1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,800 Speaker 1: The United States Military is facing its biggest recruiting challenge 2 00:00:05,080 --> 00:00:08,760 Speaker 1: since we ended the draft in July of nineteen seventy three. 3 00:00:08,960 --> 00:00:11,680 Speaker 1: The military has a recruiting problem. The Army missed its 4 00:00:11,680 --> 00:00:14,920 Speaker 1: recruiting goal by about fifteen thousand new soldiers in two 5 00:00:14,920 --> 00:00:18,760 Speaker 1: thousand twenty two, coming up short of its goal. I 6 00:00:18,760 --> 00:00:22,479 Speaker 1: wonder why that is. Could it be because of this 7 00:00:23,239 --> 00:00:25,560 Speaker 1: et cetera. I'll obviously have to get much sparter on 8 00:00:25,760 --> 00:00:29,680 Speaker 1: whatever the theory is. UM. But I do think it's 9 00:00:29,720 --> 00:00:34,559 Speaker 1: important actually for those of us in uniform to be 10 00:00:34,680 --> 00:00:37,320 Speaker 1: open minded and be widely read. And the United States 11 00:00:37,320 --> 00:00:40,839 Speaker 1: Military Academy is a university, uh, and it is important 12 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:44,720 Speaker 1: that we train and we understand UH. And I want 13 00:00:44,760 --> 00:00:47,440 Speaker 1: to understand white rage. And I'm white and I want 14 00:00:47,440 --> 00:00:51,280 Speaker 1: to understand it. So what is it that caused thousands 15 00:00:51,280 --> 00:00:54,920 Speaker 1: of people to assault this building and try to overturn 16 00:00:54,960 --> 00:00:57,600 Speaker 1: the constitution of the United States of America? What caused that? 17 00:00:58,040 --> 00:00:59,880 Speaker 1: I want to find that out. I want to main 18 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:01,400 Speaker 1: in an open mind here, and I do want to 19 00:01:01,440 --> 00:01:04,120 Speaker 1: analyze it. It's important that we understand that because our 20 00:01:04,160 --> 00:01:06,679 Speaker 1: soul is sailors, airmond marines, and guardians. They come from 21 00:01:06,680 --> 00:01:09,640 Speaker 1: the American people. So it is important that the leaders 22 00:01:10,280 --> 00:01:13,399 Speaker 1: now and in the future do understand it. I've read 23 00:01:13,440 --> 00:01:17,400 Speaker 1: Miles Tongue, I've read I've read call Marks, I've read Lenin. 24 00:01:17,480 --> 00:01:20,000 Speaker 1: That doesn't make me a communist, So what is wrong 25 00:01:20,560 --> 00:01:24,680 Speaker 1: with understanding having some situational understanding about the country for 26 00:01:24,760 --> 00:01:27,760 Speaker 1: which we are here to defend. Although given some of 27 00:01:27,760 --> 00:01:29,320 Speaker 1: the things he has said in the past, you might 28 00:01:29,360 --> 00:01:33,360 Speaker 1: want to retract that statement about not subscribing the Communism 29 00:01:33,440 --> 00:01:35,480 Speaker 1: and the fact that he was trying to, you know, 30 00:01:35,680 --> 00:01:39,679 Speaker 1: work with the Chinese as uh President Trump was leaving 31 00:01:39,680 --> 00:01:43,120 Speaker 1: office during the transition might raise some eyebrows as well. 32 00:01:43,200 --> 00:01:46,880 Speaker 1: But you know, I digress. But what he was doing 33 00:01:46,920 --> 00:01:51,360 Speaker 1: there was he was defending critical race theory because it's 34 00:01:51,400 --> 00:01:54,760 Speaker 1: being taught in the United States Military Service academies. They've 35 00:01:54,880 --> 00:01:57,680 Speaker 1: introduced some sort of form of critical race theory or 36 00:01:57,720 --> 00:02:01,560 Speaker 1: anti racism training. In addition to that, the U. S. 37 00:02:01,680 --> 00:02:04,880 Speaker 1: Army is putting its soldiers through training on gender pronouns 38 00:02:05,400 --> 00:02:11,880 Speaker 1: and coaching officers on when to offer soldiers gender transition surgery. 39 00:02:12,120 --> 00:02:15,760 Speaker 1: This has all been reported. So maybe that's why we're 40 00:02:15,840 --> 00:02:21,160 Speaker 1: having recruiting challenge. Maybe that's why you think, and what 41 00:02:21,240 --> 00:02:24,440 Speaker 1: does that recruiting challenge mean for the country. More broadly, 42 00:02:25,360 --> 00:02:27,960 Speaker 1: what does that mean for fighting future wars? What kind 43 00:02:27,960 --> 00:02:30,360 Speaker 1: of people are recruiting, what kind of people are choosing 44 00:02:30,400 --> 00:02:34,040 Speaker 1: to sign up in today's military. So I wanted to 45 00:02:34,040 --> 00:02:37,440 Speaker 1: do a segment about all of this, and I thought 46 00:02:37,440 --> 00:02:40,520 Speaker 1: to myself, who better than to have the guy who 47 00:02:40,680 --> 00:02:46,120 Speaker 1: killed Osama bin Laden, Rob O'Neil, Seal Team six, American badass, 48 00:02:46,200 --> 00:02:49,800 Speaker 1: American hero. So we're gonna talk to him about his 49 00:02:49,919 --> 00:02:52,440 Speaker 1: take all of this, also get into Ukraine a little 50 00:02:52,440 --> 00:02:55,560 Speaker 1: bit as well, and really ask him the question, would 51 00:02:55,600 --> 00:02:59,640 Speaker 1: you join today's military in this environment? Would you join it? 52 00:03:00,160 --> 00:03:02,000 Speaker 1: So we're gonna talk to him about that, and also 53 00:03:02,080 --> 00:03:04,560 Speaker 1: just some of the missions that he's been on as well. 54 00:03:04,600 --> 00:03:07,240 Speaker 1: We're gonna talk to him about that morning a little 55 00:03:07,280 --> 00:03:09,840 Speaker 1: after midnight when he took out a Sama bin Laden. 56 00:03:09,880 --> 00:03:13,400 Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about his rescue of Captain Richard Phillips 57 00:03:13,760 --> 00:03:16,600 Speaker 1: from Somali pirates in two thousand nine. We're gonna talk 58 00:03:16,639 --> 00:03:19,800 Speaker 1: about being on the team leading the team that rescued 59 00:03:19,840 --> 00:03:21,800 Speaker 1: Marcus Latrelle. So we're gonna talk to him a little 60 00:03:21,800 --> 00:03:24,440 Speaker 1: bit about that as well. So it's gonna be a 61 00:03:24,480 --> 00:03:26,959 Speaker 1: really interesting conference. I've met Rob too, He's an awesome guy, 62 00:03:27,320 --> 00:03:40,400 Speaker 1: So stay tuned for Rob O'Neill. So I've been wanting 63 00:03:40,440 --> 00:03:43,000 Speaker 1: to do a segment about the state of the military, 64 00:03:43,080 --> 00:03:45,640 Speaker 1: and I thought to myself, who better than the guy 65 00:03:45,680 --> 00:03:50,120 Speaker 1: who killed a Sama. So Rob O'Neill, thanks for the 66 00:03:50,480 --> 00:03:53,680 Speaker 1: notorious badass American hero. Thanks for coming on the show. 67 00:03:53,880 --> 00:03:55,760 Speaker 1: Thank you so much for happy. I'm glad we finally 68 00:03:55,800 --> 00:03:58,600 Speaker 1: got to make this happen. Great to be here. I 69 00:03:58,640 --> 00:04:00,160 Speaker 1: know I've been wanting to get you off and so 70 00:04:00,240 --> 00:04:03,800 Speaker 1: I'm so glad to happen. We were we were exchanging 71 00:04:03,960 --> 00:04:06,120 Speaker 1: Twitter messages I think back and forth, and we're gonna 72 00:04:06,200 --> 00:04:08,000 Speaker 1: We're gonna make this happen because I think the two 73 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:10,000 Speaker 1: of us together we can make a lot of sense 74 00:04:10,040 --> 00:04:14,960 Speaker 1: of nonsensical issues. So already, and Rob, if you've been 75 00:04:14,960 --> 00:04:16,920 Speaker 1: paying attention, which I know you have, there's a lot 76 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:21,920 Speaker 1: of nonsense, right It's all nonsense. That's what keeps us 77 00:04:21,920 --> 00:04:25,880 Speaker 1: both in business. Nonsense is just it's it's in no 78 00:04:26,040 --> 00:04:29,000 Speaker 1: short terms right now, it's just it's madness. But we'll 79 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:31,640 Speaker 1: try to make some sense of it and bring some 80 00:04:31,680 --> 00:04:34,599 Speaker 1: common sense. Yeah, well, we'll do our best. Uh, you know, 81 00:04:34,640 --> 00:04:36,360 Speaker 1: but before we get into kind of the state of 82 00:04:36,400 --> 00:04:39,719 Speaker 1: the military and how we got here, I I wanted 83 00:04:39,720 --> 00:04:43,120 Speaker 1: to talk to you about that morning, a little after 84 00:04:43,200 --> 00:04:46,680 Speaker 1: midnight on May second, two thousand eleven, when you took 85 00:04:46,680 --> 00:04:48,800 Speaker 1: out a SAMBI laden. It was an honor for me 86 00:04:48,839 --> 00:04:51,200 Speaker 1: to be invited to be part of a team. It 87 00:04:51,320 --> 00:04:52,960 Speaker 1: was the right place at the right time. I was 88 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:56,200 Speaker 1: a Seal Team six and I'm a big believer in 89 00:04:56,200 --> 00:04:59,400 Speaker 1: the butterfly effect that I got there on accident. I 90 00:04:59,440 --> 00:05:01,360 Speaker 1: made it to se in a long time before that 91 00:05:01,440 --> 00:05:03,800 Speaker 1: to join the Navy because I tried to join the 92 00:05:03,839 --> 00:05:06,599 Speaker 1: Marine Corps and the Marine recruiter was not in the office, 93 00:05:06,600 --> 00:05:08,200 Speaker 1: and had he not been to lunch, I would not 94 00:05:08,279 --> 00:05:10,520 Speaker 1: have joined the Navy. And you know, if you fast forward, 95 00:05:10,520 --> 00:05:11,880 Speaker 1: I would not have done the mission. I would have 96 00:05:11,880 --> 00:05:16,640 Speaker 1: my daughters. Um. But I got to a spot joining 97 00:05:16,680 --> 00:05:19,000 Speaker 1: the Navy, a guy from Montana who didn't know how 98 00:05:19,040 --> 00:05:23,159 Speaker 1: to swim. But um, I had a seal instructor tell 99 00:05:23,200 --> 00:05:25,760 Speaker 1: me that I know you've read the books, I know 100 00:05:25,760 --> 00:05:27,960 Speaker 1: you've seen the movies. Regardless of what you've been told, 101 00:05:28,360 --> 00:05:30,960 Speaker 1: this course is not impossible. People graduate so I will 102 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:33,200 Speaker 1: never ask you to do anything impossible, but I will 103 00:05:33,240 --> 00:05:35,479 Speaker 1: make you do something very hard followed by something very hard. 104 00:05:35,480 --> 00:05:38,280 Speaker 1: Fallowed was something very hard, day after day after day 105 00:05:38,279 --> 00:05:40,400 Speaker 1: for for ninth straight months. And that sounds like a 106 00:05:40,480 --> 00:05:42,120 Speaker 1: lot to get from now to nine months or now. 107 00:05:42,120 --> 00:05:43,800 Speaker 1: But don't think about it that way. That's not how 108 00:05:43,839 --> 00:05:46,719 Speaker 1: you achieve a long term goal. Do it like this. 109 00:05:46,800 --> 00:05:48,839 Speaker 1: Wake up in the morning on time, make your bed 110 00:05:48,920 --> 00:05:51,000 Speaker 1: the right way, and brush your teeth. You just started 111 00:05:51,040 --> 00:05:52,880 Speaker 1: the day with three victories. Make it to the foam 112 00:05:52,960 --> 00:05:55,400 Speaker 1: workout on time. As I'm beating you, don't think about 113 00:05:55,400 --> 00:05:57,960 Speaker 1: the pain concentrated your next goal of life, which is 114 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:00,159 Speaker 1: making it to breakfast after breakfast. Your net to go 115 00:06:00,240 --> 00:06:02,480 Speaker 1: in life is making it to lunch after lunch, make 116 00:06:02,520 --> 00:06:04,520 Speaker 1: it to dinner after dinner. Do everything you need to 117 00:06:04,560 --> 00:06:07,159 Speaker 1: do to get back inside that perfectly made been. And 118 00:06:07,200 --> 00:06:08,920 Speaker 1: because you took the time in the morning to make 119 00:06:08,920 --> 00:06:11,680 Speaker 1: your bed the right way, regardless of how bad today 120 00:06:11,880 --> 00:06:13,760 Speaker 1: was and it will be bad, tomorrow is a clean slate. 121 00:06:13,920 --> 00:06:16,799 Speaker 1: Tomorrow is a fresh start. And when you feel like quitting, 122 00:06:17,120 --> 00:06:20,479 Speaker 1: which you will do, not quit right now. That's not 123 00:06:20,520 --> 00:06:22,279 Speaker 1: how you achieve a want to go quick tomorrow. If 124 00:06:22,320 --> 00:06:25,119 Speaker 1: you can keep quitting tomorrow, you can do anything in life. 125 00:06:25,400 --> 00:06:27,279 Speaker 1: And that's how I became a Navy seal. That's how 126 00:06:27,279 --> 00:06:28,520 Speaker 1: I got to seal Come six and then I was 127 00:06:28,560 --> 00:06:30,760 Speaker 1: invited to be a part of that team twenty three 128 00:06:30,760 --> 00:06:32,880 Speaker 1: of the best people I've ever met. UM got on 129 00:06:32,920 --> 00:06:37,680 Speaker 1: the ground and I've been asked, how do you how 130 00:06:37,720 --> 00:06:41,160 Speaker 1: do you? How do you clear a compound that big? 131 00:06:41,560 --> 00:06:44,800 Speaker 1: And the way we did it was by a mastering 132 00:06:44,800 --> 00:06:47,320 Speaker 1: the basics. UM, it's the guy in front of yours left, 133 00:06:47,400 --> 00:06:49,800 Speaker 1: you go right. And I happened to be there. I 134 00:06:49,800 --> 00:06:51,520 Speaker 1: had a front row seat to the greatest mission of 135 00:06:51,560 --> 00:06:54,840 Speaker 1: modern history. And I just followed my guys, watching some 136 00:06:54,880 --> 00:06:57,760 Speaker 1: of the coolest guys in the world. UM go from 137 00:06:57,800 --> 00:07:01,120 Speaker 1: Florida floor and I ended up being the guy went 138 00:07:01,160 --> 00:07:02,880 Speaker 1: at the last of the stairs, and because the guy 139 00:07:02,880 --> 00:07:04,159 Speaker 1: in front of me went left, I went right, and 140 00:07:04,160 --> 00:07:06,600 Speaker 1: there was a sawn and been lud and I shot him. 141 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:09,280 Speaker 1: And it was it was simply because we we went there. 142 00:07:09,840 --> 00:07:12,320 Speaker 1: We didn't go there for the fame. We went there 143 00:07:12,440 --> 00:07:15,760 Speaker 1: for the first Americans who actually fought Al Qaeda. Tote 144 00:07:15,800 --> 00:07:20,240 Speaker 1: of toe Um on flight ninete and the reason they 145 00:07:20,280 --> 00:07:24,120 Speaker 1: fought al Qaeda, um was to save the Capitol. And 146 00:07:24,160 --> 00:07:26,640 Speaker 1: the coolest thing about them is that before they thought 147 00:07:26,680 --> 00:07:29,760 Speaker 1: to the death, they voted. And that to me give 148 00:07:29,840 --> 00:07:31,480 Speaker 1: me goose bumps right now as I tell you that. Sorry. 149 00:07:31,680 --> 00:07:33,360 Speaker 1: And I just happened to be the right guy at 150 00:07:33,360 --> 00:07:34,840 Speaker 1: the right place, at the right time, with the with 151 00:07:34,880 --> 00:07:37,520 Speaker 1: the perfect team, the best pilots and the best air crew. 152 00:07:37,720 --> 00:07:39,800 Speaker 1: And I just did what the nation asked. And that's 153 00:07:39,840 --> 00:07:42,200 Speaker 1: as simple as it gets. What was that like to 154 00:07:42,360 --> 00:07:45,680 Speaker 1: take out a guy who has killed so many Americans, 155 00:07:45,800 --> 00:07:48,240 Speaker 1: has done so much harm to our country? It was, 156 00:07:48,400 --> 00:07:53,040 Speaker 1: it was. It was almost surreal when when when the 157 00:07:53,080 --> 00:07:55,640 Speaker 1: guy in front of me went up the stairs, I 158 00:07:55,680 --> 00:07:57,960 Speaker 1: was right behind him. I remember, I can still close 159 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:01,520 Speaker 1: my eyes and see it. It wasn't um. It was 160 00:08:01,560 --> 00:08:04,440 Speaker 1: more of a we're gonna blow up now, let's get 161 00:08:04,440 --> 00:08:07,000 Speaker 1: it over with. And I squeezed him. We went up 162 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:08,440 Speaker 1: the stairs and when I saw him, he was taller 163 00:08:08,440 --> 00:08:12,520 Speaker 1: than I said I thought, skinnier than I thought. Um. 164 00:08:13,840 --> 00:08:16,120 Speaker 1: This the nation deserves it. It It was, it was, it was. 165 00:08:16,160 --> 00:08:18,400 Speaker 1: It was so surreal after I shot him as a 166 00:08:18,480 --> 00:08:21,240 Speaker 1: good guy, as an American, when I shot because he 167 00:08:21,280 --> 00:08:24,600 Speaker 1: was he had his hands on a Maldon Lawton's shoulders. 168 00:08:24,640 --> 00:08:27,240 Speaker 1: He was pushing her towards me and I shot him. 169 00:08:27,480 --> 00:08:30,360 Speaker 1: My first reaction was to move her out of the 170 00:08:30,440 --> 00:08:32,679 Speaker 1: way because other Navy seals will be coming in the room. 171 00:08:32,840 --> 00:08:35,400 Speaker 1: And then I saw his two year old son staring 172 00:08:35,440 --> 00:08:38,160 Speaker 1: at me, and as a father, I remember that the 173 00:08:38,240 --> 00:08:40,880 Speaker 1: humanity thinking this poor kid's got nothing to do with this, 174 00:08:41,520 --> 00:08:43,480 Speaker 1: and I moved him aside, put him on the bed, 175 00:08:43,559 --> 00:08:46,040 Speaker 1: and another guy came in the room and I was 176 00:08:46,200 --> 00:08:48,200 Speaker 1: standing over ben Lawn's body. I can hear him taking 177 00:08:48,240 --> 00:08:51,679 Speaker 1: his last breath. And one of my guys came in. 178 00:08:51,760 --> 00:08:53,000 Speaker 1: He looked at me. I was standing there and he 179 00:08:53,040 --> 00:08:56,679 Speaker 1: said are you okay? And I said no, Um, what 180 00:08:56,720 --> 00:08:59,280 Speaker 1: do we do now? And he said, well, now we 181 00:08:59,320 --> 00:09:01,520 Speaker 1: find a computer. We do this every night. Hundreds of 182 00:09:01,600 --> 00:09:03,520 Speaker 1: times we've done this. And said, yeah, you're right, I'm back. 183 00:09:03,520 --> 00:09:04,920 Speaker 1: Oh my god, and said, yeah, you just killed a 184 00:09:04,920 --> 00:09:06,640 Speaker 1: sombit lot of your life just changed. Is it just 185 00:09:06,760 --> 00:09:09,360 Speaker 1: training that kicks in during that, because how do you 186 00:09:09,840 --> 00:09:12,719 Speaker 1: I think clearly under that kind of I mean, is 187 00:09:12,720 --> 00:09:14,800 Speaker 1: it just all of the training that just kicks in? 188 00:09:14,880 --> 00:09:16,360 Speaker 1: Like I don't think at least it was it was 189 00:09:16,400 --> 00:09:18,480 Speaker 1: the training. It was more of the missions we've been 190 00:09:18,559 --> 00:09:20,920 Speaker 1: on before, because the I think the average guy there 191 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:24,640 Speaker 1: had done about three fifty four in a combat missions. 192 00:09:24,640 --> 00:09:27,440 Speaker 1: We were experienced, so we knew what we were getting into. 193 00:09:27,480 --> 00:09:29,480 Speaker 1: And it wasn't there wasn't even fear anymore. It was 194 00:09:29,520 --> 00:09:32,080 Speaker 1: more of acceptance of what we're going to do. But 195 00:09:32,160 --> 00:09:33,880 Speaker 1: we've done us so many times. It was just he 196 00:09:33,960 --> 00:09:37,760 Speaker 1: was just a bigger threat, of bigger target. Even Bill mccraven, 197 00:09:37,800 --> 00:09:42,200 Speaker 1: Admiral sorry, Admiral Bill mccraven. Before we left on the mission, 198 00:09:42,240 --> 00:09:44,679 Speaker 1: he pulled us aside right before we left, and we're 199 00:09:44,679 --> 00:09:47,040 Speaker 1: into all of that Afghanistan. We're gonna launch across the border, 200 00:09:47,400 --> 00:09:49,800 Speaker 1: and he said, uh, he said, hey, you know what, guys, 201 00:09:49,880 --> 00:09:52,600 Speaker 1: last night, I watched my favorite movie. Uh. It's called 202 00:09:52,640 --> 00:09:55,800 Speaker 1: Hoosiers and it's about a basketball team in Hickory, Indiana, 203 00:09:56,040 --> 00:09:58,040 Speaker 1: and they went to play the national or the state 204 00:09:58,120 --> 00:10:01,839 Speaker 1: championship in Indianapolis. And there's seven guys on the team 205 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:03,880 Speaker 1: and they've never really been out of that gym, but 206 00:10:03,920 --> 00:10:06,640 Speaker 1: they went to this huge arena and they're looking around, 207 00:10:06,640 --> 00:10:09,680 Speaker 1: they're all star struck. And he recognized how his team 208 00:10:09,720 --> 00:10:12,560 Speaker 1: was starstruck, and he grabbed a tape measure and said, okay, 209 00:10:12,760 --> 00:10:14,520 Speaker 1: what's the measurement from the back of the rim to 210 00:10:14,520 --> 00:10:17,120 Speaker 1: the feet of line? It's coach, Okay, they he got 211 00:10:17,120 --> 00:10:19,560 Speaker 1: a short guy on the tall guys shoulders. What's what's 212 00:10:19,559 --> 00:10:21,720 Speaker 1: the measurement from the hoop to the floor ten feet 213 00:10:21,760 --> 00:10:23,840 Speaker 1: coach And he said, you'll find these are the exact 214 00:10:23,840 --> 00:10:26,319 Speaker 1: same measurements as you're as you're gym and Hickory. It's 215 00:10:26,360 --> 00:10:28,360 Speaker 1: just a bigger audience. And he looked at us Bill 216 00:10:28,440 --> 00:10:30,880 Speaker 1: mc craven and said, gentlemen, you do this every night. 217 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:33,880 Speaker 1: It's just a bigger audience. And as we're leaving to 218 00:10:33,920 --> 00:10:36,160 Speaker 1: get the helicopters, I pulled him aside. I said, Admiral, 219 00:10:36,760 --> 00:10:40,400 Speaker 1: you're so busy selling this to the administration, right and 220 00:10:40,480 --> 00:10:44,240 Speaker 1: I have really doubt you watched Hoosier's last night, but 221 00:10:44,360 --> 00:10:47,080 Speaker 1: you were born to give us that speech right now. Yeah, 222 00:10:47,200 --> 00:10:53,040 Speaker 1: talk about a you know, a pep talk. It was 223 00:10:53,080 --> 00:10:54,960 Speaker 1: really good. Well, like I said, I try to claim 224 00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:57,560 Speaker 1: we were professionals. We didn't need that. But it's your health. 225 00:10:58,080 --> 00:11:00,640 Speaker 1: I'm sure you know. I played sport which does not 226 00:11:00,679 --> 00:11:04,200 Speaker 1: even comparable with obviously what you guys did. But you know, 227 00:11:04,280 --> 00:11:06,000 Speaker 1: those things do help because it gets you in the 228 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:08,199 Speaker 1: headspace and and you know what, it gets you ready 229 00:11:08,200 --> 00:11:10,400 Speaker 1: to go out and get in the game, so to speak. 230 00:11:10,880 --> 00:11:12,959 Speaker 1: So I don't playing team sports as a child is 231 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:16,800 Speaker 1: important for life. Um, I'm a big believer in it. 232 00:11:17,160 --> 00:11:19,560 Speaker 1: I talked to professional football team NFL all the time, 233 00:11:19,760 --> 00:11:22,520 Speaker 1: and I tell them it doesn't matter why it's second 234 00:11:22,600 --> 00:11:26,480 Speaker 1: and fifteen, it just is. It's time's ticket, let's go, 235 00:11:26,679 --> 00:11:29,640 Speaker 1: come on. That's it. Well, I was actually captain of 236 00:11:29,679 --> 00:11:33,920 Speaker 1: the lacrosse team, but I didn't know that by the 237 00:11:33,960 --> 00:11:35,960 Speaker 1: way too, so I probably should have. But you led 238 00:11:35,960 --> 00:11:39,400 Speaker 1: the rescue teams for Captain Richard Phillips from the Smalley 239 00:11:39,440 --> 00:11:41,960 Speaker 1: Pirates in two thousand nine, and also the team to 240 00:11:42,120 --> 00:11:45,720 Speaker 1: rescue Marcus Littrell. So you have seen some things in 241 00:11:45,760 --> 00:11:49,640 Speaker 1: your life. Yeah again, um. One of my favorite quotes, 242 00:11:49,679 --> 00:11:53,319 Speaker 1: I don't know where to give credit, um, but something 243 00:11:53,360 --> 00:11:56,800 Speaker 1: I heard was wherever you are, be there, and if 244 00:11:56,840 --> 00:12:00,240 Speaker 1: you apply yourself, you can you can. You can find 245 00:12:00,240 --> 00:12:02,160 Speaker 1: yourself in situation. So I I was. I was on 246 00:12:02,400 --> 00:12:05,360 Speaker 1: the mission to find Margot's trail. I was a lead jumper. 247 00:12:05,800 --> 00:12:09,680 Speaker 1: I actually left Virginia Beach on Good Friday, April tenth, 248 00:12:09,720 --> 00:12:12,800 Speaker 1: three thousand nine, on my birthday for my daughter's preschool 249 00:12:13,040 --> 00:12:16,719 Speaker 1: tea party, and fifteen hours and forty six minutes later, 250 00:12:16,800 --> 00:12:19,520 Speaker 1: we jumped into the Indian Ocean, rescued uh Captain Phillis 251 00:12:19,559 --> 00:12:22,920 Speaker 1: from Smally Pirates. So it's just it's just apply yourself, 252 00:12:23,760 --> 00:12:26,080 Speaker 1: the realization that doesn't matter what you look like where 253 00:12:26,080 --> 00:12:27,440 Speaker 1: you're from, you can do anything you want. You can 254 00:12:27,440 --> 00:12:30,120 Speaker 1: find yourself in situations, but apply yourself and that's it. 255 00:12:30,160 --> 00:12:31,679 Speaker 1: And it just I happened to be there a couple 256 00:12:31,679 --> 00:12:33,840 Speaker 1: of different times, but my brother actually was messing with 257 00:12:33,840 --> 00:12:36,280 Speaker 1: me today. I was talking to me, he said, I 258 00:12:36,320 --> 00:12:38,720 Speaker 1: reminded Beforest. Gump, only I didn't have a shrimp boast. 259 00:12:38,800 --> 00:12:41,200 Speaker 1: So so you're basically just at your daughter's tea party. 260 00:12:41,360 --> 00:12:44,440 Speaker 1: And then they're like, yeah, so get ready, we've got 261 00:12:44,440 --> 00:12:48,680 Speaker 1: something big for you. I had. I had a pink 262 00:12:48,720 --> 00:12:51,520 Speaker 1: plate in my hand, and she was four years old, 263 00:12:51,559 --> 00:12:54,080 Speaker 1: and I was giving I was putting smiley face cookies 264 00:12:54,080 --> 00:12:56,080 Speaker 1: and cupcakes on on a plate and I walked over 265 00:12:56,080 --> 00:12:58,319 Speaker 1: and I got a text message and said a guy 266 00:12:58,360 --> 00:13:00,280 Speaker 1: by the name of Captain Richard Phillips has been captured 267 00:13:00,280 --> 00:13:01,600 Speaker 1: by some of the pirates and your team is going 268 00:13:01,640 --> 00:13:04,920 Speaker 1: to go get him now. And what's so cool about 269 00:13:04,960 --> 00:13:07,160 Speaker 1: that is So that was two thousand nine. I was 270 00:13:07,200 --> 00:13:09,160 Speaker 1: at Seal Team six, which is the count of Terror 271 00:13:09,200 --> 00:13:12,720 Speaker 1: Team We. Seal Team six was designed to rescue American 272 00:13:12,760 --> 00:13:16,840 Speaker 1: hostages at sea. It had never been done, says twenty 273 00:13:16,920 --> 00:13:20,560 Speaker 1: nine years. It had never been done. And we jumped 274 00:13:20,559 --> 00:13:22,480 Speaker 1: in there and and and if you're not familiar with 275 00:13:22,480 --> 00:13:25,520 Speaker 1: the story, it was a Navy destroyer towing a light 276 00:13:25,600 --> 00:13:27,760 Speaker 1: bulb with Captain Phillips on it. We didn't go there 277 00:13:27,760 --> 00:13:30,160 Speaker 1: to kill those guys. We jumped in to rescue the hostage. 278 00:13:30,360 --> 00:13:32,760 Speaker 1: We simply put snipers on the back of that boat 279 00:13:32,800 --> 00:13:35,880 Speaker 1: to watch them to make sure nothing unsafe happened as 280 00:13:35,960 --> 00:13:38,440 Speaker 1: we're preparing for the rescue. As we were preparing for 281 00:13:38,440 --> 00:13:41,079 Speaker 1: the rescue, something very unsafe happened of a sniper shot. 282 00:13:41,480 --> 00:13:44,679 Speaker 1: And the coolest thing about that those three snipers four 283 00:13:44,760 --> 00:13:47,360 Speaker 1: days prior were in their own beds in Virginia on 284 00:13:47,400 --> 00:13:50,760 Speaker 1: a long weekend. We've never done this. They're guns that 285 00:13:50,800 --> 00:13:52,720 Speaker 1: not need to be sited in for the most difficult 286 00:13:52,720 --> 00:13:54,640 Speaker 1: shots of their lives. But their guns were sited in 287 00:13:54,880 --> 00:13:56,960 Speaker 1: for the most difficult shots of their lives because they 288 00:13:57,000 --> 00:13:59,280 Speaker 1: were prepared. And one of the lessons I tell my 289 00:13:59,360 --> 00:14:04,240 Speaker 1: guys is um complacency kills. Don't get complacent, don't rest 290 00:14:04,320 --> 00:14:06,520 Speaker 1: on your world. The worst thing you can say is 291 00:14:06,640 --> 00:14:09,240 Speaker 1: this is the way we've always done it. And I 292 00:14:09,280 --> 00:14:12,160 Speaker 1: would tell my guys before mission, guys, don't die because 293 00:14:12,160 --> 00:14:14,880 Speaker 1: you got bored. Do everything like you do everything well. 294 00:14:14,920 --> 00:14:17,200 Speaker 1: And I know it's cited in it means now because 295 00:14:17,360 --> 00:14:20,160 Speaker 1: I am an out officially gun owner and have been 296 00:14:20,560 --> 00:14:23,400 Speaker 1: shot shooting guns over the past couple of guns, so 297 00:14:23,440 --> 00:14:26,920 Speaker 1: I so I'm worth familiar. Do you have a shotgun 298 00:14:26,960 --> 00:14:28,640 Speaker 1: at home? That's the best I tell my wife all 299 00:14:28,640 --> 00:14:30,880 Speaker 1: the time. That's the best deterrent is a shotgun because 300 00:14:30,880 --> 00:14:33,400 Speaker 1: as you're walking down the stairs if someone breaks in, yeah, 301 00:14:33,480 --> 00:14:37,160 Speaker 1: if you could hear a shotgun cock, nothing else sounds 302 00:14:37,200 --> 00:14:38,640 Speaker 1: like that, that's the best thing you can do for yourself. 303 00:14:38,720 --> 00:14:41,000 Speaker 1: So Rob, we're doing baby steps. I just got a 304 00:14:41,080 --> 00:14:44,680 Speaker 1: six hour three, so we're going to start with like 305 00:14:44,840 --> 00:14:49,320 Speaker 1: a concealed carry. All'll start there. And no six six 306 00:14:49,320 --> 00:14:51,120 Speaker 1: hours of my six hours of my favorite too. They 307 00:14:51,120 --> 00:14:53,520 Speaker 1: don't they don't sponsor me. Yet they should. I've I've 308 00:14:53,520 --> 00:14:56,520 Speaker 1: fired a six hour P six probably a million times 309 00:14:56,560 --> 00:14:58,160 Speaker 1: in my life. I love that gun. I know how work. 310 00:14:58,200 --> 00:15:02,000 Speaker 1: They should absolutely sponsor. But yeah, it's my favorite so far. 311 00:15:02,080 --> 00:15:04,440 Speaker 1: So we're we're starting small and then maybe we'll but 312 00:15:04,480 --> 00:15:07,320 Speaker 1: I have shot in a R fifteen and it's very 313 00:15:07,320 --> 00:15:10,440 Speaker 1: easy to shoot, so and like, oh, it's it's amazing, 314 00:15:10,440 --> 00:15:14,280 Speaker 1: it's amazingly uh friendly, it's a great gun. I love that. 315 00:15:14,480 --> 00:15:16,600 Speaker 1: And then, by the way, it doesn't stand for assault rifle. 316 00:15:16,840 --> 00:15:19,400 Speaker 1: It's it's not that. That's not even though the liberals 317 00:15:19,440 --> 00:15:21,840 Speaker 1: say that to us, it's not, but it stands now. 318 00:15:21,920 --> 00:15:23,640 Speaker 1: But I do. I do like it. So maybe if 319 00:15:23,640 --> 00:15:25,440 Speaker 1: I was to get one, I would and it would 320 00:15:25,440 --> 00:15:28,120 Speaker 1: also just make people go crazy, which I would appreciate. 321 00:15:28,280 --> 00:15:30,720 Speaker 1: So but I think it'd be awesome. We we should 322 00:15:30,720 --> 00:15:32,400 Speaker 1: actually you should get one, and you and I can. 323 00:15:32,840 --> 00:15:34,800 Speaker 1: We we we should we should do that regardless. I would 324 00:15:34,800 --> 00:15:35,920 Speaker 1: like that would be a lot of fun. I would 325 00:15:35,920 --> 00:15:39,480 Speaker 1: love to do that quick commercial break back with American 326 00:15:39,560 --> 00:15:45,680 Speaker 1: badass Rob O'Neil. You're talking about sort of this, you know, 327 00:15:45,720 --> 00:15:49,200 Speaker 1: camaraderie with your team and working together as a cohesive 328 00:15:49,280 --> 00:15:51,600 Speaker 1: unit and what we're saying in the military right now 329 00:15:52,400 --> 00:15:54,200 Speaker 1: is you know a lot of this woke stuff like 330 00:15:54,240 --> 00:15:56,800 Speaker 1: critical race theory and and all these things that actually 331 00:15:56,880 --> 00:16:00,160 Speaker 1: drives division. What kind of impact do you think that 332 00:16:00,280 --> 00:16:04,520 Speaker 1: has now on the military and moving forward, Well, it's 333 00:16:04,560 --> 00:16:07,400 Speaker 1: it's a huge impact because you gotta figure put yourself 334 00:16:07,400 --> 00:16:10,200 Speaker 1: in the in the shoes of a young man or 335 00:16:10,280 --> 00:16:12,920 Speaker 1: woman that potentially wants to join the military, but they're 336 00:16:12,920 --> 00:16:18,240 Speaker 1: seeing the negative repercussions of joining. They're saying, that's it's 337 00:16:18,280 --> 00:16:21,240 Speaker 1: white supremacy. It's it's a negative and the same thing 338 00:16:21,240 --> 00:16:23,760 Speaker 1: as trying to be a cop. They're saying, all this bad, 339 00:16:23,800 --> 00:16:25,480 Speaker 1: Why would you want to do that? And it it 340 00:16:25,600 --> 00:16:28,880 Speaker 1: really impacts them. When when when we have the Chairman 341 00:16:28,880 --> 00:16:32,240 Speaker 1: of the Joint Chiefs, General Millie saying he doesn't understand 342 00:16:32,240 --> 00:16:34,600 Speaker 1: white supremacy, but it's got to be there, it's that's nonsense. 343 00:16:34,880 --> 00:16:37,280 Speaker 1: And the way that I h the way that I've 344 00:16:37,280 --> 00:16:40,920 Speaker 1: seen it before is you know, you know, I think 345 00:16:40,920 --> 00:16:44,200 Speaker 1: we're all in agreement that there shouldn't be you shouldn't 346 00:16:44,200 --> 00:16:48,560 Speaker 1: be racist, you shouldn't be a pessimistic or anti anything. 347 00:16:49,120 --> 00:16:52,280 Speaker 1: But that's as that's the conversation you need to have 348 00:16:52,360 --> 00:16:54,440 Speaker 1: with them. And here's the thing that's bad. You're an asshole, 349 00:16:54,480 --> 00:16:57,440 Speaker 1: don't do it. But they're spending all this money, wasting 350 00:16:57,440 --> 00:16:59,560 Speaker 1: their time training people on what they should already know, 351 00:16:59,600 --> 00:17:02,560 Speaker 1: because it's when when when When I first joined the Navy, 352 00:17:02,840 --> 00:17:04,639 Speaker 1: the first thing they do is they put you in 353 00:17:04,680 --> 00:17:06,880 Speaker 1: the same uniform. They cut your hair because there are 354 00:17:06,880 --> 00:17:09,320 Speaker 1: no individuals and that's it. You're not you're not there 355 00:17:09,320 --> 00:17:14,840 Speaker 1: too to show, to to to to represent yourself. That's it. 356 00:17:15,119 --> 00:17:18,040 Speaker 1: One team, one fight. And I realized the first day 357 00:17:18,080 --> 00:17:21,520 Speaker 1: that we're all from different places, but we're all scared. 358 00:17:22,040 --> 00:17:24,399 Speaker 1: And it doesn't matter if you're the CEO of a 359 00:17:24,440 --> 00:17:27,119 Speaker 1: company or the guy that went and ben Lan's bedroom. 360 00:17:27,280 --> 00:17:29,600 Speaker 1: We're all we've all had our first day and we're afraid. 361 00:17:29,640 --> 00:17:31,920 Speaker 1: And that's okay, that's fine, and it's one team. But 362 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:37,440 Speaker 1: they're just bringing this negative political nonsense that doesn't need 363 00:17:37,480 --> 00:17:40,640 Speaker 1: to be there when we should be concerned about determines 364 00:17:40,880 --> 00:17:44,399 Speaker 1: forward defense and alliance solidarity, and they're taking away from it. 365 00:17:44,400 --> 00:17:46,399 Speaker 1: And you're saying that the Army, I think was below 366 00:17:46,720 --> 00:17:50,400 Speaker 1: fifteen thousand recruits this year and the only the only 367 00:17:50,440 --> 00:17:53,160 Speaker 1: branch of service that's staying up is the Marine Corps 368 00:17:53,160 --> 00:17:55,640 Speaker 1: because moneys are just awesome, and that's it. But they're 369 00:17:55,640 --> 00:17:59,600 Speaker 1: they're they're they're they're they're taking away from what we 370 00:17:59,640 --> 00:18:02,120 Speaker 1: should have in the military. And it's and and these 371 00:18:02,200 --> 00:18:05,359 Speaker 1: these politicians don't really care because all all a politicians 372 00:18:05,359 --> 00:18:09,120 Speaker 1: cares about, especially a congressman, is uh the next election, 373 00:18:09,200 --> 00:18:11,760 Speaker 1: so that they'll spend eighteen months out of a two 374 00:18:11,840 --> 00:18:16,840 Speaker 1: year term um on the campaign trail. That's it. And 375 00:18:16,840 --> 00:18:19,160 Speaker 1: then they'll say this nonsense to get someone else to 376 00:18:19,160 --> 00:18:23,639 Speaker 1: to whatever. And it's it's really affecting, um, what we 377 00:18:23,680 --> 00:18:26,040 Speaker 1: have in the world, our our deterrence, our ford defense, 378 00:18:26,040 --> 00:18:28,760 Speaker 1: like I said, our alliance solidarity is dwindling just because 379 00:18:28,760 --> 00:18:32,719 Speaker 1: of these politicians. It's nonsense. Well, and it's also like, okay, 380 00:18:32,760 --> 00:18:35,280 Speaker 1: so the I was reading that the U. S. Army 381 00:18:35,480 --> 00:18:38,280 Speaker 1: is putting its soldiers through training on gender pronouns and 382 00:18:38,320 --> 00:18:43,440 Speaker 1: coaching officers on wind to offer soldiers gender trans transition surgery. 383 00:18:43,480 --> 00:18:45,320 Speaker 1: And it's just like, the way I look at that 384 00:18:45,520 --> 00:18:48,120 Speaker 1: is if you're a bad guy, right, like, if you're 385 00:18:48,640 --> 00:18:51,840 Speaker 1: a Roan, you're terrorists, your isis your whatever I mean, 386 00:18:51,920 --> 00:18:54,720 Speaker 1: are aren't you like looking at that as weak? That 387 00:18:54,880 --> 00:18:57,640 Speaker 1: this is the focus of our military. The Vladimir Putin 388 00:18:57,760 --> 00:19:00,280 Speaker 1: is laughing at us right now. You said that, he said, 389 00:19:00,280 --> 00:19:02,760 Speaker 1: look at these idiot Americans. They can't even decide what 390 00:19:02,960 --> 00:19:05,600 Speaker 1: gender they are. And and he he really is. And 391 00:19:05,640 --> 00:19:07,840 Speaker 1: I'm a big believer in in in personal freedom. You 392 00:19:07,960 --> 00:19:09,680 Speaker 1: you know, whatever you want to do doing yourself. You 393 00:19:09,720 --> 00:19:12,199 Speaker 1: don't affect someone else. Fine, But we've made such a 394 00:19:12,240 --> 00:19:14,000 Speaker 1: big deal out of it, especially the media. And I'm 395 00:19:14,000 --> 00:19:16,560 Speaker 1: not even sure what the media has to but they're 396 00:19:16,600 --> 00:19:19,520 Speaker 1: gaining out of this nonsense. But Voltomer buds watching, Jesu 397 00:19:19,600 --> 00:19:22,880 Speaker 1: Ping is watching, and and it's it's like it or not. 398 00:19:23,240 --> 00:19:26,440 Speaker 1: It's making us weak and they're taking advantage. Um, look 399 00:19:26,480 --> 00:19:29,040 Speaker 1: look at Voltomer Putin getting Ukraine's inde Ukraine right now, 400 00:19:29,040 --> 00:19:31,000 Speaker 1: I know so many parts and Jesus Biggs going bade 401 00:19:31,280 --> 00:19:33,880 Speaker 1: Taiwan probably for the end of the year, and there's 402 00:19:33,960 --> 00:19:36,080 Speaker 1: nothing we can do about it. We're begging Saudi Arabia 403 00:19:36,119 --> 00:19:38,720 Speaker 1: for oil because they know we're weak, because they look 404 00:19:38,760 --> 00:19:40,640 Speaker 1: at the way we're talking to each other, and it's 405 00:19:40,680 --> 00:19:45,760 Speaker 1: complete weakness. If you were young Rob O'Neil today, would 406 00:19:45,760 --> 00:19:48,360 Speaker 1: you still join the military, Would you join today's military. 407 00:19:48,840 --> 00:19:51,199 Speaker 1: What I would, Um, I've thought about this a lot. 408 00:19:51,240 --> 00:19:53,000 Speaker 1: I could ask that, of course, quite a bit. If 409 00:19:53,040 --> 00:19:56,879 Speaker 1: I had, I thought it was unique. No, no, it's no, 410 00:19:56,960 --> 00:20:03,159 Speaker 1: it's good. I think I probably if uh, maybe a 411 00:20:03,240 --> 00:20:05,280 Speaker 1: freshman high school, I would tell Rob O'Neil to get 412 00:20:05,320 --> 00:20:07,600 Speaker 1: straight a's and get into the Naval Academy and learn 413 00:20:07,640 --> 00:20:11,200 Speaker 1: how to fly jets. Um, I would definitely join. But 414 00:20:11,760 --> 00:20:14,360 Speaker 1: the best advice I had for myself, and and I'm 415 00:20:14,400 --> 00:20:18,080 Speaker 1: just breaking it down simplicity, master the basics. If I 416 00:20:18,119 --> 00:20:21,119 Speaker 1: could give fifteen year old Rob O'Neil any advice, that 417 00:20:21,240 --> 00:20:26,040 Speaker 1: advice is this simple, ask her out. Take the shot. 418 00:20:27,320 --> 00:20:29,480 Speaker 1: That's it. Take the shot in life. And then, I 419 00:20:29,520 --> 00:20:32,080 Speaker 1: don't mean you know either him or her manner woman 420 00:20:32,320 --> 00:20:35,480 Speaker 1: asked her out, ask him out, but take the shot, 421 00:20:36,560 --> 00:20:38,680 Speaker 1: because because I mean, the worst thing happens is she 422 00:20:38,720 --> 00:20:41,119 Speaker 1: says no, and you're right back where you started, or 423 00:20:41,200 --> 00:20:44,800 Speaker 1: she says yes. When whenever people say well why is that? 424 00:20:45,200 --> 00:20:47,080 Speaker 1: Why is that good looking girl dating that ugly guy? 425 00:20:47,119 --> 00:20:49,119 Speaker 1: You know why? Because he took the chance, he asked 426 00:20:50,280 --> 00:20:52,159 Speaker 1: take the shot. But the point I'm getting at is, 427 00:20:52,160 --> 00:20:55,800 Speaker 1: in life, take the shot. You mentioned the recruiting challenges. Uh, 428 00:20:56,000 --> 00:20:58,919 Speaker 1: So the armed forces is facing it's the biggest recruiting 429 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:01,879 Speaker 1: challenge since the military very draft ended in July of 430 00:21:02,119 --> 00:21:05,600 Speaker 1: nineteen seventy three. As you mentioned, ERMI missed recruiting goal 431 00:21:05,640 --> 00:21:10,000 Speaker 1: of about fifteen thousand soldiers, coming up short of its goal. 432 00:21:10,520 --> 00:21:15,320 Speaker 1: Recruitment challenges sort of all around. You know what, how 433 00:21:15,359 --> 00:21:17,800 Speaker 1: do we reshape that? You know what? What do you 434 00:21:17,840 --> 00:21:21,280 Speaker 1: think behind that? Why aren't people wanting to join the 435 00:21:21,320 --> 00:21:23,880 Speaker 1: military right now? I think it's the wocus. I think 436 00:21:23,960 --> 00:21:30,080 Speaker 1: it's the um uh. I think the masculinity is being 437 00:21:30,359 --> 00:21:34,399 Speaker 1: shown as weakness and and you know you shouldn't try 438 00:21:34,440 --> 00:21:37,600 Speaker 1: to be a part of this more I don't. I 439 00:21:37,760 --> 00:21:40,280 Speaker 1: think it's um. The two oceans on our left and right, 440 00:21:40,280 --> 00:21:43,879 Speaker 1: Atlantic specific and have given us too much freedom, and 441 00:21:43,960 --> 00:21:46,359 Speaker 1: we don't realize the bad stuff. And there's bad people 442 00:21:46,400 --> 00:21:49,239 Speaker 1: in the world, uh, and they want to do us 443 00:21:49,280 --> 00:21:51,879 Speaker 1: harm and we need good people to defend us. And 444 00:21:52,040 --> 00:21:54,840 Speaker 1: the the unfortunate thing is when it comes to I 445 00:21:54,920 --> 00:21:57,639 Speaker 1: mean we I have nothing but faith in this country, 446 00:21:57,880 --> 00:21:59,600 Speaker 1: and I know that good men and women are joining 447 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:01,880 Speaker 1: and I think right now is kind of being cast 448 00:22:01,960 --> 00:22:05,200 Speaker 1: over because of stuff like Minecraft or TikTok or or 449 00:22:05,280 --> 00:22:07,879 Speaker 1: what China is doing sending spies into our schools at 450 00:22:07,960 --> 00:22:09,240 Speaker 1: n y U. I don't know how many spies are 451 00:22:09,240 --> 00:22:13,800 Speaker 1: in New York. Um. And it's just the bad thing 452 00:22:13,920 --> 00:22:16,320 Speaker 1: is that once the day comes where we need to 453 00:22:16,400 --> 00:22:18,040 Speaker 1: defend ourselves, we do have the men and women there. 454 00:22:18,080 --> 00:22:20,920 Speaker 1: But if I don't want it to take it something 455 00:22:20,960 --> 00:22:23,080 Speaker 1: to shake us up, and I think it might that 456 00:22:23,240 --> 00:22:25,520 Speaker 1: that's it. But but you know, I have faith. I'm 457 00:22:25,520 --> 00:22:29,080 Speaker 1: gonna I'm an eternal optimist. Um. But but you know 458 00:22:29,200 --> 00:22:31,320 Speaker 1: we're we're closer that day and it's gonna be. I 459 00:22:31,400 --> 00:22:33,400 Speaker 1: mean you look at look how many uh on both 460 00:22:33,440 --> 00:22:36,240 Speaker 1: sides of the eye. Look how many Congressmen, how many senators? 461 00:22:36,440 --> 00:22:39,560 Speaker 1: The President talking about nuclear holocaust when they don't quite 462 00:22:39,640 --> 00:22:43,000 Speaker 1: realize what that means. What what the collapsing of the 463 00:22:43,080 --> 00:22:47,400 Speaker 1: ozone layer? When d nuclear weapons are detonated in Russia, China, 464 00:22:47,440 --> 00:22:50,240 Speaker 1: the West, and the United States. It's it's a very 465 00:22:50,400 --> 00:22:52,680 Speaker 1: real thing. But I I do have faith on a 466 00:22:52,720 --> 00:22:54,200 Speaker 1: lot of our people. I just think one of my 467 00:22:54,280 --> 00:22:59,080 Speaker 1: favorite quotes is from Babe Ruth. He said, the loudest 468 00:22:59,080 --> 00:23:02,080 Speaker 1: booze come from the eat of seats. So we're hearing 469 00:23:02,160 --> 00:23:03,879 Speaker 1: the loud mouths on the left and the right, but 470 00:23:03,920 --> 00:23:05,840 Speaker 1: I think most of us in the middle, and I 471 00:23:05,920 --> 00:23:08,080 Speaker 1: consider you and you and I in the middle. Um, 472 00:23:08,840 --> 00:23:10,840 Speaker 1: I think that the reality will set it. It just 473 00:23:10,920 --> 00:23:13,040 Speaker 1: it's gonna be a hard price to pay. Do you 474 00:23:13,160 --> 00:23:15,919 Speaker 1: think the standard should be if you are not willing 475 00:23:16,080 --> 00:23:19,600 Speaker 1: to send your own son or daughter to that specific war, 476 00:23:19,720 --> 00:23:23,120 Speaker 1: then we shouldn't go. Yeah, I think so too. It's 477 00:23:23,160 --> 00:23:25,040 Speaker 1: I mean, it's a tough one too, because I has 478 00:23:25,119 --> 00:23:27,439 Speaker 1: some as someone who's been to war as a young 479 00:23:27,560 --> 00:23:31,040 Speaker 1: Navy seal when we invaded Iraq, I was so excited 480 00:23:31,119 --> 00:23:33,840 Speaker 1: to go to war because I will kill anybody. But now, 481 00:23:34,320 --> 00:23:36,200 Speaker 1: you know, pushing fifty years old, I kind of look 482 00:23:36,240 --> 00:23:37,760 Speaker 1: back and realize that a lot of people are making 483 00:23:37,800 --> 00:23:41,439 Speaker 1: decisions based on politics. I think the war is uh. 484 00:23:41,560 --> 00:23:44,040 Speaker 1: I think war is nasty. War's violent, war is fast, 485 00:23:44,560 --> 00:23:47,800 Speaker 1: and it's permanent, and I don't wish it on anybody there. 486 00:23:48,240 --> 00:23:50,800 Speaker 1: I've seen so many people in combat zones that a 487 00:23:50,880 --> 00:23:54,600 Speaker 1: lot of people don't realize that most people are just 488 00:23:54,600 --> 00:23:56,159 Speaker 1: trying to get on with their lives. Most people are 489 00:23:56,200 --> 00:23:58,080 Speaker 1: good people. Some of the most welcoming people I've ever 490 00:23:58,160 --> 00:24:00,400 Speaker 1: met when Ramadi Iraq when I was in the house, 491 00:24:01,040 --> 00:24:04,720 Speaker 1: Um getting mud on their floor and looking at them thinking, 492 00:24:04,840 --> 00:24:07,880 Speaker 1: I understand why they hate us, but we should most 493 00:24:07,880 --> 00:24:10,960 Speaker 1: of us shouldn't be doing that stuff. But you know, 494 00:24:11,040 --> 00:24:13,480 Speaker 1: when it comes down to it, um, yeah, we will 495 00:24:13,520 --> 00:24:15,320 Speaker 1: need those people that you know in the parents too, 496 00:24:15,359 --> 00:24:17,480 Speaker 1: that will send their kids to do that. There were 497 00:24:17,520 --> 00:24:21,640 Speaker 1: no consequences for our military leaders with the botched Afghanistan 498 00:24:21,760 --> 00:24:24,840 Speaker 1: pull out or lying to us about that drone strike 499 00:24:24,920 --> 00:24:27,040 Speaker 1: that ended up taking out a were an AID worker 500 00:24:27,320 --> 00:24:31,320 Speaker 1: and his kids. What happens when there are no consequences 501 00:24:31,440 --> 00:24:34,159 Speaker 1: for failed actions like that. The only officer that was 502 00:24:34,200 --> 00:24:36,080 Speaker 1: funnished for that was the lieutenant colonel and I forget 503 00:24:36,119 --> 00:24:38,359 Speaker 1: his name, sorry, but he came out on Facebook and 504 00:24:38,400 --> 00:24:40,680 Speaker 1: said that they shouldn't be doing or YouTube and said 505 00:24:40,680 --> 00:24:42,240 Speaker 1: they shouldn't be doing this. Somebod needs to be held 506 00:24:42,240 --> 00:24:45,280 Speaker 1: accountable and he was used fired. The only person speaks 507 00:24:45,359 --> 00:24:49,360 Speaker 1: up against the system. Um, everyone else is scott free. 508 00:24:49,480 --> 00:24:53,880 Speaker 1: There's no no repercussions at all because nobody gets held 509 00:24:53,880 --> 00:24:58,200 Speaker 1: accountable because again our news cycle and then there's trying 510 00:24:58,240 --> 00:24:59,760 Speaker 1: to get you know, the politicians trying to get re 511 00:24:59,760 --> 00:25:01,919 Speaker 1: elect two months he or six months there for senators, 512 00:25:01,960 --> 00:25:04,520 Speaker 1: and it's just it's nonsense and and and uh, it's 513 00:25:04,600 --> 00:25:07,440 Speaker 1: you know, how much money can we make from the 514 00:25:07,600 --> 00:25:10,359 Speaker 1: military industrial complex to get re elected, to get to 515 00:25:10,480 --> 00:25:12,080 Speaker 1: make sure that a lot of these places make more 516 00:25:12,119 --> 00:25:14,040 Speaker 1: money based on the wars were funding. It's it's a 517 00:25:14,480 --> 00:25:16,720 Speaker 1: it's a vicious cycle because a lot of the money 518 00:25:16,760 --> 00:25:19,840 Speaker 1: that we make, you gotta figure DC doesn't produce anything, 519 00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:22,640 Speaker 1: but they make a lot of money and then they 520 00:25:22,760 --> 00:25:26,200 Speaker 1: pay the contractors. The only thing more expensive than war 521 00:25:26,840 --> 00:25:29,800 Speaker 1: is preparation for war, which we're doing right now, sending 522 00:25:29,920 --> 00:25:32,480 Speaker 1: billions to Ukraine, and the only people suffering in that 523 00:25:32,640 --> 00:25:35,360 Speaker 1: are the civilians in Ukraine. But no one knows where 524 00:25:35,359 --> 00:25:38,240 Speaker 1: the money is going. We spent billions and maybe four 525 00:25:39,119 --> 00:25:41,919 Speaker 1: land canvas made it there. No nobody knows where it's going. 526 00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:44,440 Speaker 1: No one's seeing No one knows what Zelinski is doing. 527 00:25:44,520 --> 00:25:47,920 Speaker 1: He's an actor in a green room and Hollywood if 528 00:25:47,960 --> 00:25:51,280 Speaker 1: he's so under durest, but he's got Hollywood actors going 529 00:25:51,320 --> 00:25:53,800 Speaker 1: over there taking picture. Nobody knows what's happening. And this 530 00:25:53,960 --> 00:25:56,560 Speaker 1: is this is the self licking ice cream cone. And 531 00:25:56,600 --> 00:25:58,920 Speaker 1: it's a shame that they're using war to make money 532 00:25:58,960 --> 00:26:01,840 Speaker 1: to to keep funding themsel we're also just being told 533 00:26:01,960 --> 00:26:05,959 Speaker 1: nonsense like Russia sabotaged their own pipelines, Like why they 534 00:26:05,960 --> 00:26:08,919 Speaker 1: already control the supply right, Like we've already seen them 535 00:26:08,960 --> 00:26:11,479 Speaker 1: shut lord Stream off. We've already seen them shut other 536 00:26:11,560 --> 00:26:14,200 Speaker 1: pipelines off, turn them back, like they already control it. 537 00:26:14,320 --> 00:26:18,320 Speaker 1: To why would you sabotage your leverage over Europe? It 538 00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:20,280 Speaker 1: just makes no sense. You can't can't even get an 539 00:26:20,280 --> 00:26:22,960 Speaker 1: answer out of them. Because something happened with nord Stream. 540 00:26:23,520 --> 00:26:25,680 Speaker 1: No one knows what it was, and they're asking you 541 00:26:25,720 --> 00:26:29,320 Speaker 1: if it's the United States, they're asking if it's Russia. Um, No, 542 00:26:29,520 --> 00:26:32,120 Speaker 1: nobody knows what's happening because nobody tells anyone the truth. 543 00:26:32,400 --> 00:26:34,320 Speaker 1: They tell you what you want to hear, and then 544 00:26:34,359 --> 00:26:38,240 Speaker 1: we forget about it. Um. The energy energy is the 545 00:26:38,320 --> 00:26:40,200 Speaker 1: end all deal. The reason that the reason that the 546 00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:42,840 Speaker 1: gas prices so high, the reason that how woween treats 547 00:26:42,840 --> 00:26:45,200 Speaker 1: are are so expensive, the reason it's so expensive to 548 00:26:45,240 --> 00:26:47,159 Speaker 1: send your kids back to college, all comes back to 549 00:26:47,320 --> 00:26:50,080 Speaker 1: being energy independent. And the only thing you know, I mean, 550 00:26:50,080 --> 00:26:52,159 Speaker 1: the only person we ever had. They went to d 551 00:26:52,280 --> 00:26:55,560 Speaker 1: C to try to get the Goddess Energy Independent filled 552 00:26:55,560 --> 00:26:57,920 Speaker 1: our strategic loyal reserves of Donald Trump, and and he 553 00:26:58,080 --> 00:27:02,959 Speaker 1: realized the hard way that if you go against the swamp, 554 00:27:03,119 --> 00:27:06,440 Speaker 1: swamp has fangs and it will come at you non stop. 555 00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:08,520 Speaker 1: And that's all that happened. You have one guy in there, 556 00:27:08,680 --> 00:27:10,680 Speaker 1: the only president, by the way, that hasn't started the war, 557 00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:14,400 Speaker 1: and he got ostracized. That's it's it's it's crazy if 558 00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:17,520 Speaker 1: you if you just stop and look at what is happening, 559 00:27:17,560 --> 00:27:19,960 Speaker 1: you can see like the Lindsay Graham's, the the the 560 00:27:20,280 --> 00:27:24,760 Speaker 1: uh Ms, McConnell's, the Hillary Clinton's. It's not the person 561 00:27:24,840 --> 00:27:27,320 Speaker 1: that's in the White House for four years that's the problem. 562 00:27:27,359 --> 00:27:29,320 Speaker 1: It's the person that's in the capital for fifty years 563 00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:32,280 Speaker 1: that's the problem. And for some reason we just keep 564 00:27:32,320 --> 00:27:34,760 Speaker 1: buying their nonsense, like we like Nancy Pelosia. There are 565 00:27:34,760 --> 00:27:38,639 Speaker 1: people in California. They don't even realize she's their representative. Trump. Well, 566 00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:42,280 Speaker 1: Trump totally reshaped my thinking on all of this stuff 567 00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:45,040 Speaker 1: because he really showed us that you can legitimately have 568 00:27:45,200 --> 00:27:48,200 Speaker 1: peace through strength, you know, like sending those tom Hawk 569 00:27:48,280 --> 00:27:50,720 Speaker 1: missiles to Syria or the Mother of All bombs. And 570 00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:56,000 Speaker 1: so he absolutely reshaped my thinking on all the foreign policy. Well, 571 00:27:56,040 --> 00:27:58,040 Speaker 1: look what he did with the that Iranian general when 572 00:27:58,040 --> 00:27:59,919 Speaker 1: he killed him right outside of the bag that an 573 00:28:00,040 --> 00:28:02,560 Speaker 1: national airport. That was a That was a ballsy move 574 00:28:02,640 --> 00:28:04,840 Speaker 1: to kill him right outside to show them I'm not 575 00:28:04,960 --> 00:28:07,040 Speaker 1: messing around with you guys. And that's what we need, 576 00:28:07,080 --> 00:28:09,840 Speaker 1: peace through strength. We need the Ronald Reagan that said, 577 00:28:10,040 --> 00:28:15,160 Speaker 1: uh to Michail Gorber that not only is a nuclear 578 00:28:15,280 --> 00:28:18,920 Speaker 1: war unwinnable, it should never be fought. The realization and 579 00:28:19,119 --> 00:28:23,720 Speaker 1: not the transgender pronoun bathroom bullshit? Who who was telling 580 00:28:23,760 --> 00:28:26,600 Speaker 1: you the truth and legitimately cares about you, me and 581 00:28:26,880 --> 00:28:30,240 Speaker 1: our families. That's it, And it's not that hard. Once 582 00:28:30,280 --> 00:28:32,199 Speaker 1: they start spinning this nonsense. You start to get these 583 00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:34,239 Speaker 1: politicians to talk up both sides of their mouth all 584 00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:36,159 Speaker 1: they're trying to get reelected, and it's I I just 585 00:28:36,280 --> 00:28:38,720 Speaker 1: I really wish for people would because I think most 586 00:28:38,760 --> 00:28:42,520 Speaker 1: people are are centrists. I really did like I'm more 587 00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:45,120 Speaker 1: liberal than people would realize as far as socially, um 588 00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:48,240 Speaker 1: fisically I'm conservative, but most of us are like that. 589 00:28:48,640 --> 00:28:53,920 Speaker 1: But you get these nonsensical nonsense, which even sounds ridiculous 590 00:28:53,960 --> 00:28:55,880 Speaker 1: to say it all they're trying to do is personal power, 591 00:28:55,960 --> 00:28:58,200 Speaker 1: get re elected and make more money. Look how many 592 00:28:58,320 --> 00:29:00,920 Speaker 1: uh like Paul Pelosi. Oh my god, he's you know, 593 00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:03,800 Speaker 1: he better than Steve Forbes as far as trading stocks 594 00:29:03,840 --> 00:29:07,280 Speaker 1: because oh this is coincidence. Nows wife has given him 595 00:29:07,560 --> 00:29:10,800 Speaker 1: inside information. Quick commercial break. You're gonna want to stay 596 00:29:10,880 --> 00:29:16,280 Speaker 1: right there, trust me. Well, I think Trump might be 597 00:29:16,440 --> 00:29:18,760 Speaker 1: the only guy that went to d C and came 598 00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:20,680 Speaker 1: out worse, you know, like they all go to like 599 00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:22,680 Speaker 1: he because he was already rich. Right, he didn't need 600 00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:24,480 Speaker 1: the job. You have all these other people like Gear 601 00:29:24,520 --> 00:29:26,960 Speaker 1: pointing out they go to get Ridge. Yeah, he didn't. 602 00:29:27,040 --> 00:29:29,040 Speaker 1: He didn't need that. The last thing Donald Trump needed 603 00:29:29,040 --> 00:29:30,720 Speaker 1: it was to be in the White House. But he 604 00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:32,440 Speaker 1: did it, and he did it for the right reasons 605 00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:34,440 Speaker 1: because he, I mean, believe it or not, he cares 606 00:29:34,440 --> 00:29:38,800 Speaker 1: about Americans and and and nowadays being America first is 607 00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:43,920 Speaker 1: racist or something, which is nonsense because every country has 608 00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:47,720 Speaker 1: a border. Martha's vineyard has a border, but we don't 609 00:29:47,760 --> 00:29:49,440 Speaker 1: in the South. And all he wanted to do was 610 00:29:49,480 --> 00:29:54,680 Speaker 1: a border security and freedom, freedom to prosper. That's all 611 00:29:54,800 --> 00:29:57,320 Speaker 1: he was wanting to do. But they started labeling in 612 00:29:57,360 --> 00:29:59,840 Speaker 1: because that's that's what these politicians, that's what these um 613 00:30:01,080 --> 00:30:04,280 Speaker 1: reporters do. For some reason, I can't figure it out. 614 00:30:04,320 --> 00:30:05,680 Speaker 1: I'd love to figure it out, but I can't. Well, 615 00:30:05,720 --> 00:30:07,520 Speaker 1: and to like they're all afraid of them, you know, 616 00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:09,719 Speaker 1: like Putin didn't try this stuff under Trump. And then 617 00:30:09,760 --> 00:30:12,560 Speaker 1: one of my friends, uh, well, when someone was telling 618 00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:15,479 Speaker 1: me in the military about like Iran took out one 619 00:30:15,520 --> 00:30:17,720 Speaker 1: of her drones and it made a bunch of news. 620 00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:20,600 Speaker 1: But they were telling me that if you understand flight patterns, 621 00:30:20,640 --> 00:30:22,480 Speaker 1: you which you probably do, but I don't. This is 622 00:30:22,520 --> 00:30:24,120 Speaker 1: just what the person told me who I trust. But 623 00:30:24,160 --> 00:30:26,280 Speaker 1: they were saying that if you looked at the way 624 00:30:26,320 --> 00:30:29,600 Speaker 1: the drone flies, it was clearly not man it was 625 00:30:29,640 --> 00:30:32,239 Speaker 1: not man craft or what is it, it was an 626 00:30:32,320 --> 00:30:35,840 Speaker 1: unmanned drone because of the flight patterns, and so when 627 00:30:35,880 --> 00:30:38,400 Speaker 1: they took out or drone, they knew it wasn't manned. 628 00:30:38,480 --> 00:30:40,360 Speaker 1: So it was like a way to like quote unquote 629 00:30:40,400 --> 00:30:44,280 Speaker 1: retaliate without actually instigating anything further. It was like more 630 00:30:44,320 --> 00:30:48,760 Speaker 1: of a safe face a face saving operation. So like 631 00:30:48,840 --> 00:30:50,720 Speaker 1: even with stuff like that, it's like they didn't want 632 00:30:50,800 --> 00:30:52,880 Speaker 1: to really mess with Trump because they knew they'd be 633 00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:55,400 Speaker 1: on the receiving end of a lot. No, Well then 634 00:30:55,560 --> 00:30:58,480 Speaker 1: they understood what what no, but Donald Trump do and 635 00:30:58,600 --> 00:31:01,239 Speaker 1: and that's what we need as a leader. And um, 636 00:31:01,720 --> 00:31:04,120 Speaker 1: you know he he would do that. President Obama would 637 00:31:04,120 --> 00:31:06,400 Speaker 1: do that. Um. The two missions that we talked about, 638 00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:09,320 Speaker 1: would we rescued um long survivor I'm sorry when we 639 00:31:09,360 --> 00:31:12,960 Speaker 1: rescued Captain Phillips and killed Bin Laden. Obama was in charge. 640 00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:16,240 Speaker 1: And because he understood, even though we disagree politically that 641 00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:19,280 Speaker 1: southside politics, don't mess with me, or I will do this. 642 00:31:19,360 --> 00:31:21,000 Speaker 1: And that's called deterrence. And we just don't have that 643 00:31:21,120 --> 00:31:24,320 Speaker 1: right now because everyone'sn't worried about like John Federman from Pennsylvania, 644 00:31:24,320 --> 00:31:28,520 Speaker 1: what's called up, John Federwoman whatever nonsense he's saying in 645 00:31:28,640 --> 00:31:32,760 Speaker 1: between his strokes to try to sound like someone that's 646 00:31:32,800 --> 00:31:34,560 Speaker 1: just begging for votes. I think it's a shame. I mean, 647 00:31:34,800 --> 00:31:37,720 Speaker 1: when when when we're a position like that where potentially 648 00:31:37,720 --> 00:31:40,160 Speaker 1: gonna put someone in office, they can't even hear how 649 00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:43,000 Speaker 1: much of our recruiting challenges with the military. Do you 650 00:31:43,080 --> 00:31:46,240 Speaker 1: think comes down to Joe Biden, Like just people young 651 00:31:46,360 --> 00:31:48,840 Speaker 1: guys being like, you know what, I'm not fighting for 652 00:31:48,920 --> 00:31:51,480 Speaker 1: this guy. You know, like he's destroying the country. He 653 00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:53,720 Speaker 1: hates America. I'm not. I'm not doing this for him. 654 00:31:53,960 --> 00:31:55,480 Speaker 1: Do you think that has anything to do with it? 655 00:31:55,960 --> 00:31:57,880 Speaker 1: I think I think it's a lot because nobody wants 656 00:31:57,880 --> 00:32:00,280 Speaker 1: to get involved with a lot of this. Uh uh. 657 00:32:00,520 --> 00:32:03,880 Speaker 1: It goes back to defund the police, It goes back 658 00:32:03,960 --> 00:32:07,280 Speaker 1: to anyone trying to defend this country is a certain name, 659 00:32:07,400 --> 00:32:08,640 Speaker 1: and I think a lot of it has to do 660 00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:11,680 Speaker 1: with it with the borders. It's with it's all, you know, 661 00:32:11,720 --> 00:32:14,280 Speaker 1: all that stuff where they're they're making the people who 662 00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:17,000 Speaker 1: just want to do the right thing by us the 663 00:32:17,120 --> 00:32:20,520 Speaker 1: bad guys, like when we're we're handing out xboxes to 664 00:32:20,640 --> 00:32:23,840 Speaker 1: illegal aliens in New York, homeless veterans are a problem. 665 00:32:24,120 --> 00:32:25,880 Speaker 1: Nobody wants to be a part of that. It's just 666 00:32:25,960 --> 00:32:28,560 Speaker 1: a shame, I mean, and at all, even though it's 667 00:32:28,560 --> 00:32:30,400 Speaker 1: political talking points for a lot of these people, it 668 00:32:30,520 --> 00:32:33,440 Speaker 1: comes it does come back to the individual making the decision, 669 00:32:33,480 --> 00:32:35,240 Speaker 1: and you can see it, I mean, the results of 670 00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:38,800 Speaker 1: the results of themselves. Nobody wants to be part of this. 671 00:32:39,280 --> 00:32:43,040 Speaker 1: As someone who was quite literally willing to give his 672 00:32:43,160 --> 00:32:47,200 Speaker 1: life for his country, how infuriating and frustrating is it 673 00:32:47,320 --> 00:32:51,040 Speaker 1: to see the deterioration that has taken place under Joe Biden. Well, 674 00:32:51,800 --> 00:32:55,800 Speaker 1: the faith that I have is with the engineers, with 675 00:32:55,960 --> 00:32:58,760 Speaker 1: the pilots, with the people that design the aircraft carriers 676 00:32:58,840 --> 00:33:02,400 Speaker 1: and the submarines and missiles, the torpedoes. I know they're 677 00:33:02,440 --> 00:33:04,120 Speaker 1: out there and I know they're doing the right thing. 678 00:33:04,520 --> 00:33:09,120 Speaker 1: And again the noise gets the attention. So we do 679 00:33:09,200 --> 00:33:12,040 Speaker 1: have good people out there, but we're just cutting it. 680 00:33:12,440 --> 00:33:15,160 Speaker 1: We're cutting it short of more good people that could 681 00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:17,760 Speaker 1: be in there. Um And and it's it's everything from 682 00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:23,560 Speaker 1: from you know, just just the way that for some reason, 683 00:33:23,760 --> 00:33:25,239 Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of the media, a lot 684 00:33:25,280 --> 00:33:27,480 Speaker 1: of social media, or making America the bad guy. And 685 00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:29,720 Speaker 1: it shouldn't be that way. It is that way until 686 00:33:29,760 --> 00:33:33,640 Speaker 1: they need us, um. But it's definitely an effect. Was 687 00:33:33,720 --> 00:33:37,000 Speaker 1: a COVID vaccine mandate, an attempt to purge the military 688 00:33:37,360 --> 00:33:39,920 Speaker 1: of certain people. I don't know what was going on 689 00:33:40,080 --> 00:33:42,280 Speaker 1: with that. I UM. I was a guy like I said, 690 00:33:42,320 --> 00:33:46,880 Speaker 1: when when we invaded Iraq, they they did make us 691 00:33:46,920 --> 00:33:49,560 Speaker 1: get vaccinated for smallpox, And I said, I don't know 692 00:33:49,600 --> 00:33:53,239 Speaker 1: how many thirteen or fourteen shots of anthrax. And at 693 00:33:53,280 --> 00:33:54,880 Speaker 1: the time, I was like I'm in the military and 694 00:33:54,920 --> 00:33:57,280 Speaker 1: they they're telling me to do what I gotta do it. Um. Yeah, 695 00:33:57,280 --> 00:33:58,840 Speaker 1: I think that I do think they were making a 696 00:33:58,880 --> 00:34:01,880 Speaker 1: political stance again with the guys in the military, the 697 00:34:01,920 --> 00:34:03,440 Speaker 1: men and women in the military that said they're not 698 00:34:03,440 --> 00:34:05,760 Speaker 1: going to do it for religious reasons. That's that's kind 699 00:34:05,760 --> 00:34:08,080 Speaker 1: of on you. You are at a point where you're 700 00:34:08,120 --> 00:34:10,719 Speaker 1: taking wordse so you kind of got to do it. Um. 701 00:34:11,680 --> 00:34:13,400 Speaker 1: But I think that you know, now that they are 702 00:34:13,440 --> 00:34:16,320 Speaker 1: admitting that the vaccine didn't work, I think they should 703 00:34:16,320 --> 00:34:18,799 Speaker 1: reinstates you guys, because they wore definitely make political points 704 00:34:18,840 --> 00:34:21,000 Speaker 1: out of it. Yeah. Uh well, and then to like 705 00:34:21,160 --> 00:34:25,200 Speaker 1: the Florida Surgeon General did some research and studies finding 706 00:34:25,320 --> 00:34:29,200 Speaker 1: that for young men in particular, it increases the chance 707 00:34:29,239 --> 00:34:31,440 Speaker 1: of cardiac arrest I think by like something like over 708 00:34:31,520 --> 00:34:35,320 Speaker 1: eight percent, which is pretty wild figure people in that shape. 709 00:34:35,320 --> 00:34:37,000 Speaker 1: They're pretty good shape. They don't really need it and 710 00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:39,840 Speaker 1: they're not not in the kill zone. Yeah, and like 711 00:34:39,960 --> 00:34:43,600 Speaker 1: probably not good to increase her issues for guys who 712 00:34:43,640 --> 00:34:45,600 Speaker 1: are going to be you know, writting like a billion 713 00:34:45,680 --> 00:34:50,000 Speaker 1: miles and you know, doing some pretty crazy workout stuff. 714 00:34:50,040 --> 00:34:55,160 Speaker 1: That stuff that I couldn't do, like Uh do you 715 00:34:55,239 --> 00:34:59,760 Speaker 1: miss serving? I missed the camaraderie. And like I'm saying earlier, 716 00:34:59,760 --> 00:35:02,239 Speaker 1: ID talk to three of my guys today and uh, 717 00:35:02,400 --> 00:35:05,920 Speaker 1: it's just nice to reminisce. Some of the stuff that 718 00:35:05,960 --> 00:35:08,279 Speaker 1: I miss is the skydive trips that we would go 719 00:35:08,360 --> 00:35:11,160 Speaker 1: to Tucson, Arizona, do ten jumps a day and they 720 00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:13,760 Speaker 1: go to the trident, burn grill, hang out with Nelson 721 00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:15,760 Speaker 1: Miller of beers, and wake up the next day. Scott, 722 00:35:15,760 --> 00:35:20,120 Speaker 1: I missed that part. Um the other stuff, Um, we 723 00:35:20,680 --> 00:35:22,600 Speaker 1: we we can make a lot of things suck. We 724 00:35:22,719 --> 00:35:27,120 Speaker 1: make scuba diving suck, we make sniper stuff suck. Uh. 725 00:35:27,360 --> 00:35:29,000 Speaker 1: I don't necessarily miss that, but I tell you what, 726 00:35:29,040 --> 00:35:32,720 Speaker 1: the camaraderie. That the old adage that misery loves company 727 00:35:33,040 --> 00:35:35,200 Speaker 1: is true because some of the worst times, some of 728 00:35:35,239 --> 00:35:38,000 Speaker 1: the darkest times in my life, brought out the best humor. 729 00:35:38,440 --> 00:35:41,120 Speaker 1: And I do miss that. Um and and again, to 730 00:35:41,160 --> 00:35:43,479 Speaker 1: answer your question earlier, I would totally do it again. 731 00:35:43,640 --> 00:35:47,360 Speaker 1: We're saying, you know, real concerns with suicide rates for veterans. 732 00:35:48,440 --> 00:35:50,840 Speaker 1: Why do you think that is and what should we 733 00:35:50,920 --> 00:35:55,920 Speaker 1: be doing differently to help our veterans postermatic stress disorder 734 00:35:56,080 --> 00:35:58,520 Speaker 1: is real. And a lot of the stuff that we 735 00:35:58,600 --> 00:36:00,960 Speaker 1: were sent to do, they asked a lot of us 736 00:36:01,520 --> 00:36:05,080 Speaker 1: and it's okay. And I tell veterans right now that 737 00:36:05,160 --> 00:36:07,400 Speaker 1: if you're having a bad day, just call someone. But 738 00:36:07,480 --> 00:36:09,839 Speaker 1: if you're having a good day, call someone because they 739 00:36:09,920 --> 00:36:12,520 Speaker 1: might be having a bad day. And the isolation is 740 00:36:12,560 --> 00:36:14,840 Speaker 1: um and just the realizing some of stuff we did 741 00:36:14,960 --> 00:36:18,320 Speaker 1: was bad and it was it's not normal. Um. You know, 742 00:36:18,400 --> 00:36:20,279 Speaker 1: there're there are people that I think about every day 743 00:36:20,280 --> 00:36:22,120 Speaker 1: that I killed, that I fought in Iraq, And the 744 00:36:22,160 --> 00:36:24,520 Speaker 1: only reason I killed them was because they grabbed a gun. 745 00:36:24,600 --> 00:36:26,200 Speaker 1: The only reason they grabbed a gun is because I 746 00:36:26,360 --> 00:36:30,279 Speaker 1: was in their room. And had we met, you know, 747 00:36:30,480 --> 00:36:32,319 Speaker 1: the only reason I shot this guy's because we were 748 00:36:32,360 --> 00:36:34,839 Speaker 1: born on different parts of the planet. Had we met 749 00:36:34,920 --> 00:36:37,480 Speaker 1: somewhere else, would would we have gotten along? Would he 750 00:36:37,600 --> 00:36:41,640 Speaker 1: have been a funny guy? And I figured about these people? Um, 751 00:36:41,960 --> 00:36:44,600 Speaker 1: So you know a lot of people that a lot 752 00:36:44,640 --> 00:36:46,600 Speaker 1: of that stuff. You're not alone, just um, you know, 753 00:36:46,640 --> 00:36:48,440 Speaker 1: get out there talks, so get outside. You wake up 754 00:36:48,440 --> 00:36:50,680 Speaker 1: in the morning, get outside, see the sun and and 755 00:36:50,840 --> 00:36:53,040 Speaker 1: and call a friend. And you're not You're not alone. 756 00:36:53,280 --> 00:36:54,920 Speaker 1: I see too many of my friends killed themselves and 757 00:36:54,920 --> 00:36:58,280 Speaker 1: it's not it's definitely not worth it. Like I said earlier, 758 00:36:59,239 --> 00:37:01,520 Speaker 1: the clock keeps tick and tank keeps going and and 759 00:37:01,600 --> 00:37:03,920 Speaker 1: it will heal everything. You'll be just finding I mean 760 00:37:03,960 --> 00:37:06,160 Speaker 1: even if like even on Twitter, I'll tell people give 761 00:37:06,160 --> 00:37:08,120 Speaker 1: me a call, I'll talk to you as here guys 762 00:37:08,160 --> 00:37:10,759 Speaker 1: talk about you know, boots and suits. Do we need 763 00:37:10,920 --> 00:37:13,520 Speaker 1: changes in terms of people like Mark Millie who's the 764 00:37:13,560 --> 00:37:16,440 Speaker 1: chairman of the Joints Chief and Staff. Yeah, And that's 765 00:37:16,480 --> 00:37:18,640 Speaker 1: an easy fix to the problem, is there. Uh, what 766 00:37:18,840 --> 00:37:21,799 Speaker 1: what I always say about the military brass is when 767 00:37:21,840 --> 00:37:23,839 Speaker 1: you get to a point where you're not carrying your 768 00:37:23,880 --> 00:37:26,960 Speaker 1: own luggage, you need to leave. So we we shouldn't 769 00:37:26,960 --> 00:37:29,520 Speaker 1: have four star generals in charge. We should have majors 770 00:37:30,040 --> 00:37:33,040 Speaker 1: for a lieutenant colonel in charge, people that that know 771 00:37:33,320 --> 00:37:37,279 Speaker 1: the sergeant that met the startain major know the master 772 00:37:37,400 --> 00:37:40,840 Speaker 1: chief to talk to the people that realize the pulse 773 00:37:41,080 --> 00:37:44,640 Speaker 1: of the men and women on the ground. We they're 774 00:37:44,680 --> 00:37:46,839 Speaker 1: promoting themselves out of work and they're just they're they're 775 00:37:46,880 --> 00:37:48,880 Speaker 1: so these are people that when they go to the 776 00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:52,279 Speaker 1: v a uh, they call a week before so the 777 00:37:52,400 --> 00:37:54,640 Speaker 1: VA spit shines everything. So they just see the best version. 778 00:37:54,680 --> 00:37:56,759 Speaker 1: I want people that I want to I want people 779 00:37:56,760 --> 00:37:58,960 Speaker 1: to see us that are worse because you don't learn 780 00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:01,520 Speaker 1: from success, you learn from failure. And guys like Mark 781 00:38:01,560 --> 00:38:03,319 Speaker 1: Miller just so out of touch and they're surrounded by 782 00:38:03,440 --> 00:38:07,040 Speaker 1: yes men. They're surrounded by people that simply tell them 783 00:38:07,080 --> 00:38:08,440 Speaker 1: what they want to hear so that they can get 784 00:38:08,480 --> 00:38:10,600 Speaker 1: their job eventually. And that's a shame. That's that's just 785 00:38:11,120 --> 00:38:14,560 Speaker 1: typical with government bureaucracy everywhere. So I have the have 786 00:38:14,760 --> 00:38:18,799 Speaker 1: the lower ranking manner woman immediately in charge and they'll 787 00:38:18,840 --> 00:38:24,200 Speaker 1: handle the flight. Would we win a major war right now, yes, Um, 788 00:38:24,360 --> 00:38:27,080 Speaker 1: we would, um, just because we have so many smart 789 00:38:27,120 --> 00:38:29,960 Speaker 1: people that are controlling the satellites and the the ships 790 00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:32,759 Speaker 1: and the subs. China's got a bigger navy than we 791 00:38:32,840 --> 00:38:37,280 Speaker 1: do right now, but um, we are designed to destroy 792 00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:40,319 Speaker 1: big militaries, and so I think personally we can beat 793 00:38:40,360 --> 00:38:42,600 Speaker 1: Russia and China at the same time and a matter 794 00:38:42,640 --> 00:38:45,680 Speaker 1: of days. Um. And we're not going to announce that, 795 00:38:45,960 --> 00:38:47,799 Speaker 1: but that's that's just the way it is. That's that's 796 00:38:47,840 --> 00:38:50,320 Speaker 1: the way we're built. And like I said to the 797 00:38:50,400 --> 00:38:53,480 Speaker 1: nuclear war is not even worth talking about. That that's 798 00:38:54,200 --> 00:38:56,680 Speaker 1: well nobody wins in nuclear war. But yeah, we we can. 799 00:38:56,760 --> 00:38:59,319 Speaker 1: We can win all the Yes, beer badass in an 800 00:38:59,360 --> 00:39:02,239 Speaker 1: actual American hero. Is there anything else you want to 801 00:39:02,360 --> 00:39:04,960 Speaker 1: leave us with before we go? Um? No, at least 802 00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:08,880 Speaker 1: I really appreciate having me. Definitely check out the Operator Podcast. 803 00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:11,560 Speaker 1: I just did episode eleven, and I talked about stuff 804 00:39:11,600 --> 00:39:13,560 Speaker 1: like this and and the way that I break it down. 805 00:39:14,160 --> 00:39:16,640 Speaker 1: I called the Operator Podcast because I used to be 806 00:39:16,680 --> 00:39:20,160 Speaker 1: an operator. But everyone's an operator. The single mom raising 807 00:39:20,239 --> 00:39:22,560 Speaker 1: her kids, the guy that takes up the trash at 808 00:39:22,600 --> 00:39:25,200 Speaker 1: three am in New York City, the plumber that those 809 00:39:25,200 --> 00:39:27,279 Speaker 1: are operators making light better, and I just break it 810 00:39:27,320 --> 00:39:29,360 Speaker 1: down operator Operator, and I talked about stuff just like this. 811 00:39:29,960 --> 00:39:32,440 Speaker 1: Appreciate you to check that out. That's awesome. Thanks for 812 00:39:32,560 --> 00:39:35,600 Speaker 1: your service. Rob, you are a badass, and I really 813 00:39:35,760 --> 00:39:37,879 Speaker 1: you're You're awesome. I've met you before. You're a great guy. 814 00:39:37,920 --> 00:39:39,480 Speaker 1: I really appreciate you taking the time to come on 815 00:39:39,520 --> 00:39:41,520 Speaker 1: the show. You've made my day. Thank you so much 816 00:39:41,520 --> 00:39:55,440 Speaker 1: for having I really appreciate it. So that was Robin 817 00:39:55,480 --> 00:39:59,240 Speaker 1: Oleo still Team six Hero took out a Salma bid Ladden. 818 00:39:59,320 --> 00:40:00,919 Speaker 1: I've met m be Or at Fox is a really 819 00:40:00,920 --> 00:40:03,239 Speaker 1: good guy, a really great guy. So I appreciate in 820 00:40:03,280 --> 00:40:05,239 Speaker 1: this time and I appreciate you guys listening to the 821 00:40:05,280 --> 00:40:08,040 Speaker 1: show every Monday Thursday, but you can listen whenever you 822 00:40:08,120 --> 00:40:11,560 Speaker 1: want because that's how it works podcast. But I would 823 00:40:11,560 --> 00:40:13,480 Speaker 1: love you to leave us a review, give us five 824 00:40:13,520 --> 00:40:15,680 Speaker 1: stars and Apple if you wouldn't mind. I want to 825 00:40:15,719 --> 00:40:18,440 Speaker 1: thank John Cassio, my producer, for for putting this together 826 00:40:18,520 --> 00:40:20,480 Speaker 1: as always. Uh until next time.