WEBVTT - The Woke Military with Rob O'Neill 0:00:00.000 --> 0:00:04.800 The United States Military is facing its biggest recruiting challenge 0:00:05.080 --> 0:00:08.760 since we ended the draft in July of nineteen seventy three. 0:00:08.960 --> 0:00:11.680 The military has a recruiting problem. The Army missed its 0:00:11.680 --> 0:00:14.920 recruiting goal by about fifteen thousand new soldiers in two 0:00:14.920 --> 0:00:18.760 thousand twenty two, coming up short of its goal. I 0:00:18.760 --> 0:00:22.479 wonder why that is. Could it be because of this 0:00:23.239 --> 0:00:25.560 et cetera. I'll obviously have to get much sparter on 0:00:25.760 --> 0:00:29.680 whatever the theory is. UM. But I do think it's 0:00:29.720 --> 0:00:34.559 important actually for those of us in uniform to be 0:00:34.680 --> 0:00:37.320 open minded and be widely read. And the United States 0:00:37.320 --> 0:00:40.839 Military Academy is a university, uh, and it is important 0:00:41.000 --> 0:00:44.720 that we train and we understand UH. And I want 0:00:44.760 --> 0:00:47.440 to understand white rage. And I'm white and I want 0:00:47.440 --> 0:00:51.280 to understand it. So what is it that caused thousands 0:00:51.280 --> 0:00:54.920 of people to assault this building and try to overturn 0:00:54.960 --> 0:00:57.600 the constitution of the United States of America? What caused that? 0:00:58.040 --> 0:00:59.880 I want to find that out. I want to main 0:01:00.000 --> 0:01:01.400 in an open mind here, and I do want to 0:01:01.440 --> 0:01:04.120 analyze it. It's important that we understand that because our 0:01:04.160 --> 0:01:06.679 soul is sailors, airmond marines, and guardians. They come from 0:01:06.680 --> 0:01:09.640 the American people. So it is important that the leaders 0:01:10.280 --> 0:01:13.399 now and in the future do understand it. I've read 0:01:13.440 --> 0:01:17.400 Miles Tongue, I've read I've read call Marks, I've read Lenin. 0:01:17.480 --> 0:01:20.000 That doesn't make me a communist, So what is wrong 0:01:20.560 --> 0:01:24.680 with understanding having some situational understanding about the country for 0:01:24.760 --> 0:01:27.760 which we are here to defend. Although given some of 0:01:27.760 --> 0:01:29.320 the things he has said in the past, you might 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:33.360 want to retract that statement about not subscribing the Communism 0:01:33.440 --> 0:01:35.480 and the fact that he was trying to, you know, 0:01:35.680 --> 0:01:39.679 work with the Chinese as uh President Trump was leaving 0:01:39.680 --> 0:01:43.120 office during the transition might raise some eyebrows as well. 0:01:43.200 --> 0:01:46.880 But you know, I digress. But what he was doing 0:01:46.920 --> 0:01:51.360 there was he was defending critical race theory because it's 0:01:51.400 --> 0:01:54.760 being taught in the United States Military Service academies. They've 0:01:54.880 --> 0:01:57.680 introduced some sort of form of critical race theory or 0:01:57.720 --> 0:02:01.560 anti racism training. In addition to that, the U. S. 0:02:01.680 --> 0:02:04.880 Army is putting its soldiers through training on gender pronouns 0:02:05.400 --> 0:02:11.880 and coaching officers on when to offer soldiers gender transition surgery. 0:02:12.120 --> 0:02:15.760 This has all been reported. So maybe that's why we're 0:02:15.840 --> 0:02:21.160 having recruiting challenge. Maybe that's why you think, and what 0:02:21.240 --> 0:02:24.440 does that recruiting challenge mean for the country. More broadly, 0:02:25.360 --> 0:02:27.960 what does that mean for fighting future wars? What kind 0:02:27.960 --> 0:02:30.360 of people are recruiting, what kind of people are choosing 0:02:30.400 --> 0:02:34.040 to sign up in today's military. So I wanted to 0:02:34.040 --> 0:02:37.440 do a segment about all of this, and I thought 0:02:37.440 --> 0:02:40.520 to myself, who better than to have the guy who 0:02:40.680 --> 0:02:46.120 killed Osama bin Laden, Rob O'Neil, Seal Team six, American badass, 0:02:46.200 --> 0:02:49.800 American hero. So we're gonna talk to him about his 0:02:49.919 --> 0:02:52.440 take all of this, also get into Ukraine a little 0:02:52.440 --> 0:02:55.560 bit as well, and really ask him the question, would 0:02:55.600 --> 0:02:59.640 you join today's military in this environment? Would you join it? 0:03:00.160 --> 0:03:02.000 So we're gonna talk to him about that, and also 0:03:02.080 --> 0:03:04.560 just some of the missions that he's been on as well. 0:03:04.600 --> 0:03:07.240 We're gonna talk to him about that morning a little 0:03:07.280 --> 0:03:09.840 after midnight when he took out a Sama bin Laden. 0:03:09.880 --> 0:03:13.400 We're gonna talk about his rescue of Captain Richard Phillips 0:03:13.760 --> 0:03:16.600 from Somali pirates in two thousand nine. We're gonna talk 0:03:16.639 --> 0:03:19.800 about being on the team leading the team that rescued 0:03:19.840 --> 0:03:21.800 Marcus Latrelle. So we're gonna talk to him a little 0:03:21.800 --> 0:03:24.440 bit about that as well. So it's gonna be a 0:03:24.480 --> 0:03:26.959 really interesting conference. I've met Rob too, He's an awesome guy, 0:03:27.320 --> 0:03:40.400 So stay tuned for Rob O'Neill. So I've been wanting 0:03:40.440 --> 0:03:43.000 to do a segment about the state of the military, 0:03:43.080 --> 0:03:45.640 and I thought to myself, who better than the guy 0:03:45.680 --> 0:03:50.120 who killed a Sama. So Rob O'Neill, thanks for the 0:03:50.480 --> 0:03:53.680 notorious badass American hero. Thanks for coming on the show. 0:03:53.880 --> 0:03:55.760 Thank you so much for happy. I'm glad we finally 0:03:55.800 --> 0:03:58.600 got to make this happen. Great to be here. I 0:03:58.640 --> 0:04:00.160 know I've been wanting to get you off and so 0:04:00.240 --> 0:04:03.800 I'm so glad to happen. We were we were exchanging 0:04:03.960 --> 0:04:06.120 Twitter messages I think back and forth, and we're gonna 0:04:06.200 --> 0:04:08.000 We're gonna make this happen because I think the two 0:04:08.000 --> 0:04:10.000 of us together we can make a lot of sense 0:04:10.040 --> 0:04:14.960 of nonsensical issues. So already, and Rob, if you've been 0:04:14.960 --> 0:04:16.920 paying attention, which I know you have, there's a lot 0:04:17.000 --> 0:04:21.920 of nonsense, right It's all nonsense. That's what keeps us 0:04:21.920 --> 0:04:25.880 both in business. Nonsense is just it's it's in no 0:04:26.040 --> 0:04:29.000 short terms right now, it's just it's madness. But we'll 0:04:29.000 --> 0:04:31.640 try to make some sense of it and bring some 0:04:31.680 --> 0:04:34.599 common sense. Yeah, well, we'll do our best. Uh, you know, 0:04:34.640 --> 0:04:36.360 but before we get into kind of the state of 0:04:36.400 --> 0:04:39.719 the military and how we got here, I I wanted 0:04:39.720 --> 0:04:43.120 to talk to you about that morning, a little after 0:04:43.200 --> 0:04:46.680 midnight on May second, two thousand eleven, when you took 0:04:46.680 --> 0:04:48.800 out a SAMBI laden. It was an honor for me 0:04:48.839 --> 0:04:51.200 to be invited to be part of a team. It 0:04:51.320 --> 0:04:52.960 was the right place at the right time. I was 0:04:53.000 --> 0:04:56.200 a Seal Team six and I'm a big believer in 0:04:56.200 --> 0:04:59.400 the butterfly effect that I got there on accident. I 0:04:59.440 --> 0:05:01.360 made it to se in a long time before that 0:05:01.440 --> 0:05:03.800 to join the Navy because I tried to join the 0:05:03.839 --> 0:05:06.599 Marine Corps and the Marine recruiter was not in the office, 0:05:06.600 --> 0:05:08.200 and had he not been to lunch, I would not 0:05:08.279 --> 0:05:10.520 have joined the Navy. And you know, if you fast forward, 0:05:10.520 --> 0:05:11.880 I would not have done the mission. I would have 0:05:11.880 --> 0:05:16.640 my daughters. Um. But I got to a spot joining 0:05:16.680 --> 0:05:19.000 the Navy, a guy from Montana who didn't know how 0:05:19.040 --> 0:05:23.159 to swim. But um, I had a seal instructor tell 0:05:23.200 --> 0:05:25.760 me that I know you've read the books, I know 0:05:25.760 --> 0:05:27.960 you've seen the movies. Regardless of what you've been told, 0:05:28.360 --> 0:05:30.960 this course is not impossible. People graduate so I will 0:05:31.000 --> 0:05:33.200 never ask you to do anything impossible, but I will 0:05:33.240 --> 0:05:35.479 make you do something very hard followed by something very hard. 0:05:35.480 --> 0:05:38.280 Fallowed was something very hard, day after day after day 0:05:38.279 --> 0:05:40.400 for for ninth straight months. And that sounds like a 0:05:40.480 --> 0:05:42.120 lot to get from now to nine months or now. 0:05:42.120 --> 0:05:43.800 But don't think about it that way. That's not how 0:05:43.839 --> 0:05:46.719 you achieve a long term goal. Do it like this. 0:05:46.800 --> 0:05:48.839 Wake up in the morning on time, make your bed 0:05:48.920 --> 0:05:51.000 the right way, and brush your teeth. You just started 0:05:51.040 --> 0:05:52.880 the day with three victories. Make it to the foam 0:05:52.960 --> 0:05:55.400 workout on time. As I'm beating you, don't think about 0:05:55.400 --> 0:05:57.960 the pain concentrated your next goal of life, which is 0:05:58.000 --> 0:06:00.159 making it to breakfast after breakfast. Your net to go 0:06:00.240 --> 0:06:02.480 in life is making it to lunch after lunch, make 0:06:02.520 --> 0:06:04.520 it to dinner after dinner. Do everything you need to 0:06:04.560 --> 0:06:07.159 do to get back inside that perfectly made been. And 0:06:07.200 --> 0:06:08.920 because you took the time in the morning to make 0:06:08.920 --> 0:06:11.680 your bed the right way, regardless of how bad today 0:06:11.880 --> 0:06:13.760 was and it will be bad, tomorrow is a clean slate. 0:06:13.920 --> 0:06:16.799 Tomorrow is a fresh start. And when you feel like quitting, 0:06:17.120 --> 0:06:20.479 which you will do, not quit right now. That's not 0:06:20.520 --> 0:06:22.279 how you achieve a want to go quick tomorrow. If 0:06:22.320 --> 0:06:25.119 you can keep quitting tomorrow, you can do anything in life. 0:06:25.400 --> 0:06:27.279 And that's how I became a Navy seal. That's how 0:06:27.279 --> 0:06:28.520 I got to seal Come six and then I was 0:06:28.560 --> 0:06:30.760 invited to be a part of that team twenty three 0:06:30.760 --> 0:06:32.880 of the best people I've ever met. UM got on 0:06:32.920 --> 0:06:37.680 the ground and I've been asked, how do you how 0:06:37.720 --> 0:06:41.160 do you? How do you clear a compound that big? 0:06:41.560 --> 0:06:44.800 And the way we did it was by a mastering 0:06:44.800 --> 0:06:47.320 the basics. UM, it's the guy in front of yours left, 0:06:47.400 --> 0:06:49.800 you go right. And I happened to be there. I 0:06:49.800 --> 0:06:51.520 had a front row seat to the greatest mission of 0:06:51.560 --> 0:06:54.840 modern history. And I just followed my guys, watching some 0:06:54.880 --> 0:06:57.760 of the coolest guys in the world. UM go from 0:06:57.800 --> 0:07:01.120 Florida floor and I ended up being the guy went 0:07:01.160 --> 0:07:02.880 at the last of the stairs, and because the guy 0:07:02.880 --> 0:07:04.159 in front of me went left, I went right, and 0:07:04.160 --> 0:07:06.600 there was a sawn and been lud and I shot him. 0:07:07.000 --> 0:07:09.280 And it was it was simply because we we went there. 0:07:09.840 --> 0:07:12.320 We didn't go there for the fame. We went there 0:07:12.440 --> 0:07:15.760 for the first Americans who actually fought Al Qaeda. Tote 0:07:15.800 --> 0:07:20.240 of toe Um on flight ninete and the reason they 0:07:20.280 --> 0:07:24.120 fought al Qaeda, um was to save the Capitol. And 0:07:24.160 --> 0:07:26.640 the coolest thing about them is that before they thought 0:07:26.680 --> 0:07:29.760 to the death, they voted. And that to me give 0:07:29.840 --> 0:07:31.480 me goose bumps right now as I tell you that. Sorry. 0:07:31.680 --> 0:07:33.360 And I just happened to be the right guy at 0:07:33.360 --> 0:07:34.840 the right place, at the right time, with the with 0:07:34.880 --> 0:07:37.520 the perfect team, the best pilots and the best air crew. 0:07:37.720 --> 0:07:39.800 And I just did what the nation asked. And that's 0:07:39.840 --> 0:07:42.200 as simple as it gets. What was that like to 0:07:42.360 --> 0:07:45.680 take out a guy who has killed so many Americans, 0:07:45.800 --> 0:07:48.240 has done so much harm to our country? It was, 0:07:48.400 --> 0:07:53.040 it was. It was almost surreal when when when the 0:07:53.080 --> 0:07:55.640 guy in front of me went up the stairs, I 0:07:55.680 --> 0:07:57.960 was right behind him. I remember, I can still close 0:07:58.000 --> 0:08:01.520 my eyes and see it. It wasn't um. It was 0:08:01.560 --> 0:08:04.440 more of a we're gonna blow up now, let's get 0:08:04.440 --> 0:08:07.000 it over with. And I squeezed him. We went up 0:08:07.000 --> 0:08:08.440 the stairs and when I saw him, he was taller 0:08:08.440 --> 0:08:12.520 than I said I thought, skinnier than I thought. Um. 0:08:13.840 --> 0:08:16.120 This the nation deserves it. It It was, it was, it was. 0:08:16.160 --> 0:08:18.400 It was so surreal after I shot him as a 0:08:18.480 --> 0:08:21.240 good guy, as an American, when I shot because he 0:08:21.280 --> 0:08:24.600 was he had his hands on a Maldon Lawton's shoulders. 0:08:24.640 --> 0:08:27.240 He was pushing her towards me and I shot him. 0:08:27.480 --> 0:08:30.360 My first reaction was to move her out of the 0:08:30.440 --> 0:08:32.679 way because other Navy seals will be coming in the room. 0:08:32.840 --> 0:08:35.400 And then I saw his two year old son staring 0:08:35.440 --> 0:08:38.160 at me, and as a father, I remember that the 0:08:38.240 --> 0:08:40.880 humanity thinking this poor kid's got nothing to do with this, 0:08:41.520 --> 0:08:43.480 and I moved him aside, put him on the bed, 0:08:43.559 --> 0:08:46.040 and another guy came in the room and I was 0:08:46.200 --> 0:08:48.200 standing over ben Lawn's body. I can hear him taking 0:08:48.240 --> 0:08:51.679 his last breath. And one of my guys came in. 0:08:51.760 --> 0:08:53.000 He looked at me. I was standing there and he 0:08:53.040 --> 0:08:56.679 said are you okay? And I said no, Um, what 0:08:56.720 --> 0:08:59.280 do we do now? And he said, well, now we 0:08:59.320 --> 0:09:01.520 find a computer. We do this every night. Hundreds of 0:09:01.600 --> 0:09:03.520 times we've done this. And said, yeah, you're right, I'm back. 0:09:03.520 --> 0:09:04.920 Oh my god, and said, yeah, you just killed a 0:09:04.920 --> 0:09:06.640 sombit lot of your life just changed. Is it just 0:09:06.760 --> 0:09:09.360 training that kicks in during that, because how do you 0:09:09.840 --> 0:09:12.719 I think clearly under that kind of I mean, is 0:09:12.720 --> 0:09:14.800 it just all of the training that just kicks in? 0:09:14.880 --> 0:09:16.360 Like I don't think at least it was it was 0:09:16.400 --> 0:09:18.480 the training. It was more of the missions we've been 0:09:18.559 --> 0:09:20.920 on before, because the I think the average guy there 0:09:21.000 --> 0:09:24.640 had done about three fifty four in a combat missions. 0:09:24.640 --> 0:09:27.440 We were experienced, so we knew what we were getting into. 0:09:27.480 --> 0:09:29.480 And it wasn't there wasn't even fear anymore. It was 0:09:29.520 --> 0:09:32.080 more of acceptance of what we're going to do. But 0:09:32.160 --> 0:09:33.880 we've done us so many times. It was just he 0:09:33.960 --> 0:09:37.760 was just a bigger threat, of bigger target. Even Bill mccraven, 0:09:37.800 --> 0:09:42.200 Admiral sorry, Admiral Bill mccraven. Before we left on the mission, 0:09:42.240 --> 0:09:44.679 he pulled us aside right before we left, and we're 0:09:44.679 --> 0:09:47.040 into all of that Afghanistan. We're gonna launch across the border, 0:09:47.400 --> 0:09:49.800 and he said, uh, he said, hey, you know what, guys, 0:09:49.880 --> 0:09:52.600 last night, I watched my favorite movie. Uh. It's called 0:09:52.640 --> 0:09:55.800 Hoosiers and it's about a basketball team in Hickory, Indiana, 0:09:56.040 --> 0:09:58.040 and they went to play the national or the state 0:09:58.120 --> 0:10:01.839 championship in Indianapolis. And there's seven guys on the team 0:10:02.000 --> 0:10:03.880 and they've never really been out of that gym, but 0:10:03.920 --> 0:10:06.640 they went to this huge arena and they're looking around, 0:10:06.640 --> 0:10:09.680 they're all star struck. And he recognized how his team 0:10:09.720 --> 0:10:12.560 was starstruck, and he grabbed a tape measure and said, okay, 0:10:12.760 --> 0:10:14.520 what's the measurement from the back of the rim to 0:10:14.520 --> 0:10:17.120 the feet of line? It's coach, Okay, they he got 0:10:17.120 --> 0:10:19.560 a short guy on the tall guys shoulders. What's what's 0:10:19.559 --> 0:10:21.720 the measurement from the hoop to the floor ten feet 0:10:21.760 --> 0:10:23.840 coach And he said, you'll find these are the exact 0:10:23.840 --> 0:10:26.319 same measurements as you're as you're gym and Hickory. It's 0:10:26.360 --> 0:10:28.360 just a bigger audience. And he looked at us Bill 0:10:28.440 --> 0:10:30.880 mc craven and said, gentlemen, you do this every night. 0:10:31.000 --> 0:10:33.880 It's just a bigger audience. And as we're leaving to 0:10:33.920 --> 0:10:36.160 get the helicopters, I pulled him aside. I said, Admiral, 0:10:36.760 --> 0:10:40.400 you're so busy selling this to the administration, right and 0:10:40.480 --> 0:10:44.240 I have really doubt you watched Hoosier's last night, but 0:10:44.360 --> 0:10:47.080 you were born to give us that speech right now. Yeah, 0:10:47.200 --> 0:10:53.040 talk about a you know, a pep talk. It was 0:10:53.080 --> 0:10:54.960 really good. Well, like I said, I try to claim 0:10:55.000 --> 0:10:57.560 we were professionals. We didn't need that. But it's your health. 0:10:58.080 --> 0:11:00.640 I'm sure you know. I played sport which does not 0:11:00.679 --> 0:11:04.200 even comparable with obviously what you guys did. But you know, 0:11:04.280 --> 0:11:06.000 those things do help because it gets you in the 0:11:06.000 --> 0:11:08.199 headspace and and you know what, it gets you ready 0:11:08.200 --> 0:11:10.400 to go out and get in the game, so to speak. 0:11:10.880 --> 0:11:12.959 So I don't playing team sports as a child is 0:11:13.000 --> 0:11:16.800 important for life. Um, I'm a big believer in it. 0:11:17.160 --> 0:11:19.560 I talked to professional football team NFL all the time, 0:11:19.760 --> 0:11:22.520 and I tell them it doesn't matter why it's second 0:11:22.600 --> 0:11:26.480 and fifteen, it just is. It's time's ticket, let's go, 0:11:26.679 --> 0:11:29.640 come on. That's it. Well, I was actually captain of 0:11:29.679 --> 0:11:33.920 the lacrosse team, but I didn't know that by the 0:11:33.960 --> 0:11:35.960 way too, so I probably should have. But you led 0:11:35.960 --> 0:11:39.400 the rescue teams for Captain Richard Phillips from the Smalley 0:11:39.440 --> 0:11:41.960 Pirates in two thousand nine, and also the team to 0:11:42.120 --> 0:11:45.720 rescue Marcus Littrell. So you have seen some things in 0:11:45.760 --> 0:11:49.640 your life. Yeah again, um. One of my favorite quotes, 0:11:49.679 --> 0:11:53.319 I don't know where to give credit, um, but something 0:11:53.360 --> 0:11:56.800 I heard was wherever you are, be there, and if 0:11:56.840 --> 0:12:00.240 you apply yourself, you can you can. You can find 0:12:00.240 --> 0:12:02.160 yourself in situation. So I I was. I was on 0:12:02.400 --> 0:12:05.360 the mission to find Margot's trail. I was a lead jumper. 0:12:05.800 --> 0:12:09.680 I actually left Virginia Beach on Good Friday, April tenth, 0:12:09.720 --> 0:12:12.800 three thousand nine, on my birthday for my daughter's preschool 0:12:13.040 --> 0:12:16.719 tea party, and fifteen hours and forty six minutes later, 0:12:16.800 --> 0:12:19.520 we jumped into the Indian Ocean, rescued uh Captain Phillis 0:12:19.559 --> 0:12:22.920 from Smally Pirates. So it's just it's just apply yourself, 0:12:23.760 --> 0:12:26.080 the realization that doesn't matter what you look like where 0:12:26.080 --> 0:12:27.440 you're from, you can do anything you want. You can 0:12:27.440 --> 0:12:30.120 find yourself in situations, but apply yourself and that's it. 0:12:30.160 --> 0:12:31.679 And it just I happened to be there a couple 0:12:31.679 --> 0:12:33.840 of different times, but my brother actually was messing with 0:12:33.840 --> 0:12:36.280 me today. I was talking to me, he said, I 0:12:36.320 --> 0:12:38.720 reminded Beforest. Gump, only I didn't have a shrimp boast. 0:12:38.800 --> 0:12:41.200 So so you're basically just at your daughter's tea party. 0:12:41.360 --> 0:12:44.440 And then they're like, yeah, so get ready, we've got 0:12:44.440 --> 0:12:48.680 something big for you. I had. I had a pink 0:12:48.720 --> 0:12:51.520 plate in my hand, and she was four years old, 0:12:51.559 --> 0:12:54.080 and I was giving I was putting smiley face cookies 0:12:54.080 --> 0:12:56.080 and cupcakes on on a plate and I walked over 0:12:56.080 --> 0:12:58.319 and I got a text message and said a guy 0:12:58.360 --> 0:13:00.280 by the name of Captain Richard Phillips has been captured 0:13:00.280 --> 0:13:01.600 by some of the pirates and your team is going 0:13:01.640 --> 0:13:04.920 to go get him now. And what's so cool about 0:13:04.960 --> 0:13:07.160 that is So that was two thousand nine. I was 0:13:07.200 --> 0:13:09.160 at Seal Team six, which is the count of Terror 0:13:09.200 --> 0:13:12.720 Team We. Seal Team six was designed to rescue American 0:13:12.760 --> 0:13:16.840 hostages at sea. It had never been done, says twenty 0:13:16.920 --> 0:13:20.560 nine years. It had never been done. And we jumped 0:13:20.559 --> 0:13:22.480 in there and and and if you're not familiar with 0:13:22.480 --> 0:13:25.520 the story, it was a Navy destroyer towing a light 0:13:25.600 --> 0:13:27.760 bulb with Captain Phillips on it. We didn't go there 0:13:27.760 --> 0:13:30.160 to kill those guys. We jumped in to rescue the hostage. 0:13:30.360 --> 0:13:32.760 We simply put snipers on the back of that boat 0:13:32.800 --> 0:13:35.880 to watch them to make sure nothing unsafe happened as 0:13:35.960 --> 0:13:38.440 we're preparing for the rescue. As we were preparing for 0:13:38.440 --> 0:13:41.079 the rescue, something very unsafe happened of a sniper shot. 0:13:41.480 --> 0:13:44.679 And the coolest thing about that those three snipers four 0:13:44.760 --> 0:13:47.360 days prior were in their own beds in Virginia on 0:13:47.400 --> 0:13:50.760 a long weekend. We've never done this. They're guns that 0:13:50.800 --> 0:13:52.720 not need to be sited in for the most difficult 0:13:52.720 --> 0:13:54.640 shots of their lives. But their guns were sited in 0:13:54.880 --> 0:13:56.960 for the most difficult shots of their lives because they 0:13:57.000 --> 0:13:59.280 were prepared. And one of the lessons I tell my 0:13:59.360 --> 0:14:04.240 guys is um complacency kills. Don't get complacent, don't rest 0:14:04.320 --> 0:14:06.520 on your world. The worst thing you can say is 0:14:06.640 --> 0:14:09.240 this is the way we've always done it. And I 0:14:09.280 --> 0:14:12.160 would tell my guys before mission, guys, don't die because 0:14:12.160 --> 0:14:14.880 you got bored. Do everything like you do everything well. 0:14:14.920 --> 0:14:17.200 And I know it's cited in it means now because 0:14:17.360 --> 0:14:20.160 I am an out officially gun owner and have been 0:14:20.560 --> 0:14:23.400 shot shooting guns over the past couple of guns, so 0:14:23.440 --> 0:14:26.920 I so I'm worth familiar. Do you have a shotgun 0:14:26.960 --> 0:14:28.640 at home? That's the best I tell my wife all 0:14:28.640 --> 0:14:30.880 the time. That's the best deterrent is a shotgun because 0:14:30.880 --> 0:14:33.400 as you're walking down the stairs if someone breaks in, yeah, 0:14:33.480 --> 0:14:37.160 if you could hear a shotgun cock, nothing else sounds 0:14:37.200 --> 0:14:38.640 like that, that's the best thing you can do for yourself. 0:14:38.720 --> 0:14:41.000 So Rob, we're doing baby steps. I just got a 0:14:41.080 --> 0:14:44.680 six hour three, so we're going to start with like 0:14:44.840 --> 0:14:49.320 a concealed carry. All'll start there. And no six six 0:14:49.320 --> 0:14:51.120 hours of my six hours of my favorite too. They 0:14:51.120 --> 0:14:53.520 don't they don't sponsor me. Yet they should. I've I've 0:14:53.520 --> 0:14:56.520 fired a six hour P six probably a million times 0:14:56.560 --> 0:14:58.160 in my life. I love that gun. I know how work. 0:14:58.200 --> 0:15:02.000 They should absolutely sponsor. But yeah, it's my favorite so far. 0:15:02.080 --> 0:15:04.440 So we're we're starting small and then maybe we'll but 0:15:04.480 --> 0:15:07.320 I have shot in a R fifteen and it's very 0:15:07.320 --> 0:15:10.440 easy to shoot, so and like, oh, it's it's amazing, 0:15:10.440 --> 0:15:14.280 it's amazingly uh friendly, it's a great gun. I love that. 0:15:14.480 --> 0:15:16.600 And then, by the way, it doesn't stand for assault rifle. 0:15:16.840 --> 0:15:19.400 It's it's not that. That's not even though the liberals 0:15:19.440 --> 0:15:21.840 say that to us, it's not, but it stands now. 0:15:21.920 --> 0:15:23.640 But I do. I do like it. So maybe if 0:15:23.640 --> 0:15:25.440 I was to get one, I would and it would 0:15:25.440 --> 0:15:28.120 also just make people go crazy, which I would appreciate. 0:15:28.280 --> 0:15:30.720 So but I think it'd be awesome. We we should 0:15:30.720 --> 0:15:32.400 actually you should get one, and you and I can. 0:15:32.840 --> 0:15:34.800 We we we should we should do that regardless. I would 0:15:34.800 --> 0:15:35.920 like that would be a lot of fun. I would 0:15:35.920 --> 0:15:39.480 love to do that quick commercial break back with American 0:15:39.560 --> 0:15:45.680 badass Rob O'Neil. You're talking about sort of this, you know, 0:15:45.720 --> 0:15:49.200 camaraderie with your team and working together as a cohesive 0:15:49.280 --> 0:15:51.600 unit and what we're saying in the military right now 0:15:52.400 --> 0:15:54.200 is you know a lot of this woke stuff like 0:15:54.240 --> 0:15:56.800 critical race theory and and all these things that actually 0:15:56.880 --> 0:16:00.160 drives division. What kind of impact do you think that 0:16:00.280 --> 0:16:04.520 has now on the military and moving forward, Well, it's 0:16:04.560 --> 0:16:07.400 it's a huge impact because you gotta figure put yourself 0:16:07.400 --> 0:16:10.200 in the in the shoes of a young man or 0:16:10.280 --> 0:16:12.920 woman that potentially wants to join the military, but they're 0:16:12.920 --> 0:16:18.240 seeing the negative repercussions of joining. They're saying, that's it's 0:16:18.280 --> 0:16:21.240 white supremacy. It's it's a negative and the same thing 0:16:21.240 --> 0:16:23.760 as trying to be a cop. They're saying, all this bad, 0:16:23.800 --> 0:16:25.480 Why would you want to do that? And it it 0:16:25.600 --> 0:16:28.880 really impacts them. When when when we have the Chairman 0:16:28.880 --> 0:16:32.240 of the Joint Chiefs, General Millie saying he doesn't understand 0:16:32.240 --> 0:16:34.600 white supremacy, but it's got to be there, it's that's nonsense. 0:16:34.880 --> 0:16:37.280 And the way that I h the way that I've 0:16:37.280 --> 0:16:40.920 seen it before is you know, you know, I think 0:16:40.920 --> 0:16:44.200 we're all in agreement that there shouldn't be you shouldn't 0:16:44.200 --> 0:16:48.560 be racist, you shouldn't be a pessimistic or anti anything. 0:16:49.120 --> 0:16:52.280 But that's as that's the conversation you need to have 0:16:52.360 --> 0:16:54.440 with them. And here's the thing that's bad. You're an asshole, 0:16:54.480 --> 0:16:57.440 don't do it. But they're spending all this money, wasting 0:16:57.440 --> 0:16:59.560 their time training people on what they should already know, 0:16:59.600 --> 0:17:02.560 because it's when when when When I first joined the Navy, 0:17:02.840 --> 0:17:04.639 the first thing they do is they put you in 0:17:04.680 --> 0:17:06.880 the same uniform. They cut your hair because there are 0:17:06.880 --> 0:17:09.320 no individuals and that's it. You're not you're not there 0:17:09.320 --> 0:17:14.840 too to show, to to to to represent yourself. That's it. 0:17:15.119 --> 0:17:18.040 One team, one fight. And I realized the first day 0:17:18.080 --> 0:17:21.520 that we're all from different places, but we're all scared. 0:17:22.040 --> 0:17:24.399 And it doesn't matter if you're the CEO of a 0:17:24.440 --> 0:17:27.119 company or the guy that went and ben Lan's bedroom. 0:17:27.280 --> 0:17:29.600 We're all we've all had our first day and we're afraid. 0:17:29.640 --> 0:17:31.920 And that's okay, that's fine, and it's one team. But 0:17:32.000 --> 0:17:37.440 they're just bringing this negative political nonsense that doesn't need 0:17:37.480 --> 0:17:40.640 to be there when we should be concerned about determines 0:17:40.880 --> 0:17:44.399 forward defense and alliance solidarity, and they're taking away from it. 0:17:44.400 --> 0:17:46.399 And you're saying that the Army, I think was below 0:17:46.720 --> 0:17:50.400 fifteen thousand recruits this year and the only the only 0:17:50.440 --> 0:17:53.160 branch of service that's staying up is the Marine Corps 0:17:53.160 --> 0:17:55.640 because moneys are just awesome, and that's it. But they're 0:17:55.640 --> 0:17:59.600 they're they're they're they're they're taking away from what we 0:17:59.640 --> 0:18:02.120 should have in the military. And it's and and these 0:18:02.200 --> 0:18:05.359 these politicians don't really care because all all a politicians 0:18:05.359 --> 0:18:09.120 cares about, especially a congressman, is uh the next election, 0:18:09.200 --> 0:18:11.760 so that they'll spend eighteen months out of a two 0:18:11.840 --> 0:18:16.840 year term um on the campaign trail. That's it. And 0:18:16.840 --> 0:18:19.160 then they'll say this nonsense to get someone else to 0:18:19.160 --> 0:18:23.639 to whatever. And it's it's really affecting, um, what we 0:18:23.680 --> 0:18:26.040 have in the world, our our deterrence, our ford defense, 0:18:26.040 --> 0:18:28.760 like I said, our alliance solidarity is dwindling just because 0:18:28.760 --> 0:18:32.719 of these politicians. It's nonsense. Well, and it's also like, okay, 0:18:32.760 --> 0:18:35.280 so the I was reading that the U. S. Army 0:18:35.480 --> 0:18:38.280 is putting its soldiers through training on gender pronouns and 0:18:38.320 --> 0:18:43.440 coaching officers on wind to offer soldiers gender trans transition surgery. 0:18:43.480 --> 0:18:45.320 And it's just like, the way I look at that 0:18:45.520 --> 0:18:48.120 is if you're a bad guy, right, like, if you're 0:18:48.640 --> 0:18:51.840 a Roan, you're terrorists, your isis your whatever I mean, 0:18:51.920 --> 0:18:54.720 are aren't you like looking at that as weak? That 0:18:54.880 --> 0:18:57.640 this is the focus of our military. The Vladimir Putin 0:18:57.760 --> 0:19:00.280 is laughing at us right now. You said that, he said, 0:19:00.280 --> 0:19:02.760 look at these idiot Americans. They can't even decide what 0:19:02.960 --> 0:19:05.600 gender they are. And and he he really is. And 0:19:05.640 --> 0:19:07.840 I'm a big believer in in in personal freedom. You 0:19:07.960 --> 0:19:09.680 you know, whatever you want to do doing yourself. You 0:19:09.720 --> 0:19:12.199 don't affect someone else. Fine, But we've made such a 0:19:12.240 --> 0:19:14.000 big deal out of it, especially the media. And I'm 0:19:14.000 --> 0:19:16.560 not even sure what the media has to but they're 0:19:16.600 --> 0:19:19.520 gaining out of this nonsense. But Voltomer buds watching, Jesu 0:19:19.600 --> 0:19:22.880 Ping is watching, and and it's it's like it or not. 0:19:23.240 --> 0:19:26.440 It's making us weak and they're taking advantage. Um, look 0:19:26.480 --> 0:19:29.040 look at Voltomer Putin getting Ukraine's inde Ukraine right now, 0:19:29.040 --> 0:19:31.000 I know so many parts and Jesus Biggs going bade 0:19:31.280 --> 0:19:33.880