In this episode, the boys discuss the name of the podcast, screwdriver logos, and why they don't want an eagle. Also, we talk about Bobcat Attack and why we don't like Bobcats.
00:07:10.000Although I will say this would be hilarious because of the way it kind of angles if someone just wore this as a tie and never addressed it.
00:08:49.000I mean, if you if this isn't a hate symbol, like you've got it, you're like, hey, how do we make it look like a hate symbol without it being one?
00:08:55.000This is either uh a recognized hate symbol or a backpacking and hiking company who dabbles in hate.
00:13:38.000I feel like if it's the ADL, since it resembles Islam at all, they would not come close to classifying it as a hate symbol because it might very well be a hate symbol, but because it's Islamic, it's religious freedom.
00:14:15.000And got on the plane, and it's I'm I'm the only one that doesn't smell like shit.
00:14:19.000And uh yeah, well, no, there's two of us, me and a black guy, Michael Winslow.
00:14:24.000Uh we were the only ones that weren't like not, you know, uh Middle Eastern or whatever, and that was what happened on the tarmac, guy gets on the you know, intercom as if to say, and we're gonna be uh flying out uh a little late here.
00:14:36.000But it was all in Arabic, and it was uh it was like kind of frightening.
00:21:38.000And by the way, you guys know when I'm not here, it's not like it's very rare that I'm not here and just doing nothing, you know, or doing like a change of mind or doing a black and white or sometimes.
00:21:46.000But uh I'm sure there was probably some chat uh on the black and white subject because I was not able to take any.
00:24:00.000The reason I was laughing so hard is because I looked this up and this lady gets attacked by Bobcat and hats off to this guy, the way he handles it.
00:24:06.000Uh but it was on one of those websites that ran it like a loop.
00:24:09.000And so I closed my phone, but it kept playing it on a loop, and you'll see it starts off with good morning, and he's bringing his coffee out, and then he's like, it's a fucking bobcat!
00:25:30.000But that guy, he grabs it, you know it's biting and he launches it and grabs his gun.
00:25:35.000You can tell that there's a moment, because you know, you wind up to throw, you can tell there's a moment where he's like, I can't pull this back to throw.
00:25:40.000So he kind of just moves his body forward in space, throws it, but he's like, get back!
00:25:47.000And the other lady is right back, and it's like, just this guy is doing like look, I get that's why it's like you don't have to be Hercules, you don't have to be he made it.
00:25:56.000That's his badass as could pop that guy just sitting there like, you know he's getting scratched.
00:32:43.000What I am against is federal guarantee of loans that kids will never be able to repay, therefore increasing the number of people going every single year and just increasing the tuition costs.
00:33:02.000You have to have a product like you know, kids' educations where they can go get jobs and it's good enough that people want to go there.
00:33:07.000It can't just be because you're being funded by the government.
00:33:09.000So it should be this, and then it should be if there is any performance base where it's based on you know uh criteria what kind of jobs do they get afterward, how quickly do they pay back their loans because of their level of the city.
00:34:09.000You're going to see uh you're going to see that uh that contrast even more.
00:34:13.000Where you're going to see, for example, the Vermont and the New York State and California schools, right?
00:34:18.000Because there's no federal department of education.
00:34:20.000They're gonna have to foot the bill for that, and the quality of education is going to suffer because they have an equity department and black only space and gender studies and trigger warning classes, whereas Texas and Florida are actually spending it on, you know, economics, history, basic mathematics, reading skills.
00:34:37.000That is also uh really the most important aspect of doing it with a federal department of education, because if you make it a little bit leaner, states will do what is best for their students, and then you see the values actually come into play and you see them play out in the real world when those students uh grow beyond high school age.
00:34:52.000So I think teachers need to have uh uh a real conflict.
00:34:56.000I don't know what a conflict or uh you strike your they need to talk with their union because their union is the one that's keeping their wages way low while they're getting more money from districts and from states.
00:35:06.000So the all these administrative jobs are all because of the unions.
00:35:17.000Well, they should fight for better pay for really good teachers, but they don't.
00:35:21.000So everyone gets equally pretty good pay.
00:35:24.000Yeah, I mean, if they I don't see why they can't just you know go to go to the battle for their own money, though.
00:35:30.000Like I don't think that all teachers need to be paid more, but they have to protect the money is going into these different jobs, then they should have a bigger share.
00:35:37.000Yeah, but the problem is they have to protect all the bad teachers.
00:35:39.000They have rubber rooms where you can't fire a bad teacher.
00:35:41.000So the teachers' unions look out for unions tend to protect the lowest common denominator now.
00:35:45.000They don't protect the excellent worker.
00:35:47.000They harm the excellent worker because they can only they have a ceiling that's only so high, and they help the uh below average worker because they get paid at least average or above.
00:35:57.000That's the problem with unions right now.
00:36:40.000I mean, I I wouldn't say that Donald Trump seemed really bombastic as a celebrity and he's not that way now.
00:36:45.000I mean, I think that uh people have kind of known who he is for quite a long time, and that's more than just someone who's a prick, and it's more than just someone who's a nice guy.
00:36:53.000This is a guy who's been in business and he's been pretty hardlined for a long time.
00:36:56.000So uh no, I just think it's uh it's more so that they they really uh take they just eat wholesale.
00:37:03.000They just do they just consume this idea that he's a fascist, and they can't actually give you any reasons as to why.
00:37:08.000For crying out loud, anyone outside of our sort of if you were to go right now and check out any liberal form subreddit, uh the vast majority of them still believe that Charlie Kirk shooter was a right wing extremist.
00:37:22.000So they believe what they are told to believe.
00:37:25.000This I there is no right wing echo chamber.
00:37:27.000I guess the closest thing you could have would be a kid who's homeschooled, right, who's not allowed to watch any TV, and maybe only watches some right-leaning channels, but this person would have to be really, really siloed off from all of society.
00:37:39.000You can't be in a right-wing echo chamber if you have any subscriptions to either Netflix or Amazon or Paramount or HBO.
00:37:45.000You can't be in a right-wing echo chamber if you go on YouTube or TikTok, if you watch anything on cable, if you go to the movie theater several times a year, if you listen to any mainstream, it's just not possible if you go to any public school.
00:38:35.000I would say the years probably 2015 through 2022.
00:38:39.000It's softened a little bit, but like if you go back and watch dear white people, if you go back and you see what Cutie's was, whatever that show with what's the name of that guy, Billy, is it Billy Eichner on the street that's just a whole movie about him like basically wanking it?
00:38:52.000Like it's just they thought this is what people needed to see was so, so aggressive.
00:38:57.000Now they've softened it because these guys are hemorrhaging money.
00:39:00.000But before that, you had the same form of soft liberalism.
00:39:02.000For the longest time, people thought CNN was my god actual journalism.
00:39:05.000I mean, Joe Rogan used to cite CNN unironically until he woke up.
00:39:09.000There's really no way to avoid the constant leftist indoctrination.
00:39:43.000You guys all know the conspiracy that was this weekend that was quickly debunked, but that was more proof that it must be true in the first place because if someone fact checks you with my being off by five time zones, it actually means that you're hovering above the target.
00:40:00.000My politics professor has assigned lefty pieces to do reports on, and one is saying that red states are more dependent on federal funding, even though Republicans don't like government.
00:40:12.000And I I from what I've seen in the they try and do that, and they'll cite states, for example, like West Virginia, because you do have a lot of people you just have an overall high percentage of people there who aren't paying anything in income taxes and are receiving some kind of net flows, basically.
00:40:24.000So net income tax paid in from people who live in that state versus federal funding that goes to that state.
00:40:29.000Uh but you also have some some states that have received quite a bit of federal funding as far as natural disasters.
00:40:33.000I mean, Florida, for example, and so I don't know what it's controlled for, but um hey, uh okay, that's fine, but those people aren't voting for it.
00:40:43.000So I have a I've always said too, you shouldn't be voting in your own self interest.
00:40:46.000You shouldn't be going, well, what has he done for me?
00:40:52.000And I do think that there is a lower common denominator amongst right-wing voters who go, look, I like that hat.
00:40:58.000I like what he's saying, I like NASCAR, right?
00:41:00.000This you know, the kind of people who say they're taking a principled stand, but they still watch the football every Sunday, uh, as though they can still make any kind of argument as to why that's something that should be tenable in their life if they're a principled conservative.
00:41:13.000I'd have to look into those numbers more.
00:41:16.000Uh we've I think we've presented them in the past, and it's it's still kind of a mix if you look at the top ten states.
00:41:21.000But some states are that are pretty poor, tend to be right-leaning.
00:41:24.000And that's also something that's uh pretty transient because it depends, you know, on the given year.
00:41:29.000For example, you have some states that are more conservative where certain sectors of manufacturing have left, um, by and large because of uh policies, of course, that have offshored them.
00:41:38.000So there's sometimes a rubber band effect.
00:41:40.000I don't really understand how that's uh an argument against against conservative small government.
00:41:47.000I mean, look, if you're a conservative, but uh I mean, John Stossel talks about this.
00:41:51.000If you're a conservative, but for some reason your home is insured because you live in a flood zone and it gets like are you not gonna take the money to rebuild your house?
00:42:18.000I I guess I'm not aware of what this you're talking about the the nude protest as opposed to.
00:42:22.000I think it's a combination of things that uh there's a I guess a movement of people uh encouraging protesters to not be violent uh and to do soft protests and like the people in the inflatable animal suits and the dancing, and I I think the soft penises would be part of that.
00:42:43.000So you in other words, they're T they're telling them to, you know, uh just exercise a constitutionally protected right, which is to protest.
00:43:29.000But uh uh, you know, it's it's one of those things where it won't work because the only leverage they have is basically terrorism is instilling fear.
00:43:36.000The left, like they won't do it because there aren't enough of them if they just saw it's most of the time you only get leftists to show up if there are enough people there who want to start shit.
00:43:43.000You can get plenty of conservatives to show up.
00:43:46.000I mean, honestly, look at January 6th, outside of a very, very small percentage, many of whom were feds and many of whom are antifa agitators, which we now know.
00:43:53.000Most of the time it's incredibly peaceful, even if they have views that you disagree with.
00:44:00.000I mean, you can't really point me to any huge leftist pro The closest I can think of was the John Stewart rally, the rally for sanity, and even then there were a few assaults and stuff like that.
00:44:09.000Um the pussy march was mostly, but again, you're just talking about kind of a one-time event, but even then there were plenty uh of assaults and reporters who had their cameras and stuff being hit.
00:44:19.000So when the left look, you have Black Lives Matter after Trayvon Martin after um Michael Brown violent.
00:44:25.000You have as it carried out uh or sorry, continued through uh the Trump years it was violent, of course, George Floyd violence.
00:44:31.000You look at Summer of Love, okay, of course it was violent.
00:44:34.000You look at Portland, you look at Chaz, okay, it was violent.
00:44:36.000You can even go back to, by the way, the original Woodstock.
00:44:38.000Do you have any idea how much rape was taking place at the original Woodstock when people talk about it like it was a bunch of peaceful hippies?
00:44:43.000It was a bunch of people dropping acid in the mud, and many women didn't remember what happened at the very least were were date gang raped.
00:44:49.000Like it's just not a thing because these people don't have the same moral compass.
00:44:52.000The closest you'll see from the right is beforehand, right?
00:44:56.000Before the Tea Party, when that was going on, they were saying, make sure, by the way, that you guys treat this place with respect.
00:45:01.000They're nice for hosting us here, allowing us to make sure you clean up your trash.
00:45:04.000Donald Trump's saying make your voices heard peacefully patriotically.
00:45:07.000But now for them to have to send out memos like, hey, we need to change our approach, that's an acknowledgement that they've been overwhelmingly violent.
00:45:14.000And I don't think that they'll have enough people uh who will be actively involved in the soft forms of protesting.
00:45:19.000But hey, I hope I hope to have my mind changed and see a bunch of peaceful protests across this country from the left, and that to be the new norm, that would be great.
00:45:27.000I don't anticipate that will be the case.
00:45:55.000I guess I guess because if you make it your whole thing, your whole reason for being, and then the conflict is ended by the guy who you said should should be impeached, right?
00:46:04.000Remember, Candace Owens, Dave Smith said this guy should be impeached for supporting Israel, and I believe specifically impeached because of the Iranian strike.
00:46:23.000Uh okay, so that happens and there's no war, there's no conflict, and that conflict ends between Israel and Iran.
00:46:29.000Okay, we you just took away half of your reason for being.
00:46:32.000And now Donald Trump ends the conflict, the hostages are returned, and he says, God bless the Middle East, not even just Israel.
00:46:38.000I guess you have to go, like, yeah, yeah, but it still was bad then, and that's proof that it's you have to tell people it's gonna happen again, and and and and right, you need to sell some kind of impending doom.
00:46:48.000I don't know, it would seem like this would be something that's good across the board.
00:46:50.000No, uh, it would seem like people would be happy across the board.
00:46:53.000And I'd, by the way, if they're gonna say, like, yeah, well, they need to make up for the genocide.
00:46:57.000Well, you also have people on the other side who believe there should be a one-state solution and Palestine isn't a real place, right?
00:47:03.000So, but they're happy about the fact that hostages have been returned and there's peace.
00:47:06.000And then you have people who believe that there should only be the Palestinian state and Israel shouldn't exist.
00:47:10.000But most of those people there still are happy that peace has been achieved and there's less dying.
00:47:14.000So the only people who are unhappy are the people who want to say that this administration is bought and paid for by the Jews.
00:47:21.000And by the way, that's not to say that APEC is not a powerful lobby.
00:47:24.000That's not to say that we don't have some ties that maybe need to change a relationship dynamics between us and the government of Israel.
00:47:31.000Um, I understand that, but where do they go from here?
00:47:35.000They go, and the Jews control everything and cease and the Jews are gonna bring us into World War III with this Iran.
00:47:40.000If we do it, it's World War III, and uh it actually was done strategically in probably the most impressive night mission in modern history, and the conflict is over.
00:48:51.000We used to have Payola laws uh on radio where you would have to tell people you couldn't just mention a product and not let them know that it was a paid placement.
00:48:59.000But with social media, we don't really have those in place.
00:49:03.000And so you have people of, you know, just as large of a reach as broadcasters back in the day, who are presenting something as though it is a matter of opinion or as though it's a matter of of fact as it relates to the news, and it's not.
00:49:16.000It's actually a paid product endorsement.
00:49:19.000And that product, by the way, can be a person or an idea or a nation or a lobbying group.
00:49:24.000I am on board with them having to disclose all of it across the board.
00:49:30.000But see, if that would happen, and you would see all of a sudden that, yeah, there's some paid posts from the Israeli lobby, sure.
00:49:39.000But there are far more, let's say, from China, from Qatar, from really influencers who are just paying the paying to play, playing the game, you'd still have to find a reason to single out the Jews as though they're the only players in that game and vilify them.
00:49:52.000So I just don't think it's a game where there's any winning because yeah, I think there are valid criticisms of not only APEC, but the Israeli government, Benjamin Netanyahu having a vested interest in continuing this war because he's he could be facing prison.
00:50:31.000I I if you talk to uh Amer you know those who are in the military or those who are intelligence, when they're in France, they will tell you it was just a given that they were being monitored at every single turn their phone, it's just the cost of doing business, and they have had some of the most uh pervasive counterintelligence and spies in by the way, here on our own soil, let alone when you visit there internationally of any government, and no one talks about the French.
00:52:01.000So if nothing else, we should all be celebrating this idea that our government, our country is not subservient to anyone, we're the ones calling the shots.
00:52:12.000If we can't find some common ground and celebrate that, then that would tell you there's some people who don't have the same goals in mind that you do, which is the best case scenario for America and its citizens, because all of these, these are good things.
00:52:25.000And we need to focus on legitimate threats.
00:52:27.000And I would also advise you to take a look at that.
00:52:30.000Who out there who is pointing out the threat that right now has largely been mitigated has been sort of ignoring the real threat of China and what they're doing of Qatar, Saudi Arabia, of what's happening as far as foreign influence.
00:52:44.000If you pair those up, you might see, hey, your interests diverge.
00:52:48.000You're the one who's actually America first.
00:52:50.000The people who use it basically as a litmus test that they don't enforce them themselves, maybe they're not really America first.