Soldier, Cigarette Enthusiast, Future Vrillionaire (No, Really) - Mind Over Matter #34 w/ Alex

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Yeah, when we did lights out, you could hear them fucking arguing and fighting.

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It's like, it's like high school with all these chicks, bro.

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It's like, how the fuck do y'all put up with this shit?

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Like, we're reading the Bible and they're all fighting over here.

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All right, everybody, welcome home.

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Back to another episode of Mind Over Matter.

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We're here live with Alex.

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Alex, how you feeling today, man?

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I'm fucking good, man.

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I'm all fucking pumped up. How are you, man?

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Good, good, man. Feeling good. Great day.

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Another military buddy, though, but he just went through in January.

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So pretty excited to talk to him about that.

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Ran into him in the I.O.

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Discord down below. Oh, shout out to the rational optimist, baby.

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Yes, sir. Kev, how are we feeling today, man?

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I'm feeling great now. Happy. Thanks. All right.

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I said, thanks. Happy St. Patty's day to everyone.

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We got our drinks right here.

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I got about a year old twisted tea that I'm going to try.

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Exactly. But no, dude, I'm feeling pumped.

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Really excited to do this show. So yeah, man.

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Yeah, I guess we'll just ask.

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Why don't you just go into a little bit about who you are, where you're from,

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what you're about, man.

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So my name is Alex.

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I'm from upstate New York, pretty shitty area, Syracuse area.

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And I'm in the military.

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I just got out of basic training about two months ago at this point.

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Did that for about six months, got a six year contract.

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I post a lot on Twitter.

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That's really only my main platform.

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Starting a life coaching business in the next few months.

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Trying to get that ball up and rolling.

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But right now, it's just trying to build an audience, get some content out there,

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let people know who the fuck I am.

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But yeah, you said you were in basic training for six months.

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Yep. Six months.

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Well, there was a holdover.

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How? No, where to go?

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Bro. Firing range.

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I feel that needs that day, you know.

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But so basic is nine week.

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Basic is nine weeks and then our AIT was 12 plus two years.

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So we had a we had Christmas leave.

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So there was two weeks.

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So in total, it's about 24 weeks.

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Yeah, I forgot about that.

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I can't imagine going back to basic training.

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I did that in AIT.

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Like when I first joined, that was hard.

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I can't imagine going back after Christmas leave

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to basic training.

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No, it sucks.

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And we had to do all the cleaning, you know, like take all the lockers out of the

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fucking bay, all the bunks, clean, buff and wax the floors.

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Or people in your AO when you were gone, like sleeping in your bay?

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There were.

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There were two and they didn't want to go.

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So they stayed in our bay for those whole two weeks.

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Oh, my God.

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Because they didn't want to go home.

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I only asked because when I got back in my bed, there was like 40 Reese's Peanut Butter

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Cup wrappers stuffed in my mattress.

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What the fuck is this?

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Loves.

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Swear to God.

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How uncivilized of a thing to do.

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Like 40.

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I was gone two weeks.

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This is like.

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Yeah, three bags.

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Like a lot, right?

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I'm under estimate.

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It's probably closer to 100.

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Like this must have been a fat motherfucker.

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You know, so when me and Kev showed up to our unit, man, the back in my day stories.

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I mean, I probably heard a million of them back in my days.

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And it is finally my time to shine.

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So I will say some back in my days.

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Oh, you've earned it, bro.

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Yeah. But but to start off, man, I would like to know if basic training is more

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critically thinking based now.

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That's what what I was getting out is a big movement.

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They're changing it from it was red, red, blue, white face, some crazy shit like that.

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Like the first two weeks, you're just getting push ups, sit ups, everything that like you

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did this wrong.

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Your hair is wrong.

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Like y'all shaved my head.

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What do you mean?

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My hair is wrong.

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You know, real quick.

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Two, three weeks, you're just getting it smoked.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, real quick.

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Yeah, I heard they changed like the shark attack.

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Like they don't do that anymore.

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Oh, yeah.

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So as a quick example.

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Yeah, they they switched it out.

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They took out the shark attack.

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I think they switched it out two or three years ago.

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But now they have something called the first hundred yards.

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It's it's some of the dumbest shit I've ever done.

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So you get off the bus.

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You don't know.

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It's first time you meet your drill sergeant.

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It's like five in the morning.

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Get off the bus.

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You know, they get on their screen and all actually get off.

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And you get off and then they run you down.

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Like as soon as you're off that bus, you're running like a mile down to this little area.

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This little like forest area.

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And then you split up in your four platoons and they basically run you through this like

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team building exercise.

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It's so weird.

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Like you have to like run and it's there is this tug of war thing you had to do.

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It's so gross.

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Yeah, the army says it's a team building exercise.

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It's a simple.

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Yeah, it's a team building exercise.

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Yeah, God.

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No, I remember hopping on that.

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Yeah, hopping on the bus that happened off.

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There was this girl.

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She had like three bags and she was wheeling one and every like every drill.

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So I turned around.

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I'm good.

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No one's around.

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I turn around and this girl literally has like six people just yelling in her fucking face.

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Why are you rolling this bag right now?

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Pick that up.

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I'm a psychopath.

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Then we get down. They're calling each one of our names to go into our own little platoon areas.

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And as they call your name, you take your bag and you just stand there like this with your

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hands up with your bag over your head until everyone's name is called.

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And then we just did some more bullshit activities for like fucking two weeks.

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The whole first.

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Yeah, just bullshit activities.

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Were there women with you there or was it just men?

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A lot of the units were integrated.

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So I was in Delta one five, which is like one of the older companies.

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And they didn't have any females, nothing.

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We were like one of the only battalions to have no females whatsoever.

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A lot of them do even well down in Fort Benning.

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There's there's the fuck.

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What are they called?

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The Scouts.

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Oh, the cavalry school.

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Yeah, they have cat.

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Yeah, cat scouts are down there and a lot of women pick that M.O.S.

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And then there's infantry, which is usually the main one, but you don't see many women at all.

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You'd only see them when you go on pass and shit to the PX.

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That's like the only time you'd ever see them.

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I would have preferred it that way.

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I was going to say that you had girls in your platoon in like your platoons.

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Everything was everything was like 50, 50 of my platoon.

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They were in the bay across from us.

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Yeah, like when people fucking at the in the washing machine and shit.

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Like, yeah, when we did lights out, you could hear them fucking arguing and fighting.

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It's like it's like high school with all these chicks, bro.

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It's like, how the fuck do y'all put up with this shit?

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Like, we're over there reading the Bible and they're all fucking fighting over here.

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Unholy people, dude.

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Yeah, I'm trying to.

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Yeah, like, you know, when you get off for that, like that half hour in basic and like

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you got the people writing letters, dudes working out.

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Yeah, like jacking off or whatever.

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Females always.

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Yeah, that's wild to me.

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Yeah, I had a man.

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This was probably my favorite story from basic training, other than getting kicked

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to the back of the line multiple times for laughing.

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Don't ask.

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Not even laughing, smiling, bro.

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But that's besides the point.

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There was this chick.

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I don't even know if it was a chick, but they kept finding notes.

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They kept finding notes and the bottom was signed, kill a cam and kill a cam.

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I guess is like a rapper or something like a legit rapper.

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Hold on.

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I mean, I don't even remember.

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Kill it.

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Where's Jamie?

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Pull that up.

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Yeah, Jamie.

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Jamie, pull that up.

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But kill a cam.

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Yeah.

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A whole ass rapper, bro.

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His name is Cam Ron.

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Was he at basic with you?

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No, this they were, they were like using his name as an alias and this they they ended up

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decoding the four fucking notes that they found.

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And for some reason, they thought I knew who it was.

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Like they thought me and everyone in basic training knew who this fucking dude was.

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Oh, bro, I was laying down at the at the gun range, laying down, like eyes closed, laying

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down and my drill instructor came from behind me, like put his foot on my hand to put the

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gun down and then came like this close to my face.

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He's like, who the fuck is killer can?

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I'm like, bro, it's like the biggest joke because for the past two weeks, they could

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have figured out.

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But basic training is over.

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It's that shit's ending soon.

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So y'all either figure it out or this shit happened on your watch and it just happened

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on their watch.

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They never figured it out.

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And then actually, I think the last day they were like, we know who they were handing out

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mail hand this chick or mail.

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He go kill a can.

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And she was fucking completely stuck.

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But they were just fucking in the laundry rooms.

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It was lights out.

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They kept finding notes in the laundry room.

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It's because I was on fire guard that night.

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They're like, oh, well, this note has the date you were on fire guard.

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You didn't see nothing.

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Like, no, bro, I'm not looking.

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Y'all got me sweeping the fucking floors.

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I'm not looking for nobody fucking in the washing room.

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Why would I be mopping the bathroom with the red flashlight?

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You can't even see.

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You can't see shit.

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People were fucking in basic training.

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That should always surprise me, man.

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Tell you, I heard about it through other companies, but, you know, I was all different.

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And even then, sometimes you heard some wild stuff.

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So I guess.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, dude.

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It's like that ruling.

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Go ahead, bro.

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I'm sorry.

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In my platoon, we had these two guys.

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I don't want to name them, dude.

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I feel bad for them.

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But so we had the showers, right?

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I don't know if your guys are showers or like ours, but they were like the small little

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cube areas and they were just divvied off a little bit.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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So they were like that.

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And there was this one time I was in there, I was like, oh, my God.

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This one time I was in there, it was like 11 o'clock.

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I'd always shower after lights out because if Drill Sergeant came in when you're showering

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like before nine or 2100, you were fucked.

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You'd run out naked and he'd fuck you up.

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So I'd always shower.

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I'd shower late as hell.

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And I was in there one time.

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It was just me.

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And then these two guys from my platoon come in there and they're like facing each other

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and opposing shower cubes.

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And I walk out.

255
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I look out, bro.

256
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And I watch them.

257
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They're about to hug.

258
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They're about to hug butt ass naked in the shower.

259
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And luckily, my other buddy comes in and he like intervenes.

260
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He walks in between them.

261
00:11:02,040 --> 00:11:03,480
He's like, what the fuck were you two doing?

262
00:11:04,520 --> 00:11:06,360
Bro, they had no clue what to say.

263
00:11:07,560 --> 00:11:13,000
Hug to make out or something like they just imagine going in for like a hug.

264
00:11:14,440 --> 00:11:16,680
They were going in for a hug and then they got stopped.

265
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While they're ass naked, too.

266
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They were ass naked.

267
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Yeah.

268
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I'm telling you, if we were ever butt naked like that, I would not be thinking about giving

269
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you a hug.

270
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Not in basic training, bro.

271
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I'm thinking about shower and getting my fucking sorry ass to bed.

272
00:11:30,600 --> 00:11:32,040
My P.T.'s on and going to bed.

273
00:11:33,560 --> 00:11:37,400
Yeah, they had that rumor like they'll give you like something to make you not horny or whatever.

274
00:11:38,520 --> 00:11:41,880
All the you know, what pill they tell y'all.

275
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Are you talking about the ash shot?

276
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No, when I showed up, we were all in the fucking church and they handed out this pill.

277
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I got church.

278
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Oh, my God, bro.

279
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We were all in the church and we all had this fucking pill.

280
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I don't even know what it did.

281
00:11:56,120 --> 00:11:57,160
Yeah, I got a pill, too.

282
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I think I got one after I got all my shots, like the seven shots they fuck you up with,

283
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like they line up.

284
00:12:04,680 --> 00:12:07,240
Yeah, line up, get one in the ass, dude.

285
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Yeah, I think they gave it.

286
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They give us two random pills.

287
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I had no clue what they did.

288
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So I imagine that's what it was.

289
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Yeah, but they didn't tell me shit.

290
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Yeah, I don't know.

291
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Our rumor.

292
00:12:16,360 --> 00:12:17,960
Yeah, our rumor was that it was.

293
00:12:17,960 --> 00:12:19,400
Yeah, it makes you less horny.

294
00:12:20,360 --> 00:12:22,120
That's what that's what everybody was saying, too.

295
00:12:22,120 --> 00:12:27,640
And we had fucking we had this rumor go around for the whole time that the eggs they were

296
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putting shit in the eggs to make you less horny.

297
00:12:30,760 --> 00:12:32,920
Yeah, they were just making the eggs, bro.

298
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That was it.

299
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Do you remember that?

300
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How runny that I don't know if you guys had the same age, but how runny they were.

301
00:12:38,280 --> 00:12:40,920
Oh, I had those eggs in Iraq and Afghanistan.

302
00:12:40,920 --> 00:12:43,480
I'm well aware of how runny that is.

303
00:12:43,480 --> 00:12:45,320
I swear to God, you could be on the moon.

304
00:12:45,320 --> 00:12:48,440
You could be on the moon wide, boy.

305
00:12:48,440 --> 00:12:50,040
The standard issue egg.

306
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You could be on Mars and fucking you get those eggs.

307
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Swear to God.

308
00:12:56,200 --> 00:12:57,000
They're really good.

309
00:12:58,520 --> 00:13:04,120
The oatmeal, the basic training oatmeal is some of the most gas I've had in my life.

310
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I will fight.

311
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The thick shit.

312
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Yeah, the thick shit.

313
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I'd put the syrup in it and then some sugar in it.

314
00:13:14,120 --> 00:13:16,040
Dude, that shit was bomb as fuck.

315
00:13:16,040 --> 00:13:19,000
That was actually the first time I tried syrup was at reception there,

316
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like we were getting bread away.

317
00:13:21,080 --> 00:13:23,400
Swear to God, dude, Trevor, I did not.

318
00:13:25,800 --> 00:13:28,040
I'm a picky eater to an extent like I'm better now.

319
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So like a vouch for that.

320
00:13:29,160 --> 00:13:32,680
This dude anywhere and gets chicken nuggets like the nachos.

321
00:13:33,480 --> 00:13:36,440
Yeah, but like I didn't like syrup like sauces.

322
00:13:36,440 --> 00:13:38,840
I'm just not about so I go there and I'm like, can I get the French toast?

323
00:13:38,840 --> 00:13:41,800
And she gives it to me slathers this ladle full of fucking syrup.

324
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Well, fuck me or whatever.

325
00:13:43,800 --> 00:13:45,800
I'm like, this is awesome, bro.

326
00:13:47,240 --> 00:13:50,440
That's why everyone except me does this shit because it's fucking good.

327
00:13:51,880 --> 00:13:57,160
Did you see any like, um, dudes that just definitely like you showed up here like that?

328
00:13:57,160 --> 00:13:57,720
He's not making it.

329
00:13:59,160 --> 00:14:02,760
I saw it was probably half my platoon, but they made it.

330
00:14:02,760 --> 00:14:07,400
But yeah, but there was this guy, this fucking kid.

331
00:14:07,400 --> 00:14:11,400
He was like, imagine the most imagine the most legal legends,

332
00:14:11,400 --> 00:14:13,960
World Warcraft type kid you can imagine.

333
00:14:13,960 --> 00:14:14,600
You know what I mean?

334
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I could do that.

335
00:14:16,040 --> 00:14:18,040
You know who I'm picking this fucking kid.

336
00:14:18,040 --> 00:14:22,040
You mean Rob.

337
00:14:22,040 --> 00:14:24,520
In this fucking kid.

338
00:14:24,520 --> 00:14:27,720
So we were on Sand Hill, Delta one five.

339
00:14:27,720 --> 00:14:30,280
Well, and it's literally just a giant hill, right?

340
00:14:30,280 --> 00:14:34,200
So to get up to our company, you had to go up this hill that was probably about this

341
00:14:34,200 --> 00:14:37,560
deep walk. It was like football field fucking length.

342
00:14:37,560 --> 00:14:40,360
And this kid, one morning we were going on, it was our 12 mile rock.

343
00:14:40,360 --> 00:14:42,120
We're going on our rock and we were going down it.

344
00:14:42,120 --> 00:14:43,560
That's the way we get out to the road.

345
00:14:44,360 --> 00:14:49,800
This kid's like 70 pound rock, fucking gun and all this kid rolls down the entire goddamn

346
00:14:49,800 --> 00:14:50,360
hill.

347
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I put his rock.

348
00:14:51,560 --> 00:14:56,360
Danny, Danny, Danny, Danny, fucking we sports, bro.

349
00:14:56,360 --> 00:14:57,160
Yeah.

350
00:14:57,160 --> 00:14:57,640
Yeah.

351
00:14:57,640 --> 00:14:59,160
The whole hill, dude.

352
00:14:59,160 --> 00:15:01,560
I was like, no way you could hear his gun clanking.

353
00:15:01,560 --> 00:15:04,600
Down the whole way.

354
00:15:04,600 --> 00:15:06,600
A quarter mile.

355
00:15:06,600 --> 00:15:08,600
I swear to God.

356
00:15:08,600 --> 00:15:09,480
Yes.

357
00:15:09,480 --> 00:15:11,480
The whole hill all the way down.

358
00:15:11,480 --> 00:15:15,480
That's probably the most energy efficient way to go about that.

359
00:15:15,480 --> 00:15:17,480
Roll down that.

360
00:15:17,480 --> 00:15:20,040
They still let him do the rock to 12 miles.

361
00:15:20,040 --> 00:15:21,560
He was fucking struggling, dude.

362
00:15:21,560 --> 00:15:25,800
He felt he felt there are two other times he fell over during that rock because he was

363
00:15:25,800 --> 00:15:27,800
so he's so just skinny and lanky.

364
00:15:27,800 --> 00:15:29,800
He would have been like, oh, I'm going to do this.

365
00:15:29,800 --> 00:15:31,800
He's so just skinny and lanky.

366
00:15:31,800 --> 00:15:33,800
The rock was like almost as much as him.

367
00:15:33,800 --> 00:15:35,800
Was he real tall?

368
00:15:35,800 --> 00:15:37,800
Yeah.

369
00:15:37,800 --> 00:15:41,800
He's probably about five, seven, five, eight, like maybe one fucking one, one twenty.

370
00:15:41,800 --> 00:15:45,800
Like this kid was getting he was getting bodied by his rock, dude.

371
00:15:45,800 --> 00:15:51,800
I was going to ask you like the caliber of like the caliber of people around you.

372
00:15:51,800 --> 00:15:53,800
I'm interested in like.

373
00:15:53,800 --> 00:15:57,800
So it was like you.

374
00:15:57,800 --> 00:16:01,800
A lot of them were either 18 or 21, 22.

375
00:16:01,800 --> 00:16:05,800
They were only the oldest we had was a guy who was 35.

376
00:16:05,800 --> 00:16:07,800
Oh, yeah.

377
00:16:07,800 --> 00:16:09,800
He got he stopped.

378
00:16:09,800 --> 00:16:11,800
He refused to train. He dropped out.

379
00:16:11,800 --> 00:16:13,800
I think he's still there, honestly, because they keep you as a holdover.

380
00:16:13,800 --> 00:16:15,800
But I think he's still there.

381
00:16:15,800 --> 00:16:17,800
Shout out my holdovers.

382
00:16:17,800 --> 00:16:21,800
Shout out Garwizzi and Chevurenchik out there.

383
00:16:21,800 --> 00:16:23,800
But prayers up.

384
00:16:23,800 --> 00:16:25,800
Yeah.

385
00:16:25,800 --> 00:16:27,800
I'm going to be like, what the fuck?

386
00:16:27,800 --> 00:16:29,800
First day out.

387
00:16:29,800 --> 00:16:31,800
You ain't getting no classes.

388
00:16:31,800 --> 00:16:33,800
They were all pretty young.

389
00:16:33,800 --> 00:16:37,800
There were only a few guys that were older and the older guys really did the best, though.

390
00:16:37,800 --> 00:16:45,800
We had a guy who was 30, turned 34 while he was there and he had I think it was a five eighty six PT score.

391
00:16:45,800 --> 00:16:47,800
He was killing it.

392
00:16:47,800 --> 00:16:53,800
And there was another guy that's going for going for special forces training that was like 33 or 34.

393
00:16:53,800 --> 00:16:59,800
He's old and he's fucking frail, but he's going for SF and he's he's a fucking killer.

394
00:16:59,800 --> 00:17:01,800
No, brothers, have to.

395
00:17:01,800 --> 00:17:03,800
Yeah, they are.

396
00:17:03,800 --> 00:17:13,800
One of my drill sergeants was was SF and yeah, he was he was like, you can tell this dude was lean built, like just straight lean muscle mass.

397
00:17:13,800 --> 00:17:15,800
And he was we'd call him the grim reaper.

398
00:17:15,800 --> 00:17:19,800
He was tall. He had like this black, like long comb over.

399
00:17:19,800 --> 00:17:23,800
And he would just say some of the most like.

400
00:17:23,800 --> 00:17:35,800
Outrageous things you talk so passionately about like CQB, like when you like just going in and clearing rooms, you just talk about it with such like fire.

401
00:17:35,800 --> 00:17:37,800
It was so it was so dull, but he was.

402
00:17:37,800 --> 00:17:39,800
Oh, yeah, we know.

403
00:17:39,800 --> 00:17:41,800
With that fucking helmet on looking like this.

404
00:17:41,800 --> 00:17:43,800
Yo.

405
00:17:43,800 --> 00:17:47,800
Yeah, that basic as ACH.

406
00:17:47,800 --> 00:17:52,800
Yeah, it was like it was like fucking Darth Helmet with that shit on hanging off the straps.

407
00:17:52,800 --> 00:17:53,800
All right.

408
00:17:53,800 --> 00:18:01,800
I'm going to find the one I had wrote. My mom actually has that fucking picture chilling in the house right now on a wall is my ass in a fucked up ACH.

409
00:18:01,800 --> 00:18:08,800
And I'm like holding a sign with my gun hanging down like, hey, mom, some creep.

410
00:18:08,800 --> 00:18:09,800
Hey, mom, I'm fine.

411
00:18:09,800 --> 00:18:10,800
Some shit like that.

412
00:18:10,800 --> 00:18:11,800
And they just I'm alive.

413
00:18:11,800 --> 00:18:13,800
And my mom was able to see it.

414
00:18:13,800 --> 00:18:15,800
Yeah, I got I got mine on my phone, too.

415
00:18:15,800 --> 00:18:17,800
We should put those in the description.

416
00:18:17,800 --> 00:18:19,800
Yeah, that would be badass.

417
00:18:19,800 --> 00:18:29,800
Like did the kids around you though they have like a problem with authority because I've noticed as like an NCO, you can't just yell out problem like you got to have a better way.

418
00:18:29,800 --> 00:18:33,800
There were a few guys made this one kid.

419
00:18:33,800 --> 00:18:37,800
He would just not listen to the drill sergeants at all.

420
00:18:37,800 --> 00:18:38,800
He would not.

421
00:18:38,800 --> 00:18:39,800
He would fucking backtalk.

422
00:18:39,800 --> 00:18:40,800
He would not give a shit.

423
00:18:40,800 --> 00:18:41,800
He wouldn't do anything.

424
00:18:41,800 --> 00:18:45,800
He gets fucked up every day, every goddamn day.

425
00:18:45,800 --> 00:18:46,800
He lost it.

426
00:18:46,800 --> 00:18:49,800
We were on the range this one time and we were shooting at night.

427
00:18:49,800 --> 00:18:57,800
So we had our nods on and this guy, he left his rifle at the at the shooting platform and he came back and got in formation.

428
00:18:57,800 --> 00:19:02,800
We were about to leave our drill sergeant goes, who the fuck left their fucking rifle out there?

429
00:19:02,800 --> 00:19:06,800
He's like, he raises his hand and goes, me, Joe, sorry.

430
00:19:06,800 --> 00:19:07,800
He's like, why the fuck do you leave that out there?

431
00:19:07,800 --> 00:19:09,800
He's like, I don't know, Joe, sorry.

432
00:19:09,800 --> 00:19:11,800
Can you help me find a drill sergeant?

433
00:19:11,800 --> 00:19:16,800
And he put us all down in the fucking push out for like 10 minutes.

434
00:19:16,800 --> 00:19:23,800
Yeah, he was he was really our only guy who wouldn't listen or would just say stupid shit to get us fucked up.

435
00:19:23,800 --> 00:19:29,800
But for those that don't know losing or losing your weapon is like losing nuclear launch codes.

436
00:19:29,800 --> 00:19:30,800
Oh, yeah.

437
00:19:30,800 --> 00:19:33,800
Like there was we went out on the I think it was the last.

438
00:19:33,800 --> 00:19:34,800
What do they call it?

439
00:19:34,800 --> 00:19:35,800
FTX?

440
00:19:35,800 --> 00:19:36,800
Yeah.

441
00:19:36,800 --> 00:19:37,800
Field trainer exercise.

442
00:19:37,800 --> 00:19:41,800
Yeah, FTX went out on the last one.

443
00:19:41,800 --> 00:19:44,800
Well, we all fell asleep.

444
00:19:44,800 --> 00:19:47,800
Like the whole thing, too.

445
00:19:47,800 --> 00:19:49,800
We all dug our foxhole.

446
00:19:49,800 --> 00:19:50,800
We're supposed to take shifts.

447
00:19:50,800 --> 00:19:53,800
We all racked the fuck out.

448
00:19:53,800 --> 00:19:58,800
And like he came by, yanked my gun, yanked the dude's neck to me gun, some shit like that.

449
00:19:58,800 --> 00:19:59,800
I don't think he got mine.

450
00:19:59,800 --> 00:20:01,800
I think he yanked the dude next to me for sure.

451
00:20:01,800 --> 00:20:06,800
Like definitely he was like, all right, whistled at like 3 a.m. pitch black.

452
00:20:06,800 --> 00:20:07,800
Everybody wake up.

453
00:20:07,800 --> 00:20:08,800
Come here.

454
00:20:08,800 --> 00:20:11,800
We all woke up, went to the middle.

455
00:20:11,800 --> 00:20:13,800
And actually, my drill sergeant was an infantry guy.

456
00:20:13,800 --> 00:20:15,800
So that was like his way.

457
00:20:15,800 --> 00:20:16,800
Woke up.

458
00:20:16,800 --> 00:20:17,800
Yeah.

459
00:20:17,800 --> 00:20:24,800
And we got to the middle of the circle and it was like fucking 15, 20 guns out of like

460
00:20:24,800 --> 00:20:25,800
28.

461
00:20:25,800 --> 00:20:27,800
Oh, holy shit.

462
00:20:27,800 --> 00:20:30,800
This is going to be a fucking mess.

463
00:20:30,800 --> 00:20:33,800
Turns out the fucking drill sergeant, he had to miss like the last week.

464
00:20:33,800 --> 00:20:36,800
It's like 35 and had liver cancer.

465
00:20:36,800 --> 00:20:37,800
What?

466
00:20:37,800 --> 00:20:38,800
Oh, some crazy shit.

467
00:20:38,800 --> 00:20:40,800
Had to get a whole liver replaced.

468
00:20:40,800 --> 00:20:42,800
He's like 35, drank too much.

469
00:20:42,800 --> 00:20:44,800
That's that's saying something.

470
00:20:44,800 --> 00:20:46,800
The liver can replace like repair itself.

471
00:20:46,800 --> 00:20:47,800
Yeah.

472
00:20:47,800 --> 00:20:49,800
So it was some crazy shit with his liver that was going on.

473
00:20:49,800 --> 00:20:50,800
I do.

474
00:20:50,800 --> 00:20:51,800
Five, bro.

475
00:20:51,800 --> 00:20:54,800
Looked like he was 50 with the all white hair.

476
00:20:54,800 --> 00:20:57,800
Thomas wrote, shout out, Joe, Sergeant Thomas.

477
00:20:57,800 --> 00:20:58,800
I hope he sees this shit one.

478
00:20:58,800 --> 00:21:04,800
I did want to ask you, though, Alex, is there ever like a shit bag moment that you did where

479
00:21:04,800 --> 00:21:05,800
you were just a turd?

480
00:21:05,800 --> 00:21:07,800
Because I got one in my head.

481
00:21:07,800 --> 00:21:08,800
Piece of shit.

482
00:21:08,800 --> 00:21:11,800
I think I think about that a lot because I think back and I'm like, was there really there

483
00:21:11,800 --> 00:21:16,800
was this one it was day is day two or three when I got out of reception, I was actually

484
00:21:16,800 --> 00:21:18,800
a basic.

485
00:21:18,800 --> 00:21:22,800
We had to put on our so we had our rock.

486
00:21:22,800 --> 00:21:23,800
We had our medium rock.

487
00:21:23,800 --> 00:21:24,800
We had all shit in there.

488
00:21:24,800 --> 00:21:29,800
We had our TV on and our flick was in there and everything and our HHS and we took it

489
00:21:29,800 --> 00:21:30,800
out.

490
00:21:30,800 --> 00:21:35,800
And I was the last I was the only guy who couldn't strap my flick because the strap

491
00:21:35,800 --> 00:21:37,800
strap on the back is broken.

492
00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:39,800
So I couldn't I could never strap it.

493
00:21:39,800 --> 00:21:41,800
My drill sergeant was just ripping me a new one.

494
00:21:41,800 --> 00:21:44,800
And then, yeah, we got fucked up for that.

495
00:21:44,800 --> 00:21:46,800
Is there anything else?

496
00:21:46,800 --> 00:21:47,800
I don't know.

497
00:21:47,800 --> 00:21:51,800
What if there was a time where I fucked everyone up?

498
00:21:51,800 --> 00:21:55,800
What if I what if I said mine and then you think about it?

499
00:21:55,800 --> 00:21:57,800
I want to hear yours anyway.

500
00:21:57,800 --> 00:21:58,800
Yeah, no.

501
00:21:58,800 --> 00:22:03,800
So I had a battle buddy like, you know, they assigned you like a one that's your bunk mate.

502
00:22:03,800 --> 00:22:04,800
Yeah.

503
00:22:04,800 --> 00:22:07,800
His name is Chavez and we had he was tan too.

504
00:22:07,800 --> 00:22:10,800
Got the same haircut and we both hung out with this white dude.

505
00:22:10,800 --> 00:22:15,800
Yeah, we both hung out with this white dude named Ellis, right?

506
00:22:15,800 --> 00:22:19,800
And Ellis one time we were in the field and he went to use like the drill sergeant ported

507
00:22:19,800 --> 00:22:21,800
like the porta potty and I was with him.

508
00:22:21,800 --> 00:22:22,800
So I just waited outside.

509
00:22:22,800 --> 00:22:25,800
Then he fucking walked outside and like we went about our business.

510
00:22:25,800 --> 00:22:30,800
I later found out like we got called to the like the middle there and it's him with Chavez

511
00:22:30,800 --> 00:22:36,800
and fucking Ellis is telling everyone how him and Chavez like he used the bathroom while

512
00:22:36,800 --> 00:22:38,800
Chavez kept looking.

513
00:22:38,800 --> 00:22:40,800
But it wasn't Chavez.

514
00:22:40,800 --> 00:22:42,800
It was me.

515
00:22:42,800 --> 00:22:46,800
And I knew they were going to give him fire guard because that was their punishment for

516
00:22:46,800 --> 00:22:49,800
everything and I fucking hated fire guard so much.

517
00:22:49,800 --> 00:22:50,800
Yeah.

518
00:22:50,800 --> 00:22:52,800
Yeah, bro.

519
00:22:52,800 --> 00:22:54,800
I fucking I didn't say nothing like I apologize.

520
00:22:54,800 --> 00:22:59,800
They said it was fucking chill, but I'm like fuck.

521
00:22:59,800 --> 00:23:01,800
I don't know.

522
00:23:01,800 --> 00:23:04,800
I think if any of mine were that bad.

523
00:23:04,800 --> 00:23:05,800
That's pretty bad.

524
00:23:05,800 --> 00:23:09,800
No, I'm talking like I was paying someone to do my fire guard after the first shift.

525
00:23:09,800 --> 00:23:11,800
Damn, no way.

526
00:23:11,800 --> 00:23:12,800
Literally.

527
00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:16,800
Did you guys get the new did you guys get the chocolate bars at night?

528
00:23:16,800 --> 00:23:18,800
Oh, I think mine were special.

529
00:23:18,800 --> 00:23:19,800
Okay.

530
00:23:19,800 --> 00:23:21,800
We had so we had these things.

531
00:23:21,800 --> 00:23:23,800
They're called nutrition supplement bars.

532
00:23:23,800 --> 00:23:24,800
I'll never forget.

533
00:23:24,800 --> 00:23:29,800
And the drill sergeants would like give it to us every once in a while like at night

534
00:23:29,800 --> 00:23:34,800
and people would people would hoard them and then like trade up trade them for fire guard shifts.

535
00:23:34,800 --> 00:23:35,800
It was like it was like underground currency.

536
00:23:35,800 --> 00:23:37,800
You trade them between the platoons and shit.

537
00:23:37,800 --> 00:23:44,800
There was a like there was a group of like two dudes that went and stole like three boxes of them and came up.

538
00:23:44,800 --> 00:23:45,800
Oh, yeah.

539
00:23:45,800 --> 00:23:46,800
Bro.

540
00:23:46,800 --> 00:23:50,800
And they're like, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, I want strawberry when they got the chocolate the next time.

541
00:23:50,800 --> 00:23:51,800
Like, hey, bro, don't eat that.

542
00:23:51,800 --> 00:23:52,800
I got the strawberry up.

543
00:23:52,800 --> 00:23:55,800
You know, I got the straw and they were gay.

544
00:23:55,800 --> 00:23:56,800
Yeah, bro.

545
00:23:56,800 --> 00:24:00,800
Like them special ones were legit, bro.

546
00:24:00,800 --> 00:24:01,800
Yeah.

547
00:24:01,800 --> 00:24:06,800
We had one of the companies like next to us go into like RIO and steal like seven MREs

548
00:24:06,800 --> 00:24:09,800
and they woke us up like the middle of night and like researching our ship.

549
00:24:09,800 --> 00:24:13,800
It's like that's seven MREs like where are you going to put all that trash?

550
00:24:13,800 --> 00:24:15,800
Like you can't flush that down the toilet.

551
00:24:15,800 --> 00:24:17,800
No, you can't flush an MRE.

552
00:24:17,800 --> 00:24:18,800
Bro, I'm hungry.

553
00:24:18,800 --> 00:24:19,800
I'm gonna find out.

554
00:24:19,800 --> 00:24:20,800
Oh, dude.

555
00:24:20,800 --> 00:24:23,800
I was I was smuggling shit back to the bees, bro.

556
00:24:23,800 --> 00:24:27,800
I fucking like I was upset because my bunk mate and then a couple other dudes.

557
00:24:27,800 --> 00:24:32,800
They ended up sneaking off with one of their phones somehow and they didn't tell me.

558
00:24:32,800 --> 00:24:39,800
So for like a week, they didn't tell me like they are three, four dudes in the loop and

559
00:24:39,800 --> 00:24:40,800
I wasn't in the loop.

560
00:24:40,800 --> 00:24:41,800
Why?

561
00:24:41,800 --> 00:24:42,800
How could you all do this to me?

562
00:24:42,800 --> 00:24:45,800
I wouldn't tell anyone I had that shit.

563
00:24:45,800 --> 00:24:49,800
But if I didn't, I didn't, I didn't have my phone.

564
00:24:49,800 --> 00:24:50,800
I never did that.

565
00:24:50,800 --> 00:24:56,800
We had a guy after we finished during our land of course when we got out of it, when

566
00:24:56,800 --> 00:25:01,800
we graduated, this guy posted a video of him doing land nav and this was like week 12,

567
00:25:01,800 --> 00:25:02,800
right?

568
00:25:02,800 --> 00:25:08,800
So I was always wondering how to fuck this guy had his phone week 12 just all the time.

569
00:25:08,800 --> 00:25:11,800
Like some guys, some guys would just had it the whole cycle.

570
00:25:11,800 --> 00:25:12,800
You'd never know.

571
00:25:12,800 --> 00:25:15,800
They'd have fucking they'd have sins and dip the whole time.

572
00:25:15,800 --> 00:25:16,800
You'd never know.

573
00:25:16,800 --> 00:25:18,800
You'd never know.

574
00:25:18,800 --> 00:25:20,800
It was wild.

575
00:25:20,800 --> 00:25:23,800
My mom snuggled me or smuggled me some contraband like that, dude.

576
00:25:23,800 --> 00:25:29,800
Bro, I had my ex at the time send me some pictures just because like literally just

577
00:25:29,800 --> 00:25:34,800
send me some pictures and she went out with a camera and took pictures in like yoga, like

578
00:25:34,800 --> 00:25:36,800
a workout outfit.

579
00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:45,800
Bro sent them bitches to me and my drill sergeant opened up my fucking mail and went through

580
00:25:45,800 --> 00:25:47,800
these pictures with me.

581
00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:48,800
It was like, yes.

582
00:25:48,800 --> 00:25:53,800
Are you insin like what are you doing in your free time blazing?

583
00:25:53,800 --> 00:25:55,800
I'm like, what?

584
00:25:55,800 --> 00:25:59,800
Like, I'm not if you think I'm jerking off to these photos, lady, you're crazy.

585
00:25:59,800 --> 00:26:01,800
What the fuck?

586
00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:04,800
How could you insinuate this in front of everybody right now?

587
00:26:04,800 --> 00:26:07,800
I do that right now.

588
00:26:07,800 --> 00:26:08,800
You whore.

589
00:26:08,800 --> 00:26:09,800
Well, how could you do this?

590
00:26:09,800 --> 00:26:12,800
That's such a weird everybody's pictures.

591
00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:13,800
Everybody's pictures.

592
00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:19,800
Yeah, no, I had my mom fucking hide me some chocolate bars in a tissue box.

593
00:26:19,800 --> 00:26:21,800
Oh, shit.

594
00:26:21,800 --> 00:26:22,800
Yeah, fucking.

595
00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:23,800
And it worked.

596
00:26:23,800 --> 00:26:24,800
She did a phenomenal job.

597
00:26:24,800 --> 00:26:25,800
Shout to you, mom.

598
00:26:25,800 --> 00:26:26,800
Like, take it up on good.

599
00:26:26,800 --> 00:26:29,800
Yeah, I fucking ate like three of my gave like one of my friend.

600
00:26:29,800 --> 00:26:32,800
But that fucking cough drops.

601
00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:33,800
That was another one.

602
00:26:33,800 --> 00:26:38,800
Could you could you tell that you had any lifelong homies in there?

603
00:26:38,800 --> 00:26:42,800
Like when you showed up, you're like, this guy's going to be a lifelong homie.

604
00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:43,800
Just off a basic.

605
00:26:43,800 --> 00:26:45,800
Now, that was kind of hard.

606
00:26:45,800 --> 00:26:48,800
Now I now I definitely towards the end.

607
00:26:48,800 --> 00:26:52,800
Yeah, like there's there's some of these guys that I'm going to meet up with this year.

608
00:26:52,800 --> 00:26:57,800
They're just they're like, I know, you know, that they're like family at that point.

609
00:26:57,800 --> 00:27:01,800
It's not like they're not like a.

610
00:27:01,800 --> 00:27:05,800
Just some friend that you meet at school or some shit like.

611
00:27:05,800 --> 00:27:08,800
I feel really close with those guys, like really, really close.

612
00:27:08,800 --> 00:27:10,800
Why do you think that?

613
00:27:10,800 --> 00:27:12,800
Why?

614
00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:17,800
Because I think I yeah, I think we just went through so much bullshit while we were there.

615
00:27:17,800 --> 00:27:18,800
That was so dumb.

616
00:27:18,800 --> 00:27:22,800
And you're stuck, you're stuck with the same people for six months.

617
00:27:22,800 --> 00:27:25,800
You sleep every single night, six months straight.

618
00:27:25,800 --> 00:27:26,800
You shy with them every day.

619
00:27:26,800 --> 00:27:27,800
You work with them every day.

620
00:27:27,800 --> 00:27:29,800
It's like.

621
00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:33,800
I don't think I ever had a connection with people like that before I got there.

622
00:27:33,800 --> 00:27:42,800
Like those guys are no matter how old I get, I could never just not like them or not talk to them.

623
00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:47,800
Yeah, it's great for to like exposing people to other cultures.

624
00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:56,800
Oh, yeah. I always enjoyed about the army is like you got like the guy speaking Russian, the black dude, like a country white guy, Puerto Rican dude.

625
00:27:56,800 --> 00:28:01,800
Like it looks like the village people on those names, Spence, tall black dude.

626
00:28:01,800 --> 00:28:11,800
Funny as all fuck, dude, like any hour I knew to come to this guy to smoke and joke is this dude knew how to fucking laugh.

627
00:28:11,800 --> 00:28:18,800
Just like he's like six, four tall, skinny black dude, like the culture that you experience within the military is amazing.

628
00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:22,800
Like I saw everybody I was I told my girlfriend this like the first couple of weeks I met her.

629
00:28:22,800 --> 00:28:25,800
There was this Asian kid who had a bachelor's name.

630
00:28:25,800 --> 00:28:27,800
His name was Gao. Don't know his first name.

631
00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:30,800
No idea. His name's Gao.

632
00:28:30,800 --> 00:28:33,800
If that's how I think that is his first son of a bitch.

633
00:28:33,800 --> 00:28:34,800
I don't know how it works over there.

634
00:28:34,800 --> 00:28:39,800
I think in China, there's a switch.

635
00:28:39,800 --> 00:28:42,800
Yeah, but the kid came over with a bachelor's already.

636
00:28:42,800 --> 00:28:49,800
But he was so like I couldn't tell if he was playing stupid or if he was using the card of I'm I'm Asian.

637
00:28:49,800 --> 00:29:02,800
Don't understand what you guys are saying because this dude was like walking into the girls bay into the girls showers, like just fucking walking in and playing the card, just playing the card that he's Asian and doesn't understand and got away with it.

638
00:29:02,800 --> 00:29:11,800
And in the female shower, yeah, bro, like it was getting so fucking bad because this kid was just out playing my ass.

639
00:29:11,800 --> 00:29:14,800
I flipped his bed at one point.

640
00:29:14,800 --> 00:29:15,800
I fucking flipped his whole bag.

641
00:29:15,800 --> 00:29:19,800
He pissed me off. I ran upstairs to the not ran upstairs, went upstairs to the bay.

642
00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:21,800
And I was like, fuck you, dude.

643
00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:24,800
Shit, you know what? That probably came and flipped my bed.

644
00:29:24,800 --> 00:29:27,800
And then there was a whole whole ordeal.

645
00:29:27,800 --> 00:29:32,800
I'm thinking too, like he told the drill sergeant he was Asian and they were like, I'm not going to damn EO complaint.

646
00:29:32,800 --> 00:29:35,800
But that row. Oh, yeah, dude.

647
00:29:35,800 --> 00:29:38,800
Yo, yo, it's huge. I forgot about that.

648
00:29:38,800 --> 00:29:39,800
Yeah, I forgot about it.

649
00:29:39,800 --> 00:29:44,800
Two months I forgot about I forgot about you know, that is a real issue.

650
00:29:44,800 --> 00:29:46,800
People don't want to do they go through all that in basic.

651
00:29:46,800 --> 00:29:49,800
I don't remember doing much of that.

652
00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:57,800
They probably talk they talk about EO and sharp probably a lot.

653
00:29:57,800 --> 00:29:58,800
Right. Like a lot.

654
00:29:58,800 --> 00:30:09,800
We we we would have sharp classes, the same class, probably once every three weeks, four weeks.

655
00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:10,800
They talk about sharp like nonstop.

656
00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:16,800
They'd have they'd have like the sharp and CEOs come in like that are like for for sharp.

657
00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:19,800
And they just talk to us about it over and over again.

658
00:30:19,800 --> 00:30:20,800
Nothing else to do.

659
00:30:20,800 --> 00:30:24,800
What was that like in response to shit that was happening, you think?

660
00:30:24,800 --> 00:30:26,800
No, nothing happened.

661
00:30:26,800 --> 00:30:27,800
Only times we got him, bro.

662
00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:39,800
It was like we got one sharp thing and then after whenever some dumb shit happened, especially like the real unit, it was never a precautionary sharp thing.

663
00:30:39,800 --> 00:30:46,800
Where they approach it to it's like it's more or less you all have been to a sharp brief.

664
00:30:46,800 --> 00:30:49,800
It's pretty much an hour of don't rape anyone.

665
00:30:49,800 --> 00:30:50,800
Yeah, it's how it goes.

666
00:30:50,800 --> 00:30:54,800
It's like why are like no one's going to see someone get raped in the army like walk right past.

667
00:30:54,800 --> 00:30:55,800
Yeah.

668
00:30:55,800 --> 00:31:00,800
Why are we kind of saying this is if rape is just bound to happen?

669
00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:07,800
It like from from what I've been told, apparently in the past, it happened a lot like a lot, a lot, a lot.

670
00:31:07,800 --> 00:31:09,800
I don't know.

671
00:31:09,800 --> 00:31:10,800
But that's not been told.

672
00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:14,800
So why did you choose to join now?

673
00:31:14,800 --> 00:31:16,800
What led you to your decision?

674
00:31:16,800 --> 00:31:19,800
I joined last year.

675
00:31:19,800 --> 00:31:31,800
I oathed in January 27th, 2022, and I just felt like I felt I got into like the health sphere and all that type of shit got really healthy.

676
00:31:31,800 --> 00:31:37,800
We're starting to dig in the history and the military was obviously like the next step for me.

677
00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:39,800
And I was like, just fuck it, dude. Why not?

678
00:31:39,800 --> 00:31:40,800
Why not just join the military?

679
00:31:40,800 --> 00:31:42,800
Because I'm not sure where I want to go to school.

680
00:31:42,800 --> 00:31:44,800
I'm not sure what kind of job or career I want.

681
00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:47,800
Why not just try this out and see how it goes.

682
00:31:47,800 --> 00:31:49,800
I basically did it on a whim in like a week's time.

683
00:31:49,800 --> 00:31:55,800
I was I asked I asked a recruiter and then I often and then from there.

684
00:31:55,800 --> 00:31:57,800
Yeah, I was probably about a month.

685
00:31:57,800 --> 00:32:08,800
But yeah, because I was saying when I was joined, I had Trump in office and my mom was still telling me like, I don't know, like I would chill.

686
00:32:08,800 --> 00:32:10,800
You got a different dude in office.

687
00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:12,800
Yeah. Be careful about that.

688
00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:14,800
Did that cut like did you ever think about that in your mind?

689
00:32:14,800 --> 00:32:18,800
Because when that happened, when my mom told me that I was like, I don't give a shit.

690
00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:20,800
I'm joining no matter who is in office.

691
00:32:20,800 --> 00:32:21,800
That's exactly what I said.

692
00:32:21,800 --> 00:32:25,800
My mom would be like, oh, it's getting you know, it's getting rough out there with China and Russia.

693
00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:29,800
And this was this was right as the Russian Ukraine.

694
00:32:29,800 --> 00:32:33,800
So my mom was freaking out after I signed up.

695
00:32:33,800 --> 00:32:37,800
But it was more just so like patriot patriotism.

696
00:32:37,800 --> 00:32:42,800
I just I went through a really big bender of like fucking God bless America.

697
00:32:42,800 --> 00:32:44,800
I love America. Blah, blah, blah.

698
00:32:44,800 --> 00:32:48,800
You know, I still am super patriotic and I love I love this country.

699
00:32:48,800 --> 00:32:51,800
I could never I can never hate this country.

700
00:32:51,800 --> 00:32:55,800
But that was my main reason for joining, having like a sense of honor.

701
00:32:55,800 --> 00:33:01,800
And yeah, I realize now that maybe right now isn't wasn't the best time to join.

702
00:33:01,800 --> 00:33:08,800
Just going off of shit, shit that's going to I feel you though, like whenever they ask, like, why you join the army?

703
00:33:08,800 --> 00:33:11,800
Like I didn't have a compelling, like honorable ass reason.

704
00:33:11,800 --> 00:33:13,800
Just seemed like a cool idea, I guess.

705
00:33:13,800 --> 00:33:16,800
Yeah, yeah. I wanted to shoot guns.

706
00:33:16,800 --> 00:33:18,800
I want to shoot. I just want to shoot guns.

707
00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:22,800
I was. I said, I never shot it.

708
00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:28,800
Yeah. Would you tell more 18, 17 year olds, young people to join now?

709
00:33:28,800 --> 00:33:33,800
Or would you tell them, wait, that's a tough one, right?

710
00:33:33,800 --> 00:33:39,800
Because I think a lot of 18 and 17 year olds at this point, they just think they have to go to college right now.

711
00:33:39,800 --> 00:33:42,800
And that's the only thing. And then they get into it and they fucking hate it.

712
00:33:42,800 --> 00:33:50,800
So it was it was a good time for me to kind of debrief and think about what I want to do afterwards, because I know.

713
00:33:50,800 --> 00:33:54,800
I know I didn't want to go to college, but I wasn't really certain there was another option.

714
00:33:54,800 --> 00:34:04,800
So if you're 17, 18 years old, I think if you don't have any sort of life path planned out right now, I think you should just even even the guard, even active.

715
00:34:04,800 --> 00:34:07,800
Take an active contract and go to Germany.

716
00:34:07,800 --> 00:34:13,800
Do something like that. Just give yourself this like buffer period to really figure out what you want to do.

717
00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:19,800
Maybe maybe not in the way the world is going to head right now.

718
00:34:19,800 --> 00:34:27,800
But in the future, I think it would be something to think about if you don't have any sort of idea of what to do.

719
00:34:27,800 --> 00:34:31,800
Right. Right. Quick, though, if you are getting out of high school and want to be an entrepreneur, school is solid.

720
00:34:31,800 --> 00:34:37,800
There's a link down below me and Trevor made a course so you can get out and don't go to college or the military.

721
00:34:37,800 --> 00:34:39,800
That's not your thing. Just start making money with.

722
00:34:39,800 --> 00:34:41,800
Yes, I'm making that money.

723
00:34:41,800 --> 00:34:44,800
I was going to add for this one.

724
00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:47,800
We're about to have a fire.

725
00:34:47,800 --> 00:34:50,800
I was going to ask, like, how did you pick the guard versus active?

726
00:34:50,800 --> 00:34:54,800
Because I didn't even know about the guard until I joined in my area.

727
00:34:54,800 --> 00:35:03,800
The only thing advertises the guard, we do have an active station, but the guard is the only thing you'll ever see around me.

728
00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:05,800
They have signs everywhere.

729
00:35:05,800 --> 00:35:09,800
And I think it was because I didn't I didn't really know what I was going to get into.

730
00:35:09,800 --> 00:35:12,800
So I was thinking it would just be something to do part time.

731
00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:17,800
And if I wanted to go active, because I can you can transfer into the active into active duty.

732
00:35:17,800 --> 00:35:20,800
So I was thinking if I really, really like it, fuck it.

733
00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:26,800
I'll go active. But if I don't, then I just got to do it once a month for the next six years.

734
00:35:26,800 --> 00:35:30,800
Yeah. How true is that that like one weekend and like two weeks in the summer?

735
00:35:30,800 --> 00:35:33,800
Like, is that true? Yeah. Yeah.

736
00:35:33,800 --> 00:35:41,800
I mean, no, like with us, they were like, oh, if you don't like your job, you can change it.

737
00:35:41,800 --> 00:35:45,800
It's like, well, that's true. We have to do your whole contract before you can do that.

738
00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:50,800
Like, yeah, with the with the guard, it's completely I was supposed to go last weekend, actually.

739
00:35:50,800 --> 00:35:57,800
But I didn't get my my my battalion patch sewn out of my dress greens.

740
00:35:57,800 --> 00:36:00,800
So they wouldn't let me come because we had like a big dinner.

741
00:36:00,800 --> 00:36:02,800
Yeah, we got greens.

742
00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:08,800
They look nice. Oh, the greens. The greens are not you got blues.

743
00:36:08,800 --> 00:36:10,800
Yeah, I got the blues, bro.

744
00:36:10,800 --> 00:36:16,800
Like they were switching to the greens as I got like right when I got out. Wow.

745
00:36:16,800 --> 00:36:18,800
Yeah, the pinks and greens are fire.

746
00:36:18,800 --> 00:36:21,800
Those are so cool, bro. They're better.

747
00:36:21,800 --> 00:36:24,800
You look cleaner, like just fuck.

748
00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:26,800
Just the history behind. Yeah.

749
00:36:26,800 --> 00:36:29,800
Alone like just makes you look like a bad ass.

750
00:36:29,800 --> 00:36:32,800
Yeah, the pinks and greens are my favorite.

751
00:36:32,800 --> 00:36:37,800
I'm telling you, though, you're if you're in the army when they change camos or uniforms like that, it is a shitty time.

752
00:36:37,800 --> 00:36:43,800
Oh, bro. Yeah. So like for us, since we already had the blues, we would have to purchase the greens on our own.

753
00:36:43,800 --> 00:36:45,800
Like that's the new regulation.

754
00:36:45,800 --> 00:36:47,800
You got to go get the new greens. Yeah.

755
00:36:47,800 --> 00:36:50,800
And that's like a thousand dollars. At least. Yeah, at least.

756
00:36:50,800 --> 00:36:57,800
Well, yeah, when I'm six hundred when they changed from AC use to the multi cam pattern, I had to buy fucking all new uniforms.

757
00:36:57,800 --> 00:37:00,800
No way. You had to buy a brand new multi cam.

758
00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:07,800
Oh, yeah. Crazy. You know how they are. You get a clothing allowance is four hundred dollars.

759
00:37:07,800 --> 00:37:11,800
Oh, yeah. Five. You'll get three P T-shirts with four hundred dollars.

760
00:37:11,800 --> 00:37:16,800
Oh, yeah, dude. And like, you know, I had all this old camo gear that they reissued me when the new one came out.

761
00:37:16,800 --> 00:37:20,800
Oh, yeah. I've got like all this crap still on my house.

762
00:37:20,800 --> 00:37:24,800
Oh, yeah. I got my DigiCam large rock over there.

763
00:37:24,800 --> 00:37:31,800
Oh, shit. I want to ask, too. Did you get like vaccinated for covid?

764
00:37:31,800 --> 00:37:36,800
I did. So I did a year prior because I was the gym.

765
00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:40,800
The gym told me that if I wasn't vaccinated, that I that I couldn't go to the gym.

766
00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:45,800
So my head, I was what? Oh, I was I just turned 17 at the time.

767
00:37:45,800 --> 00:37:50,800
So I was like, all right, yeah, I'm sure we'll get this shot and then I can go to the gym.

768
00:37:50,800 --> 00:37:54,800
Yeah. It's probably the biggest regret I've ever had in my life.

769
00:37:54,800 --> 00:37:58,800
But at this point, it's like.

770
00:37:58,800 --> 00:38:02,800
Regardless, if I wanted it or not, at that time, I would have had to get it for the military.

771
00:38:02,800 --> 00:38:05,800
And they actually just dropped it. I think it was in December.

772
00:38:05,800 --> 00:38:09,800
So you don't have to get the you don't have the vaccine to join the army anymore.

773
00:38:09,800 --> 00:38:12,800
They got my ass with that, man. I was on my way out.

774
00:38:12,800 --> 00:38:17,800
I was on my way out and they were like, wow, the Vax or you can't go nowhere.

775
00:38:17,800 --> 00:38:22,800
So it was like three months when I got my med board papers, when I got the news that I was getting med boarded.

776
00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:25,800
I was supposed to go overseas.

777
00:38:25,800 --> 00:38:28,800
Like within three months.

778
00:38:28,800 --> 00:38:32,800
So I would have ended up being in the Afghanistan pullout videos.

779
00:38:32,800 --> 00:38:35,800
That would have been me or I would have been. Holy shit.

780
00:38:35,800 --> 00:38:37,800
Stuck in Iraq for I think it was six months.

781
00:38:37,800 --> 00:38:41,800
Mahali, comment below how long you were stuck over there, bro.

782
00:38:41,800 --> 00:38:44,800
Oh, we thought he was going to come back speaking Arabic or some shit.

783
00:38:44,800 --> 00:38:47,800
He was out there for so long. He got stuck there.

784
00:38:47,800 --> 00:38:52,800
Wow. But they're like, hey, you either get this vaccine, you can't go overseas.

785
00:38:52,800 --> 00:38:55,800
And when we're at home, I mean, there's there's no reason to be at home.

786
00:38:55,800 --> 00:38:58,800
So let me go overseas. Let me fight for my country.

787
00:38:58,800 --> 00:39:01,800
I'll go get the Vax. And like a month later, I had scoliosis.

788
00:39:01,800 --> 00:39:05,800
So it's you're out of here. It was worse about my scoliosis.

789
00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:08,800
They didn't give a flying fuck about the scoliosis that already disqualified me.

790
00:39:08,800 --> 00:39:11,800
They gave a fuck about this vaccine that was supposed to work.

791
00:39:11,800 --> 00:39:14,800
Yeah, it was worse.

792
00:39:14,800 --> 00:39:18,800
You are like someone's got to deploy in your spot because we just did it by individual.

793
00:39:18,800 --> 00:39:23,800
So it's like they insinuated that you were fucking someone else over because you didn't get this shot.

794
00:39:23,800 --> 00:39:27,800
Yeah. Yeah. And they were like they fucked it up super heavy.

795
00:39:27,800 --> 00:39:31,800
They fuck people over. Yeah. They were like, if you get vaccinated, you don't need to wear a mask.

796
00:39:31,800 --> 00:39:35,800
So that worked for like a month and a half.

797
00:39:35,800 --> 00:39:38,800
And then like they switched to like one day was getting vaccinated the morning

798
00:39:38,800 --> 00:39:43,800
and they changed the rule in the ad. He had to get one on like looking back now.

799
00:39:43,800 --> 00:39:46,800
I could have not gotten it. But like we had one guy that didn't get it.

800
00:39:46,800 --> 00:39:51,800
They were going to kick him out. Now he's fucking still in. It's like I feel duped from that.

801
00:39:51,800 --> 00:39:56,800
Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yep. I just like that whole situation is weird.

802
00:39:56,800 --> 00:40:02,800
I would I think just like you, I would still convince people even now to go into the military.

803
00:40:02,800 --> 00:40:05,800
I mean, you just learn so damn much. Yeah.

804
00:40:05,800 --> 00:40:10,800
Like you just learn even though it's I mean, you're getting ran by the government.

805
00:40:10,800 --> 00:40:16,800
The amount they they teach you. I mean, you're pretty much giving up pay.

806
00:40:16,800 --> 00:40:21,800
Shoot, I mean, given up pay in the army, you can choose your job.

807
00:40:21,800 --> 00:40:25,800
So you're giving up paying a little bit of comfortability to learn life experiences.

808
00:40:25,800 --> 00:40:28,800
Yeah, that's actually huge. That's something that I want.

809
00:40:28,800 --> 00:40:32,800
I joined also because of the training, because I wanted to know what it was like.

810
00:40:32,800 --> 00:40:37,800
So if you're again, if you're 17, 18, you don't know what the fuck to do.

811
00:40:37,800 --> 00:40:42,800
You want to learn some life skills and mature a little bit over a six month period.

812
00:40:42,800 --> 00:40:45,800
Go to the fucking army because they're going to they're going to whip your ass into shape

813
00:40:45,800 --> 00:40:48,800
and you're going to be forced to just know how to do shit.

814
00:40:48,800 --> 00:40:52,800
They're going to use you if you know it's not it's not against they make it comfortable.

815
00:40:52,800 --> 00:40:56,800
You learn how to figure it out. Actually.

816
00:40:56,800 --> 00:41:03,800
So, yeah, you want infantry. Why did you choose army infantry over Marines or Navy or some shit like that?

817
00:41:03,800 --> 00:41:08,800
Like, why did you choose the army infantry instead of just going to be a rifleman in the Marine?

818
00:41:08,800 --> 00:41:12,800
I don't want to go active. Oh, shit.

819
00:41:12,800 --> 00:41:15,800
Nope. The only other one that does is the Air Force.

820
00:41:15,800 --> 00:41:19,800
They have like the air guard. So there's air guard and there's Army National Guard.

821
00:41:19,800 --> 00:41:29,800
You can do like the Marine Reserves and I don't even know if Navy has reserves,

822
00:41:29,800 --> 00:41:37,800
but I know you can do Marine Reserves, which I did think about because I really am attracted to the wave Marines train.

823
00:41:37,800 --> 00:41:42,800
Just like balls to the wall, like just all of it full force.

824
00:41:42,800 --> 00:41:46,800
Yeah. And our last show was actually with a Marine. This dude was legit.

825
00:41:46,800 --> 00:41:51,800
Yeah. Marines are dope. I've never met a Marine that I hated ever in my life.

826
00:41:51,800 --> 00:41:57,800
Yeah. You're muted, Kevin.

827
00:41:57,800 --> 00:42:03,800
No, no, now you're muted on your microphone.

828
00:42:03,800 --> 00:42:06,800
All right. How about that? Yeah, you're good.

829
00:42:06,800 --> 00:42:10,800
Although they were next to the Army recruiting station, the Marine Corps was right next to it.

830
00:42:10,800 --> 00:42:16,800
And they would like not catcall us, but like talk shit while we were like on our way into the Army shit.

831
00:42:16,800 --> 00:42:22,800
Like, you want to join a real branch and shit?

832
00:42:22,800 --> 00:42:26,800
Like, because I was in the delayed entry program my entire senior year of high school.

833
00:42:26,800 --> 00:42:30,800
So it's like once a week I would go to the recruiting station, do PT.

834
00:42:30,800 --> 00:42:36,800
They would always be out there talking. I'm like, bro, like y'all are already dicks and I haven't even joined.

835
00:42:36,800 --> 00:42:42,800
At least wait. Yeah, they're hardcore, man. I love it though.

836
00:42:42,800 --> 00:42:48,800
Army is nice until you join. They're dicks right away. Yeah. Yeah. They always will be.

837
00:42:48,800 --> 00:42:52,800
Yeah, that's a good distinction.

838
00:42:52,800 --> 00:42:57,800
I will say, I think there's kind of two people that should join the Army.

839
00:42:57,800 --> 00:43:01,800
People that want to go SF and kick indoors, do some really high speed shit.

840
00:43:01,800 --> 00:43:07,800
Or like the people that want to just get the three years in for like the college or something, let's say.

841
00:43:07,800 --> 00:43:10,800
Or like the life experience, get a deployment in.

842
00:43:10,800 --> 00:43:14,800
Which case I would say if you're in that group, probably join the Air Force.

843
00:43:14,800 --> 00:43:20,800
Yeah, I agree. If you want to just easy route for your future, yeah, Air Force.

844
00:43:20,800 --> 00:43:24,800
It's something special about the Air Force though.

845
00:43:24,800 --> 00:43:29,800
That's the one you choose your career and they choose your job.

846
00:43:29,800 --> 00:43:33,800
I'd be down, but. Yes, I would still strongly suggest it.

847
00:43:33,800 --> 00:43:37,800
I even went to the Army guy and said, pick me a helicopter job.

848
00:43:37,800 --> 00:43:40,800
So I should have, like I could have done that with same exact shit.

849
00:43:40,800 --> 00:43:45,800
No, and they get BAH real easy to get out the barracks. Yeah.

850
00:43:45,800 --> 00:43:51,800
Oh wow. Yeah, for y'all that don't know, to get out the barracks in the Army as a single guy, you have to be an E6.

851
00:43:51,800 --> 00:43:56,800
So I joined in 2014. I became a 6 in 2021. And that was fast.

852
00:43:56,800 --> 00:43:59,800
That's fast. Yeah. So yeah, that is fast. E6.

853
00:43:59,800 --> 00:44:05,800
Six to seven years in, I would have just been getting out there, but the Air Force, you got to be E4 for like two months.

854
00:44:05,800 --> 00:44:11,800
And then you get you get BAH and can move on. I ran into a chick at the.

855
00:44:11,800 --> 00:44:16,800
At Mike's, Kevin, this is Quavis Quavis. I hope you're listening.

856
00:44:16,800 --> 00:44:22,800
I'm a sender to accidentally yanked his little girly friend from him and I met no harm by it.

857
00:44:22,800 --> 00:44:29,800
It just happened. I botched that shit anyways, but we were just at at a bar and she was saying like, yeah, I live down the road.

858
00:44:29,800 --> 00:44:32,800
And I was like, yeah, like, like I'm post, right?

859
00:44:32,800 --> 00:44:35,800
Like you live on post. No, I have my own place.

860
00:44:35,800 --> 00:44:40,800
So we mean you have your own place. Well, I'm an E4 or whatever the fuck.

861
00:44:40,800 --> 00:44:45,800
So my bitch like I'm an E4 to what you mean? You got your own place.

862
00:44:45,800 --> 00:44:50,800
And yeah, the Air Force just gets their check sooner. So they basically they double their pay sooner.

863
00:44:50,800 --> 00:44:55,800
And that would stop me from being that would stop me from getting married, bro.

864
00:44:55,800 --> 00:44:58,800
If I would have known that shit, I got. Oh, yeah.

865
00:44:58,800 --> 00:45:02,800
The biggest reason I got married is get the fuck out of the barracks. Double my.

866
00:45:02,800 --> 00:45:04,800
Yeah. Get the fuck out of the barracks.

867
00:45:04,800 --> 00:45:08,800
Oh, dude, they incentivize that shit so hard. Get married in the military.

868
00:45:08,800 --> 00:45:12,800
Double your pay and then fuck you over when you get divorced.

869
00:45:12,800 --> 00:45:15,800
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, dude.

870
00:45:15,800 --> 00:45:21,800
I think E4 in the Air Force is like two years, maybe 18 months to two years. Yeah.

871
00:45:21,800 --> 00:45:23,800
That's like a year and a half. I could be out the barracks.

872
00:45:23,800 --> 00:45:27,800
But but but I got to be in the barracks for seven years before I can get out.

873
00:45:27,800 --> 00:45:33,800
Like, I got me. So stupid.

874
00:45:33,800 --> 00:45:35,800
Now, let's move to SIGs real quick, man.

875
00:45:35,800 --> 00:45:39,800
Big SIG enthusiast over here, ain't it? You know, we got.

876
00:45:39,800 --> 00:45:43,800
Yeah, what do we got? These are these are my current.

877
00:45:43,800 --> 00:45:47,800
Delicacies.

878
00:45:47,800 --> 00:45:49,800
I don't know. I really.

879
00:45:49,800 --> 00:45:51,800
So it's funny because it relates back to the military. Right.

880
00:45:51,800 --> 00:45:54,800
So I got out. I knew it.

881
00:45:54,800 --> 00:45:57,800
I never smoked a cigarette in my life. Right. Never once.

882
00:45:57,800 --> 00:46:03,800
And then I got as I was about to leave, I was like, dude, I want a cigarette.

883
00:46:03,800 --> 00:46:07,800
I've never had a cigarette in my life, but I just it awakened something within me.

884
00:46:07,800 --> 00:46:11,800
And what happened was so it was like three days after I got out

885
00:46:11,800 --> 00:46:14,800
and I found this little Indian shop. They sell to anybody, bro.

886
00:46:14,800 --> 00:46:16,800
They don't even speak fucking English there.

887
00:46:16,800 --> 00:46:20,800
Like 10 minutes down the road. And I got there.

888
00:46:20,800 --> 00:46:23,800
I was looking around because I didn't know I didn't know anything about cigarettes.

889
00:46:23,800 --> 00:46:27,800
I was like, oh, just some Marlboro Reds. You know, that's what all the guys smoke.

890
00:46:27,800 --> 00:46:29,800
And that was my first fucking cigarette ever.

891
00:46:29,800 --> 00:46:32,800
I do. I fell in love like like that, like that.

892
00:46:32,800 --> 00:46:35,800
It was it was it was instant. I don't know.

893
00:46:35,800 --> 00:46:39,800
And then I started to research it a lot, a lot, a lot, a lot.

894
00:46:39,800 --> 00:46:45,800
Like why why cigarettes are so demonized in today's world

895
00:46:45,800 --> 00:46:51,800
and weed is pushed super, super hard because, for example, in New York,

896
00:46:51,800 --> 00:46:54,800
the tax on weed is 13 percent.

897
00:46:54,800 --> 00:46:58,800
But the tax on cigars is 95 percent.

898
00:46:58,800 --> 00:47:02,800
So wait, hold on. So I sell a box.

899
00:47:02,800 --> 00:47:06,800
I sell a cigar for 10 bucks. It's going to cost me 19.

900
00:47:06,800 --> 00:47:09,800
Retail. Yeah.

901
00:47:09,800 --> 00:47:12,800
Retail, retail. Yeah. Not from like some little Indian shop.

902
00:47:12,800 --> 00:47:17,800
Yeah. Like the time like the tax, like it's either 90 or 95.

903
00:47:17,800 --> 00:47:20,800
But yeah, the tax that they're doing on tobacco, like you I mean,

904
00:47:20,800 --> 00:47:25,800
you've seen with the California bands as well, all the flavored type of tobacco and nicotine.

905
00:47:25,800 --> 00:47:27,800
They've come they've completely dropped it.

906
00:47:27,800 --> 00:47:30,800
You can't get that anywhere there. You probably can.

907
00:47:30,800 --> 00:47:33,800
I think they got a flavor band. Yeah.

908
00:47:33,800 --> 00:47:38,800
A ton of people like you know, I remember like Jewel got that huge flavor band a couple of years ago.

909
00:47:38,800 --> 00:47:40,800
So yeah, it's you find out. Yeah.

910
00:47:40,800 --> 00:47:43,800
What did you find out? Cigarettes are why they so demonized?

911
00:47:43,800 --> 00:47:48,800
I found that because I did I did a lot of research in like nicotine

912
00:47:48,800 --> 00:47:50,800
and the effects of nicotine on the brain.

913
00:47:50,800 --> 00:47:55,800
And what it does is it basically activates this little thing called acetylcholine in your brain.

914
00:47:55,800 --> 00:48:01,800
Right. Acetylcholine basically makes the signals between your nerves go faster.

915
00:48:01,800 --> 00:48:06,800
So notice when you when you pop a Zin or smoke a cigarette, smoke a cigar,

916
00:48:06,800 --> 00:48:11,800
notice how much easier it is to think, how much clear, how much clarification you have when you think,

917
00:48:11,800 --> 00:48:16,800
how your thoughts are so free flowing because your acetylcholine is all boosted up.

918
00:48:16,800 --> 00:48:19,800
And that's why I just love it so much.

919
00:48:19,800 --> 00:48:24,800
And I was reading a lot about the effects of it on the lungs, too,

920
00:48:24,800 --> 00:48:28,800
because obviously you're told it causes lung cancer and all this.

921
00:48:28,800 --> 00:48:33,800
But OK, they do. Right. This is where you get into like this.

922
00:48:33,800 --> 00:48:38,800
Organic compared to a Marlboro Red, which is shitty, cheap tobacco.

923
00:48:38,800 --> 00:48:41,800
It's recycled tobacco. Not good for you.

924
00:48:41,800 --> 00:48:45,800
The filters filled with microplastics and all this shit, they get stuck in your lungs.

925
00:48:45,800 --> 00:48:47,800
And that's why you should always take the filters off your cigarettes.

926
00:48:47,800 --> 00:48:54,800
I don't sometimes because they're more fun that way. But yeah, that's how I was.

927
00:48:54,800 --> 00:48:58,800
No, no, you're good. When I was smoking cigarettes, I had a fucking yeah, rip it off.

928
00:48:58,800 --> 00:49:05,800
And I had a one hitter that I got a smoke shop stuff. I mean, the one hitter. Yeah.

929
00:49:05,800 --> 00:49:08,800
I was about to get the contents. How well doing your research?

930
00:49:08,800 --> 00:49:12,800
Did you do anything on vapes like the day? So I think.

931
00:49:12,800 --> 00:49:21,800
So I think the only thing that the only gripe I have with vapes is that they're like biochemical lab produced chemicals.

932
00:49:21,800 --> 00:49:24,800
I got no clue what the fuck's in there. I got no clue what's in there.

933
00:49:24,800 --> 00:49:29,800
I used to vape a little bit back when I was doing I was like 14, like in middle school.

934
00:49:29,800 --> 00:49:34,800
You know, you get in eighth grade, you have someone with a jewel pass it around in the bus at basketball games.

935
00:49:34,800 --> 00:49:40,800
But I didn't really do it too much. And then I looked in the tobacco and I'm like, at least I know what it is. Right.

936
00:49:40,800 --> 00:49:47,800
Like this is tobacco that's hand picked, it's harvested, it's rolled up in like some sort of leaf paper, some sort of charcoal filter.

937
00:49:47,800 --> 00:49:51,800
If it's done right organically. But with vapes, dude, I don't know what the fuck's in there.

938
00:49:51,800 --> 00:49:56,800
Yeah, no, I have no idea. I'm trying to switch the zins, actually. I just don't have any.

939
00:49:56,800 --> 00:49:59,800
Yeah. Fucking bought a pack of zins and I was out in like two days, three days.

940
00:49:59,800 --> 00:50:05,800
That's when I got these fucking on pouches right here. Oh, the arms. Yeah. Yeah, dude.

941
00:50:05,800 --> 00:50:09,800
But now, yeah, I used to fucking I was like, you know, I joined the army, never smoked a cigarette.

942
00:50:09,800 --> 00:50:16,800
And that was like my last eight months in. I was just like I knew you could get out of work if you were smoking.

943
00:50:16,800 --> 00:50:21,800
And then I did some research on Reddit and I was like found out that American spirits take the longest to smoke.

944
00:50:21,800 --> 00:50:26,800
So I got I got like the mellow pack like the yellow one. Yeah.

945
00:50:26,800 --> 00:50:31,800
And it's such a cash story. Oh, dude, it gets better.

946
00:50:31,800 --> 00:50:36,800
And then the next day I got American spirit blacks because I like the pack. Right. Yeah.

947
00:50:36,800 --> 00:50:41,800
American spirit blacks, if you've never had one or like the highest nicotine cigarette you can fucking buy.

948
00:50:41,800 --> 00:50:45,800
Yeah, those are fucking killers, dude. Yeah. I was smoking one and then I was walking to the bathroom.

949
00:50:45,800 --> 00:50:51,800
I was like, dude, I could not drive. Literally, I'm like walking, trying not to look like fucked up.

950
00:50:51,800 --> 00:50:58,800
Holy shit. Yeah, that's what that's what I was like, dude. I was working on an engine, literally working on an engine.

951
00:50:58,800 --> 00:51:03,800
And some dude offered me dip and I was like, you know what, bro? Fuck this shit. I'm getting divorced.

952
00:51:03,800 --> 00:51:11,800
Give me some dip. I go live through a lip in. I couldn't work on the engine no more.

953
00:51:11,800 --> 00:51:16,800
I took a break, spit the dip out. I was like sitting down with my head twirling for like five minutes.

954
00:51:16,800 --> 00:51:22,800
Do you swallow the spit? No. OK. No. No.

955
00:51:22,800 --> 00:51:26,800
No, no. No. Dillworth came by. He's like, bro, what the fuck are you doing?

956
00:51:26,800 --> 00:51:30,800
We got an episode with him. He's a cash human being.

957
00:51:30,800 --> 00:51:34,800
He took the green to gold route, actually. So he's out of Texas. OK.

958
00:51:34,800 --> 00:51:36,800
So that's dope. And all that.

959
00:51:36,800 --> 00:51:39,800
But yeah, he's like, do you have a lip in right now? What's your problem?

960
00:51:39,800 --> 00:51:42,800
So he honestly just wanted to try it. He's like, what the fuck?

961
00:51:42,800 --> 00:51:48,800
He's like, dude, I can't I can't work right now anyway, so I got to stop.

962
00:51:48,800 --> 00:51:53,800
I saw he did the same thing. He threw up from it. I'm like, dip.

963
00:51:53,800 --> 00:51:55,800
I didn't like how people would leave their bottles.

964
00:51:55,800 --> 00:51:58,800
That was always like, yeah, yeah.

965
00:51:58,800 --> 00:52:03,800
The spit bottles are Joe Sarns walk around, do like set like half half their bottle.

966
00:52:03,800 --> 00:52:06,800
We feel just dips and nasty as fuck.

967
00:52:06,800 --> 00:52:10,800
You know how people are at work to the you'd be like finding a bottle of this bit.

968
00:52:10,800 --> 00:52:14,800
The only guy who does is be like, that's not mine.

969
00:52:14,800 --> 00:52:18,800
It felt like I've.

970
00:52:18,800 --> 00:52:21,800
You ever had one of the on patches, though, they're nice.

971
00:52:21,800 --> 00:52:24,800
I haven't had the odds. I see them all. I just do the Zens.

972
00:52:24,800 --> 00:52:28,800
I have the the coffee in the in the winter green and my favorite.

973
00:52:28,800 --> 00:52:31,800
That's the one we had. The Zen. We had citrus.

974
00:52:31,800 --> 00:52:33,800
Well, there was in some.

975
00:52:33,800 --> 00:52:36,800
Yes, the odds are smaller than the Zen's.

976
00:52:36,800 --> 00:52:39,800
Smaller and so it's sharper. Oh, that's yeah.

977
00:52:39,800 --> 00:52:42,800
That's got to be that's got to hit, dude.

978
00:52:42,800 --> 00:52:47,800
But I do want to ask real quick if you had any like

979
00:52:47,800 --> 00:52:55,800
one big like issue in your own mind during basic, like did you run into your own walls?

980
00:52:55,800 --> 00:52:59,800
Can I do a plug real quick before we get changed?

981
00:52:59,800 --> 00:53:03,800
If y'all are into like odds and Zens, they got a website called Snus Direct.

982
00:53:03,800 --> 00:53:09,800
We're not sponsored by but they got these like these snus pouches from Europe

983
00:53:09,800 --> 00:53:13,800
and they got some high potency different flavored like 12s.

984
00:53:13,800 --> 00:53:16,800
I think the highest you can get in the U.S. But they go up 30.

985
00:53:16,800 --> 00:53:18,800
Oh, bro. Yeah, 20.

986
00:53:18,800 --> 00:53:21,800
That's direct. Yeah. Anyway, I'm sorry.

987
00:53:21,800 --> 00:53:26,800
But yeah, bro, like any I'm trying to think my biggest issue, I think my biggest issue was

988
00:53:26,800 --> 00:53:31,800
like I had to find find people around me to talk to.

989
00:53:31,800 --> 00:53:34,800
Like I literally just had to make new friends.

990
00:53:34,800 --> 00:53:37,800
Yeah. Yeah. So stuck in my head for like a week.

991
00:53:37,800 --> 00:53:40,800
I was like, bro, where the fuck am I?

992
00:53:40,800 --> 00:53:42,800
And then after that, I was good.

993
00:53:42,800 --> 00:53:46,800
Did you have any anything like that kind of I think it was just family.

994
00:53:46,800 --> 00:53:48,800
I think it was just missing my family, dude.

995
00:53:48,800 --> 00:53:53,800
That that like killed me because I've never really been close, super close with my little brother.

996
00:53:53,800 --> 00:53:58,800
And while I was there, I was like, dude, I felt so there are some days when I'd be on the range

997
00:53:58,800 --> 00:54:03,800
and I'd be like, I just get so like mad because I couldn't talk to him.

998
00:54:03,800 --> 00:54:07,800
Like I couldn't. So that was the biggest thing.

999
00:54:07,800 --> 00:54:11,800
I don't think I don't think it had anything to do with friends.

1000
00:54:11,800 --> 00:54:15,800
Like, fuck my friends. I know we'll be back when I come back to whatever bullshit.

1001
00:54:15,800 --> 00:54:21,800
But like, yeah, it was definitely family because I know my mom was super like hesitant about me going in general

1002
00:54:21,800 --> 00:54:23,800
and my grandma, too.

1003
00:54:23,800 --> 00:54:28,800
So when I got to see them for the first time, it was after I got out, it was super.

1004
00:54:28,800 --> 00:54:32,800
I don't even know. You know how it is. It was just weird.

1005
00:54:32,800 --> 00:54:35,800
Yeah. Yeah. It was hard. Yeah.

1006
00:54:35,800 --> 00:54:38,800
Like you just randomly. I don't remember how I got to see them.

1007
00:54:38,800 --> 00:54:42,800
I remember like the family day thing, how we did family day.

1008
00:54:42,800 --> 00:54:44,800
You walk out the woods. Yeah.

1009
00:54:44,800 --> 00:54:47,800
No, no, no. You walk out the woods on.

1010
00:54:47,800 --> 00:54:49,800
Do you do that shit on family day?

1011
00:54:49,800 --> 00:54:52,800
Yeah, because you're not in your dressing room.

1012
00:54:52,800 --> 00:54:55,800
Oh, yeah. So yeah. So I like graduation.

1013
00:54:55,800 --> 00:54:59,800
It was the day before graduation was family day and the whole family knew to be there.

1014
00:54:59,800 --> 00:55:03,800
So we got to walk out of the woods.

1015
00:55:03,800 --> 00:55:07,800
I should pull that shit up on Facebook, too.

1016
00:55:07,800 --> 00:55:10,800
They're playing that they're playing the super cheesy song, bro.

1017
00:55:10,800 --> 00:55:13,800
Like, you'll get a boot in your ass. Let's see American way.

1018
00:55:13,800 --> 00:55:17,800
Hey, that's Toby. Oh, yeah. He's got cancer now.

1019
00:55:17,800 --> 00:55:22,800
I'm sure.

1020
00:55:22,800 --> 00:55:28,800
Now, yeah. And then like first seeing my family was like, holy shit.

1021
00:55:28,800 --> 00:55:31,800
Like, y'all finally get to see who I am. And they like looked at me.

1022
00:55:31,800 --> 00:55:34,800
I'm just like a completely different human.

1023
00:55:34,800 --> 00:55:36,800
What the fuck? Yeah, it's weird.

1024
00:55:36,800 --> 00:55:39,800
It's weird. Have your family noticed anything different about you?

1025
00:55:39,800 --> 00:55:44,800
Like, do they have they seen a difference that it made? Are you still living with your.

1026
00:55:44,800 --> 00:55:50,800
Yeah, I live with my mom, actually, right now. But I came back and my mom didn't tell me directly.

1027
00:55:50,800 --> 00:56:00,800
But I think my grandma told me that my mom said that I was more like distant and I just wouldn't talk a lot because, you know, after six months of getting told to shut the fuck up, you're not really going to talk a lot.

1028
00:56:00,800 --> 00:56:07,800
So it's like, no, but that was really I got I kind of rolled back in the first night I came back.

1029
00:56:07,800 --> 00:56:10,800
I invited like eight or nine of my buddies over.

1030
00:56:10,800 --> 00:56:15,800
And that was that was directly after the forge. So I had no sleep.

1031
00:56:15,800 --> 00:56:20,800
I was running on no sleep at all, like three monsters that day at the airport.

1032
00:56:20,800 --> 00:56:29,800
I came back and it just felt so weird being like 24 hours ago, I was in the fucking woods with face paint and then 249 sitting there at three in the morning.

1033
00:56:29,800 --> 00:56:32,800
And now I'm home and I'm not going back.

1034
00:56:32,800 --> 00:56:36,800
I'm just home doing whatever the fucking just dumb shit.

1035
00:56:36,800 --> 00:56:44,800
So it was weird coming back and trying to adjust, especially like waking up and not having to worry about like fire guard shift.

1036
00:56:44,800 --> 00:56:50,800
Oh, you had lived in breeds army for six months. Yeah.

1037
00:56:50,800 --> 00:56:55,800
Oh, yeah. Yeah. We had an AIT was kind of like that in between like this.

1038
00:56:55,800 --> 00:56:58,800
It's not as bad as basic training.

1039
00:56:58,800 --> 00:57:11,800
It was a normal unit, I guess. Yeah. I like three, four days with my family in the transition to so like during the transition to the I still still had a little bit of family time.

1040
00:57:11,800 --> 00:57:15,800
But then I all right. I T.K. What was it like? 22 weeks.

1041
00:57:15,800 --> 00:57:18,800
Yeah, I want to say about four to five months. Yeah.

1042
00:57:18,800 --> 00:57:25,800
Some crazy. After I was able to go home for fucking 10 days, they only let me go home for 10 days.

1043
00:57:25,800 --> 00:57:28,800
I don't know what that's about. Yeah.

1044
00:57:28,800 --> 00:57:31,800
Ten days around Christmas time and ended up moving out of my parents house.

1045
00:57:31,800 --> 00:57:34,800
I think it was two days before Christmas.

1046
00:57:34,800 --> 00:57:38,800
I ended up staying Christmas that year in a hotel.

1047
00:57:38,800 --> 00:57:41,800
I went fucking home for Christmas during AIT like right in the middle of it.

1048
00:57:41,800 --> 00:57:46,800
And I remember looking up the penalty for going AWOL.

1049
00:57:46,800 --> 00:57:48,800
The felony, dude.

1050
00:57:48,800 --> 00:57:56,800
I'm saying like my first like until I graduated at like the last month, I was just like regretful done.

1051
00:57:56,800 --> 00:58:03,800
Yeah, that's not for me. That's what I struggle with the most is like these guys like the guard are going, you know, one week in a month.

1052
00:58:03,800 --> 00:58:11,800
I got a little time. It's like now it's like the hardest thing you do as a civilian, but the easiest thing to do is.

1053
00:58:11,800 --> 00:58:18,800
Yeah, yeah, like AIT and basic training. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Look, it is a good call. You know what I mean?

1054
00:58:18,800 --> 00:58:21,800
Like looking back, I'm like, oh, that was not that hard.

1055
00:58:21,800 --> 00:58:26,800
But like at the time, I didn't have like strength that I do now. Yeah. Yeah.

1056
00:58:26,800 --> 00:58:29,800
Yeah, exactly. That's what those times were for. Yeah.

1057
00:58:29,800 --> 00:58:32,800
I mean, I was thankful for him, though. Shit. Yeah.

1058
00:58:32,800 --> 00:58:40,800
That's what I say, dude. It's hard for me to suggest anything else because I don't know anywhere you could go and get the life experience I got.

1059
00:58:40,800 --> 00:58:49,800
By 2023, could join school, join school, solace and skip a university.

1060
00:58:49,800 --> 00:58:53,800
I mean, that's like myself in a university. Did you ever see yourself doing college at all?

1061
00:58:53,800 --> 00:58:59,800
Did you ever see anything, any future Alex in any type of field?

1062
00:58:59,800 --> 00:59:02,800
But I was a junior in high school. Yeah.

1063
00:59:02,800 --> 00:59:11,800
I thought I was going to I was thought I was going to go to school. So at first I was thinking I was going to go to school for exercise science.

1064
00:59:11,800 --> 00:59:17,800
So I just want to do a lot of I want to be a personal trainer, but I knew there was no fucking money in that doing that local.

1065
00:59:17,800 --> 00:59:21,800
So I was like, fuck that. I'm going to be an exercise, exercise science.

1066
00:59:21,800 --> 00:59:24,800
I realized that's just a ton of math and I didn't want to do that.

1067
00:59:24,800 --> 00:59:29,800
And then I wanted to be I got into movies a lot, really, like a lot.

1068
00:59:29,800 --> 00:59:33,800
That's funny as hell. You brought this. Yeah, I want to be a cinematographer.

1069
00:59:33,800 --> 00:59:36,800
Yeah, I was going to I want to be a cinematographer for a long time.

1070
00:59:36,800 --> 00:59:39,800
I still do want to dabble in that shit, but not go to school for it.

1071
00:59:39,800 --> 00:59:43,800
But I want to be a cinematographer and like design sets for movies and all that shit.

1072
00:59:43,800 --> 00:59:48,800
And then I realized that that's a lot of money to do that shit.

1073
00:59:48,800 --> 00:59:52,800
So then I I just kind of dropped college out of the picture.

1074
00:59:52,800 --> 00:59:55,800
I was thinking about it while I was at basic.

1075
00:59:55,800 --> 00:59:59,800
But then I realized I know there's ways to make money outside of school

1076
00:59:59,800 --> 01:00:02,800
and go into school for six, eight years for something.

1077
01:00:02,800 --> 01:00:05,800
Like, why would I just why would I do that to myself?

1078
01:00:05,800 --> 01:00:07,800
And I have to pay all that money back when I can do it.

1079
01:00:07,800 --> 01:00:10,800
Exactly like you're losing money in the process, too.

1080
01:00:10,800 --> 01:00:14,800
Yeah. Oh, yeah. You look like I was talking to my buddies about this.

1081
01:00:14,800 --> 01:00:19,800
When I'm when when these kids at college are 22, they come out of college.

1082
01:00:19,800 --> 01:00:21,800
They're going to be fucking 150 and that.

1083
01:00:21,800 --> 01:00:25,800
When I'm 22, I'm going to have no debt and quadruple whatever the fuck they make.

1084
01:00:25,800 --> 01:00:28,800
You know what I mean? So it's like.

1085
01:00:28,800 --> 01:00:32,800
Yeah, you just feel like the old guy in class by like an order of magnitude.

1086
01:00:32,800 --> 01:00:35,800
True. Yeah. Yeah. 100 percent.

1087
01:00:35,800 --> 01:00:38,800
Like personally, I couldn't imagine I'm 26 now.

1088
01:00:38,800 --> 01:00:42,800
I couldn't imagine going to school with 18, 19 year olds.

1089
01:00:42,800 --> 01:00:46,800
Oh, no. It's kind of brutal.

1090
01:00:46,800 --> 01:00:49,800
Yeah, that shit seems like ass. The culture just sucks.

1091
01:00:49,800 --> 01:00:51,800
I've been to a few college parties since I've been back.

1092
01:00:51,800 --> 01:00:53,800
And it's just like there's no like drive.

1093
01:00:53,800 --> 01:00:57,800
Like nobody really wants anything besides to just get drunk.

1094
01:00:57,800 --> 01:01:01,800
And yeah, nobody, nobody actually wants to make money.

1095
01:01:01,800 --> 01:01:03,800
They just pick a career and like, fuck it.

1096
01:01:03,800 --> 01:01:07,800
I guess I'll do this and then party for four years and then be shit out of luck.

1097
01:01:07,800 --> 01:01:12,800
Yeah. They want to be told what to do. Yeah.

1098
01:01:12,800 --> 01:01:15,800
They can't they can't lead themselves, which another thing.

1099
01:01:15,800 --> 01:01:18,800
The army is fucking great at teaching you with and how to lead.

1100
01:01:18,800 --> 01:01:21,800
So people just don't they don't have the courage to actually say, fuck the system.

1101
01:01:21,800 --> 01:01:24,800
I'm just going to make money in my own way.

1102
01:01:24,800 --> 01:01:28,800
Yeah. The Army forces you to do that. Oh, yeah.

1103
01:01:28,800 --> 01:01:34,800
Like I remember getting orders to 160th and it said like spec ops aviation training.

1104
01:01:34,800 --> 01:01:40,800
I'm like, bro, I'm not a fucking like operator or some shit like I'm saying.

1105
01:01:40,800 --> 01:01:44,800
Like I'm not like this is not I just wanted to fucking relax in the States.

1106
01:01:44,800 --> 01:01:51,800
You know, yeah, like, yeah, looking back, I'm like, oh, thank God they did that.

1107
01:01:51,800 --> 01:01:53,800
And I did. Fuck.

1108
01:01:53,800 --> 01:01:56,800
I was hard things that you grow a lot.

1109
01:01:56,800 --> 01:02:00,800
Which Trevor's got some of my fridge.

1110
01:02:00,800 --> 01:02:03,800
What is that, bro? My orders is it.

1111
01:02:03,800 --> 01:02:06,800
Copy orders bring you to four camp. Are those your original orders?

1112
01:02:06,800 --> 01:02:12,800
Yes. Special ops aviation training co for Campbell, Kentucky.

1113
01:02:12,800 --> 01:02:17,800
Had my ass because two weeks before this, I was supposed to go to fucking Korea.

1114
01:02:17,800 --> 01:02:21,800
Oh, shit. Did you guys do aerosol?

1115
01:02:21,800 --> 01:02:27,800
There's all I wish. Oh, because like at Fort Campbell, they got the 160th right.

1116
01:02:27,800 --> 01:02:30,800
There's two battalions. It was like first and second time.

1117
01:02:30,800 --> 01:02:35,800
First is like the real high speed. Like you got to go to serious school and airborne and all that shit.

1118
01:02:35,800 --> 01:02:41,800
Oh, sure. Any of a time they really didn't give a shit about it as much like we get pressure to go to serious school.

1119
01:02:41,800 --> 01:02:47,800
Fucking I was the six there seven years and I never went to see her airborne.

1120
01:02:47,800 --> 01:02:50,800
They told me when I showed up, you have to go and I still didn't go.

1121
01:02:50,800 --> 01:02:55,800
I ducked the fuck out, bro. It was like a year. Every year they make this push for like a month.

1122
01:02:55,800 --> 01:02:59,800
Yeah, it's got a new new money out of nowhere.

1123
01:02:59,800 --> 01:03:03,800
That was like the biggest thing, bro. You can get enough money to send us to school.

1124
01:03:03,800 --> 01:03:06,800
You know, I'm like, oh, no.

1125
01:03:06,800 --> 01:03:08,800
But yeah, I mean, it's legit.

1126
01:03:08,800 --> 01:03:13,800
The shout out to the one like we're talking with the Marine last podcast.

1127
01:03:13,800 --> 01:03:22,800
JP shot to JP and he was like loyalty, like how Marines have more of a Marine Corps.

1128
01:03:22,800 --> 01:03:29,800
But in the army, our centers around our unit a lot more than like the army as a whole.

1129
01:03:29,800 --> 01:03:33,800
Yeah, I agree with that. I'd say that's true.

1130
01:03:33,800 --> 01:03:39,800
How is your National Guard unit? Dude, I haven't even seen him yet.

1131
01:03:39,800 --> 01:03:44,800
What? Because I was supposed to go last weekend and I didn't go.

1132
01:03:44,800 --> 01:03:46,800
And that would be the first drill.

1133
01:03:46,800 --> 01:03:51,800
So actually, when you get back, you use thing called gold phase, which is in whatever.

1134
01:03:51,800 --> 01:03:55,800
It's stupid. But you basically go back.

1135
01:03:55,800 --> 01:04:02,800
So after you graduate basic, there's two days the next weekend that you have drill.

1136
01:04:02,800 --> 01:04:08,800
You got to go to, but you're basically trying to teach the new trainees what it's going to be.

1137
01:04:08,800 --> 01:04:13,800
You're trying to put the army into the best words possible, which was fucking impossible.

1138
01:04:13,800 --> 01:04:22,800
So you're trying to just the new recruits that come inside up using called.

1139
01:04:22,800 --> 01:04:25,800
Recruitment Sustainment Program, RSP.

1140
01:04:25,800 --> 01:04:30,800
So when you sign up and your ship date is out a few months, you do RSP,

1141
01:04:30,800 --> 01:04:33,800
which you do a weekend a month before you ship out.

1142
01:04:33,800 --> 01:04:37,800
But you don't really do anything besides you. You do like PT.

1143
01:04:37,800 --> 01:04:41,800
They teach you some army shit, maybe land nav. And then that's it.

1144
01:04:41,800 --> 01:04:48,800
So when I got out, I went to those for the new people and I was telling them how my experience was,

1145
01:04:48,800 --> 01:04:51,800
what I learned, my M.O.S., where I was, all that type of stuff.

1146
01:04:51,800 --> 01:04:57,800
Like they they joined the army, but hadn't gotten to basic training yet, but we're still assigned to that unit.

1147
01:04:57,800 --> 01:05:04,800
Yep. So after you sign the contract, like after you oath in and all that, you start going to drill like that next month.

1148
01:05:04,800 --> 01:05:08,800
Oh, shit. You don't have like any PT clothes. You just wear whatever you got.

1149
01:05:08,800 --> 01:05:12,800
They get dude. It sucks because I didn't have PT clothes for like four months.

1150
01:05:12,800 --> 01:05:21,800
I was seven months out from my my ship date, so I'd be going there and like fucking shorts and some baggy T-shirt doing PT.

1151
01:05:21,800 --> 01:05:25,800
They gave it to me like four months later, but half the time they won't give it to you.

1152
01:05:25,800 --> 01:05:31,800
Yeah, I was going to say because we could wear civilians for PT, but some people would wear the most outlandish shit.

1153
01:05:31,800 --> 01:05:37,800
Like, you know, I'm talking about Trevor with his bright pink shoes and his knee high socks.

1154
01:05:37,800 --> 01:05:43,800
Like, can y'all like deploy the guard infantry? Yeah. Oh, yeah, we do all the time.

1155
01:05:43,800 --> 01:05:50,800
Actually, my buddy. Yeah, my buddy's in a unit near me. He's MP. He's going to Poland on May 15.

1156
01:05:50,800 --> 01:05:56,800
There's a ton of New York guys going to Poland in May. Yeah, I got a friend. She basic training friend, Stephanie.

1157
01:05:56,800 --> 01:06:02,800
She's out and thinks she went to Kuwait. Yeah, Kuwait's a big one. Yeah.

1158
01:06:02,800 --> 01:06:08,800
Yeah. That's the biggest fake. Yo, is he an infantry guy to your friend?

1159
01:06:08,800 --> 01:06:14,800
It no, he's MP. Oh, I'm narc. What a narc.

1160
01:06:14,800 --> 01:06:18,800
I thought he was in the gym like what the hell are they doing in Poland, bro?

1161
01:06:18,800 --> 01:06:22,800
Fighting the Russians? They actually like a lot of them infantry do go over.

1162
01:06:22,800 --> 01:06:28,800
What they do is actually train Ukrainian soldiers. It's really insane.

1163
01:06:28,800 --> 01:06:32,800
Same thing in Germany, too. I got my buddy Big Tex. He's over in Germany right now.

1164
01:06:32,800 --> 01:06:36,800
Big Tex. And he he's helping train Ukrainian soldiers and shit.

1165
01:06:36,800 --> 01:06:40,800
We got to train the Russians. Do they have that as an option? Yeah, bro.

1166
01:06:40,800 --> 01:06:43,800
That's not fair. I don't think so. Yeah.

1167
01:06:43,800 --> 01:06:49,800
Here's Kevin. Here's here's your papers, bitch. Choose what you want to go to.

1168
01:06:49,800 --> 01:06:53,800
We'll let you train the Ukrainians and the Russians.

1169
01:06:53,800 --> 01:06:58,800
The Ukrainians do all the wrong things. Crazy ass. Do they let you? Yeah.

1170
01:06:58,800 --> 01:07:02,800
You've been in the army long enough. I don't know. Let you choose.

1171
01:07:02,800 --> 01:07:07,800
She's not. Remember when you get a basic training, they got you fill out that like dream duty station fucking paper.

1172
01:07:07,800 --> 01:07:12,800
Yeah, well, yeah, like three dude. I think I chose Germany, Hawaii.

1173
01:07:12,800 --> 01:07:17,800
I don't know if I wanted it didn't matter anyways. You fucking why do you ask?

1174
01:07:17,800 --> 01:07:22,800
You went to Campbell. I was supposed to be in Korea.

1175
01:07:22,800 --> 01:07:30,800
So it just was a whole shit show for like for like two weeks because everyone in AIT, we all were supposed to get our orders around the same time.

1176
01:07:30,800 --> 01:07:35,800
So like people in our class started trickling in with orders and everyone like one dude got Korea.

1177
01:07:35,800 --> 01:07:39,800
One dude got Hawaii. Another dude's got a cool fucking spot.

1178
01:07:39,800 --> 01:07:44,800
Another dude has this and I end up with Korea and I'm like, bro, I cannot go to Korea.

1179
01:07:44,800 --> 01:07:48,800
Like I do not want to go to the fucking Korea.

1180
01:07:48,800 --> 01:07:54,800
My orders get completely swiped. So my shit's blank for like another week while everyone else is like, let's go.

1181
01:07:54,800 --> 01:07:59,800
I'm going to Hawaii or some shit. My shit's blank. And they're like, where are you going? I had no idea.

1182
01:07:59,800 --> 01:08:06,800
Well, there's a D.A. select program to where the government tells you that you're going into special operations.

1183
01:08:06,800 --> 01:08:10,800
I was going to do it anyways. Called my mom, called my girlfriend at the time.

1184
01:08:10,800 --> 01:08:13,800
They're like, no, sounds too dangerous. Don't do it.

1185
01:08:13,800 --> 01:08:18,800
So I didn't do it. And then a week later after finding out going to Korea, they're like, too fucking bad.

1186
01:08:18,800 --> 01:08:20,800
You're doing it anyway. So I mean, good to go.

1187
01:08:20,800 --> 01:08:24,800
I think that's happened to me. But it's I mean, you just go wherever they need you, bro.

1188
01:08:24,800 --> 01:08:29,800
That's the guy. Oh, yeah. And then when you're done, they don't give a shit. No mo.

1189
01:08:29,800 --> 01:08:33,800
No, that's why you got to go to sitcom, bro. Yeah, bro.

1190
01:08:33,800 --> 01:08:40,800
You all got like if you all get if you get like hurt or some, you can like document.

1191
01:08:40,800 --> 01:08:45,800
Yeah. So, oh, yeah, we had we had some we had this place called Winder.

1192
01:08:45,800 --> 01:08:48,800
It was like the local hospital you call Winder Warriors.

1193
01:08:48,800 --> 01:08:52,800
Well, if I was going to get out of P.T. and shit, shit, your ass ought to be there.

1194
01:08:52,800 --> 01:08:56,800
Get that shit on your disability, bro. Yeah. I went to sick.

1195
01:08:56,800 --> 01:09:04,800
I went to sick all I actually got. What's the skin rash that wrestlers get herpes? Oh, no.

1196
01:09:04,800 --> 01:09:08,800
No, it's. All right. Another one.

1197
01:09:08,800 --> 01:09:14,800
I can't I can't remember what the fuck it is, but I got it during during combat is that was the only time I went to sick call.

1198
01:09:14,800 --> 01:09:17,800
OK, I did have the flu while I was there. I went to sick all twice.

1199
01:09:17,800 --> 01:09:20,800
It was hurting over there. I was.

1200
01:09:20,800 --> 01:09:27,800
Yeah, bro. I was there a few times I was struggling. We were on the range doing our buddy team live fire for the first time.

1201
01:09:27,800 --> 01:09:30,800
And I had the flu. And I was in.

1202
01:09:30,800 --> 01:09:34,800
You're just sprinting through the fucking barricades. I can't even breathe.

1203
01:09:34,800 --> 01:09:38,800
Oh, my God. I thought it was mandatory for the flu shot.

1204
01:09:38,800 --> 01:09:43,800
What the fuck happened? Yeah. They brought us to do the flu shot like three in the morning.

1205
01:09:43,800 --> 01:09:47,800
Yeah. Yeah. They gave us a flu shot. They got sick the week later.

1206
01:09:47,800 --> 01:09:52,800
And then you. Yeah. Your immune system looking like that dude falling down the hill with his rock on his back.

1207
01:09:52,800 --> 01:09:55,800
Yeah. My bro Anderson. Shout out Anderson.

1208
01:09:55,800 --> 01:09:58,800
If you ever watch this dude, just know I love you.

1209
01:09:58,800 --> 01:10:06,800
I know I love you, bro. There's like five dudes in my basic that he's like, you can't help but love what they stand for.

1210
01:10:06,800 --> 01:10:11,800
Yeah. You got to love them, bro.

1211
01:10:11,800 --> 01:10:17,800
You got to love it. Absolutely. You got to love it. But yeah. So National Guard.

1212
01:10:17,800 --> 01:10:22,800
Yeah. It's like once a month. Then what is it? It's two weeks in the summer.

1213
01:10:22,800 --> 01:10:31,800
Yeah. So you go for I think mine's actually 17 days and you go for two weeks and you basically just you don't even know what you do there.

1214
01:10:31,800 --> 01:10:34,800
I'm going to be honest. They don't tell you. They don't really tell you anything.

1215
01:10:34,800 --> 01:10:41,800
I'm going to be upset. But homie signed his life. I'm doing but like whatever.

1216
01:10:41,800 --> 01:10:48,800
And I'm going out to Michigan Camp Grayling. It looks bad, dude. It looks like some some concentration camp type stuff.

1217
01:10:48,800 --> 01:10:58,800
No, I got a lot of those. Yeah. Yeah. So now you got your you did National Guard so you could do it kind of part time.

1218
01:10:58,800 --> 01:11:02,800
Did you have a plan on what you wanted to do full time at all?

1219
01:11:02,800 --> 01:11:10,800
You just know I don't do military full time at the end of basic, dude. I got really I was like, yeah, man, I want to go fucking airborne.

1220
01:11:10,800 --> 01:11:16,800
I want to go eighty second. I'm about to go sign up. Tell my recruiter I want to go to Fort Bragg right now.

1221
01:11:16,800 --> 01:11:23,800
Yeah. And then I and then that didn't happen. I got home for like two days. I was like, I'm staying home.

1222
01:11:23,800 --> 01:11:28,800
I had no I had I had no plan before that. I just I just thought that I'd come.

1223
01:11:28,800 --> 01:11:32,800
I knew I was going to come home and get a sales job. That was the one that was the one thing. Yeah.

1224
01:11:32,800 --> 01:11:36,800
Now you're now you're in there doing insurance. How do you like it? Tell us something about.

1225
01:11:36,800 --> 01:11:42,800
I like it a lot because I think it forces you because along with bro insurance is boring.

1226
01:11:42,800 --> 01:11:47,800
Right. I don't think there's any person in the world that is like addicted to insurance learning.

1227
01:11:47,800 --> 01:11:55,800
But it's interesting because it becomes a product that you can really sell and believe in because you need fucking insurance on everything.

1228
01:11:55,800 --> 01:12:01,800
You need insurance. It's not something that you can just if you die, you die 80 years old, you don't have life insurance.

1229
01:12:01,800 --> 01:12:05,800
You're not your kids got to pay for your burial, which is anywhere from 10 to 15 K.

1230
01:12:05,800 --> 01:12:08,800
You're going to leave nothing to them. They're fucked. They're fucked.

1231
01:12:08,800 --> 01:12:13,800
And they got to pay off all that credit card debt that you have your mortgage, your car bill, anything.

1232
01:12:13,800 --> 01:12:18,800
So I think I think it taught me to believe in a product.

1233
01:12:18,800 --> 01:12:23,800
So if I don't have full conviction in a product that I'm trying to sell, then I'm never going to sell it.

1234
01:12:23,800 --> 01:12:28,800
That's what it's in the hitting the phones to cold call it like the first.

1235
01:12:28,800 --> 01:12:31,800
Last month was my first time ever hitting the cold call and I was like shaking.

1236
01:12:31,800 --> 01:12:34,800
I was nervous. I was really nervous because I don't know what to say.

1237
01:12:34,800 --> 01:12:40,800
Like my script was all ass and it didn't sound good and I was just trying to rush through it as fast as I could.

1238
01:12:40,800 --> 01:12:50,800
But it's great because it teach it like if I want to start this life coaching business and I want to start selling this shit, how the hell am I going to get out of phone and not know what to say?

1239
01:12:50,800 --> 01:12:55,800
So I basically joined to get the skill sets needed to start my own business.

1240
01:12:55,800 --> 01:12:56,800
That was the big picture.

1241
01:12:56,800 --> 01:12:59,800
You can kind of say that's where we're at right now.

1242
01:12:59,800 --> 01:13:03,800
We're like borrowing John's business a bit.

1243
01:13:03,800 --> 01:13:06,800
Yeah, I guess. Yeah.

1244
01:13:06,800 --> 01:13:08,800
Yeah, I believe in what he's doing.

1245
01:13:08,800 --> 01:13:09,800
Like you're exactly right.

1246
01:13:09,800 --> 01:13:17,800
Like if I if I was selling something I didn't believe in or I wouldn't use, I would feel like I was scamming people.

1247
01:13:17,800 --> 01:13:18,800
Yeah, 100 percent.

1248
01:13:18,800 --> 01:13:21,800
Like that's just not going to work for me, chief.

1249
01:13:21,800 --> 01:13:24,800
That's what you say on the phone.

1250
01:13:24,800 --> 01:13:26,800
Yeah, you got to get this shit, man.

1251
01:13:26,800 --> 01:13:30,800
If you don't get it, you're going to you seen boiler room.

1252
01:13:30,800 --> 01:13:35,800
That's why you fucking sent a tweet out or something.

1253
01:13:35,800 --> 01:13:38,800
I've been thinking about what you have for like the past two weeks.

1254
01:13:38,800 --> 01:13:41,800
So me and Hopped in Discord yesterday, we're watching.

1255
01:13:41,800 --> 01:13:43,800
Yeah, boiler room was great.

1256
01:13:43,800 --> 01:13:50,800
So I used to teach karate actually before I left and my sensei, he was a huge like entrepreneur guy.

1257
01:13:50,800 --> 01:13:51,800
He told me to watch boiler room.

1258
01:13:51,800 --> 01:13:53,800
I was like, yeah, I'm never going to watch that.

1259
01:13:53,800 --> 01:13:57,800
And then I got in the then I got in the sales and I'm like, I got to watch boiler room.

1260
01:13:57,800 --> 01:14:00,800
It was so so fire, bro.

1261
01:14:00,800 --> 01:14:01,800
It was so good.

1262
01:14:01,800 --> 01:14:06,800
How good the storyline actually was until I watched it this last time.

1263
01:14:06,800 --> 01:14:07,800
Yeah, it was. It's great.

1264
01:14:07,800 --> 01:14:11,800
All the sales shit and all the funny like all the dumb shit.

1265
01:14:11,800 --> 01:14:15,800
And then this time yesterday when me and Kevin watched it, I'm like, Dan, like this.

1266
01:14:15,800 --> 01:14:19,800
The storyline is actually like this isn't a sales movie.

1267
01:14:19,800 --> 01:14:26,800
It's not. It's just it's like a movie about a kid trying to find his way through the world and get scammed on Wall Street.

1268
01:14:26,800 --> 01:14:28,800
Yeah. Feel like a sales move.

1269
01:14:28,800 --> 01:14:30,800
Like people label it's very relatable. Yeah. Yeah.

1270
01:14:30,800 --> 01:14:34,800
Like this dude. Yeah. It's a great fucking story.

1271
01:14:34,800 --> 01:14:37,800
We read it really fucking necktie.

1272
01:14:37,800 --> 01:14:41,800
We were at the career fair at this youth career fair a few days ago.

1273
01:14:41,800 --> 01:14:44,800
Oh, yeah. And we were like, how are we going to start when people come up to us?

1274
01:14:44,800 --> 01:14:49,800
I'm about to be I said, if you were drowning and I handed you a life jacket, would you take?

1275
01:14:49,800 --> 01:14:54,800
Yes. Fill out this survey right across from us with SeaWorld.

1276
01:14:54,800 --> 01:14:58,800
So they had an inflatable to turn around.

1277
01:14:58,800 --> 01:15:01,800
Look at that inflatable to you were drowning in the ocean right now.

1278
01:15:01,800 --> 01:15:03,800
And I threw that to you. You would catch it. Right.

1279
01:15:03,800 --> 01:15:06,800
Yes. Good. Take my pamphlet. Call me tomorrow.

1280
01:15:06,800 --> 01:15:10,800
A giant marketing room.

1281
01:15:10,800 --> 01:15:14,800
They're like 14 year old kids.

1282
01:15:14,800 --> 01:15:22,800
Yeah, I thought it was great, too, because it could like, dude, after the sales calls that the I don't remember the Canadian characters name, I'll be honest.

1283
01:15:22,800 --> 01:15:25,800
But after he would. Yeah, Seth. Yes.

1284
01:15:25,800 --> 01:15:30,800
After Seth would hit the phones like when he was getting really good at it, dude, I hopped on the phones.

1285
01:15:30,800 --> 01:15:32,800
I was just a motherfucking monster.

1286
01:15:32,800 --> 01:15:36,800
I wanted I wanted to phone and get aggressive on there and close.

1287
01:15:36,800 --> 01:15:39,800
Like I wanted to get get appointment set.

1288
01:15:39,800 --> 01:15:44,800
Like it just made me. Dude, it's just so inspiring.

1289
01:15:44,800 --> 01:15:47,800
It's very hungry. Yeah. Yeah, I'm hungry, dude.

1290
01:15:47,800 --> 01:15:57,800
I'm hungry. Should I like that movie, too, just because it showed like the people that they were scamming like the product of that was like Wolf Wall Street didn't do that, but they were doing something similar.

1291
01:15:57,800 --> 01:16:02,800
Yeah, they did something similar, but in boiler room, like they went through the whole family.

1292
01:16:02,800 --> 01:16:09,800
But when this guy lost all I think it was like 50 K his life savings, he was like he ended up being like a side main character at that point.

1293
01:16:09,800 --> 01:16:13,800
And it showed you how much like they fucked these people over.

1294
01:16:13,800 --> 01:16:17,800
Like he's trying to sell his eight grand and they fucking sold him more.

1295
01:16:17,800 --> 01:16:21,800
Seth. Yeah, well, no, they made up for it at the end, didn't they?

1296
01:16:21,800 --> 01:16:24,800
His dad got him out or no, no, no, no. Yeah.

1297
01:16:24,800 --> 01:16:29,800
No, Seth Dom Toretto Vin Diesel was in there fucking sign.

1298
01:16:29,800 --> 01:16:32,800
He signed off homie cell paper before he left.

1299
01:16:32,800 --> 01:16:34,800
Yeah, it was an IPO thing.

1300
01:16:34,800 --> 01:16:42,800
Yeah. Oh, right before they showed up, homie sold his fucking spoiler alert.

1301
01:16:42,800 --> 01:16:46,800
Yeah, it's like 15 years old.

1302
01:16:46,800 --> 01:16:50,800
But my first time watching it like Tuesday, I think.

1303
01:16:50,800 --> 01:16:54,800
So I don't know. So what's another good one?

1304
01:16:54,800 --> 01:16:57,800
I mean, sure. I feel like we will for Walsh.

1305
01:16:57,800 --> 01:16:59,800
I didn't really care for Glengarry Glen Ross.

1306
01:16:59,800 --> 01:17:02,800
Yeah, we watched that Glengarry Glen Ross.

1307
01:17:02,800 --> 01:17:03,800
It's about real estate leads.

1308
01:17:03,800 --> 01:17:06,800
So we thought we fucking like it because we're in real estate leads.

1309
01:17:06,800 --> 01:17:10,800
And it was just like a 1980s movie not produced.

1310
01:17:10,800 --> 01:17:14,800
Well, it's like it's free on YouTube, though.

1311
01:17:14,800 --> 01:17:18,800
So props to them for not fucking charging me for a shout out to free.

1312
01:17:18,800 --> 01:17:22,800
I think the big short was really good. I watched that last year.

1313
01:17:22,800 --> 01:17:24,800
That made me want to start doing a lot of finance.

1314
01:17:24,800 --> 01:17:33,800
It has something that Steve Steve Carolla, Ryan Gosling's in it.

1315
01:17:33,800 --> 01:17:36,800
I think that halfway or Christian Christian Bales in it, too.

1316
01:17:36,800 --> 01:17:40,800
And it was about it was about the crash in 2008.

1317
01:17:40,800 --> 01:17:45,800
It was really good. It was really, really good.

1318
01:17:45,800 --> 01:17:50,800
They can grow rich. No, not yet. Is that is that Napoleon Hill?

1319
01:17:50,800 --> 01:17:53,800
Yeah, that is a quick rundown.

1320
01:17:53,800 --> 01:18:02,800
That's like like 1930 someone like you, me and Kev just in the dumps,

1321
01:18:02,800 --> 01:18:04,800
like just hurting her. Yeah.

1322
01:18:04,800 --> 01:18:06,800
I don't know what to do.

1323
01:18:06,800 --> 01:18:09,800
Like before you join the military type deal, you had no idea what to do.

1324
01:18:09,800 --> 01:18:14,800
But I picture that in like the 1929 crash, like just complete Great Depression.

1325
01:18:14,800 --> 01:18:17,800
That's why I love no social media.

1326
01:18:17,800 --> 01:18:23,800
Nothing. So while everything he's saying is like a natural, what he did to succeed,

1327
01:18:23,800 --> 01:18:29,800
a natural way of life, there's no social media bullshit, no loopholes, nothing crazy.

1328
01:18:29,800 --> 01:18:31,800
This is what I did.

1329
01:18:31,800 --> 01:18:33,800
And it's like dude, dude made a name for himself.

1330
01:18:33,800 --> 01:18:38,800
That shit blew my mind like the way just a nobody and ended up making a name for himself.

1331
01:18:38,800 --> 01:18:40,800
You know, like that's everybody.

1332
01:18:40,800 --> 01:18:44,800
Everybody's really a nobody until you find out their name.

1333
01:18:44,800 --> 01:18:48,800
Jordan go for it. Yeah. Oh, yeah, dude.

1334
01:18:48,800 --> 01:18:51,800
Oh, yeah. He's building personal brand.

1335
01:18:51,800 --> 01:19:00,800
Oh, yeah. He was nobody until like he became I feel like he became famous over fucking night, dude.

1336
01:19:00,800 --> 01:19:05,800
There was just this it was like this small window where all you heard about was Elon Musk.

1337
01:19:05,800 --> 01:19:07,800
He just blew up. You're like, that's no place.

1338
01:19:07,800 --> 01:19:14,800
I'd rather do that than some stupid bullshit on like how like the American government isn't working.

1339
01:19:14,800 --> 01:19:16,800
Something stupid like I'd rather you all.

1340
01:19:16,800 --> 01:19:23,800
Oh, yeah. Great, cool, awesome entrepreneur guy that I aspire to be than you all bitch about like the government nonstop

1341
01:19:23,800 --> 01:19:25,800
or a bitch about Trump nonstop.

1342
01:19:25,800 --> 01:19:28,800
Like choose this guy. This guy wasn't elected or nothing crazy.

1343
01:19:28,800 --> 01:19:35,800
Like choose this random dude who in my eyes is exactly what what an entrepreneur should look like.

1344
01:19:35,800 --> 01:19:38,800
Like, dude, surround themselves with great people.

1345
01:19:38,800 --> 01:19:41,800
Exactly what he does. Get him in a room with great people.

1346
01:19:41,800 --> 01:19:44,800
That's what he does. Like, yeah, he's an inspiring guy.

1347
01:19:44,800 --> 01:19:47,800
Yeah. Yeah. Like I don't know how you can shoot the man down.

1348
01:19:47,800 --> 01:19:49,800
I don't know how people hate him. It blows my mind.

1349
01:19:49,800 --> 01:19:53,800
It's a litmus test. I use if you don't fucking like Elon Musk.

1350
01:19:53,800 --> 01:19:58,800
Yeah, two glass. They're weird. I'm not going to agree with you.

1351
01:19:58,800 --> 01:20:06,800
Because he's self-made because I think people just don't want to believe that he's self-made and he's really just as rich as he is.

1352
01:20:06,800 --> 01:20:12,800
I think people just don't want to believe that there's people that can get to that level like Jeff Bezos and fucking Bill Gates.

1353
01:20:12,800 --> 01:20:14,800
Bill Gates is a whole nother conversation.

1354
01:20:14,800 --> 01:20:19,800
It's the poor mentality. Yeah. That poor man. You ever had that?

1355
01:20:19,800 --> 01:20:22,800
How were you? Oh, yeah. What was your childhood like?

1356
01:20:22,800 --> 01:20:29,800
So like media, like middle class, very low, low middle class pretty much.

1357
01:20:29,800 --> 01:20:37,800
I grew up very, you know, I'm in New York. So my parent, my stepdad was pretty democratic.

1358
01:20:37,800 --> 01:20:43,800
I like, you know, yeah, democratic values in the house.

1359
01:20:43,800 --> 01:20:48,800
My mom and my stepdad split up. But I think I had a pretty good child.

1360
01:20:48,800 --> 01:20:59,800
You know, I look back because I especially with the life insurance stuff, when you go to people's houses and you sit down and they have like, dude, you go to some of the like the nastiest dumps you'll ever see in your life.

1361
01:20:59,800 --> 01:21:06,800
And you're like, I don't know how they can live like that. And then it just makes me feel very like grateful because I had a pretty good.

1362
01:21:06,800 --> 01:21:15,800
At the time, I didn't think I did. Right. Because, you know, you're fucking 12 years old and you want the new Jays, you want to do iPhone 6 plus, you want the, you know, everything.

1363
01:21:15,800 --> 01:21:18,800
But I look back and I'm like, dude, I was spoiled as hell.

1364
01:21:18,800 --> 01:21:24,800
Or like, you didn't have to worry. You'd have to worry about anything. You know, food was there. House was there.

1365
01:21:24,800 --> 01:21:28,800
Family was there. It wasn't like.

1366
01:21:28,800 --> 01:21:31,800
I had a really good childhood. Really, really good.

1367
01:21:31,800 --> 01:21:37,800
You said stepdad. I hope you don't mind asking about your biological father.

1368
01:21:37,800 --> 01:21:46,800
Oh, so my mom and my dad, they were together until I was about three or four and they split up. And then my mom met my stepdad.

1369
01:21:46,800 --> 01:21:51,800
And they were together. So I was about 12. They split up and I do see my dad on the weekend sometimes.

1370
01:21:51,800 --> 01:22:00,800
But I don't know, you know, I'm busy and stuff and my stepdad actually lives right down the road because I had a little brother.

1371
01:22:00,800 --> 01:22:08,800
So we just wanted to make it easy for him to not have to drive like 20 minutes out to see his his father.

1372
01:22:08,800 --> 01:22:15,800
So we just decided to move right down the road. You know what I mean? It's his father.

1373
01:22:15,800 --> 01:22:20,800
Yeah. But yeah, that's pretty much where that is. How do you feel about your father's situation?

1374
01:22:20,800 --> 01:22:25,800
Seeing him once a weekend, like that. I think, you know what?

1375
01:22:25,800 --> 01:22:33,800
I think it's it's just tough because he's been in the same position for like my whole life.

1376
01:22:33,800 --> 01:22:39,800
He makes the same amount of money as he did when I was born. He lives in basically the same apartment as he did when I was born.

1377
01:22:39,800 --> 01:22:47,800
It just sucks because he has no there's no drive. He's so complacent, you know, to go to work from nine to six or seven

1378
01:22:47,800 --> 01:22:52,800
and come home and watch a movie and play games, do that on repeat for 25 years.

1379
01:22:52,800 --> 01:22:55,800
So it's just that's what I would do on the week.

1380
01:22:55,800 --> 01:23:04,800
I'd go over on the weekends when I was younger and we'd play PlayStation and watch movies and just eat tons of shit food.

1381
01:23:04,800 --> 01:23:07,800
Tons of Oreos, dude. I'd eat like fucking the whole thing.

1382
01:23:07,800 --> 01:23:15,800
I eat a whole thing of Oreos by myself. But the double stuff from the whole thing by myself.

1383
01:23:15,800 --> 01:23:20,800
But it was just I don't know. It's hard to see him now because it's just I hate to say,

1384
01:23:20,800 --> 01:23:25,800
but it's just so draining like being around people that don't really want to like.

1385
01:23:25,800 --> 01:23:32,800
And I posted I posted about that before one time talking about like how draining it can be to come to a family,

1386
01:23:32,800 --> 01:23:39,800
like go to a family gathering. Everyone's talking about just the tiny bullshit, the shit that doesn't matter.

1387
01:23:39,800 --> 01:23:43,800
Yes, it's hard. It's hard, though, because you love them.

1388
01:23:43,800 --> 01:23:48,800
But it's like, dude, you're just so not in the right like mindset.

1389
01:23:48,800 --> 01:23:50,800
Why fuck with your Twitter, bro? This is what I was saying.

1390
01:23:50,800 --> 01:23:54,800
I didn't see this tweet, but even this is enough to get me on the same page like this.

1391
01:23:54,800 --> 01:24:01,800
This is exactly what I came home from Thanksgiving and told Kevin, dude, like no one's on the same track as me.

1392
01:24:01,800 --> 01:24:03,800
No one understands what I'm doing.

1393
01:24:03,800 --> 01:24:08,800
Even if I want to explain what I'm doing in big world terms like in big boy terms,

1394
01:24:08,800 --> 01:24:11,800
you still wouldn't really understand or give a shit like.

1395
01:24:11,800 --> 01:24:19,800
But it's about it is about their promotions and their life and how they're proceeding in life like mine is.

1396
01:24:19,800 --> 01:24:25,800
Yeah, mine would be like I just figured out two new softwares today about how we could distribute this podcast.

1397
01:24:25,800 --> 01:24:30,800
If I went to if I literally went to a Christmas party right now, that's what I would say with my family.

1398
01:24:30,800 --> 01:24:33,800
All of them would be like, that's pretty cool.

1399
01:24:33,800 --> 01:24:36,800
I should be getting a raise here soon. I did an interview.

1400
01:24:36,800 --> 01:24:39,800
Yeah, literally. Yeah.

1401
01:24:39,800 --> 01:24:44,800
I talked about this on my snag. I posted my buddies on Snapchat.

1402
01:24:44,800 --> 01:24:46,800
I'll just I'll try to have them out to write my local buddies.

1403
01:24:46,800 --> 01:24:53,800
They don't know they're still in fucking school and they're not trying to really like grow or do any sort of like they don't want to make fucking money.

1404
01:24:53,800 --> 01:24:56,800
I'll post it. I posted about it. I was like.

1405
01:24:56,800 --> 01:25:04,800
How like I could never sit there and be like hoping for a raise like please give me a raise like it's just so weird to me.

1406
01:25:04,800 --> 01:25:06,800
And then people will be like, why?

1407
01:25:06,800 --> 01:25:11,800
Why am I stuck in the same position my whole life? But they have no yet again, like conviction.

1408
01:25:11,800 --> 01:25:16,800
They have no conviction. They have no courage that they can just leave and go get a different job.

1409
01:25:16,800 --> 01:25:20,800
A sales job, a sales job, I think is the biggest gateway into that.

1410
01:25:20,800 --> 01:25:22,800
You're you're not dictated by how much you're paid.

1411
01:25:22,800 --> 01:25:24,800
Your pay does not dictate you at any other job.

1412
01:25:24,800 --> 01:25:26,800
You're capital salary, right?

1413
01:25:26,800 --> 01:25:30,800
But sales, depending on the industry, you make as much as you fucking want.

1414
01:25:30,800 --> 01:25:35,800
But it also means you got to work as hard as you need to to make that money.

1415
01:25:35,800 --> 01:25:37,800
But that comes to the third point.

1416
01:25:37,800 --> 01:25:39,800
People don't want to fucking work for that money.

1417
01:25:39,800 --> 01:25:49,800
They just want to go clock in, get their whatever their 15 an hour, then go home and spend it on fucking whatever comfortable.

1418
01:25:49,800 --> 01:25:52,800
Yeah, yeah. Dangerous as hell.

1419
01:25:52,800 --> 01:25:58,800
It is. But people people wonder why they don't move ahead and they just can't.

1420
01:25:58,800 --> 01:26:02,800
They can't fathom being put in like an uncomfortable situation, like taking risks.

1421
01:26:02,800 --> 01:26:06,800
I told my mom, I don't know, you guys probably know Nick and Logan on Twitter, right?

1422
01:26:06,800 --> 01:26:09,800
Logan Fitts and Nick Rogers. Yeah.

1423
01:26:09,800 --> 01:26:12,800
So I got in. I did their launch socials.

1424
01:26:12,800 --> 01:26:15,800
I'm in their launch socials thing.

1425
01:26:15,800 --> 01:26:17,800
I told my mom about it and she freaked the fuck out.

1426
01:26:17,800 --> 01:26:21,800
She's like, oh, you're going to use all this money and it's dangerous.

1427
01:26:21,800 --> 01:26:23,800
And it's like, do you even know who these people are?

1428
01:26:23,800 --> 01:26:27,800
I'm like, you just you can't even like explain it to your family.

1429
01:26:27,800 --> 01:26:30,800
You can't. They they just can't comprehend that you can.

1430
01:26:30,800 --> 01:26:34,800
There's there's other ways to make money now in like the modern world.

1431
01:26:34,800 --> 01:26:36,800
They just don't they just don't get it.

1432
01:26:36,800 --> 01:26:40,800
That's why I.O. is so legit, bro. Yes.

1433
01:26:40,800 --> 01:26:43,800
Yes. Yes.

1434
01:26:43,800 --> 01:26:45,800
Like, that's not even my brand.

1435
01:26:45,800 --> 01:26:47,800
Like, that's what I wish my brand was.

1436
01:26:47,800 --> 01:26:52,800
Give me about give me about like I would say like five, five years.

1437
01:26:52,800 --> 01:26:56,800
And I'll be at like the real beginning of I.O.

1438
01:26:56,800 --> 01:27:00,800
because Jake's a monster, dude. Jake is like I don't think Jake is a beast.

1439
01:27:00,800 --> 01:27:05,800
Jake has done if you name something, Jake's probably done it.

1440
01:27:05,800 --> 01:27:07,800
You know, he was in the military using the IDF.

1441
01:27:07,800 --> 01:27:12,800
He was in he was actually like, yeah, he was in the Israeli Defense Force.

1442
01:27:12,800 --> 01:27:15,800
And hold the fuck up. Yeah.

1443
01:27:15,800 --> 01:27:18,800
Thank God. Yeah. Yes.

1444
01:27:18,800 --> 01:27:21,800
Oh, yeah. Dude, I'm in your disk right now, dog.

1445
01:27:21,800 --> 01:27:23,800
We're streaming in your discord.

1446
01:27:23,800 --> 01:27:28,800
I'm calling you on viral on Tiktok, bro.

1447
01:27:28,800 --> 01:27:29,800
Jake is a demon.

1448
01:27:29,800 --> 01:27:33,800
He was a DJ for like one of the biggest record labels over in China.

1449
01:27:33,800 --> 01:27:38,800
He lived in China. He was kicking it up with like some of the Jake is what Jake's

1450
01:27:38,800 --> 01:27:41,800
able to build in his network is just so crazy.

1451
01:27:41,800 --> 01:27:49,800
Like the people that he knows and he's got a lot of big plans coming with podcast wise, like huge people that.

1452
01:27:49,800 --> 01:27:53,800
It's just it's just wild. But he just has such a wide network.

1453
01:27:53,800 --> 01:27:55,800
He's fucking he's incredible.

1454
01:27:55,800 --> 01:27:57,800
He's one of the best guys I've ever met in my life.

1455
01:27:57,800 --> 01:27:59,800
That's the goal easily.

1456
01:27:59,800 --> 01:28:01,800
That's what I love about it, too.

1457
01:28:01,800 --> 01:28:07,800
Like you got a man like that standing for it at the top, you know, like really believing in his own product.

1458
01:28:07,800 --> 01:28:12,800
Like you don't have just some bullshit like Walmart bullshit with a CEO on top who doesn't give a fuck.

1459
01:28:12,800 --> 01:28:18,800
Like you got a man on top whose name is this brand to the point where like he just got called out on that Tiktok.

1460
01:28:18,800 --> 01:28:20,800
And he took shit back.

1461
01:28:20,800 --> 01:28:23,800
I read his message and I was like, holy shit, bro.

1462
01:28:23,800 --> 01:28:26,800
How did you even find it in you to write some shit like this?

1463
01:28:26,800 --> 01:28:28,800
Like, where did this shit come from?

1464
01:28:28,800 --> 01:28:30,800
Is he's a rationally positive.

1465
01:28:30,800 --> 01:28:31,800
Yeah, bro.

1466
01:28:31,800 --> 01:28:34,800
It just irrationally positive, rationally optimist.

1467
01:28:34,800 --> 01:28:36,800
It's ridiculous.

1468
01:28:36,800 --> 01:28:40,800
It's a great name that he that he built, like just a great brand.

1469
01:28:40,800 --> 01:28:41,800
He's got it.

1470
01:28:41,800 --> 01:28:42,800
He's got it moving.

1471
01:28:42,800 --> 01:28:43,800
Had Saban.

1472
01:28:43,800 --> 01:28:45,800
That's that's good enough for most people to follow.

1473
01:28:45,800 --> 01:28:47,800
Yeah, that was huge.

1474
01:28:47,800 --> 01:28:49,800
That was huge.

1475
01:28:49,800 --> 01:28:55,800
I mean, I said this on the last podcast, too, but Sab was seven so bras where me and Kevin got our shit from.

1476
01:28:55,800 --> 01:29:04,800
Like, Kev said, really, I was I was a guard, a cart guy, cart boy at fucking a golf course, ran by.

1477
01:29:04,800 --> 01:29:09,800
She ran by Colombians, I think.

1478
01:29:09,800 --> 01:29:11,800
I don't even know if they were legal.

1479
01:29:11,800 --> 01:29:16,800
I don't even know if anyone working with us would be terrible people.

1480
01:29:16,800 --> 01:29:19,800
And yeah, just I was fucking like five a.m.

1481
01:29:19,800 --> 01:29:22,800
on a Sunday showing up to work some bullshit.

1482
01:29:22,800 --> 01:29:34,800
And at like noon, Kevin sent me a podcast with so bra and said, and finally, yeah, finally, I just like while driving them fucking carts, like while fishing them fucking balls out the lake.

1483
01:29:34,800 --> 01:29:40,800
This is like I'm going home today and I'm figuring out how to start a fucking podcast.

1484
01:29:40,800 --> 01:29:43,800
This is going to get him thinking this is a fucking.

1485
01:29:43,800 --> 01:29:48,800
Yeah, he was he was the gateway, but so bra was the gateway for me to getting into health.

1486
01:29:48,800 --> 01:29:50,800
Like I found about I found out about him.

1487
01:29:50,800 --> 01:29:52,800
What's today?

1488
01:29:52,800 --> 01:29:53,800
How do you feel about that?

1489
01:29:53,800 --> 01:29:56,800
Almost two years ago, all this maxing things.

1490
01:29:56,800 --> 01:29:58,800
The next.

1491
01:29:58,800 --> 01:29:59,800
I can't stand it.

1492
01:29:59,800 --> 01:30:00,800
I can't.

1493
01:30:00,800 --> 01:30:01,800
It's so funny.

1494
01:30:01,800 --> 01:30:02,800
It's so funny to me, dude.

1495
01:30:02,800 --> 01:30:06,800
It's so because you're like I'm son Maxie cardio Max.

1496
01:30:06,800 --> 01:30:09,800
You're just getting some brother like you're not Maxie.

1497
01:30:09,800 --> 01:30:13,800
And so I just I say all the time, just I think it's funny, dude.

1498
01:30:13,800 --> 01:30:16,800
Like when I'm out, like people do some dumb shit.

1499
01:30:16,800 --> 01:30:19,800
I'll be like, oh, he's like he's like Bench Max.

1500
01:30:19,800 --> 01:30:21,800
He's like he's like he's like Max.

1501
01:30:21,800 --> 01:30:25,800
That's what I'm saying, homies, homies, car Max and too damn much.

1502
01:30:25,800 --> 01:30:28,800
Yeah, just add Max into that and everything.

1503
01:30:28,800 --> 01:30:29,800
Taking you there.

1504
01:30:29,800 --> 01:30:31,800
Car too much.

1505
01:30:31,800 --> 01:30:33,800
Yeah, I'm walk Max.

1506
01:30:33,800 --> 01:30:35,800
I'm podcast Max.

1507
01:30:35,800 --> 01:30:36,800
Yeah, Max.

1508
01:30:36,800 --> 01:30:37,800
Yeah.

1509
01:30:37,800 --> 01:30:39,800
It was just weird.

1510
01:30:39,800 --> 01:30:41,800
Is that a sober thing?

1511
01:30:41,800 --> 01:30:43,800
It seems like that's where it came from.

1512
01:30:43,800 --> 01:30:47,800
I think he made it big because when he was first getting started on Twitter

1513
01:30:47,800 --> 01:30:52,800
and Instagram, he'd always refer to like some Maxing or like fruit Maxing walk

1514
01:30:52,800 --> 01:30:56,800
Maxing stretch Maxing like all that shit you post about it.

1515
01:30:56,800 --> 01:31:00,800
And you know, he's like he's he's like the pinnacle of like the health sphere.

1516
01:31:00,800 --> 01:31:03,800
Like he's what he's what ties everybody together.

1517
01:31:03,800 --> 01:31:07,800
So once he started saying that it just became like universal.

1518
01:31:07,800 --> 01:31:13,800
It's such a thing to like I can't imagine your father saying, oh, yeah, I'm I'm son Max.

1519
01:31:13,800 --> 01:31:23,800
Yeah, I would lose my shit if like any guy over the age of 30 told me he was like some Max.

1520
01:31:23,800 --> 01:31:28,800
Like, yeah, like when I was like, oh, yeah, I could imagine your dad saying, oh, yeah, I got a new job.

1521
01:31:28,800 --> 01:31:31,800
Oh, I do SEO for drop shipping.

1522
01:31:31,800 --> 01:31:38,800
Yeah, your dad's like some fucking SEO mastermind.

1523
01:31:38,800 --> 01:31:41,800
No, this networking group M3.

1524
01:31:41,800 --> 01:31:45,800
If you all need a part of a networking group, hit us up.

1525
01:31:45,800 --> 01:31:48,800
That's another plug where we're just sponsoring our shit all over today.

1526
01:31:48,800 --> 01:31:50,800
And we're not working group.

1527
01:31:50,800 --> 01:31:54,800
And yeah, there's like these these old ass people and they're just doing their thing.

1528
01:31:54,800 --> 01:32:00,800
And there's I mean, there's a couple in there doing SEO, Google rankings, Google business pages.

1529
01:32:00,800 --> 01:32:03,800
And it like blows them because they're top performers.

1530
01:32:03,800 --> 01:32:07,800
They're not just like some random entrepreneur kid coming off the streets.

1531
01:32:07,800 --> 01:32:10,800
Like these are businessmen doing business things.

1532
01:32:10,800 --> 01:32:16,800
And it's like, yeah, 40, 50 year old men that are just great at optimizing SEO.

1533
01:32:16,800 --> 01:32:21,800
Some of the middle aged guys are like, it's weird how good they are at SEO.

1534
01:32:21,800 --> 01:32:23,800
All search engine optimization.

1535
01:32:23,800 --> 01:32:24,800
Like, it's weird. You see it.

1536
01:32:24,800 --> 01:32:27,800
You see it a lot, actually, but not in any other niche.

1537
01:32:27,800 --> 01:32:32,800
I can't I can't think of a fucking a cold email marketer that's 45 years old.

1538
01:32:32,800 --> 01:32:35,800
You know what I mean?

1539
01:32:35,800 --> 01:32:40,800
Yeah, imagine. Yeah, I was like, I'm doing cold email outreach.

1540
01:32:40,800 --> 01:32:42,800
The hell you are, bro.

1541
01:32:42,800 --> 01:32:44,800
I specialize in inbound leads.

1542
01:32:44,800 --> 01:32:46,800
What do you think?

1543
01:32:46,800 --> 01:32:52,800
All right, whatever you say.

1544
01:32:52,800 --> 01:32:55,800
Well, yeah, all right, fellas, how we feeling about it?

1545
01:32:55,800 --> 01:32:58,800
Longer show than I fucking thought.

1546
01:32:58,800 --> 01:32:59,800
Yeah, yeah, bro.

1547
01:32:59,800 --> 01:33:01,800
Time just went by again.

1548
01:33:01,800 --> 01:33:02,800
It was fun.

1549
01:33:02,800 --> 01:33:03,800
That was fun as hell.

1550
01:33:03,800 --> 01:33:04,800
Yeah, man.

1551
01:33:04,800 --> 01:33:05,800
Want to get you back on again.

1552
01:33:05,800 --> 01:33:06,800
I keep saying this about everyone.

1553
01:33:06,800 --> 01:33:10,800
It seems like every guest we're running into is just a good guess.

1554
01:33:10,800 --> 01:33:13,800
But as we're good people around here, people in I.O.

1555
01:33:13,800 --> 01:33:15,800
Boys, yes, sir.

1556
01:33:15,800 --> 01:33:16,800
Good people in I.O.

1557
01:33:16,800 --> 01:33:19,800
Just running into good people, talking to good people.

1558
01:33:19,800 --> 01:33:20,800
And that's what it's about.

1559
01:33:20,800 --> 01:33:21,800
That's what the network's for.

1560
01:33:21,800 --> 01:33:23,800
That's what our community is for.

1561
01:33:23,800 --> 01:33:25,800
That's what we want.

1562
01:33:25,800 --> 01:33:26,800
What we're about.

1563
01:33:26,800 --> 01:33:27,800
Yes, sir.

1564
01:33:27,800 --> 01:33:30,800
But with that, you got any final thoughts, man?

1565
01:33:30,800 --> 01:33:36,800
Alex, what would you say to a what would you say to she be 21 now?

1566
01:33:36,800 --> 01:33:42,800
What would you say to a person getting into six thinking about getting into six?

1567
01:33:42,800 --> 01:33:49,800
If you're trying to get in the six by some of these bitches, buy buy a pack of American

1568
01:33:49,800 --> 01:33:54,800
spirits or Hestia cigarettes soon to be buying from them.

1569
01:33:54,800 --> 01:33:55,800
Very small.

1570
01:33:55,800 --> 01:33:58,800
They're small, local, not local near me.

1571
01:33:58,800 --> 01:33:59,800
But, you know, they're a small business.

1572
01:33:59,800 --> 01:34:01,800
They do their own type of thing.

1573
01:34:01,800 --> 01:34:05,800
He reached out to me about cigarettes because they don't sell in New York.

1574
01:34:05,800 --> 01:34:08,800
But anyway, try it.

1575
01:34:08,800 --> 01:34:09,800
Just try it.

1576
01:34:09,800 --> 01:34:11,800
Try some natural organic tobacco.

1577
01:34:11,800 --> 01:34:14,800
Do not do not go balls to the walls of Marlboro Reds.

1578
01:34:14,800 --> 01:34:15,800
I promise you.

1579
01:34:15,800 --> 01:34:17,800
You'll fuck yourself up.

1580
01:34:17,800 --> 01:34:21,800
It's kind of weird saying cigarettes and tobacco, you know.

1581
01:34:21,800 --> 01:34:22,800
It's it's hard.

1582
01:34:22,800 --> 01:34:26,800
I try to say tobacco as much as possible because it kind of because you think of cigarettes

1583
01:34:26,800 --> 01:34:28,800
in the first thing is I lung cancer.

1584
01:34:28,800 --> 01:34:29,800
Yeah.

1585
01:34:29,800 --> 01:34:31,800
So it kind of turns turns people turns people off.

1586
01:34:31,800 --> 01:34:34,800
But I fucking love six.

1587
01:34:34,800 --> 01:34:35,800
Yeah, you got it.

1588
01:34:35,800 --> 01:34:38,800
If you're smoking things right now, you're fucking you're losing, bro.

1589
01:34:38,800 --> 01:34:39,800
Yeah.

1590
01:34:39,800 --> 01:34:41,800
And if you're trying to quit six, go right here.

1591
01:34:41,800 --> 01:34:42,800
Eight milligrams.

1592
01:34:42,800 --> 01:34:43,800
Yeah.

1593
01:34:43,800 --> 01:34:44,800
Hit up some.

1594
01:34:44,800 --> 01:34:45,800
You got to have your nicotine.

1595
01:34:45,800 --> 01:34:48,800
If you're trying to quit six and nicotine all together, go right here.

1596
01:34:48,800 --> 01:34:49,800
Yeah.

1597
01:34:49,800 --> 01:34:50,800
Yes, sir.

1598
01:34:50,800 --> 01:34:57,800
And if you're trying to quit drinking at that, if you try to try to start drinking some some

1599
01:34:57,800 --> 01:34:59,800
bourbon whiskey, I just got into whiskey.

1600
01:34:59,800 --> 01:35:00,800
Oh, yeah.

1601
01:35:00,800 --> 01:35:01,800
Reserve, bro.

1602
01:35:01,800 --> 01:35:02,800
This shit is fire.

1603
01:35:02,800 --> 01:35:07,800
Oh, just just got a whiskey coke because I was sick.

1604
01:35:07,800 --> 01:35:12,800
What I really was sick of is doing shit like twisted teas and seltzer's and shit.

1605
01:35:12,800 --> 01:35:17,800
I'm like, bro, this is anywhere remotely good for you at all.

1606
01:35:17,800 --> 01:35:18,800
Oh, no.

1607
01:35:18,800 --> 01:35:22,800
But I feel like whiskey is better out long enough to I mean, there's got to be a good

1608
01:35:22,800 --> 01:35:24,800
reason for it to be here.

1609
01:35:24,800 --> 01:35:30,800
There are certain types of alcohol that I think are maybe not good for you, but like

1610
01:35:30,800 --> 01:35:31,800
better for you.

1611
01:35:31,800 --> 01:35:32,800
Right.

1612
01:35:32,800 --> 01:35:33,800
Less bad.

1613
01:35:33,800 --> 01:35:34,800
Yeah, that's yeah.

1614
01:35:34,800 --> 01:35:35,800
That's bad.

1615
01:35:35,800 --> 01:35:36,800
Yeah.

1616
01:35:36,800 --> 01:35:37,800
Shit.

1617
01:35:37,800 --> 01:35:38,800
Kevin's ring is like what?

1618
01:35:38,800 --> 01:35:39,800
Ninety calories.

1619
01:35:39,800 --> 01:35:41,800
If it's a calorie game, I'm about it.

1620
01:35:41,800 --> 01:35:43,800
That's why we go with the reserve.

1621
01:35:43,800 --> 01:35:44,800
Yes, sir.

1622
01:35:44,800 --> 01:35:46,800
Roast probably like 200.

1623
01:35:46,800 --> 01:35:50,800
With that, we got another good episode of the books.

1624
01:35:50,800 --> 01:35:51,800
What is this?

1625
01:35:51,800 --> 01:35:52,800
Kev 32.

1626
01:35:52,800 --> 01:35:55,800
You want to say good 32.

1627
01:35:55,800 --> 01:35:58,800
It all off an iPhone.

1628
01:35:58,800 --> 01:35:59,800
Yeah.

1629
01:35:59,800 --> 01:36:00,800
Wow.

1630
01:36:00,800 --> 01:36:02,800
Two iPhones in a dream.

1631
01:36:02,800 --> 01:36:07,800
Yeah.

1632
01:36:07,800 --> 01:36:08,800
Happy St. Patty's Day, everyone.

1633
01:36:08,800 --> 01:36:09,800
Hope you enjoy yourselves.

1634
01:36:09,800 --> 01:36:11,800
Hope you did enjoy yourselves.

1635
01:36:11,800 --> 01:36:13,800
This should be posted a little later.

1636
01:36:13,800 --> 01:36:16,800
But but thanks again, Alex, coming on, man.

1637
01:36:16,800 --> 01:36:18,800
I had no idea what to expect.

1638
01:36:18,800 --> 01:36:20,800
I even know you're in the military.

1639
01:36:20,800 --> 01:36:23,800
I mean, before I even had you on, I didn't I had no idea.

1640
01:36:23,800 --> 01:36:24,800
So that was cool.

1641
01:36:24,800 --> 01:36:26,800
Thanks for sharing some stories.

1642
01:36:26,800 --> 01:36:27,800
Thanks.

1643
01:36:27,800 --> 01:36:33,800
You know, opening yourself up and yeah, what you got to say, man.

1644
01:36:33,800 --> 01:36:34,800
I appreciate you.

1645
01:36:34,800 --> 01:36:36,800
This is like this is my first podcast.

1646
01:36:36,800 --> 01:36:38,800
So it's it's just fucking sick.

1647
01:36:38,800 --> 01:36:44,800
You know, if I if you told me if you told me a year ago that I'd be on a podcast this year, I'd be like, no way.

1648
01:36:44,800 --> 01:36:45,800
No shot.

1649
01:36:45,800 --> 01:36:46,800
You're crazy.

1650
01:36:46,800 --> 01:36:48,800
So I just I like seriously.

1651
01:36:48,800 --> 01:36:49,800
Thank you so much.

1652
01:36:49,800 --> 01:36:50,800
Oh, yeah.

1653
01:36:50,800 --> 01:36:51,800
This is this was fun.

1654
01:36:51,800 --> 01:36:52,800
It's just you know, it's just fun.

1655
01:36:52,800 --> 01:36:53,800
Just chillin out.

1656
01:36:53,800 --> 01:36:54,800
Just shoot.

1657
01:36:54,800 --> 01:36:55,800
Yeah.

1658
01:36:55,800 --> 01:36:56,800
Just shooting the shit, man.

1659
01:36:56,800 --> 01:36:58,800
Like it's just fun.

1660
01:36:58,800 --> 01:36:59,800
It's enjoyable.

1661
01:36:59,800 --> 01:37:06,800
And every it's nice to be able to find a space like that with with like minded people.

1662
01:37:06,800 --> 01:37:13,800
That's why I like I also much like yeah, maybe you might not be able to get a podcast with Jake, but let's get the group going here.

1663
01:37:13,800 --> 01:37:14,800
Let's get the boys.

1664
01:37:14,800 --> 01:37:18,800
Let's get everybody in in the circle together and let's let's go up together.

1665
01:37:18,800 --> 01:37:19,800
That's the biggest.

1666
01:37:19,800 --> 01:37:20,800
Yeah.

1667
01:37:20,800 --> 01:37:21,800
And just stuff like this.

1668
01:37:21,800 --> 01:37:26,800
It's an easy way for us to find our similarities, find our differences.

1669
01:37:26,800 --> 01:37:27,800
Seems like we're pretty similar.

1670
01:37:27,800 --> 01:37:29,800
Seems like we're about to take the fuck off.

1671
01:37:29,800 --> 01:37:34,800
Now I know who to go to when I need need some special shit, you know, need some insurance.

1672
01:37:34,800 --> 01:37:36,800
Yeah, insurance.

1673
01:37:36,800 --> 01:37:37,800
How'd you feel, man?

1674
01:37:37,800 --> 01:37:38,800
I felt good.

1675
01:37:38,800 --> 01:37:40,800
No, I didn't even know you were vet.

1676
01:37:40,800 --> 01:37:42,800
And then you said some before we started the show.

1677
01:37:42,800 --> 01:37:44,800
Like, well, no, a little bit about the army.

1678
01:37:44,800 --> 01:37:47,800
And then we got into it.

1679
01:37:47,800 --> 01:37:48,800
I'm like, oh, well, this.

1680
01:37:48,800 --> 01:37:50,800
Yeah, we're talking.

1681
01:37:50,800 --> 01:37:51,800
I'm like, save it for the show.

1682
01:37:51,800 --> 01:37:52,800
Do we got to get into it?

1683
01:37:52,800 --> 01:37:53,800
Yeah.

1684
01:37:53,800 --> 01:37:54,800
Yeah.

1685
01:37:54,800 --> 01:37:56,800
But now I'm super thankful to have you on.

1686
01:37:56,800 --> 01:37:57,800
Phenomenal.

1687
01:37:57,800 --> 01:37:58,800
S to you.

1688
01:37:58,800 --> 01:37:59,800
All right.

1689
01:37:59,800 --> 01:38:00,800
Thank you.

1690
01:38:00,800 --> 01:38:01,800
My man.

1691
01:38:01,800 --> 01:38:02,800
Yeah.

1692
01:38:02,800 --> 01:38:03,800
Check out the links in the description.

1693
01:38:03,800 --> 01:38:04,800
Everything will be in there.

1694
01:38:04,800 --> 01:38:07,800
I.O. are you to his Twitter, everything?

1695
01:38:07,800 --> 01:38:10,800
And yeah, we'll catch you in the next episode.

1696
01:38:10,800 --> 01:38:11,800
Thanks for watching.

1697
01:38:11,800 --> 01:38:12,800
Peace out.

1698
01:38:12,800 --> 01:38:13,800
All right, y'all.

1699
01:38:13,800 --> 01:38:14,800
Thanks for watching.

1700
01:38:14,800 --> 01:38:17,800
If you made it this far with us, hope you all enjoy that episode.

1701
01:38:17,800 --> 01:38:20,800
Next week, we got a religious dude on.

1702
01:38:20,800 --> 01:38:22,800
He's a more Christian guy.

1703
01:38:22,800 --> 01:38:27,800
And it's an interesting episode because I'm not the most religious guy on the episode.

1704
01:38:27,800 --> 01:38:29,800
And we get into some tough topics.

1705
01:38:29,800 --> 01:38:30,800
So, Trevor, got anything?

1706
01:38:30,800 --> 01:38:32,800
Yeah, no, I was very fun.

1707
01:38:32,800 --> 01:38:33,800
I enjoyed having him on.

1708
01:38:33,800 --> 01:38:35,800
He actually helped us with our Discord servers, too.

1709
01:38:35,800 --> 01:38:39,800
So anybody needing some help with that, he's got some some knowledge on that.

1710
01:38:39,800 --> 01:38:43,800
So we'll be leaving his Twitter and we got some good connections with him.

1711
01:38:43,800 --> 01:38:47,800
If you need some help, anything like that, if you need to know anything about religion,

1712
01:38:47,800 --> 01:38:48,800
that's the man to ask.

1713
01:38:48,800 --> 01:38:51,800
I'm telling you, I follow him on Twitter and that's the man to ask.

1714
01:38:51,800 --> 01:39:03,800
So thanks for tuning in and we'll catch you all next time.