Digital Social Hour - Why Social Media is Destroying Real Connections! | Bobby Part 2 DSH #644

Episode Date: August 18, 2024

🌟 Why is Social Media Destroying Real Connections?! 🌟 Dive into this eye-opening episode of the Digital Social Hour with Sean Kelly, where we explore the impact of social media on authentic huma...n interactions. Join the conversation with our special guest, as he shares riveting stories from his time in Iraq, his journey to finding a home in Vegas, and the challenges veterans face in reconnecting with society. Discover thought-provoking insights on technology, human connection, and the evolving landscape of communication. 🤔💬   Don't miss out on this captivating discussion packed with valuable insights! Tune in now and hit that subscribe button for more insider secrets. 📺✨ Watch now and subscribe for more eye-opening stories on the Digital Social Hour with Sean Kelly! 🚀 Let's redefine what it means to connect in the digital age. Join us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and right here on YouTube. Be part of our community and never miss an episode! 🔥   #ImpactOfTechnology #OnlineVsOfflineInteractions #ModernRelationshipsChallenges #BalanceSocialMedia #TechnologyImpact   CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Intro 00:33 - Part 2 06:35 - IED Radius Size 06:56 - Outnumbered Situations 09:58 - Acceptance of Death 11:35 - Engaging with Locals 14:15 - EOD Technicians 14:31 - Obama vs Trump Comparison 16:11 - Biden vs Trump Analysis 19:04 - Connecting with People 21:05 - Future of Vegas in 500 Years 24:08 - Tattoo Regrets 27:03 - Tattoo Discussion 28:04 - Where to Find Bobby 28:45 - End   APPLY TO BE ON THE PODCAST: https://www.digitalsocialhour.com/application BUSINESS INQUIRIES/SPONSORS: Jenna@DigitalSocialHour.com   GUEST: Bobby https://www.instagram.com/lifeofwar_/ https://www.youtube.com/@LifeofWar_ https://www.instagram.com/bad_bob86   SPONSORS: Deposyt Payment Processing: https://www.deposyt.com/seankelly   LISTEN ON: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-social-hour/id1676846015 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Jn7LXarRlI8Hc0GtTn759 Sean Kelly Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seanmikekelly/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Did you find yourself in situations where you were outnumbered ever? Oh, wow. Make me think about this. So it's Saddam Hussein's hometown. All right. It's a metropolitan city. A lot of bad guys tried to hide in with the good guys in Iraq. Iraqi police bring back someone they captured who was like very powerful.
Starting point is 00:00:20 The entire army that was into crit saying, if you don't render us your prisoner, we're coming to the palace and we're going to kill all of you. And that was the scariest hour of my life. All right. Part two with Bobby, we've gotten a lot closer. So this one will be fun, man. I'm pumped. How you doing? Good. I'm good, brother. Thanks for having me back. What's up? Absolutely, man. So how are you liking it in Vegas? You've been here like a year now right yeah um i was here before during covid which a lot of people escaped california because i lived up in the bay area and it was real shut down so a lot you know a lot of people from california came out here to kind of get away and get a little bit more of that good old american freedom but um it was dead here it looked like the zombie apocalypse out here as well so i was here but i
Starting point is 00:01:06 really wasn't because it was closed this time around i'm enjoying it i'm starting to feel like i'm i'm home or where i belong for the first time in over 20 years you know i've moved a ton haven't really lived in jersey since like 2004 so yeah it's been uh it's been a pretty long road but i love Vegas. I tell everybody Vegas is if you want to be a creator in any type of space, even Hollywood's coming out here, I believe the North part of Vegas, this is where you gotta be.
Starting point is 00:01:35 It's cool to see you say that. Cause a lot of veterans struggle to find, like you said, the second home once they get back. And you know, I see so many of my friends just bouncing around, living in basements, cars or whatever,
Starting point is 00:01:50 but it's cool to see you found a home man yeah yeah it took uh i laugh and i say like the first the first almost 40 years was a hell of a ride and it was tough because the next 40 to 60 or 80 or 100 are going to be absolutely ridiculous uh and uh actually your guess i was talking to one of the guys yesterday he said said he fully believes that with technology now, we can live till we're 150. Wow. And I looked at him, and he was, you know, you could tell somebody's just like saying some shit. He really believes that with the food and the knowledge we have,
Starting point is 00:02:19 we can live till we're 150 years old. Wouldn't surprise me because there's people hitting 80 to 100 these days without the technology, and now they got all this ai stuff they'll be able to detect health issues super early that's always been an issue it's funny though you see the guy the old guy who smokes two packs of marble reds and eats a ton of bacon and drinks nothing but black coffee and he lives till he's you know 99 years old no issue and the guy who's like going to the gym every day has a stroke at 38 you just never know genetics yeah it brings up the question is if because like some people
Starting point is 00:02:50 think you have a date already set in stone of when you're gonna die you know what i mean do you believe that dude the more i look into numerology and astrology it's kind of scary yeah i don't know if i'm fully into it but i don't know what do you think i think i'm if that's true then whoever's trying to take my life he's he's sweating because i've been getting away i've had i'm at like at least my 15th life right now especially after iraq yeah you've had a couple in your death you're talking to my house about one of them about being blown up by a mine right yeah yeah yeah uh well that you know back in in iraq when I was there in 2007, especially before that, IEDs were huge, improvised explosive devices.
Starting point is 00:03:31 I always said it was a coward's way out. They don't want to stand and fight us. So we're just going to blow the Americans up from a cell phone at 500 meters away in the safety of our building or wherever they are so ieds were i think one of the most casualty producing um ways that americans lives were taken in the whole in the entire iraq war so that was their biggest weapon yeah i didn't know that i thought it was gunfire mainly no small arms fire is you know it is drastic but um i mean you're talking in ramadi in like fallujah and some of the invasions uh of like the cities in the initial push the gunfire was a lot more but once they got
Starting point is 00:04:12 they got they got smart i mean some of these ids were so improvised like so we we have different ways that we're going to clear building like if we know somebody's in a building if we have a vip or like a bomb maker somebody and we already have intel or we have a snitch and we're going to clear building like if we know somebody's in a building if we have a vip or like a bomb maker somebody and we already have intel or we have a snitch and we're going to go hit a house it got to the point where like we first of all night vision and all anybody knows if you use night vision your depth perception is off you got to train so many hours and it just sucks i didn't know that oh try yeah Try to clear a building in real time with night vision. It sucks. So if they got to the point where guys would literally break a house and we say go loud. When you go loud, it means we're not trying to sneak anymore.
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Starting point is 00:06:45 go in a house breach the front door and the ieds were now made where as soon as a light or a flashlight hit it it would blow up wow so crazy and how big was the radius i don't know i think just any type of light we used a lot of uh you know the surefire brand which is pretty powerful yeah on our on our m4s and a lot of our equipment over there so yeah you go to clear a house at night thinking you're just gonna go take you know somebody and you know ask them some questions or whatever the case is you're worried about gunfire maybe somebody with an ak and you walk in you kick the door in you go look up the stairwell and there's a bomb and you hit the sensor and it blows the whole house and you have no time
Starting point is 00:07:22 to react right no you're dead you don't, right? No, you're dead. Wow. Yeah, you don't know. You're just... That's scary. Did you find yourself in situations where you were outnumbered ever? No, no. We were pretty lucky. There was one night where...
Starting point is 00:07:37 Oh, wow. You make me think about this. So I lived in a birthday palace in Tikrit. So outside of... Cobb Spiker in northern iraq was so takrit is saddam hussein's hometown okay all right it's a much metropolitan city probably the size of inner vegas like the strip and maybe to like just before like spring valley so they all supported him there at the time we were there you kind of knew who did and who didn't um because of
Starting point is 00:08:05 there's a lot of poverty so you know like his supporters lived in like some some really dope houses and then they also had like yellow markers like some of the streets like the curbs were yellow and um so what i'm trying to say is i lived in a city that was pretty corrupt because of Saddam. And we lived in a little palace with the Iraqi army. So the Iraqi army at one point came back to the little palace that we were at and said that they had acquired a high value target that they believe believe was in charge of an al-Qaeda cell. But he was also a general or a colonel or somebody in either the Iraqi army or the Iraqi police. I think it was the Iraqi army. So he was a bad guy.
Starting point is 00:09:00 Basically, a lot of bad guys tried to hide in with the good guys in Iraq. Because there was no like hey that guy's wearing that uniform this is a world war one so the only time i think we would have been outnumbered is we were literally in the palace and the uh iraqi police bring back uh someone they captured who was like very powerful and they got a call from literally the entire army that was into crit saying if you don't render us your prisoner we're coming to the palace and we're going to kill all of you wow so they tell i and i'm a private like they don't tell me much you know i found out more after but they're like hey wake up it was like two in the morning get to the trucks they said like do not
Starting point is 00:09:43 let anybody in this compound but they're coming and that was the scariest hour of my life just literally like there's walls that are maybe 10 feet 20 feet at the most brick you're in the middle of the city of takrit 6 000 miles away from jersey you know 20 years old and you're told that 300 Iraqi soldiers are coming to take back their prisoner who's a part of Al Qaeda and they want him back oh my and there's like 15 of us did anyone pull up they never came oh thank god thank you I would have been man but I was uh that was one of the most I've had some pretty scary nights like actually getting hit by an ID and certain things but that hour of just sitting there it's like it's like waiting for the bully to just beat you up and he never he never comes that's terrible yeah that's fine did you reach
Starting point is 00:10:29 a certain point where you kind of accepted death was pretty possible yeah have you heard that before i've heard of people come to peace with it but i don't know how to relate i've never that was a perfect yeah that's a perfect way to put it you're always scared anybody who says that they were not scared on a deployment to you know overseas is full of shit yeah like you're scared i mean i'm scared to get kicked in the balls like of course i'm scared to get shot you know but you do come to this point where like i don't know if you're just you accept death or you just you you forget about home and that is just your reality now like i was there 15 months you know like after 10 months on a deployment going on patrol every single day and like that like i don't i don't say i deployed to
Starting point is 00:11:19 iraq i say i live there that was home right there was no if i thought about home or jersey or you know going back to germany or like the end of the deployment i don't know how i would have drove myself nuts it's like guys in jail you know they say like if you count day to day you're going to drive yourself crazy yeah so i did in a way accept death by just being able to perform because if you if you do not accept the fact that you could literally have your torso blown off by a can of pepsi while doing a dismounted patrol you're never going to be able to operate at your full capacity you're never going to be able to walk down a street every single window every kid playing soccer every freaking goat cow car is going to just make you want to throw up and you're not gonna be able to move so yeah
Starting point is 00:12:05 you're walking around not knowing who to trust so were you even engaging with the locals at all all the time oh you are yep yep all the time we did a lot with the iraqi police um and we basically had a map like a huge map and we had pins like that like thumbtacks and the the color of the thumbtack basically told how they felt about american forces so if it was red it was like they kicked us off their property you know they it was bad our interpreter was like no they were probably saddam loyalists or they could have been a part of a al-qaeda cell at the time whatever the case is they did not want americans there then we would go to other houses if it was like blue they, they invited us in. We drank chai. We sat down and had great conversations with them.
Starting point is 00:12:48 So, yeah, we basically tried to knock on every single door from Codicea all the way through the city of Tikrit. Wow. Obviously, it's impossible to do that because there's a lot of high rises. But anytime you got, and some of you guys that have been overseas can attest to this uh it sounds crazy and morbid but i remember times being on a dismounted patrol where there was a lot of buildings around us like let's say saddam boulevard in the center it's like the biggest we called it the gut like because if you go through there you're basically going to get in a fight and we would um i personally would always have
Starting point is 00:13:25 candy and it wasn't just to give candy out it's because like i always believe the sniper is not gonna shoot through children to kill me wow so i would always get a bunch of kids around me and take a knee and hand out candy smart so that i had sniper cover with with with kids yeah kids are off limits for snipers right kids and i hope so they I hope so. They were at least when I was there. That's what I was saying, the movies at least, but yeah. But then that same guy who doesn't want to shoot a kid will blow up himself in a marketplace. Right.
Starting point is 00:13:52 Yeah. Were there suicide bombers there? Oh, yeah. We had vehicle-borne IEDs, which is a VBID. I have a funny story about that. A lot of people don't get to see the things that I saw, but I was also living it for the first time as a kid, even though I was like an army soldier,
Starting point is 00:14:09 like I was a child, you know? Yeah, you were like 20s, right? I was 20. So I remember we got, we were working with the Iraqi army once and in the middle of the city was like a depression, kind of like the size of a soccer field. And we got intel that there was a car there
Starting point is 00:14:24 that could possibly be weighed down or be like a depression kind of like the size of a soccer field and we got intel that there was a car there that could possibly be weighed down or be like a bomb so we went with eod guys explosive ordinance guys and some of the iraqi army guys and sure as hell it was like a regular car but it was like you could tell it was weighted down but so um long story short it ended up being a bomb so the eod guys and i'm 350 meters away in an up armored m11 51 humvee yeah inside with like headphones on like looking out this four inch thick window and these guys the eod guys you crazy bastards they come out in like space suits and walk almost right up to this car wow with a huge like you ever like you know the pool skimmer well yeah yeah they look like that but it had at the end they had a like a blasting cap and they put it in the car
Starting point is 00:15:09 and then they what does the cop do they blew the car in place they did they did a three minute countdown and blew it up but they got that close to that thing dude you couldn't pay me enough and i've been blown up but i didn't like walk up to the bomb and go hey let's blow it like yeah yeah some those eod techs are nuts man they got balls so is it true when you see a grenade that someone throws you're supposed to jump on it if there's people around you um i guess that's up to the person there's a lot of people in this world that i'd kick it towards um but that's a decision that very few have had to make and only fewer heroes have made, you know? So I don't know.
Starting point is 00:15:49 Um, I do know that like there was different tactics when I was there. They had a lot, a lot of the issues that we had were crowds and then a hearts and minds. So when you're, when I first got there, I was there under, under Bush and then middle of the deployment um obama won and then when obama won obviously presidents when they come in they want to do make change so he decided that american forces would now allow vehicles to to pass them and ride with them so that we could seem a little more equal well he's not the one worrying about the car blowing up or you know somebody you stop because somebody's crossing the street and then a a car comes from the side and
Starting point is 00:16:29 takes your whole squad out right so um when people people have asked me like and i brought up earlier about like how our politicians are so separate i am one of the few people and my battle buddies that have been directly affected like my my direct daily life was affected by the decision of a sitting president. Because I was a gunner in the turret in Iraq who used to be able to keep cars 100 meters away and try to keep some type of safety boundary. And because of the president's decision, they could now pass me within three to five meters. Wow, that's scary. I used to do this and my soldiers would say like why do you do that and i would just say so when i'm back home in my casket at least my face is still there for my mother geez because when those bombs go off a car bomb you're you're done yeah damn what a decision and now the current
Starting point is 00:17:22 administration how do you feel about that with Biden? You know, I, I, a lot of people would think, cause I'm like this tattooed up white guy that I like sell like Trump hats out of my trunk. But I just went to college in San Francisco when I walked away from the department of defense and got tired of like, you know, just training all the time and dealing with the DOD. I went to barber school and then I went to cosmetology school at Paul Mitchell in the Bay area. Um, my wife, um, and her, you know, came from a really strong liberal family. I have a lot of, you know, gay friends and some trans friends. I love everybody, but I get put in the bubble because of how I look. People just, they just assume I'm like kicking down doors and, know throwing bibles at people um what i will say is i've never i've never voted and and the reason i've never personally voted is
Starting point is 00:18:11 because i was a soldier i was a sergeant and i had a job and like i tell you you're my friend if you're my friend i'm loyal to you forever that's it so i was loyal to whoever the sitting president was and my my chain of command. So I felt like if I had voted, I'd have a bias. So I just wanted to do my job to the best of my ability at all times with no bias. So I've never really voted. I was in San Francisco when it was announced
Starting point is 00:18:37 that President Biden won. I was actually filming a commercial for film school right up by the famous houses that are called the Painted Ladies. We had to, after two hours of filming and about 40 people on set, we had to break down and go home. I've never seen in my life so many young white girls dance around with champagne and scream and people beep horns. Like it was crazy. Wow. The entire city of San Francisco erupted.
Starting point is 00:19:08 I was literally in the heart of the city when they announced Biden won. I've never met a Biden supporter. I'm telling you, when Biden won, San Francisco was probably like Portugal at the World Cup won or something. It was nuts. Wow. was it looked probably like portugal of the world cup one or so it was nuts wow little like little little white girls who probably never had to deal with anything crazy in their life they're in san francisco going to college at a park on a blanket like come on they're running around dancing as if like it was the greatest thing that happened to the world and and i love
Starting point is 00:19:41 that they felt i want people to be happy. But this administration has proved, and it has nothing against who the person is or the administration. But this is, like, is this real life? Like, as far as I'm concerned, this is our time. And we're supposed to be the most educated, you know, group of people because of technology than any other time in the world right yeah but we are the dumbest group of people i've ever seen it's crazy
Starting point is 00:20:12 yeah and one of the things you say is uh people kind of forgot how to connect with each other right yes do you think that's because of social media you know my wife's 10 years younger than me than i am um and super hot uh so you know i didn't grow up with social media you know we had i think myspace myspace was a thing after high school but i you know i didn't grow up with social media like we had like i still had a nokia phone and i played snake on it yeah and you know and i had a beeper what's up uh it's a little you know it's probably a quarter of this no no it's a little pager okay so like if your mom wants to get a hold of you your pager has a number and she'll page you like whatever your code is like my dad always did 9-1-1 because he was a cop and that meant like call me okay you know and then i'd go to a pay phone and i'd call
Starting point is 00:21:08 him oh so you couldn't even talk on it you know okay it just vibrated on your pants interesting yeah a lot of yeah a lot of guys used it to like sell weed back in the day but uh communication when i grew up was what we're doing right now like this is a lost art you know um talking to people and for some reason i don't see it getting any better and i'm guilty of it like i'll be home sometimes on the couch and i have my beautiful wife my daughter right there and my daughter's on her ipad and my wife's on her phone and i'm on my phone and it's depressing man i don't know it's addicting dude it's tough and i try not to go on my phone when i'm like physically talking with people but it's super hard sometimes because our lives are
Starting point is 00:21:49 so like all over the place you know what do you think what do you think is next um did you i did just hear that elon musk has successfully rendered the first neural link yeah first human got it i'm not gonna get it yet though do you know about that a little more is it is it more to like connect you to your phone and it's like a bluetooth in your head basically yes you have access to i believe the internet in your head so if you want to google something in your head you could just do it without a phone wow yeah i think he said the first few thousand will probably be people that have disabilities or paralyzed yeah apparently it can cure that which is nuts because it fixes the missing thing with in within the brain that's crazy yeah so i mean i'm excited
Starting point is 00:22:30 for it we'll see what happens it's a little scary though i'm not gonna lie yesterday i was driving home from the wind um and i was just looking at the buildings and i follow las vegas of like 1950 you know on on instagram i get to like, look at Vegas and, you know, in a way different view than we'll ever see it. And I was looking around and I was just thinking like, what is Vegas going to look like in 500 years? Could you imagine flying cars? Probably. I mean, that's it. Even if we're here in 500 years with all this world war three talk going on, right? Yeah. I think that at the, at the biggest level of leadership, meaning presidencies, those men have never really lived a hard life.
Starting point is 00:23:12 So I don't think if it comes down to nuclear war, if they know that if they press the button, they die too, I think they'd be too scared to push it. Yeah, I think everyone's scared to be that first one, right? After what we did in World War II. No, I think they're all pussies and like they'd be scared to actually go to war. I don't think, like, do you think,
Starting point is 00:23:29 well, maybe Trump would press the button knowing he's gonna die. Like, oh, if I press this, they're gonna bomb me in five minutes. But I, you know, just most of the people that get into like that high leadership, the president have never had to be on a roof getting shot at or like been
Starting point is 00:23:45 homeless or watch their mom do drugs or like whatever the case is they've lived a pretty successful life of hardships but not like threats right so they probably compromise with the other president before they press the button it's also super hard to know who our actual enemies are because i don't trust the media and they painted china as an enemy they painted north korea russia and you really don't know my brother you would know because you were physically there but yeah but were they even the enemy or were they freedom fighters right i look back now like amir al-bazi is a friend is a friend of mine he's about to fight for the belt in the ufc he's from baghdad wow when i was there he was a kid damn he was in probably middle school and now i'm i'm
Starting point is 00:24:25 giving this guy a hug at the ufc apex why did i go to iraq because of 9-11 you know painted some hate into my heart because my dad and almost passed away like i was the perfect incubator for hate and i look back now at 18 years later and i think why look at the country like who is the enemy my older brother's in china right now my nephew is half chinese his mother is not american born she is from china like so i support chinese people through and through that's my blood nephew it's my first nephew china's supposed to be an enemy but my brother's there having a blast right now right and he said it's beautiful the people are intelligent and articulate and he loves it chinese people are hard workers man i don't know who the i think we're the enemy i think every person individually is the enemy facts i think it's on a human level
Starting point is 00:25:20 right yeah i mean who even knows about north korea i mean maybe they're chill dudes over there i don't know never know that movie maybe we should uh that was a good movie that was a good movie that was funny um any tattoos you regret i did yeah yes if i can give some advice to you youngins um obviously i'm real tatted up i would say that if i could take most of my face tattoos off um i would because there's been tattoos are weird being in the content creator space it's been pretty positive but coming from like the dod police and certain things has been pretty negative um i would tell anybody like under 40 years old that doesn't have like a job and a pension and, you know, a successful business, do not tattoo your hands, your neck or your face because you're going to get judged. You know, I'm very good at opening my mouth, smiling and letting people know who I am based on like what's on the inside and not on the outside. And I surprise a lot of people.
Starting point is 00:26:18 I get people like they want to cross the street sometimes. And then I'm like, hi. They're like, oh, you're like not a murderer. I know I look like I just got out of prison. So I would say the street sometimes. And then I'm like, hi. And they're like, oh, you're like not a murderer. I know I look like I just got out of prison. So I would say the face tattoos. And if I can give any advice to you young men and women out there, do not tattoo your significant other's name on your body. So almost 18 years ago, I was on my way to Iraq.
Starting point is 00:26:42 And I was married to somebody I had just met. I thought I was in love. Oh, you just met i we were together three months i got married wow yep because i didn't think i was gonna come back from iraq and if i died she would have got like 400 000 cash okay so i was just like might as well because then you i'm not coming home anyway why not like you get money for it well i didn't expect to come back so uh but i got her name tattooed on my entire back jesus um you want to see it i've seen it i'm gonna show the camera if you want i will yeah fuck it right it's probably the biggest name i've ever seen tattoo wise i had her name across my whole back and then i had to get it covered oh my gosh crazy and now it's a skyline right now it's
Starting point is 00:27:26 the new york skyline wow um did she do the same i don't think so i don't know um i hope so because i know she's remarried with a with a you know a beautiful son now but uh she at the time she got my name down her spine wow yeah so the other way like yeah yep so for her new husband's sake i hope my name's not down her back anymore yeah i was never a fan of the names because you never know even friendships could be lost significant others you know names or chinese symbols so my like i just said my sister-in-law's from china i go to my dad's we're out of my dad's pool and she looks at me and goes bobby what do you think that says i have a chinese symbol on my chest and i said what do you mean it
Starting point is 00:28:09 says respect and she goes no it doesn't and i was like shut up yes it does so apparently i have uh in chinese um it means to put on a hat no way on my chest the guy messed up yeah bro yeah if you're gonna get a chinese tattoo you better get a chinese guy doing it yeah before i know we got to go i'm gonna give you a fun fun thing for your before we go so in the addiction community one of the biggest things is the serenity prayer everybody knows that so anytime anybody that's in the sober community or like, you know, knows about addiction, they see the serenity prayer, they put it immediately with addiction, right? I get out of the army, I'm home, I'm putting a trampoline together at my dad's house.
Starting point is 00:28:54 My brother's friend who I've never really met comes over and says, do you want to help? And I said, yeah. He takes his shirt off and he has the serenity prayer from the top of his neck down to the bottom of his neck down to the bottom of his back. And I'm like, oh man, how long you been sober? And he goes, what are you talking about? I said, what do you mean? What am I talking about?
Starting point is 00:29:13 He had this three feet long serenity prayer on his back and he had no idea. I said, bro, every time you take your shirt off, people think you're a recovering drug addict. Wow. And he's lost it you have no idea no so we're talking about tattoos do not get the serenity prayer uh until you do your due diligence yeah that is rough bobby man where can people find you learn more about you your vlogs and what you got going on uh so uh right now i just started a new podcast called
Starting point is 00:29:41 the life of war podcast um i wanted to do something for the veteran community and for mental health to give back because we're losing up to 25 veterans a day to veteran suicide. And so, yeah, you can tune into at Life of War on Instagram. It's pretty much the same. And then I'm doing a vlog every week. So every week I'm finding a veteran who's pretty much where I was six years ago, doing drugs, down, depressed, doesn't really want to be alive. And I'm taking them to an awesome event every single week and we're filming it. So yeah, come support. Yeah, check it out, guys. We'll link it in the video.
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