177 - The Act Man Teaches Us About Communism | Unsubscribe Podcast Ep 177
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You play the Wukong game! Enjoy game right now! Reddit. Reddit never changes. Speaking of communism... Nick loves communism. It sounds really good. And Hitler said... Game over.

Photography. I hate it because we had so many good discussions before the podcast. I know, now they're gone. Gone forever. We got some for behind the scenes. And then our attorney has to wander into the fucking conversation. Tom Sawyer's here. Tom Sawyer's here. He's going to go by in a raft. So about all the illegal activity you guys just told me about. Every time you're like, eh. Dude.

That's what's on our Patreon. He's giving them feets away for free. Jake's stepping on cake. Smash videos. He makes so much money. If he falls off, what tier is that? That's a tier three. Tier three, Jake? Boy, you guys got to put that like tier five at least. At least. I just want to see him do the wine stomping thing when he falls off the thing. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.

I love everybody. This is like a classic internet. That is just, yeah, that's so old, but it's like instantly recognizable. The first time that you have the wind knocked out of you. Yep. Oh, oh, oh.

I sounded like a dying walrus. I was like seven years old and I like fell down the stairs and like, you know, my back hit the stairs on the way down and I went over to my parents genuinely confused like saying that I was dying, thinking that I was dying and then they realized like, oh, you're just an idiot. And I was like, no.

I haven't had the wind knocked out of me in a while. I don't think I've ever had it happen as an adult. It sucks. I have still. If I start mouthing off, just hit me right there so I can feel it again. Thank you. Thank you, Justin. Okay. I was like, who in the group would have done that? That's new.

I was so confused. I was like, Justin is naked and not afraid. I look over. I was like, Joe wasn't wearing green shorts. While a super interesting conversation is happening, you should just have somebody walk by with their ass out. Just like right in front of the cameras. He'll do it. Military. It's fine. He's used to it. Tony, want to start this bitch? Oh, wait. Three, two, one.

Hi everyone, welcome to the unsubscribe podcast. I'm joined today by Eli Doubletap. Mr. Actman himself is back. Brandon Herrera, myself, Donut Operator. Thank you for joining us. We love you. I love how you said is backed. Is back.

Yeah, he was here. Yeah, back in San Antonio. Back in San Antonio. He's never been on the podcast. Back in the fantastic city of San Antonio. Cody, you remember when we interviewed him the first time? No, he was at the Range Day. Yes. That's what I meant by back. Okay. Yeah. I was just looking at the Zach Galifianakis equations going by you for a second. I was going to try to trick him into being like, yeah, we did a podcast with him. I was going to go along with you. Gaslight him. Yeah.

If all three of us teamed up on him, we could have gaslit him. Cody's like, how drunk was I? No, him and I danced at the **** together. Yeah. We were two-stepping. So that's actually... There was a plan to have him on the podcast before, but of course with the range days, we just fucking backlog eight different episodes at once, and everybody is just fucking tired at the end. So we had to push it. And we were already this... You were like, the range day is the...

the date we've picked and then it's like fuck it's like one day or two days before the live shows like it's okay you guys had to pick the best of the best and i didn't make the cut but you know i'm here right now and uh i think you guys actually reached out to me like a couple years ago for the first time oh really and i think yeah i think i remember you seen our numbers like and now you've seen our numbers like well no i think i think my channel was demonetized so i was like a little bit uh

That was good. Yeah, I was like... Welcome to the fucking club, buddy. Hey, there. Hey. Welcome to the party, pal. Yeah, buddy. We're pretty good on unsubs. Surprisingly, I'm surprised. Must be nice. Yeah, I don't know how we stay as...

as we do. Because we only say it. Yeah. That's so much more work. You're not showing the murder like I do. Or building firearms. Or, you know, building the gun, the homemade pipe gun that killed the Japanese prime minister or anything. So, you know. Former. What did you do?

oh you never heard no what'd you do it's a it's a long fun story uh that basically ended with me um making some satirical tweets about what had happened to me from this other content creator uh he had called my mom like harassed her basically told told her to stop told her to tell me to stop making videos about him you want us to beat the out of him

The drama's over. We should probably find out who the creator is first. His name's Robert O- But basically he did a bunch of shit and didn't get punished for it so he started posting satirical tweets about like, "Ah, I'm gonna start this new series called Doxxing Adventures with Actman. In it I'll be doxxing and harassing the employees at YouTube. It's gonna have a lot of family-friendly content."

So, like, I made these satirical tweets because this guy had been doing this stuff. I think I remember that, actually. Yeah. Yeah, they took it as legitimate threats, even though, like, they had me on speed dial and they called me. No one does that first. Well, actually, my YouTube partner manager called me and he was like, hey, can you take down those tweets? People are actually, they think you're serious. And I'm like, yeah, no problem. I'll take it down. But I'll screenshot it first so that when they come out and say, like, oh, you did this, I got the receipts.

So that's the short version. But yeah, so when you guys first hit me up, I was dealing with that. It wasn't in the best state of mind, but we came through it and now I'm here and happy to be here. The backdrop is really fucking awesome, I gotta say. We got everything from gamer to teaching the men only retarded. Yeah, and a little legendary helmet. Dude, it came together pretty good. We are proud of this backdrop. We're all like adding more shit as we go along.

Yeah, yeah. Like, each one of the things that are back there are just something that we have added to it. Yeah. We went from all just, like, anime and gaming shit to literal, like, fucking hunting license of a pedophile hunter. Like, it's evolving. And the best part right there, if you ask me. Among Us. Among Us. Yeah. Among Us. Among Us. Dude, watching your videos from old to now is... You started off with a lot less FaceTime. You didn't show your face as much. Yeah, yeah. You went through that phase, and you're like...

fuck this. Yeah. I want some recognition. Well, actually, it's kind of funny. Like, yeah, the older videos, I was like,

I didn't know how fucking lighting worked. So it was always like super orange or it just looked like dog shit. So I would just record my voice. But then I realized, hey, if I'm trying to find like gameplay footage that's relevant for everything I'm saying, well, if I just record my face, then I can always default to that when I don't know what to put on screen. Makes making videos a lot easier because then you can just...

Yeah, I'm not ugly people people don't mind looking at me. I think right what a nice comment below. What am I looking at? Yeah, the comments are like one to ten right how hot is all right act man hot or not? Yeah left or right? Shit dog, I'm swiping right now Damn boy

Got to channel the inner Zoolander. Dude, I know what our Patreon is now. Shit. What's your content consist of, like, mostly these days, though? You know, game reviews is always the bread and butter. It takes me a fucking millennium to get them out. But also just kind of like talking about the industry, what's going on in it, any controversies. You know, people love a good controversy. They love...

controversy and comedy so if there's good stuff to make fun of you know some bad hot takes out there around gaming um you know from people who are misinformed that's always people love that shit you're a predator I'm a predator of bad takes all right all right so what's the most recent controversy that you're you're going in on you here here's one you guys will like because you your video on this is fucking fantastic because you truly break it down is SJW and it's a

how in-depth and how pissed because you see it from the proper view like stop ruining games based off of oh is it that one company no this is a lot so this is everything from the video from like 2017 like the really old one that was oh but it's a good take for it because you're breaking down like race you're like race isn't an issue stop pushing this shit and then you fast forward to 2024 and that shit is really resonating on film video games and how

Assassin's Creed and like the new one shit like that people are just like just give me feudal Japan Yeah, because it's all I want literally your point and do you still stick by that? Well, there's a lot of points that I stick by I think the the landscape has kind of changed where I think there's more like False shots than there are like bullseyes sometimes, you know

Last of Us 2.

I've never played Last of Us 2. Neither have I. So how do you know? Because I looked into it. I'm like, man, that does not sound like something I want. What happens in the first hour? Fuck you. Yeah, yeah. I read that too, but I also... I don't want to ruin it for the people that want to watch the show because I'll probably still watch it. It's been four years. The show, I mean. Oh, oh. Yeah, because the people who don't play the games will watch the show. Yeah. Yeah, no. So there's always some...

ideological influences on video games and but that doesn't mean like anytime there's politics in a video game it's like automatically bad you know like obviously Fallout Bioshock or Prime Examples oh did we the Fallout thing with the the New Vegas developer yeah

Oh, shit. I forgot about that. Apparently, it's all capitalism is the problem. Really, that was really our greatest flaw this whole time. We didn't know this. I can't remember why we got into it at one time, but my favorite video game of all time, or Brandon's favorite video game of all time, is Fallout New Vegas.

Like, it's the round of applause in the eyes because that is a take based. One of my favorite games. And so I don't know what got us controversial on Twitter or what got me onto on Twitter one time. I was like, oh, hell yeah. I want to tell this developer like or the it was the lead producer. We found out that the guy, the guy responsible for putting the AM 180 in the game.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, because we shot the AM-180, the .22 caliber gun that has the drum mag on top. It's like a pan-fed magazine. It's like 177 rounds or whatever, unless you go with the bigger one, which is like 250 or some shit. Which you'll obviously go with the bigger one. Oh, yeah, of course. So we were like, well, we're so happy they put the AM-180 in the game. It's one of his favorite guns. Yeah, it's my favorite gun. Fallout New Vegas is my favorite game.

And I was like, oh, I'm going to hit up the developer and tell him that like, Joe, thank you for putting the M180 in the game. He blocked me on Twitter. And I've never interacted with him before.

And so I was just thrown back. I was like, what? Like, just sad, like, little boy Cody. It's like me going on Hideo Kojima. I'm like, I'm going to send Hideo a message. It's like blocked. I'd be like, the fuck did I do? It was like a public tweet, though, because it was...

And it was like people were getting pissy that we were like, dude, what the hell? Because we were just like, no politics, no nothing. It's like, oh, dude, it's so fucking cool. You put this gun in the game. We're big fans of that gun, you know, real life, blah, blah, blah. Come shoot it. Yeah, yeah. Would you like to come out? We invited him to come shoot it. Would you like to come shoot it for real instead of behind a desk? Like not, you know, in an inflammatory way, but like genuinely, like, do you want to come out for a range day? Like, oh, these gun boys are fucking upset that somebody doesn't know.

love them it's like no it's just like that was kind of a you could just say no thank you yeah there's that's fine like i'm like what do you say fuck me for yeah well there's a dude there's like what what like three or four am180s in the united states there's more than that but they're very rare they're very rare and we were wanting him to come out to shoot an am180 when i bought mine it was uh

It's not even a transferable. It was $13,000, $14,000, something like that. They're very rare and very sought after. Now I need to look up this gun. But yeah, we looked him up to try and invite him out to a range day, and we were already blocked for some reason. That's ridiculous. I admit it.

That'd be like Hideo or any one of my directors that I watch. I'd be like, Christopher Nolan blocked me. First off, how does he know me? Second, why the fuck did he block me? There's a version of that, Mike. 250 rounds? Jesus. That's the drum right there. That's actually my gun he's holding. Wow. Oh, really? Yeah. So I did that video with him. It's admin results. Have you ever shot, like, cut out this star with a BB gun? That's exactly what that gun does.

Yeah, that is pretty cool. And what's funny is that they used to use it back in the day for policing and stuff like that, or for riot control and stuff. Because it was technically, it wasn't less than lethal, but it was less lethal. Yeah, yeah. Because they didn't have beanbag rounds, rubber rounds, stuff like that. So they would just use 22 rounds to shoot. Which is fucking crazy. But yeah, you guys heard that the New Vegas, I think one of the writers came out and said that

Which I vehemently disagree with that capitalism wasn't actually the point of the Fallout games. It was actually about how war never changes and that mankind's innate nature causes them to wage war. And it wasn't just a slam against capitalism. I'm very upset. Wait, they actually... The writer said that? Yeah. I want to know... It's not like that's the tagline of the game or anything is that war never changes. Who could have put it together? I don't know. If only there was a hint. Yeah.

If only there was like four or three words. Yeah, four words at the start of each game to just kind of like lay out what the message was. I don't know. That seems a little reductive. War never changes. I can hear Connor over here thinking. I can hear his thoughts right now. All I was going to say was like technically that's only three words. He says war twice. Yeah. Yeah. Never changes war. That's a little pedantic. What is it's...

I want to know how many developers, like, after it comes out, because I truly believe a lot of those games fall out one, fall out two. I've played the first two, three, in New Vegas a long time ago, but love the first two with isometric view. Yeah, yeah. Those games, when you made those, I don't... I truly don't believe when they were writing, it's like, this is what this represents. They're like, this is fucking dope, and then we'll make mutants, and then this is the cohesive story, and then however it turns later. I just want to chuck a mini-nuke at a Deathclaw, dude. Like...

But the controversy around it... That's the average player. The controversy around it now is that some people on Reddit and across Twitter are disagreeing with the author. The writer. The writer.

Reddit. Reddit never changes. But to be fair, everyone's entitled to their own interpretation of the work. But I do think it's funny that there's people who are more inclined to be like, no, this is all because of capitalism. The Fallout universe is the way it is because of capitalism. The writer's like, well, it's more about human nature and war. No, bro. Because in the Fallout universe, China was the one that launched the nukes first. The communists, you mean?

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analysis right now by going to pds.com slash unsub. It takes 30 seconds. Go to pds.com slash unsub. Go now! I'm going. Speaking of communism, I've actually been reading into it and Nick loves communism. It sounds really good.

On paper, it's great, isn't it? Yeah, on paper it is. Wait, you brought us something? I brought something. Some scripture to share with the people. Oh, wow. Oh, it's going in the background. Oh.

What are you chucking, Jake? We're just throwing things. Don't worry about it. See, I think... This incident, episode two. I think people, when they think of communism, they think of all the times it's failed. But it's never actually been implemented properly. It's never been implemented the way you would do it. Yeah, exactly. Oh, thank God Nick isn't here. Fuck, dude. We should all sign it.

What's up? Dude, Nick, have you watched how... This is a bit. This is how you set up. This is how you set up. Simmer. Okay. We're going to definitely put this in the background. I actually... Actually put it next to the retard one. Yeah, Nick will be suplexing you into the fucking corner. Can I just share some lines of scripture? Oh, please. Go for it.

Thank God Nick isn't here. Fuck. Don't feed the Ukrainians. I'm sorry, was that not in the original book? I picture Nick right now looking around like a disturbance in the forest. And then Jesus said, nobody should be allowed the fruits of their own labor. We should all be equally as miserable. The end. That's a pretty good summary. What's funny is I actually own a hardback top. Yeah, Mark's too nice.

I own a hardback copy of this as well as like, wait, is that as big as it is? He's a communist? Yeah. So that's the funny part. If you look, if you took a picture anywhere,

They can be anywhere. All right, McCarthy's. If you took a picture of my library, you'd be very confused. Because I do a decent bit of reading, I think. And I think most important, like, most historic texts are important to at least read through. And so, like, I have intentionally in my fucking wall, I have a copy of Das Kapital, The Communist Manifesto, and Mein Kampf all together on the same shelf just to confuse the shit out of anybody who walks into my library. Wait, this is fucking only 40 pages? Yeah.

That's that's all they needed. That's all the paper they had This is what started like and this is what people go off of there's no food in there but one page for every million people and kills You know, there's actually there's actually a modern example that I think kids can relate to To figure out how communism doesn't work. If you guys have ever played Valheim or Minecraft with your buddies Yes, and you leave your chests unlocked and

You know, let's say you guys are building a world together in Minecraft and you got your own house, everybody has their own house, you know, you guys are mining stuff, you're getting materials, all this stuff, you got your different chests with signs like this is where the wood is, this is where the diamonds are, you log off for a couple days, you log back in and half your house has been destroyed and all your shit is gone and you tell your buddies, yo, dude, where's all the wood? Where are the diamonds? Oh, I used it to build my own

That's why communism doesn't work. It went to the front line, comrade. Yeah, exactly. Look at New Wall, comrade. This is my house. Yeah, but mine... Mine's gone.

Very nice structure to build base off of. Yeah, but we built new buildings. With your stuff. We built a community building over here. No, that's exactly... It's actually funny because whenever me and my buddies would play Valheim, you'd get those people who would just kind of like around, but they would just take your shit. And then your shit that you worked for, you went out and you got that iron ore. I know every single...

I get so pissed because he's like, bro, I'm in for this shit. Every single f***ing April. I know. I get it. Yeah, yeah. So in case any kids were wondering, communism doesn't work. I like that. And then Karl Marx, you have to paint to see his grave, which is... You didn't know that?

That is the thing. The satire writes itself. In order to see his gravestone, you must pay money. No way. No shot. Fucking Google it. That is an action. I believe you. You're filling this seat. Dude, you are our stand-in, Nick, right now. You're ranting against communism and you have no sleeves. He gets up and he's like, I don't even know about communism. He walks away. But I'm being serious. I actually love it.

Oh, I see. On a real note. Grab my gun for me. And grab two. I'll do it myself.

Now three, bring it. I can just hear it. Thank you for the gift. Yeah, you're welcome. That's definitely going next to the other book. The retard book. I did bring another book. Put it next to teaching the mentally retarded and the communist manifesto. We just said that five minutes ago. I know that's what I was. Yeah. I was adding on to the joke. I was like, put it next to the retard. And the guy's like, put it next to the retard book. Now I did bring another book. Um,

Cheating the mentally retarded? We're just going to go ahead and just throw that in there. Yeah, yeah. You get a nice surprise when they open it. The plot thickens. So originally, I really was deeply invested in communism. I truly believed in it until I started reading this other book. And I started really diving into it. Oh, God.

Well, it just, you know, it comes from a very trusted source. And he just was really starting to speak some truth to it. And I kind of, I started to realize that communism probably doesn't work the way people think it does. Now, if you want, I did bring the book with me. Yep. Have you guys read this? Oh. Oh, my God. This is good. Yep. Yeah.

Nope. Even better. Try again. Oh, A-H. Author A-H? Oh, yeah, yeah. You knew what this was, right? Oh, I knew it. One of the reasons I knew what it was. I just like you were like, I'm coming on to Unsub. You know who would love some books? See, we're trying to be... I have quite the catalog to pick from. We actually want to be fair and balanced, so we brought both.

I no shit have a picture somewhere. He has some great points, as you were saying. Yeah, so he's got some great points. That's my copy at my house next to a bunch of the German stick grenades. I got the 1939 edition printed in English just because I thought it was wild. You couldn't buy it on Amazon, but you can buy the Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital. Well, this was more expensive than the Communist Manifesto, so I guess communism does... It has a couple more pages. Yeah, a couple more pages, but...

You know, when someone brings out a copy of Mind Conf, your first question is probably, "Why do they own that?" There's a lot of good reasons. If we turn to page 447... Was that a bookmark?

Have you actually read this book? It's dog shit. Yeah. It is so skitso. It fucking sucks. It is so bad. It's all over the place. They're just going to cut segments out of this brain. It's like, yeah, I own a copy. Oh, great reading. No, yeah. It's just segmented. And you're like, well, here's our career. No, yeah, yeah, yeah. Cut it up for the intro so it makes me look like a fucking unhinged Nazi. And we all just agree. Yeah. And Hitler said...

Here he is not frightened by anything at all, and his baseness becomes so gigantic that nobody need wonder that in our people, the personification of the devil as the symbol of all evil assumes the living appearance of the Jew. That's the two-second intro now. You heard it here, folks. That's the intro where you're gonna be like...

Well, I gotta watch this episode now. Dude, I never would have... What the fuck? I never would have assumed this would be the one. Like, yeah, let's get the video game guy on. That's pretty f-ing easy, man. There's no...

Fuck dude. Yo, but that's I was actually surprised. I know you guys like history on this channel. So like so like I'll be I'll be real Well, the interesting thing about this is that this is an annotated version of mine comp So basically it has thousands of Twitter community notes on all the shit. He said that's wrong and stupid Yeah, so that's point number one. Like if you try to read this one actually does have like annotation notes. Yeah, exactly and

Oh, man. It has roots in Nietzsche. Yeah. So they released this in 1939 before they invaded Poland. So it offers a pretty interesting perspective of what the sentiment was right before World War II broke out. Because Hitler, I think he came out with it in what, 23? Mein Kampf? I want to say it was a little later than that. 33? Yeah. It was somewhere in there. It was earlier.

But, you know... They ally themselves with Marxist mortal enemies. Yeah, see? See? This is where I started to, you know... I started to break away from the communist cult. And now I think I'm on something much better. Wow, no. You were close. It was July of 1925. I didn't realize it was that early. Yeah, no. So, like...

So this didn't really come to the States. They couldn't read this in English until like way later. And when it came out, I think the first copies, like, you know, they didn't really censor much in Nazi Germany. They were pretty like free speech advocates. Yeah, never burnt books. They were big on books. But the interesting part... What books did they burn, Eli?

The interesting part about this is that it actually highlights the sections of Mein Kampf that Hitler didn't want people outside of Germany to read. So you have what he's trying to hide, what...

What is actually a deep dive up? So it's actually good reading. This one would be a very good reading. There is no point to read this book unless you read it with like annotations and like the backstory of like, yeah, he's fucking an idiot. It's nice that it's really not like it's not a modern annotation. It's a this is historical context before Germany is the enemy of

This is what the sentiment was at the time. I completely agree. Like, that's really, really interesting to see. Yeah, it's a good excuse. I just hate the Jews. I mean, that's why I have it. But, you know. That's going to be lovely. No, no, no. I never thought I'd have an intellectual conversation about the fucking literal...

I guess, the validity of reading Mein Kampf in 2024 on a podcast with a video game guy. I actually want to share part of the review for it. So there's like a brief, there's like a brief review. Poland gives this one star. No, no, no. Like a review of Mein Kampf by Dorothy Thompson. Shout out Dorothy Thompson because she fucking lets him have it. Okay.

I just want to read the first paragraph, okay? So this is her review of Mein Kampf. Americans can now read the text of the book that has shaken Western civilization. Keep in mind, 1939. The reader will find the English writing rhetorical, turbid, and digressive, and the text disorganized. Do not, however, criticize the translators. Hitler's first battle was with the German language, and this fight, at least, he has never won. God damn. Mic drop moment.

There's more. Let it be said that if the world is overthrown by this document and the man behind it, it is overthrown without benefit of grammar or literary style.

Dorothy's spicy, dude. Dorothy's spicy. Shout out Dorothy Thompson, bro. Dorothy fucked him up. I know, right? Dorothy was on the list. Good thing she was over here. Yeah, right? No, she doesn't stop there. Yeah, man in the high tower, like, or man in the high castle. Hitler had to conquer Germany to compel even Nazis to read this book. God damn it.

Now, of course, it is the German Bible running close to the annual circulation of the Holy Scriptures. But there are plenty of high ranking officials of the German government who have never gotten past the first two chapters. I couldn't either, by the way. It is most definitely a book that one can lay down. I'm dorky as fucking savage. So, like, I mean, on the real, it's like...

It's really interesting to see what people actually thought of the book in 1939, like before they invaded Poland. Holy shit. Yeah, I know, right? She fucking dropped the mic. But there's also a funny... At the very end of her review, she says...

This is all something tribalistic, pre-Renaissance, pre-Rome, pre-civilization. Against the instinctualism of this book, against the fetish world, mankind has striven upward, feeling his way step by step through ages. Occasionally he has relapsed when civilization became too hard. Then we have had a dark age. Are we in for another? I think not.

Well, that didn't age particularly well. That last part didn't, but everything else. Dorothy, that was a bold prediction. One that did not come to fruition. You know, Dorothy hits, you know, 99% of the time, but just that 1%. It kind of sounds like Dorothy calls World War II. She like no ballsed him into World War II. She just fucked him up. Dude, some of those like, some older books, like they really have a way with words where they just like...

They just hit you with some kind of lethal dart. Anyways, what video games are you playing? Like, dude, that is... This is when Nick would have been like, damn it, I wasn't on that episode. Yeah, I pissed out. Sorry, Nick. Holy shit. Yeah, this is the deepest. Oh, no, we're going. Thank you for the gifts. Well, but so in relating that to video games, like one of my favorite video games is Call of Duty World at War.

Which I think does such a fantastic... That's a slept on video game there. Because I love that one too. I think in terms of how many Call of Duties there are, maybe people don't give that story enough credit. Because it really pulls no punches. I really love the simulator when you're the Russians pushing into Berlin. And it gives you the mission, kind of like the no Russian thing, where it gives you the option of doing the Russian simulator. They really nailed it. What level was that, Brandon?

I don't remember. But he's got the entire layout. It was DLC, right? It was the historically accurate version. There's a reason they wanted to be captured by the Americans. Yes. Yes, it was. The Americans were the great guys to surrender to. Dude, that war is like...

America did fantastic. But Russia, poor Russia, just what they went through, like Stalingrad and that push. And it was just 20 to 40. There is an estimate of 20 million guesstimation on how many died during that war for the Russian side.

Was World at War the one where you're laying down in the fountain? Yeah, yeah. And they're shooting everyone around you? Yeah. And they're like, just lay still, brother. Lay still. And then you hear that main menu music of the lady kind of singing. I'm not going to try to do it because it'll probably sound fucking terrible coming out of my voice, but...

If you know what I'm talking about, you can hear it. Or if you hear it, you'll be like, oh, yeah, I'm going to go back and play World at War tonight. Oh, you absolutely should. Yeah, so like video games, they can inspire a lot of different kinds of passion, whether it's for like storytelling or history. So I got really big into history, specifically World War II, because there's so much to it. Just like that book, you know, like it's one thing to... It just inspired you.

To be clear, I think the Nazis were gay as fuck. Wow, controversial take. Yeah, I know. You know, that Hitler guy, really not a fan. I don't want to go out on a limb, but... But I'm the one who brought a copy of Mein Kampf, so I feel like I need to clarify where I stand just to remove all doubt. Fair. Chase.

VFX him with the Hitler mustache. My favorite part was like, I always loved during the campaign, they're like, oh, he's a fucking neo-Nazi. This, this, this, this, this. I'm like, my entire platform is like, I hate the government. You know what the Nazis loved? Government. They were real big on that shit. Dude. Oh, yeah. This would have been a good like Nick sitting in. You would be in the middle. Nick would be like,

I can relate to you very well. Yeah, yeah. No, no. See, my original plan... World War II. My original plan was to... Because I talked to some of my buddies who are big fans of the podcast, and they were like... Shout out to them. Yeah, yeah. If that electrician is on, you got to start talking about communism. So what do you think about the Molotov-Ribbentrop conflict? You know, they should have kept it alive if Hitler wanted to win, but...

But damn, he knew what that was immediately. That's impressive. So you actually do a lot of research. Like history, your big... Is World War II your big piece that you're like, I love doing research or reading on this? Yeah, yeah. I get...

I get pretty into it. Like, I go through obsessive phases with things. I don't know if any of you guys have... ADHD. Different. I'm that, too. Yeah. You have your rabbit holes that you do. Yeah, yeah. I like to think I'm not autistic, that I have, like, decent social skills. Do you want to go make out? You have great social skills. Yeah, so you picked up on all the cues, dude. Yeah, yeah. Better than you can say about any of us, man. He's like, yeah. I'm like, what the fuck? Yeah.

Well, that's what Brandon and I also talk about quite a bit. It's like if you're in this game, you're making out. You got to be autistic at some level where you focus on something like World War II or you focus on Vietnam War or you focus on something like that.

And you just dive so deep into it. Do I think we need a fucking parking space because we're like disabled, like autistic? No. But like there's a little touch of the tism in every one of us that succeeds. Well, you might need a special parking place, but. Ow. We just got on the Reddit. There is one post. It cracked me up. There's a. It's all right. I get social cues. So I have three purple hearts. Fuck off.

Don't do it. Thank you. I love you. The Reddit. The Reddit. Dude, he gets a double salute. He loves them. That's incredible. So anyway, the subreddit, Eli. Oh, yeah. The subreddit was a dude that maybe has autism or claims or he could, whatever. But he was like, hey, don't use the word retard. Yeah.

Like, you can have your feelings, and if we hurt your feelings, hey, like, that's... I'm not going to apologize for that, because that's... We do us. You do you. We're very big on that. We'll never PC or dumb something down just because we hurt somebody's feelings. If you're autistic, blah or blah. I don't know. Fucking however it affects you. It affects you? Negative. But, like, he was, like, going into these... Oh, God. One, two, three. I have no feelings on that. And then number three, he's like, no...

Out of the people with autism, he's like, I have autism, blah, blah, blah. He's like, Cody and Brandon, they don't have autism. Eli does. I'm like, God damn it. Why would you point to me of all the people? When an autistic person is like, you have autism. I'm like, I can tell. It's like, my son does. I've got autism in my family. And, you know, there's, we've taken, I've taken tests at my fucking, my entire shop. It was like a joke at one point. We all took the test. We're like, all right, we're going to be a hundred percent honest. I scored second out of all of my employees.

next to the guy who was diagnosed i'm like all right well that's that's a that's a result i'll fucking process that later i say i always say have your spouse do it and then if you score high you're like oh i scored lower it's like yeah new high score with her is that good or bad like that's bad worse actually i'm like oh i feel like when you're

Because I was a kid and they diagnosed me with ADHD and like I've had my own personal problems like in school and focusing on stuff. I try not to think that I have a diagnosis because I try to view it as like I just think differently. Superpowers. You have a different operating. I always say it is a different operating system. Some stuff's harder. Some stuff's

easier but don't try to change everyone else because it's like hey my life with autism is more difficult because x y and z guess what ryden will never say that fucking statement ever in his life because my life is dope daddy i just got cars and something else because you did this but he is happy make yourself happy find whatever is your tism because fuck if you have autism you have something you are dialed the

in on and you're going to excel at that do that make that happy yes for interrelationships and stuff might be more difficult read a book about that you can overcome that shit or not but then just be happy tldr whatever we say won't unretard you that's the next shirt unretarded i cast social skills i don't what do you want from me dude

Not very effective. So I actually do have a legit ADHD diagnosis from a while back, but I found out that if you look at the pie chart for ADHD versus autism, it's a fucking circle. It's close. Yeah. There's a huge correlation. So also...

Try not to let words hurt you too much. But also, like, if you... I had a buddy who's... I think he's in his, like, 30s, late 30s. He was diagnosed with autism and it was kind of like...

It affects you, dude. I get it. Don't let it affect you. Don't let it make you feel like you are less than what you are. You are just different and you are your own person. Some people, when they put a word on it, it fucks them up. Yeah, exactly. When it's like, well, because there's the same you you've already known, dude. Yeah. Now you just die. That I can't wrap my head around because I was like, why would that affect somebody? Because I

Watch videos of people getting affected like I got the diagnosis and you see it like crush them It's not cancer like it's not a new thing you grew like you're right. You're not like physically deteriorating Say I only have 50 more years your life you have a life But you have like a doctor be like, you know, actually there's something fucking wrong with you up there. Did you know that buster? I did

Yes. But still, as you're saying, words or anything, it is the... Is it acted upon? What's the meaning behind it and when you say it? If it's fucking hatred, yeah, that makes way more sense. But a lot of people, you can say retarded, you can say autism, you can say whatever. All of us are going to laugh about it. You can make white jokes, Mexican jokes. I don't care if it's a joke. It's a joke unless you're saying it with hatred. Then we

a little bit of an issue. What was that for me? Oh, thank you, Connor. Wow, thank you. Yeah, you guys are a lot of fun to talk to. I don't really get too many opportunities. I don't know if it's the autism, but I couldn't tell if you're being serious. Well, that's... No, that's why we're on the same wavelength. Same spectrum. These guys don't get it, these fucking normal people. Except for Eli. Yeah.

So what do you think of the Beer Hall Putsch of 1923? To be honest, I'm really not familiar. Go on. No, that was Hitler's first attempted coup of the government by force. Okay. I'm genuinely not familiar. Really? No. I hope you stand up and don't know anything about World War II. It's just that seat is so imprinted with Nick. Yeah. This is a Nick moment. I'm like, you have talked about a piece of history that I don't know about. Dude, this...

People are riveted right now because history. Yeah, history. So you guys don't know what I'm talking about. So I can say whatever the fuck I want. And as long as I say it with conviction, you'll believe me. I'll just read the comments later and see if they fact check you. But yes. Or Google it.

No, I was basically... We never do that. I can't remember if it was... We do that all the time on the podcast. We're just like, oh, fuck, if only the nightmare brick could tell us. Well, so Hitler wrote Mein Kampf while he was in prison, right? Yep. He was in prison. World War I. After World War I, he was a soldier, a decorated soldier, and then rose to power. So World War I ended in 2000... Or excuse me. Jesus Christ, sorry. World War I ended in 1918. Yeah.

So he wrote Mein Kampf seven years later. Okay. But he was still a decorated soldier during... Yes. Right? He had an Iron Cross and everything, I believe. Okay. Yeah. I hate giving Hitler any props, but... I mean, dude, you cannot... Leadership-wise, you can't say, oh, he was a bad leader. When you rise to power to that degree, you can't be like fucking... He was... Eli Double Tap.

You cannot say Adolf Hitler was a bad leader. He had bad ideas. He still accomplished a lot. He was good at gaining power. He was not good with exercising it. No, I would agree with that completely. He was terrible with power. Really? That's a pretty hot take. I know, yeah. Crazy take. Terrible with power. But I mean, even his people that ideologically were consistent with his worldview did not really love his leadership and his decision making, especially toward the end of the war. It was just off the rails.

Well, a lot of people like in the Nazi party, cause there's so many like fascinating stories within world war two and, uh, Valkyrie. Yeah. Valkyrie. Um, but, uh, a lot of, a lot of like the Nazi higher up leadership didn't actually like believe what he was saying. They just were like along for the ride. Like, Oh, this is how, like if I grab onto Hitler, I'll go tells rise the ranks. Yeah. Yeah. So I think that was what happened to Rommel too, if I'm not mistaken. Yeah.

Did he? I think Rommel. He was the one in Africa doing the Africa campaign, right? Yeah. My great uncle actually fought under him in the Africa Corps and was actually captured in El Alamein and brought back to the United States as a POW. Wow. Yeah. I think to Texas. And now we have Brandon Herrera. Unfortunately. Yeah. Unfortunately. Unfortunately.

No, but I think, I know we've kind of been going all over the place, but like history is super fascinating. I mean, you guys, I don't need you to, I don't, you guys don't need me to tell you that you guys own all these cool firearms and like World War II relics that are real. No, but explain like what you're talking about. Oh, the beer hall pooch? Yeah, dude. I never heard of it. Oh, you never heard of it? No. I don't remember what that is. I dropped out of high school, dawg.

Well, this was Hitler's first attempted coup of the government of the Weimar Republic. Because back then, the Nazis were a smaller group, and they would hang out in beer halls, right? And they would get some drinks, and they'd be like, Those Jews! Can you believe them? This is sounding a lot like our friend group. Minus the Jew part. Yeah, yeah. I'm not good at a German accent. Sorry. Sorry, just associated racism with the South. Yeah.

That's the one thing that would get you canceled. We're not racist. Like shit. The joke. Hey, I'm from Washington. You guys, there's a lot of jokes you can make about me. Yeah. You know, so. So he started small. Yeah, no, no. If I'm not mistaken, like this is, Weimar Republic is when like the, the German economy is in a complete downturn. Yeah. The money means.

Shit after World War One, they have in like four years, they're given all these terms that are like like the Treaty of Versailles. The League of Nations is like propped up. They make these incredibly unreasonable demands, which like sows the seed of discontent among the German people, which Hitler exploits. I'm sure even like one of the main French generals during World War One straight up said about the Treaty of Versailles. The only thing this is doing is postponing the war 20 years.

he wasn't wrong he was not wrong he's like this is he's like this is completely unreasonable they will never be able to complete this but uh the beer hall push was like one day they uh attempted a coup of the government hitler and a bunch of other nazis basically tried to invade

I can't remember exactly what building, but they tried to take government officials hostage and basically say like, new regimes here, boys. I think 15 Nazis died. They called it the beer hall putsch because they assembled in the beer halls. They left and then, you know. It's all a bunch of hammered fucking dudes. Yeah, but they basically tried to get this old decorated World War I general to come in and say like, yep, yes, guys, this government is over. The new one is here. Obviously, the coup failed and, you know, Hitler was put in prison, which is a lot of

Which is when he wrote Mein Kampf. No shit. Okay. Yeah, he wrote Mein Kampf with one of his closest, like, most fanatical devotees. You would say Rudolf Hess, if you guys know about him.

no that guy was a crackpot even for the nazis dude when you're talking about somebody a crackpot you're like okay man like man i was listening to this hitler guy but hess he was a crackpot no no the nazis thought he was a crackbox so this guy this guy's career highlight was in 1941 he went solo like he's he's one of hitler's closest like advisors rudolph has

Surprise you guys don't know about him. You should really look into this. We're not Nick. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, he'd probably know but the name I do really don't know much about his personal life or anything So the highlight of his career was I think in 1941, you know when Germany was at war with Britain they I think this was After they had beaten France was that was 1941. I believe they were at war with Britain and like bombing them and Rudolph Hess was like

you know, we can't, we can't fight a war on two fronts. So he was fucking crazy. He thought he could take a plane, fly it to great Britain, meet the Duke of Hamilton and negotiate terms of, uh,

Like a treaty so he flies he just flew there. He went behind Hitler's back He's one of his like most highest top top advisors. This is mid-war. He was a peak war Yeah, he was the deputy before the US got involved. This is 1941. This is still before Pearl Harbor He was the deputy Fuhrer that was the rank he was given so basically like but peak warfare I mean Britain at that time. It's still like everything. Yeah, yeah, I conquered yeah

It's scary, yeah. Like, bad time. Like, Britain's basically the only one putting up a fight right now. And, uh, yeah, so he takes this plane. He somehow manages to avoid all the radar stations in Britain. Uh, but he runs out of gas. He can't find, like, where he's supposed to go to meet with this random fucking aristocrat who has, like, no connection to the government.

Yeah, it's a crazy fucking story. He abandons his plane, it crashes, and then he is immediately apprehended and arrested, and he spends the rest of his life in prison. Holy shit. Until he was the last Nazi in prison from the Nuremberg trials. Like, he was the last one to die, and he died in, like, the 80s. The last guy to die outside of Argentina. Yeah.

It's a crazy story. You guys really should. Rudolph has. Also, if you want to watch Cody's face right now, he's like, what the fuck? No, I was like, I got to watch more movies, dude. Dude, I will tell you guys. Have you guys heard of... This is the best World War II documentary series I think I've ever watched. It is the most comprehensive. I think it's like 26 parts. It was produced in 1972. So this is like 27 years after the war ended.

And to pique your interest, the tagline, I think the director said to get to like what his goal was in producing this documentary series on World War II is, I wanted to interview the people that dropped the bombs and the people they were dropped on. So there's interviews from like German citizens. Oh, you get both? Yeah, yeah. You get all sides. It's called The World at War. Completely free to watch on. That was the Call of Duty game, right?

I think that's where they got them. Yeah, okay. I was just making sure. But the docuseries is called The World at War. Anyways, I'm talking a lot. No, shut... Dude, I cannot stress enough. Like, that is what...

As you can see, we shut the fuck up in our listening because it's something we're learning. Yeah. And this is that weird podcast where people are like, huh, they're going to talk about cum and then learn for 20 minutes straight. Yeah. That was fucking dope. Yeah. Yeah. The duality of man. Yeah. Yeah. The duality of man. Which way Western man. So how big are your cum loads? Jesus. They like. Like we talking strings. Like go ahead. Yeah. Yeah.

I actually had an idea just now. We might cut this. With the cum loads? No, not necessarily that. That's the highlight. No, no, not cut that. That's gold. Would we want to get my 92-year-old grandmother on here, the German civilian during World War II? Yes, 100%. I will ask. I'll see if she'd be willing to fly, but she's still pretty damn lucid for... You absolutely should, because you never know when...

My grandparents were gone. I wish I talked to them more about like stuff. I did talk to them about like history and like what it was like growing up. It's a completely different lifestyle. We get to learn a completely different view because you're talking about no tech, like technology is very non-existent. Computers don't exist.

You're living in the now and then war is going on, which is... Yeah. Even talking to Iraqis during the Iraqi war, it was fucking weird going into different houses and hearing their points of views or seeing what was happening. And then like, oh, yeah, we appreciate what you're doing because my dad just... He got kidnapped and killed one day. And you're like, holy fuck, what? And that was just their day-to-day. So...

Oh, me, Ma Herrera. It's Oma. Oma. That's what we, of course, German. But I mean, we'd always talked about one day sitting down in front of a camera and just like documenting her life experience. I couldn't think of a better format than here. She's like, the Jews. We're like, oh, my God. Dude, I actually. They were this tall. Oh, no. Chase, cut away from that. What?

You don't have to see what he's doing to know what he's doing when he says that. It's better left up to the imagination. But she talks about her experience of going through the bodies every day as a 14-year-old girl, going through the bodies looking for her brothers and her dad.

Yeah. Like, seeing, like, every day that was just a normal thing. Like, her actually getting shipped off to the French countryside during the early days of the bombings. And, like, basically getting kidnapped by a French family that she ran away from. Like, as a 14-year-old girl going through the Black Forest alone to, like, walk all the way across Europe back to her home in Germany. It's fucking crazy. She's got some fucking stories. Dude, even, like, fuck. Like...

The idea of bombing cities, because you're in... World War is completely different rules. You are bombing cities. Civilians are then part of it. Near Pier is wild. Dude, like, World War...

Total war. You have such different rules of engagement with Geneva Convention and all that. We weren't allowed to. People, unless they can point guns at us. This is combat. People are pointing guns. You're like, you can't shoot unless they shoot at you first. So you're like, okay. This fucking sucks. And you hold to that.

no matter what. And then to hear, oh yeah, you're just doing city bombing raids or in Japan doing the fire bombs and watching cities burn and it's affecting civilians. Fucking mind-blowing to me. I can't wrap my head around that environment at all. And when you think of war, war fucking sucks. In my head, I'm like, war sucks! War never changes. Capitalism.

Capitalism never changes. But yeah, so Meemaw always welcomed us. I think I might try to make that happen if it pleases the audience. I think that actually, that would be really cool. Friendly advice. I actually, in 2020,

15, just a few months before my grandpa died of a heart attack, I actually set up a camera and filmed him and asked him some questions about his life. And I'm really happy I did that because after he died, I cut up this video and played it at the...

Or no, it wasn't at the funeral. It was after the funeral. Everybody came back to the house. The wake kind of thing. Yeah, yeah. And you know the dog that they had? His name was Zach. He like, you know, when somebody dies and the dog doesn't know where the owner is anymore. Yeah, yeah. The saddest thing was when I was showing the rest of my family the video. Zach the dog came up and was looking around. But I would say you should do it.

sooner rather than later, just from personal experience. Yeah, I mean, that's up to you guys. Don, I'm down. The reason I brought it up on the podcast is because I know I've got to run in a second, but this is the first time I ever thought about doing that. I would love that. That is a completely different experience, and I guarantee we don't, unless the audience is like, fuck that, which would be like, we're doing it anyways. Fuck y'all. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You guys do I guess some goddamn respect to Alma. Oh, yeah. Yeah, the audience doesn't want to moan We're gonna come to your house and we'll kill you Alma won't have to beat your ass. She'll just tell me to do it. Yeah, these guys got a firearm or two and it's not just these puppies They've been shrinking lately I need to fucking get back have they yeah, it's flex a little harder bud Wow

- Wow. - I'm stretching, man. I've been sitting here for a bit. - You need to go back in the boxing gym. - I know. You gotta start boxing again. - Which way is north? - Do you see my beach ball? - Yo, you got me. You could outclass me with it too, bro. Just pull the sleeve up. - No, that's weird to me. To me. - Why? - I don't know. I'm a high-bombed body now. I'm like a female. I'm like, "No, stop." - Do you think you could beat me in arm wrestling? You probably could. - I hope so.

I'm putting money on your life. That guy knows all sorts of fucking shit. I know. I'm like, uh, uh, awkward. Praise. I hate it. Talk about cameras. Switch the subject. No, we have to get Omaha out. Yeah. Autism. We have to get Omaha out. We'll fly her first class. I'll probably go back to, cause she hates flying. Cause the last time I think she flew anywhere was,

in like the 70s back to the United States. So like planes are different now. I'll probably go there and fly with her. Oh, yeah. Can we escort her back? Right. All right, Oma, you're with us now. Don't worry. We wanted to take her back to Germany because she wanted to see her hometown, but it was kind of sad almost. She recently decided she didn't really want to go because she's like, it's so different. It's not the place I knew. Which is fair. I mean, it's been half a...

century. Yeah, they let all the Jews back in. Did you see that fucking... It's like a screenshot that's like 15 years old, but it's like a Facebook post where it's...

It's like a girl posting like, where are all the cute Jewish boys in Berlin? And somebody's like, I hate to tell you. Who's going to tell her? Who's going to let her know? This is crazy. It is also wild to be that uneducated if you are in Berlin. Imagine not asking that question unironically.

Yeah. Knowing that that's not going to be the first response somebody makes. Well, I guess people have different friend groups than we do. What do you guys think is the most interesting aspect of World War II? Like the part of the war that you really get the tism tingles for? Dude, man, there is the nukes, the...

The nukes and then nicks talk about the one guy that was captured, which I can't do it justice, but that one individual was captured in Japan, one of the pilots, and then they just question him about nukes. Oh, yeah. Do you know this story? And he was just a military pilot. Knew fucking nothing. Tell us about the nicks. So they kept torturing him. And he was like, oh, yeah, I know. We got 100 of them. Yeah, hundreds.

So that is part of why the jump Japanese government like, dude, what?

Hundreds? Exact quote. The Japanese emperor Hirohito. Dude, what? The guy that was just trying to stay alive at the time? Yes, 100%. And this is documented. They captured him. They interrogated him. He admitted, oh, I do know about the nuclear program. And then they were asking questions. They brought him to scientists and scientists were like, I don't think you know shit.

actually and he's just like but he was like fuck I don't want to die atoms neutrons electrons zeros and ones and they're like fuck they have hundreds of them yeah so what's your favorite part of the world oh the weapons being developed at the time fuck you took mine is that what you were going to talk about too well what is this Sternberg well you can you guys can talk about Sternberg via two different things because they also had the oh fuck

They had the... I'm skipping on the name. That's why they have them in Call of Duty. Sturmgewehr? No, the wonder weapons. Oh, some like the crazy German... Yeah, yeah, like all those crazy German weapons that they were telling people, telling the public when they were losing the war, they were like, no, but these crazy new... The Wunderwaffe. Yeah, yeah, the Wunderwaffe. Die Glocken.

Gaston was technically born then. The clock. The bell. Oh, that. Yeah, no, I forgot about that. The bell. Yeah, the whole secret nuclear program shit. No, the UFO.

Oh, fuck. I forgot about... There's two different things, too, I'm thinking of. Dude, I love when countries are losing wars. They're like, propaganda time. We gotta pump this shit out. I don't respect anybody who calls the Wonder Waffle... I don't respect anybody that doesn't call it the Wonder Waffle. Wonder Waffle. That's fair. That's how I read it in Call of Duty. Okay, sorry, Donut. Take it away.

No, I was going to say, Connor, you can back me up on this. Wasn't there some theories where the Germans went up to Antarctica and they were trying to figure out some... Oh, this is documented. The hollow earth. The Germans were actually researching the hollow earth. They found hyperborea under the surface. I made a whole video about it. Wait, Connor, right? We found just in

a new a abandoned facility research facility in the antarctica just like in the last 20 years yeah i think it was like 20 years ago they found it in canada it's canada canada it was a radio station wasn't it yeah there it was a it was a weather station for bond well brandon's about to get out yeah and yeah i'll i'll bounce out if you want to talk about this i also need to hear about this okay no pb go do uh we'll do a cut

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The summer sun is here to stay, so trust Manscaped to keep those pubes at bay. The other important thing about Mein Kampf is like... No, we were talking about the Nazis in Antarctica. Oh, yeah. He knows this. I'll just make this one point. The strong point you were talking about over there, why you love them. Well, obviously, besides why the Jews suck and all that...

The interesting reason to read Mein Kampf is to read the same words that brainwashed millions of people to try and understand how the rhetoric worked. It's so fucking schizophrenic, though. It is. It's a dog shit book. What was her girl's name that was doing the below it? What was her name? Haktur? No, the girl that was below that that was like, this is fucking garbage.

Oh, Dorothy Thompson. Dorothy. Oh, yeah. Yeah, our girl Dorothy was just torn to pieces. Yeah. It's like, this book sucks. It was schizophrenic as shit. You fucking denied me a fist bump. I appreciate that. Oh, did I? I must not have seen it. Yeah, shouts out Dorothy Thompson. I was too busy hating the Jews. There goes my Congress run. Yeah. I disagree.

Antarctica. Yeah, Antarctica. Oh, yeah, because you were asking what's the most interesting thing. And something that I remembered that you did was...

Was yeah, the Nazis in Antarctica just like doing the hollow earth theory stuff Yeah, the Nazis believing that there was a hollow earth So there was something called the Thule Society which is like this occult Nazi society They were trying to find the origins the whole purpose of it allegedly was that they were trying to find the origin of The Aryan people the master race. I'm sold sold already So there was a lot of like symbolism. That's where like all of the runes come from and like the Black Sun and

Heinrich Himmler was very, very big into this. And there was a belief within the society that, so it was like a whole archeological group that was part of the Thule society. It's like the whole Indiana Jones shit when he'd be like digging up and the Nazis are like, oh, you know, we need to find the Ark of the Covenant so we can gain that power, that type.

And Hitler was fully on board, by the way, on this. Yes. Yeah. I would just fully let that known. Full send. And part of the belief was that the earth was hollow. And at the North Pole and the South Pole, there is an opening. And you can go inside to another earth called Hyperborea. And that's the origin of the Aryan people. They're from inside the earth where there is another planet called

And, uh, so there's a conspiracy theory. I made a YouTube video on it, not to self-plug. This sounds like truth to me. It certainly definitely happened. The Earth is hollow. You've seen Godzilla vs. Kong, right? There's another planet. To reference another piece of scientific media. Have you seen the documentary? Godzilla vs. Kong. Kong Skull Island. Well, they say at the start of the movie, based on a true story. Sorry. Sorry. Go on. Hey.

So the theory is that they sent an expedition to go inspect whether or not there's a hollow earth. Maybe they did. Maybe they didn't. I don't know. There's no evidence of that. They definitely went to Argentina. But they had a whaling base. The Nazis established a whaling base on Antarctica because they needed – they got cut off from their supply of butter from primarily, I think, England. Yeah, that sounds fucking insane. I don't know why. They got cut off from their supply of butter. It's all about butter, dude. I can't believe it's not butter.

In order to produce margarine, the main... Like, now we use fucking corn oil, and that's a whole other thing. But the main supply of artificial fats and oils at the time was whale oil. Like, what's the video game? Yeah, you're a gamer. Oh, yeah, quiz me. Yeah, where you're like a criminal or whatever, and it's like kind of a steampunk-type world. Cyberpunk. Oh, about oil? Yeah. It's like a whale oil world.

Huh? And you have like superpowers. You can like shoot rats at people. Rats? Yeah, it came out like 10 years ago. Is it Dishonored? Is that the name of the game? Never played Dishonored. Yeah, same. That could be it. It sounds like I don't... I think you're right. Swing and a miss. But they got cut off for a year to fly. Connor just made up a video. He's like, you've never heard of the dystopian future with whale oil? Where you shoot rats? It's magic.

I might have made that up! You could have, I mean, I've never played Dishonored, so you could be... It's only a nightmare. Yeah. Very fever dream-ish. Like, no, the whales! We get our power from the whales and you shoot rats out of your hands! That's how it happened, Dad, it's real! Let me get a power, though. Sounds like a great gameplay mechanic. Rats! They just gnaw on you. Anyway. That was the f***ing best one. No, I was...

Well, nobody played that enough to know what the fuck is about. Nobody played that. Wait, you can shoot rats? Alright, alright. Hell yeah. I never played the game either. I just remembered seeing my friend play it. Wow. You can shoot rats out of your hand. You have two gamer cards now. I've given you mine because I don't deserve it, clearly. Amen. Now I can say the N-word. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. I do not endorse this political message. Nice. That's the N-word, right?

Yeah. Okay, how is it making it sure? Ninja. I thought I stepped in here. You're thinking it. After the racial and Jew talk. You can't do anything. Yeah, not at all. Tightening my microphones, Chris. Nervously kicking feet. I know. There's their tics. Me stroking mustache. So Hitler found the monkeys in the middle of the earth. So back to the Antarctica thing. Yeah, no, they got cut off from their supply of butter.

So they needed an artificial fat, which comes from whale oil, so they could produce margarine, which I guess you can't survive as a society unless you have something to spread on your toast. And then the Nazis moved down to Antarctica to establish a whaling base, or they were just kind of scoping it out.

But like two months after that, they invaded Norway, which has like all of the whaling ports in the world. That was no longer a concern. They abandoned it. The British had a base down in Antarctica, and they said it was so that they could observe Argentina, but it was to observe the Nazis. It was a whole thing. The Earth's not hollow. There's nothing going on down there. It's very cold. You can trust me. I've been down there. Except for Godzilla and Kong.

Actually, Kong is the only one down there because Godzilla was up on the earth. But he actually cycled through the... No, Kong's down there. There's... I believe it. The Nazis were onto something. That's where all the Kong people are.

Yeah. I just hope the director's actually in Middle Earth filming Peter Jackson. And he's like, no one believes me. Those VFX fucked all of it up. Why does no one believe me?

I'm sorry. That one sucks so bad because you can never prove it. You can see the Kong man right here. I'm so sorry. Don't apologize. The fact you keep circling back to the Nazis being correct is what I find most upsetting. Somebody's got to fight for him these days.

Somebody has to stick up for the truth. So anyway, about that Wukong video game. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. What'd you think of it? You played it yet? I haven't played it yet. I don't play video games. I go outside. Oh, okay. Get him the fuck out of here. Huge. King Trout came from Red Dead 2. King Trout? That's his name online. Yeah, my name came from that video game.

I also convinced Eli to play the game. Literally, I started playing it. I finished it! And Eli was obsessed with it for like three months there. I learned how to spin revolvers from it. Only three months? Do you guys want to know something? Okay, I might spill a little bit of a secret. I had plans to collab with

or talk to roger clark the voice of arthur morgan for a video to promote uh audiobook about red dead redemption and its connections to like cowboy history but there is currently a strike going on so he can't he can't do anything yeah i forgot another strike started yeah there's another strike video game side yeah yeah video game side so like voice actors ai you know they're

They don't want their jobs to be replaced by AI. Not 100% certain on that, but I think that's... So it is what's...

Their fear is because there's no way in their contract. And if you've ever worked with a corporation or Hollywood style to save money, they will literally be like, hey, we have his voice. We have literally hours of – like hundreds of hours of dialogue we can use. And then we'll just replicate his voice for the video game on the next round. So we don't have to pay that dude. We just do this. And then video game artists, the hardest part is –

or anything like that's non-existent in the video game space. Yeah. So I was talking to this guy who was working with Roger Clark on this audio book. It's also like a physical book. And we were talking about

collabing which would oh my god I'd never fucking fanboy harder I would have to like contain that you know and be and try to refrain from doing all the Red Dead 2 references and like I don't get you don't get you no more howdy man how you doing I'm here for money howdy girl howdy girl you're a good girl that's a good girl you're alright girl

I love it. So if this strike ends, there is a possibility I could do like a really cool interview with him. Because he does the voice of this audio book. So it's like a really cool thing to promote and like collab with on. And anyways. In the character of Arthur Morgan? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Hell yeah. And it's like a, you know.

It's like a book about how Red Dead 2 ties in with actual cowboy history, basically. Cowboy history is dope. Narrated by Arthur Morgan. That's the guy you want. That's the guy you want. That's a selling point, I think. Yeah. But because of the strike, obviously he has certain obligations to not... Make money. Well, yeah. He's not allowed to because he's a member of a union. Well, yeah, because he's sticking up for all the other guys. You know what I mean? That's an opinion you can have.

Well, for him to go outside of that and say, fuck those people, I want to go on this YouTuber's channel. No, I would not have him on those terms. Did you tell him to do it for free? What's that? Be like, do it for free, represent people. Can we just pay these people to do something? No, that's what they're sticking up for. You got to read the Communist Manifesto. I'm sticking to that, Cody.

You're like, damn it. Why am I in this? Well, would you would you want a role like Arthur Morgan replaced by somebody? No, I mean, qualified. Trust me, like Hollywood sucks as a whole. I've watched. I've got to be part of that industry. I know how fucking shady it is.

And then the flip side of AI is a lot of people on Strike suck at their job. That's what sucks because you have the talented people. Yeah, but Roger Clyde clearly does not. That dude fucking... So whatever he's sticking up for, I'm on his side. Yeah. And then it sucks. It's like the other 80% probably do suck at their job. Or the writer's strike was one of those weird ones where it was, they're not taking my scripts. Fucking when you read a lot of Hollywood scripts, you're like...

Yeah, dog. You suck at what you do. Jesus, fuck. You do not deserve money right now. But then you have the top tier that actually...

The top tier actually deserves a good pay. I noticed your drink is empty, good sir. Sorry. I just need some whiskey. I'm sorry. I feel like we just completely derailed your whole Nazi Antarctica trip. No, no, no. That was done. We're on a different thing now. Okay, yeah. Welcome to Unso. Yeah, well, it's just the Nazis. You really want to stay on the Nazis? Go back. No, no, no. He's like, sorry we derailed the Nazi conversation. It's just my ADHD, but...

Let's go back to the Nazis. I mean, we could do an entirely new podcast just about Red Dead Redemption 2. Hell yeah. Fucking all day long, dog. You guys beat it? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Cody, I got Cody. What ending did you get? The good one, obviously. Oh, I got the worst one. Oh, we found that out. I was like, what? He's like, this is my... I was like, ooh. Ooh, that's a hard... Dude, that scene, though, however, when he goes back for the... You went back for the money?

How do you mean? Cody go la la la la. At the end. As Jack? No, no, no. We'll keep it as vague. Actually. It's hard. Spoiler alert. No, no, no. No spoilers. Actually, we'll stop right there. You got to go for the money. All you'll know is that there's a decision at some point to go back for the money. That's it. But that doesn't really matter.

Oh, I thought it was entirely based off of your standing. It's part of it. Yeah, that's part of it. So there's four endings. But yeah. Because I got the worst one. Yeah. You went back for the money and then you were an asshole. Yeah. Is that what determines it? That's it. That's the only... Yeah. We can't ruin this masterpiece for him now. That's all I'm going to say. I haven't got the ending yet. I haven't been there. All I'm going to say is I died in the rain. Cody, I will say...

you're in that hard part because you just started and it does take that little the mechanics are weird and they don't explain it but once you open that world up jesus i i'm so glad this year was the first last year going into this year was the first time i've ever played it because it was a experience that i actually finished a video game

This story is so fucking good. So good. I haven't beat a video game. Also the side stories too. Did you guys do that? It's like Witcher 3 level of side quests. We'll only spoil random side quest shit. Nothing main plot. Just to rob somebody else of that enjoyment. Dude, the circus? The circus quest was so...

funny did you do it? you gotta follow the like it's a dog dressed up as like a zebra or a horse as a zebra everything and that's all I'm gonna say it's like that classic rockstar like fucking shenanigans that's so perfect the story of that game is so good the girl I was dating at the time every time like a main story cutscene would come on she would ask me to like call her into the room so she could watch it like a fucking movie

It's so... I learned how to spin revolvers and toss them and do all tricks with revolvers because of that in Metal Gear Solid. Like, Metal... I started playing that and I was like, I need to buy two revolvers. And then I was like, Metal Gear Solid and it started spinning. Now I'm very good at spinning and tossing revolvers.

ADHD or autism? No, no. I mean, you try to emulate the things you think are cool, right? Oh, she's so fucking gangster. That's why I emulate Eli. Yeah. That's why I suck dick. Where are your tattoos? They're on the way. He ordered them. They're coming in. Yeah. Printing it on. Like the voice actor you were talking about who's doing, or, you know, that you're working with right now. Roger Clark. I haven't talked to him directly. I talked to the guy who's working with Roger Clark on this audio book. Okay. And it's a physical book, anyways.

He definitely does the voice of Arthur because he has his own voice. And then when he's like doing the character, he like puts on a voice. But the gentleman whose name I can't remember, Chase, please put his name up on the screen. He's a wonderful voice actor who does the voice of John Marsden. That's his voice.

That's John's voice. Yeah, he's from, like, Nowheresville, Indiana. And he's just, like, I watched an interview and it was, like, all the voice actors and they're going through and they're, like, getting into character and everything and then it cuts to the guy who plays John. And he's like, yeah, I'm going on and I'm going to play John Marsden. It's like, okay, that's just his voice. Arthur. Arthur.

They found a guy who had the perfect natural voice. The best thing about it, too, I think if memory serves, he did the, like, Rockstar... Rockstar loves to recruit, like...

Unknown people because like they you know, there's no hyper buzz around some person that nobody knows There's no chance of them like spoiling their upcoming project very smart actually very smart So they found I also can't remember his name off the top of my head Wow, which I feel bad about things probably John. I think he's like Spencer or something. I don't think it's Spencer White off something white off

Anyways, I think he, like, Rockstar recruited him to voice in Red Dead Redemption 1, and then, like...

He just went back to his actual humble farm life. And then they came back to him five or six years later. It was like, hey, we're doing Red Dead Redemption 2. You want to come back? And then he came back. He's like an actual... He's just a guy. Yeah, like an actual cowboy kind of dude. Modern cowboy. There's a video of him. It was a documentary of them. The making of, I'm sure. That's what you're referencing. He's sitting on his front porch smoking a cigarette. And he's like, yeah, they asked me to come back and be John Marsden again.

Well, like the guy who played Trevor in GTA 5, like, he hates. You know about that? I do. Wait, he hates? Do you want to know a fun fact about me? This is going to trigger a large part of Unsubs Gaming audiences that I have. I have played GTA 5 twice. Two gaming sessions. One when it first came out. The day it came out, I played the first mission.

And then a second time was for a collab with a different YouTube channel. And I've never played GTA 5 outside of those two instances. Really? Yeah. Eli's gesturing that he's never played it at all. Dude, Raiden. Raiden's favorite game is Grand Theft Auto.

We've had talks on like when I started playing that like the age of eight and I was like, hey, you're borrowing cards. We had a whole thing. So I was like, okay, daddy. I was like, you say please when you pull somebody out of their car, ask them to borrow it. Yeah, yeah. I was like, fuck, he really likes this. Homeboy can beat that entire game. I didn't know this until...

Like a few years ago, he came and he was like, oh, and I have to get to this part. And he knows every fucking autism. He knows everything on Grand Theft Auto. So he will be up to a portion of the game to unlock a specific portion. But then you ask him, hey, what's this? And he knows everything.

every portion of that game to a tee but his favorite thing still to this day and he will do it for hours at a time he collects vehicles parks them on the train track and watches the train hit them and explode well he doesn't want that he just does that for hours he's like oh ryan likes trains weird they're in that perfect line

Oh, but... Grand Theft Auto, yeah. Did you, like, you're saying you're doing all this. Did you grow up, like, reading cowboy books or anything? Nah, man. I mean, so, I live in Washington, right? But up north... Yeah, Washington State. I always have to clarify because of fucking D.C., those plebs. Weird, you have to clarify. Well, I mean, when you say Washington, people naturally want to. But, um...

So I didn't grow up with cowboy books, but on my dad's side of the family, they lived up in a city called, not a city, a town called Linden, which is like the city. If you think of Washington geography, it's basically the city right before the Canadian border. Yeah, right up there. Very small town. I think the movie Footloose is based on that.

Linden because there was actually a time where they weren't allowed to dance on Sundays there. It's actually fun fact about Linden. I believe this is true. Correct me if I'm wrong chat, but in Linden out of any towns in the United States of America, it has the most churches per square mile of any town. Wait, you couldn't fucking dance on Sundays? Yeah, well, I mean, dancing is a devil, so...

If you dance, you're dancing with the devil. Dude, I love old. The further we get, it's like, man, we're kind of retarded back then. But to answer your question, I didn't grow up

like with cowboy books but i did grow up with grandparents who lived a more rural lifestyle gotcha like who like my grandfather had to like he dropped out of the fourth grade to work on the farm so he never got more than a fourth grade education but he was very fucking smart despite that how old are you uh 30 okay yeah so i'm old i'm old as

Shit, man. But you did grow up watching like Tombstone and like stuff like that. I watched Tombstone a bit. Yeah, yeah. I just remember like every Sunday my father would put on Tombstone or like something like that. John Wayne. John Wayne. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Those old cowboy movies. Yeah, yeah. Fucking all day long. Yeah.

It was the best time ever just watching that. God damn it. Red Dead Redemption 2 is like every John Wayne cowboy movie just in video game form. And you control the story. Do you want to shoot this person or save him? It's the triangle. I saw a meme today. It's a triangle. And it was like men are on one of these three corners. And it's cowboy, samurai, pirate, cowboy.

It's the cowboy fantasy. I'm on cowboys and pirates. I'm on samurai and cowboys. So you love Ghost of Tsushima? Fucking dog. Sushi Ghost? Sushi Ghost. We've done episodes about Sushi Ghost back in the day. Dude, Sushi Ghost...

I have a 15-year-old son now, and I raise him like John Wayne. He hits him. No, no, yeah, exactly. I strike him constantly. Do you remember the scene where he's like... Son, I want you to grow up to be racist. The specific scene. I can't remember what movie it is with John Wayne where he's like, you can't swim?

You can swim now. It's like that Hulk Hogan backdrop in... Was it Mr. Nanny or... What was the movie? Where was the backdrop they captured on camera on accident? Wait, do none of you know this? It was filming when Hulk Hogan... It's like Mr. Nanny or Future Cop or whatever fucking Hulk Hogan movie it was. He's riding the Harley. And...

You know what I'm talking about? With the dog? Yeah, and then it's a random stranger in the background. They didn't know this. It's a dude in the background like, chucking a dog in the river. A dog into the ocean, yeah. You've not... Bro, oh my God. What the fuck, Eli? No, you've not... Yeah, this is a whole thing. God, what movie was it? Oh,

No holds barred. No holds barred. Dog scene. It was a steer in Hulkamania when he was the best person on the planet. Wait, is it no hold barred? Shout out show for being our database over there. Or Jamie. Jamie, pull that up. Jamie, pull it up. It's like a cut scene and they missed this part. Wait for it in the background. Someone just chucks a dog? Into the ocean, yeah. Oh! Oh!

What the fuck, man? Mr. Nanny. Mr. Nanny. Mr. Nanny. That's a full-grown dog, too. Yeah. That's still right there. The dog is just...

I just like that make that's not intentional. No, that was a fucking random occurrence Okay, to be honest that dog probably loved doing that. Oh, yeah He's probably super stoked to land in the ocean How do you miss that? Easy, you're like, Hulk looks good next It's on the editor, Chase So, uh, circling back to Hitler Oh

He kind of reminds me of Dutch in a lot of ways, right? So about that Chinese game you're sponsored by. Tiananmen Square Massacre. Go on. We can go into Blackman and Wukong. Oh, yeah. Okay. Yeah, I do. Okay, first off. We're canceling each other. Let's go. Black Wukong. What is it? Oh, my God. He's so racist. I know. Sorry. African American Wukong. Sorry. The best part of that is...

How they led up the game. They released a trailer four years ago, said shit. And then two weeks ago, I think, they were like, oh yeah, it comes out in two weeks. Yeah, yeah. And then the player base, it broke all the records, like...

Steam players, active players, everything. Second place. PUBG is still the number one most concurrent players on Steam for any video game. PUBG is like 3 million. But the fact that some game that wasn't really as hyped as... Single player game. Single player game also. People were... I mean, we all saw the hype with Power World. If you were...

In with the gaming community at all, Power World. I played the fuck out of Power World, dude. That didn't rank as high as this in player base. No shit. In fairness, the Chinese, they've got a lot of player base. Well, whether or not they are forced to play this video game or they genuinely want to. Play Wukong now! You play the Wukong game!

game. Play the monkey. Ho, ho, okay. Okay. White monkey gang. Yeah, play black monkey gang. It's pretty decent as far as I've played. There's definitely some very funny, interesting controversies around it, though. I haven't heard the controversies. You haven't? No. Well, they sent out a letter to all the content creators. Go on. Oh, yeah, yeah. They sent out a letter. A list of do's and don'ts.

For Black Myth Wukong, for content creators that got an early code, I was not one of them. So I'm not bound by anything. Do tell. On the do's and don'ts, it says... You got the list. Pull it out. The do's or the don'ts far outweigh the do's. Yeah, yeah. This is hilarious. Yeah, just give me one sec. Please tell me it's in broken English.

Because I mean the gameplay is like Dark Souls-ish. Yeah, yeah, like the Dark Souls- Soul-like. Souls-like, sorry. Souls-like. Dude, I played Demon's Souls for the PS2. Or PS3. Korean version. No, I had the Korean version. Oh, shit.

Because the FLA, shout out to Fire's Heaven, they were like, this game's hard as shit. And I was like, this is... Did you play that game when Dark Souls came out? Yes. Oh my god, dude. Gamer Street Cred, like, maximum. You played Demon's Souls before Dark Souls? Yeah, I've had the Korean version before it hit America. Korean or Japanese? Japanese.

Korean. That is fucking based. Is it Korean? No, Japanese game. But they released... I can get the Korean. He doesn't even know the difference. I had to get the Korean version that worked on the PS3. There's a weird... Fuck, now I actually forget. Oh, PAL versus NC whatever. Something like that. Yeah. Now I'm like, wait, why did I buy that? It wasn't released or it released in Japan or then Korea before America. We didn't get it. And everyone on the Fires of Heaven board was like, yo, this game's fucking horrible.

Oh, you got it early. Yeah, before it came to America. So I was like, oh, I'm going to try it. The guy's there. That's how I got Bitcoin in 2010. It was like...

These are my OG homies. So we did that and I was like, oh, played it. I was like, this game sucks dick. This is fucking, it's amazing. Like, holy, it's hard good. I was about to get a good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good

It's a good thumbnail if you couldn't tell by for a moment of laughter. It fucks me up. Okay, okay. So the Black Myth Wukong developers, God bless China. We love what they're doing over there with the communism and everything. I brought the manifesto over for a reason. I mean, also just side note, I didn't just...

shave this goatee because it makes me incredibly attractive to women, but I'm trying to, you know, look like Lennon. Anyways. Bring your book back out.

Anyways, so the funny part about it, you said broken English. Do's and don'ts. Wow. Don'ts. Don'ts. Don'ts. Do's. Enjoy the game. Do not. Oh, okay. Thank you for telling me to enjoy the game. Yeah. Do's and don'ts of this game. First off, enjoy it. Enjoy game right now. Second. Okay.

Okay, well, surprisingly, the game is actually pretty decent. Not necessarily mind-blowing, but it's pretty cool to get this kind of cut of Chinese culture in a video game form. I equated it to the Witcher series being a vessel for Norse and

Polish mythology and kind of like, you know, having representation for that sort of thing and being able to, you know, or like the, the souls game with the Japanese Sekiro. Thank you. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.

Just quick reference, I had the Korean version because that was the first one that had English subs to it. And that came out April 28, 2009. That is why I had the Korean version. He's not racist! You had me confused. I was like, why the fuck did I buy the Korean version? The Japanese game was only in Japanese. Okay. I was like, you gaslit me. I just want to take a moment to point out how fucking based somebody is for playing Demon's Souls before Dark Souls because Demon's Souls was like

I liked it before it was cool.

Yeah, exactly. He's a paragon. I was fucking gay. Tell us about the don'ts. Okay, back to the don'ts! I'll do it all in Chinese. By the way, the spelling mistake is made twice. It is not a one-off. At least they're consistent. Do's and don'ts. Okay, do not insult other influencers or players. Don't insult the people! The influencers are that bad. I mean, that's fair. I can get down with that. There's no, like...

Multiplayer voice chat, so I don't really have an opportunity for that. That's fine. They didn't grow up during modern warfare too, but it's okay. Do not use any offensive language or humor. Don't say the cuss word. That's bad. Okay, next one. Thank you, Eli, for translating. Yeah, I got you. I got you all. So they don't want us using words like **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and **** and ****

Say why in Japanese or in Chinese. Why is very strong word. And then just to clarify, and I can send you guys a picture of the do's and don'ts. But just to clarify, this was a list of recommendations for content creators that they sent early codes to, you know, trying to control a part of the narrative around Black Mith Wukong. By the way, pretty decent game.

It's worth checking out, but... 7 out of 8 out of 10. Yeah, so the third dance is do not include politics, violence, nudity, feminist propaganda, fetishization, and other content that instigates negative discourse. Don't let the white lady be strong. Women down, stupid bitches. Make sure you also don't talk about the negative discourse.

But also women, no go. But the best part. The best part. Cody's face right now.

Yeah, yeah. No, no, I'm not gonna say the... Oh, there's a lot of jokes to make. Trust me, I make them in my video that's coming out soon. I just like it was like racism, feminism, and discourse. Yeah, no, no. So, the next one. Do not use trigger words such as quarantine or isolation or COVID-19.

Those are trigger words, okay? For the Chinese, they are. Now, are you guys triggered right now? I am so triggered. COVID-19 did not come from China, did not come from the bat, okay? Move on to next point. Wukong, very good game. Very positive. White people like it. America like it. You are being very...

I'm probably Asian. No, he's Asian. It's okay. So I'm good. Oh, yeah. That's the only reason I... Yeah, he's ambiguous about what he was. I was like... What do you think he was? Just racist. I don't assume. You're like, holy shit. You couldn't tell based on the shape of his skull? Let me take some measurements real quick. This guy's not into phrenology. I'm like... He's going hard on the Chinese accent. I'm...

Okay, but, but, but. So Mexican, Asian, Native American, which I did not know. I got that like whole 23 in me back then. You got all the passes. I was like 22%. What are you talking about? Okay, okay, but. And then my white son. So just a reminder, do not use trigger words such as quarantine or isolation or COVID-19. And you know what this means, boys? You know what they didn't mention? What's that? Go on. Well, I'm going to say it. I'm going to say it.

Looks like Tiananmen Square Massacre and Winnie the Pooh is back on the menu, boys! We can talk about that! Let's go! Black Myth Wukong! Wait, Cody, have you seen a trailer for it? Yeah, it looks great! Dude, it looks absolutely fucking gorgeous. Yeah, the graphics are really, really good. Have you seen it yet? No. Dude, oh! Dude, Trout, like...

For the sheer fact that they did no marketing and then two weeks before the launch, it was like, it comes out in two weeks, by the way. I think they might have had one trailer a year ago at the Xbox Game Showcase because I remember, but not much else besides like, oh, here's a more official trailer. You're like, bleh. I got to pee again, by the way. Yeah, go, go.

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Just the fact, dude, my favorite thing is like, he said a year and they didn't give a date. And then two weeks ago, like, oh yeah, it comes out on the 20th. We were, we were recently Japanese. Oh yeah. I can't do that. That's Chinese. Actually got to go high or pitch. I don't know. Gotta go to the high pitch.

The high pitch. You got the H2O. You drinking a white crock. Okay, white man. You go, look at you, dressed like twin over there. Got the white skin. Got the white shirt. Got the blue jean. You need to unbutton one button. Match his chest hair, you know.

There we go. Uh-oh. Borrow some from him. Grew it on... We didn't plan this out. Actually, we did call each other this morning. We're like... You wearing your white shirt? Yeah, I'm wearing my white shirt. How chubbed up are you right now, bro?

Dude, the Wukong... But I will say the Wukong story is fucking... A lot of... All the mythologies from back in the day are so gangster. I'm like, yeah, this is what we need more of. Retellings of it and actually studios coming out. Now, will I play Chinese games? Probably not so much because they still restrict. Even World of Warcraft, they re-skinned a lot of the... The Chinese version of World of Warcraft is...

different than what we play really yeah they can't show the bodies they can't show skeletons big no-no dude china's actually been kind of on fire with recent games like blackman the wukong it's really good and also also marvel rivals you were saying that one's actually good that one's that that is the that replaces the overwatch that has been missing from my life like when overwatch 2 came out there was like a void of like the hero shooter and marvel rivals like

Yes, I was sponsored by them. But it's actually a good video. Like, they're not paying me to say this. No, it's like an actually good video game. And they're going to, unlike Overwatch 2, they're not going to gatekeep fucking new heroes. They're all free at release, which is like. I was a big COD fan. I played the show, Warzone. Like, Warzone and Warzone 2. I smashed. Those were my jams when I was playing them.

Then I stepped away from gaming as, as it's really hard. And your life significantly got worse after you stepped away from gaming. I was just almost became a statistic in the veteran community. It was hard. David, I'm sorry, bro. He's going to play Dave the diver. He was like, Holy shit. Did,

Did you see that too? I checked it out. He kind of got me sold on it. I saw the reviews in the footage. He was like, oh yeah, it's kind of like a... It's like 10-10 on Steam right now. Dave the Diver. And then how many reviews at 10-10? I think 97% of the reviews on Steam are positive. And that's like 100,000? 100,000 reviews. Yeah.

97% positive. Like a 10 out of 10 on Steam, I feel like I could be wrong, but that seems like unheard of. And then they have 97,000 reviews or 100,000 reviews. 100,000 at 97% positive. And accounting for trolls, maybe like just shitting on the game because everybody likes it. Maybe you got an extra 1% or 2%. So that's more like 98, 99%. But a single dude or not.

No, that was Animal World. But like a small team worked on that game. And Cody's huge into cooking. Like that is his fucking forte. Oh, yeah? Oh, my boy can cook. Let him cook. Actually, it's exclusive on Pepperbox. Literally. We just started the show with our boy Cody on Pepperbox. Cody's the only one I eat. I'm like.

- Fuck you on how good this tastes. - What is food though, other than shit fuel? - You cook like my uncle except you don't dash your cigarette into it. - Oh we don't use MSG, MSG very bad. - Isn't that what turns the frogs gay? - Welcome to Let 'Em Cook. - I straight up know I'm gonna have a terrible reaction to this. - He can cook and not just opinions on the internet, some real fucking food.

But I was like, yeah, you fish with a harpoon gun, you swim, and then you run a sushi store. And it is fantastic. You're just... I like mindless games at this point in my life where I don't have to learn a goddamn thing. I just, I want to sit down and I want to play a game. Red Dead, thank you for that. That was the exception where I was like, I got to learn everything. Holy shit, this world's expensive. Didn't do the prologue or the epilogue. I was like, no, this is...

Don't fuck. No, you take over as Jack and you're like, or John. It's like six hours. Yeah. He didn't. No. No, you go to the Mexico part and it's like, who cares? Wait, are you talking about Red Dead 1 or Red Dead 2? Two. You didn't play the epilogue? No. Get back on that shit, man. We're going in this one. Get back on that shit. Are you kidding? It leads. Oh my God. It makes Red Dead 1 even more tragic. I've never played one.

I can pretend to play it. Give me your fucking gamer card right now, bro. Sorry. Fucking... Well, I'll only take half of it because you did beat Red Dead 2, so... What about my Demon's Souls? Or Dark Souls? Actually, okay, okay. Okay, I got the full card back. Yeah, you got it all back, but... I got my card back. No, no, no. Real shit...

Finish the epilogue, play Red Dead 1, because if you haven't beat Red Dead 1, like the coolest thing, one of the coolest things about the Red Dead Redemption duology, I guess, because there's two games, is you can play them in either order, and the story is just as impactful. If you play the first game, you kind of know how the second game ends, but you don't know how you get there. If you play the second game, you don't know how the first game ends, and then you get there.

Funny story, actually, they got a bunch of shit for not having, because John wasn't the main character in 2, because whatever happens. Yeah, and all those people turned out to be retarded, because Arthur Morgan was the choice, and you still get to play as John Marston. Cody, everyone hated Arthur when it was trailer, and you're like, you can't play with me.

John Marston, this is going to be bullshit. And then everyone, literally everyone's opinion was like, like the biggest 180 in the history of 180s on opinions. I was wrong. John, really cool dude. Arthur.

greatest character ever in video game history. Yeah, to the point where there's a debate. Like, there's a debate. People... A lot of people will actually argue now that Arthur Morgan is a better protagonist than John... Oh, 100%. Dude, he raised fucking Jack. He's a father figure to Jack. Remember... Cody's like, I wish I played this. No spoilers, but there is a debate to be had there because...

Both raised each other, some might say. They have turning points. Well, then the one mission that I refused to play because afterwards that starts happening. That's when I stopped playing. I know. I will say, I mean, we're kind of...

Feel free to cut any of this garbage that you think is garbage, you know, or too much. But one of the coolest things about Red Dead Redemption 2 is that it flips the strongman protagonist hero on its head. So you probably noticed this. You might not have explicitly thought of it. How do you mean?

Wait, wait, wait. What you just did. Wait, wait, wait. How far have you gotten in Red Dead 2? Not too far. Connor, what did you just do? I don't know. What he just did. Are you saying emotionally or physically? I don't want to spoil it.

Okay. But, but. Cody, plug your ears. No, whisper in his ears. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Whisper in his. So the traditional male protagonist who's like strong or like who starts off weak and becomes strong. Go. Flips it. Flips it. Flips it on its entire head. Okay, we got it. We got it. Yep. We.

Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep. Which is like really compelling, right? Normally it's like... It doesn't fucking happen. You get strong... Like, it's a perfect representation because it's the antithesis of like Edge of Tomorrow. It is the antithesis of Edge of Tomorrow because you're like, oh, any movie. It's like, oh, I have to overcome this. How do I overcome this? My character starts off weak. He, you know, he learns how to be a strong man. But it's like...

It's the opposite in Red Dead 2. And it's like, it's so fucking compelling. And like, I think, I think every guy can kind of relate to that. Every, everybody can relate to that process. You play the love story side arc. Which one?

Oh, with the- oh, the one- the- the girl? Yeah, the lettuce. Oh, oh. Yeah, you go with- With Arthur's girl? Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Dude, Cody, you do- oh, Cody, you need to go home and beat this. You gotta get on this, man. I know, dude. Everybody play Red Dead Redemption 2 right now. That is the moral of the story. I hate- I fucking hate- I am actually glad I waited so long, and I'm glad I played it in 2023 into 2024, because it took me six months to beat that fucking game. Time. Time.

and the side quest you will just get down the side quest i was like i want to build that satchel to hold 99 of every object by god did i do that i was like okay this is really cool and then i didn't get a finish the side quest with the old man that's in the hut that's like becomes his friend i didn't because it was like too far in the game i was like fuck or the people building the house and the art act one

I didn't get to finish that one. I was like, fuck! Dude. You gotta start another playthrough, my guy. I know! Play the fucking game, Eli. I'll play it. Dude, Cody. Oh my god, dog. I convinced Eli to play it the first time I was on the podcast. And I did. And I was...

He would text me at like 3am. And he would be like, dude, this fucking game rules. And then I found Connor's ending. I was like, man, that ending. He was like, what? I was like, wait, what ending did you have? And then he told me. I was like, watched all the endings. I was like, you got the worst. I was a piece of shit. Yeah, Connor was like, fuck you. I bet you felt awful. I did. I genuinely, like, I did. That was a really, like, I felt very bad.

You probably felt like Anakin after he killed Mace Windu, like, what have I done? No, I'm a huge fucking Red Dead Redemption fan, because I was big in Red Dead Redemption 1, and the scene...

Wait, careful. Oh, yeah. I don't care. He'll never play it. We're not going to rob him of that. It's a 20-year-old video game. Which one? Red Dead Redemption 1. Oh, 1. Yeah, you can play it. Yeah, 1. I think they might be remastering it. But when you first ride into Mexico and it plays, I can't remember the artist's name, and I feel like a piece of shit. He had a song in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, which is a weird thing. But he was a...

He has a song. It's on acoustic guitar. It's like, Step in front of a runaway train just to feel alive again. It plays as you're riding into Mexico as the sun is rising at the beginning of the first game. That was the first time I was playing a video game and felt an emotion. I was like, oh, these can make you feel emotions. You felt something deeper. It made me think thoughts related to real life. Then he got to Unshaken.

Unshaken? What's that? Cut. You don't remember the... May I stand unshaken? Oh, that one. Okay. At the end of the game. Yeah. You, Cody, you like very rarely in video games. Like, Metal Gear Solid was...

I mean, that's why I joined the military. Even I know that is the opposite of what it represents, but it is. I still was like, oh, I want to do war. I want to do combat. I want to do all of this because of that. Hideo Kojima was like, that's not what it meant. And then he blocked you on Twitter. Yeah, I do. I was so sad. I was like, I named my kid after. Did he really? No, he didn't know. God, fuck. I met Hideo. I got a picture with him. Oh, okay. I was like, why are you wearing a shirt?

Yeah, I got to meet him at an after party. You need like five gamer cards at this rate, bro. That's why my son's named Raiden. Metal Gear Solid. And then finding out Liquid Snake's Eli, I was like, this cycle's fucking complete, dog. This is all I needed in my life. Yes. But that was the game. Xenogears was another game that had me feel emotion. If you've never played Xenogears, that is PS1. Very hard to get in a JRPG at our age.

It's very grindy. Very fucking grindy. You go back and you're like, story still aged very well. And it's really cool to read it because the Japanese are like, look, this will do great in America. And then the American translator is like, you're fighting God in the 90s. I don't think this is going to go over well. And they're like, but why?

Okay, so you're fighting God. Like, literally, there's a boss named God. But, like, Adam and Eve fell, and you find them in the garden eating. Yeah, that makes it worse, my guy. Name them something else. Better than my opinion. Deus. It means God in Latin. Yeah, that works. And they restructured everything. You're fighting angels and the Catholic religion. Like, for a 98 game game,

based as shit you're like wow you guys went hard for 1998 and it was competing with final fantasy 7 at the time which is even more ballsy at that point well scoresoft made it both oh that was like the competition both released at the same time and it's why i'm like i fucking just young eli loved video games i played the show older eli doesn't have time the point is cody

God, I played Red Dead Redemption 2. And you got to finish the epilogue, and you got to play Red Dead 1. Done. So you guys want to know something funny? I don't know when you want to close this out. But one funny fact is that, so I played Red Dead Redemption 1. I beat it. And I'd been getting... Stop bragging, bro. I played the first one. I'm kind of a big deal. Look me up on the Act Man. I post dog shit takes on video games. But, um...

So I had gotten a lot of requests to play Red Dead 2. And I was like, you know what? This would be fun. I'm going to stream my entire playthrough of Red Dead 2. And I did that. And I...

Kept the mystery alive.

So someone would post what I look back on as an actual spoiler and they would be like, dude, I can't believe Dutch made out with Arthur in that one scene. That was a good scene. That's a spoiler. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Tahiti! You remember when he came? It was crazy. What plan? What plan, Dutch? Tahiti? Timbuktu? And then he bought it because they were stuck on an island. Fucking crazy. I will say that...

The random encounters in the game are the hardest part because you're trying to do good like the entire time. You don't know when you're doing good. Yeah. Or you'll be like, hello, guy. What's up? How are you doing? I'm going to save you. Freeze. Or the horse kicks the guy and then you're standing there and there's a dead body and the guy rides by and he's like, you killed somebody. You're like,

That was my horse! Because I played it. I had a horse named General. And I raised this horse and my girlfriend at the time and I would ride this horse around. I didn't know that the fucking horses in the game when they die, they die for real. In real life. They die-die. Unless you have Horse Reviver. Or a load. A hot load. But you might be going back a few hours if you haven't saved. Do you want to know why I stopped playing Red Dead Redemption 2?

You got me playing it. No. Yes. I killed everything. Yes. Jesus Christ. He's annihilated. I killed the horses. I killed every man in the first town I went to. If only there were children in those games. I killed the police that showed up. I killed everything. Do you want a hug? I think he needs a hug. Cody killed the last person. He's like,

And game over. If he finishes Red Dead 2, he's going to get the fucking bad ending. 1000%. Nothing could stop me. I killed everything. Everything died. I don't know if you guys know. I was like a CSGO professional back in the day. It's like...

CS 1.6. I just killed. Headshot, headshot, headshot. They keep coming. The horses, the cops. No one could stop me. This game's boring. I just keep killing these waves of enemies. You're really a CS GoPro? Or close to it? Yeah. Dude, back in the day. Gamer card achieved. You can say the N word now.

That is not what I said. That is not what I said. He said it. You heard it here first, folks. If the N-word is ninja, then yes. No, the other one with the other letters. Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope. Nice. Nice. Community notes. Cody, close us out, and we'll go to the after show of this beautiful show. Thank you guys for joining the Unsubscribe podcast. I was joined today by Eli Doubletap, Actman, and...

King Trout. Brandon had to leave a little bit earlier. Rest in peace. Myself, Donut Operator. Thank you for hanging around. We're going to go to the after show at Patreon where you can see us be even more offensive. Also, Ackman, where did we find you at?

You can find me at TheActMan at YouTube.com. No, I'll just search up The Act Man on YouTube. You can find my channel, follow my socials if you care about that. I don't know if you guys want to put that on screen or whatever. It doesn't matter to me, but it's truly been a pleasure coming on here. I know you guys reached out a couple years ago when I was at a low point, and we finally got things on track.

And yeah, super fucking to be here and talk to you guys. It was a lot of fun. Communism is the right way of life, by the way.

I'm texting Nick right now. He just rang the doorbell. That was Nick. He's got like a listening device. On his way from Iowa right now. No, but, uh, but on the real, yeah. Thank you guys for having me on. It's been absolute blast and a pleasure. And, uh,

Yeah, if you ever need another guest on or a repeat to come on... Dude, 100%. 100% you're going to be back. I'm sure I'll find something worse than that. I want to see you and Nick sit together. Bring up the Conovist Manifesto in front of Nick. He would lose his mind. If he doesn't watch this podcast...

I won't post this one. I'm not going to say a thing because I want to be like, I want you to come back and him not know. I mean, it's totally of his free will. He might watch it. He might not. But if he doesn't, just...

And when I come back... We'll gaslight him. Yeah, no, no, no, no. Put his face in the thumbnail. That was my original plan. I was going to come here and I was going to bring out the Communist Manifesto and I was going to straight face it like, yeah, no. Get him fired up. Yeah. Yeah. Wait...

Why do you think communism doesn't work? That's funny as shit. Do you want to hear Nick go on a four hour rant? We just walk away. He's just talking to a microphone. Me and Connor and you go to the bar. Yeah, and meanwhile I'm just here like... You leave, he's still talking. We come back. And that is why communism...

Sucks. Good. Today we're talking about... Okay. Patreon. Kisses. We'll see.

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