REAL AF with Andy Frisella - 574. Andy, Nick Jones & DJ CTI: Escaped Murderer Caught, Kim Jong Un Meets With Putin & Hunter Biden Indicted

Episode Date: September 15, 2023

In today's episode, Andy & DJ are joined in the studio by Navy Cross Recipient Nick Jones, Staff Sgt. USMC Ret. They discuss how escaped murderer Danelo Cavalcante was able to survive two weeks only on watermelon, North Korea's Kim Jong Un staying in Russia for several days and meeting with Vladimir Putin, and Hunter Biden suing an ex-Trump staffer tied to laptop's dissemination.

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So go check out episode 208 on the audio feed and get your shit straight. Now, guys, we do have, as we occasionally do, a very special guest joining us for this CTI. Good buddy of mine, been a friend of us for this CTI. Good buddy of mine. Been a friend of mine for a long time. Mr. Nick Jones. What's happening, brother? What's going on, Andy? Thanks for having me.

I'm good, man. How are you? Good. Now, you guys think this is just my buddy, but in reality, Nick has a crazy story to tell um he's a navy cross recipient and if you know what the navy cross is the navy cross is the medal that is right below the medal of honor and the way that he earned that cross is something that we're going to talk about a little bit before we get the show going so um

let's talk about that let's where do you want to start well um man i mean where did you where did you where did you begin your military career what made you decide you wanted to join the military? So, I mean, considering the date, um, three days ago, what, 22 years, um, nine 11 happened. I was very young. I was probably fourth grade, fifth grade. And as soon as that happened in my life, I started to follow the Iraq and Afghanistan invasion. Um, my sister's nine years older than me. So a bunch of her friends started joining and I was watching, following them. And then growing up in Kansas City, just right down the road from you guys. I mean, I thought I experimented with all sorts of other drugs and alcohol at a younger age. And I was just like, you know, the typical Midwestern upbringing. Right. Yeah. It's like, all right. Like I'm, I'm already living that war path and, you know,

I want to go fight for this country. And that's just what was like in my blood. And so I joined, I actually, I ended up going to this alternative school. I almost dropped out of high school, but I was like, I need my, my degree so that I can go into the Marine Corps. And, um, as soon as I graduated December 09, I left in January of 2010 to go to bootcamp. So as soon as I turned 18, I went shipped off. I started my career in Camp Pendleton as a infantry Marine. Um, I was a mortar man at the beginning, so basically just dropping bombs and tubes and hitting people from far distances. I did a deployment as a mortar man, and then I saw these snipers running around in their ghillie suits, and I was like, I want to try out for that. That's what I got to go do. So as soon as we got back, I tried out for the sniper platoon, and we're running around all over Camp Pendleton and starting to do a workup for the next deployment

to Afghanistan. And I start seeing all of these signs around the base for MARSOC. And I was like, what is MARSOC? I knew what recon was, which was like what started MARSOC back in the day. MARSOC is the Marine Special Operations Command. So if you think about most people still don't know who we are, um, I think we're, it was started in 2006. Um, so it's very new, but it's an up and coming special operations community basically. So this would be equivalent to like. Green Berets or Navy SEALs, um, Air Force PJs, things like that. Okay.

Yeah, so we mirror pretty much identically for a Green Beret team. Okay. So now it's evolved into something that's pretty amazing. There's all sorts of different teams, and they're all regionally aligned to different areas. I was specifically in a jump team team so we did a lot of like advanced free fall stuff um jumping from 29 000 feet and every time i'm up every time i'm up in a uh commercial plane i'm looking down i'm like man i've i've jumped from this high do you have to have like a mask on and everything for that yeah we pre-breathe on oxygen the whole way up and then um um, getting ready,

suiting up in the plane and then putting oxygen on before we jump out. It's really cool. Cause then by the time you jump out, like we open really high as well. And, uh, you're, you're sitting there floating under this parachute, seeing the curvature of the earth and just hanging out. It's freezing cold. Oh, you're going to have all the flat earthers mad about that. Yeah. have all the flat earthers mad about that yeah um yeah so anyways like i you know basically wanted i continued to search for more in my career i once i made it to the sniper community i was like this is great but i i know that there's more i want to go try out for the next best thing. So I tried out for MARSOC in 2013. I moved really quick. I tried to move as fast as I could because I was like, I just felt the potential.

I felt the growth happening. And I knew I had this like leadership mentality that I needed to let like eat. So I took selection in 2013. That was six weeks long. It was pretty gruesome. Uh, lots of ruck running, lots of running, lots of carrying heavy weight and just moving through the woods. And what's the ruck running like, I gotta know about this. It's so we have 45 pound rucks without or before food and water. Um then like if you're like me i drink a lot of water when i'm moving and i don't like to be without it because there was a mission in afghanistan where i my team ran out of water and then we got extended two more days and it was just a fucking

rough rough day uh rough couple days and um so i moved with a lot of water on me and basically we do a timed 4 8 10 and 12 mile ruck run and the 12 miler is what normally gets people especially because we start so late and then we end when it's still dark and it's like dudes are just going and it's like the super long like dreadful trail that you're on and it's just like never ending but you know that's when that mental mental fortitude kicks in and it's just like i gotta keep going what's the time on a 12-hour ruck run and you had to complete it in under two and a half hours holy shit yeah so you're really running you gotta move yeah you have to move yeah and that's an awkward run, dude, because I've been secretly.

Okay. I've been, you don't know this, but I've actually been trying to run with my ruck. Yeah. Because I get so tired of all these people out here bragging about all their running. I've determined that I'm going to learn how to run like properly. Yeah. And so I'm like, fuck it. I'll learn to run with my ruck on and then it'll be that much cooler.

Yeah. So I've been doing it and it's really fucking hard to do bro yeah because the shit's bouncing on you the whole time it's really it's it's like an uncomfortable thing what do you just get used to that you do find like a rhythm yeah yeah i mean that's like a 12 and a half minute mile yeah you're cruising dude like that yeah that's fast You can't, if you're walking, you have to speed walk. I mean, it's a hustle. Yeah. Yeah. So, dude, like I would say that you get used to it, but it sucks every time you do it.

Yeah. Like, I don't know. I mean, you got to be a psychopath if you think that it's like that. No big deal. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, there are some dudes that will book it. Yeah.

I mean, like running faster than i run without bro did you see will did you see what will did out there no so will did a hundred pound mile and did it in like eight what was it eight minutes like like i said psychopaths yeah yeah bro i couldn't even run an eight minute mile mile with no weight. Yeah. Like, I really couldn't do it. It's hard. Yeah. I'm totally green when it comes to that. Yeah. But that's crazy.

It's wild. Well, I got a new goal. Yeah. Yeah. There you go. For real. So you joined Marsock. So Marsock, how do we get to this picture?

And so for those of you guys at home, this is when you received your Navy crown. How do we get to this picture here? So January 2020, it'll be my third deployment with my Raider team. So when you get in there, you're called a Marine Raider. I was an element leader, which I'm basically in charge of like four other guys in my team, but I was one of the more senior combat, like veteran guys in my team. So, um, whenever we got to Iraq, we were still hunting ISIS and you know, it's, it's 2020 at the beginning of it. When I got there, the world was still somewhat put together um the team that we had just replaced there actually lost one of their highest enlisted guys um on a mission in August

so when we were getting ready for our turnover we were like hey man like there's shit still happening there's still combat happening overseas no matter what you see on the news like there there's dudes fighting and there's dudes that are dying and a lot of my guys have never been in combat yeah and at this point they're not even talking about it anymore yeah right oh yeah and so you know it was uh it was a real thing getting into it and what isis had now come down to is basically like, I mean, they were damn near getting close to a conventional force. They were running. They had like a whole governance established and all this stuff. They started as an insurgency in the way that they move up.

Well, now they're back. They were basically back down to an insurgency. So now they're hiding out in caves. They're in these little sleeper cells all over the big cities. And so our task when we were there was to hunt them and find them and kill them, take care of them however we can. We found ourselves being tasked with a lot of like cave and tunnel clearances. That's not something that we've really even messed with since Vietnam, like all the tunnel rats and things like that. So it was interesting, especially as a special operations team, like we the tunnel rats and things like that. So it was, it was interesting, especially as a special operations team, like we work in a very small capacity with, we have,

we have assets, but, um, basically we had to get creative with explosives, with the way that we enter, with the way that we engage with our partner force. So now we're teaching them to be able to crawl into these tunnels and clear these things out. So we have done several of them at this point and it was late February and my team gets tasked with this really large cave clearance operation. We'd been watching this thing for, I think, weeks at this point. All they've seen was seven ISIS fighters coming in and out of these caves. They've seen seven entrances and it looked like a pretty straightforward mission. It was on the side of this mountain and I had a pretty good plan, I think. We had it all set up. We were going to drop 2,000 pound bombs on every cave entrance right before we entered. So it was like, all right,

cool. The ground's going to be softened up. are probably going to be concussed we are we already knew that it wasn't going to kill them we've been in caves before like you strike it with a with a bomb it's only going to hit the surface it's not going to penetrate in there and actually like kill the dudes but we had snipers in place we had machine gunners in place and my team flies in. They start dropping bombs. I guess, let me back up because, so I told you that they had only seen seven guys at the beginning. Well, 24 hours before we were about to leave, we tell our partner force what we're going to go do. They knew that we'd been doing rehearsals for something. They didn't know where we were going. So within that 24 hours before we were about to leave, the intelligence starts coming back like,

hey, now there's 10 guys there. Now there's 11. Now there's 12. We're about two hours before we're going to leave. There's 19 motherfuckers on the ground. And how many on your? We have a lot. We had.

But the numbers are building up. Yeah. I mean, yeah. So in the planning, you basically have these go and no go criterias and a no-go criteria is like if they reinforce to double their size well they're over double and they were like we're still going which as killers you know we're like let's fucking go i'm ready like i'm ready to go do my job but now's real. And we know that we're going to get into a fight. Um, so once we land, they're hitting this shit, they're really softening it up for us. Um, bombs

are making good impacts. Snipers engage some dudes, kill some guys, um, machine gunners let loose and they kill some guys as well. Uh, but now there's no real like head count. We don't know how many guys are still alive. We don't know what's still out there and I'm leading the patrol down. Once we landed our helicopters, I think I have like 50 Iraqis with me. Um, and then there's probably 20 us. And, uh, so we start walking down the mountain and you can still see the plumes of smoke from the bombs that had just been dropped uh it's pretty pretty wild once we reach a certain point i call up to the support by fire which is like the the machine gunners and the snipers and i was like hey when i reach this point i need you guys to just start shooting because i'm going to start

making noise and walking up to where I need to go. So they do. They actually engage a couple more bad guys in that movement, which was pretty cool. I throw some smokes and then pop up on these rocks. And as soon as we get up there, we start seeing the first caves. But at this point, people in the back are starting to get kind of antsy. They want to go do work as well. And we got a lot of fucking guys.

So my team chief, which was the highest enlisted guy in my team, um, he was a gunnery Sergeant. So one rank higher than me, but still like a very senior guy in the team, um, said, Hey, I, I see something over here. I want to split off and go take care of this real quick. I tried to tell him, no, like, just wait, we're almost done clearing this, um, this cave out. I was literally had hands on this dead ISIS fighter, like pulling all of this stuff out of his pockets, getting his fingerprints and whatnot, whatever we do to, to the, um, sensitive exploitation processing. Yeah. Process processing. Exactly. So once he continues to go do what he thought he needed to go do, he breaks off and takes about half of the patrol.

And the reason why you don't really do that is, like, you start getting sucked in. You see more and more things and then basically like now he's got a other assault force that's completely detached from the original plan and they start getting further sucked down and down into this mountain well now the support by fire can't see them anymore i can't see them anymore they're basically in the middle of us and i was like okay like they they can do this we're all trained for this we all know what to do let's just keep fucking going i go up to this next cave i had just thrown in this this grenade and inside um it's kind of like our our sop our standard operating procedure let's just throw

something in there soften it up peek our head in there and see um see what we got and uh when i do that huge explosion it's called an asm round an anti-structural munition it's almost a full pound of c4 which is a fucking it's a pretty big bang in this little little grenade but it covers everything in dust and i peek up and i look at him and there's this dead isis fighter in there completely white covered in dust and i'm this guy's face is gonna be forever ingrained in my in my memory because as i'm staring at him he's fully kitted out he's still got his rifle like right there he's got an m16 there's an ak there there's a a pkm which is a beltfed machine gun that's mounted into the wall that's looking down into the valley like they were ready for us they were ready for a fucking fight but as i'm staring at

this guy i'm like okay i'm gonna make entry into this cave i just hear this fucking hell break loose behind me machine guns grenades like all of this, like chaos. And I was like, holy crap. Like these guys are in contact and they're calling it in contact five meters, 20 meters, five meters. And then it's just like, there's a casualty. And, uh, at first I didn't know who it was, if it was partner force, if it was one of us, if it was a, we had some French guys with us. Um, and then a couple seconds later, there's an Eagle down and an Eagle is a U S service member and a freaking gut drops. And I was like, Oh my God, it's fine. They got it. They got it under control. And then not even a second later, there's another eagle down. And I was like, I just got the goosebumps. I was like, oh, shit.

And I turn around and I look at my Iraqis and I was like, hey, you guys stay here. You need to watch this cave. I got to go. And I just ran as fast as I could. They call these. I mean, it was probably the most untactful way that I could get there. But I ran up and over this finger of this mountain. I ran by like two other caves that I didn't know if they'd been cleared or

not. And there's blankets and there's like little Heidi positions in there. So I just shoot a couple of rounds through each one of those. And I'm just like, I got a fucking mission and I got to get to these guys as fast as I can. And I get down there and everybody is frozen. Nobody knew what to do, but there's a fuck ton of gunfire going off still. I was like yo where are the casualties like what's going on tell me something and it's just like

dudes are like ghosts like I don't know what the fuck to do so I throw my ruck off and I jump in to where I hear the fire coming from and there's one guy and they're fighting and it's a French guy I start start asking him what the deal is. He can't even speak English. I'm like, okay, guns pointed this way, bad guys are this way. So, I mean, the walls are close. They're closer than these walls here. And there's boulders, rocks, everything. And I get a wild hair at my ass and I start crawling up these rocks and I still have my like NVGs up on my head. And i pop up over this rock and i see this massive cave entrance that's just stacked with rocks like a big ass bunker um as soon as

it sees i see it it's they see me and immediate machine gun fire like makes me get my head down and i see as i popped my head up i saw a body right up there and i was like well there's no way this dude's alive if they're shooting this much at me like there's no fucking way this is one of our guys i didn't know at the time and uh so this french guy starts yelling he's yelling something and i later i found out he's telling this person to roll he's saying it in french but whatever he was saying he's just like roll roll roll and all of a sudden i see these legs fly up in the air and my first instinct was like i need to go grab him so i just chicken wing my gun basically just put my butt

sock under my my armpit and run up there and i shooting with one hand and i grabbed this dude with the other just shooting as fast as i could pull him down and like push him down off of these rocks and then get him down to this other french guy and he grabs him and i'm dumping rounds i have to reload real quick and still shooting and uh finally like dudes woke up they fucking pulled him out and he was shot through and through in the left leg and shot in the top of the head luckily he was alive he was a french operator um french special operator and i was like okay you said there's two other casualties you said there's two americans where the fuck are the other guys and this is after i had gotten out of that situation and they're like i think that

they're up there in front of the cave i was like well there's no fucking way i can get there from here so i basically got out of that situation i went and i walked on top of the cave now like they're like in this like nasty cut ravine thing and basically i'm on top of the roof now and uh how far below below you are they it was probably four feet oh okay so you're like right i am right on top of it like they could hear everything I was doing. So when I got there, I, I talked to my snipers and they were like walking me on to exactly where to walk. So then I didn't like have to like come over and like look around the edge and do this. Like I wanted to be right on top and they walked me right up to it. And as I get closer and closer, I see, I start to see the, the aftermath down there. And I see one body

and the first body that I see, I'm like, there's no fucking way this dude's alive. Um, just by the looks of it, I could, I could confirm right there. He was dead. And then I move up just a little bit more and I see my other teammate and he, it was almost convincing that he was alive. So I said his name a few times, he was sitting upright, his eyes were still open. It's almost in the position that he was pushing back cause he was still fighting. And, um, yeah, that's, uh, yeah, that's it right there. Um, so yeah, I see see him and then basically when i confirmed that they were both dead i was like fuck uh i'm i pushed back i called over the radio i said hey sir um this is what's happened mo and diego are gone they're dead and he's like what do you mean it's like i just told

you like they're gone he's like you need to go back and confirm i was like i'm telling you right now sir they are dead and it was the hardest thing that i've had to do you know but it was like i need to make a new plan like it's no longer like hunting isis it's now a recovery mission so i had a bunch of grenades on me still and i was like i'm going to go back up there. I'm going to do everything I can. I'm going to jump down there and pull these dudes out. It'll be done. So I go up and I basically lay on top of their roof and I start leaning over like you're going to look underneath a desk and I start chucking grenades in. And like, I could literally

see the whites of their eyes when I would fucking look down there and chuck these grenades and they would just be shooting up at me. And now we start taking shots from the other side of the valley and we find out that they've got fighting positions all over, like looking at this one main trap, this one main bunker. And so I throw a few grenades in there, still getting shot at. I'm like, dude, I can't get down here. So I call an Apache, um, an attack helicopter. Basically I said, Hey, like I first called the JTAC and, uh, the joint terminal air controller. And I was like, Hey, I need you to help me like thread some bombs through this fucking cave. And he's like, Hey, I need you to help me like thread some bombs through this fucking cave. And he's like, okay, well like you need to talk to this guy. I don't know exactly where you need me to put it. And so I was like, okay, like helicopter, you see me, I'm standing on the

cave right now. Here's your grid fucking shoot this please. And he's like, okay, four feet low. Yeah. Don't fucking shoot me. Yeah. So he's like, okay, well you need to move. And I was like, well, yeah, no shit. So, and I go and I move, he's like okay well you need to move and i was like well yeah no shit so and i go and i move he's like i can still see you you need to move farther i was like dude i am low on water i'm low on ammunition i'm tired as fuck i'm not moving anymore i'll hide behind this rock and he's like okay i'll let it rip so they shot 220 30 millimeter rounds in there and the snipers were like, there's no effect. Rocks didn't move.

Nothing fucking happened. I was like, thread a hellfire in there, please. With all due respect, fucking do it. And they did. And still nothing, man. I went back up there. I tried again. I threw some more grenades in there and I was still getting some gnarly fucking feedback. Like they were still shooting at us from every angle. How, how was it that

that missile didn't do anything? If you could see a photo of this cave, like they had these rocks and like, it was such a small cutout. Um, I don't, I don't know know i personally didn't get to enter the cave um later that night a few dudes did um from delta force some guys came in that night and actually got to recover our guys so super thankful for them and what they do and how fucking hard they train like yeah um so basically i went back up there i tried a couple more times and i was almost at the point where i was like man i i don't know what else to do if i tell him to go down there he's got two kids he's got a kid like i'm gonna get other people killed like i'd rather keep trying this for myself and i went back up there for the last time we're shooting we're throwing more grenades in there and the

next thing you know it's just like bam it's like holy fuck what was that i got shot i had like no other i get down i like kind of roll back and i was like i my leg is burning. It's on fire right now. Now where'd they hit you? Right in the, in the shin, in my right shin. And I didn't see a bunch of blood at the beginning. And I looked down, I'm like, man, I feel like I'll be okay. I tried to walk over to my medic and I was like, my leg was burning. Like I didn't know if i broke something or what happened and i get over there and he looks at it and it's already super swollen and just a little tiny trickle of blood coming out it almost looked like i got like shot by a bb like so something was lodged in my legs well like made it super swollen right off the bat but i couldn't put any weight on it and uh so he's i went over to the medic i was like hey dude i think i just got shot he's like what do you mean you think you

got shot i was like i don't know my leg hurts it's fucking bleeding check me out he's like all right let me check it out so he looks he's like yeah sure shit so i basically called up to the commander and i was like hey man like we need a new plan their plan was to fucking drop a bomb on it and i'm like dude no you have two americans sitting at the base of this cave you cannot do that like that not not gonna happen we need another plan and i'm a staff sergeant telling high-ranking officers what to do yeah there's other high-ranking individuals out there that weren't really taking command and it was was just like, dude, I'm, I'm an, I felt capable, but I'm like,

I'm a low ranking guy. There's a command structure for a reason. Why am I the one fucking stepping up to make these calls and telling officers no on certain things? Um, it's interesting how people respond to those types of situations. It really, really know until you're in it.

Yeah. And it's like dudes can respond one way in training. respond to those types of situations it really doesn't really know until you're in it yeah and it's like dudes can respond one way in training and then it's like once the real things are happening that's where yeah some dudes will just shut down um but so they they basically made the call they were going to wait for the quick reaction force to come in, the QRF. And once they showed up, they were like, okay, well, let's just watch the cave for a while, make sure that nobody fucks with our guys, and wait for the special mission unit to come in. So the Delta Force unit came in that night. They got into a gnarly firefight, killed like four more bad guys inside the cave

they made entry in there and then a suicide vest cranked off in there um blowing luckily no other u.s dudes got injured um i think a couple dudes did take i don't know maybe a couple cuts and scratches or whatever but um the only those suicide vests like filled with like shrapnel and stuff like that like just like you see on tv yeah yeah it's wild man like beads um i don't know like marbles yeah ball bearings yeah nails like all sorts of nasty shit depending on like who what who the maker is they'll have their own like taste on what they want to put in there um working with like the eod techs like the explosive ordnance disposal guys i got to experience a lot of like working with that stuff and explosives so i would help them like uh blow in place a lot of stuff we

call it bipping so like we would take like suicide vests and all sorts of other shit that they had made and like blow them up where they were so nobody could use them anymore. But it was just wild. You dissect these things and see like they're putting fucking nails in there. They're putting all sorts of like rusted out screws and weird shit. Yeah. So it just like wreaks havoc on whatever it hits. So, yeah.

Once I got medevaced, like the, the terrain was so steep, they basically, they had to bring down a hoist. So, um, a helicopter lowered down this wire and they, this medic picked me up from the side of the mountain, picked me up, take, took me to the hospital. And, uh, um, I was sitting next to the French guy in there, his legs blown out and I got this little pinprick in my leg and like the doctors were like, Oh, you'll be fine, man. Like you'll be walking in two weeks. No problem. Two weeks come by, still can't walk, still on crutches. And I, I basically told my team, I was like, Hey man, like I can't do this anymore. Um, I need to go get more help. So went and tried

to get more help and had to get back to the States. And now, um, it's April 1st by the time I get back home, April 1st of 2020. And it's a fucking ghost town everywhere. COVID was running rampant through the middle East. COVID is now taking over the states um so this picture right here is when i landed in wilmington um my wife and maybe two other friends were there to greet me nobody from the marine corps nobody from the government nobody from my team most of my team was still deployed but like um because they couldn't because of covid yeah just like and we couldn't have funerals yeah just like people had to die over a zoom call just like a lot of bullshit oh yeah yeah and they made me go straight home and quarantine for two

weeks no visitors no phone calls, no fucking nothing, spending a lot of time on my couch looking like a couch potato. And, uh, I had to coordinate my own travel up to Walter Reed every time for my surgeries, for all of that stuff. And, uh, go get my surgeries. Still no real check-in still no heads up what's up how you doing thank you for what you did uh nothing i guess you know it's like whatever i did my job i'm gonna get back out there i'm gonna my goal was to get surgery and go back out to country because we i got shot in march we just got there in january so i'd only been there two months. And, uh, after that first surgery, man, it was like, there's fucking no way. Like in the back of my head, I was like, I want to get back there, but I doubt it. Um, and what did they find was

going on with your leg? It, so whenever I got hit, basically whatever went in there, like shrapneled out or splintered out and destroyed my superficial peroneal nerve. And which is one of your main sensory nerves in your leg. And so it was just causing all of this crazy pain. And then I ended up getting this rare symptom syndrome called complex regional pain syndrome. So it basically took over my sympathetic nervous system and like started like every time I would get mad, sad, angry or depressed, like my leg would flare up. I could literally feel it and see it. And it was just it was fucking insane.

I didn't really believe that stuff. Like I was very much a part of that whole like it sounds fucked up, but like I didn't think that PTSD was real because I kind of thought like, oh, well, those dudes are too weak. They just couldn't handle combat. They couldn't handle stress. Yeah, man the fuck up. Yeah. Right. And it was just like, here's a fucking straw, dude.

Suck it up. Yeah. But then when this happened, this was literally the straw that broke the camel's back because it was like, I, I cried almost every single day after that. Like all of those images were burned into my brain. Like, then I get this, like I was at the peak physical performance of my fucking career and now it's like i get shot i can barely walk like my wife literally one of your athletes literally carried me inside when i had this i had this infection in my leg i was six surgeries deep thinking that i was going

to be able to run like a week before that and i get this fucking gnarly infection in my leg. I was six surgeries deep thinking that I was going to be able to run like a week before that. And I get this fucking gnarly infection in my leg that nearly kills me. I went septic. I got 106 fever. I was like, I'm about to die. I made it through all of this shit. Now I'm about to die from this infection. Yeah. And I, so like she bad-ass you are. Yeah. I know. Right. God damn. And so she carries me inside and I was like, this is a low point in my life, but it's, I know, right? God damn. And so she carries me inside. And I was like, this is a low point in my life. But it's, I mean, at least I got a strong wife to be able to do it. So she's badass.

Well, how she carries you wasn't bad. I feel like the- We saw it. I think she posted it or something. Yeah, yeah. It wasn't like- Video or camera. It wasn't like she was like-

Like a baby. Yeah, I mean, that's still respectable. Well, let's be real, bro. It's not like she's like some weak ass woman either. No, her strong shit. Very athletic, very strong, and very no bullshit. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And man, like if I like got to give credit to anybody, it's it's her because every surgery, everything like whatever I needed, I was right there. And I didn't really do a very good job at giving her what she deserved at that time. Because it was booze. It was drugs. It was whatever I could to stop feeling this pain and misery.

And, you know, it actually was what really woke me up is I got notified that I was going to get awarded the Navy Cross. And I was like, holy shit, man. Like this award doesn't just get handed out. Like this is the real fucking deal. Like I fantasized about people who would get these awards. And I was like, that is so bad-ass. And then as soon as they told me that I was getting this thing, I was like, this isn't cool anymore. Like, I don't, I don't really want this. I'd rather have have these dudes back i'd rather not have that like right detriment on my my soul and uh it was december 21 january of 22 i started to become extremely suicidal um because they had told me or i had just received the navy cross august 26th of 2021 and that was actually the same day that 13 marines were killed in the kabul uh yeah withdrawal yeah so like i'm prepping for my speech for the navy cross ceremony and i get a phone call from the secretary of the navy and he says hey

sasson jones like i'm sorry but i'm sure you heard but there was just this bombing in afghanistan and i won't be able to make it because these 13 marines just died and i was i was bummed i was shocked i was obviously feeling sorry for them but also reliving everything that I had just gone through. And I'm like, fuck man, like because of everything in the world that was going on when my team got killed or when my teammates got killed, nobody fucking knew about it. Nobody even bat an eye about it. It was on the news for maybe 20 minutes. Nobody knew that another U S force dude got shot. Like, I mean, there's still people fucking figuring out what happened on that day when my team got hit. And it was like a very

intense, like, I don't, I mean, we still lost American lives and nobody fucking knew about it. Yeah. We were still over there. We were fighting ISIS. We were actively hunting dudes and nobody fucking knew and i was just i was just kind of shocked again i was like dude it's it's happening again like the dude's not going to come here because something else in the world is you know it's happening and that that's life but i actually got a call again from him in like 20 minutes. He's like, you know what? He's like, I actually,

he's like, we lose guys often. Unfortunately he's like, but it's not every day that we get to award somebody for the things that they've done. He's like, so we just fired up the helicopter. We'll be there in a little bit.

I was like, Holy fuck. Like that's wild. Um, that's wild um that's a lot of ebbs and flows of just emotions it was man and it was just like that was a traumatic day for i think everybody i can't imagine like seeing like like seeing the the the aftermath of those of that bombing and then seeing those guys like fall from the airplanes and shit that day like that's like yeah like that was traumatic for me and i didn't have any skin in that you know

what i mean i can't imagine what that's like yeah for you and it's like everybody's you know bringing up the whole like you know we we fought there for 20 years like what are we doing what are we throwing away and it's just like man we've we lost a lot of fucking guys and we lost them on the fucking last day that we're there too and it's just like what are've we lost a lot of fucking guys and we lost them on the fucking last day that we're there too and it's just like what are we what what is this still going on for and it's like it was it was super fucking hard because it's like we fought for so much and now it's like you're pulling out like this and you're fucking making us look like chumps dude um so it was definitely hard it was cool though that they actually were able to come and recognize

this and we were actually able to talk about it on that day too and um actually on it was actually on 9-11 um in 21 i went up to walter reed and got to visit those guys and and see them and it was awesome seeing like the overwhelming amount of support that they had like all sorts of people from the command and the marine corps and the navy everybody was up there to see them they had a bunch of support so that was great to see like i mean they the kids deserved it they were so young dude that was the that was the wild part like they were i mean i was young when this happened to me but i mean i was 28 and they were like 19, 20, 23. Like it was fucking crazy. Um, so anyways, yeah, they're fucking kids, bro. Yeah. And yeah, I'm, I'm glad that they had the support they did up there. It was good to see. Um, so all of this shit is going on. And like I said,

I was very much a part of that stigma. I was a part of that mentality, like just suck it up. And it starts hitting me more and more. I'm going through all of these treatments, but it was December of 21 into January of 22. Like the, it, I basically, I went through retirement. I moved out to Montana. I thought that that was going to be my fix, but I was drinking more than ever. I was getting more depressed than ever. And I was just like, I'm done. Like, this is it. So, um, yeah, I, I ended up trying to attempt to kill myself and ended all right there. And, you know, I was just like, we're about to have this kid and I, I can't be like this. I can't be this person and raise a daughter. Um,

I didn't know it was going to be a daughter at that time yet, but basically, man, like, I don't know, Fletcher was in there with me, my service dog, and I was in the garage and I was drinking a lot and I ended up, uh, pulling the trigger on my nine mil and I have literally never had a malfunction happen like that. Um, gun didn't go bang and there was a round in the chamber and everything. And, uh, I basically took this big sigh and fletcher came up and was like what's up dude like what's going on wagging his tail licking my face and i was just bawling and i was like what the fuck am i doing like i need to get my shit together and we got invited to this convention this legion

legion of valor that was god man it had like i don't know i don't know what you believe we don't ever talk about that but that's divine intervention dude it it was something yeah i yeah i got you that means you that means you have a much much much bigger purpose here we'll talk yeah we've been friends for a long time yeah you know i'm saying i'm glad that happened. Yeah. I'm glad you're still fucking here, bro. It was definitely...

I never heard that story before just now. And that's the thing is like, I still feel so like weird. I feel taboo about talking about it because I feel, I don't know, like I'm fucking sweating right now thinking about it because it's like, I don't want anybody to know that side of me, but it's like, why not? I think it's important for people to hear that yeah it's like you need to understand that this shit can happen and when it does happen like there's so many other fucking people that have been there in your shoes right now like all you got to do is reach out and there's going to be somebody right there either at

your doorstep or talking to you all goddamn night long and like you just have to tell somebody and it's like that's kind of what i want to get across because it's like whenever i i ended up going to this legion of valor convention a convention with all of these like war heroes all medal of honor recipients navy cross like service cross recipients my goal was to be like how the fuck are you still alive i literally i've gone one year with having this award and i already tried to kill myself like why are you still here how like how do you live with this and it's just like it's just wild to see like that you just have to live you have to be present you have to love

life and like actually be willing to fight for what you've fought for so long you fought for so hard for all of this and it's all worth it and now it's like i'm about to have a daughter and this is something to live for my wife is something to live for my life dude it's a gift like yeah that's why they call it the present it's because living in the present it's a fucking gift so um yeah now i i feel like i do feel more obligated to talk about it just because it's like somebody somewhere needs to needs to fucking hear it yeah man because it's like i like i'm supposed i'm what i thought is i'm supposed to be this hero with this fucking big metal on my chest

and i'm supposed to be bigger and badder than everybody else, but it fucking hurts. And even though we still hold this title and we still have all of this weight behind us, it's like this shit can still hit us too. And it doesn't matter who you are. It doesn't wait for anybody. Why do you think it got accelerated

after you were recognized for what you did? Or do you think that had anything to do with it I don't I don't really know if that had much to do with it I think it was all building up and you know certain instances kept happening it was just like I don't know it's just a lot to fucking handle yeah and it's like I like, I've been, I've been through it before. Like I've dealt with a lot of death. Like July 10th of 2017, we had a plane crash that killed 16 Marines. Um, seven of them were in my company. One of them was

one of my best friends. I literally had to go notify his wife that night. I had to get dressed up in my uniform and go there. And that was actually my best friend, Talon Leach. Um, so I had to go tell his wife that he's never coming home. And it's like, that shit only happens in movies. I've never, like, I've literally watched movies of dudes going to knock on doors on their fucking alpha service uniform. And it's just like, never in my life did I think that was mean, did i do the week after that i went to the shoot house like we went right back to training and it was like okay let's go to work like i we were just so good at compartmentalizing because we had to like turn it back on like in an instant it's the same fucking thing in the real world it's like well i got to go back to work like

this person just passed away this this just happened to me i got in a fucking crazy car accident but it's like all of these things in life they continue to build and build and build but it's like if we just keep shoving it down and not doing anything about it that's when it becomes such a detriment to your mental health and it's like you have to address it you have to be willing to talk about it you have to be willing to sit with it and feel it and like i mean since my last surgery in july of 2022 uh i'd stopped drinking so i've been sober for a year and two months now and it's been the best thing that's ever fucking happened to me yeah because now i can literally sit there and feel my feel my feelings like feel my thoughts and all of this shit and it's just like it's it's hard yeah but it's it's real it's, it's hard, but it's, it's real. It's me. It's like, this is all me now. Yeah. So yeah. Alcohol is a fucking killer, bro. It is.

I grew up just like you doing the, the, the drinking and, you know, smoking weed and fucking running around, getting in fights and doing all that shit. And dude, I spent a lot of years in the alcohol. You know what I mean? Yeah. Like, and dude, once I cut lot of years in the alcohol. You know what I mean? Yeah. And, dude, once I cut it out for the most part, because, I mean, dude, I might drink like twice a year now. It doesn't, your life gets way better, dude. Yeah.

It's way better, especially if you're carrying a lot of weight. You know, when I have people that come to me and they're struggling, the first thing I tell them, I said, bro, stay away from alcohol and control what you can control. Those are the two things I tell anybody when they come to me and they're struggling the first thing i tell them i said bro stay away from alcohol and control what you can control those are the two things i tell anybody when they come to me fuck so so what what what is what is nick jones doing now what's the you know where where are we at today yeah so currently um i'm the president and founder of a nonprofit called Talon's Reach Foundation. We support special operators who have been morally, mentally, or physically wounded. So it doesn't have to be related to combat. You don't have to have a purple heart. You don't have to have a valor award. It's some sort of moral, mental, or physical injury, kind of just like what I just said.

We bring guys out to Montana. We have a five-day long systematic approach to healing. We do all sorts of different holistic methods to healing. So we introduce them to yoga, mindfulness, meditation, breath work, art therapy, music therapy. We get them outdoors. We immerse them into nature. We basically get them to get their mind off of fucking everything else that's going on in life. But then we do the hard work, which is the education piece. So we teach them about traumatic brain injury, PTSD, this other term called operator syndrome, which is basically like hypervigilance, anxiety, depression, anger, all of this shit crammed into one thing that creates

like a dysfunctional, well, dysfunctional type of operator. Um, that is like most people either think that they are suffering from PTSD or TBI and now they've basically joined those two. And it's just like, it might be this. Um, So we teach about all of that stuff and basically what happens to the brain when trauma strikes and ways to mitigate those. Basically got on this path because talk therapy, going to the psychologist, like sitting in a fucking four wall white room with one person that just like never understood would always fucking every time I came back it's like so tell me about yourself it's like dude i just fucking told you my story a hundred times when are we gonna move

on from this and their candy's always shit that's the worst part about it like it's always they always got bullshit candy like at least have the real shit yeah i'm a big i'm a dance i'm a i'm not an advocate for that sort of therapy. Right. I feel like, and I've experienced plenty of it, believe it or not. Yeah. Some of you motherfuckers think I still need it. I probably do. But the reality is, I feel like most of the therapy out there has become less about solving people's problems and more about maintaining a customer base.

And that's what I noticed, you know? Um, so I think it's cool that you're doing it this alternative way. Yeah. Thank you. It's been cool, man. Uh, we've ran three programs so far. We've helped, um, 17 special operators. We've got our, uh, fourth one coming up. So it's, it's been amazing, man. The outcomes that we've had, like the success stories that we've had. And it's like, we don't prescribe, we don't treat, we don't like, we're not fixing, we're educating and we're kind of guiding them through and showing them the tools, giving them the resources. And like, man you'd be surprised like dudes that come there and they're like super down sad like everything life is out to get me and then they come back and they they reach out and they're like dude like i've never been fucking happier like

now they do art therapy or just do art they found other ways to deal with this exactly and it's like dude like the only coping mechanism that we really understand how to do is fucking drink and fight and yeah just like take this prescription medication yeah like well that's bullshit yeah yeah so it's been amazing man um we've been a non-profit now for two and a half years um and we just hired our first employee. So it's been pretty fucking cool. Uh, yeah, man, we're growing. We're, we're, I'm loving it. And it's like, kind of like what you said, like I needed to find my, my purpose after what I thought, like losing my identity, losing my purpose. And it's just like, when this shit happened it's like dude I I have found something that really drives me and it's like I don't have to get paid to do what I love and I don't get paid so it's amazing that I can

really share my story and let these dudes have this safe space become vulnerable and really fucking heal and like actually work on themselves from the inside rather than like just telling dudes like i used to be like all right dude like i'm sorry that happened to you but like try again next time do better fucking suck it up work harder like sometimes it's not the fix sometimes it's not that easy so it's been it's been amazing um really looking forward to seeing how it continues to grow because we have a pretty big vision. What's the big vision? So eventually, we want to acquire our own land, our own facility out there in Montana. We want to be able to run at least one program a month.

Right now, we're about three programs a year so um funding personnel logistics all that stuff kind of comes into play um but what we wanted to really do was like dial in a quality program rather than like bump out like a bunch of like quantity and like let's help a bunch of dudes right off the bat it's like i want want to help guys, but I want to make sure it's a quality program. Yeah, you want to make sure you actually help them. Yes. Because if you don't and they come to the program and it doesn't help them, they think they're unhelpful.

Exactly. Right. They will start blaming themselves. It makes it worse. Yeah. So we want to be able to do all this shit in-house. We want this facility. We want to be able to have staff on hand do one program every month and then eventually have some sort of like longer term treatment if

you will um of like a four to six week program so then guys that need extra help or maybe who are suffering from some sort of substance abuse or just want to fucking really immerse and like heal um we'll have that availability we'll have like all sorts of like cold plunge hot tubs yeah um uh float tanks like all sorts of different things so then it's just like the tools yeah exactly because you know you never know what's going to help you never know what's going to stick and it's really hard for like a special operator who's got this fucking ego to walk into some yoga studio or to some like meditation room. And it's just like, all right, like I'm fucking here. I'm like, I'll juice up right now.

Who's going to fuck with me right now? Who's going to laugh at me and I'm going to fight for this? So it's like we want to give them and have that fucking sanctuary. It's like, you can still be this humble warrior who's still ready to fucking turn it on, but who also understands how to sit down, calm down and like, really like get deep and get within. So, um, yeah, we've got, we've got some big plans. I mean, it might take a while, but we'll get there. I love this dude.

Yeah. I love this. Like, I'm so glad you came on the show, dude. Yeah. I'm so glad you're dude. You're a fucking real fucking man. Like that's real man shit. Like what you've done and what you're doing and how you've overcome and what you're doing

now to help people deal with that issues, you know, the issues that you've experienced. I mean, bro, that's, that's what it's about, bro. It's fucking good work, man. I appreciate that. Yeah. How can people get involved with this program? So we've got a website, uh, www.talensreachfoundation.org. Uh, we've got social media, Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn, but on there we've got like volunteer applications. Um, my email is just Nick at TalonsReachFoundation.org. How do you spell the website? Talons. So T-A-L-O-N-S Reach. R-E-A-C-H. And then foundation. You named that after your buddy. Yeah. Yeah. That's cool, man. Yeah. And so there's like several metaphors i guess because we call

all of our participants eagles that come through um and it's just like you know there's no better reach than like the eagle itself like we have such a fucking powerful grip and like if you ever looked up an eagle and their grip strength it's it's pretty fucking intense but it's like if you think about it like i'm senior or junior man in the team it's like i have the power i have the reach to either like fucking reach out and help somebody or reach down and pick somebody up and it's just like i don't know i come up with all of these different things to talk about it but it's like i mean that means you're a natural born brander, bro. It's good stuff. Yeah.

Yeah, I'm trying, I guess. Yeah, you're doing great. But yeah, it's just, you know, I even called Talon's dad and I told him about it and I was like, look, this is what I have. I have this idea. I was like, there's by no means do I want to benefit off of your son or use your son's name in these certain ways.

But like, this is what makes sense to me. This is what we're trying to do. And I think that this is how we can help the most people. And this is what I want to name it. I want to name it Talon's Reach. And he was like, fuck, bawling. And so he's come to almost every like fundraiser that we've had and stuff. He actually lives in Fulton, Missouri.

Oh, no shit. Right down the road. Yeah. So yeah, his name's tab. He's, he's an awesome, awesome human. That's awesome. But, uh, yeah, man, it's, it's cool. I don't remember what I was just talking about. I kind of got off on a rant. I think we were just getting, you know, getting the full story, dude. I mean, look, man, that's an incredible story. I mean, you guys who listen to the show know that I don't often get quiet like that. Like, uh, and I've never heard this story from you. You know, I knew that there, I knew,

you know, you sent me that video that one time I watched that and we talked a little bit about it, but I mean, that's an incredible story, bro. I love that. How like in such a short amount of time, I think that's what people tend to, uh, underestimate is like knowing such a short amount of time, how much progress you can actually make, you know? And it's not like this was a 10, 10 year. I mean,

dude, this is recent. Yeah. You know, I applaud you, bro. Cause I think that's just fucking awesome. I think it's awesome.

I also think it serves as a real example of like what real trauma and what these things like these terms are thrown around so often, You know, Oh, my boss was mean to me i'm traumatized go to my safe space holy man no like listen to what's going on here you know what i mean this is it's powerful bro i i really really really commend you for doing what you're doing and i think it's awesome thanks man and uh i'm i'm super thankful that you were willing to come on the show and share that story.

I think it's going to help a lot of people. And I hope you guys will support my man here and what he's trying to do. I can vouch for this dude a thousand percent. I've known him for a long time. He's a great fucking human being. And I'm really fucking proud to be your friend, bro. Thank you, man. I'm super grateful for you. I really appreciate you having me here. friend, bro. Thank you, Andy. I'm super grateful for you.

I really appreciate you having me here. Yeah, bro. Anytime, for real. So you ready to talk some shit on the government? Let's do it. That's a great transition. All right. Fucking transition, man.

Hey, guys, it is CTI, man. So let's get into this. Remember, if you want to see any of these articles pictures links videos Go to any for seller comp you can find them there If you watch on YouTube jump down in the description below you can find them link there as well So with that being said man, let's let's Let's get right into it. Yeah, I'm on number one So this is an updated story it's been talking the town everybody's been on it hello number one reads

escaped murderer Danilo So this is an updated story. It's been a talk of the town. Everybody's been on it. Headline number one reads, escaped murderer Danilo Cavalcante survived only on watermelon for two weeks, hid poop under leaves, and reveals just how close cops came to catching him. Have you guys been seeing this? So it's been a big, big talk, right? It's been a big deal. Is this the one where they took the picture with the guy?

Yes. Okay, Okay. Yeah. So captured criminal Danilo Cavalcante told cops he survived for nearly two weeks on stolen watermelon and that officers scouring heavy Pennsylvania underbrush for him had gotten so close they nearly stepped on him three times. The 34-year-old convicted killer was, quote, brutally honest after he was apprehended Wednesday morning, sharing how he even buried his poop to avoid getting tracked. U.S. Marshal Robert Clark told News Nation, quote, he did say on three occasions law enforcement

officers did almost step on him. They were about seven to eight yards away from him. Clark said Cabo Conte, who escaped from Chester County Prison on August 31st, had just been sentenced to life for stabbing his ex-girlfriend to death in front of their two young children in 2021. Prosecutors are expected to levy additional charges for crimes he committed during his 14 days on the run. It continues saying after crab walking up and over a pair of close set walls and escaping jail, Cavalcante told police he was able to survive for days eating watermelon he'd stolen from nearby farm. The escapee drank water from a stream hid within dense a dense brush, and only moved at night. To cover his track, he hid his feces under piles of leaves.

Now, this is what he looks like when they captured him. He definitely had a nice run around Pennsylvania over those 14 days. He did all this on foot? On foot. Damn. Yeah, he was moving. Moving. Do we know, like, does this guy have training or something?

I don't know, man. I don't know. And, I mean, you know, Pennsylvania brush is pretty deep. I mean, it can get pretty rough out there. You know, so, I mean, I don't know if those, I don't know if that's like branches that did that to him. I'm sure it was the branches. It had to be branches. It definitely wasn't the amazing officers of Pennsylvania.

Definitely the branches. But, dude, so there's been a lot of heat. So the picture that Andy was referring to, this picture here, that was posted when they finally caught this guy has been circulating and going around. But he's getting a lot of heat. Like all these officers, they're getting a lot of heat on it. Why? People are furious, Andy. People are furious

that Pennsylvania police took a photo with the captured convict Danilo Cavalcante. Two people posted on X formerly known as Twitter. Pause. Why do they keep having to say that? Because it's not sticking. Is that having to remind people? What do you do when you post on X?

What do you mean? Well. Like I post. Listen. This is branding. We talked about branding a minute ago. This is branding 101. Okay.

You have Twitter and you make a tweet. Mm-hmm. All right. A tweet is a verb. Right. All right. It's an action. Now you have X.

They didn't think this through. I told you this when they did it you have x now what do you do on x you make an x execute execute execute all right i told you nick is natural born branding genius they need to sign me that's right god damn it that's actually pretty fucking good they gotta come up with something That's the best one I've heard That's the best one I've heard

Yeah That's pretty good But yeah so A couple people went to To X Saying this one person says A couple people executed Yeah a couple people executed

On Twitter Oh shit They're gonna get shut down Two people executed These motherfuckers Are definitely turning us to yellow for no reason again bro uh but some people saying that basically uh this person said uh cannot believe i have to explain why this is inappropriate referring to the cops behavior following the inmates capture another poster they call them like see it just doesn't make sense another xer uh said taking a photo

with the escapee was wild while another called it truly embarrassing now what's embarrassing about that i don't yeah i don't get it i mean like here here's the thing i think there's a common theme that we keep trying to make these criminals be these like you know oh they were on honor roll in second grade and they you know they helped tie somebody's shoes when they were eight years old. I was like, fuck that. This dude is a convicted murderer, right? Bro, if they would have held him upside down and took his lunch money,

I would have been okay with it. Why do we keep giving so much sympathy? I would have been okay with it. They shot him in the fucking head. You're a murderer. Yeah. Dude, that's what I'm saying. Dude, we're talking about yeah this this attitude around sympathy for violent criminals it's got to stop dude it has to

stop people don't understand because they have good hearts and they have good minds and they wouldn't do bad stuff they assume that anybody who does bad stuff is some sort it was like an accident or was a mistake or it was something bro there are evil people out here that will just fucking straight up kill you and you guys like make excuses for them all day long and then until it hits you right like that uh congresswoman in minnesota or where i think was minnesota wasn't it where she she was talking about you know sympathy for criminals and then she gets carjacked in her own driveway you know i don't get it i don't understand i don't understand these people are criminals

like these are not good people these are not people that have things like empathy and care and like do the right thing ingrained like How hard is this to understand that there are people like this that exist? That exist. Why are we advocating for people that are disrupting society and causing harm and sympathizing for them and making excuses for them? Why are we doing this? It's absurd shit. I don't get it.

I don't get it. Here's one more interesting take on this thing. I saw this, and I had to go verify for myself. Okay. But if you go to Pennsylvania Department of Corrections. Okay. They have this inmate or parolee locator. Right.

Search this guy up. And I did. I pulled him up because I've been seeing this thing. And, you know, I've been seeing there's been this increasing trend of how they label the ethnicity of people. Okay. So, you know, this is this is Danilo, right? That's him. Okay.

Danilo Cavalcante. Okay. Yeah. Let's see what they labeled him in for the m8 details race ethnicity white hmm nothing weird there now again guys check for yourself take the m8 number go to that website we'll link it down below um but i think that there's a very sinister thing and the only reason i bring this up because i feel it's important to call this stuff out uh for what it is is as bs and you know it's it's messed up what they're trying to do but they're trying to paint the picture you know

danilo salsa calvacante hispanic male the label is white to increase the white crime statistics on white crime that's right to justify taking guns and to increase the white crime statistics on white crime. That's right. To justify taking guns. And to justify the narrative of white supremacy. Being the biggest threat. And domestic terrorism. And also, let's just stop and be real honest about this. What if this exact guy, because let's be real, bro.

Like, on the spectrum, like, Hispanic's kind of in the middle of black and white. All right? Let's be real like um what if they took this guy what if they were taking all of these latin american or foreign non-white criminals and they were labeling them black what if they were doing that what would the narrative be then all right there's a racial double standard in this country that people refuse to acknowledge. Even the statement of people of color is exclusive of white people only.

It's made to say everybody but white people. And that's a big problem. And there is a problem in a very open anti-white bias. And there has been for a long time. This isn't new. This didn't just happen in 2020. This has been going on my entire life. White people have never been able to say the things that other races can say.

We can't say, hey, I'm proud to be white. I'm not proud to be white because I don't give a fuck about being white. And you know why I don't give a fuck about being white? Because I've never been allowed to give a fuck about being white. So when we think about what's actually going on and we think about the racism that's actually happening, let's have an objective look at what they're actually doing. They're creating crime data that doesn't exist to push a narrative that isn't true to get people to exclude this one particular race. And if you were to say people of color and it included white people, but not Latin American people or not Mexican people,

we would call that racism. If we said people of color and we just said, well, the color black isn't a color. The color black is the one that we're not talking about. That would be called racism. But because it's white people, no one calls it racism. And no one wants to stand up and say what the fuck it is. I'm not advocating for, like, I actually believe that nobody should really put their identity in their race at all. I never did. I know you didn't.

Even in high school and shit, like, I just put human. Like put human like legit like it's on all my tests all of that dude if race is your identity you're not a very sophisticated human being you're a low iq person like if that you were born that way you know i'm saying like there's nothing you didn't do anything yeah it's not like you worked really hard it's like you know yeah yeah you know there's nothing to brag about about someone's race and it's very easy for me to see that because I've never been able to brag about my race. But if you say that to a lot of black people or you say that to a lot of Hispanic people, it doesn't make sense to them because they've never dealt with that. And that's a real thing about race that's going on.

If we want to remove racism, we have to remove all the racism. And we have to get rid of all of it. Like, this is a very nefarious example of what they do to push these racial division agendas that are not good for anybody. Like, dude, this isn't good. We're supposed to judge each other on the content of our character. We're supposed to say, hey, I don't care if you're black or you're white or you're brown or you're yellow or,'re yellow or anything else. We're supposed to say, what kind of person are you? Are you a good person or are you not a good person? Do you contribute or do you hold a high moral standard? Do you try hard? Do you treat people right? Do you lift people up when they're down or are you a piece of shit? That's the America that I want to live in. That a piece of shit like that's that's the america that i want

to live in that's the america that i know that's the america i grew up in up until you know the last 10 years or so where it started to get weird but you know yeah i just i just thought it was it was stupid but like i said i mean like it doesn't you don't it doesn't do it justice by seeing and not saying something. So say something, you see something, say something, I call it out, you know? Yeah, brother. Like, look, dude, if we're ever going to solve this problem of division in this country, we have to be honest about where, what it actually is and where it comes from.

You know, it's not, it's not white people oppressing everybody, bro. If we actually look at what's going on, white people aren't even allowed to say they're like, bro, if you go to the ADL website, like if you go to the anti-defamation league website where most of the narrative comes from around censorship around what's acceptable socially okay if you go to the adl website a statement of hate is is that it's okay to be white that is marked as a statement of hate how the fuck is that a statement of hate you see what i'm saying like dude and this is why you're seeing all this backlash against the adl on twitter ban the adl is one of the biggest hashtags for the last two weeks you have all the big names coming out talking about it because these people have manipulated social agendas to protect themselves and make everybody

else's life fucking chaos and i'm not talking about the jews i'm talking about the adl and the people that are there running that whoever they are yeah like these are just this we have to stop generalizing people as whole groups yeah like we can't look at one i don't know what this guy is mexican or middle you know i don't know what he is latino descent latino okay we can't look at that and then say all latinos are bad just like we can't look at a black person who does something bad and say all black people are bad or a white person all white people are bad but somehow the adl has everybody convinced that if one Jewish person does something bad,

that that means that you're saying it against all the Jews. And that's not what anybody's saying. That's just their defense mechanism. That's right. Yeah. Very interesting guys. Jump in on this conversation. Let us know what you guys think.

Hashtag bad boys, bad boys. What you're going to do. Let us know what you're going to do. Bro. I'll tell you who I wouldn't want coming for me that motherfucker motherfucking standing over caves yeah okay what you gonna do you know nick would have found that dude oh it wouldn't have taken fucking no all these guys five days i thought it was crazy how

they almost stepped on them like that's that's why i wondered if he had any training it reminds me of sniper school yeah i mean there's plenty of times when those walkers will come by you and they almost step on you i'm like i mean maybe he did have some training yeah i mean to know to bury your poop like that's does normal people know that i wouldn't have thought of that yeah i mean yeah i don't know i mean yeah i don't know man and if you buried it would you bury it with oh you barehanded no doubt man yeah no doubt just that's what he's wiping with yeah yeah well guys let's keep the show on the road it's time to cruise the comments let's check in on our daily comments and see where we are

um andy wouldn't wiping your ass with your hand just kind of smear the shit in like does it actually work isn't there some cultures in the world that they use their hand no i don't i think there is what culture is that i'm not sure but i've heard it before so must be true it's got it what is it yeah you're over shaking your hand yeah i think they're i think that's a i think oh yeah but that's why they uh that's why they don't shake with that hand if you try to shake with that hand. Definitely don't touch your fucking eye. Get yourself some pink eye.

Guys, it's time to cruise comments. Andy, you got something, man. All right. Andy's got mail. That's what we need to name this section. All right. You've got mail. Andy, I got a question for you.

I've seen this a few times, and you got to answer it right now, like right this second. Right this second? Right this second. All right. All right. Comment comes from user YT4BY. Yes. Hi, Andy.

Stupid question, but I have to know because it's driving me crazy. Why is the water you're drinking different than the water you advertise i try to be a douche but uh just seriously curious thank you for being you dude you rock i think they're talking about the peasant water versus the fiji well that's why because that shit's peasant water yeah listen but every now listen bro this is marketing. I don't sell this shit. We take the wrappers and fucking stick these on for the show. You're welcome, by the way, because these guys fucking in here, they do all this hard work to make these things look beautiful just for you. That doesn't change the fact that what's on the inside is shit.

All right? So this is no different than the race example that we were talking about. It all looks good on the outside, but we don't know what's on the inside. I happen to know because I drink this. And some days, I got to be reminded that there were days where I couldn't get that Fiji water, like today. So I'm reminding myself today what it's like. You know what I'm saying? Yeah.

Are you like a filter, purified spring water guy? Man, I am. I'm a water snob now. I drink some reverse osmosis at the house. Oh, shit, you're in it. This definitely tastes like peasant water to me. Yeah, you got to get off. I wasn't going to say anything.

I'm glad you said it, though. Nah, it's the truth. We get this shit from Costco. We peel the labels off. We put these labels on. Like, this is nothing more than to look cool for the show, bro. Just keeping it real. That's it.

Yeah. Hey, bro, we got to get all the atrazine out of the water with that stuff you don't want to talk about yeah that's can't afford to be growing a vagina right here you know what i'm saying i'll check every day make sure i'm still good yeah but dude real talk like honestly like jokes aside all right you might have a little bit of one i know the day you discover you ain't coming in look dude real talk here's why i do it jokes aside i really can't tell that big of a difference all right but the truth is is that i know how many of those fiji waters i drink so it helps

me track my water yeah that's why i do it yeah that's fair that's the real do it. Yeah, that's fair. That's the real answer. It's two of those. I forget what it is. I know if I fucking drink a full Fiji during the show, I'm doing good on my water intake. You know what I'm saying? It doesn't make sense. You could just calculate the bottles here, whatever. The shit's cold up there. It's not cold here.

It is what it is. There's no there's look hit me with some harder questions all right talk some shit like i i want to roast some of you fuckers all right like oh we're gonna get it now all right that's okay we all we talk shit and good fun i know i know our people are good people. But, yeah, that's the real answer. I love it. I love it. Guys, remember, we just want to say thank you to all of you guys for being real-ass fans.

Yeah, I want to say that, too. I want to say thank you. I don't say it enough. You know, we put out these shows. We got a good team here. We do a lot of work to put these out. And I realize that you guys have the ability to consume anything that's out there. And it means a lot to me that you guys come on and listen to us

talk about real shit that's going on because it fucking matters. And there's a lot of people out there that would rather watch shorts of people eating boogers and fucking unboxing presents or just mindless bullshit. And the fact that our audience actually gives a fuck enough to consume our show multiple times a week at scale it means a lot dude and it tells me a lot about who's out there listening like i it makes me proud that you guys give a fuck yeah it's real shit man well thank you guys

yeah uh so let's get right back into it headline number two and number two reads north korea's kim john un to to stay in Russia for several days. He's like, it's nice here. Bro, they're having a good time over there. Yeah, they are. Look at all that vodka. So North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-un, has unexpectedly extended his visit to Russia where he was meeting President Vladimir Putin for a suspected arms deal.

The pair had discussed possibilities for military cooperation on Wednesday. Mr. Putin also, quote, gratefully accepted an invitation for Mr. Kim to visit North Korea, a Kremlin spokesperson said. So a little exchange there. That's cool. Moscow is buying weapons for its war on Ukraine, and any help would violate U.N. resolutions the U.S. has warned.

Mr. Kim was warmly received by Mr. Putin at the Vyshkoshti Space Center on Wednesday in Russia's Far East. The North Korean leader spent two days traveling there in his private luxury bulletproof train. Now, have you guys seen pictures of this train? Does he not fly? Or is he afraid they're going to shoot him down? He has a jet.

I mean, he has a big, like, Boeing business class jet. You know, I don't think I would be able to do a train, bro. Or at least this one. So, it only can go 31 miles an hour because of how heavy it is. So, that's a pretty slow, like, trek, man. That's, like, I don't think i could do it taking in all the views yeah i think it was like 800 miles or something from from north korea to to my wonder what the purpose of that is what the of taking the jet i mean yeah like is that

a security thing yeah i mean maybe i i don't know i don't know that I don't know. That would suck. Yeah. I mean, that's a long, bumpy, slow ride. You know? Yeah. I don't get it. But the talk of the town between these two meeting, outside of all the political things that I thought was hilarious, is that, you know, Kim Jong-un, he's a car guy. Oh, he is.

He is a car guy. And so is Putin. Really? And so is Putin. Really? And so they're going back and forth talking about their presidential limousines. That's what the talk of the whole town was. And so this headline reads, bizarre moment. Kim Jong-un test out Putin's armored limo and sits inside it. Unlike when he visited Trump and was only allowed to peek inside the beast limousine.

So this is the bizarre moment. We got the videos. Vladimir Putin invites Kim Jong-un to sit with him in his armored limousine, one-upping Donald Trump, who only allowed the North Korean to peek inside his Beast limo in 2018. Putin and Kim met yesterday at the North Korea-Russia summit to inspect the space launch facilities of the Mitrashchi Cosmodrome in the Russian Far East. You know what that shit was about though, right?

What's that? Dude, Trump had some unfinished McDonald's in there, bro. He didn't want Kim Jong-un touching his chicken nuggets. He probably left one right before. Nah, bro. He outboxed his own ride. Don't go too close. Nah, bro.

He had 19 chicken nuggets. He didn't want Kim Jong-un touching them. That's a fucking fact. So here's a video from 2018. This is Donald Trump and North Korea leader Kim Jong-un. Here's the video. Damn, that thing's huge. Massive. Massive. so we didn't let him in shit dude i didn't realize that thing was that big it's massive because trump's a big dude bro big dude man yeah

that is huge that's like a that's like a suv limo that looks like a car yeah well here's putin's so putin has uh aris sanat um and i think that's actually made by Rolls Royce I think it looks like a Rolls who has like a drivetrain and all that stuff so here's a video of those two I don't know where the audio is we'll get it plugged in though not very nice in here

I'll voice it over for you guys yeah so that's been the talk of the town. But here's the thing. There's been a new development in Ukraine. I thought we'd watch. I know I got the sound on this one for sure. But Ukraine's transgender spokesperson issued stark warning to Russian propagandists.

Quote, all will be hunted down and justice will be served. So let's watch this video. Have you seen this no like have you seen him at all no okay oh you've never seen the the transgender spokesperson from ukraine oh okay here's the clip shut the fuck up dude bro russia hates the truth that their obsessive focus on a ukrainian volunteer is simply allowing the light of the Ukrainian nation's honesty to shine brightly. Next week, the teeth of the Russian devils will gnash ever harder, and their rabid mouths will foam in uncontrollable frenzy as the world will see a favorite Kremlin propagandist pay for their crimes. And this puppet of Putin is only the first.

Russia's war criminal propagandists will all be hunted down and justice will be served as we in Ukraine are led on this mission by faith in God, liberty, and complete liberation. You're better looking you're much better looking i can't believe this is real life dude dude this is not real life this is fucking that's real this is satire no that's real we'll gnash the teeth dude what the fuck look at that adam's apple dude look at bro what are we what is going on we somehow crossed into an alternate reality dude yeah that's who they got man that that's the so so apparently what they have a they have somebody captured already a

russian propagandist that they're going to execute is that what she's saying that's what they're planning on they haven't captured him just yet they're working on it though okay that's what they're saying yeah just like they're winning the war huh just like that yeah yeah i don't know but i mean back to these beasts i just thought that was interesting but um yeah they basically got an episode of pimp my ride going all over in Russia. Bro, when we're in the White House, what kind of limo are we going to have? Ooh, that's a tough one. Yeah. I mean, I think we should go to Rolls, bro.

It has to be Rolls. Like, I mean, we need this. It has to be, no, it has to be Rolls Royce. It's not allowed. Dude, listen. Like get a Phantom, but like stretch it out. Anything less for me would be a fucking downgrade. If I'm going to go do that job and you take all this shit for everybody,

I want to drive what the fuck I want to drive. That's real talk. You've been into any, any cool cars or anything? What's the coolest thing? Trucks. You got to drive anything. Um,

bunch of different armored vehicles. You drive a tank. I got to ride in a tank. Didn't get to drive it. Uh, yeah, that would be cool. No, I'm trying to think, man, Different armored vehicles. Did you drive a tank? I got to ride in a tank. Didn't get to drive it. That'd be cool. Yeah, that would be cool. Now I'm trying to think, man.

My memory doesn't serve me too well every now and then. Well, it's Rolls. It ain't Cadillac. No offense, Cadillac. Cadillac makes nice stuff, but, man, Rolls is Rolls. They do make nice stuff, bro. Sal's got one of the new Escalade Vs. Yeah. That fucking nice pretty pimp sounds badass too yeah anyway how much yeah makes sense why kim's got the bulletproof train that he had to take up there why is that because he's a car guy so he's like showing off his train going up there yeah yeah that doesn't make sense

yeah i'm bringing my train yeah right let me see your train yeah that's right a train he probably travels a whole bunch of people though too i bet he travels a whole bunch of soldiers and all that shit yeah anyway he's a weird dude dude he just does the things very weird man it's like but you don't expect anything less. Well, dude, he lives in a fucking bubble. Those people aren't allowed to know what's going on anywhere else in the world, bro. Like, I don't know. What do you think he makes of this transgender fucking Ukrainian spokesperson?

Like, dude, can we not be real here? Can we not be real about how embarrassing that has to be for the people of Ukraine? He's an American. I know that. He's American. Yes. What? Yes. This is an American transgender person that somehow got put into the role of spokesperson for something, the Territorial Defense Forces of Ukraine.

Like, what? What rank is that? What is going on? Yeah. Anyway. All right, what else we got? Guys, jump in our comments. Hashtag, pimp my ride.

Let me know what you guys think. Let's get into our final headline. Headline number three. And this is juicy here. Headline number three. And this is juicy here. Headline number three reads Hunter Biden sues ex-Trump staffer tied to laptops dissemination. Now this is very, very interesting.

So do you guys remember? I think it was when we had Eric Schmidt on and we have brought up the um we have brought up basically that uh screenshot i'm pulling it up here now that screenshot and it has like essentially this tit for tat timeline right you're talking about where they had the Hunter Biden. There we go. June 7th, FBI releases documents to Congress alleging Biden took $10 million bribe from Burisma. June 8th, the very next day, Trump, Jack Smith indicts Trump in Mar-a-Lago docs case, July 26th, Hunter Biden, uh, goes to court and rejects a sweetheart plea deal. After it was revealed that DOJ tried to give him blanket immunity for future prosecutions. The very next day, Jack Smith hits Trump again with

some more charges. July 31st, Hunter Biden's former business partner testifies to Congress that Joe Biden was on over 20 calls with his son's business partners that Burisma execs pressured them to fire the prosecutor. You also have Joe Biden on TV bragging about that. And then the very next day, you have Jack Smith indicting Trump again for January 6th. Yeah, so it's like tit for tat thing, right? you have Jack Smith indicting Trump again for January 6th. Yeah. So it's like tit for tat thing. Right now, this came out, um, the lawsuit was initiated on Wednesday,

but what happened Tuesday? Oh, they announced the impeachment inquiry for Joe Biden. And then now he's coming out and again, trying to hit on somebody who's, uh, on one of Trump's team. Um, but that's not just it. Right. So there's a lot of stuff going on. Matt Gaetz, you know,

he throws, you know, the Speaker of the House throws him under the bus saying like, hey, either do this or you're out. You got all these articles being written questioning whether Joe Biden is fit to run. And this is all liberal left media that's throwing him under the bus, right? And then it comes out. We got some breaking news. You got to do your thing. Oh, it is? Are we doing it again?

I mean, I think it's fair. Fuck, I forgot how it goes. It's been so long. You got breaking news. news breaking news headline reads hunter biden indicted on federal gun charges so this just comes out this just came out this is hot off the press uh while we're recording um hunter biden just got indicted on those uh three felony uh gun charges so he gets indicted on federal gun charges, but not for taking millions of dollars for policy

decisions that are affecting the well-being of our country. Is this going to be what they use to just hopefully sweep all of this out of the rug? Hope everybody forget about it. Don't pay attention to all the millions of dollars of bribes over here. We got them on the gun charges and he's facing like

25 years or something like that. What's the's the angle here i don't know it feels like you know the heat's been turned up so high on hunter biden joe biden that they just want to hook him into something so that people will be like all right we got him and then forget about the real shit that's going on that's how that's what it feels like you know you know these people these judges and you know people think it's Democrat Republican. These people are all playing together, man. So what they're doing is they're having a conversation on the backside saying,

Hey, this is hot. We have to do something. We have to relieve some of this pressure. And then they're saying, okay, well, you know,

we can do the gun stuff, right? Yeah. That'll stick. Yeah. And that way we don't have to blow the whistle on all the stuff that all of us actually do. And that doesn't come out in the wash. So we can just stick them with these gun charges.

He's going to have to eat that. But that way we protect our our livelihood. Yeah. You know, I'm not a lawyer. Right. But like I was looking into some of the like I looked into the lawsuit and all of that stuff and like all the hang up with all of this stuff like he's suing um the guy uh who put all of that stuff out on marco polo right he uploaded the entire uh contents of all the of hunter biden's laptop was all uploaded

and obviously censored out some of the stuff right whether it was faces or you know credit card numbers well that's because there were minors there were naked minors on the photos it's people don't really people don't realize what's actually on that laptop it ain't just the gun charger no it ain't just that no and it's not just some crazy pictures of hunter biden smoking crack like there's way more on there and it's that people aren't even talking about it hasn hasn't been covered by the media, right? So it's like they're showing a little bit, but they don't want to show the whole thing. Yeah, well, I mean, here's the thing. The Pandora's box is open at this point.

You know, but, you know, looking all into this stuff and, like, you know, what they're arguing, it's like, you know, people got to remember how he got here. He dropped a laptop off to be serviced at mac uh the mac store right and he left it there he didn't pay for a service it was unpaid and he left it there right the owner contacted him multiple times over the course of 90 days right to hey come get your laptop more importantly pay me for my services and hunter biden never did now he signed a document that was an agreement between the laptop store and hunter biden saying that hey any property left after 90 days unpaid becomes my property so he's like hunter biden is now suing all of these people saying they used his information. Like, no, that's no longer yours.

You've abandoned it. It's gone. Right. Which which is another reason why none of this stuff is really sticking in court. But these gun charges that are coming up, they're saying that the trials and all of this stuff probably won't get going until right in the heat of the election cycle. So that would be very, very interesting to see how that plays out. I think they're going to drop Biden before, before then. It feels that way. You know, it feels like the whole left media is starting to turn on Joe Biden. You know, I've said this on the show many, many

times. We have to understand what Joe Biden's role has been. his role was not to come in and lead the country to a great place and you know unite the country which is what he can campaigned on it's not bidenomics it's not any of this shit here's what his role was his role was to come in do all the terrible shit that needed to be done to destroy this country, open the borders, keep them open, shut down the oil production, shut down fuel independence, allow the crime in the big cities to go crazy, to do all these things, right? Send all of our taxpayers money to Ukraine. Because had we had someone who was competent or had we had someone who appeared to be competent, the things that Joe Biden has done would have been revolted against. And the only grace that he's being given right now is that he's old and senile and potentially just stupid. When in reality, he's not stupid at all.

He's running the play as he's having the play dictated to him to run. Because we all know he's not running shit. This guy's not sitting in the back making decisions. There's nothing going on with this guy. This guy is a scapegoat. He's a pawn to serve a purpose to get as much damage as possible so that there wouldn't be a revolt because people will say, well, he's just stupid. He's just old. He's just senile. You know, we got to get him out of here because he's so, you know, shits his pants or whatever embarrassing stuff this guy has done and if we had a competent person in here doing making these decisions it would be very clear to everybody that the person who was competent making these decisions was actually acting against the interests of our country as a whole so yeah so like this is he's played his role like he's done all the bad shit he's done all made all the decisions that need to be made to to destroy and demoralize and start to destabilize this country from a

communist standpoint which then he's tight well how you know joe biden's a comic well he's taken millions and millions and millions of dollars allegedly from china from our biggest fucking enemy so what are we talking about here? This is, we are occupied. We've been occupied. He's not compromised. He's a fucking traitor. That's real shit. That's real shit.

Nick, I want to get your take on this, man. As a veteran, right, you took an oath to defend this country, right, against all enemies, foreign and domestic. What is your view on from, you know, how long has it been since you've been, uh, since you went in with, you know, 15 years now? Uh, 2010 is when I went in. Okay. So 13 years. Yeah. Um, what, how, what, what was your perception then of the state of the union, why you were going in, what you were fighting for compared to what you see now? Where, what, what's the difference? Where are you you where were you at then where were you at now when i joined man i

wasn't really in for the the politics i wasn't really in for that it was like fighting for the dudes that the people that i loved um so i mean i guess as a guy on the ground sometimes it's more so about the fight it's more about like the dudes to the left and your right and then once you start moving up in the ranks it's like oh wow like politics like the the big guys and in the big house have a lot to say with what we do uh because when you're overseas and you're targeting bad guys you're actually doing the job in different countries you have to have different levels of approval to go do offensive operations and there are several levels of approval that goes straight up to the big dogs at the white house and there are certain instances where

there's like obvious bad shit going on and you're like, I need to go take care of this. And they fucking turn you down. And it's like, we're just letting terrorists walk around on the streets over there as well as here in the States. And it's, it's bleeding over and it shows man. And it's like, I mean, I joined under the Obama administration and then in, 2016 trump was elected and it was actually pretty wild because like our pay increased our equipment got better we actually got like my whole team finally got outfitted with certain gear that we had been missing forever and then 2020 happens and it's like where did the missions go where are we what, what are we doing now? Like what the fuck is happening? Um, and once I got removed from that, it's like, now I still continue to see, like, it's like a downfall in special operations. Like they're still doing work, but it's, it's kind of sad to see like the levels of approval that have to happen to just kill one bad guy that's doing an obviously bad fucking thing.

So I never reached a very high level in the staff positions to get involved into politics, but it was... I mean, you could definitely see it when we're out there trying to fight and it's like, what do you mean I have to get a fucking general level of approval to drop a bomb level of approval to drop a bomb on this guy for doing something bad or i have to let him go right yeah it's like who else is he gonna like how many other levels like it's everything has a second third order effect and it's like i learned about that at a young age. And it's just like, you do one thing that could literally trickle and cause so many

different fucking waves. And it's like, you let one bomb maker go. And now it's like, now you're killing several other Americans or you're fucking like, now this dude is going to train somebody who's going to go into the United States and do something fucking bad there. And it's just like, I don't know, man, like it's just like i don't know man like it's hard um to really understand like what you're fighting for at times because it's like you want to say that it's it's for the dude to the left and you're right and then it's like you're over there fighting

and then you get called to either do something fucking weird or go watch something specific and it's like i don't know um sometimes it's a lot to dissect you yeah yeah i think a lot of guys feel that way bro a lot of guys who have served over the last you know 20 years 23 years say the same thing man even even more you know like a lot of these guys was talking to greg anderson a lot of these guys feel like they served for the actual bad guys and like that would be a that's that's a hard thing i think for a lot of people to deal with you know um i see i hear it all the time though i mean like either openly like greg will post about it openly. That's why I don't mind saying it. But, you know, a lot of guys will say it privately. Yeah.

That's real shit, man. It's just, it's sad to see that, like, I don't feel like this is the same America that, you know, those guys have fought for 20 years ago. Well, I think it's, I think it's, I think an important question for us to actually ask is, did that other America ever actually exist? Was that even real? Well, that's what I'm saying. I think an important question for us to actually ask is, did that other America ever actually exist? Was that even real? Well, that's what I'm saying. Because the only reason that we know what's actually going on now is because of the internet. So how much easier would it have been to hide the actual narratives when the internet didn't exist and just convince everybody here that everything we did was noble and just and right,

when in reality, we don't know if that's the case or not. Yeah, that's real shit, man yeah that's real shit man that's real all right well i mean we'll we'll stay updated i mean like i said this this uh hunter biden indictment just came down we'll see what happens with that um but uh guys jumping on this conversation let us know what you think uh hashtag don't drop the soap that's what we're hoping for so let's uh. So let's, let's, let's keep going,

man. We got our final segment of the show guys. As always, we have our thumbs up. We're dumb as fuck. This is where we bring a headline up. We vote on it. They'll get one of those two options.

So with that being said, our thumbs up or dumb as fuck headline reads Iowa's Cade McNamara loses it over word choice while talking Western Michigan's defense. Not expecting that. This is just the immaturity in me, but I thought this was fucking hilarious. So let's just dive into it. So Iowa Hawkeyes quarterback Cade McNamara learned about phrasing on Tuesday as he conducted his media availability ahead of the team's game against Western Michigan. McNamara has helped guide Iowa to the number 25 spot in the latest Associated Press Top 25.

He was talking about the Broncos' defense and his expectations when he started to laugh. Let's watch this interview. I think, you know, our level of communication up front with me, the backs, and, you know, really everyone just being on the same page because we know these guys are going to come a lot. I mean, there's – that was – but, I mean, we have to be on key with our hots. We got to be on key with our protection.

So – I mean, we have to be on key with our hots. We've got to be on key with our protection. So what he's saying is the Broncos defense is going to bring a big load. Oh, my God. That's fucking funny. Come on, man. Get your mind out of the gutter. No, bro. That's great. That's real, dude. That's fucking funny, dude. Come on, man. Get your mind out the gutter. No, bro. That's great. That's real, dude.

That's funny as shit. That makes you instantly root for this, dude. Yeah. It's like I'm wearing my hats and have protection. Oh, my God, dude. That's fucking good. I thought that was great. Yeah.

I thought it was just so innocent. Instant fan. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Instant fan. That's funny, dude. I'm with it. He just seemed like he ate a gummy and then went to that interview and was just so innocent. Instant fan. That's what I'm saying. Instant fan. That's funny, dude. I'm with it. He just seemed like he ate a gummy and then went to that interview and was just... Oh, man.

Bro, you could see it on his face as he was saying it, dude. There was like a delayed reaction. He knew exactly what happened. That's fucking funny, dude. So what are we giving it? That's thumbs up, bro. Thumbs up. You happy with that? That's good stuff. Well,'s fucking funny, dude. What are we giving it? That's thumbs up, bro. Thumbs up. You happy with that? That's good stuff. Well, guys, Nick, man,

that's all I got. Yeah, guys. Nick, thank you so much for coming on the show, bro. Thank you for everything you're doing. Hit everybody with the website one more time before we jump off where they can get involved with what you're doing. Yeah, it's TalonsReachFoundation.org cool guys make sure you uh give this man some love and support he's on instagram what's your instagram handle

it is nick jones it is nick jones it is nick jones super like it is like it is like spelled out got it okay yeah i was just i wasifying. No, that's a good question. Sorry, it is Nick Jones or it is Nick Jones? It is Nick Jones. There we go. That's what I was missing. All right. All right, guys.

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