rich High]

Hashtag free speech.

[Brandon Herrera]

So I only saw about three minutes of that debate. Yeah.

[Rich High]

My people could not stomach it.

[Brandon Herrera]

My favorite part was the cutaways back to you because you look like the fucking girl from that chick Fil a meme.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

Just that your face is like in the back. He's like, I have a smart ass comment and a rebuttal and the knowledge that Sun Tzu said I should never interrupt my enemy when they're making a mistake. And they're all battling in my head right now.

[Rich High]

Yeah, yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

You have like 80 devils on your arms. But the angel was like, please just.

[Rich High]

No, it was great because the devil and the angel were like, he's doing a really good job on himself. Just relax.

[Brandon Herrera]

You have no poker face, though, the entire time.

[Rich High]

That's the only way I could talk. He was saying so much stupid shit that I was like, I can't interrupt him because he's doing a really good job of making himself and his argument look dumb. So what am I gonna do? I'm gonna make faces of how I feel. And then hopefully the editor of the video will be like, look at the faces Rich is making compared to what Michael's saying.

[Brandon Herrera]

And my God, did the editor nail it?

[Rich High]

Nailed it. Oh, he nailed it.

[Eli Double Tap]

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[Brandon Herrera]

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[Eli Double Tap]

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[Brandon Herrera]

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[Eli Double Tap]

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[Nick the Fat Electrician]

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[Rich High]

No.

[Eli Double Tap]

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[Brandon Herrera]

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[Eli Double Tap]

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[Brandon Herrera]

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[Eli Double Tap]

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[Rich High]

It's one of the few times in my life where saying less got me more.

[Brandon Herrera]

It was I and I. I like a lot of the stuff Michael Malice has done before. Like, don't get me wrong, like, I agree with a lot of the that he says in other areas, but like just the one v one between you.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

Was showing up to a debate and then saying, I'm not here to debate was peak. Peak logic.

[Rich High]

Yeah. I liked how he, he said that officers never use their discretion and we're just rule followers. And then when I talked about a time that I used discretion, stated how he hates that I used my discretion. And then one of them was, police have all the power they could. They control the politicians also.

[Brandon Herrera]

That was the one that, that got me. I was watching that on a plane and I made the face you made. I was like, what the are you doing?

[Rich High]

Yeah, but defund the police is all our idea guys got him.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

I really liked when he showed up in a police outfit to be funny and then brought a puppet to be funny. And then the second Rich made a joke, he's like, notice how he uses sarcasm to try to defuse the situation. He's going to have to use a lot of comedy to get his points across while he's wearing a fake mustache in a costume to be funny. It's great.

[Brandon Herrera]

I'm just thinking, like, I, I know all sorts of cops who just love their county and city government and their da they're just always best buddies and they always get along and, you know, they always have the police's best interest in mind.

[Rich High]

Wow. Every time this guy really likes Michael Mouse. Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

They're the ones who really, you know, the tail wags the dog. It's totally.

[Eli Double Tap]

You didn't Michael did do a joke at the beginning. The. My mom. Oh, I want to see Brandon's reaction.

[Brandon Herrera]

So I don't know this one.

[Rich High]

My interactions with Michael. This is behind the scenes. My interactions with Michael were not pleasant. I met him and Tim introduced Michael to me and he's like, you know, so and so, so and so. And he's like, oh, Michael, this is. This is Rich High. He's the police officer that you're going to be debating today. And I go literally in my stupid, just most friendliest, non confrontational tone, I go, hey, Mike, how you doing? Just intentionally, just, hey. And he was like, oh, Mike, okay. And in my head I'm like, I don't know if this is like you trying to like fuck around and bullshit with me, but like, Mike is normally a pretty normal nickname for Michael. Nobody called this guy Mike before. All right, well, whatever.

[Eli Double Tap]

It's not like you said like Richard.

[Brandon Herrera]

To Dick, which is what was going.

[Rich High]

On in the internal dialogue later on in the show.

[Eli Double Tap]

So.

[Brandon Herrera]

But you were just being friendly.

[Rich High]

Yeah, I was being friendly. I was, hey, Mike. And he didn't like that. And I could tell, like something was off, but I was like, this isn't. I can't tell if this is real or whatever. And so we start, the group starts talking and Michael said something and I forget what it was. Do you remember what I told you what it was?

[Eli Double Tap]

You made a statement about something with the police.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

Cop assaulted his mother.

[Rich High]

Yeah, so? Well, but there was like some lines before that. We had a quick back and forth. He said something about police and I said a quick joke back. And out of nowhere he goes, a cop assaulted my mother. And I'm like. In my head, I was like, there's two reasons why you do that. Either one, you're trying to, like take this topic and go way off in left field to be funny. Or two, you're taking this topic way off into left field not to be funny and like take me off my balance, but to like attack me and be like, all cops. My mom, you know, that's. That's who you are because it happened to my mom. That's who you are. And so I was like, so either way, it's just a poor joke and you're not going to get me. Like, you can't get me to back off. So I'm going to say something quick and fast and is equally off color. So I.

[Brandon Herrera]

What did you say?

[Rich High]

I said, well, what was she wearing?

[Brandon Herrera]

God damn it, Richard.

[Rich High]

The audience is right now trying not to laugh yeah. You know what I mean? If you're gonna be a dick and be like, you know, cops rape my mom. I'd be like, oh, geez, what was she wearing? You know, duh. Was it. Was she asking for it?

[Brandon Herrera]

I cannot fathom why he didn't get along with you.

[Rich High]

Don't throw that in my lap. So. And then. And then I knew that it was like, some sort of weird trick. He's like, aha. You see, cops will always try to use, you know, their force over somebody, and they. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And it was. It was just a dumb line.

[Brandon Herrera]

So my problem is that that's a totally unrelated, like, just allegorical thing that it seems like that he's just throwing that out there, where. If you're talking about bigger points. Right. He just throws something like that out there, like, ha. You can't defend against this.

[Rich High]

We were just talking. This is just like a. I thought it was friendly back and forth until he did that. And I was like, what was the.

[Brandon Herrera]

Conversation about before that?

[Rich High]

It was just kind of like, talking about random cop stuff and some things going on. And then, like, I said it was. He said something, I said something. And then, like, is a quick retort because he was, like, jabbing me with some, like, you know, jokes or whatever. So he's. He jabs me with something. I, you know, I. I throw it back at him. And then he's like, my mom is. And I'm like, all right, this is either you trying to catch me off balance and make me feel uncomfortable, like.

[Brandon Herrera]

Shock kind of thing.

[Rich High]

Yeah. And be like, oh, my God, I'm sorry. Or you're. This is a joke. This didn't actually happen. And you're still trying to catch me off balance. So I was like, boom, fire something back.

[Brandon Herrera]

Did it end up being a real thing or.

[Rich High]

I didn't ask. I mean, if it's a real.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

It's literally the. It's literally the kid in school when you were doing your mama jokes that said, my mom died.

[Rich High]

Yeah.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

You're trying to make me feel bad or you're trying. You think this is funny?

[Rich High]

Yeah, it's a liberal equivalent of I'm offended for the people that aren't here in the room, so you can't do that. It. It's him trying to kill my. The joke that I said and stop me from being funny in the conversation because he wants it or he wants it to go somewhere else, whatever. So that goes on, and it's, you know, radio silent for a couple minutes. There. And then he starts, you know, like, getting his costume on. And I think it's funny. I'm like, dude, that's funny. I go.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

Texting me. You were texting me as this was happening, because I was, like, worried about how this whole thing was gonna go, and he's like, oh, dude, this is gonna go great. He's a performer because he's dressed up in a costume, and now he's not talking to me. It's a joke. I don't talk to cops. This is hilarious. You were so excited going into it.

[Rich High]

Yeah.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

And then when it ended, you called me and were so disappointed.

[Rich High]

So disappointed.

[Eli Double Tap]

Everyone was.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

I was talking, like, an hour and a half about how disappointed you were.

[Rich High]

I've. I felt so bad, and not for, like, anything that I did. I was just like. That just didn't go well.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

I felt bad for the audience, honestly, because, like, the amount of times the audience was told to shut the fuck up.

[Rich High]

Up.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

And malice was like, I'm not here to talk to randos. I don't want to take questions from the audience.

[Brandon Herrera]

What the.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

He literally said that. I don't.

[Brandon Herrera]

Well, he probably wasn't here to talk to Rich either.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

It was like, you're not here. What the. Are you here to debate Rich? You're not here to talk to the audience. What the are you here for? Like, I don't know.

[Eli Double Tap]

It just a terrible live show. Like, people showed up, paid money to be there, and then they're treated like that is the mind blowing to see the responses and then telling the audience to shut up or, hey, who's saying that? And then one of his friends was the only one.

[Rich High]

Yeah, there was. There was a guy who's funny, but he. He was in the back of the audience, and he was trying to, like, chirp Mike and be a part of the show. And, like, we know you can't. You can't do that. Yeah. Like, if one of us.

[Brandon Herrera]

There's a difference between a heckler and.

[Rich High]

Yeah, yeah. Like, if one of us. If all of us are doing a show. But Nick was sitting down in the back because it was. You know, it was our show, and Nick was there to support us. If Nick started screaming a bunch of us while we're on stage trying to do our performance, whatever it is, we'd be like, nick, what the fuck are you doing? If you want to be a part of the show and you should have come up here, don't fucking take away from the show and put the spotlight on you and don't try to add to the show. Because what you're doing when you add to it is you're. You're being a heckler. You're stopping the environment up here. From our back and forth, that's going.

[Brandon Herrera]

We're now distracted.

[Rich High]

Yeah. And now we gotta just. Now we're distracted by it. And it's hard if you're not. Not used to it. It's hard to ignore it. Right. There's a time and a place to call out and make audience participation. And the audience participation other than the questions that they were asking was kind of rough. It was a little rough, a little cringy, but yeah. And then after that entire thing, like.

[Brandon Herrera]

A Q A or like, what was the.

[Rich High]

Yeah, there's like an hour Q A at the end of it. Oh, my.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah. Well, if you're literally asking the audience to participate, then what the.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah, there's an hour Q A. Yeah.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

I think the Q A was longer than the actual quote unquote debate.

[Rich High]

It was.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh, and it's about.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

Even the audience was up Michael Mallison's talking points because his whole. His entire stance was he opened up with. I want everybody to say it with me. Cops are human and humans are at fault. So that's why humans shouldn't have power over other humans because they'll exploit it. Reasonable point. So an audience member gets up there and is like, so in your world with private security, is the private security going to be like, AI robots or what's the. The deal? And he's like, I don't know.

[Eli Double Tap]

It's like, well, dude, the one that opened my eyes and you brought it up was, who is going to defend against immigration? Oh, yeah, because that, like, his brain just shut down.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

Literally just goes, oh, I guess Tim wins. I don't have an answer for this.

[Brandon Herrera]

What he.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

Michael Miles later, like, because Tim Pool is the one that asked him that question, who's going to enforce the borders? And he's like, well, I think that a country needs to have strong borders, so there does need to be some. Some enforcement there. And Tim goes, I agree. Who's gonna do it and who's gonna fund it? Like, who's the customer? And he's like, I don't know. And Tim goes, oh, so that's it. I win the debate. And he goes, I guess so. And then they just move on. I was like, what the are we talking about?

[Eli Double Tap]

He wouldn't answer his questions for a long time, though. He kept pushing him aside.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

Not a long time. Never. He never articulated anything or he'd Say.

[Rich High]

Like, I put words in his mouth, which I wasn't.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

And if you tried to clarify what he meant, he would accuse you of putting words in his mouth, which I got used to.

[Rich High]

And so, like. Like later on in, like, the half hour of the show where it's, you know, the debate. I keep. I kept using the words, like, I feel intentionally. I was like, michael, I feel like you're saying this. Is that right? And he'd be like, stop putting words in my mouth. I'm like, no, no, I didn't. I said, I feel. That's me. I'm feeling this, doing this. Can you help me out? Yeah. Oh, I started doing. Yeah. It started getting, like, confrontational. And I'm like, all right, cool. I'm gonna listen. I'm gonna be a good listener. I'm gonna interview him as if he was a suspect. And I'm like, cool. This is how I feel. It's called juxtaposition. You said this, and. But yet you've said this. Well, that's mirroring. Sorry. It's different either way. I forget the terms anyway. I say, I feel this. Is that the way that you feel? To clarify. And he just. He wouldn't answer. You know, he'd be like, stop putting words in my mouth.

[Eli Double Tap]

And so every therapist wants you to talk. Your partner is taking out you, you, you. And it's like, hey, I feel this way. It is the appropriate way to interview somebody or have a conversation.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

If time travel ever becomes a thing, I'm going to go back in time to the minute where you get up behind Michael and say you're gonna give him a hug because you're trying to defuse the situation. And he says, don't touch me. That's assault, yo.

[Brandon Herrera]

What, that happened?

[Rich High]

Yeah, Hug him. He went to hug him because we agreed on something. Yeah. So I was like, yeah, we agreed on something. And I get up and I go to give him a hug, like. And he's just like, don't touch.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

Don't touch me. That's assault. If Rich would have said, what are you gonna do, call the cops? It would have been the greatest fucking nuke drop of all fucking.

[Brandon Herrera]

That is all right. I take half this stuff. I said back. That's when he was being completely serious.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

100.

[Rich High]

He's been a dick. He wouldn't have actually called.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

What happened after the show?

[Rich High]

So I. Before we even go up on stage. Yeah. I'll tell you that. Before we even go up on stage for the debate, he's like. Now he's just not talking to me. He's got his back to me. We're like in a line to, like, go up, you know, like on the stage. And I'm like, mike, you're doing, you know, a funny joke. You know, I don't talk to the police. Don't talk to the police. So you're not talking.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

That's funny.

[Rich High]

Like, that's funny. I like it. That's a good joke. Blah, blah, blah. And I keep trying to talk to him, and he's just like, like, locked up, focused, ignoring me. And I'm like, okay, this is the way that it's gonna be. If he's gonna. This is the way it's gonna be. All right? So he ignores me. And then, you know, we do the debate and then the debate's over and everybody goes to leave. I stick around because there were some people that wanted to say hi to me, and I did a couple shots of some fans. And then we go to this food joint down the street and there's Tim and Ellis and Michael Malice there from the show. And they're all at their table and somebody's wife or girlfriend's like, showing up. And I'm about to sit down at the table and I look over at Alice and I'm like, hey, bud, I made a joke about, like, you taking it up the ass. I go, you looked at me like, I just on you. I go, just a joke. We cool? He's like, oh, yeah, man, you're totally fine. I was like, sweet. Just want to be cool. You shot me look like I might have went too far. Ellis, nice guy.

[Brandon Herrera]

Pretty much everybody, like, Tim and everybody on his team are like, they're pretty chill dudes. Yeah, everybody's very level headed.

[Rich High]

Knew he knew it was bullshit. I mean, he's a comedian. He's been at roasts before. Like, you know me saying, like, does your teardrop tattoo mean how many dicks you take or how many people you killed is one of the least offensive things you could say. But I wanted to make sure that everything was okay because.

[Brandon Herrera]

But you're being a reasonable guy. You're like, hey, man, just in case I went too far. Yeah, here's, you know, olive branch. Make sure we're not actually. We don't have a problem.

[Rich High]

And plus, I don't know what the I did to Malice, but he already doesn't like me, so I might as well be extra careful and be like, hey, just so we're cool. Not. My bad, my bad. He's like, now you're fine. And then I look over at Michael and I'm like, mike, that was fun. It was, you know, a cool time. It was nice meeting you. It was fun. Blah, blah, blah, blah. And he's like, he's like your son. Just no eye contact, looking away from me, and we'll not get out of here. Yeah, I don't like you. I hope you die. And I'm like, how you doing? I say, you know, nice things and like, good thing. Nice to meet you. I put my hand out and he's just not looking at me and just refuses to shake my hand. I'm like, oh, that. Okay, cool. And I literally go, cool. I'm going to go sit this other table. Nice seeing you, Tim. And then I just turn around and sit down. And then Michael leaves. And I get, you know, Tim calls me over, he's like, hey, hi, Rich, come here. And I was like, oh, can I sit at the cool kids table now? Am I cool? Can I do that now that Michael's gone? Bunch of. What are. What were those called in Mean Girls? Mean Girls. What were their names, though? They're all the Allisons.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh, I don't know that they were.

[Rich High]

All the same girl name. What movie? It was like Mean Girls or Regina George Loma. I thought there was a movie where it was all girls had the same name. Like the Ashleys, something like that, whatever. So I, I poked fun at that because, you know, they were all hanging out with malice and, you know, I'm the new guy. And I sat down and Tim and Alice were like, we don't know what happened there. But Michael has never acted that way towards anybody.

[Brandon Herrera]

I think through all of our years in business on the Internet, we've all used Shopify. I've 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. 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.

[Rich High]

Brandon.

[Eli Double Tap]

What happens if people haven't heard about my brand?

[Brandon Herrera]

No, that's actually easy, Eli. Shopify helps you find your customers with easy to use email and social media campaigns.

[Rich High]

Step.

[Eli Double Tap]

Cody. What happens if I get stuck?

[Brandon Herrera]

Shopify is always around to share Advice with their award winning 24. 7 customer service tech support.

[Rich High]

Bro, you got my back and your front.

[Eli Double Tap]

Shopify helps millions of businesses around the.

[Brandon Herrera]

World and 10% of all e commerce 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.

[Brandon Herrera]

No. We've all been doing this for over a decade and Shopify is the easiest e commerce platform we've ever used. 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 done. So 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. Sign up for your $1 per month trial and start selling today at shopify.com.

[Rich High]

Unsubpod shopify.com unsubpod and that's just super weird. We just don't know. We don't. We just don't know. We don't have any reasoning for why he would do or act that way.

[Brandon Herrera]

That, that pisses me off. Is that inability to talk to somebody that you disagree with and actually just be like a normal person. Like, even, even again, like, I hate to bring it back to this, but after the last campaign, me and Tony sat down twice as just like normal dudes willing to shake hands. Like, all right, hey, that's over. We disagree on several things, but all right, tensions down and just had like a normal lunch.

[Rich High]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

Right.

[Rich High]

Before or after the cuckolding?

[Brandon Herrera]

Well, we are back in the. The throws.

[Rich High]

Yes, we are.

[Brandon Herrera]

But no, this was, this was after the end of the last, last election. Like, we, everything was done. We're like, all right, well, you know what, gentlemen, shake hands. That was the one thing I was big on. It's like I wanted to give him that call. Like, hey, you know, I want to shake your hand.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

I want to shake his hand.

[Rich High]

I want to shake his hand. You and I are both. That drunk dude trying to shake the Jewish guy's hand on the plane and me with Michael, I want to shake your hand.

[Brandon Herrera]

Play the video editor. Play the video. No, but. And it was, it was good. Like just a really reasonable conversation. That's just really shitty. That, that guy, like, even after, after the dust had settled and after, like everything was all done, all the public facing stuff, like, he still wouldn't look you in the fucking eye.

[Rich High]

I feel like it was just a mask. I Feel like he was trying to do a bit. He was trying to prove a point or something. Because when he was doing it, it was very awkward. There wasn't real. It wasn't real hate. You know what I mean? I've dealt with real hate. I've had people look at me in the face and tell me that I should die and myself, like, yeah, I've been on the ride. Yeah, I know when people really hate me. Like, I know.

[Brandon Herrera]

Is it real hate from somebody who's not. Not confident enough to express it or employed?

[Rich High]

I was talking about the protesters, not Michael. Although I'm sure that. I'm sure all those video comments are really helping you in the algorithm, so you're welcome.

[Eli Double Tap]

He's getting lamb. He lost a lot of friends.

[Rich High]

Lamb basted. So where were we?

[Brandon Herrera]

Because I'd already. I always had.

[Rich High]

Yeah. The real hatred.

[Brandon Herrera]

I'd always had, like, a fairly positive, like, in my. My friend circles and whatnot, people always like, oh, yeah, he's a pretty good guy. Like, stuff like that. So I'm like, okay, so him debating my. My actual friend. This should be very fun. Like, I'm. I'm looking forward to.

[Rich High]

Everybody said the same thing to me, too. Nice guy. Really entertaining. Fun to be around. Nice guy, nice guy.

[Brandon Herrera]

And to say unilateral is an understatement. My God. Like, you shellacked him. From everything I've been told that I.

[Rich High]

That I did that by shutting up. So.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah.

[Rich High]

Well, anyway, yeah, one of the things that Zach and Nick text me right away, they were like, we can't believe that you didn't, like, talk more. And I said, you know, sun, so the Art of War. If your enemy's making a mistake, don't stop them. You know, let him keep talking. So I. I didn't say as much as I wanted to, and I just. I let my faces do the talking for me, which was perfect because there's nothing like, you know, somebody going, well, you know, I think this point, and then you doing a total, like. Like, stink face. Adam.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's.

[Rich High]

It's. It's. It takes almost all the wind out of their sails, especially when the camera cuts to you full screen.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, you were like that little taxidermy, like, the little white monkey thing. Just the.

[Rich High]

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[Eli Double Tap]

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[Rich High]

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[Eli Double Tap]

Congratulations on that one.

[Rich High]

Yeah. My first debate. Want to know?

[Brandon Herrera]

Very nice.

[Rich High]

Yeah, I did.

[Eli Double Tap]

Did you think it was going to be a little bit closer at all or at least some pushback with some of the questions? I know we did a pre. Viz of it.

[Rich High]

Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

And apparently that worked really better.

[Rich High]

It didn't work at all points.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah, it was still better than anything that happened and actually discussed.

[Rich High]

People were saying that in the comments. You're like, wow, your prep really helped you. I'm like, my prep did nothing. I sat there and shut up for most of it and made faces. I didn't. The prep did nothing.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's like prep for D day where you're like, okay, we're defending the beach. We got people here, here. We got landmines set up. Okay, we got everything. This is the way we're gonna run this. And then as soon as they drop the fucking ramps, they all drown. You're like, well, huh.

[Rich High]

I feel like the thing we trained.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

I feel like I exposed you to some concepts you weren't aware of. That did get brought up. Yes, yes, the private security thing did get brought up, but it was so fucking poorly articulated and stupid. You didn't even have to say anything.

[Rich High]

No, I just got to sit there and say the greatest debate strategy for me was, tell me more about that.

[Brandon Herrera]

Please explore this. I think that was back when we were in Charleston, right? Like, you had brought this up. You were. You were going to. To do this debate.

[Rich High]

I think so did I. Yes. Charleston. Yeah. Oh, yeah. It had been planned before. There's one of my faces. Yeah, that's. That's my visual. Visual pain of me. Of him saying something dumb. Of me going, ah, it's just you.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

Trying not to turn into the Hulk the entire time.

[Rich High]

I'm already green. Look at my shirt. And I rep you boys, because I wore a poncho shirt.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh, my God.

[Brandon Herrera]

Buttoned a little high, little high.

[Rich High]

I couldn't let all the hamburger meat out, you know, fair. You know, I can't just like, the comments.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

The comments in the video are brutal.

[Rich High]

There's over seven and a half thousand comments on it. And. And so many of them, less than.

[Eli Double Tap]

1% are positive scroll.

[Rich High]

And they get 50 comments in a row of, why is Michael Malice an asshole?

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

Or like, even people are like, I'm a huge Michael Malice fan. I've never seen him act this bad. Or I'VE never seen him perform this poorly or. I'm a legitimate anarchist, and I'm disappointed. This guy's the face of my movement. Like, people that are on his team that are, like, mad at how bad of a job he did.

[Brandon Herrera]

He also got to hang with my boy, Alex Stein.

[Rich High]

Oh, yeah. Nice guy. Oh, yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

How was that? I did like. You were like, Alex.

[Rich High]

Yeah. Oh, yeah.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

2020.

[Rich High]

I think I said that. I think I said that. I might have actually said that. Do you remember? I remember.

[Brandon Herrera]

So he. So Alex was originally on my boxing card.

[Rich High]

Oh, you didn't fight Alex Stein?

[Brandon Herrera]

No, no, no. He was going to be. He was fighting this other guy, Modine, who ended up. My God, what a. What a fight that would have been about. Alex actually ended up fighting him because the guy was a total pushover.

[Rich High]

Oh, really?

[Brandon Herrera]

But the guy was. He was a Muslim, right? And so Alex is trying. He's like, I just try to figure out how to. With him. Like, I want to figure out, like, oh, how do we. We ramp up the press conference kind of thing? Because, you know, me and. Me and the guy that I fought, we had no problem with each other, so we didn't fake any drama for anything. He's, you know, Alex is a performer. Like, he's trying to go above and beyond, like, be over the top. I said, dude, you should throw turkey bacon at him.

[Rich High]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

In the press conference.

[Rich High]

Like, it's real bacon.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah.

[Rich High]

But it's turkey bacon.

[Brandon Herrera]

And so he's like, oh, that's such a good idea. Like, this. This. This. We. He. He told Modine's manager ahead of time. He's like, hey, just so you know, we're going to do this in the press conference. So, you know, this is not actual pork. Like, we're not actually crossing any. Any actual boundaries. Like, this is. This is turkey. I'll show you the packaging. You know, I'm just doing this as a bit kind of thing.

[Rich High]

The.

[Brandon Herrera]

The people that run Dazn got so upset, they pulled the fight.

[Rich High]

They were like, you're gonna throw turkey bacon at our.

[Brandon Herrera]

It happened.

[Rich High]

Oh, they swore.

[Eli Double Tap]

So Modine and his team was like, oh, that's funny. They actually thought it was a funny bet.

[Brandon Herrera]

Mode had no clue.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh, Mo didn't know.

[Brandon Herrera]

He didn't know. And then, like, went up and, like, try to, like. They tried to, like, fight, fight. And. And then, you know, all the. He told him afterward, like, hey, you know, this was a fun. This was a bit. Whatever. His team told him, they were both cool. They both still wanted to do the fight because Dazna is owned by so many Saudis that were actually offended.

[Rich High]

Oh.

[Brandon Herrera]

Even if it was a bit, they still pulled the fight. He never got to fight.

[Rich High]

Oh, my God. They would have been so embarrassed if he lost to, like, he would have fork thrown at him. And then he loses that. Hashtag Philippines 2.0.

[Eli Double Tap]

Round. Round one.

[Brandon Herrera]

Modine ended up having a fight at one point, and if you watch him fight, it was embarrassing. It's like picking on the fat kid at school. It was bad, but poor guy.

[Rich High]

Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

He did not train for a boxing match, and I think he got knocked out.

[Rich High]

Unlike those.

[Brandon Herrera]

He was so confident. I think he just quit.

[Rich High]

Yeah. Oh, yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

He. He got knocked down and he got winded, and then he just gave up.

[Brandon Herrera]

He didn't like. And he was so confident. Like, he had that, like, oh, I got all these gold chains, like that kind of thing going on. And it was humiliating.

[Eli Double Tap]

I do remember him saying he sparred twice going into that whole match. I was like, oh, buddy, you should have sparred way more than that. He's like, why? My trainer said it wasn't necessary. I was like.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

Are we sparring more?

[Rich High]

Yeah. Yes.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

Good. Of course.

[Eli Double Tap]

We can do it tomorrow. Okay.

[Brandon Herrera]

I'm down.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

I'd go buy a mouth guard.

[Eli Double Tap]

I got some. We just got to mold it.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

Okay. New.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah, Brand new. There.

[Rich High]

Yeah.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

Here's a bit of Eli's.

[Eli Double Tap]

It doesn't fail. Huh. Weird.

[Rich High]

You're so chewy.

[Brandon Herrera]

There's something growing in mine.

[Eli Double Tap]

They're universal.

[Rich High]

Why is there pinto beans?

[Eli Double Tap]

But yeah, we're gonna go spar.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

Not plaster. Is it?

[Eli Double Tap]

No.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

Drywall mud.

[Eli Double Tap]

Get him. Because I want to see. I want to see him spar. I want to see JD DeLay Sparrow. This would be good times.

[Brandon Herrera]

We've already said this on the podcast. JD fighting JD would be kind of scary. I don't think I would enjoy that.

[Rich High]

I fought bigger guys.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

Fighting jd, as his friend with rules, and he has gloves on, is having JD actually be mad and want to kill you would be much more scary.

[Rich High]

The guy. The guy who put rotten mayonnaise up his might be a pretty crazy fighter.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

If there's no rules, I'm not concerned about, hey, let's touch gloves and spar for two minutes. As much as I am as like, oh, JD's upset at me, and I'm gonna have to take a piss in the same bathroom as him at some point.

[Brandon Herrera]

Look, my liver's been through a lot. It's never been through the non business end of a pointed Chick fil a sport 37 times.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh, man.

[Rich High]

They told you not to disrespect me in the yard, dude.

[Eli Double Tap]

Nick, what's the next thing you're working on?

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

Right now I'm doing that Klarna video, and then I'm working on a Sergeant Stubby video.

[Rich High]

Sergeant Stubby's the marines bulldog, is it not? No, Sergeant Stubby is the boxer from World War I.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

No, Sergeant Stub. Yeah, the boxer. The breed of dog?

[Rich High]

Yes.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

Mutt. Yeah.

[Rich High]

Oh, was it a mutt? Yeah, it looked like a part boxer. I know what I'm talking about.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah.

[Rich High]

Don't look at me like that. American history down. All right. Santa Maria.

[Eli Double Tap]

The first one.

[Rich High]

What's that?

[Eli Double Tap]

You got the first one wrong.

[Rich High]

Yeah, well, there was only so many circus W's.

[Eli Double Tap]

I thought that it was this one.

[Rich High]

Yeah. I didn't go, like, down the list of all the animals.

[Eli Double Tap]

I was like, I don't know.

[Rich High]

Is it in the movie War Horse? I like horses and War. War Horse.

[Brandon Herrera]

I'm also like, halfway through that side island book that I bought when we.

[Rich High]

Talked last on the podcast.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

It's about to get real aggressive.

[Brandon Herrera]

You weren't kidding. Oh, just the way it's written. I'm like, this.

[Rich High]

Oh, the dude.

[Brandon Herrera]

This did not go through a publisher.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

You can read books and you can really tell when it's like, okay, there's three types of war books. This is third person completely after the fact by somebody that did a ton of research. All three can be good. There's ones that were, you knew, written by a ghost writer and consulted by the person that actually did the stuff, but they hired a professional writer to help them out. And then there's ones where just some grizzled veteran sat down and wrote how he felt about it. And this is one of those, to a level that I've never seen before. It's the most aggressive book I've ever written.

[Brandon Herrera]

I'm genuinely not sure there's a single page without something that would be considered a slur.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

That is accurate.

[Rich High]

I'm just.

[Brandon Herrera]

I'm reading it. I'm just like, any page you open it up to just. It's like the fucking geoguessr in India. Like, find a place on the map.

[Rich High]

Without trash and poop.

[Brandon Herrera]

You just, like, open up that page. You're just like, there it is. There you go.

[Rich High]

Just some old guy on a typewriter, like one fingering it. And I told that dirty, get off my motor cycle.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

There's a lot of parts of that book that didn't make it into the video a lot.

[Eli Double Tap]

How much are you.

[Rich High]

They talk about any black soldiers?

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

No, there's nothing. There's nothing with black relations in the book. Really.

[Rich High]

Okay. I was really hoping he goes, he.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

Goes, he goes in detail about he had an M1 grand when he hit the beach and picked up a carbine off of somebody else and ditched his M1 grand because he was a smaller dude and the M1 grand is so much heavier and the carbine is so much lighter. And like just repeatedly, he's like, never should have done that. He goes, I'm having a mag dump every I kill instead of 30 out.

[Rich High]

Of six going through your chest instead.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

Of a 30 out of six, just dropping somebody. So there's all kinds of crazy in that book.

[Rich High]

That is the ultimate like 9mil versus 45fud lore there.

[Brandon Herrera]

I can't go against his personal experience, but I will say that if you're doing like the. That he was doing, where you've got eight dudes you're going up against. I take a carbine, quick reload, you know, 20 rounds in the jungle, close distance, everything. Like, you don't need the 5, 5, 600 yard capability of 30. 06. Like.

[Eli Double Tap]

Well, the bullet dynamics, maybe that's the ballistics were just worse because period of.

[Brandon Herrera]

Time you're also fighting dudes that weigh 90 pounds.

[Eli Double Tap]

It's true.

[Brandon Herrera]

So it's like 30 out 6, 80 of the energies put in the tree behind it.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

I wasn't there, but that's my family.

[Eli Double Tap]

I do whatever he wanted to do.

[Brandon Herrera]

After reading this, I'm like, you know what that guy says? That's what he wanted. Give it to him, man.

[Eli Double Tap]

He wanted his Harley.

[Brandon Herrera]

He definitely wanted a Harley.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

The best part was just going back and finding his commanding officer after the fact, like years later, just an old man talking about going out on patrol with him. I went out there with him because I wanted to see how it was done. And we went up to the mouth of a cave and he starts yelling some gibberish into the cave. I can't understand what the they're saying. And I'm like, hey, what are you saying? He's like, I told him, get the out here. I'm gonna blow them all up. It worked. It just some southern dude just blown away.

[Brandon Herrera]

He's like, I'm never doing it again.

[Rich High]

Yeah. One guy runs out like a bayonet. They shoot him. And the rest of them are like, oh, that's a bad idea. He's the serious. Maybe we should have listened to him.

[Eli Double Tap]

His English is not very good.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

Have you gotten to all the crazy conspiracy stuff and the Fidel Castro stuff yet?

[Brandon Herrera]

No.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

Oh, it gets so much worse.

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh, I'm excited.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

About. About 65% of the book is about his war experience. About 5% is about after the war. And the rest is the government has been seized by communists that are trying to erode American values. He's not WR to 70 pages of it.

[Brandon Herrera]

And you're like, holy this homie.

[Rich High]

Spinning.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

He can't say anything.

[Rich High]

Was he right?

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

You got to read the book.

[Rich High]

Oh, he's kind of right.

[Eli Double Tap]

That's how you know it was self published. Like, now I get to what I want to talk about.

[Rich High]

Dude. Epilogue. That was called the hook.

[Brandon Herrera]

I'm two thirds of the way through the book and I've just now gotten to the forward. The epilogue.

[Eli Double Tap]

Holy. I need to read this.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

It's aggressive, dude.

[Eli Double Tap]

I'm so excited for major capers. Caper?

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

Yeah, capers.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah, sorry.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

Major James capers. That'd be cool.

[Eli Double Tap]

That one's going to be dope.

[Rich High]

Are you going to interview somebody that's not dead yet?

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

We're working on it.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah, he's coming.

[Rich High]

We have him as a post. He only does stories and people that interviewed. Yeah, he's interviewed some corpses. He's just poking it. Do some stuff.

[Eli Double Tap]

Actually, now I gotta see the major dude.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

He's got some of the coolest pictures from when he was in the service. Just him in his tan T shirt with a big old stogie in his mouth. Ripped his.

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh, I know who you're talking about now. Yeah, I've seen some of this.

[Rich High]

Yeah, yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

He was the poster child for the marines. Like the literal poster child.

[Rich High]

Yes.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

Yeah. The black guy that. I believe he was the first black man to receive a in the field commission ever in the marine corps because he became an officer in the field.

[Brandon Herrera]

Because that was the thing that they're trying to get him a medal of honor.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

Because they said the only reason he didn't get it was because of his race.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

Basically I'm trying to find. He was one. When I met him, the weirdest thing, I was like, oh, he was in a wheelchair. I was like, oh, hey, nice to meet you, sir. Bend down. Like, look, he's wearing his medals. I'm like, holy, you got shot a lot. Yeah.

[Rich High]

He has five purple hearts.

[Eli Double Tap]

Just stacked. I was like, what the. And then they started filming me, filming me in on what he did and his accomplishments, homeboy. Just stacked bodies. The guy that Helps him and walks him around in. Or pushes him around in his wheelchair. Was like, yeah, he's the only dude I know that has a confirmed knife kill. And then two sides arm kills.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's like what now?

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

Just to clarify something I'm not sure about when it comes to purple hearts, right.

[Rich High]

Obviously you've got lots of experience in that off Rich.

[Eli Double Tap]

How many do you have?

[Rich High]

It's got like eight or six now.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah. You're obviously, it's. It's when you get wounded in the line of duty, right?

[Eli Double Tap]

Yes. And it's separate events.

[Brandon Herrera]

That's what that was the clarification I was. So it has to be each separate event. You've been shot or, or wounded or you know, shrapnel, whatever.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

So if you get shot not times in one battle, it's one purple Heart. Yeah, yeah. You don't get like one per bullet.

[Brandon Herrera]

So it's, it's an engagement. So even if like you get shot a bunch and then like on the way out or like an hour later you get blown up again, it's so.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

Dis would have got like one purple heart for that day when he was in a seven hour firefight.

[Brandon Herrera]

Damn. Okay. Yeah, I figured that was probably the case, but I wasn't sure.

[Eli Double Tap]

It'll be around the end of October if that works. Or we can do early September.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

Member whatever works for him. I'll figure it out.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah, that's what exactly. Like whatever this dude wants, we, we will, we will work around his schedule because he is a.

[Brandon Herrera]

That would be a very cool thing for you if you just did like your normal video. As if like you're just telling this.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

Guy, I want to, but I need like if I'm gonna do somebody that's alive, I need their permission to put the video out. So like for sure I gotta make the my video. I gotta have him watch it and be like, yes, that's good to go.

[Brandon Herrera]

But I mean like what you normally do, like your, your whole normal video and then like at the end we're normally after the, you know.

[Rich High]

All right.

[Brandon Herrera]

And best way to support the channel is go to fat electrician.com if you.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

Want to see me interview him.

[Brandon Herrera]

Well, no, just like where it normally cuts like just your outro music and you play like a little clip of the person. It just cuts to you in your studio with the guy.

[Rich High]

Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

You win the metal.

[Brandon Herrera]

That'd be fucking.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

You know who else said he'd come on that I got a hold of.

[Eli Double Tap]

Who's that?

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

Sammy Lee Davis.

[Eli Double Tap]

No shit.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

Yeah, he said he'd come on.

[Brandon Herrera]

No.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

So we gotta schedule that Sammy Lee Davis is the Medal of Honor recipient whose Medal of Honor citation, like when you earn the Medal of Honor is what Forrest Gump was based on.

[Rich High]

Oh, yes. Yeah.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

So he'll be cool as to have.

[Eli Double Tap]

On how many Purple Hearts now.

[Brandon Herrera]

I guess you'd give him a Dr. Pepper.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

Oh, my gosh, a whole crate of Dr. Peppers.

[Eli Double Tap]

I'm looking more into this dude. I don't know. On the Sean Ryan show, that was one of his statements that he does make and he was known for. I think Sean read it. He's like, hey, this is a statement you made. You gotta kill them all. Because during his Vietnam or whenever, it was like, yeah, you just gotta kill them all. It's the best thing you can do. Just kill all of them. It's like, okay, that's.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

What the fuck?

[Eli Double Tap]

And then he has a. I do believe he has a PTSD movement in that show because he was like. Sean's like, hey, you good? You good? He's like, hey, sorry. Walks back on Sean.

[Rich High]

Sean's like, what the V? Conger all around me.

[Eli Double Tap]

It was like a moment, a full on moment telling a war story.

[Rich High]

Is this there? Oh, dude.

[Eli Double Tap]

And he wears his cowboy boots.

[Rich High]

Yeah, nice.

[Eli Double Tap]

But his team was super nice. And this is like JTAC and CAG dudes, like Delta boys that help him and make sure he's okay and taken care of. And they speak so highly of that dude. I'm like, that is dope.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

It's awesome.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah. Yeah. And then it was him. And then I'll. There was like three or four Medal of honor recipients there. All just old as. But the old ones, the older ones.

[Rich High]

They'Re all just old as.

[Eli Double Tap]

I mean, a majority are open in their diapers.

[Rich High]

Neighbors getting pushed around by guys in wheelchairs. Boomers.

[Eli Double Tap]

Greatest generation my ass.

[Rich High]

Sucking up Social Security like a bunch of commies that they fought. What's that?

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

We should do chess. Boxing.

[Eli Double Tap]

I've seen that took one minute boxing or one minute chess. One minute boxing or is it one round? I always forget.

[Rich High]

Oh, round's a long.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

It's round around. I think it's two minutes. Two minutes or whatever. Either way, we should do it. We should do checkers. I just don't want to play Eli. I'll play anybody else. Playing chess against Eli is stupid.

[Rich High]

I.

[Eli Double Tap]

That's because I'm retarded. And I started.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

I know, I know. I've been in your office. There's two books. It's anime and how chess strategy are the two books in your office. And then I come here the next day. You're like, oh, do you want to play chess? I'm like, here we go.

[Brandon Herrera]

You're good at chess and boxing. It's annoying.

[Eli Double Tap]

I like to do both of these.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

I don't mind, like, I don't mind, like. Like, I like chess. I can think 10 moves ahead. But you're like, reading strategies. And so it's like I go to, like, know I move upon. And Eli's like, you're playing the South African butt trumpet strategy. Huh? You've got all the weird terms and I don't know. And I'm like, this isn't good.

[Eli Double Tap]

My pawn back. I'm not playing that strategy.

[Rich High]

No, you're playing the tuba. It's a different strategy if you play.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

The South African butt trumpet. I'm just going to counter you with the Dutchman's cum sock. It's not like I don't. You're saying words, Eli. It doesn't make any sense, man.

[Rich High]

Now I know why everybody was watching the Queen's Gambit show. This sounds hot.

[Eli Double Tap]

We can definitely do that.

[Rich High]

Chess people are a bunch of.

[Eli Double Tap]

Are you gonna. Boxing, J.D. boxing. Boxing tomorrow.

[Rich High]

Next day. I thought you said today whenever I.

[Brandon Herrera]

Wore my boxing underwear, I wore my boxing underwear. Is like, the scariest shit.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

That's some of the best advice I've ever had. Always be ready to shit your pants.

[Rich High]

It's nice to know that we have limits.

[Eli Double Tap]

I know. Brandon's like, from this period to this period, I just need a couple of. Yeah, you kind of like left and right limits.

[Rich High]

You're kind of like Germany after World War II. Like, there was nothing that happened between 1940 and 1955. People on vacation. Don't bring it up.

[Brandon Herrera]

Never, never ask a man his salary, a woman her age, or any German company what they were doing between 1939 and 1945.

[Rich High]

Yep.

[Brandon Herrera]

Just polite.

[Rich High]

Some would say it was quite righteous.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

We got Fanta out of it.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah. Silver Lin, you got Hugo Boss.

[Eli Double Tap]

This is true dub. Yeah, the bug. Great road.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's a people's car.

[Eli Double Tap]

There a people's car. Great road system. And then. Oh, he got an MP7.

[Brandon Herrera]

That did happen.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

How'd you get an MP7?

[Brandon Herrera]

I had to pay a lot of money. But, yeah, it was. We. We ended up getting. Actually, that video is gonna go up, like, in time of recording in like 20 minutes.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

Good.

[Brandon Herrera]

But yeah, we've. We. I. Of course, that was the only video. There's a lot of videos. That Cody's been in before.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

Seven minutes of Cody furiously masturbating over the top of it.

[Brandon Herrera]

Way more than seven on the pepper box cut. Way more than that. It was, it was the only video he's ever been like, like, can. Can I be in that? Whenever you do it, can I be in that?

[Eli Double Tap]

You drove two hours to be in that video.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, yeah, because we. That was when we were filming a bunch of stuff. We were batch filming stuff at drive tanks. So. Yeah, but yeah, we've. We've got an MP7. Now I say we, like we're all just like a collective, but We've got an MP7.

[Eli Double Tap]

I'm so excited. Yeah, we didn't in that. I'm.

[Rich High]

What?

[Eli Double Tap]

I don't know what we've discussed in the last. These episodes are all just like piled together because we have to prep for the live shows. So it's like episode, episode, episode, episode, episode, episode. And then you run out of shit to talk about or you forget. Especially in my case, just forget what we talked about. What are your other videos coming up? Brandon?

[Brandon Herrera]

We've got the.

[Rich High]

Any reaction videos to online shenanigans?

[Brandon Herrera]

Probably soon.

[Rich High]

Nice.

[Brandon Herrera]

We've got the Lewis video, the loose gun. Actually the. Oh, so this is actually really cool.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

Yes.

[Brandon Herrera]

So the Lewis, the Lewis machine gun.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

Right.

[Rich High]

Is that the one that was stamped by the British for World War II? Because they didn't have anything.

[Brandon Herrera]

That was the. So that you're probably thinking of the Sten submachine gun.

[Rich High]

I'm thinking of the Sten.

[Brandon Herrera]

So the, the Lewis is the, the thing that looks like the. The old flying saucer. Yeah, the saucer, the pan mag. The dp, the carousel. Like the carousel projector.

[Rich High]

Oh, the one with the big water cooled barrel.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yes.

[Rich High]

Okay.

[Brandon Herrera]

So that right there, something I learned about it that I did not know because I always thought that that's a British machine gun. Right.

[Rich High]

Did the Germans make that too?

[Brandon Herrera]

It was made by an American. That's actually something that we did and that the British were the ones who adopted it.

[Rich High]

Nice.

[Eli Double Tap]

Who, who, who made it?

[Rich High]

What?

[Brandon Herrera]

American Lewis. But the thing that was crazy is it that was actually developed in 1914 or. Excuse me, it was designed in 1911. So at the same time as the fucking Colt handgun, the Browning, you know, the 1911 was designed by Samuel McLean and Isaac Newton Lewis, which God knows that man was going to be a scientist no matter what, an engineer. But yeah, it was adopted predominantly by the British. But the one that I have is an American. It was an American 1 in 3006 instead of 303, Brit.

[Rich High]

Oh, so that's. So that would be like one of the earlier models that was made. Am I correct in that or.

[Brandon Herrera]

I think I'm not 100% sure because they did have some. Obviously American. Americans did produce them and field them to some degree. But I love it. Like, it's actually probably one of the most pleasant shooting light machine guns I've ever fired. It's got like a 47 round, you know, magazine, whatever, the entire thing. There's no spring in the magazine whatsoever.

[Eli Double Tap]

Just pressure, just.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's entirely mechanical. So the entire, the functioning of the gun is what's advancing the magazine and rotating it. It's really cool.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

It's belts are better, but that's cool.

[Brandon Herrera]

Is it a bitch, I mean objectively for a machine gun? Yes.

[Rich High]

Is it a bitch to load and unload because of that?

[Brandon Herrera]

Not really.

[Eli Double Tap]

Do you just open up the dinner plate?

[Brandon Herrera]

Essentially it's totally exposed. If you flip it over, it's completely open.

[Rich High]

And then you just drop the rounds in.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah.

[Rich High]

So the magazine is fixed. You open it up and then drop the rounds in and close the magazine? No.

[Brandon Herrera]

Well, you, you flip it over. You could take them, you can take the pan magazines out, out and so you can have like four or five on your person and just shove them in.

[Rich High]

Just two pan magazines over your boobies.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

Obligatory. Are you gonna talk about how the British used to bake d in it?

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, actually. So on the one, the Maxim, it was really. No, I thought that was a thing.

[Rich High]

With the maximum machine gun. Because it's water cool.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

So much asbestos and in that. I'm not saying nobody did it, I'm just saying if they did, they're dumb.

[Eli Double Tap]

So, yes, I'm confused.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

Water cooled machine guns, you've got the big water sleeve around the barrel.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yep.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

So it's like Internet lore that the British, because they fucking love tea so much, would fire the machine gun a bunch and then use the hot water to make tea.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yes, yes, I've heard that one.

[Brandon Herrera]

So that in genetics. Yes, that and spending a few hundred years on a fucking island. On the Max machine gun, though, the, the, the, one of the biggest reasons why they couldn't do that is I think it was arsenic. It was something that the paint that they were using.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

Asbestos and arsenic mixed up.

[Brandon Herrera]

It was either the paint or something that they were using for the lining. Actually it was arsenic in the water, which is why, again, not saying nobody didn't do it, but I'd almost.

[Eli Double Tap]

Wouldn't they do that Though at that time they did not know about that. You have the same individuals, the match picks.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

They've known about Match ladies arsenic for a long time.

[Brandon Herrera]

The match ladies.

[Eli Double Tap]

Before red phosphorus it was white phosphorus they used on matches. But when you were making them, part of the process was like lick. You would lick it and that's why they're. They would have cancer start forming in their jaws and then it would just fall through. And it was a huge problem until red phosphorus came out. Let me get the exact.

[Rich High]

Yeah, licking red phosphorus is much better.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh well, when you.

[Rich High]

They couldn't just get a damp rag and be like dip, dip ladies.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

There's all kinds of shit like that though. I mean that's where the term Mad Hatter comes from. There was irradiated material girls that were like doing watch hands and shit.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, there's tritium or whatever the.

[Rich High]

It was the Mad Hatter thing.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

The term Mad Hatter comes from back in the day you would use mercury to make those fancy top hats. And people that worked in a hat factory were exposed to so much mercury for so long, they would literally go insane. And that's why the phrase Mad Hatter exists.

[Rich High]

Oh, that's cool.

[Brandon Herrera]

But for the Lewis machine gun. Oh God.

[Eli Double Tap]

It was.

[Brandon Herrera]

Dear God.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

Yeah, that looks like.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah. So Red Foster who.

[Rich High]

That smile is just a bunch of jagged teeth. It looks like somebody took a beer bottle and smashed it across their own face and then made a teeth match. Just like someone I know.

[Brandon Herrera]

But funny enough on the Lewis machine gun that's actually not a problem with the water or anything like that because the Lewis machine guns air cooled.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

Oh, okay.

[Brandon Herrera]

There's no water in it. It's just like a weird, like it's like a radiator fin. It's. It's bizarre.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

That's kind of cool though.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's. It's really kind of neat.

[Eli Double Tap]

Did either use.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

That's where the term run and gun comes from? No, I'm just kidding.

[Eli Double Tap]

The. Or did the British make it water cooled?

[Brandon Herrera]

So you're thinking of like the, the early 1919 or the maxims or stuff like that where they did have that water cooling shroud on it. And the Lewis machine gun looks like it has a water cooling shroud, but it's actually like a radiator, like a heat. Heat fins. I. I don't know, it's hard to say.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

I went to. When me and Ethan for filming Habitually fat went to the Air Defense Museum. They had early Browning 50 cows that were used for air defense between like World War I and World War II and they had a water cooling shroud.

[Brandon Herrera]

On it, a heat sink, literally a.

[Eli Double Tap]

Heat sink to dis.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

Oh, that's cool.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, sorry.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

So the, the Browning had this big water cooling shroud on it on like a tripod. And then there was these boxes and hoses and some dude was sitting there cranking the box and it was cycling fresh water through the water shroud on a 50 cal for air defense. I thought that was cool as.

[Eli Double Tap]

Dear God, why did they take away the water cooling shroud? So at what point we're like, hey, this is not necessary. We can just keep it air cooled and then do barrel swaps.

[Brandon Herrera]

So barrel swaps came a little bit later because barrel swaps, I'm not going to say it's hard to do, but it's harder to do, right? And then you have to, you know, you've got all these barrels that you've got to provide and everything like that. So like the MG for example, the MG 34 or excuse me, MG 42, you've got like the very quick like you just palm the side of the gun and then the barrel wedges out the side and you can easily drop it and then throw another barrel and wedge it back in your quick barrel change. That technology took a while because before you had a very fixed barrel on a lot of stuff like that.

[Rich High]

And so why do you say very fixed like that? Like was it like tacked in place?

[Brandon Herrera]

Like you didn't change the barrel? Like that was just a, it wasn't like a, like an AR15 even where you could just like. Oh yeah, you know, got a barrel extension, whatever. Like it was, I mean it was.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

In place just like it's almost like a manufacturing issue because then you have to manufacture shit with such good tolerances that you can actually have a modular gun as opposed like 1911's are all hand finished. Like you can't swap out parts all willy nilly with 1911 ovens because like that part was finished for that gun. So the manufacturing process has to be so advanced that we can spit out a barrel or whatever within this narrow spec to be able to hot swap parts out.

[Brandon Herrera]

Because you, you run into a problem with headspace where headspace if you're off by even thousandths of an inch, right?

[Eli Double Tap]

Anyone that's fired a 50 cal, you.

[Rich High]

Know about headspace, they don't need headspace and timing anymore.

[Eli Double Tap]

I know that's they got rid of wire.

[Brandon Herrera]

But even that the ability to, to, to time your barrels on the M2 was fucking rad. Because John Moses Browning was a magic Mormon. You have like, the guy just. Oh, my God. So much stuff in modern firearm technology is because of that one person. Like, he was fucking fantastic.

[Eli Double Tap]

I got to go. His museum and really little house.

[Rich High]

Yeah. His first shop. Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

But like that. That is something. Even the ability to time your barrel is something that's really fucking cool. A lot of the early stuff did not have that.

[Eli Double Tap]

That.

[Brandon Herrera]

Because you're talking about if it's thousandths of an inch off, your gun explodes. Machine guns have a little bit looser tolerances on things like that, but it'll still run like, or just, you know, detonate. And that's just never good.

[Rich High]

Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

50 calculus is just like. I mean, you clunk, you probably headspacing. No, no, he's a medic.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

Medic.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh, yeah. I wasn't sure in basic if they made you do that. No. Yeah.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

I mean, I think they. I think there was like the one day where it's like, here's a saw, here's a 240, here's a 50 cal. Shoot them. I mean, I've got to shoot saws and 240s just because I was attached to the infantry. But like, very rarely was anybody doing live fires with 50 cals.

[Eli Double Tap]

That makes sense. Those are.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

And when they were, it was like, we're getting the training to the infantry guys. Make sure this doesn't blow up in my face. Have the tourniquet ready.

[Brandon Herrera]

I kind of like the. The ability to just head space and time the 50. Like, it's just kind of. Because you know what your gun likes. Like our. Ours likes being screwed all the way in, then three clicks out.

[Rich High]

Mine too. Yeah. Yeah, yours does. Dude, I was just about to bring that up. I knew my head to do some timing for our. For our 50 because it was click, click. It was literally all the way down and then three or four clicks out.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah. And if it's running real dirty or something like that, you can kind of manually adjust from there.

[Rich High]

It's great. During a firefight, they jam a lot.

[Brandon Herrera]

Why are you head spacing your gun in a firefight?

[Eli Double Tap]

It up mid mission.

[Rich High]

Yeah. You're not just gonna stop the 50. You want the 50.

[Brandon Herrera]

Right. But I. This is totally like, new. Why would you be re. Headspacing your gun?

[Eli Double Tap]

No, because when you go out on mission, you might get it to run. Let's say you get it to run now, you have to go out. Chances are you might rip one round into the berm. That's about it. You're just doing a bop. Okay. It's good. Then you go out and what you can't when you leave, especially when you're doing every day you're going on patrol cycles, you're not shooting the gun and doing tests every time, because that is convoys of vehicles or at least eight, four vehicles minimum. That's all those rounds you have to test each and every time. Yeah, every day.

[Brandon Herrera]

I'm sorry, I'm just. I'm still stuck on why. Why the. You wouldn't at least want to function test your.

[Eli Double Tap]

You did your.

[Brandon Herrera]

Your fit one rounds.

[Eli Double Tap]

Not dunk dunk or you. Maybe a quick three round burst, but let's say that you got lucky on those three rounds.

[Rich High]

Yeah. The only time that we would test fire weapons is if we got done cleaning them.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yep.

[Rich High]

And then like it was either we would prep it and go out there and do a test fire to make sure it worked, or it was like, you don't got enough time. So tomorrow morning at, you know, 04, you're up in the truck. 06, you're going and doing the mission. You're like, hey, we put this 240 or 50 cal together yesterday after cleaning it. So we got to testify real quick. Kachunk, Buck. Kachunk, Kachunk. Fuck. Okay, cool, we're good to go.

[Brandon Herrera]

That sounded like, hi, my name is.

[Rich High]

Like, my name is.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

Shady John Moses Browning.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

You want to, you want to test a whole bunch Mark 19s? Anything?

[Brandon Herrera]

Just God, that's why the thing that your entire Humvee's life depends on that. You're just sending it.

[Rich High]

One of my favorite videos.

[Eli Double Tap]

A lot of sending it is, I.

[Rich High]

Think an American in the early Russia, Ukraine war, where his 50 goes down and he's like trying to beat it with a hammer to get it to go. And they. And the guy. But he's like, I need a more rounds. No, that's what he ran out of rounds. He's like, I need more 50. And the guy below him doesn't speak very good English because obviously they're in Ukraine. And he just starts handing him 84s.

[Brandon Herrera]

I've seen that.

[Rich High]

He's just like, oh, all right, give me more ammo. Another at four. He's like, well, oh, a third one.

[Nick the Fat Electrician]

Not what I asked for, but it works.

[Rich High]

Yeah, these are very good substitutions.

[Brandon Herrera]

I have seen that exact fucking video.

[Rich High]

Yeah. Worst fun.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh, man, I have not seen that video.

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh, it's fucking good. Because he's clearly like, he's. He's chewing it up with the fucking M2.

[Rich High]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

He's like, okay, I need more fucking cans of 50.

[Eli Double Tap]

We have none. Here, take this.

[Rich High]

Duh. Ammo here is big ammo. It's number one. Big ammo for you.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's like Baby Groot just, like, bringing him random. That wasn't what he asked for.

[Rich High]

He's like, 84.

[Brandon Herrera]

Is like, no, but.

[Eli Double Tap]

Well, I think on that one. Brandon, you want to close this out?

[Brandon Herrera]

Sure. I'll be Cody for the day. Thank you, guys for watching the Unsubscribe podcast. I was joined today by Eli Double Tap Rich from Angry Cops, myself Brandon Herrera, and Nick the fat electrician.

[Rich High]

Say the word, we can't say. Say the word, we can't say no.

[Brandon Herrera]

You.

[Rich High]

There's a million things to stress about.

[Eli Double Tap]

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[Rich High]

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[Eli Double Tap]

I say you've never rented quite like this.

[Rich High]

Welcome to Avis.

[Eli Double Tap]

First, visit Avis.com to learn more.