Louder with Crowder - November 20, 2025


🔴Jasmine Crockett's Epstein Idiocy & the Absolute State of the Democrat Party 2025-11-20 18:37

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Trotsky Gerald Stalin George Degree Jesus Christ Muhammad Hachette Fach Josh Comedian Deeg Adkins Pop Scratch Bill Joy I. You Feierstein Inshallah Impaler Noodles Toolman Salt Paul
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On this episode of the podcast, we have our first guest on the show, a man who has been in the military for over 20 years. He is a veteran of the U.S. Army, a combat veteran, and has been involved in the fight against the Taliban. We talk about his experiences in Afghanistan and Iraq, his views on Islam and the culture there, and what it means to be a Muslim.

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00:00:00.000 And then the other guy got mad and shot him right in the head, just right there.
00:00:04.000 Just right there, and then acted like it wasn't anything.
00:00:07.000 Was like, what?
00:00:11.000 What did I do wrong?
00:00:14.000 Yeah, and you were saying something earlier.
00:00:16.000 You're saying they might call it, they might call you Islamophobic or racist or whatever, because you have these views about that's that's not it.
00:00:25.000 Guys like me, we've been telling you guys this for decades, literally decades.
00:00:29.000 People have been in Afghanistan, Iraq, that area.
00:00:32.000 We've been telling you for decades what this culture is like, what it brings, and for decades we've been called racist for it.
00:00:38.000 It's just what we've seen.
00:00:38.000 And it's not.
00:00:39.000 It's not that I was born or raised Islamophobic or anything like that.
00:00:43.000 It's that I walked in and arrested a guy who was in bed with a child.
00:00:48.000 Yeah.
00:00:48.000 Right.
00:00:49.000 A naked child. 0.88
00:00:50.000 Like that, that's what it is.
00:00:51.000 You see with your own eyes.
00:00:52.000 You watch it.
00:00:53.000 You hear it.
00:00:54.000 Yeah.
00:00:55.000 That changes you.
00:00:56.000 Yeah, it's a preponderance of evidence.
00:00:57.000 To be fair, Afghanistan, I will say this.
00:00:59.000 I've been to a lot of places in the Middle East.
00:01:01.000 Afghanistan is one of the more regressive cultures of them. 0.99
00:01:04.000 And hey, give them credit.
00:01:05.000 New Taliban. 0.69
00:01:06.000 They're letting ladies go to school and stuff. 1.00
00:01:06.000 Yes. 1.00
00:01:08.000 Well, no, they were going to, and then they didn't.
00:01:09.000 Oh, okay.
00:01:10.000 And they're like, well, maybe.
00:01:10.000 Wow.
00:01:12.000 Probably not.
00:01:14.000 Is there a different Islamic Julia child? 0.72
00:01:17.000 Hello.
00:01:17.000 No.
00:01:19.000 I could go on for days.
00:01:20.000 That's kind of a broad question.
00:01:23.000 So many stories running through your head.
00:01:25.000 No, I remember you telling me that they just shot a guy in the lunch line over nothing, and it's just very...
00:01:29.000 Well, what happened to the guy that shot the guy in the head?
00:01:30.000 their culture.
00:01:31.000 Did you ever get any...
00:01:32.000 I don't know.
00:01:32.000 They took him away.
00:01:33.000 Okay.
00:01:33.000 They took him away.
00:01:34.000 Yeah, I don't know.
00:01:34.000 They took him away and took him somewhere.
00:01:36.000 Yeah, and he didn't even, what, his defense?
00:01:37.000 Like, what? 0.97
00:01:38.000 I just shot him. 0.88
00:01:39.000 What is this? 0.97
00:01:40.000 You figure out what you've done. 0.99
00:01:42.000 They're crazy. 0.83
00:01:44.000 They don't value human life the same way we do. 0.98
00:01:46.000 And this is, again, Afghanistan, it's not the same as everywhere else. 0.64
00:01:48.000 Some of these cultures are a lot more progressive or progressed.
00:01:48.000 I get it.
00:01:52.000 Civilized, yeah.
00:01:52.000 Advanced.
00:01:55.000 We went to a village one time and a big firefight.
00:01:59.000 IED cell leader, he got killed in the crossfire, and some other people got killed.
00:02:06.000 Livestock was killed.
00:02:07.000 And at the end of it, the village elder, who happened to be the father of the IED cell leader that we are after and killed, he was not pissed about his son being killed.
00:02:18.000 He demanded that we pay for his cow.
00:02:20.000 We killed a cow in the crossfire, and he was livid over this cow because that was more important than his son's life. 1.00
00:02:29.000 Maybe he recognized, hey, my son's an asshole. 1.00
00:02:31.000 Fucking. 1.00
00:02:31.000 He's blowing people up. 1.00
00:02:32.000 But my girlfriend.
00:02:33.000 Yeah.
00:02:35.000 She's my bullying girl. 0.97
00:02:38.000 Whose others will I shake now?
00:02:41.000 Yeah, it's a, I'm not an utter guy.
00:02:43.000 It's definitely a Can you milk me?
00:02:50.000 Jesus.
00:02:51.000 Yeah.
00:02:52.000 No, thanks.
00:02:53.000 No, I think it's a lot of people.
00:02:54.000 Yeah, people.
00:02:55.000 You get out of the city and you get into villages and it is run by village elders and you have to follow whatever the religion says, whatever Islam says, whatever the Taliban at the time, whatever they said, or whatever their leaders were saying.
00:03:06.000 And I don't have TVs and they don't have the internet in a lot of these places.
00:03:09.000 You know, the cities like Kabul, Candle, are they guys?
00:03:11.000 They got internet.
00:03:12.000 Got it?
00:03:13.000 Cool.
00:03:14.000 They're still being sell.
00:03:15.000 But yeah, a lot of these people out in the a lot of these people live in rural areas.
00:03:18.000 I can't say that word, rural.
00:03:20.000 It's a tough word.
00:03:21.000 Rural areas, yeah.
00:03:21.000 And they only get a radio.
00:03:23.000 If they have anything, they have a radio, and it's tuned to one station, and it ain't Joel Osteen.
00:03:27.000 No, it's not.
00:03:28.000 It's Billy Joe's greatest hit.
00:03:34.000 I want to know by now.
00:03:35.000 You want to know by no?
00:03:38.000 Who wants to play Salt and Hachette Fach?
00:03:43.000 Who's paying for my cow? 1.00
00:03:46.000 And they make their bread with their feet.
00:03:50.000 That's for us, too.
00:03:51.000 Yeah, that's fine.
00:03:51.000 It tastes delicious.
00:03:52.000 I mean, after that, it goes through the oven.
00:03:54.000 I will say this.
00:03:54.000 I went to experience this too, you know, where I went to high school.
00:03:57.000 lot of enough Muslims where they actually had classrooms that were dedicated to Islamic calls to prayer.
00:04:02.000 And obviously why I didn't see terrorism, when I would discuss with them, they all reviled Jews. 1.00
00:04:12.000 That was a real thing.
00:04:13.000 And most of them thought that there was quite a bit of justification, for example, for 9-11.
00:04:19.000 So more than you would think.
00:04:22.000 Even ones who were nice, who I was friends with.
00:04:24.000 So I saw a lot that I didn't like that I noticed was quite different.
00:04:28.000 It doesn't mean all of them, but yeah, the devout Muslims.
00:04:30.000 And in Canada, again, because of multiculturalism, they go back to their house. 0.94
00:04:34.000 They go back to their neighborhood, which is almost entirely Muslim, which is kind of what we're seeing now in the United States. 1.00
00:04:39.000 That didn't used to be a thing.
00:04:40.000 And you would have entire areas that would be mostly Muslim.
00:04:44.000 And so they felt pretty comfortable.
00:04:45.000 They felt pretty comfortable with their enclave sharing these views.
00:04:47.000 Whereas in the United States, they knew they would have to lay low at least for a while.
00:04:51.000 Funny about the Jew thing up. 1.00
00:04:54.000 It didn't come up very often at all, really.
00:04:57.000 But a couple of my guys convinced an interpreter of ours that I was Jewish, that Feierstein was a Jewish name.
00:05:03.000 Well, it's not that hard itself.
00:05:05.000 Broke his heart.
00:05:05.000 You should have seen him.
00:05:08.000 He was like, as if in his head, I saw it and I was laughing because I was like, I'm just going to let him mess with this guy.
00:05:14.000 And then I saw it in his face, like, I've shared food with him.
00:05:19.000 He's reaching for his.
00:05:20.000 I rode in the truck with him.
00:05:21.000 I followed his orders.
00:05:25.000 I broke his heart. 0.68
00:05:26.000 My best ally is a rodent.
00:05:27.000 I had to reassure him.
00:05:28.000 Don't worry.
00:05:29.000 Yeah.
00:05:29.000 Don't worry.
00:05:30.000 Not Jewish. 1.00
00:05:31.000 Oh, thank you.
00:05:33.000 InshaAllah.
00:05:34.000 Inshallah.
00:05:35.000 This is so weird.
00:05:38.000 Yeah.
00:05:38.000 All right.
00:05:39.000 Oh, and by the way, I forgot to mention foundationdaily.com.
00:05:39.000 Next chat.
00:05:41.000 You said since you've been, your joints feel quite a bit better, right, Pop Scrotter?
00:05:45.000 And I've been on it for a while now.
00:05:45.000 They really do.
00:05:46.000 So yeah, I've noticed a big difference.
00:05:48.000 But, you know, I'm a geezer.
00:05:49.000 Well, that's the, no, curcumin is they've done clinical.
00:05:51.000 You can go on the website, look at the clinical trial studies that have done that.
00:05:55.000 You know, I'm not, you know, sitting around, and that has made a big difference.
00:05:58.000 Yeah, yes.
00:05:59.000 I didn't believe it.
00:06:01.000 It has a very similar effect as far as anti-inflammatory property to Advil.
00:06:05.000 Advil, curcumin, this form of it, this dose versus placebo.
00:06:05.000 They've studied it.
00:06:10.000 And it helps with pain and inflammation to the same degree.
00:06:13.000 And it actually makes, if you do take this, you can take a lower dose of Advil or Tylenol and help with your joints.
00:06:18.000 It'll be more effective.
00:06:19.000 So you get 40% of the time.
00:06:19.000 And I take none of that stuff, as you know.
00:06:20.000 So that's the control.
00:06:22.000 It's the only change.
00:06:23.000 Yep.
00:06:23.000 Well, I actually was able to stop taking Advil every night.
00:06:26.000 I literally for years have taken either two or three Advil every single night.
00:06:29.000 Yeah.
00:06:31.000 Yeah.
00:06:31.000 I beat up my body.
00:06:31.000 Right.
00:06:32.000 And so like, I've got some neuropathy and stuff that I take something for.
00:06:35.000 But just, you know, soreness in my back and things just kind of wake you up.
00:06:38.000 And I've taken this and I don't have to do that.
00:06:40.000 What do you take for the CTE?
00:06:43.000 Depends on when I realize I have it.
00:06:45.000 What do you take for the AIDS?
00:06:47.000 Your family's towering in the corner.
00:06:49.000 Oh, I thought you were walking me into an abbreviation.
00:06:52.000 And then I realized it was AIDS.
00:06:55.000 Want to get AIDS?
00:07:00.000 Listen, they're going to do it to me.
00:07:02.000 You can't offer it to everybody.
00:07:03.000 You've got to create scarcity.
00:07:04.000 Otherwise, it's not worthwhile.
00:07:06.000 All right, next chat.
00:07:07.000 Next chat from Kibbles and Bits49.
00:07:10.000 Question for the LWC, whatever.
00:07:13.000 What do you say to people that say that Christians spread religion through crusades and Islam is spreading through peace and harmony?
00:07:19.000 Not you.
00:07:20.000 You can go back and watch.
00:07:22.000 I did the politically, know what I do.
00:07:25.000 I did the Crusades, the truth about the Crusades.
00:07:27.000 I did a whole thing on that in the Byzantine Empire, Constantinople.
00:07:30.000 So I'm not going to have time to answer it all, but I will tell you this.
00:07:32.000 The Crusades were a retaliatory action because of violent Islamic encroachment. 1.00
00:07:37.000 And so the left has been very effective making it about the, it's very much like a feminist would argue, right? 1.00
00:07:42.000 Disrespect, sometimes get physical.
00:07:44.000 And then when there's any type of repercussions, claim to be the victim.
00:07:48.000 That's exactly what happened with Islam and the Crusades. 1.00
00:07:50.000 It doesn't mean that anyone was smelling like roses all around on either side, but you need to understand the history of Islam.
00:07:56.000 And I mean, even just look at the history of Vlad the Impaler at the basis of the drink.
00:07:59.000 I'm just going to bring him up.
00:08:00.000 Yeah.
00:08:01.000 Who I guess might be somewhere down in my lineage.
00:08:02.000 Like, there's a reason those people think of him as a hero, even though he put human beings on spikes to the point of human cornfields and would allegedly the rumor, right, the legends that he would dip his bread in their blood so that if people, if the if these Islamic soldiers were coming in, they would have to walk through rows of their friends and see this sadist. 0.93
00:08:22.000 And he said it was the only language they understood.
00:08:24.000 Yeah.
00:08:24.000 Vlad the Impaler was basically, I'm trying to remember if he was sold or as part of a trade as kind of like collateral where he had to live with an Islamic royal family and his brother sort of assimilated.
00:08:36.000 Yeah, it was like a royal thing.
00:08:38.000 It was like an arranged thing.
00:08:39.000 And he just, his hate grew and grew and grew because of the barbarity.
00:08:43.000 So you need to understand the barbarism that people live through.
00:08:46.000 And that's the reason for the Crusades.
00:08:47.000 Go watch that video.
00:08:48.000 It's part of the thing.
00:08:48.000 Well, there's a God of power, and that's what they understand.
00:08:51.000 Yeah.
00:08:52.000 It's not a God of love.
00:08:53.000 It's not what we're taught.
00:08:54.000 It's all about the hierarchy of strength, of power.
00:09:00.000 How long were the Crusades, roughly?
00:09:02.000 I always forget, like between the first and last, what is it, 100, 200 years, something like that, 300 years?
00:09:06.000 I don't remember.
00:09:07.000 Okay, so a handful.
00:09:09.000 he's got this one incident throughout history let's look at and i agree with you a hundred percent it The Crusades are not what people think.
00:09:15.000 How has Christianity spread since the very beginning in almost every single case?
00:09:20.000 Is it through people coming in and by violence of force doing any of that?
00:09:23.000 No, absolutely.
00:09:24.000 In fact, most of the time, it's at the cost of people's lives, especially in places like Japan and China.
00:09:29.000 Obviously, in Rome early on, they were burning Christians at the stake just for being Christians.
00:09:35.000 That's not coming in and doing it through violence.
00:09:36.000 That's coming in and doing what Paul said.
00:09:38.000 Like, do something that makes people around you want to ask you a question about what you believe.
00:09:43.000 That's how you spread Christianity. 0.99
00:09:45.000 Make it appealing to people and become Christian.
00:09:48.000 By the way, that's why I always say go back comparing Jesus to Muhammad, right? 1.00
00:09:51.000 Founder of the Feast, Jesus Christ.
00:09:53.000 If all your neighbors were Jesus Christ, how do you think your neighbor would be?
00:09:55.000 Mo Beda.
00:09:56.000 If all your neighbors were Muhammad. 1.00
00:09:57.000 And then you understand why Christians, you know, it was a known entity.
00:10:02.000 You were persecuted.
00:10:03.000 You were executed for being a Christian. 1.00
00:10:04.000 They were being, in some cases, boiled, in some cases, thrown off of rooftops.
00:10:10.000 They were martyred, and they still grew the faith, not through violence.
00:10:15.000 Islam, there were no known oppressors.
00:10:16.000 It was a new thing.
00:10:17.000 It'd be like a new cult springing up today.
00:10:18.000 And people are like, what?
00:10:19.000 What are you talking about?
00:10:20.000 And they chose to spread it through violence upon its inception.
00:10:24.000 That's all very informative and a lot of great history.
00:10:24.000 Very, very different.
00:10:27.000 And truth is always great.
00:10:30.000 And learning from history is always great.
00:10:32.000 But we could also say, when was the last crusade?
00:10:34.000 Right.
00:10:34.000 That's true.
00:10:36.000 When did that happen last?
00:10:38.000 Right.
00:10:39.000 Okay.
00:10:39.000 And when was the last time you watched 4,000 people die on live TV?
00:10:43.000 Right.
00:10:43.000 What was that, Noodles?
00:10:45.000 1291, rather.
00:10:46.000 So.
00:10:47.000 Yeah.
00:10:48.000 Excuse me if I don't call it the religion of peace and harmony.
00:10:51.000 Yeah.
00:10:52.000 Well, if you disregard the Crusades, excuse me if I disregard.
00:10:54.000 I didn't watch it on national TV in seventh grade.
00:10:57.000 Yep.
00:10:58.000 Not to mention plenty of American soldiers in their barracks when people talk about Iran and on bases.
00:11:04.000 Do you think that what goes on to Christians in these Islamic countries right now?
00:11:06.000 Do you think it's any less violent or grotesque than the Crusades?
00:11:09.000 And that happens within their country today.
00:11:11.000 So I'm sorry.
00:11:12.000 Just what people go, yeah, your side's not perfect.
00:11:14.000 Okay, fine.
00:11:15.000 Next chat. 1.00
00:11:15.000 Eat a dick. 1.00
00:11:17.000 And research also pointed out they are linking the Crusades video in the description. 0.99
00:11:21.000 Oh, great.
00:11:23.000 Next chat from Amaya Kata.
00:11:25.000 Question for the crew. 0.99
00:11:26.000 If corrupt judges stay in power, how can we fight getting undesirables like Muslims and other parasitic groups slash terrorists out of America? 1.00
00:11:33.000 That's where an ounce of prevention is worth 10,000 pounds of cure. 0.98
00:11:38.000 You want to keep these judges out, and you want to be aware.
00:11:40.000 You want to be vigilant before that happens.
00:11:42.000 The left is hoping that you are not.
00:11:45.000 I've got to figure out.
00:11:47.000 Maybe I'm just too ignorant to the subject, but there's a lot of judges who are not voted upon.
00:11:51.000 They are appointed.
00:11:52.000 And I'm not sure the reason why or if it's possible to remove that practice.
00:11:59.000 Yeah, it depends on where you go to higher courts.
00:12:02.000 You go to the Supreme Court and then there are district courts.
00:12:04.000 So George Degree could probably explain to you.
00:12:06.000 A lot of them are.
00:12:07.000 And a lot of them, like, for example, in areas of Texas, you have someone who's technically voted on, but they're the only judge on that ticket.
00:12:12.000 There's also magistrates who make judge decisions like a regular judge would, but they're not a judge, not even a lawyer.
00:12:19.000 They don't pass the bar.
00:12:20.000 It's like a nurse practitioner.
00:12:22.000 Yeah, but at least they went to school for it.
00:12:24.000 Yeah.
00:12:25.000 I don't fully understand how it works, but I do know that you have a lot of sway in your local judges and your circuit courts, and you can vote.
00:12:31.000 And vigilance is more important, prevention.
00:12:34.000 In other words, if right now, I don't know that you'll fix Minneapolis.
00:12:38.000 I don't know that you'll fix Dearborn.
00:12:39.000 I don't know that it's possible.
00:12:40.000 So you have to prevent that from happening because unfortunately, once, and this is the playbook of Islam, once they overrun you population-wise, in the United States, being a freedom-minded country, we don't really have the mechanisms in place to retroactively fix it. 1.00
00:12:57.000 That's why you've got to stop it from happening.
00:12:59.000 That's the George Washington ideas is to prevent your enemy before he posts.
00:13:02.000 Because it's nearly impossible to remove him once he does.
00:13:02.000 Yep.
00:13:05.000 That's why I just showed up one day on Christmas. 1.00
00:13:08.000 He's like, fuck you. 1.00
00:13:09.000 I'm crossing. 1.00
00:13:10.000 Yeah, they're like, what?
00:13:11.000 What?
00:13:12.000 I thought this is kind of an unwritten agreement.
00:13:15.000 Christmas, we don't.
00:13:16.000 We're sleeping, mate.
00:13:18.000 What are you doing?
00:13:20.000 He's like, yeah, well, you can sleep when you're dead. 0.52
00:13:22.000 Christmas is sent to you already. 0.98
00:13:25.000 God, George, your teeth.
00:13:26.000 Are those wood?
00:13:31.000 Last thing you'll ever see.
00:13:32.000 All right, final chat.
00:13:33.000 All right, final chat from Rumble Forskin. 0.93
00:13:36.000 I want the criminal illegals out first. 1.00
00:13:38.000 Do you think the small fish illegals raids and are training exercises while ICE builds up its forces before going after large gangs?
00:13:47.000 Well, I don't know what you mean by first because I didn't say that we need to deport Muslims who are natural-born American citizens.
00:13:54.000 So I want to make sure I'm not misconstrued on that.
00:13:57.000 I think he was just kind of almost like a switch of topic for me.
00:13:59.000 I don't even think this is about Muslims.
00:14:00.000 I think this is about.
00:14:02.000 Okay, well, I'll make this, and then we'll make one more chat after this.
00:14:04.000 I will say, I don't know, and I do think that sometimes, if you look at it, there is an argument to be made that the deportations in some cases or where they sort of ignore sectors where it may be warranted, and that can be because of some leverage or lobbying.
00:14:20.000 People talk about that, like in the big tech sphere, we sort of have gone into H-1Bs because that would be something that could be easily rated because there's so much fraud.
00:14:27.000 But I'm with you.
00:14:28.000 I think that we should deport all of them.
00:14:30.000 And I hope they're training exercises.
00:14:33.000 Those numbers need to be pumped up.
00:14:34.000 We need to deport anyone who is here illegally. 1.00
00:14:38.000 Certainly immediately anyone who has committed a crime.
00:14:40.000 And I think that it could be sped up.
00:14:42.000 Now, I don't necessarily know exactly what's going on on the ground and what's preventing that.
00:14:46.000 I do know that they're doing more than the previous administration.
00:14:48.000 I do know that the border is far more secure.
00:14:50.000 So I will take that as a win.
00:14:52.000 But I agree with you.
00:14:53.000 Every illegal alien deported and get in line with the rest of legal immigrants who are trying to go through the process. 0.94
00:15:00.000 And even then, it should be limited where we pick the cream of the crop.
00:15:04.000 Otherwise, no.
00:15:05.000 Final.
00:15:06.000 It's like a draft.
00:15:07.000 Final chat.
00:15:07.000 Exactly.
00:15:08.000 All right.
00:15:08.000 Final, final chat from Deeg Adkins.
00:15:10.000 Question for the crew.
00:15:11.000 Do you think the redistricting effort of Texas and other states will eventually question?
00:15:18.000 Usually we want to go on like an inspiring question as a final chat.
00:15:20.000 I don't want to talk about redistricting.
00:15:22.000 All right, here we go.
00:15:22.000 I don't know.
00:15:23.000 I don't know the answer.
00:15:24.000 I don't know.
00:15:25.000 But I'll address it next time.
00:15:27.000 All right.
00:15:28.000 Kendo Extendo asks, question for the crew.
00:15:30.000 You guys have a fun time at work, but obviously it's hard work with long hours.
00:15:33.000 What do you guys do for fun?
00:15:35.000 Do you hang out outside of work?
00:15:37.000 Black tar heroin.
00:15:38.000 Perfect.
00:15:39.000 Gerald?
00:15:40.000 Cocaine.
00:15:41.000 Yeah.
00:15:42.000 Selling black tar heroin and cocaine.
00:15:45.000 You'd be surprised.
00:15:46.000 Wealthiest man here.
00:15:47.000 I do a lot of stuff at home.
00:15:49.000 I mean, I'm a comedian, so I'm on the road a lot on the weekends, but when I'm not on the road, I just hang out at home with the kids and I do housework, yard work, play sports with the kids and video games with my kids.
00:16:03.000 What about you, Pop Scrotter?
00:16:04.000 I'm going to go see Josh Comedian.
00:16:04.000 What do you do?
00:16:07.000 Oh, yeah.
00:16:07.000 Oh, yeah.
00:16:08.000 Tonight, I. You don't do that every day.
00:16:10.000 No.
00:16:11.000 You know, I'm kind of a fitness freak for my age.
00:16:12.000 That's kind of a thing I do.
00:16:14.000 Playing with the grandkids, chasing after them.
00:16:16.000 I love that.
00:16:16.000 It's a whole new time in my life.
00:16:18.000 It's an absolute blast.
00:16:20.000 Yeah.
00:16:21.000 Gerald?
00:16:24.000 We do hang out sometimes out of work.
00:16:25.000 I want to address that part of it.
00:16:26.000 Like, sometimes we do, but we spend a lot of time together at work.
00:16:29.000 This job is very demanding for that setup.
00:16:31.000 The lines get blurred when you were friends before you worked together.
00:16:34.000 That's right.
00:16:34.000 Yeah.
00:16:35.000 You know, especially if we're doing like a stream, like a nightly stream where we're here till 2 a.m.
00:16:40.000 Hanging out together.
00:16:41.000 Yeah.
00:16:42.000 As far as for fun, man, like I, again, the dad of three young kids, and so you spend a lot of time with your family, and that's a lot of fun.
00:16:47.000 Like, I think a lot of people have this view, like, oh, your life ends.
00:16:50.000 Now, man, it begins.
00:16:51.000 So true.
00:16:52.000 Like, it's so much fun.
00:16:53.000 You get to work later, but it's a lot of fun.
00:16:55.000 People look at you.
00:16:55.000 If you don't have kids, people look at you if you're pretending to be a dinosaur.
00:16:58.000 Yeah.
00:17:00.000 If I got a kid with me, I could do it all day.
00:17:01.000 Dude, no one bats an eye.
00:17:03.000 It's such a good life.
00:17:04.000 Yeah.
00:17:04.000 Like, I can go watch his toy story, and it's totally fine now.
00:17:07.000 Oh, you can go see the toy story as a single adult.
00:17:09.000 I don't care.
00:17:09.000 People are like, what's that guy doing over there?
00:17:11.000 Oh, he's a pterodactyl.
00:17:13.000 That makes sense. 0.86
00:17:14.000 I thought it was retarded. 1.00
00:17:15.000 I see the kid. 1.00
00:17:16.000 He's a retarded pterodactyl. 1.00
00:17:17.000 Sorry, retarded. 1.00
00:17:18.000 No, same thing. 0.78
00:17:19.000 I mean, I'm, yeah, we all do hang out to varying degrees because we're here.
00:17:23.000 And then sometimes even you're done with work, but then you'll just find yourself in a chat.
00:17:26.000 I mean, I'll see very often, you know, Toolman, Gerald, or a group of people in this studio gym here.
00:17:32.000 As far as personally, if I'm not hanging out with people from work, you know, that's one thing that I've struggled with a little bit since the surgery, the elective cosmetic surgery of three titanium rods through my chest.
00:17:45.000 Yeah, I can't do jiu-jitsu or any of the actual athletic endeavors beyond training, and even that's limited.
00:17:50.000 And it kind of took that away from me because that was something I was always pretty passionate about, pretty enthusiastic about.
00:17:56.000 And, you know, sometimes you have injuries and you have to stop.
00:17:58.000 But usually I was really for the last good few years, either jiu-jitsu or boxing, whichever one I could do, depending on the injury at that point in time.
00:18:07.000 I don't have as many hobbies as I used to because generally speaking, my hobbies, kind of like Pop Scratch, have been all-encompassing, right?
00:18:15.000 The gym, obviously.
00:18:17.000 I don't really do that that often.
00:18:18.000 I will say the lines also get blurred where I really like learning.
00:18:23.000 So, you know, I could be on my phone or I could be on my computer and I'll be doing something for work and I'll go, oh, you know what?
00:18:29.000 That's right.
00:18:30.000 I wanted to brush up on this.
00:18:31.000 Like I talked about recently, Stalin and Trotsky. 0.99
00:18:33.000 And then I realized I've wasted a huge swath of time because it's two assholes fighting the end. 0.98
00:18:38.000 So that's something I've always been passionate about. 0.97
00:18:40.000 I also think it's because there was such a void because I learned zero American history in Canadian public schools and very little about global history if it related to communism because I was raised in a socialist province.
00:18:55.000 So learning is something I'm always pretty passionate about.
00:18:57.000 I will say I've been going to the range more because I'm like, well, if I can't really do grappling or any of the combat sports, hey, at least I can get better at shooting a gun.
00:19:05.000 There you go.
00:19:06.000 And the problem is everyone has a different technique. 1.00
00:19:08.000 I'm like, that one's dog shit. 1.00
00:19:10.000 Do this one. 1.00
00:19:10.000 You're like, oh, I posted fun ones. 1.00
00:19:13.000 Just squeezing a, just doing a mag dump after a long day.
00:19:13.000 Yeah.
00:19:16.000 And oh, that finger discipline sucks. 1.00
00:19:20.000 Yeah, just slap it back or just rack it. 0.97
00:19:21.000 I'm like, yeah.
00:19:22.000 I'm just playing around.
00:19:24.000 I'm just having fun.
00:19:25.000 Also, I hit the target 17 times.
00:19:27.000 No, that's exactly right.
00:19:28.000 For a living.
00:19:29.000 Some people, like, recently people are like, oh, if you don't use red dots, you're living in the Stone Age, man.
00:19:29.000 Well, same thing.
00:19:32.000 If you don't use Red Dots on your pistols, now I use optics on my rifles, but I don't like them on my pistols.
00:19:36.000 And then you got a guy who goes, oh, using red dot?
00:19:38.000 You'll just go with the iron sights?
00:19:40.000 Actually, I would say this.
00:19:41.000 It's very few in the gun hobbyist community.
00:19:42.000 They all are like, you're taking your life in your hands if you don't use a red dot.
00:19:44.000 And with a lot of security we have, a lot of these people are, you know, have been high-level military.
00:19:49.000 It's been my experience that the significant majority of them prefer to not have dots on pistols or at best think it's a wash, but on rifles, absolutely, it's a huge advantage.
00:19:59.000 So that's a thing.
00:20:00.000 And then, of course, obviously, like most of my time is, I'm a homebody.
00:20:03.000 And then with the, you know, with the kids, family, anytime we can do that, like pretty much goes from work, boom, home, family.
00:20:10.000 And then I'll just watch, you know, a movie or read something that that is informative and inspirational.
00:20:16.000 And the crazy thing is, like, a lot of people, this is one thing, too, I've thought about this where you'll get a lot of, I would say, particularly in the era of Instagram and TikTok, like women, like, look, I want to travel. 0.56
00:20:25.000 Look at how turquoise this water is.
00:20:28.000 It's just not me.
00:20:29.000 Like I hate traveling.
00:20:30.000 I have traveled quite a bit.
00:20:31.000 Of course, I like going out with family or a nice dinner.
00:20:34.000 But if you think about it, people throughout all of human history, like if you could be comfortable and not have to be out hunting all day and you didn't have to be nomadic and you had a healthy family and you had healthy children and you had food on the table and you also were able to engage in joyous, like think of Christmas.
00:20:52.000 That was supposed to be the ultimate.
00:20:53.000 What was it?
00:20:54.000 People had a duck and some family members around a table with a fire and they might play some board game that usually consisted of some kinds of wooden blocks that everyone would leave with splinters, right?
00:21:04.000 And that was considered like the ultimate.
00:21:05.000 This is great.
00:21:06.000 And now that's frowned upon as, oh, well, that's boring.
00:21:10.000 I guess I'm really just kind of happy being boring.
00:21:12.000 I actually prefer it and I've always been that way.
00:21:15.000 And I don't think there's anything wrong with boring, provided you're still, you know, sharpening your tools physically, mentally, spiritually.
00:21:23.000 That should be the dream.
00:21:24.000 Yeah.
00:21:25.000 My dream of a boring life.
00:21:26.000 Yeah.
00:21:27.000 It is.
00:21:28.000 But you've always been a maven of information ever since you were little.
00:21:31.000 But definitely as a college dropout in the internet age, you do deep dives and things.
00:21:37.000 And you get, I watch you get into a subject area and go and you're a PhD in six months and you move on to something else.
00:21:44.000 It's crazy.
00:21:44.000 It's obsessive.
00:21:45.000 But you've always been that way.
00:21:46.000 You love information and you research the heck out of it and then you move on.
00:21:51.000 And then I'm also scared.
00:21:53.000 I'm also scared where it's like, well, man, this is probably important.
00:21:56.000 Every now and then I'll come in.
00:21:57.000 I'm like, I should probably know like everything about this.
00:22:00.000 That's what happened with Stalin and Trotsky recently. 0.98
00:22:02.000 And then I was just one point kind of reading and understanding like, okay, so Trotsky just sort of disagreed with the mechanisms in place and basically thought, and then I was like, no one gives a shit about this. 0.99
00:22:11.000 I was like, these are two communists, and they basically were arguing over whose communism was better, and they both suck. 0.94
00:22:16.000 And so sometimes you can go down a rabbit hole and it maybe isn't productive. 0.94
00:22:21.000 Now, I'm glad that I have that knowledge.
00:22:23.000 I don't know how much I'll retain because it's tough.
00:22:26.000 If I don't, there's no side that I can like emphasize.
00:22:29.000 There's no hero villain.
00:22:30.000 It's just two villains. 1.00
00:22:32.000 And no matter what I would read, I'm like, I hope both of them die horribly. 0.80
00:22:36.000 Yeah, maybe dysentery. 0.81
00:22:37.000 Yeah, I don't know.
00:22:38.000 It could be, you know, and then I was like, oh, well, I guess Stalin had pockmarks because that's good. 0.93
00:22:43.000 So at least, you know, he went through some suffering.
00:22:44.000 I'm happy with that.
00:22:46.000 So people made fun of him, you know?
00:22:47.000 Yeah, he didn't clean his pipe.
00:22:49.000 So his lungs were probably all tarry.
00:22:51.000 So I can feel good knowing that he suffered.
00:22:53.000 And I can feel good knowing that I pretty much just live a boring, simple life.
00:22:56.000 And I think, hey, people often say what's most important is your health, family, faith, family, health, and down the list.
00:23:03.000 And most people don't live that because they'll say that.
00:23:06.000 Then they'll go, ooh, I want to go on another trip and post it for the grand.
00:23:09.000 Well, that doesn't seem like you're placing your focus on family.
00:23:12.000 And I think a lot of people out there, a lot of young men in particular, feel that there are these expectations and being boring means you're uninteresting or means that you're unambitious.
00:23:23.000 I don't think that at all.
00:23:24.000 As a matter of fact, I will say most of the hyperly ambitious people that I know, when they are not sort of in their purpose, honing their craft, doing their business, they're almost all uniformly boring.
00:23:36.000 And I have no problem with it.
00:23:38.000 And I'm always glad to hang out with people here.
00:23:39.000 It really is much closer to everyone says that.
00:23:42.000 Like it's like a family, but we are much closer here because you know we're really kind of been forged in the fire and it's much more meaningful.
00:23:50.000 Like there are easier places to work than here for sure.
00:23:52.000 If someone is here beyond that six-month mark, it's not because it's the easiest job, they're here because they believe in it.
00:23:58.000 And that goes a long way, and that's why we all hang out with each other.
00:24:01.000 And we're happy to spend that time with you.
00:24:04.000 I want to let people know who they're going to Devori or Devery Devery Darkens. 1.00
00:24:12.000 If you're watching, we're going to send you over to him and we'll see you tomorrow, especially because you're OG Rumble Premium Mug Club tomorrow, Friday show, just for you.