On today's episode, the brother and sister duo of the sit down and talk about a variety of topics ranging from Texas to New York City to a lake that has been built in the middle of no where. We also talk about how much money is being thrown at the border and why we need a border patrol force in the U.S. A lot of laughs, a lot of rants, and a whole lot of general nonsense. Enjoy the episode and spread the word to your friends about this one! Logo by Courtney DeKorte. Theme by Mavus White. Music by PSOVOD and tyops. If you like what you hear, please HIT SUBSCRIBE and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts! Subscribe, Like, and Share to stay up to date with what s going on in the world of podcasting and social media! Timestamps: 3:00 - What's up? 4:30 - How much money should you be making in the border? 5:15 - What kind of country do you live in? 6:20 - What do you like about Texas? 7:00 8:40 - What does Texas pay? 9:30 11:20 What's the worst thing Texas does to you? 12:00 | What are you're going to do in Texas 13:15:40 16:40 | What's your favorite city? 17:30 | Where do you want to go to next? 18:20 | How do you plan for the future? 19:50 | What s your favorite place? 21: What s the best place to eat? 22:20 // 22:00 // 23:00 / 22:30 // 25:30 / 27:40 // 27:00/28: What are your favorite state? 26:30/30? 27:50 / 30? 29:30 Is your favorite part of the day? 30:40 / 32:30 Are you going to go back to the most important part of your life? 35:30 What s a good place to live in the next town? 36:00 & 35:20 / 35: Is it a good day? / 35? 37:40/36? 39:30 & 36:40? 40:40 & 39?
00:01:08.000Like, if I ever bought, like, property, like, if I just get over this whole, like, I have to be in the city shit, like, I have my property.
00:03:00.000So they basically built like these, like, there were like little trailers that they set up outside and they put, you know, dining tables in and nice lighting and shit.
00:03:12.000Yeah, New York City drivers will have to pay $15 to ride through Manhattan.
00:03:55.000Have you been paying attention to this standoff between Texas and the Biden administration in terms of the border?
00:04:02.000Like, Texas has put up barbed wire, and the Biden administration wants the barbed wire taken down.
00:04:09.000I'll be honest and tell you, I haven't been following it super close, which is odd because I'm Texas born and raised.
00:04:13.000And the weird thing is, is living in Dallas, you're almost still kind of disconnected from what's going on at the border a little bit because you're so far north.
00:04:20.000But even in Houston, because you know I'm in Houston a lot too, it's not something that you're confronted with daily.
00:04:26.000But, but, anybody from Texas usually at some point in time, at some point in time.
00:04:36.000At some point in time you're gonna go you're gonna go towards the border.
00:04:39.000Yeah, and you're gonna see it for yourself But what I do know of it I mean at this point we I mean We're trying not to lose control of it essentially from what I can gather what is happening I don't know whose idea is it isn't in terms of what who's letting this happen?
00:04:54.000Like who's it seems very organized these people know the borders open so they know they could just walk through I think I think there's a lot of virtue signaling, I think, involved in all of the whole, like you talking about with New York saying, you know, we're a sanctuary city.
00:05:09.000Just, yes, we accept everyone to come in, just not our state and our city, right?
00:05:16.000And so I think you have that combined with the reality of what happens when you have a border that honestly is not being...
00:05:25.000So if you have a situation where you have people who are able to just come in and leave as they, I wouldn't necessarily say leave, but coming into a state, and it's a choke point because a lot of it is coming in through Texas.
00:05:38.000So it's easy to have that philosophy of, oh, leave the border, don't make the border, get rid of the barbed wire, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, because we want to seem as if We are welcoming to everyone.
00:05:49.000And I don't think it's a matter of not wanting to be welcoming.
00:05:52.000I think it has a lot to do with the same reason why you have a front door with locks on it on your house.
00:05:57.000At least have a checkpoint to say, okay, well, if you want to come in, I need to know who I'm dealing with.
00:06:03.000Well, did you see they had this one guy that was on video that he said, you will see who I am soon.
00:06:08.000And then they found out he's on like some terrorist watch list or something like that.
00:06:37.000Just because it just doesn't really make sense.
00:06:40.000I don't think anybody who's honestly being honest with themselves...
00:06:45.000You're not going to be someone who says, you know what, I just want an open border where any and everyone can come in at will without anybody checking who's actually coming into the country.
00:08:03.000Yeah, but like I said, I think a lot of it has to do, I think there's some grandstanding and there's some virtue signaling going on as well.
00:08:09.000I think the administration honestly is trying to walk that line of, no, we're so progressive, while at the same time honestly trying to stick it to Texas.
00:08:34.000I think it has a lot to do with Trump.
00:08:37.000Because, you know, when he was running his campaign, he was running a lot of it based on the idea he was going to build that wall and border.
00:08:42.000And so that became a separation point for a lot of people in the country with respect to what side they fell on.
00:08:49.000And I think there's a particular party in this country that utilized it as a lightning rod to create that level of division.
00:08:55.000And so I think they're kind of trying to reestablish that again.
00:08:59.000Which is one of the things that's even more gangster about...
00:09:03.000Abbott sending people to Chicago, sending people to New York.
00:09:06.000Because in Chicago, they're like, get these fucking people out of here.
00:09:09.000And the people that live in Chicago, the poor people in Chicago, like, this is bullshit.
00:09:29.000Trying to pass the buck a little bit or kind of a mass distraction because when you look at these major cities and you see the conditions that a lot of these people are living in in our own country, right?
00:09:41.000You start to ask yourself, okay, well, why are these conditions?
00:09:45.000And they're a very particularized area and very particular places within this country.
00:09:49.000So it begs the question, it's like, why can't we fix this issue?
00:09:54.000They're talking about how we want to help these people.
00:09:56.000They want to come into the country because they're running away from a shitty life and in terrible environments.
00:10:02.000I mean, you mean the ones that are synonymous to the ones that we actually have in the country as well, but yet we haven't been able to address that issue?
00:10:09.000But I think it's a way to kind of push that to the side and sweep it under the rug and say, no, it's a sexier problem to have when we're trying to deal with people coming from other countries and we want to help them because we're so noble and so brave.
00:10:22.000But I'm like, you haven't even taken care of what's going on in your own home.
00:10:26.000And part of the reason why the place they are at sucks, the reason why they come over here is because of what we're doing to those countries.
00:10:35.000I mean, it's part of, like, when we shipped all those fucking jobs overseas and these people were making pennies on the dollar to make goods that we can buy here slightly cheaper.
00:11:04.000And a lot of people aren't willing to pay that price hike in order to have stuff produced in America.
00:11:08.000So basically companies become incentivized to then go and have these things created elsewhere because I've seen companies where they struggle because they're trying to make everything in America but that comes with a price that a lot of people aren't willing to pay.
00:11:22.000And so I wonder How much, you know, it's kind of like with climate change.
00:11:28.000It's like how much of that is affecting a lot of the manufacturing and so forth going overseas?
00:11:34.000Some of it is, but there's enough people that want to buy American-made products from people that get paid a fair wage that if you advertise that and make that...
00:12:14.000Take pride in the fact that these things that you're wearing, these things that you purchase, these things you use every day, is 100% American-made.
00:12:22.000Everything, down to the buttons, the threads, everything put together, all the cloth.
00:12:54.000But I feel like if you had an American-made cell phone, I've been saying this forever.
00:12:58.000Give me a fucking iPhone that's made by people that aren't working for slave wages.
00:13:02.000Give me an iPhone that's not made in a factory where people have nets around the building to keep people from jumping off the roofs because they hate their lives.
00:13:10.000Give me a phone that you didn't get sourced the materials by slave labor in the Congo.
00:13:35.000But I have the monetary ability to do it.
00:13:37.000I wonder how much of, you know, the people who aren't necessarily in the economic position to pay, like to them, that's considerable markup, right?
00:13:48.000I wonder how much of that, I don't know, I wonder how much of that plays into a part of, you know, facilitating this kind of shipping or manufacturing everything overseas because they can build things cheaper and then people continue to buy it.
00:13:57.000So maybe I take a step back and I say, all right, maybe it's not just a, oh yeah, they say they want American, but we aren't willing to pay for it.
00:14:04.000Maybe some people, maybe a large part of people just can't.
00:14:52.000I have reached a point now where I'm kind of like, I don't want to upgrade, but for no other reason than I don't want to have to go through the update process.
00:15:00.000The changeover process is really annoying.
00:15:48.000So maybe it's just the fault of the system that just, it's bound to happen, where you get this kind of cross-communication and it just can't keep up with it.
00:18:06.000I know you like engines, you like the sound, but if you go from that fucking car, go from the Plaid, the 0 to 60 in 1.9 seconds, silently, like a fucking time-traveling machine.
00:18:46.000They're like, this doesn't make any sense.
00:18:49.000You want range, and with hybrids, you get all the range of a regular vehicle, but you get a lot of fuel economy, so you get more range, and you get also the option of extra power.
00:19:00.000And that's one of the things that Honda did with their last NSX, which was one of the most underappreciated supercars that's ever existed.
00:20:05.000And then you get the German engineering of Audi, and then you combine that with the flair and the pomp and circumstance that you get with the Italians, and it's just a beautiful marriage.
00:20:15.000It's just, Lamborghini is like 10% too much douche.
00:20:58.000If they brought it and came in at a price point sub 100, they wouldn't be able to keep them.
00:21:03.000They're still selling the R8. That's a fucking monster car too.
00:21:06.000That's also a car that's not appreciated enough.
00:21:08.000I am a little kind of indifferent about the R8. Really?
00:21:13.000Yeah, I drove one once and it just, I couldn't help but feel like, now keep in mind, in all fairness, it was the early, like, first generation R8. I haven't driven any of the newer generations.
00:21:23.000My friend Everlast had one of the earlier ones.
00:25:02.000There's a bunch of cars that just don't get their deserve, what they deserve, you know?
00:25:08.000Yeah, I mean, I went down a rabbit hole last night with the Lexus LC 500. See, you say that, I hear LFA. LFA's amazing.
00:25:22.000But people are doing wild shit with the LC 500 where they're putting wide body kits on them and straight pipes and they sound insane.
00:25:30.000Well, I think that's because of the LFA. Because I think once the LFA didn't do as well as they expected it to do, because again, I think they just overpriced it.
00:25:38.000Because the market just wasn't ready for a fucking, what was it, like $200,000?
00:27:47.000There's some California fucking politician that was just trying to pass a bill to make it so you can't go more than 10 miles an hour over the speed limit in a car.
00:29:02.000But you're pushing it with this over...
00:29:04.000But it was a very controversial bill that people were trying to misinterpret, but it was about age of consent.
00:29:13.000And they were saying that age of consent, that there was some part about the way the law was structured that was discriminating against LBGT people.
00:29:35.000With age gaps when it comes to heterosexual couples.
00:29:39.000So, like, say if, like, a girl is 16 in California, she'd be underage, and a boy's 18. What if they start dating when the boy was 17, the girl was 15, and the guy turns 18?
00:29:52.000So if they go to a judge, like, a judge could say, listen, this is not a pedophile, this is a young couple.
00:29:58.000But if the guy's 40 and the girl's 16, now you got a real problem.
00:30:02.000So that's interesting you say that because I got into kind of a little bit of shit in my law school class when I was in law school one time when we were talking about statutory rape.
00:30:12.000So, statutory rape is a strict liability crime, basically.
00:31:52.000As a young person, if you're properly dressed and if you have good genetics.
00:31:57.000At the same time, I still understand the basis behind the strict liability aspect of the law as well because it's like you want to go above and beyond to protect the youth.
00:35:23.000But the whole story behind it is so sad because the guy loved his friend and then after the friend's dead, he finds out the friend fucked his wife and got her pregnant and then he was raising that kid as his own.
00:35:40.000Yeah, and then nothing, I think, I think, I don't know, I think if that's the, I think the woman should be forced to pay alimony to the husband.
00:36:24.000And meanwhile, this guy is living with the heartbreak of his friend's betrayal, his friend's death first, then his friend's betrayal, and then his wife's betrayal, and then the financial obligation that he has that he can't afford.
00:36:54.000And he had a certain amount that he had to pay.
00:36:57.000And in Canada, when his income dropped substantially, because, you know, you just can't have a fucking sitcom all the time.
00:37:04.000If you're lucky, you get one your whole life.
00:37:08.000The judge said to him, your ability to pay has no relationship to your obligation to pay.
00:37:17.000So this exorbitant amount of money that he was paying, because at one point in time he was doing really well, that is how much you have to figure out how to make forever.
00:37:40.000If the point of child support is so that the child is supposed to be in the best interest of the child and making sure the child is provided for, why would you then create the very circumstance that would inevitably end up ripping the father away, not only just the father, but then also the money that could be going to the child,
00:37:56.000whether or not it's the actual amount you established beforehand or not?
00:38:02.000If you have justification for determining, you know what, he can't make these payments anymore, let's lower it to a payment he can make while still allowing the father to be in a child's life and have some type of money going in, do that shit.
00:43:19.000I think whatever your skill level is with a non-2011, I think a 2011 will raise it in terms of shootability because they're so easy to shoot.
00:44:19.000I've tried so many variations of different ways to carry.
00:44:23.000I've even done your way with the fanny pack deal.
00:44:28.000And I like that for when I'm running, right?
00:44:32.000And I know I poke fun at it, but largely the reason why I don't like it day to day is because I don't really like having a lot of stuff on my waist.
00:44:40.000I like to just have one single thing, especially if it's kind of big, so I like to minimize the footprint.
00:44:44.000Because I'm usually, like, I'm in sweats 90% of the time, right?
00:44:48.000So, like, with these sweats that I'm wearing right now, like, they're designed for that.
00:44:53.000And so I just take, I have my gun, I have the belt.
00:44:59.000And so for me, that's 99.9% of the way that I carry.
00:45:05.000Unless it's like in a bag or something.
00:45:07.000It's funny that this conversation is so normal with you and I. But if you have this conversation with people from California, they'll look at you like you're fucking insane.
00:45:18.000Well, it's also like there's a reality, like here's one thing, like constitutional carry.
00:45:24.000When my friends from California found out that constitutional carry was passed in Texas, so anyone can conceal carry, as long as you're not a criminal.
00:45:32.000When they saw that, they're like, what?
00:46:04.000Right, but if you think you're going to rob anybody, and then now all of a sudden there's a constitutional carrying, anyone can have a gun on them.
00:46:10.000That means your job as a criminal has become substantially harder.
00:46:33.000It makes your job substantially harder as a criminal to find actual victims.
00:46:37.000And not only that, and I just did a video recently where it's not even the person you're trying to rob or do something to you have to worry about.
00:46:44.000You have to worry about the people who may see it.
00:46:47.000Because in this particular situation, it was at a gas station, guy runs up on him, starts pistol whipping him, and the guy in another car saw it happen and started shooting at the guy.
00:46:59.000And so now you have to start thinking, shit, I'm like, I gotta find either a different place to go to to start looking for victims, or I gotta find a new career path.
00:48:07.000I've seen this and what the projection is is largely because inevitably you talk to them long enough They'll tell you I don't trust myself with the firearm.
00:54:14.000So let's just say I maintain a really exciting Amount of speed that was within legal speed limits from Dallas to Austin in the most beautiful way possible.
00:54:28.000And what blew my mind, and the beautiful thing about the Turbo S is even if it did start snowing or raining or whatever, It's all-wheel drive.
00:56:14.000So, we were getting ready to get to, we were checking out our hotel, and then we were getting ready to get back on the road, and then the lady's like, you know, they closed the freeway down, you know, they like salting freeway or whatever, they closed whatever freeway down.
00:56:24.000So we're like, we're cool, we'll just take the back roads.
00:57:44.000And so you know those moments when shit happens and you just kind of have to sit there for a second to take it in and then figure out what the hell's going on?
00:59:05.000And the funny thing is, when we got back in the house, I dropped my coworker off at his place, and then as I was pulling up to my building, my brakes went out.
00:59:21.000And so I guess they were just like, we're done.
00:59:23.000When I tell you they couldn't have gone out at a more perfect time, I pulled into my building, got into my parking spot, and as I was trying to pull into the parking spot, they just went out.
00:59:33.000Now, I had enough friction to get it to slow down because I was at a slower speed, but at that point, so basically I had to use the handbrake.
01:00:12.000When I was a kid, I lived on a hill in Newton, Massachusetts, and me and my sister's boyfriend sat on the roof and watched people slide down our hill and crash.
01:00:59.000So now that's what makes me nervous because I'm like, I remember when we had the freeze apocalypse or whatever in Dallas.
01:01:05.000Yeah, I got in my truck and went out there and started kind of driving around because I kind of knew what I was doing.
01:01:10.000But I was always constantly looking in my rearview mirror because there's going to be some dumbass who's going way too fast and doesn't realize that you can't stop at the same distance on ice patches and they're going to just ride into me.
01:01:23.000And so I was like, this isn't fun anymore.
01:01:24.000So I just went back and said, In Austin, they don't even have plows.
01:02:22.000That was the truck that I bought I had made when I was nervous about living in LA. I'm like, if something happens, like an earthquake, fire, flood, I want to be able to go over these hills.
01:02:32.000I don't want to be stuck on these roads because there was a road in Northern California where there was a major fire and everyone on the road burned to death.
01:02:42.000Because the fire storm swept through the road, and they were trapped in bumper-to-bumper traffic, and they all got cooked.
01:04:14.000I don't know if it's twice, but whatever it is, it's definitely not.
01:04:17.000If you have a Tesla and you have to stop at 60, and then you have a TRX, you have to stop at 60, there's no way you're winning that competition.
01:04:34.000And I remember when I was in Houston, I forgot there's like this, I forgot the name of it, but there's a road where it's kind of, it's kind of windy.
01:04:42.000Not like sports car windy, but just, you know, kind of does things and you can get some, get up to speed.
01:04:51.000And then, like, they were like, out of nowhere, I come around the corner and there's like eight cars sitting at the light.
01:04:57.000And I'm like, Fuck I never thought about how bad this thing is at stopping and I remember standing on the brakes and then you hear that And you're like, please stop, please stop, please stop, please stop.
01:06:25.000They got to do something about those brakes, and they have to do something about the fucking onboard security system, because the way they're able to steal these trucks is insane.
01:06:34.000Dude, they still, they still, they still, it's not Raptors, they still, anything Mopar.
01:06:40.000Anything Mopar, if you don't have a kill switch on it, if you don't have, oh man, if you don't have whatever the neutral thing is to stop them from being able to throw it in neutral, if you don't have a GPS on it or Apple AirTalk, your truck will be gone.
01:06:53.000I have dudes in my building who bought it in TRX, went to dinner with their wives to come back out and their truck was gone.
01:08:01.000Look, it's great if someone's stealing your car, and you can call, you know, whatever it is, OnStar, and say, hey, someone stole my car, and they can shut your car off.
01:08:11.000It's a gift and a curse, and then you're giving up something to gain something when it comes to convenience.
01:08:15.000So it's like, how inconvenient do you want to live in order to have absolute convenience?
01:08:20.000Autonomy versus massive amounts of convenience, but now you're kind of at the mercy of the government, more or less, or whatever corporation is providing that convenience.
01:08:34.000There was a story about a journalist, and this journalist was writing a piece for Rolling Stone, and he went overseas, and he was embedded with a troop, and it was in Afghanistan, I believe, and while they were over there,
01:11:44.000And I say that because I remember when I was in law school and I remember I had a professor, a professor, Professor Moore, I don't know if she actually wanted to say her name, but whatever.
01:13:24.000And so I'm just kind of—and I'll forget names.
01:13:26.000I'm like, why am I forgetting these people's names?
01:13:28.000And it's almost like it's just overflow.
01:13:30.000Like there's names that'll drop off, and then I'll be able to recall it, but then another name will drop off, and then it's like— Well, it's Dunbar's number.
01:13:38.000Dunbar's number is this principle that's based on the idea that we came from tribal societies.
01:13:42.000So all human beings came from groups of like 50 people, 150 people.
01:13:48.000And the idea is that there's a circle of people that are close to you that you're very close to.
01:13:53.000And that's whatever that number is, 5 to 10, whatever it is.
01:13:57.000And then there's a circle of people that you really like, but you don't see as much, and that's like 20 or 30. And then it gets further and further out to like acquaintances and people you barely know.
01:14:11.000So and then it gets to close friends it gets like 15 to 50 and then it gets to friends that you would invite them to a party that's 150 then it gets to acquaintances it's 500 people who you remember how you met and then it's 1500 people that you could put a name to a face now imagine How many people you meet compared to the average person that works in the same place and sees the same friend group and goes to the same church or whatever.
01:14:37.000You're around the same group of people all the time.
01:14:39.000You don't have to remember that many names.
01:14:41.000You might meet, over the course of 10 years, there might be like 300 people that you interact with regularly.
01:17:41.000One of the things that we were talking about at lunch today was that there's this statistic now where they did this survey of these women, and they found that 50% of married women have a backup boyfriend.
01:17:58.000If he talks too much shit, if she gets tired of his bullshit, she has another guy that she's been in contact with that she can kind of get a hold of and that guy could be the new boyfriend.
01:21:34.000So I'm not complaining in the sense, I don't want you to stop doing it.
01:21:37.000I want you to do whatever you want to do.
01:21:38.000But I think psychologically, the temptation and also just knowing that you have that many suitors that are waiting in the wings, it makes arguments very different.
01:22:08.000If a woman has between the ages of like, you know, whatever age of age, you know, where they're legal till they're, you know, if they're really hot and they work out a lot, late 40s.
01:23:34.000The problem is that switch flips, and now she's looking for something more serious, more stable.
01:23:39.000Unfortunately, when you're 30, and I'm 30, and I'm like, you can't tell me shit, and she's 30, she's like, I'm ready to be in something serious.
01:23:49.000The lines start crossing in ways that aren't conducive to...
01:24:20.000So they're not putting pressure on you to have a family and settle down.
01:24:23.000So that's taking those guys essentially off the market for the women who are now at a point where they're like, okay, I want something more...
01:24:39.000That are my age because they're not looking to date younger guys and they're not looking to date super old guys either, whatever the hell that means.
01:25:58.000Well, I mean, lower standards are different environments.
01:26:00.000Well, lower standards, because I've been paying attention to these guys who go down to, like, Columbia, and these, like, ugly dudes who go down to Columbia and get these bomb-ass Colombian chicks.
01:26:08.000Now, you've got to make the distinction.
01:27:26.000And I usually don't even talk about this because largely when you do speak about it publicly, nobody ever tries to see that from your perspective.
01:28:16.000But she was saying that essentially one of the problems that happens with women is that they have this desire to control their environment and control men.
01:28:23.000But then as soon as they control men, they stop being attracted to that man.
01:30:54.000I think those media depictions of reality, they fuck us up in so many ways because people look to movies and songs and they look to that as their model of what life should be, including other aspects of your life outside of relationships like retirement.
01:31:08.000People have this idea, like one day I'm going to retire and I'm going to have a great...
01:31:52.000The more I talk to people who are further along in their life than me, further along in their career than I, people who have retired, they all say the same thing and it echoes the sentiment that you just said.
01:32:01.000The last thing you want to do is do nothing.
01:32:38.000I'll always be doing things that I'm interested in.
01:32:40.000But what I'm lucky about, and I think what you're lucky about as well, is that the things that we're interested in are also the things we do for a living.
01:32:54.000It's that Thoreau quote, that most men live lives of quiet desperation.
01:32:58.000And when you're doing what you actually enjoy doing, you are so much better off than someone who's insanely wealthy, who's miserable, because they don't like what they're doing and they're just making money.
01:34:41.000That feeling, that kind of, I don't want to call it transient, but that feeling of burnout or almost flirting with burnout every other day essentially kind of went away.
01:34:53.000Because I just threw myself into what I was doing instead of looking at it as something I got to get done so I can get to nothing.
01:34:59.000Because what was happening was I would do something, finish it, and then there's something else.
01:35:11.000Because within three days, if that, I'm going to be like, what can I create?
01:35:16.000Well, I enjoy vacations now, but I enjoy it as a time that I can spend with my family and we can hang out together and I can have 24-7 time with my kids.
01:35:26.000Because when my kids are in school, they're in school all day, they have friends, they have sports they do, they have activities, it's hard to spend a lot of quality time.
01:35:34.000When we go on vacation, if we go on vacation for a week, that's one week of just hanging out and I try to get as many laughs in, as many fun things to do.
01:36:38.000Yeah, well that's a sign of someone who loves what they do.
01:36:40.000So it's like it's not like a like what you're doing is something you actually enjoy.
01:36:46.000So getting away from it is not enjoyable.
01:36:49.000That's the key to a happy life is surround yourself with people that are very fun to be around that you love that you enjoy you like seeing them succeed you love spending time with them you all have fun together and then Generally,
01:37:16.000And that's, to me, when they do well and they're happy and they can tell me about this thing that they're doing and how excited they are, it makes me excited.
01:37:41.000But I was watching these dudes make this fucking dope desk for this guy and it was like resin and wood and they put it all together and had this cool design to it.
01:37:54.000And the passion that these guys had for making sure that all the joints fit perfectly together, sanding them down, it's all precise, and they're taking you through the process as a narrator, talking about how time-consuming this is, but this is the way to do it, because then the end result is so worth it.
01:38:11.000And then they're standing there when they deliver this desk, I'm like, damn, that's pretty dope.
01:38:58.000And it does wonders for even just revitalizing you and just kind of pulling out in.
01:39:02.000Because where I live now, I love where I live.
01:39:05.000I love it, but there's just something different about being in a hotel.
01:39:08.000Yeah, a stylish bar, a beautiful restaurant that you go to that's in the hotel.
01:39:12.000I travel so much and spend so much time at hotel bars, I almost wanted to start a blog where I just talk about my experiences at hotel bars.
01:41:50.000I was just at home, just hanging out on the couch, and I was like, that.
01:41:55.000Because it evoked a certain emotion in me that I'm like, when I look at that and I see that, that's going to inspire me to a degree, right?
01:42:04.000I'm sounding very, like, hairy-fairy, but nonetheless, it is what it is.
01:42:09.000The problem is, is, like, I don't run across things visually.
01:42:14.000Or often enough where I'm like, okay, I want to put that in my home.
01:42:16.000And when I do, it's usually like something that somebody already has, so there isn't another one.
01:46:49.000Which, by the way, the sad thing is elephants, genetically, they're starting to have smaller and smaller tusks because of the evolutionary aspect of the fact that people want them for their tusks.
01:47:02.000So their tusks are actually growing smaller.
01:49:58.000It reminds me of this video I saw on Instagram where it's like all these women at like some retreat and they're like moving crazy and screaming and like...
01:50:07.000One of those women empowerment retreats.
01:51:00.000And they feel lost and disconnected, and they wish they were something they're not.
01:51:04.000So those guys are, like, super susceptible to these, like, how to be a man things.
01:51:09.000Yeah, it's definitely, you know, there's a fine line between, you know, In what it is to be a man and in the caricature of what it is to be a man.
01:52:24.000You let that guy get to adulthood and you can't influence him then.
01:52:27.000It's very hard to take a fucked up grown adult and then turn him around.
01:52:33.000And I think the beautiful thing I'm glad she didn't do with me that I've seen sometimes with single parents sometimes is she didn't baby me.
01:52:44.000In a manner in which, like, she understood her limitations as a woman.
01:52:47.000So she knew she had to have male influence to some degree.
01:52:50.000So she was very cautious about, like, if my mom happened to be a hoe, I would never know.
01:52:56.000Because she did such a phenomenal job in curating whoever it was that was going to be around me that was a man.
01:53:01.000And that influence and how much that played a part in me growing up.
01:53:05.000Because I think she understood, I can only do so much as a woman to teach this guy how to be a man.
01:53:12.000And now when I think about things and how I compose and how I handle myself, I subconsciously think about those individuals who I interacted with.
01:53:19.000And that's what I pulled from growing up.
01:53:21.000And so I thank her for that, at least knowing her limitations from that standpoint.
01:53:28.000Figuring out a way to provide that example for me.
01:53:38.000I didn't continue with it to the degree that you did, but I definitely—and for me, martial arts turned into basketball for me, and that's what that was.
01:53:46.000Well, it's anything that's difficult to do.
01:53:48.000Things that are difficult, where it's undeniable that the work you put in equals how much better you get, period.
01:53:55.000I mean, there's certain genetic advantages, but even with those genetic advantages, the more work you put in, the more results you will get.
01:54:02.000And there's other people with genetic advantages, too.
01:54:04.000And then when you're competing, then you're competing against a bunch of people that are driven, and they have a much higher standard, and that's what athletics provides a lot of people.
01:54:14.000To this day, I pull from my experiences playing basketball.
01:54:21.000Because when I was younger, like, it's funny to say now because, like, as an adult, you're like, you're not going to the NBA College.
01:54:29.000But nobody could tell me that I wasn't.
01:54:37.000No one was going to outwork me for that.
01:54:39.000And because of it, All of the struggle, everything I did from that point to now, I still pull from that because it set a pattern of behavior in me.
01:54:49.000So all I did was, when I realized your hoop dreams aren't happening, I just transferred that drive, that consistency, that discipline, and I just transferred over to what I was doing next.
02:01:06.000I was like, hey, I'm good with the gun stuff, but it means nothing if I can't work my hands, right?
02:01:10.000So I called him, went to the gym, kind of did the first, you know, showed me the lay of the land, and then he got a notification on his phone that his alarm was going off.
02:01:22.000And like somebody was breaking into his house.
02:02:12.000And I've done it in my house before where I've gotten home, and this is a little on the lower end of intensity, but sometimes that garage door is cracked open when you get back and you're like, what the fuck?
02:02:24.000And you're like, I know I closed that door.
02:02:26.000And then it's like, alright, let's figure this out.
02:03:15.000But I much more don't want to find myself in a situation where I have to, but I can't do anything about it because I don't have the thing I need to do it.
02:03:22.000Or you can't protect someone you love, which is even more terrifying.
02:03:31.000Did you see this fucking thing that happened in California where this woman stabbed her boyfriend 108 times and they let her go with community service?
02:03:41.000They said that she was psychotic from smoking marijuana.
02:06:06.000The lawyers were asked to describe the difference in her case in a fatal drunken driving crash, which Goldstein chalked up to awareness, noting that, I don't know how you say her name, whatever her last name is, did not know what she was getting herself into as Amelia provided the pot but did not show her the warning on the label.
02:06:27.000As far as the DUI is concerned, that person knowingly and consciously drinks to excess and decides to get behind the wheel of a car.
02:06:33.000In Mrs., whatever her name is, case, she took a hit of what she believed to be a legal consumer product in the sanctity of Mr. O'Melia's home as they sat on his couch with no plans to go drive home later that evening.
02:06:47.00043 times in her neck she stabbed herself.
02:06:49.000She stabbed herself 43 times in the neck.
02:07:23.000I mean, Sheena might be fucking legitimately crazy, but either way, two hours or 100 hours of community service and two years of probation is fucking nuts.
02:08:32.000The deputy used a stun gun on her four times and another deputy hit her with the metal baton multiple times before knocking the knife out of her hand.
02:08:40.000While she was stabbing herself or him?
02:10:18.000It said in September they got the murder charge dropped to involuntary manslaughter after it was determined she lost her cognitive abilities because she was in the throes of psychosis.
02:10:31.000But, I mean, I just don't think that absolves you of responsibility.
02:10:35.000You know, the thing about it is there's no way to know what was going on in her head, which is the thing, like, you know, a friend of mine sent me a video, Tim Dillon sent me this video of these schizophrenics in downtown L.A. It's so crazy.
02:11:30.000Under the state of marijuana, PCP, whatever.
02:11:33.000Just the fact that there's something, if you've never stabbed anyone before, there's something that someone can give you that can motivate you to do that.
02:11:40.000Where you've never done that before, you've never stabbed anybody, and then all of a sudden you stab some guy you've been dating 108 times.
02:12:11.000You can go on Instagram and watch 1,150 million people get stabbed, shot, killed, thrown off buildings, and it'll show up on your Explorer page.
02:12:44.000What Instagram is doing to the gun community is monumentally insane.
02:12:48.000So you know what the fucked up part about it is?
02:12:51.000Because of the way they are about that...
02:12:54.000The only representation of firearms that you're going to get exposed to, generally speaking, if you're not already following them, are the negative representations of firearms or the unsafe way to handle a firearm because those are making it.
02:13:04.000But the shit that we post, the responsible shit, that doesn't.
02:13:08.000Bro, how many videos have you seen of dudes in traditional Arab attire shooting the guns off in the air and then they accidentally shoot their friend?
02:13:33.000Because there were so many examples of people.
02:13:35.000When I started, when I got into guns and I got into the gun community, there were so many people who were iterating over and over and over again.
02:16:21.000I watched a guy get cut in half by a train today.
02:16:24.000They were fucking around on the train station, the guy pushes his friend, and the train comes, and his friend goes in between the train and the crack and gets ripped apart.
02:16:32.000The guys grab his arms, they pull him, and it's just guts out of a torso.
02:18:28.000I like people being able to show what they're interested in.
02:18:32.000As long as you're not victimizing someone, as long as you're not doxing people, threatening, all that stuff.
02:18:37.000But other than the things that are illegal and should be, you should be able to show whatever the fuck you want.
02:18:43.000If there's an active gun community, and especially someone like you that promotes responsible gun use and shows people how to handle things correctly, It says you can on TikTok.
02:18:55.000They do not allow the trade of firearms or explosive weapons or content showing or promoting them if they are not used in a safe or appropriate setting.
02:19:24.000But what you were saying is so important to hear that if you don't see the responsible use of it from someone who knows how to do it and also knows how to teach people that, how is that message going to get out there?
02:19:36.000That's how people learn how to use them correctly.
02:20:51.000And so I talk about it from that standpoint that, you know, with Texas, Texas, you can shoot some you can you can defend a third party's property with lethal force under certain contexts.
02:21:03.000And so I go and explain those contexts.
02:21:05.000The point of me doing that and then in the same video, I said, but be careful not only in the defense of third parties property, but also in defending third parties.
02:21:13.000Make sure if you're going to do something like that, you understand that.
02:21:40.000And a lot of people don't think about those things.
02:21:42.000Not because they're stupid, but because they just may be new to carrying a firearm, and they don't understand that that could be a context that they find themselves in.
02:21:49.000Well, that's context of arguments, too.
02:21:51.000You can stumble into an argument in the middle of someone screaming at someone, and you're like, hey man, fuck you.
02:21:56.000But you don't know what happened before that.
02:22:00.000But for us being able to have those type of conversations in a safe place like online beforehand, now when somebody who watches a video like that, they can watch the video and then they go out and they go...
02:22:12.000Oh, I remember when so-and-so did a video on this.
02:22:15.000Okay, maybe before, they may have jumped a gun had they not watched that video.
02:22:18.000But watching the video, they took an extra step to say, okay, and assess the situation for what it is, and then realize, oh, I read that wrong.
02:22:25.000Or I had a follower of mine, he actually, I had him on my podcast, my virtual podcast that I do for the gun side of things, and he told me I saved his life.
02:23:08.000But, and I expressed that, look, if you're not going to carry it around the chamber, at least understand the limitations that come with it.
02:23:16.000Because there are some limitations that come with it.
02:23:17.000You're not going to be able to get your gun as fast if a situation happens quickly.
02:26:00.000To get to that point is what was important.
02:26:02.000What do you know about the reality of accidental discharge with a P320? So, here's my understanding of the P320. Because I've heard different things,
02:28:59.000And I think, and I remember reading, I can't get it confirmed.
02:29:03.000But I remember reading something to the effect of he had, because one of the things with carrying a firearm when you're coming in and out of a holster, you need to make sure there's nothing impeding the entry of that gun into the holster, because what can happen is your shirt can get caught in the trigger, and when you're putting it in the holster,
02:29:20.000it creates enough pressure to have the gun go off.
02:29:24.000That's why anytime I go to reholster, I remove my shirt all the way, and I pull my holster out, and I watch every second of that gun going into the holster.
02:29:33.000I'm never in a rush to put my gun in the holster.
02:31:16.000I remember seeing that video when he bent forward, and that's what makes me think there may have been a piece of material in the actual holster.
02:33:24.000But a lot of cops aren't necessarily gun people.
02:33:29.000A lot of them never shoot their guns outside of the qualification.
02:33:33.000So outside of that, I can see situations where a lot of cops...
02:33:39.000I think the gun went off on their own, but they just have bad manipulation skills of a firearm because they haven't ingrained it into their stuff.
02:33:46.000You give me a toy gun, immediately my index finger is going on the side.
02:35:51.000Most people that I talk to, I should say this, for SIG's sake, for the sake of the company, most people that I've talked to are very skeptical.
02:36:46.000I promise you if you look into those numbers, the vast majority of those 80 are cops.
02:36:52.000I'm almost positive the vast majority of them are going to be cops.
02:36:55.000Well, and I look at it the same way, the way you look at guns, the same way I look at martial arts with cops.
02:37:00.000There is nothing that drives me more fucking crazy than cops that don't know how to defend themselves and have zero knowledge of grappling and get into exchange with someone and then they're on their back and they don't know what to do.
02:37:11.000Like, how did you sign up for this without a rudimentary understanding, at least of grappling?
02:38:03.000Like, literally part of your tools for your job is for you to be able to use your body to defend yourself and others and to be able to detain someone.
02:40:41.000So like the lowest amount is just you have a gun in a holster, right?
02:40:45.000And you literally turn it upside down, it'll fall out.
02:40:48.000Then you have the kind of like the Kydex holsters where you put it in, you hear that click, that kind of like click.
02:40:52.000So all you need is just a good tug and it comes out.
02:40:55.000Then you have other ones where when you come down on the holster, there's a button because there's like a little thing that goes over the back end of the gun.
02:41:05.000So even if you pull it out, it's not coming out.
02:41:07.000And so when you come down on the holster, you push the button and it flips out of the way so that you can pull the gun out.
02:41:13.000I think there's another level that's even more than that.
02:41:17.000There's a little ring on it, and there's a hood, and you've got to remove that.
02:41:21.000They're designed where if the gun's on you, it's one motion.
02:41:28.000But if it's a gun that's not on you, you're going to be in such an angle, you're going to have a hard time getting to that button, to that thing, to be able to get the gun out.
02:41:38.000And like I said, they start at level one all the way up to level four.
02:42:02.000But generally speaking, if I were to open carry, I would have at least a level 3, level 4 retention holster.
02:42:09.000Because I've seen too many videos, I've done too many videos on people who are in a gas station and they're open carrying and then somebody comes up behind them, grabs a gun and runs.
02:42:48.000If you open carry, you're going to be the first target for a criminal.
02:42:52.000But then another person comes up and says, if you open carry, you're going to be the last target because criminals are like, I want a weak target.
02:43:00.000I don't want somebody who already has a gun.
02:44:00.000The thing that sucks, though, is in the moment for someone like me, it just goes to show you, and this is pretty pervasive in all the guys in the gun community.
02:44:09.000In that moment when they were chasing me, the whole time I'm thinking through, not only I want to get out of this situation alive, I'm literally thinking, what are the legal Right.
02:44:46.000So there's so many things that, like, when you are a concealed carrier or someone who just carries a gun, you're already behind an eight ball.
02:44:56.000All a criminal has to do is wake up and decide, I'm going to go engage in some criminal shit.
02:46:31.000Because every mass shooter that they see, they say, oh, they had this 30-round magazine, which is the standard capacity for a lot of these guns.
02:46:37.000It's because they had so many bullets that they were able to kill so many people.
02:46:42.000Generally speaking, when you have a high body count in a mass shooting, it is the context and the circumstance of the shooting that caused it.
02:46:48.000Well, wasn't the Virginia Tech one of the most horrific mass shootings?
02:48:35.000I've been dealing with it for 10 plus years.
02:48:38.000When it comes to the conversation about firearms in this country, that is the mainstream media narrative and it doesn't change.
02:48:43.000And it's also the idea that you wouldn't hunt with one.
02:48:46.000Listen, hunting with one, especially in a.308, an AR in a.308, it's a good ethical move because you need a follow-up shot sometimes and you don't have to go...
02:49:07.000If you want to shoot an animal ethically, having the ability for a follow-up shot instantaneously is a benefit to ethics.
02:49:15.000I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that they grew up with those hunting guns and are not comfortable with semi-automatics because they don't really know about them very much.
02:49:23.000And so they're like, nobody needs that.
02:50:45.000And they were saying, and the report was, there have been five mass shootings since 2024. We're only a week into 2000. I think we were only like five, four days into 2024. And they were like,
02:51:01.000there have already been five mass shootings.
02:53:28.000If that's the way the party wants to lean, cool.
02:53:31.000But what I have a problem with is when the vast majority of gun murders in this country are coming from inner cities that are all ran by Democrats, that's where I have a problem.
02:53:44.000Because you're pushing legislation, you're pushing policies that do nothing to address the root cause of the issue.
02:53:54.000The deplorable conditions in these environments to justify more gun control policies that will do nothing to fix these environments but give you more control over people.
02:54:03.000And put responsible gun owners in danger.
02:54:56.000There are so many people who have more guns than food who live in other places in this country and they don't have this gun violence problem.
02:55:57.000You can only rob the people in the environment that you're in for so long before you have to start spreading out.
02:56:02.000So now what's ended up happening is you have people who are now forced to confront this type of violence without any means to protect themselves.
02:56:12.000So your policies are actually hurting people and causing more lives to be taken.
02:56:17.000So, as far as I'm concerned, anything they have to say about the issue until they're willing to talk about the root cause of the issue is bullshit.
02:57:02.000If we can let them kill themselves off, fuck them.
02:57:04.000But if your job is really wanting to save lives and really wanting to minimize the amount of gun violence in this country, If you're not willing to have that conversation honestly, you're full of shit.