2 Men In Black and White: An Honest Conversation

Mark Hayes (00:01.614)
All right, we are lives, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome back. Another exciting edition of Two Men in Black and White. I'm your host, Mark Hayes. This is One Honest Conversation. he said he was coming to Washington to drain the swamp. You can't make this shit up, folks. now he'd unfucked up the reflecting pool and wants to arrest the people that he now says have vandalized the swimming pool that turned it into a sea.

Of stinky algae that no longer even reflects anymore because it's so green, so disgusting, it's killing the ducks. The algae is killing the ducks, it's eating the ducks. That's what's going on. It's not Columbus, it's Washington, DC, where the algae is eating the ducks, and now Trump is threatening people with 10 years in the pokey Brock.

Ten years. So they're making up laws as they go so if you if you defile a reflecting pool, it's ten years in the joint. It's so ridiculous.

Brock Ganeles (01:09.653)
Meaning if you pull a piece of floating paint chips that have peeled away from the bottom of the reflecting pool and you pull one of those out as a souvenir and keep spits keepsake for the decline of America, that's Trump is gonna try Trump now, now he's the local prosecutor, right.

Mark Hayes (01:22.86)
Wow.

Right.

Right.

Brock Ganeles (01:36.347)
Tr Trump and and Gene Pierrot are gonna step in and so Trump's gonna be in court prosecuting this one. So, okay, let's just go through all the elements of this that are so symbolic to the absolute degradation of of America and American government and American policy. Number one, clearly the Project 2025 people know that they have a dementia ridden

Mark Hayes (01:36.908)
Right.

Mark Hayes (01:43.928)
Well.

Mark Hayes (01:53.535)
East. Can we?

Mark Hayes (01:59.95)
Right.

Brock Ganeles (02:06.29)
Half dead, often asleep leader. So they're just showing him a shiny object every day that he can run after. So they're feeding his ego and his hate. So it's all about the ballroom, the arc, the reflecting pool, UFC fights, all the things that Kennedy Center. So they got Trump focused on all the things that feed his ego, while also.

Mark Hayes (02:11.606)
Okay.

Brock Ganeles (02:33.594)
st letting him stir up fights and get out his bile of hate every single day. Right? So that's number one. So the reflecting pool just became another thing that they got Trump fixated on so he'd stay the fuck out of the way so they could reshape America into a Christian white nationalist society. But then of course incompetence stepped in then corruption stepped in with the no bid contract and like s some Yahoo has no fucking idea what he's doing.

Mark Hayes (02:39.265)
Yep.

Mark Hayes (02:55.573)
Right.

Brock Ganeles (03:04.512)
Then the lies take over and everything becomes, you know, now we have to blame it on vandalism because it couldn't have been just an absolute error, right? Couldn't have just been a fumble and foolishness by the president. So we have to project outward and find someone to blame. So now we have to blame the ex-Olympic athlete who pulled a piece of, you know, paint chip out of the reflecting pool. While of course the

Mark Hayes (03:18.391)
Yeah.

Mark Hayes (03:24.822)
Right.

Brock Ganeles (03:34.93)
The ninety nine percent du of the ducklings who are just trying to live their lives in the reflecting pool ultimately are the victims of the environmental injustice and they're the ones that get it the worst.

Mark Hayes (03:41.163)
They won't bother nobody.

Mark Hayes (03:49.304)
We've got to fight. Right. Brock, I mean, how how ironic is it that we have a swamp? Literally. In in it here okay, just like the Iran War, we don't know why we're in it. The reflecting pool wasn't broken. Why why why did you paint it? Why did you call your buddy who does pools for a living and ask him to come fix a pool that wasn't broken?

We don't know why. now you can't fix it because you keep hiring people who don't know what they're doing, i.e. see this Trump one point administration, Trump two point administration, the incompetence, the ignorance, the sheer stupidity of the people running the country who are constantly breaking shit that did not need fixing. it is

so frustrating, so annoying. and then we sit back and we watch the richest among us, the one percenters, laugh, joke, gas up their yachts, and because their buddy doesn't know what he's doing, in order for them to maximize profits, they chop off the heads of American citizens. it really is beyond.

Aggravating and this algae ridden swamp swamp symbolization will live with this president into infamy right into the prison cell in Project twenty twenty nine.

Brock Ganeles (05:40.105)
So Mark, gotta think of the reflecting pool was kind of basically it was a war of choice. So the reflecting pool was basically like Iran. So now, like Iran, we start with something that we needed, didn't need to be there, didn't need to happen, didn't need to be fixed. Then we absolutely totally fuck it up due to incompetence. Then we lie about all the outcomes and everything surrounding it.

Mark Hayes (05:45.163)
Yeah.

Yes. Same thing.

Brock Ganeles (06:06.598)
Then we move to the blame game because it's gotta be somebody else's fault because we couldn't have possibly be the, you know, be making just have horrendous decision making. And now, in similar fashion, we're just trying to get things back to where they were before we started. So now the whole goal is how do we get that reflection pull back?

Mark Hayes (06:10.677)
Boom.

Brock Ganeles (06:27.272)
How do we get that straight hormouth open? Right? So we're just running around the world fucking shit up and trying to get it back to where it was while blaming Obama, Biden, Hillary Clinton, you know, Jimmy Carter, the leftist liberals and the snowflakes for everything that's gone wrong on absolutely wars, battles, and decisions of choice.

Mark Hayes (06:35.905)
Yeah.

Mark Hayes (06:53.068)
Yeah.

Mark Hayes (06:56.909)
Okay, so there is some good coming out of this, right? The UFC debacle. There is some good coming out of this. Somebody pissed off Barack Hussein Obama. He's been hitting hard lately. He is not pulling any punches with Trump. He's telling you, I saw an interview with the pivot, and he said, you know, sometimes you go to Harvard and you got some folks there who are brilliant.

And then you got some folks at Harvard who you wouldn't put him in charge of anything. And he says then you go to a conference full of world leaders, and then you find out, yeah, there's some really smart, intelligent world leaders. And then you got some fools out here running countries. Who do you think he's talking about? Who in the world do you think he's talking about? Because he they

Really? Barack Obama is a dumb son of a bitch? After he gave Iran their own a $1.7 billion of their own what should he have kept the interest? Should he have stolen the interest? This fucking moron threatened to kill the Iranian negotiating team just yesterday. Like, what's your man doing, Brock? Like what this guy

is so brain dead that we've gotta get him out of there before he really like okay like the Strait of Hormuz is not enough damage. They're talking about taking it over by force and annihilating Iran. Again.

How many lives is it gonna cost?

Brock Ganeles (08:40.66)
I mean isn't the world tired of like this big bad wolf fucking, you know, we're gonna huffin a puff and we're gonna like and destroy or wipe I mean, we've we have four months of us threatening to wipe Iran off the face of the map, right? We bombed them left and right, you know, we've already, you know, a AI generated targets that killed a hundred and sixty schoolgirls. So like, yeah, we can commit war crimes left and right.

Mark Hayes (08:50.415)
Yeah.

Mark Hayes (09:00.215)
Rapid.

Mark Hayes (09:10.263)
Yeah.

Brock Ganeles (09:10.408)
We can just we can threaten, but our threats just sound so hollow. The world knows we're running out of fucking ammunition. We can't barely even feed our troops that are over there. We Pete Hegset the fucking, you know, buffoon. Iran spit out another mixtape this morning. They're laughing at us. And they know that America is getting tired of Trump's act because the threats are useless.

Mark Hayes (09:28.941)
I love it.

Brock Ganeles (09:37.587)
The every day we're about to cut a deal, we're four months into this, it's just useless. It's not shaking the core MAGA, but you know, more and more of America is just tired of this and is focused on happier and more joyous events. Like that's why the reflecting pool, the reflecting pool is not going to get discussed on Fox News. So there's a portion of the w of the country that's not even going to see this idiocy. Those that

Mark Hayes (09:54.359)
Yeah.

Brock Ganeles (10:05.262)
will look at it and do know what's going on like us. How much time are we gonna spend on fucking reflecting pool? It's just like we shrug our shoulders, this is this week's idiocy. There'll be new idiocy next week. As long as we allow Trump to run the country.

Mark Hayes (10:16.043)
Yep. Yep. And that's the sad part.

Right. But let's talk a little bit about something that's not so stupid. Jarvanka getting the beatdown. One million Albanian strong coming out saying, Hell no, we won't go and you won't build that shit here. You're not gonna build a property screwing over one of our, you know, most beautiful natural preserves and make it so expensive that we won't even be afford visit.

Right? The Albanians won't even be the normal Albanian will not even be able to to to to set foot on the property unless they're working there and serving the one percent who come from all over the world to visit. Fuck Jarvanka. How much money did they make, Brock? At the end of Trump 1.0? What was it like 700 million dollars? And here they are again, running around, you know, shopping for billion dollar fucking plus deals?

I mean, Project 2029, I was so happy to hear this today. Have you heard about this? The the the the goal is to create to start creating the task force now that's going to prosecute Trump, key members of the administration, and all Trump's family members who have those ill gotten gains. I can't fucking wait. Brock, I I don't I want him to die, right? I'm sorry, Lord.

Please forgive me, for I have sinned. But I want him to go to prison. I think he should suffer in prison. I think he should suffer like the American people have suffered. MS now is

Brock Ganeles (12:02.556)
Yeah, no, I I want him to see defeat before he passes away. I want America needs to remove him. That na we can't get there the easy way. We need to get there the way Albania's trying to get there, and that's by motivating being outside and making noise and voting and making sure that our vote doesn't get suppressed.

Mark Hayes (12:07.358)
That's that too.

Yes. Right.

Brock Ganeles (12:26.33)
And fighting back against the ICE agents that are gonna try to intimidate voters. Like we're gonna have to do it, we need to do it the hard way. We need to do it the New York Knicks way. We need to do it the hard way so that we prove to ourselves we can do hard things and that we'll fight for things that matter to us. Because even if Trump dies, Project 2025 is rolling along with the next puppet in charge.

Mark Hayes (12:31.498)
Yeah yeah.

Mark Hayes (12:36.088)
Right.

Mark Hayes (12:46.53)
Yep. And we're gonna refuse to lose.

Brock Ganeles (12:53.938)
And if Trump dies tomorrow, that puppet in charge is JD Vance, and JD Vance is backed by Peter Thiel. And we'll get to that fucker in a second with his secret society going to fucking islands, you know. Let's let's swing it back to Jarvanka, right? They want a private island. What the fuck they want to do on that private island, right? The last private island we've been talking about had some fucking sh pretty shady shit going on there, right? So, okay, the private island.

Mark Hayes (12:54.296)
Right.

Mark Hayes (13:03.534)
We have to

Mark Hayes (13:11.363)
Right.

Mark Hayes (13:17.462)
We're still talking about it. Right. We're still talking about it.

Brock Ganeles (13:23.802)
And Peter Thiel and his private society.

You know, of all these luminaries trying to figure out how they're going to manipulate world events and how shit operates not only here but kinda everywhere. Like that's deep state shit. So I like that Alba Albanians are on the front lines of that fight. America's at least now celebrating World Cup, celebrating ourselves a little bit more. I think gathering the energy to fight here.

Mark Hayes (13:42.657)
Right.

Brock Ganeles (13:58.941)
I'm hoping that's what's going on here in America right now. because the you know, Jared and fucking Peter Teal and Project 2025, we just have to remember we still have some of the worst people in the world in very powerful positions doing shit that does not care about the rest of us.

Mark Hayes (14:00.909)
Right.

Mark Hayes (14:19.127)
Yeah.

Mark Hayes (14:24.386)
Yeah. Yeah, that flies in the face of human decency, brah. Really? Really you're trying to create a cult? Right? I I mean, Jim Jones didn't teach us everything we needed to know about cults? Right? What what was the Mormon cat who was up there marrying the the the underage girls? Like that that wasn't enough of a cult that Jeffrey Jeffrey yeah. We like

Brock Ganeles (14:46.845)
It's like Jeffers or something, right?

Mark Hayes (14:54.1)
Haven't we seen a bad scale?

Brock Ganeles (14:54.366)
we had Waiklo, we got those guys in San Diego with the sneakers. Yeah. yeah, Peter Thiel he he's he's running private seminars where one of the topics, the a roundtable discussion, they're sitting around talking about how to build a cult. Who the fuck goes into the middle of the woods with a bunch of old white guys to talk about building a cult? And has another seminar that's called How's Your Sex Life? What the fuck is Ted Cruz out in the woods with Peter Thiel?

Sitting around a f you know, fireside chat with what 50 people in like fucking folding chairs? The topic, how's your sex life? Come on. What the fuck are these guys doing out there? But this is this is the mindset and the people that are behind Project 2025 and the Leon Leo shit that manipulated you know, heritage fund, all these think tanks, coat foundation.

Mark Hayes (15:27.606)
Right.

Mark Hayes (15:32.044)
Makes no sense, bro. Right.

Yeah.

Brock Ganeles (15:51.465)
This all intertwined the same kind of thinking of people that feel that have a lot of money and a lot of influence and are trying to manipulate American society.

Mark Hayes (15:58.671)
Yeah.

Mark Hayes (16:02.242)
Yep. And why do you have to manipulate it, bro? Like if you're Peter Teal, isn't it enough to like go to Borabor and have a an amazing, I don't know, month long staycation with amazing food and a a postcard everywhere you look, and why don't you take a catamaran around the island and come back a month later and you know, supercharge something else and

Create something else for humanity instead of manipulating it and and trying to see how diabolical you can actually be? Like what the fuck is wrong with were you dropped on your head as a child? The fuck?

Brock Ganeles (16:47.152)
No, 'cause some of these some of these people are real ideologues. They're very religiously driven. So they have this that you know, crazy otherworldly mentality. Some of them like are really like you know, maybe great technology minds, but they are missing that chip in their brain that gives them more human emotion and empathy, right? You see that in in Musk and like, you know, that's

Mark Hayes (17:12.702)
Yeah.

Brock Ganeles (17:16.414)
There's just an inability to connect to the human condition. Like we're all just X's and O's on a page and in a code. Like they think of the world like coders. I mean, if you want a taste of it, treat yourself to like the one or one and a half minutes of Mark Zuckerberg tr attempting to give a heartfelt address to the Facebook employees.

Mark Hayes (17:20.651)
Right.

Brock Ganeles (17:43.881)
I think it was this morning or from yesterday, after laying off 8,000 of them and then trying to like quote apologize and emote how difficult it was for him to fire 8,000 people. There was so hardship on him in his

Mark Hayes (17:59.663)
Sure it was.

Mark Hayes (18:07.926)
Right.

Brock Ganeles (18:09.05)
Underground bunker that he's building in Hawaii so they can survive the apocalypse for him. Not what it how difficult it was for the 8,000 people who've now lost their job, can't pay their mortgage or rent, have to go on Krober, may lose their health care in six months. God knows there's no health care options in this country, so they're extra screwed. But no, it was really Mark Zuckerberg. It was really difficult on him. But he he but he looked like a robot trying to

Mark Hayes (18:30.104)
Right.

Mark Hayes (18:34.04)
Like

Brock Ganeles (18:36.39)
impart this information like there was no like I thought he was gonna put saline in his eyes try to have the fake tears coming down. He literally look sounded and looked like a robot speaking words, no emotion.

Mark Hayes (18:47.606)
Right.

Mark Hayes (18:51.638)
Yeah. I i Brock, I'll I'll never forget

being fired the literally my contract was terminated on s on september fifteenth, two thousand one.

Mark Hayes (19:11.148)
September eleventh, two thousand one. Days after, the only thing that saved me was being a decent employee because I was told in June that it was happening. And so when nine eleven rolled around, I went into my boss and he said, You know, don't worry about it. I got you.

Brock Ganeles (19:12.756)
I'm gonna say yeah, four four day four days. Four days after.

Mark Hayes (19:36.335)
You've been a good citizen here. You did everything I asked you to do. You made my life easier. I gotcha. So he covered me to the end of the year. And you know, I was extremely grateful. We're friends to this day. Right? But I just remember how cold it was. And and and and as I'm, you know, sitting on the beach.

From September until April when I started my new job in Atlanta, thinking to myself, my God, what would have happened? You know, had they not had any empathy at all. Right? And and that's what I th that is the time of my life that I relate to when I see what's happening out here now.

When I see people just getting axed and blown out, like they're not even human beings. Right? Like, you know, Zuckerberg, you know, squeezed out that two and a half minutes and then went and filled up his yacht with, you know, boat fuel or whatever they call it. And, you know, it was probably like six, ten thousand dollars to fill up his freaking boat with gas to go around the lake twice.

Brock Ganeles (20:44.4)
He did that work. Yeah.

Brock Ganeles (20:51.868)
He did that blurb because there's a l there's a lot of talk that like quote morale at Facebook or meta is terrible. Of course it's terrible. You're working for a horrendous human being. So like, yeah, maybe you're making a lot of money. And no, by the one way, one of the things they're gonna bring back is like, you know, lunch, lunch or some free lunches or free snacks in the afternoon. Right? Like the classic thing that you do, like when you treat people like shit, basic literally like almost throwing them a bone.

Mark Hayes (20:59.315)
We have leadership.

Mark Hayes (21:16.852)
Right. Free P B and J. Thanks.

Brock Ganeles (21:20.178)
But the initially initially these eight thousand people, almost a hundred percent certain on this, maybe not all of them, but this is the typical way now layoffs are done, is most people are now just getting laid off by email and or they they're told like at nine AM, try to log in. If you can't log in, that means you're fired. If you can log in, then you still have your job and proceed on into work. I mean it's that impersonal. And I think that's how the the cuts were made initially.

And you know that's but that's where we are in the toxic capitalism of America, with people like Elon Musk and Zuckerberg and Bezos and Peter Thiel at the top of that economic heap who have a lack of human emotional intelligence and ability to connect or empathy for any other human beings.

When they have control over the lives of so many others, because all these people work for them, and this is the direction we're going with the consolidation of businesses, right? Think about Paramount, like half of fucking Hollywood is gonna be working for Paramount, right? It's just so impersonal because the people sitting at the top don't give a fuck about anybody else. And we've rewarded that in this country, and we've you know allowed

Mark Hayes (22:25.718)
Right. Right.

Mark Hayes (22:32.728)
Right.

Mark Hayes (22:43.352)
Right.

Brock Ganeles (22:47.41)
The not only have we allowed that extreme wealth in the economic sense, but the bigger problem is we've allowed the economic power to tick to dominate our political life. And that's why Citizens United has to be flipped over because we're allowing companies to be individuals and we're allowing so much money to flow into politics, which is why these data centers are getting built and

Mark Hayes (23:03.082)
Mark Hayes (23:12.971)
Right.

Brock Ganeles (23:17.008)
And and you know, even the warehouses are getting sold, but the data centers is exactly where this comes into play because no one would want a data center in their in their neighborhood. There's no community that would want that. There's no upside to them. There's like eight jobs that come for three months in the construction, and then those data centers are run by like two people and rerun remotely. They they bring no economic benefit to the community, but there's so much money in politics.

Mark Hayes (23:27.457)
No.

Mark Hayes (23:38.594)
Right.

Mark Hayes (23:42.136)
Right.

Brock Ganeles (23:44.103)
that all the way down to the local level everyone is getting paid off. Our country is so corrupt that even local officials are green lighting programs that are horrendous for their local municipalities, but it's working for a handful.

Mark Hayes (23:49.752)
Yeah.

Mark Hayes (24:00.459)
Right. And and you know, Brock, it's funny too, because you you you hit it dead on dead on the head. you know, the greed factor is, you know, never been bigger than before. So when you're talking about who's gonna be replaced by AI, it's not going to be, you know, just the lowly worker. I saw a clip today which made perfect sense from one of those AI experts.

Who said the first people to go are gonna be the people making the most money at the top? So you're gonna have that, you know, that C-suite level, and then right under them, those you know, senior management folks, right? Making big dollars. With who out of there can we cut, replace with AI, and save some nickels? Those are gonna be the people that get chopped. And

It's gonna be an interesting time. It is really gonna be an interesting time.

Brock Ganeles (25:02.77)
White collar white w white collar white America is gonna get blind signed. They shouldn't, but they you know, I mean lawyers are already seeing it because AI can write a lot of the shit that they used to have to draw up at like five hundred dollars an hour. Can now, you know, maybe someone has to over you know, someone has to review it, someone has to put some eyes on it, and they better 'cause AI fucks shit up all the time. But it's carving out a lot of pretty high price jobs already. So I'm not surprised that you saw you know, on what you

Mark Hayes (25:06.444)
Yep. And and hey, hey.

Mark Hayes (25:16.898)
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Brock Ganeles (25:33.032)
what you saw today, but I haven't it's not it hasn't been talked about that much yet. Right? It's really more about the masses.

Mark Hayes (25:34.819)
Yeah.

Mark Hayes (25:40.608)
No, no.

And you tell me if I'm wrong, bro. White collar white America is not ready for that kind of struggle. They've never seen it before. They've never seen it before. I don't know what that struggle looks like. And I gotta tell you, from losing a couple of jobs, you know, not on my own volition, it ain't a good feeling. It ain't a good feeling.

Brock Ganeles (25:50.548)
No fucking way.

Mark Hayes (26:09.76)
Especially when you don't know what's come what tomorrow brings, right?

Brock Ganeles (26:14.792)
It's I hear you. But circles us back. Why the fuck do Jared and Vonka want some fucking island in the Mediterranean that they want to buy and fucking like why? Why? Why the fuck? What the fuck is even the motivation? Didn't you just buy some huge property on some fucking private island down in Florida? Like you need now a second private island in the fucking Mediterranean? Like why?

Mark Hayes (26:22.807)
Exactly.

Mark Hayes (26:32.44)
Well,

Mark Hayes (26:37.976)
Can I remind you of a very well known line from Wall Street? Why did you have to wreck Blue Star? Because it was wreckable. Why are they buying it, bruh? Because it's for sale. And they got dough. And they're bored. What else are they doing? They're definitely not concerned about school. School is just getting out where in New York, where we live. What if what the fuck are they doing in Albania?

You know, I I mean, hey, must be nice, you know, how the other half li well the other one percent lives, the one percenters. But you know, bro, this is it it it it is the greed factor gone wild, and you know and and the fact that these greedy motherfuckers think that they're so much better than everybody. And that was another thing Barack Obama said.

Brock Ganeles (27:29.044)
Yeah, they just did.

Mark Hayes (27:31.885)
He said you go to some of these fancy ass meetings and you sit down and you look around the table and then you start listening to people talk and you're like, my god, how'd this guy get here? Right? There ain't all that. Right? I I I just I will never forget the cringe-worthy conversations of when

Ivanka was trying to inject hersel's into in herself into conversations with world leaders. You remember that three shot of her? Maybe it was two other female world leaders and Ivanka trying to have a conversation and they looked at her like What are you doing here? You're here on Daddy's Dime. Shut up, be seen, and please step back.

Brock Ganeles (28:20.914)
Remember when Vonka was trying to build a brand and was trying to be an entrepreneur and was running like women's councils on the up uplifting of women and leadership? She punted on all that shit, right? She punted on all that shit because you know what? It was easier to live off corruption. It was easier for Jared to cut a deal with the Saudis and g give them a whole bunch of names of people against the leadership and help them kill Khashoggi.

Mark Hayes (28:25.262)
Please.

Mark Hayes (28:31.32)
But yeah.

Mark Hayes (28:38.72)
Easier to steal.

Brock Ganeles (28:50.604)
and start a two billion dollar fund that kicks off, you know, I don't know, eighty, a hundred, two hundred million to your family every year, just in fees, than to actually try to build a brand, be an entrepreneur, uplift women, and have like any actual role in society. No, it's it's easier to it's easier to be corrupt. Easier it's easier money. That's why everyone wants a piece of it.

Mark Hayes (29:00.578)
Yeah. Yeah.

Mark Hayes (29:10.242)
Yeah.

Yeah. And the corruption is corrupting. Yeah.

Brock Ganeles (29:16.998)
Everyone wants a piece everyone in the Trump administration wants a piece of it 'cause corruption's so much easier money than actually having to get out there and earn it.

Mark Hayes (29:24.822)
And it's so much bigger. Look how big it is, Brock. It's millions of dollars at a time. It's it's they're not picking off two hundred thousand here, five hundred thousand there. They're picking off millions here, there, and everywhere. And we're paying for remember remember that horse shit Trump gave us about, you know, it's gonna be private donations paying for that fucking ballroom? Yeah, you and I are paying for that. You I and all our listeners out there in YouTube land.

Brock Ganeles (29:44.147)
Yeah.

Mark Hayes (29:54.361)
We're all paying for it. He's screwing us left, right, and center. And it's just ridiculous. All right, give me a quick hit before you get out of here.

Brock Ganeles (30:05.748)
Mark. The World Cup is so good. Today's piece of positive news is our friends from Iran, although we made them train down in Mexico, played out in Los Angeles last night, tied Belgium 0-0. So they've actually, you know, somewhat outperformed expectations already. left a left a handwritten note in the locker room that someone on the team penned.

Mark Hayes (30:07.853)
Yeah.

Mark Hayes (30:13.89)
Yeah.

Mark Hayes (30:29.324)
Wow.

Brock Ganeles (30:35.43)
Obviously they couldn't make an official statement, right? They'd lose their fucking head when they got back home. that was very much about espousing peace and togetherness and harmony amongst all of humanity. And it was an appeal for peace from the American people.

Mark Hayes (30:40.596)
Mm-hmm.

Mark Hayes (30:51.938)
What? What? What? Wow. I can I just tell you that I am a soccer fan now? And can I tell you who my favorite player is on the American team? Is Tyler Adams. Right? The captain!

Brock Ganeles (31:12.998)
Mine too. Mine too.

Mark Hayes (31:15.618)
From Poughkeepsie Interracial Family

Brock Ganeles (31:17.992)
Wappinger's false.

Brock Ganeles (31:22.426)
didn't know that.

Mark Hayes (31:23.82)
Three white brothers, a white stepfather, and a white mom. African American dad who hasn't been in his life. And let me tell you something, I learned so much from that HBO documentary. I'm gonna go watch it again. It was I

Brock Ganeles (31:40.487)
I gotta watch it. I gotta watch it. Yeah, he's from he actually was right lived in the town where I coached that middle school across for a couple years. Yeah, right there like that Wappinger's, you know, Wappinger's Falls ish area. but I don't think he even played high school soccer. He he went pro at like sixteen or seventeen years old. Started his career really early. Yeah. Yeah, it's funny you say that. He's my favorite player on the team.

Mark Hayes (31:50.882)
Was that catch them like lobsters? Okay.

Mark Hayes (32:01.461)
Wow.

Brock Ganeles (32:06.544)
on the team as well. But I love that message from the Iranian team. It just shows from a people to it was just more of that goodwill that's coming with the World Cup of the people to people. Get the politics and the government out of our way and we can get all get along as people, even countries that we're quote, at war with. But as the American people, are we the American people, really at war with the Iranian people? No fucking way. No fucking way.

Mark Hayes (32:07.586)
Gotta love

Mark Hayes (32:14.115)
Yeah.

Mark Hayes (32:24.877)
Yeah.

Mark Hayes (32:28.428)
Yeah.

Mark Hayes (32:33.922)
I'm not.

I'm not.

Brock Ganeles (32:37.32)
Either. So I thought that was a great I thought that was just a great message. today's great message De Jour coming out of the World Cup, which is just a phenomenon and just keeps the good vibes flowing. and it's great soccer.

Mark Hayes (32:49.474)
Yeah. Yeah. And if the Iranian team wants some restaurant recommendations if they're coming through Atlanta, I'm happy to help out. I mean whatever I can do. Weren't they playing Belgium yesterday? It was Belgium, right? Yeah.

Brock Ganeles (33:04.04)
They were playing Belgium in but I think they were in Los Angeles. I don't know where their next game is at. I'll have to look that one up.

Mark Hayes (33:10.894)
Yeah, it was LA yesterday 'cause we were watching it yesterday afternoon. So yeah. Good stuff. I mean Belgium was dominating the pitch. Most of it was playing in the Iranian half. Good stuff. A lot of action.

Brock Ganeles (33:22.782)
But we've treated we've we've treated the team like shit, right? We've made them train down in Mexico, even though they're playing in LA, so they have like the longest travel, like most teams are like training very close to the stadiums they're playing in. But of course the Americans, we couldn't let the Iranians into our country except just to play the games and then they gotta scamper right back out of our country.

Mark Hayes (33:44.717)
Right. But Brock, remember, these are people who have never played anything, never competed, don't understand what it's like to be a part of s I was when I was watching this documentary, I realized what was going on. These jackasses running the country don't understand what it's like to be a part of something bigger than yourself. Right? They don't understand what it's like to lock arms and go to a figurative battle.

with someone else. They don't understand what it's like when that when that last bus ride home after the county center game and your season's over and you're so just you're not upset that you lost, you're upset that you're not gonna be with these these other 14 guys again on Monday. Right? We're not coming to practice again on Monday together as a unit. Right? We're we're we're breaking up the gang.

The band is not together, and they don't understand any of that. That's why they're treating people the way that's why they're treating Americans the way they do. Why do you think so many corporations look to recruit athletes specifically? It's because of the character. It's because of the work ethic. It's because of the understanding about being a part of something, something bigger than yourself, about creating something.

Bigger and better for the masses, as opposed to just running around. Remember that one kid at the Easter egg when you were like six who just tried to run around and run rough shot over everybody and bully people and knock people over to get the most eggs? Right? That kid never played any sports. Those are the jackasses running America right now.

Brock Ganeles (35:36.124)
I was a Jewish kid. I didn't have any stampeding egg Easter egg Huntsy. Sorry, missed out on that that tremendous sounds like a great rite of passage. I probably I'd probably a little bit tougher if I'd been through a few more of those.

Mark Hayes (35:38.522)
you didn't I'm sorry. I apologize.

All right, buddy. That's it for us. Let's get out of here. All right, sounds good. Revolution. My man.

Brock Ganeles (35:59.764)
All right, Mark. Always a pleasure. We'll pick it up tomorrow.