143 - Surviving An IED Explosion ft. Mandatory Funday, Tyler Butterworth & LordOfLips
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Welcome to another episode of unsubscribed. Hi, you beautiful people. I've missed you. It's been one week, one week, but we are, my God, this is the most veteran military episode I have ever been on. Um,

Go down, go down the line. Introduce yourselves. You've been here. This is my second time. They forced me to come back under threat of injury. Mandatory fun day here. I'm really excited. I'm really excited to be here with Mr. Butterworth. I was going to make you come so hard. So first off, I've never actually heard of this guy, but it's kind of a big deal. My name is Tyler Butterworth and I'm honored to be here.

That's you. You may know me as the lower lips, but today you can call me Flo. Hey, Flo Browder in the house. Hey, dude, it's great to have all y'all here. I'm so excited. This is like yesterday. She was like, hey, we got Tyler coming in. It was cool. And then it was like everyone else was like, also mandatory. Also, Flo's going to be here. I'm like, shit, okay, uh.

Okay, thank God we only have a huge range date coming up. Completely slammed. This is the perfect time. The show's just been crushing it over there. How you guys doing? How was the trip? First time in Texas. Really nice here. Wife wants you to move here now. Within 15 minutes of being here, she's like, we need to move here ASAP. We haven't even left the airport yet.

- I agree. - Crazy. - But you have to get rid of the horses. - We do. - Do we have, oh, so many good stories for this one. I like, we were driving to the restaurant today

Didn't know Flo had two Purple Hearts. I was like, okay, she stopped. Dude, yeah, I was like, well, okay, save it for the podcast. Okay, we're not talking about it. And he walks in, he's like, whose anime is this? I don't know. Super confused. Whose anime that might be. So we're going to have a military fun day. Just a great time today learning stories about Purple Hearts. You have some stories too. A couple of them.

Everyone just prepare for an amazing episode, guys. Okay, we're going to get to the bottom. Starting with you. All right. Go. I want to know the first Purple Heart story, because what the fuck? So, yeah. First deployment I was on was in Afghanistan from 2009 to 2010, right? Beautiful area. Yeah, amazing area. Loved it so much, I had to go back a second time. I've heard land's cheap there. Yeah. Anchorage. Anchorage.

The first one I got was just really, really bad timing. It was an IED. I'm sure you guys have heard of that. Never heard of her. Right. And yeah, it just was a gunner in the turret and didn't see it coming. We were driving through. We came up to a stop. The bridge was blown up in front of us, so we had to go around, right?

uh ultimately my tc asked me which side you want to go on left or right and because you know as a gunner i had the eyes up i could see what was going on i was just like the left side looks good let's go left and uh that was the wrong side it's like i just picture in the movie it's like

He looks over, it's like sunshine and rainbows. He looks over, it's trash. Just everything. He's like, I want to go to the left one. I said, are you sure, bro? Because that's a lot of trash and debris. It looks good. Wires are coming out. No, I...

we're doubling down boom fuck i didn't see this one coming yeah so i don't know if you haven't been it's uh there's a lot of trash around the area and it's uh hard to tell where things are but uh did you get to take shrapnel or what happened so as as we're going through right uh i looked to my left and you know i didn't see nothing too crazy as we're going i went back down to turn i peeked over to the right and that's when it happened and uh

it shot me up i felt the i felt the compression and the jolt right and uh thankfully i had my gunner's harness on and uh brought me right back down um the last thing i remember was uh looking up at the ceiling and uh yeah everyone uh screaming

It's pretty, pretty wild. How big was the IED? So from what I remember, it was 180 pounds, give or take. Yeah. Dude, that was a ride right there. Yeah. Yeah.

No, yeah, I got hurt pretty bad. So I had a TBI. I was a ruptured left eardrum. I had like, I just remember too, like waking up and like this side was just like, it felt like there was just water there and I could not hear what was going on. So it was just like bleeding out. And my arm was like swollen right here. Just like immense pain, right? And I just remember like looking up, trying to like figure out what's happening. And

My buddy, his name was K, Specialist K. I'm laying on top of his knees, right? And he's like shaking me, like trying to wake me up. And like I look at him and I could see he was in pain too. Later on we find out his feet were shattered. But yeah, that was... But he was like nurturing you. No, yeah, he was trying. So I ended up landing on top of his lap. And he was just like trying to wake me up and see if I was okay.

And, uh, I just remember that. And I remember squad leaders aren't paradise being like, you need to get back on the fucking gun. All right. And, uh,

I remember being in so much pain when he told me that. I was just like, I can't. I can't do it. And at that point, he grabbed me and he tried to get me up there. And I started crawling. And then at that point, the last thing I remember was getting picked up by somebody. And I was getting drugged to where the CCP is. Dang. I just like they were like, get back on that gun. You're up there just like...

She's dragging you back to base. Your body's just flopping around. He's like, that's a soldier right there. You're like, fuck, dude. It's definitely an experience. A lot of people don't realize. The concussion is what fucks you up from an explosion. It's like grenades. The shrapnel tube will kill you, but...

that concussion that that shock wave that is what does the damage especially in those i've with three ieds i've been in and one s-fest so like it was always the concussion the shake of everything that's what like really with the old the old noggin in my opinion that's always what it just makes you like want to throw up or anything yeah now i can tell you like the next thing i remember from that was like i'm like laying inside a truck as you know as a team starts truck

And, uh, cause you know, we're waiting for a medevac cause you know, the others were hurt too. But whatever reason I remember sitting back up and I just had like a surge of adrenaline. I was just like, I need to get the fuck back out there. I just opened the door and I started getting out and I was like, I need to pull security. Cause I heard, you know, up front was, um, the gunner behind us and his name's, uh, Peralta. He was already shooting. And, uh,

I just was like, I need to get back in action. I remember her medic. I can't remember her name, but she was a female medic. She was an Air Force medic attached to us. And I just remember her grabbing me. She's like, you need to get back in the fucking truck. And I was like, okay, roger. Because, you know, I was a little, I was a PC at the time. So, you know, I just listened to her. She's E5 sergeant. So went back in there and sat me down. I think it's because...

At the time, like, for whatever reason, I felt like Superman right there. I didn't feel anything anymore. I just felt great. But I probably looked like shit, and that was the right call. Because, I don't know, when you're in something like that, you have so much going through that you might feel like you're great, but you're probably not great. When the adrenaline goes away, it is not a good time. Like, you're like, I'm...

Oh, that hurt. Like everywhere hurts. Now this is the worst feeling ever. My leg, like I've had the, the leg one and then watching other people, it's always like, Hey, yep. During the action, you're just adrenaline. So you're not feeling in anything. And then once the action's over and the combat adrenaline drops, then you're just like,

Pain. Yeah, pain, sleepy, tired. I didn't want to go to bed. And then you have like eight more hours of a mission. You're like, oh, this is fucking dope. Because you probably had how much more time in between like initial explosion to going back. Yeah. To getting back. So from that point, right, they medevaced me. And I remember that part just laying on a litter. And I just remember seeing the blades. We can talk about this on the second one. But I remember seeing the rotary blades spinning. Just laying on my back and I'm looking at it. I just remember being like, I'm screwed.

Because, you know, I didn't know if there was anything else wrong with me. I didn't know how everyone else was doing. And I remember my buddy, Specialist K, I remember him, like, grabbing my hand and, like, trying to hold it. Because he was also in there, too, because his feet were, you know, shattered. Shattered. I remember looking at him, too, and I was just like, you know, this is really, that was a little, that was definitely a dark period right there. And then from there, I remember we got medevaced to Bagram, Bagram Airfield. Yep.

And I don't remember, you know, this is a long time ago, but I don't remember all the details. I just remember eventually, you know, I was laying in a bed trying to recover. And then I remember hearing him. They were working on him. His screams were pretty gnarly. God damn. Yeah. You just went through the savages. This is how we're starting the podcast, everyone. This is intense. Now everyone's like this. This is intense.

I do have a question. Oh, here we go. Here we go. I do have a question. So since you've experienced this kind of stuff, does it put other things in perspective for you? Like is other stuff that would be extremely stressful for somebody who hadn't experienced this? Is it just kind of like... Your day-to-day life. Like think of your level of stress is going to be completely different. Like when your ex is freaking out about property, are you just like, whatever, man, nobody's dying. Like calm down. No, well...

Put it this way. Yes. Is, has my perspective changed? Absolutely. Uh, very little things like really, truly freak me out. But that doesn't mean that what you're going through, right? Right. Yeah. Isn't important. So I make sure, I make sure to show that I care and that whatever, you know, whatever you're going through, I want to make, I want to make sure that I can show that I understand what you're going through. Does that make sense? Yeah. Yeah.

I'm enjoying your presence so much more. - You didn't know this was gonna turn into a therapy session, but here it is. - We always try to preach this. It is the idea of like your traumas, your trials and tribulations are going to be different.

It's going to vary from person to person. And just because you went through more shit, whether that's almost dying, getting shot, getting blown up, like all those little things, just because, yes, it is harder to you probably feel the same way. Anyone that's been in that situation, it is harder to relate sometimes because you're like in your head, you won't say it, but you're like, that's not that bad.

See, I'm breathing right now. I'm not getting shot at. That's pretty fucking dope. That's in my mind. I just keep that inside because I know I'm like, well, that's my own thing. Hey, yes. Like maybe whatever, like the tire blew on the car. I'm going to get frustrated at it, but I'm not going to be like super pissed or being like, oh fuck, we're late. This is the end of the world because of those experiences. But it also helps to be like, it's not bringing it up. It's like, hey, well, what are you going through? How? And then you try to help them with your own tool belt that you've

uh, acquired through your experiences of trauma. That's what I always try to do at least. Yeah. And I try not to let that like, uh, you know, bring me down or like affect me like too much. Right. Like I, I still think you should, you know, have a positive outlook on life and I do my best to make sure that's, you know, that is the case and I have a good time. I'm not like, uh, permanently like, you know, downed about it. The way I look at it, the way I look at this is like,

Something like that happens, right? It's a circle. It is a circle. It's a big circle. Especially for you. You got two purple hearts. Yeah, it's a huge circle. Huge circle. Bad experience. Oh no, it's coming back around. So this happens, you know, traumatic event. It's going to be, you're going to think about it a lot, right? It's going to like, it is going to be there. The moment you blink, you close your eyes. It's going to, it's going to pop, right? It's going to happen. You're going to think about it a lot.

And as time goes on, right, that circle should get smaller, right? Of you not thinking about it as much until the point where it is a memory that you can still remember, right? You used to go on it, but you should not be dwelling on it constantly. Does that make sense? Never dwell on the past. It's you learn from that experience. You process that experience and then you move forward becoming like, hey, yes, that happened.

I'm going to use that as a reference for my future life and then for helping buddies out. But I'm going to also not let that just fucking pull me down or let that be my letter jackets. Like, well, that's happened. So I can't move on with life. I'm, I'm too depressed. I'm too X, Y, and Z. Yes. Depression and stuff can happen, but is you want to motivate people and motivate yourself, get out of that depression as hard as it can, or reach out to others that can help pull you out of it. And then find that group, that camaraderie,

to push each other to that next level of where that's, that is the past that is left in the past. You, you know, it happened. You can talk about it. You can smile through it. And then you're like, yeah, that, that happened. But look what I'm accomplishing now. That's always be the mission. And the goal in life is the future. Learn from the past, use that to motivate yourself for the future. Cause I don't know if it's like you like life. I understand it's very fragile now. I'm like,

is life will just in the blink of an eye you're there you're not there and once you come to like you realize death is gonna happen to everyone it's just whether it's your time or not then you'll have a different outlook yeah it's like when i first started watching your stuff yeah and i saw like the funny chapstick video that you did in the beginning but then you started posting some of these stories like you're telling us here today and it's like all the comments that

everybody's writing like sharing their own experiences that they haven't before but because you're doing it and you're sharing it out there to the world they're able to then communicate that themselves and so now you're like you're literally like healing people with your content even you putting the face camo on and telling a story about your deployments and all that it's like dude this is legit this is good stuff but good for you man appreciate it thank you now he's like please

Can we not talk more? So there I was, I chose the wrong side of the road. Oh God. Oh shit. I mean, I imagine it was going to get brought up cause you know, everyone's, everyone's always wanting to ask me, like I get messaged about all the time. Like, could you talk about it? Could you talk about it? And I've, I've gone over it briefly. Right. And especially I thought it was very important to talk about it. Like what he's talking about, what I did. Um,

That was during, what, the month of June? That was Men's Mental Health Month. Oh, yeah. So I thought, you know what? Why not? I'll bring it up. Let's talk about it. I will show you through the expressions and how I know how. And I pretty much kind of like relived it and tried to tell it the best version I could with, you know, through the lens of an iPhone. But no, I did see the effect of it. And I've gotten plenty of messages on like how that helped people. And I think that is important, right? Because...

especially, you know, today's society, in today's society, everybody only wants to show like the positive side of things. Nobody wants to see the real, the realness. And don't get me wrong, right? I don't want, I don't want to scare people with what you could go through. Right. But I also don't want to lie and say, you cannot potentially go through that. But what I do want to show is that you can go through those things. You could turn around and you have a smile. That's what I want. Now there are certain things I can and can't do that. I know myself, like for example,

I just can't touch alcohol. Just can't do it. Oh, okay. That's well, tell me that before I keep offering you drinks. I'll be like, oh, he has to work tomorrow. Maybe I'll have one drink. See, thank you for that. That's way better. Cause I never pressure people. If you're like, ah, I'm like, oh, you sure I can make you something? Just, I get you started again. I just, I'm like, oh God, I didn't know. Why didn't no one tell me? No, no, you're good. Yeah. No, that's just, you know, you, you identify things on yourself and you just,

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No, but you have your own trials and tribulations. We'll switch it to more of a, well, like one of your positive experiences, like one memory in your military where you're like, ah, that was like that. Overseas or like on base where it was either hilarious or something that left a mark for you. Sure. I'll talk about my first team leader that I have. Shout out to Sergeant Walker.

He's a coal miner from West Virginia. So this guy was like the expert of infantry tactics. But when it came to the basic English language and spelling and stuff like that, terrible. So we were in, I think we were in downtown Ramadi. We're driving

He's sending back a sit rep back to battalion and he asks, he's like, Hey, beat up. How do you spell because? And so me being the very smart 18 year old that I was, I'm like, it's a B E K A U S E sergeant. And he's like, all right. And he's like, it's in next thing I know we do a, we do an all halt in the, in the convoy. We're in downtown Ramadi. And he's like, beat up, get out on the hood and give me two five. And I'm like, I'm going to die.

Like this isn't good. So next thing I know I'm out there on the hood. In Vermont. Yeah. In, in 2007. I'm like, my, my, yeah, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my

The amount of stories that we have, like everybody at this table, you know, messing around with each other, like those kind of guys and those experiences are why we're all still together. Why we still talk to each other. I mean, I love it. I love everything about it. Holy shit. I just, the picture of getting smoked. They like stop the entire.

Like now we're stopping here like big song. Are you are you sure we're in that? No, he's doing push-ups. Yeah on the hood of the hall I'm like wait a second. What are we stopping for? This isn't good. Like I was a gunner. I'm standing there like this ain't good He's like you cause this You me count out loud big song. Yeah, what do we do? Holy shit. Yeah, I

Yeah, it was always back and forth. We had those ASVs. You guys ever ride in those? No. It's like a coffin that has a turret in the middle of it. ASV? Yeah, so little turret. You put the little seatbelt that's supposed to keep you safe in the little metal box. And it's like a mechanical where it can spin. So again, me being the way I was, I had a bungee cord in there that would keep my M4 up to the side.

And so I could reach his, like the strap on the back of his IBA, like the old ACU pattern and everything. So I'm like, I know what I'll do. I'm going to attach this bungee cord to my turret, and then I'm just going to gradually rotate it. So it's like the tension on it is getting a little bit more, like every, you know, five minutes. Like I set my watch. I'm like, all right, five minutes. You know, move it, keep moving it to the point where I can see him in his seat like,

Like he's trying to adjust it. Like just constant, like that kind of, until it's like, whapow! And you know, he's like, what happened? What, did you see something? Like, no, I didn't see anything. Like non-stop games, man. If you want war, like the soldiers in war, this is the best way to, to describe it as like, we could die today. Purple nurple. Yeah, yeah, it's like, why not? Explosions going up, and you're still just fucking with each other. So aren't Reyna, we...

LT, Lieutenant Wynn. Lieutenant Wynn telling Sergeant Rainer, he was like, hey, 3rd Squad, can you check the hole? It was an IED hole. And we're like, wow, this is a couple months in country, and we're against the wall. And I look at Sergeant Rainer, Sergeant Rainer looks at the lieutenant, he's like, the one, the IED one? The one, the giant fucking crater? Roger's on it. Go check that for me. Go fuck yourself, sir. You go check it. What? Huh? You go check it, sir, if you want to see if there's a fucking IED in it.

We'll just keep moving. My guy, you're a butter bar. They're not going to tell you what to do over there. Or like instantly it was just like, oh yeah, I need to know my place. We'd have butter bars. I don't know if they still do it to this time. When we get new lieutenants, we would either dress privates or sergeants up as butter bars and then have them fuck with the new lieutenants. Did you guys ever do this? Nah. Oh man. I listened. If we got new ones to the unit, we'd be like, Hey, private snuffy here. You're fucking captain.

Tell the lieutenant what to do. So that the new butter bar is terrified. He has a private trying to act like a captain. So you just have fuckery going on. You have like no idea what's happening. Oh, it's great to watch. Oh yeah. And then you get to see the private get smoked by the lieutenant after he comes out that he's enough. Yeah. Yeah. It's the circle of life. Yeah. What about you? You got fucking, what's your most crazy? You have to have.

You know, it's funny. It's funny because I... So people are always shocked because I'll hit 12 years in the Army in February, and I still haven't even done a combat deployment. I call it smart.

It's called intelligent. Well, what's funny is despite my best efforts, it just hasn't happened. Like I submitted a 75th RAS packet. Like I tried to volunteer for SOAR. You're trying to be high speed? Why would you do that? This was a while ago. Okay. I was like, why the fuck would you ever? Usually it gets worse. You're like in for three years. Like.

Well, I hit five or six. Well, yeah, I was five years in. I'm a sergeant E5. And I'm like, gosh, I've been in for a while and I still don't have a combat deployment. And so I started kind of seeking it out and something always got in the way. And so for a long time, it was like a point of insecurity for me. Thank you.

For a long time, it was like a point of insecurity for me. But what's funny is in the content, all of my content centers around the frustrating aspects of like garrison army life. Right. And what do you mean? What? It's frustrating. Yeah. Like like mustaches and first sergeants. I can relate.

But it's funny. So the fact that I didn't deploy is actually, it's given me experiences that so many people, because everybody's experienced the garrison military. You know what I mean? So, so many people can relate to it and don't get me wrong. If a deployment comes my way, I'm not going to try and get out of it. You know what I mean? But it's not, I haven't experienced garrison militia.

Yeah, you got off the bus to your first unit, and you guys left immediately. He'll say, it was wartime military, which was such a, bro, completely different military in, like, 05, 06. It was just, like, there was...

Training, fuck off. You're getting ready for war. We didn't do NTC. They shipped NTC to us for a crash course in a week and a half, and then we deployed. Oh my God. You're going to learn. We're going to pretend this lush Washington State

is iraq well that's right okay you were at jblm yeah yeah i was there for three years yeah see jblm i called it fort lewis because that's what it was at that time yeah there was no mccord and it was my court yeah they were separate at that time i did have a cool experience um somewhat recently and i don't know if it was right after i went on the first episode that i was on or if it was in between now and then but just like cooper one

He's the worst gamer in the fucking world. I swear to God. And he just kept bringing up Slug Cooper for stealth. Well, I was tanked, first off. But it's going to be on my tombstone at this point. But no, I had the first person. It's happened a couple times since then. But a person walked up to me and they were like, hey, I joined the army because of your content. And my first thought was, I'm so sorry. It was...

I'm kidding, obviously. For legal reasons, I'm kidding. But then we had a really cool conversation. So now he's a mortar man. I posted a video and he was in it. And so, I don't know. It's cool to see how I'm having an impact organizationally. And all I was trying to do initially is just make jokes online. You know what I mean? Just make people laugh. It's like you, One Punch Dad. You guys, it's awesome. We were talking about that on the drive to the...

the restaurant. I was like, it's cool watching this new wave of higher enlisted creating content. It's not doing like TikTok dances and stuff like that. It's like meaningful. Which your TikTok dances if that's you. Do it. Fucking motivating. Please stop going live in the motor pool while you're driving a fucking vehicle though. That'd be great. Go try the whip with the striker. It's just hitting stuff. Everybody's doing it. So it's like if you're

Like, even if you're wearing a uniform, you can still be yourself. As long as you're accomplishing your job and everything, you can be yourself. Like, why not express yourself? And that's what's crazy. Like you being on there with the platform that you have and at your level, like all you see all like if you go on TikTok live now, we went on there. I guarantee you within five swipes, we're all going to have a soldier in uniform or, you know, Marine, whoever it is. So it's like, just be yourself. If you can express yourself and do it the right way, then professionally, you know, exactly.

It doesn't all have to be negative. Like there's enough negativity out there. It's like, why not? Why not talk about some of the good stuff or share some of the experiences like you've had? And then it's going to help everybody else out. So God, this is like the most motivational who I love it, man. I love it. Just can I get it now? Can you smoke him? And then you smoke him. And then I just laugh because I'm out of the military. Look at these idiots. Cause you are. So that can work, right? It's fine. Yeah.

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Like, this is all I wanted. I just wanted to watch old dudes smoke each other. I'm like, okay, let's fucking end the podcast. Do you guys remember your first video you ever made? I remember the first... Well, so my first video I ever made was not like I was just posting something. It was...

I want to say it was my youngest daughter and she was in a bouncer. She was tiny at this point, like a couple months old, right? But she's fat because my wife pumps straight lard out of her, you know. I like, you know, is what you stopped out. My wife pumps straight lard out of her, I can't say titties, but.

My kids are fat and they're breastfed. Okay. So she's in a bouncer and I'm bouncing it. Right. And I did the, you like it thick. You like it. Like over that. And so that, I think that was like the first video I posted. And then I did one and it was like, when you're driving to the DFAC and you hear they've got a surf and turf and it was fortunate son.

And I looked at the camera, like, right at the right time. So those were, like, the first ones. The first one I did that hit, though, and I knew...

I could have like a presence on social media. I made a video where I was like, Hey sir. And I wasn't even talking in it. It was music and text. Right. But it was my face obviously. And I was like, Hey sir, we've got two people, you know, uh, we're supposed to get in. Uh, we need to pick which one we're going to have in the unit. One of them, he's got a master's degree volunteers. He's got a letter of recommendation from his last unit. And I'm like, Oh, well, well, it seems like an easy choice. And I'm like, the second guy, uh,

He's got a DUI. He's got a really volatile divorce going on right now. He just generally seems like a piece of shit, but he does run a 12 minute two mile. And I'm like, give me that guy. I love PT is always the standard of the military. It's not even PT. It's just running. I know it's just running. Sorry. God bless your soul for this. And I still, it's my favorite part of the military was, uh,

We stood up our like for two we were to CR and we transitioned to ID So we stood up the unit though so like we had a e4 is the first sergeant the first like 15 days or the e4 then we got first sergeants

And then we had like E4s and E5s as platoon sergeants and everything. So like, funny enough, it's like that now. Oh, I bet. Like, so it was like, oh, we're going to war. And this is what we're working with. This is fucking dope. Sergeant first, Sergeant Jones. He was like, okay, you guys are, here's your platoons. And he let the, the sergeants pick who came into their team.

So Reina, he just looked at everyone's PT score and he got everyone. His entire squad was everyone that could max. So we didn't have to do PT. We would do PT once a month. My entire because every time we do it, we'd all work on our own, do all that stuff. But instantly, like we show up to formation. OK, break for PT. So Reina would look for everyone and leave. He's like, OK, me, me at fucking Denny's. We get in the denny's, drive, head to Denny's, eat. And this was crazy.

Until we deployed. We did this every fucking year. Yeah, because there was no Waffle House in Washington, unfortunately. But they got that Denny's right outside base. Breakfast PT. It's good to have breakfast PT. So much breakfast PT. So we do that every time. And we still manage. And Sergeant Raina is saying, he's like, as long as you guys stay over 290 on PT scores, we will do this indefinitely.

everyone's so i'll tell you this right now right because i've been in long enough to deal with the drama and political stuff of pt but the best platoon i had was on a schedule of and this is before the acft right so apft you had you know it's up to 300 for the max yep if you had a 270 or higher

Go do PT on your own. I don't care. That's how it should be. Just show up for accountability, right? We're going to do accountability because first I don't want an accountability and that's, that's just the way it is. We're going to salute the flag, pay respects. And then after that, Tucson, you're hired.

Go to the gym. Go do whatever you're doing because whatever you're doing... It's funny too, the response you get from people when I call it incentivizing excellence as opposed to... No one, that's stupid. That should be a trademark. I need you to shut your mouth. Do you have a trademark right now? Copyright? Like, I don't...

understand what our fixation with with like fucking everybody down for everything as opposed to being like hey you couple guys you're doing good things let's give you guys something and then everybody else is like you're telling me if I just get a really good PT square I can do PT on my own even if it's like once a fucking week

You know what I mean? Like just, I don't know. It's, it's always been more effective as a motivator for me personally. It's like, Jimmy, you got 300. Great job. Do fucking pushups because your shit bags didn't know how to run. You're like, I'm not even in that platoon, sir. I don't care, fuckhead. Okay, I don't even know why I'm doing this. That's the PT.

Like your first sergeant. So if we don't know, can we say ranks on? I don't know. Yeah. First sergeant. First sergeant. First sergeant first class over here. And then. First lieutenant. Silver. Silver. Silver lieutenant. Almost a captain. Big captain. God willing, I'll make it to captain. Thank you for your service, everyone. How do you run your PT? So right now.

since i'm in the hac first arm it's a little different than the lines right oh yeah uh but right now it's up to the sections to go ahead and do their pt in accordance with the pt plan now for me how i ran it with the other with my original platoon right when i was platoon start that was that was we were able to get away with that granted you know talking with star major the bc blessing off on it so it all comes down to your chain of command and what they're okay with doing in my current one

you're going to do right now what we call team PT, right? So within your specific teams, because I'm in a, you know, I'm in a SFAB units, a little different than what your conventional unit would be. Essentially, just go do PT with your team and then good to go. I would say, yeah, no, no, no.

- ACFT, right? ACFT has changed things for the better in my opinion. So, you know, people are now going to the gym because the gym is good. And I think the stigma of being like, how dare you go to the gym and lift weights is starting to not completely, you know, go away, but it's starting to lower right where people can go. - The military is the only organization on earth that will build a multimillion dollar facility for physical fitness and then tell people not to use it. - Yes.

The military is the only one that's also like, hey, why is everyone skinny and lightweight? Here, put on this 40-pound backpack and armor. There you go, Big Zonk. Zonk, shouldn't we lift weights to help our muscles carry this stuff? Shut the fuck up and run two miles. Roger, Big Zonk. You're just like...

There's no strength training in this. This is great. I love this so much. Back and biceps day in the army is we're going to run six miles and flex our back and biceps really hard while we do it. Now, what I, what I will say is like, if I could run it for a day, right? Like without getting, you know, told to do something different, I would say right now with the ACT and you know, how, how the scores are right now, if I, if I could rule it, if you scored five 40 and over or higher,

then you're good to go do individual PT. Isn't that how it is? I thought somebody put out policy on that. I don't think that's like a, no, no. So that's for like height and weight, right? Like you don't have to get height and weight, but that's not, that's not like five 40 higher. You can get and do whatever you want. No, that's not a thing. But I think that should be a thing because if you don't have five 40 higher, you don't have to get height and weighted. So to me, that's like, you're killing two birds with one stone right there. Yeah. You hear that generals that watch this podcast, right?

Fucking make that make that shit happen, but we see the four-star commies look wait. No Germans the watch the spot I don't know any of these people What it was the

If I were a first-rounder, I would fuck with my... Like, one company or one squad, one company. It would be one company. I would try and make them... I'd be like, maybe a whole platoon. It would probably be, like, a whole... No, a whole company or a platoon. Make them do, like, choreographed dance for PT. So you have the sick... Like...

There are units that do it. It's called P90X. I've seen companies in an open field do P90X together. My favorite part of PT is when some random wants you to do whatever they do on the weekends and they're really good at it and then you invite them to combatives and they sure as fuck do not show up to that. No. Think if you did a choreographed dance.

Your Sergeant Major's, he's like, hey, big Sergeant. It could be an intimidation tactic for the enemy. Sergeant Major's walking a big First Sergeant over here. He's like, hey, who's doing PT? What the fuck are they doing? He's like, Sergeant Major, I got you. Come here. You walk them to that PT room. Watch this. Watch this, guys, go. And they're like, Sergeant Major, hey, we're here.

They're super jacked up. They're maxing out. They have to be veiny. They've got to be clean shaven, head to toe. Sergeant Major doesn't know. He can't say anything. He's like, carry on. He never goes around that team again just so he's. Imagine if we could do like the crank that soldier boy on the enemy's graves. You know what I mean? A choreograph. Nobody would ever go to war with us again. Yeah, that's fear. Yeah.

You can't go to heaven if somebody cranks that soldier boy on your grave. That's all I'm saying.

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I was a recruiter with the Army National Guard. And so I'm like, you know what? My boss is calling me. He's like, hey, you're not making enough phone calls. And I'm like, okay. So I made phone calls and, you know, everybody's mom is hanging up on me or telling me what a terrible person I am. You know, just overall great experience. So then I go to a high school and I'm like, hey, what's your Facebook? Some kid. And he's like, Facebook, you idiot. My mom has Facebook. And I'm like, well, thanks, you little brat. You know, great. Awesome. So then I realized what Instagram is. And I'm like, you know what?

I'm gonna make some videos of giving out actual information and everything and see if that works. And so my first video is me sitting at my desk and I watch it. I've watched it recently and I'm like, God, I'm such an idiot.

So I'm sitting at my desk and I'm like, I really want to look at it. I was like, yeah, stop. No, don't look at it. Cut that. Put that shit up on screen. I'm going to put it on a shirt with this mustache. I'm such an idiot. I'm like wearing an Army National Guard shirt and I'm sitting at my desk and I'm like looking at myself on my cell phone. I'm like, God, what am I doing? And then I'm like, perfect. I'm sitting up straight. I'm like, all right, I look huge now.

I look like mandatory fun. Perfect. And then I'm like, hello, my name is Sergeant Butterworth and I'm a recruiter with the Army National Guard and today I'm going to tell you some education benefits. But I did it in a very formal manner like that and then I'm like, now looking back on it, I'm like, why did I do that? I look like I'm being held captive. I don't think I blinked once in the entire video.

It's funny because people started commenting on my videos like, "Does this guy ever blink?" And now I feel like I can't blink in any of my videos. And sometimes I have to reshoot them because I do blink. I'm a human, I blink sometimes. Make sure you blink. Yeah. I do the same thing. I feel like you guys read the comments and you're like, "Shit."

I don't have a skincare routine, okay? I just don't have one. Four months into this, I stopped reading the comments. So if you guys are commenting mean things, I'm not seeing it. Please stop doing it. It really hurts us feelings, okay? All of us. I read the comments. Wait, so you watch it, you put it up, you're like, man, I fucking nailed that. I bet you were so proud of that video. You showed your wife, you're like, babe, look how good I am. She's like, what are you doing?

What'd you think? She's like, you're so strong. Yeah. You're so strong. Yeah. So I did that. I probably made it.

I probably made like, I don't know, three more videos in that style of me sitting at my desk, you know, doing that whole thing. And then I'm like, why am I doing this? Like, this is what everybody does. I'm like, you know what? I like to joke around. I like to be funny. I'm just going to be myself. And so that's what I did. I called up the Marine Corps recruiter. I'm like, hey, dude, you cool? And he's like, yeah.

I'm like, all right, I want to make a funny video with you. Like, have you ever seen Step Brothers? Yes. And he's like, can we just become best friends? Exactly. Yeah. You want to be crying in the garage? Do you guys want to do TikToks in the garage? Yeah, pretty much. I'm like, hey, man, why don't you come over here? Why don't you come over here and we can, like, make...

videos of each scene from Step Brothers. And so the first one was like the intro where they meet, like Dale and Brennan meet in the front yard. And so he's in his dress uniform. I'm in my dress uniform. I'm standing in the grass. Sorry about that. And then... It took me a second! He's gonna smoke me after this. Oh yeah, 100%. And then you watch. So we do that first video and then it's like...

It just blew up. Like I'm getting all these messages like, Hey, can you help me be in the Marine Corps? And I'm like, no, it didn't work. But then I started getting people that are like, Hey, I want to be a Marine all the time. Are you the Air Force recruiter? I'm not the Air Force recruiter. It looks the same, but I'm not. So we do this video and I get like all these messages, all these people commenting on it. Like, wow, these guys are actual people.

It's like, well, we are, we joke around more than anybody. Oh yeah. So it's like, I continued that. I just started making all these funny videos. And then I like,

I see guys like this, guys like you that are making all these funny videos. And I'm like, dude, this is great. We should all be doing this. Like, be a person. Be who you are. It's so funny because I've talked to so many people who've at least considered joining the military now or are considering joining the military, like, currently. And they all seem to think that we are all just, like, cut from this different cloth or, like, we're just, like, superhumans or whatever. Not superhumans. Like robots. Yeah, they just...

Bro, you'd be a normal... They're super humans. When we get off of this, they're like, God, those civilians suck. Let's go do push-ups, guys. And I'm like, okay, guys, cool, man. What the fuck is wrong with these guys? But, like, I did not... When they stand at parade rest, it's real weird. We were all standing at parade rest in the kitchen before this. Yeah, when I walked in, they're just like...

We were reading doctrine right before this. Just straight doctrine. That's all we do. That's all I do. They were on their knees singing hymns of doctrine. But I always tell people, like, I literally didn't think I could be in the military before I joined it and I got through basic and all that. And now here I am. I have a reasonably successful career. And so, like, I don't know. It just...

I truly believe the United States military can take any person and turn them into something that we can use. Absolutely. I mean, you couldn't have said it better. You're a tool. Go fuck yourself. That's the end of the recruiting pitch for the podcast. You're a tool. Go fuck yourself. Join the army. America. Yeah, America. Eli, no, that's a terrible message.

So that was yours. And then what got you like, what was your big first piece of content where you're like, here we go. So no, not yet. Pull it up. G pull up everyone's first piece of content to embarrass them. Well, so the first V to be honest, I can't remember the first video I ever made on Tik TOK. Right. That was like,

I think I was trying, so originally I was like, you know what? I'm going to YouTube how to be a streamer. Like, you know, video games. Cause I really, I'm a fucking nerd. I love video games. I'm all about it. We're going to talk about Sly Cooper shortly. To show you how nerdy I am, just looking at myself on the screen right now, you know, to the right, right here. That's a, that's Endeavor. Okay. I got All Might tatted on my arm. That's how nerdy I am. I'm as nerdy as it gets.

He's almost as nerdy as me. That half sleeve. When he gets to a full sleeve, a back piece and a chest piece. And on his hands. Yeah, I have Goku on my hand. I can't get a normal job. That's actually a really great joke too. I love it. So then...

I don't remember what I did. I tried it out. I tried like, you know, stream that or, you know, I posted a video of that. Nothing. I was like, man, this is harder than I thought this was going to be. And I remember my wife being like, what are you doing? I was like, I downloaded TikTok. And even she was like, it's just, it's a waste. Like, she's like, you're not going to do anything with this. It's, you know what I mean? She's just like making fun of me about it. I was like,

Bet you I can pop off on this. And she was like, bet you can't. And I was like, okay. So then I started reaching out and I started doing other things. I started, uh, started the dancing. I looked at the dancing. I mean, you know, I know a little bit. I know a little bit of Neo, you know, back in the day, you know, I was like, yeah, I could probably do that, but I'm probably not, probably not going to do that. And then your wife opening the door and you're like in the garage. It's harder than I thought. And then I saw, she just closed the door.

My FYP brought me like this, like people doing like little hand and arm signals and everything. And I was like, okay, I guess it's called tutting. Tut. Like, do you like, like, like T you know, like, yeah. T U T. Google it. Google it. Naruto. Yeah. It's like Naruto, like people doing that. So I was like, okay, maybe I'll try that. I think I made like one video doing that.

And then I was like, okay, leave this podcast. I told you I'm as married as it gets. Can you demonstrate? I don't know. I mean, let me see. I don't remember. It's a two minute. I don't remember. Choreographies. Yeah. It took me four months to learn how to do fireside. Yeah. It's been a minute. It's been a minute. But so I tried that. Didn't work. And I was like, man.

Screw this. And I just started making things that I think that I thought was kind of funny still didn't work. And then I started reaching and then it happened. The moment of truth.

i was watching this uh video with uh the science of the lambs song or goodbye horses i should say but it reminded me of science of lambs right so i'm watching it and it's this uh this chick she was like in the gym and she's like lifting weights and she's you know it had nothing to do with the song but in my mind when i heard that song that's what like flashback i was like creepy scene nothing and then i looked at the you know you can like click on the sound you can look at all the videos right

I saw nope nobody did the you know really is a lipstick, but no one did the thing right yeah exactly I was like okay. Well someone's got to do it Where does drossian come from - so we're gonna go down that fucking rabbit hole no okay, but With the chest with the chapstick right

I just decided to like, I did it, put my phone up on a little tripod, like you're looking right now. And then, you know, I had to like rewatch that scene on YouTube. And then I was like, you know what? It's what the people want. The first time I saw your chapstick video, it made me like uncomfortable, but in a way that I was unsure of, you know what I mean? So like eye contact, right? I'm really good with eye contact. Like I can keep you here all day. Now remove the tip. And then after that, I was just like,

Just a little bit of chapstick, a little bit of a zoom out. And then it went off from there. That, so that was my first pop-off video that had like, I don't know, at the time, like 600,000. I was like, because I only had like 115 followers. I was like, oh my God, I'm famous now. Did you throw your phone at your wife's face? No, not yet. Look at what I did. I told you. Look at this. You need to respect my skills, right? Because I'm a fucking visionary. I'm the Lord of Lips now. And then she hits play and it's just you.

So then... That's what you were doing in the garage. That happened, and then people were like, oh, do it this way. So then I tried it this way, and then I tried it different ways, and after that, I just kept doing it, like, every time. Until... And that wasn't the viral one. The viral one is where I do it with, like, a chem light. Oh, that's so good. And I have, like, a helmet on. It's so good. Wild. But... So I was in Fort Polk, which is Fort Johnson, right? Polk is now Johnson? Horrible. That's why we can't have names. We're good. We're saved. Audio is...

Okay, we're good. Good? You're good. You're good. Do a push-up. See, I can smoke you now. There we go. So now it's a... Get down with it. So, JRTC, if you guys aren't familiar with that, that is a horrible time, all right? It's a rotation, a CTC rotation. We can talk about this stuff later. Oh, JT. Fucking JT. Pretty much, it's like a major field event that, you know, BCTs will go through. So anyway, I'm the bad guy. I'm Op 4, right? I'm the one who steals the people and takes your food and steals your ammo.

So anyway, where, you know, it's coming up on the final day. I'm tired. We've been out for like 36 hours and I've been up just on like my fourth energy drink and we're just waiting for the call to be done with this. Right. And it's in the, it's like, it's in, it's in the morning in this little crappy village that they have out there. And I just remember looking at my phone. I was like, man, I haven't made a video today. I'm going to make one. And then I thought about it. I was like, I should make one in gear.

and then my rto is sitting behind me and i just looked at him i was like get out the truck we're on top of the building he's just like roger's heart you know so we go out there to the top he's like what are you doing i was like you know my phone it's like okay like i just need you to just hold it straight for me all right i'm gonna do something it's gonna get a little weird but i need you to just keep it on me and we did it and that's the one that shot off

And then I made like 100 more of those chapstick videos and then... I love when you find the thing that hits and you just do it over and over and over and over. They were like, this made it, I'm going to capitalize on it, people want more, and then...

The Lord of Lips thing, one of my viewers said, this guy is the Lord of Lips. And I was like, that is a cool name. I'm sticking with that. And every time I just... And now you love that name. Now, well, I love it. But, you know, that's just what people call me and I just roll with it. That's so funny.

It's a weird time we were talking about names cuz I like double tap was an old clothing man I was like one of my first businesses was double tap which is not a non existed anymore So that's why it's like Eli don't that was a good name - Well now I was like cuz I feel like a douche bag with it It's like the army infantry doing then like double tap men

I have that name. God damn it, Eli. Why did that? I was like, I could just go back to Cuevas. Just Eli Cuevas, my Mexican name. But now it's Double Tap from here on out. I'm like, fuck. Yeah. I'm actually really honored that you brought, like, I'm looking at this now. I'm analyzing because, you know, I've got really good with Chapstick. Burt's Bees is a good, like, that's a good brand. Burt's Bees.

I actually want it back. You want to play? I'm down to play. We're going to start a new chapstick line for you. We're starting a chapstick line for you. Are you serious? Yeah, let's do it. 100%. If I could figure out and be smart enough to do it, we would have...

MRE flavor, you'd have chili mac, right? Chapstick? Yeah, 100%. Chili mac flavor. I'm sure someone out there... You should do depression flavor. Mandatory fun flavor. You should do I didn't get promoted flavor. Article 15 flavor. You got med boarded out flavor. Have you tried PTSD? It's so good. Here, try some. Oh my god, man.

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off everything if you use the code unsubscribe click the link in the description or go to ghostbed.com unsubscribe that's right ghostbed.com unsubscribe and get 50 off right now so motor pool flavor your uh your name mandatory fun day why did you decide on that yes i have an idea i'm gonna give a shout out to my my buddy from bollock kevin taylor

I literally texted in my old Bullock group chat. I was like, Hey guys, I've got like 10 basic officer leader court. It's officer. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. I was like, what the fuck word are you making? It's weird. You get MOS qualified as an officer. I was so confused. You get MOS qualified as an officer in Bullock. Okay. So I texted in the group chat. I was like, Hey guys, I need a name. And Kevin Taylor was like mandatory fund day. And I was like,

That's fucking genius. Because now and every single time I comment on anything, anytime I do anything anywhere on social media, anybody who's from the military and I've learned any NATO military recognizes that term because the British have mandatory fund days. The French have...

I don't think there's a country in NATO where somebody hasn't messaged me and been like, I don't, I don't think we, you guys did this stuff. Cause you're the U S military. We always say like the U S military would never do this. And I'm like, no, bro, we do it. And we do it even harder. If you're like anyone out there, if you don't like the U S military, isn't, I was never like, this is the most organized unit in the fucking world. I'm like,

Well, this is the most organized. What is wrong with this? And this is the most organized thing ever. Cause people have this very, which is awesome. It's like, man, this prestige. And then you're like, no, you know, that fucking the dumb kid that barely could do arithmetic.

He's probably a first right now. At least during the time I was in, that was my leadership. I was like, oh, it's funny. The way our doctrine set up and I won't nerd out on this too much, but the way our doctrine set up inherently is just better than our adversaries because all of our adversaries are authoritarian countries and their doctrine very much reflects it. Right. We push decision making down as much as possible to the lowest level. So like the specialist list,

So the specialist on the ground that's getting shot at should be the one that's able to direct traffic a little bit, theoretically, with our doctrine. In theory is the strong word right there.

This is a planned initiative. Yeah. Dude, this was a time I had a, fuck, what was his name? He was a major. He went from green to gold. He went to like E7 and made it to major. It was the most grumpy ones. Yes. Oh, dude. Amazing human though. But he was still like. He was an E7 and he made it to major. Yeah. So he's had more than two full careers at this point. He started during World War I, I think. Yeah.

He had four stars on his infantry ribbon. He was there for Audie Murphy's commissioning. He actually pinned him. It was crazy. So, but...

I went talking to him. I was like, was that Lambert? No, it was another one. And it was this realization talking to him. He was like, I was like, why, why'd you go up and then switch? He was like, Eli, when I hit E7, I was like, I need to make a difference. And I thought if I worked up in the listed, I can make that difference. Nah, he never can. He's like, so I switched. And you know what I found out?

Still can't make a fucking difference in anything. I was like, what? He's like, I need to be like a four star. He's like, that is the only way anything will fucking happen. He's like, I'm just nothing. I'm like, wow. Okay. Thank you for that, sir.

Huh? Well, that's depressing. So, uh, can I go get chow now? Big sir. You know, it's funny. I've been really blessed with the unit I've been in. Cause like when I started getting big on, I was in kind of a strange situation. I was coming to my first unit as an officer from Bollick. And then that unit was going somewhere. And I was kind of in the middle, like I was going to go eventually, but I,

I was in this weird time period in between and I was getting big on social media and I was like, I don't know what they're going to like. What's going to happen. You know what I mean? Like I know other guys who've done stuff on social media and they get like critical 15s and shit. Like what, what's going to happen to me? And then I got, I got where I was going and they were so supportive, right? They were like, Hey, just be professional. Like follow the army values and do your thing. Cause we think you're making a positive change or a positive difference.

And so that was like, it literally could not have gone better. You know what I mean? If I had written it myself, I don't think I would have written it better how it went for me. And then the captain says, you're making a difference. The end.

It's a book. That's a book. That's going to be the opening line to my autobiography. Fuck. But yeah, I really have enjoyed seeing the shift in... Because social media has been villainized, right? And for somewhat good reason in some cases. But the shift has been pretty cool to see since I've been in. Yeah, getting to see that shift from the bad stuff and then where it is now is awesome. Because it was...

The privates or those ones. It's like the Marine wife dance or the people in the fucking. I don't know what the privates. Never mind. It's privates. It's like, hey, it's your boy fucking P6933 private. We're out here in Syria just having a blast. And they're giving like coordinates. Oh, my God.

Have you guys seen the video of the dudes that get the pizza delivered to the land nav site? Oh, yeah. Whoever's doing that, stop! And then they record, I assume it's their first start, and he's like, stop getting pizza delivered to the fucking... But if you successfully deliver a pizza to the land nav site, didn't you win land nav? Like, didn't you win... That's it, right? If I was a first-time guy, the first starting number here is like...

Yeah, well, Big First Arm, what do you think on that? What, if pizza got delivered to Landau's site? Yeah. Well, you know, that was good initiative. They send you a classic. Classic. Classic response. You get your own pizza. And a bottle of Jack. Yeah. Bro. He doesn't drink. That's rude. That's true. Good initiative. And a Diet Coke. There we go. Dr. Pepper. I'm a Dr. Pepper guy. Dr. Pepper. Coke is secondary. There we go. And you're like, send him a bottle of Jack. And I'm like, what?

He already said it, man. Now he's going to smoke a dick over it. We just had that conversation, too. Can I get another one, please? So I can at least be, you know, like hammered while I'm making a fool of myself.

But what would you do? It's like big soldiers were like, hey, I took initiative. I got pizza delivered for me and my team. Here you go, first arm. Well, you know, depending on what we were doing, right, I'd imagine, because we've done landline recently, right? Normally for these kind of things, you're not supposed to... Pizza is going to be there when you get back. Pizza is going to be there before you leave. And usually these landline things are like a day. But yeah, if pizza...

I don't know how I'd feel about that. I'd probably be a little upset. Put it this way. I would never make you do something I wouldn't do, right? If I ain't eating pizza, you're probably not going to eat pizza. At least out there. Now, when we get back, guess what I'll probably have for you? Pizza. Oh, I see. You're a good vote guy. And a late call. Yeah, and a late call. Normally, we do late call. I just gave the guys a late call yesterday. What? You're good for a song? He's a kind God. My man.

He is a kind- I am a kind God. He's walking around shirtless. That's so funny!

I've said that so many times and people look at me and they're like, are you insane? And then you finally got the reference. I think we're like, from what I've seen for first, not necessarily, you know, I'm like a serial actor. Like I've been a first round the whole time, but like even like senior NCOs in general, I've noticed get a little wild with like the power. Right. Here's the way I see it. Something comes up. That's kind of like, I don't like it. You have your officer counterpart. Right. So if he was like my captain or if I was between, sorry, he's my PL, I'd be like,

How do you feel about this, sir? What's going on? What do you want to see? What do you want? What would you like? If he doesn't like it, even if he doesn't tell me directly, if I get a hint that he doesn't like it, guess what I'm about to do? It's going to happen. I'm going to, that's all I am really is just the enforcer. If the PL or the commanding officer is cool with pizza, I'm cool with pizza. If he's not cool with pizza, we're not cool with pizza. That's just the way I go. You got them crazy eyes too. He does. That scared me. What's your Hispanic origin?

are you hispanic mildly retarded

I thought this was a PG podcast. These white guys can't say anything. What is your Native American? Mexican. I'd say so like, yeah, if we're going to, you know, build an onion a little bit back family-wise, I have like a nuclear family, so like a really dull. But I would say I'm pretty good, pretty good, pretty good chance of Mexican in there. Definitely a Mexican. On the shade card, you get shot. I don't know any other ones. I like...

I like these. These are nice. There's a joke written on the back of the Truly. I don't know. That's hilarious. People get uncomfortable on the podcast because like Brandon and we'll have other people and you're just going to see like different jokes and they're like, oh, catch them during that joke. Can I laugh? Can I laugh?

Can I walk? It's like the awkward look around. But so they're like, okay, here's first on. Well, at least you're a good first on. That's like, because I, first on, I will always give him mad props. He was an excellently, he was,

So our majors hated him because he did not give a fuck of their, like what they wanted. He was like, Hey, this is how I'm training my team. He made first aren't in like nine years. Wow. Wow. For reference. He's like, he went Ranger combat, uh,

Was it Ranger Combat Diver Sniper and First Sergeant from Second Ranger Bat came and then was like, okay, and then he went Delta. So he was like fucking fast. He trained us exactly what he was used to, which we didn't. We wore soft caps and then would fire. We'd do all our CQB and soft caps shooting range shit. Like we'd have our vest soft caps. Like big boy rules. Yeah, we did big boy rules. And that's what we thought was the standard across. I didn't know that wasn't the standard across the army until...

We did advanced CQC. We had a whole company or a battalion size advanced CQC course for a week. We load on the bus. What are we doing? He's like, Hey, Hey soldiers, uh, we're doing advanced CQC. We have to do like a demo and stuff. Uh, so what we've been teaching you the entire time, none of the other guys know that. So just play along. Uh, like, uh,

what we're like no one knows because we were taught how to like like explosive breach we were taught all this shit from like a year like for the first six months a year it was just ingrained us like this is how we train this is how we do everything this is how you engage we're like oh okay we thought that was just the standard and we always found it funny because the other first arts would cause like oh fucking you're from we're like why do they call

Why do they have a name for us? We just had no idea. But one of the first times it was like, and I've told this story before, Sergeant Major Green came in and he was like, hey, we had a battalion formation. Everyone lines up. Fucking make it. It's like, H-H-E. Sound off. Fucking Alpha Company. When he says Alpha Company, first Sergeant looks back and says, if any of you sound off, I'll fucking murder you.

Classic we were soldiers, huh? Yeah. He was close to me, Grandpa. Yeah, so we were like, just shut up. Alpha Company, sound off. B&Co, sound off. We're good. That's all Sarn says. He's like, we're good, Sarn Major. It's like, oh, okay. That was the traffic coming. They sound off, and you're like, huh, what the fuck? But then we found out, like, because of his training, we were very advanced on everything. We were fucking...

dress right dress on everything in combat so it did help in that experience going over there he left unfortunately he did get uh he got picked up for a cag left did that we got those people coming into our battalion it was the weirdest thing watching um you guys know when you're a private you're e4 you're sergeant when you see dudes walking around your company with no name tapes no rank and that's no one's stopping them you're like are they here to pick up for

His first arm in trouble or is he leaving? And that was like in a week he was gone. It was fucking weird. It was awesome though. Like still good for him. Contact with him. Awesome dude. We now train with the Delta guys. They'd come down train with BRCC and stuff. So we would get shit wrecked. Like we do long range shooting drink afterwards, get shit wrecked. This is on their dime. They're having a blast. They train on our property.

And we had a blast and have a good time. But I remember talking to the Delta guys and we were talking, they're like, I was like, Oh, did you know? And they're like, you know, fucking was like, Hey, he's my first song. They're like, Holy fuck, bro. You remember? And then the stories they had was like, Oh, I'm DMing him right now. And I'm going to tell him about these stories that I've heard of him. It was awesome seeing that, but I'm super appreciative of the good first orange, like yourself, where it's like, Hey, this is like, we're motivating soldiers. Not,

Tearing them down with dumb shit the entire time. The thing that frustrated me the most as a junior soldier is that leaders in the United States military have a lot of power over their people. Like, and oftentimes you have a lot of autonomy. And it always seemed like...

When we had the option to go left and it would fuck us or right. And it would like make our lives a little better. We always chose to go left. And I don't, I never understood it. Like, Hey, did you pick left or right? I normally go left.

But on your ID exposure. That was left. Yeah. Oh, my God. That wasn't an intentional reference to that story, but I'm glad it all lined up. Yeah, look at that. You know what?

There was a day when we showed up for PT as a private and my like team was the only one there like it was very clearly like a late call that day and my team leader was like We're gonna do PT because we're here and he clearly felt embarrassed and

Cause he's a fucking idiot. Right? Like you didn't put out a text or like, you know what I mean? You didn't communicate. And so now you're like, you're fucking just wrecking us even harder because of your fuck. You know, you got what I'm saying? That's the, that's the kind of stuff that I go after the most in my content. And my mentor actually said it, he put it into words. He's like, you're just saying the things in public that nobody like wants to say. And so I love that. I love that description.

God, I love bad team. Bad anything, like, everyone's like, no one's there. It's like, okay, we're doing an airfield run. Looks like we beat all the other soldiers here. It was a six-mile run.

I had this first sergeant on one of our deployments. So I've been guard the entire time. So when we deploy, we do like a three to four month train up so that we can, you know, get up to standard. So you qualify, do everything we need to do, right? So this first sergeant, he was real quiet and everything. He never said much, but we get there. And as soon as we hit the ground for our train up, he's like, I want to make sure that all of you are wearing your body armor and your helmets wherever you go.

Like we're walking to the chow hall. If we're walking anywhere, we're doing it. And I'm like, this is so dumb. Like, why, why are we doing this? But then I realized, I was like, this guy's a genius. He is because then it's like, we're doing the PT and everything. Maybe I sound crazy right now. Yeah. I'm listening. Okay. He's taking that. Yeah. So we're walking everywhere, but we're getting accustomed to wearing all the gear. Right. So then when we got into country and we're wearing it all the time, it was like nothing. What do you think?

Good idea or crazy? That is a technique. For the record, no comment. So my boxing coach...

He would punch me in the face. When I got really punched in the face, I was like, oh my God, he's been training me this entire time. I'm going to get punched in the face. It's not working. If he punched you in the balls now, getting punched in the face wouldn't seem as bad. That's very true. I was trying to like think of, I was trying to lay, I was like, man, this is like equivalent to saying like, we should be in patrol bases every night instead of going home because...

That way when you are in a cold base... I do believe that wearing your kit and stuff, like, you know, wearing it periodically, it'll make it less stressful when you gotta wear it all the time. But, like, to just be like, you know what, guys? On Wednesdays... Man, you have the same... I'm like, man, I fucking hated my kit. I wasn't happy. Like...

Thank God I had my helmet for the last year. You know you've been wearing it. I'm trained. You know you've been wearing it too long, too, when you don't notice that it's on anymore? Yeah. Trust me. It's not fun. I hate it. Dude, I've told the story many times. We'd be on base waiting for, like, we do our, we lived in COBS, so every 22 days we'd rotate onto base to do internet, MySpace, all that stuff.

Yes, it was a MySpace time frame. Did you have the phone cards? We did my emails and my MySpace. Where was the Morse code machine? Was that in the USO? Did you go to the phone trailers? The phone trailers with the little call cards? I'd write my fucking carrier pigeon, send it to my girlfriend at the time. This was named Hedwig. Hedwig.

Dearest girlfriend, can I send nine titties? But yes, this is no they were drawn though But I was like we would rotate back into base and this time in Iraq it was if there's any accidents or deaths from anyone

Any battalion, anything on base, it was a lockdown. It was the blackout period. So you'd have like a five or 10 day blackout of internet comms. I'm familiar. When you are out in sector with no internet for 22 days and then you come back and then there's a blackout period, you're like, my life. But when you're on there and you're waiting and you're in line for the internet and you're like, okay, it's almost my time.

I'm about to chat. I can catch up on my MySpace. I can change that song that's been playing. Dude, my Linkin Park soundtrack is going to be so dope for my profile. I remember this period. This was a good period. You had a MySpace? Yeah. What was the song? I met my wife. What was the song? My wife and I? It depended on the theme. It depended on the theme. It depended on the theme.

Yeah, it honestly depends on the theme. You know, I had a little bit of TI in there. A little bit of... Ooh, TI. Game over. Now I'm going to listen to that on the way home. My wife and I both have each other in our top three on MySpace. Wow. You still have MySpace? I haven't looked at... Well, MySpace still exists. I mean, I didn't delete the account. It's got to be there. I would love to find my... I need to figure out how to log back in. I haven't seen that shit in years. And I would just be in line. We would all be in line. We'd just rotate. We'd fucking smell like shit. I'm like, I'm going to fucking check this. I'm going to go to Chow Ha.

And you're just waiting. And then the mortar sounds go off. Whoop, whoop. And then you see everyone like ducking for the tables or running off and to get in shelter. And we're like, fuck yeah. Internet time. And you'd see people under the table. What are you doing? Take cover. Yeah. That's going to save you.

I have emails. So they'd be like, why aren't you taking coverage? Like, bro, I don't get internet ever. Yeah. I'm not wasting. This might kill me. I don't know. But just in case it doesn't, at least I get a fucking. It's changed a lot since you've gone. Yeah, I bet. I hope. Like now, like it's, well, to me, it's kind of like bittersweet, but like.

You know, Joe's just there last year. Right. And even at one of the big end of yours that I remember 10 years ago was like hopping and popping. You go there now. Well, my five pucks, right? Like little, little wifi that gives you, everyone's got those. So guess what's not, you know, guess what's empty. The phones, the computers, no one gets in line no more. Cause I mean, why when you can just pop them up? Oh yeah. Yeah. What about, what about the MWR tents?

Those are always like popping. I mean, so yeah, I remember that. Being in line, being like, hurry up, bro. Like, it's my, I want to talk too. Nah, because I mean, you got your smartphone and you got to, if you have a Mi5 Puck, which they even have over there nowadays, right? You could just...

Why go to that when I could just do it here? Holy fuck, I forgot about the phone shit too. Oh my god, yeah, because I was like, oh yeah, we'd have the internet. I forgot of waiting in line for the phone. That's a core memory. The phone trailer, that's what I was saying. The phone trailer with the little phone card and you'd go in there and... No one's got phone cards no more. This guy's touching my arm right now. Yeah, yeah, 100%. Yeah, babe, I'm super hard. Yeah,

Go on. Shut up. Go away. Fuck off, dude. What is he saying? Mom, mom, mom. It's not me. God, I don't fucking miss that shit at all. Guys, just be happy you didn't have to deal with that. 100%. I didn't deal with it enough, hopefully. Oh, yeah. There was no Afghanistan. We just did Iraq, surge, and it was fucking done and moving. But I forgot...

The phone cards completely spaced out. I remember having to write, for our left, I had a notebook of just phone numbers. That way I could be like, now? I don't remember anyone's phone numbers. I just click on a name. Yeah, I had my blue book. My blue military. No, it was the green one with the fucking yes. Oh my green.

Get out. All of you are never welcome back. The only person's phone number who I remember and I, I don't, I don't really know why I don't call her that much as my grandma.

Why don't you call your grandma much? Let's peel that onion back. That was the feline. That was the joke. We should call her right now. No, we're focusing on that onion. We're peeling that. Nana, I'm sorry. Nana's a huge fan. She's commenting right now. I watch every episode. She's like, that's why you don't call. That's right.

New Instagram account. Nana mandatory. Perfect. I'm going to set that up. So now we're going to switch to what I'm really excited. Well, we can fuck it. I wanted to ask you guys on your favorite firearms real quick, but then I want to talk about video games because this is a...

This is gonna be crazy to a lot of you out there. When you're in the military, I don't, during my time frame, I didn't get into firearms to the degree I am until after. Well after. When I got out, I had like a fucking 1911 and an AR. And I thought that was the coolest shit. And I was like, this is all I need. I didn't still like going shooting because I shot so much in the military.

Well, you guys are still in. Are you guys like big gun guys? Are you just like, no, I fucking knew I knew it was just going to be like,

You don't give a shit. Like when you're in the military ruins it. Oh, it's like for me, like we, I live on a farm and so we have coyotes and foxes and all that. And we have, we have animals that will get eaten by those animals. So that's the only purpose for me for shooting. But to like go out and just like sling rain, you know, rounds down range. Like I really don't do it. Like it's just not doable. I have an XDS, but like, what is that? I've never shot it. Like it's a handgun.

I've never even shot it. I'm just not a gun guy. That happens. You? Same? I know the M4. I know the M9.

Nice. You're probably okay with an M9. Military does not teach us how to shoot pistols. No? Yeah, so... At all. Period. Oh, I mean, you know what? I got one now, so that's kind of fucking cool. He didn't even have an answer to that. He just said, I got one now. I got one now. He wears it here. Old Fursar knows how to shoot. Old Fursar's like, he's like...

T-Cops, he's closing one eye, he's fired. That's amazing. I'm really happy to have one now, you know what I mean? I've always wanted one. I've already got my little side hip holster, so when I'm out there on my next appointment, right, I'm going to be like, hey, where's your eye pro? I'm just going to flick my holster back and forth. Get your eye pro on. Where's your helmet? Get your helmet. Where's your PT belt? I'm going to

I'm excited. Why are there only seven suspension pads in here, you little shit? I'll never forget the worst fucking first search I ever had. The only question he ever asked me is why are there not nine suspension pads in your Kevlar or whatever it was supposed to be.

And it's funny because during that period of time, it was like a really hard time in my life. And anybody asking me like, hey, man, are you doing OK? Would have been nice. But I'm really glad he was concerned with how many fucking pads were in my Kevlar while we're out in the Yakima training center. Yakistan. Yakistan. Yeah, I've I spent at least like 16 months of the three years I was at Fort Lewis in Yakistan. How did he know?

Did he do like a helmet? Yeah, he would walk around and pick people. I was going to say, as you evolve into it, it's like this inherent ability. It's like,

Something's fucking wrong right now. Your dog tags are missing. I just picture you guys have predator vision, but the fucked up shit is red. It's all highlighted. This is a goddamn chief of the camp soldier. Why are your nails so long? Yeah, it's just red. Like everything's blue, but what's fucked up is red. It's all red right there. Not right there. On the edges to a degree that is red. Red.

big soldier what the fuck is this they're pulling out so I've been like trying to figure out what at what point does because I know officers get it too there's like there's there is some part in the time space continuum where like you just fall off and you're completely delusional on like what's happening you've got like tunnel vision on one thing that doesn't fucking matter yeah yeah it's wild I haven't reached it yet because like

I haven't reached yet. I know for a fact I haven't reached yet. Right. Cause if I go step on grass outside, I don't care. I don't care. I really don't care. I don't care. That's my favorite thing that we do in the military is we make up additional rules and we can't, we don't even have the bandwidth to enforce all the rules that we have currently. That's true. If you make a rule and there's nobody to enforce it, it's not a fucking rule, right? If I, if I want to make a law and I don't have somebody willing to enforce the law, that's a suggestion.

And it's not one that anybody's going to follow. We have way too many rules as it is. But then in addition to that, we also make up our own dumb ass rules that serve no purpose. I just picture it's like that one day a soldier is going to step on grass and you're gonna be like, no. What was that? What was that? What?

No, you don't think so? No. That will never be me. I promise you that. Five years. Time stamp. I'm going to follow you around now. Time stamp this right now. I will never. I don't care really if you walk on grass. He'll be in the Army Times. I really don't care. First surgeon arrested for assaulting soldier for walking on grass. I don't care if you have one sleeve rolled in and you're in the field. I don't care because that's like you're able to do that. I don't see nothing wrong with that. Here's what I care about. I care about you getting to the objective on time.

If you can do that with the MWE, right? Men, weapon and equipment. Then that's all I care about. I really don't care that you have your dog tags on your belt instead of your neck or, you know. Yeah, that's always been a weird thing that people fix it on too. Yeah. Like if you like. Wait, you put it on your belt?

No, people do that. Yes. And some people get pissy about it. Yes. Even though I don't think it's in regulation. That it's supposed to be in your neck? Yeah. It is. It's in regulation? Yes. This is the first time I'm hearing about this entire belt thing. Oh, yeah. Yes. Never in my life have I heard this. No, yeah. People do it all the time. I do. Maybe now. He does it. I keep mine in my shoulder pocket because so many people are giving me shit about having it on my belt loops. Really? I don't want to wear it all the time. It pulls my chest hair out.

It's wild. I'm sorry. I've never experienced it. People get fixated on things like that. To me, it's like, man, this is wild.

And then the whole train as you fight thing, I hear that too. And that, that gets used as an excuse to do a lot of wild shit. That's what happens. So where flip flops at the range. Oh yeah. Train. I mean, yeah. Train, train them. And I really don't want to go down this rabbit hole, but train as you fight. Right. I think that's a flawed way of thinking because people who tell me that, right.

I'll give you a perfect example. PT. God, I can tell you're a first-time because you're hitting fucking heat. No, no, no. Bro, you're like, look at your hands right now. Morning PT, right? What do we do PT in? We do it in shirt, gym shorts. Yeah, PT. Shirt, shorts, running shoes, right? If you want to play the whole like, no, big charge, you got to train as you fight. I'm like, okay, I better see you in uniform because you wouldn't have your PTs on in a firefight, would you?

That's how they did it up until 1985. Yes. And I wrote a paper on this. And so like, like I think if you want to, if you're going to tell me that, and then I better see you out there doing tactical PT every day and sleep in your patrol base every night too. So we did one of, I forget who it was. One of the, it was the cat. And was it her cat? Or one of the lieutenants was like, we're going to train as you fight. We're going to fucking get your boots on. We're going on a run. This is like one month before we deploy. Guess what?

What company got two broken ankles on a run with like boots and everything? Yes, because they were running in gear over long distances. Yeah, and they'd never done it before, right? That was the first time and we decided to do six miles or whatever the fuck we did.

And then in gear, because in combat, you're not fucking, I assure you, we don't fucking, we're not putting our gear on 60 pounds and being like, okay, we're going to jog to the objective. Let's do a marathon, a quick marathon. We're calling cadence. We're prepared. Y'all out!

The bad guys know we're coming. I hear something. Yeah. The enemy are here. Just like the information running. Didn't happen. We injured ourselves. But that one time, at one time, they're like, hey, we can't do this no more. Two people broke their ankles. Yeah. They're now going to be deployed later. Lucky them.

But it was one of those things where it's fucking stupid. It's fucking stupid. Training is your fight though. That's like, so as a police officer, like train as you fight. Right. So as a cop, like we go through all this training and like, I'm standing on the firing range. I'm standing on the firing range and it's like, I would always stand there as a detective with my, with my hands in my vest right here. Right. And so there I'm standing on the line and they're like, what are you doing? Get ready to shoot. Like train as you fight. You're like, what?

Like this is how I stand when I'm talking to people. I'd literally stand with my hands like, but they want you to stand with your hands here, like in the bladed kind of thing like this. I'm like, I want to practice this. This makes sense. This is like, I want to do this. And so I did really had my gun in the vest like this. Train as you fight. Yeah. Train as you fight. What do you do now?

Like my current job? Yeah. So I'm getting ready to go to be the multimedia NCO for the... Do you do that full-time? Army National Guard, yeah. I'm active in the National Guard. Do you have multimedia? Multimedia. What? Can I contract for that? Because I know they'd pay me a lot more than they pay you. You know, that could... I don't know. I could write a thing about $2 million for one year and they'd be like, deal.

I don't know why we haven't gotten to be able to do that. I'm trying. I think that establishing a group of guys that are already doing it, that are doing a good job with it, would be awesome. You hear that, generals that watch the show? Make a difference. Do this, pay them their rate, and then contract me for a much higher rate. Train as you fight. That's what the group will call it. We will post as we fight.

right we'll motivate people to join the military yeah eating pizza my rate's gonna be extremely high i am a liar uh yeah you're gonna rip it out of my hand again really it's fucking slammed down you left marks on the table this is oak yeah oh yeah look oh yeah damn billy and

And they was like, I was like, dang. Okay. Okay. Now, did you guys, when you joined initially, we're like, I'm going to do this as a career or what point did it hit where you're like, Oh, this is a fuck. Did you know? Did you know? Yeah. Oh, okay. He's got the opposite of really what you would envision. So I, so as a recruiter, I get asked all the time. They're like, why'd you join all that? Cause people nowadays are like, well, what are the benefits? What's what's in it for me and all that. So I'm like,

college. These parents asked me, they're like, why did you join? I'm like, well, I'll tell you, I didn't join for any of the benefits. I joined because I wanted to go overseas and do that whole thing just like you. Right. So that's what I did. Like I knew exactly what I was going to do. I didn't know that I was going to be infantry. You know, I did the ASVAB and I got a decent score on it, but it wasn't a lot of different jobs, but what was it?

What's that? Your GT score was? 18. He crushed it. A 110? God damn. No, no, no. Genius. Yeah, something like that. We'll pull it up after. Yeah, yeah. So, G-Van put 18. Hey,

I had so many options. He had cook and infantry. The recruiter's like, you know, they give me this sales pitch and everything. And I'm like 18, you know, paying attention, trying to. And he starts popping in the VHSs or the DVDs. And I'm looking at like MP and all that. Yeah. Yeah. Seriously. And so I'm watching him. I'm like, I don't know these. And then he pops in the infantry one. And I'm like instantly captivated. Like, whoa. Yeah.

That guy is like the big guy, like real muscular, shooting a machine gun. And then next clip was him. That was the gay porn scene, right? Maybe. And the next clip is him like, why do I feel like this? I want that job. What is that? I can do that. Wrong one, bro. It's just blurb out dudes having fun. I'm signing up right now. Oh my God. You want to sign up? Fuck that.

So the next clip is like the guy pulling a pin on a grenade and he throws it into like the third floor window of a building. And then the whole building explodes. Of course it goes right in the window. And I look at the recruiter and I'm like, you're telling me I'm going to get to do that? And he's like, yeah. Done deal, son. Let's go. That was it. That was it.

Telling me the best is the recruiters face how it actually is like and then and then it's bad We're gonna sign up for this fast forward to infantry school and basic training after the hand grenade And I'm like that was nothing like the video. No you throw a hand grenade and goes like two feet I couldn't even watch it. We can't even watch no it weighs so much. I remember my buddies my buddy basic training right and

He got literally thrown into the crowd. He was like, I guess I didn't get down fast enough. And the dude, it was the largest African-American male I've ever seen in my life. It's full kit. So PC of you. Full kit. He grabs him. This is how Wright described it to me. You're like the African-American man that Wright described it to me. He said he grabs him.

He said, he said, I'm from Detroit. Fuck with me. Like with his knee on his back. Jeez. That was a black dude. With that thing right there. That is like, just fucking muscle. And that's a man. Oh, who was it? Not Sergeant Jackson. It was one of my favorite movies.

he was like that fucking black E7, just a fucking monster. Like he was one. I remember when he was questioning why we only could run the two mile in 12 minutes. He was like, I just did a nine 50. I'm like,

Homeboy was like an Olympic runner. He was the strongest dude ever, but he did the same thing at the grenade range. Well, he watched it. He like, no, like someone, a private was like, fucking just like one handed though. He was like, Ooh, just like the hand of God just chucked that private down and held him down. I was like,

He's a god. That's why he can run two miles under 10 minutes. What the fuck is wrong with him? God, those guys are fucking soldiers. Just for anyone that knows, when you throw your grenade, especially in basic training, they weigh a lot. You're not throwing a grenade 50 feet. I think everyone goes in with that mindset. It's like, I'm going to throw this thing so far. You're over the mountains. Yeah.

Trying to get your EIB, you have to throw in like a 20, like it's a whole 20 feet away. That is what stops everyone from getting their EIB. Because they don't get it like where they're supposed to get it. You got to get in that radius. People don't know how to throw baseballs.

It shows and it is hard cuz that fucking thing you have to like throw it in a direction And then you feel the weight on it like everyone here. It's throwing one controlling where it bounces also I watch my buddies get fucking flagged out at EIB because it was like just Went the wrong way like you're gone fucking no go you get two more tries, but most the time you ain't hitting it grenades wave

Four pounds? I don't remember off the top of my head. It's like deceptively heavy when you hold it. You see it and you're like, eh, that's a little. And then you're like, what the fuck? It's probably like a baseball. And then you're like, whoa, a heavy baseball. A little weight of baseball, yeah. It's a weird, oddly shaped baseball that kills you. Very dangerous baseball. It's a baseball with this wart and you flick something off of it. Yeah, you have to pull it. It's not as easy as you want. Why is this on here? People do it with their teeth. Your teeth will get fucking ripped out if you ever try that.

Like, this isn't good. So, this is the topic that I am excited to go for because now we get a nerd out for a second. Okay. Sly Cooper's going to wait. Are you okay with that, big guy? I still don't know who this is. It'll be okay. I want to see who is Sly Cooper. Don't talk about RuneScape. I have no idea. We can talk about RuneScape. I want to see what your anime or video game nerd knowledge is. And then you...

i i am so excited this man i we're trying to get a read i'm always trying to get a read on people he's making some energy i was like okay read me he has a darker side and then you started the podcast with your dark ass story i was like okay so that was a dark side dude when he came in he's like wait who's fucking animation is this i was like okay that was the most animated i've seen him since he

He was super excited. There's a sword in the garage. What's Naruto? There's Naruto. Who's the guy? Which one are we talking about? Tachi? No, what's the younger brother? Sasuke. You're Sasuke. 100% Sasuke. You were like walking around. You're like, I know more. I ate his meal. He's dark. I was like, man, okay. The Mexican dude's a darker guy. I'm going to learn his comedy though. You walk in here and you're like,

I was like, oh, okay, this is, okay. We're connecting now. You were like rolled up your sleeve. You're like, I love My Hero Academia. I was like, hey, here we go. One of the mandatory viewing scriptures of anime history. So when you, like, do you give your, what are your favorite animes? And then does that, leading back to First Arr. Where I wanted to take that combo. He was a First Arr. that would,

My favorite story about episode one or episode two or three just came out for Star Wars. Okay. So Star Wars episode three or two. Return of the Jedi. I forget which one. Revenge of the Sith. Revenge of the Sith maybe just came out in like 05, 06. Okay. First Arne walks in. It's like Thursday or Friday. He's walking in. He's about to announce that is coming out. Mm-hmm.

No, this was a different one. When that movie came out, it was a Friday, and he was like, did any of you buy tickets for that movie? That is an acceptable answer. Yeah, we were like, first of all, we did. Like, you have the day off. He cut us from formation in the morning to go watch it. I was like, that's amazing. Yo, first of all, this dude's fucking dope as shit. Then the other one.

We had a safety brief in the morning. It's 9 a.m. First, I was going to just start it so then he can do whatever first does. And he's walking in and a private puts on the emperor like the imperial death march. He put it on loud, put on the speaker plate. It's like that started playing as he's walking in and he stops. He's like, who played that? Private's like, it's perfect. He's like, you, you have the day off. Go.

I'm like, fuck! Fuck! Oh, for some reason. So cool. Private's like, okay. He just, like, skedaddled out of there. I'm like, dude, this dude's fucking dope. But, like, that was, like, his level of nerd for Star Wars. Yeah, I speak that. For anime or is that? Star Wars as well. I'll give you perfect. This happened. This was me. Squad leader back in Geronimo, right? This was 2017. The first Star Wars of the new trilogy came out, right, in 2017? Yep. Was it the...

I forgot the name of it, but it was the Star Wars. Was it a new? No, New Hope is the original. It was the new Skywalker, I think. Yes, the new Skywalker. So it was the, you know, it was Star Wars. Star Wars was coming back, right? Yeah. You know, so obviously I'm about it. Yes, Rey was coming. I was like, yes, all of it. So my platoon siren, I forgot what happened to him. He had to go do something where he had to step away. So I had to cover down naturally as a weapon squad leader. So we just got done with that rotation.

And our CO brings us in, all the platoons are in some PLs. We're all sitting there figuring out what we can do for recovery and everything. And then I was like, this movie comes out this fucking Friday. I'm not trying to work. I'm trying to be there on opening night.

I'm going to make a memo. I had my PO help me make a memo because I didn't know how to make a memo at the time. I love that. He helped me make a memo requesting and saying that, you know, the company commander authorizes a late call for anyone who goes to watch that Star Wars movie. So I was like, boom, looks good. He proofed it, made sure everything was good, font, all that good stuff, right? I was like, sweet. You think he'd get mad if I show him this, like, you know, get him to sign off on this? I don't know.

I was like, well, I'm going to try it. Or smoke me. But, you know, we'll get there. So we get to that. We're in the meeting. And, you know, he's going over conditions check and make sure we're all good. This is what's happening. Priorities of war, et cetera, et cetera. All right. First platoon, second platoon. Got it. Third platoon, what do you got? Oh, PL speaks. All right. And I was like, sorry, I got something. If you could just read that. His name was Captain Flancher. Really solid. He's like one of my favorite company commanders.

And he looks at it. He starts reading it through. It's just basically me saying that he's blessing us off on having a late call for whoever goes to Star Wars movie. So he reads it. I just picture it starts with...

A long, long time ago. I'm just picturing the like, why is this scrolling? I don't remember, but it was like, as a company commander, I authorized blah, blah, blah. Right. So he reads it and I'm like, I'm really like watching like, oh shit. And like, he just looks at it as he's done. He looks up at me and he's just like, what made you think this was okay to give to me? And right there, I was like, oh shit. And then he's like, give me a pen. And then,

I forgot who gave him a pen. Someone gave him a pen. You guys are good. And when he said that, I was just like, and my PO was like, we're fucking good. I was like, yes. He's like, yeah. Made the force be with you. Exactly. And then at that point, the other Petunias are like, well, we want to see it too. And I was like, yeah. And then C was like, no, yeah. Let's go fucking see Star Wars. I'll talk to the BC so we can get off for the company. I was like,

Yes. And it happened. And then the other companies hated a little bit and they're like, Oh, well, they could be off. Whenever you get something, I'll never, the first thing I did when I got back, the first thing I got back from OCS and I'm a newly minted butter bar. I,

I was like, I want to do offsite PT. So I came up with a con up. I came up with a draw. We used the rock wall that was in the gym that I shit you not. I'd never seen anyone use in the four, four years I was at Fort Sill. Never seen a single person on this rock wall. Right. I was like, what do we need to do? Take a safety class. All right, everybody, you got to take safety class. We can do offsite PT. We're doing offsite PT, right? We're all climbing this rock wall. It's great. Nobody, nobody, there are people in the section that have been in the army for like almost 10 years and have never done offsite PT. Like,

And this, this dude walks by and he's like looking at us all nasty. And I look at him and he's like, and I'm like, okay,

Dude, what's your issue with this? You could do... Instead of hating because we're doing this, why don't you come do it with us? You know what I mean? It's so weird. It's just strange to me. Because yeah, you say the other companies hated, and I 100% believe it. Because instead of being like, oh wow, okay, this is an option for us, they're like, no, we shouldn't do that. Why are they getting that? It's like people try and take things from you. It pisses me off. Fuck yeah, we're working this week. They got a link

late call we're gonna work out we're gonna show up at zero five we're gonna do a rock while watching the movie

We're going to play it in the back of our truck. We have episode three. I don't even want to watch. That's the old one. You have to road march the entire time while we watch it, and we'll throw popcorn at you to pick up and eat. Yeah, if you can keep up, you can watch it. Whenever the new Star Wars were named, though, they should have been named Bad Lightsaber Choreography. And I actually recently found out why the choreography was.

was bad so in the prequels the lightsabers apparently were cgi but in the new ones it's an actual like metal rod or something that they're holding so there's some physical weight and that's why it looks like heavy when they're swinging it around but that's why they can't do all like the flippy shit that they used to do well i like star wars let me be honest with lightsabers it's light there's gonna be no way exactly yes

Yeah. You ever fuck with a flashlight? This is what Star Wars, this is literally a fucking lightsaber battle. You know what I never understood too? I'm sure there's lore nerds that can answer this for me, but why did anybody not ever just turn it off and turn it back on, like right at the right moment? So, I can answer that. That is a... Lore nerd. Yeah.

Let's see. Oh, man. There's like four different variations. Is it like an honor thing? What's going on here? Why can't the Kyber Crystal do that? There's like four different variations of the fighting styles, right? And they all have a mutual slash understanding that it is a forbidden slash treacherous way to do it. Even the Sith acknowledge it's like poor. What is the word? Sportsmanship. Yes. If we're going to duke it out, we're going to duke it out with them on. We got another nod over here, too.

If I was a Sith, I wouldn't care about that. Oh, yeah, dude. I'd be like, 100% bear. You're dead. Now I got a new lightsaber. With that being said. And then I'd turn on my TikTok video and be like. Do your single days. Yeah. Force lightning. Force lightning. I'm pretty sure there is one that tried it, but I think he got, like, destroyed for doing it.

Which is so weird. Dude, I love nerd. Star Wars. The only Star Wars I give two shits about is back in the day.

during the like actual uh the mandalorian wars or the old republic when it was the the giant battles between like a thousand sith and a thousand jedi that's when it was like dope as shit then the rule of the the two siths became that's some of the best expanded universe books and i don't know if they still call it that because disney owns it now but like the darth vane trilogy which explains like the rule of two i read it when i was a kid

such good reading even if you just like sci-fi it's still really he's a dude he's a dude he's buying them lips no no i was gonna say it's okay it's okay to say you read it as a doll it's perfectly fine we think i'm we can i still have the books from when i was a kid i should reread them because they actually are really good dude you got some uh dope ass uh darth uh who is the fucking the greatest battler darth here not tyrannus um

Forget his name. He has an entire sex so he was small. No, this is wet. This is back in the day This is like 2,000 years in the past You guys talk real quick about anim Star Wars your favorite one. Well, I look this up. I mean, I literally have Oh, there you go talk about that real quick. I got a pee pee while I look this up Yeah

The Revan novel, the only thing that's bad about it is that it wasn't longer and there weren't more.

I don't think I've read that one. I know nothing about anything you're talking about right now. You know nothing about Star Wars? You never played Knights of the Old Republic? I don't know what anime is. I know it's like a cartoon or something. Stop. No, don't do that. What is it called? You were my hero until just now. You're going down a notch. Like none? No, seriously. You've never watched anime? There's got to be one you've thought about. Dragon Ball Z, yes, I've heard of it. I've never watched it. You've never watched it? You never want to be a Super Saiyan? No, I don't even know what that is. Who is that?

I think he's fucking with us. No, I'm not. I'm not. He's trolling us. Yeah. We'll have to watch a video after this because I'm telling you. Goku. That doesn't even sound similar. I'm telling you, man. I have no idea. I've never. And I don't have the tattoo either. What did you watch growing up? Not much. Just Tom and Jerry, like regular cartoons. Were you homeschooled?

That wasn't meant to be a dig. I was trying to figure it out. I was like, there's no way Dragon Ball Z was like part of everyone's, even whether you liked it or not. It was like there. Toonami? I missed Toonami. It's so funny because I saw a clip on, I can't remember if it was on Instagram or YouTube or what, but I saw a clip of the Toonami like robot dude talking and he has that iconic voice. Yeah. And it was just like, it literally made me sad. Like I got emotional. I was like,

I remember this easier time in my life. What is, what is like so appealing about it? I'm not even trying to like, well, and I don't know. It was just, it was cool. I mean, it was just dudes like powering up and fighting each other. I mean, back in the day, I don't, I have never had the like obsession with it that some do, but I think it's cool. I would watch it more if I had more time in my current life, but I don't have four kids. But you,

Yeah, I love the shit out of anime. But why? What is it about it that makes you like it so much? If I could, it's really hard to explain because I can teach you by making you watch it and then you will learn to love it because that's just the way anime works. What are we talking about? Anime. They're educating me. He's never watched a single episode of any anime ever. He's heard of the world. He's never heard of Goku. That's just why we like it. Yeah.

It's amazing. First off, Exar Kun. You'll have to give me a list of things I need to watch. Yes, I can give you the mandatory scriptures to view. Yes, we can do that. Definitely, you need to do that. We've got to get you cultured. Why? What was the question? Why do I watch it? Is that what you said? Yeah. What about it? Do you like some? Well...

So if you can get past the shallowness that it is not live, right? Cause people are always like, Oh, well it's not real life. Like, God, it's the whole point. It's none of our videos are real life. Interesting enough. Oh, that's crazy.

I thought we literally are like this all the time. But it's the story. The storytelling is like phenomenal. Yeah. Super character development is really good. Storytelling. All right. It's the difference between how I always explain anime is you have this universe where there is no creative control. You have you can expand into whatever story you want and then the character can go wherever

Yeah, that's a really good point. There's no limiters, right? It almost feels like anything's possible. Did you plan that? That sounded very good. Covered in anime tattoos. I might throw down on the nerdism. That was like a creed you just said. You're writing that down?

I'm going to say that to a joke. I'm going to say that to a joke this week. Attention! Listen, listen, formation. You guys got to watch Naruto. It'll teach you to let go of the limits on your mind. You can do anything. I will say because you're, you know, you're, what is the word? Not necessarily older, but you've never seen it, right? I can tell you right now. It is harder. It is harder. It is harder for people. I thought you were my same age. Like,

Like Naruto, right? Are you 30? No, I'm not 30. I think he's the oldest one out here, right? No, no, no. He's probably... You're probably pushing it a little bit. Eli's got me beat. How old are you? 39. 39? Okay. 36. Okay. 41. 41.

Are you really 41? 34. I was going to say, I was like, I was like, I thought you were, well, you're 34. I still have all this shit. You're a first-time. Oh, my God. I'd be like a smart major. I'd be the worst art major. Like, oh, we're going to watch two hours of Naruto.

That's it. I don't give a shit. I'll be a terrible song major. I know for a fact, part of my love for like cartoons in general is like psychologically, it brings me back to a simpler time. Like when I was a kid, right? You don't have, you know,

You don't have the bills, the responsibilities, like 1,700 people you're constantly disappointing. You know what I mean? It's just nice every once in a while. Take a little dip into nostalgia. Maybe 22 push-ups. Yeah, I'm telling you. You got to make it work.

It all depends on the person, right? Like, so mostly, majority, like my PL, my first PL, not about it. He was like, had a very shallow mind of like, does for kids. I was like, let me school you up. Now, it depends on, like I said, Naruto would be the most worst example because you got to attack him with...

with what they can get with. Some anime take a long fucking time to build up, like Naruto. So you go with that one at the end? No, no, no. If you each had to choose one, is it called anime? If I was just to throw you into the gambit, I'd be like, here's Demon Slayer, here's Attack on Titan.

Tack on Titan's a really good one. But Berserk's a little hard. No, no, no. Let's calm down. Because then he'll be like, you creepy ass. But it's real good, too. It is really good. But you know what? You have to eat when you get into Berserk. Because the apocalypse is not that bad. It's dark as fuck. One Punch Dad did a really good video on how...

King of the Hill is American anime. I know. I love that one so much. And that video, because at first I was like, what the hell is he doing? And then by the end of it, I was like, God damn it, it is. It is American anime. Fuck! Shit! What?

Yeah, King of the Hill, anime. I've watched that. Okay, I've watched anime then. Star Wars is a good example, and then you can branch out into different types. And say for video games, you have all these different things that are... Dude, anime, like if anime... We talked about when Grand Thumbs was on. Grand Thumbs, when that dude that...

the 22 guy was like, I could shoot a fucking, I can hit a can from 20, uh, from 700 yards with no scope. And then I broke down how that would turn into an anime scene for Michael, Mike. And then Mike started dying. He's like, that's the fricking perfect example of anime. Anime looks like even soldiers, uh,

Look fucking dope as shit. If there was just an anime about American soldiers, how they would make it look. If you want to recruit dudes, making an anime about them. An anime series for recruiting. Oh, dude. Not recruiting. Fucking how cool it is to be in the military. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Everyone would join. They'd be like, holy shit.

I get to level up my info. There's no, but in the anime, yes. There's animes on like basketball and they make basketball look like the fucking sickest shit ever. There's volleyball, haiku. Dude, haiku, but what's the, the blue, blue, blue lock. Yes. I fucking don't give a shit about football, which is soccer. Blue lock. I watched that entire season. I've read the manga. Right.

I don't care about soccer, but holy shit, I am enthralled on soccer. They'll be like, he's using the flying lotus technique. He's like, like makes a goal. He's leveling up, bro. He powered up. Is it because they can create whatever they want within that? So if it's soccer, whatever, they can become something else. It's not just that, right? Because it's not real life, it gives you the ability to go that far where real life can't, right? There's a limit on what we can do as people, but obviously...

Within that realm, you can go hard. Let me break this down. I can do this. This is great. This is great. Director Eli's coming out. Fucking, fucking Private Smith. We have Private Smith. He's at the gun range. He's an E3. He's like... Those rounds hit all over. And the first one's like, you fucking suck. And he looks over. And then he sees Specialist Johnson. Johnson's just like... And they hit close. He's like...

He looks, he analyzes the scene. He's like, my breathing techniques off. I should have been breathing different. And he looks at the finger and the punches in. He's like, I was using the wrong part of my finger. He's using the middle portion. And it goes, I've been fucking up the entire time. Punches in intense eye motion. It shows the smoke roll out. Okay. That safe, the safe to fire goes. And he's like,

And they hit pinhole. Perfect. Private Smith looks up. He's promoted to a general. And now you have anime and how it works. Epic. That would be a solid video to make too. Dude, that's epic. Like in that style. When you level up in anime. Why haven't you done that yet? I don't know.

One I don't know how to edit like that. I wish I did and otherwise I would have you done videos like that Yeah, I've done all I've seen crazy. He's free. I definitely got the power. Yeah, oh, I know Oh, yeah, my VFA you haven't seen my VFX. Oh, that's what my OG stuff Yeah, I wish I wish I could do shit where like I just like get huge or like fly that I could make it I could Make some crazy stuff like visions is what I call them. I

I can make some Netflix. Everyone calls it Tism. Netflix. He calls it visions and he calls it Tism. I call it vision. I call it autism. It's when my brain is like, this is really cool and I have to do it. I probably have it then. I'm autistic. I probably like that. But it's like anime at its core because you have, what's your top ones?

All the ones we just talked about. So if we're talking modern, Demon Slayer. Solid. Fucking this dude. Jujutsu Kaisen's on that list. Jujutsu Kaisen, yes. My Hero Academia. Fucking. There's a reason why I got it tatted, right? Like that is my number one show. One of the greatest hero stories of a child that's given birth.

nothing. Not in the aspect of not giving family or anything. He has no superpowers where 90% of the population has it, and he wants to be the greatest hero. That anime makes me cry. It's all the story. It's a strong anime.

there are parts where you can relate. You can, I guarantee you watching that show, you will find something you can relate to. Oh, absolutely. Like as a dad, dude, my hero, I'm like, yes, myself like riding. Cause I like, I always picture that like Midoriya or Deku is like, that's like, I wasn't given the opportunity to be a hero, but then he's instilled with that power because he's,

He's like the man, the greatest hero in the world sees this kid that he denounces. He's like, bro, just be a police officer. You don't have the powers. You can't do it. And then he watches this kid sacrifice his own life. He's like, I don't have powers. But he's like, I don't care. I'm going to be a hero anyway. And he does it.

With that, not even being watched, he doesn't know he's being watched, but he sacrifices. He's like, I don't care. I have to save my friend. That's his bully. And then the main hero watches. His name's All Might. All Might's fucking watches. And he's like, that dude right there. Yes. That's during the golden age for him. That's unopened action figure. It's never been opened. I have a lot of those. It's probably worth a lot of money. But he like, and then All Might watches that happen. And he's like,

And then the hero, the biggest hero self-reflection battle. He's like, I fucked up. Yeah. He's like, he became bitter. Yeah. He's like, I became bitter and I didn't look for what it means to be a hero, which is, it's not heroism, uh, like heroism or whatever. Yeah. We'll say it is. Uh,

I was trying to keep a straight face. I'm autistic. It is making that sacrifice and not worrying about your own well-being. It's the hard thing. It is like there is going to be a sacrifice either for yourself or for the few or for the many. The premise behind Yu Yu Hakusho, too. Yes. Yu Yu Hakusho. Yes.

That's my number one favorite. Well, Hunter X Hunter author is the same, so he did both. If you haven't watched Hunter X Hunter, he did both. It's so funny because I've considered watching it and a bunch of my buddies are like, it's just so slow initially. And so I'm like... The slowest ones are the best ones. It just takes the commitment. You must commit. That's what I keep telling my wife. 13, 14 years, you just gotta keep waiting, babe. You gotta commit, please. Can you commit? Can you commit?

Can you close the distance? You need to close the distance on that one. Good one. I'm intrigued. But this is like all in. So what are we going to recommend as the first one?

Yeah, what is the first one? Is it like their episodes, like kind of a TV show? I can tell you right now he'd be a good My Hero because he's got, like, I can tell auras, right? You're giving off the aura right now. What's my aura? You mean well. You want to do good. You want your kids to do good. And watching that show, I can already tell by the end of the second episode, you're going to be able to relate to what All Might does, and you're going to be like, yes, I need to see what happens on how this little weak-ass kid...

becomes number one. Right. But like, you're, I don't know. I think you'll, I think you'll be able to, I wholeheartedly think you will love my hero academia. Case in point. Why'd I get tatted? Oh, my majority of it's all mine. A Deku. Yes. I love Deku too, but just real quick. If I was a private, I know how to get you, but do push us a black. Tell me about your tattoo and you back private.

stay down there while i enlighten you on gospel stay down there you're gonna listen to this but so backstory on him real fast under a minute timing okay why why i love him so much

The dude, so the dude is good. He, he, he comes out and he puts on a fucking smile and he does everything he can to make sure that everything's okay. Right. It's like the symbol of peace. I can relate to that because I want to do my best. Right. I will, no matter how tired I am, I will sit here and do everything I can and break my back to make sure it's okay. As long as I have caffeine. Right. But on that same token, once, once, once the caffeine's off or, you know, once the end of the day and I go back home, I'm

I'm tired. I'm 100% tired. And I'm 100% not fully able. So watching that show like him, that's what I relate to him the most because even though he's half broken, he can still turn around and try his best to make sure everything's okay. So that's the one I need to watch first. Yes. And then after that, we're going to get you on Attack on Titan, Demon Slayer. By that time, you're going to be a full-fledged anime nerd. You're going to want to watch it because you want to watch it. But am I going to get a tattoo?

If you watch it all the way through it'll just appear yeah, they don't have to know what happens you completed Pokemon read for the thousandth time Wow yes, did you need if you haven't watched just a quick? We'll talk about it problem in the after show the poke twitch plays Pokemon when it was twitch commands are what I

played Pokemon Red, one of the greatest stories ever. So, like, chat got to dictate the move. So, chat was restricted to up, down, left, right, A, B, and start. Each chat command is how the character would move. They beat Pokemon with this. Bro,

They also, it, fuck, the story and the lore that came from it because every, some of those things, you remember that one segment in Red where it's the bush, you have to go under and go up or you drop off and you have to do the entire maze again?

There's like one, like, is this towards the end of the game? Yes. Yeah. So it's like one bush. If you accidentally push, there's one square. And if you push down again, you fall and you have to do this entire maze again, or you have down right, right up. Now, when you have thousands of people entering commands all at once, and it is going based off of the order of that command,

Took them three days Fucking butch the characters like up back left right forward down delete Pokemon Fucking once it is

It is one of the greatest like social experiments. And this is 2014, 15. There, there's a guy that used and he set rules for an AI to play Pokemon. And basically he tried, he tried to progress through. I want us, it was either one of the gen one or gen two games, uh,

but he wanted the ai to progress through the pokemon game naturally based on a reward system and he also used it to study like human behavior and it was it's so cool you can find it on youtube but it was it's probably the longest youtube video i've ever watched because it was so cool because he'd say like okay if you discover a new thing

I'm gonna give you one iteration of reward, right? Reward. - Yes, the AI one. - You watched it? - Yes, yeah, oh my God. - And then he discovered along the way, like, even in the Gen-- - Dude, that was like, what? - Even in the Gen 1 Pokemon games, there's sprites, right? And they'll move around, and so like, at one point-- - And it confuses the fucking AI. - And so it's really cool. - So is that the game where you see people, like,

That's the game that simulates dog fighting, but with just like random creatures. You know what I'm talking about? Is that what it is? Like on their phone where they would be like, we would get calls as cops, like for random people. Oh, that's Pokemon Go. Okay. Go is the one where they would go into like...

Bad neighborhoods like but there's the Pikachu here and you're like like horrible neighborhoods and then we call him like what are you doing? Dude this is Cody Donut talked about this Donut would get calls to be looks like fucking what are you doing out here?

random fucking like you get the the wrong people in the wrong neighborhoods like there's a pikachu here i literally stopped playing pokemon go because i had like 40 ultra balls and like 20 golden raspberries and i still couldn't catch a metagross

And I was like, all right, I'm done with this fucking game. And then I found out it's RNG based and I just have no desire to play RNG games ever again. Same, bro. He's married somehow. He's married. With that statement right there, this man is married. I kind of had 40 Ultra Bars and 30 Raspberries. I'm like, oh.

I like I'll play RuneScape and that's the only RNG game I'll play because there, you can not make use of RNG in that game. You know what I mean? Like you can just do stuff, but God damn Pokemon go. I literally almost threw my goddamn phone out the window of my car.

We would get calls all the time for it in like parking garages, like in the people like going into a lake or something. I'm like, what are you doing? I can't swim. You can't do that. That's a stormwater drainage pond. Yeah. So we get those calls and then I go from that and then I've never watched any of this stuff. I have no idea what it is. And then I get a call for a bunch of people in a field fighting. And so I'm like, you know, get there really fast.

and I spotlight the field, and everyone's out there in costumes with the big foam swords. Ha ha ha!

And I'm like, oh my. I'm like, I got the rifle out. I'm like, I don't know what's happening. And so one of them comes up and they're like, did somebody call you? And I'm like, well, yeah. It's like midnight and you guys are out here hitting each other with these foam swords. And I'm like, what are you doing? We're LARPing. I'm like, what the heck is LARPing? So then they explain it to me and then I would just go and park every time that they did it just to watch. Just sit there and like eat my lunch. Like, this is amazing. Yeah.

Crazy. I'll just say now, if anybody messages me anywhere and invites me to LARP, I'll do it. I'll go with him, too. Yeah. And Butterworth will come to you. Because I love it. Lightning bolt. Lightning bolt. Lightning bolt. Those are my favorite things. Lightning bolt. Firebolt. Yeah. Firebolt. Lightning bolt. So with your, like, your animes, you have your chapter three. Like, where is...

Do you read manga? That's always that weird. Manga? No. What's that? Break it down. It's pretty much the anime and books. Doesn't the manga usually come first? Yes. All the shows are damn near from the books. Just in two cartoons. Is that what you were saying that you read as a kid? No. Expanded Universe Star Wars is just normal.

Okay. Yeah, it's book books. I'm trying to understand it. I read a lot of manga. I'm like huge manga, manga, however you say it. I can't do it. I can't visualize. I just wait until it comes out in a show. Yumi is fucking... I can't just look at the book and it just doesn't click. Do you know what power I hold? I can tell him the ending of Demon Slayer right now and just ruin his day.

Me? No, don't do it. I know, I would never do that. Speaking of... I just ruin every animal. Here's what happens in My Hero. Here's what happens in The Demon Slayer. I might watch it. Don't do that. I cut to his face. He's like...

I have that power. They have the power. Have you guys watched invincible yet? Yes, of course. Have you seen the second season now? It's only like four episodes in and apparently because the writer strike, they might not like continue to release episodes or maybe the episodes aren't weird. I know exactly. It's weird. Just follow the fucking comic.

That's literally what happened when we talked about in the last episode or one of them was the... Was the zombie show that came out, an HBO show? The Last of Us. She got to thank you. That's why I asked her. She's amazing. I heard that was good, too. Last of Us fucking... It's a good game. I love that. Because they weren't like this. They were like, oh, let's just...

Copy what they say in the video game. Yeah, you remember that thing with millions of people like, let's just do it again. And then they did it and they were like, fucking Slade. And everyone was like, whoa, we can do that? Yes, yes, you can, video games companies and movie studios. Just fucking God of War.

That's what we need. We need God of War. God of War. Didn't they make a Gears of War movie? No. They talked about it at least. That would be a good one, but it would be good. It would be hard. It would be very good. Gears of War, Metal Gear. Metal Gear is my fucking game, dog. Do you like Metal Gear 2? I want to talk video games. Look, you were, yes, I got it. You're older than me, but you were not molded. Where's your solid snake tattoo?

Actually, we're not going to talk about that. You want to see Snake on my chest piece? You got a whole chest piece of Snake? Do Metal Gear's why I joined? I joined the military because I met Hideo Kojima. I was selfie with him. I joined the military because Metal Gear Solid 3. What a thrill. Yes. Hi, Colonel. What's a Russian gunship doing?

Would you eat a tree frog? The line that says... Damn it. Promote this, man. The line that's basically like, my source, I made it the fuck up. That's from the Metal Gear games, right? He says, I made it the fuck up. Where's that from? It's like some jacked politician guy. Oh, yeah. Yes, yes. That was in Metal Gear Rising. So that was one of the one-offs that Kojima didn't do. It was...

Raiden. Raiden, yeah. My son's name is Raiden, if you want to know how big... You named him after Metal Gear. Was that intentional? Like you were like Metal Gear Raiden? Yes, 100%. I was like, my son... Did your... Baby mama was like...

What about Ryan? I was like, what about Ryden? It's a little, and she was like, oh my God, I really like that. She's like, so you need to tell her why. And then she signed it and we got the birth certificate. And I was like, that's where my video came from. God damn it, Eli. And then I found out Liquid Snake's name was Eli. And I was like, perfect. Oh my God. Dude, I am, I have a Mark 23. I want, if I have a son, I want to name him Baron because then it would be Baron Von Lettkman.

That's a gangster My wife won't let me do it That's a witcher name We're never going to have a son I've had four girls I'm not having a son I'm pretty sure when it comes out it's pink You know what I mean Just name him that anyways Her name is Byron And then everyone would think it's a Trump reference too And I don't know if I would make him If we're in a red state that would be fine I guess But you're like I can't risk this

Oh, fuck it. Dude, Metal Gear. Metal Gear is like. That was the very first game I played on PlayStation. PlayStation 1. Yes, on PlayStation. It indoctrinated me into what gaming should be. The very first game I played on PlayStation. See, you should have stayed long, bro. We get along real fucking good. When the Praying Mantis, when he came up and my controller shook and I was like, I was a little ass kid. I was like, what is happening? I'm terrified. There's magic. Dude, comments below. He said the Praying Mantis.

Don't destroy him psycho man. It's do what I say. Did I say pre-mantus? Yeah? I Play crash bandicoot. I want to say Bomberman PlayStation 2 my favorite game was need for speed underground 2 and

And that had the best soundtrack of any game. I was just about to say the soundtrack. I still literally listen to the, I listen to the songs like driving here. Um, there's a song called nobody by skin dread and I can't even like mimic it. It's like, it's like reggae metal. It's weird. But, and then, um, you should a hundred percent try to mimic it. That's where I fell in love with kingdom hearts, Jack and Daxter. Yes. One of the required.

And Kingdom Hearts is probably my favorite video game series of all time. And I know it's kind of basic. It's like the Uggs of video games. It started real strong and got very convoluted. It really did. And I don't know why they, they made a Kingdom Hearts game on literally every system ever created by man. Each one has a story. Yeah. And it's like, tie it together. And you're like, I,

could understand playstation and game boy but like when we're when we're dive like i don't i don't know what you guys think my parents did but they can't afford to buy me every game system ever created by humanity and so i just i i mean i couldn't keep going donkey does the best kingdom hearts if you guys don't know video game donkey he's probably one of my favorite youtubers i have like game grumps video game duck i have like these ones that are

amazing YouTube content creators in the video game space. Video Game Dunkey, if you haven't watched him break down Metal Gear or watched him do Kingdom Hearts. Is it comedic? Oh yeah, he's god-tier comedy on how he does it. God-tier comedy. Video Game Dunkey, if you ever want to be on the podcast, we love you.

Bro, just come on. But he breaks down each one of these stories and that's how he got big. He played League of Legends and he would do the most. I've still never played League of Legends. Good. Don't play it. Smite. Smite League of Legends. Don't start any of those. Never. Just stop. Guys, stay away from them. Trust me. Did you guys play Nintendo 64? Yes. What's that? Yeah.

Banjo-Kazooie? It's like anime. Remember Pokemon Snap? Yeah, I remember that. Snap? You got, well, Pokemon Snap, Goldeneye, Kirby, Perfect Dark, Kirby, Hexen, Wave Runner. Hexen? I don't remember Hexen. Hexen was a first-person shooter based off of Doom. God, I am fucking retarded. It is a first-person shooter based off of Doom with a, it was like, or Doom meets...

Wolfenstein. Yeah. And you had magic spells and then you had, there was no guns. It was like swords and magic spells and then you would progress, but it was a lot like doom. It had like some music in it and was atmosphere. Yeah. Like witchcraft and demonry. I think my favorite was a road rash.

for the sega genesis yeah what was twisted metal on that remember playstation one yeah yeah i think it was also on two or three as well i mean i'm sure they continued to review the games playstation 2 there was uh yeah and then they did a show like twisted metal yeah they did do a show playstation and then twisted metal 2 twisted metal black was the game i gotta find it on my phone because i don't know fantasy seven recognize fantasy seven yes the zelda xenogears yes do you know xenogears

You're talking to a fellow God. Well, you actually know Xenogears? Yes. Holy fuck. I grew up on all of it. Do we just become best friends? I have a sealed copy. You do? Yeah. It's worth a lot of money.

I have a lot of sealed video games from the 90s and 2000s. I've never been open. Xenogears is one of my favorites. Guys, we're going to have sex after this. It's going to be great. Do you guys remember? You're going to get your whole month's subscription right after this. It's like the human centipede, but gay. It's going to be awesome.

Have you played... Do you guys remember?

Do you guys remember the futuristic racing game Wipeout on PlayStation? Yes. Holy shit, the flying one. It had a soundtrack with no words, but it was such a good soundtrack. EDM. Yeah, it was all EDM, and it was weapons on these fucking... It was essentially pod racing before Star Wars or a little bit after Star Wars. Like...

- Dude, that dope is the dopest soundtrack. This is before EDM, I don't think EDM existed. This was trans music before it was a thing or a name. It was just like,

This is back before... And you're like, I'm fucking driving this race car. This is back before it had a name and my dad just called it that dumbass fucking music people on Ecstasy make. Ecstasy didn't even exist at this time. It was crazy. Ecstasy became a drug because of it. Back then you just had to go out and lick mushrooms and hope something good happened. Were you a big gamer? No, I mean, we had a Nintendo and then Super Nintendo. My buddy had Sega and then Nintendo 64 is where I would like

All in. Like every game that I could get, I was going to play. Like 60. Yeah, that's like your golden eyes. We would do the. Oh, golden eyes. Golden eyes. We put the cardboard on the screen so you can't cheat everything. So you can't screen cheat. I'm so happy that is a thing because I did that with me and Casey. Casey. No screen looking. Casey has balls. Go check him out on streaming. Casey, pick. I don't know. Casey, what's your fucking like you tie one windfall or something like that? Love you.

We used to do that, and I thought we were the only kids that would put a piece of cardboard. If I catch you looking at my screen, that's a fist fight. We're like in elementary school, throwing down. Odd job and golden card. If I catch you looking at my screen at a sleepover, I'm going to shit in your pillow. I'm going to poop in it. I'm going to poop in it.

The one with the fox and like the flying. Star Fox. Is that what it was? Yeah, Star Fox. Do a barrel roll. And the flying thing. Star Fox. There it is. Flying Fox. Flying Fox. Also one of my favorite games. Planet Fox. Lunar. Did you play Lunar? Lunar Silver Star. Silver Star Story.

yes oh man we you should have stayed longer i cried when i had to sacrifice his all that oh i was so far just to make him what was it all that dragon armor he had on and he walked in to sacrifice himself and i was like spoilers 30 years later where are you going i just got you there this is what i love about video games or anime it's like these pieces where it's like you had your nativity 64 you can name games you can name games from

We all just were like, oh my God, this fuck is so fucking dope. I love that shit so much. Yes. You know, it's funny because we had so few options back then. Like if you talk to anybody that's anywhere from probably 30 to 45 right now, like we all kind of played the same games, watch the same shows. Like I guarantee one of you watch survivor. If not all of you, right. As a kid, wasn't it a big survivor? No,

You got me. He said, and I quote, this is an officer for you. What about law?

lost to piggyback what about lost to piggyback America's funniest television yeah yeah I remember that that's a good joke anyway there were so few options and now I think about my kids and like there's like six billion options on streaming services like nobody watches the same thing I hear every time I talk to a new parent I'm like what are you what are your kids doing they're like our kids watch like pink python and I'm like what the fuck is that YouTube it's just funny yeah they're all about YouTube like little shorts god

not drunk yeah but no all mines do what they don't want to watch like good movies or shows or series they just want to watch someone play with toys kind of wild and i just look at those kids i'm like the youtubers i'm like they're

Yeah, they're genius. Oh, yeah. Yes, they are. They're bankrolling, right? Damn sharp. I should have did that. That's what I should have did. I should have thought of that. That's like Cocomelon, right? Cocomelon. Or Miss Rachel. Miss Rachel. I think that's the top YouTube channel. Miss Rachel. What is Cocomelon? Oh, I'm sure it is. Cocomelon. I hear that late. Cocomelon. We'll ride in like a...

My kiddo who makes videos riding makes his own videos He has probably got right and I didn't like three thousand fucking videos that aren't uploaded They're just on his thing so he can watch also like autism superpower is that it's like I don't get bored I want to make this I'm like man. I okay when we have a channel built ready to go for

autism style content. Cause I know those autistic kids are going to be like my son and watch it a billion times per child. And I get to hear it every time. Cause I don't know if you guys have an autistic child. It's a bit different. They can watch the same thing.

A million times and find the same joy every time. Really? That's interesting. Awesome. It is. It is amazing because right. And I've watched cars too, probably 8,000 times. I was going to say, never finished it because my son doesn't like to finish it for some reason. Right. And I know you're not watching this. Why can't we just finish anything?

Why do we have to stop it like the fucking 75% mark so daddy doesn't get to finish it? Daddy wants the conclusion of the story, but Ryden, my son, he's like, let's start over. He wants to start it over right before it ends. Yeah, he doesn't care about the fucking end chapter. He's like, oh, cool. I'm like, fucking kid. Oh, my God. I just want to end. And I'm like, what if we finish it, buddy? He's like, no, daddy, we do not need to finish it. Why would we finish it? I'm like,

Have you tried to finish it? And he, he like, he doesn't like, he gets pissed. Yeah. He's like, daddy, why are we not starting it over? I'm like, buddy, let's just try. Let's just try. Let's power through this soldier. He's like, no father. I'm like, Oh God. But YouTube is the same. He's just, he can watch Savannah. And my favorite story is Savannah. Savannah.

My girl, future wife, everything. She didn't understand. She thought I was like joking about the level of dedication of rewinding and watching a segment over and over until he wants to watch rewatch specific segments in the movie. Oh yeah. Movies, YouTube videos, his own videos. He will watch one segment over and over and over until the end of time. Oh my God. So funny.

She was doing something and Ryden was working next to her on his tablet. Ryden's like, so I get a text from her. She's like, babe, he's watched the same five second clip for two hours straight and he's not wearing headphones. Can you say something? I was like, I was like, Ryden, put on your headphones. He's like, yes, daddy. I was like,

she had to hear one sentence for two hours straight because she's a trooper she's very respectful she's like learning his like tisms and patience yeah oh yeah and ryden has like infinite right he's just like i can watch mommy say this over and over and over and over and over so why does is there a reason for it like is he trying to find a flaw in it no

So what they do, he just gets fixated on it. Fixated. So autism is okay. I can end how my son watches videos now is okay. We have video playing now. Same video. I have to line up audio from another video explosions and stuff. So it makes this video funny. So he'll be like, I'm going to rewind to this angry birds getting mad. Okay. Now I hit the play button on this explosion. Okay.

for one hour straight. - Oh my God. - He would do the exact same thing. So I was like, kid, this could be a cash cow. You're autistic, you're gonna drive in more autistic children. If they watch your videos, you're gonna have like eight billion views.

He'll have 100 subscribers in a million years. My kiddo's going to have 100 million subs. He's going to be pulling in $200,000 a month on ad revenue. They're like, how's this kid's fucking ad revenue so good? It's like, these kids just watched the same segment over and over.

over and over. Oh my God. It's so weird watching you like, oh fuck yeah. But it's also his superpower because homeboy can create videos. He knows every video he can mimic. Like you, you,

If you just like recite the entire movie, he will be able to recite the entire movie. I literally have trouble going back and watching my own content before I post it. If I know there's a flaw in it. Cause I'm just like, is anybody going to notice? If they notice, will they care? Not him. He's like, this is, I love this daddy. Daddy, can we do it again? I'm like, Oh Jesus fucking Christ, bro. Okay. Doesn't care about anime though. That sucks. Likes Mickey Mouse.

Trying to get him into the anime. I'm trying to get my kids into that stuff too. I did get my kids to watch Power Rangers. That's kind of cool. My oldest, she's a replica. She's all about it. She goes to sleep to anime music. My youngest, opposite. It's got to be ponies and princess stuff. She's not a fan, no matter how hard I've tried. Kind of off topic. You guys remember Code Lyoko? No, it's not. I was just curious. Which is this one? It was on Toonami.

Princess Mononoke. Code what? Code Lyoko. Are you making shit up? I don't know. I knew Toonami. It's like the last time when you're like, everyone watches Survivor. Watch. You're like, watch guys. No one knew what you're talking about. Now you're like, this is on Toonami. Code Lyoko. I'm like, it was for sure Cartoon Network. Maybe not Toonami, but definitely Cartoon Network. Samurai Champloo. Samurai Champloo was good.

My boy. Guys, this is just anime hour for the next one. That was with the blue and the red samurai, right? Tyler's over here just like, can we talk about anything? Yeah. Sandwich and Blue, probably Cowboy Bebop. I want to say the same guy that made that made that one. The art style is similar. I mean...

Bro, you need to just dig deep. I told you I need a list. Watch the mail. It's fine. When Josh and him were talking about like Metal Gear, I was like twiddling my thumbs. Oh yeah. That's yeah. Last time it was like, and now I can talk about Metal Gear again. Dude, you, I'm trying to think if what movies do you like? So I'm, I'm big into the comedy. I like anything with Will Ferrell, like that kind of stuff. Oh yes. Talladega. Adam Sandler. I'm not a big Adam Sandler guy. No. So Will Ferrell, what else? That's the main one.

What other, like, okay, but. The Office. The Office, Parks and Rec. Yeah. Those kind of comedies, like, those are my. That was the aura I was getting. What else for, like, action? Mission Impossible. Nah, it's too old. What else do I like? Yeah, Jack Ryan, some of the newer shows, that kind of stuff. Jack Ryan. What about Jack Reacher? That's a good one. Jack Reacher? Yeah. With Thad from Blue Mountain State. You like Jack Reacher or just Jack Ryan? Oh, she's like, that's corny. Okay.

Horny. So we'll watch stuff on Netflix mainly, like movies and all that. Do we ask your wife what you like? Probably. Action flick. Oh, yeah. I love Denzel. I invited him to our wedding. He didn't show up. Thanks a lot, Denzel. Yeah, fuck you, Denzel. He is a man on fire. I see what you did. That was good. So Denzel movies, so you like...

Equalizer. Those are so good. I love three. I love them. They could make Equalizer all the way up to Equalizer 20. Just keep doing them. He's going to be in a wheelchair. Did Doug just like...

Slow motion scene of him in a wheelchair. Yeah, just rolling down the hill and be like. With something random like a letter opener. He does the watch thing. When the first one, I think it was the first one where he starts killing people with the staple gun. But it's like the push staple gun thing. And I was like, this is going to be so corny. And he's just like. And I'm like, this is fucking awesome. Whoa.

If you haven't watched have you watched equalizer have you and have you watched three yet? Yeah? Yeah, no, I haven't it's three the one that ends in the pier Italy When did it come out a month ago? I apologize. I didn't I haven't watched it yet That's why I said have you guys seen all the John wicks? I know what we're doing tonight Dude equalizer three fuckers. I was a fan of it just because I love that. I

John wicks, anything like that where it's there's. Okay. So equalizer. It's male Kardashian. It's. God.

God damn it, it is. And I love it so fucking much. It's totally pointless. It serves no purpose. And we will continue to consume it. And Equalizer 3. Equalizer stayed more true to the format than John Wick. John Wick, they tried to build lore backstory. And that's why I didn't care about all of this. What I wanted was the basic storyline and then all of that cinematic footage and all that.

John Wick is like, you kill my dog, I kill everyone. What a simple thing. We all agree he was justified. 100%. You don't kill somebody's dog. No. You just don't do that. You can kill my cats. That's fine.

I don't even want him. It's a boring John Wick. The cat dies and he just wakes up. You killed my cat. He's like, yeah, whatever. The cat didn't like me. It's never even in the same room as me. It's in there making biscuits. Now, one of my cats is awesome. And one of my cats I never see. But the cat that's awesome is only awesome to my family. And it's funny because they'll sit there and they'll like look at people that like new people. And then they'll get close to him. And he's like, ah.

Like...

He's like, and he looks inviting. He's like, hello. G-Man, just put that at the intro, please. That one segment is definitely going into that one. That two-second intro, I just want him to be like. So people have no idea. And then they have to watch the whole thing. Two hours and 30 minutes and be like, oh. Just see if that one. What's that one segment? Oh, God. And his name's Oliver. He's a black, flat-faced Persian, right? Classic. It looks like his face got cut off. Oh, my God.

Don't cancel me, please, for the love of God. And then the other one we have... Is that the guy that said flat-faced Persian? And then the other one we have is a white, dull-faced Persian. Both of them are very pretty. They're both equally pretty, I would say, black or white. But the... Just keep digging. The...

The white one just straight up hides. The black smashed face one. Or the white doll face. That's the actual names. It's the names of the cats. But the white one just hides.

You can watch your career. So anime, huh? Yeah. Wow. Army hits on me, not on him. Yeah. Yeah. But it'll buff the simplicity of like the first John wick and the equalizer and all that. Like that's, that's all I want. I want the simple storyline, the,

The action. Even the second John Wick wasn't bad. No. After that, it was, you know, we're getting a little excessive. I mean, like, look at every, like, Denzel Washington movie. Like, they're all structured the same way. Like, the very basic storyline and then a little bit of action. Very man on fire. His son's also an incredibly good actor. What's he in? He was just recently in a cop movie. I can't remember the title, but he did a good job, too. What's his name?

I don't know that either. Denzel Washington's son. He's in this really good movie. What's the movie's name? A cop movie. I shouldn't have said anything. Denzel's son. Denzel's son. Alright, I'll look it up.

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