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Episode Date: December 4, 2020

Special Full Auto Friday episode with guest hosts Evan Hafer and Trever Thompson from Black Rifle Coffee.  Rapid-fire Q and A with a five-minute time cap on all answers... 1. Favorite art/music/bands.... 2. How to prepare for and handle repercussions when you take a "non-popular" stance. 3. How to find/conduct training in rural areas with little to no resources. 4. Making occupational changes later in life, how to handle the unanswered call to serve.  Enjoy Special Black Rifle Coffee discount code: AndyCEO

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Starting point is 00:00:01 Ladies and gentlemen, what's going on? Full Auto Friday, number 30, which I guess could have been a mag dump or something special, but, well, actually, it was something special. I had two friends in town. Evan Hafer and Trevor Thompson, who will also be featured on Monday's episode. Now, I don't know what the hell is going on in the studio,
Starting point is 00:00:19 but for the first time ever, all three of the cards from the video cameras were corrupted. So if you're a YouTube fan, I'm sorry to tell you, you're just going to look at a picture of us, three handsome devils. because essentially the audio is the only thing that survived. I don't know.
Starting point is 00:00:33 The video and audio from the episode of Monday, it's all perfect. I have no idea. So the learning continues, but, you know, I guess that's the way that it is. Fallout on Friday, episode 30, Evan Haver and Trevor Thompson. Enjoy. To the smoke, I'm looking at danger close now. For like two in a row, I wore that Mac v. Sog sweatshirt, and people were like, where the fuck does that come from?
Starting point is 00:01:13 Do you guys still sell those? Oh, yeah. So there you go. There's the answer people. Actually, and there's a whoopee that's coming out, right? The Tiger's truck. Yeah, no, we have that. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:01:22 It's been out now. It's been out for a while. Correct me if I'm wrong, though. The Mac v. Sugg, all proceeds go to the D&C donations. No, no, that's the frog scheme. This is going to last so long. It's like, this is just like I won't even be able to go to shot show without. This is troll for him.
Starting point is 00:01:42 Hey, what's up? What's up? Crazy liberal. What's going on? And for full disclosure, people, I don't give a fuck if you're a Democrat or a Republican. Be a good person and I don't give a fuck. Yeah. Hey, what you like or believe. I cannot second that more, which is, it's not as if I check my friends to make sure that they're card carrying GOP members before I like start talking to them and see if they're cool. I have no fucking clue where people stand politically most of the time.
Starting point is 00:02:08 Do you know what? I don't because I don't ask them. I don't care. Because I don't give a fuck. Yeah, exactly. I don't care. because it mostly doesn't matter. Are you cool?
Starting point is 00:02:16 Do you like to do the shit that I like to do? Or do you like to do shit that is cool that I don't like to do that maybe I want to learn about because maybe I would want to do that in the future. Like fountainsry? Like I like to row really fucking big rivers. Guess what? There's some pretty crazy liberal people who like to do the same thing. No.
Starting point is 00:02:35 Yeah. River guys. Don't know what's crazy. You know, dope smoking river guys. They're pretty fun to hang out with. Yeah. I bet they are. All right.
Starting point is 00:02:43 So now that everybody knows where they can get that damn sweatshirt, the rules for fall out front. I started this. This is actually episode 30. What, what? Okay. Which could be considered a magdum, but we don't have time for that. Right.
Starting point is 00:02:55 Because I get a volume of Q&A. So I, on Fridays, we'll pick somewhere between three to five, random topics, random. Limit myself to five minutes. Most of the time I go over. But it forces like an economy of thought, and then you just try to hit all the different ones. So I pick four questions.
Starting point is 00:03:14 I'll usually try to pick different categories. This first one will probably surprise you guys. He tried to screw me last time. This is not going to be... This is one that I've never been asked, but you guys were talking about this both last night and this morning, so I'm curious. So I'll read the question.
Starting point is 00:03:29 Please. We go around. We have five minutes. We go to the next one. We'll get you guys to the airport. Question number one comes from a guy named Matt. I appreciate your honesty and humility. Unless I have missed it, though,
Starting point is 00:03:39 I have yet to hear you go into any detail about your preference when it comes to the... arts. Could you talk about your favorite musicians and bands, both all time and maybe some recent discoveries? Also favorite films and directors, as well as any other mediums that strike your fancy. I feel like this may be another layer to you that myself and listeners would enjoy hearing about. It's definitely a revealing aspect of anyone's personality. Interesting. It is interesting. I've never once, I mean, I've been asked about music choices. I mean, obviously Metallica Ride the Lightning is an excellent on the helicopter song.
Starting point is 00:04:10 anything in the tool spectrum just some fucking harder heavier metal type stuff but that's not all about who I am and I like this question because you guys were literally this morning last night you were talking about the shit out on some art paintings so yeah
Starting point is 00:04:28 what speaks to you guys because I definitely listen to more than that type of music especially as I've been away from that job actually chill out quite a bit but I'll finish you get to go first Mr. Hayford So I went through phases with music, obviously. I think everybody does. But so when I was working overseas, I listened to a lot of my favorite guy punch, a lot of tool. FFTEP, if you were.
Starting point is 00:04:53 FFTP, a lot of tool. Yeah. You know, I remember a distinct story that I wanted to tell people is like there's nothing like flying down route Irish at about 2 o'clock in the morning going 100 miles an hour under NBGs listening to fucking. tool in a 7-series armored BMW. Or being on the skids of the Little Bird. Yeah. Flying so low that you're setting off car alarms while listening to that with it stuffed
Starting point is 00:05:21 up underneath your Peltors. There's different pieces of my life where music reminds me of that. So if I'm in the gym, I listen to things that are really heavy. I'm recently going through a new or coming back to Pantera for the gym. So that's what I've been doing a lot of Pantera. Some Cowboys from Hell. Yeah. Oh, fuck.
Starting point is 00:05:42 It's so good. I never got into Pantera, but I have to check this out. Oh, it's good. I used to listen to that before going jumping buildings. Yeah, no. That'd be appropriate for that too. But now I listen to a lot. I listen to Bavaldi a lot, so I'm trying to actively.
Starting point is 00:06:00 Some four seasons. Release stress most of the time, not increase. Not to increase the internal PSI. Yeah. I'm trying to preserve. my heart so I can see my daughter's graduate high school. That would be pretty awesome. And most of the time now, my wife and I will have music on in the background when we're cooking and things like that. It's like just standard acoustic guitars. It's like organic vegetables, white people shit.
Starting point is 00:06:26 Like it's just like strum guitars or whatever. Background. Yeah. It's background music. I was more interested in this question. You were talking about the artwork that you're into. That one was pretty fascinating. You were looking at a painting. Was it Teddy Roosevelt? Winston Churchill. Not the same person at all. No. I was way off. He's a fairly iconic person, I think, in just modern history.
Starting point is 00:06:52 And a lot of people didn't realize that he was a painter. There was also MacArthur was a painter. A lot of these guys were legit painters. But Churchill did hundreds of paintings. And you can find them. most of the time believe it or not they're in Britain you can find them and they're really you know some of them are really expensive some of them are reasonable so I've been trying to find a reasonably priced Winston Churchill so I'll bid on them and trying to
Starting point is 00:07:21 find them you know for like 500 bucks it seems to be my magic number these days and then the guy that did the original artwork for Rambo first blood the book he has a series of paintings out of there and the guy is I wish I could remember his name so do you like the painting like the Churchill painting do you like how he represents it or do you like the person who created it both okay I think it's more about the person and I'm not saying that everything that Winston Churchill did is you know something we should admire but he is the guy who is standing in front of Parliament railing
Starting point is 00:07:58 against the machine against fascism saying wake the fuck up people this is going to be bad for everybody and He was proven right, and then ultimately the socialist voted him out. After they were done winning World War II, collectively, obviously, we all did. But he's one of those guys in history that he's such an important figure to have that on my wall would be... It would be huge. It would be just this really iconic piece of history that regardless of whether or not pro or con. I'm kind of in between, you know, like I think the guy is...
Starting point is 00:08:37 very interesting to read about. You know, most of the time when I'm reading, I read a lot of Ernest Hemingway. I think I'm on my second full round of all his short stories, all his books. I just finished his audiobook on his biography that came out from the CIA's former museum court curator. Oh, no shit. Yeah, and it talks a lot about his involvement. with the he was he was living in Cuba and then he went to Spain this guy was
Starting point is 00:09:14 fascinated like he was a fucking fascinated human he fought in World War I he fought in in Spain so he fought against Franco in Spain and then he fought in fucking World War II yeah he was a journalist no he was a journalist and his son was an OSS guy that was also shot was put into a POWC camp, like escape from the BOWS camp. The Hemingways are a fucking incredible piece of American.
Starting point is 00:09:44 Savage. Yeah, he was a savage. He worked for what was before the KGB there was another department over the Soviet Union before World War II. So he had worked for them in the anti-fascist movement in the way, not today's anti-fascists. These guys
Starting point is 00:10:01 were fighting against actual fascists. Like real fucking fascist, like real fucking fascist, authoritarian and fucking governments. And he was out fucking writing, but really what he was doing is he was carrying around little carbines and fucking take it to people. He was using his journalism credzes for access. The guy was fucking fascinating, man. Like, he was fascinating. So that's kind of the summer.
Starting point is 00:10:24 Yeah. What a, I mean, you're Trevor, an artist at heart. I mean, you went to art school. Shit last night at the dinner table, you were working on a, what would it be it? Not necessarily an abstract, but working on it. Is that going to be for a coffee bag? that artwork or a tissue, something. It'll appear somewhere in the BRCC.
Starting point is 00:10:40 It'll live somewhere. It'll live somewhere. At work, yeah. And you've always been artistic, right? Yeah, well, I did a year of school at the Chicago Art Institute. Well, school of the Art Institute of Chicago, a big museum there. I've always been, like we were talking about it at breakfast this morning. Like, I like Remington, John Singer-Sargent.
Starting point is 00:11:01 I always like Frisetta's illustrations. He's like a mid-50s, 60s. pulp cover art type of artist he did a lot of fantasy stuff he did darsan and work like that J.M. Turner is a British
Starting point is 00:11:17 oil and watercolor painter how like it's for me it's like a palette and an emotion thing I really like that kind those kinds of pieces of art and I really deeply appreciate people like
Starting point is 00:11:33 Mondrian, Climt and Picasso for their ability to break away from boundaries that were pre-existing. I literally have the smallest amount of respect for people that are copying their shit. No, I think it's totally intellectually lazy. It's just total bullshit. And why? Like, what are you doing? The reason they were incredible is because they were fucking incredible.
Starting point is 00:12:00 Well, I think it's easier for people to follow a path that's been etched already than, or more it's more comfortable. it perhaps not easier than to try to break out on the... Whatever the reason. And that's part of why I left the schools. I felt like the establishment was really pushing this lockstep approach of, you know, go do paint with your feelings, but it has to look like this.
Starting point is 00:12:18 Like, you know, you can go fuck yourself. I'm out of here. Well, how people are ready now for my completely underwhelming answer and insight into how much of a fuck what I actually am. I don't know the name of any artist that I really enjoy painting-wise. I like pictures of states of the...
Starting point is 00:12:35 United States of America and I think you just said cock which is true you could hide one and the other layer them in there kind of all over the place here graphic effect no I for whatever reason I'm on a kick of pictures on metal high resolution pictures on metal of all the different states that show the topographical relief and I own zero of them but I like to look at them I don't have a single artist that I could point to and say in the painting world or the sketching world that I would know and say this This has been an inspiration for me. And music-wise, for most, music for me is just background noise.
Starting point is 00:13:10 Like, I will throw on a random Pandora station to do the same thing, to get a little bit of a churn and just let my brain spin off a little bit. And it's the opposite of blood pressure enhancing, you know, FFTP, which I'm a huge fan of, by the way. But it's time and place. I have to throw one funny music story out there. I used to listen to Rage Against the Machine. Oh, yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:13:32 For two reasons. one, it's like on the heavier side. And because somebody was like, you know that they hate the government and they're like super counter. I'm like, that's exactly why I'm listening to it overseas. If they knew that I was listening to this to get ready to go out, oh my God, they would be so angry. So you two are uncultured.
Starting point is 00:13:51 I'm basically. I'm an idiot. I would argue that point. So question two. My father is a physician and recently he has drawn some unwanted attention to himself due to speaking at a city council meeting via a Zoom call. He, in blunt language, detailed why the city should not be thinking about mandating masks due to the ineffectiveness of the most common masks to stop the spread of the coronavirus. But that is not why I'm writing you. I need your advice on the repercussions of his stand against the narrative. He has gotten numerous death threats,
Starting point is 00:14:23 most via internet, but a couple phone calls to his office. I am not afraid or paranoid, but I'm being cautious and accompanying him when he goes shopping and checking in as much as possible. possible. I unfortunately can't walk around gunned up due to the laws in my country. My questions to you are, how should one react to such events? Furthermore, how do you think people should gear up if they're about to say something controversial? Evan? These questions were both timely and accurate. Yours, I think, well, first off, you were drawn into a situation.
Starting point is 00:14:57 It wasn't a stance that you took. But you certainly have experienced some of the threat as, of it. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. You know, I think anything in today's world can be misrepresented. And you have to be prepared for the fallout, right? Which is unless you're going along, and that's the thing is like if you're going along a party line, whether it's left or whether it's right, you're going to be crucified anyway. Probably by about 50% of the population. And then you'll for the same thing in the middle, which is if you're not taking a stand-in-in-any thing. That also sets you up for...
Starting point is 00:15:37 Then you're everybody's enemy. Then you're everybody, right? So you're in the center. So for whatever reason, people feel like you have to have an opinion on something in today's day and age. You're required. You're required. And I think that's part of the issue is that people, well, in this circumstance where he's actually a physician, he probably knows what he's fucking talking about and probably represent the facts. Well, and let's be clear, too, in the medical practice of which he's, which neither or none of us are in, I don't think there is 100% compliance or grants on any
Starting point is 00:16:09 one topic. So just like you're saying, you're going to upset somebody on either side of the house, even inside of that community, just like all three of us served in the military, but there's no way that we have the exact same opinion on every single issue or topic. No, that's not true. We do. We're all the same. Yeah, very, very homogenous.
Starting point is 00:16:27 Brain lock, raw, it's. No, I think that you have to be prepared. be prepared if you do have an opinion you have to be prepared to essentially take the criticism and you know the the death threats and things like that i think that's just that for me i mean i carry glock 43 every day i mean that's my everyday carry that's what i carry in the appendix so it's like regardless i'm prepared that you know that's uh that's also because we live in america so it's easier for me It's easier for me to protect my company, me, my family. Here, overseas it becomes a little bit more difficult.
Starting point is 00:17:06 I think that it's probably more of just having a realistic look at just how humans interact and that violence can happen. So you have to be prepared. It doesn't mean they have to be like tinfoil hat wearing paranoid. Paranoid. It just means that you have to be prepared to react and you have to be at least proficient in defense of some kind with either a tool or non-tool. in order to react to the situation.
Starting point is 00:17:32 I know that's a general answer, but different physical capabilities will define what you're capable at ultimately. So if you can get in the gym and do jiu-jitsu, that's great. But if you can't, then maybe you fucking carry a bat. I don't know. Well, on that point, to really be proficient at jiu-jitsu, you're not talking about a few classes.
Starting point is 00:17:50 You're talking about a few years to develop a baseline competency. So if people are in a place, let's say, where purpose-driven tools are available, and your choice is learn Jiu-Jitsu or get a tool. I'm here to tell you right now, if I only had one hour to work with somebody and I actually wanted to help prevent them from being in trouble when it comes to terms of a threat or the ability to defend themselves,
Starting point is 00:18:11 I have to go with the tool versus Jiu-Jitsu with a compressed timeline. However, Jiu-J-Soo is a great long-term tool, but if I have limited time or you're a smaller person or a woman perhaps, I often think that the tool is a better place to start, and then you layer on the other things on top of that. And directly answering, his question is they're doing about the most they can do right now, which is when he goes somewhere that is high traffic,
Starting point is 00:18:37 you're with them, you're increasing the eyes that are on the ground, just do the best you can do with the tools you have right now and try and acquire a way to get more legally and safely. And I would say to this person, you always have access to the authorities. If you think the death threats are legitimate, exercise every option you have in front of you, they seem to be situationally aware. And I agree with you, Evan, you know, if you're going to take a stand on something, which I think it's important that people do,
Starting point is 00:19:06 you should understand that people are going to react, scrutinize what you say. And that's an important thing to realize. And also, if you have a good idea or a legitimate idea, it should be able to bear the weight of that scrutiny. If it falls apart under that scrutiny and it crumbles, perhaps before you take a stand again, reconsider why it is you believe what you believe and why you want to take a stand on it.
Starting point is 00:19:33 This is an interesting one. It slightly ties in a little bit. A common theme in many of your episodes is getting good training and to find a jih Tjitsu gym. What is your recommendation for people like myself who live in rural areas with no gyms or training facilities remotely close? In my case, I live in a rural town in Wyoming. The closest gym is hours away. Then when it comes to gun training, there's a local gun club that has a very limited cowboy-style shoots, I don't actually know what that means, but not much beyond that.
Starting point is 00:20:01 I have a base shooting ability, but have no idea where to go from there as far as the tactical shooting. Recommendations for people like myself. Well, I think you have to differentiate between the type of shooting that you're trying to do, right? So I think there's a lot of different layers to that, which is why? What's the end state? Right. So if it's self-defense, that's not necessarily, it is tactical and somewhat, but it's not.
Starting point is 00:20:25 It's not as complicated. It's reactive. in that nature. So I think you have to set yourself up for success in a combination of ways, which is one, you have to be proficient in any tool, especially if you're bringing a tool to a fight, that tool can be turned on you in a fucking moment. So, you know, for proper firearms training, there's a lot of different resources out there, specifically on the internet, the old internets. Which if you're super rural and limited, that's also an option for jiu-jitsu as well. You're going to need a training partner, and I would say find somebody that's relatively your same age.
Starting point is 00:20:57 in the size right and you can dive down the internet rabbit hole I mean the graces have an amazing online curriculum I think you can go well through their belt structure wow so it's possible right I wouldn't say it's as optimal but if you live in the middle of nowhere yeah like the internet's gonna be your only research it's gonna be your only resource issue is there's some fuckwits on the internet there is so I think you have to go to guys you know like you know I think our friends are they can bear the weight of scrutiny out there like Glover would be someone to directly at you Glover would be the guy that
Starting point is 00:21:27 I would go to Kyle Ram. You just said the Gracies have a great online program. Jitsu. Their name is oftentimes associated with Jiu-Jitsu. It's almost like they've been around it for a touch. Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:21:38 Hennard and Heeran run that at L.A. And I haven't personally experienced it, but there are people who are in this exact situation that are doing the best they can to try to make themselves better, more capable of violence. Which, spoiler alert, people, doesn't mean you have to use the violence.
Starting point is 00:21:54 But I think it's very important skill, especially for adult males to have is to be capable of violent. I think you have to develop the least the proficiency to punch somebody. A punch is such a basic thing to acquire that skill in order to have the actual fundamentals. You know, punching somebody is like... And do it well. Yeah, and do it well. Like what's the...
Starting point is 00:22:16 I mean, a heavy bag isn't that expensive. What's the Bruce Lee quote? He's like, I'm not afraid of the man who knows a thousand kicks, but the man who has killed worn a thousand times. Like, yeah, that... So become proficient with a single tool. And I mean, I was going to say this, but take your time, do the steps in order for all of these things. I mean, none of it's magic.
Starting point is 00:22:38 The only reason we can draw from the concealed quickly is purely based on repetition. Decades of practice. And you will fall to the lowest level of competency during a stressful situation, no matter what the skill that you're performing is, from driving a car or a tractor. to shooting a weapon. So take your time and do it the right way. Yeah, the internet is amazing resource. Research, resource. But you just have to be cautious.
Starting point is 00:23:08 Yes. And yeah, it's the amount of fuckery that goes on on the internet is unbelievable. But I think staying close to people who seem to be vetted, and by that I mean, seem to be surrounded by other people from that community whose reputations are intact, probably a good starting point. All right. Gentleman, last question for today. This is a common one that I get.
Starting point is 00:23:28 I'm curious to your guys about thoughts on this. My question is similar to other career questions. I've listened to, but I want a different perspective after speaking to my family about it. I work in the oil and gas industry. I have for 16 years now and have been very successful. I have kind of plateau with my career and find it to be the average grind. I have a hard time keeping myself or keeping my interest at work and catch myself slacking from time to time. I began training jiu-jitsu last year and immediately fell in love with the art.
Starting point is 00:23:57 One of my training partners at the gym is a lieutenant with the city police. Today we were talking about work and he suggested I apply for a position with the department. This intrigued me very much and I can't stop thinking about it. One regret I have after getting older as I wish I would have spent some time in the military but missed my opportunity as I am too old to join now. A couple of questions arise from this situation, but my main one is, am I too old to make a complete career change to becoming an end? LEO. I get this one all the time. People are in their mid to late 30s. I wish I would have joined.
Starting point is 00:24:31 I think about joining all the time. Is it too late for me? So established career and I'll have people reach out from like Fortune 50 companies. Like I'm killing it financially. I couldn't be more unhappy. I want to join the military and be a special operation soldier. I'm in my, you know, the waning years of my third decade. Right. Is it too late? So thoughts on a career change. later in life into something totally new. I'm going to add Mill and LEO. We can combine both of those because this guy might be a touch old
Starting point is 00:25:02 but others aren't. What do you have thoughts on that? Or in addition, what are your thoughts on or advice to people so they can put that rock down at some point in their life and not have it weigh on them all the time? I guess I'd have a question which is are you
Starting point is 00:25:18 doing, are you making a change in your career or your life and choosing one of public service based on your own ego and desires or is that a job that you actually want and you want to perform in the service?
Starting point is 00:25:34 I have to make an assumption based off the emails I get. I think most people who reach out have felt a call or desire to serve but other opportunities presented themselves earlier in life and they pursued that and made a career of it and they can't kick that desire.
Starting point is 00:25:50 I assume so too but I you just have to ask. Well, let's take it from that angle. Yeah. So our answers will be prefaced off of that. Somebody who felt that they needed or wanted to serve, but now they are much later in life. Then answer the question, do you think you'll be an asset to that community? I don't know.
Starting point is 00:26:06 I mean, 38 starting off as an officer or even beginning the special operations process? Precisely. That's what I'm thinking. Like, do you think you will be, you will be an asset? Because, I mean, we had a couple guys in my Bud's class that were in there early 30s. There was a guy in my class who was 36. He was 32. From a...
Starting point is 00:26:25 He had a hard fucking time. Physically, yes, but can you imagine those, a guy, let's say this guy's talking about LEO, 38 years of life experience under his belt and all of the things that he's had to deal with and that he's interfacing. I always think about law enforcement questions. I always think about my kids.
Starting point is 00:26:43 Who would I want as an officer to be interfacing with my kids on their worst day? I want a guy with a lot of life experience who understands human behavior. So I think there's a huge aspect there, But he's also very, you're old in the tooth in comparison to somebody who might be almost two decades into that career field. So from a physical aspect, I mean, there's a balance for sure. I think that people that have that doubt, right, and they keep coming back to it and they keep circling back to it.
Starting point is 00:27:12 They have to find a way to eliminate that doubt. So you have to either come to terms with it, right, which sounds pretty obvious. You have to either come to terms with it, put it behind you. Which I feel like easier said than done probably. It is, but the way you put it to bed is, I think this is you do it. Because you're always going to have that doubt. And if that's going to gnaw and eat at you and it's going to continue to, you know, the clock can't stop. If that keeps you up at night.
Starting point is 00:27:36 Yeah, if that keeps you up at night, you just have to go do it. And you have to try. So if it's a special operations pipeline, if it's LEO, if it's fire, whatever it might be, there's an individual desire to serve the community or serve the community in professional capacity, whatever that might be, you have to fucking get that out of your mind. And so if you try and fail, at least you know. You know, and you'll be able to put that to bed, go back to your job. And I think it makes people, it completes or makes them whole.
Starting point is 00:28:07 Got it. I mean, step one would be talk to a recruiter for any of those programs. Well, you know, anything a recruiter says with caution. No, no, I mean, I'm talking about for those specific programs. Like, hey, you know, I'm considering this, but this is my age and XYZ. Well, and understand the wager, too, because if you do go in and try it and you're unsuccessful, you're going to owe Uncle Sam a few years. So you may not be able to get right back to your job. So understand that gamble.
Starting point is 00:28:30 Yeah. And another thing I'd say is understand that in that gamble as well as you might make it through and it might be the most unfulfilling career path. Correct. That you've ever had. It'll be nothing like you thought it was and you might have grown up watching or reading fucking books about zero dark 30 and all this shit. And you get into a time period where there's a lull and you're going to be still unsatisfied. And where does that leave you? It still leaves you being able to check the box and say that you did it and put it behind you.
Starting point is 00:28:56 Yeah. I know so many guys that that was their thing, right? They joined maybe in their 20s or early 30s. They had a job or a profession even. You know, there were a lot of guys that I knew that were working, you know, New York. Yeah. You know, on Wall Street, 9-11 happened. They're like, fuck this.
Starting point is 00:29:13 I'm going to war. And they did four or six years, whatever it might be. And then they went back to their previous profession. they didn't go back to a previous profession, but I think if you, if you live your life without checking off all your boxes, when you get to be too old, like truly too old, that will continue to eat you up. And if that's going to eat you up to the point where the last minute of life you have left, you're going to be thinking about that, you've got to fucking take that out. Yeah, you got to take it down. I agree. Trevor, anything else to add?
Starting point is 00:29:48 Yeah. I agree with Evan. Like if you think that that's going to eat at you when you're 45 and literally legally too old to do so many of these jobs that, you know, you're describing people are asking about doing, have a hard look at yourself. And I was thinking about this. I don't have a family, but if some of these people have families, they need to discuss this with their families if they have people that are relying on them. If you have a wife and kids or if you have a husband and kids and you're wanting to make this choice and they rely, you are the primary character. giver and income earner. For sure, you can't make that decision. You need to fucking talk that over because that is not on them.
Starting point is 00:30:29 Yeah, that's not an impulse purchase. Because all, I had a pack of gum at the grocery. Because, like, you joined the Navy when you were young. Yeah, I was 19. Yeah, I was making decisions that only, well, you were 18. There's cascading decisions around my family, but there was nobody relying on me for anything. I mean, I could have been a popcorn salesman at a circus and it wouldn't have impacted anybody any different, you know, like financially. Right.
Starting point is 00:30:51 That's all I got. You guys ready to go to the airport? That's how you do, Full Auto Friday? I love it. All right, done. Ladies and gentlemen, what's going on? Full Auto Friday, number 30, which I guess could have been a mag dump or something special, but, well, actually, it was something special. I had two friends in town.
Starting point is 00:31:08 Evan Hafer and Trevor Thompson, who will also be featured on Monday's episode. Now, I don't know what the hell's going on in the studio, but for the first time ever, all three of the cards from the video cameras were corrupted. So if you're a YouTube fan, I'm sorry to tell you. you're just going to look at a picture of us three handsome devils. Because essentially the audio is the only thing that survived. I don't know. The video and audio from the episode of Monday, it's all perfect.
Starting point is 00:31:34 I have no idea. So the learning continues, but I guess that's the way that it is. Fallout on Friday, episode 30, Evan Haver, and Trevor Thompson. Enjoy.

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