#2094 - Colion Noir

23:29The one I'm on is a 23. God damn, nothing sick. What is that? That's the next one? Oh, it'll be fully electric. It's after the R8. Next. I don't know about this so fully electric. Yeah. Now, you know what? I'm full of shit. Because there is one car I drove that I was like, I actually want this. What's that? The Tycan. Oh, yeah. Tycan, I was like, okay. All right. That's amazing. That I can... Because it gave me... It was still lacking on the sound aspect. However, what it did do, it still gave me all the driving dynamics that you were used to with Porsche. Yes. You gave it the same. And the interior.

24:07Exactly. Yes. The driving dynamics are... I've driven one. It's amazing. Like, I literally, like, my blood pressure just dropped the moment I got in a car. Look at that thing. I mean, they just know how to do interiors. They know how to do ergonomics. Yep. Without being overboard. And you can also get the Jetson sound. Do you know that... What is the mission E? Is that the 2 -door one? Oh, shit. Oh. That looks like a four -door to me. Wait, what was that? Maybe that was the concept. Or was that the concept for the original title? I believe they're coming out with a two -door title. Oh, a mission file.

24:38Okay. But the sound... You can get Jetson sounds. So when you hit the gas, the one I was in is like... I don't like that. Yeah, you say that to your driver.

24:51It sounds awesome. I like my car. It sounds like they're farting everywhere they go. Look at that. Electric sports sound off. Yeah, so it just takes off silently. And then sound on.

25:07Come on, man. That sounds amazing. All right. See, the sound you made? Yeah. And then that's like two different things. Right. That's my fault. Come on. That sounds insane. That sounds like you're in a goddamn spaceship. It's a different kind of sound. But even like the Porsche Turbo doesn't have the best sound. It doesn't. Because I daily drive one. And I love it. It's so crazy. I got rid of the GT3 to get it, which is sacrilegious. The difference in sound. Yeah. Because the way that GT3 wails, it's awe -inspiring. Yeah. It's part of the fun. But nothing can be... And I'm going to do a video on this when I start my second YouTube channel.

25:55I think the Porsche Turbo S is the greatest daily driving supercar on the planet ever created. And they have that marriage with Volkswagen. Yes. Which is also kind of similar. Yeah. Yeah. But Porsche's always been. Yeah. They've always been Porsche. They've always been reliable. Yeah. In terms of supercars, they're like the most reliable buying car. You're most boring supercars. But the greatest. Well, not the GT3 or the GT3. Okay. Yeah, I'm not factoring in those. Yeah. I like those and more like track weapons. Yeah, but they're still willing to make a six -speed GT3. And then the ST, which is the new one that's six -speed as well.

26:31I like the sports classic. Yeah. The sports classic too. Yeah, if the six -speed with the ductile. Yeah. They're still willing to make some driver -centric cars. And there's a giant market for them. Like that GT3 touring, they can't keep that in stock. Yeah. Even though I think the GT3 touring is kind of... Maybe because I like the wing of the original GT3. So the last thing I want is one without the wing. I'm like, if I'm going to do it without the wing, just give me a turbo. It's spoken like a true Lamborghini driver. I mean, pretty much. Pretty much. Yeah. There's a bunch of cars that just don't get their deserve what they deserve, you know?

27:08Yeah. I mean... I went down a rabbit hole last night. Well, okay. That's amazing. I went down a rabbit hole last night with the Lexus LC500. See, you say that? I hear LFA. LFA is amazing. Yeah. But there's people that are doing wild shit with the LC500 where they're putting wide -body kits on them and straight pipes. And they sound insane. Well, I think that's because of the LFA. Mm -hmm. Because I think once the LFA didn't do as well as they expected it to do. Yeah. Because again, I think they just overpriced it. Because the market just wasn't ready for a fucking... What was it? Like $200 ,000?

27:44Or like... It was brand new. Well, now it is. Yeah. Because now it's like... But I think even out of the box, I think it was three. Oh, it was like three? Yeah. Yeah. See, for Lexus, that's still pushing it. That's the thing. It's a label thing, right? Like, if you want to pull up in a $300 ,000 car, it's going to be a Ferrari. Exactly. It's how they got away with selling the yours. Yeah. Look at that. Look at that, motherfucker. Okay. That almost looks like an 812. Look at that fucking thing. That's what the wide -body kit on it. Yeah. That's amazing. That is pretty bad as well. Yeah. But you can only get that up to like 550 horsepower with a lot of modification.

28:15Are they turbo? No. It's a V8. But it sounds incredible. Natural hybrid? Yes. Oh, okay. Yeah, it sounds incredible. In the interior, the interior is insane. Lexus has always done interior. See if you find a video of one with a wide -body. Because there's some awesome videos of them. Because there's a lot of people doing these now. Because they've been out for like what, like six, seven years now. Yeah. There's a lot of people doing wide -body kits with them. That's kind of a nasty set up. That's a nasty -looking car, man. You. But with the wide -body set up, you know, you're getting a wider stance, getting wider fat tires.

28:51It's not a fan of the wing. The wing's, uh... The wing is a work of polarizing. I think wings for 50 -50. They either work if they don't. I think it looks great on black cars. Yes. I think if you get it on the white car, it looks a little sus. Yes, a little too disjointed. But I saw one that was matte black with a wing. It looked fucking insane with the wide -body kit. And then he had it set up with a remote control for the pipes. So you could have it even more silent than stock. You could have it like a stock or you could have straight pipes. Yeah. I've never ever put... I've never done a supermarket exhaust on any car ever owned.

29:25Really? No. I never get to it. Because all that happened. Like, I'm a car whore. So you swap them out? Yes. By the time... But in things I do, a bunch of other stuff, right? Like, I'll tune them. I'll wrap them. I'll put all types of security features. I'll put that... All that crap. The radar detectors, blockers, all that nonsense. But then when it's time to get ready to do the aftermarket exhaust. This episode is brought to you by LifeLock. Tax season is already stressful. You shouldn't have to worry about identity theft on top of everything else. And trust me, it's a big worry. Especially since during tax season, your sensitive info does a lot of traveling to places you can't control.

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32:29I'm like, ooh, what's that? Some California fucking politician that was just trying to pass a bill to make it so you can't go more than 10 miles an hour over the speed limit in a car. Yeah, he should be fired. He's also one of the same guys that was a part of, there was this very controversial LBG, this guy. Is this it? California bill calls for tech to make new cars unable to speed. Now, who is the guy? Who is the guy who's at the head of it? Yes. We know he would call that. But this guy is also the same guy that was pushing for some very controversial law about the, so there's a difference between, but they're trying to, yes, got weener.

33:23He's kind of a freak. He's kind of a freak. He's pictures of him like a dog on the name of the game. I know we were talking about that guy. So that guy was also a part of some very, that's him. He looks like a skinny aversion of Jerry from Subway. Yeah, so he's got like a leather vest on with a tie with no shirt at the game. Which is, you know, have a good time and do you have a good time. But you pushing it with this over 10. But he was a part of some very, there was a very controversial bill that people were trying to misinterpret. But it was, it was about age of consent. And they were saying that age of consent, that there was some part about the way the law was structured that was discriminating against LBGT people.

34:11Okay. Yeah. Yeah, that's what I thought. I was like, what are you trying to say? So apparently there's some discretion with age gaps when it comes to heterosexual couples. So like, say if like a girl is 16 in California, she'd be under age and a boy is 18. What if they start dating when the boy was 17, the girl was 15 and the guy turns 18. It's technically illegal. So if they go to, go to a judge, like a judge could say, listen, this is not a pedophile. This is a young couple. But if the guy is 40 and the girl is 16, now you got a real problem. So that's interesting. I got to kind of a little bit of shit in my law school class when I was in law school one time when we were talking about statutory rape.

34:56And so statutory rape is a strict liability crime. Basically, there's no excuse for it. She can have a fake ID. She can look 30 years old and give you all the signals that she's of age. And if she's under age, you're fucked. Right. Right. Even if they lie. Yeah. And I didn't think that was fair, personally. And there are very few people in my law school class who agreed with me with respect to that. I understand the base. I understand the reasoning behind it. But I mean, at that point, that person's life is done, especially considering if... And I've known of girls in women who have gone to great lengths to master age and to be deceptive about it and lie about it to people.

35:36And then if somebody succumbs to that, now not only do they go to jail, now they're a sex vendor. They're arrested in their lives, right? Well, to your point, I have a friend and his sister's friends, they're in California. His sister's friends are 15 and he's got this giant issue because the 15 -year -old friends are using fake IDs and going to LA clubs. They're fucking sophomores in high school and they're getting into LA clubs with fake IDs. And you wouldn't be able to tell. You cannot tell. When they've hit puberty and they're wearing makeup and they're wearing sexy clothes and they're going out.

36:13Sorry to say sexy about a 15 -year -old. You know what I'm saying? Put off provocative clothes and ask them understanding sexy clothes. Like that. And if you're a guy and you don't know any better, that's crazy. Yeah. And we're not even talking, they're 15 and they look 17. Right. It looked like 25. You can be very deceptive as a young person if you're properly dressed and if you have good genetics. At the same time, I still understand the basis behind the strict liability aspect of law as well because it's like you want to go above and beyond to protect the youth. 100%. So at the time, I guess I didn't articulate it the right way.

36:55All I was saying was like, that doesn't seem fair. I understand it. Still, there needs to be some type of discernment given with respect to the context, the entire context of the situation. Well, there's some wild unfair laws in California and one of them has to do with whether or not you are the father of a child. So I know a guy and he unfortunately had a good friend who fucked his wife. And he did not know this was happening and this good friend got his wife pregnant and he raised that kid as his daughter. And he didn't know until after his friend was dead, his friend died. And then after his friend was dead, he was stuck paying child support until that kid was 18 no matter what.

37:46Even though he got a paternity test, he was like something's going on. Got a paternity test found out it was his friend's kid devastating, right? Your friend's dead. He was your best friend. Now he's dead and you're raising his fucking kid and you have to pay for it. So he tried to appeal. No, fuck you, you have to pay. But listen, but part of me is also like, listen, you don't have to be a biological father to love a child. And I have a stepdaughter. I love her like my daughter. If I was in that situation, I would want to still pay for that girl. I wouldn't want to give any fucking money to that woman though.

38:20So if you have to give that woman money and then she distributes it, like that's where it gets weird. Because it's up to their discretion. When you pay child support, it goes straight to them. It goes to the mom. The mom can buy shoes. She can go buy a purse. She doesn't have to do anything with the kid. Especially if she has a job already. So the idea is you're compensating her for the fact that you have a child together. But it's up to her discretion. If we're just going to be honest, child support by and large, it's a business relationship between the mother and most times. Between the mother and the state.

38:53Because it's not like the child support office doesn't take a portion of the money that's being paid. Right. Right. So they're incentivized to have as many people on child support as possible, regardless of the context and the situation. So the state is not your friend in that respect. So understanding that, it just blows my mind that you can have a situation like that where he doesn't even have a choice in the matter. Right. Because there are some... There'll be a good number of men who would say, you know what? I don't like it. I'm done fucking with you as far as the mother. But, you know, I still want to do what I can to help with the child.

39:31But when you put him in position where he doesn't even have a choice in the matter. Well, the dude that we're talking about was struggling too. My man was struggling. He was not... And he's gone too now. So I can talk about this. But he was struggling. He was not doing well. And he had a monthly nut that he was obligated to pay. And he tried to, you know, his career was in the shitter. It wasn't going well. And he had monthly... And he could get jailed. Like, it's... Everything's crazy about it. It was his friend. Everything's awful about him. Laughing to... I'm laughing to avoid getting pissed.

40:02I'll tell you who it is afterwards. Because it's going to blow your mind. But... Remind me. But the whole story behind it is so sad. Because the guy loved his friend. And then after the friend's dead, he finds out the friend and fucked his wife. And got it pregnant. And then he was raising that kid as his own. So much of it is awful. Yeah. And then nothing... I think... I think... I don't know. I... I think if that's the... I think the woman should be forced to... Should be forced to pay alimony to the husband. Well... In that situation. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know about alimony. But...

40:42I just don't... I just think there should be some level of punishment as a result of it. If you're going to force him to pay child... Now, it's probably going to canceling itself out, right? Because it's kind of backwards. He's just me winning some type of reputribution for him. Right. Because it's like... She just gets away with this scoffery. Like there's nothing. Like it's... She didn't just get away with it. She enforced it. She went to court for it. After the fact... After the fact, she went to court in one. Come on. I know it's so awful. And meanwhile, this guy is living with the heartbreak of his friend's betrayal.

41:12His friend's death first. Then his friend's betrayal. And then his wife's betrayal. And then the financial obligation that he has. That he can't afford. That... It gets even worse in Canada. Dave Foley, with my friend from News Radio, when he was married. His wife and him got divorced when he was at the peak of his career. So he's making the most money he's ever going to make. He's on a sitcom. It's his sitcom. He's doing really well. And he had a certain amount that he had to pay. And in Canada, when his income drops substantially. Because you know, you just can't have a fucking sitcom all the time.

41:47Yeah. If you're lucky, you get one your whole life. Yeah. The judge said to him, your ability to pay has no relationship to your obligation to pay. So this exorbitant amount of money that he was paying. Because at one point in time, he was doing really well. Yeah. That is how much you have to figure out how to make forever. Or what? Or you go to jail. You see how stupid that is? It's crazy. It's done. So if the point of the point of the, if the point of, uh, God, I'm blanking out here. If the point of child support is so that the child isn't supposed to be in the best interest of the child and making sure that the child is provided for.

42:30Yes. Why would you then create a very circumstance that would inevitably end up ripping the father away, not only just the father, but then also the money that could be going to the child, whether or not it's the actual amount you established beforehand or not. Right. Right. Just lower the damn payments. If you have justification for determining, you know what, he can't make these payments anymore. Let's lower it to a payment he can make while still allowing the father being a child's life and have some type of money going in. Do that shit. Like just arbitrary idea that no, we set a million dollars for you to pay every month to this child.

43:01You can't pay for it. We're going to throw you in jail because it's in the best interest of the child. Don't get me started on this job. It's going to get me started on this job. It's like there's a lot of aspects of the law that were written in good faith that, like, child support is one of them. Like if you're a father, fuck yeah, you should pay for your kids. 100%. But then when you get into situations like, yeah, wait a minute. How much? 100 ,000 a month? You don't need that. Whatever it is. Like that's crazy. You don't need that. Well, that's the weird thing about alimony as well. You have to maintain the lifestyle.

43:33So like someone becomes accustomed to a lifestyle, like say if you're married to Bill Gates. If you get divorced from Bill, say if you're only married to Bill for a year or two. If you get divorced, like, you're entitled to a large sum of money, unless there's some sort of prenuptial agreement, which I'm sure there is. But if there's not, you're accustomed to a lifestyle. She's used to caviar in private jets. Now you know why I live in Texas, brother. It's a man's date. Well, it's a great state. A lot of ways. And I was having the conversation with Ari today where I was trying to convince Ari to move here when we're at the range.

44:07Wait, hold on. Was it really Ari's first time ever shooting? I don't know if he shot guns before. I don't know. Because I think I remember him saying that. It seemed like it was the first day at first. And then you're fucked up, dude. If that's his first time shooting, and the first time he shoots is with staccatos, you're fucked up. Oh, yeah, I know, right? You're fucked up, bro. You're so spoiled. You're so spoiled that the smoothest shooting gun that's ever existed. That's what you have. Yeah. That's true. Yeah, Jamie's ruined. You know, Jamie has a staccato. Oh, really? Yes, right? Oh, you didn't get it yet.

44:44What are you doing, Jamie? Oh, Jesus Christ. You got to get on. I thought you got one. We were gonna. Okay, listen. When you carry him, we're carrying you a little fanny test. You can't see. See, I'll carry a CS. I'm carrying CS right now. CS is nice. Yeah. So small and so light and it's amazing. It shoots so much bigger than what it actually is. So flat. And the recoil is so non -existent. It's so smooth in the hand. I love that, Dan. When we went to the factory today, so we should tell you about it. We went to the staccato factory and we toured it for an hour. I didn't even know we were gonna tour the factory.

45:16I thought we were just gonna go to the range, but they wanted to shoot. They're so proud of their manufacturing process. They wanted to show it to us. It's amazing. So much effort is into each gun and how much engineering. The enthusiasm they had for you today. It's the same enthusiasm when they were in that little tiny spot. Because I went, I did the tour when they were at the older building. I did too. Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah. It's the same thing twice. But now I see the big version of it. Yeah, it's pretty fucking amazing. It is. It's amazing. I really genuinely love staccatos. Yeah. Well, I love an engineering.

45:49I love when someone just does something to the best they can do it. When they're explaining that it's 24 hours of work, just to port one piece, and that they're literally down to the tolerances. One third of the width of a human hair. That's their talent. Anything more than that they throw away. That's crazy. That's crazy. My brain can't even really fathom that shit. And when you see all the computer -controlled machinery and all this shit, yeah, this is the manufacturing. This is the old one. That's the... Is it? Yeah, that's the old shop. I think it's the old shop. Yeah, that's the old shop.

46:25What years is this video from? I pulled my video up. I did a video on it. Yeah. The... I think the video... I think... That might... Put Colley on the wall. GT3. Cicado. It should... Okay. Oh, no, no, no. Go back. Go back. No, type... Type GT3. Because what I did is I drove from Dallas to Georgetown. There we go. There we go. You were just saying the X -T's... That's my favorite, too. The X -T's insane. It's so good. So that's when you went to... That's when it was... Yeah. Just... That was the beginning of it. Yes, yes. That's when they... Yeah, because we drove down there with Dallas, Porsche, Park Place.

47:10And... Yeah, so this is the new... Yeah, yeah. No, that's the old place. Oh, that's the old place, yeah. Yeah. It's like... Yeah, exactly. It's the new place, too. Okay, it was like two years ago. Two and a half years ago. A year ago? Okay. Yeah. But yeah, no. I love the X -T. When it came out, I think I was one of the first people to do a video on it. I went to... That's when I went and shot at their facility when it was still a ghetto. And I remember I was like, thank God for this. Because I love the... For me, when I carry a firearm, comfort and shootability are major. Mm -hmm. Major. And I'm not saying other guns I can't shoot them well.

47:47But these 2011's just such a great job of bringing out the best shooter in you. Right? Because people like to say that a high -speed, a high -spinning gun can't make you shoot better. I disagree. Yeah, it's not true. Yeah. I think whatever your skill level is with a non -2011, I think a 2011 will raise it in terms of shootability. Because they're so easy to shoot. I call them cheat codes. Yeah. And with a red dot? Exactly. You thought red dot aren't there in this game over. And we were shooting those places. Things, things, things, things. So now think about a self -defense situation. Yeah. Think about how revved up you're going to be.

48:24Yeah, exactly. The last thing you need to be worried about are your shooting fundamentals. Right. You just want to feel comfortable and know I can do that with this gun to protect myself. Yeah. And that's it. And call it a death. Yeah. And that's why I really love love guns. So I carry it the majority of the time unless I can't because of what I'm wearing. Because I have a whole rotation of guns that I carry based on what I'm wearing. But by and large, if I'm going to go to something initially, it's going to go to that first. And then if I can't, then I'll go to something else. Have you seen that concealed carry holster?

48:54It goes deep under your pants. And you have like a leather strap. Pull it up. Yeah. What do you think about that? I'm not a fan. So I've tried so many variations of different ways to carry. I've even done your way with the Fanny Pack deal. And I do, I like that for when I'm running. Right. And I know I make, I poke fun at it. But largely the reason why I don't like it day to day is because I don't really like having a lot of stuff on my waist. I like to just have one single thing. And especially if it's kind of big. So I like to minimize the footprint. Because like, I'm usually like, I'm in, I'm in sweats 90 % of the time.

49:32Right. So like with these sweats that I'm wearing right now, like they're designed for that. And so I just take, I have my gun, I have the belt, dump them in the pants. I'm good to go. And they're comfortable as shit. Yeah. And so for me, that's generally how, that's 99 .9 % of the way that I carry. Unless it's like in a bag or something. It's funny that this conversation is so normal with you and I. But if you have this conversation with people from California, they'll look at you like you're fucking insane. Like what you carry a gun. Yeah. Well, it's also like, there's a reality. Like here's one thing.

50:06Like, like constitutional carry. When, when my friends from California found out that constitutional carry was passed in Texas. So anyone can conceal carry. As long as you're not a criminal. Yeah. When they saw that they're like, what? Are you crazy? But wasn't that recently just passed in Ohio and crime went down? Down. I didn't really know. Yep. Yes. Which is interesting. Because it's, it's a counterintuitive logic, right? Because if you're, if your starting point is if you make guns illegal, then nobody will have guns. Then yeah. I guess you could, you could make the argument that. Yeah. Nobody broke the law.

50:43Right? Including criminals. Exactly. What a fucking naive person. But people think like that. Right. But if you think you're going to rob anybody and then now all of a sudden there's a constitutional carry. Anyone can have a gun on them. That means your job as a criminal has become substantially harder. So potentially? Yeah. Because like criminals, criminals don't want to die either. Right. Right. And so and criminals are largely looking for easy targets. Like if you're going to go into the business of crime, you don't want it to be hard because if you did, you would just get a normal job. Right.

51:11Right. So from that perspective, if they don't know who's carrying, it makes your job substantially harder as a criminal to find actual victims. And then not only that, and I just did a video recently where it's not even the person you're trying to rob or do something to. You have to worry about. You have to worry about the people who may see it. Because in this particular situation, it was at a gas station guy who runs up on him, starts pistol with him, pistol whipping him. And the guy in another car saw it happen and started shooting at the guy. But he didn't shoot. He killed him. And so now you have to start thinking, shit, I'm like, I got to find either a different place to go to to start looking for, for victims.

51:50I got to find a new career path. I mean, it's just, it's what it is. It's just logic. I'm not saying all crimes going to go away. I'm not going to say, you know, I'm not saying that. But if everyone's heavily armed, you're way less likely. It sounds so, it sounds counterintuitive. It sounds not just counterintuitive, but it also sounds like anti -progressive in terms of society and, you know, people being civilized. It sounds anti -civilized. Yeah. But what does everyone have a gun? What does that mean? Who said that pacifism was supposed to be the definition of civility? Right. Well, that's also like, if you're not able to protect yourself, that doesn't make you more virtuous person.

52:31It doesn't. And a virtuous person with a gun does not have different objectives. You're still the same person. Exactly. You're still a good person, but you also are protected. You have something that if the shit hits the fan. That you can protect yourself with. That's my perspective. I do think that there are a lot of people who are anti. It's a projection. I've seen this. And what the projection is is largely because I never believe you talked to them long enough. They'll tell you, I don't trust myself with a firearm. So why would I trust you? Yeah, that's it. Right. They don't want other people to have guns.

53:02Yeah, I've heard that before. By the way, those people when the shit hit the fan in L .A. Those are people asking me for guns. I had friends asking me, can I borrow a gun? Yeah, that don't surprise me at all. I go, well, if you lived in Texas, I just give you one. I just give you a gun. Exactly. But I can't because it's a loss. Yeah. Yeah. But I mean, it's easy to call it delusion, but that's essentially what it is. It is delusion. It's delusion, right? And we have it too easy. Yeah. You know, we live in, we live in probably the best times that you could possibly live as a human on Earth right now.

53:38Right. I agree. You know, we've lived in maybe like five years ago is better. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, okay. That's true. But no. Pre -economy crash. We live in relative. Relative. Relative. I mean, on a curve, it's pretty. I mean, if you look at a graph of over the history of the Mongol invasion, what's shit we were doing? But I'm like, I don't want to live in a different era. No. I don't want to live in different. Like, I love the 80s. I love the 80s to death. I'm an 80s, I'm an 80s boy. I would not want to live in the 80s. Fuck that. Imagine driving those stupid cars. Oh my God. They have personality though.

54:13They have personality. The fuck out of here. Cars had personality. Bro, if I lived in the 80s, I'd have a 1960s car. 100%. In the 1980s, I had a 1960s car. 100%. I always talk myself out of getting one of those old school muscle cars. Every time I want one, but I always talk myself out of it. Bro, drive one of mine. Next time. Next time you come into town, drive my Camaro. Yeah. Which one is a restomant? Okay. Jamie, pull up my 1960s. Pull up my 1969 road to shop Camaro. Let me see. Let me see. Let me see. Let me see. Let me see. Let me see. Murdered out 1969 Camaro with 850 horsepower. Oh, nice.

54:52And a modern suspension. Big ass fat tire. That's my car. Oh, God. Volume. Jesus. That's my car. Dude, that is literally how I would do it. Yeah. That's how you do it. That is that. Listen to that motherfucker. Wee. Yeah, that is sexy. And that car drives like a modern car. Like that car has incredible brakes, incredible handling. Six feet. Yeah. What am I, a communist? Stop it. Yeah. Come on, man. If you're going to get one of those cars, I mean, I don't hate one of those cars in an automatic. Yeah. But I always like. I mean, I get it. I think if I had, that is beautiful. Yeah, man. You could drive one of these, too.

55:32You would love it. Hey, are you, Will? Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. And joy and fat tires. Then again, this is cheating. Oh, I don't get any other color car but black. So you can usually make me happy if you murder anything out. Don't make me pull up my 1970 silver barracuda because you'd change a tune on that. Let me see that. Okay. Yeah, let me see that. Because I got another roadster shop car. Yeah, three roadster shop cars. And one of them is a 1970 barracuda. This is my barracuda. Wait till you see this motherfucker. Come on, son. That interior is nice. Listen to this.

56:16Oh, that is some real restomach. That? Yeah. That is a mercury racing engine in it that goes to 9 ,000 RPM. Yeah. Yeah, it sounds like an exotic.

56:32Yeah. Okay. All right. Okay. Can you see it on the road? Let me see a drive in. Give me some volume on this. Also, it has a... It has a rear transactual. So it's 50 -50 weight distribution.

56:54Oh, that sounds beautiful. Don't tell me you wouldn't drive a silver car. Come on, bro. I would. I would just drive that car. I would just wrap it. Well, it was... I would just wrap it black. Listen. I love that car the way it is. But if that car was in matte black, it would be fucking sick. Matte black? I'm up like everything. Yeah, matte black. I'm up like everything. It's nice. The only color I like. Yeah, matte. I do like white. I like white with black wheels. Did you matte black your Lamborghini? Oh, no, yeah. Is it shiny right now? It's shiny right now. Still nice. I probably won't have it longer than a year.

57:26Really? Yeah. I mean, that's what I do. I have to get rid of it. And that's like basically drove it for free and then get it out. Get something else. That's good too. So you don't... We don't experience the bullshit. Yeah. I didn't realize that. So like... Like, I always think like cars would just kind of like... Oh, you know, depreciating assets. Not if you buy them right. Not exotics. Yeah, not exotics. Yeah. You actually make money if you buy Ferrari. Is that yours? Yeah. That's my turbo -s. Oh. Yeah. That's before I wrapped it black. Right now, right now it's gloss black. Yeah. But look at that thing.

57:55Yeah. Oh my god. I just love the stance. The stance is awesome. Well, it's also as fast as you can get an internal combustion engine car. It's like basically electric car speeds with... But with superior handling. The way that thing handles is like it's a cheat of running up a tree. But like I told you. Yeah. How quickly we get used to it. I'm already talking about tuning it. Hmm. I want to tune it. That's nuts. It's... No, it's dumb. I mean, I did... The last time I came, I came to Austin. I think it was like on a day... You know, a recent freeze. Well, it was supposed to be a freeze. Yeah. And it didn't really happen away.

58:30Everybody thought it was going to happen wasn't like freeze. Right. I'm again. So I came... Why don't I come to Austin? I forgot. I came here for something. Oh, yeah. It was to look at the car. To look at the Lambo, whatever. And so I drove in the middle of the night. And I drove from Dallas to Austin. And I think I averaged speedwise. Because there was no... Don't say it over the air. Huh? They're going to get in trouble. Oh. Prove it. He's lying right now. So go ahead and lie. All right. So let's just say I maintained a really exciting amount of speed that was within legal speed limits. Oh, yeah, yeah.

59:08From Dallas to Austin in the most beautiful way possible. Yeah. And it blew my mind in the beautiful thing about the Turbo S. It's even if it did start snowing or raining whatever. It's all well drive. Yeah. So but for like ice. Right. Because nothing... I mean, ice is ice. It's not so good snow either. It's those fat tires. True. But I still have all well drive. Yeah. So I could... Man. Yeah. Yeah. I'm worried about other people. Especially people in Austin. And we had the freeze here two years ago. I was watching people slide around. I was like, you don't know what the fuck you're doing. As a kid who grew up in Boston.

59:43Like I drove ice to drive every day. Because I delivered newspapers. Yeah. So I had to drive 365 days a year. So I know how to drive and snow. Like I really know how to drive and snow. Did I take my story about the first time I ever had to drive and snow ice? No. I never told you. Oh boy. This was like... This was okay. So this was back when I was with the NRA. Right. And so this... You know, the NRA had their agency of record, which was I can remember Queen. And so I was working through them. And they made... They were made in the offices in Oklahoma City. So we had... A lot of times they would have us go down to Oklahoma City for meetings and stuff like that.

1:00:19And so I did Dallas office one time. We went... I had like a 2000... I think it was a 2010 Range Rover. HSE. Right. Supercharged. So we drove down there. And you know, Oklahoma... They get real winters. Yeah. Right. Now like Dallas. Dallas gets like half real winters. And the Houston gets fake winters. So we finished a meeting early. And we were like... You just didn't want to stay in Oklahoma City. Me and my co -worker at the time. You know, we're like... You don't want to stay here in Oklahoma City. We just want to get back to Dallas. So... How far does it drive? About two and a half hours, three hours?

1:00:56Oh, okay. So we were getting ready to get to checking out our hotel. And then we were getting ready to get back on the road. And then the ladies like... You know, they closed the freeway now. You know, they're like salting free or whatever. They closed... Whatever freeway down. So we're like, we're cool. We'll just take the back roads. Thinking we were being smart. So we took the back road. You know what they don't salt the back roads. Yeah. So... And I'm like... I'm in a fucking Range Rover. I'll be alright. So I'm going to a Range Rover. And it's ice. It's not even snow. It's really ice. It's just...

1:01:26It's just like the whole world is just sheets of ice. Right? So I'm like... If I drive slow and careful, it would be good. So we're driving and we're driving. And at a certain point, we realized there's probably not the smartest idea in the world. Because now... You know, usually it's kind of like patch of ice. Regular road, patch of ice, regular road. Uh -huh. No, this was at a point now where it was like straight ice. I remember they don't salt the back roads. Yeah. So we're driving and there's like this embankment. Like... Yeah. And I'm like, as long as I go slow, I should be good. Keep in mind, I'm a novice at this.

1:01:56I've never driven in any... In this type of condition ever in my life. Right? So I'm just thinking I have a Range Rover for a drive, you know. I'm not realizing your tires are what matter at the time. And so at this point, we go on there and I can feel the car kind of shake a little bit. And I'm like, okay, that's not good. So just slow down a little bit. Just keep doing it. Keeps doing it. And then it snaps. Cars start spinning on embankment. So now we're heading straight into the ditch. So truck is spinning. We're heading into the ditch. And we hit the ditch and I come in backwards. Oh. And so you know those moments when shit happens and you just kind of have to sit there for a second to take it in and then figure out what the hell's going on.

1:02:35That's what happened. And in that time period, because in my mind, I'm like, how the fuck are we going to get out of this? This isn't like something I can drive out of. We used to just out there. Exactly. And so we're sitting in there and I'm like, I don't know how we're going to get out of this. And before I could finish the thought and process it, I looked to my right and there's a big ass tractor coming down the road. And it was a guy who owned the farm who was basically sat there and saw what happened. Oh. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I thought he was fine. No, no, no, no, no. He was coming to help us to pull this out.

1:03:06So he comes over and he's like, looks like y 'all are in a bit of a pickle. And I was like, yeah, something like that. And he goes, ain't just fancy truck full wheel drive. And I was like, four wheel drive at sport tires. Exactly. Then he was just giving me shit. And so I was like, yeah. And he's just starting laughing. And he's like, I'll have you out in five minutes. So he hooked us up, pulled us out. He's like, stat the very top. Ride that and you be good. So we did that. But the thing is, isop's still there. So that three hour trip took us 10 hours. Oh my God. I literally, I think we did 10 miles an hour, 10 to 15 miles an hour the entire way.

1:03:46Lucky to have another gas too. Exactly. And the funny thing is, when we got back into that, I dropped my coworker off at his place. And then as I was pulling up to my building, my brakes went out. Just died? Yeah. Because I was riding them the entire way. Oh wow. And so I guess they were just like, we're done. Like, you know what I mean? When I tell you, they couldn't have gone out at a more perfect time. I pulled into my building, got into my parking spot. And as I was trying to pull into the parking spot, they just went out. Now, I had enough friction to get it to slow down because I was at a slower speed.

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1:06:56Oh shit, leaders smoking. Oh my god. It just smashed a car the local way. That hit a car. I just hit this park car, that blue car right there. Oh my god. Didn't hit anything else. It's a different bit of angle. They're so lucky. Yeah. Very lucky. Look at that thing spilled. And there's nothing you can do. Nothing. Nothing. When I was a kid, I lived on a hill in the Newton, Massachusetts. And me and my sister's boyfriend sat on the roof and watched people slide down our hill and crash. We called the cops. We said, hey man, you should probably close the street down. There was like five cars in a row spun out, bounced off the curb, went into the ditches.

1:07:37We were just watching people try to come down the hill and just slide completely out of control. Dude. And you made a good point. Now I feel like I'm, you know, with all the traveling I do, we've driven from Dallas to Utah to New Mexico. I've driven in ice, driven in snow. So I'm pretty comfortable with it now. Even though I still don't really like it. There's nothing you can do about ice, though. There's nothing. But there's also what you pointed out was other people. Yeah. So now that's what makes me nervous. Because I'm like, I remember when we had the freeze of apocalypse or whatever in Dallas.

1:08:09Yeah, I got in my truck and went out there and started kind of driving around. Because I kind of, you know, I kind of knew what I was doing. Yeah. But I was always, I was always cosy looking in my rear -view mirror because there's going to be some dumbass who's going way too fast and doesn't realize that you can't stop at the same distance on ice patches. And they're going to just ride in to me. And so I was like, this isn't funny anymore. So I just went back. In Austin, they don't even have plows. Because of how you said it. But that's crazy. Yeah. You should have a few. It seems like it happens.

1:08:37Look, let me tell you that Texas arrogance. 99 % of the time, it's a great thing. There's that other 1 % where it's like, all right. It's not being stupid. I think it's a funding issue. I think so. Yeah, they think they can't justify buying millions of dollars with a snow plows of the city when snow's once every three years. But I mean, it's also one -time purchase. I mean, maintenance and keep up can't be that expensive for a snow plow. Well, I bet there was some conversations about it after the big freeze I'm pretty few years ago. But I have that land cruiser. That thing was awesome during the snow.

1:09:10I love it. What kind of tires you have on it? It's all terrain. All terrain. Yeah. So they're great. You drive over anything in those fuckers. Yeah. I saw when you pulled in. I was like, yeah, looks about right. Yeah. That thing soaked up. That thing soaked up. That was the truck that I bought. I had made when I was nervous about living in LA. I'm like, something happened. Something earthquake, fire, flood. But I want to be able to go over these hills. I don't want to be stuck on these roads. Because there was a road in Northern California where there was a major fire and everyone on the road burned to death.

1:09:45Because the fire storm swept through the road. And they were trapped and bumper to bumper traffic. And they all got cooked. Yeah. And that's another reason why I will always have a truck. With that, that has off -road capabilities. Well, that's the TRX, right? Yeah. Even though some people would argue that. Yeah. It's not an off -road truck. That motherfucker go off -road. I know. I've driven it. I've taken mine off -road. I have the scratches on a bitch to prove it. They can go off -road. Those things are capable. Yeah. It is kind of a like a raptor. That is essentially a Baja racing truck for the street.

1:10:21Pretty much. They have amazing travel in terms of like you can bounce on things. You can go over it. It's giant bumps. It's stupid. But it's the most giddy experience ever. You just said that you just... This is how you drop a TRX or raptor. Wee. That's how you drop it. Yeah. Hold on. The TRX does come from the fact with some fucking janky ass breaks though. Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, don't give me started on that shit. They're not good. That shit is a liability, bro. Yeah, they're not good. They're not good. I changed them. I put the wheel. I put the wheelcocks on it. It's a wheelcocks, yeah. I put the...

1:10:53Whatever Hennessey puts on. I gotcha. Yeah. And then... Now? Yeah. It breaks a phenomenon. Yeah, mind too. A big difference. Yeah. But not good. No, the standard... Like anybody who keeps... Anybody who has a TRX with standard with the stock breaks on there? Just understand. You're a rolling liability. Well, you have to realize like your stopping distance from 60 to zero is twice what a car is. And I learned that at the heart with the first car. I don't know if it's twice, but whatever it is, it's definitely not... Like if you have a Tesla and you have to stop at 60 and then you have a TRX, you have to stop at 60.

1:11:25There's no way you're winning that competition. It's not even close. Not even close. Like I remember when I... Many car lengths. Exactly. Many. I had the truck for like a week. And I was in... I drove to Houston. And I remember when I was in Houston. I forgot... There's like this... I forgot the name of it. But there's a road where... It's kind of... It's kind of windy. Not like sports car windy. But just, you know, it kind of does things and you can get up to speed. So I'm just... You know, I'm TRX. And then I... Like there were like... I had to know where... I had to come around the corner and there's like...

1:11:59Eight cars sitting at the light. And I'm like... Oh, fuck. I never thought about how bad this thing is at stopping. And I remember standing on the brakes. And then you... When you hear that... You're like... Please stop. Please stop. Please stop. And it did. But after that, a week later, I got... I got the brakes upgraded. Yeah. I did a big break. You know what I mean? Well, I noticed a giant... Because I had a Hennessy Raptor before that. The regular Raptor before the R was out, which is a great car. And then with great brakes, Hennessy upgrades the brakes too. And then I went to the standard TRX after that.

1:12:33I was like, oh my god, these brakes are dog shit. Dog shit. What is the stopping distance from 60 to 0 on a stock TRX? Because I know they have to give you the stats on that. It's probably like barely what it should be. And you'd be able to drive it. 130 feet. 130 feet. So, okay. Now, what is the stopping distance from... And it's 60 to 0 in a Corvette Stingray. A 2023 Corvette Stingray. Keep mine next with no weight. No weight. We have a backfill with cement. Or whatever the fuck you're carrying back there. Five people in the car. Yeah. 130 feet. It's crazy. 93 feet. Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ.

1:13:13That's the same for a Viper... Think about that. That's what you said. 130 feet. Yeah. 130 feet versus six. How much? 90 feet? Yeah. That's a giant difference. That's a giant difference. They got to do something about those brakes. And they have to do something about the fucking onboard security system. Because the way they're able to steal these trucks is insane. Really? What? Yeah. Dude. They still wrap. They still wrap this. They still... Anything mo -par. Anything mo -par. If you don't have a kill switch on it. If you don't have... Oh man. If you don't have whatever the neutral thing is to stop them from being with throw it in neutral.

1:13:52If you don't have a GPS on it or Apple Air Talk. Your truck will be gone. I have dudes in my building who've bought it in TRX. Went to dinner with their wives to come back out and their truck was gone. You can look it up online. They will steal these things in a second. They're easy to steal. They're easy as fuck to steal. It's insane. Really? Interesting. Major vulnerability is still dodging around trucks. Fuck. Oh yeah. They have the like the repeaters. They'll come outside your house and then boost the signal. That's crazy that they can do that. So that's the thing they do with these wires.

1:14:26Yep. So they can find that you have a remote control inside. Then they mirror the remote control. They just boost the signal and then just start your car. Crazy. They steal them like that. Like it's like clockwork. Wow. Yeah. That's not good. No, it's not. Anything more apart. Hellcats, TRXs, trackcocks. So much electronics and cars. Another thing that's freaking me out is that they're trying to put kill switches in all cars. Yeah. Where, you know, if you're driving and the government wants to stop you, they'll just stop your car. Just like that. Yeah. That's what they like. That's an electrical shit.

1:15:00Yeah. I don't know. I'm so sketchy. I'm not for it, man. It's, look, it's great if someone's stealing your car. Yeah. And you can call, you know, whatever it is on, on star. Yeah. And say, hey, someone's stolen your car and they can shut your car off. That's the thing about convenience. Right. It's a gift in a curse. And then you're giving up something to gain something when it comes to convenience. Right. It's like how inconvenient do you want to live in order to have absolute autonomy versus massive amounts of convenience. But now you're kind of at the mercy of the government. Yeah. Well, what do you remember is providing the convenience.

1:15:36Do you remember that story? There was a story about a journalist. Mm -hmm. And this journalist was writing a piece for Rolling Stone and he went overseas. And he was embedded with a troop. And it was in Afghanistan, I believe. And while they were over there, the volcano erupted in Iceland. So because of that, there was no flights for like two weeks. You couldn't fly out because they couldn't see. So until that, you know, volcanic dust settles. So they were stranded. So this, this Michael Hastings, is that what's his name? So this guy was around these people and they got a little comfortable with him.

1:16:14And they started talking shit. And then he printed everything they were saying, talking shit. Including this general, this beloved general who's talking shit about Obama. Yeah. So this guy comes back and he's getting mad death threats. And he's fucking terrified for his life. And he's saying, listen, if I fucking die, I did not kill myself. Yeah. There's threats on my life. And his car was going down. Was it La Brea? This video of it. He had a brand new Mercedes. Mm -hmm. This car was going down La Brea at like 120 miles an hour when straight into a tree and exploded. And exploded in a crazy way where the engine ejected from the vehicle where they're like, this is indicative of like an explosion.

1:16:59Like there's like rigged. Like something was. So basically something that's conspiracy theory. There's the conspiracy theory. There's the conspiracy theory. All the way down. That's exactly. The conspiracy theory is that that's what happened. You know, the problem is there's no way to know. No. And they also said that he tested positive for emphetamines. Of course. But the problem with that is journalists all take emphetamine. It is the dirty secret of journalists. Yeah. I have friends that are journalists and they said that Adderall use is ubiquitous. I mean, that's how it wasn't lost. I was apparently the only person in law school not on Adderall.

1:17:34It was crazy. It was apparently amazing. Yeah. I have not tried it. But everybody wants to be productive says Jesus Christ. I know what coffee does to me. Coffee is just the minor form of fucking Adderall. It's the most minor. Yeah. And I know what that does to me. So if I ever took Adderall, I'd become Superman. Yeah. And I would like that shit so much. Exactly. That I don't ever want to touch it. My exact feelings. I don't want to try it. Yeah. Because I know I have ADHD. My friend Duncan has a great bit about, I don't even know if that's real. My friend Duncan has a great bit about it. Because it's like a scientist did cocaine and went, I can fix this.

1:18:17That's Adderall. Okay. So you don't think ADHD. You don't know if ADHD is real. I don't know either. I haven't looked into it. I think it's a super power. I think if you have it, it's super power. I think I most certainly have it. If I have it, look, I have an ability to focus on things that's very unusual. And it's obsessive focusing on things. And I use it to my advantage. Like, it helps me get good at things. It helps me. It helps. For sure, it's helped me in my career. For sure, it's helped me with martial arts. For sure, it's helped me with everything I do. I think you're right. And I say that because I remember when I was in law school.

1:18:50And I remember I had a professor, a professor, a professor, a professor more. I don't know if she was, I don't do a second name, but whatever. I loved her. I loved her to death. And I remember she was talking to me about, you know, me possibly having ADHD, whatever. And she, what she, she was like, you don't think linearly. Like you, the way, which makes you great at a lot of things. But then kind of hamper you like, I am not a standardized test taker. I'm not good at it. Right. You're not good at things you don't want to do. Bingo. That's what it is. But I am not, I'm not stimulated. Right. I am miserable.

1:19:23Yeah. Like, I don't want to do, I don't want to look at it. I'm like, I'm, I'm just heartless. By the way, you align with like most of my friends. Maybe that's why we're friends. I mean, I feel like most of my friends are kind of like fucking cycle about certain things that they love. You start, you start talking to me about cars. Yes. Start talking to me about guns. Yeah. You start talking to me about the law. Law. Yeah. Like anything like that. I'm actually having a passion. Like you can't stop me from being focused on it. And you can rattle off information that's at your fingertips all the time.

1:19:53Because you store it. It's in a file in your brain. You just open that bitch up and it's there. I always say I have a terrible memory, but I have great recall. You know what I mean? That's good. I have a convenient memory. Yeah. My memory is really good. Like it's stunningly good. When it's things that I'm interested in. But if it's something that I don't give a fuck about, it's like I throw that right out. For me, it's in goes out. For me, it's names. It's bad. Oh, it's bad. Well, the thing is you're a public person, so you meet a lot of people. Okay. I'm glad you said that because I have thought that and I'm like, no, you're just making excuses for yourself.

1:20:23No, that's real. Because I'm like, I'm inundated with new names constantly. And so I'm just kind of, and I forget it. I forget names. I'm like, well, how am I forgetting these people's names? And it's almost like it's just overflow like this. Exactly. Names that will drop off. And then I'll be able to recall it, but then another name will drop off. And then it's like, well, it's Dunbar's number. Do you know what that is? No. Dunbar's number is this principle that's based on the idea that we came from tribal societies. So all human beings came from groups of like 50 people, 150 people. And the idea is that there's a circle of people that are close to you that you're very close to.

1:20:57And that's whatever that number is, five to ten, whatever it is. And then there's a circle of people that you really like, but you don't see as much. And that's like 20 or 30. And then it gets further and further out to like acquaintances and people you barely know. So this is Dunbar's number. So five very close friends. And then it gets to close friends. It gets like 15 to 50. And then it gets to friends that you would invite them to a party. That's 150. Then it gets to acquaintances. It's 500. People who you remember how you met. And then it's 1500. People that you could put a name to a face.

1:21:30Now imagine how many people you meet compared to the average person that works in the same place and sees the same friend group and goes to the same church or whatever. You're around the same group of people all the time. You don't have to remember that many names. Yeah. You might meet over the course of 10 years. There might be like 300 people that you interact with regularly. That's most folks. Shit. I was just at Chacho. Right. Okay. We're talking hundreds and hundreds of people in the course of three days. There's no way. No. There's no way to remember all those things. And people get mad at you.

1:22:04I know. They get mad. Especially women. Yeah. Well, people get mad if you don't remember the names. They get mad if you don't remember that you met them. It's like, I can't do it. You don't understand. I don't have my hard drive. It's full. I can't. There's no room in there. It's nuts. I'm hell. Even remembering the sentences that I was supposed to respond to sometimes. Oh, yeah. No, it's impossible. Look at my phone. When you see how many messages that I have an answer. Let's compare. Because I always do this. How many got? I'm usually, I usually win this battle. How many? So right now, text messages.

1:22:34I have 1 ,152 unopened text messages. I have 175. 175. Yeah. So I have. Now, here's where it gets insane. Okay. My emails. Okay. 440 ,124. Whoa. I think you got me there. That's crazy. That's. Now, in all fairness, I have like five different emails attached to that. But. I have. Oh, wait a minute. I might have you. Maintenance there. I have 168 ,485. Oh. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. See. I've surpassed you. Yeah. You got me. You got me beat on that. Yeah. But I also have five email addresses. I have one, two, three, four. I have four. Attached to this. Yeah. It's crazy, man. Yeah. It's pretty bad. It's pretty bad.

1:23:31Very bad. But. I mean. It's also it's like the nature of being a public person, especially. And I also have four phone numbers. So it's like. See, I have to. Yeah. And I have to change mine now. It's like I started getting text messages from people I don't know. I. I. I'm this close to being at the point where you are where I'm like, too many people have my number. Exactly. And so I'm like, I'm like, I really, I've had this number for ages. And I'm like. Yeah. It's a kind of a gross conversation for other people. Like, what's your problem? What's the big deal? But it's unmanageable. You have to understand it's unmanageable.

1:24:05And when you're a person like you or I, people are always looking for something from you. Like all day long, it's, can you do this? Will you come to that? And I have a very hard time saying no. I haven't. I've started mastering it. Now. Yeah. But it took a long time because I would feel guilty. Because I, you know, I feel blessed to be in a position that I'm in. So if I'm in a position to help work and help, I'm going to want to do it. But I started realizing I'm giving too much of myself. And what is happening is I start fucking myself essentially. Yeah. It's the pros and cons of connectivity.

1:24:37I think ultimately, like we were saying before, it's the best time to be alive. The benefits way outweigh the negatives. But there's a lot of weirdness to it. One of the things that we were talking about at lunch today was that there's this statistic now where they did the survey of these women. And they found that 50 % of married women have a backup boyfriend. Meaning if this fucking husband falls apart, if he talks too much shit, if she gets tired of his bullshit, she has another guy that she's been in contact with, that she can kind of get a hold of. And that guy could be the new boyfriend.

1:25:12Yeah. I've been the backup. And that. And then you realize that's a terrible fucking idea. But it's like 70 % of women in relationships have this. Yeah. It doesn't. 70. When I read the article, I'm like, oh, y 'all just found this out. I swear to god, I promise you, I've always known that. Especially women on social media who take thirst trap pictures, like my god. It's a beautiful way the social media has provided a beautiful avenue to have a roster. Yeah. So it's like they have a, they have a, they have a bench. They have a starting five and they have a bench, right? And all you have, number one drink.

1:25:51Exactly. He's the guy who takes the champion down then. How you doing? But they all serve a different role. You looking good. They're all serve a different role. There's a, there's a, he's nice. He listens to me wax poetic about nothing guy. He'll go out on a date with me. Even though I have no romantic interest in him. He'll take me out. Exactly. Me and the husband are in a fight. This guy makes me look really good. So I'll kind of bring him out. This guy has really good sex. So I'll call him over in the middle of the night after I finished with the guy who takes me out. Yeah. Oh. 50 % of married women have a backup lover.

1:26:20Ooh. So when I Google this thing, like 50 % have a backup. This article pops up as a story every two or three years. Well, probably true. I know, but I mean, maybe it doesn't have anything to do with social media or anything. I think it's 2014. 2014. That's when social media was really. I know, but that's just, this is just the first page of searching. If I go back and check like 2009, would it say that what I vote? Cosmopolitan article is from 2000. I think it's, but you got to remember too. Yeah. Women are social creatures. So that's usually probably based on a survey. Right. Generally speaking, I think it's a lot higher.

1:26:54Well, probably a lot higher now. Yeah. That's true. They wouldn't admit it. But probably a lot higher now because of social media because of direct messaging. I agree. I agree. You're so much of that going around. I tell people, I tell my friends this all the time. You know, some of them are married. You know, sometimes I'm still out here. And back in a day, you could only touch who you could actually touch. Right. Now the game's changed. Yeah. You can touch anyone. If a girl's like, oh my god. And she lives in central Kansas. Yep. And she loves Michael B. Jordan. Right. Slide into the end. Yeah.

1:27:30Like it's in there. He may read it. He may not. And if he goes to her page. And she's on. Boom. Well, let's go. Hello, Sarah in central Kansas. Yeah. How's it going? That's right. You get what I'm saying. So it's taken. It's taken the game to a whole new level where it's like you everybody. And it goes both ways too. Sure. The only difference is. Is. A guy reaching out to say some like super famous actress is. Good luck. Yeah. Because there's like 900 of you doing the same thing. Yeah. Not only that, it's like women don't want that. They don't like if a woman's a super famous actress. She don't want some random carpenter.

1:28:07Slide into her DM. She. I disagree. A hundred thousand percent. Yeah. She likes the attention. Okay. But she's not thinking of that as a guy that she's getting. No, no, no, no. She happens to be in Kansas. No, no, no. Not at all. Right. You know, you don't say any chance in hell. Right. But, you know, to pick a performance like another one. That they like. To get that don't mean spiking minutes on to them. Yeah. Yeah. It's wild. I mean, look. I'm complaining. But I like to look at it. Yeah. Like if women put thirst traps on their Instagram. Like, oh, look at that. I like to look at it. So I'm not complaining in the sense I don't want you to stop doing it.

1:28:40I want you to do whatever you want to do. But I think psychologically the temptation and also just knowing that you have that many suitors that are waiting in the wings. It makes arguments very different. Yeah. I'm one thing I always, I'm never going to apologize for being a man. Ever. At the same time, I can't. I mean, if they have the access to an ability to do it, it is what it is. Yeah. And also like a woman's window of opportunity is smaller than a man's. I'd say that much. It just is. Unfortunately, for whatever reason, it's not fair. If a woman has between the ages of like, you know, whatever age of age, you know, where they're legal, till there were, you know, if they're really hot and they work out a lot, late 40s.

1:29:24That's pushing it. Yeah. But it gets. And when women are single in the late 40s, guys are like, why is she single and she's in the late 40s? Well, I think it's life is kind of cruel in the way that they created an inverse peak for men and women. Right. Right. So when we were younger, then nobody won us. Right. No way. You broke it. Yeah. You broke, dude. Oh, it's true. You're in college. You got your little dorm room. Right. Because when I was in college, all the girls were dating, they were dating older dudes. They were dating the drug dealers, the ball players. I didn't judge them. I always told my friends I was like, dude, you're boring.

1:29:56Right. Like, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm boring. You have no resources. I wake up. I go to class. Yeah. And I come back home in my, you come back home to my dorm room where you have a, you have a whole guy here who has his own, has own apartment, own house, own car, can fly you out. Do all this stuff. You should be fine. Yeah. The problem is is at a certain point, it flips. The best time of my life is started at 30. Mm. Right. Right. 30. You can't tell me shit. Right. You can't tell me shit. Right. Um, whereas when, when a woman starts hitting 30, what she, now she's, she's had her fun. Right. She's, she's on boats.

1:30:33She's doing all that stuff. She's having a great time. Yeah. Have at it. Yeah. The problem is is she's, the switch flips and now she's looking for something more serious more stable. Unfortunately, when you're 30 and I'm 30 and I'm like, you can't tell me shit. And she's 30 and she's like, I'm ready to be in something serious. You're going to have this, you're going to, the lines start crossing in ways that aren't conducive to. Right. You get what I'm saying. So it's like, that's when you start kind of having these age gap relationships where you start having individuals, you start getting guys who are 30, 40 dating 24, 23 year olds.

1:31:04Right. Because it's like, well, I've, I've finally got to a point where I'm making money. I mean, I have, I have the resources to do what I want and have fun. So now what I'm going to do is I'm going to start enjoying that life that I wanted when I was younger. And so a lot of times they'll date women who aren't looking for serious boy. Exactly. Because they're looking to have fun as well. Exactly. So they're not putting pressure on you to have a family and settle down. So that's taking those guys essentially off the market for the women who are now at a point where they're like, OK, I want something more, yeah, I want something more steady.

1:31:34Right. And so like I said, life is cruel. Life is just kind of cruel like that. Yeah. So it creates this dynamic where it's like, now they're looking at like, where are the guys that are my age because they're not looking to date younger guys. And they're not looking to date super old guys either, whatever the hell that means. But what Jordan Peterson talks about this too, there's also this disproportionate thing that happens where men who have resources and who are attractive. It's such a small percentage of the population. Yeah. And those men have access to a much larger percentage of women.

1:32:10So the amount of men today that don't have girlfriends and having a sex, it's staggering. It's staggering. It's staggering. You can call them in cells. You can call them whatever you want. But unfortunate gentleman is what I like to call them. And that is not good for society. Not good. I mean, that's what's happening in China, right? China had that one child policy, which was disastrous. You know, like what someone was saying, all these Chinese men of military age are entering in this country. I'm like, okay, maybe they're a terror cell. That's the worst case scenario. Or maybe they're guys who are in China who are fucked.

1:32:42There's no girls there. So like if you want to, and also you're trapped in a communist society, you know, trapped in a dictatorship. But to his irony behind that, there's also a segment of men in America who are like, I want to go abroad and find a woman. Right. Right. To find a woman with lower standards. So we're just saying, well, I mean, lower standards are a different environment. Well, lower standards, because I've been paying attention to these guys go down to like Columbia. And he's like, ugly dudes, go down to Columbia and get these bomb ass Columbia checks. Now you got to make distinction.

1:33:12There's a distinction there. There are some who kind of go in there, they're just, they're really also going there to have fun. Right. Right. And then there are some who are honestly kind of looking for something more traditional. Because these places tend to have more traditional structure. Right. So that, like, I think you kind of have to split that dynamic a little bit. Yeah, there's a lot of variables. Yeah. But at the same time, like you said, then there's guys from other countries, from countries when they come to America to get women. It's so, it's so weird how you kind of have this like crossing of the seas in order to get the same thing in different places.

1:33:45Yeah. Right. Yeah. But I don't know. I don't know. I'm, I'm, my grandma, my grandma, my mom, my mom's hitting me up for grandbabies every other day. So I'm the last person to be talking to about this. Are you ever going to do it? I mean, if it happens, it happens. So it's like you just have to find the right combination of women's circumstance. Yeah. I mean, the thing is I'm obsessed with my freedom. Right. And it's, and it's to a fault. Yeah. And so, and I'm not against it. But, but it's also served you well. It has. It has. And I, and I guard it viciously. Right. Because we've all seen men that got trapped.

1:34:23Yeah. Hence my conversation about my friend earlier that has to pay child support. Exactly. Yeah. And, and I usually don't even talk about this because largely when you do speak about it publicly, nobody ever tries to see that from your perspective. Right. Right. It's, it's, it's like, what do you do on the theater? Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. You're a play. Massage and massage. Yeah. Yeah. But, which is fine. I've, I have, I've kind of built up walls that don't really, that doesn't bother me. He can't really shame me that way. Um, largely because what I'm doing is I'm protecting my peace. Yeah. And also you've seen the other side of it.

1:34:59It's not like you don't know what the negative consequences are. I definitely see the other side of it. I've seen horrific relationships. Yeah. And I saw, I think it's hard to. Like you've been masticulated. Yeah. Oh, controlling. And there's another thing that happens in those controlling relationships that I was watching this conversation, this woman who was a psychologist was having with this other podcaster. I forget who it was. But she was saying that essentially one of the problems that happens with women is that they have this desire to control their environment and control men. But then as soon as they control men, they stop being, they stop being attracted to that man.

1:35:32I never listened to a woman say, in terms of what they want. Really. No, I just watch the actions, because actions are there, right, because you got to remember like women live in a very socialized reality, right, like you don't, you think lone wolf, you don't think lone woman, you think lone man, so their condition, I'm speaking general, like there was always exceptions, right, but generally speaking, they're social creatures, so they're gonna say what they're supposed to say, right, because otherwise they're gonna be judged, because if you want me to ask someone, what does she want? She's like, oh, I want a nice guy who's stable, who's sweet and so forth and so on, because if she says, no, I want the bad boy rocker who does, you know, whatever, people are gonna judge her for that desire.

1:36:23And then again, at the same time, she still actually made one both, right, right, and in many ways, she can't have both, because remember that roster, yeah, so you know, there's that aspect to it that I think, I understand it, I do, but I don't make decisions off of what, I won't make decisions off of it, because I understand what somebody does versus what they say can be two totally different things. Yeah, well, that's a lawyer in you too. Very much so. But there, there's also, there's another problem, and the other problem is media depictions of relationships, and that these media depictions of relationships are not based on actual relationships, they're based on playing to these desires that people have for this perfect thing.

1:37:12Yeah, and I think it creates a, I think it creates an unattainable standard, because what I've learned from my friends that I know who are married and are in good marriages, but from when I can gauge, shit's hard, it's not always fun, it isn't, and I think a lot of people look at relationships, and even just relationships in general, it's not an easy thing to do. You're talking about two different people, you're talking about people who are totally different, they may come together in some commonality, which is why they're attracted to each other, but you still talk about two different personalities who have to come together and live with each other.

1:37:47Right. And so that's not an easy thing to do. And it's also why people are attracted to each other. They're not attracted generally to the same type of personality, which is true. Yeah, which is absolutely true. I think those media depictions of reality, they fuck us up in so many ways, because people look to movies and, and songs, and they look to that as their model of what life should be, including other aspects of real life outside of relationships, like retirement. Like people have this like idea, like one day I'm going to retire, and I'm going to have a great, no, you're going to die earlier.

1:38:18You're going to be disinterested and unengaged, and you're not going to be stimulated, and you're going to fucking die. That's funny you said that, because I'll be honest with you, I had that, like sometimes like 99, all I do is work. You know that about that. You know, I'm always working, which is why I think I'm also so passionate about the things that have nothing to do with it.

1:38:41And also why I always have this fantasy that I thought I would reach a point where I could just do nothing, and I would do nothing, and I would just enjoy the rest of my life doing nothing. The more I talk to people who are further along in their life than me, further along in the career than I, people who have retired, they all say the same thing, and that goes the sentiment that you just said. The last thing you want to do is do nothing. Yeah. Because you will die early. Yeah, you don't want to sit on the porch. Yeah. I might want to sit on the porch for a few hours. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. It's nice.

1:39:16It's nice to rely. I like watching TV occasional sit down, and when I know that I've done a lot, and I can just chill, and watch some stupid shit on TV, great. I like it. I've figured out a way to enjoy that. But the idea of doing nothing, I may get to a certain point where I don't work anymore. Yes. But I will always be doing stuff. I'll always be bow hunting. I'll always be working out. I'll always be playing pool. I'll always be following hobbies. I'll always be doing things that I'm interested in. Yeah. But what I'm lucky about, and I think what you're lucky about as well, is that the things that we're interested in are also the things we do for a living.

1:39:52And that's why I feel so blessed. Oh, we're so lucky. We're so lucky. There's so many people out there that throw quote, the most men live lives of quiet desperation. And when you're doing what you actually enjoy doing, you are so much better off than someone who's insanely wealthy, who's miserable, because they don't like what they're doing, and they're just making money. I like working for it. Like I said, before investments that I've done really well, I like working for each and every dollar. You're like creating good content. And I genuinely love it. Yeah. Like it's in this suck sometimes.

1:40:27I'll be honest. Sure. It's what's difficult. Yeah. Barry, the pressure you put on yourself, like it can be maddening. But it's also rewarding. Exactly. Yeah. I mean, that's part of the journey of what makes things interesting and intriguing. And I think the way human beings evolved, we evolved trying to solve complex puzzles. And initially it was, how do I get food? How do I protect my village? How do I protect my family? How do I avoid plague and fucking predators and all these so people had to solve complex problems. So it's a natural human reward system that's built into the organism in order for this organism survive.

1:41:06So this idea of like complete sedentary lifestyle providing you any enjoyment is just fucking nonsense. It really is. And the funny thing is I want to say about a couple months ago, I was flirting with burnout every other day, like straight up. And then I realized the reason I'm flirting with burnout is because the way I'm approaching it. I'm approaching it like I want to finish this so I can get to nothing. Instead of I enjoy doing this. This isn't it's work. But this is this is what I'm doing. Right. And I don't want to say, no, I did it. That feelings that that kind of, well, it's a cult transient, but that feeling of burnout or almost flirting with burnout every other day essentially kind of went away.

1:41:57Because I just threw myself into what I was doing instead of looking at it as something I got to get done so I can get to nothing. Because what was happening was I would do something, finish it and then there's something else and then there's something else. And my god, I just want to take a break. I just want to be able to take a break and just do nothing for like a month. Yeah. But do I really? No. Because within three days, if that exactly, I'm going to be like, what can I create? Well, I enjoy vacations now, but I enjoy it as a time that I could spend with my family and we can hang out together and I get to have 24, seven time with my kids.

1:42:29Because when my kids are in school, they're in school all day, they have friends, they have sports, they do, they have activities, it's hard to spend like a lot of quality time. When we go on vacation, if we go on vacation for a week, that's one week of just hanging out and I try to get as many laughs in, as many fun things to do. But it's sort of activity driven. We enjoy time together. We do stuff. The idea of just like Jordan Peterson talks about this as well. He talks about this imaginary thing that people have. One day, you're going to be on the beach drinking margaritas, like staring at the sun rise.

1:43:06You know what's funny about that? Yeah. When I have that fantasy in my brain, you want to know what I'm doing? What? I'm sitting on the beach drinking a margarita and have my computer and I'm working on it.

1:43:20That's, that to me is my fantasy. It's like, yeah, I don't like the, like I want to be able to do what I want, but I've just end up doing what you enjoy. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, you know, a day or two of that is fun. Yes. I'll binge watch a show for like a day or two. And then you start feeling guilty. Yes. Yeah. Well, that's a sign of someone who loves what they do. Yeah. So it's like, it's not like what you're doing is something you actually enjoy. So getting away from it is not enjoyable. It's not. Yeah. That's the key to happy life. It's surround yourself with people that are very fun to be around.

1:43:59That you love that you enjoy you like seeing them succeed. You love spending time with them. You all have fun together. Yeah. And then generally it's birds of a feather. So like my friends all, like the two of person, they all love what they do. Yeah. Two of person, the people that I enjoy being around. And that's, to me, when they do well and they're happy and they, and they can tell me about this thing that they're doing outside of there, it makes me excited. Yep. And I want to do more stuff. Yeah. People's passion for things is very infectious. Very infectious, man. I love watching dudes make tables.

1:44:35I've been the last like a few days. I've been on this YouTube rabbit hole watching dudes make tables. I have zero desire to make a table. But I was watching these dudes make this fucking dope desk for this guy. And it was like resin and wood and they're put it all together and how this cool design to it. I was like, damn, that's badass. And the passion that these guys had for making sure that all the joints fit perfectly together, they're sanding them down. And it's all precise. They're taking you through the process as a narrator talking about how time consuming this is. But this is the way to do it.

1:45:12Because then the end result is so worth it. And then they're standing there when they deliver this desk. I'm like, damn, that's pretty dope. No, it's freaking awesome. Yeah. You know, the funny thing is is like I've started realizing I might be into decor or made it more than I'm willing to admit to myself. Really? Yeah. Not so much like I want to style houses or stuff like that. But like, I think that's why I like hotels so much. Like, I'm a hotel snob. Right. Like a dope hotel. Yeah. Go in there and you're like, you feel good. Nothing makes me happy, man. And it's like, especially when you're traveling.

1:45:42Because the process is traveling sucks. Traveling is fun. Process sucks. Right. Mainly just the airport shit. But I love like even when I come here, right, when I come to Austin. Like I look forward to coming to Austin because I have hotels I really enjoy out here. Like I stay at the proper or stay at the Thompson. I love those. I love those hotels. There's a dope hotel. Yeah. And it does wonders just for even just revitalizing you and just kind of pulling on it. Because where I live now, I love where I live. I love it. But there's just something different about being in a hotel. Yeah, stylish ball.

1:46:12Yeah. Beautiful restaurant that you go to that's in the hotel. I almost want to travel so much just spent so much time in hotel bars. I almost wanted to start a blog. Right. Just talk about my experiences at hotel bars. It's not a bad idea. A lot of people love them. And then a cool lobby. It makes you excited about being there. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. It's a cool environment. Yeah. Someone's got like a really cool environment in their home that's conducive to a to a creativity is Rick Rubin. I was watching this tour. Rick Rubin's a friend of mine and he's a fucking brilliant dude. I mean, just legendary producer, right?

1:46:44But he wrote this book on creativity. It's really good. It's really fascinating. But about like what he does to foster creativity. And it's all it's a lot of it is also environment. I mean, his home, show it. There's like a tour of Rick Rubin's Malibu home and studio. So he's got this house. And when you see his house, the way is this it? Yeah. So yeah. Other house, but this is his most famous house. Yeah. Yeah. So the way he has everything set up in his house, so this I don't know if this is what I saw. This is also like 10 years old. I don't know. Yeah. I think he's got a new one now. Yeah. This is a long time ago.

1:47:26Rick is kind of a wild man. So he sets things up so that they make him feel a certain way when he goes into rooms. Remember how I told you I'm a city rat and I just love being in a city. Yeah. So I, I initially had more of kind of a traditional style house. Prior to that, I lived in high rise. That's it. Yeah. See that this is what the decor of me starts coming out. I'm like, I can, I'm an I'm an appreciator of good decor. I guess the best way to put it. Yeah. I mean, if you like the way you set up your environment, like the things that excite you, like when you walk around the things you see.

1:48:06And that's the thing it was like like aesthetics inspires me. Mm -hmm. Like a beautiful things inspire me. Art. Yeah. Obviously, we see this studio and you walk around like I'm a big fan of art. Yeah. And that's and you know what the weird thing about me is in my place now, there's maybe two things on the wall. My house looks unlived in. And the reason is it's because I'm so specific like I can't tell you art wise what I want. I have to see it. And when I see it, I know it. I won't be able to explain it. I know it. So and it's not like super deep shit. Like recently, I bought this big gigantic canvas of a top -down view of a 930 Portia Turbo.

1:48:48Right. So you can see the hips kind of conflare out a little bit and stuff like that. I saw it and I like and I was just online. I was just at home just hanging out on a couch and I saw and I was like that, that. Yeah. Because it evoked it evoked a certain emotion in me that I'm like when I look at that and I see that, that's going to inspire me. Yeah. To a degree, right? I'm sounding very like Harry fairy. But nonetheless, it is what it is. The problem is is like I don't run across things visually or often enough where I'm like okay, I want to put that in my home. And when I do, it's usually like something that somebody already has.

1:49:23So there isn't another one. Right. You get what I'm saying. And so and I will not just put anything up for the sake of just putting it up because I want it, I want to walk into my place and I want it to mean something to me when I see it. Well, lack of things is also something. Like sometimes there's a lot of serenity in an empty room which is like a couch and the table. You know, there's something about that too and maybe one piece of art on the wall is better than five pieces of art or a wall filled with art. That is true. Yeah. But there is something but then there's also that that mental playground when you do have and I think that's what you have here.

1:50:02Yeah. Right. Because I walk in. It's like nothing every time I look something looks different. Right. Yeah. And it works. It's like this beautiful controlled chaos that just works because it's chaotic but yet uniform. That makes any sense. Yeah. It's cultivated chaos. Yeah. Yeah. And I love it. And lighting. I'm big on lighting. So it's like everything here is I can I may be wrong about this but I feel like everything here is designed to kind of low you like relax you. Yeah. There is to make it comfortable but also stimulate conversations. I want a lot of different weird shit on the table like just this symbol.

1:50:43And I've been looking at the jacket and the spine and the skulls. Yeah. This is actually a how old was this again? This is this is a piece of a moose bone that was taken out of the Alaskan tundra. That's that's from the boneyard in Alaska. How do you say moose plural? Moose. Okay. Yeah. So moose and elk. Fucking beautiful creatures man. Up like you have to see them in person. Right. You have to. Yeah. They are stunning in person. Yeah. I just that's all I wanted to say because I you know I was dead my elk cutting out a long ago. And I remember we came across twice. So and when you come face to face with them in the wild.

1:51:29Yeah. It's just different. It's amazing. Yeah. They're beautiful man. Yeah. They are absolutely stunning. I've never seen a moose in person but I can. But they don't even look real. Really? The first time I saw moose in British Columbia. And the first time I saw it was like it was like the scene in Jurassic Park where Jeff Goldblum gets out of the Jeep and he's like. They're so big. They don't look real. They're so big. They don't look real. It's double the size of an elk. Really? Double. Double easy. And I was and I was blown away by how the word I'm looking for is add like so agile and lightfooted.

1:52:10Yeah. Because we stumbled on my hunt. We accidentally stumbled on one. He didn't know we were there. We didn't know he was there until we knew each other was there. Right. I've never seen anything move so fast to to thick brush without making a sound. Also with giant amps. Yes. It made Joe. Yeah. I'm talking thick brush didn't make a sound when it took off. Yeah. I was like. What the fuck? Yeah. I was like. Okay. Okay. This is real. It's all like designed for it. Yeah. And they're also designed to get away from credit. At least size that moose. I lived in it. What does it say? I lived in London for all my life so I've never seen a real life moose.

1:52:49Look how much bigger it is in the car. Bro, they're so big. You can't believe they're real. There's and they're aggressive. Really? The difference between a moose and other animals is like if you see a deer they'll run away from you. Yeah. See a moose. They might stomp you to death. If you're close enough they don't like it. Yeah. They'll come at you. Yeah. Cause they're used to fighting off wolves. They're stompers. Gotcha. Gotcha. They're stompers. Okay. You know I saw elephant take on a what was it going? I think it was a rhino. You saw it live? No. I don't know. I saw it on the internet. Yeah.

1:53:21And I'm like. I'm like. I've started to realize elephants are not to be messed with. Not to be fucked with. Like at all. No. Like they seem kind of passive. They're not. Well, they're passive. If they don't need to be aggressive. Here it is. Elephant fucks up this rhino. Oh, there's so much bigger. I mean, it's like a sumo wrestler versus a high school fucking 134 pounder. But when I first saw them face off, I thought the rhino was going to get the best of them because of the long ass horn. No, that one ain't shit. Yeah, very clearly. And that's also an elephant with small tusks. Yeah. I know.

1:53:53Which by the way, the sad thing is elephants genetically, they're starting to have smaller and smaller tusks because of the evolutionary aspect of the fact that people want them for their tusks. So they're their tusks are actually growing smaller to be less desirable. Yeah, which is crazy. That that's how evolution works. That it works over that small of a period of time. That is kind of nutty. Yeah. That is fascinating because the Congo at one point in time was grasslands and then a rainforest emerged as the climate shifted. And when the climate shifted, these Savannah animals got trapped in this jungle.

1:54:40So you have like gazelles and antelope and inside of a jungle. There's an antelope. I think it's called a diker that swims underwater for like a hundred yards and eats fish. Antelope. Yeah, little tiny antelope. Swims underwater. They're evolving to swim underwater. There's fish that come out of the ground and they walk till they find the next water. So like they're literally like evolving in front of our eyes. They're changing their behavior characteristics and then what's a natural advantage. Is that radioactive? No, I'm being honest. Yeah, that's in some place. You know, nothing's beautiful to watch move in their environment.

1:55:22I've snow leopards. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Isn't it wilder a cat that lives in a snow? I think a cat's, you think of the jungle, right? And then the funny thing is it's like you think like they call it leopard but I'm like that thing is like a lion. It's weird. Not a lion, a tiger. Yeah, I think it's like a tiger. Crazy big balls like snowshoes so they can run through the snow easier. And then watching them just chase the mound goats all up and down the mountain like and do it with such fluidity. It's just like it's insane to me. I saw links in Canada once in the wildest wild looking thing man. Links are crazy looking.

1:55:56They just don't look like they belong there. And they make the nuttiest noises. They stand in front of each other and they scream at each other. They'll like get face -to -face and they're screaming at each other. Yeah, there's videos of these links that are standing in front they get like real close to here. You know they're going to become a mean man. Yeah.

1:56:20Look at these guys.

1:56:26Look they just scream at each other's faces then they just get real close to each other and they don't do anything. They're like bitch this is my spot.

1:56:38And that what?

1:56:42And that nuts. You know it doesn't remind me of what? Okay, this is big. Look at their feet man. Look at their feet. Don't get too close bitch. I'll slap you but they don't fight. Look because they know that getting injured is so fucking deadly. It's a death sentence. Yeah. You break your leg or you get your eye scratched out. That's it. It reminds me of this video I saw on Instagram where it's like always women at like some retreat and they're like moving crazy and screaming and like one of those women in power went retreats. Yeah, I was like what the fuck did I just watch? Yeah, what the fuck is this?

1:57:18And then I watched it again. Yeah. And then I watched it again. I could take my eyes away from it. It doesn't. That always seems like someone's got some scam running. I mean, I'm gonna show you how to be powerful. You just gotta scream it. To me it just demonstrates how imagine men doing that. I'm sure they do. I'm sure. There's some male retreat like probably organized by gay guys trying to fuck these dudes. I think you all together in the fucking jungle and just yell. We're gonna yell. We're gonna yell naked. I think it's the most brutal demonstration of how good your life is. Right. Right. Right.

1:57:54And you don't have to do that. Yeah, that's the sixth of your problem. Yeah. But I mean, there's so many men out there that don't know how to be a man. They don't know what to do. And they feel lost and disconnected and they wish they were something they're not. So those guys are like super susceptible to these like how to be a man. Yeah, it's definitely, you know, there's there's a fine line between, you know, what it is to be a man and in the caricature of what it is to be a man. Right. I like I was raised by a sink. I was more less raised by a single parent mother, but I can tell I know now as an adult, she overcompensated in a lot of ways because she knew she was having to raise a man.

1:58:38And the way she did it was she wasn't she wasn't hard on me brutally, but it was brutal. It was enough where I she forced me to do things on my own, but then also what she did is she made sure that she had male influences in my life that I would take after. Now, at the time, I didn't understand what was going on. I'm like, hey, woman, go see Dr. Johnson. I don't want to go talk to Dr. Johnson. Right. Right. Dr. Johnson was this cardiologist who forced me to go talk to and be around. That's very wise of your mother. Yeah, she is. I mean, she's freaking phenomenal. I thought like I should be inherently fucked up.

1:59:15Flat out, but because of her. That's amazing. That's amazing that she was wise enough to see that and to recognize that and to act on it. Because if you don't, it's too late. Pretty much. You let that guy get to adulthood and you can't influence them then. It's very hard to take a fucked up grown adult and then turn them around. And I think the beautiful thing I think I'm glad she didn't do with me that I've seen sometimes with single parents sometimes is she didn't baby me in a manner in which like she understood her limitations as a woman. So she knew she had to have male influence to some degree.

1:59:54Yeah. So she was very cautious about like if my like for it's like my mom happened to be a hoe I would never know because she did such a phenomenal job in curating whoever it was that was going to be around me. That was a man and that influence and how much that played a part in me growing up. Because I think she understood I can only do so much as a woman to teach this guy how to be a man. And now when I think about things and how I compose and how I handle myself, I subconsciously think about those individuals who I interacted with and that's what I pull from growing up. And so I thank her for that.

2:00:27At least knowing her limitations from that standpoint and figuring out a way to to provide that example for me. Yeah, that's very important. It's very important. I got very fortunate that when I was young, I got involved in martial arts. Same here. I did too. I didn't continue with it to the degree that you did. But I definitely and for me, what that martial arts martial arts turned into basketball for me. That's what that was. But it's anything that's difficult to do. Things that difficult where it's undeniable that the work you put in equals how much better you get period. There's if you mean there's certain genetic advantages, but even with those genetic advantages, the more work you put in, the more results you will get.

2:01:05And there's other people with genetic advantages too. And then when you're competing, then you're competing against a bunch of people that are driven and they have a much higher standard. And that's what athletics provides a lot of people. People under like to this day, I pull from my experiences playing basketball. Because when I was younger, it's funny to say now because there's an adult who's like, you're not going to name it, Kyle. But nobody could tell me that I wasn't. No one. And I worked like that's what I was going to do. I put in the effort, I put in the work. No one's going to work me for that.

2:01:42And because of it, all of the struggle, all everything I did from that point to now, I still pull from that because it set a pattern of behavior in me. So all I did was when I realized your hoop dreams aren't happening, I just transferred that drive, that consistency, that discipline. And I just transferred over to what I was doing next. And I just continue to do that. Whatever I change, I switch up to when I start doing next, that's what I put it into. That's what I was taught. I was taught when I was young that martial arts are a vehicle for developing your human potential. And if you could figure out how to get good at this, you could figure out how to get good at pretty much everything.

2:02:24I think one thing I have a regret, I regret is not living longer in martial arts. Because I think I have a brutal, brutal amount of respect for any individual who can perfect a craft in that space. I think fighters are some of the toughest people on the planet. Because Which is by virtue of what they do. Exactly. That is what they do. They do one of the toughest things to do. You're going against willingly, going against a trained individual who has spent time preparing for you. Literally. Yeah. Like it's not like, oh, I'm out and about. I got caught off guard and I can take advantage of the fact that he doesn't know.

2:03:06This is like, I'm coming to kill you. Not literally, but I'm coming to kill you. You're coming to me. Yeah, press conferences. You're talking shit to each other, getting all ramped up emotionally. Yeah, it's, I mean, that's also why it's so exciting to see. Yeah, because you know, you're seeing like, oh my God, these guys have been getting ready for this forever. Here we go. When you see two dudes just looking at each other across the octagon, they're staring each other, they're getting ready to go. The tension in the air is so crazy. And what's crazy is the caught like, you can be on top of the world.

2:03:42One, two, three fights in. And then in two seconds, just like that. Yeah. Everything comes crashing down. Yeah. And so then now you have to figure out how to pick those pieces back up because it's very small room from, there's very little margin of air to come back from a loss. And the crazy thing is a lot of times fighters are at the peak of their ability and then they have one loss and they fall off a cliff. That's like Tony Ferguson, it's the greatest example of that. He was the scariest fucking guy in the 155 pound division until he wasn't. And then he loses to Justin Gachi and then he goes on like a seven fight losing streak.

2:04:19It's crazy because for years, no one can touch him. For years, he was literally the boogie man. Everyone was scared of that dude. And the crazy thing is it's like with UFC fighting, there's no one way to be the best. Right. Because like there's so much going on in a fight. Yep. That like one laps in focus. Yeah. That split second laps in focus. Nice done. Yep. Done. Done. Right. And you could be perfect in everything else. Yep. Just like that. That's Camaro Usman and Leon Edwards. Camaro is dominating for the whole fight and then in the fifth round with like a minute to go gets head kicked into the shadow realm.

2:05:00And it's crazy. And then Camaro loses the next fight and then he loses the fight after that. So Camaro's is like unbelievably dominant champion. Yeah. And then just like one head kick. Yeah. That's man. I mean, he's still on the hunt. I mean, he could still come back. He had a really good fight in his last fight against Hamza Chimayo. But, you know, he lost. And then here you are. Three losses in a row. What you do with that loss is everything. It's literally everything. And it's probably way harder than any fight that you've actually been in. And then there's the reality of your body. Your body can only take so much of that before it just starts to fail.

2:05:39And Camaro, one of the things that I really admire about him is so open and honest about his injuries. Like his knees are so fucked up. He can't run. He can't. He doesn't walk downstairs. He goes backwards downstairs. We need to send him to Ben. To Ben? He's over to us. Oh yeah. Yeah. I'm sure that would help a little, but I'm sure he's probably doing that stuff. He has no cartilage in his knees. His knees are destroyed. Yeah. I mean, they're destroyed. They're bone on bone. He's resigned himself to this thing that at one point. If you look at Camaro's body, his upper body looks like a fucking superhero.

2:06:15But he has these small legs. Gotcha. His legs are so small compared to his upper body. And part of that is because his knees are destroyed. He's only so much he can do with his legs. Funny thing is, this is like I'm the opposite. My legs are duty and big. I hate them, dude. What do you think? They're too big. They're too big. Like I have big legs. I have big calves. Ever since I was young, they used to call me calves because my calves are so big. That's great genetics, man. You should have been a kickboxer. I mean, it's a giant advantage. I mean, probably so. They look too late now. It's not too late to train.

2:06:50Yeah. And I did. I was doing, I was training. I was training at Fortis for a period of time. Oh, were you really? Yeah, me and Safer were really good friends. Oh, that's great. I love that, dude. I love that gym, too. That's great. Honestly, during COVID, it was my refuge. Yeah. That gym was my refuge during COVID, dude. I mean, and I was going, I was going to do some dark times in that gym and hell safe. That gym was my refuge. Shout out to Safer Sao. Yeah. He's awesome. He's a great coach, too. Yeah. No, he is. Like, should I see him? Should I see him doing that gym, man? He's so good in the court.

2:07:21There's like a sign of a great coach is the way they give advice in between rounds. And that guy is precise. He's technical. He's motivating. He's intense. He lets you know, he's not just, he's not going to share a coach. Shit. It's not the, it's not just the ring, bro. I'm sure. Yeah. Like, yeah. We meet me and say, talk. Yeah. We're, we're talking. Yeah. Like he's, yeah. He's intense. Yeah. But that's how you become a great coach. Yeah. You understand things for what they really are. Yeah. This is what you have to do. And there's no ifans or bots about it. You know, you know, it's funny. We actually, I don't know if you want to tell the story, but sorry, bro.

2:07:57I mean, it's not that big a deal. But like the way we met, I met him at a gun range. So I met him at a gun range. And then I figured it was a good time for me to get into fighting again. So I said, I called him up. I was like, hey, I'm good. I'm good with the gun stuff. But it means nothing. If I can't work my hands, right? So I got him, went to the gym, kind of did the first, you know, show me the lay of the land. And then he got a notification on his phone that his alarm was going off. And like somebody was breaking into his house. And he was like, and we just met. I mean, but he knew who I was in the space that I'm in.

2:08:32And he was like, dude, something's going on. House. I need to figure out what's going on. He's like, he's like going to roll with me. Oh, shit. Yeah. So we hop in the oven is truck. We drive this house and we clear this house. Oh, shit. I don't know if you've done a story and if I did, I'm sorry. But yeah, like we in and then from there, we just became best friends. Like after that, it was like we shooting together. But dude is willing to come clear your house with you. I mean, that's a right or die right there. I mean, that is the scariest situation ever. You don't know what's in your house. You go any room could be filled with a guy with a gun.

2:09:07Yep. You literally don't know. You literally don't know. Was it the smartest thing to probably do? No, but I think it was one of those situations you don't think you just go. Yeah, you just go. And I've done it in my house before where like I've got home and this is a little on a lower end of intensity. But you know, sometimes that garage door is cracked open when you get back and you like, what the fuck? And you're like, I know I close that door. And then it's like, all right, let's figure this out. You know, now I'm clearing my house. The reality of crime and the reality of violence is something that you can't just fucking bury your head in the sand about.

2:09:40It doesn't mean you have to be a violent person or a terrible person. And you're clearly not. You're a very nice guy. But you you're very well trained. You know what to do with weapons. Yeah. And that will, if the shit hits the fan one day, that will serve you well. Yeah. And I mean, and God forbid that ever happened. I pray. I pray. Look, I care gun every single day as long as I can legally praying that you never have to use it. If I ever have to do, if I ever have to use my gun and self defense, I'm going to have to get therapy. Yes. Period. Right. Probably. But that's just it. I don't want to have to.

2:10:17Exactly. But I I much more don't want to find myself in the situation where I have to, but I can't do anything about it because I don't have the thing I know you can't protect someone you love, which is even more even worse. Or you watch something happen. There's nothing you could do about it. Like bro, kind of unrelated. But did you see this fucking thing that happened in California where this woman stabbed her boyfriend 108 times and they let her go with community service. They said that she was psychotic from smoking marijuana, which is how smoke. By the way, I haven't smoked in a long time.

2:10:55I ain't never thought about stabbing one person ever. Forget about someone that you're in a relationship with 108 times. And that's the judge said that the defense was that she had a psychotic break from I think it was one hit. So I had a bad panic attack from one hit. Yeah, you can have a panic attack, but it was strong, especially if not a regular smoke. No, I wasn't. Was it a bong hit or a joint? It was a joint. What it was was was it was my first time actually inhaling. You went Bill Clinton the way before? No seriously. And I just all I remember I couldn't stop coughing. Not realizing each cough is just sitting more to your team to my system.

2:11:37Yeah. And that was the real like that was me really smoking for the first time. And let's just say all I remember I'm sitting on a couch having a massive panic attack watching Eddie Murphy raw. In how I knew I was fucked up was I've watched Rob multiple times and never have I not laughed my ass off. And I remember sitting there watching and I was like, this is not funny. This is not like, oh, do something. What you do? You just freaking out. Yeah, you can freak out, man. Yeah. So this is the story. I mean, it's just said that this was neuropostage. It was just really strong weed. What ever? Whatever one hit.

2:12:19She stabbed her boyfriend 108 times. I don't care if she took 18 bong hits and herself and the dog. What? Well, maybe there's something wrong with her and she shouldn't get fucking community service. That's insane. And then herself. She stabbed her dog and then repeated stabbed herself repeatedly after deputies were called to their apartment. Okay, after the being first of all, when people kill people, they often kill themselves. This happens to men who kill their girlfriends or their ex -girlfriends. They oftentimes they'll shoot themselves. It happens all the time. She found out he was cheating.

2:12:50Well, whatever it was, the whole thing is she received just two years of probation, a hundred hours of community service, and no prison time. I would believe that more if it was alcohol. Even alcohol doesn't make any. That's what I'm saying. It would have to be like crystal meth mixed with tea, with plus angel dust. Yeah, the lawyers were asked to describe the difference in her case and a fatal drunk and driving crash was Goldstein chalked up to awareness. Noting that, I don't know what her, how you say her name, whatever last name is did not know she was what she was getting herself into as Amelia provided the pot but did not show her the warning on the label.

2:13:29What? As far as the DUI is concerned, that person knowingly and consciously drinks to excess and decides to get behind the wheel of a car and misses whatever name is case, she took a hit of what she believed to be a legal consumer product in the sanctity of Mr. O'Malley as home as they sat on his couch with no plans to go drive home later that evening. She stabbed herself 43 times in the neck. Oh my God. Well, that's the marks on her neck. Don't really try that hard. Well, listen, people try to kill themselves after they kill somebody. Look, if you're lying there and your boyfriend has got a hundred eight stab wounds and you're like, oh my God, my life is over.

2:14:11I'm going to jail for the rest of my life. But why the dog? Because she's fucking just an angry lady. I mean, why did she just had a psychotic break? And I don't think it was the week. Who knows? I think she found out something she didn't now want to find out. It could be snapped. But it might not be that. I mean, she might be fucking legitimately crazy. But either way, two hours or 100 hours of community service in two years of probation is fucking nuts. She just killed somebody. Imagine the rules reversed. Imagine it as a man who stabbed his wife 100 or his girlfriend 108 times. He'd be under the jail.

2:14:43He'd be under the jail death sentence. Experts for both the defense and the prosecution concluded the pot she smoked caused her to slip into a psychotic state. Now, here's the story. You can have psychotic breaks from marijuana. It is possible. It's possible to have schizophrenia breaks from marijuana. It's well documented with certain people that have appropriation. Yes. So, but either way, nobody just making me say marijuana is not a violent drug. It's not the kind of drug that makes you want to hurt somebody. I keep my mouth. This is coming from somebody who does not like marijuana. Yeah. At all.

2:15:23I don't believe that. It sounds in sound. I don't believe this. It sounds insane. Yeah. There's probably a lot more to that story. Yeah. Very, very, very, very much so. She stabbed herself in a net way. Jesus Christ. That's crazy. You just used a stun gun on her four times and another deputy hit her with the metal baton multiple times before knocking the knife out of her hand. Whilst she was stabbing herself or him. I guess herself. I've just didn't say who she was. She might have started stabbing herself when the cops showed up too. Like who knows? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, the whole thing is nuts.

2:15:55I mean, but then again, I've seen, like, I watch the video on the way up here. Well, on the way up here. I didn't watch it. I was listening to it. Well, I was driving on the way up here. And like, it was just a girl. I guess she was drunk or something in the cops were trying to rest her. She completely lost it. I mean, screaming at the top of her lungs, like, I mean, complete psychotic breakdown. Yeah. Just to avoid accountability of the fact that she was driving drunk. So I mean, it's there's some people that are out of their fucking minds, but I just don't think two years of probation is enough.

2:16:28No, I mean, I think that's insane. I think that goes without saying. It sounds so insane that the judge said that. Yeah. But I want to see the judge. I want to talk to the judge. Oh, hold on to there. We're only dating for three weeks. Oh my god. So even if you cheated on her, what the fuck? Yeah, that wouldn't mean. That wouldn't make sense. That wouldn't make each other for about three weeks. Wow. She worked as an audiologist. What is that? Oh, sounds. And the dude was an accountant. Maybe she stabbed him because he was boring. The horrible tragedy all the rounds were said, the tragedy for the victim is family.

2:17:00It's a tragedy for my client and her family. Yeah. Well, it's certainly a tragedy. That's no, but high potency marijuana should put you in the place where you're terrified of everything. You just want exactly not that you have the ability to grab a knife and stab a guy a hundred and eight times. That sounds nuts. That sounds so nuts. And it said in September, they'd got the murder charge dropped to involuntary manslaughter after it was determined. She lost her cognitive abilities because she was in a throes of psychosis. Yeah. Maybe. But I mean, I just don't think that absolves you of responsibility.

2:17:39You know, the thing about it is, there's no way to know what was going on in her head, which is the thing like, you know, a friend of mine sent me a video, Tim Dylan sent me this video of these schizophrenics in downtown LA. It's so crazy. So many of them. And these, all these different people are walking on street, just screaming at people who aren't there and just yelling into the sky. I had my old place in Dallas. I had a guy called him Richie. I don't really know his name. I just called him that because he likes to stand outside my door and just have loud conversations with himself. And he would do it.

2:18:13It wasn't like like all the time. It'd be like once every like three or four months. And he would just be standing. I don't know why he picked my door to do it. I don't know. I never engage with the murder active with them. I would just hear him. I don't open window like there goes Richie. But yeah, the mind is so weird. It is. You know, it's like just the fact that a human being forget about under the state of marijuana, PCP, whatever. Just the fact that there's something if you've never stabbed any before, anyone before something that someone can give you that makes you that can motivate you to do that.

2:18:43We've never done that before. You never stabbed anybody. And then also you stabbed some guy you've been dating 108 times. The mind is just so weird. Yeah. You know, we were talking today earlier while we're at the range about Instagram and about the shit you see on Instagram these days. And then we were talking about how we were kids. Faces of death was the wildest thing we'd ever seen. And it was nothing compared to what you see on Instagram. Nothing. Nothing. You can go on Instagram and see 1150. I'm about to get in my soapbox, right? Yeah. You can go Instagram and watch 1150 million people get stabbed, shot, killed, thrown off buildings, and it'll show up on your Explorer page.

2:19:22Right. I post a picture of a gun. I'm throttle. I don't show up on a Explorer page. There's no gun on my Explorer page. It's the level of... It's not even... I don't even call it shadow banding anymore. They tell you they're doing it. Like I can't post... I even not post guns. This is a responsible way to handle a firearm. Throttled. Throttled. Like it's insane. Instagram is doing to the gun community is monumentally insane. So you know what the fuck the part about it is? Because of the way they are about that, the only representation of firearms that you're gonna get exposed to generally speaking if you're not already following them are the negative representations of firearms or the unsafe way to handle a firearm.

2:20:06Because those are making it. But the shit that we post, the responsible shit, that doesn't. Bro, how many videos have you seen of dudes in like traditional Arab attire shooting the guns off there and then there's so many views. So many views. You see way more of those in there. That is dancing. Bang! Dude gets it in the head. You want to know how I see so many of those. You want to know how I learned gun safety when I got in the guns? Sure. Fucking YouTube. Because there were so many examples of people when I started when I got into guns and I got into gun community, there were so many people who were iterating over it over and over again.

2:20:45Check your gun. Make sure it's clear. Never pointed at something not willing to destroy. Guns are always loaded at all times. No matter what. It became ingrained in my brain. Like they almost shamed you into gun safety. Well one of the things today was a very good representation of that. Everyone today had responsible gun safety habits. Everyone today. Everyone was pointing the gun at the ground. Everyone's clearing the gun. No one ever pointed a gun in the direction of someone. People were constantly checking. Even after they cleared the gun. They were literally probably 25 guns out there. Yeah.

2:21:22And magazines all over the place. All over the place. But like I said, but it's establishing that safety dynamic. Yeah. And they talk about a man getting on my soapbox. They talk about the other side talks about this idea of gun safety, firearm safety. And the way they go about doing it is by blocking off all the people who are teaching the safe way to handle a firearm. I don't understand this. If you want to have a population of 400 million guns in this country, the guns aren't going anywhere. So if you want to minimize the number of kids who accidentally shoot themselves, if you want to minimize the number of adults who handle firearms incorrectly enough accidentally shooting someone, what you need to do is allow the information of how to safely handle a firearm.

2:22:05Be spread to the public so that they understand it. It works because that's how I learned it. No one came to me and said, this is the safe way to do it. I went online. I was learning about firearms and I learned from the people who are handling them responsibly, how to responsibly handle a firearm. And as a result, I started creating videos and I started teaching people how to responsibly handle firearms. And then those people who start making their own videos and teaching people how to responsibly handle firearms. But instead, what we're getting with the dynamic of social media nowadays is they are trying to shut down all the people who are demonstrating how to handle a firearm responsibly or even just talking about the law aspect of it.

2:22:44So do you want people running around out there who don't understand the legal aspect of owning a firearm or how when you actually decide to carry a firearm, when is a good time not to shoot, when is a good time to shoot? No, instead they shadow band and block all of our content and only leave the negative representation out there and then wonder why all of these accidental shootings continue to happen. And the negative ones find their way into my feed all the time from people that I don't follow. Exactly. So they must know what like there's that we were talking about today about that thing that you click on that says do you still want to watch this?

2:23:21This could be disturbed. So they know they know they know. I watched the guy get cut in half by a train today. They're fucking around on the train station. The guy pushes his friend and the train comes and his friend goes in between the train and the crack and gets ripped apart. The guys grab his arms, they pull them and it's just guts out of a torso and everyone's screaming. It's horrible and it just showed up. I see it all time. So if they have that warning, they must know what that is. Does TikTok, I don't mean not on TikTok. They banned me. But does they banned you? Just for showing guns. Wow.

2:23:58Just for showing guns. Does TikTok show violence? Do they have that kind of violence? I don't know honestly because you're bad. Because I was in the fucked up thing about it is is this like when I started to TikTok page and you remember TikTok is a younger audience. So what's it's skewed towards? It's skewed to teens. Yeah. So but the thing about it is is I can go on TikTok and watch girls engaged in and suggestive and suggestive sexual behavior all day long on TikTok. Right. Right. And I'm like, but anything with a firearm regardless whether it's safe or not. They mean they just banned me. There's flat out.

2:24:44And I'm like, what did I do exactly here? Is there any, is that anyone on TikTok that shows firearms? Is it everyone gets banned? I'm assuming so I don't know because I can't really, I can't, I can't peruse it and figure out what else is on there because even when I try to, I try to, what to call it, I try to appeal this decision and it just reaffirmed it. And so it's one of those things it's very frustrating. The funny thing is it's like X, which I know you don't like it, you can call there, but you know, X don't have that problem. They don't believe they let porn. Yeah. Yeah. There's that. Yeah.

2:25:21That's the wow. West over there. Between freedom of speech. I mean, listen, I'm not against it. You do whatever you want. I like the internet. I like the actual internet. Like people being able to show what they're interested in. As long as you're not victimizing someone, as long as you're not doxing people, threatening, all that stuff. But other than the things that are illegal and should be, you should be able to show whatever the fuck you want. If there's an active gun to me, and especially someone like you that promotes responsible gun use and shows people how to handle things correctly. They do not allow the trade of firearms or explosive weapons or content showing or promoting them if they're not used in a safe or appropriate setting.

2:26:07What does that mean? TikTok can be a place that educates people on the responsible use and ownership of weapons. No, they don't. That's not true. Nope. That's not true. Everything you do is responsible. I've seen 50 of your fucking videos. I've never seen one irresponsible video. Firearms and explosive weapons can cause severe injury or death, especially when using an unsafe manner. Exactly. But what you were saying is so important to hear that if you don't see the responsible use of it from someone who knows how to do it and also knows how to teach people that. How is that message going to get out there?

2:26:39That's how people learn how to use them correctly. Exactly. But here we are. There we are. You know irony is at least, like YouTube has its problems, but they're getting better. They're getting better with it. At least YouTube will guide you. Okay, this is what we're okay with and this is what we're not okay with. And then even if they get it wrong, they'll fix it. So does YouTube demonetize any of your videos? Yeah, all the time. All the time. Now I can appeal it, right? And submit it for a manual review. And then sometimes I have two videos right now that are under manual review. And sometimes they're like, yeah, sometimes they're like, no.

2:27:15And what is their objection to what's in those videos? It's all over the place, honestly. It can be like, display of extreme violence, right? So like I do, I have a series called defensive gun use where I talk about stories where people who can still carry use guns to defend their lives, right? Because one of the narratives from the other side is that not that many people use guns and self -defense when we all know that's absolutely not true. So what I've started doing was aggregating a lot of those stories and talking about them. And in whatever whatever context or angle I have to talk about whatever aspect, like for instance, there was a guy at the gas station recently who who shot the robber who robbed another guy at gunpoint, right?

2:27:55And so when I talk about it from that standpoint, that, you know, with Texas, Texas, you can shoot some, you can, you can defend a third party's property with lethal force under certain contexts, right? And so I go and explain those contexts. The point of me doing that and then in the same video, I said, but be careful not only in the defense of third party's property, but also in defending third parties, make sure if you're going to do something like that, you understand, you truly understand the context of what's happening because you may think somebody is the aggressor when in reality, they're the victim, right?

2:28:27So you're going to do that. You need to be absolutely positive. Right. You know who the aggressor is. You stumble upon someone who's beaten someone's ass. Exactly. That person might have attacked that person. Exactly. And the person might know how to fight and then they've got the guy on the ground. They're pounding on them and then you shoot them. Shoot them. Exactly. And a lot of people don't think about those things. Now because they're stupid, but because they just may be new to carrying a firearm and they don't understand that that could be a context that they find themselves in. Well, that's context of arguments too, but you can stumble into an argument in the middle of someone screaming at someone you like, hey man, fuck you, but you don't know what happened before that.

2:29:01You don't. And so, but but for us being able to have those type of conversations and a safe place like online beforehand, now when somebody who watches a video like that, they can look, they can watch the video and then they go out and they go, oh, I remember when so and so did a video on this. Okay, maybe before they may have jumped the gun, had they not watched that video, but watching a video, they took an extra step to say, okay, and assess the situation for what it is. And then realize, oh, I read that wrong. Or I had another, I had a follower of mine. He actually, he, I had him on my, I had him on my podcast, my virtual podcast that I do for the gun side of things.

2:29:38And he told me I saved his life. My video saved his life. And he said the reason why my video saved his life is because he, for the longest time, he didn't carry with a round in the chamber. And a lot of people I know don't carry around the chamber. A lot of my friends don't carry with a round in the chamber. And I started off carrying gun without carrying a round in the chamber because I felt unsafe doing it. And I understand that dynamic because it's, it's a, it's a load of gun that you're putting in like God forbid you carry appendix like I do. It's pointing out your dick, right? But I express that, look, if you're not going to carry with a round in the chamber, at least understand the limitations that come with it, because there are some limitations that come with it.

2:30:21You're not going to be able to get your gun as fast if a situation happens quickly. So you need to understand it. So that, what does that mean? That means that when you're out and about, you need to be more situationally aware, probably a little bit more so than say someone like me, because I can get to my gun in under a second. It might take you two or three. So it's talking through those type of dynamics. And so after he watched the video, he, he, he kind of did an experiment that I said, I said, carry without a round in the chamber for a period of time and then see how often that gun is accidentally engaged.

2:30:50And you'll start to realize that as long as you have a couple of things, you'll be fine. A good holster and a good belt. If you carry in that manner, you like to carry in your fanny pack. That's a different story. But, but like, for instance, like not always. Yeah, okay. Exactly. So, so like, and and then with how dynamic life is, right? There's so many different ways to carry, right? But not a lot of, a lot of people know how to do this. So for instance, like, I mean, I'm in sweats a lot of time, right? So I've over the, to my experiences, because I have access to so many different guns and so many different holsters, I'm able to experiment.

2:31:24So I'm like, okay, I'm in sweats a lot. I mean, joggers a lot. What can I do to carry a firearm in a relatively secure way safely and not have to worry about it flopping around, for instance, right? So like, for instance, like these joggers I'm wearing now from Arrowhead Tactical, right? That's what's going to bring up. Yeah. That company. Yeah. Yeah. They make, they make joggers specifically for concealed cameras. Yeah. So I have some of those. Exactly. I love them. Like I'm trying to, I'm trying not to lose shit now. And you wouldn't know about that. Otherwise, I know people who carry in sweats and they just stick the gun in there.

2:31:57Right. And they don't know any better. Right. Right. So it's that type of information that our videos are providing. But that's the same thing. How did save that dude's life? Gotcha. So as far as saving his life, what he said was after he watched a video, he started carrying with a roundering chamber. And I can't remember if he said a couple of weeks ago, a couple of weeks later, he's a jeweler. And so as a jeweler, he was, he was selling some jewelry to someone. And then it was actually a setup. And the guys were coming, they were trying to rob him. So the guys came to rob him. And because he had a round in the chamber, another guy did it.

2:32:29When he was getting ready to pull out, when he was pulling out his gun, his gun was already pulled. And he had a round in the table. So he was able to shoot the guy, neutralize him and get gone. Wow. Yeah. And so I did. I mean, I had him on my, he does a better job of explaining the guy. That's a split second difference. I mean, exactly. And boom. Exactly. It's in fractions of a second is what matters in some aspects of your jewelry, Jesus Christ. Yeah. Yeah. And so, you know, he was like, your video saved my life. Now, I'm not going to take the credit for that. I mean, I just, oh, you did, you made the decision yourself that you felt comfortable with.

2:33:00And that's what you did. But the information he had to get to that point is what was important. What do you know about the reality of accidental discharge with the P320? So here's, here's my understanding of the P320. Because I've heard different things, right? Me too. Because there's so many stories there are because I, because I carry a sig is in one is in the lineup of my carry rotation of guns. Right. So I clearly one, the P365. Okay. Smaller one. No, actually, the P3. Yeah, the P3 macro, the macro, the macro, your hand move more round. Yes. So I carry, I still carry that one. It's a great gun.

2:33:43Yeah. Love it. It's so small. It's so small, but so big. Yeah. It's like, it's a nine millimeter. And it has all those rounds. Yep. Yeah. I'm big on capacity. Yeah. That's me. I'm a capacity war. Um, you carry it with a dot. Uh, that one. No. All my, uh, so slim. Yeah. Because I carry that. I carry that one. I carry the Springfield Hill cat Pro. That has a red dot on it. Um, and then of course, yeah. And then I carry the CS the 365 is literally smaller than my hand. Yeah. But yet has 17 rounds. Yeah. It's crazy. It's crazy. You want to put it in my hand. It's smaller than my hands. Yeah. It's nuts.

2:34:18So that, I call that my flight gun. I have guns for everything. So I have my, like my, um, my, my bolt tech case that I have for flying. You know, when you fly with a gun, you have to have a, a TSA approved case. So that stays in that box. It stays in it. So anytime I travel, because I travel a lot, I already have it there. It's already set up where I need to go. Throw it in my suitcase. And I'm good to go. So that's why I keep that's the macro is designated for that good. And then, um, my go twos are the CS from Chicago or the Springfield Hill cat pro. But the, the three 20, does it have the same firing pin set up as a 365?

2:34:55I don't think so. Right. I'm on positive. It doesn't. So now they changed it too. They changed, they changed it on the three 20s after whatever those incidents that they said happened recently. Um, it was some time ago. Actually, it was some time ago. Now, I hear, I hear different stories because for every story you hear about the gun going off, there's another story about the person who's claiming it went off actually caused it to go off because they did something inappropriate. Like when they were holstering it, they had a floppy holster and they got into the one story I hear. Uh, there is a story of it dropping, landing a specific way and then gun going off.

2:35:36That's when I think that, when that first happened, I think that's when they made the change to the three 20s. One of America's favorite handgums allegedly firing on its owners six hours P three 20 pistols wounded more than 80 people. Again, again, they didn't pull the trigger. But who are those people? Right. Well, one of them I watched. There's a video on cop. Yeah. The cop is in the precinct and he's bending over and it goes off. So I read into that. Please. And I think, and I remember reading, I can't get it confirmed, but I remember reading something to the fact of he had because one of the things with with carrying a fire on when you coming in and out of a holster, you need to make sure there's nothing impeding the entry of that gun into the holster because what can happen is your shirt can get caught in the trigger.

2:36:20Right. And when you're putting it in your, when you're putting it in the holster, it creates enough pressure to have the gun go off. It can happen just like that. That's why anytime I go to reholster, I remove my shirt all the way and I pull it out, I pull my holster out and I make I watch every second of that gun going into the holster. I'm never in the rush to put my gun in the holster. There's no point. Right. Because if you put in the gun up, that means there's no more threat. Right. So I'm looking, I'm looking, I'm looking, I'm looking, I'm making sure everything is clear. Sometimes I go so far as to take the holster out, put the gun in, then put the holster back on because I'm not, because like I said, I'm not in the rush off in the holster.

2:36:55It was a duty holster. So it was outside and so it didn't shoot him. It shot the ground next to him. You could still, I'm not saying this would happen, but you could still have fabric that gets caught in the outside of waistband holster as well. But didn't seem like that was the case. Say like, again, I only read, I read into a little bit and that was a theory that somebody had posed or someone saying that that's what happened. I couldn't confirm whether or not that's true or not. But I don't, they also do things to triggers. They put different triggers on it. You can do these things. If you modify your trigger, you can definitely modify it so too far where you can cause the gun not necessarily to go off on its own.

2:37:34Some guys like very light triggers. Yeah, but that would just cause the gun to be accidentally automatic. Well, right, right? Yeah. And that's very legal. So from that perspective, but I don't see but for something getting caught in that trigger guard, this is just me being a gun guy and understanding holsters and how they function. So there's a couple of things I can take place here. Either that holster is not the right holster for that gun because the holsters are specific through the gun, generally speaking, or some piece of material clothing that caught in there that he wasn't aware of. I just, my mind doesn't know how I can justify or explain how the gun just goes off.

2:38:15There was also a physical movement that the guy did. Like he bent forward. Okay. Yeah. I remember I remember seeing that video when he been for it. And that's what makes me think there may have been a piece of material in the actual holster or a janky holster or some possibly something funky. I remember because I remember raking my brain and I'm like, how could that what could cause it just to go off on its own? Right. Because it's not even like the movement he engaged in was like aggressive enough to cause the gun to just jolt and go. Like for instance, like if the dropped, like I just can't see how that could be the case.

2:38:50And all of my years of carrying firearms and I'm pushing 15, 15 years now, I just, I don't see it. I don't. Dropping it. If it's robbed, then I can see that. But what's crazy is it's one gun. That's a good point. Now that gun is also using a lot of police department. Right, but you don't hear about it from clocks. No. Right. It's weird. That's true. That's very true. Yeah. Yeah. It's well, well, well, I've never heard of it. I have accidental discharge without touching the trigger. Yeah. Was anybody doing anything weird with the gun? Because the clock is a two -stage, too. Yeah. And so it's those are p 320.

2:39:32Right. Um, so the weird thing about accidental discharges, they're not accidental or negligent. Because generally speaking, because I've heard gun, I've heard, I've heard cops say the gun just went off. No, you pulled the trigger. You didn't realize you pulled the trigger, but you did. Oh, you mean in a fight or flight situation, even just normally because you got to think about it. If you take, I've done this test before and men, women, it doesn't matter. You get a gun to somebody who's never actually handled a gun. What's the first thing they do? If I just hand them a gun. Exactly. Yeah. It's a very natural instinctive thing to do.

2:40:09It's not, it's very unnatural to keep your finger, trigger finger off of the gun. Right. Your brain's not wired to do that. It's like, this is the thing that makes a gun go. Put your finger there. Yeah. Right. Um, and so a lot of, I'm like I say, I hesitate to say it's because I don't have hard data. I just have anecdotal data. But a lot of cops aren't necessarily gun people. A lot of them never shoot their guns outside of the qualification. So outside of that, I can see situations where a lot of cops think the gun went off on their own, but they just have bad manipulation skills over firearm because they haven't ingrained it into their stuff.

2:40:49You give me a toy gun immediately. My index finger is going on the side. It's not touching that trigger. You give me a staple gun because I've ingrained it. It's something I've ingrained because I handle firearms so often. Yeah. And a lot of cops don't handle firearms as much as people give them credit for. Right. Yeah. Because they're not all gun guys. That's the scary thing, right? Yeah. If guys are on the job and they don't train. Yeah. I've heard, I've known cops that don't like guns. They only care it because they have to further job. Okay. All right. But then the person like the person who taught me initially how to shoot, he was a cop, but he's a gun guy.

2:41:24Right. You get what I'm saying? Yeah. So big difference. Yeah. If he told me the gun went off, I'd believe him. Right. Right. But I have a hard time believing in like to answer your question with clocks. Yeah. I've heard cops say, oh, the gun just went off and I was like, no, it didn't. You put your finger on the trigger. But there's way less. And there's also there's not like P226s. Yeah. It's very specific to the 320s, which I agree with you. I have two or three of them. Three 20s. No one. Yeah. I got from Dave mods. It's nice. Yeah. I love it. Every time I touch them, now I've never I've I've I have four actually about four of them.

2:42:09And I've never had issues, but I'll be honest and say that's not saying that's not saying a lot because I don't shoot them off then. Right. So me saying I have had issues doesn't really give much credence to anything. But I I'm more inclined. Like you make you bring up an excellent point that it's so specific to a specific model. And they did a change. Yes. That's also very specific from a drop standpoint. Right. But there was something going on with the way it cops. Yeah. Um, I'm trying to remember what it was. Has it caused accidental fatalities? Not that I'm aware of. I thought I'm aware of, but I'm trying to think.

2:42:54Most people that I talked to you, I should say this for six steak for six for the sake of the company. Most people that I've talked to are very skeptical. I mean, you can you can hear it in my voice. Yeah. And everybody I talked to. Yeah. Jack, car, all the three of the fans of six. You do make because I'm a massive fan of sick. The make great gun. You bring you bring a great point though. The fact that it's exclusive to that. To one. Yeah. It's interesting. Um, that said, I don't know. I'm still skeptical enough that I would still I'd still carry it the way. Right. And it's also a thing where it's like if it really was happening, how was it only 80 people?

2:43:36Right. How many three 20s are out there in active duty just with cops? How many three 20s do people have for home defense? That's what makes me think. How many people carry three 20s? It's a common gun to carry, but that's what makes me think. And if you if I promise you, if you look into those numbers, the vast majority of those 80 are cops. I'm almost positive. The vast majority of them are going to be cops. Well, and then I look at it the same way the way you look at guns the same way I look at martial arts with cops. There is nothing that drives me more fucking crazy than cops that don't know how to defend themselves and have zero knowledge of grappling and get into exchange with someone and then they're on their back and they don't know what to do.

2:44:14Like, how did you sign up for this without a rudimentary understanding at least of grappling? You don't know what the fuck to do. How you're engaging with someone physically and you don't know how to control it. Are you hoping they listen? If I was a cop, I'd be in it. Like my friend had told me how to shoot. He's a fighter. He fights. Yeah. I mean, that's got to be part of the job, man. You know, that's one of the things that Andrew Yang proposed. We know he was talking when he was running for president. He was like, I think that all cops should be at least purple belt level of Jiu -Jitsu. I'm like, preach, preach, but realistically.

2:44:51Right. You know what I'm saying? Purple belt. That's a long fucking road, Jack. That's a long road, Jack. We can barely give enough cops now as it is. Just to not be fat. Right? How many cops is here? Just morbidly. I think it's insanity. It's insanity. Like literally part of your tools for your job is for you to be able to use your body to defend yourself and others and to be able to detain someone. And you can't do it. Couldn't be me. I would be in just, I just, because I'm like, like in any moment, you can begin shot at, bro. Yes. In any moment or someone you're going to have to take your gun from you.

2:45:27Yeah. You know, I mean, if your gun is in your holster, and your hands are on me, and you don't know how to fight, you're never getting to that gun. You're not going to get to that gun. How are you going to get to that gun? You don't have a chance of hell. I'm going to overhook that right arm, and that's a wrap. That's a wrap. Now you're helpless. And I learned that the first day I started doing this. Especially if you weren't to close. You weren't close and someone has a good overhook and they fucking cinched that bitch down. You ain't going nowhere. You're going nowhere. And then you get tripped.

2:46:03And now you're on your back. And then some guy rotates so he can grab your gun. You can't even grab it. You better have a retention level 10 on that motherfucker. And you better, yeah, yeah. That's an interesting thing, right? The retention holsters where people have holsters that are, there's a very specific way to get it out. Yeah. That scares me in a high pressure situation. Yeah. I mean, it's one of the things you can train to because the same thing can be said about 1911 because they have a safety. Right. But doesn't your thumb always go on there? Yeah. So that's the thing about 1911. So safety's on like polymer style guns aren't necessarily the same as the ones.

2:46:39Yeah. Because they're a lot smaller. They're not very intuitive. Yeah. Yeah. But with the 1911 Germans speaking, if I were to draw the gun right now, naturally, it's just already on it. So it's going to draw. Yeah. Whereas with polymer guns, you're kind of fishing for it. Like, where's this thing? Oh, there was. Yeah. Right. But yeah, it's, it's, man, I

2:47:03trying to think, because I remember I had a barretta. I was doing a shooting course training house. And one of the scenarios was I was supposed to clear this house and they gave me a barretta and I had a safety on it. And I remember going to clear it through the house and then it was a, a blue gun. It functioned like a gun, but it didn't shoot bullets. And guy popped around a corner. I was like, Oh, pull the gun. Gun wouldn't go off. I got to take safety off. Yeah. So that's a training. Exactly. So the same thing with the retention holster. It's like, you want to train. How does a retention holster work?

2:47:37So they're, so there are different levels. Right. So there's like one, two, three, four, level four, level one, level two, level three, level four. Right. So like the, the lowest amount is just you have a gun in a holster. Right. And then you literally turn it upside down and it'll fall out. Then you have the kind of like the kitex holsters where you put it in and you hit that click that kind of like click. So all you need is just a good tug and it comes out. Then you have other ones where when you come down on the holster, there's a button because there's like a little, there's like a little, like a little thing that goes over the back end of the gun.

2:48:08So even if you pull it out, it's not coming out. And so when you come down on the holster, you push the button and it flips out of the way so that you could pull the gun out. And then I think there's another level that's even more than that. It's like there's a, there's like a little ring on it and there's like a hood. Then you got to remove that and they're, they're designed where if you, if the gun's on you, it's one motion. But if it's a gun that's not on you, you're like, you're going to be in such an angle. You're going to have a hard time getting to that button to that thing to be able to get the gun out.

2:48:41Right. And so, and like I said, they start at like level one all the way up to like level four. Then anybody can get them. You can go to a store and get them. But it's so like if I carried open, like if I open carried, I don't open carry generally. I don't actually really open carry at all. I use the, don't tell my very open carry just like when I'm like out like in like the country or something like that or like rural, like some rural environment. But generally speaking, if I were to open carry, I would have at least like a level three level four retention holster. Because I've seen too many videos.

2:49:15I've done too many videos on people who are like in a gas station and they're open carrying. And then somebody comes up behind them, grabs a gun and runs. Oh, yeah. You know what I'm saying? I saw a guy at a convenience store in a video. We got it in his lower back. Yeah. I got to snatch his guns running out the door. Yep. Yep. And that, but that can't even chase him. We're going to do. We're going to do. Give me back my gun. Unless you don't want to your ankle, too. Exactly. And you know, and it's one of those things. And that's a hotly contested debate in the gun space. Should you or should you not open carry?

2:49:47What are the benefits and what are the drawbacks? Because there are some, the one mindset says, if you open carry, you're going to be the first target for a criminal. But then another person comes up and says, if you open carry, you're going to be the last target. Because criminals are like, I want to, I want a weak target. I don't want somebody who already has a gun. I see as a gun. I'm going to find somebody else. Especially if they have situation over there. Exactly. And that, that, that is, and it's so easy to say because situation awareness can get you out of a lot of shit where you never even have to go to your It really can.

2:50:21Like, you know, like, I had a situation where I was followed or dudes are trying to rob me. What are you talking about? Yeah. And only I really believe if not for my situation awareness, I call it paranoia. Sometimes paranoia will help. I don't, I don't, I do not discount my paranoia. I accept it full. I accept it full because when I'm right, it's my best friend. Well, it's also crime is reality. Yeah. And the idea that you won't come across crime because you're a good person. Yep. That's nuts. You zig when you should exact and you're around the wrong people. Because if I didn't pick them up, they would have caught me slipping because I would have been Yeah, been a rap.

2:50:59And it would have been nothing I can do about it. I could have, I could have 15 guns on me when the right, when I'm at it at all. The thing that sucks though is in the moment for someone like me and just goes to show you, and this is pretty pervasive in all the guys in the gun community. In that moment when they were chasing me, the whole time I'm thinking through, not only I want to get out of this situation alive, I'm literally thinking, what are the legal ramifications for every action I might engage in? Right. Right. And so because I know the standard of responsibility for me is exceedingly higher.

2:51:35Right. Because one I'm a known gun guy. But purely just me having a concealed carry, my burden of responsibility is 10 times higher, even that of the criminal. Right. Because you're should have known you're a concealed carrier. Right. So there's so many things that like when you when you are a concealed carrier or someone who just carries a gun, you are already behind a ball. All a criminal has to do is wake up and decide I'm going to go engage in some criminal shit. I'm going to find somebody going to attack him. They know exactly what they're going to do. They know exactly what they're going to bring.

2:52:06I'm just living my life and I have to react to this. So not only do I have to react to the fact that somebody made you try to rob me, I have to react to I have to be thinking about what did at what point can I what might be justified and even using my fire arm to protect myself. Right. Because in that time when I was in the car and they were following the chasing car, yeah, technically they were chasing me, but I couldn't stick my gun out the window and start shooting. Right. Because they hadn't technically broke a law yet. They haven't done anything to justify me. They could have just been chasing me just to have fun.

2:52:38Right. I don't know. And so I have to think about those things as a legal responsible gun owner. Criminals don't. Right. So it always pisses me off that these politicians make laws that make it even harder for legal gun owners to exercise that right. Like these laws don't do anything but make it harder for us because we obey laws. Like what law specifically? Like just even the process of acquiring a firearm. Like why are you first of all like in California? Why would you limit my round count to 10 rounds? Yeah. Like you're making that harder for me. If I'm being chased in the view, I don't know how many people are in that car.

2:53:13Generally speaking when people when criminals are engaging in criminal activities, not by themselves. Right. It's multiple. I'm larger going to be by myself dealing with multiple people. And what is the logic to limiting round capacities? It's purely purely based on mass shootings. They figure the less rounds you have in a gun, the less people die. That's what they think because they see every because every mass shooter that they see, they say, all they had this 30 round magazine, which is a standard capacity for a lot of these guns. It's because they had so many bullets that they were able to kill so many people.

2:53:44That's not true. Generally speaking, when you have a high body count in a mass shooting, it is the contents, like context in a circumstance of the shooting that caused it. Well, wasn't the Virginia tech one of the most horrific mass shootings and the guy had 36 people. He killed 36 people with pistols right. And then they'll go on. He can't reloading. Yeah. That's all he did. But the thing is, what made him so deadly with people don't talk about is he chained the doors. He chained them. So he had free reign of that school for who knows how long it's all those people can do is hide in corners. And he literally walked in classrooms, just start picking people off.

2:54:21Where are they going to go? Right. Right. He's the only one with guns. He just starts shooting people one by one, one by one. And the cops who were outside trying to get the king in the building because he chained locked the door. So it wasn't the fact that he had a dirty round magazine in his gun. It was the fact that he chained the door and nobody can get in to stop him. Right. Right. And so, and then those were handguns. Yeah. But they talk about, oh, it's these deadly assault rifles and so forth and so on. Did you see those ladies on the view talking about ARs like hunting a deer with an ARs?

2:54:51Yeah. It could be anything left of it. Some people shouldn't just be part of the conversation. But imagine having that conversation and being that ignorant openly and not even understanding that, that uh, 226 is not a, you can barely hunt ethically a deer with a 233 round. Yes. It's 223 or 556. Yeah, it's, they're not big rounds. They're not at all. They're actually really small. Yeah. That's the crazy thing. That's actually really small. Somehow or another, they think you're shooting a cannon. No. It's so dumb. But it's, it's ignorance. Right. And I wouldn't have a problem with it. If they were open to having a conversation honestly.

2:55:28Well, they're just, they're, they're pushing a narrative that is based entirely on ignorance. Yeah. And I, and that, but that's, that's, that's mainstream media for you. Yeah. I've been dealing with it for 10, 10 plus years. That when it comes to the conversation about firearms in this country, that is the mainstream media narrative and it doesn't change. And it's also the idea that you wouldn't hunt with one. Listen, hunting with one, especially in a 308, an AR and a 308, it's a good ethical move because you need to follow up shot sometimes. And you don't have to go, you don't have to reload it.

2:56:02Exactly. Like there's a lot of people in the hunting space that don't like semi automatic weapons for hunting. But I'm more like, why? It's a dumbest thing to me. If you want to, if you want to shoot an animal ethically, having the ability for a follow up shot instantaneously is a benefit to ethics. I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that they grew up with those hunting guns and are not comfortable with semi -automatic because they don't really know about them very much. Yeah. And so they're like, nobody needs that. Well, there's the two groups, right? The Fudge. Yeah, it's Elmer Fudge.

2:56:33Yeah. The Hunters. And then people were gun phenomena. Exactly. And you know, it's, like I said, I wouldn't have a problem with the ignorance if they were willing to have the conversation, right? At least be open to say having someone like me or somebody else from the space to come on. But usually when I have the conversations, they're just, they're just, they're just chicken barking amongst each other and not really getting anywhere. They don't know what they're talking about. And on top of that, they demonize anybody that has a differing perspective and they won't have an actual good faith conversation about it.

2:57:02And if they did, they would find out that they're solely uninformed. Yeah. And they, they're unwilling to accept the narrative that some people do save people's lives with guns. To the tune of 1 .6, 3 million every year, people use a gun in self -defense. Nobody talks about that. Yeah. Nobody. They talk about the, they talk about the 40 ,000 people who die every day for die every year from gun violence. But even when you break those numbers down, yeah. And you see the mass shooting numbers are severely distorted too because people don't understand most of these mass shootings are gang violence.

2:57:35Dude, I did a video where I remember there was a, I forgot to actual shooting. There was a mass shooting, a legit one, a legit mass shooting. It was like a couple weeks ago. And it's about three weeks ago. And they were saying and the report was there have been five mass shootings since 2024. We're only a week into 2000 work. I think we were only five, four days into, to 2024. And they were like, there have already been five mass shootings. So I said, that don't sound right. If there were five mass shootings within five days of 2024, I didn't know about it. So I was like, okay. So it's a scene.

2:58:17It was a scene in an article. So I go and I look at the, at the, at the, at the hyperlink that they used to quote that stat. And it was like gun violence archive or something like that. So I cook it. And so they list the, the five incidents. So I was like, all right. The problem is that they don't expect people to go three, four layers deep into the rabbit hole. Right. They expect that you just see the link there. Oh, that, that, that solidifies it. That I don't even need to look at what the actual incidents were. Right. They're correct. So I click it and I go to the first incident. It was like a drive -by.

2:58:49I go second incident. It was a fight at a party. Next incident. Drive -by. Next incident. New year's eve party LA. Drive -by. No, a dispute between two group of people and then turn out, and it was a shooting, basically street shit. The only one that was actually the mass shooting, like a legit mass shooting was the one that the initial article was about. So basically what they did is they took four of these street violent shootings and then cluster them in and call them mass shootings. Right. And by the way, you're never going to stop street violence until you stop disparage communities. You're never going to stop street violence until, I mean, I've said this so many times, but I'll say it one more time.

2:59:35Think about the money we've sent to Ukraine and imagine if they put that money into cleaning up inner cities and making them safer. And today, to people really think that motherfucking kids who grow up in these environments really want to live like that. Exactly. Like they really want to live their life looking over their shoulder. Exactly. And have been having to worry about who's trying to kill them. What's happened? Do they really think people want to live like that? Come on. It's a convenient narrative. It's a convenient narrative. And it's also like they do nothing to fix those spots. Nothing.

3:00:09Nothing. And who are those places run by? Democrats. And I hate the fact that I even have to say it. So true. But the only reason I say it is because when I look at who's pushing the narrative for gun control, it is always a Democrat. Always, which is fine. Okay. If that's the way the party wants to lean, cool. But what I have a problem with is when the vast majority of gun murders in this country are coming from inner cities that are all ran by Democrats, that's where I have a problem. Because you're pushing legislation and you're pushing policies that do nothing to address the root cause of the issue.

3:00:54You're literally using the horrible conditions in these environments to justify more gun control policies that will do nothing to fix these environments but give you more control over people and put responsible gun owners in danger. Exactly. Or turn us into criminals. Right. Because you're making some convoluted laws. Nobody knows shit. You've not made people call and ask me, I'm going to this, I'm going to this state. I'm going to California. Can I carry this? Can I bring this? Can I do? It's so convoluted and all over the place. Nobody knows how to not break the laws when it comes to guns. So it begs the question, are you trying to create criminals?

3:01:34Right. Because that's what it seems like. Because you're clearly not trying to stop any of it because you have an entire environment over here that has the same consistent problem. It's not like the inner city in like Chicago is so different from like the inner city in like Louisiana. Right. It's the same shit, the same problems. So if we understand that and they're happening in these very specific areas, why the fuck are we still talking about gun control? Why? There are so many people in out and there are so many people who have more guns than food, who live in other places in this country and there aren't they don't have this gun violence problem.

3:02:10They don't. When's the last time you saw a black dude who lived in the suburbs doing drive eyes and a BMW. Right. You don't see it. Right. So we does that tells you there's a totally different issue here that's going on and you're not willing to address it. And if you're not going to address the real issue, shut the fuck up about guns. Because you don't care. And you have a totally different motivation for why you're pushing it. And has nothing to do with actually saving lives. Right. It has to do with the narrative that your ideology accepts openly, which is that guns are the problem. Yep. That's it.

3:02:45And it's a it's a juvent. It's a childish perspective. Exceedingly childish. Yeah. And it's not only childish, it's getting people killed. Because at the end of the day, that violence has to go somewhere. It has to. You can only rob the people in the environment that you're in for so long before you have to start spreading out. So now what's in them happening is you have people who are now forced to confront this type of violence without any means to protect themselves. So your policies are actually hurting people and causing more lives to be taken. So as far as I'm concerned, anything they have to say about the issue and to their willing to talk about the root cause of the issue is bullshit.

3:03:28It could have said better. It's as good as anyone could say. I think it's a good way to wrap this up. Because I think that that narrative is not being discussed openly. And I think it's logical. And I think you're dead right. And I think the root cause of it is he's crime -infested, gang -infested neighborhoods where people don't have hope. And nobody wants to ignore it and just say, oh, well, that's just the culture. It's the environment. Yes, maybe. But there's a reason why that culture started in the first place. Yes. And so until we understand what's driving it, if that's, look, if we're really just like, hey, we just don't give a fuck.

3:04:00Then say that. Then at least we know we can, we're on that level. We understand that. You just don't give a fuck. We can let them kill themselves off. Fuck them. But if your job is really wanting to save lives and really wanting to minimize the amount of gun violence in this country, if you're not willing to have that conversation, honestly, you're full of shit. You're full of shit. Preach. Thank you, brother. Appreciate you being on here. Always. I appreciate your perspective. And I think it's important to get your side of things out there because it's logical. It's educated. You know what the fuck you're talking about and you don't hear it.

3:04:36It's hard to hear. It's unfortunate, but you know, it is what it is. Well, thanks for providing. Thanks for. Appreciate you. Thanks for giving me your platform. Always. Always any time. Thank you. Bye, everybody.