Unsubscribe Podcast - 131 - Stolen Valor, Purple Hearts & IEDs ft. Brandon Herrera, Crispy & Jack

Episode Date: November 12, 2023

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Welcome to unsubscribe. Don't be an alcoholic because of the war. Be an alcoholic because of your genetics. Welcome to the watch list, or a different one, I guess. Welcome to the community. General Alabaster. You know this podcast is going to end your political career. There's got to be another war you guys can die in or something.

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Wait, three, two, one. Crispy's fingers don't work so good. Yeah, we got to give him a little heads up on that one. Got to use the mouth. My fingers don't work so good, Mr. Stark. It is the Veterans Day episode, so naturally we bought our beautiful burnt boy, Crispy. Our beautiful, not burnt boy. Fat boy.

Fat boy. Jack Mandeville. And a non-veteran. And our honorary veteran buddy, Brandon Herrera. Let me just get this taken care of. Excuse me. Hold on. Jack, thank you for your service.

Thank you. You're welcome, sir. Thank you for your service. You're welcome for my service. Thank you. Thank you. Brandon. Sit down.

Oh, God, no. Wait, what are we doing? Hey, will you take me to fucking Chile? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Oh, shit. You're an honorary Purple Heart member today. I can't do that. You are fucking Chile? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. You're an honorary Purple Heart member today. I can't do that. You are an honorary Purple Heart member.

No, no. No, stop. Dude. Stop. No. Let me tell you something. I was wondering what he was doing. I was like, he's got a Purple Heart.

Holy shit. I do lie. It's racially ambiguous. Ah, oh my God. I'm not going to cry. I am not going to cry. I'm not crying. This time, i'm not gonna cry i am not gonna cry i'm not crying this time i'm not crying guys gals community as a whole from youtube to reddit to instagram to twitter thank you i'm at a loss for words just the amount of support i i just gotta say thank you thank you for the love thank you for the support thank you for the kindness we're putting for the support. Thank you for the kindness. We're putting them back in.

Truly, thank you for everything, for everything. You all are amazing humans. And this episode is a Veterans Day episode. I wanted to do something special for not only the community, but also all the vets out there, the soldiers, the military. This is an amazing episode. I am, ah, the stories you are about to hear, you're going to laugh, you're going to smile. You might cry. I don't think so. We'll figure it out.

Guys, gals, thank you for everything. You all are amazing humans. Also make sure you like, subscribe, hit that bell notification and on Apple, Spotify, all those things, go leave a review you guys already support us so much y'all are amazing thank you double salute i knew immediately if you put that on the accusations you can go to warfighter scuba because it's we require recipients only oh god i'm telling you it's yours we just always we'll hang it we'll hand it off

for parking spaces i got two you can have one god oh yeah i was actually gonna ask about that i was like man i only have one crispy got crispy's got two that's i just look at my new souvenir from this episode i was like i was like searching my house. I was like, where the fuck did I put that thing? A beautiful. You're checking under couch cushions. I'm like, huh? Sav was like.

Did you have it in the box? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, okay. I said, the only reason I know where mine are is because my wife. Sav. Sav put it in the sink. She's like, she's like, I'm going to put your proparts in next to all your books.

I was like, okay, cool. Welcome everyone. It is Veterans Day. So we were like, hey, let's get an episode together with some dope-ass veterans that we know. And just have a good old time today. Saturday is the Armistice Day. Armistice Day? Armistice.

What is that? Armistice. It's Armistice Day? Armistice Day. Started in 1918 and then the year after it was actually I never knew

Amnesty Day I thought he was making that shit up Armistice Day and then I guess happy related Marine Corps birthday yeah that's on Friday oh shit

I didn't know Veterans Day literally came Marine Corps' birthday. Yeah? Yeah, because that's on Friday. Oh, shit. Man, all the holidays are back to back. I didn't know Veterans Day literally came, like, as you said, 11th hour, 11th day, 11th month, World War I ended. They cited the armistice. Got the word right. And then the next year is when President Woodrow Wilson was like, hey, we have to recognize this,

but it didn't go into effect until weeks, something weeks. We're the only country that pretty much does Veterans Day, but the rest of the world celebrates Armistice Day. Armistice Day. It's supposed to celebrate the peace. Yeah, the peace. Which they could maintain in Europe for more than 20 years before they were back. Thankfully, we signed a very fair treaty with Germany that would have no repercussions 17 years later. At all.

Period. Well, it's crazy, because it was until 1947, the weeks, the Raymond weeks. He was the father of Veterans Day, so he's the one that made it into an actual national holiday, and Congress passed it in 1934. Damn, Skippy, you got to someone was googling shit last night up in here up in here not about that stuff cameras and stuff really good

history i can just like digest okay remember good and it will be deleted by tomorrow if there's a new camera coming out i get a fucking text from me like oh yeah i have f3, bro. I'm good. Bro, I'm not going to lie. You lost me three sentences in. I was keeping up until then. Now you're in the weeds. Now I have no idea. Welcome, boys. Thank you guys for

coming out, having a good old time. Dude, and then Brandon, again, thank you for your service. Truly appreciate it. No, no, no, no, no. Did you guys not know he served? Thank you for your service. Thank you, guys. Truly appreciate it. No, no, no, no, no. No, no, no, no, no. Did you guys not know he served? He did. No.

I joke around. I'm like, I never did anything in the military, but I served a 25-year tour in Fort Bragg. I will say this. Doing Stolen Valor is really fun. Hear me out. Jack Mandeville, 23. That's a shirt. Doing Stolen Valor is fun. I've been doing it for doing camo yeah i've been doing it for four years now and it's like the best if you need any tips

or anything like that just let me run down real quick i was doing a uso show uh some years back and uh you know you chatted up with the troops afterwards and one of them gave me this cool red hat uh from his he said it was his unit I'm like oh thanks man I put it in my luggage and didn't think about until we got home and then I put it on I was walking around San Antonio and all these dudes were like hey were you in red horse were you red horse like I don't know what that means it's like it's the unit on your head I'm like cool and then I just they kept people got so excited when they'd see this hat I just started saying yes I was red. I went into Wikipedia.

I can tell you I was out of the 119th Squadron out of Nevada. And I started openly telling people I was doing Stolen Valor. So all these Red Horse guys, they got super excited and started sending me all their Red Horse swag. They were encouraging me to do Stolen Valor. So now I got Red Horse swag. They were encouraging me to do Stolen Valor. So now I got Red Horse shirts. When the actual guys are encouraging you to do it, is it really stolen at that point? I don't know, but the answer is yes.

But the key is you don't go too big. You don't go seals, green berets, all that bullshit, because then people know what questions to start asking you. If you say Red Horse, they're just going to believe you. Yeah. Acquired. Yeah. So I'm really proud of my military service

with the Red Horse. Speaking of Stolen Valor, have you seen that one guy? The Stolen Valor videos are always kind of funny, but there was that one dude who's walking around full uniform, but he's got sneakers on. Like Nikes. They're like, no, no, no. I was issued these. What's your MOS?

My MOS issues these, I think is what he said. It's like, wait a minute. I'm pregnant. You know what's crazy? Out of this issues these. I think that's what he said. Yeah. It's like not a... Wait a minute. I'm pregnant. You know what's crazy? Out of this whole table, Jack's the only one without a purple heart. And he's been shot.

And he's been shot. Wait a minute. Yeah. Did you know that? Yeah, yeah. He told the story the other day. For a while there, I was...

At the peak of the Iraq war, I was probably one of the... I was probably the only Marine in the Marine Corps where the gunshot wound without a Purple Heart. Has he told the story? Last week or two weeks ago? Yeah, we had it. We don't know. Because you have two Purple Hearts.

That's the one I was like, I think you got shot for your first one. I remember when we were at your house years ago and you were over there. And it was late at night and you go, God, I have a headache. And Omar just disappears and comes back and he just, thank you for your service. That sounds like something you fucking do. I had cooked a brisket and he said something. He's like, do you believe Chris and I have the same award? That sounds like an Eli thing.

And someone was like, you got yours playing video games. I was like, oh. How did you get your first one? You got shot. Yeah. Just. Firefight. Just random.

That's the whole. Fucking dig into that story. Yeah, it's very insane. It's the whole story. Fucking dig into that story. No, it's just, yeah, it's very insane. It's very insane. That cook, oh, shit. You were shooting two ARs

at the same time? No, it's crazy. Jesus Christ. Yeah, see, that's why you have to expand. It's a little hard to tell what you're trying to say. Stop throwing gang signs.

I thought you were... Jack's hat brought it out of me. So you were in, was that Iraq? That's as good as your red horse hat. And then you were up just on the 50-cal mounted, just laying waste. Yeah, it was a firefight. I literally didn't even know.

Then I was like, oh, wait, what's that warm feeling? Oh, cool. You guys have the shields on yours? Not at the time. So that was like early oh, wait, what's that warm feeling? Oh, cool. You guys have the shields on? Not at the time. So that was like early on in the war before. Was that 04? No, that was 06. 06, yeah.

But it was. That was that weird transition period. It was because what they ended up doing was after that, like the Iraqis kind of figured it out that they could drop grenades from the top. So then we built the HESCO baskets. And then I guess it was like a, what was it? I don't remember. I think it was a mechanic that, or yeah,

it was a mechanic that noticed that a lot of the turrets was being shot at too. And the rounds were going through and wounding a lot of guys. So then that's when they use the extra bulletproof windows to put there. So it was like, it was an evolution, dude. Like it was crazy.

You've got to watch it too. You were one of the statistics that led to it. We lost a guy. We lost a guy to a grenade that they threw from the top. When you say throwing from the top, where are they trying to aim for? They'll drop when you're going in patrols. You'll have because it's multiple-story buildings a lot of the time.

They used to also create IDs to pull down. They watch you from get it to land on the top of the Humvee. Yeah, they just pretty much like... They watch you from like, I don't know, let's say a 10 fucking story building or something, right? Yeah.

And you're Humvee on the bottom. I mean, most of the time the gunners are scanning, you know, either from nine to freaking three and whatever, every... But you're not really looking up.

I mean... Yeah. So just logistically speaking, are they trying to airburst you? No, they're popping it and dropping it down, hoping it falls in there and hits a body. Catastrophic kill. Because you're like, you want some of the most stressful patrols.

It's a day patrol, and you're nothing but 10-story buildings around you, and you're like, well, today is high on that list of days. I'm like, that's a lot of windows. We had a guy guy they dropped the grenade and it fell right behind him on the turret and he couldn't get it to throw it out and dead and so then after that um it was all trial and shit like i don't even know who came up with the idea but i know we tried it at our post and we were dropping bricks on top of these hesco baskets and then when they were bouncing off we're like cool now we're okay and

then sure enough like we went out and they really didn't know that we were doing that they dropped the grenade and just watched that grenade hit and then bounced off the Humvee and blow up on the side we're like cool we got that taken care of it may be spooky season but you don't want to scare people with your scraggly beard today we are brought to you by Manscaped.com. Who has taken a step from the ball-a-weeners to bring your face the cleanest shave it has ever seen, brother? So this season, there's no toil or trouble. It's just Manscaped.

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Get yourself a handyman from manscaped.com. And then fucking IDs under the thing. Then they put the V-mount system underneath. Do you know who apparently invented those? Huh? Do you know who apparently invented those? Uh-uh. Frank.

Frank from Premier Body Armor. Frank's the one that did the v-map the whole yeah oh that's why yep frank's doing good he's doing real good you know who invented the id the fucking irish man but so when jack was in you you you didn't even have up armored humvees yet right on your first deployment i was on lavs which they were already a thinly armored vehicle but no yeah they were everything i was there vehicle. But no, yeah, they were everything. I was there for the invasion, so everything was extremely basic. This is how fucked up the Marine Corps was in the invasion of Iraq.

That I was the first. Wait, were you with Rudy Reyes? Yes, actually. Oh, damn it. Yeah, I was in a firefight with him. No shit? Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know Rudy?

Yeah, we've met. I don't know him. I love Rudy. He's a good guy. Yeah, I was that recon platoon that they did the series on. We actually were attached to them. They actually covered it in the miniseries. Oh, okay.

Which one would that be? I was in our... Yeah. Oh, Generation Kill. Yeah, no, I was in... You just like, just so casually, yeah, they followed us in that one thing. Well, I mean, I was in... You just like, just so casually, yeah, they followed us in that one thing. Well, I mean, I was in first LAR,

but we linked up with him and got into a couple fights with him, I believe. So yeah. With Rudy? With his platoon, yeah. You fought them? We were fighting Iraqis. Alongside.

Rudy Ray has platoon. That's his platoon. We're fighting for cancer. Yeah. Wait a minute, hold on. This is how fucked up the marine corps was back then is i was the first boot camp class to ever get issued the marpat the new the modern camo but like they still were giving dudes the tricolors and they were so fucking low on supplies that they had to give some guys like the old chocolate chocolate chip

from desert storm and like i had a fucking the old chocolate chip candies from Desert Storm. I had a fucking... You imagine those Iraqis seeing that? Oh, shit. I had a flak jacket that wouldn't even fucking Velcro, so the only thing that held it together was my

low-bearing vest, which is literally what it was used as. I only had one plate. I only had plates for my front, no plates for my back. Brandon, which is literally what it was used as. I only had one plate. I only had plates for my front, no plates for my back. So, Brandon, it is crazy. When you watch the Marines, even when we deployed during the surge, we'd show up. We had M4s.

We had all that. The Marines were still rocking A4, like M16A2s, A4s. Fucking Vietnam. Oh, yeah. And you're like, oh, my God, you're deploying to me? I had a buddy who got deployed. I had a buddy who got deployed in like, it was later. It was like 2012, I think.

Still got deployed with an old school A2. Oh, shit. Yeah. Iron sights. Fuck yeah, man. I got to Iraq because I was a Bradley gunner, so I had a fucking SBR. It was like fucking cool. With an ACOG, and then you look at the Marines, you're like.

Did they just get out of boot camp or something? Who the fuck are these guys? And I swear, you know what I can't stand though about like Marine veterans on the internet is when they're like, they don't even train with iron sights anymore. I'm like, oh, you mean they're more lethal now? They're like better killers? Does that bother you? Everybody knows the story of the whole thing when they first issued Marines ACOGs.

Yeah, I was there for that. Because they thought they literally got investigated for war crimes because they thought they were executing people because it was all headshots. It's truck month at GMC. Tackle the open road with added confidence in a 2025 Sierra 1500 Pro Graphite at 0% financing for up to 72 months. With an available 5.3 liter V8 engine, 20 inch high gloss black painted aluminum wheels, off-road suspension with available 2 inch factory installed lift kit, plus a towing capacity of up to 13,200 pounds. You'll be ready for anything this truck month.

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Oh, look at that. They're fucking proficient. That's kind of like one of those internet stories. Yeah. I mean, it makes sense. I hate irons. Love learning on them originally. And then once you start getting an m68 acogs anything like that

you're like uh everybody should know how to use irons nobody should use irons yeah yes 100 when you first start shooting yes i agree shooting at those 300 you have to shoot like 50 to 300 yards for basic training for your qual that 300 with irons you're just like i can't even see the fucking target i don't even remember us doing that to be honest with you we did that yeah fuck i don't know i've been out so long i don't forget because when you joined in oh i'm seeing out i don't know when did what year oh four oh four yeah you were one year before me you were late oh four yeah yeah like may no made oh four like june yeah and then jack was pre 9-11 no i went to boot camp oh during oh wait it would just happen i enlisted on

i enlisted on august 11th 2001 because you're old as fuck right what are you 40 just turned 40 baby oh yeah congratulations thank you i made it i didn't i'm honestly i still here. We're proud of you. I didn't plan it this far, so I'm kind of trying to figure shit out right now. I did not expect this. Literally, I've been waiting on my phone to get the call. I was like, yeah. He finally did it. But when he hit 40, I was like, oh, fuck, he's going to be around for a while.

He's going to be one of those, like, Jack's going to live to 90. And considering what he's done to his body, how can I believe in God at this point? Jack is going to outlive all of us. Right? Actually, I was looking at photos because I was trying to tell somebody. I was telling them about you and I was looking for photos online.

I didn't realize it because we'd only really known each other for like four years-ish, something like that. Yeah. Your photos from the range 15 days where you clean up your hair or whatever, you were a sexy motherfucker. I had no idea.

That's crazy, man. That was the first time I learned that you can, you can be rotten looking as fuck. And as long as you have good game, chicks are going to be into it. Cause I was walking around LA looking like a civil war general for like three weeks.

And, but I was like, that was the best game I ever had. General Alabama. Yeah. I was just, um, we just did pick up shots.

You guys will get it later. Physically. As far as looks, I, I, I had a good 32. I think physically as far as looks I had a good 32 that was a sexy year for me isn't it sad if you think about it you're going to bury all of us but no one's going to bury you

I'll be the last one to tell y'all stories for you I hope you live to be 130 I'd rather no one else tell them. Yeah. Yeah. Jack's going to shit on us. I've been interviewing a lot of World War II veterans lately, and, you know, it's like they're the last ones of their unit, right?

Oh, yeah. And you kind of realize, like, you see it in them that they realize, like, it's on them to correctly tell the story. But also sometimes I think like, how do you know, how do I not, how do I know if I'm not talking to like the biggest shit bag in the unit right now?

You know what I mean? Cause you guys, sorry, not all the world war two vets were spectacular humans. There were all perfect soldiers. There's always every platoon in every war in history has a fucking turd in it. We all know our shit bags.

Think about the shit bag. Think about the shitbag in your platoon. And think about what he would say if he's the only one that gets to speak for everybody. Oh, my God. You think about how the stories would be. And that's when I saved my entire. They put me in for a medal of honor. I turned it down. Yeah.

Yeah. I was too busy saving more of my men. They put me in three times. It's no big deal. They wanted to promote me to lieutenant, but I said, no, sir. Send me to the brig. That's how I

ended up in the brig. That's a Chesty Puller reference, isn't it? That's how I ended up with the Red Horse. Oh, God. My favorite unit out of all the military units. Because wasn't it the whole, like, you send me to the brig, that's where I'll find the real Marines? Yeah, that's an old chesty quote.

No wonder I didn't know what the fuck you were talking about. I'm not surprised. It's like the one Nick did. Who is the crazy soldier? There's been a few. Why are you bleeding? Oh, what the hell? Was that a tattoo?

That's blood. Now you're like... Demonetized for gore. I'm like, no, data. It's data. It's data. And we'll do a... No, um...

Why are you dating? God, who was the guy that... Why are you dating all over the table? The filthy five. McNasty? Yeah, McNasty. It's like that guy was just true.

They just gave him the worst of the worst and he turned them into inglorious bastards. Yeah, yeah. We're talking to Jack here and he might be that guy from fucking

Saving Private Ryan that lets the fucking Germans go by and he's awesome. Yeah, I think everyone knows the masculine urge to strangle him through the TV screen. I was like 12 when that came out

and I just remember violently screaming at the... Kill him! You motherfucker! I'm getting pissed now. You imagine being related to that fucking guy and you watch that shit all the time. You're like, fuck, man. Imagine that's your dad's, your grandfather.

Yeah, exactly. People don't want to admit it, but statistically speaking, a lot of people, their little war hero grandfather could have been an op-em. Grandpa ain't telling you that story. Oh, my God. Do you want the best sleep? You know? Well, I can tell you the greatest bed and mattress product in the world. It is from GhostBed.com.

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Code Unsubscribe. Go. 50%. upgrade y'all stuff and save 50% while doing it code unsubscribe go 50% you're never like one time i let a german walk by me after he stabbed my friend in the neck everybody assumes that when grandpa doesn't want to talk about the war it's because he did gnarly shit he was a piece of shit he's a piece of shit he ate the last hot meal and he ate twice that son of a bitch yeah if grandpa's look was like this He's like I don't want to talk about it That's not a thousand yards there. That's I fucked up in that war I can't go to the reunions. Oh, is it too hard to see your old comrades? No, they don't invite me at all

That was like my great-grand grandfather was in the Pacific in World War II as a combat dozer, like combat engineer. And he did Pacific, then Korea, then Vietnam. That's what Red Horse does. They're like combat engineers. Just wanted to let you know. He did all of them? Oh, yeah. He was an advisor in Vietnam. Oh, okay. I was like, he has two stars? Spooky shit.

But he... Well, no, he's an engineer. He doesn't. Oh, yeah. Never mind. I don't know what he did in Vietnam. Well, I don't know what he did in Korea. I know he's like a spook advisor in Vietnam. Yeah, you know, he's an engineer he doesn't oh yeah never mind yeah i don't know what he did in well i don't know what he did in korea i know he's like a spook advisor in vietnam but yeah you know he's talking about infantry like i forgot that so yeah you get a reef i'll let you finish you get a reef if you do combat you get a reef with a star if you've done a war two different yeah two different campaigns i'm giving this water bottle the Purple Heart because I just killed it, man. I don't think that's what it's for. We're now just downplaying the Purple Heart to this. Jesus Christ.

At ease. Attention orders. On this day. Hey, everybody knows Clint here, right? Yeah. Clint's a party animal. Clint doesn't give a... He's a great guy. And he's just like...

Ask Angry Cops. Do we use his real name on this? Yeah, Rich. Oh, yeah. and like he's just like ask angry cops do we use his real name on this yeah oh yeah ask rich about the time he was drunk walking around st. Petersburg Florida with Clint's Medal of Honor around his neck I love my

bringer so much rich was wearing it angry cops was walking with it they were both had a few drinks I bring groups so much. Oh, Clint. Rich was wearing it. Clint is, you know. Angry Cousins walking with it. Clint, they were both, had a few drinks, and Clint's in here, have it, and put it on him. And he's just walking around downtown St. Petersburg,

huffing cigarettes, Medal of Honor around his neck. Clint's walking behind him. Oh. Yeah. That fucker can steal that. I love our friend group. Everyone's just like, whatever. Leroy Petrie and I went back to Afghanistan

and talked to the troops in 2013. And we were flying in a private plane from one part of Afghanistan to the other. So a private plane sounds really cool until you mention the Afghanistan part. Yeah. And he's like, I gotta go to the bathroom. And he gets up and his Melamonor breaks. And he's like i gotta go to the bathroom and he gets up and

his melamon breaks and he's like fuck and i'm like oh that sucks you can't just go to the px for that yeah he goes here hold this i'm gonna go pee and i was like okay you should have put around your neck no no no i waited like this for him the whole time i'm like is he back is he what do i do with this you just didn't move no i was like this like the whole time i'm like is he back is he what do i do with this you just didn't move no i was like this like the whole time i was like here don't breathe i didn't breathe on it and then he's like what are you doing i was like i don't i don't know what to do with this i can't imagine putting it on fuck that's a particularly heavy metal like not physically but like drunk i am i'm not fuck you rich 90 of the audience that uh% of the 90% are dead post humorously

I think it's like humorously humorously it was fucking funny funny story my buddy jumped on a grenade now I don't know how to fucking say it posthumously

thank you so much it's funny story. My buddy jumped on a grenade. Now I don't know how to fucking say it. Posthumously. Posthumously. Thank you so much. It's funny how different... I'm kidding. I don't want to do this. I just... I'm kind of retarded. Another Medal of Honor story is Clint was supposed to come to this function down in San Antonio where

Bush was speaking. And he's going to be the former president, the one that's responsible for all of our war stories. Say his name, President Bush. Jorge Bush. Jorge W. Bush. So he was going to be a special guest and all that, but last minute thing, he couldn't make it.

He's like, do you just want to go instead of me in my spot and sit at the table? I'm like, yeah, cool. But what I did is and I couldn't get it done on time actually so i have it but i got uh since the medal of honor guy couldn't make it i got a national defense medal made that i could wear around my neck oh my god yeah but it did it showed up like the day after the event yeah but i have this national defense medal that i wear around my neck that's awesome everyone out there that's like, those are sacred.

A lot of us jazzed make it. Fuck you. If you're that uptight, fuck you. We're going to give Brandon one soon. He's just going to walk around with a medal of honor. It reminds me of that story I said about how my backpack, like that multi-cam backpack or whatever I was telling them, the only patch I've got on it, because it's got a little patch there,

it's just like a ranger tab, but it says special needs. Oh, yeah. And then he got stopped. Well, I'll tell the story again. I'm sorry. I'll make it brief. I get stopped at an airport. Some really nice lady tapped me on the shoulder

as we're waiting in line to board the plane. Excuse me, sir. I just wanted to ask you what your patch means. Oh, sorry, ma'am. It's an internet joke. I'm just kind of self-deprecating humor. It's a joke patch. She looks so defeated.

She's like, oh, my son has special needs, and he really wants to join the military. I didn't know if that was a special division or something like that. I feel about that tall. And then fucking A.J. Wilkerson's like, and you didn't tell her about the Marine Corps? Dude, A.J. had the best...

Dude, A.J. came in with the best... You didn't say the Red Horse? Oh, sure. Sure. I drew a medal of honor. What? A jacket? This looks like a jacket.

Oh, I saw that. I think you put that in the group chat at one point. You know, I text with Clint every morning. Oh, I didn't know that. So Clint, Clint Romeshay and I have this agreement, gentleman's agreement. We used to- You're married for tax reasons. Yeah, right.

We used to pheasant hunt together in South Dakota for like fucking five years in a row. Anyway, so we were in the lodge, and I remember pulling my phone because where we were at was fucking freezing. And I'm like, I wonder what the weather is like back at home in Texas. And I look at it, and it was like, I don't know,

like 90 or something, maybe 100. And where we were at home in Texas. And I look at it and it was like, I don't know, like 90 or something, maybe 100. And what we were at was fucking zero. And he's like, bro, you know what we got to do? I was like, what? He's like, we're going to fucking text each other every day. And if the weather is ever like this, 100 degrees difference, we're taking our shot first thing in the fucking morning. And I was like, yeah. So every morning on my phone, we fucking screenshot screenshot the weather we send it to each other like

Let's send a picture to click live on air yeah, oh no, it's my fault guys That's like a deer right there, I know it's good it. It'll work. He's in North Dakota. Oh, yeah. Well, that happens a lot more often than you think. There's been times where we got in close, and I'm like, bro, I don't drink anymore. Like, fuck. I'm like, I don't know if I want to take a shot at that. Dude, that guy can throw him back. Clint can.

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Not too many humans are that level. Hi, boys. Dude, Clint can freaking party, dude. He's a function alcoholic. That's the state of North Dakota right there. Catching strays over here.

Brandon just goes into the bushes. I have no idea what they're talking about. I don't drink that much. I Homer Simpson back into the liquor cabinet. The booze goes around you. It's like, ah. Jack, you have a story to tell today. Oh, yeah.

You said it was a Veterans Day episode, so I thought this would be a fun little fun fact story. Yeah. There was a period in American history where we had an entity called the Bonus Army. Yeah, dude, he texted me. He was like, do you know about the Bonus Army? I was like, what?

I'm so lost right now. It's a really cool story. So just to predate it, veterans have always perplexed and been at odds with politicians since the days of the Roman legions. This is nothing new, veterans being headaches to the establishment. After the revolution, that's when they created the first pension programs for American veterans. And based on what rank you are, you got a certain amount of acreage for your service

and they never really updated it acreage yeah enlisted dudes were like given 40 acres yeah if you're an officer if you're an officer you got like 1200 acres and like what's the equivalent of like uh 20 million dollars today yeah Yeah. Yeah. So a lot of Revolutionary War officers, they went into Tennessee and they just fucking got land. Me and Chris, we got free parking lots. Yeah.

I get up from parking at Lowe's. You get premier parking at DJ's. You know, it's a whole deal. Same thing at 128. I get to park for free at the fucking airport. Well, that shit's expensive, so you earned that. But go on. That's why I really lobbied for my getting shot in the armory in San Diego, Purple Heart.

I just want that free parking. Isn't it a red heart when it's the non-combat one? They don't give you anything. They lose your medical records, which is what happened to me. Did they really? Yeah. There's no proof of me ever being shot other than eyewitnesses. Did they lose it, or did whoever was in charge lose it? It got lost on the way to Iraq.

Military, government paperwork, so good. World War I, and people forget. You had a chance for stolen ballot, bro. You could have fucking reopened that wound in Iraq and be like, I got shot. I got shot. Oh, yeah. God, I missed stolen valor opportunities.

Yeah, dude. Why weren't we friends? I could have helped you out. I wasn't really thinking stolen valor when I was active duty. It's not something that manifested until I've been years out of the military. And it's just fun. I love it. You had late term stolen valor.

Delayed onset. Stolen valorism. He was in the delay entry program. D-O-S-T. Or D-O-S-P. Sorry. So World War I, people forget with the American entrance into World War I we were really only there for a year

and even that year was like fucking nuts. All we did was basically just tip the scales to where it was unconditional surrender. we were really only there for a year and even that year was like fucking yeah yeah nuts but uh all we did was basically just tip the scales to where it was unconditional surrender yeah and so a lot of americans uh got brought into service real fast and then exited out of service real fast but they were promised certain bonuses and benefits for having done that and they were supposed to be paid out over time but basically what happened is the the great depression happens so now there's a financial mess going on i remember the story yeah yeah and so around 1932 uh they were like fuck this we want what's promised to us so like

20 000 of them converged on washington dc and basically for lack of a better term squatted but they set up like on like the capital lawn on the lawn in dc they set up like like they brought their wives and everybody like they set up an entire fucking community in dc within dc and they just started dude there was somebody else tried to do it again recently they it was they were trying to push for this exact same thing yeah and, and they were, like, lobbying every day, marching around D.C. every day, you know, protesting every day. And it got to the point, like, the Marine Corps always loves to bring up dudes like Smedley Butler. Holy shit. Smedley Butler, Smedley Butler, Smedley Butler, you know, two-time Medal of Honor recipient.

But people forget, Smedley Butler, when he left the Marine Corps, became vehemently anti-war, pro-veteran, outspoken critic of American foreign policy and trying to take care of American veterans. So Smiley Butler was in their ranks. He was a two-time Medal of Honor recipient. But what do you even do against a man that has two? Like, you suck his dick. Apparently he called the capitol police well so what happened

was is they sent the cops in there to disperse them and two veterans got killed they beat the shit out of like 100 cops it makes like the fucking blm shit that happened a couple years ago and and the january 6th stuff like it makes it look like fucking child's play yeah it was a fucking it was insane around there and so now that the the police chief of dc was like all right i'm just gonna contact the army and at that time the chief of staff in the united states army was douglas mcarthur and had his underling with him dwight eisenhower eisenhower didn't want to do it i was like this is a bad idea we shouldn't get involved with this this is a police matter uh douglas mcarthur is a fucking idea. We shouldn't get involved with this. This is a police matter. Douglas MacArthur is a fucking gigantic piece of shit.

And if you see a Douglas MacArthur statue, fucking deface it, graffiti it. He's a fucking moron. Punch his great-great son in the face. Isn't that also, hold on, maybe. Isn't that also like literally against habeas corpus, like in the Constitution? There's a lot of fucking constitutional issues with that. Yeah, because the U.S. military is not allowed to be, basically, long story short, constitutionally,

the U.S. military is not allowed to be used against its own civilians. Especially in D.C. Yeah. I mean, hell, there was like some constitutional issues with the Civil War for that exact reason. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's why Abraham Lincoln suspended it, because he was such a great guy.

But they didn't even bother to suspend it there, I don't think. They just fucking went in. Yeah. Yeah. Shit. And so they tear gassed the motherfuckers. A baby died. And they just beat the shit out of all these veterans, chased them out of D.C.

They brought in 500 infantry soldiers, 500 cavalry soldiers, and a fucking tank unit commanded by George Patton, which one of the leaders of the Bonus Army, one of the big faces of the Bonus Army, small world shit, literally, literally saved Patton's life in World War I too. What's the second in the Distinguished Crosses? Yeah, that's the second one.

Just below the Medal of Honor. Yeah, yeah. For saving Patton's life in World War I, Patton acknowledged that this guy saved his life. This guy personally appealed to Patton not to fucking involve himself. And Patton did the whole, you know, he was a, no, Patton fucking went with it anyways.

Kind of fucked over his old war buddy, basically. Guy who saved his life. It was like a disaster. And it was like the reason why, arguably, it was a big reason why Hoover lost his reelection to FDR. It was like, it was like the reason why arguably there's a it was a big reason why hoover lost his re-election to fdr uh it was like it was a bad look um but there were good things that came out of it like basically that turned the tide they finally like okay we're gonna give you your

benefits we don't want to have this happen again plus it for a while it's what yeah it's what created the fucking montgomery gi bill pretty much, which is, in my opinion, one of the top three greatest pieces of legislation in the history of the United States. Oh, yeah. Fully agree on that one. Yeah. I did not know any of that. So that's where the GI, I still would have taken 40 acres.

And they don't specifically teach you guys that bit of history. Yeah. Do you want 40 acres or pay for your college? I'll do the 40 acres, please. Look what happened in Rome when their soldiers weren't getting paid. They were like, we're just going to create our own war. Called a rebellion. You made us real good at this one thing.

We're going to show you how good we are at this thing. Oh, my God. I'm more surprised. This is starting to feel like a rally, guys. Welcome to unsubscribe. Also, welcome to the watch list,, guys. Welcome to unsubscribe. So you have cut. Also, welcome to the watch list or the different one, I guess. I'm still more impressed because imagine us going in and like, hey, you have to rally these individuals.

By the way, one of them has two Medal of Honors. I'd be like, Rose, no, I'm not rallying any of them. They're probably right i'm assuming if one of these dudes leading this has two medal of honors how many we should at least hear them out well and that's also a first amendment issue in the marine corps there's been two it's a right to protest dan daly's pacific oh yeah that's a good that's literally a right to peaceably assemble in protest that's yeah yeah and there's a lot more to that story i gave a real brief synopsis but you know for the most they were non-violent and what happened too is there's babies there basically when the army crossed the fucking bridge into dc the veterans at first

thought that they were coming to like help them support them yeah and so at first all the guys were cheering when they saw the army come over because like oh fuck yeah they're on our side and then started fucking throwing gas at him and shit and take note of this literally take note of take note of this no one has your back there's a picture of macarthur and eisenhower eisenhower was a major at the time macarthur was like uh he was a uh i'm gonna go vandalize Eisenhower fucking street sign Dwight Eisenhower to his credit you know within the confines of following orders he made his opinion on that engagement very vocal

before going into it Patton also had his redemption arc later a bit in that way as far as his disillusion with the military industrial complex yeah coincidence very strange yeah that whole thing about like we were fighting the wrong enemy like yeah the communists is like the communists are going to be that's the big why are we siding with these people yeah this is going to be the next war there's a lot of people

don't understand it is that war changes you worse and i probably speak for a majority of this table, especially Brandon. War sounds cool. Three quarters of it. War sounds cool until you do war. And then you're like, ah, this is not as much fun. You start asking questions a lot more. I'll put a caveat on that, too. War sounds cool until you study it.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Without a doubt. You get shot at. You get that. And then you watch like Buddy's. Whatever it happens. It is a reality check of like oh man i am fragile as fuck this is something having the mindset it's like your life can end or your buddy's life can end in

the flash of a second and you live like that for months at a time and then you just have to shut it off yeah it doesn't have you there's no, it's... Well, not only that, your fucking adrenaline is here, and then it goes... Oh, man. And then, and then he... When does fast grocery delivery through Instacart matter most? When your famous grainy mustard potato salad isn't so famous without the grainy mustard.

When the barbecue's lit, but there's nothing to grill. When the in-laws decide that, actually, they will stay for dinner. Instacart has all your groceries covered this summer. I'll see you next time. liver here and then you fucking dump that sounds like a friday night out bro i fucking i'll never forget my first firefight i that was the best sleep i ever fucking got yeah after you crashed yeah you smoked a cigarette i did well i swear dude every time a firefight i'd be like give me i smoked that crazy too but you do that and then you get home and you're like i wonder why i'm depressed because your testosterone's fucking tan motherfucker that blew my mind when you said that the va doesn't even begin to cover trt no no so they do they so this is how they get away with it they have a program and they're like hey your testosterone is at 35 here's some testosterone which for those who don't know like 300 is a low mark. That is insane.

Like that is you're a woman. Yeah. It's like starting a sad lawnmower. Yes. Your pee pee does not. Yeah. More than 35 when they're born. Yeah.

Like women need more than that. And then they give you testosterone and they're like, here, take this dosage every two weeks. And it's like, well, that's not how this fucking works. Like if you're going to start somebody on TRT, it's once a week at the bare minimum, even then you're going to have peaks and valleys. Ideally you want to be like once every three, four days.

Exactly. And so then they only give you one vital when they're like here, when you're done with it, let us know. And then you let them know that like you use the too fast, you're going to have to wait another two weeks. You're like, what in the fuck? So you're doing this to your fucking body.

Which that's worse. It is. And then it starts fucking with your psyche. It starts fucking with everything else. Shit starts to shut down. It is insane. And it's fucking ridiculous that it's so hard to get on a testosterone regimen, TRT, through the VA. To piggyback off that military term, you have this mindset from a psychological standpoint.

When you do combat, when your stress levels are up and down all the time, it's conditioned into hypervigilance. Hypervigilance is what the problem is with a lot of veterans you you can't turn that off once your body adapts to that this is from my doctor my psychologist was like oh yeah that is your body once it is programmed that is flight or fight that is in you and ingrained in you for indefinitely indefinitely over stimuli yeah yeah so you're always that's why you have the thousand yards sorry that's why you're checking your locks that's why each one of these things happen from it and you have to realize that and then you have to build a tool belt in order to manage it otherwise you're just like why am i depressed you're not gonna get rid of it you need to manage it have you ever seen

after world war one those shell shock videos yeah that of those guys they just prop them against the wall and just violently yeah yeah i saw that shit was scary because your brain that's where like the the solution of that was you get slapped and told to get over yeah yeah oh good patent reference right there yeah but that's exactly it like you gotta manage it you gotta find you gotta find the things that help you like for me like it's hunting the outdoors it's fucking going to the range I recently like fell in love with fucking scuba diving

again because I went down to Honduras with my buddy Nick and runs Warfighter Scuba we went down there for a whole week had a fucking blast like I was under the water weightless didn't have my prosthetic on and I was like holy shit I can do things and i'm like

you know like the exact opposite of you getting burnt pretty much it is the contrast you're like this is the worst day of my life this is the best day fire water airbender and then 20 minutes later I'm pointing up like I gotta go up and they're like why I was like I'm out of air I was too excited I just started doing Stone Valor man that shit gets me off

manage it find your fucking thing that's for you and then use that to not only cope but manage what you're going through. In a healthy way. In a healthy way. Not to cut you off,

but when you're talking about a tool belt, what are some of the management tactics? I just said it, bitch. That's really good. Thank you, Brandon. I was trying to give Eli a platform to talk about his because he doesn't scuba. We're trying to get him to do it, but he's been a bitch.

To water. Here, you might need this. Thank you. He's afraid of the water. I don't know why. No, everyone's going to have their different issues. When you get back, you're not going to, you, your buddies, everyone's going to approach it in a different manner and how you react in different ways like you might get really unstable and nervous from the slightest pop or sound or you could just be looking outside like why is that car there and when we got back a lot of people

it's like not having your gun on your side really fucking weird it's it's a pavlovian thing yeah where you're just trained to have your hands on that weapon we're there for a minute a lot of veterans are getting pulled over because they see a bag on the road and they go out of their way to swerve and people are getting pulled over left and right. I remember that being a fucking thing. Yeah, dude, when you get back,

you're like, ah, trash on the side of the road. Holy shit. You pucker it up like, fuck, here we go. And again, if it wasn't for the fucking Irish, we wouldn't be having those issues. Bastards. We're looking at you to tweak. Or the Soviets for leaving so much fucking munitions behind.

That's them. But with it, it is talking to it. Those stingers that we sent really paid off. All the best missile systems we gave them. Rocky, well, not Rocky III. Rainbow III. This movie is dedicated to the brave fighters of the Mujahideen.

We basically funded Saddam's invasion of Kuwait, and then we put an end to it. But we gave him money all throughout the 80s. Oh, yeah. We gave a lot of people money. Are we talking about Tim Osman yet? Oh, no. Yeah.

Who's that? Do you know that? Well, we'll caveat and then go on to that, because I don't know that. It is, like, for everyone out there, just if you have those issues, you have two for benefits from it you go talk to a therapist get help with that and then also look as brandon was saying it's like the tool belt or the question is asking that belt is going to help not only you but your buddies going through those same

experiences it's like it's like hey eli you had your nightmares you were dealing with this this is how you uh reacted to ptsd was it anger was it this it's like mine wasn, Eli, you had your nightmares. You were dealing with this. This is how you reacted to PTSD. Was it anger? Was it this? It's like, mine wasn't that, but here is what I battled with each night or each day or once a week. Try these methods and see if they help you, buddy. And then it can, or they'd be like, well, that didn't help. Okay, hey, I have another friend that's more similar to your experiences.

And then you start building a healthy community around you. Exactly. And then now it's like a licensed professional is helping with those tools your buddies are helping with those tools now you have a community which at the end of the day is what soldiers yeah veterans that's that's one of the main things it's like i lost my mission i don't know what the fuck to do i don't have a community point like at the beginning of the war like when we were all getting out and shit, this is not shitting on everybody else, but I think we all had the, let's go fucking drinking. Let's go get drunk.

That's being young. Yeah. We're going to drink. We're going to live forever type of shit. That can exacerbate a lot. Yeah, that too. Imagine a depressant making it worse. And then you get into your thirties and you realize like,

well, fuck dude, being drunk all the time. There's no good for anybody. Um, I'm, I'm a fucking asshole. People don't like me,

but I'm still stuck in this fucking, don't be an alcoholic because of the war being alcoholic because of your genetics. All right. Exactly. Well, I mean, to be,

to be real too, like if you're talking about like over consumption of alcohol on top of your genetics, all right? Exactly. Well, I mean, to be real, too, if you're talking about overconsumption of alcohol on top of depression already, you're fucking with your gut health, which is fucking with your serotonin, which is making you more depressed. And then you can't fucking sleep, dumb fucks. You can't sleep, you can't be happy.

It's a bad way to cope with things chronically. So find a healthy... Cocaine. Yeah, cocaine. Exactly, try something responsible. Cut to Jack. Well, don't do it right now because it's got phenol in it. But just wait.

Wait till... Oh, no, never mind. Did you see? Did you guys see the signs in Mexico? No. The drug cartel fucking started a war against those who are still putting phenol in cocaine. Good. Well, because it's cutting down on the fucking profit margin

for them. Seriously, yeah. The free market will provide. People stopped using fucking cocaine and they're like, well, why? You're fucking killing them with fentanyl. Why do you think? And so they put out a fucking hit. Any other cartel using fentanyl in their fucking cocaine to mix it is going to get wiped the fuck out.

I just imagine this. It's like, pow! It's like, why are you killing? Okay, first off, he made the drug that was killing my clients. I ain't about that shit. Okay? I'm like, dude, that's like a green stop sign. It's like, good? Thank you. Thank you?

Yeah. Sponsored by Cartel. All of them. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Dude, yeah. We'll be right back. I've got this message. They run a tiny ship over there.

Oh, Jesus. Go back to it. Run. Get involved with a healthy community. Whatever your fucking thing is, whether it be shooting the outdoors, archery, scuba diving, running, fucking, I don't know, building fucking Legos,

whatever your thing is. Finding God's most beautiful creatures and killing them. Yeah. And to add on to that, do not be that guy when you get out of the military, that grumpy fucking veteran on the internet

complaining about how things were different in your time and all that bullshit don't be that guy you you know which one's my favorite when you see these guys with a fucking hat that says medicated vet stay away fuck you i've never seen someone needs to slip them some fentanyl man welcome to the community, bitch. Brandon's like, oh, God, the Veterans Day episode. Why am I on this one? I expected a good bit of this. You called me last night.

You're like, hey, we need to do a Veterans Day episode. Whenever the Department of Defense makes some sort of major change, which, by the way, major changes have been happening since the beginning of the military. Major change? Yeah. But whenever they make some sort of change or something like that and you just see all the comments section, this shit didn't fly. When I was in, I'm like, well, you were in 20 fucking years ago.

You don't matter anymore. You're not part of the machine and it's moved on without you. You are irrelevant. I'm not sure it's moved on in a good direction. No, no, no. Did you see the one that it absolutely has the young people i see on these uso shows are the same people that uh that we were uh 20 years ago it's the same children that we're sending off to war uh but

no they're just they're smart they're smarter now than we were um you think so yeah the that's actually a good point is like jack what do you feel on like have you seen so the 2013 is last time you did a uso turn no i did one uh oh 2021 2021 2020 2021 yeah so how was the veteran or like not the veteran the infantry community yeah was it was it all infantry i've done those shows yeah what how was the change on that i'm just asking like because if you're like you'll also have a different crop you're like 11 bravo versus like patriot missile no yeah no you you absolutely notice the difference in like unit culture and all that but but i did infantry shows

oh i was doing a show in maroon spain uh and like two days before we got there one of them it was a infantry battalion of marines there and one of the marines fucking got drunk and totaled the vehicle and so they not just that's infantry still so we're good and so they're masking they mass punished them and so these guys aren't allowed to drink and they're restricted to base and we're like the first non-military americans they've probably seen in six months so we show up wanting to put on a good show for the troops but they're just being dickhead marines right and i've done shows for every branch almost every type of mos but i i knew these were oh threes and they were just heckling and just being shitty i'm up there i'm like fucking i'm like i out here officers no they were just heckling and just being shitty. I'm up there. I'm like, fucking.

These were officers? No, they were just. Oh, I thought you said O3s. Yeah, infantry. Oh, okay, okay, okay. That makes way more sense. I was like, officers were heckling? I spent my Thanksgiving getting talked to by a bunch of little 20-year-old little baby killers here. Anyways, I half jokingly said this, but half it came out out of frustration while they're out there fucking heckling me

under my breath, but in the microphone I go, there's got to be another war you guys can die in or something. All of a sudden, they're like, yeah! Turn the tide of the show. They loved me after that.

And you're like, Jack's material. Okay, turn in the page to this. I know this playbook now. Raise your hand if you've been in war. None of you. You all suck, bitches. You're like, God, this is so predictable. It's like the Bill Burr thing where each other did that really hostile show

and just started like, fuck you. I'm not done yet. I got six more minutes anyway. Yeah, and then he goes and just, dude, Bill you. I'm not done yet. I got six more minutes. Anyway. Yeah. And then he goes and just, dude, bill burst. Oh, shit. Comedy. Discover the exciting action of BetMGM Casino.

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about like the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the Stinger missiles and everything. But Tim Osman, neither of you are familiar with that term? No. Or that name? No. That was the name of the CIA, well, that was the CIA's code name for an operative that we had in Afghanistan

by the actual name of Osama bin Laden. I love the military. Let's just say it. We funded 9-11. And that way it was an inside job. Roll the clip. We didn't have nothing to do with a lot of that stuff over there. We funded a lot of people and gave a lot of training to a lot of people that,

you know, the U.S. military, or not not even the military but the united states federal government has a really long history of just giving money and training and support to entities overseas that are going to turn later about 10 20 30 years later we should make them sign an overseas we should make them sign a no compete clause man you know what you imagine we should just send more to ukraine 20 years from now you imagine fucking Ukraine attacking the U.S. They're not going to do that. That's what we thought about Afghanistan. Afghanistan didn't attack the U.S.

Al-Qaeda attacked the U.S. Operating in Afghanistan. Hey, we want to be here having this conversation. If it wasn't for the beautiful, strong people that made that happen. This podcast is dedicated to the brave fighters of the movie you just you you can't see where the geopolitical tides are going to turn all the time and you're just spending hundreds of billions of dollars overseas on stuff that is not tracked and is

really just it's right with a lot with fraud and it pisses me off that we're sending so much money to another fucking country when, go downtown San Antonio, you're going to find 30 fucking vets out on the street. Can I piss you off a little more? Go ahead, bro. I'll piss you off a little more. Some of the funding that they're now asking for,

that we're now giving them, is for providing for the future veterans of the Ukraine war. Wait, is that a real thing? That's a real thing. Are you fucking kidding me? Speaking of the homeless population in San Antonio, I got a little story for you. Jack's part of it.

I got a story for you. So I lived downtown for five years, just moved out here to the country, living my country life. In the peanut factory? In the peanut factory lofts. And I would walk to this gas station every day because of my cigarette addiction.

And I'd walk to this gas station, I'd walk my cigarette addiction. And I'd walk to this gas station. I'd walk under the I-10 bridge. At least you were being healthy. Yeah. You were walking to the cigarettes. I was walking to get my cigarettes. But there was this homeless guy that would sit underneath the bridge every single day. And he'd just be mumbling to himself.

And he looked like shit, just mumbling to himself. And every day I was like, don't make eye contact. He's going to say crazy homeless guy shit to you. But one day I'm walking by and there's a truck pulled underneath the the uh the bridge and a nice truck and a guy in a suit gets out and he's giving this random homeless guy money and i look at the guys closer this guy's clearly his twin brother who basically goes out there to check in and on on his other brother to make sure he's okay. You told me this. Yeah, and I really watched this heartfelt thing happen

where even though he couldn't stop his brother from being on the street, he still checks in on them. And the next day I'm walking by, and I make eye contact with a homeless guy for the first time because I see the humanity in him, and he stares at me and called me the N-word. Wait, did he? what?

that was a hallmark moment until then Jack's storytelling is the best I was like man this is a beautiful story okay never mind this story is brought to you by the cartel just like hallmark it's just like the little rainbow

fentanyl I love being able to film it in my head I can visualize it It's just like the little rainbow. Fentanyl. I love being able to film it. In my head, I can visualize it all. Jack's like watching up. It's like day two or day 80. You're like walking out. You have your little suitcase and you look over and you see the brother interacting with the homeless guy. And you're like, he is human.

He is human. So then you walk off. You're just bringing him out like a Subway sandwich that day. You're like, is human he is human so then you walk out bringing him out like a subway sandwich that day you're like you know what day 81 that's such a jack thing though thank you oh that is such a jack story because he sees it good in everybody i try i just picture that that day that day 80 is that watching the brother Day 81, you have it flash on day 81. Jack walks over. He looks at the homeless guy.

Camera slowly starts. It locks. It locks onto the homeless guy. He just looks over at Jack. Light in his eyes. Jack's like, nods. Camera punches into the homeless guy. Inward!

He's like, ah! And he's just like walking. Don't get my mom arrested. Skit ends. It's like, oh, okay, yeah, that's why. I love how you imagined

him holding a briefcase on his way to get fucking cigarettes. I picture business, Jack. Jack's always a businessman in my head. And then in the back, Jack's like,

man, that guy's definitely a veteran. Of the Ku Klux Klan. That guy's definitely a red horse. That's what Jack stole the identity from. It's from that guy.

He's a method actor. I'm serious. My life honor would be to go speak at a red horse ball or function or some sort. Bro, let's make this happen, people. People, you've heard it here. I will pay your flight and go with you. Okay.

Let's do it. I'm fucking in. You need to start your speech with, as a fellow comrade, I'm sure you remember. As a Red Horseman. Yeah. Just badly Photoshop yourself into the photos. Just make some shit up. And Charlie Company, third platoon. Oh photos and charlie company third platoon

oh i guarantee jack has a platoon what platoon were you part of with red horse uh well we we operate in squadrons uh in the red horse system is the air force oh it's the air force i thought it was an army where'd you go to basic training at right here in san antonio texas blackland yeah nice yeah that's where i did like all good airmen do yeah and then of course i went to my a school my red horse school uh later on marginally uncomfortable but i love the jack has an entire i was i was stationed with a 119th out of nellis air force base and yeah did two deployments to iraq we built you know like uh the whole point of our unit we built some runways and bridges and everything like that.

We were engineers. What was your most proud one? When I was in Afghanistan in 2011, I was a tech sergeant at that time. Dude, you'd have my money on the side of the road right now. I was a tech sergeant at that time. The Army had just pushed into this area that no one had really operated in yet. I guess they had some intel that there was some high-value targets there. But they needed to set up an air base there.

So we went in. I'm so uncomfortable. We went in. Can I tell my war story? Sorry, sorry, sorry. Is this not Veterans Day? Yeah, sorry. Go on.

Sorry, sir. At ease. So as we did, we went in. We established the airfield, and we were able to start landing fixed and rotary aircraft there, and they were able to essentially build up a new base of operations in that region. As it turns out, the cheat code for stealing valor is actually having been in the military. And then you can steal all the valor.

From the bottom of my heart, I just want to say thank you sir thank you for your service if it wasn't for you and the red horse man you know i don't know where you know what i say we all do after this what's that we go to fucking chili's and get that 10 discount on veterans day wait no it's free isn't it okay i've never done it before is it free it's a free meal oh i'm definitely going to chili's oh brandon probably so wait you might know this the a lot of veterans on veterans day will do the circuit. Let's do a video of Brandon fucking getting free meals. Oh my God. This is the best idea ever.

No. Oh my God. We take Brandon. I'm going to text my video. What's Chili's going to do? Sue you? I'm not worried about Chili's. Brandon, we're starting in the morning.

This is the unsub. We'll just go as veterans. It's the unsub train. We'll just vlog it. We go to IHOP in the morning. I'll just pay. No. No, you got to save that for campaign.

Let's get Photoshop's of him with a Medal of Honor around his neck. Yes. Do the purple heart. The medal. Clint, can you mail it? overnight i hate you guys so much we clint romashay writes a letter to brandon it's like i direct you to like i command you to wear this metal from a medal of honor my fucking consultant's like you you know, this podcast is going to end your political career. I'm like, no, no, it won't. Brandon's like, no, no, no, no.

We could do a vlog of it today at the Gambit. And then we'll pay for the meal at the end. A free meal. You can pay for a meal for someone else. This is so bad, dude. This is so bad. Yeah, you can pay for it. Oh, yeah, because we always do it. All right, there you go.

Pay it forward. All right, all right. Pay it forward. Yeah. Pay for both. How about that? No, no, no, no, no. Pay it forward. There you go. Pay it forward. Pay it for. Yeah. Pay for both. How about that? No, no, no, no, no. I just won.

Fuck that, Brandon. You're an honorary bet to us. No one in this... Comment below if you think Brandon's earned this. And by the way, you dickheads listening to this, you veteran dick, specifically veterans, you veteran dickheads, just because you're getting a free meal doesn't exempt you from tipping your waiter or waitress properly. You still need to tip. You need to thank them for their customer service.

Yeah, you bastards. That's it. That's it. It's literally a day. So what people will do is like it's this full campaign of like let's eat as many meals as possible. I have seen that. Dude, it is a thing people will do. Is it really? You guys are pieces of shit. They're like, I'll wake that. It is a thing people will do. Is it really?

You guys are pieces of shit. I wake up, I go to IHOP. And then I go to Denny's. And then I go to... Where are we dropping, boys? Chili's. Dude, every meal you can get one free meal a day. Denny's, I think.

Let's go, San Antonio. Applebee's. You just walk in there like, this is the saddest VFW I've ever fucking been to Yeah Yeah Cause you're just taking

Everything to go Put it in the fridge You're meal prepping For the week Yeah Oh my god Let's do it like a Let's do it like a

Choco thing Where we wake up We wake up at Zero four On our watches Time to carpe diem This day But it's just just us hitting up IHOP, Denny's, Chili's. We have just a meal prep for a week. We're waiting outside Chili's.

Come on. I'm so glad this podcast is coming out after Veterans Day has started. No, it's going to come out on Veterans Day. Oh, it does. Yeah, it does, but it'd be too late, you fuckers. They're like, this is a great idea. Everyone's driving. We've got to do this now. This is fucking great.

There's going to be somebody pulling a U-turn in fucking highway traffic listening to this podcast. It shows me by the end of the day a doctor's diagnosing me with type 2 diabetes. Who's picking me up? It just says, good. So after Veterans Day, you're two type diabetes, Mr. Mandeville.

Oh. And then Jocko pops over. He's like, good. Well, I have a question with diabetes. I'm not an expert on diabetes, but if you have type 1, which isn't your fault, and then somehow you develop type 2, do you have type 3 diabetes at that point? Are you adding them up? Yeah, if you have both of

them i don't believe so okay good i think you just die really all right i mean um yeah well you have a 50 lower chance of that happening so what was what's the biggest hero moment uh you guys have ever had not counting the war okay but like mine i was dating a woman with type 1 diabetes and uh she started going through the this is this is a jack story this is a real story i believe it i believe you i believe your stories no uh i was in dc and she started going getting low on blood sugar and she needed something to bring her back and so i kick out of that hotel room at three in the morning and i'm running down the street. I get to the Wawa. I grab all the candy bars and everything like that and run back to the hotel.

You forgot to pay. No, I remembered to pay. But in my head, literally, it was playing out in my head. Your hero moment is that. I can be your hero, baby. As I'm running slow-mo. And then a homeless guy tried to sell me a newspaper because that's what they do in D.C.

That was your big hero moment outside the military. Yeah. Thank you for your service. Actually, I didn't do anything heroic in the military. That's the best it ever was for me right there. Do you want me to tell you one that I had a girl that I went to school with, the Emmy, like last year? Go on. We were at a baseball game in high school, and I was sitting in front of her, and she was behind, or vice versa.

She was in front of me, and I was behind her with a group of friends. And whoever was playing, I guess one of our guys hit the ball, and that ball flew over the fence. It was going to hit her in the face. And she says that I reached over, and I grabbed that ball. And then she was like, you saved my life that day. And I was like, fucking right. I don't remember it. I don't think that would work so well, no.

Yeah, no, I totally miss it. Crispy's like this. It bounces and hits a kid in the head. I killed a baby. That's a good hero moment. That was a good hero moment. Yeah, you saved a young lady's life. And now I'm sure she's a mom

and she's trying to make sure her kids don't do drugs with fentanyl in them. Thank you to the cartel, by the way, for that. Thank you for sponsoring this ad. Oh, Veterans Day. How I love. How I love it. This is we toss this together two days ago because we have episodes.

Two days ago? A day ago. A day ago. Like fucking 14 hours. I see that. I see that plaque behind you. I just got one of those. Which one? Oh, yeah.

Crispy just got. The little plaque. Which? Your YouTube plaque right there. Oh, yeah. Why? That's a fucking new point at that. I'm like the one.

I was running out of camera. I know. I was so confused. I was like, Henry? Oh, yeah. I was looking that way, too. Yeah. I was like, behind Henry?

I was looking at the screen. But, yeah. We tossed it together. I was like, okay. We'll get this, this. I was like, okay, we'll get this. I was like, okay, Crispy, Jack. I was going to have Matt. Matt couldn't make it.

I was like, okay, we'll get... Brandon's a veteran. He's my first on the list of people to go to. I was surprised you asked me to be on the podcast with this fucking well-known hero. I know. Brandon's fingers. I've never fucking done hair

did you see that guy he's like an internet we're sorry he's like an internet video guy he's got that t-shirt that says self-taught Navy SEAL it's so fucking awesome you remember the little kid that was like you're disrespecting a future U.S. Army soldier?

Oh, yeah. That's him. Oh, really? That's Brandon. Oh, yeah. Brandon's like, that's not fucking me. And now he can't defend himself. He's like, no, no.

No, no, no, no, no. That was Brandon as a child. Yeah. And then who would have thought? He's got three Medal of Honors and saved all those people. You remember all those people that were falling off the planes when we were exiting Afghanistan?

He was catching them with a net. Brandon has new lore. People are going to animate all this lore for Brandon. He's a hero. He's running for District 34. I will take, dude. 23. U.S. Veteran District 23.

I feel like that's the thing I correct. That's it. That's the only thing untrue is 23, not 24. I shouldn't have come here. You should have. Brandon's like, dude, I will take a million of you over people that are just bitch. Like, bitchy veterans. I'll take my boy.

I'll give him honorary vet any day of the week because at least he brings happiness. How about a handshake? Same. There you go. It's a really nice medal that I did. He keeps sliding back. Brandon, I said put it on.

And he opened his doors and let me come build my own AK. My first AK. That was awesome. A dude, you're doing this. That was awesome. A dude like you will do more for the veteran community than someone's just going to bitch about. Yeah, if you're still wearing the letter jacket that I'm a veteran, this was my military career. Stop.

Wear an unsubbed shirt instead. Yeah, merch push. Bunkerbranding.com forward slash unsubscribe. Yeah. I think that's right. What if that's your next search? Self-taught veteran. Self-taught soldier.

But it is the difference between I'd rather have like one of you over a thousand of those because it is somebody that motivates not only the community, you're going to be now, you're running for Congress, you do care about the veteran community. I was just talking to one of my consultants yesterday. We were talking about trying to get on the committee for Veterans Affairs. This is the dude that's

going to make a difference. I know someone that was on that committee or the subcommittee, but they said that that's like one of the only bipartisan places. They still people still play their games there, but like that's one of the few things that everyone can kind of get behind is the

veteran stuff. But somehow they still fuck it up. It's how to do it is the problem. I want you to get in so we can ruffle some fucking feathers at the VA because you guys can't see, but Nick's here. We've been trying to get a grant from the VA for warfighter scuba and they've been fucking dicking us around yeah like constantly giving bullshit excuses and they're giving funds to fucking places like North Carolina fucking

outdoor recreational fucking whatever the fuck bullshit is it has nothing to do with veterans yeah but they're funding those people and we can't get money to help other veterans. Well, you don't, I don't even trust the government to run a website, let alone an entire healthcare system. The VA is fucking broken. But what I do like about the VA is that they have all the fentanyl free drugs. No, that's the,

those are the pharmaceutical companies that they outsource to. That's Pfizer, fool. Yeah. This podcast brought to you by... No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Fucking Mr. Pfizer boy over here. But it is. It is somebody that makes a difference in the community.

And then having that now sitting across, just helping with everything it's so fucking thank you like from the bottom of my heart like thank you for what you're doing what you are representing i never did any cool shit but i understand the guys who do for sure and we had this conversation like when we were filming a video a couple weeks ago like we i was like look man i don't give a fuck you know what do you like what you're doing there but i was like if i can give you some advices please help us out at the VA. Please help us get this shit going. And then he started telling me a story about his grandfather and how his grandfather got fucked by the VA

and ended up fucking dying because of it. Am I right? Not necessarily dying because of it, but he got really shit care. The story was it was in Fayetteville at one of the VA hospitals there and being able to look out the window every day knowing he's getting shit care and looking across the street. And across the street from the VA hospital is the VA cemetery.

And it's just like, just how much of a fucking machine it is. It's just fucking disgusting. I don't give a fuck. And it's like I was telling you, listen, I... He did end up dying, but he wasn't necessarily If no one ever thanks me for my service ever again, I'm okay with that. As long as we get good fucking health care.

That's thanking Americans veterans for their services, actually. Yeah. Yes. I don't want. Samsung Vision AI televisions transform screens into intelligent solutions. From the shows that make us laugh to those that make us cry. Now, your TV knows you more than ever. Whether it's reviving old memories with AI upscaling

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Like, help us fucking continue to save other veterans. Like, why is it so hard? Yeah. So, yeah, man, I hope that you do win. We need another Smedley fucking butler. Yeah. I hope you get in. I hope you fucking win.

And I hope you help us fucking, like, change this place from the inside out. Because if I'm unfortunate enough to win, I hope I'm able to make a difference in that way. Because I'll be honest with you, the only other congressman that I truly trust that's in there is Morgan Luttrell. And that's it. All the other rhinos, all these other veterans that are in there.

Is Morgan federal congress or is he state? No, he's federal, I think. Okay, gotcha. I've heard his name tossed around a lot. Yeah, he's a fucking solid dude. He's a great, great guy. For those of you that don't know who Morgan is, he's Marcus' twin

brother. I wonder what district, because he's Texas, right? Yeah, I think it's 34. I think that's why I said it earlier because I was thinking of him. But yeah, man, we need more people to help us because if the VA does what they've been doing to us over at Warfighter, I definitely want to have you get involved and be like, hey, motherfuckers.

Eighth congressional district. Eighth congressional, yeah. Sorry. I don't know where 34 is coming from. You guys want to hear about my favorite congressman? Who? Slash veteran? Who?

Daniel Sickles. Let me tell you the story of Daniel Sickles. Daniel Sickles. He invented the sickle cell anemia. That's what he's known for. That's literally what I thought of. Wow, you got me there. I'm like, I don't know what to say to that. You broke me.

I've never seen Jack's speech. I'll make fun of dead veterans, but race really makes me nervous, man. This is the best. All the veterans today are going to be like, that's a fucking veterans day episode right there. That's what they represent. Everyone's like, we just want to support our veterans. That's one thing.

Sorry to cut you off, but that's one thing I used to tell people. Man, I grew up in Fayetteville. All of my friends were veterans. All my friends' dads growing up even were veterans. It took me a long fucking time to realize that the military sense of humor wasn't normal. It's a little dark. I tell this to other comedy writers all the time. If you ever are looking for, not necessarily a military story,

but any type of comedy story, if you want to get some of the best dialogue you'll ever hear in your life, go spend a week embedded with an infantry platoon and just listen to the way those motherfuckers talk to each other. You'll have great dialogue and great material for the rest of your fucking life they are so naturally funny in the way that they talk to each other yeah it's got to be how I rank war movies in my mind now is the banter like yes please content so that's why like I I liked that not to go

down a whole thing but like I ever since i've served served i've never really been able to watch war movies it's not because of like trauma or anything like that it's like i'm i've become highly critical so pretty much the only war movies i like are the stuff i watched when i was a kid before i actually got a glimpse behind the curtain um you mean you don't like the herdlucker the greatest war movie ever there's been a couple exceptions that I really fucking enjoyed. I really, I loved the Midway movie they did a few years ago, and I loved the battle scene in the Barbie movie. I thought that

was really well done. Dude, my favorite one is the one with Shatten Tatum where he's a dog. Oh, the dog? I haven't seen that one. The other one where he's a staff soldier. Oh, Stop Loss, or I don't know. No, it wasn't Stop Loss. Deer John? Deer John, yeah staff soldier. Oh, yeah. Stop Loss or I don't know. No, it wasn't Stop Loss. Dear John.

Dear John, yeah. Oh, Dear John, yeah. Nicholas Sparks, yeah. No, but it... So, what? Dear John's a war movie. One of the best war movies. I know.

We need to actually push that. That's the best war movie of all time. We need to push that narrative. We'll start... Everyone go... Crispy, what was that testosterone at again? It was at 30. This is how we know it was at 30.

Because you just really love Dear John. I got a Barbie movie and Dear John. Those fucking letters, bro. I'd be like, fuck. But when he sold them coins, them coins. All right. So potentially stupid question. When you're talking about a Dear John letter.

Yeah. Did that start from that or was that? Yeah, it was because of him, dude. Yeah. No what well you know what i mean like i didn't know if that was a colloquial term beforehand fun history fact about uh nobody answered no i think i'm hoping he's going to well the dear john did i don't know if it had military roots but it it's become popularized because of the military yeah the secondary thing that goes into infidelity in military culture is the Jody. Everyone knows Jody, right?

The origins of Jody being the name for the guy who swoops up your girl originated in World War II from black Southern soldiers. So it was Joe D, Joe, and initial D was in Southern black culture, the guy that swooped in and stole your girl when you were gone. And when they

went into the army in large numbers, it became part of normal military vernacular. See, I never fucking knew that piece. So like black confederate soldiers? No, World War II. Oh, I'm sorry. I thought wrong. Yeah, sorry. Black confederate soldiers. But like Joe D had already been like this figure in black southern culture for years that they became sorry i thought wrong yeah sorry yeah like black confederate soldiers oh i know like joe d had

already been like this figure in black southern culture for years that they became mainstream that's why like when you said black southern i was picturing that yeah yeah no shit that i never knew that's where jody came from that's crazy now i want to know where dear john came from there's probably a i guarantee there is a moment history, and I'm going to continue to talk like this while Brandon looks it up so the camera never cuts to him. It came from the fucking movie, Dear John. Yeah, yeah.

Chattin Tatum. Think about it. It was Chattin Tatum. With Rachel Adam. There was a first... No, it wasn't Rachel Adam. It was the other one. Oh, shit, no.

Actually, it did not. It was a big... What? It didn't... Wow. The roots of the letter go back to war times, but to get more specific about it, the term and concept first appeared in a major newspaper in 1943 by

a correspondent, Milton Bracker, who wired the story of Dear John letters and groups forming in the war. 1943? Yeah, so another World War II. So a lot of comes out. That's crazy how that took... I didn't know that. It's been ingrained

in the military since World War II. Think about it. At one point, there was an E-8 who was the first one to ever use the word behoove, and then that fucking became a thing. I'm going to piggyback off of what the Sergeant Major said.

Come here, Maldon. Oh, God. Gosh darn it. Doggone. Come here, dang on, private. E7 in 1962 was taking night classes at the community college, and he heard his professor use the word behoove. I'm like, that makes him look smart. I'm going to use

it in my next speech. And now it's just a fucking thing. I want to behoove you soldiers. And the other soldiers are like, that's a good word. That's a good word. I'm going to use that someday. When I'm in the ACL one day, I can't wait to use that word. I hate the military.

We have some dope-ass guests coming in next month, actually. We have some. We've got quite a few. Yeah, we've got quite a few. I want to be here. You're going to range today? No, he's just planning on killing himself. That's where my boy is.

That's why he's a veteran. That joker right there. I've never been invited to range day. Come. I don't know where the fuck it is. I'm not going to tell you now. We can't announce it over this. We'll text it afterwards.

Jack and you are naturally invited. You guys don't invite me because I'm a real Mexican. I got invited already. Because I'm a real Mexican and you guys are fake as fuck. What? Yeah, you're not even from America. I'm from Texas. You were born in Texas?

How many people? Where were you born, Omar? Do you have any idea how many people are watching this right now thinking, like, Crispy's not black? I hear you cracking up over there. this right now thinking like like crispy's not black I know I love even my buddies like your black friend crispy I'm like yeah I'm Mexican that's happened to you a couple times people like he's black right I'm like no beaner like yeah I? I'm like, no. They're like 100% beaner. Like, on both sides.

Yeah, on both sides. There's no black in my lineage at all. Water. Yeah. Water. That bitch is still wet from when we came here. Me and Eli are just kind of like moist backs. Yeah, moist backs.

Yo, we're moist backs, I say. What's up, dog? But everybody always thinks I'm black. I'm here to say that. God, yeah, you are white as shit. He is. No, I'm tan. That's because he's Asian.

Oh, you're tanter than me. Yeah, by a good bit. Bro, we should do like. We're like with our powers combined, we're two Mexicans. With our low income. Our credit score. What's up, fool? Love for Impalas.

If he's a W-back and you guys are moistbacks. I like a W-back and you guys are moist-backs, I'm like, what's a W-back? I'm like a W-back. That's the most easy thing I know. You know how I feel about race jokes. What is a W-back? I am so much more offended by a W-back.

That is way worse to say. How long have you been fucking friends? Oh, I don't, look, I don't like to use, and you know I don't use that kind of language. You can't say it to my face as a friend? I have a new racial slur, by the way, for my skin. I want to get called a dryback. Could you please blur this, G-Van?

It's my new favorite. It's just somebody called me that the other day, and it just fucking cracked me the shit up. I was selling Nick me the shit up. I was selling Nick on the way here. I did an event somewhere and the lady called me the Ann Ward and I'm like, first of all, I'm Mexican, bitch. And then I just saw right after that. Oh, dude, I remember

you hit, this was a couple years ago. LeBron James did a talk. He did a story on his Instagram where he was like taco night or something like that but he started like doing like stereotypical Mexican stuff and then Omar made this response video where he started

he like leaned into the black thing he's like is this funny I'm like oh shit dude that was like personal for you when you made that it was fried chicken Friday yeah with a bucket I was like personal for you when you made that. It was fried chicken Friday. Yeah. Oh, God. Yeah, because he was just like with a bucket.

I was like, oh, really, motherfucker? You think taco Tuesdays? I was like, fried chicken. I was like, what did I say? Fried chicken Friday. And I was holding a watermelon. Well, trying to hold a watermelon. I had a fucking head.

Cradling. Yeah, cradling. I was like,ling Son of a bitch My black friends thought it was funny I sent it to them and they were like bro post it When you can make fun Of everybody equally That's equality

Don't fucking be a bitch about shit Jack was like oh man it's a little I could find this exchange Well maybe you want to fine tune this part of the joke so there's no misinterpretation there. I understood the joke. It was funny. I just like W back now. It's going to be

a shirt for us. It just says a big dub like a wind. The hard W. If you go to Bunker Branding slash Crispy 11B, you will find a fucking WBAC shirt. I won't. Really?

Yeah, we'll make it happen. Oh, okay. You already have that? I'm like, Matt approved that? Holy shit. Fuck Matt. He ain't gonna approve shit. It's gonna happen.

Crispy, can we get a... We're gonna do a shot for Veterans Day if you guys are good for it. Sure. We can do the less. Jack, are you good with it? Yeah, can you take the lessies? I'll give you the lessies. No, I can do one. I didn't do fools. I didn't do fools. Sure. We can do the less. Jack, are you good with it? I'll give you the lessies. No, I can do one.

I didn't do fools. I didn't do fools. Yeah. Because fools are like a little over half. Oh, so you're jumping off that wagon? What's up? Jumping off that wagon? Tomorrow we're going to box. Yeah, tomorrow we're boxing. So we've got we're doing Sober November

for the most part. Why not Sober October? That wasn't happening. We have a podcast exemption from it. That is this. And then we're all just like, okay, this is our one day. Just cram as much in as possible. I don't mind doing it earlier. You're a bunch of fucking cheaters.

That's what you guys are. But I do really good. I don't drink that much anymore. We actually have the backlog on podcasts, so we're not going to do a lot this month. We're a bunch of fucking cheaters. That's what you guys are. But I do really good. I don't drink that much anymore. We actually have quite the backlog on podcasts, so we're not going to do a lot this month. We're going to be mostly good. Yeah, this is the last one for the month because we're so backlogged.

I just think of this t-shirt idea that Jared had that I think would be an awesome Veterans Day shirt pitch. This is a Jared Taylor idea. You don't have to say it's a Jared Taylor idea. You can just say the idea and we'll automatically assume it is Jared Taylor. Is it food plus object? Is it food plus object? No, it's oh damn. Then I would have never guessed. Yeah. Paul Tibbetts Slade. What? Who the fuck is he? Nevermind. I would have guessed it. Yeah. He was the Enola Gay pilot.

Oh. Oh, that's it? Yeah. That's just the shirt. Oh, man, that's a hard one. For those who don't know, the Enola Gay was the bombing plane that ended up dropping the atomic bomb on Japan. Little Man, Little Boy? Fat Man and Little Boy. Yeah.

I think Little Boy was first in that. Yeah, Little Boy. That's why I was like, I think it was Little Boy. Yeah. Because fuck Nagasaki, I guess. Yeah. And you know the story about the Japanese guy that was in Hiroshima survived the blast. And he's like, well, I got to get the fuck out of here.

So he walks to Nagasaki. And right when he showed up in Nagasaki, the other one. And he survived both of them. Both of them. That's just the worst luck in the goddamn. The fucking radiation got that one. Speaking of veterans. That is the worst luck in the goddamn world. The fucking radiation got that one. That is the opposite of Kokura Lucky.

Let's talk all veterans for a moment. The last Japanese soldier that they found out that was still in 1975 or something. We talked about this, right? No, you missed it.

We talked about it last. I don't need to go into detail there it's just like of all the fucking war movies i'd love to be see cb made i'd love a fucking story about one of those basically extra spicy cast away yeah yeah he was hiding the whole fucking time yeah and every time someone tried to approach him to fucking be like hey uh it's cool man this is over he'd like shoot at him because he didn't believe anybody killed multiple civilians his own general they had to send that and his family didn't believe his family yeah they sent his fucking family and he's like nah nah bruh till 70s 30 fucking years of fighting something that didn't exist anymore he's like nope and now they're just really good at baseball

and they make the cartoons you like, Eli. Anime. See, isn't this funny? You guys thought this was just a show about cum and talking about racist jokes and things, and we're making you learn shit by accident. It's both now. If you want something different,

head on over to my... Did I tell you I hit 100,000 subscribers on my YouTube channel? Yeah, he got a silver play button. My guy. What are those called with you? A high five. Because all five fingers don't hit. Still a high five. I don't know.

The other day I was at the gym. Tarzan and Jane over there. The other day. You can hold it. My wife does it all the time. Why not that one? Because it's harder to grab. And I don't hold it. My wife does it all the time. I feel comfortable. Why not that one? Because it's harder to grab. And I don't like it.

I don't like it. Listen, next time you're at the gym, next time you're at the gym, there's a machine that you sit forward and you fucking move back. A rowing machine? No, it's a machine for weights to work your back out. No, the T machine?

Yeah. And then in the middle has a little rubber thing. Well, when you lift it, look it up, and there's a little sign on there that says, don't put your hand on there because it'll end up like this. It's actually Crispy's hand in the warning sign. I'm a hand model. That's actually a good little TikTok or something where you just have that in your hand. I have a question for you.

I've already done it. I've already done it. I have a question for you. I've already done it. I've already done it. I have a question for you. Is your first gunshot wound still visible? Yeah. No. No, not really. These are mostly burns.

You gunshots don't show up that much. I still have mine. Yours is. Oh, well, you're at the barrel. You are literally at the barrel of your gunshot, which is worse. That's significantly worse. Yeah. When you're at, that's significantly worse. Yeah, that's where all... You not only get the energy of the round,

but you also get the energy of the rest of the expulsive gas. The muzzle blast, I think, is what charted up to where I wasn't bleeding as bad because I think it charted up my skin a bit. And it opens up a lot more temporary cavity. I don't know anything about medicine. I'm learning about this right now. Yeah, because it's the gas expulsion that like yeah that like fried good done that you're lucky it's green tip all right the flash is over real quick oh yeah everyone happy veterans day each

and every one of you thank you to all the veterans out there we love you guys love you guys and then chris but you're gonna tell us actually happy Actually, happy Veterans Day to all the veterans except for Timothy McVeigh and Jeffrey Dahmer and the guy who shot Lee Harvey Oswald and Lee Harvey Oswald, too. Jack Ruby. Jack Ruby. And Matt Best for not showing up. It's just Matt Best plays. No longer veteran.

We just need something like fucking 12 veterans. Fuck that guy. Fuck that guy. Matt Best, we're taking your veteran status and giving it to Brandon. Dude, I made a picture of Timothy McVeigh from when he was in Desert Storm. I made a meme where it said, Kim Kardashian can get a million likes for showing her butt. How many can we get for this veteran? I saw that.

Yeah. That was me. I made that. You did? Oh, my God. Well, Tim McVeigh would have been a lot more based if the FBI actually showed up to work that day and not just that basement full of kids. Oh, yeah. That was really weird that the FBI took that day off. Anyway. Oh, my God. Well, Tim McVeigh would have been a lot more based if the FBI actually showed up to work that day and not just that basement full of kids. Oh, yeah.

That was really weird that the FBI took that day off. Anyway. Cheers to Veterans Day. Cheers to Veterans Day. People are like, I love this podcast. Crispy. What? Can you do a synopsis of your burn story?

You've told it before, but not on this podcast i think the listeners out there which that's by the way that that's one of the best uh it's who we are oh it is it is the best that was the first one that set the precedent um for the rest of them yeah i think it made my mom cry yeah tell us that thank you um yeah it was May 14th of 2007. I always forget. It's been so long. No, it was 07. Regular patrol, regular day.

We went out. It was a five-vehicle convoy, and I was in the third vehicle as a gunner, and we had five in there. We had driver, TC, truck commander, passenger, passenger, and myself and a gun. IED goes off, and we're like, holy shit, first IED of the day, small one, hit the last vehicle, just blew the tire up. So we kind of assess the situation. We're like, oh, nothing happened. We keep pushing forward.

And then all of a sudden, the first two vehicles started getting engaged from like the left hand side like they're getting shot up and they're like holy shit here we go well they couldn't turn on that road because it was you know they were already getting shot at but the next road they couldn't so my vehicle ended up turning and becoming the first vehicle so when we turn I automatically I see the fucking

I can hear the fucking rounds through my head like it's like oh shit I'm like here we go you know fucking here's the adrenaline and then i just get behind the 50 and i start fucking i hit a couple killed a couple and then at that point everybody fell into formation once again and then once we did we start pushing forward towards the enemy and then i remember going over like the biggest fucking um bump we had ever fucking gone over. And at this point, we've been there for like 11 months.

Like it's been a minute. And so I knew the streets like the back of my hand. So I'm like, whoa, what the fuck was that? And as I was like processing. It feels like hitting a speed bump fast or something. Yeah, yeah. So I was processing like, wait a minute, that fucking shit a bit. Boom.

I mean, fucking goes off. It was 200 pounds of explosives that they had buried we found out this later on um from the other research and stuff that they did but they they dug a hole from one of the houses into the to the uh road and they started stuffing it with explosives we got kind of lucky because the guy was a command detonate and the guy was looking through the window and he panicked and he should have set it off right in the middle of the humvee if he would have hit the middle of the humvee everybody in there would have been dead cat cat kill yeah that's it but he panicked milliseconds and it hit the back of the humvee so threw the

humvee up in the air um when the humvee lifted it from the back oh yeah yeah when the humvee came back down you're talking about a ton vehicle it's fucking heavy and then it hits and then when it hit my legs gave out when he says the ton vehicle this is like multi like you're looking at an up armored humvee like dude probably 40,000 pounds yeah i was in 1151 yeah 40,000 pounds probably uh up on tons or 20 tons. Let me look up. Continue, Star. I'm not good with math. Anyway, so vehicle goes up, hits the ground, my legs give out, and I remember falling inside the vehicle,

and I fell on the right-hand side passenger, and that was Specialist Harkey. And I remember looking at Harkey and looking at his eyes, and they were white. He was killed just on the IED itself. And as I'm laying there, you know, I'm like, just looking around and I look over to my left and I see Fleming jumps out and Catterton jumps out.

And I saw both of them on fire, but I was like watching a movie in slow-mo and then fast. So like I looked at them and they were both on fire, running away and i was like oh shit and then i just remember man laying there and up until this point we have lost like 15 16 guys and you know um i was very mad and you know i my faith had been like fucking gone like i was like mad at god i was asking him how can you let my friends die around me and all this shit and i remember then laying there making peace with god i was like um you God. I was asking him, how can you let my friends die around me and all this shit. And I remember then laying there making peace with God.

I was like, you know, I was just pretty much asking him to take care of my mom. Because I knew my mom was going to like be the one to suffer the most when she found that I was dead. My dad is former military, so I knew he was going to be okay. And then I was just like make my, you know, let my little brother step in and be the oldest. And take care of my sister and all that. And as I'm doing that, I my, you know, let my little brother step in and be the oldest and take care of my sister and all that. And as I'm doing that, I remember a compost was in the front and he reached and grabbed me and he goes, get the fuck out, get out. He couldn't get out because his equipment had burned into the seat. And at that moment, man, I just felt like this fucking energy inside of me.

And like I've been to now, I always tell like everybody, like you're a believer or not. Like I tell everybody, I feel like it was God because I had this massive energy in my body and I got up and I can clearly hear somebody saying not today this is not where you die so I get up I man the gun and as soon as I do that there's there's enemy on the rooftop i'm like holy shit so i start shooting um and then as i was doing that the flames were so hot that some of the rounds started cooking off and something exploded i'm like fuck it's time to get out and as i'm doing that a grenade goes off and just peppers my whole right leg i mean fucking hits me really bad and as a gunner you're taught to jump from the gunner's hatch to the engine and then down because it's pretty fucking high

It's like six feet high. It's a high like Anything at that especially when you're you have your front LP you have all your equipment on you're adding an additional 60 pounds especially if your legs are fucked Yes, it would yeah And then yes and then so and then it doesn't work you jump to the back and then that but both sides were on fire So if I would have jumped on the engine, I'm fucking done. So I'm like, fuck. So I jumped to the side.

When I jumped to the side, both of my femurs just break. And at this time, I'm on fire. And I'm like, holy shit. And then I automatically was like, oh, fuck. Stop dropping row. Well, I'm already dropped. So I'm like, fucking row. And let me just tell you.

Did you say break? They popped out to the side oh fuck so did they dislocate or did they like shatter like compound on the side big compound shattered on the side like out out the yeah yeah dude because so with the femurs just if i can it is you have like the your quads and your hamstrings are the strongest muscles in your body so if if you have a crack, that's usually what happens. Compound fracture, bone separates. Now it's pushing up. You can cause arterial bleeding. You have all these negative effects from that.

On top of that, that's a hard bone to break. Yeah. It is. So now you have the hardest bone to break, shatter sideways, pull in because muscles can have damage from that. Like crispy, boom, boom. And if I recall correctly, you didn't really feel the pain at that time? No.

No, not at all. So I, you know, did the whole stop, drop, and roll. And it doesn't fucking work. So that's a fucking myth. And I remember. Years of the academy wasted. Oh, this is why I love it. Your firefighters have been wiped.

Stop, drop, and roll doesn't work, kids. I picture the enemies that are like watching. And you're like, shit. Shit, this is why I love it. Your firefighters have been wiped. Stop driving around in the work, kids. I picture the enemies, they're like watching, and you're like, shit, shit, I'm on fire. Shit. And they're just like, what is homeboy doing right now? Doesn't he know? The globalists don't want you to know. Stop driving around. Bullshit.

And then at that moment, one of the guys from the last vehicle ran up to me and put me out with a fire extinguisher, and they pulled out a compost. And shortly after, he's like, I'll be back. I'm going to go grab a medic. And I'm like, okay. And I had managed to grab my M4, so I'm on the ground like this. And then I look behind me, and I see a door. I'm like, well, fuck.

Let me push myself away. Because at this point, I'm from here to like maybe Eli and I can feel the heat of the fucking vehicle so I'm like oh so I start pushing back and I turn around I saw that door and I fucking put three rounds through that door just in case somebody was coming and then I just sat there and I was scanning the rooftop to see if I see enemies

and at that point another buddy ran by and he looks at me and goes are you alive and I was like I think so and he goes oh shit and at that moment you alive? And I was like, I think so. And he goes, oh shit. And at that moment, a vehicle had already moved in front of us. And so he's like, dude, I gotta get you up. I was like, dude, I think my legs are broken. He goes, no, you're okay.

I'm like, okay. So he picks me up and I'm putting most of my weight on him and we're walking to the next vehicle. And he's like, dude, I need to put you on a stretch. I need to put you on a stretch. I'm like, okay. So he's like, let me open the door put you on a stretcher. I need to put you on a stretcher. I'm like, okay. So he's like, let me open the door. So he lets go of me, and my fucking legs just go.

And I just remember watching him, the Humvee in the sky, and I hit, and I'm like, oh, shit. And he comes over to me. He goes, you okay? And I was like, I told you my legs were broken. And he's like, what the fuck? The adrenaline was so high, I did not feel the pain. And so finally he loads me up into the vehicle.

He goes, I got to go get a medic. I got to go get a medic. I'm like, okay. I'm sitting there. The guy that was driving that vehicle was his first day outside the wire. We were getting replacements for all the guys that we were losing. And it was his first day, and he was fucking screaming and panicking. So I did what anybody would do.

I reached over, slapped him, and told him, shut the fuck up. Very George Patton of you. Shut the fuck up. Got the job done. Hey! Hey! Listen to me, soldier! You see these legs? To be perfectly honest, if we're comparing trauma here... Yeah.

Yeah. And then shortly after that, a medic jumps in. He starts working on me. yeah and then shortly after that medic jumps in he starts working on me and I'm like hey man I need some water at this point I got really thirsty and he was like I can't give you any water just yet

give me some fucking water and he finally gives me some and I took a sip and I'm like just take some more sips and then I made the biggest mistake of my life. I poured water over my head. So the chemicals from the IED, from the fire extinguisher, the dirt in Iraq, everything just fucking went down in my eyes and I went fucking, I couldn't really see.

And I'm like, fuck. And then at this point we just hear like, hey, we're good to go. We're good to go. We're good to go. Let's push. And I'm like, oh, fuck. And then at this point, we just hear like, hey, we're good to go. We're good to go. We're good to go. Let's push. And I'm like, oh, fuck. And I look,

I was like, give me the headset. So I grabbed the headset from the guy, put him on, and I was like, what order are we in? The convoy goes first.

I'm like, fuck. I was like, you know how to get back? He goes, nope. And at that point, I was like, either I panic

or I tell this fucking guy how to get back. Because again, we've been there 11 months. I knew that place like the back of my hand. You get your routes down. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

Everybody knows. You fucking know how to get back regardless. And so I started giving them instructions. And then. So you already knew the orientation of where your hobby was. I was perfectly where we were at. Yeah. You hammer this shit.

Yeah. You hammer it in your head. Like, doing dismounted patrols i could walk half a mile and land exactly at the house i needed to like hot girl house yeah yeah exactly hot girl house i told the story about we had one hot girl house in all of four corners in baghdad and everyone knew hot girl house yeah i can tell you on fbcb2 right now to this day, we're hot. And so, you know, we started making our way back. And then I'm like, let me know when you see the gate.

And he saw it, and I called it up. I was like, hey, I'm coming in. I got one KIA, and I got four WIA wounded in action. And they were like, okay. They had no idea I was one of them. So we roll in. They open the door, and my buddy opens the door, and I look at him, and I'm just naked.

He's like, we got to get you out. I'm like, okay. So he goes to grab me, and when he grabs me by the arms, my whole skin just went. And he's looking at me like fucking freaking out, and I close the door because I knew we only had three medics. I said, go get the other guys. They're worse than I am.

And he's like, what the fuck are you talking about? He opens the door again. He goes, and we were lucky that there was SF compound right next to us. Oh, they got the best. 18, yeah. Yeah. So their medic came over. They're like, no, no, we have this guy here. And I was like, OK.

So they pulled me out. They put me in the aid station. I'm laying there. I see the other three guys come in. And everybody was non-verbal i mean you know from the trauma and shit and then um they call the medevac medevac shows up we get loaded on the bird and man i remember fucking smelling fucking heaven and i look up and it's a fucking it's a fly medic chick it's just all that fucking perfume and i was like

how you doing and she's looking at me like what the fuck is like what are you doing after this and like i don't remember are you hitting on me right now really i was so high on fucking on uh morphine and everything that i'm like what are you doing after this i told i i told him about the desert queens like a couple weeks ago i like, we have desert Queens that you were like, even blown up, burnt. Chris, be like,

that was definitely a desert. Sup? I ended up, I ended up seeing her again at Bamsi. She was doing some training at Bamsi and she was like, you might not remember me, but, uh,

I, uh, I'm so-and-so. And I was like, Oh, I remember. And anyway, so and so and I was like oh I remember and anyway so ended up at ended up at Fort

nothing I ended up back at I ended up I got injured and May 14th by May 16th I was walking through the doors of Brook Army Medical Center and they were you know they started working on me and I spent three years there By May 16th, I was walking through the doors of Brooke Army Medical Center. And they started working on me, and I spent three years there.

I was in an induced coma for a couple months. And then as a result of that, I sustained 75% burns to the body, third and fourth degree burns, and then had an amputation below the right leg. How many surgeries? Currently at 106. And even since I've known you, you've probably done half a dozen. Oh, yeah. I remember your 100th. It came in like

2019? No, 17. It was just when we just met for the first time. Yeah. That must have been right before we met, actually. I think it was. Yeah, it was right before that. Because I had my leg amputated in 16, and I think.

Oh, 16? Really? No shit. Wow, that late? Yeah, we did nine years limb salvage on it. I used to have a club foot, kind of like a diabetic cut. No shit. Because that's how much the fucking grenade cut off of me that day.

I'm learning shit. I thought you had your fucking leg taken pretty early. It was a light, yeah. I amputated my leg in 2016. No shit. Yeah. That was two years before we met. Yeah.

It was two months into me dating my wife, girlfriend back at the time. Yeah. And where a lot of guys have to be like, hey, I got to tell you something. I have herpes. Where you're like, hey, I'm going to get my leg chopped off. Yeah. Yeah. And she was there the whole time, man. So, yeah. Good have herpes where you're like, hey, I'm going to get my leg chopped off. Yeah. Yeah. And she was there the whole time, man.

So, yeah. Good for her, man. That's awesome. But, yeah, I've been 106 surgeries. I can probably have another 100 to do reconstructive surgery everywhere. That's going to be an ongoing thing. It is. It is.

And it's a selective thing. Like I said, like right now I can have a hundred more surgeries that I want to get done whether it be you know doing scar band tissue releases and stuff like that because they get so tight and so dry and everything and that's kind of like what I was telling Nick was like that's why I kind of fell in love with scuba diving again because once I'm in the water like my body starts to loosen up because of the water and the salt water and i'm like oh shit i didn't know i can fucking stretch that far like i'm like oh look at that i can touch my toes you know like shit like that so

i can have the five yeah the five toes the five toes i can have i can have another hundred surgeries right now to help with all that but's just, it sets me back so much. Like I have to be, you know, I'm going to be in the hospital. And then it's two weeks to recover. And then follow up this and follow up that. And then if it doesn't work, we got to do it again. And it's just, I'm over that. Like I really don't fucking like being in the hospital.

I've had three years of living there. I don't like to go i think one of the most fascinating things you told me when we were discussing uh your amputation is and i've heard this from other amputees is like when you're driving the car you can feel the sensation i drive my prosthetic yeah yeah you so you use your prosthetic on the pedal, but you feel it like it's your foot. Me and Brandon were like, we both jumped. We're like, what? It's weird because I can feel my prosthetic as if

it were my foot pushing on the gas. So it's kind of like a mixture of the prosthetic and phantom. Phantom pain. Do you have the phantom pain? Oh, yeah. When I move my nub inside the prosthetic,

I'm still simulating moving those toes and flexing that ankle and all that. And that translates. It translates, yeah. It makes sense in the brain, but even though it's not there. It makes sense because even now, like, my brain is what's registering those nerves to, like, move my toes. Well, what's crazy, too, is, too is what Corder did with the 3D printed hand and shit like that.

Those tendons and everything. It's crazy how the prosthesis from World War I to where we are now and where we're going is going to get so crazy. Have you seen that guy on YouTube? Shout out to this guy. I can't remember his name. It's Michael something. I think. I don't know.

He lost most of his hand. He lost his fingers fingers and everything he's still got his thumb and shit but he built like a chain like hand that operates it's based off of like yeah here right and he can close it he can grab shit he can do whatever but it's it's it's it's so fucking steampunk it's so cool all that being developed at the hospital with all the other guys in prosthesis and all that shit. He can flay the fingers. He can close it. Yeah, open it, grab, drop, fucking give you the finger, everything. Yeah.

Dude, that stuff's so wild. It's super cool. And that's what it's going to be. Ah, thank you for sharing that, man. This is a great veteran. Guys, on that note, we are going to close this amazing episode down. Thank you guys for sharing your stories, talking. Brandon, especially you.

Fuck you, dude. Brandon, you are a true OG. We appreciate everything you're doing. I've got some extra Red Horse swag if you want to borrow. I'm not an honorary member. Our beautiful people, where can we find you at? We're about. Oh, and we're going to do the after show after this.

It's like in 10, 20 minutes. So, yeah, YouTube mainly, guys. Crispy 11B. I'm doing a lot more longer content on there from hunting to, you know, going to the track. Just pretty much what we talked about, having that belt i share my my life with you guys of everything that i love doing from you know racing vehicles to archery to shooting guns to hunting to scuba diving everything is on that fucking channel so if you guys want to come check that out crispy 11b help me get those numbers up jack as always you can find me crashing in jt's spare room. Jack Mandeville, everyone.

I spent a whole summer crashing in your spare room. He did. That was awesome. When I lived in Wimberley. Jack, you're about to start some stuff? Oh, yeah. I am starting a YouTube channel. Because of this podcast. Because of this podcast.

And these motivational people that will be like, Jack, and you amazing community out there. Because I told Jack to read the comments, and he was like, oh, shit, Eli, I read the comments. These people are mostly not pieces of shit. I left my first ever YouTube comment on a response to something somebody said I responded to. That was my first time ever commenting on YouTube. Long time lurker,

first time commenter. Yeah. So, yeah. My goal right now is to focus on the content and writing part and then I will be consulting with you guys on the best practices and the business portion of it.

Anything you need, man. We're here for you. We gotta do another video. Same here. Anything you need, man, we're here for you. Appreciate it. We got to do another video. Yeah. Same here. And you better fucking come to range day. You text me when it is. How about as soon as those cameras turn off, I'll tell you when and where. And I'll let you know if I'm in town.

And then Brandon has an interesting video coming up with a certain guy. Oh, yeah. We got the Inglorious Bastards fist gun. Did I tell you about that? It's the OSS Sedgley Mark II Oh, fuck yeah I saw one of those in person No shit

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