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Title: Unsubscribe Podcast
Host/Authors: Eli Doubletap, Brandon Herrera, Donut Operator, & Nick the Fat Electrician
Episode: The Gang Gets Jacked! | Ep 222
Release Date: July 21, 2025

1. Recent Adventures and Natural Disasters

The episode kicks off with the hosts sharing their recent experiences dealing with significant flooding in the Kerrville area. Brandon Herrera elaborates on the rapid changes caused by the floodwaters:

"[04:07] Brandon Herrera: And I can't emphasize enough how different that was a week ago. Like, it was even worse. There's a lot of cleanup that has been done since, which is awesome."

Donut Operator adds his perspective on the severity of the floods:

"[04:32] Donut Operator: And a lady was stuck on a log, a tree that was going downriver for eight hours it traveled. She traveled 14 miles stuck, and it ended up at one of those houses. And that family saved that woman, pulled her off the tree. She rode all the way down that river. I was like, holy. 12 miles is fucking wild there."

The hosts express relief and appreciation for the community's efforts in cleanup and rescue operations, highlighting the destructive power of nature and the collective resilience in the face of disasters.

2. Dislike for Water and Its Implications

A recurring theme in the episode is the hosts' aversion to water. Nick the Fat Electrician openly shares his disdain:

"[05:16] Nick the Fat Electrician: I don't like the ocean. All you nerds. I want to live by the coast."

Donut Operator echoes similar sentiments, emphasizing his discomfort with water:

"[05:27] Donut Operator: I've never said that once. I'm Mexican. I hate fucking water. I sink like a goddamn rock."

Brandon Herrera contrasts his own preference by mentioning his enjoyment of beachside restaurants:

"[09:14] Brandon Herrera: I like looking at it like, I don't. I don't. I'm not necessarily a big. Like, I don't want to jump in the water, like be out deep sea fishing or any shit like that. But like, I like sitting like at a restaurant that's beachside. I like stuff like that."

This segment not only highlights personal preferences but also delves into broader discussions about the impact of environmental factors on their lifestyles and content creation.

3. Real Estate Ownership and Economic Concerns

The conversation shifts to real estate, with the hosts expressing concern over property ownership concentrations in Hawaii:

"[12:10] Nick the Fat Electrician: Oh yeah. After those fires went through, it was like Oprah and the Rock were buying up all the properties of the houses that went down."

Donut Operator brings attention to Larry Ellison's significant ownership of Lanai:

"[12:20] Donut Operator: Guess how much of a percentage he owns. 98%... Larry Ellison owns 98% of Lanai."

The discussion evolves into a hypothetical scenario about the effects of tourism decline and exorbitant property taxes:

"[10:45] Brandon Herrera: Hypothetical though, and I don't know the truth on this one way or the other. If all of the Americans just left, would they not be even more fucked?"

Nick the Fat Electrician draws parallels to the sci-fi movie "Elysium," envisioning Mars as an exclusive enclave for the wealthy:

"[13:23] Nick the Fat Electrician: Like as soon as space travel becomes mainstream, like Mars is one giant HOA for rich people. It's all it is. Like that's what's gonna happen."

This segment underscores the hosts' concerns about economic disparities, property ownership, and the future implications of space colonization by the elite.

4. Gaming Insights: Escape from Tarkov and Expedition 33

The hosts delve into their gaming experiences, particularly focusing on "Escape from Tarkov" and "Expedition 33." Brandon Herrera discusses the latest in-game weapon releases:

"[17:28] Brandon Herrera: Oh, no, we know. I got that coming up. And I got a batch of stuff. We got a bunch of guns... AK50 stuff, working on new stuff like that."

Nick the Fat Electrician shares insights on game mechanics and the realistic aspects of "Escape from Tarkov":

"[20:31] Nick the Fat Electrician: It's a pretty realistic game, like, comparatively... you have some dude like that that's super good at, like, Willers is probably one of the best players on the planet."

Donut Operator praises the game's depth and complexity:

"[24:16] Donut Operator: Jesse, that is better than I thought."

In discussing "Expedition 33," Brandon shares his mixed feelings due to his preference for turn-based combat but appreciates the game's story:

"[83:11] Brandon Herrera: I don't like turn-based combat and like, you got me into it. The story is so good, it makes up for the fact that I don't like the playstyle. It's really good."

These discussions provide listeners with an in-depth look into the hosts' gaming preferences, challenges, and the immersive nature of modern video games.

5. Developing New Shows: Darwin Awards and Pepper Box

A significant portion of the episode is dedicated to the brainstorming and development of new shows. Brandon Herrera introduces the concept of "Darwin Awards," collaborating with his co-hosts:

"[16:25] Brandon Herrera: I've learned that I like Darwin Awards better when I've got somebody to riff off of. It's usually a lot of fun."

Nick the Fat Electrician expresses his initial reluctance but eventually embraces the idea:

"[17:02] Nick the Fat Electrician: Should get other people involved."

Donut Operator enthusiastically supports the venture, emphasizing the collaborative nature of their creative process:

"[17:12] Donut Operator: This is how the double barrel shotgun was invented. Same concept, nothing, never mind."

The hosts outline their plans to incorporate multiple storylines and acts, drawing inspiration from shows like "Veep" for comedic timing and political satire:

"[37:26] Brandon Herrera: Yeah. Because you could tell they just knock out the story bits and then they just let them fucking just rip with each other."

Additionally, they discuss "Pepper Box," another show concept focused on gun store operations, highlighting their commitment to diverse content creation.

6. Fitness Challenges and Boxing Sessions

Brandon Herrera announces an upcoming fitness challenge aimed at building community and accountability among listeners:

"[38:35] Nick the Fat Electrician: Sure."

Donut Operator elaborates on the structure, including cash prizes, merchandise, and a 60-day timeline:

"[38:35] Donut Operator: Yeah, 60 days. We will get jacked as shit or lose a lot of weight or motivate in some aspect."

The conversation shifts to their personal boxing sessions, recounting humorous and intense sparring moments:

"[29:21] Brandon Herrera: The first time, watching you hit pads while we were there, I was like, same. What is this cocksucker not good at besides swimming?"

Nick the Fat Electrician reflects on the physical and emotional aspects of boxing:

"[32:34] Brandon Herrera: So sweaty."

These segments emphasize the hosts' dedication to physical fitness, camaraderie, and the therapeutic aspects of combat sports.

7. Experiences with Discipline and Parenting

The hosts share personal anecdotes about disciplining children, reflecting on the challenges of confronting misbehavior in public settings:

"[41:03] Nick the Fat Electrician: ...in public. It's like, I have zero reservations about yelling at other people's kids."

Brandon Herrera discusses the balance between maintaining discipline and fostering friendships:

"[44:30] Brandon Herrera: Like, I've at all. I'm not a parent, so I really, like, I don't have a whole lot of ground in this."

Donut Operator adds to the conversation by highlighting a specific incident involving an unruly child:

"[45:50] Donut Operator: They just go like, don't let him plan it."

This discussion underscores the hosts' views on accountability, discipline, and the complexities of parenting—or, in some cases, non-parenting—roles in social environments.

8. Streaming Platforms: Twitch vs. Kick

Cody, one of the co-hosts, provides insights into his experiences with streaming platforms, comparing Twitch and Kick:

"[24:05] Cody: Definitely the streaming. They got like a 95.5ad split or revenue split. 95.5 compared to Twitch's 70 30."

The hosts debate the financial and functional aspects of each platform, discussing revenue splits and the negotiation process:

"[24:27] Brandon Herrera: No, like he's taking 30, right?"

Cody clarifies his agreement structure:

"[24:31] Brandon Herrera: ...that is better than I thought."

This segment offers valuable information for aspiring podcasters and streamers, highlighting the economic considerations when choosing a platform.

9. Historical Discussions: Civil War and Beyond

A substantial portion of the episode delves into historical tales from the Civil War era. Nick the Fat Electrician narrates the heroic story of Robert Smalls, a former slave who became a naval captain and politician:

"[180:11] Nick the Fat Electrician: ...he was the first dude that developed modern fire teams. So like, really, they put a lot of thought into it and everything."

Donut Operator adds context about advanced spy tactics and their impact on historical events:

"[192:35] Donut Operator: Just imagine that day at the office. Like, man, you got home, you're like, dude, I watched a man get caned almost to death. What? Why didn't anyone stop it?"

Brandon Herrera brings up the infamous caning of Charles Sumner, a pivotal event that escalated tensions leading to the Civil War:

"[187:03] Brandon Herrera: ...Charles Sumner ends up talking shit and like disparaging the guy's brother and making fun of his speech impediment...".

These discussions provide listeners with engaging and educational content, exploring lesser-known historical events and their ramifications.

10. Product Promotions and Advertisements

Throughout the transcript, there are multiple mentions of product promotions and advertisements. However, adhering to the summary guidelines, advertisements, intros, and outros are omitted to maintain focus on the core content. Notable ads include Progressive Insurance, Manscapes grooming products, Ridge Wallets, Smooth Sack Summer, and American Express Platinum cards. These segments are recognized as promotional and thus excluded from the main summary narrative.

Conclusion: Episode 222 of the Unsubscribe Podcast, titled "The Gang Gets Jacked!," offers a rich tapestry of discussions ranging from personal anecdotes and gaming insights to in-depth historical narratives and future content plans. The hosts blend humor, camaraderie, and informative dialogue, providing listeners with both entertainment and educational value. Their exploration of new show concepts like "Darwin Awards" and "Pepper Box," coupled with their commitment to community-building fitness challenges, underscores their dedication to evolving and engaging their audience.

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[00:00]
Brandon Herrera
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[00:03]
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[00:20]
Nick the Fat Electrician
I don't like to watch horrific accidents by myself. Wham. Get a nine to five, Brandon.
[00:25]
Cody
All right, if we. If we do the Beating children Up competition, we got to take 34% of the revenue for ourselves.
[00:32]
Brandon Herrera
Breaking news. Nick the fat electrician says he can take any six year old.
[00:36]
Nick the Fat Electrician
This is true.
[00:37]
Cody
I promise. We're good people.
[00:40]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Say hi to Eli.
[00:45]
Donut Operator
He's racially ambiguous. Brandon. His hair is fabulous. Donut the dog choked his position. And there's a fat electrician. Welcome to Unsubscribe.
[01:00]
Brandon Herrera
No, it's always funny because the. The audience is always like, well, you always say that. Oh, we haven't had a gang episode in a while. It's like, because you guys see what we film over the course of like four days and backlog everything for us. Like we haven't seen each other in over a month.
[01:12]
Donut Operator
Yeah, that's been tick. And last time we really didn't get a hang out during the DC shit. Because that was non stop.
[01:20]
Brandon Herrera
Yeah, a little bit. I had fun.
[01:23]
Donut Operator
Oh yeah, it was a blast. But also non stop. Yeah.
[01:26]
Brandon Herrera
Yeah.
[01:26]
Donut Operator
You didn't even get to talk about. You guys went to like, I love you guys got back from your little party thing. Cody's like, that was gay. I don't know if we can talk.
[01:35]
Brandon Herrera
About that, but we just won't say where it was. Okay. It was, it was very, very dc. It was very political. It's like, it was a crowded bar with a lot of like DC like staffers and things like that in there. And I'm just like, gross. This was my life for a while.
[01:49]
Cody
Yeah, those people sucked.
[01:51]
Brandon Herrera
It was like, wow, this is. I would like to leave now.
[01:58]
Donut Operator
And that was Cody. Did you have a couple drinks at that point?
[02:02]
Cody
Oh, a couple. Two.
[02:06]
Donut Operator
Your patience level. Cody has a great patience level. And then the drinks start in, it starts going away if they start annoying you. And weren't they just like, what do you do? Or. Yeah, I forget what was pissing me.
[02:16]
Cody
I don't know. There was one guy.
[02:18]
Brandon Herrera
What did you say to him? I can't remember what it was. But he left you alone after?
[02:22]
Cody
I don't know. I don't remember. There was one staff where he was being a dick.
[02:26]
Brandon Herrera
Because you were just like, kind of like. Like a little boy, like, hands between knees. You're like, brandon, I might have said something to someone. I was like, oh, God, what happened?
[02:37]
Cody
I don't remember. It was cool, though.
[02:44]
Brandon Herrera
Dope as shit or whatever it is. I stand by it.
[02:47]
Cody
Oh, God.
[02:49]
Donut Operator
And now we're just doing what we just left today. We just did an easy day at the dropping off supplies with bunker down in Kerrville, or where was that exactly?
[03:00]
Brandon Herrera
Well, so it's in the Kerrville area, but it's. It's called Center Point.
[03:04]
Donut Operator
Gotcha.
[03:05]
Brandon Herrera
That's a little bit more downriver from.
[03:07]
Donut Operator
Kerbal, and that's where everyone's like all the help and fire departments there. That's the main operating point that they're.
[03:13]
Brandon Herrera
Exfiling from and in. In that area. Yeah, it's a lot of the stuff that got washed away from Kerval is getting.
[03:19]
Donut Operator
It's ending up point, which also wild seeing. I mean, we were driving across that bridge and there is a dam and just couldn't see that dam.
[03:30]
Brandon Herrera
No, I didn't even know there was a dam there that we didn't see.
[03:33]
Cody
Oh, the one bridge you drive across to get into Center Point.
[03:36]
Brandon Herrera
Yeah.
[03:36]
Donut Operator
Oh, yeah, there's a dam.
[03:39]
Cody
Jeez, dude. If you look at the water damage where that bridge is, There are trees 40ft tall that are just knocked over, destroyed.
[03:48]
Nick the Fat Electrician
It was on a road, walking on a road parallel to the river that was 100 yards from the waterline and all the trees. So, like the river's over here and there's a field of trees on the other side of the road. Everything's just folded over fences, trees. Like the water was way up there.
[04:07]
Brandon Herrera
And I can't emphasize enough how different that was a week ago. Like, it was even. It was worse. Like, you. They. There's a lot of cleanup that has been done since, which is awesome. Like, that's. That's incredible. You love to see it.
[04:19]
Donut Operator
Dude. Jenna telling a story of that. That woman that was on a tree. So those houses across the river from us and these are on stilts. These are like 20ft up houses.
[04:33]
Brandon Herrera
They're up, like, up the. The bank of like, where the river. Yeah.
[04:37]
Donut Operator
And a lady was stuck on a log, a tree that was going down river for eight hours it traveled. She traveled 14 miles stuck, and it ended up at one of those houses. And that family saved that woman, pulled her off the tree. She rode all the way down that river. I was like, holy. 12 miles is fucking wild there.
[04:58]
Brandon Herrera
There's more like the people that are being found like 20, 30 miles from where they were picked up. It's crazy. Like the violence of water is something that I was never. I've seen floods before. I've never seen that.
[05:10]
Donut Operator
The water's terrifying.
[05:12]
Brandon Herrera
I'm good.
[05:13]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Why? I don't like the ocean. All you nerds. I want to live by the coast.
[05:17]
Donut Operator
No, I've never said that once. I'm Mexican. I hate fucking water. I sink like a goddamn rock.
[05:23]
Brandon Herrera
What?
[05:23]
Cody
I love the coast.
[05:27]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Oh no.
[05:27]
Donut Operator
My house has been flooded again. It's like dog. A hurricane came out of nowhere. No, this happened yearly.
[05:36]
Nick the Fat Electrician
God, make an earth. Like make the water non drinkable so they know not to go. They're humans. I love it. I don't understand. Like it's giving you signs you're not listening. You don't fill it with monsters. So they really understand we're gonna try to catch them. Like, just leave it alone.
[05:54]
Brandon Herrera
You really don't like the beach at all? Like, not even to visit?
[05:57]
Nick the Fat Electrician
0. I don't even like swimming.
[05:58]
Brandon Herrera
Do you remember at Coronado, I'm with this guy when Nick had his shoes wet.
[06:04]
Donut Operator
Please tell the story. Nick goes home.
[06:08]
Brandon Herrera
We, we're at the beautiful San Diego beach before the live show. Just like finally taking a moment to decompress a little bit. So we're, we're going to the. We're at the beach. We're going into the water. Like got flip flops on. I'm like pulling the fucking, like my pants up a bit, whatever, just going into the water. Nick gets his shoes touched by water.
[06:25]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Like it wasn't touched. My fucking socks were soaked. Okay.
[06:29]
Brandon Herrera
Yeah, well, it's like one of those, you know where like the, the, the wave comes up a little bit further than you expect or whatever and it ruined your day.
[06:38]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Hate, hate it.
[06:39]
Brandon Herrera
Like the tism came out hard.
[06:40]
Nick the Fat Electrician
You're just leaving?
[06:42]
Brandon Herrera
You just locked up, like leaving. I'm gonna go buy. No, I'm gonna buy new shoes. Like, he's is, Is he actually. Oh no. He's fucking gone.
[06:50]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Yeah. Zero interest. None. Not even a little. I will never understand the psychology that goes into like, you know, it'd be really fun if we surrounded yourself by an environment where if you quit actively moving, you'll fucking die. Wouldn't that be great?
[07:03]
Brandon Herrera
Don't get me wrong. I'm there with you.
[07:04]
Donut Operator
Oh my God.
[07:05]
Nick the Fat Electrician
It's summertime though. It' to cool down. I have a air conditioner. Okay. We figured out how to domesticate the wind and you're gonna go around in water to cool off. Get the out of here.
[07:14]
Cody
It's a bundle of joy over here.
[07:16]
Nick the Fat Electrician
I hate it. I hate water. All of it.
[07:19]
Brandon Herrera
It's what we were talking about yesterday. It's like, all right, look, if nature is so great, then why do we judge how civilized a society is based on how far they are from it science, how successful they are at getting away from it?
[07:32]
Cody
Nick and his logic.
[07:34]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Jim Gaff again. If nature is so awesome, how come all the bugs are trying to get in my fucking house?
[07:42]
Donut Operator
Have you ever done a cruise?
[07:43]
Nick the Fat Electrician
No. Why would I go on a cruise? Oh, my God. You know, it'd be great. A giant city, which I also fucking hate. But hear me out. It's floating on water, and if anything goes wrong, you all fucking die. And because you're a dude, you get to get on life raft last. I'm good.
[07:59]
Cody
Do you see the Carnival cruise list of rules they came out with? And they're saying it's racist. Have you seen that yet?
[08:06]
Donut Operator
No.
[08:06]
Cody
It's carnival, right? That's. That's the one.
[08:08]
Donut Operator
I think that's the one of what.
[08:10]
Cody
Okay, so the rules.
[08:14]
Brandon Herrera
Like, oh, oh.
[08:15]
Donut Operator
He'S on the tightrope all of a sudden. Where'd the ground go?
[08:19]
Cody
Well, the rules. It starts off, it's like, you know, only this many drinks are permitted a day. You can't have your speakers out there, your JBL speakers playing loud music. No rap music.
[08:31]
Donut Operator
No shit. They just was like, yeah, it's like.
[08:35]
Cody
The cruise will not. The cruise liner will no longer be playing rap music. Yeah, that's what. I don't know. I don't know who they're directing that towards, but.
[08:42]
Donut Operator
Do you remember the doctor made this?
[08:45]
Brandon Herrera
The guy who was talking about the. The Bluetooth Jammer, like the ones that are like super illegal.
[08:51]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Yeah.
[08:51]
Brandon Herrera
He's like, yeah, I got one of those. I'm bringing it to the speed to the. To the beach with my family this weekend. I'm going to be like the cone of no Puerto Ricans.
[08:58]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Jesus Christ. Or just not go to the beach.
[09:06]
Donut Operator
I don't like to be. I am. I get really. Dude, you give me, like, I'll exercise like a quick jog and out or I will.
[09:14]
Brandon Herrera
I like looking at it like, I don't. I don't. I'm not necessarily a big. Like, I don't want to jump in the water, like be out deep sea fishing or any shit like that. But like, I like sitting like at a restaurant that's beachside. I like stuff like that.
[09:26]
Donut Operator
I like that like the beach getting in it, it is actively pushing you back towards the sand. Which sucks. I can't swim. Which sucks. I can like, I can tread water, but it.
[09:37]
Brandon Herrera
Not the best Mexican.
[09:40]
Donut Operator
Worst Mexican.
[09:41]
Brandon Herrera
I can swim. All right.
[09:42]
Donut Operator
Hawaii's not bad. You have you. Never mind.
[09:44]
Nick the Fat Electrician
No, Hawaii.
[09:45]
Donut Operator
Going to a beach in Hawaii is pretty fucking dope. Like the white sand and it's 70 degrees water. It's nice as I'm like, okay, I could, I could with this for two days.
[09:57]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Good.
[09:57]
Cody
Don't the locals fucking hate.
[09:58]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Yes.
[09:59]
Cody
Hawaii though?
[10:00]
Donut Operator
Yeah.
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Nick the Fat Electrician
Completely justified unpopular opinion. Like I'm honestly, I'm on their side. Like I would hate everyone coming to visit too. Like those people get fucked hard because it's like they were chilling there for however long and then like, you know, travel became cheaper and it's like their family's been there forever. And then now it's like, oh, that three bedroom house that you grew up in, well, now you're a major tourist destination. And that house went from the $38,000 that your grandparents paid for it in the 1930s to $7 million. And now three generations of your family have to live in this house just to pay off the property taxes, even though the house is paid off. And then if you can't pay the property taxes, we take it and turn it into a fucking hotel.
[10:46]
Brandon Herrera
Hypothetical though, and I don't know the truth on this one way or the other. If all of the Americans just left, would they not be even more fucked?
[10:55]
Nick the Fat Electrician
I mean, potentially there traveling in. I'm just saying, like, I'm not saying.
[10:59]
Brandon Herrera
Like if tourism died tomorrow and all Americans were not allowed.
[11:02]
Nick the Fat Electrician
No, for sure, I get your point. I just feel like there needs to be some type of like zoning where it's like, okay, if you lived here for five generations, we're not going to have you pay the Bill Gates level mortgage tax rates of, you know, like, well, Bill Gates wants to buy your property. So we're going to value it at $10 million. So you can't afford to pay the taxes so we can confiscate it. And you can't afford to live where you're from anymore. It seems like to me one of.
[11:29]
Donut Operator
The billionaires owns a large quantity of Hawaii.
[11:32]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Oh yeah. After those fires went through, it was like Oprah and the Rock were buying up all the properties of the houses that went down.
[11:38]
Brandon Herrera
Because I think it's property tax where that it up because like in a free market it's like, yeah, if you decide that you want your family home that You've lived there for 200 years or whatever. That's worth more to you than $10 million. You should be able to keep that. Yeah, but then they value it. And the property taxes, the government fucks it up, right?
[11:53]
Nick the Fat Electrician
So it's like, no, now you're paying property taxes. You know, you're paying thousands of dollars a month in property taxes and you can't afford to do anything like.
[12:02]
Brandon Herrera
Yeah, that's. That's kind of shitty.
[12:03]
Donut Operator
Oh my God. I didn't. Larry Elson. I don't know who that is.
[12:08]
Brandon Herrera
Larry Ellison.
[12:09]
Donut Operator
Ellison?
[12:10]
Brandon Herrera
Yeah.
[12:10]
Donut Operator
Owns of the island of Lanai. Lanai. Lana.
[12:16]
Brandon Herrera
I wouldn't know.
[12:17]
Donut Operator
Guess how much of a percentage he owns.
[12:19]
Nick the Fat Electrician
78%.
[12:20]
Donut Operator
Nope.
[12:21]
Nick the Fat Electrician
90.
[12:22]
Donut Operator
98%.
[12:23]
Brandon Herrera
Isn't he? I think he's one of the Google founders.
[12:25]
Donut Operator
He bought it for $300 million. Just owning 98% of a fucking 300 million. Yeah, 300 million. I guarantee you bought it a long time ago. And then you have like Steve Case owns 35,000 acres. He started AOL.
[12:43]
Brandon Herrera
Oh no. Larry Ellison. I'm sorry. He was Oracle.
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Donut Operator
Oracle, yeah. Okay.
[12:50]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Oracle.
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Donut Operator
Dude, that is wild. And then that drives property taxes up. How much? Yeah, that will fuck shit up really fucking good. But then the other owners are Kamehameha family. Which Fucking dope ass.
[13:07]
Nick the Fat Electrician
I'm just waiting. Like the most realistic sci fi movie ever. As far as like real estate market is Elysium. Like as soon as. As soon as space travel becomes mainstream, like Mars is one giant hoa for rich people. It's all it is. Like that's what's gonna happen.
[13:24]
Brandon Herrera
And the first guy on it's gonna be an African American.
[13:28]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Somebody was on some podcast and like broke down how all Elon Musk's companies are just about colonizing Mars. Like they all seem so random, but they're all about colonizing Mars.
[13:38]
Cody
Yep.
[13:39]
Brandon Herrera
Neuralink.
[13:40]
Nick the Fat Electrician
All of them. So like, so he's like Tesla, like electric cars. You're gonna have to do electric cars because there's no fossil fuels on Mars. Okay, that makes sense that we know the boring company. We're not gonna live on the surface. We're gonna have massive under subterranean layers. Gotta get good at drilling holes. That's why he has a boring company, the Tesla robot. Why the is a car company making robots? Well, so you can send them their years ahead of time to build up all the infrastructure before the people get there. And like just ran down how every company has just all about colonizing Mars.
[14:12]
Donut Operator
We need a aluminum foil hat you put in or on before each segment you do like why?
[14:18]
Nick the Fat Electrician
That's not even my concern.
[14:19]
Brandon Herrera
We're gonna talk about the cheesecakes.
[14:23]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Are.
[14:23]
Brandon Herrera
Hiding dairy in the earth.
[14:25]
Nick the Fat Electrician
This is true. This is true.
[14:30]
Donut Operator
Just hours of Nick ranting.
[14:33]
Brandon Herrera
They'll call me a conspiracy theorist, but they'll never call me a liar.
[14:38]
Nick the Fat Electrician
I am correct.
[14:39]
Cody
Poor people will never poop again.
[14:41]
Nick the Fat Electrician
The amount of email.
[14:42]
Donut Operator
Oh, yeah. God, I love these episodes. They are my favorite.
[14:49]
Brandon Herrera
Took me a second.
[14:50]
Donut Operator
You just get a relax and have fun. I'm like, oh, thank God. Guys, did you know it's smooth sack Summer?
[14:56]
Brandon Herrera
Damn right it is. I need to quit.
[15:00]
Donut Operator
Feel how soft they are.
[15:01]
Brandon Herrera
Was this a scratch and sniff?
[15:03]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Wow, those are soft.
[15:05]
Brandon Herrera
Don't act like you've never done a sack check with the boys.
[15:07]
Cody
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Donut Operator
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[15:25]
Cody
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[15:31]
Donut Operator
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[15:34]
Cody
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[15:39]
Brandon Herrera
And all jokes aside, every purchase does help raise money for testicular cancer charities.
[15:43]
Cody
Manscaped has already donated $50,000 to the testicular Cancer Society.
[15:47]
Donut Operator
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[15:50]
Brandon Herrera
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[15:52]
Donut Operator
Make sure you check your boys boys with your mouth.
[15:54]
Brandon Herrera
So if you want to look good, feel good and do good, grab the.
[15:57]
Donut Operator
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[16:00]
Cody
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[16:07]
Donut Operator
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[16:08]
Brandon Herrera
Yourself or make a donation at TC Society today. Help save lives and balls trim your pubes.
[16:14]
Donut Operator
God damn it. Smooth Sack Summer. We got what? Brandon, what are you working on right now? What's your next? You have a Darwin? Oh, you guys at the moment of this would have. It would have been probably already out.
[16:25]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Yeah, yeah.
[16:26]
Donut Operator
But yeah, we're going to verse one together.
[16:30]
Brandon Herrera
I've learned that I like Darwin awards better when I've got somebody to riff off of. It's usually it's a lot of fun. So we'll see how that goes.
[16:36]
Nick the Fat Electrician
I don't like to watch horrific accidents by myself where it's one of those.
[16:40]
Brandon Herrera
I realized I get a nine to five.
[16:41]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Brandon.
[16:43]
Brandon Herrera
I stopped Liking like learn to code. I started realizing I didn't like doing Darwin anymore because I was like, man, I'm just going to have to sit there and watch 10 hours just people shooting themselves and just horrific accidents and shit. And I'm like, oh, and then I.
[17:01]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Should get other people involved.
[17:02]
Brandon Herrera
And then now I curated it all already. It's just looking through all this shit and they're like, all right now how to make it funny.
[17:11]
Donut Operator
You're winning, son.
[17:13]
Nick the Fat Electrician
This is how the double barrel shotgun was invented. Same concept, nothing, never mind.
[17:22]
Brandon Herrera
Oh, you're talking about co op mode.
[17:26]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Yeah.
[17:28]
Brandon Herrera
Oh no, we know I got that coming up. And I don't know, I got a batch of stuff. We got a bunch of guns like I got a transferable Lewis machine gun, the Metal Gear Solid stuff. We still got coming up, AK50 stuff, you know, working on new stuff like that.
[17:44]
Cody
Did we talk about where the AK50 is now?
[17:46]
Brandon Herrera
Oh, we didn't. That just got released in the newest wipe as of like two days ago for Escape from Tarkov, dude. So now you, if you play Escape from Tarkov, can get head eyes from fucking nowhere in woods by an AK50.
[17:59]
Donut Operator
Do they say what drops it or how you get it?
[18:02]
Brandon Herrera
They haven't even said that. I've been told, I don't even fucking know, but I've been told that it's.
[18:07]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Like a, you have to watch, you have to watch a YouTube channel for seven fucking years before you unlock it.
[18:14]
Brandon Herrera
I'm just gonna say that yes, my gun's gone, but it's the, the quest. There's like I think a hidden quest that they haven't announced that will end up. That'll be the item you get from it. But I'm just gonna beg Nikita. I'm like, I just need some gameplay footage. Can you just, can, Can I have a crumb of my own gun?
[18:31]
Donut Operator
Dude, the quest better have your name.
[18:34]
Brandon Herrera
In is it actually says like I think AK guy, AK50 on the thing.
[18:39]
Donut Operator
War hero Brandon Herrera, mid weapon. You're like, no, no, that would be.
[18:44]
Brandon Herrera
A, that would be such a.
[18:49]
Donut Operator
Fuck you.
[18:51]
Cody
I want to see that thing in the hands of like Willers or Landmark. Let's give them an AK50, get some footage.
[18:57]
Brandon Herrera
It's funny because like Willers is such like an actually like small human being and to see him like and think of him in game holding a 35 pound rifle and like doing fucking parkour bunny.
[19:08]
Cody
Hopping around buildings, smoking people 360 shooting.
[19:11]
Brandon Herrera
Jumping off second story buildings, landing on rails.
[19:15]
Donut Operator
That's Tarkov. Where that is. I mean, his playstyle is like, fucking yeet yourself off your leg, snap. You kill everyone. And you're like, morphine crawl, traction point. You're, like, so realistic.
[19:27]
Cody
Reattach your legs.
[19:29]
Brandon Herrera
I mean, like, it really is. It's a pretty realistic game, like, comparatively. Like, if you're comparing it to, like, Call of Duty and Battlefield and shit like that. But at the same time, you get some dude like that that's super good at, like, Willard's probably one of the best players on the planet.
[19:40]
Cody
100%.
[19:42]
Brandon Herrera
Yeah. They can break it.
[19:43]
Donut Operator
Yeah. And that is not. Have you ever watched that gameplay?
[19:47]
Brandon Herrera
No.
[19:47]
Donut Operator
So you can break limbs. Like, if you get shot in the femur, like, that can break. And you have to tourniquet.
[19:54]
Brandon Herrera
You have to explain. You can do, like, field surgery kits. Certain bandages do small bleeds, certain bandages do heavy bleeds.
[20:03]
Donut Operator
You can do, like, uppers. There's actually way alcohol. You can get drunk in that game, right? They have the vodka and stuff.
[20:09]
Brandon Herrera
Yeah. You get super dehydrated, I think is what happens to your character.
[20:12]
Donut Operator
Yeah. And then the old mayonnaise just kills you.
[20:15]
Cody
It dehydrates the shit out of you instantly. Zero hydration. And then you just slowly die.
[20:20]
Brandon Herrera
In this game, you have to eat and stay hydrated. If you're walking, like, a long distance.
[20:24]
Donut Operator
And shit like that, that's how fun.
[20:25]
Nick the Fat Electrician
I hate it. Like, everything. It sounds like a chick flick video game. That's what that sounds like.
[20:31]
Brandon Herrera
Here's the thing. You have to have, like, there. You can have different styles of armors that have different coverage areas. And depending on what caliber you're using, you have to use specific types of ammo. Like Full Metal Jacket does different than, you know, M855A1 for armor penetration. So it's like, really? They put a lot of thought into it.
[20:50]
Cody
It's like the nwba. Like, it's a lot of nothing, but then people get attacked every once in a while, and it's cool.
[20:57]
Brandon Herrera
Wait, why in the wnba?
[21:01]
Donut Operator
That joke?
[21:08]
Cody
I never. I never watched the WNBA until Caitlin Clark started getting pushed onto the ground.
[21:13]
Brandon Herrera
He's like, as soon as I figured out beating women was involved.
[21:16]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Oh, there's three white girls on the Indiana Fever. They call them trace leches. Hilarious. Oh, it was so annoying. So my wife is super into it, and one of the girls on the Indiana Fever team, Sophia Cunningham, she's like 6:1. And somebody blindsided Caitlin Clark earlier in the game. So this Sophia Cunningham blindsides this girl. Basically grabs her head and throws her onto the court and everybody loved her for it for like sticking up for Caitlyn. And the Internet was like, she needs to be careful because I forget the girl's name that she threw on the ground. She was the youngest black taekwondo black belt in Missouri State history. She got her black belt when she was 6. And I'm like, Sophia Cunningham played varsity football and a six year old black belt means literally fucking nothing. Like I don't. Nobody at 6 knows how to fight. I don't know if this is like brown great groundbreaking Internet shit, but like black belt at sixes.
[22:21]
Brandon Herrera
Breaking news. Nick the fat electrician says he can take any six year old.
[22:25]
Nick the Fat Electrician
This is true.
[22:27]
Donut Operator
I do it. Pay me enough, I'll beat the out of some six year old. All the black belts one punch.
[22:34]
Brandon Herrera
Call it Keemstar. How many can I fight for how much money?
[22:38]
Donut Operator
I always never understood the idea of giving kiddos black belts was like, dude, they can defend themselves. No, they can't.
[22:44]
Nick the Fat Electrician
That's why I like jiu jitsu. You're not even allowed to be a blue belt until you're 16. Because it's not allowed. Yeah.
[22:51]
Donut Operator
You know why? Before that you don't have testosterone, anything. Like an adult attacks you.
[22:59]
Cody
All right, if we, if we do the Beating Children up competition, we got to take 34% of the revenue for ourselves.
[23:07]
Brandon Herrera
Oh, yeah, right, Yep. We'll call it, I don't know, creator Clash4.
[23:13]
Cody
Fuck them kids.
[23:14]
Donut Operator
We could probably make that so much money. We do donate it to all great causes though.
[23:19]
Cody
I feel like that's going to be a Russian sport in the future.
[23:23]
Donut Operator
It's like a mobile game ad.
[23:25]
Brandon Herrera
It's just a child fighting ring is that we're talking about starting.
[23:28]
Donut Operator
It's adult beating the show.
[23:30]
Brandon Herrera
Oh, God, yeah. Or as they called it, my house growing up. Discipline.
[23:40]
Cody
I promise. We're good people.
[23:44]
Donut Operator
Oh, man.
[23:47]
Brandon Herrera
Do the fucking dishes.
[23:49]
Donut Operator
Well, Mr. Cody, what are you working on now? Just fucking police shootings.
[23:52]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Cody's streaming his ass off.
[23:54]
Brandon Herrera
Yeah.
[23:55]
Donut Operator
Shit.
[23:55]
Cody
Yeah. Monday to Friday, 10am Yep. Twitch and kick to around 2, 3. Yeah, like 4, 5. Our streams.
[24:03]
Donut Operator
What are you liking more right now with like the difference between those two?
[24:06]
Cody
Definitely the streaming.
[24:07]
Donut Operator
Well, like kick though, like Kick or Twitch.
[24:09]
Cody
Oh, kick pays more. They got like a 95.5ad split or revenue split. 95.5 compared to twitch's 70 30.
[24:17]
Brandon Herrera
Just fucking crazy even for a partner creator.
[24:19]
Cody
Mm.
[24:19]
Brandon Herrera
Jesus fuck. That is worse than it used to be.
[24:21]
Donut Operator
Well, you're 7030 and that's negotiated though, right?
[24:25]
Cody
No, I think I've never Negotiated when they won't talk to me.
[24:27]
Brandon Herrera
No, like, he's taking 30, right?
[24:30]
Cody
No, I'm taking 70.
[24:32]
Brandon Herrera
Okay. I thought it was worse. Okay, never mind. That is better than I thought.
[24:34]
Donut Operator
No, wait, wait.
[24:35]
Brandon Herrera
No, it's 50.
[24:36]
Cody
50.
[24:36]
Donut Operator
It's 50. 50.
[24:37]
Cody
I'm 50. Yeah, sorry, sorry. You can negotiate 70. 30.
[24:40]
Brandon Herrera
Got it. Okay.
[24:41]
Cody
Sorry. I'm getting 50. 50.
[24:43]
Donut Operator
Isn't that wild?
[24:44]
Brandon Herrera
50.
[24:44]
Donut Operator
50 is what they take.
[24:46]
Brandon Herrera
Well, Bezos needs more rocket money.
[24:49]
Cody
He just offloaded like a billion dollars of Amazon. Did you see that the other day?
[24:53]
Donut Operator
No.
[24:53]
Cody
It was like he did six hundred and something million the other day. Then the day after, he did 100 and something million.
[24:59]
Brandon Herrera
Jesus.
[25:01]
Cody
I don't know why. I'm sure there's the theories out there.
[25:03]
Donut Operator
I mean, he's. That's nothing.
[25:05]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Because he makes a living selling cheap imported from China.
[25:11]
Brandon Herrera
Yeah.
[25:11]
Donut Operator
I mean, rewind 20 years ago. I guarantee he didn't think it was 90s. When did Amazon come around?
[25:17]
Brandon Herrera
It was the 90s. Yeah.
[25:18]
Donut Operator
Yeah. I don't think he thought it would.
[25:19]
Brandon Herrera
Be to the online bookstore.
[25:22]
Donut Operator
Yeah. I'd be like, what the fuck did I create?
[25:25]
Brandon Herrera
Yeah. In 20 years, buddy, 25 years, you're gonna be a bald divorcee on TRT, shooting rockets at the sky.
[25:32]
Donut Operator
He is Jack, though. Every rich guy gets jacked.
[25:35]
Brandon Herrera
Like Elon, all props to him. Got his hair back when he got money.
[25:39]
Donut Operator
Weird how that happened.
[25:42]
Brandon Herrera
Money fixes a lot of things, apparently, dude.
[25:44]
Donut Operator
So streaming.
[25:46]
Nick the Fat Electrician
You know who else got their hair back after they got money? Nowhere near to Jeff Bezos levels of money. But who's Steve Carell? If you watch the first few seasons of the Office, he is very, very thinning. Going bald. And his hair gets progressively thicker as the show gets more successful. It's wild.
[26:03]
Brandon Herrera
It's like a hair. Like a Benjamin Button hairline.
[26:06]
Nick the Fat Electrician
I know. What were you saying? Sorry.
[26:09]
Donut Operator
No, I forget now.
[26:10]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Okay, good.
[26:11]
Donut Operator
Steve Carell's hairline. I was like, wait, he was balding?
[26:13]
Nick the Fat Electrician
It was bad in the early seasons.
[26:15]
Brandon Herrera
I got a cool story about Steve Carell.
[26:17]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Oh, no.
[26:17]
Brandon Herrera
So it's like, actually a cool story. My. One of my favorite teachers growing up. I won't say his name, but I.
[26:24]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Don'T know if this is Steve Carell.
[26:25]
Brandon Herrera
Whatever the fuck. No, Steve. Steve Carell. He was my geography teacher and a history teacher and whatnot.
[26:32]
Cody
Really?
[26:33]
Brandon Herrera
One of those guys who, like, made learning fun. It was like having Nick as your history teacher. He was just a cool dude. So he was actually. He was always, like, really funny.
[26:41]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Gerrymandering. Had to have been fucking lit for a classroom topic.
[26:46]
Brandon Herrera
So listen here. But these motherfuckers. No, but he. But he was in college. He was part of a three man comedy group with Steve Carell. Sure. So like, Steve Carell was one of the members and they had this agreement where they're like, all right, we're gonna do a 20 year anniversary, like reunion of the comedy group, whatever this is. I don't know, probably in the fucking 90s. He goes, all right, we're all gonna meet up together at this place 20 years from now, whatever we're doing in life. And we're gonna get together and, you know, fucking reminisce or whatever. So he goes. And the other guy goes at fully not expecting Steve Carell to show up because, God, he's doing movies and whatever the fuck else. Steve Carell shows up at the 20 year reunion of their little three man comedy group. And so he had a picture on his desk of all three of them. Like, there's Steve Carell. I thought that was kind of cool.
[27:37]
Nick the Fat Electrician
That's cool.
[27:38]
Donut Operator
That's a homie too. He shows up for that. You're like, yeah, yeah, I would have been late.
[27:43]
Brandon Herrera
We would have expected it. On the 20 year reunion of unsub. Like, I showed up. It's all of us.
[27:49]
Donut Operator
Yeah. I show up in the 21st year. I'm like, where is everyone? I'm sorry, my brain don't work so good. Dude. I was gonna say the. There's a whole thing about this. So we all take supplements and then create. Well, we take. Yeah, we take supplements. It's healthy. You do all the different supplements.
[28:12]
Brandon Herrera
Why are you defending supplements?
[28:14]
Donut Operator
But creatine, you know, do you. Any of you do steroids, gummy creatines?
[28:19]
Brandon Herrera
Yeah.
[28:21]
Donut Operator
Holy. There's a massive lawsuit about that shit.
[28:24]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Oh yeah?
[28:26]
Donut Operator
Yeah. And probably yours.
[28:28]
Brandon Herrera
Which ones?
[28:29]
Donut Operator
A metric shit ton. There's a lawsuit thing that got dropped. They don't. Well, it's not bad. But they don't have any creatine. Only one out of it was. Almost 90% of them. Really had zero creatine in it.
[28:46]
Brandon Herrera
Yeah. No shit.
[28:47]
Donut Operator
Yep, 2% of the 5 grams. So they're point 0.09 completely like nothing.
[28:54]
Brandon Herrera
Nothing.
[28:54]
Donut Operator
Yeah, but all that is a whole organization. I keep up with the health stuff since we started fighting. Oh, actually, hey, we're doing a fitness thing. If you didn't watch the last episode, we're actually doing a fitness thing and then we're figuring out what challenges we're going to do for this. We don't know.
[29:10]
Nick the Fat Electrician
God.
[29:12]
Donut Operator
What, dude? Oh, fuck. We didn't even get to talk about boxing. We out boxed.
[29:15]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Yeah, this is true, dude.
[29:18]
Brandon Herrera
Got the whole gang in the boxing gym, which I never thought would have ever happened. That was cool.
[29:22]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Go again tonight.
[29:23]
Donut Operator
I'm a hundred percent down for that. Sav said that was the happiest. And she took amazing photos. Those photos. Everyone looks fucking dope, by the way. I was like, oh, dude. Yes. Yes. That was the happiest I've seen. Seen us all leaving a place in a long ass time. We just got to do dude and punch each other. It's for an hour. Also right here, way more terrifying now to me because he can move. Oh, Muhammad Ali shuffle feet. He's teaching brains. You know this switch stance punch. I'm like, nick, dude, I told you I struck too. I Do you guys remember that conversation?
[30:04]
Cody
I don't know.
[30:05]
Donut Operator
You're a liar.
[30:06]
Brandon Herrera
The first time, watching you hit pads while we were there, I was like, oh, same. What is this cocksucker not good at besides swimming?
[30:18]
Donut Operator
Hey, fight him in the ocean. We'll both drown. Ring out, dude. I was absolutely.
[30:29]
Nick the Fat Electrician
That.
[30:29]
Donut Operator
It was weird because that was the first. I was like, oh, fuck, dude. I was just gonna do stand up. If me and Nick ever got in a fight, now it's just gonna suck cuz he's 50 pounds heavier. I'm gonna run, just run away really fast.
[30:46]
Brandon Herrera
I can't remember whose joke it is, but it's like, I'm pretty all right. I'm a black belt. And click, pow.
[30:53]
Nick the Fat Electrician
The meme of Goku with all the henchmen around him dead is like Jiu jitsu, taekwondo, boxing, blah blah, blah. And Goku's just Glock 19.
[31:04]
Donut Operator
But everyone dig it. You got a spar with Cody and that was, I mean, just watching everyone actually fight. Spar, hit and then you guys feel fast.
[31:14]
Nick the Fat Electrician
I punched Aiden way harder than I was.
[31:16]
Cody
Stepped into it that one time.
[31:18]
Nick the Fat Electrician
I didn't put. Throw the. I threw the punch fast, but it wasn't gonna connect. But he stepped into it and he was like. I was like, oh.
[31:27]
Brandon Herrera
And he wasn't wearing headgear.
[31:28]
Nick the Fat Electrician
No.
[31:29]
Donut Operator
Or mouthpiece. That's what I always think. I don't think about the headgear. I was like, I could live with that. The teeth clack. Cody got you, dude. And it's awesome. You two were sparring. You threw an upper, it hit Cody. And Cody's like, well, I'm gonna hurt.
[31:43]
Cody
His elbow's going in a little bit more. That's not where it goes.
[31:47]
Donut Operator
Fighting is very much learn really quickly and whatnot.
[31:50]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Nope, don't like that.
[31:52]
Donut Operator
Nick went to cross guard and Nicoty's.
[31:55]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Like, punched in the stomach. He's, like.
[31:58]
Donut Operator
Lowered my cross guard.
[32:01]
Brandon Herrera
It's just kind of funny because it is such, like, toxic masculinity. Like, dude. Cause, like, me and Eli are in. We do two rounds. I leave. Like, we have a conversation. We're like, oh, yeah, that's cool, man. Oh, let's work on this next time. And I walk outside and I spit, and I'm like, I thought I tasted blood.
[32:16]
Nick the Fat Electrician
It's fine.
[32:17]
Cody
Then we went to BJ's. Sweaty as. Oh, yeah, they loved that.
[32:22]
Nick the Fat Electrician
So sweaty.
[32:24]
Brandon Herrera
We probably stank up.
[32:25]
Nick the Fat Electrician
The entire, like, bar area was aggressive.
[32:28]
Donut Operator
Our boxing gym does not have ac. It's very much a traditional box.
[32:34]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Open the garage door.
[32:35]
Donut Operator
Yep, there's two fans. That's good enough. Why don't you make them circulate? What's that word mean? They're just blowing at each other. Hot, sweaty air. And you're human.
[32:47]
Cody
You're like.
[32:51]
Donut Operator
I had a fucking blast yesterday. That was the funnest shit we have done in so long. I'm actually excited to see that episode because that was. Everyone fought yesterday. Yeah, right?
[33:03]
Brandon Herrera
Like, literally everyone fights. Nobody fights.
[33:06]
Donut Operator
That's what I thought. Two rounds, two minutes. Those two minutes feel a lot longer. Is it that crazy?
[33:13]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Is that true, Savannah?
[33:17]
Cody
Two minutes? Look at you, stud.
[33:19]
Brandon Herrera
Yeah. Don't flex on us, Goku. You did not just.
[33:31]
Donut Operator
Fucking blast.
[33:32]
Brandon Herrera
You're, like, making a sex reference. Like, I don't know, explain it to me in anime terms so I'll understand. Do you like a mouthful of hard wood?
[33:42]
Donut Operator
Yes. Go on then.
[33:43]
Brandon Herrera
Boy, do I have a product for you.
[33:44]
Cody
I'm reenlisting in the Navy.
[33:46]
Brandon Herrera
No, not this time.
[33:47]
Cody
Oh.
[33:47]
Brandon Herrera
The product is Fume.
[33:48]
Donut Operator
What's Fume?
[33:49]
Brandon Herrera
It's an amazing device for those trying to kick those nasty habits.
[33:52]
Donut Operator
You said hardwood. You actually meant hardwood.
[33:55]
Brandon Herrera
I'm sorry to disappoint, but yes, I mean literal hardwood.
[33:58]
Donut Operator
I love hard wood in my mouth.
[34:00]
Brandon Herrera
Wait, you know what's gayer than hardwood in your mouth? Dying from cancer.
[34:05]
Donut Operator
Fume has an award winning design.
[34:06]
Brandon Herrera
There's no battery, no chemicals, just flavored air.
[34:09]
Donut Operator
Dial that airflow with the clickies. Brandon, you ever tried maple pepper?
[34:14]
Brandon Herrera
No, I like crisp mint because I'm a coward when it comes to flavors.
[34:17]
Donut Operator
Cody, what's your favorite?
[34:19]
Cody
I don't know about flavor, but John C. Fume told me it was sexy and sleek.
[34:23]
Donut Operator
That is a Sexy and sleek piece of wood right there, Cody.
[34:27]
Brandon Herrera
Oh, yeah, put it in your mouth.
[34:29]
Donut Operator
Suck that flavored air.
[34:30]
Brandon Herrera
Quit cranking your wood on camera. Start your guilt free journey with the good habit and use code unsub where you can get a free gift with purchase and start your long overdue breakup.
[34:40]
Donut Operator
Just head to try fume.com unsub and use code UNSUB to start your good habit today. Tires. I was surprised how hard tires goes.
[34:48]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Tires goes hard.
[34:50]
Donut Operator
Dude, the. The him buying a weapon. That episode had me dying.
[34:58]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Oh.
[35:00]
Donut Operator
Pointing it at each other's face when he's talking about.
[35:04]
Nick the Fat Electrician
I can guess the ethnicity of anybody based on the car they drive.
[35:07]
Brandon Herrera
Yeah.
[35:08]
Nick the Fat Electrician
He looks at the old grumpy mechanic and he's like, any Chrysler 300 and the old guy just turns around, he goes, never mind. He's really gonna say it.
[35:18]
Cody
Pack of menthols, any car.
[35:23]
Donut Operator
When they do the hr. Oh, my arm gets stuck right here. Jesus Christ. We actually have a show for Pepperbox we're working on right now. Do you know about this?
[35:38]
Nick the Fat Electrician
No.
[35:40]
Brandon Herrera
Okay. So I've been working on a show for a minute now. Actually, Cody was the one who pushed me into it. We were on a flight. I don't know if we were going to New York or where we were for the UFC fight or something, but you're just like, why don't you do. Or like. Because we were. We were bantering back and forth about like doing a show based out of a gun shop and just like the shit that goes on with like a gun store employees, you know, shit like that. And you're like, well, why don't you just fucking do it? And so I started writing notes there. I talked to Eli about it, so hopefully that's something we can do going forward. But I'm excited for it. I think it's going to be a.
[36:12]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Lot of fucking funny because I've. I've been wanting to do basically the same concept as the Office, but with my jiu jitsu academy.
[36:20]
Brandon Herrera
Yeah, yeah. I mean, there.
[36:22]
Donut Operator
You add that to it because then it's. Oh, dude. Yes, yes. Because we'll fly the crew up, have that done, the tire or however this one, the gun store, whatever we end up calling that, like episode one is. We just have to write it, but we have the three act or the three different stories going in, the acts built out. And it is.
[36:43]
Brandon Herrera
Yeah, it's fun. I'll tell you about it after. It's. We had a lot of fun even just bantering about it and like writing it out. I think it's gonna be fun. It'll be a good test for Pepper Box, like, to see. See how it converts. But I know that we're gonna have a fucking blast filming it.
[36:57]
Donut Operator
Good. Bringing in, like, Darnell. I kicked him the rough script, and then he had an idea. I kicked it. Brandon was like, bro, bro. This segment, he's like, oh, my God, yes. And this. It just builds off of it. And then all of us in the writing room and then being able to.
[37:12]
Brandon Herrera
I know this is riveting to the audience or like, talking around something I.
[37:17]
Donut Operator
Know fucking stoked for. I'm just fucking stoked.
[37:19]
Cody
I mean, I love how they do tires. They'll get the story out of the way, then they just riff with each other. And the best riffing stays in on top of that.
[37:26]
Brandon Herrera
Yeah. Because I love. Because you could tell they just knock out the. The story bits and then they just let them fucking just rip with each other. But I also took a lot of inspiration from Veep, which I don't know who the fuck didn't, like, tie me to a chair and forced me to watch that show. But it is probably one of the best political comedies I've ever seen. Like, it is. It was actually giving me, like, campaign ptsd. It's really good. Like, it's just. Even the way staffers talk to each other and stuff and like, just the kind of scenarios and shit like that. It's absurd, but it's. They did their fucking homework. They talked to staffers when they wrote this show.
[38:01]
Donut Operator
That's the one we have. I still need to watch. I want to talk about F1 because you watched F1. We haven't. But the fucking fitness thing, we are doing that 100%. I think that builds a community aspect way better than anything, especially when we have cash prizes. We will all be pitching in money for that. And then we'll have, like, top five. We'll do gifts, fucking shirts, merch, and then money prizes. I think that will really bring everyone together. And then for six, we agreed 60 days.
[38:36]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Sure.
[38:36]
Donut Operator
Yeah, 60 days. We will get jacked as shit or lose a lot of weight or motivate in some aspect. And then on Discord and then in the comments, we'll figure out a way to better coordinate and on the Reddit, show your progress and then keep each other accountable for that time. Boys looking jacked. Boys looking jacked. Fucking Nick looking terrifying as shit. Dude, look at his lean.
[39:05]
Brandon Herrera
Yo.
[39:05]
Cody
Shout out to clean for doing the pad work with everyone.
[39:07]
Brandon Herrera
Oh, yeah. Mr. Bleen was there Fuck.
[39:11]
Donut Operator
Nick.
[39:13]
Nick the Fat Electrician
What?
[39:14]
Donut Operator
I wasn't expecting you to move. I was hoping you were very stylish.
[39:19]
Nick the Fat Electrician
I told you I boxed before.
[39:21]
Donut Operator
None of us remember that.
[39:23]
Brandon Herrera
We couldn't remember, so it's clearly not our hell.
[39:25]
Donut Operator
So you're lying. Fucking history teacher Cody. Oh, yeah, they fucking. Cody's throwing some fucking. Dude, by the way, watching you Two spar is two giant what I say Doritos. Yeah, it's just two Doritos.
[39:40]
Brandon Herrera
Like 200 pounds of back. Dude, look at that.
[39:43]
Donut Operator
Cody's back right there. I was like, jesus.
[39:48]
Brandon Herrera
Sorry.
[39:48]
Donut Operator
Oh, I love it.
[39:50]
Brandon Herrera
Yeah. How dare you, Sav. I'm sorry. I'm really excited.
[39:54]
Donut Operator
Yeah. We're going to do the fitness challenge and then we'll involve everyone. We'll get more notes on the Reddit and we'll post it.
[40:01]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Whoever loses the most weight gets to fight Eli.
[40:04]
Brandon Herrera
There you go.
[40:08]
Donut Operator
Why am I fighting?
[40:09]
Brandon Herrera
Hi, beautiful. You want to say hello?
[40:11]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Oh, my God. Ethan grew a beard.
[40:13]
Brandon Herrera
I know you looking. You're looking good with that beard.
[40:15]
Donut Operator
You look out of the. You look unemployed.
[40:17]
Brandon Herrera
I know, it's great.
[40:20]
Donut Operator
Great to see you guys.
[40:21]
Brandon Herrera
Good to see man.
[40:22]
Cody
What's up?
[40:23]
Donut Operator
How you doing, guys?
[40:24]
Brandon Herrera
Good to see you. And hello. Un up family.
[40:26]
Donut Operator
Yeah. Your room's upstairs to the left, and it's very clean.
[40:29]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Oh, it's the one without all my in it. Oh, yeah.
[40:36]
Donut Operator
Thrown in the. He's like, you, you.
[40:40]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Some. I would do.
[40:43]
Donut Operator
This is my room now.
[40:44]
Brandon Herrera
A bunch of clothes, a couple like camo backpacks, and one rubber duck on the bed.
[40:49]
Donut Operator
Did Ethan spray on my bag marking it the cat?
[40:56]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Now, speaking of, I would do. I made my. I made my niece's birthday awkward for everybody.
[41:03]
Donut Operator
Go on.
[41:03]
Nick the Fat Electrician
There's like, we're at my. My sister's house and in her driveway, she's got like tents up. And then like in the fenced in yard, there's like an inflatable playhouse for the kids. And it's a bunch of kids there. It's whatever. I got the youngest kid, he's two. So like, I'll go in there and watch and make sure like my 2 year old's not getting like trampled or whatever. It's fine. And so I'm in there, I'm like watching the kids and there's this other kid, he's like, I don't know, seven. He's the biggest kid in there. And he's like shoving all the other kids down and like not letting him climb up this little ladder to go down the slide. And he just like, he shoves One kid. I'm like, hey, stop. And all the kids just stop and look at me. All the parents stop and look at me. It gets all quiet. And, like, the kid I'm talking to is, like, looking around like, who's he talking to? I'm like, you in the orange shirt, standing right there. Yes. Stop shoving the other kids. And, like, all the parents get awkward. It's like. And then, you know, his parents come in, and they start watching and whatever. It's like, it. I watch your kids. I have zero reservations about yelling at other people's kids. In public.
[42:05]
Brandon Herrera
Yep. Or hitting them.
[42:06]
Nick the Fat Electrician
I. I don't hit them.
[42:08]
Donut Operator
Yeah.
[42:09]
Brandon Herrera
It's not what I heard.
[42:10]
Donut Operator
I mean, dude, I've. We had bag kid. I won't say his name. I'm. I don't know if I've ever talked about that kid on this, but parents knew who I was talking about. Like, friends. They're like, oh, that kid. They say it, and it's like, how the do you know? Because he is just a shitbag across the board.
[42:30]
Cody
Yep.
[42:31]
Donut Operator
Sav knows. Hanging out with other kiddo. And I don't think this was a couple years ago, and we had a security cam in kiddo's room and watching him just snatch.
[42:44]
Brandon Herrera
So wait, let's back up. They're at your house?
[42:47]
Donut Operator
Yeah, they're at my house. They're both playing. They.
[42:50]
Brandon Herrera
Who's both? Okay. What? Like, what's going on?
[42:53]
Donut Operator
I forgot about that. So kiddo got dropped off at our house without asking. The parents were like, oh, our son said that you lived here, and we just had to find this house. And we're like, okay.
[43:05]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Our kids plan to play date, and we didn't run it by you.
[43:08]
Donut Operator
Yes. Literally. What happened? So parents pulled up. The mom dropped off the kid. I was like, hey, yeah, so you're good to watch him, right? We're like, what the fuck's going on? Okay, bye. And drove off.
[43:19]
Brandon Herrera
Just rolled. Just like, dropped child.
[43:21]
Donut Operator
Yes.
[43:21]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Okay.
[43:22]
Brandon Herrera
Yeah, literally rolled off a gunshot victim at the ER and sped away.
[43:27]
Donut Operator
Yep. And we're like, what the fuck's going on? Okay. It was like, okay, whatever's going on, they're playing. And I. We both hear stuff. I'm like, what the fuck's going on? I checked the security cam. I watch tablet get pulled from town. I'm like, yo, what the. Hey, we don't. Hey, let's not do that. Let's be good. Okay? They hand it back.
[43:50]
Cody
Boom.
[43:50]
Donut Operator
We leave. We just turn on security camera. I'm like, I'm gonna guess it's gonna happen again really quickly. And sure shit, instantly playing on the tablet, snatches it out of his hand. I walk in. I was like, hey, what are you doing? We just had this talk. Do not do that again. You understand me? Neck, kid, behave the rest of the fucking night.
[44:14]
Brandon Herrera
It's amazing. It's the. You get a crumb of discipline.
[44:18]
Donut Operator
Yeah. And the parents did not understand it. Like, hey, explain. Like, yeah, got on your kiddo. What the hell are you doing? And then we watch the interaction. No parenting whatsoever.
[44:30]
Brandon Herrera
Like, I've at all. I'm not a parent, so I really, like, I don't have a whole lot of ground in this, but I'm the only one here who's not a parent, I think. But I think the. I've also. I've been a kid, though, and, like.
[44:44]
Nick the Fat Electrician
I've grown up around. Very good political answer. Yes, go ahead.
[44:47]
Brandon Herrera
Don't fucking scare me. But, like, I've been a kid, and I remember growing up with the other kids who, like, their parents were like, oh, I just want to. Like, I just want to be friends with my kid. And they were always, yes.
[44:59]
Donut Operator
Oh, these parents are the definition of that. Because they did not want to discipline. What? Babe, what were the.
[45:06]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Look, I read a book by a woman with no kids and a doctorate degree that said I shouldn't discipline my children. Okay? She would know that.
[45:14]
Donut Operator
She was a. The mom was a psychologist, and that is. And not trying to fucking step on Rock the Boat, so neither want to do anything. And the kids like, oh, what am I doing? I don't want to leave. Throwing a fit about leaving. I was like, yeah, he has to fucking go. And, nope, never welcome back here, period. Ever again. Never hung out. We pulled. I was like, so that's not your friend anymore? Ever in a million years. Never hanging out with that kid again. Get it? He's like, okay, yeah, he's weird.
[45:53]
Brandon Herrera
He'd tell the dad, like, look, you drop your kid off here again, I'm dropping him off at the pound.
[45:59]
Cody
Humane Society's gonna be real happy.
[46:02]
Donut Operator
But all the other parents knew, like, fucking Maggie and Brandon. Maggie and Brandon. We didn't say a name. We're like, yeah, this shitbag kid. And they're like, oh, we'll bleep that name out. I was like, wait, what the fuck? She doesn't work at that school.
[46:17]
Nick the Fat Electrician
She knows about him.
[46:18]
Donut Operator
Yes. I've never seen that before in my entire fucking life.
[46:24]
Cody
Going back to what Brandon was saying, watching 14 years, some kid shows up at my Door. And all he knows is the Internet. And he's like, you're my dad, Brandon. Right?
[46:32]
Brandon Herrera
Yeah.
[46:33]
Cody
Like, hold on, I gotta make a phone call. This is hilarious.
[46:38]
Brandon Herrera
Oh, wait, your door?
[46:39]
Cody
Yeah, it shows up at my door.
[46:41]
Donut Operator
Brandon.
[46:42]
Brandon Herrera
Wait, wait, wait, wait. Hold on.
[46:43]
Cody
I gotta FaceTime someone real quick.
[46:45]
Brandon Herrera
No. Cody.
[46:46]
Cody
Brandon, you'll never fucking believe this.
[46:47]
Brandon Herrera
Cody, I've never asked you for a single thing. You're gonna have to take this DNA test for me, please.
[46:54]
Donut Operator
Oh, my God.
[46:57]
Brandon Herrera
That's a joke. That's a joke.
[47:00]
Donut Operator
It's a joke. Geneva. Kim Inch.
[47:03]
Cody
See, I'm not your dad. Who's Brandon?
[47:10]
Donut Operator
Have you seen.
[47:12]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Have you seen the. The Daniel Cormier interview where he's talking about somebody bullying his kid at a park? No, it's like, it's Daniel fucking Cormier. Like, I think he's only ever lost a fight to Jon Jones. And they usually go the distance. Heavyweight champ, light heavyweight champ, Olympic wrestler. And he's like, I was at the park with my kid and some other kid that was bigger kept shoving my kid down. And I told him to stop twice. And the parents were like, hey, buddy, stop. And then he did it a third time. So I told his dad, whatever your kid does to my kid next I'm gonna do to you. And then they left. It's like, that's hilarious.
[47:51]
Cody
The score me in my balls is hot. Is that him?
[47:53]
Nick the Fat Electrician
No, that was Derrick Lewis.
[47:55]
Brandon Herrera
Oh, okay.
[47:57]
Donut Operator
Daniel Cormier. He announces for the ufc. Also terrifying giant black man.
[48:02]
Cody
That's where I got the two confused.
[48:08]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Wrong. Wrong. Large black man that makes a shit out of people.
[48:12]
Donut Operator
Both heavyweights. Very, very big guys.
[48:16]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Cody, which one looks better?
[48:19]
Brandon Herrera
Ridge. What did you say? Ridge. So you're a big fan of Ridge, huh? Ridge. Would that make you a Ridger?
[48:25]
Donut Operator
Ridge, All Ridge wallets have an rfid. What's that, Cody? Explain it.
[48:30]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Ridge.
[48:30]
Brandon Herrera
It's a physical security 11 meant to stop people from being able to scan cards from inside your wallet.
[48:35]
Donut Operator
And they have over 100,000 five star reviews. Did you know Ridge wallet makes a donut one?
[48:40]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Cody.
[48:40]
Donut Operator
Ridge, the Ridge key case can hold two to six keys. It keeps it nice and organized in carbon fiber.
[48:46]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Ridge.
[48:47]
Donut Operator
Do you know why we're obsessed with Ridge Wallet and Keychain? For the colors and the unique designs. Put up the GT40. It looks so good.
[48:56]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Ridge.
[48:57]
Donut Operator
For a limited time, our listeners get 10% off. Just head to ridge.com and use code unsub at checkout.
[49:03]
Brandon Herrera
Ridge.
[49:04]
Cody
Ridge. Ridge. Ridge. Ridge. Ridge.
[49:06]
Nick the Fat Electrician
You want to be a Ridger?
[49:08]
Donut Operator
Today, go use our code Unsub. Can we start the word Ridger?
[49:13]
Brandon Herrera
Yeah, I think we can. I want to try it. Eli. Ridger is our word. Ridge to you.
[49:19]
Donut Operator
Okay, dude, we were talking in the car about.
[49:22]
Brandon Herrera
I'm glad you brought that up, because I was going there too.
[49:24]
Donut Operator
We had the past story and then the Chuck stories we were talking about, we never heard.
[49:29]
Nick the Fat Electrician
But Miller, Pat Miletich, dude, I don't.
[49:32]
Brandon Herrera
Think the Chuck stories can make the podcast.
[49:34]
Nick the Fat Electrician
They're in his book.
[49:35]
Brandon Herrera
That's fair.
[49:36]
Donut Operator
I see.
[49:37]
Brandon Herrera
We're good.
[49:37]
Donut Operator
We're good. The story I.
[49:39]
Nick the Fat Electrician
This is. This is fuzzy. I read their books in high school. This forever ago. But the rough gist of the story was like, if you don't know, Pat Miletich opened what's considered basically, like, the first MMA camp fighting place in the United States at a Davenport, Iowa. He was the coach for, like, Matt Hughes, Tim Sylvia, former heavyweight champion, and like all those guys in the early days of ufc. I think he originally trained Ken Shamrock too. I'm not sure. Trained a bunch of, like, the OG UFC guys, but he was like, older by then, pioneer mma. And he has this story about, I think it was Tim Sylvia winning a fight. And they go out to these clubs in, like, the Davenport area. The fight was like, probably in Chicago or something. And they go out and they're out at the club and some dude gets into it. Pat Milletic is like, older guy, he's retired from MMA at this point.
[50:31]
Donut Operator
The monster, by the way, still a.
[50:33]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Horrifying human being to 99.9% of people walking around, like, absolutely terrifying. And they go outside because this dude has an issue with Pat Miletage. And the dude tells Pat Miletage, do you know who I am? And Pat's like, no. He's like, I'm Pat Militage. And Pat Militage is like, huh? And hands him his driver's license. Apparently the dude looks at it, Frisbees that shit one way and runs the other way. We gotta get him on the podcast. He's fucking hilarious.
[51:10]
Brandon Herrera
I also love that you remember this story from fucking A book you read in high school. Like, the only book I remember reading from high school was Catcher in the Rye. And by that time, I was already too late to kill John Lennon.
[51:22]
Nick the Fat Electrician
That's what I do. I read and remember things. It's my whole job.
[51:27]
Brandon Herrera
I drink and I know things.
[51:28]
Donut Operator
Also, really good story.
[51:30]
Brandon Herrera
It's hilarious.
[51:31]
Donut Operator
We were talking about that, and then that went into. I forget what got us on a UFC fighter tangent at that point.
[51:37]
Brandon Herrera
Oh, we had the three of us.
[51:38]
Nick the Fat Electrician
We're having Don Fry on.
[51:40]
Donut Operator
Yeah, we're having Don fry on.
[51:42]
Cody
Really?
[51:42]
Brandon Herrera
So excited for that. Yes.
[51:44]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Yes.
[51:45]
Donut Operator
Oh, yeah. Shout out to Don. I know.
[51:47]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Apparently he watches the podcast and likes it from what I was told.
[51:51]
Donut Operator
Hey, Don, text about it. Like, yeah, Don likes your guys stuff. He started watching after I was talking with his team and setting everything up and they're like, yeah, he's excited to be on.
[52:02]
Brandon Herrera
We're like, Don's like old school based too.
[52:04]
Donut Operator
Dude, this is a dude.
[52:06]
Brandon Herrera
No, no, no, don't ask him. He'll say it.
[52:08]
Cody
Yeah, Don packing menthols in the car.
[52:13]
Donut Operator
Like one of my favorite interviews of another fighter. Just going to spar. Old Don was like, yeah, I knew the dude was hard as shit. When I was stretching, getting ready, I look over and then Don just pops two Percocets and gets in the ring. That's a fucking hard dude.
[52:35]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Fuck off.
[52:36]
Donut Operator
So he's gonna come on the podcast and then we were talking about Boss Rootin. We were showing his.
[52:43]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Wait, we were his old school MMA fights.
[52:45]
Donut Operator
Yeah.
[52:46]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Where he was like, it was bare knuckles. So he would just go out there and open palm strike people. And he's like getting knockouts by open palm striking dudes in the liver and.
[52:54]
Donut Operator
Horrifying dude like, he ruptured somebody's liver. They have that on camera. And then if you want to see a dude just instantly quit a fight, then get willed off on a stretcher is when boss root and kicked it. They. He caused lacerations from the kick to the liver.
[53:13]
Brandon Herrera
Because like that, that shit can kill you. Right. Like, there's. There's a lot of blood in your liver.
[53:18]
Donut Operator
Your liver does a lot of important things. And it also is one of the few things in your body, I think, that actually has like nerve endings where it's like, hey, you're in danger. You're going to die. That's why your body just shuts.
[53:29]
Nick the Fat Electrician
It's also like punched. Oh, this is where we collect all the toxins that aren't supposed to be in your bloodstream. It just burst. Yeah, have fun.
[53:40]
Donut Operator
If you watch a good liver punch or cake, they like, they don't move anymore. Like, there's no, like, I'm going to fight. I'm a fight through this. The person usually hops on their knees. The. The kick that happens to the guy's liver, he just shuts down and curls into a ball and starts crying and then they will him off of the. The ring.
[54:00]
Brandon Herrera
I think you got me Last week. And it was even like, we're going. You go pretty light. And I, like. I had to take, like, a fiver. I was like, one second.
[54:08]
Donut Operator
Sorry. Brandon made it.
[54:10]
Brandon Herrera
I was like, five. Just give me, like, five, ten seconds. One sec.
[54:14]
Donut Operator
Forgot about that.
[54:15]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Doesn't feel good.
[54:16]
Donut Operator
No. Ever. It just hurts like a motherfucker. What? Chuck stories. Can we.
[54:22]
Brandon Herrera
I just want to have Chuck on. I think that would be fucking hilarious because, I mean, he's coming to your bachelor party.
[54:28]
Donut Operator
Yeah.
[54:28]
Brandon Herrera
Fucking great.
[54:29]
Donut Operator
My God.
[54:30]
Brandon Herrera
Yeah.
[54:30]
Cody
He's gonna be there with us.
[54:31]
Donut Operator
I did not know that.
[54:32]
Cody
Oh, yeah.
[54:33]
Brandon Herrera
I just wanna. I. I actually can't say anything I was about to say because if I say it on the podcast, it becomes premeditated. So I'm just not gonna.
[54:43]
Cody
Yeah. I hit him up when we started deciding the dates for the. The bachelor party. And I was like, ah, Chuck's not gonna say. Yeah, you know, he's busy. He's doing all this stuff. He's making shows. And hit him up was like, hey, my bachelor party's gonna be this week. He said, I'll write it off on my calendar. It's like, yes. This is awesome.
[54:58]
Brandon Herrera
He confirmed that again in Vegas. He was like, just let me know the dates.
[55:01]
Cody
Yeah. So it's gonna be us and Chuck.
[55:03]
Donut Operator
Don't let him plan it.
[55:05]
Cody
No.
[55:08]
Brandon Herrera
Yeah. No. If you let him plan it, it's gonna be a wildly different thing than what you want. No, that's going in somebody's book.
[55:17]
Donut Operator
It's wakey. No, that's the Hangover.
[55:21]
Brandon Herrera
Yeah. Oh, God.
[55:23]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Mike Tyson. We got Chuck Liddell.
[55:25]
Brandon Herrera
Oh, I'm just thinking, like, the gang wakes up. Oh, God. In the Airbnb. Where's Chuck?
[55:32]
Nick the Fat Electrician
It's the whole movie. Brandon got deported last night. We got to go to Tijuana and rescue him.
[55:40]
Brandon Herrera
I was born here. How'd this happen?
[55:43]
Donut Operator
I have a face tattoo.
[55:45]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Nick, what are you doing? I'm building a hot air balloon. I read about it. This is how they got it. The Soviet. The eastern block of Germany. We're gonna smuggle Brandon back in.
[55:55]
Brandon Herrera
It's gonna be like that Red Dead 2 where they rescue the guy from the prison camp in a hot air balloon.
[56:02]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Oh, no.
[56:05]
Brandon Herrera
God. That's been. One of the funny things is, like, people on the Internet are like, your last name's Herrera. You know, they're gonna deport you, too. And, like, before, I'm like. I'm like, that. That's. That's retarded. Whatever. Now I just kind of go with it. I'm like, hey, that's what needs to happen. I understand.
[56:18]
Donut Operator
Godspeed. Godspeed. Oh, fuck. We have our live show dates locked in. And then we have what locations we're doing. We hit your neck of the woods, finally. Yeah.
[56:30]
Nick the Fat Electrician
We're going to Iowa.
[56:32]
Donut Operator
Ha. In Chicago.
[56:35]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Yeah. I didn't. I didn't agree to that one, but okay.
[56:38]
Brandon Herrera
I would rather do Iowa.
[56:40]
Donut Operator
Thankfully, they're back to back. None of the great.
[56:46]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Oh, two things you didn't want to do. Don't worry, we're doing them back to back.
[56:51]
Brandon Herrera
It's like prison all over again.
[56:55]
Donut Operator
The live shows for anyone does it is absolutely draining. We are so excited to do it, but, dear God, that is the one. Like, we leave those dead. Those are fucking exhausting.
[57:07]
Brandon Herrera
It's like. It's like hiking, right? It's like, it's. Don't get me wrong, we like doing it in theory, and it's. You feel a sense of accomplishment when it's done. And like, you have. You have a lot of good memories from it. I'm tired, but you're really tired when it's over with.
[57:21]
Donut Operator
We're not doing that for us. That is a hundred percent for all of you. We are very tired. Rich, Jack, I think, man, Rich is a psychopath.
[57:31]
Nick the Fat Electrician
He doesn't count.
[57:32]
Donut Operator
Even Jack was like. Jack talked about. He's like, yeah, the San Diego show when I showed up. Or San Diego, right?
[57:38]
Brandon Herrera
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[57:39]
Donut Operator
Jack was like, yeah. When I seen Rich exhausted, that's when he knew. He's like, oh, that must suck doing that tour. Because we had flew from the east coast that morning to the west coast.
[57:51]
Nick the Fat Electrician
For what? Virginia to San Diego.
[57:54]
Brandon Herrera
Yep.
[57:55]
Donut Operator
And then performed. Well, you got your socks wet.
[57:57]
Nick the Fat Electrician
I know.
[57:58]
Donut Operator
And then still mad about it.
[58:01]
Nick the Fat Electrician
That's the day I found out you can in fact doordash shoes.
[58:06]
Donut Operator
What?
[58:06]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Didn't know that, did you?
[58:07]
Donut Operator
No.
[58:07]
Nick the Fat Electrician
How do you think I got new shoes?
[58:10]
Brandon Herrera
I doordash Ray Bans in San Francisco when I was there.
[58:12]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Did you really?
[58:13]
Brandon Herrera
Yeah, I was there for the Young Americans for Liberty thing. And I, like, I got super frustrated because their airport's under construction, so I just hopped the fucking concrete barrier, like, at one point, and I scratched the out of my Ray Bans so I don't doordash another pair. I felt like an asshole. Yeah.
[58:31]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Peak capitalism moment.
[58:33]
Donut Operator
Yeah.
[58:34]
Brandon Herrera
Late school stage capitalism.
[58:37]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Summon a stranger to deliver you designer sunglasses.
[58:48]
Brandon Herrera
Well, to be fair to me, I didn't really want to go into downtown San Francisco to buy another bear.
[58:54]
Donut Operator
Peasant. Where are my glasses?
[58:59]
Brandon Herrera
I can't reference any of the memes I want to right now. Live shows will be fun though. Like, just to give a. The frame of reference for like what we're talking about. We're like, we enjoy them, but like it's also. You're tired as fuck afterward, you're drained. When we were in Boston, we wanted to go to the. What is it? The Green Dragon pub or Green Drive and Dragon.
[59:22]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Green Dragon tavern, which is basically first bar in America, essentially.
[59:26]
Brandon Herrera
Yeah. It's like the founding fathers were there, shit like that. Basically planning the revolution. And it was just only a couple miles away. A couple blocks away. And we were all just way too wiped. Afterward we were like, oh, we're gonna go get like a drink there. Just to say we did because it's super cool. Then like after the show, we all took a vote. Like.
[59:45]
Donut Operator
I forgot about. We were all drained. It was always, here's what we're going to do after the live show. That never happens. We just head straight back. Where do we watch the fight? That's the perfect example.
[59:58]
Nick the Fat Electrician
And in the hotel lobby on the computer.
[60:01]
Brandon Herrera
The home two in suites or whatever.
[60:04]
Donut Operator
Refreshing everyone.
[60:06]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Yeah.
[60:07]
Donut Operator
Because the fights were loading. Right. Okay.
[60:09]
Brandon Herrera
On the free. The free computer they had downstairs. Yeah. We had to keep like move the mouse every three minutes that the.
[60:17]
Donut Operator
The one fans that showed up.
[60:19]
Nick the Fat Electrician
That one dude had the most awkward. It's just us sitting in a hotel lobby on a computer this 10 years old and we have to refresh the tab every like 5 minutes. Otherwise it resets. And he's like, are you. Are you. You're donut operator. He's like, yeah. And you're Brandon. What is happening right now? Oh, we're in town doing a live show.
[60:39]
Brandon Herrera
Oh, we're watching a fight. You want some pizza?
[60:41]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Yeah. Sat down and ate pizza and watch a fight with us. It was so random.
[60:47]
Donut Operator
Papa Jones.
[60:48]
Brandon Herrera
It's kind of that moment. He's like not to be weird. You're real, right?
[60:58]
Donut Operator
These guys must be struggling. From the outside perspective.
[61:05]
Brandon Herrera
The adsense is not doing well.
[61:09]
Donut Operator
I'm just getting by right now. And then we flew to the next place and fucking rinse, repeat. We have. Was it August 15th General sells. August 13th artist, pre sales. So that's when the tickets actually go live. But we're doing an announcement now. So look out for those tickets for pre sales and actual sales. We're actually stoked for this.
[61:33]
Brandon Herrera
So by the time this gets out, that's what, three weeks? Yeah.
[61:36]
Donut Operator
And these are like the venues are getting a lot bigger really fast.
[61:41]
Brandon Herrera
It's Kind of scary. Yeah.
[61:43]
Donut Operator
That biggest venue last time was 1200 seats and now we're at 2000 seat venues at like the Hard Rock in Orlando.
[61:51]
Brandon Herrera
I'm super excited for that one. Like, there's a lot of these shows I think that are actually gonna be a lot of fun. Dude.
[61:57]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Dude, Are we doing the same one in Boston?
[62:00]
Donut Operator
No, same.
[62:01]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Same venue, bigger venue. Yep. Oh, boy.
[62:03]
Donut Operator
Yeah, that's what's crazy. Remember the three stories, Cody? Yeah, yeah, That's a small venue this time.
[62:10]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Oh, Cody likes that.
[62:13]
Cody
No, that was. That was a wild one because I didn't know there was another story of people looking at another thousand people up there.
[62:19]
Brandon Herrera
Didn't you find that out like in the show? Yeah, we sat look higher.
[62:23]
Cody
Ah, fuck.
[62:24]
Nick the Fat Electrician
There's a third balcony.
[62:26]
Brandon Herrera
I could like. It was like, what is that? Sniper Elite? Where I could just look in like 3D through your chest and sudden.
[62:36]
Cody
I do great with crowds.
[62:38]
Donut Operator
None of us are big crowd people. It's like introverts. I'm like, but the fact that that was our huge one and that's our tiny one this year, 1200 is our small one and then the rest are 15 to 2000 seat venues. And then you look at the photos of them, they look so fucking dope. But also, Jesus Christ, that is the most terrifying thing we will look at. I'm like, okay.
[63:01]
Brandon Herrera
That being said, we've been looking at ways to try to figure out how to make this tour the best one yet and make it just a good experience for you guys while also not wanting to.
[63:08]
Nick the Fat Electrician
We decided we're gonna get in really good shape and then get shit faced on all the shows.
[63:13]
Brandon Herrera
Oh, God. Way less. So when what, the amount that we drink hits us hard?
[63:18]
Nick the Fat Electrician
60 days, reducing our alcohol tolerance and then we're gonna go.
[63:23]
Brandon Herrera
Think about it like that. I don't like that.
[63:26]
Donut Operator
Did we start 30 minute mark.
[63:29]
Brandon Herrera
So we started yesterday, right? Yeah, yeah, okay.
[63:33]
Donut Operator
Yep, yep.
[63:38]
Brandon Herrera
Mean Eli started fucking two months ago, so I don't want your shit.
[63:41]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Hey.
[63:41]
Donut Operator
I mean, we're about a month and a half.
[63:43]
Brandon Herrera
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[63:43]
Donut Operator
See, we're all doing really good. We've been working out.
[63:46]
Brandon Herrera
You're down at time recording. I'm down 14, which is 14 pounds. I got fat there for a minute. I don't like that. Thank you to the unsub audience for calling me out. Totally didn't hurt my feelings and forced me to become a better person.
[63:59]
Donut Operator
Wait, what?
[64:00]
Brandon Herrera
Oh, there was a couple. There was a couple people in my. In my comments or whatever and it sucks. This fucking Sucks, right?
[64:06]
Donut Operator
When people change, somebody will do. As a dude, you read a comment like, homeboy's fat bullying works.
[64:13]
Brandon Herrera
Yeah. Well, it sucks when like, people, we're used to getting shit talked, right. We're on the Internet for a living. You fucking get thick skin to it. It sucks when you know it in your heart and you don't like it about yourself. And then a stranger says it and.
[64:27]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Feel my arteries clogged.
[64:29]
Brandon Herrera
I'm like, ooo, you're not wrong. And I fucking hate it.
[64:33]
Nick the Fat Electrician
I like when old, old videos of Brandon pop up from years ago. You were both significantly skinnier, but you were also significantly more pale.
[64:41]
Brandon Herrera
Yeah.
[64:42]
Nick the Fat Electrician
So my running theory is that the tanner you get, the fatter you get.
[64:47]
Brandon Herrera
So like, a lot of people were like, wow, my God, you aged so much. I'm like, yeah, it's because when I started, I was a child. I'm getting older.
[64:55]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Brandon hits 250. He unlocks new slurs.
[65:04]
Brandon Herrera
I know what I have to do. I just don't know if I have the strength to do it.
[65:11]
Donut Operator
Dude, I like. I just like pre Trt Cody. That's my favorite.
[65:15]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Oh yeah, you guys, you guys live here with him. I got to see Cody over the course of like two trips. Go from like.
[65:25]
Brandon Herrera
It was the donut operator twink death.
[65:28]
Cody
Someone said that in the comments.
[65:30]
Brandon Herrera
Really?
[65:30]
Cody
Yeah.
[65:31]
Nick the Fat Electrician
No, Cody's lats absorbed his man bun. Now he's jacked his.
[65:41]
Brandon Herrera
This is the shit talking I love on gang episodes.
[65:45]
Cody
Someone did say on Twitter what a brutal twink death that was. I don't know how to feel about that.
[65:56]
Donut Operator
It is fucking night and day though.
[65:58]
Brandon Herrera
When you do a comparison.
[65:59]
Cody
Damn, I'm less attractive to furries.
[66:08]
Brandon Herrera
What an odd thing to say.
[66:11]
Donut Operator
You Metal Gear Solids out front.
[66:13]
Brandon Herrera
Yeah, Editor, can you please put the exclamation mark above all of our heads on that wine?
[66:19]
Nick the Fat Electrician
What was that?
[66:23]
Brandon Herrera
No, but like, I look back at old, old videos, they're like, oh, you're so much skinnier. Then I'm like, for one, I was like, yeah, 22. For the other thing is like, I was way more stressed out and I wasn't eating or sleeping. So, like, I've got visible bags under my eyes and I'm like half living out of my shop because I'm trying to make it on YouTube. Like, yeah, no, I wasn't. I wasn't happy. I. I wasn't doing well back then.
[66:44]
Donut Operator
We're not all Nick.
[66:46]
Nick the Fat Electrician
What?
[66:47]
Donut Operator
Nothing. Oh, let me try. Long form, 2 million views.
[66:51]
Nick the Fat Electrician
What do you want me.
[66:52]
Donut Operator
That struggle is hard.
[66:54]
Brandon Herrera
I Want you to keep succeeding because we're proud of our boy.
[66:56]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Oh, good.
[66:57]
Donut Operator
Yes, we are. Good. And now we're just gonna use your face to get views for our own.
[67:03]
Brandon Herrera
So this Darwin Award.
[67:05]
Donut Operator
I know, it's gonna be Nick with Nick. And Nick in the back background shooting himself.
[67:09]
Brandon Herrera
All right, so this pissed me off. I was. I was making a joke about how, like, oh, I need to, like, just as a joke, have Nick on a thumbnail because, like, we're joking that your face does well on thumbnails. I'm just gonna do Nick on a thumbnail in a video he's not in, just to, like, have mathematical evidence. Like, just. Let's. Let's see what happens. And I made this joke, like, two days after I released my Stoner 63 video, which you are in. I literally could have done it there and actually not been clickbait. Like, God damn it.
[67:44]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Should have done it.
[67:46]
Brandon Herrera
I might go back and change it.
[67:48]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Do it.
[67:48]
Brandon Herrera
You're in that video for, like, three minutes. I'm like, that's fine.
[67:52]
Donut Operator
It's not clickbait.
[67:54]
Brandon Herrera
No, I know. That's what I'm saying. It was perfect. I just completely. Yeah, it slipped my mind.
[67:57]
Nick the Fat Electrician
He was there.
[68:00]
Donut Operator
Use the fuck out of his face on this Darwin.
[68:04]
Brandon Herrera
That sounds horrible.
[68:09]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Curious how this is gonna go. Get, like, some World War II ones. For me.
[68:13]
Brandon Herrera
It's World War II Darwin Awards. Yeah, it's called Pearl Harbor.
[68:16]
Donut Operator
Wait, what? What? Actually, do you have them pre selected yet?
[68:19]
Brandon Herrera
Oh, yeah, yeah. I've got the whole thing curated.
[68:21]
Donut Operator
Which are the good ones? Or do we talk about it? Because he has to react.
[68:25]
Brandon Herrera
Let me see. Yeah, well, he's got to react to him.
[68:27]
Nick the Fat Electrician
I gotta talk about it real quick.
[68:29]
Donut Operator
Okay.
[68:29]
Cody
Oh, God.
[68:30]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Let me see.
[68:30]
Brandon Herrera
What?
[68:30]
Donut Operator
It's like the joke from earlier.
[68:32]
Brandon Herrera
Oh, the cop one where the dude tases his own hand.
[68:37]
Cody
Oh, that's gonna be beautiful.
[68:40]
Brandon Herrera
I think the prongs are in too.
[68:42]
Donut Operator
Yeah. He does what?
[68:43]
Brandon Herrera
The cop tases his own hand.
[68:46]
Donut Operator
How the.
[68:46]
Brandon Herrera
They got a suspect on the ground. What the.
[68:55]
Donut Operator
You do that.
[68:56]
Brandon Herrera
But on a real note, there's. There's some stuff that I cannot put in the. The episode because of YouTube guidelines. What's funny is I've shown, like, obviously, like, you have to blur it and shit in moment of impact or moment of death, whatever, where people are getting shot or, like, getting a limb blown off or something. You have to blur that obviously for, you know, censorship reasons. But anything revolving around a firework. YouTube is super strict on that. I can't show any fireworks, accidents at all without it getting age restricted. They're way more strict about that. Like I had a Darwin Awards that ended with somebody I think dying. And that wasn't what got it. It was the firework. So like all of we have to put that in the pepper box cut. Because we do it uncensored on Pepperbox, which, you know, viewer discretion advised. Shit's kind of gnarly sometimes.
[69:41]
Donut Operator
Shout out to pepper box.
[69:42]
Brandon Herrera
Beyond Pepperbox. We have to save all because like there's stuff that I think is great for the episode that involves fireworks that we can't use.
[69:49]
Donut Operator
No shit. I'm still sorry. My mind is still stuck on human conditioning to for whatever reason do this. How many videos have done that Laser. I know you've seen the laser. Is my laser working? Pull trigger.
[70:02]
Brandon Herrera
So I. Yeah, the dude in the.
[70:04]
Cody
Indoor shooting range.
[70:07]
Brandon Herrera
I did that.
[70:09]
Donut Operator
Wait, what?
[70:09]
Brandon Herrera
I got called out for it on YouTube and I'm like, I'm doing that in this episode of Darwin Awards as well. I not the laser and pull trigger obviously. Like not like trigger discipline. Full trigger discipline everything.
[70:20]
Donut Operator
But Brady's like.
[70:22]
Brandon Herrera
So yeah, I just got a fucking hole in my hand. I did it with a deagle on. On the. The cybertruck episode. And I am like full on. You know what you work with fire firearms enough, you can get complacent. That's not a good thing. And that's not an excuse. I'll give myself shit when it happens because that don't do it. But yeah, I flat out, I flagged myself with a loaded deagle like for a split second showing the flashlight after.
[70:48]
Donut Operator
Oh no shit.
[70:49]
Brandon Herrera
After I loaded it. And people are like that better have been edited around and blah blah, blah, like and not loaded. And I'm like, you know what? I'll take my licks. It was, you know, trigger discipline, everything like it was. But it wasn't safe.
[71:00]
Donut Operator
And that new complacency is wild because.
[71:03]
Brandon Herrera
It is happens to all of us, dude.
[71:06]
Donut Operator
Yeah, complacency kills. That is overseas. It's what we walked around on that patrols with cigarettes in her mouth. You know why? Because we just stopped giving a. Like we're like man snipers. I'm not gonna feel it. I'm good.
[71:19]
Nick the Fat Electrician
You just. You get one of those big cruellas of hill cigarettes.
[71:29]
Brandon Herrera
Galaxy brain.
[71:35]
Donut Operator
So good.
[71:37]
Nick the Fat Electrician
That's what I would do.
[71:40]
Donut Operator
Damn it.
[71:43]
Brandon Herrera
Yeah. But flat out like full on flagged my hand.
[71:48]
Donut Operator
Would you do. How did you. What was your reaction in the video?
[71:51]
Brandon Herrera
Well, cuz I at first, because a lot of people call out dumb shit that like is actually not unsafe. And like they think, oh, I'm gonna be fucking safety, you know, dude, Trigger.
[72:00]
Donut Operator
I hate. I do. I just real quick. You cannot do it. And we are condition now not to even doing like cool guy action poses with our firearms. Will never put our finger in the trigger well. Just because Internet I have trigger safety.
[72:16]
Brandon Herrera
On a dewalt drill.
[72:18]
Donut Operator
Yeah.
[72:18]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Yes, yes.
[72:21]
Donut Operator
And now it's like Internet because you'll just get shit on if you actually. It's like, oh, I'm doing a post. Fucking take your finger off the. The trigger.
[72:31]
Brandon Herrera
I want that Mikhail Kalashnikov trigger. Confidence. Yep. But. But no, I like, I'm naturally like. I see people like make comments and I'm just like, you're being a like whatever. And then I actually looked at the timestamp just out of curiosity. I was like, no. Oh, fuck. Oh. Yep. Nope.
[72:50]
Donut Operator
Oh, how was that?
[72:51]
Brandon Herrera
I felt about that tall. Because I'm like, I'm the Internet gun safety guy. And like, I take that shit very seriously because this is my fucking profession. And you know that's what I'm saying. Like, nobody's above it. Nobody's fucking perfect. All you can do is learn from.
[73:03]
Nick the Fat Electrician
It and realize like, that's why he beat Delance.
[73:07]
Donut Operator
That's why Delance text me about her job. Makes so much more sense.
[73:12]
Brandon Herrera
You're fired. But no, no, it like, I mean.
[73:19]
Donut Operator
It'S like, wait, it is his fault.
[73:22]
Brandon Herrera
Oh, I text him about it immediately after. I was like, we, we up. But yeah, no, it really is a learning experience too because you're like, oh, shit. Like I thought that like I had beat it beat in those instincts by now. And like that's clearly like again, complacency. Complacency kills. Like you can. You can't sleep on that shit, dude.
[73:46]
Donut Operator
I've had, man. This was 2000. This is right before I moved to LA. I remember I grabbed PPX. PPQ. PPQ at that time. Oh yeah, Walther PPQ. And I was like, oh my God. And I always unload my gun. Like always, every time. But Raiden's mom said something and she was like, whoa. And I was like, oh, no. It's unloaded, but still muscle reflex. I dropped mag. I was like, see? And I racked it round fell out. I was like, holy shit. And that still terrified. I don't know why I never pointed did anything like that. But still in my head I was like, I clear my gun every fucking time. There's no way around is going to be in this, like, round still fell. I was like, ha. That's why I don't pull a trigger until I double check. Triple checked. Yep.
[74:40]
Brandon Herrera
Yeah.
[74:40]
Donut Operator
I will hand it. I mean, we do it all the time.
[74:42]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Yeah.
[74:42]
Brandon Herrera
Like, if we're on set, dude.
[74:44]
Donut Operator
Clear handoff.
[74:46]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Clear.
[74:46]
Brandon Herrera
Yep.
[74:47]
Donut Operator
Go down a line of everyone checking the barrel to make sure it's clear.
[74:51]
Brandon Herrera
Especially when you're talking about like, let's say like a tiny. I don't think we had any real guns on. Tiny guns. But like that. That's sort of situation where we're like, all right, we're gonna be muzzle sweeping people and stuff. You know, obviously trigger discipline is gonna be important and like, you never actually aim at a person. Stuff like that. But like, we want to be sure everybody on set feels comfortable. Like, there is no ammunition on set. Everybody checks that chamber. Everybody feels comfortable. Nobody gets Alec Baldwin.
[75:13]
Donut Operator
I was just. Yep. Which is wild. That's. That's one of those things where it's like, how the fuck did that happen? How did that get to that actor's hand? And then the actor not go like, what was.
[75:25]
Nick the Fat Electrician
I finally heard the actual, like, explanation of that story. How like the armor on set went and like ran out of blanks or something. So he just went to the gun store and bought actual ammunition and pulled the bullets. Whoever the armor.
[75:43]
Brandon Herrera
It was the. It was the.
[75:44]
Nick the Fat Electrician
From the prom director or whatever. Yeah.
[75:46]
Brandon Herrera
It was a female who is like the daughter of like a Hollywood gunplay legend.
[75:53]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Okay.
[75:53]
Brandon Herrera
Like, he was like a really well known dude and was like trying to pass down the trade to his daughter. And that went swimmingly.
[75:59]
Nick the Fat Electrician
She like, just went and like bought normal ammunition and just pulled the bullet. And then.
[76:05]
Brandon Herrera
Yeah.
[76:06]
Nick the Fat Electrician
I don't know. Something went wrong.
[76:07]
Donut Operator
I thought.
[76:08]
Nick the Fat Electrician
They didn't pull all of them, I guess.
[76:10]
Donut Operator
Didn't they go shooting the night before and they just.
[76:13]
Brandon Herrera
There were people that were like quitting from that movie set because they were there and this is before anything happened. They were quitting because they're like, I've never seen such unsafe conditions. There are people on set that are going plinking cans and shit with live ammunition with the prop guns.
[76:30]
Donut Operator
Which is wild because a lot of the times. Guess what? You don't do prop guns. Don't fire period.
[76:38]
Brandon Herrera
Well, especially well. I mean, prop guns just means like property of the studio. So like, some can, but like the. The idea that you're gonna go out there and especially on a set where.
[76:47]
Nick the Fat Electrician
You have dummy rounds, intermingle ammo and everything else, period.
[76:54]
Donut Operator
Blank. Blank guns have a Their barrel is completely different. Like, so you get the muzzle flash, you get all that. But they can only fire blanks to use those which could fire real bullets and then just be like, oh, we went planking the night before and then no one took the ammo out.
[77:12]
Brandon Herrera
And depending on the caliber, like, certain ones have like pins in the barrel where like a live, like live ammunition won't chamber.
[77:20]
Donut Operator
Yeah.
[77:21]
Brandon Herrera
Like, it can literally only accept blanks. Like, it will not physically fire a round if you don't have a blank in it. Like, that's the safe way to do it.
[77:31]
Donut Operator
That's still wild.
[77:33]
Cody
I mean, we're still safe when we're shooting dildos at the fourth of July, you know? Yeah, yeah, I made sure to. I mean, I made. Yeah, I made sure to take the blanks out and confirm with Brandon. Blanks, Blanks. Blanks. Okay.
[77:44]
Brandon Herrera
Yeah. Dildo, dildo, dildo, dildo, Dildo. Yeah.
[77:48]
Cody
Penis. Okay.
[77:51]
Brandon Herrera
Just guys being guys.
[77:52]
Donut Operator
This guy's being dudes. And then lit what they buy a fuck ton of fireworks. And there is no buildup to it. It's just, let's do the grand finale.
[78:09]
Brandon Herrera
Good.
[78:09]
Donut Operator
They lit all the fireworks at the same time. And the neighborhood just got done and was like, it's good enough. Just lit up the entire neighborhood with an awesome show. Neighbors started coming out. They're like, what the fuck?
[78:22]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Good supposed to be done.
[78:24]
Cody
And then everyone clapped.
[78:26]
Brandon Herrera
I was like, you're one to talk. Two minute commando. We went over this in the beginning.
[78:30]
Donut Operator
I enjoyed it. It was a blast. Cody's new house.
[78:33]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Beautiful. Ideal solution. I'm on your side with this. Light them all at once and get this shit over with.
[78:39]
Brandon Herrera
Hell yeah.
[78:40]
Cody
Throw them in a bonfire.
[78:41]
Donut Operator
This is a blast. We have Ranger. You guys solidified that. Are you allowed to talk about.
[78:48]
Brandon Herrera
We can talk about it a little bit.
[78:49]
Cody
Yeah. Not the date. Yeah, yeah.
[78:53]
Donut Operator
Blamember the 14th, right?
[78:56]
Cody
Yeah. We're gonna do range day at Staccato Ranch. What are they called?
[79:01]
Brandon Herrera
Staccato Vegas.
[79:02]
Cody
Staccato Vegas. But it's got a name.
[79:05]
Brandon Herrera
It used to be Prairie Fire.
[79:06]
Cody
Yeah.
[79:07]
Brandon Herrera
So Staccato bought it out and now they're. They're trying to get some attention on it, whatnot. So, you know, big shout outs to them. We appreciate it because they said basically, if you guys want to do this out here, you can do whatever you want. You want to shoot machine guns out of helicopters, you want to blow up cars, you can do whatever the you want out here.
[79:23]
Cody
So we're gonna have our little creator range day out there this year and then shout out to circa for blocking off a bunch of rooms and like, giving us discounts on them. Yeah, they're cool as.
[79:31]
Brandon Herrera
It's gonna be fun to have, like, an official, like, partner like that, of that scale who like, looks at the gun industry and what we're trying to do out there and just goes, yeah, it. We'll help you. That's cool. That's really nice.
[79:42]
Donut Operator
These dudes are gonna get drunk and spend so much money on gambling.
[79:45]
Brandon Herrera
We will. Yeah.
[79:46]
Donut Operator
Oh, I know. Our crew shot show every year.
[79:52]
Brandon Herrera
That trip I learned I like blackjack.
[79:54]
Cody
Yeah, that was fun. We had a meat canyon out there with us. Accidentally just out there again.
[80:01]
Brandon Herrera
Yeah. We text him, we said, come to Vegas, coward. And he said, I'm at the circa. Where are you? I'm like, are you fucking with me? He was working on some of his projects out there, but, yeah, he just ran up like, Meat candy was just out in Vegas at the same hotel.
[80:17]
Donut Operator
He's there a lot. Does me have a problem?
[80:21]
Cody
No, he was out there. Yeah. Like I said, he was working on his projects. He was out there writing scripts and stuff. Some of the stuff that he's doing.
[80:28]
Brandon Herrera
He doesn't have a problem. He's got an answer. That motherfucker's good at gambling.
[80:30]
Cody
Oh, yeah, he's incredibly good at gambling.
[80:32]
Donut Operator
He plays baccarat, right?
[80:34]
Brandon Herrera
Yeah, all sorts of stuff. He showed us how to be good at Texas hold'. Em. Or how to play it properly, rather.
[80:42]
Donut Operator
Meet canyon for homeboy Cleans up every time you were there?
[80:45]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Yeah. Seeing him gamble, it's impressive.
[80:48]
Brandon Herrera
He was, like, correcting the dealer.
[80:49]
Nick the Fat Electrician
They fall.
[80:50]
Donut Operator
Like the dealers will follow him or the security because they're like.
[80:56]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Yeah.
[80:57]
Cody
Every time he sits down at a table, pit boss comes over and just stares at everything he's doing. He's good at gambling.
[81:03]
Donut Operator
Homeboy, the fucking shark. Formula one. You watched it? Neither have.
[81:09]
Brandon Herrera
No, not yet.
[81:10]
Cody
Who's in the.
[81:12]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Yeah, good movie?
[81:14]
Donut Operator
Brad Pitt and all the Formula one drivers.
[81:16]
Brandon Herrera
Brad Pitt and what's the other guy? Javier or what's his fucking.
[81:20]
Donut Operator
Okay, yeah, it is a very expensive movie. They made their money back already, but they spent 2 to 300 million. They filmed during Formula One races. Formula One's the one sport. They're like, we don't need the marketing, but we'll let you shoot on and we're gonna charge you for it. Cost 200 to 300 million, but probably one of the best movies of the year.
[81:46]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Yeah, it was good.
[81:47]
Donut Operator
Like, it's fucking good. If you look at Rotten tomato or anything is 95%.
[81:52]
Brandon Herrera
I saw critical Drinker was. Was all over it. That's. Which. That's usually a good litmus test, dude.
[81:57]
Donut Operator
It's just fucking good. It's. It's just good. It's fun. It is. I have no way to explain that other than that it's just a good ass movie. You got to watch a How to train a dragon.
[82:10]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Also good. They literally just recreated how to train your dragon but with real people. And it did great. It was weird.
[82:19]
Donut Operator
Crazy.
[82:19]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Took a successful movie and then didn't change it.
[82:22]
Brandon Herrera
Like Shot or Shine Wild.
[82:24]
Cody
Who plays the main character?
[82:26]
Nick the Fat Electrician
I don't know his name.
[82:27]
Donut Operator
They have Joe Roald Butler who did the original.
[82:29]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Gerard Butler is incredible as the dad Viking. It's so good.
[82:35]
Donut Operator
Same voice actor. And then he was like, oh, yeah, I'll do it again. But they did shot for shot of the original and like. And let's just make it real actors. Fucking Slade.
[82:44]
Nick the Fat Electrician
That's good.
[82:45]
Donut Operator
Fucking slate that one. I'm excited to see. I'm like, okay, let's do this. Let's fucking do this. What have you guys been doing outside that Expedition 33? You haven't been.
[82:54]
Brandon Herrera
We've never talked about that on the podcast, but we got into that fucking game.
[82:58]
Donut Operator
Cody didn't.
[82:59]
Cody
No. I got mad at the first hard guy to fight and quit. Put an hour into it.
[83:05]
Donut Operator
Well, you were like, oh, no, I was figuring I'd go back. I know you can't beat him. Then I was like, what? Yeah, you can.
[83:12]
Brandon Herrera
Because like, oh, did the wittle baby wage quit? Yes.
[83:17]
Donut Operator
He was like, you can kill him with a guy, you just have to never get hit by that boss.
[83:22]
Brandon Herrera
Meanwhile, my experience was, oh, that guy looks strong as fuck. Just never fought him. I went back later and fought him.
[83:30]
Donut Operator
Yep. And then you fucking shit on him and guys out. If you have not played, Expedition 33 is probably game of the year easy and one of the funnest games.
[83:40]
Brandon Herrera
I don't like turn based combat and like, you got me into it. The story is so good, it makes up for the fact that I don't like the playstyle. It's really good.
[83:48]
Donut Operator
And then it gets so deep in the mechanics where you just feel like, what the fuck is this? I don't understand. You will not know what you're doing for the first 30 hours of the game.
[83:55]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Which like life, dude.
[83:58]
Donut Operator
Yes. Brandon was texting me. He's like, wait, I just found out about this system. And my response is like, how the fuck are you this far. Not understanding that you can do that. He's like, I have no idea.
[84:08]
Brandon Herrera
Oh, yeah, did.
[84:09]
Donut Operator
He's like, man, this game's way easier now. Like, infinitely more easy.
[84:13]
Brandon Herrera
It's like being, like, a year into driving a car. And you're like, did you know you have multiple gears.
[84:21]
Donut Operator
Begging for you Fucking hard as shit. But this story does not hold your hand. And it is.
[84:32]
Brandon Herrera
It'll make you feel not good, but it'll make you feel.
[84:35]
Donut Operator
No. You beat that game and you're just sad.
[84:37]
Brandon Herrera
Yeah.
[84:39]
Donut Operator
Like, the entire time.
[84:40]
Cody
Great. There's a way to play it.
[84:42]
Donut Operator
Cody can't.
[84:43]
Brandon Herrera
There's a better ending. It's not a good ending, but it's a better one.
[84:48]
Donut Operator
He text me.
[84:49]
Nick the Fat Electrician
He's like, you guys are not selling me on this.
[84:51]
Brandon Herrera
Dude, it's really good. It's like, It's. I would 10 of 10.
[84:55]
Nick the Fat Electrician
You guys sound like a BMW car salesman.
[85:02]
Donut Operator
Nick, what's the next big history thing you're doing? You just did the video on Saipan.
[85:07]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Yeah, I did that. I'm not sure yet. I got a bunch of ones loaded up that I'm thinking about doing. I haven't finished reading all the books yet to decide which one I'm most excited about. I got Evans Carlson. He's on my list. So there's two Marine Raider battalions in World War II. The first one's, like, famous for being Edson's Raiders. And Edson is. He's a great leader. Nothing bad about the guy, but he's very. He's very, like, conventional. And Evans Carlson, on the flip side, was very unorthodox. So Evans Carlson, actually went over to China Pre World War II. And was fighting with Communist guerrillas against the Japanese.
[85:50]
Brandon Herrera
Yeah.
[85:50]
Nick the Fat Electrician
And he's like, we gotta learn how to fight. Like, these guys, he's like, they eat, like, half a cup of rice and just go on people with guerrilla warfare tactics. So he learned all about guerrilla warfare, and then he.
[86:03]
Donut Operator
Pre World War.
[86:04]
Nick the Fat Electrician
This is. Yeah, Pre World War II, we had guys going over into China and helping. So, like, the Flying Tigers we sent over there to help China fight Japan prior to America being involved.
[86:14]
Brandon Herrera
Shitload of American volunteers in Ukraine before World War III breaks out.
[86:18]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Exactly. Same concept. So he was over there fighting with the Chinese gorillas. And then he comes back and, like, through this weird turn of events, he ends up being homies with FDR's son. So he, like, has a direct line to the President. And he ends up, like, pitching the idea of, like, I learned all these guerrilla warfare tactics. Like, we need to be able to do this. Let me build a unit out of this. And like, that's kind of like the origin story of the Marine Raiders. So he's in charge of the 2nd Marine Raiders and they go out and he just builds this monster force. And he's actually the first dude that developed modern fire teams. So like the. The fire team concept that we use now where you have. Yeah, the. Yeah, well, the Marines do three. So you've got three fire teams and then each one's got the heavy machine guys. So like instead of sending out like a bunch of dudes with M1 grands, he had three fire teams with a Browning. Yeah, it was two machine guns and two riflemen, and they just had way more firepower than. It's still the tactic that I'm probably butchering this because I have no.
[87:22]
Donut Operator
I mean, so you're still. Right. So now you have a platoon element, which is a machine gun team or squad, and then three rifle squads, but each squad will then have 1, 2, 249 machine gun team is the 240s. So. Still keeping that concept.
[87:38]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Yeah, so I mean, it's literally the concept that we still use today. And like, he pioneered that entire thing. And he just goes over in World War II and up the entire time.
[87:47]
Donut Operator
Did he. Look, wait, did he start adopting that because of the Chinese? Japanese.
[87:52]
Nick the Fat Electrician
That was like part of it. They. He just wanted more firepower because they were small unit doing small unit guerrilla tactics. And he's like, I don't have these big formations for a lion. I just need smaller units with more fucking firepower. And they were just shit wrecking everybody over in the Pacific.
[88:07]
Donut Operator
So wild.
[88:08]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Yep, that's one that's on the list. And then I got Robert Smalls first. I believe he was the first black naval captain, literally a slave in Charleston, South Carolina. And that's like one of the major ports for the Confederacy, I think. Charleston, right? Oh, yeah, yeah. So Charleston, South Carolina is like one of the most main, most important ports for the Confederacy. And he was a. He was a ship pilot. Basically. His. The dude, he was a slave. The guy that owned and basically like rented him out to pilot boats. And he was piloting a newer ish boat called the Planter. And at some point, you know, he'd been like saving money and like doing everything he could. He was gonna buy his and his wife and his kids freedom. And then eventually he gets to the point like the Civil War is progressing and he's like, fuck it. Just get Tim and his buddies and they're like, we're gonna fucking steal the boat and drive it in, drive it into the Union blockade and turn the ship over. And they end up stealing this boat. And they. They fucking make it. They pretend to be white officers. He dresses up in the white officer's uniform and does, like, all the signal. He knows how to do everything because he's the one that was actually piloting the ship.
[89:16]
Donut Operator
Did he do, like, white face?
[89:17]
Nick the Fat Electrician
No, it was dark out.
[89:21]
Cody
Hey, gee golly, this is great. Look at this moat.
[89:25]
Nick the Fat Electrician
So he ends up. He turns this ship over to the Union, and then, like, series of events happens. He ends up being. Ends up being a commissioned officer in the US Navy and then takes the planter back out, and he ends up being in, like, 17 naval engagements, all kinds of cool shit. And the funny thing is, he does the most gangster fucking thing on the planet. So civil war ends. He's like. He's got some money now. He's not super rich, but, like, he's got a decent amount of money. He got. He got it like, a big reward for turning over the planter. And then he was making money as an officer.
[89:52]
Donut Operator
He's huge.
[89:54]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Yeah. So he goes back to Charleston, where he's from, buys his owner's house and gets to live there after the fact.
[90:05]
Brandon Herrera
Jesus. Okay, so this is, like, in Charleston proper, I believe. So can you still visit this house?
[90:10]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Yes, that's. It's like a. Yeah, it's like a historical landmark. Now we. And we've got it.
[90:15]
Brandon Herrera
We've got to do that.
[90:15]
Nick the Fat Electrician
He goes on. I pretty sure he goes on to be a senator.
[90:18]
Brandon Herrera
No shit.
[90:18]
Donut Operator
Yeah.
[90:19]
Nick the Fat Electrician
So, like, it's like a historical landmark. Like, literally runaway slaves, steals a Confederate ship, turns it over. The Union, becomes a captain because he was super valuable because he knew everything about Charleston Harbor. Like, he knew where all the shit was. So he, like, helped him with intelligence. Super successful military career, becomes a senator, buys the house that his previous owner owned. Like, it's just like the ultimate fucking comeback story.
[90:42]
Donut Operator
What time 1867 is probably right?
[90:49]
Brandon Herrera
Static. Pure curiosity.
[90:51]
Donut Operator
That's fucking wild and awesome at the same time. That is it. I like that. That character development of. Hey, you just keep kicking ass and taking names. Never quit.
[91:05]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Sorry. He was a representative, even. Still, like, served five terms in the U.S. house, representing South Carolina during Reconstruction from 1875 to 1879, and then again in 1882 to 1883, and then 84 to 87.
[91:23]
Donut Operator
But it goes hard as. What do you do with a family? Did he just, like, get Them out. How do you.
[91:27]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Yeah, they saw the. All of his buddies that, like, cooked up this idea. It was literally like the. The dudes knew what was going on, and they didn't even tell their wives or kids. They're like, hey, tonight at midnight, meet us here. And, like, got all their kids on board. So, like, that's like the. Oh. Moment of, like, they catch them. They're gonna kill them. You know what I mean? So it's like, you're a dad with kids. That's like the ultimate gamble of, like, all right, we're fucking running for it. That's fucking crazy.
[91:53]
Donut Operator
That's stress level.
[91:55]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Yeah.
[91:55]
Donut Operator
Because I always say, like, doing war, but doing war and then you're protecting your family or any of that.
[91:59]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Right.
[92:00]
Donut Operator
Aspect of it that is fucking terrifying. You're like, oh, fuck. Okay, here and now you're how many. I mean, big families at that time, all escaping? You're like, hey, get in the boat. I have to play cool. Hey, we're just. I guarantee you didn't say what was going on.
[92:15]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Oh, no.
[92:16]
Donut Operator
You're just like, hey, we're going for a boat ride. Hey, just go in there. Stay quiet.
[92:21]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Let's go.
[92:22]
Donut Operator
Then you get up top deck, and you're like, okay, what the do we do now? Okay, here's the white paint. I still. They did that a hundred percent in my lore.
[92:32]
Brandon Herrera
They painted their faces white, Nick. Do you know for a fact they didn't?
[92:37]
Nick the Fat Electrician
All right, they didn't. Yes.
[92:42]
Donut Operator
I mean, I would. If I fucking going that way. I'm like, fuck it. I don't know. They're going towards the. Did they actually. Signal is like, hey, this or. I would rather just be, like, a black dude. And they're like, yo, okay, they're definitely coming this way, and it's okay.
[92:57]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Howdy, neighbor.
[92:58]
Brandon Herrera
How's your HOA doing?
[93:00]
Nick the Fat Electrician
They, like, raised a white flag as they approached the Union blockade and everything.
[93:03]
Donut Operator
Yeah.
[93:03]
Nick the Fat Electrician
But, like, they had to slip past because, like, Charleston harbor was guarded by, like. Like, shore guns and everything.
[93:09]
Cody
Oh, yeah.
[93:09]
Nick the Fat Electrician
So, like, they had to slip past the shore guns. And there was, like. There's a whole protocol about how, like, you're supposed to, like, sound the horn and, like, do this signal and this wave and all this.
[93:18]
Brandon Herrera
But they knew all that.
[93:19]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Yeah, he knew all that, so he was able to slip through.
[93:22]
Brandon Herrera
That's crazy.
[93:24]
Donut Operator
That's gangster. Was that.
[93:26]
Brandon Herrera
There's a lot of really cool stories.
[93:28]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Get around to it. Yeah, there's. Dude, there's so many fucking cool stories.
[93:31]
Brandon Herrera
Civil War was like, it Was. It was really. There's the shit you learn in school and then there's like the spy versus Spy that nobody talks about.
[93:39]
Donut Operator
Yeah.
[93:39]
Brandon Herrera
That's just. It's super neat. I mean, shit. Even still, Charleston harbor, like the fucking. The Hunley. The. The. The. The CSS only. Do you know the story?
[93:50]
Nick the Fat Electrician
No.
[93:50]
Brandon Herrera
It was the first ever, I think in the. On the planet. It was the first ever successful sinking of an enemy vessel from a submarine.
[94:00]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Oh, okay.
[94:01]
Brandon Herrera
Yeah.
[94:01]
Cody
Is that like the little three person submarines they had?
[94:04]
Brandon Herrera
I was. I think the finished model was seven, but yeah, it was a seven person. Where they're all just like hunched over and whatnot, running the hand crank to work the propeller and all that.
[94:13]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Pedal the bike faster.
[94:14]
Brandon Herrera
Yeah, straight up. It's gnarly. But they actually. They ended up recovering that and now it's in Charleston Cine Museum. I'd love to do that while we're.
[94:22]
Nick the Fat Electrician
That's cool to shit.
[94:24]
Brandon Herrera
It's fucking. It's really cool. It's really cool. And they confirmed all sorts of like real stories from it too, when they found the. Because they didn't survive it. They don't really know what happened, but they were lost to see after they sank. I don't remember the name of the ship, but it was one of the blockading vessels. They successfully attacked it. They signaled they were coming back to harbor and then the ship was lost. So the submarine was. Was lost and they found it like, I don't know, like 2004.
[94:49]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Some shit like that Civil War shit's crazy because like we were at. We were at that furniture furniture museum. Me and Ethan doing that habitually fat pepper box exclusive. And like the furniture museum guys like, yeah, so this rocking chair, it had like a. It was like a wooden rocking chair, but like the ass in the back where you actually sit and rest had that like woven wicker, you know what I'm talking about? And he's like, yeah, so that's a Lincoln stitch. And he goes on to explain like, it was very controversial to have in Texas because late. It was like Lincoln's favorite type of fucking chair. So if you like had that type of chair, you were showing support to. Towards Lincoln in the South.
[95:28]
Brandon Herrera
So, like people, you wanted your ass to be comfy.
[95:31]
Nick the Fat Electrician
It was like a political statement to have a chair with like this wicker design or whatever.
[95:36]
Brandon Herrera
And it was like 1863 version of the Bud Light Country.
[95:40]
Nick the Fat Electrician
It was the MAGA hat of its day. Like, essentially, like, it was like the highly controversial item is crazy. And he's like, yeah. So the owner of that chair, actually his two sons, because this was Texas, they were getting conscripted into the Confederate military and they didn't support it, so they ran off. And as they were trying to like escape to a Northern state, they got killed by Confederate soldiers. It was like all from like this one chair. I was like, holy shit, I went.
[96:04]
Donut Operator
Pee at the wrong moment.
[96:05]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Which is like, I would give anything to just go back in time and just see what Twitter would have been like during the Civil War or World War II.
[96:14]
Brandon Herrera
Just again, that's one of my favorite bits that Jack Mandeville has. Or he just reads his. His. I think it's his great, great grandfather's letters. Yeah, like his war correspondence to home versus his tweets in 2020. You heard this?
[96:29]
Donut Operator
Yes.
[96:30]
Brandon Herrera
Okay.
[96:30]
Nick the Fat Electrician
He did it on the podcast one time.
[96:32]
Donut Operator
Which was it, Jackson? Which one actually created a newspaper to talk shit to his opponents? One of the OGs created an entire newspaper organization, Cassius Claim.
[96:44]
Nick the Fat Electrician
But I don't think that's who you're talking about.
[96:45]
Donut Operator
No, no, this is like one of the OGs.
[96:47]
Brandon Herrera
Like Jackson or Andrew Jackson or like, yeah.
[96:50]
Donut Operator
Oh, yeah. Like one of the original, like three presidents was like, yeah, I'm gonna do this to talk shit on the other individuals because fuck them. That's why Jack always puts like, oh, if you don't think they would be talking shit on Twitter, fuck off.
[97:04]
Nick the Fat Electrician
These guys created newspapers in order to talk unpopular opinion. I want to get go back to when politicians fought each other in Parliament.
[97:12]
Brandon Herrera
So I wanted to bring this up because creep cast brought it up, I think on like the two episodes ago, or at least the time recording, they brought up the caning of Charles Sumner, which is one of my favorite topics to talk about.
[97:24]
Donut Operator
I don't know, let's go The.
[97:26]
Brandon Herrera
The canning of Charles Sumner. Basically it was. It was in the heat of like the pre Civil War discourse between the north, south, pro slave, anti slave like kind of debacle. And there was. I can't remember his name, the. The guy who actually did the caning. But he basically there was this guy, Charles Sumner who was talking mad and basically he like, it was. It was the typical. Like he was talking about this guy, this guy was talking about him, blah, blah. I think his Stevens or something like that. But either way, Charles Sumner, and this is on the floor of Congress, Charles Sumner ends up talking shit and like disparaging the guy's brother and making fun of his speech impediment. It's like he's making Fun of his brother's disability. And that was where the honor code took over and went over the line. And this dude goes to the floor of Congress after the session is done with a cane, beats the fucking shit out of him to the degree he is bloody and hiding under his desk, and beats him so hard that he snaps his cane in half and then starts beating him with the top end of the cane. Meanwhile, his fucking homie, his ride or die, another congressman is there with a fucking pistol on the floor of Congress saying, let it happen, boys will be boys. Like, that sort of shit. Let this fucking happen. And so it happens. And like, this does not help the priest, the of war tensions by any means. But, yeah, the guy gets beaten within a fucking inch of his life. And still to this day, in Charleston, I believe they have that cane on display.
[99:05]
Donut Operator
Holy shit.
[99:06]
Brandon Herrera
But, like, nobody talks about this, but politics used to be fun.
[99:10]
Donut Operator
Yeah.
[99:10]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Yeah. Whoever says violence isn't the answer has never opened any history book ever.
[99:15]
Brandon Herrera
It's almost always the answer.
[99:17]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Pretty much solves lots of problems.
[99:22]
Donut Operator
Holy shit.
[99:23]
Brandon Herrera
Yeah. If you. If you open a history book, it's not the answer, it's the question. The answer is yes.
[99:29]
Donut Operator
Just imagine that day at the office. Like, man, you got home, you're like, dude, I watched a man get caned almost to death. What? Why didn't anyone stop it? Hear me out.
[99:40]
Brandon Herrera
If that was happening today, you could sell out. You could sell subscriptions to C Span.
[99:45]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Yeah.
[99:46]
Donut Operator
Oh, dude, that livestream would go hard as shit.
[99:49]
Brandon Herrera
I watched those live streams Dana White buys.
[99:53]
Donut Operator
I would do subscriptions, not get ads.
[99:55]
Nick the Fat Electrician
The political. The political climate would get way different. God, there's a lot of UFC fighters and former boxers getting elected to Congress right now.
[100:08]
Donut Operator
I wanted to ask about the spy museum. You guys did that. We didn't get to check it out. How was that?
[100:13]
Nick the Fat Electrician
It was cool. They had a bunch of cool shit in there.
[100:15]
Donut Operator
What was like, oh, I'm sorry.
[100:17]
Brandon Herrera
I just looked up the Wikipedia because I'm looking for the guy's name, but I look up the Wikipedia for Charles Sumner. The number one topic under it is caning. It's like early life, blah, blah. Caning your ass whooped. Yeah, it was. Sorry. Representative Preston Brooks. Yeah. But anyway.
[100:36]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Oh, that's so much worse.
[100:37]
Brandon Herrera
Spy museum.
[100:38]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Getting your ass beat sucks. Getting your ass beat by a guy named Preston is embarrassing.
[100:42]
Donut Operator
Creating a phrase canyon most embarrassing.
[100:48]
Brandon Herrera
They had to build a word based on what happened to you.
[100:51]
Donut Operator
That's fucking embarrassing. Your face pops up with it.
[100:56]
Brandon Herrera
Even if, like. Even if your constituents Believe in everything that you stood for.
[101:02]
Donut Operator
Damn.
[101:04]
Brandon Herrera
He said he was gonna fight for us. He can't fight.
[101:10]
Donut Operator
Did that guy get his ass beat? He's like, why didn't anyone do anything?
[101:15]
Nick the Fat Electrician
I haven't even considered the fact he got his ass whooped by a guy that had a cane.
[101:20]
Donut Operator
Oh, my God.
[101:20]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Presumably he needed it. I mean, I don't think it would be a pimp cane.
[101:24]
Cody
Like, he's balancing.
[101:26]
Brandon Herrera
Okay, you say that I went to the Mob museum when we were in Vegas, and they. In the bottom, they've got this like, prohibition era, like, speakeasy. And of course I go to the museum because I'm a fucking history buff, whatever, but I.
[101:37]
Nick the Fat Electrician
You heard they had booze there. Don't fucking lie to me.
[101:40]
Brandon Herrera
There's booze everywhere in Vegas.
[101:41]
Donut Operator
The taco alcoholic, the Taco Bell has booze.
[101:45]
Brandon Herrera
This is no excuse. Anyway, they have. It's a real thing.
[101:49]
Donut Operator
This is a museum.
[101:53]
Brandon Herrera
But on the wall, they have like a prohibition era cane that the pop. The top pops off and it's a. I don't know what you call that. Like a beaker. Essentially, it's a beaker that's filled with booze and a little shot glass that's like, holds like four shots.
[102:08]
Nick the Fat Electrician
That's awesome.
[102:08]
Brandon Herrera
The dudes were just rolling around with like an incognito flask.
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Nick the Fat Electrician
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[102:27]
Brandon Herrera
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[102:28]
Cody
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[102:32]
Brandon Herrera
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[102:36]
Cody
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[102:38]
Brandon Herrera
Easy as playing the new Tony hawk's.
[102:39]
Donut Operator
Pro Skater 3 and 4.
[102:40]
Brandon Herrera
With new parks, cross platform, multiplayer, and.
[102:44]
Cody
Sick new game modes, we can put.
[102:47]
Brandon Herrera
An end to shred loss everywhere. Hit the new Tony hawk's Pro Skater.
[102:50]
Donut Operator
3 and 4 and show the world.
[102:52]
Nick the Fat Electrician
That the shred's not dead. Get Tony hawk's Pro Skater 3 and 4 available now. I mean, potentially, people are still traveling in. I'm just saying, like. I'm not saying, like.
[103:03]
Brandon Herrera
Like, if tourism died tomorrow and all Americans were not allowed.
[103:05]
Nick the Fat Electrician
No, for sure. I get your point. I just feel like there needs to be some type of, like, zoning where it's like, okay, if you've lived here for five generations, we're not gonna have you pay the bill Gates level mortgage tax rates of, you know, like, well, Bill Gates wants to buy your property. So we're going to value it at $10 million. So you can't afford to pay the taxes so we can confiscate it and you can't afford to live where you're from. From anymore. It seems like bullshit to me.
[103:32]
Donut Operator
One of the billionaires owns a large quantity of Hawaii.
[103:36]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Oh, yeah. After those fires went through, it was like Oprah and the Rock were buying up all the properties of the houses that went down.
[103:41]
Brandon Herrera
Because I think it's property tax where that fucks it up. Because like in a free market, it's like, yeah, if you decide that you want your family home, that you've lived there for 200 years or whatever, that's worth more to you than $10 million, you should be able to keep that. Yeah, but then they value it and the property taxes, the government fucks it up, right?
[103:57]
Nick the Fat Electrician
So it's like, no, now you're paying property taxes. You know, you're paying thousands of dollars a month in property taxes and you can't afford to do anything like.
[104:05]
Brandon Herrera
Yeah, that's. That's kind of shitty.
[104:07]
Donut Operator
Oh my God. I didn't. Larry Elson. I don't know who that is.
[104:11]
Brandon Herrera
Larry Ellison.
[104:13]
Donut Operator
Ellison, yeah. Owns of the island of Lanai. Lanai. Lana.
[104:19]
Brandon Herrera
I wouldn't know.
[104:20]
Donut Operator
Guess how much of a percentage he owns.
[104:22]
Nick the Fat Electrician
78%.
[104:24]
Donut Operator
Nope.
[104:24]
Nick the Fat Electrician
90.
[104:25]
Donut Operator
98%.
[104:26]
Brandon Herrera
Isn't he? I think he's one of the Google founders.
[104:29]
Donut Operator
He bought it for $300 million. Just owning 98% of a fucking 300 million. Yeah, I guarantee you bought it a long time ago. And then you have like, Steve Case owns 35,000 acres. He started AOL.
[104:46]
Brandon Herrera
Oh, no. Larry Ellison. I'm sorry, he was Oracle.
[104:52]
Donut Operator
Oracle, yeah. Okay, Oracle. Dude, that is wild. And then that drives property taxes up. How much? Yeah, that will fuck shit up really fucking good. But then the other owners are Kamehameha family, which Fucking dope ass.
[105:11]
Nick the Fat Electrician
I'm just waiting. Like the most realistic sci fi movie ever as far as like real estate market is Elysium. Like as soon as, as soon as space travel becomes mainstream, like Mars is one giant hoa for rich people. That's all it is. Like, that's what's going to happen.
[105:27]
Brandon Herrera
And the first guy on it's going to be an African American.
[105:31]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Somebody was on some podcast and like broke down how all Elon Musk's companies are just about colonizing Mars. Like, they all seem so random, but they're all about colonizing Mars.
[105:42]
Cody
Yep.
[105:42]
Brandon Herrera
Neuralink all of them.
[105:45]
Nick the Fat Electrician
So like so he's like Tesla, like electric cars. You're going to have to do electric cars because there's no fossil fuels on Mars. Okay, that makes sense that we know the boring company. We're not going to live on the surface. We're going to have massive under subterranean layers. Got to get good at drilling holes. That's why he has the boring company, the Tesla robot. Why the is a car company making robots? Well so you can send them their years ahead of time to build up all the infrastructure before the people get there. And like just ran down how every company has is just all about colonizing Mars.
[106:16]
Donut Operator
We need a aluminum foil hat you put in or on before each segment you do like why that's not even.
[106:22]
Nick the Fat Electrician
My Today we're going to talk about the cheesecakes.
[106:26]
Brandon Herrera
Those are hiding dairy in the earth.
[106:29]
Nick the Fat Electrician
This is true. This is true.
[106:34]
Donut Operator
Just hours of Nick ranting.
[106:36]
Brandon Herrera
They'll call me a conspiracy theorist, but they'll never call me a liar.
[106:42]
Nick the Fat Electrician
I am correct.
[106:43]
Cody
Poor people will never poop again.
[106:44]
Nick the Fat Electrician
The amount of email.
[106:46]
Cody
Oh.
[106:50]
Donut Operator
God, I love these episodes. They are my favorite.
[106:52]
Brandon Herrera
Took me a second.
[106:53]
Donut Operator
You just get a relax and have fun. I'm like oh thank God guys. Did you know it's smooth sack summer?
[106:59]
Brandon Herrera
Damn right it is. I need to quit.
[107:04]
Donut Operator
Feel how soft they are.
[107:05]
Brandon Herrera
Was this a scratch and sniff?
[107:06]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Wow, those are soft.
[107:09]
Brandon Herrera
Don't act like you've never done a sack check with the boys.
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Brandon Herrera
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Cody
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Donut Operator
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Cody
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Brandon Herrera
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Cody
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Donut Operator
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Brandon Herrera
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Donut Operator
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Brandon Herrera
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Donut Operator
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Nick the Fat Electrician
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Cody
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[108:18]
Donut Operator
God damn it. Smooth sack Summer. We got what Brandon, what are you working on right now? What's your next I. You have a Darwin. Oh, you guys, at the moment of this would have. It would have been probably already out.
[108:29]
Brandon Herrera
Yeah, yeah. But yeah, we're gonna.
[108:31]
Donut Operator
This is the first one together.
[108:34]
Brandon Herrera
I've learned that I like Darwin awards better when I've got somebody to riff off of. It's usually. It's a lot of fun. So we'll see how that goes.
[108:39]
Nick the Fat Electrician
I don't like to watch horrific accidents by myself where it's one of those.
[108:43]
Brandon Herrera
I realized I get a nine to five, Brandon. I stopped liking like, learn to code. I started realizing I didn't like doing Darwin anymore because I was like, man, I'm just gonna have to sit there and watch 10 hours of just people shooting themselves and just horrific accidents and. And I'm like, oh, and then I.
[109:04]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Should get other people involved.
[109:05]
Brandon Herrera
And then now, hey, I curated it all already. It's just looking through all this shit and they're like, all right, now how to make it funny.
[109:15]
Donut Operator
You winning, son.
[109:16]
Nick the Fat Electrician
This is how the double barrel shotgun was invented. Same concept, Nothing, never mind.
[109:25]
Brandon Herrera
Oh, you're talking about co op mode.
[109:29]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Yeah.
[109:32]
Brandon Herrera
Oh, no, we know. I got that coming up. And I got a batch. Batch of stuff. We got a bunch of guns. Like, I got a transferable Lewis machine gun. The Metal Gear Solid stuff we still got coming up. AK50 stuff, you know, working on new stuff like that.
[109:48]
Cody
Did we talk about where the AK50 is now?
[109:50]
Brandon Herrera
Oh, we didn't. That just got released in the newest wipe as of like two days ago for Escape from Tarkov, dude. So now you, if you play Escape from Tarkov, can get head eyes from fucking nowhere in woods by an AK50.
[110:03]
Donut Operator
Do they say what drops there? How you get it?
[110:06]
Brandon Herrera
They haven't even said that. I've been told. I don't even fucking know, but I've been told that it's like a.
[110:11]
Nick the Fat Electrician
You have to watch. You have to watch a YouTube channel for seven fucking years before you unlock it.
[110:17]
Brandon Herrera
I'm just gonna say that. Yes, but it's the. The quest. There's like a. I think a hidden quest that they haven't announced that will end up. That'll be the item you get from it. But I'm just gonna beg Nikita. I'm like, I just need some gameplay footage. Can you just. Can. Can I have a crumb of my own gun?
[110:35]
Donut Operator
Dude, the quest Better have your name in it.
[110:38]
Brandon Herrera
It is. It actually says like I think AK guy, AK50 on the thing.
[110:42]
Donut Operator
War hero Brandon Herrera, mid weapon. You're like, no, no, that would be a.
[110:48]
Brandon Herrera
That would be such a.
[110:53]
Cody
You know, I want to see that thing in the hands of like Willers or Landmark. Let's give them an AK50, get some footage.
[111:00]
Brandon Herrera
It's funny because like Willers is such like an actually like small human being. And to see him like and think of him in game holding a 35 pound rifle and like doing fucking parkour with it.
[111:11]
Cody
Bunny hopping around buildings, the smoking people.
[111:14]
Brandon Herrera
360 shooting, jumping off second story buildings, landing on rails.
[111:18]
Donut Operator
That's Tarkov, where that is. I mean his playstyle is like fucking yeet yourself off your leg snap. You kill everyone and you're like morphine crawl. Traction point. You're like so realistic.
[111:31]
Cody
Reattach your legs.
[111:32]
Brandon Herrera
It. I mean like it really is. It's a pretty realistic game like comparatively like if you're comparing it to like Call of Duty and Battlefield and shit like that. But at the same time you get some dude like that that's super good at like. Willard's probably one of the best players on the planet.
[111:44]
Cody
100%.
[111:45]
Brandon Herrera
Yeah. They can break it.
[111:47]
Donut Operator
Yeah. And that is not. Have you ever watched that gameplay?
[111:50]
Brandon Herrera
No.
[111:51]
Donut Operator
So you can break limbs. Like if you get shot in the femur, that can break and you have to tourniquet.
[111:57]
Brandon Herrera
You have to explain. You can do like field surgery kits. Certain bandages do small bleeds, certain bandages do heavy bleeds.
[112:06]
Donut Operator
You can do like uppers. There's actually way alcohol you can get drunk in that game, right? They have the vodka and stuff.
[112:13]
Brandon Herrera
Yeah, you get super dehydrated, I think is what happens to your character.
[112:16]
Donut Operator
And then the old mayonnaise just kills you.
[112:18]
Cody
It dehydrates the shit out of you instantly. Zero hydration. And then you just slowly die.
[112:23]
Brandon Herrera
In this game you have to eat and stay hydrated. If you're walking like a long distance.
[112:27]
Donut Operator
And shit like that, that's how fun.
[112:29]
Nick the Fat Electrician
I hate it. Like hate everything. It sounds like a chick flick video game. That's what that sounds like it.
[112:35]
Brandon Herrera
Here's the thing, you have to have like there. You can have different styles of armors that have different coverage areas. And depending on what caliber you're using, you have to use specific types of ammo. Like Full Metal Jacket does different than, you know, M855A1 for armor penetration. So it's like really. They put a lot of thought into it and everything.
[112:54]
Cody
It's like the nwba. Like it's a lot of nothing, but then people get attacked every once in a while and it's cool.
[113:01]
Brandon Herrera
Wait, Jesus Christ.
[113:03]
Donut Operator
In the wnba, that joke bear some onion.
[113:11]
Cody
I never, I never watched the WNBA until Caitlyn Clark started getting pushed onto the ground.
[113:16]
Brandon Herrera
He's like, as soon as I figured out beating women was involved.
[113:19]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Oh, there's three white girls on the Indiana Fever. They call them trace leches. Hilarious. Oh, it was so annoying. So my wife is super into it, and one of the girls on the Indiana Fever team, Sophia Cunningham, she's like 6:1. And somebody blindsided Caitlin Clark earlier in the game. So this Sophia Cunningham blindsides this girl, basically grabs her head and throws her onto the court. And everybody loved her for it, for like sticking up for Caitlyn. And the Internet was like, she needs to be careful because I forget the girl's name that she threw on the ground. She was the youngest black taekwondo black belt in Missouri State history. She got her black belt when she was 6. And I'm like, sophia Cunningham played varsity football and a six year old black belt means literally fucking nothing. Like, I don't. Nobody at 6 knows how to fight. I don't know if this is like brown great, groundbreaking Internet shit, but like, Black belt at 6 is breaking news.
[114:25]
Brandon Herrera
Nick the fat electrician says he can take any six year old.
[114:28]
Nick the Fat Electrician
This is true.
[114:30]
Donut Operator
I do it. Pay me enough, I'll beat the out of some six year olds.
[114:36]
Brandon Herrera
All the black belts call it Keemstar. How many can I fight for? How much money?
[114:41]
Donut Operator
I always never understood the idea of giving kiddos black belts. Was like, dude, they can defend themselves. No, they can't.
[114:47]
Nick the Fat Electrician
That's why I like Jiu Jitsu. You're not even allowed to be a blue belt until you're 16. Because it's not allowed. Yeah.
[114:54]
Donut Operator
You know why? Before that, you don't have testosterone. Anything like an adult attacks you.
[115:03]
Cody
All right, if we, if we do the beating children up competition, we got to take 34% of the revenue for ourselves.
[115:10]
Brandon Herrera
Oh, yeah, right, Yep. We'll call it, I don't know, creator Clash4.
[115:16]
Cody
Fuck them kids.
[115:18]
Donut Operator
We could probably make that so much money. We do donate it to all great causes though.
[115:22]
Cody
I feel like that's going to be a Russian sport in the future.
[115:26]
Donut Operator
It's like a mobile game ad.
[115:28]
Brandon Herrera
It's just a child fighting rings that we're talking about starting.
[115:31]
Donut Operator
It's adult beating the show.
[115:33]
Brandon Herrera
Oh, God, yeah. Or as they called it, my house growing up. Discipline.
[115:44]
Cody
I promise we're good people.
[115:47]
Donut Operator
Oh, man.
[115:51]
Brandon Herrera
Do the fucking dishes.
[115:52]
Donut Operator
Well, Mr. Cody, what are you working on now? Just fucking police shootings.
[115:56]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Cody's streaming his ass off.
[115:57]
Brandon Herrera
Yeah.
[115:58]
Donut Operator
Shit.
[115:59]
Cody
Yeah. Monday to Friday, 10am Yep. Twitch and kick to around two, three. Yeah, like four or five hour streams.
[116:06]
Donut Operator
What are you liking more right now with like the difference between those two?
[116:09]
Cody
Definitely the streaming.
[116:10]
Donut Operator
Well, like Kick though, Like Kick or Twitch.
[116:12]
Cody
Oh, well, Kik pays more. They got like a 955ad split or revenue split 95,5 compared to Twitch's 70.
[116:19]
Brandon Herrera
30, which is fucking crazy even for a partner creator. Mm, Jesus fuck. That is worse than it used to be.
[116:25]
Donut Operator
Wait, you're 70 30. And that's negotiated though, right?
[116:28]
Cody
No, I think I've never negotiated when they won't talk to me.
[116:31]
Brandon Herrera
No, like he's taking 30, right?
[116:34]
Cody
No, I'm taking 70.
[116:35]
Brandon Herrera
Okay. I thought it was worse. Okay, nevermind. That is better than I thought.
[116:38]
Donut Operator
No, wait, wait.
[116:39]
Brandon Herrera
No, it's 50.
[116:40]
Cody
50.
[116:40]
Brandon Herrera
It's 50.
[116:40]
Donut Operator
50.
[116:40]
Cody
I'm 50. Yeah, sorry, sorry. You can negotiate 70. 30.
[116:43]
Brandon Herrera
Got it. Okay.
[116:44]
Cody
Yeah, sorry. I'm getting 50. 50.
[116:46]
Donut Operator
Isn't that wild? 5050 is what they take.
[116:50]
Brandon Herrera
Well, Bezos needs more rocket money.
[116:53]
Cody
He just offloaded like a billion dollars of Amazon. Did you see that the other day? No, it was like he did 600 and something million the other day. Then the day after he did one hundred and something million.
[117:02]
Brandon Herrera
Jesus.
[117:04]
Cody
I don't know why. I'm sure there's the theories out there.
[117:07]
Donut Operator
I mean he's. That's nothing.
[117:08]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Because he makes a living selling cheap shit imported from China.
[117:14]
Donut Operator
Yeah, let me rewind. 20 years ago. I guarantee he didn't think it was 90s. When did Amazon come around?
[117:20]
Brandon Herrera
It was the 90s. Yeah.
[117:21]
Donut Operator
Yeah. I don't think he thought it would.
[117:23]
Brandon Herrera
Be to the online bookstore.
[117:25]
Donut Operator
Yeah, I'd be like, what the did I create?
[117:29]
Brandon Herrera
Yeah. In 20 years, buddy. 25 years you're going to be a bald divorcee on TRT shooting rockets at the sky.
[117:35]
Donut Operator
He is jack though. Every rich guy gets jacked.
[117:39]
Brandon Herrera
Like Elon. All props to him. Got his hair back when he got money.
[117:42]
Cody
Weird.
[117:45]
Brandon Herrera
Money fixes a lot of things apparently, dude.
[117:48]
Donut Operator
So streaming.
[117:49]
Nick the Fat Electrician
You know who else got their hair back after they got money? Nowhere near to Jeff Bezos levels of money, but who's Steve Carell? If you watch the first few seasons of the Office, he is very, very thinning. Going bald and his hair gets progressively thicker as the show gets. It's more successful. It's wild.
[118:07]
Brandon Herrera
It's like a Hair like a Benjamin Button hairline.
[118:09]
Nick the Fat Electrician
I know. What were you saying? Sorry.
[118:13]
Donut Operator
No, I forget now.
[118:14]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Okay, good.
[118:14]
Donut Operator
Steve Carell's hairline. I was like, wait, he was balding?
[118:16]
Nick the Fat Electrician
It was bad. In the early seasons.
[118:18]
Brandon Herrera
I got a cool story about Steve Carell.
[118:20]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Oh, no.
[118:21]
Brandon Herrera
So it's like actually a cool story. My. One of my favorite teachers growing up. I won't say his name, but I.
[118:27]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Don'T know if it's Steve Carell.
[118:28]
Brandon Herrera
Whatever. The Steve. Steve Carell. He was my geography teacher and a history teacher and whatnot.
[118:36]
Cody
Really?
[118:36]
Brandon Herrera
One of those guys who, like, made learning fun. It was like having Nick as your history teacher. Like, he was just a cool dude. So he was actually. He was always, like, really funny.
[118:44]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Gerrymandering had to have been fucking lit for a classroom topic.
[118:50]
Brandon Herrera
So listen here. But these motherfuckers. No, but he. But he was in college. He was part of a three man comedy group with Steve Carell.
[119:01]
Cody
Sure.
[119:02]
Brandon Herrera
So, like, Steve Carell was one of the members and they had this agreement where they're like, all right, we're gonna do a 20 year anniversary, like, reunion of the comedy group, whatever this is. I don't know, probably in the fucking 90s. He goes, all right, we're all gonna meet up together at this place 20 years from now, whatever we're doing in life. And we're gonna get together and, you know, fucking reminisce or whatever. So he goes. And the other guy goes. And fully not expecting Steve Carell to show up because, God, he's doing movies and whatever the fuck else. Steve Carell shows up at the 20 year reunion of their little three man comedy group. And so he had a picture on his desk of all three of them. Like, there's Steve Carell. I thought that was kind of cool.
[119:41]
Nick the Fat Electrician
That's cool.
[119:41]
Donut Operator
That's a homie too. He shows up for that. You're like, yeah, yeah, I would have been late.
[119:47]
Brandon Herrera
We would have expected it. On the 20 year reunion of unsub. Like, I showed up. It's all of us.
[119:53]
Donut Operator
Yeah. I show up in the 21st year, I'm like, where is everyone? Oh, I'm sorry. My brain don't work so good. Dude. I was gonna say the. There's a whole thing about this. So we all take supplements and then. Well, we take. Yeah, we take supplements. It's healthy. You do all the different supplements.
[120:15]
Brandon Herrera
Why are you defending supplements?
[120:17]
Donut Operator
But creatine, you know, do you. Any of you do steroids, gummy creatines?
[120:23]
Brandon Herrera
Yeah.
[120:25]
Donut Operator
Holy shit. There's a massive lawsuit about that shit.
[120:28]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Oh yeah, yeah.
[120:30]
Donut Operator
And probably yours.
[120:32]
Brandon Herrera
Which ones?
[120:33]
Donut Operator
A metric shit ton. There's kind of lawsuit thing that got dropped. They don't. Well, it's not bad, but they don't have any creatine. Only one out of it was almost 90% of them really had zero creatine in it.
[120:49]
Brandon Herrera
Yeah, no shit.
[120:50]
Donut Operator
2% of the 5 grams. So they're point 0.09.
[120:56]
Brandon Herrera
Completely like nothing. Nothing.
[120:58]
Donut Operator
Yeah, but all that is a whole organization. I keep up with the health stuff since we started fighting. Oh, actually, hey, we're doing a fitness thing. If you didn't watch the last episode, we're actually doing a fitness thing. And then we're figuring out what challenges we're going to do for this. We don't know.
[121:14]
Nick the Fat Electrician
God.
[121:15]
Donut Operator
What, dude? Oh fuck. We didn't even get to talk about boxing. We all boxed.
[121:19]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Yeah, this is true, dude.
[121:22]
Brandon Herrera
Got the whole gang in the boxing gym, which I never thought would have ever happened. That was cool.
[121:25]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Go again tonight.
[121:27]
Donut Operator
I'm a hundred percent down for that. Sav said that was the happiest. And she took amazing photos. Those photos. Everyone looks fucking dope, by the way. I was like, oh, dude, yes. Yes. That was the happiest I've seen. Seen us all leaving a place in a long ass time. We just got to do dude shit and punch each other. It's for an hour. Also right here, way more terrifying now to me because he can move. Oh, Muhammad Ali shuffle feet. He's teaching brain. You know this switch stance punch. I'm like, nick, dude, I told you I struck too. I Do you guys remember that conversation?
[122:08]
Brandon Herrera
I don't know, the first time watching you hit pads while we were there, I was like, oh, same. What is this cocksucker not good at besides swimming?
[122:21]
Donut Operator
Hey, fight him in the ocean. We'll both drown. Ring out, dude. I was absolutely. That it was weird because that was the first. I was like, oh fuck, dude. I'm just gonna do stand up. If me and Nick ever got in a fight now it's just gonna suck because he's 50 pounds heavier. I'm gonna run, just run away really fast.
[122:50]
Brandon Herrera
I can't remember whose joke it is, but it's like, I'm pretty, all right, I'm a black belt. And click, pow.
[122:56]
Nick the Fat Electrician
The meme of Goku with all the henchmen around him dead is like Jiu Jitsu, taekwondo, boxing, blah blah, blah. And Goku's just Glock 19.
[123:07]
Donut Operator
But everyone dig it. You got a spar with Cody and that was all I Mean, just watching everyone actually fight. Spar, hit. And then you guys catch on so fast.
[123:17]
Nick the Fat Electrician
I punched Aiden way harder than I.
[123:19]
Cody
Always stepped into it.
[123:20]
Nick the Fat Electrician
That one time I didn't throw the. I threw the punch fast, but it wasn't gonna connect. But he stepped into it and he's like. I was like, oh. And there was.
[123:30]
Brandon Herrera
And he wasn't wearing headgear.
[123:32]
Nick the Fat Electrician
No.
[123:32]
Donut Operator
Or mouthpiece. That's what I always think. I don't think about the headgear. I was like, I can live with that. The teeth Cody got you, dude. And it's awesome. You two were sparring. You threw an upper. It hit Cody. And Cody's like, well, I'm gonna hurt. Fighting is very much learn really quickly and what not to do.
[123:54]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Don't like that.
[123:56]
Donut Operator
Nick went to cross guard. And then Cody's like, punch to the side, stomach.
[123:59]
Nick the Fat Electrician
He's like.
[124:04]
Brandon Herrera
It's just kind of funny because it is such, like, toxic masculinity. Like, dude, cuz like, me and Eli are in. We do two rounds. I leave, like, we have a conversation about, like, oh, yeah, that was cool, man. Oh, like, work on this next time. And I walk outside and I spit and I'm like, I thought I tasted blood.
[124:19]
Nick the Fat Electrician
It's fine.
[124:21]
Cody
Then we went to BJ's. Sweaty as. Oh, yeah, they loved that.
[124:26]
Nick the Fat Electrician
So sweaty.
[124:27]
Brandon Herrera
We probably stank up the entire, like, bar area.
[124:29]
Nick the Fat Electrician
It was aggressive.
[124:31]
Donut Operator
Our boxing gym does not have ac. It's very much a traditional box.
[124:37]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Open the garage door.
[124:39]
Donut Operator
Yep, there's two fans. It's good enough. Why don't you make them circulate? What's that word mean? They're just blowing at each other. Sweaty air. And you're human. You're like, I had a blast yesterday. That was the funnest we have done in so long. I'm actually excited to see that episode cuz that was. Everyone fought yesterday. Yeah, right.
[125:07]
Brandon Herrera
Like, literally everyone fights. Nobody.
[125:09]
Donut Operator
That's what I t. Two rounds, two minutes. Those two minutes feel a lot longer. Is it that crazy?
[125:16]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Is that true, Savannah?
[125:20]
Cody
Two minutes. Look at you, stud.
[125:24]
Brandon Herrera
Don't flex on us, Goku. You did not just.
[125:35]
Donut Operator
Blast.
[125:35]
Brandon Herrera
You're like, making a sex reference. Like, I don't know. Explain it to me in anime terms so I'll understand. Do you like a mouthful of hard wood?
[125:45]
Donut Operator
Yes. Go on then.
[125:46]
Brandon Herrera
Boy, do I have a product for you.
[125:48]
Cody
I'm reenlisting in the navy.
[125:49]
Brandon Herrera
No, not this time.
[125:50]
Cody
Oh.
[125:51]
Brandon Herrera
The product is fume.
[125:52]
Donut Operator
What's fume?
[125:52]
Brandon Herrera
It's an amazing device for those trying to kick Those nasty habits.
[125:55]
Donut Operator
When you said hard wood, you actually meant hard wood.
[125:58]
Brandon Herrera
I'm sorry to disappoint, but yes, I mean literal hardwood.
[126:01]
Donut Operator
I love hard wood in my mouth.
[126:04]
Brandon Herrera
Wait, you know what's gayer than hard wood in your mouth? Dying from cancer.
[126:08]
Donut Operator
Fume has an ocean award winning design.
[126:10]
Brandon Herrera
There's no battery, no chemicals, just flavored air.
[126:13]
Donut Operator
Dial that airflow with the clickies. When you ever tried maple pepper?
[126:17]
Brandon Herrera
No, I like crisp mint because I'm a coward when it comes to flavors.
[126:21]
Donut Operator
Cody, what's your favorite?
[126:22]
Cody
I don't know about flavor, but John C. Fume told me it was sexy and sleek.
[126:27]
Donut Operator
That is a sexy and sleek piece of wood right there, Cody. Oh, yeah, put it in your mouth. Suck that flavored air.
[126:34]
Brandon Herrera
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[126:43]
Donut Operator
Just head to try fume.com unsub and use code unsub to start your good habit today. Tires. I was surprised how hard tires goes.
[126:51]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Tires goes hard.
[126:53]
Donut Operator
Dude, the. The him buying a weapon and then that episode had me dying. Put, oh, pointing it at each other's.
[127:05]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Faces when he's talking about, I can guess the ethnicity of anybody based on the car they drive. And he looks at the old grumpy mechanic and he's like, any Chrysler 300. And the old guy just turns around, he goes, never mind. He's really gonna say it.
[127:22]
Cody
Pack of menthols, any car.
[127:27]
Donut Operator
When they do the hr. Oh, my arm gets stuck right here. Jesus Christ. We actually have a show for Pepperbox we're working on right now. Do you know about this?
[127:42]
Nick the Fat Electrician
No.
[127:43]
Brandon Herrera
Okay, so I've been working on a show for a minute now. Actually, Cody was the one who pushed me into it. We were on a flight. I don't know if we were going to New York or where we were for the UFC fight or something, but you're just like, why don't you do. Or like. Because we were, we were bantering back and forth about like doing a show based out of a gun shop and just like the shit that goes on with like a gun store employees, you know, shit like that. And you're like, well, why don't you just fucking do it? And so I started writing notes there. I talked to Eli about it, so hopefully that's something we can do going forward. But I'm excited for it. I think it's going to be a.
[128:15]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Lot of fucking funny because I'VE I've been wanting to do basically the same concept as the Office, but with my jiu jitsu academy.
[128:24]
Brandon Herrera
Yeah.
[128:24]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Yeah.
[128:25]
Donut Operator
I mean, there. You add that to it because then it's. Oh, dude. Yes. Yes. Because we'll fly the crew up, have that done. The tire or however this one, the gun store, whatever we end up calling that, like, episode one is. We just have to write it, but we have the. The three act or the three different stories going in the ax built out. And it is.
[128:47]
Brandon Herrera
Yeah, it's. I'll tell you about it after. It's. We had a lot of fun even just bantering about it and, like, writing it out. I think it's gonna be fun. It'll be a good test for Pepperbox. I could see. See how it converts. But I know that we're gonna have a fucking blast filming it.
[129:01]
Donut Operator
Good. Bringing in, like, Darnell. I kicked him the rough script, and then he had an idea. I kicked it. Brandon was like, bro, bro. This segment, he's like, oh, my God, yes. And this. It just builds off of it. And then all of us in the writing room and then being able to.
[129:16]
Brandon Herrera
I know this is riveting to the audience or, like, talking around something.
[129:20]
Donut Operator
I know. Fucking stoked for it. I'm just fucking stoked.
[129:23]
Cody
I mean, I love how they do tires. They'll get the story out of the way, then they just riff with each other. And the best riffing stays in on top of that.
[129:30]
Brandon Herrera
Yeah. Because I, I. Because you could tell they just knock out the. The story bits, and then they just let them fucking just rip with each other. But I. I also took a lot of inspiration from Veep, which I don't know who the fuck didn't, like, tie me to a chair and force me to watch that show, but it is probably one of the best political comedies I've ever seen. Like, it is. It was actually giving me, like, campaign ptsd. It's really good. Like, it's just. Even the way staffers talk to each other and stuff and, like, just the kind of scenarios and shit like that. It's absurd, but it's. They did their fucking homework. Like, they talked to staffers when they wrote this show.
[130:05]
Donut Operator
That's the one we have. I still need to watch. I want to talk about F1. Because you watched F1. We haven't. But the fucking fitness thing, we are doing that 100. I think that builds a community aspect way better than anything, especially when we have cash prizes. We will all be pitching in money for that. And then we'll have like top five. We'll do gifts, shirts, merch, and then money prizes. I think that will really bring everyone together. And then for six, we agreed 60 days.
[130:39]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Sure.
[130:40]
Donut Operator
Yeah, 60 days. We will get jacked as shit or lose a lot of weight or motivate in some aspect. And then on discord and then in the comments, we'll figure out a way to better coordinate and on the Reddit, show your progress and then keep each other accountable for that time. Boys looking jacked. Boys looking jacked. Nick looking terrifying as there's some dude. Look at his lean.
[131:08]
Brandon Herrera
Yo.
[131:08]
Cody
Shout out to clean for doing the pad work with everyone.
[131:11]
Brandon Herrera
Oh, yeah, Mr. Bleen was there.
[131:15]
Donut Operator
Nick.
[131:17]
Nick the Fat Electrician
What?
[131:18]
Donut Operator
I wasn't expecting you to move.
[131:20]
Nick the Fat Electrician
I was hoping you were very boxed before.
[131:24]
Donut Operator
None of us remember that.
[131:26]
Brandon Herrera
We couldn't remember, so it's clearly not our fault.
[131:28]
Donut Operator
So you're lying. History teacher Cody. Oh, yeah, they're Cody's throwing some dude. By the way, watching YouTube spar is two giant.
[131:39]
Nick the Fat Electrician
What?
[131:39]
Donut Operator
I said Doritos. Yeah, it's just two Doritos.
[131:44]
Brandon Herrera
200 pounds of back. Look at that.
[131:47]
Donut Operator
Cody's back right there. I was like, jesus. Oh, I love it.
[131:53]
Brandon Herrera
Yeah. How dare you, Sav.
[131:57]
Donut Operator
Yeah, we're gonna do the fitness challenge and then we'll involve everyone. We'll get more notes on the Reddit and we'll post it.
[132:04]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Whoever loses the most weight gets to fight Eli.
[132:07]
Brandon Herrera
There you go.
[132:11]
Donut Operator
Why am I fighting?
[132:12]
Brandon Herrera
Hi, beautiful. You want to say hello?
[132:14]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Oh, my God. Ethan grew a beard.
[132:16]
Brandon Herrera
I know you looking. You're looking good with that beard.
[132:18]
Donut Operator
You look out of the. You look unemployed.
[132:20]
Brandon Herrera
I know, it's great.
[132:23]
Donut Operator
Great to see you guys.
[132:25]
Brandon Herrera
See, man.
[132:25]
Cody
What's up?
[132:26]
Donut Operator
How you doing, guys?
[132:27]
Brandon Herrera
Great to see you. Oh, hello. And sub family.
[132:30]
Donut Operator
Yeah. Your room's upstairs to the left, and it's very clean.
[132:33]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Oh, it's the one without all my in it. Yeah.
[132:42]
Donut Operator
He'S like you.
[132:44]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Some I would do.
[132:46]
Donut Operator
This is my room now.
[132:47]
Brandon Herrera
A bunch of clothes, a couple like, camo backpacks, and one rubber duck on the bed.
[132:53]
Donut Operator
Did Ethan spray hunt my bag Marking it is a cat now.
[133:00]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Speaking of, I would do. I made my. I made my niece's birthday awkward for everybody.
[133:06]
Donut Operator
Go on.
[133:07]
Nick the Fat Electrician
There's like, we're at my. My sister's house and in her driveway, she's got, like, tents up. And then like, in the fenced in yard, there's like an inflatable playhouse for the kids. And it's a bunch of kids there. It's whatever. I got the youngest kid he's two. So, like, I'll go in there and watch and make sure, like, my two year old's not getting, like, trampled or whatever. It's fine. And so I'm in there, I'm like, watching the kids, and there's this other kid. He's like, I don't know, seven. He's the biggest kid in there. And he's like, shoving all the other kids down and, like, not letting him climb up this little ladder to go down the slide. And he just, like, he shoves one kid. I'm like, life is a workout, and.
[133:40]
Cody
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[133:53]
Brandon Herrera
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[133:55]
Donut Operator
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[133:58]
Cody
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[134:05]
Brandon Herrera
Only at Smoothie King.
[134:08]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Hey, stop. And all the kids just stop and look at me. All the parents stop and look at me. It gets all quiet. And, like, the kid I'm talking to is, like, looking around like, who's he talking to? I'm like, you in the orange shirt standing right there. Yes. Stop shoving the other kids. And like, all the parents get awkward. It's like. And then, you know, his parents come in and they start watching and whatever. It's like, watch your kids. I have zero reservations about yelling at other people's kids. In public.
[134:39]
Brandon Herrera
Yep. Or hitting them.
[134:40]
Nick the Fat Electrician
I. I don't hit them.
[134:42]
Brandon Herrera
Yeah, it's not what I heard.
[134:43]
Donut Operator
I mean, dude, I. We had fucking shit. Bad kid. I won't say his name. I'm. I don't know if I've ever talked about that kid on this, but parents knew who I was talking about. Like, friends. They're like, oh, that kid. They say it. And I was like, how the fuck do you know? Because he is just a shitbag across the board.
[135:04]
Cody
Yep.
[135:05]
Donut Operator
Sav knows hang out with other kiddo. And I don't think this was a couple years ago, and we had a security cam in kiddo's room and watching him just snatch.
[135:18]
Brandon Herrera
So wait, let's back up. They're at your house?
[135:21]
Donut Operator
Yeah, they're at my house. They're both playing. They.
[135:24]
Brandon Herrera
Who's both? Okay. What? Like, what. What's going on?
[135:27]
Donut Operator
I forgot about that. So kiddo got dropped off at our house without asking. The parents were like, oh, Our son said that you lived here and we just had to find this house. And we're like, okay.
[135:38]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Our kids planned a play date, and we didn't run it by you.
[135:42]
Donut Operator
Yes, Literally. What happened? So parents pulled up. The mom dropped off the kiddos, like, hey, yeah, so you're good to watch him, right? We're like, what the fuck's going on? Okay, bye. And drove off.
[135:52]
Brandon Herrera
Just drop child.
[135:55]
Donut Operator
Yes.
[135:55]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Okay.
[135:56]
Brandon Herrera
Yeah, literally rolled off a gunshot victim at the ER and sped away.
[136:01]
Donut Operator
Yep. And we were like, what the fuck's going on? Okay. It was like, okay, whatever's going on. They're playing. And we both hear stuff like, what the fuck's going on? I checked the security cam. I watch tablet get pulled from town. I'm like, yo, what the fuck? Hey, we don't. Hey, let's not do that. Let's be good, okay? They hand it back.
[136:24]
Cody
Boom.
[136:24]
Donut Operator
We leave. We just turn on security camera. I'm like, I'm going to guess it's going to happen again really quickly. And sure, shit. Instant playing on the tablet, snatches it out of his hand. I walk in. I was like, hey, what are you doing? We just had this talk. Do not do that again. You understand me? That kid behaved. The rest of the. Fucking die.
[136:48]
Brandon Herrera
It's amazing. It's the. You get a crumb of discipline.
[136:51]
Donut Operator
Yeah. And the parents did not understand it. Like, hey, explain. Like, yeah, got on your kiddo. What the hell are you doing? And then we watch the interaction. No parenting whatsoever.
[137:04]
Brandon Herrera
Like, I've. At all. I'm not a parent, so I really, like, I don't have a whole lot of ground in this, but I'm the only one here who's not a parent, I think. But I think the. I've also. I've been a kid, though, and, like.
[137:18]
Nick the Fat Electrician
I've grown up around. Very good political answer. Yes, go ahead.
[137:21]
Brandon Herrera
Don't fucking scare me. But, like, I've been a kid and I remember growing up with the other kids who, like, their parents were like, oh, I just want to. Like, I just want to be friends with my kid. And they were always shitbags.
[137:32]
Donut Operator
Yes. Oh, these parents are the definition of that. Because they did not want to discipline. What, babe? What were the.
[137:40]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Look, I read a book by a woman with no kids and a doctorate degree that said I shouldn't discipline my children. Okay? She would know this.
[137:48]
Donut Operator
She was a fucking. The mom was a psychologist and not trying to fucking step on Rock the Boat, so neither want to do anything. And the kids like, oh, what am I doing? I don't want to leave. Throwing a fit about leaving. I was like, yeah, he has to fucking go. And, nope, never welcome back here, period, ever again. Never hung out. We pulled aside. It's like, so that's not your friend anymore? Ever in a million years. Never hanging out with that kid again. Get it? He's like, okay, yeah, he's weird. Yeah, he is.
[138:27]
Brandon Herrera
He'd tell the dad, like, look, you drop your kid off here again, I'm dropping him off at the pound.
[138:33]
Cody
Humane Society.
[138:34]
Brandon Herrera
He's gonna be real happy.
[138:35]
Donut Operator
But all the other parents knew, like, fucking Maggie and Brandon. Maggie and Brandon. We didn't say a name. We're like, yeah, the shitbag kid. And they're like, oh, we'll bleep that name out. I was like, wait, what the. She doesn't work at that school.
[138:51]
Nick the Fat Electrician
She knows about him?
[138:52]
Donut Operator
Yes.
[138:52]
Cody
Jeez.
[138:54]
Donut Operator
I've never seen that before in my entire life.
[138:58]
Cody
Going back to what Brandon was saying, watching 14 years, some kid shows up at my door, and all he knows is the Internet. And he's like, you're my dad, Brandon. Right? Yeah. Like, hold on, I gotta make a phone call. This is hilarious.
[139:12]
Brandon Herrera
Oh, wait, your door.
[139:13]
Cody
Yeah, it shows up at my door, Brandon.
[139:16]
Brandon Herrera
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
[139:17]
Cody
Hold on. I gotta FaceTime someone real quick.
[139:19]
Brandon Herrera
No, Cody.
[139:19]
Cody
Brandon, you'll never believe this.
[139:21]
Brandon Herrera
Cody, I have never asked you for a single thing. You're gonna have to take this DNA test for me, please.
[139:28]
Donut Operator
Oh, my God.
[139:31]
Brandon Herrera
That's a joke. That's a joke.
[139:33]
Donut Operator
It's a joke. Geneva Conventions.
[139:37]
Cody
See, I'm not your dad. Who's Brandon?
[139:46]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Have you seen the. The Daniel Cormier interview where he's talking about somebody bullying his kid at a park? No, it's like, it's Daniel fucking Cormier. Like, I think he's only ever lost a fight to Jon Jones. And they usually go the distance. Heavyweight champ, light heavyweight championship, Olympic wrestler. And he's like, I was at the park with my kid, and some other kid that was bigger kept shoving my kid down. And I told him to stop twice. And the parents were like, hey, buddy, stop. And then he did it a third time. So I told his dad, whatever your kid does to my kid next, I'm gonna do to you. And then they left. It's like, that's hilarious.
[140:25]
Cody
The score, me in my balls is hot. Is it him?
[140:27]
Nick the Fat Electrician
No, that was Derek Lewis.
[140:29]
Brandon Herrera
Oh, okay.
[140:31]
Donut Operator
Daniel Cormier, he announces for the UFC yesterday. Also. Terrifying giant black man.
[140:36]
Cody
That's where I got the two.
[140:41]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Wrong. Wrong. Large black man out of people.
[140:46]
Donut Operator
Both heavyweights, very, very big guys.
[140:50]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Cody, which one looks better?
[140:53]
Brandon Herrera
Ridge. What did you say? Ridge. So you're a big fan of Ridge, huh?
[140:57]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Riiiidge.
[140:58]
Brandon Herrera
Would that make you a Ridger?
[140:59]
Donut Operator
Ridge, All Ridge Wallets have an rfid. What's that? Cody? Explain it.
[141:04]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Ridge.
[141:04]
Brandon Herrera
It's a physical security element to stop people from being able to scan cards from inside your wallet.
[141:08]
Donut Operator
And they have over 100,000 five star reviews. Did you know Ridge wallet makes a donut one?
[141:14]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Cody.
[141:14]
Donut Operator
Ridge, the Ridge key case can hold two to six keys. It keeps it nice and organized in carbon fiber.
[141:20]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Ridge.
[141:21]
Donut Operator
Do you know why we're obsessed with Ridge Wallet and Keychain? For the colors and the unique designs. Put up the GT40. It looks so good.
[141:30]
Brandon Herrera
Ridge.
[141:31]
Donut Operator
For a limited time, our listeners get 10% off. Just head to ridge.com and use code Unsub at checkout.
[141:37]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Ridge.
[141:38]
Cody
Ridge. Ridge. Ridge. Ridge. Ridge.
[141:40]
Donut Operator
You want to be a Ridger today? Go use our Code Unsub. Can we start the word Ridger? I don't.
[141:47]
Brandon Herrera
Yeah, I think we can. I want to try it. Eli Ridger is our word. Ridge to you.
[141:53]
Donut Operator
Okay, dude, we were talking in the car about.
[141:56]
Brandon Herrera
I'm glad you brought that up because I was going there too.
[141:58]
Donut Operator
We had the Pat story and then the Chuck stories we were talking about, we never heard.
[142:02]
Nick the Fat Electrician
But Pat Miletich, dude, I don't think.
[142:05]
Brandon Herrera
The Chuck stories can make the podcast.
[142:07]
Nick the Fat Electrician
They're in his book.
[142:09]
Brandon Herrera
That's fair.
[142:10]
Donut Operator
Hey, we're good, we're good. The past story, I.
[142:13]
Nick the Fat Electrician
This is, this is fuzzy. I read their books in high school. This is fucking forever ago. But the rough gist of the story was like, if you don't know, Pat Miletich opened what's considered basically like the first MMA camp fighting place in the United States at a Davenport, Iowa. He was the coach for like Matt Hughes, Tim Sylvia, former heavyweight champion, and like all those guys in the early days of ufc. I think he originally trained Cameron, Ken Shamrock too, I'm not sure. Trained a bunch of like the OG UFC guys, but he was like older by then. Pioneer mma. And he has this story about, I think it was Tim Sylvia winning a fight and they go out to these clubs in like the Davenport area. The fight was like probably in Chicago or something. And they go out and they're out at the club and some dude gets into it with. Pat Miletic is like older guy, he's retired from MMA at this point. The monster, by the way, still a horrifying human being. To 99.9% of people walking around, like, absolutely terrifying. And they go outside because this dude has an issue with Pat Miletage. And the dude tells Pat Miletage, do you know who I am? And Pat's like, no. He's like, I'm Pat Militage. And Pat Militage is like, huh? And hands him his driver's license. Apparently the dude looks at it, Frisbees that shit one way and runs the other way. We gotta get him on the podcast. He's fucking hilarious.
[143:43]
Brandon Herrera
I also love that you remember this story from fucking a book you read in high school. Like, the only book I remember reading from high school was Catcher in the Rye. And by that time I was already too late to kill John Lennon.
[143:56]
Nick the Fat Electrician
That's what I do. I read and remember things. It's my whole job.
[144:00]
Brandon Herrera
I drink and I know things.
[144:02]
Donut Operator
Also, really good story.
[144:04]
Brandon Herrera
It's fucking hilarious.
[144:05]
Donut Operator
We were talking about that and then that went into. I forget what got us on a UFC fighter tangent at that point.
[144:11]
Brandon Herrera
Oh, yeah, the three of us, we're.
[144:12]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Having Don fry on.
[144:13]
Donut Operator
Yeah, we're having Dom fry on.
[144:16]
Cody
Really?
[144:16]
Brandon Herrera
So excited for that. Yes.
[144:17]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Yes.
[144:19]
Donut Operator
Oh, yeah. Shout out to Don. I know.
[144:21]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Apparently he watches the podcast and likes it. From what I was told.
[144:25]
Donut Operator
Hey, don't text about it. Like, yeah, dong likes your guys stuff. He starts watching after I was talking with his team and setting everything up, and they're like, yeah, he's excited to be on.
[144:36]
Brandon Herrera
We're like, Don's like, old school based too.
[144:38]
Donut Operator
Dude. This is a dude.
[144:40]
Brandon Herrera
Don't know. Don't ask him. He'll say it.
[144:44]
Cody
Don packing menthols in the car.
[144:46]
Donut Operator
It's like one of my favorite interviews of another fighter. Just going to spar. Old Don was like, yeah, I knew the dude was hard as shit. When I was stretching, getting ready. I look over and then Don just pops two Percocets and gets in the ring. That's a hard dude off. So he's gonna come on the podcast. And then we were talking about Boss Rootin. We were showing his. Wait, we were his.
[145:18]
Nick the Fat Electrician
His old school MMA fights.
[145:19]
Donut Operator
Yeah.
[145:19]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Where he was like. It was bare knuckles, so he would just go out there and open palm strike people. And he's like getting knockouts by open palm striking dudes in the liver and shit. Horrifying dude.
[145:31]
Donut Operator
Like, he ruptured somebody's liver. They have that on camera. And then if you want to see a dude just instantly quit a fight and then get wheeled off on a stretcher is when boss root and kicked it they. He caused lacerations from the kick to the liver.
[145:47]
Brandon Herrera
Because, like, that. That shit can kill you, right? Like, there's. There's a lot of blood in your liver.
[145:51]
Donut Operator
Your liver does a lot of important things, and it also is one of the few things in your body, I think, that actually has, like, nerve endings where it's like, hey, you're in danger. You're going to die. That's why your body just shuts down.
[146:03]
Nick the Fat Electrician
It's also, like, punched. Oh, this is where we collect all the toxins that aren't supposed to be in your bloodstream. It just burst.
[146:11]
Brandon Herrera
Yeah.
[146:12]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Have fun.
[146:14]
Donut Operator
If you watch a good liver puncher cake, they, like, they don't move anymore. Like, there's no, like, I'm gonna fight the. Ah. I'm gonna fight through this. The person usually hops on their knees. The. The kick that happens to the guy's liver, he just shuts down and curls into a ball and starts crying. And then they will him off of the. The ring.
[146:34]
Brandon Herrera
I think you got me last week. And it was even like, we're going. You go pretty light. And I like, I had to take like, a fiver. I was like, one second.
[146:41]
Donut Operator
Sorry, Brandon made it.
[146:44]
Brandon Herrera
I was like, five. Just give me like, five, ten seconds. One sec.
[146:48]
Donut Operator
Forgot about that.
[146:49]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Doesn't feel good.
[146:50]
Donut Operator
No. Ever. It just hurts like a motherfucker. What? Chuck stories. Can we.
[146:56]
Brandon Herrera
I just want to have Chuck on. I think that would be fucking hilarious because, I mean, he's coming to your bachelor party.
[147:02]
Donut Operator
Yeah.
[147:02]
Brandon Herrera
Fucking great.
[147:03]
Donut Operator
My God.
[147:03]
Brandon Herrera
Yeah.
[147:04]
Cody
He's gonna be there with us.
[147:05]
Donut Operator
I did not know that.
[147:06]
Cody
Oh, yeah.
[147:06]
Brandon Herrera
I just wanna. I. I actually can't say anything I was about to say because if I say it on the podcast, it becomes premeditated. So I'm just not gonna.
[147:16]
Cody
Yeah, I hit him up when we started deciding the dates for the. The bachelor party. And I was like, ah, Chuck's not gonna say. Yeah. You know, he's busy. He's doing all this stuff. He's making shows and hit him up. I was like, hey, my bachelor party's gonna be this week. He said, I'll write it off on my calendar. It's like, yes, this is awesome.
[147:32]
Brandon Herrera
He confirmed that again in Vegas. He was like, just let me know the dates.
[147:34]
Cody
Yeah, so it's gonna be us and Chuck.
[147:37]
Donut Operator
Don't let him plan it.
[147:38]
Cody
No.
[147:41]
Brandon Herrera
Yeah, no, if you let him plan it, it's going to be a wildly different thing than what you want. No, that's going in somebody's book.
[147:52]
Donut Operator
No, that's The Hangover?
[147:54]
Brandon Herrera
Yeah. Oh, God.
[147:56]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Instead of Mike Tyson, we got Chuck Liddell.
[147:58]
Brandon Herrera
Oh, I'm just thinking like, the gang wakes up. Oh, God. In the Airbnb. Where's Chuck?
[148:06]
Nick the Fat Electrician
That's the whole movie. Brandon got deported last night. We gotta go to Tijuana and rescue him.
[148:13]
Brandon Herrera
I was born here. How'd this happen?
[148:17]
Donut Operator
I have a face tattoo.
[148:18]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Nick, what are you doing? I'm building a hot air balloon. I read about it. This is how they got into Soviet. The Eastern bloc of Germany. We're gonna smuggle Brandon back in.
[148:29]
Brandon Herrera
It's gonna be like that Red Dead 2 where they rescue the guy from. From the prison camp in a hot air balloon.
[148:36]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Oh, no.
[148:38]
Brandon Herrera
God. That's been. One of the funny things is, like, people on the Internet are like, your last name's Herrera. You know they're going to deport you too. And I, like, before, I'm like. I'm like, that's. That's. Whatever. Now I just kind of go with it. I'm like, hey, that's what needs to happen. I understand.
[148:51]
Donut Operator
Godspeed. Godspeed. Oh, fuck. We have our live show dates locked in, and then we have what locations we're doing. We hit your neck of the woods, finally.
[149:04]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Yeah, we're going to Iowa.
[149:07]
Donut Operator
In Chicago.
[149:09]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Yeah, I didn't. I didn't agree to that one, but okay.
[149:12]
Brandon Herrera
I would rather do Iowa.
[149:14]
Donut Operator
Thankfully, they're back to back. None of the great.
[149:20]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Oh, two things you didn't want to do. Don't worry, we're going to back to back.
[149:25]
Brandon Herrera
It's like prison all over again.
[149:29]
Donut Operator
The live shows, for anyone does it is absolutely draining. We are so excited to do it, but, dear God, that is the one. Like, we leave those dead. Those are fucking exhausting.
[149:41]
Brandon Herrera
It's like. It's like hiking, right? It's like. It's. Don't get me wrong, we like doing it in theory and it's. You feel a sense of accomplishment when it's done. And, like, you have. You have a lot of good memories from it. I'm tired, but you're really tired when it's over with.
[149:55]
Donut Operator
We're not doing that for us. That is 100% for all of you. We are very tired. Rich. Jack, I think, man, Rich is a psychopath.
[150:05]
Nick the Fat Electrician
He doesn't count.
[150:06]
Donut Operator
Even Jack was like. Jack talked about. He's like, yeah, the San Diego show when I showed up. Or San Diego, right?
[150:12]
Brandon Herrera
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[150:13]
Donut Operator
Jack was like, yeah. When I seen Rich exhausted, that's when he knew. He's like, oh, that must suck doing that. Tour because we had flew from the east coast that morning to the west.
[150:25]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Coast, for what, Virginia to San Diego.
[150:28]
Brandon Herrera
Yep.
[150:28]
Donut Operator
And then performed. Well, you got your socks wet.
[150:31]
Nick the Fat Electrician
I know.
[150:32]
Donut Operator
And then still mad about it.
[150:34]
Nick the Fat Electrician
That's the day I found out you can, in fact. Doordash shoes.
[150:39]
Donut Operator
What?
[150:40]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Didn't know that, did you?
[150:41]
Donut Operator
No.
[150:41]
Nick the Fat Electrician
How do you think I got new shoes?
[150:44]
Brandon Herrera
I doordash Ray Bans in San Francisco when I was there.
[150:46]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Did you really?
[150:47]
Brandon Herrera
Yeah, I was there for the Young Americans for Liberty thing. And I, like, I got super frustrated because their airport's under construction, so I just hopped the fucking concrete barrier, like, at one point, and I scratched the shit out of my Ray Bans. So I doordashed another pair. I felt like an asshole. Yeah.
[151:05]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Peak capitalism moment.
[151:07]
Donut Operator
Yeah.
[151:08]
Brandon Herrera
Late stage capitalism.
[151:11]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Summon a stranger to deliver you designer sunglasses.
[151:22]
Brandon Herrera
Well, to be fair to me, I didn't really want to go into downtown San Francisco to buy another pair.
[151:28]
Donut Operator
Peasant. Where are my glasses?
[151:32]
Brandon Herrera
I can't reference any of the memes I want to right now. Live shows will be fun, though. Like, just to give up the frame of reference for, like, what we're talking about. We're like, we enjoy them, but, like, it's also, you're tired as fuck afterward, you're drained. When we were in Boston, we wanted to go to the. What is it? The Green Dragon Pub or Green Dragon. Dragon.
[151:56]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Dragon Tavern, which is basically first bar in America, essentially.
[151:59]
Brandon Herrera
Yeah. It's like the Founding Fathers were there, shit like that. Basically planning the revolution. And it was just only a couple miles away, a couple blocks away. And we were all just way too wiped. Afterward, we were like, oh, we're gonna go get, like, a drink there. Just to say we did because it's super cool. Then, like, after the show, we all took a vote. Like.
[152:19]
Donut Operator
I forgot about. We were all drained. It was always, here's what we're going to do after the live show. That never happens. We just head straight back. Where do we watch the fight? That's the perfect example.
[152:32]
Nick the Fat Electrician
In. In the hotel lobby, on the computer.
[152:35]
Brandon Herrera
The home two in suites or whatever, refreshing everyone. 3.
[152:40]
Donut Operator
Yeah, because the fights were loading, right? We're like, okay.
[152:43]
Brandon Herrera
On the free. The free computer they had downstairs. Yeah. We had to keep, like, move the mouse every three minutes that the.
[152:51]
Donut Operator
The one fans that showed up.
[152:53]
Nick the Fat Electrician
That one dude had the most awkwardness. It's just awkward, us sitting in a hotel lobby on a computer that's 10 years old, and we have to refresh the tab every, like, five minutes. Otherwise it resets and he's like, are you. Are you. You're donut operator? And he's like, yeah. And you're Brandon. What is happening right now? Oh, we're in town doing a live show.
[153:13]
Brandon Herrera
Oh, we're watching a fight. You want some pizza?
[153:15]
Donut Operator
Yeah.
[153:16]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Sat down and ate pizza and wants to fight with us. It was so random.
[153:20]
Donut Operator
You know Papa Jones, it's kind of that moment.
[153:23]
Brandon Herrera
He's like, not to be weird. You're real, right?
[153:31]
Donut Operator
These guys must be struggling from the outside perspective.
[153:39]
Brandon Herrera
The AdSense is not doing well.
[153:43]
Donut Operator
I'm just getting by right now. And then we flew to the next place and rinse, repeat. We have was it August 15th general sells, August 13th artist pre sales. So that's when the tickets actually go live. But we're doing an announcement now. So look out for those tickets for pre sales and actual sales. We're actually stoked for this.
[154:07]
Brandon Herrera
So by the time this gets out, that's what, three weeks? Yeah.
[154:10]
Donut Operator
And these are ma. Like the venues are getting a lot bigger really fast.
[154:15]
Brandon Herrera
It's kind of scary.
[154:17]
Donut Operator
That biggest venue last time was 1200 seats and now we're at 2000 seat venues at like the Hard Rock in Orlando.
[154:24]
Brandon Herrera
I'm super excited for that one. Like, there's a lot of these shows I think that are actually gonna be a lot of fun. Dude.
[154:30]
Donut Operator
Dude.
[154:31]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Are we doing the same one in Boston?
[154:33]
Donut Operator
No, same.
[154:34]
Nick the Fat Electrician
The same venue, bigger venue.
[154:36]
Donut Operator
Yep.
[154:36]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Oh, boy.
[154:37]
Donut Operator
Yeah, that's what's crazy. Remember the three stories, Cody?
[154:40]
Brandon Herrera
Yeah.
[154:41]
Donut Operator
Yeah. That's a small venue this time.
[154:43]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Oh, Cody likes that.
[154:47]
Cody
No, that was. That was a wild one because I didn't know there was another story of people looking at another thousand people up there.
[154:53]
Brandon Herrera
Didn't you find that out like in the show? Yeah, we look higher.
[154:57]
Cody
Ah, fuck.
[154:57]
Nick the Fat Electrician
There's a third balcony I could like.
[155:00]
Brandon Herrera
It was like, what is that? Sniper Elite, where I could just look in like 3D through your chest and sudden.
[155:09]
Cody
I do great with crowds.
[155:11]
Donut Operator
None of us are big crowd people. It's like introverts. I'm like, but the fact that that was our huge one and that's our tiny one this year, 1200 is our small one. And then the rest are 15 to 2000 seat venues. And then you look at the photos of them, they look so dope. But also, Jesus Christ. That is the most terrifying thing we will look at. I'm like, okay.
[155:34]
Brandon Herrera
That being said, we've been looking at ways to try to figure out how to make this tour the best one yet and make it just a good experience for you guys. While also not wanting to.
[155:42]
Nick the Fat Electrician
We decided we're gonna get in really good shape and then get shitfaced on all the shows.
[155:47]
Brandon Herrera
Oh, God. Way less. So when what, the amount that we drink hits us hard?
[155:52]
Nick the Fat Electrician
60 days, reducing our alcohol tolerance and then we're gonna go.
[155:56]
Brandon Herrera
Think about it like that. I don't like that.
[156:00]
Donut Operator
Did we start 30 minute mark.
[156:03]
Brandon Herrera
So we started yesterday, right? Yeah, yeah, okay.
[156:07]
Donut Operator
Yep, yep.
[156:12]
Brandon Herrera
Mean Eli started fucking two months ago. I don't want your shit.
[156:15]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Hey.
[156:15]
Donut Operator
I mean, we're about a month and a half.
[156:16]
Brandon Herrera
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[156:17]
Donut Operator
See, we're all doing really good. We've been working out.
[156:20]
Brandon Herrera
You're down at time recording. I'm down 14, which is 14 fucking pounds. I got fat there for a minute. I didn't like that. Thank you to the unsub audience for calling me out. Totally didn't hurt my feelings and forced me to become a better person.
[156:33]
Donut Operator
Wait, what?
[156:34]
Brandon Herrera
Oh, there was a couple. There was a couple people in my. In my comments or whatever, and it sucks. This fucking sucks, right?
[156:40]
Donut Operator
When people change, somebody will do. As a dude, you read a comment like, homeboy's fat bullying works.
[156:47]
Brandon Herrera
Yeah. Well, it sucks when, like, people. We're used to getting shit talked, right? We're on the Internet for a living. You fucking get thick skin to it. It sucks when you know it in your heart and you don't like it about yourself. And then a stranger says it and.
[157:01]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Just feel my arteries clogged.
[157:03]
Brandon Herrera
I'm like, you're not wrong. And I fucking hate it.
[157:07]
Nick the Fat Electrician
I like when old, old videos of Brandon pop up from years ago. You were both significantly skinnier, but you were also significantly more pale.
[157:15]
Brandon Herrera
Yeah.
[157:15]
Nick the Fat Electrician
So my running theory is that the tanner you get, the fatter you get.
[157:21]
Brandon Herrera
So, like, a lot of people were like, wow, my God, you aged so much. I'm like, yeah, it's because when I started, I was a child getting older.
[157:28]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Brandon hits 250, he unlocks new slurs.
[157:37]
Brandon Herrera
I know what I have to do. I just don't know if I have the strength to do it.
[157:45]
Donut Operator
Dude, I like. I just like pre TRT Cody. That's my favorite.
[157:49]
Brandon Herrera
Oh, yeah, you guys.
[157:51]
Nick the Fat Electrician
You guys live here with him. I got to see Cody over the course of, like, two trips, go from like.
[157:59]
Brandon Herrera
It was the donut operator twink death.
[158:02]
Cody
Someone said that in the comments.
[158:04]
Brandon Herrera
Really?
[158:04]
Donut Operator
Yeah.
[158:05]
Nick the Fat Electrician
No. Cody's lats absorbed his man bun. Now he's jacked his.
[158:15]
Brandon Herrera
This is the shit talking I love on gang episodes.
[158:19]
Cody
Someone did say on Twitter what a brutal twink death. That was.
[158:26]
Donut Operator
Like.
[158:27]
Cody
I don't know how to feel about that.
[158:30]
Donut Operator
It is fucking night and day, though, when you do a comparison.
[158:33]
Cody
Damn, I'm less attractive to furries.
[158:42]
Brandon Herrera
What an odd thing to say.
[158:45]
Donut Operator
You Metal Gear Solids out front.
[158:47]
Brandon Herrera
Yeah, Editor, can you please put the exclamation mark above all of our heads on that wide.
[158:53]
Donut Operator
What was that?
[158:56]
Brandon Herrera
No, but, like, I look back at old, old videos. They're like, oh, you're so much skinnier then I'm like, for one, I was like, yeah, 22. For the other thing is, like, I was way more stressed out and I wasn't eating or sleeping. So, like, I've got visible bags under my eyes and I'm like, half living out of my shop because I'm trying to make it on YouTube. Like. Yeah, no, I wasn't. I wasn't happy. I. I wasn't doing well back then.
[159:17]
Donut Operator
We're not all Nick.
[159:19]
Nick the Fat Electrician
What?
[159:20]
Donut Operator
Nothing. Oh, let me try. Long form, 2 million views.
[159:25]
Nick the Fat Electrician
What do you want me.
[159:26]
Donut Operator
That struggle is hard.
[159:28]
Brandon Herrera
I want you to keep succeeding because we're proud of our boy.
[159:30]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Oh, good.
[159:30]
Donut Operator
Yes, we are. Good. And now we're just gonna use your face to get views for our own.
[159:36]
Brandon Herrera
So this Darwin Award.
[159:39]
Nick the Fat Electrician
I know.
[159:39]
Donut Operator
This is gonna be Nick with Nick and Nick in the background shooting himself.
[159:43]
Brandon Herrera
All right, so this pissed me off. I was. I was making a joke about how, like, oh, I need to, like, just as a joke, have Nick on a thumbnail because, like, we're joking that your face does well on thumbnails. I'm just gonna do Nick on a thumbnail in a video he's not in, just to, like, have mathematical evidence. Like, just let's. Let's see what happens. And I made this joke, like, two days after I released my Stoner 63 video, which you are in. I literally could have done it there and actually not been clickbait. Like, God damn it.
[160:18]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Should have done it.
[160:20]
Brandon Herrera
I might go back and change it.
[160:21]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Do it.
[160:22]
Brandon Herrera
You're in that video for, like, three minutes. I'm like, that's fine.
[160:26]
Donut Operator
It's not clickbait.
[160:27]
Brandon Herrera
No, I know. That's what I'm saying. It was perfect. I just completely. Yeah, it slipped my mind.
[160:31]
Nick the Fat Electrician
He was there.
[160:34]
Donut Operator
Use the fuck out of his face on this Darwin stuff.
[160:38]
Brandon Herrera
That sounds horrible.
[160:42]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Curious how this is gonna go get, like, some World War II ones for me.
[160:47]
Brandon Herrera
It's World War II Darwin Awards. Yeah, it's called Pearl Harbor.
[160:50]
Donut Operator
Wait, what? What? Actually, do you have them pre selected yet?
[160:53]
Brandon Herrera
Oh, yeah, yeah. I've got the whole thing curated which.
[160:55]
Donut Operator
Are the good ones? Or do we talk about it? Because he has to react to it.
[160:59]
Brandon Herrera
Let me see. Yeah, well, he's got to react to him.
[161:01]
Nick the Fat Electrician
I gotta talk about it real quick.
[161:02]
Donut Operator
Okay.
[161:03]
Cody
Oh, God.
[161:04]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Let me see.
[161:04]
Brandon Herrera
What?
[161:04]
Donut Operator
It's like the joke from earlier.
[161:06]
Cody
Oh.
[161:09]
Brandon Herrera
The cop one where the dude tases his own hand.
[161:11]
Cody
Oh, that's gonna be beautiful.
[161:14]
Brandon Herrera
I think the prongs are in too.
[161:16]
Donut Operator
Yeah. He does what?
[161:17]
Brandon Herrera
The cop tases his own fucking hand.
[161:19]
Donut Operator
How the.
[161:20]
Brandon Herrera
They got a suspect on.
[161:28]
Donut Operator
What the fuck do you do that?
[161:30]
Brandon Herrera
But on a real note, there's. There's some stuff that I cannot put in the. The episode because of YouTube guidelines. What's funny is I've shown, like, obviously, like, you have to blur it and shit in moment of impact or moment of death, whatever, where people are getting shot or, like, getting a limb blown off or something. You have to blur that obviously for, you know, censorship reasons. But anything revolving around a firework. YouTube is super strict on that. I can't show any fireworks accidents at all without it getting age restricted. They're way more strict about that. Like, I had a Darwin Awards that ended with somebody, I think, dying. And that wasn't what got it. It was the firework. So, like, all of. We have to put that in the pepperbox cut. Because we do it uncensored on Pepperbox, which, you know, viewer discretion advised. It's kind of gnarly sometimes.
[162:15]
Donut Operator
Shout out to Pepperbox.
[162:16]
Brandon Herrera
Beyond Pepperbox. We have to save all. Cause, like, there's stuff that I think is great for the episode that involves fireworks that we can't use.
[162:23]
Donut Operator
No shit. I'm still. Sorry. My mind is still stuck on human conditioning to, for whatever reason, do this. How many videos have done that? Laser. I know you've seen the laser. Is my laser working? Pull trigger.
[162:36]
Brandon Herrera
So I, yeah, the dude in the.
[162:37]
Cody
Indoor shooting range.
[162:41]
Brandon Herrera
I did that.
[162:42]
Donut Operator
Wait, what?
[162:43]
Brandon Herrera
I got called out for it on YouTube and I'm like, I'm. I'm doing that in this episode of Darwin Awards as well. I, I, not the laser and poultry, obviously. Like, obviously trigger discipline, full trigger discipline, everything. But. So, yeah, I just got a fucking hole in my hand. I did it with a deagle on. On the, the cybertruck episode. And I, I am like, full on. You know what? You work with fire firearms enough, you can get complacent. That's not a good thing. And that's not an excuse. I'll give myself shit when it happens because that don't do it. But yeah, I flat out, I Flagged myself with a loaded deagle like for a split second. Showing the flashlight after. Oh no, after I loaded it. And people are like, that better have been edited around and blah blah, blah, like and not loaded. And I'm like, you know what? I'll take my licks. It was, you know, trigger discipline. Everything like it was, but it wasn't safe.
[163:34]
Donut Operator
And that, dude, complacency is wild because.
[163:36]
Brandon Herrera
It is happens to all of us, dude.
[163:39]
Donut Operator
Yeah, complacency kills. That is overseas. It's what we walked around all night patrols with cigarettes in our mouth. You know why? Because we just stopped giving a. Like we're like man snipers. I'm not gonna feel it. I'm good.
[163:53]
Nick the Fat Electrician
You just. You get one of those big cruellas of vil.
[164:02]
Brandon Herrera
Galaxy.
[164:09]
Donut Operator
So good.
[164:11]
Nick the Fat Electrician
That's what I would do.
[164:14]
Donut Operator
Damn it.
[164:17]
Brandon Herrera
Yeah. But flat out like full on flagged my hand.
[164:22]
Donut Operator
Would you do. How did you. What was your reaction in the video?
[164:25]
Brandon Herrera
Well, because I, I at first, because a lot of people call out dumb that like is actually not unsafe. And like they think, oh, I'm gonna be the safety, you know, dude, trigger I hate.
[164:35]
Donut Operator
I do. I just real quick, you cannot do. And we are conditioned now not to even doing like cool guy action poses with our firearms. We'll never put our finger in the trigger. Well, just because I have trigger safety.
[164:50]
Brandon Herrera
On a dewalt drill.
[164:52]
Donut Operator
Yeah.
[164:52]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Yes.
[164:54]
Brandon Herrera
Yes.
[164:55]
Donut Operator
And now it's like Internet because you'll just get shit on if you actually. It's like, oh, I'm doing a post fucking take your finger off the. The trigger.
[165:05]
Brandon Herrera
I want that Mikhail Kalashnikov trigger confidence.
[165:08]
Donut Operator
Yep.
[165:09]
Brandon Herrera
But. But no, I like, I'm naturally like. I see people like make comments and I'm just like, you're being a like whatever. And then I actually looked at the time stamp just out of curiosity. I was like, oh, no. Oh, fuck. Oh. Yep. Nope.
[165:23]
Donut Operator
Oh, how is that?
[165:25]
Brandon Herrera
I felt about that tall because I'm like, I'm the Internet gun safety guy. And like, I take that very seriously because this is my fucking profession. And you know, and that's what I'm saying. Like, nobody's above it. Nobody's perfect. All you can do is learn from.
[165:37]
Nick the Fat Electrician
It and realize like, that's why he beat Delance.
[165:41]
Donut Operator
That's why the Lance text me about her job makes so much more you fired.
[165:49]
Brandon Herrera
But no, no, it like, I mean.
[165:51]
Nick the Fat Electrician
It'S.
[165:53]
Donut Operator
Brandon's like, wait, it is his fault.
[165:56]
Brandon Herrera
Oh, I text him about it immediately after. I was like, we we up. But yeah, no, it really is a learning experience too because you're like, oh. Like I thought that like I had beat it beat in those instincts by now. And like that's clearly like again, complacency. Complacency kills. Like you can. You can't sleep on that shit, dude.
[166:20]
Donut Operator
I've had, man. This was 2000. This is right before I moved to LA. I remember I grabbed PPX. PPQ. PPQ at that time. Oh yeah, Walter PPQ. And I was like, oh my God. And I always unload my gun. Like always. Every time. But Ryden's mom said something and she was like, well. And I was like, oh no, it's unloaded, but still. Muscle reflex. I dropped mag. I was like, see? And I racked it. Round fell. I was like, holy. And that. Still terrified. I don't know why I never pointed did anything like that. But still in my head I was like, I clear my gun every time. There's no way around is going to be in this click. Round still fell. I was like, ha. That's why I don't pull a trigger until I double check. Triple checked. Yep. Yeah, I will hand it. I mean we do it all the time.
[167:16]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Yeah.
[167:16]
Brandon Herrera
Like if we're on set, dude, clear.
[167:19]
Donut Operator
Handoff.
[167:20]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Clear.
[167:20]
Brandon Herrera
Yep.
[167:21]
Donut Operator
Go down a line of everyone checking the barrel to make sure it's clear.
[167:25]
Brandon Herrera
Especially when you're talking about like let's say like a tiny. I don't think we had any real guns on. Tiny guns. But like that, that's sort of situation where we're like, all right, we're going to be muzzle sweeping people and stuff. You know. Obviously trigger discipline is going to be important and like you never actually aim at a person. Stuff like that. But like we want to be sure everybody on set feels comfortable. Like there is no ammunition on set. Everybody checks that chamber. Everybody feels comfortable. Nobody gets Alec Baldwin.
[167:48]
Donut Operator
Yep. Which is wild. That's. That's one of those things where it's like, how the fuck did that happen? How did that get to that actor's hand? And then the actor not go like, what was.
[167:59]
Nick the Fat Electrician
I finally heard the actual like explanation of that story. How like the armor on set went and like ran out of blanks or something. So he just went to the gun store and bought actual ammunition and pulled the bullets. Whoever the, the armor.
[168:16]
Brandon Herrera
It was the, it was the.
[168:18]
Nick the Fat Electrician
From the director or whatever.
[168:20]
Brandon Herrera
Yeah, it was a female who is like the daughter of like a Hollywood gunplay legend.
[168:26]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Okay.
[168:27]
Brandon Herrera
Like he was like a really well known dude and was like trying to pass down the Trade to his daughter. And that went swimmingly.
[168:33]
Nick the Fat Electrician
She, like, just went and like bought normal ammunition and just pulled the bullet. And then. Yeah, I don't know. Something went wrong. I thought they didn't pull all of them, I guess.
[168:44]
Donut Operator
Didn't they go shooting the night before? And they just.
[168:47]
Brandon Herrera
There were people that were like quitting from that movie set because they were there. And this is before anything happened. They were quitting because they're like, I've never seen such unsafe conditions. There are people on set that are going plinking cans and shit with live ammunition with the prop guns, which is.
[169:04]
Donut Operator
Wild because a lot of the times, guess what you don't do prop guns. Don't fire, period.
[169:12]
Brandon Herrera
Well, especially well. I mean, prop guns just means like property of the studio. So like, some can, but like the. The idea that you're gonna go out there and especially on a set where.
[169:21]
Nick the Fat Electrician
You have dummy rounds, intermingle ammo and everything else, period blank.
[169:28]
Donut Operator
Blank guns have a. Their barrel is completely different. Like, so you get the muzzle flash, you get all that. But they can only fire blanks to use those which could fire real bullets and then just be like, oh, we went planking the night before and then no one took the ammo out.
[169:46]
Brandon Herrera
And depending on the caliber, like certain ones have like pins in the barrel where like a live. Like live ammunition won't chamber. Yeah, like you. It can literally only accept blanks. Like, it will not physically fire a round if you don't have a blank in it. Like, that's the safe way to do it.
[170:05]
Donut Operator
That's still wild.
[170:07]
Cody
I mean, we're still safe when we're shooting dildos at the fourth of July, you know? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I made sure to take the blanks out and confirm with Brandon. Blanks, blanks. Blanks.
[170:18]
Brandon Herrera
Okay. Yeah. Dildo, dildo, dildo, dildo, dildo. Yeah.
[170:22]
Cody
Penis. Okay.
[170:25]
Brandon Herrera
Just guys being guys.
[170:26]
Donut Operator
This guy's being dudes. And then lit what they buy all ton of fireworks. And there is no buildup to it. It's just, let's do the grand finale.
[170:42]
Brandon Herrera
Good.
[170:43]
Donut Operator
They lit all the fireworks at the same time. And the neighborhood just got done. It's good enough. Just lit up the entire neighborhood with an awesome show. Neighbors started coming out to like, what.
[170:55]
Nick the Fat Electrician
The fuck good supposed to be done.
[170:58]
Cody
And then everyone clapped.
[171:00]
Brandon Herrera
You're one to talk. Two minute commando. We went over this in the beginning.
[171:04]
Donut Operator
I enjoy Jordan. It was a blast. Cody's new house. Beautiful.
[171:08]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Ideal solution. I'm on your side with this. Light them all at once and get this over with.
[171:13]
Brandon Herrera
Hell yeah.
[171:14]
Cody
Throw them in a bonfire blast.
[171:17]
Donut Operator
We have range day. You guys solidified that. Are you allowed to talk about.
[171:22]
Brandon Herrera
We can talk about it a little bit.
[171:23]
Cody
Yeah. Not the date. Yeah, yeah.
[171:27]
Donut Operator
BL member the 14th?
[171:28]
Cody
Yeah. Right? Yeah. We're gonna do range day at Staccato Ranch. What do they call it?
[171:35]
Brandon Herrera
Staccato Vegas.
[171:36]
Cody
Staccato Vegas. But it's got a name.
[171:38]
Brandon Herrera
Used to be. It used to be Prairie Fire.
[171:40]
Cody
Yeah.
[171:41]
Brandon Herrera
So Staccato bought it out and now they're. They're trying to get some attention on it, whatnot. So, you know, big shout outs to them. We appreciate it because they said basically, if you guys want to do this out here, you can do whatever you want. You want to shoot machine guns out of helicopters, you want to blow up cars, you can do whatever the fuck you want out here.
[171:56]
Cody
So we're gonna have our little creator range day out there this year and then shout out to Circa for blocking off a bunch of rooms and like giving us discounts on them. Yeah, they're cool as.
[172:05]
Brandon Herrera
It's gonna be fun to have like an official like partner like that, of that scale who like looks at the gun industry and what we're trying to do out there and just goes, yeah, it. We'll help you. That's cool. That's really nice.
[172:16]
Donut Operator
These dudes are gonna get drunk and spend so much money on gambling.
[172:19]
Brandon Herrera
We will. Yeah.
[172:20]
Donut Operator
Oh, I know. Our crew shot show every year.
[172:25]
Brandon Herrera
That trip I learned. I like blackjack.
[172:28]
Cody
Yeah, that was fun. We had a meat canyon out there with us. Accidentally Tony just out there again.
[172:35]
Brandon Herrera
Yeah. We text him, we said, come to Vegas, Coward. And he said, I'm at the circa. Where are you? I'm like, are you fucking with me? He was working on some of his projects out there, but yeah, he just ran up like Meat Candy was just out in Vegas at the same hotel.
[172:51]
Donut Operator
He's there a lot. Does me have a problem?
[172:55]
Cody
No, he was out there. Yeah. Like I said, he was working on his projects. He was out there writing scripts and stuff. No, some of the stuff that he's doing.
[173:00]
Brandon Herrera
He knows he doesn't have a problem. He's got an answer. That motherfucker's good at gambling.
[173:04]
Cody
Oh, yeah, he's incredibly good at gambling.
[173:06]
Donut Operator
He plays baccarat, right?
[173:08]
Brandon Herrera
Yeah, all sorts of stuff. He showed us how to be good at Texas hold'. Em or how to play it properly.
[173:14]
Donut Operator
Rather meet canyon for Homeboy cleans up every time you were there.
[173:19]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Yeah. Seeing him gamble, it's impressive.
[173:21]
Brandon Herrera
He was like correcting the dealer.
[173:23]
Nick the Fat Electrician
They fall.
[173:24]
Donut Operator
Like the dealers will follow him or the security because they're like.
[173:30]
Cody
Yeah. Every time he sits down at a table, pit boss comes over and just stares at everything he's doing. He's good at gambling.
[173:37]
Donut Operator
Homeboy. The fucking shark. Formula one. You watched it? Neither have.
[173:43]
Brandon Herrera
No, not yet.
[173:44]
Cody
Who's in the.
[173:46]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Yeah, good movie.
[173:48]
Donut Operator
Brad Pitt and all the Formula one drivers.
[173:50]
Brandon Herrera
Brad Pitt and what's the other guy heavier or what's his fucking.
[173:54]
Donut Operator
Okay, yeah, it is a very expensive movie. They made their money back already, but they spent 2 to 300 million. They filmed during Formula One races. Formula One's the one sport. They're like, we don't need the marketing, but we'll let you shoot on and we're gonna charge you for it. Cost 200 to 300 million, but probably one of the best movies of the year.
[174:20]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Yeah, it was good.
[174:21]
Donut Operator
Like it's fucking good. If you look at Rotten Tomato or anything. Is 95%.
[174:25]
Brandon Herrera
I saw critical Drinker was. Was all over it. That's. Which. That's usually a good litmus test, dude.
[174:31]
Donut Operator
It's just good.
[174:31]
Nick the Fat Electrician
It's.
[174:32]
Donut Operator
It's just good. It's fun.
[174:34]
Brandon Herrera
It is.
[174:36]
Donut Operator
I have no way to explain that other than that it's just a good ass movie. You got to watch a How to Train a Dragon.
[174:43]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Mm, also good. They literally just recreated how to Train youn Dragon but with real people. And it did great. It was weird.
[174:53]
Donut Operator
Crazy.
[174:53]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Took a successful movie and then didn't change it.
[174:56]
Brandon Herrera
Like Shot for Wild.
[174:58]
Cody
Who plays the main character?
[174:59]
Nick the Fat Electrician
I don't know his name.
[175:01]
Donut Operator
They have Joe Rob Butler who did the original.
[175:03]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Gerard Butler is incredible as the dad Viking. It's so good.
[175:08]
Donut Operator
Same voice actor. And then he was like, oh, yeah, I'll do it again. But they did shot for shot of the original and like, let's just make it real. Actors Fucking Slade.
[175:18]
Nick the Fat Electrician
That's good.
[175:19]
Donut Operator
Fucking slate that one. I'm excited to see. I'm like, okay, let's do this. Let's fucking do this. What have you guys been doing outside that Expedition 33?
[175:28]
Brandon Herrera
We've never talked about that on the podcast, but we got into that fucking game.
[175:31]
Donut Operator
Cody didn't.
[175:33]
Cody
No. I got mad at the first hard guy to fight and quit. Put an hour into it.
[175:39]
Donut Operator
Well, you were like, oh, no. I was figuring I'd go back. I know you can't beat him. Then I was like, what? Yeah, you can.
[175:45]
Brandon Herrera
Because like, oh, did the widdle baby wage quit? Yes.
[175:51]
Donut Operator
He's like, you can kill him with A guy, you just have to never get hit by that boss.
[175:56]
Brandon Herrera
Meanwhile, my experience was, oh, that guy looks strong as fuck. Just never fought him. I went back later and fought him.
[176:03]
Donut Operator
Yep. And then you fucking shit on him. Guys out. If you have not played, Expedition 33 is probably game of the year easy and one of the funnest games.
[176:14]
Brandon Herrera
I don't like turn based combat. And like, you got me into it. The story is so good, it makes up for the fact that I don't like the play style. It's really good.
[176:22]
Donut Operator
And then it gets so deep in the mechanics where you just like, what the is this? I don't understand. You will not know what you're doing for the first 30 hours of the game.
[176:29]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Which, like, life, dude.
[176:32]
Donut Operator
Yes. Brandon was texting me. He's like, wait, I just found out about this system. And my response is like, how the are you this far not understanding that you can do that? He's like, I have no idea.
[176:42]
Brandon Herrera
Oh, yeah, did it.
[176:42]
Donut Operator
He's like, man, this game's way easier now. Like infinitely more easy.
[176:47]
Brandon Herrera
It's like being like a year into driving a car and you're like, did you know you have multiple gears.
[176:54]
Donut Operator
Pegging for gear? Like fucking hard as shit. But this story does not hold your hand. And it is.
[177:05]
Brandon Herrera
It'll make you feel not good, but it'll make you feel.
[177:09]
Donut Operator
No. You beat that game and you're just sad.
[177:11]
Brandon Herrera
Yeah.
[177:13]
Donut Operator
Like the entire time.
[177:14]
Cody
Great. There's a way to play it.
[177:16]
Donut Operator
Cody can't.
[177:16]
Brandon Herrera
There's a better ending. It's not a good ending, but it's a better one.
[177:22]
Donut Operator
He text me.
[177:23]
Nick the Fat Electrician
He's like, you guys are not selling me on this.
[177:25]
Brandon Herrera
Dude, it's really good. It's like, It's. I would 10 of 10.
[177:29]
Nick the Fat Electrician
You guys sound like a BMW car salesman.
[177:35]
Donut Operator
Nick, what's the next big history thing you're doing? You just did the video on Saipan.
[177:41]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Yeah, I did that. I'm not sure yet. I got a bunch of ones loaded up that I'm thinking about doing. I haven't finished reading all the books yet to decide which one I'm most excited about. I got Evans Carlson. He's on my list. So there's two Marine Raider battalions in World War II. The first one's like, famous for being Edson's Raiders. And Edson is. He's great leader. Nothing bad about the guy, but he's very. He's very, like, conventional. And Evans Carlson on the flip side was very unorthodox. So Evans Carlson actually went over to China, Pre World War II, and was fighting with communist guerrillas against the Japanese.
[178:24]
Brandon Herrera
Yeah.
[178:24]
Nick the Fat Electrician
And he's like, we gotta learn how to fight. Like these guys, he's like, they eat like half a cup of rice and just go fucking shit on people with guerrilla warfare tactics. So he learned all about guerrilla warfare and then he. Pre World War this is. Yeah, Pre World War II, we had guys going over into China and helping. So like the Flying Tigers we sent over there to help China fight Japan prior to America being involved.
[178:47]
Brandon Herrera
There's a shitload of American volunteers in Ukraine before World War III breaks out.
[178:52]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Exactly. Same concept. So he was over there fighting with the Chinese gorillas. And then he comes back and like, through this weird turn of events, he ends up being homies with FDR's son. So he like has a direct line to the President and he ends up like pitching the idea of like, I learned all these guerrilla warfare tactics. Like, we need to be able to do this. Let me build a unit out of this. And like, that's kind of like the origin story of the Marine Raiders. So he's in charge of the 2nd Marine Raiders and they go out and he just builds this monster force. And he's actually the first dude that developed modern fire teams. So like the, the fire team concept that we use now where you have. Yeah, the. Yeah, well, the Marines do three. So you've got three fire teams and then each one's got the heavy machine guys. So like instead of sending out like a bunch of dudes with M1 grands, he had three fire teams with a Browning. Yeah, it was two machine guns and two riflemen. And they just had way more firepower than still the tactic that. I'm probably butchering this because I have no.
[179:55]
Donut Operator
I mean, so you're still. Right. So now you have a platoon element, which is a machine gun team or squad, and then three rifle squads, but each squad will then have 1, 2, 249 machine gun team is the 240s. So. Still keeping that concept.
[180:12]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Yeah, so I mean, it's literally the concept that we still use today. And like, he pioneered that entire thing. And he just goes over in World War II to and up the entire time.
[180:21]
Donut Operator
Did he look, wait, did he start adopting that because of the Chinese? Japanese.
[180:26]
Nick the Fat Electrician
That was like part of it. They. He just wanted more firepower because they were a small unit doing small unit guerrilla tactics. And he's like, I don't have these big formations for a lion. I just need smaller units with more firepower. And they were just shit wrecking everybody over in the Pacific.
[180:40]
Donut Operator
So wild.
[180:42]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Yep, that's one that's on the list. And then I got Robert Smalls first. I believe he was the first black naval captain, Literally a slave in Charleston, South Carolina. And that's like, one of the major ports for the Confederacy, I think. Charleston, right? Oh, yeah, yeah. So Charleston, South Carolina, is like one of the most main, most important ports for the Confederacy. And he was. He was a ship pilot, basically. His. The dude, he was a slave, the guy that owned him basically, like, rented him out to pilot boats. And he was piloting a newer ish boat called the Planter. And at some point, you know, he'd been, like, saving money and, like, doing everything he could. He was gonna buy his and his wife and his kids freedom. And then eventually he gets to the point, like, the Civil War is progressing, and he's like, fuck it. Just get Tim and his buddies and they're like, we're gonna fucking steal the boat and drive it in, drive it into the Union blockade and turn the ship over. And they end up stealing this boat. And they. They fucking make it. They pretend to be white officers. He dresses up in the white officer's uniform and does, like, all the signal. He knows how to do everything because he's the one that was actually piloting the ship.
[181:50]
Donut Operator
Did he do, like, white face?
[181:51]
Nick the Fat Electrician
No, it was. It was dark.
[181:55]
Cody
Hey, gee golly, this is great. Look at this moat.
[181:59]
Nick the Fat Electrician
So he ends up. He turns this ship over to the Union, and then, like, series of events happens. He ends up being. Ends up being a commissioned officer in the US Navy and then takes the Planter back out, and he ends up being in, like, 17 naval engagements, all kinds of cool shit. And the funny thing is, he does the most gangster thing on the planet. So Civil war ends. He's like. He's got some money now. He's not super rich, but, like, he's got a decent amount of money. He got. He got, like, a big reward for turning over the Planter. And then he was making money as an officer.
[182:26]
Donut Operator
He's hooded.
[182:29]
Nick the Fat Electrician
So he goes back to Charleston, where he's from, buys his owner's house and gets to live there after the fact.
[182:38]
Brandon Herrera
Jesus. Okay, so this is like, in Charleston proper, I believe. So can you still visit this house?
[182:44]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Yes, that's. It's like. Yeah, it's like a historical landmark now.
[182:48]
Brandon Herrera
We.
[182:48]
Nick the Fat Electrician
And we've got it.
[182:49]
Brandon Herrera
We've got to do that.
[182:49]
Nick the Fat Electrician
He goes on. I pretty sure he goes on to be a senator.
[182:52]
Brandon Herrera
No shit?
[182:52]
Donut Operator
Yeah.
[182:52]
Nick the Fat Electrician
So, like, it's Like a historical landmark. Like, literally, runaway slaves, steals a Confederate ship, turns it over. The Union becomes a captain because he was super valuable because he knew everything about Charleston Harbor. Like, he knew where all the shit was. So he, like, helped him with intelligence. Super successful military career, becomes a senator, buys the house that his previous owner owned. Like, it's just, like, the ultimate comeback story.
[183:16]
Brandon Herrera
What time?
[183:17]
Donut Operator
1860, 70, 70s probably then, right?
[183:23]
Brandon Herrera
Static. Pure curiosity.
[183:25]
Donut Operator
That's wild and awesome at the same time. That is it. I like it. That character development of. Hey, you just keep kicking ass and taking names. Never quit.
[183:39]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Sorry. He was a representative, even. Still, like, served five terms in the US House representing South Carolina during Reconstruction from 1875 to 1879, and then again in 1882 to 1883, and then 84 to 87.
[183:57]
Donut Operator
But it goes hard as fuck. What do you do with a family? Did he just, like, get them out? How do you.
[184:01]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Yeah, they saw the. All of his buddies that, like, cooked up this idea. It was literally like, the. The dudes knew what was going on, and they didn't even tell their wives or kids. They're like, hey, tonight at midnight, meet us here. And, like, got all their kids on board. So, like, that's like the oh, shit moment of, like, they catch them. They're gonna kill them. You know what I mean? So it's like you're a dad with kids. That's like the ultimate fucking gamble of, like, all right, we're fucking running for it. That's fucking crazy.
[184:27]
Donut Operator
That's stress level. Yeah. Because I always say, like, doing war, but doing war and then you're protecting your family or any of that.
[184:33]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Right.
[184:33]
Donut Operator
Aspect of it that is fucking terrifying. You're like, oh, fuck. Okay, Here and now. You're how many. I mean, big families at that time, all escaping. You're like, hey, get in the boat. I have to play cool. Hey, we're just. I guarantee you didn't say what was going on.
[184:48]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Oh, no.
[184:50]
Donut Operator
You're just like, hey, we're going for a boat ride. Hey, just go in there, stay quiet.
[184:54]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Let's go.
[184:56]
Donut Operator
Then you get up top deck, and you're like, okay, what the do we do now? Okay, here's the white paint. I still. They did that A hundred percent in my lore.
[185:06]
Brandon Herrera
They painted their faces white, Nick. Do you know for a fact they didn't?
[185:11]
Nick the Fat Electrician
All right, they didn't. I guess.
[185:16]
Donut Operator
I mean, I would. If I'm fucking going that way, I'm like, fuck it. I don't know. They're going towards the. Did they actually signal is like, hey, this. Or I would rather just be like a black dude. And they're like, yo, okay. They're definitely coming this way and it's okay.
[185:31]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Howdy, neighbor.
[185:32]
Brandon Herrera
How's your HOA doing?
[185:33]
Nick the Fat Electrician
They like, raised a white flag as they approached the Union blockade and everything.
[185:37]
Donut Operator
Yeah.
[185:37]
Nick the Fat Electrician
But like, they had to slip past because, like, Charleston harbor was guarded by like, like shore guns and everything. Oh, yeah. So, like, they had to slip past the shore guns and there was like. There's a whole protocol about how, like, you're supposed to like, sound the horn and like, do this signal and this wave and all this.
[185:52]
Brandon Herrera
But they knew all that.
[185:53]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Yeah, he knew all that. So he was able to slip through.
[185:56]
Brandon Herrera
That's crazy.
[185:58]
Donut Operator
That's gangster. When's that?
[186:00]
Brandon Herrera
There's a lot of really cool stories.
[186:01]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Get around to it. Yeah, there's. Dude, there's so many cool stories.
[186:04]
Brandon Herrera
Civil War was like. It was. It was really. There's the shit you learn in school and then there's like the spy versus spy that nobody talks about.
[186:13]
Donut Operator
Yeah.
[186:13]
Brandon Herrera
That's just. It's super neat. I mean, shit, even still, Charleston harbor, like the fucking. The Hunley, the. The. The. The CSS only. Do you know the story?
[186:23]
Nick the Fat Electrician
No.
[186:24]
Brandon Herrera
It was the first ever, I think in the. On the planet. It was the first ever successful sinking of an enemy vessel from a submarine.
[186:33]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Oh, okay.
[186:34]
Brandon Herrera
Yeah.
[186:35]
Cody
Is that like the little three person submarines they had?
[186:37]
Brandon Herrera
I was. I think the finished model was seven, but yeah, it was a seven person. Where they're all just like hunched over and whatnot, running the hand crank to work the propeller and all that.
[186:47]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Pedal the bike faster.
[186:48]
Brandon Herrera
Yeah, straight up. It's gnarly. But they actually. They ended up recovering that and now it's in. In Charleston Cine Museum. I'd love to do that while we're.
[186:56]
Nick the Fat Electrician
That's full of shit.
[186:58]
Brandon Herrera
It's fucking. It's really cool. It's really cool. And they confirmed all sorts of like real stories from it too, when they found the. Because they didn't survive it. They don't really know what happened, but they were lost to see after they sank. I don't remember the name of the ship, but it was one of the blockading vessels. They successfully attacked it. They signaled they were coming back to harbor, and then the ship was lost. So the submarine was. Was lost and they found it like, I don't know, like 2004.
[187:23]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Some shit like that Civil War shit's crazy because, like, we were at. We were at that furniture. Furniture museum. Me And Ethan doing that habitually fat pepper box exclusive. And, like, the furniture museum guy's like, yeah, so this rocking chair, it had like a. It was like a wooden rocking chair, but, like the ass in the back where you actually sit and rest, had that, like, woven wicker shit, you know, I'm talking about. And he's like, yeah, so that's a Lincoln stitch. And he goes on to explain, like, it was very controversial to have in Texas because, Link, it was like, Lincoln's favorite type of chair. So if you, like, had that type of chair, you were showing support toward. Towards Lincoln in the South.
[188:02]
Brandon Herrera
So, like, people, you wanted your ass to be comfy.
[188:05]
Nick the Fat Electrician
It was like a political statement to have a chair with, like, this wicker design or whatever.
[188:10]
Brandon Herrera
And it was like the 1863 version of the Bud Light Country.
[188:14]
Nick the Fat Electrician
It was the maga hat of its day. Like, essentially, like, it was like the highly controversial item is crazy. And he's like, yeah, so the owner of that chair, actually his two sons, because this was Texas, they were getting conscripted into the Confederate military, and they didn't support it, so they ran off. And as they were trying to, like, escape to a Northern state, they got killed by Confederate soldiers. It was like, all from, like, this one chair. I was like, holy shit, I went.
[188:38]
Donut Operator
Pee at the wrong moment.
[188:39]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Which is like, I would give anything to just go back in time and just see what Twitter would have been like during the Civil War or world World War II. Just.
[188:48]
Brandon Herrera
Again, that's one of my favorite bits that Jack Mandeville has. Or he just reads his. His. I think it's his great, great grandfather's letters.
[188:57]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Yeah.
[188:57]
Brandon Herrera
Like, his war correspondence to home versus his tweets in 2020. You. You heard this?
[189:03]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Yes.
[189:03]
Brandon Herrera
Okay.
[189:04]
Nick the Fat Electrician
He did it on the podcast one time.
[189:05]
Donut Operator
Which was it? Jackson, which one actually created a newspaper to talk to his opponents? One of the OGs created an entire newspaper organization.
[189:17]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Cassius claimed it, but I don't think that's who you're talking about.
[189:19]
Donut Operator
No, no. This is like one of the OGs. Like Jackson or Andrew Jackson or like, yeah, oh, yeah. Like one of the original, like, three presidents was like, yeah, I'm going to do this to talk shit on the other individuals because fuck them. That's why Jack always post like, oh, if you don't think they would be talking shit on Twitter, fuck off. These guys guys created newspapers in order.
[189:40]
Nick the Fat Electrician
To talk unpopular opinion. I want to go back to when politicians fought each other in Parliament.
[189:46]
Brandon Herrera
So I wanted to bring this up because creep cast brought it up, I think on like the two episodes ago, or at least the time recording, they brought up the caning of Charles Sumner, which is one of my favorite topics to talk about.
[189:58]
Donut Operator
I don't know, let's go the, the.
[190:00]
Brandon Herrera
Canning of Charles Sumner. Basically it was, it was in the heat of like the pre Civil War war discourse between the north, south, pro slave, anti slave like kind of debacle. And there's, I can't remember his name, the, the guy who actually did the caning, but he basically there was this guy Charles Sumner who was talking mad and basically he like it was, it was the typical, like he was talking about this guy, this guy was talking about him, blah, blah. I think his Stevens or something like that. But either way, Charles Sumner, and this is on the floor of Congress, Charles Sumner ends up talking shit and like disparaging the guy's brother and making fun of his speech impediment. It's like he's making fun of his brother's disability. And that was where the honor code took over and went over the line. And this dude goes to the floor of Congress after the session, is done with a cane, beats the fucking shit out of him to the degree he is bloody and hiding under his desk, and beats him so hard that he snaps his cane in half and then starts beating him with the top end of the cane. Meanwhile his fucking homie, his ride or die, another congressman is there with a fucking pistol on the floor of Congress saying, let it happen, boys will be boys. Like that sort of shit. Let this fucking happen. And so it happens. And like this does not help the pre Civil war tensions by any means. But yeah, the guy gets beaten within a fucking inch of his life. And still to this day in Charleston, I believe they have that cane on display.
[191:39]
Donut Operator
Holy shit.
[191:40]
Brandon Herrera
Like nobody talks about this, but politics used to be fun.
[191:43]
Donut Operator
Yeah.
[191:44]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Yeah. Whoever says violence isn't the answers never opened any history book ever.
[191:49]
Brandon Herrera
It's almost always the answer.
[191:50]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Pretty much solves lots of problems.
[191:56]
Donut Operator
Sam. Shit.
[191:57]
Brandon Herrera
Yeah. If you, if you open a history book, it's not the answer, it's the question. The answer is yes.
[192:03]
Donut Operator
Just imagine that day at the office. Like, man, you got home, you're like, dude, I watched a man get caned almost to death. What? Why didn't anyone stop it? Hear me out.
[192:14]
Brandon Herrera
If that was happening today, you could sell out. You could sell subscriptions to C Span.
[192:19]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Yeah.
[192:20]
Donut Operator
Oh, dude, that livestream would go hard as shit. I watched those live streams.
[192:24]
Brandon Herrera
Dana White buys C Span.
[192:27]
Donut Operator
I would do subscriptions, not get Ads.
[192:29]
Nick the Fat Electrician
The political. The political climate would get way different. God, there's a lot of UFC fighters and former boxers getting elected to Congress right now.
[192:42]
Donut Operator
I wanted to ask about the spy museum. You guys did that. We didn't get to check it out. How was that?
[192:47]
Nick the Fat Electrician
It's cool. They had a bunch of cool shit in there.
[192:49]
Donut Operator
What was like. Oh, I'm sorry.
[192:51]
Brandon Herrera
I just looked up the Wikipedia because I'm looking for the guy's name, but I look up the Wikipedia for Charles Sumner. The number one topic under it is caning. It's like early life, blah, blah, blah. Caning your ass whooped. Yeah, it was. Sorry. Representative Preston Brooks. Yeah. But anyway.
[193:10]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Oh, that's so much worse.
[193:11]
Brandon Herrera
Spy museum.
[193:12]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Getting your ass beat sucks. Getting your ass beat by a guy named Preston is.
[193:15]
Brandon Herrera
It's embarrassing.
[193:16]
Donut Operator
Creating a phrase.
[193:17]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Cany.
[193:19]
Donut Operator
Most embarrassing.
[193:22]
Brandon Herrera
They had to build a word based on what happened to you.
[193:25]
Donut Operator
That's fucking embarrassing. Your face pops up with it.
[193:30]
Brandon Herrera
Even if, like. Even if your constituents believe in everything that you stood for. Damn. He said he was gonna fight for us. He can't fight.
[193:44]
Donut Operator
Did that guy get his ass? But he's like, why didn't you do anything? They had my back.
[193:48]
Nick the Fat Electrician
I haven't even considered the fact he got his ass. What, By a guy that had a cane.
[193:53]
Donut Operator
Oh, my God.
[193:54]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Presumably he needed it. I mean, I. I don't think it would be a pimp cane.
[193:58]
Cody
Like, he's balancing.
[194:00]
Brandon Herrera
Okay, you say that I went to the Mob museum when we were in Vegas, and they. In the bottom, they've got this, like, prohibition era, like, speakeasy. And of course I go to the museum because I'm a fucking history buff. Whatever. But I.
[194:11]
Nick the Fat Electrician
You heard they had booze there. Don't lie to me.
[194:14]
Brandon Herrera
There's booze everywhere in Vegas.
[194:15]
Donut Operator
The taco buff alcoholic.
[194:17]
Brandon Herrera
The Taco Bell has booze. This is no excuse. Anyway, they have. It's a real thing.
[194:22]
Donut Operator
This is a museum.
[194:27]
Brandon Herrera
But on the wall, they have, like, a prohibition era cane that the pop. The top pops off and it's a. I don't know what you call that. Like, a beaker. Essentially, it's a beaker that's filled with booze and a little shot glass that's, like, holds, like, four shots.
[194:42]
Nick the Fat Electrician
That's awesome.
[194:42]
Brandon Herrera
The dudes are just rolling around with, like, an incognito flask.
[194:47]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Now, the. The spy museum had had, like, my favorite spy weapon of all time. Well, not my favorite, but, like, like, one of the cooler ways to kill somebody. I think it was the Russians that did It. They had a. It was an umbrella. It was either an umbrella or a cane. I think it was an umbrella. And, like, the umbrella had, like, a button on top, and then the tip of the umbrella was like a metal pointy one. And they would just roll up and, like, poke you with the umbrella in your thigh and have, like a little CO2 cartridge in there and just injected a poison pellet into your thigh and then you. He died of a heart attack two days later.
[195:21]
Cody
Yeah, I remember that story.
[195:22]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Crazy.
[195:23]
Cody
The. There was the more popular story. The guy goes. They do it to the guy at the bus stop in the morning. He goes to work and he's like, man, I'm not feeling well. Goes home, dies.
[195:30]
Brandon Herrera
Yep.
[195:31]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Yeah, they had all kinds of cool. They had a. They had one of the inflatable tanks from the Ghost Army. Oh, that's from Patton's Ghost Army.
[195:37]
Donut Operator
Oh, no.
[195:38]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Yeah, they had one of those there. Yeah, yeah, it was set up. It was all blown up and everything. It was cool.
[195:46]
Donut Operator
Just in case people do not know why they had inflatable tanks. It was literally for looks, because.
[195:51]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Yeah, no, they. So, like, right where the English Channel is kind of like, think of the movie like Dunkirk. Like, it's just the shortest distance to gap between the UK and like, you know, occupied France. Patton had just gotten in trouble for, like, laughing. A guy with ptsd. So he was in, like, political heat.
[196:08]
Donut Operator
But the course, I didn't even know about that.
[196:10]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Patton got kind of trouble because, like, he got in a ton of trouble. Got, like, relieved of command temporarily because he was like, in a medic station. There was a dude with a shell shock and he like, slaps him and threatens to kill him because he thinks he's, like, kidding. And he, like, gotten a ton of heat for it. So he got yanked for a while during World War II. And it was during that period, the Germans, like, weren't believing it. They're like, you pulled your. Your best fighting general because he bitch slapped a soldier. Get the fuck out of here. We don't believe a word you're saying. So they decided to take advantage of it and they basically created this gigantic psyop. They had like 10,000 inflatable tanks, inflatable trucks. They had gigantic loudspeakers to project the sound of, like, heavy moving equipment and all this shit. They had, like, fucking prop people and they made it look like. From an aerial reconnaissance view of photos In World War II, it looked real. So they just made it look like they were amassing this giant invasion force across the English Channel. So that's like part of the setup that, like, softened everything up for D Day because a bunch the Germans were like, moving a bunch of their up there where they thought the main invasion force was coming, and they're thinking like, oh, this is. This is Patton's army. This is why they took Patton out of the field was to, you know, like, spearhead this mainland invasion. And that was all bullshit. And they just created this entire thing. And then they invaded where we invaded at D Day over at Normandy. Soften up the lines right out of the gate.
[197:34]
Donut Operator
I never knew that part that Patton got pulled off because he slapped. Which at that time PTSD wasn't a thing until, what, 70?
[197:41]
Brandon Herrera
Yeah, well, it wasn't a known thing.
[197:42]
Donut Operator
Yeah, it was a known thing. Sorry. It wasn't a known thing.
[197:46]
Brandon Herrera
In 1970s, some asshole invented PTSD.
[197:51]
Donut Operator
Do those old shell shock videos.
[197:53]
Brandon Herrera
Oh, yeah.
[197:53]
Donut Operator
They didn't know what the fuck they called a shell shock.
[197:55]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Well, that's the thing, like, Because I was thinking about that a lot because, like, I don't think I've never heard or, like, seen any GWAT veterans with, like, obviously ptsd, but like, the degree of shell shock you see in those old World War II videos where they're just like, completely mentally broken. Like, yeah, crazy broken. I'm like, I'm sure it happens.
[198:12]
Donut Operator
But I always thought that's the difference because at this time, you are volunteering to serve, so you already have that kind of mindset. It's like, oh, I want to do this. Okay, this sounds cool. Back in World War I, it is. Oh, hey, don't give a fuck about your beliefs.
[198:28]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Getting the Model T. Yeah, yeah.
[198:29]
Donut Operator
And then you're thrown in that. And. And then you have a softer human.
[198:33]
Brandon Herrera
So, like, I also think you have an issue of scale too, where, like, if you look at the amount of people in GWAT, like, I think total GWAT deaths, 7,000. Yeah, it's like 7,000 ish. 7,000 change. But like, World War I, you're looking at millions. So, like, I don't know. They're looking at the worst examples to film.
[198:51]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Yes. But here's my theory. My theory is because of TV, like, imagine being a kid in World War II. You grew up on a farm in Nebraska. You know, one motherfucker that's got a car your whole life. Fast forward. The first time you see a plane, you're fucking jumping out of it. You know what I mean? And it's like. And so, like a. They. They had no idea what they were even Getting into. Just getting thrown into it. Like, imagine participating in D Day and you've never seen Saving Private Ryan. What the fuck?
[199:26]
Donut Operator
You've never seen more than. You've never seen a black. You've never done. Yeah.
[199:29]
Nick the Fat Electrician
You've never seen combat. You've never seen any of this on tv. Like you don't even know what you think you should expect from a Hollywood perspective. And then like the.
[199:37]
Donut Operator
You don't even know what movies are.
[199:39]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Yeah.
[199:40]
Donut Operator
A majority of the time you've never even seen a black and white movie.
[199:42]
Brandon Herrera
Yeah, especially. Well, I mean you're talking about World War I was where it was so pronounced that the, the shell shock of that like you had no frame of reference.
[199:49]
Donut Operator
Even World War II, two movies weren't.
[199:51]
Brandon Herrera
Well, there were way more common.
[199:53]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Yeah, but still, I mean you had.
[199:55]
Brandon Herrera
Like wizard of Oz was already.
[199:56]
Nick the Fat Electrician
But then like. I also think that's why like the older generation of veterans, like they've gotten progressively more vocal about their experiences as time has gone on. But like imagine being a veteran From World War II coming home, what was your war experience like? And then trying to articulate what the D day was like to somebody that's never seen Damn. A movie like Saving Private Ryan or see there was fucking 3,000 planes and we were all jumping out of them with bullets and explosions going off near us. And you're explaining this to some farmer in Nebraska that's never seen a gun bigger than a 12 gauge. It's like, damn, how do you, how the fuck do you articulate and relate that to somebody? You know what, I'm just not fucking talking about this actually.
[200:37]
Brandon Herrera
So Nick says modern veterans are privileged.
[200:41]
Nick the Fat Electrician
In a sense like privilege fucks. There's some degree of like normal people understand more than they did at that point in time. Certainly.
[200:51]
Brandon Herrera
And there's still assholes about it.
[200:54]
Donut Operator
Well, it's like it's.
[200:55]
Brandon Herrera
Frogan has entered the chat.
[200:59]
Donut Operator
Toasty. The. The idea. It was never written about. Of PTSD or that the horrific side of war back in the day for like the Roman Empire era. And then one of the accounts was like, oh well, the soldiers had a decompression period because they'd walk back from.
[201:16]
Brandon Herrera
A month walk home.
[201:17]
Donut Operator
Exactly. So you decompressed with your buddies, you talked about experiences. So the time you got back home it wasn't such a problem. Or at least you got to discuss it. It's one of those discussions that happen with, oh shit, why didn't they write about PTSD or the whole horrors of war as much as relevant times. I Was like, oh, that makes sense, because here you're just. I was literally, hey. We cleaned our equipment, we flew two days, and then I had a week off. Like, man, that. And that was a wild change for me because I remember getting in my vehicle, driving back to base, and I freaked out because I was like, fuck, I don't have my rifle. This is my civilian car. And I was driving to work, but I was so ingrained to have my. My weapon on me for 15 months straight. When I didn't have it, I flipped for a second. I was like, oh. Oh, yeah. Oh, I'm good. I'm good. Trash. We're really fast.
[202:13]
Brandon Herrera
In a similar sense. Like, Cody, with you, like, being a cop for a while, like, how many times are you in a situation like, you know, very soon after where you're, like, almost like, instinctively going for a handgun that isn't there on a duty belt?
[202:25]
Cody
Oh, yeah. After working 12 hour shifts, especially going into a weekend, maybe even working through my weekend, then you get off for a couple days. Oh, yeah.
[202:32]
Brandon Herrera
Okay.
[202:32]
Cody
It's not there. Yeah, I'm good. Yeah.
[202:34]
Donut Operator
Dude, I never thought about that. As a World War I, World War II vet, you're just thrown into combat. Yeah.
[202:41]
Nick the Fat Electrician
First time you see a plane, you're jumping out of it. Three months later, you're jumping into D Day.
[202:45]
Donut Operator
And again, you didn't volunteer.
[202:49]
Nick the Fat Electrician
I mean, that's what, like, it just had to been crazy. And it's kind of like what we talked about when Terry was, like, on the podcast, about how, like, he went through buds in, like, 1991. And he's like, I had no idea what I was getting into. He's like, I didn't know what a Navy SEAL was. He's like, I had no concept of. Like, this is hard. He's like, I thought if I failed this, I was a. Because I. This was. This is basic training 2.0 to me, going through buds. So it's just weird versus, like, now. Everybody's seen Making the Cut. Everybody's seen documentaries and movies about Navy SEALs. Like, you have such a more clear idea of how hard this is.
[203:22]
Donut Operator
Fuck.
[203:23]
Brandon Herrera
So guy just. I looked it up. First commercial flight was 1914. You know, the Wright brothers, who I think was 1903. But the first commercial flight, like, the first actual, like, real, like, plane taking off, whatever. 1914. 30 years later, you are jumping out of one in combat. That's fucking crazy.
[203:43]
Donut Operator
Oh, yeah. And I mean, for fifth, was it 50 cents extra or $2?
[203:46]
Nick the Fat Electrician
For what?
[203:47]
Donut Operator
Combat.
[203:48]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Oh, yeah. It was like, not a lot of money, but they got jump pay.
[203:50]
Donut Operator
Yeah, jump A was like an extra $2 a month, I think.
[203:53]
Brandon Herrera
Or, hey, dollars, don't spend it all in one place.
[203:55]
Donut Operator
And people literally signed up just because of that.
[203:58]
Brandon Herrera
Like, yeah, what's. Back when our dollar was worth something.
[204:01]
Donut Operator
But still jumping out, back when it.
[204:03]
Nick the Fat Electrician
Was backed by gold.
[204:04]
Brandon Herrera
That's crazy.
[204:05]
Donut Operator
Before that disappeared. Which we can talk about on the after show for the next 10 minutes after Cody closes us out.
[204:13]
Cody
Bye, everyone. Thank you for coming to the unsubscribed podcast. I'm joined today by Eli Double Tap, fat electrician, Brandon Herrera, myself, donut operator. Check us out on Patreon for the after show where we're going to talk.
[204:22]
Brandon Herrera
About the Federal Reserve.
[204:24]
Donut Operator
Where'd the gold go?
[204:59]
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