The Dangers Of YouTube Documentaries & Life After Almost Dying | Unsubscribe Podcast Ep 275

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Unsubscribe Podcast Ep 275

"The Dangers Of YouTube Documentaries & Life After Almost Dying"

Released: August 2, 2026 | Hosted by Eli Doubletap, Brandon Herrera, Donut Operator, & The Fat Electrician

Special Guest: Brandon Buckingham

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Overview

This episode brings together the Unsubscribe crew—Eli Doubletap, Brandon Herrera, Donut Operator, and The Fat Electrician—along with guest documentary YouTuber Brandon Buckingham, for a raw, hilarious, and at times sobering exploration of the dangers surrounding YouTube documentaries, life after near-death experiences, and the unique perils and ethics of modern journalism. The crew veers between military stories, the realities of American urban crime, the mechanisms and misrepresentation in digital media, and both lighthearted and thought-provoking takes on world travel, drugs, and cross-cultural experiences.

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Key Topics & Highlights

1. Brandon’s USO Tour and Stand-Up in the Middle East

• [04:15–10:47]
• Donut Operator shares his short-notice USO-style trip to Jordan to perform shows for deployed troops after being invited with less than two weeks' notice.
• He ends up doing impromptu stand-up and meet-and-greets at bases, noting the impact it had on soldiers stuck on lockdown who hadn’t had morale events in months.
  • Quote:
    "I was the only one that could actually make it out." — Donut Operator [04:47]
  • Quote:
    "It was top five trips of my entire life." — Donut Operator [08:27]
• Discussion on army event flyers, joking about military humor.
• Reflections on the value of morale support for troops, and military generations.

2. Brandon Buckingham Survives a Near-Death Experience

• [48:09–56:44]
• Buckingham recounts developing severe pneumonia resulting in heart failure, being in ICU with a heart ejection fraction of just 10%.
• Stresses the trauma of gradually suffocating vs. the ‘quick terror’ of being shot at.
  • Quote:
    "It was like a whole week of the doctor essentially not knowing if I was gonna live or die." — Brandon Buckingham [49:16]
• Speaks on perspective gained after recovery, new appreciation for health and life, and mental health’s relativity after trauma.

3. The Perils and Ethics of YouTube Documentary Journalism

• [13:23–20:26; 36:14–41:40; 46:06–47:18]
• Brandon Buckingham details the risks of filming documentary content in urban environments, including being shot at while filming around gangs and rappers.
  • Quote:
    "Thank God for switches or I'd be dead right now." — Brandon Buckingham [14:30]
• They analyze the ethics of documenting urban violence, whether it “eggs on” dangerous behaviors or simply shines an unfiltered light.
• Nottingham’s style: present, observational, avoids instigation, unlike many “manufactured drama” documentary channels.
  • Quote:
    "You just let it fly...You’re just straight up like, 'Hey, I’m gonna go to this place where something’s happening, and I’m just gonna be a normal fucking guy and report on it.' And I appreciate that." — Donut Operator [37:26]

4. Media Manipulation and the January 6th Narrative

• [38:08–45:02]
• Conversation about on-the-ground realities vs media coverage during January 6. Buckingham describes being there all day filming; what he witnessed did not match sensationalized narratives.
  • Quote:
    "I had no idea it was such a violent white supremacist rampage, 'cause I was there the whole time." — Brandon Buckingham [38:08]
  • Quote:
    "It's easier to do authentic journalism. ... It's pretty easy to just be like, 'Hey, what's going on? Tell me how you feel.'" — Brandon Buckingham [40:27]
• Discussion on why honest, neutral journalism is penalized or shadow-banned vs. sensationalist content.

5. Dark Realities of Drill Rap & Record Label Incentives

• [33:18–36:14]
• Examination of drill rap’s “incentive” structure: violence is encouraged for street cred and record deals, and labels profit regardless of an artist’s fate.
  • Quote:
    "You're kind of incentivized to go do these violent, heinous acts...If the buzz about you is you’ve killed four or five people, you’re probably gonna have more opportunities." — Brandon Buckingham [33:24]

6. Urban Education and Discipline

• [24:46–27:48]
• Buckingham recounts being an art teacher in a positive-reinforcement-only school district, where discipline was nearly impossible—kids rewarded for terrible behavior.
  • Quote:
    "You couldn't give kids suspension unless the police were involved...You couldn't take their recess. So what they would do if the kid misbehaved is give him a laptop and to play video games." — Brandon Buckingham [27:13]

7. International Perspectives: Greenland, India, Japan

• [84:25–98:14]
• Buckingham previews upcoming documentaries about Greenland, Iceland, the Canadian Arctic, and India—covering local crime, social issues, and quirky cultural phenomena (like India’s “shit festival”).
  • Quote:
    "I'm gonna do videos about life in the Arctic or life as an Inuit...and then I'm gonna go to Reykjavik. ...Just like, what life is like in the Arctic." — Brandon Buckingham [87:40]
• Insight into the bizarre, dangerous, and beautiful—like eating whale, broken bones in slums, and ritual cannibalism in India.

8. Dogpiling, Gotcha Journalism, and Content Creation Ethics

• [70:04–74:17]
• The crew discusses negative experiences with other YouTube channels intentionally misleading or setting them up for “gotcha” moments during collaborations.
• Emphasis on representing people authentically and fairly in content.

9. YouTube’s Changing Landscape and Algorithmic Mysteries

• [120:25–125:09]
• Shock at the rise of channels with massive sub counts but no real-world community, and obvious signs of gaming the system with fake/AI engagement.
  • Quote:
    "Would you believe if there's a YouTuber out there that has 93 million subscribers? ...He gets like 300 million views a day." — Brandon Buckingham [120:40]

10. Military Gun Talk & ‘Metal Gear Collection’ Nerdfest

• [126:05–132:09]
• Extensive, passionate discussion around rare military firearms, video game gun replicas, and a planned "Guns of Metal Gear" video.

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• "I don't want to stoke anything, but it seems like yellow journalism has become the norm. You know, this weird slanted shit." — Brandon Buckingham [38:08]
• "I don't want to die that way. I also don't want to die from septic pneumonia or cocksucky cocksucker virus." — Brandon Buckingham [48:00]
• "If, like, a kid stabbed another kid with scissors, the only way you could suspend them, as if a police report was filed..." — Brandon Buckingham [27:28]
• "The only violence I saw was a cop shot a guy through the face with a rubber bullet." — Brandon Buckingham [41:23]
• "I really genuinely think the only reason I'm alive right now is because of automatic weaponry ... if they had semi autos, they would have killed all of us." — Brandon Buckingham [135:28]
• "You just let it fly. ... You just straight up like, hey, I'm gonna go to this place where something's happening, and I'm just gonna be a normal fucking guy and report on it." — Donut Operator [37:26]

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Timestamps for Key Segments

| Segment | Start | End | |---------------------------------------------------------|---------|---------| | Donut’s Middle East Tour | 04:15 | 10:47 | | Buckingham’s Near-Death Story | 48:09 | 56:44 | | Urban Doc Danger & Gangland Journalism | 13:23 | 20:26 | | Drill Rap & Record Labels | 33:18 | 36:14 | | School, Teaching, and Education System | 24:46 | 27:48 | | January 6 Reality vs. Media Narrative | 38:08 | 45:02 | | Media Ethics, Vice Style Journalism, YouTube Problem | 40:27 | 41:40 | | Cops, Crime, & Urban Decay Stories | 78:09 | 83:26 | | International Crime/Travel Previews (Greenland/India) | 84:25 | 98:14 | | Gotcha Journalism Drama | 70:04 | 74:17 | | YouTube Algorithm/Massive Channels | 120:25 | 125:09 | | Guns, Metal Gear Collection, and CQB | 126:05 | 142:09 |

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Style and Tone

• Irreverent, Bantery: The episode is loaded with offbeat humor, rowdy jokes, and irreverent takes—even when diving into serious matters (gang warfare, near death, or YouTube drama).
• Candid & Raw: The panelists get real about trauma, illness, and the dangers of their work.
• Meta & Self-aware: Frequent digressions into content creation details, YouTube’s quirks, and their own roles in new media.

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Engaging and Memorable Moments

• Military Banter & Camaraderie: Lively stories from tours, deployments, and cross-generational military culture.
• Rapper Name Game (30:05–31:13): Hilarious contest to distinguish real vs. fake rapper names from Buckingham’s urban journalism.
• Gross-Out Yet Fascinating Travel: Stories about India’s cow-worship, “shit festivals”, and unique rituals.
• Inside Baseball on YouTube’s Shady Metrics & “Fake” Channels: Crew dives into the mystery of channels with suspiciously high views but little engagement.
• Autistic-level Gun Collection Details: Geeking out over pristine, historically rare military firearms.

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Conclusion

This episode is essential Unsubscribe fare—mixing darkly funny military and cop stories, an unflinching new-journalism approach to the country’s most dangerous neighborhoods, sharp commentary on digital media’s failings, and eye-opening tales from global travels. Brandon Buckingham’s near-death experience and his philosophy on surviving trauma underpin the episode with a real sense of gratitude and perspective. Above all, it’s a love letter to honest storytelling, military brotherhood, and finding absurdity in the world’s toughest places.

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Find More

• Guest: Brandon Buckingham on YouTube, “The Buckingham Show”
• Unsubscribe Podcast: YouTube

Listen to the full episode for range day plans, gun nerd trivia, in-depth urban journalism, and stories you’re unlikely to hear anywhere else.

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[B]

Elementary school art teacher.

[C]

I could have never seen that. Looking like Weird Al Yankovich.

[B]

Dude, thank God for switches, right? Or I'd be dead right now.

[A]

And those out the new Seattle program.

[D]

Free switches.

[C]

The ops.

[B]

You play with them, you lay with them.

[A]

How many impasses do you have at this point?

[B]

Infinite.

[D]

18 naked cowboys in the showers at Demolition Ranch.

[A]

Say hi to Eli. He's racially ambiguous. Brandon. His hair is fucking fabulous. Donut the dog joke disposition. And there's a fat Electrician to unsubscribe. 3, 2, 1.

[D]

Oh, we just ruined so much ebay value right now, dude.

[C]

Oh, my gosh. $60 in eBay.

[A]

At least, dude, they're like $40 right now for a can.

[B]

Collector's item.

[D]

I never would have thought we would have had eBay, like second market value on goth girl spit.

[A]

I got mine rated last week. It's a 10. Oh, it's in one of those cases.

[D]

Yeah, it's going to be my side hustle. Like I have an entire case sitting at the house and I'm just like, oh, hell, maybe I can just cracking

[B]

them and selling them.

[D]

I feel like that's unethical.

[A]

Treat it like the US Government. We could just print it. There are energy drinking.

[D]

That's the problem, Eli.

[A]

Well, no, see, we'll print a whole bunch, but if we give a few cans out to everyone just gets a one can, we're fine.

[D]

Welcome to the Federal Reserve.

[B]

Hi, everyone.

[C]

Welcome to the unscribed podcast. I'm joined today by Eli Double Tap, our good friend Brandon Buckingham. Brandon Herrera, myself, donut operator. Thank you so much for being here.

[A]

What's up, bitches? Guess who's a war hero now.

[C]

Our boy who got deployed.

[D]

Play it wasn't a technical deployment. Play it wasn't a deployment at all.

[A]

Play he'll get it eventually.

[C]

As many fireworks, the big D Day

[D]

movie, Saving Private Ryan.

[A]

Play that one. My brain blanked. Real dude. The older I get.

[D]

Tbi.

[A]

Yeah, it's starting to really affect me in life. Who are you?

[D]

No, that was a good time, though. Did a. Did a quick, probably like two, three days in Jordan. Went to. Went to Amman, went to win.

[A]

You have to explain the story because it was like a weekend thing and it's awesome that you did it. I gave you like a massive props for going and doing it. I, like, pulled through.

[B]

Yeah. The story is interesting. You guys were all, yeah, you got it.

[D]

No, it's fucking. It was. How you doing, Brandon?

[C]

I'm good.

[D]

It's good to have you back on it.

[B]

Really happy to be alive. Yeah. It's been over two years. I appreciate you guys having me.

[A]

It has been two years, which is freaking insane.

[B]

Yeah, two and a half years.

[A]

Okay, go on, Jordan.

[D]

So, yeah, we like, with two weeks notice, a friend of ours called us that we've done work with like, veteran advocacy and stuff like that. Just like, hey, just in case, you know, I figured I'd throw this opportunity. Would you guys like to go out and do a show for troops that are deployed in the Middle east right now? Like, yeah, absolutely. She's like, no, you don't understand. It's going to mean a lot to the guys. And. Wait, did you just say yes? Like, yeah, like a thousand percent. And the way it worked out, like it was, you know, army stuff, super last minute. We didn't even get approved till 10 hours prior. And I was the only one that could actually make it out.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

So I went out to Dubai, then Amman, Jordan, then to the jtc, the base in Jordan, and then out to kfab and did two shows in both those places and met with a lot of the guys there. It was fucking awesome.

[C]

Well, you did two shows?

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

Oh, I thought you just did one show.

[D]

No, I did two.

[C]

Oh. So the, the biggest thing that got me that I felt fucking Terrible about. Because they were putting the, the flyers out. Like, the unsubscribe show is here. So, like, fat electrician is gonna be here. Eli double dab donut operator. And then Brandon shows up there. And like, you basically did like a, A stand up show for the.

[D]

Which I've never done. I've never done stand up in my entire life.

[B]

So how'd you whip that out of

[A]

the small crowd of like thousands?

[D]

It was like, I think at KFAB we had like over a thousand troops there. It was, it was. Dude, it was a fucking great time. I love those guys. Like, I've always gotten along with the military dudes, like, super well. So, like, that was, that was a lot of fun.

[A]

But, oh, don't worry, your one request was like, hey, there's no one. So I can't do a live show.

[D]

I'm like, the only time I've ever done a live show was with like five other co hosts. Yeah. Like on like a podcast, we can

[C]

play off of each other and like, tell the jokes with each other.

[A]

Months in prep getting like, that is a set we work on to get there.

[D]

And I was told, I basically told them like, look, guys, I'm still down to come out. I'd love to meet with the soldiers that are out on the ground. Can't do the show, but I'll do anything else you want, like serve food, whatever. Whatever you want. Like, I'm down to do it. Handed a microphone, like, with an hour's notice because.

[C]

Because we thought they, they offered it to us. And we're like, no, like your kids coming into town. Like, I wanted to be here for the 4th of July with my kid and Brandon went out there and you didn't know it was going to be like an unsubscribed podcast type.

[D]

I did not.

[C]

And so we can't riff off of each other like we do in our live shows.

[D]

I did, however, like, it was a great time. I think everybody there had a good time. But I did get a video and chaserfriend, please pull it up 3, 2, 1. Of. Because there was a flyer that they put out at Kayfab, basically saying like, unsubscribe podcast coming here at this date

[A]

with C U M M. It was weird.

[D]

C U m M. Yeah.

[A]

No, the flyer's like, coming here, it's like, wow, that's very army.

[B]

Really gonna relieve the troops.

[D]

Relieve the pressure.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

But I, I had to text that to the boys to make him feel bad. But I had the whole crowd. I'M like, actually, while we have the opportunity, because they're like, where's the fat electrician? I had to explain, like, Nick's whole thing. Like, I don't. I don't want to really leave the United States. I don't leave the U.S. i don't want to go overseas. Like, okay, I. I have a video of the entire crowd saying, where the fuck is unsubscribe. Like, as a chant. We just a bully. Bully, my friends who didn't go out

[B]

as you should have.

[A]

We owe you all. We owe you. I'll go on patrol with you, by the way. I will do a patrol with you when we go there. If they do that at all. Brandon said he would go to on a patrol.

[D]

I will. I accidentally. I may or may not have committed to doing a jump in Fort Bragg with the 82nd. Yes. The static line.

[A]

Let's do like, a SF one.

[D]

So it's like, nah, dude, we're doing static line. You won't. Coward. You're jump certified.

[A]

Okay, I'll do one. And then you have to also immediately do a free fall.

[D]

Sure. I'm down.

[A]

Brandon's like, I can't control myself. Just flying and plumbing. He's like, this is way harder.

[D]

The landing's way easier.

[C]

Brandon agrees us all to a hey ho. Ju job.

[B]

I don't know what I'm doing.

[C]

It was.

[D]

It was a phenomenal time. I really. I really did enjoy it. All you guys out there, every single person, like, from the. The Texas boys, the. The State guard guys, the 82nd, everybody, like, our. Our, you know, our contingent. You were incredible. It was top five trips of my entire life. I enjoyed the hell out of it.

[A]

As a veteran, I will say thank you so much for doing that because, I mean, we discussed it when we were at the. At the racing thing. It was still like, hey, what you're doing is awesome. The troops can be super supportive. My biggest worry was also, I'm like, man, I don't want to have them being forced to do something they don't want to. But as you're saying, it was, like, wasn't very positive. Which is awesome to hear because you are that break.

[D]

And because, well, I scared it for free, too. Yeah. No, I didn't.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

That's why I love it. And just a giant thank you for doing that, like, from.

[D]

Because I got your concern, too, because you were like, dude, I don't want to go out there and do this, like, cringe. Like mandatory fun. Like, you have to show up and pretend you're having a good time kind of shit. But apparently, like, these guys, since the beginning of Operation Epic Fury, they've been like on lockdown. They've not been able to do like, no. No recreational shit. Like, they've just been locked the fuck down. So this is the first time they've ever been able to have a gathering like that.

[A]

I didn't even think about it because we would have, like, it would be those shows or anything. The last thing, when you're running missions all the fucking time, you're like, dude, I just want to sleep. I didn't even think about, like, the opposite effect where it's. You're on lockdown, so you have no idea if you could, like, you're looking forward to a break. And as you found out, a lot of the. It's hard to get people, like any kind of celebrity, A list, B list YouTuber over there right now versus back in the day. So they really look forward to that. And it was wild. I don't know where two star General Lambert, what he does overseas, but you guys found each other. And I got a text from him and this is again, a two star now I deployed with. And he's like, hey, you coming? Am I gonna see you in Jordan on July 4th? And you did on July 4th, which, like, you sacrificed your own.

[D]

It was July 4th on the. On America's 250th birthday, which I would have loved to have been back in the States. That was. That was my answer to their question. Like, they're like, yeah, we're having a hard time getting people to go out there because nobody, you know, they don't want to be outside of America on America's 250th birthday. I'm like, yeah, well, neither do these guys.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

Like, they don't want to be out there. Eli.

[C]

The only thing I'm taking away from this is that Brandon hates veterans.

[A]

I know.

[D]

Yeah, clearly.

[A]

Yeah, that's the message. Brandon goes. And then they cut to you shooting an rpg how to play. Yeah. Brandon shoots down veterans. It's like, that's what is a joke video. What?

[D]

No, but yeah, yeah, Lambert came out to me. Well, not came out to me, but he came up to me.

[B]

He's gay.

[C]

Love that joke.

[A]

He's like, phrasing, you son of a bitch. Hey.

[D]

But no, he came up and he was talking about how you guys had chatted a little bit and no, that was just. That was fucking awesome. I told him, like, hey, let's take a picture together. I'll send it to Eli. And then you sent. You sent me back like, oh, give him a hug for me. And it was like eight hours later. I just so happened to see him the next day. Like, oh, yeah, Eli said to give

[C]

you a hug for him.

[D]

But, you know, we. We just met, so I figured, you know, a hearty handshake will work, like, all right.

[C]

All right, buddy. Buckingham top that story.

[D]

Oh, shit. Brandon Buckingham's here.

[C]

Holy shit, he's here.

[B]

I got nothing going on, dude.

[A]

I just got back from also a USO tour.

[B]

Got my own deployment.

[A]

Yeah, no, you, dude, I homies, man. I didn't realize how many times you've been shot at in the last. Guess how many times this dude has been shot at in the last year.

[C]

Oh, he's been running around the section eight, so. Right, Yep.

[B]

Yeah, yeah.

[D]

Well, you got shot one of the times, right?

[B]

Well, my camera guy got shot. Oh, I hate to say that with a big smile on my face, but,

[A]

dude, I'll say it for you. His cameraman got shot.

[C]

Okay. We're having a good time right now.

[B]

No, is it different?

[C]

Okay. Different camera guy. Oh, you had to place him after he got fucking shot, right?

[B]

Yeah, he. After that he was like, Brandon.

[C]

Not really.

[B]

But yeah, his name is Matt Offacker. He's a really cool guy.

[A]

Did you notice him that day?

[B]

I didn't give him anything. I actually. I sued him for emotional turmoil because he wouldn't stop complaining. Just a bullet to the jugular. No big deal.

[C]

All right, the best way to do this to lead up, story wise, why do your cameramen get shot?

[D]

What do you do real quick, did you dock his pay for being down on the job?

[B]

Exactly. I was like, why? And you duck and weave. You know the five rules of dodgeball. It applies with gunfights, too.

[A]

I picture yelling at the next day. Wow. Okay, first off, how long did it take for you to grab the camera and start recording again? Second, because he grabbed the camera and recorded himself after.

[B]

Yeah, I agree with Cody.

[D]

Let's. Let's start with the. Start from the beginning.

[C]

Let's go from the beginning. What? Because we haven't had you on here in like two years. Why do cameraman get shot with you, Boba?

[B]

Yeah, so I do documentaries all around the country and the world, and the only times that I've been shot at have been when I've been doing documentaries about different neighborhoods and gangs and stuff. So the time where my cameraman got shot, we were doing a documentary about the Bloodhound Gang, not the not the band, but the group of rappers in Chicago. And we were at a music studio called Fort Knox in Chicago at 3 in the morning. And we had. Me and this rapper named Skrilla had posted a picture together at the studio. So I guess people saw that, they stalked us, waited outside the recording studio till 3am for him, I mean. Yeah, but he's not from there, he's from Philly. So it really made no sense. And they had. I don't, I don't want to say too much about it, but they knew, they definitely knew who they were shooting at. You know what I mean? So we left at 3 in the morning. As soon as we closed the door behind us, I think five gunmen fired over 60 rounds. Close range with switches. And I was with five people. Four of them got shot, including my camera guy. So.

[D]

Dear God. What was the range like, the distance between you and the shooters?

[B]

Probably like 15 yards, 20 yards. It was close.

[D]

That's pretty tight. Yeah, it was like the switches are completely useless, like at any sort of distance.

[B]

Thank God for switches or I'd be dead right now. We need to make more. That's what I'm saying.

[A]

Hand those out. Set free needles. It's that.

[B]

Free needles and switches.

[D]

The new Seattle program. Free switches.

[A]

Yeah. Miss everything.

[B]

But seriously, jokes aside, method switches to the US government and the homeless people and the military and. Yeah. Elect me for Congress.

[D]

Let's refine that a little bit for

[A]

the military and homeless people. It's a while into the spectrum.

[B]

It's a big range. Yeah. On say hi to Eli. We like went over all the, the shootings. So I don't know, I don't.

[A]

Yeah, get it. No, that's why I want you to talk about that stuff. Because the shootings, it's what these people love.

[B]

The Chicago one's the most interesting really. But one month before that I was on 37th street in D.C. not even filming a video, just doing a music video. I wasn't doing something for myself. I was just in someone's music video, YBC Duel, who's now passed away. And we just posted an Instagram story. And it was like 10 minutes later someone came up on the Hill and shot up the house we were in and shot to the people I was with. So it's fun, it's a good time. You guys want to collab on a hood video together?

[D]

Let's do it.

[B]

You can trust me.

[D]

A ride along.

[A]

Type out. Don't say them, just type out five of the rappers names without them seeing it. Brandon don't you look? And then I'm gonna make up three words. I'm gonna see if you guys can get. Which is a real rapper name, which one's fake? Because he was saying them yesterday. I was like, huh.

[C]

I don't know why. Our guest, Brandon Buckingham loves to go around the section eights with their switches and like, you know, their, their, their feeling of, well, if I go to prison, that's okay because that's how my life is. But he still chooses to go around them, and it doesn't make sense to me.

[D]

Journalistic integrity.

[B]

I'm a hip hopper.

[A]

Hey, you ever just wake up and felt like your mattress sucks and it beat your ass, punched you in the face?

[D]

That's crazy. Does the mattress also f your mom? You ever wake up feeling like you

[B]

slept in a swamp because you had

[D]

disgust, Nasty ball sweat? I see most of you on Reddit, so I know you have time to

[A]

break up with that mattress.

[D]

Get divorced from your mattress.

[A]

Get a ghostbed that hoe.

[D]

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

[A]

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[D]

This is a threat, okay? He's a hip hopper.

[A]

I'm a hippie, ditty hippie.

[B]

Yeah, well, you haven't waited a while.

[A]

After the last one, you were like, you know what? Fourth time, fool. Me.

[B]

Yeah. The fifth time I'm shooting back. The fifth time I'm going to have the unsub boys with me, and they're going to be eating some serious lead at return.

[D]

You're going to roll deep.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

We just pull up in like a black mark SUV that's bulletproof. And you're just like, please start shooting at him. Please engage. Just everything's aimed, ready to go.

[C]

I know. I don't want to kill your friends, buddy. You know, we shoot straighter than them.

[B]

Well, the friend that my friends aren't shooting at me, it's the. It's the enemies of my friends that are shooting at us.

[C]

The ops.

[B]

Yeah, the ops. They're like, yeah, you play with them, you lay with them. You play, you lay.

[D]

Eli over here is like, he's begging for a conus.

[B]

It would be really fun to do a hood documentary with you guys. They like to drink.

[C]

I'm just curious why they don't. Just don't do any of that fucking bullshit and be active to, like, members of society, you know, if they just didn't do that.

[B]

Yeah, I get it. Yeah. So, I mean, one of the interesting things about so, like, you know, rap is very prevalent in our society, modern society, and the shelf life of a rapper is so small or low because, you know, whether it's jail or getting shot, like, a lot of history is getting written in a span of, like, 1 to 3 years with these rapper stories. So I do think it is interest to cover because a lot of the hood videos I did in 2024, like, everyone in that video is either, you know, passed or in jail. So it's like capturing a crazy moment.

[D]

Literally every single one.

[B]

Not everyone, but like, yeah, the big names. A lot of the big names. And a lot of those videos, they

[D]

also couldn't do that or they could choose not to.

[C]

Yeah, yeah. Like, yeah.

[A]

Ready?

[C]

I'm not.

[B]

I'm not pro hood warfare. I don't think they should be shooting each other.

[A]

It's like, you, like, it's capturing and it's. I. I appreciate you doing it because you get to see that other side. And, you know, now you're like, what the. Like, how do people rationalize some of this behavior where you're like, oh, okay, so this is okay with what they're doing. And then you come back to normal.

[B]

Yeah, it's pretty crazy. The street politics and street vengeance. But yeah, it's. It's interesting because, like, out of the past 12 videos I've done, I think only two of them have been hood videos. But it's definitely the videos I. That people gravitate to the most. You know what I mean? Or the hood videos. But yeah, like the majority lately I haven't even been doing, you know, that kind of content.

[A]

But yeah, a child would be like, you know what? Maria Valuate.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

Just have your first kid.

[B]

I did, yeah.

[D]

Congratulations.

[B]

Thank you so much. Yeah. Since. Since I've had a kid, I've only done one hood video. And it was in Detroit. It was about car thieves. And we got the car shot up.

[C]

It was.

[B]

Was it the Kia Boys? Yeah, they shot the car up. But we. I think we stole that like. Or I didn't. I should watch what I say right now.

[A]

We can believe whatever. Like, if you feel imposing, like, we

[B]

stole that guy's car. It's crazy. They stole that guy's car and I was with them and then they shot the car up.

[A]

How do you say it? They acquired a car and it got shot up.

[C]

Right?

[A]

They.

[D]

They acquired the car. You documented it.

[B]

Exactly.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Thank you, U.S. congressman Brandon Herrera.

[C]

Well,

[D]

listen here, motherfucker, I'm trying to help, all right?

[B]

I appreciate you.

[A]

And immediately he's like, yeah,

[B]

well, there's definitely some crazy stuff with that. But my recent videos, as you guys know, I. My last videos with Reckless Ben, which is your guys video before this episode.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

And yeah, there's come right out. Literally.

[B]

The beautiful part about YouTube is there's so many fascinating stories and fascinating things to cover. True. Yeah. While like some of my most viral videos are the hood ones, I feel like there's been some just awesome stuff I've got to do. Like I might go to Greenland in a week and cover. Greenland, Iceland and Nunavut, Canada, Iqaluit. Just like what. What life is like in the Arctic. That's really exciting. And you guys know Papa Me, My second to last video was.

[D]

That was really cool.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Talk about that. Because you got to go to like Hunter's farm and see like the donkeys. His life. I didn't realize he had that many pets. Cody, have you seen that video?

[C]

No, I've not seen that.

[B]

It's so fun.

[A]

He has a lot of pets. Yeah, like Farm of Pets.

[D]

I know he's got his, like his hound dog, but he's got the basset hounds.

[C]

Brandon and I just hung out with them.

[D]

Yeah, we. We did our planning trip for the. The range day this year.

[C]

So. Yeah, we. We have our range day every year. We bring a bunch of creators out, and you have a good time. So we went out there to, like, scout our ranging day and look at the range and stuff, and we just happened to be there in our hotel, and Papa Meat was there.

[D]

I was the last one. Yeah. By coincidence, I was the last one to show up. And I. I go to the floor like we're gonna play some blackjack, and I see Cody, like, I see everybody, like, at the tables, and I see Cody standing up talking to Hunter. I'm like, a fucking course.

[C]

Of course me was there. So we got to gamble with him for a couple days. Like, that was like two weeks ago or something like that.

[D]

What a great guy.

[B]

He rocks, man.

[C]

Gosh, Tammy rocks. And can that man gamble? Yes.

[B]

Really? Dude, that would be such a fun video. Gambling with Papa Me.

[D]

The casinos would hate it.

[C]

I've never seen him walk away from a table with less than he brought to the. The table.

[B]

Really?

[C]

Like that, man. Yeah, he's. He can gamble.

[B]

Smart man.

[D]

You know what? I like it like a good luck charm, right? He's the opposite of that for me. Anytime he shows up at the table, he'll just give me advice. I'll take it. And I fucking lose every time.

[B]

Always double on six.

[D]

But what? He's one of my favorite people. Just because he's just so independently. Just organically funny.

[B]

Yeah. I feel like people should really appreciate him providing such high quality animations to YouTube for free. It's like such a.

[D]

Such a cool thing because he doesn't do sponsorships. He doesn't do any of that stuff for, like, his. For his main channel.

[B]

Yeah. Channel. Yeah.

[A]

Which problem is now becoming his main. That thing is crushing.

[B]

Oh, my God, bro.

[A]

And then creep Cast, which is.

[B]

Yeah. One of the coolest parts about being a YouTuber is just getting. Being able to hang out with cool people and it being like, your job. Like, we're working right now, and I think that's pretty. That's pretty cool.

[A]

That's.

[C]

That's pretty insane, dude.

[B]

It's a good job given the.

[C]

The past jobs that we had. Eli got shot. I was a co. You manufactured firearms.

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I was crazy to be able to

[C]

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[D]

You were what, sir?

[B]

Elementary school art teacher.

[D]

No. Yeah, I forgot about that.

[C]

I could have never seen that. Looking like Weird Al Yankovic.

[A]

That's why I can't see it.

[C]

Hey, kids.

[A]

Happy clouds. Let's go. Fuck these kids.

[B]

It's hard to. I mean, dude. To control a classroom of 37 children is difficult. Difficult for sure. So shout out to all the teachers out there. It's a hard job.

[A]

Yeah, I could not do that. Nope.

[B]

No. And you can't even tell them to shut the hell up either. You gotta be like, yeah, please lower your volume.

[C]

You. Because you have no choice in the kids that you get. You're just. You're placed there with them.

[B]

Right? Yeah. And where I was was all about, like, positive reinforcement. So if like a kid was jumping on the table, you couldn't be like, get off the table. You'd have to be like, please take a seat. Would you please have a seat?

[A]

No. They actually think that works?

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Is there. Studies show that.

[B]

Montgomery County, Maryland.

[A]

Is there any size that show that is.

[D]

I've you saying that right now. Like, the right side of my face is hurting out of muscle memory.

[B]

Yeah. Yeah. Cuz your dad slapping you.

[A]

Well, I don't. Dude, it's. You learn stuff through any time in life. You better yourself when it's hard. If it's. Just don't do that. Please take your seat. There's no repercussions, there's no difficulty. You get to decide if you want to or not. You get hit, you're like, huh? Yeah, I'm gonna.

[B]

You have a kid. So I feel like kids are masters of finding that line and getting right up to it or like just crossing it.

[C]

Right?

[B]

So when you have 35 of them, they're all trying to figure out what the rules are and how close they can get to them without getting in trouble. So if the rules are so loose and the teacher has to be so, like, gentle and kind, they're gonna like, run all over you. And that was a situation I found myself in. It's like, dude, these kids are damn near bullying me. I can't do shit.

[D]

I saw a video the other day. It was. I think it was earlier today. It was on Instagram. Where, like, this guy was, like, client, or he was. He was doing a run with this kid, and his kid was crying, and he's like, is it hard? Like, do you want to quit? That's why we don't quit. And whatever. Like, he's just, like, giving him, like, a pep talk, like, the kids, like, crying. Like, he wants to go home. He's like, no, this is why we got to keep going. And apparently it went viral. And he's like, hey, I'm the guy from this video. I saw your Internet comments, and I've decided I've completely changed my mind. And so he did another, like, parody video of that. He's like, I'm sorry, buddy. You want to quit? That's okay. You can. Tomorrow we'll try again, and then we'll quit again. Like, it's okay. If anything gets hard in life, just quit. It's not a problem. You'll have no negative effects on this whatsoever.

[A]

Awesome dad right there.

[D]

Yeah, probably.

[A]

Like, this is how stupid you sound.

[B]

Yeah. One of the craziest things when I was a teacher is you couldn't take. There was, like, no punishment. So you couldn't give kids suspension unless the police were involved. You couldn't take their recess. There was like, no, you couldn't.

[D]

You know, there was no suspend kids without the police.

[B]

No. Like, if a kid stabbed another kid with scissors, the only way you could suspend them, as if a police report was filed, at least in Montgomery County, Maryland, where I taught. That's fucking. So essentially, like, a kid would strangle another kid. And if you. If I took his recess then to, like, you know, talk to him about what he did and punish him, I would get in trouble. So what they would do if the kid misbehaved is they would give him a laptop and to play video games. And if you just think about that,

[A]

like, it's positive reinforcement for a negative behavior.

[B]

Dude, if. I mean, if I could still, like, do my job and get. And get to play video games, if I fucked around, I would wreck this set right now and go smash my laptop and crush Premiere Pro. You know what I mean? And just play games because, you know, you're, like, incentivized at that point to not do the right thing. You know what I'm saying?

[D]

Oh, yeah.

[C]

No, no, no.

[A]

That is wild. I know when Ryden had that one kid that, like, this is like first grade kindergarten. Like, little Ryden and the kid. Ryden went down the slide, and then another kid went down, and Raiden didn't move fast. Enough. And so he got, like, bumped or something. And Raiden was like, oh, I am sorry. And went to hug the kid to say sorry, and the kid pushed him down. We got called to the school. They're like, hey, incident, recess. This kid pushed down the kid. But he said sorry. So just. If Ryden says anything, that's what happened. I was like, okay, well, if it happens again, you're gonna have to call the parents here and they're gonna have to talk to me. I promise it's gonna go a different way. So are we good? And they're like, oh.

[B]

Huh.

[A]

Like, you gotta see. It's like, oh, he's gonna handle it. Like, with the parents, I'm like, I do not fuck with that shit.

[D]

About what age did. Was it, like, very apparent that Ryden was dealing with autism?

[A]

Two to three.

[D]

Two to three. Okay, got it. So this is like, well, after.

[A]

Yeah, this is three years after. And you could, like. It's riding. Like, he has his voice and how he go, I am sorry. And like, he was in the special needs class for that st. So it was like, hey, General Gin Pop. Special needs with the Gin Pop.

[D]

You were gonna do like the True Detective Season 2. Just beat the shit out of the fucking dad.

[A]

You fucking do it again.

[D]

Listen, kid, watch this. This is for you.

[B]

What do you do if a kid is throwing your child to the ground at school?

[A]

You go and you threaten. You know, threaten. You go. You go talk sternly to the teachers and then tell them to let the parents know that you want to also sternly talk with them. And that usually rectifies situation.

[B]

And if it doesn't, then you do a Glock talk

[A]

with a switch.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

Is that what you've learned from your friends?

[B]

Yes, I'm very intelligent.

[A]

Gang. Sign. Gang. Gang. Oh, yeah. Here you go. Rapper name or there. There's eight names. Rapper name or fake name? We'll go with.

[D]

Okay, how many. How many real names and how.

[A]

Five are real, three are fake.

[C]

Okay.

[A]

Okay, we got ybc, Dole.

[C]

Real.

[B]

Real.

[A]

Okay, we got Lil Pat.

[C]

Real. Fake.

[A]

Which one?

[B]

Real.

[D]

Fake.

[A]

It's fake. First one was real. We got Blood.

[B]

Doug.

[D]

Real.

[C]

Come on. It's gonna be real.

[A]

That's a fake one.

[D]

Damn.

[C]

Really?

[D]

We got two on the nose.

[A]

Bloodhound. Q50.

[D]

Real.

[C]

Real.

[A]

Good job. We got.

[D]

These are just Xbox Live names.

[B]

They're Gamertag, dude.

[C]

Exactly.

[A]

Lil Smoke.

[D]

I want to lean. Fake.

[C]

Fake.

[A]

Good job. That was a fake one. Bloodhound. Little Jeff.

[D]

Real.

[C]

Real.

[A]

Yeah. And then OG Man. Man.

[D]

Real.

[C]

Real.

[A]

Yep.

[D]

Yep. They really are that. Just gamer tags.

[B]

Yeah, they are. It's so funny.

[A]

Do they just stop caring at a certain point? He's like, yeah. Is it just gamer tags at that point? Because it does sound like them. Q50 is highly specific.

[C]

I. I love watching your videos because I used to have to deal with these same kids that you're dealing with in your videos, but it's like, I was a cop 12 years ago, and seeing you deal with them these days is the same kids. Dude. It thinks it's so awesome to just, like, shoot up the block and do all this and, like, nothing really changes.

[D]

What's the time frame difference on that? It's like 15 years, 10 years.

[C]

Yeah, it's like 12, 13 years. Yeah. Since I've been a cop. And then he's dealing with the same kids, and they. They fucking. The look that they look the same. No. Because they're black, but they. They look the same. They act the same.

[B]

It's the same. It's like.

[C]

Yeah, they're still, like, just trying to act out to, like, do something in their world. Like, just do something.

[D]

Even.

[C]

Even if it's, like, shooting at people, stealing a car or whatever. They're doing the same shit because they

[D]

just want to make a name for something.

[C]

Yeah. They just want to be out there in the world. It sucks.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

I threw their shoes. Like, the lack of storm drain.

[D]

Could you. Could you expand on that story a bit?

[A]

Cody's cold roll off. I threw this shoe so good in the storm drain.

[D]

I don't even know what it means,

[A]

but it sounds violent.

[D]

Do not.

[A]

No, I do.

[C]

Okay.

[A]

It means. But if you add a context, it is a very dark quote.

[D]

It's one of my favorite stories from. From your policing days. Because I think you got it from a movie, didn't you?

[C]

I got it from the Wire.

[D]

Yes.

[B]

That's based in Maryland. That's based near Baltimore.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

Yeah, it's Baltimore.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

No, like, it's. It.

[C]

And it's just crazy seeing that. The same thing. Like, watching your videos and seeing they're acting the same way. From the kids that I saw, like, when I was a cop, like, 13 years ago. It's the same thing. Like. Like we were just saying, like, they just want to make a name for themselves, even if it involves just, like, shooting up the neighborhoods. Their grandmothers have a house.

[D]

Well, yeah.

[B]

What's crazy with the. The rap genre of drill rap is you're. You're kind of incentivized.

[D]

Drill rap.

[B]

Yeah, Drill rap. It's Like a sub genre of hip hop, you're kind of incentivized to go do these violent, heinous acts and you can still get signed to a record label. You know, if, like the buzz about you is you've killed four or five people, it's not like you're going to be blackballed. You're probably gonna have more opportunities.

[D]

So summer loosened everything up. Wait, that can't be right. Nope, that's in the read.

[A]

What are they doing?

[D]

I don't know how you guys spend

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[C]

Oh, cool. So these record labels are still paying people just because they have no notoriety?

[B]

Yeah, I'm not.

[C]

Outstanding.

[B]

Cool.

[D]

I guarantee.

[B]

So weird. It's the fucking weirdest thing.

[A]

That is wild.

[B]

Most other, like, areas of society, if people know you've killed people illegally like that, you're going to be barred.

[A]

Yeah, that's. I didn't know that they.

[D]

I don't think it's. I don't think it's cancel culture when you literally murder a person.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, right.

[D]

There's cancel culture like he said something I don't agree with. It's like, no, he slaughtered a guy outside of cbs. Like, that feels like a very serious offense.

[B]

Seems like reasonable culture, but, you know,

[A]

to sign that too, like, even from a business side is fucking wild. To try to promote any idea, like, any part of that process of, oh, here's his manager or the owner and be like, yo, we need to sign him, because he just iced three people. Have you heard his rap? Like, yeah, that's wild to be like, we need them.

[B]

Well, and people get mad at me for making videos about it. But, like, I don't force them to act any type of way. They're already making music that's on the radio getting, you know, millions and billions of views. And it's really the record labels that are profiting the most because they're signing these people that are doing crime. And if they go to jail or they die, who gets paid? It's the label.

[D]

When you. When you say people get mad at you, what are they saying?

[B]

Oh, you know, I'm a culture vulture. I'm taking advantage of these people, taking advantage of murderers.

[C]

They're already killing each other. Don't ever let anyone make you feel bad that you're showing. This is the shit they're doing, like, to each other every day. Killing each other in their own culture.

[B]

I'm showing the reality of it. And if you watch my videos, I'm never egging it on. I'm pretty much I'm hanging with them like, I'm hanging with you guys. And it's just they choose to talk. I'm not like, so did you kill so and so? Like, they're the ones that are, like, bringing these things up. I'm hanging out, volunteering it. I'm. You can essentially see the perspective of what's it like if Brandon goes and hangs out with this person? I don't come with, like, a weird slant, you know?

[A]

No, you go in. You're very. I mean, transparent on everything. You just go in and you just act. You just befriend everyone.

[B]

Yeah, I'm not the moment. And if they talk about something, I might do a talking head explaining, like, what the hell they're talking about. But I don't come with these, like, loaded questions. A lot of hip hop journalists do, but, you know, that's because that's what the people want, essentially.

[D]

That's one thing I will give you flowers for a little bit real quick is like, a lot of your. Your journalism and the documentaries you've done. So Far have. Like, there's so many people on YouTube that'll just egg the shit on and try to just, like, create scenarios for content, stuff like that. You just let it fly. You, You. You just straight up like, hey, I'm gonna go to this place where something's happening, and I'm just gonna be a normal fucking guy and report on it. And I. I appreciate that because it's not manufactured. Yeah, you just go out there and you're doing real journalism, which is something that most real journalists don't even do anymore.

[C]

And also, Brandon, what he doesn't do, he doesn't try to cause chaos. He's not like, yeah, what did little Blip say about Little Blood? About here? You just go in, you're just like, well, why. Why are you mad at him? What's going on?

[B]

I don't want to stoke anything, but it seems like yellow journalism has become the norm. You know, this weird slanted shit. But, yeah, that's what's so interesting about January 6th is I was there from. I forgot about the morning into the night, and I had no idea it was, like, such a violent white supremacist rampage, because I was there the whole time. And I'm not like, the bravest, toughest guy. I get, like, nervous and shook up. And I was there all day, and I was shocked when I got home and saw the news that it was like such a. You know, obviously they broke into the Capitol building, but it wasn't that violent. Like, we watched the video yesterday.

[A]

Dude, I was about to say, it is wild.

[D]

How have you not looked into this?

[A]

Well, yes, but again, it's like, I don't trust all aspects. But when you have him filming because you get to see the footage, I never understood. It's, like, violent because nothing showed the true violence.

[D]

The violent mob that, like, stuck within the red ropes.

[A]

Yes. And, like, we're walking. But when your video really shows, everyone's just there for. They're like this. That whatever their beliefs are on that entire event, it's still peaceful. And they're not yelling racist shit. They're just being very respectful to everyone. Even you. That Chinese lady that was crying.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

There's like, a Chinese lady.

[B]

Where is God?

[A]

Yeah. She's like, this shouldn't have happened. He should be in office. What's going on? This should not have happened. He should be an office. Like, very heavy Asian accent.

[B]

Literally.

[D]

Thank you.

[C]

I didn't understand it otherwise. Eli, thank you for translating for me.

[A]

But, yeah, it's wild to see how big How. How they swayed that narrative, though. It's. And we talked about, like, yours. That was my first time really seeing how they will switch anything that happens. The media is just gonna, like, flip it.

[D]

You rich.

[A]

And now that it's like, Jesus, you

[D]

guys have been friends of mine for years and years, and, like, you guys know what I believe. You know how I am like, you. You know, like, behind the camera, like, when the cameras are off, you know, you know who I am as a person. You guys have seen who I actually am, and to see what the media portrays me to be, it's like. It's insane. You kind of, like, see the. The media twist and like, these people are not our friends most of the time. Which is why I think your stuff is so refreshing, because I. I think a lot of what you tap into with a lot of your. What I will call actual journalism is very much in the same vein as what vice news was 10 years ago. Yeah, like, I feel like it's that same, like, guerrilla journalism that people are actually interested in and not just, like, slanted stuff.

[B]

It's funny because it's. I feel like it's easier to do authentic journalism. Like, of course everyone has some kind of biases, but you have to put more effort into, like, you know, slant things and skew them like a jerk off. It's pretty easy to just be like, hey, what's going on? Tell me how you feel, you know, at these notable things, like, January 6th. But yeah, I feel like my video was shadow banned because police or not, police reports, news reports on it will have like 5, 10 million views where they don't show any footage. I have, like, you know, an hour edited down into 15 minutes of, like, raw on the ground footage. It's pretty interesting. There's transgender people, there's Chinese people, there's black people, there's women. And nobody is being aggressive or violent. Everyone was getting along. They even sung the national anthem on the steps of the Capitol building together. Like, everyone.

[D]

Oh, it's.

[A]

Dude, is Pete. Like, it's wild. Especially when you hear how that was twisted to. When you watch his footage and it's not like little one offs. It's throughout the day. Yours covers everything.

[B]

It's just the only violence I saw was a cop shot a guy through the face with a rubber bullet was the only thing I saw. But, you know, that's because they were trying to get him to get out of there. But yeah, I've been to concerts that were scarier than January 6th, and I have no incentive to say that, like I'd have no problem being like, it was a madhouse.

[A]

Right. I don't care.

[D]

It would theoretically be a better video for you if it was.

[B]

Yeah. It would be more viral if I was like, they were crazy.

[D]

Yeah. But well, I remember your, your stream coverage because that was, I think one of the biggest live streams you ever did was covering all the news news footage at the time, right?

[C]

Yeah. At the time I had 97,000 concurrent viewers watching me.

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[C]

All I did, I turned on my computer that day on January 6th and I was like, guys, I'm gonna cover everything that's happening. And I just skipped between news channels and it didn't get too crazy. There were a couple people that were like trying to burn flags and shit in there and the people around them were trying to keep them from like burning.

[B]

I think those guys were feds. I think the flag burning people with their faces covered. I feel like we're feds, dude.

[C]

Like I remember my stream specifically. There were people trying to cause trouble and there were people taking their like stopping them from causing trouble and they were like, we're trying to have a protest right now.

[D]

I think a lot of people, like on Jan6, I think there was a really good job with a lot of the like true believers, like just the people that were there for the right reasons that did a lot of self policing that like when somebody would say like, oh, let's go commit an act of violence, they'd be like, no. And they, they shut that, that, they shut that down pretty.

[B]

Yeah. And all the masked crazy instigators, they didn't want to be on camera. They didn't, they wouldn't give me an interview. So I don't know. There was people there with nefarious intentions. For sure.

[D]

For sure.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

I remember specifically there was a group of people, I was watching it on live Stream. There was 97,000 people there with me watching this live stream and there was a dude trying to take the news camera, like take their cameras away from them. And the dudes were in like American flagshirts and dudes are like, we're just trying to. We're just here just to be here. Were trying to keep him from taking the news cameras away from them. So there were people trying to fight the, like, the actual anchors doing their job, and the dudes in, like, the American flag shirts were trying to keep those guys from taking cameras away from people because they were like, we just know. We just won't. Like, we just need news coverage. Like, we're not doing anything bad.

[B]

Yeah. Who else was there that day that is now, like, a big YouTuber. January 6th. Nick Shirley. Oh, yeah, he did coverage.

[D]

I met him at the. The UFC. 250.

[B]

Yeah. He's a cool guy. I reached out to him. He's down to come on the podcast if you guys.

[D]

I'd love to have him. Yeah.

[C]

Seems like a good kid.

[A]

We love you what you've been doing. We know you're racist and all that, but we still look past that. No, you're crushing it, dude. It's.

[D]

Ignore this guy.

[A]

It's wild to see how they tried to even paint him like that dude looks like the most innocent. I'm just doing journalism. I'm not meeting him. That's what I get from watching.

[D]

He's just a journalist. He's doing, like, basic shit that journalists should be doing. Like, he's really doing, like. I actually. I was talking to somebody earlier today, and I compared you with, like, Nick Shirley in a way where I'm like, yeah, it's just like, an independent guy with a camera that's doing shit that journalists used to do before the job was just spinning a narrative.

[B]

Yeah. Tommy G's another one of those people. And, yeah, I had no idea Nick Shirley was such an evil guy. I've known him for, like, five years. Oh, dude.

[D]

Apparently, he's really atrocious.

[B]

Is.

[A]

It is like, him. Because he goes in. It's just like, here is all the data. And when we watch the. Minnesota where.

[B]

Yeah, the daycare.

[D]

Minneapolis.

[A]

Yeah, Minneapolis Daycare one. I was like, I just seen snow. And then when he really says, like, everyone's gonna think he filmed this in one day and it was the day before Christmas, not understanding. It was probably filmed for, like, weeks leading up to that. And I was like, and then you watched narrative happen. It was like, oh, yep, there we go.

[D]

All the leering center fraud bullshit.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And how could you not be upset about that as a taxpayer?

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Like, no one benefits from those people doing daycare fraud except them. So, yeah, you should be upset about it.

[C]

He's not antagonizing people, too. And that's where you're talking about. The journalism that you do comes in, where you just. You're just asking people questions, the same thing that Nick does. Hey, what's going on here? Hey, what's going on here? You shouldn't get mad at that. Just asking people questions. It's insane.

[D]

Yeah, it's not leading questions either. It's not like I'm coming up to you on the street, like, when have you decided to stop beating your wife? You know, like. Like different shit like that, where it's like, just insinuating wrongdoing. You're just like, hey, I noticed that you received this amount of money in taxpayer funds. Do you actually have any kids at your daycare center?

[B]

Racist.

[D]

And then they immediately paint you as just, like, the worst person ever.

[C]

It's like, that's Somalis. Let me tell you about these Somalis, right?

[B]

That's crazy, dude.

[A]

I don't know.

[B]

I can't. I can't be having those kind of questions, dude.

[D]

It's stuff that, like, any reasonable. A reasonable person would just be like, oh, yeah, we'll refer you over, like, our PR guy, whatever. Like, we'll. We'll give you all the data if you want it, whatever. But they just shut the fuck down. Well, I think that was a racist.

[B]

I think a lot of those people have been arrested now. I believe I could be wrong, but I think, like, yeah, I think they've been a lot of those.

[D]

Probably not enough.

[B]

Yeah, not enough.

[A]

But how much money was taken? It's like, you are. Man, it is wild now that you guys are pointing out. It's like, you have such a clean way to document everything. Tyler Oliveira is like. But he. Dude, I love his content, but it's still more leading, like, versus how you do it. You approach it. He still has that. He's like, hey, these people. Piece of shit. And he calls them out, which I do love.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

You go in, just like, I'm being friends with everyone.

[B]

Yeah. Yeah. People don't really know what. What I am. Exactly. You know what I mean? I get it from both sides. I'm, like, called a racist Nazi and also called, like, a, you know, antifa fruitcake.

[D]

So that means you're pissing off the right people.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

How many impasses do you have at this point?

[B]

Infinite. No, it's actually for every time he's not a coward. Every time someone. One of your homeboys get shot as a white person, you get three N word passes. I've. I used mine up though already, so I'm out.

[A]

No, you can use them. All right.

[C]

Now, you do know one of those.

[B]

No kidding.

[A]

No.

[C]

No kidding. You do know one of those hood rats would pull a Glock out and shoot you in chest with it.

[A]

I know.

[C]

At any moment.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

And then use that as a badge of honor.

[B]

Yeah. I really don't want to die that way. I also don't want to die from septic pneumonia or cock sucky cocksucker virus.

[D]

Let's talk about that a little bit. Because you. You had a very serious health care health scare recently.

[B]

Yeah, it was the same thing that the NASCAR driver Kyle Busch passed away from pneumonia. So you have like an infection in your lungs and then it gets into your bloodstream and it shuts all your organs down. Same thing that Ben Askren had that rotted away his lungs. He had to get a lung transplant

[D]

because, like, if you look at the before after a Ben Askren, like, it was pretty serious what he had.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Oh, I didn't realize yours was bad, but I'll let you tell that because it's wild.

[B]

Yeah, I mean, I had like a stomach. A stomach condition for like about like two months where I was vomiting like every day or every few days, and we couldn't figure out what was going on. I'd been to the hospital four times, and then one morning I woke up, my feet were completely swollen, like, huge. You know what I mean? Like, you could almost pop them, it felt like. And I was deaf. And luckily my water retention or like. Yeah, just I don't know if it was water retention or blood or whatever. And they took me to the emergency room and they immediately put me in an ambulance, sent me to Dallas Medical City, and I was in ICU for two weeks. And it was like a whole week of the doctor essentially not knowing if I was gonna live or die. Because my ejection fraction, which is how much blood your heart pumps to your body, was at like between 8 and 12% what it should be. In a healthy person, it would be like 75%. So, yeah, it was horrible. I felt like I was suffocating because I couldn't breathe out of my lungs. My heart wasn't beating enough blood to my body.

[D]

So never like intubate you or like, did it not matter because your heart wasn't working right.

[B]

That was like. Yeah. The next step, would that for them to be like, put me, you know, on like a feeding tube or a coma, induced coma or whatever. But luckily I didn't get to that point, they were really considering the last few days before things got positive. Putting a pacemaker in because that's, like, what helps your heartbeat. But, yeah, that was definitely the most. Way more traumatic than the shootings, because the shootings happen quick and then they're over. But this was, like, seven days and nights of being, like, on the border of about to be dead. So it was terrible. And, yeah, I'm still on. I'm gonna be on three heart medication for the rest of my life with starting metoprolol and spiritual.

[A]

Yeah, Just reference that Standard ejection fraction is normal. Is 50 to 70.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Mild, mildly reduced. Borderline 41 to 49. Reduced heart failure 40 or less. And you were at 10%.

[B]

10%, yeah. Full on heart failure.

[A]

Holy.

[B]

It was terrible. He couldn't breathe. It was hard to talk. And something else that's interesting. If you can't breathe at all, you can't laugh. Because I remember, like, trying to, like, some. If some funny would be said and I'd be like. Because I couldn't get enough air to laugh.

[A]

I remember that it was. We FaceTimed. And then I got off the call just to wish you, like, hey, get better. He was struggling like. Like, hey. And then winded. Like, you just say one word and winded a lot of times. It's a little bit disappointing when you're dealing with doctors or multiple doctors. That's why I started using Superpower.

[D]

Not that kind, but they do have a simple blood draw that gives you information on over 100 of your biomarker markers.

[A]

That's way more than you normally get with a standard doctor visit.

[D]

And the best part is you could do it all in one place with Superpower, instead of going through one of those expensive, like, very expensive blood panels that a lot of doctors charge you for. Mine was over a thousand dollars, like,

[B]

the first time I got it done.

[A]

And this is a proactive preventative health care, which is.

[D]

Which is why the biomarkers are so important for different things. Like, you know, not even just like cancers and things like that, but you can figure out ways that your body will respond, Respond to things later on down the road before they become a problem.

[A]

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[C]

Oh, good God.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

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[D]

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[B]

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[A]

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[D]

Tell them Unsub sends their regards. So you were actively making his condition worse?

[A]

Exactly. I was like, so tell me again about this story.

[D]

It was like socially exhausted and then you were physically exhausting him. You were killing him.

[B]

After I have the phone, I was

[A]

like, eli, so annoying.

[B]

No, I'm just kidding. I was really thankful that you cared and so many people cared.

[A]

I was immediately, once I seen that, I was like, I'm gonna let you get off the phone and sleep. I was like, rest. Holy shit, I'm glad you're okay. But the breathing, everything was wild, cuz it was like every breath was a problem for him. So. Yeah, it was crazy.

[B]

It was gnarly, dude. It was super gnarly. I'm happy I didn't. We're glad you pulled through die from that. Yeah, it's been a great perspective enhancer. Having almost done good.

[A]

No, that's like, hey, we're glad you're still alive, bud.

[D]

Yeah, it's like that's, that's crazy experience though.

[B]

God hooked me up in a big way because, you know, most people when that happens, usually you just die. Or, you know, it could be worse. Like I could have had a lung transplant. You know what I mean? So to have that perspective and just be thankful for being able to my body operating and functioning, I feel like has really helped with my mental perspective on things. Sure. What's.

[D]

What's funny to me though is the amount of people like this is just the fucking Internet in general. But when all that shit was going down, people were just like, mmm, I think he's faking it. He's faking it for views because obviously he wasn't getting enough beforehand.

[B]

Yeah, I was like, I was on a pretty, sort of pretty hot streak before the sickness and things have been a Lot colder. You know what I mean?

[D]

No. Well, do you have any idea how you got sick in the first place?

[B]

So they don't know for sure, like, how pneumonia would happen. It could happen, you know, a multitude of different ways, but I think it was from vomiting and then maybe aspirating on a bit of the vomit and getting an infection. Pneumonia in my lungs and then, yeah, vomiting from. They never found out what the vomiting was caused by.

[D]

No shit.

[B]

Like, so you know how, like, your wrist hurts really bad? You go to the doctor, they'll be like, you have arthritis, which is just, like, you know, inflammation in your wrist.

[A]

Got it.

[B]

They tell me you have irritable bowel syndrome. Like, yeah, whatever the hell that means.

[D]

Here's 19 things that could have caused it. It's, like, cool.

[B]

Yeah. But I took a bunch of ulcer medication for my stomach, and vomiting subsided.

[D]

So, yeah, just like Eli with, like, his, you know, memory loss and, like, gaps in memory and things like that. And he claims it's tbi, but we just think he's old.

[A]

It's both.

[B]

I think he's making.

[A]

Making it up now. It's just everything.

[B]

Making it up for views.

[A]

Who are you? Where am I right now? Just confused at life. Dude, that was, again, wild to see you go through all of that. And then because you were down for the count for how many months?

[B]

Oh, man, it was like, two and a half full months of, like, really unable to do anything. Something that is really interesting is when you have heart failure, your vision can be blurred. So I had super blurry vision. That kind of stopped me from being able to, like, edit my videos or do anything.

[D]

Lack of blood flow or.

[B]

Yeah, I guess something. Something like that. But, yeah, I got out of the hospital. I'm six foot three. I got to the hospital about 140. 144 pounds.

[D]

Holy.

[B]

So I was. You can see the other. You can see the video.

[D]

No, I know you're. You're lean as right now. You're looking like Timothy Chalamet.

[B]

Yeah. And I'm like, 180 right now, so you can imagine 35 pounds.

[D]

Holy.

[B]

Less.

[A]

That's insane.

[B]

It was pretty crazy. But, yeah, I have an older brother named Kyle who passed away at 34 years old from heart attack. So I'm super thankful that I got to experience what I experienced and not just be done, because he didn't get a second chance at life. It was just kind of over for him. He had his big catastrophic heart thing, and it was done. So I got to have mine and Live and then go on.

[A]

Well, I love your positive mindset after too, because we talked yesterday, but you're just like, I want to crush life. And you have that new perspective. You're like, oh, shit, we are pretty fragile. And it can end like that. And add a family kiddo in that mix, you just really start to push yourself harder and you appreciate. You look back at some of the stuff you used to get frustrated at or messed with you, and you're like, man, that was nothing I had. I should have laughed at that compared to what you wanted.

[B]

Seriously? Yeah. It would be right now for me to be like, all depressed and anxious would be such an injustice to God, you know, for, like sparing me and letting me stay on earth. I feel, you know, and everyone deals with depression and anxiety. It's very normal. But I, you know, it's crazy to think about me being sad prior to the health problems because obviously my health is way worse now than it was before the heart failure. Like, I'm still dealing with health stuff, but my mental side of things is so much better just because, you know, I got to see how bad it could be. Like, dude, if I. If I. If I had to like close my eyes and open them and I was in the heart failure mode, it would just be so horrible. So I'm really stoked that that's not happening.

[A]

It's relative. Everything you experience is relative. And what you now you're like, okay, that's. That sucked the most.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

So everything above that pretty cool fucking dopey shit. That's.

[B]

That's.

[A]

I mean, savage to hear it. I'll be like, she's like, oh, what's going on?

[B]

This.

[A]

I'm like, at least I'm not getting shot at. That's literally my bar of. That sucks way worse.

[D]

That was eye opening to me as well. Like on the Jordan trip is like everywhere we went, especially on that one base. Like, like everywhere we went, it was. Okay, here's the area. We are 40 yards over that way. That's the bunker we hide in if we get incoming. You know, we had to go into like bunkers like two or three times. Like, not. Not had to. Like, it wasn't like incoming thing or whatever, but like we're just like going in there. Like, they're showing us, like the whole setup stuff like that. And then, you know, leaving there, knowing that I'm like getting a flight back to the US in 12 hours. It's like, oh, thank you so much for coming out. Whatever. Like, thank you for. For Doing this. I'm like, dude, I, I have the easiest job here. I get to go back home tomorrow. You guys are stuck here. Like there's dudes that were out there on deployment for 10, 11, 12 months so far.

[C]

Oh that, that one, the one picture you showed me. You're playing cards with those kids. They had to been like 19, 19, 20, 23.

[D]

It's a lot of the cabinets that are out there now. They, they weren't around during 9, 11. They weren't even born.

[C]

Yeah, cuz we were just talking about,

[A]

I mean you're looking at it because your average infant infantry soldier is. I want to say it's 19, 18 or 19, it's a young age. But 18 to 21 is when you're in, you do your service, you get out. So it's all babies out of high school like comparative to us.

[D]

Yeah. And like, like don't get me wrong, like those guys were all fucking awesome. But at the same time it's, it's kind of mind boggling for, for guys like us to think about. Like these guys were born while guys like you were deployed in gwad.

[A]

Yeah, that's. Yeah, Chris and me were talking about that. It's like holy shit, these guys are being born when I was deployed.

[C]

Yeah, because, because we were sitting around the table this morning, we had breakfast this morning and Chris, you know, he was in the surge, I think he was in the surge too. And then he, he was a Blackwater guy for the there for a minute and it's just crazy thinking about because you and I, eli, we're. We're 10 years older than fucking Brandon right here. And then Brandon got to go out and hang out with these like fucking 20 year olds. But you're all amazing. It's just. You're doing a great job guys.

[A]

Thank again. Thank you. Every, Everyone out there, the men, women, you signed the dog line and really respect you for that.

[D]

What was even cooler was that the week prior to me getting there, like a couple days prior to me getting there, a bunch of the guys at that forward base that I went to the, the second day had all just decided in country, definitely not for the bonus, but had decided to sign their re enlistment.

[A]

Yeah, you gotta reenlit. And so they did it, they did

[D]

a bunch of like a bunch of re enlistments like the day before I got there.

[A]

It's kind of crazy for anyone that doesn't know it's when your time and service you would either get out or you have a choice. Hey, I'll sign up for three to four. For five more years, I'll get a bonus and I have to swear back and. And re up my contract essentially. So a few soldiers did that.

[D]

But even all the. Even all the shit that's going on right now, like all those guys were willing. Like these were a lot of the dudes that like, I'm not being too specific with stuff but like if there was going to be a boots on the ground action of any kind, like these were the guys that were going to do it. And they were there in country, haven't seen their families in God knows how long. They were the ones that decided like they. They decided to raise their hand and say, yes, I'll do it. I'll do it again.

[A]

And they had you?

[D]

They had me. They had me promote a few guys like a couple of like pin their. Their new ranks and stuff like that. That was those really. It was a fun experience.

[A]

Conrad, you punch it or you like. I'm not gonna hit.

[D]

It was Velcro. It was the velcro.

[A]

So what we do now is here, bam. Or you hit here.

[D]

Well, I wish I would have known that. So next time we go. If we do that again, that's.

[A]

I don't know if they still do that, but.

[D]

No, because I know like the blood wings. When I got the, like the jumps. Jumpsuits, like they. Yeah, they had to pin me twice because they fucked it up the first time.

[C]

Eli, did Brandon get deployed?

[D]

No, I did not. I had. I got optioned.

[A]

We get a go.

[D]

I had the choice of going there and choice of going home, which is more than I could say for most the guys there.

[A]

We're gonna do a patrol though. That's the one request I have when we go. I mean the guys don't. I just want to go on a patrol and then whoever wants to join,

[D]

I would love to. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know how they do that.

[C]

Can I pick my rifle?

[A]

Huh? Yeah, yeah, bring everything.

[C]

I can pick my gun.

[A]

I'm sure if we're going to patrol, they won't say anything. I'm sure there's some drop ak.

[C]

Can I talk to the local tier one guys and pick my gun from them? Hello, Delta.

[D]

Gentlemen. They let me.

[C]

May I have one of your rifles to go on patrol?

[D]

They let me into some of the armories.

[C]

Oh yeah. Oh yeah.

[D]

I got some photos. Well, maybe, maybe put up. But they're running some old school man. Like a lot of those guys, especially the MPS and they're running like, you know, 20 year old M4s that are all like pick rail with the rail covers, like ancient aim points.

[A]

What was my.

[D]

I didn't see a single eotech while I was there.

[A]

Why do you think? My text. When I seen your gun in the group chat, I was like, I. There is a zero, not a non zero percent chance that I. One of those guns I deployed with, because it was the exact same everything I was like, okay, that's an M4, a 1 or a 4, it's an M68. Red dot. And then the bus, everything lined up

[D]

was like, that's the new contract fns actually.

[A]

Oh, no.

[D]

Yep.

[A]

Yeah, I did not know that.

[D]

But yeah, no, like a lot of that stuff, it's like, it's just, it looks so fucking old school. It's like, man, this is the tier one. Guys, I'm sure, get way different shit. But the best summer memories are made outside. And L.L. bean has the clothing and gear you need to make these memories. Their effortless styles are created for summers spent outside with family and friends, like hand sewn boat shoes, coastal cotton sweaters, rugged polos, and of course the iconic boat and tote, which has been made right here in Maine since 1944. L.L. bean, be an outsider. Visit llbean.com to learn more.

[C]

My favorite story that you told me earlier was you managed to find a fucking ma deuce on top of a truck. The army, like one eared people got in you around was like, well, this is this. And you're like, son, I know more than you.

[D]

I didn't say that. Somebody said it for me. I was nodding politely. Wow, this is a 50 cal. He's just like, somebody stopped him. Was like, he, he knows. And I just went, yeah, I have one at home. But I get to get up and like take a picture like on the 50 cal up there. And I fucked with the guy because I saw a loaded belt. Like it was a belt. Like they're four to one. Like four ball, one tracer.

[A]

Oh, yeah.

[D]

Like it was loaded up.

[A]

Blank, blank, red. Blank, blank, blank Red or black maybe?

[D]

Actually, well, it's, it's just standard ball round, just like your standard 50 cal ammo. So like four rounds of 50 cal and then another round of 50 cal.

[A]

That's a tracer and it's marked. You'll see, like when I say blank, blank, blank, it's no markings. And then the tracer is red or black.

[D]

I think it's red.

[A]

Yeah, okay, I remember, right?

[D]

But I was up there and I was with the guy because he's down there, and I'm up in the. The top of the mrap. I go. So if I push these paddles down, what happens? Knowing he couldn't stop me if I wanted to. And he just kind of goes. He just, like, slumps his shoulders. He goes, the neighboring village and my boss will be equally upset. Yeah, okay, understood. It was a great time. All those guys were fucking amazing, dude.

[A]

Would you want to go with us and do a dock if we go in Jordan?

[B]

Hell, yeah, I'll go anywhere. I love traveling.

[A]

You do dock with.

[D]

I think I talked earlier today with some of those people. They said they were opening it up potentially to the idea of doing more bases, like, outside of. Not just Jordan, but, like, some of the. Some of the other bases there.

[A]

I'm down.

[B]

Yeah. I could essentially act as just, like, the residential journalist guy to document whatever y' all wanted, you know, I don't really come to it with that much predetermined stuff, so you could just plug me into any situation, really.

[A]

I think for, like, if we do two live shows back. Back. Come back and then have him.

[D]

Especially if we do, like. If we do, like, meet and greets at a couple bases, like, just, like, the opportunity to go hang out with the guys and do, like, two live shows at big, you know, big bases that they could put something on. Dude, I do that in a heartbeat.

[A]

If we go, we'll eat chow. We can serve chow. I'd be down to search out, like, lunch.

[D]

They have contracts with a lot of local people. I found that out.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Ben, you being the. The amazing journalist that you are, just walk around and be like, hey, what's up? What's your daily life like?

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

How far that would go just to show people, like, what's happening.

[D]

And the amount of people that showed me videos, too, of, like, oh, yeah, during Operation Epic Fury, like, when all that stuff kicked off with Iran for, like, the first, like, week or so, there was like, oh, yeah. We would get, like, incoming, like, 14, 15 times per day, like, in the very beginning of it. And they showed me video, like, as we're standing in the place that video was taken, like, oh, yeah. This is video of all the stuff being intercepted all over the base. Like, shit that was coming, like, missiles that were coming from Iran to Israel that were being intercepted midair right above the base was fucking crazy.

[B]

That's gnarly. And how long were some of these guys on lockdown for?

[D]

Since the beginning. So, like, since, like, March.

[B]

Damn. Some months. And months.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

Is there lockdown? They're just going to stay on base 24 7.

[D]

Stay on base. Like all the tourism activities like before, apparently. You could go to, like, other places. There's a lot of places in Jordan that are very cool. Like. Like Petra, things like that. Things you'd want to see. Right.

[A]

You could actually go downtown and do stuff now.

[D]

It's like they're. They're locked down on base. A lot of the recreational stuff, like when we were at the second base we were at. They said that they haven't had an a gathering of more than like a hundred people in months since Epic Fury kicked off.

[C]

Shit. Brandon, you were like, what do you guys do for a daily or something like that?

[B]

Yeah. Like, what's. What's life like? What do you guys do for fun? How do you let off steam? What's on your mind? I'm curious. What's on there? You know, what's on their mind as well. That's a great question. I like asking people.

[A]

That'd be cool.

[B]

What's on your mind?

[C]

And so they. They don't. I don't know if they feel like this these days. They don't trust journalists very much.

[D]

And why would you.

[B]

I wouldn't.

[C]

Yeah, exactly.

[A]

If you're coming with that.

[D]

I would never use the J word around you. Like, you're. You're not a journalist.

[C]

Yeah, he's just like, hey, guys, what are you up to? What's going on? Like, you're not gonna make them look like holes on CNN or, you know, any other major news network.

[A]

Brandon, Brandon, look what I got you. I got you your own poncho shirt because you don't own one.

[D]

I've never had one editor play any clip of unsubscribe.

[A]

You do always wear them. Why?

[D]

That's because Poncho makes shirts for guys that actually go the outside.

[A]

That's right. You will touch grass when you wear a poncho.

[D]

You don't have to if that scares you, but if you do like touching grass. These are a great shirt for you.

[A]

They have an inner mesh to.

[D]

Yeah, dude. That's what. That's why it breathes so well. Like actually, like in West Texas summer. Like, I'm on the road in West Texas all the time. Ponchos are like the uniform because they look good, you know, the pearl snaps everything like that, but they also actually breathe. So you can be outside and just kind of roll the sleeves up and like, you look good and you feel good.

[A]

The boys.

[D]

And the pearl snaps and ladies love them.

[A]

For the record, it's probably the best shirt he's ever worn.

[D]

I'm not even kidding on my daily attire. Poncho is like 75% of it.

[A]

I think everyone wears ponchos.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

Because it's great. Like, it's. It's comfy. You. If you need to be professional, it can look professional, but otherwise just, like, going around and it breathes well. You could be outside doing sporty. Like, it's just. It's all around, just good for anything.

[A]

And they do have a little bit of stretch.

[D]

But I didn't have to worry about the cost of refilling my wardrobe with ponchos because we had the code unsub.

[A]

How much do you save with that code?

[D]

Well, I'm glad you asked. If you go to ponchooutdoors.com unsub, you'll get $10 off your first order.

[A]

It's a hell of a deal, Brandon.

[D]

To make it even better, you get free shipping on top of it.

[A]

By God, I'm gonna start wearing poncho.

[D]

You'd be crazy not to. Like, I feel like people call me a politician the same way they call you a journalist. Yeah, I don't like the title, but, yeah, that's kind of what I do.

[B]

Yeah, for sure. Yeah. I mean, if I. If I interviewed someone and then they saw the final product and they felt like I misrepresented them, I'd feel like such an.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

You know what I mean? I don't want to be that gotcha guy. Because also, you don't need to. You know what I mean? I make.

[C]

He's not Australian. That's cool.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Rigged questions.

[D]

Whatever could you be talking about?

[C]

Whatever could we be talking about, you fucking cocks?

[A]

Did that happen before or after they were on?

[D]

I think well, before.

[A]

Okay. I wasn't sure on that.

[B]

Wait, that boy. Boy.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

That was like a big part of my video.

[A]

Oh, yeah, you did defend. You were like, yo. Yeah, I forgot about that.

[B]

It was like a big part of my video. Like, these guys came out there and they did this. So, like. Yeah, I just see what it's really like.

[D]

I hate that shit because I'm like, I. At the end of the day, like, I really don't care where your political ties are. Like, I'm not one of those guys that's, like, only political, which is really funny for somebody in politics.

[B]

Yeah, but I get what you're saying.

[D]

I'm like, dude, as long as you're a realistic, down to earth guy, you're cool to hang out with. You're genuine, we'll get along. Like there's a lot of my friends, like we, we talk about this all the time. But like Ethan, habitual line crosser. Me and him have very different opinions on certain elements of foreign policy. But he's still a good friend. I die for that man. Good fucking guy. You don't have to agree with everything I think. I don't have to agree with everything you think, but I'm still. He's a, he's a good down to earth human. Human. I love him to death.

[B]

Yeah. When I watched the boy boy video on you guys, I was just like, bro, that's so lame. So lame how they did you bringing out the, the child targets and stuff, which that isn't even legal to do in most ranges. You know what I mean?

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

What they did. So it's just like ridiculous trick being

[D]

tricksters and we didn't even know like we got that. We're like, is this like a demo from some printing company? Like why the fuck are we getting these? Yeah. And they pretended like that was just something we had.

[B]

It was weird. Yeah, I dissed them pretty heavily. But then I did a video about Lebanon and they commented on that being like complimentary towards me. So I don't know, I feel like there's, you know, there's a bridge there

[D]

and I still don't like, I feel

[B]

like they're not just bad guys.

[D]

No, no.

[B]

They just did a. Kind of a shitty thing and I

[D]

still like, I got along with them great while they were there. Which that's, that's the most disappointing thing because if I could just call them out as like a complete piece of shit, that would be one thing. But we got along for like three days.

[B]

They make pretty good content. I like their stuff besides that video.

[D]

Yeah, I like a lot of their stuff. And I think that they were, they were cool guys to hang out with. But it's like the fact that you would go to the nth degree to be that disingenuous is just, it's irritating because I know you're capable of being really cool.

[B]

I think it's. So I imagine I come out here, hang out with you guys, and then in my video with you guys, it starts off at the a school shooting ground. That's like that. Remember, that's how their video started. That's like, bro, that's pretty interesting context to start the video out.

[D]

And he, he DM me afterwards, basically apologizing for the video, like why not?

[C]

Because you.

[D]

No, here's. Well, let me. He DM me and basically he's like, hey, sorry, but if I was gonna make the video that I was gonna make, I thought you wouldn't have allowed me to come out and you wouldn't have helped me with it.

[B]

I bet you still would have, though.

[D]

And I told him yes. I said I would have.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

Even if I knew that was your tilt, I would have helped you with it because it was a cool project. I just would have asked that you give me an opportunity to say my

[B]

piece, to give the other side because you're not blindsided.

[D]

That's. That would have been all I asked for.

[A]

Wow.

[C]

All right.

[D]

I'm different.

[C]

You boy. Boy, fuck you. I did a thing. You're pieces of.

[B]

Yeah, I understand that perspective. You guys welcomed them into your home and blindsided you.

[A]

It's being so nice and, like, providing the ammo. Provide. Providing a lot of money that cost

[D]

to shoot all ammo guns. Three days of me and my cruise time.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Thousands of dollars. And you were being very respectful.

[B]

If they want to do such an anti gun piece, why do you guys have to be the vehicle that takes it there? You know what I mean? Like, why do you. Why do you guys even have to be in that video? I don't understand.

[A]

I think there's a lot of. It was just, oh, we'll catch them off guard. This is how they're gonna act. And then it doesn't happen. And they're like, huh, huh. I thought they were gonna act a specific way. Like, they would laugh at the kid targets. And then when it's pushed back, like, what are we doing?

[D]

Oh, I'm just disappointed because it could have been done better. Like, it could have been done in a way that, like, everybody wins. Both sides are represented fairly and we do a cool project.

[B]

Like my video.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Still got a million and a half views. I got paid. You guys got, you know, to hang out with someone now. You guys, it's good. It's good.

[C]

It's like everyone is saying we would have, like, complied with everything you wanted to do and hang out with you. And it's exactly what Brandon came down and did. He did the same.

[D]

He did such a good video.

[B]

Yeah, it was a great time. We all had fun. I really appreciate you guys providing me with that opportunity.

[A]

Did you get a blast? Like, we've always, like, I respect the show. You make great content, and then you're just all around a good dude.

[D]

And that was. That was one of the Things. I was actually talking to my dad earlier today and he was asking, like, who the podcast guest was today. And I kind of had to explain, like, what you did a little bit. But I'm like, no, he's not like a lot of the other guys, like, and I'm one of the things that stuck out as far as something that let me kind of like, have an insight having not met you before. But, like, having an insight on your character a bit is. You know, we had had, like, minor interactions in the past, but when we invited you to range day and you had, like a plus one, like a camera guy, but you had asked for an additional plus one, which, like, occasionally happens, like, that's fine, whatever. But you'd ask for an additional plus one for your grandfather.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

Like, to come out to range day. We were immediately like, yes, absolutely. That sounds fucking awesome. But, like, you know, a lot of these guys would have brought out, like, a girlfriend or this or whatever, and you're just like, no, my grandfather'd get a kick out of this.

[B]

Yeah. Shout out to Pawpaw. Did I love that guy?

[D]

That went such a long way.

[B]

As far as.

[C]

What's your video called that you made about Brandon and, like, hanging out down here, what was your video?

[B]

I think Inside the Life of Gun Tubers, I think.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

What's up with San Antonio Grinder, I think was the title of that. Yeah.

[C]

Yeah. We're hot dudes in San Antonio.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Five gay guys with guns.

[A]

Yeah. Three big high five at the same time. We float around.

[B]

Bang.

[A]

Yeah. Our guns sound like that.

[C]

Bang.

[A]

Bang. Our guns sound gay.

[D]

18 naked cowboys in the showers at Demolition Ranch.

[A]

That's my machine gun.

[D]

Dear God. A couple guys in the audience got it.

[A]

That's hilarious. Bang. I want to make a gay slapping gun now. It moans when you shoot it.

[D]

Just having a muzzle brake instead of like a trumpet thing, like, just makes a gay noise.

[A]

Your million dollar idea, the muzzle gay intimidating.

[B]

You just hear gay moans. You're like, oh, my God, they're coming.

[A]

Literally.

[B]

Yeah. Get that in the hands, one of

[D]

those in the hood, it's like double emotional damage.

[B]

Yeah. Not. Fuck that.

[C]

You know what has killed me about those hood rats, though, is, oh, hell, they would.

[D]

They would.

[A]

I don't know why hood rats sound racist when you say any.

[C]

Any. It sounds so racist when I say

[D]

anytime.

[C]

Anytime. You'd arrest them. Like, the biggest thing they could say against you is, like, you gay. Like, you gay.

[B]

You gay. Yeah.

[C]

It's like, I know when you guys go to juvie and you go to jail. I know you fuck each other. I know you do.

[B]

Holy.

[C]

I know you do that.

[D]

Didn't you say that you guys would use that against people where if you had, like, video of them fucking another dude, like, you would use that as, like, street blackmail?

[C]

You think the dudes at the fucking jail don't send us the videos of you guys fucking each other? That's not gay. If you're in prison and you're calling me gay. I've seen you another man. No, you call me gay.

[A]

You gay.

[D]

You gay.

[C]

As I've. I've seen this happen. Like, I have seen this happen.

[B]

That's wild, dude. You're not wrong, though.

[C]

Oh,

[A]

Brandon just faded away in bushes. Faded through his chair.

[B]

Oh, yeah.

[D]

I trust Chase. Do you want another drink?

[B]

Yeah, that'd be sick.

[D]

What are we having?

[B]

A little bit of coke with the. With the sauce.

[A]

Dude, that's. Have you had any police interactions when you're hanging out with any of the gangs or what, filming your videos?

[B]

Yeah, I would say the most negative one was I was in Cortland Avenue in New York, and I always have a fanny pack on me, and I was leaving filming with these guys, and like, three cops, like, jogged at me and essentially immediately put me in handcuffs without telling me anything and searched my fanny pack.

[A]

But really, for you, they just immediately.

[B]

Yeah. Which was pretty crazy illegal, but I kind of get it because it's like, I look like I could be a crackhead hanging out either buying drugs or buying guns from people. So I didn't, like, throw that big of a fit. But, yeah, that was the worst experience. It's like half on camera in the

[A]

video, or you just like, yo, cops swore me.

[B]

It's like, yeah, I was like. I think it was three or four cops. Yeah, they just, like, swore me, but I get it.

[A]

Yeah. I mean, you were in that area,

[B]

and then, what am I doing there? It's like, I'm a YouTuber. It's like, yeah, are you buying crack and have a gun? I get it.

[A]

Were they caught off guard when it's

[B]

like, oh, as soon as they realized I didn't have anything on me, they, like, left quick. But beyond that, I mean, I've done dozens and dozens. I've had no. No negative interactions. Like, we've had interactions, but not really that negative.

[A]

You know, a lot of times, if you're respectful, like, it's just a.

[B]

Respect. It goes a long way.

[A]

Yeah. It's what people don't get.

[B]

That was the one time I Was

[A]

like de escalate or escalate the situation? Oh, de escalate it by being nice and kind.

[B]

But I mean, yeah, I don't blame

[A]

them for thinking it's a hard trade off. Yeah, you get like everything, dude. That's. If you're growing up and that's all you're surrounded by and then your parents are saying and reinforcing a certain behavior, then you have no idea. Like it's just. It's that generational battle of.

[B]

Well, yeah. And then we had an interesting interaction in Kensington, Philadelphia, if you guys are familiar with that, that part of the country. It's like one of the worst.

[A]

It's a drug. Drug place.

[B]

Yeah, it's like. It's like skid row of Phil of the East Coast.

[A]

Is it like the hot. Like one of the highest places for fentanyl?

[B]

Yeah, fentanyl and something called tranq or Xylazine, which is a horse tranquilizer that has necrosis factors like it rots your flesh.

[A]

Cody.

[B]

Similar.

[C]

Russia.

[A]

So this, you probably seen footage, you ever seen where they do some of these drive bys where it's just people like, it looks grimy as fuck and then everyone's just zombieing out.

[C]

Yeah. Yes. Usually skid row in like LA and shit. Like.

[B]

No, it's same thing. Yeah, Same vibe.

[A]

Just.

[B]

It is where I would say I've been to both of them videos on both, it was worse. But yeah, my video in Kensington is one of the few videos where I'm actually just hanging out with all those people over the course of two days, all night, just like. Like we're hanging out right now and it's a pretty insane perspective.

[C]

I'm curious, what do you think that chemical mix is? They're all like fucking with. It's got to be some fent in there.

[B]

The majority of it is fent and thank you so much. And Xylazine, which is, like I said, a horse tranquilizer that rots your flesh. And they mix it up because it has benzo properties. So it's like anxiety reducing with the painkiller element. So they're just out so you can see my videos there and on in Vancouver, East Hastings street, people will have no skin all over their legs or no skin all over their.

[C]

Real quick, Brandon, what video is this that you're talking about? Your video?

[B]

The one is the King of Kensington. It's got like 4 million views. I think it's my third most viewed video. And then East Hastings has like a million views. It's life on East Hastings street.

[D]

Because you have such, like, a raw and unfiltered look at some of these societies and, like, some of these elements of society. Rather like, do you get age restricted? A bunch.

[B]

Yeah, there's some. There's some problems with the monetization, for sure. But yeah, that's why. That's why things like Pepperbox and things like Patreon are so beneficial. Because, yeah, people probably have a bit of a skewed perspective on how much money they think I make. I wouldn't be making a gofundme for my health bills if I was like, I had millions of dollars in the bank.

[C]

He's making $1 billion off of this a month.

[B]

Yeah, no, there's a lot of demonetizations and stuff like that. And for me, I'd rather have like, a really good video that is evergreen than have it be all cr. Censored and show, like, a warped version of reality and then I get paid off of like, crap.

[A]

But should we put him on Pepper Box? Just answer down below.

[D]

Yeah. Who would like to see him on Pepper Box?

[A]

I think it'd be great.

[B]

A documentary section on Pepper Box would be sick.

[D]

So we're looking and doing a few documentaries like With Jack and stuff like that. Like, that's something that we. I think we. I think it's also, like, a huge asset to Pepperbox, too, to be able to show, like, these unfiltered views in societies like that or elements of society where you can't do it on YouTube because they'll. They'll age restrict you and they'll basically just plummet you in the algorithm to the ground where nobody sees it.

[B]

Yeah, it's ridiculous. Some of their policies, they don't make any sense. Like, you can't even talk about health Sarm. You know what I'm talking about?

[A]

Wait, what?

[B]

I don't want to say it because we're. You can't. Oh, yeah, you can't really talk about mental health stuff. You really can't talk too much about drug addictions. Like, in my videos, like, I've done segments where I'll go and I'll show, like, the addict suffering in the street. And then I'll show, like, some of the places where they could get help. And YouTube will make me remove the rehab sections because you can't promote rehabilitation services on YouTube because that's something we've

[D]

talked about a bunch on the podcast before is like, veteran suicide and things that I think are incredibly important, but you can't talk about it without risking YouTube.

[C]

You said the word, Brandon.

[D]

Yeah, no, I said, oh, we have.

[C]

We have to use sewer slide.

[D]

Stupid fucking words like sewer, sewer slide. Or like, what is it?

[B]

Self, self delete.

[D]

Like, shit like that. It's like, dude, you're just devaluing an issue. That's one of the biggest things that we're facing.

[B]

And it needs to be talked about and not the action be normalized, but talking about it should be normalized. That's the only way that you can get help. So when YouTube makes it so impossible to talk about, the only person suffering are the people that are, like, actually suffering.

[D]

Which pisses me off because it's corporations like Google that are basically making the decision that instead of actually finding ways that we can get these people help. I'd rather have sponsorships from Nabisco so people. People can buy more Oreos. That's. That's the decision that they're making. You want it to be advertiser friendly.

[B]

The trade off Funko Pops wild.

[A]

When you put it in that perspective,

[B]

yeah, that is messed up.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Friend offed himself with. Thank God that Captain America Funko Pop came out.

[B]

Yeah, they got an extra 2 million from Funko Pops. Have any of you guys been to Greenland before?

[D]

Never.

[B]

Oh, well, I kind of ends the conversation.

[D]

No, it doesn't. It makes it more interesting. What's up?

[B]

I've never been, but I'm about to go next week, so I just wanted to know if you guys had been and what it was like and everything

[A]

I hear is icy. There's Iceland and Greenland, but they're opposite

[D]

with actually just flip us off.

[A]

Yeah, sorry. Sorry. But it's opposite. And the scenery.

[C]

Did you learn that from Mighty Ducks when we were growing up?

[A]

Yes.

[C]

Aubrey knows what I'm talking about. There's the only. The only reason I know the difference between, like, Greenland and Iceland is because growing up in the Mighty Ducks, they said Greenland is icy and Iceland is green.

[A]

Yep. That's actual, like, true.

[D]

Well, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[A]

That's probably where I remember that from. His Mighty Ducks back in the day. Like, back in the day, show off the mix on video. Ah, See you guys watched it. Been playback of me mixing it so

[D]

it looks like purple drank. But what do you have there, Eli?

[A]

I have the Longevity mix. And this stuff actually tastes really good.

[D]

What's the purpose of the Longevity mix?

[A]

Longevity.

[D]

Why would anyone want to live longer?

[A]

I don't know.

[D]

Well, if having more life is something that's interesting to you, you should try

[A]

blueprint now with one scoop what all do you get and why am I drinking it? Because it comes with everything. Magnesium, glycerin, creatine, you name it, it's in it and all in one scoop.

[D]

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[A]

That's [e-mail] I think Greenland is like

[B]

the biggest island in the world and there's only like 50,000 people living there. But I've heard some interesting stuff about like Thule Air Force Base in the north part of Greenland and there's like some stuff allegedly going on with Russia and America and a possible, you know, conflict.

[D]

That's one of the reasons why Greenland's always been very, you know, one of the reasons why we've always kind of looked at that is because it basically cuts our response time in half if we were ever going to have a nuclear threat or things like that. Like that sort of response element is why one of the many reasons why Greenland's always been appealing to the United States.

[B]

Yeah, it's super tactical position up there, right?

[C]

Yeah, yeah.

[D]

Because I mean anytime you're going to go to Europe like you basically have to pass over Iceland or excuse me,

[A]

Greenland fuel, everything from there. So, so it's a lot shorter distance to just.

[D]

And they, they've allowed us to have bases there. Like we're allowed to basically be strategically located there.

[C]

What are you going up there for, Bob?

[D]

If we can talk about it yeah, of course.

[B]

I'm going to Nuuk and Alulissat, which are the two most inhabited places of Greenland. I'm gonna do videos about like, you know, life in the Arctic or life as an Inuit. And then I'm gonna go to Reykjavik, Iceland. This viewer reached out to me saying that he was a former drug dealer and has all this information about the criminal underworld of Iceland. And I was like, that sounds pretty interesting.

[D]

That's cool as flood, dude.

[B]

So I'm gon talk to this guy and all the people that he knows. I mean, I'm kind of rolling the dice. I don't really know him, but I've talked to him on the phone. It seems interesting.

[D]

You won't get shot, but you might get ice.

[B]

Picked a heart.

[A]

Way worse.

[B]

And then I'm going to Iqaluit, Nunavut, which is the northernmost province in Canada. Just like, similar thing. There's actually like 15 homeless people in this place called Iqaluit, which is like freezing 10 months out of the year. And. Yeah, I just want to see what it's like for these people and, you know, what their everyday is.

[C]

What do you think your biggest criminal enterprise is in Greenland? Like, what do you think that they're. They're doing up there?

[B]

That's a good question. I would think drugs.

[C]

Well, I mean, definitely it's drugs everywhere. What do you, what do you think they're.

[B]

I don't know, because I was looking to. There's no, like gangs or organized crime. There's no prostitution. There's no, there's not much. It's mostly domestic violence because.

[D]

Too cold to not have clothes on.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, seriously. But it's.

[C]

It's methamphetamine.

[B]

Yeah, probably methamphetamine. I would.

[C]

I haven't looked it up. I'm just, I'm just.

[B]

I think so if you're, if you're

[C]

in a, like an isolated country like that and you're, you're. You're trying to build some type of illegal trade there, it probably is going

[D]

to be methamphetamine because, I mean, you can't grow anything.

[C]

Yeah, yeah, exactly. You can't grow. There's probably not a big weed trade up there. This.

[B]

And their days are. No, their days are wonky. They have something.

[C]

What is it, Eli, did you look it up?

[A]

The highest drug uses is cannabis and psychedelics.

[B]

Psychedelics.

[A]

Well, very low rates for opioid or ADHD meth drugs. So those are the actual low use. And they use the two opposites. I wouldn't have guessed. Like weed and get tripping balls. But if it's.

[B]

That's fascinating.

[A]

Rocks and stuff. Maybe they just.

[C]

It's gonna be methamphetamine.

[B]

Yeah. When I get up there.

[C]

Yeah. Yeah.

[B]

I would imagine they have something called the midnight sun. Like their days are so wonky. Like half the year it's bright all day. Half the year it's like dark all day. It's pretty.

[C]

It's like the vampire movie.

[B]

Yeah, pretty much. It'd be a great place. What's that?

[C]

Vampire movie? Yep. Yeah. 30 days a night.

[D]

That movie was perfectly mid.

[C]

It could have been cooler.

[B]

Yeah. They eat whales.

[C]

Yeah. Yeah. Josh Hardnet is in it.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Yeah. Are you going to try? Well, if you can.

[B]

Yeah. People might.

[D]

Whale meat.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

It's illegal, but they can do it. I think that's.

[B]

Yeah, it's part of their culture. Yeah.

[D]

It's like a religious.

[B]

They have it in Japan as well. I tried it in Japan or maybe I didn't. I don't know. It was like a mix between fish and steak. It was good.

[A]

That's what I had.

[C]

Raw.

[D]

So high fat.

[B]

I don't. Yeah. I'm not sure what the. What the fat count is, but I know people get really upset about it. But you can't complain about like a culture that's been eating whale for hundreds of years doing what they do. Yeah, it's.

[A]

Well, it's. It's one of their. As you said, it's like a religious thing or it's this social thing they do once a year with the stabbing the wells. Yeah, right. Is that the right place where they bring them in and stab them with. No, no. In Greenland.

[B]

I've seen that in Japan. I'm not sure and I'm not sure in Greenland, but I know that it's like a big. There's not very many resources, so it's kind of something that they rely on. It's like seals and whale. Got a Sam's Cafe pizza.

[D]

Order up. You know the best part about the. This spicy Italian sausage.

[A]

I voted for this topping.

[B]

Yeah. Just another perk of being a member.

[D]

Come join us, Sam's Club. And you're not.

[B]

You're not getting corn in the ice.

[A]

Am I wild with this?

[D]

That is alarmingly fair.

[B]

Yeah. That's really interesting. Well, there.

[D]

I think there's also a huge difference between like hunting something to ext. Extinction for excess or for export or things like that versus, like, this is something that my grandfather's. Grandfather's grandfather.

[A]

Exactly.

[D]

Like, you know, this Is something we've always done, and they're not at any risk if we do it at this rate.

[B]

Yeah, they're not going buffalo mode. Yeah, I think they're being reasonable about it.

[D]

If you pull up the fucking picture of, like, the. The stack of buffalo skulls that we had back in the day when we were, like, expanding onto the frontier, we kind of went ham.

[B]

I don't know if that's a saying, but buffalo mode is now. Yeah, like, it's. You know what I'm fucking talking about.

[A]

That's a good shirt, actually. Yo, I'm going buffalo mode. And you just stack embodies.

[B]

Yeah. Ripping shit up just with a skull.

[A]

A buffalo skull. Buffalo mode.

[B]

Yeah, that would be interesting. I want to do videos about life on the reservations for Native Americans. I feel like that'd be interesting. I haven't done that yet also, guys.

[C]

You do?

[D]

Yeah, we actually do.

[B]

That's sick.

[D]

If you want to get hooked up, we can.

[B]

I would. Like. I know, like, yeah, Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma are, like, big areas.

[D]

Arizona.

[B]

Yeah. Arizona, the Dakotas, you know, they.

[C]

They have their own gangs, too, so you got to watch out for that.

[B]

I've heard that crime and drug use is really rampant, and on some of

[C]

those communities, it's pretty gnarly.

[B]

As well as mental health issues.

[A]

Alcoholism. Yeah, they have a couple of issues. Yeah, alcoholism. They. Why is it a problem? It's like their body.

[D]

Well, so it's. It's. It's something that I always thought was overblown. Like, I always thought, like, oh, yeah, well, anybody can become, like, an alcoholic. Like, if you, you know, with the wrong habits. One of my. My mentors back in the day, I will say, was majority, like, his bloodline. It was majority, like, Native American. And I always thought he's like, ah, no, I don't really drink. You know, beer, alcohol, anything like that. And one day he had a beer with us, and I won't out him. He's still a very good friend. I love him to death. I thought it was always, like, super exaggerated. He had one angry orchard, like, one. One, like, sugary beer. And he was like, piss himself in

[B]

his chair drunk, because they metabolize it differently.

[D]

Very differently. And I thought he was fucking with me, and he was piss himself into,

[C]

like, I don't want to get up. I'm gonna go bathroom.

[D]

Like, he was that bad off.

[B]

Whoa.

[D]

And one off of one. And it, like, 10 minutes later, he was fine. Like, they just metabolize it super fucking fast.

[B]

That's what I heard about Greenlanders as well.

[D]

Really?

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

Interesting.

[B]

So I was really, I was curious to go to the bars on a Friday night and see if I could, you know, capture some of that alcohol culture. Oh, because they probably get like hammered off three drinks. Like hammered, hammered.

[A]

Isn't that wild reading? It's like they don't care about meth or anything. It's like cocaine and cannabis are there to main. Everything else is very low.

[D]

That's Greenland.

[C]

Brandon, real quick, if you, if you do the rest thing, we know a guy.

[B]

Yeah, that'd be really cool. I've always been really interested. I've never done it. My grandfather has a half blooded Native American sister, so I want to, I want to trace and see if I have any native American roots. Well, like if she had kids, I would have Native American relatives. That would be really interesting.

[D]

You might have claim to a casino.

[B]

Seriously, I want to cash out. Blackjack.

[C]

When it comes to law enforcement out there, just like let us know.

[B]

Yeah, because it's different. Right. The rules are, the rules are different on the reservation. They have their own self governing situation.

[D]

It's very strange because they're, they're within the continental United States, but they're kind of governed as their own independent, you

[C]

know, sovereign type thing.

[D]

Yeah. Not like sovereign citizen. This is where like legally they're actually sovereign. They just read something on Reddit.

[B]

Yeah, I feel like there's a lot of interesting stories within there. Yeah, I was doing some research on like, what was it like Sitting Bull. Do you know I'm talking about the guy, he died in like 1901. That's not that long ago. It's like the, the Wild West. And the, the end of the Native American situation is pretty, pretty interesting how recent that was.

[D]

Yeah, it's like, it's, it's definitely, it's, it's kind of crazy how you'll read about these things throughout history and then you forget that like your grandfather was alive when it happened. Yeah, like, you know, different things like that. It's, it's like you don't, you don't contextualize it until you hear something like, yeah, Rosa Parks was alive to watch the movie Shrek.

[B]

That's true.

[D]

Oh, fuck. Wait a minute, dude.

[B]

Yeah, that's crazy. That's super gnarly.

[A]

In the past, Greenland government implemented temporary and local alcohol cell bans.

[B]

Mm.

[A]

This is also like 20 as recent as 2020 to curb domestic abuse and protect children because they're, they're chin checking

[B]

their wives and kids off that liquor. So I read. I Don't know.

[A]

I've never heard of Chin Chat.

[B]

It's apparently a real thing. I don't know. I haven't been there. I don't know any of them. I don't think it's good that they're doing it.

[A]

No.

[D]

Yeah, crazy take. I don't think that's a good thing.

[A]

I've just never heard it called that. Which video are you most excited for coming up? Or do you have. Haven't planned that far out? We're like, oh, man, I really look forward.

[B]

Oh, dude. I'm most excited about the India videos because we went to India, like, last month.

[D]

No shit.

[B]

Yeah, for like 16 days. It was like the first thing I filmed since coming back from Almost dying, which is probably not the most responsible decision. But how was it, though?

[D]

Like, what. What would you say about your experience there, bro?

[B]

So, interestingly enough, India is so beautiful and just totally clean and there's just no trash anyway.

[D]

I'd like to believe you.

[B]

No, I was. I was hoping I could find a little enclave that was like that. But no, it was very, very, very filthy and a lot of piss and shit everywhere. But that's just because they're having sanitation issues. But it was a really fun trip and I really enjoyed my time. I went to New Delhi, Agra, Varanasi and Mumbai. So we went all around and Indian people were great to us, but there's definitely some trash problems.

[D]

I grew up around a lot of people that were, like, straight. Like, not. Not first generation, but, like, second generation Indians who had made it to the United States. Like, I grew up around a lot of that culture and none of them want to go back.

[B]

It's. Dude, there's this culture of driving there where everyone honks their horn at all times. Have you ever heard about this?

[D]

No.

[B]

Like, Eli was with me. It was so insane. I'm talking about imagine, you know, there's a thousand cars in deadlock traffic and every car is honking their horn.

[D]

Why?

[B]

It's apparently like, just their culture of driving. Like, I'm here, like, on the back of big 16 wheelers. There's, like, signs that say, blow your horn. I wish I was making it up, but me as like, a little autistic retard, I was, like, spazzing out with all the horns.

[D]

I was like, that sounds fucking awful. Like, overstimulated.

[B]

Yeah, it was very overstimulating. But we did a bunch. A bunch of interesting stuff. Like, we went to the city of Varanasi, which is called the City of Death, and we spoke to an agory cannibal, a man that is a. I mean not, it's not alleged he eats human flesh. And we went to this gat, this crematorium gat where they burn like over 100 bodies every day.

[D]

So what's the scenario in which he. So as A an open cannibal that he eats human flesh? A why? And B, how?

[B]

So why is a is apparently to distance their fear of death so they like apparently drink piss and eat shit and eat human bodies and you know, hang out by these crematorium gats to lessen their fear and lower their ego is what they say. But this guy just fucking smoked weed all day and was kind of a. To be honest, but he's gonna say just eight did. He had the skull of like a 10 year old and a 12 year old that he carried around that he, you know, severed from a body, which I think is, you know, desecration of a corpse and isn't cool.

[C]

Does he know that's wrong?

[B]

Well, they, it's apparently like accepted in their culture. So it's like, you know, who am I to say it's wrong? But the way that I feel is like yeah dude, that guy should be in, in prison or at least have his ass kicked. Maybe I shouldn't say that, but that's, that's fucking wild.

[D]

I was like, oh, it's to lessen my fear of death. I was like, you could just also like, I don't know, go to church or something like that's. You don't have to eat the flesh of a 10 year old.

[B]

Do some push ups in it, mate.

[D]

Yeah, just anything, literally anything that has helped with your.

[B]

Yeah, we have that video and a bunch of YouTubers have done a video with this exact same guy, Rob Kumara Gori. I just thought he was a bit of a jerk off and I don't, I don't rush to say that about somebody, but he was, he was, he was annoying, bro. Like he, he thought he was the. And he. I just thought he was a weirdo with these skulls and doing this weird ceremony and stuff.

[A]

I don't want. Do you feel like it was hyping it up? Yeah, like I did all this and it's just like stolen valor.

[B]

Exactly.

[A]

Like he's a cannibal. Stolen valor.

[B]

If you look him up online, he's like had all these different girlfriends and apparently they're real gory. They wouldn't ever be on camera. They like hide in the hills and stuff. So, you know, I don't know what to believe, but that was a really interesting video I'm excited for. And then there's a video about the Balsawa village. I'm probably saying that wrong, but it's a. It's a village that's right next to a landfill. And the landfill has been overflowing. It's like 100 to 300ft high, trash, and it's, like, pouring over this village where rent is, like $20 a month. And we got to go in there and talk to people, met some really kind of individuals, individuals that, like, you know, welcome. Welcomed us into their homes and their church and, you know, gave us food. They call India the land of a thousand shopkeepers because everyone's selling shit everywhere. It was cool.

[A]

Did not know it was called that.

[B]

I think. I hope I'm not just making up.

[C]

Brandon, I. I love you so much, man. But after, like, we thought you were fucking dying last year and we were so worried about you, you went to a. An Indian encampment where people eat. Eat other people under a landfill.

[B]

And this was my first thing back. Yes. Probably a bit stupid.

[C]

Okay. Okay. We love you. We love you, brain.

[D]

Why do they have such a complicated relationship with trains?

[B]

They just can't figure out that those things are dangerous, I guess. I don't really.

[D]

And here we have the local Punjab deciding to stand right where, predictably, his natural predator, the train, will be.

[B]

Why are there so many videos on Twitter of them getting hit by trains?

[D]

I don't get it. There was actually. I saw there was a viral unsub short of me doing the David Attenborough voice on the whole Indian train thing, and half the people in the comments didn't know it was me doing the voice. They're like, how'd you AI date David Attenborough?

[B]

It's really good, honestly, but they really do.

[D]

Yeah, I really don't get it. And I understand there's like, a certain, like, cultural part of it where it's like a proof of, I don't know, bravery, where it's like, look at how will. How close I'm willing to get to this thing that will pretty predictively kill me.

[A]

The Train Boys. The Train boys Just go have fight Trains.

[D]

Imagine, like, living your entire life.

[A]

Wait, there's actually.

[D]

Yeah, no, I brought this up.

[A]

I didn't know it was to court women.

[B]

I've seen that. The videos of them doing a flip and then, like, trying to, you know, get some.

[D]

Yeah, it's like a bravery thing. Or like, how, like, oh, look at how cool I am. Or whatever. And then they get smoked by Thomas the Dank Engine. It's crazy.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

The bat. Well, I was like the backflips. Because I got the videos. I'm like, trying. And then they never. Very rarely accomplish backflip. And then they're like, paralyzed from the layers.

[B]

Interesting stuff. Have you guys heard about Gorhaba? The shit festival. Festival that is in India.

[D]

I think Tyler.

[B]

Tyler went there. So we were scheduled to go there in 2024 and they ended up stopping us on the airplane. Like, they. We got. We got to India and they wouldn't let us in. They. They revoked our E visa on the airplane. How? I don't know. I just feel like that shouldn't be allowed. So we. We were supposed to do that in 2024, and then Tyler did it in 2025. It's a whole festival where they throw at each other cow. Because cows are sacred. And, you know, they eat poop, they drink pee, they smear poop on their face. Poop can help them sleep, it can help them wake up, it can help them with stomach problems. It can help all kinds of things.

[D]

If you look at them, import 2 million of them to Texas right now.

[B]

We need them.

[A]

I'm just happy I was born here.

[B]

Yeah. Crazy culture.

[D]

We really did. Like, we got the fucking lottery. Like, this is the greatest country in the world, dude.

[B]

If you look at.

[D]

Fuck's sake.

[B]

If you look at the proposed medical benefits of poop in India and not everywhere, but in certain places. It's crazy.

[A]

Wait, there's. Is actually, like, truly, I'm not. Is.

[B]

It's wholly medicinal. Yeah.

[D]

So something that went through a cow's body that started as grass. These are the health benefits of potentially consuming the waste byproduct.

[B]

It sounds just like a racist fever dream joke. But they. They're the ones that are doing it and thinking of it like. You know what I mean? I'm not.

[D]

What are they saying it does?

[B]

Oh, all kinds of stuff. They even. There's even a thing where they think that smearing a certain poop pee concoction can lighten your skin on their face. Yeah, there's all kinds of stuff.

[A]

Cody, I need you to open your tongue. I stick it out and go, ah. Okay. And I just place a turd on it.

[B]

Anyone's. Yeah, anyone who's mad about this information. We didn't make this up.

[D]

I cannot see a way. One would think that smearing cow shit on your tongue would lighten your skin.

[A]

It's the age of information. What's wild? Because if you go on, I mean, ig, you get to see some of the weird stuff like when they're doing. Dude, that dude, he's like Dr. Pimple Popper, but for India. But he just uses the same knife over on the, like public watch.

[D]

People use them as soaps, toothpastes and immune boosters. They are also used in spiritual cleansings. However, doctors warn against these treatments. There is no real proof that poop cures illnesses.

[B]

So yeah, you know, you don't wanna, we don't want to be saying this, but we're getting this from them. Apparently they think that poops can help with immunity to all different kinds of, of illnesses. It can help with antimicrobial stuff. It can help with cancer. I mean the list goes on and on and on. Poop is like the greatest. I can't even say it. Poop is like the best.

[A]

Shows off camera, just nod. She's like, yeah, no, I'm joking. She's looking to scotch it right now.

[B]

It has so many uses.

[D]

Well, the percentage of people in Ireland who believe this has gone up recently.

[A]

True.

[B]

Ann in Frisco, dude, poop has gotten popular in Frisco. I've heard.

[D]

I've heard that as well.

[B]

Yeah. But to be fair, apparently it's not all Indians. Plenty of Indians are not into the poop games.

[D]

No, not like I grew up around a lot of like second generational like Indians and things like that. And like there's a lot of interesting holdovers from Indian culture, but a lot of them are like very secular, like very like very first world, let's say.

[B]

So they probably think is it's just as weird as we do.

[D]

Yeah. Like if you were raised in the United States, like a lot of them are still just like kind of like looking back at like, like traditional Indian customs. And that's, that's what I was saying earlier is like they don't want to go back. They're like, what the fuck are these people talking about?

[B]

I don't blame them.

[A]

It's hard. And when you're raised in it again, it is that taking that step back and you have to understand from their perspective there is no age of information or it's very different compared to what we get here. And all the time if your parents are like, yo, did you take your turd sandwich? It's Tuesday. You're going to believe turd sandwich on Tuesday. It's extremely important. And you continue to do that and you'll pass that on to your kids and your Kids, kids.

[D]

You have to get wider so you can go to a higher cast.

[B]

They have a caste system. It's crazy. We got to see the Taj Mahal. India has a lot of beauty and a lot of cool things. Like it's, it's a very complicated place, I feel, you know, I mean, there's some really incredible stuff. And the fact that they built the Taj MAHAL in what, the 15 or 1600s is pretty wild.

[D]

That one building is older than our entire country. Like, that's kind of like a crazy concept for us.

[B]

Yeah. And it's like a testament to actually some of their civilization. I know people might laugh at that, but dude, just go, just visit that place. It's crazy. But the Taj Mahal is surrounded by slums. Like in the modern day you'd think like this beautiful wonder of the world has like a booming tourist economy and like rich people around it. It is surrounded by like the poorest of the poor. It was one of the worst slums we went to. It was like literally all of Agra around the Taj Mahal, which was interesting and something too.

[D]

We've had friends that have gone there and they like warn against bringing like, if you have like a blonde girlfriend or something like that, just absolutely do not bring them into that country.

[B]

Yeah, I wouldn't personally, but hey, do your own, do your own thing if you want to. Go ahead. I wouldn't.

[A]

There's Ramana John, that's the Indian dude that was like, do you know Ramanujan?

[B]

No, I don't think so.

[A]

He's the one that ama the movie is that one Indian dude that was born in a low cast and then he just taught himself mathematics, got to Harvard. Was it Harvard? Cambridge. Like they got him into Cambridge because he just wrote a whole bunch of different papers. And the, the professors at Cambridge at the time were opening it and they're like, what the fuck is all this? And he solved a lot of shit. They had no idea.

[B]

All self taught.

[A]

He just read books.

[B]

That sounds really interesting.

[D]

Oh, cool.

[C]

One guy in the world figured out how to fucking not eat shit.

[A]

Literally.

[C]

That's really cool, Eli.

[A]

I thought he did great.

[B]

So what's crazy, they worship the cow, right? And there's cows everywhere in the streets. Like there'll be a highway that has to stop because there's cows. But the cow, like half the cows are starving and sitting there in 110 degree weather. They don't treat them good, they just don't kill them. It's very weird.

[D]

It's kind of funny. Because you'd probably be treated better as an American cow.

[B]

Way better, bro. You get food, you get your own little encampment. These cows are just roaming this fucking concrete schoolyard and starving.

[D]

That was the other thing too in Jordan that they had like stray dogs

[B]

all over the place, everywhere, Lebanon to all over.

[D]

Like they would find their way onto base and that's like a base order is that you're not allowed to pet or engage with the dog in any way, shape or form because like half of it's like rabies.

[A]

But you know, they don't really you. And when you say there's a straight dog, it's. People still think it's like oh, one or two. And you're like, no, no, hundreds, thousands, just everywhere.

[B]

And they seem tired too, right?

[D]

Yeah, like a lot of them were like just always napping in the shade and things like that. But it looked like I, the, the closest thing I could compare it to is like a Rhodesian Ridgeback. Like that sort of like that kind of dog.

[B]

The tan. With the tan fur.

[D]

Yeah. And it like it kind of sucked. Cuz like I'm coming from the United States, like I just want to pet the dog and that was just an unknown whatsoever. Like if you domesticate them, apparently they start getting aggressive. If you stop feeding them or stop petting them or stop like they, they get aggressive and then it becomes a problem. But that and disease and everything like

[A]

that, that's over there as well. It's a big problem. People just don't realize. Cats, you rarely see stray cats though. Like true.

[D]

Yeah, we didn't, we didn't see a single cat.

[A]

Yep.

[D]

But like in, in Islamic culture, like you're forbidden, I think from, from contacting the dog. Like you're not allowed to pet dogs or.

[B]

Oh yeah, you can't have a dog in the house for Muslims.

[A]

I forgot about that.

[B]

Yeah, yeah. Cuz they're like non. They're not clean.

[D]

Yeah. They're trying to b dogs in Ireland.

[B]

Boy are they missing out.

[A]

Wow. They're trying to ban them in Ireland. That's.

[D]

Why would that be the case? Show. I don't know, dude.

[C]

No one in Ireland wants dogs.

[A]

Show dogs are allergic to potatoes.

[B]

Why did the Irish change their opinions about owning dogs? Show.

[A]

Show. The camera turns around. I think four cameras turn to show.

[D]

I think the dogs have changed their opinion on who they want in Ireland.

[A]

Oh, you've been to Japan. Cody just got back from Japan for the first time.

[B]

It's so good, isn't it?

[C]

Oh, it's rad.

[B]

So good. It's cool.

[C]

It's a good time.

[B]

Racist operator went to Japan and he loved it. No, but serious though, it, it is, the culture is different, right? It's a little bit different, but it is so clean. It is so beautiful. People are so respectful.

[C]

It's awesome. And then you, you have to carry your trash around with you because there's no trash cans on the street anywhere.

[B]

That was different.

[D]

That was cool.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

So there's no trash everywhere.

[B]

Feels so safe everywhere. Even in like the busiest of cities, you don't feel like anyone's going to rob you or ask you for a dollar or punch you or stab you in the neck or set you on fire or.

[D]

I think that's just the places you go to in the States.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, I'm one. I'm kind of right. Referencing the worst of the worst. But a lot of major cities in America have some really rough parts you'd want to avoid. And I went all around Japan and super safe.

[A]

Dude, when you go in Japan, like Cody will vouch for. It's like you feel, you're just like, oh, I am good. I didn't even think about. You don't mind your phone now. You just don't think about anything. Like, no, no one's gonna ask you for money even. That'd be. God, that'd be a weird thing to actually experience.

[C]

Yeah. There's no JBL speakers, just playing random music like everyone's super kind. It was fucking awesome. High trust society. I think this would call that even.

[B]

Yeah, I feel like regular civilians would like turn on you if you were playing music in public. Like, they wouldn't go for it.

[C]

They wouldn't be mad about it though. They would be mad about it. They wouldn't be asking to stop. Like, hey, dude, would you turn that

[D]

down now they'd all turn into the witch from like Left 4 Dead. Just start sprinting at you, ripping you apart.

[A]

It's like, oh shit.

[C]

Well, I, I, I, we, we went on a, one of the high speed trains there at one time and I, I put my bag not facing the way they wanted it to and like they came up and they're like, you need to do this right now. And I'm like, dude, I don't understand what you're saying. I couldn't understand what the dude was saying at first. He's like, you need to shift your bag to the side and finally got it and turned it and everyone was happy. But I couldn't imagine anyone having like a loud Playing speaker on that.

[D]

How many people in. In Japan spoke English? Like, ratio wise, would you say like, 30%?

[C]

No, dude, like, everyone at every shop spoke. Spoke a slight amount of English. Like, you do this. You did. Like, you do this. You have to do this.

[A]

You hand the money, they will give you exact change back.

[D]

Yeah, yeah.

[C]

No, it was rad.

[B]

No tipping either.

[A]

Nope.

[D]

That was also. That was wild.

[B]

Yeah. Because, like, it's rude to tip well.

[C]

Because I'm used to here in the United States. If, like, a server treats me very well, I'm gonna pull out a hundo and just like, hey, thank you so

[D]

much for treating my.

[C]

My party well. Like, if we're hanging out at a restaurant or something, like, here's a hundo. Thank you. Over there. They're just like. I would try to hand them, like a hundo in Japanese, like a thousand, I think, is what it was. And they were just like, no, no, no. It's like, okay, thank you so much.

[B]

They're literally like, sir, take your money.

[D]

Take your money. Yeah.

[C]

They got mad at me because I was trying to give them money for having a good service to myself and my wife.

[B]

But their service is so good.

[A]

Oh, dude.

[C]

And it's incredible.

[B]

They're so good.

[A]

You, Brandon, you have to go. We. I. That's the one thing I'm down to go to take a trip there just because the experience of that. Everyone's so respectful. I forgot about when we went to that bar. It's like 90 minutes. Drink as much as you want for 20. Unlimited drinks for $20 for 90 minutes.

[D]

So this was this. This trip to Jordan was my first time out of the country ever.

[B]

Oh, watch it.

[D]

I forgot I've never been out of the country. Like, most people, like, go to Cancun or whatever in high school and, like, get a tattoo or whatever. I. My first time, I was 30 years old and I went to Jordan to go visit troops.

[A]

I don't know.

[B]

It's pretty tight, though.

[D]

It was cool. It was cool as shit. Like, flying into Dubai and then getting like my. My layover there and whatnot. And, like, hearing. And I know, like, it sounds. Sounds totally normal if you think about it for two seconds, but hearing the Islamic call to prayer over the airport loudspeakers, super loud. As an American, I'm like, this is culture shock. This is kind of wild. But doing that, like, going there to Amman, everything like that, like, it was. It was really neat. It was a very cool experience, and I would. I would love to do it more.

[A]

Dude, we Got it. Yeah. Then we need to plan something for Japan, because I think you would have a blast. And all of us would go again,

[C]

Especially if Japan trip, dude.

[D]

Especially if he could link it up with some of the troops that are deployed there in Japan.

[A]

Oh, dude.

[D]

Or station there, rather.

[A]

Yeah, just do a. Yeah, man.

[C]

Where is it?

[A]

Where's the duty station at Japan? Okinawa. Yeah.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Just doing.

[B]

I'll be so cool to go to Okinawa. That's the island on the southern tip, right?

[D]

Yep.

[A]

We've never been. I've never been there.

[B]

I've never been to Okinawa when I haven't been to Sapporo. I've only been to the middle stuff like Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto.

[A]

Sapporo was. Wasn't that Mr.

[B]

Yes.

[C]

He was on the. He's on the north horn up there, right?

[B]

Northern island is Sapporo. Yeah.

[A]

Oh, so it's the same general area. Well, it's Hokkaido is the northern island.

[B]

Support is the big city up there.

[D]

But yeah.

[A]

Yes. And we got a place to stay, too.

[B]

Yeah, you guys gotta go. That place is so.

[D]

Yeah. If we go seven hours north, we'll fly more than that.

[B]

Can you take five hours wide? There's no train up there. There's no train, bro. The trains are amazing. The magnet trains, they zip.

[A]

You don't feel. You're just, like, walking around. But yeah, it's like that Japanese video, when they tested the new one.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

The Japanese people like, what the fuck? And just start laughing.

[C]

All right, I have an idea. Pepper box exclusive. You film it, come with us, we pay for it all. We go up there easy.

[B]

We fucking chill out. Oh, man.

[D]

You have easy day. Easy day. So we leaving next month.

[A]

I'm down whenever you let me know. I go ASAP to Japan. The food is. Brandon.

[D]

Well, so I'm not one of these, like. So Eli's like a jabber file. Like, he just loves everything. Japanese culture is like, oh, my God, 7 11. But in Japan, I don't know. I like, I.

[B]

Well, just say fucking Jabil. To be fair, the 7 11. Japan are so good. They're different, I swear.

[D]

What?

[A]

What did you say? Just say, listen, the seven Elevens in

[B]

Japan are so good.

[D]

Oh, dude, I'm sure, right? It's kind of like the new one.

[B]

Agree.

[D]

I'm sure in the US it's the difference between, like, your typical, like, ExxonMobil or like Exxon versus, like a Buc EE's.

[B]

Yeah, right.

[D]

Oh, this is really cool, dude.

[A]

7:11 to a. Like, you're actually in a nice Restaurant for food level. That's what's crazy. You're going an American 711 to. I'm going to a four star restaurant in America. Cody.

[C]

No, no. It is insane how, how good their food is in the 7 11.

[D]

I'll put this on the record like when, whenever we do it because I know we're going to do it. Press X to doubt. Like I don't.

[A]

We're gonna go and then we'll record it all until you have it. You can't like did the chicken, did you have the chicken?

[C]

Chicken Katsu.

[A]

Yeah, from the 7 11.

[C]

They had katsu and then they had like all sorts of shit in there. It was, it was badass.

[D]

It is good having you back on though. We, we appreciate you.

[B]

Yeah. Thank you guys for having me. It's. It's fun. I only live two hours away. I'm close by.

[A]

Yeah, now you live up.

[B]

Yeah. Last time I was here I was living in Maryland, so I was like, like 27 hours away. Now I'm two hours away.

[C]

Oh shit. We're homies now.

[B]

Yeah, close by. Neighbors come down.

[D]

But like literally whenever, like we're. We're free for. Well, whenever we're in town.

[B]

But yeah, I'd like to more. I've only been back like doing YouTube stuff for like two months because of the sickness. So. Yeah, it definitely. It's good to see you guys. It's good to be back filming.

[D]

Did that really hurt you with the algorithm is like not being able to post very often?

[B]

Yeah, that's what it's like so ridiculous of anyone thinking that I. This was like a money making ploy is like. Yeah, I would have been fine if I just continued posting frequently. Besides like, you know, getting sick and posting four times over the course of seven months is not. That's not good for money making or the algorithm or whatever. But yeah, it's kind of hard to post when your heart isn't working.

[D]

Yeah, little things a little bit.

[B]

Yeah. And I'm so particular about it. Like I can't just have an editor like take the reins and do everything, you know, I'm like autismo about it.

[D]

How often, like before, before you got sick, how often would you post? Like you do it like a documentary. That's about how long and how often.

[B]

Usually like 30 minutes to an hour and at least twice a month.

[D]

Twice a month? Holy shit.

[B]

If not three times. Yeah. Now we're like once a month or once every five weeks. But we're picking it up.

[A]

When you watch your content that's why it's like that. Holy shit. You're doing that twice a month. So wild. Because you do put in a lot of effort time in each one of your videos.

[B]

Yeah. People think we have, like a big team. It's like, I do a lot. The bulk of the editing, but also it's just me and like one guy or other Eli.

[A]

Other Eli, you want to say hi on camera?

[D]

Okay.

[A]

He said maybe.

[D]

So that was. No. Is what that was. That was a very polite no. Yeah, but I mean, that's kind of like me and. Me and Delance. It's like he's. He was just a friend of mine that I grew up with. And one day I was just like, hey, I want to, like, kind of record some stuff. I'll pay you in lunch if you want to follow me with a camera all day. And then 10 years later, me and him are still working together every day.

[B]

Yeah. I think the content can be so good, especially when, you know, the people who are touching it, like, care a lot. And it's not just becoming like commoditized and random people who are just trying to get a paycheck or messing with it.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

So, yeah, that's why I keep my team small. But maybe I'll. Maybe I'll Mr. Beastify my shit sometime soon.

[D]

I was just gonna say, like, like with Mr. Beast. Mr. Beast team, like, it just seems like there's a lot of people that came in like vultures, just like, oh, hey, you're doing good. Well, I worked in Hollywood or I worked in tv, and they try to take over and it just makes the content worse.

[B]

Yeah. It takes away the soul of it.

[D]

Because they don't understand our generation.

[B]

Yeah, it's like a bunch of 40,

[D]

50 year old guys that are like, well, I did fucking, you know, third Rock from the Sun. I clearly understand, like, what your generation likes. Like, you clearly don't.

[B]

Speaking Mr. Beast. You guys know who Topper Guild is? Me and Donut, we're talking about this.

[D]

I don't.

[B]

Yeah, because you feel like, you know a lot of the biggest YouTubers, right? Generally speaking.

[A]

Generally speaking, I could. I have. No, I've never even.

[C]

Okay, thank you. Name be like, I've never heard of this ever.

[D]

Yeah, yeah.

[B]

Would you believe if there's a YouTuber out there that has 93 million subscribers? He's an American YouTuber and you've never heard of him?

[D]

I never would believe it.

[B]

And he gets like 300 million views a day.

[D]

Fuck off.

[B]

Topper Guild.

[A]

He. I've Never seen this guy's face. He has like Mr. B style thumbnail.

[D]

I was just gonna say it has to be Mr. Beast.

[B]

They're saying the same that I did.

[A]

93 million subscribers.

[B]

I think you're right about that. Like, I think in 2024, he started to get like 20x the views with Mr.

[A]

Beast on his thumbnail.

[B]

He said. He said he was getting like 20 times the views because he dubbed his videos in different languages.

[D]

But they're all AI Donut had a different theory.

[B]

I think you're right about it.

[C]

Theory. My theory was Jimmy is coaching them through this. And they're an earlier generation. Like, they're going for like the. The 10, 13, 13, 4 year old, like 14 year old, like demographic. And they're just doing the same thing that Jimmy's doing, but Jimmy's coaching them through it. But also Jimmy probably has a line to YouTube and that's why they're doing so well. Because I'd never heard them before. Like 97 million in subscribers.

[D]

I feel like I agree with you. You think he's doing like the Dr. Dre, Eminem thing. Yeah, exactly.

[C]

Exactly. Thank you. That's the best way to describe it. Yeah.

[A]

I mean, you have K Pop Demon hunters go on 100 dates.

[B]

What the hell is this K Pop Demon Hunter shit? Because I just. Him, there's another.

[C]

Yeah, they're hitting. They're hitting that demographic. I was just saying like that. That 11, 12, 13 year old, like young men, like dental graphic right now. And that's what's happening.

[B]

So bizarre.

[C]

Jimmy's coaching. Probably coaching that guy through it.

[B]

Well, there's another guy that we were talking about. His name is zhang. He's got 75 million subscribers and he's posting the same type of shit like Kpop Demon Hunters got pregnant. I'm like, what is this crap?

[D]

And what is the video content?

[B]

That's what I'm saying. I haven't watched it yet.

[A]

I mean, this is so weird because you're like, oh, it's gonna be like. But it's all like high VFX and weird like this.

[B]

Yeah, I'm gonna have my daughter watch Little Bear instead of this.

[D]

Yeah, Little Bear was the shit, man.

[A]

That's okay.

[B]

The common.

[C]

Holy.

[D]

Because we're about the same age.

[A]

Yeah, yeah.

[B]

30.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

Here's the stuff. I don't get 17 million views. How many comments? What's 17 million views?

[B]

Oh, a hundred thousand at least.

[D]

I'm gonna say 10,000, 30,000. Oh, yeah. No, he's. It's fake. That's fake.

[C]

How?

[A]

That does not add up.

[D]

It's either fake or it's repeat or like fucking hotel TV.

[B]

I think my last video has 800,000 views and like 5,000 comments.

[A]

That's why, like, that's my biggest indicator. When I see like these giant numbers and then you look, you're like. So when I see 90 million and you're averaging 1 to 3 million views.

[B]

It's rigged.

[A]

There has to be set like I think it.

[B]

Jimmy, Beast reach out, dude. I want the. I want the beast push.

[A]

Yeah, I'm sick.

[B]

Jimmy.

[D]

I think said 3,000.

[A]

3,000 comments.

[D]

With how many views?

[A]

17 million.

[D]

7 million. Fuck off. So my last video had 1.2 million views. A guy used a machine gun in self defense shooting 1.2 million views. 8.3 thousand comments.

[B]

There it is.

[D]

Fuck off. Yeah, fuck off. This guy's shit.

[A]

14 million views. How many comments? 5,000 comments. 14 million.

[B]

I don't get it. Is it because it's kids watching it that are too young to know how to use a keyboard or what the hell is it?

[C]

Also you guys, we're getting into the, the YouTube content creation thing of this. But yeah, I think that he,

[D]

I

[C]

think that he coached these channels and I think that he had a line to YouTube to say to them, like, hey, push this. Yeah, push it. Push it a little bit.

[D]

I don't even think that's true because like if you push it in the algorithm, you at least get like an appropriate amount of comments because like this is like, that's absurd, bro.

[B]

20 million views, 1.8 thousand comments.

[D]

No. See, the gang accidentally starts a beef with like a much bigger YouTuber. But like, but is he bigger though?

[B]

Like, think about the fans y' all have compared to him. Like, could he sell out a show? Could he do a thousand people in an audience? I highly doubt it.

[D]

Well, no, he definitely couldn't sell out an 18 plus show.

[A]

Yeah, I do.

[B]

That's why when you see like seven people there and they're all in the registry.

[D]

Yeah, no shit. Like anybody who shows up to that show, like, is there hunting?

[B]

Yeah, real K pop demon hunters. Yeah, that stuff's weird though. I was looking into that. But he's making some serious dough if it's real.

[A]

I mean, alpha those view, I want to know is those are the analytics I want to like dig into and just go through and like, hey, what's view retention? It's autistic level shit. But it's like, where's the drop off? Because if you're getting that many comments. 1800 comments on 20 million views.

[D]

That guy's a demon.

[C]

Pop.

[D]

K through 12 hunter.

[A]

Yeah, dude.

[B]

K through 1200.

[A]

Alleged. Allegedly.

[D]

No, the guy who shows up to the show. I'm not calling him. I don't know the guy.

[A]

Oh, I did have. I wanted. Man, I forgot to bring the. The dragon. I wanted you to see the low boraxis on that new.

[D]

Oh, I really did want to see that. That was kind of wild.

[A]

Yeah, I was like, did I bring it today? It was like, because we got a Famas and that and we haven't got to talk about it.

[C]

Got all the guys.

[A]

I finished. I finished the collection. I finished.

[B]

Have you told.

[C]

Have you told Brandon about the collection?

[A]

Yes.

[C]

He know what you're talking about at all?

[B]

Yeah, we were talking about the Famas yesterday.

[A]

That Metal Gear Solid, the truck, the Metal Gear Solid.

[C]

You got everything now. So what do you. What do you have right now? What do you got?

[A]

I have an unfired 1996 Mark 23thwe with a matching cat can and serial number. And I have both the government issued lam and the civilian lamb still box. Never been fired PSG1 and. Oh, go on.

[D]

Oh, no, no, go on. Sorry.

[A]

And then PSG1 in nice case with. Thankfully, Brandon is the one that helped hook that up with a one minute conversation that cost me money.

[D]

Yeah, I just called him up like auctions going on right now. Like that. I was already watching. I'm like, eli, you still want that PSG one? Yeah. 30. 30. 30 grand, yes or no, right now?

[A]

Yeah. I didn't know he was actively bidding.

[D]

I had the page pulled up as we were having this conversation.

[C]

That's the cool sniper rifle from it, right? The boxy type sniper rifle.

[D]

If you know the G3, like the HK G3, it's like the PSG1 is like the total sniperized version from the 80s.

[A]

Yep. With a giant. My favorite is when we picked it up and I was like, that is a huge forward assist. And Brandy's using the G3 that doesn't have that forward assistant. And you're like, I don't think they do. I'm like, I think that's a Ford Assistant. You're like, holy shit. Because it is. It's beefy beefcake, you know, on your ar or your M4s, you just have that little button like this is a fucking. It's like a sure mic.

[D]

Cause I always thought it was a. It was just like a G3 that was, you know, DMR'd out essentially. It is not. It's a much different platform than I was expecting.

[A]

So we got that thankfully because. And we got a really good like because of that last minute auction. I don't know how we got. Got a good deal on that.

[D]

It was a great deal.

[A]

And then the Famas again. Just lucky on that one. And did not expect him to take said offer.

[D]

So when are we going to do a Guns of Metal Gear?

[A]

Whenever you want, dog.

[C]

Okay.

[D]

Because I really want to do that video because there's so many.

[A]

Can I dress up as metal gear solid one snake and you dress up as snake eater or MGS5 snake. I will buy our outfits.

[D]

It's probably the gayest question you've ever asked that actually that's quite the title frankly. Yeah, sure, I'll do it.

[A]

I'm buying those outfits now. We're gonna cosplay. God damn it, Cody. You can just come watch. We make Cody as Eve.

[B]

I'll be there.

[A]

Cody's Eve from MGS3. The hot blonde.

[C]

Can I be psychic? What's his dick? I'll just float in the corner.

[A]

Psychic.

[D]

What's his dick?

[B]

Is that a saying? What's his dick?

[A]

I like it.

[B]

That's good.

[A]

100.

[B]

What's his name?

[D]

No, we'll actually both be MGS5 Snake.

[A]

Oh, that's perfect. No one will know the difference.

[D]

Actually both technically the same guy.

[A]

Like Brandon. Brandon. Brandon. Cody. Cody. And it follows the story too. Good job. Yep. So we got that. That was my most proud moment. And I mean period. As you. I think you said you like. You have some of the. You have a way like massive arsenal. Mine's like smaller. It's just very specific autismo guns.

[D]

I've got a like just. I've got a bit of an arsenal of weaponry. But Eli's just very like strategic. Like I want this gun. This gun, this gun, this gun. And they're all like pristine condition. I think the PSG one, I don't think it's ever been fired.

[A]

There's like two of my guns.

[D]

The. The Mark 23 never been. Not only has it never been fired, this motherfucker has a gun that like, it's never been racked clearly because you could see like where the contact surface is on the barrel still has the paint on it. And even the. The magazine. Anytime we've cleared the gun, we've never racked it. But you like push in the magazine to like press the magazine release and pull it out because the. The paint is still there on the ledge. Like it's never rubbed from just being cycled.

[A]

Be very careful with it.

[D]

It's a level of autism that I've never accomplished with any firearm I own.

[A]

It's wild seeing I thought it would be more normalized because I just treat like video games, cards or whatever I buy. I'm like, oh, I seal and put away. Don't need to play with it. Everyone's like, you're gonna shoot that, right? I'm like, why? I'm like, oh, yeah. I guess the moss we're gonna shoot the shit out of.

[D]

I mean on with like the, the Metal Gear Solid stuff. Like the. The M82A2, I think I right. Or the, the.

[B]

The.

[D]

The Barrett M82A2.

[A]

Yep.

[D]

Like the shoulder fired Barrett from MGS4, I think. I think it's the only one that's ever gone for civilian sale, period. Ever. There were like 12 ever made. To my. To my knowledge, that was the one

[C]

where Chris Barrett called you and was like, where the did you get that from?

[D]

Yeah, I think I posted it on Instagram. He's like, I don't say the word unicorn very often, but that's a unicorn.

[A]

It's a. Do you know what gun we're talking about? He has like when the owner, the creator of said gun calls you and be like, how the did you get that? Imagine that.

[B]

The shoulder 50 cal.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Did we shoot it last time I was here?

[D]

Quite.

[C]

You might have shot it. He shot it.

[D]

It was that one.

[C]

A shoulder 50.

[B]

Yeah, we shot a shoulder 50 in my video and it felt like I was getting punched in my face when I shot it.

[A]

Do that.

[D]

That was the one my dad shot

[C]

and he's like, why is it so loud? Yeah, you should have been wearing the Ear Pro.

[D]

What the fuck, dad?

[A]

He turns to you, bleeding ears. That's fun.

[C]

Damn, that's loud, man. Dad, why were you wearing Ear Pros?

[D]

But like that, that thing with like your Mark 23, you're like, oh, I'll never rack it again. I'm like, I've got one of like 12 ever made and I just huck it in the back of my truck.

[C]

Like, man, I don't know.

[B]

That thing is sick, dude. They need to get that inside the hoods, bro.

[D]

I.

[C]

Yes, those hood rats would do very well with the Mark Mark Twinning. Yeah, they would do great.

[D]

I feel like you're just like, you're the Nick Cage Lord of War type dude.

[B]

I should start selling ammunitions to gang bangers.

[D]

This would be great in inner city communities.

[A]

Drone warfare at 4s and drive bys because they had to have black, black blast area clear. And they can't because it's in a car. They're like fire. You just see, you're just going through stops.

[D]

You're just going through Chicago with like an ice cream truck full of FPV drones. You're like, seriously, you ever wanted to

[B]

with the ops, they only live like a street or two down from each other. You could do some serious damage.

[C]

You know, if they were smart, they would use drones. But you know what? They're not.

[B]

Yeah, switches, dude.

[C]

Yeah, good things. They grew up on section 8 housing.

[B]

Hey, there's no section 8 housing in India. If you live in section 8 housing, you should definitely appreciate that, dude. Because in India they have no windows or roofs and sleeping on the fucking ground.

[A]

The trash places. Wow. $20 a month to live in garbage. And you have nothing. And they appreciate it, right?

[B]

Really do appreciate. They're very nice people. And you see like in America, you don't really see someone that has like a broken leg or broken arm that's like healed wrong, you know what I mean? You don't see that that often. There was a lot of people in India that had like bones that were broken, infused wrong. Because they don't have access to health, you know, any. There's no.

[D]

They're good doctors came here.

[A]

Yeah, seriously, they rub turds on their broken bones. It doesn't heal anything.

[B]

Surprisingly doesn't work as well as you'd think. Brandon's like, shit cast.

[A]

Oh, I hate that idea.

[B]

Don't knock it till you try, dude.

[A]

I'm not gonna try it.

[B]

You never know.

[A]

Like, oh, what video did you want to do? You're planning on doing something with us? Do you have any idea of what?

[B]

I figured we would just like shoot the shit a little bit and then actually shoot some guns. If you were. If you guys were down for it and if it doesn't work in the schedule, you know, it is what it is, I guess. Always come back another time.

[D]

I do have to film this week anyway, so, like, if we, if we want to knock that out, we can probably do that.

[A]

Whatever you like your call, brother. We can do whatever you want.

[B]

I have a. I mean, I have a pretty casual approach to making content.

[D]

So how long you here?

[B]

I was going to leave tomorrow or what?

[D]

Yeah, we'll figure it out.

[B]

Yeah, no worries. Either way, I'm happy to have the podcast. Get the podcast.

[A]

What do you want? What would be your ideal video with everyone? We got and we'll treat this as a writing room. Right now.

[B]

I think just, you know, us hanging out, talking for like 30 minutes and about whatever, like this casually and then going to the gun range and shooting some cool guns, like the famas would be fun with.

[A]

Also what we could do.

[B]

We could do anything else. Anything else y' all wanted to do that would be good.

[D]

You've seen my, my gun room, like my, My shop, right. Like, the last time we were there with, with Isaiah and all that, that

[B]

was kind of like the, the, you know, basis of the video mainly.

[D]

I feel it's gotten better so we

[B]

could see that again. I mean, it's been two and a half years.

[D]

Anything, Anything you want to do, like, like our doors open to you. You've been nothing but good to us. So, like, we're. We're more than happy to open it up for you.

[B]

Yeah, I just, I think just like, casual hanging out, showing the guns and, and shooting the shit would be fun. People liked it last time. I figured they'd like it this time. The last one's age restricted, so try to not get this one age restricted.

[D]

There's ways we can get around that.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

What?

[B]

No more auto on YouTube?

[D]

Yeah, it was a very stupid decision. I'm trying to get fucking pulled back. I understand why they're. They're trying to restrict it, you know, with like the, all the Chicago switches. Like, stuff like, bro, like, if I have licensing, like, the way I looked at it, I'm like, hey, If I provide YouTube with proof that I have licensing to do this, what's the issue?

[B]

I really genuinely think the only reason I'm alive right now is because of automatic weaponry. Like, if they had a semi automatic and they were sitting.

[D]

Explain.

[B]

Because the five gunmen that stalked me and shot 60 rounds of me at close range, if they all had semi autos and they were like, like, they would have killed all of us. Yeah, they were like 10, 15 yards

[C]

away if they were like us.

[B]

Yeah. But they had switches instead. They were like.

[D]

I completely agree. Most people think like, oh, my God, if you add in like a fucking switch or a, an auto sear to these guns, they're so much more deadly. It's like, no, you just expend ammo faster and then you're out of fucking ammo.

[B]

Yeah. So, I mean, I'm really thankful for switches, legalized switches, all the gang bangers that need switches. This is all sponsored by U.S. congressman Brandon Herrera.

[D]

Now, let's, let's, let's maybe reel this back a Little bit.

[B]

But wait, why?

[D]

But legitimately like if anybody's ever done a demonstration about like okay, if you have 30 round magazine and you do a controlled burst versus just the, the full auto fire, just like fanning an entire group like you, you don't hit shift.

[A]

Why do you think the militant US military switch from full auto 23 round burst? For a reason. And now they don't even train. I can tell you they talked about three round burst zero times in all the training. Did you ever put on three on burst when you're in?

[C]

Never.

[D]

I think three round burst was like a Vietnam thing.

[A]

It was full auto and then they switched it because like yo, the troops are just fucking blasting ammo, they're not hitting shit. And then because the weapons, they didn't have really good cleaning kits at that time. So like if I can get rid of all this.

[D]

Well now look at Russia now with the, the AK12. They have the, the two round burst. They don't have three round burst. They have two round burst. No, it's not hyper burst. Hyperburst is like the AN94 but like the AK12 is the two round burst where it's just, it's very flat. It's just two rounds on target, which is pretty much all you'd ever need.

[A]

Perfect.

[D]

And it's divisible by 30, which is where they learned from the Famas.

[C]

You know the top tier guys, they released that video last year. Have you seen them running through that house? House where he's sprinting up to the house and he's, he, that's like a good hundred yard sprint. And he goes in with his boys behind him. I think it's one of the first videos they ever released of top like top tier. It's like a Delta boy doing it. And they're not using, you know, they're not using fully auto or anything.

[A]

Dude, it's control pairs. We always.

[C]

Yeah, it's speed, surprise, violence of action. Dude goes in just like everyone in that house is dead like within like a minute.

[B]

So you guys feel like it's the same thing to say, right? The switch has saved my life probably.

[D]

I would say.

[B]

Yeah, jokes aside like, because like unless

[D]

you have like a belt fed or something like that, I wouldn't see how anything outside of controlled pairs is actually useful.

[A]

Like if I go to even drive out. So like my finger, I like no, I'm pulling true.

[C]

That's what these guys are doing. That, that tier, that like the tier one video I'm telling you about. They're Just like.

[B]

Like,

[C]

they go through the house and they're just like, everyone's done.

[A]

And the second you break 90, it's back to safe and then you're back up. Fire.

[D]

I didn't realize this conversation got so autistic.

[A]

I know, dude. Well, I didn't realize that was a thing. My first shooting competition, I got like, second on speed. I was like, oh, that was great. Like, blah, blah, blah. Almost. Almost up on one of my safety selectors and like, wait, what? You're cycling your safety when you're moving? I was like, yeah. Like, why? Well, because it's like, you break 90, you have to go to safe because you're not aimed at a target. And they're like, that's very military.

[D]

Did you in the military, did you ever actually have to do any, like, actual cqb? Yeah, like. Yeah, like clearing houses and shit?

[A]

Oh, I did, like, for the first three months. Four months was a lot of that. And then when we got to it's only river one minute long, it was a giant push through cqb. So you're kicking down doors. I had Beeson will know this one if he's watching. Fucking be something. Kick, kick door. I watch family as a wife and a husband step around with the AK smell night. And I push Beeson out of the way. And then it's like I just yell, soldiers, army. Army soldiers. And then they like, oh, the husband hands the gun to the wife. Yeah, it was like, oh. Because we. I understood their perspective. In the middle, it's like like midnight and somebody's kicking on your door really fucking hard like you're gonna grab your gun. So I was like, hey, fucking push Beeson. Like, clear it because I don't want him spraying through the door.

[D]

I just meant like, CQB engagements because, like, I know, like, a lot of the stories you told were like. It was clearly like firefights and things like.

[A]

Oh, yeah. And yeah, we'd have. It just happened way less. There's only probably like 3 to 5 actually in house firefights. Nothing crazy. Most of it was outside on like. Like engaged from second, third, fourth floor or back and forth. Very rarely did it happen in house.

[C]

Yeah, that's what I was talking about.

[D]

Oh, so it's just a shoot house.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

God, he is.

[C]

Yeah. Yeah, but like, tier one, dude.

[A]

Amy. Oh, oh. Already engaging. One, two, three. Dad, is this a real video or training?

[C]

No, it's real or it's training. It's training.

[A]

Oh, okay.

[C]

Down.

[A]

Violence of action, dude, you like, that's why you?

[D]

Yeah, no shit.

[A]

Because he's actuating that Flash whole team. Did you see there was fucking six guys on him?

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

And that's what you want. Because a lot of times the average human or individual in that situation is like. Like, okay, pause.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

If they enter this door, however they

[B]

enter it, that's what your homie should

[C]

be doing right here. They're not. They're not doing well. They're not doing.

[A]

Watch how fast he pushes this.

[D]

Let's not give advice to gang bangers on the podcast.

[B]

No, but if there was one of them that operated this way, it would get crazy. It would get really crazy. I feel like they should not have guns. They should all have samurai swords. That'd be way more gangster.

[C]

So he's got his on the back of him right now.

[B]

Yeah, he's operating quick.

[C]

Bing, bing, boop, down.

[B]

Sorry.

[C]

His team comes in behind him.

[A]

1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

[C]

They're on his ass the entire time.

[B]

Yeah. No switch. No switch needed.

[A]

Nope. Just literally control pairs all the way through.

[B]

Yeah. If I had to be in a fight, I would not not want to use.

[A]

I hated houses were the worst. Most sketch thing. Firefight outside. Way better than closed buildings. A way different situation because you're like me. Like, it's everyone in your left and right. And you're like, in my first. On second, second, third, whatever. And then how are you flowing in?

[D]

It's just quick engagement houses where you understand like, all the different tools in the tool belt. Like, as a civilian, you're like, okay, like a good, like, combat rifle. You could do like 90% of shit. But, like, then you start realizing, like, okay, clearing houses. HEDP suddenly depends. Like that. That becomes a very useful tool.

[A]

Yeah. But then what's the clear distance? Does the arm. I've told the story. It's like green. We tried to enter one house. It was super locked, like, fucking padlock. We're like, how the fuck do we get in this house? We backed up. It's like, okay, we'll use a 203. HDP will blow the door open. Two Boom. It hits the door and falls. We're like, whoa. It didn't arm, huh? Let's go back further. It needs to rotate more.

[B]

Boom.

[A]

And it falls. So we had two HEDP rounds and I was sitting there. We're like, mark it on the map and say there's live. Or then we went to the next house. We're like,

[D]

yeah. There was a story that I heard at some point, not saying where I was that I heard about where they were testing, like, drone munitions. So like, kind of like a Ukraine style, right? Where they had, like a hand grenade and they were like, testing all sorts of stuff and just like, dropping it. And they had like one where they dropped from altitude, dropped, grenade exploded. Okay, cool. Like, okay, we tested that out. Second one, they did the same thing. Third one, grenade dropped, you know, pulled the pin, spoon dropped out, landed,

[A]

and then nothing.

[D]

Nothing.

[A]

Oh, those are the sketchy ones.

[D]

So that. Well, no, actually, no, I don't think the spoon dropped. I think it was just like the grenade itself had dropped in the field. And so it's still like it's ready to be armed, but it's just kind of there.

[A]

Yeah, you do.

[D]

And they had to call eod. And then from what I was told, allegedly like a day later, they called EOD back and they said, never mind. And we handled it.

[A]

Yeah, dude. We just would mark it on the map on certain situations like that. It's like, ah. Mmm.

[B]

Oh.

[D]

It's like, what? What the fuck do you mean you handled it? I heard a grappling hook was involved. It's like, well, you know what? You got it done.

[A]

Yay. Don't miss it at all. Fuck.

[C]

You know what I think they're doing, Brandon? These kids with the switches and stuff? I think a lot of these guys came back from the war on terrorism and they learned from the Special Forces. Maybe a couple of them were special Forces. And they know how to do all this. This crazy.

[D]

I just. And then they're.

[C]

And they're letting these kids be cannon fodder, like the ones that you hang out with.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

While they're in the upper echelons or whatever criminal, like, organization that they're in. And they know how to do these things. They're just letting these kids get taken out and get shot and do all that.

[D]

I disagree with.

[C]

Or maybe I just wrote a show.

[D]

Maybe you did.

[B]

Are you saying they're sparing their ops or what?

[C]

Are you saying they're letting these kids get killed? Who is so the people my age who came back from the war on terrorism. They're the ones. Okay.

[D]

I don't think any of those guys came back from G. What? I think this is all just like, hood rats that are finding shit that's easily accessible on wish.com.

[B]

oh, my. My homie baby 50 has been to Afghanistan.

[D]

Oh, what's his name?

[B]

Baby 50. I'm just kidding. I have this video series called I Took a Gangster too. And I go to all these different places. And that's baby 50. He's hilarious.

[D]

I took a gangster too.

[B]

Afghanistan. Good. Good video idea.

[D]

Okay, no, I was just thinking, like, I took a gangster to like a Taylor Swift concert.

[B]

I took a gangster to a furry convention. I took a gangster to a Brony convention. Did you seriously?

[D]

Yeah, yeah, the Brony.

[A]

I just want to know the Brony or which one was more crazy?

[B]

More crazy? They were. They're very, very equivalent, I'd say. Bronies and Furries, same vibe. You know, they like to dress up and do illicit sexual acts. But they all say, like, it's not like that here, but I'm pretty sure it is. But yeah, shout out to my bronies out there.

[A]

Gang, gang, gang, gang.

[B]

And then, yeah, I also took them to an abandoned insane asylum at three in the morning, which was really interesting.

[A]

Dude, see that? I think that would be a lot more fun. Cause I think it would be very energetic.

[B]

Yeah, it was super fun.

[A]

They were like, oh, shit.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Oh, shit. Yeah.

[B]

He had his J's on, dude. But yeah, it's fun, you know, it's a fun crossover. And we have an unreleased one where I took him to Harrison, Arkansas, which is like one of the headquarters of the KKK, Zinc, Arkansas. And we had baby 50 hood guy talking to KKK guy. And they got along great.

[A]

No shit.

[B]

Yeah, got along great.

[D]

What was the conversation like?

[B]

I. I don't even. It was like. Like 15 months ago. I don't even remember. I think they. They found common ground over something.

[D]

You got to forgive me. We, like, we don't really watch a lot of YouTube, so, like, I.

[B]

Well, the video is not out even.

[D]

Oh, really?

[B]

Oh, it's still in the vault. But yeah, I don't know. Maybe it was like baby 50 was like the ops and the KKK was got. Guy was like, I don't like him either. I don't remember what they were talking about. Yeah, they had fun.

[D]

The enemy of my enemy.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Well, on that note, if you guys want to do an after show for like, 10 minutes.

[C]

Sure.

[A]

Where would the people find you, Good sir? Because I also. Cody, your story where an American soldier actually did use. He learned from overseas and then came back and started using that to operate a drug kingpin. That's a real thing.

[B]

So you're right.

[A]

Yeah, in Harlem.

[D]

I just don't think that's the average.

[A]

No, no, no. It's one offs. Very one off. Like.

[D]

Well, it's kind of like those rangers that. I think Isaiah did a video on it where like, those Rangers, like, Rob the bank. Yep. Oh, and the only reason they got caught was because one of them forgot to like take the front license plate off or some like that.

[B]

Oh, what a slip up.

[A]

And they had the. The ranger back guys, the second bat guys that the gang bangers in Tacoma said we're gonna hit your house. And they fucking loaded up and were right. You know that story?

[D]

No.

[A]

Yeah, that was all.

[D]

That sounds like a good one for the after show.

[A]

Yeah. Full on 90s firefight with.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

And it's all documented. Like police were like they were defending themselves.

[D]

No shit.

[A]

Yeah. Where do the people find you? They'll find out after.

[B]

Yeah, you can find me at Brandon Buckingham pretty much on all platforms. Or the book Buckingham Show. It's kind of a confusing mix up, but probably just type in Brandon Buckingham.

[A]

And also if you use Brandon, his link for what's the supplement?

[B]

I don't know.

[A]

One of your ad reads they accidentally gave you.

[B]

Oh yeah. Manscaped.

[D]

Are you serious?

[B]

Yes, I showed him yesterday. I'd have to dig to find it. So I did a manscaped deal and then I saw whenever I clicked my link it was like you got 20% off for using code Brandon Herrera. It was like manscape slash Brandon.

[D]

I did not know about this.

[B]

Yeah, it was really funny.

[D]

That's sorry.

[B]

Yeah, well, I think it benefited us both. Probably because my video got like 3 million views. You might have used that. Like not 3 million views. So it's just like, you know, double it up.

[D]

If I get a call from them next month, I'll send you a check.

[B]

I got to reach out to them about re upping. I'll be like, you'll check the last URL. It went crazy. Yeah, that was funny though.

[D]

We'll become the same guy.

[B]

Seriously.

[C]

Kill it. Thank you guys for joining the unsubscribe podcast. I was joined today by Eli Double Tap. Brandon Buckingham. Brandon A. Myself donut operator. Thank you so much for being here guys.

[A]

Enjoy the after show.

[D]

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[B]

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