Painkiller Already - PKN 495

Episode Date: February 14, 2024

pkn 495 how you guys doing pretty good pretty good doing all right taylor watched the super bowl did you kyle no i i forgot that it was on you were right wait you predicted chiefs right yes of course dude it's so funny that i love hockey so much and every single time kyle or woody has ever asked like what do you think about this game? I'm wrong. Not most of the time, not 90. I'm batting zero on predicting hockey games. And this whole entire season, we've talked about the NFL.

I've just blasé, been like, as long as you make the playoffs, it doesn't matter. We got Mahomes, baby. We got Mahomes. And that's my most accurate sports take ever, is something just shot in the dark. No knowledge. I am as bad at you at predicting sports, but it's trades. If I'm excited about a trade, I guarantee you

that it sucks. It does not work out. We just got somebody's lame horse. If like this year with the Sixers, I'm disappointed. We got one fat old guy and one nobody and a second round draft pick. I am bummed that we gave up on this year. That's a good sign. We might be okay. I am always wrong on these things. We'd be terrible GMs.

I'm the worst. I'm never for the, I'm never for the, I'm never for trading for seven time all-star max gulie or whoever the fuck it may be i'm like okay seven times yeah so 10 years into his career we want to give him 80 million how about when you find me eight guys who are young and up and coming and really want to get after and give them each 10 million way more than they should get so they'll stay for two extra years and we'll see how that goes because max is done in two more fucking years at best and in my experience if it's the braves he comes over and he's like oh those were the good years back in the at the in oakland hey here in atlanta i'm just really here to collect a check i'm not gonna be that guy anymore

yeah i i never like when they trade for the the middle age oh we lost him but i agree completely we did it this year in basketball we had a fat old guy named james harden and we traded him and the next team promptly lost six games in a row as they stunk it up oh hey kyle i see you now um and since then they've been like the best team in basketball with our former player and i'm like god damn it i was so excited about this trade once again the worst gm in basketball with our former player and I'm like god damn it I was so excited about this trade once again the worst GM in basketball do you read the scouting report ever never

I like that I like hearing about how good the guy might be I'm the opposite I do not care about who the Blues draft until he is in the NHL because so often it's like oh this guy Scott Perunovic. Real guy.

It's like. Oh he's going to be our new defenseman. And all these fucking retards. On like hockey forums. Will be like. Don't worry. Two years from now. We got Perunovic on the blue line.

And it's like. Without fail. Two years from then. He gets traded for a fifth round draft pick. And he's playing three minutes a night in Detroit. Like it just doesn't ever pan out. So I just wait just wait that's fair i was gonna i get excited i'm sorry kyle i feel like i'm cutting you off but that's the part of sports that i like the games i mean they're fine i really prefer the sped up highlight versions my favorite are the trades the the dissing the the podcasts everything about this like

universe of basketball or hockey or f1 except the part where they go around the track that's boring i could maybe get into that opposite i just don't care i could like both parts though like i can like the drama but it's not the nba drama because they're not that's like a different culture they're not fighting yeah well it's just different cultures different group of people oh yeah i don't they seem to bitch and moan about little things a lot i saw jason kidd talking the other day um that guy's not white i thought he was white oh he's a little white i think he's got some white man i was like that's our guy nah nah we can claim some of them. Mahomes is our guy. No, this is an Obama situation.

They get the whole cake. No, we get Mahomes. Oh, we get Mahomes. Dude, you listen to Mahomes? Have you heard him? He sounds like Kermit the fucking frog up there. Dude, I guarantee I could get Patrick Mahomes to play Age of Empires 2 with me. 100%

I met him at a bar. there's no way they'd three p once i got him in aoe just ruin the whole fan base everybody hates me i'm like no but me and my buddy pat we're fucking learning the hindustanis together so a frustrating day today some yard yeah it was like really windy last night in Atlanta. Like really windy. Like everybody took note. Um, it,

it sounded bad. I never heard the tree fall though. I guess a very large tree fell across my fence, flattened it. And, uh, so I woke to the pounding on my door of a neighbor because my dogs were roaming the neighborhood.

Best time ever. And, uh, and so I ran out of, it was your tree. Yeah. Yeah. I fell out of my yard and crushed,

uh, crushed the, uh, the fence on into the neighbor's yard, nearly hit his like fancy man cave thing that he has talked about to me for far too much. Shed dude. It's a shed.

I like your propane heaters, but get over it. It doesn't sound that fancy. Damn, what billionaire neighborhood are you living in? My neighbor Elon. One with a bunch of dead trees in it. You can't miss it. That's a good line. And so I'm hoping that... I was out there today with some Spanish gentlemen.

We were talking about Trump and the coming Civil War. And I got them to spruce the place up a bit back there. But they were like, oh, I could cut it for $120. I'm like, no. I'm not sure. I'm going to pay you $120 to cut that tree twice. Because I was like, I just need to cut it here and cut it there. And then I could lift the rest.

I don't know. I can lift the rest. I'll lift the there. And then I could lift the rest. I don't know. I can lift the rest. I'll lift the rest. And I can tack the fence up. And he wanted $120 to start his chainsaw and make two cuts. So I told him to fuck off. There's a white fellow coming tomorrow.

He'll do it for just free, just out of the kindness of his heart. He just wants to use his chainsaw. No, we stick together. He heard my voice. I said, hello, sir. My name is Kyle. It's wonderful to meet you, Alan. Things changed immediately. Gosh darn crazy weather we're having, right?

It's getting crazy out there. You pay your taxes? Oh, four months early. I love it. Quarterly, as always. oh four months early i love quarterly as always i don't like when they uh when when people who speak any other language sort of talk behind my back even though it's clearly because some of them don't speak fucking english still don't like it but i'm but i'm watching them they're gonna try to hit me up on this straw later aren't they they're gonna try to charge me 80 dollars a up on this straw later, aren't they? They're going to try to charge me $80

a square bale for straw. I called the tractor supply. It was $80. They were innocent. Thank God you checked. That's for a bale of hay? It was $70, actually, plus labor.

That is too much. I'm surprised by that. It was straw. I'm told that straw is much better than pine straw this was wheat straw oh i don't have an opinion on that i just thought a bale of hay was like six dollars i mean we've only got an hour so i won't get into it because you know you feed cows with them and it is a thing but but like 70 was outrageous anyway i got that fixed how big is the tree like uh circumference um i could reach it, but it would be a big hug.

You know what I mean? Like I'd get my hands like this on the back and I'd be touching my chest fully. There'd be no leaning in. Like one of those awkward gay kisses. Dude, it's going to be so heavy to move those pieces. Oh, it's waterlogged too. What is so heavy? I picked one end of it.

The whole thing probably weighs a couple, I don't know, a thousand plus. It's so heavy. If there was another strong person here, we'd get it. But there's only one, and so it will lay there until somebody shows up with a chainsaw. You can just compost it. I don't give a fuck about that. It's the South. If you wait,

anything will rot. I want my fence back! You'll have it back when you're older. I need it now. i need it now i need it now he's cock by the time you're my age that tree will be mostly gone i don't i don't i saw that report on biden so i guess they were trying to see if his uh his documents were going to be a problem that he had in his house and some other places these classified documents or whatever and i don't know i had a hard time understanding exactly what the was he a prosecutor special prosecutor maybe the the guy who did the

report asian fellow i remember that yeah yeah he was like he said something are you gonna tell the story oh i'm sorry i thought you were asking for Oh, no, it was sort of how I speak. I was sort of making it interesting telling the story. I actually do know the answer to the question I asked. It was sort of. I don't answer to bring the listener along. But but he said. It almost seemed like he said President Biden is an old, well-meaning man with a poor memory and therefore he's we wouldn't prosecute someone like this

and it's like if he can't stand up to prosecution why is he a president like if he's not how many what else could he do that we go well-meaning kind old man suffers from poor memory let it slide yeah i don't know he's greeting someone. OK, well, I don't know what your home's like. I just have to believe you that it's not like Mar-a-Lago where I guess people visit occasionally. Maybe you never have visitors. And then they ask him about his memory and, you know, because the report makes it seem like he's not with it. My memory is great. My memory is fine. They said, well, Mr. President, you're always saying watch me. That's your catchphrase. We've been watching and the american people are concerned he's like that's your judgment and yes yes it is and he steps away he's gonna leave and someone throws a question at him about the middle east about gaza and he comes back to the podium big

mistake because immediately after defending his memory and telling everybody not to worry, he confuses the president of or the prime minister of Israel, Bibi Netanyahu, with, I suppose, the president of Mexico, Sisi something. And he's like, I've been on the phone with Sisi, president of Mexico, hours and hours. We're going to open the gates up. We're going to get the humanitarian aid into Gaza. Once again, Mr. President, I don't know what to tell you. and ate into the gossip. Once again, Mr. President, I don't know what to tell you.

And all these reporters who have been sitting there the whole time trying to, hey, are you still with it, boss? He's like, I don't know, am I with it? Let me misremember

the leader of our closest geographic neighbor and our closest political neighbor. Yeah. Okay. All right. Well, still really worried about you, Mr. Yeah. Okay. All right. Well, still really worried about you, Mr. President.

Really, really concerned now. It was such a shit show. It was such a... My genuine feelings about the matter are that I pity Joe Biden, that I feel sorry for him, and that I worry that he doesn't want to do this or he feels he has to do this to

run again. And people are like forcing him or something because he really seems to be in decline. Like maybe these are his last years and he should spend them with family. That was crazy to see him go up there and at the press conference about memory, forget and not forget like his keys as he walked away from the podium, not forget his little notes book, forget who the president of Mexico was from the podium. Not forget his little notes book. Forget who the president of Mexico was and the president who Israel was. Or at least transpose them.

There's a lot of facts wrong here. He was talking about French leaders. And he mixed up two French leaders whose names were Macron and Mitterrand. Different time. Different occurrence. Totally different occurrence. This is a different one? A hundred different occurrences. You are. Oh, this is a different one. Yeah. He's 100 different. OK, you are.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He's not with it at all. Like he's an old man who I mean, I've been saying and not just me, like lots of people say that like he's not doing anything. He's a figurehead. That dude's not making decisions.

He's not waking up in the morning and being like, what's on the Biden agenda? Like, no, he's just an old doddering old man who is being led around by his wife and administration. He doesn't make sense when he's talking a lot of the time. That was that was wild today. And then I think it was Sean Hannity who was as bad as bias as it gets. I'm sorry, what? You said that was wild today. I missed it.

Did that happen today? No, the Mexico thing was a few days ago. The press conference was like yesterday or the day before. I saw it in its completion today. I rewatched it again today from beginning to end. But I was going to say something else About Biden Oh they kept showing Biden from 2020 Versus now And there's like a

There's literally a difference between 2020 Biden and now There was just more pep in his step two years ago Like more strength in his voice He does that whispering thing a lot Now have you noticed Yes There's a problem here And then Papa Joe showed up the ukrainians they know

to pay the big guy it's like why are you whispering at us right now like he's almost trying to make a point or being or sort of it seems like he's using it as a speech technique i see it as muttering mumbling oftentimes or maybe it's one of each, but he gets, I feel like a symptom of Biden's aging is he gets quiet and he loses his train of thought. And it's just what I, and a lot of people just associate with losing a step. Whereas like Trump is age two.

He also switches presidents, you know, leaders names and shit like that all the time. He's constantly fucking that up or getting countries wrong, but he does it sort of loud and proud and he's got a full tan on and dyed hair and he doesn't look like a mumbling old man, even though he's mixing up names too. He just has a more vibrant way of doing it.

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, Trump's still loud and bombastic which i'd like to see them both take a cognitive test out there even if he is old i'd like to see that too i'd like to put the sat in front of both of them i think they both get their asses kicked by the sat that's a hard test 100 yeah like it would be eye-opening that they wouldn't their ability to like solve problems word problems follow uh all the way to the solution at the end like they they would both struggle because they're both fucking 80 years old isn't by the way 83 and trump's almost 80 i'd struggle i don't think i have in aviation they call it being current like oh are you good at doing fucking barrel rolls?

Yeah, I'm great at them. When's the last one you did? 13 years ago. You'd be surprised. You suck. You're not current. That's how I am with algebra, and I'm sure the presidents are, too. Yeah, SAT wouldn't show me what I want to see. I would prefer if they both sat in on a fake presidential meeting.

Like, they're sitting there, and a fake guy is coming in. He's like, all right, Mr. President, here's the report. The Iranians have shifted the fourth fleet. They're fueling their jets in the Baltar Strait. This is happening in this place. It's happening in that place. What do we do? Or maybe just at the end of it at the end of five ten minutes of

complicated geopolitical jargon say all right separate them and get them each to write a paragraph about what's happening in the world right now based on what i just heard after they have a quick conversation with carol because just just hey i'm carol nice to meet you so don't wash your brain of don't don't let them sit there go 77 77 77 you ever do that kyle knows that a cram yeah you're trying to you're trying to remember like the last 300 credit card while you're like i need to understand the water cycle for 30 minutes don't let them do that shit like like let them break the ice a little conversation with carol out the door go to the other room and give me a paragraph just a paragraph about what's happening and if you can't tell me that the iranians are the ones fueling the jets and that

and crimea the the troops are moving to the northwest to the third you know baltic terrorists if you don't have that that the nut if you don't have that you don't have it like i don't want to hear it because i don't care who's funnier in the end, I guess. The world is... Maybe this is just an old people thing. Maybe I'm getting a little older and it just seems like the world's worse. But man, it really seems like there are a lot of moving pieces on the brink recently.

It seems like there's pieces on the brink everywhere, like big pieces that might actually do a thing. I mean, they've been talking about Iran and nuclear weapons my whole life. That's true, but wasn't it Lenin that said, sometimes there are decades where nothing happens and sometimes there are years where decades happen. Oh, we were kind of in those with 2020.

I'm assigning it to Taylor. Yeah, sign that to me. It was either Lenin or Stalin, but two chill guys. And yeah, it's true. Like sometimes there are whole years where everything shifts everything changes 2020 was one of them with with the covid shit like and then there can be a bunch of downtime and then nothing really happens like every presidential election in my recent adult life has become more consequential than the one before like all the way back to w right when w got in there and he beat gore

suddenly he goes to war with iraq and uh like i don't know 9 11 happened we went to war with the wrong country for fucking reasons and then we've just been doing wacky shit ever since then it's been decades it's because when like when you're in first place by two entire laps, you can kind of who gives a shit for a while. But in the past 23 years, since 2001, the difference in power globally between the US and powers like China has diminished. We are not as big over them as we were 23 years ago. as big over them as we were 23 years ago and so mistakes now on a global stage like like we are nearing in the next few decades probably the end of like the u.s hegemon like total control of the world hard we just won't be able to maintain that already we have countries that are big allies of our saudi arabia bandying about the idea of purchasing oil on the ruble that's going to

happen i want to predict is kyle disagreeing because of Chinese demographics and shrinking population and such? That's a small part of it. I just think that the Chinese are losing their grasp on the country, on the world in general. And the United States always seems to keep one of their most important things to be keep all their friends in their pocket

and all their enemies at a distance and at a disadvantage. There used to be that timeline where china was going to surpass the china was supposed to surpass our economy in 2020 by 2020 china's get economies getting so crushed right now they're back to pandemic levels because of what's going on with their um their exports and imports to and from europe because of this hoofouthi thing. It's hurting China more than anyone. I didn't know that. They're trying to attack Israel by going after Israeli-owned ships. So it's like oligarchs, essentially.

Like billionaire Israelis. Who live in New York, by the way? Is they China? Houthis. The Houthis are... Oh, the Houthis are attacking Israel-owned ships. Okay, I caught you. Yes, but that's causing all sorts of shipping issues, and primarily against China and Europe.

China and Europe are having a hard time right now. The United States, not so much, because not as much of our stuff comes through that region. And Israel, not so much, because so much of theirs, I believe, goes through the Mediterranean. I was watching a whole fucking hour about this earlier. I used to be afraid

of china but maybe i'm just watching propaganda you never know what you're being recommended but there was that big story a while back about the the chinese missiles having water in them instead of fuel because the fuel had been sold off i watched propaganda too and it's not presented as propaganda i just have to figure that out on my own and it's a struggle for me I don't always know what's true and what's not. The Chinese demographic thing is apparently very real, that they have an aging population and they will actually have a shrinking population soon, like in the next 10 years. And it's really hard to have a growing economy with a shrinking population. You've got all these, I'll call them leeches, right? Old people just hanging onto the system, draining without contributing to the GDP. It's a problem.

On top of that, a lot of China's growth and success is built on lies. And you were talking about how America just always seems to be like number one or right at the top, right? You know, when Japan in my childhood was supposed to surpass America, it didn't happen. Why? Well, a lot of it was like maybe bullshit or there was a collapse. In China, the government is rewarding builders for building buildings, but you don't have to finish them. So they just put up these 18 story pieces of shit skeletons that erode.

And now I see all the demolition of that. And is it evergreen? Is that the boat? I forget the Chinese construction company and the boat are very similar name, Evergrande, something like that. And they've just gone under. Multi-billion dollar, it's a really big, big deal. And there might be even a trillion dollar company, I forget, but it's huge. And they were a house of cards. A lot of China's economy is a house of cards and built on lies and as much as u.s has its corruption we're child's play compared to

chinese corruption i was looking at i like the war games between the u.s and china i don't know i don't know that we're that much less corrupt than china like we are always going to get perspectives of like we are great great. We're the best. We just gave $100 billion in foreign aid to Ukraine and Israel with nothing for our own border. We have our own lot unpaid for nonsense. It's not a jobs program. That's not really helpful. It is to all those people making shells in Pennsylvania and Alabama right now. Do you think that money's going to them it's going right in their pocket

they work there they're getting overtime no you think a hundred billion dollars a day they've even they've come out and said that huge sums of the money and supplies they're sending aren't getting to where they're going because that's the nature of foreign aid it gets pilfered off and splintered by chieftains and regional rulers those factories here who are making the arms and and the factories who will now make arms to replace the arms that have been sent keep in mind arms that we weren't going to use because they were so old this is like cleaning out your stash in tarkov it just makes sense but those aren't those aren't that's not good for like the the workers at that factory aren't chiefly benefiting from that.

How so? They are Warren despots are benefiting from. If you are saying they're not chiefly benefiting as in the percentage of the total sum of money that goes to them isn't a chief. They're not the chief benefactor. Then, of course, I agree with that because they're a factory worker. But I bet it's the best years of their life. I bet it's that the fat is on the hog for these people. They're still telling them we need as many artillery shells as you can make. Not this year, not next year, the next 10 years.

Here's the order. We want 100 million more because once we feed them all the Ukraine, you'll have to build our stockpiles back up. And hey, we might want to shoot something in the interim nonstop. I've seen they've done. But you don't see how that's like we are entirely funding the militaries of foreign foreign nations while ignoring problems at home but taylor you don't see how that's okay i did i asked the question before i heard that problems at home like your points taken yeah but kyle's point is taken too like we're asking people to build tanks and humvees and whatever and then we take these and we put them on a plane and we give them to Ukraine and then

they break them there. And we're giving people our 18 year old Humvee and then putting a brand new one in Fort Bragg to backfill it. It's not the tragedy that it's sometimes made out to be. But we don't like this is all funds that could be better spent elsewhere. Like this idea that like it's just infinite money that we can use whenever. Like, no, that's why inflation's occurring that's why when it's war there's infinite money there is infinite money for war inflation money war is like calories during ufc fights it doesn't even count

well inflation's not occurring it occurred right like if you look at inflation at this very moment it's probably as slow as it was when we were children i mean that's the this is like a pedantic thing the aggregate effect over a relatively short period of high levels of inflation is very difficult on the average consumer of course it is there's a new reality is the effect and people say yes and that's a terrible no no no no no because but describing it as that is is the wrong way because people misunderstand it inflation happened to you it is not happening to you we need to prevent it from happening again it is like we're acting like the hurricane is still going on and the rebel the rubble is on the ground get up there clean it up and next time build a fucking levy that's how you deal with

inflation the way that so you i mean having bills for hundreds of billions of dollars going overseas like that, that contributes to inflation. This money money is money contributes to it. Yes. Yeah. And what are we printing money for? We're printing money so we can give it to Israel and Ukraine and not protect our own country. We need to be very we should be the u.s government should exist for fucking americans like that's what it does and it does in a way

but that's what it should be for every priority of the american government one through a thousand should be what helps the american people not oh my biggest donors from AIPAC want me to spend all of my political will getting money for Israel. So that's what I will do because I want to get reelected. And AIPAC is powerful. Oh, this Ukrainian fucking warlord has connections to this company and wants me to do this. I'm going to do that. Like that. It's we are such a low priority to our own government that it blows my mind i don't understand

how more people aren't like pissed off about this what individual issues do you wish were different oh you're like the people need here need help which person what name people pick one health care is a big one oh my god bringing back manufacturing healthcare behind like it's a potato wait what do you mean? I just said healthcare. I know. Well, we can't move on past healthcare. Like, healthcare would be like a trillion-dollar plan.

No. Healthcare would be entirely attainable if you deport illegal immigrants, you have a secure border, and you ensure that it's just for actual citizens. You're right. We had it. When Obama deported 3 million immigrants that year. Oh, you know that's not the thing here. Three million immigrants

is because they changed the definition of deportation to include people who are turned away at the border. The left called him deporter-in-chief. And if we're turning him away at the border,

that's a good thing. That's not a deportation. We're turning him away. Well, again, most deportations are deportations of any president. No. Well, then he still has the most.

Then he still has the mark by the measure that we use. Maybe Trump didn't turn it back, and I doubt he did. He didn't. I doubt Trump changed it to make his numbers worse. Yeah, I agree. There's no way he did that. So again, the president who deported the most people also tried to put in Obamacare, and it just didn't work. It didn't work because it was like a half measure.

It just forced everyone to support these giant insurance companies. Like if we had a real universal health care system, then the way that would have to work is the same way Bernie Sanders put it in the 80s. He's like, it's entirely possible we have good, robust, universal health care. But that means having a strong border, deporting illegals and making sure that the money put into that system benefits chiefly and solely the American public paying into it. We can do that and blow up Russians. We clearly can't. We can't even do that. We can't even do one of those.

Your program's a trillion dollars. Mine's $100 million a year. And of that, I feel like we're getting like $400 million worth of value. I think you're making numbers up. Which number did I make up? The trillion dollar number? $100 million? What's $100 million? If I didn't

say a hundred billion, then that's the number we've been banding about for ages. That's the number I mean. The most recent chunk that they sent. Although I think there's a new chunk that might be comparable. Yeah, it's way more than a hundred million at this point. Well, it also covers Israel now, so I would expect it to be bigger. Yeah, well, that's something we've

haven't done for a while. We never give Israel whatever the fuck they want all the time. you sound like me now i sound like you see now i just gotta make it about israel and i get woody to me all i see is our enemies dying by the scores are the russian economy is fine how are the russian i'm not an economist the russians are running out of tanks and bullets right starting two years ago and now they're not now they're fine it turns out they two years ago. Now they're fine. Turns out they're robust. They're absolutely running out of those things.

They're using North Korean bullets. I have a hard time telling if Russia's economy is really struggling or if I'm watching propaganda. Here's the thing. What kind of world is it where our ally, Ukraine, you probably don't want to see them that way, can't count on us to give them the artillery shields they need when Russia's ally, North Korea probably don't want to see them that way, like can't count on us to get the artillery shells they need when Russia's ally North Korea can. Like Russia can count on North Korea, but Ukraine can't count on us to get them the

shells they need. I mean, that's just kind of a weird way to put it. I don't care about Ukraine at all. What I'm telling you is they are running out. They ran out like I don't. Russia has not run out of ammunition. They were saying early 2020. They have to get. They ran out. I don't... Russia has not run out of ammunition. Then why do they have to get more from other countries? Other countries are sending them ammunition

because they're almost out. Because they're running so low. I mean, you can find sources that say it's not because they have been saying they're running out of ammunition for years. And then one of the chief pushbacks against that... If we're playing paintball, we're playing paintball, I'm shooting red,

you're shooting blue. You see me start shooting blue, you know I'm running out. Even if I have two pods on my back, I have borrowed from Taylor because I am so low. That's the situation on the ground, factually. They're so low on shells, they're importing them from North Korea. They're going to Kim Jong-un. That's got to be a fun meeting to go to for Vladimir Putin to say, oh, excuse me, chubby leader, I need some more ammo.

Let's say that's all above board. Well's all true those are like facts actually i can back up kyle they are getting lots of ammo and by the way the failure rate on those shells apparently is really high and it's a problem we do the best we can probably we do the best we can you calm down did me come over to my house. I give you finest dog meal. Your point about Russia is getting it from North Korea, even if so, that's fine. I don't want to supply Ukraine with any more money or

munitions because all that does is empty our supply and make more money for military industrial companies at the expense of the american taxpayer american we don't need those yeah but that's not the same thing we could have better industry we it doesn't have to be the only thing we manufacture here is guns and bullets we could have bigger more robust industries well that's russia russia's only exports are petroleum and guns and bullets. We export all sorts of things.

I think the point is, if we're going to do government spending to boost the economy, why not put it into roads and better bandwidth? And I don't know, parks or something like that. Securing the border, deporting illegals, healthcare, like all of these things would be way, way better. I was looking at the numbers on, um, it's, it's so weird how they define a guy walking across the border illegally, whether it's a migrant encounter or, or whatever, but the

numbers were staggering. I think it was 10,000 a day. It was 10,000 a day or something. Can I jump in? They were being caught or something. I'm struggling with these numbers. I saw 6,000 a day caught. Apparently Apparently five thousand a day is like a trigger point. I extrapolated to get to ten. OK. But sometimes I see like this little town with a population of

twenty thousand is suffering from six thousand migrants a day. I'm like, well, that doesn't seem right. How is its population ten grand if it's increasing by six grand a day? Are we not counting people leaving? we not counting people leaving are we counting people passing through well they're illegal they're not part of the population they're not part of the census they're getting wait up yeah the dogs eat it and then big non-government organizations yeah they but they take money from us to rehouse these people and pay for their medical care and pay for their needs i hate and pay for their needs. I hate that. And so we foot the bill of the whole world, and we get fucked.

You know what the answer is, Taylor? What? Kings? Going back to Kings and Queens? Sounds like Elected Kyle's the answer. No, much simpler. Much simpler. It's just demographics, Taylor.

It's demographics that solves this whole problem. Now, you're probably aware that folks from our socioeconomic status... That democracy is a racial headcount? Leave all that behind. People from our socioeconomic status leave all that behind. People from our socioeconomic group, we swim in great numbers. Isn't that correct? I swim. I'm a fucking professional swimmer.

I don't drown. You throw me in the water, I'll live. I think I see where Kyle's going. We need a whole country of swimmers. That's because we are white people from the first world now you only have to go to black people in the first world and that number drops to a staggering like 34 or some shit when you go to south america taylor are you aware that number drops below 25 is your answer going to be rising global waters 25 of the people who are trying to cross into our border cannot fucking swim.

And that's why those buoys that Texas are using are ingenious. It's very large. They're in a chain, like a pearl necklace, and they're so close together, there's no gap. They're touching. And they go below the water and above the water. And they drown people. They find dead Mexicans on them all day long because the Rio Grande is four foot nine inches and it's lowest. So pretty deep for those folks.

That's pretty deep for those folks. Especially if you can't swim and you got a gaggle full of litlins coming along with you, you know, that you're kind of trying to coyote. Dude, what I want our immigration policy to be is a bunch of bouncers. Like grandfathers, a hunter, an immigrant. Who only let hot chicks into the country. That's it. You're a dude. You don't get in.

We're full. We only let in hot chicks. And I don't think that we would see a faster rising of an all-female SS than if we were only letting in hot Polish girls. Immediately, the most liberal of liberal women be like, we got to shut this down. What's feminine women who are not overweight? This is bad news for us.

But yeah, I just think we're full. I don't think I want anybody else coming in. Let's just have a hiatus entirely. We clearly want to be coming in. I want lots of people coming in. Why? What do we get out of it? The vast majority of people who come here take government service in one way or another.

Is that true? It is. They take it in housing. They take it in food. Well, just because of the initial government response. It's so difficult to get accurate numbers on a lot of topics. It's so difficult to get accurate numbers on a lot of topics. Like, for example, in numbers, the immigration immigrants are creating entrepreneurship, their own businesses. They create jobs.

They hire other people in a much greater percentage than natives do. Then, like, if you're born in America, you're likely to be an employee. If you come to America, you're likely to start a business. That's the truth. If you come to America, you're likely to start a business. That's the truth. So people who are pro-immigrant like hammer on that drum all day long. Look at these people. They commit fewer crimes. They start more businesses. They become wealth builders. They hire other people. Aren't they wonderful? And then if you talk to, I'll just say at the Republican side, they're like their MS-13. They're not sending their best. They're rapers, rapists, murderers, et cetera. Well, you don't come to. And I'm like, where are the where's the truth? The truth is that one group in that conversation you're talking about is discussing high caste Indians in the tech space who move here and are millionaires and who had like servants their entire life. And then they start a business. And then the other side, the Republicans or right wingers are pointing out

illegal immigrants and saying these people are way more likely to engage in crime. They're way more likely. The hordes of people showing up at our southern border are not here to make a new Twitter. They're here to get free dental care and free housing and take advantage of this wonderful country. We have free dental? That's what they're doing. They do doing they do you know you don't pile if you go to the hospital because that tree falls on you you pay a bill don't you but if i i pile uh herreras goes there if you break if you go down to fucking cancun and then break in and then you go gay like i can't say that now you might get a free cap put on your just uh look like i i think it's common sense um you have to have free cap put on your team. I think it's common sense. You have to have a secure border for your country to mean anything to me.

Because if we're going to say, hey, this is us and that's you, then there needs to be a fucking line like at the grocery store unless you're going to pay for somebody else's groceries. You put that little fucking thing between your dirty fucking potted meat and my pears because I don't want to pay for your potted meat and you certainly don't want to meat and my pears all right because i don't want to pay for your potted meat and you certainly don't want to pay for my pears yeah that's all i i i loved the idea of the trump wall um they've continued to build that thing although what they do is they put up con x boxes and they cover them with razor wire uh over the dry land i've seen a lot of that maybe

does that sound yeah yeah and then obviously the the and then those buoys in the water are genuinely effective and stop them. There's there a lot of people drown on them. But I mean, if you're stupid enough to go out there and think you can take on that giant string of buoys, like if you see it, you'd be like, I can't get past that. Unless you can swim, you can swim, you swim right under. You just go to just go to the bottom of the river and swim on under if you were just a competent swimmer. I mean, the biggest pro-immigration people out there are big business owners because it drives down their cost of labor. That's why Elon Musk wants huge levels of immigrants because he can pay them less to work in his factories than an American citizen. Yes, he does. He's like, we need to greatly increase legal immigration. Why does he want that? Oh, I think that. I think we should greatly

increase legal immigration, too. No, that's retarded. What does it do when you import a huge class of people, laborers, who are willing to undercut the cost of labor for the native population? What you get are lowering wages for the native population, and that's a net negative for the middle class. So, of course course Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos want this. Of course they do. And of course Democrats want it. You've seen Elon at the border, right? You've seen him talk about the border and go there, right?

He has, yeah. And he'll do his little song and dance where he's like, oh, we need to get rid of illegal immigrants and maximize legal immigrants by 10. How do you do that, Elon? Oh, we'll be drastically reduce the qualifications for it and get you your cheap labor. Alright, great, Elon. Awesome.

I haven't heard him say that. I saw him at the board. That's why you play it forward. That's what he wants. What does he have to gain from high levels of immigrants? Cheaper labor. I'm going to believe what he says and not imagine what I want him... No, that's not imagining. It's just one step away.

I want lots of labor labor i'll give you forecasting if you remove the specifics of this conversation i felt the way taylor did when i worked in tech so in tech they bring over people on what's called an h1b visa and oh my gosh i've talked about it before like i was on a team of 20 people there were two americans or maybe i forget it was two white guys or two americans i think it was two americans there must have been 16 indians and then some like filipino and whatever vietnamese guy i remember in any case oh my god like the h-1b visa thing is really real and all of these guys come over one they accept lower rates because they're just happy to be in America and they're higher than they would have had in India.

Two, I had another point. They accept lower. Oh, they're absolutely captive. If they want to change jobs or the way that employees fight back is they go to the next place that pays them more. And that's how wages kind of you get paid what you're worth. They can't do that. If they were to change jobs, they get deported. That's the end.

So they're basically indentured servants who have come over here and they're forced to keep this job until they get to the end of it or get a green card. That's the goal to get a green card. And I was like, man, I'm over here trying to make more money. And I got this guy from India that I'm competing with who's more than willing to. They literally don't have beds. I had like half of my coworkers didn't have beds. That was the frugal lifestyle that they lived and i'm like this sucks i'm over here trying to get beds for kids and they don't even have one for themselves and it drives my wages down

i felt like it sucked but if you're running a nation there's a balance between hooking up woody with less competition and advancing the state of it and telecom were any of them as good as you one yeah patabi was better than me there you go one guy out of that huge group like you being given what you needed in that situation excuse me my friend is better there's plenty does not add up. You must ask, are there three of them that cost as much as Woody? No. No. No.

I was musing this while shitting in your nice public street earlier. Actually, I'm going to invite 11 of my cousins, and then we are going to really ruin a neighborhood near here. Yeah, that's it. It's fucking annoying. A two bedroom apartment would have like seven people in it. And they were wrecking apartments. Like I had one guy working for me. He got into art, right?

So he was painting paintings, sculpting clay on his carpeted floors. There's no way he didn't fuck that apartment up. Oh, of course he did. But yeah, I totally empathize with that, Woody. That is, you're correct. They were stealing money. That company was undercutting you by bringing in less qualified individuals

from a foreign land and then paying them wages that you can't possibly compete with because you are raising an entire family there. The same way that that translates down to, you're in a high skill thing. You go down to a lower skill or a lower class wage. If I'm a drywall guy, the same thing exists, just it has to be higher. Except even more intense then, because there's less of a threshold of it. And so like way more people are qualified to do that. And so you undercut huge swaths of the population and their ability to build a healthy living and have families because, oh, I can't compete with this Indian guy because he asked for 72 grand a year and he has to take it

because he's effectively an indentured servant. I agree with that, but that was just the first half of my point. The second half of my point is if you're a leader, you're trying to balance the needs of, say, Woody or some drywaller and the nation that benefits from having cheaper labor and more productivity and a growing population. I don't know where the bullseye should be. I think that I understand what you're saying, but the principal concern of our government in that situation should be providing comfort and a good living to the American people.

If you take that too far, I do very well in the short term and very poorly in the long term. I think we do fine in the long term. The most powerful, relatively, the United States government and nation has ever been in comparison to the rest of the world was in what? Post-World War II, 50s, 60s, 70s?

The day after. The day after. The 50s, 60s, and 70s was a time of drastically low immigration. Did we see America fall and become a weak little nothing because they couldn't get more people to do drywall and computer programming for cheap? Or did we see a robust period of American dominance because we were prioritizing American people? And that's what needs to be done again, is American people are getting fucked

and they need a helping hand from the government they fund. Let's talk about September 3rd, 1945. Dude, I want to talk about fucking, about Total War, Warhammer 3. I'm turnt over it, Kyle. Well, this is kind of the same thing. September 3rd, 1945, the day after World War II. Yes, I did look it up.

Why didn't we just keep going? All right, so hear me out. Japan has surrendered. Now they're an ally. A broken ally. I get that. But they're certainly not an enemy to be fussed with. Okay, they're done.

Germany's done. Russia's hurting. We're fine. They're done. Germany's done. Russia's hurting. We're fine. We're fine. If anything, that's our strongest point of the war. We've mustered the Rohirrim. We're all

fucking here. We had the general that wanted to go to Russia. It was either Patton or MacArthur. I know MacArthur wanted to go to Russia. Everything was there. And not not only that not only does nobody have a nuclear bomb an atomic bomb i should say they're not even close and if we start a war with them they'll never get close you know i mean if we if we make war on china they're not going to develop uh uh well they're not going to steal the nuclear technology from Russia that Russia stole from us.

So China should build a bomb. Everybody's the target. We take the whole planet. We could take the whole planet. Are you sure you want to do this? With a capital P. Dude, most of the planet sucks. We don't want it.

We're not going to be responsible for it. Do you want to rule Africa? Do you know how many problems are there? No, no. We don't want it. We're not going to be responsible for it. Do you want to rule Africa? Do you know how many problems are there? No, no. We don't rule Africa. Africa is under us. They're a vassal state. They're the Puerto Rico. We don't help Africa at all.

But it pays the crown, or it gets another virus bomb. Yeah, with what, though? What do they pay? Whatever we want. They have the most rare earth elements in the world. They don't know how to get it out of the ground until China or America show up. You know those American companies that you despise so much? They're so fucking good at getting rare earth elements out of African soil.

It's what they do. So good at it, they send in their own military. We don't have to use ours. All of those big corporations have their own fucking militaries. You know that? Yeah. Or they hire out, I don't know what Black ours that all of those big corporations have their own fucking militaries you know that yeah they have their own they hire out like i don't know what blackwater groups they'll send black Amazon will have some blackwater commandos go in somewhere and i got to imagine Jeff Bezos wearing his dark sunglasses at night with his bimbo wife going do it and they're just storming a compound killing some fucking uh environmentalists in

south america somewhere one of my uh my close buddy's dad his job for like 25 years was he was in blackwater and so he like went around basically as a french foreign legion kind of guy like just mercenary fighting a mercenary literally fighting of guy, like just fighting, a mercenary literally fighting on behalf of like companies effectively. And he's I think it took a mental toll because he's got a lot of problems

now, like issues with reconciling what he did and why he did it. What a horrible... He turned to the drink? Yes. Yes, he did. He turned turn to the drink? Yes. Yes, he did. He turned heavily to the drink. I don't know the guy, but I've heard, obviously, from my buddy, who's his son, that

he did some... One of those gets drunk and will say stuff and be like, Oh! Oh, yeah. And you did that for Exxon? Exxon paid you and you killed a guy? They gave me 1 me 1500 barrels of oil it wasn't even cash Taylor

it was a frank I didn't know how to move it it was too much oil they didn't give me the trucks they charged me to ship it home now I've just got it in the garage it's crude oil Taylor I can't refine that shit now I'm over my head on a refinery

I tried to do it myself these fuel guys really know what they're doing the world's an evil place it is lots of good stuff in the world here's what I can promise you Taylor new weapons

all the time new jets new boats seen the drones that ukraine came up with just recently they look like a cross between a quad and a golf cart it has like the off-road capability of a quad yet it's about the size of a golf cart and on it is mounted i don't know my guns very well but i'll tell you it looked like a saw to me something like that and a machine gun a belt-fed machine gun thank you and uh um yeah so anyway they've got these zippy little four-wheel drive golf carts with belt-fed machine guns that apparently they're strong enough that anti-personnel mines don't break them, but

they're light enough that anti-tank mines don't get activated. So they zip over to the Russians, get a couple kills, hopefully, and then probably bust it up. I searched Ukrainian quad drone machine gun and got my own video. Fuck! Not easy being an FPS rusher. I bet mine's real in there. there's oh man to have been doing that during

these times would have been such gold i could have taken advantage of so much so much seo i could i could have latched on to so many news stories just just oh it would have been it would have been one would have been gangbusters yeah that would have been wonderful. It would have been gangbusters. Yeah. That would have been crazy. And, you know, I guess I'd have to play the heel. I'd have to be that guy. Republicans, you are our allies. We love you. Why you fund this war?

Why you do this to Russia? Russia love you. Can you show this picture, Zayn? Russia is your friend. Russia always US best friend. Yes, we fight, but we love after. How about we have post-Cold War makeup sex?

I'm 90% sure this was made by John Deere. Imagine this as a tractor and it just melts into one in your mind right like it's it looks like a display piece outside of that memphis bass pro like this thing is so fucking cool how many seats is it oh look at zero wait is that it's a drone taylor oh this is this is the drone i was talking about that i described as a cross between a quad and a golf cart for some

reason in my head i'm like man it can drive and it can fly. I guess that is not a belt fed machine gun. I saw a different picture of it. I bet they can strap anything up there, right? Well, not anything, you know. That looks like one of those Bushmaster cannons off a fucking like one of those. I don't know what that is. I can't tell.

Maybe... The one I saw, I'm 100% sure it was a belt-fed machine gun, and I have it on my screen again, except I'm inundated with pop-ups and shit. I can't tell. Maybe a.50 cap? I used a remote control

apparatus to power a gun like that before. And you've got your own little view screen off-site. But that is fucking cool. Oh, okay. Oh, yeah, that one has a belt-fed machine gun. Yeah. Are they German?

You said Ukrainian. It says Polish Defense in the background. I wonder if it's like the Polish Defense Seminar. It's got those Eastern European... It's got the Cyrillic letters on it. Can you show this one? This one has two drones in it and one of them is a belt fed machine gun and the other one

I don't know, I guess I need help. I've wondered why we didn't see stuff like this. Woody, in the background, that looked like a bear logo from Tarkov. Oh, I didn't catch it. You see this one? In the foreground, I see a belt-fed machine gun. Oh. I like this one.

Desert Camel, kind of cool. Probably just says gear. Yeah, Desert Camel almost implies it was for a different battle. Syria. Hmm. So this one is supposed to be Ukraine drones? Those are straight-up tractor tires. They are.

They're ag tires. I don't know if military... Does have like a tire i bet they do right yeah they they have those that like are pop resistant puncture resistant i guess but in any case now they have ground-based drones they use in for fighting i want to see some of that you You know what I really want? Man, to control one of those would be the most fun game ever. It genuinely would be. Taylor, you're talking about Total Warhammer 3?

Total War of Ukraine. Get behind. Imagine sitting at your desk. Sitting right there. You got your Dr. Pepper zero. All right, let's see how many Russians are trying to cross the old field today. You log in, start going to fucking work. Come on, that would be the...

They wouldn't like... I mean, I would need to practice my Total War before they gave the controls over because I don't think I would get great value necessarily. Dude, I've... there has never been i had so much fun playing total war warhammer 3 with you and the gang of like guys that we were playing with at the time it is i've there's never been such a conflux in my mind in gaming between wanting to love a game. I want to love Total War Warhammer 3 because it's aesthetically the coolest game I've ever seen.

There's not a close second, third, or fourth. The battles are awesome. They're epic. The graphics, the 4090 tunes that game up to the nth degree. It looks incredible. 90 tunes that game up to the nth degree. It looks incredible. And how terrible of an online experience this game is. If you challenged me and said, if Elon Musk came to me and said, Taylor, I'm going to give you $2 billion to come up with the worst online gamer experience imagined. I would go to Creative Assembly and I'd say, link me up with your team.

I would go to Creative Assembly and I'd say, link me up with your team. Link me up with your team, guys. I'm hiring every one of you because somehow you've taken this glorious masterpiece of a combat game and you've made it totally unplayed. There's no way to get better at this game. Yes, can I help you? My goodness. I feel like you're drowning in a puddle and you just need to be stood up and pointing the right direction right now i go to torrens discord

and every and there are like leagues for this shit where everybody gets in fun games together and communicates at different skill levels and brackets they have they have fun little like learning sessions where you find people of your own skill level i get it but i don't want to join a community for this i would like to be able to just like do what i do for you might not know this age of empires 2 online player base is probably 150 times bigger than the total war warhammer 3 online player base like i if you try to play here's my umbrage with it is there is no way to effectively practice quickly and get better in Total War Warhammer 3 because if you go on the ranked matchmaking ladder there's nobody online and you may think I'm being hyperbolic oh Taylor's saying there's nobody online but you start a game and then you get assigned to a guy and then the next game you get assigned to a different guy. No, you don't. You might play the same dude four games in a row.

And then you could say, oh, well, that's because they try and do like a ranked, like a skill-based matchmaking, which is really important in RTS games. And so that's why you're getting these people because you're just the only person low enough to be matched him. 15 minutes before we started pkn i got matched up against catholic alcoholic who's one of the best players in the world and he beat my ass he beat you he beat me actually i kept it real for a bit i was playing ogres he was playing high ls which is a terrible matchup for me and it was 1200 to 1500 he won do you have chariots chariots shooting at you no he went he brought whatever the max number of halberdiers and spearmen is

and the max number of archers. Oh, okay. Well, that's just cheese. Yeah, he was cheesing me, and that was frustrating. But the problem with it is that... Not really cheese. You're cheesing. You brought ogres.

Well, the ogres are like the lowest ranked faction. Like, I mean, go on Turin's little rankings. They're the lowest ranked faction. They're garbage. I just like... They're fun. They have a cool flavor, and I like that. But, I mean, I like Turin's little rankings. They're the lowest ranked faction. They're garbage. I just like, they're fun. They have a cool flavor and I like that. But I mean, I like the Demons of Chaos more, but it turns out you can't play them online for some reason,

even though they're very lowly rated. But if you try to play online in the ranked matchmaking system, which is how you would get better in Age of Empires 2 or any other RTS Starcraft, you can't do it. Because I've played 10 games or whatever 20 games of online 1v1 matchmaking in total war warhammer 3 i've been matched up against catholic alcoholic i've been matched up against menacing platypus i've been up against uh pone t-pone uh ponage or whatever that guy's name is um like a full yeah 30 to 40% of my online games have been against people where I'm like,

Hey, I just watched it. Yeah. These are content creators. These are people who play this game and make videos or compete in tournament. Not 1% of my games, like 30 to 40% of my games. I'm getting matched up with people whose name I recognize. And then if I back, like I got shit rocked by some dude whose name I thought I recognized earlier today. And I left, I got beat.

I resigned, go back into another game. That guy again. I leave the lobby because I'm like, there's no point in playing this guy. He's going to molest me again. He's way better. Leave the lobby.

Try and get into another one. That guy again. Leave the lobby. Try and get another one. That guy again. Play him again. You've got to join a community. Back out, Jump back in.

No, but see, this is only something that needs to be done if the community and the actual structure of the multiplayer is so woefully bad that it needs this. In Age of Empires 2, in AoE 2, I will never... You described a game that needs a bigger player base, not a bad

game. None of this has been... You also may not be aware, Taylor, they just had a huge falling out with the fan base. Who did? Creative Assembly had a huge falling out with their fan base last year over that Pharaoh game and some other things, so much that they had to give refunds and apologize.

Okay, well, I don't know what that is, but as far as total... Most of their players quit is what it is. Okay, well, I believe that, and so the player base went from 600 to 400 or whatever. And the problem with it as well is that if you're playing RTS games, it's incredibly important to have a robust AI system in the game so that you can quickly run back and do builds, do something effective.

And that's what you get in Age of Empires 2. If I told Kyle, hop on AoE 2 and beat an extreme level AI, one week from today, unless Kyle devoted every waking second to it, he's not beating that AI. Yeah, but that's a different kind of game. Let me ask you this. Does StarCraft have AI?

I don't know. I may be like... Yes, yes, they do. ...declimating myself. Does it work that way? Because... I don't know how elite the Starcraft Starcraft it's not comparable I should find something Total War is its own kind of game

is what I'm getting at where they're yeah that there's so much um the online is poorly done I love the game I can't imagine an AI playing it well well well see like that's the thing I can I can't imagine I never had these imagine an AI not playing it well. AOE is 10 times as complicated as Total War because there's an economy portion of it. And I'm not saying Total War is not a difficult game. It's really difficult. There's a lot to know. It's just the nature of a game like StarCraft or AOE is it is more complicated.

And the Age of Empires AI... I think it's easier for AI, though. ...dream-level AI can do things that humans can do. Not as well, but they can quick wall. They can do strats that humans do. They go in and they go, hey, Hera has been running this Dark Age rush. We're going to try and add that in in a manipulated way

because it can't possibly do it as well as Hera, but we're going to do this. And so the AI will come out with new strategies. you can become a competent player on age of empires just practicing against the extreme level ai over and over unfortunately in total war the ai is brain dead i hadn't played in a year and a half and i just jumped into a war uh land battle and i couldn't even construct an army that could give me a challenge on the hardest level. It's not meant to be AI. It's more like practice dummies.

But there's not enough people. There's not enough people for them to not have a robust AI system if they're trying to facilitate the growth of multiplayer. They're not trying to facilitate the growth of multiplayer. It's a single player game. And again, there was a huge revolt recently where a great number of their player base quit. So if you want to play that game. Pharaoh and some other things. I think Pharaoh was like half a game that they were charging more for,

like based on how many, like, fact. There was a whole, like, there was a money issue. I don't remember the ins and outs, but I remember it was a big deal. I just watched a video about it last week about creative assembly, how to kill your brand or some shit. But if you want to play with people you have to join a community you have to get on turin's um discord and just join in there and there's like fucking people playing it all the time or platypus platypus that's what's it i'm just gonna get wrecked by catholic alcoholic and platypus no no no you don't understand there's

it's a fan discord full of people like you who are in there to learn the game with each other okay well then maybe i need to join that because i've been it's not platypus and they're beating up his fans oh i know well he's beaten my ass a couple times already and i'm making videos on the ladder like he he clearly yeah he got a good video out of me. Watch me molest this retard. Dominate. No, I agree. I'm pissed. It's a very expensive game to not have a multiplayer that works very well. To not have a robust AI system in a game as simple as Total War,

which is effectively moving units towards their counter and reinforcing with whatever you identify. If you're playing against the extreme AI in Age of Empires, which it's almost unfair to use AoE2 because it is the RTS gold standard of AIs. If you were playing, Kyle, and you're like, I'm going to build a, I'm in feudal age,

I'm going to build an archery range. And you see the extreme AI scout and he comes by and he sees your archery range. He's going, now they're building counters to your unit. When he notices your stable, he's going to build counters to your cavalry. If he sees you come forward with something,

he builds counters to that. Whereas all it would take in, in a total war is like, Oh, they're running fucking high elves with tons of archers. Run a counter to that. Run some flying stuff to bog them down. Run some quick flesh hounds or whatever the hell to loop around there and bog them. That's all that it would take. And so it's just an exercise in frustration to be like, this game has so much potential to be incredible. And as much as you can

say, join a community. That's not how you organically grow something. If you want people to get into it enough in order for them to make that next step and join a community, you have to make a robust AI system that they can practice against, get their feet under them, and then go, okay, now I feel comfortable playing. Because like any RTS, it is not fun playing against people significantly better than you. There's no way to learn. against people significantly better than you there's no way to learn like if i played all out against you at aoe2 and i suck by the way you would never learn a thing because i would just harass you off of your wood line i'd keep you off of gold and i'd be like aren't you having fun kyle and you'd be like no i haven't made a unit yet because you harassed me off of gold early game well you're gonna get better all the time you mined all my gold and then left me here that's what i would like it would be like me playing against Hera.

I'd be like, oh, I didn't notice and Hera put palisade walls around my gold. He's toying with me. He's walling me in. He's building towers that are ineffectual. An appropriate response. In RTS, it's different because it's much harder

to get competent at it. If Kyle really, which I still want you to Like you, it takes, if Kyle really, which I still want you to, you'd have so much fun with us, like got, played AoE with us. I would only, the way Kyle and I learned Total War Warhammer 3 was we 1v1'd,

just played over and over and did stuff like that. That would be a terrible way to teach Kyle AoE unless I intentionally was like, all right, keep building. Oh, that's great. I'm not going to attack you. We'd have to play he and I verse two AIs. And believe it or not, there's five fucking difficulty, six difficulty levels that I could pick specifically for him. Oh, you know what? Kyle wouldn't do well getting rushed right now. So I'm not going to set it above moderate. Oh, you know, Kyle and I have been playing for two weeks and he's really competent.

I'm going to set it to extreme and they're going know, Kyle and I have been playing for two weeks, and he's really competent. I'm going to set it to extreme, and they're going to rush him at like two minutes. Let's see how he handles a Dark Age rush. So I know you're into those weeds right now, and there's Total War playing against AI and being mad at yourself. No, I mean Creative Assembly weeds. But there's a game called Helldivers 2, and at first I thought it was based on the book series

that i enjoy so much but if you watch the trailer for it um it looks like they're fighting terminators or some shit now again i know you don't know what those look like i've got a little video here's like a twitter trailer clip um can we show this here sure yeah it's pkn we can show it there it is the the twitter thingy should let zach open it what am i doing yeah play it with audio i think this is just like a game clip um i know fish is playing this uh i think it's co-op that you know you're fighting ai um how'd you like the taste of freedom? Looks pretty cool. Like a third person shooter I guess.

I forgot how aim worked on a third person. Usually there's a crosshair. It switches to first person when he aims. Yeah. I don't know about that. Actually it seems like it makes it way easier It's like Nazi zombies but with robots and see I have no idea I think that you can fight Terminators and I think there's something else there was some other funny. What was the other enemy bugs? I don't know what the bugs look like

Everybody's playing that that's very popular. I'll play that and Rust with you if you hop on AoE2. I literally bought it for you. You gifted it to me. I gifted it to you. I logged in. It's like, you have a Steam gift from Taylor Crocker. Oh, great. I really

wanted to play. You want to play, though, because we're buddies and we'll have fun. Mm-hmm. You're going to do a hardcore wife of Tarkov with me right after, right? Sure. You play this game with me, I'll try Tarkov. I'm trying to get

our gaming going again and these are Total War Warhammer 3 or AoE 2 are the two I would be totally down on the plan. I feel you. I feel you. And you would be good. What pisses me off

is it would take you no time at all to get competent at AOE. I don't like how much of it, my life it takes up. I don't want to have to worry. Taylor is a straight up drug dealer in this transaction, right? He literally gave you your first hit for free and Kyle's like, I'm fighting my addiction demons. And Taylor's like man you'd really like this i don't want to he'd immediately pick it up dude it would take you're a good gamer it would take you fucking

two days to become competent what taylor's telling you is you're a known addict and you would dive head first into this game i just when i'm like when i'm eating lunch i'm watching a video of pastille i'm like oh i didn't know that spawn there okay nope nope i'll never forget that pest you're the man dude i'm still i know we're over our time i'm sure y'all want to eat but again pastille's hardcore series when he loses i feel so goddamn bad for that man and i know it's just a video game where he's doing it on his youtube channel so so he makes he uploads the full vod you know you just fast forward through the stash and you get raid raid raid raid raid and oh my god it's so sad sometimes but like he'll have he'll have way too much loot and i'm like leave just leave you have your propane tank you have

that little grip you needed you've been looking for that little grip for weeks. Leave. And he's like, all right, let's get a little more loot here. Let's go in here. Oh, God, no. And they've killed him. And he's just like, why? Why, God, why?

Dude, good Tarkov players are so greedy. And I'm like you. I'm always like, bro, you walked in here with 100,000 rubles. You've got 600,000 rubles on your back right now. Get out. Get out. You've sextupled maybe your net worth. Leave.

Yeah. And they don't. They're just like, I think I can do better. I think I can get more. They never just walk out while they're ahead. I've got 3,500 hours on my ticker timer. However much of that's

in game who knows but tell people you take bites you don't eat whole meals you get your butt oh this is a good bite let me take it back home and store it you can come right back there's endless raids but if you if like i taylor by the way if you die even with those items in your gamma container your butthole which lets you keep them anyway they're not found in raid anymore so you can't sell them on the flea market for the greatly inflated value so it's it's so upsetting when you die and you've got like a a let x or a gpu or something that you wanted to sell um it's it's just so upsetting but yeah watching pest i i sometimes i i'm like come on still i just go play on your other account for a while he has six uh tarkov accounts he said

he could probably have as many as he wants and i believe it's possible he bought six but i he has freaking nikita on speed dial Yeah I don't know how How helpful that is When something like that but Because you know the hackers all the time And they don't seem to care like Now that you can view people's accounts you can see their Their stats I got killed by a level

57 last night With like a 45 KD Like being level 57 alone Is like absurd I don't think any of the streamers are 57. I don't think landmarks 57. I think he's probably low fifties. Anyway, we're over time.

I'm going to go. I don't want to eat. I'm going to go see if the tree situation has worked out. All right. PK and 495.