Yeah, we're sleeping on the floor. Now my jewelry box froze. Fuck up, po. Fuck up, stole. Counted millions in the cold. Bad bitch, booty swole. Got her own bankroll. Can't fold. That's a no. Headshot.
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What's up?
What's good, gang? Oh, how you doing? Good.
Yeah, just doing it. What about you?
Yeah, I'm good, man. Uh, had a little too many, uh, frosés yesterday, feeling a little bit—
frosés?
Yeah.
What's a frosé?
Uh, it's like, you know, the rosé champagne. Yeah, frozen, like a slushie.
Like a popsicle?
No, no, it's like a slushie.
It's like in the shape of a popsicle?
No. Yeah, nope, just the shape of a cup, I guess.
I figured you'd like the popsicle shape.
Oh yeah, yeah, right.
Do you see that thing I sent you about the dude eating the hot dog?
Yeah, yeah, man.
You know, before the internet, before the internet, no one cared about how you ate a hot dog. Yeah, now you just like, you got to cut it up in little bites.
Those bananas, that's another one. Like, you gotta be careful out here, bro. It's treacherous.
Can't have any snipers trying to get you.
Yeah, man.
Yeah, I had a big weekend this weekend. Yeah, both my, uh, probably the Bulls, both my PBR Bulls just dominated. Both of them were 2-0 at the, uh, at the PBR event down in Oklahoma City. That was cool.
How much does Cupcake weigh? Uh, he's over 2, right?
No. So, so our bulls are actually pretty small compared to the big bulls. Like, it's a misconception that you think the biggest bulls are the hardest ones to ride, but just like people you know, there's a line that you cross of diminishing returns where when the bulls get— yeah, a big bull. No, for real, in athleticism. Yeah, right. So like, you just can't move like that. Yeah, that's right. And so what gets people off the bull— Dennis has been teaching me this, okay? Dennis Davis, who owns Dennis Davis Bucking Bulls, uh, awesome guy, super fun. I got introduced to him, um, through Dana. You know, Dana has his bull. Dana White's playmate.
That's right.
And he's had it for a few years and he's had a lot of fun with it. And we got on a conversation one time because everybody knows I like the rodeo.
Yeah.
You know, I got my own rodeo that happens every year at my farm. And so, you know, we were— he kind of got me into it and I met Dennis and Dennis kind of explaining it and I would see these big bulls and I'm like, how big is our bulls going to get? And he's like, well, that's not the whole game.
Yeah. So it's the motion in the ocean.
That's right. It's— that's what you tell yourself in it. So So like, dude, it's about force and acceleration and the way that they move. And so both my bulls, Screaming Freedom and Cupcake, are not the biggest bulls, but they're super explosive. And that's what makes them hard to ride. Cupcake especially, he's already ranked top 10.
He's a beast. Yeah, that dude's a beast.
And he's little. Screaming Freedom.
Yeah. Do you guys, do you have to like, are you allowed to like, hey, like if he fucking knocks him out, give him a cupcake? Like, can you do some shit like that? You know, I'm saying, like, man, I I don't know.
That'd be cool. Yeah, the guy fucking eating cupcakes. Oh, give cupcakes, cupcakes.
That's what I'm saying.
Yeah, I bet he would like it.
It's a little reward, you know what I'm saying? You gotta watch out for diabetes, but yeah, he, uh, it'd be cool.
Yeah, he had a good, he had a good weekend. Yeah, he, um, he actually had the same guy ride him twice on Friday night. Um, this guy who, who he came back from being injured, but he's a top He's a top rider in the world, top 5 rider, really good rider. He rode him on Friday, got bucked off in like 4 seconds on his first ride back from being injured, which, you know, I was happy about. And it's kind of fucked up for him. Yeah, well, dude, so like, then he, like, he wanted to ride Cupcake again on Sunday and then he rode him on Sunday again, got bucked off in 2 seconds.
Oh, man. Yeah.
And it's like, I was happy, but also I was like, fuck, that kind of sucks, man, you know? But it is what it is, you know? And I was going to talk mad shit, but then I like, I kind of felt bad.
Yeah.
So I kept it real nice and easy, but very professional. Yeah. So, dude, you got to have a little trash talk when it comes to competition. This is what makes it fun.
Yeah.
You know, it's nothing personal. It's just, it's what makes it fun. And I'm having a lot of fun with it. You know, I know Dennis is having fun with it and, you know, it was cool to see him on TV on the biggest stage with the best riders and see him do well.
Yeah.
And that was cool. You know, it's, it felt silly as it sounds, you know, it just— it feels like a different kind of win. It's like, yeah, you know, that's right, you know, my fucking boy, man. There was some— there was some crazy rides. Like, dude, people that have never been to a rodeo just don't get it. Like, you have to go see it in person to really understand how awesome it is. For sure it is. I never thought it was cool until I— until we had our first rodeo out at my farm. I didn't even know we were really having a rodeo. And then Aaron and the guys were like, okay, at Fall Fest this year we're going to have a rodeo. And I'm like, oh, that sounds all right.
Sounds cool.
Shit, dude, they opened that gate the first time and I was fucking hooked. Yeah, like I was hooked. And even watching on TV yesterday, I was like glued to it the whole time. It's just, I don't know, man. It's a great sport and it's Americana and it's representative of what you know, American culture is, and it's a shared culture. You know, there's a lot of, uh, um, Latin America and, and, you know, South Americans that ride it. And you know what I like about it, dude, is like there's just mutual respect amongst everybody because everybody understands what the fuck it is.
You know, that was the other thing too that I thought was pretty cool. Uh, I guess like I didn't really, uh, I didn't really understand, I guess, or respect like those bull riders, bro. Like they're fucking athletes, dude. Oh dude. And like it's very unassuming.
Yeah. You know what I'm saying?
I'm like, they're not— these are not like— they're massive dudes.
They're not fucking, you know, they all train, but fuck, dude, no, they all train, they all got obviously massive balls, they're all tough as fuck, and they all respect each other that do it. And I mean, how could you not, right? You know what I mean? Even the guys who are on other teams, those guys are friends because I mean, like, dude, when you do hard stuff like that, you're gonna respect the people that do it.
Yeah, you know, well, and it's also too, it's like, I mean, it is a competition in that sense, I guess, between them, but it's like, it's really you and the fucking bull, bro.
Yeah, it's my favorite thing out of all the sporting events I've ever seen. I would rather go watch bull riding than anything else.
Really?
Oh, yeah. Not even close, honestly.
Would you ride one? You're going to—
not at this point in my life. Yeah, I'm, I'm, I'm too old, bro. Like, I break something now and it take me 2 years to get back from it. It's true, you know? So it's not worth it.
You say worth the squeeze, dog?
No. And like, also, like, when I was young, I was never around it.
Yeah.
And then also, like, do these guys are, you know, most of these guys are not— they're like, they're kind of smaller dudes, you know what I'm saying? And it's one of those kind of sports, you know what I mean?
Yeah.
I would get fucking hurt, you know, like hurt bad.
Yeah.
So it would be good. Yeah. No, I would get hurt real bad. And I'll be real. I'm not going to sit here and be like, I don't even— I don't even know if I would do it. Like, like, that's big, big balls, man shit.
That's a lot. Yeah.
And that's why I feel bad about cheering when these dudes get bucked off. Because I'm like, fuck, I wouldn't do that.
Yeah, no, no, there's no fucking chance, man.
But it's cool and it's, it's, it's something I enjoy. I've enjoyed getting into for fun. And, you know, everybody keeps asking me like, do you make money doing it? You can make money doing it later down the road if your bulls do well. And, you know, they go, they go into like breeding programs and stuff. But like, I'm just doing it for fun.
Yeah.
You know, it's just fun.
Yeah. Hell yeah. Hell yeah, man.
I'm going to go to PBR and NFR in Vegas this year. I'll probably spend the whole week out there, you know, getting to meet everybody. I can't— I'm going to try to go to the next couple of PBR events just to, just to get to know, like, a lot of the guys do, like, they, they listen to the show and they're First Form guys.
So like, it makes sense.
I kind of know a lot of these dudes through the internet, so I'm excited to get more involved in it.
Yeah. But you plus, you haven't— actually met Cupcake yet, right? No. Yeah. So that'd be cool. Yeah. Yeah. You got to go meet him.
Yeah. Dennis said, because, like, dude, when they're done, I get to take them home.
Oh, that's cool.
They come live with me.
Oh, that's cool.
So I was talking to Dennis. I'm like, hey, can we like— how do we like domesticate these things?
That's right.
So I don't know, but I'm convinced I can make them my friends.
Well, you're pretty good with them.
Yeah, we'll probably— I'll probably end up on TV. Man gets destroyed by his own bull.
Fuck. Yeah.
Fucking whatever.
Bull was fucking origins of Israel and like how's it was Massad. That's right.
That's right.
It was Massad. Hell yeah, man. Uh, well, you know, speaking of doing new things and, uh, trying new things, you know, um, I thought we'd bring back a segment we haven't done in a while. Let's get philosophical.
Philosophical.
Philosophical. You know, I think we, you know, uh, we, you, you've expanded your palate, you know, you like try new foods and shit. That's cool. You know, I think we need to get a little bit more artsy. Okay, all right, so we gotta, uh, we got— let's, let's get philosophical. Let's check this clip. The brand new art installation. This is art right here.
What is going on?
Bro, that's art, bro.
Listen, this is reflective of the downfall of society. It really is. No, it really is. No pun intended with the mirrors. Okay. It used to be you had to have skills to be called an artist.
Yeah, right.
Like if you go back 500 years ago, we're talking about people who were painting and doing these amazing things that have all these layers of different things. And even some of these paintings have 3 or 4 paintings painted beneath them, right? Um, or you have these amazing sculptors, you know, who, who sculpted, you know, uh, David and like all these crazy— and now, you know, with— with art is a reflection of where society is, right? The music, the art.
Yeah. Um, Yeah.
And, you know, I shouldn't be surprised, but, you know, like that— remember that piece of art that sold down at, uh, in Miami? Uh, it was like a banana taped to a wall.
Yeah.
You know what I'm saying?
Yeah.
Um, you know, it's, it's lazy and it's, it's— there's nothing to it. And it's almost like I don't know how to describe it, but it's like this weird cult pseudo-artist shit, you know what I mean? It's not real art, bro. And just because you call it art doesn't mean it's art. No, right? Um, and when we want to look at like what's going on with our buildings and our architecture and things in society, You know, this is reflective of that. And it's a shame because where are the amazing painters? Oh, they're not getting the recognition. Where are the amazing sketch artists? Oh, they don't get the recognition. Where are the amazing sculptors? Oh, they don't get any recognition. But this guy, he's an artist, right? Take a banana and tape it to the wall and that's fucking art.
That's right.
Right. And, you know, it's, it's a joke, dude. It's a joke and it's gross. And the fact that, like, people clap for this, it shows you that, like, cult mentality. And it's really kind of like that whole, that whole mentality of like, I'm on a team, right? I'm a refined aficionado of art, but I don't have to know anything about real art. I can just like the banana tape to the wall.
That's right.
And I'm an art critic.
You're elevated now, right?
Exactly. It's like a way to elevate your own identity without actually having to understand or appreciate real art.
Fucking anything at that point, right? Yeah.
You know, so it's—
he was so proud of this.
Of course, it's the greatest thing he ever did. You know, he thinks he's very clever. And I'm sure if you talk to him, he has, you know, super refined, intelligent political opinions that are smarter than everybody else. And It's just like, it's a joke. It's a fucking joke. Our society is a fucking joke at this point in time. Okay. Like, imagine this being shown as art 300 years ago, 400. Dude, the guy would get killed. They, they cut his head off.
Fucking blasphemy, right?
There used to be pride in, in these things. There used to be real barriers. This, this, This is the art that artists from our country are making, right? This is, this is what the Italian artists are making. This is what the French artists are making. This is what the English artists are making. Now there's no pride in any of that, you know? And we wonder why society is just gross. Like, it's just gross.
Yeah.
You know, so, you know, it's, it's, it's pathetic.
Yeah. Yeah, man.
Guys, tell us what you think down in the comments, man. Imagine being one of these morons that buys this art, bro.
Well, I mean, how the fuck do you buy that though? Everything's—
I'm just saying, like, no, I'm saying like in general, like there's these pieces of art that have sold for $30, $40, $50, $100 million that are literal just canvases that are like a single color, like a blue or a yellow. It's just— it's a fucking canvas. With blue on it.
That's right. And Hunter Biden does better.
You know, and I know everybody says, you know, art is in the eye of the beholder. Well, our eyes are misaligned, right? Like, what talent and what skill does that represent, dude? Like, and a big problem here in the United States is that we don't have the artistic culture that Europe has. We don't have the artistic culture that, you know, it has been around for 1,000 years. Right.
Right?
We don't, we don't walk up and down the streets and see churches that were made in the year 800 like they do in Europe, right? So our ability as Americans to understand what good art is is really limited because we don't see it, right? But if you go to Europe, which most Americans never do, and you walk down the street, you'll know what fucking art is. You'll know what a beautiful city is. You'll know what architecture that actually brings pride to the culture in the country looks like. And it's unfortunate that we don't have that here. And what we have had here has been destroyed and it's been replaced with soulless, you know, concrete and glass and modern looking nonsense.
Yeah.
You know, it's sad, dude.
Super sad, man. Super sad, guys. Let us know down in the comments, man, what you guys think. Get philosophical. Yeah, that guy's an idiot. Uh, let's keep cruising though, man. We got a lot to cover, a lot to talk about. Uh, guys, remember, if you would like to see any of these articles, pictures, links, videos, go to andyforsolid.com.
Bro, going back to that, like, I follow a couple pages on Instagram that like because I'm not an art expert. Okay. But I've been to the most famous museums in the world. You know, I've been to the Louver. I've been all through Europe. I've seen all the museums. I've seen all the paintings. I've seen these things in person. And like, so I follow some of these pages because I don't really understand how to evaluate art the way that it was intended to be evaluated. Right. And it's crazy because some of these most famous paintings in the world, like, once they're explained to you, you can really, like, appreciate what the story that's being told in the painting.
Right.
And, you know, contemporary art and I mean, I don't know, it's just, it's just gross. It's just, it's gross shit, dude. I think, I think, I think, and I think it's reflective of a gross society that is, that is non-cultured and You know?
Yeah.
Soulless.
I do like, uh, Banksy. I like his work. You know what I'm talking about? He like, he—
Isn't he the one that did the fucking banana?
No, no, they— I think they said they thought it was him. I thought the banana thing was like actually like some dude just did that shit and they called it an art. I don't think Banksy did that. Banksy does like the more like super realistic drawings.
I don't like any of that shit. That shit's all trash. Sorry, dude. It's all trash. It's all— it's all appreciated by a bunch of people who have too much money that don't have enough money to get real art.
Yeah, no shit. It wasn't Banksy. Yeah, yeah. Oh yeah, man. But yeah, let's get to our cruise, guys. Got a lot of stuff to cover. So let's— let's dive into headline number 1. Got to go to Idaho. This is the big talk of the town right now. In-N-Out. Uh, In-N-Out Burger shooting, uh, motive still a mystery as armed citizen speaks out. So this was, this was absolutely crazy. Police are still working to determine why a 24-year-old gunman opened fire at a crowded In-N-Out Burger in Twin Falls, Idaho, killing 3 people and wounding 7 others before taking his own life after taking fire from a bystander and an off-duty Idaho State Trooper. Twin Falls Police Chief Matthew Hicks said Sunday that investigators were confident Chad Williams acted alone. In Saturday's attack, but detectives have not yet established a motive or fully traced his movements before the shooting. Quote, we believe their actions helped drive the suspect away from the scene, preventing further casualties, Hicks said of an armed citizen and an officer who returned fire. Quote, we want to take a moment and commend the actions of the off-duty officer and the citizen, uh, and their heroic action to stop this incident.
Now, videos was going along, uh, going around crazy of this, of this, uh, of this shooting. Um, this is one that was making waves. He didn't think that through. I don't have service. Do you have something? Um, now police have not publicly identified the trooper, uh, who, uh, returned some fire, um, or the bystander, but the Idaho Statesman detailed the heroics of Jordan Salinas, who's 35, of Kimberly, Idaho. Strapped by the shoulder with an FN, uh, 5.7 automatic, uh, semi-automatic pistol fitted with a suppressor. Um, so there was these videos going around showing Jordan returning some fire. Check this out. Uh, now Jordan is a reported healthcare worker, uh, and this is honestly who I kind of wanted to focus in on, bro, um, because this is what we need more of in this country right now. Um, he's a reported healthcare worker, uh, and the full-time caregiver of his wheelchair-bound brother. So this is Jordan here. Um, now Jordan trains, um, he trains, and, and stuff was coming out online. There's been some videos. Now he has a YouTube page, uh, where he kind of shows his training videos. Um, and, uh, and a few of the posts have come up and he's like, I've literally trained for something like this to happen.
Um, and this is like a little collab of some of his videos he's put out. Um, really awesome dude. Um, but yeah, he was, uh, he would say— he said that he was able to observe, orient, and decide that, okay, this is the guy, he said, before being resolute to act. Um, saying that the gunman was shocked by the armed response, I guess, not, not thinking anybody was gonna fuck him both back. And, uh, he did, man. Uh, haven't seen a whole lot of conspiratorial things that came—
did he kill him?
Uh, he— so the, the gunman, uh, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. I do believe he did get hit though a few times.
Yeah.
From the, the off-duty trooper in Jordan. But he ended up taking his own life, you know. But I haven't seen the conspiracies or anything go crazy. So again, I'm saying from what we're seeing right now, everything looks—
yeah, you know, it's a fucking whack job and an armed citizen who stopped it, right? Which it's— I guarantee you, dude, I don't even know because I haven't been watching, but I would be shocked that this is even getting coverage on MSM, right?
Right. Well, and that's the thing, because they always like to use these situations for the gun debate. Yeah, I'm saying it's like, and here's a great example of— and by the way, Jordan has no military experience, no law enforcement experience. He's just—
no, he's a responsible citizen. Citizen.
Yeah, who understands the importance of exercising their Second Amendment right. Correct. Um, and trains for it, more importantly, you know. Um, but it, you know, they always try to make these, you know, in this political light to have pushed gun control, you know what I'm saying? Every single time it never fails. Um, but it's like, had there been gun control in place, how many more people would have died because of this guy? You know what I'm saying?
Well, this is what happens when these guys pick targets that aren't schools and aren't, you know, little kids and aren't churches and aren't these things. And, you know, it's important for every man in this country, and I think women too, bro, Like, I think especially with this migrant crisis and all these third world shitballs coming in from everywhere, I think it's very important for women to train. I think it's mega important because like, dude, these guys are cowards. They are pussies.
They're not attacking me, right?
They're not. They might attack men, but they are far more likely to attack women and children and people that they think aren't going to fight back. And there's a lot of women out there, especially, you know, that are single, that don't have a dude with them, and they're out there, you know, kind of running around and living their lives thinking that everything is safe. And like, we're not in that world anymore, man. Like, it's different now. And I think it's important for everybody to carry and train. I think it's very, very, very important. And, you know, um, There's more and more reasons why every single day, you know, when they, when they import 20 million military-aged males that don't have female companionship, don't have families, who are talking about, you know, they're going to conquer the, the country through breeding. Well, how do you think they're going to do that? They're going to rape people, right? And I actually think that, like, it's super important that if you're in a I really don't care what the laws are. I don't care if you're in a carry state or not. Like, you're taking your life into your own hands if you don't carry and you don't train.
And I think that's at a bare minimum tragically irresponsible, you know what I mean?
At this point, absolutely. Yeah, at this point, absolutely. You know, I think my biggest thing has always been to— okay, cool, you carry, you have a gun, great. You gotta train.
That's better than not having it.
Better not having it.
But like, the amount of people that are unfamiliar with firearms, that carry a firearm, is most of the people that carry firearms.
Right.
You know, most people that carry firearms do not train. They might have a little pistol in their purse or they might got a little, you know, Glock on their belt or something when they go places. But knowing how to use it is very important and it doesn't do you any good if you don't know how to use it. So I really think it's important, especially for women, to take that seriously because like, dude, we live in an era where the masculine man doesn't exist the way that it used to. Sure, there's still some out there like this guy, right, who's willing to stand up and insert himself into a situation to protect innocent people. That still exists. And there's a lot of those people, but you can't count on one of those people being around. Yeah, you have to be one of those people.
That's right.
And that requires training. And, uh, you know, this is the perfect example of that.
Yeah, it's just such a crazy situation, man. But like, I mean, to your point, bro, I feel like there's gonna be more of this.
Way more.
More.
This is the beginning of that.
It's gonna be so much more.
We're starting to see civilians fight back.
Yeah.
Okay. And like, as stupid as this example is, it's— I see, I'm starting to see this everywhere. So for the last 3 years, we've seen— you've seen those dudes that do wheelies on their bicycles, okay, and they ride at people and then they wheelie away right away. Well, now we're seeing people just fucking body check them right off their bikes and knock the fuck out of them, as they should, which should have been happening from the beginning. But everybody's been scared, right? When everybody stands up and enforces the socially acceptable standard in society through the application of tactical violence when required.
Controlled violence. That's right.
When that happens, order restores. Okay. We're going to see less and less of these little fuckfaces doing their wheelies because now they're getting their fucking asses beat. Okay. And we will see less and less of people just pulling out an AR at an In-N-Out Burger or some random place if they know that the other men in the store are not going to have it and they're going to put one in your fucking brain. Mm-hmm. Okay. That is something that we should all be totally dedicated to doing as men of this country in order for order to restore itself. The reason that we have all of this ridiculous crime is because for the last 20 years, men have kind of like opted out. They've looked away, you know, when things have started going on. Well, that's not my problem. Or in certain cases, you know, they're going to be punished for it. And we have to get over that. Yeah, we have to get over that. Like, we have to be willing to protect innocent people when these things occur. And if every man in this country carried a fucking pistol and knew how to use it, this shit wouldn't happen.
It wouldn't happen. So, yeah, dude, massive kudos to that guy.
Yeah.
So massive respect to that guy.
I hope somebody bought him a beer.
Well, I'm grateful for men like that.
Yeah.
You know, that is— that's a real man, period. So I think it's a— I think it's an awesome story.
I fucking love to do that. I saw my man. That is just crazy work. Yeah, bro. We're letting the—
we're letting the inmates run the asylum.
It's what it is.
Okay. We're letting the mentally ill people— we have bent over backwards in society for the last number of years to appease people who are mentally fucking ill. Okay. This goes into the argument with the trans community. This goes into the argument with, you know, the whole idea of the first everything, right? This country wasn't based around the first. It was based around the best. Okay. And this whole idea where all these mentally ill people have started to feel in a protected class, like they can do whatever they want, they can break shit, they can scream, they can throw tantrums, they can be violent. They could do all of— they've been allowed to do all these things and they will continue to do those things until people step up and do not allow them to do these things. That's what will reset the order. You can't— the police will not be able to do it because there's not enough police to do it.
Yeah, there's no law that's going to be able to fuck— no, no, it didn't work like that.
So like, dude, you know, men, men especially have to be willing to step in when things are wrong and handle the situation. And you should be prepared for that. And to your point, it's going to get worse and worse because of this third world migrant situation that has been happening here and is likely to get worse again. Because, and this gets into a political discussion, you know, people are so disenfranchised with Republicans that there's probably going to be a big surge of Democratic policies come back into play, and they're going to open the borders right back up. This shit's going to get way worse. We are dealing with two sides of the political spectrum that are both bad. And we are dealing with a mentality where people— like, for example, I saw this fucking comment criticizing me on the internet, and it was on that clip where I said, I'm not right, I'm not left, I'm not— you know, the one that goes viral every time it fucking hits the internet. And some dude wrote, yeah, well, this guy was a MAGA chud, blah, blah, blah. First of all, motherfucker, I was never fucking MAGA.
Ever. And yes, I did vote for Trump 3 times. The reason I voted for Trump 3 times was not because I believed everything that Trump was doing. It's because I recognized the pain and the bad things that were happening on the other side. And we have this situation in our country where you're not allowed to change your mind. You're not allowed to say, you know, if you're on team left and you criticize the left, you're a fucking piece of shit. If you're on team right and you criticize the right, you're a piece of shit. When in reality, neither one of those teams have our interests in mind, and that's been shown. So we have to decide who is going to make it worse and vote against that, right? And we don't have the mentality as a, as a whole to do that. We just don't. We have these people who have built their identity on I'm this, I'm a Democrat, or I'm this, I'm a Republican. And they will not think outside those boxes. And like, dude, until we start thinking outside the boxes in regards to what's right and wrong and what's good and bad for the country and are honest that the left does really bad things for the country, the right does other things that are really bad for the country, and we have to choose in the meantime while we're trying to figure this out which one's going to do less damage so that the people can find a solution in the meantime.
Does that make sense?
No, absolutely, dude. Well, the other thing too that's crazy, like, I mean, even just going off of that, it's like, you know, you also, if you don't criticize the right enough, you're not good. You know what I'm saying? It's like, it's like everything's just so fucking—
well, the same guy was like, the same guy was like, you know, these guys go, they, they say whatever the— like he was saying about me, he's like, It's whoever pays his bills. Well, I got news for you, motherfucker. I pay my bills.
That's right.
Okay. There's nobody— I've never taken a fucking dollar from fucking anybody. There's no contributions made to me. I don't get paid to say shit. If I did, I'd be out here fucking saying the same shit everybody else says. And that's the problem with having your own opinion is that you're always going to piss someone off. But the reason that people get pissed off is because they built their identity which is a fucking low IQ position. A low IQ position is to associate yourself with a political party that does not serve you as an individual and remain loyal to that party when they do so, regardless of what that is. That is low IQ shit.
Yeah.
Okay. If you're a Democrat, you should be able to say I don't like this and this and this. This is fucked up. I don't like these things. That's, that's— I don't like what the fuck they're doing here. If you're a Republican, quote unquote, you should be able to say, I don't like this shit that these guys are doing. I don't like these things. Okay. You don't just go along with it and then fight with the guy across the street. That's, that's what they want you to do.
Yeah. The real enemy, they're both fucking us.
Exactly. They're out on the golf course talking about how they can fuck us. And like, dude, this division that's happened in this country that really kind of started with COVID has become so polarizing and people are so ingrained into their identities that there's no way to have a civil conversation.
No, you know, it goes straight to fuck you.
Well, no, it's not just that. It's like if you say Like, like, for example, like if I said, like if I say, hey, I like that Trump's doing this. Oh, you fucking suck Trump's balls.
Fucking Trumper.
Right. Well, I don't like that Trump does this. Well, you said you liked him 2 years ago.
That's right.
Well, yeah, that's because I had hope that he was going to do what he said he was going to do. You understand? Like, I don't like— dude, there's just two. And then we have a whole nother problem. And you know what the real problem is here? The real problem is, is that we allow people to have a say in the direction of this country that don't contribute to it at all. If you don't have a job, you shouldn't have a vote. If you don't file a tax return, you shouldn't have a vote. We have too many people that don't work that are voting in our elections, and they're always going to vote in their own best interests. They're always going to vote to take away from that for someone else to give to themselves. That's the nature of human beings. Okay. So if we really want to fix the fucking country and get back to a representative republic, we have to eliminate people from being able to vote that don't contribute to the system. Like if they're not paying in on the tax dollars, then why the fuck should you have a vote?
Yeah. Why should you have a say on where that shit goes?
That's right.
Yeah. Right.
And it really doesn't matter how old you are. It doesn't matter if you're you know, 18, or if you're 16 or whatever, if you're paying in, you should have a say. If you're not paying in, you shouldn't have a say. And part of the strategy is that we're going to import all these people, let them vote, and they're going to vote your shit away from you to give to them. And that's not going to ever work. It's not going to ever work. That's going to lead to an internal civil conflict of violence because, dude, the people who are getting their shit taken away are not gonna fucking allow it to be taken away.
No, no, not without a fight. Now I've got a fight, man. Yeah, man. Uh, yeah, like I said, kudos to, uh, Jordan Salinas, bro. Good work on that, guys. Jump in the conversation, let us know what you guys think down in the comments. That being said, let's keep cruising. We got headline number 2. Um, gotta go to New York just real quick. Um, you know, speaking of, uh Communist, um, Zorhan Momdani. He's, uh, he's getting into some heat. Uh, Zorhan Momdani won't let you buy his food without government ID. So did you see this shit?
No.
So, so, you know, they've been trying to push these, uh, government-run grocery stores, right, in New York City. Um, and so they're open, they're about to start rolling them out, but in order to shop there, you have to have a government ID. And it's just a mass, you know, hypocrisy.
But you don't need one to vote.
But not to vote. No, not to vote.
That's racist.
It's racist to— but you want to buy food to feed your family.
But that's not racist.
That's not racist.
Gotta make sure. So these people, yeah, have the mental capacity and the technical ability to get an ID, a government ID, to buy food, but they don't know how register to vote or use a computer so they can get a voter ID.
That's right, that's right. Let's see what he said. How are you going to keep people from taking advantage of that, uh, you know, that deal basically? And is there going to be a limit on the number of items that someone can take that are discounted at that level from that essential basket?
So our RFP makes very clear that this is a program for New Yorkers to be able to put food on the table not a program for people to be able to make a quick buck through reselling. I'm going to pass it over to our EDC head, Jean Pak, to add some additional details. Yeah, that means you don't know. Yes.
If you look at our RFP for the operator, we are looking to make sure that we target New Yorkers, whether it be a sort of a library card exit, or— and also we manage who's buying, and that is focused on everyday New Yorkers. So we are mindful of that. And so we're going to make sure that we have all the place, all the things in place to make ensure that that does not happen.
So you don't have an answer to the question because when you have an actual answer to the question, it doesn't— you don't answer it with esk. It's like a library-esque type of thing. Like, these people live in a delusional state of reality. This is going to fail miserably, and I can't wait to watch it. It's not even sustainable, dude, bro, because they can't answer the question. How do you keep people from going in the store and taking shit and then go putting it on fucking Facebook Marketplace and selling it?
Mm-hmm.
How do you keep people from going in the store, taking shit, and then going on the corner and reselling it? You won't arrest people for violent crime. You're going to arrest people for selling fucking powdered milk.
That's right.
Okay. So like, these people don't know what the fuck they're doing. And again, this is just pandering to people that don't understand the way things actually work, okay? Groceries and food and canned goods and all the things that you buy in the store, those come from somewhere, okay? And they don't come from the government. They come from private citizens who own businesses, aka capitalism, that produce goods and services to be sold to serve a need in exchange for some sort of money. Okay, when you pull that incentive out of this concept of, you know, there is a profit to be made, what incentive do the manufacturers have to even do business with these stores? Okay, and on top of that, we're talking about operating an actual business efficiently. Grocery business especially has to be operated massively efficient because of the nature of food expiring.
Yep, shelf life.
Okay.
Yeah.
So when you look at the DMV or the courthouse or anything in your city where you've ever dealt with the government, would you say that it runs efficiently? The answer would be no for every single one of you. In fact, you would say, I hate going there so much because of how inefficient it runs. Now, now take that system and apply it to this. Do you think that they're going to be able to maintain for very little incentive goods and services that are consumable and have expiration for very long? It's not going to happen, dude, and it's never happened. This is why you see breadlines in, uh, Soviet Russia, okay? When this all starts as a fucking good idea, free food, free food. But there has to be incentive along the way for that food to be produced. Otherwise people don't fucking produce it.
That's right.
Okay. And then you get a system where the government starts to farm and the government start and they run it all inefficiently. The food disappears and people fucking starve. And every communist country that's ever existed in the history of Earth knows this. You ask anybody that came from a communist country when it got really bad. And when the communism got overthrown is when people got hungry. And the reason they got hungry was because the government couldn't control the food supply. And this is the beginning of that. And our best hope here is, you know, that it fails so miserably that it becomes an example of what not to do. But they're not going to put it out there if it fails. They're not going to show everybody if it fails. And like I said, when Mondami got elected, they're probably going to government subsidize the programs to make them look successful. So that they can win this across the country.
Yeah. And they're going to have to force the suppliers to fucking get on board too, bro, because I know, like, imagine being an actual grocery store up in New York City having to compete with your state-run grocery store who, you know, is giving shit.
Listen, fucking free.
Fucking.
They're not even— they're not even accounting for shoplifting and shrinkage and fucking the, the takeovers where people run in and just take shit. Like, this is going to be a shit show. It's going to be a shit show. And, you know, I was, I was talking to one of my buddies from New York who happens to be leaving. He's a, he's a very successful guy. And I didn't know this, but amongst native New Yorkers, Mondame like, like only got like 10% of the vote. And the people who voted for him were not native New Yorkers. They were imports and immigrants and all kinds of fucking shit. And like, it's sad, dude. It's sad.
Yeah.
You know, and you get people to defend it, right? Like, because they want free shit, right?
Who doesn't?
It's like when Obama came out with the free cell phone. The reason Obama got elected is because he promised free cell phones to everybody.
Shit phones, by the way, too. Well, yeah, of course, you know.
And as if the I mean, let's be real, dude. Do we really have a problem with our welfare system and food anyway? I think the problem isn't that fucking people can't eat and can't get food. I mean, look at the most of the people that are on it. They're fat. They're fucking obese. You know, we covered this on the show. They're taking EBT and, and, you know, all of these benefits and they're going in and living better than the taxpaying citizen who's paying for that.
That's right.
Okay. So this isn't even really a problem that has to be solved. The problem is how do we get people to not take advantage of the system? And what this is, this is optics. This is, hey, look what we did. Look how much better we can do it. Look, it's— this is fair capitalism. It's not— this isn't fucking— this will ruin the country, dude. And, and I don't know. I don't know if the people in this country as a whole are smart enough to recognize it. Yeah, I don't know that, because how the fuck does this guy get elected in the first place? You know what I mean? He gets elected off of a group and age demographic that grew up from, you know, being a little kid all the way up being taught that capitalism was bad. You know, it's down the man. Yeah, exactly, dude. And we have a big problem with it right now.
Yeah. Well, I mean, and the other stress test that, you know, they're not even accounting for is, you know, the influx of these migrants who don't have those IDs. Like, how is that going to work? Because there's a shit ton of them in New York City. Yeah. And they're not— they're not even addressing that now on the migrant situation because there's something interesting. And we covered this last CTI.
If this is too, too aggressive of a move for Mondame to make, it's a— it's a mistake. Okay. When you put yourself in his position, and his position is very clearly, my job is to make communism palatable for the rest of the country.
That's right.
This is a mistake, okay, on his part, because when you talk to people who like Mondami, they will say things like, well, they filled all the potholes, okay? All he had to do was come in and clean up the trash and fill the potholes and shut the fuck up. Just shut up.
Okay.
And then people will say, God, dude, communism looks great. Look how good our city gets. And then it will spread. Okay. But that— this, this is a— this is a bad chess move on their behalf.
Yeah. Because this is aggressive. It's too, too quick.
Yes. It's not going to work because it's never worked.
Yeah.
It's never worked. All right. And, you know, I don't know.
Yeah. Yeah. Now, on the migrant thing, this is something we covered last, last show. There's been some developments. So I wanted to kind of touch on this, too. Um, but you know, we covered the, the whole, uh, Sueta, uh, invasion. Yeah, that happened. It's kind of weird. And there's some things that have come out, uh, since then, since we've covered that last Thursday, um, about that situation. Um, so Morocco comes out and they're blaming Sueta border surge on an exploitation of digital platforms, um, and misleading information, um, is what they're blaming it on. Um, because these people are coming via Morocco. Um, and they're saying that the last week's massive surge of migrants into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta on various factors including malicious exploitation of digital platforms, whatever the fuck that means, um, and the spread of misleading information. Most of the migrants were sent back home by Spanish officials after the sudden and deadly border rush. Moroccan official said late Sunday that the surge of thousands of migrants last week into Sueta, a small Spanish city on Morocco's Mediterranean coast, was not the result of circumstantial or spontaneous factors. Now that I do believe, and that I do agree with, because how do you get, uh, an estimated almost 50,000 people, right, to, to do something like that, right?
Like they're the amount of planning, the amount of logistics that has to go into doing something like that. Like, how does that work, right? Well, we got to go to our boy Thomas Massie because he just released some stuff that I thought was pretty incredible. Um, and he released, uh, he just tweeted this out. He said, 2 weeks before migrants from Morocco invaded Sueda, the GOP passed a bill with $40 million for Morocco and a committee report advising The Spanish administered cities of Ceuta and Melilla are located in Moroccan territory and remain the subject of Morocco's long-standing claim, right? Um, and that's literally in the bill passage right now. A lot of people, this probably will fly over their head, um, but this is not a new thing, all right? This is not new, not, not for America at least, because, uh, even back going back December 2020 Um, I believe President Trump, uh, doubled down on the fact that, uh, Ceuta and Melilla are Moroccan territory and they belong to Morocco, and basically Spain should kind of just give it up. Um, but what exactly is he saying here? And somebody kind of said the quiet part out loud.
Uh, translation: CIA now actively subverting Moroccan regime government with congressional approval. To which Thomas Massey said, 'Bullseye,' right? And so that $40 million got put in 2 weeks ago, and then you have this, uh, orchestrated invasion of almost 50,000 people to stress test this. Again, logistically, how does that work? How do they get there? How much of that $40 million of taxpayer dollars, by the way, you think, uh, helped that situation? I'd say a shit ton of it. Yeah, for sure. And it's not even just the Americas involved because there's been another angle that has been coming out that this is also something that Israel has been pushing for heavily. Yeah. Here is a video of Bibi Netanyahu himself pretty pissed off with Spain and then even his son tweeting some things out. Let's check this out.
Pretty open threat.
And that was pretty recent. And then the Sun posting this.
Basically, Netanyahu, for those of you listening, was just saying, we don't like Spain, fuck Spain, and they're going to have repercussions because they don't accommodate Israel's interests.
That's right. That's right.
And that was just a few weeks before this happened.
Correct. But even Bibi's son tweeted this out back in 2019 saying, dear Arabs and Muslims, want a free occupied Arab Islamic lands. Here's a good start: Spain's North African possessions, right? And so the, the, the main conspiracy here, right, is what people, what people are believing, because it's how it's always typically worked, is that, you know, Israel came up with this plan. Hey, this would be good. America, we fucking fund it and, and give the fucking dollars for it to actually happen. And they're stress testing that now. That is the conspiracy narrative.
That conspiracy. That's what the fuck they did.
It's what it is. That's what it is. What are you, what are your thoughts?
What are you talking about? One of my thoughts, my thoughts are everybody's tired of fucking Netanyahu playing world fucking dictator and pushing these migrants into Western countries while they don't allow any to go in their country. Okay. Like it's all bullshit. It's all bullshit. And the reason that it's tolerated is because people are afraid of being called racist. Okay, they're afraid of being called racist. They will give up their own freedoms, their own lives, their own country, their own culture, because they won't fucking acknowledge that these other people who happen to be a different skin pigment than them do not fucking belong here because they're afraid to be called racist. That is what's happening. That is why Europe is being infiltrated. That is why America is being infiltrated. It's because the citizens of our country have been brainwashed into not standing up for their own people. That is what the fuck is going on. And if you want it to stop, you gotta quit being afraid to be called names and start standing up for what the fuck it actually is. Call it for what it is and stand on that line no matter who the fuck says what.
That's what needs to be happening. Yeah. Okay. And we're at a point now where we're going to reach critical mass where like, dude, it's going to be impossible. Impossible to get rid of these people. Okay, Trump goes out and, you know, I don't know if that was pretend or what, you know, we're going to deport everybody. And 80% of the population of America, both Democrat and Republican across the board, issued a mandate to President Trump to remove these people, which he has failed at doing. He has failed at doing. Okay, why has he failed? Well, you can say, well, you know, those two protesters got killed up in Minnesota and that cooled it off. So because two fucking idiots who shouldn't have been involved in the situation ended up getting caught in the middle of it and getting killed, we're going to give up our entire country and culture. That doesn't make any fucking sense.
That doesn't make any sense.
Okay. And I know it doesn't make sense to Trump. That doesn't make sense to Trump either. So did he ever actually intend on getting rid of these people? Right. Then you got JD Vance on, on saying, well, you know, most of them got to go. No, we voted for all of them to go. Okay. And we see them softening up and softening up and softening up. And dude, by them softening up, they're basically conceding our country, our culture, our population, your wives and daughters and children to these third world savages coming here and doing whatever the fuck they want. Okay, so these citizens have to make a stand on this. They have to. They have to. You have to be willing to stand up and resist this shit however which way possible, by any means necessary, bro.
And then the craziest thing too, like, and You know, even just on the Spain situation, for example, right? Just again, further allude to how orchestrated this—
and dude, it's not a racist thing, okay? Like, how these people are going directly into Black communities and Black— and then they'll tell you it's racist, but actually a big portion of the resistance, the people who are actually resisting, are Black Americans, right?
That's right.
And then you still have the, the white liberal women. Oh my God, trying to like fucking advocate for this. Then fucking go move there. Like, if you're a white liberal woman and you're advocating for third world savages, people that have no culture that is compatible with ours, who rape and steal and fucking fuck up our entire country, you should be deported with them.
Yeah, go with them. Bye.
At the very least, we should be able to look at those people and say, shut the fuck up. Like, dude, when— like, for real, dude, these people have no— they're not affected by this. They feel good when they go to brunch and they have their little champagne and they say, well, I don't really see the problem with it. Look how good we have it. Not everybody has it like you have it. They're out of touch people who are sympathizing with these people. It's like that, that woman in Italy we covered a couple of weeks ago. There's a dude from a third world country in Italy who is jerking off on the beach in front of people, in front of children. And these Italian dudes beat his ass. Not bad enough, in my opinion. No, not even close to as bad enough. And then you have a woman who is Italian run up and like get to his defense and start rubbing his back. And what the fuck are you doing?
Right.
Stay the fuck out of it. Your daughter and your fucking granddaughters and your kids are going to have to deal with this because of your suicidal empathy and weakness towards this one issue. You won't be— what are you going to say? Like, like, and then, dude, also anybody that advocates for this, you should be forced to host these people. Like, if you openly advocate for third world migration into this country, You should be forced. Absolutely. Like, if you make a tweet, if you like a post, if you make a post, if you say it in public, you should be forced to take in one of these families. And if that were the case, they'd all shut the fuck up because none of them will fucking do it. Anyway, you were saying?
No, yeah, I mean, there was that one woman that I think it was up in Michigan. She's like, Oh, you know, I said she— so she ended up hiring him, like, uh, hiring one of the migrants as like a, uh, a cook or her personal chef.
He killed her.
Yeah, and fucking killed him. Yeah, that's right, he killed her. That's right. You know, bro, this will be the downfall.
Oh dude, this is no different than an invasion that you watch movies about, bro. Like, this is no different than when you watch Troy and you see the fucking boats coming in from, you know, other, like, invade, like, dude, this is a fucking invasion. This is an invasion and it's happening in every Western country on the planet. The question you should be asking is why and who is advocating for it and who is putting the money towards it. And by the way, I'll save you the fucking search. It's going to be the Israeli cabal. Of fucking Netanyahus and Soroses and all these special interest groups, and they're doing so to ruin all of the fucking Western countries so that they can rule over them. That's it. That is what's happening. Oh, you, you, you guys, you guys care about Muslims now? You guys care about, uh, you know, all these Arabs and Muslim-occupied territories, but then you'll go and wipe out Iraq and all the countries between you and Iran and make shit fucking impossible to like. Yeah, dude, it's—
stop it, bro.
Listen, man, the good news is, is the world's waking up to it. But I mean, I'm fucking tired of seeing it. And what I'm more tired of is seeing people who are totally ignorant talk like it's a good thing.
Mm-hmm.
Now I will say this. I have, I do have quite a few liberal-minded friends. Okay. Believe it or not, I can be friends with people who don't share the exact same beliefs as me.
They're just a little retarded.
Yeah, that's right. And they say the same about me. So it's just a bunch of retarded people arguing. But even those people are like, yeah, this is fucking bad. Yeah, this is not good. Yeah, I see this and I don't like it. You see what I'm saying?
There's nothing good that can come from this, bro. No. Nothing. Nothing, man. Guys jumping on this conversation, let us know down in the comments what you guys think. It's time for our third and final headline. Headline number 3, Andy. I thought I would take you back a little bit.
Oh yeah?
Yeah, a little hop in the time machine for you. You might be excited about this one. Headline number 3 reads, MySpace seeking a revival. As its owners plan comeback effort for once popular social media platform. MySpace. I didn't have a— you had a MySpace, right?
Yeah, man.
Everybody did.
It was my space.
It's coming back. It's coming back. Now let's dive into it.
I mean, there's a market for it, dude.
Well, I mean, what was so— like, again, like, I did not have one. So what, what was so unique about it?
Well, first of all, it wasn't filled with ads.
Okay.
Okay. It wasn't everything was a fucking ad. Okay? It was a page. You had a page and it was a profile home page, and then you were connected to other people and they were connected to you, and you would post the things that you like on your page and people would see it and interact with it. And then if you wanted to go to their page, you could go to their page to see their shit. But it wasn't filled with ads. It wasn't filled with bullshit. It wasn't— there was no bots and all this other shit. And, uh, you know, there's a market for that. There's a market for that. There's a market for creating a social media platform around real people that share an interest. By the way, I've created one. Uh, if you go to operatorstandard.com and you go to the community, um, there are no bots. There are all these people that want to win and be better and share beliefs about success. And, um, you know, there's— that's not the main product, but that's, that's an accessory to it. But The point is people are spending a lot of time in the community because there is no ads and they are real people and there is no bots and they're actually having real conversations.
And that's what people crave.
Yeah.
Okay. Social media has become this fake shit. Like, we all know what it's become.
Yeah. Yeah.
You know, we don't even know what's real and fake anymore. Like, we don't even know what— like, we watch videos on the internet and half of them are AI. We don't even know.
It's more than half of them now.
Yeah, you don't even know, like, if people— like, we see political videos, we don't even know if they're AI or what. We don't know. We don't know what the fuck's going on. And that's— that's by— it's intentional. So anyway, what are they doing?
Yeah, so MySpace could soon make a comeback after nearly 2 decades on the decline as its owners seek a fresh start to compete with, uh, the current social media giants. The owners of the once popular social media platform, brothers Tim and Chris Vanderhook, announced plans to relaunch MySpace with the new vision. Uh, the brothers said that they want to create a platform that feels different from current social media platforms, which many users complain are too focused on algorithms and are designed to encourage endless scrolling. Uh, the Vanderhoeks said in a new documentary, MySpace, that they, quote, built an entirely new MySpace but did not work out. Uh, we really tried to modernize it, but it was a different company at that point. It wasn't the same MySpace, Tim explained in the documentary. Chris added, by that time Uh, they had been through 4 other sets of management and CEOs. Uh, we were going to be the 5th ones, and I think that there were a lot of people who were really just done. Uh, the 2 now plan to relaunch the platform at some point, but the target date has not been set. And if that one doesn't work, we'll do it again, Tim said.
Um, Tom Anderson, uh, MySpace co-founder and everyone's automatic first friend sold the company in 2005 and is not expected to be involved with the Vanderhooks' upcoming initiative. Um, and apparently he still has his MySpace profile still up on there, which I thought that was kind of cool. Uh, but we didn't have this, dude. I had, I had Bebo. You know, you familiar with Bebo?
No.
So I had Bebo. It was, it was a similar thing. Um, uh, I'm assuming, uh, but I actually went and, and went to Bebo and I looked at this and I thought you would enjoy Uh, this— so this is a message from Michael, a letter from Michael, uh, that Bebo was coming to an end, right? And very, very much of the same things that you were just describing, uh, it's kind of what he— what he— what he went into here, um, saying, you know, how he launched it 21 years ago. It was a space with skins and whiteboards and quizzes, and, um, you had a top 16, uh, on your home page. Um, they tried to bring Bebo back um, and relaunch it as it was, right? And it was okay, but didn't really work out, right? Um, so he's focused on bringing in a new one. Uh, he says, so we're not ending the idea. The idea is the only thing we've ever really worked on. Its new home is called Bluebill. Messaging and social fused into one. Your group chats, your photos, your people in the same room. No feed of strangers, nothing to perform for.
It's smaller and warmer. And it's the thing I've been trying to build up, uh, build since 2005. Um, and so, you know, the, the whole, the space, I guess, of social is just completely changing and people really are starting to get over it. Um, what, what the human need, I guess, to connect has always been like, we want to connect with people, but you've mentioned before how it's going to be moving back to in-person and real life connections, right? How, how quickly can we see this happening? How— like, how—
we're already seeing it.
Yeah.
You know, more people are deleting Instagram than have ever deleted it before. It's one of the highest, most deleted apps. It's, you know, the one of the most popular reels that we see online on a consistent basis are these reels of like, it's— it'll say like, you wake up at Christmas time in 1997.
Yeah, right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Are you Friday night in 1997? And these are the reels that are getting hundreds of millions of views. And the reason those reels are getting hundreds of millions of views and they're getting them from people who weren't even born then, right, is because people are realizing what we've lost in the pursuit of this digital connectivity that has been pressed on us so hard. So the thing that's going to be difficult to overcome, because people are craving the in-person, and we're seeing companies start to move towards community as well. All right, we've always been a community-first company, but we're seeing other companies try to follow that, which from an entrepreneurial standpoint is really good for people who operated pre-internet because those fundamental skill sets that you needed before social media now are going to be probably more important than any other skill set to have. And so a lot of people who built their brands between, uh, you know, let's say 2014 and, you know, let's say now They've only really known how to operate in the digital space.
Yeah.
So a lot of companies are going to struggle to make that transition back to community, and the companies that do it effectively are going to really dominate. Um, that doesn't mean social media won't be relevant. That doesn't mean that it's not important. That doesn't mean that you won't drive business off of it. But if you don't have the community aspect, you're going to have a hard time with staying power because Now everything's switching, right? Like, like right now, you know, TikTok Shop is a huge thing, right? But what happens when TikTok Shop changes its deal or it changes or something else? Like, a lot of these companies are becoming one-trick ponies, right? They know how to do one thing and they do that thing very well. And then they mistake themselves in thinking they're really good operators. Okay. But I've been in business long enough to know that things always change. And what's working for, you know, now or 10 years ago, that changed to something else and that changed something else. And one of the most valuable, probably the most valuable skill set as an operator right now in business is the ability to adapt quickly.
Um, and a lot of people are planted into this digital thing and they're going to have a hard time with the other parts of it, but To answer your question, how fast do I think it's going to happen? I think it's already happening, dude. I don't think we're going to see like this— there's not going to be an announcement. So, hey, by the way, everything's over here.
Yeah, that's right.
That's not what's going to happen. You know, people are going to be on less. People are going to scroll less. I mean, we're seeing the introduction of, you know, all kinds of devices that limit people's social media consumption because they do realize that it's addictive. The, the, the need for community and contribution to a community is a— those are human needs. Those aren't things that can be replaced. And when we see all of these videos going viral, mega viral, about the way things used to be, that's a really strong indicator of what people are actually craving. And where they find that is where they're going to go, whether that be in their restaurant, whether that be in their community, whether that be the companies they shop with, wherever they find that sense of community and belonging is where it's going to migrate to. Because, dude, quite honestly, you know, while I do enjoy Instagram and TikTok because I can see funny videos and, you know, I can, I can very easily look at things I want to look at. Like, if I want to look at certain cars, I can go in the search bar and fucking type in Bugatti and fucking see every post with the Bugatti on it.
Right? It's, it's, it's kind of evolved into a search engine of interests instead of a community connectivity.
Yeah.
And the original idea of, of social media was community connectivity. That's why it worked. And then Meta got so big and Instagram got so big that it evolved the whole social media game and nobody else was able to pick up that torch and continue to keep that one part that really got everybody invested in it. So it's going to be interesting to see how it plays out because Meta is so big and they're so powerful and they have so much money. Um, even if someone were to build an amazing community, you know, app, it's likely that Meta is going to come in and try to overpay for it. And when you have someone who comes from nothing and has built something that's worth $10, $20, $30 billion, they're probably going to sell it. So that's a problem that, you know, we face. You know, when they've gotten so big and so powerful that they can buy all the competitors up, now we run into a true monopoly situation where even if something does get traction, it's going to be hard to really, um, sustain it. Because I mean, could you blame someone for selling something that they started off with zero and they get offered billions of dollars?
I don't think any of us could blame somebody for that. Um, so it's going to be interesting, dude, but I know this. I know that regardless of how big companies get, the free market always dictates success. And for Meta to continue to be dominant, they are going to have to pivot away from the bot networks, from the AI. They are going to have to work to restore legitimacy to their platform in a way that people can trust. Because once you lose the trust and you don't know what's real or what's not, there's no point in doing it. Look how many people rarely post anymore that 2 years ago, 3 years ago, 5 years ago were posting all the time. Okay. The reason they don't is because they realize like how fake and gay it's really become. Right. So it still has its uses. That's not what I'm saying. You still should build a personal brand. Absolutely. But we, We have to understand where this is going, not just where it is today. And, you know, there's going to be companies that come along and they create a platform where people enjoy how it operates because it connects people.
But the, the, the real moat that has to be overcome there is that once that gets traction, is it just going to get gobbled up by the big dog, the big dogs? You know, so I don't know, dude. Like, if I was Zuck, man, and he's a smart fucking dude, bro, like, he's not like people think. People think that. I mean, they have all kinds of opinions of the guy. The guy is very fucking smart. But if I were Zuck, I would be looking really hard at how to maintain or rebuild the trust in the apps, the social apps, because with the emergence of AI and then the understanding that most of the traffic on the internet has become bot-driven, you— the trust is diluted and it's not— it's not going to— people aren't going to continue to use it. And we won't know that's happening because they just have bot profiles that post, right? So it's like, it's not like you're going to see the whole thing drop off.
Yeah, right.
So it's just, I don't know, man. It's, it's going to be interesting. I don't know exactly what's going to happen, but I know this. I know that more people are moving to rural America than have moved to rural America in years. And it's not because they hate the city. It's not because there's crime in the city. There's always been crime in the city. It's because they have a yearning and a longing for a regular life. And they assume that they're going to get that more in rural America, which maybe they do, maybe they don't. Because if you continue to spend all your time on the internet, nothing changes.
Right?
Right. So, you know, there's going to be— there's a lot of people who have moved out to rural places and they figured out like, oh, this is actually pretty fucking hard work to do. But like, you know, some do it for like the trend of it.
Right.
But, but what I'm saying is, is like the Those are indicators of where culture is, right? You know, where are people moving? They're moving to Tennessee. Why are they moving to Tennessee?
It feels like normal, right?
It's because when they look at Tennessee on the internet, it looks like normal America. Okay. And people are craving that right now. And the companies that understand that and capitalize on it are going to win. And it doesn't matter what business you're in. It doesn't matter if you could capitalize on where the culture is going. And what people crave, you're going to do well. If you ignore it, you're not going to do well. And so it's an interesting time. I think there's lots of opportunity to be creative, and I don't see that trend reversing itself. Like, I don't like going back to the art that we had in the beginning of the show. Like, what would it take for that trend of wanting to go back in time to a better time? What would it take for that to reverse to where people want to move forward in the future? Like the— like there's never been a time in history where people have craved to go backwards.
Yeah.
More than now.
Yeah.
And what's that tell you about the direction we're going in the future? It tells you that we're not going the direction that what people actually want. We're being forced into that by people who have power and means.
It's not genuine.
No, it's not what we want. People don't want it. And, you know, it sucks, dude, um, because this country that, that we see today is not the country— it's not what I grew up in. And, uh, I feel really bad for people who never got to experience life before all this technology and all this accessibility, like the internet, social media, you know, even cell phones, like you're supposed to have a life, dude. And because the technology is the way it is and because greed drives the, the assimilation of that technology, we now live in an era where people really have a hard time living a life that's, that's any which way normal. And then we're like confused as to why people are depressed or why they don't feel good or why they have anxiety all the time or why they can't sleep. Yeah, bro, it's because you're not operating like your parents and their parents. Like when they went home from work, dude, they went fucking home.
Mm-hmm.
You know what I'm saying? Like, and then you have like, like on, on Q&A, we always answer this question probably once a show. Someone asked this question, you know, how do I find balance? Well, unfortunately, in today's era, it's very hard to have balance, and the only way to have it is to execute effectively and then basically shut everything down and pick it up the next day on your own, right?
Um, that's hard to do.
It is hard to do, especially when you're competitive.
That's right.
But that's also why it takes discipline to be effective at the time when you decide to work and decide what the win is. And once the win is accomplished, you can move on to the next day. And, you know, it's, it's an interesting time, dude. And the spirit of, of cultural revolution is definitely in the air, which I think is good. You know, I think people are finding their way back to like reality. But unfortunately, I think there's going to have to be drastic action for that reality to ever take place. And I don't think we're there yet because people aren't hurting enough yet. And, you know, I know there's people listening. They're like, what do you mean I'm hurting? I'm not talking about that kind of hurt, bro. I'm talking about not being able to find your fucking food. And we're a long ways off from that. I mean, the easiest time to fight it would be now. But unfortunately, you know, people seem to not take interest in things until like it's too late.
Necessity.
Yeah. And, uh, I don't know. I don't know what's going to happen, dude. I know that the best thing that anybody could do, the best thing that anybody could do as an individual is to realize that their life matters and that their example and how they live their life sets the culture for how the rest of the culture lives their life. And when we're personally excellent individuals and we take care of our bodies, we take care of our minds, we put good things in, we consume good information, we work hard, we create success. We do not depend on the government for anything. We don't trust the government with anything. That creates a culture of, of resistance that is hard to manipulate and control. And that's why we say personal excellence is the ultimate rebellion, but it comes from the individual, right? Like, you have to at some point step into that and realize that you are the leader. Like, you are the one you've been waiting for. You are the person that you've been waiting to come along. You just haven't become that because it hasn't occurred to you. You faced, you know, dozens of years of propaganda to tell you that your voice doesn't matter, you don't matter, your life doesn't matter, when in reality they wouldn't be spending trillions of dollars of propaganda to convince you of that if that were the truth.
That should indicate to you what the truth actually is and what they're actually afraid of. They're actually afraid of the, the people, the able-bodied citizens of this country figuring out that they have the power, which we do have.
Always had it.
Yeah, but we can't be fat and consume their bullshit. We can't be sick and consume their medicine. We can't be lazy and consume their, their doomscrolling and data. We have to become the antithesis of what they're trying to create and stop feeding their machine. That's what, that's what has to happen. Because when we stop feeding the machine, their machine doesn't work. So, you know, and so many people are around like looking around for like, how do I fix this when they really should be looking in the mirror, right? Like, how are you? Are you, are you contributing to their machine? Are you taking away? Are you fit or are you fat? Are you educating yourself or are you believing everything they say? Are you healthy? Are you consuming all their shit? Are you actually spending time with your family or are you sitting down consuming fucking bullshit all day? Like, where, where do you fit on the scale as an individual? And you need to assess that and evaluate that and work to become the antithesis of what they're trying to create, which is a society of dependent, weak, unhealthy, lazy pussies that feed all their interests and what they're trying to do.
Just takes what we get.
Yeah, dude. And that's that. We're in control of that.
Yeah, it's real, man. So yeah, guys, let us know what you guys think down in the comments. That being said, let's get to our final segment of the show. As always, we have Thumbs Up or Dumb as Fuck. This is where we bring something in, we talk about it, we vote on it, we give it one of these two options. Um, Andy, are you— you like pie?
Yeah, pie's all right.
Nice little pie, you know.
What kind of pie you like?
Uh, I mean, you know, pie.
Yeah, but what's your favorite kind?
To be real with you, yeah, like a strawberry rhubarb pie. Oh really, bro?
Fuck, I don't think I ever had that one.
Gas.
Absolutely. You like pie? Z, what kind? What's your favorite? All kinds.
Yeah, apple pie, I would say.
Apple pie is good.
Classic apple. You like the— like, I like the crumb apple, you know.
I like lemon meringue pie.
Yo, you're one of those.
Yeah, what do you mean? What am I? That shit's good.
Okay. No, it's fine.
That's some good shit.
Okay, that's cool.
Yeah.
All right.
Well, this, I have, I have like cheesecakes.
I love cheesecakes.
Cheesecakes are good too.
I like cheese. Yeah.
Anyway, go on.
What? I'm not going to start. What?
It's the same. Yeah.
I like cheese less now. There you go. That better?
I don't think you like it less. You probably just eat it less.
Yeah, that's right. That's right. That's right. Well, I got an 81-year-old lesbian. She likes pie. She— 81-year-old lesbian wins best technique at a pie-eating contest in California. Are you—
she eats a lot of pie.
Are you ready for this? Yeah.
Yeah, she took her dentures out and everything. Everything. She's gumming that bitch up. Oh God. Oh my God. You know what she looks like, bro? Oh, you know, you know, she looks like Aunt Edna from the original movie Vacation. Pull that shit up on the internet. Let's see a side by side. Edna. Edna.
Oh yeah, that's right.
Oh shit, I don't forget a fucking face, motherfucker. Oh no, no, Edna. This is great. Edna from fucking Aunt Edna. There she is right there. There she is right there. Yeah, right there. There she is. She's wearing the same fucking outfit.
That's her.
Yeah, look at it right there. That's for sure her. That's the same. She must be on that adrenochrome. That's one of them adrenochrome pies, bro. See that? I don't forget a face. That might still be— that's really her.
That probably is her.
Yeah.
Fuck. She's— she had a lot of pies in her life.
Oh, she's had a lot of practice.
A lot of practice.
Yeah.
That's right. Babs Deitch. Wowed an enthusiastic crowd with her impressive pie-eating skills on November 23rd. Videos posted to her Instagram account show— she has an Instagram account— uh, shows, uh, show her very spectacularly devouring a cream-covered pie. That's probably a first for her. I'm using only her face. She says, I took my time savoring every morsel of crust hidden beneath those sweet hills and valleys. How the fuck she described it like that, dog? Uh, although she didn't take home the first place trophy, she clearly left an impression on the judges with her tongue action. But she did, um, best technique.
She didn't get first?
She didn't get first.
Oh, well then that's the script. They were discriminating because she's a lesbian.
That's what it is.
Yeah, that's— I'm surprised they didn't get arrested in California for that. I thought if you entered a contest in California and you were a lesbian, you automatically had to win.
Bro, she looks like she's about to fucking pass out.
Well, she's about to die. She's 81 years old, bro.
Yeah, she'll probably join the government after this.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's—
make her president.
That's fucking gross.
Why are you giving this?
Look at all the people that are cheering her on. Like, it's a bunch of fucking delinquents, bro. You know, these are the same people that clapped at the art at the beginning.
That's right. Same people. They were actually there before. Right.
The exact same people.
Same people. Yeah. 100%.
You don't appreciate art.
Yeah.
God, dude, our country is just a bunch of degenerates at this point.
Yeah, it's rough, man.
And I'm okay with being degenerates, but let's be the right kind.
Yeah. You know, what's the right kind?
I don't know. Let's drink beer and look at titties and shit.
Okay.
Fucking, you know what I'm saying? I'm like, yeah, I don't know, do wild-ass shit that you got to say, hey, hold my beer right before you do it. Like, you know what I'm saying? Listen to rock and roll music, fucking, you know, like, have fun.
Like, I don't know, cows.
Yeah, like, but God, dude, right?
It's—
I'm— you know what it is, man? I don't know what it is. I don't even know. It ain't good.
No, it's not good. I do want some pie though.
You want some what? Strawberry rhubarb, bro.
It's gas. I'm being real. They sell it at Dear Burke's. It's pretty good. It's pretty fucking good. Yeah.
Well guys, what's rhubarb? Rhubarb? Yeah. What is that?
It's like a— it looks like celery. Okay. But it's like, it has like a sweet taste to it. Yeah. It's like a Yeah, it sounds gross. Not root bar. Rhubarb. It's like, are you— oh, come on, Z.
Does it look gross, dude?
It's just leafy vegetables.
So you like vegetables in your pie, bro?
I'm telling you, it's— I'm telling you, bro, it's— it's fucking good.
No, that's gross, dude.
Bro, I'm telling you, it's fucking delicious.
That's gross. That's gross.
It's delicious. If I— if you had a slice of this, you'd be like, holy shit.
Pumpkin pie is pretty good.
I like pumpkin pie. Yeah, we like sweet potato pie where I'm from.
Where are you from? Yeah, you're from St. Louis, motherfucker.
Yeah, south side of St. Louis, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, root beer. I, I, I'll bring in some for you.
No, that's all right.
You would like it.
No, I won't.
Bro, Andy, you would like it. You'd be like, oh shit, man, this is the best shit ever. This is amazing. I'm telling you. Just wait till you had it.
What kind of pie do you guys like?
Baklava. Ain't shit regular over there, bro.
Ain't shit regular over there. What's regular pie? Like, what if we were gonna say what the regular pie is? It's gotta be apple pie.
Apple pie.
Apple pie's got to be— I mean, it's American, it's apple pie. That's why the saying is the same.
That's right.
Apple pie is pretty good, dude.
Yeah, yeah. But like, there's only like some that are like good though, dude.
A hot apple pie with like ice cream, fire. That's some good shit. Oh yeah, yeah. Kimswick, the Blue Owl.
What is that?
They got the mile-high apple pie. It's legendary.
Where is this at?
Kimswick.
Kimswick, Missouri?
Yeah.
I have to get the address.
Yeah, they don't, they don't, they don't let black people.
Oh, there's like a— good, that means it's gonna be nice and enjoyable.
I'm sure I'll enjoy my experience there. It's gonna be great.
It's my type of place.
Yeah, man. Guys, that's all I got, dude.
Yeah.
All right, guys. Well, uh, don't forget that, uh, you're supposed to carry weapons and learn how to use them. That's my public service announcement for the day.
That's a good one.
You know, Bob, Bob Barker always used to have his, his public servant after The Price Is Right. It was, don't forget to get your pet spayed and neutered. Don't forget to get a pistol and learn how to use it.
That's right. Yeah, that's right.
Amen. All right, guys, that's the show. Don't be a hoe.
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