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Speaker 1: dudes that have a pilot books over there in the corner.

429
00:21:53,359 --> 00:21:55,399
Speaker 1: First question out of off the gates, aside from like

430
00:21:55,440 --> 00:21:58,400
Speaker 1: can I get you a coffee, would be, Um, what's

431
00:21:58,400 --> 00:22:00,840
Speaker 1: the most important song in your life? You know? Like,

432
00:22:00,880 --> 00:22:03,159
Speaker 1: what what's the song that that gets you through ship?

433
00:22:03,200 --> 00:22:05,879
Speaker 1: You know? Is it Wind Beneath My Wings or you know,

434
00:22:06,640 --> 00:22:08,920
Speaker 1: love Gun? You know? And I think there's a lot

435
00:22:08,960 --> 00:22:11,720
Speaker 1: of everybody's got that. I mean, I remember when I

436
00:22:11,720 --> 00:22:13,400
Speaker 1: was in basic training for the army, which was back

437
00:22:13,400 --> 00:22:17,600
Speaker 1: in the nineties. Um, I heard one fucking song the

438
00:22:17,720 --> 00:22:19,560
Speaker 1: entire time I was in basic training because basically training

439
00:22:19,560 --> 00:22:21,200
Speaker 1: for the army in the nineties, where you're stilletting, fucking

440
00:22:21,200 --> 00:22:24,720
Speaker 1: shit kicked every ten seconds. And it was it was

441
00:22:24,760 --> 00:22:27,520
Speaker 1: a fucking Google Dolls song, which I didn't really like

442
00:22:27,560 --> 00:22:29,439
Speaker 1: Google Dolls at the at the time. I was kind

443
00:22:29,440 --> 00:22:31,679
Speaker 1: of a metalhead at the time still, but uh, but

444
00:22:31,760 --> 00:22:35,080
Speaker 1: it was just it was profound, as a way too

445
00:22:35,080 --> 00:22:38,239
Speaker 1: extreme of word. It was a really important thing for

446
00:22:38,280 --> 00:22:40,119
Speaker 1: me to have heard that piece of music because I

447
00:22:40,160 --> 00:22:43,880
Speaker 1: had gone like six weeks without hearing any music at all,

448
00:22:44,160 --> 00:22:47,359
Speaker 1: and and and that was that was that was an

449
00:22:47,359 --> 00:22:49,400
Speaker 1: important experience for me to hear that song. Like I said,

450
00:22:49,400 --> 00:22:51,399
Speaker 1: even though I didn't really dig the song itself. It

451
00:22:51,440 --> 00:23:13,520
Speaker 1: was just like, yeah, it was iris Okay, yeah it

452
00:23:13,600 --> 00:23:17,320
Speaker 1: was it was it was Irish and um, I mean,

453
00:23:17,359 --> 00:23:20,159
Speaker 1: you know that's like this this emotional song anyway, you know,

454
00:23:20,240 --> 00:23:22,760
Speaker 1: if you're into that stuff, it's an emotional song anyway.

455
00:23:22,800 --> 00:23:26,040
Speaker 1: But that that, uh, that was just a weird fucking

456
00:23:26,040 --> 00:23:27,720
Speaker 1: experience for me because, like I said, didn't really like

457
00:23:27,760 --> 00:23:29,639
Speaker 1: the song, didn't really like Google dolls or anything at

458
00:23:29,640 --> 00:23:32,520
Speaker 1: the time. And uh um, so that was that was

459
00:23:32,720 --> 00:23:36,240
Speaker 1: a very reflective moment for me. Uh for about fifteen

460
00:23:36,240 --> 00:23:39,720
Speaker 1: seconds before I started getting yelled at again because it

461
00:23:39,800 --> 00:23:42,080
Speaker 1: was a it was an MP truck that drove by,

462
00:23:42,400 --> 00:23:46,600
Speaker 1: and uh um. So yeah, I mean I think it

463
00:23:46,640 --> 00:23:48,200
Speaker 1: would be cool. I think it would be interesting. You

464
00:23:48,200 --> 00:23:50,840
Speaker 1: could probably populate an entire book. May not be exactly

465
00:23:50,880 --> 00:23:52,760
Speaker 1: an interesting book, it would be for me of just

466
00:23:52,960 --> 00:23:55,639
Speaker 1: uh uh you know famous guys. I mean, we have

467
00:23:55,760 --> 00:23:59,600
Speaker 1: a whole team of fucking celebrity vets that we have

468
00:23:59,640 --> 00:24:03,080
Speaker 1: acts us too, and just being able to to find

469
00:24:03,080 --> 00:24:06,879
Speaker 1: out what there if a song was influential, guarantee you

470
00:24:06,920 --> 00:24:09,240
Speaker 1: that that every last one of those motherfucker's has got

471
00:24:09,240 --> 00:24:11,240
Speaker 1: a song that was influential to them. And it don't

472
00:24:11,240 --> 00:24:12,920
Speaker 1: even have to be in a military context. It could

473
00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:14,720
Speaker 1: just be in life. You know, I went through some

474
00:24:14,760 --> 00:24:16,720
Speaker 1: tough shit. I ended up listening to this song a

475
00:24:16,720 --> 00:24:18,399
Speaker 1: lot because it just a vibe with me or the

476
00:24:18,480 --> 00:24:21,560
Speaker 1: lyrics were really uh, you know, articulated what I was

477
00:24:21,600 --> 00:24:23,480
Speaker 1: going through at the time or whatever it is. Um.

478
00:24:23,520 --> 00:24:26,439
Speaker 1: It's it's really cool to how there's a community of

479
00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:30,000
Speaker 1: musicians who give back, will love the veteran community, you know,

480
00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:34,040
Speaker 1: with Jason Brown Studio recently guitarists from Breaking. Benjamin has

481
00:24:34,080 --> 00:24:38,199
Speaker 1: a strong, uh military history within his family, and I

482
00:24:38,240 --> 00:24:40,480
Speaker 1: think he appreciates some guys say like, hey, this helped

483
00:24:40,520 --> 00:24:43,440
Speaker 1: me out when I was overseas UM. The reason that

484
00:24:43,520 --> 00:24:47,719
Speaker 1: Mark Slaughter relationship happened with the podcast was that he

485
00:24:47,760 --> 00:24:49,720
Speaker 1: did a song called Never Given Up that he wanted

486
00:24:49,760 --> 00:24:52,600
Speaker 1: to use to give back to vets UM and donate

487
00:24:52,640 --> 00:24:54,320
Speaker 1: the proceeds. So I you know, hooked him up with

488
00:24:54,359 --> 00:24:58,080
Speaker 1: Brandon gave that money to the Red Circle Foundation. Um.

489
00:24:58,240 --> 00:25:01,879
Speaker 1: And there's there's just that definitely community there. Another great

490
00:25:01,920 --> 00:25:05,399
Speaker 1: story was, unfortunately when we heard about the death of

491
00:25:05,480 --> 00:25:08,600
Speaker 1: Chester Bennington. Yeah, I immediately thought of when I was

492
00:25:08,640 --> 00:25:10,679
Speaker 1: in Vegas with Drew Dwyer and he was like, I

493
00:25:10,800 --> 00:25:13,439
Speaker 1: got to see Lincoln Park backstage. I'm a huge Lincoln

494
00:25:13,520 --> 00:25:16,600
Speaker 1: Park fan, and you know, all the great things that

495
00:25:16,640 --> 00:25:19,920
Speaker 1: were said about Chester Bennington. One thing that I didn't

496
00:25:19,920 --> 00:25:22,440
Speaker 1: see pointed out much, but we pointed out was that

497
00:25:22,720 --> 00:25:24,880
Speaker 1: him and the band gave back to the veteran community.

498
00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:29,040
Speaker 1: They invited um Drew and his wife and other marines backstage,

499
00:25:29,520 --> 00:25:32,159
Speaker 1: and I think they appreciated when they heard, Hey, this

500
00:25:32,240 --> 00:25:34,960
Speaker 1: is something that I was listening to when I was

501
00:25:34,960 --> 00:25:37,840
Speaker 1: in Iraq, when I was in Afghanistan and you know,

502
00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:41,040
Speaker 1: living life as an operator. Yeah, well fun. I remember

503
00:25:41,920 --> 00:25:45,359
Speaker 1: reading someone Leo Jenkins stuff a few years back, and

504
00:25:45,359 --> 00:25:47,560
Speaker 1: and he mentioned that he mentioned, you know, coming off

505
00:25:47,920 --> 00:25:49,920
Speaker 1: coming off an op and going straight to the gym

506
00:25:50,119 --> 00:25:52,719
Speaker 1: and you know, doing crossbit or whatever, and he had

507
00:25:52,760 --> 00:25:55,360
Speaker 1: referenced the music that there was always a certain type

508
00:25:55,359 --> 00:25:59,440
Speaker 1: of music playing in the gym. Um and even even

509
00:25:59,480 --> 00:26:02,239
Speaker 1: if that didn't click exactly directly in his brain with

510
00:26:02,280 --> 00:26:05,800
Speaker 1: what song it was or whatever, he recognized that an

511
00:26:05,840 --> 00:26:09,200
Speaker 1: important part of that environment at that moment in time

512
00:26:09,320 --> 00:26:13,199
Speaker 1: was that there was music on uh, and and I

513
00:26:13,240 --> 00:26:16,840
Speaker 1: think that um, I just think it's it's really infinitely

514
00:26:16,880 --> 00:26:20,840
Speaker 1: important if I go back and revisit, you know, the

515
00:26:21,600 --> 00:26:24,439
Speaker 1: stretch of decade that I was in Asia. If I

516
00:26:24,520 --> 00:26:29,679
Speaker 1: did not have an MP three player or YouTube, um,

517
00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:34,160
Speaker 1: you know, to access that stuff like this ship would

518
00:26:34,160 --> 00:26:37,399
Speaker 1: be really different. I mean that that entire, uh, that

519
00:26:37,600 --> 00:26:40,879
Speaker 1: entire the reflection of that decade would would would become

520
00:26:40,920 --> 00:26:43,480
Speaker 1: at me with completely different light there. There wouldn't be

521
00:26:43,480 --> 00:26:45,800
Speaker 1: any possible way to be the same. Um. And you

522
00:26:45,840 --> 00:26:47,640
Speaker 1: know the article I wrote reference in that ship, even

523
00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:48,959
Speaker 1: though it turned out to be dark. I mean there

524
00:26:49,040 --> 00:26:52,359
Speaker 1: was some dark ship in that ten year so um.

525
00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:55,200
Speaker 1: But but without that ship to be able to either

526
00:26:56,119 --> 00:26:59,119
Speaker 1: lyrically articulate what it was I was thinking and feeling

527
00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:02,000
Speaker 1: or going through or what ever. But but even musically,

528
00:27:02,040 --> 00:27:04,040
Speaker 1: just this the vibe and the frequency of that ship.

529
00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:08,560
Speaker 1: It just because one of them was a sugar song. Yeah, absolutely,

530
00:27:08,600 --> 00:27:11,320
Speaker 1: it's like the heaviest fucking song ever really and uh,

531
00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:15,800
Speaker 1: that song the lyrically, it really just reflected, um, it

532
00:27:16,240 --> 00:27:18,320
Speaker 1: reflected some ship that that I was doing, you know,

533
00:27:18,359 --> 00:27:21,600
Speaker 1: and and I even that rage in a healthy way. Yeah.

534
00:27:21,640 --> 00:27:23,480
Speaker 1: But see that's the thing that I even mentioned in

535
00:27:23,480 --> 00:27:26,080
Speaker 1: the article. It's not even rage. It was just perfect,

536
00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:29,800
Speaker 1: like this fucking weird zen, like calm, because I knew

537
00:27:29,840 --> 00:27:31,520
Speaker 1: what I was going out to do, Like the decision

538
00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:34,000
Speaker 1: making process was already done. There wasn't any of this

539
00:27:34,200 --> 00:27:37,920
Speaker 1: like angst um. You know, it's a in the in

540
00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:40,159
Speaker 1: the meeting we had, we had a speaker coming and

541
00:27:40,160 --> 00:27:42,680
Speaker 1: tell us a bunch of stuff about planning and and

542
00:27:42,680 --> 00:27:48,560
Speaker 1: and visualization and yeah, and the man, yeah, Olympic gold

543
00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:53,320
Speaker 1: medal shooter shooter, awesome inspiring stories absolutely and and you

544
00:27:53,320 --> 00:27:55,040
Speaker 1: know so, so he said. One of the things he

545
00:27:55,119 --> 00:27:57,280
Speaker 1: said was that you know you're doing the right thing.

546
00:27:57,320 --> 00:27:58,800
Speaker 1: You know you're doing what the universe of God or

547
00:27:58,800 --> 00:28:02,600
Speaker 1: whoever wants you to do. When everything is working for you, everything,

548
00:28:03,080 --> 00:28:06,960
Speaker 1: you don't have any obstacles past that point. And so uh,

549
00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:10,399
Speaker 1: if I had fucking sugar, if I had that song

550
00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:13,639
Speaker 1: playing uh in my ear butter on my stereo or

551
00:28:13,640 --> 00:28:18,600
Speaker 1: phone or whatever, um, everything I was It's like super

552
00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:21,359
Speaker 1: Mario Kart, like I had hit the little fucking arrow.

553
00:28:21,480 --> 00:28:23,560
Speaker 1: Like I was going where I was going, and there

554
00:28:23,560 --> 00:28:27,720
Speaker 1: were no obstacles, And I was mentally absolutely in acceptance

555
00:28:27,720 --> 00:28:30,240
Speaker 1: with what was about to occur, etcetera, etcetera. And I

556
00:28:30,359 --> 00:28:32,280
Speaker 1: you know, I I articulate that in the article. But

557
00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:36,040
Speaker 1: uh and and so that's a heavy ass song. But

558
00:28:36,040 --> 00:28:38,720
Speaker 1: but to me, the feeling like my pulse wasn't up.

559
00:28:38,760 --> 00:28:42,120
Speaker 1: It was just this, this ultimate thing, this is what's

560
00:28:42,160 --> 00:28:46,560
Speaker 1: going to happen. Uh and and so so I know

561
00:28:46,600 --> 00:28:48,800
Speaker 1: that even like the the the overt emotion of the

562
00:28:48,840 --> 00:28:51,800
Speaker 1: song doesn't necessarily convey what's happening to me because of

563
00:28:51,800 --> 00:28:54,600
Speaker 1: that frequency, right, because of that vibe. That song meant

564
00:28:54,680 --> 00:28:57,720
Speaker 1: something to me because of a circumstance, and those circumstances

565
00:28:57,760 --> 00:29:00,640
Speaker 1: reflected inside me differently. But if you just heard me

566
00:29:00,720 --> 00:29:03,160
Speaker 1: drive down the street listening to that song, you would think, like,

567
00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:05,520
Speaker 1: that guy's going to murder a school bus of like

568
00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:08,280
Speaker 1: nuns and kittens, right, I mean, like because it's it's

569
00:29:08,280 --> 00:29:11,760
Speaker 1: a very very very tense, angsty song. You know, if

570
00:29:11,760 --> 00:29:13,760
Speaker 1: you've ever heard it, it's fucking insane. I mean it

571
00:29:13,800 --> 00:29:15,800
Speaker 1: really is, which is what must sugar means in the

572
00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:20,960
Speaker 1: fucking Hebrew. It's fucking fucking nuts, fucking insane. And um, yeah,

573
00:29:20,960 --> 00:29:22,600
Speaker 1: there are other songs on there that aren't like that.

574
00:29:22,600 --> 00:29:27,120
Speaker 1: That aren't quite as a angsty or up tempo. Yeah.

575
00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:30,560
Speaker 1: So it's one of those interesting things too, because I

576
00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:34,480
Speaker 1: think guys in bands who do respect the military. I've

577
00:29:34,520 --> 00:29:36,360
Speaker 1: met a lot of guys in bands, and I think

578
00:29:36,400 --> 00:29:39,520
Speaker 1: they sometimes have the attitude of like, what we do

579
00:29:39,640 --> 00:29:41,720
Speaker 1: is not important as opposed to these guys who go

580
00:29:41,720 --> 00:29:44,320
Speaker 1: out there and protect our freedom. But it's almost like

581
00:29:44,480 --> 00:29:47,840
Speaker 1: that relationship where if it wasn't for you making this

582
00:29:48,160 --> 00:29:52,560
Speaker 1: art that guys protecting our freedom could enjoy, they might

583
00:29:52,600 --> 00:29:54,760
Speaker 1: have a lot harder of a time out there. And

584
00:29:54,800 --> 00:29:57,240
Speaker 1: you know, you hear about the twenty two veterans a

585
00:29:57,320 --> 00:29:59,520
Speaker 1: day committing suicide. If it really is that number, I

586
00:29:59,560 --> 00:30:02,480
Speaker 1: know that the some um there's some confusion with that number,

587
00:30:02,480 --> 00:30:06,160
Speaker 1: but either way, it's too many, UM and that number

588
00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:08,400
Speaker 1: maybe higher if it wasn't for people who could have

589
00:30:08,520 --> 00:30:11,640
Speaker 1: music as an outlet. UM. So there, I think there's

590
00:30:11,680 --> 00:30:16,800
Speaker 1: actually a relationship between the two that musicians should appreciate

591
00:30:16,880 --> 00:30:18,800
Speaker 1: that the reason they're able to go out there and

592
00:30:18,840 --> 00:30:21,000
Speaker 1: tour and make the music they do is that there's

593
00:30:21,040 --> 00:30:24,760
Speaker 1: guys out there protecting America, and those guys out there

594
00:30:24,760 --> 00:30:27,440
Speaker 1: protecting America. A lot of the times are enjoying your music.

595
00:30:27,440 --> 00:30:29,560
Speaker 1: So it's cool when you see a band give back

596
00:30:29,640 --> 00:30:32,520
Speaker 1: and and say like, hey, if you're former military, you

597
00:30:32,520 --> 00:30:34,800
Speaker 1: have a discount on concert tickets, or you know, we're

598
00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:38,160
Speaker 1: gonna bring some former military backstage to meet the band.

599
00:30:38,240 --> 00:30:40,880
Speaker 1: Like I think that's what it's all about. Yeah, I

600
00:30:40,880 --> 00:30:43,920
Speaker 1: mean I think that I think that that musicians, at

601
00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:48,040
Speaker 1: least in American culture maybe like five Eyes culture. Um,

602
00:30:48,160 --> 00:30:51,560
Speaker 1: I think that that musicians like that I have a

603
00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:56,240
Speaker 1: really intense symbiosis with people who are serving the country.

604
00:30:56,440 --> 00:30:58,600
Speaker 1: I don't really know how to explain that correctly, but

605
00:30:59,560 --> 00:31:02,040
Speaker 1: I mean you look at somebody like there are several

606
00:31:02,040 --> 00:31:06,120
Speaker 1: bands out there that that play music that uh is

607
00:31:06,160 --> 00:31:08,520
Speaker 1: played in every gym, And I even reference that in

608
00:31:08,520 --> 00:31:13,520
Speaker 1: my article like it's a perfect example. I mean, those

609
00:31:13,560 --> 00:31:15,840
Speaker 1: guys are the ship that that you would be if

610
00:31:15,880 --> 00:31:17,959
Speaker 1: you wrote a movie, if you you had a movie script,

611
00:31:17,960 --> 00:31:20,880
Speaker 1: you made a movie about half the ship that anybody

612
00:31:20,960 --> 00:31:23,040
Speaker 1: that works for this side and right for this site

613
00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:26,360
Speaker 1: did five Finger Death Punch would be the damn soundtrack,

614
00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:28,400
Speaker 1: like all their ship would be would be the soundtrack.

615
00:31:28,560 --> 00:31:34,440
Speaker 1: And I think that we as citizens see those guys,

616
00:31:34,560 --> 00:31:38,120
Speaker 1: they're buff, they're tatted up, their ship is aggressive, their edgy.

617
00:31:38,160 --> 00:31:42,800
Speaker 1: Everything about them, uh sort of screams this like alpha

618
00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:49,360
Speaker 1: male um thing and and and military people, military guys,

619
00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:52,360
Speaker 1: military dudes, and and females, males and females. It's the

620
00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:54,920
Speaker 1: same kind of thing. You didn't You generally didn't join

621
00:31:55,480 --> 00:31:57,880
Speaker 1: any sort of operational field in the military because you

622
00:31:57,880 --> 00:31:59,640
Speaker 1: want to hang the funk back and be passive and

623
00:31:59,680 --> 00:32:02,280
Speaker 1: be be a beta or Bravo on everything and just

624
00:32:02,440 --> 00:32:05,520
Speaker 1: not be the fucking dude you You did it because

625
00:32:05,520 --> 00:32:08,560
Speaker 1: you want to achieve, you want to affect change. And uh,

626
00:32:08,880 --> 00:32:10,800
Speaker 1: and there's so there's an aggressiveness to that. There's an

627
00:32:10,880 --> 00:32:12,960
Speaker 1: edge that doesn't have to be violent, it just has

628
00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:15,760
Speaker 1: to be aggressive. You're taking action on things. And uh

629
00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:17,640
Speaker 1: and I mean that fucking music is like that. You

630
00:32:17,680 --> 00:32:22,520
Speaker 1: think about how I mean we're talking about Molly Crue earlier. So, um,

631
00:32:22,680 --> 00:32:25,840
Speaker 1: you know Motley crewe are these like bad boys, you know,

632
00:32:25,960 --> 00:32:28,520
Speaker 1: they they they didn't serve their country and the way

633
00:32:28,560 --> 00:32:30,080
Speaker 1: we did or whatever it is. But they're they're these

634
00:32:30,120 --> 00:32:33,560
Speaker 1: bad boys and they seemed very aggressive. And then, uh,

635
00:32:33,600 --> 00:32:35,400
Speaker 1: you know, Brandon was telling us a story about how

636
00:32:35,520 --> 00:32:37,520
Speaker 1: was his dad came home with a fucking record. He

637
00:32:37,560 --> 00:32:40,000
Speaker 1: was like, look at this new chick band and brands

638
00:32:40,080 --> 00:32:42,400
Speaker 1: like that's Smartley crew Man and uh so, I mean

639
00:32:42,440 --> 00:32:43,720
Speaker 1: you look at that ship. You look at those pictures

640
00:32:43,720 --> 00:32:46,760
Speaker 1: from the eighties now in seventeen and it's like, wow,

641
00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:51,040
Speaker 1: that's sis Gate shit, you know. But uh um but

642
00:32:51,120 --> 00:32:53,000
Speaker 1: at the same time that the music was aggressive, this

643
00:32:53,080 --> 00:32:57,040
Speaker 1: subject matter was aggressive. Um so I think there's an

644
00:32:57,040 --> 00:33:00,360
Speaker 1: interesting dynamic there. But yeah, I agree. And and so

645
00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:03,440
Speaker 1: like five Finger Dots Punch did a song called um

646
00:33:03,480 --> 00:33:07,040
Speaker 1: I think it's uh it's wrong. The chorus is wrong

647
00:33:07,040 --> 00:33:09,160
Speaker 1: side of Heaven, Righteous Side of Health. I think it's

648
00:33:09,160 --> 00:33:11,120
Speaker 1: called the wrong side of Heaven. But it was about

649
00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:13,840
Speaker 1: you know, guys who come back who have post traumatic stress.

650
00:33:14,280 --> 00:33:20,120
Speaker 1: And then recently, uh Tanto was in the video for

651
00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:35,320
Speaker 1: All That Remains, Yeah Madness that which is about the

652
00:33:35,360 --> 00:33:37,320
Speaker 1: same type of thing. And it's cool to see that

653
00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:41,440
Speaker 1: there are bands uh that are getting played places like

654
00:33:41,480 --> 00:33:44,400
Speaker 1: Sirius sex m that have a ton of YouTube views

655
00:33:44,720 --> 00:33:47,000
Speaker 1: saying hey, there's big issues that we need to be

656
00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:49,959
Speaker 1: concerned about. So as much as there's there's like social

657
00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:52,840
Speaker 1: justice warrior brands out there, I think it's cool. There's

658
00:33:52,880 --> 00:33:55,880
Speaker 1: kind of some pushback against that, saying, hey, we should

659
00:33:55,920 --> 00:33:58,920
Speaker 1: do songs for veterans for a reason. And I know

660
00:33:58,960 --> 00:34:01,720
Speaker 1: that they're really passionate about this. You know, Philibonti from

661
00:34:01,760 --> 00:34:04,680
Speaker 1: all that remains former marine himself, so this is a

662
00:34:04,800 --> 00:34:06,680
Speaker 1: very real issue to him, and he and he wants

663
00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:09,319
Speaker 1: to make songs for guys overseas to go out there

664
00:34:09,719 --> 00:34:12,120
Speaker 1: and in a non politically correct way, I could say

665
00:34:12,200 --> 00:34:14,839
Speaker 1: kill bad guys too. Yeah, yeah, yeah, well, I mean,

666
00:34:14,880 --> 00:34:17,399
Speaker 1: and I think that's one of the things about extreme music, rap, metal,

667
00:34:17,480 --> 00:34:20,000
Speaker 1: whatever is you could say ship that the system didn't

668
00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:21,759
Speaker 1: want you to say. I mean, fun being a metal

669
00:34:21,840 --> 00:34:23,480
Speaker 1: kid in the eighties, that's what it was all about.

670
00:34:23,560 --> 00:34:26,200
Speaker 1: I mean Bell, get me wrong, you had like Judas Priest.

671
00:34:26,280 --> 00:34:28,960
Speaker 1: It was just this like stud leather band. Also you

672
00:34:28,960 --> 00:34:31,960
Speaker 1: look back and it's like, yes, it's kind of sunked up,

673
00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:34,000
Speaker 1: but but like you know, I mean they're singing ship

674
00:34:34,080 --> 00:34:37,440
Speaker 1: like Painkiller, you know, and and uh, Meganeth's is the

675
00:34:37,440 --> 00:34:38,920
Speaker 1: same way. It's all this ship, you know, and it's

676
00:34:38,960 --> 00:34:41,000
Speaker 1: it's all this aggressive stuff. Everybody was pointing out all

677
00:34:41,040 --> 00:34:45,840
Speaker 1: these fund up issues with politics and society in but

678
00:34:45,920 --> 00:34:47,640
Speaker 1: it was a bunch of long haired dudes with fucking

679
00:34:47,640 --> 00:34:50,640
Speaker 1: bullet belts, so no one was paying any attention. Uh,

680
00:34:50,680 --> 00:34:54,640
Speaker 1: and now you have a huge subslices in American society,

681
00:34:54,719 --> 00:34:56,680
Speaker 1: Western society that you're doing the same fucking thing. They're

682
00:34:56,680 --> 00:34:59,680
Speaker 1: saying the same fucking shit that these metal bands were

683
00:34:59,680 --> 00:35:02,880
Speaker 1: saying twenty years ago, only they're they're coming at it

684
00:35:02,920 --> 00:35:05,399
Speaker 1: from a different angle, saying the same ship that they're

685
00:35:05,400 --> 00:35:08,000
Speaker 1: coming out from a different angle. So, um, you know,

686
00:35:08,960 --> 00:35:11,719
Speaker 1: I think music, well, fuck, I mean, I think growing

687
00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:14,759
Speaker 1: up with those bands in the eighties. Um, you know,

688
00:35:14,840 --> 00:35:17,480
Speaker 1: not just deaf Leppard, they didn't really engage political issues,

689
00:35:17,480 --> 00:35:20,600
Speaker 1: but but you know, she like Megadeth, fucking Anthrax did this.

690
00:35:20,840 --> 00:35:23,120
Speaker 1: All those big bands did this. They covered there were

691
00:35:23,160 --> 00:35:26,000
Speaker 1: social issues and there were political issues that they covered

692
00:35:26,080 --> 00:35:30,280
Speaker 1: in in a significant amount of their songs their music.

693
00:35:30,760 --> 00:35:33,040
Speaker 1: And uh and that that gave me as a as

694
00:35:33,080 --> 00:35:37,160
Speaker 1: a fucking like young teenager. That started to make me

695
00:35:37,200 --> 00:35:39,200
Speaker 1: look at stuff that started to maybe have a fucking

696
00:35:39,200 --> 00:35:42,560
Speaker 1: pace Cells Man Peace Cells by Megadeth, that entire video.

697
00:35:43,360 --> 00:35:45,640
Speaker 1: I mean, he's not saying the world of shitty or

698
00:35:45,680 --> 00:35:49,080
Speaker 1: not shitty. He's stating a fact. If everybody wanted piece,

699
00:35:49,120 --> 00:35:51,120
Speaker 1: you know, there'd be piece. It's exactly what we brought

700
00:35:51,200 --> 00:35:52,880
Speaker 1: up John Lennon earlier. Not a fan of the Beatles,

701
00:35:52,920 --> 00:35:55,680
Speaker 1: not a fan of John Lennon, imagine, I think misses

702
00:35:55,719 --> 00:35:57,920
Speaker 1: the mark, everybody loves it. Whatever. I think Peace Cells

703
00:35:58,080 --> 00:36:01,480
Speaker 1: said exactly what imagined was trying to say the correct way,

704
00:36:16,719 --> 00:36:19,400
Speaker 1: fucking pissed off that nobody's doing what they're supposed to do,

705
00:36:19,480 --> 00:36:20,960
Speaker 1: like you got all the ship going on, right, and

706
00:36:21,040 --> 00:36:23,600
Speaker 1: so it's really weird because it's like, hey, I got

707
00:36:23,600 --> 00:36:25,440
Speaker 1: Peace Cells playing in my ear in the fucking uh

708
00:36:25,560 --> 00:36:27,960
Speaker 1: you know, eighties, and then uh and then I go

709
00:36:28,080 --> 00:36:32,560
Speaker 1: join the military, you know, and uh so so the

710
00:36:32,960 --> 00:36:35,000
Speaker 1: way we process that ship or whatever, that kind of

711
00:36:35,080 --> 00:36:37,400
Speaker 1: music gave me the ability, or not even gave me,

712
00:36:37,400 --> 00:36:40,120
Speaker 1: it helped me develop an awareness for that ship and

713
00:36:40,160 --> 00:36:42,720
Speaker 1: go out and start to get that information nation for myself.

714
00:36:42,840 --> 00:36:46,719
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, the even crazier Megadeth lyric that

715
00:36:46,800 --> 00:36:50,000
Speaker 1: you could talk about of you joining the military actor

716
00:36:50,040 --> 00:36:53,200
Speaker 1: being a fan is of course on rushed and peace

717
00:36:53,880 --> 00:36:57,239
Speaker 1: military intelligence two words combined. The camp makes sense. Yeah,

718
00:36:57,239 --> 00:36:59,360
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, you get into that and and

719
00:36:59,360 --> 00:37:06,319
Speaker 1: and uh, I mean it's just anytime you're dealing with

720
00:37:06,320 --> 00:37:11,040
Speaker 1: extreme music like like that you're or extreme extreme lifestyles.

721
00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:13,640
Speaker 1: Maybe because you know, I've been a reasonably selfless dude

722
00:37:13,680 --> 00:37:15,919
Speaker 1: my whole life. I think that anybody that really knows

723
00:37:15,920 --> 00:37:17,520
Speaker 1: me would tell you that, which is why I'm wearing

724
00:37:17,520 --> 00:37:21,759
Speaker 1: this mask right now, right um so, I mean, uh,

725
00:37:21,800 --> 00:37:24,759
Speaker 1: and and I wanted the world to be a better place.

726
00:37:24,840 --> 00:37:27,279
Speaker 1: I wanted to to facilitate a change. And you know,

727
00:37:27,440 --> 00:37:29,279
Speaker 1: while I was in uniform, I wouldn't say that I

728
00:37:29,280 --> 00:37:30,959
Speaker 1: ever really got a chance to do that. It doesn't

729
00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:34,319
Speaker 1: bother me. It is what it is. But the ship

730
00:37:34,440 --> 00:37:40,360
Speaker 1: that I did after that was me grabbing a negative

731
00:37:40,400 --> 00:37:46,920
Speaker 1: situation on Earth by the nutsack and and absolutely ripping

732
00:37:46,920 --> 00:37:50,719
Speaker 1: that fucker off. Like I affected immense amounts of positive

733
00:37:50,800 --> 00:37:54,600
Speaker 1: change in bad situations in the places, uh that that

734
00:37:54,719 --> 00:37:57,799
Speaker 1: I was working in. Um I mean, I don't go

735
00:37:57,840 --> 00:37:59,600
Speaker 1: home every night and like pat myself on the back

736
00:37:59,640 --> 00:38:02,680
Speaker 1: about it. It is what it is. You know, I

737
00:38:02,719 --> 00:38:05,080
Speaker 1: got put in a certain situation because of the skill

738
00:38:05,160 --> 00:38:07,440
Speaker 1: sets and tools of the trade I had in my bag.

739
00:38:07,760 --> 00:38:09,640
Speaker 1: I managed to be able, you know, I managed to

740
00:38:09,680 --> 00:38:13,640
Speaker 1: exploit those situations for positive effect, which ultimately is the

741
00:38:13,640 --> 00:38:15,440
Speaker 1: only thing he have us really wanted to do. You know,

742
00:38:15,480 --> 00:38:18,200
Speaker 1: we wanted to manifest positive fucking change in a world

743
00:38:18,200 --> 00:38:20,520
Speaker 1: that we felt something was wrong. And whether you joined

744
00:38:20,920 --> 00:38:23,160
Speaker 1: after September eleven, two thousand one because you wanted to

745
00:38:23,160 --> 00:38:26,279
Speaker 1: go fight terrorism, or whether you joined in fucking the

746
00:38:26,400 --> 00:38:29,400
Speaker 1: late nineties like I did, just because you had some

747
00:38:29,520 --> 00:38:31,880
Speaker 1: plan of ship you wanted to do in life. The

748
00:38:32,320 --> 00:38:35,320
Speaker 1: fundamentalist that we wanted to affect positive change in the world.

749
00:38:35,600 --> 00:38:38,359
Speaker 1: And like I got some of those fucking tools from

750
00:38:38,360 --> 00:38:41,080
Speaker 1: listening to a heavy metal in the eighties. Um yeah,

751
00:38:41,160 --> 00:38:42,879
Speaker 1: I mean and and and it's it's cool. It's something

752
00:38:42,920 --> 00:38:44,640
Speaker 1: I would like to see explored more, but I don't

753
00:38:44,640 --> 00:38:48,040
Speaker 1: think anybody's gonna pay to make that happen. So fucking

754
00:38:48,120 --> 00:38:49,920
Speaker 1: Dave Mustain and here, I'm happy to have a I

755
00:38:49,920 --> 00:38:53,040
Speaker 1: would love to um so the Audissean live with us

756
00:38:53,080 --> 00:38:55,200
Speaker 1: on Soft Prep Radio on the live stream. If you're

757
00:38:55,239 --> 00:38:57,640
Speaker 1: checking this out, if you like the Luche Library mask,

758
00:38:57,800 --> 00:39:01,000
Speaker 1: please give us a like, share or the video. It

759
00:39:01,040 --> 00:39:03,160
Speaker 1: means a lot to us who want to keep expanding

760
00:39:03,800 --> 00:39:06,440
Speaker 1: the base of people that are listening. Uh, And we're

761
00:39:06,480 --> 00:39:08,520
Speaker 1: also just doing new things. I mean, as this new

762
00:39:08,600 --> 00:39:11,120
Speaker 1: year approaches, we're gonna be doing two shows a week

763
00:39:11,239 --> 00:39:15,280
Speaker 1: now for everyone that you'll get immediately. Um, I'm really

764
00:39:15,320 --> 00:39:18,640
Speaker 1: excited for that. I'm really excited to be Um speaking

765
00:39:18,680 --> 00:39:21,520
Speaker 1: to a bigger audience again and uh, you know, giving

766
00:39:21,560 --> 00:39:24,600
Speaker 1: what you guys demand of us. So looking at some

767
00:39:24,680 --> 00:39:27,839
Speaker 1: of the questions and comments here, you know we're not

768
00:39:27,920 --> 00:39:31,520
Speaker 1: forgetting about you guys. Of course grants here. As a

769
00:39:31,640 --> 00:39:34,319
Speaker 1: music teacher, people forget that kids need to learn that

770
00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:37,560
Speaker 1: music doesn't create itself. It's always the first subject to

771
00:39:37,600 --> 00:39:39,960
Speaker 1: go in schools, but it is the only subject that

772
00:39:40,040 --> 00:39:42,960
Speaker 1: encompasses all of them. A lot of kids use it

773
00:39:42,960 --> 00:39:46,240
Speaker 1: as their avenue event and find creativity is their outlet,

774
00:39:46,960 --> 00:39:49,840
Speaker 1: gives them the release that they might find elsewhere. In

775
00:39:49,880 --> 00:39:52,680
Speaker 1: a more negative way, I think very true on that because,

776
00:39:52,719 --> 00:39:55,640
Speaker 1: like I said earlier, it articulates it. Especially when you're

777
00:39:55,640 --> 00:39:57,000
Speaker 1: a teenager man. You don't have the you don't have

778
00:39:57,040 --> 00:39:58,839
Speaker 1: the vocabulary, you don't have the words to be able

779
00:39:58,880 --> 00:40:01,680
Speaker 1: to put the ship going on inside you into words,

780
00:40:01,800 --> 00:40:04,040
Speaker 1: and then you listen to a song and it's like, Wow,

781
00:40:04,600 --> 00:40:08,360
Speaker 1: that fucking guy just said what I've been trying to say,

782
00:40:08,520 --> 00:40:10,680
Speaker 1: but I haven't been able to, you know, So yeah,

783
00:40:10,719 --> 00:40:13,320
Speaker 1: I completely grant. I completely agree with both of those things.

784
00:40:13,600 --> 00:40:16,000
Speaker 1: Although I'll be honest, I really was a slacker and

785
00:40:16,120 --> 00:40:18,480
Speaker 1: music class in school, not because I didn't think it

786
00:40:18,520 --> 00:40:21,440
Speaker 1: was important. I just never got around to be in

787
00:40:21,520 --> 00:40:24,080
Speaker 1: serious about it. Maybe it's because I was a Catholic school.

788
00:40:24,120 --> 00:40:29,320
Speaker 1: And I see, of course Derek's comment Chase comment. I

789
00:40:29,360 --> 00:40:31,680
Speaker 1: don't know if there's anything else to say about those.

790
00:40:32,520 --> 00:40:36,160
Speaker 1: Um But moving on to another subject here, and this

791
00:40:36,200 --> 00:40:39,080
Speaker 1: goes more into what we do as a website, but

792
00:40:39,239 --> 00:40:42,480
Speaker 1: we wanted to talk some music. You're a guy who

793
00:40:42,480 --> 00:40:46,279
Speaker 1: has had a ton of experience living in Japan, and

794
00:40:46,560 --> 00:40:49,560
Speaker 1: you have a great story and I mean great might

795
00:40:49,600 --> 00:40:52,200
Speaker 1: not be the right word, but an interesting story at

796
00:40:53,160 --> 00:40:58,680
Speaker 1: involving Fukushima, and you're during your time there. Um So

797
00:40:58,840 --> 00:41:00,560
Speaker 1: this actually plays into some of the stuff that we

798
00:41:00,560 --> 00:41:03,719
Speaker 1: talked about at the meeting because we, uh, they're gonna

799
00:41:03,719 --> 00:41:07,320
Speaker 1: be launching a new crate and this is a relevant

800
00:41:07,320 --> 00:41:09,880
Speaker 1: story for that because we we all had conversations about this,

801
00:41:09,960 --> 00:41:12,560
Speaker 1: you know, about go bags and and bug out bags

802
00:41:12,560 --> 00:41:14,680
Speaker 1: and that kind of ship. So. Uh So I was

803
00:41:14,719 --> 00:41:18,839
Speaker 1: in Japan uh in March of two thousand eleven March

804
00:41:19,440 --> 00:41:22,320
Speaker 1: eleven and two thousand eleven when the big, the great

805
00:41:22,800 --> 00:41:25,719
Speaker 1: to whole Coup earthquake happened in Japan or that you

806
00:41:25,760 --> 00:41:28,680
Speaker 1: know that it sent the tsunami in. It killed a

807
00:41:28,680 --> 00:41:32,000
Speaker 1: bunch of people, cracked the reactor and the Fekushima reactor

808
00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:35,480
Speaker 1: all that ship. So uh, the entire country screeched to

809
00:41:35,520 --> 00:41:40,239
Speaker 1: an absolute halt. Um you know, Uh, sell service went

810
00:41:40,320 --> 00:41:43,080
Speaker 1: down for damn near everybody I know, mine did, and

811
00:41:43,120 --> 00:41:44,600
Speaker 1: I was on the other side of the country, so

812
00:41:44,960 --> 00:41:47,239
Speaker 1: I wasn't. I wasn't actually in a place where I

813
00:41:47,280 --> 00:41:49,880
Speaker 1: was in any physical danger. But at that time you

814
00:41:49,920 --> 00:41:52,160
Speaker 1: have no idea what the physical danger is because there's

815
00:41:52,160 --> 00:41:54,080
Speaker 1: no commo. You just know that some crazy shi it

816
00:41:54,120 --> 00:41:57,320
Speaker 1: has happened. Um. I've mentioned before in some of my articles.

817
00:41:57,360 --> 00:41:59,759
Speaker 1: You get this like amber alert on your phone when

818
00:41:59,760 --> 00:42:03,640
Speaker 1: they're is uh when there's an earthquake and your your

819
00:42:03,719 --> 00:42:07,239
Speaker 1: cell Look, your location is pinned by the cell, so

820
00:42:07,280 --> 00:42:09,760
Speaker 1: it knows where you are and it pings you relevant

821
00:42:09,800 --> 00:42:13,040
Speaker 1: to that right. So um. So at the time, I

822
00:42:13,080 --> 00:42:17,000
Speaker 1: had a buddy that was visiting um and uh when

823
00:42:17,080 --> 00:42:18,880
Speaker 1: he got to the country, he was gonna stay with

824
00:42:18,880 --> 00:42:20,600
Speaker 1: me for like ninety days because that was the extent

825
00:42:20,640 --> 00:42:23,279
Speaker 1: of a tour's visa and he was gonna kick around.

826
00:42:23,280 --> 00:42:24,799
Speaker 1: I was gonna show him some ship. Knowing this guy

827
00:42:24,840 --> 00:42:28,719
Speaker 1: for years and uh so when he got there, Um,

828
00:42:28,760 --> 00:42:31,840
Speaker 1: I picked him up at the train station and I

829
00:42:31,920 --> 00:42:34,040
Speaker 1: already had to go back ready for him. Pop the

830
00:42:34,040 --> 00:42:36,319
Speaker 1: trunk through his bag in there, said, all right, listen

831
00:42:36,320 --> 00:42:38,400
Speaker 1: to me. This is your go bag. It's got some

832
00:42:38,440 --> 00:42:40,040
Speaker 1: ship in it. Opened the bag up. Here's the ship

833
00:42:40,080 --> 00:42:41,480
Speaker 1: that's in it. If you don't know how to use

834
00:42:41,480 --> 00:42:43,960
Speaker 1: any this stuff will go over it. Um, this is

835
00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:46,000
Speaker 1: your this is I call it a bug out bag. Actually,

836
00:42:46,040 --> 00:42:49,040
Speaker 1: this is your bug out bag. If anything happens, I

837
00:42:49,080 --> 00:42:51,399
Speaker 1: need you to get this bag, get on the bike

838
00:42:51,480 --> 00:42:54,080
Speaker 1: that is waiting at my apartment, and get your ass

839
00:42:54,120 --> 00:42:56,680
Speaker 1: to this place. Pulled out a topo map of the area.

840
00:42:56,760 --> 00:42:58,760
Speaker 1: I'm a map bitch. I've got all kinds of maps

841
00:42:58,800 --> 00:43:01,440
Speaker 1: all the time. Puld out this map. Showed him on

842
00:43:01,560 --> 00:43:04,760
Speaker 1: the map where our first we call that a rally point.

843
00:43:04,880 --> 00:43:07,719
Speaker 1: Where our first rally point is, um, where we were

844
00:43:07,719 --> 00:43:10,480
Speaker 1: going to meet. We're split, we're at the same place

845
00:43:10,520 --> 00:43:11,960
Speaker 1: at the same time. We get in the car, or

846
00:43:12,000 --> 00:43:14,000
Speaker 1: we move out on bikes together, whatever it is. But

847
00:43:15,080 --> 00:43:16,919
Speaker 1: so I drove him to that place and said, here's

848
00:43:16,920 --> 00:43:19,239
Speaker 1: our first rally point. You grabbed that bag and you

849
00:43:19,280 --> 00:43:22,040
Speaker 1: bring your ass on the bike to this point. You

850
00:43:22,080 --> 00:43:24,640
Speaker 1: wait six hours. If I'm not at this location in

851
00:43:24,719 --> 00:43:28,600
Speaker 1: six hours, here is our second place to meet. Why

852
00:43:28,600 --> 00:43:30,640
Speaker 1: did you do this in the first place? What do

853
00:43:30,800 --> 00:43:33,280
Speaker 1: Japan is a precarious place, man, I mean it was this,

854
00:43:33,280 --> 00:43:36,040
Speaker 1: This was when Fukushima. You know this is before because

855
00:43:37,520 --> 00:43:39,719
Speaker 1: there when it happen. Why were you on edge? It's

856
00:43:39,760 --> 00:43:41,319
Speaker 1: not that I was on edge about it. I think

857
00:43:41,360 --> 00:43:44,040
Speaker 1: if you if you had lived there any amount of time,

858
00:43:44,200 --> 00:43:47,600
Speaker 1: the earthquakes are not an irregular thing. Um. You know,

859
00:43:47,680 --> 00:43:50,560
Speaker 1: there was no spastic reaction to ship that was going

860
00:43:50,600 --> 00:43:52,759
Speaker 1: on in North Korea at the time, but you never know,

861
00:43:53,080 --> 00:43:56,200
Speaker 1: Um there was no there certainly hadn't been any tsunami

862
00:43:56,280 --> 00:43:58,280
Speaker 1: that had done anything to anybody in quite a while,

863
00:43:58,640 --> 00:44:03,480
Speaker 1: you know, but you never know. Um there's uh. Japan,

864
00:44:03,719 --> 00:44:06,280
Speaker 1: It just fundamentally is is kind of naturally a precarious

865
00:44:06,320 --> 00:44:08,799
Speaker 1: place because it's the fucking largest country on the Ring

866
00:44:08,840 --> 00:44:12,160
Speaker 1: of Fire. So the entire if you have elevation that

867
00:44:12,280 --> 00:44:15,840
Speaker 1: is over about five feet, that fucking thing is slightly

868
00:44:15,920 --> 00:44:19,719
Speaker 1: volcanic I mean the entire place, um and and politically

869
00:44:19,800 --> 00:44:22,600
Speaker 1: is precarious now, way way more so now than it

870
00:44:22,640 --> 00:44:24,880
Speaker 1: was when I lived there. But uh so, it was

871
00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:28,799
Speaker 1: just to make sure, um so, uh so, I mean,

872
00:44:28,840 --> 00:44:30,680
Speaker 1: I wouldn't like on edge about it. It's just like,

873
00:44:30,960 --> 00:44:32,719
Speaker 1: this was the first guy that was gonna come stay

874
00:44:32,760 --> 00:44:34,920
Speaker 1: with me and and you know, for ninety days, So

875
00:44:35,239 --> 00:44:37,480
Speaker 1: fuck it. Here's your brief. You know. I had a

876
00:44:37,480 --> 00:44:40,000
Speaker 1: bug out bag. I had a plan that I would execute.

877
00:44:40,040 --> 00:44:41,480
Speaker 1: I had other people that I was going to pick

878
00:44:41,600 --> 00:44:44,200
Speaker 1: up and get out of town. Because all of Japan,

879
00:44:44,200 --> 00:44:46,800
Speaker 1: you'll see, all of Japan, anything that's urbanized is sitting

880
00:44:46,800 --> 00:44:49,440
Speaker 1: on a flat space, which is one of the reasons

881
00:44:49,440 --> 00:44:51,960
Speaker 1: why that tsunami could go so far inland, because it's

882
00:44:52,000 --> 00:44:55,400
Speaker 1: just ocean, flat ship and then ninety degree angle mountains.

883
00:44:55,920 --> 00:44:58,719
Speaker 1: So so I walked this guy through the ship. I said,

884
00:44:58,760 --> 00:45:01,040
Speaker 1: here's your bug out bag. Here's here's rally point one,

885
00:45:01,040 --> 00:45:03,040
Speaker 1: here's rally point to rally point two. Was on top

886
00:45:03,080 --> 00:45:05,480
Speaker 1: of a mountain, not a big mountain, pretty short mountain

887
00:45:05,480 --> 00:45:07,040
Speaker 1: you get up in about thirty minutes if you hauled

888
00:45:07,080 --> 00:45:10,040
Speaker 1: ass and but at that mountain you had a panoramic

889
00:45:10,120 --> 00:45:12,440
Speaker 1: view of the entire plane all the way after the

890
00:45:12,440 --> 00:45:15,000
Speaker 1: fucking ocean. You're high enough that the tsunami wasn't gonna

891
00:45:15,640 --> 00:45:17,520
Speaker 1: mess with you. You were you were far enough in

892
00:45:17,560 --> 00:45:18,960
Speaker 1: the woods at this point that if you had to

893
00:45:19,040 --> 00:45:22,279
Speaker 1: fucking uh you know, red dawn that ship because North

894
00:45:22,320 --> 00:45:25,280
Speaker 1: Korea attacked your way the funk outside everybody's radar. Plus,

895
00:45:25,640 --> 00:45:28,360
Speaker 1: we had a couple of I had two Motorola walkie

896
00:45:28,400 --> 00:45:31,600
Speaker 1: talkies that I had taken to the country. Um, and

897
00:45:31,920 --> 00:45:33,960
Speaker 1: one of them was his, was in his bug out bag,

898
00:45:34,040 --> 00:45:36,080
Speaker 1: the other ones in mine, and they're really good. You

899
00:45:36,160 --> 00:45:38,200
Speaker 1: gotta have line of sight. And if he's on a mountaintop,

900
00:45:38,520 --> 00:45:40,640
Speaker 1: you know, two miles away from me, three miles away

901
00:45:40,640 --> 00:45:43,040
Speaker 1: from me, we can talk. If he's behind the mountain,

902
00:45:43,040 --> 00:45:45,880
Speaker 1: we can't do that. So so you know, I explain

903
00:45:45,920 --> 00:45:48,080
Speaker 1: all this bullshit to him, and of course this is

904
00:45:48,120 --> 00:45:51,359
Speaker 1: probably February two thousand and eleven, and um, I mean,

905
00:45:51,440 --> 00:45:53,480
Speaker 1: he looks at me like I got fucking lobsters coming

906
00:45:53,480 --> 00:45:57,840
Speaker 1: out of my ears, looks like I got a fucking

907
00:45:57,960 --> 00:46:00,600
Speaker 1: Lucha Libre mask on my face. So he you know,

908
00:46:00,600 --> 00:46:02,160
Speaker 1: I've known this guy for years, man, Like we went

909
00:46:02,160 --> 00:46:05,480
Speaker 1: to junior high together. We yeah, we went all the

910
00:46:05,520 --> 00:46:09,600
Speaker 1: way back and uh. Um and he literally, man, he

911
00:46:09,600 --> 00:46:11,600
Speaker 1: looked at me and he said, who are you like,

912
00:46:11,640 --> 00:46:15,120
Speaker 1: who are you right now? Cathain America. There's a mask.

913
00:46:15,200 --> 00:46:18,120
Speaker 1: Underneath the mask, it's it's onion layers. And um. But

914
00:46:18,280 --> 00:46:23,120
Speaker 1: so so that is relevant because you know, a couple

915
00:46:23,120 --> 00:46:28,120
Speaker 1: of weeks later, I had enough, I had enough network

916
00:46:28,239 --> 00:46:32,879
Speaker 1: ability to send him one text that said, get your

917
00:46:32,880 --> 00:46:36,479
Speaker 1: fucking bag and go. And I couldn't make the first

918
00:46:36,560 --> 00:46:41,080
Speaker 1: rally point, so I made the second. Nothing happened, nothing

919
00:46:41,120 --> 00:46:44,120
Speaker 1: going on. Uh, you know, my part of the country

920
00:46:44,160 --> 00:46:47,000
Speaker 1: was fine. We had some residual radiation. Nothing major, I

921
00:46:47,040 --> 00:46:49,360
Speaker 1: mean like ship fell off shelves during the earthquake and

922
00:46:49,360 --> 00:46:51,960
Speaker 1: crap like that, and no big deal. And uh I

923
00:46:52,000 --> 00:46:54,160
Speaker 1: got there, and for the first time in that fucking

924
00:46:54,200 --> 00:46:59,000
Speaker 1: guy's life, he realized how infinitely important it was that

925
00:46:59,120 --> 00:47:01,239
Speaker 1: I pulled his out of a train station when he

926
00:47:01,280 --> 00:47:03,520
Speaker 1: first got in country and explained to him what he

927
00:47:03,560 --> 00:47:06,239
Speaker 1: needed to do in the event of an emergency. Was

928
00:47:06,280 --> 00:47:11,160
Speaker 1: it an air tight plan? Now? Uh? If not, everything is,

929
00:47:11,200 --> 00:47:13,719
Speaker 1: but but enough enough of the arc was covered that

930
00:47:13,800 --> 00:47:18,920
Speaker 1: he had an increased chance of surviving that situation. Um,

931
00:47:18,960 --> 00:47:22,000
Speaker 1: you know, and and obviously the bigger plan was much

932
00:47:22,120 --> 00:47:23,799
Speaker 1: larger than that, but I didn't have to share that

933
00:47:23,840 --> 00:47:25,400
Speaker 1: with him at the time. You know, I had plans

934
00:47:25,440 --> 00:47:28,040
Speaker 1: for summer versus winter, because that mountaintop would have been

935
00:47:28,040 --> 00:47:31,200
Speaker 1: covered with snow, uh and all that ship so uh.

936
00:47:31,680 --> 00:47:34,319
Speaker 1: So that that that gets into a lot of this preparedness. Now,

937
00:47:34,400 --> 00:47:36,360
Speaker 1: like I don't have a room full of fucking m

938
00:47:36,480 --> 00:47:38,839
Speaker 1: R E s or like cases of fucking AMMO at

939
00:47:38,840 --> 00:47:42,439
Speaker 1: my place I have. I'm all about mobility. So whether

940
00:47:42,480 --> 00:47:44,680
Speaker 1: I'm in Japan or whether I'm I'm back in Europe

941
00:47:44,760 --> 00:47:48,400
Speaker 1: or whatever it is. Now, I have one bag that

942
00:47:48,440 --> 00:47:51,120
Speaker 1: I will grab and that bag will increase my chances

943
00:47:51,200 --> 00:47:55,239
Speaker 1: of of a variety of different uh survival issues, will

944
00:47:55,280 --> 00:47:58,480
Speaker 1: increase my chances of survival given a variety of issues.

945
00:47:58,800 --> 00:48:02,880
Speaker 1: Um and uh after that moment, you know, after that

946
00:48:02,920 --> 00:48:04,680
Speaker 1: earthquake happened and he had to get his bag and

947
00:48:04,680 --> 00:48:06,960
Speaker 1: get on the bike, and and and fucking Hall asked

948
00:48:06,960 --> 00:48:09,719
Speaker 1: to RP one in an RP two. He Um, he

949
00:48:09,800 --> 00:48:13,200
Speaker 1: understood how important that was. Ultimately it was irrelevant, but

950
00:48:13,239 --> 00:48:15,880
Speaker 1: then he he understood how it was. So, so you know,

951
00:48:15,960 --> 00:48:17,440
Speaker 1: I think that that a lot of people like, oh,

952
00:48:17,520 --> 00:48:19,680
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna get this this go bag or this

953
00:48:19,680 --> 00:48:21,839
Speaker 1: this this is great or whatever it is. It's got

954
00:48:21,840 --> 00:48:23,760
Speaker 1: this ship in it. But like you know, the moment,

955
00:48:23,840 --> 00:48:26,680
Speaker 1: when the moment anything fucking goes sideways, if you're not

956
00:48:26,719 --> 00:48:30,720
Speaker 1: prepared for it, you're done. Yeah, and shameless plug. Great

957
00:48:30,760 --> 00:48:34,359
Speaker 1: Club dot you have Great Club dot us, which I'm

958
00:48:34,400 --> 00:48:38,680
Speaker 1: also wondering, Um, you have to meet Jack Murphy tonight? Correct? Yes,

959
00:48:38,840 --> 00:48:40,880
Speaker 1: what time? Or do we have a hard Now? We

960
00:48:40,880 --> 00:48:42,799
Speaker 1: don't have a hard time, all right, so we can

961
00:48:42,800 --> 00:48:46,680
Speaker 1: get into a few more things here. Jeremy B on

962
00:48:46,719 --> 00:48:52,240
Speaker 1: YouTube asks Odissean, would you share your thoughts on nationalism

963
00:48:52,480 --> 00:48:57,160
Speaker 1: and militarism in current politics in Japan? Gotta love soft rep,

964
00:48:57,280 --> 00:48:59,279
Speaker 1: asked the expert in the Luca to our mass for

965
00:48:59,320 --> 00:49:03,960
Speaker 1: the Yeah, No, I think those are good questions. Um,

966
00:49:04,000 --> 00:49:05,799
Speaker 1: I've written a couple of things about that. I mean,

967
00:49:05,880 --> 00:49:08,920
Speaker 1: like last year I wrote an article about the the

968
00:49:09,000 --> 00:49:13,080
Speaker 1: probability of the current emperor retiring in order to make

969
00:49:13,120 --> 00:49:15,279
Speaker 1: way for an emperor that would be more conducive to

970
00:49:15,440 --> 00:49:20,240
Speaker 1: a a militarized Japan. First of all, nationalized or ultra

971
00:49:20,440 --> 00:49:24,239
Speaker 1: nationalized Japanese people are always around, always around, they drive

972
00:49:24,280 --> 00:49:26,839
Speaker 1: around these black busses broadcasting ship. It's kind of weird.

973
00:49:26,880 --> 00:49:31,400
Speaker 1: But um uh I UM. I don't have a problem

974
00:49:31,400 --> 00:49:33,759
Speaker 1: with anybody being nationalistic. I don't have a problem with

975
00:49:33,800 --> 00:49:37,719
Speaker 1: anybody's supporting UH. You know, I guess the superiority of

976
00:49:37,760 --> 00:49:40,520
Speaker 1: their of their country, as long as they're not fucking

977
00:49:40,560 --> 00:49:44,239
Speaker 1: assholes about it and hurting other people or innocent people.

978
00:49:44,360 --> 00:49:46,239
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't. I obviously don't agree with that.

979
00:49:46,600 --> 00:49:48,920
Speaker 1: I'm in the military, so or was in the military.

980
00:49:48,960 --> 00:49:53,879
Speaker 1: So um the so. Yeah. I wrote last year about

981
00:49:53,920 --> 00:49:56,319
Speaker 1: the emperor retiring UH, and it was a theory at

982
00:49:56,320 --> 00:49:58,160
Speaker 1: the time, and it's a fact now. The Emperor of

983
00:49:58,239 --> 00:50:00,399
Speaker 1: Japan is retiring. He's going to retire or. I think

984
00:50:00,440 --> 00:50:02,920
Speaker 1: they've set the official date for his birthday, which is

985
00:50:02,920 --> 00:50:05,640
Speaker 1: December twenty three, UH, and then to herald in the

986
00:50:05,680 --> 00:50:10,560
Speaker 1: new year, they will they'll bring in his son UM

987
00:50:10,600 --> 00:50:13,520
Speaker 1: to be the new emperor. I don't have any visibility

988
00:50:13,640 --> 00:50:17,840
Speaker 1: right now on whether UH that new emperor, because the

989
00:50:17,880 --> 00:50:20,919
Speaker 1: emperor doesn't hold any political authority in the country. Part

990
00:50:20,960 --> 00:50:24,200
Speaker 1: of the UH part of the surrender agreement UM that

991
00:50:24,320 --> 00:50:27,360
Speaker 1: was finalized in the fifties. Part of that surrender agreement

992
00:50:27,400 --> 00:50:30,799
Speaker 1: is that the Japanese would would uh finally admit that

993
00:50:30,840 --> 00:50:34,600
Speaker 1: their emperor was not divine in any way. Okay, well,

994
00:50:34,640 --> 00:50:37,279
Speaker 1: so that was an administrative change because everyone still views

995
00:50:37,360 --> 00:50:40,800
Speaker 1: their fucking emperor as being bigger and better than normal people.

996
00:50:41,239 --> 00:50:44,359
Speaker 1: The the emperor or or anybody in the imperial family. Um,

997
00:50:44,719 --> 00:50:48,680
Speaker 1: they are not involved in the execution of political agendas.

998
00:50:48,719 --> 00:50:50,520
Speaker 1: That's what it's not what they're there for. That's why

999
00:50:50,560 --> 00:50:52,360
Speaker 1: there was a show gun. The showgun ran the country.

1000
00:50:52,400 --> 00:50:54,279
Speaker 1: The emperor was just there to sort of represent it.

1001
00:50:54,400 --> 00:50:58,239
Speaker 1: So the current emperor, the emperor that's sitting there now

1002
00:50:58,320 --> 00:51:00,960
Speaker 1: is the son of Hidro Hito, who was the emperor

1003
00:51:01,000 --> 00:51:03,319
Speaker 1: during World War Two. Right, So this cat who's sitting

1004
00:51:03,320 --> 00:51:06,160
Speaker 1: in there now, UM, he does not want to have

1005
00:51:06,200 --> 00:51:09,360
Speaker 1: anything at all to do with anything violent. Uh. Japan

1006
00:51:09,480 --> 00:51:12,759
Speaker 1: is almost utterly pacified right now. So, Um, I've been

1007
00:51:12,840 --> 00:51:14,520
Speaker 1: right in the entire time I've been on software up

1008
00:51:14,520 --> 00:51:17,080
Speaker 1: that Japan is going to get more militarized. They have to.

1009
00:51:17,160 --> 00:51:19,319
Speaker 1: There's absolutely no choice whether they want it or not.

1010
00:51:19,400 --> 00:51:24,040
Speaker 1: It's going to happen. Um. So I think nationalism itself

1011
00:51:24,080 --> 00:51:27,719
Speaker 1: in Japan is probably not changing because the vast majority

1012
00:51:27,760 --> 00:51:32,040
Speaker 1: of the street folk in Japan don't want war, they

1013
00:51:32,040 --> 00:51:34,200
Speaker 1: don't want violence, they don't want to funk with the

1014
00:51:34,239 --> 00:51:39,480
Speaker 1: stresses of being involved in kinetic activity against another national body. Um.

1015
00:51:39,560 --> 00:51:43,560
Speaker 1: That ain't stopping the government from becoming more militarized. So

1016
00:51:43,719 --> 00:51:45,760
Speaker 1: I guess what I could say is that the national

1017
00:51:46,680 --> 00:51:49,960
Speaker 1: sentiment of the people is a mutually exclusive event to

1018
00:51:50,040 --> 00:51:54,399
Speaker 1: the militarization of the government itself. Uh. The people being

1019
00:51:54,440 --> 00:51:57,160
Speaker 1: for it or against it really has nothing at all

1020
00:51:57,200 --> 00:52:00,160
Speaker 1: to do with the government doing it or not doing it. Um.

1021
00:52:00,600 --> 00:52:03,280
Speaker 1: So the reason they're they're gonna pull this new emperor,

1022
00:52:03,320 --> 00:52:05,399
Speaker 1: I mean, the current emperor wants to retire, that's cool,

1023
00:52:05,400 --> 00:52:07,640
Speaker 1: but uh, they're gonna pull this new guy in. And

1024
00:52:07,680 --> 00:52:11,239
Speaker 1: this new guy is just gonna not hiccup anything, and

1025
00:52:11,280 --> 00:52:13,960
Speaker 1: you're not going to tarnish his reputation because the current

1026
00:52:13,960 --> 00:52:17,920
Speaker 1: emperor has spent his entire life on the throne being

1027
00:52:18,600 --> 00:52:21,359
Speaker 1: uh peaceful pass us Japan has never engaged in any

1028
00:52:21,440 --> 00:52:25,719
Speaker 1: kinetic activity really, um since he's been on the throne period. Well,

1029
00:52:25,719 --> 00:52:28,319
Speaker 1: now he can step out the door and fish or

1030
00:52:28,360 --> 00:52:29,920
Speaker 1: whatever the hell it is he's gonna do as a

1031
00:52:29,920 --> 00:52:32,799
Speaker 1: retired emperor. Uh, and then his kid can sort out

1032
00:52:32,800 --> 00:52:37,400
Speaker 1: whether he wants to be responsible for militarized Japan or not. Um, So,

1033
00:52:37,520 --> 00:52:39,719
Speaker 1: the militarization is going to happen. It's been happening for

1034
00:52:39,760 --> 00:52:42,000
Speaker 1: the last I hit the country the first time in

1035
00:52:42,080 --> 00:52:45,319
Speaker 1: two thousand four, and it's it's militarized significantly since then.

1036
00:52:45,880 --> 00:52:50,480
Speaker 1: I've written a lot of shit about how units were

1037
00:52:50,520 --> 00:52:54,000
Speaker 1: training was implemented on units that could not even legally

1038
00:52:54,040 --> 00:52:56,320
Speaker 1: exist in Japan. So they they gave him a different

1039
00:52:56,320 --> 00:52:58,399
Speaker 1: nomenclature and ship like that, and then once the ship

1040
00:52:58,480 --> 00:53:01,560
Speaker 1: was legal, those teams went live because they already had

1041
00:53:01,600 --> 00:53:03,880
Speaker 1: all the training, all the resources and everything allotted, they

1042
00:53:03,880 --> 00:53:06,359
Speaker 1: just weren't illegally allowed to do that. So then once

1043
00:53:06,400 --> 00:53:09,000
Speaker 1: the legalization occurred, they just they popped those guys into

1044
00:53:09,000 --> 00:53:11,360
Speaker 1: action and hit the hit the flip the switch, and

1045
00:53:11,400 --> 00:53:15,320
Speaker 1: the unit was just magically there. So, UM, I don't.

1046
00:53:15,360 --> 00:53:17,400
Speaker 1: I don't think of militarized Japan is a bad thing

1047
00:53:17,440 --> 00:53:21,400
Speaker 1: for the United States and for for Western policies in Asia,

1048
00:53:22,239 --> 00:53:26,200
Speaker 1: as long as we responsibly engage in Japan as um.

1049
00:53:26,239 --> 00:53:28,479
Speaker 1: You know, one of those powerful economies in the world,

1050
00:53:28,480 --> 00:53:30,839
Speaker 1: one of the most powerful militaries in the world. They

1051
00:53:30,840 --> 00:53:32,560
Speaker 1: weren't even allowed to have a military for years and

1052
00:53:32,640 --> 00:53:33,640
Speaker 1: years and years, and it was one of the most

1053
00:53:33,640 --> 00:53:36,399
Speaker 1: powerful militaries in the world. They've got second, I think

1054
00:53:36,400 --> 00:53:39,520
Speaker 1: they're the second per capita spending for defense and they

1055
00:53:39,560 --> 00:53:43,000
Speaker 1: weren't even allowed to have military. Yeah, any questions you

1056
00:53:43,040 --> 00:53:45,440
Speaker 1: guys have, shoot them over. We're here for you to

1057
00:53:45,600 --> 00:53:49,960
Speaker 1: uh to answer anything, especially specifically on Japan. Uh is

1058
00:53:50,160 --> 00:53:53,279
Speaker 1: the Odissean's wheelhouse. Who is with us for the next

1059
00:53:53,320 --> 00:53:57,480
Speaker 1: few minutes? Um. I actually do have a question though

1060
00:53:57,520 --> 00:54:00,839
Speaker 1: myself regarding what you're talking about. What do you say

1061
00:54:00,880 --> 00:54:03,720
Speaker 1: to people because I've had this conversation with Jack Murphy

1062
00:54:03,760 --> 00:54:06,760
Speaker 1: who say, Um, we have too much of a military

1063
00:54:06,760 --> 00:54:09,919
Speaker 1: presence around the globe. We're not the world police. Why

1064
00:54:09,920 --> 00:54:12,600
Speaker 1: do we even have a presence in Japan? World War

1065
00:54:12,680 --> 00:54:16,200
Speaker 1: Two was decades ago. What's the reason for it? And

1066
00:54:16,520 --> 00:54:18,560
Speaker 1: what do you say to people that you know just

1067
00:54:18,600 --> 00:54:22,120
Speaker 1: think it's where we're spreading troops too thin and we

1068
00:54:22,160 --> 00:54:24,840
Speaker 1: should only be focused on these countries like North Korea

1069
00:54:25,040 --> 00:54:28,440
Speaker 1: or Iran that that people perceive as a threat to us.

1070
00:54:29,040 --> 00:54:30,720
Speaker 1: I mean, I agree with I think we are spread

1071
00:54:30,719 --> 00:54:33,239
Speaker 1: too thin. I I would also agree that we kind

1072
00:54:33,239 --> 00:54:36,120
Speaker 1: of make ourselves a world police and get involved in

1073
00:54:36,120 --> 00:54:40,240
Speaker 1: ship that we can't even logistically or or or economically

1074
00:54:40,360 --> 00:54:43,680
Speaker 1: feasibly engaged. That's just piss poor planning that that that

1075
00:54:43,719 --> 00:54:46,400
Speaker 1: doesn't have anything to do with the reality of America

1076
00:54:46,520 --> 00:54:49,480
Speaker 1: stepping up and trying to help people they're getting shipped on. Uh.

1077
00:54:49,520 --> 00:54:51,960
Speaker 1: I mean, in my opinion, Uh, the reason we have

1078
00:54:52,000 --> 00:54:55,360
Speaker 1: people in fucking Japan, Guam, in Hawaii is because of

1079
00:54:55,400 --> 00:54:59,160
Speaker 1: North Korea. The fucking moment the kettle goes off in

1080
00:54:59,200 --> 00:55:00,839
Speaker 1: North Korea, and I've said it on your radio show,

1081
00:55:00,880 --> 00:55:02,759
Speaker 1: I've said it in my articles, the fucking moment the

1082
00:55:02,840 --> 00:55:05,879
Speaker 1: cattle goes off in North Korea, the Korean twins are

1083
00:55:06,000 --> 00:55:11,359
Speaker 1: going to be non entities in any fucking decision making process. Uh.

1084
00:55:11,440 --> 00:55:14,000
Speaker 1: The people we have there are going to be more

1085
00:55:14,040 --> 00:55:17,080
Speaker 1: concerned about getting their asses rescued than fucking around with

1086
00:55:17,120 --> 00:55:19,680
Speaker 1: North Korea. That's why we have people in Japan, That's

1087
00:55:19,680 --> 00:55:21,600
Speaker 1: why we have people in Okinawa, That's why we have

1088
00:55:21,640 --> 00:55:24,080
Speaker 1: people in Hawaii, because those guys aren't gonna get fucked

1089
00:55:24,160 --> 00:55:27,839
Speaker 1: up the moment the balloon goes up. Um. You know,

1090
00:55:28,200 --> 00:55:31,640
Speaker 1: I think, uh so, if you say, why do we

1091
00:55:31,719 --> 00:55:34,439
Speaker 1: have people in Japan. Uh, you know, World War two

1092
00:55:34,520 --> 00:55:36,400
Speaker 1: is over. I would I would think, why do we

1093
00:55:36,440 --> 00:55:38,440
Speaker 1: have people in South Korea? I mean, I realized we're

1094
00:55:38,480 --> 00:55:40,720
Speaker 1: still at war with North Korea. But the only fucking

1095
00:55:40,719 --> 00:55:43,319
Speaker 1: reason we're in South Korea is because North Korea is

1096
00:55:43,320 --> 00:55:45,560
Speaker 1: in North Korea. And guess what's gonna happen when we

1097
00:55:45,640 --> 00:55:48,080
Speaker 1: leave South Korea. North Korea is still gonna be fucking

1098
00:55:48,120 --> 00:55:50,640
Speaker 1: North Korea. It isn't like we're gonna leave and then

1099
00:55:50,640 --> 00:55:51,959
Speaker 1: they're gonna be like, well, you know what, We're gonna

1100
00:55:52,000 --> 00:55:54,880
Speaker 1: recruit a million new people to to you know, that

1101
00:55:54,960 --> 00:55:57,120
Speaker 1: way we just overrun South ship. It's not gonna happen.

1102
00:55:57,160 --> 00:55:59,799
Speaker 1: That's not the way that ship works. Um. I mean,

1103
00:55:59,800 --> 00:56:02,680
Speaker 1: I'm my opinion, and I'm obviously not a Korean expert.

1104
00:56:02,719 --> 00:56:04,400
Speaker 1: There are people in the system to know a shipload

1105
00:56:04,400 --> 00:56:07,520
Speaker 1: more about that ship than I do. But Japan really

1106
00:56:07,680 --> 00:56:10,359
Speaker 1: is the lynchpin to anything and everything we're ever gonna do.

1107
00:56:10,920 --> 00:56:13,560
Speaker 1: Uh in Northeast Asia and to a greater extent East

1108
00:56:13,560 --> 00:56:17,920
Speaker 1: and even Southeast Asia. Um, I think we're spread thin.

1109
00:56:18,000 --> 00:56:20,200
Speaker 1: I agree with whoever says that I mean, Jack or

1110
00:56:20,200 --> 00:56:22,000
Speaker 1: whoever I agree with that we're spread too thin. But again, no,

1111
00:56:22,120 --> 00:56:25,799
Speaker 1: it's not in general general Yeah, yeah, people say that

1112
00:56:25,800 --> 00:56:27,319
Speaker 1: ship all the time, and I agree with you, we

1113
00:56:27,360 --> 00:56:29,920
Speaker 1: are spread tooth thin. But but again that's just pissed

1114
00:56:29,920 --> 00:56:32,000
Speaker 1: poor planning. It's like, well, we have all our eggs

1115
00:56:32,000 --> 00:56:33,919
Speaker 1: in this basket. We don't have any eggs to put

1116
00:56:33,920 --> 00:56:36,440
Speaker 1: in this basket over here. I've also heard Jack say,

1117
00:56:36,480 --> 00:56:39,000
Speaker 1: because Jack is really not on that end of the spectrum,

1118
00:56:39,120 --> 00:56:42,400
Speaker 1: he's He's said before, um, and we've had Green Berets

1119
00:56:42,440 --> 00:56:46,160
Speaker 1: on the program say before that if you don't have

1120
00:56:46,280 --> 00:56:49,040
Speaker 1: a military base in all of these places around the

1121
00:56:49,040 --> 00:56:51,319
Speaker 1: globe that we do, who do you think is going

1122
00:56:51,440 --> 00:56:53,719
Speaker 1: to It's China going to open a military basic. We

1123
00:56:53,760 --> 00:56:56,680
Speaker 1: have to keep that global US presence. Yeah, I mean

1124
00:56:56,719 --> 00:56:59,080
Speaker 1: I agree with that, you have to have a presence, um.

1125
00:56:59,239 --> 00:57:01,080
Speaker 1: But I mean because you can see what the fuss

1126
00:57:01,160 --> 00:57:02,839
Speaker 1: is happening in Africa right now, I mean we don't

1127
00:57:02,880 --> 00:57:05,120
Speaker 1: we don't have like a strong military presence in Africa,

1128
00:57:05,160 --> 00:57:07,120
Speaker 1: and fucking China is crawling all over the place. Now.

1129
00:57:07,120 --> 00:57:09,959
Speaker 1: You know, Derek and and and Jay on the site,

1130
00:57:10,200 --> 00:57:14,160
Speaker 1: they write about that ship, um extensively, And uh, I

1131
00:57:14,160 --> 00:57:17,160
Speaker 1: mean I don't necessarily think we gotta have a base

1132
00:57:17,400 --> 00:57:20,280
Speaker 1: or a post or or anything in a location like that,

1133
00:57:20,360 --> 00:57:23,360
Speaker 1: you have to have a military presence. Um. I mean

1134
00:57:23,400 --> 00:57:24,840
Speaker 1: you think about Japan. I mean, what do we got

1135
00:57:24,840 --> 00:57:27,960
Speaker 1: like six fucking military bases on Okinawa. That ship's like

1136
00:57:28,360 --> 00:57:31,520
Speaker 1: the size of fucking long island and there's six military

1137
00:57:31,520 --> 00:57:34,440
Speaker 1: bases on it. Like we everything we have on on

1138
00:57:34,560 --> 00:57:36,680
Speaker 1: mainland Japan or in the home islands of Japan. We

1139
00:57:36,760 --> 00:57:38,840
Speaker 1: folded all that ship back to Okinawa and some of

1140
00:57:38,840 --> 00:57:41,960
Speaker 1: the Okanawa ship went to Guam. Um. So I mean

1141
00:57:43,120 --> 00:57:45,640
Speaker 1: we don't have to have military presence in Japan. Let

1142
00:57:45,680 --> 00:57:48,120
Speaker 1: me rephrase that. Our military presence in Japan has nothing

1143
00:57:48,120 --> 00:57:51,000
Speaker 1: to do with Japan. Like, our military presence in Japan

1144
00:57:51,040 --> 00:57:55,680
Speaker 1: is because Japan is literally the biggest friendliest ally we

1145
00:57:55,760 --> 00:57:58,640
Speaker 1: have in Northeast Asia. The only fucking reason Korea wants

1146
00:57:58,680 --> 00:58:00,920
Speaker 1: us stairs because guess what they get to use when

1147
00:58:01,000 --> 00:58:05,160
Speaker 1: they get hit us. Yeah right, so yeah, keep the

1148
00:58:05,240 --> 00:58:10,840
Speaker 1: questions coming. First of whish is Chris bat He's about

1149
00:58:10,880 --> 00:58:13,840
Speaker 1: to answer that. Yeah, if Rocket Boy does another flyover

1150
00:58:14,600 --> 00:58:18,840
Speaker 1: dependent design Japan, sorry, declare they're now officially on defense

1151
00:58:18,960 --> 00:58:22,959
Speaker 1: and lean forward. Japan is already consistently on defense. Um.

1152
00:58:23,000 --> 00:58:27,320
Speaker 1: They're only going to lean forward and as much as um,

1153
00:58:27,360 --> 00:58:30,000
Speaker 1: I guess we let them lean forward. So I wrote

1154
00:58:30,000 --> 00:58:34,000
Speaker 1: an article sec def Madiss first visit as the Secretary

1155
00:58:34,000 --> 00:58:37,840
Speaker 1: of Defense was to South Korea and Japan, and um uh,

1156
00:58:37,880 --> 00:58:39,240
Speaker 1: you know, he spent a couple of days in South

1157
00:58:39,320 --> 00:58:42,240
Speaker 1: Korea and uh, and then spent a whole shipload of

1158
00:58:42,240 --> 00:58:46,000
Speaker 1: time in Japan. And you know, right after sect Death

1159
00:58:46,080 --> 00:58:49,880
Speaker 1: left Japan, the Prime Minister Japan and President Trump had

1160
00:58:49,880 --> 00:58:52,560
Speaker 1: a long conversation with each other on the phone. So

1161
00:58:52,640 --> 00:58:55,000
Speaker 1: I think Japan knows exactly what it's left and right

1162
00:58:55,040 --> 00:58:57,960
Speaker 1: limits are in terms of its own defense. Um. I've

1163
00:58:58,000 --> 00:59:00,120
Speaker 1: also I could be wrong about any of this. I

1164
00:59:00,160 --> 00:59:03,160
Speaker 1: just don't think I am like that. Yeah, I mean,

1165
00:59:03,200 --> 00:59:05,480
Speaker 1: I don't think you know, I'm I'm very If I

1166
00:59:05,480 --> 00:59:07,360
Speaker 1: get proven wrong, that's cool. I'm not gonna stam. I'm

1167
00:59:07,400 --> 00:59:09,400
Speaker 1: not married to the fucking idea that Japan is going

1168
00:59:09,440 --> 00:59:11,200
Speaker 1: to be able to defend itself. I just believe that

1169
00:59:11,240 --> 00:59:15,800
Speaker 1: they will. Um. So if I don't think North Korea

1170
00:59:15,840 --> 00:59:17,320
Speaker 1: is gonna do anybody over there, and if they do

1171
00:59:17,400 --> 00:59:19,720
Speaker 1: knuke anybody, it's gonna be South Korea. I don't think,

1172
00:59:19,960 --> 00:59:22,240
Speaker 1: you know, they're not gonna nuke. Uh, they're not gonna

1173
00:59:22,280 --> 00:59:25,920
Speaker 1: New Japan. Um Uh, I don't think. I don't think

1174
00:59:25,920 --> 00:59:27,400
Speaker 1: they're gonna do anybody, to be honest with you. And

1175
00:59:27,400 --> 00:59:28,840
Speaker 1: if they did, I don't think it's gonna be a launch.

1176
00:59:28,840 --> 00:59:30,400
Speaker 1: I've said it before. They're going to deliver a dirty

1177
00:59:30,440 --> 00:59:32,960
Speaker 1: bomb in a fucking backpack to the c Tach area

1178
00:59:33,560 --> 00:59:35,480
Speaker 1: because they can do that. You know, what's the end

1179
00:59:35,480 --> 00:59:41,640
Speaker 1: game then? For them? I have no idea. And yeah,

1180
00:59:41,680 --> 00:59:44,320
Speaker 1: it's just I think all that ship is just uh,

1181
00:59:44,320 --> 00:59:47,080
Speaker 1: it's it's they're just doing a magic trick. Hey, look

1182
00:59:47,120 --> 00:59:49,000
Speaker 1: at look at my hand over here. I have all

1183
00:59:49,040 --> 00:59:51,680
Speaker 1: this flashy bullshit going on over in this end and

1184
00:59:51,720 --> 00:59:54,040
Speaker 1: meanwhile they're digging around in their back pocket for a

1185
00:59:54,080 --> 00:59:58,240
Speaker 1: fucking rabbit. Um. But what does that mean in real terms?

1186
00:59:58,440 --> 01:00:00,360
Speaker 1: In real terms, it means we're paying a mentioned to

1187
01:00:00,440 --> 01:00:02,800
Speaker 1: these do these missile attacks and these nuke tests and

1188
01:00:02,800 --> 01:00:04,440
Speaker 1: ship like that, and we're not paying attention to the

1189
01:00:04,520 --> 01:00:07,800
Speaker 1: right thing. I have no idea, well, I mean I

1190
01:00:07,800 --> 01:00:09,760
Speaker 1: have no idea exactly what the right thing is because

1191
01:00:09,760 --> 01:00:13,040
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not working that Um, I'm not working

1192
01:00:13,120 --> 01:00:15,160
Speaker 1: that region exactly like that. You know, don't have access

1193
01:00:15,200 --> 01:00:18,880
Speaker 1: to sensitive information or proprietary stuff involving North Korea, but

1194
01:00:19,120 --> 01:00:21,439
Speaker 1: I mean, man, it could be anything that China could

1195
01:00:21,440 --> 01:00:23,040
Speaker 1: have gone to North Korea and said, hey, we need

1196
01:00:23,080 --> 01:00:25,080
Speaker 1: you to start blowing ship up again for a little

1197
01:00:25,120 --> 01:00:27,120
Speaker 1: while while we do all the ship that they've been

1198
01:00:27,160 --> 01:00:29,880
Speaker 1: doing this whole time in the South China Sea that

1199
01:00:29,920 --> 01:00:32,800
Speaker 1: no one's paying attention to now because everyone's concerned about

1200
01:00:32,800 --> 01:00:36,560
Speaker 1: North Korea fucking destroying the world with nuclear weapons. Um,

1201
01:00:36,880 --> 01:00:39,120
Speaker 1: you know another thing they could do is, uh we

1202
01:00:39,120 --> 01:00:41,160
Speaker 1: we know that North Korea's got all these fucking tunnels

1203
01:00:41,160 --> 01:00:43,480
Speaker 1: that that go back and forth between North Korean South Korea,

1204
01:00:43,480 --> 01:00:44,960
Speaker 1: and they know that that's a major part of their

1205
01:00:45,000 --> 01:00:47,840
Speaker 1: attack effort. And uh in South Korea, they know that

1206
01:00:47,880 --> 01:00:50,160
Speaker 1: they can park all their bullshit and these tunnels and

1207
01:00:50,200 --> 01:00:52,400
Speaker 1: while everybody's pummeling the funk out of each other with

1208
01:00:52,520 --> 01:00:56,480
Speaker 1: artillery and missile attacks all across Uh, you know, North

1209
01:00:56,560 --> 01:00:59,280
Speaker 1: Korean South Korea, all the ship that's underground is gonna

1210
01:00:59,320 --> 01:01:01,000
Speaker 1: be fine and then us so South Koreans have been

1211
01:01:01,040 --> 01:01:03,120
Speaker 1: beat the fucking ship by all of the RT and

1212
01:01:03,200 --> 01:01:06,280
Speaker 1: missile attacks, all the fucking tanks, all those sniper brigades

1213
01:01:06,320 --> 01:01:08,320
Speaker 1: all that bullshit are gonna pop out of those caves

1214
01:01:08,320 --> 01:01:10,560
Speaker 1: and they're gonna be fine. So in order to do

1215
01:01:10,720 --> 01:01:14,640
Speaker 1: the the the digging and the architecture in those tunnels,

1216
01:01:14,960 --> 01:01:19,800
Speaker 1: it requires uh seismic activity basically, um and and I

1217
01:01:19,800 --> 01:01:21,440
Speaker 1: could be talking to my asked here. So if any

1218
01:01:21,480 --> 01:01:24,560
Speaker 1: of the listeners are aware of how you dig fucking

1219
01:01:24,560 --> 01:01:27,880
Speaker 1: tunnels and whether this is a relevant comment, please please

1220
01:01:27,960 --> 01:01:30,920
Speaker 1: please right in, call in mail, in whatever, and let

1221
01:01:30,920 --> 01:01:33,480
Speaker 1: me know that this bullshit. But so these guys dig

1222
01:01:33,520 --> 01:01:37,200
Speaker 1: these tunnels, and while they're digging these tunnels, their seismic activity, well,

1223
01:01:37,200 --> 01:01:39,880
Speaker 1: no one's paying attention to seismic activity that has anything

1224
01:01:39,880 --> 01:01:42,919
Speaker 1: to do with anything but nuclear fucking tests right now.

1225
01:01:43,480 --> 01:01:47,240
Speaker 1: So if I'm digging a tunnel that requires seismic fucking activity,

1226
01:01:47,520 --> 01:01:49,120
Speaker 1: what do I want to do. If I don't want

1227
01:01:49,160 --> 01:01:50,640
Speaker 1: you to know I'm digging that tunnel, I need to

1228
01:01:50,680 --> 01:01:54,400
Speaker 1: create a reason to have seismic activity that's different than

1229
01:01:54,440 --> 01:01:59,280
Speaker 1: the reason that their seismic activity tracking. Right, So I'm

1230
01:01:59,320 --> 01:02:01,640
Speaker 1: digging a tunnel of seismic activity. I've got to blow

1231
01:02:01,640 --> 01:02:03,240
Speaker 1: some ship up in this tunnel in order to make

1232
01:02:03,280 --> 01:02:07,800
Speaker 1: some more room. Meanwhile, at another test site somewhere else

1233
01:02:07,800 --> 01:02:11,040
Speaker 1: in the country, their seismic activity. But everybody's focused in

1234
01:02:11,080 --> 01:02:14,280
Speaker 1: on this nuclear ship because for some reason, everybody's focused

1235
01:02:14,280 --> 01:02:16,960
Speaker 1: in on this nuclear ship. Um. I'm not saying you

1236
01:02:16,960 --> 01:02:19,280
Speaker 1: shouldn't focus in on it, but the whole fucking like

1237
01:02:19,440 --> 01:02:23,200
Speaker 1: media apparatus and intelligence apparatus involved in this ship openly

1238
01:02:23,600 --> 01:02:25,280
Speaker 1: is focused in on this crap. You know. I mean,

1239
01:02:25,280 --> 01:02:28,440
Speaker 1: we've got we've got cyber attacks happening every day. Uh

1240
01:02:28,480 --> 01:02:33,840
Speaker 1: that that that are far more detrimental to US national

1241
01:02:33,880 --> 01:02:38,720
Speaker 1: security and and national policy objectives overseas, Uh, far more

1242
01:02:38,760 --> 01:02:41,520
Speaker 1: detrimental that. And yet we're focused in on this fucking

1243
01:02:41,520 --> 01:02:44,240
Speaker 1: guy in North Korea that literally cannot launch a missile

1244
01:02:44,240 --> 01:02:47,400
Speaker 1: far enough to funk anything up other than South Korea

1245
01:02:47,520 --> 01:02:51,280
Speaker 1: or a place in Japan. And the news media almost

1246
01:02:51,320 --> 01:02:58,280
Speaker 1: presents it like they do have the technology to New America. UM, yeah,

1247
01:02:58,320 --> 01:03:01,440
Speaker 1: I mean I maybe they do. I don't think they do.

1248
01:03:01,560 --> 01:03:04,120
Speaker 1: It would be easier and cheaper than the dirty bomb

1249
01:03:04,440 --> 01:03:07,200
Speaker 1: a fucking West Coast city, uh, than it would be

1250
01:03:07,240 --> 01:03:11,320
Speaker 1: for them to launch a missile. The North Korea's broke

1251
01:03:11,360 --> 01:03:13,520
Speaker 1: as fuck, and every time they do a new test

1252
01:03:13,640 --> 01:03:17,600
Speaker 1: or launch a fucking missile um. They're blowing money they

1253
01:03:17,680 --> 01:03:20,680
Speaker 1: don't have, right, every time they do that, they are

1254
01:03:20,760 --> 01:03:23,360
Speaker 1: blowing money they don't fucking have unless somebody's just giving

1255
01:03:23,400 --> 01:03:25,800
Speaker 1: them money, which brings in a whole other question. You know,

1256
01:03:26,280 --> 01:03:28,320
Speaker 1: how they're getting all this tech and and and who's

1257
01:03:28,320 --> 01:03:30,600
Speaker 1: giving them somebody's giving them the tech, and somebody's giving

1258
01:03:30,640 --> 01:03:33,040
Speaker 1: them all the ship and uh so, so then now

1259
01:03:33,080 --> 01:03:36,400
Speaker 1: we get into a transnational issue with which which covers

1260
01:03:36,400 --> 01:03:42,400
Speaker 1: completely like exponentially higher grade um analysis and access to information.

1261
01:03:42,480 --> 01:03:45,000
Speaker 1: But personally, and I said it on a show I

1262
01:03:45,000 --> 01:03:47,520
Speaker 1: think Drew Drew Dwyer was on the show also and

1263
01:03:47,600 --> 01:03:51,840
Speaker 1: Brandon came in. I had called in, I think all

1264
01:03:51,880 --> 01:03:54,080
Speaker 1: this fucking new test ship is just a farce. I

1265
01:03:54,080 --> 01:03:56,160
Speaker 1: think that that people are looking at the wrong hand

1266
01:03:56,440 --> 01:03:58,880
Speaker 1: and their ship going on could be China fucking around

1267
01:03:58,880 --> 01:04:02,560
Speaker 1: in South China see to be North Korea making these tunnels. Um.

1268
01:04:02,600 --> 01:04:05,160
Speaker 1: You know I mentioned before on that exact podcast that

1269
01:04:05,120 --> 01:04:08,800
Speaker 1: the missing North Korean submarines. You know, ever, you know

1270
01:04:08,840 --> 01:04:11,000
Speaker 1: it's been more than once in the last ten years,

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Speaker 1: North Korea has lost a submarine and it's just this

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Speaker 1: fucking joke. We all laugh about it. Ha ha North

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Speaker 1: Korea lost a sub. Well, we don't know where the

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Speaker 1: be laughing. We should be finding that fucking sub because

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Speaker 1: just because they said they lost it, we laugh. All

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Speaker 1: these guys are so archaic about their navy and their

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Speaker 1: sub technology, how it's still a diesel engine and blah

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Speaker 1: blah blah. And then where the fund is the sub? Like,

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Speaker 1: that's the first question, and that's the first objective, and

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Speaker 1: it never happens. They just laugh about the sub being gone,

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Speaker 1: and then that's it. I'm just wondering, when you call

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Speaker 1: into the radio show, is the mask on? No, because

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Speaker 1: I think I gotta play Donalds, who has become a

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Speaker 1: fixture on the show The Greatest President that god. Um.

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Speaker 1: I was told ten dollars for Ian if he can

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Speaker 1: remove the mask. I'm not even coming close that I'll

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Speaker 1: give him. I'll give him eleven dollars to not do it.

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Speaker 1: Where Yeah now, Adam, Well, we're talking about a black

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Speaker 1: belt in judo that's in front of me. I am

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Speaker 1: not I have no martial arts expertise, and we're talking

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Speaker 1: about it like real legit Japanese judo black belt correct,

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Speaker 1: like trained in Japan. Yeah, yeah, I did the whole

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Speaker 1: I had never done judo before I was in Japan,

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Speaker 1: and then while I was there, I uh, one of

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Speaker 1: the one of the guys I knew was that he

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Speaker 1: had been on the Japanese Olympic judo team, and he

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Speaker 1: invited me to his dojo or what ever, and so yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's why there you go, there you go. Hey. I

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Speaker 1: would like to address Daniel Will's question though. Do I

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Speaker 1: believe the Japanese government will use increased tensions with North

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Speaker 1: Korea as an excuse for increased militarization. Um? Absolutely, But

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Speaker 1: they don't have to use North Korea as an excuse

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Speaker 1: that they don't have to use anything for an excuse.

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Speaker 1: They've had increased militarization, militarization for about the last fifteen years,

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Speaker 1: and it's just going to continue to go up. I mean, um,

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01:08:25,760 --> 01:08:28,360
Speaker 1: they just bought like fucking billions of dollars worth of

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Speaker 1: ships and gave a bunch of their old ships to

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Speaker 1: the Philippines. Wrote an article about that. Because Japan is

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Speaker 1: is executing its own Cold War in Southeast Asia right

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Speaker 1: now against China. Um. But they don't they don't have

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Speaker 1: to have an excuse. Man, that's not the culture. It

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01:08:40,000 --> 01:08:43,080
Speaker 1: is like you you get into uh, you know, Neo

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Speaker 1: Confucian culture and ship like that, and they just they

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Speaker 1: don't have to have an excuse, man, I mean, funk.

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Speaker 1: When when they officially altered Article nine of the Japanese constitution,

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Speaker 1: there were people catching themselves on fucking fire outside of

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Speaker 1: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's house in protests of that alteration.

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Speaker 1: Article nine is what disallows them from having a military,

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Speaker 1: and they they altered that with the United States blessing,

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Speaker 1: and so they're allowed to have military right now. And

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Speaker 1: when that ship happened, I mean, there were people burning

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Speaker 1: themselves in the streets, like the fucking raging against the

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Speaker 1: Machine album, and oh yeah, it didn't slow anybody down,

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Speaker 1: like I give. I mean, it's not it's not that

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Speaker 1: they don't give a funk, but like public opinion like

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Speaker 1: that has absolutely no place in in in the military

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Speaker 1: decision making process of that country. Uh. And and I

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Speaker 1: think the vast the people that burned themselves on the

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Speaker 1: street knew that, uh. And they that's why they burned

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01:09:34,439 --> 01:09:36,800
Speaker 1: themselves because uh, you know, they don't they don't want

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Speaker 1: to be a part of the country that is going

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01:09:38,640 --> 01:09:42,519
Speaker 1: to militarize and militarization uh, and their brain equates directly

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Speaker 1: to violence, which is not the case at all, because

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Speaker 1: the Japanese have forgotten two thousand years of their warrior history.

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Speaker 1: But that's not my problem. I see that, Uh, Stephen

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Speaker 1: like the gear in the last box, I did too,

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Speaker 1: thought it was awesome. Um, we're wrapping things up and

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Speaker 1: then we're probably going to do a quick video on

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Speaker 1: Instagram and call it a but I think we have

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Speaker 1: time for one more question here. I see a good

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Speaker 1: one in Facebook. I'm gonna check the YouTube as well. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know, let's go with this last Facebook question from

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Speaker 1: Giovanni Zurita. Will we see a significant Japanese expeditionary cape

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Speaker 1: capability within the next five years or is it still

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01:10:19,920 --> 01:10:22,360
Speaker 1: too early to tell? No, I mean you can already

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Speaker 1: see an expeditionary capability, and they have people, They have

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Speaker 1: troops deployed to Soucidan right now, and that was the

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Speaker 1: first armed that was the first armed Japanese deployment since

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Speaker 1: fucking World War Two. So that was huge nobody really

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Speaker 1: covered in the media. But whatever. Um the So that's expeditionary.

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Speaker 1: What you're probably gonna see if I were to take

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01:10:40,400 --> 01:10:44,320
Speaker 1: a guess, is their defense capability in their direct region

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Speaker 1: the water around Japan. Um, that ship is gonna beat

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Speaker 1: itself up. Everything else that will be global will be

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Speaker 1: very expeditionary, very modular, super small footprint. Um that that

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Speaker 1: allows them to move quickly, but it also limits their

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Speaker 1: body count in the event that ship goes wrong. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: so yeah, you're definitely gonna see that. It's not even

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Speaker 1: a question. Um but I mean good question, but it's

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Speaker 1: not even a question in my mind. Yeah, well said, um,

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Speaker 1: I think that about wraps it up. Head over to Instagram,

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Speaker 1: Uh Instagram. On Soft Prep Radio, we're gonna be doing

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Speaker 1: some stuff before we get out of here. Uh. Brittany,

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01:11:21,720 --> 01:11:25,680
Speaker 1: Christian's wife asks who is this man of mystery? I

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01:11:25,680 --> 01:11:27,679
Speaker 1: think you have to listen back only the shadow knows

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Speaker 1: anything else before we call it a show. I mean,

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Speaker 1: we got to do this again real soon for sure.

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Speaker 1: I really enjoyed it. Well, hopefully I can be here

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Speaker 1: in New York in the studio more often now that

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Speaker 1: that's such a fancy pants position in the company. Should

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Speaker 1: we change the disguise every show because I saw some

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Speaker 1: people saying that, um, uh so Drew Dwier came in

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Speaker 1: here with the CIA disguises, with the wig with the muscles.

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Speaker 1: It'd be pretty funny if every time you're here it's

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Speaker 1: a different Yeah. Yeah, yeah, we can do that. If

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Speaker 1: we get more stuff, Um, maybe like a Burt Reynolds

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Speaker 1: mask would be are to Burt Reynolds. Hell yeah, all right, man,

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Speaker 1: I think that about sums it up. We really appreciate

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Speaker 1: guys checking it out and we're going to call it

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Speaker 1: a show. Um, keep spreading the word. Uh soft Rep

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Speaker 1: Radio on iTunes or Apple podcast as they're now being called,

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Speaker 1: especially since we're doing more shows for you. And uh

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Speaker 1: that's it man. Yeah, Hey, thanks everybody, Thanks for listening

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