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This is sir, Gene join me once again is sir dude named Ben, how are you?
Sir BenI do not smoke weed. Gene how's Mexico.
Sir GeneYeah, 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 BenYeah. I think there's only one person who thinks you're in Russia.
Sir GeneWow. If I'm thinking of the person you're thinking of, he thinks I'm permanently in Russia,
Sir Benexactly. So this could be our last episode of sir. Gene speaks together.
Sir GeneYeah. Yeah. I'm gonna fire your ass.
Sir Benwe actually decided on a, a, a name and it sounds like secret agent Paul's working on theme song for us.
Sir GeneIs he really? Wow. That's
Sir BenHe, he, he volunteered
Sir GeneThat'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 BenNorm,
Sir Genenow, if,
Sir BenI, I, I play the violin, but it's not, it does not qualify for this. So
Sir GeneYeah. No, and I, I, I play keyboard, but you know, mostly accordion.
Sir Benyeah. Well, I put a call out there and asking for help and he he piped up, so we'll see what he does.
Sir GeneVery cool. Very cool. So should we let the folks know what the name of the show.
Sir BenSure.
Sir Geneyeah, it it's gonna be super easy to remember just two good old boys.
Sir BenAnd if, if you haven't seen Dukes of hazard, just Googled the Dukes of hazard theme.
Sir GeneEverybody seen DHA.
Sir BenBut 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 Genewell, 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 Benwell, there's some 2.0 features that can help you with that too.
Sir GeneI don't know if there are the,
Sir BenThere are some of the name, space stuff on forwarding of RSS
Sir Geneyeah, but we're not forwarding or changing. We're
Sir BenWell, 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 GeneYeah, 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 BenCool, cool
Sir Geneout. 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 BenIt
Sir GeneI get on the
Sir BenGene I've got notifications turned on for you.
Sir Geneit's it's mostly once a day. I'm so what, what did I miss what's happening?
Sir BenWell, a big redacted mess for one.
Sir GeneWhat's what's what do you mean?
Sir BenWell, I'm not talking about Clayton Morris's podcast. I'm talking about the Trump affidavit.
Sir GeneOh, I thought you were talking about the podcast.
Sir Benno, 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 Genemm-hmm
Sir Benversus 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 Genemm-hmm
Sir Benand some of them were classified. So they had reason to believe he may have additional classified documents.
Sir Geneboy that wouldn't stand up in court. As the reasons you could a warrant.
Sir BenIt'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 GeneIf 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 Benit'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 Geneit's the same company.
Sir Bendude, it looks dirty. This looks
Sir GeneIt is dirty. FBI's been dirty for a long time, which is
Sir BenOh, the FBI's been dirty forever. I mean,
Sir GeneYeah, and I, I like, I know some good guys in it, but man, there are a lot of bad guys in it and
Sir BenYou 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 Geneany 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 Benyeah.
Sir Genethe other party at this point is FBI. It is, it is not a political party.
Sir Benwas this comic strip by
Sir GeneNo, God,
Sir BenAh,
Sir Geneno. This was a good quality
Sir Bengotta step it up. Got it.
Sir Geneof all, he doesn't listen to this.
Sir BenHe 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 Geneoh my God. I'm gonna have to ban'em from listening.
Sir Benluck.
Sir Geneneed, I need a new feature in podcasting 2.0 that lets me exclude somebody by
Sir Benno, man. He, he he's good people. I like And plus he and I get to joke about you all the time.
Sir GeneYeah, I bet you do
Sir BenI mean,
Sir Genewell. I'm glad you like people that, that think I'm
Sir BenI, I, after this, when we switch to the new name, you can't call it that anymore.
Sir GeneAlright, so yeah, FBI clearly is a political wing or the enforcement wing, I should say, of the big tech party.
Sir BenYep.
Sir GeneThat's the best way to describe it.
Sir BenGene, have you ever looked at a picture of Jager? Hoover,
Sir GeneSure.
Sir Benpull one up Ask you a very specific question. If I
Sir Geneokay. Like a black and white one.
Sir Bencolor, preferably,
Sir GeneOkay. 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 Benis he black or white?
Sir GeneIn the color image,
Sir BenMm-hmm
Sir Geneit looks Italian. Got that big Italian nose. Brown eyes.
Sir BenMo and several others. And this is a whole theory that he was a black man that was passing.
Sir GeneJacob Hoovers? No, he was not a black man.
Sir BenThere are people there, there are people who claim he had been family.
Sir GeneOkay. I
Sir Bencan go down the rabbit hole. I'm just saying, and if
Sir Genenot that hard to find you know, a lineage of somebody
Sir Benokay, 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 Genedude. He's not black. I mean, Christ thanks. Come on.
Sir Benwell, at least we can say that he was on the same spectrum as Blair white, right?
Sir GeneI don't see any image of him wearing a dress.
Sir Benno, he
Sir GeneI mean, I've heard that he liked men, but you know, so what,
Sir BenNo, apparently he was a cross dresser.
Sir Genewell, I thought he was gay
Sir BenMaybe that too.
Sir Geneand that proves he's not black by the way. Cuz there are no black gay men. Everybody knows this. Yeah
Sir Benyou did you see the Blair white interview where Alex passed out?
Sir GeneI did. Yeah. And I think she just posted some follow up stuff
Sir BenYeah, it wasn't as bad as I would've expected based off of what they had said.
Sir GeneI mean
Sir BenI mean, he was out of it,
Sir Genehe 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 BenYeah. Speaking of he's given Trump a month,
Sir GeneOh yeah, yeah, yeah. I saw, I heard that. Yeah.
Sir Benhe's given him a month to renounce the vaccines and, you know, keep his support. Otherwise he's going with the Santas
Sir GeneMm-hmm well, I'm definitely going with the Santa. I don't need a month.
Sir Benyeah. 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 GeneWell, to be
Sir Benblame it on Trump.
Sir Genehe did start it.
Sir BenWarp speed, man. You, you wanna take credit for that? You get the credit for it, you know?
Sir GeneYeah. So I'm looking at Jay Hoover's family tree and I don't see any black people in it.
Sir BenThere's someone who claims to be his niece that has decidedly black Mo has covered this on Mo facts. There's
Sir Genecan have
Sir Benis not a,
Sir Geneafter 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 Benthat's not the way it worked, but anyway,
Sir GeneWell, I mean,
Sir Benpull
Sir Geneshe's his niece, she's gonna be his brother or sister's kid, right?
Sir BenRight. But anyway, just go, listen.
Sir GeneHey, you brought it up, man.
Sir Benworth the theory. I, I personally, when I look at him, I totally see it.
Sir GeneWhat, what you got a kidney. What do you see?
Sir BenI see a passable black person. Totally.
Sir Geneinsane?
Sir BenNo.
Sir GeneYes, no characteristics of a black person.
Sir BenAre you looking at the same photos? I am
Sir GeneClearly 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 Benwell, I don't have access to that. So
Sir GeneOh, they're all public now.
Sir Benare they really.
Sir GeneYeah. They're part of, well, I mean, you gotta use a Russian website to get to'em, but they're totally public.
Sir BenYeah. So this is actually his FBI portrait as director that I'm gonna send you.
Sir GeneOkay. 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 BenWell, at least Trump is
Sir GeneNo, I mean, well, kidding aside, if you analyze the color spectrum that we are, we're actually a FA a light orange,
Sir BenI mean, there is no such thing as the color black by that sort of statement.
Sir Genefor sure. Black is the absence of all the other colors.
Sir BenExactly. And that doesn't exist because light
Sir GeneSo you're denying black people. Oh my God. Is this where we are now?
Sir Benit absolutely is. Black does not exist.
Sir GeneOh my God.
Sir Benby the way, folks, we're recording this instead of our normal time. We're recording this on a Sunday
Sir GeneYeah. That's why I sound a lot higher pitched
Sir Benyeah, why I'm in a better mood.
Sir GeneOh, really? Is that what it is? Okay. So next thing you're gonna say, Harry is Truman was Jewish.
Sir Benwell, duh.
Sir Geneyou'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 BenI'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 GeneThe, you, you mean it's slapping people that are seeing the power that the other party wields through the FBI. And
Sir BenThe 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 GeneHmm. Well, okay. But jump to shark, meaning that they don't care anymore, or what do you mean by jump to shark?
Sir BenJump the shark as in, they went too far and it is waking a lot of people up.
Sir GeneEh,
Sir BenI know liberals in my life
Sir Genesaying that forever.
Sir BenI'm sorry.
Sir GenePeople 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 BenMm,
Sir GeneI, 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 Benwell,
Sir Geneit.
Sir BenSo 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 GeneShe's been swatted
Sir Bentwice
Sir Genewell, 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 Bentheir own guns, so they have to use the polices
Sir Genewhat 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 BenWell, regardless, Marjorie Taylor, Green's been swatted twice this week, so that's a
Sir GeneYeah. It it's very unfortunate.
Sir Benyou know, it's a Congress person. So
Sir GeneYep.
Sir Bencan you imagine the left's response if it was Nancy Pelosi that got swatted.
Sir GeneWell I think we'd cancel all police period.
Sir BenObviously
Sir GeneYeah. 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 Benso what do you think is next for her after Congress fans only?
Sir GeneOh, 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 BenI, I, I, I bet you only fans is in her, in her future at
Sir GeneI'll bet you a buck. That's not the case.
Sir Benher and
Sir GeneI 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 BenYeah,
Sir Genethat will lead to her running for present.
Sir Benwell, 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 Genethat's the the little ball guy,
Sir BenYeah. 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 GeneWell, I don't know that he makes all that much money at CNN. I think he made more from HBO.
Sir BenWell, but regardless if he hasn't found a home yet where who's gonna hire him, if you miss NBC,
Sir Geneon 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 BenThis 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 Geneokay, well, so are you worried about'em what's I don't understand the
Sir Benno, 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 Geneit's a little too soon to say that
Sir BenMaybe, but it's in the line of go woke or go broke that sort of
Sir Geneyou know, literally he's only been off the area, the amount of time I've been on vacation. Not that long.
Sir BenWell, how long are you playing on staying on vacation? Gene?
Sir GeneIt depends. How long is it gonna take for him to get a job?
Sir Benyou're gonna stay on vacation until Brian seltzer gets a job. That, that
Sir GeneGod damnit, I'm gonna wait it out.
Sir BenI don't think your bank account's gonna afford that, but.
Sir GeneNo, 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 Benman. I don't
Sir GeneHe may end up being the liberal Tim pool.
Sir BenOh, 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 GeneThere'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 Benmaybe
Sir GeneYou've never seen those two together. Have you?
Sir BenNo, no, they're both bald
Sir Genethere's a, there's a reason Tim wears a hat
Sir BenYeah, they're both
Sir GeneUhhuh.
Sir BenSpeaking of, did you listen to Tim's new number two, hit single.
Sir GeneNo, he's got a, a music thing.
Sir BenHe has published he has announced Tim cast records and put out a song and it hit number
Sir GeneI know he plays guitar, but I, I never heard him.
Sir BenRight? He's singing.
Sir GeneIsn't he? Good?
Sir BenI Hmm. Okay. So it is not my style of music. It is very, huh.
Sir Geneit's country.
Sir BenNo, I love
Sir GeneNo. Oh,
Sir BenI grew up on country and XO and everything
Sir GeneYeah. Well, that's
Sir BenI love good classic rock. This is very emo esque
Sir GeneOh, is this like Seattle rock?
Sir BenYeah.
Sir GeneGot it. Okay. Okay. Yeah. I don't like that shit.
Sir BenAnyway, 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 Geneoh, okay. Like Melin, Cali,
Sir BenI'm sorry.
Sir Genelike Mellon Kelly music.
Sir BenYeah, 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 GeneWell, I know he's done a few, like he's been in the band of a few other groups. I know that.
Sir BenHe's making a big thing about having the drummer from offspring
Sir GeneOh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I remember that. Cuz the guy got fired.
Sir Benyep. Over the VAX
Sir Geneon 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 BenNot yet.
Sir GeneHe is getting a lot of money from a lot of people, including the both of us at at least at some points
Sir Benfrom you, not for
Sir GeneYeah. 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 BenIt 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 GeneWell, you know, the, the no longer liberal emo Seattle rockers,
Sir BenAnd those exist where
Sir Genewell, he is got a band full than he
Sir Benhe's got something.
Sir GeneUhhuh Ian Ian's in there, right?
Sir BenI don't think he, I I'd have to go
Sir GeneOh really? I thought Ian played
Sir Benbut I don't think Ian's in it.
Sir GeneReally? I thought Ian played bass.
Sir BenIf 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 GeneOkay. Got it. Yeah. I have not listened to it at all. So.
Sir BenWell, I'd be interested to hear what you think.
Sir GeneI'm pretty sure it would suck.
Sir Bendude, 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 GeneI 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 BenHow so? Well, I mean, what, what kinds of music do you like
Sir Geneclassical.
Sir BenOV skis? One of my favorites, I play violin for Christ's sake. I love classical music.
Sir GeneYes. 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 BenSuch as
Sir GeneI mean, well, some people have heard of, but I have a lot of like early eighties, European music.
Sir Benoh,
Sir GeneLike techno, not techno, but like precursors, techno, like Euro synth.
Sir BenOkay. 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 Geneokay. I've never heard of it. So wouldn't work
Sir Benjam is or you don't know
Sir GeneI've heard of Pearl jam. I've heard of that group. I think they were around in the nineties or something.
Sir BenYeah. Eighties and nineties. Yeah.
Sir GeneYeah. But
Sir Benwhere can I baby be? That you don't know that song really? I mean, this was a, actually a pretty big hit.
Sir Genenot what I was listening
Sir Benvery emotionally emo.
Sir GeneYeah. I just think music was horrible in the nineties.
Sir BenOkay. Well I'm sure will get it. The reference
Sir GeneOkay. Well I'm sure he will. Although maybe not. It depends on his age.
Sir BenWay, he's paying me per reference. Just so everyone
Sir GeneI, I, I figured as much I'm gonna start charging you soon too.
Sir Benmm-hmm
Sir GeneSo 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 BenWhat do you mean? All my stories. So you mean like
Sir GeneJagar Hoover was, has been dead for how long.
Sir Benyeah, 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 GeneDidn't didn't his somebody do a movie about him recently or something.
Sir BenIf they did, I didn't catch it.
Sir GeneI saw a photo of Shirley temple with him.
Sir BenYeah. Did you see she Hulk
Sir GeneNo, and I have no interest in seeing it.
Sir Bendude, I watched part of the first episode and it is so bad. It is. It is. It's like
Sir Genesee, I, I watch
Sir Benif MGT made a FM explainer
Sir Geneexactly. I, I watch nerd
Sir BenUhhuh
Sir GeneOn YouTube and you know, those guys are as close as I wanted to be to any comic books.
Sir Benokay.
Sir GeneI don't like comic book movies.
Sir BenWell, this isn't a comic book movie, but it's a show and
Sir GeneWell, Hulk is a comic book. I literally remember those comics from when I was a kid.
Sir Benyeah, 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 GeneOh, I saw that, but the expression on the Hulk's face is priceless
Sir BenOh, it's fucking fantastic. It's so memorable. This is gonna be a meme for decades.
Sir Geneyeah. 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 Benno, but
Sir Geneof Hulk is he is masculinity cranked up to 11,
Sir Benwell the point is that he, you won't like me when I'm angry, right? So
Sir Generight? Because
Sir Bennormal guy.
Sir Genehe's literally Arnold. Schwartzer exactly.
Sir Benexcept not, you know, with
Sir GeneWell, Arnold wasn't green, I guess, but Arnold's
Sir BenArnold doesn't have high testosterone. He, I mean, he has no balls because of all the steroid usage
Sir Geneyeah, exactly. That's kind of my point, Arnold, during the eighties was living on steroid instead of food.
Sir Benoh,
Sir GeneSo that's pretty much what the Hulk is. He's roid up, you know, pure masculine kind
Sir BenI wouldn't say that ROI it up is pure masculine, but okay.
Sir GeneWell, it is. I mean, why, why wouldn't you
Sir Benwell, when your test is dissolve because of your re
Sir Genehe doesn't need testes. He got hit with gamma radiation, dude. Do you not read the comic book?
Sir Benyes. Cuz Gama radiation, you
Sir GeneThat replaces testes. And that makes made him green as well.
Sir BenHuh. Mm-hmm
Sir GeneYeah. I mean, would you rather have that or get bitten by a spider
Sir BenYou know, my my
Sir Geneand then they ejaculate outta your wrists?
Sir BenIs that what that is?
Sir GeneHave you never watched Spiderman,
Sir BenI have watched Spider-Man but I'm pretty sure my ejaculate isn't ropey enough for me to swing
Sir GeneWell, that's because he's got spider DNA mixed in because the bite with his, you know, displaced ejaculatory ports,
Sir Benoh, we are off the rails on this one
Sir GeneYeah, I thought we were talking about guns and, you know, shit like that with, with the show, but apparently
Sir BenYeah. 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 Geneyeah, I've seen
Sir Benpretty damn
Sir GeneMm-hmm
Sir BenAnd
Sir Genebig though. Right?
Sir Benno, it's a, it's a compact it's
Sir GeneThat's what I thought.
Sir Benand concealed carry. And having that optic pre mounted on there is just, it, it is game changing in my mind.
Sir GeneWell, what about it is game changer? I mean, you could stick one of those optics on again.
Sir BenWell 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 Genebasically everybody has one of those. Okay. Next
Sir Bentrying 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 GeneI 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 BenNo. What happened was the law preventing someone under 21 from carrying a pistol
Sir Genemm-hmm
Sir Bennullified. 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 Genemm-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 Bennot 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 Genewe, 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 BenYeah, federal law. Sure.
Sir Genestate 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 Benwell there's
Sir GeneAnd then the,
Sir Benas well
Sir GeneI 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 Benno, but what you're missing is so I'm go
Sir GeneI could be missing. I just don't,
Sir BenSo 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 GeneAnd, and does this particular law have that?
Sir BenI'm gonna have to quite honestly do some research, which I'm trying to do right now. And, you know,
Sir Genecause that's how organized we are. We do real time looking up photos of James river and real time
Sir BenYeah. So, apparently the
Sir GeneI do know the judge did a 30 day stay on the zone order.
Sir BenI'm sorry,
Sir GeneThe judge did a 30 day stay on his own order to give an opportunity for the legislature to redo it.
Sir BenABC, CNN in Politico, all think it's falls under separability.
Sir GeneSo basically we have no idea. So you just named three non-trust worthy sources.
Sir Benwell, 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 GeneOr raise it.
Sir BenWell, if he raises it, then he needs to raise the voting age and raise the, when you can be
Sir GeneI 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 BenI, I don't know that I'd
Sir GeneI 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 BenSo I, I think land ownership should be a qualification.
Sir Genefor voting would be good too.
Sir BenSo 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 Geneoh man. I was so tempted to do a Chinese accent, right.
Sir BenWell, I mean, get canceled on this RSS feed before we shipped to the next
Sir GeneI know. Right?
Sir BenYeah. 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 GeneHmm.
Sir BenAnyway, it, it was, it was not a fun time. And I'm trying to remember where I was going.
Sir Genedo you have details or are you just gonna say it was not a fun time?
Sir BenI 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 Geneyeah. It's not the morning. You're clearly not cut out to do evening podcasts,
Sir BenWell, you know, been dealing with the kids all day and everything else, but
Sir Genegetting new
Sir Benmore of a, huh?
Sir Geneget any new guns.
Sir BenNo, no, I just don't go and shopping for the one for my mom. But,
Sir GeneYeah. 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 Benwell she was with me and she com
Sir GeneOh, she was with you. Got it. Got it. So you were just, you weren't so
Sir Benand helping pay
Sir Geneyou just paying for the gun for somebody else, which how's that.
Sir Benit's perfectly legal as long as it's in their name and even
Sir Genethought it was just for children. You're allowed to buy guns.
Sir Benno, 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 GeneMm.
Sir BenSo if I decide I wanna buy her a gun tomorrow, or
Sir Genereally know whether your
Sir Benyou or anyone,
Sir Geneor anything.
Sir BenI'm sorry,
Sir GeneI, how do you know any of us are felons or not?
Sir Benit it's. So this is a case where
Sir Genedo a background check on your mom.
Sir BenShe'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 GeneWell, you have to dis brew it. I mean, that's obviously the government standard, as you have to prove negative,
Sir BenYeah. Well, logical possibility, but sure.
Sir Genenot 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 BenOh, I mean, my parents are, I, I, I got it.
Sir Geneknow your dad hunts.
Sir Benyeah, we we're, we're pretty active on our shooting. My mom she's a realtor and goes into certain situations where,
Sir GeneWell, yeah, she needs to be armed for sure.
Sir Benshe does and you know, she's, she's up there, she's in her seventies and
Sir Genestill working
Sir Benhuh.
Sir Genestill working.
Sir BenOh, both my parents will work till the day
Sir GeneYeah. Well, I can't, I can't fault that.
Sir Benit'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 GeneDerringer.
Sir BenI've got a dinger.
Sir GeneYeah. That's a kind of a ladies gun. Isn't that?
Sir BenIt's strategically placed in my truck and it's it's one of those nice backups,
Sir Genemm.
Sir Benbut 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 Genethe 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 BenYeah. But I mean, I have a 38 special, you know, nothing to sear at. If you ask me
Sir GeneMm-hmm so it it's like a single double shot.
Sir Bena double stack
Sir GeneYeah. Yeah.
Sir BenYeah. 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 GeneOh sure. 1911. Yeah. Yeah.
Sir BenNo, 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 GeneThis 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 BenYeah. 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 GeneYeah, 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 BenAgreed.
Sir GeneYeah. 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 BenUniversal language, forget the fuck
Sir GeneUhhuh, Uhhuh, this is, this is universal language for, this is your one and only warning.
Sir BenYeah. Which you
Sir Genegonna be very loud and very painful.
Sir Benand my question in every movie is why the fuck didn't you have one around in the, in the chamber anyway, you know,
Sir GeneWell, 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 Benokay.
Sir GeneMostly cuz I like that noise cuz I like the sound man.
Sir BenYeah. Well,
Sir GeneIt'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 BenGene, how long, how long were you in the KGB?
Sir Genethat's never the KGB. This is a lie that polished scumbag keeps telling his data is
Sir Bentelling my wife, you know, sometimes I think Gene's my handler.
Sir GeneMm-hmm yes. That, that, that kind of ran its course with Adam for about six years.
Sir Bennow you've moved on.
Sir GeneMm-hmm
Sir BenMm. So did you hear about California and the car thing?
Sir Genethe California card thing. No,
Sir BenSo Cal, eh, I thought I sent this out, but so California,
Sir Geneyou assume I read shit. You sent, okay, go ahead. Go ahead.
Sir Benyeah, 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 Genesent that to me?
Sir BenI think I sent it out on the channel between you, me and Josh.
Sir GeneOh, okay. Cuz I think I have a different buddy of mine. Send me. Oh yeah. Washington bands got banning gas cars. 2030.
Sir BenCalifornia. You
Sir Genewhat? Well, no, that's when my buddy from Washington state sent me,
Sir Benokay, 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 Genesay just like water way more than they produce.
Sir Benyeah. 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 GeneOkay.
Sir Benjust to satiate California's gas
Sir GeneNow, where do you get that number from?
Sir BenTaking the 58 million times the 33.7 by the EPA,
Sir GeneWhere's the 58 million coming from
Sir Benthe amount of gas that California uses per year.
Sir Genecurrently. But what we don't know is what kind of gas mileage they're currently getting?
Sir Benit 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 GeneWell, 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 BenWell, let, let's put it this way. How much do you think it costs per kilowatt hour to build new generation gene?
Sir GeneWell, I don't know that that's allowed right now with the current administration.
Sir BenWell, but we're gonna have to build more and we're gonna have to build more transmission and distribution
Sir Genecan't we just get our, get our power from Mexico, like all other countries do.
Sir BenSo 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 GeneAh, 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 Benokay. Even if they do let's look at the cost, so you
Sir Genecost is gonna be passed on to the consumer
Sir Benthe cost is going to be trillions in order to meet the need.
Sir Geneno, this sounds like a stock tip to me.
Sir BenSure. You know, going ahead and invest in PG E the criminal corporation that it is,
Sir Geneno, no, no, no stock tip for companies doing solar, like Tesla, solar,
Sir BenTesla's not doing solar, they haven't done it. They haven't produced a single solar roof.
Sir GeneThey should, I've seen videos. What are you talking about?
Sir BenYou've seen demo reels. You have not seen actual installation.
Sir GeneBut they, well, they don't look like solar. That's why
Sir BenNo, this is one of the, this is like the cyber truck it's never been delivered.
Sir GeneI have a cyber truck.
Sir BenNo, you don't.
Sir GeneI do I ordered the second day.
Sir BenYeah, you you've ordered it. Have you received it?
Sir Genewell, no, I haven't received it, but you know, I've got one
Sir Bengo.
Sir Genecoming when it's made someday eventually.
Sir BenUhhuh.
Sir GeneSo probably the roof at the same time as a truck is my guess.
Sir BenThis is like, when will the Ukraine war end?
Sir GeneHmm. Well, how many billions can we send to'em that'll determine when it ends.
Sir Benwe just sent more.
Sir GeneYeah, we did. Of course. I think we're pushing over a hundred billion now.
Sir BenYeah, we're very close. And you
Sir GeneGod we have the spare change.
Sir Benthe Biden administration has printed more money in the last two years than every other president combined, including Trump,
Sir GeneYep.
Sir Benthe fuck.
Sir Genethey 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 BenYeah. So you're aware of the student loan forgiveness, then I could take it.
Sir GeneI 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 Benyeah. 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 Genewell, it's welfare for the middle class.
Sir BenWhat do you define as the middle class?
Sir GenePeople that send kids to college.
Sir BenI think lots of classes send people to college, but what,
Sir GeneWell, people that can't afford to do that, don't
Sir BenI, I think there are very few people who, if they want to go to college cannot afford it. Given the grants and
Sir GeneI it's over a hundred grand for a person to go to college right now.
Sir BenNo,
Sir GeneMost people can't afford that. Well, the, but do community colleges, do those loans get canceled out?
Sir BenOh yeah. Sure. Any loan
Sir GeneHmm
Sir Bentrade school
Sir Genewhat'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 BenDude 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 Geneyeah. Or an HVAC program.
Sir Benwell 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 GeneThat's pretty good, but with a HVAC
Sir BenI know some in C guys that back in the day were making more than I did,
Sir GeneOh, 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 BenEasily 80 to a hundred.
Sir GeneYeah. 120.
Sir BenYeah.
Sir GeneThat's starting wage. Do you know what the Amazon,
Sir Benlike us, it really devalues our tenure and experience and everything else, but yes
Sir Genestarting wage in Amazon for a software engineer
Sir Ben140,
Sir Geneup 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 BenGod damn.
Sir Genestarting wage, right?
Sir BenYou know, I, I, I, I feel like I do pretty well, but that
Sir Geneyou 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 Bendo you know what a dink is?
Sir GeneDo 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 BenOkay.
Sir GeneRight 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 BenThat's depressing to me.
Sir GeneWell, 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 BenWell, 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 Geneyeah. 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 BenOh, that's the thing.
Sir GeneGoogle, Facebook Amazon, any of that ilk, then a person with your background and skillsets
Sir Benbut I could never work for those people. I could never work for those
Sir GeneSo that, that is the salary that they pay for, you know, working for an evil corpor.
Sir BenMm. 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 GeneWell, you're your sounds like that's just driven by the ownership of the company, which is BlackRock.
Sir Benactually, yes, it is. We had a huge investment from BlackRock
Sir Genenot a hard guess.
Sir Benwhen it started.
Sir GeneYep. That's not a hard guess,
Sir BenNo, it's not,
Sir GeneI 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 BenWhen the shaved heads start, things gotta be up there.
Sir GeneYeah. 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 Benyeah, so yeah, the two men of hate man, so going back to the jump to shark moment
Sir GeneThat's way too short. It ought be way more than two minutes.
Sir Benwell that's the book reference?
Sir GeneI know, I know, but I think that's UN unreasonably short
Sir BenYeah, well,
Sir Genetwo hours is more like it.
Sir BenSo 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 GeneMm-hmm
Sir BenAnthem, all of that are sitting on the same shelf. Yeah, I mean to look at my bookshelf is to understand me.
Sir GeneWell, 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 BenAnd by Lex, you mean Lex Friedman?
Sir GeneYeah. 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 BenSo I crack you up a lot, Jean
Sir Genewell 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 BenSo see when I
Sir Geneearly on said dementia
Sir BenYeah.
Sir Geneagain,
Sir BenYou accuse
Sir Geneold. I'm allowed.
Sir Benlit, but you're,
Sir GeneYou're clearly lit. I'm definitely not lit. I I'm not drinking this year. So there's nothing to be lit
Sir BenSo it's just the Alzheimer talking.
Sir GeneOh 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 BenI have no idea where you were going, man, this
Sir Genewas the last topic
Sir Benwell, you kinda interrupted my topic so that I'm not sure which topic you're
Sir Genewas your topic? You gotta bring me back to
Sir BenI 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 GeneBooks. 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 BenI completely agree.
Sir GeneYeah. 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 Benyou're all in cells
Sir Genegreat idea.
Sir Benyeah, 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 GeneMm-hmm
Sir BenYeah, no, I
Sir GeneThat's
Sir Bengood reads is great. That that's a fantastic use case. They should totally pivot.
Sir Geneyeah. I, I general, I like I've posted on there a couple times.
Sir BenWell, 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 Genemm-hmm
Sir BenYeah.
Sir Genemy guess is most of the people on there single
Sir Benwell,
Sir Genethey have a lot of cats.
Sir Benand, and not having sex. Yes. Agreed.
Sir GeneWell, I mean single or not, most people are just not having sex cuz when you're
Sir Benweird, man.
Sir Genethat works? Is it though? Is it though?
Sir BenYeah. 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 Geneyep.
Sir BenOkay. So physical touch and intimacy. Apparently according to that website has been dropping over the last
Sir GeneMm-hmm
Sir Bendramatically.
Sir Geneyes. Well that's cuz you're supposed to be wearing late latex gloves. Anytime you touched somebody
Sir BenI, 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 Geneyeah,
Sir BenAnd no, it was not my wife
Sir Geneno,
Sir Benalthough it feels like it sometimes.
Sir Geneyeah, exactly. I don't half my conversations with my married friends, my married male friends,
Sir Benmm-hmm
Sir Geneuh, is them bitching about the fact that they're not getting late
Sir Benwhich
Sir GeneI have to keep remind them. How is this different than when you were single?
Sir Benexactly.
Sir GeneYou were a loser, then you're a loser now what do you want?
Sir Benwell, what the, why did you get married?
Sir GeneWell, clearly not
Sir Benyou're going to accept that as a status quo, then what the hell?
Sir GeneHuh. 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 BenI
Sir Geneshouldn't be engaged in long term relationships. That's all
Sir BenI think we've discussed on the podcast before,
Sir Genediscussed 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 Benwhy, but okay.
Sir Geneno, 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 BenWhat about those of us who have expectations out of the, you know, Ephesians five, for example,
Sir Geneoutta what,
Sir BenEphesians five.
Sir Genewhat is that?
Sir BenIt's a book in the Bible, gene.
Sir GeneOh, I don't know that one. That's that's a must be a Christian thing.
Sir Benit is
Sir GeneYeah, there you go.
Sir Benanyway, go on,
Sir GeneYeah. 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 BenOh, Jesus Christ are gonna make me spell Ephesians right now.
Sir GeneWhat you, I think you're just making this shit up.
Sir BenHold on. I'm Googling it cuz I do not wanna misspell it. I don't want the wrath of so it's E
Sir GeneP H E S I a N S is my guess, but go ahead.
Sir BenYeah, 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 GeneAnd by hating his own body, you mean he should be masturbating a lot?
Sir BenNo. 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 GenePlenty of men hate their wives.
Sir Benbut they shouldn't because they should consider them part of their, an extension of their own body.
Sir GeneWell, 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 BenRight left, you know,
Sir Geneboth 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 Benkids are definitely a challenge. They, they add some challenge to it. That's
Sir Geneknow 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 Benfive
Sir GeneMm-hmm yep.
Sir Benwell, you know,
Sir GeneThis is, this is the curse of the potent sperm.
Sir Benmm-hmm
Sir GeneEvery time you have sex, you, you make a kid and it curses those men to never have sex.
Sir Benwell, 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 Geneyes, but I don't think reproduction is correlated with the regularity of sex.
Sir BenOkay.
Sir GeneReproduction is generally more of a correlation with their political convictions.
Sir BenIn, in what way?
Sir GeneStatistically,
Sir BenWho, who do you? No, no, no. What I'm saying is who do you think is getting laid
Sir Genethe liberals don't have five kids.
Sir BenNo, they don't.
Sir GeneNo.
Sir BenYou think they're having more sex?
Sir GeneOh yeah, yeah.
Sir BenMm, I don't know.
Sir GeneYep.
Sir BenWell, I mean,
Sir Geneyou 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 Benliberal chicks,
Sir GeneWhat? Yeah, I mostly screwed liberal I'm I've mostly fucked liberal chick.
Sir Benso you like the blue hair and the big
Sir GeneYou know what? I fucked a lot of blue hair, a lot of white hair on some red hair and pink hair.
Sir Benred. Red.
Sir Genedefinitely.
Sir BenYeah. Red.
Sir GeneI don't mean that red. I don't mean the red. You like, I mean the like a hot pink, red.
Sir BenYeah, no,
Sir GeneYeah, 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 BenOh man.
Sir Geneyeah, 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 BenI
Sir GeneI take'em to vegan restaurants. Dude. I take'em to vegan restaurants. They, they dig it.
Sir Benyou do not
Sir Genehell I do. Absolutely.
Sir BenMr. Mediater is going to a vegan restaurant
Sir Genesome great Indian vegan places in Austin.
Sir Benin Indian food. Okay. I, I can, I, I can follow that. I can agree with that,
Sir Geneyeah. You know, I was a vegetarian for like, three years, right?
Sir BenSo you're a masochist. Got it.
Sir GeneNo, I was a Buddhist at the time.
Sir BenOkay. Like I said, I'm masochist.
Sir GeneWell, I mean, Buddhism's not really masochism. That would be more Catholicism, but you know, I did the whole diet thing.
Sir BenNo, thank you. You know, every vegan kid I've ever seen or a very vegetarian children
Sir Genewanna punch'em right.
Sir BenHuh?
Sir GeneYou just wanna punch'em.
Sir BenNo, they're just
Sir GeneOh, that's what I mean.
Sir Benand low IQ.
Sir GeneYeah.
Sir BenYou have to have protein for brain development.
Sir GeneI think you need cholesterol from brain development. Not so
Sir Bensame thing, but you get cholesterol from animal protein.
Sir GeneYeah, yeah, yeah.
Sir BenYeah. You, you can't get that from vegetables.
Sir GeneNot vegetable protein.
Sir BenNo.
Sir GeneNo, 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 BenYeah, I do. I do. I'm following I'm following Uhhuh.
Sir GeneOh 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 Benyeah. Well, I mean, if they did wouldn't it, especially since you're in Mexico, wouldn't it just be called food
Sir GeneIt 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 Benespecially in Texas. It's very much
Sir GeneYeah. Oh yeah. Yeah. It's text me,
Sir BenYou don't have a lot of moles and all that, so yeah.
Sir GeneYeah. If you talk to an actual called Mexican city, Mexican, they don't consider what most of Mexican eats as Mexican food.
Sir Benno, they want on them. All ears and everything else. Yeah. Totally
Sir GeneYeah. Very, very different. A lot more Spanish influence.
Sir BenMm-hmm
Sir GeneSo, but I'm, I'm happy with my standard European food,
Sir Benyeah. So what, what's the
Sir Geneherring, cheeses, cold meats, you know, regular stuff.
Sir BenWhat's the resort you're staying at. Tell us
Sir GeneI'm not gonna, I'm gonna name
Sir Bendon't have to give the name, but describe.
Sir GeneIt's on the beach.
Sir BenWow. So VRBO,
Sir GeneI mean, you
Sir Benyour picture. It's
Sir Geneon the beach. There, there are several swimming pools, I think four maybe plenty of cabanas and things.
Sir Benit's the beach topless.
Sir Geneno, of course not Mexico doesn't have top of beaches. Well, I'm sure they have some, but no,
Sir Benright.
Sir Genethis ain't
Sir BenYou're staying at theor regime.
Sir GeneYeah. 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 BenI, I, I honestly wouldn't know. I've never been to Mexico, so
Sir Geneyeah. Mexico's kind of Catholic.
Sir Benyeah, it's just not destination for me. Well, no shit. Mexico's Catholic. This is a revelation to you,
Sir GeneIt's cheap. And two hours away, dude. I don't, you
Sir Benthe, the fact that Mexico is Catholic is a revelation.
Sir Genewell, no, it's not a revolution, a revolution or a
Sir Benthe revolution's coming, but I meant revelation. So
Sir Genebut 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 BenYeah. Don't ever look at your fiance's mom, if you're looking to get married.
Sir GeneOh, you should always that's bad advice. Always check your fiance's
Sir Benadvice.
Sir GeneBest thing you could do is actually have sex with both of them, but barring that
Sir BenIf you do that, you're definitely not getting married.
Sir Geneintimately, intimately familiar with your fiance's mom's body, because you're gonna need to be working that before, too.
Sir BenMm-hmm mm-hmm
Sir GeneYou know, just sticking your head in the sand is not a good approach.
Sir Benand, well, I mean, I don't know. I,
Sir GeneWho's who's like the hottest old chick that you've seen, like an actress or a, you know, somebody famous,
Sir BenOoh, what age bracket?
Sir GeneI don't know, forties, fifties, not older than that
Sir BenForties or fifties. Geez. Who is the chick from first contact?
Sir Genefirst contact. From first contact star Trek,
Sir BenNo, the movie,
Sir Genefirst contact. I dunno what that movie is.
Sir BenSure.
Sir GeneIs that the one with the aliens that are atop pluses?
Sir BenNo. Anyway she was also Nell.
Sir GeneNell Nell and what?
Sir BenNell was the name of the movie
Sir GeneOkay, so here's what you do, you Google Nell. Oh, Jody foster.
Sir BenJody foster. There you go.
Sir GeneThat's not first contact. It's called contact
Sir Benwhatever.
Sir GeneJesus. 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 BenI I'm basing her off of like contact and Nell
Sir GeneWell, she was 30 in that.
Sir BenOkay. Well,
Sir GeneYeah. That's not that old. I think Jennifer Aniston
Sir BenJennifer. Francis's doing good. Yeah. Yeah.
Sir Genenow
Sir Benand Julie.
Sir Genefifties. 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 BenI mean, does it really matter?
Sir GeneYou know, it depends it, it matters more to some people than others.
Sir BenJennifer Connolly, I watched top gun two last night, Jennifer,
Sir Geneoh, she's in that. Is she? Okay. I have to, I have not seen that. I've heard good things
Sir Benit, it, it is actually a pretty good movie.
Sir GeneI wonder if it's, is it, is it out of the theaters or is it still in the
Sir BenYou can buy it on Amazon prime
Sir GeneI'm just wondering if it's gonna be in the airplane at all
Sir Benit's on prime for 20 bucks. So,
Sir Gene20 bucks. Fuck that shit. What do they think of made of money?
Sir BenWell, you know,
Sir Gene20 bucks? That's like a box of ammo.
Sir Bennot anymore, but okay.
Sir GeneMm-hmm prices have been going down by the way. I've noticed
Sir Benyeah, they actually have, it's been pretty decent drop and good chance to stock up before it goes
Sir Geneyeah. Especially if you buy a thousand at a time,
Sir BenMm.
Sir Geneprice discounts are good at that
Sir BenYeah. And, you know,
Sir GeneSpeaking of a gun's an ammo.
Sir BenMm-hmm
Sir GeneUh, when are we gonna have Ben on? Ben the gun guy.
Sir BenHe's a, he's an interesting guy.
Sir GeneI've been talking to him online and he is looking for a gun for me right now
Sir BenGood. 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 Genelistens to our podcast.
Sir Benyou think so?
Sir GeneWell, he talked about it to me the other day.
Sir BenOh,
Sir GeneHe was asking me questions about the last episode.
Sir BenThat cool.
Sir GeneYeah.
Sir BenI I knew he,
Sir Genehim we definitely need to get him on as a
Sir BenCool. Yeah. Maybe in the first couple episodes of the new show,
Sir GeneThere 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 BenI'm very
Sir GeneBen. Yeah, I can tell
Sir Benbin with Ben.
Sir GeneUhhuh. 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 BenMm-hmm
Sir Geneand then to you know how I'm just gonna keep an eye out as things come out.
Sir Benyeah. I mean, he, I mean, he owns a gun store, so yeah, he,
Sir GeneWell, that would be an FFL. Yeah.
Sir Benyeah. He's, he's got some variability there to help you out.
Sir GeneI also think I found the first gun that I'm kind of interested in getting that would require a stamp.
Sir BenWhat's that?
Sir GeneIt 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 Benthis require a stamp?
Sir GeneIntegrated suppressor
Sir BenEh,
Sir Geneit, oh, it's yeah, it's the CQB. It's the sub QB. So it is a folding gun,
Sir BenMm-hmm
Sir Geneuh, 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 Benit is, but I mean, why are you looking at FFL items?
Sir GeneI've been looking at'em for a while. I, I, I need to start putting suppressors in.
Sir BenSo 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 GeneI have not, but I'm also more worried about certain government agencies with three letters that we discussed disagreeing with those Texas laws.
Sir BenFair 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 Genewhat makes you think they're not going after marijuana?
Sir BenBecause
Sir GeneDa is absolutely got Texas missions happening right now.
Sir BenI'm sorry.
Sir GeneThe DEA is operating in Texas right now.
Sir BenWell, Texas marijuana is illegal in Texas,
Sir GeneYeah.
Sir Benbut I mean, for instance, California Colorado, Maryland many other states have driver's license, driver's
Sir GeneYeah. Yeah, yeah.
Sir Benthat 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 GeneYeah.
Sir Benthat, that, that is one law that Washington state got very right.
Sir GeneYeah. 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 BenYeah, you can,
Sir GeneI, I couldn't
Sir Benthen you went to the wrong dispensary. They, they will take
Sir Genewent to four of
Sir Benof people want to do cash.
Sir GeneNo, I went to four different ones and none of them did.
Sir BenWell, in the Seattle area, they definitely take card.
Sir GeneHmm. Well either way.
Sir BenI speak from experience or.
Sir GeneOh well there you go. See, I do. Cause that's where I did my experiment that I told you about previously
Sir Benmm-hmm
Sir Genea bunch of edibles of different strengths and then did a
Sir Benyou're just that, that Russian Uber mench
Sir GeneWell, I just have a genetic differentiation factor. Mm-hmm yeah, I got bit by a radioactive spider one day.
Sir Bengamer radiation hit you
Sir GeneMm-hmm exactly. It's part of the training in an agency. I've never been a part of.
Sir BenYes. Yeah.
Sir GeneSo, 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 Benwhat's the little old ladies.
Sir GeneI that's why I've heard. Yeah.
Sir BenYeah.
Sir GeneIt's it's a pain reliever.
Sir BenYeah. 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 GeneYou're such a bug head, whatever
Sir Benno, 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 Genemm-hmm
Sir Benis the majority. I mean, it really is.
Sir Geneyeah. Yeah. Well, it makes sense. It makes sense. Cuz I think the kids are doing harsher drugs.
Sir BenI 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 GeneYeah, 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 Bennah, 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 GeneWell, 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 Benmaybe. But I, I mean that's so for me and my age group that's just an OGO, it's
Sir GeneSee, the problem is you're too young to have been around doing the cocaine days.
Sir BenWhy is that a problem?
Sir GeneCuz you missed out on some good shit.
Sir Benyeah, well, cocaine in my personality type would probably not go very well.
Sir Genegoes well for every personality type.
Sir Benno, dude, that, that would in violence for me, most likely
Sir GeneI don't know, man. I think your skin might turn green, but other than that, you'd be all good to go.
Sir BenYeah. I don't know, man. I
Sir GeneYou're pretty mellow, pretty mellow, but I don't know, man, I it's that. That's the thing is
Sir Beneveryone 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 GeneWell, actually I have, but
Sir BenYeah, I have
Sir Geneconsider you Meow. I think you bought me a drink once
Sir BenI did actually.
Sir GeneYeah.
Sir BenNope. We met at
Sir Genememory like a
Sir Benin Austin.
Sir GeneYeah. At a bar.
Sir BenAt a brewery. Yes.
Sir GeneYeah. Yeah. Next to the ice skating rink.
Sir Benand a few other people. Yeah.
Sir GeneMm-hmm
Sir BenYeah.
Sir Geneyeah. 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 BenWell, 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 Genemm-hmm
Sir Benwhatever, you know, it just here, man. Thank you for what you're doing. I appreciate it done.
Sir GeneExactly. 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 BenYou're on the outs. Got it.
Sir GeneI 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 Benthe, the, the responsibility has been moved to
Sir GeneYeah. But yeah, no, that's
Sir BenIs gonna have to totally be a trope in the new show. You realize this, right?
Sir GeneI don't, I don't like giving people free air time.
Sir BenJust 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 Genehe'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 BenI'll bet you a box. I ammo differently.
Sir GeneI 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 BenI won't send him a message. I bet you, I get a message
Sir Genewe'll see
Sir Benyou in Russian. He didn't say this. That's what I did
Sir Generushing heal. How does, how does he not consider you to be carrying water for Putin?
Sir BenI, that, that's a very good question. I mean, I guess I'm more fair, balanced than you are.
Sir Genefair and balanced. Just like Fox news.
Sir BenYes, 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 GeneYep. Goldberg. Yeah. You're you you're you're the Fox to my RT. Uhhuh
Sir Benyou mean the RT to your Getty images?
Sir GeneGI images. Yeah, exactly. It was something I watched recently that, oh, it was a temple episode where the, the guy,
Sir BenYou watched Tim pole, Jean. Are you okay?
Sir GeneI 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 BenYes. I just almost,
Sir Geneyou saw that. Okay. If you're not smoking weed right now, I don't know what that cough was.
Sir BenI'm not smoking weed
Sir GeneIt 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 Benthe 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 GeneGot 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 Benlectern guy,
Sir Genetalking
Sir Benwhich by the way, that was a bad guest.
Sir Geneoh, the Lecter guy. Yeah. He was very apologetic.
Sir BenBoring as fuck.
Sir GeneOkay. Yeah. Yeah. I just, I thought
Sir BenI'm sure that this podcast is gonna get many comments saying the same thing, but you
Sir Geneuh, 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 BenWell, 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 GeneI don't know why. I really don't
Sir BenIan,
Sir GeneIan 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 BenHmm.
Sir Genehis 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 BenYeah.
Sir GeneAnd 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 Benword graphing.
Sir GeneOh, 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 BenYou mean civil war?
Sir GeneCivil 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 Benoh, Ian has to me is not self-aware
Sir GeneI don't think he is
Sir BenI 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 GeneBut 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 Benbalances out to what? The low IQ
Sir Geneintellect. Yeah, exactly. Bounces IQ to, to a hundred.
Sir BenI mean, so, okay. So the special needs class really like, see it, don't get it. Oh
Sir GeneYeah,
Sir BenAnd 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 Geneyeah.
Sir Benso absurd to me that it's, it really makes it hard for me to watch the rest of the show.
Sir GeneHis 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 BenYeah. 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 GeneI, 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 Benchild abuse, sir.
Sir GeneWell in terms of IQ level. Yeah.
Sir BenWow.
Sir GeneYou 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 Benyou think he's got Nike less than a five year old? Got it.
Sir GeneWell, you know, I made you do math, but you know what the number I'm thinking of,
Sir BenYeah.
Sir Genebut 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 BenWell, 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 Genethe other way around,
Sir Benyeah, exactly. You should actually have higher requirements for younger ages based off of IQ.
Sir Genealthough, I guess one would have to do a study to determine what is the progression of IQs in adults throughout their lifetimes.
Sir BenSo 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 Genethat, 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 Bencorrect?
Sir GeneSo then the real
Sir Benon where you would land on the scale to
Sir Genethirties or forties. Yeah. But I mean, if you're,
Sir BenIt's not age adjusted. So the IQ scale is
Sir Geneif 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 Benmy 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 GeneYeah 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 Benwell,
Sir Genelike saying the average a, the average athlete is,
Sir Benpeak and personal peak are two different things.
Sir Genewell, 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 BenOkay.
Sir GeneRight. 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 BenWell, when should it be based? What
Sir GeneIt should be based at the a 38 years old.
Sir BenY 38?
Sir GeneWell, that's, that's the Avi, that's the midpoint of your life prior to ility?
Sir BenUnless you're Joe Biden
Sir GeneWell, 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 Benfrom the Batman movies.
Sir GeneNo. From wizard of Oz,
Sir BenI only had a brain. Gotcha. Gotcha. Gotcha.
Sir Genehad to walk you to that one. Anyway, we talk about IQ way too much. And I, I remember I sent you a
Sir Benvery insecure about it.
Sir Geneyes, 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 Benversus actual IQ. Yes.
Sir GeneYeah. 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 BenI'm sorry, what
Sir Genesaid, let's talk about Jews instead.
Sir Benyou mean? Like Ben Shapiro at
Sir GeneYeah. Ben Shapiro, he's a smart guy. Isn't.
Sir Benyeah. You heard about him, right?
Sir GeneNo. What, what, what, what's the latest
Sir Benhe showed up at podcast movement and walked through and caused a ho or fle and
Sir Geneoh, I did not hear
Sir Benfor violence.
Sir Geneno way. What,
Sir BenYes. They literally tweeted an apology. Like he committed a violent act by
Sir Genehe was a podcast movement and I didn't go God damnit.
Sir BenHe was at podcast movement in
Sir Genewas in Dallas this year, too. Fuck.
Sir BenWalked through the
Sir GeneYeah, man. I got an invite to that.
Sir Bena huge sin. I don't know.
Sir GeneWow. I can't believe he went to that
Sir BenWell, 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 GeneThat's all I totally should. Again.
Sir Benwell, Adam and Dave Jones were there. So why didn't
Sir GeneYeah, I heard, I heard they were there.
Sir BenYeah, they, they were at a the, their they were not main track. Let's just put it that way.
Sir GeneOh, really
Sir BenYeah.
Sir Geneout that
Sir Benit was the, their, their PR their presentation time was at lunchtime and around the
Sir GeneHmm.
Sir Benin a
Sir Genethe corner. Okay. Well, they were also talking about leaving the hotel to get better.
Sir Benthey 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 GeneMm-hmm
Sir Benso I don't know.
Sir Genego podcasting. Well,
Sir BenMic
Sir Geneto be fair, Adam's been making fun of it for a long time. So
Sir BenESG or the go podcasting.
Sir Genego podcasting,
Sir BenYeah. 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 Genehe he's a Californian though. He's a Californian. So he, I don't know if he shot himself in the foot.
Sir Benoh, he totally shot himself
Sir GeneOh, you mean with the wife or what, what do you mean
Sir Benno, 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 GeneNo, no, no, no. I don't either.
Sir BenBut 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 Genewell, why did he lose you?
Sir BenDamn liberal.
Sir GeneYeah. 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 BenYeah. I don't care about the whole wife thing and all
Sir GeneYeah. And then swapped wives and then but his politics are definitely very Californian.
Sir BenHe is way too woke
Sir GeneYeah. And I, I mean,
Sir Benyou 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 GeneWell, 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 Benagree. 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 Genehe was not a, he was never a security. Spin write his disc product was what he made
Sir Benmean snake oil.
Sir Geneon. 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 BenSure. And when rewriting sectors on a hard drive was a thing, it was a valid
Sir Geneexactly,
Sir Benhasn't been since
Sir GeneThat'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 BenI show me where the man is worth over a million dollars and I will be
Sir Geneit 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 Benwell, 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 Geneyep.
Sir BenYeah. I still have picks 5 0 5 sitting in my lab.
Sir GeneRight.
Sir BenYeah. Yeah. I packed all my lab gear
Sir GeneI remember all, I remember those things.
Sir BenI've got a ASA. I've got some Palo Alto
Sir Genecan'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 BenHubbard. I mean, what
Sir Genethey were owned by by Israeli military.
Sir Benah, Jesus, what, what, what cybersecurity product? Isn't Israeli.
Sir GeneYeah. 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 BenAre, 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 GeneNo. Nope. It was called. I wanna say Elron something like that.
Sir BenThere is not a cyber security product that was called Elron. I can tell you that.
Sir Genethere, well, it was something like that. I can't remember the exact name, but it's also
Sir Benonion? I mean, I I'm trying to track
Sir Geneno, this was, this was when you were a weed lad. This would've been 95, 19 95, 95.
Sir BenYeah. So I was doing baby's first hack about then, you
Sir GeneMm-hmm
Sir Benand
Sir Geneexactly. You were born. What? Five years before that
Sir Bena little over 10, but
Sir GeneUhhuh Uhhuh.
Sir BenYeah, 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 GeneHm.
Sir BenI don't know if you saw that or that interaction.
Sir GeneI don't recall now.
Sir BenSo yeah, it came up on no, no agenda social about Ruby Ridge and,
Sir GeneMm-hmm
Sir Benhow 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 GeneWhat the people saying bullshit. You don't know anything.
Sir Benyeah, 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 Geneyeah. You've mentioned that a few times.
Sir BenOkay. Anyway. Yeah, no,
Sir Genemean, I, I know that you were infinitely involved with that whole Waco thing.
Sir BenNo, I was
Sir GeneI mean, Ruby rich thing that, that Ruby rich thing.
Sir BenYeah. Yeah. Well, I wasn't directly involved with Ruby Ridge, but I
Sir GeneOh, no. I'm thinking of a video game I played.
Sir Benthree, three specifically, but
Sir GeneYep.
Sir BenAnyway, 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 GeneCan you get him on podcast?
Sir BenI'm sorry.
Sir GeneCan you get him on the podcast?
Sir BenI wouldn't,
Sir GeneI I'd be curious to see what he is thinking about Ukraine.
Sir BenI, I probably could, but I don't know that I would want to, if Jack were alive, I would definitely get Jack on.
Sir GeneMm-hmm
Sir BenUm, 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 Genecan you get a him on the podcast?
Sir BenRandy Weaver? No, I don't know him that
Sir GeneNo.
Sir BenNo, I, it, I'm sorry.
Sir GeneTimothy McQuay?
Sir BenI think he's still in jail. Isn't he?
Sir GeneWell doesn't mean you can't interview him, right?
Sir BenAh, I think it does.
Sir GeneWell, no, no, no, no. He just can't be paid for it. Yeah, no, they can dude, prisoners do interviews all the time.
Sir Benokay. Well I, no, I don't know Tim McFee and I,
Sir GeneOh, okay.
Sir BenI 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 GeneHow about Edward Snowden? Do you know him?
Sir BenNo, 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 GeneThe battle in the hallway or his speech was in the hallway?
Sir BenNo 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 Geneno, you could still write it up.
Sir BenI 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 Genethis 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 Benmm-hmm
Sir GeneIn 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 BenSo 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 GeneMm-hmm
Sir Benuh, 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 GeneWell, it would've been now cuz there's security cameras everywhere.
Sir BenWell, I'm sure a and M had a security camera recording, but that
Sir GeneWhat? You should just done a freedom of information act, request
Sir BenI didn't bother at the time, and this is years ago and they're not gonna have it now.
Sir Genenow 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 BenTrump's a lept maniac. Didn't doesn't everyone know that
Sir GeneThat's I heard that's how he got his gold toilet in this house.
Sir Benfrom Putin.
Sir GeneNo. Yeah. For Putin. Exactly. You got it
Sir BenPutin and Putin.
Sir GeneUhhuh. 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 Benyeah, Gene's ready to have his own show back.
Sir GeneI 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 Benthe surgeon speaks random thoughts, crossover
Sir Geneyeah. 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 BenI did not. No, I didn't see
Sir Geneoh yeah, yeah, yeah. That was a poll that was run. And
Sir BenThat has to hurt Darren very deeply personally.
Sir Genewell, 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 Benreally,
Sir Genelike only 5% of the people liked the unrelenting podcast.
Sir BenI don't believe that. I think that show gets more listens than not.
Sir GeneWell,
Sir BenI definitely think it gets more listens than planet rage.
Sir GeneYeah. 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 BenHuh?
Sir GeneYeah. 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 Benso 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 GeneYeah. 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 Benyeah. 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 Geneit 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 Benwell we both know business hours are a no go for me. So, and you know, for you, it's flexible right now, but
Sir GeneI'll have a job as well right now. And I'm unemployed.
Sir Benyeah. Right. I think your next job's in space, right?
Sir GeneWell, 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 Benby the way, what are you gonna watch Monday
Sir Genewatch Monday. What's Monday. I'm flying Monday.
Sir BenThe Artis launch is
Sir Geneoh, they're they're doing a test.
Sir BenYep.
Sir GeneOh, okay. Well it depends what time? I mean, I'm, I'm flying Monday, so
Sir Ben8:00 AM Pacific or not Pacific Eastern. Sorry. Eastern, Eastern
Sir Geneoh eight Eastern I'm I might watch the replay that's way too early.
Sir BenWell, you know,
Sir Genere I watched the, the the Falcon launch yesterday. Live
Sir Benyeah. So when SpaceX did their first man launch,
Sir Genemm-hmm
Sir BenI 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 GeneOh 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 BenNow 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 GeneThey're not
Sir Bensymbol going
Sir GeneExactly. It's a giant penis for Jeff Bezos flying up into the sky
Sir Benhe's overcompensating. We'll just leave it
Sir Geneyeah, think a little bit,
Sir BenThat is
Sir Genewhere he had a, he had, he has a Cod piece for fuck's sake.
Sir Bendude. That is the biggest overcompensation in the history of the world.
Sir GeneIt'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 BenLet me ask you this gene. Why are you looking?
Sir GeneOkay. 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 BenSo
Sir GeneI think he's either had a pina implant
Sir BenUhhuh.
Sir Geneor he's packing a little something next, extra in there
Sir BenSo everybody who, when we said we were rapping this up, they quit totally missed out on the P
Sir Genewhen nobody quits, nobody actually goes through trouble of getting a stop button. They wait for the podcast to actually end.
Sir BenI don't know. I actually stopped stuff.
Sir Geneyou stop yours before it stops itself? I don't believe you.
Sir BenAbsolutely like no agenda. I almost never listened to end into show mixes.
Sir GeneOkay. 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 Benvery 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 Genehead up
Sir BenHuh?
Sir Genethe other guy that just thought of still owns me a favor technic.
Sir BenWho's
Sir GeneIs what's his face? The guy did, did the no agenda theme thing. God damn. What's his name?
Sir BenAnd when I was missing Jodi Fisher's name, you helped me out about as much as I'm gonna help
Sir Geneeh, 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 BenPull your card,
Sir Genehe 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 BenWell, now we need one,
Sir Genesix years ago.
Sir Benwell, dude interest.
Sir GeneYeah. Yeah. The other guy that I can try and hit up is at work once is mobi.
Sir BenHmm. I don't think he's gonna do the style of music that we're
Sir Genewell, but I mean maybe worth, worth a stretch.
Sir Bengood name
Sir Geneabout, Hey, Moby, you ever thought about doing something people would listen to, and that is extra funny given his style of music,
Sir Benyeah, it really is.
Sir GeneYeah, cuz we need a theme for our podcast. Can't pay you, but we promise that we'll play it on every episode.
Sir BenI, you know what I'm betting secret agent Paul comes in and knocks it out of the park for
Sir GeneThat would be awesome.
Sir Benbecause, 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 Geneoh, 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 BenYeah. 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 GeneWell, that should be easy enough. Just Stephen. Yeah. I, last time I saw her was at the Texas get together about what? Like
Sir Benyou're talking about when we met. Yeah,
Sir GeneNo, 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 Benoh, okay. Yeah.
Sir Genenamed 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 Benmm-hmm mm-hmm duke of the armory. Can't
Sir GeneNo, 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 BenYeah, 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 GeneLet me give you a piece of advice here for my benefit.
Sir Benupping things. What's that?
Sir GeneOkay. If you commence some money and you decide to donate some money to no agenda.
Sir BenMm-hmm
Sir GeneGood, 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 Benfair enough. Actually. Fair
Sir GeneMm-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 BenWell, taking the advertising, you know, like, you
Sir Geneyeah, 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 Benknow 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 Geneyeah, I'll have a censored beep is what I'm gonna have.
Sir BenDo it, do it, do it, do
Sir GeneMm-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 Bendo it.
Sir GeneUhhuh
Sir BenDo it.
Sir GeneWell you think, I think I'm kidding.
Sir Benno, I, I think it would be hilarious. I think it'd be a good idea.
Sir GeneMm-hmm
Sir BenAnd 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 GeneYes, exactly.
Sir BenOh,
Sir GeneAll right, we got anything else?
Sir Benno, sir. No, sir. I am done. I'm ready to go outside and
Sir Genehave some weed. I get it. I get it.
Sir BenI do not smoke weed.