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0083 Sir Gene Speaks with Dude Named Ben

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Sir Gene

This is sir, Gene join me once again is sir dude named Ben, how are you?

Sir Ben

I do not smoke weed. Gene how's Mexico.

Sir Gene

Yeah, it's I know some people think I secretly flew to Russia, but now I'm sitting with the sun and the, the swimming pool and the very warm weather here.

Sir Ben

Yeah. I think there's only one person who thinks you're in Russia.

Sir Gene

Wow. If I'm thinking of the person you're thinking of, he thinks I'm permanently in Russia,

Sir Ben

exactly. So this could be our last episode of sir. Gene speaks together.

Sir Gene

Yeah. Yeah. I'm gonna fire your ass.

Sir Ben

we actually decided on a, a, a name and it sounds like secret agent Paul's working on theme song for us.

Sir Gene

Is he really? Wow. That's

Sir Ben

He, he, he volunteered

Sir Gene

That's great. That's great. I know there's a lot of good musical talent in the no agenda. The social I'm not one of'em. So

Sir Ben

Norm,

Sir Gene

now, if,

Sir Ben

I, I, I play the violin, but it's not, it does not qualify for this. So

Sir Gene

Yeah. No, and I, I, I play keyboard, but you know, mostly accordion.

Sir Ben

yeah. Well, I put a call out there and asking for help and he he piped up, so we'll see what he does.

Sir Gene

Very cool. Very cool. So should we let the folks know what the name of the show.

Sir Ben

Sure.

Sir Gene

yeah, it it's gonna be super easy to remember just two good old boys.

Sir Ben

And if, if you haven't seen Dukes of hazard, just Googled the Dukes of hazard theme.

Sir Gene

Everybody seen DHA.

Sir Ben

But now one, one thing you gotta note here is you actually have a good old boy and then you have the Russian spy. So

Sir Gene

well, here's the thing. It's our domain, which will be we got it, but we don't have the podcast up on it. Hopefully by next episode, we'll have that on there. There, there might be a period of time where I post on both on the Sir Gene Speaks you can speaks and you know, prefacing every episode with, Hey, go sign up for the new podcast. As well as the new one, cuz I, I don't wanna just like start the new one and have, you know, five people listening.

Sir Ben

well, there's some 2.0 features that can help you with that too.

Sir Gene

I don't know if there are the,

Sir Ben

There are some of the name, space stuff on forwarding of RSS

Sir Gene

yeah, but we're not forwarding or changing. We're

Sir Ben

Well, what you could do is temporarily do it is what I'm saying. So adding to the surgeon speaks feed a forward for X, Y, Z episodes. You can do it per episode.

Sir Gene

Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Okay. Well, I might be a way to do it. I'll figure it out for sure. Probably going to spend some time on that when I get back,

Sir Ben

Cool, cool

Sir Gene

out. So, I mentioned to you before we started, I've I've been trying to force myself to minimize internet time, which typically still means that once a day, I end up posting stuff on no gen social cuz I get on.

Sir Ben

It

Sir Gene

I get on the

Sir Ben

Gene I've got notifications turned on for you.

Sir Gene

it's it's mostly once a day. I'm so what, what did I miss what's happening?

Sir Ben

Well, a big redacted mess for one.

Sir Gene

What's what's what do you mean?

Sir Ben

Well, I'm not talking about Clayton Morris's podcast. I'm talking about the Trump affidavit.

Sir Gene

Oh, I thought you were talking about the podcast.

Sir Ben

no, man. They, they, so they finally released the affidavit for the radar Marla and the liberal media is going out and just being like, oh my God, this totally Trump's arguments. Everything, you know, he he's nailed to the wall

Sir Gene

mm-hmm

Sir Ben

versus me reading it. I go, okay. They didn't tell us Jack shit. And I, if you go through and look at it easily over 50% of it is redacted and blacked out. And I mean, pages and pages and pages of redactions, and they didn't give us anything on their RA reasoning or rationale except this. So Trump turned over documents to the national archive

Sir Gene

mm-hmm

Sir Ben

and some of them were classified. So they had reason to believe he may have additional classified documents.

Sir Gene

boy that wouldn't stand up in court. As the reasons you could a warrant.

Sir Ben

It's a general warrant, dude. It, it's not a specific enough warrant. It, this would qualify as a general warrant as far as I'm concerned

Sir Gene

If somebody once turned in a stolen wallet, therefore he might have more stolen wallets at his house. That that is not, that is not warrant

Sir Ben

it's not. Okay. And when you look at the, the, the fact that the, this is being run out of the DC office, not the Miami field office and it's the same agents. Well, not necessarily exactly the same, but the same department that ran crossfire hurricane

Sir Gene

it's the same company.

Sir Ben

dude, it looks dirty. This looks

Sir Gene

It is dirty. FBI's been dirty for a long time, which is

Sir Ben

Oh, the FBI's been dirty forever. I mean,

Sir Gene

Yeah, and I, I like, I know some good guys in it, but man, there are a lot of bad guys in it and

Sir Ben

You know, so as someone who has been asked to join INFR regard at a nauseum, and I have just said, why the fuck would I do that? You know, I, I, I don't see any value to the FBI at all. Break it up, get rid of it. The federal government doesn't have any policing power. Anyway, FBI, ATF, I can start naming organizations that need to just go

Sir Gene

any three letter agency should probably be wound down. Yeah. I, so let let's focus. We'll get to the ATF stuff too. Let's focus up on the FBI. One of the things I did post is I found a funny little comic strip that has the in the next election in debates, the elephant debating with the FBI,

Sir Ben

yeah.

Sir Gene

the other party at this point is FBI. It is, it is not a political party.

Sir Ben

was this comic strip by

Sir Gene

No, God,

Sir Ben

Ah,

Sir Gene

no. This was a good quality

Sir Ben

gotta step it up. Got it.

Sir Gene

of all, he doesn't listen to this.

Sir Ben

He does. He, I literally got, I literal GE I gotta tell you this, man. I literally got a notice on no agenda social from about star Trek, lower decks, because he started watching it. Cuz I mentioned it on this

Sir Gene

oh my God. I'm gonna have to ban'em from listening.

Sir Ben

luck.

Sir Gene

need, I need a new feature in podcasting 2.0 that lets me exclude somebody by

Sir Ben

no, man. He, he he's good people. I like And plus he and I get to joke about you all the time.

Sir Gene

Yeah, I bet you do

Sir Ben

I mean,

Sir Gene

well. I'm glad you like people that, that think I'm

Sir Ben

I, I, after this, when we switch to the new name, you can't call it that anymore.

Sir Gene

Alright, so yeah, FBI clearly is a political wing or the enforcement wing, I should say, of the big tech party.

Sir Ben

Yep.

Sir Gene

That's the best way to describe it.

Sir Ben

Gene, have you ever looked at a picture of Jager? Hoover,

Sir Gene

Sure.

Sir Ben

pull one up Ask you a very specific question. If I

Sir Gene

okay. Like a black and white one.

Sir Ben

color, preferably,

Sir Gene

Okay. Let me see if I can get a color one. And most of'em I've seen are black and white. Okay. Here's a color one. Sure.

Sir Ben

is he black or white?

Sir Gene

In the color image,

Sir Ben

Mm-hmm

Sir Gene

it looks Italian. Got that big Italian nose. Brown eyes.

Sir Ben

Mo and several others. And this is a whole theory that he was a black man that was passing.

Sir Gene

Jacob Hoovers? No, he was not a black man.

Sir Ben

There are people there, there are people who claim he had been family.

Sir Gene

Okay. I

Sir Ben

can go down the rabbit hole. I'm just saying, and if

Sir Gene

not that hard to find you know, a lineage of somebody

Sir Ben

okay, well try the rabbit hole. And when you look at how he treated Martin Luther king, and if you take him as a passing black man, then that is a very interesting self hatred sort of

Sir Gene

dude. He's not black. I mean, Christ thanks. Come on.

Sir Ben

well, at least we can say that he was on the same spectrum as Blair white, right?

Sir Gene

I don't see any image of him wearing a dress.

Sir Ben

no, he

Sir Gene

I mean, I've heard that he liked men, but you know, so what,

Sir Ben

No, apparently he was a cross dresser.

Sir Gene

well, I thought he was gay

Sir Ben

Maybe that too.

Sir Gene

and that proves he's not black by the way. Cuz there are no black gay men. Everybody knows this. Yeah

Sir Ben

you did you see the Blair white interview where Alex passed out?

Sir Gene

I did. Yeah. And I think she just posted some follow up stuff

Sir Ben

Yeah, it wasn't as bad as I would've expected based off of what they had said.

Sir Gene

I mean

Sir Ben

I mean, he was out of it,

Sir Gene

he was totally out of it. Alex does not have a dial below 11. If he's gonna do something, he's gonna be dialed up to 11, whether it's being on his you know, talk radio show, whether it's it's being interviewed by somebody else, whether it's being in court. I mean, the guy's always on a love, not a 10.

Sir Ben

Yeah. Speaking of he's given Trump a month,

Sir Gene

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. I saw, I heard that. Yeah.

Sir Ben

he's given him a month to renounce the vaccines and, you know, keep his support. Otherwise he's going with the Santas

Sir Gene

Mm-hmm well, I'm definitely going with the Santa. I don't need a month.

Sir Ben

yeah. Well, here's the interesting thing. The Democrats are already pivoting and moving to hang Trump with the vaccines. Like they can't hide the dead bodies any longer and they're

Sir Gene

Well, to be

Sir Ben

blame it on Trump.

Sir Gene

he did start it.

Sir Ben

Warp speed, man. You, you wanna take credit for that? You get the credit for it, you know?

Sir Gene

Yeah. So I'm looking at Jay Hoover's family tree and I don't see any black people in it.

Sir Ben

There's someone who claims to be his niece that has decidedly black Mo has covered this on Mo facts. There's

Sir Gene

can have

Sir Ben

is not a,

Sir Gene

after the fact. Yeah. I mean, if, if his I guess would be, if his brother had a kid who married somebody of the darker complexion. Well, why not? Sure.

Sir Ben

that's not the way it worked, but anyway,

Sir Gene

Well, I mean,

Sir Ben

pull

Sir Gene

she's his niece, she's gonna be his brother or sister's kid, right?

Sir Ben

Right. But anyway, just go, listen.

Sir Gene

Hey, you brought it up, man.

Sir Ben

worth the theory. I, I personally, when I look at him, I totally see it.

Sir Gene

What, what you got a kidney. What do you see?

Sir Ben

I see a passable black person. Totally.

Sir Gene

insane?

Sir Ben

No.

Sir Gene

Yes, no characteristics of a black person.

Sir Ben

Are you looking at the same photos? I am

Sir Gene

Clearly you're looking at doctorate photos. I'm looking at actual photos. I'm looking at the KGB archives. What are you looking at?

Sir Ben

well, I don't have access to that. So

Sir Gene

Oh, they're all public now.

Sir Ben

are they really.

Sir Gene

Yeah. They're part of, well, I mean, you gotta use a Russian website to get to'em, but they're totally public.

Sir Ben

Yeah. So this is actually his FBI portrait as director that I'm gonna send you.

Sir Gene

Okay. I mean, look, you can mess with Photoshop and crank any color you want on the person's face. Honestly, there is no black or white. There is dark orange and light orange. We're actually orange is the color of our skin.

Sir Ben

Well, at least Trump is

Sir Gene

No, I mean, well, kidding aside, if you analyze the color spectrum that we are, we're actually a FA a light orange,

Sir Ben

I mean, there is no such thing as the color black by that sort of statement.

Sir Gene

for sure. Black is the absence of all the other colors.

Sir Ben

Exactly. And that doesn't exist because light

Sir Gene

So you're denying black people. Oh my God. Is this where we are now?

Sir Ben

it absolutely is. Black does not exist.

Sir Gene

Oh my God.

Sir Ben

by the way, folks, we're recording this instead of our normal time. We're recording this on a Sunday

Sir Gene

Yeah. That's why I sound a lot higher pitched

Sir Ben

yeah, why I'm in a better mood.

Sir Gene

Oh, really? Is that what it is? Okay. So next thing you're gonna say, Harry is Truman was Jewish.

Sir Ben

well, duh.

Sir Gene

you're you're you're two what's the phrase two waves. The win two leaves. I don't what the phrase you're clearly

Sir Ben

I'm not, no, no. I'm just messing with Eugene. Anyway no, the, the whole FBI raid thing that, where we're at is just it's. I, I really feel like this is a jump, the shark moment. I know you don't, but I, the more that comes out with the affidavit, with where we're at, I really think it's slapping people in the face a little too much.

Sir Gene

The, you, you mean it's slapping people that are seeing the power that the other party wields through the FBI. And

Sir Ben

The fact that Hillary Clinton had however many emails on her personal server that were potentially have classified nature. The fact the Clintons literally robbed the white house on their way out. The fact that the Obamas had classified information that they ended up having to argue and turn over. I mean, yet we haven't seen an FBI raid of any other president. I, I, I think this is that jump, the shark moment where the other side thinks they have enough momentum. They are. So I I'll say super sillus of just, they have this confidence that. Everyone hates Trump enough that they can do this and they win a step too far and everybody stand back going, oh shit. What did you do? I mean, when Alan Deitz is coming out and saying that this is a absolute jump, the shark moment, no conservative there. And you know, Jeffrey Epstein fan this is a pretty big deal.

Sir Gene

Hmm. Well, okay. But jump to shark, meaning that they don't care anymore, or what do you mean by jump to shark?

Sir Ben

Jump the shark as in, they went too far and it is waking a lot of people up.

Sir Gene

Eh,

Sir Ben

I know liberals in my life

Sir Gene

saying that forever.

Sir Ben

I'm sorry.

Sir Gene

People say that all the time. I don't remember a year of my life where somebody hasn't said yep. They've to they done it now they've totally jumped the shark. They've gotten insane. They've they can't go backed from this. And yet no one cares.

Sir Ben

Mm,

Sir Gene

I, I, you remember what I, what I said a few episodes ago, to me, the point at which something's gonna change won't happen until somebody in this country decides that the cost of their life is worth making change happen until that happens. It's just people watching the news for entertainment.

Sir Ben

well,

Sir Gene

it.

Sir Ben

So there have been some interesting developments in that. One there have been some conservatives that have taken a few steps, a little too far for me in my liking. And then also a note is that Marjorie Taylor green has been squatted a couple of times this week,

Sir Gene

She's been swatted

Sir Ben

twice

Sir Gene

well, but that's that, that is a typical kind of thing that I would expect the liberals to be doing because they're, they're two chicken shit to do anything in themselves. They're gonna leverage the police. They're gonna leverage the FBI. They're

Sir Ben

their own guns, so they have to use the polices

Sir Gene

what they exactly. They don't have their own kids, but that's why they can control what our children actually learn. They don't have their own guns, but they have the police and the FBI, you know, they've, they've figured out how to diss themselves a step away while still may maintaining control.

Sir Ben

Well, regardless, Marjorie Taylor, Green's been swatted twice this week, so that's a

Sir Gene

Yeah. It it's very unfortunate.

Sir Ben

you know, it's a Congress person. So

Sir Gene

Yep.

Sir Ben

can you imagine the left's response if it was Nancy Pelosi that got swatted.

Sir Gene

Well I think we'd cancel all police period.

Sir Ben

Obviously

Sir Gene

Yeah. Like, including in DC. Well, AOC Yeah. Well, first, first they'd have to figure out what she's currently living. Cause it ain't in New York and it ain't DC.

Sir Ben

so what do you think is next for her after Congress fans only?

Sir Gene

Oh, AOC. I think she's gonna be a commentator. She's gonna make a lot of money doing that. And then she's gonna run for president.

Sir Ben

I, I, I, I bet you only fans is in her, in her future at

Sir Gene

I'll bet you a buck. That's not the case.

Sir Ben

her and

Sir Gene

I mean, I know you're being funny, but it's all, all kidding aside. I think she's definitely gonna get picked up as a commentator on one of the TV stations

Sir Ben

Yeah,

Sir Gene

that will lead to her running for present.

Sir Ben

well, I mean, it'll be a failed bid, but sure. Brand seltzer water, we talked about that last time, but it, it surprises me that he hasn't landed anywhere yet. So,

Sir Gene

that's the the little ball guy,

Sir Ben

Yeah. I mean, his ratings at CNN were abysmal enough that, and that the fact that a week has gone by and he hasn't landed somewhere. I think he's done.

Sir Gene

Well, I don't know that he makes all that much money at CNN. I think he made more from HBO.

Sir Ben

Well, but regardless if he hasn't found a home yet where who's gonna hire him, if you miss NBC,

Sir Gene

on his next book. He's gonna write some scripts. He'll gonna have a bunch of pre-orders for those books in the millions of

Sir Ben

This isn't the jerk off guy that got caught doing something bad. This is just a canceled show. So usually like when Megan Kelly get canceled and so on from Fox, she already pre announced and went somewhere else and, you know, da, da

Sir Gene

okay, well, so are you worried about'em what's I don't understand the

Sir Ben

no, I'm I'm. I just think he's done. That's all. I, I think he's it made himself irrelevant. That's my only comment.

Sir Gene

it's a little too soon to say that

Sir Ben

Maybe, but it's in the line of go woke or go broke that sort of

Sir Gene

you know, literally he's only been off the area, the amount of time I've been on vacation. Not that long.

Sir Ben

Well, how long are you playing on staying on vacation? Gene?

Sir Gene

It depends. How long is it gonna take for him to get a job?

Sir Ben

you're gonna stay on vacation until Brian seltzer gets a job. That, that

Sir Gene

God damnit, I'm gonna wait it out.

Sir Ben

I don't think your bank account's gonna afford that, but.

Sir Gene

No, maybe, maybe not. We'll see. We'll see. No, I just, I look, I think it's it. Obviously, there's quite a bit of Shi in for, in the fact that the guy's laid off he's fired. And that's not a bad thing. It's good for people to experience a pleasure at other people's Spain. But I think it's a little too early to rate him off completely.

Sir Ben

man. I don't

Sir Gene

He may end up being the liberal Tim pool.

Sir Ben

Oh, fuck that. I'm I'm watching his ratings over the years, looking at his ratings and I just don't see anyone picking up. He could be, he could be the Tim

Sir Gene

There's a, there's a chance that he's gonna get on start his own video podcast. Talk about how he's finally been freed from the shackles of big media and basically just model himself on the liberal version of Tim.

Sir Ben

maybe

Sir Gene

You've never seen those two together. Have you?

Sir Ben

No, no, they're both bald

Sir Gene

there's a, there's a reason Tim wears a hat

Sir Ben

Yeah, they're both

Sir Gene

Uhhuh.

Sir Ben

Speaking of, did you listen to Tim's new number two, hit single.

Sir Gene

No, he's got a, a music thing.

Sir Ben

He has published he has announced Tim cast records and put out a song and it hit number

Sir Gene

I know he plays guitar, but I, I never heard him.

Sir Ben

Right? He's singing.

Sir Gene

Isn't he? Good?

Sir Ben

I Hmm. Okay. So it is not my style of music. It is very, huh.

Sir Gene

it's country.

Sir Ben

No, I love

Sir Gene

No. Oh,

Sir Ben

I grew up on country and XO and everything

Sir Gene

Yeah. Well, that's

Sir Ben

I love good classic rock. This is very emo esque

Sir Gene

Oh, is this like Seattle rock?

Sir Ben

Yeah.

Sir Gene

Got it. Okay. Okay. Yeah. I don't like that shit.

Sir Ben

Anyway, so I mean, I put it up there with what's that song. Oh my God. It, it it's very much, I lost the opportunity with a girl because she died sort of music

Sir Gene

oh, okay. Like Melin, Cali,

Sir Ben

I'm sorry.

Sir Gene

like Mellon Kelly music.

Sir Ben

Yeah, the undertones are definitely but he's, you know, he he's putting it out there, so whatever. But I just think it's a weird move for a, and he, he, he argues that, oh, I've been putting out music longer than I've put in, been putting out political commentary, dude. No, you haven't. You're known for political commentary. If you put anything on SoundCloud, no one ever listened to it before this. Thank you very much. You know,

Sir Gene

Well, I know he's done a few, like he's been in the band of a few other groups. I know that.

Sir Ben

He's making a big thing about having the drummer from offspring

Sir Gene

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I remember that. Cuz the guy got fired.

Sir Ben

yep. Over the VAX

Sir Gene

on that YeahAnd date? Mm-hmm yeah. Yeah. Well, you know, good, good for him. He's he's getting well, he didn't hit one though. That's too bad.

Sir Ben

Not yet.

Sir Gene

He is getting a lot of money from a lot of people, including the both of us at at least at some points

Sir Ben

from you, not for

Sir Gene

Yeah. He is definitely getting money from me and he's getting that sweet, sweet Putin money. just had to throw that in there anyway. So yeah, why not start up a label? Do you might as well?

Sir Ben

It just seems like an odd move to me. I mean, I guess the daily wire is starting movies, but a label 10 cast records who the fuck's gonna sign with that. I just don't see that

Sir Gene

Well, you know, the, the no longer liberal emo Seattle rockers,

Sir Ben

And those exist where

Sir Gene

well, he is got a band full than he

Sir Ben

he's got something.

Sir Gene

Uhhuh Ian Ian's in there, right?

Sir Ben

I don't think he, I I'd have to go

Sir Gene

Oh really? I thought Ian played

Sir Ben

but I don't think Ian's in it.

Sir Gene

Really? I thought Ian played bass.

Sir Ben

If he did, I didn't see him in the music video, but I was half paying attention. I just played this all in once. So

Sir Gene

Okay. Got it. Yeah. I have not listened to it at all. So.

Sir Ben

Well, I'd be interested to hear what you think.

Sir Gene

I'm pretty sure it would suck.

Sir Ben

dude, it, it, it was a surprisingly emotional song for him to put out as his first one. Like it's over the top. What's that song? Talk for a second.

Sir Gene

I don't know. I don't know what song it is, but I don't like most of that music, I probably don't like most rock that you like either

Sir Ben

How so? Well, I mean, what, what kinds of music do you like

Sir Gene

classical.

Sir Ben

OV skis? One of my favorites, I play violin for Christ's sake. I love classical music.

Sir Gene

Yes. Well, don't be so nerdy, but there's a, if you look at my audio collection, which is about 120,000 pieces of music which is also why I don't need to pay for somebody to play music for me, I already have all the music I want. Most of that is going to be things no one's ever heard of.

Sir Ben

Such as

Sir Gene

I mean, well, some people have heard of, but I have a lot of like early eighties, European music.

Sir Ben

oh,

Sir Gene

Like techno, not techno, but like precursors, techno, like Euro synth.

Sir Ben

Okay. And by the way, the song I was thinking about that I could compare Tim cast's song two was Pearl jam. Last kiss.

Sir Gene

okay. I've never heard of it. So wouldn't work

Sir Ben

jam is or you don't know

Sir Gene

I've heard of Pearl jam. I've heard of that group. I think they were around in the nineties or something.

Sir Ben

Yeah. Eighties and nineties. Yeah.

Sir Gene

Yeah. But

Sir Ben

where can I baby be? That you don't know that song really? I mean, this was a, actually a pretty big hit.

Sir Gene

not what I was listening

Sir Ben

very emotionally emo.

Sir Gene

Yeah. I just think music was horrible in the nineties.

Sir Ben

Okay. Well I'm sure will get it. The reference

Sir Gene

Okay. Well I'm sure he will. Although maybe not. It depends on his age.

Sir Ben

Way, he's paying me per reference. Just so everyone

Sir Gene

I, I, I figured as much I'm gonna start charging you soon too.

Sir Ben

mm-hmm

Sir Gene

So the, what else am I, what, what else do I not know about? Cause so far, all your stories seem kinda like not really tied to anything that happened right now. I mean, I guess Tim's music came out, so that's

Sir Ben

What do you mean? All my stories. So you mean like

Sir Gene

Jagar Hoover was, has been dead for how long.

Sir Ben

yeah, but that was in reference to the FBI story. So that was tied to Marla and the, the, the affidavit and everything I've talked about has been

Sir Gene

Didn't didn't his somebody do a movie about him recently or something.

Sir Ben

If they did, I didn't catch it.

Sir Gene

I saw a photo of Shirley temple with him.

Sir Ben

Yeah. Did you see she Hulk

Sir Gene

No, and I have no interest in seeing it.

Sir Ben

dude, I watched part of the first episode and it is so bad. It is. It is. It's like

Sir Gene

see, I, I watch

Sir Ben

if MGT made a FM explainer

Sir Gene

exactly. I, I watch nerd

Sir Ben

Uhhuh

Sir Gene

On YouTube and you know, those guys are as close as I wanted to be to any comic books.

Sir Ben

okay.

Sir Gene

I don't like comic book movies.

Sir Ben

Well, this isn't a comic book movie, but it's a show and

Sir Gene

Well, Hulk is a comic book. I literally remember those comics from when I was a kid.

Sir Ben

yeah, I, I, I'm sure the, you have to at least look on YouTube and watch her explain how she deals with more anger issues than Hulk

Sir Gene

Oh, I saw that, but the expression on the Hulk's face is priceless

Sir Ben

Oh, it's fucking fantastic. It's so memorable. This is gonna be a meme for decades.

Sir Gene

yeah. Yeah. It's like bitch Mo bitched Mo bitch Mo Uhhuh, Uhhuh, Uhhuh. The, a whole concept of Chiko makes no fucking sense. Anyway,

Sir Ben

no, but

Sir Gene

of Hulk is he is masculinity cranked up to 11,

Sir Ben

well the point is that he, you won't like me when I'm angry, right? So

Sir Gene

right? Because

Sir Ben

normal guy.

Sir Gene

he's literally Arnold. Schwartzer exactly.

Sir Ben

except not, you know, with

Sir Gene

Well, Arnold wasn't green, I guess, but Arnold's

Sir Ben

Arnold doesn't have high testosterone. He, I mean, he has no balls because of all the steroid usage

Sir Gene

yeah, exactly. That's kind of my point, Arnold, during the eighties was living on steroid instead of food.

Sir Ben

oh,

Sir Gene

So that's pretty much what the Hulk is. He's roid up, you know, pure masculine kind

Sir Ben

I wouldn't say that ROI it up is pure masculine, but okay.

Sir Gene

Well, it is. I mean, why, why wouldn't you

Sir Ben

well, when your test is dissolve because of your re

Sir Gene

he doesn't need testes. He got hit with gamma radiation, dude. Do you not read the comic book?

Sir Ben

yes. Cuz Gama radiation, you

Sir Gene

That replaces testes. And that makes made him green as well.

Sir Ben

Huh. Mm-hmm

Sir Gene

Yeah. I mean, would you rather have that or get bitten by a spider

Sir Ben

You know, my my

Sir Gene

and then they ejaculate outta your wrists?

Sir Ben

Is that what that is?

Sir Gene

Have you never watched Spiderman,

Sir Ben

I have watched Spider-Man but I'm pretty sure my ejaculate isn't ropey enough for me to swing

Sir Gene

Well, that's because he's got spider DNA mixed in because the bite with his, you know, displaced ejaculatory ports,

Sir Ben

oh, we are off the rails on this one

Sir Gene

Yeah, I thought we were talking about guns and, you know, shit like that with, with the show, but apparently

Sir Ben

Yeah. Yeah. So, went to my mom's birthday is tomorrow and they came over. That's why partnered some over doing this on Sunday night and said Saturday morning and went looking for a gun for her and man, the new if you haven't looked at it, you need to the new SIG P 365 with the Romeo zero elite edition. So it's a gun with an optic coming with an optic

Sir Gene

yeah, I've seen

Sir Ben

pretty damn

Sir Gene

Mm-hmm

Sir Ben

And

Sir Gene

big though. Right?

Sir Ben

no, it's a, it's a compact it's

Sir Gene

That's what I thought.

Sir Ben

and concealed carry. And having that optic pre mounted on there is just, it, it is game changing in my mind.

Sir Gene

Well, what about it is game changer? I mean, you could stick one of those optics on again.

Sir Ben

Well you have to mill the gun for it, unless it becomes pre milled. Like mine does only M 17 and Darren has the same gun. It just looking,

Sir Gene

basically everybody has one of those. Okay. Next

Sir Ben

trying to hunt for a gun for her though, and seeing an optic mounted on a gun at the gun store, looking at it, it it's made me make the decision that I will be putting an optic on my daily carry. Just because it it's, it's just night and day, like

Sir Gene

I know what I was gonna ask you. Didn't the Texas carry get like canceled and then deferred for 30 days or some shit

Sir Ben

No. What happened was the law preventing someone under 21 from carrying a pistol

Sir Gene

mm-hmm

Sir Ben

nullified. But it doesn't affect over 21. It affects just under 21. So if you're under 21 right now until the court decision gets reversed, you can carry

Sir Gene

mm-hmm okay. But that law isn't that just a part of the law that got passed that allowed. Constitutional carry. So if the law is found to be unconstitutional on the grounds that it has age restrictions, wouldn't the whole law be then found unconstitutional and then the legislature has to redo it.

Sir Ben

not necessarily. So the way the rule, the way the ruling at least what I have read of the ruling and the opinion is that the age restriction is struck down essentially under the incorporation doctrine and equal protection under the law. So any one of the majority of age of majority should be protected under this. So, no, my, my understanding

Sir Gene

we, we wouldn't had a number of laws around abortion struck down in its entirety due to small technicalities as part of the law.

Sir Ben

Yeah, federal law. Sure.

Sir Gene

state laws, cuz there there's no federal law on that, these are state laws. So I think I'm, I'd like to have somebody chime in or I'm gonna do my own research here obviously, but it seemed to me that there, they would have to strike down that law in its entirety.

Sir Ben

well there's

Sir Gene

And then the,

Sir Ben

as well

Sir Gene

I don't know. I don't know, man, I I've seen generally laws gets the whole law ends up. They, they don't get the judges. Don't get to delete sentences.

Sir Ben

no, but what you're missing is so I'm go

Sir Gene

I could be missing. I just don't,

Sir Ben

So what you have to understand is there are acceptability clauses built into a lot of laws where it literally says in the law, if any portion of this law is struck down, the remainder shall not be considered to be struck down. It will function without the one

Sir Gene

And, and does this particular law have that?

Sir Ben

I'm gonna have to quite honestly do some research, which I'm trying to do right now. And, you know,

Sir Gene

cause that's how organized we are. We do real time looking up photos of James river and real time

Sir Ben

Yeah. So, apparently the

Sir Gene

I do know the judge did a 30 day stay on the zone order.

Sir Ben

I'm sorry,

Sir Gene

The judge did a 30 day stay on his own order to give an opportunity for the legislature to redo it.

Sir Ben

ABC, CNN in Politico, all think it's falls under separability.

Sir Gene

So basically we have no idea. So you just named three non-trust worthy sources.

Sir Ben

well, the they're the ones that came up. We'll have to see I mean, here's what it comes down to the judge is right. I hate to say it, but he's a hundred percent right in that. If you're over the age of 18, if you're an illegal adult, if we say eighteen's an adult, why are we waiting on anything? Next thing he needs to do is lower the drinking age.

Sir Gene

Or raise it.

Sir Ben

Well, if he raises it, then he needs to raise the voting age and raise the, when you can be

Sir Gene

I don't think people under 30 ought to be allowed to vote, frankly, they're, they haven't figured out the world yet. Why would we want them voting?

Sir Ben

I, I don't know that I'd

Sir Gene

I mean, for them, man, our Landover and over is over 50 would be ideal, but I think that's a harder thing to push, but you know, under 30, come on now, the good news is they self-select out. So most of'em don't actually vote when they're under 30, but it'd be nice to make sure that's the case.

Sir Ben

So I, I think land ownership should be a qualification.

Sir Gene

for voting would be good too.

Sir Ben

So I, I, quick story, I pissed off a PoliSci prof and college. So this, this PoliSci profit that I had, she was CCP like literally from China, Chinese communist party, teaching American politics. So that was

Sir Gene

oh man. I was so tempted to do a Chinese accent, right.

Sir Ben

Well, I mean, get canceled on this RSS feed before we shipped to the next

Sir Gene

I know. Right?

Sir Ben

Yeah. But anyway, everybody, there was like 107 people in this class. Everybody hated when I actually showed up because they knew we were gonna get into a argument and, and, or debate.

Sir Gene

Hmm.

Sir Ben

Anyway, it, it was, it was not a fun time. And I'm trying to remember where I was going.

Sir Gene

do you have details or are you just gonna say it was not a fun time?

Sir Ben

I mean, just debates over, you know, pretty much every topic on freedom or anything else. Anyway dude, I am blinking right now. I was going somewhere.

Sir Gene

yeah. It's not the morning. You're clearly not cut out to do evening podcasts,

Sir Ben

Well, you know, been dealing with the kids all day and everything else, but

Sir Gene

getting new

Sir Ben

more of a, huh?

Sir Gene

get any new guns.

Sir Ben

No, no, I just don't go and shopping for the one for my mom. But,

Sir Gene

Yeah. Yeah. Well, you did get a new one and they got your mom a gun now, is that, is that a legal thing or is that considered a paper purchase?

Sir Ben

well she was with me and she com

Sir Gene

Oh, she was with you. Got it. Got it. So you were just, you weren't so

Sir Ben

and helping pay

Sir Gene

you just paying for the gun for somebody else, which how's that.

Sir Ben

it's perfectly legal as long as it's in their name and even

Sir Gene

thought it was just for children. You're allowed to buy guns.

Sir Ben

no, no, no, no. So one she's doing the paperwork. I'm giving her cash to reimburser in the background, but re but regardless, a straw purchase, the, the straw purchase laws are only when you know that the person cannot legally possess a gun. Anyway.

Sir Gene

Mm.

Sir Ben

So if I decide I wanna buy her a gun tomorrow, or

Sir Gene

really know whether your

Sir Ben

you or anyone,

Sir Gene

or anything.

Sir Ben

I'm sorry,

Sir Gene

I, how do you know any of us are felons or not?

Sir Ben

it it's. So this is a case where

Sir Gene

do a background check on your mom.

Sir Ben

She'd fail it. But yeah. Now, so yeah, it's where it it's knowingly doing something. So how do you prove someone knowingly did something?

Sir Gene

Well, you have to dis brew it. I mean, that's obviously the government standard, as you have to prove negative,

Sir Ben

Yeah. Well, logical possibility, but sure.

Sir Gene

not a legal one. so you got her, you got her fun little gun now. Does she shoot regularly or does she just like have guns just in case, or

Sir Ben

Oh, I mean, my parents are, I, I, I got it.

Sir Gene

know your dad hunts.

Sir Ben

yeah, we we're, we're pretty active on our shooting. My mom she's a realtor and goes into certain situations where,

Sir Gene

Well, yeah, she needs to be armed for sure.

Sir Ben

she does and you know, she's, she's up there, she's in her seventies and

Sir Gene

still working

Sir Ben

huh.

Sir Gene

still working.

Sir Ben

Oh, both my parents will work till the day

Sir Gene

Yeah. Well, I can't, I can't fault that.

Sir Ben

it's their, that's their type of people. That's the way they are. You know, she, she currently has a couple guns that she'll put in her purse or something like, like that and off by Gary. But, you know, we were talking

Sir Gene

Derringer.

Sir Ben

I've got a dinger.

Sir Gene

Yeah. That's a kind of a ladies gun. Isn't that?

Sir Ben

It's strategically placed in my truck and it's it's one of those nice backups,

Sir Gene

mm.

Sir Ben

but sure. You know, hookers used them in, you know, the old west and all that, but, so what it's, it's a 38 special man.

Sir Gene

the old Western movies where, you know, the hooker has always got a dinger hidden in there someplace Garder. Yeah, exactly. That's what I was thinking.

Sir Ben

Yeah. But I mean, I have a 38 special, you know, nothing to sear at. If you ask me

Sir Gene

Mm-hmm so it it's like a single double shot.

Sir Ben

a double stack

Sir Gene

Yeah. Yeah.

Sir Ben

Yeah. It's a single action. So you gotta cock ITT in between and you know, it's a, it's a close up thing. Yeah. Which, you know what, it, it surprised me that there are a couple modern handguns that are single action hammer fired semis in the way of a 1911 that are still

Sir Gene

Oh sure. 1911. Yeah. Yeah.

Sir Ben

No, no, no, no, no, not a 1911. This is I think it was Ruger that made it, but it, it has a, we were looking at it and it's a hammer. It's a single action, you know? And to me, totally. I, I told my mom, look, I, I have no problem. Outside of striker fired, but do not carry this, do not even consider this for carry because a you either don't cock it and then you have to cock it when you draw it or B you leave it cocked and then you risk getting Lin or anything in that, you know, it's just not practical.

Sir Gene

This is one of the reasons I've never liked. External hammer pistols is cuz the idea of walking around with a gap between the hammer and the striker just is not appealing. I'd much rather have an internally.

Sir Ben

Yeah. I, so, I mean, I, I love my 1911. There are purposes for that. I think it can be okay, especially in an open carry scenario or something like that, but as far as a concealed carry gun, that's going to potentially have lent or anything else in the way. And we were talking about safeties and, you know, then a mechanical safety is an absolute must with that kind of

Sir Gene

Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, but that's the thing is like, if you're gonna carry cocked and locked, I, I would not want the hammer exposed.

Sir Ben

Agreed.

Sir Gene

Yeah. But I don't know. I would kind of prefer that my, my handgun just made a shotgun racking noise. Whenever I cocked a hammer. Every time you

Sir Ben

Universal language, forget the fuck

Sir Gene

Uhhuh, Uhhuh, this is, this is universal language for, this is your one and only warning.

Sir Ben

Yeah. Which you

Sir Gene

gonna be very loud and very painful.

Sir Ben

and my question in every movie is why the fuck didn't you have one around in the, in the chamber anyway, you know,

Sir Gene

Well, I, I think there is a point in not doing that. Like for example in my pump shotgun, that is three feet away from my bed. That is the condition that that's in is that I would need to cycle it in order to load the first.

Sir Ben

okay.

Sir Gene

Mostly cuz I like that noise cuz I like the sound man.

Sir Ben

Yeah. Well,

Sir Gene

It's I, there's not a situation where I would need to use that gun to shoot somebody while I'm in bed. I have a handgun under the pillow for

Sir Ben

Gene, how long, how long were you in the KGB?

Sir Gene

that's never the KGB. This is a lie that polished scumbag keeps telling his data is

Sir Ben

telling my wife, you know, sometimes I think Gene's my handler.

Sir Gene

Mm-hmm yes. That, that, that kind of ran its course with Adam for about six years.

Sir Ben

now you've moved on.

Sir Gene

Mm-hmm

Sir Ben

Mm. So did you hear about California and the car thing?

Sir Gene

the California card thing. No,

Sir Ben

So Cal, eh, I thought I sent this out, but so California,

Sir Gene

you assume I read shit. You sent, okay, go ahead. Go ahead.

Sir Ben

yeah, you know, thanks Jean. So California passed a by 2034, I think they have to have zero emissions on any new cars and I may have the year wrong. So please forgive me. But it's in the 2030s. Every car is sold

Sir Gene

sent that to me?

Sir Ben

I think I sent it out on the channel between you, me and Josh.

Sir Gene

Oh, okay. Cuz I think I have a different buddy of mine. Send me. Oh yeah. Washington bands got banning gas cars. 2030.

Sir Ben

California. You

Sir Gene

what? Well, no, that's when my buddy from Washington state sent me,

Sir Ben

okay, well, California is doing it by like 2034, but anyway, here, here's the thing. So that's not a possibility, like this does not work. So, and here, here's why let's say you ban all new gas cars, and you look at the replacement rate for cars in California. And you look at the average use case. So how many gallons per year do you think California consumes in gasoline today? Gasoline, not gasoline and diesel. Just gasoline. So consumer

Sir Gene

say just like water way more than they produce.

Sir Ben

yeah. 58 million gallons per year in California. Okay. So if you take the EPAs formula of one gallon of gas, equaling 33.7 kilowatt hours, which I found the 33 number in there. Hilarious. But let's just ignore that for a second. Anyway, you multiply this out. You're looking at a hundred and I'm sorry. 1.9 million megawatts of additional generation required

Sir Gene

Okay.

Sir Ben

just to satiate California's gas

Sir Gene

Now, where do you get that number from?

Sir Ben

Taking the 58 million times the 33.7 by the EPA,

Sir Gene

Where's the 58 million coming from

Sir Ben

the amount of gas that California uses per year.

Sir Gene

currently. But what we don't know is what kind of gas mileage they're currently getting?

Sir Ben

it it's really not necessarily relevant. Because the 33.7 is a broad estimate of what a gallon gets based off of a fleet of vehicles. So realistically, that could be way, way more or way, way less. So it's just an estimate. I mean, consider this an order, a magnitude destination.

Sir Gene

Well, I get it, but as an example, the Tesla model three gets about a hundred E gallons per or gallons per E or whatever the fuck it is. Right. It's

Sir Ben

Well, let, let's put it this way. How much do you think it costs per kilowatt hour to build new generation gene?

Sir Gene

Well, I don't know that that's allowed right now with the current administration.

Sir Ben

Well, but we're gonna have to build more and we're gonna have to build more transmission and distribution

Sir Gene

can't we just get our, get our power from Mexico, like all other countries do.

Sir Ben

So between six and$8,000 per kilowatt hour is what it costs to build new generation that's solar that's wind that's fossil.

Sir Gene

Ah, there you go. So now you haven't thought about the fact that California will also mandate that every roof that is purchased moving forward, have solar panels in it.

Sir Ben

okay. Even if they do let's look at the cost, so you

Sir Gene

cost is gonna be passed on to the consumer

Sir Ben

the cost is going to be trillions in order to meet the need.

Sir Gene

no, this sounds like a stock tip to me.

Sir Ben

Sure. You know, going ahead and invest in PG E the criminal corporation that it is,

Sir Gene

no, no, no, no stock tip for companies doing solar, like Tesla, solar,

Sir Ben

Tesla's not doing solar, they haven't done it. They haven't produced a single solar roof.

Sir Gene

They should, I've seen videos. What are you talking about?

Sir Ben

You've seen demo reels. You have not seen actual installation.

Sir Gene

But they, well, they don't look like solar. That's why

Sir Ben

No, this is one of the, this is like the cyber truck it's never been delivered.

Sir Gene

I have a cyber truck.

Sir Ben

No, you don't.

Sir Gene

I do I ordered the second day.

Sir Ben

Yeah, you you've ordered it. Have you received it?

Sir Gene

well, no, I haven't received it, but you know, I've got one

Sir Ben

go.

Sir Gene

coming when it's made someday eventually.

Sir Ben

Uhhuh.

Sir Gene

So probably the roof at the same time as a truck is my guess.

Sir Ben

This is like, when will the Ukraine war end?

Sir Gene

Hmm. Well, how many billions can we send to'em that'll determine when it ends.

Sir Ben

we just sent more.

Sir Gene

Yeah, we did. Of course. I think we're pushing over a hundred billion now.

Sir Ben

Yeah, we're very close. And you

Sir Gene

God we have the spare change.

Sir Ben

the Biden administration has printed more money in the last two years than every other president combined, including Trump,

Sir Gene

Yep.

Sir Ben

the fuck.

Sir Gene

they actually need the money. You see all the other presidents didn't need the money. The Biden administration needs the money because they're doling it out through executive power instead of through Congress. Cuz I dunno where this whole idea that somehow Congress is responsible for budgets came from.

Sir Ben

Yeah. So you're aware of the student loan forgiveness, then I could take it.

Sir Gene

I did hear about that. Yes. I saw hilarious cartoon on that, that, that said something to the effect of of my mortgage identifies as a student.

Sir Ben

yeah. Well, I, I, I just told my stepdaughter, well, looks like you're too. I mean, it, it is absolutely insane. And to think that this is not going to be

Sir Gene

well, it's welfare for the middle class.

Sir Ben

What do you define as the middle class?

Sir Gene

People that send kids to college.

Sir Ben

I think lots of classes send people to college, but what,

Sir Gene

Well, people that can't afford to do that, don't

Sir Ben

I, I think there are very few people who, if they want to go to college cannot afford it. Given the grants and

Sir Gene

I it's over a hundred grand for a person to go to college right now.

Sir Ben

No,

Sir Gene

Most people can't afford that. Well, the, but do community colleges, do those loans get canceled out?

Sir Ben

Oh yeah. Sure. Any loan

Sir Gene

Hmm

Sir Ben

trade school

Sir Gene

what's and then what, what was the see that that'd be good idea. I wonder if I can take some trade school classes

Sir Ben

Dude and Hey pro tip pro tip, anyone who is listening that is teenage college agent looking for a career, go to a trade school for an in C technician. Two year degree,

Sir Gene

yeah. Or an HVAC program.

Sir Ben

well in C instrumentation and control. If you end up working in the power industry with a two year degree, you're gonna make between a hundred and, and 200 do$200,000 a year.

Sir Gene

That's pretty good, but with a HVAC

Sir Ben

I know some in C guys that back in the day were making more than I did,

Sir Gene

Oh, hell yeah, absolutely. You know what this starting wage right now in Austin, Texas is for a brand new out of school. Software developer.

Sir Ben

Easily 80 to a hundred.

Sir Gene

Yeah. 120.

Sir Ben

Yeah.

Sir Gene

That's starting wage. Do you know what the Amazon,

Sir Ben

like us, it really devalues our tenure and experience and everything else, but yes

Sir Gene

starting wage in Amazon for a software engineer

Sir Ben

140,

Sir Gene

up right. College, no experience, but you know, it's com it's competitive because a lot of people wanna go to Amazon. You wish 190

Sir Ben

God damn.

Sir Gene

starting wage, right?

Sir Ben

You know, I, I, I, I feel like I do pretty well, but that

Sir Gene

you don't. No, nobody does. The, the average salary rate. I, I shouldn't say average, cuz it's not average. Let me rephrase that of people that have dual income that have white collar jobs, right.

Sir Ben

do you know what a dink is?

Sir Gene

Do income, no kids. Now I'm not talking about no kids. I'm talking about two people working in a family right now. White collar work,

Sir Ben

Okay.

Sir Gene

Right now is just over 300,000. That would be like a, a wife. Who's a realtor and a husband. Who's like a software developer. They're making 300 K a year right now.

Sir Ben

That's depressing to me.

Sir Gene

Well, I don't know. I mean, it's inflation. It's, it's what we've been predicting for a while. It's definitely there. We've officially hit over 21% inflation this year, according to shadow stats.

Sir Ben

Well, it's depressing to me because you know, I'm making the two hundreds and I'm the sole provider and it's depressing because I think I'm damn good at what I do.

Sir Gene

yeah. Well, and that's the thing is that, that there's no, like if you did what you're doing for one of the companies, you would never actually work for

Sir Ben

Oh, that's the thing.

Sir Gene

Google, Facebook Amazon, any of that ilk, then a person with your background and skillsets

Sir Ben

but I could never work for those people. I could never work for those

Sir Gene

So that, that is the salary that they pay for, you know, working for an evil corpor.

Sir Ben

Mm. Yeah. I can't I can't bring myself to do that one. And, you know, I work for plenty evil enough corporation as it is, but you know, the, we, we have the Deb diversity equity, inclusion and belonging crap

Sir Gene

Well, you're your sounds like that's just driven by the ownership of the company, which is BlackRock.

Sir Ben

actually, yes, it is. We had a huge investment from BlackRock

Sir Gene

not a hard guess.

Sir Ben

when it started.

Sir Gene

Yep. That's not a hard guess,

Sir Ben

No, it's not,

Sir Gene

I recently watched a very good video that I think I posted on no on social, that documentary about BlackRock, how it started, where it came from and how right now it is the largest company in the world.

Sir Ben

When the shaved heads start, things gotta be up there.

Sir Gene

Yeah. Is that one? We're gonna have a a hammer tosser running in and throwing a, a, a, a hammer at the screen Re references apple ad from 1984.

Sir Ben

yeah, so yeah, the two men of hate man, so going back to the jump to shark moment

Sir Gene

That's way too short. It ought be way more than two minutes.

Sir Ben

well that's the book reference?

Sir Gene

I know, I know, but I think that's UN unreasonably short

Sir Ben

Yeah, well,

Sir Gene

two hours is more like it.

Sir Ben

So I, I unpack my office a little bit more today. So we've been in this house almost a year and I've been relying on virtual backgrounds to hide the boxes in my office, cuz I just haven't done it. But anyway, I I unpacked my books and got my PDP eight and PDP 11 up and running and did a lot of things this year or this last week. But go log Oak orgo, 1984, animal farm,

Sir Gene

Mm-hmm

Sir Ben

Anthem, all of that are sitting on the same shelf. Yeah, I mean to look at my bookshelf is to understand me.

Sir Gene

Well, that's how it should be. I, I was watching a video of L with a completely crazy psycho chick who I guess, played poker for a while and as a

Sir Ben

And by Lex, you mean Lex Friedman?

Sir Gene

Yeah. Yeah. Likes frequent. Yeah, the local likes here in Austin and the the Ukrainian apologist and while the guest was completely insane. And it's funny to me when. People who are math smart start trying to talk philosophy. It's it's really fucking hilarious. And oh, cuz it, cuz they're idiots. That's why.

Sir Ben

So I crack you up a lot, Jean

Sir Gene

well you cracked me up for a lot of different reasons, but mostly it's the nuclear family it's, you know, I'm all for that. So anyway, she, the one thing that I thought was actually pretty good in there in that, in that episode was the hell was I talking about

Sir Ben

So see when I

Sir Gene

early on said dementia

Sir Ben

Yeah.

Sir Gene

again,

Sir Ben

You accuse

Sir Gene

old. I'm allowed.

Sir Ben

lit, but you're,

Sir Gene

You're clearly lit. I'm definitely not lit. I I'm not drinking this year. So there's nothing to be lit

Sir Ben

So it's just the Alzheimer talking.

Sir Gene

Oh yeah. It's totally Alzheimer's yeah, yeah, What were we talking about? We talked because I mentioned L because I was gonna go somewhere and I,

Sir Ben

I have no idea where you were going, man, this

Sir Gene

was the last topic

Sir Ben

well, you kinda interrupted my topic so that I'm not sure which topic you're

Sir Gene

was your topic? You gotta bring me back to

Sir Ben

I was going through the books and talking, I was going to talk about a couple of things on my bookshelf and that sort of thing.

Sir Gene

Books. Oh, yes. I remember now. Good, good callback. Lex had mentioned to her that he always thought that a great dating website would be good reads.

Sir Ben

I completely agree.

Sir Gene

Yeah. And I thought about it, even though I don't really use the site cuz I don't really read books these days, but I think that that's a great idea because it connects people that read the same books, which means you're gonna a have something to talk about B a similar worldview and C you're all nerdy introvert fucks who won't actually meet any other way.

Sir Ben

you're all in cells

Sir Gene

great idea.

Sir Ben

yeah, no I like it, but I like it because, you know, I'm the kind of person that I, I, I read a lot.

Sir Gene

Mm-hmm

Sir Ben

Yeah, no, I

Sir Gene

That's

Sir Ben

good reads is great. That that's a fantastic use case. They should totally pivot.

Sir Gene

yeah. I, I general, I like I've posted on there a couple times.

Sir Ben

Well, what they need to do is they need to launch the dating app. Hey, you like good reads. Here's your monthly subscription to the

Sir Gene

mm-hmm

Sir Ben

Yeah.

Sir Gene

my guess is most of the people on there single

Sir Ben

well,

Sir Gene

they have a lot of cats.

Sir Ben

and, and not having sex. Yes. Agreed.

Sir Gene

Well, I mean single or not, most people are just not having sex cuz when you're

Sir Ben

weird, man.

Sir Gene

that works? Is it though? Is it though?

Sir Ben

Yeah. It is because, you know, when you look at like the, have you looked the shift so there's the whole, you know, the love languages thing. Right.

Sir Gene

yep.

Sir Ben

Okay. So physical touch and intimacy. Apparently according to that website has been dropping over the last

Sir Gene

Mm-hmm

Sir Ben

dramatically.

Sir Gene

yes. Well that's cuz you're supposed to be wearing late latex gloves. Anytime you touched somebody

Sir Ben

I, I mean, I won't say who, but someone close to me had a zero on that. It's like, how the, do you have a zero on physical touch and intimacy?

Sir Gene

yeah,

Sir Ben

And no, it was not my wife

Sir Gene

no,

Sir Ben

although it feels like it sometimes.

Sir Gene

yeah, exactly. I don't half my conversations with my married friends, my married male friends,

Sir Ben

mm-hmm

Sir Gene

uh, is them bitching about the fact that they're not getting late

Sir Ben

which

Sir Gene

I have to keep remind them. How is this different than when you were single?

Sir Ben

exactly.

Sir Gene

You were a loser, then you're a loser now what do you want?

Sir Ben

well, what the, why did you get married?

Sir Gene

Well, clearly not

Sir Ben

you're going to accept that as a status quo, then what the hell?

Sir Gene

Huh. Uhhuh. I just, and I just firmly believe that men were not meant to be monogamous. And I don't mean that in the cheating, on your spouse way. I just, I don't, I, I just think that

Sir Ben

I

Sir Gene

shouldn't be engaged in long term relationships. That's all

Sir Ben

I think we've discussed on the podcast before,

Sir Gene

discussed this with everybody. Oh, oh, divorce. Well, I mean, yes, we have discussed why we got divorced just cuz of playing video games all the time. But

Sir Ben

why, but okay.

Sir Gene

no, well that was, that was definitely a big, very part of the reason why. But yes. So I, I think that if people didn't have expectations that came out of Disney movies for marriage, if they treated marriage more, the way that Italians treated it back in the 1920s

Sir Ben

What about those of us who have expectations out of the, you know, Ephesians five, for example,

Sir Gene

outta what,

Sir Ben

Ephesians five.

Sir Gene

what is that?

Sir Ben

It's a book in the Bible, gene.

Sir Gene

Oh, I don't know that one. That's that's a must be a Christian thing.

Sir Ben

it is

Sir Gene

Yeah, there you go.

Sir Ben

anyway, go on,

Sir Gene

Yeah. So, why, what does it say if you're so keen on bringing it up that doesn't even sound like a real Bible book Ephesians. How do you spell that?

Sir Ben

Oh, Jesus Christ are gonna make me spell Ephesians right now.

Sir Gene

What you, I think you're just making this shit up.

Sir Ben

Hold on. I'm Googling it cuz I do not wanna misspell it. I don't want the wrath of so it's E

Sir Gene

P H E S I a N S is my guess, but go ahead.

Sir Ben

Yeah, yeah. That's exactly right. Anyway, Ephesians five is all about what a biblical marriage is supposed to look like. And you know, the two becoming one flesh and the man not hating his own body and being the head of the household and so on. You know, which is not popular with everyone by any stretch of the imagination.

Sir Gene

And by hating his own body, you mean he should be masturbating a lot?

Sir Ben

No. The, the meaning there is that by his wife being part of his own body and no man hitting himself and surely, no man has ever hated himself. That's the phrase,

Sir Gene

Plenty of men hate their wives.

Sir Ben

but they shouldn't because they should consider them part of their, an extension of their own body.

Sir Gene

Well, if they were, they'd be up for sex a lot more wouldn't they much as a man's right. Hand tends to be

Sir Ben

Right left, you know,

Sir Gene

both hands, you know, Omni, Omni, handedness. Yeah, exactly. No, look, it it's, it's always been an old joke that says you know, there's a, there's a a happy couple that that's sitting in a restaurant and they've got another couple with them there. And the guy just proposes to the girl and they're super happy. And girls go off to the bathroom. Guys are sitting there alone. It's like, yeah, this is so awesome. You know, just had the best sex today. I'm gonna get to have that every day for the rest of my life. And then you cut over to the woman and, and the one that just got the engagement ring in the bathroom, it's like, this is so awesome. I'm never gonna have to have sex with that guy again. It's you know, it, it there's a lot of reality there it's it doesn't happen instantly. It doesn't happen the week you get married, but definitely it happens to virtually everybody or the course of the next few years. And if, if there's kids involved, it's happened sooner and later

Sir Ben

kids are definitely a challenge. They, they add some challenge to it. That's

Sir Gene

know for a fact that the, the handful of guys I know who have five kids or more, I can tell you exactly how many times they've had sex with their wives.

Sir Ben

five

Sir Gene

Mm-hmm yep.

Sir Ben

well, you know,

Sir Gene

This is, this is the curse of the potent sperm.

Sir Ben

mm-hmm

Sir Gene

Every time you have sex, you, you make a kid and it curses those men to never have sex.

Sir Ben

well, don't, don't, don't make judgements for all relationships because I know plenty of, I, I know plenty who are, and I'm not even talking about myself here, but friends and friends, and so on that seemed to reproduce a lot, so.

Sir Gene

yes, but I don't think reproduction is correlated with the regularity of sex.

Sir Ben

Okay.

Sir Gene

Reproduction is generally more of a correlation with their political convictions.

Sir Ben

In, in what way?

Sir Gene

Statistically,

Sir Ben

Who, who do you? No, no, no. What I'm saying is who do you think is getting laid

Sir Gene

the liberals don't have five kids.

Sir Ben

No, they don't.

Sir Gene

No.

Sir Ben

You think they're having more sex?

Sir Gene

Oh yeah, yeah.

Sir Ben

Mm, I don't know.

Sir Gene

Yep.

Sir Ben

Well, I mean,

Sir Gene

you know, more is a relative term. It's it's and what you mean by sex, but there they're definitely having it more frequently. You could argue the

Sir Ben

liberal chicks,

Sir Gene

What? Yeah, I mostly screwed liberal I'm I've mostly fucked liberal chick.

Sir Ben

so you like the blue hair and the big

Sir Gene

You know what? I fucked a lot of blue hair, a lot of white hair on some red hair and pink hair.

Sir Ben

red. Red.

Sir Gene

definitely.

Sir Ben

Yeah. Red.

Sir Gene

I don't mean that red. I don't mean the red. You like, I mean the like a hot pink, red.

Sir Ben

Yeah, no,

Sir Gene

Yeah, no, I've look there's I've I've for a period of time referred to my blue checks or my blue hairs when referring to a gaggle of these that I didn't wanna identify by name.

Sir Ben

Oh man.

Sir Gene

yeah, no, I'm, I'm a total misogynist as far as all married women are concerned. Yeah. But you know, the blue hairs like it

Sir Ben

I

Sir Gene

I take'em to vegan restaurants. Dude. I take'em to vegan restaurants. They, they dig it.

Sir Ben

you do not

Sir Gene

hell I do. Absolutely.

Sir Ben

Mr. Mediater is going to a vegan restaurant

Sir Gene

some great Indian vegan places in Austin.

Sir Ben

in Indian food. Okay. I, I can, I, I can follow that. I can agree with that,

Sir Gene

yeah. You know, I was a vegetarian for like, three years, right?

Sir Ben

So you're a masochist. Got it.

Sir Gene

No, I was a Buddhist at the time.

Sir Ben

Okay. Like I said, I'm masochist.

Sir Gene

Well, I mean, Buddhism's not really masochism. That would be more Catholicism, but you know, I did the whole diet thing.

Sir Ben

No, thank you. You know, every vegan kid I've ever seen or a very vegetarian children

Sir Gene

wanna punch'em right.

Sir Ben

Huh?

Sir Gene

You just wanna punch'em.

Sir Ben

No, they're just

Sir Gene

Oh, that's what I mean.

Sir Ben

and low IQ.

Sir Gene

Yeah.

Sir Ben

You have to have protein for brain development.

Sir Gene

I think you need cholesterol from brain development. Not so

Sir Ben

same thing, but you get cholesterol from animal protein.

Sir Gene

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Sir Ben

Yeah. You, you can't get that from vegetables.

Sir Gene

Not vegetable protein.

Sir Ben

No.

Sir Gene

No, I agree. I, I think that, you know, and as much as your views are not mainstream, I tend to agree with them. See what I just did there.

Sir Ben

Yeah, I do. I do. I'm following I'm following Uhhuh.

Sir Gene

Oh man, this is the other thing is I will say that the one thing that these, these Mexican resorts figured out very well is not to serve Mexican food. It's awesome.

Sir Ben

yeah. Well, I mean, if they did wouldn't it, especially since you're in Mexico, wouldn't it just be called food

Sir Gene

It would. Well, it would, well, I guess, I mean, you know, there there's, there's definitely some differentiation there with Mexican food because. Most Mexicans don't consider what Americans consider Mexican food to be the food that they would call a Mexican food.

Sir Ben

especially in Texas. It's very much

Sir Gene

Yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah. It's text me,

Sir Ben

You don't have a lot of moles and all that, so yeah.

Sir Gene

Yeah. If you talk to an actual called Mexican city, Mexican, they don't consider what most of Mexican eats as Mexican food.

Sir Ben

no, they want on them. All ears and everything else. Yeah. Totally

Sir Gene

Yeah. Very, very different. A lot more Spanish influence.

Sir Ben

Mm-hmm

Sir Gene

So, but I'm, I'm happy with my standard European food,

Sir Ben

yeah. So what, what's the

Sir Gene

herring, cheeses, cold meats, you know, regular stuff.

Sir Ben

What's the resort you're staying at. Tell us

Sir Gene

I'm not gonna, I'm gonna name

Sir Ben

don't have to give the name, but describe.

Sir Gene

It's on the beach.

Sir Ben

Wow. So VRBO,

Sir Gene

I mean, you

Sir Ben

your picture. It's

Sir Gene

on the beach. There, there are several swimming pools, I think four maybe plenty of cabanas and things.

Sir Ben

it's the beach topless.

Sir Gene

no, of course not Mexico doesn't have top of beaches. Well, I'm sure they have some, but no,

Sir Ben

right.

Sir Gene

this ain't

Sir Ben

You're staying at theor regime.

Sir Gene

Yeah. I'm I, yeah. I don't know, man. I don't think I've ever stayed on the Mexican resort. That was topless. I mean, I've stayed in. Jamaica resorts that were I've stayed in.

Sir Ben

I, I, I honestly wouldn't know. I've never been to Mexico, so

Sir Gene

yeah. Mexico's kind of Catholic.

Sir Ben

yeah, it's just not destination for me. Well, no shit. Mexico's Catholic. This is a revelation to you,

Sir Gene

It's cheap. And two hours away, dude. I don't, you

Sir Ben

the, the fact that Mexico is Catholic is a revelation.

Sir Gene

well, no, it's not a revolution, a revolution or a

Sir Ben

the revolution's coming, but I meant revelation. So

Sir Gene

but no, I, I was just trying to clarify that for you, in case you didn't realize why they don't have apples beaches, and I will say this, so Mexican women of the newly adult age look really hot, at least a good chunk of'em do. But when you look at their moms, you know exactly what they're gonna turn into.

Sir Ben

Yeah. Don't ever look at your fiance's mom, if you're looking to get married.

Sir Gene

Oh, you should always that's bad advice. Always check your fiance's

Sir Ben

advice.

Sir Gene

Best thing you could do is actually have sex with both of them, but barring that

Sir Ben

If you do that, you're definitely not getting married.

Sir Gene

intimately, intimately familiar with your fiance's mom's body, because you're gonna need to be working that before, too.

Sir Ben

Mm-hmm mm-hmm

Sir Gene

You know, just sticking your head in the sand is not a good approach.

Sir Ben

and, well, I mean, I don't know. I,

Sir Gene

Who's who's like the hottest old chick that you've seen, like an actress or a, you know, somebody famous,

Sir Ben

Ooh, what age bracket?

Sir Gene

I don't know, forties, fifties, not older than that

Sir Ben

Forties or fifties. Geez. Who is the chick from first contact?

Sir Gene

first contact. From first contact star Trek,

Sir Ben

No, the movie,

Sir Gene

first contact. I dunno what that movie is.

Sir Ben

Sure.

Sir Gene

Is that the one with the aliens that are atop pluses?

Sir Ben

No. Anyway she was also Nell.

Sir Gene

Nell Nell and what?

Sir Ben

Nell was the name of the movie

Sir Gene

Okay, so here's what you do, you Google Nell. Oh, Jody foster.

Sir Ben

Jody foster. There you go.

Sir Gene

That's not first contact. It's called contact

Sir Ben

whatever.

Sir Gene

Jesus. It's a Carl Sagan book. You gotta know those things. Yeah. Jody foster, honestly, she's looking kind of old right now, but up until she was, let's say 45, she looked really good.

Sir Ben

I I'm basing her off of like contact and Nell

Sir Gene

Well, she was 30 in that.

Sir Ben

Okay. Well,

Sir Gene

Yeah. That's not that old. I think Jennifer Aniston

Sir Ben

Jennifer. Francis's doing good. Yeah. Yeah.

Sir Gene

now

Sir Ben

and Julie.

Sir Gene

fifties. No, Angela and Julie looks like a dead person walking. She looks like a corpse, but I, I think Aniston managed to do a very good job of keeping her body looking young and minimizing the amount of plastic surgery. So it doesn't make her look like she's fake. boobs are great too. Those are totally fake.

Sir Ben

I mean, does it really matter?

Sir Gene

You know, it depends it, it matters more to some people than others.

Sir Ben

Jennifer Connolly, I watched top gun two last night, Jennifer,

Sir Gene

oh, she's in that. Is she? Okay. I have to, I have not seen that. I've heard good things

Sir Ben

it, it, it is actually a pretty good movie.

Sir Gene

I wonder if it's, is it, is it out of the theaters or is it still in the

Sir Ben

You can buy it on Amazon prime

Sir Gene

I'm just wondering if it's gonna be in the airplane at all

Sir Ben

it's on prime for 20 bucks. So,

Sir Gene

20 bucks. Fuck that shit. What do they think of made of money?

Sir Ben

Well, you know,

Sir Gene

20 bucks? That's like a box of ammo.

Sir Ben

not anymore, but okay.

Sir Gene

Mm-hmm prices have been going down by the way. I've noticed

Sir Ben

yeah, they actually have, it's been pretty decent drop and good chance to stock up before it goes

Sir Gene

yeah. Especially if you buy a thousand at a time,

Sir Ben

Mm.

Sir Gene

price discounts are good at that

Sir Ben

Yeah. And, you know,

Sir Gene

Speaking of a gun's an ammo.

Sir Ben

Mm-hmm

Sir Gene

Uh, when are we gonna have Ben on? Ben the gun guy.

Sir Ben

He's a, he's an interesting guy.

Sir Gene

I've been talking to him online and he is looking for a gun for me right now

Sir Ben

Good. Yeah, no this is a guy I work with by the way. And he he's he and I have very similar political views and in a walkish

Sir Gene

listens to our podcast.

Sir Ben

you think so?

Sir Gene

Well, he talked about it to me the other day.

Sir Ben

Oh,

Sir Gene

He was asking me questions about the last episode.

Sir Ben

That cool.

Sir Gene

Yeah.

Sir Ben

I I knew he,

Sir Gene

him we definitely need to get him on as a

Sir Ben

Cool. Yeah. Maybe in the first couple episodes of the new show,

Sir Gene

There you go. Sounds good. Either that, or I'll just get him on by myself and I'll do a Seine speak solo with the guest dude named Ben. Yes. That would be hilarious. Actually. Okay.

Sir Ben

I'm very

Sir Gene

Ben. Yeah, I can tell

Sir Ben

bin with Ben.

Sir Gene

Uhhuh. So Ben, I hear you're a drop in from Ben's everywhere. So let's just pick up from the last show then. Exactly. But yeah, he seems like a good guy. I love, I love the fact that he's a an FFL, which makes it convenient for me to just tell him what I'm looking for

Sir Ben

Mm-hmm

Sir Gene

and then to you know how I'm just gonna keep an eye out as things come out.

Sir Ben

yeah. I mean, he, I mean, he owns a gun store, so yeah, he,

Sir Gene

Well, that would be an FFL. Yeah.

Sir Ben

yeah. He's, he's got some variability there to help you out.

Sir Gene

I also think I found the first gun that I'm kind of interested in getting that would require a stamp.

Sir Ben

What's that?

Sir Gene

It is a here, let me look it up. It's a Caltech nine millimeter. It's like a CQB or something like that or something

Sir Ben

this require a stamp?

Sir Gene

Integrated suppressor

Sir Ben

Eh,

Sir Gene

it, oh, it's yeah, it's the CQB. It's the sub QB. So it is a folding gun,

Sir Ben

Mm-hmm

Sir Gene

uh, where the barrel folds back on the gun itself. So it it's, you know, eight inches by six inches when it's folded and it has an integrated suppressor. So that's kind of a neat gun, right?

Sir Ben

it is, but I mean, why are you looking at FFL items?

Sir Gene

I've been looking at'em for a while. I, I, I need to start putting suppressors in.

Sir Ben

So have you looked into the Texas law at all that allows, you know, suppressors built, made and staying in the state to be legal FFL?

Sir Gene

I have not, but I'm also more worried about certain government agencies with three letters that we discussed disagreeing with those Texas laws.

Sir Ben

Fair enough. But what I would say is let them enforce it. You've got a good, you've got a really good case to be made that, Hey, there's a state law that explicitly allows me to do this. You know, the solvent trap sort of thing. The oil filters are sort of thing. Lots of, lots of directions you can go with that are, you know, actually machining or 3d printing. Your own suppressor is perfectly illegal in the state of Texas. And if said three letter agencies, aren't going after marijuana. Why, why surely they shouldn't go after states that

Sir Gene

what makes you think they're not going after marijuana?

Sir Ben

Because

Sir Gene

Da is absolutely got Texas missions happening right now.

Sir Ben

I'm sorry.

Sir Gene

The DEA is operating in Texas right now.

Sir Ben

Well, Texas marijuana is illegal in Texas,

Sir Gene

Yeah.

Sir Ben

but I mean, for instance, California Colorado, Maryland many other states have driver's license, driver's

Sir Gene

Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

Sir Ben

that are required to go into dispensary. So they know exactly who is consuming. And they're not doing anything about it. I think that Washington state where the cameras are on the goods and there's an ATM there and, you know, no driver's license is required is the way to do it personally,

Sir Gene

Yeah.

Sir Ben

that, that, that is one law that Washington state got very right.

Sir Gene

Yeah. Yeah. But it's also inconvenient cuz you can't just, you know, use a credit card to buy your weed in, in Washington.

Sir Ben

Yeah, you can,

Sir Gene

I, I couldn't

Sir Ben

then you went to the wrong dispensary. They, they will take

Sir Gene

went to four of

Sir Ben

of people want to do cash.

Sir Gene

No, I went to four different ones and none of them did.

Sir Ben

Well, in the Seattle area, they definitely take card.

Sir Gene

Hmm. Well either way.

Sir Ben

I speak from experience or.

Sir Gene

Oh well there you go. See, I do. Cause that's where I did my experiment that I told you about previously

Sir Ben

mm-hmm

Sir Gene

a bunch of edibles of different strengths and then did a

Sir Ben

you're just that, that Russian Uber mench

Sir Gene

Well, I just have a genetic differentiation factor. Mm-hmm yeah, I got bit by a radioactive spider one day.

Sir Ben

gamer radiation hit you

Sir Gene

Mm-hmm exactly. It's part of the training in an agency. I've never been a part of.

Sir Ben

Yes. Yeah.

Sir Gene

So, yeah, the I was kind of surprised cause I figured every they're so like everywhere in Seattle, you know, in the wall in Washington state, in fact, you can't drive through a little town without seeing a pot shop.

Sir Ben

what's the little old ladies.

Sir Gene

I that's why I've heard. Yeah.

Sir Ben

Yeah.

Sir Gene

It's it's a pain reliever.

Sir Ben

Yeah. I mean, I'm, I'm not even joking my experience in touring different venues as it were. Not that I'm, it's just not my thing.

Sir Gene

You're such a bug head, whatever

Sir Ben

no, never have been had had roommates in college that were, and things like that. But me personally, no, it's never been a thing for me. But you know, the amount of. People over 50 in said, locations

Sir Gene

mm-hmm

Sir Ben

is the majority. I mean, it really is.

Sir Gene

yeah. Yeah. Well, it makes sense. It makes sense. Cuz I think the kids are doing harsher drugs.

Sir Ben

I don't know that I'd say that, but I'd say that the kids get in and get out and the older people hang out and the older people are, it's a different use case. I, I think there are a lot of arthritics that really like pot,

Sir Gene

Yeah, I think you're right. I think you're right. But also I do think like the kids are using more of the you know, the drugs that give you more bang for the buck.

Sir Ben

nah, the kids are going in and getting their THC vape cartridges and getting out the only people who buy flour or edibles and things like that are in their forties or fifties, probably,

Sir Gene

Well, yeah, at those shops, that's what I'm talking about. Yeah. Cause I, I think that there there's a lot more meth that's being sold in the Washington state than marijuana.

Sir Ben

maybe. But I, I mean that's so for me and my age group that's just an OGO, it's

Sir Gene

See, the problem is you're too young to have been around doing the cocaine days.

Sir Ben

Why is that a problem?

Sir Gene

Cuz you missed out on some good shit.

Sir Ben

yeah, well, cocaine in my personality type would probably not go very well.

Sir Gene

goes well for every personality type.

Sir Ben

no, dude, that, that would in violence for me, most likely

Sir Gene

I don't know, man. I think your skin might turn green, but other than that, you'd be all good to go.

Sir Ben

Yeah. I don't know, man. I

Sir Gene

You're pretty mellow, pretty mellow, but I don't know, man, I it's that. That's the thing is

Sir Ben

everyone who actually knows me. Who's listening to this podcast and you calling mellow is sitting there rolling their eyes going gene. Have you admit Ben?

Sir Gene

Well, actually I have, but

Sir Ben

Yeah, I have

Sir Gene

consider you Meow. I think you bought me a drink once

Sir Ben

I did actually.

Sir Gene

Yeah.

Sir Ben

Nope. We met at

Sir Gene

memory like a

Sir Ben

in Austin.

Sir Gene

Yeah. At a bar.

Sir Ben

At a brewery. Yes.

Sir Gene

Yeah. Yeah. Next to the ice skating rink.

Sir Ben

and a few other people. Yeah.

Sir Gene

Mm-hmm

Sir Ben

Yeah.

Sir Gene

yeah. It's that is, I remember that day, like there's so damn many people that wanted to talk to Adam that he was cold standing around, outside and chitchatting and and people were taken forever to talk. So I ended up leaving early.

Sir Ben

Well, so I actually, it didn't even end up talking to Adam. I talked to Tina a little bit, but what I did was I walked up, handed him an envelope with my donation, donation note, and a challenge coin and said, thank you and walked away because he was definitely hit up and I didn't wanna be that guy. That's, you know,

Sir Gene

mm-hmm

Sir Ben

whatever, you know, it just here, man. Thank you for what you're doing. I appreciate it done.

Sir Gene

Exactly. Yeah. I think it's been like a year. Last time I talked to him, like in person, it's been a damn long time.

Sir Ben

You're on the outs. Got it.

Sir Gene

I am, I am. Well, I'm not, you know, I'm, I'm not the handler these days. So I, I don't really have

Sir Ben

the, the, the responsibility has been moved to

Sir Gene

Yeah. But yeah, no, that's

Sir Ben

Is gonna have to totally be a trope in the new show. You realize this, right?

Sir Gene

I don't, I don't like giving people free air time.

Sir Ben

Just make it a trope. It's a running joke. It's fun. He's going to listen to every single minute just to hear

Sir Gene

he's not gonna listen. No, he'll, he'll hear the first five minutes, his name and he'll assume that's the only time we talk about'em he's not gonna listen to the

Sir Ben

I'll bet you a box. I ammo differently.

Sir Gene

I don't think so. Well not unless you like, send him a message saying, and by the way, make sure you listen to an hour and a half

Sir Ben

I won't send him a message. I bet you, I get a message

Sir Gene

we'll see

Sir Ben

you in Russian. He didn't say this. That's what I did

Sir Gene

rushing heal. How does, how does he not consider you to be carrying water for Putin?

Sir Ben

I, that, that's a very good question. I mean, I guess I'm more fair, balanced than you are.

Sir Gene

fair and balanced. Just like Fox news.

Sir Ben

Yes, exactly. I, I am. I am the Goldstein. I am the controlled or Goldberg. I am the controlled opposition regardless 1984, whoever the controlled opposition was. I can't remember right now.

Sir Gene

Yep. Goldberg. Yeah. You're you you're you're the Fox to my RT. Uhhuh

Sir Ben

you mean the RT to your Getty images?

Sir Gene

GI images. Yeah, exactly. It was something I watched recently that, oh, it was a temple episode where the, the guy,

Sir Ben

You watched Tim pole, Jean. Are you okay?

Sir Gene

I know I's shocker, right. This was a few days ago, but there was an episode where the guy that was the podium guy who was really a lectern guy.

Sir Ben

Yes. I just almost,

Sir Gene

you saw that. Okay. If you're not smoking weed right now, I don't know what that cough was.

Sir Ben

I'm not smoking weed

Sir Gene

It sure. Sounds like it. Okay. Snorting right in your nose as you're laughing without smoking weed, that's that's some kind of trick learned there. So

Sir Ben

the like turned guy. I was, I was actually taking a drink and you said lectern guy and it made me laugh. And therefore I inhaled. And you

Sir Gene

Got it. Okay. Yes. Unlike bill Clinton. Exactly. Right. So the the Lecter guy in that episode, God damnit, you're meeting me lose train of thought. What were you talking about? Podiums, Lecter guy

Sir Ben

lectern guy,

Sir Gene

talking

Sir Ben

which by the way, that was a bad guest.

Sir Gene

oh, the Lecter guy. Yeah. He was very apologetic.

Sir Ben

Boring as fuck.

Sir Gene

Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I just, I thought

Sir Ben

I'm sure that this podcast is gonna get many comments saying the same thing, but you

Sir Gene

uh, probably, probably, yeah, well look, nobody, other than two of us watched Tim pool anyway, and most people really dislike him. Every comment I get is like the pool boy, this and the pool boy that it's like, okay, no, it's you keep calling him that. And, and you know, his, his income and fame keep rising, so that's fine.

Sir Ben

Well, you know, I've been watching him more. Definitely. Man, he just screams project Mockingbird to me in lots of ways. I don't know why.

Sir Gene

I don't know why. I really don't

Sir Ben

Ian,

Sir Gene

Ian is that retired friend that you've had since kindergarten and well, he is he will say the darnest things while keeping a straight face,

Sir Ben

Hmm.

Sir Gene

his sentences typically start off in the first three, four words sounding like he's going somewhere with a point. And then he takes a sharp two 70 turn.

Sir Ben

Yeah.

Sir Gene

And it's like, what, what the fuck? How did you get to that conclusion? Ian? Based on what you just said, that that's a non

Sir Ben

word graphing.

Sir Gene

Oh, and graphine, you take a, yeah. Every time he says that you gotta take a drink or every time Tim pull says revolution, you gotta take a drink.

Sir Ben

You mean civil war?

Sir Gene

Civil war. Yes. That's right. Civil war. You gotta take a drink. Yeah. And, but they're self-aware or at least Tim is self-aware of that stuff. I don't know how Ian is. Self-aware

Sir Ben

oh, Ian has to me is not self-aware

Sir Gene

I don't think he is

Sir Ben

I mean, there's no way he could show his, if he was self-aware there's no way he shows his face on that show

Sir Gene

But a lot of people love him. You know, a lot of people send positive comments to like, yeah. Ian bounces this thing out and it's

Sir Ben

balances out to what? The low IQ

Sir Gene

intellect. Yeah, exactly. Bounces IQ to, to a hundred.

Sir Ben

I mean, so, okay. So the special needs class really like, see it, don't get it. Oh

Sir Gene

Yeah,

Sir Ben

And you know what, man, here, here's the thing. He's fine. As a person, I like him. Fine enough. His personality, the way he comes off is fine. But the things he chooses to talk about are just

Sir Gene

yeah.

Sir Ben

so absurd to me that it's, it really makes it hard for me to watch the rest of the show.

Sir Gene

His conclusions almost never are logical outcome of his prepositions. It's virtually never. I mean, there might be something graphing related in there, but generally he'll start talking about something that's related to the topic conversation and that, that you can never predict just what direction that sharp turn is gonna go towards, but you know, it's not gonna be at all logical.

Sir Ben

Yeah. It, it really, it it's a trope at this point, you know, it it's something that they're using to their own benefit in

Sir Gene

I, I think so, but that's, that's the question though. It's like, if Ian's not self-aware then is this really just, you know, child abuse by.

Sir Ben

child abuse, sir.

Sir Gene

Well in terms of IQ level. Yeah.

Sir Ben

Wow.

Sir Gene

You know, because Ian's, if he's not self-aware then he clearly is a child because remember we've had this conversation, children become sentient thread around five years old.

Sir Ben

you think he's got Nike less than a five year old? Got it.

Sir Gene

Well, you know, I made you do math, but you know what the number I'm thinking of,

Sir Ben

Yeah.

Sir Gene

but of course, people that know what IQ means that they realize that an IQ is not is not a small number. And that grows over time.

Sir Ben

Well, an IQ does not scale with age, you know, the, the men requirements are a perfect example where they have the math entirely wrong because they, they allow children with lower IQs in, but that's not the way IQ actually works. So,

Sir Gene

the other way around,

Sir Ben

yeah, exactly. You should actually have higher requirements for younger ages based off of IQ.

Sir Gene

although, I guess one would have to do a study to determine what is the progression of IQs in adults throughout their lifetimes.

Sir Ben

So it, it's interesting, it peaks around your mid twenties and then falls off. So the IQ scale is actually garnered around bachelor graduate age. I E around 22 ish, is that whatever the average IQ score is at 22, that age range, that is the average IQ. So

Sir Gene

that, that wouldn't be accurate then, because for the majority of your life, you would have an IQ average IQ of less than a hundred.

Sir Ben

correct?

Sir Gene

So then the real

Sir Ben

on where you would land on the scale to

Sir Gene

thirties or forties. Yeah. But I mean, if you're,

Sir Ben

It's not age adjusted. So the IQ scale is

Sir Gene

if it's relative well, yeah. So it's not age adjusted, but that would still mean that it's being sampled at the wrong time, because it's not sampled at the average IQ over the course of a lifetime of a person. Cuz if, if you're say your IQ is average and it's somewhere in the hundreds, you know, 95 to 110, when you're young, it peaks at 111 and then drops down to 98 in adulthood. Well, wouldn't that mean that the average for that person wasn't what the peak for that person was, but it was actually like 103. And then doing that across the entirety of the population would mean that the IQ, that the median age should really be around like 30.

Sir Ben

my allergies are killing me, so I apologize. But what I would say is that everybody goes off of their peak IQ. That's what the natural course of events are.

Sir Gene

Yeah it's not, I mean, you can't really call a hundred and average then if that average is calculated at the peak of people's performance,

Sir Ben

well,

Sir Gene

like saying the average a, the average athlete is,

Sir Ben

peak and personal peak are two different things.

Sir Gene

well, they, they could be, but if the, if for the average person, the personal peak is a particular point in time, then the average for that person is not guaranteed 100% now to be at the peak.

Sir Ben

Okay.

Sir Gene

Right. And if that's the average for an individual that then the average of the population, I, I, I, a hundred AQ shouldn't be based at the peak either.

Sir Ben

Well, when should it be based? What

Sir Gene

It should be based at the a 38 years old.

Sir Ben

Y 38?

Sir Gene

Well, that's, that's the Avi, that's the midpoint of your life prior to ility?

Sir Ben

Unless you're Joe Biden

Sir Gene

Well, if you're a special case with no brain, then, you know, I guess you're a scarecrow. Do you not see a scarecrow every time you look at Biden?

Sir Ben

from the Batman movies.

Sir Gene

No. From wizard of Oz,

Sir Ben

I only had a brain. Gotcha. Gotcha. Gotcha.

Sir Gene

had to walk you to that one. Anyway, we talk about IQ way too much. And I, I remember I sent you a

Sir Ben

very insecure about it.

Sir Gene

yes, we're clearly insecure because we know it's falling for both of us. And I sent you a graph a while ago that showed the the, what was it? The, the relevance of IQ or the, the amount of time spent talking about IQ and the

Sir Ben

versus actual IQ. Yes.

Sir Gene

Yeah. Versus actual IQ. And the, and the peak is right around people that have an IQ of a hundred, five and, and it diminishes as people actually get smarter and it diminishes as people get dumber. So it's like, if you're just slightly over a hundred, then you end up talking about high IQ all the time. So I think there, then we might need to stop talking about IQ. talk about Jews instead.

Sir Ben

I'm sorry, what

Sir Gene

said, let's talk about Jews instead.

Sir Ben

you mean? Like Ben Shapiro at

Sir Gene

Yeah. Ben Shapiro, he's a smart guy. Isn't.

Sir Ben

yeah. You heard about him, right?

Sir Gene

No. What, what, what, what's the latest

Sir Ben

he showed up at podcast movement and walked through and caused a ho or fle and

Sir Gene

oh, I did not hear

Sir Ben

for violence.

Sir Gene

no way. What,

Sir Ben

Yes. They literally tweeted an apology. Like he committed a violent act by

Sir Gene

he was a podcast movement and I didn't go God damnit.

Sir Ben

He was at podcast movement in

Sir Gene

was in Dallas this year, too. Fuck.

Sir Ben

Walked through the

Sir Gene

Yeah, man. I got an invite to that.

Sir Ben

a huge sin. I don't know.

Sir Gene

Wow. I can't believe he went to that

Sir Ben

Well, he didn't officially go. He was just in the public areas, walked through, said hello to some people who were at his booth that he paid for, for the daily wire. And it was a big to do

Sir Gene

That's all I totally should. Again.

Sir Ben

well, Adam and Dave Jones were there. So why didn't

Sir Gene

Yeah, I heard, I heard they were there.

Sir Ben

Yeah, they, they were at a the, their they were not main track. Let's just put it that way.

Sir Gene

Oh, really

Sir Ben

Yeah.

Sir Gene

out that

Sir Ben

it was the, their, their PR their presentation time was at lunchtime and around the

Sir Gene

Hmm.

Sir Ben

in a

Sir Gene

the corner. Okay. Well, they were also talking about leaving the hotel to get better.

Sir Ben

they were, but you know, it's interesting that they weren't asked to go. It was one of the hosting companies that offered up a speaking spot that they gave them. So that, that's, that's interesting. Man, I'll just say that the ESG and the corporate movement is very, very strong,

Sir Gene

Mm-hmm

Sir Ben

so I don't know.

Sir Gene

go podcasting. Well,

Sir Ben

Mic

Sir Gene

to be fair, Adam's been making fun of it for a long time. So

Sir Ben

ESG or the go podcasting.

Sir Gene

go podcasting,

Sir Ben

Yeah. Well, I mean, the big falter with podcasting in my mind comes from Leo. Leo really was a pretty big name that shot himself in the foot.

Sir Gene

he he's a Californian though. He's a Californian. So he, I don't know if he shot himself in the foot.

Sir Ben

oh, he totally shot himself

Sir Gene

Oh, you mean with the wife or what, what do you mean

Sir Ben

no, no, no. So I, I grew up watching the screensavers and him and Kate Patello. I mean, I have a signed picture of him and Kate Patello from when I was on the show as a kid and lots of other things. But I mean, I, in my mind growing up when I grew up, Leo was, you know, someone very important to me and I don't listen to a single TWI podcast anymore.

Sir Gene

No, no, no, no. I don't either.

Sir Ben

But I'm just, but I'm saying culturally for someone like me who grew up watching the screensavers grew up really into it. You know, was just there all the time. That was one of my go-to things for him to lose someone like me, who should be fanboy, number one over here. I think that says something. That's all I'm saying.

Sir Gene

well, why did he lose you?

Sir Ben

Damn liberal.

Sir Gene

Yeah. So, and that's what I meant by Californian. I, I think he lost some listeners viewers when he started sending Dick pics to his

Sir Ben

Yeah. I don't care about the whole wife thing and all

Sir Gene

Yeah. And then swapped wives and then but his politics are definitely very Californian.

Sir Ben

He is way too woke

Sir Gene

Yeah. And I, I mean,

Sir Ben

you know, and you know, Steve Gibson GRC, and this is coming from someone who's in the cyber security realm. GRC gets way too much shit. Occasionally. He gets things. Right. And I am one of those people that I am not going to just rag on him to rag on him. It's like racking on Joe Weiss. If anyone gets the reference, you know? Yeah. He, he exaggerates, he goes down some paths that aren't great sometimes, but like the squirrel log on and some of the other things he's done are actually very good and very beneficial. And we have to recognize that

Sir Gene

Well, yeah, I mean, I made fun of him a lot and I, I haven't listened to him for ages, but he was just blatantly wrong a lot of time. Back when I was involved in InfoSec it was

Sir Ben

agree. I mean, the entire idea of shields up is, you know, and stealth port, well, first of all, you should call it cloaked. If you're really a Truckee and, you know, anyway, there, there are lots of things he, you know, open sockets or, oh my God, it's gonna be the of the world. All that completely agree. He should be. You know, that, that is a contentious point that you should take up with him, but what he created with

Sir Gene

he was not a, he was never a security. Spin write his disc product was what he made

Sir Ben

mean snake oil.

Sir Gene

on. Well, whatever you wanna call it. But he, he here's what he didn't know. Right. Is he knew how to write assembly language programs. He knew the hardware communication architecture,

Sir Ben

Sure. And when rewriting sectors on a hard drive was a thing, it was a valid

Sir Gene

exactly,

Sir Ben

hasn't been since

Sir Gene

That's what he made a lot of money in. He made hundreds of millions of that and that is he did. He did absolutely do what? Check it up. Look it up. Look it up.

Sir Ben

I show me where the man is worth over a million dollars and I will be

Sir Gene

it up. You look it up. You will see. Anyway. Then I think his interest based on personal experience started going into this like, well, I'm sitting here on the internet with no firewall, cuz it's my home connection. Wow. Look at all this shit flying back and forth.

Sir Ben

well, and you know, to be fair when he found the first spyware as he calls it, which I, that that's revisionist history. But the fact of the matter is that, you know, the picks was the firewall of the day and it was blacklist only. It was not a whitelist, only firewall is not an implicit deny. It was an implicit allow.

Sir Gene

yep.

Sir Ben

Yeah. I still have picks 5 0 5 sitting in my lab.

Sir Gene

Right.

Sir Ben

Yeah. Yeah. I packed all my lab gear

Sir Gene

I remember all, I remember those things.

Sir Ben

I've got a ASA. I've got some Palo Alto

Sir Gene

can't remember. I had a, there was a, there's an IDs device that I used to configure for I'm trying to remember the name of the company. It was something like Elron is it was, they were actually owned by,

Sir Ben

Hubbard. I mean, what

Sir Gene

they were owned by by Israeli military.

Sir Ben

ah, Jesus, what, what, what cybersecurity product? Isn't Israeli.

Sir Gene

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, fair enough. But back in the day, they were really the first IPS or ID IDs. It was pre IPSS. So it was first IDs that was did not require compilation. It was pre-compiled. It was pre

Sir Ben

Are, are you talking about like, shit, I can't remember what it was named before sofa bought them, but a star, the, a star gateway.

Sir Gene

No. Nope. It was called. I wanna say Elron something like that.

Sir Ben

There is not a cyber security product that was called Elron. I can tell you that.

Sir Gene

there, well, it was something like that. I can't remember the exact name, but it's also

Sir Ben

onion? I mean, I I'm trying to track

Sir Gene

no, this was, this was when you were a weed lad. This would've been 95, 19 95, 95.

Sir Ben

Yeah. So I was doing baby's first hack about then, you

Sir Gene

Mm-hmm

Sir Ben

and

Sir Gene

exactly. You were born. What? Five years before that

Sir Ben

a little over 10, but

Sir Gene

Uhhuh Uhhuh.

Sir Ben

Yeah, I mean, shit man. HD Moore, you know? Oh, anyway, I'll, I'll tell a story about that sometime. Came up on no agenda social about Ruby Ridge.

Sir Gene

Hm.

Sir Ben

I don't know if you saw that or that interaction.

Sir Gene

I don't recall now.

Sir Ben

So yeah, it came up on no, no agenda social about Ruby Ridge and,

Sir Gene

Mm-hmm

Sir Ben

how it was a meme. And I made a comment that, you know, Hey, I actually have met. No couple people from that. And I actually got challenged on it and I was like, well, you know, I,

Sir Gene

What the people saying bullshit. You don't know anything.

Sir Ben

yeah, pretty much, but no, Jack GLM Jack GLM was actually my first employer. I don't know if I've ever told you that.

Sir Gene

yeah. You've mentioned that a few times.

Sir Ben

Okay. Anyway. Yeah, no,

Sir Gene

mean, I, I know that you were infinitely involved with that whole Waco thing.

Sir Ben

No, I was

Sir Gene

I mean, Ruby rich thing that, that Ruby rich thing.

Sir Ben

Yeah. Yeah. Well, I wasn't directly involved with Ruby Ridge, but I

Sir Gene

Oh, no. I'm thinking of a video game I played.

Sir Ben

three, three specifically, but

Sir Gene

Yep.

Sir Ben

Anyway, it, it was just interesting because it's like, no, I, I, I actually, Jack MCLE when he died was a person I actually shed tears for because Jack MCLE is and was officer friendly and just a fantastic human being. Like he, he's the kind of person you want in law enforcement, Bo rights is an, a egotist. And I, I have known Bo for a long time. I, I don't

Sir Gene

Can you get him on podcast?

Sir Ben

I'm sorry.

Sir Gene

Can you get him on the podcast?

Sir Ben

I wouldn't,

Sir Gene

I I'd be curious to see what he is thinking about Ukraine.

Sir Ben

I, I probably could, but I don't know that I would want to, if Jack were alive, I would definitely get Jack on.

Sir Gene

Mm-hmm

Sir Ben

Um, so I lived less than half a mile from Beau for many years. His wife, Claudia at the time. I knew him when he tried to shoot himself which there's a whole story behind that. Let me tell you anyway, and I've met Randy Weaver on more than one occasion,

Sir Gene

can you get a him on the podcast?

Sir Ben

Randy Weaver? No, I don't know him that

Sir Gene

No.

Sir Ben

No, I, it, I'm sorry.

Sir Gene

Timothy McQuay?

Sir Ben

I think he's still in jail. Isn't he?

Sir Gene

Well doesn't mean you can't interview him, right?

Sir Ben

Ah, I think it does.

Sir Gene

Well, no, no, no, no. He just can't be paid for it. Yeah, no, they can dude, prisoners do interviews all the time.

Sir Ben

okay. Well I, no, I don't know Tim McFee and I,

Sir Gene

Oh, okay.

Sir Ben

I know Randy Weaver enough to say that I've met him a couple of times and shaking his hand and talked to him, but that's about it.

Sir Gene

How about Edward Snowden? Do you know him?

Sir Ben

No, but I think he's a hero and I did meet actually his director at an a and M cybersecurity conference where we ended up in a verbal battle after his speech in the hallway that I really wish was recorded.

Sir Gene

The battle in the hallway or his speech was in the hallway?

Sir Ben

No I, we had a verbal debate in the hallway and it was, it was one of those that I just, it, it, I, it was good. I, I would've loved to have published that. That's all I'm gonna say

Sir Gene

no, you could still write it up.

Sir Ben

I could, but you know, it's not the same. I mean, seeing him sitting there wagging his finger in my face and me just sitting there going, yeah. Huh? You have no argument here. Anyway, it, it would've been it YouTube gold had I had it recorded

Sir Gene

this is what I find people often don't realize, or they don't, I don't know. Maybe they do realize it is that most people that are wrong, they show very blatant use of assumptions.

Sir Ben

mm-hmm

Sir Gene

In their argument, construction aggression can be used as a tactic as well, but generally the, it, it like, it shouldn't take a, a genius by any stretch to be able to see the flaws in their arguments, because most of the flaws aren't really logical fallacies there. They're, they're just simply assumptions being made.

Sir Ben

So the way this all got started was he was giving a presentation at the security cyber security summit at a and M this was under Ragsdale. The only year they had it. And he gave this talk about how we should give up our privacy for, you know, safety and, yeah. Yeah. So what I stood up and asked afterwards says, so what I heard you say is that the us government is never wrong and that we should always give up our freedoms and our Liberty for safety and security

Sir Gene

Mm-hmm

Sir Ben

uh, Twitch. He had no answer and I challenged him on the constitutionality of it and told him what I thought of him. And regardless we headed to a break afterwards and I went out in the hallway and a coworker of mine was with me on this. And he walked out, found me in the hall and started dressing me down and wagging his finger in my face and telling me how I was wrong. And. to, you know, moth the floor with him and it was fun. I, I really wish someone would've recorded it. It would've been great. You can actually see me if you find the cyber security summit in a and M the video I'm talking about, you can see me ask the question so people can validate that and know that I'm not just bullshitting here. The conversation in the hallway unfortunately, was not recorded because it would be

Sir Gene

Well, it would've been now cuz there's security cameras everywhere.

Sir Ben

Well, I'm sure a and M had a security camera recording, but that

Sir Gene

What? You should just done a freedom of information act, request

Sir Ben

I didn't bother at the time, and this is years ago and they're not gonna have it now.

Sir Gene

now probably not. Although maybe Trump's got it in his house. I hear, I hear, he just likes to steal things from the national archive.

Sir Ben

Trump's a lept maniac. Didn't doesn't everyone know that

Sir Gene

That's I heard that's how he got his gold toilet in this house.

Sir Ben

from Putin.

Sir Gene

No. Yeah. For Putin. Exactly. You got it

Sir Ben

Putin and Putin.

Sir Gene

Uhhuh. Yeah. And on that note, I think we'll wrap this podcast up and then like I said, we'll, we'll let you guys know. Once the flip is made and I. For a few episodes anyway, I'll continue running it. Sir, Jean speaks as well.

Sir Ben

yeah, Gene's ready to have his own show back.

Sir Gene

I kinda am. I I, well, yes and no. I mean, I, there's nothing stopping me from putting out solo episodes as well, but I kind of, I, I, I would like to try and get back to just doing some of that as well. I don't know. We'll see. We'll see. Maybe maybe I'm just gonna keep launching more podcasts using Seine speaks and then

Sir Ben

the surgeon speaks random thoughts, crossover

Sir Gene

yeah. Well, you know, speaking of random thoughts you saw that that came in dead last place on no agenda social in terms of rate the hosts that people like the most

Sir Ben

I did not. No, I didn't see

Sir Gene

oh yeah, yeah, yeah. That was a poll that was run. And

Sir Ben

That has to hurt Darren very deeply personally.

Sir Gene

well, no other, no you're missing the point. It of all the hosts that Darren does a show with, which, which is your favorite and the least favorite of all was me

Sir Ben

really,

Sir Gene

like only 5% of the people liked the unrelenting podcast.

Sir Ben

I don't believe that. I think that show gets more listens than not.

Sir Gene

Well,

Sir Ben

I definitely think it gets more listens than planet rage.

Sir Gene

Yeah. According to the stats that show gets I don't think it gets more listens. I think that's the one that he does with Bemrose, but it gets more donations coming through Bitcoin than any other show.

Sir Ben

Huh?

Sir Gene

Yeah. But not cash donation, everybody canceled their cash donations. I thought the finally people are starting to listen to me cuz I've been telling'em for months, don't send money, just send water and blankets.

Sir Ben

so quick question to the audience, and if anyone cares to give feedback, I would appreciate it. Dude, at name bend.com. Should we go live? Should we find a time that works and put it on the live stream or keep doing prerecorded?

Sir Gene

Yeah. I mean that, my, my only concern about doing livestream is it gives that, that Polish spy a chance to listen to us in real time.

Sir Ben

yeah. Well there there's that. And you know, me with little kids and everything else, we gotta, the time, the flex, the advantage of prerecording, like this is, you know, like this weekend we can skip around. So

Sir Gene

it can be done, you know, I think there's actually more slots available. Not during business hours, believe it or not. Cuz most people at podcasts seem to have no jobs. And so consequently, most podcasts on the no gen network at least are done during business hours.

Sir Ben

well we both know business hours are a no go for me. So, and you know, for you, it's flexible right now, but

Sir Gene

I'll have a job as well right now. And I'm unemployed.

Sir Ben

yeah. Right. I think your next job's in space, right?

Sir Gene

Well, I'm, you know, I'm working on it. That's how I wouldn't quite call it a job. It may require me to put money in not the other way around, but but it is a space related thing, you know, I

Sir Ben

by the way, what are you gonna watch Monday

Sir Gene

watch Monday. What's Monday. I'm flying Monday.

Sir Ben

The Artis launch is

Sir Gene

oh, they're they're doing a test.

Sir Ben

Yep.

Sir Gene

Oh, okay. Well it depends what time? I mean, I'm, I'm flying Monday, so

Sir Ben

8:00 AM Pacific or not Pacific Eastern. Sorry. Eastern, Eastern

Sir Gene

oh eight Eastern I'm I might watch the replay that's way too early.

Sir Ben

Well, you know,

Sir Gene

re I watched the, the the Falcon launch yesterday. Live

Sir Ben

yeah. So when SpaceX did their first man launch,

Sir Gene

mm-hmm

Sir Ben

I was driving back from Dallas and I, I headed up on my phone on YouTube driving very responsibly. And I dude, I, that brought tears to my eyes.

Sir Gene

Oh yeah, totally. No, I I've watched, I'd say, well, I mean, I can, I can definitely say based on the. other than the last few months, cause I've been really fucking busy for the last few months, but other than that, I've watched every other SpaceX launch. They're so I've probably missed like 15 of them. I'd say total. And I wanna say they've done roughly 160 launches, so I've probably watched about 145 of those

Sir Ben

Now I will say this, the blue origin launches I've watched exactly one and that was the one chat was on, you know, I'm not in interested in

Sir Gene

They're not

Sir Ben

symbol going

Sir Gene

Exactly. It's a giant penis for Jeff Bezos flying up into the sky

Sir Ben

he's overcompensating. We'll just leave it

Sir Gene

yeah, think a little bit,

Sir Ben

That is

Sir Gene

where he had a, he had, he has a Cod piece for fuck's sake.

Sir Ben

dude. That is the biggest overcompensation in the history of the world.

Sir Gene

It's, it's worse than any sports car, but no, if you watch like Jeff Bezos in interviews about Amazon 20 years ago, and it's just little squirly dude with nothing in the front pants And you watch Dave Bezos doing a keynote presentation on Amazon or, or blue origin these days, the guy looks like he's packing about a 12. I mean, I swear to God, he is walking around with the cat piece.

Sir Ben

Let me ask you this gene. Why are you looking?

Sir Gene

Okay. So either you're gonna look at his, his bald head with his crazy eyes, or you're gonna look away from that. And one of the things that just pops right into your face is like, oh my God, this guy's either got a hard on, or he's like 12 inches flacid it's. And I, I, I would hope he's not walking around with the hard on all day long,

Sir Ben

So

Sir Gene

I think he's either had a pina implant

Sir Ben

Uhhuh.

Sir Gene

or he's packing a little something next, extra in there

Sir Ben

So everybody who, when we said we were rapping this up, they quit totally missed out on the P

Sir Gene

when nobody quits, nobody actually goes through trouble of getting a stop button. They wait for the podcast to actually end.

Sir Ben

I don't know. I actually stopped stuff.

Sir Gene

you stop yours before it stops itself? I don't believe you.

Sir Ben

Absolutely like no agenda. I almost never listened to end into show mixes.

Sir Gene

Okay. Well, you have a good reason for stopping that one. That's I'll give you that one. I kind of enjoy the mixes. So I do listen

Sir Ben

very talented, especially certain ones like great agent Paul, who we're hoping to create a thing for us. You know, there's some good people there. But it is just

Sir Gene

head up

Sir Ben

Huh?

Sir Gene

the other guy that just thought of still owns me a favor technic.

Sir Ben

Who's

Sir Gene

Is what's his face? The guy did, did the no agenda theme thing. God damn. What's his name?

Sir Ben

And when I was missing Jodi Fisher's name, you helped me out about as much as I'm gonna help

Sir Gene

eh, well you said some stupid words, like fish flower frog. Oh, oh, contact. I knew that's what it was. Yes. No, no, no. He's the guy that does the, a lot of the themes for Adam.

Sir Ben

Pull your card,

Sir Gene

he he's an actual yeah, yeah, yeah. There was, I remember, I, I hired him for a client that was a paid gig and he was like, oh, thanks dude. And it was like, yeah, yeah, yeah. And he's like, Hey, if you ever need a theme or something, let me know. I'm like, yeah, whatever.

Sir Ben

Well, now we need one,

Sir Gene

six years ago.

Sir Ben

well, dude interest.

Sir Gene

Yeah. Yeah. The other guy that I can try and hit up is at work once is mobi.

Sir Ben

Hmm. I don't think he's gonna do the style of music that we're

Sir Gene

well, but I mean maybe worth, worth a stretch.

Sir Ben

good name

Sir Gene

about, Hey, Moby, you ever thought about doing something people would listen to, and that is extra funny given his style of music,

Sir Ben

yeah, it really is.

Sir Gene

Yeah, cuz we need a theme for our podcast. Can't pay you, but we promise that we'll play it on every episode.

Sir Ben

I, you know what I'm betting secret agent Paul comes in and knocks it out of the park for

Sir Gene

That would be awesome.

Sir Ben

because, you know, I mean, I will say this him and a couple others, I do listen to the industry makes us because they're talented.

Sir Gene

oh, we got some great talent in no John, the social that's for sure. It's it's it generally people that you know, have a passion for the music and are doing it work for fun. I mean, for money.

Sir Ben

Yeah. I will say that. I would love to hear Dame. Jennifer say something about loose and squirrel. That's all I'm gonna say.

Sir Gene

Well, that should be easy enough. Just Stephen. Yeah. I, last time I saw her was at the Texas get together about what? Like

Sir Ben

you're talking about when we met. Yeah,

Sir Gene

No, not then. No, no, no. That was years ago. No, no, no. The last one here that yes, but the last time I saw her was like nine months ago is what I'm saying

Sir Ben

oh, okay. Yeah.

Sir Gene

named Jennifer. It was the, the thing down in. God, I can't remember the guy's names, but he he's the other duke that's like really close to here.

Sir Ben

mm-hmm mm-hmm duke of the armory. Can't

Sir Gene

No, not no, no, no. Not, not the army. No, that's not a duke that he's the Baron. No the God he is like in Lockhart or something, I can't remember the exact city, but he, he got up to duke real fast. So he was one of those people that just kinda it's good battled up within the matter of a few months and getting 10 grand in.

Sir Ben

Yeah, I'm gonna hang around the Barna a little longer. Now, if I get there are a couple deals coming in that if I

Sir Gene

Let me give you a piece of advice here for my benefit.

Sir Ben

upping things. What's that?

Sir Gene

Okay. If you commence some money and you decide to donate some money to no agenda.

Sir Ben

Mm-hmm

Sir Gene

Good, good goal. Fully support that don't do it in big increments. Do it in exactly$333 increments to make sure that each time you donate our show gets mentioned.

Sir Ben

fair enough. Actually. Fair

Sir Gene

Mm-hmm because there's no point in just doing one fell swoop, ands like, oh, here's a check for nine grand. Congratulations. I'ma do no. Fuck that shit, dude. Spread it out over time. This is my John C Doak school of business management moment.

Sir Ben

Well, taking the advertising, you know, like, you

Sir Gene

yeah, I mean, they don't do ads, but they'll take money. Okay. Now you owe me money cuz that's that's not allowed to be mentioned on this show. I'm gonna cut that out. It's

Sir Ben

know what, here's what I want you to do. I want you to cut it out, but I want you to say what CSV does with cut. I'm gonna cut that and just let it be like

Sir Gene

yeah, I'll have a censored beep is what I'm gonna have.

Sir Ben

Do it, do it, do it, do

Sir Gene

Mm-hmm in fact, I might just go through the whole time and find all instances of you saying and put a beep in there.

Sir Ben

do it.

Sir Gene

Uhhuh

Sir Ben

Do it.

Sir Gene

Well you think, I think I'm kidding.

Sir Ben

no, I, I think it would be hilarious. I think it'd be a good idea.

Sir Gene

Mm-hmm

Sir Ben

And he's gonna have to listen to the end of the show to hear me say that it was an okay idea. So he is not going to do that. And then he is gonna assume you're censoring me thus, you are evil rush Heath.

Sir Gene

Yes, exactly.

Sir Ben

Oh,

Sir Gene

All right, we got anything else?

Sir Ben

no, sir. No, sir. I am done. I'm ready to go outside and

Sir Gene

have some weed. I get it. I get it.

Sir Ben

I do not smoke weed.