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Episode Date: May 12, 2025

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Oh, they burped. Ooh, gross. Do your job. Happiest place on Earth. Zach's like, F***, cheer is happening again. How many cheer moms did you beat the f*** out of? Turns out they like to f*** animals. I know that this is jarring to some of you. Say hi to Eli. He's racially ambiguous.

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Welcome to the Unsubscribe podcast. I'm joined today by eli double tap veteran with a sign brandon herrera myself donut operator we've uh we've been going through some crazy stuff lately we just wanted to jump on here and talk to you guys about it cody killed a guy i killed a man that really got out of hand really quick you're gonna have to leave the country i mean i would lay low for a few weeks i forgot yeah we haven't even discussed all the fucking shit storm that has been a brewing and taken care of and then i don't know if you talked to oh which part nick happy birthday nick happy birthday nick happy

birthday nick is in paris right now uh his family so we'll see him in probably next month. I hope he enjoys it. He loves Paris. I think he was in that space movie from 1992. Which one? We might have to delete. We'll leave it. But our little baby boys, it's his birthday. How old is Nick?

I don't know if that's public. Do we want it? I think he said it before,? I don't know if that's public. Do we want it public? I think he said it before, but I think he just turned 31. 31, I believe. Happy birthday. I love it. We have the entire shitstorm that is the Buffalo, and dear God,

if you hadn't talked to Nick today, everything that's unfolding... We're going to do another update. Good. God damn. Oh, this one. Him and his binder. Because I saw we got somebody, like, we got them moved from misdemeanor charges to, like,

multiple felonies, which is fucking rad. Imagine a dude trying to kidnap kids and then is just a single misdemeanor charge for, I think, trespassing or something. It was like child endangerment. Child endangerment. It was the lowest level of child. Because our boy Rich spoke up on the podcast, now that dude has four felonies. They just

hit him with it the other day. That wouldn't have happened if Rich didn't say something. That is the most mind-blowing thing. That dude would have had a slap on the wrist for that. Imagine, that's the fucking part that drives me crazy this person tried to abduct two elementary school children for god knows what purpose they were going to hit him with a single misdemeanor probably wouldn't have even served jail time but if your shotgun is half an inch too

short you get 10 years in prison he could could have bought a fucking gun. Fuck you. Yeah, he could have still bought a gun. Isn't that the story where the dad showed up and the kid had wet his pants and they didn't have any? Then they were like, we don't know. Yeah, they didn't tell the parents. I'm not going to say what I would do, but it rhymes with John Q. You understand what I'm saying? If I showed up and my child had been in that type of danger and they told me to

talk to a lawyer, I'd be like, well, you better call someone. Yeah, call an ambulance. But not for me. I'll say it. I hate burning down. I'm just going to say this. I know as a father especially, I could not

be more proud of all of you. I mean Rich – everyone knows Angry Cops Online, but not a lot of people know Rich the way we do. And just to see the way he has honestly put his career in jeopardy in a lot of ways with reckless abandon regardless of the outcomes. And then the support from all of you and the community has been off the charts i'm like really fucking proud to like know all of you on a personal level and like this is actually how change happens and like i was talking to my wife about it and it's just most of it's unfathomable but without this and without all of you god only knows what could have happened because i mean rich he embodies doing what is right not what's convenient and it's it's fucking rad to see it's also it kind

of like because none of us were prepped about what he was going to talk about before that we we went in blind and just kind of gave him the mic watching him break down like that was like watching your dad cry it was just like, oh, fuck. Because if you guys didn't follow the timeline of that, we were just having a regular podcast. Bullshit with our boy Rich. He's in town. We're having some drinks and stuff. Second podcast of the day.

Yeah. And then all of a sudden, he's like, look, I just want to get this off my chest. And dude, if he didn't do that, that guy would have been walking around with a little misdemeanor. Maybe doing the same thing. But now he's got four felonies and that's, that's fucking rad. And that's just the beginning. Yeah. And Buffalo would have been still doing their shit baggery.

And now it is. Again, he didn't even, he was like, you can put it at the end of the episode or something. He was just, he didn't know what he just wanted to get it off his chest. And he says he feels so much better. We've been doing our little facetime conversations both of us facetime because we are very expressive and talk with our hands you don't say it feels you don't say yeah it feels really weird talking to him you gotta cast spells it's just you need the the meme of like the Harry versus Voldemort, like the wand contest. It's just Eli and Rich on FaceTime.

I know. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. But he feels so much better. And as he said, he's like, we're on the offensive. It's not defensive. It's not the emotional pent-up shit right now. It's we pushed everything and put the ball in their court, and now they are terrified.

And what Nick found oh man dude we have it we'll see if we keep this in so now we have an interview from one of the teachers fuck yeah and meeting every like she's on uh nick did an interview with the teacher and it is her going over all the shit like oh yeah a kid um had a an attack, unconscious, nonresponsive, and she wasn't allowed to call the paramedics or anything. And it had to be, oh, call their parents, the principal, and everyone was like, no, no, no, no. The administration was like, no, don't call the police. Get the parent involved, and they can come pick them up and then drop them off at the hospital. All the kids knocked the fuck out.

Unresponsive. knock the fuck out unresponsive what the fuck mom had to leave leave work go pick up the kid then go and then they're like hey don't say anything same for oh because they didn't want it on paper happening on school grounds others as that 17 000 cases the information and information only reports yeah burn it down dude and it's just so bad and then we have uh two emts talking about responding to other situations and then the fuck like them trying to find these two kids that are unrest um with the edibles they're like going through all that shit with a teacher gave edibles to uh two minors the teacher dude the paramedics the emt showed up and they were like hey where are these kids at where are these kids at the teacher was told no you can't you have to talk to an administration before we get you involved 10 minutes of them arriving that they couldn't find or get a hold of or figure out where the kids were because the administration was like, no, you have to talk to us first.

And then the administration I mean, depending on the dosage of the edibles, the kids probably didn't know what they were either. Dude, they were like 300 milligrams. Jesus Christ. 11 years old. Those kids were talking to God. Yeah, the kids were God. Yeah. How did they...

I'm so mad. I can't see straight. How did they get edibles from the teacher? The teacher provided them. Okay, so... Quote, unquote, accidentally, which I don't know how the fuck that happens. I've had a lot of accidents in my life. I've never accidentally dosed kids. And guess what happened to the evidence?

Well, it was consumed. It was deleted. They had a bag, apparently, and then the EMT was like, okay, cool. We'll take that. We'll hold on to that. We'll take care of the kids. Okay, where is it was like, okay, cool. We'll take that. We'll hold on to that. We'll take care of the kids. Okay. Where is it?

Oh, we lost it. How old were they? So they're minors? 11. 11. So I'm sure people know this, but like when we used to like take stuff to school for the kids, we had to only bring store-bought stuff because of like food allergies and everything. And store-bought weeds are way better.

Yeah. I just don't understand how like we've jumped from you can't have peanuts in there to like somehow edibles have like made it into an elementary school. Bro. Peanut butter, you can't like. You can't. There's no peanut butter now allowed at school. We had to like take trays and like the secretary, whoever at the school would be like, okay, they have to look at it. And it would have to be sealed from like Publix or Kroger or something.

Well, my schools were wild then. We didn't have that, but really enough, none of the teachers ever gave me fucking drugs, so that's crazy. Kind of wild, yeah. Or that fucking cocksucker attorney from the other day. What was his name? You're going to have to be more specific, because there's so many

in the Buffalo Public Schools system. The dude was like, well, he should have went through the proper chain of command and sent it to his lieutenant. And it's like, no, this is the reason. Fuck you. Fuck you, Bob. Fuck you, Bob. This is the reason Rich had to come on a podcast and say it. And the dude's like, oh, but he had to go on a podcast.

Robert Boreanaz. He had to go on a podcast. He says in the podcast i cannot fucking do this i i they are putting up resistance they aren't letting us do anything this is the only way to get the message out in his response why didn't you go through the proper channels people are called whistleblowers because the proper channels didn't fucking work robert this is weird to focus on rich and not the crimes i know i'm old-fashioned i know i'm an old i'm a dad you know and i'm like protect the kids the anti-buffalo public school system motto but like i i don't know why we're

so focused on that and not like the children well it's wild like we know rich is a silly guy he's a funny man yeah but he's been a special victims unit investigator for a long time now. He's a detective. He's a drill sergeant. He's a combat veteran. He's been around the block. He's got actual credentials aside from just being an internet funny guy. Also, people are a different way online than they are in real life. I don't think Ben Affleck's Batman. He was a good Batman. But there's multiple different layers to it, and it seems like everyone's trying to view him through the lens

of like, oh, he's a shelly goose in a uniform. Wait, he's not an autistic assassin? That might be the most controversial thing you've ever said, is that he was a good Batman. Dude, I kind of liked it, dude. He was a pretty cool Batman. They'll fight in the comments. Bring back the Snyderverse. It had potential. It had potential. You don't think so? Bring back

Cavalry. I think it had potential. What was the last thing? Oh, what's the report? What were they saying? Rich's, the police officers, you're non, you can't testify if you're on that one report. Fuck. The Bobby report or some shit like that? Oh, the Brady.

Brady. Yeah, the Brady list. The Brady list. Everyone's like, oh, he's on the Brady list, so they're using that to discredit him. Or they're saying he should be on the Brady list. Oh, are they saying that he should be? Okay.

So it's something that people are just kind of throwing around, and it's really like, they're just, again, they're trying to, again, go after the credibility of Rich instead of saying, hey, maybe if these are legitimate concerns, we should investigate them. Because he's talking about some real cases that... It's the same shit when they were going after like, oh, there's a podcast. There's alcohol on the table.

One of the guys, you know, Rich burped at one point. These guys are foul. It's like, well, that's fucking crazy. Because I thought the foul part was the assault of children. Maybe that's just my sensibilities, but I thought that that was the part that was upsetting. The exact definition of Brady lists, also known as liar's lists, are recorded, maintained by prosecutors and law enforcement agencies to track law enforcement officers with a history

of misconduct, dishonesty, or other integrity issues. So that's why they're saying he should be on the list. Okay. I thought they were saying he was on the list. No, I don't believe he is. Who makes the list? I thought they were saying he was. I thought there was multiple... Because I was talking to Nick and it was multiple reports of them saying, well, he's on the

Brady list, so he's fucking... No, he can't. He's not good anyways. I would be shocked if he was. Well, people are saying... So that's the thing. They're saying he's on the list. He's not good anyways. I would be shocked if he was. So, well, people are saying. So that's the thing. They're saying he's on the list. It's almost like we could text him. No.

So there's different. He's not. He's not. Nick bought the fucking Brady because you can buy it and you can see who's on it. That's what the problem is. So he's not on the list? No, he's not. I was going to say, why the fuck would he be?

But if they're saying he is, now you have a lawsuit against them because now you're lying outright and you're defaming character. Because here's the thing that people don't understand about defamation is that in order for you to have a defamation or a slander or libel suit. It's hard. It has to be wrong. So people are like, oh, he's going to go after you. Like, cool. Find me a fucking point during that podcast where he said something that wasn't true. And we didn't say names either, which is like one of the biggest things, too.

There's no I can do it. Fuck you, Bob. Bobby suck. Yeah, that's why the guy he was talking about just called four new felonies this week. It's and I can also say my opinion that's fine that's not true it is bob like no well god oh fucking god i know now we're just riled up on these things i'm like entering like aust entering angry dad territory very quickly. Okay, we're going to take a moment. We're going to

breathe. One more thing. Ed, you suck too. That's it. I'm done. Ed sucks too. Fuck you, Ed. Gross. Do your job. Just do your job. Just report. Ben's good. Ben's great, but it's like the Norm

McDonald bit where they're talking about the worst part about the Bill Cosby thing you hear all these people talk about how the worst part is that he was a hypocrite and that he was a liar well that's crazy because I thought the worst part was the

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WKBU Buffalo goes live on Facebook, I'm there. It's game over, dude. They gave me a top fan badge. Just like the way that those fucking news media people are saying, it's just a podcast. Bitch, we get a hundred times

the views you do in one day. I love what Nick said about that. It's like, people listen to you because of your job. We have our job because people listen to us we are not the same like i fucking love i don't know if he took that from something but if not that is like that's a beautiful saying oh yeah he could not have put it better

okay we're gonna reset we'll go into something sad uh patrick literally our boy patrick we just got off facetime with him and his mom, Shirley. Amazing humans. At the live show, it will be put up here. The community. Which live show was that? The Norfolk one? Yeah, the Norfolk one.

Everyone gave him a standing round of applause. Patrick's been fighting cancer. He showed up to the show. We have some amazing pictures. Those are going up right here. And he's been so supportive. His mom's been so supportive of him through this battle. And we got bad news.

He has three to five days of as of recording this it's the 6th of may and uh it's looking like he has three to five days left to live so um we're just giving him nothing but love support kindness to that entire family and just what an amazing human he is. And even he looked exhausted today, but he still put on a smile. He said, what's up? He was surprised his mom set that entire thing up. And it was an honor to talk to him on those last moments. It was a privilege to meet him. His mom's amazing. He's great. They were awesome at the Norfolk show. Oh, dude. And you all, everyone that showed up to that, you, I can't stress the email. I can actually probably you all everyone that showed up to that you i can't stress the email i can actually probably put that up you guys made that dude and his mom's fucking

year with the chanting giving the flag that is a one in a lifetime opera like chance or and you all gave that chanting his name it was that was probably my favorite moment of the entire tour was that one specific moment. It made us feel something, which is hard. Yeah, kind of rare sometimes. Patrick, we love you, buddy. We appreciate everything you do for all of us. And Shirley, same to you. You're an amazing mom.

Thank you for everything. And thank you for those moments of just connecting with us and being able to share the same space as us. We appreciate you so, so fucking much. You know, that's the thing about cancer. I feel like I'm just now this is the second time in a row I've repeated a Norm MacDonald bit because, you know, he died from cancer. But he goes, you know, you can't lose from you can't lose the fight with cancer. You can only win because if you lose, so can't lose from, you can't lose the fight with cancer. You can only win. Because if you lose, so does cancer. So it's a draw.

Oh, man. Yeah. He did it, dude. I did it. Like, I love that even on that, like, he's at the hospital and we're still being us. We're still telling jokes. Like, we'll get you some, well, Cody suggested black tar heroin. I suggested regular drugs.

Yeah, I was wanting to give him some black tar heroin. Yeah, I suggested regular drugs. I suggested regular drugs. Cody pulled a baggie of black tar heroin out of his pocket. So give him love. Give him support. And give that family as much love and support as possible.

You guys were awesome. It was a pleasure to meet you again. It was truly an honor our hearts go out to you whatever you all need not the Elon way I'll just stop here and I'll pat here

and then put my hand down and slide it right here good call oh man what a fucking episode so far everyone that's watching is like I love how you're like let's take a moment with Woosaw yeah I thought we were

gonna go like funny now we're gonna funny now we up ticket our boy Zach's in town hey veteran with a sign hey oh shit Adam's here yeah

you just get up and leave god damn it Oh shit, Edmund's here? You just get up and leave? God damn it. Probably. Yeah, I'm here. I'm here. I'm in Texas. I'm doing the whole run.

Doing the whole run. I wore my Superman shirt, so I'm really excited. You were very proud of that shirt. I am. It's when Superman sponsored the National Guard. I don't know. How much did he get paid? The NASCAR car. I don't know. How much did he get paid? The NASCAR car.

I don't know. I got that, Eli. More than me. Yeah, so I just wanted to come by and try and do a podcast without any donkey-related stories. Because it was about a year ago when I came here to the House of the Rising Sun and I told the donkey story. And it took just a year. And my lovely wife said, just please don't tell any more stories like that. Mainly because my mother-in-law came up to me and was, yeah, it's the first thing that pops up.

Really? Oh, no. Donkey story? Yeah. My mother-in-law came to me. I don't know when it was. It was recently. And she goes, hey, I heard the donkey story yeah my mother-in-law came to me uh i don't know when it was it was recently and she goes hey i i heard the donkey story and christy was like just like laser eyes because it's like jumped like all levels of like permeating my life so it's uh it's funny it's a good time that's afghanistan right yeah it was afghanistan he not going to tell the story. His wife doesn't want him to, but it basically ends with some very awful acts with Donkey.

Google it. Some people in Afghanistan. Turns out they like to fuck animals. I know that this is jarring to some of you. Google it. Make sure that's at the top of the list no matter what. Yeah, run that up. Maybe check out the YouTube while you're there.

Or the Unsub Live show. Or the Unsub Live show. Available on Pepperbox. On Pepperbox TV. She was like, what are you doing? I was like, I had to go to Atlanta, Boston, and Buffalo. She's like, so what are you doing? And Nick was at the house and he's doing classic Nick. He's just

eating and he looks at her. Looking through your stuff. I'm going to make him tell the donkey story live on stage. And she's like, what? Today we're going to talk about donkey. He's like, oh yeah, Zach will probably do it until he dies. He just keeps eating. Why'd you come in a day earlier? Huh?

Why'd you come in a day earlier? You were going to be here tomorrow, right? I was going to be here tomorrow, but do you want me to talk about it? Yeah, dude. Dude. What are we doing tomorrow? What are we doing tomorrow, dude? We're going to hang out with a guy.

I don't want to name names. Post Malone, no big deal. What did Chrissy say to you? I don't want to say names. So you're going to Texas, and I'm like, yeah. And she's like, you're going to hang out with your friends. I'm like, yeah. And she's like, are you going to a Post Malone concert?

And I was like, how did you know? Oh, you didn't tell her? I hadn't withheld it. I was just informing her of what was going to happen. And that's marriage. But she just naturally knew. She just, yeah, she knew. She was like, so is there a concert or something?

I was like, I don't know. Who knows? Yes, there's a concert at Post Malone. And she's like, oh, I guess I'll be here with the kids. And you're just hanging out with Post Malone. I was like, hopefully, we really click in. Maybe we'll all hang out here in Nashville. Who knows? You're going to Disney next week.

Shut the fuck up. Your schedule is like Tuesday, podcast. Wednesday, Post Malone. Thursday, purse shopping. Yeah. Mother's Day is going to be lit in the Bell household. I've got to reset the... you know, there's like a, Zach's in Texas. You know, Mother's Day is really cool.

So, like, I've got to weigh it back out. I've got to get some more credit on the books. Justice is blind, but she likes Louis Vuitton. I see you know ball. Your fucking thermostat is going to be on 75 for the rest of the month. Yeah. Okay, honey. Yeah.

That's the battle. But, I mean, honestly, she's incredible. She puts up with a lot. I mean, it's been hectic because we just finished our third trip to Disney this year. Oh, yeah. Doing the cheer stuff. Cheer. My note says Disney, Dad.

Yeah. Because you are literally i've never met a disney you're the only person in the world i hear from who's like fuck i gotta go to disney again the happiest place on earth zach's like fuck cheer is happening again. They call that Zach privilege. So what's funny is I remember growing up in the South, it was at McDonald's, actually. They gave you like a promo tape, and it was Mickey Mouse like walking around like seeing Disney. And I was like, one day I'll go to Disney. That would be so awesome. And he's like, hi, guys.

We're going to the Haunted Mansion. And it's just like this promo where he's like, check it out. I have a story about that as soon as you're done. It's a promo tape. And I was like, one day I'm going to go. One day I'm going to go. Between client meetings, managing your business, and everyday tasks, who has time to worry about website hosting? With Kinsta's managed WordPress hosting, you don't have to.

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That's K-I-N-S-T-A dot com. Kinsta. Simply better hosting. One day I'm going to go, well, the first time I went, not many people know this story. The first time I went was literally 30 days after I got back from Marja. God. yeah. And when I'm in the sun, my hair gets blonde, like slim, shady blonde. And there's just a photo of me and Christie and the girls and like, they're still blonde hair poking out. So like less than 30 days, I was like, we're the Taliban jump cut. I'm talking to the lawn be like, you're our favorite. You're a warrior princess. She really likes you. That was the first time I went.

A little bit of night terrors. The fireworks were a lot. We worked through it. But now we go for cheer. And it's fun, but it's just stressful because they're competing. It's playing cheer real fast. Okay, so. You're a cheer dad.

I'm a cheer dad. So competitive cheerleading. They do all sports go there now, but there's the ESPN Center on Disney property. They have baseball. It's like downtown Disney, right? Yeah, it's on property. It's a whole thing. There's multiple different venues there.

And so we'll tack days to the left and right of it to spend time at the parks or whatever. And so the first time we went was january this year and then last week in the week before so uh so their cheerleading championships are there so there's worlds which is like level six which is my oldest daughter's on and then there's um summit which is the levels underneath that right and so that was what my youngest daughter's on and so like back to back and like i'm just in support Like I've got like hairspray, like ponytail holders, like water bottles. One time I stood in line for like two hours for like 12 pretzels to like feed the team before they went to compete.

Like I'm, there's like no veteran. There's no nothing to have. I'm just, I'm just like there. I'm like a pack mule and it's fun, but it's like, it's about as veteran as it gets. Actually. Actually. Now that I'm describing that, I walk in a circle. circle it's hot people are yelling at me afghan guys fuck you that's the vip experience um no that's the that's the donkey experience from uh from pinocchio

but it's oh god but it's it's just you like it'd be a shame if you lied pinocchio. Pinocchio would have been much worse if the island was off the coast of the Mediterranean to the east. Sorry, I was doing too much. No, that was great. It's your world. But yeah, it's just,

it's unlike anything else because they compete for like, there's like three minutes that they're performing. And like there's a lot of buildup to that. So like at Worlds, we were there at like – we got up at like four. We got there at like five. We got up at five, got there at six. The doors weren't even open yet.

And then she competed and then we had to wait the rest of the day and find out if they moved on or not. And then it just kind of – it's just like that. Like it's just – they keep going. But like it's really cool like i sent everyone the photo here and i i don't want to show it uh because this is my child i'm trying to protect her privacy but we had a competition in nashville it was like a month before this and my oldest daughter uh she busted her nose oh yeah she got caught in a basket and it's this really hard stunt but she busted her nose and she kept going

and she didn't know and it literally looks like J.J. Watt's photo when he broke his nose. Yeah, the picture you sent us, she's just bleeding everywhere. And when I went up there I was like, how are you? She's like, I'm fine. I don't know why we stopped. And I was like, alright, I'm really proud of you. You and your wife do it because the girls,

they absolutely love doing the cheer thing. But do you ever run into weird parents out there, though? They're like hyper-obsessed and just act silly. You're going to do this because I never did it in high school. Yeah, there's a... That kind. My little Susan is the greatest cheerleader of all time. You're having a good time, aren't you, sweetie?

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levels they're at now they have to do like complex stunts and stuff so like that's kind of faded out but like it is interesting having like a team with dynamics and also like the parents are there so there's like multiple different factors involved but like some of these i mean some of these parents i've known since our kids were like 10 years old so i've known them for like watch their kids grow up as mine have grown up so it's it's this kind of like weird bond you develop with them because no one else is like in this world except unless you're like unless i'm telling y'all you would like wouldn't know that you know what i'm saying but it's it's fun because like they both love it like they asked to both be on an extra team this year and i was like yeah let's do it let's run it and it's the healthiest form of adversity i can put them

through like i don't want to give them like my life and i'm like hey guess what you're pouring out here's bologna and like bread make it work like but look where we got yeah you ever got in a fight with any other like opposite cheer moms how many cheer moms you beat just like the opposite team yeah do you hit women yeah no no so you gotta learn how to ask a leading question how many women have you hit five minutes later here's the thing you. What do you mean hit, Cody? No, it's honestly, I'm literally in the background, right? Christy's really running the show of like the moms. She's the one hitting moms. She's the one.

Dude, she's like the team mom. Like she's telling them, like she's the one who's like the center stage stuff. And I'm literally like, can I get something? Like I have like no real role in it other than like supporting her and like i film everyone's like it's actually good at filming and i just do this for like three minutes there's hold a camera and they're like oh that's good and they're like how'd you do that and i'm like i hit the 4k button you know it looks beautiful yeah he's a professional he does this for yeah they've learned a little bit of that as time has gone on um because like you know i started this in march of 2020 that was just like me holding up a sign and uh so now they're like they're like

you know i've heard a few of the dads a lot of the dads are like hey donkey story bro like they're pretty jazzed about it and like other people it's like blend sorry that's the that's become your life it's all right's all right. I didn't do anything wrong. I just described a moment in my life. I'm just sorry. I'm telling the truth. And now you're known for it. Yeah. What was it?

It said veteran with a sign, VFW, and then donkey story. And it's just like two things in a row. Dude, you're doing great. People just know me for saying slurs. I love that. Hi, everyone. I like that too. Poor Cody. Sorry, everyone. I like that support, Cody. So I don't even say them

out loud. That's what we text. When you get married, you need to change your name to bitch operator. I support this decision. It's happening. Somebody cut that. Trademark that first.

I love the bitch now, though, man. If you get a silver play button with the uncomfortable operator at 100K. Dude, I just got to throw this out there. Shout out to Moody's mom and her best friend from church. Like, they don't speak a lick of English. They came over and they made me fucking tamales and mole and pistola stew. He's starting to say it with the accent. Oh,

dude, that picture. I felt he's getting darker too. This is, it's happening, dude. I can't wait to push out a bunch of little Mexican babies. Hell yeah.

It's going to be awesome. You're going to push them out. I'm pushing them in first. Dude, you're going to be a cheer dad too. It's going to be awesome. You're going to be like asking me, I'm like,

dude, just hydrate up. Make sure you eat a big a big breakfast you know you need at least three phone chargers they're all gonna run out like you just gotta hey plan plan plan plan i will say so i i went over to uh i stayed at your house yes it was awesome in tennessee what probably two three weeks ago it was easter it was easter it was easter yeah yeah uh and i have so first of all i've got to say you've got a wonderful family thank you amazing i was just you know you're you're you're a good guy you're a good dad you got a nice little plot set out for yourself you made me feel like a fucking degenerate how do you feel like a degenerate just it was we welcome you with the

open arms he's like that drunk ak guy's coming over here isn? That's why. It was self-reflection. It was as if he was like... There was no judgment. You guys, you were an amazing host. Everything was fantastic. I get into town and it's like, oh, do you want to spend Easter Sunday with my family? We're going to go to church. I've got my, here's my two and a half white kids in a

picket fence. Two and a half white kids. Perfectly statistically average. Just amazing. Yeah, I showed him the new yard. We made cinnamon roll bunnies. Literally. I watched his daughters do an Easter egg hunt

in the backyard and at no point in my life have I felt my heart sink as much as it did. There's no Hellcats in your neighborhood. What's up? I was just... I was like man i'm really pushing that biological clock i might have been trying to sell them a little bit on uh where i live in tennessee nashville we'll just go with that settling down yeah i'm like you know if you want to come up here if it gets too hot in texas it was

it was fun yeah we recorded some episodes on the after action podcast and shouts out shouts out yeah go check it out the veteran with the sign youtube needs all you there but um uh like you were a great host you didn't yet like none of this was on you no well what i wanted to do is i wanted like you're coming over to spend time with my family so i wanted you to like just be a part of it. And we'd actually gone to church Saturday for Easter, and I was like, you want to come over? And, like, that was it. We just hung out.

And I was like, let's go get some food. Let's go get some burgers. Oh, food was great. But, yeah, getting to, like, hang out with your family, meet your wife. Yeah. So now she understands that, you know, we are degenerates, but we're like soft degenerates. Well, everything's been like event-based prior to that. Like it was the fight or like the night of the show.

Yeah. And so like – Which we're like all obviously a little stressed out. I was a little stressed out the night of my fight. I wasn't drunk the night of my fight. No, no. You did really good on the night of your fight. You were locked in for like six weeks on that one.

Until I started handing you fucking Jack Daniels. Immediately after. There's a clip, Chase, I think we can put that up. Me in the middle of my post-fight conference. And Cody's hand, just gloved hand, comes into frame. And immediately hands me a shot of Jack. Like, oh God, thank you. I haven't drank in six weeks.

I showed up to the fight with airplane bottles of Jack Daniels. Because I know Brandon hadn't drank in six weeks. I showed up to the fight with airplane bottles of Jack Daniels because I know Brandon hadn't drank in six weeks. And they were like, hey, you want to be a corner man? Okay. And so I just found some gloves and I put some little gloves on. I was in the corner. I was your corner man. If we're telling the real story, you weren't allowed to be the corner man.

I wasn't allowed to be the corner man telling the real story you weren't allowed to be the corner i wasn't allowed to be we found out the only reason the only thing that uh the security delineated being a corner man or not on was the purple gloves so we just asked for an extra set oh yeah i forgot about and just gave him to you and you just walked out with us confidently and nobody fucking stopped us i think i'm gonna show up to fights as a corner man from now on. Every time. Guys, see the glove? I'm bringing that. You had Eli and then, what's his name from the bottom? Tony. Tony, yeah. You had Eli and Tony and they're giving him real good information. Do this, do this, do this. I'm just in the corner like, yeah! This is cool!

Do it, Brandon! Hit him in the face! When you hit him in the face, it looks like he bleeds. Do that again. Hit him harder in the face area. It would be great. God, I missed. That was a good-ass time.

That was crazy being there. I could see all y'all up on stage. It's just me and Nico, and Nico's screaming at the top of his lungs. Put your fucking hands up! He's pushed on the rail, and the rail's starting to shake, and I'm leaning on it, too. And they're like, stop. And he's like, no, that's my fucking boy. That's my fucking boy.

No offense at all. I almost forgot you were there because in the entire time beforehand, I was like tunnel vision. Yeah. Weird. I completely understand. Yeah. It was like I was. No stress at all.

No. It's like, oh yeah, you're about to be shirtless on live TV and potentially knocked out. Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding out you know what i was worried about this is like a weird fear but i was told that this is like a normal thing that like has occasionally happened i was like dude what if i what if i get knocked out because like i was about to run into a fucking uh a camp a congressional campaign a month after i'm like i've got to win this or else this is just going to be i'm going to look like a pussy in front of god and everyone i was worried about getting knocked out and shitting myself understand because they don't let you go to the bathroom after you get your gloves taped

no you are the second you're taped and they write it off yeah because you get your autograph they sign it whoever uh checks the wraps yeah then they sign it and then you have to be visual and visual yeah line of sight yeah yeah the team so you don't dip them in you had plaster or whatever yeah they do the plaster diff so they harden throughout the fight very dangerous for fires make margarita margarito he was notorious for that and got caught doing it interesting and then he got the fucking pacquiao beat the fuck out of that dude because of that yeah that dude looked like passion of the christ god yeah at the end of his face was just mangled but i i didn't i didn't know that and like i don't know about you guys but like if i'm like

super fucking nervous about something like i i'll get like kind of like temporary yes yeah stress yeah i gotta preach it all the time i wanted to shit so badly, but I was not legally allowed to. I've been like, watch me shit, please. Fight for me. I got my gloves on. Let's see how good of friends we are. I do have a new topic to go into, though. Let's do it.

Because you had just mentioned that, the McDonald's thing with the Disney cheer. Yeah. Do you know why McDonald's and Disney have a relationship? No. Okay, it is the weirdest thing because so McDonald's was founded by Ray Kroc and obviously Disney was founded, well, there's a whole movie of the founder. Yeah.

McDonald's was stolen by Ray Kroc. There we go. And then Walt Disney obviously founded Disney. You know what both of them had in common? What? What do they have in common? Other than that,

they were actually both ambulance drivers in World War I in Europe. What? Damn. Yeah, both of them were in the field at the same time as ambulance drivers in World War I in Europe. What? Damn. Yeah. Both of them were in the field at the same time as ambulance drivers. And so Ray Kroc actually reached out, like once he had kind of like built McDonald's up as like a little bit of an empire, had reached out and sent a letter to Walt Disney. Basically said, hey, I don't know if you remember me, but we were both doing this job in France at the same time.

And I just wanted to let you know like i kind of built this little restaurant for myself i know you're doing really good uh is there a way we can kind of collaborate and i don't think they ever got the opportunity to while they were both alive because you know walt disney died very early yeah um but now uh walt disney and mcdonald's have a very friendly relationship friendly relationship. McDonald's is one of the only restaurants on Disney property, like in the parks and stuff. It's sick. It's a huge one. I eat at it at least three times a year.

Like, it's awesome. But I just thought I found it really interesting that the reason that exists between two of, like, the biggest megacorporations in the world is because the founders were both World War I ambulance drivers. They were in theater just doing that. I never knew that. I feel like Nick. I feel like Nick for once. I didn't even know that was veterans. You didn't even have to have a weird surgery either.

I didn't have to pop my titty. Yeah, or bicep now. Just getting injured. How did he do that? Every time Nick gets hurt, something crazy happens. Because of his bicep, he's basically dismantling the entire Buffalo public school system. Yeah, literally. Because he's in a hole.

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It was just an everyday thing and yeah that's but also that's why he has a binder right now so he's down from surgery and if you guys saw our last video just like revealing what happened with the buffalo school system nick brought out a fucking binder the three ring binder of death yeah dude he's just down right now and he's finding every what was it since 1970 he found everything the Buffalo school system has done. I do not want to be on the bad side of a fucking Nick Binder. Right, that's what happens when Nick is bored. He digs up your entire life.

I'm not talking about this right now. He talks about it with your episode, where he's just like, yeah, every time something bad happens to me, it seems like my life just does an amazing jump forward. I'm like, I think it's because you can't lift and you can't do BJJ, so you're just bored and you can't sit still. Dude, he goes on fucking tangents with it. When he called today, I was like, happy birthday. He's like, oh, thanks. So I'm out of this.

I was like, okay, he's going to give me a 30-minute spiel right now of everything. I just got done boxing, so I was like dead, but I was like, so today we're going to talk about that. I'm like, holy fuck. Eli, I went back to 1890 and I found even more stuff for the Buffalo school system. I didn't know they did this. God damn, Nick, calm down.

Did you know? The one thing I did want to know from you is your, fuck, have we ever discussed why you started doing the sign thing? No, I don't think so. I had no idea. That was the one question I did right out. I did get to see the original place, though.

You did. Yeah, I drove right past it. I feel like they should do a historical marker. Put it in the Louvre. Tennessee should do a historic marker there, like, on this date in 2020. Yeah, so the brief history is when I got out of active duty, I started working with nonprofits and stuff. So I've kind of always worked with veterans organizations. The long and short of it is my friends started taking their lives.

And I didn't know what to do, and I didn't know how to help them or how to help me with the stuff I was going through. And I just started like, fuck it, dude. I'm just going to figure this out. And so I did that pretty much all through college. And I got a bachelor's and I got a master's at a school in Nashville that is a very nice university. I don't want to tie them to me. But when you say doing that, what do you mean?

So I started like working at like nonprofits, like learning about the industry and like how to like help veterans through different organizations. And I even, so my congress congressman his name is uh mark green he was actually the doctor for saddam hussein when they captured him um yeah and uh at that time he was my state level representative and it was my first like push into like working with veterans i mean he didn't really need a doctor for what was coming next but no he did not no he did not but we wanted to make sure he was healthy i guess i don't know he did hey just so you know you got a heart condition but uh

yeah time of death uh soon yeah oh my god brandon laughs there it is i love it that dopamine brandon laughs but um give me that bitch serotonin but the first thing he did is uh serotonin i worked with him to pass this bill that got a few hundred thousand dollars for veterans in the state of tennessee for mental health but he made me like go around it's called legislative plaza in tennessee and i had to talk to every state representative to pass the bill and so i i continued to work with that and then like i just kind of got burnt out from doing it was just it's really hard work a lot of knee pads involved.

Yeah. I say that half joking. Well, no, like, just working with veterans, like a nonprofit as a whole is kind of like a rough business model because your goal is to spend as much money as possible every year. And then next year, like, hope we can raise that money again. But having to talk to the state legislature and everything like that, like, there's so much of the political circle jerk it was it was really really hard um and it took a kind of a toll on me so i moved into healthcare and then covet happened and um i had done some writing with the uh like creative outlets and stuff with like fox news huffington post and a few articles in new york times just talking about like random veteran stuff huffpo really yeah huffpo uh i know uh mrs huff john c huff ariana c huff yeah ariana you do good writing

zachary nonprofits are a it is hard because you don't like salaries they get the ones that are fucked up and they're just like oh i, I make $400,000 a year. No big deal. I was there. I bet. I was there. His name is Steve Norzisi. When they were talking about it, I was – so we were working with Wounded Warrior Project. Oh, God.

That was a company called Centerstone Military Services. They suck. Not that one. Yeah, I know. The Wounded Warrior is – And he was there. Well, why do they suck, Eli? Because they give back to soldiers and we hate that here.

Yeah. I think a lot of people were. I was there. They were giving money out to organizations towards the end, but they had also been caught taking private jets and people to like fucking Fiji and shit. On the dime

of people who were trying to help support. This is like the New York Times broke this. CBS covered this. I mean, it was gross. And so that kind of cut the industry in half. And you personally saw it? Yes. I mean, everyone was aware of it.

It was like a secret. Remember they used to sell ketchup, like Wounded Warriors on it? No. They did. They had like a Wounded Warrior branded ketchup. It was Heinz, but it had the sticker on it. We call it Blood Pack. It gives you PTSD. I would never do ketchup packets

for anything better in Related. You call it the Ramadi Special. You just squeeze it on your thing. Sorry, that's for you, bro. That's for the boy. I've never in a million years would I do those two. Pass me the marjoram mayonnaise for me. No, that was the donkey story.

I prefer blood of my friends. But they were selling bounty paper towels and if you want to wipe a veteran, and it's the wounded warrior. My name is Trace Atkins. Dude, yeah, he's actually, he's pretty cool, bro. He's really cool.

He's cool as hell. It's just he happened to be talking to an organization that wasn't as good as he thought it was. You're not going to know. They didn't know. He's trying to do a good thing. Yes. And you're looking at like, okay, hey, they made, they made way more, but we made $57 million. We only donated $7 million to veterans.

The rest. It's like every light in the house was on. Those veterans don't need that. Yeah, the Rex 50, I need a salary and a jet. What would they do with all that money? Help themselves? Boo. You know, that's basically.

I mean, they were making hundreds of thousands of dollars off of these things every single year and so just i mean i i heard the number once i don't want to say it here this is way too big of a platform for me to swing and miss on that buffalo doesn't think so they do now um but i it could happen i was working in in healthcare And I had this like Creative itch I wanted to scratch Like I Honestly COVID was one of the best things

That happened to me I got to spend more time With my family than ever 90 days in a row consecutively Holy shit I just realized this The last thing Me and Christy did

Is we went to Post Malone's concert In Nashville Before they shut down No shit They shut down The whole world after that He fucking Somehow managed The Hollywood Bleeding Tour Yeah dude i'm gonna tell him dude i'm gonna tell him be like

the the pre-country tours but like he somehow managed to get a second name drop in yeah but no i just remembered that because it's like the last thing we did and they shut the whole world down and like uh you know the the young who was cutting my hair at the time, she was getting ready to shut down her shop. But I was like, what if I wrote on cardboard and made myself like a meme? And I was like, okay, so it's not me, but it's a guy. How would he refer to himself? He'd call himself like Warfighter. And he'd talk like, hey, good to go battle.

Gay. Yeah, he would be really cool. Yeah. He would talk like that and then i started like thinking through like the lens creatively of how he would like interact with the world and i what are veterans homeless yeah yeah like literally i was like what what makes you think homeless veterans they deserve it kind of but like it's just like and and I just wrote it. What? I can say it? You can say it too. Yeah, you're a veteran.

No I can't. You got more medals than Dan Daly in that room. What are you talking about, dude? I wanna hear shit from you. I'll Dan Daly over here. Yeah. But I just wrote... Just need to start putting that behind, just in case.

Oh, that's gonna go in a shadow box back there. They have to zoom out. There's not enough space on that. Yeah. It's just a wall of Brandon's medals. It's not enough space on that bed. It's just a wall of brain and spells. It's what we use for sound dead. It was funny because I was going through my shit recently because I was moving a bunch of shit around and I found the

jump wings from the round canopy parachute team. Yep. I was just like, oh, fuck, that metal's actually mine. It was such a weird thought. I'm like, oh, wait, fuck, that actually that's mine. Still was such a weird thought. I'm like, Oh wait, fuck that. Actually that's,

that's mine. Still think about those guys. Oh my God. Those, those metals that someone sent to my PO box. That was a little bit late on that one. That was fucking crazy. We'll have to bring that out for a podcast at one point,

but it was like his grandfather's metals that were pretty serious. Came to my PO box. Uh, yeah, his grandfather, like world war twoi jump wings and like a couple of other medals he was like i think he played wolfenstein dude yeah not not that team oh okay dude he had the the code book it was the final solution it was wild yeah wrong team

but that was some dude since oh you didn't get the Wolfenstein reference at first it hit me and I was like wait Cody's not gonna land it Cody's gonna land it he's coming in like the end of Airplane just like sweat pouring down like alright there's gonna be like 20 minutes of podcast back to Disney and McDonald's

anyways being a dad but no I just wrote drink water take mode take motion and change your socks that was my first sign and i was i was like oh it's a covet remedy but and you know kind of worked but like i just held it up and the lady cut my hair took a photo of it and no shit you did it wait did they have just the cardboard there and like i i had it i had it in my truck. I found a piece of cardboard from Tractor Supply, actually. And I was just like consumed with the idea of like an analog technology being used on a digital platform.

And like how clear and concise it could be and like how direct it could be. But it could also have like other meaning depending on like the photo or the video or like the message I'm trying to convey. And so I was just like, let's just make it simple. And then I did that for like a few months and then way too many, way, way, way too many dudes started talking about my body for like a really long time. Now I'm going to get in shape too. Okay. Wait. Okay. So your first, you posted it.

How was the reception? How was the reception on the first one? The reception was horrible. Like it was like, so at first, you posted it. Just me. How was the reception? How was the reception on the first one? The reception was horrible. Like, it was like, so. At first, because it's like anything. Like, it takes time to, like, introduce an idea. And, like, you know, Brad123 would be like, this guy wears the same thing every day. And I'd be like, yeah.

And it's like, his tattoos are dumb. Not entirely wrong. But, like, they kept missing, like, what I was trying to say which baffled me to this baffles me to this day because like the message i fucking wrote it on cardboard like it's as clear as it gets it's not like it wasn't a hidden agenda but like i just kept leaning into it and um i had a few that like popped off i made fun of army rangers that was a big deal um going what is it uh going to ranger school doesn't make you a ranger that's what that was one that's proper that's literally there's a big difference between

the tab and the skull i didn't know that and dude's like who does he fucking think he is to talk to us like that and i'm like i have no idea and then oh dude then i made somebody who's also not a ranger yeah basically how dare he How dare he? I'm a leader. And then I did a Navy SEAL one. I did a Navy SEAL one, which was, I remember this. Wearing gaiters doesn't make you a Navy SEAL, but writing a book does. And one of my friends who's a Navy SEAL gave me the idea. And then it was dudes in the Comets being know i'm class one two three fuck this dude and like they're like no we think he's cool and

i like him and so it just kind of kept like moving towards that and i wasn't really sure like how to do it moving forward because like it wasn't like the tone or the message wasn't what i wanted like people really didn't get what i was doing but But then do you guys remember when Captain Crozier, the guy that got released of command, so he brought his vessel out to New York. Oh, fucking. Yeah. Explain this so everyone knows.

I'm not familiar. This ship commander brings his vessel to New York to support COVID operations during that time. Oh, okay. Yeah. And his whole ship was full of the most amount of sick sailors. And every time he would ask for help from the Navy, they suppressed it. And they literally were like, nah, you're fine.

He's like, dude, I have hundreds of kids under my charge. I'm trying to take care of them. They need help. Like, it's fine. We just need to take care of these kids. And they're like, no, you don't. He ended up leaking all that stuff to CBS. And then they relieved him of his command, which is a big fucking deal to lose a ship.

It's a base. And so he was walking off the deck and the whole ship is humming like literally bouncing as they're like captain crozier and i saw this clip of them and like his whole ship and they're like fucking hype about it and i looked at christy and i was like hey i have an idea will you just take this photo of me and i wasn't like really sure if it was going to work or whatever, but I just held up a sign like in the doorway of my old home. And I said, you know, bring back Captain Crozier. And I didn't look at my phone for like a whole day. I turned off all notifications. I don't have notifications on anything but my phone and my text.

That's it. No social media notifications. I've never done that. It's actually something I learned in business school. It's called inbox zero method. It's a whole different thing. Ooh, I'm educated. No social media notifications. I've never done that. It's actually something I learned in business school. It's called Inbox Zero Method. It's a whole different thing. Ooh, I'm educated. I'm a liar. I said business school. Entrepreneur.

But I just didn't check on it. And then I opened up my phone and I hit it and it says 100, 100, 100. And then I refreshed it. It said 100, 100, 100. And I was like, uh-oh, we might have done something here. And it just kept going and just kept growing, and that was basically it. Like it just kind of took off after that. And then it activated like all the old posts. And Brad123, who hated my tattoos earlier that year, was like, I've been here since day one. This guy is the fucking best. And then you start – Yeah, I remember you fucking best. And, you know, and then you start. Yeah, I remember you, asshole.

Yeah, I know. I know. But like. Some poor guy with the actual username Brad once. Sorry, Brad. He's going to get a bunch of fucking. Yeah, I shouldn't say that. Is that actually the username?

No, I'm just. I'm trying to make up. I thought you were making a random. He still hates his tattoos. You can't be too specific with this audience is what I've learned. Yeah. They'll find anything. You're talking about brad 11 bravo

over here what were we saying the other day it's like we really need to figure out like an roe with our audience uh i say cry havoc and let's slip the dogs of war i've been impressed one of us just says i didn't like this restaurant and suddenly they go out of business like no no we didn't mean for you guys to do that jesus but now now i just try and like continue to like you know and veteran with a sign kind of has its own thing but i wanted to like do more and so that's that's actually when i started the podcast and it was you know because i you know i'd had the youtube channel and stuff and i was putting shorts on there but like i just wanted to like expand the

universe i only have like a small medium of cardboard to work with or like a video where i'll explain something and so i was like do i need like more conversations and stuff i want to have and you know talk about different things and uh you know michael collazo the officer stopped the school shooting in nashville he had um there's another name for him i don't think i can say it on the podcast yeah no that's not um you can say it on pepperbox though um dude that eight dollars is just doing work holding back the gates of hell um eight dollars a month but uh he had come forward and he had talked to a bunch of different people and he'd finally decided he wanted to tell the story of what happened and all those different things. And he was like asking me advice and I was like, dude, I don't know.

And he's like, well, you're starting a podcast, right? And I was like, yeah. I was like, but I don't know how to do this. I got to figure it out. I don't even know how to upload to YouTube. Like I remember calling Cody being like, how do I upload? He's like, okay. He like walked me through it.

And you know, now it's, and he came on and he told that story and we just, I've just been trying to tell stories in the like Veteran With a Sign universe. Does your exiting traffic get caught by road debris? You ever tried to clean peanut butter off of a shag carpet? Worry no more with MANSCAPED 5.0 Lawn Mower. Smooth as a tree's

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flooded with messages of people being like, thank you for that love, you know, telling us about this or the stuff you do. And then like, those are the signs where I keep going. Cause it does feel hard. Like it's screaming to avoid sometimes, but like, what's your podcast name? Uh, the after action podcast. And it's under the veteran with the sign YouTube or anywhere you get a

podcast. So YouTube and everything else, go to the YouTube, like comment, subscribe. But, um, no,

it was like watching it from the sign after, like after the big incident, how was that initial response from you were you like nervous like oh fuck what do i say next oh and then it is the fear of matching what is my this could fall on deaf ears it's awesome when you get a viral piece of content but then you have to replicate that and that is when it gets difficult it's that kind of like a bitch you're talking about like well i think the the the game plan from there is very obvious. You immediately do a crypto coin and pump and dump your audience.

Yeah. Oh, God. Give them the old hop to a cardboard coin. Cardboard coin, check it out. Make one blowy joke, suddenly you're a millionaire. We've had people say, hey, here, would you guys want to do a meme coin you guys could make a lot and it would do really good it'd be different yeah man i do not respond to those emails because they're fucking retarded i've turned down a seven digit offer for that

nice try feds move on okay yeah we we said though uh because i didn't realize that that had happened in nashville what the the hawua, the Haley, all that shit. I was like, man, they need to have, kind of like they've got in Dallas, where fucking Oswald allegedly shot Kennedy, just like a little marker in the street. They need to just, like, cement a coin to mark the occasion. It's a historic marker. This here's the day the music died.

Dude, I get those emails every fucking day like the federal trade commission is not an enemy i want to make i'm not about to get into fucking goon coins right now and then you're you're automatically chances are who's ever developing it it's going to be a rug pull it's going to fuck you over you're going to look terrible yeah a meme coin is like the only purpose of it is a rug pull it's a meme coin look at the name that's all you're like oh my god and the people fall for it unfortunately influencers do too i think it should be a litmus test of if you gave money to the hot to a coin like if you're like i'm in on this you don't get to vote for four years yeah Or if you're a woman.

I love Dark Cody. Do we keep that one or which one? That's fine. We talk about it sometimes. Women have been suffering for too long. In their sufferings, dude. I vote for Brandon.

I'm not running for shit homie. No, no, no, no, no, no. I'm a free man. If you give money to a girl who became famous off of a blowjob joke, you don't get to vote. You sit the next cycle out. I think that's fair. She had such a good

opportunity. She handled the initial one great and then she gave money to dogs and yeah she fumbled that in bags so goddamn hard i was like no one on your side was like maybe somebody called it she gave money to dogs yeah she did like i was like she didn't like her fundraiser oh i thought all the money originally she dude she was doing good she she stayed silent for a month originally. Dude, she was doing good shit. She stayed silent for a month, two months, and then she was just giving that money she was making towards dog shelters. Me and you talked about this either yesterday or the day before. But you know what her last video was that actually got views before the whole crypto pump and dump shit?

Pull this up. This is great. The last video she did that got super big views before she destroyed her audience was how not to be canceled we her last video is literally how to avoid being canceled how would she know well she doesn't apparently i mean but like even who's she's i mean like you know she's got like representation i don't know who it is. I heard it was, like, Jake Paul and them. They dropped her. Yeah.

I mean, if a Paul brother drops, you need to look in the mirror. Like, if they're like, you're too much for us, the Pauls. We're, you know. You should have just gone to the school. Like, I, but how would she, it's, you know, going viral like that is the new one-hit wonder. Like, she had no knowledge. And people are like, yeah, upload it. Talk to her. It'll work. Yeah, it's no knowledge. And people are like, yeah, upload it. Talk to her.

It'll work. Yeah, it's good stuff. Which it shockingly did for a minute. She had the golden goose, and all she had to do was not do that, and she would have been fine, like, 100%. She killed the goose. Oh, dude, she shot that goose. Yeah, she shot it.

All right, I can't point this. I can't say who this is, but we have landed. Did the second plane hit? As far as the Buffalo stuff. If we sack that with the other. Oh, oh. Bad time to be a part of the Buffalo public school system. Very, very.

Imagine what could have happened if you, like, did your jobs. Yeah. We got shit you ain't even heard of yet. Dear God. You're about to. Yeah. They're going to be in a fun time. Again, like, it's crazy that this is where it all happened.

Bro. Dude, I do like, out of all the episodes, it took place after unsub versus kind of consensual and this table was loaded with booze oh we were sure i was like damn that was our second one that day right yeah it was our second pod we had we'd done two two-hour podcasts and this was an after show yeah there's 30 white claws on the table. On your side. Yeah, yeah. And then 30, 30. Dude, that table is stacked with fucking booze.

Nothing sobers you up like that fucking conversation, though. Oh, my God. Seeing Nick's arms folded and Rich getting choked up, like, for real, fucked me up. Like, I was just like, damn. Because, you know, sometimes I'll call Rich and we'll just shoot the shit. And I'll be like, what are you doing today? And then he'll tell me the smallest amount of this is the case I'm working. This is what's happening. And I actually appreciate it because we can all – I feel like I especially can forget the reality of life.

And then you forget that he spends his days hunting monsters, hunting literal monsters. Dude, I don't think I've told you guys this. My sister, she's a child crimes investigator she does that her and Rich talk back and forth and like share ideas on how to catch predators together no that's the coolest team up ever because I think at one point if I'm if I'm not mistaken if I can't talk about this and like fine we can cut it but uh you would you try to get her out of the business and you're just like hey I'll do this for you just you know get out but she she just missed it so much being able to help the kids yeah yeah well i felt bad because she was looking at all these horrible things every single day just like you know just child cases you

guys know what i'm talking about weighs on you and uh yeah so like i get i i gave her a salary and she came and she worked for me for a little bit but after a couple months she's like i need to go help these kids i need to go help these kids and she worked for me for a little bit. But after a couple months, she's like, I need to go help these kids. I need to go help these kids. And she went back into policing again, which is, I'm sure, a huge personal sacrifice. Oh, 100%, dude. She's, you know, it's just one of those jobs where, you know, you don't get thanked for it very much. It's a thankless job.

And, yeah, she went back to that man because i wanted to i wanted to give her way more she was making as a police officer but she had to go back and help the kids and like god i can't respect her enough for that it's fucking awesome that's why like i you know it's kind of cool to get a little bit of a taste of that and i think that's why the unsub community is rallying so hard we're like, all right, let's give some fire support to the people that are trying to do that. There's not enough of them. Dude, cops don't get paid much, man, for the stuff that they have to look at. I know the thin blue line thing is kind of fucking gay for a lot of people, but no shit, man.

Modern law enforcement really are the people that are keeping us from the monsters. As much as they fuck up, there's, you know, you'll have like one cop that fucks up, but there's nine others who are fucking amazing and they do their job very well. I think a lot of people misconstrue the thin blue line thing because I've heard some people explain it. And I'm like, that's not fucking at all what it is. People are like, oh, thin blue line means they're going to have each other's back. Like no matter, even if they fuck up and they do illegal shit and whatnot, it's like, no, that's, that's not like, I've heard some crazy shit people say. It means like every, if they're, they're shooting at a guy, everybody's going to shoot him so that they can't tell who's a bullet matches,

who's gone kind of shit. And I'm like, what were the, where in the Reddit did you get that? Yeah, exactly. Dude, go work in the streetsdit did you get that yeah exactly dude go work in the streets for like a week and then tell me how you really feel about people yeah it's fucking too it's poopoo uh you know you know what kills me all the time though it's um oh fuck what's oh god damn it what's the term for when people think that officers can't be charged with crimes?

Shit. I know exactly what you're talking about. Why privilege? That's it. It's close. I'm thinking sovereign citizen, but that's obviously not it. It's something immunity, I think. Qualified immunity. Thank you.

People think that that means cops can't be charged criminally, but what the fucking majority of the United States doesn't realize is that there's criminal charges and there's civil charges. Qualified immunity means that the cop can't be sued individually. You have to sue his agency. In civil court. In civil court. A cop can be charged with a crime at any fucking waking moment, any time.

It just means that Lieutenant Donut Operator cannot be personally sued because he hurt my fee fees. Exactly. If you broke the law, you can still be criminally charged. 100%. Qualified immunity has nothing to do criminally. But it's like, say if I pulled you over and, I don't know, let's take Rich's example. One of his biggest things he got, like people are mad at him for

is because he called someone fat boy. Wasn't it a criminal breaking into homes or something? It was a criminal, and he called him fat boy. And so qualified immunity means that this guy can't be like, I'm going to sue you because you called me fat boy or i pull someone over and give them a a fucking ticket for speeding they can't say well you were mean to me so i'm suing you they have to sue the department that's all qualified immunity is it's civil cases and people are like well cops can't be charged with anything because

they have qualified immunity that's not at all no he just didn't break the law yeah he just hurt your feces so you can't sue that cop who wants to go home to his wife and three kids and and provide a good life for them you can't sue him i'm i'm not a boot licker by any means it's like there's plenty of cases where i'm just like okay yeah the cop up i don't think the government should have too much power i don't think half the laws on the book should exist absolutely at the same time like a lot of the cops that are doing their job right now as far as like trying to protect people from murderers the kind of people that break into your house like the actual like beat cop that's doing his

fucking job the job is impossible if you remove qualified immunity yeah absolutely because you would have individual costs being sued for every little fat boy that they say. Or nothing at all. You don't even need to have an infraction to be sued. You can sue for anything. I kind of love that that's what they're going with. This is why this guy's bad. He calls criminals names.

And then wonder why no one cares what they have to say. He called a fat boy a fat boy. Like, oh, he's mean to the crims. Like, oh, no. What a bad person. A guy who I think had just committed an armed robbery. Yeah. Literally.

Yeah. Yeah. And feelers are hurting. It's like, see, he's a bad cop. It's like, really? He also yelled at the judge. No problem telling him to shut the fuck up. Those are the people you want that don't care.

It's like, oh, shit, I didn't know you were a judge. I'll give you a pass. No, Rich, don't give a fuck. The fucking judge pushed one of his junior officers, assaulted a police officer, and that's why Rich showed up so heated at that incident.

It's the drunk judge video, right? Him and his wife were just hammered. And he pushed a cop. That's when Rich came up and knife-handed him and was like, It's the drunk judge video, right? Yeah. Him and his wife were just hammered. And I say it all the time. And he pushed a cop. And that's when Rich came up and knife-handed him. And he was like, Listen, you're a guy. I'm a guy.

I'm giving a fuck. Guy. You already talked. Now's my time to talk. Guy. Like, that is, if you've never seen it, it was your video breakdown of that. I'm sure Chase can put up a clip of that.

Do we have your permission? Oh, absolutely. Okay, we can put up that clip here. Why don of my favorite rich videos that you've done it's so good man and then they're they're trying to hit him up for the i know we're going back to buffalo again because it's so funny because rich is such a wonderful human being the uh the dude with the the skateboard that was like hitting cars and like pulling his dick out and showing people his dick all day long and rich wasn't even a cop that day he was he was he was wearing his cleaning yeah he was wearing his army uniform he was just coming back from drill and uh that dude fucking tried to hit him with a skateboard and rich just put him down and sat on

him it's like wait for the cops i couldn't do that job that job would be and it's why they have so much trouble hiring right now you'll see ads oh dude police cars i was behind one yesterday and it says on the police hey hiring like call this number we're hiring you know why because it sucks being when everyone has a fucking this and then everyone's holding you to a standard that is it's not even holding to a standard they're... It's not even holding you to a standard. They're just trying to see you fuck it. You're under a magnifying glass no matter what. On the streets, you're on a magnifying glass from the public.

Even when you go back to the police station, you're under a magnifying glass from the brass. Who wants to make the public happy? And the public's kind of fucking retarded, honestly. I don't mind this. Not everyone, but... I don't mind this. Not everyone, but. I don't mind the accountability of it. What I mind is the fact that the politicians don't have their back and are actively fucking screwing them no matter what. Yeah, dude.

The whole defund police movement was such a blight on law enforcement and how everything went. It's like, you want to take away training from police officers. That means they're going to be shittily trained and they're going to shoot you they're going to fucking just pull out a gun and shoot you instead of fighting you to the ground do we talk about oh the mirror the mirror is that video come out

that video is coming out it should be out today I think it's coming out today I got the pepper box notification yeah my favorite video I can't wait to watch that one. Yeah, so this is the sixth. I think I got the Pepperbox notification, yeah. This is my favorite video. I can't wait for it. Oh, my God, dude. Dude, this is it. Cody, go on.

All right, so. Set the tone. My video that's coming out today, you got a, I can't remember if it's a, I can't remember what it led up to. It was a, maybe a possible burglary, like two cops clearing an empty house. And so like the male cop, he's down he's like yeah everything looks good the female cop turns a corner and there's a mirror in front of her and immediately just shoots the mirror twice and what was your point behind that the yeah when i because i think i showed you the

you showed me that one because my thing is like okay you round a corner boom you see your reflection not even around the corner remember both just went down the steps no she turns to the left is that mean no there was no left the male they went down the fucking steps there was the mirror at the base of the steps so she shot the cop right yeah right at the base but it was like he was she like yeah the officer peels right or the male officer peels right she goes left and that's the mirrors right there yeah she immediately opens fire on it and my thing is like okay you turn left you see a cop yeah you see someone in full police uniform with a service weapon it's like okay if it wasn't a mirror you would have just shot a cop yeah that's why did you that's why you shoot him twice because she has face right now that's why you shoot him

twice right yeah because it's a cop because what i him twice. Because what I brought up to Brandon at first, I was like, what if there was just some kid that was in that house and she turned the corner and killed them? And Brandon's like, wait, wait, wait. She's looking at a uniformed cop in front of her and she fucking killed them. Literally, instantly just like, stairs down

right. Guy sees sees the fucking mirror. That's why he just went right. She's like, ha, ha, ha. Because he looks and then he goes right and she turns left and sees the mirror and bam, bam. Shoots, breaks the mirror and then

she's like, shit, it was my reflection. Now she's got seven years of bad luck too. And that. You just can't win. What town is it in? seven years of administrative leave yeah i can't remember what town is it it's in but i'll get back to you on that man i just i just did it oh god it might be in the same video i think it's in my next video there's another one where a cop gets in a fight with a guy and the guy's like trying to grab his gun

he's fighting with him and the male cop is just like fighting on top of him and the female cop comes over with her taser taser doesn't work so she starts just like kind of slapping him on the arm with the taser like stop stop stop i was like oh my god this is what happens when you defund police dude if you make them if you make them better to kill people they won't kill. I've been preaching this for a fucking decade now. When I first became your friend and we started hanging out and like you were, you were still kind of, you were way more fresh off the job, like with policing. You, you opened my eyes up to a lot of that stuff where it's like, you're like, Hey, if you want cops to kill less people, train them, train them better, make them more dangerous.

Because if you, if you have these tools in your belt like bjj or whatever you know how to subdue a 200 pound man you're less likely to resort to fuck i don't know what to do bang bang yeah yeah and you know like they get 50 to 100 rounds a year to shoot oh my god it depends on the agency too man 50 to 100 rounds a year and they're not training outside of that cody knows more on this so i'll let him speak well like i said it depends on the agency so like the one of the agency that i worked for you had to qualify firearms once a year so you go out and you just shoot around a couple rounds into it into a target and that's and that's it and then you're like i can't like

zach imagine we got two mags and we just had to do qual and then we're deployed and they're like okay patrol here's the roe by the way bro so like i tell you what i'm not listening to it rhymes with roe so i i worked on a part-time swat team which means like swat isn't your all-day thing you're still patrolling but when they call you up, you go do the SWAT things. And so anytime we go to a heated call and it's like people screaming or people fighting or whatever, it's like you would hope you would get another SWAT guy

over there because they're not going to fucking shoot anyone. You fucking instantly put the threat on the ground, handcuff them, fine. It's like, God, I don't want this one officer this showing up because they're going to just escalate everything they're going to pull their gun they might do this they're just it was it would be like you boys responding like you know i wouldn't want

some fucking chick who just got out of the academy that's never had any combat experience never been punched in the face and it's like when they say oh i'm coming like one of your SWAT boys like one of you guys comes to my call i would be like oh thank christ they're coming to my call you want did spartanburg have a dedicated swat no it was just everybody was just everybody was like that yeah do you think the defund the police movement is settling down like as it seems to be trending away i was swinging the other like right now we're on the medium it seems less convenient to attack it i guess yeah it kind of ties into the the whole uh blm thing that happened back in the summer of love you know where they they're like they push for

body cameras so hard like that whole movement like we need body cameras we need body cameras and so all the police departments across the country most of them got body cameras and then suddenly that whole movement was like we don't need body cameras that's racist body cameras are racist so we don't like what the body cameras are showing yeah so we're not going to talk about it now yeah oh you you see what actually happens in real fucking life now it's like we need accountability but not for me it's wild just the idea of being not training and then everyone how often would you be called to like a SWAT action twice a week twice a week and then the people that are new to it or nervous and they're like i've only shot 50 rounds this year i don't know i don't know versus

i used to sleep on the way to missions at home very transparent i do that was my nap time i was like yeah we're going to fucking qrf for a mission fuck you calm action right calm action right dismount left wake up and wake me up when there's war yeah you just now you hear tink tink and you get out and you're like, okay, I gotta fight this way. I gotta fight this way. Got it. Good to go. But everyone was comfortable. That's why you don't wake Eli up physically.

The broomstick. Yeah. My car! But it is, it's comfortable. Contact front! Contact front! Good, good, good, good. Ah, we're good. Podcast.

Well, even fucking, okay, something to bring up with the collazo. Yeah, yeah. The, that shooting. Yeah, yeah. Sorry. With the shooting

at the church school there in Nashville, he was even pushing people out of the way. Like, there were some cops that weren't going in. Move, move. Yeah, because in an active

shooter situation, you run in. It doesn't matter if you're by yourself. It doesn't matter if you have 10 cops with you. You go in and you find the threat and you end it. In Collazo, in the video, it was Collazo and Rex. Those two were actively

like, get out of the way. Get out of the way. I hear gunshots this way. Move out of my fucking way. There's a certain... That's a certain violence of action. Yeah. There's a certain surprise violence of action. There's a certain police chief here in Texas. I'd like to introduce him to that. I think could learn a few things.

Everyone pause. Pause. Let's sit in the fight of funnel. Let's wait. Let's just wait it out. Let's treat it like a barricaded suspect. Ignore the gunshots. Colossus such and Rex.

All those guys are like you know it was a horrible day in nashville but like the the way they responded so what most people don't know is where he was to the school is 15 minutes from the time the call happened till tango down 13 minutes that's how quickly they responded and like and it was rex was rex he was just driving by just driving around like yeah and like so mike mike's a detective like he he without going too much into it i mean his his undercover work got blown because they put his face everywhere but like he used to just he'll go and like undercover work and he would like go to businesses and they were doing bad things and he was like building a case on that but rex was in the different part of town he responded and mike met him there and mike i don't you should

talk to him about but they met there together and like they had been trained and they'd known each other because mike's always like pulling leads and stuff from like working downtown and everything so they knew each other but like they just converged and all acted as one and moved through it right and like the literal worst case scenario something that i couldn't even imagine and uh you know it's just it like literally showed the importance of training and like how you need to make cops dangerous honestly like and they're fucking heroes i mean they got the medal of valor which is the highest level uh of award that a officer can get it's a it's the equivalent of the medal of honor and um they him and all the cops got it who responded that day they're they're fucking

heroes i'd love to have him on he's a he's a super fucking rat guy yeah like he's he's a totally cool dude and now you're getting concussed building his deck yeah dude he kind of sucks at building decks but like so here all right that's enough about how cool he is he invited me over okay i don't know anything that's going on. This is why I brought him. I'm so confused right now. I'm like, no. So, like, he invited me over.

He got a pool. And, like, you're supposed to, like, level. You're supposed to great and level, right, when you put a pool in, Trout? Duh. All right, great and level. And I show up and I go, Mike, have you leveled it? And he goes, huh? And I go, have you leveled it?

And he goes, I'm trying. So leveled it and he goes i'm trying so he's not like an above ground inflatable pool yeah no he had not leveled it and so we were taking two by fours put on like a like an arm and lifting up the pool as he's digging it out trying to raise it up and i was like i swear to god if you weren't a hero i wouldn't be here like i hate you so much it's not like a doggy pool. Bro, stick to shooting active shooters, okay? So he's like, you're fine, you're fine, you're fine. Long story short, I'm pulling this up, doing this like this,

and it wasn't paying attention, and he literally knocked me unconscious. And I just go, I'm going home. I'm going home. I don't want to do this anymore. And so when Brandon came to town, he's like, come help me build a deck. And I was like, not a fucking chance. I'm not going over this. He's texting you, and then he's texting me. He's like, hey, you and Zach need to come over.

Like, I'll grill some steaks, but like, are you free tonight? Oh, he's trying to do something. He's trying to finesse us into coming to build his deck on an Easter weekend. No. He knew my last name was Herrera. He's like, cool, a Mexican's in town. All right, I got a deck that needs to get built. Where are you?

I'm at Home Depot. I will see you. He's like, Zach's fine. It's just one concussion. I'm like, dude, I don't know how many I've got left. It's like the never-ending story part two. I don't know how many more wishes I have available. I'm going to hit my head probably when I leave here.

How many do I got for the rest of my life? Maybe five? I'm not rolling. Bro, I love our friends. We have the weirdest fucking friend group ever in the history of mankind, I think. Yeah. We're all good people, but you'd never know it. Why didn't you drain the fucking pool?

That's the other, he didn't drain the pool. He didn't do any of it. Wait, what? The pool was like half filled and he's like, well, we're gonna swim in it. And I was like, no, you're not. That side's two feet. And that side's 14. The kids are going to drown, dude. He's like, it'll be fine.

So I'm literally cranking the thing. You're holding up water? Yeah. It was like a third filled up. And I was like, what? One gallon is like nine pounds, eight pounds? Nine. Again, I was like, Mike, I hate you so much, dude.

I hate you so much. He's like, oh, it hate you so much, dude. I hate you so much. He's like, oh, it's fine. It's no big deal. I would have been so pissed showing up to my... Cody, God, if you called me and were like, hey, can you help this? And I go there. I walk in. I still see the pool half full. I'm like, no. No, you got me here, first off.

Now I'm leaving. But I have steaks. He did not have steaks. So does Applebee's. And I don't have to work. He did not have stakes. So does Applebee's. That's okay. So does Applebee's. And I don't have to work. He did not have stakes. And here's the best part about it. Guess what he had to do to the pool again.

He had to drain it and then re-level it again. So, like, this pool's, like, been terraformed in the ground. Like, I don't know what the deck's made out of. I'm sure it's, like, fluid. Like, remember those weird little squeeze things you had as a kid? That's what I think his deck is made out of like he just kind of moves like an earthworm It's fine he'll be alright. It's our next gang does episode we do a pool We sent Trout to fix it. He just lights it on fire. He's like nothing could have been done

I think I did too. Yeah, you did too. Yeah, I was looking for a house recently just to move out of the place I am. Come closer to Bernie because the skate shop's there. You guys are kind of near Bernie. And I brought Connor with me everywhere. Connor's just got a cigarette in his mouth. He's like, yeah, this shit's fucked.

I'm like, alright, we're not getting this house. He's ripping cigarettes indoors. He's like, smells like cigarettes. Was there a smoker that lived here? I did. I called Connor about my shower. He's like, send me a video. And he answered all my questions in like five minutes.

That's what I do with Nick when I had an electrical problem. I just literally text Nick. And he's like, oh, you got to go downstairs. It's probably right here. One of the bathrooms downstairs is going to have a reset button. I was like, why? It's in a different room. Look. Walk into the...

Just do it. Yeah, and 100%. I was like, oh, shit, he wasn't lying. Click, reset. He did the same thing with me one time i forget he's a fucking electrician i mean you've heard the story about when i first picked him up now when he came here it's a good story oh jesus uh when the first time that nick ever came and hung out with us for unsubscribe i pick him up you hit him up yeah i hit him up and i'm like hey you gotta come do unsubscribe i pick him up you hit him up yeah i i hit him up and i'm like hey you gotta come do unsubscribe i pick him up from the airport you hit up the fat electrician

and like the the first thing out of my mouth is yeah so when you're not doing youtube what do you do and he looks at me and i go oh fuck i'm an electrician your name is fucking an electrician. Your name is fucking kind of electrician. I got this picture from like, this was, oh God, two years ago. Actually almost on the dot where I have him over and it was just like, oh, by the way, I'm having this like fucking technical issue with my office. He's like, come here. He's like, has a screwdriver in his mouth is like going through all my fucking electrical shit. We are shithoused.

It is two o'clock in the morning as per this photo. And I just have this picture of going through my fucking electrical panel i'll send this to you if you need it he pulled off the panel yeah jamie pulled it up he can't help himself when nick said he's like i've always wanted a black grand national i was like it caught me off guard i'm like iowa guy no dude he's from southern california like nick's nick's about about it yeah yeah like nick's he's always like wearing like some jordans or something like he's low-key like he's yeah nick is in paris yeah nick is in paris nick is in paris one of those

last podcasts nick was down for we got a little little poopy here. We drank a little bit. Which one? We tied one on. Yeah, I don't know. It was me and you and Nick. I was like, let's FaceTime Post Malone. Third name drop. All right, here we go.

Oh, fuck off. That was funny. Dude, I can't wait. I'm going to be like, how about you, Chuck? Nick was like, hey, man, what's up? He said, what's up, brother? You know, just being all nice and shit. Nick's like, did we really just FaceTime him? He like yeah yeah we're gonna wake up one day and we're

just gonna be in a fucking hospital bed or something dude the lamp looks weird that'd be great I mean if you haven't looked up the reddit or is it was it a reddit or a 4chan though the lamp looks weird saying that we haven't even provided any context for that one day just like you're gonna look at that lamp and then just like it looks a little off and go to touch it and then it's you know you revert back it's you know 10 years ago you were asleep this whole thing was a simulation the story of that famous reddit post the lamp looks weird there was a guy he was at a college bar and he got knocked out by somebody he had his head on the pavement and uh he lived an entire life where he had kids and he had a beautiful wife and like he was happy

with his life for years and he started looking at his lamp one day and the lamp just looked weird and so he obsessed over it and he kept looking at it looking at it looking at it and he woke up and he was still just a college kid who just got knocked out at a bar so but like beyond that it was like he was like i had a wife and like i miss my kids that i never had a family sort of shit yeah and he had to go to therapy and shit so this is one thing um have you heard the dmt with the laser the red laser yes do you know what i'm talking about i've done dmt but you know the red laser thing that multiple people have done it where it's dmt and anyone that's done it because they're like, bullshit, that's not a real thing.

It is code. You'll start looking at it and there's code on it. And this is – you can watch videos. What do you mean it's code? It's fucking bullshit. It is literally code. And they're like, you see fucking code. And then you're like, get the fuck out of here.

It is and it's not explainable. You can see life as a simulation as long as you get real fucking high is what I'm hearing. But everyone is. Dude, it is a simulation as long as you get real fucking high is what I'm hearing. But everyone is. Dude, it is a weird thing. Watch videos on it because it is documented. This is not like a one-off. I know what you're talking about, though. Yeah, I'm like, oh, that's fucking weird as shit.

Hell yeah. We're talking about shit I really like. Drugs. Well, let's see. It's like the laser thing that they use in contracting to measure things. They put it on the laser level. To see if your pool is good? Yeah, like a laser level.

To see if your pool is fine. Yes. The thing Colosso doesn't own. We've got to bring Colosso into the Matrix, too. So I did Ibogaine and DMT through the Mission Within as a part of healing. And it changed my life hands down it's one of the greatest things i've ever done um life-changing stuff because you actually you went down to mexico so i went down to mexico i went the organization called vets but the

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Because like you go down there, like you're literally like in san diego and then you're in mexico like five seconds later the gang does i mean i would look i'm down well you don't need to trust me you need to talk to brandon has a lot of healing to do it's great i can't recommend enough like i literally it's single-handedly the greatest thing i've ever done like without a shadow of a doubt and it's been so uh life- for me. I've sent some of my friends. It's changed their lives as well. And it's incredible, right?

Because the Ibogaine cleans you out. People stop fucking alcohol, everything. Alcohol, drugs, drinking. Which is wild. Here's the thing. Ibogaine is illegal in America because it's been used to treat for opioid cessation. So people who can't kick opioids addiction, they take Ibogaine. It's's done it literally is like bleach to the brain it's so gnarly that when you wake up without going too in-depth into it you wake up the next day and you're like right

foot go and it it doesn't move it was like a baby i was like bambi trying to walk because your brain is like brand new and going through all of that yeah and so but what would we do with oxycontin how would we sell the rest of it brother don't get me started um they should send it to me every 30 days i don't know what epidemic they were talking about the va had that shit on you know every 30 days it showed up in the mail yep but dmt what's interesting about it is it's uh fast acting and like you take it and it feels like a lifetime it's only like five minutes but they did a study and like some university in like columbia or whatever and they gave people a slow drip dmt people didn't know each other had nothing in common have nothing about the only thing they have in common is that they're all humans

they all came back after being under for like 60 minutes 60 minutes here which is gnarly i don't even know how long that is under dmt and And they were like, recreate what you saw, draw what you saw, everything else. They all did the exact same thing down to the shape, size, dimensions, everything. They all recreated the same environment when they came back. They're recreating the study now at San Diego State University. The belief is that you go to the well of souls, like where it all is. I don't know. They all did the same thing it's like

certain things like that are weird to me where it's like a joint hallucination where it's weird it's like if you give anyone you know 20 20 things of uh fucking benadryl we all see the hat man yeah it's just like a weird like why is everybody naturally drawn towards certain things i think it pierces the veil i think we think about it like this but it's like this you know i'm saying like it's dimensions no i don't actually know what you're saying well you know we think we think about like heaven and hell and like earth right but what if it's what if it's just dimensions and these things like open up your mind to that and you go to them you've done drugs. Yeah, I'm cool.

Here's the thing. It is crazy. So drugs are what made the Marvel Universe worse. I do have so many friends that have went through it and they were alcoholics. They've had so many problems and overnight do not touch that shit anymore yeah

like yeah i i am so much better in my head than i've ever been and they quit that shit overnight and like yeah i don't want to touch it anymore here's here's where i get upset fucking wild here's where i get really upset with that kind of stuff you have the the typical like the you know war on drugs kind of mentality of oh well drugs are bad no matter what uh you you you know drugs are just you know you can't do that and that's you're gonna you know do all this with the kids and you shouldn't you know people just have that negative mindset with it like understandably yeah for for certain things like obviously don't go out and do fucking heroin it's gonna ruin your fucking life but those same people with that kind of boomer mindset of drugs are bad all the time

for any reason unless it's a pharmaceutical grade opioid and they shut down all the the research that's being done with psychedelics in the veteran community you know healing for tbis there's all sorts of very legitimate use cases that people are, even just the studying, not even prescribing yet, but just studying the effects of psychedelics on certain things like that. They are shutting those studies down. Just say for alcohol, like alcohol is just this, oh no, or alcohol is fine, but weed is the line where like you fucking druggy. One is way worse. Alcohol, you don't get high and then want to go fight someone and drive through. Not in my experience. Versus alcohol, you're like, hey, I'm angry. You have the people that just shouldn't drink.

I think there's certain genetically certain groups of people have a very serious adverse reaction to alcohol my people do well poor whites yeah the poor whites i come from they're like let's go work on cars in the driveway they're sure you know but like it's it's such a wide spectrum though because i used to have a there was a gunsmithing mentor that i had that you give him one beer straight up because he was like very uh heavy like native american bloodline oh him one beer straight up. Cause he was like very, uh, heavy, like native American bloodline. Oh yeah.

One beer. And he was like, I'm about to piss myself drunk. I've never seen anything like it in my life. If I didn't know him as like just a good friend and somebody that I respected, I would have thought he was lying and faking it. But certain people, like it is just such a wide spectrum with that.

It's, um, yeah, it's, it's, it's it's interesting cuz like you know for a while I was convinced that like I was the my problem with like alcohol in particular was it I thought it was alcohol it wasn't alcohol with me I just fucking hated myself like I and that was something that was really hard for me and that was like in the throes of like trying to figure out like you know stuff i was going through and then like starting better with the sign and then it finally like picks up and then you know uh you're trying to like work in this community and like help people and like i would have like one step forward and two steps back and so for me what the medicine did for me is it like helped me put like all that

stuff in its proper place and like work through it because i mean reset i mean you remember when i we hung out before i went and you were like you'll be okay and i'm like i'm going i was just like i'm fucking going and then like the craziest shit has happened afterwards like it just put everything in line and for me in a place to where like i can understand that like oh i just didn't like me right and so that was something that was carrying with for a while because like you know the hardest part about getting on the military is you get out and there's no one that's like you and then like i was kind of constantly surrounded by like normal people and like this is what i always say like when i'm not here like i'm i'm with like normal people so like talking to them about yeah like talking to them about like i have you know a youtube channel

or i have an instagram they're like what's that like it's it's they're not being mean or rude or anything there's they have nothing compared to and so like you can't relate to anything i can't relate in a lot of ways well and then like it's not bad it's just no but even that it is that is a one thing people can't relate to then the veteran side and yeah your veteran side people can't relate to that then you are the one to three percent of veterans that have actually experienced war war like i was shot at shot blown up by a rocket yeah and that is one of three percent of the entire fucking military get to experience that so you're is that a real stat yeah it gets yeah like when you like it's one percent that joins and then it

gets smaller like joins in a combat role and then joins in the combat role goes to combat like it gets less and less and less it's it's it's a small margin and then he gets smaller joins in a combat role and then joins in a combat role goes to combat. He gets less and less and less. It's a small margin. And then people that have actually been on firefights, I thought that was the norm. I'm sure you did. When you got back, you were like, this was normal. I was like, what the fuck are you guys doing? The ground's exploding

where I came from. It fucking sucks out there. And you can go in therapy. My buddies will go to therapy and they're like, yo, Cuevas, people have been in three gunfights their entire like therapy my buddies will go to therapy and like yo quavis uh people have been in like three gunfights their entire time i'm like what no yeah no everyone's been in like at least 30 minimum 30 gunfights no so they're doing group therapy and then none of the people in group therapy are resonating with my buddies and they're like wait you got

no you're lying so then you have a disconnect completely from them. And that was just normal. So you're in this, you feel so fucking isolated, so isolated. And then you're a cheer dad and you're like, huh? Yeah. And I've got like, I've got, yeah. And I've got like a sleeve tattoos and I'm just like, Oh, Hey, you know? And so like, it's, it all kind of morphs into like what i'm trying to do now is like veteran with a sign is like i try to make an entry point to bridge the world between military

veteran world and then those who've those outside of it so like i can make it a place where we can try and learn more about each other and then like connect because like you know ultimately i just want i i i don't want to i don't want to bury anyone else. That's like literally it. I don't have... Friends. Yeah, I don't have the ability. Jesus, Ethan. I'm just being honest.

The only thing I want to bury is the Buffalo Public School system. Jesus! I'm sorry. Metaphorically, right? Metaphorically speaking. Go in your house and Buffalo may already beically speaking turn it to the ground Mason Nixon up it's gotta go I don't care I'm sorry

contact my lawyer Jake Watson at pepperbox.com dot tv dot tv sorry pepperbox.tv what are his emails Dot TV. Dot TV. Sorry, sorry, sorry. Dot TV. Peprox.TV. What are his emails? It's like a thousand lawyers cried out in terror.

I just, so I don't know. I came to this point where I was like veteran with a sign, if I'm doing it well, it'll be like open source information place where people can learn about things. They can maybe learn about themselves. And then it also, it will be like open source information place where people can learn about things. They can maybe learn about themselves.

And then it also forces me to be accountable because I can't be like, get help. And then I'm just like – turn off the camera and be like, fuck that. They fucking suck. No, I'm very much a part of it too. And ultimately, I don't have it in my heart to give another mom or dad or son or child a folded flag. Because every time – fuck, i've never talked about this every time i put someone in the earth a part of me goes with them and i can't keep doing it yeah so it sucks that's literally i keep doing this um and it's hard and it feels like you're never going to escape it and i understand that but i swear to god if if anyone can take away anything from this i promise you it'll be better and you're worth

fighting for so yeah thank you for i mean seriously from like the veteran side that have experienced any of that it is thank you for doing that putting yourself out there in that capacity and then going above and beyond even preaching mental health so many people have a negative mindset towards it versus you pushing it to the forefront be like hey i'm going through this my friends go through this i don't want to bear you i don't want to i don't want to make that call where it's like hey sorry yeah fucking sorry you want to be the one that makes that change outright and you're like hey make the call reach out to people that is the weirdest thing it is it is okay to reach out to your friends it is okay to talk it is okay to open up i fucking text cody was it last month or i was like

hey man i'm just sad i'm just sad and you were like i think you facetimed me or anything you're like why are you sad i was like what the fuck but 20 minutes later but you went above and beyond you're like hey man and it's just being transparent and it i will let you know it's fucking hard to open up for myself. I don't like my friends will tell you. I don't trust people. I'm very not trusting of individuals. So you will have those people in your life and you'll know them.

When you reach out, they will be there for you. So it's how do we normalize that? So it's not where it's like, I don't want to burden that. You're never a burden. That's the mindset you have to burden that you're never a burden that's that's the mindset you have to break you are never a burden just reach out talk to people let's reverse the stigma yeah that's the new game if you don't yeah that's the merch bunker's like i can't do you hate veterans clint you fucking hate veterans dude i can't print this come on man clint's over

there like pr in mind like i don't know what's worse if we print it or we don't that is the button surround yourself with good people and you will see they're not gonna judge you and if you have friends that will judge you i can't get a new group of fucking friends those guys suck yeah yeah i stopped hanging out with king trout and like i've been happier ever since If you have friends that will judge you, fucking get a new group of fucking friends. Those guys suck. Yeah. I stopped hanging out with King Trout, and I've been happier ever since. Thank you.

What's up, buddy? How are you? Hi. Love you guys. No, seriously, I don't know which camera to look at, but dead serious, we've all been through shit, and everybody at this table has reached out to somebody at some point don't be a fucking you're a bitch about it just fucking reach out to your bodies if you're in a tough time seriously we've all been there yeah what do you think you're special you're too special to reach out to somebody not too special

i'm skilled to ask my friends for help. I like reverse bullying. Yeah Bitch yeah, get adored get admired get respected, but you're gay You're gay you don't do therapy to imagine that like high school dynamic This guy's gay! He sucks, dude! This guy sucks! I bet you've never talked about your dad! Is that exactly what they did in 21 Jump Street when they go back to high school and we were chanting Tatum? Yeah, everyone's like, Wow, you don't accept everyone? Fuck you, dude!

You fucking loser! I don't fit in. I thought we were supposed to bully people. What do I do? Well, I think there's a limit. As soon as the bullies went away, shit got kind of weird. Yeah, that's true, too. All these fucking troons reversing.

Brian, we've been on our gun train right now. I'm looking at a firearm. You just bought a few. I don't know if you can talk about oh i i can i can i think i could talk about him so i've got uh i accidentally swept rock island the last weekend brandon just happened to get on the rock island auctions again yeah it was i got the text notification like an uh an auction item or an auction listing that you've uh you've requested a text notification for is coming up in 20 minutes i'm like so i was on for the entire weekend because i needed the

beretta ar70 from metal gear because fucking eli got me on metal gear solid 5 and i've been playing it almost every day but the uh yeah no i needed that one because i have a thing where if like i enjoy a piece of media i need the the gun from it yes like behind half my collection okay so got the beretta ar70 and then i picked up an actual uh 40 millimeter thumper like an m79 i want to shoot it so bad you can i've got i've got plenty of fucking chalkies for you if you want to shoot it yes i got chalkies too i just found really no shit i have a case of them i don't remember but i how the fuck do you not remember how you picked up a case of 40 millimeter i have dude i was like what are these and i pulled them down i was like that's a whole i just want to say i love my friends dude it's got a whole case of 40 mic mic just like

the 40 millimeter grenade might be my favorite thing to have shot it's scary simple you just go well it's not the first time i've heard one of our friends say i got a grenade somewhere i remember who you're talking about and you know they're not kidding yeah they're cool it's something that anybody else would be like oh this person's like oh oh, no, he's serious. Dude. I love that gun. So it's just so... Anytime we were...

They'd be like, contact front. We'd be like, boom. It's a little short. I said, pull it back next time. Because the first time you do it, it's like an HE round. Dude, we did 20 to 24 in a single gunfight. Brother, I used to walk around one in the gun. I had one in the gun and six on each side.

Before I'd take a knee, I'd drop three. I'd be like, and they sound horrible, but there's no... I don't think there's a kill. It's just casualty. And it sounds like earth, and people would be like, diving, and you're just like, God, get to the trees! Get covered! When I shoot it, I'm just going to start

screaming. Man, I've never heard Zach say so many slurs at one time new achievement unlocked what i don't know what that means can we talk about what else you got you got a fucking i got a flamethrower like a russian flamethrower and a bar oh the bar oh yeah so yeah i i got a little naughty but i i got a volcanic pistol too it shoots lava it was like ads were nice last month yeah yeah she's lava it's just it's just a reminder the more videos of mine lava the more videos of mine you watch the more cool shit i can buy like this but yeah no i picked up the the volcanic pistol which is a um so it was technically made i think it's well at some point it ended up

being made by smith and wesson but it's like from the 1850s it's in like red dead redemption i know what you're talking about yeah it's like a lever action pistol but apparently they were super weak like ammo for them is extinct it was some weird kind kind of, like, I don't know. It's almost like the 1800s equivalent of the gyrojet. Okay. Where it was just kind of, it's exotic. God dang, yeah. But, yeah, apparently they were saying that it was so weak that you couldn't really yourself with it.

Who's testing that? Like, if you shot yourself in the head. Oh, okay. Veterans. God damn it, Eli. That's a weird case study to sign up for come here son try this pistol out let us know what you think

it's just law did it make the blues go away on a scale of 1 to 10 how do you feel it is the old timey voice the transatlantic accent step right up the scale of one to ten at the va it's just the upside down smiley face the frowny face would you say this describes you here's a nickel god i remember that scale because yeah my my granddad was at the va hospital for for years

that hell yeah seeing how how bad they were treated man it's just so fucking annoying i just like it's a one through ten on a smiley face to frowny face for discomfort and you're like the va always at least in in in fort bragg like the va always fucking smelled bad everybody was rude and the thing that was like just right on the nose for me that always pissed me off is he had a a room where right out the window across the street literally like stone's throw distance was the va cemetery seriously yeah you were staring every day at at the cemetery across the street that's not just walk you out just right into the grave i mean it was a direct pipeline, but f*** me. That always annoyed the f*** out of me.

This is an open grave always. Jeez. Jesus. I'm very, very fortunate. The one I go to in Nashville, all the doctors there are Vanderbilt doctors. Because Nashville's kind of like a medical hub, isn't it? Yeah, it's where

the healthcare capital of the world, it's private healthcare is based out there, but the one I go to in it yeah it's it's where so it's the health care capital of the world it's private health care um it's based out of there but like the one i got to in nashville it's it's sick i you know they fixed my deviated septum and everything really yeah yeah cut me here peeled it back and reinforced it it was awesome not mine because i had sleep apnea and that was you know i wasn't like morbidly obese or whatever and i kept failing i kept failing the test i had less than 100 out of both nostrils no shit you couldn't sleep on your back yeah it was rough like i would wake up and like you know when i finally wake up i'd be covered in sweat and i'd just be like and you know my wife's just like you know scared shitless and i'm like yeah i think i need to

get this fixed and it's been a very good experience but like other vas it's i mean like the phoenix one the alvin c york one like they're kind of hit and miss, but it sucks to be honest. I think it was a Connor tweet. It was like, my favorite part about sleeping with a woman is the eventual, the inevitable sleep apnea diagnosis. So she cares. First night. I've honestly never heard of him being across the street from a cemetery. That's actually positive.

Dude, imagine just waking up. You're stuck there. And then you open the fucking curtains and you're just looking at a fucking cemetery. Yeah. No one picked up on you saying the solid pipeline they have there. Yeah. Points for efficiency. Checking va all right go across the street who is the city planner who's like i've got an idea

like who approved that yeah i was just gonna it's like that's that's got to be german efficiency for fuck's sake it was just it was i i just it was i was a young kid at the time when it first kind of stuck with me and it just ever since then that has always been i guess painting my perception of the va they're great we love them it's a hit or miss and that's about it yeah i hope they can change some stuff i really do i hear really dude i hear really good things uh about doug collins new secretary i hope so i've heard nothing but good stuff um i might be able to talk to him we'll see i remember yeah he's um i know he's supposed to be he actually wants to do a podcast he wants to do podcasts and like we told him unsub we were

very open on that because we're like hey we do just watch an episode and he's down, but it's not like, hey, we're catering the conversation to anything. Hey, man, we went to the Pentagon. You're not from Buffalo, are you? No, I mean, he's like... You're hiding the Buffalonians under the floorboards, are you not? No, I'm optimistic. I'm actually optimistic because like he's taken like from what i understand like a real like honest approach to fixing the va which is what we need

so crazy you're harboring journalists under the floor you don't hate mainstream media and i don't if if nothing if nothing we have talked about this for over a year now how much you do not hate mainstream journalists enough. And the Buffalo thing proved it right out the gate. My God. Immediately go after the rocky history of this influencer. It's like, they're jealous of the fact that they don't get our kind of views.

Like they have a chip on their shoulder and they just want to attack people that are talking about real shit. Wild to downplay something. I would look at the numbers, but like, man, I would, they're doing something right. How do I reach out to these individuals and learn from them well you're not how many journalists have you been reached out to well i think the other day the

funny one of the funny things zero yeah fucking zip yeah one of the funny things that you uh you talked about the other day was uh oh you you got that four-year degree huh that makes you fucking way better than we are at telling the truth huh yeah and you think this gives you power over me i wish i had that paper just i'd be so far in life right now it's pretty cool you'd be defending buffalo see I miss it out. Yeah. Burn it down. On that note,

we'll move to the after show. Doing the after show? Yeah. On Patreon? On Patreon? On Patreon. I want to nerd out for a bit. I want to talk about the gun. I don't know if I talk about the gun because I don't want people to buy it from under me. I know what you're talking about. Yeah, I'm like, fuck! Because we still got to do our Guns and Metal Gear video.

Yes, we do. Yes, we fucking do. Cody, close this bitch out. Bye, everyone. Thanks for joining the unsubscribed podcast. I was joined today by Eli Doubletap, veteran with a sign, Brandon Herrera,

myself, Donut Operator. Thank you so much. Catch the after show on Patreon, where we really say slurs. Where do we find you at, Zach? Go check out Veteran with a Sign on YouTube and the After Action Podcast, where we get your podcasts. And my episode should be

coming out soon, I think, right? Yes. Yeah, two of them, actually. Brandon, we talked about everything. He told us all the secrets of the world. I'm slowly acquiring unsub hosts on the podcast, like Thanos does stones. One by one. It's happening. Two down, two to go.

We got the glove somewhere. Hell yeah. And a snap and all the brown people are gone. We'll see you next week.