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Speaker 1: dot com, on Time, on Target, and I'm Psyched is

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Speaker 1: the first show with Jason Delgado, fresh off the success

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Speaker 1: of Bounty Hunter four or three here as a full

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna take this serious, and I'm gonna do you

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Speaker 1: guys justice. All right, thanks for giving me the shot, guys. Yeah. Hey,

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Speaker 1: I'll be totally candid here and say that I remember

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Speaker 1: I've gone to softwareup events since and people have come

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Speaker 1: it's great to change some people's opinions but the reason

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Speaker 1: with that, Nick the Reaper, Irvin. Yes, all the ship

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Speaker 1: names you were spewing out, a lot of the ships

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Speaker 1: I'm like, what is this Star Trek he's talking about?

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Speaker 1: All right, Oh, there we go, there we go, Nick, Nick?

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00:25:23,680 --> 00:25:32,840
Speaker 1: What is going on? Man? Hey, what's up? Bros? Delgato? Chilling? Man?

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Speaker 1: I'm looking at your Skype picture. Now, you got your

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Speaker 1: chest me hanging out? Is actually hand in front of it?

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Speaker 1: What is that? Which one? What have you got like

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Speaker 1: a headset on? Oh? That's your hand in front of

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Speaker 1: your your chance? I thought I was I wonder what

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Speaker 1: you're saying? Yeah, I thought that was your like your

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Speaker 1: shirt opened. I was like, oh man, he's feeling himself

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Speaker 1: right now. I wasn't. I think I was in like

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Speaker 1: I was still in Maryland when I took that picture

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Speaker 1: for Skype. Bro. That's that's an old old photo. Let's startup.

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Speaker 1: I switch that up? You too sexy? Now for that?

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Speaker 1: Come on? Now, I haven't I barely used skype man?

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Speaker 1: Well yeah, Nick does use it to come on with us.

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00:26:10,520 --> 00:26:15,680
Speaker 1: Got four getting into everything with Nick though, So Nick,

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00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:19,840
Speaker 1: of course Army Rangers Sniper. Um. Many of you in

503
00:26:19,880 --> 00:26:22,760
Speaker 1: the audience have read both The Reaper and Way of

504
00:26:22,840 --> 00:26:24,920
Speaker 1: the Reaper. Seeing all the stuff that you're up to.

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00:26:25,040 --> 00:26:27,399
Speaker 1: I mean, the next the next big project right now

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Speaker 1: and we'll get into it a little later. Is um

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Speaker 1: the first novel you're doing with General General Tony Tata

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Speaker 1: who writes as A J. Tata. We had him in

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Speaker 1: here and when he came in, he was like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: have you guys ever heard of Nick Irving. I'm working

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Speaker 1: on a book with him, and uh, it comes out

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Speaker 1: in May, a Threaper Ghost Target. So I mean, well,

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Speaker 1: we'll hear more about it later, but I mean, just

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Speaker 1: real quick, I'm wondering what inspired you to work on

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Speaker 1: a novel? And how did you get hooked up with

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Speaker 1: General Tata? Yeah? Yeah, Tata? Yeah, how did I get

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Speaker 1: hooked up with them? Yep? Dude, it's a crazy story, man.

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Speaker 1: We'll not really a crazy, crazy story, but uh, Mark

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Speaker 1: resinec of course, you know, I been working with Tim

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Speaker 1: for a while now at St. Martin's Press, and yeah, yes, Mark,

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Speaker 1: Markma Man Man, but uh yeah, he hooked me up

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Speaker 1: with A. J. Todda. We pitched around, you know a

523
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Speaker 1: few other authors that could uh kind of take this

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Speaker 1: thing to the next level. And you know, for me, man,

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Speaker 1: it's like, you know, uh, you know, of course I

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Speaker 1: and it's just fine tuning it. Like I mean, I'm

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Speaker 1: not the smartest guy in the world. I didn't go

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Speaker 1: to school for for writing or an you're very smart guy,

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Speaker 1: and you're very humble. I don't know, man, I don't know,

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Speaker 1: but yeah, it felt published like five books, and you know,

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Speaker 1: it's just that fine tuning of you know what I

533
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Speaker 1: don't have access to of you know, uh taking it

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Speaker 1: came across as one of those guys that would you know,

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Speaker 1: you know, take it to that next level. And and

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Speaker 1: we talked on the phone for like two plus hours, man,

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Speaker 1: and laid out this whole you know, concept of where

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Speaker 1: I wanted to take uh big hardwood and you know

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Speaker 1: this novel series. Big Harwood is the main character of

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Speaker 1: this novel series. Man and uh talked on the phone

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Speaker 1: from like two hours and from start to finish, like

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Speaker 1: the first installment of the novel series, and I'm already

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Speaker 1: working on the second, one, third, and fourth. In my

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Speaker 1: head is like, you know it, just keep it rolling, man.

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Speaker 1: But he came across as he he already like knew

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Speaker 1: he understood it. Man, he got it. He got the concept.

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Speaker 1: And he's been in the fiction uh you know world

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Speaker 1: for himself out there. But you know, it's just being

553
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Speaker 1: able to work with another veteran and a general at that.

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Speaker 1: It's like, dude, come on, and he's an excellent writer.

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Speaker 1: Like right here in the studio, I have the thing

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Speaker 1: that he signed Army Strong you kind of see right

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Speaker 1: there over the Dari's wins. Uh. Great guy. I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: let Jason asked some stuff. But I actually had one

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Speaker 1: question I was thinking of when when I heard I

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Speaker 1: would make sense. So kind of the first question from

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Speaker 1: me that relates to both you guys and I guess

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Speaker 1: I want to hear from Nick first is I get

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Speaker 1: so many emails from these young kids who are just

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Speaker 1: joining the military, and I kind of wonder if if

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Speaker 1: one of these kids who's sixteen seventeen is like, I

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Speaker 1: want to be a sniper. They've read your book or

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Speaker 1: they've read Jason's book, Like, how would you say they

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Speaker 1: should distinguish if they want to be, you know, do

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Speaker 1: what you did, be an army sniper or Marine Scout sniper. Like,

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Speaker 1: what what are the main differences for someone like me

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Speaker 1: who wouldn't really know the main differences? Yeah, between my

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Speaker 1: job and Jason's job. Dude, I think I think it.

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Speaker 1: Uh ah man, it could come down to as much

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Speaker 1: as the mentality. And I'm not gonna like take anything

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Speaker 1: away from uh the Marine Corps anything. And I don't

577
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Speaker 1: walk on the nice, baby, don't walk on the nice no, no, no,

578
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Speaker 1: no no no. I got a chance to shoot with

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Speaker 1: them in the International Sniper comp Man. They took it

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Speaker 1: home that year. UH got a chance to work with

581
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Speaker 1: the two five Marines scout snipers. I believe that's what

582
00:30:04,760 --> 00:30:08,200
Speaker 1: you call them in in Afghanistan. And dude, they taught

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Speaker 1: me and my sniper element like a lot of stuff

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Speaker 1: like dude, a no joke, like sniper hide Vietnam style

585
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Speaker 1: with the maps and grid square. I'm like, dude, come on,

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00:30:17,840 --> 00:30:19,840
Speaker 1: we got technology now. But these guys were taking it

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Speaker 1: back to that old school. Colonel's Hathcock, who was also Marine.

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Speaker 1: And you know, I think that their background and even

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Speaker 1: from basic training out there, you know, five hundred yards

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Speaker 1: shots and the Armies, you know, doing three hundred. And

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Speaker 1: you look at the stats today, who's producing the better

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Speaker 1: shots and the better shooters is the Marine Corps, you know,

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Speaker 1: and and the Army is having a huge problem right now.

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Speaker 1: So I think that, uh, you know, the difference, the

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Speaker 1: main difference would be their lineage, their background, their heritage.

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Speaker 1: You know, they're all everyone you know can shoot five

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Speaker 1: huntret yards in the Marine Corps. The everyone can shoot

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Speaker 1: you know, pretty much everyone can shoot three hundred yards

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Speaker 1: in the Army. But when you go into sniping, they

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Speaker 1: really really find too. They have the agens to look

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Speaker 1: up to. I mean the number one guy himself, Carlos Hathcock,

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Speaker 1: who like you know, paved the way for you know

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Speaker 1: what sniping is today, and and that's a guy I

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Speaker 1: looked up to. And when I had a chance to

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Speaker 1: do my little sniper stuff and Afghanistan and do hid sights,

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Speaker 1: it was like, dude, I'm no joke to Black Carlos

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Speaker 1: Hathcock right now. That's what I felt like, you know,

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Speaker 1: So I think, yeah, I think the main difference would

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Speaker 1: just be Marine coinn there, there's there's snout, Scout sniper program.

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Speaker 1: It's you know, I sent guys over to that uh

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Speaker 1: program and they came back and gave reports and and

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Speaker 1: hands down. Every single guy to a t said that, no,

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Speaker 1: that's no joke. The sniper school. Yeah, that's one thing

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Speaker 1: the Marine Corps really pride prides ourselves in is that

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Speaker 1: that traditionalist mentality that we we have that lineage and

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Speaker 1: we keep that lineage um strong throughout the generations of Marines.

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Speaker 1: But as far as I was, as far as my

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Speaker 1: input on on the question, it's the exact polar opposite.

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Speaker 1: I would say, if you're looking to get into the

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Speaker 1: next generation of sniping, it would be the army, you know,

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Speaker 1: because you have you guys have the funding, you have

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Speaker 1: the weapons systems and you're not afraid to try new things,

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Speaker 1: you know. So in the it's it's it's it's one

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Speaker 1: hand versus the other. You know, on our hand, you know,

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Speaker 1: we we were meticulous on the Marine Corps, and we're

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Speaker 1: meticulous in the way we train and teach and ensure

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Speaker 1: that all the fundamentals are there and are beat into

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Speaker 1: you so that when you when it comes down to it,

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Speaker 1: you can rely on raw and just rawness on raw talent.

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Speaker 1: But the army, which also you have a buttload of

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Speaker 1: knowledge that you're given in the army as well, because

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Speaker 1: we do cross train a lot, true or not, we

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Speaker 1: do cross tra a lot. They're not afraid to spend

634
00:32:48,360 --> 00:32:51,480
Speaker 1: money on equipment and try new things and develop new things.

635
00:32:51,560 --> 00:32:53,840
Speaker 1: So you know, it's just what you know, what what

636
00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:56,240
Speaker 1: is it that you're looking for as far as the uh,

637
00:32:56,480 --> 00:32:58,480
Speaker 1: as far as the experience, But when it comes to

638
00:32:58,560 --> 00:33:03,240
Speaker 1: the action, when it comes to getting down and shooting, honestly,

639
00:33:04,040 --> 00:33:06,880
Speaker 1: no one, no one knows. It's just a matter of

640
00:33:07,040 --> 00:33:09,480
Speaker 1: right place, right time. In factly, and that's a big

641
00:33:09,560 --> 00:33:12,040
Speaker 1: thing too about sniping, is that you know, you hear

642
00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:14,640
Speaker 1: the stories of you know, the cool guys stories about

643
00:33:14,640 --> 00:33:17,320
Speaker 1: sniping and stuff like that. And I will also give uh,

644
00:33:17,560 --> 00:33:20,000
Speaker 1: you know, Jason credit as well. We've had a conversation,

645
00:33:20,080 --> 00:33:23,440
Speaker 1: a long conversation over cigars and drinks, uh in l

646
00:33:23,520 --> 00:33:26,760
Speaker 1: a one year and I'm listening to Jason talk about

647
00:33:27,360 --> 00:33:29,720
Speaker 1: you know, ballistics and data and we're going back and

648
00:33:29,840 --> 00:33:33,320
Speaker 1: forth about you know, uh, you know, all types of

649
00:33:33,440 --> 00:33:36,080
Speaker 1: you know sniper stuff. You know, naming awful, you know,

650
00:33:36,440 --> 00:33:40,000
Speaker 1: m ways for this distance for this, for this round, coefficients,

651
00:33:40,040 --> 00:33:42,440
Speaker 1: how it affects this, and apex is of you know

652
00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:45,680
Speaker 1: grand for you know, one one seven versus ah, this

653
00:33:45,840 --> 00:33:47,880
Speaker 1: all types of you know, sniper knowledge. And listening to

654
00:33:48,040 --> 00:33:51,160
Speaker 1: Jason talkas it's like, oh my gosh, this guy you know,

655
00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:54,080
Speaker 1: no joke. It's it's like, you know, when I was

656
00:33:54,160 --> 00:33:57,400
Speaker 1: getting towards the end of my career and sniping dude,

657
00:33:57,400 --> 00:33:59,280
Speaker 1: we had you know a lot of you know, ballistic

658
00:33:59,360 --> 00:34:01,520
Speaker 1: calculators and stuff that you put on the side of

659
00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:05,000
Speaker 1: your scope to you know, make you really uh super sniper.

660
00:34:05,160 --> 00:34:06,720
Speaker 1: But I was I was never into that, you know.

661
00:34:06,800 --> 00:34:09,440
Speaker 1: Everything for me was all mental, you know. And and

662
00:34:10,160 --> 00:34:12,719
Speaker 1: in my defense, Nick, you know, I was also an instructor,

663
00:34:12,840 --> 00:34:14,640
Speaker 1: so you know, I had all the cheek codes you

664
00:34:14,680 --> 00:34:16,880
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. I had all the pubs and books,

665
00:34:16,960 --> 00:34:19,840
Speaker 1: and yeah, I had the rounds and that then the

666
00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:22,279
Speaker 1: range time to you know, approve all these theories. So,

667
00:34:22,719 --> 00:34:25,680
Speaker 1: you know, because you you got an audience of a

668
00:34:25,840 --> 00:34:29,600
Speaker 1: buttload of alpha males, you know, so you didn't want

669
00:34:29,640 --> 00:34:33,000
Speaker 1: to be wrong. Ever, that is true, that is true.

670
00:34:33,080 --> 00:34:35,480
Speaker 1: But yeah, but I think that you know, when it

671
00:34:35,520 --> 00:34:37,640
Speaker 1: comes to uh, you know, right place, right time, man,

672
00:34:38,200 --> 00:34:40,480
Speaker 1: I think that there's so many are not even so many.

673
00:34:40,560 --> 00:34:43,040
Speaker 1: You just hear these cool stories of you know, guys,

674
00:34:43,160 --> 00:34:45,960
Speaker 1: you know, getting down and dirty and pulling a trigger overseas.

675
00:34:46,320 --> 00:34:49,799
Speaker 1: But the snipers that don't get a chance to do that, dude,

676
00:34:49,880 --> 00:34:51,960
Speaker 1: outweigh the guys who get a chance to do a

677
00:34:52,080 --> 00:34:54,880
Speaker 1: tinfold like it. It's not many guys that get a

678
00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:58,120
Speaker 1: chance to pursue that career and be a sniper and

679
00:34:58,520 --> 00:35:00,320
Speaker 1: get a chance to go out there and and do

680
00:35:00,600 --> 00:35:03,120
Speaker 1: apply that skill set. It's this right place, right time,

681
00:35:03,200 --> 00:35:04,920
Speaker 1: and most of the time you're out there, dude, it's

682
00:35:04,960 --> 00:35:08,279
Speaker 1: just you know, reporting back to your commander most of

683
00:35:08,320 --> 00:35:10,160
Speaker 1: the time, you know. And and lucky for me, I

684
00:35:10,280 --> 00:35:12,399
Speaker 1: was just in a in Afghanistan at a time where

685
00:35:13,120 --> 00:35:16,239
Speaker 1: you know, it was just us. As Tom Cruise would say,

686
00:35:16,239 --> 00:35:18,080
Speaker 1: it was just a target rich environment man, you know.

687
00:35:18,200 --> 00:35:20,879
Speaker 1: And and I was just not a trigger shy type

688
00:35:20,920 --> 00:35:23,480
Speaker 1: of guy. Yeah. And when I read your book that

689
00:35:23,680 --> 00:35:26,640
Speaker 1: I think that message is what resonated to me the most,

690
00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:31,440
Speaker 1: was that you had other third bat snipers coming up

691
00:35:31,480 --> 00:35:34,360
Speaker 1: to you like, what the fuck you gotta kill today?

692
00:35:34,520 --> 00:35:36,839
Speaker 1: What the hell? And to me it was like the same,

693
00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:39,080
Speaker 1: it was the same situation I was in. It's like, bro,

694
00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:42,960
Speaker 1: it's the right place, right time. I I didn't like

695
00:35:43,080 --> 00:35:45,520
Speaker 1: intentionally do it like we we went through the same training,

696
00:35:45,640 --> 00:35:48,080
Speaker 1: we went through, We did everything the same. I just

697
00:35:48,280 --> 00:35:50,759
Speaker 1: went out a different time and a different day than

698
00:35:50,840 --> 00:35:53,240
Speaker 1: you did and just got caught up in some fucked

699
00:35:53,280 --> 00:35:56,040
Speaker 1: up ship and pulled my ass out of it. So

700
00:35:56,320 --> 00:35:58,719
Speaker 1: and granted, granted, I will give myself this though I

701
00:35:58,880 --> 00:36:01,279
Speaker 1: did rub it in and over some time when you

702
00:36:02,080 --> 00:36:04,040
Speaker 1: was young I was. I was a young cocky guy too.

703
00:36:04,560 --> 00:36:06,239
Speaker 1: I would I may have printed out a picture or

704
00:36:06,239 --> 00:36:07,640
Speaker 1: two of a dead guy and the like, hey look

705
00:36:07,680 --> 00:36:10,200
Speaker 1: what I did? You know, maybe, and especially the new guys.

706
00:36:10,239 --> 00:36:12,239
Speaker 1: I will new guys. I gave those guys a hard

707
00:36:12,280 --> 00:36:15,279
Speaker 1: time just being you know, a buck five sergeant in

708
00:36:15,640 --> 00:36:18,880
Speaker 1: range of battalion and it's some cherry guys coming in. Bro,

709
00:36:19,120 --> 00:36:20,759
Speaker 1: It's it's one of those things you've got to give

710
00:36:20,840 --> 00:36:23,000
Speaker 1: him a hard time. And for me, I'd walk past

711
00:36:23,040 --> 00:36:25,279
Speaker 1: the room like, Hey, did you guys say save the

712
00:36:25,360 --> 00:36:27,680
Speaker 1: role today? Then thinks I did you know? And just

713
00:36:27,760 --> 00:36:32,000
Speaker 1: move on do push ups. You know, Nick, I got

714
00:36:32,080 --> 00:36:34,520
Speaker 1: a question for you, brother, Yeah, when you're gonna move

715
00:36:34,560 --> 00:36:39,360
Speaker 1: to l A, you are Hollywood as hell, and I

716
00:36:39,480 --> 00:36:43,080
Speaker 1: guess I'll announce it with you guys. Bro first, uh, literally,

717
00:36:43,120 --> 00:36:45,799
Speaker 1: just get off the phone. Man. I can't say too much.

718
00:36:46,320 --> 00:36:48,640
Speaker 1: It's like that, give us some good, baby, give us

719
00:36:48,680 --> 00:36:50,680
Speaker 1: something good. I give you. I know a lot of

720
00:36:50,719 --> 00:36:53,160
Speaker 1: people have been wondering about the you know, hey, Nick,

721
00:36:53,200 --> 00:36:56,120
Speaker 1: when's the TV show coming out? TV show coming out? Dude,

722
00:36:56,120 --> 00:36:59,239
Speaker 1: I'm just a naturally a quiet guy, and you know,

723
00:36:59,239 --> 00:37:01,560
Speaker 1: I'm a firm believe are in in percentages and stuff

724
00:37:01,600 --> 00:37:03,400
Speaker 1: like that. It's only put like ten percent of what

725
00:37:03,800 --> 00:37:06,279
Speaker 1: was actually going on in my life on social media.

726
00:37:06,320 --> 00:37:09,520
Speaker 1: It's just I'm a very private guy and I'm you know,

727
00:37:09,680 --> 00:37:11,960
Speaker 1: naturally liked that. I grew up that way just being

728
00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:16,520
Speaker 1: to myself. But dude, Uh. So, long story short, Uh

729
00:37:16,800 --> 00:37:20,319
Speaker 1: decided to take a different route with it and through

730
00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:24,160
Speaker 1: just I don't know, just a lot of weird stuff happening. Man.

731
00:37:24,640 --> 00:37:27,759
Speaker 1: Uh just basically closed a deal today to have it

732
00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:32,920
Speaker 1: h be produced into a movie. So what are you kidding?

733
00:37:34,040 --> 00:37:37,799
Speaker 1: No joke, Man is no longer to be an NBC show,

734
00:37:37,840 --> 00:37:40,280
Speaker 1: but it will be a full length, you know, picture

735
00:37:40,880 --> 00:37:44,680
Speaker 1: feature like our thirty two hours whatever they do not

736
00:37:45,680 --> 00:37:50,440
Speaker 1: depending on the producer and the director. Dude, it might

737
00:37:50,520 --> 00:37:53,120
Speaker 1: be way better than a show. I'll tell you this.

738
00:37:53,600 --> 00:37:55,839
Speaker 1: I'll tell you like one, it was just another thing.

739
00:37:55,960 --> 00:37:58,400
Speaker 1: Like I won't get too much into it. I think

740
00:37:58,440 --> 00:38:04,120
Speaker 1: it's just I'm maybe but easoning behind everything. And you know,

741
00:38:04,120 --> 00:38:07,280
Speaker 1: I'm a big believer in like strategizing and just waiting.

742
00:38:07,440 --> 00:38:10,480
Speaker 1: You know, it's that snyper mentality. I'll wait, dude, I'll

743
00:38:10,520 --> 00:38:12,600
Speaker 1: wait a year, four shot, you know, if it's if

744
00:38:12,680 --> 00:38:14,200
Speaker 1: it's my time to get it in, I'll get it in.

745
00:38:14,400 --> 00:38:17,520
Speaker 1: But I just like to wait and see what happens

746
00:38:17,560 --> 00:38:20,240
Speaker 1: and and play my play my cards man, and luckily

747
00:38:20,320 --> 00:38:23,520
Speaker 1: played him right. And Uh, just one of those things. Man,

748
00:38:23,560 --> 00:38:26,880
Speaker 1: It's almost like right place, right time, and uh so

749
00:38:27,040 --> 00:38:30,080
Speaker 1: the NBC thing with the Weinstein Company and all that stuff.

750
00:38:30,200 --> 00:38:33,160
Speaker 1: I mean, it was going, It's real, it was really good.

751
00:38:33,600 --> 00:38:36,600
Speaker 1: And by the way, Weinstein not exactly a popular name

752
00:38:36,640 --> 00:38:38,680
Speaker 1: at the moment. That did that affect you? Did that

753
00:38:38,719 --> 00:38:41,040
Speaker 1: affect you at all? Brother? No, it was because it

754
00:38:41,120 --> 00:38:44,400
Speaker 1: was bought out by you know, the company ass uh.

755
00:38:44,680 --> 00:38:46,880
Speaker 1: You know whin is the only owned like a percentage

756
00:38:46,920 --> 00:38:50,720
Speaker 1: of it, and it wasn't Uh, he's not the company,

757
00:38:50,800 --> 00:38:54,000
Speaker 1: he's just individual associated with it. Of course it's his name,

758
00:38:54,080 --> 00:38:56,400
Speaker 1: but it's also a good thing not to be involved

759
00:38:56,440 --> 00:39:00,160
Speaker 1: with that right now, you know that. I'm wondering did

760
00:39:00,200 --> 00:39:02,480
Speaker 1: you meet him by any chance? Because I got to

761
00:39:02,640 --> 00:39:05,320
Speaker 1: board off Harvey Weinstein, believe it or not, like a

762
00:39:05,400 --> 00:39:08,839
Speaker 1: couple of years back, and I'll just you know, look,

763
00:39:09,040 --> 00:39:11,400
Speaker 1: I'm I'm a male like he had, you know, nothing,

764
00:39:11,520 --> 00:39:13,719
Speaker 1: He's not interested in me in the way that he was.

765
00:39:15,120 --> 00:39:19,600
Speaker 1: And but he he couldn't have been a nicer guy.

766
00:39:19,840 --> 00:39:21,920
Speaker 1: You know, obviously I didn't know this side to him.

767
00:39:21,960 --> 00:39:24,759
Speaker 1: But I'm wondering if you had the same experience. No, no,

768
00:39:24,960 --> 00:39:28,200
Speaker 1: from my experience man with uh with with the company

769
00:39:28,239 --> 00:39:30,799
Speaker 1: itself and you know Harvey Weinstein that it's been nothing,

770
00:39:30,880 --> 00:39:33,799
Speaker 1: but like I've never been treated a certain way. I've

771
00:39:33,840 --> 00:39:36,440
Speaker 1: never been I've never seen or heard anything like that.

772
00:39:36,719 --> 00:39:38,960
Speaker 1: And I'm sure jay Z Ditton as well, you know

773
00:39:39,120 --> 00:39:42,319
Speaker 1: jay Z, he gets self to it and and I'm

774
00:39:42,400 --> 00:39:44,200
Speaker 1: you know, a guy of his caliber, I'm pretty sure

775
00:39:44,239 --> 00:39:45,719
Speaker 1: did not want to be involved with that. How you know,

776
00:39:45,719 --> 00:39:48,960
Speaker 1: when it was going on, you know, so uh it was.

777
00:39:49,480 --> 00:39:52,640
Speaker 1: It's unfortunate definitely that you know, I had to wait

778
00:39:52,719 --> 00:39:55,120
Speaker 1: this long to make an announcement about something. But there's

779
00:39:55,120 --> 00:39:57,359
Speaker 1: a reason behind everything I do, man, and I think

780
00:39:57,440 --> 00:40:00,400
Speaker 1: that this is gonna be a lot better. And you know, uh,

781
00:40:00,640 --> 00:40:02,640
Speaker 1: not gonna say too much again, but I will say

782
00:40:02,719 --> 00:40:06,919
Speaker 1: that my nature and what I believe in, Uh I don't.

783
00:40:06,920 --> 00:40:09,200
Speaker 1: I'm not a big you know, oh look at me

784
00:40:09,400 --> 00:40:13,680
Speaker 1: type of you know, individual, And I didn't want the

785
00:40:13,800 --> 00:40:17,080
Speaker 1: public to start to think that, not even the public. Man.

786
00:40:17,120 --> 00:40:19,680
Speaker 1: It's just the story in itself is not a story

787
00:40:19,719 --> 00:40:22,560
Speaker 1: about we'll look at you know, badass nic who can

788
00:40:22,600 --> 00:40:24,080
Speaker 1: send it. It's not about that, you know what I mean.

789
00:40:24,120 --> 00:40:26,800
Speaker 1: It's more about a culture. It's about a It's about

790
00:40:26,920 --> 00:40:29,239
Speaker 1: uh not even I'm not gonna say a movement that's

791
00:40:29,280 --> 00:40:32,400
Speaker 1: so cliche. But I think it's more about a you know,

792
00:40:32,680 --> 00:40:35,200
Speaker 1: a guy like let's just use you know, the story

793
00:40:35,239 --> 00:40:37,440
Speaker 1: for example, and graduated with the one point seven g

794
00:40:37,560 --> 00:40:39,759
Speaker 1: p A out of high school. You know, had no

795
00:40:39,880 --> 00:40:43,960
Speaker 1: aspirations of doing anything but military, couldn't go to college,

796
00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:45,759
Speaker 1: and it has been in a lot of trouble and

797
00:40:45,800 --> 00:40:49,239
Speaker 1: stuff like that growing up and all this crazy stuff. Man,

798
00:40:49,320 --> 00:40:51,839
Speaker 1: And here I am, you know, next month, I got

799
00:40:52,360 --> 00:40:56,319
Speaker 1: a few speeches to give it colleges and and never

800
00:40:56,360 --> 00:41:00,319
Speaker 1: been to college, never set foot on college grounds, broy never.

801
00:41:01,760 --> 00:41:04,239
Speaker 1: You just want to put a spotlight on the path

802
00:41:04,560 --> 00:41:06,839
Speaker 1: and your boys. It's the same thing I set out

803
00:41:06,880 --> 00:41:09,480
Speaker 1: to do. Well, yeah, exactly. And at the end of

804
00:41:09,520 --> 00:41:11,320
Speaker 1: the day, when all of a sudden done, you know,

805
00:41:11,440 --> 00:41:13,120
Speaker 1: people say, oh, how did you do it? And why

806
00:41:13,200 --> 00:41:15,080
Speaker 1: it's just so hard? Are? People say, hey, man, how

807
00:41:15,120 --> 00:41:17,600
Speaker 1: did you make your book into this? Dude? The only

808
00:41:17,680 --> 00:41:22,080
Speaker 1: thing I would say is there's something I started to realize,

809
00:41:22,120 --> 00:41:25,360
Speaker 1: and I think that, uh, there's two things. You know.

810
00:41:26,040 --> 00:41:28,799
Speaker 1: Life is like a book. Rights just a big book

811
00:41:28,840 --> 00:41:32,800
Speaker 1: with a bunch of chapters in it. And this is

812
00:41:32,840 --> 00:41:35,200
Speaker 1: just a new chapter. Everyone has a different chapter my

813
00:41:35,320 --> 00:41:38,239
Speaker 1: chapter and seven in my book is not chapter seven

814
00:41:38,280 --> 00:41:41,080
Speaker 1: in Jason's book. You know, it's not chapter seven in

815
00:41:41,400 --> 00:41:44,280
Speaker 1: AJ's book or whoever's book. You know, it's all different.

816
00:41:44,640 --> 00:41:47,320
Speaker 1: And I think that once I started to realize, you know,

817
00:41:47,760 --> 00:41:50,560
Speaker 1: moving on paths and moving on different chapters in life,

818
00:41:50,600 --> 00:41:52,640
Speaker 1: like you have the reaper phase, you have the Afghanistan,

819
00:41:52,680 --> 00:41:55,120
Speaker 1: Iraq and all this and that, But what's my next chapter?

820
00:41:55,520 --> 00:41:57,920
Speaker 1: You know? And no one in a book on chapter

821
00:41:58,000 --> 00:41:59,719
Speaker 1: six without the end, you know what I'm saying. So

822
00:42:00,600 --> 00:42:02,680
Speaker 1: start looking at what's the next move? And I have

823
00:42:02,880 --> 00:42:06,200
Speaker 1: really no goal, bro, like after the whole book thing

824
00:42:06,280 --> 00:42:08,400
Speaker 1: and what's been going on. But I had a belief

825
00:42:08,520 --> 00:42:11,680
Speaker 1: and I think that once and this applies to veterans

826
00:42:11,719 --> 00:42:14,160
Speaker 1: as well. You look at the suicide stuff and what's

827
00:42:14,200 --> 00:42:16,640
Speaker 1: going on, and I started to realize, you know, what

828
00:42:16,800 --> 00:42:19,400
Speaker 1: is self worth? What am I worth now? You know,

829
00:42:19,640 --> 00:42:22,080
Speaker 1: like I did my thing in the military, it was

830
00:42:22,120 --> 00:42:24,520
Speaker 1: a million bucks? You know what am I worth now?

831
00:42:25,080 --> 00:42:28,520
Speaker 1: Without that? And I had to really really dig deep

832
00:42:28,600 --> 00:42:31,319
Speaker 1: and think, like, dude, that's a deep question. What are

833
00:42:31,360 --> 00:42:33,319
Speaker 1: you worth now? You know you can't put a price

834
00:42:33,400 --> 00:42:35,200
Speaker 1: to that. It's more of a feel, more of a

835
00:42:35,280 --> 00:42:37,960
Speaker 1: path of where you want to go in life. Because

836
00:42:38,360 --> 00:42:42,359
Speaker 1: worth is not a um has no monetary value when

837
00:42:42,400 --> 00:42:43,799
Speaker 1: it when it comes to life. You know, you can't

838
00:42:43,800 --> 00:42:46,560
Speaker 1: put a figure on a on a life, but a

839
00:42:46,640 --> 00:42:49,040
Speaker 1: worth is more about you know, for me, what are

840
00:42:49,080 --> 00:42:51,600
Speaker 1: you going to leave behind? And you look at how

841
00:42:51,760 --> 00:42:54,520
Speaker 1: short life is, bro. You know, Jason, you've seen it.

842
00:42:55,440 --> 00:42:57,640
Speaker 1: It's dying at the age of eighteen nineteen twenty years

843
00:42:57,680 --> 00:43:02,200
Speaker 1: old and this person today lives to be and it's like, yeah,

844
00:43:02,320 --> 00:43:05,200
Speaker 1: you go through that point in your life where it's

845
00:43:05,280 --> 00:43:09,279
Speaker 1: still you know, success and and and a clear path

846
00:43:09,520 --> 00:43:12,160
Speaker 1: is right in front of your face. But we're not

847
00:43:12,440 --> 00:43:15,399
Speaker 1: used to looking at such things, you know, So yeah,

848
00:43:15,560 --> 00:43:19,120
Speaker 1: and it just dawns on you after you know, certain

849
00:43:19,160 --> 00:43:21,480
Speaker 1: things are accomplished so and so because we're we and

850
00:43:21,560 --> 00:43:24,799
Speaker 1: and individuals like you discussed, uh, you know I got

851
00:43:24,880 --> 00:43:26,560
Speaker 1: my g D two brother, you know, or you know

852
00:43:26,680 --> 00:43:28,839
Speaker 1: you went to college, but you know I was a rock,

853
00:43:28,920 --> 00:43:30,239
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. And I went in and

854
00:43:30,360 --> 00:43:32,720
Speaker 1: you know, these are things that I can't see myself

855
00:43:32,840 --> 00:43:35,480
Speaker 1: doing until I actually set that goal and knock it

856
00:43:35,520 --> 00:43:37,359
Speaker 1: out the box. So guys like me and you knock

857
00:43:37,400 --> 00:43:40,960
Speaker 1: our goals out in life super early. And then it's

858
00:43:41,040 --> 00:43:43,399
Speaker 1: like what now? And then we set a new goal,

859
00:43:43,520 --> 00:43:45,080
Speaker 1: and then what now instead a new goal? So on

860
00:43:45,120 --> 00:43:48,040
Speaker 1: and so forth. So as we're moving along, we're growing

861
00:43:48,080 --> 00:43:52,920
Speaker 1: and maturing. You know, it's simultaneously with our accomplishments. And

862
00:43:53,000 --> 00:43:55,879
Speaker 1: I totally get where you're coming from. And I admire dude.

863
00:43:55,920 --> 00:43:58,399
Speaker 1: I I look at you and I say, man, that's

864
00:43:58,480 --> 00:44:01,160
Speaker 1: the footsteps I want to walk in, because you're you

865
00:44:01,320 --> 00:44:04,759
Speaker 1: do a lot. You know, you really do a lot. Well,

866
00:44:04,800 --> 00:44:09,040
Speaker 1: here's the reason I can't forget that one check out, bro.

867
00:44:09,239 --> 00:44:11,239
Speaker 1: That's sick when you say you like you do a

868
00:44:11,320 --> 00:44:13,680
Speaker 1: lot or whatever. You know, it's appreciated and whatnot. But

869
00:44:14,360 --> 00:44:16,440
Speaker 1: like I was saying, like, dude, the average life is

870
00:44:16,520 --> 00:44:19,440
Speaker 1: like seventy six years old. There's no way. There's no

871
00:44:19,520 --> 00:44:21,840
Speaker 1: way you could tell me that we were putting. Everyone's like,

872
00:44:21,840 --> 00:44:23,759
Speaker 1: what are we here for? You know, there's no way

873
00:44:23,800 --> 00:44:25,520
Speaker 1: we're all here to be candle lights, you know what

874
00:44:25,560 --> 00:44:28,760
Speaker 1: I'm saying. There's just no way. It's such a short

875
00:44:28,840 --> 00:44:32,480
Speaker 1: time to be here, to not do anything meaningful, to

876
00:44:32,640 --> 00:44:34,719
Speaker 1: not be a bonfire, you know what I'm saying, to

877
00:44:35,040 --> 00:44:37,560
Speaker 1: not blow up like that. There's just and everyone has

878
00:44:37,600 --> 00:44:39,239
Speaker 1: a different path in life. You know what I'm saying.

879
00:44:39,320 --> 00:44:41,920
Speaker 1: Like for me, dude, and I'm a big believer in this,

880
00:44:42,080 --> 00:44:44,000
Speaker 1: people say, oh, what am I gonna do? Now? They

881
00:44:44,080 --> 00:44:48,520
Speaker 1: start to look at specific things in life, like oh,

882
00:44:48,560 --> 00:44:51,120
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be a screenwriter, I'm gonna do this, and

883
00:44:51,160 --> 00:44:53,040
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do that, and I'm gonna do this. Uh,

884
00:44:53,239 --> 00:44:55,239
Speaker 1: you know, you ask yourself, what are you doing it for?

885
00:44:55,440 --> 00:44:57,520
Speaker 1: Is it? Is it for the money or is it

886
00:44:57,560 --> 00:45:00,120
Speaker 1: because you're passionate about it? Because if the mind, if

887
00:45:00,440 --> 00:45:02,399
Speaker 1: the heart's not there. We all know, if the heart

888
00:45:02,440 --> 00:45:04,799
Speaker 1: doesn't beat, the body won't move. So the heart's got

889
00:45:04,880 --> 00:45:07,040
Speaker 1: to be into everything you do, or else you physically

890
00:45:07,120 --> 00:45:09,799
Speaker 1: won't move there, You physically won't ever achieve that goal.

891
00:45:10,400 --> 00:45:13,840
Speaker 1: So I just started to realize that, bro, And success

892
00:45:13,960 --> 00:45:17,360
Speaker 1: comes with a persistence. Bro, Like, it's just being persistent

893
00:45:17,680 --> 00:45:20,680
Speaker 1: here and here you talk. I have a question and

894
00:45:20,880 --> 00:45:24,440
Speaker 1: and and do you sit back and listen to guys

895
00:45:24,480 --> 00:45:27,920
Speaker 1: like Tony Robbins and David Googgin's and Tim Ferris. I mean,

896
00:45:28,600 --> 00:45:31,360
Speaker 1: have you ever heard these guys speak and like, you know,

897
00:45:32,200 --> 00:45:35,440
Speaker 1: kinda get something from them to align yourself to just

898
00:45:35,600 --> 00:45:37,440
Speaker 1: like hit these targets and knock it out because the

899
00:45:37,480 --> 00:45:39,520
Speaker 1: way you the way you move through life, the way

900
00:45:39,520 --> 00:45:42,360
Speaker 1: you navigate bro, it's like, man, you're like you're in

901
00:45:42,400 --> 00:45:44,000
Speaker 1: the path of one of those gurus, you know what

902
00:45:44,040 --> 00:45:46,800
Speaker 1: I mean? No, I never heard I never heard of

903
00:45:46,880 --> 00:45:48,920
Speaker 1: him or listened to him. But it's just I have

904
00:45:49,000 --> 00:45:50,920
Speaker 1: a lot of time I think that no one, no

905
00:45:51,040 --> 00:45:53,000
Speaker 1: one's a genius. You know what I'm saying. No one's

906
00:45:53,000 --> 00:45:55,759
Speaker 1: a genius, No one's smart. Some people just have more

907
00:45:55,840 --> 00:45:58,319
Speaker 1: time to sit back and think about, you know, sometain things.

908
00:45:59,000 --> 00:46:02,120
Speaker 1: And that's that's what that's what separates what we classify

909
00:46:02,160 --> 00:46:04,520
Speaker 1: as a smart person from a person who's not so smart.

910
00:46:04,920 --> 00:46:06,839
Speaker 1: Just someone who's willing to sit back and think about

911
00:46:06,920 --> 00:46:09,200
Speaker 1: something longer than the next person. And I have the

912
00:46:09,280 --> 00:46:11,600
Speaker 1: luxury and I get you whatever you want to call

913
00:46:11,640 --> 00:46:13,680
Speaker 1: it of doing that. I don't have a nine to

914
00:46:13,800 --> 00:46:16,480
Speaker 1: five job, and I don't get caught up on social media,

915
00:46:16,680 --> 00:46:19,480
Speaker 1: and I don't get caught up on worldly news of

916
00:46:19,560 --> 00:46:22,000
Speaker 1: things that won't affect me personally. You know, Am I

917
00:46:22,120 --> 00:46:25,040
Speaker 1: here to to live for social media? Am I here

918
00:46:25,080 --> 00:46:27,720
Speaker 1: to live for to be caught up in the five

919
00:46:28,120 --> 00:46:31,839
Speaker 1: days or sixties of a trending topic? No, you got

920
00:46:31,880 --> 00:46:33,719
Speaker 1: to ignore that, dude. There's so much out there and

921
00:46:34,120 --> 00:46:36,239
Speaker 1: people say, oh, I'm grinding, I'm getting out there, I'm

922
00:46:36,280 --> 00:46:38,160
Speaker 1: putting in this work. But then you go on their

923
00:46:38,200 --> 00:46:41,239
Speaker 1: timeline and you always see them on social media. Yeah,

924
00:46:41,320 --> 00:46:43,400
Speaker 1: you always. Yeah. And I have that whole idea of like,

925
00:46:43,560 --> 00:46:45,920
Speaker 1: make more moves and less announcements. I know what you're

926
00:46:45,960 --> 00:46:48,279
Speaker 1: talking about. Um, you know what. I just had a

927
00:46:48,360 --> 00:46:51,080
Speaker 1: real quick question back to the movie deal. Is you

928
00:46:51,120 --> 00:46:53,399
Speaker 1: know you mentioned jay Z who was attached to the show.

929
00:46:54,040 --> 00:46:57,440
Speaker 1: Is jay Z still attached to the Uptoming movie? I

930
00:46:57,560 --> 00:47:00,080
Speaker 1: can't say too much. I can't say too much. I

931
00:47:00,160 --> 00:47:05,040
Speaker 1: do appreciate giving us the exclusive moving parts. Man, there's

932
00:47:05,080 --> 00:47:07,839
Speaker 1: a lot of moving parts, and and I think that, Um,

933
00:47:08,360 --> 00:47:10,760
Speaker 1: you know wherever it goes from here. Bro, Hollywood's a crazy,

934
00:47:10,880 --> 00:47:13,040
Speaker 1: crazy place. And I'm you know, being in it for

935
00:47:13,719 --> 00:47:16,080
Speaker 1: the time that I have been in and the friendships

936
00:47:16,120 --> 00:47:18,000
Speaker 1: I've made and things I've done in there. Bro, you

937
00:47:18,120 --> 00:47:21,320
Speaker 1: learned a lot, you know. And one thing is time time.

938
00:47:22,320 --> 00:47:25,680
Speaker 1: You know. It's like it doesn't make sense sometimes we're

939
00:47:26,440 --> 00:47:29,040
Speaker 1: us We're so used to things now now now, you know,

940
00:47:29,239 --> 00:47:32,760
Speaker 1: and something happening now, Bro, Hollywood is just totally different.

941
00:47:32,880 --> 00:47:34,919
Speaker 1: A year or two years. It's like, you know, that's

942
00:47:34,960 --> 00:47:37,200
Speaker 1: movie time, that's time it takes to make a movie.

943
00:47:37,640 --> 00:47:40,800
Speaker 1: But um, it, regardless of what happens where, it's just

944
00:47:40,920 --> 00:47:42,680
Speaker 1: one of those things, not even a check mark. And

945
00:47:43,000 --> 00:47:45,200
Speaker 1: I don't get excited about stuff like that. Like, dude,

946
00:47:45,239 --> 00:47:47,279
Speaker 1: when before you call, I totally just got back from

947
00:47:47,280 --> 00:47:50,080
Speaker 1: the gas station get in some cheap firewood, and I

948
00:47:50,400 --> 00:47:52,320
Speaker 1: had already had this conversation. I knew the news and

949
00:47:52,360 --> 00:47:55,040
Speaker 1: I haven't. I'm not gonna say I'm not excited about it.

950
00:47:55,160 --> 00:47:58,719
Speaker 1: But bro, once you're you already have to live there

951
00:47:58,760 --> 00:48:00,800
Speaker 1: in your head first, you know I'm in, Like, you

952
00:48:00,960 --> 00:48:04,680
Speaker 1: have to visualize, you have to already see yourself there,

953
00:48:04,840 --> 00:48:07,360
Speaker 1: because if you don't see it there first, and how

954
00:48:07,400 --> 00:48:08,759
Speaker 1: the hell do you believe it yourself? You know what

955
00:48:08,800 --> 00:48:10,920
Speaker 1: I'm saying, Like, there's no way you can believe it

956
00:48:11,200 --> 00:48:13,480
Speaker 1: if you're not physically there. If when you wake up

957
00:48:13,520 --> 00:48:16,359
Speaker 1: in the morning and ship doesn't seem off, like, man,

958
00:48:16,480 --> 00:48:19,440
Speaker 1: this house doesn't feel right. Are where I'm working, it

959
00:48:19,520 --> 00:48:21,600
Speaker 1: doesn't feel right. It feels like you know, you've been

960
00:48:21,640 --> 00:48:24,399
Speaker 1: living in your head so long that you know, at

961
00:48:24,480 --> 00:48:28,080
Speaker 1: your golden life, it becomes real and then eventually the

962
00:48:28,160 --> 00:48:30,440
Speaker 1: law of attraction are physics. There's no way you can

963
00:48:30,480 --> 00:48:33,600
Speaker 1: deny that. It has to manifest herself into reality, you know,

964
00:48:33,760 --> 00:48:36,239
Speaker 1: like attracts like your magnet. And I just think that,

965
00:48:36,800 --> 00:48:41,000
Speaker 1: you know, unless you're living, unless you're living there, go

966
00:48:41,080 --> 00:48:43,839
Speaker 1: back to school in first grade. You know, you you're

967
00:48:43,880 --> 00:48:45,839
Speaker 1: you're as a kid before you go to school, You're

968
00:48:45,840 --> 00:48:49,359
Speaker 1: always been taught daydream, daydream. It's good for children. It's

969
00:48:49,360 --> 00:48:51,279
Speaker 1: good for kids, you know. And I have a son

970
00:48:51,400 --> 00:48:55,359
Speaker 1: now and the he's like, he's an adorable boy. Man

971
00:48:56,000 --> 00:49:00,520
Speaker 1: that little boys cute as hell. Man. But yeah, say,

972
00:49:00,600 --> 00:49:04,000
Speaker 1: you know, let your children's mind run wild, right, imagine

973
00:49:04,040 --> 00:49:05,880
Speaker 1: to use their imagination. Then you get to school and

974
00:49:05,880 --> 00:49:08,120
Speaker 1: you get into society and then you're told to stop.

975
00:49:08,400 --> 00:49:11,320
Speaker 1: If you've caught day dreaming in class. What happens Teachers

976
00:49:11,400 --> 00:49:14,719
Speaker 1: like cut it out, pay attention to this. You you

977
00:49:15,239 --> 00:49:18,200
Speaker 1: we already know that. The doctors say, no, daydreaming is good.

978
00:49:18,320 --> 00:49:20,200
Speaker 1: Dreaming is good, dreaming is good. But then you get

979
00:49:20,239 --> 00:49:23,120
Speaker 1: to an establishment in society and they're like, no, stop

980
00:49:23,239 --> 00:49:25,800
Speaker 1: that do it, but just not here. You have no

981
00:49:25,920 --> 00:49:27,279
Speaker 1: time to do it. And what you know, I just

982
00:49:27,360 --> 00:49:31,719
Speaker 1: don't understand that you start to exactly and that's where

983
00:49:31,719 --> 00:49:34,640
Speaker 1: everything everything that you are you're talking on right now,

984
00:49:34,680 --> 00:49:36,920
Speaker 1: I'm talking on Skye was all thought up from a thought, bro,

985
00:49:37,440 --> 00:49:39,920
Speaker 1: you know, and someone had to have thought that and

986
00:49:40,000 --> 00:49:41,919
Speaker 1: believed that it to, you know, for it to be true.

987
00:49:42,120 --> 00:49:45,120
Speaker 1: From the right brothers to what's what's going on now?

988
00:49:45,280 --> 00:49:47,880
Speaker 1: They were like, you know what, No, I've already been there,

989
00:49:47,880 --> 00:49:51,080
Speaker 1: I've already seen it. Yeah, they manifested it, bro, And

990
00:49:51,120 --> 00:49:53,600
Speaker 1: I think that that's I'm not doing anything different. It's

991
00:49:53,640 --> 00:49:55,520
Speaker 1: not that I think. I know I've been purposely doing

992
00:49:55,560 --> 00:49:58,840
Speaker 1: it and I've never talked about it. But Dude, for me,

993
00:49:59,400 --> 00:50:02,279
Speaker 1: what I did was really laid off on drinking and

994
00:50:02,320 --> 00:50:11,240
Speaker 1: stuff like that. I think, like I'm having a little

995
00:50:11,280 --> 00:50:15,920
Speaker 1: glass of because I can. I mean for me what

996
00:50:16,040 --> 00:50:17,880
Speaker 1: I mean to each throne. And I think that for me,

997
00:50:18,480 --> 00:50:21,000
Speaker 1: you know, became one of those things where you know,

998
00:50:21,680 --> 00:50:24,000
Speaker 1: it can cloud your thoughts and stuff like that, and

999
00:50:24,520 --> 00:50:26,080
Speaker 1: you know, I just stopped to stopped doing it for

1000
00:50:26,360 --> 00:50:28,000
Speaker 1: you know whatever. I just stopped doing it to be

1001
00:50:28,040 --> 00:50:30,560
Speaker 1: able to think more clearly. And I knew ro I

1002
00:50:30,640 --> 00:50:32,520
Speaker 1: wanted to go in life, and Bro, all I did,

1003
00:50:32,760 --> 00:50:34,719
Speaker 1: all I did for a month straight, and I would

1004
00:50:34,840 --> 00:50:38,279
Speaker 1: challenge anyone to do it is to whatever you're addicted to.

1005
00:50:38,520 --> 00:50:41,719
Speaker 1: Would have you know, social media always been whatever it is, dude,

1006
00:50:42,040 --> 00:50:45,600
Speaker 1: Like step away for thirty days, take a break, and

1007
00:50:45,719 --> 00:50:48,600
Speaker 1: all you have to do is just think about where

1008
00:50:48,640 --> 00:50:50,399
Speaker 1: you want to be in life. It doesn't have nothing

1009
00:50:50,440 --> 00:50:52,760
Speaker 1: in particular, like I want to be an NFL whatever,

1010
00:50:53,200 --> 00:50:56,359
Speaker 1: superstar basketball player or nothing like that. You just say,

1011
00:50:56,400 --> 00:51:00,600
Speaker 1: whatever you want to be in life, successful, meaningful, purposeful work,

1012
00:51:00,680 --> 00:51:03,000
Speaker 1: whatever it is, dude, and you just think about that

1013
00:51:03,239 --> 00:51:06,279
Speaker 1: every single day. Every day you weighed six hours out

1014
00:51:06,320 --> 00:51:09,440
Speaker 1: of the day naturally alone doing nothing, you know, thirty

1015
00:51:09,480 --> 00:51:11,000
Speaker 1: minutes to an hour out of the day. You can

1016
00:51:11,080 --> 00:51:13,759
Speaker 1: anyone can find just think about where they want to

1017
00:51:13,800 --> 00:51:17,520
Speaker 1: be in life. Truly, truly reiterates that you are the

1018
00:51:17,640 --> 00:51:19,759
Speaker 1: master of your own destiny. When you do things like

1019
00:51:19,920 --> 00:51:22,880
Speaker 1: that said, dude, you are. And you listen to anyone

1020
00:51:23,600 --> 00:51:28,560
Speaker 1: who successful, anyone. Jim Carrey perfect example. Before Jim Carrey

1021
00:51:28,640 --> 00:51:30,400
Speaker 1: got his first deal, he wrote himself a check for

1022
00:51:31,040 --> 00:51:33,520
Speaker 1: X amount of millions of dollars. Dude was home, was

1023
00:51:33,560 --> 00:51:35,719
Speaker 1: living out of his car, but what he would do

1024
00:51:35,800 --> 00:51:38,960
Speaker 1: every night was go up on the you know, Hollywood

1025
00:51:39,040 --> 00:51:41,200
Speaker 1: Hills and look at the Hollywood Sign and stuff like

1026
00:51:41,360 --> 00:51:43,680
Speaker 1: that and say, no, I'm gonna be here. Dude had

1027
00:51:43,760 --> 00:51:46,360
Speaker 1: nothing going for him, but just he wrote himself a

1028
00:51:46,440 --> 00:51:48,920
Speaker 1: check for X eight million or something like that with

1029
00:51:49,040 --> 00:51:51,680
Speaker 1: the date on it, and at that day it was

1030
00:51:51,760 --> 00:51:53,600
Speaker 1: off like a few weeks or a few days or

1031
00:51:53,600 --> 00:51:55,400
Speaker 1: something like that. But he got that much money off

1032
00:51:55,440 --> 00:51:58,600
Speaker 1: of dumb and dumber. And then I have I have

1033
00:51:58,800 --> 00:52:01,040
Speaker 1: stories that you know, other people that I hear that

1034
00:52:01,120 --> 00:52:03,640
Speaker 1: are like that. Nick is a super inspirational guy, I

1035
00:52:03,760 --> 00:52:06,799
Speaker 1: have to say. But I do want to get into

1036
00:52:06,920 --> 00:52:09,560
Speaker 1: some some news here that we were talking about. And

1037
00:52:09,760 --> 00:52:11,799
Speaker 1: and it's funny you were talking about like staying away

1038
00:52:11,840 --> 00:52:13,759
Speaker 1: from news that doesn't affect you, which I agree with,

1039
00:52:13,920 --> 00:52:16,839
Speaker 1: but of course I here, special ops stuff affects all

1040
00:52:16,880 --> 00:52:20,439
Speaker 1: of us. And I know you heard about this already, Nick.

1041
00:52:20,560 --> 00:52:24,280
Speaker 1: The two Navy seals from Seal Team six under investigation

1042
00:52:24,800 --> 00:52:27,120
Speaker 1: in the death of green Beret and Molly, which is

1043
00:52:27,160 --> 00:52:31,480
Speaker 1: Staff Sergeant Logan J. Melger Um, and it's being investigated

1044
00:52:31,520 --> 00:52:34,120
Speaker 1: as a homicide. So Jason and I were talking about

1045
00:52:34,120 --> 00:52:36,480
Speaker 1: it before the show. I saw what Jack Murphy wrote.

1046
00:52:36,600 --> 00:52:39,719
Speaker 1: I heard Jason's take, which we'll get into I'm wondering, uh,

1047
00:52:39,880 --> 00:52:42,759
Speaker 1: if you have any info. I saw that you wrote

1048
00:52:42,840 --> 00:52:44,640
Speaker 1: some stuff, but I don't know what is public and

1049
00:52:44,719 --> 00:52:46,359
Speaker 1: what's not. So I just want to hear your your

1050
00:52:46,400 --> 00:52:50,520
Speaker 1: take on it. Yeah, what uh with what? Uh? What

1051
00:52:50,760 --> 00:52:53,600
Speaker 1: we know Ian and and a few other people. Uh,

1052
00:52:53,840 --> 00:52:57,320
Speaker 1: that's not public. It's one of those things like special operations.

1053
00:52:57,360 --> 00:52:59,120
Speaker 1: There's certain things. I guess you gotta wait, you know,

1054
00:52:59,160 --> 00:53:01,680
Speaker 1: a certain time to talk about. But I mean, does

1055
00:53:01,760 --> 00:53:05,240
Speaker 1: that story surprise me from that unit? You can ask

1056
00:53:05,360 --> 00:53:08,040
Speaker 1: anyone in special Operations and I'm I mean you can

1057
00:53:08,080 --> 00:53:10,799
Speaker 1: look at the news from the past events that they've

1058
00:53:10,840 --> 00:53:13,759
Speaker 1: been you know, been in and I mean I think

1059
00:53:13,840 --> 00:53:17,680
Speaker 1: that have I had a bad experience with Sale Team six? Yeah, yeah,

1060
00:53:17,719 --> 00:53:20,239
Speaker 1: of course. You know. I'm not gonna say how many

1061
00:53:20,280 --> 00:53:22,719
Speaker 1: are if there's just one or whatever, but I think

1062
00:53:22,760 --> 00:53:26,680
Speaker 1: anyone who's ever served with the A unit, like are

1063
00:53:27,000 --> 00:53:29,960
Speaker 1: you know, Sial Team six can say there's a few

1064
00:53:30,040 --> 00:53:32,080
Speaker 1: things on there that there's a few things that happen

1065
00:53:32,360 --> 00:53:34,880
Speaker 1: and stories that you hear within the community that you know,

1066
00:53:35,440 --> 00:53:37,440
Speaker 1: it is what it It's just it's those you know,

1067
00:53:37,800 --> 00:53:39,400
Speaker 1: it is what it is. I can't say too much

1068
00:53:39,440 --> 00:53:41,640
Speaker 1: about you know, what they have going on. I wasn't

1069
00:53:41,960 --> 00:53:43,920
Speaker 1: you know, in Seal Team six, but I do know that,

1070
00:53:44,520 --> 00:53:46,959
Speaker 1: you know, if you can ask other seals too, there's

1071
00:53:47,160 --> 00:53:49,759
Speaker 1: I know a lot of seals that have what nothing

1072
00:53:49,840 --> 00:53:53,520
Speaker 1: to do with Seal Team six. So yeah, I'm sure

1073
00:53:53,600 --> 00:53:56,960
Speaker 1: that speaks, you know, volumes when a Navy seal from

1074
00:53:57,040 --> 00:54:01,439
Speaker 1: Seal Team one through I have no idea or whatever,

1075
00:54:02,560 --> 00:54:05,279
Speaker 1: you know, and I know a lot of them and

1076
00:54:05,960 --> 00:54:08,000
Speaker 1: they some of them just don't want any part of them.

1077
00:54:08,000 --> 00:54:09,879
Speaker 1: But I will also say that I've had a chance

1078
00:54:09,920 --> 00:54:13,080
Speaker 1: to do numerous operations with them and and I've seen

1079
00:54:13,120 --> 00:54:14,520
Speaker 1: a chance, you know how, the chance to see these

1080
00:54:14,520 --> 00:54:16,719
Speaker 1: guys work, and they're good at what they do. They're

1081
00:54:17,000 --> 00:54:18,960
Speaker 1: they're good at what they do. They're really good at

1082
00:54:18,960 --> 00:54:24,560
Speaker 1: what they do. And my and Ian even because when

1083
00:54:24,600 --> 00:54:26,400
Speaker 1: I came in and he asked me what, you know,

1084
00:54:26,480 --> 00:54:29,160
Speaker 1: what my opinion was, and my opinion comes from a

1085
00:54:29,280 --> 00:54:32,719
Speaker 1: totally innocent side, because I know how retarded some of

1086
00:54:32,840 --> 00:54:37,880
Speaker 1: us can be overseas, especially you know, when you know

1087
00:54:38,000 --> 00:54:40,359
Speaker 1: and I'm there was nothing ever said about it being

1088
00:54:40,400 --> 00:54:43,600
Speaker 1: an alcohol related incident. Anything like that become outlets. Let's

1089
00:54:43,640 --> 00:54:46,680
Speaker 1: be honest we're talking about, you know, and they can

1090
00:54:46,719 --> 00:54:48,480
Speaker 1: get whatever the hell they want, you know what I mean.

1091
00:54:48,640 --> 00:54:52,520
Speaker 1: So I just to me, it sounds like they were

1092
00:54:53,719 --> 00:54:58,160
Speaker 1: just wrestling, grappling and something went wrong and you know,

1093
00:54:58,280 --> 00:54:59,719
Speaker 1: and that's what it sounds like to me. I'm not

1094
00:54:59,760 --> 00:55:01,759
Speaker 1: saying that's exactly what it was, because we all know

1095
00:55:01,960 --> 00:55:04,120
Speaker 1: some of these units, you know, they get in depth.

1096
00:55:04,640 --> 00:55:06,440
Speaker 1: You know, they get in depth in some of these places.

1097
00:55:06,520 --> 00:55:09,040
Speaker 1: Would you know, let's be honest, you know that's something

1098
00:55:09,320 --> 00:55:11,680
Speaker 1: that's going on in some of these places. But I

1099
00:55:11,760 --> 00:55:13,880
Speaker 1: think that's why it sounds like there's certain things we

1100
00:55:13,960 --> 00:55:15,920
Speaker 1: can't talk about. But I will tell you in Special

1101
00:55:16,000 --> 00:55:19,279
Speaker 1: Ops that once you get there, there's certain things that

1102
00:55:19,400 --> 00:55:22,000
Speaker 1: you know that even in range of battalion, like you know,

1103
00:55:22,120 --> 00:55:25,600
Speaker 1: every unit has some bad apples or whatever, and we

1104
00:55:25,760 --> 00:55:28,759
Speaker 1: do things and differently than other organizations. But when you

1105
00:55:28,880 --> 00:55:31,840
Speaker 1: get there and a community as tight as you know,

1106
00:55:32,320 --> 00:55:36,200
Speaker 1: speck ops, bro, it's like you disturbed, privy to different

1107
00:55:36,360 --> 00:55:40,960
Speaker 1: different things, different things there. And I think that I'm

1108
00:55:41,560 --> 00:55:44,120
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say, I know what happened, But I've been

1109
00:55:44,160 --> 00:55:46,840
Speaker 1: contracting and I've been at an embassy, and you know,

1110
00:55:47,000 --> 00:55:49,000
Speaker 1: I know what they have there and what you're what

1111
00:55:49,160 --> 00:55:50,960
Speaker 1: you have access to. And I've also been on a

1112
00:55:51,440 --> 00:55:56,320
Speaker 1: Seal Team six compound and yeah in Afghanistan and probably

1113
00:55:56,520 --> 00:55:59,440
Speaker 1: they have it all like whatever you want, and that's

1114
00:55:59,440 --> 00:56:01,840
Speaker 1: what I was telling and Ian man like, you know, Okay,

1115
00:56:01,960 --> 00:56:05,879
Speaker 1: it's restricted, but you're talking about cream of the crop.

1116
00:56:05,960 --> 00:56:08,239
Speaker 1: Ain't no one's gonna deny these guys. And plus even

1117
00:56:08,320 --> 00:56:10,680
Speaker 1: if they do deny these guys, you you gotta understand

1118
00:56:11,000 --> 00:56:13,239
Speaker 1: where there's a will, there's a way with these motherfucker's

1119
00:56:14,760 --> 00:56:17,600
Speaker 1: So ill if they're wanted a F six team plane

1120
00:56:18,200 --> 00:56:20,840
Speaker 1: because they would get into have six team plane. No

1121
00:56:20,920 --> 00:56:22,520
Speaker 1: one has a license and knows how to fly it,

1122
00:56:22,760 --> 00:56:25,359
Speaker 1: but they lift that thing off the ground. And that's

1123
00:56:25,440 --> 00:56:27,680
Speaker 1: just they have it. They have act I mean those

1124
00:56:27,800 --> 00:56:30,120
Speaker 1: that's never gonna change because that's also a part of

1125
00:56:30,200 --> 00:56:32,719
Speaker 1: getting the job done. You know. Back in the day,

1126
00:56:32,800 --> 00:56:35,600
Speaker 1: we used to say or ship even now, um, we

1127
00:56:35,760 --> 00:56:39,200
Speaker 1: used to have sniper platoons used to be called state platoons,

1128
00:56:39,320 --> 00:56:43,640
Speaker 1: which was surveillance and target acquisition. Um. But yeah, we

1129
00:56:43,800 --> 00:56:46,200
Speaker 1: used to we used to say the acronym really stood

1130
00:56:46,239 --> 00:56:49,120
Speaker 1: for steel taking acquired because that's the only way we

1131
00:56:49,239 --> 00:56:51,279
Speaker 1: would actually get shipped done. You know what I mean,

1132
00:56:51,360 --> 00:56:54,200
Speaker 1: We'll run around steal sandbags and water jugs and ship

1133
00:56:54,320 --> 00:56:56,359
Speaker 1: because you know we're not getting any love from our unit.

1134
00:56:58,200 --> 00:56:59,960
Speaker 1: We did the same. Yeah, and you look at our

1135
00:57:00,200 --> 00:57:03,000
Speaker 1: acronym for seals and you know other acronyms for seals,

1136
00:57:03,040 --> 00:57:05,560
Speaker 1: but our big one was regular Navy seals. Regular was

1137
00:57:05,640 --> 00:57:10,640
Speaker 1: just sleep eaten left bro. I don't know where it

1138
00:57:10,680 --> 00:57:14,160
Speaker 1: comes from, though, but I just I'm gonna call this

1139
00:57:14,360 --> 00:57:17,320
Speaker 1: one and say it was just a fucking terrible case

1140
00:57:17,400 --> 00:57:20,840
Speaker 1: of grab acts. I think, I think so, I personally

1141
00:57:20,920 --> 00:57:22,320
Speaker 1: think so. I don't think that it would have gotten

1142
00:57:22,400 --> 00:57:24,440
Speaker 1: that deep to wear. And plus it was on the

1143
00:57:24,880 --> 00:57:26,720
Speaker 1: it was on the embassy or the constantly, wherever the

1144
00:57:26,760 --> 00:57:29,240
Speaker 1: funk they were, you know. So to me it was like,

1145
00:57:30,000 --> 00:57:32,280
Speaker 1: you know, my dick is bigger than yours, and you

1146
00:57:32,400 --> 00:57:35,200
Speaker 1: know someone got choked out and passed out or fucking

1147
00:57:35,240 --> 00:57:37,720
Speaker 1: bumped his head on some ship. I've been choked out,

1148
00:57:40,680 --> 00:57:43,560
Speaker 1: you know, Jason, Like I could have been that, but

1149
00:57:43,920 --> 00:57:46,600
Speaker 1: you know I've been knocked the funk out by bigger

1150
00:57:46,680 --> 00:57:49,760
Speaker 1: motherfucker's man. Because you know, when you when you're drunk

1151
00:57:49,800 --> 00:57:52,000
Speaker 1: and in a room somewhere and you're just yelling at

1152
00:57:52,040 --> 00:57:55,800
Speaker 1: each other and fucking spewing, fucking Copenhagen each other's faces. Man,

1153
00:57:55,920 --> 00:58:00,400
Speaker 1: it gets real. Story. We get back from overseas and

1154
00:58:00,400 --> 00:58:02,480
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna mention a guy's name, but this is

1155
00:58:02,560 --> 00:58:04,240
Speaker 1: how bad it was. Like we were, you know, we

1156
00:58:04,320 --> 00:58:06,680
Speaker 1: had been drinking and stuff like that, and I'm looking

1157
00:58:06,720 --> 00:58:09,200
Speaker 1: for this PlayStation game at the time. It's PlayStation bro,

1158
00:58:09,280 --> 00:58:11,560
Speaker 1: and I'm like, I can't find his game and I

1159
00:58:11,640 --> 00:58:14,000
Speaker 1: know one's mom sorry, it was my controller. And I

1160
00:58:14,080 --> 00:58:16,000
Speaker 1: was so pissed off. And I knew that this guy

1161
00:58:16,040 --> 00:58:18,160
Speaker 1: almost said his name. I knew he had it the

1162
00:58:18,240 --> 00:58:20,240
Speaker 1: last guy I gave it to. So I go into

1163
00:58:20,320 --> 00:58:22,480
Speaker 1: his room. He's knocked out, Bro, He's passed out, like

1164
00:58:22,760 --> 00:58:25,200
Speaker 1: done for the night, and I start smacking him in

1165
00:58:25,240 --> 00:58:28,040
Speaker 1: his space. I'm like, hey, get up, get up, you know,

1166
00:58:28,480 --> 00:58:31,080
Speaker 1: and I'm smacking him, smacking him, and then he stands up.

1167
00:58:31,120 --> 00:58:33,760
Speaker 1: He's like, IRV, do you do it again. I'm going

1168
00:58:33,880 --> 00:58:36,080
Speaker 1: to kill you. And we just got back from doing

1169
00:58:36,160 --> 00:58:38,160
Speaker 1: that thing that was killing, you know, like twenty four

1170
00:58:38,160 --> 00:58:41,160
Speaker 1: hours there ago, and I'm like, so we're sitting there

1171
00:58:41,200 --> 00:58:43,840
Speaker 1: going back and forth like little kids. Bro. I'm sitting here,

1172
00:58:43,880 --> 00:58:46,520
Speaker 1: and I'm like, where's my controller? Give it to me,

1173
00:58:46,640 --> 00:58:49,200
Speaker 1: Give it like little kids, man. And then finally I

1174
00:58:49,360 --> 00:58:51,640
Speaker 1: go this was a dumb move. This guy had been

1175
00:58:51,680 --> 00:58:53,120
Speaker 1: in the time for you know, some years. So I

1176
00:58:53,240 --> 00:58:55,680
Speaker 1: go into his kitchen and I grab a knife. I'm like,

1177
00:58:55,880 --> 00:58:58,000
Speaker 1: all right, bro, you don't want to get my controller.

1178
00:58:58,080 --> 00:59:00,760
Speaker 1: I'm slicing your up, you know, to cut your throat.

1179
00:59:01,120 --> 00:59:03,600
Speaker 1: So he's like, bring it. So he gets his knife,

1180
00:59:03,640 --> 00:59:06,040
Speaker 1: a pocket knife from under his pillow or something like that,

1181
00:59:06,440 --> 00:59:09,800
Speaker 1: and we're swearing from bro. It was like a hand

1182
00:59:09,840 --> 00:59:13,080
Speaker 1: grenade from a anchor man, you know. And I'm like,

1183
00:59:13,560 --> 00:59:17,320
Speaker 1: we're sitting there, we're squaring off, dude. And finally the

1184
00:59:17,480 --> 00:59:19,840
Speaker 1: smarts kicked in because I could see it in his eyes.

1185
00:59:19,880 --> 00:59:22,080
Speaker 1: If I go after him, he's gonna do some ni

1186
00:59:22,160 --> 00:59:24,720
Speaker 1: jitsu move and he's gonna slice my throat and cut

1187
00:59:24,800 --> 00:59:26,480
Speaker 1: my head. I don't know, bro, but I could tell

1188
00:59:26,560 --> 00:59:28,800
Speaker 1: that he was really gonna, you know, kill me. I

1189
00:59:29,000 --> 00:59:30,640
Speaker 1: was just trying to pose a threat like that. I

1190
00:59:30,720 --> 00:59:32,800
Speaker 1: just want my controller. But you know, I got a knife.

1191
00:59:32,840 --> 00:59:34,720
Speaker 1: You've got a knife. I can see where this is going.

1192
00:59:35,320 --> 00:59:36,920
Speaker 1: You know, there's a sober and his kicked in, so

1193
00:59:37,000 --> 00:59:40,280
Speaker 1: I just like, you know what, tomorrow, it's overbro, it's done,

1194
00:59:40,640 --> 00:59:42,160
Speaker 1: walked out the room. I was like, oh my god,

1195
00:59:42,280 --> 00:59:44,680
Speaker 1: my heart was beating so fast. And I watched him

1196
00:59:44,720 --> 00:59:48,640
Speaker 1: that next night literally kicked the ship out of someone. Literally,

1197
00:59:48,720 --> 00:59:51,320
Speaker 1: like there's a fight in the barracks room and there's

1198
00:59:51,320 --> 00:59:54,000
Speaker 1: fights all the time being you're drinking out and we're

1199
00:59:54,080 --> 00:59:57,600
Speaker 1: we we deployed together and this fight's breaking out. But

1200
00:59:57,880 --> 00:59:59,880
Speaker 1: he hits the guy. I'm not sure if he kicked him,

1201
00:59:59,880 --> 01:00:01,720
Speaker 1: our at him, but in his stomach somewhere and this

1202
01:00:02,080 --> 01:00:06,200
Speaker 1: role is ball rolls into our kitchen me and my

1203
01:00:06,280 --> 01:00:09,520
Speaker 1: roommate's name nickname was cheese, and it rolls into the kitchen.

1204
01:00:09,640 --> 01:00:13,959
Speaker 1: He's like, oh my gosh, just shut him. So after

1205
01:00:14,440 --> 01:00:17,360
Speaker 1: after the fight, bro, and it's been kicked around and

1206
01:00:17,800 --> 01:00:19,800
Speaker 1: during the fight, and this is it's a perfect ball

1207
01:00:20,200 --> 01:00:24,040
Speaker 1: like it brow with outomous pins with flops grow and

1208
01:00:24,400 --> 01:00:27,520
Speaker 1: pop into the kitchen. So we're sitting there the fights

1209
01:00:27,560 --> 01:00:30,240
Speaker 1: over and me and FS are like, get back here.

1210
01:00:30,280 --> 01:00:32,200
Speaker 1: You cleaned your ship up, you know all this and that,

1211
01:00:32,680 --> 01:00:34,240
Speaker 1: and he's all messed up, but like now just go

1212
01:00:34,320 --> 01:00:36,160
Speaker 1: back to your face is all messed up, bro, And

1213
01:00:36,280 --> 01:00:38,160
Speaker 1: he goes into this room. So me and Cheese are like,

1214
01:00:38,560 --> 01:00:41,000
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, she's gonna pick this ball of shut up.

1215
01:00:41,040 --> 01:00:43,080
Speaker 1: So it's set there. But I was like, dude, I'm

1216
01:00:43,120 --> 01:00:44,880
Speaker 1: not doing it. There's no I don't touch I don't

1217
01:00:44,920 --> 01:00:47,200
Speaker 1: touch the ship. You know, I don't touch that bodies, bro,

1218
01:00:47,520 --> 01:00:49,840
Speaker 1: I have a thing about that. So he finally picked

1219
01:00:49,840 --> 01:00:52,280
Speaker 1: it up, dude, and it chucked it. Yeah, it happens

1220
01:00:52,280 --> 01:00:54,600
Speaker 1: all the time. And and and you know altha males

1221
01:00:54,640 --> 01:00:56,800
Speaker 1: man in Spanish, we call it him a home bro.

1222
01:00:57,400 --> 01:01:01,240
Speaker 1: And in the constant it in her bill, I've seen

1223
01:01:01,280 --> 01:01:05,600
Speaker 1: a fistfight over the placement of a trash can. That's

1224
01:01:05,600 --> 01:01:09,040
Speaker 1: how ship gets tense. Motherfucker put a trash can in

1225
01:01:09,120 --> 01:01:12,320
Speaker 1: front of like the common room, and then someone's like

1226
01:01:12,520 --> 01:01:14,160
Speaker 1: room was right next to that at the door, and

1227
01:01:14,280 --> 01:01:15,800
Speaker 1: he was like, pissed, the trash is there, so he

1228
01:01:15,920 --> 01:01:18,560
Speaker 1: moved it by the kitchen. The motherfucker saw that he

1229
01:01:18,640 --> 01:01:20,800
Speaker 1: moved by the kitchen and moved it back to the room.

1230
01:01:21,000 --> 01:01:24,320
Speaker 1: And next year, no fucking World War three broke out.

1231
01:01:24,400 --> 01:01:27,320
Speaker 1: I'm like, are you guys fucking kidding me? Because dude,

1232
01:01:27,520 --> 01:01:30,560
Speaker 1: true and false tensions are so fucking high. When you're

1233
01:01:30,600 --> 01:01:33,080
Speaker 1: overseas for like three or four months at a time,

1234
01:01:33,560 --> 01:01:36,000
Speaker 1: you're away from your loved ones, man, and you're dealing

1235
01:01:36,040 --> 01:01:39,040
Speaker 1: with the dumbest little was bullshit. On top of that,

1236
01:01:39,120 --> 01:01:41,960
Speaker 1: you're dealing with life of death situations, and then you

1237
01:01:42,080 --> 01:01:44,440
Speaker 1: come home and it's like everything is like such a

1238
01:01:44,560 --> 01:01:49,840
Speaker 1: big deal, dude. It's like guys can't really rationalize. Oh dude,

1239
01:01:49,880 --> 01:01:52,920
Speaker 1: people start getting in the fights over just anything. Anything

1240
01:01:53,080 --> 01:01:56,080
Speaker 1: bro like that. That that trash can story is perfect,

1241
01:01:56,160 --> 01:01:59,240
Speaker 1: like the smallest thing. It's just anything. It's like prison.

1242
01:01:59,280 --> 01:02:04,320
Speaker 1: It's like if I always used to say it was like, man,

1243
01:02:04,360 --> 01:02:05,800
Speaker 1: if I ever go to prison, I'm not really going

1244
01:02:05,840 --> 01:02:08,760
Speaker 1: to care. I've already been there. If a military career

1245
01:02:08,920 --> 01:02:11,840
Speaker 1: in prison, you know, that's what it felt like. We're institutionalized.

1246
01:02:11,840 --> 01:02:13,560
Speaker 1: I think that's what they call it. Where we wake

1247
01:02:13,640 --> 01:02:16,040
Speaker 1: up a zero dark thirty and we fucking eat at

1248
01:02:16,080 --> 01:02:18,280
Speaker 1: the same time. We do the same thing every day.

1249
01:02:18,720 --> 01:02:22,600
Speaker 1: We have all these fucking unrealistic restrictions on us. You know,

1250
01:02:22,920 --> 01:02:26,840
Speaker 1: our client fucking could walk around drunk, fucking fingering women

1251
01:02:26,920 --> 01:02:28,560
Speaker 1: and ship and where all here. I have to watch

1252
01:02:28,640 --> 01:02:30,600
Speaker 1: that because we can't deal with it. You know, and

1253
01:02:30,720 --> 01:02:35,400
Speaker 1: it's like, this sucks. We got guys robbing banks and

1254
01:02:35,480 --> 01:02:40,040
Speaker 1: it's affecting everyone in an entire regiment. Bro, Like, it's

1255
01:02:40,080 --> 01:02:42,560
Speaker 1: so petty, Like, dude, when was at what time in

1256
01:02:42,640 --> 01:02:44,280
Speaker 1: your job if you went to work it, let's say

1257
01:02:44,760 --> 01:02:47,240
Speaker 1: Bank of America, I don't know, someplace like that, and

1258
01:02:47,480 --> 01:02:49,400
Speaker 1: one employee is like, you know what, I'm gonna go

1259
01:02:49,480 --> 01:02:51,400
Speaker 1: out and I'm gonna drink and drive and get arrested.

1260
01:02:51,880 --> 01:02:56,520
Speaker 1: The boss does not calling, you know, everyone of them whatever. Hey,

1261
01:02:57,000 --> 01:02:59,600
Speaker 1: you know, this is it. You guys are no weekend

1262
01:03:00,560 --> 01:03:03,400
Speaker 1: lock peop in here and we're just gonna sit. You

1263
01:03:03,400 --> 01:03:05,680
Speaker 1: don't get that anywhere else. It's institutionalized. And then you

1264
01:03:05,800 --> 01:03:09,440
Speaker 1: release all these you know guys back into society and

1265
01:03:09,440 --> 01:03:11,959
Speaker 1: you're like, all right, go function, go, go be fine,

1266
01:03:12,040 --> 01:03:15,200
Speaker 1: go have fun. You know, took a lot of problems

1267
01:03:15,240 --> 01:03:16,600
Speaker 1: when you get out on that note. And that's what

1268
01:03:16,720 --> 01:03:20,720
Speaker 1: I was telling Ian. The whole reason why fucking contractors

1269
01:03:20,920 --> 01:03:23,680
Speaker 1: or red stripes, you know what I'm talking about when

1270
01:03:23,680 --> 01:03:25,640
Speaker 1: you go to an embassy or something like that, why

1271
01:03:25,720 --> 01:03:28,600
Speaker 1: they're not allowed to drink, you know, is because of

1272
01:03:28,720 --> 01:03:31,600
Speaker 1: what occurred a few years ago in Iraq where one

1273
01:03:31,680 --> 01:03:36,240
Speaker 1: fucking dude got trash and fucking shot his best friend. Dude,

1274
01:03:36,280 --> 01:03:39,720
Speaker 1: we had when I was contracting guys a Dan, we

1275
01:03:39,840 --> 01:03:42,720
Speaker 1: had people, people going out getting drunk on you know,

1276
01:03:42,880 --> 01:03:47,280
Speaker 1: downtown bagdad. Bro Like, oh, yeah, I believe it. Remember that. Yeah,

1277
01:03:47,320 --> 01:03:49,560
Speaker 1: I believe it. And and that's what and that's all

1278
01:03:49,640 --> 01:03:51,560
Speaker 1: the all that ship just comes down to pipe. And

1279
01:03:51,640 --> 01:03:54,320
Speaker 1: now it's to the point where we can't fraternize women,

1280
01:03:54,720 --> 01:03:57,600
Speaker 1: we can't drink, we can't do blah blah blah, X

1281
01:03:57,680 --> 01:04:01,160
Speaker 1: and X Y and Z, but our client fucking relations

1282
01:04:01,280 --> 01:04:04,320
Speaker 1: to do whatever they want. Yeah, you know it. Bro,

1283
01:04:04,560 --> 01:04:07,560
Speaker 1: is like related, dude, girl, I ever get into the stories.

1284
01:04:07,640 --> 01:04:11,720
Speaker 1: But dude, you're talking about Seals, Rangers, Green Berets, Delta.

1285
01:04:12,560 --> 01:04:14,800
Speaker 1: I mean, you're bearded out broad. You get a chance

1286
01:04:14,840 --> 01:04:18,120
Speaker 1: to be around all these guys, and then there's two girls,

1287
01:04:18,200 --> 01:04:22,080
Speaker 1: and Bro, it's unbelievable. Like I'm gonna say, I'm just

1288
01:04:22,120 --> 01:04:25,520
Speaker 1: gonna say it. Look funk that. Let me tell you this,

1289
01:04:25,800 --> 01:04:27,800
Speaker 1: And I don't think you know how this world works,

1290
01:04:27,800 --> 01:04:31,600
Speaker 1: all right, fucking power Rain Supreme and this motherfucker. All right,

1291
01:04:31,880 --> 01:04:34,240
Speaker 1: So let's just say you're on a compound with a

1292
01:04:34,360 --> 01:04:37,600
Speaker 1: bunch of fucking and you know, no homo when I

1293
01:04:37,680 --> 01:04:40,480
Speaker 1: say this, all right, but you're on a fucking compound

1294
01:04:40,520 --> 01:04:44,160
Speaker 1: with a bunch of diesel fucking alpha males, bearded out,

1295
01:04:44,320 --> 01:04:49,080
Speaker 1: fucking squatting six hundred fucking pounds, you know, Yeah, And

1296
01:04:49,240 --> 01:04:53,360
Speaker 1: you're competing. You're some old fucking silver head fox motherfucker

1297
01:04:53,560 --> 01:04:56,800
Speaker 1: from like the Department of State, and you're competing with

1298
01:04:56,920 --> 01:05:00,240
Speaker 1: these guys for pussy yep, and these guys are super

1299
01:05:00,520 --> 01:05:03,160
Speaker 1: and and at that point in time in my life,

1300
01:05:03,200 --> 01:05:06,760
Speaker 1: I was I was deadlifting too much weight. I thought

1301
01:05:06,800 --> 01:05:09,280
Speaker 1: I broke my spine. One day I was deadlifting. No, Joe,

1302
01:05:09,320 --> 01:05:12,000
Speaker 1: bro Like, what was my max? Dude was like four

1303
01:05:12,160 --> 01:05:14,560
Speaker 1: something and I'm only you know, I'm only the most

1304
01:05:14,600 --> 01:05:16,760
Speaker 1: I've ever Wight was one eighty. Yeah, that's a that's

1305
01:05:16,760 --> 01:05:19,200
Speaker 1: a phenomenal amount of weight. But I'm pretty sure I

1306
01:05:19,480 --> 01:05:21,560
Speaker 1: messed up my back that day. I was on some

1307
01:05:25,280 --> 01:05:30,040
Speaker 1: How tall are you about? Like five three five four three? Godly, bro?

1308
01:05:30,120 --> 01:05:34,200
Speaker 1: You gave me no, you gave me fun size and

1309
01:05:34,800 --> 01:05:38,440
Speaker 1: you're short. How tall are you? Seven? Seven? Okay? Well

1310
01:05:38,440 --> 01:05:41,000
Speaker 1: there you go. Not that all That's how I would

1311
01:05:41,000 --> 01:05:43,960
Speaker 1: at least you ain't. You ain't say you ain't say

1312
01:05:44,040 --> 01:05:46,520
Speaker 1: his arms are like seven inches, which is true exactly.

1313
01:05:46,520 --> 01:05:50,000
Speaker 1: But that's why when he's talking about his weight, but

1314
01:05:50,160 --> 01:05:53,360
Speaker 1: for his size, it's got it in quick that And

1315
01:05:53,480 --> 01:05:56,040
Speaker 1: I'm like, I've been boxing, dude, I'm thinking about going

1316
01:05:56,160 --> 01:05:57,760
Speaker 1: for my Now, I'm not going to bring that up,

1317
01:05:57,760 --> 01:06:01,480
Speaker 1: but yeah, it's been boxing for a while. Why you

1318
01:06:01,680 --> 01:06:03,680
Speaker 1: never why you never went with the guys over to

1319
01:06:03,760 --> 01:06:07,600
Speaker 1: London to represent bro? What's up? I just wasn't in

1320
01:06:07,640 --> 01:06:09,320
Speaker 1: it that that, dude. I was going through a lot

1321
01:06:09,400 --> 01:06:12,600
Speaker 1: of business stuff that man, Yeah, you're too famous to

1322
01:06:12,640 --> 01:06:14,360
Speaker 1: get punched in the face. That's what I told Brandon

1323
01:06:14,440 --> 01:06:16,840
Speaker 1: this last time. I said, look here, man, I did

1324
01:06:16,880 --> 01:06:19,720
Speaker 1: it last year. I was nobody. Last year I got

1325
01:06:19,840 --> 01:06:21,960
Speaker 1: a book out. I gotta stay pretty baby, all right?

1326
01:06:23,800 --> 01:06:26,760
Speaker 1: I think match. I was in Battalion's uh bike club

1327
01:06:26,840 --> 01:06:30,720
Speaker 1: and that was like they parted me up, had a

1328
01:06:30,760 --> 01:06:33,120
Speaker 1: sparring match, and they partoned me up with this one

1329
01:06:33,200 --> 01:06:35,560
Speaker 1: guy forget his name, dude, but he used to No

1330
01:06:35,640 --> 01:06:38,240
Speaker 1: one told me this at the time, true story. Uh

1331
01:06:38,880 --> 01:06:41,000
Speaker 1: hooked me up with this guy and had no idea

1332
01:06:41,040 --> 01:06:42,920
Speaker 1: about his background here like or if you're gonna beat

1333
01:06:42,960 --> 01:06:45,480
Speaker 1: his ass? Bro? Even boxing from the streets man all

1334
01:06:45,520 --> 01:06:47,840
Speaker 1: this sunn that, and I'm like, yeah, they all right.

1335
01:06:48,280 --> 01:06:50,320
Speaker 1: I I am pretty good with the left and the right.

1336
01:06:50,680 --> 01:06:54,720
Speaker 1: So step into the ring with this guy and I'm like,

1337
01:06:54,800 --> 01:06:56,520
Speaker 1: you know, filling him out, filling them out. He's looking

1338
01:06:56,600 --> 01:06:59,520
Speaker 1: like he's he's not really into it. And he hits me, Bro,

1339
01:07:00,240 --> 01:07:02,440
Speaker 1: and I swear to you, I felt it down to

1340
01:07:02,520 --> 01:07:05,160
Speaker 1: the tips of my toe nails, to the very crown

1341
01:07:05,240 --> 01:07:07,320
Speaker 1: of my head. And he hit me in the body

1342
01:07:07,760 --> 01:07:09,840
Speaker 1: like I went for a jab and then a right boom.

1343
01:07:09,880 --> 01:07:11,640
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm about to knock this guy out, small

1344
01:07:11,640 --> 01:07:14,840
Speaker 1: as a Mexican dude and hit me in my ribs

1345
01:07:14,840 --> 01:07:16,600
Speaker 1: and I played it off. Bro played it off. Go

1346
01:07:16,760 --> 01:07:18,520
Speaker 1: back and they're like, hey, you know that he used

1347
01:07:18,520 --> 01:07:21,440
Speaker 1: to box professionally. He opened up on showtime a few

1348
01:07:21,480 --> 01:07:26,280
Speaker 1: times for some big fight professional boxer. Bro. He's never

1349
01:07:26,400 --> 01:07:31,200
Speaker 1: lost the boxing match in our rain from me. So

1350
01:07:31,680 --> 01:07:33,400
Speaker 1: I went back out there around two and this is

1351
01:07:33,440 --> 01:07:36,600
Speaker 1: where I do in the personal towel, Bro. I didn't quit,

1352
01:07:36,760 --> 01:07:38,760
Speaker 1: but I mean I quit. I was just like, you

1353
01:07:38,800 --> 01:07:41,160
Speaker 1: know what this is. It's not for me. I don't

1354
01:07:41,200 --> 01:07:42,920
Speaker 1: know what he hit me with, Bro, but it was

1355
01:07:43,800 --> 01:07:45,600
Speaker 1: one of the fastest. I don't know how many times

1356
01:07:45,640 --> 01:07:47,840
Speaker 1: he hit me. He was like three or fifty, but

1357
01:07:47,960 --> 01:07:51,200
Speaker 1: he hit so fast, and each one of them had

1358
01:07:51,280 --> 01:07:53,120
Speaker 1: like it was like a brick. Bro. I was like,

1359
01:07:53,200 --> 01:07:55,640
Speaker 1: oh my god, what am I getting hit with? And

1360
01:07:55,680 --> 01:07:57,760
Speaker 1: then I just see black and then I see the

1361
01:07:57,920 --> 01:08:00,360
Speaker 1: top of I think it was a serially and then

1362
01:08:00,360 --> 01:08:03,120
Speaker 1: I'm turned around, bro, and then I see him again.

1363
01:08:03,360 --> 01:08:06,280
Speaker 1: Then I'm back turned around and then boom. I just

1364
01:08:06,320 --> 01:08:10,520
Speaker 1: saw like all these images have jo I almost knocked

1365
01:08:10,520 --> 01:08:12,880
Speaker 1: out twice last year about that fucking Matt dude. Man,

1366
01:08:12,960 --> 01:08:15,040
Speaker 1: that s a s fun man. That dude's been boxing

1367
01:08:15,080 --> 01:08:17,120
Speaker 1: since he was a kid, and I didn't know. I'm

1368
01:08:17,120 --> 01:08:20,439
Speaker 1: alway here. I trained in Afghanistan for three fucking months,

1369
01:08:20,680 --> 01:08:22,680
Speaker 1: you know, that was my training. I got in the

1370
01:08:22,800 --> 01:08:25,040
Speaker 1: ring with this guy and I never felt that close

1371
01:08:25,120 --> 01:08:28,439
Speaker 1: to being fucking put to sleep. But yeah, So we

1372
01:08:28,600 --> 01:08:33,400
Speaker 1: have part two of that remembrance rumble on on Veterans

1373
01:08:33,520 --> 01:08:35,880
Speaker 1: Day or Remembrance Days they call it in the UK.

1374
01:08:36,080 --> 01:08:38,680
Speaker 1: But just to get back to the Seal Team six stuff. Um,

1375
01:08:38,880 --> 01:08:40,479
Speaker 1: I just had a couple more things I wanted to

1376
01:08:40,520 --> 01:08:43,479
Speaker 1: get into it that I'm wondering, you know, you're talking

1377
01:08:43,520 --> 01:08:45,439
Speaker 1: about kind of the culture of Seal Team six, and

1378
01:08:45,479 --> 01:08:47,559
Speaker 1: I get where you were saying that they could basically

1379
01:08:47,640 --> 01:08:50,479
Speaker 1: get whatever they want. But it's kind of interesting to

1380
01:08:50,560 --> 01:08:53,120
Speaker 1: me because the guys who were in Seal Team six

1381
01:08:53,240 --> 01:08:56,600
Speaker 1: when you were in in the Rangers, Like, this is

1382
01:08:56,640 --> 01:08:59,439
Speaker 1: a completely different group of guys now, but but from

1383
01:08:59,479 --> 01:09:01,599
Speaker 1: what you're saying, it sounds like it's still the same culture.

1384
01:09:01,680 --> 01:09:04,160
Speaker 1: It's it's a it's a culture like you know, I

1385
01:09:04,520 --> 01:09:06,960
Speaker 1: was in with guys who uh, you know, fault in

1386
01:09:07,000 --> 01:09:09,920
Speaker 1: Somalia and stuff like that, and they left, and then

1387
01:09:10,120 --> 01:09:12,799
Speaker 1: the guys before them, but the culture never never changed,

1388
01:09:12,880 --> 01:09:14,960
Speaker 1: like when you come to battalion, bro. Well not with

1389
01:09:15,040 --> 01:09:17,880
Speaker 1: all the PC stuff, it's a little different. But back

1390
01:09:17,960 --> 01:09:20,560
Speaker 1: then or when I was in and before the you know,

1391
01:09:20,960 --> 01:09:24,000
Speaker 1: placification of the military, it was like, no, you're gonna

1392
01:09:24,040 --> 01:09:26,799
Speaker 1: get beat, bro, You're going to get beat, like physically,

1393
01:09:27,160 --> 01:09:29,720
Speaker 1: people might die, you know what I'm saying. And it

1394
01:09:29,840 --> 01:09:32,040
Speaker 1: was just that culture of you're a new guy, go

1395
01:09:32,240 --> 01:09:35,360
Speaker 1: touch this, uh squad's wall and there's five, six, seven

1396
01:09:35,439 --> 01:09:37,479
Speaker 1: dudes in there. You're gonna get jumped, bro, You're gonna

1397
01:09:37,479 --> 01:09:39,960
Speaker 1: get jump and you just gotta eat it, and it's

1398
01:09:40,000 --> 01:09:42,680
Speaker 1: a daily, daily thing. You just get beat. That not

1399
01:09:42,840 --> 01:09:46,439
Speaker 1: necessary or not Nick, It is very necessary because I'll

1400
01:09:46,439 --> 01:09:48,760
Speaker 1: tell you why. I'll tell you why I wanted to.

1401
01:09:48,840 --> 01:09:51,160
Speaker 1: I mean, I grew up. My parents banked me. You

1402
01:09:51,160 --> 01:09:53,680
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. They when they grew up, they

1403
01:09:53,760 --> 01:09:58,920
Speaker 1: got beat by like extension Corps and that had that

1404
01:09:58,960 --> 01:10:01,080
Speaker 1: treatment once or twice. But I mean like it made

1405
01:10:01,120 --> 01:10:03,080
Speaker 1: me who I am. And I'll tell you that. You

1406
01:10:03,160 --> 01:10:04,920
Speaker 1: know the rule in my house if you know a

1407
01:10:04,960 --> 01:10:07,200
Speaker 1: perfect example, if if I got into a fighting school,

1408
01:10:07,200 --> 01:10:09,720
Speaker 1: which I did quite often, if I ever lost my

1409
01:10:09,840 --> 01:10:11,519
Speaker 1: mom and my dad said, when you come home, we're

1410
01:10:11,560 --> 01:10:13,800
Speaker 1: gonna beat your ass, and then you're gonna go back

1411
01:10:13,880 --> 01:10:15,720
Speaker 1: and then you're gonna beat their ass and we're gonna

1412
01:10:15,880 --> 01:10:18,640
Speaker 1: you know, it's just it's an ongoing thing. But I

1413
01:10:18,760 --> 01:10:21,080
Speaker 1: think that in battalion, like we had a class of

1414
01:10:21,200 --> 01:10:23,880
Speaker 1: eight plus guys and we graduated seven and we got

1415
01:10:24,000 --> 01:10:28,120
Speaker 1: beat bro like guys, just physically beat physically bro And

1416
01:10:28,720 --> 01:10:30,759
Speaker 1: I think that it made us who we are today

1417
01:10:30,800 --> 01:10:32,880
Speaker 1: and and and and just that hard guy. And the

1418
01:10:32,920 --> 01:10:34,880
Speaker 1: wars that the type of wars we fight. Man, it's

1419
01:10:34,920 --> 01:10:38,760
Speaker 1: like you have to be an animalistic guerilla warfare. Just

1420
01:10:39,120 --> 01:10:41,840
Speaker 1: nasty animal you have to be and if you're not that,

1421
01:10:42,439 --> 01:10:44,120
Speaker 1: you get over there. And we've had this, bro. When

1422
01:10:44,160 --> 01:10:46,879
Speaker 1: they started to do that little change in the training,

1423
01:10:46,960 --> 01:10:49,640
Speaker 1: are are making a little bit more, oh stress card this.

1424
01:10:50,280 --> 01:10:52,680
Speaker 1: It's like we started getting these new guys in and

1425
01:10:52,800 --> 01:10:54,439
Speaker 1: that's when you know I'm drawing my flag and like,

1426
01:10:54,479 --> 01:10:56,200
Speaker 1: you know, I'm out of here, bro, because you start

1427
01:10:56,280 --> 01:10:58,400
Speaker 1: to see these new guys come in and you know

1428
01:10:58,479 --> 01:11:00,760
Speaker 1: we're on a two click for pick in field our

1429
01:11:00,920 --> 01:11:03,919
Speaker 1: X field and they're like, oh, I needed my crutch profile,

1430
01:11:04,120 --> 01:11:06,280
Speaker 1: no ship, bro. Like the next day, I see this

1431
01:11:06,360 --> 01:11:09,880
Speaker 1: guy on crutches, dude, after he he twisted his ankle

1432
01:11:10,120 --> 01:11:12,599
Speaker 1: or something running on the ramp of A forty seven

1433
01:11:12,640 --> 01:11:15,880
Speaker 1: after an ambush. I'm like, what, dude, I Mark you

1434
01:11:15,920 --> 01:11:20,559
Speaker 1: know I did a twelve mile rock run to stress ractors.

1435
01:11:20,920 --> 01:11:23,960
Speaker 1: Messed up ankle, uh, messed up X Y and Z bro.

1436
01:11:24,080 --> 01:11:25,720
Speaker 1: And I'm like, dude, you're telling me I have a

1437
01:11:25,800 --> 01:11:28,479
Speaker 1: twisted ankle. I've had broken bones, man, you know what

1438
01:11:28,479 --> 01:11:31,599
Speaker 1: I'm saying. And and running eight miles are five miles

1439
01:11:31,640 --> 01:11:35,639
Speaker 1: to pass the PT test that that's nothing was twisted ankle. Dude,

1440
01:11:35,840 --> 01:11:38,280
Speaker 1: come on, So one of my best sniper guys he

1441
01:11:38,360 --> 01:11:40,519
Speaker 1: got shot in his freaking head. Dude got shot in

1442
01:11:40,560 --> 01:11:43,439
Speaker 1: his head, fell awful, letter, got back up, killed him

1443
01:11:43,479 --> 01:11:45,120
Speaker 1: with a grenade and called it up on the on

1444
01:11:45,200 --> 01:11:49,000
Speaker 1: the calm. So if I could give some some more

1445
01:11:49,080 --> 01:11:51,400
Speaker 1: background on the CEL Team six thing, because we've talked

1446
01:11:51,400 --> 01:11:53,640
Speaker 1: about it before in the show. Um, a lot of

1447
01:11:53,720 --> 01:11:55,640
Speaker 1: you guys in the audience might remember there was this

1448
01:11:55,720 --> 01:11:58,040
Speaker 1: piece in the New York Times about like war crimes

1449
01:11:58,080 --> 01:12:01,400
Speaker 1: of c L Team six. It was very controversial. Jack

1450
01:12:01,520 --> 01:12:04,320
Speaker 1: Murphy has written about this type of thing, um, you know,

1451
01:12:04,360 --> 01:12:06,080
Speaker 1: and then we had guys like Scott McEwen on the

1452
01:12:06,160 --> 01:12:08,800
Speaker 1: show saying, you know, hey, you're you're sending guys to

1453
01:12:08,880 --> 01:12:11,880
Speaker 1: do the toughest job in the world. Uh, things are

1454
01:12:11,880 --> 01:12:15,160
Speaker 1: gonna get pretty nasty. Uh. And I talked with Jack

1455
01:12:15,160 --> 01:12:17,280
Speaker 1: about this. He wrote articles about it, and he was saying,

1456
01:12:17,479 --> 01:12:22,040
Speaker 1: you know, it was more than what should be allowed basically.

1457
01:12:22,120 --> 01:12:24,840
Speaker 1: So I'm I'm gonna refer back to this Facebook post

1458
01:12:24,920 --> 01:12:27,240
Speaker 1: that Jack just wrote. Um, I think it might have

1459
01:12:27,280 --> 01:12:29,760
Speaker 1: been yesterday on Facebook, just so that I can get

1460
01:12:29,840 --> 01:12:33,280
Speaker 1: both your reactions on it. But Jack wrote, um, hey,

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Speaker 1: Facebook friends. Remember years ago when I started investigating war

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01:12:36,960 --> 01:12:39,680
Speaker 1: crimes and Seal Team six, Remember how you told me

1463
01:12:39,720 --> 01:12:42,120
Speaker 1: to knock it off because I was violating ops seck.

1464
01:12:42,479 --> 01:12:44,280
Speaker 1: Remember how you told me to shut up because I

1465
01:12:44,400 --> 01:12:47,719
Speaker 1: was in violation of the Ranger creed embarrassing my country

1466
01:12:47,880 --> 01:12:50,559
Speaker 1: by speaking out. Remember when I said that this unit

1467
01:12:50,640 --> 01:12:54,719
Speaker 1: has some serious problems with illegal killings, drugs, money laundering,

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01:12:54,840 --> 01:12:57,120
Speaker 1: and a ship ton of other issues. And most of

1469
01:12:57,200 --> 01:12:59,360
Speaker 1: my peer group literally told me to funk off and

1470
01:12:59,439 --> 01:13:02,320
Speaker 1: made me a riya. I remember, And here we are

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01:13:02,600 --> 01:13:06,000
Speaker 1: and referring to what we saw, these two Davy Seals

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01:13:06,080 --> 01:13:11,120
Speaker 1: killing staff Sergeant Logan and Jay Melger allegedly. And you

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01:13:11,240 --> 01:13:12,880
Speaker 1: know what I with. The first thing that came to

1474
01:13:12,960 --> 01:13:15,720
Speaker 1: my mind when you have read that out loud was Hollywood.

1475
01:13:16,479 --> 01:13:19,960
Speaker 1: You looked at Hollywood and how many people have come

1476
01:13:20,000 --> 01:13:22,280
Speaker 1: out and said, hey, and we've all known it. You know,

1477
01:13:22,360 --> 01:13:24,280
Speaker 1: we're just as guilty. We knew that there is a

1478
01:13:24,360 --> 01:13:27,160
Speaker 1: problem going on in the industry. Everyone knew, and you

1479
01:13:27,240 --> 01:13:29,439
Speaker 1: hear that the people come out and talk about it, like, hey,

1480
01:13:29,880 --> 01:13:33,240
Speaker 1: there's pedophilia going on all whatever doing on in Hollywood?

1481
01:13:33,600 --> 01:13:35,640
Speaker 1: You know? And what what happened to those people when

1482
01:13:35,680 --> 01:13:38,360
Speaker 1: they came out initially and said it. At first, they

1483
01:13:38,439 --> 01:13:42,080
Speaker 1: were shunned, they were they were taking shut up. And

1484
01:13:42,320 --> 01:13:44,960
Speaker 1: where we are today now everybody wants to talk about it.

1485
01:13:45,200 --> 01:13:48,200
Speaker 1: There's no different, there's no different. There's also I'm not

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01:13:48,280 --> 01:13:49,920
Speaker 1: going to say his name because I don't know how

1487
01:13:50,000 --> 01:13:53,080
Speaker 1: public key is about it. But a colleague of yours,

1488
01:13:53,280 --> 01:13:55,679
Speaker 1: you know that, I know that you know who got

1489
01:13:55,800 --> 01:13:58,519
Speaker 1: molested by a guy at the b A and he's

1490
01:13:58,560 --> 01:14:00,640
Speaker 1: come out about this, and I'm not you know, I'm

1491
01:14:00,640 --> 01:14:01,840
Speaker 1: not gonna saying his name, so that, like I said,

1492
01:14:01,840 --> 01:14:03,559
Speaker 1: I don't know how public he is about the whole thing.

1493
01:14:03,600 --> 01:14:06,160
Speaker 1: And hopefully we'll have him on soon. But you know,

1494
01:14:06,960 --> 01:14:10,200
Speaker 1: these are tough guys, are army rangers, are green berets,

1495
01:14:10,720 --> 01:14:13,280
Speaker 1: and like that is going on, and they're afraid to

1496
01:14:13,360 --> 01:14:15,160
Speaker 1: come out, but they're like, you know what, something needs

1497
01:14:15,200 --> 01:14:17,120
Speaker 1: to be done about this, and I'm gonna I'm gonna

1498
01:14:17,439 --> 01:14:19,640
Speaker 1: go to a court and get this fucker out of

1499
01:14:19,680 --> 01:14:22,400
Speaker 1: the b A exactly, and and do he fought for

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01:14:22,560 --> 01:14:25,479
Speaker 1: so long like I was on the set his name,

1501
01:14:25,520 --> 01:14:27,760
Speaker 1: but yeah, I mean I know the guy personally, and

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01:14:28,360 --> 01:14:31,840
Speaker 1: that's not a he's not a soft guy people in

1503
01:14:31,880 --> 01:14:35,200
Speaker 1: the face a lot, you know, and he's not a

1504
01:14:35,320 --> 01:14:37,640
Speaker 1: soft guy. And I've you know, I've heard stories and

1505
01:14:37,720 --> 01:14:40,320
Speaker 1: then I've also seen him at bars. Not a big guy,

1506
01:14:40,400 --> 01:14:42,280
Speaker 1: but he's not the not the kind of guy that

1507
01:14:42,640 --> 01:14:44,120
Speaker 1: you know, if you're not willing to go all the

1508
01:14:44,200 --> 01:14:47,040
Speaker 1: way to death, don't pick on him, you know. And uh,

1509
01:14:47,280 --> 01:14:50,679
Speaker 1: hearing that story was like what And I know him personally,

1510
01:14:51,120 --> 01:14:52,840
Speaker 1: and uh, he was the one, you know, one of

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01:14:52,920 --> 01:14:55,479
Speaker 1: the only very few, I guess you would say, to

1512
01:14:55,560 --> 01:14:57,600
Speaker 1: come out and talk about it. And initially it was like,

1513
01:14:57,760 --> 01:14:59,720
Speaker 1: you know, a hush hush thing. Everyone wants to put

1514
01:14:59,720 --> 01:15:01,080
Speaker 1: it on a the under the rug for a little

1515
01:15:01,080 --> 01:15:02,760
Speaker 1: bit because they know how big it's gonna get if

1516
01:15:02,800 --> 01:15:05,320
Speaker 1: it does get out. And it just takes that one

1517
01:15:05,640 --> 01:15:07,960
Speaker 1: and people say, you know, when you look at our

1518
01:15:08,080 --> 01:15:11,880
Speaker 1: life and and and being I guess a human in general, bro,

1519
01:15:12,080 --> 01:15:14,240
Speaker 1: and they say, you know, no one ever believes they

1520
01:15:14,280 --> 01:15:16,120
Speaker 1: have the power to do anything when I talk about

1521
01:15:16,160 --> 01:15:20,120
Speaker 1: the whole self worth self worth thing earlier, like, no

1522
01:15:20,240 --> 01:15:23,639
Speaker 1: one if you think about it at the whole Hollywood

1523
01:15:23,680 --> 01:15:25,280
Speaker 1: thing and the seal team or whatever you want to

1524
01:15:25,320 --> 01:15:28,200
Speaker 1: talk about when it applies to something of that nature. Bro,

1525
01:15:28,400 --> 01:15:31,400
Speaker 1: It's like no one realizes their self worth and value,

1526
01:15:31,680 --> 01:15:34,639
Speaker 1: the value that that that that some one person can

1527
01:15:34,760 --> 01:15:36,479
Speaker 1: change something, you know what I mean, from a thought

1528
01:15:36,640 --> 01:15:39,840
Speaker 1: or from from an action. You know Steve Jobs, you

1529
01:15:39,880 --> 01:15:42,479
Speaker 1: know he changed the world, bro, Microsoft, Bill Gates, they

1530
01:15:42,560 --> 01:15:45,160
Speaker 1: changed the world, even Mark Sargenberg, regardless of what you

1531
01:15:45,200 --> 01:15:47,360
Speaker 1: think about him. You know, one person has that power

1532
01:15:47,520 --> 01:15:49,479
Speaker 1: and it doesn't You don't have to make a tech company,

1533
01:15:49,520 --> 01:15:51,920
Speaker 1: you don't have to do anything. Speaking up are talking

1534
01:15:51,920 --> 01:15:54,280
Speaker 1: about something that's wrong, even though it may not be

1535
01:15:54,400 --> 01:15:56,519
Speaker 1: a hot topic at the time. You know, I'm I'm

1536
01:15:56,560 --> 01:15:58,920
Speaker 1: pretty sure writing um you know at the front of

1537
01:15:58,960 --> 01:16:00,559
Speaker 1: the bus was on a hot top, bigger our thing

1538
01:16:00,640 --> 01:16:02,320
Speaker 1: to do back when Rosa Parks did it, but she

1539
01:16:02,400 --> 01:16:04,760
Speaker 1: still did it, you know what I mean. And I

1540
01:16:04,840 --> 01:16:08,040
Speaker 1: think I think, yeah, you know, it's just that self

1541
01:16:08,120 --> 01:16:10,720
Speaker 1: worth thing and uh self worth and I think that

1542
01:16:11,200 --> 01:16:13,800
Speaker 1: you know, uh people or if you see something wrong,

1543
01:16:13,920 --> 01:16:16,040
Speaker 1: you know something, you know something's going wrong. Like for me,

1544
01:16:16,479 --> 01:16:18,560
Speaker 1: I know that alcoholism is a big problem, not just

1545
01:16:18,680 --> 01:16:20,960
Speaker 1: in the self community, but in the veteran community as

1546
01:16:20,960 --> 01:16:23,080
Speaker 1: a whole. Bro. And I'm a big advocate, you know,

1547
01:16:23,160 --> 01:16:24,920
Speaker 1: I talked about it now, and I talked about my

1548
01:16:25,080 --> 01:16:27,800
Speaker 1: struggle with alcohol where it led me. Bro, I was

1549
01:16:27,920 --> 01:16:31,320
Speaker 1: making dumb amount of money at a very young age,

1550
01:16:31,560 --> 01:16:34,439
Speaker 1: you know, contracting and stuff. You know, the two percent

1551
01:16:34,560 --> 01:16:38,639
Speaker 1: of America and all gone, all gone in the matter

1552
01:16:38,760 --> 01:16:40,600
Speaker 1: of no joke, bro, like less than a year. And

1553
01:16:41,000 --> 01:16:43,120
Speaker 1: that's what I want to say. I agree with you there,

1554
01:16:43,200 --> 01:16:45,880
Speaker 1: because it takes a certain amount of courage to be

1555
01:16:46,040 --> 01:16:49,120
Speaker 1: able to be that trail blazer when it comes to

1556
01:16:49,240 --> 01:16:54,080
Speaker 1: the when it comes to the vulnerability, you know, and

1557
01:16:54,400 --> 01:16:57,559
Speaker 1: when I when I when I talk about my my drinking,

1558
01:16:57,880 --> 01:17:00,519
Speaker 1: when I talk about my infidelities to the women I

1559
01:17:00,680 --> 01:17:02,880
Speaker 1: was with, when I talk about all that I I

1560
01:17:03,080 --> 01:17:05,320
Speaker 1: do that, and you know whatever, I'm not patting my

1561
01:17:05,400 --> 01:17:07,400
Speaker 1: own back, but fuck, it took a certain amount of

1562
01:17:07,479 --> 01:17:10,439
Speaker 1: courage to fucking expose myself to the world because it

1563
01:17:10,560 --> 01:17:13,559
Speaker 1: was a bigger picture. It was. It was my message

1564
01:17:13,640 --> 01:17:16,400
Speaker 1: to the guys that I've fallen in trace to me.

1565
01:17:17,120 --> 01:17:18,800
Speaker 1: You know, it was my message to tell them, Bro,

1566
01:17:19,040 --> 01:17:22,360
Speaker 1: you're okay because I was there. You know, I was

1567
01:17:22,479 --> 01:17:25,000
Speaker 1: where you were. Man, It's just fucking normal. But you

1568
01:17:25,080 --> 01:17:27,720
Speaker 1: gotta get up and overcome this ship. And that's why

1569
01:17:27,800 --> 01:17:30,120
Speaker 1: I had to say that. You know, you have to

1570
01:17:30,160 --> 01:17:32,960
Speaker 1: be the first motherfucker to admit we're not perfect, you know.

1571
01:17:33,160 --> 01:17:35,800
Speaker 1: And and the reason we are where we are is

1572
01:17:35,840 --> 01:17:37,519
Speaker 1: because of the ship we've been through. In the ship

1573
01:17:37,640 --> 01:17:40,360
Speaker 1: we've seen exactly and I think that a lot of

1574
01:17:40,400 --> 01:17:42,200
Speaker 1: people are are not a lot. But you talked about

1575
01:17:42,200 --> 01:17:44,400
Speaker 1: the veteran community, where it's supposed to be a macho

1576
01:17:44,520 --> 01:17:46,880
Speaker 1: type thing, and you know that rand is a looked at.

1577
01:17:46,920 --> 01:17:49,479
Speaker 1: We we come from a time where after two thous one,

1578
01:17:49,520 --> 01:17:51,439
Speaker 1: it's like, oh, you're a veteran, thank you for your service,

1579
01:17:51,520 --> 01:17:53,040
Speaker 1: or you're in the military, thank you for your service.

1580
01:17:53,120 --> 01:17:55,760
Speaker 1: And you know we've been built up to that, and

1581
01:17:55,960 --> 01:17:58,519
Speaker 1: you don't want the public eye to see that, you know,

1582
01:17:58,680 --> 01:18:00,800
Speaker 1: that little bit of dirty gap going on back there

1583
01:18:00,840 --> 01:18:03,320
Speaker 1: that Hey, everyone sees the twenty two or whatever you

1584
01:18:03,400 --> 01:18:05,240
Speaker 1: want to call it a day suicide rate in the

1585
01:18:05,320 --> 01:18:07,960
Speaker 1: veteran community, but no one really really wants to talk

1586
01:18:08,000 --> 01:18:09,720
Speaker 1: about it. What is the end calls? I can tell

1587
01:18:09,760 --> 01:18:12,280
Speaker 1: you from my experience, all the guys that I know

1588
01:18:12,400 --> 01:18:15,800
Speaker 1: who have committed suicide personally good friends of mine, bro.

1589
01:18:16,400 --> 01:18:20,200
Speaker 1: Alcohol was the you know, was the common denominator, and

1590
01:18:20,320 --> 01:18:22,080
Speaker 1: all of it was alcohol and then I'm not saying

1591
01:18:22,080 --> 01:18:25,720
Speaker 1: alcohol is a is the the key factor, but I

1592
01:18:25,840 --> 01:18:28,320
Speaker 1: think that it also has a Well it's all in

1593
01:18:28,360 --> 01:18:30,880
Speaker 1: the mind. And I think that the same reason why

1594
01:18:30,960 --> 01:18:32,720
Speaker 1: we don't want to talk about that so much is

1595
01:18:32,760 --> 01:18:34,880
Speaker 1: the same reason why the NFL doesn't want to talk about,

1596
01:18:35,160 --> 01:18:37,560
Speaker 1: you know, brain damage and why they're committing suicide and

1597
01:18:37,600 --> 01:18:39,439
Speaker 1: doing dumb stuff after so many hits of the head.

1598
01:18:39,640 --> 01:18:41,760
Speaker 1: But yet you can have a spec opsky go eat

1599
01:18:41,880 --> 01:18:44,360
Speaker 1: you know, see four charges twenty five ft away five

1600
01:18:44,760 --> 01:18:48,680
Speaker 1: consecutive times on deployment, you know, concussions. I just I

1601
01:18:48,800 --> 01:18:51,080
Speaker 1: just maybe we I don't know. There's so much that

1602
01:18:51,160 --> 01:18:52,760
Speaker 1: I want to talk about and get out there. And

1603
01:18:53,200 --> 01:18:55,439
Speaker 1: it's not the show anyone or make anyone look bad,

1604
01:18:55,520 --> 01:18:57,840
Speaker 1: but it's like, hey, there's a bigger issue. It's always

1605
01:18:57,880 --> 01:18:59,840
Speaker 1: bigger than you. You know, when you die, bro, and

1606
01:19:00,200 --> 01:19:02,320
Speaker 1: when I die, and and I lived at the age

1607
01:19:02,320 --> 01:19:05,360
Speaker 1: of seventies six eighty, you do the same thing. What

1608
01:19:05,560 --> 01:19:08,439
Speaker 1: was that all word? What was that eighty years of knowledge? Game? For?

1609
01:19:08,680 --> 01:19:11,800
Speaker 1: What did you learn that who's gonna remember you after

1610
01:19:11,880 --> 01:19:14,080
Speaker 1: you die? You know? Who? Who did you help along

1611
01:19:14,120 --> 01:19:16,439
Speaker 1: the way? You know? And that's what And the same man,

1612
01:19:16,560 --> 01:19:19,479
Speaker 1: that's crazy because that's the same goal I have is

1613
01:19:19,560 --> 01:19:23,559
Speaker 1: just let someone else that has walked my path know that, bro,

1614
01:19:23,840 --> 01:19:25,360
Speaker 1: there's light at the end of the tunnel. I have

1615
01:19:25,479 --> 01:19:29,600
Speaker 1: that funk that exactly, you know what. I still have

1616
01:19:29,720 --> 01:19:31,720
Speaker 1: the same block bro almost you know, try taking my

1617
01:19:31,800 --> 01:19:34,720
Speaker 1: life with But I think that knowledge is everything, whether

1618
01:19:34,800 --> 01:19:37,200
Speaker 1: it's good or bad. Because everyone has a story to tell.

1619
01:19:37,479 --> 01:19:39,559
Speaker 1: You're gonna learn two things from that that that story,

1620
01:19:39,640 --> 01:19:42,599
Speaker 1: what to do, what not to do. Everyone has a story, brodde.

1621
01:19:42,680 --> 01:19:44,960
Speaker 1: Let me tell you what I tattooed. I tattooed this

1622
01:19:45,080 --> 01:19:47,160
Speaker 1: fucking skull on my hand, and I tell people that,

1623
01:19:47,400 --> 01:19:49,240
Speaker 1: you know, I I tattooed my hand, so I I

1624
01:19:49,400 --> 01:19:52,120
Speaker 1: just I won't go back into the military. But the

1625
01:19:52,200 --> 01:19:55,559
Speaker 1: truth is my right hand is the hand that created

1626
01:19:55,640 --> 01:19:58,120
Speaker 1: so much devastation in my life. For one, it's it's

1627
01:19:58,120 --> 01:20:01,120
Speaker 1: my trigger. You did the same thing, my whole right arm.

1628
01:20:01,200 --> 01:20:05,000
Speaker 1: It's got the reapers go all the death stuff that

1629
01:20:05,080 --> 01:20:07,320
Speaker 1: I rolled up those fucking twining out of bills would

1630
01:20:07,360 --> 01:20:09,280
Speaker 1: and fucking blew through those lines. It's the hand that

1631
01:20:09,320 --> 01:20:11,280
Speaker 1: I rolled that fucking weed up. What is the hand

1632
01:20:11,320 --> 01:20:13,360
Speaker 1: that I fucking take those shots of fucking liquor. What

1633
01:20:13,479 --> 01:20:15,360
Speaker 1: it's that hand, and it reminds me that that's the

1634
01:20:15,439 --> 01:20:18,000
Speaker 1: fucking hand of destruction, you know. And when I look

1635
01:20:18,040 --> 01:20:20,240
Speaker 1: at it every time, it keeps me in line. You know.

1636
01:20:20,479 --> 01:20:23,120
Speaker 1: But I would, I would, I would counter that with this, though, Jason,

1637
01:20:23,240 --> 01:20:25,599
Speaker 1: is that is that? Is that more of a remonding

1638
01:20:25,600 --> 01:20:27,880
Speaker 1: because you gotta think about the subconscious and how how

1639
01:20:27,960 --> 01:20:30,280
Speaker 1: powerful the mind is. If I were to tell you,

1640
01:20:30,880 --> 01:20:33,320
Speaker 1: you know at a young age, are are from now?

1641
01:20:33,600 --> 01:20:36,679
Speaker 1: Then you know, if if you were to write down

1642
01:20:36,840 --> 01:20:39,400
Speaker 1: on a piece of paper, you know, uh, let's say,

1643
01:20:39,400 --> 01:20:42,000
Speaker 1: if you wanted uh something in life, a goal, you

1644
01:20:42,080 --> 01:20:44,040
Speaker 1: won't that one go down on a piece of paper,

1645
01:20:44,040 --> 01:20:46,320
Speaker 1: put in your pocket, putting your wallet, putting your back pocket,

1646
01:20:46,800 --> 01:20:49,679
Speaker 1: moved on with your life. You wrote it down, You've

1647
01:20:49,680 --> 01:20:51,639
Speaker 1: seen it, you wrote it, you put the roads on paper.

1648
01:20:51,720 --> 01:20:53,439
Speaker 1: Now it's in your back pocket every time you go

1649
01:20:53,560 --> 01:20:55,040
Speaker 1: to touch a back pocket. Let's say, if it's in

1650
01:20:55,040 --> 01:20:58,080
Speaker 1: your wallet, subconsciously, bro, it's gonna send a signal to

1651
01:20:58,200 --> 01:21:00,840
Speaker 1: your brain to let you remember that goal. You don't

1652
01:21:00,880 --> 01:21:03,680
Speaker 1: have to always say it or whatever. So by you

1653
01:21:03,840 --> 01:21:08,200
Speaker 1: han't sing or writing it, you manifested into reality. So

1654
01:21:08,320 --> 01:21:11,280
Speaker 1: you're always for me when I realized, you know, I say,

1655
01:21:11,360 --> 01:21:13,160
Speaker 1: we have those chapters in life, bro, you know what

1656
01:21:13,200 --> 01:21:15,600
Speaker 1: I'm saying. So do I always do I want to

1657
01:21:15,640 --> 01:21:17,840
Speaker 1: stick on the same chapter in a book? Or do

1658
01:21:17,960 --> 01:21:20,719
Speaker 1: I want to keep my hand on one chapter, chapter five,

1659
01:21:21,120 --> 01:21:22,719
Speaker 1: and then read the rest of the book. But after

1660
01:21:22,840 --> 01:21:25,200
Speaker 1: every chapter I revert back to chapter five. That's a

1661
01:21:25,280 --> 01:21:28,639
Speaker 1: weird way of reading the book. You know, I would say,

1662
01:21:28,760 --> 01:21:32,960
Speaker 1: to get rid of negativity and to get rid of

1663
01:21:33,320 --> 01:21:35,400
Speaker 1: the alcohol or whatever. Bro, what if you change your

1664
01:21:35,439 --> 01:21:37,760
Speaker 1: whole concept of thinking that. You know what, every time

1665
01:21:37,800 --> 01:21:39,880
Speaker 1: I do look at this, and it doesn't mean that,

1666
01:21:40,240 --> 01:21:42,400
Speaker 1: it doesn't mean you remind me of all the beast stuff. Bro,

1667
01:21:42,520 --> 01:21:44,479
Speaker 1: you already know the best. And that's what I'm saying.

1668
01:21:44,520 --> 01:21:46,439
Speaker 1: You've been there, so what's the point. So when you

1669
01:21:46,520 --> 01:21:48,479
Speaker 1: look at it, it's like, I've been there, I've seen

1670
01:21:48,520 --> 01:21:52,840
Speaker 1: the fucking outcome, I've seen what it produces. That dude, like,

1671
01:21:53,000 --> 01:21:55,120
Speaker 1: what's the point? And then you move on to other things?

1672
01:21:55,200 --> 01:21:56,880
Speaker 1: And then on your other hand you have your dog,

1673
01:21:57,000 --> 01:21:58,679
Speaker 1: and then on the other hand, I have my dog

1674
01:21:58,840 --> 01:22:00,320
Speaker 1: and all that. You know what I mean? Just so

1675
01:22:00,479 --> 01:22:03,080
Speaker 1: crazy that the way I went from fucking being who

1676
01:22:03,160 --> 01:22:06,639
Speaker 1: I was to like this soft bass, fucking tattoo artist.

1677
01:22:06,760 --> 01:22:09,960
Speaker 1: Fucking dad. I can't even fucking raise my voice on

1678
01:22:10,040 --> 01:22:11,680
Speaker 1: my daughter now, you know what I'm saying. It's like,

1679
01:22:11,920 --> 01:22:14,040
Speaker 1: but I made so many mistakes and it's but I love.

1680
01:22:14,160 --> 01:22:16,759
Speaker 1: I love where I'm at right now, but I wouldn't.

1681
01:22:16,880 --> 01:22:19,559
Speaker 1: I wouldn't love where I'm at if I didn't appreciate

1682
01:22:19,640 --> 01:22:21,080
Speaker 1: where it was. You know what I'm saying. Well, you

1683
01:22:21,160 --> 01:22:22,719
Speaker 1: know what I was gonna say when I was throwing

1684
01:22:22,760 --> 01:22:24,439
Speaker 1: this out there. That's kind of a trip. Is like,

1685
01:22:24,760 --> 01:22:27,400
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure all three of us and our families

1686
01:22:27,479 --> 01:22:30,720
Speaker 1: probably have like men with these awesome, incredible stories. And

1687
01:22:30,800 --> 01:22:33,720
Speaker 1: I think of my grandpa, World War two veteran, you know,

1688
01:22:34,200 --> 01:22:38,160
Speaker 1: gunnery instructor. He wasn't like a combat um veteran or anything,

1689
01:22:38,160 --> 01:22:40,080
Speaker 1: but you know what I mean, that era so and

1690
01:22:40,360 --> 01:22:43,840
Speaker 1: and awesome guy. And but but I thought about this

1691
01:22:44,040 --> 01:22:46,559
Speaker 1: kind of recently and I don't. I feel like all

1692
01:22:46,600 --> 01:22:48,880
Speaker 1: three of us don't care about fame, but maybe care

1693
01:22:48,880 --> 01:22:52,320
Speaker 1: about legacy. But this probably goes for all three of us,

1694
01:22:52,400 --> 01:22:55,240
Speaker 1: even though I'm not a veteran. When I think about it,

1695
01:22:55,320 --> 01:22:58,320
Speaker 1: I'm probably the most famous person in my family, and

1696
01:22:58,560 --> 01:23:01,320
Speaker 1: the same probably goes for both you, Like, did anyone

1697
01:23:01,400 --> 01:23:03,080
Speaker 1: in your family write a book? Jason? You know what

1698
01:23:03,160 --> 01:23:06,400
Speaker 1: I mean. And it's an interesting thing when you think

1699
01:23:06,400 --> 01:23:09,240
Speaker 1: about legacy, like because I know now the definition of

1700
01:23:11,320 --> 01:23:13,640
Speaker 1: my great grandmother was married to Buddy Holly, though I

1701
01:23:13,760 --> 01:23:17,240
Speaker 1: make great grand aunt. Sorry, but never mind. I'll tell

1702
01:23:17,240 --> 01:23:20,240
Speaker 1: you what I mean a hundred years from now. Uh

1703
01:23:20,680 --> 01:23:24,439
Speaker 1: if you know, my great great grade whatever grandchildren, if

1704
01:23:24,479 --> 01:23:27,400
Speaker 1: I have them, if they want, they could listen to

1705
01:23:27,560 --> 01:23:30,840
Speaker 1: like hours on end of me on softwap radio. And

1706
01:23:31,320 --> 01:23:33,840
Speaker 1: I don't have any of that with any of my ancestors,

1707
01:23:33,920 --> 01:23:35,479
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, And they'll they'll get a

1708
01:23:35,560 --> 01:23:37,439
Speaker 1: sense of who I am. Like there's so much on

1709
01:23:37,600 --> 01:23:41,240
Speaker 1: the internet of all three good or bad. I would

1710
01:23:41,280 --> 01:23:44,240
Speaker 1: say legacy I would define. I define it differently, and

1711
01:23:44,320 --> 01:23:47,080
Speaker 1: I just see it differently than well, you know what,

1712
01:23:47,280 --> 01:23:49,680
Speaker 1: what not the wrong with the way you define you

1713
01:23:49,720 --> 01:23:53,679
Speaker 1: know what legacy means? Definition for it? But I think

1714
01:23:53,720 --> 01:23:57,240
Speaker 1: that legacy is more about uh, you know, not what

1715
01:23:57,560 --> 01:24:00,400
Speaker 1: not necessarily what you leave behind about yourself. But it's

1716
01:24:00,439 --> 01:24:02,240
Speaker 1: like the knowledge of what you can leave behind to

1717
01:24:02,280 --> 01:24:05,640
Speaker 1: propel the next the next force, the next generation be

1718
01:24:05,640 --> 01:24:07,760
Speaker 1: able to go back and read you know, great great

1719
01:24:07,800 --> 01:24:10,760
Speaker 1: granddad Nick Irving's book. You know, But but what did

1720
01:24:10,760 --> 01:24:12,360
Speaker 1: they get from that? Yeah, they get a cool story.

1721
01:24:12,400 --> 01:24:13,880
Speaker 1: They get a chance to see who I was. But

1722
01:24:14,000 --> 01:24:15,920
Speaker 1: what did that do for them? But they go to

1723
01:24:15,960 --> 01:24:19,080
Speaker 1: hear this conversation they could dig up this conversation right

1724
01:24:19,120 --> 01:24:22,479
Speaker 1: here about like which just kind of that you know,

1725
01:24:22,680 --> 01:24:24,960
Speaker 1: not just the family, but the guys that walked in

1726
01:24:25,040 --> 01:24:27,599
Speaker 1: our past. You know what I'm saying. It's cool to say, bro,

1727
01:24:28,240 --> 01:24:30,479
Speaker 1: I'm not that fucked up, you know what. I just

1728
01:24:30,680 --> 01:24:32,200
Speaker 1: that's what I want to do it for guys. And

1729
01:24:32,240 --> 01:24:34,519
Speaker 1: it's all about help. It's all about help man. And

1730
01:24:34,680 --> 01:24:37,560
Speaker 1: I mean when you die, what happens They you disintegrate,

1731
01:24:37,640 --> 01:24:39,120
Speaker 1: You go back to the earth, You turn back the

1732
01:24:39,200 --> 01:24:42,240
Speaker 1: soil and then what you know what happens after that?

1733
01:24:42,840 --> 01:24:44,960
Speaker 1: That that soil has been blowing around over the road

1734
01:24:45,000 --> 01:24:47,040
Speaker 1: many many times. Eventually it has settled down and they

1735
01:24:47,080 --> 01:24:50,240
Speaker 1: become the nutrients and and the uh you know planning

1736
01:24:50,840 --> 01:24:53,559
Speaker 1: I guess pot or field for for a future three

1737
01:24:53,640 --> 01:24:55,320
Speaker 1: or something like that. What does that tree grew up

1738
01:24:55,320 --> 01:24:57,560
Speaker 1: to do? It grows up to live to be thousands

1739
01:24:57,600 --> 01:25:00,240
Speaker 1: of hundreds or thousands of years old, and what does

1740
01:25:00,280 --> 01:25:03,200
Speaker 1: that fucking tree do? Bro? Rems oxygen and it effects

1741
01:25:03,240 --> 01:25:05,360
Speaker 1: so much more, so much more people. So when you

1742
01:25:05,479 --> 01:25:08,040
Speaker 1: put into the dirt, eventually, no matter how you look

1743
01:25:08,080 --> 01:25:10,559
Speaker 1: at it, Bro, you're gonna become something. The plant they're

1744
01:25:10,560 --> 01:25:13,519
Speaker 1: going to they're gonna influence the action of a plant

1745
01:25:13,640 --> 01:25:16,160
Speaker 1: or contribute to a plant that plants going to affect

1746
01:25:16,280 --> 01:25:19,240
Speaker 1: so much more. You know it when you were on earth.

1747
01:25:19,400 --> 01:25:25,400
Speaker 1: Another name for that, bro, responsibility. Bro responsibility knowing, knowing

1748
01:25:25,479 --> 01:25:28,360
Speaker 1: that your words will have a fucking effect and an

1749
01:25:28,400 --> 01:25:32,679
Speaker 1: impact on someone. But it's crazy because I never knew

1750
01:25:32,720 --> 01:25:35,439
Speaker 1: I had this platform, you know. And I think I

1751
01:25:35,560 --> 01:25:39,160
Speaker 1: was telling Brandon the other day. Uh, some fucking a kid,

1752
01:25:39,320 --> 01:25:42,280
Speaker 1: you know, a guy man man, the fucking grown man

1753
01:25:42,439 --> 01:25:45,400
Speaker 1: hit me up on fucking Instagram a few months ago

1754
01:25:45,479 --> 01:25:48,200
Speaker 1: and it's like, Bro, I read your story and fucking

1755
01:25:48,280 --> 01:25:51,040
Speaker 1: shock factor and you inspired me to join the Marine

1756
01:25:51,080 --> 01:25:54,880
Speaker 1: Corps become a scott sniper. And I'm over here likechalant,

1757
01:25:55,040 --> 01:25:57,080
Speaker 1: like fucking oh word, Bro, so are you in the

1758
01:25:57,200 --> 01:25:59,639
Speaker 1: union now? He goes, Bro, I fucking got out. I'm

1759
01:25:59,680 --> 01:26:04,080
Speaker 1: working fucking delivering mail or some ship. This motherfucker read

1760
01:26:04,200 --> 01:26:07,080
Speaker 1: my ship got inspired, That's what he says. He got inspired,

1761
01:26:07,600 --> 01:26:10,479
Speaker 1: went into the Marine Corps, became a fucking scout sniper,

1762
01:26:10,720 --> 01:26:14,720
Speaker 1: went overseas, operated, came back home, got out, and now

1763
01:26:14,800 --> 01:26:20,280
Speaker 1: he's a fucking mailman and chapter in someone's life and

1764
01:26:20,439 --> 01:26:22,880
Speaker 1: the whole and the whole time. I'm over here, bullshit,

1765
01:26:22,960 --> 01:26:24,280
Speaker 1: and with my thumb up my ass, you know what

1766
01:26:24,320 --> 01:26:27,080
Speaker 1: I mean, And I'm like, what how old that I want?

1767
01:26:27,680 --> 01:26:31,479
Speaker 1: You're always you know, I'm always moving forward, like like Nick,

1768
01:26:31,600 --> 01:26:33,639
Speaker 1: you know, I kind of I kind of like adopt

1769
01:26:33,680 --> 01:26:35,760
Speaker 1: that whole Bruce Lee ship. You know. I flow with water, bro.

1770
01:26:35,880 --> 01:26:37,800
Speaker 1: Whatever comes my way, I'm taking it, you know what

1771
01:26:37,880 --> 01:26:40,320
Speaker 1: I mean. Because if it's something that intrigues me, I'm

1772
01:26:40,600 --> 01:26:43,000
Speaker 1: into it. I'm gonna try it out because you never know.

1773
01:26:43,160 --> 01:26:45,360
Speaker 1: It's like sucking jiu jitsu, bro, if the armbar is

1774
01:26:45,400 --> 01:26:47,720
Speaker 1: not working, let it go work fucking an ankle log, bro,

1775
01:26:47,800 --> 01:26:51,080
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. But man, to even like

1776
01:26:51,720 --> 01:26:54,479
Speaker 1: hear that, it bugged me the funk out. Man, it

1777
01:26:54,640 --> 01:26:57,360
Speaker 1: was like what what I said, And to me, it

1778
01:26:57,439 --> 01:26:59,599
Speaker 1: was just like fucking yeah, throw my story in the book.

1779
01:26:59,640 --> 01:27:02,360
Speaker 1: I'll can tribute fuck it. And I'm still me. I'm

1780
01:27:02,360 --> 01:27:04,160
Speaker 1: not even tripping over it, you know what I mean,

1781
01:27:04,200 --> 01:27:06,960
Speaker 1: Because like he said earlier, you Nick, you alluded to

1782
01:27:07,080 --> 01:27:09,439
Speaker 1: this earlier. It's like, it's not that big of a

1783
01:27:09,560 --> 01:27:11,479
Speaker 1: deal to you. You get the movie deals, you get

1784
01:27:11,520 --> 01:27:14,280
Speaker 1: the book deals, you get the fucking liaison deals to

1785
01:27:14,360 --> 01:27:17,160
Speaker 1: be sucking military liaisons and sucking shows like Seal Team,

1786
01:27:17,240 --> 01:27:19,160
Speaker 1: fucking Ship, you know what I mean. And you you

1787
01:27:19,280 --> 01:27:21,080
Speaker 1: get all this and to you, it's like, funk, it's

1788
01:27:21,120 --> 01:27:25,360
Speaker 1: just me, Bro, It's it's another people did this idea

1789
01:27:25,520 --> 01:27:28,800
Speaker 1: of I'm this type of way, this type of way, bro?

1790
01:27:29,080 --> 01:27:33,320
Speaker 1: Like no, man, like, I'm just I'm Did I meet you?

1791
01:27:33,680 --> 01:27:35,240
Speaker 1: When did I meet I met you a few years

1792
01:27:35,240 --> 01:27:38,240
Speaker 1: ago before your book even came out, and you met

1793
01:27:38,360 --> 01:27:41,360
Speaker 1: me when I wasn't jack Ship. I was like I

1794
01:27:41,520 --> 01:27:44,040
Speaker 1: use a voice on this fucking podcast like once, and

1795
01:27:44,120 --> 01:27:46,880
Speaker 1: then you were like the second episode and I wasn't shipped, Bro.

1796
01:27:47,000 --> 01:27:50,559
Speaker 1: I was in San Diego hustling in some fucking crackhead

1797
01:27:50,560 --> 01:27:54,320
Speaker 1: ass tattoo shops, you know, and yeah, bro, and it's

1798
01:27:54,360 --> 01:27:57,360
Speaker 1: like we weren't shipped, bro. And now look fucking fast forward.

1799
01:27:57,360 --> 01:27:59,360
Speaker 1: Who the fucking thought four or five years from now

1800
01:27:59,680 --> 01:28:01,960
Speaker 1: you know him then? And look where the funk we

1801
01:28:02,000 --> 01:28:04,120
Speaker 1: are because you know what, we go with the flow, bro,

1802
01:28:04,400 --> 01:28:07,280
Speaker 1: you know, we don't stop us and exactly, and I

1803
01:28:07,400 --> 01:28:10,599
Speaker 1: think that that's the large contributing factor, is that, like quitting,

1804
01:28:10,680 --> 01:28:14,519
Speaker 1: it's I don't understand what quitting is. And I would

1805
01:28:14,560 --> 01:28:17,400
Speaker 1: say that because quitting, to me my whole definition, it's

1806
01:28:17,880 --> 01:28:20,720
Speaker 1: it's it's basically ceasing the persists of a goal to

1807
01:28:21,120 --> 01:28:23,240
Speaker 1: the pursuit of a goal that your heart never really

1808
01:28:23,320 --> 01:28:25,519
Speaker 1: wanted or hurt in the first place. And I allude

1809
01:28:25,520 --> 01:28:27,360
Speaker 1: to are not allude, but I go onto the fact that,

1810
01:28:27,520 --> 01:28:30,280
Speaker 1: like that little voice that you Jason, ask yourself a

1811
01:28:30,360 --> 01:28:31,760
Speaker 1: question in your head. Don't say it out loud, but

1812
01:28:31,840 --> 01:28:34,160
Speaker 1: just ask yourself any question in your head right now?

1813
01:28:35,520 --> 01:28:39,360
Speaker 1: Did you ask it? Did you hear it? Yeah? I

1814
01:28:39,479 --> 01:28:44,320
Speaker 1: heard the voice. What did you hear that? My voice? Okay?

1815
01:28:44,400 --> 01:28:45,840
Speaker 1: Now I would I would say to you, how is

1816
01:28:45,880 --> 01:28:48,960
Speaker 1: that even possible? Because I heard something, but I didn't

1817
01:28:48,960 --> 01:28:54,080
Speaker 1: hear nothing exactly. So that's your belief. I can't tell you, know, Jason,

1818
01:28:54,200 --> 01:28:57,559
Speaker 1: that's physically that is, that is impossible for your ears

1819
01:28:57,920 --> 01:29:01,040
Speaker 1: to have hurt an auditory auditory sound that is deciphered

1820
01:29:01,080 --> 01:29:03,599
Speaker 1: by your brain because your ear. Drums are never affected

1821
01:29:03,800 --> 01:29:07,639
Speaker 1: by vibration. Right, It's impossible, But you tell me no, Nick,

1822
01:29:07,720 --> 01:29:09,360
Speaker 1: You're full of ship. I heard it. You can't tell

1823
01:29:09,400 --> 01:29:12,040
Speaker 1: me anything different. You believe that so much. You believe

1824
01:29:12,080 --> 01:29:14,760
Speaker 1: it so much so you know it's there. You know

1825
01:29:14,920 --> 01:29:16,680
Speaker 1: that voice is there. You can always go to it

1826
01:29:16,680 --> 01:29:18,639
Speaker 1: any point in time because you know it's a hundred

1827
01:29:18,680 --> 01:29:24,280
Speaker 1: percent without a doubt, it's there. Yeah, the pursuit of

1828
01:29:24,439 --> 01:29:26,360
Speaker 1: a goal. For me, I look at it the same way.

1829
01:29:26,439 --> 01:29:28,280
Speaker 1: If I don't fill it with my heart, if I

1830
01:29:28,320 --> 01:29:31,160
Speaker 1: don't hear it with that little voice in my head

1831
01:29:31,200 --> 01:29:32,800
Speaker 1: to say, hey, go for that, then I don't do

1832
01:29:32,920 --> 01:29:35,000
Speaker 1: it because I'm not I'm not I'm not there. I

1833
01:29:35,160 --> 01:29:37,200
Speaker 1: know that when I asked myself a question in my head,

1834
01:29:37,439 --> 01:29:40,240
Speaker 1: that's me. That's the that's the realist to you that

1835
01:29:40,320 --> 01:29:42,920
Speaker 1: you're ever going to ever gonna get. You know, that's

1836
01:29:42,960 --> 01:29:44,719
Speaker 1: the only person that can talk to you without moving

1837
01:29:44,760 --> 01:29:46,320
Speaker 1: their lips or make a sound, but you hear them

1838
01:29:46,360 --> 01:29:49,880
Speaker 1: on That's the only only person in the world. Is

1839
01:29:49,920 --> 01:29:52,720
Speaker 1: that thing inside your head. It's not a voice. It's impossible.

1840
01:29:52,920 --> 01:29:56,200
Speaker 1: I'm gonna transition off of this. I do. I I'm

1841
01:29:56,280 --> 01:30:00,519
Speaker 1: loving the step I think I feel come on Joe

1842
01:30:00,640 --> 01:30:05,120
Speaker 1: Rogan's podcast right now. But I love my transition. But

1843
01:30:05,200 --> 01:30:07,320
Speaker 1: before the transition, what you just said right now, like

1844
01:30:07,600 --> 01:30:09,240
Speaker 1: and this is what I was asking, This is why

1845
01:30:09,280 --> 01:30:11,600
Speaker 1: I was asking fucking Nick if he if he like

1846
01:30:11,720 --> 01:30:14,840
Speaker 1: subscribes to like Tim Ferris or those guys like that. Like, Bro,

1847
01:30:15,040 --> 01:30:19,800
Speaker 1: you're motherfucker's that have just knocked out goal after goal

1848
01:30:19,920 --> 01:30:24,000
Speaker 1: after goal. You start to become comfortable in your own skin,

1849
01:30:24,120 --> 01:30:26,560
Speaker 1: and then you start to analyze ship. You start to

1850
01:30:26,600 --> 01:30:30,639
Speaker 1: analyze life, and you know that your encounters with people

1851
01:30:30,720 --> 01:30:33,360
Speaker 1: in life, and you start to understand for ship on

1852
01:30:33,439 --> 01:30:35,240
Speaker 1: a more profound level. You know what I mean. And

1853
01:30:35,439 --> 01:30:37,920
Speaker 1: let me tell you something right now, Nick, You're on

1854
01:30:38,040 --> 01:30:41,240
Speaker 1: that path. Bro. I see you as a motivational speaker. Bro,

1855
01:30:41,600 --> 01:30:45,000
Speaker 1: absolutely so. But anyway, I do want to transition on

1856
01:30:45,080 --> 01:30:47,559
Speaker 1: to something else here because I do want to make

1857
01:30:47,560 --> 01:30:50,320
Speaker 1: sure we cover some really big news that's happening. I mean,

1858
01:30:50,720 --> 01:30:53,320
Speaker 1: we talked about the New York City Terroffs attack, Shale

1859
01:30:53,320 --> 01:30:56,400
Speaker 1: Team six stuff, But another big thing that happened earlier

1860
01:30:56,520 --> 01:31:00,559
Speaker 1: this week. US captures key militant in Benghazi attack, which

1861
01:31:00,600 --> 01:31:04,120
Speaker 1: is Mustafa Ali mom Um scheduled to be charged in

1862
01:31:04,200 --> 01:31:07,600
Speaker 1: federal court, will not go to guantanamobey. I know that

1863
01:31:07,760 --> 01:31:10,360
Speaker 1: this is a whole other topic from what we're talking about,

1864
01:31:10,360 --> 01:31:11,800
Speaker 1: but I wanted to make sure that we least cover

1865
01:31:11,920 --> 01:31:13,720
Speaker 1: it and and I wanted to hear your take on that.

1866
01:31:13,960 --> 01:31:17,040
Speaker 1: And yeah, I mean I think of guys like Chris

1867
01:31:17,080 --> 01:31:19,639
Speaker 1: s Pronto who will hopefully get on the next show,

1868
01:31:19,760 --> 01:31:23,719
Speaker 1: and if this gives them some closure that we're capturing

1869
01:31:23,800 --> 01:31:27,519
Speaker 1: these types of guys, yeah, I would. I would believe so, man.

1870
01:31:27,640 --> 01:31:29,920
Speaker 1: But I think that you know, if you ask me

1871
01:31:29,960 --> 01:31:33,479
Speaker 1: all like Chris, you know, uh Ranger, I know him good,

1872
01:31:33,560 --> 01:31:35,519
Speaker 1: you know, great, solid dude. I think if you were

1873
01:31:35,560 --> 01:31:38,400
Speaker 1: to ask him yet, he'd be happy. But I don't

1874
01:31:38,439 --> 01:31:41,720
Speaker 1: think that he feel that that Ason the deck. You know,

1875
01:31:42,240 --> 01:31:44,680
Speaker 1: uh is spondily in the hole. He's you know, he

1876
01:31:45,160 --> 01:31:46,800
Speaker 1: talks about it, and you know it's a big Hillary

1877
01:31:46,840 --> 01:31:50,000
Speaker 1: Clinton type thing and you know Scandling, we all know

1878
01:31:50,120 --> 01:31:52,559
Speaker 1: the story behind it. So I don't think that until

1879
01:31:53,240 --> 01:31:57,080
Speaker 1: that number one, on which I know is their list,

1880
01:31:57,600 --> 01:32:00,200
Speaker 1: is in the whole. You know, it's one of the thing.

1881
01:32:00,240 --> 01:32:03,760
Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, you killed you know, the HVT in Afghanistan.

1882
01:32:03,840 --> 01:32:05,720
Speaker 1: But you didn't get been lauden yet. Bro, you know

1883
01:32:05,760 --> 01:32:07,680
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. That's how I would That's how I

1884
01:32:07,680 --> 01:32:09,880
Speaker 1: would compare it to how I would think. You know,

1885
01:32:10,080 --> 01:32:12,720
Speaker 1: Chris are one of the guys who was there, how

1886
01:32:12,840 --> 01:32:14,439
Speaker 1: they were refer at the end of the day, I

1887
01:32:14,520 --> 01:32:16,120
Speaker 1: hear where you're coming from, and I think from any

1888
01:32:16,200 --> 01:32:18,439
Speaker 1: motherfucker on the ground that's been on a two rain

1889
01:32:18,600 --> 01:32:21,439
Speaker 1: range two way rage. Bro, We'll think about it. It's

1890
01:32:21,479 --> 01:32:25,600
Speaker 1: like that motherfucker right there, he was born to hate me.

1891
01:32:26,400 --> 01:32:29,240
Speaker 1: His goal in life was to fucking kill me, and

1892
01:32:30,080 --> 01:32:32,720
Speaker 1: that is what it is. So Okay, I got him,

1893
01:32:33,400 --> 01:32:38,439
Speaker 1: But what else went wrong during that situation? And who

1894
01:32:38,560 --> 01:32:41,120
Speaker 1: else can be held accountable for that ship? And until

1895
01:32:41,160 --> 01:32:44,560
Speaker 1: that person is fucking held accountable, I'm not gonna sleep

1896
01:32:44,600 --> 01:32:47,680
Speaker 1: at night exactly. And that's exactly Yep, that's exactly where

1897
01:32:47,680 --> 01:32:49,880
Speaker 1: I'm going. Man. That's how I think those guys would

1898
01:32:49,880 --> 01:32:51,439
Speaker 1: feel this because I would feel that way if I

1899
01:32:51,479 --> 01:32:54,679
Speaker 1: were there, So I'm pretty sure that's where they would

1900
01:32:54,680 --> 01:32:57,240
Speaker 1: come from. It wouldn't mean nothing. I'm dude, I've killed

1901
01:32:57,520 --> 01:32:59,280
Speaker 1: a lot of guys, a lot of guys, but you

1902
01:32:59,320 --> 01:33:01,960
Speaker 1: still have a guess certain respect for those motherfucker's that

1903
01:33:02,040 --> 01:33:04,639
Speaker 1: you killed, because you know what, that's their bias, that's

1904
01:33:04,680 --> 01:33:06,640
Speaker 1: their life, that's what they were trained to do, that's

1905
01:33:06,680 --> 01:33:08,760
Speaker 1: what they were brought up to do. You know what,

1906
01:33:08,920 --> 01:33:11,960
Speaker 1: you want to come kill me, motherfucker, you can try whatever.

1907
01:33:12,000 --> 01:33:13,840
Speaker 1: And I'll tell you what. There was a there were

1908
01:33:13,880 --> 01:33:16,040
Speaker 1: a few who put up a really good fight to

1909
01:33:16,120 --> 01:33:17,439
Speaker 1: the point where I'm like, you know what this is it?

1910
01:33:17,600 --> 01:33:20,360
Speaker 1: I lost mine, But that sense of accomplishment of like

1911
01:33:20,800 --> 01:33:22,840
Speaker 1: it's a respect level, Like, dude, he put out a

1912
01:33:23,000 --> 01:33:25,000
Speaker 1: hell of a fight. I knew he showed up. There

1913
01:33:25,040 --> 01:33:26,519
Speaker 1: were some guys you wouldn't even know showed up to

1914
01:33:26,560 --> 01:33:28,559
Speaker 1: the fight, but there were some there was like, yeah,

1915
01:33:28,600 --> 01:33:32,479
Speaker 1: he showed up. Respect, you know. And then last thing

1916
01:33:32,600 --> 01:33:34,200
Speaker 1: before we get out of here. I know I talked

1917
01:33:34,200 --> 01:33:35,880
Speaker 1: about it at the beginning of the show and I said,

1918
01:33:35,920 --> 01:33:38,400
Speaker 1: I wanted to hear a little bit more in depth. Um,

1919
01:33:38,720 --> 01:33:40,439
Speaker 1: you know, we're going pretty long here, but before we

1920
01:33:40,560 --> 01:33:44,960
Speaker 1: let you go, um Reaper Ghost Target with General Anthony

1921
01:33:45,000 --> 01:33:47,920
Speaker 1: Tata who goes by A. J. Tata as an author, Uh,

1922
01:33:48,439 --> 01:33:50,160
Speaker 1: you want to tell us a little bit about what

1923
01:33:50,320 --> 01:33:53,120
Speaker 1: the book is gonna be and Um, yeah, folks should

1924
01:33:53,160 --> 01:33:56,080
Speaker 1: definitely preorder it now. It's it's out May eight. Um,

1925
01:33:56,200 --> 01:33:57,960
Speaker 1: but give us a little bit of background on what

1926
01:33:58,080 --> 01:34:01,160
Speaker 1: it's all about. Yes, to anybody. You don't have to

1927
01:34:01,240 --> 01:34:03,600
Speaker 1: have read, you know, any of my previous books. But

1928
01:34:03,680 --> 01:34:06,800
Speaker 1: if you have the it's a novel. And if you

1929
01:34:06,960 --> 01:34:08,720
Speaker 1: if you have read the first one, I have a

1930
01:34:08,840 --> 01:34:11,720
Speaker 1: little cool to the twist to it. Uh. I know,

1931
01:34:11,840 --> 01:34:13,640
Speaker 1: a lot of guys I might even gonna put that

1932
01:34:13,680 --> 01:34:15,719
Speaker 1: out there that's too much, too much, But it's really

1933
01:34:15,760 --> 01:34:17,760
Speaker 1: really really I could hear. I could tell Nick is

1934
01:34:17,800 --> 01:34:25,880
Speaker 1: like calculating agains, he's speaking, he's like yet it's not

1935
01:34:26,160 --> 01:34:28,320
Speaker 1: the descriptions out there, but there's a little twist that

1936
01:34:28,400 --> 01:34:31,680
Speaker 1: the description does not have. Um of a little you

1937
01:34:31,720 --> 01:34:34,559
Speaker 1: know something I put in there for it's a cool twist, man,

1938
01:34:34,640 --> 01:34:37,760
Speaker 1: But essentially it's my story. You'll see a lot of

1939
01:34:37,800 --> 01:34:44,080
Speaker 1: connections between Dick Harwood and and his kills are. Yeah,

1940
01:34:44,840 --> 01:34:47,680
Speaker 1: he had a certain rifle and and whatever. You know,

1941
01:34:47,760 --> 01:34:49,960
Speaker 1: it's a lot of you know, correlation between me and him.

1942
01:34:50,479 --> 01:34:52,639
Speaker 1: But I think for a lot of guys in the military,

1943
01:34:52,720 --> 01:34:54,519
Speaker 1: this is where I went with the book. Was you know,

1944
01:34:54,600 --> 01:34:56,519
Speaker 1: after you get out, you had those would have, could

1945
01:34:56,520 --> 01:34:58,920
Speaker 1: have should have maybe I, you know, should have done

1946
01:34:58,960 --> 01:35:00,920
Speaker 1: this differently. And then you can the special operations. So

1947
01:35:01,120 --> 01:35:02,519
Speaker 1: it's like, what if I did do this and I

1948
01:35:02,560 --> 01:35:04,960
Speaker 1: couldn't talk about some of that stuff underneath the you know,

1949
01:35:05,120 --> 01:35:07,840
Speaker 1: nonfictional side. Maybe it's a combination of the two. I

1950
01:35:07,880 --> 01:35:10,960
Speaker 1: won't say, but I will say that, you know, Big

1951
01:35:11,040 --> 01:35:15,840
Speaker 1: Hardwood is set up um by an enemy. Maybe it's ME,

1952
01:35:16,000 --> 01:35:19,880
Speaker 1: maybe it's PTSD, maybe it is another outside source. But

1953
01:35:20,240 --> 01:35:24,040
Speaker 1: he's strategically taking out some really really high people businessmen,

1954
01:35:24,640 --> 01:35:26,640
Speaker 1: um you know around the area that I happened to

1955
01:35:26,720 --> 01:35:29,280
Speaker 1: be training, which is in Fort Bragg, training some special

1956
01:35:29,320 --> 01:35:32,240
Speaker 1: operation snipers. That's my new gig. Now are Big Hardwood's

1957
01:35:32,240 --> 01:35:36,960
Speaker 1: new gig and he's training you know it's Big Black

1958
01:35:37,120 --> 01:35:40,760
Speaker 1: or is he white boy? And then maybe I'm in

1959
01:35:40,800 --> 01:35:46,559
Speaker 1: the area I have me I suffered our Big Hardwood

1960
01:35:46,600 --> 01:35:49,840
Speaker 1: suffered from you know, uh explosion from you know uh

1961
01:35:49,960 --> 01:35:53,120
Speaker 1: I d attack in Afghanistan, got blown up, his spotter

1962
01:35:53,160 --> 01:35:55,840
Speaker 1: went missing, his rifle was never recovered. He wakes up

1963
01:35:55,840 --> 01:35:58,360
Speaker 1: in a hospital, bro and things are just not there.

1964
01:35:58,400 --> 01:36:00,840
Speaker 1: You get that little TB I thing and Black, our

1965
01:36:00,920 --> 01:36:05,760
Speaker 1: Big Hardwood, Black Star and take you know, he may

1966
01:36:05,880 --> 01:36:08,240
Speaker 1: or may not have been in a in an area

1967
01:36:08,320 --> 01:36:10,920
Speaker 1: where if you a CEO or a fortunate five hundred

1968
01:36:10,960 --> 01:36:14,360
Speaker 1: company or someone who of influence, it's you know, basically

1969
01:36:14,600 --> 01:36:18,080
Speaker 1: back and everything adds up because it's like I lost

1970
01:36:18,120 --> 01:36:21,800
Speaker 1: some rifle overseas, no idea where that went got blown up,

1971
01:36:22,000 --> 01:36:25,280
Speaker 1: but the amoor are the rifling and the syrial numbers

1972
01:36:25,320 --> 01:36:27,639
Speaker 1: and stuff like that all matched back to my rifle.

1973
01:36:27,720 --> 01:36:29,680
Speaker 1: I'm blacked. I don't know what happened, you know, what,

1974
01:36:29,840 --> 01:36:32,200
Speaker 1: what did happen? Are Big doesn't know what happened? Um?

1975
01:36:32,320 --> 01:36:36,880
Speaker 1: And maybe maybe there's a reoccurrence. And because the spotter,

1976
01:36:37,040 --> 01:36:39,600
Speaker 1: you know he was he went missing, the spotter he

1977
01:36:40,000 --> 01:36:42,599
Speaker 1: happens to resurface back up, and I'm like, what the heck?

1978
01:36:42,680 --> 01:36:44,479
Speaker 1: And it's starting to hit close to home. I'm starting

1979
01:36:44,520 --> 01:36:46,640
Speaker 1: to be investing. Are Big starting to be investigated by

1980
01:36:46,760 --> 01:36:50,960
Speaker 1: the guess you know, uh, Department of Homeland Security and

1981
01:36:51,000 --> 01:36:54,640
Speaker 1: stuff like that. And things are still happening. Things are

1982
01:36:54,640 --> 01:36:56,760
Speaker 1: still happening. My rifle is just happened to always be

1983
01:36:56,840 --> 01:36:59,920
Speaker 1: there in these shots. Are you know that's from a sniper? Uh?

1984
01:37:00,160 --> 01:37:02,240
Speaker 1: My spotter happens to resurface I don't know what his

1985
01:37:02,320 --> 01:37:06,240
Speaker 1: issue is. Our vic's spotter surfaces and maybe it's in,

1986
01:37:06,360 --> 01:37:09,120
Speaker 1: maybe it's not. Maybe who knows what happened, bro, But

1987
01:37:09,200 --> 01:37:11,120
Speaker 1: I will tell you this, It is a really really

1988
01:37:11,200 --> 01:37:15,120
Speaker 1: cool twist. And Brad Thor number one New York Time bestseller,

1989
01:37:15,479 --> 01:37:17,479
Speaker 1: you know, big famous time author, he got a chance

1990
01:37:17,560 --> 01:37:20,479
Speaker 1: to read it, and uh, he said it's one hell

1991
01:37:20,520 --> 01:37:22,160
Speaker 1: of a read and he couldn't put it down. And

1992
01:37:22,360 --> 01:37:23,800
Speaker 1: his quotes on the back of the book, and he

1993
01:37:23,800 --> 01:37:27,600
Speaker 1: would compare it to he said, think Jason Bourne and

1994
01:37:27,760 --> 01:37:32,800
Speaker 1: think Shooting Yeah, you know, bobbly swagger, and then get

1995
01:37:32,880 --> 01:37:34,880
Speaker 1: ready for one hell of a read. But it's not

1996
01:37:35,200 --> 01:37:38,080
Speaker 1: like those two guys. It's kind of a you'll get it.

1997
01:37:38,280 --> 01:37:39,680
Speaker 1: You'll get it when you read it. I spend a

1998
01:37:39,720 --> 01:37:41,960
Speaker 1: little vigilante is coming on. But I don't know. I

1999
01:37:42,040 --> 01:37:45,880
Speaker 1: didn't read the money. I was thin or maybe oh

2000
01:37:45,960 --> 01:37:48,080
Speaker 1: and uh, just so happens to be. This is another

2001
01:37:48,160 --> 01:37:51,439
Speaker 1: little cool twist I can throw out. There was most

2002
01:37:51,479 --> 01:37:55,040
Speaker 1: of the guys of them that Dick Harwood happen to

2003
01:37:55,080 --> 01:37:56,960
Speaker 1: be around, and these guys that are turning up dying

2004
01:37:57,400 --> 01:38:02,320
Speaker 1: happened to be part of some big time sex trafficking organization,

2005
01:38:02,600 --> 01:38:05,479
Speaker 1: So is it a hey, do we kind of turn

2006
01:38:05,520 --> 01:38:07,840
Speaker 1: a blind eye to what Big Hardwood may or may

2007
01:38:07,920 --> 01:38:10,280
Speaker 1: not be doing? Either way? You know he's taken out

2008
01:38:10,360 --> 01:38:15,720
Speaker 1: sex trafficking people. But then why is his a significant other,

2009
01:38:15,840 --> 01:38:18,920
Speaker 1: Big Hardwood's significant other or or someone like that? Is

2010
01:38:18,960 --> 01:38:21,639
Speaker 1: he killing them too? Or why? Why is one popping

2011
01:38:21,720 --> 01:38:24,200
Speaker 1: up in certain situations and some or not? What is

2012
01:38:24,240 --> 01:38:26,479
Speaker 1: he really doing? Is he tripping out? And to be

2013
01:38:26,640 --> 01:38:28,320
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know. You gotta read hard.

2014
01:38:28,560 --> 01:38:34,679
Speaker 1: How hard to create a fictional world? Bro not hard?

2015
01:38:34,680 --> 01:38:37,000
Speaker 1: Because I lived there like ninety percent of the day anyways,

2016
01:38:37,240 --> 01:38:39,519
Speaker 1: So you got to visualize it while you were writing,

2017
01:38:39,560 --> 01:38:41,479
Speaker 1: and you got to see the stories in your mind

2018
01:38:41,560 --> 01:38:44,760
Speaker 1: and just lay it out articulately. Or I even I

2019
01:38:44,840 --> 01:38:47,120
Speaker 1: knew who Vic was, knew his you know what he

2020
01:38:47,240 --> 01:38:49,640
Speaker 1: looked like. I knew his background and knew all that,

2021
01:38:50,200 --> 01:38:52,280
Speaker 1: and I knew the story that you know may or

2022
01:38:52,320 --> 01:38:54,240
Speaker 1: may not have happened, it could have happened or something

2023
01:38:54,320 --> 01:38:56,200
Speaker 1: like that, and also knew that the time of uh,

2024
01:38:56,360 --> 01:38:57,880
Speaker 1: you know, we the day and age we live in

2025
01:38:57,960 --> 01:39:01,080
Speaker 1: now where terrorist attacks are are more and more frequent,

2026
01:39:01,280 --> 01:39:03,000
Speaker 1: and you know, things of that nature. And we have

2027
01:39:03,120 --> 01:39:05,400
Speaker 1: this whole veteran community thing where you know, there's a

2028
01:39:05,479 --> 01:39:08,200
Speaker 1: pt PTSD and guys have t behind and you hear

2029
01:39:08,240 --> 01:39:10,880
Speaker 1: stories about you know, the Seal Team six thing. Um

2030
01:39:11,080 --> 01:39:12,720
Speaker 1: a lot of that here in the news. And I

2031
01:39:12,840 --> 01:39:15,120
Speaker 1: was like, you know what, I can mix all this together,

2032
01:39:15,240 --> 01:39:18,240
Speaker 1: kind of shed some light on something, take people through

2033
01:39:18,320 --> 01:39:21,400
Speaker 1: a really really intense journey. And I think that, Uh,

2034
01:39:22,040 --> 01:39:24,000
Speaker 1: it took two years to write man, two years of

2035
01:39:24,040 --> 01:39:26,280
Speaker 1: a lot of thinking, two years of a lot of thinking,

2036
01:39:26,400 --> 01:39:29,640
Speaker 1: and uh, in this puzzle together, bro, And that's my

2037
01:39:29,720 --> 01:39:32,000
Speaker 1: average timeline if I'm gonna do something and present, because

2038
01:39:32,040 --> 01:39:34,240
Speaker 1: you don't really I don't believe in putting out a

2039
01:39:34,280 --> 01:39:36,920
Speaker 1: product that you have asked. Bro. Like, you're not buying

2040
01:39:37,160 --> 01:39:38,880
Speaker 1: not just buying a book or something like that, You're

2041
01:39:39,040 --> 01:39:41,680
Speaker 1: buying a piece of me. And you know I appreciate that.

2042
01:39:41,800 --> 01:39:44,240
Speaker 1: And if anybody wants to put their money into a

2043
01:39:44,400 --> 01:39:47,880
Speaker 1: Nick Irving or adjacent or whatever, me personally, if you

2044
01:39:47,920 --> 01:39:50,280
Speaker 1: want to spend something on that, BRO, I have to

2045
01:39:50,360 --> 01:39:51,920
Speaker 1: give you me. I have to give you a ten

2046
01:39:52,000 --> 01:39:54,960
Speaker 1: percent because if not, I let you down, it's not fair.

2047
01:39:54,960 --> 01:39:58,040
Speaker 1: I don't believe in bad business brot's just get it

2048
01:39:58,080 --> 01:40:01,760
Speaker 1: out in the open. We don't have ship. But that's

2049
01:40:01,800 --> 01:40:03,840
Speaker 1: the exactly. Yeah, we don't have asked anything, bro. And

2050
01:40:03,920 --> 01:40:07,240
Speaker 1: I think that, you know, being more creative with my

2051
01:40:07,360 --> 01:40:09,840
Speaker 1: mind and stuff like that, Dude, I think that, oh

2052
01:40:10,040 --> 01:40:12,559
Speaker 1: there's more to you know, there's more out there than

2053
01:40:12,640 --> 01:40:14,160
Speaker 1: just you know, the war stories and stuff like that

2054
01:40:14,240 --> 01:40:16,840
Speaker 1: are cool, bro, but you know, there's there's so much

2055
01:40:16,920 --> 01:40:19,640
Speaker 1: more that we can do in the veteran community than

2056
01:40:20,000 --> 01:40:22,120
Speaker 1: you know, to tell the story of X, Y and Z.

2057
01:40:22,280 --> 01:40:24,560
Speaker 1: That's you know, it's been told or whatever. Like what

2058
01:40:24,680 --> 01:40:27,720
Speaker 1: happened to the Picassos, bro, what happened to the you know,

2059
01:40:27,760 --> 01:40:31,839
Speaker 1: William Shakespeare is the you know, the grates of literature

2060
01:40:31,880 --> 01:40:33,720
Speaker 1: and stuff like that would happen to those guys. They

2061
01:40:33,760 --> 01:40:36,080
Speaker 1: did nothing but just used the creative mind. You know,

2062
01:40:36,160 --> 01:40:37,680
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that I'm the next or I'm not

2063
01:40:37,800 --> 01:40:40,800
Speaker 1: saying look at him and way look at himingway perfect path.

2064
01:40:41,120 --> 01:40:43,240
Speaker 1: You know what I mean. He was he was a veteran,

2065
01:40:43,520 --> 01:40:45,479
Speaker 1: you know, he was a soldier and then got into

2066
01:40:45,640 --> 01:40:48,559
Speaker 1: you know, literature, you know, and it's just just showing

2067
01:40:48,640 --> 01:40:50,760
Speaker 1: guys that you know what you're you're more than what

2068
01:40:50,920 --> 01:40:57,200
Speaker 1: people classify you as. Exactly. Transcend these labels exactly. Bro,

2069
01:40:57,360 --> 01:40:58,920
Speaker 1: you're a killer and all this and that, but hey,

2070
01:40:58,960 --> 01:41:02,439
Speaker 1: you're a creative guy, been thinking and have a product

2071
01:41:02,479 --> 01:41:05,560
Speaker 1: out there that you know, even a perfect example that

2072
01:41:05,640 --> 01:41:08,360
Speaker 1: I grew up playing Rainbow six by Tom Clancy. Tom

2073
01:41:08,439 --> 01:41:11,519
Speaker 1: Clancy's people, Bro, they were they loved the book. His

2074
01:41:11,640 --> 01:41:15,599
Speaker 1: authors have written reviews for the book and stuff like that, Like, dude,

2075
01:41:15,680 --> 01:41:18,840
Speaker 1: this is it's up there, man, Like it's I don't

2076
01:41:18,880 --> 01:41:21,160
Speaker 1: have asked things, and I think my imagination in my mind.

2077
01:41:21,200 --> 01:41:22,600
Speaker 1: But just like I said, you have a lot of

2078
01:41:22,680 --> 01:41:24,200
Speaker 1: I have a lot of time to think about things

2079
01:41:24,560 --> 01:41:29,120
Speaker 1: more than some, more than some, So thinking to me, dud,

2080
01:41:29,400 --> 01:41:32,360
Speaker 1: it took two years to think of a two hour conversation.

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Speaker 1: It's what me, what me and a j had. It

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Speaker 1: was a two hour conversation. Then it was off to

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Speaker 1: the road. But it took two hours to accumulate that thought.

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01:41:38,800 --> 01:41:41,160
Speaker 1: You know, the people on the other end, that the

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Speaker 1: reader and people who pick it up or listen to

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Speaker 1: it or something like that. Dude, you'll get a chance

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01:41:45,160 --> 01:41:47,720
Speaker 1: to see that. You know, it was a it's very

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01:41:47,760 --> 01:41:49,920
Speaker 1: well thought out. You know, I love chess ill you

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01:41:50,000 --> 01:41:52,280
Speaker 1: know openly and people know that from the first book.

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Speaker 1: But I love chess and I look at life like chess,

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Speaker 1: and I look at this book like chess. You know,

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Speaker 1: there's what you think is there is not there, nothing

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Speaker 1: is real. I will say that is nothing is real. Bro.

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Speaker 1: It's very snipers, dude. I think people are going to

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Speaker 1: be really amped for this. I mean it's a while

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Speaker 1: until it comes out, but you could pre order now.

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Speaker 1: It's May eighth, Reaper Ghost Target, a sniper novel with

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Speaker 1: a J Tata and you guys, look back. A J

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01:42:16,760 --> 01:42:18,599
Speaker 1: was on the show before and he was an awesome

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Speaker 1: guest as well. Um. You can follow Nick on Twitter

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Speaker 1: at Irving Underscore, Nicholas on Instagram at Official Reaper thirty three.

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Speaker 1: I don't have even have it in front of me,

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Speaker 1: but that's right, right, Yeah, Yeah, that's right, yeah, Official

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Speaker 1: Reaper thirty three. Anything else that you're plugging before we

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Speaker 1: wrap this one up? No, man, I just know nothing, dude.

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01:42:38,640 --> 01:42:41,320
Speaker 1: Just positivity, bro. Positive. This is why I love Soft

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Speaker 1: Prep Radio. You're like, there's no other interview you're gonna do.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you see Nick on Fox News and everywhere else.

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Speaker 1: You're not gonna get this content out of Nick anywhere else,

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Speaker 1: and Nick, I will say this though, go ahead to

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Speaker 1: finish real, man, I think that like, I don't know

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Speaker 1: what my goal is or my my my overall path

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01:42:58,640 --> 01:43:00,880
Speaker 1: in life, bro, but I mean right now I would

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Speaker 1: I would just say that Ryan met in life. Bro.

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01:43:03,400 --> 01:43:06,439
Speaker 1: Only took one small, one small change, dude. That was

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01:43:06,520 --> 01:43:09,880
Speaker 1: just positivity every day, dude, just something positive. There's just

2117
01:43:09,960 --> 01:43:12,920
Speaker 1: so much bullshit out there. You start looking at yourself

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Speaker 1: and making use yourself better, telling yourself that you're fucking

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Speaker 1: you're better than whatever situation you're in. Dude. Like things happen. Bro,

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Speaker 1: I'm a living example and I've been practicing this way

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Speaker 1: of whatever lifestyle or whatever dude for since things have

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Speaker 1: been happening. So that's the secret, dude, and anyone can

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Speaker 1: do it. Bro. Nick, you know, you know what I

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01:43:32,800 --> 01:43:35,600
Speaker 1: wrote down in my book for you know, projecting my

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01:43:35,680 --> 01:43:39,240
Speaker 1: thoughts into into the world. What's that. I'm still gonna

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Speaker 1: come to Texas and drive your fucking Lamborghini, Bro. Bro,

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Speaker 1: come down. I love you, Bro, the most guest on

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Speaker 1: this motherfucker bro awesome man. Come down Bro anytime. Bro.

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Speaker 1: Any I'm not gonna take it up to New York

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Speaker 1: and drive anything crazy. I'll take keep up there. But

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Speaker 1: it's got a flat tire and it's got the injin

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Speaker 1: light on. But bro, I will bring that up there.

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Speaker 1: You want to come down to text as I got

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Speaker 1: plenty open road man. Yeah, thank you, my brother. I

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Speaker 1: appreciate it, man, Thanks Nick. Oh yeah, anytime guys appreciate it. Man,

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Speaker 1: appreciate it, dude, kick ass. Full interview with Nick Irving there.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, absolutely, well you're taking your headphones up. I

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Speaker 1: was gonna say, we gotta wrap up here with throw

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Speaker 1: a punch for the week. Of course, Oh shoah, I

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01:44:23,720 --> 01:44:26,360
Speaker 1: forgot about because you know, Nick felt like I sealed

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01:44:26,439 --> 01:44:29,800
Speaker 1: the deal there. Yeah, this is We're doing a full

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01:44:29,880 --> 01:44:32,800
Speaker 1: two hour podcast here. So the people up, bro, he

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01:44:32,920 --> 01:44:35,920
Speaker 1: really does Nick is great. Um So any of you

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01:44:36,040 --> 01:44:38,479
Speaker 1: who are like skeptical of how this podcast is gonna

2145
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Speaker 1: sound like this is. I think this is a pretty

2146
01:44:40,600 --> 01:44:44,240
Speaker 1: fucking solid episode. I could say I love Nick though, um,

2147
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Speaker 1: and we're gonna keep bringing on those caliber of guests.

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01:44:47,240 --> 01:44:50,600
Speaker 1: Um So before we wrap up, throw it punch of

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Speaker 1: the Week. The funny thing that I was thinking about

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01:44:53,200 --> 01:44:57,320
Speaker 1: this is in the past, Jack Murphy was always like

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01:44:57,560 --> 01:45:00,479
Speaker 1: the level headed guy didn't get into a lot a drama,

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01:45:00,840 --> 01:45:03,080
Speaker 1: and it was usually branded doing the honors a throat

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01:45:03,120 --> 01:45:05,559
Speaker 1: punch of the week. I feel like something is shifted

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01:45:05,720 --> 01:45:08,640
Speaker 1: and he's become Brandon, has become very calm. I mean,

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01:45:08,880 --> 01:45:11,320
Speaker 1: there's one guy that they've been going back and forth.

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01:45:11,360 --> 01:45:12,920
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say any names. You know what I'm

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01:45:12,960 --> 01:45:15,240
Speaker 1: talking about on Instagram and stuff. But other than that,

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01:45:15,760 --> 01:45:18,280
Speaker 1: not a whole lot of drama. This seems like a

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01:45:18,320 --> 01:45:20,360
Speaker 1: little bit of drama going on with Jack. I don't

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01:45:20,400 --> 01:45:22,479
Speaker 1: really I personally don't know any of the guys a

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01:45:22,560 --> 01:45:25,960
Speaker 1: task and Purpose. But since Jack has been shooting his

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01:45:26,120 --> 01:45:28,880
Speaker 1: TV show and has been around, I figured we'd at

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01:45:28,960 --> 01:45:31,719
Speaker 1: least give a throat punch of the week in his honor.

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01:45:31,920 --> 01:45:34,680
Speaker 1: We need a sound for throat. We have one, just

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01:45:34,800 --> 01:45:37,479
Speaker 1: like you gotta be like like that. It's the one

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01:45:37,520 --> 01:45:39,040
Speaker 1: I've been using. I mean, if you want to send

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01:45:39,120 --> 01:45:42,280
Speaker 1: me over another say, and it's got to sound goofy. Yeah. No,

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01:45:42,320 --> 01:45:44,880
Speaker 1: it's fun man. But um, all right, So I'll read

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01:45:45,200 --> 01:45:48,760
Speaker 1: Jack's entire epic post here about task and Purpose. Um,

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01:45:49,600 --> 01:45:53,040
Speaker 1: so here's what he wrote. I resisted. I resisted criticizing

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01:45:53,120 --> 01:45:56,280
Speaker 1: task and Purpose as I think, slamming companies that can

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01:45:56,320 --> 01:45:59,200
Speaker 1: be seen as competitors comes off his crass, but that

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01:45:59,360 --> 01:46:03,200
Speaker 1: ends tonight. After writing an article about self described communist,

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Speaker 1: former Ranger and former West Point Cadets cadet Spencer Rappone,

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01:46:08,120 --> 01:46:10,320
Speaker 1: one of the Task and Purpose writers went out of

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01:46:10,360 --> 01:46:12,719
Speaker 1: his way to describe me as a racist and member

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Speaker 1: of the alt right, which is it's so funny. Jack's

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01:46:15,320 --> 01:46:18,680
Speaker 1: been accused of being like a left wing liberal and

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01:46:18,800 --> 01:46:21,439
Speaker 1: now the member of the all right. Like he really

2180
01:46:21,520 --> 01:46:24,040
Speaker 1: does not get to get a break sometimes. So Alexander

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01:46:24,120 --> 01:46:28,160
Speaker 1: McCoy was seemingly apoplectic that I had called out Rappon

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01:46:28,360 --> 01:46:31,280
Speaker 1: for what he is, a communist infiltrator in the U. S. Army.

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01:46:31,600 --> 01:46:34,200
Speaker 1: I threw my bullshit flag at McCoy, He backed down,

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01:46:34,280 --> 01:46:37,200
Speaker 1: and I called it a day. Whatever. Then today Task

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01:46:37,280 --> 01:46:40,519
Speaker 1: and Purpose Senior editor Adam Weinstein gets his wine on,

2186
01:46:41,120 --> 01:46:44,639
Speaker 1: calling my work jingoistic and attempted to use my education

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01:46:44,720 --> 01:46:48,400
Speaker 1: against me, expressing disbelief that I attended the same college

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01:46:48,400 --> 01:46:50,840
Speaker 1: as he did. Well, we had, we might have gone

2189
01:46:50,880 --> 01:46:53,760
Speaker 1: to the same school, but clearly the similarities and there

2190
01:46:54,160 --> 01:46:57,400
Speaker 1: my life experiences must be far different than his. I

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01:46:57,520 --> 01:47:00,800
Speaker 1: take his pseudo intellectual horseship for exact actually what it is.

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01:47:01,240 --> 01:47:03,400
Speaker 1: To top it all off, both of these guys pull

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01:47:03,479 --> 01:47:06,839
Speaker 1: the same pacified let's be bros and get all unified

2194
01:47:06,920 --> 01:47:09,400
Speaker 1: when I call them out on their bullshit, Yeah, I'm

2195
01:47:09,479 --> 01:47:12,680
Speaker 1: not buying that, not today, not tomorrow, not ever. I

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01:47:12,760 --> 01:47:14,720
Speaker 1: would have a lot more respect for them if they

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01:47:14,800 --> 01:47:17,880
Speaker 1: stuck to their guns instead of making fictitious claims about

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01:47:18,000 --> 01:47:20,519
Speaker 1: me and then trying to hug it out. One writer

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01:47:20,720 --> 01:47:23,639
Speaker 1: is one thing, but two is a pattern. It's funny

2200
01:47:23,720 --> 01:47:26,640
Speaker 1: because I've always tried to maintain a positive relationship with

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01:47:26,720 --> 01:47:29,840
Speaker 1: Task and Purpose. I know, I knew their former editor

2202
01:47:29,880 --> 01:47:33,479
Speaker 1: in chief. I've met their CEO, Zach Isku before. UM

2203
01:47:33,600 --> 01:47:36,679
Speaker 1: don't know if from pronouncing that right. Sure, our politics differ,

2204
01:47:36,800 --> 01:47:39,559
Speaker 1: but this is America. Express yourself how you want, that's

2205
01:47:39,600 --> 01:47:42,439
Speaker 1: your business. I suppose the outrage from Task and Purpose

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01:47:42,479 --> 01:47:45,400
Speaker 1: should come as no surprise considering the fact that those

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01:47:45,439 --> 01:47:48,639
Speaker 1: asked clients wrote an extended apology piece for opponent found

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01:47:48,720 --> 01:47:51,840
Speaker 1: here he links to it. At least their agenda is

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01:47:51,920 --> 01:47:55,880
Speaker 1: transparent and no, you can't hate America and our constitution

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01:47:56,120 --> 01:47:58,200
Speaker 1: while being a good soldier in the U. S. Army

2211
01:47:58,520 --> 01:48:01,360
Speaker 1: and a fucking story. So here it ends, no passive

2212
01:48:01,400 --> 01:48:05,320
Speaker 1: aggressive bullshit. Fuck this bubblegum military news site that is

2213
01:48:05,400 --> 01:48:08,360
Speaker 1: not that as zero sources and is really just a

2214
01:48:08,439 --> 01:48:13,040
Speaker 1: puppet of public affairs officers. Fuck Alexander McCoy, Fuck Adam Weinstein,

2215
01:48:13,200 --> 01:48:16,280
Speaker 1: Fuck Tesk and purpose for your information. Here's the real

2216
01:48:16,360 --> 01:48:20,080
Speaker 1: deal on rapponent. Uh is what these closet communists are

2217
01:48:20,080 --> 01:48:23,120
Speaker 1: so upset about. And then he gives his article. Um,

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01:48:23,280 --> 01:48:24,800
Speaker 1: so yeah, I'm sure you've seen the picture of this

2219
01:48:24,960 --> 01:48:27,880
Speaker 1: guy with the I think it's like a shake wavera shirt. Yeah,

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01:48:28,040 --> 01:48:32,120
Speaker 1: there you go, and also holding up the communist manifesto book.

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01:48:32,240 --> 01:48:34,519
Speaker 1: And it's it's more than just one picture, like this

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01:48:34,680 --> 01:48:40,320
Speaker 1: guy literally subscribes to this So fuck that, bro. That's

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01:48:40,400 --> 01:48:43,200
Speaker 1: not what this fucking nation is about. This is a

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01:48:43,320 --> 01:48:49,519
Speaker 1: capitalist society. We fought long, hard and sacrifice many of

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01:48:49,800 --> 01:48:53,840
Speaker 1: millions of thousands of people to just get to where

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01:48:53,920 --> 01:48:58,400
Speaker 1: we are. To try to have this individual think that

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01:48:58,560 --> 01:49:02,519
Speaker 1: he can undo it by infiltrating or uh somehow getting

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01:49:02,520 --> 01:49:05,759
Speaker 1: to a position of influence, you know. And I'm sorry,

2229
01:49:05,960 --> 01:49:09,920
Speaker 1: but my whole, my whole cried to battle once I

2230
01:49:09,960 --> 01:49:12,400
Speaker 1: saw those photos. Was kicked that fucker out of West Point,

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01:49:12,600 --> 01:49:14,760
Speaker 1: you know, which I think was Jack's as well. Yeah,

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01:49:15,000 --> 01:49:18,559
Speaker 1: you know, because we how can you say you serve

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01:49:18,720 --> 01:49:21,720
Speaker 1: this nation and yet oppose the nation. It's a he's

2234
01:49:21,760 --> 01:49:24,720
Speaker 1: a walking contradiction. Yeah, so throw a punch of the

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01:49:24,760 --> 01:49:27,080
Speaker 1: week from Jack Murphy, I guess would be to that

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01:49:27,200 --> 01:49:31,080
Speaker 1: guy and to task and purpose both those. I'll throw

2237
01:49:31,120 --> 01:49:33,680
Speaker 1: it out there. I don't know the people testing, but

2238
01:49:33,760 --> 01:49:38,280
Speaker 1: if Jack hates him, I hate them. That works to me. So, um,

2239
01:49:38,840 --> 01:49:41,200
Speaker 1: I just figured I would read that. Hopefully Jack will

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Speaker 1: be back soon. He's been like m I A, he's

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01:49:43,640 --> 01:49:47,360
Speaker 1: a big Hollywood star now. Um. But yeah, I look,

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Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to episode three hundred because by then

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01:49:51,040 --> 01:49:53,880
Speaker 1: Fingers Crossed will have some new imaging that I'm working

2244
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Speaker 1: on with Kara our voice over check doing the you know,

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01:49:57,800 --> 01:50:01,800
Speaker 1: British voiceover which people and of Jason's name. Have my

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Speaker 1: Alexa on British voice really hell yeah, I'd be like

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Speaker 1: Alexa turned on the bedroom and she's like, okay, I

2248
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Speaker 1: don't know, I kind of got bit by the bug

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Speaker 1: in London. But yeah, so we'll have Jason's name in

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Speaker 1: there and audio of Jason and Jack, and also my

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Speaker 1: name at the introkes people have said it says you

2252
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Speaker 1: know it originally said Brandon Jack and the rest of

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Speaker 1: the boys at Softwrep. But I got an email that

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Speaker 1: we're like, why is your name not an intro? Aren't

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Speaker 1: you kind of the host here? So yeah, it's gonna

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Speaker 1: have all three of our names, which is point um. Alright,

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Speaker 1: dot com. Hopefully we'll get to some emails in the

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Speaker 1: next few episodes, and as uh we end this, Jason

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Speaker 1: and I are going to figure out who we're gonna

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Speaker 1: book for the rest of the month. So I'm excited.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna gets some ship up in here. Listen, guys,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna get some some vets in here that are

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Speaker 1: doing great things. You know. I want to highlight veterans

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Speaker 1: doing you know, pursuing the entrepreneur path. Um. I'm trying

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Speaker 1: to get Jesse here the next uh, Jesse Davenport. If

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Speaker 1: those of you who have read my book know that

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Speaker 1: I admired the hell out of that guy right there.

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Speaker 1: He's probably one of the best snipers as far as

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Speaker 1: one shot, one kill uh comes to mind. He's probably

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Speaker 1: one of the best snipers I've ever encountered. And he

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Speaker 1: was my my partner, you know. And we're gonna get

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Speaker 1: on the phone and we're gonna talk some ship, so

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Speaker 1: you guys could look forward to that. Let me tell you, guys,

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Speaker 1: I had a conversation with him yesterday in the gym,

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Speaker 1: and man, my heart was racing the entire time because

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Speaker 1: it was just nostalgia. No. I was on the phone

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Speaker 1: with him because I was like if he was in

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Speaker 1: the Bronx. You know he lives, he lives somewhere around

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Speaker 1: North Carolina or whatever. So, um man, let me tell

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Speaker 1: you a lot of I get a lot of guys

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Speaker 1: hitting me up on my inbox asking me because the

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Speaker 1: way my book ended, you know, as I wrote the book, Guys,

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Speaker 1: you have to understand, I was in Afghanistan. It was

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Speaker 1: a few years ago, a couple of years. Go. Um,

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Speaker 1: I didn't I didn't know of Jesse. I didn't hear

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Speaker 1: of him. I didn't know of his exploits or what

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Speaker 1: he's what he's done, you know. And I just recently

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Speaker 1: came in contact with him. So a lot of guys

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Speaker 1: hit me up and like, how's Jesse? Have you heard

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Speaker 1: of him? And stuff like that. And let me tell

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Speaker 1: you it's gonna be an awesome episode. Man. This is

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Speaker 1: one of the baddest fucking snipers I've ever dealt with,

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Speaker 1: you know, and the stories we have are gonna be

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Speaker 1: just awesome. Man Killer Showman. And if you guys appreciate

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Speaker 1: that we're doing this free twice every week. You always

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Speaker 1: ask you guys write a review on Apple podcast or iTunes.

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Speaker 1: You know what's funny, it still says iTunes everywhere, and

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Speaker 1: like they hit me up months ago. We're like, we're rebranding.

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Speaker 1: Everything is Apple Podcast, but it still says iTunes on

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Speaker 1: the places. But you know what I'm talking about. Uh

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Speaker 1: leave your review on there and uh yeah we have

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Speaker 1: five star review. Will be back on Friday within all

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Speaker 1: new episodes. Always great. Hang with you man, YouTube man,

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Speaker 1: I still practice your voice and right, I'll get both.

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Speaker 1: I'll get there one of these days. Thank you. You've

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