The TRUTH About The Pepsi Navy | Unsubscribe Podcast 249

Summary

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Unsubscribe Podcast #249: "The TRUTH About The Pepsi Navy"

Release Date: February 1, 2026
Hosts: Eli Doubletap (PewView), Brandon Herrera, Donut Operator, The Fat Electrician
Special Guests: Nick from Iowa (PewView)
Produced By: Daylight Media

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Overview

This episode of the Unsubscribe Podcast is a lively, joke-filled deep dive into one of internet history’s weirdest rumors: that Pepsi once commanded the world’s 6th largest navy. The hosts also riff on firearm culture, internet fame, collector guns, martial arts, and the oddities of military and gun history. The tone is irreverent, strongly flavored by inside jokes, dark humor, and the kind of banter you only get among friends who shoot together — literally and metaphorically.

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Main Topics & Segment Timestamps

1. Community, SHOT Show & Meet-and-Greets [00:00–05:15]

• SHOT Show stories: handling fan interactions, being recognized, and the Fat Electrician’s hilarious experiences at the booth.
• The difficulty of maintaining privacy and the snowball effect of being recognized at large events.
• Joking about evolving personas and running into each other prior to internet fame (Eli and Fat Electrician reminisce about working together without knowing it).

Notable Quote:
"I have this thing, like, I can usually tell if you recognize me, but I’m not going to be the one to approach you...I felt like a humongous douchebag right now." — Fat Electrician [02:41]

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2. Gun Industry Banter & Shooting Challenges [05:16–13:00]

• FN's new products: the SCAR and 30mm grenade launcher.
• HK’s legendary “Gray Room” and YouTubers getting hands-on with rare guns.
• Skill flexing: rifles vs. pistols, internet skepticism about marksmanship, unique trick shots.
• The struggle of capturing and sharing "unbelievable" shooting feats.

Notable Quote:
"It gets you a lot further in life than talent, you nerds." — Fat Electrician on internet fame and dick jokes [05:50]

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3. Skill, Gaming & Competitive Dynamics [13:01–15:27]

• Competitive streaks: outdoing each other in real life and in video games.
• COD gaming as pain management — and getting bested by Eli’s freakish reaction times.
• Fat Electrician’s early forays into YouTube with VHS-era content and accidental encounters documented on camera.

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4. Early Internet & Content Creation Tales [15:28–19:00]

• The nostalgia and minor embarrassment of old videos, from airsoft gun reviews to jiu-jitsu tournaments.
• The evolution from amateur content to full-scale influencer status.

Memorable Moment:
Dressed as a gorilla, Fat Electrician chased a banana-clad friend through Kmart, culminating in store ejections. [16:00]

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5. Gun Experiments & Iowan Gun Culture [19:01–23:00]

• Wild gun experiments: 50 BMGs in old shotguns, shooting until things explode on purpose for content.
• Dangers and lessons — and why some videos never get posted.

Notable Quote:
"If God didn’t want you to do it, he wouldn’t have made it fit." — Eli on makeshift gun science [19:47]

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6. Legends, Interviews & Stories in the Works [23:01–27:59]

• Upcoming podcast guests: the enigmatic Mike Vining ("the accountant" of JSOC — legendary for his EOD work).
• Possibility of a Chris Kyle tribute video, pending family approval.
• Veteran stories with outrageous, globe-spanning career tales.

Memorable Story:
A WWII marine wins stacks of Japanese occupation money gambling; after the war, exchanges it for ~$500,000 modern equivalent to pay for med school. [24:00–25:34]

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7. The Pepsi Navy: Mythbusting a Cold War Urban Legend [30:13–44:12]

Detailed Breakdown:

• Origins (1959):
  • US and USSR organize cultural exchanges; Pepsi steps in after Coke declines.
  • Donald Kendall (Pepsi exec) finesses Khrushchev into drinking Pepsi during the "kitchen debate" with Nixon, cementing Pepsi's presence as a status symbol in the USSR.
• Vodka-for-Pepsi Deal (1972–1980s):
  • Russians pay Pepsi with Stolichnaya vodka; Pepsi becomes the only Western soda in the USSR.
• Naval Vessels (Late 1980s):
  • The USSR, running a soda deficit, offers obsolete warships as barter.
• The Meme Exposed:
  • Pepsi never literally "commanded the world’s 6th largest navy" — instead, they brokered the vessels for scrap profit via Norway.
• Collapse Chaos (1991):
  • Soviet Union collapses, destroying Pepsi’s supply chain, bottling plants, and contractual clarity.
• Wild Barter Continuation:
  • USSR substitutes tankers for ships, Ukraine demands Pizza Huts and Pepsi bottling plants for completing the deal.
• The Punchline:
  • When the USSR opens up, Coca-Cola enters the market and "mops the floor with Pepsi," rendering their decades-long effort moot.

Notable Quotes:

• “The only thing protecting Pepsi’s deal was the secret recipe...they reverse-engineered nukes, but not soda!” — Fat Electrician [39:42]
• “Americans will use anything but the metric system: Pizza Huts per oil tanker.” — Eli [41:24]

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8. Pepsi Points & Extreme Promotions [44:12–47:15]

• Quick recap of the infamous Pepsi Points Harrier Jet marketing campaign.
• Legal wrangling and court's logic: “no reasonable person would take this seriously.”

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9. Gear, Collecting & Shooting [47:45–84:55]

• Deep dives into gun collecting, maintenance, and the "use it or keep it pristine" philosophy.
• Discussion on rare and historic firearms: PSG1, WA2000, the “Stinger” improvized Marine machine gun, gyrojet pistols and carbines.
• Pain and pride stories about gun buying, bidding wars, and accidental nuclear bomb replicas.
• Gun durability torture testing ("run it until it breaks"), Honey Badgers, suppressors, overpenetration, and home defense choices.
• Glock evolution and strategic market manipulation.

Memorable Quote:
"If you want to get good at something, just do it for three hours until you can piss that person off with a text message." — Eli [10:28]

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10. Martial Arts, Fitness, and Jiu-Jitsu Stories [55:04–68:15]

• Fat Electrician’s martial arts journey: from tournaments to gym management to getting his brown belt.
• The humbling gap between normal fighters and world-class black belts.
• Maintaining stamina, sparring, getting one's ass handed to them, and the dynamics of teaching vs. learning from Jiu-Jitsu legends.

Memorable Quote:
"My trident true strategy is I’m tired, but I’m going to keep pressing forward so maybe he won’t notice." — Fat Electrician [65:41]

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11. Fight Analysis & Boxing Culture [69:10–76:51]

• Commentary on recent fights: Jake & Logan Paul, Anthony Joshua, and historical boxing fights.
• Unpacking rumors of boxing "fixes" and "no knockout" clauses.
• Pacquiao’s insane punch volume; Margarito’s brutal loss and the cheating-plaster scandal.

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12. Recent SHOT Show Innovations & Gun Reviews [76:57–90:55]

• Hype over new releases: Canik collab with Radian, Glock Gen V, FN's updated SCAR, HK 417 (AR-10), the 30mm grenade launcher ("bolter").
• Observations on prototype 3D-printed gun parts and legality of owning certain weapons/ammo.

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13. Gun Nerding, Collector Philosophy, and Rare Firearms [90:56–102:29]

• The tension between shooting and preserving rare collectibles.
• The economics and ethics of firing ultra-rare weapons for historical record.
• Bidding war anecdotes and World War II firearm builds.

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14. Closing: Sentimental Guns & Magic Pistols [110:26–End]

• Each host shares their most sentimental and favorite guns, both for practical shooting and personal history.
• The magic of the Nighthawk TRS and Sand Viper — and why most other guns feel subpar after shooting them.
• Endearingly nerdy rants about Kimber and high-end 2011s.

Notable Quote:
"I want to see what this magical gun can do to people that don’t know how to handle a firearm and they just rip with it." — Brandon Herrera [00:00 & 111:59]

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Notable Quotes & Moments (with Timestamps)

• On making "dick jokes" a career:
  "It gets you a lot further in life than talent, you nerds." — Fat Electrician [00:12, 05:50]

• On gun collectors vs. shooters:
  "I don’t believe in safe queens...pretty much everything, I’ll shoot the gyrojet, we shot." — Eli [99:18]

• On the ‘Pepsi Navy’ myth:
  “They reverse-engineered nukes, but not Pepsi?” — Fat Electrician [39:42]

• On rare weapons torture testing:
  "I will run that thing until it breaks so I can tell people it’s a good gun." — Brandon Herrera [81:01]

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The Original Language and Tone

The podcast is loaded with profanity, irreverence, and layered in-jokes. The tone bounces between earnest enthusiasm for firearms history, playful one-upmanship, deep cynicism for marketing and internet myths, and self-deprecating banter about fame and skill.

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Recap & Takeaways

• Pepsi Navy: The myth of Pepsi commandering a fleet is rooted in a real but convoluted Cold War barter involving vodka, submarines, and, later, oil tankers and Pizza Huts. It’s ultimately a joke about how absurd international business could be during the Cold War and how quickly events spiral out of control when empires collapse.
• Gun World: SHOT Show revealed real innovation for once, according to Brandon — and the crew is hands-on with some of the rarest and wildest guns around.
• Martial Arts & Real Life: The chasm between online bravado/skill and the humbling truth found on the gym mat or at the range.
• Internet Legends: The guys are constantly myth-busting, be it gun urban legends or viral Reddit tales.
• Collecting vs. Shooting: The eternal debate — preserve a relic or run it into the dirt for the sake of knowledge and fun?

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For New Listeners

If you've never listened to Unsubscribe Podcast before, this episode captures all the essential elements: hilarious gun nerd deep dives, debunking viral myths, wild military history, and the witty camaraderie of a crew that knows (and roasts) each other inside out. There are lots of inside jokes, but also plenty of engaging stories and trivia for anyone into firearms, history, or the oddities of American pop culture.

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End of Summary

Transcript

[Brandon Herrera]

We've pushed the limits of this because I want to see what this magical gun can do to people that don't know how to handle a firearm and they just rip with it.

[Nick]

Do you know what six pounds of seafloor does to a man? I do.

[Eli]

If one guy can hold you down, two guys can.

[Fat Electrician]

Do you ever tried making dick jokes on the Internet?

[Brandon Herrera]

Yes.

[Fat Electrician]

It gets you a lot further in life than talent. You nerds.

[Nick]

Say hi to Eli. He's racially ambiguous. Brandon, his hair is fucking fabulous. Donut.

[Fat Electrician]

A doctor's position.

[Eli]

And there's a fat electrician. Welcome to Unsubscribe. We ready to go, boys?

[Nick]

Everyone ready? Holding it. Three, two, one. Oh, man, that's Citrus. Holy shit.

[Fat Electrician]

Hello. Oh, yeah. Shit.

[Eli]

I'm in Cody's spot.

[Nick]

Hello.

[Eli]

Alrighty. Hi, everyone. Welcome to the Unsubscribe podcast. I am joined today by Eli Double Tap pewview, the Nick from Iowa, the fat electrician, the other Nick from Iowa, and myself, Brandon Herrera.

[Fat Electrician]

Hi.

[Nick]

What's up? We're here. It's day one. It's chill. I didn't drink last night.

[Fat Electrician]

I've aged seven years already. And if I have. If I have one more person stop me and say, you're not that fat, I'm going to lose my mind.

[Nick]

Well, your name is the fat electrician.

[Fat Electrician]

I understand what you're saying.

[Nick]

But they.

[Fat Electrician]

Tell me that, like, I don't know.

[Eli]

They'Re just trying to boost your self esteem, dude.

[Brandon Herrera]

Is it a disappointed you're not that fat?

[Fat Electrician]

Yes.

[Brandon Herrera]

Or is it like they're heartbroken? Really?

[Fat Electrician]

I don't know. I guess it's like I don't.

[Eli]

Have you seen the BMI of the Average Shot show? Inhabitant?

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah. Yes, I have.

[Fat Electrician]

Inhabitant.

[Eli]

I'm convinced they live here.

[Nick]

Let's make Nick fat. I would love like a 320 pound fat electric.

[Fat Electrician]

Oh my God, I'm gonna get shredded.

[Nick]

Not sure.

[Fat Electrician]

And then I'm gonna gather 50 pounds. Just like Mac from Always Sunn Philadelphia. I'm. And then I'm going to sell shirts to say I'm cultivating mass. That's my plan.

[Nick]

100%.

[Fat Electrician]

Playing the long game, dude.

[Nick]

Nick, this is like you're. I mean, last year everyone's experiencing walking the floor and having a great time. You're like, oh.

[Eli]

What?

[Nick]

It's my favorite when somebody stops you and then you're like, everyone starts, then.

[Brandon Herrera]

You just get a crowd.

[Fat Electrician]

Yeah. Then like lines start forming.

[Eli]

That's the problem.

[Fat Electrician]

It's alarming.

[Eli]

Yeah, because like, it's no Big deal. Like if somebody. Oh, hey man, can I grab a picture real quick? Like, yeah, sure. Like, totally, man. Like, obviously, you know, make time if you got it. But yeah, when somebody stops you for long, you have like T minus 10 seconds.

[Fat Electrician]

It's like. And some. There's sometimes where, like, I don't know, I have this thing, like, I can usually tell if you recognize me, but I'm not going to be the one to approach you just because I've done that before and felt like an cuz they actually didn't know who I was. And I'm like, cool. I'm never doing this again. I feel like a humongous douchebag right now.

[Eli]

So you know who I am, literally.

[Fat Electrician]

And it was just like, no, dude, I was just checking out your tattoos. I thought they were cool.

[Brandon Herrera]

I was like, awesome.

[Nick]

My favorite was when someone knew you and they're like, Nick's like, oh, you want a photo? He's like, no, I'm good.

[Fat Electrician]

No, I'm good. I will never ask somebody if they want a picture with me after that guy did that. I'm done forever. If you want a picture, I'll gladly take one with you, but you're asking.

[Eli]

One fucking dude ruined it for every everybody.

[Fat Electrician]

Yeah, no, for sure. No. But like, I can like, I can tell when like there's like some people that recognize me and then like, for whatever reason, they just don't approach me. Which is fine. It's fine if you do. It's fine if you don't just stop staring.

[Eli]

But I think you're going to shoot me in the.

[Fat Electrician]

But then like one person finally does approach you and then it like opens a floodgate because like, yeah, oh, oh, he's not a dick in person and he's happy to take a picture. And then it's just like now there's 12 people.

[Eli]

I had to run away from the FN booth today because I just wanted to check out the new scar and that like, bolter 30 millimeter grenade launcher. Just cool.

[Brandon Herrera]

Which was sick, by the way.

[Eli]

It's pretty and it's way lighter than you think.

[Nick]

We're going to go see them tomorrow.

[Eli]

Fn?

[Nick]

Yeah.

[Eli]

At their booth.

[Nick]

Yeah, we have a meeting.

[Eli]

Yeah.

[Nick]

Fucking you are okay. You don't want to scar.

[Eli]

I talked to them today for like an hour.

[Nick]

They get like, Christine's like, hey, we want to sit down and do a go over everything.

[Eli]

Eli would. Especially if we're like in like a back room or whatever because we won't get anything done on the Floor.

[Nick]

Why would I do a meeting on the floor, Eli?

[Eli]

I don't know, Eli.

[Fat Electrician]

I just like, hey, I'm about to make you very happy. I went to HK today.

[Nick]

Did you get your scar or your fucking.

[Fat Electrician]

Yeah, I got my breacher that I wanted. But more importantly, he's like, how would you and some of your YouTube buddies feel about going out to Utah and going into the gray room?

[Brandon Herrera]

Sounds like a sex dungeon.

[Fat Electrician]

And then he's like, and then it is. And then if there's any guns that you guys want to shoot, we can let you shoot some of them because There's a range 10 miles down the road. So we get to go into HK's fucking museum. Gray room of every HK experimental weapon they've ever made, and some of them are apparently on the table to shoot. Yeah.

[Eli]

If you don't know what the gray.

[Nick]

Room is, it is Nick's beautiful.

[Eli]

It's like the weapons library of like, prototype weapon development for HK and like, everything they've ever made. Made, essentially.

[Nick]

Yeah. Also, Nick's the asshole that comes into this, like a decade later with influence and content creation and like, hey, you want a free gun? They do not do that with anyone.

[Brandon Herrera]

No.

[Eli]

Like, even a conversation, it's like, hey, man, I'd love to work with you guys. And they're like, cool, man, here's a patch off hk.

[Brandon Herrera]

No, they don't give a about anybody except this motherfucker.

[Fat Electrician]

For some reason, they like me.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's insane.

[Nick]

Dude, this is the only time I've ever seen that I was blown away. I was like, you got a free gun from. What the.

[Fat Electrician]

You're over here with your purple heart. You're like one of the best trick shot guys in the world. You know how to make guns. You ever tried making dick jokes on the Internet? It gets you a lot further. It gets you a lot further in life than talent, you nerds.

[Nick]

Oh, yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

We're here with Pew View.

[Nick]

What's up, dog? Hey, man, why you got your glasses on?

[Brandon Herrera]

I've had my glasses on the entire day because I slept about four hours last night. And you don't want to see what's under these things. I'm just. I'm rocking the glasses.

[Eli]

You're like the Brendan Fraser comments on.

[Brandon Herrera]

The Internet of people like, oh, my God, why is he not wearing his sunglasses? So I just keep them on all shot show. I'm sleeping in these the whole time.

[Fat Electrician]

How long before you saw him without his glasses?

[Brandon Herrera]

I mean, instantly.

[Nick]

Have you seen him yet without his glasses?

[Brandon Herrera]

I did wear him getting married.

[Fat Electrician]

I was there.

[Eli]

Really?

[Fat Electrician]

Oh, I was there. I seen it.

[Eli]

You're like, no, honey, the sunglasses stay.

[Brandon Herrera]

On, dude, the entire time. I'm telling you, she thought it was weird the first time in bed, but like, after that she got used to it.

[Eli]

Please just wear your socks like a normal weirdo.

[Nick]

Just naked with the glasses on. Wow.

[Eli]

Honestly, that's kind of a vibe.

[Brandon Herrera]

I respect it.

[Nick]

These glasses belong to you one day, kiddo.

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh, dude, I have 30 pair in everything. Everywhere we go, I have sunglasses everywhere.

[Nick]

Well, make sure you hold that mic up a little closer when you talk.

[Brandon Herrera]

I like, I have like super sensitive eyes, so even like fluorescent lighting will make my eyes like swell because they're.

[Fat Electrician]

Finely tuned because you can shoot bullets through fucking washers as they're falling through the sky, you psychopath.

[Brandon Herrera]

That's. That's the AI.

[Eli]

You're like.

[Fat Electrician]

You're like Cyclops, but with guns.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's in the glasses, dude.

[Nick]

Which is a wild thing to be able to do. Like, how many times did that take you to nail it?

[Brandon Herrera]

I mean, we've done it four times now, and it was fairly quick. Everyone but the first one, that's you. But I mean, the part that you guys don't see is that when we get out there, I sit there and shoot rocks out of the air for five hours.

[Nick]

As do all of us when we go train.

[Brandon Herrera]

I mean, that's like how I prepare for the shot. So then I can do it in one take. I mean, we start. We start with cans and then we go to rocks. And then just make sure I can narrow down like the hole in washer.

[Eli]

I've never lived in a place that was so remote and so flat that I could just shoot a handgun in the air without worrying about killing someone.

[Brandon Herrera]

I mean, we sh. I shoot at like a 90 degrees there across for me, so I still landing the bullet into the berm. But I mean, we certainly could just launch him in the air because it's a four mile empty section of cornfield.

[Fat Electrician]

So I love reading comments and Reddit threads about him. People are just so mad. They refuse to believe he's that good.

[Eli]

I've seen it.

[Fat Electrician]

Coleon Noir posted that short that somebody ripped out of a podcast of me. And then everybody refused to believe that I could hit a target at like 150 yards with a concealed carry.

[Brandon Herrera]

We were doing damn near 200 that day and you went like 15 for 15. So I seen it. We actually got it on the video.

[Fat Electrician]

And everybody's like, post the video that didn't happen. It's literally, it's. It's on the Internet. You can watch them do it.

[Eli]

Like, especially if you subscribe to pepper.

[Nick]

Box, people just think shooting's way harder and is like you, you see that? Sniper, assassin. To be able to shoot somebody 100.

[Fat Electrician]

Yards, to be a trained professional, to make a 125 yard shot with a scoped rifle, every dud.

[Eli]

My high school class could do that at 50.

[Fat Electrician]

Is it a pellet gun? Like, what are we talking about?

[Nick]

Why is this a difficult ch.

[Brandon Herrera]

I mean, rifles are super easy for any beginner to get on and just hit any distance. Really. As long as it's like under a th000, it's not that hard. Pistols are hard to shoot.

[Nick]

Yeah, that's right.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah. People that have like experience on pistols assume that it's also as hard as, you know, on a rifle. But it's, it's not the same thing.

[Nick]

Pistol is the hardest thing to learn. Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

And then great at shooting pistols.

[Nick]

Was it.

[Brandon Herrera]

You are good at shooting piss.

[Nick]

Thank you. You are. I don't even compete with you. You just like hbr. I, I just know if I sent you a text that I'm above you in that game, I. I knew you would just quit what you were doing immediately.

[Eli]

Beat me, dude.

[Brandon Herrera]

Adam from Ballistic. High speed or high speed? Ballistics. I get that mixed up every time. Sorry, guys. But high speed, low drag, he, he keeps like, he just got the video game. So he's like, you'll get into a match and run the fuck out of that until he gets like top 30 or something. Send me a text message. So I'll hop in there like live when he's streaming and just shit on him quick.

[Eli]

Well, I just, I just know that Eli will just sit there and do the repetitions until he's faster.

[Brandon Herrera]

I mean, that's the only way to get faster, right? And just burn them out until you get the score on it.

[Eli]

Yeah, but that's the thing. He's like, all right, what's the one that I think I can do better than this person at? Okay, I'm going to sit here and do nothing but this for three hours until I can piss that person off with a text message.

[Nick]

And then I'll be like, oh, I beat him real quick. And now wait five minutes, new text message and I'm in third place or second place. Fuck yeah, man. Cool.

[Fat Electrician]

I got like last time, I got hurt last time I tore my pack, I started playing fucking cod and I started playing with him. So annoying. Are you good at cod, bro? I go like, I'm okay at playing cod. And I'd been playing like six hours a day because I was hurt. So I'm just listening to history audiobooks while playing cod and he's like, oh, yeah, come jump on with me and my wife. And I start playing with them. I'm like 13 and 3, 13 and 5. Like I'm doing okay.

[Nick]

Decent.

[Fat Electrician]

Check the scoreboard. He's fucking 37 and 1.

[Brandon Herrera]

Jesus. I don't play multiplayer either. Like, I like nothing.

[Fat Electrician]

Nothing like fucking clocking out for the day after a long day of burning through 10,000 rounds so I can go home and decompress by shooting virtual guns. You psychopath.

[Eli]

Bullying Chinese children on the Internet.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, right. But like, video games are reaction time. That's. That's my thing. It's just I'm good with reaction. That's.

[Eli]

What are you bad at a lot of.

[Brandon Herrera]

Just nothing with reactions. Depth perception and reaction is my game because I was a heavy equipment operator for ever. So, like, depth perception is how I made money. That also converts into shooting fire. So it helps with, you know, targets and, you know, science and shit. Didn't we did everything else terrible.

[Fat Electrician]

Didn't we figure out that me and you ran into each other at work and didn't know it and after we became friends on YouTube.

[Brandon Herrera]

Correct.

[Nick]

What?

[Brandon Herrera]

We were both on the same fucking job together. I was. I don't know how public you are.

[Fat Electrician]

You're fine.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, like, I was digging through an alleyway in city that he lives in and putting in power. And then he'd come connect it in the junction boxes. Like, I swear I recognize them because Dalton, my camera guy, would send me his videos and he's like, hey, this guy's in the place you live.

[Fat Electrician]

And I'm like, everybody knows the main city, Iowa.

[Brandon Herrera]

This guy's also in Mason City. I'm like, oh, I've seen this guy before. And then we didn't meet till like three years later, but yeah, I thought that was funny.

[Fat Electrician]

Hilarious.

[Brandon Herrera]

Same job site. Small world.

[Eli]

Well, smaller in Iowa it is.

[Brandon Herrera]

There's only seven of us, so it's bound to happen at some point, but they related.

[Nick]

Why you've been doing firearms or what? God, just since childhood.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah.

[Fat Electrician]

Yeah. He sent me a fucking like VHS video quality thing of like 10 year old. Him doing a review of like a Mossberg 500. He's been doing them since before YouTube was a thing.

[Brandon Herrera]

I'm pretty positive. I have the first ever gun review on YouTube. It started in 2007. My first VHS videos were in 2006.

[Nick]

You did VHS and then would upload it?

[Eli]

Oh yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

Well, we uploaded digital versions of it a couple of years later. But like then we got inspired by Jackass and then it stopped to being so much gunship. But there's a bunch of just me and my friends being absolute degenerates on the Internet still. So I hope to God nobody finds any of that.

[Eli]

Dude, that was $500 bounty on that.

[Brandon Herrera]

I look totally different. Also not the same name, so good luck.

[Fat Electrician]

I for. I forgot that I had my YouTube account from when I was in like high school and a couple of years after high school where I uploade a bunch of like Jiu Jitsu tournament footage that I did. And then people started sending me footage from like me in 2012 competing in Jiu Jitsu tournaments. I was like, I gotta figure out how to fucking delete this account. I didn't have the logins or anything.

[Nick]

People will find it.

[Fat Electrician]

I had to find it and like shut it down, dude.

[Eli]

There I still had. I. I shut it down forever ago. But I had like when I was in like sixth grade, seventh grade, me and my buddies had a. It was in. I've talked about it like before briefly, but like an Airsoft like gun review channel where like I sat there and reviewed Airsoft guns in a very alarmingly similar style to what I do now.

[Brandon Herrera]

So I seen those and I absolutely love them. I wish you kept them on the Internet like way back in the day, like. No, not really. How long ago would you delete them? Because I'm pretty sure really they were gone forever ago. I'm pretty sure. Texas Blinking Brandon, he was talking to me about some of that stuff and I'm pretty sure he's the one that put me out of the video. So. No shit, you got something somewhere. Because I seen him and it wasn't that long ago.

[Eli]

I would love to see him. Like I.

[Brandon Herrera]

That's blinking.

[Nick]

I just hope you're confusing another Mexican with Brandon.

[Eli]

Possibly. Or a different Brandon. But no, that's. It's one of the things that I, to my knowledge, like they were scraped from the Internet, like when I was just getting into high school because I realized that women smell nice and YouTube was lame. Oh no, cuz that was before anybody was making money at it. It was just like some weird side quest you were doing and like you were embarrassed about having the hot electronics.

[Fat Electrician]

Did you?

[Eli]

Yeah, a little bit. Your first time tasting the back of that PlayStation, it's it's a game changer.

[Brandon Herrera]

I wasn't embarrassed about it at all. Dude, you should see these 2006 VHS tapes. Like I thought I was a superstar on TV. I would like stop to like, we'll be right back after this short break. Like it was gonna get sponsored.

[Fat Electrician]

Mine was. Mine was all jiu jitsu competitions. And then I had two videos of like I was like £190 in high school and I dressed up as a gorilla and my 110 pound best friend dressed up as a banana. I just had a montage of me chasing him through fucking Kmart and tackling him.

[Brandon Herrera]

And that's hilarious.

[Fat Electrician]

Kept getting kicked out of stores.

[Brandon Herrera]

Jackasses.

[Nick]

I need to see all these old videos.

[Fat Electrician]

What the fuck?

[Nick]

Have you ever woke up and felt like your mattress punched you in your sleep?

[Fat Electrician]

I still think it was my wife, but yeah.

[Eli]

Eli, do you have the mattress right here?

[Brandon Herrera]

A pillow?

[Fat Electrician]

No, that's an Eli sized mattress.

[Eli]

Eli, can I feel the pillow?

[Fat Electrician]

Of course.

[Eli]

It's so soft.

[Nick]

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[Fat Electrician]

Every mattress comes with a 20 to 25 year warranty and a 100 one night trial period where if you don't like it, you can send it back. I don't know how many stamps it takes, but you could do it. Are you tired of your mail carrier liking you?

[Eli]

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[Fat Electrician]

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[Eli]

More than you already do us just.

[Nick]

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[Eli]

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[Fat Electrician]

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[Nick]

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[Eli]

That's ghostbed.com unsubscribe.

[Fat Electrician]

Sleep better. Stay cooler or Cody's gonna.

[Eli]

I'll eat your.

[Nick]

Ghostbed.Com I have the oldest video content I have that's not on the Internet is from.

[Fat Electrician]

You're so old, you're literally a deep fried meme 90.

[Nick]

Oh dude, that one.

[Fat Electrician]

You're Mexican.

[Eli]

Well, the funny part is that's not that old. That's from one of my videos.

[Fat Electrician]

Dude, every time I see it, every six Months. Every surfaces and somehow it loses pixels.

[Eli]

Every time it was from it was you talking about. We put the.

[Fat Electrician]

He's got one where he's leaning up against the truck and he just goes, damn, you're Mexican.

[Nick]

Holy shit, you're Mexican. I was like, hey, just roll the camera and pant me editor.

[Eli]

Put this in the video or put the value in the.

[Nick]

In the.

[Eli]

Yeah, the super grainy fucking reshared 8 billion times.

[Nick]

Holy shit, you're Mexican. Looks like an NES video. Like 8bit at this point, can't understand anything.

[Eli]

We put a, like a chamber sabo or whatever you'd call it, like 3D printed little chamber insert in one of those like 12 gauge, like Saiga 12 knockoffs. And then probably Turkish, funny enough, Panther. We put. And we put a 50 BMG inside of it and like actually got it.

[Nick]

To like lock up.

[Eli]

And we're like, oh. So we, we fired it and it exploded, of course. But it was from that video. So it was only like three years ago. Yeah, but it just exploded.

[Fat Electrician]

Oh, yeah.

[Nick]

Really?

[Eli]

Well, because we put the 3D printed chamber insert instead of just banana and you know.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, you had chamber pressure.

[Eli]

Oh, no, actually, no, no, we didn't. That's not what we did, now that I think about it. We put. We actually made a 50 BMG barrel. I think we turned a 50 BMG barrel for this specifically.

[Brandon Herrera]

That's badass.

[Eli]

So yeah, we just inserted the 50 BMG barrel and we're just like, this is why you can't. They're like, oh, Saga 12. Similar size. We were trying to show basically, like, look, no lockup is extremely important. Even if you could get it to run and like cycle and load one, it explodes immediately. And then it did in great fashion.

[Brandon Herrera]

Fair enough.

[Eli]

It would have like killed the shooter.

[Brandon Herrera]

I found a, you know, typical Iowan story. I found an old double barrel shotgun in a, in a barn. So of course, you know, 50 BMG fits in that little string, little behind.

[Eli]

If God didn't want you to do it, he wouldn't have made it fit.

[Brandon Herrera]

That's what I'm saying. We, we did it until it blew up. Because I wanted the, you know, the. This has got to look cool on video. It's working. I can't post this because then everybody's going to want to do this. So we shot it until it blew up. And it was, it was gnarly.

[Nick]

Oh, it was working.

[Brandon Herrera]

It was working flawlessly for way too long. And 50 BMG is expensive, so we had to do something about it.

[Nick]

Now say it's awesome. So we can cut this together. Really good for you. You should try it at home.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, do it at home for sure.

[Nick]

The.

[Eli]

Yeah. No, yeah, because it will work like really well.

[Brandon Herrera]

It just.

[Fat Electrician]

How accurate?

[Brandon Herrera]

No, no.

[Nick]

Well, it's a smooth bore at that point.

[Eli]

No, no, not only it's a smooth bore, but the bullet doesn't. It's not even touching the.

[Brandon Herrera]

No, it's just.

[Fat Electrician]

Oh. Even doesn' sides maybe 200ft per second.

[Brandon Herrera]

Like you can see it leave the barrel and it's maybe going 50 yards. It's not doing anything, is it?

[Nick]

Just like.

[Fat Electrician]

I bet it would.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah. I wouldn't want to get in front of it. 750 grains traveling. It'd probably not be fun. Yeah. But.

[Nick]

Well, it's.

[Eli]

It's basically like you're sticking it in a vise and smacking the. The primer with a hammer. Yeah, pretty much like it's. You're losing all of your energy to the sides.

[Brandon Herrera]

But it is a flamethrower, like instantly like shoots out a ten foot flame. So that's. That's the cool part.

[Nick]

Yeah.

[Eli]

Holy shit.

[Nick]

We got Mike Vining. We haven't talked about that yet.

[Eli]

Yeah, yeah, we have not.

[Brandon Herrera]

I don't think you got what Mike.

[Nick]

Vining coming on the podcast.

[Brandon Herrera]

Who's that?

[Nick]

Oh, the accountant.

[Brandon Herrera]

That's the accountant. That looks like a. That's an absolute g. That is awesome. Yeah, I can't wait for you guys to do that.

[Fat Electrician]

Oh, I also had an interesting meeting today. I guess I met somebody interesting. So I might be doing my first video on a gwat veteran ever, which I've never done before. I met Chris, Kyle's son.

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh, what?

[Nick]

Yeah.

[Eli]

No.

[Fat Electrician]

And he's interested in me doing a video on his dad. And I was like, well, I like, I need you and your mom's permission, obviously. And you guys gotta like watch the video first, make sure you're okay with it and it's accurate and all that. And he's like, yeah, no, totally.

[Eli]

No.

[Fat Electrician]

So I might.

[Nick]

Yeah, might get to do that video that is vining. And then Nick's gonna do one with vining. It was because he's watching his stuff and then he's like. I was like, hey, asked Nick first was like, would you want to do one with him on him for his thing? And Mike was like, yeah, I would enjoy that. He's just my old. He texts like, you heard our phone call. It is. I'm Talking to a 75 year old grandpa that loves telling stories. And they are the most wild stories you will ever hear. I'm like, huh? What? Like, yeah.

[Fat Electrician]

Oh.

[Nick]

One of the running jokes in JSOC was I had to retire because I was costing too much. Because how much I traveled, I traveled more than the four star JSOC general. I was the most moved asset in all of JSOC during his time. I'm like, what?

[Brandon Herrera]

That guy just seems so interesting. Like, I would love to sit down and get just absolutely hammered with that guy. Just listen to him.

[Eli]

Just. I mean, I, I know that's the entire bit, but just he's so unassuming.

[Brandon Herrera]

Right?

[Eli]

And like, the guy has such a storied career. Like, all right, I'll sit down and listen.

[Fat Electrician]

We might have to travel for an unsub if we want to do this, but do you remember my video on the 77th Infantry Division? The old bastards?

[Brandon Herrera]

Yes.

[Fat Electrician]

Where like the average age was like 35. My buddy that helped me do the research for that video, he found one that's still alive.

[Eli]

Holy.

[Fat Electrician]

Like all there. And with it. Apparently he was 19 at the time and he was one of the reinforcements that got sent in. So he showed up with a bunch of 35 year olds and this guy already, like went and talked to him. One of the stories he has is hilarious. So he showed up as a reinforcement. And I want to say it was. Was it Guam? Not Guam, maybe Guam, one of the islands that they showed up to and they, they cleared the island and they're going through all these cave networks that the Japanese were occupying and they keep finding like the officers chests and there's all this Japanese currency in it. Well, they're marines. They're fucking using it as toilet paper. They're playing Monopoly, like playing poker and shit with it. It's monopoly money, right? Yeah, they're dicking around with it. Well, he was playing poker and he won a bunch of it and he took it with him because he, he was just going to send it home to be a souvenir. So he had like, I forget he had a ton of this money and he was just like, oh, it's a cool souvenir from the war, Whatever. I'm just gonna send it home.

[Nick]

And it just really quick now. Even when we had dinar because it had Saddam's face on, everything, even I have from when I deployed, because it was funny. It was literal funny money.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah.

[Nick]

You just find it like, oh, cool, I have a worthless piece of paper currency. Yeah.

[Fat Electrician]

It's a good, good memento. Yeah. You know what I mean?

[Nick]

Take it home. See?

[Fat Electrician]

And he's you know, it's got like the bands on. He's got stacks of it. Like, it's kind of cool. Well, he follows them through the rest of the campaign and he ends up being in Japan during the occupation. And during the occupation, he was allowed to exchange it for US dollars. And it ended up being like US$30,000 in 1945. So he wired. He wired it back home and paid for him to go to medical school. And that's how he became a doctor for the rest of his life.

[Brandon Herrera]

Damn.

[Nick]

How much is that in today's money?

[Fat Electrician]

It was like 120 grand, I think. But this is also back before the price of college got inflated. Like it was enough to pay for college. Five times?

[Nick]

Yeah. Yeah, like 80 times.

[Fat Electrician]

Yeah, like Jesus.

[Eli]

So in today's equivalent, it is approximately $30,000 in 1945 is equivalent to about $540,000 US today.

[Nick]

But you just wolf from a poker game that no one gives a homie.

[Eli]

Had about a half million US dollars in funny money.

[Brandon Herrera]

Damn.

[Nick]

There was. There was just an Internet story I've seen last week. It was 2015. Dude was trying to buy a house with bitcoin and the guy turned down the offer. And it was like a two million dollar house. So he's like, here's all this bitcoin. I'll give you extra. I just want this house. And the guy's like, no, I'm not accepting that currency. Today's value of that bitcoin was like $3 billion.

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh, God.

[Fat Electrician]

Well, it's like the first, like the first thing ever commercially purchased with bitcoin was a domino's pizza. And it's like $50 billion worth of Bitcoin now.

[Nick]

Thousands.

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh my God.

[Eli]

Didn't the guy like just lose it or something? Like he didn't like everyone? No.

[Nick]

At that time, 2009, 2010, no one gave a fuck. This was peak Fires of heaven. Nerd threw that currency away like it was nothing.

[Fat Electrician]

There's this one tweet that gets like shared around all the time. And it's this going, man, I sold all my Bitcoin at $0.50 and now it's worth $5. I wish I would have kept it. And there's a screenshot of this. It. It had been reshared. It just like goes viral every once in a while. And somebody commented on it and it was like, has anybody ever checked in on this guy? And this is when bitcoin was at like 50 grand.

[Eli]

Oh no.

[Fat Electrician]

Is this guy still alive? And this guy responds in the comments, yes, but I'm dead inside.

[Nick]

The Reddit account where the guy said, oh, I'm doing a giant risk. I'm spending my entire life savings into Bitcoin. And Red's like, you dumbass, you dumbass, that's never gonna pay out. This is like 2010 or no, 2014 because it went up to like a couple grand at that point. And now it gets played back that Reddit still exists and like homeboy's a billionaire right now.

[Eli]

Do you know the, the one where it's like the guy who went on Reddit or one of, one of those sites like that where he was talking about like, hey, guys, I need help. I've gotten a silver. A cylinder stuck inside of an M&MS. Tube. And just like real vague about it and everybody's like, you M and M's. No, it is a cylinder, but it's also important to me that it comes out intact. And it's like this whole fucking thread.

[Brandon Herrera]

How do move the cylinder?

[Eli]

But the, it was something years later. Like, this is old Internet, right? But it was something years later where it was the same guy. I guess somebody recognized the Reddit account, but somebody's asking a question and the guy responds, and somebody responds to him responding, just goes, don't you mean the inside of a cylinder? And he just replies, so I have to bear this, this cross forever, huh?

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh my God.

[Eli]

Do you like a mouthful of hard wood?

[Nick]

Yes. Go on then.

[Eli]

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[Nick]

What's Fume?

[Eli]

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

[Nick]

You said hard wood. You actually meant hard wood.

[Eli]

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

[Nick]

I love hard wood in my mouth.

[Eli]

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

[Nick]

Fume has an award winning design.

[Eli]

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

[Nick]

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

[Brandon Herrera]

No.

[Eli]

I like crisp mint because I'm a coward when it comes to flavors.

[Nick]

Cody, what's your favorite?

[Eli]

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

[Nick]

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

[Eli]

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[Nick]

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[Fat Electrician]

Oh, it's my new fat files video I got coming out soon.

[Nick]

Gohan.

[Fat Electrician]

So I did like the, I did like the Internet myth that mattress firms are laundering money. And I like kind of busted it. So then I was like, oh, well, what other memes can I bust? And I've been sent this meme like 10,000 times about how during the Cold War, Pepsi had this world's sixth largest navy because Russia traded a bunch of warships. And I always wanted to do a fat electrician video on it, but so I started researching it and like, real.

[Eli]

Quick, at one point, you did research this a while ago because you've been planning this for a minute. I had just a list of video ideas at my house, like on a whiteboard. And one of them was Pepsi Navy. And at one point you would come over to my house and when you had left, I noticed on my whiteboard next to Pepsi Navy was just a little dash that said fake and gay.

[Fat Electrician]

Pretty much it, yeah. Yeah. Not really what happened at all. But now I like, now that I'm like doing these myth busting videos, I figured I'd go through. And the story is so much funnier than like, Pepsi had the sixth largest navy on the planet. It's hilarious because we talked about it.

[Eli]

A little bit yesterday, but you said there's a bunch more details.

[Fat Electrician]

Yeah. So in, in 1959, basically like Stalin had died at this point and the Soviets had nukes and everybody's just kind of like, all right, well, maybe we should try to get along and not blow up the planet. So they tried to do this. They called it a cultural exchange. And basically it's like a trade show, essentially. Like America was going to send a trade show full of American shit showing off American culture to the Soviets in Moscow. And then the vice president was going to go over there because they weren't going to send the real president to Moscow and then vice versa. So in 1959, they sent over, you know, they're bringing over like the 1959 Chevy Impala and they build an American house and they're bringing over all these American companies and American food and whatever. Whatever. Well, they, they go to Coca Cola because they want to show off soda, obviously. And Coca Cola's like, I'm not dealing with the commies? No. So they're like. They're like, yeah, exactly. They're like, okay, well, we'll go with Pepsi then. Pepsi's like, yeah, sure, we'll do it.

[Eli]

Just another reason to drink Coke.

[Fat Electrician]

Yeah, exactly. So Pepsi shows up, and Nixon's over there, and he's, like, escorting Nikita Khrushchev through this trade show. And Nikita Khrushchev is, like, being thoroughly unamused, unimpressed by everything. Like, he can't let him know that we. He thinks America's awesome or whatever. And so it's gonna be, like, impossible to get Nikki, Nikita Khrushchev to try Pepsi. And if he does, he's gonna say, it tastes like, obviously. But the Pepsi executive that they had at the time, Donald Kendall, he, like, waits for the opportune moment, and they're going through, and they go into this mock American house, and Nikita Khrushchev and Nixon get into. They call it a debate. It was just straight up a talking contest about capitalism versus communism. And it's literally called the kitchen debate. And they, like, get into this heated debate, and right at the end of this debate, like, Donald Kendall's like, this is my shot. So he grabs two bottles of Pepsi, and he, like, finesses the out of Nikita Khrushchev because he comes up to him. He's got two bottles of Pepsi. One of them's for Nikita. The other one is also for Nikita. So when he comes up to Nikita Khrushchev, he's like, I want you to try Pepsi. This one is made with water from America, and this one's made from. With water from the ussr. Which one's better? So he's forcing him to say it's good.

[Eli]

Just genius, frankly.

[Fat Electrician]

Fucking great marketing tactic. So Nikita tries it, and he's like, obviously the one with the USSR waters. Fantastic. And they snap it. They get the pick. And Nikita Khrushchev drinking a Pepsi with a big smile on his face. And it becomes like this mythical drink that capitalism has it made a communist dictator smile, right? So, like, people want it and Pepsi, like, there's no soda there. So if Pepsi can break into that market, they'll have a monopoly. It'll be a ton of money. They don't have anti monopoly laws or communists, like, so that's their plan. But then, like, shit heats up in the Cold War, and it doesn't end up happening. But Donald Kendall, this Pepsi executive, and Nixon become homeboys. And then Donald Kendall becomes a CEO of Pepsi and, like, helps fundraise. And for Nixon, during His presidency, and he gets elected. So then in 1972, Nixon is having the SALT1 conference, strategic arms limitation talks. Basically, like, you've got 10,000 nukes, we've got 10,000 nukes. Let's just put a cap on it. We can blow up the world 30 times over. Let's quit manufacturing nukes for no fucking reason is basically what it was. So this conference goes good, and it's like the. The messaging to the commercial industries, like, we're working with the Soviets now. So Donald Kendall, the CEO of Pepsi, comes in and he's like, this is my shot. And he, he goes to Russia's like, you guys want Pepsi? They're like, fuck, yeah, we do. And they're like, okay, well, here's the problem. We can't take the ruble because the ruble's monopoly money. Nobody else recognizes it.

[Eli]

Well, apparently you can get half a million dollars in monopoly money. Japan. True.

[Fat Electrician]

This is true. So he goes to. Goes to the Russians and they're like, well, we've got monopoly money in vodka. And he's like, well, that'll fucking work. So he works a deal where they're trading Stolichnaya.

[Eli]

Yeah, it's like Stolich Naya or something.

[Fat Electrician]

Stolichnia vodka for Pepsi straight across. Because you can't get Soviet anything in the US because of sanctions and everything. So Donald Kendall goes to the US government, who he's homies with. The president basically goes to the president and he's like, hey, here's the deal. If I trade the Soviets a bunch of Pepsi, basically give them diabetes, and they give me vodka, can Pepsi sell the vodka in the US because we're keeping the money. It's not actually going to the Soviets to buy, like, guns. And. And they're like, sure, why not?

[Eli]

So when you originally told me the story yesterday. Yesterday, first thought I had was I would love to buy a bottle of whatever the Pepsi Russian import bottle was.

[Fat Electrician]

Yeah. From like 1970s.

[Eli]

And then as soon as you told me it was Stolichnaya, I was like, never mind. I'm all right. Tax act is here anytime you want to easily file your taxes. Taxact is here for the early birds who like to knock them out as soon as the season opens and for the procrastinators who like to wait until the very last minute. Tax act is also here for the middlers who file right in the. The middle of tax season. No one ever talks about the middlers, but Taxact sees you and Tax act respects you.

[Brandon Herrera]

Tax Act.

[Nick]

Let's get them over with.

[Fat Electrician]

So Pepsi becomes like the first American product sold in the ussr and they're just swapping back and forth vodka for Pepsi. But the Russians love Pepsi and they're drinking more Pepsi than Americans are drinking vodka. So it's like it's not paying for itself.

[Nick]

Yeah.

[Fat Electrician]

So then they go to the Russians, they're like, what else? What else you got? Like the vodka is not enough. And they're like, we got a bunch of old warships. And they're like, okay. And like the meme plays it off like they traded PepsiCo 20 Russian warships, 17 submarines, a frigate, a cruiser and a destroyer for Pepsi. That's not what happened. Pepsi does the same deal proposition they did with the US government with vodka, but they do it with Norway. So they go to Norway and they're like, hey, if we get the Russians to sell you 20 junk Military naval vessels, you guys can scrap them, you give us the money and we're just going to give them diabetes. And the Norway is like, well, yeah, as long as we're not giving them cash to buy more weapons and win the space race and shit with yeah, sure, why not? So they do it. They basically brokered a three way deal so they could get a bunch of cash and that's what they did. And that's where the meme comes from.

[Nick]

Right.

[Fat Electrician]

But then it gets funnier because a year later they run out of money again and they're like, what else you got? Well, we're out of junk warships, but we do have ship building capacity. So we'll build you 10 brand new oil tankers valued at a billion dollars if you keep selling us Pepsi. And they're like, oh, okay, dope. And then we'll just sell it to the fucking Norwegians and it'll, it'll be fine. Perfect. Right? That was in 1990. What happens in 1991?

[Eli]

Yeah, a certain thing happened with, you know, tearing down that wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union and all that.

[Fat Electrician]

So obviously it takes more than a year to build 10 oil tankers. So the Soviet Union collapses before they get their oil tankers and they're already like giving them Pepsi and all this other. And so like overnight it was one sovereign nation and then now it's 15 separate nations. Nobody knows who's in charge. There's no governments, it's run by the fucking mafia. And like their whole supply chain is just shattered into a million pieces. Right. Because the factory, the factory that was making the bottles is in fucking Lithuania now. And the factory that put the Pepsi in the bottles is in Belarus. And the only way to get the bottles from the Lithuanians is to pay them in hard cash. And then to transport them you gotta bribe the mafia for permission. And then now you're not dealing with the Soviet government to bottle the shit. You're dealing with. Like the foreman that ran the factory because now he just owns it apparently. So it's like all mafia deals, they're like desperately trying to work out this fucking deal, which a lot of those.

[Eli]

Guys, like, it was the mad dash after the collapse of the Soviet Union to basically just embezzle and steal as much as they could.

[Fat Electrician]

Yeah, absolutely.

[Eli]

Because it wasn't their to start with. They're just like, I now control $500 million worth of bullshit. Sell it immediately so I can move to a nice country.

[Fat Electrician]

Okay, here's the crazy part that doesn't make sense to me. Like if I as a movie, I would be like, this movie's stupid. The plot doesn't make any sense. You know what I mean? Like, why didn't Gandalf just have the giant eagles take the to the volcano? You got to bleep out.

[Eli]

Do you?

[Fat Electrician]

Yeah, you can't say no. Yeah.

[Eli]

Oh, I've said that so much.

[Nick]

Sorry.

[Eli]

Like I had to have said that.

[Fat Electrician]

The Russians literally stole the way to make nuclear warheads. Why the didn't they just steal the recipe? Recipe for Pepsi?

[Eli]

Did they not have the capacity to make it?

[Fat Electrician]

No, they did. They bottled it there. All Pepsi was doing was selling them the concentrated syrup. And it was all bottled in the ussr. Pepsi showed them how to make a Pepsi like a bottling plant and how to make Pepsi with the concentrated syrup.

[Eli]

Oh, well, in that case.

[Fat Electrician]

The only thing they were selling him was a concentrated syrup. And they're like, the only thing that was protecting him was the secret recipe. And it's like, give that to your scientists. They reverse engineered the secrets to split a uranium atom and blow up the fucking planet. You guys can't figure out pen Pepsi.

[Eli]

Very funny, actually when you put it that way.

[Fat Electrician]

Like what the are we talking about here? Like, what a weird moral compass of like, I don't mind stealing nuclear secrets, but the recipe for Pepsi is.

[Eli]

Some things are sacred.

[Fat Electrician]

Yeah, like that's the.

[Eli]

Are we talking about here we'll end the world? But come on.

[Fat Electrician]

Yeah, so they go to the Ukrainians now because that was part of the ussr because that's where the ships were getting built was in Ukraine. And they go and they're like, hey, those 10 oil tankers that you're currently building are ours. And they're like, like, no, they're not you. So they're like, we kind of need them. And they're like, what are you going to give us? Guess what the Ukrainians demanded in exchange for a billion dollars worth of oil tankers so Pepsi could get paid more.

[Eli]

Pepsi?

[Fat Electrician]

Partially. What's that restaurant Pepsi owns?

[Eli]

Oh, that's right.

[Nick]

Fuck, I didn't even know Pepsi owned a restaurant.

[Fat Electrician]

They own yum brands. Pepsi comes to the day. Or the Ukrainians come to the table with Pepsi and they're like, fine, fine, we'll give you a billion dollars worth of oil tankers, but we want a hundred Pizza Huts and five Pepsi plants.

[Brandon Herrera]

What the fuck?

[Eli]

Americans will use anything but the metric system.

[Fat Electrician]

The entire thing is just one big. I told this to tack it last night on Manverse Morning. He's like, the entire thing is just one big drug deal. It's like, I'll give you this window air conditioning unit for a dime bag. Like, what the fuck are we talking about?

[Eli]

It's just like, how many, what is it, miles per? Well, Pizza Huts per aircraft carrier.

[Fat Electrician]

No, how many Pizza Huts per oil tanker?

[Eli]

There's a number.

[Fat Electrician]

So yeah, they work that deal out. They get their oil tankers, they sell them. And then also because now they're not communist anymore, allegedly, Coca Cola comes in and then just mops the fucking floor with Pepsi.

[Eli]

Well, because to my understanding, the only reason why Pepsi owns so many restaurants like Pizza and whatnot is like, it's a marketing thing because they like nobody would carry them. So they're like, oh, well what if we just buy. What is it? Taco Bell Pizza.

[Fat Electrician]

Taco Bell, KFC and Pizza Hut. They bought yum brands for the sole purpose of forcing their way into the restaurant market to get people to try Pepsi. So they could start because everybody else.

[Eli]

Had Coke, still don't like it and.

[Fat Electrician]

We still don't like it. Correct.

[Brandon Herrera]

Couldn't force their way to do it.

[Fat Electrician]

That was their plan.

[Nick]

Wild.

[Eli]

Because all good ideas require force.

[Nick]

This is the idea of a distribute. It's like echelon being getting to that level where it is trading which a hundred percent. You can buy as much echelon as you want for jets. Or can we say that oil tickers? Oh, we can't.

[Fat Electrician]

I mean it's a baller move though to be like, oh, you guys don't want my shitty knockoff Coca Cola in your restaurant. I'm gonna buy your restaurant. It's pretty gangster move. If we're being Honest, dude, it's.

[Nick]

I mean, even buying a oil tanker to trade for drink is wild.

[Fat Electrician]

Getting the. Getting the. Yeah. The cool part is like, Pepsi was the first American product sold in the ussr but then, like. And it's like marketing backfire because, like, they were like, you know, oh, well, by the time communism falls will be ingrained in the culture. We've been here for two decades already. People have a habit of drinking Pepsi, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Well, then the wall falls, the Soviet Union collapses, and everybody's like, oh, this is a knockoff. They're willing to sell the commies. They've been keeping the good for themselves. We're drinking Coke, like, and that's exactly what happened. Like, Coca Cola came in and just stomped him.

[Nick]

Even with, like, the prep for two days.

[Fat Electrician]

Because that was. That was. The whole thing is it was like, you know, Pepsi was like, sanctioned by the commies and blah, blah, blah, blah. And it was like, oh, America's keeping the good for themselves. So everybody's like, oh, we want to try the American.

[Eli]

Come on, guys. Does loyalty mean nothing to you? I have literally shiv to my former boss.

[Nick]

Was it Pepsi or Coke that did the. Hey, you get a free jet.

[Fat Electrician]

That was Pepsi.

[Eli]

Yeah.

[Fat Electrician]

And then it was like a Harrier jet. Yeah.

[Nick]

And someone did the math and was like, wait, actually, the points cost way cheaper than just buying. Yep. So I will do that route and then get the jets. And then they did not have the jet. Do you know the story?

[Fat Electrician]

Yeah, they did a whole. Netflix has a whole documentary on it, which is the only reason I haven't done a video on it. But, like, the kid. The kid sat down and did the math and came up with, like, how much it would cost to hire 50 employees and rent out warehouse space to buy massive quantities of Pepsi and just to scan the codes and then, like, how much we could resell it for if they knew that they didn't have the Pepsi points. And, like, how would we get rid of it? And he did all the math and figured it out, out. And then he went to, like, his rich uncle, who was like a venture capitalist with this idea. And his, like, rich uncle was, like, backing him and was, like, willing to give him, like, the millions of dollars he would needed to buy all this Pepsi. And then, like, before they started, he re. He goes in and reads a fine print and it's like, oh, you can just buy Pepsi points. Also now it's way cheaper because I don't have to actually buy the Pepsi and hire the employees and Scan all the codes and have a warehouse and do all this. So he just goes in with like a couple million dollars and writes a check for Pepsi points and then goes, okay, I want my Harrier now. And Pepsi's like.

[Nick]

No.

[Fat Electrician]

Like they went to court over it.

[Eli]

Oh yeah. I don't know how the court or how the, the lawsuit went, but I also think it would be horrific to be the guy who's in charge of this marketing ploy for Pepsi and just see somebody like, oh man, these Pepsi Point things are really like kicking off. And see somebody like, like delivers you a four million dollar check for Pepsi.

[Fat Electrician]

Points, like, oh, something's wrong. Oh, I sense a disturbance.

[Nick]

Didn't they try to say, oh, well, we thought it was just way too over the top. We didn't know anyone would take this serious. And then that's when they lost.

[Eli]

Like obvious satire kind of thing.

[Fat Electrician]

They won in court?

[Nick]

Yeah. Oh, yeah. Wait, Pepsi one or the other?

[Fat Electrician]

Pepsi one?

[Nick]

No. Oh, I thought the guy won.

[Fat Electrician]

No, Pepsi won because it was like, like no reasonable person would take this seriously. It was basically their like line of argumentation and they ended up winning.

[Brandon Herrera]

That's insane.

[Fat Electrician]

Supposedly behind closed doors they offered him like multi million dollar payout to not take it to court. And he declined, took it to court and lost.

[Eli]

No reason.

[Brandon Herrera]

Better regrets that. I mean, to be fair, he didn't lose his own money, right? He lost his uncle's money.

[Nick]

I mean, so like potatoes. Yes. That's how to look at it.

[Eli]

The. Yeah, no reasonable person would, would think that that's legit. It's like, well, to this America, first rate Marvin Heemeyer. Sometimes reasonable men must do unreasonable things. I remember watching Pepsi Points, dude.

[Nick]

I remember watching that shit on tv. Like, oh man, that's a lucky son of a bitch that wins that thing. I was also like 10. I think at this time frame.

[Fat Electrician]

They.

[Eli]

Should have just reached out to their Soviet buddies and said, hey, can you, can we barter a plane?

[Nick]

Oh, fuck.

[Fat Electrician]

So now you feel about a nice mig?

[Eli]

Well, worse than a Harrier.

[Nick]

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[Fat Electrician]

The one that hurt your back? It was so big, that one.

[Eli]

Mm.

[Nick]

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[Eli]

A little wallet.

[Fat Electrician]

Yes.

[Nick]

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[Eli]

It was one of many things that hurt your back because it was so big.

[Nick]

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[Brandon Herrera]

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[Eli]

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[Nick]

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[Eli]

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[Nick]

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[Eli]

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[Nick]

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[Eli]

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[Fat Electrician]

Dear lord.

[Eli]

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[Nick]

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[Eli]

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[Nick]

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[Eli]

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[Nick]

You also, would the unsubscribe provide quotes for Mike's book?

[Fat Electrician]

Yeah.

[Eli]

I don't know what he'd want to ask us, but.

[Nick]

Well, you're the veteran, Brandon.

[Eli]

That would be if you could put.

[Nick]

Ed your quote as a veteran. Whatever you want.

[Eli]

Like, I just say something nice about the book and like he doesn't get the joke and just puts like whatever the chat GPT says my rank is or whatever in the the book.

[Nick]

I mean, we have. Literally, he's like, that's what he wants that. And then we have. It's like 100% golden.

[Fat Electrician]

I'll give asking whatever he wants.

[Nick]

We will agree. We've all said this. The book cover should be what Nick?

[Fat Electrician]

The meme. It's got to be the meme.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's got to be.

[Fat Electrician]

It's got to be the me. They're like trying to make it like some cool bit like, no, bro, just put the meme. Put the meme and label. Like the name of the book is I'm that guy.

[Nick]

The account. I'm that guy. Like any of that. You're like, if I'm walking through the airport and I seen that or at one wherever and I see that book cover, I'm like, I need. I need to buy that.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, that goes hard as. That meme goes hard as. That's the only reason I like, put the name to the. It's the meme.

[Fat Electrician]

Do you have lime?

[Eli]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

Because that made me curious enough to like research who that guy was. And then I was just like, oh, holy.

[Fat Electrician]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

So that, as a book cover, is the only way to go about that.

[Nick]

That dude's the most crazy stories you will ever.

[Brandon Herrera]

I can't wait for you guys to release that podcast.

[Eli]

I know the. The Cliff Notes. Like, I know, like the two sentence version of his career, but. And I'm like intentionally waiting because I want to hear like the details on the podcast.

[Nick]

He's been to 80 countries, I want to say. He told me like yesterday. He's like, I've traveled to 80 countries.

[Fat Electrician]

How many of them are left?

[Eli]

I was just gonna say probably a good portion of those aren't the same countries as they were when he got there.

[Brandon Herrera]

That is insane.

[Eli]

Oh, you know, just backpacking and you.

[Fat Electrician]

Have fun and games till the blacked out Chinook rolls up blaring Sosa.

[Eli]

He's just like the kind of guy, he's just like, got his Walkman, the big old glasses, listening to Enya. Well, about to just end.

[Fat Electrician]

Have you. Have you been on YouTube and looked at the comment section of that. That song Love Sosa by KE Chief Keef? No, that's the song that Delta was listening to. Apparently all the comments are about Maduro. The last thing Maduro heard, he's still alive. Yeah. But he got ear muffs put on immediately after.

[Eli]

Oh. So, yeah, literally the last thing he heard, I just. Oh, God. Again, that chief marketing move move with Jocko.

[Nick]

Oh, God, dude, with this sweatshirt.

[Fat Electrician]

Hilarious.

[Brandon Herrera]

I missed it. What are you talking about?

[Fat Electrician]

After he was getting like paraded around in all the pictures, he's wearing a blue hoodie. That's a Jocko origin hoodie.

[Eli]

Not released yet.

[Nick]

Yeah, yeah, that was a pre release product and that's badass. Someone snuck that in and on him for all the photo shoots.

[Brandon Herrera]

Dudes, did he drop it, like, as soon as that got leaked? Yeah, because that would have went hard.

[Fat Electrician]

Yeah. Because I ordered one.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah. Hell yeah. Naturally.

[Fat Electrician]

The Maduro edition, bro.

[Brandon Herrera]

That's awesome.

[Nick]

That's why I wonder if there was any pushback on that. I know. Jocko probably was like, Jocko got on.

[Fat Electrician]

Twitter, some patriot put it on him.

[Nick]

I want to know how much much that single shirt sold.

[Brandon Herrera]

Probably a ridiculous amount, right?

[Nick]

Oh, dude, that is everyone's buy one. Especially when it is a pre release that's not supposed to be out. It's like, hey, homeboy. Yeah, we just ran this mission now.

[Fat Electrician]

It'S part of this origin's such a cool company though, to begin with. Like, I've been following them forever. Like, even before I was on YouTube.

[Nick]

Which one's. Is that just his clothing.

[Fat Electrician]

It's him and. Him and Pete meet another, like, jujitsu black belt guy, like, got together because they're both. I think Jocko's from. I don't know if Jocko's from New England or not, but this piece guy's from New England. And, like, New England had, like, a humongous textile industry back in the day. And, like, it all just got, like, sent overseas and after World War II and he wanted to bring it back, and they literally, like, made a shop in his backyard of his house, like, out in the woods up in, like. I think it's in, like, Maryland or it's in Maine. And they have all these cool. Like, they have a cool YouTube channel. And like, the YouTube channel is like, you can't get the equipment to, like, ring spin denim and anymore, like, that equipment just doesn't exist in America. And, like, the machines are rare and all this. It's like. It's like micro chip machines today. You know what I mean? Like, yeah, there's only so many factories in the world that have these intricate machines.

[Eli]

It's the same reason we can't go back to the moon.

[Fat Electrician]

Yeah, exactly. And so they, like, have these videos where they, like, go into, like, abandoned factories in, like, Maine and. And find all these old machines and, like, refurbish them. And now they're, like, the only company in America that makes actual denim jeans, blue jean work jeans in America. And they're the only. I think they're the only American company that makes, like, Jiu Jitsu GI's and all kinds of.

[Eli]

So there's one that Micah was telling me about that's in, like. I don't know if it's in, like, an Oregon or whatever. Maybe I'm just associating that with the hipster ass thing that's about to come next. But he said, like, they had to find the machinery in, like, Japan or some shit. I don't remember where it was. Korea, because, like, again, we lost the ability to produce American denim like that. But they got, like, a machine, Japan started making it. Was it Japan? Yep. But he was telling me that apparently the whole thing with denim is that you're not supposed to wash it, which sounds gross. Yeah. So you're backing me up on that. That's an actual statement.

[Nick]

You wash it very rarely. You're not supposed to wash it much at all. Yep.

[Eli]

Holy fuck. Yeah. So, like, to me, I'm just like. So those jeans you're wearing right now, you have Never washed. He's like, nope. Like, that is disgusting. Like, that sounds just horrible. Why would you want a material that you are going to put on your sweaty ass and just never be able to wash? Gross.

[Nick]

Is there?

[Eli]

I. I did not know that about, I guess, traditional denim. So whatever the Walmart makes is objectively.

[Brandon Herrera]

Better than them, the stretchies.

[Nick]

Also, Nick, you got your low income belt from bjj, right?

[Fat Electrician]

Yeah, yeah.

[Nick]

Nowhere. Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

That's the Iowan. Yes. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Purple, if you want to know. Yeah, no.

[Fat Electrician]

Yep. See, got that.

[Nick]

He's over here, Cat.

[Fat Electrician]

Cool.

[Eli]

Oh, I got the joke.

[Fat Electrician]

Purple. No, I got my brown belt in Jiu Jitsu.

[Eli]

Congratulations.

[Fat Electrician]

Thank you.

[Nick]

Oh, that's what it's called?

[Fat Electrician]

Yeah.

[Eli]

It's just to my understanding, they like you. You basically could. You're at the level where you could get your black belt. It's just like there's nobody around.

[Fat Electrician]

I mean. Yeah, more or less. And it's just like, that was kind of the thing. So I, I went out to World of Warships because I'm in the video game and it's kind of a funny story. So World of Warships is doing this thing where they partnered up with the We Defy foundation, which basically gets money. And then like, if you're a veteran and you want to try Jiu Jitsu, it's expensive or whatever, they'll pay for like your first years of tuition and buy your ghee at any, like, We Defy certified academy. So they partnered up with World of Warships and they're doing these like, Jiu Jitsu seminar tournament things on like aircraft carriers and like all these museum ships all across the country. And they wanted me to go out to one on the USS Lexington out in Corpus Christi. I was like, yeah, sure, I'll go. So I, I go. And they're like, obviously the World of Warships people don't really understand a lot about Jiu Jitsu. So they pitch it to me and they're like, yeah, it's a, it's a tournament or a seminar or something. We just want you to be involved because, like, we know you do Jiu Jitsu and you're in the video game. And I'm like, like, yeah, sure, like what? Whatever you guys need. Like, I'll go do like a charity match and, you know, grapple somebody or I'll. I'll teach some moves at a seminar. Whatever you want. Well then, like, I get a hold of the We Defy guy and he's like, yeah, so. And I was a purple belt at the time. And he's like, so you're a purple belt? And he's like, I'm like, yeah. And he goes, what are you hoping to get out of this? I was like, I'm like, I'm happy to do whatever you want. He's like, well, they want you to like, teach some moves. And I was like, I can do that if you need to. He's like. He's like, yeah, that's fine. But just so you know, like, the other people teaching the moves are Travis Stevens, one of the guys that got his black belt the fastest in the world and is also a Olympian in judo. Victor Hugo, who's the best jiu jitsu practitioner on the world at this point in time. And then like some outrageously other Gordon Ryan world class. It wasn't Gordon Ryan, but it was some like out other outrageously high ranked black belt that's like world class, like known name. And it was like, I don't want to go up with those guys. And then as a purple belt be teaching moves, he's like, yeah, I didn't think so. So I just got to be like the practice dummy. They showed the moves on, which is fine. That was kind of funny, dude.

[Nick]

Terrifying when you're like, I'll teach. And then you hear, those are the instructors and the sheer gap. Nick can ball up anyone here in seconds. Also, that applies to what they would do to Nick.

[Fat Electrician]

It's like a high school physics teacher being like, did you want to teach a seminar with Albert Einstein? No, not the same.

[Eli]

I'll teach the daycare class while he teaches the adults.

[Fat Electrician]

So like that happened. But when I went out there, like, I met Victor Hugo and like, we were hanging out and like, he was a good dude. So then I started talking with him. And then. So now I'm, you know, my, my gym in Iowa is under Victor Hugo and Steve and their, their affiliation. So we're under them now. And then came out, been training with them. They come out all the time.

[Eli]

So do you own part of your jiu jitsu gym?

[Nick]

Yeah.

[Eli]

Nice.

[Nick]

Wait, did you get.

[Brandon Herrera]

Of course you do.

[Eli]

We were, we were talking about it as me and, me and Chris would. We're talking about this the other day and it just so happened to get brought up with your jiu jitsu gym. And I'm like, I bet you anything that owns a piece, I'm like, that's just. Nick's entire personality is.

[Fat Electrician]

Huh. I like the way this works. How much?

[Eli]

How's your business go?

[Fat Electrician]

Huh?

[Eli]

Give me five minutes. Come back all right, how much for 20%?

[Fat Electrician]

Pretty much. It's about how it went.

[Eli]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

So you do do that for sure?

[Nick]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

Anything you like. You're like, I want it, let's do it.

[Fat Electrician]

How much?

[Nick]

So now that. Did they come down and give help, get your brown belt or how did that system work?

[Fat Electrician]

I mean, it was just kind of like, you know, like, explain the situation. They come down, they, you know, Steve, who runs the gym with Victor Hugo, he's a six time world champion. He's so good, it's insane. And then he brought down his another black belt that's also a world champion. So, like, they came down and we were rolling and like, you know, just seeing where we're at. And like, I've been doing jiu jitsu for. For 15 years. Usually it's supposed to take you 10 years to get a black belt, but, you know, like a significant portion of the time I've hadn't been under a black belt. We had a black belt for a minute. That guy moved away. So, like, I literally just didn't have anybody to promote me ever. So they came down, we rolled a bunch, they beat the dog out of me, and I got £50 on both of them. They just beat the out of me the entire time. But apparently I did good because the next time they came down, they gave me and the other guy I own the gym with, they gave us both brown belts, so.

[Nick]

Oh, that's awesome.

[Fat Electrician]

Yeah.

[Nick]

Humbling experience when you're like, I think I can do decent against these guys. Never.

[Fat Electrician]

It's just like, it's stupid.

[Eli]

It was like the average guy who could fight, can fight until he's in the ring. With Sean Strickland, it's like, all right.

[Nick]

Well, I mean, you can do. We've talked about it. It's just the average person that thinks they can do a bar fight and then they box for the first time in their life with somebody that knows how to box. And like, Yep.

[Fat Electrician]

Oh, well, that and like black belts and like, I would assume any martial art, but like in jiu jitsu, it's like, if you're a blue belt, I got a pretty good idea of how good you are. If you got a purple belt, I got a pretty good idea how good you are. If you got a brown belt, I got a pretty good idea how good you are. If you're a black belt, I have no clue. Like, you're in.

[Eli]

It's just the greater than symbol.

[Fat Electrician]

Yeah, like, you're in. You're anywhere from Gordon Ryan to like, Some middle aged accountant that just did it for 11 years. Like I have no fucking clue how good you are at this. And it's. It's bad.

[Nick]

Oh, man. Yeah.

[Fat Electrician]

It's a good time, though.

[Nick]

Connor, what are some of your New Year's resolutions?

[Eli]

I want to cut back on stimulants. I'm horribly addicted to caffeine, nicotine and methamphetamine.

[Nick]

Nice. You got a good hookup for the last one.

[Eli]

Yeah, he's a real cool biker down at the Love Station.

[Fat Electrician]

What are these?

[Nick]

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[Brandon Herrera]

Pouches.

[Eli]

Pouches. Well, they're completely nicotine and caffeine free and packed with nootropics to help with mental clarity.

[Nick]

At what moment did you realize you might have been using too much smokies?

[Eli]

Well, I showed up home and my family was all waiting for me. And they held what was called an intervention.

[Nick]

The boring ass story.

[Eli]

My wife lost, left me.

[Nick]

Oh, he's still going.

[Brandon Herrera]

Never gonna get him back.

[Nick]

And that's why you're using Ultra now?

[Eli]

That's why I use Ultra.

[Nick]

And I know with Ultra I'll get my family back.

[Brandon Herrera]

I'm gonna get the kids back.

[Eli]

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[Nick]

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[Eli]

It's got the same kick as nicotine pouches without the side effects. Most pouches elevate cortisol, raise your blood pressure and keep you in a constant state of stress.

[Fat Electrician]

Like war.

[Nick]

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[Eli]

Falling asleep was easier. Waking up, I would feel so much more well rested.

[Nick]

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[Nick]

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[Eli]

Tell them, unsub, or we'll kill you.

[Fat Electrician]

Then I brought a. I brought the man versus morning boys down and Zach and I convinced them to go to jiu jitsu with me.

[Nick]

How did they do? I was wondering that Because I want them to also go to box.

[Fat Electrician]

Those boys have no cardio when it grappling is like A different type of cardio. Just from doing drills, they were. By the time we got to doing live sparring, it was like they all had a good 30 second burst in them before they were dead.

[Nick]

I'm the laziest grappler. Fucking period. Because I'm like, I'm like, I'm letting you expend all your energy and then I'm going to capitalize stupid ass mistakes. I am not putting it in. Even boxing. I do the same time.

[Eli]

It's annoying.

[Nick]

I'll be very aggressive in the most passive way. So it's like swing, do lots of swinging until you get tired. Okay. Now I can take advantage of your, your arms going like this.

[Eli]

That was the last time we, we sparred because, like we had a really good like first round. Yeah, it was when we were with Ethan Bernard, just kind of showing him some stuff and, and first, first round was really good. And second round and I was just like, I wasn't like super prepared to go into the boxing gym that day. And so I'm like, oh, okay. And it's been, it's been a while because like, you know, I'll take like a month or two break, you know, between times going on the second round. About halfway through, my cardio is expended.

[Nick]

I'm being, I'm being very aggressive on Brandon and he is swinging, which I love. Like he is punching and swinging because I'm just pushing him. I'm wasting no energy.

[Eli]

I didn't have it. I didn't have a chance. The round, second half of round two, I'm just getting this beat out of me. Eli's just having fun beating the brakes off me in front of Ethan just like I was. There were several times where I just like ran away. I can't do this right.

[Nick]

Look, I'm done. I was just give me a moment. I'm window.

[Fat Electrician]

My trident. True strategy is I'm tired, but I'm going to keep pressing forward so maybe he won't notice. It's my strategy.

[Brandon Herrera]

Have you done any fighting other than street fighting?

[Eli]

No.

[Brandon Herrera]

Not for what?

[Nick]

Have you not rolled with him?

[Brandon Herrera]

No. Have you seen that guy? I'm good. What do you think? I shoot a gun. I, I weigh 180 pounds. I'm not doing that.

[Eli]

What is the, the, the joke is like you got a black belt and click. Pow.

[Nick]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah.

[Fat Electrician]

Glock 19.

[Brandon Herrera]

Glock 19. Fu beats Jiu Jitsu every time.

[Nick]

Never. You were like, I'm gonna test this out. You're like, no, I'm gonna just shoot.

[Brandon Herrera]

Again, I mean, a little bit when I was a kid, I mean, like, they had a. A ring in a old school in Iowa where they would, like, set up, like, you go have your mom sign up a waiver, and then you get in a ring and fight. But it was with other people doing the same thing I was doing. So it was a bunch of older.

[Eli]

Guys betting cash on the side.

[Nick]

That's what it sounded like.

[Brandon Herrera]

Exactly that. So, like, kind of. But not every. Anything to, like, a higher level.

[Nick]

Oh.

[Brandon Herrera]

Like, I've never fought anybody that actually knows how to fight. It's always just been like, you know, beer, muscle, jackass at a bar.

[Fat Electrician]

That's.

[Nick]

It's a humbling experience.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, I don't have the cardio for that, dude. Yeah, we talked about it the last time I was on this podcast. I can't. Cardio is not in my bloodline. I just can't do it.

[Eli]

Well, because that's the crazy part too, because you think about, like, you know, like, bar fight, street fight, you know, stuff like that. Three, four swings. It's usually broken up. The whole thing lasts 15 seconds at most. You get somebody in there, it's like, all right, we're doing multiple three minute rounds, and you can't get out until that timer's over. It's like, all right. That's a completely different ballpark.

[Nick]

You get a minute break, though, in between. Oh, hey, cool.

[Eli]

Don't spend it all in one place.

[Nick]

How'd Zach do? I just like Zach at Walmart or McDonald's.

[Fat Electrician]

Did you see white belts?

[Brandon Herrera]

That was fucking funny.

[Fat Electrician]

I was. I was beating up on Zach a little bit for funsies.

[Nick]

Did he shrimp?

[Fat Electrician]

No.

[Brandon Herrera]

I mean, he kind of owed.

[Fat Electrician]

What does that mean he couldn't do? Shrimp is like an escape move.

[Nick]

Oh, army teacher. What's it called in actual jiu jitsu?

[Fat Electrician]

Hip escape. Yeah.

[Nick]

Hip escape.

[Fat Electrician]

Hip escape. Shrimp.

[Nick]

Yeah. Military's like shrimp. Shrimp. It's combatives. It's the dumbest in the world.

[Fat Electrician]

But now, Zachary, we have like a. A promo for underwhelming. It's just like, me, like, I hit a Baron BOLO on Zach, which is like, not a move somebody as fat as me should be able to pull off. Like, it's. It's funny.

[Nick]

Poor sack just getting torn up in a pretzel.

[Fat Electrician]

Pretty much. I mean, they were so gassed. It was like I was being nice to him, but he was just so tired. Everything felt aggressive to him. And like, I do this every week. I'm fat. Like, I know how to do this for two hours and not get tired. And they do not.

[Eli]

I was going to ask you to explain that move a little bit it and then I realized there's an open space over there that's big enough to try it. And I don't really want to do that with you.

[Brandon Herrera]

I can show you.

[Fat Electrician]

It's fine.

[Nick]

I just hurt. That's the day.

[Brandon Herrera]

Can we be the old guys putting pets on this?

[Eli]

Well, that's the day I know who I'm betting on.

[Nick]

Zach Nolan and Tackett learned that Nick can them.

[Eli]

Yeah.

[Nick]

I mean, there's not fighting Nick like he did what he wanted.

[Eli]

That's the saying is if one guy can hold you down.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, two guys.

[Fat Electrician]

Who said that? I think that was Justin Gagey that said that. It's so funny.

[Eli]

Isn't he fighting this weekend?

[Fat Electrician]

Yeah, he's fighting Patty Pebblet. This is gonna be an awesome fight.

[Nick]

Wait, those two were. I didn't know it was those two fights.

[Fat Electrician]

Whoever fights him to fight. Who's like the super badass striker guy. I can't remember his name.

[Nick]

Logan Paul.

[Brandon Herrera]

No.

[Fat Electrician]

He's in the ufc. He's been knocking out everybody.

[Brandon Herrera]

I did watch that fight. Not Logan, the other one. Just because I was super curious. Mike, that was amazing to watch.

[Nick]

Joshua. Anthony Joshua. I told the guys, they were like, I don't. I was like, Anthony Joshua was gonna.

[Fat Electrician]

Standing on them, destroy that. Man.

[Brandon Herrera]

What a great punch. I lost a significant amount of money. I'm not gonna lie. You bet on. I was hopeful because it was so like a thousand dollars. Gave you. Gave you 15. So, like, of course I got to try a little bit.

[Eli]

I was also going to. I. I didn't get it. It didn't go through. But I was going to. To bet on Paul again, too, because. All right, let's fix it. Like, very decent odds that all this has been fixed.

[Brandon Herrera]

This entire hundred percent. And I was banking on that.

[Eli]

Literally, I was hoping to.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, yeah, exactly.

[Nick]

I said I was like, Anthony Joshua was an active boxer. Homeboy is going to destroy him if he can ensure you see that once he's seen him in the corner and him dropping his hands, he's like double broken jaw.

[Brandon Herrera]

Picture of his, like, teeth sideways inside of his gum was the most gnarly.

[Fat Electrician]

The rumor is, is that Jake Paul sticking his tongue out is like the official signal of like, lighten up. Because they go back to the Tyson fight, and Tyson was like, Tyson was starting to have the PTSD flashback. He was starting to actually box. And then Jake Paul did the tongue Thing. And then Tyson, like, let up a ton and let Jake Paul hit him. And then that's what happened in the Anthony fight too. And then they're saying Anthony's just like, nah, I' ma fuck him up. And then.

[Eli]

Because I was gonna say just like the. The moment where he starts flashing his tongue, like, the entire time, like, Jake is losing.

[Fat Electrician]

You're not doing good.

[Nick]

Like, it's just really good at takedowns. Those double leg takedowns, bro, for a boxer.

[Fat Electrician]

And Anthony Joshua's takedown defense is on point.

[Nick]

No, he's stuffing everything, stopping it instantly. And then, sure, it was just one hands go down, two just straight down.

[Fat Electrician]

Well, like, the rumor is that, like, they're like, in court because Anthony Joshua. Apparently there was supposed to be like a no knockout clause or whatever where, like, Anthony Joshua wasn't allowed to knock him out. And he did. Did. Which technically. Technically he didn't. He didn't knock him out. He never lost consciousness. He just broke his jaw in two places.

[Nick]

Which also props for Paul not getting knocked out.

[Brandon Herrera]

And like the instant response of holy was baller.

[Fat Electrician]

Oh.

[Nick]

He looked over, he's like, that sucked. Yeah, yeah, that was terrible. Even his brother was like, oh, yeah.

[Eli]

Because they have that thing in the corner where he's just like. Like, you're like, hey, am I up? And Logan's like, yeah, yeah.

[Nick]

The Paul. Like Joshua said, or Paul was talking before. He's like, I was in the corner talking to Anthony and I think that pissed him off. And they just punched my brother in the face as hard as he could.

[Fat Electrician]

The Pepe meme Joshua. Funny.

[Brandon Herrera]

The what?

[Fat Electrician]

I haven't seen winding back Anthony Joshua. Pepe meme is so good.

[Eli]

God, that's. And you know what? Unpopular opinion. I don't think Jake Paul's a bad boxer.

[Brandon Herrera]

No, not at all.

[Eli]

He's. It's. He. I couldn't, you know, go to with him, fight him. Guy's great. He's just not to pro boxer level, in my opinion.

[Nick]

Champion boxer.

[Fat Electrician]

Like the guys put it.

[Eli]

The guys put in, you know, God, I don't know. A half a decade. Decade of work at this point. If he sucked, it would be. That would be embarrassing, I think, like, to be with the greats. It's like, dude, you nowhere close.

[Nick]

No. And you see that lineup when they actually stood side by side, I think that's when you realized, oh, it's like.

[Fat Electrician]

A black belt in jiu jitsu.

[Brandon Herrera]

But, I mean, he's got a respect.

[Fat Electrician]

In boxing for sure, right? It's Just, you don't know. Black belt's a big spectrum.

[Nick]

It's a world champion. That's why world champions in boxing would say, it's like, yeah, I thought I had a chance against Pacquiao. And Pacquiao was in his prime. It was like. I thought, it's like, I'm a world champion, so is he. I'm gonna beat his ass.

[Fat Electrician]

Like, there's. There's literally 15 seconds of a Pacquiao fight where Pacquiao threw more punches than both Anthony and Paul in the whole fight.

[Brandon Herrera]

Jesus.

[Fat Electrician]

Because what's pacquiao's record, like, 1200 strikes in a round?

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh, my God.

[Nick]

1800-20. 200 punches for an entire fight. He would average. He averages a hundred at minimum. One hundred punches a round. Which. Which also I think Paul and they had, I think 80 the entire six rounds.

[Brandon Herrera]

So what is it the, like, percentage of people that are absolutely brain dead that fought Pacquiao now? Because that is an incredible amount of damage to your brain. That's crazy.

[Nick]

My favorite fight is, oh, what's Mexican boxer that was caught cheating?

[Fat Electrician]

Oh, yeah, the guy that's making fun of Freddie Roach.

[Nick]

Yes.

[Fat Electrician]

And Pacquiao him up.

[Nick]

Margarito. Margarita Margarito, he got caught cheating against. He beat up Kodo to a degree. They were like, what? The. Kodo was winning, and then they. It was never proven, but he wrapped his. His wraps? Yep.

[Fat Electrician]

Oh, he had plaster in his wraps.

[Nick]

They hardened during the fight. Then Kodo starts get taking damage they not used to or seen. Kodo loses at the end of the fight, and then they catch it during the Sugar Ray.

[Fat Electrician]

I forget.

[Nick]

Rich. Fuck Sugar Stevenson.

[Fat Electrician]

What the fuck? I know who you're talking about.

[Nick]

Yeah, now I forget. But so they catch it before. They're like, yo, those raps, what the wrong with him? Like, make him change it. And now Margarita gets his ass beat, and then he goes to fight Pacquiao. Then Margarito makes fun of.

[Fat Electrician]

Makes fun of Freddie Roach, who has Parkinson's. Who. Manny Pacquiao's coach and Manny Pacquiao. Him up.

[Brandon Herrera]

Good, good.

[Nick]

Oh, dude, he looked like. I always compare it like Passion of the Christ. Like, Margarito's entire face was reshaped during that fight. He had to retire because of it.

[Brandon Herrera]

Is he, like.

[Nick]

He had to quit afterwards because his orbital bone was broken. Eye vision. There was a loss in eye vision. Pull up Margarito after Pacquiao. Looking at it, it's gnarly.

[Eli]

And the first thing that comes up is Margarito versus Pacquiao face.

[Nick]

And this is after Pacquiao's went up eight weight classes.

[Brandon Herrera]

Damn.

[Nick]

Hey, he's the only person to win eight. He was a world champion in eight different weight classes.

[Brandon Herrera]

That's a scary dude.

[Eli]

Dude. He looks like a Star wars character.

[Nick]

Like, show. This is after a boxing match.

[Eli]

Like, that looks like prosthetics.

[Brandon Herrera]

That guy looks like he's out of the movie. He'll have eyes. Holy shit.

[Eli]

Dear God.

[Brandon Herrera]

I mean, props for that guy for not taking a nap on the canvas, though. Holy shit.

[Eli]

Yeah. You could have smuggled him out of the country with a fake passport.

[Nick]

He did not have a good time him. But yeah, dude, packham Just throwing 100 punches around.

[Fat Electrician]

Jesus.

[Nick]

Now what did you guys. You guys walked the floor today. Did you see anything revolutionary?

[Fat Electrician]

I want the new cannock.

[Nick]

Okay.

[Fat Electrician]

I want it so bad.

[Brandon Herrera]

It is pretty dope.

[Nick]

Is that what you guys were talking about?

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah. Did a collab with Radiant. So it's got an afterburner inside of the Canik prime, which was already a pretty decent gun. And Nick's carry. His is.

[Fat Electrician]

Yeah, I've been carrying it right now. Now. I love that gun. Now they got a radian built in. I want it so bad. Yeah.

[Nick]

Sick Radian makes. They actually made a really good comp for the pistols.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, for sure. They claim 44 recoil reduction. I think they actually did that. A lot of people claim a lot of. But I think they are. They have that.

[Eli]

I just put one of my 43X.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, you're gonna love that.

[Eli]

Afterburner ramjet.

[Brandon Herrera]

Like.

[Eli]

Like, close your eyes, exhale, feel your body relax, and let go of whatever you're carrying today.

[Fat Electrician]

Well, I'm letting go of the worry that I wouldn't get my new contacts in time for this class. I got them delivered free from 1-800-contacts.

[Eli]

Oh, my gosh.

[Brandon Herrera]

They're so fast.

[Nick]

And breathe.

[Fat Electrician]

Oh, sorry. I almost couldn't breathe when I saw the discount they gave me on my first order. Oh, sorry. Namaste. Visit 1-800-contacts.com today to save on your first order.

[Eli]

1-800-Contact tax.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, I was telling you I did a video with the 4030x, like, prior to getting the ramjet. I hated that gun, dude. I. I couldn't understand why people would choose that over something that cost half the price and shot twice as good. Ramjet. All of the difference. Actually carry that.

[Fat Electrician]

Have you shot the new Glock yet? Is it worth a. I'm not.

[Brandon Herrera]

Dude, like, have the idea of having a beaver tail on a Glock. Like When I go to draw, I wrap my finger across or my thumb across the top of the slide. So being able to like get that over the beaver tail is stupid. That's just gonna slow me down. Like, I like the idea. The reason I like Glock like Glock is because of how fast I can draw it and get on target.

[Eli]

The thumb on the back of this.

[Fat Electrician]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

So if you're like reaching for it and you're looping your thumb, then you're gonna up your grip 100 of the time. You wrap up the top of it. You can adjust your grip as soon as you meet with your left hand to push it shot.

[Eli]

Okay.

[Brandon Herrera]

It saves you a ton of time. And then you get your grip 100% of the time. With a beaver tail, you can't do that.

[Eli]

Interesting.

[Brandon Herrera]

Which is why I like the bull armor. UL comp is like what I carry because it's got the bob beaver tail and it doesn't.

[Fat Electrician]

I just love how Glock did that because they over so many people.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yes, they did.

[Fat Electrician]

They came out with the Glock. The. The Glock that can't take a switch. Right. Because what Was that? The 5 gen 5 gen V. Gen V. They came out with the gen V. They're like, it can't take a switch. Whatever.

[Eli]

Whatever immediately took a switch.

[Fat Electrician]

So that. Well, no, but the thing is like, I think they did that on purpose just so they could sell out all the backstock of all the gen 4s to free. To free up space on the shelf. And then three months later you announced the new Glock. So like everybody just went and bought out all the old stock of all the old. Because like all Glocks going woke and they're blah blah, blah, blah blah. And then they changed it and then they're like, oh, by the way, there's a brand new Glock now. You got to buy this too. Fucking nerd.

[Eli]

It's probably the best of all worlds because I know they were dealing with a lot of the like the statewide lawsuits. They probably were just like, oh, I see this as an absolute win.

[Fat Electrician]

Yeah.

[Nick]

So clear inventory will create something that can go in these states. And then by the way. Oh, we aren't telling you until after the fact.

[Fat Electrician]

Yeah, after you are already bought all our old.

[Nick]

After the panic rush.

[Fat Electrician]

Yeah.

[Nick]

Oh, by the way, hey, here, just.

[Eli]

Go functionally as a handgun though, I cannot tell the difference. Like I. I can tell the difference obviously, but like shooting it like a Glock Gen 3 versus whatever's out now, like, or the Gen 4 Gen 5. Like, I don't.

[Brandon Herrera]

Dude. I. Like, I have mixed feelings about Glock. I think that they're super modular, and if you want to actually stick some money in. Into the things, like, you can get a decent pistol out of it. But, like, from the factory, there's so the Echelon, same price, and it's good to go right away. Like, buying a Glock, you got to stick so much money into it. I just can't wrap my mind around why people still go with Glock.

[Nick]

I think as it just runs.

[Brandon Herrera]

It does run. It is the AK of the Glock world. But I have broke more Glocks than I have any other pistol. Then again, I have owned Glocks my entire life. They're about to break. I shoot a.

[Fat Electrician]

A lot.

[Brandon Herrera]

I get it. But I.

[Eli]

How many rounds would you say you shoot a year or, like, a month?

[Brandon Herrera]

We're about 10k a month right now.

[Eli]

That'll happen.

[Fat Electrician]

Yeah.

[Nick]

I shoot maybe a hundred a year.

[Brandon Herrera]

Really?

[Nick]

I do not shoot much.

[Eli]

I need 100 rounds a year.

[Nick]

Yeah, I don't shoot much.

[Eli]

I handgun or, like, anything.

[Nick]

Anything. I don't shoot much. Mine is usually. I just need to feel it. Like, I'll run a mag, and then. Then once I feel how the gun recalls, I'm like, okay, I can.

[Brandon Herrera]

I can't form an opinion until I run that thing into the dirt to find out where it breaks. And then I'll be like, it's good. It broke.

[Nick]

We have.

[Brandon Herrera]

They couldn't even make it to five.

[Fat Electrician]

Remember when we went up to Q and we built honey badgers? You should see his honey badger. He's shot 10,000 rounds and hasn't cleaned it. It's the dirtiest star chamber.

[Brandon Herrera]

I will run that thing until it breaks so I can tell people it's a good gun.

[Fat Electrician]

No, it's that I held the gun and my hands were dirty.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yes.

[Fat Electrician]

I didn't even shoot the.

[Brandon Herrera]

Like, I still run like a champ. I love that gun. It's like, one of my favorite things to just go out and play.

[Nick]

Because it's the dirty kid off Charlie Brown.

[Eli]

Yes. Especially. Especially as, like, a Call of Duty, you know, like, into war zone like that. You're like, all right, well, naturally. Like the honey badgers.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah.

[Eli]

Right out the gate.

[Brandon Herrera]

And I decked it out. It is so overly tactical. It doesn't even make any sense.

[Eli]

No, I love the. The boom box, dude.

[Brandon Herrera]

Same gun is so fun, but it's also terrifying because, like, overpay.

[Fat Electrician]

It doesn't stop.

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh, my God. Every Time I, like, want to go shoot it. I can't shoot the steel targets because that bullet's not, like, splattering like any other lead projectile. Splatter and I'll hit the ground.

[Eli]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

That thing goes somewhere. God.

[Fat Electrician]

We did the video, us trying to catch it.

[Nick]

I could not.

[Fat Electrician]

I could not believe. Believe we couldn't catch that fucking bullet.

[Eli]

For a subsonic projectile, that's crazy.

[Fat Electrician]

Subsonic. A6 blackout. We had three blocks. What are they, like, two feet wide each? Yeah, we had six feet of ballistics gel zipped right through it like a fucking laser beam railroad. Time didn't even slow down. So then we got a railroad tie and stuck it in front of the ballistics gel, zipped through the railroad tie and then through the ballistics gel and.

[Brandon Herrera]

Then to a steel target and then hit the ground, rain bin behind us. And we're like, holy. Don't shoot the steel.

[Nick]

Well, that's why even when we were there, like, oh, yeah, we made AP Subsonic.

[Brandon Herrera]

And it works.

[Nick]

It's work, huh?

[Eli]

Yeah. I don't know how much that we're allowed to talk about.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's public information.

[Eli]

Okay.

[Brandon Herrera]

Because they allowed me to put it in the video that we released.

[Nick]

So you shot ap.

[Brandon Herrera]

No, no, but they have videos and.

[Nick]

Yeah. Which is that concept?

[Eli]

Some of the armors or some of the armor plates that they were showing us, too, like, of just the way it just, like, ripped through a certain class of carrier or plates. Like, I didn't think that that's a thing you could do.

[Brandon Herrera]

And fully intact, too. Like, most of the time when that happens, it's like a core that passes through or it comes out mushroomed and up.

[Eli]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

The full projectile untouched, which also great.

[Nick]

For a bedside, but not great because you don't know.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah.

[Nick]

Exactly where it's stopping.

[Fat Electrician]

No, it's fine. My kids are on the second floor.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, we did the video, like, testing. We did, like, a bunch.

[Fat Electrician]

My wife's behind me and the kids are on the second floor. I know where shit's at.

[Brandon Herrera]

Do you use a boombox?

[Fat Electrician]

Huh?

[Brandon Herrera]

Do you use a boombox for home events?

[Fat Electrician]

I have. No, not the boombox.

[Brandon Herrera]

I was gonna say your poor neighbor.

[Fat Electrician]

I have the Honey Badger.

[Brandon Herrera]

I also have Honey Badger.

[Fat Electrician]

The Honey Badger by my bedside.

[Brandon Herrera]

Suppressed shotgun, 10 millimeter pistol.

[Nick]

I have. I literally have. Have my baby scar, my 300 blackout, and my 86 my bedsides. So I get to choose depending on what's going down and who's home.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, fair enough.

[Nick]

Like, I'm like, if I'm Coming out. I know the kiddos are home. Can't use the A6 because their walls are straight behind that.

[Eli]

Yeah.

[Nick]

Wall on the journey to the front door.

[Brandon Herrera]

Terrifying. We did the fat pews video of like, makeshift walls for like, different calibers to test. Like, are your children going to be safe in the house? Is it going to kill your neighbor? The amount of ammo we got passed through, everything is actually crazy. Like, what did we end up with that had like, decent luck. Was it just 300 blackout that didn't over penetrate because, like everything was 300 blackout.

[Fat Electrician]

Even. Even 9 mil was going through like three walls.

[Brandon Herrera]

Crazy.

[Nick]

Yeah.

[Eli]

I mean, realistically, if you like, if you're living in like a country home or whatever, 86 blackout, amazing home defense gun. If you live in an apartment building, you're an asshole.

[Fat Electrician]

Well, we did. Me and Demo Matt that. Because he had those junk houses where we. We did that video on the meme of like, what if. What if the bad guy's hiding behind the fridge at your neighbor's house? We did that. 9 mil was able to go through an exterior wall, a refrigerator, and penetrate like six inches into a chest.

[Eli]

Bullets go through.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, they do. They do a very good job of doing that. And FMJ or.

[Fat Electrician]

Oh, but it was fmj.

[Brandon Herrera]

Okay.

[Eli]

That's the thing that drives me crazy is like in movies and it's like people will just take cover like, like behind a car. Like, not an engine block, but like.

[Brandon Herrera]

A car door or table.

[Eli]

They'll flip it. Yeah, flip a table in a gunfight. It's like, cool. You've made concealment not cover.

[Nick]

Thank God. I have this wooden table of plywood to hide behind.

[Fat Electrician]

I have a. Like, I got a bunch of cops that I train in jiu jitsu, and they were showing me, like, they went to this like, tactical shield class, you know, like the cuz that's how like they're doing breaching now with the shield and. And they were showing some of the tactics and I was like, I mean.

[Nick]

They breach with this.

[Fat Electrician]

That's. Oh, yeah, that's cool. For the guy holding the shield. I'd be real pissed off being the other three guys in the stack if the guy with the gun knows how walls and guns work. Because those three dudes are getting lit the up for sure.

[Brandon Herrera]

Like, I don't know Anyways, about Chacho. Did anybody else see anything, like, worth going to look at? Any, like, cool new innovation, hasn't he?

[Fat Electrician]

Scottish car.

[Brandon Herrera]

It was sick, but heavy. It was a little heavy.

[Eli]

That was no heavier than So I have a 17 at at home. Yeah, like the old 17 with like a surefire, I think like the titanium can. It's like. I don't know what the. It's called 762 ti or something like that. It felt about the same weight, frankly, like I was, I was pretty all right with it.

[Fat Electrician]

I'm.

[Eli]

I was impressed. There was a lot of little details that.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, that's kind of what we notice notice too.

[Eli]

I. I just thought like, oh, you added an M lock handguard. That's what I thought. Like.

[Fat Electrician]

Okay.

[Eli]

Well, now you've got, you know, a. A longer handguard too. So you can actually like get a proper C clamp on it. Updated the iron sights, suppressor ready. You know, slightly upgraded trigger. The hydraulic buffer system on the inside with a skeletonized bolt carrier.

[Fat Electrician]

Does it still have the Ugg boot butt stock?

[Brandon Herrera]

Yes, but that's iconic. You can't, you can't get rid of that.

[Eli]

Dude know, but it's.

[Nick]

It's pumpkin spice latte all the time when you rock a scar.

[Eli]

Goddamn right it is.

[Nick]

I love my favorite videos. It's like when you get your scar at. And it's like the two scarf boots going down and walking.

[Brandon Herrera]

Little attitude.

[Fat Electrician]

I'm tell. Dude, I saw the new HK Breacher. I love that thing. I'm so excited to get.

[Brandon Herrera]

Rub it in some more Nick.

[Nick]

Wait, what the is that?

[Fat Electrician]

It's. You know how they came out with the civilian 416 last year?

[Nick]

Year, yes.

[Fat Electrician]

They came out with a 308 version.

[Nick]

That's the AR10.

[Eli]

Yeah, yeah, the 417.

[Fat Electrician]

Yeah, the 417. And it comes in a. You can get it in a 16 or a 13 inch barrel. It's dope.

[Eli]

13 inches on a 308 is pretty aggressive.

[Fat Electrician]

I'm a huge fan. I like it a lot.

[Brandon Herrera]

As long as it's suppressed. Hell yeah. Yes.

[Nick]

The no suppress, the fireballs are great. And the FN has the bolter.

[Eli]

Yeah, that, that 30 millimeter grenade launcher that I'm basically, I was on my hands and knees with knee pads and a bib saying, can I please fire this fucking thing? Because I know I was looking at it. The one thing I did notice, like, I know prototyping a little bit different things. Like the follower was. Follower was 3D printed. A lot of the components on it. Like the magazine release, the bolt release, stuff like that was like MJF, which is like an advanced form of like 3D printing. A bunch of little stuff like the, the dust cover, little Sliding dust cover thing was 3D printed. I'm like looking at a lot of elements of this. I'm like, this is still very much a prototype and that's fine as long as I get to shoot it when you're done.

[Nick]

Do they have any working models out yet?

[Eli]

I don't know. They said that they fired the ammunition. So like they, they've done testing with the actual ammunition itself, but they didn't say if the. The gun was fully functional or not or yet. Not or. Or not yet.

[Nick]

Will you be able to buy that.

[Eli]

Ammo as a civilian? No, I would highly doubt it, but.

[Nick]

No, like with your classification.

[Eli]

So I have an 0702 like SOT and everything like that. Manufacturers FFL. I think in order, like, especially if it's like high explosive ordinance, I think you either need a type 10 or a type 20. So you need like an explosive like a magazine and like that.

[Fat Electrician]

Maybe Mike can help you out when he comes on the podcast.

[Eli]

Well, he knows it. He knows a thing or two because.

[Brandon Herrera]

He'S seen a thing or two do.

[Nick]

Dude, that's wild.

[Fat Electrician]

That's the first question. How many pounds of C4 you think you've detonated? Cuz he was EOD guy, I bet.

[Brandon Herrera]

The number is massive.

[Fat Electrician]

How many pallets of C4 you think you've gone through, Bro, like asking him how many rounds he's gone through in a month. Like how much C4 have you?

[Eli]

Dude, he's like Atlas holding up the entire plastiques industry.

[Fat Electrician]

The most expensive man in JSOC right there. Show some respect.

[Brandon Herrera]

God.

[Nick]

Dude, it's gonna be wild hearing some of these stories from him because it's. No one knows any of them. Oh, and the best part, the best part, he wrote every single one. He was very big on journals. Everything is documented to a. Like, I want. We'll see what I can keep in. But Nancy said every journal had like 32,000 words in it.

[Fat Electrician]

Damn.

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh.

[Eli]

So he documented the out everything from.

[Nick]

Vietnam on Dear Diary.

[Fat Electrician]

There was a dictator.

[Nick]

Dear Diary, do you know what six pounds of seafoil does to a man? I do. Drawing. Little stick figure, really bad drawing. Red crayon.

[Eli]

Yeah, I was going to say, hey, can I find Mario Red?

[Nick]

So I'm like, holy. And all the photos that have never been released of him. So stoked for that. Like yes, yes.

[Brandon Herrera]

How did you land that? That is awesome.

[Nick]

That was a random. Everything he posted on. He posted one on Twitter and we've talked about him on the podcast multiple times. We all got tagged that day.

[Eli]

Yeah.

[Nick]

And he went to like 150,000 subscribers in a day and a half.

[Eli]

It was very quick.

[Fat Electrician]

And it's such wholesome posts too. It's such a. This is me and my wife after we climbed a mountain. It's just like, yeah. The whole Internet, it's like, yeah, yeah.

[Eli]

I was wondering too because I'm like, man, I, I. Because he, he travels the world with his wife, they like do a bunch of like hiking and backpacking stuff. I'm like, that's awesome. Like, what a better way to spend your retirement, right? Or what better way? I'm curious if they just like, oh yeah, going backpacking through Cambodia. And he sees this big open clearing with no trees and just goes, it's.

[Fat Electrician]

Just how I left it.

[Brandon Herrera]

That's awesome.

[Nick]

Just lucky and super excited. What other guns did you ha or see or anything during shot?

[Brandon Herrera]

There's that I feel like shot show most of the time.

[Eli]

Time.

[Brandon Herrera]

Most of the the gun companies releasing something. It's just a mil spec AR15, but this one's tan. Pay me a thousand dollars extra for it. So typically shot shows it's the same thing, different paint job. I finally have seen some innovation in the gun world. And I can't stop talking about. There's a guy named Travis Rideout right at Arsenal. He made the pistol called the Dragon. It's got like a. Have you seen Lago Alien Land?

[Nick]

Yep.

[Brandon Herrera]

So super low bore access. It's even lower than that and it's got like the, the red dot doesn't move. It's got like a diving board for a beaver tail.

[Eli]

I think I know what you're talking.

[Nick]

Wait, Is this cheap?

[Brandon Herrera]

3, 200.

[Nick]

How much?

[Brandon Herrera]

It's 3, 200 for a base. And it shoots better than the Lago Alien. It doesn't get hot. It's got a 1911 style trigger. So you got that straight pole is already pretty flat. Yeah. But this thing, like I, I've never felt a recoil. Because it's a lever delay system, it's not direct blowback. So it's, it's got that weird delay. So like you get rid of your gases before you feel the recoil impulse. So like.

[Eli]

Because the alien is. Is gas delay.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah.

[Eli]

Which is weird.

[Brandon Herrera]

So you still get like the punch, but you don't get as much muzzle rise. So like shout out to Lago. They did make a good pistol.

[Eli]

But yeah, no, it's just, it's absurdly expensive.

[Brandon Herrera]

And now they're doing like a compensator version. So like it's an entire Modular system. If you don't like anything about it, pop the off. It's like adult Legos. You can replace it. So like, like slide frame, Magwell aesthetics of anything, you can change the entire thing.

[Eli]

What's it called again?

[Brandon Herrera]

Right out. Arsenal Dragon.

[Eli]

Got it. Yeah. I feel like I've seen like promos and like that on Instagram. It seemed interesting.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's super. Like at first when you look at it, you chalk it up to be like the HALO pistol. Somebody made a gag pistol. But when you get your hands on it and see like the amount of like innovation that went into it. Tony Stark made a pistol and it shoots like.

[Eli]

Frankly, like, not to suck you off or anything, but you're like the best influencer possible when it comes to like, like, like high end pistols and like that.

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh, that's my, that's my TISM right there.

[Eli]

I'm like, as soon as I. I don't even have to have seen it. As soon as you say, like, oh, it's like the best thing I've ever shot. And it was like, well, I guess I'm buying one.

[Brandon Herrera]

Well, dude, I love.

[Fat Electrician]

I do the same thing.

[Nick]

I text it.

[Fat Electrician]

I text him before I buy any gun.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's hard to not title every video like that because, like, I am still a little giddy kid when it comes to guns. So, like, somebody comes out with something, I'm like, yeah, it's the coolest thing ever. Like, I gotta sit on it for a couple months so I can calm the fuck down so I can give somebody like a realistic opinion on it. So like, when I get a new gun, I'm like, let's go run a couple thousand rounds for this. Yeah, wait a couple months and then I'll talk about it.

[Eli]

I'm the same way with like different firearms like throughout history and stuff like that. I'm like, oh, dude, I'm so stoked. Like, God, I cannot wait to do a video on this. This is so. This is like one of the coolest guns I've ever shot.

[Brandon Herrera]

He's like.

[Eli]

Or somebody comes up like, oh, well, bolt. Like, what's it good at? I'm like, nothing. It's dog.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's awesome.

[Eli]

It's actually horrible. Like, it's objectively bad at everything it's ever tried compared to everything else. But it's so cool. It's so drippy, dude.

[Brandon Herrera]

I say the same thing. Like a SOCOM 16 or an M1A and a EBR chassis. Pointless. You can't with them. They're unreliable. They're heavy. As cool as you got in existence. I love them.

[Nick]

Erbs are.

[Brandon Herrera]

They're so cool.

[Nick]

I care.

[Fat Electrician]

Are you ever gonna make a stand?

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh my God. Oh.

[Fat Electrician]

Like I've been asking you for.

[Nick]

Yeah.

[Fat Electrician]

Five years.

[Eli]

Was it like. Is the. What is it A&M2 or.

[Fat Electrician]

It's the 30 caliber machine gun with the butt stock from a M1 grand, a custom trigger and the carrying handle from a bar or something crazy. There's 1990.

[Eli]

There's something specific about it. I remember like it being like slightly hard to build cuz it. It's like it has to be like the anti aircraft version because they lightened it or something. And it's got higher.

[Fat Electrician]

Yeah. Because it's not water cooled and it's got a higher cyclic. Right.

[Eli]

Yeah, there's, there's, there's some like particulars about it. But yes, we've looked.

[Fat Electrician]

You know what we're talking about, right? The Stinger. The marines. The Marines MacGyvered it together during World War II.

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh my God. That is amazing.

[Fat Electrician]

It's an. It's a 1919.

[Eli]

Let me look.

[Fat Electrician]

Aircraft machine gun with a M1 grand butt stock, a trigger and a bail on.

[Brandon Herrera]

We had a conversation with Zach, our SOT about this and he says that he could make one if we could find a 1919. He'll make it fall auto and put the bar stock on it for us to run because I'm down.

[Nick]

Dude.

[Brandon Herrera]

As long as it's chambered in.308. Because I don't want to pay for 30 out 6 belfed but smart. We can do that all day. Oh yeah.

[Fat Electrician]

Yeah.

[Eli]

Because it's got the bar carry handle and the bipod and all that.

[Brandon Herrera]

That looks dope as it's like Super Mad Max. And I just want to run the out of it.

[Fat Electrician]

Marines made it was actually like the dude that came up with it was like a watchmaker that was a marine. Oh hey, look at it together. Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

That wasn't cheap.

[Fat Electrician]

So hot.

[Nick]

No, we got a good like.

[Fat Electrician]

That's the drippiest gun of all time.

[Eli]

It's pretty.

[Fat Electrician]

That's the drippiest fallout gun ever.

[Eli]

I, I would love to get my hands on one. Like, like I don't know if there's any originals left.

[Fat Electrician]

I don't know that there are either.

[Eli]

I. I would imagine those didn't survive.

[Brandon Herrera]

There's no way. You can't shoot that.

[Eli]

The fans love it when you have two different conversations at once.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's fantastic.

[Fat Electrician]

This is true.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yes. But you'd be the first Person to ever pull the trigger and again try.

[Nick]

To talk me in to shoot the Mark 23 or the PSG one.

[Eli]

Oh.

[Fat Electrician]

Oh, yeah.

[Eli]

You'll never shoot his Mark 23, right? That's.

[Brandon Herrera]

I can't even be drunk enough to fire around through that thing, dude.

[Nick]

I've never racked it.

[Brandon Herrera]

Are you me?

[Eli]

It still has the paint perfectly inside on the magic. He's like, don't even press check it. He's like, don't, like.

[Nick]

Oh, my God, that gun is.

[Brandon Herrera]

Don't even touch it.

[Nick]

Ps. Oh, dude, the PSG one still has the wax, like the magazine.

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh, that is awesome. So I've never been able to do that. So my dad.

[Nick]

I'm the only one probably in the group that's like, I can buy and never touch, dude.

[Brandon Herrera]

There's no chance. I had to, like, convince my dad because he likes to collect. Collect, like, pre 64 Winchesters is a huge thing in the gun community. I'm sure you know that. But, like, that's his thing. Pre 64 Winchesters. And he wants the early serial number that's still brand new in a box covered in grease. And that's, like, his thing. And he'll spend an ungodly amount of money on, like, low serial number pre 64. So we got, like, serial numbers one through three on a Winchester shotgun. Spent like 30 grand a piece on these. He got him home, and he's like, talking about, I'm, like, this coolest thing ever. And I'm like, you know, shoot those. He's like, no, no, they've never been shot. I'm like, so you're going to let somebody else be the first one to shoot these fucking guns? What are you doing?

[Eli]

I don't.

[Brandon Herrera]

That's a good point. We went out and shot him.

[Eli]

I don't believe in save queens. No, no, There's. There's a couple that I. I would probably say out of my entire collection, I've got some eclectic shit. There's maybe like 20 that I treat super well. Just because, like, it's. It's, you know, like, rare, expensive. The paint and, like, all the, like, wood and shit. It's very nice. You know, certain things you hold with, like, respect. And, like, especially, like, the more historic it is and the rarer it is. Like, okay, well, you don't want to beat it up, but, God, pretty much everything. I'll shoot the gyro jet we shot.

[Nick]

That's true.

[Eli]

And that one, I mean, we did fuck it up, but, like, in my mind, it's like, It's. I could not find good footage of it firing in slow motion. So like to have ballistic high speed out there and like document this super rare pistol, it's like man, even if we up this one gun that there are thousands of like just so anybody has access now to the footage to see what this thing was and how it worked, like to me that's a trade off. I'm willing to make 100%.

[Brandon Herrera]

I feel like that video is going to hold more historical value than the actual pistol. Them bullets aren't going to be functional in what, 10 years. Nobody's ever going to be able to fire that. And you have a video for people 100 years from now to reference this pistol.

[Eli]

We're about to do it again. I have a, a gyrojet rifle.

[Brandon Herrera]

What?

[Eli]

The gyrojet carbine.

[Brandon Herrera]

I didn't even know that was a thing.

[Eli]

Most people don't. I didn't for a while.

[Brandon Herrera]

Did you find more ammunition for it?

[Eli]

I have some that I kept in reserve. And like you said that ammunition is expiring.

[Nick]

It doesn't work all the time.

[Eli]

No, no, we, I mean we probably had I think one out of three misfired in one way or the other. Like some like half the engines didn't go off. Like it was just a.

[Brandon Herrera]

Just, just spirals out of control.

[Eli]

Yeah. Like goes 10 degrees off target. Whoop dude.

[Brandon Herrera]

Like videos like that are so incredible to be able to make though. Like that's a privilege that that's going to outlast the. Out of you. You know what I mean? Oh yeah. People are going to be able to reference that when they're talking about guns like that. So I think it's worth it to be able to make on something historic.

[Eli]

To be able to make an impact on like firearm history like that and be able to preserve it too is pretty cool.

[Nick]

See, I don't give a about that. My guns are getting shot. They stay in the same.

[Brandon Herrera]

I'm going to get you drunk enough to fire that HK man.

[Eli]

Well, the fact that like a lot of your stuff isn't even that particularly rare comparatively. It's the rarity is because the condition it's in.

[Brandon Herrera]

Right?

[Fat Electrician]

Yes.

[Eli]

Like your Mark 23 is like I've literally no.

[Nick]

Everyone could get one.

[Eli]

Yeah, I, I bought one from a gun store.

[Brandon Herrera]

Like, like that's insane.

[Eli]

But yours to be what it is and still be in that condition, like unracked pristine mag. Like all that stuff is unheard of.

[Nick]

Original cat can and then original lamb. You're like oh, yeah. It will never get touched, fired, moved. Okay.

[Brandon Herrera]

But to be fair, I've never had my hands on something like that, so I couldn't, like, say if I would be the same or not. The only experience I have with that is my father. And I'm like, I didn't pay the $30,000 thousand dollars a piece. Let's shoot these, dude.

[Nick]

Well, the WA 2000 came up, and that's the one that would be like, all of us have to go in and buy because it's like 300 grand. $360,000.

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh, my God.

[Nick]

For rough sniper rifle. Now, it is one of the most gangster sniper rifles that would. That. You know what we're talking about?

[Fat Electrician]

No.

[Nick]

Oh, bro. So two, dude.

[Fat Electrician]

Yep. Modern Warfare 2.

[Nick]

Two went up at the same time. $360,000. $320,000. They're fucking rare, but Jesus.

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh.

[Nick]

We don't touch it. We. We would never fire that thing.

[Brandon Herrera]

That will crush. Oh, I love that thing. Oh, I like that a lot.

[Nick]

There is apparently, like, less than 20 in the United States. That's why they are better off burns. Like, my friend's selling one. I was like, yeah, let Daddy buy. What? $360,000. Never mind. I am not that rich.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, that's something like the company stuff, and things can go in and recreate based off of a different platform. And I'd be perfectly happy with that. Yeah.

[Nick]

I mean, like, PSG1, because Brandon's doing a version of it. I think he's talked about it, but you're recreating a PSG one. But there's weird on the PSG one. Like, that is the biggest forward assist you will ever see, period, on a rifle. I seen it. I was like, holy, that is a large fort assist. Brandon was like, I don't. I don't think these had them. Because the 308 or the.

[Eli]

Yeah, the G3.

[Nick]

G3s don't have Ford assists.

[Eli]

No.

[Brandon Herrera]

That's the weirdest gun ever, dude.

[Eli]

Yeah. Like, zero.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah.

[Eli]

Like, for the clone of the PSG1. Because, like, I think they're cool. I don't necessarily know, like, they, like, 40, 50 grand. Cool. I don't know about that, but, like, I could. We're gonna spend, like, 8 grand, like, cloning it. Pretty close, but it won't be, like, a hundred percent. Whereas I know Eli is like, like, autistic stickler about like that. And, like, close is not good enough.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's fake.

[Eli]

Fake and gay doesn't.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah.

[Eli]

But, like, honestly, I probably would have bought if you didn't buy it for that price, I would have have. Oh yeah, because I, I, that was like a steal. It was like 30 grand. 32 grand.

[Brandon Herrera]

Really?

[Nick]

Yeah, dude, still. And then literally a month later, one.

[Eli]

Sold for in way worse shape, ten grand more.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, I bet that is like significantly higher now.

[Nick]

Oh, well, this was, that one was without a box. But it was on an auction that led up to it. This one was a last minute. Brandon's calling me with a 30 second window on how much I'm spending on a gun. And I'm like, I don't. I'm driving. What are we doing right now?

[Eli]

Yeah, we just let breakfast and it will because. Oh. So on my end of this, it's like Rock island auction. So like it's a live auction and I had set a text reminder because I'm like, oh, I remember Eli wanted that. I pop in, it's going like up on the block and it's going for cheap. And so I call Eli, like, and I've got like a dual feed in the audio through my truck. So like I got the option like, do we have 30,000? 30,000. 30,000 now, now 32. Now 32. 32. Like, Eli, do you want, do you want a PSG one for 30 grand? What? PSG one. 30 grand right now?

[Fat Electrician]

Yeah.

[Eli]

How about 32?

[Nick]

Sure. You own one?

[Fat Electrician]

Huh?

[Eli]

It was a 42nd phone call.

[Nick]

Yeah. I thought this was an ebay bid or something with way more time. This is done in less than a minute.

[Eli]

It was like you were theoretically, that phone call cost $500 per second.

[Brandon Herrera]

That's dope, dude. When I think about spending that much money, that much amount of money on a firearm. Like, I've been trying to convince this that we need to buy Whistling Diesel's tank because he keeps posting it on his Instagram.

[Eli]

What is it like half these on this?

[Brandon Herrera]

I. I don't even know.

[Fat Electrician]

I don't know.

[Brandon Herrera]

I keep tagging him in the comment.

[Fat Electrician]

Section and then people, 70, dude, a.

[Brandon Herrera]

Half season on a tank. We can have a lawn order mitt and something dope to put in the channel.

[Nick]

Like just a onetime purchase for a YouTube video.

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh, hell yeah. How we do it, Law Ornament.

[Fat Electrician]

I'm telling you, I already accidentally bought a replica of Little Boy and it's in my garage still. Okay.

[Brandon Herrera]

Also, I was with you.

[Eli]

That was very intentional.

[Fat Electrician]

Don't you the story how I got that?

[Eli]

Were you like, you walked in the gun store and you're just like, would you make another one?

[Fat Electrician]

Yeah, well, that. But I got it to my house.

[Eli]

Like, hauling a trailer.

[Fat Electrician]

I called my boss from my electrical contractor, and I was like, hey, can I. Can I borrow your truck with that lowboy trailer? He's like, yeah, no problem. Just swing by, pick it up whenever. Didn't ask me what it was for. Okay, cool. I show up in a.

[Nick]

This is an open trailer.

[Fat Electrician]

Yeah, it's. So. It's a. It's a. It's a. It's a trailer that. It's really cool. So it's for, like, scissor. Listen. And so you, like, pull the pins out and the whole. And there's a button, and the trailer lowers itself to the ground so there's no ramps. So you could just drive a scissor lift right onto it, and then it lifts it up with a electric motor. So I just wheeled it into the back of this trailer, and it's like, blank electric company on the side of the truck and trailer. And I'm driving a nuclear bomb replica through the middle of town with it. I just send him a picture. He's like, what the are you doing with my truck?

[Eli]

You should buy another one and give it to Ethan as a gift. So when you deliver it, you have to drive through Los Alamos. They're like, not again.

[Fat Electrician]

Not again.

[Nick]

I love my friend group so much.

[Brandon Herrera]

I was. I was with him when we walked into that gun store, and we had, like, a very deliberate plan. We were going to go in there and pick the guns that we're going to do and go shoot. He didn't give a. About anything else we were doing.

[Fat Electrician]

He.

[Brandon Herrera]

He bended to that bomb, and he's like, how much make me this.

[Nick]

When Nick went to your house for the first time, or still does, he go and, like, look in different rooms and nooks and crannies. We've noticed that. And Nick just goes in and open, pulls out.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah.

[Fat Electrician]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

I mean, I. I have, like, a. A gun room. Like, of course. Well, this is, like, look at everything.

[Nick]

Nick, the first time you came over, I think Sav just met you, and you're like, no. Okay. You're opening up our, like, silverware.

[Eli]

I'm like, I love how you're, like, mouthing him like a theoretical muffin.

[Fat Electrician]

Stuff works. You got to know the environment around me.

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh, dude, this is, like, horrible. Oh, really?

[Eli]

Same thing.

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh, my God. No, no, it's so much worse than that. Like, when I get a package and, like, I'll step over, he will straight.

[Nick]

What the.

[Eli]

That's just.

[Brandon Herrera]

He will have A mental breakdown. If he doesn't open the box, he will free what's in the box. What's in the box? Like, we'll be driving somewhere, I'll get my mail, throw it in the back seat. He will not hold a conversation or do anything until he finds out out what the is inside of the box.

[Fat Electrician]

It's okay. Eli gave me an edible and then with me with his cabinet for like an hour.

[Nick]

That was because it was every.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, what he give.

[Fat Electrician]

He gives me an edible. And I'm like, okay, cool. And I take this out. He pulls the edible out of cabinet A. Like, okay, that's where Eli keeps the edibles.

[Brandon Herrera]

That.

[Fat Electrician]

That makes sense. That's what cabinets are for. I remember this story and I take this edible and then we're sitting there bullshitting. And he's got like the island with that. You could like, sit. Sit down with, like the high. You know, like the high chairs. And. And we're all just sitting hanging out in his kitchen. I've taken this edible and then Eli's like, oh, have you tried my new protein cookie? Whatever the. So I was like, no. So then he goes to cabinet A and pulls out the protein cookies. Like, okay, that's where he puts all the edible stuff. That makes sense to me.

[Nick]

Okay.

[Fat Electrician]

He's got the protein edibles and the edibles. Edibles. All right, that makes sense. Dangerous game. And then we're talking for another 15 minutes. I'm getting proud. Progressively more high. And then we get on the topic 8, 6 blackout. And he's like, have you ever seen an 86 blackout that's been fired? No. Tack. It's like, no. He goes, oh, check this out. He goes over to cabinet A and pulls out an 8, 6. A live 8. 6 round. And then an 8, 6 round.

[Brandon Herrera]

That's depending on who you ask.

[Eli]

Also inedible.

[Fat Electrician]

The world's most dangerous food. He pulls that out. And there was like. There was three other ridiculous things that you just kept pulling out of this. This cabinet. None of it was related to the prior.

[Nick]

Like, cabinet A holds everything. It's my emergency.

[Fat Electrician]

Mary Poppins.

[Eli]

He's got the TARDIS drawer.

[Nick]

Oh, my God. Which. So with you, what's your favorite firearm that you own, period? Do you have your go to?

[Brandon Herrera]

I mean, I feel like you gotta sanction that off in different categories. Like favorite striker fire. Favorite hand hammer fire. Favorite pcc, Favorite AR AK bolt action. You can't just go one gun, right? My favorite to shoot of all time is the Nighthawk trs. That's my go to take it out to the range. Have a good time. Nick's probably ran 2000 rounds for that thing.

[Nick]

The Nighthawk. Was that the 9 mil TRS?

[Fat Electrician]

Yep.

[Brandon Herrera]

Absolutely love it.

[Eli]

What's your most sentimental gun?

[Brandon Herrera]

I don't really have a sentimental gun. I. I still have all of the guns like I grew up on. On and learned with, and none of them have rifling in them anymore. But, like.

[Eli]

Yeah, I can imagine.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah. Nothing crazy.

[Eli]

I don't know.

[Brandon Herrera]

There's an MP5. Like, when we first started doing the Pew View channel, I started to make a little bit of money. That's like the first gun I bought with money I made from the YouTube channel. So that one's like.

[Fat Electrician]

That's your play button.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, that was cool. That one's still sitting up on the gun room.

[Nick]

Yeah. What makes the Nighthawk just.

[Brandon Herrera]

Dude, I don't know. I swear to God. I think is voodoo magic. Because I've shot more expensive guns. I've shot more guns that like, seemingly should be better than Nighthawk. TRS is just a perfect balance, like the return to zero, the trigger on.

[Nick]

It, which is a wild statement from you.

[Brandon Herrera]

That is like they crushed it with that. I can't. I can't put that in anybody's hands and them shoot bad with them. Like, I. I. Give me a shot.

[Eli]

Not.

[Brandon Herrera]

No, dude. Like, we. We've pushed the limits of this because I want to see what this magical gun can do to people that don't know how to handle a firearm and they just rip with it.

[Nick]

No.

[Eli]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

I made the mistake. Let my wife shoot it over there and now she doesn't want to ever shoot anything else. Because, like, once you get to the pinnacle of a Nighthawk trs, everything else feels like garbage. Like, which is the hardest part about my job, by the way. Like, I have to review a little bit of everything. So going to the Sand Viper or a Nighthawk TRS and then back down to a Gen 6 Glock. That Glock. Stupid. You know, but it's only 700. Yeah, I know. But, like, there's a lot of good guns for 700 that beat the.

[Eli]

It was 700.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's a Glock. Oh, oh, oh. You know.

[Nick]

Holy. Is it?

[Brandon Herrera]

No. It's ridiculous.

[Fat Electrician]

But unpopular opinion. The Sand Viper is better.

[Brandon Herrera]

Dude, I can't. The Sand Viper is a very close second, but the return isn't what the Nighthawk is.

[Eli]

I was just about to ask, like, you thought about, like, the Sand Viper pit Viper.

[Brandon Herrera]

It's. It's very Good. But like, it's a little more sporadic. It's not tuned to return to zero when you're double tapping with a 12 split.

[Eli]

As somebody who will never do that.

[Brandon Herrera]

Right, right. I mean, most people are gonna see the difference, but you're.

[Fat Electrician]

You're worried about issues that most people don't have, homie.

[Eli]

Right. You're just like, man, this steering call is a little tight in this F1. Like, dude, I will. No clue.

[Fat Electrician]

Well, tight on turn three. Okay.

[Brandon Herrera]

And there's a lot of really good 2011s out right now. And that's like the fat of the gun community. And now we're seeing like $2,500, like the Kimber Pro Comp. Most people will shoot that and chalk it up to be just as good as the Nighthawk. We headed out with a couple guys the other day, and I have a.

[Eli]

Fundamental problem with Kimber in general.

[Brandon Herrera]

Really?

[Eli]

Yeah.

[Brandon Herrera]

Oh, my God. I love the new they're doing though.

[Eli]

Really?

[Brandon Herrera]

My job isn't to talk about, like, the companies or judge them or what they've done. Are they making a good pistol? Kimber trusted.

[Eli]

There's a lot of just issues I have with different companies for different reasons that, like, whether it's like export, like, whether it's like claiming American made while all their gets like 80 of it's done in Korea, it's like finished in America. Like different. Like little things that like. Does it make it a gun? Not wow. But like just. It's like a little in the back of my head that just. I can't let it go, dude.

[Brandon Herrera]

I. I try. Like, we've done kind of videos going back and forth on all of that. Like, I want to absolutely rip a company about. Like, this has made America. And I know Dasan is the one manufacturing this entire thing.

[Nick]

Correct.

[Brandon Herrera]

And I want to bring that to the attention. But, like, that's not my job. I gotta shut the up and just shoot the gun, you know, which sucks because, like, I enjoy talking.

[Fat Electrician]

Well, speaking of, Smith and Wesson's fixing my pistol. I know.

[Brandon Herrera]

I love that.

[Nick]

What happened? What Smith and Wesson do?

[Fat Electrician]

I bought their new Shield X. Their new. Like, it fits awesome in the hand. Like, it's a it like holding it at the gun. If this shoots decent, this thing's awesome. And I bought it and I start shooting it and like, I start having a problem while I'm shooting that I've never experienced experienced where, like, I would go to like, repeat rounds and I would like, feel the reset and pull the trigger and no. Bang. I was like, what the is going on? And I took the ammo out and I, like, I'm testing the reset and it's like my pistol had a false reset in it. Like, the trigger would go click and I could pull it again. Click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click. And then I had to go like 30 further and then it would click a second time and then I could.

[Nick]

Refire, which not just for anyone that doesn't know that is very dangerous because you get so used to that reset when you're shooting. Once you feel it, you know, now I can pull back and then pull that trigger and engage the enemy.

[Fat Electrician]

Yeah.

[Nick]

If it's a false reset, it's a big deal.

[Brandon Herrera]

Yeah, but, like, shout out to them for not seeking you and actually owning up to their mistakes and being public about that. Having to accept response.

[Fat Electrician]

Well, I said I sent it back. And then, like, Like, I sent it back. They sent it back to me again, and they're like, there's nothing wrong with it.

[Eli]

So then you texted me.

[Fat Electrician]

So then I put it up on Twitter and within an hour they had a hold of me and they were like, what's the serial number? Send it back. We're going to fix it. That's not okay.

[Brandon Herrera]

But at least they went and found the incompetent person.

[Fat Electrician]

Yeah, for sure.

[Brandon Herrera]

Sent it back like that and made right whether they offered him proper training to get more suited.

[Nick]

It does suck. It does suck.

[Eli]

That's a crazy way of saying face down in a ditch.

[Nick]

Correct.

[Brandon Herrera]

That guy probably doesn't have a. A job anymore. But, like, I was trying to be light about it.

[Nick]

But it is because. It is because they argued at first, right, Nick?

[Fat Electrician]

Well, no, they just. They didn't. Like, there was no, like, dialogue between us. It was just like, I sent it back assuming that it would get fixed and, you know, like, I'm assuming my ffl wrote down on the paper, like, there's a false reset. There's something wrong with the trigger. Check it out. And like, in. In defense of them, like, I. I do think that for the. I'll say the average shooter. An average shooter probably wouldn't even notice a false reset because they're not shooting at the same speed that I'm shooting. You know what I mean? Like, that they're just. Yeah, you have to have a certain skill level to even notice that being an issue. So, like, there's a good chance that whatever technician read the thing, like, something's wrong with the trigger, and he's like, no, it's fine. So, like, you know what I mean? Like, it's not even. It's whatever, but like, like, if you shoot guns enough, like, you know what the. I mean, and it is a big deal and it does suck. So, like, it was just. It was something that fell through the cracks, but they're fixing it.

[Eli]

Well, I. I do.

[Fat Electrician]

I.

[Eli]

Sorry to interrupt. I know we're not at the end of the podcast.

[Nick]

We are, actually.

[Eli]

Oh, really? Okay. Yeah, yeah, Hard out.

[Nick]

We're golden. That's actually a perfect time. So we can wrap up. Mr. Brandon has a fancy dinner to do.

[Eli]

Well, you know, know, it's doing everything we can.

[Nick]

He's going to be a big congressman soon.

[Eli]

I'm going to stay the same size, I hope, but no.

[Nick]

We're getting you and Nick really fat this year.

[Eli]

I did that last year. It sucked.

[Nick]

I knew Brandon. I did. I love Washington D.C. or Pentagon. Brandon. That was bad old Brandon.

[Eli]

Oh, yeah, that was. That was really bad.

[Fat Electrician]

Yeah.

[Eli]

How the did none of you tell me I was getting fat?

[Fat Electrician]

That was.

[Nick]

I did. I was like, go to the gym.

[Eli]

You should go to the gym. No, I just needed to stop eating whataburger every day, you know?

[Nick]

But.

[Eli]

Well, anyways, thank you all for coming to the unsubscribe podcast live. Not live here from Vegas. I'm joined today by Eli Double Tap Pew View Fat electrician, and myself, Brandon Herrera. Thank you, guys.

[Nick]

Love you.

[Fat Electrician]

Bye.