Unsubscribe Podcast - 189 - How Drones Changed The Future Of Warfare ft. Habitual Linecrosser | Unsubscribe Podcast Ep 189

Episode Date: December 2, 2024

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especially when i record video about hypersonic three oh oh shit three two one two, one. I am the most interesting man in the world. That's how we're starting this. Hi, everyone. Welcome to the Unsubscribe podcast. I'm joined today by Eli Doubletap, the most interesting man in the world, habitual line crosser,

Brandon Herrera, and myself, Donut Operator. Thank you for tuning in. Welcome, everyone everyone and here's another episode for veterans month or whatever we're calling this brandon what are we calling this veterans month sounds nice okay we're calling it brandon's month just let the valor flow through you i'm still stuck on your smartwatch get a smartwatch get up you're just like a smartwatch just tells me that I'm hyper tense all the time

it does it's like you need to calm down I'm like you need to shut the fuck up it was supposed to make my life easier hey you know what you know what helps somebody who's having a panic attack being told digitally you should calm down I cannot count the number of meetings I've been in just sitting there listening to someone say something stupid being told digitally. You should calm down.

I cannot count the number of meetings I've been in just sitting there listening to someone say something stupid. It's like, you need to calm down. I'm like, no f***ing shit. They need to shut up. What you need to do is just set like a sort of a ringer alarm for it where it's super loud. Anytime somebody says something dumb as f***. Super loud.

Sorry, I'm stressed. Fuck. Sorry, I have an allergy. It alerts me me too i'm allergic to dipshits maybe that'll get me fired quicker like i told my last class of students they're just like oh you know we can go say this and this sounds like i don't care fire me i don't give a shit anymore and like it's funny because the place that i work at the academy they straight up told us they're like look no one's coming to replace you you have to find your own replacement it's like so you could have just told me i can do whatever the i want from the get-go because that's how i received it it's like you can't fire me because you can't find anyone to replace me so i'm gonna do what i

want i love how anti-military you went from hua to i'm finishing and retiring to it's such a fast period turnaround. I was like, oh yeah, there we go. You sound like Jack Black in School of Rock where he's like, I'm going to take a nap. Y'all do what you fucking want. You know what's funny is I nap like three days a week in my office, just close and lock the doors. And I got a couch in there.

It's awesome. No one's going to interrupt Big Sarge. No, man. Fuck, dude. I just, this is the thing. I had a, after we had that episode where Nick and you and Tyler and everybody convinced me to like part ways with the military and it, you know, came full circle. Sorry, nobody saw that episode.

Yeah. Yes. The most watched one on the channel. Of course. It's like the monster that's just like. And after that, I, I like, I have this wall of like accolades. It has like my MSMsms my rcoms like all the awards i've gotten from like being a battery trainer and all this other shit and i walked past

that one day and i looked at it and i was like man they took years off my life for like a 50 dollar plaque this job like i was just immediately pissed i was doing the numbers i think we talked about it's like doing the numbers of your retirement how much is going to be versus just like hey let's just focus on you know a couple do it those few years just dedicate to your work yeah and the sheer difference you're like okay four years is not worth four years yeah yeah definitely four years and i i mean honestly i i look back now and i was like why was i i was i it was like Stockholm Syndrome. That's what it was. The military is really good at Stockholm Syndrome. It's not that bad.

You're standing in the rain at 3 in the morning. You haven't eaten in 18 hours. This could be worse. I could be living in L.A. I don't know. I mean, that's fair. You been to L.A. recently? No, never been.

I don't want to go. You can't make me whatever you think it is yeah it's like polka just like reverse every once in a while like every probably every like year or so i'll think in my head like you know what there are nice parts about la the beaches are beautiful the weather's nice like you know what maybe if i've got a work reason to go back i'll go back and then i do and then immediately i'm hit by the reality of like just homeless dicks shit on the street the world the earth when you're just flying around lax looks like it has cancer it looks like the one movie they escaped from la like yeah there it is the whole zone down there snake plissken's having

fun we're just gonna rename it to battlefield la yeah brandon and i were in la like a couple months ago and uh we took my girlfriend there and she's like there's no way there's human poop everywhere like you guys talk about we walk like the one of the first streets we go down there's just shit everywhere one block from the hotel yeah tent city like is i just i a lot of places are getting like that my uh little sister she got into a motorcycle accident she lives up in washington and my mom went up there to be with her she's in rehab right now she broke her pelvis both hips her wrists like she's she's positive about the whole situation though we're in washington um everett washington oh yeah godspeed yeah because he used to be up that way right yeah ever it's Ever. It's like the, it's where the four or five and the fit,

whatever that they merge together. But it's that it's not a good, it used to be great. Used to be. And then. Yeah. My mom, she flew into SeaTac,

Seattle, Tacoma. And she's like, Seattle's a cesspool. Like it's bad. You know, human feces everywhere, tent city,

homeless population and my little sister's like yeah some of the things that people are doing nowadays is apparently they're taking like rubber bands and they're like shooting needles at passers-by and i was like i will go to prison i will fucking murder somebody i that sounds like just dude this is a place where uh it is they have parking outside there was a big issue with these rvs uh they would buy an rv and just park it in a nice neighborhood just out front in front of the house and you can't do anything about it so you just have a homeless person or an rv tent well that's par for the course but the rubber band needle thing is like that's like worse than anything in the anarchist cookbook that's i will darts

you got hiv you got hiv now i got you fucking oh no pull it out i assume it's just like homeless vagrants who already have HIV. So it's just like biological warfare. You think you're better than me? Dude, the only amount of rage I could ever compare to that, and it's not even comparable, but it's about as close as I've ever experienced. The worst wake-up I've ever had in my entire military career.

I was at Fort Carson. It was 29 below zero. We were doing a platoon patrol base you're familiar with those you got like you and your buddies like a wedge sector of fire all that jazz meanwhile i had like maybe three hours of sleep max because the the army um sleeping bag it'll keep you alive in that temperature it will not keep you comfortable like alive is the best you're gonna get and it snowed overnight and i had my the waterproof cover we call it a bivy cover on the sleeping bag and i remember i opened it and a foot of snow fell straight onto my face after freezing my balls off all night get like two hours

of sleep instant rage zero to homicide i would have killed everything i i was in ashville north carolina which is if you know about ashville it it's like the Los Angeles of the Blue Ridge Mountains. It's called the Portland of the East Coast. Yeah, it's kind of like the same type of people. And, like, I was there one weekend. I was doing a vlog, like, hanging out with my family. And there was this, like, homeless dude with all these tattoos over his face and all over his body. And he was just, like, flicking my camera off.

And he wouldn't stop doing that. And I'm like, hey, back off a little bit, dude. A week later, there's this big news article where this cat got stabbed with a bunch of needles like over a dozen needles and it got you know it died of course obviously and uh it was that dude they put him on the newspapers and stuff so when all this hurricane stuff happened i was worried about all the residents down there the floods and stuff but like one of the things in the back of my mind. I was like, really hope that fucking guy died. The good news is people like that don't have a very long life expectancy.

That's true. I'm glad. Hi, it's your boy. Long time viewer, first time caller. I'm glad that there's no miscommunication here. There are, in fact, people in this world who deserve to die. Some people are like, no one deserves to die. Well, I can think of a few.

I got a short list. It's the Bill Burr. It's like, all right, you could say it's bad, but no reason. Man, I forgot about any of the training that you do in the military. It's always that god-awful god-awful in the coldest... You were in Korea? I'm just watching Eli skirt the monetization

symbol right now. It's like, we're getting close. Anyway, military training. I guess that was my fault. Back to the needle. Guess some people deserve to die what are we talking about god damn it my bad i got too comfortable here you're part of it are you taking off your boots cody what like what is the shit military things you had to do like when you were aor. I forgot about that. Yeah.

I've never heard of Cody's like, this sucked. We heard about the PSP. Oh yeah, never mind. That's some PTSD. I'm going to cum. It's on my PSP. I rewatched that episode we were on where you told that story about throwing the mattress out and everything.

I was driving back from Houston, I think, and I crying laughing i was there it was just a funny fucking story don't think about it let's come back to it what was your rate in the navy i don't even know that did a lot of shit uh i was supposed to be an avionic electronic technician and then i went to auxiliary security force on Norfolk Naval base for over a year. And then I tried to be a seal and I went to a program called the nug program, new useless guy. And I did that for a long time.

My command forgot about me. So it was just like swimming, working out every day. And then I went to buds and buds didn't work out. So I, I, my naval service was pretty subpar. Dude, you got

trapped in that thing that you love where it's like everyone forgets about you and you're like I hope the government doesn't remember me. Because you would have retired if they would have just stayed there for 20 years. You'd be like... Your job was to swim in San Diego. How awful was that?

It was pretty rad. He's like, never find me. Never find me. When we landed back to Iraq during mid-tour, it was a sandstorm. That was whiplash. No, it's going back. It is because you just get time off

where you're just like, I hope this storm doesn't end because when you land, they have to fly you in helicopter to your station. They couldn't take off. So it's just a sandstorm. And I'm grounded for like, I think it was 15 days where I'm supposed to be in combat. I was like, maybe the sandstorm just goes on for like two months.

Your boy skirts two months of war. And then finally it cleared up. Like, hey, you're flying out. It's like, fuck. Okay. You know what's interesting is I've never been deployed to a place that had like that wall of sand that sandstorm so like i did afghanistan and uae and they both happened there but both times i was there i was in rc south in afghanistan monsoon season i remember standing in the guard tower like begging

the sog sergeant of the guard for my poncho I had built an igloo out of ammo boxes trying to block the rain and he like runs up the stairs and just throws it at me and runs back away I'm freezing my balls off but like that happened and then uh in UAE uh we had like our Patriot site and uh I don't know if you guys know this there's um aside from a sailboat the best known catcher of wind is the door of a patriot ecs i don't know if you know that and it was fucking pissing rain and it was it was blowing sideways and i remember i opened the door and there's like a pressure differential inside and outside the van and it caught the door and smashed my fingers in the door jam and then yanked my shoulder real hard and i

i almost broke that door i was out i was trying to punch the wind in the face let me put it to you that way like i was that fucking angry you're like the florida man how do the missiles work in the hurricane or not hurricane? Or not the hurricane, the sand. Well, I assume you're not supposed to fire them in tornado winds. You shoot the hurricane with the missiles. We actually have a setting that... I was going to say, I guarantee they have... Because they wouldn't be like, well, the Iron Dame's going down. The missiles ain't going to stop them.

I assume Tel Aviv doesn't get hit with many tornadoes. That's true. But sandstorms. I guess the easiest way to explain it. Tel Aviv doesn't get hit with many tornadoes. That's true. Sandstorms. I guess the easiest way to explain it, so we have a gale force authorization inside of our van. And what that does is, so the missile has to know where it's going, so the radar has to tell it where it is.

The missile knows where it is because it knows where it is and types shit. Thank you for reciting that, because I was going to. Of course. So the missile comes out. It's in the tism. You just. Of course. So the missile comes out. It's in the tism. You just have to do it.

So missile comes out. Radar acquires missile. And there's an uplink, downlink, right? And gale force winds, as that missile comes out, it can shift left or right. So what it does is it opens that gate of where the missile passes through when the radar acquires it. So if it comes out and it's pushed sideways, the radar knows where it is. So it just widens the cone of where it can catch it. That's all I got, yep.

Okay. This reminds me of that viral YouTube, the missile knows. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, exactly. The missile knows where it is because the missile knows where it is not. We got to tell it all that.

The missile's dumb as shit. Stupid missile. Are you ready? Babe, let's bring out Big Daddy. What a bad idea. Who wants better sex? What'd you do with my wife? Don't worry about that.

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yeah the pitbull swims a mile out to sea to attack its drowning toddler people are getting angry in the comment section there's some guys who like radar guided missiles who's like let him finish the pitbull yeah pitbull owner i can make those jokes fuck you that's my race card so one of our missiles we got it in the whole way and the other one we so the target doesn't know the missile is coming because we don't like paint it with anything special it's called a track wall scan or track wall search it depends where you read it the radar just looks at the missile and looks at the target and tells the missile where to go and then about give or take i

mean like unclass is like about half a second before impact. The radar goes, you got it. And the missile goes, I got it. And just smokes it. Yeah. Oh, so it's like right up until the moment. So it's kind of like what the old like wire guided stuff used to do as soon as it like reached the end of the wire. It's like, all right, I know where I'm going from here and just disconnect. Yeah. I don't know.

I'm not too experienced with wire guided stuff. But yeah, going pit bull. But that's why every pilot, including a couple of friendly ones have never survived a patriot engagement yeah we shot down three friendly pilots wasn't me like i wasn't there i hope not yeah no i like i didn't do it but uh that's the title of this episode british tornado and that news article find out something radically new about you you're just like yeah so that's my pst ptsd those poor children fuck dude those pilots had no idea what the fuck was coming but it looked cool jesus what was the situation on that though i'm really curious so the imagine so the way radar

works is we're all about to feel really bad about making those jokes now. So imagine—the way radar works is imagine you walk into a room and it's pitch black, and you have to figure out who is in there by their sound, how they move, and how they smell. I got to look at it. That's kind of the way a radar works. So, like, if you're an enemy aircraft, you don't want me to know what you are. But if you're a friendly aircraft, oftentimes you have your identified friend or foe turned off, and you don't want anyone to know what you are because that's i mean the easiest way to go fuck ups at all you know that's

what they were doing so friendly aircraft went out did a bombing run they were on their way back in i actually talked to one of the his wingman uh like uh one-on-one i talked to his wingman the juice was the guy that we killed in the american f-18 that was his call sign juice and uh what they did i loved his football career you know the whole wife situation that's uh you know well you know you can't win them all although he didn't in court but so back then our radars couldn't be fan of broncos fuck i love that god damn it we'll go back to that just the ridiculousness oh man uh so back then our radars were were good but they're not as good as they are now like i know a lot more information about somebody we have okay i don't know how much of that i can say but we know a lot

about something flying through the air um and what they did is they dove uh towards the airfield now when you what it is is it's a threshold of kinematic criteria, your altitude, how fast you're diving, length discrimination, all these other factors. And what the system did back then is said, that's an enemy missile. The system thought that the pilot diving towards the airfield was an enemy missile headed towards the airfield. And back then, operators were trained that the system is smarter than you.

If it recommends something, that's what it is. Now we know that the system is imperfect. So operators have to verify everything. Why did it make, uh, why did they dive toward the airfield? Honestly, I don't know. When I talked to the pilot, that was his wingman. He straight up admitted. He's like, we, we were instructed to dive towards the airfield.

And he goes to this day. I have no idea why we did that. That's very strange like random and telling at the same time yeah he he doesn't know why uh he explained that they use conspiracy from big missile big missile big missile go foosh and guy go bye-bye what that's fucking crazy though when it don't because i'm assuming they knew that maneuver would maybe set it off beforehand or no? This is 2003 and not a lot was known about American Patriot. And back then, pilots weren't really well instructed on air defense, like American air defense. They were taught a lot about the enemy.

But then back then, we also didn't know too much about our friendly air capabilities. The guy came off of the USS Kitty Hawk, which is crazy because my brother served on the kitty hawk it was an old carrier diesel carrier and uh he i've heard rumors that he actually successfully ejected and then drowned in the lake oh shit don't know how true that is i've heard rumors of it i i have no idea what the truth is there but they did but they kind of got us back the air force got us back because there was a british tornado shot down same situation they dove towards the airfield and we smoked two british pilots the f-18 dove towards the airfield smoked an f-18 an f-16 actually saw the radar picked up the radar the radar knew it was an f-16 so it's

like hey i'm gonna leave it alone the f-16 didn't know the radar was the radar it came around behind it and smoked it with an anti-radiation missile so yeah they kind of got him back yeah iraq 2003 was a wild place for air defense holy wait hold the console he didn't know his own friendly he just got pinged and so he's like that's a lot of like taking it out yeah and then oh you land you like a fucking took out a missile launcher and they're like that was yours that was yeah so yeah how much is that those things are like 150 million dollars a piece yeah that's a but i mean was it unmanned uh so the radar itself is unmanned so it's just smoked the radar yeah no one died in it that's a harder thing to explain they actually got it back up and running in 24

hours i talked to one of the guys that was out there he's like dude if we would have moved that radar an inch all the connectors would have came undone because they were like just held together with like bubble gum and like random wires they found they're like but we got it running so i was wondering because like you mentioned that the the there was talk that the guy had survived and, you know, drowned after ejecting. Um, how much,

what's the missile payload like on that thing? Cause I'm just thinking the, just the raw TBI force of a rocket or excuse me, a missile going off that close. If it makes contact with your aircraft, like that's gotta fuck you up. It depends on the missile pack three, a Patriot advanced capability capability version three those are kinetic kill tip to tip that's the way they work yeah of course i had to make a tip to tip joke yep um pack love it too which is what

he got hit with is a proximity kill so as it approaches it explodes like a shotgun shell through it so there's a distance gap that could be anywhere. Yeah. So, I mean, it's a 16-foot missile moving at roughly unclassified Mach 4, hitting with the kinetic energy of a freight train going off a 70-story building. So it's a pretty hard hit. Like it's a pretty hard hit. Nothing hits like playoff hockey. The Road to the Cup starts on FanDuel, your home for live bets all playoffs long. With new features like live SGPs, build a parlay any game, any period.

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please contact Connects Ontario 1-866-531-2600 to speak to an advisor free of charge yeah i was just i was just trying to think of like a scenario where the pilot if there is an explosive on something like that like even if i don't know like just how you survive that because i mean an explosive that close even a low much much smaller payload of explosive well he might have gotten lucky because it engaged him like a missile so patriot engages missiles different than we engage aircraft when we engage aircraft for various reasons not just lethality and this is going to sound really war to anyone who's never heard it go on and i can say this because lieutenant commander candeloro said that we don't very good to point out the exact name go on i'm gonna say the exact name

it doesn't target the aircraft we target the exact name go on i'm gonna say the exact name it doesn't target the aircraft we target the cockpit it comes down on top of the cockpit so why is that uh if you can say i don't know if i can say okay that's fine dude that's one of those hard ones it's like with certain weapons it's not you can't use it on enemy personnel but you can use it on their armor system, their weapons. Remember we talked about this the other day. The chin strap? Yeah.

I aimed at his comms gear. Take a look there. The.50 cal is an anti-material weapon, which is why I aimed for his ear pro when he was turned to the left. Aha. The.50, I. Aha. The 50. I love it. The M2 was here. The M2 is the just most perfect weapon system.

Like everyone always asks me like, what's your favorite weapon? HLC. Like if I, if you don't want me to pick between like, you know, handheld crew serve, anything M2 heavy barrel,

50 caliber machine gun. It's just, it's perfection in motion. It didn't. There we go. Doctor. If you have somebody who accurately headspaces and times that gun, it runs. I have a confession to tell you, and this may hurt your feelings a whole lot.

Oh, dear. The newer versions we have in the Army. They do it themselves. Shove in, twist, done. That hurt my feelings. I know that. Oh, I'm sorry. The hours I spent on stupid classes.

And they fire better dirty. Don't ever clean your M2. You give it a quick wipe, some CLP, move on. They fire better dirty. You want a girl with some experience, you know? Oh, yeah, of course. Dude, once I heard that, I was like, get the fuck out of here. You just have to screw this in, and then it locks in, and then that's it.

Yep. I'm like, yeah, you don't do the three rotations out. Look at the window. Okay. It's good. Put in no, no, no, no. Gage. And you're doing all that dumb shit just for it to run.

Right. That, and you really don't need to after, well, you, you don't need to do it every time after you, you know, your gun where you're like, oh, okay, that one that likes to be screwed in all the way. And then you unscrew it three clicks out. Like, if you know gun you know what it likes that's right in the sweet spot yeah and you try to memorize that sweet spot so you just make assembling and disassembling if i remember i mean it was 14 years ago i think my my truck's 50 was seven clicks yeah unless she was hot when she was hot it was five oh thermal expansion that's you got a gun sitting on top of a truck

at 120 degrees it's gonna expand well dude it is terrifying when you use this like the uh mgs system and then the thermals and how it compensates for like when you're driving at 60 miles per hour hitting bumps that the target doesn't move when you're aimed at something it's like the vehicle is like going everywhere and it's just like chicken head, just gyroscope right onto your target. That's the same as an Abrams. Just hold the Cadillacs. That gun will,

you could turn that tank in every different direction. That gun's going to stay right where it's at. And then you see the rounds just like thunk, thunk, thunk. Boom, boom, boom. And you just see explosions in the thermal. You're like, hey, hey, hey. Because those are the ones that they were, they were doing the videos of the tanks firing after jumping a ramp and firing in midair because the gyroscopes were

that good oh yeah did you notice if you pay real close attention to that video the tank is riding a little bit lower after that because those tanks have torsion bar suspension just like so they have a giant bar that's like this big that runs through the whole hull and there's a wishbone on either end and and it twists the metal. That's the suspension on an Abrams main battle tank. And if you come down hard enough, you'll snap them motherfuckers, and you've got to pull everything apart. So it's just like the old school Dukes of Hazzard,

where it's like, yeah, it made the jump, didn't make the landing. They just rotate things like there's a good commercial beat. After seven seasons, you've got 300 cars sitting over there on the side that didn't make it. Yeah. I've never lost one of those. I've thrown track back when I was a tanker. I've thrown track. My lieutenant, he threw track hard enough, and I'd never seen this before.

So in the track, there's cooling tubes that go all the way through it. And if you see an Abrams, like, after it's been driving for a while, drive through water, the track will steam because those cooling tubes are so hot. And he went to pivot steer. His driver did. And a cooling tube shot out and stuck in a tree like 50 meters away. And the track just came apart. I was like, I have never seen some shit like that. Like I've never seen a cooling tube shot out.

It ejected straight out like it snapped. I was just going to ask, is that bad for it to rapidly cool apparently I guarantee somebody has died by that the squad of guys that were pinned to that tree it's just a formation the dude kebab

in the pine tree just lower the tank sorry I think a tank did it The dude kebab in the pine tree. Just lower the tank. Sorry, I think a tank did it. You just shot a cooling tube at us. Dude, like tearing track off is for the people that don't know it. I've never had to deal with it. I've dealt with like changing a tire, a striker tire and that's still got 200 300 pounds or something honestly so aside from the weight of the track itself the abrams has

really really cool tools and they work most of the time we have these things called track jacks and what they are is they're a hook on both ends they weigh like 25 pounds and you put those around the cooling tubes when you're trying to close your track put one on the inside one on the outside and then the slave receptacle on the back of the tank you have an impact that plugs into that you just and it pulls the track together and then you put on the end connector it's actually pretty cool oh it's just like my uncle uh when he was you know trying to change the uh the main springs on his car and his axles just like doing clamps on them oh shit yeah just like staggering those and just like compressing it that's that's working hand grenade scary yeah no he didn't live very long I don't know why I can't imagine he may or

may not have a strut like impacted so sternum I don't like doing struts man another terrified it's just an act of hand grenade you like cinch it down like ratchet system you're like what's the pressure rating on this thing i don't want to be around this there's some guys are like it's not that bad they have like a like a snap-on 700 wall mounted like compressor that they use and i was like yeah if i had that i wouldn't be nervous about him either but i'm here with a ratchet strap and a prayer what's what's fucking interesting though about the abrams is uh is how much you're not allowed to work on them i didn't know that until like some friends of mine that i talked to

like they they used to run the abrams back when the marine corps had those but they didn't have the security clearance like if they needed to do something with the armor or something like that oh yeah you can't you can't touch that because that is so classified yeah you tear open the armor it's like you put a tarp over it and you call General Dynamics. They come out and f*** with it. Like the engine and shit, that's all us. But, yeah. All alone, time to trim the old pubes. Hey there, beach babe.

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So an average Abrams doesn't come with the reactive armor. That's part of the Tusk set. Tusk is tank urban survival kit. Okay. My tank didn't have ERA, explosive reactive armor. But the standard armor... Do you know what reactive armor is? Dude, it's fucking...

I would love to have been in the pitch meeting for reactive armor. You just sit up and... So, basically... Ready to go? People started penetrating people started penetrating tank armor with things like shape charges and whatnot so like you have an rpg7 where basically the front cone of it is just copper yeah of course fucking yeah yeah it's just liquefied by the high explosives which then creates a jet of liquid metal that penetrates

a hole and pushes explosive through that hole and uh into the cabin and you know fries everything cooks the guys inside so reactive armor is the idea that how do we beat fire fire so the armor on the tank explodes the other way yeah it's literally like it takes the explosion to go oh something's exploding sets off the explosives in the armor to try to redirect and basically weaken that jet of metal. Which I would just love to have been in that pitch meeting where the guy's just like, I know how we beat that explosive that

just hit our tank. What if we make the tank explode? The other way. Hundreds of bricks of explosive with metal plates. That's the most American thing I've ever heard in my life, dude. As they're saying, you have stacks of just essentially C4 facing outwards. Like Claymore's just that way.

It sounds like they're bringing in J.J. Abrams. How do we beat these explosives? Explosives. And linch flares. I don't even know which country came up with explosive reactive armor. It had to be us. I want to say it was us, but I see a lot more Russian tanks with it than I do American tanks. They probably adopted it afterwards. I want to say it was us, but I see a lot more Russian tanks with it than I do American tanks. They probably

adopted it afterwards. I think, was it T... Well, it would have been like the T-80s or 90s. When did that first come into play? I actually come to think of it. That does sound like a very Russian thing. Now that you say it out loud. That's, yeah. We want armor that explodes outward. Here, we try on Igor first. It's almost like we have a...

Like, imagine if it's reactive chestplates. Oh, God, yeah. Works very well for tank, not very good for even. Dude, it's... We have a... At the Fort Sill Training Support Facility at the Air Defense Artillery location,

they have... I don't know what it's called exactly. It's a tracked Russian vehicle that has quad 20 millimeters on it. And it's like one of their anti- has quad 20 millimeters on it and it's like they're one of their anti-aircraft guns i didn't realize how shitty russian equipment is because like right next to it is an m bradley linebacker it's an m6 bradley linebacker which is a bradley designed for anti-air instead of tow missiles it's got stingers on it and you go over to the bradley and you knock

on it it's like solid like it feels like you're knocking on concrete it does not give you go over to that russian thing it's like it's made of like rolled aluminum it is just so just shitty i'm like the survivability that's awful no wonder they think the bradley's fucking amazing it's not built for it no people are replaceable in russia remember that it well there is and and you know it sucks but like to prove that every military has that is how much is the person worth versus the equipment? And what is the manufacturing capacity to replace the person versus the equipment? And that's unfortunately the devil's arithmetic for certain things like that. I think the U.S. military, I remember reading somewhere, and it could have changed, is they value a human life, like a soldier's life, at around $90,000.

Which, I'd take that. You know, I'm good with that. Me being worth about $90,000, I I'd take that. You know, I'm good with that. Me being worth about 90 grand, I'll take it. I learned that in Fight Club. That's him. Brad Norton's talking about like the car manufacturing company because he works with insurance companies. He's like, well, if the cost of doing a recall

is more than just paying the family off that died in our cars, we just don't do a recall. Holy shit. That's a fight club. For a second, I thought Cody was talking about he joined a fight club. I was like, what? I'm talking about that in my fight club. Plus B equals C, then like, okay, we're not going to recall the cars.

We're okay with the casualties. And you know that's a real thing. It is absolutely a real thing. 100%. Someone has to do that math. Also, I found out who made the first reactive explosive. Excuse me, reactive armor. Austria.

Oh, excuse me, Australia. Huh. You know, Australia, they get, hold on, they don't get the credit they're due. You know, they also came up with the cardboard drones that are used in Ukraine right now. They made cardboard drones. They're like a couple hundred dollars a piece. They're full of of explosive and they've been using the shit out of them on russia the ukrainians have cardboard like they come in a kit like you're putting together a model airplane no shit and it's just fly explosives and they just made a cardboard made a cardboard so i don't know

what the returns are on a radar from cardboard but like i mean if it's two a couple hundred bucks to make they charge what even charging a grand for they sell them in a pallet like like flat box together and you just grab one and like dude it's so wild the australians are like the devil's origami we can't pay these soldiers to do this i got an idea okay there's this elementary school right down the street we just do arts and crafts once a week. We pay the kids. Make sure the crease is nice and tight, Betty.

Whoever gets the most gets $10. You have kids racing to put these things together. We'll be fine. You're getting a pizza party. It's like the perfect weapon. We have designed the perfect system. Good have designed the perfect system. Good effect on target, Alan.

Apparently, they were trying to defeat Japanese 75mm hollow charge shells that were being used against allied tanks in the Pacific. At 40s, this happened? 1944. Did not know that. I would have not guessed that. I would have guessed way later yeah no that was

that's I learned something new today where it was I learned something new today too and so did you hopefully unless you're Nick Nick probably knew

this no you know what I got something that Nick doesn't know I learned about something recently and I because I do a lot of my research for

like my USA versus the world series and I was doing research on yeah right we're the reigning champions right now, just so everybody knows. Watch you by underdog. You want to make a bet on World War III? I sure as shit do.

The over-under. So, the Brits. I didn't know they had this. And I love that I get to use these words in succession together when I describe this. I love the Stinger. Let me first start I describe this. I love the Stinger. Let me first start with saying that. I love the Stinger missile. It's a great shoulder-fired missile.

It's a solid missile. I mean, it does good effect on target. They're affordable. I like it. I love it. But the Brits, they came out swinging. They have something called the HVM, and I love that i get to use these words the hvm is a mach 3.5 shoulder fired rocket that or excuse me missile that locks on and has three tail stabilized explosive

fragmentation darts inside of it why what is it used for aircraft apparently you yeeted out of mach 3.5 and you can find pictures of it got three metal explosive darts in it that are like this long are they like stagger stacked in it no they're all three together like this yeah it's like a giant flechette that explodes i do you turn me on brother that's metal as i was reading about i was like yeah uk that's what i'm talking about well the the real question is did they give a thousand of them to a CIA operative named Tim Osman? I don't know how many of them they even have. If you don't know that joke, Google it.

I'm going to be assassinated. It's when Brandon died yesterday. You guys know that, right? You get that, right? I don't know that thing. You get that, right? I don't know that one. Oh, yeah, that was the CIA handle that we gave to Osama Bin Laden back when he was working for us. No shit. Yeah.

Whole Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, all that. That's when Rocky 3 came out. Oh, I'm sorry, Rainbow 3. Was it Rainbow 3? I never noticed that. I have the dishka from that movie. I have the rubber dishka from that movie. Oh, I was like, how the f*** have we never fired that thing i was like oh i've got it i've got a dishka but i don't have the dishka from that movie okay uh i was like that dish is actually hilarious because uh they

had no idea what a dishka was didn't have access to like cloning it because it's during the cold war uh so they just had a rubber replica made of an M2, and they just added the finned barrel with the big anti-aircraft sights and the muzzle brake, and they're just like, good enough. Fucking nobody will know the difference. That looks like a dish gun. Government work. Good enough government work. Clap their hands off.

I didn't know. I would very much like to see that someday. Come by the shop. All right. When it's not flooded. Yeah, that's fair. So let me preface this by stating that I thought long and hard about this, and I didn't want to, like, it was a moral dilemma for me,

and I may have made, like, legitimately need whistleblower protection here. Not the podcast for that. I mean, we are good people. You want me to leave it alone? No, you go. I don't care. So I just want to leave it alone? No, you go. I don't care. We can.

So I just want to know what the fuck. Something happened recently. We all end up dead. They kind of turned me. And now I'm like, all right, something's got to be said. So I don't know if you know this, but in Oklahoma City, two Afghan men who showed up during Operation Afghan Welcome or Allies Refuge or whatever they called it that week, right? The people we brought in from Afghanistan, the 130,000 of them. Oh, this is right during the ending of

the plot. I have a guess on a year. This is this year. Oh, really? Oh, shit. I don't know what you were about to give us information on, but I'm like, Oklahoma City. I'm like, oh, no. So, in Oklahoma City, they were...

I was like, oh, shit. you really might need whistleblower protection yo so these two guys were just arrested by the fbi because they were planning with isis k which is the isis that's in afghanistan to shoot up voting booths on voting day oh i saw that yeah so that was this year. These guys, then you find out later on down the road, they weren't properly vetted. And here's the thing. I was in the G cell. I worked in the G three, uh, during operation Afghan welcome at task force picket. I was privy to a lot of information. Now during humanitarian missions, you understand that there's a lot of people that come in and there's a lot of diseases that come

in. Like every other day it was leishmaniasis, uh, smallpox, like pick a disease aside from like polio. It came through our borders. Just so you guys know, the part that I have a problem with is I was watching the United States government hemorrhage about a million dollars a week per base.

There was seven bases doing this simultaneously. Okay. So there's that seven mil a week, seven mil a week. Seven mil a week. We did this for six months straight. And meanwhile, so this was at 35 million a year. Something like that. I have no idea. How is it?

In this time, we found. 27 weeks. They got free housing, free medical, free food, free everything, taking care of them by the U.S. government. But they didn't want to follow the rules. We paid contractors to clean the latrines. me yeah we paid contractors uh to clean the latrines three times a day and they were still shitting on the ground next to the latrine um so like okay i get it there's some things they started making shanks and stealing from each other like there was a lot of bad shit that happened but the problem that i have is we were a million dollars per week and there were seven of them seven bases yes 28 weeks or 27 weeks times seven million 189 million yeah

yeah what the so that's how i know the government now brent's like oh oh yeah fuck that's how i know the government doesn't care about homelessness because if we could do that for 130 000 people at the drop of a hat why can't we take care of our citizens that way just the problem i have is and i was kicked out of this meeting i was well i was assertively requested to leave this meeting now this goes to you in law enforcement and this goes to you uh as a prospective politician truck month is is on at Chevrolet. Get 0% financing for up to 72 months on a 2025 Silverado 1500 Custom Blackout or Custom Trail Boss.

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going anywhere which is fine humanitarian thing but then we would get notified about a couple times a week of walk-offs people who just walk off the base and never come back and i was like i asked the question i said hey we have customs and border patrol here if they want to walk off the base and not go through the fingerprinting and processing background checks everything else just have customs and border patrol arrest them and send their asses back like they don't want to follow the rules. They can leave. I was told to leave that meeting because we had to allow them to walk off the base. So there's people here from Afghanistan who were allowed to walk off of those bases and were never vetted, never went through health care, never did anything.

There's not many, but there are here. It would be just let them on and off with no. They would let them leave, completely leave and never come back. I have a, I have a story that's associated with that. Actually, just something that I've, I've heard from, and I didn't know the context until just now when you told me, uh, was, you know, friends that I have that, uh, you know, active duty that were told that basically like, Hey, these guys are your responsibility. You got to like, just basically put up with them for a while. Like you have these, you know, 20 dudes you got to gotta watch and whatnot and they were asking him like can we go to walmart he's like no he's like but we need cell phone like the fuck you do yeah and basically just telling him like no sit down like i'm not taking you off walmart like i don't even like you

here i i that was and this is while you were over there this is no this is while i was in virginia in task at task force pickett yeah you're hearing everything i was watching it all come in yeah watching it all come in and i was just like i and i bit my tongue and hats off to the 26 mu the the marine expeditionary unit the 26 mu because those guys showed up and they were i don't know if mu has ever done a humanitarian mission but like i was in the g cell and they're like yo sorry you need to go down there and tell the marines to stop drawing ammo we're like they're drawing ammo they had like convoys lined up they're like we need 50 cal we need five five six seven six two and i was like guys this is humanitarian they're like so we can't

have bullets so less 50 cal got it less 50 cal more 240 they just got to make this humanitarian guy yeah the marines and then it was just don't get me wrong there was there was absolutely good people who came through our borders there was absolutely people who wanted to go through the unprocessing become an american citizen you know do everything the right way and get an opportunity here so i would never want to which we love and that's the thing it's like everyone is on board for that thing because there was a lot of people that got fucked over that did help a lot of individuals overseas. There was a lot of dudes. They risked their lives and their families' lives to help us. And then they still got fucked over in the long run.

Like, who's the boy that got? The Terp? Yeah. There was a couple of Terps. And then the one dude that just saved... Sniper guy. Chris Kyle? No. Jake Gyllenhaal?

He was played by... The other movie. Oh, you're talking about Lone Survivor. Lone Survivor. Marcus Luttrell. Marcus Luttrell. Oh my god, why the fuck Mark? I don't know

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Go to pdsdebt.com slash unsub. Go now! I'm going. What's interesting is I saw that movie after Afghanistan. Great movie, by the way. Highly recommend it. Wonderful movie. I'll never watch it again.

I was like pouring sweat, like leaving the movie theater. And it was fucked up because I could understand the Afghans because they were actually speaking posh too in the movie and that is the only instance of posh toon wally i have ever seen a posh toon wally is pretty much like a posh toon saying i will protect you no matter what and what he did for marcus latrell is an example of posh toon wally i've never seen it in any other example that's's the only example I've ever seen. Them actually following through. Them actually following through with Pashtun Wali. Sorry, a little cultural thing, but yeah.

No, that's really interesting. Yeah. That's wild. Your side story with Marcus Luttrell. Who were we talking to? We're Marcus, or who's Marcus's brother? Morgan. Morgan. Morgan Luttrell got on a plane with a guy.

Yeah. I told you. Oh, yeah,, Oh yeah. You're talking about that. What? Oh God. A guy didn't realize he was talking to Morgan, Marcus's twin brother.

And it was claiming to be Marcus Latrell. What? Oh, you didn't hear this? No. What the fuck? To be a fly on the wall, bro.

And the guy was like, and by the way, Morgan Luttrell is not a nobody either. Also, he looks just like him. Yeah, he's like identical twin in this dude. I thought this was Marcus Luttrell. But yeah, it was like, oh, please tell me about Marcus.

Tell me about yourself. Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh my God. He's stolen Valor. So fucking weird where it is that next degree. You're like, surely they're not getting, Oh my God,

they're going this deep into that fantasy world. You know, it's crazy. Oh, go ahead. No, no, no.

What's crazy about it. And I've never really ran into somebody. Well, okay. There's one guy I knew who stole valor, but like, it's the guys who served like six months to three years who were like, you're a discretionary. Like they freak out. And the dudes who all did like 10, 15 years were like, you're an idiot.

And just roll out. Like it's all the guys who've been in a long time. It's like, I, you're stupid. Yeah. I don't care. We've seen that one at the plane. That's the only time I can think about. Stend a sternum. What?

What's the guy talking about stabbing people? Akio, I know. They taught me how to kill a man 16 ways. Cut a man, stend a sternum. And you're like, this is weird for Brandon. I know it was for the live shows. The live shows. Oh my God, yeah. I just sat next to one of them and i was like i'm like dude i've i've spent a lot of my

life around people that have actually done shit like that none of them talk that way not a single one like dudes who have seen the the worst like most abhorrent shit like the medal of honor recipients are like the chillest. Yeah. They're like super laid back. Like they're not like don't produce cortisol anymore. That's I mean, I've, I've said it's really hard for like stress levels are what you go through in

life. And then that's your reset to your stress level, your reset to your stress level. And then you go through that so many times metal of honor recipients where it's like so like you're like man like mine takes a lot to like kick it off but then i meet other guys like dude but they're all very just like they're very just go with the flow you see they don't quick to anger griff yeah like you're hearing griff stories and you're like like that was the first time i was just watching brand like oh yeah so that's just crazy dude like he's and he's just such a chill guy he's remarkably chill he's talking about um what what helicopter was it

was a black hawk or is another chinook i think chinook chinook landing on vertical mountain sides and it's like for they're jumping onto a uh they're using a like a fence to hop on right like a wooden fence or a concrete fence and they were just leveling it right there and it's the blade is right next to the fence line or whatever and just like you chinook pilots those guys like this is the thing everyone looks at a chinook and they're like it's not as cool as an apache it's like it's faster it's more they're like, it's not as cool as an Apache. It's, like, it's faster. It's more agile. Like, you think it's a school bus with two rotors, but that thing.

But they also crash a shitload more, right? He was saying, too, for every man that jumped on, they would have to fuel a dip for the weight. And so the pilots were so badass, they were accounting for every dude that jumped on it just to keep it stable for every guy to get on. And, again, the rear rotor is one foot away from like a stone wall dude he's like yeah they're loading up the second back because he's part of second back they're hopping on like you're like but just imagine the confidence of like yeah if that hits there probably everybody in here's dead we're good i know like that's it that's insane man like this well like uh i mean you see it sometimes in like the navy i don't know if they use the if it's called the chinook or something else in the navy but like where they put the belly of the the

helicopter in the water and a boat just drives into the back you ever seen that shit that's rad they drive they drive the road boats just like right into the back oh so like seal teams are like just hopping yeah yeah like the dude in the back is standing there in ankle deep water just like flagging them in in a chinook that's hovering yeah dude it's insane yeah and the the crew guys inside the helicopter jump to the side ribboat just shoots up into it and they go boop off into the distance that's just wild to me is that mindset of like all that and we're here we're lucky enough to do this yeah and then i'm like man are doing that on the daily and you're just like fuck i just like missiles i ain't retarded i just like rockets it's just wild yeah so much respect for anyone's that do that because. I just like rock it. It's just wild.

So much respect for anyone that do that. Cause I'm just like, God. And the shit that they're just like content with. It's really interesting is have you ever, well, I mean, even,

even all you guys, the stress that you're used to is like perspective to what job you've done. And my wife, I love the woman to death, but she does not handle like unknown very well. Yeah, I got you. I got you. But like when something's unknown,

she's like wigging out and she's like, are you stressed at all? And I was like, I mean, I am. It's just, this is what I do every day. So it's just the way it is. Like, I never know what, what the fuck is going to happen. I walk into an office.

They're like, we need this, this, and this done before you go home. I'm like, cool. All right. That's also why it's cool working with like the chill military influencers

because they have like, they are used to that. Cause like a lot of the, the life that we live is, you know, you don't know what you're doing next week. Yeah. There's no way you can know.

Like you just have to kind of go with the flow. That's why I think a lot of you guys are so good at it. That might be it. Maybe we're broken. That's what he said, Eli. That's not what I said. It's not what I said. Brandon's like, I didn't say that. Veterans are broken.

He's like, no! I'm going to put that on my shirt. It's just going to be a picture of Brandon that says, vets are broken. You guys are good at dealing with the unknown. All right, CNN. I didn't say that. I didn't say that.

I did not say that. I did not say that. Who's that peckerwood down in town who blows the glass? Oh, shit. Treat him like Jerry. Treat him like Jerry. Treat him like veterans. Here, I got something that'll lift your spirits,

because I always try and learn about new missiles when I come down here, because it's always interesting to see Brandon's eyes get real wide like, what? Like when Aegis shot that missile out of space last time. And so it's fair to assume that Uncle Sam has put nukes on everything. Literally everything. Nick talked about the shoulder-fired one. What's that?

What the fuck is the name of it? Oh, God. The Davy Crockett. The Davy Crockett, yeah. We've put it in surface-to-air missiles, like the Nike Hercules, the Nike Spartan, the Nike Zeus, and, of course, the Sprint missile. Pause.

Cody, do you know what Davy Crockett is? I have no idea. It is, think of Fallout, the shoulder rocket the shoulder man the fat man they we made one of those in real life in the 60s oh yeah oh okay he did talk about this i watched one of those videos yeah it's not shoulder fired but like they shot it yeah yeah oh it's a jeep one yeah oh yeah not shoulder fire but it was like a mount they had to obviously made that like fallout, had to have made that based off of the M28, M29 system. Yeah, like it's fucking hefty, but

it's wild that you're on. It's wild. It's a man-made nuke launch like that when you say that statement. I think the thing about it is that you needed to fire it from the back of a Jeep because you're not in the safe distance. No, no.

So we've done, let me me see we've done that we've done surface to air we've done air to surface we've done bomb drops we've done intercontinental ballistic missiles long-range ballistic missiles but i just learned and i didn't know which is really surprising because i'm the missile guy from 1967 until 1985 when it was in use we had an air-to-air nuclear rocket which was considered short-range air-to-air it's called the genie 2 i did hear about you've heard of the genie 2 yeah i want to say nick mentioned this i don't know where i heard of it's a rocket they strapped to the bottom of a plane and it's like there's other planes and you fire a nuke at them and just hightail it out and just i because i think that's why we did the nuclear testing on whether or not like an explosion would set off another nuke is because uh that was our way of taking out like if there are planes

coming to nuke the country yeah we would send it at them and just kind of nuke the area and take them out of the air that was the theory with surface to air. And yeah, I'd never heard of the genie. Somebody in my, in my stream, I was like hanging out. They're like,

have you heard of the genie too? And I was like, no, let's see what this is. You always tell me, look up all sorts of stuff. And I was like, we made an air to air nuclear weapon.

What the fuck? DARPA man. Dude, DARPA, DARPA be DARPA. That's what they are. It's just a room full of engineers. Skunk works with more cocaine.

Yeah, that's all it is, dude. Dude, DARPA, we were talking with a Mexican space cowboy, and he was talking about DARPA. Tejano space cowboy? Tejano. Mexican. Whatever. Same thing.

Close enough. Brown space cowboy he for uh the prosthetics because he has a full prosthetic on his arm he talked about darpa is the first one to implement for uh all the special forces guys to keep them in combat they're like no you don't have to get out here we'll build you limbs that make you faster stronger or whatever dude that's insane they're um on fort sill the the ait guys who are going through 13 Bravo, which is the cannon crew member. They're the ones who throw heat, the 90-pound rounds. They're working.

They have a couple of models. I don't know if they're fully functioning. They're out there with exoskeletons that help them fucking lift 95-pound rounds and heat them all day, which, I mean, don't get me wrong. There's going to be some vets who are like, that's going to make them weak. And I'm like, but it could make them faster yeah it's like edge of tomorrow shit yeah they got it's strange man we are in the future like sorry they are finally caring about their backs yeah finally dude not service related you know the big rucksack we get like the big one

the large ruck yep oh wait the big green or the big backpack the big backpack one okay yeah so the ruck that we get i went to go to cif because when i was going to go to another school i had to draw gear and i was like hey i need a large ruck and they're like we don't issue those no more because it's bad for people's back i'm like took you 15 fucking years yeah they don't issue the large ruck anymore because it's too bad on your back uh the after the alice pack it was oh yeah it was right alice was like still uh metal frame and then it went to the plastic frame yeah i forget what the frame's called but wait they don't they don't issue them anymore because they're bad for your back what do you carry now uh they have a medium

ruck which is oh it's money honestly i love the damn thing. It's good for like an AG bag. It's good for like a radio bag. It's good for everything, man. Like Mystery Ranch? That shit's dope. Mystery Ranch? I'm not familiar. You know Mystery Ranch?

Oh, that shit's like kind of higher end, but it's fucking nice. Don't like the tri-zip one? Yeah. Oh, yeah, it's part of theirs. I'm so pissed right now. Do you know how much dick the Alice Pack sucked? Dude. Cock walking. i can remember bucket

i went to school on port brag dude yeah all i had to carry books in your dad's like i ain't buying you a backpack i can remember 15 fucking bucks at the surplus this carries more books than one of those shitty spider-man backpacks dude i can I can remember being in Afghanistan and you put the bag, the ruck on the ground, you lay in it, buckle yourself in, and three of your buddies help stand you up because it's so f***ing heavy. Like, I can remember that. Alright, we need to buy some of those new packs

that I really want to just f*** around with them. The medium rucks? Let me see if I can find a picture of them. Dude, I've never heard of them. We got those originally, we got those medium rucks in Afghanistan and now they're standard issue. We just had giant ones that you'd have to pack. Dude. I bet it's something that's in Tarkov right now, whatever he's going to show us.

100%. That's it. Super comfortable. Medium ruck. Oh, that looks way better. Oh, like even how it's designed on the back. Yeah. God.

It's partitioned. And like, dude, it's money, man. Those are. And that can carry 35 pounds so your eib would just feel way more comfortable yeah beating these things i mean they got waste packed or the like dude they're they're really good we use them those were our ag bags in afghanistan because they issued them and then when we got back from afghanistan they're like we're taking those back and then we had the large rucks and now everyone's on the medium ruck so now you just

get an assault pack and the medium ruck you don't get the large ruck anymore but you still have to deal with the military at the end of the day it's still military you're like sweet look it sucks less but it still sucks yeah and that part hasn't changed i see my buddies they'll facetime me uh like i talked to sergeant major the other week and then i've talked to first my friends are first aren't now and like sergeant majors which is wild to have when i was in everyone was like privates and specialists and now they're first if you just don't get caught long enough you're fine yeah that's really all it is and my buddies are like out in korea like shout out to holly he called me on the field in korea and he is as old as me i was like fuck that dude dude

it's you're you're 39 you're still having to wake up at 5 a.m 6 a.m get the privates out like march with them and you're out and you're out in the field i have to get up at 5 30 in the morning to make sure other grown men dress the same as me that's that's what i meant my life ain't bad that's how i always self-reflect on that i was like you know what life ain't too shit i straight up told my wife after i uh get out i'm like i will never watch another sunrise ever again and she's like why not i was like because i've watched it every day for 15 years it's not here just like i hate that thing just warm up oh, it's not. You're just like, I hate that thing. Just warm up. Oh, now it's got thermoversion.

It's going to get cold as fuck for like an hour. What's better than a well-marbled ribeye sizzling on the barbecue? A well-marbled ribeye sizzling on the barbecue that was carefully selected by an Instacart shopper and delivered to your door. A well-marbled ribeye you ordered without even leaving the kiddie pool. Whatever groceries your summer calls for, Instacart has you covered. Download the Instacart app and enjoy $0 delivery fees on your first three orders. Service fees, exclusions, and terms apply. Instacart, groceries that over-deliver. Standing out there like trying to grade a pt test where the ink in my pen is freezing i'm just like this because like our pt uniform is made out of grocery bag or some bullshit it doesn't stop anything by the way everyone in the army is like we need new barracks the mold is getting bad and

the army's like new pt is coming 2025 so we We've spent $2 billion. I love the military mindset on some of this shit, especially when it comes to military spending, because it's like, I'm all for cutting spending where it makes sense. But it's like, oh yeah, I want to make your life better. Here's a 20 cent pen.

By the way, later today, you're going to be firing a $175,000 rocket. Yep. You want to... Did you hear about... We don't have enough money to fix your knee. Here's a javelin missile to fire for training. It's like...

Did you guys hear about Boeing? Someone audited... Boeing's been in the news a lot. Shit. I am not... they just got yeah exactly cuts back your heads down um they just somebody audited the u.s government which they always do and found out that the u.s government paid boeing an eight thousand percent markup on soap dispensers for aircraft like the little like you push with your hand, 8,000%

increase on the price, which makes total sense, because that's kind of like the standard markup for all military shit. We have in my system, we have a computer mouse, like a Logitech computer mouse. It costs like $7 at Staples. How much do you pay for it? $748.

That's why I'm excited for what Elon was talking about, the Department of Government Efficiency. So Doge. Doge. But like little shit like that where it's like that's weird because American Airlines who flies God knows how many flights every day figured soft

soap is fine. Works just fine. What's the there's a phrase for that for like they've had it for like a hundred years the military. It's like the $500 hammer or something like that. Oh, I, there's a phrase for that for like, they've had it for like a hundred years, the military. It's like the $500 hammer or something like that. Oh, I don't know the phrase for it, but I've heard that a lot. Like you spend like a thousand dollars on a hammer and it's because they filter all that supposedly. It's like the pen.

Whatever we spent, like for NASA, it's like we spent millions of dollars to create a pen that writes in space where we could have just got a pencil. Or, you know, an iPad nowadays. Mytism took over on that one. There's actually a logical reason for that. I learned this. Did you know that? Please tell me a pencil versus. Yes.

A pencil is made of graphite and lead. Graphite and lead, as you're writing with it, flakes off. In a zero-g environment, it's flammable and conductive. Very, very dangerous. So that's cool. What about a highlighter? We're fucked. Kill him.

I wasn't even asking questions. He shitted me. I was assassinated by Boeing because I asked about a Sharpie. I know Elon's going to come up with something like, you know, a pin in space travel. He's going to call it the pin 15 or some shit like that.

Of course, of course. I guess wasn't it Elon who like, he wanted to name, he had the Series S, the Series E, and then the X, but he couldn't do E because I think Mercedes had the Series E. I think it was Ford? E-Class probably. E-Class, yeah. Because, yeah, so.

That's why it's the Series 3 now, so S3X. So, yeah, because he's a grown man child. I love it. S3XY. Oh, I forgot about the Y. Yeah, so he's got the model S-E-X-Y. So sexy. I got to use the little air defender's room.

I'll be right back. Dude, I love it we got like dude this is my happiest month right now because it's like all the homies are coming in we got either before or after we're gonna have clint romache on which medal of honor recipient our homie like we're so fucking i've never met i know dude that's what i'm so excited we We were catching up today, and he's just so stoked to be on this month. He's like, fuck, yeah. And he's just excited to hang out with everyone. That's awesome. I'm not.

I always forget how much he hates the government until we hop on a phone. I'm like, this is a dude that he's allowed to feel however he wants towards things. Is that sure? It's like, I'm anti-government but i work for the government like that whole thing i've you seen the dudes like that are hopping out of bradley's with that t-shirt yeah yeah like yeah it's our boy right dude something i've always want to see that like i read in books back in the day is like the only person that a president has to salute is a medal of honor recipient it's like love to see Clint in the same room with Trump or someone like that.

They have to salute. Get around with this, man. He's such a good dude. He loves manual labor. He's up in North Dakota, and he does public speaking and then working with some nonprofits for ones that make a difference. So just talking about Clint Rose. I would love to meet that guy i would like i'm sure he

doesn't want to talk about everything that happened i just he seems like a really cool dude him and marcus latrell yeah oh dude all those guys are you've met marcus right i met morgan i don't know if i've i don't think i've ever met marcus in person yeah oh well no we did at the one oh that's right yeah yeah well in charlotte that's right yeah i was like wait i was like oh fuck yeah he was up there talking uh during that event and we were just going through everything we went out to some like yeah he was actually he was really he was a really kind dude he likes to go over speaking time but he was he's but he's just really motivating like a really like down-to-earth dude he like i've seen some of his speeches and

stuff and he's like very direct forward like motivating type guy like you know what's interesting is and i i don't know how true it is um secondhand story so um my squad leader uh staff sergeant casey grukowiak um he passed away in afghanistan but before he passed away we were sitting there in in spin kolache it was the first time i ever had rounds whiz over top of my head. It was an American 50 count, believe it or not. Smartass Taliban got in between us and the vehicles on the road, shot at the vehicles, and then ran away. And so they were shooting at us on the far side. How did that happen?

Dude, it sucks. Dude, the sounds. That was the first time I ever heard hisses, and I hit the dirt. And Casey, he was laughing at me. He's like he's like long those weren't even fucking near you man yeah they're not i don't care bro um brand's like what the but i've experienced it in a much less stressful environment but i know what it sounds like i don't know what it feels like but sergeant g was part so he was ranger qualified he was a

former ranger instructor as part of one of the ranger bats the dude like i swear he had to pay doctors to be able to deploy with us because his back looked like a roadmap of la like his spine was dude it was just destroyed but he was okay dog when he was a young private apparently he was in the ranger bat that went to go find marcus and all those other guys oh shit and he was the platoon that actually found uh he was telling me about it was like some waterfall somewhere in afghanistan there was like a cave they got some afghan dude out of there and they found a bunch of like seal gear and that's where they actually found uh lieutenant murphy was in there that's

what he told me i don't know how true it is but i was like because he was telling me when he got back there's a there's a book called a seal seal of honor or um it's it's the one about uh lieutenant murphy not marcus and uh he's like dude i was going through a bookstore like years later and i saw that lieutenant looking back at me from the bookshelf and he's like weirded me out man he's like i had to buy the book and he's i read through it i read it too it's it's okay as a book like it's it goes over a lot of like with the family experience with, with Murphy's family before it really talks about what he experienced. So yeah, I thought that was, that was wild, but yeah, he was, he was killed in Afghanistan

Monday, August 30th, 2010. Oh shit. And then they found all his, his. Like his gear. And I guess they found his body. I don't know if they found like the other three guys in the team's body or just his uh he didn't really elaborate on that but yeah he was part of the ranger bat that went and found him that's wild because that was like that just a shit yeah just

shit sandwich and that's what happens a lot of the times you either have helicopter go down or mission and how they push towards objective getting rushed and the guys fighting back or marcus's case like all that he went through like on his own and then being taken care of yeah however that story plays out and you're just like jeez he said that while they were there uh trying to find those guys like because they had like a patrol base set up and they would go out in different directions and try and find them like every day and uh that was the only safe place for like chinooks and shit to get like resupply into them ammo and everything he goes we got so used to like as the sun would go down

the fog would roll in the taliban would hit us he goes we got so used to it we had just pre-plots we're like pre-plot alpha zero zero one zero zero two zero zero three five four effect and yeah he's like it got just so common the taliban pushing us when the sun went down the fog rolled in that's what you do when you read about um like even what uh clint went through and that amazing idea for a ford operating base like dude in the in the valley in the valley like surrounded by all sides of this hill so you're just like i ambush site one i just like when i when i read that and when i watched the movie which i think they did a great job on the movie i don't know how clint feels about it i think you're fire on yourself like that's that man that's a strictly american mentality like you look at the war in ukraine

and everywhere else like no one is like okay we're being overran let's attack like that is a strictly american thing like all right we're being overran give me two guys we're gonna go kill everybody let's do this and clint fucking did that like that's who is it it was a chest chesty puller we're surrounded they won't get away now yeah and it's still it's like even on uh what's it we are soldiers where they landed in that it's like what's all the guys like russian broke uh broken arrow like broken arrow and then they fight back because now now they're like on equal fighting terms. You're like, y'all are psychopaths. A good kind of psychopath.

Have you ever studied? Fire on yourself. Anyone ever studied Operation Anaconda? No. So Operation Anaconda was the first major engagement between U.S. forces and the Taliban in Afghanistan. This was after, of course, the 12 Strong. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 12 Strong.

Also wild. Yeah. They figured out that like a bunch of Al-Qaeda and Taliban were in the Shikot River Valley. And they were. That leads directly into Pakistan. So their goal was. It was like a hammer and anvil tactic. Is the Afghan army was supposed to cut them off from one direction.

And the Americans were supposed to push into them and just kill everybody. So they couldn't fucking escape. They thought there was like 200 Taliban in the the valley turns out there was like a thousand uh and they had like artillery and mortars they had a lot of so the 10th mountain lands in and just starts getting hit like from all directions the afghans being the afghans abandoned the mission because they're cowards sorry i'm just gonna call a spade a spade and the like it's really weird you see any other military in history experience something like that they're like we need to evac we need to get the fuck out of here now and the 10th mountain was like we're digging

in and we're gonna kill them they dropped so much ordinance the topography of the shikot river valley changed like 200 missions a day for 17 days straight that was in one of the documentaries wasn't it i believe uh i don't know if operation anaconda was in one i don't remember just updating a topography map yeah well it don't go as high yeah there's also new craters everywhere yeah you're dropping like 500 pound jdams just one after the other they apparently they were carpet bombing with b-52s as well like holy shit they were getting ordinance like they were putting in work that's like the epitome of target rich environment that's what that is like shooting all directions good just i guess wild so how'd that end up playing it out playing out the eventually they

gained fire superiority and they started bounding up, and the Afghans came back. And some of the Al-Qaeda abandoned. They left, but most of the valley was completely wiped the fuck out. All the caves were closed. They had nothing left. They wiped out a shit ton of Taliban. Bomb the shit out of them. How much time did you spend in Afghanistan?

I was there 2010 and 2011 so from june july 2010 to june 2011 i did 11 months okay that's when iraq afghanistan was more popping off because iraq war has been on the decline and then it was in 2014 i think isis like started 12 to maybe 14 yeah it was i was part of that big push that president obama wanted to do to do to like finish the war in Afghanistan. So there was nowhere for us to stay. We just showed up and they're like, we're going to put a cop there. So we're living in a school for a week while the Seabees are putting together a cop for us.

Yeah, we did that a lot. I lived in an Afghan dude's house for seven months. Yeah, the video is on YouTube. You can look up Afghan cribs. I've made a video called that. It's on YouTube. You can look up Afghan cribs. I've made a video called it. It's on YouTube. Welcome to my crib. Right here. This is where 30 guys sleep.

We all shit here. This is my sugar daddy, Muhammad. Dude, I love that in the video, like I'm walking through, like pointing different stuff out. And you see like a Bunsen burner on top of a propane tank. And literally four inches away is a bandolier of 40 millimeter high explosive grenades. Just four inches to the right. And I'm like, this is what it is. Right here we got on top, kitchen. Boom, boom, boom.

And the grenade's right behind it. And it's soldiers and war doing that video. That was a good time, man. that was home for a while man like we'd be sitting there and because we had no running water no electricity our bathroom was a hole in the ground but like every three or four months for like an hour and a half we would get electricity like we'd all be just chilling out playing cards with like you know a bunsen burner or something and all of a sudden there was a light in the compound that would come on and we'd be like, and just everyone scrambles to the chargers to like charge your, your cameras and your laptops and just try and charge everything.

It's like, God, I don't miss it at all. Period. I'm glad that face over, especially at my age. I'm like, what I tell it's interesting. Cause I did that. I did that before I came over to ADA and a lot of my ADA soldiers, they're like like you know what i what i tell it's interesting because i did that i did that before i came over to ada and a lot of my ada soldiers they're like you know i wish i had those same experiences as you and i like the way i look at it is i wouldn't trade those experiences for the world but i also don't wish them on my worst enemy like it was you know experiences may vary depending on where you are in the world at what time of the you know history but yeah you're

thankful for you can learn from it without wanting to relive it yeah yeah somebody's like you want to go back to afghanistan nope like it's it sucks though because like even for you as an iraq war vet um you see like world war ii vets and vietnam vets and they like take them back and they you know hey we had an op set up there and they're like pointing shit out and we'll never be able to do that yeah good that'll never happen for one they landed in the first world country you there's a starbucks on the corner of normandy now like dude i will say what is wild there's that i forget the guy's name he goes around and eats food he has like the iron stomach he goes to like even India. He eats everything that is

offered to him on the street foods. He will eat it. Really cool YouTube channel. But he's like he gets deathly ill sometimes. He voted Iraq and then watching his Iraq video because he went as of like a year ago to visit Iraq and interact with the people

and eat the food. And he put them as like some of the kindest people he's ever met. And then you see them like offering the shirt off the back. Cause you did have Iraqis that would take care of you. And you showed up to their property. They like offer you tea and everything. And you're on edge. Cause you're like,

I don't know if he's playing what side he's playing, like blah, blah, blah. But is he luring the end versus, is he being nice? Yeah. And the dude,

some of those dudes that were like the kindest people, you be like they're like no neighborhood is good mister mister it's all good and you look look outside and there's like 18 craters like we have a definition uh different definition of good but i'm gonna listen to you like they offer you chai out like the ones that did drink the story that griff told the other day where he's just like the guy he was in with that ran the bed and breakfast, the coffee shop or whatever. He's like, sir, you might want to stay for your coffee for an extra hour or so. And then he heard an IED go off right outside. Yeah. He's like, oh, you're good.

Yeah. And I was like, you're good, Mr. Griff. And that's the thing. We're going back there. It's watching that dude go back there. He's like, man, these people are amazing. I'm going to eat the food. Versus when we were there, it's just like, ah, the fear of walking on that street.

If you just dropped me off, I was like, instant spike on. Every pile of trash makes you have a heart attack. You sound like a former Detroit police officer talking about going back for the pizza. You know what's funny? My brother is a cop in detroit this is very familiar he's only had to get administrative leave once when he fired his weapon oh really that's yeah i don't even know the circumstances of what exactly happened but he like called my mom was like yeah i got into a shootout they got me on administrative leave for a couple of days until they figure out what the hell's going on i guess i guess every time an officer shoots in that department like ia has to i don't know maybe you would know like

similar to every police force do they have to investigate it depends on the department agency and everything man like sometimes you have a civilian oversight board that can decide whether your shooting is good or not which is weird because they've never been cops before but so people have no experience get to decide if you did the right thing yeah yeah exactly exactly that's dope that's another reason chicago's gone down hills because they have a civilian oversight board that's insane that's why cops in chicago just like they just fucking stay out of it now they stop policing because they stop policing dude it's like i They stop policing, dude.

It's like, ugh. I mean, Cody has a good, I mean, you're going to know that best, but the idea of somebody telling you your job, it's no different than the rules of engagement overseas. When it's like, I've had weapons pointed at me and you're like, oh, they're not shooting, so I'm fine. And I had to program that in my mind. They're allowed to do this. That's hostile intent, not hostile acts. Yeah. yeah and tell they shoot i cannot react or anything i love that they made that such a big point of like black hawk down where it's like where they talked about how bullshit the rules of it wasn't an action movie they made the the point to say how both the rules

of engagement were and like oh well the clinton administration and their infinite wisdom has decided not to give us you know air support not to give us anything for this mission so good luck boys yeah and then it's like oh they're shooting at us no it's still a whiz okay now they're shooting at us because that sounded for there was a giant 800 skinnies with ak's coming at us in the middle of the street not great this or not but they're not because they weren't getting fired at you cannot fire back i've been in many situations and you're just like ah i still get emotional i still get emotional when i see randall and uh or randall and sugar uh was it sugar uh gordon and or no randall sugar and the delta boy yeah the delta guys and that that whole like last

stand they had like, fuck man, two landing and be like, they're like, you know, this means there's no support coming. It's like, yep, we're good.

And then they're still like, nope, drop us off. I'm like, are you, we need you to confirm over radio that you understand what you're placing yourself into. We understand both of them,

but I will say their KDR is pretty. Yeah. They ran out of ammo before they went fucking down so like their kill death ratio is and they did say yeah that's what's crazy they saved one individual from that they ended up yeah they ended up finding was that michael durant was the name of the pilot they ended up finding him he had a broken back and some other got him set up mp5 if that's how that played out and then or that's how and michael uh talks about it's like mp5 and protect ran out and then they just took him hostage one one of my friends growing up his dad was one of the pilots during that operation that's that's man he had some

fucking stories yeah dude wow like that mini bird would just what i think it was like 2 000 or 10 000 dead oh we lost 20 that we lost 20 or 22 soldiers american soldiers let's consult the nightmare but i mean that's also like consultant 18 or 22 but that's also like 75th 75th is like used to just like you put them you hand them a shit sandwich and they're gonna make it into a three-course meal like 75th just that's what they're built for like point new hawk is a perfect example of this surgical hammers with your car as we said it's like surgical hammers so battle of mogadishu uh 1993 american casualties and losses 18 killed, 700 wounded per Red Cross, 315 killed, including 133 SNA troops, 812 wounded per SNA. Other estimates, 300 to 700 killed.

That's a pretty good kill-death ratio. I'm telling you. 75th is there to put in work. They're not there to fucking play. When I came to Fort Carson, I can't remember the guy's name if you guys remember his name please let me know it wasn't actually featured in the movie uh he went he came down to fort carson like spoke to a bunch of us in like an auditorium um apparently he was in mogadishu and got separated from his unit and like ran out of ammo and was like going building to building trying to get back to his guys and apparently off like five or seven dudes with an e-tool like oh fuck yeah i don't know who

this guy was but it wasn't in the movie and this guy was like yeah that's that's just what happened he's like i ran black on ammo pulled out the e-tool and i just started chopping my way back to my fucking guys chopped my way back dude that's such a cool thing to say that's just such a crazy thing to say off the cuff just the action to be like black on ammo we're putting we're putting a handle park

and the E-Tool unfolds like this so he's just like got it and the next guy's like hello just cracking with the E-Tool I love that mindset of like obviously next step that's i i i don't know like i've never gotten formal like e-tool weapons training but does the 75th get e-tool weapons training like i've like i'm fucked with bayonets and basic training and but like no one's ever been like all right you're gonna thwap this right in their coconut

and kick him in the nuts like i i have no idea like that's when your caveman brain kicks in you're like big object what makes the grass grow blood blood blood girls are and you have to do those dumb stuff great great great great great great great great great grandfather knew how to do this so uh it's in the dna dude that's like what was my biggest fear is like getting lost from your element being by yourself at that time that would terrify the fuck out of me like i can't imagine that i imagine you're just like oh anyone around me wants to kill me now like Like, you have no idea, and you had to make it back to your unit in the midst of gunfire and war, and you have an E-tool. That's terrifying, but it's also probably the exact amount of adrenaline you need to cleave five people with an E-tool.

Yeah. That's not even understanding your own strength. I guarantee that first thing, he's like, and swing full force, like the head's like chopping. Just took a chunk of the skull off. Also, they're like 95 pounds. Yeah, that's fair. Four died by heart attacks.

Can you imagine like you go to your house and there's just like hacked up dead bodies and there's some just blood covered American with a shovel just like, all right, I'm a leaf. Open the door, close the door. Yep. See you later.

This is your house now? You walk in and then walk out and say, God, I didn't drop anything. Were none of those open? No. These two weren't. Nice. And the two, they're empty.

Party foul averted. Oh, Brandon, you ran into an issue today. Which part? Do you want to talk about that which part your shop flooding oh god yeah oh yeah i wasn't going to talk about it but i can like it's you know really minor issue considering what we talked about today on the podcast fuck me but yeah no the uh the shop got flooded i mean it's awesome not in minor our uh yeah we came back over the weekend like our ac had a bunch of issues

and uh we just came into floor soup as it melted the all the ceiling tiles and it just spilled out all over the goddamn floor so i've been dealing with that is it was it just like one leak or do you even know or was it like the whole roof is fucked i think it's the rocker switch or whatever is like the shutoff switch for the drip pan that turns off the ac unit okay if it's flooding but the guns are okay right the guns are okay don't give me a yeah yes the guns are the guns are fine i would like to see the babies yeah everything's good but yeah no we uh we had floor soup when we walked in and uh yeah so we had a tech come out and unfortunately i hope he's okay it seems like he's okay uh he fell off the ladder i'm sorry wait but are the guns okay the guns and the tech

are okay yeah he apparently had the guns he had to get taken away by ems like it was bad like he fell fell how far did he fall that's like i don fall? He wasn't on the roof or anything. He was just up in the ceiling. So thank fuck he didn't fall on asphalt or anything. What? Did it slip? Don't know. I just get that phone call. I'm like, I have like eight things going wrong in one particular day.

And then I just get that call. I'm like, great. He was like a licensed you know guy right who has insurance luckily i don't own his ac company and i don't own the building i rent so i'm good all right yeah that's right i need you to sign this sir it just says i don't own this but i'm like it's still like, it sucks, but it's like, ah, well, God dang. She'd have them on the next episode. The joys of people are like, oh, well, wow. You look so much older than, than how, uh, how old you really are.

I'm like, yeah. The joys of business ownership. Fucking stress. Fucking awesome. Thank you for that. Why you look so much older than your age. I don't know how to take that. I don't appreciate it though. I don't know how to take that. I don't appreciate it, though.

I just got my first gray pube, so we're there. Years ago for me. Picking them out of the beard. Oh, fuck. Old gray bush over here. Old gray bush. Gandalf the gay. Gandalf the gay.

My gray bush. I was kind of hoping that bald this would work its way down but my white pubes that's called dht brothers sorry you're stuck with that for life oh damn how wise are you oh you kill a balrog now you have white pubes yeah only my pubes turned white well that won't be a problem with manscaped that Chase just put in right now oh we don't have that well fuck me I have tried to

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As long as you come and subscribe to Habitual Line Crosser Come and then subscribe Yes come and then subscribe Dude you guys you gotta hang out with Posty Do you want to talk about that? We don't have to Oh you guys got to hang out Dude he would have been the coolest guest to have on this podcast

Not the other thing No that's why it's just the Posty night. You guys got to hang out with Mr. Posty. How does that happen? He just hit you up one day, I think, on Instagram? Yeah. Yeah, Posty hit me up. And he's like, hey, dude, been watching you and Brandon's content for a while.

You guys want to come hang out in Austin? Am I going to say no to that? We would just randomly start talking to him at like three o'clock in the morning. You'd hit me up. You're like, hey, dude, Posty wants to FaceTime. Like, I'm up. Dude, that's so cool. Like, this is the thing.

I'm not a huge fan of rap music in general. You know, to each their own. But like, I see the way he interacts with like fans and everybody else. And he seems like just a genuine human. Dude, he is a sweetheart the guy the the famous person that doesn't realize is he's famous that's awesome best way to describe he's like i'm famous what thank you i think he's he realizes that he just doesn't care no he's just so thankful for just on stage that's like the watching that show and then

how he presents himself to his audience, how much he truly cares. It's fucking mind blowing. Like that for the live show that motivated me for our own chicks. I'm like, that is a performer. And that is, that's the level that we should be at. That is how you thank your audience. That's how you present yourself to your audience is so awesome.

In between every single song, he would stop and be like, I love you guys so much. I love everyone that's here, and I appreciate everything you guys are doing for me. Like, between every single song. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you so fucking much. Like, that was everything. And it wasn't just like, thank you guys, appreciate it.

It was like, you could tell, like, he was like, a couple times he's almost like choking up talking about it. It's like, he's just hearing this crowd response. He's like, thank you so fucking much. That's awesome. And he's also a big gun guy. So, I mean, that's right up y'all's alley. He is an autistic gun guy. It's like, he's just hearing this crowd response. He's like, thank you so much. Awesome. And he's also a big gun guy. So, I mean, that's right.

If y'all's out, he is an autistic gun guy. Really? Yeah, dude, he is a gun guy. Like study level. Like,

yeah, he was naming calibers. I'd never heard of. That's awesome. Fucking serious. That happened. I, I peace out that conversation.

Cause he's talking to Brandon and I'm like, I, I have no idea what he's talking about. And Brandon was trying to keep up with him like he's hammered wait can I tell him about very helpful but no help straight up like it like the guy one of the first conversations we had he's like oh yeah oh you like gun here you go and he shows me the picture of his pop like what the I'm like oh you're you're in this to win this like you're actually a gun guy

but no he's just super rad super chill yeah everything you think you know on that degree like yeah dude that guy like he you know what's funny is uh i think i was like two podcasts ago i think he was you asking like who would you like to see on this podcast i think he was just asking the cameras and i was like man post malone like that dude would be fucking awesome like he just he seems like he just wants to hang out like drink and just be chill with people definitely yeah we we hung out until like i think seven in the morning yeah we got back to the hotel yeah it was a good time man it was it was it was super chill environment. Like we went to the VIP thing. There was like 30 people there. And, uh, the security came around a couple of like two in the morning,

three in the morning. They're like, Hey everyone, you got to leave now. You got to leave now. Post is like, no, Brandon and Cody are staying. And so we sat around with like maybe eight or nine people in a circle where they're us and the girls, his close friends, stuff like that. Yeah. And, and they like, they threw on the dj there was from like country music rock and posted just singing all the like all this early 90s country music we got to hear his voice sing that country music we're like this is another show this is awesome we were just all like it was like an invisible campfire dude we were just geeking out the whole

time yeah yeah oh yeah you were there too you got groped by the whole time. That was no DJ. That was Posty playing that from a cell phone on a Bluetooth speaker. We were just boys hanging out. Yeah. Oh yeah, you were there too. You got groped by him. Yeah,

he f***ed me and I wanted it. I'm so jealous. Why don't we get that? More of Post Malone and f***ing grown men and less of Harvey Weinstein. Bring what we want.

Fuck it. You hear me post less diddy parties more posty parties that's what you mean it was rad man I'm so jealous but I'm so happy for you guys at the same time that's awesome it's just good to actually know like behind the scenes he's the same fucking guy that's for sure 100%

I will say I love that musicians that are fucking guy that's dude that's for sure 100 i did dude i will say i love that musicians that are talented at that level because that's what war snob does the same thing they just sing and it's beautiful to hear you're like i'm getting a private show with these these pipes right here and it is absolutely just astounding you're just like wow okay well they're singing it was just surreal because it really did feel like just hanging out with the boys because i mean it was like three o'clock in the morning we're all just hammered singing 90s country music around an invisible bonfire it's like one of my favorite memories now that's pretty cool i think the closest i ever got to that is i repaired tech nine's van years ago i was like 17 years old he came to denver and my buddy ray uh i don't really talk to ray no more

but anyways ray was opening for tech nine and he called me my dad was like a junk dealer i mean he has just a whole bunch of shit in our like huge acre lot and he was like hey man you got a mirror and i was like yeah what kind of mirror he's like one like this like takes a picture of a van that was like side swiped and the mirror was ripped off like one of those truck mirrors i was like yeah let's do it no problem dude and he's like all right i'm coming to get you we went there look i'll be honest with you i had no idea what tech night looked like i was like there was like black dudes everywhere i was like which one's dead like i'm sorry man i didn't know like i'd listened to him before but i had no idea who the fuck he was this dude what are you insinuating yeah i'm sorry man

i just jammed out to the music, bro. This dude came in. He was like six foot a thousand, like 700 pounds, enormous black dude. And apparently the backstage pass was like a sticker and gave me like the sticker and I repaired the van. And then he turned around and in his back was tech nine. Tech is not very tall. He's not a big dude. He was like, I mean, I want to say he's like five, seven, five, nine.

Like he's not a very big dude, but he's super thankful. Super nice. He's like, you drink free everything you want all night. I was like i mean i want to say he's like five seven five nine like he's not a very big dude but he's super thankful super nice he's like you drink free everything you want all night i was like 17 i was like fucking cool let's do it dude that's right like that was awesome bro uh but yeah that was the closest i've ever gotten anything like that i never i'm so jealous of you guys but at the same time i'm excited because the closest other than that i've got two of my own personal concert was a homeless person screaming at the top of their lungs at like a street sign Well, I was waiting on a train sounds like Austin. Yeah, we had to experience that a little bit. Oh, yeah, God It was it was dude. That was funny. We walk backstage and your girls like Rogan's behind us. Oh, yeah Yeah, cuz I was like we were looking at him from far away we're like

It might be Joe like the the physique and everything like that yeah it kind of looks like joe rogan but like the last thing we want to do is like go to a vip and just start bugging people like hey man picture yeah but i'm sure literally our first interaction is i asked for a picture with you well i fucking like you know we're in the same industry like i i like you now i love you now thank you but no i like legitimately it was just kind of weird because it's like as soon as i heard the voice i'm like oh that's joe rogan what do how do i act on this i don't know what to do with my hands when he first saw us he's talking to everyone up there and he sees did you when he's no he saw us and he goes

no i didn't see that wait oh what poster just did that oh i thought you're talking about joe rogan he does this yeah okay that i do like no i don't remember when joe rogan acted like a no no that was it was kind of funny because i didn't know if we were you know impeding on No, I don't remember when Joe Rogan acted like a f***ing... No. No, it was kind of f***ing funny because I didn't know if we were impeding on anything. Yeah, because we were trying to stay in our own little corner with everyone. There was a bunch of people out there. We were just like, we'll stay to ourselves and not run over and try to get a picture or anything. That's a wonderful time to be alive, though, that YouTubers are rubbing elbows with musicians.

I mean, Joe Rogan, he's also... I mean's a podcaster i don't but he started out as tv i don't know where you would put ufc and he's a jack of all yeah he's all over the place like like each thing he does is just this touching gold and being at that spot of number one where you're like joe we're coming for you that's the goal at least here if we get two or the top five we get put on seven the top five i'm happy which by the way please rate us highly on spotify on apple apple podcasts that really helps us a lot literally just reviews and uh five stars if not eli and brandon and cody have all told me i cannot come back yeah that's true sorry if you true. Sorry, if you want more misceltism, you got to fucking read his eye. If you want Northrop Grumman to assassinate us,

you're not going to have him. Well, I mean, for context, though, Posty is like 29. Is he? Yeah. He said it on stage. He said he recently had a birthday. Or was it his birthday? Or something like that.

I think he was just saying his age. I don't know. Because the one time he was like, so I'm 29 today. And everybody thought it was his birthday. So I started singing. He's like, I didn't turn 29 today. As of today. Bad verbiage.

Okay, here it is. Dude, I just love people. My thing is he grew up around YouTubers. He grew up in our, I mean, I'm fucking 28. So it's. Okay, no, you're older than me. I was going to say, I'm not the oldest person here, right? No, that's me.

How old are you? I'm 37. Okay, yeah. I was going to say, I'm not the oldest person here, right? No, that's me. How old are you? I'm 37. Okay, yeah. I'm actually second youngest. I'm 34. Yeah, dude. It's a new wave too. I mean, you're looking at people.

When YouTube started up until like 2016, 17, everyone was watching YouTube videos on mobile. That was 95% of content of YouTube was consumed on mobiles. And now we're in this direction where it's like, like pre COVID 50 50. Yeah. It's now like you have TV for long form. People are like pulling it up. I watch now like Papa meat or what?

A lot of those things on TV when we're eating now. I'm like, exactly. That's your back. That's your background music. When you're just like cleaning or like cooking food or something, you listen to her friends on the fucking TV. And we never do.

Think about that. We went from computers. You'd only watch it on a computer. Crazy idea to watch it on a phone. Then it went strictly mobile. And then you started targeting mobile. And then, guys, remember this crazy time? Vertical.

You were called a retard if you filmed vertical. Yeah. For a long time, it's like, you idiot. You piece of shit. Why would you film vertical and then that took off because of tiktok um i was like i don't want to talk about my vertical videos and now you're horizontal now i'm horizontal yes yes and now we're like then now it's it's we're consumed on tv which is a wild thing people like put on you you the podcast for two

hours and they're just like it's the new tv like because you get to actually choose what you like and it's aging up like our parents are now watching youtube tv yeah well i mean the other thing is it was also really strange to me because like you know i started out with tiktok and you know instagram reels and all sorts and then i got into youtube and i was still doing the vertical and this beautiful human over here i was i was like a 90 solution and then he's like have you tried this and i was like fuck let's do that and now it works so now we got the horizontal and i remember after i posted the first video i was so nervous to post that first video i

didn't want to tell you i didn't want to tell anybody i was so like i was like it's longer than i normally make i hope it's funny enough like i hope they enjoy the characters like i was and it wasn't and you failed immediately you know the vj hurt right yeah of course and it fucking crushed and then i remember somebody like tagged me on twitter they had it on their like 65 inch tv and it was one of my characters and i was like dude that felt so good like that was such a cool feeling i was just like god that's awesome that i get to make people that happy well speaking of which can we talk about it now yeah where can people now find you oh are we talking about that should i say it i'm just obviously we're not gonna ask a second question uh i have an exclusive series along with all of my other long form videos coming

to pepperbox and probably by the time this airs, it'll be there. Won't it? Yeah. Already on pepper box. We got you in the long form. Yeah. You're tackling.

I love that. Once it's always, it's safe for Nick's. It's like long form. Once you taste the long form and then you're like, well, fuck the short. Yeah,

it is like instantly. You're just like, boom, boom, boom, boom. I started like, and I got a little bit

faster at it and like that's i mean ultimately it's it's it's time like that's that's what i mean even with you guys it's time because like you all have editors and stuff like that and i was like i'm one of those i have such a tism i want to do it myself before i tell anybody else and i think that eli appreciates that and i like i started figuring it out and i started getting faster at it and i'm like okay now I can coach someone else how to do this. Once it starts doing well for me, it's free up more of my time. So that way I can do something else and create more. And like, but right now the army, Jesus, Uncle Sam sucks.

My asshole is all callous. It's all just fucking. It's like my knuckle. It's just my knuckle. Fuck. It's like elbow skin down there. If I were to like skydive naked, I would whistle.

Okay, let me pretend I'm like dude. There's a new shirt to do butthole callus. It's a metal. Yeah, just that. I don't feel anything back there and that's what's oh man what is it the green weenie rarely comes lube oh dude it never comes lubed i just i'll

be sitting there minding my own business doing like answering emails and here comes uncle sam with that schlonger just bouncing around the corner like damn it damn it. I've never met somebody who's like, It's like Slenderman. It's just a big uncle, cryptid Uncle Sam. Cryptid Uncle Sam in the woods in his pinstripe red and white suit. Just General Millie. Just peeking out from trees. Just a silhouette of

roll sleeves and a top hat with a baseball bat hanging between his legs we're gonna have to get Nick cryptid to fight Uncle Sam cryptid dude let him retire did you hear about Nick's cryptid? no go on Cuddy

imagine Nick going through the woods with just a wife beater on Nick's cryptid? No. Oh, God. Go on, Cuddy. Oh, no. So, imagine Nick going through the woods with just a wife beater on and nothing, like, no pants, no underwear, anything. Full Winnie the Pooh. Yeah. Just chasing you through the woods. Just shirt cocking it off. I just like Winnie pooing it. Oh, my God.

I love, like, when women do that, it's like a flag over a conquered castle wearing your shirt. When men do it, it's like a flag over a conquered castle. When men do it, it's like, you're just a gay wizard. I love the two images side by side. It's like cartoon drawings. It's like, gay wizard. Conquered castle. Both inappropriate. You're like, holy shit.

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