Missiles, Conspiracies & What Ifs | Unsubscribe Podcast 255

Summary

Unsubscribe Podcast 255: "Missiles, Conspiracies & What Ifs"

Date: March 16, 2026
Hosts: Eli Doubletap, Brandon Herrera, Donut Operator, The Fat Electrician
Guests/Participants: King Trout, Nick, Cody, Connor, Ethan

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Episode Overview

This episode of the Unsubscribe Podcast is a quintessential mix of military banter, internet culture, and dark humor, featuring the usual crew and friends. They dive into recent experiences (both real-world and gaming), pop-culture controversies (from World of Warcraft to In-N-Out's California exit), thought-provoking "what if" military scenarios, fresh missile tech, and the web of high-level conspiracies (including the Epstein files). As always, the episode is laced with actual expertise, unfiltered opinions, and relentless ribbing among friends.

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Key Discussion Points

1. Life Updates, Weekend Recap & Brandon’s Congressional Run

• The crew recounts recent hangouts, including Brandon Herrera’s campaign event and wild afterparty antics. Tales of margaritas, rucks (that were actually just walks), and legendary hangovers abound.
• Brandon’s congressional ambitions are celebrated, notably the high turnout and positive energy at his event. The group jokes about tracking his future congressional gun purchases ("the Pelosi Tracker, but for gunbroker") [07:19].
• Brandon's genuine commitment to politics is noted:
  Cody: "He really wants this, and I think Texas and the United States in general deserves a congressman. You know, he can not be a fucking..." [06:59]

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2. Socials, Internet Hate, and Navigating Fame

• The group swaps stories about Twitter hate, the "legacy" of Donut, and how social followers become litmus tests for friendships (and potential cancelations).
• On the consequences of speaking your mind on X/Twitter, and the joy/strangeness of secondhand online offense:
  King Trout: "I get secondhand...offended people in my comment section on Twitter now...people will retweet my...they're like one of donut’s retarded ass friends..." [14:01]

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3. Gaming Corner: From World of Warcraft to Schedule One

• World of Warcraft (WoW) Rants: Cody vents about WoW’s direction, mocking recent efforts for inclusivity (notably a magical wheelchair-bound archmage) [18:14-19:42], and his subsequent block by WoW’s official account [17:03].
  Cody: "No, dude, this is called Warcraft, not gaycraft" [17:20]
• Classic WoW Hardcore Mode: Discusses the anxiety and dark humor of permadeath.
  Nick: "Imagine your team sucks...there goes a week of work gone in an instant" [22:03]
• Schedule One Game: The hosts detail forming an in-game drug cartel, each adopting roles (finance, muscle, production). Noteworthy is Cody’s efficiency in "stashing bodies on the parking garage," subverting game mechanics for profit [26:06].
• Chained Together, Getting Over It, and the rising trend of friendship-ruining cooperative games are discussed [27:44–28:28].

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4. Real-World Economics: Fast Food, State Taxes, Corporate Migration

• The mass exodus of companies from California—In-N-Out, Tesla/SpaceX—due to punitive tax policy and oppressive regulation, moves center stage [33:01–35:21]. Nick: "...if you're a business owner or you're...a millionaire, if you leave California...just plan on getting audited every year for the next seven years" [34:21]
• Side notes on the culture wars: backlash over In-N-Out keeping Bible verses on packaging, refusal to submit to state pressure [37:19].

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5. Medical Breakthroughs, Regulatory Hurdles & The System

• Explores recent experimental medicine:
  • German Stem-Cell Cure for Type 1 Diabetes: Recent case of 47 patients regaining insulin production, but lack of US uptake due to pharmaceutical interests [39:30].
  • Controversy over FDA slow-walking/denying treatments versus taking risks with life-limiting diseases:
    Nick: "We don't know the long-term effects 20 years down the road, like motherfucker, I'm gonna die in two years if I don't get it." [40:24]
• Commentary on "studies-or-GTFO" mentality and Twitter armchair skeptics:
  Nick: "No, I don't have a peer-reviewed study that says it'll hurt if you slam your dick in a car door..." [41:35]

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6. Missile Tech, Air Defense, and "What Ifs"

• Missile Guy (Ethan/The Fat Electrician) delivers a deep dive into the latest in Integrated Air and Missile Defense Systems, specifically the US’ IBCS and Poland’s acquisition [80:31+], conveying the sheer scale and networking capacity (land, air, sea) of modern defense.
  King Trout: "...No other country in the world can do this. No one else. It is the most scary Skynet fucking mesh network air defense system in the world." [83:13]

• AGM-114 Hellfire & Ginsu Missiles: The crew discuss real-life narco boat strikes and the various warhead configurations, including the infamous R9X "Ginsu" missile (blades, not explosives) used for surgical assassinations [74:05].
  Nick: "...hit him with this katana missile on his balcony, have his morning coffee, done." [74:34]

• "What If" War Scenarios:

  • "What if the US and China went to war?"
  • "What if Russia continued after the Ukraine war?"
  • "What if the US hadn't nuked Japan in WWII?"
    -> Conclusion: The existence and public knowledge of nuclear weapon destruction acted as a worldwide deterrent, potentially preventing the Cold War from going "hot".
    Nick: "I think we might have used them on the USSR potentially, but I don't think they [Soviets] would have been as...focused on stealing the technology and developing it..." [56:43]

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7. Conspiracies, the Epstein Files & Governmental Rot

• Eli (and Connor) share existential horror after digging into the newly released Epstein files (found via JMAIL), discussing the sheer scale of depravity and the sense of futility as no justice seems imminent.
  Eli Double Tap: "...to be vindicated feels horrible. To know that all this was actually happening, and it's worse than you thought, like, makes me sick to my stomach." [93:15]
• The group acknowledges the bipartisan nature of the coverup and expresses outrage at anyone using the data to score political points.
  • Eli: "The quote about, what's the difference between a conspiracy theory and the truth? A couple of years." [97:22]

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8. Social Commentary, Cancel Culture & the Internet's Outrage Cycle

• The group riffs on cyclical online cancelations, shifting causes (Free Palestine, Ukraine, etc.), and the "anger of the month" culture [66:19–66:41].
  King Trout: "What are we mad at this month?" [66:13]
• Revel in the inevitability of ridicule as public figures, and highlight the absurdity of some gripes—like getting flamed for grading a manga or criticizing a beloved plane online [121:09].
• Closing with lighthearted stories of VR mishaps, internet drama, and the “joys” of public internet personas.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On WoW’s new direction:
  Cody: "It's just. It looks like a Pixar movie. ...This is called Warcraft, not gaycraft." [17:20]

• On Technological Superiority:
  King Trout (re: US defense network): "It is the most scary Skynet fucking mesh network air defense system in the world. And Poland got on board..." [83:13]

• On the point of military diplomacy:
  Cody (on regime change): "If we can go in in seven minutes and remove a president from a country, I'm all for that, but I do not want to create a 20 year war that gets people hurt." [69:27]

• On the futility of expecting justice for elites:
  Eli: "Nobody's doing anything about this. We're not dragging people out to the guillotines right now. It just is sickening to me." [92:44]

• On social media judgment:
  King Trout: "It's like that random experience when you become a creator for the first time. You're like, oh, I'm going to say this. This is a pretty mild take...and they're like, you're literal Hitler." [122:35]

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Important Segments & Timestamps

• Gaming After-Action Reports (WoW, Drug Lords, etc.): 17:12 – 26:50
• California Business Exodus: 33:06 – 36:07
• Diabetes Cure, Medicine, and FDA Critique: 38:24 – 41:08
• Missile Tech & Air Defense Deep Dive (with Ethan): 80:31 – 99:19
• Epstein Files, Conspiracies & Existential Despair: 91:16 – 97:34
• "What If" Military Scenarios (Nukes, WWII, Cold War): 54:09 – 61:22
• Reflections on Cancel Culture, Internet Hate: 121:09–123:08

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Tone and Style

Expect classic Unsubscribe Podcast DNA: rapid-fire banter, raw honesty, politics and military topics with zero sugarcoating, liberal use of inside jokes and roast humor. The hosts combine genuine expertise with irreverence, making the deep dives both informative and highly entertaining.

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For New Listeners

This episode delivers the full Unsubscribe experience: insight, outrageous anecdotes, military nerdery, and conspiracy banter. It’s perfect for those craving real talk about the world, internet culture, and contemporary geopolitics, all with relentless, hilarious energy.

Transcript

[King Trout]

Did you know the cartel are trafficking avocados and gasoline?

[Nick]

I hate avocados.

[Cody]

Wait a minute. That's where the Mexicans are.

[Donut Operator]

How dare you?

[King Trout]

The shills on the Internet like you lost in Afghanistan.

[Nick]

By what metric? Yeah, because all the people in Afghanistan don't have a Roth ira. Like, I don't understand. Like,

[Donut Operator]

say hi to Eli. He's racially ambiguous. And Brandon, his hair is fucking fabulous. Donut. A dark joke disposition.

[King Trout]

And there's a fat electrician.

[Donut Operator]

Welcome to Unsubscribe.

[King Trout]

Hey.

[Donut Operator]

Right before this episode starts, the new flavors are out. Also, the new line, the performance line is out too. Raz. Lemonade, orange cream, sour apple and grape. Citrus. And we are going to call that purple drank by the end of the year. Purple drink in the comments. If you think it should be called purple drink. I love purple drink. And it's the new performance line. So it is 200 milligrams of caffeine instead of 100. But Eli, love the hydration element. We might be adding some classics to the hydration line. Y' all made this possible with these amazing flavors. It is awesome to be part of a brand that works together with the community to develop stuff we actually like. And the best news, those just dropped today. I promise you, you are going to love the new flavors. Head over to drink echelon.com and get some today. And if you're a subscription member, just change it to grab some just like, I want that instead this coming month. We love you all. We are freaking blessed. We interviewed Gary S. A couple days ago and our boy Brandon won. What is life? Brandon Herrera, Congratulations on the win, my friend. It is awesome to have you as a co host, a business partner, and just a friend in life. Keep kicking ass, buddy. We will always support you in any ways possible and I know you all will too. Thank you all so freaking much. Enjoy the episode. Kisses.

[Nick]

Life hack. If you ever buy a scratcher, you can immediately just tell the cashier to scan it. You don't.

[Cody]

Yeah, you just scratch.

[Donut Operator]

Literally what I was saying. I just scratch off the. Did you win or not? And they'll be like, scan it. Yeah, you won dope, baby. This is all for fun.

[King Trout]

Randomly, I'll pick up a scratcher like once every two years. And I've never won a dime. And I'm like, yep, that's.

[Donut Operator]

That's fair.

[Nick]

Like, I don't you guys have pull tabs here?

[Donut Operator]

That's fun. Bar pull tabs.

[Cody]

Yeah.

[Nick]

In the Midwest. They're everywhere.

[Cody]

I haven't heard of that for a minute. They used to have them at, like, va. Like, vfw.

[Nick]

They're still all over the Midwest.

[Cody]

Oh, I remember that because my grandpa used to take me to the vfw. He'd be like, do the thing.

[Nick]

There's like, the line.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah.

[Nick]

And that's how you. Yeah.

[Cody]

Damn, we're old as fuck. They don't have VFWs like that anymore. Cigarette smoke everywhere. It was a fun time. Hi, everyone. Welcome to the unscribed podcast. I'm joining.

[Eli Double Tap]

Wait, wait.

[Donut Operator]

We got to do this first.

[Nick]

Damn it. This here is.

[Donut Operator]

No, fuck this one. I got you this one.

[Nick]

It's not cold.

[Donut Operator]

This one's cold.

[Cody]

Podcast is ruined.

[Donut Operator]

This one's cold, isn't it? That feels cold to me. This is that water one.

[King Trout]

Hang on. Actually, I'll take that one. That one's cold.

[Donut Operator]

Perfect. Now it's. Everyone has cold ones.

[King Trout]

Yep.

[Donut Operator]

Okay. Three, two, one.

[Cody]

Hi, everyone. Welcome to the unscribed podcast. I'm joined today by Eli Double Tap, fat electrician, habitual line crosser myself, donut operator. Thank you so much for being here.

[Donut Operator]

We're here today, bitches. We got a boy in the house. I am Mr. Ethan. He's already got picked on once or twice.

[King Trout]

Yeah, like, this is the podcast. I not supposed to get picked on on all the other ones. That's where I get picked on anytime Rich is present. Honestly, coming down here, and I found out Rich wasn't coming. I was like, oh, I might not be called fat for a couple of days and be great. No, Nick, you ruined that.

[Nick]

You made me pull over downtown San Antonio at night, dude, I could try to puke.

[Cody]

Wait a minute. That's where the Mexicans are.

[King Trout]

I was fine. I was fine. I was drinking those frozen margaritas. I was perfectly fine.

[Nick]

I just get on the freeway. I'm going, like, 75, and it's all construction. There's no exit for, like, eight miles. As soon as we turn on it, he's like, I'm gonna have to puke. I'm like, are you serious, dude?

[King Trout]

I was. I was there. You know where you start to salivate a lot? You're sweating.

[Nick]

I was like, he's got the window cracked this much sitting shotgun shows behind him. And I just hear, oh. I'm like, he's gonna puke in my car. He's gonna puke in my car.

[Donut Operator]

Ah.

[King Trout]

But he pulled over. As soon as he pulled over, like, I got out, I leaned over. I was like, is it happening? I burped. And then the feeling immediately Vanish like this is. So I get back in. Made it all the way here, no trouble.

[Cody]

What were you drinking?

[King Trout]

Margaritas.

[Cody]

Oh, nice.

[King Trout]

I drank. I don't even know how many of those. I just kept finishing them.

[Nick]

Supposed to have like a margarita. You're not supposed to get drunk.

[King Trout]

They had like a. Well, they had like a little slushy machine and

[Nick]

those are the worst hangovers on the planet.

[Cody]

Where'd you guys go?

[Nick]

To Brandon's thing.

[King Trout]

Yeah.

[Cody]

Oh, oh, it was from Brandon's thing. I thought you said downtown San Antonio. I thought you were talking about like.

[Nick]

No, no, no, no. Just like, like headed out towards the rim, headed up back here.

[Cody]

Brandon was fun as last night.

[King Trout]

Great times.

[Cody]

Good, good times.

[Donut Operator]

They had a good ass turnout. Everyone had a good time.

[Nick]

Like, bro that bayou, whatever. The food truck had fried catfish and shrimp and it was the best fried shrimp I've ever had in my life. And the catfish was delicious.

[Donut Operator]

I didn't even. I had the gumbo and Sav is like, that's not gumbo. I was like, this is good gumbo to me. I don't know what they did, but this is really good.

[King Trout]

Before you color grade it, there was

[Cody]

no like red, like coloring.

[Nick]

Sav, Sav, love you. You don't have the complexion to tell the 45 year old black man with the Creole accent that gumbo is okay.

[Donut Operator]

That was from Louisiana. Like he was born from Louisiana.

[Nick]

Homie. Could have not been in the food truck and I know he could have made. Gumbo

[Donut Operator]

was good, yo.

[King Trout]

Yeah, I didn't try that when I had the barbecue and the brisket was not half bad. And that barbecue sauce that the guy had, he's like, oh, I call it like the, the sweet heat. It was actually pretty good.

[Cody]

I enjoyed that good time though. We had a state representative, West Verdell up there spoke for Brandon. We had our boy, veteran with a sign got up there, talk about veteran issues. And then Brandon did his spiel and it was beautiful as always.

[Donut Operator]

And he sung.

[Cody]

Yeah, yeah, Zeus, him and Zeus did a little song there.

[Donut Operator]

It was cool. Was not expecting that. I was like, they had a good time. I was like, oh, this is a good turnout. Everyone had a blast. Drinks happen per usual. And Brandon had a good time. Like seeing him at the end, I was like, hey, I'm bouncing, buddy. He's like, thank you. I was like, oh, my boy's toasted.

[Cody]

He had to be in Uvalde this morning at like fucking 10am so he was. He's. Dude, he's on the road this Entire month just like bam, bam, bam, bam, bam. Doing all this stuff.

[Donut Operator]

He has to be hurting.

[Cody]

Oh, yeah, yeah. But I mean, dude, he really wants this. And I think Texas and the United States in general deserves a congressman. You know, he can not be a fucking. So you know, he, he, he never had an aid that set themselves on fire.

[King Trout]

He's not in the Epstein list.

[Nick]

How about that? If Brandon gets elected to Congress, I mean, you know how they have like the Pelosi tracker where you can invest and buy the same stocks Nancy Pelosi does?

[Cody]

Are we tracking.

[Nick]

We're going to do that for Brandon, but on gun broker so you can buy the same guns as your congressman.

[King Trout]

There's a whole bunch of gun autism right now.

[Donut Operator]

Like, great idea. You'll be so pissed. My gun prices are going up. It was a good ass time. We stayed out till like 10. And wrench, repeat here. We're back here now we get Mr. Ethan. Get a. I mean, you were just. You came down for that event or to hang out with the boys?

[King Trout]

And that event and to hang out with the boys. I kind of just. Anytime show tells me, hey, you want to come down for this, I'll just plan either a day or two on the front or the back end just because do unsub whatever else you guys want me to do and we'll just hang out. So maybe since I'm here for another day or two, pop into one of your podcast or not podcast your. Your streams, I might.

[Nick]

You have to dress up as a plane.

[Cody]

Yeah, you guys hang out with a

[Nick]

plane and be racist.

[Cody]

I know. Nick was up since 7. I was too, reading a book.

[Nick]

Okay, in my defense, that's the first time your ass got up at 7 since I've known you.

[Cody]

Can we calm down for a minute? No, this, this, this hot Mexican that I live with, she did a ruck this morning and so I was up at like 7, went out for a ruck at 10. It was, it was cool. A little three mile thing. Nope, I'm trying, I'm trying to focus on my health, brother.

[Donut Operator]

How big were the rucksacks?

[Cody]

We didn't ruck. We just walked.

[King Trout]

It was fine.

[Cody]

We had like 20, 30 people out there and we just walked down that trail that's over there at the, at the. The rim. And it's a good time. We just walk and talk and have. It's neat. So I was up. My point behind that entire spiel was I was up. And you don't hit me up when you're in town.

[King Trout]

Behind your back. He says he doesn't like you. That's what it is.

[Nick]

I.

[Cody]

My house is like 10 minutes that way.

[Donut Operator]

Are you looking at me live for?

[Nick]

It's the first time you're asking up at 7 in the morning since I've known you. Knock it off.

[Cody]

You guys are crazy. This is wild.

[Nick]

Cody got up at 7. Spring's here. Winter is over.

[King Trout]

Did he see his shadow?

[Donut Operator]

Oh, man, I just picture you have GPS on him. It's like my friend's dead. He's out on a trail somewhere.

[Nick]

Cody got kidnapped by cartels.

[Cody]

Wow. Such a surprise to my friends. I'm a responsible adult.

[Donut Operator]

Yeah. I would not be road marching off.

[Nick]

You're taller.

[Donut Operator]

Like everyone's taller. Everyone's taller.

[Cody]

We like I said, we call it a ruck. We just walk and hang out. It's cool. Nico was there. Our boy, Nico Ortiz. Oh, he sure is not in the room right now.

[King Trout]

Yeah.

[Nick]

Did Connor do it too? Why has he got his pants rolled up and his socks off? Like he.

[Donut Operator]

He just read. He just read Huck Fin to convince

[Nick]

all the neighborhood kids to paint the fence for you. What you got going on over there,

[King Trout]

Connor?

[Cody]

It's just Jim, buddy.

[Nick]

Oh my God.

[King Trout]

I got invited to the rock and

[Eli Double Tap]

then fell back asleep.

[King Trout]

Yeah, he's like, oh, I'm going. And then. No, you weren't there yesterday, were you?

[Donut Operator]

Were you there? A portion of it.

[Eli Double Tap]

I was there for the beginning. I went on a date.

[Donut Operator]

Oh, okay. That's right.

[Eli Double Tap]

Fun story after that.

[King Trout]

That I don't one on camera, but okay, now. God, can we cut the cameras? I want to hear this so we can all just come back and go. We just delete it.

[Donut Operator]

See, there's a positive.

[King Trout]

See there's. There's a positive there.

[Cody]

All right, back to the podcast. Connor had a really good date last night.

[Nick]

Blast.

[King Trout]

And Nick found me on that couch passed out at 1:00am that's true. Yeah.

[Donut Operator]

Wait, what?

[Nick]

I went to bed and I was like, I'm going to bed. And he's like, I'm going to stay up. I still might have to puke. I'm like, okay, I've like went. I went and fell asleep for like two, three hours and like woke up to like take a piss and grab a bottle of water and like walk downstairs and he's fully clothed, shoes on, 6 foot 4, 260 pound Ethan on that very small Amazon couch just snoring like a. Because he doesn't have a CPAP machine.

[Eli Double Tap]

Just.

[Nick]

It sounded like a sawmill in here.

[Cody]

I.

[King Trout]

But I got up right after that, probably because I almost died. And I was like, I'm gonna go to bed. And I just. Upstairs, I went. I didn't even know Nick had found me. I was just like. I got up because I was like, I'm just gonna lay here. And then I laid there and the spins went away. And I was like, all right, cool. We're gonna go to bed soon. Let's just kind of wait this out. And the next thing I know, my eyes pop open at like 1:30, 2:00 clock in the morning. I was like, I'm gonna go to bed.

[Nick]

You were so up last night, dude.

[King Trout]

I. Those frozen margaritas got me, man.

[Donut Operator]

Did you have a hangover?

[King Trout]

Oh, yeah, I did this morning. But I've been pounding water. And when you drank a 40 of

[Nick]

Old English, I forgot about. You drank the whole 40 too.

[King Trout]

I drank the 40 and then we got out there and I had like, five double frozen margaritas. Yeah.

[Donut Operator]

My voice chose violence.

[Nick]

And he didn't eat.

[King Trout]

Yeah, I was. I was not okay. I. Those were. There was a series of unfortunate events that were due to a series of poor decisions on my part that was.

[Nick]

I had to give him some element in the morning.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah.

[King Trout]

I was like, I don't feel good, man. And, like, when he first mentioned, let's go get tacos, I was like, my brain saw taco. It was like, circumcised.

[Cody]

That thing.

[King Trout]

Fuck, dude. I, like, I wanted no part of it.

[Donut Operator]

Oh, I hate waking up. Like, last night, I had a few, got home, and I was like, oh, I Woke up at 8 in the morning. I think slept in 8, very happy. Yesterday was the only terror because you were in town. Everyone was in town. We had that podcast earlier in a meeting. I wake up, my alarm's not going off, it's light outside. I wake up, I'm like, saf's not there. I'm like, I've missed everything. It is three in the afternoon and I have slept through life. And now I have to text everyone my phone. I don't know where my phone is. I'm running around the house. I'm like, fuck, look at my phone. 8:20 in the morning. I was like, well, at least I didn't miss anything at all. I slept like, shit. Sab walks out. She's like, I would have woke you up. Like, I don't know that.

[King Trout]

Good God, Eli.

[Donut Operator]

So we did that, and then, I don't know.

[King Trout]

We're all gonna be dead by 50.

[Donut Operator]

100%.

[King Trout]

Yeah. We're not making it past 50.

[Cody]

I don't know. I think all of us already said we're probably not gonna make it to 30. Now. Here we are.

[Nick]

Yeah, Life's short.

[Cody]

Yeah. I gotta live with the consequences of my tweets. Now.

[King Trout]

There. There are like, I get secondhand offense, like offended people in my comment section on Twitter now because I'm just. I'm relatively new to it. I just talk and then like, people will retweet my. They're like one of donuts. Retarded ass friends. I was like, I mean, I am, but what the. Did I say wrong?

[Nick]

I have his, like, I have his profile picture next to my blue check mark because I'm part of his organization on Twitter. I've gotten more hate for that than any of the up I've said on Twitter. I've caught more str from that than anything else.

[King Trout]

It's so good. You're leaving a legacy, my friend.

[Nick]

No, I love it.

[King Trout]

It's great.

[Donut Operator]

You're doing good things.

[Cody]

The world is healing. That's all I'm saying.

[Nick]

You're like a good. It's. It just. It saves me a lot of time because they're like, you're. You're friends with donut operator. I don't like you. It's like I. I don't care immediately.

[King Trout]

I don't give a.

[Nick]

Like, it's just cool. You weren't gonna like me anyways.

[King Trout]

I can already tell if you don't like him. Probably wouldn't have felt the same way about me. You know, it's just we're not doing.

[Nick]

Glad we all saved a lot of time. Actually.

[Donut Operator]

Cody's the litmus test. Are you following Cody and does he follow you back?

[Nick]

Hey.

[Eli Double Tap]

Well, one more time.

[Donut Operator]

Hey, you probably heard of Yellow Fresh.

[Eli Double Tap]

Hello Fresh.

[Nick]

Hello Fresh.

[Eli Double Tap]

Like, of course you'd think it's Yellow Fresh.

[King Trout]

You would.

[Eli Double Tap]

Arigato to the number one meal kit in America. Making home cooking easy by delivering chef crafted recipes and ingredients directly to your door.

[Donut Operator]

This isn't the hello Fresh you remember. It's bigger.

[Cody]

What'd you call me? They've doubled their menu. Now you can choose from 100 options every week, including new seasonal dishes and recipes from around the world.

[Donut Operator]

Dig into bigger portions that will keep everyone satisfied.

[Eli Double Tap]

And now you can choose from over 15 high protein options each week.

[Donut Operator]

Healthier like, like grass fed ribeye.

[Eli Double Tap]

I don't know how they get the ribeye to eat the grass.

[Donut Operator]

HelloFresh helps you eat greener too. With their new veggie packed recipes. They have Two or more veggies per dish.

[Cody]

That's not for our audience.

[King Trout]

Meat.

[Donut Operator]

Steak. You know what my favorite vegetable is, Cody?

[King Trout]

Mayonnaise.

[Donut Operator]

No.

[Nick]

Stephen Hawking.

[Donut Operator]

What?

[Cody]

Their menu is awesome. You can get steak and seafood recipes delivered each week at no extra cost.

[King Trout]

Now with three times the seafood options.

[Cody]

You love seafood. Mmm. Mm, mm. Before they sponsored us, I've actually been using HelloFresh for years, paying for it, and it's always a great value and it's always really good recipes. I have actually done the same and it was.

[Eli Double Tap]

I will admit, it was pretty, pretty Damn good.

[Donut Operator]

Now, HelloFresh or a meal replacement program like that is cheaper than going at this point. Dude.

[Cody]

Yeah.

[King Trout]

As expensive as fast foods.

[Eli Double Tap]

Getting.

[Donut Operator]

Go to hellofresh.com unsub10fm and get 10 free meals now plus a free breakfast for life. A whole breakfast for free for life.

[Cody]

One per box with active subscription free

[Donut Operator]

meals applied as discount on first box. New subscribers only. Varies by plan.

[Cody]

That's hellofresh.com unsub10fm to get 10 free meals plus a free breakfast for life. Oh, God. Dude, I didn't talk about this last night. You know who blocked me recently?

[Donut Operator]

Who?

[Cody]

World of Warcraft.

[Donut Operator]

Why? Cody.

[King Trout]

Oh, God. What was your tweet?

[Donut Operator]

Well, first off, explain what they tweeted.

[Cody]

Oh, God. They made a video recently. It's a trailer for the new expansion that's coming out on retail. World of Warcraft. And it's just. It looks like a Pixar movie. It's like happy, fun. We're making houses. Beep, beep, boop. It's like, no, dude, this is called Warcraft, not gaycraft. And that's what. That's what I tweeted to them. And they immediately turned off all of their comments. You can't comment on. And then they blocked me, but. Okay, okay, okay, okay.

[King Trout]

Here we are.

[Cody]

So I play on a. I play on a classic. I'm big into World of Warcraft. I've talked about that in podcast before and all my stuff. I like classic World of Warcraft. I played that. The one, the version that was 20 years ago where it's like Race wars, you know, it's. It's World of Warcraft. It's like the orcs versus the humans. Like, you're just fucking destroying each other, you're killing each other, blah, blah, blah. And like, in the new World of Warcraft, the most powerful wizard in the world, Khadgar, he's. He's now disabled and he has a magic wheelchair that he rolls himself around.

[King Trout]

Oh, My God.

[Cody]

This is. This is the most powerful wizard in the lore that he's brought people back from the dead.

[King Trout]

Can't bring his legs back though, apparently.

[Donut Operator]

But.

[Cody]

But he's got like a magical wheelchair now. It's like. Okay, so were they like, like, were they focusing more on just. Just like being inclusive than like.

[Donut Operator]

But he has a wheelchair and he brings like, the dead back to life.

[Cody]

Have you seen this? Oh, hold on, hold on, let me.

[Nick]

You can't fix a Charlie horse though. Magic can only go so far.

[Donut Operator]

Look, if my teacher could bring a person back to life and then I look over and they're in a wheelchair.

[King Trout]

Like, you're really bad at this.

[Donut Operator]

Some fakes.

[Nick]

It's like a fetish thing or. What are you doing?

[King Trout]

I built it. All you gotta do to defeat him.

[Cody]

I shit you not.

[King Trout]

Oh my God.

[Cody]

They made him a magical wheelchair

[King Trout]

I built.

[Nick]

That's a real picture.

[Cody]

That's a.

[Donut Operator]

That is. Oh my. I love.

[Nick]

He's got a magical pink ghost wheelchair.

[King Trout]

Yeah.

[Donut Operator]

Archmage. And what's the reason behind.

[Cody]

Oh, so I play classic wow. And they just released the first expansion for the classic. Wow. Oh, God.

[Nick]

What is. Looks like the ET thing.

[Donut Operator]

So good.

[King Trout]

Oh my God.

[Donut Operator]

What the f. Okay, Cody, sorry.

[King Trout]

How did you defeat the wizard? I stood at the top of a flight of stairs.

[Nick]

It floats.

[Donut Operator]

Wait, does the wheelchair float?

[Cody]

Yeah, dude.

[Nick]

Yeah.

[King Trout]

Why does it.

[Nick]

Why does the floating wheelchair have wheels?

[Cody]

You know, if you just take a step back like I did, it floats.

[Donut Operator]

It literally doesn't touch the ground.

[Cody]

You look at the development team from early. Well, to where the develop. Just look at the pictures of the development team and I'm not going to say anything further than that.

[King Trout]

Oh my God.

[Cody]

But so, okay, so the expansion for the classic World of Warcraft, the first expansion, just released, the Burning Crusades, and the servers just kept dropping and getting up and it's like you've had 20 years to plan for this. And so everyone's like, oh, so you could give Khadgar a wheelchair, but you couldn't make the servers work for the old. Like the old World of Warcraft. Yeah.

[Nick]

So they're just re releasing the old shit. Yeah. Is it like remastered at all or not at all?

[Cody]

It's. It's fun as hell, but the servers kept up and dropping and blah, blah,

[Donut Operator]

blah, as my gold's pissed about the wheelchair.

[Cody]

But it's like, what? Yeah, but it's like, oh, you guys were focused on giving fucking the most powerful wizard in the world a wheelchair. You couldn't focus on the servers for a little bit. They're just writing all this stuff, like category wheelchair, like all sorts of things. I'm not going to get into. They already blocked me on Twitter.

[King Trout]

I wonder if you're gonna get a spell to be able to throw like a stick in the spokes of his wheelchair to stop him or something.

[Cody]

Yeah, I cast broomstick.

[Donut Operator]

I cast staircase. He can't progress.

[Eli Double Tap]

That's.

[King Trout]

That's so wild. Oh God.

[Eli Double Tap]

You can shoot.

[Donut Operator]

It's a mount too. That's his mount.

[Cody]

He choose a wheelchair mount.

[Donut Operator]

You can get a dragon or fucking wheels. You can be Xavier.

[Cody]

Which we. We talked about that before too. Why can't. Why can't Professor Xavier just like mind control his little legs to walk across?

[Donut Operator]

Oh my God, I hate that. Well, at least World of Warcraft.

[Cody]

Get off my World of Warcraft. We can talk about like normal dude things.

[Donut Operator]

Hey, you're going hard on it though. You're back in. Are you playing the hardcore servers or no?

[Cody]

Oh, that dude, that gave me so much anxiety. Playing the hardcore servers.

[King Trout]

Isn't that like if you die, you're dead.

[Cody]

You're just.

[Donut Operator]

Yeah. Is wild.

[Cody]

Especially classic World of Warcraft as hard as it is.

[King Trout]

I've heard of people doing that in Diablo, but not Warcraft. That's insane.

[Cody]

Yeah, they brought it back in Warcraft and it. Yeah.

[Donut Operator]

Imagine your team sucks and oh my God, you're 30 day. How long? Classic was about 20 days to get to max level.

[Cody]

Oh gosh, longer than that, dude. Yeah, it's like a month if you're playing consistently to get to level 60 and then it's.

[King Trout]

And you have some Leroy Jenkins asshole in your fucking guild and just gets everybody killed.

[Cody]

People are finding out like really funny ways to kill hardcore players though. So like I'm a hunter, so I can control my pet. So like hunters will tame a pet that looks like something in the wild. And you can only be tagged for PvP if they attack you or your pet. And so they'll make a pet and slowly walk their pet around where other creatures look like that. And so if like a low level player attacks that pet, they're open for PvP and they'll just kill that player and then their character's dead. People are figuring out nasty ways to kill hardcore players.

[Donut Operator]

Just their ghosts hang out. So start over. There goes a week of work gone in an instant.

[King Trout]

I. Nope. I would need. I would destroy my computer in the process of that. I can't do that. PvP anything. I don't even play anymore. Because like I'm just too old. I don't have enough time, my reflexes ain't as good and half the time I'm fucking stoned or drunk.

[Nick]

You just gotta play league like.

[King Trout]

No, I can't, I can't.

[Cody]

Dude.

[King Trout]

You're trying to get me.

[Cody]

No, fuck league, dude.

[King Trout]

Come on.

[Donut Operator]

Yeah, you just told him to play stoner drunk. It's fine. He's gonna be the most hated ranked player dude you have. If you think we're bad at making fun of you, those people are going to hate you to go to ranked matches. Sorry, I'm a little drunk. I'd be pissed.

[King Trout]

Oh dude, I can't, I can't do that. Like I can't even play. I used to play like Apex Legends every once in a while or I play like War Zone. I just anything PvP anymore. So I'll just go into PvE and play like especially when I'm on edibles or something like that. Dude, I'll just, I'll be playing like a Minecraft style survival game. Like I play a lot of enshrouded and I'm like, I snap out of it and I've been digging a hole into this mountain for the past three hours. I'm like what the was I doing here to begin with? Like why did I start this project? I have no idea.

[Nick]

We need to play more that game. Me, you and Brandon were playing schedule one.

[Cody]

Oh, that was.

[Nick]

We need to play more of that. That we should.

[Cody]

More Schedule 1.

[Nick]

We should play more of that.

[Cody]

Cuz when we were playing it, you were building the infrastructure for our drug.

[Nick]

Yeah, I was like running all the business side. So it's like you're a drug dealer?

[King Trout]

Yeah, I know the premise of the game empire.

[Nick]

I'm out running around like managing all the low level street dealers working for me, getting the raw materials and like the seeds and shit to grow the product or whatever else we need. Brandon's in the lab producing the product and Cody is running around beating people with a baseball bat. Like, and it makes my life easy because like you normally you have to like avoid the cops and we're like all the cops in the game are just chasing Cody as he's running around with a baseball bat hitting people.

[Cody]

I met a so much money I was pickpocketing everyone and I was just throwing the money to Nick and Nick was building the infrastructure for our drug cartel.

[Nick]

I would go and pay somebody for all the stuff I needed and then go like three minutes later Cody be like, I just pickpocketed six grand off somebody. I was like, oh, Cody got our money back. Perfect.

[Donut Operator]

It's that skin you're paying for product. They walk around the corner. Cody's jumping them.

[King Trout]

That's efficiency right there. That's.

[Cody]

Look, everyone has a part to play in this organization.

[King Trout]

How many players? Is it four or three or.

[Nick]

I think it's.

[Cody]

I think go up to four.

[Nick]

I think up to four. Yeah, because we had three.

[King Trout]

Well, if you guys do, I'll jump in. I've never played.

[Cody]

We should start a new server and I'll around on it.

[King Trout]

Say less. I'm down.

[Donut Operator]

I'm down.

[King Trout]

I play the. I play everything, man. I have, like, really bad video game adhd. I'll play something. I'm like, this is awesome. And I'll tell all my friends to get it. And then, like, they get it. We play once. And then I'm like, but this new game is awesome. Like, my library is just full of

[Nick]

random in the game. You can get a skateboard for transportation. So then Cody is like, skateboarding down the street with a baseball bat.

[Cody]

Well, I. I figured out that the. The cops, if they find a body, they'll go after your organization. So I had a. A parking garage that had stacked, like 30 bodies on top because you can drag the body. So I was hiding the bodies on top of this parking garage, and it looked like jeepers creepers just putting bodies together on top of this parking garage. And then I would skate down and pickpocket more money, Deliver it to Nick, who would deliver it to Brandon. And, dude, we were rolling.

[Nick]

We bought a house.

[Cody]

We got a house.

[Donut Operator]

Good God.

[King Trout]

When professional businessmen play a drug game, it's. It's insane.

[Nick]

We'd be so good at it.

[Cody]

Holy.

[Donut Operator]

The parking garage of bodies.

[Cody]

Like, don't worry about that. There's a mountain of bodies.

[Donut Operator]

Cops won't go in there.

[Cody]

I'm like, cop. That's not mine. I don't know what the that is.

[Donut Operator]

Wild.

[King Trout]

Men, women, children have no idea what that is, dude.

[Cody]

Feel like I'm in Mexico, dude. Guadalara just like, yeah.

[King Trout]

The last time I played any kind of, like, work together game like that was chained together. You guys ever play that thing?

[Cody]

No.

[King Trout]

That makes you hate your friends.

[Donut Operator]

So know what that one is?

[King Trout]

You can play three to four people. You're literally all four chained together. And it's in, like, an always up game. You're climbing, jumping here, jumping there. And, like, if one person is on the object and everyone else is down, he can, like, pull one Person up and then pull the next person up. There is no trust in that game because I was playing with three of my buddies, and we were just screaming at each other, like, trying to get through obstacles falling on our asses. Dude. It was. That will give you trust issues chained together. If you've never played it before, that will give you straight trust issues.

[Donut Operator]

I'm down for that.

[Nick]

Oh, my God.

[Donut Operator]

That's when you get really mad. Oh, yeah, somebody up.

[King Trout]

So, like, everyone's there, and one person falls off and gets hit by this moving thing which flings everybody back down. Oh, it's so shitty.

[Donut Operator]

It's like, so up. What's the game Up.

[King Trout]

Yeah, that's always up.

[Donut Operator]

Yeah.

[King Trout]

In chain together. I think you're trying to get, like, out of hell. You start in hell, and you're, like, fighting your way to get out of hell, and there's a couple different ways to play it. And we were like, we'll play the one where you don't have checkpoints. That terrible idea. That was a terrible idea because you can fall for, like, 10 minutes and get all the way back to the bottom, and there's no checkpoints, and you got to start completely over.

[Donut Operator]

That's how Benjamin Foddy the. What's the over it?

[Eli Double Tap]

Getting.

[King Trout]

Oh, God.

[Cody]

Getting over it.

[King Trout]

Getting over it.

[Donut Operator]

That dude. Genius of making games because he's like, oh, yeah, we make it as simple and terrible as possible. His biggest game before that was Q op. Like, to try to make the guy run. Have you ever played that with the keyboard? It's like Q, wop, Q, W, E, P. And you have to make the guys run. Each key controls a different portion of the body, and you just try to run.

[King Trout]

I. I feel it doesn't work very well.

[Donut Operator]

You're literally like. It's like, oh, start over it. It's garbage. But getting over with Benjamin Foddy, you have a pickaxe, just a mouse, and you're just swinging it back and forth, and you're trying to climb up.

[King Trout]

Oh, I think. Were the guys, like, in the cauldron or whatever?

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah.

[King Trout]

Okay.

[Cody]

You're just doing this, but if you make one wrong move. Boop, bottom.

[Donut Operator]

And this is. It sounds stupid easy. Like, what you're hearing right now, you're

[Nick]

like a flappy bird, you know? I mean, it's one of those things where it, like, sounds easy.

[Donut Operator]

It's hard, but you can't die. You're just climbing up, and then he put in certain portions, and you will spend, like, you suck at that game. For hours. Like, you're going to spend hours to get to a certain portion and think you're like, oh, fuck, I finally made it past the hard part. It's just the intro, the tutorial, and then you get higher and you'll make. He has two portions in that game where it is, oh, hey, if you ride, don't ride this. And he tells you, and you're like, fuck off. And you hit it and you ride all the way to the beginning of the game. There is no restart. You just have to go all the way back up. And you're like, me.

[King Trout]

There's been a lot of those that have come out lately. Like, RV there yet? I've never played it. But like, you and your friends have an RV and you're trying to go camping and there's just everything is all fucked up. You got to like, winch yourself to different places and fire your friends across ways and. And then they have. What was it? Peak. Where it's like you and three your buddies trying to climb a mountain together. They've had a couple of those come out lately.

[Donut Operator]

Most mind blowing you'll ever see is somebody speed running getting over New York.

[Nick]

Speed running. Communism that.

[King Trout]

They are piles of trash out there.

[Nick]

Didn't you see that post? I just said they were interviewing somebody on the street. And they're like, X amount of millionaires have already said that they're leaving New York.

[Donut Operator]

What do you.

[Nick]

What do you think about that? And this guy's just like, we should make it illegal for them to leave. They shouldn't be allowed to leave. And I was like, east Easter, we're redoing Easter. It's been three months and you guys already want to redo East Germany? What the fuck is wrong with you?

[King Trout]

Like, every time someone has opinion, an opinion like that we should just fly them to North Korea. Hey, touch a poster. Just see that poster of Kim Jong Un. You should write something on there who's

[Donut Operator]

also like me and just loves alpacas. Don't worry, I'm going to connect it soon. I'm very picky when it comes to socks. Also shoes. I do not. I don't know.

[King Trout]

My feet get cold, then they get

[Donut Operator]

sweaty, then they get annoyed. My feet have feelings is what I'm trying to say. And to combat those feelings, I use alpaca socks. No, I wear alpaca socks. But, Eli, when alpaca socks get hot. Ah, see, this is mmm, baby alpaca fiber. Warm when it's cold outside and breathable when it's hot. Outside. Also, alpaca fiber makes a bacterial growth difficult. Usually what leads to stinky feet problems. I cannot stress how comfortable they are. Even better. Made in the USA. Made in the USA. Trusted by athletes and have sold 2 million pairs so far. Now, Hollow doesn't make one kind of sock. They make ones for everything. Everyday socks. You can have your calf link or your no shows. I'm a personal. No, no, no show. If I wear socks, they make hunting socks designed for the cold mornings or the cold in general. They make trade socks. So if you got a Stanford 12 to 14 hours, make it comfortable at least. What I'm trying to say is no matter how your day looks like, that is working, relaxing. Jimming Holo has a style that works for you. And for a limited time, Holo is having a buy two, get two free sale. What? Head over to holosocks.com and check it out today. That's hollowsocks.com for 50% off your order. After you purchase, they're going to ask you who sent you know what you need to say. The TISM army has arrived and their socks aren't safe. Well, I didn't know about the. I text you this morning about the in and out because I didn't know that was California. Yeah, I didn't know any of that happened.

[Nick]

Yeah, they said fuck you, we're out.

[King Trout]

Oh, oh, in an out left.

[Cody]

Yeah. They're moving everything to Tennessee.

[Donut Operator]

Yep.

[Cody]

Lindsay. Lindsay. Yeah. So she, I hit her up for the range day that we had recently and she's the one that got the in and out truck out there to the range day that we had.

[Donut Operator]

Oh, that's dope.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah.

[Cody]

Yeah. Snyder. I want to say Lindsey Snyder.

[Donut Operator]

I think so.

[Cody]

I think so. Because I hit her up on Instagram a while back and I was like, hey, hello. What you're doing, Everything's cool. She's like, hey, let me know if you ever need anything. And so when we had that range day in Las Vegas recently, I was like, can you bring the in and out truck? And it's. Dude, that was cool as fuck. She like an 18 wheeler. That's an in n out full restaurant. They open it up and like they, they serve everything that's in and out. We had that out there. So she, she's a real one. Yeah. Like you're saying they just moved out to Tennessee. They're completely getting out of California altogether.

[Donut Operator]

It was that 5% tax.

[King Trout]

Wasn't there another company that just did that?

[Nick]

There's been multiple Elon left.

[King Trout]

It might have Been elon. I was reading an article about SpaceX.

[Donut Operator]

Literally all of those.

[King Trout]

There was a big company that was leaving and they're like, we will charge you, I don't know, like $3 billion if you leave. And the, the comp. The CEO was like worth it, like, bye, I'm leaving California. Because they tried to I guess put an additional charge. Like if you move your company out of the state of California, you have to pay like an exit tax.

[Nick]

It's like a known thing that if you're like, I don't even want to say like ultra wealthy but like if you're a business owner or you're like in even a millionaire, if you leave California, it's like you can just plan on getting audited every year for the next seven years.

[King Trout]

Dude, that's nuts.

[Nick]

California is going to audit your state taxes the last because they have seven years to do it. So every year for the next seven years you're going to be getting audited for your taxes seven years prior because they're just trying to get as much money out of you as possible. I know multiple people that it's happened to that have moved out of California state.

[Donut Operator]

Lindsay had to pay 400. It would have been 440,000 or $440 million based off of her worth and how much in n out was. But it was that 5% mandatory. And then I don't know if it's. They say it's a one time, the

[Nick]

one time mandatory wealth tax, which is like not even the money you have 5% of it. No, 5% of whatever the hypothetical number that we think your company might be worth.

[Donut Operator]

So have you tanked afterwards? I didn't know that part.

[Nick]

No. That's what they said for wealth tax. So that's why everybody's like, so like look at Elon Musk, easiest example. He's worth 800 billion or whatever.

[Donut Operator]

Which happens. Like bank account.

[Nick]

Yeah, for sure.

[King Trout]

Yeah, of course.

[Nick]

What's 5% of $800 million? It's like or billion, you know, I mean $50 billion, he's got to just shit out of nowhere. So it's like he's gonna have to sell shares in his companies. And what happens if you sell $50 billion worth of shares? The stock price goes down. So then. And he won't even get to sell that many shares before it starts tanking the stock price. So then he's worth less. So then how do you even calculate what he's worth? Because the second he goes to sell it, he's going to be worth hundreds of billions of dollars less. And they're just like, I don't care because I'm stupid. Give me money.

[Cody]

Like, wait, wait. But. But Elon, if he put his net worth into the world, he could cure world hunger.

[Nick]

Yeah. Didn't he call him out on that?

[Cody]

Yeah, like, net worth doesn't mean I have.

[Nick]

Well, no, Elon, when they. The. Whoever.

[King Trout]

I think it was 10 billion.

[Nick]

World Health Organization was like, the World Health Organization called Elon out on Twitter. This is, like, years ago. And they're like, elon Musk has enough money to solve world hunger. And he retweeted it, and it was like, if you can give me a written plan of how me giving you $10 billion will solve world hunger, I'll do it.

[Cody]

Yeah.

[Donut Operator]

And they had no response.

[Nick]

Like, you can't do it. Like, I know. I know this is fucking crazy, but, like, people that don't want to grow food or live places where food grows, fuck it. There's nothing you can do.

[Cody]

They just want to move to places that give them handouts. Yeah, I'll stop.

[Donut Operator]

Yeah. I didn't know about the In N Out. I got mad. I text Nick about it. I was like, what the.

[Nick]

That was old. That's old as news.

[Donut Operator]

Yeah. I didn't know. I just seen it pop up in my feed today. Of why? Because they didn't interview with her, explaining, yeah, we're out in Tennessee now. This is why. Blah, blah, blah. After the COVID I was done with it because they tried to close a couple of stores, and then she fought against that, and then, okay, well, I'm out.

[Nick]

Have we ever.

[Cody]

Well, they tried to get her to take. They have Bible verses on, like, some of their. Their cups or something like that. I think recently they tried to get her to take that off of there, and she was just like, huh, Nope, not doing that.

[Donut Operator]

Do what you want.

[Cody]

Yeah.

[Donut Operator]

What are you saying?

[Nick]

Oh, I was gonna say it. You know, the hymns and hers brand. It's like pharmaceuticals mailed directly or whatever. Do you see what happened with them?

[Donut Operator]

No, bro.

[Nick]

So they did. It's a GLP one basically, like, Manjaro, whatever. The Ozempic, they do that. Mailed directly to you. So basically, they. They basically ripped off the patented product. And then their, like, loophole for getting around. It was like, send in your blood work or whatever, and we'll infuse it with vitamins that you're deficient in. And apparently the FDA released a statement a couple days ago where it, like, cited them specifically and Said the FDA is coming after you. Their stock price is down like 60% in like two days. Their stock price goes off a cliff. It's. Yeah.

[King Trout]

Did you talking about like health products and stuff like that? I. I don't know how this isn't like huge news. I talked about it. There's a company in Germany that has circumstantially cured type 1 diabetes. And before anyone jumps to conclusions there, what they did is they did a test. It was a five year test. They. Oh God. Are you, you look at my stock

[Nick]

has showed him the chart. Oh my God. Yeah. Great.

[Donut Operator]

Time to buy.

[Nick]

They got in trouble.

[Donut Operator]

They got in a lot of trouble.

[King Trout]

So they bitcoin. They had 47 people that they did this with. 47 people. And so type one is the one you're born with where your body doesn't produce insulin. They obviously, other countries have a little bit looser regulations on stem cells, unlike the U.S. so this German company took stem cells and it's like a three month treatment. They inject you with stem cells. They're like copied around your body like your, your genetics or whatever. And all 47 people regrew the ability to produce their own insulin. And now five years later, all 47 are still producing their own insulin from their pancreas.

[Donut Operator]

Oh, why did we stop it?

[King Trout]

It's in Germany. And like all I can think of is pharmaceutical companies are like, no, the

[Nick]

same reason all kinds of people fly to Mexico and Turkey and all a bunch of other places to get health care, treatment.

[Donut Operator]

Never mind.

[King Trout]

Yeah, so yeah, I don't know how that's not like big news, man. Like I found out about that and I was like, they did what? And yeah, there's a German company and they're like, it's a five year study. All 47 people regrew the ability to, to produce insulin. I don't know why that's not like flying into our country for us to start, you know, getting people. Because like type, type 1 diabetes, you're born with it, man. Like there's nothing you can do. The type 2 fat asses. I'm sorry, I'm just around. But. But them. We'll figure that out later. But hell yeah, I'm behind it 100%. But for some reason, like there was barely a whisper about it in like American news. I found out about. I was like, this is so cool.

[Donut Operator]

They have. I mean even for, I love when

[Nick]

the FDA comes in and they're like, we don't know the long term effects 20 years down the road, like Mother, I'm gonna die in two years if I don't get it. Like, I don't. I don't give a. If it kills me in 20 years, if I get to live another 18 years. Like, dude, yeah.

[Donut Operator]

When it is like, you have. I have a death sentence, homie. Like, and you're telling me I can't do a treatment because.

[Nick]

Well, it's just like all this stuff you see with like any type of like experimental research where it's just like, this might save your life, but it's experimental and you're not a good candidate. Like, who gives a. If they got the money, give it to them.

[King Trout]

Like,

[Donut Operator]

maybe it works. Put it here.

[King Trout]

Maybe it works. Maybe it kills me a little quicker. Maybe I become spider man. Pump it in. I don't give a shit, man.

[Donut Operator]

With autism they have. I know with stem cell and then a couple other ones. Stem cell was the big one. But these parents did. The hard part is documented because a lot of parents is like, oh my. And they do have videos of the kids being non verbal. And now all of a sudden their kids do talk. Maybe not perfect, but they're talking. And that's never happened before. And then you have both sides. It's like, no, it worked. And then. Well, it's not tested. It's like, obviously it's not tested.

[Nick]

Is there a term for that? Because, like, I hate having conversations with people on Twitter or whatever where it's like, I'll say some. Something that I feel like is obvious and they're like, would you have a study or something to prove that? And it's like, no, I don't have a peer reviewed study that says it'll hurt if you slam your in a car door. Like, I don't feel like we need that. Like, why?

[King Trout]

Like, you know, I mean, I think that falls under Dunning Kruger syndrome. I really do.

[Nick]

The people that are just like, no, you have to have empirical scientific data if you want to hold that point of view. And it's like, no, I don't.

[King Trout]

Yeah, this seems like it's a pretty simple understanding here.

[Donut Operator]

That's how I'd love to like, even stem cell or any of those things. It's. Even with writing, I'd be like, oh, yeah, we can fucking test it. My biggest thing is like needles and writing. He won't like that, but he's doing really good. And if it was just made him talk, he was like, oh, hi dad. I'd be like, that's wild.

[Nick]

Whoa.

[Donut Operator]

But being able to show that to the Internet too. And they'd be like. I'd be like, please tell me this is fake. I have just hidden this for 14 years. Yeah, he doesn't do the hard on a voice.

[King Trout]

He doesn't know how long it takes to fly from anywhere to anywhere.

[Donut Operator]

He loses that superpower just immediately.

[Nick]

Time to short the toy train industry.

[Donut Operator]

Big train doesn't want to.

[Nick]

Why'd the model train company buy the cure for autism?

[Donut Operator]

Big train, dude.

[King Trout]

Oh, my God.

[Nick]

Big little train.

[Donut Operator]

Big caboose.

[King Trout]

Holy

[Cody]

big caboose. Doesn't want you to know this.

[Donut Operator]

Love it. Ethan, what have you been up to, man? You're still doing your missile shit?

[Nick]

Still doesn't have Internet.

[Donut Operator]

Okay. Not have Internet. Jesus.

[King Trout]

I have the best.

[Donut Operator]

No, you're gonna. We're gonna talk about this really quick. Ethan is the only homie. Everyone here check the Internet speed before moving into their location. Ethan, where's your job at?

[King Trout]

It's on the Internet.

[Donut Operator]

How fast is your Internet download?

[King Trout]

Download? I'm at like 1.5 gigs. Like, it's good. Upload, upload, like, like 30, 40 megabytes. So it's not good. It's. Everywhere else in my town has fiber except for where I'm at. They're like, it's coming this year. Can it come any quicker?

[Cody]

You try Starlink yet?

[King Trout]

Yeah, their upload that they can get in my area is only 20 me. So, yeah, I checked everywhere.

[Nick]

Do you live the satellites can't get to your ass?

[King Trout]

I don't know. Like, it's. I'm right at the edge of Las Cruces. I'm right at the edge of town. And for some reason, like, she's in a stone cave. Well, like, I mean, less than a mile from me. They all have fiber. They all. I mean, their satellite works real good, but, like, where I'm at.

[Donut Operator]

You bought this house.

[King Trout]

I did. I did.

[Donut Operator]

And you did not go, what's the Internet speed?

[King Trout]

But my house is really nice. I really like my house. I can just.

[Donut Operator]

I'm sure it's one of only one I'm. There's no nicest houses in the world.

[Cody]

Brandon's first bill in Congress is like, yeah, we really need fiber out to this one place. This one specific area, Las Cruces. This one strip right here.

[King Trout]

I've like, called companies like, hey, how much does it cost to run fiber all the way out to me? And they're like, oh, you know, we don't really know. It could be, you know, this much, this much, this much. And I'm like, I really wanted to be like, I will pay it. I just. Can you guys just get me a dedicated line straight out to my house individually? I will pay that shit. Or I'll do a couple of ads on my channel. So if you start seeing, like me shilling for Comcast or T Mobile or something, you guys know why? It's because I finally got fiber. Fuck.

[Donut Operator]

Yeah.

[King Trout]

No, it's.

[Donut Operator]

One day, it's.

[King Trout]

I. Yeah, we'll get there. We'll get there. I. I don't like that I don't have good Internet, but I've gotten used to it at this point. Like when I come here to visit and I upload something from my laptop and before I can finish the MET data, it's like uploaded and done and checks are complete and everything's good. And in my house, I just go, all right, well, I'll come and check on this in like 20 minutes. And I go like, you know, something disconnects from discord. They do, they do. But I had, I had them come out. Hold on.

[Cody]

This course, an easy one. Dude, that's low bandwidth.

[King Trout]

Dude. I don't know what happened, but out of nowhere, my Internet just started randomly dropping. And the other day it dropped like a dozen times within a couple hours. I was like, I'm over this. And I called them and I was like, no, you will get someone out here today. And a guy came out and he's like, yeah, your insulation on your wiring on the side of your house was a little bit corroded. So I changed that out, changed out the cable heads. And apparently there's some box that they install on the side of your house that like, keeps outside signals from getting in and your signal from escaping. And he's like, yeah, that was pretty old. So I swapped that out and I haven't had any issues since. So fingers crossed it's not just randomly dropping anymore.

[Cody]

You like a mouthful of hard wood?

[Donut Operator]

Yes. Go on then.

[Eli Double Tap]

Boy, do I have a product for you.

[Cody]

I'm reenlisting in the Navy.

[Eli Double Tap]

No, not this time. Oh. The product is Fume.

[Donut Operator]

What's Fume?

[King Trout]

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

[Donut Operator]

When you said hardwood, you actually meant hard wood.

[Eli Double Tap]

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

[Donut Operator]

I love hard wood in my mouth.

[Eli Double Tap]

Wait, you know what's gayer than hard wood in your mouth?

[King Trout]

Dying from cancer.

[Donut Operator]

Fume has an award winning design.

[Eli Double Tap]

There's no battery, no chemicals, just flavored air.

[Donut Operator]

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

[Eli Double Tap]

No, I like crisp mint because I'm

[King Trout]

a coward when it comes to flavors.

[Donut Operator]

Cody, what's your favorite?

[Cody]

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

[Donut Operator]

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

[King Trout]

Quit cranking your wood on camera.

[Eli Double Tap]

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[King Trout]

good habit and use code Unsub where

[Eli Double Tap]

you can get a free gift with purchase and start your long overdue breakup.

[Donut Operator]

Just head to try.com unless unsub and use code Unsub to start your good habit today.

[Cody]

All right, hear me out, Nick. The gangsters an Internet service provider just for Ethan.

[Nick]

Well, I was trying to pull it up. There's. I remember hearing some story. It was like some house in like Kansas or some shit where it was like there was some glitch in the government system where anytime, like they didn't have the right address or something, it would just shit out this address for some reason. And this like one homeowner had like the cops showing up like every other week to his house. It was like 200 times before they figured out what the. This glitch was. But like they were showing up with like arrest warrants and all kinds of that's you, but with no Internet.

[King Trout]

You all right?

[Cody]

This random farmer, I don't know what dachshund is like, what's the docs?

[King Trout]

I did a what a swat and

[Cody]

man, my corn's nice, man.

[Nick]

A rural Kansas farm got turned into the default pen because the geolocation company Max Mind used coordinates near the geographic center of the US As a placeholder for the IP address it couldn't locate. Precisely. That made tons of online activity, sometimes illegal, appear as though it was coming from this farm. So they were just getting busted for all kinds of cyber crime and it was just.

[Donut Operator]

You own Silk Road.

[Nick]

I don't know what those silks are.

[Cody]

Dark Web. I. I don't know, man. The corn's nice.

[King Trout]

The FBI, poor family kicking in, his grabbing his kids. Did he traffic you like what? No.

[Cody]

Did you order the orange kush off of the Dark Web?

[Donut Operator]

Homie doesn't have Internet. There's no way homie had Internet.

[Nick]

According to to the lawsuit and reporting, law enforcement showed up, quote, countless times over the next five years after the couple moved in, often at all hours, searching everything, searching for everything from a stolen truck to missing children, to people trying to hurt themselves, identity thieves or computer fraud suspects. Just everything they were just the default location for everything.

[Cody]

The definition of like wrong place, wrong time.

[Donut Operator]

You are the default for crime on the Internet, Woods.

[Nick]

That's the thing is it was like it. Because it was like Internet crime. It wasn't just like.

[Donut Operator]

No, it's here.

[Nick]

It wasn't. Well, it wasn't just like the local police would be aware of the issue. It was like different agencies from federal levels and shit coming at us. So it's like FBI's here, Department of the Treasury's here.

[Cody]

Like, yeah, like every cybercrime unit and every federal agency.

[King Trout]

Holy shit.

[Nick]

All showing up to this guy. His farm.

[Donut Operator]

What?

[King Trout]

Man, I'm just gonna throw it out there. We're all thinking it, but given the fact that no one died and they figured out there was something else wrong, we can assume that they were white. You know, especially being in Kansas. I'm just throwing that out there. And maybe he didn't have a dog or the ATF didn't show up.

[Cody]

He should take advantage of that and sell the out of drugs though.

[Donut Operator]

You know, he gets.

[Nick]

He gets a pardon for any crimes conducted at that address.

[Donut Operator]

I didn't know it was his master plan all along.

[Cody]

Meanwhile, he's making a billion dollars off of cocaine farms up front. Why not?

[Donut Operator]

Delore's having a good time.

[Nick]

Get that hippo money.

[King Trout]

Oh, God.

[Donut Operator]

Okay, Mr. Ethan, what have you been into?

[King Trout]

Started that new show with Chris Cappy, the what if where we break down different what if scene, like scenarios.

[Donut Operator]

Oh, that's really fun to watch. That's it is showing like, oh, hey, if this is how that would next episode.

[Nick]

What if Ethan had fast Internet? Maybe he'd have a gold play button. We don't know.

[King Trout]

You okay?

[Donut Operator]

30 minute episode just on himself.

[King Trout]

This is, you know, this is a. A perfect time to bring up that right before we started this episode and while Nick is away in the bathroom, we found out Nick's favorite song song is Citizen Soldier because he was a National Guardsman and they all love. They. They get chubbies to that song.

[Donut Operator]

So I've never heard the gayest song ever. That is.

[King Trout]

That sounds gay as.

[Donut Operator]

Dude, read the lyrics. You can listen to it, but read the lyrics. And then finding out I didn't know what the song was, but then finding out it's a National Guard song by Three Days Grace.

[King Trout]

Three doors down.

[Donut Operator]

Got three doors down.

[King Trout]

Yes.

[Donut Operator]

He's the one that just passed away.

[Cody]

Just died.

[King Trout]

Dude.

[Donut Operator]

Read these. Read these lyrics.

[Eli Double Tap]

Travel beyond the boundaries of your city's lights Stand the heroes waiting for your cries so Many times. You did not bring this on yourself. When that moment finally comes, I'll be there to help. On that day when you need your brothers and sisters to care I'll be right there. Citizen soldiers holding the light for the ones that we guide from the dark of despair Standing on guard for the ones that we shelter Will always be ready because we will always be there for when there are people crying in the streets for when they're starving for a meal to eat for when they simply need a place to make their beds Right here underneath my wing. You can rest your head. Yeah, you got a fat fucking head.

[King Trout]

Everybody knows it.

[Donut Operator]

That song is so. I'm glad I didn't know that existed until now. Made me mad.

[Nick]

I hit play.

[King Trout]

I was like, national Guard guys love that song, man. I'm telling you. All of them. Right, Nick?

[Cody]

For sure.

[King Trout]

Yeah.

[Nick]

Yep, Definitely.

[Donut Operator]

My space profiles are changing their songs right now.

[King Trout]

I'm gonna get a shirt made with just Nick standing in front of something, and I'm gonna get, like. I'm gonna superimpose the American flag behind him and get citizen soldier over top of him to sell it a bunker. It's gonna sell like wildfire.

[Donut Operator]

Good.

[Nick]

Yep.

[Cody]

Good, good.

[King Trout]

He's trying so hard right now not to be mad at me.

[Nick]

I'm not the. The Ethan's over here. Like, oh, I've got this brilliant plan. I'm gonna get Nick so good, I'm gonna use the T shirt company that he owns to make him a bunch of money. Like, idiot.

[Donut Operator]

Well, please have every copy shipped. It's Ethan, though. Like, everything is you on the storefront front when they buy it against. It's Ethan standing there. Told you I'd you, bro.

[King Trout]

You guys, can I win anything ever?

[Donut Operator]

Nope. Well, you're doing the fun ones, though. You've had. What are a couple of the ones you've done so far?

[King Trout]

So we did. What if the US and China went to war? That was our first episode. And then we did. What if Russia continued after the Ukraine war? Like, pushed into and shout out to my Polish people, y' all are going to hold the line. I love the Polish. And then we did. What if the US didn't nuke Japan at the end of World War II? And I think. And I think. What's that?

[Nick]

Bat bombs.

[King Trout]

Bat bombs, yes. But I think one of the things with that one, the. The conclusion that we came to, and I think Nick will agree with this, and maybe you guys as well, is Hiroshima and Nagasaki were like a. A case study for the entire world. Like everyone saw that was like, we probably shouldn't do that again. So what we came to the conclusion of is during the Cold war, especially like 1983, we came really, really close to nuclear war with Russia. And I think that having seen what happens when we do that, everyone was like, let's just all chill the out. Let's just all chill. And if we hadn't nuked them, I think the Cold War, and so does Cappy, I think the Cold War would have gone hot. I think we absolutely.

[Nick]

So the situation is that like nukes do exist, but we just didn't use them.

[King Trout]

Yes, yes.

[Nick]

I disag disagree.

[King Trout]

Really?

[Nick]

Yeah. The Cold War may have went hot and we may have used nukes, but I don't think the Soviets would have gotten nukes if it weren't for us using them.

[King Trout]

Yeah, that's fair, that's fair to.

[Nick]

Look, I, I don't think it would have been as high of a priority for them to try to steal nukes because at that time, from everything I've read from the Japanese nuclear program, the Soviet nuclear program, a lot of people in, not necessarily the scientists, but like the people in charge of the funding for the scientists were starting to believe that like a nuclear bomb wasn't possible. So like they, they didn't believe it. So like, because I did a bunch of research on the, the warlord, the war leader meetings that like Hirohito had with the heads of the army and the navy and the majority of the military high ranking leadership after we had bombed Hiroshima, either didn't believe that it was a nuclear bomb or if they were willing to believe that it may have been a nuclear bomb, were thoroughly convinced that there's no way America has more than like one or two.

[Donut Operator]

Because that's the one story. You said they also surrendered because they thought we had a thousand.

[Nick]

Correct. Because that, oh, that pilot Marcus McDilda got shot down and he's like, yeah, we've got like thousands of them, bro. Like, so like that was a huge,

[King Trout]

huge part of it.

[Nick]

Yeah.

[Donut Operator]

Which is absolutely terrifying. At that time we were like, fuck, dude, they could delete Japan.

[Nick]

Yeah. So like I don't think, I think we might have used them on the USSR potentially, but I don't think they would have been as like focused on stealing the technology and developing it. So I think.

[King Trout]

So you don't think like the Rosenbergs would have existed.

[Donut Operator]

There wouldn't have been a purpose. It's untested material. They would have been doing whatever they thought best at the time. Their weapons. They wouldn't have seen something that. That clearly shows mass destruction in a level they've never seen. Okay, now we have to acquire that.

[King Trout]

Well, this is the thing, though. Weren't the. If I'm not mistaken, I haven't read about the Rosenberg. Rosenbergers or Rosenbergs. Yeah. In a while, but weren't they both present at Trinity? So, like, they had, like, firsthand. We saw this thing go.

[Nick]

There's more than one, too. I mean, like, Claus Fuchs was a big part of it, but, like, there's multiple spies and everything there. I just don't think. I don't know. I don't think they would have. Even if they did get the technology, like, I. I don't think that they would have been putting all their eggs in that basket because they didn't know it would work. You know what I mean?

[King Trout]

That's fair. I. I can so, like.

[Nick]

I really don't know. I don't know. It gets weird.

[King Trout]

We love diving down that rabbit hole. I had a lot of fun with that. We just did the. What if the US and the cartel. Like, we went loud with the cartel and are we.

[Nick]

Are we trying to win? Are we trying to raise money? Boeing stock price? What's our goal this time?

[King Trout]

That's fair. We. We looked at a lot of different things with that one. I didn't know this, and maybe you guys did. Did you know the cartel are trafficking two big things that I never even thought of. Avocados and gasoline.

[Nick]

Avocados.

[Cody]

Yeah. I did a video on that.

[King Trout]

Really?

[Cody]

Yeah, they were. They were cornering the avocado market in Mexico.

[King Trout]

I see. I had not heard that. I thought it was just all, like, illegal drugs, guns, people, whatever.

[Nick]

I think the mafia still runs olive oil.

[King Trout]

Really?

[Donut Operator]

Yeah, I think, like, because then it's a legal substance that you're. You don't have to worry about that portion. And you're making billions of dollars.

[King Trout]

Yeah, I figured we would go loud as soon as the. You know, someone touched the oil. Uncle Sam is real particular about oil boats. We care about war crimes sometimes, unless we commit them. And then it's like. Well, say the line, Nick. You want to say the line.

[Nick]

It's never a war crime the first time.

[King Trout]

Exactly. Yeah.

[Cody]

I think I made a video back in, like, it might have been like, 20, 19, 2020, about the. The cartels going after avocado markets because they're such a profitable market. Every. And. Sorry. Oh, every. Every person in California, you know, they want avocados. And then it spread across the United States, like, they're superfoods, and started pushing avocados or superfoods. Everyone wants avocados at the crowd.

[Donut Operator]

Five bucks of avocado.

[Cody]

Obviously, they went to the little avocado farms in Mexico, and they're like, hey, this is ours now.

[Nick]

I hate avocados.

[King Trout]

You know, it's. You're gonna like to hear this. I told this to Chris Cappy, and I couldn't believe it. Some. I don't know how true it is. I haven't obviously checked this out myself, but there was a woman on the Internet who said, you know, avocado tastes, like, clean. Haven't had one since. Haven't tasted one since.

[Nick]

You're still not gonna trick me into eating avocado.

[Donut Operator]

Almost had me, baby.

[Nick]

You want that avocado? No. I just get mad. They all have the same prize in them. It should be something cool.

[King Trout]

Just a wooden ball.

[Nick]

A wooden ball. I hate that.

[King Trout]

I love my frog so much.

[Nick]

Am I honest? This is stupid.

[King Trout]

Oh, good God. Yeah, we've gotten a bunch of them. Some of them are, like, historical, and we've looked at some. Some more modern things with different countries. It's just. It's really cool to just tabletop war game some of those situations and scenarios. Because, like, I was able to say,

[Donut Operator]

well, for Blizzard Japan, give up, though, like, if the nukes weren't dropped.

[King Trout]

So if they weren't. And I mean, like, obviously burnt that

[Nick]

to the ground with bats.

[King Trout]

Yeah, we would have just. I mean, we were. Part of the reason we nuked Nagasaki and Hiroshima is because they were. Pretty much all that was. Was left. Like, there was not a whole lot left. And I mean, yeah, you could argue, like, innocent people, but it's also military infrastructure.

[Donut Operator]

One that we switched.

[Nick]

Hiroshima. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were specifically selected because they had not been subjected to major bombing raids prior, and they wanted the data on how much devastation. One bomb could do both. So they had the data, but it also showed the point of this city was untouched. And one fucking plane did this.

[King Trout]

Yeah, yeah.

[Nick]

So that was part of it.

[King Trout]

That's.

[Donut Operator]

Did we switch one?

[King Trout]

Kyoto.

[Donut Operator]

Kyoto. And then that went to Nagasaki?

[Eli Double Tap]

I think so. Yeah.

[Donut Operator]

That was, like, storms or cloud cover.

[Cody]

Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

Was it Kyoto because.

[Donut Operator]

No, Kyoto was.

[Eli Double Tap]

Because it was beautiful. And the one congressman was the ambassador to Japan.

[King Trout]

Oh, I thought you're talking about, like, in the air, because there was a second there. Like, it was either Nagasaki or Hiroshima was a secondary target because they went to their primary one and it was just, like, overcast and the clouds were real low. And they're like, we can't observe this, record this.

[Cody]

Yeah, 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.

[Donut Operator]

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

[Eli Double Tap]

Even bunkers run through Shopify.

[Donut Operator]

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

[Eli Double Tap]

Shopify runs the world.

[Donut Operator]

Did you know Shopify will actually help you design a website also because I

[Cody]

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.

[Donut Operator]

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

[Eli Double Tap]

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

[Donut Operator]

Step Cody, what happens if I get stuck?

[Cody]

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

[Donut Operator]

Step support. Bro, you got my back and your front. Shopify helps millions of businesses around the

[Cody]

world and 10% of all e commerce

[King Trout]

in the US from household names like

[Eli Double Tap]

Mattel or Gymshark to new brands.

[Donut Operator]

Just getting started on some shoes on some merch bunker.

[Cody]

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

[King Trout]

I think every single one of us

[Eli Double Tap]

has used Shopify at one point.

[Donut Operator]

I think all our businesses right now are using Shopify.

[Eli Double Tap]

No, except mine. But, but that's because it's guns can't do that.

[Donut Operator]

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

[Eli Double Tap]

give them the best shot at success with Shopify.

[Cody]

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

[Donut Operator]

unsubpod shopify.com unsubpod what's crazy?

[King Trout]

And I didn't know about this until I read there was a book called oh shit. I read it years ago and it was redfern Grand. It was hop on pop. And it pretty much explains like what led up to World War II and the, the Japanese industrial revolution and like how they expanded. And we, we kind of did some up way back when, like we handed them Korea. I don't know if you guys know that a lot of people are unaware that like we had our, our dignitaries there and our ambassadors and stuff and like we met with the Japanese and we were like hey, you know, it'll be really cool. This peninsula over here that's known as Korea. Anyways, we're leaving by and like, we just took our people out of Korea. This is something.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah,

[Donut Operator]

I'm not surprised. I mean, you told the story about the one dude, it's like, hey, we're not telling you about your family. They're getting kidnapped. Yeah, like, not surprised.

[King Trout]

Yeah.

[Nick]

Holy.

[King Trout]

Oh, yeah, dude, back then, I mean, it was just. It was haves and have nots. And I'm sorry, like, for anyone out there. And you can cancel me if you want to. For anyone who's like, well, you know, you guys did this. America did this. And Native American genocide, like, don't get me wrong, the all that bad. But at the same time, don't get mad because people with my complexion were better at stealing territory than yours. I don't like, just.

[Nick]

I don't understand.

[King Trout]

Okay. Billy Eilish.

[Nick]

I don't understand the outrage over the nuclear bombings in particular. It doesn't make sense to me because,

[Donut Operator]

like, what if Lane.

[Nick]

No, but no, it's not even that. Like, we bomb the. Out of a lot of people at a lot of different points and it's just like, like, nuking Japan was so wrong. And it's like, okay, it's fine. Like, killing people with bombs is objectively bad. I agree. But like, why are we hyper fixated on this one bomb? Because of the type of. But like, do you think the guy that got blown up by a conventional bomb or an incendiary bomb is any more dead than the guy that got blown up by a nuclear bomb? Like, I don't understand the anger of like, the type of bomb in particular.

[Donut Operator]

It's one piece of history that they actually know about. She was like, well, that one was bad. It's like, okay. And any. It's no different than being mad about one genocide going on now versus I think it's like 12 or 18 genocides going on in the world. It is. I know this one. Why you need to also know this. And since I feel bad about it, you should feel bad about it. You mentioned all the other ones going on. They're like, I haven't read on that one.

[King Trout]

Because people don't care.

[Nick]

They.

[King Trout]

They want what's right in front of them and they, they hyper fixate on that. I will say, what is going on in. In the modern world with like the, the free Palestine people, stuff like that? You know, whatever.

[Cody]

It's not like, hold on.

[Eli Double Tap]

That was.

[Cody]

That was like two months ago. We're. We've Moved. We moved on.

[Donut Operator]

We have new profile pics.

[King Trout]

Sorry, sorry, my bad.

[Nick]

We're buffering. We're due for a new one. The Minnesota thing got resolved. Now we need to. The new. The new drop should be any minute.

[King Trout]

Yeah.

[Cody]

Where are we mad at this month?

[King Trout]

Month?

[Donut Operator]

I hate. That's it. What are we mad at this month?

[King Trout]

Yeah.

[Cody]

What flag should I put in my bio?

[Donut Operator]

This mod.

[King Trout]

And just like, I mean, being in the geopolitical space, paying attention to how everything in the world works. The. And me and Nick talked about this. I think it was on a kind of consensual episode. The people who. When we took Maduro were off, but they're also pro Ukrainian. And it's like, don't you see this is fucking up Russia's war machine. Like, that was a good idea for us to go into Venezuela and take out.

[Nick]

I don't understand. Functionally, what is the difference between Joe Biden putting a $50 million bounty on a foreign leader's head versus just sending Delta Force to go get him? Like, Cody, you're. You were a cop, right? Like, wouldn't I be convicted of murder or like tried for murder if I. Two options. I could shoot someone or I could hire a hitman to go shoot someone for me. Aren't I getting convicted or like charged with murder and getting put in prison? Either way.

[Cody]

Yeah. Conspiracy. Either way.

[Nick]

Like, I'm like, I'm equally as in the wrong for that person's death. So it's like, what is the difference between just putting a $50 million reward on somebody's head versus just going and getting him anyways? Yeah, like, it's functionally the same thing.

[King Trout]

I just. I was so.

[Nick]

This one's cheaper.

[Cody]

I just know there's. There's some like, really happy, happy housekeeper who was in that palace who was on an island right now just like counting her money.

[King Trout]

Oh yeah. And all the people, like, the. The Russian superiority, like, you will not get a better case study for, like, this doesn't work against us than Venezuela. They just. They beat their chest. We have these radars, we have these systems. We can see this. This makes your. Your stealth invisible, which is so.

[Nick]

That wasn't fair. Yeah, you used a sound weapon. That wasn't fair. I wasn't ready.

[King Trout]

You can either vomit a whole bunch or you can have suppress 300 blackout, remove your brain out the far side

[Nick]

of your fun and games until the blacked out Chinook blaring Sosa pulls up.

[Cody]

Which was cool, man.

[Donut Operator]

I loved waking up to it.

[King Trout]

Dude, I. I Saw someone, someone asked,

[Donut Operator]

this is a new war now. It's over, it's done.

[King Trout]

Don't worry about the war part.

[Donut Operator]

They're gone. Also, they blew up a monument on the way out.

[Cody]

Brandon, he had a question the other night at one of his things and, and you know, he's not here right now, so I'm, I'm kind of speak for him.

[King Trout]

Yes, of course.

[Cody]

Yeah, I'm gonna speak for him completely.

[Donut Operator]

He puts on the Brandon hat, he's a pointy wife.

[King Trout]

Yeah, right.

[Donut Operator]

Brandon's like, no, no, hell

[Nick]

no.

[Cody]

He had a town hall the other night and one of the veterans asked him. It was a, like a female veteran asked was like, how do you think, how do you feel about us getting involved in other countries, like warfare, like the Iraq, Afghanistan war? The 20 years that all of our friends got caught up in, we got caught up in and stuff. And Brandon's response was, if we can go in in seven minutes and remove a president from a country, I'm all for that, but I do not want to create a 20 year war that gets people hurt.

[King Trout]

Absolutely. That, that was, I think, the biggest takeaway for me because I always look at things in, like, layers, aside from when I wanted to break down the air defense piece and how Venezuela was just fucking dunked on in a way you've never read about. Like, when that happened, I think all of us asked the same question, like, why the couldn't we do that to Saddam? Like, it was only 20 years ago. Why couldn't we just fucking go in, yoink old boy out, be like, hey, you're our property now, and give him back to his people and be like, cool, you should execute that guy.

[Donut Operator]

I mean, how long did the war in Iraq officially last?

[King Trout]

Like 14 years or. Oh, you're talking about the actual, like the. Oh, that was like 37 days.

[Nick]

I'm so, I get so annoyed with this conversation of, like, what is a war? Right? Because it's like, I, I feel like there's a significant difference between a war and occupying a place and trying to build a nation and trying to train a group of people to be a different type of culture.

[King Trout]

Oh, yeah.

[Nick]

Like, those are two different things in my mind. Like, if you can overthrow the government and then you run that, you won the war. And that's been the standard for all of human history. If the Romans rolled up, killed all your government, and then the Romans were in charge with the army there, like, the Romans won the war. What are we talking about? And so I don't.

[King Trout]

Oh, yeah, it's like all the annoying, the shills on the Internet. Like, you lost in Afghanistan.

[Nick]

Yeah. By what metric? Because all the people in Afghanistan don't have a Roth ira. Like, I don't understand, like.

[King Trout]

You know what I mean, yo? Yeah, absolutely. Dude. I'm.

[Nick]

If I, I roll up and I live in your house with a gun and just beat the out of you whenever I feel like it for 20 years and then one day I decide to move out or you're like, yeah, keep walking, mister.

[King Trout]

That's what I thought was so laughable.

[Donut Operator]

We used 1% of our military potential, by the way. We had rules where we couldn't shoot missiles at you. We dropped how many JDAMs or MOABs? One. The entire time.

[King Trout]

Moab? Yeah, one Moab and we collapsed.

[Donut Operator]

We could drop those willy nilly. Yeah.

[King Trout]

If it wasn't for our rules.

[Donut Operator]

America had a good old 4th of

[Nick]

July every day of the week. The old willy, willy, willy Moab.

[Donut Operator]

Dude, if you dropped 30 Moabs.

[King Trout]

Oh, yeah.

[Donut Operator]

Stop around real quick. I wouldn't.

[Cody]

Around.

[Nick]

Have you heard the ally, like the accounts of allied forces on the ground? Like, not Americans. Like there's been like a bunch of like British and like Danish dudes that were like, oh my God, the Yanks nuked them. They literally thought we dropped a nuke when that happened.

[Cody]

I do. Okay.

[King Trout]

I have a question, okay.

[Cody]

For missile guy.

[King Trout]

All right.

[Cody]

We, we took out another like narco boat the other day. And I'm curious about the, the exact ordinance that takes them out because you see it hit the boat and then you see like a splash zone.

[Eli Double Tap]

Like, like.

[King Trout]

Yeah, fragmentation pattern. Yeah.

[Cody]

How does, how does that, that particular ordinance.

[King Trout]

So from what I can tell, granted, there's not even a frame of being able to see the missile in most shots. I'm going to say that it's probably the AGM114 Hellfire, which is an air to surface. We have them on Apaches, we have them on AC130Js. I mean, if it can carry a Hellfire, it's there. Drones, all sorts of shit. And it's. I think it's a hundred and some odd pounds total. I think it's like.

[Cody]

What do you mean?

[King Trout]

Like, how much is a message? Oh, hellfires, like 170 grand. Yeah, like 200 grand somewhere in there.

[Donut Operator]

Can we do like a burst with.

[King Trout]

Well, this is the thing. The first one, the first one I saw that he posted a video with a mortgage, homie. If you look at that very first video, it was the boat and there's no fragmentation pattern. The boat is just on fire. Which tells me that's Helios. Which is the high energy laser with integrated optical dazzler system or something thing. Yes, Dazzler is a minute Dazzlers.

[Nick]

Diabolical.

[Donut Operator]

I hate dying of that.

[Cody]

The bomb hit me.

[King Trout]

Oh no. Where'd my wiener. Oh, sorry. Oh God. So but for the AGM114 hellfire, those ones, since they're being fired from above, they should be a top down attack style, just laser guided, not thermal or anything else like that, which is an easy shot. And then those ones have a fragmentation. Well, some of them, some of the warheads are hit, some of them are fragmentation. And then of course you have the R9X Hellfire, the Ginsu missile, which is the same missile, but it's traveling samurai swords. Yeah. 13 inch blades, six of them at Mach 1.7 if I remember off the top of my head.

[Donut Operator]

That's my favorite. Yeah, that's just wild.

[King Trout]

I love America.

[Nick]

When I came out with that video there wasn't. It wasn't even on the Wikipedia page yet.

[King Trout]

Oh, it's so good.

[Donut Operator]

The we be building so it's so accurate. Which is more terrifying. Oh yeah, they just shredded that one portion of that car.

[Nick]

Well the one that. Where it became popular when I did my video was. Who was the. He was like one of the guy architects behind 911 that we were looking for.

[King Trout]

Oh, you're talking about the dude on

[Nick]

the, the, the balcony.

[King Trout]

Yeah.

[Nick]

Oh, we, we knew where this guy was living and he was. Every morning he would go out and drink coffee on his balcony. And that's when we hit him with this fucking katana missile just on his balcony, have his morning coffee done.

[King Trout]

And it's traveling faster than the speed of sound. You don't even hear that motherfucker coming. It's. It's gonna hit you and it's gonna hit you hard. I mean it's. Hellfire is a solid missile. It's a. It's cheap in the world of missiles, it's affordable. So what were you asking specifically about the ones that hit the boats?

[Cody]

No, I was just watching the. The boat in particular. It was a splash on the sides. You see the water come up?

[King Trout]

Yeah, like.

[Cody]

Like horizontally, not vertical where like the vote the boat was pointing. It just went to the sides and that boat was taken out.

[King Trout]

So some of them, mostly the AGM114 has so many configurations and we don't even know about all of them. They do have like shape charges. Inside some of them for anti armor. So, like, they'll. They'll kind of split right before they impact. Kind of creates a small fragmentation, and then when they hit, creates a shape charge to punch right through. That one, I think, was just a simple fragmentation pattern. So it probably came down and split across that way. Cool. So it's. I don't know. I want to say there's like six or seven pounds of explosive in there. And then the fragmentation itself is just the. The explosive is encased in basically a giant pineapple grenade.

[Donut Operator]

That's why I want to. With America just as a narco. Anyone, homie? We got Steve with katana blades. He's drinking his morning coffee.

[King Trout]

I. I said it a long time ago on the podcast. It's been clipped like a thousand times. I was just like, if anyone else in the military had made something like that, we would be panicking. But because it was us, the whole world's like, all right, that checks out.

[Cody]

I mean, unless they're just innocent fishermen with their eight motors that cost hundred thousand dollars a piece, not a single

[King Trout]

net or a fishing pole or.

[Donut Operator]

Yeah, I just like, it's poor fishermen with the nicest boats ever. That's.

[Cody]

Yeah, with million dollar boats, they're not

[Donut Operator]

taking care of their family. I was like, homie, have you seen this new fact? I can cash fish real fast?

[Nick]

I tweeted about it because I was just like, for a while there, fish are going down. Do you remember, like, do you remember the smugness of people, like, 10 years ago that were like, the war in the Middle east is all about oil? Like, how smug they were about it? People were trying to do that level of smugness about the Venezuelan thing when they're like, like, this is all about oil. And like, Donald Trump comes. I was like, yeah, it's about oil. And they're still sitting there like, did you know this is about oil? Yes, we know. Everybody knows. Nobody gives a fuck. Like, nobody cares. No, like, everybody knows this.

[King Trout]

Do you think there's anything else out there important enough to kill and die for you? Oil is important.

[Donut Operator]

Well, even the civilians were like, well, I mean, they could take. I mean, Russia and everyone else was taking the exact same thing from us. Now it's just America. Big change.

[Nick]

The guy at the bar buying you drinks is just trying to sleep with you. Yeah, no shit. Obviously. Like, what are we talking about? Like, you're so enlightened, you're so intelligent. Tell me more.

[Cody]

Like, God forbid we make the country we live in richer.

[King Trout]

Imagine that.

[Cody]

That's Wild.

[Donut Operator]

I just don't think people realize how we got to this point. And then it is the same people, well, why aren't they defending Ukraine more? But then is, well, why'd they take out that dictator which we talked about? It's like, hey, we get it. You should take out North Korea dictator. Like, there's a bunch of bad dictators which we could go remove. But then, well, that one, hey, let's stop this. It helps Ukraine, but still bad guy. You're always going to be the bad guy. When you are removing, period, evil from

[Nick]

the world, half the population looks at the entire world through the lens of. Of, okay, there's a conflict between two parties. Which party has more power? That's the bad guy. That's the only. They look at everything in a power vacuum. And that's how they grade all of the fucking world and ethics and morals and everything. Who's more powerful? That's the bad one. Don't care. No context is required. Don't care what the weaker person was doing. That was horrific. Doesn't matter. Because the guy with the more power was able to stop them in a manner that wasn't fair. So they're bad.

[King Trout]

Bad, yeah. To anyone who's like, oh, we shouldn't get involved in Iran. We used to be super cool with Iran until their Islamic Revolution in 1979. And prior to that, we like, they had a great economy, we were doing good, everyone was happy. And now since then, oh, crazy 1979, that happens. And then 1983, the Beirut bombing. From an organization that has direct ties to the Cuds Brigades in Iran. They literally have a shrine dedicated to one of the bombers from the fucking Beirut bombing. Like, dude, Iran is the center of everything that is wrong in the Middle East.

[Donut Operator]

People are going to be mad at Nick. I think you need to.

[Nick]

Yeah, I got to go. Okay, you got to go.

[Donut Operator]

Connor, you want to come sit in?

[King Trout]

Connor?

[Donut Operator]

Yeah, we can go on for a little bit more.

[Nick]

All right, bye, everyone.

[Donut Operator]

So now we got Connor. Connor has replaced Nick.

[Eli Double Tap]

I am the fat electrician.

[King Trout]

You're Ozempnik.

[Donut Operator]

He is Ozem.

[Cody]

All right, we got a new bully here.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah. With a normal sized head.

[King Trout]

So I was going to tell everyone here we have our first foreign customer of IBCs. The integrated air Missile Defense Battle Command System. It's an acronym within an acronym. It's a program I worked on for four years. So I'm going to be very careful and tread lightly because I'm still under a non disclosure agreement. But Poland has bought the System. Now the crazy thing, this system has been in the works for over 10 years. Years. And the reason why it's taking so long is aside from north of Grumman biting off more than they can chew, you're figuring it out but it's, it's taking some time. So imagine this, you were in the navy, so you might be familiar with like the Aegis combat system on how it can like talk to the different ships and like you can defend this ship from this ship and things like that. So imagine that but for every air defense system in the US and foreign arsenal. Arsenal and you can.

[Donut Operator]

They all talk to each other.

[King Trout]

They all talk to each other, but not just talk to each other because right now so like Russia and China they have systems where like this radar will see it and tell this radar to find it because this is the, the. So this is the tracking and acquisition radar and this is the guidance radar. And then the guidance, the yeah S300 has a system like that. The 400. The well the 500 is a pipe

[Donut Operator]

dream but yeah, that's the one we shut down completely.

[King Trout]

Oh yeah, well we their s3 hundreds up harm doesn't give a about you. The high speed anti radiation missile, it'll hunt your radar down and it up all day long.

[Donut Operator]

That's so this system is that level of tech and I love America's like we've had that for a long time. It's gone. And we fly in with helicopters which are the slowest craft we have.

[King Trout]

Oh yeah.

[Donut Operator]

And leave without taking a single casualty. Yeah, still fucking wild to me.

[King Trout]

So with this one it's a step further. Their whole thing, their whole mantra is any shooter, any sensor. So imagine like this, let's say I'm guarding the Strait of Hormuz or the Red Sea or something like that. I have my system set up there. I have have Patriot launchers, I have Thad Tippy twos. I have just all these different sensors and systems talking to each other. And now here comes a carrier strike group. Well I change my frequency, they get into my frequency and boom. I now have control of their missiles. I can see what their radar sees. They can have control of my missiles. So does lead to some other issues there for like kill chain and stuff like that. But let's say a threat comes through. I have better eyes on the threat. So I have a better sensor tracking the threat. But they have a better what we call PK or probability of kill with their interceptors. I can go through the channels and whatever and I can, I Can pull the trigger and fire the missile off of their ship using my radar's data. And then as it's in the air, let's say there's an F35 up there and F35 can grab the missile mid flight and send it all the way in.

[Cody]

Like I said, you're passing the ball.

[King Trout]

Yeah, it's, it's like imagine a football that can kill. Yeah, yeah. Between nations or right now. Yeah. Poland does have it. They're the first country to stand one up. It's like a six billion dollar system or something like that. But Poland got on the docket years ago. They're like, we want it when it works. Yeah.

[Donut Operator]

Because you're also teaming up with team number one.

[King Trout]

Oh yeah. Poland loves America. Yeah, they love us.

[Eli Double Tap]

They're good boys.

[King Trout]

So basically the goal is with this, anything can talk to anything. And so I could fire circumstantially lasers off of a Patriot radar. I could fire Patriot interceptors off of a Thad Tippy 2 radar. You could fire Aegis SM2s and SM sixes off of a Thad Tippy 2. Like everything interacts with one another and they all talk to each other and they can pass interceptions between each other while they're flying. Like it's. Dude, it's insane. No other country in the world can do this. No one else. It is the most scary Skynet fucking mesh network air defense system in the world. And Poland got on board and we now have one operational in Guam which if you didn't know, Guam is the most heavily air defended landmass on earth. Like anywhere in the world, Guam has

[Eli Double Tap]

more firepower, is controlled by people or computers.

[King Trout]

So people are the ultimate ones. Yeah, yeah, people were the trigger pullers. But the computer systems themselves will like help deconflict because so the main problem, problem you run into with the system and it's really hard to do is a radar is not a radar, is not a radar. Now that, let me explain what I mean there. So you can have two Patriot radars right next to each other looking at the same target in the air. That target is going to look slightly different to each of those radars. When you have 10 radars looking at the same target, you get what's called track dueling, which you'll have one track up there, but you'll see 17 of them all over each other because that's how many radars. So through a series of background processes, it compensates for the mechanical bias. And those systems, because they're not all made perfect and creates one composite track across all of them. So everyone sees it the same, everyone can shoot at the same. Everyone has the same control. The interceptors, like, it's, it's wild.

[Eli Double Tap]

If you could break that down into a metaphor for a. Like me just.

[Cody]

I was, I was thinking the five year old breakdown to explain it.

[Donut Operator]

Like, I'm five.

[King Trout]

Okay, so is this like a lighter system?

[Donut Operator]

So it's all painting at the same time, but now each one has a more clear image because all of them are working together.

[King Trout]

Yes. You're getting a ton of data about that track. So it's like if I sight in a rifle at long distance and I hand you that rifle, you're not going to hit exactly where I hit because of the, that optic and the way it's designed. So imagine I could hand you that rifle and you fired perfectly exactly where I was hitting. Because you see it the exact same. I do. But we did that like with just our brains. I changed how your brain works and it compensates for it. And your vision now works how mine does.

[Eli Double Tap]

Got it.

[Donut Operator]

Okay.

[Eli Double Tap]

Greater now.

[King Trout]

So does that make sense to everybody?

[Nick]

Yeah.

[King Trout]

So, yeah, Aegis Combat System has been doing that for a little while, but getting that onto the land side with all the different shooters and sensors that we have has been an overwhelming undertaking. Like I said, north of Grumman, hats off to you guys because that was way too much for you to chew. You bit off way too much because, like, Raytheon makes better command and control systems and that's what IBCS is. But Raytheon bid it way higher and Northrop said we could do this. And it was. When I was originally working on the system, it was not good. It was. Oh, it was bad. And now, I mean, I'm talking to some friends out there and they're like, yeah, no, it's working. And I just read on the news that Poland has it and they've announced initial operability status of it. So they're. Because Poland has patriot. Poland has S3 hundreds. Poland has Poland super safe right now. Oh, yeah, they have all sorts of shit. They're just bringing all of it in.

[Eli Double Tap]

You get up in two world wars and you learn your lesson.

[King Trout]

They learn real quick. Like, I couldn't be happier with who got it first. And I'm glad the system worked. One of the main problems that, like when, when I was working with the system is you have the contractors who want the system to work and they're willing to. I'm not saying all contractors, but some of them are Willing to like, oh, that's not a big deal. We'll fix that in another build. Oh, that's not a big deal. But the way I looked at it when I was working out there, the buck stops with me. You wouldn't send an infantryman overseas with a rifle that doesn't work. So why am I going to send air defenders overseas with a system that didn't work? I was like, we may not make it perfect, but I'm going to get as close to perfect before it goes out. And everyone I worked with at White Sands had the same mentality. So the fact that it's out and Poland has it, they must have worked out the kinks. So we're getting there. It's eventually you could, you wouldn't do this, but you could control every air defense system in the world from this room. Yeah, that includes ground based mid course defense, thaad, SBX C based X band radar, the Cobra Dane radar. You could fire realistically trident missiles if you wanted to off of it. Standard missile six, standard missile two. Like everything America has, you could fire from that damn thing.

[Donut Operator]

That's terrifying.

[King Trout]

With AI, we've given Skynet the keys.

[Donut Operator]

It's like, hello. Oh man, I don't like any of this. Hard cut to the Afghanistan military trying to do jumping jacks. And then what we can do, it's like you can fire all this from a single roof.

[King Trout]

Yeah, dude. It's so wild to just see everything starting to network together and work. And then the F35 also had another update. So, you know, counter fires are like. You've heard of counterfires, right? So counterfires is basically enemy shoots, a, you know, rocket at you or an artillery at you. You know, indirect fire. You then have to figure out where that came from. Well, air defense systems are really good at finding out where that thing came from. Like by the time your missile is in boost phase, I know exactly where it came from. And I don't mean exactly like, oh, within this 100 yards. No, like 13 digit grid. I know exactly where it came from. Well, they just upgraded the F35. So now on top of that jet up there dropping bombs, hunting down other targets, it can track like artillery and rockets from the ground and pass that data in real time to counter fire.

[Donut Operator]

That's wild because. So during the surge and all this, this is how a lot of Iraq or Afghan, they drive up to certain portions, they would drop mortars and then they dip and then they just mortar the base really quick. And then like props to them how accurate they Were with mortars off. Just.

[Nick]

Oh yeah.

[King Trout]

They don't even have stands on them half the time. Just holding the tube and they're.

[Donut Operator]

They're hitting the base like they're doing a fantastic job. But they would dip because.

[Eli Double Tap]

Incoming.

[Donut Operator]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, dude. And you're. Oh. And then everyone would run, we'd stay. We check our email.

[Nick]

Yeah.

[King Trout]

Eventually get to a point, if I'm going to die, I'm doing it now. Air conditioning.

[Cody]

So my brother has a good story

[Eli Double Tap]

about jerking off while almost getting mortared.

[King Trout]

He's in the portage in the west.

[Donut Operator]

Yeah.

[King Trout]

I'm either gonna come or die. That's a very specific military core memory right there.

[Cody]

These north and Grumman still owe me a couple million dollars.

[King Trout]

Seriously?

[Cody]

Yeah, them. Dude.

[King Trout]

What'd they do? What did Grummy Bear do to you?

[Donut Operator]

Grumpy Bear.

[King Trout]

That's what I call him. Grummy bear.

[Cody]

My 911 story motherfuckers.

[King Trout]

What happened? Elaborate, please, if you don't mind.

[Donut Operator]

He was in the military, so he.

[Cody]

The only Navy achievement medal that I have is because I figured out that Northup Grumman. There was a system that's been around forever. Like tcast t can they accounted for mountainous terrain, blah blah blah. Airplanes should avoid that. And I was like, they don't account for modern day structures. And I got a Navy achievement medal because I pointed that out. Out. Wrote a huge paper on it. No, it could have prevented 9 11. That's the joke going around. Oh, and because I was a E3 in the military when I wrote this paper up, I got a nice Navy Achievement medal. But I pointed out that every system, every aircraft system, Tekan and tcas in the entire world, they didn't account for man made structures. And I feel like Northrop Grumman owes me a couple million dollars for updating every aircraft system in the entire world.

[King Trout]

Old it. We're going to Huntsville, Alabama. Let's go talk to him.

[Cody]

I'll go talk to these. Let's go.

[Donut Operator]

Dude. He was hit with a missile.

[Cody]

I just. I just had. I just had to air out my beef. I had to air in my beef with Northrop Grumman. You know, it's whatever.

[King Trout]

They make really good bombers, though. That's one thing that Northrop they're really excels in.

[Cody]

They're cool. They're cool guys. Yeah.

[Donut Operator]

We got new.

[Eli Double Tap]

We love the military industrial complex. It doesn't exist because McDonald's made money.

[King Trout]

Oh my God.

[Donut Operator]

Yes.

[King Trout]

I was like, man, Trout's crash out after that was when I Stood up

[Eli Double Tap]

and I was like, are you talking about.

[Donut Operator]

Dude, how. Dude, Trout, how are you feeling about the Epstein files? You're loving it. I know. Everyone wants to know about this channel. Dude, I loved your video, by the way. That got me laughing, just laying on the floor.

[Cody]

Eli just. Yeah, you just put Connor back in this existential crisis.

[Eli Double Tap]

I've been on that train for weeks. What set me off was the. So you can go. There's a website. It's like JMAIL World, I think it is.

[King Trout]

Oh, yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

And it puts you into his Gmail account, so you can see his emails, you can see his drive, and everything's heavily redacted. But what really sent me over the edge was the. The pictures. They're all super, super redacted, but you can still, like, through context clues, pick up what they were up to. And it's just the most evil, heinous, demonic shit you cannot imagine. So, yeah, when all this got released, the new Epstein files dropped. I was like, I have a phenomenal idea. I'm going to drink 17 beers and read the Epstein files and be horribly upset. That. And that's exactly what the fuck happened. But yeah, everything that's been revealed in them because there's so many. And so I was just doing like keyword searches and. Gets worse and worse and worse the more you read. And the fact that, well, thankfully it's gonna happen.

[Donut Operator]

People will be held accountable.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yes, of course. That was. Yeah, the sentence I was saying was the, the fact that nobody, nobody's doing anything about this. We're not dragging people out to the guillotines right now. It just is sickening to me.

[King Trout]

They're telling, they're telling us to let us eat cake. That's what it is.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah. And it's. Yeah, that, that, that's the only. This is the shit I've been talking about, like, as a quote unquote conspiracy theorist for years. And then to be vindicated feels horrible level.

[Donut Operator]

Oh, dude.

[Eli Double Tap]

To know that all this was actually happening and it's worse than you thought, like, makes me sick to my stomach. For some reason I thought like, the, like learning that. Oh yeah, I was right. It's like we got him and then nothing's happening.

[Donut Operator]

Well, imagine what the Flat Earthers feel because that's the only one that wasn't proven true. No, the earth is convex and carried

[King Trout]

on the back of a giant turtle.

[Donut Operator]

I seen that one today. I was cracking up. I was like.

[Cody]

The day you said you were like diving into that, you're like, yeah, I'm just going to look at these things today. Like five hours later I look at your story on Instagram. You're laying in the kitchen floor just

[Eli Double Tap]

staring at the ceiling, listening to Orinoko Flow by Enya. Sail away, sail away, sail away.

[Donut Operator]

It's. It's hyper disappointing of knowing nothing will come to it. Like that is the first time I feel actually I do not like I've been very vocal. I don't like the government. Don't like political shit. Like military love my country, love the military. Like the people in charge right now on the military side you got your, your General George's like amazing humans, they care for war fighters, they care for the soldiers. Government do not give a about because that shit right there. Because nothing will change.

[Eli Double Tap]

No. And everybody's on the, Everybody's on the files. They all went to island and little kids.

[Donut Operator]

Yeah. You're like, well I'm like, nope, don't

[King Trout]

give a. Yeah, the thing that I can't stand in like when, when people are getting the files and all of us are like this. I don't care who's in the files. Hold them accountable. Right? Like, I don't, I don't give a. Republican, Democrat, Libertarian, Socialist, I don't care. Hang them up by their feet. But when you see these people, especially on social media who are like oh look, here's this Republican on here. It's like, like I. Are we going to do anything about it? Like I don't care. I just don't give a shit. Why are you using it to grandstand your political opinion? They're all pieces of all of them.

[Donut Operator]

Also don't think because no. No one I've met is like well calm down on that. It's. Everyone doesn't like anyone that's associated with it. Yeah. If you're blaming like, oh well, you're defending a. It's like no, no, no, don't give

[Nick]

a fuck about that.

[Cody]

Personally, I know nothing gonna come from it more than likely because there's so many powerful people in there. But it's, it's kind of entertaining to read through the more obscure things. Like we know, we know they're draining baby's blood and doing the adrenochrome and

[Eli Double Tap]

torturing children and I have a very different opinion of what's entertaining.

[Cody]

No, that's not, that's not. My point is. That's not the. That's not entertaining whatsoever. We know they're doing it. They should all put through a wood chipper. But like, like some of the email just Like Epstein's.

[Eli Double Tap]

Like, yeah.

[Cody]

Stephen Hawkins wanted to go on my submarine so his wheelchair wouldn't fit on the submarine that we had on the island. So I duct taped his head to a chair and we put him on the submarine. Just thinking about like that or. Or even like, he loved Fortnite and World of Warcraft. Like. Like that. What the were you guys doing?

[Eli Double Tap]

The.

[Cody]

The obscure things are. Are just. Just wildly ridiculous.

[Donut Operator]

It's a net. Yeah. We don't have that level of money. I never want that level of money. If I had that level of money, I would never still do that.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah.

[Donut Operator]

You know what? Still wouldn't be like, can't get my rocks off anymore. No, no.

[Eli Double Tap]

If the Israeli government was giving me tens of billions of dollars, I would not. Kids.

[Donut Operator]

No, no. I hate to fucking. As you said, it's wild. It's like, oh, the government's corrupt. It's still. It's duh.

[King Trout]

Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

What's new?

[Donut Operator]

Oh, my God. It took you that to figure that out? Wow, that's amazing. As you said as a conspiracy theorist, everything else is true. It's like, oh, look, everything's been unlocked year after year. Whether that's JFK or whatever is coming out. This is just that next level of corruption or evil.

[Cody]

Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

The quote about, what's the difference between a conspiracy theory and the truth? A couple of years. Here we are. The Pizzagate shit was all real. Jesus Christ.

[King Trout]

Oh, yeah. You don't think we landed on the moon, do you?

[Eli Double Tap]

No, I think we. I think we landed on the moon.

[King Trout]

Oh, okay.

[Eli Double Tap]

All right. Yeah. People get pissed when I say that.

[Donut Operator]

Who's someone.

[King Trout]

Yesterday, was it Zach?

[Eli Double Tap]

Zach doesn't think. Think that we put.

[Cody]

Yeah.

[Donut Operator]

Oh, that's the one. I. I was like, zach, Zach, come on. I was like, you think we could keep that a secret? Of everything that we can't keep secrets, I think that's the one we would have up.

[King Trout]

Yeah. I was like, zach, you've worked for the government. You know, it's a bunch of just functional. Like, it's you. I've worked for these people for so long. Like, people like you worked for the army for 16 years. Why don't you trust the government? Because I worked for them for 16 years. Like, that's why moon landing would have

[Donut Operator]

been a discord if it was faked.

[King Trout]

Oh, yeah, that was the biggest.

[Eli Double Tap]

I have an opinion about it. And thank God Nick is on his way back to fucking Iowa. Otherwise he get pissed at me. But the moon landing thing, the space race in general was the Biggest like goalpost shifting. The Russians killed a load of humans and animals and tried to cover it all up, but they kicked our fucking asses. When it came to space travel, they hit every record. And then we shifted the goalpost to first man on the moon. And we were like, nope, we got it.

[Donut Operator]

Because they were the first in space or in the outer atmosphere, then in space, then orbit.

[Eli Double Tap]

Orbit, yeah. They like every metric. They kicked our ass in the space race and then we got a. We got a man on the moon. We were like, no, actually, that was the goal the whole time.

[King Trout]

Oh, yeah. It's important in that. In that moment to point out that hypersonic is anything greater than Mach 5 and Earth's exo velocity is like Mach 22. So just for everyone out there who's like, America doesn't have hypersonics like you. You have to go that fast to leave Earth's gravity. Goddamn, that's wild.

[Donut Operator]

That's really fast though. That's really f. That's cooking.

[King Trout]

Yeah, I think the maximum speed of a gbi, which is a ground based interceptor, which is our ground based mid course defense. It's our ICBM defense for the U.S. mach 30, 33, 34, something like that. Yeah, they're cooking. They are moving.

[Donut Operator]

And that's like how much time would take from when it passed to when

[King Trout]

you'd hear it at that speed.

[Eli Double Tap]

Whatever the division is on, we're mathematicians over here.

[Donut Operator]

Regular Einstein sitting.

[Eli Double Tap]

You are a fucking rocket autist.

[King Trout]

Jesus Christ.

[Donut Operator]

You should know this.

[Eli Double Tap]

Everything you said, we're in the same. The same frame right now. And I just know my face. I'm like, is this guy talking about.

[King Trout]

Everyone has their thing. Eli does cameras, I do missiles. Cody does, I don't know, breakdown racism.

[Eli Double Tap]

I crank it crazy style.

[King Trout]

Just put it in the 35. Yeah.

[Donut Operator]

Connor doesn't know these. Ten seconds later,

[King Trout]

just burst into flames like Chris from Family.

[Donut Operator]

Oh, what happened?

[Eli Double Tap]

Puts a hole in the ceiling.

[Donut Operator]

His hair, face going like this.

[Eli Double Tap]

The sonic boom of my coom.

[Cody]

We really do have just like the weirdest fucking cornucopia of friends. Like subject matter experts on just little

[King Trout]

things, just random shit. Eli and Nick were talking about guns one time on. On the. The was a kind of consensual. And I just sat there quietly. And then Nick like looked at me and he's like, this is how we feel when you talk about missiles.

[Cody]

I love your tangents though, by the way.

[King Trout]

Oh, thank you so much.

[Cody]

It's always a pleasure having you down.

[Donut Operator]

Dial of learning, I hear. I'm Like I have no idea what he's talking about. I'm sure everyone else also feels the same. So I'm gonna shut up and listen for 10, 20 minutes.

[Cody]

I did avionics for years and you'll say something every once in a while and I'm like, I know that word.

[King Trout]

I know that word. That's what I get.

[Cody]

Keyword.

[King Trout]

I was in the book. Oh man. Aviation is. It's a really cool world because I obviously I portray planes and what's the

[Donut Operator]

new plane coming out the.

[King Trout]

You Talking about the F47?

[Donut Operator]

47, yes.

[King Trout]

And then there's also the Faxx, which that one's supposed to be for the Navy. So the F47 is going to be an Air Force platform. And a lot of Air Force platforms can't land on naval vessels because they don't have robust enough like landing gear. Because when you come down on a carrier you're fucking slamming down, down and stopping. Yeah, it's really fast. Absolutely violent. So the Navy has their program that was canceled now is back and I, I don't know what's up with that. But it's called the F A XX and they're building a next generation sixth generation air platform for naval forces because

[Donut Operator]

right now our fifth generation can hand can hang with every other country 6.

[Eli Double Tap]

Well so when it comes to Chinese jet, like hot.

[King Trout]

So the Chinese jet. So the way. Here we go. There is no global agreed upon standard for generations of aircraft. For that to be a thing you would have to make public everything that is in your aircraft. So like there's public information about the F22 but compared to maybe cars at

[Donut Operator]

the same time it's like you could have your McLaren F1 from 1992 and then whatever else came out in a second 1992 and you have the fifth generation, but they're completely different.

[King Trout]

Exactly. So what China considers their sixth generation, which is their something Dragon. Don't say bad, Connor. I knew that was, that was going to come out. I, I felt it.

[Donut Operator]

So read the Dragon.

[King Trout]

I think it is the like, I think it is like the white dragon or red something like that. But supposedly they're saying like they're already showing videos of it flying and they're doing that on purpose because it boosts their propaganda. We're probably already like tracking those things with radars. Like to get information about them. How fast they climb, how fast they move, what their radar cross section looks like. Anytime anyone shoots or flies anything in this world, Uncle Sam takes notes. Like every single time, no matter where it is. And like, so every time Kim Jong Un's like, I got a new powerful Misha. Like, we just laugh at him. We're like, we. We watched everything you just did.

[Cody]

I gotta give a shout out to fucking burnt peanut.

[King Trout]

Oh, yes.

[Cody]

I heard the funniest quote this morning. Someone in his chat said, imagine living in America. And he's like, well, we have a giant black Dorito worth more than your

[King Trout]

country's GDP that will level your shit

[Cody]

before you can think about it. Yeah, yeah, that's true.

[Donut Operator]

That guy just really quick Burpino. Great people. You're always welcome on unsub. Him talking about. People were yelling at him about viewbotting. He's like, I don't know what that. He's like, you know who does that? Haters. Haters want to say viewbotting. I joined. I want to be humble for a sec. I'm going to be humble for a second. I hate or not humble for a second. I've went to every server. Pacific, Asia. What's the ocean? Ocean.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oceania.

[Donut Operator]

That's the one. He was like, oceania. I don't know where the fuck that is even. I don't even know where that is on the map. Everyone know who I am? Go yourselves if you think I'm viewboding, bro.

[Cody]

I jumped into one of his live streams the other day on YouTube alone. And speaking on content creation, we get on that sometimes he had 107,000 concurrent viewers on YouTube. You jump over to Twitch, he has 70,000 concurrent on Twitch. It's like, God damn, our boy's doing goodness. What we. We press on sometimes it's like, if you're an entertaining person, you're gonna do well. Damn, dude has been blowing up.

[King Trout]

That dude is hilarious. I catch his clips sometimes. And just the shit he says, it's so, oh, so good. He's just very forward and direct about everything.

[Donut Operator]

Black Dorito, deleted countries.

[King Trout]

So when it comes to generations of aircraft, like, like, everyone's like, well, 6 gen have to be stealth. Okay, well, what is your definition of stealth? For the US Our definition of stealth is a reduction in radar cross section greater than 90%. So it has to be 90% smaller. Fact. The stealthiest by definition aircraft in the world is the B2 Spirit, the stealth bomber, because it's 153ft wide and it shows up roughly the size of a. A sparrow on radar.

[Eli Double Tap]

So like 90% radar reduction is just the total size?

[King Trout]

Yes, the total size.

[Donut Operator]

On, on radar returns, they said 99.9.

[King Trout]

It's a pigeon that's cute. So for other countries. So when you compare like so America's fifth gen, you know, our premier fifth gen, the F22 came out in 94, 96, I think it was in the 90s. And it has a radar cross section roughly the size of a bumblebee. So if you see a Bumblebee pulling Mach 2.2 natural, a little suspicious. It's a little suspicious. Like there's a bumblebee on my screen hauling ass. And that's if you get a return. So that's how big that is. The J20, which is their Chinese fifth gen, is roughly a hundred times larger on radar crossing section. So take that size of a bumblebee, which is.0002 meters squared, 100 times more than that is what, 0.02 meter square or something like that. And then the SU57, which Russia considers their premier stealth fifth gen, is 100 times larger than the J20. So it has roughly the same radar cross section as like an F18. So when we allow bird. So like when they're like we have stealth, their stealth doesn't match our stealth and their generations don't match our generation. So. And we always undersell all of our capabilities. Just if you're going to read anything about Uncle Sam like, hey, this radar can see this far, just know that it's more, oh, this jet can go this fast. Just know it's more like everything that Uncle Sam pushes out there is under our capabilities. But the enemy, they oversell. And we've done that. So there's. I just, just dropped a video on Pepperbox called Constant Peg and I saw

[Eli Double Tap]

that at lunch today.

[King Trout]

So Constant Peg is a program we had from the 90s. Originally it was in the 60s, all the way through the 70s, it was like have something. It's an Air Force program. The Navy had some of these programs too. And it's where we would buy steel, deal, trade and get aggressor aircraft. And instead of saying like we're going to take these apart and study them, we were like, these are giant piles of, you know what we should do is have our guys fight against them. So for years our pilots were fighting against actual aggressor nation aircraft. They knew where all their blind spots were. They knew how to fight against them. Like so the, the MiG 23 went really fast in a straight line. Like until we built the F15, nothing went faster. Well, the F111, technically nothing went faster. It was super fast compared to everything that we had. But it couldn't turn for shit. So we would just take it into a turn fight, and that's how we would beat the MiG Min 23. And we learned this because pilots would defect. We paid East Germany, I think, for the cost of a MiG 19 was roughly the cost for a new Mercedes Benz. And we would trade them Mercedes Benz for MiG19s. We got to go back. We got to go back, guys. You want some migs? Migs? Let's go get some migs.

[Eli Double Tap]

Give an East German a couple thousand dollars, he'll land the plane in fucking Florida.

[King Trout]

Yeah.

[Donut Operator]

Here's some food, blue jeans.

[King Trout]

So, yeah, we did that for years, just fighting against their stuff. And, you know, aggressor nations are like, you were stealing our technology? And it's like, no, we already had better. But we were just.

[Eli Double Tap]

It was as if we were engaged in some kind of cold war.

[King Trout]

Imagine that.

[Donut Operator]

You're not playing fair.

[King Trout]

Cut it out, guys.

[Eli Double Tap]

Stop stealing our pilots and our planes.

[Donut Operator]

Where'd you get our nuke plants from? That doesn't count.

[King Trout]

That doesn't count.

[Eli Double Tap]

We can't talk about that. We hung them for treason.

[King Trout]

Yes.

[Eli Double Tap]

And their last name ended in Steen.

[King Trout]

Oh, God. That was. You know what's crazy is I was looking into that. The. The whatever. The Robert Steen or.

[Nick]

No, it was Burger.

[King Trout]

Yeah. Rosenberg.

[Donut Operator]

I hate. My brain's like. It's a good shot. It's like two legs going and a little yonk. That's how my brain always just thinks of movie shots.

[King Trout]

Oh, my God.

[Donut Operator]

You know the.

[Eli Double Tap]

The Rosenbergs who gave all of our nuclear secrets away?

[King Trout]

Yeah. And you know what's crazy is I thought about that, and there's Cody.

[Cody]

Love that.

[King Trout]

Yonker.

[Cody]

I've been listening to King Trout's videos too much, dude.

[King Trout]

I love them.

[Eli Double Tap]

They're my favorite group of people. Gonna fill the fish in Israel.

[King Trout]

So with that, I. I was. I was looking into that. The. The Rosenbergs, and.

[Cody]

Oh,

[King Trout]

are we back. Oh, man. But I was. I was thinking. I was like, there's literally nothing you could give away to the enemy today that would be that level of, like, devastation. I could give the plans for an F22. It doesn't compare to giving them their first nuclear weapon. I could give them missiles, bombs, anything that we have, and it doesn't even compare. So, like, in 1953, when we hang their ass or was Electric chair lethal? Check. I don't even know what we did.

[Eli Double Tap]

They were hanged.

[King Trout]

They were hanged. That was absolutely justified. Well, hanged means you have a big.

[Eli Double Tap]

But I think they were electrocuted.

[King Trout]

Yeah, there. Well, isn't there a difference between being hung and being hanged?

[Eli Double Tap]

Yes. Being hung means you have a fat. Well, being hanged means you got strangled to death.

[Donut Operator]

I don't know I'm gonna trust him.

[King Trout]

Yeah, I am hung.

[Eli Double Tap]

If I was gonna kill myself, I would be hanged.

[Cody]

First time.

[King Trout]

Yeah. Oh my God. Yeah. As. That's kind of wild to think about that they just turned over on us like that. For the Russians of all people.

[Donut Operator]

When you have a nuke nuke you lear.

[King Trout]

You mean nuclear?

[Donut Operator]

Yeah, but it's like the deterrent and then. No, no one. When you have all countries, like, don't use ours and I won't use ours. That's when you fucked up. When you're like, oh, I gave that. I gave those plans away.

[King Trout]

Yeah, dude, you deserve everything you get after that. That and I mean we even have. There's. We gotta look at the pay scale because there was a kid arrested recently who sold Highmark secrets to China and it was for like 12 grand. Like the.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah, it was not much on Discord. What's it. Yeah, Discord. And then what's that? The.

[King Trout]

The video game Roblox.

[Donut Operator]

Oh, no.

[Nick]

Oh, I'm just saying.

[King Trout]

Oh, War Thunder.

[Eli Double Tap]

Thunder, yeah, the War Thunder forums where everybody gets all these autists get butthurt and they're like, like, no, actually the. The barrel mount is 3 inches to the right. I work on these as a mechanic.

[Donut Operator]

Here's my mechanics here. Is that your top secret manual?

[King Trout]

Stop sharing top secret information about our.

[Cody]

Could E3 stop being E3s for a moment?

[King Trout]

Just stop, dude. Gaijin even came out. The company that made War Thunder was like, please stop putting out secret information in our video games. Like, please, please don't do that.

[Eli Double Tap]

They're a Russian company, right?

[King Trout]

Yeah, they're a Russian company.

[Eli Double Tap]

Is it With a Japanese name? That's what's confusing.

[King Trout]

Don't pay the snail, man. Don't pay the snail. Their. Their logo is a snail. So don't pay the snail.

[Donut Operator]

F1 on tech.

[Eli Double Tap]

It's a free. Free to play game.

[King Trout]

It really is. I. I get to like BR4. And then I just stop playing because that's where all the sweats start. And then I'll just start a different country. And I'm like, I'm going to start out with biplanes again. And we're going to get up to BR4 and then the sweats are going to start. I'm going to. Well, let's go find a different country. It's all I do I've never played it.

[Donut Operator]

I don't know these games.

[King Trout]

Oh, War Thunder. I broke a keyboard over War Thunder. I did. I. I gamer raged in a whole other level. I hit this dude like three or four times right in the ammo rack with tank penetrating cartridges. And dude just turned and one shot at me when I was in a Sherman with like, I don't know, 80 millimeters of armor in the front of it and just pump one right through the front of my. I was, I was pissed.

[Donut Operator]

I love that War Thunder also celebrated Veterans Day by announcing Brandon and then like really pushing Brandon during Veterans Day. And him, he's like, I think they just did a Google of me. I thought I'm off the most highest

[Eli Double Tap]

decorated veteran in the history of the United States of America.

[Donut Operator]

Because the ads are. It's like celebrating Veterans Day.

[King Trout]

It's so good.

[Donut Operator]

Hi, that's my friend.

[Cody]

Did we talk about the mailers last or yesterday on the podcast?

[Donut Operator]

Not enough. Because those are. We need to put them up. Put them up. Chase or Finn, who is ever editing him. Because it is hilarious that the one

[Cody]

the arrow pointing to, did he ditch like pointing to his metals?

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh no, he did talk about it.

[Donut Operator]

Okay. He did.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah, he did.

[King Trout]

We didn't talk about the one that I was in. Fucking Tony, you piece of.

[Donut Operator]

That's the one.

[King Trout]

It was the one.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah, it was that one you in the background.

[King Trout]

I hate that.

[Eli Double Tap]

That I've experienced that as well. It was a. It was the commercial, I think me, Cody and Brandon were at at lunch one day and it came up on the TV and it's Brandon Herrera mocks military veterans. And then it plays the clip from the podcast with Meat Canyon in Vegas. The second half of it. Wish that was my idea. Sorry, Brandon, he hates that so much. But it plays. He's. He just said like something about Baron Trump being tall and that was it.

[King Trout]

Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

And then it cuts to or immediately after they pitch shift my laugh. My. My laughed. My laugh. Because I have that like a very distinct loud laugh. But they pitch shifted it so I sound like a demon. And it like punch cuts in on my face.

[Donut Operator]

Slowed it down. First off, I don't laugh like that.

[King Trout]

Look, when you have to get your opponent's friends involved, you're desperate. Tony is desperate at this point in time. I mean, the guy, he's in the Epstein files for. For fucking Christ's sake. The dude is in the Epstein files.

[Donut Operator]

My biggest thing is just being able to. That's when I truly hated politics, is once we got to see Firsthand of Brandon's shit getting manipulated. Even the Brandon hates veterans. So you have Eli like five seconds beforehand being like, tell the joke that I told you you should have told on stage. And then he tells.

[Eli Double Tap]

Got him at an event with all of his veteran friends.

[King Trout]

Yeah. He hates veterans so much, he raises hundreds of thousands of dollars for them and autism awareness. He hates autistic people.

[Donut Operator]

Same.

[King Trout]

Yeah, yeah.

[Cody]

Also thinking of Baron Trump as a cryptid. It was kind of fun.

[King Trout]

Oh, yeah.

[Cody]

I mean, we don't think he's a cryptid, but it's. It's kind of funny to think about. It's this, this giant, lumbering figure father. It was a conceptual bit.

[Eli Double Tap]

And he's like 7ft tall.

[Cody]

Oh, dude, he's gonna do great in life. But this is. Yeah, the cryptid. Baron Trump always cracks me up.

[Eli Double Tap]

Slam dunking like this.

[Cody]

Yeah.

[King Trout]

If you're in politics about the boy,

[Eli Double Tap]

like, no, it's a good thing.

[Cody]

Great in life. You're awesome. But it's.

[Donut Operator]

He says he's tall.

[Eli Double Tap]

What?

[Donut Operator]

He said he was tall. What is.

[King Trout]

What? If you're in the public eye, like, you're gonna get made fun of. And even I enjoy some of the jokes they make about me. Like, I, I did. I. I did one live stream where I wore the tank top like Nick does, and my white balance was all up. Dude, people were saying, like, Sherwin Williams can't even match that color. Like, dude has all the privilege. Like, it was, it was so good. They me for like a solid hour.

[Eli Double Tap]

You should have doxed them.

[Donut Operator]

It's the new rebuttal for everything what you say about me. Trout me with a fifth grade insult.

[Eli Double Tap]

I'm going to tell people where your

[King Trout]

kids go to school. Oh, my God.

[Eli Double Tap]

Not naming any names, but.

[King Trout]

Oh, I love this group of friends.

[Donut Operator]

It's the best group. I don't know.

[Cody]

People make fun of me online. I call them gay.

[Donut Operator]

We know.

[Eli Double Tap]

I think I'm currently in the lead with the long F word on Twitter.

[Cody]

Me and Connor are fighting over this. Who gets to say it the most?

[King Trout]

Dude, I will be. Dude, I'll be scrolling through Instagram reels and I'll be commenting on them. And, like, especially when I'm altered, my inner Cody comes out and like, I'll just say the most off the wall. Like, there was some woman, she was very heavy, didn't take care of herself. Very like, hood rat. And she was like, rapping towards the camera. And I just, I, I posted, like, ignore all the positive comments and people loved it. Oh, man. There was another one. It was like a bunch of.

[Donut Operator]

Bar none goes, dude, bar none just.

[King Trout]

I've never met Jake. I really want to.

[Donut Operator]

I love that he now has just. He does not give a. And everyone has rallied behind him. And I'm like, homie, you played with fire and then you came out stronger on the other side. It is amazing.

[Eli Double Tap]

Forced.

[Cody]

It kills me how people don't understand when you put yourself in the public eye, you're going to get made fun of. Yeah, Eli, me and you have known this for over a decade now. Like, yeah, I accept it. Whatever I up or not even. Not even up. It's like, even if you're just the simplest of things that you put on social media, you're gonna get made fun of. You just roll with the punches. You're gonna roll with the punches.

[Donut Operator]

Hate no matter what. It does not matter how good easy something is. It's just gonna be like, oh, hey, like doesn't matter. Oh, this fucking. What was it I post? I didn't know anime nerds hate if you grade something great. Oh, dude, that started.

[Eli Double Tap]

What do you mean grade?

[Donut Operator]

You just have something graded. You're like, hey, I had a berserk. Like, I have that original grading company. Yeah, dude. Oh, my God, dude, I've never. I was like, well, I just learned something. People really hate this. And then you have this back and forth in the comments. It's like, why are you guys so pissed? This is weird as not me saying that. It's everyone else who, like, you're mad because he graded it. If you would have a copy of Jared, like, first edition.

[Cody]

You have a lot of like, really cool first edition stuff.

[Nick]

Yeah.

[Cody]

Like me and you have been like buying things and like tracking some graded things. So people like, with you about that.

[Donut Operator]

Yeah, berserk, dude. I was like, oh, berserk would probably think this is cool. And they were like, what? Yeah, you graded a 20 object. And then the comments are like, like, that's. That's the first print. That's well over $20, I assure you.

[King Trout]

Oh, my God.

[Donut Operator]

But then you get a seat, just. Everyone angry in the comments was like, I didn't know this was that divisive. I didn't know people gave a. If you graded something. If you had a 10 grade Charizard right now, first edition, you'd be happy.

[Cody]

Yeah, dude.

[King Trout]

Plain people are just as bad. I made one joke about the V22 Osprey. Oh, never again. Never again, man. And Zach, I love Zach. He made a joke about the F35 and he texted me. He made it on Twitter.

[Donut Operator]

And Zach's like, what I do?

[King Trout]

He texted me like an hour later. He's like, dude, plane people are feral. I was like, yeah, dude, don't talk about planes, man. Like, they are feral. Oh, it's wild, man.

[Cody]

I think people just, like, these days, they make their entire personality about a distinct thing, whether it be Pokemon cards or Berserk or just, like, ice even.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh, my God.

[Cody]

Just like, being a protester. People just make their entire personalities. Like, I need to be angry about something because something at home is not fulfilling my needs.

[Donut Operator]

Or my response was, well, this made me happy. That's why I posted it. I don't really care what anyone else things. I thought it was cool is why I posted it. And then you have. That's. Yeah, see, See, see? And it's still.

[Cody]

That's why you're a piece of.

[Donut Operator]

Because you had that graded. Well, I didn't even have it even then. Don't even care. I thought it was cool.

[Cody]

There was one guy one time, his name was Shinzo Abe. He said, go outside, touch grass and talk to women. You know what they did? They killed him.

[Donut Operator]

How dare you? The V.

[King Trout]

It's like that random experience when you become a creator for the first time. You're like, oh, I'm going to say this. This is a pretty mild take. I think people will agree with it. And they're like, 10 minutes later, you look and they're like, you're literal Hitler. Like, what the did I do? Mild takes. Coward.

[Eli Double Tap]

We've only been blasting the Internet with hot takes.

[King Trout]

Most of them are

[Cody]

telling you the other hot tape.

[Donut Operator]

It's a good shirt. A wizard like that.

[Cody]

Connor's like, I'm going to put the VR on for a couple hours. I was like, yeah, just blast the Jew lasers into your eyes.

[Eli Double Tap]

I bought that thing. I jerked off to VR one time and then played a video game. I haven't touched it since. And Brandon goes in your room, right? And I was like, yeah, if that helps you.

[Cody]

We made poor creature taking it off.

[Donut Operator]

He's like, why do you call it Jewel lasers? And he has Star of David's eyeballs. His pupils.

[Cody]

Poor veteran with a sign. We had him over. He. He had stayed with me the past couple days. And my son John, he loves, like, the VR. He loves the. The blade and sorcery. We were just like, stabbing people and stuff. We put it on Zach, and Zach got nauseous, fell.

[King Trout]

We are our parents now.

[Cody]

The goy lasers.

[Eli Double Tap]

Well, I did the. I Did a VR chat and I thought I, I was, I was like, it'll be funny to just go talk to. Because what's it, what's his name? Proximity chat. Oh yeah. On YouTube shouts out proximity Chat. It's very funny.

[Cody]

It's hilarious.

[Eli Double Tap]

He just goes and talks to the. The most. They're just like furry types and. And I was like, oh, it'll be funny to go on VR chat and just like around with these people. People. And so I loaded into VR chat. I bought a like a skin. It was just a shrimp. It's just a giant shrimp. I paid $10 to be a shrimp. And then I immediately started walking around and got motion sickness. And then I loaded into one server. It was like a. It was like a. What's that called? I can't remember. Like role play server or whatever.

[Donut Operator]

Or rp.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah. So I'm in one of these servers and it's like, where do we.

[Nick]

Princess?

[Eli Double Tap]

I was just think guess the shrimp like getting nauseous.

[King Trout]

I was like, dude, this sucks ass.

[Eli Double Tap]

And so I just laid on the couch and watched YouTube videos.

[Donut Operator]

I love V. Have you seen the boxing one? Boxing VR. Because it goes based off like this. You like drill drill with the really long stick. Cuz then it made his arms turn it off. And then it's like the torpedo.

[Cody]

To paint the picture for you guys in VR. You're holding like you're holding the things in each hand. A dude took a drill and he put a. A long piece of rod on it

[Eli Double Tap]

like a Looney Tunes extendo arm.

[Cody]

He taped the hand things to it like an airplane propeller and held down the drill. And so his hands were just spinning. He was fighting everyone.

[Donut Operator]

Imagine Dolce from street, his arms knocking people out.

[Eli Double Tap]

I posted that on my Instagram story like the day that I bought it. I was playing a super super or hot super heat.

[King Trout]

Oh, they were shooting guns once.

[Cody]

Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

Where everybody, there's all the guys made a crystal or whatever.

[Donut Operator]

What the is that game called?

[Eli Double Tap]

It's called like Super Hot.

[King Trout]

Super Hot. Super hot. I want to say. Yeah, super hot.

[Cody]

Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

And I'm just playing it. And in the middle of playing it, I was like, you feel like such a badass. You like, you feel like John Wick doing all this. And as. As you move, time moves. And so I'm like ducking and dodging and grabbing and I'm throwing guns at guys. And I just had the like outside thought where I was like, this has to look so gay. So I set up a tripod in the living room and recorded myself. And it is exactly how I thought it looked. It's just me with this big off

[King Trout]

piece of plastic on my head like

[Donut Operator]

also doing this going slow motion. She's filmed me doing what's the beat Saber?

[King Trout]

Oh, beat saber's fun.

[Donut Operator]

Yeah, but you look hella.

[King Trout]

Oh yeah, you look stupid.

[Nick]

Well like in my head I'm like, it's oh yeah.

[Donut Operator]

Outside it's like you just sweaty swinging

[Cody]

your arms around, bro. I gotta say though, that super hot is cool as you do feel like John Wick.

[King Trout]

Oh yeah.

[Cody]

If you guys haven't gotten the meta headset and plays super hot, you're missing out. It's kind of cool.

[King Trout]

There was one. I got the Quest 3. I don't remember the name of the game. It was free and it's a. It's a battle royale. And I played one match and it like gaslit me into thinking of. I was really good at the game. I mean I was better at reloads than like the kids I was playing with because they don't know this goes. But I gotta pull like and I'm just like mag out. Mag in chamber. We're good, let's keep.

[Eli Double Tap]

I forgot you're left handed.

[Donut Operator]

Yeah.

[King Trout]

And I played one match, I won. And there was this kid, he died like four times. I had to keep resin him and like that I got all the way to the end. I won. I was like hell yeah. I jump into the next match. Apparently that first one was all bots because then now there's some super autistic ninja ninja kids just kicking my ass. I survived for like 30 seconds. I was like well done with this game. I'm over it.

[Donut Operator]

I am golden. Thank you good sir. Actually Cody, if you want to close us out, we just hit.

[Cody]

We hit our time man. We just hanging around having a good time.

[Donut Operator]

We had a good ass time. That went longer than I thought it was. Yeah, we had a great ass time.

[Cody]

Are you doing Sam Elliot? No, I'm the sad man and

[Donut Operator]

I

[Cody]

got a. I got a prostitute in the pool now.

[Eli Double Tap]

Love Landman.

[Cody]

Bye everyone. Thank you for joining the unsubscribe podcast. I was joined today by Eli Double Tap King Trout. Our friend fat electrician was here earlier. He had to head out. We have habitual line crosser here. I'm donut operator. Thank you so much for being here today.

[Donut Operator]

We love you.

[Nick]

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[King Trout]

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