Why Every Pro Needs a USB Hardware Key | Ryan McBeth DSH #1146

think maybe one of the reasons I can like both Sebastian Gorka and

Stephen Bottles and Destiny, it's that you have two people who are very passionate and you have two people who really care about America just in different ways, right?

You know, like they did.

And, you know, like you can talk about left wing, right wing, but a bird needs both to fly.

All right, guys, Ryan Macbeth is here today.

We're back and we got a lot to talk about.

Show and he brought some good advice.

One of the smartest things you could get is a USB hardware key.

You plug this into your computer and essentially, when you try to log into a website, unless this hardware token is detected inside your computer, you can't get in.

Really?

Wow.

Everything, everything I have is locked with a hardware key.

Wow.

But what if you lose that?

Well, you have a second one.

Now, I did, Sean, thank you so much for inviting me back.

I did bring you gifts because

I love you.

So, of course, whiskey.

Maker's Mark.

This is Dana's, right?

Dana White.

This is correct.

Yeah, I've seen him drink this stuff.

Thank you.

And my novel, The Wind Machine.

Let's go.

Number six in Psychological Thrillers, right?

Financial Thrillers.

Financial Thrillers.

It is number six in Financial Thrillers on Amazon.

I love it.

I didn't even know that was a category.

Imagine Dr.

Strange owned a hedge fund.

And that's essentially, essentially my book.

This guy, hedge fund manager, predicts a war with China.

Really?

So that's what you wrote about.

And it's apparently like people like it.

And what's crazy is this book is about 80% meetings

and people freaking love it.

I don't know what the heck it is.

Like, why do you like this book so much?

After I wrote it, you know, when you, when you write a book, and this is only the,

I guess, the second time I've written a book, I only did it because my fans asked for it.

I'm not a writer, but

after I read the book, you know, wrote the book, you read it like 20 freaking times during the editing process with the editor.

And I was like,

oh my God, this whole book is about meetings.

Because these people who work for the hedge fund, they just go to meeting after meeting after meeting to decide what's going on.

people freaking love it and it's exciting.

I mean, people liked the show suits and that was all meetings.

I guess.

Yeah, you're right or maybe uh what was that other show uh succession succession yeah the office i guess was a lot of office was more than meetings but yeah i think people are captivated with the the china possibility of a war you know it's it's it's very

it's terrifying in a lot of ways because they are slowly gaining this capability uh just recently hi sutton who who runs the covert shores um uh the covert shores uh twitter account he also has a youtube account as well.

He talked about landing barges.

Have you been to Taiwan?

I haven't.

I've been to Beijing, not Taiwan.

So apparently China's constructed these floating piers, floating barges slash piers.

And the idea is that these barges have a ramp.

You know, like the siege towers, like when you're watching those medieval.

Yeah, you know, where the

top comes down.

So if you look at Taiwan, they only have like three beaches.

But the rest of the island is rocky, and there's usually like a ring road that goes around the island, at least on the western, northwestern part of the island.

So the idea is that these barges roll up, they drop the ramp down like that.

The tanks come right off the ramp.

And these barges, they are essentially jack barges where they put these jacks into the sediment.

And

they're semi-permanent, right?

Like they're designed to be there for just as long as it takes to conduct the operation.

Then you throw the boat away.

But there is no civilian use for these boats.

Zero civilian use.

Wow.

So

they've constructed at least six, I believe, jack barges, five or six jack barges with roadways of different lengths.

which might be because like, hey, different areas of Taiwan need different lengths to reach out to that ring road.

So H.I.

Sutton just did a video about that.

And literally the other day, I did a video about signs where

we're going to see China considering invading Taiwan, one of which is

blood drives.

Blood drives.

It's actually in this book.

What is a blood drive?

Well, you know, when you go to the Red Cross and you donate blood, right?

So when you go to the Red Cross and you donate blood,

you're going to need to do that for soldiers who are wounded.

In China, just culturally, you don't donate blood.

And a lot of that goes back to the 19th.

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80s when they didn't really screen the blood that well, and people who were donating plasma and blood got HIV.

Okay.

And so, just like in China, it's just not something you do.

But if we start seeing the Chinese government encourage people to donate blood, we're going to have a Guinness Book of World record for blood donated on one day.

Yeah, because they got over a billion.

That's a sign that China might be considering invading Taiwan.

So is moving away from the Swift banking system.

They have their own system called CHIPS.

which is mainly used by Chinese banks talking to other Chinese banks.

But if China says, hey, you need to use our banking system if you want to do business in China,

that's another possible indicator.

But I feel like I'm overwhelming this conversation because this is your podcast.

I'm interested.

You know, there's always been talks of China, Taiwan, but it's seeming like it's an increasing possibility as the days go on.

I mean, if you're building invasion ships, yeah.

And I've said before that

the two most likely times to invade are 2017,

2027.

That's when President Zi has said China's, the PLA and the PLAF, People's Liberation, PLA, People's Liberation Army, PLAF, People's Liberation Army Air Force, PLAN, People's Liberation Army Navy, they must be ready to invade Taiwan by 2027.

If I were Chinese, and China's culture is 5,000 years old.

You think America has culture?

Wait a year about China, right?

5,000 years of culture.

They can wait.

They can wait an extra year.

That's what I would do.

I would wait an extra year until 2028.

What happens in 2028?

Presidential election.

So now you're going to have most likely JD Vance running for president, along with several Democratic contenders.

They'll find someone, right?

Gavin Newsome.

They'll find someone.

He's under a lot of heat right now.

Literally.

Yeah, literally.

Literally.

Literally a lot of heat.

Maybe we should have cleared that brush.

I think I told you that this is like this can this can go both ways.

You can talk about the wildfires, you can talk about TikTok.

So you had talked about, like, Ryan, you know, what were some of the items of misinformation that you saw in California wildfires?

And one of the things I've seen, I've seen like three,

basically.

The first is I've seen people talk about, oh, California is only getting $770 payments from the government.

They are getting, but it was the same in the Maui wildfires.

It was the same in North Carolina.

When a disaster happens, FEMA rolls into town.

They say, here's a gift card for $700 and some dollars.

Use that to buy infant formula, go to Walmart, get yourself some new clothes, medications, whatever you need, come back tomorrow and fill out your stuff for the real aid.

But people are fixated on that $700

thing.

So that's one of the things.

The other was that it was Alex Jones, which, okay,

uh who said that uh firefighters were using handbags to put out fires because uh

their engines had been sent to ukraine

and really apparently there are these canvas bags that firefighters use almost like as a bucket brigade thing when you don't need to bring a hose you just need like a little bit of water to dump on the fire and so really that was what they were using they're not handbags they're well they are handbags they're not like birkenbags got it was there any equipment sent to Ukraine, though?

I believe the U.S.

or other NATO nations have sent

firefighting equipment and ambulances.

I know that we've, we've had, I think Jake Bro.

You know who Jake Bro is?

I don't know.

He's out of Las Vegas.

You should have Jake Bro on your show.

I will get you in touch with Jake Brow.

I love Jake Bro.

He's an amazing human being.

Jake Bro.

Jake Bro.

B-R-O-E.

He was a former, he's a former missile guy, a missileman in in the Air Force.

So he sat next to nuclear, well, he didn't sit next to nuclear missiles.

They're like a couple of miles away, but he's in a capsule, finger over the button of a nuclear, nuclear missile.

I learned a lot about nuclear missiles from men, but he's had

fun drives where he's tried to raise money to bring ambulances, bring trucks, stuff like that.

Got it.

And the third thing, I just heard this in the Uber coming over here today, where this woman said,

yeah, the government started the fires because the government started the fire fires in california because they wanted to create a smart city and put a chip in everybody's hand and i mean like look we already have a chip in our hand right we we carry this around voluntarily

you know we give up our data yes apple here here's our data please take it

you know give me an easier way to check out by going

like that with our phone really on our wrist

i actually remember back when

they said the sign of the beast was going to be on your head or on your wrist, right?

Something like that, like this, this Christian notion of the Antichrist and you need something on your head or your hand to pay for goods.

And, you know, now you got your Apple Watch and you got your freaking Apple goggles.

What are those called?

Oh, the Apple Google Glasses or Pro or something?

Apple Vision Pro, yeah.

And now the Facebook has one, the meta glasses with Ray-Ban.

I don't don't know if you can pay for stuff with that, but maybe.

Yeah, I'm not sure.

I know it records people now.

That's nuts.

Yeah, so you could just be somewhere and recording people without them knowing.

I can only imagine, well, there's got to be a light that comes on, right?

I don't know.

Someone told me they had them on the other day, and I didn't even notice it.

So I think it's pretty subtle.

That's amazing.

Yeah.

Obviously, there's a lot of people saying there's foul play in that fire situation, but you pride yourself on being evidence-based.

Yeah, I mean, I wouldn't doubt that there's probably people who, like, I know this happened in New Orleans, where after the flood, Hurricane Katrina, some houses were flooded.

And then I know some people were like paying cops, like, here's $5,000.

Please go into my neighborhood, find this house, light this house on fire.

What?

Because if you don't have flood insurance, but your house floods, you're out of luck.

If you do have flood insurance,

you're going to be okay.

If you don't have flood insurance, your house floods, and then it burns down, now you get the money.

Wow.

So people were paying New Orleans police officers, hey, go in.

Yeah, I saw Andrew Schieberman posted a video of someone literally lighting a fire.

I could, I mean, I could picture that.

I could picture someone like, you know what, my ex-wife lives in this neighborhood.

Yeah.

I'm going to get her.

But there's also people saying the actual start of the fires were like, you know, I mean, who could be anything?

Careless smoking,

campfires, freaking,

you have pyromaniacs all over the place right in that whole area.

I mean, I guess we're at the point now we're kind of realizing this wasn't well managed.

Right.

Like you have,

I'm not a forest person.

Like, I don't know how you manage a forest, but I assume keeping dead brush on the floor of the forest probably isn't a good idea.

Yeah.

You know, but I also, I don't know how you stop 100 mile an hour winds.

True.

Like,

how do you, you know, if there is a small fire, winds make it into a big fire and the embers fly over.

I don't know how you fix that.

Maybe through tile tile roofs, like roofs that can't catch on fire.

But, you know, if you get vegetation catching on fire and then your windows melt or blow out because of the, well no, everything in your house is,

it might be fireproof to a certain degree.

Yeah.

I saw a crazy video yesterday.

Chinese government, I don't know if it's Chinese government, but the firefighters in China have these drones.

I don't know if you've seen this video, we'll throw it up, but they can shoot water out of them.

And there was a burning building and they use these drones to shoot water at it.

How big are these drones?

Because water is pretty heavy.

Yeah, it's not a lot of water.

They have to keep refueling, coming back.

But sounds like the Chinese have some very advanced drones.

You would know about that more than me, though.

Yeah,

I guess I would know about that.

I'm actually not familiar with that.

I would think that firefighting drones would probably be more useful at spotting fires.

using thermal cameras to say, hey, there's a fire, there's a hot spot here, there's a hot spot there.

Let's get a water tanker on that.

I don't see why you couldn't

turn a drone into the size of a helicopter

and make that unmanned and have that you know take that with a bambi bucket which are those buckets that you know come down they dip into the yeah

dip into the water and fly over whatever i don't i mean the difference between controlling a small drone and controlling a helicopter with a bambi bucket that's it shouldn't be that different you're gonna have to account for the extra weight and the whole pendulum effect of the Bambi bucket.

Yeah.

These ones seemed pretty big and it was a high-rise building.

So that makes sense because the regular firefighters wouldn't be able to high, right?

I, you know, when you take security classes, you know, when you work for the U.S.

government, one of the things they say is don't ever get a hotel room above the sixth floor.

Really?

Yeah.

It's part of your security training.

It's good to know.

You know, like ideally, like third floor, fourth floor because you're above where people can just like

ground floor, walk into your hotel or smash your window and sell your stuff or look for your stuff.

And

second or third floor, you're going to survive a fall.

Fourth floor, it's iffy.

Fifth floor, you're not surviving that fall.

But if you have to get out, second floor, third floor, that's the optimum floor.

That's so good.

So if you, if, I mean, dude, anybody who works for the government, you've taken terrorist training.

Like, they tell you how far away you should be from the exits of the hotel because you want to be far enough away that people can't come up the stairs and quickly enter your room, but also close enough that you can reach the exit.

Yeah.

You should always know where the exits are.

So when you get a hotel, you go like, all right, I'm here.

Where's the closest exit?

Where's the second closest exit?

Because if there's a terrorist attack, where do I need to go?

Yeah.

And I watched the Sean Ryan show.

There's that whistleblower.

I forget her name, but she's basically talking about potential terrorist attacks.

I don't know if you've seen that episode.

I think it was Sarah Adams.

I think it was Sarah.

I don't really watch the Sean Ryan.

Yeah, it was Sarah Adams.

So like she's basically saying some weapons have gotten in the country.

Have you seen that?

Across the border?

What kind of weapons?

I'd have to look it up, but she was saying it got across the Mexican border.

I mean, we have plenty of weapons here.

You want a weapon?

Go buy one.

She said not too concerned with.

Like you want to, look,

you can go to a gun store.

You can buy a semi-automatic rifle.

It's a pretty darn effective weapon if you want to be a bad guy.

And you look at the Mandalay Mandalay base shooter.

That guy might have, oh boy, I hope I don't get you demonetized.

I think they're over that incident now.

But you look at the Mandalay base shooter, he probably would have been

more effective if he didn't put a bump stock to simulate automatic fire on his weapon.

He was in a perfect position,

an elevated position.

So, yeah, I don't know if you need to worry about weapons getting into the country.

We have plenty of guns here.

And that's actually kind of the good thing, right?

Like, I'm armed right now.

Really?

Yeah.

Wow.

I have a carry permit in DC, Virginia,

or in Maryland.

So, you know,

I look, if there is a terrorist attack, I'm going to be okay.

Yeah.

I'm sorry, Sean.

Yeah, look, the gun isn't for killing the terrorists.

It is, if the terrorist is in my way between here and here and getting away, Well, you know, at least I have a fighting chance.

But yeah, you're not, you're, you're, you don't go and fight the terrorists.

You use the gun to fight your way through any bad guys to get to safety.

Yeah.

You know, I'm not John McClain, right?

I'm not going after the terrorists.

One good advantage about being in the United States is we are armed.

And if there is a terrorist,

he might not be a terrorist for very long.

If there's a couple of people in the crowd or

Mandalay Bay, that probably didn't matter because guys in the elevator,

you're not using a pistol against that.

Yeah, I texted you before I came here because I was just seeing on X.

People were freaking out about the safety issues of the inauguration, you know, and now they moved it indoors.

So

I think there was, what was it, Nia, Miller?

Who was the guy?

There was one president who died 30 days after the inauguration.

I don't remember.

I think roughly a month after the inauguration because he caught a cold.

Like they were in the cold.

It's going to be be really cold tomorrow, like 27 degrees.

There's going to snow tonight.

That's a safety issue.

Not safety issue is like someone's going to shoot up the place, but think about safety issue in the sense of 27 degrees, freezing cold.

You have snipers,

really marksmen, not snipers.

You have marksmen up on the roofs of some of these buildings.

laying there for hours in the cold.

That is a safety issue for these guys.

You have police officers out in the cold.

You have soldiers out in the cold with, and some of our uniforms are really not designed for super cold weather, right?

They aren't Russians.

You also have police.

You have police horses.

You know, think about, all right, can we bring a police horse out in 27-degree weather?

Right.

So that might be kind of an issue.

Just, it's just, it's a force protection issue.

Yeah.

Right.

So why not bring it inside?

And I'm not too concerned about some sort of attack.

I mean, BC,

you do this all.

Is this your first time here?

Second, but second time here?

The first time I was here for like a few hours, yeah.

Like this place is so used to it.

I used to work on Connecticut around

Connecticut Avenue.

And like we would see the vice president's convoy go by all the time, his suburbans, right?

all the time and it just like the level of security is normal here it's weird you go into museums uh or just just just regular regular government buildings noah the national oceanographic and atmospheric administration which is on my street yeah

in silver spring

noah

has uh

armed guards right like who's attacking noah it doesn't matter it's a federal building they have armed guards you get x-rayed when you walk into the building or you go through the metal detector.

So,

you know, if there's one

place that can handle some kind of crazy shooting incident, you see

over 5,000 boots on the ground for the inauguration.

It's a lot of people.

Of military or police officers.

It's a lot.

Yeah.

It's a lot of people.

That's more than God.

It's more than most towns.

Yeah.

When you think about it, I mean, what?

New York York has

New York has 25,000 officers.

It was 40, 25, or 45,000 officers.

It's a lot, but New York, the public transit is not the safest right now

for being honest.

And now with the congestion pricing,

yeah, I talked to women and they're scared to take transit.

Really?

Yeah.

I actually have to go up for another podcast

on Tuesday.

So I'm going up Monday.

I'm going up Monday.

I'm podcasting on Tuesday.

I'm going up in New York.

I mean, you got your concealed permit, so you're good.

Actually, my permit isn't valid in New York.

New York is pretty strict, I heard, actually.

They're pretty hard compared to other states.

Well, that, dude, that goes back to the Sullivan Act.

So when,

you know, New York was, was always bombed up.

Yeah.

And when you, you pass the Sullivan Act, essentially, so like these, these darn Irish immigrants don't get guns.

Hey, I'm Irish.

I know, I am too, right?

Well, we're the right kind of Irish.

We're from Northern Ireland.

But

the other kind of Irish that they didn't like, you know, they didn't want those guys to get guns.

And the Sullivan Act was a way of preventing regular people from defending themselves.

That way, the gangsters who were paying the politicians would have monopoly.

Yeah.

Do you think that was an effective thing to do?

Doesn't seem like it, right?

Yeah, because there's always that debate if you ban guns.

Like, does it actually help?

Probably not.

Probably not, right?

But again, like, if you

when you think about it, like, if you kind of,

it's like this it's a self-fulfilling prophecy in a way if if it makes it if you make it difficult to purchase firearms then a lot of people will never grow up like that how do most people encounter firearms well their dad took them hunting right or maybe they're in the military or whatever but if you grow up without ever encountering a firearm it's not a big deal to you um years ago i remember new jersey uh banned the use of ATVs altering you know those quads you know on state parks and New Jersey said don't worry we're going to build three parks where you can ride these atvs i don't think they ever built the

wow but that was what they said and i remember i heard about that law and i thought

i don't care one bit about that i've never been on an atv i don't know anybody who owns an atv

and uh and i i don't i have no intention of ever going on an atv ever like maybe if i'm on someone's farm we need to go from one place to the other yeah right maybe i'll take an atv i think a lot of people who grew up without firearms whenever someone passes some wacky new firearm law, they go,

I don't own a gun.

I don't care.

Good point.

And then because something like COVID comes along and they go, crap, I need a gun.

And they go, well, I thought I'd just go in the store and buy it.

You mean I have to go through all this?

It was the first thing I did when I moved to Nevada.

Went straight to the gun store.

Yeah.

Really?

Yeah.

I remember

the, do you ever, did you ever read that book by Blake Crouch?

It was also,

it was called Dark Matter.

It was also a

series.

Yeah.

There's There's a scene in that where this guy, he lives in Illinois,

he goes to buy a gun.

And

essentially, Dark Matter is about multiple versions of this guy and multiple realities.

He invents a machine that can go into multiple dimensions.

And pretty soon, other P other versions of him are hunting him

in his dimension

because they all want his wife.

Yeah, like apparently, like, he, it's, it's a long story.

Essentially, there was a

dimension where this guy was a physics genius.

And because he was a physics genius, he lost his girlfriend.

And so he finds a way to go across dimensions and he notices the girl in the main character's dimension.

So he kidnaps the main character and he kind of assumes his life.

So when the main character comes finally finds a way back to his dimension, he goes to the gun store and he's like, yeah, I want to buy a gun.

What do you want?

I don't know.

Oh, here's a Glock.

Okay, where's your FOID card?

Foid firearms ID card.

What's a FOID card?

That's the guy who votes for gun control, right?

Like, that's like, whoa, whoa, whoa, this is gun control.

That's not what I voted for.

Yeah, it kind of is, buddy.

So that's nuts, man.

Um, oh, I forgot to ask this when I mentioned Sean Ryan earlier.

I know you guys had some back and forth.

Are you guys on good terms now?

I don't know the guy,

I have no idea.

I don't know.

I feel you on good terms.

You have to be on terms in the first place to be on good terms.

You know, I,

you know, I don't really watch the guy's show.

I'm pretty sure he doesn't watch my show.

We're in like two different worlds.

So I assume so.

You know,

I had gotten something way wrong.

And I made a whole video explaining where I went wrong.

I apologize.

I saw that.

And he seemed like, you know what?

I don't care, dude.

And we're in just two separate worlds.

So I don't really, I mean, I assume so.

I'm never going to go on a show.

I'm never going to go on Joe Rogan either.

Don't say that.

I mean, that's possible.

You know,

I don't think that'll draw the ratings.

Rogan has on all sorts of people, people with no views.

I mean, I could definitely see you on there.

Maybe.

I've had a lot of guests on my show.

And about the closest thing that I would be would be like Peter Zion.

Okay.

Peter Zion, I think he's been on Joe Rogan once or twice.

I just don't think I'm controversial enough.

I could definitely see you on Pierce Morgan debating some conspiracy theorists.

I think he would bring you on.

I have never done a debate before.

And like Destiny, and I'm friendly.

It's weird.

I'm friends with Destiny and I'm friends with Sebastian Gorka.

I can like them both equally.

And, you know, Destiny, I think he asked me like, you know, Ryan, you know, you should do a debate.

Like, debate?

Why would I do a debate?

Look, this is the way it is.

I'm not trying to get, you can believe me or you cannot believe me, but the percentage chance of this being correct is this number.

There's no debate to that.

You're very logical.

You're rooted in evidence.

Yeah.

And, you know, like, I think debate, like, you can maybe debate, like,

is, I don't know, is gun control good?

You know, like, there is, there is some personal

experience with that, or there's, you can,

but, but from like a logical standpoint, like, like, is China preparing to invade Taiwan?

There's no debate.

Here's the, here's the pictures of the ships

that they're building.

I can't convince, you know, like, and, you know, when people say debate, did you ever watch The Last King of Scotland?

Last King of Scotland.

Edie Amin, the Edi Amin movie?

Can't say I have.

So this Edi Amin, he was the

dictator of, oh my gosh, Nigeria?

Oh my God, that flew out of my head.

The country he was dictator of, pretty sure it was Nigeria.

But this guy,

he really loved Scottish culture.

One day he found this Scottish doctor who was like working in his country.

And he essentially made this Scottish doctor his

prized advisor.

Well, one day Edi Amin wants to kick all the Chinese out of his country because he needs someone to blame for something.

And the Chinese run a lot of the stores and businesses and stuff.

And so, you know, the Scottish doctor says, hey, if you do this, your economy is going to go to hell.

Well, Edi Amin does it.

And then afterwards, he blames, like, hey, our economy has just gone to hell.

And the Scottish doctor says, well, I told you, don't do it.

And Edi Amin has says, I think one of the best lines ever in a movie.

He goes, but you did not convince me.

Oh, you did not persuade me, but you did not persuade me.

And like, kind of that, that's my job, job, right?

My job is maybe it's not a debate.

I have to persuade you, look, here's this evidence, here's this evidence, and here's this evidence.

And hopefully this will persuade you that, all right, this is Daddy El Baddy.

This is where Daddy El Baddy is living.

This is the car that Daddy El Baddy is driving.

Yep.

We can kill Daddy El Baddy at this crossroads when there's no traffic and there's the, you know, we have to do it at one o'clock for the school lets out, the school down the road lets out.

Yeah, I could see that.

That's why Destiny is a good debater because he'll bring studies, he'll bring evidence, he'll bring facts.

Even though I'm conservative, I'll admit he's a really good debater.

That guy,

I think maybe one of the reasons I can like both Sebastian Gorka and

Stephen Bottles and Destiny, it's that you have two people who are very passionate and you have two people.

who really care about America just in different ways.

Right.

You know, like they did.

And, you know, like you can talk about left wing, right-wing, but a bird needs both to fly.

Yeah.

Right.

You know,

but I think he does a heck of a lot of research before he rolls into his debates.

And I've heard, I think I've heard two debates with him.

It's not my thing.

Like, I have a finite amount of time, you know?

So I can't, I can't.

I don't.

I think you do well, honestly.

You should.

potentially try it this year.

A debate?

Yeah.

I wouldn't even, I mean, am I allowed to smoke at this debate?

You'd be allowed to at the right setting.

I'm like, I can't smoke here.

I don't know what to do with my hands.

I'm sure if you debate Andrew Tate, you'll both be smoking.

Is he still around?

Yeah, he's going at it with Ben Shapiro right now.

I'm not sure if you've seen that yet.

It's pretty, pretty back and forth.

I, man, I have been so stuck in.

He just announced he's running for prime minister, actually.

Andrew Tate of the UK.

Really?

Yeah.

What?

Harper?

I don't know exactly, but he announced it a few weeks ago.

Okay.

I mean,

okay.

I mean, I suppose that is something a person can do.

I mean, it would be nice to smoke in airplanes again.

I wouldn't like that, actually.

Yeah, I'm good with that.

I don't know.

I look at,

yeah, I mean, I guess you could do something like that.

I mean, maybe we might be entering a point where

the people are shaking up who they vote for, right?

Like, they just want some kind of change because the status quo doesn't seem to be working for the majority of Americans.

Like, I had my, my Uber driver, you know,

speaking with this Uber driver, I mean, she had a cracked window, right?

She was telling me she had a piece of pizza for breakfast and she's hoping to earn, I guess, I don't know if Lyft sends you money directly.

Like every time you do arrival, she was like, you know, like, hey, my,

I'm glad you're in my fair because this is a good fair and I can get a cup of coffee afterwards.

And I was like, damn, you know, you're like, let me give you some cash.

Wow.

I would have stopped to get her coffee because I could have used some coffee as well.

But, you know,

like, I would have stopped to get her coffee

if I wasn't.

That's nice of you.

It's good that you're dealing with everyday people because some people are in DC or so in their own bubble.

You know, you hear that all the time about DC.

Like, you, I've dating in DC.

Yeah.

So there was this girl.

I remember we were,

this one girl, she talked about the fad missile system.

like she said there is a uh a terminal high out what kind of girls are you dating well women in their 50s who were i'm almost 50 dude yeah and i look young but like women in their late 40s early 50s who are single because of course right yeah and like their policy walks and all they do all day is they think about um they think about missile defense where they i think one woman she um i went out with her and she talked about how she works for like

a group that does drone policy.

Interesting.

And, you know, you have nod and you listen and they, and the one other thing about dating in DC,

if they don't know who you are,

they, they, they say, who do you work for?

Because they want to see where you are in the hierarchy.

Because if you work for an NGO, non-governmental organization, you're down here.

Really?

Yeah.

yeah you're the lowest of the low if you work for an ngo if you work for like a law firm maybe you're a little bit above if you work for a contractor you're a little bit below the law firm if you work on the hill and capitol hill a little bit more clout depends on who you work for

and what your position is in their staff government agency below capitol hill white house it's kind of you're getting to the top tier but it depends you work in the eisenhower office building or do you work in the white house where do you work in the white house so if you're working White House.

Wow.

So there's levels.

So yeah, the question is, if I date you, where does that put me in the social hierarchy?

So do you think about that too with the woman you date or no?

Dude, I'm almost 50.

You think I can

choose?

You think I'm going like, well, she only worked like, oh, all right.

She's a woman and she likes me.

I'm good.

I feel that.

That's pretty.

Yeah.

I didn't know DZ was like that.

It reminds me of college.

Being a freshman guy, they said you were always at the bottom of the totem pole because you couldn't get into parties.

Yeah, unless you have money, I guess, right?

Not even money.

Like, you needed either five girls with you at Rutgers or you're screwed.

Five to one ratio.

There's wait, wait, wait, five guys for every girl at Rutgers?

No, so five girls for every guy.

If you're a freshman guy, that's how you get into parties.

Yeah, because you're at the bottom.

Five girls.

Yeah, because you're at the bottom of the totem pool.

So you went to Rutgers.

I did in Jersey.

Yeah, I grew up in Jersey.

Five Rutgers.

New Brunswick.

I don't count the other ones.

It's real Rutgers.

It's like Newark and like.

So I went to NJIT in New Jersey.

I did 99% of my stuff distance learning.

I was in the military at the time.

But I did go to campus

a couple of times because

back then you actually had to go to campus registers before the distance learning thing happened.

So I remember there was a Rutgers right across the street, Rutgers Newark.

Yeah, Newark.

Rutgers Newark.

And like talking with like some of these dudes, it was like if they wanted a girl, they went over across the street to Rutgers Newark to get a girlfriend because like just at the time, like no women went to NJIT.

No, at all.

It was.

I don't know if that's changed much either.

NJIT.

I heard of that one.

Did you know they had a football team?

I did not.

I did not know that.

Are they Division I or?

Probably not.

No clue.

No, they got to be like D3 or something.

Dude, I was in the art.

Can you imagine like the NJIT football team?

Yes, let us get out there and win one for Kenisha.

That's funny, man.

Like, I can't.

All right.

I mean, that is,

that is, I guess they could have a football team.

Yeah.

So social experience did not play a role in your college decision-making process.

For me, it was very

high up.

I once went, I took, I was at some community college.

I forget what, because I needed like

three credits of a, of a was it RBCC?

Barretton Valley Community College.

No.

i don't remember where i went for this but i had to take a sociology class because i need like one humanities and so i i just took like a community college class to transfer and i remember uh like i figured out the class like that like it wasn't computer science you just you show up

you listen to the professor and then you parrot back whatever the heck the guy said of the test doesn't matter whether it's right or wrong doesn't matter whether you you think what he said is stupid you just parrot it back and you get an a there were people that were failing the class how the hell do you fail this class?

Just roll in.

Don't argue with the professor.

I say, okay.

That's one of the things that kind of blows my mind about college.

We hear people who talk about like, oh, these woke college professors.

Just oh, yeah, whatever.

Yeah.

You say what you want to say.

All right.

Here's your answer.

Boom.

Give me my paper, please.

Thank you.

I'm going to get a job.

Facts.

Yeah.

Well, a lot of camps says I've gone woke, but yeah, you're right, though.

It's how you interpret it.

You know what I mean?

I can't picture NGIT as a woke place i would they probably don't even know anything else ngit is not i think i think it's mainly like the state ones i mean you see charlie kirk on campus debating some of these kids they're some of them are brainwashed who is charlie kirk i think turning point had him had him on the show had him on the show but i saw his name i i feel like i've heard his name before wow you really are in your own world that's impressive because charlie kirk gets like hundreds of millions of views i mean

Is Charlie Kirk a weapons system?

How many road wheels does Charlie Kirk have?

Yeah, that's why I respect what you do because you stay in in your lane.

Like you, you're all about weapons and intel.

Yeah, for the most part.

And I'm actually, you know, people have asked, there are a number of people asked me like, hey, can you do a video about these new Chinese jack, you know, these, these jack ships that with

these siege towers, right?

These new Chinese siege towers that float.

And I was like, no, because number one, H.I.

Sutton and Subbrief, Aaron from Subbrief already did two videos on it.

I'm not going to steal content.

And number two, I do stay in my lane.

I don't know a damn thing about the Navy.

I know a little bit about aircraft carriers.

I've been on aircraft carriers.

I've been on

amphibious assault ships.

I know a little bit about amphibious stuff.

Amphibious assault ship.

Yeah.

So

the Marine, well, not the Marine Corps, the Navy has these ships.

They look like mini-aircraft carriers.

And in some cases, there's a different kind of LPDs, L C D landing ship LSDs, landing ship docks,

landing ship platform, LTDs, landing ship platforms, and then amphibious assault ships, which look like mini aircraft carriers.

These amphibious assault ships, they carry multiple helicopters or ospreys, which are the total rotor aircraft.

And the amphibious assault ships also carry F-35s that can take off and land vertically, Marine Corps F-35s.

And

some of these ships have what are called well decks.

So the idea is that you, the back of the ship has a ramp, you lower the ramp, and you can put hovercraft inside that thing, and you can float certain kinds of Marine Corps vehicles out.

So if the Marine Corps wants to do a landing, they roll one of these LC or landing ship docks up near the beach, they put down the well deck, and they have,

this blows my mind because I look at the safety of something like this.

They have helicopters coming off the top of the ship as they have amphibious vehicles leaving the well deck of the ship.

The well deck of the ship floods.

And so they have like the semi-flooded area of the ship and they just drive the vehicles out.

Vehicles go through the water.

That's crazy.

And there's a whole science to how the Marine Corps, they used to call them red patches, although they,

I think they, they got rid of that MOS or they changed the nomenclature for that.

But red patches are the beast map, beach masters.

They're the ones.

They used to joke, the red patches have AIDS.

That was like an 80s kind of thing.

If you have a red patch, oh, it means he has AIDS.

But the red patchers were the guys who coordinated stuff on the beach.

You couldn't just imagine.

People look at like saving private Ryan.

It's all the people hitting the beach, right?

The amount of coordination

that they do.

is insane.

You have your left and right limits set up.

You've mapped out the currents on the beach.

You've mapped out where any obstacles are.

That's nuts.

And then once you get onto that beach, all right, this is where we're going to set up our casualty evacuation point.

This is where we're going to set up our supply point.

And, you know, these kids, 18, 19, 20 years old, are doing this.

Can't even buy alcohol, but they're coordinating where equipment goes on a beach.

So I do know a little bit about amphibious stuff.

I've done one with the Marine Corps.

It was absolutely amazing.

You were on one of those ships?

I was on one of those ships.

I came ashore on a hovercraft.

Wow.

On an L C D

on an L C D

the,

oh my God, LA, LA.

It's been a while.

Yeah, it's been, it's been about two years.

But I came ashore on one of the Navy hovercraft, and that's kind of neat too.

They actually don't use those in combat.

Like after the Marines hit the beach, then those

hovercraft will go out to the ship and they'll just kind of do like this connector bridge.

It can hold, I I think it was 70 tons of cargo.

Yeah.

Something like that.

And the hovercraft, it can go on the water and then it can come up a little bit on the beach.

They'll turn off the hovercraft.

The hovercraft will go down and they'll have these sky crane or

they'll even take like a bulldozer, not a bulldozer, a front end loader with they'll take the bucket off, they'll put forks on it, and they'll just drive that right up onto the LCD.

They'll pick up the cargo in a shipping container, move it, put it down, pick up the, and button, One is leaving, the other one's coming in.

It's like this dance.

That's impressive, man.

Yeah, I've seen videos of planes landing on ships.

I'm like, that's insane.

I've been on an aircraft carrier.

And it landed on the ship.

Yeah, yeah.

I mean, that's what aircraft carriers are.

I landed on the ship.

They actually did.

They did.

So, what's funny?

So, I landed on what's called a C2 Greyhound, which is a,

I was probably the last, one of the last classes of journalists, journalists

that landed, uh, that will ever land on land and take off on a catapult from an aircraft carrier.

Wow.

Because the C2 Greyhound, they're being phased out in favor of the Osprey, which can land vertically.

So the C2 Greyhound, you know, it lands on the ship and it's a big cargo, not a big cargo plane, but it's a cargo plane.

And they take off again via catapult.

So they actually, when people talk about the catapult, oh my God, it's, you know, you go from zero to 150 in two seconds.

You know, it was really just,

huh, that's it.

You know, like, okay, we're near enough.

When we were coming in to land on this ship, there's this woman, Tessa on the radio, 93.4.

This, this other journalist was right next to me.

And I was like, are you scared?

She's like, yeah, a little.

I was like, listen,

these guys flying the C2 Greyhound, they are the best there is.

LCAC.

That's the name of the hovercraft.

LCAC.

These people flying the C2 Greyhound, they are the best that there is.

So if they've screwed screwed up, we're never going to feel it.

We're just going to slam into the back of the ship and we're dead.

So don't worry about it.

I'd imagine they don't have much room for error.

I mean, when you think about it, you're trying to land, when you try to land on an aircraft carrier, there's,

I think, I want to say it's about 30 yards of

area.

So I think it's about 30 yards wide

and then about 30 to 40 yards long.

And I might be getting this wrong, so you have to check me on this, but every like 10 yards or so, there's another cable.

There's cables that you have to catch.

Ideally, you want to hit the third cable.

So

you have to not only land on a ship that is moving, you're moving, the ship is moving.

The ship is also...

going side to side, rocking side to side like a cradle.

And if the sea state is high, the ship is going up and down.

So it's moving in three dimensions.

And you have to land on this thing

and catch the third wire from the stern of the ship.

That's nuts.

That's why these people are the best.

That's why the Navy, Navy pilots are amazing.

Oh, and by the way, do it at night.

That's so crazy.

Do it at night.

So you landed at night?

Yeah.

No, I landed during the day.

Oh, God.

I didn't land.

Either way, it's still insane.

And this is normal to them.

And here's the other thing.

Every time you land on an aircraft carrier, you're graded.

Really?

So imagine people graded you for every single podcast.

Right.

And like, if you fall below a certain number, you're cut.

Yeah.

Well, in a way, like

the YouTube comments will let you know what grade you get.

Yeah.

I just watched an episode where this guy was getting destroyed.

I don't know if you're a basketball fan, but.

Oh, yeah, I am.

I'm a Wizards fan.

Well, Patrick Bett David, who's a big podcaster, he had Scotty Pippen on the show and it was ruthless in the comments.

Really?

Yeah, because he asked him about Michael Jordan the whole interview.

So he got an F on that.

Look, in order, look, I don't know if Michael Jordan would have been Michael Jordan without Scotty Pippen.

Yeah.

And,

oh my God, the worm.

Robin.

Yeah.

Like,

you needed those

two guys because you have the best defensive player.

Probably ever.

Would you say that?

Yeah.

Best rebounder for sure.

And definitely at least top three defender, maybe the best.

Yeah.

And you need Scotty Pippin to do everything else.

Yep.

And you need Jordan to score.

And like, yeah.

That's how you get six rings.

Yeah.

You're absolutely right.

Yeah, I miss that era of basketball, man.

I can't watch it these days.

You know,

I am of that era.

I'm 49, right?

I'm of that era.

I'm also of the Alan Iverson era.

2000.

He never quite got there.

Yeah, he was close, but he needed someone else.

He needed someone else.

And this guy, I think, look, I don't know if this is true.

I don't want to spread misinformation, but supposedly, you know, Alan Iverson went to Penn State and they hooked him up to like machines, check his breathing, and like he was running on the treadmill and like never got tired.

Really?

Yeah.

Wow.

Alan Iverson was just so amazing, but he never could quite make it, never could quite get a ring.

And he was always, you know, I'm like, well, he spent some time in exile from the Sixers, but when you you think of Alan Irvine, he's a Sixer for sure.

Yeah.

He's a Sixer.

Yeah, his last two years we won't talk about, but yeah, he's a Sixer in my eyes.

Yeah.

All right.

So TikTok is officially banned.

Yes.

And I would say a humble a lot.

Like, thank God.

You know,

the TikTok is a national security issue.

And one of the problems with TikTok is that.

Not only does it target people, but it's not accountable in the U.S.

So if there's a problem with Facebook or something like that, we can bring the, we can subpoena the Facebook CEO, say, hey, come here.

You know, you're standing in front of Congress and explaining yourself.

We can't do that with TikTok.

We can't get Doyen in here to stand in front of Congress.

They're not answerable to us.

I'll tell you something: if there was ever a war, I guarantee you that China would flood TikTok with messages saying, Hey, the U.S.

is an imperialist, capitalist country that wants to, you know, Taiwan for

their own minerals, their own resources, whatever uh there's that and also like look

if tick tock wanted the address of every single journalist that's using its platform so they can go kill them they do that that's scary oh

look we give our infra we get look we tell this thing stuff that we wouldn't even tell our wives

Right?

Yeah.

Don't we?

I can look at you and I can say, do you watch pornography?

Give me an answer.

Do you watch pornography?

I try not to.

Okay.

Let me see your phone.

Can't deny that.

Your phone tells the truth.

Yeah.

That's the truth teller right there.

And we tell that thing everything.

So if I were TikTok and let's say there was a journalist in the U.S.

that was making trouble.

All right, let's see where their exact location is inside the U.S.

so we can kill them.

Yeah.

You can't really do that with Facebook or Instagram.

You can with TikTok.

Well, did you watch Zach on Rogan?

I did not.

Okay.

So on Rogan, he said WhatsApp,

basically, if the FBI wanted to read your WhatsApp messages,

they could go around Facebook to get that.

So

one of the things you should probably do if you have a Siri on your phone.

And also on your computer as well, it's you should turn off archiving signal and archiving WhatsApp.

archiving signal i'm doing that right now you should do that archiving

why what's the reason because signal is encrypted end-to-end and whatsapp is encrypted from end to end

but if siri

uh siri ai is reading your phone

then it's going to see that text come across your screen and it's going to remember that wow so that that that encryption that i should do a video about this that end-to-end encryption it doesn't matter if you're recording the message at the other end.

Interesting.

Yeah, because they got, I remember when Tucker Carlson did the Putin interview, they got in a signal or something.

It was trivial.

Yeah.

He thought it was trivial.

Yeah.

He was shocked.

Look, your signal might be encrypted end-to-end, but if we can get on your phone and read your phone and read your signal messages, then that doesn't matter.

So, what do you think the safest messaging app is?

Postal message.

Telegram?

You know,

no, you know,

so for the most part, look, do you know the difference between a code and a cipher?

No.

All right.

So a cipher is a mathematical representation of stuff, right?

Of encryption.

A cipher,

I'm sorry,

a cipher is a mathematical representation of stuff.

A code is something that only you and the other person knows.

Like, do you ever heard of the Navajo code?

code talkers?

Code talkers, no.

All right.

So if I had some kind of mathematically based encryption using radios, the Japanese would eventually be able to break that if they put enough computing power behind it.

Back then, computers were like people, right?

Trying to do math.

But if I have some dude that knows Navajo and I have some other dude that knows Navajo and they're talking the Navajo language, the Japanese don't have any Navajo speakers, guess what?

You're not hearing that.

That's a code, right?

So anything that uses a code would be a good way to,

there's a reason a drug dealer might say, hey, you know, I have a kilo of uh

have a kilo of that spice you want, yeah, yeah.

Like, well, you could go in front of the court and you could be like, Hey, they're just talking about spices, this guy had a kilo of turmeric, right?

That's a code, right?

Um, there's actually something called a one-time pad.

I actually wrote a piece of software that can use a picture as a key as a key to a one-time pad.

I was actually using Lizzo's Instagram

as a key, yeah.

So, all right, a one-time pad when it When it comes to encryption,

imagine rolling a die.

All right.

And you roll a die a certain number of times and you write down the number that comes up on that die.

And that is the number you flip a letter.

So let's say you roll a die and the first number is five.

All right.

Then A becomes F.

You roll the number again and the number is two.

All right.

Well, then B becomes the D, right?

you do that enough times you have general randomness and as long as you know the number that's random and the space you create two pads the same numbers on and that is theoretically unit is practically unbreakable wow and it's unbreakable because encryption relies usually encryption ciphers rely on mathematical algorithms and once you get the mathematical algorithm right everything unlocks yeah but if you have something that is truly genuinely honest to god random then you can't really break that encryption because the word attack, which is what, sick characters?

The word attack might actually be the word laptop.

You don't know.

There's no, it can be any six-letter word.

Yeah.

Right.

If it's truly random.

The disadvantage of a one-time pad is that you have to send that one-time pad with a spy.

So if that one-time pad is intercepted.

And I actually wrote a program that did this where, you know, the big problem with the one-time pad is that you have to send the one-time pad out with somebody.

Right.

And then once you use the one-time pad, you have to destroy it because that message has been.

So human error is always going to play a role.

Well, yeah, human error if you're captured.

But if I tell you, hey, every day use

Lizzo's picture on her Instagram as the code key.

And when I send you a message, use the bits in that picture as the random key to unlock the message well number one the bad guys have to know which picture you're using and number two they have to know specifically like which instagram site or which page on that that's interesting you can also use the new york times the front page picture on the new york times you could use whatever you theoretically use the stock market as a Yeah, you could use whatever image.

I'm interested in that because I'm in crypto.

And do you know about seed phrases for the wallets?

Tell me though.

Basically, when you make a crypto wallet, you get a seed phrase.

It's, I think, either 12 or 16 random words, and you have to write it down.

And if you lose that, you can't log back in, basically.

But the problem with that is they're saying with these quantum computers, people will be able to hack into wallets in the future because they'll just be spitting out so fast.

Yeah, I mean, so one thing quantum computers, we don't really know how.

I mean, what's funny is the Wind Machine deals with quantum computers.

One issue, or one issue with quantum computers right now is we don't really know how useful they are.

They're pretty good at guessing random numbers, or they're not guessing, but they're pretty good at coming up with random numbers.

And random primes is one of the ways we do encryption now.

And so, I think the government has an initiative right now where all of its communication has to be quantum safe.

I think this is the year.

I might be wrong about that.

I think this is the year all of our encryption has to be quantum safe.

But essentially,

when you pass keys in public key encryption, you basically give a public key and a private key.

There's a prime number this thing

adds up to, but multiplies to.

And so you're basically trying to guess that prime number.

Now, if the prime number is 71, that's really easy to guess.

Some of these primes are

big.

Well, a quantum computer might be able to guess those numbers really, really fast.

And so that's kind of the issue with quantum computing.

Crypto is interesting too, because

you have a system i actually wrote a crypto uh program oh really

well i did it i did it um i guess about two three years ago and it's crazy like like it's one of the reasons that i uh i i i have a challenge coin that i that i give soldiers yeah

and i call it my butt pillow coin because my i have my bare ass on the back wearing like a pillow so i i had when the war in ukraine first started, I had two videos.

Yeah.

One video I just put out where I created my entire crypto system to explain how crypto works.

I created my entire blockchain, proof of work, all this stuff.

Created that whole system, put it up on my GitHub.

Anybody could download it.

It's all written in C short.

And then I created another video about why Russian soldiers wear pillows on their butts.

Guess which video got more views?

The pillow on the butts.

And that was what made me realize: like, wow.

I mean,

this is what people want.

People want to know why Russian soldiers are wearing pillows on their butts.

And that's how I, I'm serious.

That's how I got into this whole.

I mean, I was doing Intel software work, but I was mainly doing YouTube videos about software.

And once, you know, once I started answering, well, this is why Russian tank turrets pop off their holes.

This is why Russian soldiers wear pillows on their butts.

This is why this gun does this certain kind of thing.

There was this hunger for that.

Interesting.

But one of the things I noticed about crypto is that if you're a criminal, crypto has got to be one of the stupidest freaking things you can ever do because like every single transaction is on the blockchain.

Yeah, especially if you're using a centralized exchange and then you're sending it to your U.S.

bank account.

I mean, that's so much evidence on you for money laundering.

Can you imagine stealing money from a bank?

and you can't cash it out.

Like that's got to be.

And you could freeze wallets now these days.

They could freeze your wallet if they catch you scamming or doing fraud.

So it's not what it used to be back in the day, maybe for the black market stuff, you know, buying illegal things, but no, not anymore.

Yeah.

And I just, I mean, now like kind of the government's kind of caught on to it.

And the other weird thing about crypto is the amount of electrical power that we're using to

find a number that we don't really need to find.

The mining.

Well, yeah.

I mean, when you, when you mine for crypto, at least for the blockchain or for Bitcoin,

I think they're, what are they up to, 16 zeros, something like that?

It's a lot.

Yeah.

Find a hash that starts with 16 zeros.

This is a calculation that nobody needs to do.

And we're spending a certain amount of energy to try to find that hash.

And that is energy that is not finding a cure for cancer, that is not, you know,

whatever.

Yeah.

It's a lot of energy.

It's a lot of energy to find.

I think it's one of the, I think Venezuela actually was one of the biggest crypto mining.

It saved them.

Crypto.

Yeah.

Yeah.

When you think about it, I mean, well, because the government subsidizes power.

Yeah.

Right.

So they have these, at least they used to have these crypto mining operations.

Big margins if you're not paying for power.

Yeah, because that's the biggest expense when you're mining.

People, when Bitcoin was low, like people were going out of business because their mining wouldn't keep up with the price.

But now that it's 100k again, I guess it's profitable.

Are you just into Bitcoin?

Are you Bitcoin?

I have Ethereum, Solana.

I did not get Trump's coin yesterday.

A lot of people made some good money on that one, though.

Really?

Yeah.

I didn't, you know, the, I think the deal with a coin is that you have to have something to spend it on.

Yeah.

It has to have utility, they call it in crypto.

Purpose.

Yeah.

Or else it's just a meme coin and then it'll die off, which 99.9% of coins do.

The hawk to a girl.

That one died quick.

I got to tell you, the that is

like, I am so happy I got famous slow.

You know, it's a blessing in disguise.

Yeah.

Cause if you get it overnight, the odds of failing are probably way higher.

I mean, I can still fail too.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Oh, like, the jury's still out on that one.

Yeah.

Right.

Although, like, I look at,

you know, what's kind of crazy is that I look at

with the new administration coming in.

Oh, my God, there's going to be so much disinformation coming from people who hate the president to an absurd.

I did a video on Project 2025, which was this document put out.

The Heritage Foundation puts out this document every year.

And

they call it like the blueprint for America.

Like if a conservative president gets into power, like, what do you, what, what are you going to do?

And

Project 2025, like I read the document and there was this infographic that said, like, oh,

Project 2025 is going to ban the teaching of slavery.

No, it's not.

Like, there was plenty of stuff in the document that made me go, whoa, Keene, you shouldn't be doing that.

Yeah.

But, like, it's not going to ban slavery like there or ban the talking about slavery in schools.

So there was that.

And I think just recently, there was this thing.

I think it was a former baseball player who's an ultra conservative who said that, you know, Trump's first day in office,

they're going to medically discharge all the trans people.

It's going to medically discharge 15,000 trans people.

And I was like, all right, number one,

you have any idea what it takes to medically discharge someone from the army?

You better go have a cup of coffee because it takes multiple meetings and hearings, and then you're paying for their medical, what do you call it?

If they get disability, like if

being transgender is a disability,

now you got to pay them for being disabled.

You know, like there's a lot of steps to medically discharging someone, a lot.

And also, the number of 15,000 that came from like a study like 15 years ago that was nut like

15,000 would be over a division and a half of

transgender people in the military.

Maybe

they're including like reservists or something.

Oh, so they did a study and they found 15,000 trans people.

Well, it was this study from like 20 years ago.

Oh, wow.

It wasn't, I don't even think like that number was valid 20 years ago.

That sounds really high for me.

It sounds really high.

I think the number

like, I think one of the issues that the military doesn't know.

We don't know.

But this number 15,000 keeps floating around because some study quoted it 20, 15 years ago, 15, 20 years ago.

The number might be closer to like 2,500 maybe across the entire National Guard, Reserves, active duty, all branches.

And even then, even if it's 2,500 people and President Trump wants to discharge them, they have to go through all these medical hearings if you want to medically discharge them.

Even the COVID people, the people who refuse to take the COVID shot, like, like, there is a process to getting someone out of the military, and it's not the next day.

Yeah.

You know, there's a whole process for that.

That makes sense.

So, like, that

I am going to be busy for the next four years.

Oh, yeah.

Because, you know, these people are going to be saying, these people are doing this, and these people are doing this.

And both sides are going to be pointing at each other.

And I'm going to be in the middle going, I got the truth, boys.

You'll never run out of content, you know?

No, in a way, that's kind of a shame.

But, you know, I've said like the good,

I said this about Sal Martigliano, who runs What's Going On with Shipping, which is a,

it's an excellent YouTube channel that talks about global shipping.

Yeah, cares about global shipping.

Well, do you like this cup?

You know, or like, like this microphone, this microphone got here on a ship.

We need it.

All right.

So, Sal Martigliano,

when I watch his YouTube content, I leave smarter.

That should be a sign that you're watching something good.

Are you leaving smarter?

Well, Ryan, it's been really cool, man.

I know we're done.

I know you got the new book.

Anything else?

No.

Hey, man, thank you so much.

I hope you have a good time while you're in D.C.

for the rest of the day.

I'll try not to get snowed into that.

We'll do this again.

Yeah, we'll do it again in Vegas or D.C.

I know.