Unsubscribe Podcast - 143 - Surviving An IED Explosion ft. Mandatory Funday, Tyler Butterworth & LordOfLips

Episode Date: January 29, 2024

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Are you the Air Force recruiter? I'm not the Air Force recruiter. And then I remember hearing him. His screams were pretty gnarly. You're a tool. Go f*** yourself. Back. Wow.

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seeing the numbers seeing where you guys are putting us on the map i told the guys today our goal in 2024 is to be the top 10 podcast in comedy on apple spotify youtube i know we can do it because we have you amazing humans out there backing us. We work for you. I've said it a million times. We work for all of you out there and we're truly appreciative of everything you've given us to this moment. So thank you again. To touch on the team, Nick, Cody, and Brandon have been an amazing addition to this team as hosts. They are crushing it. I'm so excited to have them aboard. And then I'm just, I'm blessed to call them my friend at the end of the day. They are all my friends and I'm truly lucky to have that.

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I am truly blessed to have you part of it. Like, I can't thank you enough for the work you did. And we are super excited for you to move down here, brother. Super stoked. And the community sees it too. You are talented. You are driven. My favorite thing is this man is going out and learning on his own and texting me with new ideas on how to improve the editing process and even the podcast itself.

G-Van, pat yourself on the back, brother. You freaking deserve it, my man. We are now going to start rolling out five episodes a month instead of four. So we're slowly introducing one more episode just to give you all more content and another break in your everyday lives. We owe that to all of you. It is the least we could do for all y'all. So the episode you're about to watch was recorded a little bit ago, but I truly love this episode. It is amazing stories and it is active duty dudes that are crushing it in the service right now. Each one has social media and followings, but more importantly than that, each one is such a motivated individual

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What am I doing? We all broke that rule last time then. This is YouTube kids, right? Yeah, this is the kids content. You guys are... I like only like one. Who's watched an episode? I have watched part of an episode, I'll admit.

Perfect. Oh, when are we starting? Are we starting now? It's already started. It's already started. Oh, it's been starting? We got you rubbing your lips? Drink your energy.

Can you get it? The part where I was picking my nose? We don't crack it yet. I mean, we can't crack it. Oh, I thought that's when we start is when we crack it. Oh, no. We start before that. It's how you get everyone relaxed.

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Three, two, one. Oh, yeah. there's like a countdown then we open it there ready okay now we're getting ready three two one oh yeah and then you take your step do it in sync cheers um welcome to another episode of unsubscribed hi you beautiful people i've missed you it's been one week one week but we are oh my god this is the most veteran military episode I have ever been on. Go down. Go down the line. Introduce yourselves. You've been here.

This is my second time. They forced me to come back under threat of injury. Mandatory fun day here. I'm really excited. I'm really excited to be here with Mr. Butterworth. I was going to make you come so hard. Okay, next one. So, first off, I've never actually heard of this guy, but I've heard he's kind of a big deal.

My name is Tyler Butterworth, and I am honored to be here. That's you. Hello. You may know me as the Lord of Lips, but today you can call me Flo Hey Flo Browder in the house Hey dude it's great to have all y'all here

I'm so excited this is like Yesterday show was like hey we got Tyler coming in It was cool and then it was like everyone else Also mandatory Also Flo's gonna be here I'm like shit okay Fuck okay thank god We only have a huge range date coming

this is the perfect time these shows have been crushing it over there how you guys doing how was the trip first time in texas really nice here wife wants you to move here now within within 15 minutes of being here she's like like, we need to move here ASAP. We haven't even left the airport yet. I agree. But you have to get rid of the horses. We do. We have so many good stories for this one. We were driving to the restaurant today.

Didn't know Flo had two Purple Hearts. I was like, okay, stop. Dude, yeah. I was like, okay, save it for the podcast. Okay, we're not talking about it. And he walks in, he's like, whose anime is this? I don't know. Super confused.

Whose anime that might be. So we're going to have a military fun day. Just a great time today learning stories about Purple Hearts. You have some stories, too. Everyone just prepare for an amazing episode, guys we're gonna get to the bottom starting with you all right go i want to know the first purple heart story because what the fuck uh so yeah first appointment i was on was in uh afghanistan from 2009 to 2010 right and uh beautiful area yeah amazing area.

Loved it so much, I had to go back a second time. I've heard land's cheap there. Yeah. The first one I got was just really, really bad timing. It was an IED. I'm sure you guys have heard of that. Never heard of her. Right.

And, yeah, it just was a gunner in the turret and didn't see it coming we were driving through we came up to a stop uh the bridge was blown up in front of us so we had to go around right uh ultimately my tc asked me which side you want to go on left or right and because you know as a gunner i had the eyes up i could see what was going on i was just like the left side looks good let's go left and uh that was the wrong side i just like i just picture in the movie it's like he looks over it's like sunshine rainbows he looks over it's trash just everything he's like i want to go to the left one so are you sure bro that's a lot of trash and debris are you looks good. Wires are coming out. No, I, yep, we're doubling down.

Boom! Fuck, I didn't see this one coming. Yeah, so, I don't know, if you haven't been, it's, there's a lot of trash around the area, and it's hard to tell where things are, but. Did you get, take shrapnel, or what happened? So, as we're going through, right, I look to my left, and, you know, I didn't see nothing too crazy. As we're going, I went back down to turn, I peeked over to the right, and, you know, I didn't see nothing too crazy. As we were going, I went back down to the turret,

and I peeked over to the right, and that's when it happened. And it shot me up. I felt the compression and the jolt, right? And thankfully, I had my gunner's harness on and it brought me right back down. The last thing I remember was looking up at the ceiling, and, yeah, everyone screaming. It was a pretty wild time. how big was the ied um so from what i remember it was 180 pounds give or take yeah that was a ride right there yeah um no yeah i got i got hurt pretty bad so i had a tbi i was a ruptured left eardrum i had like

i just remember too like waking up and like this side was just like it felt like there was just water there and i could not hear what was going on so it was just like bleeding out and my arm was like swollen right here just like immense pain right and i just remember like looking up trying to like figure out what's happening and uh my buddy name was a K specialist K I'm laying on top of his knees right and he's like shaking me like trying to wake me up and like I look at him and I could see he was in pain too later on we find out his feet were shattered but uh yeah that was uh but he was like nurturing you no yeah he was trying so I ended up landing on top of his lap and he was like, he was just like trying to wake

me up and see if I was okay. And, uh, I just remember that. And I remember squad leaders are in paradise being like, you need to get back on the fucking gun. All right. And, uh, I remember, I remember being in so much pain when he told me that I was just like, I can't, I can't do it. And, uh, at that point, like he, he like grabbed me and i was just like i can't i can't do it and uh at that point

like he he like grabbed me to try to like get me up there and i like started crawling and then at that point the last thing i remember was getting picked up by somebody and we were i was getting drugged to where the ccp is dang i just like they were like get back on that gun you're up there just like he's just dragging you back to that gun. You're up there just like. He's just dragging you back to base. Your body's just flopping around. He's like, that's a soldier right there. You're like, fuck, dude.

It's definitely an experience. Well, a lot of people don't realize. The concussion is what fucks you up from an explosion. It's like grenades. And the shrapnel, too, will kill you. But that concussion, that shockwave, that is what does the damage especially in those i've with three ieds i've been in and one s fest so like it was always the concussion the shake of everything that's what like really fucks with the old the old noggin in my opinion that's always what it just makes you like want

to throw up or anything yeah now i could tell you like the next thing I remember from that was like, I'm like laying inside a truck is, you know, as a tombstone struck and cause you know, we're waiting for a medevac cause you know, the elders were hurt too. Uh, whatever reason I remember sitting back up and I just had like a surge of adrenaline. I was just like, Oh, I need to get the fuck back out there. I just opened the door and I started getting out and I just like, I need to get the fuck back out there. I just opened the door and I started getting out and I was like,

I need to pull security because I heard, you know, up front was the gunner behind us and his name's Peralta. He was already shooting and I just was like, I need to get back in action.

I remember her medic. I can't remember her name, but she was a female medic. She's an Air Force medic attached to us and I just remember her grabbing me. She's like, you need to get back in the fucking truck. And I was like, okay, roger.

Because, you know, I was a little, I was a PSC at the time. So, you know, I just listened to her. She's the E5 sergeant. So went back in there and sat me down. I think it's because at the time, like, for whatever reason, I felt like Superman right there. I didn't feel anything anymore anything anymore i just felt great but i probably looked like shit and uh that was the right call because you i don't know if you when you're in something like that you have so much going through that you might feel like you're great but you're probably not great

and when the adrenaline goes away it is not a good time like you're like i'm oh oh that like everywhere hurts now this is the worst feeling ever my leg like i've had the the leg one and then watching other people it's always like hey yep during the action you're just adrenaline so you're not feeling in anything and then once the action's over and the combat adrenaline drops then you're just like pain yeah pain sleepy tired i want to go to bed and then you have like eight more hours of a mission you're like oh this is fucking dope because you probably had how much more time in between like initial explosion to going back yeah to to getting back so from that point right they medevaced me and i remember that part just laying in uh on a litter and i just remember seeing the blades we can talk about this on the second one but i remember seeing

the rotary blades spinning just laying on my back and i'm looking at it i just remember being like i'm screwed because you know i didn't know if there was anything else wrong with me i didn't know how everyone else is doing i remember my buddy uh specialist k I remember him like grabbing my hand and like trying to hold it. Cause he was also in there too. Cause his feet were, you know, shattered. I remember looking at him too.

And I was just like, damn, you know, this is really, that was a little, that was a definitely a dark period right there. And then from there, I remember we,

uh, we got medevaced to, uh, Bagram, uh, Bagram airfield. Yep. And, uh, I, I don't remember, you know, this is a long time

ago, but I don't remember all the details. I just remember eventually, you know, I was laying in a bed trying to recover. And then I remember hearing him. They were working on him and his screams were pretty gnarly. God damn. Yeah.

You just went through the savages that this is how we're starting the podcast everyone this is intense now everyone's like this intense i do have a question you have a question so since you've experienced this kind of stuff does it put other things in perspective for you like is is other stuff that would be extremely stressful for somebody who hadn't experienced this is it just kind of like your day-to-day life like think of your level of stress is going to be completely like when your ex is freaking out about property are you just like whatever man nobody's dying like calm down no well put it this way yes is has my perspective changed absolutely uh very little things like really truly freak me out um but that doesn't mean that what you're going through right right

yeah isn't important so i make sure i make sure to show that i care and that whatever you know whatever you're going through i want to make i want to make sure that i can show that i understand what you're going through does that make sense yeah um i'm enjoying your presence so you didn't know this was going to turn into a therapy session no i do we always try to preach this it is the idea of like your traumas your trials and tribulations are going to be different uh it's going to vary from person to person and just because you went through more shit whether that's almost dying getting shot getting blown up like all those little things just because yes it is harder to you probably feel the same way anyone that's been in that situation it is harder to relate sometimes because you're like

in your head you won't say it but you're like that's not that bad see i'm breathing right now i'm not getting shot at it's pretty fucking dope that's in my mind i just keep that inside because i know i'm like well that's my own thing hey yes like maybe whatever like the tire blew on the car i'm gonna get frustrated at it but i'm not gonna be like super pissed or being like oh fuck we're late this is the end of the world. The battle of Ontario is on and fan duels. Your home for live betting the series with features like live SGPs, build a parlay, any game,

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If you have questions or concerns about your gambling or the gambling of someone close to you, please contact Connects Ontario 1-866-531-2600 to speak to an advisor free of charge. Because of those experiences, but it also helps to be like, it's not bringing it up. It's like, hey, well, what are you going through? How, and then you try to help them with your own tool belt that you've uh acquired through your experiences of trauma that's what i always try to do at least yeah and i try not to let that like uh you know bring me down or like affect me like too much right like i i still think you should you know have a positive outlook on life and i do my best to make sure that's you know that is the case

and i have a good time i'm not like uh permanently like, you know, downed about it. The way I look at it, the way I look at this is like something like that happens, right? It's a circle. It is a circle. It's a big circle. Especially for you. You got two purple hearts. Yeah.

It's a huge circle. Huge circle. Bad experience. Oh no, it's coming back around. Yeah. So this happens, you know, traumatic event. It's going to be, you're going to think about it a lot, right? It's going to like, it is going to be there.

The moment you blink, you close your eyes. It's going to, it's going to pop, right? It's going to happen. You're going to think about it a lot. And as time goes on, right? That circle should get smaller, right? Of you not thinking about it as much until the point where it is a memory that you can still remember, right?

You used to go on it, but you should not be dwelling on it constantly does that make sense never dwell on the past it's a you learn from that experience you process that experience and then you move forward becoming like hey yes that happened i'm going to use that as a reference for my future life and then for helping buddies out but i'm going to also not let that just fucking pull me down or let that be my letter jacket it's like well that's happened so i can't move on with life i'm i'm too depressed i'm too x y and z yes depression and stuff can happen but is you want to motivate people and motivate yourself get out of that depression as hard as it can or reach out to others that can help pull you out of it and then find that group that camaraderie to push each

other to that next level of where that's that is the past that is left in the past you you know it happened you can talk about it you can smile through it and then you're like yeah that that happened but look what i'm accomplishing now that should always be the mission and the goal in life is the future learn from the past use that to motivate yourself for the future because i don't know if it's like you like life i understand it's very fragile now i'm like life will just in the blink of an eye you're there you're not there and once you come to like you realize death is gonna happen everyone's just whether it's your time or not then you'll have a different outlook yeah it's like when i first

started watching your stuff yeah and i saw like the funny chapstick video that you did in the beginning but then you started posting some of these stories like you're telling us here today and it's like all the comments that everybody's writing like sharing their own experiences that they haven't before but because you're doing it and you're sharing it out there to the world they're able to then communicate that themselves and so now you're like you're doing it and you're sharing it out there to the world, they're able to then communicate that themselves. And so now you're like, you're literally like healing people with your content. Even you putting the face camo on and telling a story about your deployments

and all that. It's like, dude, this is legit. This is good stuff. But good for you, man. Appreciate it.

Thank you. Now he's like, please, can we not talk more? No, no. I was expecting you to crush this podcast more so there i was i chose the wrong side of the road oh god oh shit i mean i imagine it was gonna get brought up because you know everyone's everyone's always

wanting to ask me like i get messaged about all the time could you talk about it could you talk about and i've i've gone over it briefly. Right. And especially I thought it was very important to talk about it. Like what are you talking about? What I did? That was during what the month of June, that was a men's mental health month. Oh yeah. So I thought, you know what?

Why not? I'll bring it up. Let's talk about it. I will show you through the expressions and how I know how, and I pretty much kind of like relived it and try to tell it the best version I could with, you know, through the lens of an iPhone. But no, I did see the effect of it. And I've gotten plenty of messages on like how that helped people.

And I think that is important, right? Because especially, you know, in today's society, everybody only wants to show like the positive side of things. Nobody wants to see the realness. And don't get me wrong right i don't want i don't want to scare people with what you could go through right but i also don't want to lie and say you cannot potentially go through that but what i do want to show is that

you can go through those things you could turn around you have a smile that's what i want now there are certain things i can and can't do that i know myself. Like for example, I just can't touch alcohol. Just can't do it. Oh, okay. That's well, tell me that before I keep offering you drinks. Maybe I'll have one drink. See, thank you for that. That's way better because I never pressure people. If you're like, ah, I'm like, oh, you sure I can make you something? Just, I get you started again. I just, I'm like, oh God, I didn't know. Why didn't no one tell me? No, no, you're good. Yeah, no, that's just, you know,

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What I can't follow that how I would know like your own trials and tribulations What is let's do a little switch it to more of a well like one of your positive experiences, like one memory in your military where you're like, ah, that was like that. Overseas or like on base where it was either hilarious or something that left a mark for you. Sure. I'll talk about my first team leader that I have. Shout out to Sergeant Walker. He's a coal miner from West Virginia. So this guy was like the expert of infantry tactics. But when it came to the basic english language and spelling and

stuff like that terrible so we were in uh i think we're in downtown ramadi we're driving he's sending back a sit rep back to battalion and he asked he's like hey beat up how do you spell because and so me being the you know very smart 18 year old that i was i'm like it's a b-e-k-a-u-s-e sergeant and he's like all alright and he's like hit send next thing I know we do a all halt in the convoy we're in downtown Ramadi and he's like get out on the hood and give me 2-5

and I'm like I'm gonna die like this isn't good so next thing I know I'm out there on the hood in Ramadi in 2007 this is the surge my yeah my like bro my my like humor and sarcasm and like being that way has landed me in a position that like i'm gonna get sniped on the hood of this humvee luckily that didn't happen but it was like in that moment i'm like you know what i can

i recognize like the value in the comedy and like the being sarcastic and all that and like the amount of stories that we have like everybody at this table you know messing around with each other like those kind of guys and those experiences are why we're all still together why we still talk to each other I mean I love it I love everything about it holy shit I just the picture of getting smoked they like stop the entire wild Like now we're stopping here. Like Big Song, are you sure we're in that? Nope. He's doing push-ups. On the hood of the Humvee.

I'm like, wait a second. What are we stopping for? This isn't good. Like I was a gunner. I'm standing there like this isn't good. I'm buckling. He's like, you caused this. You want me to count out loud, Big Song? What do we do? Holy holy shit yeah yeah it was always back and forth we we had those uh asvs you guys ever riding those no it's like a coffin that has

a turret in the middle of it it's awesome yeah so little turret you put the uh little seat belt that's supposed to keep you safe in the little metal box um and it's like a mechanical where it can spin so again me being the way i was i had a bungee cord in there that would keep my m4 up to the side and so i could reach his like the strap on the back of his iba like the old acu pattern everything so i'm like i know what i'll do i'm going to attach this bungee cord to my turret and then i'm just going to gradually rotate it so the tension on it is getting a little bit more. Every five minutes.

I set my watch. I'm like, all right, five minutes. Keep moving it to the point where I can see him in his seat like he's trying to adjust it. Just constant. Until it's like, whapow! He's like, what happened you know he's like what happened what did you see something like no i didn't see anything like non-stop games man if

you want like the soldiers in war this is the best way to oh yeah to describe it is like we could die today purple nurple yeah it's like what's going up and you're still just fucking with each other sartrena we lt uh lieutenant win lieutenant went to tell uh sass aren't right he was like hey uh third third squad can you check the hole it was an id hole and we're like wow this is a couple months in country and like we're against the wall i look at sartrena sartrena looks at the lieutenant he's like the one the id one the one that the giant fucking crater rogers aren't go check that for me go fuck yourself sir you go check it what huh you go check it sir if you want to see if there's a fucking idea in it we'll just keep moving big my guy you're a butter bar you're

they're not gonna tell you what to do over there. Or like instantly it was just like, Oh yeah, I need to know my place. We'd have butter bars. I don't know if they still do it to this time. When we get new lieutenants, we would either dress privates or sergeants up as butter bars and then have

them fuck with the new lieutenants. Did you guys ever do this? Nah. Oh man. I listened. If we got new ones to the unit, we'd be like, like hey private snuffy here you're a fucking captain tell the lieutenant what to do so that the new butter bar is terrified

he has a private trying to act like a captain so you just have fuckery going on you have like no idea what's happening oh it's great to watch yeah. And then you get to see the private get smoked by the lieutenant after he comes out that he's nothing. Yeah. The full circle. Yeah. The circle of life. Yeah. What about you?

You got fucking, what's your most crazy you have to have? I don't, you know, it's funny. It's funny because I, so people are always shocked because I'll hit 12 years in the Army in February, and I still haven't even done a combat deployment. I call it smart. It's called intelligent. What's funny is despite my best efforts, it just hasn't happened. I submitted a 75th RAS packet.

I tried to volunteer for SOAR. You're trying to be high speed? Why would you do that? this was a while ago okay why the fuck would you ever usually it gets worse you're like in for three years like well i hit five or six well yeah i was five years in i'm a sergeant e5 and i'm like i'm like gosh i've been in for a while and i still don't have a combat deployment. And so I started kind of seeking it out and something always got in the way. And so for a long time, it was like a point of insecurity for me. Thank you.

For a long time, it was like a point of insecurity for me. But what's funny is in the content, all of my content centers around the frustrating aspects of like garrison army life. Right. And because. What do you mean? What? It's frustrating. Yeah.

Like, like mustaches and first sergeants. I can relate. But it's funny. So the fact that I didn't deploy is actually, it's given me experiences that so many people, because everybody's experienced the garrison military. You know what I mean? So that so many people because everybody's experienced the garrison military you know what i mean so so many people can relate to it and don't get me wrong if a deployment comes my way i'm not going to try and get out of it you know what i mean but it's not i haven't experienced garrison military yeah you you got off the uh the bus to your first unit you

guys left he'll say it's like dirt our my Garrison, it was wartime military, which was such a, bro, completely different military in like 05, 06. It was just like, there was training, fuck off, you're getting ready for war. Like, we didn't do NTC, we didn't do any art. They shipped

NTC to us for a crash course in a week and a half, and then we deployed. Oh my god. Oh, they were like, half, and then we deployed. Oh my God. You're going to learn. Okay, you got it. We're going to pretend this lush Washington State is Iraq. You were at JBLM.

Yeah, I was there for three years. See, JBLM, I call it Fort Lewis, because that's what it was at that time. There was no McCord, and it was McCord. Yeah, they were separate at that time. I did have a cool experience somewhat recently and I don't know if it was right after I went on

the first episode that I was on or if it was in between now and then, but just like Cooper one. He's the worst gamer in the fucking world. He just kept bringing up Sly Cooper. Well, I was tanked first off but it's gonna be on my tombstone at this point but no i had it i had the first person it's happened

a couple times since then but a person walked up to me and they were like hey i joined the army because of your content and my first thought was i'm so so sorry, but it was, I'm kidding. Obviously legal reasons. I'm kidding. But then we had a really, we had a really cool conversation. So now he's a mortar man. I posted a video and he was in it. And so I don't know.

It's just, it's cool to see how I'm having an impact organizationally. And all I was trying to do initially is just make jokes online. You know what I mean? Just make people laugh. Well, it's like you, One Punch Dad. Like, you guys, it's awesome. We were talking about that on the drive to the restaurant.

I was like, it's cool watching this new wave of higher enlisted creating content. It's not doing like TikTok dances and stuff like that. It's like meaningful. Which your TikTok dances, if that's you do it fucking motivating who uh please stop going live in the motor pool while you're driving a fucking vehicle though that'd be great go try the whip with the striker everybody's doing it so it's like if you're like even if you're wearing a uniform you can still be yourself as long as you're accomplishing your job and everything you can be yourself like why not

express yourself and that's what's crazy like you being on there with the platform that you have and at your level like all you see all like if you go on tiktok live now if we went on there i guarantee you within five swipes we're all going to have a soldier in uniform or you know marine whoever it is so it's like just be yourself or, you know, Marine, whoever it is. So it's like, just be yourself. If you can express yourself and do it the right way, then do it. You know, exactly. 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. So download the app and get delivery in as fast as 60 minutes.

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i was fucking in the podcast do you guys remember your first video you ever made i remember the first well so my first video i ever made was not like i was just posting something it was uh i want to say it was my youngest daughter and and she was in a bouncer she was tiny at this point like a couple months old right but she's fat because my wife pumps straight lard out of her, you know. I like the you know is what you stopped out. My wife pumps straight lard out of her. I can't say titties. Titties is the line.

My kids are fat, right? And they're breastfed, okay? So she's in a bouncer and I'm bouncing it. Right. And I did that. You like it thick. You like it. You get that song like over there.

And so that I think that was like the first video I posted. And then I did one. And it was like when you're driving to the D-FAC and you hear they've got surf and turf and it was fortunate son. And I looked at the camera like right at the right time so those are like the first ones the first one i did that hit though yeah and i knew i could have like a presence on social media i made a video where i was like hey sir and i wasn't even talking in it it was music and text right but it was my face obviously and i was like hey, we've got two people,

you know, uh, we're supposed to get in and we need to pick which one we're going to have in the unit. One of them, he's got a master's degree volunteers. He's got a letter of recommendation from his last unit. And I'm like, Oh,

well, well, it seems like an easy choice. And I'm like, the second guy, he's kind of DUI. He's got a really volatile divorce going on right now. He just generally seems like a piece

of shit but he does run a 12 minute two mile and i'm like give me that guy i love pt is always the standard of the military dude it's not even pt it's just running i know it's just running sorry god bless your soul for this, Sirena. And I still, it's my favorite part of the military was we stood up for two. We were 2CR and we transitioned to 2ID. So we stood up the unit, though. So we had an E4 as the first sergeant, the first 15 days there was an E4, and then we got first Sergeant Jones. And then we had E4s and e5s as platoon sergeants and

everything so like funny enough it's like that now oh yeah oh i bet like so it was like oh we're going to war and this is what we're working with this is fucking dope sarn uh for sarn jones um he was like okay your guys are here's your platoons and he let the um uh the sergeants pick who came into their team sirena he just looked at everyone's pt score and he got everyone his entire squad was everyone that could max so we didn't have to do pt we would do pt once a month my entire because every time we do it we'd all work on our own do all that stuff But it's nearly like we show up to formation. Okay break for PT. Sorry Randall look for everyone leave He's like, okay me me at fucking Denny's And this was until we deployed we did this every there was no Waffle House in Washington, unfortunately

Got that Denny's right outside base. Breakfast PT? It's good to have breakfast PT. So much breakfast PT. So we do that every time, and we still manage, and Sergeant Raina is saying, he's like, as long as you guys stay over 290 on PT scores, we will do this indefinitely. Everyone stay

290 and above. I'll tell you this right now, right? Because I've been long enough to deal with the drama and political stuff of PT. But the best platoon I had was on a schedule of, and this was before the ACFT, right? So APFT, you had, you know, it's up to 300 for the max. Yep. If you had a 270 or higher, go do PT on your own. I don't care.

That's how it should be just show up for accountability right we're gonna do accountability because first i don't want an accountability and that's that's just the way it is we're gonna salute the flag pay respects and then after that 270 or higher go to the gym go go do whatever you're doing because whatever you're doing it's funny too the response you get from people when i call it incentivizing excellence as opposed to knowing that's stupid like like i don't understand what our fixation with with like fucking everybody down for everything as opposed to being like hey you couple guys you're doing good things let's give you guys

something and then everybody else is like you're telling me if I just get a really good PT square I can do PT on my own even if it's like once a fucking week you know what I mean like just I don't know it's it's always been more effective as a motivator for me person says like Jimmy you got 300 great job you fucking push up yeah is your shit bags didn't know how to run I'm not even in that platoon, Sarn. I don't care, fuckhead. Okay, I don't even know why I'm doing this. That's the PT. Like, you're first Sarn.

So, if we don't know, can we say ranks on? I don't know. Yeah, you can call me Gunflow. Big Sarn first class over here. And then Silver Lieutenant. Almost a captain. Big captain. God willing, I'll make it to cap, big cap. God willing, I'll make it to captain for your service.

Everyone. Uh, how'd you, how do you run your PT? So right now, since I'm in the HAC first arm, it's a little different than the lines, right?

Oh yeah. Uh, but right now it's up to the sections to go ahead and do their PT. And of course with the PT plan. Now for me, how I ran it with the othert plan now for me how i ran it with the other with my original platoon right when i was platoon sergeant that was that was we were able to get away with that granted you know talking with sergeant major the bc blessing

off on it so it all comes down to your chain of command and what they're okay with doing and my current one nah you're gonna do right now what we call team PT, right? So within your specific teams, because I'm in a, you know, I'm in a SFAB units, a little different than what your conventional unit would be. Essentially just go do PT with your team and then good to go. I would say, yeah, no, no, no. ACFT, right? ACFT has changed things for the better in my opinion.

So, you know, people are now going to the gym because the gym is good. And I think the stigma of being like, how dare you go to the gym and lift weights is starting to not completely, you know, go away. But it's starting to lower right where people can go. The military is the only organization on earth that will build a multimillion dollar facility for physical fitness and then tell people not to use it. Yes. The military is the only one that's also like. Hey why is everyone skinny and lightweight here.

Put on this 40 pound backpack and armor. There you go Big Z. Sorry shouldn't we look ways to help. Our muscles carry this stuff. Shut the fuck up and run two miles. Roger Big Z. You're just like. There's no strength training in this this is

great i love this so much back and biceps day in the army is we're gonna run six miles and flex our back biceps really hard while we do it now what i what i will say is like if i could run it for a day right like without getting you know told to do something different. I would say right now with the ACT and, you know, how the scores are right now, if I could rule it, if you scored 540 and over or higher, then you're good to go do individual PT. Isn't that how it is? I thought SMI put out policy on that.

I don't think that's like a, no, no, no. So that's for like height and weight, right? Like you don't have to get height and weight, but. Oh, that's right. That's not, that's not like 540 higher. You no. So that's for like height and weight, right? Like you don't have to get height and weight, but. Oh, that's right. That's not, that's not like 540 or higher. You can get and do whatever you want. No, that's not a thing.

But I think that should be a thing because if you don't have 540 or higher, you don't have to get height and weighted. So to me, that's like, you're killing two birds with one stone right there. Yeah. You hear that generals that watch this podcast? Fucking make that, make that shit happen. But. We see a four star comment. He's like, wait, there's generals that watch this podcast fucking make that make that shit happen but we see a four-star comedy he's like wait there's generals that watch this pod i don't know any of these people sir oh never mind i should not have said that

what it's um what was that it was the if i were a person or I would I would fuck with my like one one company or one squad, one company would be one company. I would try and make them like. Maybe a whole platoon, it would probably be like a whole no whole company or a platoon. Make them do like choreographed dance for PT. So you have the sick like... I can tell you right now, there are units that do it. It's called P90X.

I've seen companies in an open field do P90X together. My favorite part of PT is when some random wants you to do whatever they do on the weekends and they're really good at it. And then you invite them to combatives and they've sure as fuck do not show up to that. No,

no, but like, think if you did like, uh, if you did like a choreographed dance, you're sorry. Majors. If he's like,

Hey, it could be an intimidation tactic for the enemy so my major's walking a big first horn over here's like hey what who's doing pt what the fuck are they doing it's like sorry major i got you come here you walk them to that pt room watch this guys go and they're like sergeant major hey we're here they're super jacked up. They're maxing that. They have to be veiny. They've got to be clean shaven, head to toe. Sergeant Major doesn't know. He can't say anything.

He's like, carry on. He never goes around that team again just so he's. Imagine if we could do like the crank that soldier boy on the enemy's graves. You know what I mean? A choreograph. Nobody would ever go to war with us again. Yeah, that's fear right there. Yeah, you can't go to heaven

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this down you're you as you were saying like first videos which one was like your first so so my my first video was like i i was a recruiter with the army national guard and so i'm like you know what my boss called me he's like hey you're not making enough phone calls and i'm like okay so i made phone calls and you know everybody's mom is hanging up on me or telling me what a terrible person i am you know just overall great experience is hanging up on me or telling me what a terrible person I am. You know, just overall great experience. So then I go to a high school and I'm like, hey, what's your Facebook? Some kid and he's like, Facebook?

You idiot. My mom has Facebook. I'm like, well, thanks, you little brat. You know, great. Awesome. So then I realized what Instagram is. And I'm like, you know what? I'm going to make some videos, you know, of giving out actual information and everything and see if that worked and so

my first video is me sitting at my desk and I watch it I've watched it recently I'm like I'm such an idiot so I'm sitting at my desk and I'm like looking at myself and my cell phone. I'm like, God, I'm like, and then I'm like, perfect. I'm sitting up straight. I'm like, all right, I look huge now. I look like, I look like mandatory fun. Perfect. And then I'm like, hello, my name is Sergeant Butterworth, and I'm a recruiter with the Army National Guard, and today I'm going to tell you some education benefits. But I did it in a very formal manner like that,

and then I'm like, now looking back on it, I'm like, why did I do that? I look like I'm being held captive. I don't think I blinked once in the entire video. It's funny because people started commenting on my videos like, does this guy ever blink? And now I feel like I can't blink in any of my videos. And sometimes I have to reshoot them because I do blink. I'm a human. I blink sometimes.

Make sure you blink. I don't think you guys read the comments and you're like, shit. Do I blink? I don't have a skincare routine, okay? I just don't have one. Four months into this, I stopped reading the comments. So if you guys are commenting mean things, I'm not seeing it. Please stop doing it.

It really hurts us, okay? All of us. I read the comments. Wait, so you watch it, you put it up, you're like, man, I fucking nailed that. I bet you were so proud of that video. You showed your wife, you're like, babe, look how good I am. She's like, what are you doing? What do you think? She's like, you're so strong at that. You showed your wife. You're like, babe, look how good I am. She's like, what are you doing? What do you think?

She's like, you're so strong. Yeah. You're so strong. Yeah. So I did that. I probably made. I probably made like, I don't know, three more videos in that style of me sitting at my desk, you know, doing that whole thing. And then I'm like, why am I doing this?

Like, this is what everybody does. I'm like, you know what? I whole thing. And then I'm like, why am I doing this? Like this is what everybody does. I'm like, you know what? I like to joke around. I like to be funny. I'm just going to be myself. And so that's what I did. I, I called up the Marine Corps recruiter. I'm like, Hey dude, you cool?

And he was like, yeah. I'm like, all right. I want to make a funny video with you. Like, have you ever seen stepbrothers? Yes. And he's like, he's like, yeah, we just become best friends. Exactly. Yeah.

You want to be crowding the garage? Do you guys want to do TikToks in the garage? Yeah, pretty much. I'm like, hey, man, why don't you come over here? Why don't you come over here? And we can, like, make videos of each scene from Step Brothers. And so the first one was, like, the intro where they they meet, like Dale and Brennan meet in the front yard. Call me T-Rex.

And so he's in his dress uniform. I'm in my dress uniform. I'm standing in the grass. Sorry about that. And then... It's allowed. It took me a second. He's probably like, why? He's going to smoke me afterwards.

Oh yeah, 100%. Well, you smoke him. And then you watch. So we do that first video and then it's like, it just blew up. Like, I'm getting all these messages like, hey, can you help me be in the Marine Corps? And I'm like, no, it didn't work. But then I start getting people that are like, hey. You had other people.

I want to be a Marine. All the time. Are you the Air Force recruiter? I'm not the Air Force recruiter. It looks the same, but I'm not. So we do this video and I get like all these messages, all these people commenting on it. Like, wow, these guys are actual people. It's like, well, we are.

We joke around more than anybody. Oh, yeah. So it's like I continued that. I just started making all these funny videos. And then I like. The Hot Honey McCrispy is so back at McDonald's with juicy 100% Canadian raised seasoned chicken shredded lettuce, crispy jalapenos

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Like be, be a person, be, be who you are. It's so funny because I've talked to so many people who've at least considered joining the military now or are considering joining the military like currently. And they all seem to think that we are all just like cut from this different cloth or like we're just like super humans or what not super robots yeah they just bro you'd be a normal they're super humans when we get off of this they're like god those civilians suck i'm gonna let's go do push-ups guys and i'm like okay guys cool man what the fuck is wrong with these guys? But like I did not We were all standing at parade rest in the kitchen before this.

We were reading doctrine right before this. Just straight doctrine. That's all we do. That's all I do. They were on their knees singing hymns of doctrine. But I always tell people like I literally didn't think I could be in the military before i

joined it and i got through basic and all that and now here i am i have a reasonably successful career and so like i don't know it just i truly believe the united states military can take any person and turn them into something that we can use you know absolutely i mean you couldn't have said it better you You're a tool. Go fuck yourself. That's the end of the recruiting pitch for the podcast. You're a tool. Go fuck yourself.

Join the army. America. Yeah, America. Eli, no, that's a terrible message. So that was yours. And then what got you? What was your big first piece of content where you're like, here we go? So, no, not yet. We're gonna pause pull it up g-band just pull up everyone's first piece of content to

embarrass them well so the first to be honest i can't remember the first video i ever made on tiktok right that was like i think i was trying so originally i was like you know what i'm gonna youtube how to be a streamer. Like, you know, video games. Because I really, I'm a fucking nerd. I love video games. I'm all about it. We're going to talk about Sly Cooper shortly.

To show you how nerdy I am, just looking at myself on the screen right now, you know, to the right right here, that's Endeavor. Okay? I got All Might tatted on my arm. That's how nerdy I am. I'm as nerdy as it gets. He's almost as nerdy as me. That half sleeve.

When he gets to a full sleeve back piece and a chest piece. And on his hands. Yeah, I have Goku on my hand. I can't get a normal job. That's actually a really good tattoo. I love it. So then, I don't remember what I did. I tried it out. I tried like, you know, streaming that or, you know, I posted a video of that.

Nothing. I was like, man, this is harder than I thought this was going to be. And I remember my wife being like, what are you doing? I was like, I downloaded TikTok. And even she was like, it's just, it's a waste. She's like, you working at twerking videos over there? What are you doing? She's like, you're not going to do anything with this.

You know what I mean? She's just like making fun of me about it. And I was like, bet you I can pop off on this. And she was like, bet you can't. She's like, you're not going to do anything with this. You know what I mean? She's just like making fun of me about it. I was like, bet you I can pop off on this. And she was like, bet you can't. I was like, okay. So then I started reaching out and I started doing other things. I started the dancing. I looked at the dancing. I mean, you know, I know a little bit. He looked at the dancing. Why are you dancing in the garage?

I know a little bit of Neo, you know, back in the day, you know, I was like, yeah, I could probably do that, but I'm probably not. I'm probably not going to do that. I just picture your wife opening the door and you're like what? in the garage it's harder than I thought she just closes it

my FYP brought me like this like people doing like little hand and arm signals and everything and I was like okay I guess it's called tutting like T-U-T yeah T-U- up google it google it naruto no yeah it's like naruto like people doing that so i was like okay maybe i'll try that i think i made like one video doing that and then i was like okay leave this podcast yeah i told you

i'm as nervous as a kid you demonstrate can you know i don't know real quick i mean let me see i don't remember it's a two minute i don't remember. It's a two-minute choreographed piece. Yeah, 100%. It took me four months to learn how to do Fireside. Yeah, it's been a minute. It's been a minute. But, so I tried that. Didn't work. And I was like, man, screw this.

And I just started making things that I thought was kind of funny. Still didn't work. And then I started reaching. And then it happened. The moment of truth I was watching this uh video with uh the silence of the lambs song or goodbye horses I should say but reminded me of silence of lambs right so I'm watching it and it's this uh this chick she was like in the gym and she's like lifting weights and she's you know it had nothing to do with the

song but in my mind when I heard that song that's what like flashback i was like creepy scene nothing and then i looked at the you know you can like click on the sound you can look at all the videos right and i saw nope nobody did the the you know really is a lipstick but no one did the thing right yeah exactly and i was like okay well someone's got to do it I've seen where your name came from where does Drosian come from too so we're going to go down that fucking rabbit hole in a little bit but with the chapstick

right I just decided to like I did it put my phone up on a little tripod like you're looking right now and then I had to like rewatch that scene on YouTube and then I was like you know what it's what the people want yeah it's what the first time i saw your chapstick video it made me like uncomfortable but in a way that i was unsure of you know what i mean so like eye contact right i'm really good with eye contact like i can keep you here all day if i wanted to now now remove the tip and then after that i was like just a little bit of chapstick

a little bit of a zoom out and then it went off from there that so that was my first pop-off video that had like i don't know at the time like 600 000 i was like because i only had like 115 followers i was like oh my god i'm famous now your phone at your wife's face no not yet look at what i did look at this you need you need to respect my my skills right because i'm a fucking I was like, oh my God, I'm famous now. Did you throw your phone at your wife's face? No, not yet. Look at what I did. I told you. Look at this. You need to respect my skills, right? Because I'm a fucking visionary. I'm the lord of lips now.

And then she hits play and it's just you. So then. That's what you were doing in the garage. That happened and then people were like, oh, do it, do it this way. So then I tried it this way and then, you know, I tried it different ways. And after that, I just kept doing it like every time until, and that wasn't the viral one. The viral one is where I do it like a chem light and i have like a helmet on is so wild but so i was in fort polk which is fort uh johnson right polk is now johnson

horrible that's how we can we're good we're saved audio is okay we're good good you're good you're good so jrtc if you guys aren't familiar with that that is a horrible time all right it's a rotation a ctc rotation we can talk about this stuff later but um pretty much it's like a major field event that you know bcts will go through. So anyway, I'm the bad guy. I'm up for it, right? I'm the one who steals the people and takes your food and steals your ammo. So anyway, well, you know, it's coming up on the final day. I'm tired. We've been out for like 36 hours.

And I've been up just on like my fourth energy drink. And we're just waiting for the call to be done with this, right? And it's in the morning in this little crappy village that they have out there. I just remember looking at my phone. I was like, man, I haven't made a video today. I'm going to make one. Then I thought about it. I was like, I should make one in gear.

Then my RTO is sitting behind me, and I just looked at him. I was like, get out the truck. We're on top of the building. He's just like, Roger, sorry. We go out there to the top. He's like, what are you doing? I was like, you're on my phone. He's like, okay.

I just need you to just hold it straight for me, all right? I'm going to do something. It's going to get a little weird, but I need you to just keep it on me. And we did it. And that's the one that shot off. And then I made like 100 more of those chapstick videos. I love when you find the thing that hits and you just do it over and over and over and over. They were like, this made it.

I'm going to capitalize on it. People want more. And then the Lord of Lips thing, one of my viewers said, this guy is the Lord of Lips. And I was like, that is a cool name. I'm sticking with that. And every time I just. And now you love that name. Now, well, I love it.

But, you know, that's just what people call me I just roll with it. That's so funny It's a weird time We were talking about names cuz I like double tap was an old clothing man I was like one of my first businesses was double tap, which is not a non existed anymore So that's why it's like Eli double tap. That was a good name to you Well now I was like cuz I feel like a douchebag with it It's like the army infantry

doing that and like fucking double tap i'm a hunter of men i have that name god damn it eli why did that i was like i could just go back to cuevas just eli cuevas my mexican name but now it's Double Tap from here on out. I'm like, fuck. Yeah. I'm actually really honored that you brought it. Like, I'm looking at this now. I'm analyzing because, you know, I've gotten really good with ChapStick. Burt's Bees is a good brand.

Burt's Bees. I actually want it back. That's like the Patrona ChapStick. You want to play, I'm down to play. All right? But, yeah. We're going to start a new ChapStick line for you. We're starting a Chap chapstick line for you

are you serious yeah let's do it 100% I want if I could figure out and be smart enough to do it we would have MRE flavor

you'd have chili mac right chapstick yeah 100% chili mac flavor I'm sure someone out there you should do depression flavor

mandatory fun flavor you should do I didn't get promoted flavor article 15 flavor got me boarded out flavor flavor. Mandatory fond flavor? You should do I didn't get promoted flavor. Article 15 flavor. I'm going to get it out. Have you tried PTSD? It's so good.

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I was like, hey, guys, I've got like 10 basic officer leader. It's Officer AIT. Okay, thank you. I was like, what the fuck word are you making? It's weird. You get MOS qualified as an officer. I was so confused. You get MOS qualified as an officer so confused you get mos qualified as an officer in bollock okay so i texted in the group chat i was like hey guys i need a name and kevin taylor was like

mandatory funday and i was like that's fucking genius because now and and every single time i comment on anything anytime i anytime i do anything anywhere on social media, anybody who's from the military and I've learned any NATO military recognizes that term because the British have mandatory fund days, the French have. I don't think there's a country in NATO

where somebody hasn't messaged me and been like, I don't think you guys did this stuff because you're the US military. We always say the US military would never do this. And I'm like, no, bro, we do it, and we do it even harder. If you're like anyone out there, if you don't, like, the U.S. military, I was never like, this is the most organized unit in the fucking world. I'm like, well, this is the most organized unit in the fucking world.

What is wrong with this? And this is the most organized thing ever because what is wrong with this and this is the most organized thing ever because people have this very which is awesome it's like man this prestige and then you're like no you know that fucking the dumb kid that barely could do arithmetic he's probably a first art right now at least during the time i was in that was my leadership i was like oh it's funny because the way our doctrine's set up and i won't nerd out on this too much but the way our doctrine's set up inherently is just better than our adversaries because all of our adversaries are authoritarian countries and their doctrine very much reflects it right we push decision

making down as much as possible to the lowest level so like the specialist listen so the specialist on the ground that's getting shot at should be the one that's able to like direct traffic a little bit theoretically with our doctrine but in theory is a strong word right there this is a planned initiative yeah dude this was a time i had a uh fuck what was his name? He was a major. He went from green to gold. He went to like E7 and made it to major. The most grumpy ones. Amazing human though.

He was an E7 and he made it to major? So he's had more than two full careers at this point. He started during World War I, I think. He had four stars. He was there for Arnie Murphy's commissioning. He actually pinned him.

It was crazy. But when talking to him, I was like, was it Lambert? No, it was another one. And it was this realization talking to him. He was like, I was like why why'd you go up and then switch he was like you know when i hit e7 i was like i need to make a difference and i thought if i worked up in the listed i could make that difference nah he never came like so i switched and you know what i found out still can't make a fucking difference in anything that happens i was

like what he's like i need to be like a He's like, that is the only way anything will fucking happen. He's like, I'm just nothing. I'm like, wow. Okay. Thank you for that, sir. Huh? Well, that's depressing. So, uh, can I go get child now? Big sir. You know, it's funny. I've been really blessed with the unit I've been in.

Cause like when I started getting big on, I was in kind of a strange situation. I was coming to my first unit as an officer from Bollick and then that unit was going somewhere and I was kind this weird time period in between and I was getting big on social media. And I was like, I don't know what they're going to like. What's going to happen? You know what I mean? Like, I know other guys who've done stuff on social media and they get like critical 15s and shit like what's going to happen to me. And then I got I got where I was going and they were so supportive. Right.

They're like, hey, just be professional, like follow the Army values and do your thing because we think you're making a positive change or a positive difference and so that was like it literally it could not have gone better you know what i mean if i had written it myself i don't think i would have written it better how it went for me and then the captain says you're making the difference the end i'm that's a book that's gonna be the opening line to my autobiography but yeah i really have enjoyed seeing the shift in because social media has been villainized right and for and for somewhat good reason in some cases but like the shift has been pretty cool to

see since i've been in that yeah getting to see that shit from like where you like the bad stuff and then like where it is now is awesome because it was the privates or those ones it's like the the marine wife dance or like the people in the fucking i don't know what the privates i never mind it's privates it's like hey it's your boy fucking p6933 private we're out here in syria just having a blast and they're giving like coordinates oh my god have you guys seen the video of the dudes that get the pizza delivered to the land nav site oh yeah whoever's doing that, stop. And then they record. I assume it's their first start. And he's like, stop getting pizza delivered to the fucking. But if you successfully deliver a pizza to the land,

didn't you win land? Like, didn't you? That's it, right? I wouldn't. If I was a first, I'd be like. The first start over here is like. Yeah, well, big first arm. What do you think on that?

What, if pizza got delivered to the land house site? Well, you know, that was good initiative. They send you a classic. Classic initiative. Classic response. You get your own pizza. And a bottle of Jack. Yeah.

Bro. He doesn't drink. That's rude. That's true. Good initiative. And a Diet Coke. Dr. Pepper. I'm a Dr. Pepper guy.

Dr. Pepper. Coke is secondary. There we go. And you're like, send him a bottle of Jack. He already said it, man. Now he's going to smoke a dick. We did just have that conversation, too. Can I get another one, please? So I can at least be, you know, like hammered while I'm making a fool of myself.

But what would you do? It's like big, big, big soldiers were like, Hey, I took an initiative. I got a pizza delivered for me and my, my team. Here you go. First arm. Well, you know, uh, depending on what we were doing, right. I'd imagine. Cause we, and we've done land there recently.

Right. Normally for these kinds of things, you're not, you know, pizza is going to be there when you get back. Pizza is going to be there before you leave. And usually these land now things are like a day, but yeah. If pizza, I don't know how I'd feel about that. I'd probably be a little, I'd probably be a little upset. Put it this way. I would never make you do something I wouldn't do, right?

If I ain't eating pizza, you're probably not going to eat pizza. At least out there. Now, when we get back, guess what I'll probably have for you? Pizza. Ah, I see. You're a good vote guy. And a late call. Yeah, and a late call.

Normally we do late call. I just gave the guys a late call yesterday. What? You're good for a song? He's a kind God. He is a kind God. I am a kind God. He's walking around shirtless. He's walking around.

I've said that so many times and people look at me and they're like, are you insane? And then you finally got the reference. I think we're like, from what I've seen for first, not necessarily, I mean, I'm like a serial act.

Like I've been a first round the whole time, but like, even like senior NCOs in general, I've noticed get a little wild with like the power. Right. Here's the way i see it something comes up that's kind of like i don't like it you have your officer counterpart right so if he was like my captain or if i was between sorry he's my pl i'd be like how you feel about this sir what's going on what do you want to see what do you want what would you like if he

doesn't like it even if he doesn't tell me directly if i get a hint that he doesn't like it guess what i'm about to do it It's going to happen. I'm going to... That's all I am really is just the enforcer. If the PL or the commanding officer is cool with pizza, I'm cool with pizza. If he's not cool with pizza, we're not cool with pizza.

That's just the way I go. You got them crazy eyes too. He does. That scared me. What's your Hispanic origin? Are you Hispanic? I would say something like that. Because he's brown? I thought this was a...

I didn't say it. I don't condone any of this. I don't want to be canceled, Hollywood. I'm not white. I'm fine. Mildly retarded. It's okay. I thought this was a PG podcast These white guys can't say anything What is your

Native American Mexican If we're going to build an onion A little bit back Family wise I have a nuclear family So I really don't know But I would say Pretty good chance of Mexican in there On the shade card you get i really don't know but i would say i'm pretty good pretty good pretty

good chance of mexican in there definitely the shade card you get shot i don't know any other ones i like these there's a joke written on the back of the truly I don't know that's hilarious people get uncomfortable on the podcast because like Brandon and we'll have other people and you're just going to see like different jokes and they're like I was texting her in that joke

can I laugh can I laugh it's like the awkward look around but so they're like okay here, here's first arm. Well, at least you're a good first arm. That's like, because I, first arm, I will always give him mad props. He was an excellent leader.

He was, so our majors hated him because he did not give a fuck of their, like, what they wanted. He was like, hey, this is how I'm training my team. He made first aren't in like nine years wow wow for reference fast he's like he went ranger combat was it ranger combat diver sniper and then first aren't from second ranger bat came and then it was like okay and then we went delta so he was like fucking fast he trained us exactly what he was used to which we didn't we wore soft caps and then would fire for we'd do all our uh cqb and soft caps shooting range shit like we'd have our vest soft caps like big boy rules yeah

we did big boy rules and that's what we thought was the standard across i didn't know that wasn't the standard across the army until we did advanced cqc we had a whole company or a battalion size advanced cqc course for a week we load on the bus what are we doing he's like hey uh hey soldiers uh that we're doing advanced cqc we have to do like a demo and stuff uh so what we've been teaching you the entire time none of the other guys know that so just play along we're like what what we're like no one knows because we were taught how to like like explosive breach we were taught all this shit from like a year like for the first six months a year it was just ingrained us like this is how we train this is how we do everything this is how you engage we're like oh okay we thought that was just the standard and we always found it funny because the other first arts would cause like oh fucking you're from we're like why

do they call it i don't get it why do they have a name for us we just had no idea but one of the first times is like and i've told this story before sergeant sergeant major green came in and he was like hey we had a battalion formation. Everyone lines up. Fucking make it. It's like, hey, JG. Sound off. Fucking Alpha Company. When he says Alpha Company, first Sergeant looks back

and says, if any of you sound off, I'll fucking murder you. Classic. We were soldiers, huh? He was close to me, Grandpa. So we were like, shut up. Alpha He was close to me, Grandpa. Yeah, so we were like, just shut up. Alpha Company, sound off. B-Co, sound off. We're good.

That's all Sarn says. He's like, we're good, Sarn Major. It's like, oh, okay. That was the traffic coming. They sound off, and you're like, huh, what the fuck? But then we found out, like, because of his training, we were very advanced on everything we were fucking dress right dress on everything in combat so it did help in that experience going

over there he left unfortunately he did get uh he got picked up for a cag left did that we got those people coming into our battalion it was the weirdest thing watching um you guys know when you're a private you're e4 you're sergeant when you see dudes walking around your company with no name tapes no rank and that's no one's stopping them you're like are they here to pick up first his first arm in trouble or is he leaving and i was like in a week he was gone it was fucking weird it was awesome though like that's still still good for him contact with him awesome dude we now train with the, still good for him. Contact with him. Awesome dude. We now train with the Delta guys. They'd come down and train with BRCC and stuff.

So we would get shit wrecked. Like we do long range shooting, drink afterwards, get shit wrecked. This is on their dime. They're having a blast. They train on our property and we had a blast and have a good time. But I remember talking to the Delta guys and we were talking,

they're like, I was like, Oh, did you know? And they're like, you know, fucking was like, yeah,

he's my first song. They're like, Holy fuck, bro. You remember? And then the stories they had was like, Oh, I'm DMing him right now.

And I'm going to tell him about these stories that I've heard of him. It was awesome seeing that, but I'm super appreciative of the good first arms like yourself, where it's like, Hey, this is like, we're motivating soldiers, not tearing them down with dumb shit the entire time.

The thing that frustrated me the most as a junior soldier is that leaders in the United States military have a lot of power over their people. Like, and, and oftentimes you have a lot of power over their people. Oftentimes, you have a lot of autonomy. It always seemed like when we had the option to go left and it would fuck us or right and it would make our lives a little better, we always chose

to go left. I never understood it. Did you pick left or right? I normally go left. But on your ID exposure. That was left. Oh my god. I was like,

I normally go left. No. That wasn't an intentional reference to that story, but I'm glad it all lined up. It's the circle you were talking about the circle like what's the circle i'll never forget there was a day there was a day when we i showed up for pt as a private and my like team was the only one there

like it was very clearly like a late call that day and my team leader was like we're gonna do pt because we're here and he clearly felt embarrassed because he's a fucking idiot right like you didn't put out a text or like you know what i mean you didn't communicate and so now you're like you're fucking just wrecking us even harder because of your fuck you know you get what i'm saying oh 100 that's the that's the kind of stuff that I go after the most in my content. And my mentor actually said it. He put it into words. He's like, you're just saying the things in public that nobody, like, wants to say.

So I love that. I love that description. God, I love bad team. Bad anything. Like, everyone's like, no one's there. It's like, okay, we're doing an airfield run. Looks like we beat all the other soldiers here. It was a six-mile run.

I had this first sergeant on one of our deployments, so I've been guard the entire time. So when we deploy, we do like a three- to four-month train-up so that we can get up to standard. So he can qualify, do everything we need to do, right? Why is that fun? So this first sergeant, he was real quiet and everything. So he qualified, do everything we need to do, right? Why is that fun to me? Why is that fun? So this first sergeant, he was real quiet and everything. He never said much, but we get there,

and as soon as we hit the ground for our train up, he's like, I want to make sure that all of you are wearing your body armor and your helmets wherever you go. Like, if we're walking to the chow hall, if we're walking anywhere, we're doing it. And I'm like, this is so dumb. Like, why are we doing this? But then I realized I was like, this guy's a genius.

He is. Because then it's like we're doing the PT and everything. Maybe I sound crazy right now. Yeah. I'm listening. No. He's taking that. So we're walking everywhere, but we're getting accustomed to wearing all the gear.

Right. So then when we got into country and we're wearing it all the time, it was like nothing. What do you think? Good idea or crazy? That is a technique. For the record. No comments.

So my boxing coach, he would punch me in the face. When I got really punched in the face, I was like, oh, my God. He's been training me this entire time. I'm not going to get punched in the face. If he punched you in the balls, though, getting punched in the face wouldn't seem as bad. That's very true. I was trying to think of, I was trying to lay out, I was like, man, this is like equivalent to saying, like, we should be in patrol bases every night instead of going home. Because that way when you are in a patrol base.

I do believe that wearing your kit and stuff, like, you know, wearing it periodically, it'll make it less stressful when you got to wear it all the time. But like, to just be like, you know what guys, on Wednesdays. You have the same outlook. I'm like, man, I fucking hated my kit. I wasn't happy. Like, thank God I had my helmet for the last year.

You know, you've been wearing it too long too. When you like, don't notice that it's on anymore. Yeah. Trust me. Yeah. It's not fun. I hated it. I do.

I've told the story many times. We'd be on base waiting for... We lived in COBS, so every 22 days we'd rotate onto base to do internet, MySpace, all that stuff. Yes, it was a MySpace time. Did you have the phone cards? We did my emails and my MySpace. Where was the Morse code machine?

Was that in the USO? Did you go to the phone trailers? The phone trailers with the little call cards? I'd write my fucking carrier pigeon, send it to my girlfriend at the time. This was named Hedwig. Dearest girlfriend, can I send thine titties?

The pigeon would fly back laying with titties. I'm like, yes, this is... They were drawn though. But I was like, we would rotate back into laying with titties. I'm like, yes, this is dope. They were drawn, though. But we would rotate back into base. And in this time in Iraq, it was if there's any accidents or deaths from anyone, any battalion, anything on base, it was a lockdown. It was the blackout period. So you'd have like a five or ten day blackout of internet comms. I'm familiar.

When you are out in sector with no internet for 22 days and then you come back and then there's a blackout period, you're like, fuck my life. But when you're on there and you're waiting and you're in line for the internet and you're like, okay,

it's almost my time. I'm about to check i can catch up on my myspace i can change that song that's been playing dude my lincoln park soundtrack's gonna be so dope for my profile i can i remember this period this is a good period yeah what was this My wife and I It depended It depended on the theme It depended on the theme Yeah it honestly depended on the theme You know I had a little bit of TI in there A little bit of

Now I'm going to listen to that on the way home My wife and I both have each other In our top three on MySpace You still have MySpace? Well MySpace still exists. I mean, I didn't delete the account. I would love to find my MySpace. I need to figure out how to log back in.

I haven't seen that shit in years. And I would just be in line. We would all be in line. We'd just rotate. We'd fucking smell like shit. I'm like, I'm going to fucking check this. I'm going to go chow-chow. And you're just waiting, and then the mortar sounds go off.

Whoop, whoop whoop and then you see everyone like ducking for the tables or running off and to get in shelter and we're like fuck yeah internet time sit down and you'd see people under the table like what are you doing take cover yeah that's gonna save you i have emails so they'd be like why aren't you taking coverage like bro i don't get internet ever yeah i'm not wasting this might kill me i don't know but just in case it doesn't at least i get a fucking it's changed a lot since you've gone yeah i bet i hope like now like it's well to me it's kind of like bittersweet but like you know, Joe was just there last year, right? And even at one of the big MWRs that I remember 10 years ago was, like, hopping and popping.

You go there now, well, MiFi pucks, right? Like, little Wi-Fi that gives you. Everyone's got those. So guess what's not, you know, guess what's empty? The phones, the computers. No one gets in line no more. Because, I mean, why when you can just pop them up? Oh, yeah, yeah.

Phones and stuff. What about the MWR tents? there's i mean like popping not i mean no i mean so yeah that used to i remember that being in line being like hurry up bro like it's my i want to talk to nah because i mean you got your smartphone and you got if you have a mi5 puck which they even have over there nowadays right you could just why go to that when i could just do it here you know holy fuck i forgot about the phone shit too oh my my god. Yeah, cuz I was like, oh, yeah, we'd have the internet I forgot of waiting in life with fun. Yeah as a core memory is the phone trailer So I was saying a phone trailer with a little phone card you'd go in there and no one's got

To somebody and like yeah mom. Yeah, this guy's touching my arm, right? Yeah. yeah. 100%. Yeah, babe, I'm super hard. Go on. Shut up. Go away. Fuck off, dude. What is he saying? Mom, mom, mom. It's not me.

God, I don't fucking miss that shit at all. Guys, just be happy you didn't have to deal with that. 100%. I didn't deal with it enough, hopefully. Oh, yeah. There was no Afghanistan. We just did Iraq, served, and then it was fucking done and moving. But I forgot the phone cards completely spaced out. I remember having to write, for I left, I had a notebook

of just phone numbers. That way I could be like, now? I don't remember anyone's phone numbers. I just click on a name. Yeah, I had my blue book. And my blue military. No, it was the green one with the fucking yes. Oh my.

Get out. All of you are never welcome back. I'm going to be depressed from this. The only person's phone number who I remember, and I don't really know why, because I don't call her that much, is my grandma. Why don't you call your grandma much? Let's peel that onion back.

That was the Eli. That was the joke. We should call her right now. No, we're focusing on that onion. We're peeling that. Nana, I'm sorry. Nana's a huge fan. She's commenting right now.

I watch every episode. She's like, that's why you don't call. You don't call because you're a bitch. Nana mandatory. She's going to be pissed at this episode. New Instagram account. Nana mandatory You're gonna be pissed at this episode New Instagram account Nana mandatory I'm gonna set that up

So now we're gonna switch to what I'm really excited Well we can fuck it I wanted to ask you guys On your favorite firearms Real quick but then I want to talk about video games Cause this is This is gonna be crazy to a lot of you Out there when you're in the military i don't during my time frame i didn't get into firearms to the degree i am until after

well after when i got out i had like a fucking 1911 and an ar and i thought that was the coolest shit and i was like this is all on the i didn't still like going shooting. Cause I shot so much in the military. Well, you guys are still in, are you guys like big gun guys? Are you just like, no, I fucking knew.

I knew it was just going to be like, you don't give a shit. Like when you're in the military ruins it. Oh, it's like for me, like we, I live on a farm and so we have coyotes and foxes and all that. And we have, we have animals that will get eaten by those animals.

So that's the only purpose for me for shooting. But to like go out and just like sling rain, you know, rounds down range. Like I really don't do it. Like it's just not doable. I have an XDS, but like,

what is that? I've never shot it. Like a, it's a handgun. Yeah. I mean, I have one. I've never, I've never even shot it shot it like i'm just not i'm not a gun guy you know that happens you same i know the m4 i know the m9 yeah

nice you're probably okay with an m9 military does not teach us how to shoot pistols. Not at all. Period. You know what? I got one now, so that's kind of cool. He didn't even have it answered. He just said, I got one now. I got one now. He wears it

here. Old first art don't shoot. Old first art's like this. T-Cups, he's closing one now. He wears it here. Old first art knows. Old first art knows. He's like, T-Cops, he's closing one eye. He's fired. That's amazing. I'm really happy to have one now. You know what I mean?

I've always wanted one. I've already got my little side hip holster. So when I'm out there on my next appointment, right? I'll be like, hey, where's your eye pro? I'm just going to flick my holster back and forth. Get your eye pro on. Where's your helmet? Get your helmet.

Where's your PT belt? I'm excited. Why are there only seven suspension pads in here you little shit I'll never forget the worst the worst fucking first search I ever had the only question he ever asked me is why are there not nine suspension pads in your Kevlar or whatever it was supposed to be and it's funny because during that period of time it was like a really hard time in my life and anybody asking me like hey man are you doing okay would have been nice but i'm really glad he was concerned with how many fucking pads were in my kevlar while we're out in the yakima training center dude yakistan yakistan yeah i've i spent at least like 16 months of the three years. I was at Fort Lewis in Exit, how did he know?

Did he do like a helmet? Yeah, he would walk around and pick people As you say as you you know evolve into it it like it's like this ability Something's fucking wrong right now your your dog tags are missing. I just picture you guys have predator vision, but the fucked up shit's red. It's all highlighted. This is a goddamn juicy can soldier. Why are your nails so long? Yeah, it's just red.

Like, everything's blue, but what's fucked up is red and blue. It's all red right there. Not right there. It's on the edges to a degree that it's red. Hey, McSoldier, what the fuck is this? I've been trying to figure out

at what point does... I know officers get it too. There is some part in the time space where you just fall off and you're completely delusional on what's happening. You've got tunnel vision on one thing that doesn't fucking matter. yeah it's wild i haven't reached yet because like i haven't reached yet i know for a fact i haven't reached yet right because if i go step

on grass outside don't care i don't care i really don't care i don't care that's my favorite thing that we do in the military is we make up additional rules and we can't we don't even have the bandwidth to enforce all the rules that we have currently. That's true. If you make a rule and there's nobody to enforce it, it's not a fucking rule, right?

If I, if I want to make a law and I don't have somebody willing to enforce the law, that's a suggestion, right? And it's not one that anybody's going to follow. We have way too many rules as it is. But then in addition to that

we also make up our own dumb ass rules that serve no purpose i just picture it's like that one day a soldier is gonna step on grass and you're gonna be like no no you don't think so no i wouldn That will never be me. I promise you that. Five years. Time stamp. I'm going to follow you around now. Time stamp this right now. I will never. I don't care really if you walk on grass. It'll be in the Army Times.

I really don't care. First surgeon arrested for assaulting soldier for walking on grass. I don't care if you have one sleeve rolled in and you're in the field. I don't care because you're able to do that. I don't see nothing wrong with that. Here's what I care about. I care about you getting to the objective on time. If you can do that with the MWE, right. Man, weapon and equipment.

You're then that's all I care about. I really don't care that you have your dog tags on your belt instead of your neck or, you know, yeah, that's always been a weird thing. That people fix it on too. Yeah. Like if you like, wait, you can put it on, too. Yeah. Like, if you, like. Wait, you put it on your belt? No, no. People do that? Yes.

And some people get pissy about it. Yes. Guilty. Even though I don't think it's in regulation. I've never heard of it. Guilty. What, that it's supposed to be in your neck? Yeah.

It is. It's in regulation? Yes. This is the first time I'm hearing about this entire belt thing. Oh, yeah. Yes. Never in my life have I heard this. No, yeah.

People do it all the time. I do. Maybe now. He does it. I keep mine in my shoulder pocket because so many people are giving me shit about having it on my belt loops. I don't want to wear it all the time. It pulls my chest hair out. It's wild. I'm sorry.

I've never experienced it. I wear them on my belt. People get fixated on things like that. To me, it's like, man, this is wild. And then the whole train as you fight thing, I hear that too, and that grinds. That gets used as an excuse to do a lot of wild shit. That's what happens. Wear flip-flops at the range.

Oh, yeah. Train as you fight. Train as you fight. And I really don't want to go down this rabbit hole, but train as you fight, right? I think that's a flawed way of thinking because people who tell me that, right? I'll give you a perfect example. PT. God, I can tell you're a first-time because you're hitting fucking heat.

Bro, you're like, dude, look at your hands right now. But like, look, look, look. Morning PT, right? What do we do PT in? We do it in? PT shirt. Gym shorts. Yeah, PT shirt, shorts, running shoes, right? What do we do PT in? We do it in shirt, gym shorts. Yeah, PT, shirt, shorts, running shoes, right?

If you want to play the whole like, no, big charge, you got to train as you fight. I'm like, okay, I better see you in uniform because you wouldn't have your PTs on in a firefight, would you? That's how they did it up until 1985. Yes. I wrote a paper on this. And so like, I think if you want to, if you're going to tell me that, then i better see you out there doing tactical pt every day and sleep in your patrol base every night too so we did uh one of uh i forget who it was one of the it was the cat and was it her cat or one of the lieutenants was like we're gonna train as you fight we're gonna fucking get your boots on we're going on a run this is like one month before we deploy. Guess what company got two broken ankles on a run with like boots and everything.

Yes, because they were running in gear over long distances. And they'd never done it before, right? That was the first time. And we decided to do six miles or whatever the fuck we did. And then in gear. Because in in combat you're not fucked i assure you we don't fucking we're not putting our gear on 60 pounds and being like okay we're gonna jog to the objective do a marathon quick marathon calling cadence the bad guys i know we're here something yeah the enemy are here just like the information running didn't happen we injured herself and they're but that one time at one time they're like hey we

can't do this no more we uh two people broke their ankles yeah they're now going to be deployed later lucky them but it was one of those things that's fucking stupid it's fucking stupid training as you fight though that that's like so as a police officer like train as you fight right so as a cop like we go through all this training and like i'm standing on the firing range yeah i'm standing on the firing range and it's like i would always stand there as a detective with my with my hands in my vest right here right and so they're i'm standing on the line and they're like what are you doing get ready to shoot like as you fight they're like what like this is how i stand when i'm talking to people i'd literally stand with my hands like but they want you to stand with your hands here like in the the bladed kind of thing like this faster i'm like

i want to practice this this makes sense this is like i want to do this. This makes sense. This is coming. Like, I want to do this. Pow! And so I did. And they're like, pow! Yeah. Really had my gun in the vest like this. Train as you fight. Yeah, train as you fight. What do you do now? Like my current job?

Yeah. So I'm getting ready to go to be the multimedia NCO for the... Do you do that full time? Army National Guard, yeah. Oh. I'm active in the National Guard. You're multimedia? Multimedia. What? go to be the uh multimedia nco for the uh you do that full-time army national guard yeah in the national guard you're multimedia by media what can i contract for that because i know they pay me a lot more than you know that could i don't know i could write it back into like two million dollars for one year and they'd be like deal yeah i love that that's an awesome i don't know why we haven't gotten to be able to do that. I'm trying. I really am trying.

I think that establishing a group of guys that are already doing it, that are doing a good job with it, would be awesome. Yeah. You hear that, journals that watch the show? Make a difference. Beards. Do this, pay them their rate, and then contract me for a much higher rate. Train as you fight.

Train as you fight. Well, that's what the group will call it. We'll post as good. We will post as you fight. That's what the group will call it. We will post as we fight. We'll motivate people to join the military. Eating pizza. My rate's going to be extremely high. I am a liar.

I am a liar. I'm not tripping over this thing again. Yeah, you're going to rip it out of my hand again? Yeah, really. Just fucking slam down. You left marks on the table. This is oak. Yeah.

Oh, yeah. Look. Oh, yeah. Damn. Bill it. That thing was like, bah! Slam down. It'll sound good.

I was like, dang. Okay. Okay. Now, did you guys, when you joined initially, were you like, I'm going to do this as a career? Or what point did it hit where you're like, oh, this is a fucking career? Did you know? Did you know? Yeah.

Oh, okay. Because I'm like the opposite of what you would envision. So as a recruiter, I get asked all the time. They're like, why did you join and all that? Because people nowadays, they're like, well, what are the benefits? What's in it for me and all that? So I'm like, these parents ask me, they're like, why did you join? I'm like, well, I'll tell you, I didn't join for any of the benefits.

I joined because I wanted to go overseas and do that whole thing, just like you, right? So that's what I did. Like, I knew exactly what I was going to do. I didn't know that I was going to be infantry. You know, I did the ASVAB and I got a decent score on it, but it was in a lot of different jobs. What was it? What's that? Your GT score was?

18. He crushed it. A 110? God What's that? Your GT score was? 18. He crushed it. A 110? God damn. No, no, no. One. Yeah, something like that. We'll pull it up after.

Yeah. So. G-Van put 18. Hey, hey, hey. I had so many options. He had cook and infantry. The recruiter's like, you know, they give me this sales pitch and everything. And I'm like 18, you know, paying attention, trying to to and he starts popping in the vhs's or the dvds and i'm looking at like mp and

all that projector yeah yeah seriously and so i'm watching them i'm like i don't know these don't good and then he pops in the infantry one and i'm like instantly captivated like whoa that guy's like it's a big guy like real muscular shooting a machine gun. And then next clip was him. That was the gay porn scene, right? Maybe. And the next clip is him like, why do I feel like this? Two dudes rowing each other?

I want that job. What is that? I can do that. Wrong one, bro. It's just blurbed out. Dudes having fun. I'm signing up right now. Oh, my God. You want to sign up'm signing up right now. Oh my God.

Do you want to sign up? Fuck that. Oh, geez. So, the next clip is like the guy pulling a pin on a grenade and he throws it into like the third floor window of a building. And then the whole building explodes.

Of course, it goes right in the window. And I look at the recruiter. I'm like, you're telling me I'm going to get to do that? And he's like, yeah. I'm like,

done deal, son. Let's go. That was it. That was it. That was telling me. That was telling me. You're telling me.

This is the recruiter's face, how it actually went. He's like, dude, we're going to sign up for this. Fast forward to infantry school and basic training, and I throw the hand grenade. And I'm like, that was nothing like the video. No, you throw a hand grenade and it goes like two feet. I couldn't even watch it. We can't even watch. It weighs so much. I remember

it. My buddy, basic training, right? He got literally thrown to the ground. He was like, I guess I didn't get down fast enough. It was the largest African-American male I've ever seen in my life. It's full kit right pc of you

this is how right described it to me you're like the african-american man the right described it to me he said he grabbed him he said he said i'm from detroit don't fuck with me like with his knee on his back jeez that was a black dude with that thing right there that is like just fucking muscle and that's a man oh who was it um not sauron jackson it was one of my favorite uh he he was like that fucking black e7 just a fucking monster like he was one i remember when he was questioning why we only could run the two mile in 12 minutes he's like i just did a 950 homeboy was like an olympic runner he was the strongest dude ever but he did the same thing at the grenade range he watched it he like no like someone a private was like fucking just like one-handed

though he's like oh just like the hand of god just chucked that private down and held him down i was like he's a god that's why he can run two miles under 10 minutes. What the fuck is wrong with him? God, those guys are fucking soldiers. Just for anyone that knows, when you throw your grenade, especially in basic training, they weigh a lot. You're not throwing a grenade 50 feet. I think everyone goes in with that mindset. It's like, I'm going to throw this thing so far. Clear over the mountains.

Clear over the mountains. I'm going to Uncle Rico it. Uncle Rico over here. Napoleon, hold this. When you throw a grenade, trying to get your EIB, you have to throw it in like a 20, like it's a whole 20 feet away. Yeah. That is what stops everyone from getting their EIB.

Because they don't get it like where they're supposed to get it. You got to get in that radius. It is. People don't know how to throw baseballs. It shows. And it is hard because that fucking thing, you have to like throw it in a direction and then you feel the weight on it. Like everyone here is throwing one. Controlling where it bounces also.

I watched my buddies get fucking flagged out at EIB because it was like, like grenade bounce and just went the wrong way. It's like you're gone. Fucking no go. He's like, fuck. You get two more tries, but most of the time you ain't hitting it. Grenades weigh four pounds.

It's like deceptively heavy when you hold it. Like you see it and you're like, well, that's a little. And then you're like, what the fuck? Probably like a baseball.

And then you're like, whoa, heavy baseball. Way to baseball, yeah. It's a weird, oddly shaped baseball that kills you. Very dangerous. It's a baseball with this wart and you flick something off of it. Yeah, you have to pull it. It's not as easy as you want.

Why is this on here? People do it with their teeth. Your teeth will get fucking ripped out if you ever try that. Like, this isn't good. So, this is the topic that i am excited to go for because now we get a nerd out for a second okay sly cooper's gonna wait okay with that big guy i still don't know who this is it'll be okay i want to see i have no idea we can talk about runescape i want to see what your anime or video game nerd knowledge is. You I am so excited.

This man, we're trying to get a read. I'm always trying to get a read on people. Some energy. He has a darker side. Then you started the podcast with your dark ass story. I was like, okay, so that was a dark side. I was like, intense. Dude, when he came in, he was like, wait, who's fucking animation is this?

I was like, okay. That was the most animated I've seen him since he's been here. He's like, whoa, who's this? He was super excited. There's a sword in the garage. Oh, yeah. You're right. What's Naruto? There's Naruto.

Who's the guy? Which one are we talking about? Tachi? No, what's the younger brother? Sas you're Sasuke 100% Sasuke you're like walking around you like I know war His meal he's dark I was like man, okay the Mexican dudes a darker guy I'm gonna learn his comedy though you walk in here and you're like anime you're like rolled up your sleeve you're like i love my hero academia like yeah here we go one of the mandatory viewing scriptures of anime history yes so when you like do you give your what are your favorite animes and then then does that, leading back to First Army, where I wanted to take that combo.

He was a First Army that was my favorite story about First Army. Episode one, or episode two or three just came out for Star Wars. Okay. So Star Wars episode three or two. Return of the Jedi. I forget which one. Revenge of the Sith. Revenge of the Sith. Maybe just came out in like 05, 06.

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No, this was a different one. When that movie came out, it was a Friday, and he was like, did any of you buy tickets for that movie? That is an acceptable answer. Yeah, we were like, first of all, we did. You have the day off. He cut us from formation in the morning to go watch. I was like, that's amazing.

Yo, first of all, this dude's fucking dope as shit. Then the other one, we had a safety brief in the morning. It's 9 a.m. First of all, he was going to just start it so then he can do whatever first song he does. And he's walking

in and a private puts on the Imperial Death March. It's a good song. He put it on loud, put it on the speaker, played it. It's like, that started playing as he's walking in and he stops. He's like, who played that? Private's like,

it's perfect. He's like, you played that? Private's like, it's perfect. He's like, you. You have the day off. Go. Fuck! Fuck! Oh, for some reason. So cool.

Private's like, okay. He's just like skedaddled out of there. I'm like, dude, this dude's fucking dope. But that was like his level of nerd for Star Wars. Yeah, I speak that. For anime? Star Wars as well. I'll give you perfect. This happened.

This was me. Squad leader back in Geronimo, right? This was 2017. The first Star Wars of the new trilogy came out, right? In 2017? Yep. What was it? I forgot the name of it, but it was the Star Wars.

Was it a new? No, New Hope is the original. It was the new Skywalker, I think. Yes, the new Skywalker. So it was a new skywalker i think yes the new skywalker so it was the you know it was star wars star wars was coming back right you know so obviously i'm about it yes ray was coming i was like yes all of it so my platoon siren i forgot what happened to him he had to go do something where he had to step away so i had to cover down naturally as a weapon squad leader so we just got done with that rotation and uh our ceo brings us in all the pls we're all sitting

there figuring out what we can do for recovery and everything and then i was like this movie comes out this fucking friday i'm not trying to work i'm trying to be there on opening night i'm going to make a memo i have my pl help me make a memo because i know how to make a memo at the time and he helped me make a memo requesting and saying that you know this the company commander authorizes a late call for anyone who goes to watch that star wars movie so i was like boom looks good he proofed it made sure everything was good font all that good stuff right i was like sweet you think you'd get mad if i show him this like you know get him to sign off on this oh no i was like or steve says no yeah or smoke me but you know we'll get there so we get to that

we're in the meeting and you know he's going over conditions check make sure we're all good this is what's happening priorities of work etc etc all right first tune second tune got it 13 what do you got oh pl speaks all right and i was like sorry i got something if you could just read that his name was captain flancher. Really solid. He's like one of my favorite company commanders. And he looks at it. He starts reading it through. It's just basically me saying that he's blessing us

off on having a late call for whoever goes to Star Wars movie. So he reads it. I just picture it starts with, a long, long time ago. I'm just picturing the like. No, it was like. Why is this scrolling?

Exactly. It's like. I don't remember, but it was like, why is this scrolling? I don't remember, but it was like, as a company commander, I authorized blah, blah, blah.

Right. So he reads it and I'm like, I'm really like watching like, oh shit. And like, he just looks at it as he's done. He looks up at me and he's just like, what made you think this was okay to give to me?

And right there, I was like, oh shit. And then he's like like give me a pen and uh i forgot who gave him some game pen you guys are good and i when he said that i was just like and my peel was like we're good i was like yes he's like made the force be with anybody exactly and then at that point the other other patoos are like, well, we want to see it too. And I was like, yeah.

And the CEO was like, no, yeah. Let's go fucking see Star Wars. I'll talk to the BCC when we get off for the company. I was like, yes. And it happened. And then the other companies hated a little bit and they're like, oh, well, fuck, they get to be off. Whenever you get something, I'll never the first thing I did when I got back, the first thing I

did when I got back from OCS and I'm a newly minted butter bar. I was like, I want to do offsite PT. So I came up with a con up. I came up with a draw. We used the rock wall that was in the gym that I shit you not. I'd never seen anyone use in the four, four years. I was at Fort Sill, never seen a single person on this rock wall. Right. I was like, what do we need to do? Take a safety class. All right, everybody, you got to take safety class we can do off-site pt we're doing off-site pt right we're all climbing this rock wall it's great nobody nobody there are people in the section that have been in the army for like almost 10 years and have never done off-site pt like and this this dude walks by and he's like looking at us all nasty and i look at him and he's like, and I'm like,

and I'm like, dude, like what, what's your issue with this? You could do instead of hating because we're doing this. Why don't you come do it with us? You know what I mean? That'd be angry.

It's so weird. It's just, it's just strange to me. Cause yeah, you say the other companies hated and I 100% believe it. Because instead of being like, oh, wow, okay, this is an option for us, they're like, no, we shouldn't do that. Why are they getting that? It's like people try and take things from you.

It pisses me off. Fuck that. We're working this week. Yeah, absolutely. They got a late call. We're going to work. We're going to show up at 05. We're going to do a rock instead.

While watching the movie. We're going to play it in the back of our truck we have episode three because i don't even want to watch that's the old one you have to road march the entire time when we watch it and we'll throw popcorn at you to pick up and eat yeah if you can keep up you can watch it whatever whenever the new star wars were named though they should have been named bad lightsaber choreography and i actually recently found out why the core was bad so in the prequels the lightsabers apparently were cgi but in the new ones it's an actual like metal rod or something that they're holding so there's some physical weight and that's

why it looks like heavy when they're swinging it around but that's why they can't do all like the flippy shit that they used to do well i like star wars let me be honest with lightsabers it's light there's gonna be no weight exactly yes yeah you ever fuck with a flashlight this is what star wars this is literally a fucking lightsaber battle I'm sure there's lore nerds that can answer this for me but why did anybody not ever just turn it off and turn it back on like right at the right moment so I can answer that

that is a man there's like four different like variations why can't the kyber crystal do that there's like four different variations. Is it like an honor thing? What's going on here? Yes. Why can't the Kyber Crystal do that? There's like four different variations of the fighting styles, right? And they all have a mutual slash understanding that it is a forbidden slash treacherous way to do it. Even the Sith acknowledged it's like poor, what is the word? Sportsmanship.

Yes. If we're going to duke it out, we're going to duke it out with them on. We got another nod over here, too. If I was a Sith, I wouldn't care about that. Oh, yeah, dude. I'd be like, 100% man, you're dead. Now I got a new life saver. With that being said.

And then I'd turn on my TikTok video and be like. And do your single games. Yeah, yeah. Force lightning. Force lightning. I'm pretty sure there is one that tried it, but I think he got destroyed for doing it. Which is so weird.

Dude, I love nerd. Star Wars, the only Star Wars I give two shits about is back in the day during the actual, the Mandalorian Wars or the Old Republic when it was the giant battles between like a thousand sith and a thousand jedi that's when it was like dope as shit then the rule of the the two siths became that's some of the best expanded universe books and i don't know if they still call it that because disney owns it now but like the darth vane trilogy which explains like the

rule of two i read it when i was a kid such good reading even if you just like sci-fi it's still really he's a dude he's a dude he's buying them lips no no it's okay to say you read it as a doll it's perfectly fine we can i'm we can i still have the books from when i was a kid i should reread them because they actually are really good dude you got some uh dope ass uh darth uh. Who is the fucking greatest battler? Darth Tyr- not Tyrannus. I forget his name. He has an entire sex.

So he was- Small? No, this is wet. This is like 2000. This is like 2000 years in the past. You guys talk real quick about Star Wars, your favorite one. Will I look this up? I literally have a Darth Revan and an

HK-47. Oh, there you go. Talk about that real quick. I'm going to pee-pee while I look this up. Talk about Darth Revan. Go. The Revan novel, the only thing that's bad about it is that it wasn't longer and there weren't more. The Revan I don't think I've read that one.

I know nothing about anything you're talking about right now. You know nothing about Star Wars? You never played Knights of the Old Republic? I don't know what anime is. I know it's like a cartoon or something. Stop. Don't do that. What is it called? You were my hero until just now. You're going down a notch. Like none? No. You've never watched anime?

There's got to be one you've thought about. Dragon Ball Z. Yes, I've heard of it. You've never watched it? You've never want to be a Super Saiyan. No, I don't even know what that is. Who is that? I think he's fucking with us. No, I'm not. He's trolling us. We'll have to watch a video after this because I'm telling you. Goku.

That doesn't even sound similar. I'm telling you, man. I have no idea. And I don't have the tattoo either. What did you watch growing up? Not much. Like just Tom and Jerry,

like regular cartoons. Were you homeschooled? That wasn't meant to be a dig. I was trying to figure it out. I was like, there's no way. Dragon Ball Z was like part of everyone's, whether you liked it or not. I was like, there. Toonami? None of it was right there toonami i missed toonami it's so funny because i saw a clip on uh i can't remember if it was on instagram or youtube or what but i saw a clip of the toonami

like robot dude talking and he has that iconic voice yeah and it was just like it literally made me sad like i got emotional i was like i remember this easier time of my life what is what is like so appealing about it i'm not even trying to like well anime like why i don't know it was just it was cool i mean it was just dudes like powering up and fighting each other i mean back in the day i don't i have never had the like obsession with it that some do but i think it's cool i would watch it more if i had more time in my current life but i don't have four kids about you yeah i love the shit out of anime but why like what what is it about it that makes you like it so much if i could it's really hard to explain because I can teach you by making you watch it and then you will learn to love it because that's just the way anime works. But what are we talking about?

Anime. They're educating me. He's never watched a single episode of any anime ever. He's heard of the world. He's never heard of Goku. That's just why we like it. It's amazing. First off, Exarcoon yeah you'll have to give me a list of things i need to watch yes i can give you the mandatory rescriptures to view yes we can do that

definitely you need to do that we gotta get you cultured um every day why my homework what was the question why do i watch it is what you said said? What about it do you like so much? Well, so if you can get past the shallowness that it is not live, right? Because people are always like, oh, well, it's not real life. Like, got it. That's the whole point. None of our videos are real life interesting enough. Oh, they aren't?

That's crazy. I thought we literally are like this all the time. But the storytelling is like phenomenal. Yeah. Super good. Character development is really good. Storytelling.

It's the difference between how I always explain anime is you have this universe where there is no creative control. You can expand into whatever story you want and then the character can go wherever. Yeah, that's a really good point. There's no limiters. It almost feels like anything's possible. Did you plan that? That sounded very good. Covered in anime tattoos.

I might throw down on the nerdism. I was like a creed. You're right in that mouth. I'm going to say that to the troops. I'm going to say that to the troops. I'm going to say that to the troops this week. Attention. Listen. Listen, formation.

You guys got to watch Naruto. It'll teach you to let go of the limits on your mind. You can do anything. I will say because you're, you know, you're, we're not necessarily older, but you've never seen it, right? I can tell you right now. It is harder. It is harder. It is harder harder for people i thought you're my same age like like naruto are you 30 no i'm not 30 he's the oldest one out here right no no he's probably you're probably pushing it a little bit eli's got me beat what are you how old are you 39 39 okay 36 okay 39. 39. Okay. 36. Okay. 41.

Really? 41. 34. I was going to say, I was like, I was like, I thought you were, well, you're 34.

I still have all this shit. Your first time. Oh my God. I'd be like a smart major. Be the worst. I'm a star major. Like, Oh,

we're going to watch two hours of nerd. Oh, that's it. I don't give a shit. I'll be a terrible star major. I know for a fact, part of my love for like cartoons in general is like psychologically. It brings me back to a simpler time.

Like when I was a kid, right? You don't have, you know, you don't have the bills, the responsibilities, like 1700 people. You're constantly disappointing.

You know what I mean? It's just, it's nice. Every once once in a while take a little dip into nostalgia maybe 22 push-ups it all depends on the person right like like for so mostly majority like like my pl my first pl not about it was not he was like had a very shallow mind of like does for kids I was like let me school you up now it depends on like I said for people right

Naruto would be the most worst example because you got to attack them with what you know with what they can get with and some anime take a long

fucking time to build up like Naruto so never go with that if you each had to choose one is it called anime one

if I was just to throw you into the gambit, I'd be like, here's Demon Slayer, here's Attack on Titan. Attack on Titan's a really good one. Attack on Titan's really good.

Berserk's a little hard. No, no, no. Let's calm down because then he'll be like, you creepy ass. But it's real good too. It is really good, but you know what?

You have to eat because the apocalypse is not that bad. It's dark as fuck. One Punch Dad did a really good video on how King of the Hill is American anime. I know. I love that one so much.

And that video. It's a lot. Because at first I was like, what the hell is he doing? And then by the end of it, I was like, God damn it, it is.

It is American anime. Fuck. Shit. So yeah, king of the hill anime no it's like i've watched that okay i've watched anime then star star wars is a good example and then you can branch out into different types and say for video games you have all these different things that are looks like dude animate like if anime we talked about when grand thumbs was on grand thumbs when that dude that uh the 22 guy was like i could shoot a fucking i can hit a can from 20 uh from 700 yards with no scope and then i broke down how that would turn into an anime scene for michael a mike and then micah. He's like, that's the freaking perfect example of anime. Anime looks like

even soldiers look fucking dope as shit. If there was just an anime about American soldiers, how they would make it look. If you want to recruit dudes, making an anime about them. An anime series for recruiting. Oh, dude.

Not recruiting. fucking how cool it is to be in the military yeah yeah everyone would join they'd be like holy shit i get a level up my info there's no but in the anime yes there's animes on like basketball and they make basketball look like the soccer sickest ever there's auu. Dude, but what's the, the blue, blue, blue lock. Yes. I fucking don't give a shit about football,

which is soccer. Blue lock. I watched that entire season. I've read the manga. I don't care about soccer, but holy shit. I am enthralled on soccer. They'll be like,

he's using the flying Lotus technique. Like makes a goal. He's leveling up, bro. He powered up. Is it because they can create whatever they want within that? So if it's soccer, whatever, they can become something else?

It's not just that, right? Because it's not real life, it gives you the ability to go that far where real life can't, right? There's a limit on what we can do as people, but obviously within that realm, you can go hard. Let me break this down

i can do this this is great director eli's coming out fucking fucking private smith we have private smith he's at the gun range he's an e3 he's like those rounds hit all over and the first ones are you fucking suck and he looks over and then he sees specialist Johnson Johnson just like and they hit close he's like he looks he analyzes the scene he's like my breathing techniques off I should have been breathing different and he looks at the finger

and punches in he's like I was using the wrong part of my finger he's using the middle portion and he goes I've been fucking up the entire time. Punches in intense eye motion. It shows the smoke roll out. Okay.

That safe, the safe to fire goes. And he's like, and they hit pinhold. Perfect. First, aren't like. Private Smith looks up. he's promoted to a general and now you have anime and how it works epic that would be a solid video to make too dude that's like in that style when you level up why haven't you done that yet uh one i don't know how to edit like that i wish i did and otherwise i would have you done that yet? One, I don't know how to edit like that. I wish I did. And otherwise, I would.

Have you done videos like that? Yeah, I've done a lot. I've seen him do crazy videos. Yeah, he's definitely got the power to do some stuff like that. Oh, I know. Oh, yeah, my VFX. You haven't seen my VFX stuff. That's my OG stuff.

See, I wish I could do shit where I could just get huge or fly. That's easy shit. I could make some crazy stuff. Like, Visions is what I call them. I call it TISM. I could make some Netflix.. Like, Visions is what I call them. I call it Tism. I could make some Netflix. Everyone calls it Tism. Netflix.

He calls it Visions and he calls it Tism. You're like, I call it Visions, I call it all Tism. It's when my brain is like, this is really cool and I have to do it. I probably have it then. I'm autistic. I probably look like that but it's it's like anime at its core because you have what's your what's your top ones uh all the ones we just talked about so if we're talking modern demon slayer uh fucking this dude jujitsu kaizen's on that list jujitsuutsu Kaisen, yes. My Hero Academia. There's a reason why I got it tatted, right?

Like, that is my number one show. One of the greatest hero stories of a child that's given nothing. Not in the aspect of not giving, like, family or anything. It is, he has no superpowers where 90% of the population has it, and he wants to be the greatest hero. So you have this, and that anime makes me cry. Yeah, it's good. It's all the story all it's it's all

the story like it's a story yeah it's a story and it makes and there are parts where you can relate you can i guarantee you watching that show you will find something you can relate oh absolutely like as a dad dude yeah my hero i'm like yes myself like riding because i like i always picture that like midoriya or deku is like that it like, I wasn't given the opportunity to be a hero, but then he's instilled with that power because he's accurate. Like the main, the greatest hero in the world sees this kid that he denounces. He's like, bro, just be a police officer.

You don't have the powers. You can't do it. And then he watches this kid sacrifice his own life. He's like, I don't have powers. I don't want to ruin it. It's five, six, seven years now. sacrifice his own life he's like i don't have powers but he's like i don't care i'm gonna be a hero anyway and he does it with that being in not even being watched he doesn't know he's being watched but he sacrificed he's like i don't care i have to save my friend that's his bully and then the main hero watches he's like his name's all mine yeah all my the main hero watches. He's like, his name's all mine. Yeah.

All my, all my fucking watches. And he's like that dude, right? Yes. That's in, that's during the golden age for him. That's unopened action figures.

Never been open. I have a lot of those. It's probably worth a lot of money, but he likes soccer. He like, and then all my watches that happen. He's like, and then the hero,

the biggest hero self reflects about it. He's like, I fucked up. Yeah. He's like And then the hero The biggest hero Self reflects About it He's like I fucked up He's like He became bitter Yeah

He's like I became bitter And I didn't look For what it means To be a hero Which is It's not Heroicism

Like Heroism Whatever that Yeah We'll say it is I was trying to keep a straight face. I'm autistic. It is making that sacrifice and not worrying about your own well-being.

It's the hard thing. It is like there is going to be a sacrifice either for yourself or for the few or for the many. You have to. The premise behind Yu Yu Hakusho, too. Yes. Yu Yu Hakusho. Yes. That's my number one favorite.

Well, Hunter x Hunter author is the same, so he did both. If you haven't watched Hunter x Hunter, he did both. It's so funny because I've considered watching it, and a bunch of my buddies are like, it's just so slow initially. And so I'm like. The slowest ones are the best ones. It just takes the commitment. You must commit. Dude, if you like. Commit commit to pilgrimage that's what i keep telling my life you know 13 14

years you just gotta keep waiting babe you gotta commit come please can you commit can you close the distance you need to close the distance on that one good one i'm i'm intrigued oh it's but this is like all and then like so are we going to recommend as the first one? Yeah, what is the first one? Is it like their episodes? Like kind of a TV show? I can tell you right now he'd be a good My Hero. Because he's got like, I can tell, auras, right?

You're giving off the aura right now. What's my aura? You mean well. You want to do good. You want your kids to do good yeah Watching that show I can retell by like the end of the second episode you're gonna be able to relate to what all might does And you're gonna be like yes, I need to see what happens on how this little weak-ass kid Becomes number one right but like you're I don't know I think you'll I think you'll be able to I think I wholeheartedly think you

Will love my hero. Case in point, why'd I get tatted? Oh, my majority of it's all mine. Deku, yes, I love Deku too, but. Dude, just real quick, if I was a private,

I know how to get, you'd be like, dude, push us, I'd be like, tell me about your tattoo and you'd be like, private. This is all I'm talking about.

Fuck yeah, I'm not getting smoked. Fuck it, dude, first on, love me. No, no, no, if anything, if anything,

I'd be like, stay down there while i enlighten you on gospel you're gonna listen to this but so backstory on him real fast under a minute timing okay why why i love him so much dude, so the dude is good. He comes out and he puts on a fucking smile and he does everything he can to make sure that everything's okay, right? He's like the symbol of peace. I can relate to that because I want to do my best, right? I will, no matter how tired I am,

I will sit here and do everything I can and break my back to make sure it's okay. As long as I have caffeine, right? But on that same token once once once the caffeine's off or you know once the end of the day and i go back home i'm tired i'm 100 tired and i'm 100 not fully you know able so watching that show like him that's what i relate to him the most because like even though he's like half broken he can still turn around and try his best to make sure

everything's okay so that's the one I need to watch first yes and then after that we're gonna get you on Attack on Titan Demon Slayer and then by that time you're gonna be a full-fledged enemy dude you're gonna want to watch it because you want to watch it but am I gonna get a tattoo if you watch it all the way through

it'll just appear yeah it'll happen is that what happens? it's called a marking If you watch it all the way through, it'll just appear. Yeah, it'll happen. Is that what happens? You complete a season. That's what we call it, the marking. After I finished Pokemon Red for the thousandth time, this one showed up. Wow. Yes.

Dude, if you haven't watched just a quick, we'll talk about it probably in the after show, Twitch plays Pokemon when it was Twitch's commands are what what played pokemon red one of the greatest stories ever if you so like chat got to dictate the move so chat was restricted to up down left right a b and start each chat command is how the character would move they beat pokemon with this oh my god bro they also re it fuck the story and the lore that came from it because some of those things... You remember that one segment in Red where it's the bush,

you have to go under and go up, or you drop off and you have to do the entire maze again? There's like one... Is this towards the end of the game? Yeah. So it's like one bush. There's one square, and if you push down again, you fall and you have to do this entire maze again.

Or you have down, right, right, up. Now, when you have thousands of people entering commands all at once, and it is going based off of the order of that command, it took them three days to get around that fucking bunch. Because the character's just like, up, back, left, right, forward, down, delete Pokemon. because the characters is like up back left right forward down delete pokemon it is just going ever wherever it fucking wants it is one of the greatest like social experiments and this is 2014 15 there there's a guy that used and he set rules for an ai to play pokemon and basically he tried he tried to progress through. I want us, it was either one of the gen one or gen two games, but he wanted the AI to progress through

the Pokemon game naturally based on a reward system. And he also used it to study like human behavior. And it was, it's so cool. You can find it on YouTube, but it was, it's probably the longest YouTube video I've ever watched. Cause it was so cool. Cause he find it on YouTube. But it's probably the longest YouTube video I've ever watched because it was so cool. Because he'd say, like, okay, if you discover a new thing, I'm going to give you one iteration of reward, right? Reward. Yes. The AI one. Yes.

Oh, my God. And then he discovered along the way, like, even in the Gen 1 Pokemon games, there's sp right and they'll move around and so like at one point uses the AI and so it's really cool Is so is that the game where you see people like randomly? That's the game that simulates dog fighting, but with just like random creatures You know I'm talking about is that what it is like on their phone where they would be like we would get calls as cops Like for random people. Oh, that's Pokemon Go. Okay. Go is the one where they would go into like bad neighborhoods like but there's the Pikachu

here and you're like like horrible neighborhoods and then we call and I'm like, what are you doing? I didn't even think about that. The police all the time. Dude, this is Cody Donut talked about this. Donut would get calls to be like fucking what are you doing out here here Random fucking like

You get the Wrong people in the wrong neighborhoods Like there's a Pikachu here I literally Stopped playing Pokemon Go because I had Like 40 Ultra Balls and Like 20 Golden Raspberries and I still Couldn't catch a Metagross And I was like alright I'm done with this

Fucking game and then I found out it's RNG based and I just have no desire to play RNG games ever again same bro he's married somehow with that statement right there this man is married I kinda have 30 ultra bars and 30 raspberries I'm like

I'll play RuneScape and that's the only RNG game I'll play because you can not make use of RNG in that game You know what I mean like you can just do stuff, but god damn So I go I literally almost threw my goddamn phone out the window of my car We get calls all the time for it and like parking garages like and that people like going into a lake or something i'm like what are you doing i can't swim you can't do that that's a stormwater drainage pond yeah yeah so we get those calls and then i go from that and then i've never watched any of this stuff i have no idea what it is and then i get a call for

a bunch of people in a field fighting and so i'm like you know get there really fast and i spotlight the field and everyone's out there like in costumes with the big foam swords and they're and i'm like oh my i'm like i get the rifle out i'm like i don't know what's happening and so one of them comes up and they're like did somebody call you and i'm like well yeah it's like midnight and you guys are out here hitting each other with these foam swords and i'm like what are you doing we're larping i'm like what the heck is so then they explain it to me and then i would just go and park every time that they did it just to watch just sit there and like eat my lunch like this is amazing yeah crazy i'll just say now if anybody messages me anywhere and invites me to larp i'll do it i'll go with him too yeah and butterworth will come because i love it i think lightning bolt lightning bolt those are my favorite things lightning bolt fireball yeah

lightning bolt so with your like your animes you have your top three like where is do you read manga that's always that weird

manga no what's that manga is break it down it's pretty much the anime and books book form

it's the comic doesn't the manga usually come first yes so all the shows are damn are you know damn near from the books the anime and books. Doesn't the manga usually come first? Yes. All the shows are damn near from the books. Just in two cartoons. Is that what you were saying that you read as a kid?

No. Expanded Universe Star Wars is just normal. Book books. I'm trying to understand it. I read a lot of manga. I'm like huge. I can't do it. I can understand it. I read a lot of manga. I'm like huge manga, manga, however you say it. I can't do it. I can't visualize. I just wait until it comes out in a show.

Yumi is fucking... I can't just look at the book and pow, it just doesn't click. Do you know what power I hold? I can tell him the ending of Demon Slayer right now and just ruin his day. Me? No, don't do it. I know, I would never do that. Speaking of, I just ruin every anime. Here's what happens in My Hero. Here's what happens in Demon Slayer. don't do it. I know, I would never do that. Speaking of, I just ruin every

animal. Here's what happens in My Hero. Here's what happens in Demon Slayer. I might watch it. Don't do that. I cut to his face. He's like... See? I have that power. Yeah, they have the power. 100%. Have you guys watched Invincible yet?

Yes, of course. Have you seen the second season now? I'm on it. It's only like four episodes in and apparently because of the writer's strike, they might not Have you guys watched Invincible yet? Yes, of course. Have you seen the second season now? I'm on it. I haven't watched it yet. It's only like four episodes in. And apparently because of the writer's strike, they might not continue to release episodes. Or maybe the episodes aren't. Which is weird because it's already written. I know.

Exactly. It's weird. Just follow the fucking comic. Great. That's literally what happened. We talked about in the last episode or one of them where it was the zombie show that came out, an HBO show?

The Last of Us. She got to thank you. That's why I asked her. She's amazing. I heard that was good too. Last of Us. It's good game. Because they weren't like this. They were like oh, let's just copy what they say in the video.

Yeah, you remember that thing with millions of people like let's just copy what they say in the video yeah you remember that thing with millions of people like let's just do it again and then they did it and they were like fucking slayed and everyone was like whoa we can do that

yes yes you can video games companies and movie studios just fucking god of war that's what we need we need god of war god of war didn't they make a gears of war game uh movie no show and they talked about it at least they

talked about that would be a good one but it would be good it'd be hard it'd be very god of war gears of war metal gear metal gears my fucking game dog do you like metal gear too yeah i want to talk video games look you're you Yes, I got it. You're older than me, but you were not molded. Where's your solid snake tattoo? Actually, we're not going to talk about that.

You want to see snake on my chest piece? You got a whole chest piece of snake? I joined the military because I met Hideo Kojima. I was selfie with him I joined the military because Metal Gear Solid 3 what a thrill. Yes Indy Colonel Gunship

Would you eat a tree frog? The line that says... The line that's basically like, my source, I made it the fuck up. That's from the Metal Gear games, right? He says, I made it the fuck up. Where's that from? It's like some jacked politician guy. Yes, that was in

Metal Gear Rising. That was one of the one-offs that Kojima didn't do. It was Raiden. Raiden, yeah. My son's name is Raiden, if you want to know how big. You named him after Metal Gear. Was that intentional? Like you were like Metal Gear Raiden.

Yes, 100%. I was like, my son. Baby mama was like, what about Raiden? I was like, what about Raiden? It's a little. And she was like, oh, Ryan? I was like, what about Ryden? It's a little. And she was like, oh, my God, I really like that. So you might need to tell her why. And then she signed it, and we got the birth certificate.

And I was like, that's where my video came from. God damn it, Eli. And then I found out Liquid Snake's name was Eli. And I was like, perfect. Oh, my God. Dude, I have a Mark 23. If I have a son, I want to name him Baron because then it would be Baron Von Lettkman.

That's a gangster. My wife won't let me do it. That's a witcher name. We're never going to have a son. I've had four girls. I'm not having a son. I'm pretty sure when it comes out, it's pink. You know what I mean?

Just name him that anyways her name is Burn and then everyone would think it's a Trump reference too and I don't know if I would make him if we're in a red state that would be fine I guess but you're like I can't risk this oh fuck it dude

Metal Gear Metal Gear is like that was the very first game I played on PlayStation. PlayStation 1. Yes, on PlayStation. Yeah. It indoctrinated me into what gaming should be. Very first game I played on PlayStation.

I mean, you are. See, you should have stayed long, bro. We get along real fucking good. When the praying mantis, when he came up and my controller shook and I was like, I was a little ass kid. I was like, what is happening? I'm terrified. There's magic. Dude, comments below. He said the

praying mantis. Destroy him. Psycho mantis. What did I say? Did I say praying mantis? Yeah. God damn it. Psycho mantis. Y'all knew what I meant. You're done for now. Your comments. Congrats on your credibility. Too much. Too much. Psycho mantis.

Nah, I played Crash Bandicoot. I want to say Bomberman. Bomberman's a good one. And then PlayStation 2. My favorite game was Need for Speed Underground 2. And that had the best soundtrack of any game.

I was just about to say the soundtrack. I still literally listen to the, I listen to the songs like Driving Here. There's a song called Nobody by Skindred and I can't even like mimic it it's like it's like reggae metal it's weird but and then um you should 100 try to mimic it that's where i fell in love with kingdom hearts

jack and daxter yes one of the required king and kingdom hearts is probably my favorite video game series of all time and i know it's like it's kind basic. It's like the Uggs of video games. Well, it started real strong and got very convoluted. It really did. And I don't know why they made a Kingdom Hearts game on literally every system ever created by man. And each one has a story to tie it together in your head. I could understand PlayStation and Game Boy. But like when we're dive...

Like I don't know what you guys think my parents did but they can't afford to buy me every game system ever created by humanity and so I just I mean I couldn't keep going. Donkey does the best Kingdom Hearts. If you guys don't know Video Game Donkey he's probably one of my favorite YouTubers I have like Game Grumps

Video Game Donkey I have like these ones that are amazing YouTube content creators in the video game space. Video Game Dunkey, if you haven't watched him break down Metal Gear or watched him do Kingdom Hearts. Is it comedic? Oh, yeah. He is God-tier comedy on how he does it. God-tier comedy.

Video Game Dunkey, if you ever want to be on the podcast, we'd love you. Anytime, bro. Just come on. But he breaks down each one of these stories and that's how he got big he played league of legends and he would do the most i've never played league of legends good don't play it smite smite league of legends don't start any of those never just stop guys stay away from them trust me did you guys play nintendo 64 yes what's that banjo kazooie it's like anime yeah i remember that snap you got well pokemon snap goldeneye kirby perfect dark kirby hexen

wave wave runner hexen i don't remember hexen hexen was a first person shooter based off of doom god i am fucking retarded it is a first person shooter based off of Doom. God, I am fucking retarded. It is a first-person shooter based off of Doom with a... It was like... Or Doom meets Wolfenstein. Yeah. And you had magic spells, and then you had... There was no guns. It was like swords and magic spells,

and then you would progress. But it was a lot like Doom. It had some music in it, and it was atmospheric. Yeah. Like witchcraft and demonry. I think my favorite was Road Rash. For the Sega Genesis.

What was Twisted Metal on? PlayStation 1. I think it was also on 2 or 3 as well. I mean I'm sure they continued to redo the games. PlayStation 2 there was that and then they did a show like Twisted Metal for PlayStation and then Tw. PlayStation 2, there was a... And then they did a show, like Twisted Metal for PlayStation. Yeah, they did do a show.

And then Twisted Metal 2, Twisted Metal Black was for PS2. There's a game, I gotta find it on my phone because I want to see if you guys recognize it. Final Fantasy 7? Yes. Zelda. Xenogears? Yes. Do you know Xenogears? You're talking to a fellow god. Well, you actually

know Xenogears? Yes. Holy fuck. I grew up on all of it. Do we just become best friends? I have a sealed copy. You do? It's worth a lot of money. I have a lot of old... I have a lot of sealed video games from the 90s and 2000s.

I've never been open. Xenogears is one of my favorite games. Guys, we're going to have sex after this. It's going to be great. Do you guys remember? You guys are going to get your whole month's subscription

right after this. It's like the human centipede, but gay. It's going to be awesome. Have you played Do you guys remember the futuristic racing game wipe out on playstation yes yeah holy shit the flying one it had a soundtrack with no words but it was such a good soundtrack and there was there was yeah it was all edm it was and it was weapons on these fucking like it was such a good soundtrack. EDM. Yeah, it was all EDM, and it was weapons on these fucking, like, it was essentially pod racing before Star Wars

or a little bit after Star Wars. Like, easily one of my favorite games. The dopest soundtrack. Yeah. This is before EDM. I don't think EDM existed. Yeah. This was trans music before it was a thing or a name.

It was just like. This is back before. And you're like, I'm fucking driving this race car. This is back before it had a thing or a name. It was just like... This is back before... I'm fucking driving this race car. This is back before it had a name and my dad just called it that dumbass fucking music people on Ecstasy make. Ecstasy didn't exist at this time.

It was crazy. Back then you just had to go out and lick mushrooms and hope something good happened. Were you a big gamer? No, I mean, we had a Nintendo and then Super Nintendo. My buddy had Sega. And then Nintendo 64 is where I was like all in. Like every game that I could get, I was going to play.

Like 60. Yeah, that's like your golden eyes. We would do the. Oh, golden eyes. That was a good one too. We put the cardboard on the screen so you can't cheat everything. Loved it, man. So you can't screen cheat.

I'm so happy that is a thing because I did that with me and Casey. Casey? No screen looking. Casey has balls. Go check him out on streaming. Casey, pick, I don't know. Casey, what's your fucking, like, you tie windfall or something like that? Love you.

We used to do that, and I thought we were the only kids that would put a piece of cardboard. If I catch you looking at my screen, that's a fist fight. We're like an elementary school throwing down. I catch you looking at my screen at a sleepover, I'm going to shit in your pillow. I'm going to poop in it.

I'm going to poop in it. The one with the fox and the flying thing. Star Fox. Is that what it was? Yeah, Star Fox. Do a barrel roll. The one with the fox and the flying thing. Star Fox.

There it is. Flying Fox. Is that Flying Fox? Also one of my favorite games. Planet Fox. Lunar. Did you play Lunar? Lunar Silver Star?

Silver Star Story. Yes. Oh, man. You should have stayed longer. I cried when I had to sacrifice his... All that... Oh, I went so far just to make him... What was it?

All that dragon armor he had on. And he walked in to sacrifice himself. And I was like... Spoilers 30 years later. Where are you going? I just got you there. This is what I love about video games or anime. It's like these pieces where it's like you had your Nintendo 64.

You can name games. You can name games. We all just were like, oh, my God, this fuck is so fucking dope. I love that shit so much. You know, it's funny because we had so few options back then. Like, if you talk to anybody that's anywhere from probably 30 to 45 right now? Like, we all kind of played the same games, watched the same shows. Like, I guarantee one of you watched Survivor, if not all of you.

I didn't watch Survivor. I wasn't a big fan. Survivor? No. You got me. You said, and I quote, this is an officer for you. What about Lost? To piggyback

anyway there were so few options and now i think about my kids and like there's like six billion options on streaming service like nobody watches the same thing i hear every time i talk to a new parent i'm like what do you what are your kids doing they're like our kids watch like pink python and i'm like what the fuck is that youtube it's just funny yeah they're all about youtube like little shorts god not drunk yeah but now all minds do what they don't want to watch like good movies or shows or series they just want to watch someone play with toys kind of wild and i i just look at those kids i'm like the youtubers i'm like they're fucking genius. Yeah, they're genius.

They're bankrolling, right? Damn sharp. I should have did that. That's what I should have did. I should have thought of that. That's like Cocomelon, right? Or Miss Rachel. I think that's the top YouTube channel. Miss Rachel.

Oh, I'm sure it is. I hear that everywhere everywhere well right in like my kiddo who makes videos right and makes his own videos he has probably god right and i did like 3 000 fucking videos that aren't uploaded they're just on his thing so he can watch also like autism superpower is that it's like i don't get bored i want to make this i'm like man i okay when we have a channel built ready to go for autism style content because i know those autistic kids are going to be like my son and watch it a billion times per child and i get to hear it every time because i don't know if you guys

have an autistic child it's a bit different they can watch the same thing a million times and find the same joy every time. Really? That's interesting. Awesome. It is amazing because Ryden and I have watched Cars 2 probably 8,000 times. Never finished it because my son doesn't like to finish it for some reason. Ryden I know you're not watching this. Why can't we just finish anything? Why do we have to stop at the fucking 75%

mark so daddy isn't going to finish it? Daddy wants the conclusion of the story but Ryden, my son, he's like let's start over. He wants to start it over right before it ends. Yeah, he doesn't care about the fucking end chapter. He's like, oh, cool.

I'm like, fucking kid. Oh, my God. I just want to end. And I'm like, what if we finish it, buddy? He's like, no, daddy. We do not need to finish it. Why would we finish it? I'm like, have you tried to finish it?

And he doesn't like it. He gets pissed. Yeah. He's like, daddy, why are we not starting it over? I'm like, but let's just try. Let's just try. Let's power through this soldier.

He's like, no father. I'm like, Oh God. But YouTube is the same. He's just, he can watch Savannah. And my favorite story is Savannah,

my girl, future wife, everything. She didn't understand. She thought I was like joking about the level of dedication of rewinding and watching a segment over and over until. He wants to watch rewatch specific segments in the movie. Oh, yeah. Movies, YouTube videos, his own videos. He will watch one segment over and over and over until the end of time.

Oh, my God. That's so funny. She was doing something, and Ryden was working next to her on his tablet. Ryden's like. So I get a text from her. She's like, babe, he's watched the same five-second clip for two hours straight, and he's not wearing headphones. Can you say something?

I was like, Ryan, put on your headphones. He's like, yes, daddy. So she had to hear one sentence for two hours straight. Because she's a trooper. She's very respectful. She's, like, learning his, like, fucking tisms. His patience. Yeah, oh, yeah. And patience. Yeah.

Oh, yeah. And Ryden has like infinite. Ryden's just like, I can watch mommy say this over and over and over and over and over. So why? Is there a reason for it? Like, is he trying to find a flaw in it? No. So what they do.

Or he just gets fixated on it. Fixated. So autism is OK. I can. And how my son watches videos now is OK. We have video playing now same video i have to line up audio from another video explosions and stuff so it makes this video funny so he'll be like i'm gonna rewind to this angry birds getting mad okay now i hit the play button on this explosion explosion for one hour straight oh my god exact same thing so i was like kid this could be a cash

cow you're autistic you're gonna drive in more autistic children if they watch your videos you're gonna have like eight billion views he'll have 100 subscribers in a million years. My kiddo's going to have 100 million subs. He's going to be pulling in $200,000 a month on ad revenue. They're like, how's this kid's fucking ad revenue so good? These kids just watch the same segment over and over. Oh, my God. It's so weird watching. You're like, oh, fuck yeah.

But it's also his superpower. Cause homeboy can create videos. He knows every video he can mimic. Like you, you, if you just like recite the entire movie, he will be able to recite the entire movie. I literally have trouble going back and watching my own content before I post

it. If I know there's a flaw in it. Cause I'm just like, is anybody going to notice? If they notice, will they care? Not him. He's like, I love this daddy. Daddy, can we do it again?

I'm like, oh, Jesus fucking Christ, bro. Okay. Doesn't care about anime, though. That sucks. Likes Mickey Mouse. Trying to get him into the anime. I try to get my kids into that stuff too i did get my kids to watch power rangers so that's kind of cool my oldest she's a replica she's all about it

she goes to sleep to anime music my youngest opposite it's got to be ponies and princess stuff she's not a fan no matter how hard i've tried kind of off topic. You guys remember Code Lyoko? No, it's not. I was just curious. Which is this one? It was on Toonami. Princess Mominoki? Code what? Code Lyoko.

Are you making shit up? I don't know. I knew Toonami. It's like the last time when you're like, everyone watches Survivor. Watch. Everyone watched. Everyone is just a weirdo.

You're like, watch, guys. No one knew what you were talking about. Now you're like, this is on Toonami. Code Lyoko. I'm like, I watched a lot. It was for sure Cartoon Network, maybe not Toonami. But definitely Cartoon Network. Samurai Champloo.

Samurai Champloo was good. My boy. Guys, this is just anime hour for the next one. That was with the blue and the red samurai, right? Tyler's over here just like, can we talk about anything yeah sandwich and blue probably uh cowboy bebop i want to say the same guy that made that made that the art style is similar i mean bro you need to just dig deep i told you i need a list watch the mail it's fine when josh and him were talking about Metal Gear,

I was twiddling my thumbs. Last time, he was like, now I can talk about Metal Gear again. Dude, I'm trying to think. What movies do you like? I'm big into the comedy. Anything with Will

Farrell. That kind of stuff. Adam Sandler. I'm not a big Adam Sandler anything with Will Ferrell, like that kind of stuff. Oh yes. Talladega. Adam Sandler. I'm not a big Adam Sandler guy. No. So Will Ferrell, what else? That's the main one. What other,

like, okay, but the office, the office, uh, parks and rec. Yeah. Those kinds of comedies.

Like those are my, that was the aura I was getting. What else for like action? Um, mission impossible. Nah, it's too old. What else for like action? Um, mission impossible. That's too old. What else? I like,

yeah. Jack Ryan, some of the newer shows, that kind of stuff. But Jack Ryan, what about Jack Reacher? That's the, that's a good creature.

Yeah. With sad from blue mountain state. You like Jack Reacher? Just Jack Ryan. Oh, she's like, that's corny okay corny yeah i mean we so we'll watch stuff on netflix mainly like movies and all that but i mean i ask your wife what you like probably okay what action oh yeah i invited him to our wedding he He didn't show up. Thanks a lot, Denzel. Fuck you, Denzel.

He is a man on fire. I see what you did. That was good. So you like Equalizer. Those are so good. I love them. They could make Equalizer all the way up to Equalizer

like 20. Just keep doing them. He's going to be in a wheelchair. Slow motion scene of him in a wheelchair yeah just rolling down the hill and be like with something random like a letter when the first when the first one i think it was the first one where he starts hitting killing people with the staple gun and but it's like the push staple gun thing and like i was like this is gonna be so corny and he's just like and i'm like this is awesome if you haven't watched have you watched equalizer have you and have you watched three yet yeah yeah okay no i haven't is three the one that ends in the pier italy i haven't maybe i haven't watched it when did it come out a month ago i apologize i didn't i haven't watched it yet that's why

i said have you guys seen all the john wicks i know what we're doing tonight dude dude equalizer three fuckers i was a fan of it just because i love that john wicks anything like that where it's there's okay so equalizer it's male kardashian it's god damn it it is and i love it so fucking much it's totally pointless it serves no purpose and we will continue to consume it and equalizer three equalizer stayed more true to the format than john wick John Wick, they tried to build lore backstory. And that's why I didn't care about all of this. What I wanted was.

Wasn't there four John Wicks? Basic storyline. And then all of that cinematic footage and all that. John Wick is like, you kill my dog. I kill everyone. What a simple thing. And we all agree he was justified. 100%.

You don't kill somebody's dog. No. You just don't do that. You can kill my cats. That's fine. I don't even want them. That's a boring John Wayne. I said he just wakes up and says, he's like, yeah, whatever. The cat didn't like me.

It's never even in the same room as me. They're making biscuits. Now, one of my cats is awesome. And one of my cats I never see. But the cat that's awesome is only awesome to my family. And it's funny because they'll sit there and they'll look at new people. And then they'll get close to him.

And he's like. And he looks inviting. He's like, hello. G-man just put that at the intro that one segment is definitely going at that one his name's ol. He's a black flat-faced Persian, right? Classic. It looks like his face got cut off. Oh my God. Don't cancel

me, please. For the love of God. And then the other one we have. Is that the guy that said flat-faced Persian? And then the other one we have is a white dull- face Persian. Both of them are very pretty.

They're both equally pretty, I would say, black or white. But the white one just straight up hides. The black smashed face one or the white doll face. That's the actual names. It's the names of the cats. But the white one just hides. What's going to happen right now? You can watch your career just be like.

So anime, huh? Yeah, anime. Wow. Army, it's on me, not on him. Yeah. Yeah. It'll buff. The simplicity of like the first john wick and the

equalizer and all that like that's that's all i want like i want the simple storyline the action even the second john wick wasn't bad no after that it was you know we're getting a little excessive i mean like look at look at every like denzel washington movie like they're all structured the same way like the very basic storyline and then a little bit of action. Very man on fire. His son's also an incredibly good actor. What's he in?

He was just recently in a cop movie. I can't remember the title but he did a good job too. What's his name? I don't know. I don't know that either. Sends a Washington son. He's his name? I don't know that either. Denzel Washington's son. He's in this really good movie.

What's the movie's name? A cop movie. I shouldn't have said anything. Denzel's son. Denzel's son. Alright, I'll look it up. That flows like god damn it, these guys. Okay, guys, we're gonna call it at that one. We're gonna call it at that one

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