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Connor, when you used nicotine in the past, what have been your biggest frustrations? Turns out you can't get as much of a pump going when you've got a cig in your mouth at the gym that I go to all the time. Was your recovery time worse on nicotine? Oh, and how! It narrows your blood vessels and restricts oxygen to your muscles. It makes it hard to breathe. Your blood doesn't work. Counteracts the pump. Ultra pouches are perfect for athletes, runners, or health-conscious people because they're 100% nicotine-free. You pop one of those bitches five minutes before your workout or your workday, and bam! You're gonna be on fire. A lot of this shit is just actually just good for you, like L-theanine, vitamin B6, vitamin B12. Also, they help quit your cravings and they suppress your appetite. When do you recommend taking Ultra? I'm gonna do this before the gym. Before I'm pumping it. Crazy style. It's got nootropics. Nootropics. Nootropics. What's your favorite flavor, Brandon? 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And I will always listen to y'all on your feedback and try to help as much as possible. Thank you. Love y'all. On the count of three. Three, two, one. Sorry for the splatter jacket. It's okay. It's not the first time I've been hit with shrapnel. Talking about cum. Never actually had metal going to my body. Well, you did get shot. Yes. Thank you for your service. Yeah. Good little Nick. Hey, you know what? T-Y-F-Y-S to you too. Hi, everyone. Welcome to the Unsubscribe Podcast. I'm joined today by Eli Doubletap, our good friend, Jack Mandeville, Brandon Herrera, myself, Donut Operator. Thank you so much for being here. What's up, bitches? Hey, guys. Finally. When's the last time we recorded? We ain't done. Gary Sinise. Gary Sinise. Was that the last time we recorded? I think so. Yeah, we did that up in Nashville. Damn. We got busy there for a minute. Yeah. How was meeting Lieutenant Dan? It's very old. The most down-to-earth, amazing person. I've never heard a bad thing. No. Nothing bad to say. Yeah. He is so kind. He showed us around his office and showed us all his pictures and challenge coins. It was so cool. He's the kind of guy that makes you feel like a bad person, not because you're bad, but because of how good he is. He's just got pure good guy energy. Aw, man. How much they've raised compared? Like, was it 600, 400? 600-something million? Well, because I thought it was 400. He corrected me with 650. 650 million. God dang. Hey, you do one movie like Forrest Gump, you've got leverage in those lobbying circles, man. That's probably more than the GDP of several countries. I mean, what's super commendable about him, too, is after he did Forrest Gump, he didn't stop. He just kept going with Lieutenant Dan Band. And then starting the Gary Sinise Foundation. And he's been working on network television for years, right? CSI. CSI. That was the big one that he said. That and there was another one. But those are the ones that really catapulted him and let him, as he said, have a voice to everyone to push what he wanted. But you know the best, in my opinion, the best role he ever played, and I think it was before Forrest Gump, before he became a household name, of Mice and Men. Yeah. He was so incredible in that. I think that was like a passion project for him, too. I think he produced that, if I'm not mistaken, and he made that happen. More challenge coins than anyone we have ever met combined. It was like, what, 3,500 or something like that? And counting? He could just start his own country with his own currency, just melding all that together. Basically. It was a full fucking table. Like, every square inch of that table. It had a challenge coin under it, and it was just, how long was that table? 18 feet? No, God, yeah. It was at least, it was a massive conference table. Like, it was big. Were, Eli, were those, were challenge coins that big 20 years ago? Do you remember it being? No. I don't think so, either. Like, I can't remember if they've ever been that big of a deal as they have the last maybe 10 years. Because you got probably one during your entire. Dude, yeah, because like a general pastor, and they'd be like, great job, young marine, here's a coin. Yeah, they don't, they didn't, that wasn't a thing. Okay, so it says, Challenge coins experienced a significant surge in popularity within the U.S. military during the Korean and Vietnam wars, and became widespread across branches in the 80s and 90s. Huh. Well, we would have to use. The tradition has since expanded to include various civilian organizations. That's probably where the influx recently has come from, yeah. Because you would do it as a drinking game of who had the highest challenge coin, didn't have to drink anyone else that didn't match that. Could, so if you did a challenge, you slammed it on the table, they would look at the rank of that individual and be like, oh, we got a drink. And you're like, huh. And like, I feel like we could probably do pretty well at, at this point. Yeah. The general, the army. Yeah, well, I, I have been, I think quite possibly I have been at this point handed maybe over 250 to 500 challenge coins. At this point, there are two that I hold on to very dearly. Uh, when we were just the first time we met, it was when Lee. Roy Petrie and, and Clint and Clint and I bonded instantly because we were the only guys on set smoking cigarettes. So we became BFFs, but those are the two challenge coins over the years that I keep in a separate area because usually I get back from these trips and I have like a whole 20 pounds worth of challenge coins in my backpack. And so I just, you know, put them in a general area, but I, I make sure those two are segregated and in a place where my house burned down, I'd still have those coins. Yeah. Segregated coins. I like it. Yeah. Yeah. You don't save them because Clint's are super cool now. Oh, he, yeah. Oh man, I got it. May I? Yeah. By all means. He let me make my own. Oh, no shit. There's chances are you might've received a challenge coin from Clint Romashay lately and it was me pounding it, not Clint. Sorry. He let me, he let me make a whole, I went to his house and he basically put me to work. There's, he hand makes all of them, which is so cool. Ours is up. Our Clint coins up there on the wall. Oh man. Or whoever he let make them. Yes. Yeah. Maybe a Jack coin. Yeah. No, I just made coins for three days. Oh, that is it his or your own? Oh, you made this one. He let me do all the pounding and I don't know. It's a, it's a process, but yes, he does it himself. Like he's in his garage a couple hours a day, personally making all of his coins. What's the eight stand for? Uh, the, the members of his platoon that were lost. Gotcha. no shit yeah yeah yours is more it's been in my wallet yeah also not good at making challenge coins that was my first time you're such a cool dude we were talking about uh do you have like just hold on fortunes like from fortune cookies in your wallet okay this sounds a little hokey but sometimes you need to pick me up and every once in a while if i if i have a good fortune in my fortune cookie i put in my wallet and to save inspiration let me see one okay you will die of dysentery that's not right yeah here's these i probably accumulated these over a decade at this point financial burden is near oh yeah abundance okay yeah yeah you need to pick me up this is my version of a good one white girl meme your sense of humor will lead to happiness oh yes i need to pick me up every once in a while and so what better way than spending twelve dollars on some orange chicken and getting you know some encouragement from you know someone that might be indentured working in that back kitchen Gaining weight because of an affirmation kink. I'm having to think about my motivation now, why I do certain things. Like, oh, am I lacking something? Why am I doing this? Sorry, we can dissect this a little further off air. But I got time. I got time. Yeah, I wrote a whole spiel in one of my episodes I was writing recently about the reason why I'm not worried about ChatGPT ruining my job is that human beings will always want to seek out authenticity. And ChatGPT was never sitting in class in sixth grade and had all the sixth grade girls laugh at him because someone told him that he had the biggest tits in the grade. That's never happened to ChatGPT before. ChatGPT can't replicate that kind of trauma. That makes you develop into a brain that can only do self-deprecating humor because as a protection mechanism. I don't know the amount of shit I've asked. I've seen people ask Grok to do lately. ChatGPT and AI probably has more trauma than any of us combined. That's true. Yeah. Yeah. It's probably heard some weird stuff. But then I will put in the most mundane stuff is like that. Well, that's been flagged for this and that. I'm like, I just asked you to draw a picture of Hitler. Right. You have guinea pigs. What's the big deal? About this. Grok would be Grok would do it. I was going to say. Oh, free speech. Grok. Grok respects the First Amendment, man. Depends on what phase he's in. But my God, when he gets let off the leash, it's aggressive. It's a rain back a little. Neither one of those motherfuckers will tell me anything about the FBI database, the crime statistic database. They won't. Yeah. Grok in and Grok won't. ChatGPT won't. Yeah. They've had a. There's one of the issues with a extremely liberal AI base is the information it feeds. It does view humans as a threat. So it stops because we also will go. I mean, you've seen the arguments. It's like, no, that's more important. Anything else is more important. Saving the environment. Put life of animals first. All that. And it does consume that. And it's like, oh, OK, well, got it. I don't need to worry about human life then. There's that word. There's a word for it. I don't know. I don't remember what it is off the top of my head, but it's like that that hatred of mankind essentially where like you prioritize literally anything else. So we're in a cold war with AI right now. That's probably the smartest thing I'll say all episode right there. Yeah. Well, the only problem with the cold war we're having with AI right now is that we're continuing to give them more resources and ammunition. Yeah. I'm like, yeah, I'm looking at places and, you know, my future. I want a homestead in the future. I'm looking at places like that water might be gone in a few years. Yeah. Oh, I mean, it's kind of like being in the space race with Russia, except right now we're like, hmm, would you like a Saturn five rocket with less German scientists? Yeah. And maybe that's why it's taking longer. Yeah. No. So, Jack, you're back into I mean, you are now a year, two years into your YouTube journey. A little over a year. Yeah. Just hit the year mark recently. Yeah. I just hit 50,000 subscribers the other day. I'm stoked about that. Yeah. Never missed the deadline. I've always. I've always released episodes the same time every week. When does YouTube send you the first half of your play button? Well, yeah. Right. That's what I'm. It sounds so. That's so good. Are you talking about the. Yeah. Like the plaques, like the creator plaques. You know, it sounds silly. I've never been. I don't hold on to anything. I have very few accomplishments that I've held on to, like physical things. It's very easy for me to toss stuff. That has been a big motivator to me to get one of those things. I remember when I was first starting out, too. That was the one thing I'm like, oh, man, if I just get that play button. And now they're like half the size is when you guys got yours. OK. Well, you can see like the difference from that to that one. Oh, yeah. Yeah. YouTube has been kind of skimping on the play buttons lately. I remember in the very beginning there were the physical like plated play button. Like it was like a nice. Like they had them in like a shadow box almost. Yeah, because there's like five people with 100,000 subscribers. Yeah. But then they just kind of got progressively shittier and shittier. And now they're just going to like in five years, they're just going to send you a picture of a play. Button like on a printed piece of paper. Yeah. I think Tim actually said it's because the influx of shorts and people are getting so many of them. They're like, oh, fuck, we got to make them short, smaller. And they talked about separating short play buttons from long form play buttons, which would be hard. But this episode is brought to you by State Farm. Listening to this podcast instead of doom scrolling. Smart move. Another smart move. 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Sixty nine thousand people have a million. I mean, play button. Holy crud. That's a I am going to quit. As of August. I'm going to last year. I'm going to quit bothering with any of this shit. I'm just going to go Uber for a living. Holy shit. To be fair, a lot of those are like repeats where it's like one YouTuber has four accounts, five accounts, and a lot of it's like corporate or you have like a musical artist. OK, a bunch of people like it's not just like YouTubers. It's like big, you know, corporations will have them to still 69,000. That's a lot. That's way more than I thought. You said seven hundred. You're like, fuck. Yeah. Under a thousand. I got this. Now it's like. Yeah. Welcome to shorts. Yeah. Lower that mark. Yeah. YouTube done become tick tock. Yeah. Right. What's Jimmy at now? Jimmy's at one hundred and seventy. Oh, he's over like four hundred. No, he's at four hundred and seventy million. Jeez. Fudge. Let's see if he's over. Did you just say fudge? Race car sounds. Yeah. All right. He's Cody's change. He's not going to curse anymore. I saw it. I saw him walking out of that LDS church the other day. That makes sense. Four hundred and seventy four. Gosh. Oh, Mr. Beast. Yeah. Oh, you guys are first name basis. I was really confused who you were talking about there. That's insane. I'm like, that's such an unheard of number. Brandon, do you need not. One more time. You got this, buddy. Brandon, can you. Brandon, do you. Almost there, bud. Brandon, where do you store your firearms? All over my house in every fucking crevice. Well, do I have the product for you? Nick, show him here. Hand it to me, Brandon, so I can show you. Brandon, this is stop box. Stop box. We love box. You're selling me. What's in the box. You have to open it and find out. All right. Well, let's see if I can do this. Oh, wow. Look at that. Oh, it didn't stop you. Can I hide my goop in that? You can hide your goop in that Cody. Cody, do you know why I love this thing? Why? Why? 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Wait, what are tariffs? I'm pretty sure I shot a few of them. For a limited time only, get 10% off your entire order if you use code unsubscribe to checkout. And right now, if you buy one stop box, you're going to get another stop box free, so that's 10% off plus buy one, get one free when you use code unsub at checkout. That's stopboxusa.com. Discover a better way to balance security and readiness with stop box. Stopboxusa.com, use code unsubscribe. So you're doing your history segments, but we were talking about the grave. We had a story that both wanted to hear. Oh, I covered this in one of my previous episodes. Yeah, what was the part we didn't know? The story of Arlington. Arlington National Cemetery. Yeah, can I get a little bit of a backdrop? Please, otherwise I'm lost. Well, so the Lee and his wife's family, the Custis family, are as close you could have gotten to Virginia American royalty back in the day. Robert E. Lee's wife, I don't need to give a backdrop on him. You degenerates know who he is. His wife was a direct descendant of George Washington through adoption. So she came from the. one of the most prestigious of prestigious Virginia families. He was a direct descendant. His grandfather was Washington's right-hand man. They were actually cousins. He got the land of what is now Arlington National Cemetery through his wife, his marriage to Mary Lee. And Civil War kicks off. Virginians had to start making some tough decisions in 1861, especially if you were an officer and a career military guy like Robert E. Lee. He gave it some tough thought. From what I understand, he was actually here at the Manger Hotel in San Antonio, Texas when he decided to resign from the Union Army and join the Confederacy. Really? I did not know that's where that happened. That's what I've been told by people at the Manger. I do know that there's the place in Gurney where he was apparently his, the place that he stayed. Yep. This was his base when the Civil War kicked off. I did not know that. I knew he fought in the Mexican-American War. Oh, yeah, they all did. They came up together, man. Yeah. Uh, um. That's neat. Okay, so that's news. I didn't know that either. Yeah, he was stationed out here. I mean, a lot of those big names from the Civil War, Texas was their home base when everything kicked off. But yeah, long story short, so. It's still a wild idea, like, in the military, just splitting and having that conversation. Dude, that is a wild idea. These guys who fought in that Mexican-American War together, they were boys. They went to West Point together. A lot of these guys were boys who went and literally fought each other in that war. Uh, it's crazy to think about. And after the war, a lot of them picked right back up where they left off. Yeah, and, well, that's something that when people talk about, like, oh, there's another Civil War coming for this country, like, that sort of thing. First of all, I think that that's, like, a horrific last-case scenario. Right. Anybody who's actually opened a history book knows that that's a fucking horrible idea. It was bad in 1861. Yeah, nowadays, Jesus. But then you have the other side where they're like, oh, you could never stand up against the government. Look at everything the military has. And it's like, ooh, you didn't read too much about what happened last time, did you? Yeah, there was a. There was kind of a split in the officer corps there. Yeah. I don't know how the politics of that would even go down. But, yeah, in 1861, Bobby Lee joins the Confederacy, and his property is literally within a stone's throw of Washington, D.C. It is right up there on the Potomac. And the first thing the Union Army did was, like, we can't let this populated area of Virginia. So the Union Army moved into that northern Virginia area and controlled it the entire time. And that was the entirety of the war. And that was Robert E. Lee's property. And they seized the property. And about halfway into the war, they started running out of burial space for all the Union soldiers that were dying. They're like, fuck it, what's Lee gonna do about it? So they just started burying dead soldiers on his property there. And, you know, by the time the war was done, that's where you put dead soldiers at, was on that Lee property. Either side? It was just Union on that side. There are a couple Confederate soldiers buried on that side. On that property. What was the reason for that? I don't know. But I've seen the headstones there. And they're old. Yeah, I don't. I couldn't tell you, but I've seen them. That's really interesting. Yeah, I'd never heard that. Yeah. It's right near the Lee house, their actual home. There's probably some reason why they got grandfathered into that. But, yeah, long story short, the government wasn't gonna give that property back. And Robert E. Lee died in 1870. His wife, Mary, I think, died soon after. So, his son, George Washington Custis Lee, had all the important names in that motherfucker's name. That's amazing. He was on his father's staff during the war and everything like that. He was like, yo, you illegally seized this land from my family. I want this back. And the government was like, no! Anyways, long story short, by the late 1870s, over 10 years after the war ended, he took the case all the way to the Supreme Court and won. And he got that. Now, he didn't want that. He didn't want that. He didn't want the property at all because you can't do shit with it because there's a bunch of dead motherfuckers on it. It's not the Lee Plantation at that point. It's the Lee Dead Body Farm. And so, he immediately sold the land back to the government and got millions of dollars. And that's how it basically, officially became Arlington National Cemetery. It was when the government legally acquired the land after the Supreme Court case. But this is my favorite part of the story. Do you know who one of his. He wasn't his chief counsel, but do you know who one of the lawyers was that was helping him with his case to get that land back? Kim Kardashian's dad. He was good. He was good. Yeah. He was the morale lawyer. He wasn't the best lawyer on that squad, but O.J. liked him. They were boys. They partied together. O.J. wasn't going to party with Johnny Cochran. Yeah. Who was the lawyer? I don't think a d*** helped get that one. That you know of. Lincoln? Was it a Lincoln? It was Robert Todd Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln's oldest son. No s***. It helped the Lee family get their fricking property back. No s***. I feel like I've heard that part of this. Yeah, it's wild, man. And that just kind of shows, I think maybe those two, those sons, and I'll go on a rant about Robert Todd if you guys are interested, but I think those guys, that younger generation, maybe it was symbolic. I don't know. But maybe that was a way to kind of, America still very much needed to heal at that point. And that was a good way to find a level of healing there. Because reconstruction was not exactly an easy going process. No, it wasn't. And it was not far from being ended at that point. Yeah. Now, you said Robert Todd at one point. I feel like you've told the story before, but I don't remember the details. Didn't he save someone at a train station who probably ought not be saved? He was saved. He was seconds away from death on a train platform. He was swooped. He was swooped up by a guy named Edwin Booth, who was the older brother of John Wilkes Booth. That was it. Two years later, killed Robert Todd's father. The thing, Edwin Booth wasn't a particularly, he was not a politically active person. He was an actor in his peers' form. He stayed the F out of it and just played Hamlet. And I think his brother doing that, who was also a successful actor, it like destroyed him mentally to have that beep. To be part of his family. Because his family, they were like the acting, they were the American acting royalty of the day. They were like the most famous acting family in America. That's like a Leo pretty much at that time. Can you imagine if, who's a big guy? The Baldwins. The Bald, can you imagine if one of the- Well, that, well. Well, okay, the Wilson brothers. The Wilson brothers. There we go, there we go. Can you imagine if one of the Wilson brothers Wow. went after Don? That would be the weirdest thing, right? Like, wait, what? Yeah, like a Hemsworth takes a shot. It's like, is he fucking what? Yeah, who? Yeah. The Scars guards did what? Yeah, yeah, yeah. That would be- It would be Bill. Yeah. Oh my God, the media too. Bill's just got that look in his eye. The magazines during that, how did they portray that family? Well, I don't think, it didn't go against Edwin Booth's career. I think he had a very successful career afterwards. I think Americans realize his brother was a nut job. We can't lose this fucking, good actor, man. Yeah. They said something similar about the Epstein files. Yeah. They're like, oh, but he was so good in Polar Express. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. He created Microsoft, man. I get to do teams meetings every day because of that guy. We can't go after him. Well, now when you put it that way, they get a pass. What's he going to do, sue me? I'm worth, I'm a, I'm a, that guy's a trillionaire. I'm a hundred in there. So what is he? Yeah. I can't even afford to loss. Yeah. Oh, good. Take away my collection of 1970s McDonald's cups. Yeah. Jack lives, live in his dream. That's your God. You Cody, you have, uh, we barely got to talk about you winning. Cause that, or winning the first part. And then Cody's been on a journey to with streaming. You just started your new series. Yeah. Your podcast crime was fun. You're on about it. You're on like, three three episodes now. Yeah. It comes out every Friday. A new one's coming out this Friday. Uh, just talk about crime. It's a crime series. True crime. Uh, it's about 40 to 40 minutes to like an hour long. Just shit that I've always wanted to talk about, but it's really hard to put into a 15 minute format on the main channel. What's your first, what's your favorite one you've done so far? Pokemon crime. I, I, I need to, so, so I talk about like Pokemon on Pokemon crime or like, what's that? Okay. So, so 13% of the Pokemon darker Pokemon. It was, that was a fun one. Cause I was talking about like the crime involved with counterfeit cards and, uh, Rob, sorry, counterfeit cards and robberies involving Pokemon cards. Cause I mean the mother are worth so much money now. Cause isn't there a bunch of like money laundering in that shit too? Yeah. Yeah. Um, uh, for instance, there was some Yakuza, like Japanese mafia, you guys come out and it's like, yeah, that's a great way to launder money because you've got these tiny little cardboard things worth thousands and thousands of dollars. Hundreds of millions now. Yeah. Yeah. Now you can just pack those into a suitcase or smuggle them anywhere you want to do. They counterfeit. Yeah. There was a lot of counterfeiting in it too, especially in the grading market. But it's also, it's totally legal to like, if you're going through TSA, like with $50,000, a hundred thousand dollars in cash or with drugs, like that's sketchy. But like, if you have, three like holographic Charizards, who gives a fuck? shaniqua at tsa is going to be like car it's cool okay here you go and so they take them all around the world and they put them into the market and they're getting hundreds of thousands of dollars just laundering money through them but my favorite part of the episode i talked about with pokemon crime is how you could use pokemon in the real world as war assets what yeah like okay we go into the pokemon universe right are you a pokemon guy by the way i grew up on it dude i had pokemon blue in 1998 on the original game boy but you you go to you go to i can't remember what gym it was you go to the the electricity pokemon guy uh sergeant whatever his name is and he's like i used to shock my enemies in war with my electric pokemon which that means that there was warfare in the pokemon world and they used pokemon in warfare which opens up a whole nother world so i jumped into how did they you use pokemon in warfare when you said that in the beginning i thought you meant in our world no i mean like a fucking excuse me no but i'm thinking about the convention pokemon war i said that in the episode i was like do they have the pokey geneva conventions here because dude sicario seemed completely changed when he walks in he walks in with the squirtle kicks his leg he's just drowning him with squirtle yeah man and then i was i was talking about like uh you have like muck you know if you reverse his name it's come but he's just he's just made of toxic sludge for that what if they just took a muck and threw it into a town's water supply whole city's fucking done for that's war crime yeah or or you got you got pokemons only the first time self-destruct you put those next to coughing who has like a gas attack you got a dirty bomb i love the idea of just seeing a coughing and an electric was electrode like the little magnet like well there's the bomb one it looks like a giant pokeball they're just duct taped yeah yeah exactly and then in the middle of this like mass cash incidents from pokemon we're beating mugs and then they just let children have these yeah yeah exactly and i make that point too ash just goes into the world as a fucking 11 year old boy with with a fire dragon in his pocket and there's strangers like just strangers who come up and they're like hey boy i'm gonna fight your pokemon hey you walked in front of my path we fighting yo also sending your kid off at 11 is always wild it's like hey what yeah they didn't have cell phones or anything you gotta love that little motherfucker off you gotta love that japanese culture of like oh well you can't have a firearm but here you can let your 11 year old run the streets with essentially a living breathing wmd exactly in the pokemon world is there like a straight that can be controlled with trap with naval traffic is that part of the equation of the pokemon battlefield i do believe so okay just wondering i'd have to look at the map again well i get into the psychic pokemon too you can control people you can like psychically control people that's got implications i don't like side duck he's on an island it's crazy jeez my my cop buddy in west texas shout out to mike uh he said that when he first started as a cop if you saw someone at in the park at two in the morning they were 100 doing something shady and they were like oh my god i'm gonna be like oh my god i'm gonna be like oh my god and then pokemon go came out and then it became a 50 50 50 thing that usually it was just people playing pokemon go at some point yeah but before pokemon go was gay dudes fucking in the park yeah that was like the thing yeah it was just the navy after pokemon go yeah there was like gay dudes and i talk about that in that episode too like i had to keep college kids from wandering into the worst parts of the city i worked because they just wanted to get there because they were going to get robbed and stabbed okay and shit you know what i mean like i don't know i don't know what you're talking about but i don't you were policing during like the heat of pokemon when it when it first came out pokemon go came out while i was policing night the hillary clinton like pokemon go to the polls yeah so i had to keep said that i kept so many answers about that yeah i kept so many college kids from just like going into the bad parts and they were like we're just trying to get this charizard over here and i'm like you're gonna get fucking you worked around uh clemson there right not clemson no i didn't work around there i worked in spartanburg okay beautiful area i like that area i used to spend a lot of time around there the downtown area is really cool on my way to greenville i love spartanburg yeah yeah spartanburg but if you go north or south of the main street then oh you know me i'm not a bad neighborhood kind of guy yeah yeah you wouldn't want to do that connor wait you do not have to overhaul your life to start 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occasion by but that's i mean that's probably every day in the the areas you policed no hundred percent man they call it murderer for a reason how what were the college kids act i guarantee people would argue also hilarious they were just pokemon go itself was like well let's put a mewtwo in that really bad area i mean what happened it was just funny because it's completely randomized where they put the ship but it was funny they always put the best stuff in like the worst areas and so i would find these these clueless college kids just walking around like i'm trying to get this i'm like yeah no you're coming with me right now you're going back here that dude that probably they probably stand out so when you pull up you're like hey what are you the fuck are you doing that's like yeah they stood out a little bit that's the definition of proactive policing right there well i was trying to i was trying to catch the same they were catching too can you imagine a cop getting fired because they were doing pokemon go they did they don't they what los angeles i i they had a case where these two these two or three officers didn't respond to a robbery because they were trying to catch a pokemon it just well to be fair it's two birds one stone you're catching pokemon go you're catching pokemon go you're catching pokemon go and criminals in the same area it's true i mean i mean we were catching them but at least if someone said hey there's a robbery here we went to the robbery there was a couple guys in los angeles that were doing that and they were like no fuck what our sergeant's saying we're gonna go catch the yeah we got a great union yeah dear lord holy shit what was your uh for the corruption side what was one of the craziest stories unlike selling carts or just where it was oh there was holy they got that much money from it yeah there was one guy he was uh a bank robber and he went to prison for like i think it was eight to ten years and he got out and he he would give ted talks about how like you should reform your life and not be a criminal anymore and then he saw how pokemon was blowing up and he started he started to yeah he started taking shitty cards and redoing them and then grading them like false grading them as 10 you know 10 um shiny cards or whatever and selling them and he wouldn't sell them under his name and he did that for years and he made like millions of dollars and he was like oh my god i'm gonna get millions and millions of dollars before the feds called on and then they came in and he sold a fake pokemon card to him and got him that's like a that's like the perfect premise for catch me if you can part two right there oh dude he he got away with it him and a partner got away with it for years wow also with catch me if you can didn't it come out later that the guy was lying about that whole story he i mean just his character alone there was yeah a history of lying with that fella well yeah famed con man well it's it's funny that the uh like it it that his his greatest con ever ironically might have been conning everyone into believing he was a con man yeah yeah it's like i just love that somebody went back at the story he told and they're like wait a minute this time you were supposedly in louisiana and all these places you were in federal prison yeah this episode is brought to you by state farm listening to this podcast instead of doom scrolling smart move Another smart move? Getting help from one of State Farm's 19,000 local agents when you choose to bundle home and auto. Bundling, just another way to save with the personal price plan. Availability, amount of discounts and savings, and eligibility vary by state. Things on adding up. This is such a good movie, too. It's a great movie. That's Martin Scorsese again, isn't it? I think that was Spielberg. Oh, no, Spielberg. That's right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I just see Leo and I immediately assume Scorsese. Yeah, those two, they go hand in hand, like Wayne and Ford. Yeah, John Wayne and Bob Ford. Director. Yeah, that was Tom Hanks in that, too. Yeah. You know, a funny story about. I'm sorry, not Robert Ford, John Ford. I was going to say Robert Ford shot Jesse James. Yeah, yeah, John Ford. John Ford, he was one of those directors when World War II kicked off that he was already 50 years old and had two Academy Awards under his belt, and he volunteered to go shoot out war propaganda and was like at midway in the middle. No shit. Yeah, like he got into the shit. And you got to understand, early 1950s Hollywood, every single crew member had just gotten back from World War II. And John Wayne got himself a lot of deferments. And whenever John Wayne would start getting a little testy on set, John Ford used to like punk him out in front of the crew. Like, we all did the war. Why didn't you go, John? You have no rebuttal because you can't, like, you look like a douchebag. This was the only war in American history where everyone was expected to show up, and you didn't. You banged all the actresses while that fucking grip over there was getting shot at in Normandy. Because that was like, that was an entire generation of guys. And by the way, Jimmy Stewart, 36 years old, Academy Award under his belt, doing bombing missions in Europe, you know what I mean? Ted Williams already had a frickin' triple crown under his belt, already on the cover of Sports Illustrated, you know, fighter pilot in the Pacific. Like, why didn't you go, John Wayne? Dude, it's crazy when you hear or read about the history, even World War I, there was the flower or feather girls in France or England. I'm not familiar. So they would hand out feathers. They just paid a whole bunch of females to hand out feathers because a world war hadn't happened. So they were just enlisting young guys to go fight all the trench warfare. They would walk around. Oh, hey, you're active. Why are you here? Why aren't you fighting? Like, and they would hand out these feathers. Here or in Europe? Europe. Oh, yeah. So they'd give the beautiful girls like, here's a feather. And that was oh, I'm a fucker because I just got handed a feather. I'm not doing my country's I'm not service. I suck as a human. I mean, that was their backyard. You really needed to show up. And they stopped it because the girls were just handing them out. And then they started handing them out to the wrong individuals. There was a soldier with Europe's or I think the British Army's highest our Medal of Honor. Essentially, he was just home on leave. He was back. Yeah, he did his thing. He was back and he'd already got cycled out. Plus another war he did and they gave it to him. They're like, what are you doing? And he's the one that actually raised enough fuss where he was like, I'm a fucking Medal of Honor recipient. What the fuck are you talking about? It's like when that Stolen Valor craze started getting a jump in the shark a bit, getting a little out of hand. It was just like the Me Too movement. Right. They started doing it and then you come to find I was like, oh no, that guy actually has that medals. He's just senile and walks around in his uniform these days. Yeah. He's not Stolen Valor. Yeah. It's crazy. The well, you were telling me the other day we were talking about World War One and like it was either the Arden or Argon. Oh, Verdun. The Battle of Verdun. What was it? Verdun? Verdun? Yeah. World War One, right? Yeah. They were saying that they were cycling people out on like very, very quick rotations. Just kind of like, oh, we'll get them out and then we'll put them back in. But they didn't want to fucking go back. So it like backfired. Yeah. The Battle of Verdun, it was oh, everyone else, you do these long deployments and then you cycle. And they're like, oh, we got to have fresh soldiers so they stay hyped and everyone's happy. We'll do that with Verdun. And then they'll rotate through World War Run. But you have to go there and it's a quick rotation that backfire. At first it was great. And then everyone that experienced Verdun was like, fuck war, like war because they did guess how many mortars and artillery shells hit just in Verdun. Just guess. And was it 10 months? I have not thought in my head. I have no idea. I don't know. I'll caution 200,000 40 to 60 million. They have one video. There was one video trying to show it to brand. That was World War One. So they didn't even have Jews to make all of that. They were still there. Well, they were doing the fighting. They were in the trenches. Oh, I see. Slow burn. Slow burn on that one. Dude, I want Finn or Chase, if you can find it, the footage, they have a couple of shots of artillery just hitting in Verdun. Looks like cluster bomb. It just nonstop every second a fucking mortar or artillery shells going off and then dude just running through it nonstop. And they said that was every fucking day. That is the one time I've watched something and being like, holy shit, I would never want to experience it. That is on a different level. It looks like, oh, that's like a movie. Everything just blowing up that that just never stops. Those are the two wars I want nothing to do with. If I could go back in time and fight any war, World War One in Vietnam sounded like they fucking sucked. Like no war is great, but those in particular, I wouldn't want to be in like Guam or Peleliu in World War Two either. Like, yeah, that sounds like the Pacific theater. Yeah, that sounded like it was the elements were worse than the Japanese. That's where the alligator thing happened, right? It happened in the Pacific. Yeah, that was when the Indianapolis went down. Yeah, and the those guys like survived for days and then most of them were gone because they get them been eaten by like alligators and sharks and shit. I think it was deep sea, so it would have been just sharks. Yeah, but out there's out. There's crocodile problems that happened with dudes that were washed ashore. And yeah, what was the unit that ran into? They didn't know is an actual crocodile swamp. They were trying to escape and all of them died. They were all ate by crocodiles. I that's why I don't use the word pogue because somebody somebody was supposed to intelligence. People were supposed to anticipate those crocodiles. That's an important part of warfare is knowing if you're going to be landing into fucking crocodiles. I'd be kind of why that makes me think of the squad. You remember when he can't swim? Yeah, like no one knows what to check. If what is it? Weasel? Weasel can't swim. Was the same. He's like, wait, wait, wait, there's crocodiles there. And sharks who's supposed to check that they're watching it on the helicopter. Like, oh, fuck helicopter. But you know, troops of the 15th Indian Corps landed on Ramah Island off of the coast of Burma in World War Two. So during British soldiers from India and then during this, they pushed back the Japanese, the Japanese Iran during World War Two, about 1000 Japanese soldiers were reportedly massacred by saltwater crocodiles because they jumped into it to escape not knowing that I guess for months or years they were being starved the crocodiles because of the building all the defense systems. So they ran into the water and they just got fucking murdered. It's their soldiers. That's okay. Yeah, we're good. I heard someone 20 made it out alive. So a thousand died 20 made it out alive. You're just watching your home. You just get torn apart. That is PTSD though. I was going to say, can you imagine going to the VA for a disability rating like so what bad were you in like the crocodiles man? It was the crocodiles. Are you fucking crazy, man? No, no, no, the crocodile guy stops writing on his clipboard. The what? Ramry Island. Wait, that's going to be an episode. May I? May I? Yeah. Oh, yeah, that's going to be an episode. Just that sentence. Guinness, the Guinness Book of World Records. Like congratulations. Yeah, seriously. What awarded it the dubious distinction of quote most human fatality. It's in a crocodile attack at roughly 900. 100. Can you imagine you're some middle-aged dude in London working at the Guinness place? Like we need you to go to Burma right now while we're in the middle of war something gnarly just happened and they said that that award was given by the Guinness Book of World Records in 1968. Meaning most likely all of the survivors were still alive. Oh, yeah, all 20 of them. Yeah. Tokyo and find dude. Like yeah. What did we win? It's a celebration. They have no idea what they're getting along with crocodiles. Were there? Yeah, I feel like my life insurance payout cash. Here's a giant chef. Right here. That's golden. Connor's going to tell how life insurance should be done. Were there 9000 crocodiles is breeding like rabbits. - 900 people dead. Apparently they starved them, so the crocodiles couldn't eat because everything that was built around them. So the second the Japanese were like, fuck, we're insane. Yep. Mmm, chicken tikka masala. I guess we're eating. I am so hungry already. Guess we're eating Asian. Crocodiles were hungry for an hour. Yeah, they were full for one hour, and then. Guess we're eating Asian tonight. Oh, it was Japanese got killed by them? Yeah. Oh, I misheard that story. I thought it was Indians got killed by them. So now you've got to change it to sushi instead of chicken tikka masala. That was close. No, I think life insurance policy payouts should be paid with giant cardboard checks. Just like lotteries? Yeah. Well, no, like Publisher's Clearinghouse. Remember back in the day when they show up and you're like, you won! Here's a million dollars. I think they should do that with life insurance policy payouts. You have to pose for a picture. Your husband died in a work-related accident. Just the family. The life insurance company posted on their Twitter. A new winner. Helping new families every day. It's a dumbass joke, but I love it. I heard someone say the reason why there are just so many like in Europe is because like all their toughest guys got killed in these two world wars within 40 years, you know? It was pretty brutal. I mean, you're talking about the percentage of the young population of Europe decimated in World War I alone. Yeah. I mean, even Russia was it? How many? What percentage of the males were lost for Stalingrad? Stalingrad alone, I think, was like 2 million fatalities. Like Stalingrad was brutal. The Russians lost 20 to 40 million, I think, right? Yeah. Because I think we talked about this a few weeks ago. I think Stalingrad was like the deadliest battle in human history. Ever. Yeah. Yeah. It was Russians just sending people to the meat grinder and then Germans fighting said meat grinder. And that one was. Yeah. 2 million. Oh, dear Lord. Yeah. So on the Russian side alone or the Soviet side, because Reddit gets mad when you confuse Russian and Soviet. Fuck you. Reddit being Reddit. During the Axis offensive, they had 187,000 personnel died. During the Soviet counteroffensive, anywhere between 1.1 and 1.14 million personnel died in their counterattack. What's an equitable city in the United States? San Antonio. San Antonio is around a little over 2 million. Really? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Not counting the metropolitan area. That's just the Russian side. On the German side, during the Axis offensive, it was 270,000 personnel. Oh, no. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm completely misreading this. This is their strength. Oh, okay. The people they brought in. Okay. Casualties and losses. Also, still a wide. Imagine showing up to a war, like one sector of a battle, and there's 1.6 million soldiers with you on your side. It was about 1. We had a battalion. It was about 1.1 million, roughly. Total dead, according to this article, or according to Wikipedia, total dead on both sides is anywhere between 1.1 and 3 million deaths. For Stalingrad alone. That's some. Golly. That is more than the city of San Antonio battling for the city of San Antonio. Yeah. Yeah. It would be a lot more in San Antonio. The people are a little slower here. Yeah. Yeah. Get the tortoise up front. They're nice. Big old women down in San Antonio. Some big old ladies in San Antonio. Get Charles Barkley on the phone. They're not as quick of foot in this community. We were stacking bodies 10 feet high. That's two bodies. Just three plate carriers. Just taping them off. They're so. Slow. Benny, you know what I hate? Max is. Leaving money on the table. I really hate missed calls, too. Better than the first one you said. 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Plus 20% off your first six months if you go to Quo.com slash unsub. That's Q-U-O dot com slash unsub. Quo. No missed calls. No missed customers. Only Zool. God, that'd be the greatest show ever if you guys got Charles Barkley on here in San Antonio. I would love to have Charles Barkley on this show. He's welcome. Big ol' women. The big ol' women in San Antonio. Big ol' women. Him making that a running bit is one of my favorite things. It's been 15 years, 20 years he's been doing that. Yeah. I love his. The one that they did where they had all of the very attractive women that they ran into in the street that were just like, oh, well, I think Charles Barkley, he's bald or he's old or whatever. Like, you know, talking to the women of San Antonio, what do you think of Charles Barkley? And then they cut back to him and his reply was, how long did it take you to find that many attractive women out in San Antonio? Where'd you find them? You were there all night. Yeah. Yeah. He's like, those women are from Dallas. Yeah. Yeah. They're from Dallas, Chuck. They're from Dallas. He's so funny. Yeah. He is great. He is like, you don't even have to be a sports fan to appreciate him. Because I'm not a sports fan and I appreciate him. He is one of the greatest personalities in American sports history, like without a doubt. Because he's from like bumfuck Alabama and he doesn't hide that. He doesn't try to sound like the smartest guy in the room, but he's actually a really intelligent guy. But he's still got that Southern drawl and everything like that. I feel like we're just because of Hollywood or media that we've had growing up. We're like predisposed to believe that if you have a Southern accent, you're stupid. 100%. But a lot of those guys have a very technical hands-on intelligence. Some of the greatest poets and artists that we've had, the biggest impacts on American culture, came from Mississippi and Alabama, all those Tennessee Williams and all that. Yeah. It is absolutely because of movies. Yeah. It's one of the last people groups you can make fun of now and not get in trouble for. Yeah, exactly. Italians. The American Redneck, they're open game. You can make fun of the American Redneck all day. And most people think Redneck means like you're just from Alabama or Georgia or South Carolina. That's all 50 states. Redneck is not exclusive to the South. By any means. But some of the cartoon caricatures in movies and TV shows of rednecks or hillbillies or what have you. Elmer Fudd. Thank you, buddy. Well, no, like just like the crooked tooth overalls, whatever. If you did that to any other culture, it would be horrifically cancelable. Yeah. I still feel like it's safe to make fun of Italians. You've had this Italian kick for a while. Yeah. What did they do to you? What is the backstory? He hates Mario. I support why not fight racism. Yeah, I do. I work within the realm of safe racism. Luigi, this punk ass bitch, dude. Yeah. I don't know. Please explain the f*** of their cut. Well, look, there's a thing. I know there's a lot of. No, he's right, though. No. Look. What? This is what happened. I made one Italian joke on some show I think we were doing, Let Him Cook, and you guys laughed, and that was the worst thing that happened to me, so then I just had to lean into it, and now it's a thing. The fact is, I grew up in the suburbs in Minnesota there. I haven't had a lot of interaction with Italians in my life. All I know them is from the movies. So, no, it's just racism. For racism's sake, honestly. The old American pastime. Yeah, I can get away with it because I'm white, and. Well. That's why you can get away with it. What, are you worried I'm going to ruin your Italian demographic, your voting base here in Texas? Very big in San Antonio. Yeah. I'm staying away from Germans and Mexicans. You're good. I just, I love the fact that you're like, oh, well, it's racism, but I can get away with it because I'm white. And I'm like, well. Yeah, it's called safe racism. I can make fun of anybody. I can make fun of anybody from the Iberian Peninsula to Siberia. It's safe within that realm. There's different. Of course, there's different shades. I can make fun of Arabs, too, because they're considered white under the U.S. Census. That's true. Most people don't know that. That's technically true. Yes, so Arabs are free game. Anybody that's from Russia. Which is why there's so many technical white side bombings in the United States. Dude, can you believe a couple white guys did 9-11, dude? Dude. According to the census. can you hear that thin ice cracking brandon's running though you're you're fucking doing great yeah brandon now you won you just got back from uh cpac and how'd that go man that was interesting i was in the political gaffe of the week what's the political gaffe of the week oh man so we went to cpac and it was really early in the morning uh what's cpac so it's the well i got a lot of shit for that people like i thought you weren't going to sell out to the big packs pack being being like you know people that fund a campaign political action committee cpac stands for conservative political action conference so it's just an event so it's funny the amount of people are like you're already selling out to the packs it's like that's not what this you just wanted to talk to people yeah it's like hey what's up for two minutes it's blizz con but less stinky though yeah yes i will say that that's the people there were actually you know pretty hygienic yeah there's a lot more lily pulitzer dresses over there at your place i'm not smart enough to get that joke are you just making your jokes now no i've noticed there's a there's this isn't even an insult it's an observation there's a disproportionate amount of conservative women uh that are considered upper middle class they love lily pulitzer dresses i don't even know i don't know what that is yeah it's a it's a it's a brand it's the really cover colorful flower dresses i believe you conservative women that are in the upper class they like lily pulitzer it's like a part of their look i see it all in town here i look at that one like i know who she voted for yeah i will i will keep that that little nugget of wisdom with me always if you see i have seen these dresses yeah it's those dresses those are way more expensive than i thought they would be if you see a woman in one of those dresses brandon you know you're getting her vote fair enough actually i do i know her husband gives her permission let me just think of the the like blow like 70s style dresses yeah for four hundred dollars oh yeah damn though yep that is hey all five of your female listeners are really gonna appreciate that joke okay the uh all five of them you know who you are this episode is brought to you by state farm listening to this podcast instead of doom scrolling smart move another smart move getting help from one of state farm's 19 000 local agents when you choose to bundle home and auto bundling just another way to do it another way to save with the personal price plan prices are based on rating plans that vary by state coverage options are selected by the customer availability amount of discounts and savings and eligibility vary by state so we had lily pulitzer dresses the political gap of the week i saw it all though it was like the front page of fucking reddit um the the guy who runs c-pack was was out in front of me and unfortunately because of the camera angle i was directly in the background of this shot when it happened and it was a generational lock-in because i was trying not to crack the fuck up the entire time uh because i the guy went up there and he was basically just saying like look if we let the democrats take over the uh the house of representatives we're going to have you know basically they're just gonna stonewall trump at every you know move yada yada like the whole like he's given like a rally speech it was early in the morning the audio was really bad so nobody could really hear like i could barely hear what was going on behind to be perfectly honest i probably caught every other you're also on a weird part of the stage for that yeah like the monitors were not very good i couldn't hear shit i don't know what the audience could hear we've experienced that if there's no monitors facing you it is you can every other live show pretty much yeah that yeah it is terrible even though they're cody you were across the table we had multiple shows where there was we're just looking at each other i'm like am i laughing yeah i think yeah if you're just struggling some of you came to the live shows there are a couple live shows where we discussed it we're like if you don't have monitors if you don't have the sound coming back at you you you don't even know what like i wouldn't hear eli to me right at this distance yeah yeah talking terrible wild so they were they were doing that yeah so it was kind of that situation but it was also like super early in the fucking morning uh we had like maybe like a third of the audience was full and uh a third to half something like that and he goes and i will say he said it in the very just the worst way possible uh because he he gave him like a vocal uh intonation like the tonality implied that you should cheer for this and he's who wants to see impeachment hearings and then half the crowd goes whoo and he goes no wrong answer and i'm just in the background like like i'm i'm locked in you can see you could probably play a clip of it here like it i am i had to lock in so hard how many of you would like to see a clip of it here like i had to lock in so hard how many of you would like to see a clip of it here like i had to lock in so hard how many of you would like to see impeachment hearings no that was the wrong answer you know the internet probably better than anybody else on that stage i bet you were like this is gonna be memed i literally though the only thing that went through my head was well i'll see y'all on reddit like that i'll see you in my twitter feed in 20 minutes and that's exactly what the fuck happened but i do love brandon knows the internet and like we all know the internet so well as soon as he says something on there he was like yeah they're gonna clip that out of context just like all the shit they did the like a couple months ago i think that's why it's good that you know under 40 uh in general should be running the show at this point because that that kind of that communication is a factor oh yeah wait wait wait you are you saying you don't want someone who's in congress for 52 years are you saying term limits and age requirements that's preposterous someone who doesn't understand what's happening today well i listen i trust an 85 year old to understand ai yeah somebody who's going to be regulating bitcoin and ai probably should know what any of those things are who's social media i don't like why can't we just do some more baseball hearings the facebook no when i log in what was supposed to be when can i download my yeah the it was the the the facebook hearing where uh it was i think it was uh kennedy was the the center and i actually for what it's worth i like him i think he's funny but he i think he was asking like when i use facebook does it use my wi-fi yep he's like and mark zuckerberg is just like perplexed like trying not to be insulting but like if that's what you use to access it yes and he's like aha he's like man you got to talk to your interns more it's not the gotcha and that that dude like zuckerberg is on the spectrum so it's riding how can you tell right i'm like of course you log into your wi-fi are you retarded you're all going to die yeah you're all going to die is that still a tick riding has he has you're all going to die he doesn't do that we've worked on that that's good he did so wait that was my favorite part what the fuck that was a great party trick i ruined my son he just he says i'm pissed off oh okay well that's fair that's a very normal human emotion well it was to wake up and his mom it caught a mom off guard because she's like okay we got to go to school he's like oh i'm so pissed off she's like i want to break my leg she's like okay we got to go to the doctor i am going to school because it's very literal there is no i know this is a joke or anything it is that's what's going to happen so now he was like oh i can't break my leg i hate the doctor way more than that he's the million calculation calculations are going on where he's like yeah i'll go to school school doctor yeah it's the rain man uh text coming over the screen just to figure out if he wants to go to school like he's not even counting cards yeah the calculations flying by zach alphanakis's head well how did uh the rest of the convention we went last year we did a actual um two which shows i think we did one podcast there we we had the option of doing that again this year but last last year i mean you could look up the the c-pack um episode from last year it was just the audio was so bad and all the interviews that i did on the floor because i was having to like go from interview to interview to interview and like the audio i could i could just imagine it was just trash because you're on a convention floor like it's loud it's going to be loud no matter what you do and people stop and just stare and watch and so it's it's kind of like a convention almost yeah it is it is a convention for sure but you you have money raising opportunities and stuff like that not even really to be honest it's mostly like just doing interviews and it's mostly networking got to spend a lot of time with you know ken paxton you know brandon gill a few people like that uh it was it was a good opportunity and there's a lot of a lot of good folks that i got to connect with so it was it was good i got to hang out with and actually i did an impromptu interview with dean kane oh no she's superman was he was he dressed as superman please say yes i need this so bad right now you know what i i'll put it this way i have no way of knowing if he had the superman costume on underneath that's what i wanted to hear brandon what shirt are you wearing well i'm glad you asked eli i'm wearing my poncho shirt that's not what a poncho looks like it looks lightweight and breathable it is lightweight and breathable it's also fantastic for summer because like said it does breathe it's very lightweight and it's also offers spf protection you mean upf 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The guys and all of us wore them before. Oh, we sought them out as a sponsor. We were already in love with the shirts and we were asking them, money, please. That's the best sell pitch. It's the best endorsement I can give. So if you're looking for a lightweight, comfortable shirt for the spring or summer, look no further than Poncho. Go to ponchooutdoors.com slash unsub for $10 off your first order. ponchooutdoors.com slash unsub. Go check it out. But no, I got to just randomly like run into Dean. I'm like, oh, hey, dude, what's up? He's fucking cool. We're trying to convince him to come back down to San Antonio soon. Oh, yeah. He was a nice guy to have on. Oh, he's awesome. He could be more worried if he had the Superman suit on. Like, mmm. I mean, once you play Superman, you're like one of the only people that are allowed to do that for life. Yeah, there's what, maybe a dozen of them? If that, maybe. Let's just gaslight him into fighting Henry Cavill. Cavill is a big dude. I like Dean. Let's have Dean fight Henry. He's over there right now. Cavill's one of those guys, too. He had like five older brothers growing up. And I think he's from like a shitty part of London. He's the handsome one, too. I really wonder. Oh, yeah. He got the genetics. Yeah. I mean, you got to be a Superman. I keep forgetting he's British, too. I hear his accent. And I'm like, no, but he's American Superman. Yeah. There's so many. It is ironic, though, that the most iconic American ever. They're like, well, that British guy is really. He's big and good looking. He does look like Superman. The original drone Superman, though. That motherfucker. Can't get away with being this handsome all the time. I wonder if they have a group chat, like all the living Supermans. Oh, that would be awesome. Just the soups. Superman. And then Batman. They have one for the Batman. But like George Clooney is weirdly not invited to it. Well, because he was the nipples Batman, right? Yeah. And the back card. What was his dick? The weird. Keith. Um, Michael Keith. Yeah. The real Batman. That was an odd Batman to have at the time. Because, yeah, he was mostly known for comedic roles during that time. Yeah, comedic roles. And then, like, he would do a comedic role and, like, a serious role. And they're like, Batman. He wasn't an action guy. Yeah. Well, Tim Burton was exactly what that franchise needed to get its wheels going again. Oh, because they were doing, like, a dark, creepy shit. Yeah. Yeah. Because the last real Batman. Push was from the Adam West Batman. Which that was not. Very cartoon. Great. It's a classic. But they, I think Tim Burton was the right guy to get it. Because after Tim Burton left, after the second Batman Returns, I believe, then it started getting cartoony again. And then people were like, no, we don't like this Batman. So then they handed it to Nolan. And it started getting dark again. Then we got Ben Affleck Batman. Got a little cartoony. And then this last Batman that came out in the whole Penguin series, I thought was really well done. Dude, if you have not watched the Penguin series. I have not. It's good. Good. By the way, I mean. Dark as fuck. And if you don't know who the lead actor, the guy who plays Penguin is. It's Colin Farrell. Right. Yeah. I didn't know that until, like, an episode in. And I was like, what? Dude, like, they chose, like, an objectively attractive guy to play, like, one of the most grotesque characters. That's how good that guy is. He blends into that role so, like, I watched the movie. And that's when I read. I was like, who? Who played the Penguin? Colin Farrell was like, get the fuck out of here. What? And by the way, like, that's why I don't care what world we're living in. That's why that just having an old Hollywood solid makeup artist is going to make the difference between a meh and a great show or movie. Yeah. I don't know if he's married, but if he is, you know, his wife has to look at him playing that character like, oh, yeah, this is what this is 20 years from now. This is my future. Also, side note. The Keaton Batman, how he turns like, oh, yeah, is because his costume couldn't. Yeah. Turn. Yeah. It's Nick was it was just a mask you put on the shoulder pads all connected. And it's become a meme. Yeah. Don't don't don't they explain that in Christian Bell Batman? You can't turn your head because the the bulletproofing is too good in the neck or something. I think that's a shout out to. Yeah. It's like a shout out to that one. I actually think that's. Yeah. I think Alfred's the one or. It was some Morgan Freeman. Morgan Freeman. What's his name? Oh, he was the Alfred in the Christopher Nolan ones. Yeah. Yeah. He was an Alfred. He was the. It was Dr. Fox or something. Yeah. Yeah. Also, if you haven't watched any new movies, Space Movie. God. Hail Mary. Project Hail Mary from 1992. Let me guess. It's an A24. No. Oh, really? OK. Amazon. Oh, Amazon made that. Yeah. Have you watched Project Hail Mary yet? No. Go to the movie theater, dog. It's a movie theater. I know. I know. I'm at you. You have to watch out. You and Savvy have been like you guys were in the text. You got to watch this fucking shit. We all went to go see it the very first night because it was a. I fucking hates it, by the way. I don't get it. I don't get the hate. I fucking love that. I read like even the race is like 94. Is it like based on a true story? No. No. Yes. In Mars or when we went to another galaxy's crazy true story. I hope it's not a true story because that would suck. The allure behind that is like they didn't use green screens a lot. They use a lot of like puppetry. And like natural effects. Right. Yeah. All the spaceships. Real sets. Dude, that's again. I think we're going back to that more and it's making movies great again. Like, yeah, that was the one that you hated to the thing when they when they remade. Yeah. The like prequel to the thing. Oh, yes. In 2011. Yeah. When they did the thing back with Kurt Russell, like you had the Cronenberg creatures that look fucking amazing. And then they did that. I think you were one of you guys was telling me about that when they did their most recent thing they did, they did the animatronics at first. You can see the behind the scenes footage where they used like the actual physical, practical effects and the studios like it looks too old. Let's replace it all with CG. That's what happens when you let nerds into the corporate culture that that's exactly what happens when you let nerds into corporate culture. They do shit like that. It's why I feel so depends on what kind of nerd. Yeah. You want the nerds that love special effects. Yeah. Yeah. Shouts out to the good nerds. So the new thing they did, they did the animatronics and they came back and they were like, that doesn't look good. And then they did the CGI bullshit right over it. Yeah. They replaced 90% of the practical with CGI. They're like, Oh, we want it to look more video. They said video game ish. No, make it look like Jurassic Park. Do it. How does Lucas did it? 40 fucking years ago. It looks so cool. Yeah. Look at the, like the thing from the eighties still holds up. Yeah. That movie is gross. Is so, yeah, it's great putting the, putting the slime on everything, just having them like, let's, let's even go back a hundred years. Like the movie hells angels that, uh, Howard Hughes made when you look at some of the, not the aerial combat shots that they got, that, that was some ballsy camera guys mounted with a camera on the back of a plane doing real dog fight choreography in the air. And then even the, the indoor shot, that famous shot that opens the movie up where it's pushed, getting drunk in that bar and it's pushing through the bar, this, this, this phenomenal shot, like moving shots back in the thirties, forties, fifties, like they, those did not exist for a reason. They put so much thought into those shots. And when you look at it a hundred years later, I'm like, that's better than the majority of shit they're doing today. Have you seen Akira Kurosawa's moving rigs? So he was the Japanese director that made it famous. So you had a Tashira Mifune, like his actors, he's the one that did a seven samurai, uh, hidden fortress. Yeah. He's like the shit. Star Wars. He's like the Godfather of Japanese cinema, right? Yeah. I mean, for, if you watched a Western, it's based off of his original samurai movies. They just adopted those into magnificent seven, a silver dollar. Like all those came from Akira Kurosawa old samurai flicks. He built camera rigs at the time you would lock, you would just lock them in. You did not have any moving shots. He was like, no, we're going to change this. We're going to change this. We're going to change this thing. like yeah yeah that's a smaller one it used to be a giant rig just to move the camera it was just unheard it's kind of cool because like back then that's when they were and we're doing a different we're doing a similar thing now but back then they were pioneering all sorts of camera tricks that weren't invented yet and they're doing a lot of that now with like the integrating ai into what we're doing and different like cgi platforms and and whatever like all these different like we're still doing stuff like this but back then it was totally uncharted territory like i mean walt disney did a lot of that stuff back in the day oh yeah he revolutionized animation and yeah there was a uh there's there's a rig that i saw that was really interesting where they're trying to like you know a perspective shot where let's say you've got like a house on the hillside and you're zooming in but if you're punching in on a still frame of house in the countryside with in the foreground and background it's like how do you do that because it just looks like you're zooming in not actually moving a camera through space so they'd have panes of glass with different things on it so you'd have the hill the fence the house the background and then they'd have a camera on top and they'd record it as the camera descends so you're getting these things moving at different rates and like like that's super cool because like back in the 40s like who the would have thought of that yeah walking shot well they wrote they wrote the book yeah like the entire building that lighted up they had one take it was like you are exiting this and walking with the both the military's fighting in their contrasting colors you have one shot at it oh my god so you have to do all the well i think that's why people really appreciate it in 1917 because you appreciate the amount of choreography and planning and work for the cast and crew that had to go into pulling that off dude 1917 they did six months or eight months of blocking yeah for shooting because it was hey we have to have everything fine-tuned because we're shooting at specific times to capture this and there can be no fuck-ups they made you to do what do you mean blocking blocking they're rehearsing every shot every scene because not only did the actors have to be on point more importantly the camera had to be on point the camera had to make sure it was getting what it needed getting the act the actors where they needed to be because it's a giant one shot to to blend together so every shot had to end specifically so they could cut into the other shot it was a 360 degree play yeah and when they even when he runs into that one guy during the final scene he's like oh my god i'm gonna die i'm gonna die i'm gonna die i'm gonna die i'm gonna die that was that was an accident yep yeah so in the when he's there where they they topple over and he gets back up that was an accident but just like we're gonna spend a lot of money if we redo this shot and that looked like that would happen in combat so we're sticking with it it was an extra that timed it wrong running so he accidentally hit him while all the explosions are going off all those are practical and like keep going you have to keep going you know that guy who got back to his fucking table like i'm gonna get fired i'm gonna get fired i'm gonna get fired oh no this episode is brought to you by state farm listening to this podcast instead of doom scrolling smart move another smart move getting help from one of state farm's 19 000 local agents when you choose to bundle home and auto bundling just another way to save with the personal price plan prices are based on rating plans that vary by state coverage options are selected by the customer availability amount of discounts and savings and eligibility to the state farm eligibility vary by state oh dude yeah the shot looks great i mean that movie was brilliant oh but project hell mary go enjoy it cody you have to watch it especially if you can do an imax i cried multiple times in that i'm fucking i was like oh this is oh oh i don't care if it's a little the little alien thing in all the emotions it's just so well done and they wrote it with ryan gosling yeah they they were like we approach one actor ever like when we bought the rights to the movie it was ryan gosling for sure he's literally me that's awesome and they did you uh read on how they did the book that book is written by a scientist so that makes sense yeah that's how they broke down even the alien um rocky is broke down on oh this is how he would survive this is what the planet carbon based you know that whole thing and oh how would water be on this planet when it's near uh mercury's level from the goldilocks zone it's like it's a planet this close to its star system oh you'd have to have to do that hand gesture again you'd have to have 12 atmospheres for it to condense like have water they broke it down to that level like the dude was very autistic on science what's what's crazy though is that ryan gosling is able to carry that movie while acting against nothing like the 80 of the movie is just ryan gosling alone and he it does an incredible job it's basically it reminds me a lot of just like a family-friendly interstellar which is kind of crazy because like it's i i didn't i didn't realize it until after somebody pointed out there's really like no swearing in the movie at all but it doesn't feel like it's like spoon feeding you like it's a kid's movie like it my kiddo loved it i looked over he was crying too i was like yeah perfect i was like he's emotional yeah not writing no writing would have like this is boring he's gonna die in here daddy why is liquid looking leaking from your face like this is called tears but did you know one man every hour every day is diagnosed with testicular cancer and 2026 some women but it's april you know what that means ball cancer month boom that's why we wanted 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culture and like we're all just like getting along and talking about our cultures with each other it's fun so there's a not to derail too much but when you mention that there was a weird period i think it was during like the 80s where the yugoslavians actually had a huge influx of like mexican culture yeah so they had like sombreros and like i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know what you're talking about like uh like hit like mexican music and all sorts of in you fucking yugoslavia hey mexico knows how to export man yes they do yeah yes they sure do i i would yeah i went to a mexican restaurant in bahrain one time yeah guy had the whole island to himself but it's just weird it's like a few years before the yugoslav civil war yeah just like mariachi music and well and they were under the soviet system at that time so i was like hey no you can't do like american culture but if you want to sneak in mexican culture is that's that's its own beast right there yeah it was just kind of a wild have you seen any of it on do you go on twitter much yes did you get influx by i i i was a yugoslavian aware of what you guys are talking about dude that's a yugoslavian man what no it was straight up brown skin or brown face well they're darker complected down there he's doing brown face but they are white so you can make fun of them yeah yeah he looks mexican i'm saying man i'm i'm marrying a mexican girl soon i can say i give you that's the rule i think that's how that works right yeah huh you can say too well so here so yes i can make fun of a lot of latino culture latino culture is a little more uh you're making it racist i don't know how but latino culture there's a lot of there's a lot of whites that are latino so yes a free game i get to make fun of the latino whites now there's a lot of latino blacks i can't make fun of the latino blacks like dominicans but i can make fun of argentinians any day mexico is a more of a diverse place than both those places mexico has a lot of uh koreans indians mexico mostly mestizos uh this is getting worse a lot of a lot of white people and their president is jewish and i can make fun of them too that's almost like we have free will and we can make fun of anyone we want i just i want to see this like spider-man i want to see this like spider-man i want to see this like spider-man spider-webbing tier list of things you can and cannot make fun of in your own eyes yeah uh no it's yeah you tattoo a spider web on your elbow i have the card yeah i'm allowed to do any a good chunk of accents out there yeah but no well back to the japanese twitter thing i really like i knew there was like a subculture it's kind of like you have like the uh um well there's a certain level of baseness in like south america and stuff like that but in japan they just love like american cowboy culture i know that because it just it just started about a week ago and i'm getting flood with flooded with it and they they love like texas culture they love american muscle cars because again in our friend group you were the one who brought it to our attention you're like hey guys the the japanese are based as fuck this one i i think i told you uh cody you sent me that one video that popped up in my feed i was like yeah i seen that today what the going on and then we talked about that day i woke up the next day and my entire feed was just kanji because i i sent a one of the tweets to you and i was like eli just like this tweet and watch what happens and it's it's all just like japanese people were like wait you guys like us it was like yeah you guys are fucking awesome yeah i don't think you understand we get tattoos of your of your pop culture all over our bodies in the mate they're like you you guys just grill meat all the time it's like yeah dude it's like the predator handshake thing it's like anime bros bros so many good uh why you son of a bitch i think that was one yep literally oh yeah wow i've made that up send that to chase that's my favorite person i was like holy shit my entire feed is now japanese people like everyone's just bonding as you're saying everyone is just like oh we have so much in common holy shit yeah y'all i was worried at first i thought you'd be racist and like these people are awesome do you know the story about how are that the entire american japanese relationship started uh for war two no no no no this goes back uh he's talking about first contact yeah first contact commodore matthew perry at this point america was in its early its infancy of its uh imperial ambitions yeah tom cruise this is they made a movie about him the last samurai that was based on a french guy that they hollywooded that a lot i know it was a french officer that they basically copied and pasted and made it american no you soiled her fought in civil war no uh in this satsuma rebellion he was there basically with the samurai yeah he was like the original weeb yeah um uh anyways basically just avatar with extra steps yeah yeah no historic avatar he fought godzilla yes yeah probably we he uh no anyways we made contact in the i think it was 1858 commodore matthew perry we bullied our way because we want to trade with japan and we bullied our way into it and then it started happening the japanese were like cool we're doing this now well in 1860 roughly a year before the american civil war started a delegate because at that point the samurai their rights were starting to be uh stripped and the transition out of samurai was beginning to happen but they were still very much revered as diplomats in japanese society so in 1860 a year before the american civil war over 70 samurai showed up to washington dc and spent uh like months in dc basically being the bells of the ball like america it was like wait photo of this yes yes it was like the first i i know k-pop's korean but it was the first ever k-pop mania that happened in the late 19th century and it was like the first ever k-pop mania that happened american women went nuts there was this one samurai he was one of the only interpreters his name was tommy he was 17 years old like american women were like throwing themselves at him it was like god imagine their disappointment um yeah over 70 samurai 1860s were in dc for months just hanging out with the president no shit they presented this famous photo yeah what year 1860 and then of course our civil war happened and it was only three years after the american civil war where the the meiji uh restoration started and it was pretty much the beginning of the end they had like a decade left before it was all over it's crazy when you read about that phasing out the samurai and then how it took effect it needed to happen i know it's easy to romanticize the samurai but they were stopping japan from becoming the economic powerhouse that it did what a culture that themselves for honor was stopping we talked about this other day who was the guy that came up with that idea then passed it down so everyone followed suit like this is honor yeah if you're losing a battle just like oh and then cut your head off and then all your constituents also have to do the same thing yeah wild mindset they were uh in a lot of ways uh at the at their peak they were like you there were mobsters in a lot of ways that controlled the government and it was a good thing uh that you know they transitioned in more much but i mean emperor meiji i didn't know that oh yeah yeah dude i think japan's one of the best countries at gifting stuff well they have such a long lasting culture it's like people people forget how how young the united states is yeah on the world we're still discovering ourselves like we're in our teenage years we're hitting puberty right now be proud of yourself huh look where you ranked on that is that you as the samurai yeah uh that's a great thumbnail whatever the theme is dave puts me into the so like and i was like is that cultural appropriation if i do samurai stuff only if only if he gave you yellow face exactly yeah that would be probably where the line gets gone but war tools the eyes it's just warm too he's like bro i got really hard into polynesian cultural history and i did an episode where he decked me out and paul i look like he decked me out an apology i'm like i'm gonna take shit for this and polynesians were down they were so cool in the comment section most see that that's what i find is that most people are like if you're talking about their culture where they're not used to like getting the limelight like that they're just enthusiastic that you're sharing their culture and polynesians are arguably the greatest seafaring people in the history of the world the only people that get upset are fucking liberal white women yes yeah yeah they've taken it upon themselves it is the albatross around their neck to be offended on behalf of every other culture they've never had an interaction with right yeah it's like uh yeah i'm a white woman from madison wisconsin like big polynesian population there huh nope never met one like you gotta go to utah bitch wait is there actually like a big it's huge in utah the mormons what's the island place the food oh uh oh it's right on the tip of my tongue i love that place so much yeah there's a lot of great paul this polynesian place it is we would go there all the fucking time order it every time i'm there oh they just have a bed of white rice and chicken to put on top of it that's it polynesian food is so simple and so perfect what was the name of that we would go all the time out in utah i i know exactly what place you're talking about polynesian but when we go to utah if we ever go it is a chain restaurant lake mo betta's is mo betta no mo betta yeah it's mo betta mo betta's yeah it's mo betta it's so good dude yeah polynesians get i'm assuming salt lake yeah so uh the mormons went hard at uh missions in polynesia and oh that's right yeah i've always joked that mormons need to be the lead set they need to head every sales team for every corporation because if you can convince polynesians to leave paradise for salt lake city you know how to sell some shit it was a giant bed of rice and then three chicken breasts for eight to twelve bucks yeah are you sure it's chicken dear lord yeah it was oh yeah i forgot about that place dude you'll be in a suburb in in salt lake there like this guy's got like uh he's got uh uh a sliver of an acre in his backyard and there's full-on chicken raising going on in those backyards dirt fucking cheap i was like the gang does a pilgrimage to salt oh dude every time i've gone up there for work i do what i gotta do for work straight to the hotel room uber eats mo betta's eat mo betta's till i just pass out on a queen-size hotel bed and you go back i haven't been in a while like i do i'm intrigued by mormon history too it's it if you if you took all every all the theological elements out of mormon history and you made a like a mini series about what's the mini series they just did that they did not like um prime prime evil i think yeah yeah i still have yet to see that have you guys what it is heart every time every time it's brought up every time it's brought up the mormons get very mad yeah they don't well hey uh look some things did happen and it's documented it wasn't good to be not mormon uh in that area for a certain period they may be doing shit yeah no no i haven't seen it yet i haven't seen it that is i'm trying to come it is fuck it's not a happy series because we're used to westerns being john wayne on main street cleaning up the crud it's like the wild west was a horrific place to live yeah if you think uh was it 187 1890 what was the cowboy going west wait what are you post-civil war like the time frame uh the show it's an uh actual show with like me and the tornado came so it is like a tyler taylor sheridan show yeah like the yellowstone spinoff that's a very positive version of uh prime evil prime evil is depressing as i mean that show wasn't exactly you know that's and i know and that is a very positive experience it's a very like soap opera take on like going to you know heading west yeah prime evil is just but uh i appreciate anything that shows that our our rose-colored lens view of history like all the shit we are living in a much better world that that exists than existed 100 200 years ago oh you gotta love these little kids online on again on reddit that are just like oh my god everything's fucked everybody's terrible oh my god like from their air-conditioned house where they just ordered doordash like communism would be so awesome right now are you kidding me like do you have any idea what your forefathers your genetic ancestors did diarrhea used to kill our freaking diarrhea used to be a real concern all the time yeah it used to kill people i would die so all we have to do now is go no all we have to do now it's happening again you guys just out back like a slit cut in the hammock nowadays it's like i'll just go get some gatorade i'm gonna live through this yeah my weak ass stomach i can't make it yeah prime evil it's fine he brought you some bread oh no dude it would have sucked so bad i would never want to go back in the time people were romanticized like i just wish i was born in the medieval times it's like no no you don't no ice running water everything stunk yeah dude are you back from the comic cold yeah you get a fucking cut on your hand there's no neosporin you're having children at masses to hope one survives to pass on genes and let's talk about the smell down there yeah you think men these days enjoy pleasing their ladies that was not a thing back then yeah everyone was black back in the day i know even professor snape i don't get it the new professor snape's black oh he is yeah harry potter you didn't know that uh-uh i never really got into the harry potter stuff yeah new harry potter it's uh the new series they're doing is professor snape and people are like that's a weird character to do black because he has an entire arc of when he's bullied like for being what too white well he's bullied because of everything else and i think they hung him from a tree or did something with a tree they hung him upside down on a tree and they made fun of him and now they're like how do you do that on the yeah show without this i thought we cut that out back in the 60s bud i think the the whole thing was in the book he's like pale complexion just like and then uh and jk rawlings is like i don't care i'm getting paid yeah well the one the one professor everyone hates everyone's like oh so you're gonna make him a black guy okay that was the biggest thing like we don't care it's it's just how do you do this character justice for what he was without now being racist yeah so that's the biggest uh worry and then also is it a british production i don't uh they have a different relationship with that stuff but it's just the funny part is like harry why don't you trust snape anymore harry why do you think snape is the bad guy uh just because he's a bad guy are there any other reasons harry i don't think that went through too much like uh-oh uh-oh but they're trying to do that to uh lord of the rings didn't they do that with that no they actually want to redo that was the ign tweet and other tweets going along with it was we should stop holding on to what lord of the rings is and we should stop holding on to what lord of the rings is and we should stop holding on to what we should stop holding on to what we should stop holding on to what lord of the rings is and we should stop holding on to what lord of the rings is and we should stop holding on to what lord of the rings is and we should stop holding on to what we should stop holding on to what lord of the rings is and we should stop holding on to what lord of the rings is and we should stop holding on to what is a you should reach out to the original team and do a push theatrical re-release i was the low man on the totem pole there they can take that up with themselves you get started i love everybody involved in that project that was the one thing where i torrented that film uh oh so you stole from me i did and after i was done i still wanted my money back yeah well you know you see pirate bay i'll tell you what i'll tell you what i'm gonna tell you something a lot of people like that i'll be honest with you a lot of people like that movie and i'll tell you what after going through the experience of making a movie i will never on anybody else's movie ever again because the fact that they got that to the the fact that anyone whether it's big budget or low budget can get a movie to the finish line uh is a miracle i can only imagine yeah like the amount of bullshit you guys had to do to get that that movie done just yeah it's any movie it's it even if you've got a fifteen thousand dollar budget and you're doing it you know every weekend for you know six months it's just uh it's a lot of work yeah don't film in la yeah it definitely wasn't gonna win in an academy that's for sure uh or be nominated or even be seen by anybody in sag so yeah the film actors guild yeah the film actors guild yeah never film in la i think they learned oh my god yeah we could have done way yeah everyone was so desperate to to do it in la it's like we don't need to do this here we'll get tax breaks if we do it in any other state and save lots of money on literally could have done it ten ten minutes down the road and probably spent half the budget yeah yeah that and again lessons learned to this day to this day ten years later when i'm running projects i there's lessons learned that i care with me to this day and it was the it was the weird it wasn't a natural way to be thrown into making a movie usually you work your way in into that and they're like and you know i was one of the top six cast or whatever and that's not a normal way to yeah i was that's not a normal way so got to learn a lot of hard lessons were you involved in the production at all or just like you just acting in it i was a producer but i was like there was maybe five of us who were executive producers and i was like at the low end no one ever listened to what i had to say and i didn't bother chiming in you did a good job i will say you're one of my favorite actors to work with because you take direction so good one time and you're like okay i need to do it this way you know what i think it is and whenever i work with actors my favorite ones it's because they had normal jobs it's somebody that had a normal job at one point you're used to being told what to do and uh i think a lot of young actors you know if you're sean aston you can have leverage right you're you're an established guy but young actors try to discuss too much what their character is going to be and i'm like let's just do what the director tells you to because i had i worked in the oil field i was a delivery driver i had a boss that would say horrible things to me if i tried to give him pushback so i can just do what you're told and get your check yeah do they really try of pushback like i'm actually feeling like my character would do this really are you fucking kidding me yeah it is a nightmare in la yeah and but i get it if you're like it's like dude you're one bad conversation away from going back to be a bus boy that's exactly that that's it non-talking extras will try to weigh in on what their character needs to do and their background for their character yeah like you don't even get to talk to the director that's the fucking that's a second ad who's running point on you now yeah they're they're i think in my i've seen young actors who are a little too ballsy with wanting and if it's an indie film sure you that's a different vibe you can you have a different relationship with the director but if it's like a bigger movie or show or whatever i'm like oh no that's the boss and you are an entry-level employee by the way on sets actors are the unless you're like a gigantic name actors are like the bottom of the barrel there are way more people on set getting paid more than actors because their jobs are more important lighting people freaking sound people dude i worked um one of the productions i did the shop which is my favorite thing i've ever been involved with the dp was 60 of the budget and well worth it because he was so good at his job and literally made the show what it was they know their shit but you will have the flip side where it is i think brad pitt talked about it where his first role as an extra and he's trying to get a speaking role in order to get a sag card he leaned in said what will you be drinking director and everyone called cut they're like what the are you doing brad pitt was like shut up that i was just trying to get my sag card though because you have to do a single speaking role in order to get it and what they will do if you're doing a hollywood shoot that is uh sad qualified or whatever you call that even when they're having a crowd cheer and yell stuff they're like don't say anything just go yeah they will not allow them to talk so they cannot they don't have to pay that extra fee for them to that and i imagine it's easier just to like fill in artificial crowd noise than just like whatever the random whooping and hollering every bar scene you've ever seen it's literally and when you watch the movies noise and glasses clinking in the background music that's all put it in post yeah music it's literally the only people making any noise are the whatever actors are talking to each other when you cut that out and you actually are on set and you have like a bar scene with music and clinking and talking it's all done it's the most silent thing in the world it's gotta be like kind of uncanny i would think like while you're filming it it do it's weird it's like action everything is silent other than the two actors delivering their lines in that scene that is it you are not making a fucking peep outside of that do you guys know if uh mcconaughey's thing went anywhere he was trying to do the the texas like i don't want to call it the texas film or something that he was trying to do a couple years ago they were trying to do like tax incentives like yeah like get more people out to like it was like all the big names that are from texas had a whole coalition going on right yeah did that go anywhere they were trying to get people from los angeles out to texas because of course tax yeah of course that but like then do you know do you know if that ever because they did the the one because we're re-watching the first season of true detective um because they they did the the ad it was him and woody harrelson i think they're both i don't know is woody harrelson from texas too that one uh he has he's like yes he's like half ohio half texan yeah so yeah matthew mcconaughey successfully lobbied texas lawmakers to pass senate bill 22 injecting 300 million dollars every two years for a total of 1.5 billion over a decade into the texas moving image industry incentive program this initiative aims to compete with georgia and new mexico by boosting grants to 25 for qualified productions damn i mean i don't know if that ever went anywhere well no they successfully lobbied it so now you're doing taxes on it so that's yeah now we're paying taxes on making sure that taylor sheridan is successful it is oh let's get people to film out here so you get tax breaks and people film out here it's good for economies yeah that's what he was saying is that uh they they stated that every dollar of the incentive the way that they had planned it out puts four dollars back into the texas economy yeah and you you know what uh massachusetts because there's a lot of movies made about and in massachusetts because of uh the walbergs and the but uh massachusetts does a good job that if they're filming a movie there you have to hire a certain percentage of local actors you can't import your people from wherever like you have to hire local for a certain percentage of crew and cast oh shit yeah well well well i wonder if that's in this bill as well yeah i guarantee it hmm you want to get shot on a taylor uh taylor sheridan production yeah dude i've been trying to get shot on a taylor sheridan production for years now it's that or a jack car yeah jack car or taylor sheridan i just want to get shot by chris pratt or yeah yeah can we be bad guy number one two three four right here just kill us jack where do the amazing people find you oh i have a history show it's called jacked history that's j-a-c-k-e-d-h-i-s-t-o-r-y you can also find me driving around town in my volvo well is this a new tradition on the show no we just started i mean it's been over a year since i've done the show i don't i don't know what kind of weird inside things you guys been doing since jagged honestly it's always a pleasure to have you on man it's good for you to be here but dude we don't we don't get to see you often enough so it's always a pleasure because i'm either on the road or i'm held up in the compound yeah yeah against your will thank you for inviting me out to lunch today because i don't remember the last time i just went to lunch during the day and i needed that so thank you oh yeah man thank you yeah no dude you know you're always welcome i know i know uh i i'm from minnesota i have a hard time uh reaching out to people and appreciating social interaction i gotta get over it because i'm 42 and i'll be dead within 20 years cody close this out bye everyone thank you for joining the unsubscribed podcast today i was joined by eli double tap our friend jack mandeville brandon herrera myself donut operator we love you kisses bye bye jack oh i'm gonna go have a cigarette thanks for watching y'all and thanks for having me friends we love you you can get a big mac meal for just eight dollars 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