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Welcome to Generation Podcast. We're back in the car. Oh, cracking soda. Cracking open a Sodies. Sodies. They should be called Sodies. I like it. Like we call it Pop and like we school. We're so fun. We're calling them Sodies. Sodies is so great. I like it. Oh, this is where we would insert an ad, you know, like early on. Hit us up, David. David Beckham. Hit us up. I I got an inside connection with the Well, we have him. He's here. Oh, hey, how's it going? It's David. It's pretty good, actually. It was better than last time. You remember that? Last time was really good. No, I don't remember it, but I remember last time. I remember, yeah, I remember Peronis, right?

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It may have been for Peronis.

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This is David from Bandit Like Peronis.

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This is David. You may have known me from my 2002 hit Bend It Like Beckham. Is it 2002? There's an Indian girl who lives in London and she happens to be a brilliant soccer player, and I meet her later in the film, and I don't kiss. But you know I don't kiss on the mouth. Part of the plot was, you know, if we were ever gonna fuck and it would be in the soccer by which she turns 18. It was yeah, a crucial detail, but maybe in London. Well I'm trying to say, here's the rub, and she didn't rub me because I had Peronis.

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Regardless of the age of consent. Regardless of the consum in 2002, then in the future. Yeah, British prep. What do they do? Hey, first, prep, prep first with Pre-T, it's called pre-T. Pre-T.

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Pre-T. Pre-T.

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Don't get HIV!

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Pre teen so you don't get you won't get HIV! Pre-T so you don't get HIV. See me this weekend on the BBC.

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Also, it raises your tea.

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David Beckham, I fucked the Spice Girls for free.

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Yeah, also I did all four of them.

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I did all four. There was a fifth one. Ginger would not pull out. Ginger. Ginger didn't let me pull out, that's why I'm stuck with kids. No.

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Yeah. His kids stuck with him, yeah. Yeah, yeah. He's gotta do so many extra ads because he knows his kids are just gonna milk him for the thing. So it's like they're a lot of me!

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He'll love me. Brooklyn! Brooklyn will come back if I make ten quid. If I make ten more quid! Ten more quid! Just on this prep. Brooklyn, baby. I got sodis for you.

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You need a sodi, Brooklyn?

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Really? Come back, Brooklyn.

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They've they've shoved him down our throats in so many. It's like it's so many different games.

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It's like Dude, it's not his fault. It's like six or seven different ones. Easily. These Americans love their slop. We love it. They eat. Whycom and Pulisic are like. Dude, Messi, you you imagine how people should gobby m gobble Messi more.

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Like we should be shoving his entire body down there.

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Really? He was like a left. Did you hear that? Did I get false Twitter? No, I wouldn't say that's necessarily false leg. He was like he had like human growth hormone shit because his bones were in gross.

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I can see that. Or his muscles. Well, take this anecdotally. There was a guy I played with in youth soccer from fourth grade up until my junior year of high school. So like so like grew up with him like through puberty and dwarf soccer. He was he was a late onset puberty guy, and he had to get he had to get like his balls didn't descend. Like like and socks. He had to get hormones. Like, and so I Messi was maybe in like so that's Oh, it's a pituitary thing. Yeah.

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But there's kids specifically his landing gear was still out there. Oh, okay. No, not Messi, your friend. Your friend. Well, then it's shout out to Clyde. Shit, yeah. Actually. Clyde the Glide, because his blue in the air.

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His name. I really kind of want to give it away, but no one. No, no, no, no, no. It's too, it's he's one of those.

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He's one of the things that's you look him up and he's there. He's right here. He was just good. He's like, we can find him.

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He was a nice guy. He had to be. But we we kind of gave him shit on the team. We were kind of assholes. Middlebone fat, you know. We would tease him. We were like, we would be like, why are you so small? They're not always cool. Be like, why are you so small? Like, we're we're all hitting puberty. Why aren't you? And it was like a joke for like a year.

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You were puberty. You were a puberty bully. Kind of. We didn't even know it. We know it. We didn't even know it. The soccer players are inherently are. Or just really bad. They're just bad. I know. The worst thing in the world probably is an American soccer youth person because it's like they're not good. They're not good. The programs suck.

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That's not necessarily true.

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The programs are good, not great. No one's great.

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There's some very good programs that are just really limited by the way the structure's set up.

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You have to grow up like an hour away or closer from like a major city that has an MLS team or like just some guy that's their hobby to collect children. When they say like you gotta find the Neverland guy. Yeah, or whatever. He made David Beckham once. He's like, I like soccer. He's like, oh, man. Hey, funded this Neverland.

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My favorite scenes with the younger sister.

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Actually, it's a death camp.

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I guess. I like Bendit Lock Beckham. My favorite scenes with the younger sister. Because he likes kids.

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What's the younger sister? I've never seen that movie. I'm not gonna watch it. It's actually I know Kieran Knightley's in it. It's pretty decent. Is there a full is she of age in the movie? She's probably English of age. She's probably like 18, 19 at that point. Uh no, she was 17 when she filmed uh Pirates of the Caribbean, I think, or 18. Oh fuck. Well, it was probably right around the same age.

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She's rocking a really hor really um short pixie cut. Oh my god.

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Really short pixie cut.

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She's like, ugh. She looked like a spice girl. Dude, her honestly heard mini driver.

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Just like dude, mini driver in um Goodwill Hunting. He fumbled the bag.

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She's so she's just You know he ended up marrying single mom. It worked out because he's rich, but like Really? And he's like, I'll get over this eventually.

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Who just rent like a normie?

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Yeah. It was like a restaurant or something.

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Yeah, no, the Winona, not Winona Rider, Mini Driver.

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Winona Rider's awesome. Winona Rider's also super crazy. Yeah, and really cute. She was sponsored for a while.

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Um Mini Driver in that match. She's flawless.

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God.

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And in uh Ghost Point Blink, what a fucking.

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She makes me cry at like every time the one where he like breaks her heart on the phone.

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Like, or the conversation where he like he leaves her, and it's like Yeah, it's a coward. Yeah, so sad. I know. Yeah. So sad. But it's like relatable. It's so relatable. That's why it's so sad. Not being like a math genius, but like brilliant and like being a coward.

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Yeah, being I've been a brilliant coward before. I might I might take a half the brilliance. I don't but it's developed. The cowardice of like not unless you're giving in to something.

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In China, you steal it. But like, you know.

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Those goddamn Chinese.

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They cheat, they have steal in it. They're stealing everything. Yeah, what's the most recent thing they stole from us? Not our soccer prowess. But that'll come. If we ever get good at it, they'll be good just as fast because they'll steal all our reason they shouldn't be better.

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They have China just plenty of huge population. Well, yes, this is true.

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But there's also a lot of reasons they should be better. Yeah, but like the best teams are either so freaking good at passing and you have to pass a move and like have structure, right? I'm learning a little bit about this. Yeah, is it boring? No. And watching international teams does it? It can be. Or you have a goalie just go a keeper, just go fucking bonkers. Which, by the way, this has not been the turn for keepers. They are so the back of the Belgian guy today.

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Fuck that really like either great saves or really bad.

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The Spanish guy seemed to like he almost pulled her a USA too. Oh no. Not as bad, but it was just like, what is going on? What is going on? Ours was pretty bad. Pretty bad. Shout out. I mean, I hope he's shout out uh we're not at Columbia, so we're not gonna like apparently in Colombia that just all he did, he didn't even miss a penalty kick. He missed like a play in the last like in the last couple minutes of extra time that would have won the game. Yeah. And they're like death threats and stuff.

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From and I'm sure it's from like legitimate cartel members and shit like that was sent some people on Twitter and said some Twitter. Yeah.

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Like actually. It's like, first off, not only are we not ready to be a soccer power, we're not even ready to like kill our players. Our best players. Like, right. If you're not willing to kill your players, are you really in it to win?

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You have no pride.

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We are crazy enough. Dude, we have people blowing their NBA careers to be in debt. The Brandon's the Soresby guy from college, uh, and then you have the uh people that are threatening players for losing like a $20 parlay or something. But like none of that's applying to like death threats or sacrificial. Yeah, actually killing someone. Let's know what the real issue is. We don't care enough to fix it. I mean, we care enough, we care enough to bitch about it. Yeah, no, occasionally, but we're not gonna go fix the problem. Yeah, it's it's a problem.

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The Colombians marked, they marked their problem. They identified the problem.

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We care about this, and they took care of it. And this is our version of the fair way. Yeah, it's like we're not fearal enough collectively. First off, we're not collect we are fearal nation, but we're not collectivist. We will never be collectivist ever again.

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Especially within like soccer. Like we're we're not united enough within our belief of that.

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And somehow, somehow fucking beat Spain, then we could talk. Yeah. But like No way. I mean, that would have been like a one-nothing, two nothing. I would have never felt in it except for a couple plays. Yamal and Mississippi.

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The only the only way I think if we had kept, and we talked about this a little bit off-air, yeah. Um we s we caught Paraguay by surprise. If we were able to surprise, like somehow pull off that same level of like op like quickness, openness, on it.

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What if we just wore like, you know those realistic masks? Yeah, like those skating. Like from like Mission Impossible? Yeah, but they were all just like the the the ancestors of of of bell of Belgian Congolese, just like tragedies. And all the crowd did too. Would it be blackface though? No, no, no. Oh, it's rubber.

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Oh, you got it!

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This whole time? Like, that's the only one. It's like, oh, oh, you're mad?

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They'd be like, what is this you are wearing? So, first off, we say I don't have a Belgian accent.

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You see, uh, just take my head. Just go ahead. Take my country. Pick my country. No one will notice. We come in, we take your rubber. They they they lost to Germany in like less than one. Less than a soccer match. Like, not even they didn't even give them extra time. Like, okay, we give them a there's not even stoppage to it. No, they just stabbed. They're just like, we still Polish, they got Polish people back in the day. There were a lot of like jokes, but it's like here's a joke. Belgium. Done. That's it. That's the punchline. Belgium. He's the the the the Polish people. Got waffles and chocolate. Well, this is gonna suck, but I'm gonna throw some fucking rocks and sticks. And maybe they're like, good game. Yeah. And not slaughter me. Yeah. Right? But at least I'm gonna fucking do something. God damn, Belgium. Because it's just imagine you're seeing this pain, the panzers going through, and you're like, fuck, not fuck me. Let me play dead. It's just like God damn. Alright, what do I got? I got this fucking stick. I'm gonna throw a book at them. Right. No, they just just the Polish. Here, they just fed him chocolate. We have chocolate in Berkeley. Just like Nazi boofers. Did Belgian so did they contribute? Did they have an army? Did they have an army? Hold on, you lost me a Belgian and contribute. Yeah. Did did they have doctor driven? Did they have clearly? This is soccer driven, but um, you look it up and I was like, I didn't really I didn't remember, we didn't learn about the Belgian Congolese situation. Then they had bond it was a territory. Terrible! And then they're like, oh well, parliament, it's fine now. We're not gonna do as many bad things. Yeah, we're gonna give it to Parliament. A Belgian parliament? Yeah, come on. How do you own that's a good one?

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Then they basically ran it like you go in, you take ownership, you just a regular sweatshop instead of like eradicate a like I think it was like a quarter of their population at the time.

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It was uh it was at least a couple hundred thousand, apparently. Like, that's a lot of people pre-industrial age slaughter. Right. Yeah, and it was for rubber. For rubber. First off, this is a podcast where we do not support rubber. Yeah, we don't respect rubber. Now we really don't support rubber rubber farmed mined at Doug at Gunpoint? I was starting to pull up um And it inspired Heart of Darkness, is that true? I the book? I think it did. Let's let's do a quick Joseph Conrad. Look up uh Heart of Darkness background. It's like, was Kurtz a Belgian?

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Heart of Darkness Belgian connection connection. Belgian Congo.

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By the way, that that book uh when in high school we did like this uh Well he goes it journeys up the Congo River, yeah. So it was Joseph Marlowe, that's the character's name, Marlowe.

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Mar Charles Marlowe, yeah.

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Yeah, and I was just like, hi kids, do you like darkness? Want to go the truck travel the Congo River like Marlowe did? That's it was in like a video. I like dude, that's cool. And I had like the short blonde, short cut, like short like blonde hair, so I kind of had a little MM thing going, like naturally. Yeah. Nah, I wasn't a dye job, but we you know how we feel about sun in. Even 90s sun in, we are not pro we are anti-Sun in. Dude, people, I so we are pro being young pre tea. I was around Shout out to Beckham's pre-T. Yeah, Beckham, don't get AIDS. Don't get AIDS, guys. Hey. Don't want it.

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You pre-T so you don't get the HIV. HRV? I know. You can do pre-T. Say no to HR people pre-T. Do pre-T during the five minute break before OG. You can suck off whoever you like. Hey, mate. Point in your butt. I don't go that way. You can line it with Belgium chocolate, but don't like it.

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I've been known to bend the rules here. Sometimes, you know, any potent storm. Any storm in a port, really.

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Any storm in a port. That's the opposite is when you're like, you're just like trying to get some dick in your bar. Any storm in a port. Any storm in a port, baby, burber! You know what?

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What do you say about uh the one or two sodis later? It's a couple sodis all of a sudden. Taking me out like a Belgian Congolese rubber farmer. I can't dig in my trench out like that's a Belgium.

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Oh, slow down, mate. Sometimes I like on a gun point too. Mike, you got my trousers down, like I'm some Congolese farmer ready to just give it to you. Come on. I haven't even chopped it off yet, mate. Come on. Fucking hey. So fucked up.

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It's just a guy with just like a Belgian hacksaw and he's just like Well literally. What can I invent? The last time they invented anything was ways to torture a Congolese. Dude, for a rubber, that's your precious crop. God, fucking rubber. Yeah.

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The early, by the way.

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Are you serious? One of the first uh What an easy place to dunk on this ended up being. So easy. Right? I thought beating us four in a one was easy. Just because all you gotta do is a quick Google search. Oh quick on Google. Belgium negatives. Yeah, negatives. Negative rubber terror.

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From 1884 from 1885 to 1908. And we're laughing because 24 years. So fucked up. Many atrocities were committed in the Congo Free State. What joke is that? Congo Free State. Yeah, yeah. Fucking eh. Under the absolute rule.

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They're the worst colonizers ever. Oh, look up how many, how many territories? Separate things so you can go back to that. Yeah, yeah. Like how many, how many like territories do they have? Like, that's the only one I had ever heard of. Right. And it's Diar Congo. Now it was Zaire. The whole time, the whole time when I was reading my kid out, listen got obsessed with Africa. It was Zaire. And I remember it was in the middle. And then I was like, when I saw Diara Congo for this World Cup, I was like, wait, that was Zaire, wasn't it?

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Dude, that's pretty much it. It's Belgium Congo and Rwanda Urundi. What's Rwanda Urundi? It was is present-day Rwanda and Burundi, a League of Nations mandate taken over from Germany and the United States.

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The only ones they had were just Central Africa right now.

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What a bold move to have your only you have like two.

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Maybe you should have treated one well first. And like maybe eventually maybe event acquire a different strategy. We're gonna go straight to genocide, straight to murder. Let's throw our name right on it, too. You know what? Yeah.

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Hey, our country's great. Let's you one need to acquire a couple more first, and then that's so funny.

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It's like taking a bunch a couple, uh, like buying a buying a like buying a like to try to expand like a five guy. You're just killing four of the guys immediately. Be like, it's one guy. It's like don't worry about the other four. We got lots of rubber. We can't move this rubber fast enough. Jesus Christ. Jesus, man. What was the like the ratio of just like death to rubber cultivated? And you said that you rocked it up a little bit. This, by the way, the amount of research you did slash I did is the perfect amount for a show because it's like no one's gonna call us out on that. Right, because this all you want if you know more than us than we looked up in seven minutes combined. Yeah. Please go to degenerate nation at gmail.com. Hit us up. Or hit us up at Degenerate Show1X and uh Degenerate Nation podcast on Instagram.

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Please.

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Please, we don't bring up Patrice's number. Please. He loves phone sticks, he's not getting enough of it. Uh, you know, it's no, it's a no-go if you're a Belgian. What are you gonna get them off? You'd I couldn't there's no way I could come with a Belgian.

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No, after red rubber atrocities, the conviction Do they have do Belgians have orgasms?

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Are they do they bodies have orgasms?

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What if there was like a Belgian? You put a curse on them that they all come rubber forever. And it's really painful.

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Like actually, uh in uh flaccid their flaccid uh Belgian penises, um, were yeah, they were a result of a Congolese curse. Yeah, I love it. It was and it was just like look, man, I don't appreciate this just ritual slaughter. Again, this is not a valuable item. No, it's they're gonna eventually use this for fucking kickballs. Yeah, kickballs.

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We phased out rubber in like 90% of our brain.

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I phased out rubber when I was 27, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, and by the way, I only had to start to have sex at 25. So it was not long. I was using rubber.

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I didn't know what I was doing having sex until I was 27. Like, actually know what I was like. What am I what oh, this is what you do? This is how this is supposed to work.

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Yeah, mathematically, you can only perform well sexually once you've outlived Kirkoban. It's like it just kicks in and you're like, whoa! Holy shit. That's a clitoris? Yeah, what it's like you start seeing a clitoris. It just like your eye clitoris vision, and it's like it's like the running man or Lois Logan's Run or something. I was gonna say 27.

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I was gonna say it's like those videos of like people they get those special glasses that let them see in color for the first time.

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And they're like, they start crying, you're like, it's so good, it's so real. And you're like, here it is! I know how to do it.

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It's like when you start learning like things about yourself in therapy, but it's just like you just uh outlive like by days. You all you gotta do is outlive click obey and you start seeing clits everywhere. You just have a thought you're gonna do it. This whole time, and you're like, it's all 27.

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You're like, well, uh, there goes Jimmy, there goes Janice, there goes Kurt!

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Oh my god! There goes Morrison, Bomba Donna, there's a clitoris, then a clitor.

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Uh Jimmy Cochrane, too. Who's that? Actually, Jimmy Cochrane might have been pre- Jimmy Cochrane was like Elvis before Elvis. He was more like LA. He was an art he was a actor, he was a singer and songwriter. He wrote his own music. Did he die at 27? Died either 27 or younger in a car accident.

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Car accidents don't count.

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It's gotta be drugs or airplanes. Right. But he was just one that like taking. The audacity. He was so in airplane. He was like, he was like made out of the womb but to be like a star. And just like died. Jimmy. He had a couple, he had a couple.

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James Dean is there's this is a separate guy? Different guy. They're a different guy. Different guy. Go, he didn't, it wasn't his own car.

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He wasn't driving his own car. Because James Dean was driving, I think.

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Well, yeah, I mean you make some guys that can't legally be in the room. But the rain killed somotum blue. Oh, that was him?

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Yeah.

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I don't know if he died in the summer. I slipped into a green book reference because it's just like the guy can't even go to the cafe with him. That's a you have to drive. It's like driving Mr. Cochrane. It's like, look, look, man, there's no path to I don't see any path to uh promotion here. I'm just gonna like what's Jimmy gonna do if I just turn a little it's like you know that Burj always talking about like the difference between like being kind of normal and an insane person is like a quarter inch on the steering wheel. Yeah. It's true. It is true for Jimmy Cochran, probably. Yeah. It's like it's like Jimmy, you you're too handsome.

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I don't know if you you need to pick a lane, Jimmy. Speaking of lanes, bro!

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It's just like I'm sure the driver's white. I'm just saying it's like, what if there was this a guy and he's just like he sees the writing on the wall. The segregation and the the separate counters. This guy is just too. I can't even get a piece of pie with you. What are you? He's a tiny.

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He's entirely just like they're gonna start, it's not gonna just be them. It's gonna be us. Think about it. It's like it's a joke. They're gonna start coming for us.

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Yeah. Yeah. You think, yeah, what it first, oh, yeah. What's the joke? It's the quote of like, first they'll come for the the social workers, and I said nothing. Then they come for the mathematicians. First they'll come for the Greeks. Then they'll come from the Luxembourgians? Luxembourg?

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Then they'll come from us.

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What do they call them? I don't know. I don't know why I pulled out Luxembourg. What is the Luxembourgs? They're the Bergians. Bergians. Oh my god. There's probably just like a fucking like a like a uh uh a wormhole between Luxembourg and Pittsburgh. They just go one for one trades. You know that tunnel by Bri by Brie by uh past Breezeway? Yeah, yeah. It's just like they appear in the tunnel. Just pss from Luxembourg. They're trading back and forth. Nah, we're back with them, Pittsburgh. Would should we sell Pennsylvania to the Belgians? Belgian? What would we get back? How much?

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Well, we'd be going from Pennsylvania Dutch to Pennsylvania.

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No, you just literally take Pennsylvania. Yeah, what would our range? And you entirely rip it out and just say, This is your problem now.

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You guys take it. We don't want it. No.

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It's like, let's be clear.

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No trades you can do.

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We're doing this because we don't want this place anymore.

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None of their teeth. We don't care about them. Also, Hershey, Pennsylvania might be the epicenter of part of our problems.

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You probably also have to have Pelosi. Because he's from Pennsylvania. Take him or leave him. Well, you get Dan Marino. It's like, no, no, no, you don't.

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It's like, could we have the people that are from the Pennsylvania? Could we have the Pennsylvania ducks? You president is a dork. I was like, what are they saying? I know. Yeah, and they're like, we don't like the dude.

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He's so bad, but yeah, when I hear it, when I I hear their voice and uh and the tweets and I just think we badoo badu black.

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I feel like everyone from Finland and Denmark and the Belgium has this weird.

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No, Belgium is it's like below the uh the Scandinavian area where it's like nice because no one it's too cold for people to like we should like ruin this. It's like there was nothing to ruin there in Belgium. Belgium is north uh east of Italy, right? Yeah, northeast. Yeah. It's like trying to we don't even care where you are in a you know what their number one like you know what their number one law firm is there? Sharia and Sharia. That's good.

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I like that. We are Surrey and Surrey. No, it's just like it's like we are Sharia and Sharia. We are Sharia and Surrey out there. If you are dealing with women in your family who is injured in a scooter accident? Were you injured in an accident where a woman was driving it? Absolutely should not have been. I'm sorry.

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We are not for you because you are exposed to eyeballs and she should never have been behind.

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Did you see the bridge of nose in the first place? Now that's just all over the place.

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That's just like was she wearing, was her hijab noticeable in an accident picture? Is it was her picnic table, clothing? What's it?

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If you saw more than two centimeters of no. This is how they think about their own. This is like how they view the world, is just like they think it's like, oh, it's okay.

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They don't just gonna go here or be here.

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They love their president, they love their president, they like the world. They like our king. We don't know.

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We're gonna just gonna be like in 30 years, you're it's gonna be even less for other people to recognize about that person. Right. And I'm good with it.

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And also, we're you could have in trying to dunk, like, yeah, you dunked on us in the game. We didn't made it pretty easy for you. But yeah, you could have that was a lame, like, I I guess there's the humor. Oh, it's it's a lame dance stuff. I think we're learning learning.

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Oh sorry. Oh no! Oh no. Why don't I hey? If you're upset, why don't you contact the law firm of Sharia? Sharia. We can help you. No, it's like it's just called Sharia and Sharia. It's Sharia, Sharia. It's like their actual name, and it's just perfect. But yeah, it's a Sharia law firm of Sharia and Sharia. He's like, did they say hurtful words on your podcast? And now you're upset? You can call us? Explore lawsuits? Retainer up. You can take all their four cent ad at rate. Retainer up front? No. Retainer up front is actually a retainer because we Belgians have really. We have bad teeth.

SPEAKER_00

I specifically have bad teeth. I don't want to say a blanket statement about our teeth, but we either. But I specifically.

SPEAKER_01

I specifically the purveyor of Sharia and Sharia law firm ate way too much chocolate.

SPEAKER_02

Me, Patrice, who is not a member of Sharia Sharia Law Firm. Made blanket statement, and you should retract.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, you'll be beating off more than we can chew. With our soft teeth. Me specifically. Again, with no purveyor of Belgian, the Belgian law firm of Sharia and Sharia. Hot take or not not pro or mild take. Hot chocolate.

SPEAKER_04

We probably have some bad teeth because of the amount of chocolate.

SPEAKER_01

Of the chocolate and the stuff. Not you, I'm not jeans. This was gonna be easier because it was only NA. Never drink that again. Unless you want to. We will we will pitch your product. That was fun. That was fun and we found out Stella is a Belgian beer. I'm good with staying off. Stella NA. I'm like, I don't need my almost fix bad enough to be like reminded of that every time I get into something, there's some smug, nothing of a of a fucking it's beyond annoying. It's it's it's a realm. They speak Flemish. I didn't forget old school as fuck. That was a language. I think it's not they go, they it's German, Dutch, and Flemish, I read. When you again in seven minutes.

SPEAKER_04

When you say Flemish, my mind goes to Celtic Wars, like Scotland.

SPEAKER_01

So it's not a Narnian language. It's you don't have to go into a wardrobe. Like there's no there's no uh box thing that you learn from oh uh the like the thing from the thing from uh oh oh uh uh Rosetta Stone? There's no fucking Rosetta Stone for Flemish. You have to literally go into the wardrobe and converse with a Narnian to learn to go to Flemish.

SPEAKER_04

What was the little Mr. Do I have to go diddle Mr. Tumness to find out? Mr. Tumness. Mr. Tumness is like the half goat man who's like, come here, little boy, and he's like, Narnia, Mr. Tumness milks you. How do you learn Flemish? Mr. Tumness puts his ear inside, he puts his tongue down your ear and shoves a hoof up your asshole.

SPEAKER_01

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_04

He's like, mmm, and you come out and you just start talking gibberish because you can't extrapolate what you just explained.

SPEAKER_01

Conversational Flemish?

SPEAKER_02

And all the and all the Belgians are like, oh, Mr.

SPEAKER_01

Tumnist experience number one.

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Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

You become fluent after three. They all have everyone one out of three Belgians has night terrors, and this is this is what you hear in the sleep. Oh Mr. Tumnis!

SPEAKER_03

Oh Mr. Tumnis. Would you like some Turkish delight?

SPEAKER_01

And then there's like there's like the there's a Belgian uh there's a Belgian like infomercial. It's like their equivalent of Saul Goodman is just like it's the Sharia and Sharia law commercial comes on.

SPEAKER_00

Have you been have you been Mr. Have you been Flammax by Mr. Thomas? And now you also only speak poor conversation. All you got is a little bit of conversational.

SPEAKER_02

Don't don't kill yourself in Switzerland.

SPEAKER_00

Come to Belgium. Don't finish yourself. Come finish with Mr. Fleming. We will we also teach you conversational Flemish. So we can our Paraligo can learn how to type.

SPEAKER_02

We will we will teach the rest of Flemish without the need for you to finish.

SPEAKER_01

Just like what if what if you could only have there's a rule, it's like I I just imagine this is some society with like these archaic, like little rules. I look up at their tax rate, like where you know what? It's probably pretty hot. That's really bad.

SPEAKER_04

That's crazy. I did not know that.

SPEAKER_01

Every time you buy a rubber, it's actually made of the balls that they used to sell at like Kmart. You know the ones in the big cage? Do you remember that shit? Yeah. But it was so fun. It was fun. And then like, what did we do? They just bought up all they bought their own rubber back. Like the guy that bought Paris back.

SPEAKER_04

Oh, that's that guy is that's crazy. He's also a major asshole.

SPEAKER_01

He's a Wolverine, of course he is.

SPEAKER_04

Belgian tax rate.

SPEAKER_01

I bet they have a big Belgian population in Ann Arbor. Wow, holy shit. That's really bad, right?

SPEAKER_04

Personal income taxes. It's like 75%. Scaling from 25 to 50. 50? Dude, 25%'s crazy. 25 on its own.

SPEAKER_01

No, that's slower than ours, but I don't think that's I think that's bullshit.

SPEAKER_04

Dude, no, 25%. We don't pay we pay less than 25% of our taxes. Like our income.

SPEAKER_01

No, no, it's like 30%. As long as the lowest is like high 20s, I think.

SPEAKER_04

Really? Yeah. I was thinking that seems like that.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, but look how long they get back for it. Yeah, nothing. Well, we can bet on FanDuel and lose our money betting against Belgium.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, dude, I lost.

SPEAKER_01

I lost so much.

SPEAKER_04

I lost three times because of Belgium.

SPEAKER_01

I probably lost a few hundred for some. And like fuck it. But at least I don't have to go back to there. You know what? Come at us. What is there to visit in Belgium? It's it's landlocked, isn't it? I mean, there's probably like, I don't know, some caverns where they kept their beer cool. There's some caverns. Really? That's how they're like, well, you know, they they pioneered like a schooling. They didn't have a few. I don't drink beer. I drink fake beer. I only drink fucking Guinness or Corona fakes.

SPEAKER_04

During the period I was dating uh not my most recent ex, my ex-ex.

SPEAKER_01

Um that's like that was like three weeks. Does that count?

SPEAKER_04

It was like three months. But I was really, I was like a long time ago without the Belgian pop ox uh brobe company, umlyrium or delirium.

SPEAKER_01

Delirium tremens? That's a Belgian beer. Yeah. We're not giving shout-outs. No, I'm not, but I remember. They go for like 13% alcohol to zero. It's like, hey!

SPEAKER_04

The only reason I enjoyed those was because they were so fucking it'd be like you get the mash out of like one.

SPEAKER_01

They should teach this in algebra class. Someday, very soon, you will learn to buy alcohol based just off the percentage by volume. It's great.

SPEAKER_04

When like it's never and it's why obviously I don't drink anymore, but like it's why you're good at it. Why you drink to you drink to get fucked, like you drink to drink. Like you don't just drink to like. Well, depends, yeah. It depends on other people on their phone. It doesn't always have to be.

SPEAKER_01

I'm a dream man, and I want the I wanted to be the best. I just like because I don't I don't have a uh I will say I don't have a um uh a Belgian outlook on it. I was like, oh I'm feeling kind of good and I'd like to talk to my neighbors and like I liked how it made me feel like feel good man with that person, and they're not even looking at me. So if I go on the dance floor, I want to be in the zone and I'm gonna dry hump the air, and they're gonna look at me, and I'm gonna be drunk enough to assume that they want me. Yes, like there's it's not, it's it's not so it's I don't think it's like an American exceptionalism or an arrogance. I think it's an American maybe like well why not? Why not that? And then you find out very quickly why not, but it doesn't stay with you because if it stays with you, you eventually become a place like Belgium where it's just like we have chocolate, yeah. We fucking made it in Pennsylvania. That's it. If you can do something well, quite well, in Pennsylvania, should you really be able to brag about it as a nation? Nope, not at all. God damn no, you know what? What if, okay. What else? What else does Pennsylvania have?

SPEAKER_02

Well, I mean, we got the Dutch there, but again, it's the Eagles face. Some of the best thing about Pennsylvania is from another country. All of it.

SPEAKER_01

Look, it's we didn't, okay, let's be clear. We didn't write the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, have the Constitution because it was inherently what modern Pennsylvania is. It was a colony, and there were some smart guys there. There happened to be some individuals then none of them had descendants that stayed in Pennsylvania. We didn't need none of them wanted to stay. So, like, four score and seven years ago. Franklin got the fuck out and went to France. France and ass he got in his 70s and his 60s. Well, think about like that guy is a fucking legend. In the time when he'll never wear a collar.

SPEAKER_04

It's not a big call. But like a lot of people like would give him shit. They'd be like, hey, you go, you whore around, you see Brown.

SPEAKER_02

He's like, yeah, I fucking do.

SPEAKER_01

Have you ever heard this smarter than everybody? Yeah, he was. Um it was why he liked older women. Why? And this was a already old older guy, I think. He's been he knew the difference too. He's like, they don't, they don't tell, they don't swell, and they appreciate it like hell. I'm pretty sure that is attributed to Benjamin Frank. But again, we do a max seven combined of research here. But it's just like, and if you're gonna five. But let's be clear if you're going to whore around the world, make sure you take your pre-tease.

SPEAKER_06

Oh, J. Beckham for pretee! I David Beckham here with pretty tea. Don't forget, mate. Just takes one drink with your teeth. Yeah, it's really nice to not be on a set with boots.

SPEAKER_00

And then you're good to go in a. You know, he pulled a hammy walking down, walking and putting his mic in the back.

SPEAKER_01

It's like he pulled he pulled a hammy in like the makeup chair. It was a little too high for him. He got down from there, just like goes like collapses, like the guy that gets fouled in a soccer game. And then the whole team stops. That happened to Egypt and fucking Portugal. Within the game, like before the whistle?

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Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Well, when they were saying that, and he did you know the Egyptian coach to the anti-racism that I didn't know what he was doing. I didn't know that. I thought it meant Egyptian. I thought it was Egyptian. I thought it was this is amazing.

SPEAKER_04

I th I did not know it was anti-racism either. And I thought it was just like a super intense, like, this is how much we disagree.

SPEAKER_01

You know how you know how Don in the weeds you have to be to be racist against Egyptians? Right. I mean, unless unless you're one of these countries that's like right next to them because it happens. What do you say to an Egyptian?

SPEAKER_04

Like, and I'm not even like, I don't need a real answer here, but like, what do you say to an Egyptian to be racist?

SPEAKER_01

Because I mean, there's things you could say. And I don't know.

SPEAKER_04

I'm prefacing this by I think I would say this as a compliment. Be like, yo, you a pharaoh. Like, you don't that's like calling someone a king. Like a goddamn like it's cooler than that. It's it is, it's absolutely cooler than that. Be like, they're the fucking thing.

SPEAKER_01

When you say something comma, king, but you say aw king or king, when you say, hey, okay, king, that's great. But they're like, you're aw king, and you're like, eh. Or the king, you're like, eh. Yeah. But if you're like just straight pharaoh, yeah, be like, exactly. Like that's kind of cool.

SPEAKER_04

I've always in supporting them through their run, like, that's cool.

SPEAKER_01

It was always fascinating.

SPEAKER_04

Like, what are they?

SPEAKER_01

What are you doing? I don't that's why I was like, I think this is ridiculous. I don't think any Argentinian players were like did a thing.

SPEAKER_06

So he was just taking low-hanging bullshit, low-hanging stuff.

SPEAKER_01

No, they just think they just assume if someone goes down that it's a a like a penalty. I'm like, the dude just fucking. How can you do that? Do you remember Pulistic fucking like hit the fucking ground or another guy's yeah? We were talking, like, I was saying that's like, oh, well, the guy moved his leg to try to stop him from shooting. And I was like, no, he just fucking hit the he just got clumsy and he just broke the ground leg not getting fouled, by the way. And then we lost because of that specific sequence. Well, we lost not necessarily down for late, but like we were done after that. That took away our last. That was like, yeah, like a minute, and that's what happened to Portugal. They there was like a like a non-foul near the bottom. They stay with Spain for most of the time. They stay with Spain. Okay, so it was 0-0. That's a 50%. They're in the nine almost 90th minute again. Yeah. And this is how Spain wins. And they were like, because they're just they just do things really well. They have a couple moments. They they could beat you five-nothing, but they're not going to.

SPEAKER_06

That's the thing.

SPEAKER_01

They they're but they'll beat you.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

They're gonna be, they do a lot of it well. Classic, semifinal, quarterfinal, floor, whatever term in there. They're not gonna be. But guess what? They're not the mall. They're gonna be. They're gonna be good. That's the thing. They're gonna be good. It's it comes in such random spurts that. It's not consistently in a Belgian way and be like, oh, yeah, we're gonna be fuck Belgium. For all those people, that team hyped themselves up and they peeped, the media hyped them up as a golden generation. Their gold generation was the ones that were slaughtering people for rubber. Yeah. They thought they were the fucking best. They had a 24-year-old window where that was their golden generation. And they had a king, and his name wasn't Leo, it was Leopold. Leopold? What the fuck is that? He was the second. There was another guy. You were the you were Leopold Jr. Better than Dad in the way you were doing it.

SPEAKER_04

I'll show you, Daddy.

SPEAKER_00

I'll show Father. You know, I ain't gonna show my daddy.

SPEAKER_02

I will show my daddy. I'm going to I'm going to I found this new thing. It's called the rubber. It's a rubber. It will bounce. You know what?

SPEAKER_07

They probably it'll really hurt.

SPEAKER_00

If he hits you in the face in a kickball game, it'll really hurt.

SPEAKER_01

This is a new game we make in Belgium. It's called Kickball. No, all they they probably invented condoms. They probably It's rubber. What do we use as well? One of the earliest applications of rubber was for fucking balloons. Balloons. Like like what? Like air balloons. Was it like to like turpentine soaked rubber? Was like an ether bag? Like colour. Did they use it for like did they use it to sedue the people that were were working quote unquote working for them? Let's hear it. I want to know what this turpentine soaked rough. That sounds a lot like Ether.

SPEAKER_04

They thought rubber-soaked cloud. It was a weird combination.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, that sounds good. That's a good product we could buy. Proof is a good thing.

SPEAKER_04

If this was one of the first applications of rubber, was like, how come I use a few?

SPEAKER_01

Let's put it in the scene.

SPEAKER_05

Light it on fire. It'll float us.

SPEAKER_04

Fucking crazy. God damn it. Fuck you, Belgians. Fucking bad. You guys ruined Congo and you renamed it thinking you would Belgium wash it.

SPEAKER_07

Belgian wash. The Belgian freestyle.

SPEAKER_05

Belgian wash it.

SPEAKER_01

Wow, you were colonizing a fucking indigenous piece. That's crazy. That's that's just as bad.

SPEAKER_04

It's just like us saying the free world with America.

SPEAKER_01

Like, go fuck us. Well, that we're the free world? Yeah.

SPEAKER_05

Like us being like, okay, yeah, after we get away from the Native Americans, come over here together.

SPEAKER_01

Okay, so you know, I have a theory, by the way. God damn it. There's this theory, and the more we learn about the past, why are we even saying the term native? Because it's just like, do we need to defend it? Well, they're not, I mean, they're sorry, I didn't mean to be. Well, no, it's like they're a tribe, but like as a whole group, they were never identified as a whole group until we're just like, oh, we can't be this anymore. Because you the entire tribe is gone. Right. And so I'm this. Whatever you say. Suck. Me? Whatever you say I am. In a paper, the news. Oh, but damn. No, that's funny as shit. But I that's a good point, though. Like, why is that like and they're not necessarily indigenous? All these different tribes. So, what does the label matter? Just don't be an asshole. Yeah. Because it's like, okay, well, the history is made by winners, or it was, and now history history is made by winners, changed by apologists, yeah, and then re-made by fucking winners. And by the way, Belgian barely apologized for that. So they're not, they don't make history at all. They don't change it, they just capitulate in 40 minutes to the Germans. I'd be curious if there's any sort of damn why don't we beat why didn't we beat them? That's really good. I'm actually kind of glad that we didn't. Is it exposed though? I mean, I would have liked the money, but we're going to be able to do that. I would have liked the money how shitty their systems are. It is and how much people really do want to have a real people want people want to work soccer so badly.

SPEAKER_06

Because it's it's so funny. Yeah, yeah. It's it's been fun. The thing is, it's it's been fucking popular in the states forever. It just doesn't get it, yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Here's her point. It's not as popular. Um in communities with with families. Like it's in it's well, some families.

SPEAKER_06

It doesn't, that's the thing.

SPEAKER_01

It's like with if you have um like manicured fields and someone sucks that we don't take you there. It's not a it's not it's like a family sport instead of a mom sport. And the mom sports are the ones that catch on. Right. Because you don't need a guy that takes you out of the thing and plays with you. There's people in the neighborhood or something.

SPEAKER_04

It should be so much better than what it is.

SPEAKER_01

Basketball and soccer, or football, whatever you want to call it. I call it both now, I guess. Yeah, but like basketball and that specifically, more than any not just more than any other sport. But more than any other activity on earth can bring people to kind of gather in different pers or like maybe different backgrounds, similar perspective. Right. Um like soccer, man. Different perspective, similar background. Like sports. And you're like, oh wow. And it's like, yeah, that's why I'm gonna I'm trying to start a show with my friend, and it's just gonna be called like, Do you like sports? Or like you see that game and focus on the positive. So not this stuff. Yeah, but like the positive of sports. It's just like that's and it'll be it's it's gonna be like, don't want to talk about it, can't talk about it, hate that, hate that, hate that, lost money on that. But love this, you know, and it's like the thing I wanted to talk about in a show like just the positive, it's just like, hey, this was I know exactly how to do it. Or you're you know, right, or you go Felman Louise, and there needs to be a male real-life Felman Louise situation, by the way. Minus the you know, the rapey stuff. But it's just like fuck it. Something else happens, or I don't know, this could just be us in the 2030 World Cup. We're just like, you know what? I'm just I'm just driving off in the we go to a game in Morocco, we lose in the round of 60 again to Belgium, we just again and we just stay forever. We just drive off and look up look up. I'm the closest cliff in Morocco. I have real quick office.

SPEAKER_04

I've wanted to Morocco has always been like Oh, you we're going. It is a very if I were to visit a country in Africa and going on There's just a North Africa. I will I there might be some prejudice here. I I think I would be worried about maybe getting hurt or something happened to me in certain areas of Africa. Any country country, right? And so it's fine areas where we're gonna be able to do it. There's probably some ignorance that would probably be like needs to be corrected, but like Morocco has this allure of like it's like ooh, sexy dangerous. Right. It's in the north. It's like was it in Indiana Jones or not? Right, right? It's unfortunately Morocco's unfortunate, or not unfortunate, it's a sexy country. It does sound sexy. It's there's a European Morocco Sako when they scored a goal, and I really wanted to do that.

SPEAKER_03

Like, I think of you know, this can tell me if this tracks when you think about like at the Copa, Copa Kaban, I think of Morocco that way. I think of Morocco as this like far away. I think of the world.

SPEAKER_01

There's a delicious and like the fucking um like it seems cool.

SPEAKER_04

Uh parts. Never the never never the whole thing. Pretty good movie. It's pretty good, it's about male friendship.

SPEAKER_01

It is though, ultimately. On the yeah, as World War II. He's the two guys. No, that's just on the ducks. Would you go to the Star? There's probably a Star Wars tour, like, hey, they filmed a movie here and then just nothing's here now in this part. In parts of Morocco? No, it's in Tunisia. They filmed it in Tunisia. That's why we were talking about the Tunisian twins or wherever the fuck we were. Yeah, the Tunisian twins were the Tuscan twins, baby. No, but it's the World Cup 2030 is in Morocco, Spain, and uh fucking Portugal. Sounds awesome. Well, it's because uh Morocco butts up, they all border each other. Yeah, they're close. Um they all border it's the Iberian Peninsula, as they're called, right? Right. And then there's Morocco to the west. But yes. Oh, here's the thing.

SPEAKER_04

Right, because it's just at the tip You know, for the longest fucking time they didn't realize a tip was a penis?

SPEAKER_01

No. It's all the gold. No, it's like the actual like the clearest.

SPEAKER_04

I mean, think about Africa, and like I didn't know Europe and Africa were connected for like a long time. Up until like high school, and then you learn it, and it's like no, there's other wise or like there's a land connection between like they are connected.

SPEAKER_01

I mean, they're really close, yeah. Yeah, that's I guess I haven't thought about that since I had to be. It's crazy. Like it's they're actually like there's a connection that's crazy. I'll be fully honest, besides Italy, I didn't know that. I was not fucking even curious about the rest of the world for traveling, at least until I met my fiance. Because you tell yourself, like, whatever, right? I'm not gonna go anywhere because I'm just like traumatized. Yeah, but then you're like too my my whole backup. Like, I think everyone should have a backup plan of like, nah, like, you know what? If a certain point is breached in my life, I'm just doing this, and I've told you mine, right? I'll say it on air again if I haven't said before. I'm just straight up just eating as much South American butt as I can. Eating, devour.

SPEAKER_02

Oh my goodness.

SPEAKER_01

I will devour straight for the ranch. Right, no, I'm no, I'm like, I will get into their intestines. I just do not give a shit. Because I mean it's like that movie with Martin Short, it was called like inner s and and then when he goes inside the No, it was like Dennis Quaid and Martin Short shrinks inside the body. I'm gonna go so far in that butt often You can be up in that reptum, don't you? I'm gonna be up in the Andes and fucking asshole and be like, you know what? Because I tried one way, this is my path now, and then I will tell you all about it at the 2030 World Cup. That's what we're gonna do. And then we lose again, just get destroyed, again, probably some European country that doesn't currently exist, spins off, follows Sharia law entirely, and beats a seven and nothing. They might then and then we drive off Lukaku a Moroccan cliff, coached by Lukaku.

SPEAKER_05

Lukaku comes off, comes on, sums himself on for a fucking header.

SPEAKER_04

The dude is old as shit and his legs are gone, but his he's so he's cool. He's the only one I like. He's it he's hard not to like. He he is like uh uh the one of the few stains on him is like uh did he kill somebody?

SPEAKER_06

No, he like he kind of like he pissed off a lot of fan bases because he would just he'd be like, I love this club, it was my boyhood club, like I've always wanted to join here, and then he'd say the same shit next season joining the new team. That's why.

SPEAKER_01

So he yeah, someone had PR? Yeah, do you teach a Pulisic a PR class?

SPEAKER_06

He's been playing for like 20 years.

SPEAKER_01

This is why I say next time I get fired, by the way, at some place. It'll happen. I was just gonna do it. It's like it's gonna be like, hey, like, now I can rest. And that's what I'm doing. Now I can't. I'm like, I'm resting. I'm applying to you.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, dog, maybe you say it when the tournament's fucking done. I mean, his tournament was done. Yeah, man.

SPEAKER_01

I mean, I get did he know he had a broken leg? Yeah, broken legs. No, we probably didn't. We definitely didn't. What's a fracture? A hairline fracture? Was it a Landon Donovan hairline fracture? Might have been it. It's hairline. That guy's transplant. No, he got a fucking, he's getting transplants and shit. Is he? He's got have you seen the look at the late? It's coming back in. You know what doesn't come back? Hairlines. Hairlines and Belgium relevance on the global stage. Dude, so you know what it doesn't bounce back like the Congo.

SPEAKER_04

Okay, let's go. Goddamn condom inventors. Maybe we end this one with a little so a little dark. A little more dark, an administrative setup distinct from any other European colony. Right. In 1885, the Congo Free State was established by the personal territory of King Leopold II. Fuck you. This arrangement gave King Leopold extraordinary control over both governance and resource extraction. No shit.

SPEAKER_01

Resource extraction. They could do what they want.

SPEAKER_04

That's bullshit. The administrative structure that emerged in the colony was centered on the extraction of rubber and other raw materials.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04

Atrocities at an unprecedented scale. Ten million people fell victim to an estimated 10 million people.

SPEAKER_01

Like in the process were processed in some way. Yeah. This death toll represented 50%.

SPEAKER_04

Okay, so it was more. I said a quarter.

SPEAKER_01

It's like half of the like that's it's a lot of people, man. It's a big place. It's a big it was the same land area, right? That currently is. It's like we I I was talking about this with my buddy uh about country. We were getting we were good way down in the weeds on like land mass and population size, and that their land mass is like top 15. Really? Still. Well, if you look at an old 91 or sorry, 971 and 1997 Alexander. Saire was now DR Congo was dead center. So it's the same thing, and that was Belgian Congo before. Damn, so it's right at the heart of Africa. Yeah. Right at the heart. So the heart of darkness is the heart of darkness called it. I think it's gotta be going up to that was uh adapted into uh uh Apocalypse Now.

SPEAKER_04

God, yeah. This enormous figure stems from the fact that rubber extraction as practiced by the Belgians was virtually unparalleled in its cruelty, even on the global colonial eras of the time. Like that's saying something.

SPEAKER_01

Like you're you beat out every the power rankings of cruelty. They're like inverted to their relevance in Europe, in modern Europe. It's just like how many countries are in modern Europe? Like 51? There's a lot, yeah. 20 something. I don't know, somewhere like it's some it's definitely a lot. I would pick at this point, at this point, I think I would rather be in a war-torn currently in war other one of these places than like even step foot. It's like guess what? Belgium's not gonna have me on the cast, you know. Like break up at this point, good with that. But it's just like people like, why are you so upset? I'm like, cause all I had to do was a quick Google search.

SPEAKER_04

And you find this out, and it's like to learn that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I was someone that was some of them.

SPEAKER_01

A lot of you know, most places, you know, did a lot of bad things, and this is like no. Yeah, but they also did good things, usually. This is or they're known for something. It's bad, bad. And it's it's not like true dynasties, it's not 1600s, 1500s, the the Hm Dyn Hmong Dynasty and all these things like dynasties forever.

SPEAKER_04

When horrible stuff happened in those dynasties, and that was a long, like, long time ago. This is really long ago.

SPEAKER_01

These were the cruelest descendants of Genghis. Yeah, like the least warrior, like they weren't Kublas. You know who's probably Belgium? Belgian? The character in Saw. He's probably Belgian. It's like very we just go we just go on the Saw Wikipedia page and very specifically like hack it so we talk about how many Belgian things are.

SPEAKER_04

And he's like a direct descendant of King Leopold.

SPEAKER_01

Leopold's like a liege of Leopold. Oh my god, okay, so using his family's murder or whatever deaths as an excuse. Do do yourself a favor if you're if you're one of our late night bangs.

SPEAKER_04

If you're if you're really a hardcore listener, and this might be news to you, they were bad. Google, like it the the scale of which they turned like the entire country into like just a rubber plantation. Basically a rubber plantation like fucking like that's insane. Granted, we did that in the US at different states, like and we did different.

SPEAKER_01

Like it was British, like we American, a part of a lot, well, a big chunk of America, kept that uh system in place. Yeah, but these people straight up fucking developed a system to do it, like oh man, it's and you know you know who who probably doesn't put this stuff in their history books? First off, it's probably a giant chunk would be a giant chunk of their history. Belgium. They probably what else happened? They should. They absolutely should. By the way, so say this happened for what was 24 years before, and there was still they were still before World War II. There was still some abuses and stuff for a long period after Belgian Congo. But then when it was what the what was it called? The Free State of Congo.

SPEAKER_04

Free State of Belgium Congo. Of Belgium, yeah. It was the Free State of Congo or whatever.

SPEAKER_01

In the 1880s, it was 1885 to 1908.

SPEAKER_04

The Congo, it was called the Congo Free State.

SPEAKER_01

Jesus Christ. What a joke. Yeah, so what an absolute free. So in that period, you attack on 37 minutes on top of that or whatever. Yeah. And that's 24 years longer than they lasted against Germany. They were doing all this shit. You're welcome, by the way. It's like that should be like, uh, well, I'm glad we beat them. That was that was bullshit. Yay, Belgium. Would have been great. Cool. Awesome. Even the Trump dance, fine. I like that. But it's like, honestly, I can't imagine being more. Well, I well, here's the thing. I can't imagine here's the rub. No, it's cool. Like all these things that presidents do that are dorky are actually cool. I think. It can be in a certain You know what's not cool as a president? Dying doing your speech. Like that William Henry Harrison, right? Actually, Benjamin William, yeah, one of the Harrisons. Died during his speech. Died after a speech. He heard his inauguration. Gets the fucking flu. Oh, probably because he was up there too long over exacerbating himself in the cold. When are we gonna move inauguration completely inside because we're only electing 90-year-old men?

SPEAKER_04

Yeah. Maybe we maybe we switch either switch the business.

SPEAKER_01

It's gonna get worse when we we have people that have been baging for 40 years.

SPEAKER_02

And God knows I'm not coming up to office anytime soon.

SPEAKER_01

They're like, oh, here's the rub. Here's the rubber. We were gonna elect you, but you were on the Degenerate Aid podcast for 17 years. Here's here's a quick made $17. What dude, they would chop, they just chop, they would just chop off people's hands left and right. And they didn't even make give them rubber limbs or anything that they would have made themselves. Oh my god. That's fucked up, right? There's like a guy, there's like a person that's sewing them on to like. But no, no.

SPEAKER_00

But they weren't creative enough to do that.

SPEAKER_01

They were Belgians. They were sewing with their feet. And then those ones, they're like, let's put them in our soccer academy someday. And then they they were actually pioneers of the Paralympic uh archery teams.

SPEAKER_05

Sorry, that's so funny.

SPEAKER_01

The Belgian Robin Hood is just like it's not, it's not hunt, it's not helping out the poor. It's not some like it's just hunting Congolese. That's like their Robin Hood. Oh god. No, it's not. Why do we call them Belgian Robin Hood?

SPEAKER_04

The Congolese were getting good at it, not the Belgians, because they were gonna have arms.

SPEAKER_06

No, they oh my god, they're feeling like we only teach you, yeah, they learned the technique and then they're like then they like some there could be a foot uprising.

SPEAKER_01

They stopped, they stopped, they stopped, they stopped cutting out of arms and then they only start foot uprising. Oh no the reason that the the reason if you look at locations on like foot fetishes that it's like there's not to mod in in modern times, there's probably a low foot curiosity in Diaracongo and surrounding areas because there's the negative association of the the the archery uh technique of that they stole from them. Not only did my ancestors make all the rubber that all you did was make condoms and balloons. Condoms and balloons, maybe a couple tires. A couple tires, kick some tires down the road. Maybe a rubber raft. A rubber raft, Jesus Christ. Turpin some turpine. If they had any fucking water, they'd make the use the rafts to get the fuck out of Belgium. God damn it. Um yeah, but it's just like, oh my god, it's I I just I want the World Cup to end now just so I don't have to think about them for another four years. It is We have a women's team though, too, right? Are they gonna make it? Um probably in Belgium, maybe with Sharia and Sharia, if they have Sharia law firm, is just like, hi, were you injured and on the way to a chocolate f chocolate match or whatever? Chocolate match? Were you in the way it's a waffle? Waffle Atia, waffle a tia, waffle chocolate in a chocolate waffle tarea or whatever? It's like call sharia and sharia law. We're number four on your rotary diamonds. Yeah. You're welcome.

SPEAKER_04

Belgians, for whatever reason, have never advanced everybody has a rotary phone.

SPEAKER_01

Have you seen have you seen to say anything? The movie with the fucking with John Cusack and the and the he has the fucking uh the the the the boom box and Peter Gabriel song? Yeah. So there's a line in this beginning of the movie about the girl that he liked. Or no, in the middle of the movie, or near the end, I think. He's just talking about it was Ion Skye, played the character. I don't forgot the character's name, but it was the smart girl he likes, and he's just like kind of dorky like C student kickboxing guy. He's like, I think I want to be a kickboxer, and the dad runs a John Mahoney from Fraser, the dad from Fraser runs the uh kickboxing studio. No, he runs no, that would be a better movie. It's already a good movie, but the idea of the dad from Fraser running a kickbox studio when he's like limping around later. But no, he was younger than he was like 50, and then he's like he runs a like uh uh old folks' home, right? Okay, but he like takes off the top, but he justifies it, but like who else is taking care of these people? You know, I I give him good life. He skims off the top. Yeah, he does. He visits him. I'm telling the whole movie. Why not? Spoiler alert for Say Anything 1989. Sorry if you're late to the party. You know, if you if you're if you're seventh generation free state Congo and you couldn't watch Say Anything because the Belgians scrambled it. Yeah, what? Okay, they can't watch it. Cameron Crow movies. What else is Belgium ruined today? Cameron, they're just like blocking Belgians from watching Cameron Crow movies. They can't watch Say Anything and fucking uh what's the one with the I don't actually know any movie. Penny Lane was the character, it's the move music movie, it's a fucking almost famous. Oh you can't watch Say Anything and Almost Famous in Vanilla Sky. And and uh the other one that he wrote was uh in Dragon's Fast Times of River.

SPEAKER_06

But they really like October Sky. That's a good movie. That is a good movie.

SPEAKER_01

That's not uh Jake Killinghall? Why do they like it so much? Because they're they're like, look at these rockets, they go, they go so much. They're talking about them like that. I don't know. That was a brick. That was a brick, you throw up a brick, shit! Ram Patrice, oh man. That doesn't happen. It's too hot, it's too hot. I am still shirtless and I'm screaming, and it's just like we look like a gay Belgium. We look like a one-sided gay couple. We do the one's like the body, and one's just like probably listening to the guy with the body screaming.

SPEAKER_04

Super bold move though, if we were doing any gay activities to be doing it within light distance of the apartment complex.

SPEAKER_01

Okay, that is the laundry. The lights came on. You see this open thing right there? Yeah, it looks like people were having sex in there, I think. Because is that an extra match? There was a there was a fucking mattress on there. Here comes doggy. There's a doggy. But yeah, Belgium's terrible. Belgium sucks. Belgium is hold on, we got this. We did this really awkward thing when there's um Oh wait, no, they just look everyone looks everyone looks good with tan legs coming down a staircase. That's true. That's true. That's all right. That's it. We're out of earshot now. Alright, so what was I saying? Oh, Cameron Crow moves. We're saying something about Cameron Crow moves. Yeah, so like to say anything thing. So I'll get back to this bit. Just send me encouraged gas me up. Tell me encouraging words, I remember it. We were crushing it. We were crushing it. So tell me. Tell me I'm good. Tell me I'm worth something. You're wonderful. Tell me You're amazing. Tell me I have no You're so great. I just want you to keep going.

SPEAKER_00

I'm almost there. I'm almost there. Not even a bulge and invented rubber could put it on.

SPEAKER_02

I've almost got to the rubber. You're almost there, youngin'.

SPEAKER_01

I invented everything but the lamb ones. Wait, the lamb? The lamb skin? Oh, the lamb skin condom. What if we just use leather? That was maybe what they They were originally trying to the whole thing came for wanting to make sex less pleasurable. It had to be. And they had they were trying to use leather scraps. Leather scraps. You gotta think. And they ran out of hide. You gotta think that the.

SPEAKER_00

And they're like, we got there's a place in the world.

SPEAKER_04

The sheep sheep intestine condoms from like ancient times. Those had to be like haggis wraps. Like like wrapping in haggis. Like magnum, like nothing. You fucking your bag feels like there's nothing.

SPEAKER_01

I don't think they used their guts, did they? They did due to sheep intestines. It was intestines? I thought it was skin. Ah, dog, intestine. Because think about it. Think about what intestine. I was holding the thing. What I was saying, like, I gave you my heart. Like sausages. Yeah, you gave my heart, she gave me a pen. That's what the line was. And what were we talking about?

SPEAKER_04

We were talking about, I'm sorry, I got it. No, it was um, it was what we were talking about Belgian's seventh generation DR Congo's not being able to watch.

SPEAKER_01

All this whole time, all you got is like you gave you my heart, you gave me a pen. And that's probably what it's like to be like sit there in your Belgian class and you learn. It's like, what's this giant gap? Like, oh, that's where a real country's history would go. So we don't have it. Right. We don't do that subject. Because it doesn't matter. It doesn't help us. Because we're going to have Sharia very much.

SPEAKER_06

It doesn't make us feel good about it.

SPEAKER_01

Because they're gonna rewrite the book. The thing is, we're trying to slowly at what level do they fully reading right to left?

SPEAKER_04

Do they do that in uh they do that in Japan for manga? For manga?

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, they're just there's would it be great if there's just like the Belgian oh, this is like they're weird guys talking about manga. Screaming about manga. Shirtless, fogged up. This guy's puffing on something that looks like a vapor. It's like a baby enjoying it too much. This other guy's guys shirtless and fucking screaming. Give me a sip of this. Are they drinking sodis? Did you finish yours? Yeah, of course. Did I rip my sodi? Absolutely. Kill it. You got the right. They're just in there and they're fucking they're reading like they're trained. The only reason that the library got these, these, they they think these kids think they got like, finally, we get to read something else. That's not like Charlie and the chocolate factory knockoffs and Amelia Badilla.

SPEAKER_05

The real history. The real history of Belgium.

SPEAKER_01

No, but it's just it's just they're just training their right to left for Sharia Law to fully take over because they everybody they read right to left. And so there's like mangas, and then all of a sudden, one day, the next over the summer they come back to school. And it's all right. There's no mangas, it's just the Quran.

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Oh my god.

SPEAKER_01

It's only the Quran. It's the new Quran. It's the new Quran, which we'll talk about next week. That's that's just a little preview for what's to come. Get you going, maybe.

SPEAKER_04

Spice you up. Oh, we're gonna read the new Quran. If you wanna end your night on a hot note, do not look up pictures of Belgian.

SPEAKER_01

By the way, this was so recent. Belgians are not in the Quran, surprisingly. There's fucking picture proof of the shit from Belgium. That's like, wait, hold on, hold on. There's like there's like pre-World War II genocide photos and Belgian participating. Like, no, no, it's like and it's crazy.

SPEAKER_04

I mean people know that for sure, but like, literally learning about it, learning about it in uh in a history class going back to school was like it was like crazy.

SPEAKER_01

But you don't you this is like yeah, only if you go back to it's like people that go back, like that were in college, whatever reason did something else, and then they go back to college, it just triggers the possibility of learning about it. It's just like redo history. And you talk a little bit. You probably didn't learn about this. So let's do history. They literally have two different history classes, it's like history from bonus genocide.

SPEAKER_06

It's like BC to like 18 something. And then it's P T to Otape with David Bay.

SPEAKER_01

You know what? You know what, you know what learning about Belgium would be? Like watching like Jets highlights. Just like, oh yeah, the NFL's back, but it's only Jets games. That's all you just it's like being stuck in market, just misery. But it's only or it's like the all the mark the the in-market game, and they're it's always the jets. And you eventually be like, well, yeah, I'm uh I'm uh you like football? And you like sports? Back to that callback. Do you like sports? Well, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, oh, cool, who's your team? Uh it's the jets. It just goes, you go, it's the jets. Uh I like the jets. He's like, holy shit. Yeah, and then they're just bragging about something that that you get to, you know, cover up your bleeding asshole, and it's like their equivalent of chocolate. It's just like a tampon. But it's like we invented this, you know, the rubber, you know, it's like it's really just a salve. You know what's it when our from all our pain for being. This is our rubber salve. Our rubber's just like rubber. I hope that's. You should see that goal by the way that they gave up, the rebound shot. It's great because they're probably like all this pom past or bomb ass, or I can't even say it right. Pompous bombast, pompous. Dunking on the Trump dance. Like, guess who's not doing a fucking Leopold dance? Anyone. Fuck you, Leopold. Guess what? You're gonna lose. If there's a World War III, maybe you can beat your original record of 37 minutes bye!

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