The INSANE Story Of Pappy Gun | Unsubscribe Podcast 252

Summary

Unsubscribe Podcast #252 — The INSANE Story Of Pappy Gunn

Podcast: Unsubscribe Podcast
Hosts: Eli Doubletap, Brandon Herrera, Donut Operator, The Fat Electrician (Ethan)
Date: February 22, 2026

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Episode Overview

This lively, irreverent episode of the Unsubscribe Podcast brings together the full crew (plus friends) for a classic hangout — full of wild anecdotes, conspiracy banter, and an epic deep dive into the WWII legend of Pappy Gunn. Along the way, the guys riff on everything from 40oz malt liquor memories to museum dreams, the weirdness of adulthood, and what really goes on with the military, history, and politics.

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Main Segments & Key Discussions

1. Opening Banter & Crew Energy

0:00–10:00

• Snack Wraps & Birthday Announcements: The pod opens with a comedic skit about McDonald's snack wraps, rapidly veering into the hosts’ dynamic. Ethan celebrates his birthday and announces a monthly $1,000 community giveaway to thank subscribers.
• Power Cube Segment: A new “punching cube” to measure guests’ punching power is teased — drawing a Top Gear-style recurring segment idea.

"We're going to be giving $1,000 every month for the whole year, just for y'all. It's the least we can do for all the support." – Ethan (00:41)

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2. Family Mayhem & DIY Disasters

10:00–18:00

• Connor's Oven Saga: Connor shares escalating frustration with appliance repair bureaucracy.

"I bought a new oven, it broke. They said, 'parts are back-ordered.' I found them myself and then they refused to install them!" – Connor (05:27)

• Kids and Discipline: The crew jokes about what happens when kids mimic adult “yelling at the dog” behavior, debating the virtues of setting up a "bail fund" instead of a college fund.
• Car Repair About Dad: Brandon and Connor recall fixing a truck in a brunch parking lot using landscaping brick and a wrench.

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3. Old School Partying & Sporting Debates

18:00–26:00

• DoorDashing 40s & Edward 40 Hands: Jokes about DoorDashing Forty-ounce beers snowball, with vivid retellings of San Antonio podcasts past.

"You versus Tony at Edward 40 Hands instead of a runoff election would be epic." – Connor (08:43)

• Pickleball Domination: Connor's wife gets him into the sport, which leads to mercilessly whooping retirees.

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4. Absurd Internet Headlines & Museums

26:00–36:00

• 50% Female Samurais Debate: Connor debunks a viral myth about samurai, arguing the press distorted "samurai" to include secretaries.

"If you let me change definitions of words, I can prove anything." – Connor (15:41)

• Smithsonian & Nephilim Conspiracies: The team riffs on museum artifact hoarding and the hiding of “giant skeletons.”
• Brandon’s Big Ass Gun Museum: Half-joking, half-serious, the guys pitch their Hard Rock Café-style “gun museum” filled with artifacts from their content and big American pop culture.

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5. Pop Culture, TV Critiques & Relationships

36:00–52:00

• Landman Show Roasting: The crew debate and rip apart the TV series "Landman," lambasting its characters and soap-opera plots.

"Every woman in that show... they're all f---ing horrible, man. Especially the Mexican chick. Good God." – Eli Doubletap (30:39)

• Relationship Stereotypes: Jokes about coming home to tell your wife about a big success — and the family barely reacting.

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6. Sponsor Segments — Fabletics, Fume, True Classic, Poncho

52:00–66:00

• Several comedic ad-reads for sponsors, with plenty of banter and jokes about each product (e.g., poking fun at True Classic shirts and Poncho tops; Brandon and Eli trading barbs over comfy shirts and cleaning glasses).

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7. History Deep Dives & War Stories

66:00–87:00

A. WWII & The Legend of Pappy Gunn

80:00–89:00 (Main Story)

• Connor’s Breakdown: The main feature. He tells the decades-spanning, incredible true story of Paul “Pappy” Gunn — WWII pilot, pioneer of B-25 bomber modifications, wild man, and vengeance-driven hero.
  • Gunn’s family is interned by the Japanese in Manila; he becomes a U.S. Army officer, steals 25 Danish bombers, and modifies them with up to 12 heavy machine guns for “strafer” runs.
  • Gunn personally confronts bureaucracy and adversity, even strong-arming medics to amputate his pinky so he could keep working.
  • His innovations help win key battles like the Battle of the Bismarck Sea, with the US decimating Japanese forces using his “OG A-10” B-25s.
  • Gunn repeatedly risks (and crash-lands) himself, exemplifying WWII’s wild-west, “do what works” American ethos.

"He ends up stealing 25 B25 bombers from the Danish military... retrofits them, puts eight .50 cals in the nose, and creates the B-25 Strafer... Just imagine, you’re flying in a ship, and there’s 12,000 Japanese on deck — and here come 25 B25s with 12 fifties each, just mowing down troops. That’s Pappy Gunn for you." – Connor (80:14)

B. Skip Bombing, Medals of Honor, & Wild Museum Finds

• They discuss WWII skip-bombing tactics perfected by Gunn.
• Brandon shares Texas MOH stories, including the only known case of two Medal of Honor recipients shooting each other.

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8. Military & Veteran Politics / VA Care

87:00–105:00

• Brandon’s Veteran Event: The importance of veteran support and the upcoming large event in San Antonio, Texas.
• VA Inefficiencies: Rural veterans' struggles with VA health care, the need for private care options, and policy failures.

"Being a veteran doesn't guarantee you're a good person, or that you know what you're talking about, or even that you’ll help veterans. Don’t embellish, don’t use it for clout — do something for your community." – Nick (97:20)

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9. Cultural Commentary & Running Jokes

105:00–118:00

• AI “Slop Farm” Viral Clips: The group laments AI spam channels clipping and remixing their stories (like Nick’s college “MLA format” saga) — and reflects on the weirdness of their own fame.
• Body Cams, BLM, and Policing: Eli and Connor discuss the abrupt reversal in public/institutional opinion on police bodycams, and how politics distorts these tech advances.
• American Cheating Norms, War Love Letters & Soldier Behavior: Humorous takes on war-era infidelity, soldiers naming kids after mistresses, and “dirty” war letters that never make the official historic record.

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10. Superlative Punching Contest with the Power Cube

121:01–129:00

• Several rounds of affable, competitive “Power Cube” punching. Tension runs high as Nick and Eli one-up each other, with frequent asides, boasts, groans, and the rest of the cast clowning as their knuckles swell.

"Nick tries to punch through me. I can feel it on the pad, trust me." – Brandon Herrera (128:29)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On WWII Innovation:
  "America's the best. These guys droppin’ 12 .50's in the nose. Droppin’ bombs so low they skip across the water into ships. Some engineer said, ‘That's not how you’re supposed to do it!’ And Pappy Gunn’s like, ‘Learn to fly a plane.’" – Connor (82:16)

• On Museum Artifacts:
  "A lot of museums just sell donated artifacts, use it to buy a new building—they don’t actually go on display." – Brandon (17:00)

• On Family Life:
  "When I’m home, they all hate that I’m there. The second I leave, they give me obscure problems I can’t solve… Why does my brake hit my knee?" – Nick (35:40)

• On Parenting & Discipline:
  "Imagine coming home, telling your wife you don't have to be an electrician anymore because you made a successful YouTube channel. She’s like, ‘Whatever.’ That’s just part of being a man, the albatross around our neck." – Brandon (34:01)

• On Veteran’s Issues:
  "Don't lie about your service, don't embellish. Invest in your community and help move beyond the battlefield. That's real." – Nick (97:30)

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Additional Highlights

• Recurring In-Jokes: Many references to being “White Boy of the Year,” DoorDashing 40s, Top Gear-style competitions, and the status of “giants” and “Samurais.”
• Political Run: Brandon is plugging his Congressional bid and the significance of veteran-focused service.
• Historical Bizarre Facts: The only Medal of Honor recipient to shoot another Medal of Honor recipient; Civil War cannons discovered loaded a century later; WWII love letters, and battlefield engineering hacks.
• Endless, Spiraling Tangents: From anime to internet conspiracy theories, to sports, and pop culture, every topic echoes through the crew's personal experiences and relentless, self-deprecating humor.

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Timestamps: Important Segments

• Conspiracy/Smithsonian & Museums: 15:50–21:30
• WWII — Pappy Gunn Deep Dive: 80:15–89:00
• Veteran Healthcare Real Talk: 103:44–107:00
• Power Cube Punch Contest: 121:01–129:00
• Banter About Medal of Honor/War Letters: 111:58–120:32

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Tone & Style

• Relentless sarcasm, dark (“veteran”) humor, layered inside stories, and a non-stop volley of inside jokes and self-roasting.
• Raucous, conversational, and occasionally chaotic, but laced with deep military and historical knowledge.

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This episode is a quintessential Unsubscribe experience: bawdy, insightful, and a goldmine for anyone who loves a mix of history, brotherly camaraderie, and no-holds-barred podcasting. Don’t miss the wild tale of Pappy Gunn — one of WWII’s true mad genius legends.

Transcript

[Nick]

We heard you.

[Brandon Herrera]

Nine years of bring back the snack wrap and you've won. But maybe you should have asked for more.

[Nick]

Say hello to the Hot honey snack wrap.

[Brandon Herrera]

Now you've really won. Go to McDonald's and get it while you can.

[Connor]

I don't want to interrupt. How many 40s am I ordering?

[Nick]

The moon. We've never been there.

[Connor]

Hey, before you fondle a firearm, 50% of samurais were actually women.

[Brandon Herrera]

You got the coveted White Boy of the Year.

[Ethan]

Got the punchy punch.

[Connor]

Set it up.

[Ethan]

Do this thing.

[Nick]

I need a second.

[Ethan]

Say hi to Eli. He's racially ambiguous.

[Brandon Herrera]

Brandon.

[Ethan]

His hair is fucking fabulous.

[Nick]

Donut.

[Ethan]

A dark joke disposition. And there's a fat electrician. Welcome to unsubscribe. Hey, what's up, everyone? I'm actually really excited. First off, when you're watching this, it's my birthday and I'm gonna be old. So old. We've had an amazing year so far, and one thing we always try to do is be thankful for everything you all have given. One way we're going to do that is at the end of each month, we will be giving $1,000 to one of you all. If you have subscribed or left a comment or anything like that. You have shown so much support. You have made all of this possible. And we always look for ways to give back to this amazing community. And I think partnering with some of these sponsors we have and making this possible is the least we can do. Hopefully it makes a change for that individual or brighten somebody's day. And we're doing this every month for the entire year. Second, I know what you're thinking.

[Connor]

What?

[Ethan]

They were punching something. What was that? It's a power cube. Stay tuned at the end of this episode to watch us punch it and see who gets the bigger number.

[Connor]

Science.

[Ethan]

It'll also be a segment for each guest that comes on and we will

[Connor]

be plopping up the kind of like

[Ethan]

Top Gear and putting the scores right there on the backside of it and have a little interview section. Also, March 3rd is right around the corner. So if you're in district 23, go vote for a boy. Brandon. He's right there. I'll make this quick and hilarious because y' all will enjoy this. My buddy Benji actually runs and helps the high school wrestling team out in Indiana. OG Homie from Rocket Gym. Now, he asked me for just advice on how to set up fundraising. Said, well, since it's a group of kids, this is something we could probably. We could probably help with. Let me look at it. And then he said this, and I quote, oh, man. If unsub would help hit some of these goals, I would 100% name the room and the team. Whatever y' all would want. Benji, be careful. Any. Anything. We can name it whatever we want. Oh, anything. And I'll have them wear unsubbed merch and rep it at the meets. I want Benji to regret that statement. I'm gonna toss that link down below. I really want y' all to start placing some names in the comment section below. That's how we'll choose this one. I cannot wait for that photo. He's gonna name it whatever y' all come up with. Seriously. Thank you, each and every one for everything. Enjoy the episode. It's a good one.

[Connor]

Where'd it go?

[Ethan]

Is it good? Okay, everyone ready? Three, two, one.

[Eli Double Tap]

Mm. Echelon is delicious.

[Brandon Herrera]

That actually is. I forgot how good that is.

[Ethan]

That is delicious. Make sure you, like, subscribe and hit that bel notification. Okay.

[Brandon Herrera]

I just had a flashback to 2012. YouTube.

[Ethan]

I know. Like, no. Holy shit, it's warm in here. Comedy, start us off.

[Eli Double Tap]

Hi, everyone. Welcome to the unsubscribed podcast. I'm joined today by Eli Double Tap, the fat electrician veteran with a sign. Brandon Herrera, my self. Donut operator. Thank you so much for being here.

[Ethan]

It's like, over underwhelming, Overwhelming. Underwhelming.

[Connor]

Unsub versus underwhelming.

[Ethan]

There we go.

[Nick]

Uvu.

[Ethan]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yay.

[Connor]

I love it. I win.

[Brandon Herrera]

Like I said, every podcast has its cheap knockoff.

[Ethan]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

Damn.

[Nick]

I resent the fact I'm cheap.

[Brandon Herrera]

You know, we're talking about we love you.

[Nick]

I appreciate that. No, well, I mean, everyone in this room is a friend with Nick, and it's hard to spend time with him in a non monetized setting. Like, he has about a 30 minute, non minute, non monetized cap per relationship. And I was like, well, I'd like to see him more often than once every, you know, calendar year. So we had to start something.

[Brandon Herrera]

So it's kind of like working with your dad, you know?

[Nick]

Yeah, we actually had a moment like that up in Iowa recently.

[Connor]

What happened?

[Nick]

Working with your dad when I was holding the light for you when you were fixing your oven.

[Connor]

Oh, yeah.

[Nick]

And he was having a.

[Connor]

Finally got it fixed? No, it was just me being angry that my oven had the computer inside of it.

[Ethan]

Did you get ridiculous, really mad about that shit?

[Connor]

Yes. Okay.

[Nick]

He didn't talk for 45 minutes. Everyone was scared.

[Ethan]

Oh, you don't curse and yell at the object.

[Connor]

Not the object. I yell at people. The lady that I called, that's much worse from the appliance replay repair place was not having a good day. She upset me. I'm addict to people. I can't help it. I called it. I was like, they're like, I feel

[Ethan]

like, First off, she only had cancer.

[Connor]

Buy a new oven, it breaks immediately. Okay, fine. I hit them up. They're like, it's under warranty. We'll order you the parts. Great, thank you. They're back. Ordered. Okay, how long is that gonna take? We don't know.

[Eli Double Tap]

Cool.

[Connor]

Two months pass without a oven in my house. And I call, and she's like, yeah, we still don't know. And I'm like, cool, can I have the parts numbers that I need and I'll see if I can find them somewhere else? And she's like, yeah, here they are. She gave them to me. It's the same woman, right? And then I was like, cool. So I go online. Took me. It was like the eighth page of Google before I found some fucking parts warehouse that would sell, like, official whirlpool licensed replacement parts. But I found it, ordered it, paid, like 900 fucking dollars for this new computer to get put in this oven, had it shipped to my house, and then called her. I was like, hey, I have the parts. They're official whirlpool parts. Can you have the tech come throw them in this oven for me? No.

[Ethan]

Why?

[Connor]

You have to get the parts from us. I go, I understand that, but you can't get the part. Also, I feel like you should have told me this when I asked you what the parts number were, because I told you I was going to go buy the fucking parts. And she's like, yeah, we don't do that. And I'm like, okay. And then it's just me replacing the parts.

[Brandon Herrera]

Upset as your children start to hide under furniture.

[Nick]

Yeah, I picked him up, I put one in each arm. I was like, we got to go

[Brandon Herrera]

for a little bit.

[Connor]

I don't yell at them. They think it's funny. They start yelling too. They copy me.

[Brandon Herrera]

You're teaching them to be a next generation bully.

[Connor]

I'll get mad and, like, yell at, like, the dog will, like, hop up on the counter and eat some food, and I'll yell at him. And then I'll, like, be done yelling at the dog. And then my kid, my cash. Go sit down, Mushu. You're in trouble, all right?

[Nick]

Those two are going to. They're going to be an absolute nightmare.

[Brandon Herrera]

When they get old, they're going to

[Connor]

be one grade apart in high school. It's going to be awesome.

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh, boy.

[Nick]

I mean, need to set up, like, a bail fund just for them. Don't worry about college. Like, just set up a bail fund.

[Connor]

It's gonna be great.

[Nick]

They're the Bash Brothers. They're just like our dad said.

[Connor]

We.

[Nick]

We can come here. Like, they're both doing martial arts already, right? Both of them, maybe. See? Never mind.

[Brandon Herrera]

Speaking of working with your dad, though, I will never forget the time we were fixing Connor's truck in the parking lot of a brunch joint. Your dad's just, like, beating the line with a. With a wrench.

[Connor]

Beating a steel brake line shut with a wrench. And a landscaping brick that we took out of the landscaping across a battery. Yeah, it worked. He got it fixed.

[Brandon Herrera]

It did. It did work, Kind of.

[Ethan]

What was the goal of this?

[Brandon Herrera]

One of my brake lines first. I almost rear ended you.

[Ethan]

I know. I remember that one of his. There was a. So when you go around this corner, there's this wall.

[Brandon Herrera]

There's a brick wall.

[Ethan]

There's a brick wall. About this.

[Brandon Herrera]

The podcast that never got released, everybody keeps asking about. One of the many that never got released that people keep asking about.

[Connor]

Guy should door dash 40s again. You guys want a 40?

[Brandon Herrera]

Sure.

[Nick]

Yeah. I want to see what it does.

[Brandon Herrera]

You were just waiting for one guy to say yes.

[Connor]

You think I won't door dash?

[Ethan]

You guys are going to play Edward 40 hands before. Brandon's veteran event is as veteran as it gets.

[Nick]

I would pay so much money to watch Brandon walk on stage with duct tape 40s on his hands.

[Ethan]

Sup?

[Nick]

That's the worse I'm not.

[Ethan]

Smashes them.

[Connor]

You versus you versus Tony at Edward 40 hands instead of a runoff election would be epic.

[Brandon Herrera]

I actually did challenge him last cycle to a charity boxing event. I said, you beat me in a boxing match, I'll drop out. Now $100,000 to the charity of your choice.

[Ethan]

We can start that again.

[Brandon Herrera]

Tony, run it back. Offers open. Depending on how bad his polling's looking right now, he might actually try to take that gamble.

[Connor]

You guys are never gonna believe what the last thing I Doordash from 711 in San Antonio is 2 40s. 12 40s. We have, like, seven people on that podcast.

[Ethan]

Yeah, I forgot.

[Nick]

I think I know why he forgot. He had 1240.

[Brandon Herrera]

That one will never see the light of day.

[Eli Double Tap]

What kind of 40s do you get?

[Connor]

I think that's like, there's a game prep category at 7:11. It's Modelo, 40s and Funyuns.

[Nick]

You were in San Antonio? Yeah, it's the most Mexican in the morning.

[Brandon Herrera]

Super Bowl.

[Nick]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

Because the super bowl is this weekend, right? Yeah. Yeah.

[Ethan]

Wait, is it?

[Nick]

It's this weekend?

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah.

[Ethan]

We're super huge into the ball sports.

[Nick]

Big into sports. Big sports guy.

[Brandon Herrera]

Sports balls, big ball guy.

[Nick]

Big Patriots. It's the Patriots versus the Seahawks. Everyone's like, oh, the Patriots are going back.

[Eli Double Tap]

That's cool.

[Connor]

My wife has now gotten obsessed with pickleball, so that's a thing. She dragged me there day before yesterday. I mean, do you enjoy it? Bro, it was me, my wife, two other middle aged women, and like a bunch of 70 year olds. So didn't take me long to figure out the strategy of like, just hit it lightly. Three steps away, they can't get there in time.

[Nick]

Oh, you're doing an underhand the whole time. Yeah, just doing returns. Gotcha.

[Brandon Herrera]

Thank you.

[Ethan]

Destroying.

[Nick]

What's the difference? But so is pickleball just like table tennis, but with people it's ping pong,

[Connor]

except you're on the table. Yeah, pretty much is what it is.

[Brandon Herrera]

Or table tennis if you're an aristocrat.

[Nick]

I don't know. I was trying to sound fancy. I've been studying words again.

[Ethan]

Shuttlecock.

[Nick]

Finn. Finn threw me off with this collared shirt and I feel like white trash.

[Ethan]

Yeah, Finn's dress. What'd you say? Who said it?

[Nick]

I said he's. He's dressed like it looks like he got bit by an insurance man.

[Ethan]

Got bit by the AFLAC guy. Gotta show your outfit on that middle camera. Go, go.

[Eli Double Tap]

All right.

[Brandon Herrera]

Like Connor said, he got bit by a Were white. The one time I look nice, I

[Ethan]

want to give you a quote.

[Connor]

I will suck those instruments from your. You look like a.

[Ethan]

You have a different vampire. Vince, just giving bj. You want to. Can I give you a quote yet?

[Brandon Herrera]

Team Edward from State Farm.

[Ethan]

Finn.

[Connor]

Finn's dressed up like that was a female cop. Dang it. Finn got hit with a sting operation.

[Nick]

When he opened the door, I was like, we're about to get arrested. But it was Finn. I. I just didn't see that coming.

[Ethan]

Like a good neighbor, Finn's been a

[Connor]

fed the entire time.

[Nick]

You're the fed.

[Brandon Herrera]

Why?

[Ethan]

You're the Fed.

[Connor]

If you're the Fed, I'll be impressed.

[Brandon Herrera]

He looked at the hidden camera.

[Ethan]

I know. He's like, they got broken arrow. Broken arrow,

[Nick]

dude.

[Brandon Herrera]

Well, it's good to have the gang back.

[Ethan]

Oh, I can't wait.

[Connor]

Why are we here.

[Ethan]

We're down here for a veterans event. You're. You're putting on.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, yeah. We're actually. We're hosting a veteran appreciation and voter. Voter registration drive today, so. Pretty cool. And, you know, any excuse to have the gang down is a good excuse.

[Nick]

I'm a veteran, and I love Brandon. Vote for Brandon. Well, vote for Brandon.

[Brandon Herrera]

Good job.

[Nick]

Okay. I don't know.

[Ethan]

He hasn't earned any of those medals.

[Eli Double Tap]

I was about to say that. That mailer was wonderful.

[Nick]

I don't know. I've seen the road he walked and the road I walked. His seems a little harder lately, so I'm. I'm good.

[Brandon Herrera]

Like, the mailer that they put out right here, like, Brandon Herrera, like, disparages veterans, and he didn't earn a single one of those medals. And I'm like, my favorite part about that is the. The actual story behind it is from the Unsub Live tour when I didn't think I was going to ever run for office again. You know, everything's back on the table. You know, we're doing a comedy show, 18 plus, whatever. They're like, he flips people off and, like, all these medals or whatever. I'm like, every medal in that photo was given to me that day by veterans in our audience at. In attendance at that show as part of the joke.

[Connor]

I don't want to interrupt. How many 40s am I ordering you got?

[Ethan]

I can't.

[Connor]

One, two, three.

[Ethan]

I can't do gluten.

[Nick]

I can't.

[Connor]

We're not doordashing. 40s.

[Ethan]

You got two.

[Nick]

I think it'd be hilarious if you just.

[Connor]

Are you gonna have a 40?

[Brandon Herrera]

I'll do it with you.

[Connor]

Are you gonna have a 40? You have to do it.

[Nick]

I can't. I can't have a 40.

[Connor]

You want a 40? Fen wants a 40, obviously.

[Nick]

Yeah. Finn's gonna pop that.

[Connor]

Connor, did you want a 40? You want a 40? One, two.

[Nick]

Just.

[Ethan]

Show wants a 40.

[Eli Double Tap]

Show wants a 40.

[Ethan]

40 ounce.

[Nick]

What's a 40?

[Brandon Herrera]

In. In America, we use real units of measurement, like ounces.

[Nick]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

And so it's 40 ounces of liquid.

[Nick]

It's just a big beer bottle.

[Ethan]

It's hot. Like, beer is 5 to 6%. Malt liquor is like 8.

[Nick]

Remember when Finn said, I'm not drinking. It's a work day. Does anybody.

[Brandon Herrera]

You mean five minutes ago, he was

[Nick]

like, dude, it's a work day.

[Connor]

Three, four, five.

[Nick]

I'm not drinking. I'm not. I'm not doing it. I will literally vomit.

[Connor]

You're drinking a 40.

[Ethan]

If they're not drinking a 40.

[Connor]

Drinking a 40 or I'm ending the podcast.

[Nick]

You can't do that.

[Connor]

Yes, I can do. You're underwhelming by yourself.

[Nick]

That'll be on brand.

[Ethan]

I would do a 40 ounce count of white claw giant cans.

[Connor]

Yeah, we know you'd be gay. I didn't need you to tell me that.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yep.

[Ethan]

I touch you, but you're very warm right now.

[Brandon Herrera]

Eli's gay for wearing giant cans. Yes. Correct.

[Connor]

Of white cloth.

[Nick]

Well, thank you.

[Connor]

Context matters. Speaking of context matters, I'm gonna piss Eli off. Oh, yeah, there's a newspaper, sorry, a magazine that published a new article, and the headline is 50% of samurais were actually women.

[Ethan]

They said this.

[Connor]

It's all over Twitter.

[Ethan]

I didn't.

[Connor]

I went through and read the article, but before I even read it, I go, I haven't read this yet. I'm going to. But I guarantee you all they did was change the definition of samurai. From what everybody thinks of. When you say samurai, 100% go through and read the article, they're like, actually, samurai is a social class. And by the 1600 and 1615 it adopted. And many women were. Whatever. And they worked government jobs. And basically, like a bunch of women were secretaries for the government. Government. There were also samurais was.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah. It's like if you expand the definition from warrior to secretary. Yes. 50 of samurais were women.

[Ethan]

If you look at it this specific way.

[Connor]

100. Not trying to brag, but if you let me change definitions of words, I can prove anything. Right.

[Ethan]

That.

[Nick]

That would have been a boring.

[Ethan]

What? Who made articles?

[Connor]

There's like three of them. I think the Smithsonian was the first one to put it out.

[Nick]

Oh, the people that have the giant skulls.

[Connor]

Oh, fuck, here we go.

[Nick]

The giant skulls.

[Brandon Herrera]

They're hiding the Nephilim.

[Ethan]

They hide so much shit. That was a wild rabbit hole to go in is they can just delete or get rid of it or say we never had it and then not talk about it.

[Brandon Herrera]

I did see that conspiracy theory that they, like, destroyed the. The Nephilim or the giant skeletons or whatever in like the twenties or something. Yeah. And I was very disappointed to find out there's very little historic basis behind that rumor.

[Ethan]

But have you seen it to be true?

[Nick]

They're involved with it. They're the ones writing the history, Brandon.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's in my head canon that that's fact. But I don't know if there's any.

[Nick]

Because you know the truth. You know the truth, dude.

[Ethan]

Now I want to see how many were deleted from or got rid of and hidden. Because it's just not the removing borrowed artifacts, including bibles belonging to rev. Brown. Yeah, they've like, they've deleted a bunch of stuff. They just get rid of stuff and track it. Like. Well, that's Smithsonian's wild.

[Nick]

When you actually they're like up there with the Vatican of like we're taking.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yep. Like that's one of the reasons why they always say that when if you're going to, you know, donate to a museum, loan it. Yes, because a lot of those museums, and this is unfortunately a problem just across the country in general, a lot of these museums will take artifacts that are donated by wealthy benefactors or people that are just passionate about people learning history. And then those, they'll just sell it to increase their budget. So they'll hook that shit on ebay and then use the profits to buy a new building or whatever. They don't actually go on display.

[Ethan]

What kind of shirt is that?

[Brandon Herrera]

Actually, eli, these are what are called shorts. Fabletic shorts.

[Ethan]

But where do you put your head?

[Brandon Herrera]

It's complicated.

[Ethan]

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[Brandon Herrera]

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[Ethan]

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[Nick]

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[Brandon Herrera]

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[Ethan]

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[Brandon Herrera]

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[Ethan]

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[Brandon Herrera]

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[Ethan]

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[Brandon Herrera]

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[Nick]

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[Ethan]

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[Brandon Herrera]

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[Ethan]

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[Brandon Herrera]

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[Connor]

I know.

[Brandon Herrera]

Several months ago and I'm still down. I took a couple of our local state reps from Texas here, like Texas state legislators on a tour this morning, and like, it was. It's those kind of moments where they're just like, shitting their pants over, like, oh, this so cool. Like, I need to have a museum.

[Ethan]

Do it.

[Nick]

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[Connor]

We have an Brandon's Big Ass Gun Museum.

[Brandon Herrera]

That just sounds like I should be also selling pork rinds in the gift shop.

[Ethan]

Sky's the limit, Brandon.

[Connor]

I'd have Brandon Herrera pork rinds. Yeah, they sound delicious. That sounds the awful Jack and Diet flavored pork rinds. Why not?

[Brandon Herrera]

You're selling me. You're winning me back.

[Nick]

That's the only drink that's served at the Brandon Herrera Museum.

[Brandon Herrera]

Hey, before you fondle a firearm, you

[Nick]

guys have any water? No, no, don't touch the stuff.

[Connor]

We have ice the drinking fountain at Brandon Museum diet.

[Nick]

Hard to believe Coca Cola sponsored it.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, it's crazy to get charged $1 per second. You drink out of the fountain.

[Nick]

I mean.

[Brandon Herrera]

I mean, realistically, we. I know we talk through the logistics of this. We could absolutely open.

[Connor]

Oh, we could do it.

[Nick]

It'd be like Hard Rock or like Planet Hollywood but for bros. We talked

[Brandon Herrera]

about that too, with opening man Moses. Yeah, and just having it be like a Planet Hollywood where there's a bunch of shit from our videos. You know, 5O skateboards, the Shinzo Abe pipe pistol, you know, stuff like that. Just on the walls. It's like a destination. Yeah, we just actually get.

[Connor]

Yeah, just up on the wall.

[Brandon Herrera]

God rest his soul.

[Nick]

That would be sick, actually.

[Brandon Herrera]

I mean, it's kind of like the Catholic Church, the way that they. Oh, God, it's gone. Damn it. Wait, what? No, but like. Like how the Catholic Church, like, has.

[Connor]

Oh, the. The reliquary thing.

[Nick]

Yeah, yeah, I'm convinced they have the Library of Alexandria in there. They have all that stuff they're like, oh yeah, those books are gone. It's crazy. We never found them. But no one can go back there. Like, they have crazy security. The Vatican's its own. What is it called?

[Connor]

They do have some of their own country, right? Yeah, they do have some crazy like artifacts and stuff. And it's like every Catholic church.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, I think every. Every legit Catholic church has to have like a. Yeah, a piece of a

[Connor]

relic or something like that.

[Brandon Herrera]

I mean, there was one.

[Nick]

It was.

[Brandon Herrera]

It was the. The jawbone of. I don't know, it was James or whoever. I. But they had like this very ornate thing around it, like this like fake skull thing or whatever. And the caption was this character design goes hard.

[Nick]

They have ton. They have everything in there.

[Ethan]

We could put so much in a museum with all our stuff.

[Connor]

They still have the skull of Mary Magdalene, I think. Yeah, yeah, like. And tell me that's not out of Warhammer 40K.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, no, like a lot of their is very ornate. It's just wild.

[Ethan]

Wait, they actually have the skull?

[Connor]

Yeah, they have the skull of Mary Magdalene and that's what it's in. This is some Warhammer 40K.

[Ethan]

Yeah, that's the Emperor.

[Brandon Herrera]

You know, while I may not be a Catholic per se, a lot of their shit goes hard as. And you cannot deny it. Yeah, like, that's pretty baller.

[Connor]

I've always thought it'd be really funny if aliens showed up and they were just like hardcore Catholics walking out of the spaceship.

[Brandon Herrera]

Well, I got bad, bad news for them. Unless they were made in God's image.

[Connor]

No, no, no. We were made from the other rib.

[Brandon Herrera]

We're cool.

[Nick]

Did you see the. The guys when they were doing. Announcing the new Pope? The guys with like the laser guns that were standing outside?

[Connor]

Oh yeah, the anti drone guns.

[Nick]

Stuff people had never even seen before outside of Lockheed Martin. They were like, yeah, we got this dude, we're around again. Don't worry about it. It was like crazy. I don't know what it was.

[Connor]

It looked like the Starship Troopers gun, but it was like an electro warfare gun for drones.

[Brandon Herrera]

I tried to buy one of those at one point from Poland.

[Connor]

Of course you did.

[Brandon Herrera]

It was. They're pretty neat.

[Connor]

Completely unfazed by that statement coming out of your mouth. Actually shockingly shocked how unsurprised I am.

[Brandon Herrera]

I'd be doing shit.

[Nick]

I know my boy be acting up.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, it's basically like a directional, like radio wave thing. I don't remember exactly how you have cancer. Well, it's mostly like just A disruption thing where it's like, okay, you had signal. No, you don't.

[Ethan]

Is it. EFP is gangster.

[Nick]

I want to know what was the thing that those that was using the Maduro raid

[Brandon Herrera]

keeps, like, hinting at it a little bit. Like he's picking at it kind of like. Well, they don't want me to talk about it.

[Nick]

I'm like, brother, he can. You're in charge. I know that they did a memorial of, like, the 40 dudes, and they were on, like, buckets. I did see that.

[Ethan]

You know, what did we do to

[Connor]

security detail bringing the corpses home? They had already cremated all of them. So they were like, Cubans, right?

[Nick]

Yeah, Cubans. Yeah.

[Connor]

They were marching, holding the.

[Eli Double Tap]

What do you call, shoe boxes.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, we hit him with the shrink ray.

[Nick]

Yeah, that's all they had. They're like, yeah, this is it. This is 40 dudes, practically.

[Brandon Herrera]

I think they were probably just cremated. But why would they.

[Connor]

It's just a hopped up version of El Rad. Yeah, but everybody on the Internet's free. That's a war crime. And it's like, I mean, we could have shot him.

[Brandon Herrera]

That was the other say the line.

[Connor]

It's not for war crime the first time. Yeah, like, but I mean, that's. Hey, would you rather Delta rolled up and made you get nauseous and puke or they just clapped you immediately? Like, I'd rather puke.

[Brandon Herrera]

And if it is what we're thinking, it is like, this is shit that I remember, like, growing up and playing hooky from school, watching on, like, future weapons, like the area denial, like, sonic shit or whatever.

[Eli Double Tap]

It's been around for a minute.

[Brandon Herrera]

That's just the. They were willing to tell us on national television 15 years ago.

[Nick]

Yeah, I don't know if I was on. If I was on security detail. There's 40 of us and, like, 10 of my friends just vaporized. I'm probably gonna. I'm probably gonna, like, take a step back. I'm probably gonna abandon my boat. I'm going home now.

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh, well, shit, the Covenant's here.

[Nick]

Oh, I'm out. Like, I don't understand how they got all 40 of them at once. With the vapor gun. That's. No one was like, I need to leave. Someone needs to know this story.

[Ethan]

I just want to know who ratted him out. It's like, was it 25? 25 million bounty? How much was it up to?

[Brandon Herrera]

I think it was 50.

[Ethan]

Yeah, 50 million dollar bounty. And you're like, you and 40 are your homies. 10 of your homies. But, hey, he's good this night. Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

You're also employed by a dictatorship in Venezuela. You're making, like, US $6,000 a year.

[Nick]

Yeah, yeah.

[Connor]

You know how fast Delta had to have been fucking moving to, like, their

[Eli Double Tap]

videos of them clearing is scary as fast.

[Connor]

Roped out of the helicopter and made it to him before he made it to his safe room.

[Brandon Herrera]

That's fucking crazy, because didn't they catch him trying to open the door?

[Connor]

Yeah, they caught him trying to get into his safe room. Like, they were booking it clear in that place.

[Ethan]

That is speed running.

[Nick]

Yeah, they do.

[Ethan]

Like, he's opening doors. Like, what's the code to open? Everyone's dead.

[Nick]

Everyone's vaporized.

[Ethan]

Yeah, yeah. Like, oh, it's the last snap.

[Connor]

Have you. I haven't seen the videos. Have you?

[Eli Double Tap]

I've seen videos of them clearing, but when I went to the government training institute in Barnwell, Georgia, for SWAT school, the head of the. Our head instructor was a former Delta guy. And this motherfucker would run at full speed and just hit targets at a dead sprint. And it looked like his waist was on a. Like a camera gimbal. His top half didn't move. He was just like, doot, doot, doot, doot. While he was sprinting full speed.

[Brandon Herrera]

Basically, our best players are playing with hacks.

[Connor]

Oh, yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

100%. It's nasty.

[Connor]

Damn.

[Nick]

Blasting Sosa on the way in. Yeah.

[Connor]

Have you read the comments on that YouTube video?

[Nick]

I haven't seen it. I just like the fact that Trump's like, apparently they were listening to Sosa on the way.

[Brandon Herrera]

Is that a real thing?

[Nick]

That's a real thing.

[Brandon Herrera]

I thought that was just a meme.

[Connor]

Top comment on Love Sosa on YouTube. Is this the last thing Maduro heard? She got like a million likes.

[Nick]

Bitches.

[Ethan]

Love.

[Nick]

What is that? I don't know. Go to sleep, babe.

[Ethan]

I have no idea what happened to Iran.

[Nick]

Everything that kicked off yesterday ran still exist.

[Connor]

I don't know.

[Ethan]

The sweets yesterday and then the spike

[Brandon Herrera]

in Papa John's we've also seen. I think he said something about it publicly. If not. It was a very funny meme that fooled me. Sec War. Pete Hegseth has said that he watches the pizza tracker and fucks with it now.

[Nick]

Man, don't.

[Brandon Herrera]

Which is very funny.

[Nick]

Don't change the rules to the game. That's all we have.

[Brandon Herrera]

Well, because there's the two very reliable sources of, you know, like, what is it? I like intel. What is that? Public intel.

[Nick]

Osint.

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh, sent. Thank you. It's the pizza tracker. Like, how, you know Domino's and Papa John's around the Pentagon. Like, if they get a spike at 11 o' clock at night sort of thing, like, oh, we're doing shit. And also record low attendance at the local gay bars are the two metrics that they use.

[Connor]

I love the idea that Pete, Hex Seth is just throwing pizza parties for random office workers at the Pentagon to fuck with everybody.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah. Just imagine, like, you just make a threat against Cuba and then you're like, all right, order 400 pizzas. Make them sweat.

[Nick]

I don't know. I don't know if Iran still exists. I don't want to open my phone. It's been the longest year ever so far. I'm exhausted. I'm completely exhausted.

[Brandon Herrera]

Tell me about it.

[Nick]

My kids didn't go to school for a week. They regressed significantly. They can't read anymore. They're only doing audible sounds. They're like, the city of Nashville imploded because of the infrastructure there. It's just. I'm tired. Every time I open my phone, I just go. But, you know, moving on.

[Brandon Herrera]

But we have Netflix.

[Nick]

We have. Yeah, we have. I have watched Landman.

[Ethan]

My.

[Nick]

My ascension towards it sucks.

[Connor]

New season sucks.

[Brandon Herrera]

Then it's bad tv.

[Eli Double Tap]

But you can't.

[Nick]

Look, the first season was great. The second season, I think it ended well. I think it. I think they stuck the landing, But I'm. I think that they might have had a plan where Jon Hamm didn't die because that was kind of hanging over, but then he got that other show, and that would have changed a little bit. But, like, that's just my theory.

[Brandon Herrera]

Me and Connor would watch it and we would just. The entire time, like, mid season was very slow on season two.

[Nick]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

We just joke about how Sam Elliot

[Nick]

would talk about how, you know, you don't know what you got till it's gone.

[Brandon Herrera]

You really need to take care of that Mexican chick who fucking hates you. Yeah.

[Nick]

There was a lot of Sam Elliott filler. Now that you say that. Because they're like, what are we gonna do with them? Put them outside near the pool.

[Brandon Herrera]

Argue to go swim with a naked stripper.

[Nick]

We should all be so lucky.

[Brandon Herrera]

What's your retirement like?

[Ethan]

Never seen the show, so I'm highly confused.

[Nick]

It's about land and a man.

[Ethan]

Wow.

[Nick]

What will we call it called Landman. Add boobs every 15 seconds for retention.

[Brandon Herrera]

Taylor Sheridan can't keep getting away with it.

[Ethan]

I know.

[Eli Double Tap]

The most insufferable women on the planet. Make sure you put Them in there too?

[Brandon Herrera]

Yes.

[Eli Double Tap]

They're.

[Nick]

Fuck.

[Eli Double Tap]

They're all fucking horrible, man. Every single woman in that show.

[Connor]

In the characters or the actresses in real life?

[Brandon Herrera]

No, that.

[Eli Double Tap]

The characters. Terrible. Especially the Mexican shit. Good God.

[Brandon Herrera]

I don't care about the Sun's plot line.

[Eli Double Tap]

I don't either. Like, who gives a about Cooper?

[Brandon Herrera]

Nobody.

[Eli Double Tap]

So this Mexican chick, her husband gets blown up on the oil pipeline. A month later she's dating the boss's kid and she has a baby and the boss's kid is taking care of her, but she fucking hates him, even though he's a multimillionaire. And she like just keeps leading him around and treating him like he's like,

[Brandon Herrera]

he's like the most doting. Like, I care about you so much, I'll do whatever you need, blah, blah, blah. She's like, you need earn this.

[Connor]

Her husband. Her husband gets blown up on an oil rig and she starts dating this guy a month later because he was nice enough to mow the, the front lawn. And then he goes off and like full on, like, I need to. And she just had a kid. He's like, I'm going to like step in, in the fatherly role and like take care of her and do whatever. Figures out how to make like a hundred million dollars a year. And then she gets mad at him and leaves him.

[Nick]

Yeah, I don't want to be rich.

[Brandon Herrera]

I'm not ready for this.

[Connor]

I just wanted you to mow the lawn.

[Ethan]

Yeah, well, you.

[Connor]

That's it.

[Brandon Herrera]

Well, she's like, she chose the. Nevermind.

[Eli Double Tap]

Well, she says, I don't want to be rich. She just got a three million dollar settlement from the fucking company that they

[Nick]

all work for that he finessed. Like he walked in, he's like, ah, no, we'll take a million. And she's like, what? Like, and then she hates him for all the money he gives her.

[Brandon Herrera]

Her excuse for that is she's just like, no, that's not my money, that's his money. It's like, no, this is literally what the money was for is to take care of you in case he died. Yeah, it's the whole point of that money.

[Eli Double Tap]

I just want to work at the bar.

[Brandon Herrera]

That also is a plot.

[Nick]

That was, that was actually weird because that was like, that was their hangout spot. And then it got super like. Like, I thought it was like.

[Connor]

Right, the salty spittoon from spongebob.

[Nick]

Yeah. I thought it was like a place. They're like, oh, let's go hang out at the patch. We all know Way too much about this show, but sponsored by Paramount. Plus this.

[Brandon Herrera]

This is how we feel when you talk about anime.

[Ethan]

I'm getting so angry right now.

[Nick]

Well, so it's. It's like this bar where they all hang out and the waitresses have, like, rapport, and she's like, what are you having today?

[Brandon Herrera]

The special?

[Nick]

And he's like, no, honey, I'll just have something hot and cold. You know what I'm like. They say stuff like that and then like, the next. The next season, it's like, welcome to Patch Cafe. How them titties do it. Like, it's just like out of pocket stuff the whole time. It's crazy. And then. But the son again saves the girl that hates him.

[Ethan]

Why is the Mexican girl hate?

[Nick]

Yeah, the whole premise is she's a smoke show and she calls him Flocko, which I found out means skinny, which that's shade. I wouldn't want thrown at me the whole time if I'm printing cash out of dinosaur bones. You know, I'm raising you, I'm raising your child. Now can we, like, settle down a little bit? But she's like, nah, Flocko, she just hates him.

[Connor]

I don't know.

[Nick]

It's.

[Connor]

It's got to be a Latina thing. That's exactly how Hannah is. I've never made hundreds of millions of dollars, but I'd be like, I don't know, some big business breakthrough where I made a bunch of money or something. And she's like, I'm glad you had

[Brandon Herrera]

a good day, sweetie.

[Connor]

It changes her life. Zero.

[Nick]

Yeah.

[Ethan]

I mean, the credit cards still work.

[Connor]

Like, she's already living.

[Brandon Herrera]

That's part of being a man. Is this is the albatross around our neck.

[Ethan]

Yeah.

[Nick]

Like, imagine coming home telling your wife you don't have to be an electrician anymore because you made a successful YouTube off of a short form platform where you told history. She's like, whatever. This is what I did.

[Ethan]

Yeah.

[Connor]

Can I wrap the Bronco in hot pink?

[Nick]

No, no, no. Why would you do that?

[Brandon Herrera]

That seems like an oddly specific example, Nick.

[Connor]

It's almost like a conversation I had yesterday.

[Brandon Herrera]

Do you like a mouthful of hard wood?

[Ethan]

Yes. Go on then.

[Brandon Herrera]

Boy, do I have a product for you.

[Eli Double Tap]

I'm reenlisting in the Navy.

[Brandon Herrera]

No, not this time.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh.

[Brandon Herrera]

The product is fume.

[Ethan]

What's fume?

[Brandon Herrera]

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

[Ethan]

When you said hardwood, you actually meant hard wood.

[Brandon Herrera]

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

[Ethan]

I love hard wood in my mouth.

[Brandon Herrera]

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

[Ethan]

Fume has an award winning design.

[Brandon Herrera]

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

[Ethan]

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

[Brandon Herrera]

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

[Ethan]

Cody, what's your favorite?

[Eli Double Tap]

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

[Ethan]

That is a sexy and sleek piece of wood right there, Cody. Oh, yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

Put it in your mouth.

[Ethan]

Suck that flavored air.

[Brandon Herrera]

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[Ethan]

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[Nick]

Today I get those. I can't say any of the. The text I've gotten from my family since I've got here, they're all like. I'm like, why are you asking? Like, my. My one daughter was like, my knee keeps hitting the steering wheel. Can we adjust the brake in the car? And I was like, I'm sorry, what?

[Ethan]

What do you mean?

[Nick]

And she's like, the brake needs to be adjusted. I'm like, you want me to go into the car?

[Ethan]

Let me call BMW up, Mr. BMW. He'll bring it in and fix that real quick.

[Brandon Herrera]

There's usually a lever to adjust the steering wheel.

[Nick]

Like when I'm. When I'm home, they all hate that I'm there. The second I leave, they give me like, real obscure problems that I can't solve. And I'm like, adjust the steering wheel, move the seat. And she hasn't said anything.

[Ethan]

Dad, you fixed that ice cube yet? Why did you give me that?

[Connor]

I will not. Oh, Hannah's gonna be so pissed I tell this story.

[Nick]

Oh, God, please do.

[Connor]

I will never forget the time I'm sitting at work. I'm like a third year apprentice. I just got. I'm like, on my lunch break. I've been in somebody's attic all day. It's like 140 degrees in there. I'm sweating through my j. Hannah calls me. I'm like eating Casey's pizza. And she calls me panicked Nick. I'm locked in my car. I go, what? She goes, I can't get out of my car. It won't let me out. And I just go, sweetheart, put the car in park. She just hangs up.

[Nick]

I'm in a glass case of emotion.

[Brandon Herrera]

They're so pretty.

[Nick]

I, I, I love it. I'm very blessed.

[Ethan]

I just picture you hang up and you don't take it serious. You get home, 10 hours later, she's dead. You, you left your child. You're, oh, you're a full grown adult in the car.

[Connor]

She hung up on me, all right? Like it was. That's clearly the problem.

[Nick]

I know exactly. I have a princess. I have three princesses in my house. So I understand. I understand all of it.

[Brandon Herrera]

I can tell by the way you're just fiddling with your hands like. I love it. I love it so much all the time.

[Nick]

I have low grade anxiety constantly. It's weird. I don't know if anyone else has this problem, but my doors, they do the fucking craziest thing when I shut them. They find a way to be locked. Everyone else just doesn't shut them. So it's kind of the craziest security feature of my home. There's keypads, there's apps. You can whistle at it. You can talk to the government Jeff Bezos girl. You can tell her to do it. I've said in every single countermeasure I can. But they are getting past it like it's Ocean's eleven every single day in my house.

[Brandon Herrera]

You can talk to the Jeff Bezos girl.

[Nick]

I don't know if one of them is listening. I don't want to say her name. See? See, I saw a wink at Connor. No, it's great. I don't, I don't know what to do. I need to, like, set up, like, Home Alone style contraptions as they, like, grab their bags and they go out the door. It just like, triggers a mechanism to lock, I think.

[Brandon Herrera]

Alexa, order 100 vials of baby oil. It's logged into my account. Alexa, make it 1000 ordered.

[Ethan]

I hope a thousand show up.

[Nick]

Crazy.

[Ethan]

Like, thank you

[Nick]

can't. You can't return it. They have a weird policy with baby oil.

[Brandon Herrera]

I didn't know it was logged into your account. That makes it so much better.

[Nick]

That's reckless in this household. I love him though.

[Brandon Herrera]

Also, I to anybody who is watching that on a smart TV at full volume. I'm so sorry they walked away.

[Ethan]

They don't know they're just gonna get hit with a massive bill.

[Nick]

I did find out this. That reminds me of something. It's kind of a weird story. Bobby Bones, the radio host, he actually played the whatchamacallit, the like, noise for like an Emergency for like a. A bit. They were doing.

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh.

[Nick]

And it hit every single station he was broadcasting on. And he got a FCC fine and triggered an emergency event. Because it was just like, it picks it up automatically. Like if it hears it here, it'll just chain react through everything.

[Brandon Herrera]

I did not know that.

[Nick]

I didn't know it either. He was like, yeah, it was like a million dollars. They tried to find us. And I was just like, ah, damn. Because once it hits one station, it just keeps rolling and rolling and rolling.

[Brandon Herrera]

I know there was the Orson Welles. The War of the Worlds.

[Nick]

That's.

[Ethan]

Oh, yeah.

[Connor]

Battle Los Angeles.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah. Where they read the, you know, War of the Worlds and like, everybody thought it was like a legit newscast and everybody freaked the out. Which I think is like, kind of overblown. Right, I'm sure.

[Nick]

I think it's overblown too. I. I don't think that many people had radios to begin with, you know?

[Brandon Herrera]

Well, I feel like I have to like, preface any story like that. Now around Nick after the Pepsi Navy thing, he's like, well, you know, not

[Connor]

everybody thought actually, yeah, there is that.

[Ethan]

When I was literally googling was that story.

[Connor]

I just think it's funny how polar. Polar opposite. Everything's become like, you can accidentally read a fictional book and people, like, take it super serious. And now like, yeah, Donald Trump could come out and be like, holding an alien skull. Be like, so we've known about these since the forties and nobody would give a shit.

[Brandon Herrera]

Everybody be like, everybody.

[Connor]

Not even that. Everybody be like, great, the stock market's still down and I'm really mad that ice is in Minneapolis. Like, nobody would give a flying about anything.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's the. I think whitest kids, you know, had a skit about that probably were they. They were just like, oh, yeah, by the way, aliens are real.

[Ethan]

What?

[Brandon Herrera]

Like, oh, yeah, aliens are real. We've downed UFOs, blah, blah. And like, it's like in the White House press, you know, briefing room. And he just goes, we're going to war with Iran, aren't we? He's like, you got me.

[Nick]

Yeah, we thought we could get it.

[Connor]

Basketball.

[Nick]

Yeah. I would pass. If aliens are real. I would pass out texting Nick, I told you so. Because he doesn't think they're real. But I'm.

[Brandon Herrera]

You're not an aliens guy.

[Connor]

I'd never said that many Mexicans. I argue with you about the giants thing and the moon thing.

[Nick]

The moon. We've never been there. We've never been to the moon. We went To. We went to Moon City in Burbank, California. I'm convinced of that. Like, why? Because they went and filled. The story is they filmed a backup just in case. Right. In case they didn't go to the moon. I don't. I've never done anything in my life where I'm like, you know what we should do? We should film a backup just in case we don't go to the moon.

[Connor]

You've also never done anything in your life where you've taxed millions of people, millions and millions of dollars and dumped it into a project that maybe was

[Nick]

going to fail or it's propaganda against ussr. We didn't go there until we. And if we did, we found Transformers. Decepticons were up there.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yes. I've also seen the documentary known as Dark side of the Moon.

[Nick]

All roads lead back to Michael Bay. It's just why I know we're going back now. That's a new thing that's happening.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yep.

[Nick]

But I knew we were going back

[Brandon Herrera]

when I saw Northrop Grumman, Jared Isaacman, American space supremacy.

[Nick]

Y' all know. Y' all know him, right? Yeah. Yeah, y' all know him.

[Brandon Herrera]

So what's up?

[Ethan]

We're gonna go watch the launch.

[Brandon Herrera]

Artemis.

[Ethan]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh, yeah. When is that? Because I don't know if I'll be able to go there. And I'm really upset if everybody else is, because I'm campaigning.

[Ethan]

You have to go.

[Brandon Herrera]

I want to go.

[Ethan]

People can wait. I would go to the moon. Why?

[Nick]

I don't know what's up there. It terrifies me. And I don't believe in anything.

[Brandon Herrera]

Watch that, like, horrible movie, like, Apollo 18 or whatever.

[Nick]

Yeah. There's too many of them.

[Ethan]

It's hollow. And there's aliens in the center.

[Nick]

Tom Hanks.

[Brandon Herrera]

Gartha was on the moon. Dude.

[Nick]

Tom Hanks and Gary Sinise had to use a Hoover vacuum to get home. I'm not rolling the dice on that. Like.

[Ethan]

Like.

[Nick]

No, I. It just terrifies me. I'm. I'm here. I'm more worried about the stuff that's here. We only know about 5% of the ocean. It's all the coast. We know more about space than we do the ocean.

[Connor]

What's the. What's the quote? Remember, everybody, every dead body on Mount Everest was a highly motivated individual. Calm the down.

[Brandon Herrera]

I. I feel like I would rather go to space. I'd rather go to space than the deep sea. Like, not even close.

[Ethan]

Yeah, both for sure. One, you die.

[Nick]

If I had to choose one. Yeah.

[Connor]

Which one?

[Brandon Herrera]

If I Had like dc, you die.

[Connor]

Oh, yeah. Really fast.

[Ethan]

Instantly. Space. You die when oxygen runs out.

[Brandon Herrera]

And I know your blood boils. It's really cool.

[Nick]

Hang on, wait.

[Eli Double Tap]

Instant though, right?

[Nick]

Is space instant or is.

[Eli Double Tap]

I think it's all instant.

[Brandon Herrera]

Well, ask the people who try to go see the Titanic.

[Eli Double Tap]

I'll say. When your Xbox controller.

[Connor]

I do know that the. The like instantly freezing to death thing in outer space is. That's not real.

[Nick]

You don't.

[Brandon Herrera]

That's why I just need. If we. If I do go to the moon, you know, in this hypothetical situation, I'm just bringing a cult python with me in case it doesn't work out.

[Connor]

Guns in space is rad.

[Ethan]

It just keeps going. Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

You know, I actually wanted to do a video on this. I will do it one day.

[Eli Double Tap]

Guns don't work in space, Right?

[Nick]

Do they work in space?

[Ethan]

No, they just don't stop because there's no oxygen.

[Brandon Herrera]

Right.

[Ethan]

But that's not everything. Sealed the bullet to see.

[Brandon Herrera]

Self contained within the cartridge. The question is, is it enough oxygen?

[Ethan]

Yeah.

[Nick]

So what happens when you shoot it? Do you move or does the bullet move everything?

[Ethan]

Does both.

[Brandon Herrera]

Both.

[Connor]

If you're floating. Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

I wanted. I wanted to do a video specifically of like, what. Like how guns work in space. And I wanted to build a vacuum chamber where we take it down to zero oxygen, zero everything, like actual vacuum. And then through a trigger, like an electrical trigger, fire a gun in that vacuum and see what happens.

[Connor]

That'd be cool.

[Brandon Herrera]

On high speed. I wanted to do this for like 5 years. I've had this video idea forever. And now I realize I have the resources to do it. I don't know why I haven't yet called it.

[Nick]

Call the NASA guy. They probably got something you can shoot over there.

[Brandon Herrera]

Jared, let me shoot a gun in one of your fucking multimillion dollar vacuum chambers.

[Nick]

It's fine. The moon's fake anyways. It's all right. Come on over.

[Brandon Herrera]

Did you. Sure. That's exactly what. Did you see that podcast we did with this?

[Nick]

Yeah. So it's great.

[Brandon Herrera]

Just made the joke like. So how much are they paying you to live on the moon?

[Connor]

We.

[Brandon Herrera]

I loved it.

[Connor]

We Talked about that SR71 thing. Shooting itself down on underwhelming. One of those channels that just steals our clips clip and uploaded it. It's like, I don't know, got like 12 million views. I made a video about the SR71 and in the video everybody's always like, why don't they put guns on it? And I was like, cuz. It would shoot itself down. And the amount of morons that get in there, like, you obviously failed physics because if the plane's traveling 2500 miles an hour and then you fire the bullet, the bullet's going 25 an hour plus the speed of the bullet. And it's like slows down. Yeah, but bullets rise.

[Nick]

No, they.

[Ethan]

No, they.

[Connor]

Yes. Bullets have arc the top. The. At the very most, under perfect conditions of.50 cals. Going up 5ft at its peak. Not the height of a SR71 plane. It's got to run into its own bullets.

[Ethan]

Well, bullets don't even rise. They. They bullets drop no matter what. They rise because your barrel is angled versus how the optic is mounted. That is the only difference. Bullets aren't raising up.

[Nick]

If you drop a bullet here and

[Ethan]

you shoot one at the exact same time, both will land at the exact same.

[Brandon Herrera]

Thank you, Eli. I was edging an aneurysm.

[Connor]

Other, other significantly slower planes have shot themselves down flying into their own bullets. Like, I'll die on this hill. Planes have shot themselves down flying into their own bullets.

[Brandon Herrera]

Bullets.

[Connor]

Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

Okay.

[Brandon Herrera]

All right.

[Connor]

In a dive.

[Nick]

That makes sense. That makes sense.

[Connor]

Like in a dive, they've fired a burst and then fucking accelerated into the dive and caught up to their own bullets and shot themselves down. It's happened multiple times.

[Brandon Herrera]

Seems like they would be moving too slow comparably. I'm not doubting you on that. I'm just like that. Physics wise, I'm having a hard time, but especially something that's like shooting ordinance, like missiles and shit like that.

[Connor]

Like.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, I see that obviously happening. But yeah, that's the thing is like. Well, actually they'll be moving the same speed plus the speed of the. It's like, yeah, that. That happens for a split second.

[Connor]

Right? And like, people don't. Like, the plane is propelling itself. The bullet is. Is not. If you don't believe me, stick your head out the fucking window going 70 and spit. Let me know how it works. Like, yeah, the new kink unlocked. The F11 tiger shot.

[Nick]

What if you are the barista that

[Brandon Herrera]

spits in your own mouth?

[Nick]

Hey, everybody's got their thing. That's not mine.

[Connor]

The F111.

[Nick]

Sorry.

[Connor]

F11. Shot itself down in 1956.

[Ethan]

Boiling. After 60 seconds, you would die first of lack of oxygen.

[Brandon Herrera]

60 seconds.

[Nick]

Thank goodness we're. The earth is flat and we're on the back of a turd.

[Ethan]

Because it takes its time. Because now your skin has elasticity, but because all oxygen is sucked out, I Want to see that?

[Connor]

It's just a diagram.

[Brandon Herrera]

So, like, that tracks.

[Ethan]

That would suck dick.

[Brandon Herrera]

Is that you catch up to your own rounds.

[Ethan]

That's a veteran.

[Nick]

Well, I mean.

[Ethan]

Hey, guys, you want to see something?

[Brandon Herrera]

Not again.

[Ethan]

Those are True Classics.

[Nick]

Oh, you want to touch it, Brandon? Cody, you want to touch it?

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh, Brandon, show you have a degree in hr, right?

[Ethan]

That's right. Today's sponsor is True Classic.

[Connor]

Cody, what are you wearing?

[Eli Double Tap]

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

[Ethan]

Cody, you actually look jacked right now.

[Eli Double Tap]

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

[Brandon Herrera]

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

[Ethan]

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

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

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[Eli Double Tap]

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[Ethan]

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

[Brandon Herrera]

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

[Ethan]

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[Nick]

So this is another AI you said it's another AI slop farm clipping the pot. It's out of. It's out of control. There's the one clip of me talking about my first day in college.

[Connor]

You got roasted so bad.

[Nick]

And everyone just keeps saying it didn't happen. And I'm like, but they're arguing with each other and this and the slop machine, but they're not. None of them are talking to each other because I stood up for myself in college. It's just it's this story of I. I, my first. First class back after I got out of the Marines. I go into the school and there's this.

[Connor]

It's gonna be so funny when they clip this one again and re. Upload it.

[Nick]

They're gonna clip it again, and a guy's just gonna look and be like, this is fair use. It's not. It's not art. Please stop.

[Ethan]

It's fair use.

[Nick]

No, it's. This is. You can use it here. But, I mean, I've been the Marines. I got on. So I started in January 2011, but I was on terminal leave. You're welcome. But I was on terminal leave. And so I had left active duty in November. But anyways, I'm going. I'm, like, doing orientation. I don't know how to do anything in class. I'm dressed like an idiot because I didn't have any good civilian clothes. I look like a goober. So I look like a young college kid. And he's talking about how every paper in class needs to be an MLA format. And I had no idea what that was. I'd never heard it before, like, ever. And so he's like, if you have any questions after class, please come up to me. And he had, like, this scarf, and he's doing, like, this. This, like, you know, impression of Robin Williams and what's the. The Dead Poet Society, which is actually based on a school in Nashville. And he's like, flipping his scarf around. And I go up to him, I go, hey, sir, my name's Zachary Bell. I just have a question. Can you explain to me, like, what MLA format is? And he goes, mla format? You don't know what that is? And he, like, whips his scarf back. He goes, you just got out of, like, high school, like, six months ago. How did you forget it so quickly? And I was like, actually, I just got out of the Marines, and six months ago, I was in Afghanistan. If you ever talk to me like that again, we're having some real problems because I'm. I'm surrounded by, like, other students. So he's dressing me down in public.

[Ethan]

Oh, yeah.

[Nick]

In front of people. Like, big, no, no.

[Ethan]

In the military.

[Nick]

Big no, no. Anywhere. Like, he was talking to me like a idiot. And so now this clip has, like, been used every. People send it to me now. It's just being pulled from, like, sloppy. These AI slot farms and just people running it over and over and like, adding, like, you know, weird animations and stuff.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's.

[Nick]

And so now people are like, this Guy didn't happen. This. This, you know, it's like, yeah, Denbro woke up, blah, blah, blah. And I was just. I've gotten into a few of them, been like, this is literally my life. I don't know why you are talking to a robot.

[Brandon Herrera]

That was also a really funny qualifier, too. It's like, oh, yeah, that's a big no no in the military. I'm like, actually, most people don't like being motherfucked in public. No matter who they are, they won't

[Ethan]

stand up for themselves.

[Nick]

Yeah. So, like, the takeaway is that most people won't stand up for themselves. And a teacher, a person of authority, was dressing down a student on his first date. Like, that was like, if that's the way he talks to his students, I hope that he's very unsuccessful with every other aspects of his life. He also was a white guy saying he was writing books and he pushed his book on the class. He's like, I've been writing about. What did he say? African American, Southern culture. And he was like the subject matter expert. And he. He

[Ethan]

isn't it.

[Nick]

No, it was. He was writing his.

[Brandon Herrera]

He's.

[Nick]

He said, I've got a book about African American, Southern culture. And, like, I don't know what his white ass was talking about.

[Brandon Herrera]

Like, I mean, to some degree, I think that's.

[Nick]

It happened. Stop sending me the clip. I don't need it. Like, please stop. It's. It's actually kind of annoying.

[Ethan]

So when you woke up, what happened then?

[Eli Double Tap]

Everyone clapped.

[Brandon Herrera]

Everyone clapped.

[Ethan]

I'm so.

[Connor]

I forgot.

[Ethan]

I got. I brought the one thing and I wanted to do it before the podcast. And I'm like, the punch cube.

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh, the what?

[Ethan]

The punt. To measure our punching power.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, I brought it. Oh, I didn't know we had that. Cool.

[Ethan]

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. That's why we can put them all down that. We'll just. Top gear.

[Nick]

Great. Another metric to hit the numbers down it. Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh, man.

[Eli Double Tap]

Another thing Nick can beat us at.

[Brandon Herrera]

Cool. Yeah.

[Nick]

Nick's. Yeah, Nick's an onion of powers and abilities. It gets old sometimes.

[Ethan]

Mass will hit.

[Nick]

Yeah. He also is a dirty jiu jitsu fighter. I'll tell you that right now. Like, we went in there and like, he's doing stretches and stuff. And so we're at a jiu jitsu gym, and I am going to get back into it. I just hadn't had a good gym or time. And so he's. He's like stretching and then like. Yeah, I know.

[Ethan]

I've been really Busy in time.

[Connor]

No gyms.

[Nick]

Well, the one I. I didn't want to go to. The one I was at. And then like, well, it doesn't matter.

[Brandon Herrera]

I'm a coward, but I ran into a lack of. What? Willpower.

[Nick]

Anyways. I'm a weak. And so we're, like, in there. It's me, Jake, Nolan, and Tackett and Blas. And, like, we're just, like, messing around. And, like, we take some geese they have, and we're, like, putting them on, and, like, we're kind of being goofballs. And then I turn around and Nick then has a mouth guard in. And I was just like, like, like, I thought we were going to class. And he's just like, today we're going

[Ethan]

to roll up Nick.

[Nick]

He's like. He's, like, charging up, and he's like, it'll be okay. And then just proceeded to Molly, walk me for, like, two hours.

[Brandon Herrera]

I feel like he would really enjoy that.

[Nick]

Oh, and I know he would. When they were filming, he's smiling the whole time. And he put his head in my stomach, took like. It wasn't neon belly. It was Nick on my belly. I'm not drinking a 40. I can't. I will vomit.

[Ethan]

I just, like. Nick was a bulldog.

[Nick]

He put his head on my stomach.

[Ethan]

Powering up. Yeah.

[Nick]

I almost had an arm bar on it. I almost had an arm bar.

[Brandon Herrera]

Fighting with Ethan was really fun. Showing him a little bit about boxing and stuff like that when we had him over for the podcast.

[Nick]

Oh, yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

Ethan Bernard.

[Ethan]

Yeah, he did. Really?

[Nick]

Oh, y' all took him boxing?

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Ethan]

He learned really fast. He was like, man, this is a lot of.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's a lot of cardio fighting. Cardio is different.

[Nick]

Yeah.

[Ethan]

Gloves get heavy.

[Connor]

We gotta go sparring. 40s are here.

[Nick]

And the worst part about getting rolled by Nick.

[Eli Double Tap]

Old English.

[Nick]

He really did. I can't.

[Brandon Herrera]

Are they all Old English?

[Connor]

Oh, yes.

[Ethan]

Joe has to drink a 40. I got the Power Cube, though. We can punch it and put our names on that thing.

[Eli Double Tap]

Bro, I haven't had one of those.

[Connor]

You want one?

[Brandon Herrera]

I don't know if I've ever had.

[Eli Double Tap]

I'll try a sip. I haven't had one in a minute. I'm not gonna drink the whole thing.

[Ethan]

That gluten will make me poop myself.

[Eli Double Tap]

Been really good about not drinking lately. Life has been bleak.

[Ethan]

You've been doing great. Great. I'm proud of you, dog.

[Eli Double Tap]

21 days right now, and life is just, like, bleak and meaningless.

[Nick]

Yeah, Cody, don't. Cody, don't don't.

[Brandon Herrera]

This is not.

[Connor]

No, do it. Bring back Old Testament Cody.

[Nick]

Yeah, yeah. Bring back that Deuteronomy.

[Brandon Herrera]

I'm gonna be a good friend. No.

[Nick]

Levit.

[Brandon Herrera]

Leviticus.

[Nick]

Cody almost came back.

[Brandon Herrera]

He had some words for some.

[Ethan]

Camera cuts away for one second. The two are gone. They're already taped on Cody's kids.

[Connor]

Before he's gone, Cody's had a wife beater.

[Nick]

Hey, let me put you on something.

[Brandon Herrera]

I don't know if I've ever had this.

[Ethan]

Oh, all these.

[Nick]

I met your parents. They love you. That's why.

[Connor]

Bro, this bad boy right here is $2.99.

[Brandon Herrera]

Told us to come back here and drink our 40. Well, at the first sip.

[Ethan]

First sip, you get a reaction. Lead down a camera, though. Lean down, lay down. Leave.

[Nick]

Down, lean down.

[Ethan]

You gotta show this Irish cheers. It explodes.

[Brandon Herrera]

I don't know what that means, but.

[Ethan]

All right.

[Nick]

1, 2, 3.

[Brandon Herrera]

Just tastes like shitty beer. It's just beard.

[Eli Double Tap]

What's the alcohol content on that?

[Brandon Herrera]

Tastes like I'm 15 years old and

[Ethan]

about to get 7 or 8.

[Eli Double Tap]

Cornfield.

[Nick]

I mean, I don't.

[Ethan]

I. I.

[Brandon Herrera]

5.9. Now smell the bag that it came in from the delivery driver and shake it a little more.

[Ethan]

Yep.

[Nick]

Oh, gosh.

[Eli Double Tap]

Today.

[Nick]

All right, give me the duct tape.

[Ethan]

There's a mixture of anything that was in her car for 10 minutes.

[Nick]

All right.

[Ethan]

And that's what it smells like. It's wild.

[Brandon Herrera]

100 pound, 60 year old woman who. Yeah, she was ripping it in that car.

[Ethan]

Did you smell that bag?

[Eli Double Tap]

Smell like the devil's lettuce.

[Brandon Herrera]

Smells like probable.

[Ethan]

10 minutes to have 10 minutes.

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh, I smelled it from here. Yes.

[Connor]

Zach drank a 40.

[Nick]

I took mine. Oh, what a bummer. Speaking of 40s, we can talk about how I became white boy this year.

[Connor]

There's three more on that table right there.

[Eli Double Tap]

You want one?

[Brandon Herrera]

You got the coveted White Boy of the Year.

[Connor]

Well, yeah, we sell merch. That says it now.

[Ethan]

You're shitting me.

[Connor]

I have it upstairs. It says White Boy of the Year.

[Brandon Herrera]

Character is one of my favorite humans on the planet. Bunker got so much better when he retired. The kids have the keys to the kingdom. Gotten off the rails.

[Nick]

It was the craziest Christmas Eve ever. So I. You know 50 Cent, a rapper? I call him Curtis now. We're friends.

[Ethan]

And. I want to see the shirt.

[Nick]

Hang on. It's actually really great. So he was nice. I put up. I put up a post about like, something like, I can't remember what it was. Oh, 50 teaches me that. I'M not. I don't. My penny photo, Right? Yeah, it's on

[Brandon Herrera]

because Fitty reposted it, right?

[Nick]

So the first person to repost it was. Was I just put it up, and the post was, like, doing pretty well. And I was like, okay, cool. It was like, whatever. And then Christmas Eve happened, and, like, we were doing stuff around the house, and then somebody texted me, and they're like, hey, did you know that, like, Don Jr. Posted you on his Instagram? And I was like, oh, God, what could this be? And then I, like, open it up, and it's like, me on the thing. And I was like, well, that's kind of cool. And then I open up a little while later, and I look in. 50 Cent took a screenshot of the screenshot that Don Jr put. And he put it on his thing, and, like, my street cred went through the absolute fucking roof, like, so did

[Brandon Herrera]

you declare yourself White boy of the year?

[Nick]

It's known because I then wound up known. It's known because I then wound up on the shade room and hood ratchet tv. It's just a photo of me holding a sign in front of my house.

[Ethan]

Did an impasse come in the mail?

[Brandon Herrera]

Let me see your credit karma.

[Nick]

I mean, me and Curtis, we're talking about a few projects now moving forward. So, yeah, it was the craziest thing. People were commenting, like, up all the

[Connor]

financing on buying my daughter her first car.

[Nick]

The documentary, by the way, is horrible. Like, it's. It's. It's rough.

[Brandon Herrera]

The Diddy one, it's.

[Nick]

I couldn't even make it through, like, the first episode. I was like, yeah, I got a slide, babe. I can't watch the rest of it.

[Ethan]

I haven't watched it yet.

[Brandon Herrera]

He is a monumental hater.

[Connor]

Oh, dude. He.

[Ethan]

I mean, we've talked about what he would do. Jay Z or who would he buy. Ja Rule.

[Nick]

Yeah. Oh, yeah.

[Ethan]

That.

[Nick]

That was like. Like, warm up. He's like. He's not like. He's doing things like doing interviews on ABC or whatever just because they play it in the prison.

[Connor]

The interviewer, he's interviewing with ABC about the documentary coming out, and she's like, why did you do this? And he's like, diddy sent me flowers one time, and I took offense to it. And she's like, he sent you a bouquet of flowers, which you interpreted as him calling you a. And you spent the next 10 years gathering information to create an expose documentary framing him as a horrific or whatever, abuser, sexual predator. He just, like, smiles and nods yes, yes I did.

[Brandon Herrera]

He's just you, but black.

[Nick]

To be fair, I've heard Nick's music say he's pretty close.

[Connor]

Wait till the next district attorney election in Erie County, New York.

[Nick]

No, he was.

[Brandon Herrera]

Well, there's actually also an election happening in Texas in case you want to jump in.

[Nick]

No. He even did a door in front of me. No, no. Make sure they can see it.

[Brandon Herrera]

Put that for the camera.

[Ethan]

Paying for it. Turn it around.

[Nick]

Oh, never mind. Never, never put a dollar into marketing. No. 50 Cent did a fucking doordash thing. Talking about Beast sent me that. I sent it to Brandon and Cody. He's like, I don't know why people have beef. And he's doing promo for Doordash. Just talking about this. He's still like every button he can press he's doing it. It's, it's a masterclass in marketing, to be honest.

[Brandon Herrera]

Well, the best part is at the very end of the ad you can hear the, the staff like the, the crew is cracking up.

[Nick]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

Because he's just tossing out one liner hits at fucking Diddy.

[Nick]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

And like you just hear them break character and then he breaks character and then the ad ends.

[Ethan]

By all means, 50, if you want to. Come on. We would love to have you, Curtis.

[Nick]

We, we'd love to have you.

[Ethan]

Yeah, talk to your friend.

[Brandon Herrera]

Using his Christian name just sounds wrong.

[Nick]

I feel like I can. We have not interacted at all.

[Brandon Herrera]

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[Ethan]

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[Connor]

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[Nick]

What do I do?

[Connor]

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[Brandon Herrera]

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[Ethan]

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[Ethan]

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[Nick]

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[Brandon Herrera]

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[Connor]

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[Ethan]

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[Nick]

We have no interaction. I feel like if you were to see me he'd be like, that's white boy of the year.

[Connor]

The top comment on that, that ABC News interview was, I love this man, but I understand why he was shot.

[Nick]

Well, and he also, he bought. There's this guy who has a podcast that he hates and the podcast some has some weird deal with like the ownership of the building. And 50 was like, I hate that. And then he bought the building. So now he owns the podcast of the guy that hates Him. He's like, yeah, I wanted a building. Like, he's just. He's literally just playing with money at this point. I mean, that's what happens when you sell vitamin water for a big boy billion.

[Ethan]

And so he ain't struggling.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's like the. It's the Bruce Wayne from. What is it the. Is it the Dark Knight or Batman Begins where he just like, oh, your. Your. Your escorts can't play around in the fountain. He's like, well, I just bought this hotel, so. Yes, they can.

[Ethan]

Yeah, that's the. The Dark Knight or the second one. Whatever the second one is.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah.

[Nick]

Also the best Batman. I'll stand on that.

[Connor]

Sorry.

[Brandon Herrera]

Standing on business.

[Nick]

Stand on that. I know some people like Michael Keaton.

[Connor]

Whatever.

[Nick]

He's great Christian Bale. He's like the G wat Batman in my opinion. Mainly because that was what was happening in my life. But he also is just like. I loved it.

[Connor]

It's not even a controversial.

[Ethan]

I can't remember any of those subtitles in there. He couldn't remember to say Batman.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah.

[Ethan]

Where is she?

[Nick]

Where is she? My father was a drunkard. Why Connor hasn't dressed up like the Joker for Halloween is beyond me. I think he could totally, like, pull that off. Have you the Heath Ledger one?

[Connor]

I think all the fat fedora kids that shop at Hot Topic ruined that. It was cool for like 45 minutes when the movie first came out and then Hot Topic got a hold of it and just ruined it.

[Nick]

It's Hot Topic still around?

[Ethan]

Yeah, I'm surprised malls are still around. Brandon, what kind of shirt is that?

[Brandon Herrera]

I'm glad you asked, Eli. This is a poncho.

[Eli Double Tap]

Brandon and I actually wear poncho so much, we constantly end up wearing the same nice poncho shirt.

[Brandon Herrera]

Good thing nobody's ever pointed that out before.

[Eli Double Tap]

Now, if you guys have ever seen one of our live shows or this podcast in general, you'll see Brandon and I wearing these incredibly comfortable, great looking shirts all the time.

[Ethan]

Finn, pull it up with pictures. They're literally always wearing the same shirt.

[Brandon Herrera]

I got turned on a poncho like a year ago. Been wearing them ever since. Personally prefer. I think this is the western because it's got the pearl snaps. Because it's hot in Texas and I like something breathable.

[Ethan]

Here's the thing I find really cool. Brandon, do the glasses trick.

[Brandon Herrera]

So ponchos have this neat little thing in the pocket where you just take your glasses.

[Ethan]

No, the other one.

[Brandon Herrera]

Be more specific.

[Ethan]

Who gives a shit about that?

[Brandon Herrera]

All right, watch everyone so if you got fat fingers and you smudge your glasses all the time, the bottom of the shirt actually acts. It has like a microfiber so you can clean your glasses.

[Ethan]

I make him clean my phones.

[Brandon Herrera]

He does.

[Eli Double Tap]

I like the hidden little pocket on the breast.

[Ethan]

Wait, what?

[Brandon Herrera]

Right over here. Got a little zipper pocket.

[Ethan]

I didn't know about that one. Is that where you hold Cody's heart and his drugs? Things you might need to know. Poncho has put a lot of thought and detail into each one of their shirts. Oh, holy sh.

[Brandon Herrera]

They're soft. They're really soft, yo.

[Ethan]

What?

[Brandon Herrera]

That's my one like thing is fabric sensitivity. I don't wear uncomfortable shirts. This is comfy as.

[Eli Double Tap]

That's why we wear them all the time.

[Ethan]

So Poncho's got a bunch of great styles. Styles. The original western denim and ultralight.

[Eli Double Tap]

If you're looking for the perfect shirt, something breathable and stands out in a good way. Give Poncho a try.

[Ethan]

Go to ponchooutdoors.com unsub and get $10 off your first order.

[Brandon Herrera]

That's P O N C H O outdoors.com unsub I really want to like. You ever remember, like those, those emo chicks from high school that were like obsessed with Hot Topic and My Chemical Romance and everything like that? I really want to check in to see how they're doing. Doing. I want to know where those lives ended up.

[Connor]

I saw multiple full fledged emo, like teenagers at Target the other day wearing like baggy ass cargo jeans with the makeup and like the fishnets.

[Nick]

Oh, that's coming back the full.

[Connor]

No, it means we're going to hit a major economic recession. Every time, Every time the emos come out, the economy crash. Last time was 2000. They're like locusts that just signal that the economy is going to die.

[Ethan]

They're looking.

[Connor]

It's. It's like they know if you see

[Nick]

bang, stocks will crash.

[Connor]

It's all correlated. Like dad's dads. The family's struggling financially. The parents have to pick up extra hours. The kids aren't being watched. They start getting into weird. It's. It's an early alarm system that the economy is going to crash.

[Nick]

A social canary.

[Connor]

Yes.

[Brandon Herrera]

The old man with, like, his knee starts to hurt before it rains. Like, oh, the emos are out. Buy gold and silver.

[Nick]

All you just hear is 100% that when I was, oh, a young boy.

[Brandon Herrera]

Everyone run.

[Nick]

Everyone run. The black parade's going. The black parade.

[Connor]

As soon as, as soon as Jen Z. Finds out about three days grace and they start trending on Spotify and YouTube. We've got like three months until the biggest economic downturn. We all just lock, sale, sale, sale.

[Nick]

Damn. I'm thinking about it. Everything that was happening when I was listening to the Black Parade at the time. Also just a banger of an album. I don't care. I don't care what anybody says. I love that album.

[Brandon Herrera]

They came to San Antonio like a couple months ago and then I realized like, oh, I. I thought about going like, man, that would actually be kind of fun, you know, like a little nostalgic. Then I realized like, oh, I like four of their songs and I would be incredibly bored.

[Nick]

They've got a. Wait, what was the one There was like Helena.

[Brandon Herrera]

Teenagers. Teenagers.

[Nick]

Scared. Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

And never. That's actually great. Yeah. World War II film of all time.

[Nick]

Is that what that music video does? I miss music videos, honestly. You should look forward to that.

[Connor]

The best. The best war song ever is Rooster by Allison Chains.

[Brandon Herrera]

The ghost of you.

[Nick]

The ghost. Yeah, dude, the.

[Connor]

The best war song ever is Rooster by Allison Chains.

[Brandon Herrera]

Really? You don't know that?

[Connor]

You know the song?

[Ethan]

I know this. That.

[Connor]

Yeah, he wrote that about his dad who was a machine gunner in Vietnam. His nickname was Rooster.

[Nick]

That's a.

[Connor]

He wrote it about his. Yeah.

[Ethan]

Does that. Does it have a music video about that?

[Connor]

It's not a great music video, but like the song itself, if you listen to it, is make an awesome movie.

[Brandon Herrera]

Like if he was the backup to a Top Gun.

[Connor]

And once you listen to it, when he's like, they spit on me in my homeland. Like about his dad coming home.

[Ethan]

Right?

[Connor]

Like, yeah, it's. It's a good ass song.

[Nick]

Watch out, Rooster's on the gun. You know, he's known to go cyclic from now and now and then. That's a good nickname. That's a good nickname. Just Rooster. Get him. Just mowing them down.

[Brandon Herrera]

If you always hold the trigger, you never have a runaway gun.

[Connor]

Science. Yeah.

[Nick]

Ethan's retired. Ethan's entered the chat.

[Ethan]

I know. Retired. Ethan.

[Brandon Herrera]

I'm watching the progress of that 40 you.

[Nick]

I'll tell you another thing.

[Ethan]

Oh, you all are drinking this.

[Nick]

Dude, now that I think about it, there were a bunch of like weird

[Connor]

shows on her second one.

[Ethan]

I know she's been a hurting on that thing.

[Nick]

This isn't what I thought it was. I'm not going to lie to you.

[Ethan]

I thought it was bagged.

[Nick]

Yeah, that's cuz you got a collared shirt on. Sell out. Old fan wants to play 2020. That's not a thing.

[Brandon Herrera]

I thought 2020 equal 40, so it's mad Dog.

[Connor]

For those of you that didn't hear that. Finn just said, I thought Mad Dog 2020 meant 40, cuz. 20 plus 20.

[Ethan]

You want that? Melon ball Z. Melon ball.

[Brandon Herrera]

Salsy. I can still smell like. What is it? Mad dog. Mad Dog 2020 and Wild Irish Rose. What's.

[Connor]

What's. What's your. No booze that you got too drunk on one time and can't do.

[Nick]

Oh, I know what.

[Connor]

Mine's Jaeger for sure.

[Eli Double Tap]

Dear Blood, I was about to say, yeah, probably Jaeger, man.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah.

[Connor]

So the bottle that Jaeger has, you want to. How they came up with that bottle design?

[Eli Double Tap]

Just like the dark green bottle.

[Connor]

How they just. The dude that, like, started making Jaeger originally went to every bottle manufacturer local to him and got a sample bottle from everybody and practiced throwing it at the ground. And that was the only bottle that didn't break. So he's like, that's what we're putting my in.

[Eli Double Tap]

All right.

[Connor]

We're getting everybody up.

[Nick]

Jesus.

[Brandon Herrera]

I. I don't doubt that that's correct.

[Connor]

It is.

[Nick]

Yeah.

[Ethan]

Jaeger, their best lives.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's just cough medicine. Yeah. Dear Blood, if you're a young man watching this podcast and you know, one of these days you're going to have a taste of alcohol, please, for the love of God. I know. Jaeger is a household name. Don't try it. Don't. I feel like that's the Obi Wan. Don't try it, Anakin. Please don't.

[Nick]

What type of alcohol is it?

[Brandon Herrera]

I actually don't.

[Eli Double Tap]

Liqueur.

[Nick]

Is it a liqueur?

[Ethan]

And then you. Oh, put it with Red Bull and it tastes good.

[Connor]

Jaeger bombs.

[Ethan]

Jaeger bombs don't taste good.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's a liqueur. Yeah.

[Ethan]

Yeah, it's a liqueur. Was it a 35 or what?

[Nick]

There was a bar.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, 35. 35.

[Nick]

There was a bar next to the barracks in my old unit. It's called heroes spell with a Z. And the amount of Jaeger bombs and forgive me, show Irish car bombs that ruined Marines careers. There, there. It's just untold. And their slogan was the bar you can low crawl home from, because you could literally walk to it from the barracks. It was just an absolute nightmare.

[Ethan]

So it's on base.

[Nick]

It was on base. Like, it was like in the quad so you could see it. And then like payday weekend if we didn't have anywhere to go or like sometimes we'd have to stay back and we were on the mew. We had to stand too, so you couldn't go far. So like I even I, I lived out in town, but I'd stay at the barracks because, like you get called back for formations. And so we would just get blasted at the barracks doing I'm so sorry show. Just a ton of like Irish car bombs and Jaeger bombs. And then just like we're standing in formation just like you're vibrating at like Saturday at like one o'.

[Brandon Herrera]

Clock.

[Nick]

You're like, yeah, we're here.

[Brandon Herrera]

No, I think show was on the, the proper side of the Irish car bombs.

[Nick]

But, well, it's just, it's, you know, I understand as an adult that it would be like if they named a dream drink. Why don't you try out our 9 11s? You know, so it's drink it.

[Brandon Herrera]

Is that actually like. So I've been told this that in, in Ireland, that's like a very offensive. Like you don't get a bedroom.

[Nick]

Really.

[Brandon Herrera]

I, I don't know. I've heard conflicting things from, from multiple people. The only thing is your Irish Car

[Nick]

bomb is like version of ours, which.

[Brandon Herrera]

So you have better car bombs because we live.

[Ethan]

Is that why there's no explosive in it?

[Connor]

Sorry.

[Nick]

You drank it in the car.

[Ethan]

You leave the bar and be a

[Nick]

joke of the podcast. Come with me. I'm sorry. Sorry.

[Connor]

I don't know. Show's going to get mad at me, but I always picture Ireland as just like ghetto Hogwarts.

[Nick]

Boy, which way to die.

[Brandon Herrera]

Can I

[Connor]

tell me you wouldn't watch a Harry Potter universe reboot of like, whatever the Irish version of Hogwarts is in Ireland.

[Ethan]

They're just riding potatoes. Motorcycles, giant potatoes. They hop on, it flies away.

[Connor]

He's got to catch the golden Spud.

[Nick]

You guys are never touring in Ireland.

[Brandon Herrera]

I'm certainly not getting into the Uber and starting it.

[Connor]

Your mom's gonna love this episode.

[Nick]

Expelliars.

[Brandon Herrera]

I I actually so last campaign I did get for my IRA video, which was very funny. It was a random thing to attack. Well, because it was just a video of me. They're like Republican congressional candidate and it's a video of me in a fucking balaclava with an AR180 smoking a cigarette. Do you really think the queen died of natural causes? That was the clip that they used.

[Nick]

Irish Hogwarts. I guess. Tough thinking about it now. That'll probably. That's definitely gonna be better than the new Harry Potter they're making. But I, I Don't know. Yeah, they. They're. They've changed all the characters. They're redoing it. They're making it to a television series.

[Brandon Herrera]

People really. I know there was like, a fan petition for Adam Driver to be Snape. He would have killed.

[Nick]

Dude, I just found this out. They were going to do him and Steven Soderbergh wrote a book called I'm Not Book a Movie. And they pitched it and it was done. Everything else Disney said no. It was like the Hunt for Ben Solo. So they were gonna follow up with him because you don't see him actually die at the end of the new movies. And they were gonna do a trilogy, and he was, like, on board for it and everything. And they're like, nah, instead we're gonna have a bunch of witches grow a girl and call it the Accu Acolyte or whatever. And they, like, shelved it. They bought it. Shelved it just so it would make it. That would have been.

[Brandon Herrera]

If I'm not mistaken, Adam Driver is one of yours, right?

[Nick]

Yeah, he was a Marine. Yeah, I heard nothing but good things about him. He actually, he, like, legitimately got hurt. I don't know how, but I know he cracked his sternum and so that's how he got. He got medically. Medically retired after that.

[Brandon Herrera]

Bad thing to crack.

[Nick]

Yeah, I mean, they're not shipping you out after that. That's, you know, I mean, obviously heal up and stuff, but, like, you know, and he apparently does a lot. I know he does a lot of stuff for like the veterans and like the arts and non profits and stuff. And he supports it very quietly, not publicly. Doesn't have any social media presence. Just like, likes the craft and telling stories, which I appreciate a lot.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, it's rad. Especially when they don't try to make it about themselves.

[Nick]

Yeah, it's just. He's just trying to help people. His TED talks really good and he talks about it. I like it a lot.

[Brandon Herrera]

I think that's how I found out about it was the.

[Nick]

The TED Talk I saw. That's how I found out about it. And I did. I did some research and it's. It was all very true, though. The best Marine story in modern fiction right now has to be Barry.

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh, yeah.

[Nick]

That's one of the greatest shows of all time.

[Brandon Herrera]

Except for the last season.

[Nick]

The last season. Everyone got tired. I could tell.

[Eli Double Tap]

It was weird.

[Nick]

Yeah, it was. It was. It was like.

[Brandon Herrera]

That was bizarre. They were.

[Nick]

Every season was just perfect and then they time skipped and it was just like, whatever.

[Brandon Herrera]

But your opinion on this is worth more than mine. But to me, that was probably one of the better. Like gritty, like funny.

[Ethan]

Haha.

[Brandon Herrera]

Like it's a comedy show with a serious portrayal of like PTSD and things like that.

[Ethan]

Yeah.

[Nick]

I mean, my favorite scene is when his girlfriend Sally's like complaining about her day and then he's like, well, can I get you like a tea or something? She's like, no, I'm fine. He's like, I can help. And she's like, what can you do? And he's like, oh. And he's like petting her, like rubbing her. Nothing really.

[Brandon Herrera]

I was just.

[Nick]

I'll go to her house, rearrange some stuff, swap her dog out with a slightly smaller dog, move things around.

[Brandon Herrera]

Slightly smaller or slightly larger furniture. So she thinks she's shrinking? Yeah.

[Nick]

You know, just kind of plant the seed and water it and you know, slowly her mind will melt. And then, you know, it's, it's, it's non violent and like he's describing it.

[Brandon Herrera]

Take pictures of her while she's asleep.

[Nick]

Yeah, it's perfect. It's perfect. She's like, how'd you learn this? Oh, just the military and some subreddits. Perfect.

[Brandon Herrera]

Have you ever seen Barry?

[Connor]

When does this episode come out?

[Nick]

Barry on hbo? You should watch Sav added to the list.

[Connor]

When's this come out?

[Ethan]

Whenever we want. Sooner. This is actually getting moved sooner.

[Connor]

If it's the 21st, it's for sure.

[Ethan]

Good.

[Connor]

Yeah, we can do that now. My new, new video I'm working on is like the coolest fucking story from World War II I've ever found. So it's this dude whose name is Pappy Gunn.

[Nick]

Pappy Gun.

[Connor]

Happy Gun. I love this name. And he's a pilot. Got in right after World War I. Spent 20 years as a carrier pilot. Like helped pioneer being a carrier pilot. Does 20 years, retires, moves to Manila in the Philippines with his family. He's like 42 and he's, he owns two planes and he's running like a civilian airline service, like going from island to island, just transporting people around. And the Japanese invade the Philippines. And he's got like, he's got three kids between the ages like 8 and 14. And the government lies to him. So he shuttles Army VIPs out to Australia to help him get away. And they lied to him about when the Japanese were invading. So the Japanese invade and take over Manila while his family's there. And his family gets captured and thrown in an internment camp and he, he ends up getting commissioned as a captain, but he doesn't give a about anything. And he ends up stealing 25 B25 bombers from the Danish military because they put him in charge of dudes. He rolls up with his boys to a Danish base in Australia. We're taking all of them Straight Up Jacks 25 Medium Bombers, takes them back and then retrofits them and puts eight 50 caliber machine guns in the nose. And they end up taking the design and it becomes a legitimate design. They used through World War II, the B25 Strafer. And all the engineers back in America were like, this doesn't work. It throws off the center of gravity. He's like, learn how to fly a plane. They flew him back to the United States to show the engineers how to do it. And then he ends up all of his bomber unit that's using these B25 strafers. At the Battle of the Bismarck Sea. Go in.

[Brandon Herrera]

So it looks like the OG A10.

[Ethan]

It is.

[Connor]

It literally is the OG yeah, it's 850cals in the.

[Nick]

So him and his boys were just like, I got an idea.

[Connor]

Well strapped also.

[Ethan]

Eight's a wild number to land at. I would be like, let's do four. Just like, nah, we're going to giant wall.

[Connor]

They expanded it to 1212. 1250 cals in the nose.

[Nick]

Dude, America's the best.

[Connor]

Dropping so much weight mid flight, the

[Brandon Herrera]

pilot had to adjust which again, A ten.

[Ethan]

Like yeah, like.

[Connor]

So his bombing unit goes in at the Battle of the Bismarck Sea, which is where like the Japanese are coming in with this huge reinforcement that they need to be able to hold the Philippines. And they end up sinking like, like, I think it's like three destroyers and a bunch of troop transports. And like all the Japanese troops are on the deck of this transport. They merked like 12,000 Japanese soldiers, dude. On the decks, 8 to 12, 50

[Ethan]

cows just on one vehicle going.

[Connor]

And there's like 20, 25 of them going in.

[Ethan]

Dude, that's just popping people.

[Eli Double Tap]

That's terrifying.

[Connor]

And like there's all kinds of like I. The video is going to be like an hour and a half long. But there's all kinds of crazy. Like the dude was literally working like 180 hours. Like they said. He slept four hours a night and was working the rest of the time trying to douche. He had like multiple failed attempts to sneak into the Philippines to try to save his kids. He ends up getting his family back, but they were in the internment camp until they actually like Retook Manila, which was what year when they retook Manila? It was like, right at the end of World War II. Yeah. 45. So they were in an internment camp for, like, three years. Yeah, for the most part. And there was all kinds of crazy that happened to his family. I think it was. It was either his wife or his daughter had appendicitis, and they didn't have general anesthesia, so she got her appendix removed awake. And then his sons were, like, helping funnel information in and out of the camps. They're like, 12 to 14, and they're, like, helping funnel information out to guerrilla fighters. Like, his family is putting in work, too.

[Brandon Herrera]

And then imagine, like, half. Imagine getting information that you're using to, like, coordinate your bombing runs or whatever that you have no idea is being funneled from your sons.

[Connor]

Yeah.

[Ethan]

Also, you're just that angry. The dad being that angry bit. Being lied to from the military, like, okay, well, I'm going to steal now and do do this.

[Connor]

Well, he.

[Ethan]

He.

[Connor]

I think he crashed his plane four times and survived in the jungle and, like, made it back out. So, like, he was like this living legend, and, like, he kind of played into it, like, whatever. But he's in his 40s, doing all this, working all these crazy hours. He always carried a chest rig with two 45s on him. And I.

[Ethan]

He.

[Connor]

He broke. He broke his pinky. He broke his pinky working, and it just, like, kept breaking. And his, like, finger was, like, all up from, like. There's no pictures, but it was, like, severely mangled, I guess. And at one point, he just got sick of it and went to his medic and was like, cut this off. And he's like, I can't do that. Let's go talk to the doctor. So they go to the aid station where the surgeon is, and he's like, cut it off. And the guy's like, no, we can splint it. And we do. I don't have time for surgery. And dude, cut this off. And he's like, I can't ethically do that. He pulls out a gun to his pinky and goes, you're gonna cut it off or you're gonna clean it your wall. What do you want to do? And the doctor, I guess, looks at the medic and he's like, he's dead ass serious. So they end up cutting his pinky off so he could just keep working.

[Nick]

Damn.

[Ethan]

They were built different, bro.

[Connor]

He wasn't around. This dude's awesome.

[Nick]

So what happens when you don't have GMOs so when he. You're just built different.

[Connor]

When.

[Brandon Herrera]

When he Lucky Charms robbed us of our greatest generation, we could have been awesome.

[Connor]

He stole. He stole the B25s and then they get all the way back to their other base and they land. They're like, they don't have bomb sites. The bomb sites were like locked up in the like, you know, like supply guys room with the guns and shit. So Pappy flies back by himself and has allegedly. This isn't like proven, but the word is Pappy basically pulls a gun on the supply sergeant and makes him unlock the and takes all 25 bomb sites and then leaves again. Again. That's awesome.

[Ethan]

It's not giving a. Oh.

[Connor]

And then they. And then they like perfected skip bombing in the Battle of the Bismarck Sea too. But skip bombing, skip bombing is like instead of. Instead of dropping a bomb from 20,000ft and hoping you hit, they just come in super low and drop the bombs super low. So they skip across the water like rocks and slam into the side of the hole. The ships.

[Brandon Herrera]

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[Eli Double Tap]

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[Brandon Herrera]

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[Ethan]

Also, who tested that theory first?

[Connor]

I think the British originally came up with it, but the general in charge, General Kenny, who was like the main guy in charge of Dick Bong, America's top fighter ace, he wrote, I think he wrote three books after World War II. He wrote one about his own experience, one about Dick Bong and one about Pappy Gunn. And he was like a big advocate for skip bombing. And. And Pappy Gunn had this like. Cause he was doing all this stuff and he was like out engineering the engineers in the field. So he like literally went to him and was like, hey, this is the idea I've had forever. Can you figure it out? And Pappy Gunn like helped perfect as perfect. It's not perfect now, but as good as it got. Pappy Gunn's the one that figured out how to skip bomb effectively. And they used it at the Battle of the Bismarck Sea.

[Brandon Herrera]

I Just love that you could immediately like especially the way that it seems like the American military was run during World two war war II is you could do whatever the you wanted as long as you were good at it. Pretty much nobody would you out if. If you were going rogue and being a. Yeah, you get PB smacked. But if you went rogue and you were incredibly effective, everybody just kind of went

[Nick]

all right.

[Connor]

And General. General Kenny the. The dude that was over Dick Bong and Pappy Gun, he was like known for that. Like if somebody's good, I'm gonna make sure the bureaucracy stays out of their fucking way. And that's what happened with Pappy Gunn.

[Brandon Herrera]

And we should be.

[Nick]

I mean that ship has sailed. That ship is sailed. Maybe they come back though.

[Ethan]

That'd be really gangster. That is a very angry person. Just let them do them.

[Connor]

But I mean it's like the most. It's such a cool story because it's like that's like the Hollywood story, you know what I mean? It's like taken like somebody has family. Dad turns into the world's biggest badass all of a sudden and the dude was in his 40s when he did it.

[Ethan]

Is the crazy part that especially during a giant war and you're like, oh, this happened. I'm not angry at like Bill down the street. I'm angry at an entire country. And now I am stealing planes from a different country.

[Connor]

Danish weren't using them.

[Nick]

I don't even know where a Danish is. I think it's just a fancy donut.

[Brandon Herrera]

Speaking of, speaking of which, I really did enjoy your. Your Greenland video.

[Connor]

So many people were butthurt about that.

[Brandon Herrera]

Why?

[Connor]

I don't know. Apparently just providing context is picking aside.

[Brandon Herrera]

No, I thought that that was a very, very helpful because like I knew some of it but there's a lot of details in that video. I had no clue.

[Connor]

Yeah, we've been after Greenland since 1800s, like pretty much forever.

[Brandon Herrera]

How it was related to the acquisition of Alaska, like I had no idea.

[Ethan]

Idea. Yeah.

[Connor]

No. People got all super.

[Nick]

Are we going to get it?

[Connor]

Greenland? Probably not.

[Nick]

Come on.

[Connor]

No, I mean that was the whole point of the video is like, hey, we've been trying to do this. This is what's happened the last four times we've tried. It's probably what's going to happen again is like the overall sentiment of like it's not new. Yeah, it's. It's the same repackaged. You just don't like it now. Cuz one, there's social media and you're aware of it. And two, Donald Trump. Trump is inflammatory in the way he words like.

[Ethan]

Yeah, we had. What was. What did you just clip that went really big. It was Cody talking about blm. Yeah, yeah, that one. And that popped up on my 40 pages. Like, what the. And then I was like, oh, comments.

[Eli Double Tap]

Oh, views.

[Ethan]

Oh, okay.

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh, you weren't here for this.

[Connor]

Get this man. A 40. What did you say?

[Brandon Herrera]

I don't know. He said BLM destroyed policing for the next 20 years.

[Nick]

Oh, everyone's afraid to actually do.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah, yeah, that's true. Yeah. I don't know if you could tell. I was drinking in that video too. I forgot I said that.

[Connor]

Did you see there? Did you see this? They're starting a big push to get rid of body cams now.

[Nick]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

I've been talking about that.

[Connor]

There was this super liberal author that like wrote a whole book about it and he was doing an interview and it was basically like, we should get rid of police body cams because the cops can decide when to turn them on and off. So now we're only catching when the cops are right and they're using it for propaganda. So we have to get rid of

[Brandon Herrera]

body cam, which to my understanding is completely incorrect.

[Eli Double Tap]

That's very incorrect.

[Nick]

Aren't they. Aren't they on as soon as you like grab your pistol or like get out of your car?

[Brandon Herrera]

Like all. You have to have like the most

[Eli Double Tap]

departmental policies, you have to turn them on on any call as soon as

[Brandon Herrera]

you get out of your car.

[Eli Double Tap]

And they know when you're going to calls, so they pay attention.

[Brandon Herrera]

Are most of my dash cams and shit like that, like as soon as you turn the lights on, doesn't it immediately?

[Nick]

Yeah.

[Eli Double Tap]

Dash cams are automatic and you can't erase them or fig or turn them off or.

[Ethan]

Yeah, but the movies.

[Connor]

But the movies.

[Eli Double Tap]

I know.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's a plot point of the movie. Weapons, I believe.

[Ethan]

What, dude? Which I get in that one. Well, that's so good.

[Eli Double Tap]

Just hilarious movie. We were watching that on my stream the other day. Got anything in your pocket that's going to poke me?

[Ethan]

Poke. Yes, yes.

[Connor]

I'm sorry.

[Ethan]

I'm so sorry. It's like apologizing after. He's angry. Good movie. Good movie.

[Nick]

So his premise is if it was. What if we turn off the. We get rid of.

[Connor]

Basically he's mad that the body cam thing backfired and it's not proving that every single cop on the planet's a racist piece of shit that's doing Horrific things. And it's actually proving that a lot of times it was a justified whatever. So they're mad about it. So they're trying to now get rid of them.

[Eli Double Tap]

Yeah, the. There was an article from New York magazine the other day. I was tweeting about it a little bit. They're saying that it was a whole article.

[Connor]

They're horrific.

[Eli Double Tap]

It was like YouTube channels or just they're making money off of bullying young women with body camera footage. And like, yeah, I am. It's awesome.

[Ethan]

You are the top reply. It's just like, hey, everyone. And then just Cody says, hi, everyone. So he.

[Nick]

He.

[Brandon Herrera]

He seriously hit him with the straight up. Hi, everyone.

[Nick]

The best part is always when everybody goes, hi, Cody. Hi, Cody.

[Brandon Herrera]

Hi, Cody.

[Nick]

Oh, donuts here. Hi, Cody.

[Ethan]

Hi, Cody.

[Brandon Herrera]

Holy admin's here.

[Nick]

Yeah, well, this.

[Eli Double Tap]

This dude's trying to argue that's the bad thing that girls. That we make fun of girls when they get DUIs. I'm gonna. Dude, if you're willing to go drive your car drunk and possibly kill someone.

[Nick]

Yeah, I'm gonna make fun of you.

[Eli Double Tap]

I'm gonna hurt your feelings.

[Ethan]

If you're willing to put other people's lives in danger, go yourself. Yeah, we're not gonna dox you, though.

[Nick]

Tell that guy about. Tell him about mug shorties. Have you seen that page? That's the funniest page. The comments are just hilarious. So it's girl. Girls, you know, to be like, felony assault with a weapon. And the comments are usually like, I can fix her. It's just thirsty dudes saying the craziest stuff.

[Ethan]

I love seeing every comment.

[Nick]

Yeah, every single comment.

[Brandon Herrera]

Well, I saw one where it's like, it was this one chick who was. It was. She was arrested for tax evasion and machine gun. Illegal machine gun possession. Yeah. Top comment was, I don't need to fix her.

[Nick]

It's just hilarious.

[Ethan]

What are we doing with your event tonight, Mr. Brandon? We got veterans all hanging out. Like, I.

[Brandon Herrera]

That's great. Actually, it turned into something really, really cool because we just thought, like, okay, you know, that's. That's one of the things. It's kind of almost like a show of force in a way because Tony's

[Ethan]

trying to take a photo real quick and post it on our social of

[Brandon Herrera]

where to be, please. Oh, yeah, yeah. We're working on the graphing and stuff like that.

[Ethan]

Well, we can do one just for unsub, like, building right now. Yeah, just a quick one on a story because we can do a story for Brandon's Push and then he can give you the address of where to go.

[Nick]

I like better.

[Brandon Herrera]

Do you want the 40s on the table? Probably

[Nick]

not his.

[Ethan]

Yeah, you're a veteran.

[Brandon Herrera]

No,

[Nick]

Brandon has all of the cons, none of the pros.

[Brandon Herrera]

You removed the coffee from the table.

[Nick]

Well, Starbucks, they don't need promo, I think.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, it's five so. Well, essentially it's like a show of force. Like it's, it's the, the stupid that

[Nick]

we're beating up people. Well, we get out with full armor

[Ethan]

and tear gas like you veterans. Herrera sits up shooting him with beanbags, passing out one 9 millimeter at a time.

[Brandon Herrera]

I want Herrera to know it was me, but no, it's like you get attacked so much and the. Oh, veterans. This, this, this. He doesn't like veterans. It's, it's so, it's so stupid and it's so disingenuous because like, that's obviously like the opposite of what this entire thing's been about. Right? But we're, we're just doing a thing where we're just getting a bunch of veteran groups out and a bunch of veterans from, you know, around San Antonio and around the district and doing actually something that it actually worked out really cool because we got a lot of people involved different veteran charities that we work with, veteran groups, organizations, and even just veteran run businesses. And I think we've got like 40 vendors that are going to be there that are all like veteran owned or veteran focused. I'm very proud of what it turned into. So being actually able to go and do something for the community for once. Also,

[Ethan]

it'd be fun. You get to interact with a whole bunch of people.

[Brandon Herrera]

It'd be a good time. And it's something he falls back on, like, oh, but look at me in my little cute Navy outfit. It's like, well, the only thing you've ever done is lie to veterans across the district. Like, you said you were gonna help them. You absolutely didn't. Most of the people I talked to, they can't even get a email back from your office when they need help with their VA rating or something like

[Nick]

that, which is his job. When you email their congressional whatever, there's a person, each person has one of those people in their office.

[Brandon Herrera]

And I think it's actually worse. I think it's genuinely worse when you try to use your veteran credentials to show like why I'm so good for veterans and then you fucking ignore them. I think that's worse.

[Nick]

If everyone hasn't learned one thing by now, you should learn it and listen to me. That being a veteran doesn't guarantee that you're a good person or that you know what you're talking about or that you should be believed in everything that you say, publicly or privately, or even that you'll help veterans or even that you'll help veterans. Like, if. If you hear a story and you're like that, that's the craziest story I've ever heard in my entire life. It's probably made up. Like, it's probably made up. So just go with that. Like, if every story here, like, wow, you know, you fought a dragon, you had a jetpack, and blah, blah, blah, it's most likely made up. Be discerning. Just. I don't want to say anything else. I'm not trying to catch a case or make life hard for anyone here. But, like, you know, just being a veteran doesn't mean anything other than in your parents didn't love you. Okay. And.

[Brandon Herrera]

Jesus.

[Nick]

It's fine, it's fine. No, no. I'm just speaking from my experience.

[Ethan]

Grew up poor. Yeah.

[Nick]

You know, college wasn't on the table for you. Okay. Like, that's just a fact. No. Being a veteran means you served your country. It does not mean that you're entitled to anything. It does not mean that you're better or lesser than anyone else. It just means that that's the path you chose. Good for you. That's awesome. I'm proud of you. Don't lie about your service. Don't embellish it or use it as a way to gain some sense of notoriety or attention. What you should do do is invest in your community and help move beyond the battlefield and take care of your brothers and sisters. That's real.

[Brandon Herrera]

For sure. And the one thing I will say, though, is that you are entitled to certain things. Like when you signed on the dotted line, this country basically said, hey, we are going to take care of you. Like, if you have medical issues, especially those related to your service, you are owed that from us. Yeah. Terrible job of following up with that, for sure.

[Nick]

And like, VA health care, for sure. I'm. What I'm really referring to is like, I remember when I got out, everyone's like, you know, you'll be able to get a job anywhere, blah, blah, blah. That's just not the case. Right. So, like, you have to do other things. There are certain things that should happen, you know, VA compensation, for sure. I mean, I made the video and Nick was in it too, about the Washington Post, who just said, all veterans are scamming, you know, VA disability. And you know, their evidence was, you know, boomers posting images on Facebook. Literally that that's all it was. And a direct quote from four journalists who were, they did like a year, what's the word I'm looking for? Investigation. A year long investigation. They said since 2001, claims for PTSD and tinnitus have gone up exponentially. And they're like, we don't know why. We, we can't figure out why this has happened since 2001. I can tell you the day it happened, I can tell you what it caused in, like, I know what it is. And like, like they're just trying to like erode supportive veterans and stuff. And it sucks to see it.

[Brandon Herrera]

But like, it's funny because they'll, they'll, they'll point at that. Like they'll go after. And you know, there, there is some fraud in the VA system. There's fraud everywhere.

[Nick]

There's fraud everywhere. But keep that same energy with Social Security, though.

[Brandon Herrera]

That's what I'm saying. Keep that same energy with Social Security with the fraud you're seeing in Minnesota. All these people that are just sending money back, like millions and millions of American tax dollars back to the countries they no longer live in. Like, that's. Why aren't we investigating that? But instead you want to go after people who objectively did sign on the dotted line. And like I said, is there fraud there? Sure, absolutely. But not nearly as much.

[Nick]

But why is the Washington Post interviewing me? I was interviewed by them. They didn't like my interview. They're like, nah, it doesn't really fit our narrative. And they interviewed a bunch of other people and they're just trying, the whole four article thing is just trying to paint veterans is like, man, they get paid so much. Like, even down to the imagery they use. The first article, there's like hands grabbing money, right? So that's the first thing you see when you open up. Like, look at them, they're animals just grabbing all of our tax dollars. And I'm like, well, it's, you know, if that's the case, it's nice to see Americans get into tax dollar for once. You know, if I have to be objective about it, it's nice to see the dollar staying home for once.

[Brandon Herrera]

You know, we can send hundreds of billions across the world. But oh, God forbid, when it goes to an American, God forbid a veteran

[Nick]

have a little bit of motion, you know, like, God forbid. It's just, it's really insane to See, all that to say is like, I love you. I'm very proud of you. I like that you're doing this. You don't have to run for Congress. God knows it hasn't made your life easier. But I do appreciate that you want to serve in this way because, like, change has to happen, and that's just a fact. Aside from my, like, personal feelings about you as a. As an individual, I'm. I like what you're doing and what you stand for.

[Brandon Herrera]

Best case scenario, we can do some good. We can get a bad vote out, do some good for not only the district, not only for Texas, the veteran community, everything that we care about. And worst case scenario, go back to having the best job in the world. So

[Nick]

show up, nerds.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's a win, win. And either way, we're costing the establishment uni party tens of millions of dollars, which is really fun.

[Ethan]

Also hurts the soul.

[Nick]

I made a God. Yeah, it's good. No, it's. I mean, I didn't. I don't. I don't even know what a cryptologist is.

[Connor]

So, like, you know, apparently they're in the Epstein files.

[Brandon Herrera]

That was very funny.

[Nick]

It's true. Yeah. All dimmed up. In the Epstein files.

[Connor]

Named in the Epstein files. Imagine that.

[Ethan]

Was he?

[Nick]

Yes, yes.

[Brandon Herrera]

I posted about it yesterday. He's not, like, actually, like, he's not in the files, as in, like, he did anything wrong, but there is. He is literally listed in the Epstein files as part of, like, some, like, FBI email or something like that, where he's listed as a Texas Democrat. Rut Row.

[Nick]

Raggy.

[Brandon Herrera]

Dead serious.

[Ethan]

Yeah, still listed in it. And also for the wrong.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's very funny.

[Ethan]

You are, huh?

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh, he is.

[Ethan]

God, yeah. I hate going outside, brother.

[Brandon Herrera]

Eli's like, I was there for the jet skis.

[Ethan]

That SC like a nightmare. It's so loud.

[Connor]

The funny thing is, if Eli was in the Epstein files, it would just

[Ethan]

be all the other bad stuff, but really loud.

[Connor]

If Eli was, it would just be him sharing the deep fried meme of, Eli, you're Mexican.

[Eli Double Tap]

Holy.

[Brandon Herrera]

You're Mexican.

[Nick]

Have you seen the clip of Tim Robinson where he's on the dating show and the girl's like, I think you're just here for the zip line. He's like, what are you talking about? That would have been Eli. He would have just been there for the zip line.

[Ethan]

Just.

[Brandon Herrera]

We've noticed your lack of attendance at the child sacrifice mantles. You're just always at the zip line.

[Ethan]

Yeah. You guys bitching.

[Nick]

He, like, goes past Moloch

[Brandon Herrera]

he's ziplining past the giant owl statue in the Bohemian Grove.

[Nick]

Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry. Comcast support, Brandon.

[Brandon Herrera]

Thanks, buddy.

[Nick]

I don't know, I just. I really appreciate that you're doing it, so. And San Antonio has a very big veteran community. The top in the country, I believe.

[Ethan]

Yep.

[Nick]

Pretty close, right?

[Brandon Herrera]

Well, I mean, the district in general. I mean, we've got, you know, we've got Fort Sam Houston kind of like on the periphery there a lot of people that are, you know, stationed there. Here in the district, you've got Camp Bullis, you've got Fort Bliss over on the El Paso side, you got a ton of stuff. Del Rio, like, it's very, very big veteran.

[Ethan]

Aren't we called military city?

[Brandon Herrera]

San Antonio's. Yeah, military city, usa.

[Nick]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

But on top of that, we also have a very unique problem in the district. Not to get, like, political here, but it's veteran focused. There's a lot of veterans that are in West Texas that are not getting the care that they deserve. People either people that need, you know, a change to their VA rating or they need something. Like, for example, they're told, hey, you have to go into Audie Murphy Hospital.

[Ethan]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

The VA hospital there in San Antonio. And you live two, three fucking hours away. Imagine you're an elderly, disabled Vietnam vet and you're told that, oh, in order to get the service that you are promised by this country, you have to drive three hours into San Antonio with

[Ethan]

AAA and you cannot reschedule. And those appointments are extremely bad at times. I.

[Nick]

Because I have three to six months, dude.

[Ethan]

Hey.

[Connor]

I.

[Ethan]

Because I have both. Because I've got to see other individuals that don't have the experience. And, like, I have 100% PTSD. I'm like, we got how many. What? What? It was like, yeah, there's a mortar that dropped on base. I'm like, like one. But yeah, even that was surprising to them. Like, hey, we got. Oh, well, you're at 70 now.

[Nick]

Well, so there's, like, multiple problems with, like, VA care. You know, I live in Nashville. I'm very blessed. There's multiple facilities near me, particular the Nashville ones attached to Vanderbilt University. So all my doctors are Vanderbilt docs.

[Brandon Herrera]

That's, like a super big medical hub, right?

[Nick]

Yeah. I mean, the top physicians in the world come out of there. So it's. You know, the worst VA doctor in Nashville is still probably one of the best in the country.

[Connor]

Country.

[Nick]

But with, like, rural veterans, there are organizations that will actually. They'll just go pick them up and Then they'll be like, all right, Jeff, Bob and Tim, they have appointments on this day because that's. They're all old. The older generation are having the toughest problem getting access to care. And I found out through the secretary, Doug Collins, that the VA has interacted with about 9 million veterans in some form or fact. But there's 14 to 15 million veterans in America right now, and there's still that huge gap. And the biggest gap seems to be the rural community veterans. They just don't have the ability to get there.

[Brandon Herrera]

And, and that's one of those things where not only do I think this is a good idea across the board, which is giving, you know, veterans more access to their personal, you know, their private healthcare provider and, you know, private specialists and whatever that aren't necessarily having to go through the va. Yeah, but it's. Is it. I think it's a good idea in general, but in areas, rural communities like that, that are hours away from a major hospital, that or a major VA hospital, that's a necessity.

[Nick]

It's a necessity. And they've done stuff. And when I, when I interviewed him, he, he said it. They. He's been leading the charge on the expansion of the community care program. So that's the way they've been supplementing a lot of these rural veterans is they're like, hey, you put in a referral, and if it's. It takes like more than three months, I don't know the exact date, somebody say it in the comments, but the exact date, then they go, just take it to outside.

[Brandon Herrera]

And it's.

[Nick]

They'll. They'll pay for it, they'll cover it, and you get approved for like six months to a year. So, like, you can go to them continually and then they'll, they'll bill it

[Brandon Herrera]

all to the va. And it's gotten better.

[Nick]

It's gotten better.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's gotten better. But it, this is, this, this is the sort of shit that needs to be codified in legislation, and that's the only way this is actually going to get fixed long term.

[Nick]

Yeah. And he says X. He was in Congress, and the big problem is like, he's like, I can't change this until there' votes on it. He's like, I can't do all this stuff. But like, he told me and it's, he's on the record saying it, that under the Biden administration, they were not. How can I think of how to say this? They were not as active as approving community care stuff. They were trying to Keep things internal to cut costs. And his position has been, yeah, it costs more, but it's the only way that I can like leverage this to Congress and say, this is why we're spending so much more money on it.

[Brandon Herrera]

It has been my experience with that administration that they were more interested in adding dog government jobs than they were in actual quality of care.

[Nick]

He said they were sitting, he said they were sitting on community care referrals. Like they were just like keeping a mincillary. So basically refusing care to veterans who need it. And so his thing has been like, approve all of them. It's his biggest, like one of his biggest expenses, obviously. But he's like, that's how I can take this to them. Be like, look, it's costing us this much because you're not helping.

[Ethan]

But it's going to be cheaper just approving those versus versus. What was like 9 to 18,000 people that were rehired? The bad VA employees?

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, they, they had specific examples where, you know, there were VA employees that were just, you know, blanket rehired by the Biden administration where, you know, there's guys who, what was it? The guy that was caught like watching and off at his station.

[Ethan]

And this is 19.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's just a blanket rehire.

[Ethan]

And they were like, hey, they were, they were all fired. And then there was a blanket rehire. All. I can't remember.

[Brandon Herrera]

It was, it was a big number. It's like 8,000, I think.

[Nick]

That's awesome. That's really great to hear. That's like super cool to hear, like,

[Ethan]

whoa, we can't afford these, but we can pay for salaries.

[Nick]

Yeah, well, it's just cheaper.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's just like everything else. If you hand it off to the government, the, the price will go up and the quality will go down, period. Why any, any chance there is that we can, we can take something that the government is currently in charge of handling, like the VA and hand it to private groups in a way that you're not going to get taken advantage of or something like that. Obviously you can have restrictions on it, but these people deserve care and they're not getting it. And the government has failed at every level.

[Nick]

I mean, there's. Tyler's had issues with like Tyler Vargas Andrews, he had issues with. They're like, what happened with your leg? He's literally had people service related. What leg? And he's like, which one? And they're like, I don't know. Did you fall? Did you catch diabetes? He's like, no, it's on the news. Dude, by the way, I testified in front of Congress. Like, yeah, we hear that a lot, buddy. Where everyone testifies in front of Congress. Like, it's. It's really like, some of his injuries, they were. They were actually having trouble establishing them, linking them to, like, his service.

[Brandon Herrera]

Are you kidding me?

[Nick]

He sphinxed it all now. But I was like. I was like, give me a name.

[Connor]

Isn't he, like, 25?

[Nick]

He's. No, he's 28. 29.

[Ethan]

Okay.

[Nick]

Like, about a decade.

[Brandon Herrera]

It blew my mind that he was younger than me. I completely. I just did not make that association.

[Nick]

And then people like, well, you didn't really get hit by 150 ball bearings. Well, actually, according to my. I. I sit at home and no one talks to me. Like, dude, everyone thought it was like. Like an actual marble. It was just bbs and people were disputing his injuries and.

[Ethan]

Oh, we do that. That was a wild tweet.

[Connor]

We were.

[Ethan]

Yeah, we were in the conversation, like, homie, have you seen any mass cash? Or how this works? And BBS aren't bullets going all the same Speed.

[Brandon Herrera]

Daisy Red, writer. Like, it can be that simple.

[Nick]

Yes.

[Ethan]

Like, nah.

[Nick]

Also, if he's making it all claymore, why would he. Why would he make all of these things up? Why would he go through all these different hoops? Why would he be in Afghanistan just for a goof. Diabetes and he really wants his VA health care. Like, it's so stupid.

[Brandon Herrera]

Going after a dude who lost his arm and leg and being like, I think he's lying is a wild day.

[Ethan]

Think.

[Nick]

Yeah, there's something. I'll save it for the after show that he did that. You know what I'm talking about? The comments he made on that one post.

[Connor]

I can't say.

[Nick]

Yeah, I cannot anywhere on YouTube. It's one of the funniest things I've ever seen, bro.

[Connor]

He was responding to comments for, like,

[Nick]

two days with one hand.

[Connor]

I was checking, bro, Those tweets go so much harder when, you know, they were typed with a hook.

[Ethan]

Like, I hate that more.

[Nick]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

Meant

[Ethan]

was.

[Nick]

It was something.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, we. We can fire and forget. He put thought into this.

[Connor]

Yeah.

[Nick]

No, and he'll. He'll. And he'll talk, too. When he's, like, gaming with, like, his controller in his mouth in one hand, he'll still be. Just talk and be like, I'm doing this with one hand in my mouth, dude.

[Ethan]

It's wild seeing how people react to these individuals. It's, like, documented and, like, it's fake. Dakota. People think Dakota Story is fake. And you're like, you have no idea how much goes into the Medal of Honor in order to get that approved. And then to say story never.

[Connor]

Especially now. Yeah, like the Medal of Honor has gotten significantly harder to get post World War II.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah.

[Connor]

Like significantly.

[Brandon Herrera]

How long are you going to be in town?

[Connor]

Till Sunday.

[Brandon Herrera]

I have a cemetery to show you.

[Connor]

Okay.

[Brandon Herrera]

We'll be doing an event and I. The. The sheriff of Kinney county was. Was very. Was gracious enough to give me a tour. I'm sure he'd love to give you one. There is a cemetery that has three Medal of Honor recipients in it. I believe it's three, possibly four. Most in it at least per capita.

[Connor]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

Outside of Arlington. Very. You know, it's a remote little town. Remote county. County. But they have. I. I want to say it's four. There's five Medal of Honor recipients, I think, buried in the county. Four in one cemetery.

[Ethan]

This is out in like it's Bracketville.

[Connor]

Texas goes hard. Like, I would. I haven't like officially checked. I would be shocked if the most Medal of Honor recipients from a state wasn't Texas.

[Nick]

I agree to that.

[Connor]

The amount of videos I've done, for sure, the main characters from Texas.

[Brandon Herrera]

But here's the thing. Two of the. Two of the Medal of Honor recipients from that county shot each other.

[Ethan]

Oh, yes.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah. It was. It was an engagement. I believe it was in the Indian wars where they actually. I think they were involved in saving then Lieutenant Bullis, who Camp Bullis is named after. They. I guess their paths in life just went very, you know, very different directions. One of them became the sheriff and the other one became like. I think it was a horse or cattle. And then they got into a shootout where the sheriff then shot the horse thief.

[Ethan]

Damn.

[Connor]

That's crazy.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's. It's a wild. I think it's the only instance in American history where a Medal of Honor recipient shot another Medal of Honor recipient.

[Connor]

We, me and Ethan on habitually. Go ahead.

[Ethan]

Well, really quick, what state do you think has the most Medal of Honors?

[Brandon Herrera]

Virginia.

[Nick]

Hang on.

[Ethan]

Not gonna guess.

[Connor]

Think about the side that won.

[Brandon Herrera]

There was a reason behind that. Guess.

[Ethan]

Root for the home team.

[Nick]

New York. I don't know. I'm thinking states have been established the longest. Yeah.

[Connor]

Yeah.

[Nick]

I was thinking Colony. Ish.

[Ethan]

By like a margin. Like Massachusetts in third place. That's at 265.

[Nick]

New York.

[Ethan]

York has 672 to 677.

[Brandon Herrera]

Wow.

[Nick]

Well, now they have communism, so I'm sure all those People love that wild.

[Brandon Herrera]

Who's in second?

[Nick]

Who was second?

[Connor]

Pennsylvania. It's just oldest states. That makes sense. Plus, it was a lot easier to get Medal of Honor back then.

[Ethan]

You could get.

[Brandon Herrera]

I think there were multiple from this one engagement.

[Connor]

Yeah.

[Nick]

There's a really cool museum in Fort Worth that you all should go to. The middle.

[Connor]

How did. How did that story go from that museum we went to in Rhode island, where in the museum, they had, like, this guy's military uniform, and the guy had been shot in the neck during an engagement. He was, like, this badass artillery officer that was originally rejected for being too small. His uniform was tiny. He had to have been 110 pounds. Tiny dude. Oh, this is literally ended up being, like, a badass. What war was that? It was Civil War, wasn't it? Yeah, it was Civil War. So he was for the north, and he had his uniform, and he, like, got shot in the neck holding this blown up part of a wall that they were hiding behind. And he got shot in the neck, and they had his uniform. He ended up surviving. And then they also had the. The Southerner that shot him in the neck had, like, talked about how he. He fought in the Civil War, but he only killed one guy.

[Brandon Herrera]

I remember hearing that story and highlighted,

[Connor]

like, the exact scenario. And those two ended up, like, writing each other and exchanging correspondence back and forth when they were, like, 70 years old about how, like, damn it, you were my one kill. I thought, I gotcha. And he's like, nah, I lived. Like, it was. You could read the letters, and they had the guys. Who is crazy? That's the coolest museum I think I've ever been to. Varnum Armory Museum is like this little. It's like. It's like an old YMCA building. And they just have the coolest. The coolest stories in there.

[Brandon Herrera]

Have you been to the World War II Museum in New Orleans? We need to go.

[Ethan]

Yeah, we all need to do that. Also, just the favorite museum opening up a letter 70 or, like, 50 years down.

[Connor]

Sorry I shot you.

[Ethan]

Yeah, like, bro, I thought I killed your ass. And you're like, it's the.

[Brandon Herrera]

I'm sorry.

[Ethan]

Whoa, dude, you're the guy that shot me, bro. I got a Medal of Honor. Wild.

[Connor]

The. The canon thing is one of the coolest thing.

[Ethan]

That's the story I love the most.

[Connor]

They had a cannon. Cannon from the Civil War on its original yoke and, like, wheels and. And in the mouth of the cannon was a cannonball wedged halfway in it, like, halfway sticking out, stuck. And you could see there was like a dent. And apparently this historian that was there that gave us a tour had like done all this research. This cannon got hit by a Confederate cannon and dented the exit. So when. And they went to shoot it, got stuck. Midway in, one of the guys died. And he like tracked down this dude's like, personal diary that he had like mailed to his wife. He had like, all this cool about it. But the cannon after the Civil War had been taken and putting it into like a. It was on display somewhere and then it was like put into a local courthouse on display. And it was just sitting there. And I think they. The cannon was still fucking loaded for like over a hundred years before somebody realized. So then there's all these marks where they were trying to chisel this cannonball out with like a fucking flathead screwdriver. And they couldn't get it out. So they eventually.

[Brandon Herrera]

That's a crazy thing to attempt to do.

[Connor]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh, wow, this is loaded.

[Ethan]

Didn't they find out buying the guy or a piece of paper and like. Oh, that's.

[Connor]

Yeah, it's still loaded. Yeah. So they had to go in and like drill out the fuse hole and then flush it with water repeatedly until they got all this out. And it's still like this cannon that's just frozen in time from the moment that it got seized up in battle in the Civil War.

[Brandon Herrera]

Hypothetical, very funny scenario. Somebody goes to D. Millet and tries to weld the fuse hole.

[Connor]

Well, like the, the. The crazy part for me. Do you ever read the book Hatchet when you were in school by Gary Paulson?

[Nick]

Yes.

[Connor]

Gary Paulsen wrote another book called the Gun. And the entire premise is following a musket from it's either the revolutionary or Civil War through its like, entire life. Life of being a gun. And like the Revolutionary War guy that was carrying it, they. It was raining. So he took like a wax and put wax over the barrel of this loaded gun and he died in combat and dropped it loaded. And then it just got like passed down from family member to family member and was like sitting over a mantle loaded. And then like, I don't want to ruin the book, but like, it reminded me of that where it's just like this gun from this old war, just somebody gets smoked loaded for a 100 years. Years.

[Brandon Herrera]

You know, I've never heard of that.

[Ethan]

That's.

[Connor]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

Interesting.

[Nick]

I was wondering why we didn't read that book. But there's a lot of foreshadowing there. I can kind of figure it out.

[Brandon Herrera]

You definitely tell it wasn't stored somewhere with high humidity.

[Connor]

Yeah, over the fireplace.

[Nick]

Well, well, I'm. I'm no zoologist, but that's not safe. I thought you guys were talking about war letters, like, letters from home. Because I'm convinced all the ones that they share, like, are fake because, like,

[Connor]

oh, they definitely got screened.

[Nick]

Well, they get screened because it's always, always like, dolores, how I miss thee. I long for your touch.

[Ethan]

No, Dolores, give me that.

[Nick]

There's never one was like, send sketches. Yeah, I'd love to see that. There's everyone, like, damn, girl, I miss you. Like, there's never one that's, like, realistic.

[Connor]

I will say, just from my perspective, the.

[Nick]

Have you found, like, dirty warlords.

[Connor]

The morals of not cheating on your wife have definitely gotten a lot more strong, strict in modern times. It doesn't feel like it, but they have because the amount of, like, heroic badasses that love their wife and kids and were great fathers. And you're like, yeah, his daughter is actually named after his mistress that he had in France, blah, blah, blah.

[Brandon Herrera]

And it's like, say, there's a lot of American lineage in France.

[Connor]

Yeah.

[Nick]

Crazy work. Crazy work.

[Connor]

They were really abiding by the different zip code, doesn't count rule type thing.

[Ethan]

Like, there was no Internet. Internet. I can hide this family.

[Connor]

I'm saying, like, how crazy. How crazy was that? When you. When you hear all the stories of,

[Ethan]

like, how are you gonna know about that family?

[Brandon Herrera]

Are we dating the same guy? Telegram chat.

[Ethan]

It takes eight weeks.

[Nick]

Naming your child after your mistress is the wildest thing I can think. Where'd you go with that name?

[Brandon Herrera]

I don't just, like.

[Nick]

I don't know. I just thought, you know, Normandy was a good name. I don't know. I don't know French names. That's all I know.

[Connor]

Sorry.

[Ethan]

My God. Damn, I wouldn't do it. You guys ready for the after show?

[Nick]

Yeah.

[Ethan]

Cody, you beautiful son of a. Close us out.

[Eli Double Tap]

Bye, everyone. Thank you for joining the unsubscribe podcast. I was joined today by Eli Double Tap, the fat electrician veteran with a sign. Brandon Herrera, myself, donut operator, please join us on Patreon for the unsubscribe after show.

[Ethan]

We got the Punchy Punch.

[Nick]

Oh, what's the Punchy Punch? The power cube.

[Ethan]

Each one can punch right now. This is really good.

[Brandon Herrera]

How long is it going to take to set up?

[Nick]

This is. This is going to destroy.

[Brandon Herrera]

Three seconds. Okay, cool. I was going to say I do have to bail out of here because my event Is very soon.

[Ethan]

So you go like this and you hold it. You see in that one right in your torso. Hold it any which way.

[Brandon Herrera]

You got more than that in you.

[Nick]

Yeah, I just don't want to get sweaty before I show it to it.

[Connor]

Get it.

[Ethan]

We got 6900.

[Brandon Herrera]

That's actually really good.

[Ethan]

8300.

[Nick]

Dang, Zach. I guess we probably do three in the best average.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, yeah. No, best out of the three. Yeah.

[Ethan]

There's your best 11,000.

[Nick]

Now my hand hurts again.

[Ethan]

Connor, get up there.

[Eli Double Tap]

There.

[Brandon Herrera]

Go second.

[Nick]

I went first.

[Ethan]

Brandon, get over here. You want to go second? 11,300. Zach.

[Nick]

There goes my 11,000.

[Ethan]

That was.

[Brandon Herrera]

That was better.

[Nick]

18.

[Ethan]

23. Zach, you want to go here?

[Nick]

I will go again later. I'm very upset.

[Ethan]

Get in there.

[Eli Double Tap]

What was it?

[Brandon Herrera]

What was the actual 8,000? 6,000 was excellent. Well, never mind.

[Nick]

See? But why are the jewels different? Like, it's. I don't know.

[Brandon Herrera]

No one knows how it works.

[Ethan]

A Mystery Machine.

[Brandon Herrera]

That was terrible.

[Connor]

The bigger the number, the better it is.

[Brandon Herrera]

Nice things. Ah, my wrist.

[Connor]

12.

[Ethan]

That's why we helped you.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, that felt good.

[Ethan]

19.

[Brandon Herrera]

Ready? God damn it. I feel like I'm hitting.

[Ethan]

You hit low. Yeah, you hit low on that one. I can feel that one.

[Nick]

There you go. He's going to hook it.

[Brandon Herrera]

He's going to do a. Nick is going to all of us.

[Nick]

30,000. I'm going to 20.

[Ethan]

80.

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh, God. Oh.

[Ethan]

35.

[Nick]

Raise your kids in Iowa. This is proof.

[Brandon Herrera]

35 was crazy. 33. 33.

[Ethan]

35. One more. Oh, that 440.

[Brandon Herrera]

Queer.

[Ethan]

That was a good.

[Brandon Herrera]

I was like.

[Ethan]

There we go.

[Nick]

48,989. Eli's about to show.

[Brandon Herrera]

Why my nose, you say where? Just right here.

[Ethan]

Oh, There we go.

[Brandon Herrera]

28, 31. 31 5.

[Ethan]

Okay, now I'll do right hand.

[Brandon Herrera]

38. 38. 1. 32. 34. 44.

[Ethan]

8.

[Brandon Herrera]

43, 46. 46. 4.

[Ethan]

48.

[Brandon Herrera]

48 was your time.

[Ethan]

I know. Nick's gonna be like, I want to punch it more.

[Brandon Herrera]

I sleep.

[Connor]

You're gonna show up. It's gonna be mounted to the wall. Carving into the drywall, though, I think,

[Brandon Herrera]

like, I think it's like, entirely based on how close you get to the.

[Ethan]

Yeah, you have to.

[Connor]

You got to be accurate.

[Ethan]

Too accurate, as on that one.

[Nick]

I'm going again. Doesn't matter what you get. It doesn't matter. I was a pioneer.

[Brandon Herrera]

14, 30.

[Connor]

31.

[Brandon Herrera]

31. 35. 23.

[Ethan]

Fast enough.

[Connor]

It's a 2x multiplier.

[Ethan]

19.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, that's up. 34.

[Ethan]

4.

[Brandon Herrera]

35.

[Nick]

4, 32.

[Ethan]

God dang. Fine.

[Brandon Herrera]

Your turn.

[Ethan]

Stupid left hand. I probably southpaw, but I'm also intoxicated right now. Excuses.

[Brandon Herrera]

Except excuses.

[Nick]

Did you finish the fire?

[Brandon Herrera]

Almost.

[Nick]

Damn it,

[Ethan]

Zack. I don't like this anymore.

[Nick]

This game sucks. That's done. I'm done. I'm not even going to 10.

[Brandon Herrera]

That's just what it's going to be.

[Nick]

And my hand hurts again. God damn it.

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh, he want.

[Nick]

I'm hitting like high left.

[Eli Double Tap]

32.

[Ethan]

Mass moves Mass.

[Nick]

32.

[Connor]

Let me try one more.

[Ethan]

Hold it for Nick, cuz Nick wants to punch again.

[Brandon Herrera]

37. 37.

[Nick]

There you go.

[Connor]

Give me the right glove.

[Ethan]

Right glove. Punch again.

[Connor]

Not.

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh, thank my belt.

[Ethan]

That.

[Brandon Herrera]

40. 53.

[Ethan]

I got to beat Nick now.

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh, geez. Invalid.

[Nick]

52.

[Brandon Herrera]

And you're holding your ground. You're doing good. 55.

[Ethan]

One more, Nick. I gotta beat you now. Hold it. Keep holding it. You're being Nick.

[Connor]

Eli, you take a breather.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yep. I've raced.

[Connor]

I've raced.

[Ethan]

58,

[Nick]

so.

[Ethan]

58.

[Connor]

Yeah.

[Nick]

59.

[Ethan]

59. Nine. That sucks.

[Brandon Herrera]

Eli's back in first.

[Ethan]

That sucked. I can always feel when they're off. 59, 9.

[Brandon Herrera]

Get it? 59.

[Ethan]

9 squared.

[Nick]

I love how both Nick and I Eli willing to die over this.

[Ethan]

Yes. Oh, I got this. Because I knew Nick would literally just be like, I have to win this.

[Brandon Herrera]

Okay, hold on, hold on. I need. I need a second.

[Connor]

Oh, shit.

[Ethan]

He's not.

[Nick]

You got to fancy. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

[Brandon Herrera]

Okay, there we go.

[Ethan]

Close your eyes so you're not bracelet. I can hear your heart.

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh, that was big. 64.

[Nick]

64, 64.

[Brandon Herrera]

1.

[Ethan]

I got beat.

[Connor]

Nick again.

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh, God.

[Ethan]

59. You brace him.

[Connor]

My butthole clenched.

[Brandon Herrera]

54.

[Nick]

53.

[Brandon Herrera]

5.

[Nick]

That sucked up.

[Brandon Herrera]

47.

[Nick]

6.

[Brandon Herrera]

36, 2. 52, 8.

[Connor]

45.

[Brandon Herrera]

7.

[Nick]

That sucked.

[Brandon Herrera]

34.

[Ethan]

8.

[Brandon Herrera]

32, 6. 21 4. 44, 9. 27, 3. Oh, that was a big one. 42.5.

[Ethan]

I can get 48. 58 is going to be max. It's going to happen. I need to gain weight.

[Nick]

I will say they're like from.

[Brandon Herrera]

From the backside of the pad. There's definitely a difference. Eli, you hit hard, don't get me wrong. But Nick tries to punch through me.

[Nick]

Not for long. Ozempnik's here now he's losing weight. I can't wait.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yo, Sav, you're up,

[Connor]

babe.

[Ethan]

And I hurt my hand.

[Brandon Herrera]

Punch me right in the wheel.

[Nick]

I have to prove myself correct. Dude, I was playing VR like John. I was playing. It was just me stabbing.

[Ethan]

Now we just put everyone's names going down that list and we treat it like top gear.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah.

[Ethan]

Okay, now I think I got up to 36. We hope you like that.

[Nick]

Turn it off. We can play.

[Ethan]

You.