I Came With Fire
"The Remix...Again"
what's up everybody and welcome to the new face of I came with our podcast. It's me, your boy Brandon and your boy Chris from Common Freaking Sense. What's up brother? Oh, hey, we're sitting in there. Oh, it was the whole. Oh, oh, oh. Oh, hey, I didn't, I didn't see you there. Welcome to, I'm just kidding, dude. Terrific. We're here with a really shitty Ray Charles cosplayer. New co-host. Hell yeah. Bring a different kind of energy. But he's not the right one, baby. Uh huh. What are you drinking? Hey, I'm not the co-host that you deserve. But that's right. I will be the co-host I have. Yeah. Well, that I have not necessarily the one I need, right? Okay. The dark night over here. This guy. I'm having a little bit of Kona big wave. That's good stuff, actually. This is the loosen the tongue up a little bit, you know, get a conversation with Ellen. Yeah, just a little bit. I actually really like that beer. That's a good beer. My brother likes that beer too. He introduced it to me a while back. Yeah, man. It is good stuff. It is good stuff. Well, if you're a frequent listener of the show, you know what a popcorn podcast is. If not, we'll catch you up real fast. But this is Chris and I's first popcorn podcast. All it is, is Chris and I prep five questions for one another. Neither of us know what the fuck we're going to ask the other. And yeah, it's just going to be a good time. It's going to be funny. It's going to be a little serious. Might be a little homoerotic. We don't know. So it will it will be homoerotic. Homoerotic has to be. You can't you can't get two military members in the same room or chat room for that matter without some sort of homoeroticism. So it's and you don't even need to be in the Navy. Otherwise, it is just homoer. So yeah, yeah, 100% we can both do that. We can both make fun of the Navy. It's true. When all else fails, it's kind of like making fun of the Amish. Right. It's just punching down. You know, it is. Yeah. And the best thing about making fun of the Amish is they'll never know, you know, right? Or never know. Also, they can't they can't prove that you did it. Like what are they going to do? Like, Oh, get a guy. Get the scribe in here. And you like it. Right. Exactly. Exactly. This is what happened. This is why easy. He'll got fucking excommunicated. Okay, guys, why he's gone. He's out of the devil's playground. Probably heard dead somewhere watching pod guy. I heard he was reading the Hardy Boys by candlelight the other night. Like fucking terrible, dude. Yep. He's got a crush on Nancy Drew. Whoa. Yeah. Saface. Do you hear his actual colors, dude? It does. Yeah. I know. Right? Can't bring cloths, you know what I mean? Do that. One way trip to hell, dude. Exactly. When you're in your period, you just get the fuck out of town. That's not allowed either. Okay. If you read the D that C scrolls, you know that the S scenes had a rule that said that, right? We get two biblical on you, right? But that's what it's in there. You're unclean ass out of here, Sharon. This is true. It is true. All right. We are, we are off to races with that. Yeah. First take of the Spurs. Let's go. All right. All right, man. Well, as um, as the new guy, I'll let you go first. All right, ladies first. I got it. All right. So, um, this is a, this is a thing that I always like to ask people. I have somewhat of a homegrown theory that you are either as an American, a beach person or, or a mountain person. So I would like to know which are you? Are you a beach person or a mountain person and why? Yeah, 110% beach person. Oh, it is. Yeah, dude, not to get too fucking Kenny G and candlelight, but there's just something about being on the beach. Yeah. No, but there's just something about being on the beach. It's just like medicine for my soul and not to be too retarded, but I love, I love being at the beach. I love the smell of the water, I love the waves, all that shit. And, um, but, uh, you know, it could be that I'm a Florida boy at heart, but mountains have always just made me feel super constricted or like trapped because like you look up, you're in the, like, cause I mean, I looked in Montana for a while, right? But, right, you're in a mountain town, you look up and you got mountains all over the place. And it was just feel like to me almost just feel like I'm in a fucking cage. And um, they're beautiful and I like camping and I like being in the mountains, but not for too long. I start getting like the itch to get the fuck out of there, kind of like I'm trapped. And um, the ocean just like looks like it goes on forever. So there's like that, open, unrestricted feeling of just like, I don't know, endlessness, I guess. So I love the beach. I could see that I am completely the opposite for almost all of the exact same reasons. Like, I lived, I lived in Florida for a while. I lived in Destin for a little bit, you know, it's like super spring town. Yeah, spring town USA, spring break USA, right? And I spent some time out of the beach. I enjoyed it for what it was passed out on the beach one time, woke up, like, Oh man, my dress was hurt. Oh, my yeah, my crispy, probably look like your hat Irish Scottish. Yes, dude, for a week. It was bad. And I was in a, I was in military school at the time. So I actually got the infamous counseling for mishandling of government property. Wow, I was out over the weekend. Dude, I saw someone get that buffer frostbite. Yeah. For real. There you go. Exactly. Well, yeah, you gloves, you fucking eat it. Yeah, well, so, but anyway, I just got bored with it. Like you, you listen to the, listen to the tide on the sand and you got the breeze in your face. And it was really cool for like three months. And then I was like, this is just boring to me. And I know that some people like it for the consistency of it, you know, love being able to have the sun and the waves every day. Yeah, I love the mountains because I feel like when you're out there, like it's big sky country, it goes on forever. And the like the mountain man, like ethos, like calls to me, you know, that like I must go out and fell a tree today to get fired. I just love it, man. Like so energy is Lee Adams. Yeah, I got to, dude. I got to. And like you, you see me with a mustache and a beard like one of these days with that DD two 14 comes in, like, you're never going to see this baby face ever again. I'm going to look like I'm going to go through a Jesus phase. I guarantee it to be like shoulders and just yeah. Yeah, I'm a mountain guy. I'm a mountain guy like the same reason you just said that like the beach gets boring after living in Montana for as long as I did that back up boring. Like I can't, I just want those people that's like, I can't go hunting and fishing or hiking every fucking weekend. I have to find something else to do. And it's just, I don't know, we got too much because there's nothing to fucking do in Montana except that. And for some people that's a paradise, it is a paradise for me. That sounds like, you know, yeah, maybe if like, if I live somewhere, you know, I don't know, you can go fishing every day on the ocean if you wanted to. Have you ever been to a, have you ever been to a place called swim Washington? Squam. Actually, you know, I literally have only ever flown through Seattle Airport. So okay, so it's up north. So if you go north of Seattle for about an hour, you'll hit a place called Bremerton. If you keep going north, like another hour or so, you're going to come to a place called swim and it's nestled right in between the mountain range that's up there and Pacific Northwest, like the Pacific coast. And it honestly is, I told my wife back in like 2014, the first time that we visited, there's a really famous lighthouse out there that's at the end of this like five mile long sand fit that you can walk out and go see it's one of the oldest still operating lighthouses in the United States. So we went out there, we went to go see it. And I'm coming back from that. I remember like walking out of the restaurant that we went to that evening and you could look and like to your right was the mountain range. And then to your left, you could see the coast. And I was like, Oh, my God, this might be heaven on earth. And if it was if it wasn't for Washington's liberal crappy politics, that that might be the place, dude, for me and my heart, because it was just like, if you want to go clamming, you want to go, you know, fishing, like deep sea fishing, go hit up the surf, like do all the beach stuff that you want to do. Now they're the rocky Pacific Northwest beaches, right? So don't think San Diego, California, like that. Yeah, this is here. You get, yeah, you get north of like Oregon and the beaches like completely totally changed jellyfish forests and harbor seals and like, you know, the whole bit. But if you like the beach and you like the mountains, like it was the one place that I've ever been that you have both within like a 45 minute drive that you could just sit in the middle. It was pretty cool. Yeah, dude, those places in California like that too, for the same exact reason, I would not stay here because of that. So it just sucks because you really can. You can go from the mountains down to the ocean for if you want to go, I mean, depending on the time of the year, you could even go skiing and then go to the fucking beach and send it. So yeah, it's just funny how like the most beautiful places that the United States have are just, it's like this place is awesome. And then a bunch of liberal retards like move in and then they just ruin it. And you're like, well, dude, I would still, I would still rather live in like the armpit of a mirror like down in the swamps of Mississippi where it's free and I can carry my gun though that I would read and I would want to live around like live tarts. I really would give that up. Yeah, there's a lot of mosquitoes in Mississippi. Well, you know, they don't like my blood ain't sweet. Oh, for real? Are you one of those weird of people and the mosquitoes have nothing to do with them. Dude, so, so, so no joke. I just got back from a trip to Thailand a few months ago. I told you about this. Well, I was over there. My wife had me on this greens powder while I was over there that we got not like they don't sponsor us or anything. I wish they would hate broadcast nutrition. I love your product, but just saying shout out what my wife had my wife had me on this stuff. And I was over there. And the dudes were telling me like every night, they're just like, dude, I'm getting eaten alive. Like do you have some permethrin? Do you have like some bug spray or whatever? Hey, doc, you know, kind of stuff. And I was like, dude, I haven't gotten I never got one single mosquito bite in a month is Thailand, not one. And I was talking with one of the Thai dudes about it. And they were like, Hey, you got to keep, you know, they were they were toiling me and it's like, Hey, if you don't want mosquito bites, like eat this. And I'm like, well, the mosquitoes haven't been touching me. And like one of the dudes was like, well, what's in that stuff that you're drinking every day? Because I took like two scoops of it a day. I flipped it over and I showed him and it had like cilantro in it. And it had there was a it had a lemon grass ground up lemon grass in it, which they cook with a lot of lemon grass in Thailand come to find out. And I started doing some research into it. And it turns out that lemon grass and cilantro, which are both super super heavy in the Thai diet, it's like in every dish. Like if you eat that, they are natural mosquito repellents. And so interesting, you sweat them out and like the bugs don't like you. So yeah, like no joke, I spent a month in Thailand, not one single mosquito bite. True stuff, man. And I drank that stuff every day. Yeah. Huh. Well, sample size of one, but yeah, yeah, just saying. Yeah, come on, help us out break house, right? Um, did my grandfather was a dairy farmer, and he used to eat several handfuls of garlic cloves every morning before going out. And the like the flies that would fuck with the cows and bite them, they wouldn't mess with him because he had sweat, not that garlic smell. So I mean, it's a thing for sure. It is a thing. Yeah. Well, um, before we get too heavy in the questions, I I wanted to bring up that, um, we are going to kind of take the show in a little bit of a different direction. We could kind of talk about it a little bit. Um, but, uh, I think I think it's really it's not going to like change up like too much to where if you're an OG listener, or maybe you, you're going to lose interest or anything like that. But, um, with the opposite. Yeah, for sure. And if you listen to, uh, the last episode that Zach and I did, I kind of hinted at this as well, that, um, you know, beforehand, we were a big like listen, sort of engage, uh, show basically, right? But people come on, listen what they have to say because we want, you know, you guys essentially make your own determinations about stuff. Um, but it's just going to get a little bit more direct questions, a little more, uh, interview style kind of thing. We want to do more of that. Um, you know, be assertive and we need to be listen when we need to be that kind of thing and, um, get more into like the weeds and the why with, with certain people we have more. So, um, that's, that's kind of one of the biggest changes turning into more of like an interview style. And then definitely, um, you know, Chris and I definitely have more of a mission to try to change to some, some parts and minds. Um, not to, not to use a dorky phrase like hearts and minds. Um, but, um, yeah, cause we all know how that worked out through the, yeah, you know, you call us the online counterinsurgency. Not really. Um, but I mean, that's not a bad idea. We are the chairman and the joint chief of the Broletariat. Let's just be honest. Yes. Yeah. I actually got my spares coming into mail now. So we'll be, we'll be good to go. You can't see them, but they'll be on. Um, just, I'm just here to wear spares and kill Terry's room. Like that's all I want to do. Did you just coin that? We're going to have to put that out there. That's going to be a teacher. No, actually, actually, actually, actually, I wish I could shout out to a good buddy of mine that I graduated the cue course with. He told me that when we were going through the cue course together, I've just never forgotten it. So it deserves a t-shirt. That's for sure. It does though. Yeah. That's like, yeah, but no, we're going to head in more of that direction and head in that direction. Um, you know, we really feel like there's a shift in the culture here in our country and we want to be a part of pushing it back the other way. And when I say that, I don't mean, uh, left the right, you know, me, me getting back to center where people can have conversations and people can have, you know, a political conversation or an ideological conversation without it turning to some sort of, you know, stupidity, I guess I should say. Yeah. You know, that's, that's what we want is people to have conversations and an arena of ideas because that is what, you know, free speech should be about. And there's no such thing as hate speech because hate speech is free speech. I don't care what you say. Um, if you want to have stupid opinions and, you know, just like the truth and a lie, if it's a lie, then let it be killed by the truth. If it's a stupid, a man, they have hateful statement, then, you know, let, let the good people decide that it's a stupid hateful statement. Um, but yeah, anyway, but that's, that's what it, that's what censorship is born out of is that when two ideas don't meet equally right in the arena, uh, and one group of people always the group that push for censorship feel like their ideas are consistently beaten down, right? Because they're terrible crappy ideas. Then what does that group usually do? Well, then you must not be allowed to speak because why? Because your ideas are better than my ideas. You know what? Screw your, you know, inconsistencies and screw your little girly mentality and it's like screw your pussy mentality and you know, climb in the arena and fight with me on the battlefield of ideas and let the best man win. Like, that's how I feel about it. But, but yes, also, also, to your point, we need to come back to you having a fair, uh, arena of the ideas and that's what I've lost out on is a fair arena. Yeah. So one of the things that, that you and I have talked about and I want to put it out there too, is that I'm, I'm super tired of always feeling like people that are to the center right or even to the right because everybody's going to be welcome here. And this is the thing that you and I have talked about is everybody's going to be welcome. You want to have more posing ideas too? That people on the right have always consistently been on the back foot of every issue, right? Like if you want to look at the abortion issue, being reactive, right? They're always reactive. So on the abortion issue, right? Like you, you have the left got to coin the terms, uh, pro choice, right? Like if the right would have been in front of that issue, they would have said, you know, it would have been like, Oh, are you pro life or are you pro baby murder, right? That would have been how, right? But the left got to set the agenda. So it was throw choice. So that sounds like a good thing, right? Vast forwarding like way, uh, to the modern era, you have this student debt forgiveness issue that everybody's talking about. And it's like, no, that's not student debt forgiveness. And we are, we are, we, the right is starting to get better. Uh, if you guys didn't know, I'm, I'm on the right side of politics, it's not going to be any like secret as we move forward. But if the right would have gotten out in front of that, it wouldn't have been student debt forgiveness. It's no, you are like redistributing our wealth. You are stealing our taxes and you're giving them to, to somebody else to pay for useless college degrees, right? Like the better idea would be to restructure the way those loans are given to 18 year olds. Well, 100% what I was trying to get at is like having that fair arena of ideas. Again, yeah, gives us that ability to climb into the arena and fight from two sides of an issue, but clearly understand what both sides of the issue are and not be constantly chasing the accepted vernacular because he who sets the terms of the argument controls the argument, right? And that's where this political correctness thing began back in the 90s and we've been chasing it ever since because we haven't, we haven't been speaking the same language. We're all speaking English. But if you guys didn't know, we're, we're not speaking the same language and we haven't been forever. You know, so, yeah, no, not at all. And I, I mean, I, I know say this too. I agree with you that I don't think that anybody should have student loan debt forgiveness because it's not, it's money, right? And in our system, money has to come from somewhere. So yeah, it's not student loan forgiveness. It's paying off your debt with somebody else's money. So all debts are paid either by the lender, right? Or by a debtor, right? But they are paid. Yeah, exactly. Yes. No such thing is, is forgiveness that doesn't just magically go somewhere else. You know, but yeah, it's to your point, you know, having real conversations with people and it's important. We'd like to have, have some people come on. So if you're listening to this and, you know, you're on the other side of an issue that we discussed, please set us up. We would love to come, you to come on and have a conversation from like that. Opposing ideas, point, counterpoint, like that old fucking TV show and sit there and have a conversation. And so that's, that's, that's going to be more of our, our angle and doing, doing interviews like that. Kristin and I are going to probably put out some, some things that we are going to use, you know, going forward, maybe like a mission statement kind of thing and some other things. And yeah, so just, just be bare with us as we evolve and grow and appreciate you guys listening. Yadda yadda yadda, all that good stuff. I feel like I need, I feel like I need to do this too because we haven't done it yet because I just kind of like, I was a guest on here then I've hopped on a couple of times and like, but hey guys, my name is Chris. I'm an active duty green beret medic, still in the military coming to the end of my career. I've served for almost 14 years, a little over half of that has been in special operations. That is my background, like where I come from before that. I was actually a youth pastor in the Wesleyan church. And then before that, I'm from the Midwest of the United States, born and raised in a tiny little rural town of like 400 in central Wisconsin. Shout out to you guys eat raw meat. You sent me that today. And I didn't realize that you didn't know what that was. You were like blown away. That's because normal people cook their food. This is true. This is true. And I told you like, that's the thing that like my wife's grandparents, that goes back to like the 1800s when they used to do that. Yeah, it's not really like a modern thing. But but some some bed and breakfast and like little places in Wisconsin, like we have what's called like supper clubs over there. Okay, yeah. Okay, a lot of people that aren't familiar with the Midwest, like don't know, right? But like we have places over there and because they get their their beef footured like fresh and delivered by local co-ops every day, they can still run dishes like that. It's it's kind of rare to find. And when I was a kid in Wisconsin, like like our local supper club wouldn't do it. But it started it's starting to come back with the advent or I guess the the resurgence of like local co-ops and shopping locally. They've started kind of doing it again, which is cracking me up. Yeah, if anybody is confused with the fuck we're talking about, I said Chris, a video of somebody eating a raw meat, nothing in sandwich earlier today. I could not believe that that was actually part of some of these cuisine. But anyway, yeah, apparently it was constant things supposedly. It's a Midwest thing. Yeah, yeah, perfect. But yeah, that's it, you know. Also, we drink we drink bloodies on Sunday and watch the Packers. Yeah, you do. Cheesets. Damn straight, dude. Oh, yeah, man. Yeah, it's Scott Master growing up who was a big cheese head. Shout out, Mr. Yeager. Oh, yeah. All right. Is it my turn? I believe it is. Dude, you know, all right, let's see here. I've got five questions for you. I'm trying to think about it. Let's let's start off with a fun one. Hey, all right. If an alien ship came down and gave you the opportunity to play them one song to convince them to not destroy the planet, what song would you play for them and why? John Denver, take me home country roads. Oh, wow, that was fast. Dude, I don't even have to I didn't have to think about that. Right. I mean, that's a great song. You got everything in that song, man. Like, so John Denver, right, like kind of comes out of that he's like like early 80s, like mid 80s, like country, when country started trying to like go like a different direction, then you have this dude coming in from like Colorado, right, coming from the mountains, like re-infusing country music with like it's it's Americana roots. It was like the first time the country really started trying to like deviate. So let me back up a little bit because I love I'm a guitar player by trade. Like I said, I was a youth pastor. So I grew up like playing guitar. I write music. I have like three notebooks full of songs that I've written that still just never gotten recorded, you know, and like I love I love guitar music. And because of that, I love like Americana. I love American music and kind of like the synthesis of like true American music. Like you have country, you have blues and you have rock and they all come back to like the same place. Because a lot of people don't know that like Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash got their start in Sun Records to Memphis, Tennessee. And like that all goes back to like the same record studio, right? And so it's like as as country and blues and rock and Jerry Lewis was also came out of Sun Records and they were on tour together in like the late 50s, right? So as American music is like moving forward and then you hit the 60s and then like the Beatles come over and you have like the Beatles boom and then like rock kind of like jettison's off in its own direction and starts trying to do its own thing. And and blues is still like kind of traveling underground and then country music goes the other way entirely. Country music also hits a point in like the the 60s 70s where it starts getting like over produced in Nashville, right? And then and then starts becoming you know like it becomes owned by the labels and like and like owned by the record companies and they they bring in like all these like mass producers and musicians to Nashville and they just start like over producing all of this stuff. And it starts sounding like every song sounds exactly the same exactly the same. And it's because it's the same musicians, the same music producers, the same writers and they just keep putting different voices on it, right? And so they called it the Nashville sound at the time. And then like you move into like the 70s and 80s and then there's kind of this resurgence of like true Americana country music and it's like the first like American music revival, right? And during that time like you got like Randy Travis, you got like the beginnings of George George Strait and like these guys and they go one direction and they take it back to like the Cowboys song. Definitely gave for straight, you know what I mean? Dude, I King George, man, like this the only that's the only King George you'll hear me praised. But then you have John Denver that kind of comes in and he does a different thing entirely and he brings his own thing over from Colorado and he does like mountain music, right? But he's singing like from Colorado, he's singing about like going home to West Virginia, going home to the Appalachian Mountains. And like that song, when you, you know, almost heaven, West Virginia, Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River, and as you listen to like the guitar riff, kind of like meander, you can almost see in your mind's eye, if you've ever been to the Appalachian Mountains, like driving through the foothills and like especially in the fall Kentucky in the fall is like the most beautiful place in the world. And you can see yourself like driving through the foothills, like along Salem Ridge and just looking out over the, over the rising and falling hills and seeing the blankets of the trees and being able to see like that's a stand of oaks because they're all yellow and that's a stand of maple's because they're all orange and red. And then you know what I'm, you know what I'm talking about? You can see it in your mind's eye. And so if I was to sing to like an alien race, like a reason that you shouldn't like destroy us, it's like, let me sing you a song about like the rebirth, like the first kind of rebirth of the American music scene and show you like the best that my country has to offer. And also it's a beautiful song and also I'm a big John Denver fan and like, yeah, I think I think it encapsulates like my country, the human race, it's like the earth that talks about the beauty of the earth, like all of that stuff. And like one, not to get like two philosophical at once, but from a musical standpoint, from a geographical geological and you know, climate change. It's a great song. It's a great song. It's one of my favorites. It's, it's, it's on like three or four of the playlists that I've made because I just always love to listen to it. Dude, I can't lie to you, man. That is like, I'm not honestly a little speechless and blown away because I was not expecting you to be ready to answer that question like immediately because it's like one of those thinkers. You know, it's like, oh man, there's so much music. It's like, do I hit him with like a classic, you know, like here's some Mozart or Chopin or whatever, you know, like here's the intellectual beauty of the human mind or it's like, do I take it another direction? It's like, here's Sandstorm by the root. You know what I mean? Like, this is what we're, you know, like where do you go? And then you just, and we're going to, we're going to, we're going to get Shwifty. Like, exactly. You know what I mean? And then here you are. What you got. Dude, yeah. And now, you know, too, like John Diver also makes me think of Paul D. Shore from Suddenlock. So I can't not hear hear that song and think of taking him driving the tractor and classic, but I, but to your point, just to draw like one more solid through like all, all American country music is also influenced by like the original great writers because it all goes back to mountain music, which these guys were playing Irish folk and English music from the countryside. And all of that goes back to the, to the great writers goes back to Shwifty and Bach and Mozart and all those guys too. And though, you know, don't give me off on this rabbit trail because I'll never come back. But I have this whole speech that I like to give about the one thing that when God said I made man in my own image, like in our image, we made him the thing that man does that that makes him close to God is that we create things and specifically we create things that outlive us. And we can visualize this by architects build. It's why writers write. It's why artists skull and draw. And it's why musicians play. And also, you know, there's, there's a few things that connects every group of human beings in the world. You go, you travel into the deepest parts of the Amazon or into the African Sahara. And you're still going to find people that write poetry. They, they draw on the walls. They write music and play music. They tell stories. And it's like these things they weave their way like through all of our cultures and connect us as human beings on this giant rock. And remind us that we're not so much different, but we're not so much different because we all come from one source because let us make man in our own image and in God's image, he made him. Yeah. You know, so anyway, as humans have been making, I mean, think of like the Lasko cave in France, the drawings, the cave drawings of the animals and things like that, you know, that's pretty spectacular. It's a, it's a human origin story. That's for sure that's gone on forever is music art and all of that. Yeah. No, we also have a compulsion to call out things that don't last and avoid things that don't last in a lot of different ways. Yeah. And put, put to death things that will, that will bring us to ruin. Yeah. You know, like it's, it's our, it's our responsibility to excise and cut out things that are bad for us too. Yeah, it's honestly too, like now you're like, you could spend what you just said as like a lot of the reasons why as people are so adamant about their own politics is because you know, you sort of see that as your, your vision of life going on around you in your country or whatever. And it's, in a way, it's like a, a soft defense of your, your lifestyle to argue about politics. And you know, it's, it's kind of exactly what you were just saying. Yeah, it's a personification of the sunk cost fallacy. Because eventually, eventually you get to a place where you're like, I can't admit that my entire paradigm of the world and everything that I've lived. And even the nihilists, which cracked me up, right? Which exist existentialism, like, so you have atheism, right? And then atheism births, nihilism and existentialism. There is no God. So therefore, there's two offshoots. Either I can existentially make my own existence worthwhile. I can come up with a reasoning for my own existence or nihilism. Nothing means anything. And we're all just, it's all just a cosmic accident, right? For those of, those of you that aren't up on, you know, your big philosophy bridges. But it cracks me up, even for those people, it's like, even though they're, they're nihilistic, is like, I'm going to, uh, even though my wife isn't worth anything and nothing means anything, I also can't admit that everything that I've done that doesn't mean anything hasn't been worth something to me. So I, I will not admit that I'm wrong about a single thing. And that has always cracked me up. Because it's, you know, and I'll call people to the carpet on that all the time. I'm like, hey, do you believe that you're going to live after you die? Well, no, we, like, we all go into the dirt. Okay, then if you're going to go into the dirt and nothing you do means anything, then why are you so holding on to this thing that you can't get rid of it? Because does it, does it matter? Yeah. And then just to watch them, like, melt down because I'm like, well, if it doesn't matter, if you're just going to take the forever dirt nap, dude, like, yeah, why go to the map for it? I can understand why like Christians and Muslims and Jews that think they're going to go to heaven. And fight so hard because what you do here matters on the other side, but the other side, I've never, I've never figured it out. I can't figure it out. Yeah, no, I don't know, man. I think nihilism is the root of a lot of the problems that we face, especially in Western culture. Because we, we have such cushy lives that a lot of these, these younger generation that grow up, they think that a lot of this shit doesn't matter. I hear that a lot in that crowd, like, none of this matters. It's not important. Why does it matter, etc. And there's no meaning in anything that we do. So why try that kind of thing? And I do. I think nihilism is, is basically the death of civilization, for sure. Personally. Yeah. All right, man. Well, it's my turn now, I think. It is. All right. All right. So I'm going to, I'm going to tee you up with a little bit of a, this is a, you guys have like promotion boards in the Air Force, right? Yeah. All right. So this is like a situational question. All right. Okay. So, all right, Brandon. So you've been deployed to a desert island. All right. It was a, it was a rapid deployment. You weren't able to take anything with you. Yeah, you got dropped on the ground. It is now 10 days later, and you've received your first speed bundle. Okay. All right. So, so you've got your, you've got your food, you got your water, you got your uniforms, you got your ammo, like all of that. The problem is, your, your speed bundle only left so much placed in the bag that you were only able to get the tiniest of hard drives. And this hard drive can only have 10 movies on it. That's the only, that's the only space that it had. Okay. All right. For the rest of this deployment. And let's say, let's say it's a, let's say it's a good old fashioned like GWT, like 18-month-er. Okay. Back in the day. So you, you've got 10 movies, dude. Really? Two months. Wow. What do you take? What do you, what do you, what do you, what do you, what are you texting your buddy? And you're like, hey, make sure you upload this one. Yeah. Oh, man. That's a hard question. Definitely backdoor Hussey's one, two, and three. Off the rip, right? Just kidding. Well, that was, well, that was, that was 10 gigs right there. Since, you know, yeah, completely. The flash drive is now corrupt. Yeah. Also, yeah. Oh, man. That's a great question, dude. Got to have, got to have, some classes in there. I'm gonna tell them. Okay. Got to have some classics in there. So I'll start with some classics. Maybe like, Rio logo. That'd be a good one. Ding. I approve. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Got to have some, got to have a few classes in it. You know what I mean? Like something to break up the monotony. Um, I would put it. Fuck. This is so hard. So many good fucking movies. Braveheart's going in there for sure. Ding. That would take up a lot of space. It's like a three hour. You get, you get, you get 10. Okay. We're going to get the 10. Okay. Imagine, imagine magically a space for 10. Okay. Perfect. Yeah. No, Braveheart's going on there for sure. Um, probably stripes. Ding. Bill Murray. For me training. For me to. Exactly. Great movie. Gotta see how far he can shove his big toe. Your ass. Oh, to sleep. My little babies. Yeah, that's great. Let's see that. I love that fucking movie. Oh, just some Harold Ramis and Bill Murray in general. They're fucking such a good duo. When I split up, man, I didn't, I didn't hear or read about their, like, their parting of ways. I think until like a couple of years ago, I was just like randomly reading through some stuff and found that and I was like, huh, what? No wonder comedies went down hill in the 80s. Yeah. After those two days. Yeah. That sucks, man. But yeah, uh, Ghostbusters also. Yeah, dude. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Those are classic. Um, like actually trying to think of movies that brought on deployment. Um, I would probably have to bring. Stepbrothers cracks me the fuck up every time. It's one of those movies I could just turn on. No power tools. Yeah, exactly. I don't spunk toothbrush. No, it isn't. Oh, well done anyway. Yeah. Why did you let us do that? There's so much blood. Ruppest time is over. Yeah. Is that four? Four? Yep. Four? Yeah. Okay. Um, fuck, man. This is, you put me on a spot, dude. I'm gonna, I'm gonna be thinking about this when this episode is over. It'd be like, yeah, I changed my answer. Yeah, you're gonna be answered. No, take that. I forgot. Yeah, I know. Because I forgot. Um, Well, I'll be in generous. I gave you a deployment, not like Desert Island for life. Yeah, you're right too. That would suck. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Um, it'd be a lot of, a lot of ums and thinking in this segment. Um, I would have to say, girl with the Dragon Tattoo, I know that's a weird one. I actually really like that fucking movie. I haven't seen that one, actually. That's a good one. I think that when came out when I was deployed is what happened. And then when I came back, it was like one that filtered the cracks. Yeah. Dude, I'll say that happens. Yeah. If you, this is some friendly advice, because it's happened to me if you're listening. Don't, if you've never seen that movie and you decide maybe you're on a date, you have a girl over and you guys are gonna watch a movie together. And you're just like, Hey, let's watch this movie. Don't do it because it's a trigger warning for sexual assault. It was a pretty terrible sexual assault scene in that movie. And it's pretty awkward when you're on a date theater with somebody that you've, you know, known for two days. And yeah, so personal story. Neither of us knew what was going to happen because that actually didn't read the book at that point. So, but no, that's a good fucking movie. I like that movie. I don't even go to see movies anymore without watching like nerd rotting or like critical drinker and getting like a kind of a scope of what's going on. Because I just like, movies are, you know, it costs, if I want to take my wife out to go see a movie that's like 50 bucks now. And I don't like wasting like, you know, two and a half or three hours of my life, you know, to go out and see a movie and then walk away. I actually went to go see civil war on my last trip to Fort Bragg, right? Yeah. And it is, it is Bragg. Don't come at me with no liberty BS, dude. It is Bragg. Bragg about it. I'm going to, I'm going to go to the mat on that one. But anyway, like, and I walked out of that movie and I was like, dude, I just wasted 20 bucks two and a half hours of my life. And I didn't like, you know, as do you say that? But like, when DVDs were still a big thing and I hadn't seen a movie yet, that's legitimately why I had no issue paying $20 for DVD on a movie I had seen before, because I was going to spend more at the movie theater scene in anyway. So I would just buy a fucking movie for 20 bucks and watch it. And if I liked it, I liked it. If I didn't, then whatever, you know, I mean, I probably shouldn't say this because Amazon's going to come after me. But what I do is I'll like order it on Amazon. And then, and then I just pay the 20 bucks up front for whatever, for like a new movie. And then if their return policy is so good that if I hate it, I'll just like email them and it'll be like, Amazon, my kid accidentally ordered a movie like, please refund me for it. And they just take it back. It's worked 100% of the time. The other Netflix. I mean, yeah, Tombstone for sure is going on that being like, you know, we were talking about that. We were wearing the dot quality shirt. I'll be your huckleberry. I'm your huckleberry. Yeah. Tombstone. What is that five? That's six. Six. Okay, okay, okay. Um, I got to have like a good drama on there. So I'm probably going to go with like sentable woman. I don't know if you've ever seen that movie. No, we were talking about that last weekend, because you sent me a clip from it. And then we were talking about, uh, and justice for all to came up in. Yeah, you're right. That conversation. Yeah. No, I haven't sent a sendable woman, but I'll go and put it on my list. That's a really good. That's a really good movie. Is a is a good movie. Is a is a good actor. And he did a lot better movies in the 80s and 90s. Yeah. Oh, yeah. And that he did now, especially back when he was like hooked up with a Scorsese. Yeah. Literally. Now that we're thinking about it and like, so I don't fucking drag this out for 20 minutes, I would probably put Godfather two on that list. Oh, to ding. Oh, there, I mean, like, now you're at eight. I get to put it all three. You know what I mean? But like, that would take up. Yeah. But then there would be ding, ding, ding. He'd be done. Yeah. All right. What am I on? seven? Eight. Eight. Okay. So two more. Um, hmm. Gladiator. That's a good one. Oh, that's it. That is a fantastic, you know, you get a lot of people, you know, sit there, watch it with you. Are you not entertained? It's like a great movie. Actually, my favorite line, one of my favorite lines from that movie is when Quintus is talking to Maximus and he says, people should know when they're conquered. And he said, would you, Quintus, would I? I love that one. Um, but yeah, no gladiator. And then the last one, man, I gotta have like another, like a psychological thriller on there, the game with Michael Douglas. Oh, all right, ding. That's a, you know what, I hats off to you, sir, because you just covered, you went, you went a different direction than I did. Oh, yeah. But then again, so I think it would seem based on the last two questions that I'm more of a music connoisseur and you're more of a movie connoisseur. I can see that right now. So maybe we need like to like round out each other's abilities here because I wouldn't have thought about it like that. To me, it would have been like, it would have been like Lord of the Rings, ding, ding, ding. Yeah, dude. See? Yeah. Right. I probably would have been like Harry Potter five. I have a good one too. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Five. I would have done Return of the King, just to pick one Lord of the Rings. Right. Yeah. And then I probably would have been like Tropic Thunder. Yeah. Tropic Thunder is one of the most underrated movies of all time. It really is, it really is. But yeah, you said Rio Lobo. I think I would have said either Rio Bravo or the Cowboys. That's a good one. I love the Cowboys. Oh, man. True Grit. True. The original though. The original true. Yeah. I have to. I have to change. I have to. I'm taking one off there because I cannot. I cannot. Ash one. Yep. This is your only, you only get one alibi. Yeah. No. Django Unchained is going on there. Oh, all right. Ding. Yeah. That's like, but which one are you chiseling? Yeah. Good question. Um, probably Rio Lobo. Oh, John Wayne. Yeah. It's okay. I mean, Jamie Foxx is just fucking people up that whole movie. I love it. No, you always live in my heart, John Wayne, the great rays. So Django Unchained, for sure. What about you? What time would you bring? Oh, man. Well, I already said, let me, I'll tally myself. So Lord of the Rings, one, two, three, boom, boom, boom. That's, uh, that's pretty quick off the bat. I would do the Cowboys with John Wayne. That's four. I love that film. And I would probably do McClintock by John Wayne. I love the Clintock. It's a, it's a great song. It's okay. Elder is also really good. That is a good one. That is a good one. That one drags a little bit. Like John Wayne's, um, comedy is kind of slide below the radar, which I think is a travesty, but, uh, so I'm going to be there over two Christmases, right? Uh, possibly. I can't be away from home without watching. Um, uh, it's a wonderful life. So that's a great one. It's got to be on there. Yeah. That's a big deal. My dad actually proposed to my mom after watching that film. So I was going to be on there. Yeah. Yeah. It's got a little bit of family history. I would choose to get some comedies in their shallow how is a good one. It's a personal favorite of mine. Super underrated film. Dude, that scene was fucking Tony Robbins in the elevator. He's been in a hand. Yeah. Demon's come out. Yeah. Oh, let's see here. Uh, I would do Black Hawk down. A huge horror film fan Rambo. Mm. Oh, saving private Ryan. That'd be another one. Yeah, I'm a green berry man. Gotta get Rambo in there. He's got to have his life. Gotta have his place and to round it all out. Uh, dude. And when you come into the end, it's always the hardest. I'm not a big drama movie fan. Like it's got to have, it's got to have plot. It's got to have comedy, like making me laugh, make me cry a little bit, but it's also got to maybe four times. I'm really I'm really. You are not a 90s. You are not a 90s kid. If you don't know about that or all dogs go to heaven, Disney used to rip your heart out and show it to you. Neither of those are Disney though. But actually, I'm glad that you reminded me of that. Grace. Great mouse detective. I love that movie. And I would, I would watch that film over and over again. My mom actually took me to the movie theater to see that movie. Really? Yep. All right. All right. It wasn't that if it wasn't that one and I had to go back to pick like an actual like actually, I get my one alibi. I'm taking that one off. I'm choosing off great, great mouse detective because I'm 34 now and I'm putting back to the future. Back to the future. Back to the future. Classic. Back to the future. Yeah. What you got into there, Doc? Stuff for a weather experiment? I love that movie. That's a good one. Perfect. That was such a hard question, dude. Because there are only thinking about it afterwards. There's so many fucking things that I'm going to be like, Oh man, I had the benefit of listening to you and every time you said a movie, maybe you think of another one. It's true. So I got to. You had a good you had a good advantage. Yeah. Yeah. Now Lord of the Rings is a good one to have. Okay. Well, I like we actually watched Lord of the Rings multiple times a year here in my house. Like it's a thing where it's like it just goes on in the background. And like, even if we're not paying that much of attention, like we know it so well, we can quote the whole thing, which is like kind of tune in for the parts that are awesome. And then it's like, Oh, get up and go like kind of make dinner and whatever. And it just kind of plays. Yeah. Another good one to put on that list who would have been is the Patriot to Gibson. Bro, that moment when he's like building that, that rocking chair in the beginning, he kind of sits in it and he's just like, and he kind of smiles for a second. He's like, yeah. And then it goes. You got it. I finally did it. I built a solid chair. He's fucking starts losing his shit and realizes his kids are watching him. His daughters are watching. Yeah. Perfect. But then, but then also the other scene in that movie that kills me is when they they come to that one farmhouse. And the one dude finds his wife and boy murdered outside. Oh, yeah. And he just he just turns around and looks at the entire, you know, platoon of dudes. Yeah, I just pull and just pulls his and pulls his pistol out. But there's that there's that moment though, when he's looking at all of them, where it's like, and the actor did such an amazing job because it's it's fear of dying that is overcome with the anguish that he can't stand that morphs into regret because I'm leaving my dudes behind. But then morphs into like pity for himself because he's like, I can't take this any longer. And then like the last look on his face, like if you kind of like ride the microaggressions, you know, if you like put it, you can do this. You can actually put the movie on like slow-mo and just kind of flick through it like seen by seeing you can watch the microaggressions on his face. And then like the last microaggression on his face is just like it goes to like straight just anguish, right? Like just sadness and then and then resolve. And then he's just like, I'm out dude, he just punches the ticket. And like that scene every time I watch it, it's just like, you just go silent and it's like then then the way that the dudes react to it because they all just stand there and they don't nobody does a thing. Yeah, especially the minister. Yeah, and he doesn't nobody try, you know, and it's like, it was a it was a different time, you know, and I say that like, okay, yeah, we're talking about it, you know, history. So context is everything. I got it. And it's like, well, but yeah, context is everything because it's like these people toiled and sweat every day just to get the plants in the ground to get them watered. Like they lived or died by the things that they did. The only thing that they actually truly had was their children. Yeah, that was the only thing that they had because if the farm doesn't go, and most of the kids, like the mortality rate of children reaching the age of eight was like 30%. His entire posterity was gone was gone. And so he had nothing. What was he going to do find another wife have another farm? Like the land means nothing. I have nobody to give it to everything I had just disappeared. And I even know if you're going to come out of the other side of that war, a winner, it's all gone. Everything is gone. The most valuable thing that he had in the world. Like the only thing that he had that he cared about, doing the part of that scene that really kills me is when he finds his kid and his kid has the little wooden pistol that he made for him. Like always like thought that's like, he got it out because he was going to try and defend his mom. His mom. Yeah, just like dad. Yeah, just like just like dad did. Yeah, no, that's such a rough scene. No, another scene. May we all be worthy of such boys, you know, for sure. Another scene in a movie that really gets me to like that is from saving a private run at the end when fucking fish and that German dude wrestling around. And what's this fucking nuts up him can't get the fucking ammo up the fucking stairs and fish. He collapses in the stairwell because he hears them. Well, that's what I mean. Yeah, it's too much of a fucking pussy to carry the ammo up the stairs. And, um, yeah, no, and then, uh, fish gets stabbed with the fucking Hitler youth knife that he tries to fucking pull out. He's been carrying. Yeah, I hate that fucking scene, man. My, my, dude, my scene in that movie is when, um, there's two, there's the, because I'm a medic right guys. There's the scene where dogs trying to like tell them how to, how to treat him. That one, that one always you, I see is such a good place, such a good character in that movie, that scene where he's recounting how he's his mom used to come home from work and he would pretend to be asleep. Like that scene, I've actually just like sought that scene out on YouTube just to watch him give that monologue because it is, it's so fucking real, man. Like just you could see the regret and just like knowing you're stuck there, like where they are. And it's just such a good scene. Yeah, hopelessness. Yeah, I mean, you could get his last words. What's his last words that scene? You know, I'm sorry. Boy, mama. Oh, yeah. He says mama. Yeah. He apologizes to the dudes in the, yeah, mama. Yeah, that kills me. That kills me. So that's the one. And then the other one that kind of juxtaposes that on the other side is the dude that goes down fighting, no matter what, when you see Tom Cruise like, or a Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks, Tom Hanks laid up against that tank with his M19 11 out. And he's just like, I'm going to go down firing and he's just shooting it. John is going to be empty. But, but, but I went down like all the way, you know, to the wire, you know, and what do you expect out of out of the Rangers, you know, that's a C75 if you guys don't know your, your history. So, well, I mean, it's fictionalized history, but they, that unit, yeah, they were actually, they were, they were there. Yeah, exactly. No, it's like, I had the opportunity when I was in Germany to go and see some of these, these sites, you know, Pontehawk and I got to go see Bastone and a bit of Normandy. And it's just, it's absolutely fucking incredible when you go and see these places. And it's extremely humbling, especially Normandy, seeing how big the beachhead is. And then just, it's unfathomable, unless you've actually been there to see all of the crosses and the stars of David and all the, the headstones there that are actually at the cemetery. I've been to a few. I'm like, one another one I've been to is St. Paul in France. That's another American cemetery. And it's just incredibly humbling and powerful to be there. And if you have, if you ever go to Europe as an American, I, and you want to go see the sites, go see the sites, but I, you know, would highly recommend stopping and paying respects at an American cemetery. They're all over Europe. People, a lot of people don't realize that it's not just Normandy. They're all over Europe. Yeah. Well, it irritates, it irritates the shit out of me because here in the United States, we like, he set cloth and ashes on ourself, like all the time, like, you know, like people would have you believe that we're the worst country in the world. And we have this history of oppression and racism and all this jazz. And then you go over to, to Europe, you go to France. They're in Normandy. They still celebrate us. They do. They hold, they hold parades. And they remember the day that the Americans came and, and liberated them. And I decided a long time ago, if I, if I ever got one of those deals where it was just like, you know, like, we'll do anything to get you to read and list, or if I ever like won a valorous a medal, which isn't going to happen, guys, I'm not like a valorous type. Clearly. But like, if anything, if anything ever happened, and I got a chance to like do anything in the military, they ever wanted, you know, like, like, we'll give you anything. I would love to go to Normandy and do the commemoration job. Oh, yeah. Like, that would be so awesome. We know and have had on the podcast before who's done that. No, Aaron, Aaron love son of a son of a bitch. Of course he has. Yep. He did. Of course he has. Yeah. The Air Force wasn't even there, Aaron. Get out of the way, dude. Listen, we weren't a thing yet. Can't believe us. Okay. That's true. We taught him how the army now they crash and burn and die. There are no airborne rangers in the Air Force. You're right. There are not. There's no PJs in the Army either. Yeah, this is true. Yeah. But now, you know what, though, man, I'll say this, the past couple of years I've started to lose a little of my hope in the younger generation. But if anything has shown me that there still is good fucking people out there, it's the boat shoe, bro, the Tariot that UNC added fraternity, bro. First off, I want to say this, man, I would have never thought as a freshman in high school watching 9/11 that eventually there would be freshmen in high school and college students who would be pro-terrorism in our country, not to the degree that we saw over the past couple of weeks floating around in YU, Columbia. And I just want to say like go figure some of these campuses that tried to do this shit south of the Mason Dixon line and they wound up finding out that those people down there don't fucking play when you want to try and be pro-terrorist and spit on the American flag. I think I saw one video dude where there was a kid that was like, he would say like, how many SEC or how many national champions has a Moss one? Zero. And I was like, okay, man, that's not like necessarily a point, but I agree with the sentiment. No, don't bring that crap down to the SEC, dude. They don't play around about that. Exactly, man. Ask Hamas. How many fucking SEC championships they have? Zero. Zero. Mass holes. Come on. That's right. I love it. I love it. I do. But no, that was. Yeah, it is. It is extremely, extremely. It is. It is. We are. We're the age of the libtard is over. I hope so. The dawn of white boy summer is here. Yeah. And at the end of white boy summer, we will see the glorious rising of the broletariat. I truly, truly believe so. I think we need to push this move it forward, man. Yeah. No, it was definitely nice to see some kids get out there and fucking put some foots in asses and stop some of these people from turning down the flag. I mean, it might be a might for I saw the memes like rocketing around the internet equating these dudes down at UNC to, you know, the six Marines that raised the flag of her Mount Suribachi at the Battle of Yewajima. Oh, yeah. That's definitely too much. I laughed. I chuckled. But I'm like, not directly comparable. How air wins the last time that you saw any person in college ever that had the balls to go and stand up for anything that was the stars and strikes. So it's like, I, on one hand, yeah, on one hand, I will take what I can get. I will take what I can get. And I was really proud. I was really proud to see them do that. I was like, it definitely still, you know, and and also, did you see the, I think there were five by by Kappa Phi, if I remember correctly or whatever their fraternity was, something that I'm sure I sure got that wrong. People are going to light us up. Whatever, come at me, bro. Don't care. Anyway, the, um, the thing that cracked me up is when they put that goat fund me out. I think they raised like a little over a half a million dollars. They did do. It was like throw them a rager and they got like half a million dollars. I want to know how much beer half a million dollars guys. Dude, a fuckload. You know, it's crazy is drinking bro's podcast. They have their own like liquor they put out or it's like a hard sell, so hard as fuck, hard sell, sir. And where that, I didn't know that that was tied to them. It is. Yep. Yep. Yep. And, uh, Ross Patterson had his mom and dad go and try and deliver like 20, 20 cases or something like that of hard AF to those guys. And, um, so they went to the door. And they're like, yeah, they're like house, whatever, chancellor or some shit told them they couldn't take the fucking, uh, alcohol. And I guess apparently all these fraternities have like secret houses and shit. So they were able to take it to the, uh, secret house and get the alcohol, but dude, $500 fucking thousand dollars dude. That's insane. We should just pay off everybody's fucking tuition better. All right, dude. Whose turn is it? For them. It's, uh, it's yours. Ah, okay. Ooh. All right. It's a little more serious, I guess. Oh, all right. All right. What has been your hardest failure and what lesson did you learn? Oh, um, all right. So I made a try at Ranger school, uh, back in 2014. Yeah. Uh, I didn't make it through. Uh, I didn't tab out. I went through anybody that knows anything about Ranger schools divided up into three phases. You got Darby phase, mountain phase, floor to phase. I went all the way through a mountain phase, uh, got recycled for my patrols and then went almost all the way through mountain phase the second time. So Florida phase is only like 10 days long. So by the time, by the time you get done, anybody that's been there, it's like, you keep a little journal. Everybody kind of does it. You're like, you're counting the days down because it's 63 days. So it's like, you know, I'm counting down. And like at one point, I was almost 10 days away from graduation twice. Uh, and then I ended up getting dropped from, from the course. I ended up injuring my shoulder. It was the first time I dislocated my left shoulder and then, uh, ended up getting dropped from the course. Um, for that and, and other reasons. Uh, and then like, yeah, that was, that was really, really hard for me to deal with. Like I came back. Uh, I was an intel analyst at the time, uh, in the big army. And I remember calling my dad. Uh, it was the very first time in my life that I had ever came up against something and I, I didn't pass it. To that point in my life, I had always anything that I set my mind to. Like I did. And I did well. And I, you know, and this time I, I did not. And I count every success that's happened to me after that because of that one failure, because I came home, I had to reset three cock. Uh, we went to NTC. My unit went to NTC for, uh, three weeks down there in Death Valley, California, uh, within, uh, just a couple weeks of me getting back. I think the weekend after I got back, uh, I came back at like 136 pounds from Rangers. And that, that, that very next week. Yeah, I'm like a hundred and eighty six pounds now. Right. So, so if you see pictures of me after Rangers school guys, I was like, some guys, like a lot of, a lot of people like that. Yeah, the week, the week I got back, I took a PT test. Like I basically, I basically just rage, rage ran, uh, still scored a 300 of my PT tests at the time. It was the old, the old PT standards. Um, and then basically like refused to go to sick call, refused to get looked at, which I'm still doing with the issues from it to the, to this day, uh, which is, which is funny because I was just mad. I was just a mad young man. Yeah. Uh, went to NTC, came back and when I got back from NTC, that's when I decided that I was going to go special operations because there's a thing about the dudes in my family. Like, if you tell us no, like we take no and it becomes like diesel fuel. And we just, I poured that all that hate and that malice and that anger into my gas tank and lit it like a rocket. And I really haven't stopped since. And, and I went from failing ranger school to, you know, going into special operations, started off in civil affairs, became a CA medic, went through SOCOM. It's like the hardest medical course that the United States military has to offer two deployments to Syria, like came back back to the back to SFAS past selection. Again, I've been through two selections, two Q courses, just like kept going and, and now here I am today. But, but yeah, hardest failure. I've ever had my life ranger school. One of the greatest regrets I always have in my life, not having that ranger tab. I'm really, I'm, so I'm still mad about it, right? Well, conversations where you're having with yourself mentally prior to, uh, dropping out, whether it was like a self elimination or was it like, uh, you know, I don't know how it works. Like, cadre can say, Hey, you can't go past this point. Yeah. So right. Like they, they, they pulled me out. So there was the injury, uh, that I was dealing with. Um, and then I got accused of doing a thing in the, in the school. I won't go as like too deep into it, but it was, it was basically like you can either, uh, cop to this, right? Um, and like we're going to drop you or we're going to take this to like a, like a review board and we're, we're going to, uh, research it, right? And like what happened, do like an instal investigation. And I was like, I ain't saying crap, right? Like everybody knows in the military, it's like, if they give you a chance to come forward to the amnesty point, if they give you a chance to like, we know somebody did it, just bring it forward and we'll let it go. Like don't, like they don't, they don't, they all need for, e4 motto is, uh, deny, deny, deny, make counter accusations. Yeah, so I wrote it all the way to the end and, and it didn't work out for me. And eventually they just, they, they had to have a guy that was going to get dropped for it. And I was just a guy and it was that easy. So, so I got dropped for it and I went to go see the commander and, you know, of course the commander was like, you know, what if, what if I told you that I'd offer you like a day one restart and I was like, yeah, I'll take a day one restart because that's always the ranger answer. Like everybody knows the right answers. And he was like, well, you know, that was the test. It was, it was, it was an absolute douche. You know, he's like, well, that was a test and you gave the right answer ranger, but unfortunately, like I can't let you carry on to this class. Like I'm going to give you a six month return, you know, back to RB and that, that was it. It was it and that was that. And I was just like, well, you know, and like the whole time, um, like the, you asked me like what I was saying to myself. It was classic. Like, there used to be a quote on the wall and I can't remember who it's attributed to now of one of the gyms that I worked on, but it said I'm, I'm more afraid of failure than I love success. And that that is me like to a T like I think you said that to me behind the other night. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I despise failure. I hate it so much. It petrifies me. And, and that day, like I actually came face to face with just God's honest failure. You fail to come from for you. Do not something you're something you're dad, raise you. Or is that just something? It's an interesting question. I don't. I think, I think it comes from, I mean, like my, my father always raised me. Me. I got two younger brothers and two year sisters, you know, and like I was always the oldest kid in the house. And it was always like Chris, like your little, your little brothers look up to you. Like you've got to be there for them. It's your job to take care of them, you know, like, responsibility, like, as long as I can live, I remember, you know, my dad would be like, Chris, I need you to do this thing. If you ever said to my dad, I'll try. And he became a foster house. And he said, no, he would say, I don't need you to try succeed. And that was his thing. But yeah, do or do not, there is no, but yeah, basically same, same, like he would always say that to us and he'd be like, I don't need you to try succeed. There is no try, either do it or don't do it. And like, that's a thing that, and then he, you know, he would always say like, if you're going to, if you're not going to put your whole heart into something, then don't do it at all. You know, he was always the guy that'd be like, I'd rather you don't do it than to halfway do it and then give up. Right. And so it's just like, I was kind of steeped in that as a hit and raised in that and like you don't back out on your obligations, you don't give up on the things that you set out to do, you either accomplish them or you don't set out to do them. There is, there is no like, like giving up on something in the middle, there is only like delayed success. Okay, you didn't figure out how to accomplish it here, then you move around. But Judge, I think it's one of the things that made me, has helped me be, you know, a green berry. I'm not going to say a good green berry because, you know, self praised stinks. But it's like, it's one of the things that's helped me get to where I am today, where it's like, if I meet a wall, then I just back up. And like, I figure out another way, like over it, under it, around it, like, I'm going to get to where I'm going to get to, just this isn't the route to get there, you know. And I learned all of that from him. Like, I've got to give my father all the credit. He's a good man. Like, he still is a good man. And he's taught me everything that I've, I've ever learned. And but this was definitely for me. I knew that I had to confront my dad and tell him that I didn't get my range from 10. And that, like, without, you know, as pussy, yeah, whatever, I called my dad and I broke down in tears, because I just told him, Hey, I'm coming home. Like, this one didn't work. This one didn't work out. And, and well, I mean, there was for me, that's what I'm saying. Like, there was there was all the shame, the feeling that yeah, no, yeah. So yeah, man, that's that whole story. So it was rough. Yeah, it was a rough one for me. But I will say, like, the good warrior figures out how to take the failure and then turn it into something. And I definitely was able to do that in the long run. Your response. At the time, at the time, that was, that was the worst. Yeah. No, your response was important because look where you're at now, you know, and that's good because you didn't let it become who you are. A lot of people do. And you bring up another really good important point is that role models matter. Having somebody to look up to and remember lessons that they taught you and emulate the behavior, right? Because there are plenty of people who know that somebody may tell them something or give them some piece of advice and then they watch them do the exact opposite. And those people aren't good role models. But when you have somebody like that, you know, like your dad who can tell you to do or do not, there is no try. And then he holds himself to the same standard, you know, it's a role model worth having. And you know, that can be an extremely impactful thing on somebody's life, especially as men. And I'll say this that I have both a daughter and a son and the feeling of being a girl dad and the feeling of being a boy dad are vastly different feelings and want to be a good role model for both of them. But there is something objectively different about looking at my son and thinking of the struggles that I have as a man and then the way the world I know views us as men and knowing that I need to raise and prepare him for a certain thing. And I also know that I need to raise and prepare him for Jesus, the the Mad Max crap that seems like it's on the horizon every other day, speaking of Christ is fatigued, right? But I want to be obviously a role model for both my kids, but as as men, the world is a lot less forgiving to us than it is for women. And I think that that is just a truth. You know, so you bring up your dad, I think is a really good thing because you don't have to have a family member be that role model. And you shouldn't idolize somebody. I'm not talking about that. I'm just not finding behaviors that are right and that the authenticity that they bring about in you or that they exude is what you should see as a person. So it brings up a really good point too. But like as a man, like would you rather be loved by somebody like unconditionally loved by somebody? Would you rather be respected by people? Yeah, I'm asking you. Yeah, no, I feel like I feel like the only people that's ever the other only person that's ever going to unconditionally love you, right? It's probably going to be your mom. Sure. Right. That's a good question. And for and for good reason, but it's like, do you do you want that? Because because love and pity are almost they can be commingled. And like you can you can lose yourself like from from a like a standpoint of trying to do the right thing. It's like, well, I love that person because I love them. Like, I want to take care of them. But like then you get into like the lieutenant Dan syndrome, right? Where it's like, I was supposed to hear that kind of thing or like, no, no, no, like remember when he like dives off the boat and he's like, I'm going to swim back because he's like, I can't, I can't take this anymore. He sees all the people like partying, you know, New Year's Eve, and he's just sitting there. And it's like, I don't want these people to pity me. I don't want these people like I was a leader of men. I don't want this. I don't want your love because like I said, like love and pity can can can can almost co-mix in a drink, but respect and pity are like oil and water. They never, you know what I mean? So I think most men, I think most men would would rather be respected, right? And so it's like, that's kind of what drives the ethos or the paradigm or the inner voice of a man is I want to do things that will make me worthy of people's respect because that's where a lot of dudes just innately by virtue of being a man get their sense of self-worth for good or for ill. I'm just saying that's that's where the desire comes from. And then if they cannot, then it starts to become that's what people talk about the toxic. Like it can either go one of two ways. Either a man is not capable of achieving the things that gain respect from others. And so then like you have kind of the classic like, I guess leftist, like feminist, simple kind of guy, right? You've seen that kind of dive. That's a dude that isn't capable of doing anything to win anybody's respect. So they go off in that direction. Or you have the like they don't know what to do with their strength. So then you have like the toxic masculinity bully kind of guy. Yeah, I think that behavior is is a mask, you know, for a ton of other insecurities that are going underneath the surface. So I'll say this, right? I understand what your the distinction you're drawing between respect and love, because your mom can love you. But at the same time, when you think of the tough love of a parent, it typically doesn't come from a mom. And your dad is going to say, this is kind of what I was getting at with my own son is look at you and say, listen, I understand you want to stop or I understand, you know, it's hard or you're sad or whatever. And that's okay that you feel like, you know, that you want to you want to quit. It's okay, you feel like it's you're sad, but you can't give into what's going on down the road from that, right? And that is a form of love, I think, to respect you enough to hold you to that standard, I guess I should say. But I maybe just think of something actually was watching a video on Michael Jordan. And he basically, and I'm probably going to butcher this, was saying that the ultimate form of respect, you're playing the game where somebody else playing basketball for somebody else was to show them no respect on the court, and to show them that they were just another player that were both here in this game. And that if you're if I give in and show you any sort of weakness, you know, then I'm not respecting you as an opponent anymore. I'm treating you, I'm patronizing you essentially. And that that's exactly right there. Yeah. And that's so when I saw that, I was like, man, that's so fucking true, because there are so many times we're like, let's say this at your friends, and I've experienced this so much with like, with really good friends, those those people will hold you up and say like, hey, man, you're doing a good job. And I know I see you trying, but they also see just how much maybe you want something or how much you're trying for something or how much you could be better in whatever it is. And those friends that won't let you quit or maybe that parent that won't let you quit or that role model that won't let you quit has enough respect for you to not just fucking treat you like a bitch and say, you know what? It's okay, bro. Just fucking quit. You know what I mean? Those aren't the people that you want around you. And it's it's the ones that like that you're talking about that respect versus love because you could argue, right? If you really love somebody, you're going to respect them and you want what's best for them at the same time. Like, I'll just say this, like, let's put it this way. You love your wife and I love my wife, but you'd never be like, Hey, you're being a pussy. You know what I mean? Like, not really. You, you, you may not. A lot of people wouldn't do that. I wouldn't. I wouldn't. So, but there, there are a lot of things. I don't know. But there are a lot of things that you probably wouldn't say like suck it up to, right? Because like, it's that maybe the dude answer, but it's like the whole like, what do you want here? Do you want solutions or do you want comfort, right? And nine times out of 10, your wife just wants comfort, right? And not the whole suck it up and try harder thing. And it won't go well, even though you do love and respect your wife, right? So there's, there's just like, it's a different way. Well, you know, it's funny that you say that it's like, do you love your wife or do you respect your wife? And you know, it's like, if I was to rank those two feelings, right? And this is kind of where I was going with this conversation, if I was to rank those two feelings, I love my wife more than I respect her. And that just comes from the basic standpoint. And I do respect her. But if I was to rank the two, and I know I'm going to get blown out of the water, say what you want, come at me. But let's talk about it. I love, I love her first. And I would, I would die for her, right? And there's a difference, right? Because the Bible says that men are to love their wives, like Christ love the church and be willing to lay down his life for her. And I do, I love her. But that is my job to, to be the protector, to be the provider and be the presider. And my life is forfeit. See, this is what a lot of people don't understand about like the biblical, like the biblical example of marriage, right? Is that you have Christ in the church and Jesus Christ died for the church and the church represents a bride and Jesus Christ represents the room. And that's us. And Jesus Christ went to the mat for the church and died for the church, even when the church, and there's a lot of places in the Old Testament where the church is called a whore, where it's an unfaithful bride. It's not even a bride that was faithful to him. So she's out sleeping around, horing around, sucking dick, you know, turning trees, whatever, whatever you want to say. And, and yet, and yet Jesus Christ was like, you know what I love, I loved you first. And I'm going to go to the cross. I'm going to die for you, even though you don't love me yet. But at some point you will, and I will do this. And that is a husband's job is to go and die for his wife, for his family. If you're a husband, if you're a father, like, I don't know if anybody told you this before, but I'm going to tell you now, your life is forfeit, bro. You gave you, you gave your life away. The second that you decided to take a wife on, you said before God, if you have children, you said before God that somebody else's life is more important than my own. And if something were to happen to her, I will die first. I will go like Jesus Christ did. And I will die for her, right? And so coming back to the love and respect thing, that's why it's like, if I was to rank those feelings for her, I do respect her. I respect her as a person. My wife is like the personament of personification of like Jesus Christ in my life, like she loves and, and forgives me and takes care of me when nobody else does when I drink too much and when I go too far, like all this stuff, like she's always there for me. She's my best friend. I do respect her. I respect her more than anybody else in the world, if that matters to you guys. But I love her a little bit more than I respect her because the respect thing for me as a guy comes in the form of like, it's, it's my other leaders like my father. I respect my father just a little bit more than I love him. Right? Does that make sense? It's just kind of what I was getting at is that there's like, there is, you could say like that the respect and love go hand in hand, right? Because you, but at the same time, there's different almost, I think the easiest way to equate it is the whole concept of tough love, right? Your dad respects you enough as a future man to keep it real with you and be hard on you, because that's how the world is going to be in the world demands authenticity. And you can't show up, not ready. And that's just the way it is. And you see the result of that. We see it every single day. And I think that's the difference. Would I rather be loved or respected? I guess it depends on who it's coming from. But that's a good point too. That's a really good point. These are universal things I'm talking about. No, yeah. And there's just things too that like, I think that men can't really understand about women and vice versa, that women just can't understand about men, because there's a different lived experience. But it is very true. What you said, like men put a ton of emphasis on respect, because there's so many times where like, maybe that you can say this, like you've had an argument with your wife before, or a girlfriend or whatever, whoever's out there listening. And I bet if you really broke it down and got to the root of what was truly upsetting you in the moment, there would be some line crossed in the respect area. And it would probably get tied into a little bit, at least your ego and how you viewed yourself as a man. And it ties back. Men see that. And I'll say this too. I read something one time. I don't know how true this is. But that men would rather, when they're arguing with one another, or they're arguing with their spouse, they tend to try and not look their spouse in the eye, because it feels too confrontational. And that they would rather kind of engage off to the side, then look their spouse in the eye, because it feels too confrontational. But when men argue with one another, there's a ton of eye contact. Oh, yeah. And there's that there's that there's that moment where like, I don't know if you've ever been in a fight. Well, I'm sure you have, because it's been a like being a cop or whatever. And so dealing with like drunk belligerents. But there's a moment where you know immediately when things are going to boil over. And it usually is preceded by eye contact. And there is that full on eye contact. And you're like, this guy's getting ready to speak. This guy's getting ready to like go. Yeah, that goes into the animal kingdom, where they tell you about dogs, right? Don't fucking stare dog in the eyes, right? You know, or an animal engineer. Well, I mean, or do like, you know, I've done a lot of some, it can just cause dogs to fucking react. You know, don't know you, right? Well, they said with, I think I think a thing I watched, like a documentary on like a real is two or like grilles or champs or like, literally was thinking about primates. Yeah, you're never supposed to look at another primate in the eye. Because like, they're like, what was it? Jane Goodall, right? Is like the famous chimp lady, female? Yeah, like, yeah, lived with the champs rollout. Yeah, yeah. And like the only reason that the male champs didn't like rip her limb from limb is because she was like over with like the female troop and just kind of like hung out with them. And then whenever the males would like come over and mess with her, she would just like turn her back to him, right? Like, I'm not gonna look at you like I'm just watching the way the other females deal with you. And like, that's how like, the males were like, okay, talking about the lady balls, dude, for real. Hey, like, you know, I will I I I badge myself on being like a straight shooter. And if I see somebody do something that's like brave or like has balls, like, yeah, that that takes balls, dude. Like, okay, at any point that the whole dynamic could have shifted. And there's not a damn thing, especially somebody as old as she got to be still hanging out with chimpanzees could have done to see them from I've seen one of those male chimps pick up like another animal and literally grab it by the two shoulders and tear it in half. Dude, they're incredibly sharp. And I'm just like, Jesus Christ, dude, there's strength to weight ratio is off the charts. No, it's crazy. What's the next question, bro? What you got? All right, so I'm going to play a game with you that I'm pretty sure that military men have been playing since the time of at least the revolution. Okay, right, as long as there's been a motor pool, maybe even back when the motor pool, you had to like actually feed it and clear out the stalls behind it, right? Yeah, sure. Yeah. And this is goes way back before cell phones, obviously, and we, you know, it's like, honestly, like Google and cell phones like destroyed the motor pool, the whole experience of just like waiting around to be released. So military men used to play games like this, and it's called Mary one F one kill one. Yeah, we got to we got to this reveals a lot about a man and his psychological foundations. So I'm going to I'm going to give you going to get I'm going to tee you up. And then you got to explain your decision and why. Okay, so that the entire internet can judge you. Perfect. They already are. All right. So Mary one F one kill one, right? And you have to there's no outs. Right. Suicide is not an option. Suicide is not an option. You can't fall on your sword. There's no sepico. That is, you know, if you if you do decide to take sepico, you still have to marry one F one kill one, then you can sepico afterwards. Got you. Okay. Good. Okay. So Professor Umbridge from the Potter series. Yeah. Everybody better know who that is. Nancy Pelosi and her massive calcium cannons, the entire world didn't realize existed till like last year. Sure. And, uh, Michelle, big Mike Obama. Damn. Well, this this is actually going to be fairly easy. This is going to be my John Denver answer. Oh, yeah. He's got it. That's true. So I'm definitely waxing fucking Professor Umbridge because she's a cunt. And, um, she is she deserves all of it. No quarter. No quarter. Yeah. Exactly. And then I'm definitely nailing Nancy Pelosi. Sorry, mom. Um, definitely. And, uh, the boobs do have, uh, some weight pun intended. Yeah, they, yeah, they do. Um, you know, and I'll say this too. Like if you've ever looked up a young picture of Nancy Pelosi, she's pretty good with the lady despite being an absolute turd of a human being. Well, I'm sure drinking all that baby blood and eating in the any insider trading, you know, yeah, you know, my favorite picture of her is, uh, taking a knee with a kintai cloth, you know, after 2020. I remember that. That's it. Just her and Chuck Schumer, right? Taking a fucking knee in Congress. I changed so much about our country. I changed so much. Um, and then yeah, definitely just going to marry Michelle Obama. Um, because if I'm already nailing Nancy Pelosi, I don't have to nail Michelle Obama. And I don't have to. No. And there's all the power and there's the Obama money left. Yeah. Right. Yeah. And there's all the Obama money and power tied up in it. Right. So it's really just power marriage, power move. Um, so that's it, dude. Dolores Umbridge, just totally a vodka diver. And then, uh, Nancy Pelosi falls deep. And then, uh, Michelle Obama power couple, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, I did make this one hard enough. Plus she probably probably would be cool with me hitting Nancy Pelosi anyway. You know what I mean? Which she probably want to. I've heard, I've heard she's like 0.5 blood alcohol level, like most of the time. Nancy Pelosi. Yeah. Oh, dude. Have you ever seen that movie? Um, blast from the past with Brandon Frazier? I have. That's okay. So like near the end of their, uh, time there in the bunker, where his mom is just constantly drunk and she's like giving him instructions on going to the service and she's like, Oh, I'm in a liquor store. That's fucking Nancy Pelosi. Just drinking the cooking sherry in the kitchen when the husband's not fucking looking or when he's out in Antline, one of those male prostitutes that beat with this ass and this fucking yeah. What's going on here? I don't know. I don't know. Oh, why is he letting me pants on holding a hammer? Why do you guys hold in hands? I don't know. Right? That story was so weird. That's the weird looking thing. And then when you look at no answers, we got no answers. When you look into it and did you hear the audio of him calling the police? Yeah. I saw that. I can't footage too and everything. Yeah. Yeah, I'm sure you did. And then they're like, he's calling the police in San Francisco, which is where he lives. But you know, like a lot of people don't realize that, uh, you know, congressional members and senators, they don't have secret service details with the capital police security details that go with them, whatever. And he's like calling 911 calling the police, but then when they're like, okay, well, send somebody to your house and he's like, uh, no, thank you. Just send our capital police detachment. Thank you. Like I need my guys. It was so weird. Everything about that situation was just under kosher. It's kind of because he had a fucking dick in his butt or the other way around. Just being real. That's probably what was going on. Yeah, that he had a heavy second out of his butt. That's what that or somebody was getting nailed. You know what I mean? Pun intended. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. What probably happened is there was, uh, not the proper exchange of currency for whatever situation was going on there. And, um, but anyway, yeah, no, she reminds me of Sissy Spacek. Isn't that her name? The actress from, uh, from, uh, blast in the past. Is that wrong? I don't know the movie. You're going to have to look that one out. Yeah, let's see. But that's a, that's a personal point for you. You're going to have to know that. Sissy Spacek. Yeah. Yeah. Now that's it. That's it. That's her drinking the fucking security. Yeah, that's she was also angry, like the OG Carrie, Stephen King book that they turned into a movie. That's Nancy Pelosi. Just drunk on cooking sherry in the kitchen. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I remember that chick. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. You're right. Ha, ha, ha. Christopher Walken, Alicia Silverstone, hot as fucker in that movie. Oh my God. Alicia Silverstone. Did you remember her as bad girl? I can. I can. Yeah, I do. But I was getting on her like bat suit boobs, like, totally necessary in a PG-13 movie. That was the precursor to Tomb Raider when they had her when they had her in that skin type like gray body suit. Alicia Silverstone was in Tomb Raider. No, no, Angelina Jolie. What I'm saying is when you go back and you look at her and in Batman with the skin type black leather. And then you go and you look at it's like, guys, that's where that came from. All I'm trying to point out is like, if you think that you have a thing and you're like, that was our thing, it's like, I go back like 10 years, you're going to figure out that you get you weren't the first people to do it. No, absolutely. Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. No, there's somebody, somebody back in the day for sure was really doing this. It just reminds me of that scene of Angelina Jolie like swimming and then the shark like swims up to her and you can like absolutely see those nips like popping through the skin type gray suit and she punches that shark in the face. And like every single dude in the theater just actually. That's actually typical Angelina Jolie behavior. You know what I mean? Well, right. Right. Yeah. That's Friday for her. Well, between between that and like adopting some, you know, African orphan and making them trans so that she can regender them. Yeah, you didn't let me finish. But yeah. Sorry. Yeah. We're met each other halfway. Peanut butter and jelly, you know what I mean? We're there. We're there in butter and ladies. All right. Well, what are you doing? What am I doing about? Yeah. What's your what's your, what's your, what's your fuck Mary kill in that? Oh, oh, actually, you said kill Umbridge. No, that was mine. Yeah. No, we're the exact same. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. That's the most intelligent answer. Same. Same. It would have to be. And like, and like, like if I said, I had to screw Nancy Pelosi with the lights off and it would be both the most terrible thing I've ever done, but I'm going to make sure it's the most terrible thing that's ever happened to her too. Oh, wow. Like neither of us are going to enjoy this toy. Sorry. It's and it would be in Minecraft. It would be in Minecraft, not in the real world. Like this is. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. But if I had to do it, like gun to my head, and I'm like, you know, all right. Yeah, I agree with you. You can't perfect. That's my hypothetical gun. Yeah, for all you not watching this. Am I a pistol? Yeah. Is that unloaded? You got to make sure you unload that before you pointed it. Now let's go. Anyway, all right. Perfect. Let's see. That's the most military thing we've done. Probably more than likely. All right. I mean, guys, this is just get this is just getting started. This is this is the new age if I came with fire. It is. Many modern green beret ODA's would it take back in World War II to take dual GMA? Oh, okay. So my right, right, right. Okay. Okay. So, but we get to take our modern technology back with us. Yep. Would it just be one? Do you need a couple? Right? What do you think? So, so if I was the battalion commander, right? Like if I was if I was the commander, right? I'm sending a company. Okay. That's that's that's six ODA's. And I'm sending six ODA's because I have at my at my command, I have a dive ODA. I have a halo ODA. I have a I have a maritime boat ODA. And then I have my UWA ODA. And then like my direct my direct action ODA. That's how like most companies are set up. Like give or give or take. Some companies are a little bit different. Like our company is over in one one. I think there's a couple of companies that have like two maritime ODA's but don't have a direct action ODA because submission is a little bit different, right? But give or take that's that's about how it is. Yeah. I'm gonna take an entire company just because if I have the dudes and you're saying like I have because it's World War II, so I'm also imagining that I have like a war budget. So I'm completely plused up. Every ODA is actually 12 guys. And then every ODA is actually loaded out with what we would be given in a wartime budget. A lot of people don't know that like a 12 man ODA has as much weapons and ammunition as like a typical infantry battalion at our at our disposal that that if we needed it. So I'm taking the entire company. I'm taking it not because I say like how much would we need to do it? Like men force? I'm saying I would like I would okay well I'm gonna answer I'm gonna answer your question on two realms. How much would we need? Three okay three because I'm prepping the environment from from from the sea. Laying all that down sending sending a dive team for reconnaissance and then I'm landing an ODA like on Mount Sarabachi haloing them in there and then yeah three minimum with all of our firepower. So if I've got my jabs and I've got like my laser guided like my my terminal guidance guys and my G-text and all that three three men force right 36 green brazed loaded for war just bring it on 36 square kilometer island hell yeah what am I taking probably six yeah I'm taking smart I'm taking all of them yeah men men force three I I would put 36 like green brazed loaded for war up against I mean look what look what the triple nickel did in Afghanistan in 2001 look what they did like one ODA over through the entire northern region of Afghanistan if you guys don't believe me go look it up yeah it was it was 12 dudes right so and I guarantee you by the time the first ODA's land like we could probably turn half that island again against right the occupying force and then but yeah I mean I'm also biased guys like you are biased but this I asked the question you know but if I but if I had if I had everything that I have from the modern era if I had if I had spooky I had my jabs I had uh you know like my entire loadout that we could go with yeah give me 36 green brazed I could topple I could topple most countries today with 36 completely loaded out green brazed leave it totally good okay I like it my story and I'm sticking to it I'm here for it but I'm taking the whole company because everybody everybody gets a cab there you go your turn all right dude all right so uh this is so I kind of loaded my questions to be like funny funny funny and then now now I was going to dive into the rabbit hole okay so are you ready to take the uh I'm gonna offer you two pills so you can take one and we can in the podcast now or you can take the other and you see how deep this rabbit hole goes all right Morpheus ready all right so uh tomorrow Brandon you are elected president in the United States oh no all right if you're president in the United States you've got uh whatever party that you ran with uh you have a majority in Congress you have a majority in the Senate and you have a majority of the Supreme Court that is on your side uh you have car blanche to pass from the executive branch so I'm testing a little bit of your civic knowledge but I'm also testing your your political leanings okay in your first 100 days what are you doing as the executive of the United States with an entire government on your side the first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to take care of the fucking border because that is the biggest bleed one of the biggest bleeds um that we put up with um so I'm going to do that I'm going to take care of the border close it down I've said this before another podcast I would probably put a hiatus on immigration in general uh for a period of time just to figure out what we're going to do with all these extra people because you're going to have to do something with those people and having the number of people that have come in over the past few years is going to have an economic impact for sure um so let me figure out what to do without bringing in more people um the next thing I'm going to do is I would probably go after any sort of foreign but probably emphasis on Chinese influence and um and government right and not just government but um you know the way we use technology um and like so obviously like there's a big war with with chips so in semi semiconductors and um processors and and technology for AI and quantum computing that Chinese still often and that companies United States will pair up with and um help the Chinese out with um I would I would do what I could um without trying to be a total I guess you could say asshole and stomping on the free market and then people's innovation and um you know companies and doing what they do as far as uh being technologically sound uh but it is very clear to me and anybody with a brain stem that the Chinese want to rule the world and they will do it by any means necessary um and it's getting American that's what they say they're they're trying to do and then they're literally saying and doing it right yeah they're back out there go back and see I'll tell you with you know David Jang you know they'll sit there and tell you that it's not true you know that's absolute horseshit and it made and the Chinese people probably just as sick of the CCP is everybody else's but the CCP absolutely wants wants to do that right so um but yeah no something like that and uh they've made it very clear that they're not our friend um and I'm not I'm not changing spots at the top of the the mountain with with the CCP CCP unless I'm dead so it really it really cracks me uh not to get you too off track but it really cracks me up that like the CCP on one side is like we hate America they are not our friend and then America from a foreign policy standpoint is like ah they're lying like they're we're we're friends guys we're friends and then sign us like no we're not and America's like yeah we are dude like it's so weird to me like why I don't understand it I mean I do like I do I'm saying that as like a like trying to be funny yeah well yeah we all know we all know why we're doing that yeah guys Xi Jinping comes to San Francisco uh a cleaned up San Francisco at least part of it and then within days that of leaving and talking to Joe Biden is um talking about the United States needing to keep the fuck out of their uh you know business with Taiwan and all this other stuff you know doesn't really say much for the intimidation factor on our poopy pants over there so um why not a lot going on all new content I like it another thing I would do um dude I honestly would do more to work with with India um and do more to submit ourselves a better relationship with them um that's a a power play with a lot of strategic positive strategic outcomes I think um I would probably also tell the uh the European countries that hey you know if we're guaranteeing your sovereignty essentially right by by funding your militaries you need to pay the talk about the UN talk about NATO dude come on now they need to uh start paying their fair share um and I know there are plenty of people in like I have friends who are German who have had these conversations um about that that they are sick of being reliant upon the United States and it has to do with being a proud German or a proud Frenchman or a proud Dutchman or whatever and that's totally fair you know um but uh at the same time it's like you uh my money is paying for your military and people talk about like oh well they've got all these free programs over there it's like well who pays their fucking war chest it's it's our country that is that that's the answer really good point yep and then um the Ukraine thing for sure would do a lot to try and find a resolution to that and that's a really tricky answer um this is a lot in a hundred days this is more like turned into like a list of things I was just getting ready to say like everything you said is all foreign policy which has really been interesting to me so it's all foreign policy would you do anything domestic I think that I'll say this answer your question right you started with so you started with the border you started with the border so that that is kind of domestic but it's also a domestic forum because the border intrinsically used between two countries but everything else was foreign policy would you do anything domestic more domestic yeah so I said a lot of things that have to do with foreign policy and money because a lot of our money goes other places and so uh with the first thing you do when you're digging a hole for yourself is put down the shovel and a lot of these things are putting the shovel down right and so I would take a lot of the money we would save doing these things and I would just genuinely go after American infrastructure and I'm talking about American power production I'm talking about American industry um I would put people try to put people back to work in some of these blue collar jobs that um you see have gone away over the past several years um are something as simple you know as as our roads and bridges um and and did our military bases I mean I've grown up on a military bases and this is just like a microcosm of this entire conversation but I've grown up on military bases my whole life and I've watched in no offense to you army nerds but you guys have always looked like dog shit um and the uh air force ones yeah the air force ones now look like army posts sometimes so it's kind of like kind of crazy so it's really interesting that you brought that up because people that love socialism or like the idea of socialism or want you know it's like oh socialism's gonna win like I want to redistribute wealth because I want to raise the bottom class right uh not getting into all that but when I hear people say that I'm like you've never lived in a military town we have you because if you go to a military town health care is astronomically high if you live if you're a civilian in a military town it is it's hard to live there there's a reason that there's like a a cancerous uh like outpouring just a rot that happens from military towns and it just spreads into the surrounding counties until you hit the rural sections outside of those counties and every military town in the world I've been to is this way and that's because the federal money is the tumor the federal money are the are the service members they come there and all of the real estate uh owners that are around there the health care providers that are around there the restaurant owners like any service that that is provided around there knows exactly what military people make right and so that becomes the new zero so rent around a military town is always whatever B.A.H. is oh sorry if you don't make B.A.H. is public knowledge I can just google what an e5 in the army makes there it is if you don't make B.A.H. sorry you're not going to be able to if you are a waitress that lives in and around like Fayetteville or uh out here in Lakewood a lot of people don't know that uh the original show cops bad boys bad boys that's Lakewood Washington outside of J.B.L.M. a lot of people don't know that I didn't know that and like yeah that's right here and so it's like if you if you're a waitress if you're a uh I don't know just like a blue any blue car worker like a mechanic or anything like that you're trying to just work and make a living don't move next to a military town because you know how much rent is going to be I can google the fucking B.A.H. is oh sorry and and the thing that these people don't know is like the army pays us that oh hey oh you're gonna live off post B.A.H. is $1,600 a month well I don't get paid you know uh well I do I get paid B.A.H. but B.A.H. goes straight from me to my my real estate holder I don't see that my paycheck and then I make my monthly allowance from the military that I make so that's why they do that you don't make B.A.H. from from the federal government but your rent is sure gonna because they're the the real estate guy's not gonna be like oh sorry you're not military okay no no the rent for you is $800 a month no they don't they don't work that way so now you know just for the sake of my argument $1,600 a month B.A.H. in this area is now the new zero and that's where everybody starts that is socialism that is by definition socialism right so then you look at like Russia or China or these places that people are like oh we should or now that those aren't good examples let's actually go to like Finland or Sweden or the places that they want us to be like and because they're like oh like those are socialist countries and they're doing good you know those aren't actually socialist countries those are countries like you just said that the United States is paying for their public defense so they don't have to have uh an army a standing department of defense or anything like that they don't have to have that yeah they don't have the defense like like we do you know for sure and then and then and then I'm gonna say another thing and people are gonna absolutely hate this come at me bro but but prove me wrong most of those Scandinavian countries are also like 95% homogenous in their ethnicity they're all the people from that country that share cultural norms and traditions and beliefs and they get along together and they don't have to deal with like influx of I'm gonna say diversity it's from other places it's happening and I mean it is it's starting to now but it's like the reason in the past they've been able to get away with that is because those people are like oh I I will be willing to give up 50% of my taxes so I don't have to pay for health care no it's fine you know I'm just giving out I'm giving out like numbers but like it doesn't make my example like in a any less 20 right they're willing to give away a bunch of their taxes into the high like 40s and 50 percent because it's like I want the health care coming back to my example about the modern a military like socialistic town the modern the providers around here they know what we make they know what we're able to pay to come off post so you like give into the tri-care system you go off post like say you're seen at a local ER because your kid breaks his wrist right life limb eyesight you take into the local ER post you know what they're going to charge you as a military member to have your kids seem to get a cast on his arm whatever the maximum amount that the insurance can charge for that emergency room to have that procedure done from tri-care they'll look at tri-care and they'll just go oh you're a tri-care member boom and they just hit that maximum immediately yeah it doesn't matter what what they did right oh that catheter was 300 dollars to give him an IV get 400 from you yeah exactly and so that's what that's what it'll cost that is like socialism in a nutshell and like I keep trying to like show people it's like oh you want this come live here in Fayetteville North Carolina come live here in Lakewood Washington come live here in like just outside of Fort Knox Tennessee or you know Fort Campbell Kentucky and see what these people live like see see what they live like do you actually want socialism I guarantee you're not going to like it a hamburger is 18 dollars you know why it's 18 dollars because they know what privates make a beer is eight dollars it's so bad dude you can't get these people to see you know like oh blah and god bless the United States god bless America there are so many places that people aren't like aren't touched by this federal rot yet because the country is so big and I love spending my time like far and away from any military base that I ever can because it's so awesome but you go there and and it's so awesome to find people that still love the United States military and think it's so awesome because they just been raised and steeped in it and you know god bless America and respect our troops and all that and it's like hey you know that's great both your proletariat shout out proletariat but it's like I wish I wish I could get these people to see like what we live in every day and it's like no you guys don't want socialism you really don't because look yeah yeah well do you were talking about the homogenousness of the population there in Europe but it's changing they keep bringing in a bunch of refugees specifically from the Middle East but here's a little fact right in 2022 Muhammad was the most popular name for baby boys in Ballway City Ireland Ireland yeah yeah I remember most popular name in the country it's crazy man Muhammad that is what I've never would have never thought that well you should look up the uh the iris lives matter movement that's happening right now because yeah yeah now a lot of those countries have similar ones um another thing I would try to forgive me forgive me for getting off on dietary like you like but it's kind of like a point of a podcast and you have your own podcast so you can you can soapbox so you're good that's true oh that's right I am the co-host now I guess I can do what I want yeah so the other thing I would I would really go after is um it's it would be really hard and I might have some controversial takes on this but go after homelessness and the drug problems here in our country and a lot of the drug problems do have a lot to do with foreign policy but I'd also have to get the CIA to stop following drugs in the United States too which would probably get me JFK um so there's some there's some how how what would be your method to do that I'm interested to stop drugs coming in in the United States or to let's let's just pick the the fentanyl crisis and you said you said drugs and homelessness so to fix the fentanyl crisis and to attack homelessness sure um so as far as like fentanyl goes the Chinese and uh central america are in south america some of the are the biggest issue here right um I have zero issue I just go this I have zero issue with what Donald Trump said the other day about um send in fucking special forces dudes into some of these cartel areas and just letting them go fucking full full raw dog and beat the fucking shit out of and kill these fucking people dog or not yeah I'll say this man like um need to have a better relationship with mexico absolutely um there's there's a lot of benefit to that a lot of trade that could be going on and a better relationship in general um but I would say this that a lot of these countries that you guys can start taking a more proactive role and expelling these cartels and getting rid of them um or I'm going to come in and do it for you and uh it's one of those things where uh I think we can all agree I mean there's gonna be fallout right there's gonna be people that are gonna be mad they would be mad about this and they say well the cartel provides jobs and they take care of people they also fucking skin people alive in the jungle yeah well so did the murder people and all this other shit yeah so did the mafia in the 1930s exactly plus you know cartel on is the same thing right um so that's one way I would I would go about it I would give I would give everybody the opportunity to try and handle it on their own and get rid of these people um and this is going to be one of those things where it's like you're fighting an idea as well which is which never goes well obviously we found that out pretty hardcore for the past 20 years um you can't kill an idea you can just kill a person um but uh would do everything I could to embargo how that uh the fit in all the ingredients and the the the tools you need to make that drug come into the country um this will just you know getting into the weeds of how that is done I have no fucking idea I'm not in the weeds on logistics and shipping and and all this other stuff um that's why you have people around you who do know how to do it uh or you know at least where to look um but uh the homelessness thing no go ahead I was just gonna say I don't know if we have any like actual experts left anymore you see like you say surround yourself with people that are experts in doing a thing but you know I saw a video with the one of the high level economic advisors in the Biden administration right now and he could not explain uh the fact he couldn't explain like what bonds were and how they were he was like uh well you know the government prints money yeah and then they loan money to people with bonds that's what he said that is a quote loans money to people with bonds so it has zero and this is guy this guy is high up in the Biden administration he is an economic advisor to the president no idea what a bond is and he's like what you know if they loan money to people with bonds and inflation keeps going he's like I don't I mean they do that right like you guys have to go out yeah I'm actually getting ready to drop a meme on it tomorrow like about how hilarious it is if you think I'm lying go check out the comment for good sense channel on instagram and we're gonna post a meme on it tomorrow but like this dude is an economic advisor to the president of the united states you guys think that there are a such thing as an extra class this guy is like ivy league train suppose of suppose an economic master and he doesn't even understand what a bond is which if I was to ask you I'm gonna put you on the spot just a little bit but I have confidence in you like you understand what a government bond is right not completely no like a government bond sorry for putting you on the spot then a government bond right the government prints a bond and then sells the bond that you have stocks and bonds right a business prints a stock because they're publicly treated a government prints a bond a government sells the bond at a promised interest level that doesn't change over the course of its life remember being a kid and you like you like your grandma gives you bonds for christmas like government bonds or like war bonds got you know uh sold during war war two the government prints a bond and then sells the bond to a private investor which would be uri so you pay $100 for a $100 bond the bond is not payable for and the bond states on it this bond is not payable for some say 50 years 100 years whatever the case would be but the bond the government is saying I will guarantee you and it will not change over the course of the life of this bond 2% right I will give you 2% interest on this bond when you cash it in in this lifetime whatever the lifetime of the bond is so by definition the bond is a government selling not loaning to a person it's selling the bond to a person the person is loaning the money to the government you're you're volunteering voluntarily loaning your money to the government to get a piece of paper this is I have a bond that in you know 2550 100 years this bond is going to be paid from it I owe you yeah I owe you at this much interest which the government has to promise right so it's just funny that this this high level person didn't understand the definition of a bond and he's like oh it's the government loaning money to people no it's the exact opposite uh-huh like you pay your money to the government to get a bond dude like what's wrong with you yeah well they've got the entire concept of government backwards anyway so but yeah I mean those are the things that I would try and focus on that's a lot for a hundred days but um the homelessness thing is a medicine issue it's pretty it's very tied to um the drug problem as well um so I would it's again that's a that's an issue that requires a lot of social focus um one of those things being getting people to understand that the nuclear family is important again so what about you oh oh okay so this the reason I actually had this question for you is this is a fun thing that my wife and I like to kind of bat back and forth um so I actually have my thing like whittled down to you about three big things uh first and foremost um you were talking about like the border uh you could agree more border would get sealed off I think the second thing you said was uh putting an embargo on legal immigration in the United States I would stop that we need we need a certain amount of time I would look at I can't say like right now because I'd have to like look at the actual math and like what we're dealing with and everything but looking at the fact that social security is going to run out in 10 years which I don't believe in social security and this is going to piss off a lot of people I want social security to go away I would like to privatize all retirement send it back to private like institutions how air there are a lot of Americans that are you know hey I've spent 30 40 years paying social security and I have grandparents depending on social security so it's like the fact that in 10 years my grandparents may still be alive and they're dependent on social security and it's going to be bankrupt so you guys don't believe me go look at the statistics I think CNN was reporting on it uh within the last couple days like yeah we got 95 billion for Ukraine but but Ukraine guys yeah so I'm not even going to talk about foreign policy because I don't talk about it because I'm still active duty so that's like a sticky issue for me not going to go there but sure but yeah uh border got to seal that up embargo on immigration till further notice we got to seal that up and deportation deportation deportation deportation I didn't see it but yeah I'd find all these other people that's kind of like that's kind of like it's three big things but that's like a kind of like all encompasses like one issue for me so that's got to happen yep uh and then a lot of people don't realize but the federal budget even though congress has the power of the purse once they turn uh budgetary items over to the executive branch again guys go study civics fact check everything I'm saying but I'm telling you this is true the executive branch has the power anything under the executive branches uh purview as far as the budget goes he can with a whip of a pen move money anywhere he wants the side of the federal budget he can just do it so I guarantee you uh the second thing I would do is I would be like I would hire like you uh and like a host of like my closest 100 friends from the military uh and then dudes that I knew that that would go to the mat for me and die for me and hide body street and that would be that would be my cabinet that would be like the dudes that I have surrounding me inside the Oval Office and I would just get all of us together right all of us NCOs and I'd be like we need to figure this shit out like right now we need to go through this budget right and I would just start axing things I would and I guarantee you like most people don't understand like like hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars you can just find from places where people don't even realize it's going yeah it's like oh you know it's like just show me what the federal government is spending on paper clips this year yeah so general you don't need a new chair at the end of the year oh we were talking about that the DoD no sorry you guys don't need this this this and this all of them need an 80 inch fucking TV in your office you guys are like all of that money is going into land and ammo and training and the rest of it give it back to me I'm giving you what you need and the rest of it comes back show me the DoD's black budget I'm probably gonna get nailed for this again show me the show me the black budget that one is just gonna start getting axed the CIA is gonna get mad at me I would get I would get Jeff kid real quick but then I would be like start showing me the state department's budget oh do we need you know like 85 million dollars for gender queer studies in the Middle East axed nope all of those people fired give it all back to me like also we're gonna go through the entire federal budget and like what all the federal employees are making anybody that makes over 120k I want to start looking at those their their budget and like what their their yearly salary is and why and who those people are I want to see that because I'm going after the deep state specifically who are these people that make over 120k and why why are they still here right so I'm going through all that and I guarantee you like and I think I'm being kind of conservative with myself I guarantee I could find billions billions in the budget that shouldn't be going to where it's going and I could save a lot of that money without even doing anything for the American people and just be like all that money that was here I'm sending it here now there we go right and that that would even be with like all those people that I fired you're all getting severance packages you're all getting like go on write your books go to CNN say how bad I am don't care I know I'm a one-term president nobody's gonna vote for me ever again don't care dude like once in a lifetime you know I'm getting this shit back on track so I would do all that the Department of Education gone a lot of people don't realize the Department of Education only goes back to 1973 Department of Education gone but what about the federal standards for education hey look at every single federal school in the United States or any school that that follows that falls under the Department of Education and tell me what their literacy rates are tell me how any single school right look tell me inner city Baltimore like talk to me right now inner city Baltimore DC New York City uh San Francisco Los Angeles all those schools inner city schools that are just nothing but Department of Education run schools tell me what their literacy rates are tell me what their math rates are tell me what their graduation rates are tell me what their college placement rates are because you guys like college so much I haven't even gotten to college yet don't even start me on that one but tell me what they're you know tell me the stats and I'm gonna tell you right now I'm turning that back over to yep you turn you're back to bolt I'm sending it back to the states state run education sends you back to the states that's a state issue dude that is not a federal issue we shouldn't be involved in that it's not a big government issue get the big government money out of there I agree all out of there and then guess what I'm doing with that department of education money border security baby like it's all getting it's it's all just going it's I'm moving it I'm just moving all the budgets all around and that that's a the the executive can absolutely do that he can fire the secretary of education and take that entire department shut it down and move that money a lot of people don't know that the executive has that power so yeah department of education border security embargo on immigration complete overhaul of the federal budget under the executive branch and then I am basically for the last 100 days I am moving my entire focus to the federal court system and basically focusing on courts and state courts and uh purging the courts of anybody that is not counter to my political view but that is overtly political because I want the courts to be apolitical and I want the court system to really it's supposed to work again that's what I would do 100 days like that's what I would focus on if I could get all of that done I would they would see me as a tyrant they would probably burn me in effigy but I don't care that's what I would do well I just think that the overall point here is that we're in need of drastic change and these are drastic changes and there's a lot of things that I didn't even talk about I was only talking about the things that I know the executive can just do yeah and drastic changes are never really subtle or slow so right and I didn't talk I didn't talk about what I would do to the DoD but I didn't talk about it for a reason see me again in two years because I'll tell you what I would do to the DoD yeah but I didn't talk about it right now amen all right my question for you in your own words kind of weird because you've turned all my questions back on me but okay yeah that's the point man ask you a question and then I want to you you can hear what I how I would answer in vice versa is it this is true this is yeah yeah I want to know all right and in your own words what is the difference between patriotism and nationalism wow okay okay uh in my okay so my words not not what I think is the yeah no except Chris's Chris's Chris's answer is a reputation okay I would say that patriotism is is the love and reverence of one's own country right so I love and I revere my country and I would lay down my life for my country right uh to protect you know my my family because my country protects my family uh my my cultural norms values traditions that I share with my fellow country men that I that I would give and service of myself for that that is patriotism uh-huh nationalism is the idea that one's country is inherently better than every other country that that's that's what I would say like the notion that because you're a insert country then I am better than you insert other country or or inherently superior I think I think that's the way I would kind of describe it because I know I know nationalism is kind of getting a bad rap maybe maybe not maybe okay let me let me back up maybe not that I am better but that one country's system of government one country's way of doing things is inherently better than another country's way of doing this yeah so that's that's what I would say would be inherently superior not that I'm better as a person than you but that you know America because I am American is an inherently better system of government and inherently better than country than another you know insert whatever country yeah so here's how I would define the differences and I'll start with what you just said um I would say that nationalism is is that belief um that you are better than somebody else because they're from another country and I say that because the difference between patriotism and nationalism the way I view it is that there's an in there are in groups and out groups right you can be a patriot as a patriot you love your country and everybody who's in it this is the way I see it right and if you are an American you are always in the end right and um you know I love my country right or wrong basically right sort of sort of thing um and everybody who believes the way they believe it but I would say I guess in brand is interpretation that the nationalism love is the uh is the ego tied to the patriotism and it becomes sort of corrupt in that way um so can you think as a patriot like yeah I think my country is better than other countries like yeah and that's I look at that the same way as yeah back world war champs baby yeah exactly right you can sit here and say like you know as a packers fan you hate the lions or whatever you know or I do you know pick a rivalry right yeah he's in red socks whatever and now you could you could probably argue too that if you're a Yankees fan or you're a Red Sox fan you probably think you're a better person than the other team anyway right so um there's some of that ego tied into it um as well but that's I think you're you were on the right path with with the differences where where I look at it um I would agree with you that nationalism gets a bad rap because it tends to come with more of that focus on the out group than it does focusing on the end group um whereas you know I think that like patriotism has more focus on the end group uh than it does focusing on the out group um does that make sense so you like your your wheels turn in well I'm just listening to you and I and I agree with you like 100% I I just think that nationalism gets a bad rap because there are those that would say like oh no system is inherently better than another system and to them I would say well that's patently false yeah it's patently false absolutely and it's it's false because you can look at the objective evidence of two systems that have been allowed to play out over hundreds of years of world history and you can see the way that the two systems have poured out america those prosperous wealthiest uh most powerful you know government which is a representative republic not a democracy guys it is not a democracy representative republic that is that has ever been right before us would probably be Athens Greece you know um and you can see every time the like republicanism is allowed to play out that it creates empires that eventually turn into tyrannical governments in the topple but I mean like wild like wild republicanism exactly while republicanism is allowed to flourish you can see there's nothing but wealth, prosperity, education, gain you know and then you can look at socialism or collectivism or world government or tyrannical uh dictatorship or like whatever you want to call it it all it's it's all the same thing right and every time that's a lot to play out you have starvation, death, poverty, you know so it's like no one one is inherently better than the other we have the empirical data to show so I don't understand why people rag on nationalism that that's that I guess that's where I'm coming at because I know it's getting a bad rap and like people are starting to like tout it as like oh look at those christian nationalists that's like a big one that's going to run right now that's like well america is a christian nation one if you don't like it you get over it or move I don't know to tell you like 95 percent of the founding fathers were all christians several several of them were pastors so you didn't know that go look it up um and then it's like also representative democracy representative republicanism is a an inherently better form of government that lifts all people out of poverty and provides more opportunity than we've ever seen in the history of the world so so it is better I don't understand why why you're upset also you live in it and you're benefiting from it why are you upset I don't understand I think most people speak out really I genuinely don't get it I think most people's fake outrage is has a lot more to do with a lack of sense of purpose but yeah I think the biggest reason that like people I think the biggest thing that people espouse to nationalism that gives it the bad rap goes back to the outgrew thing that nationalism means there's violence directed at somebody who isn't part of your group and that's where that's the that's how people view it I'm not saying that's what it is I'm saying that that's how people view it that if you're again like with you with your christian nationalism thing right that christian nationalism views everybody's not christian and not american as a bad outgrew right and they're violently against people who aren't christian and american which is the I'm not saying this the way I view it I'm saying that that's the way people look at it when they say no I I understand the understood second person to you yeah devil's advocate well I mean to that to that person I would say like you know who is the number one nation uh that has sent missionaries overseas to lift people out of poverty the united states through through what christian institution the catholic church like come at me bro oh you know like you christian nationalists you hate the rest of the world so bad well that's really interesting why did we why we sent more missionaries around the world with more money more resources more medical aid more humanitarian aid than any other nation or any other church I know the catholic church isn't inherently american based out of Rome but this is like realistically where they're more catholic church than anywhere else in the world the united states right like we have done more for the world through in any measurable segment of data we have done more for the world here like would you would you argue with me no you know and and and so it's like oh well you say out group you know well if if we I think I think what you're getting back to is like the whole idea of like a pie can only get so big so if we have more pieces than somebody else has less right like it is kind of the the idea and instead of seeing the world as like an ever expanding piece of pie where it's like if the pie keeps getting bigger then every piece keeps getting bigger and it's like well well forgive me that Ghana is so tiny and has a tyrannical government over top of it i don't actually know that much about Ghana that's i'm just taking a country in sure yeah Africa answer country right but forgive me that some insert shit hole country in some part of the world is so tiny and has like a tyrannical overlord that that rules over it and they the people there can't do anything about it well if america gets bigger you know a god blessed god revearing nation in its inception anyway gets bigger and its church gets bigger and we continue to send our missionaries through the church around the world and are i'm gonna use the word that i hate so much but that they would say our democracy around the world and our mcdonald's and our star books like Levi's jeans and Levi's jeans and you know like whatever and we send that stuff around the world then doesn't doesn't the entire world gain a little bit doesn't a rising tide raise all ships doesn't the doesn't the pie the slices of the pie keep getting a little bit bigger so it's like even though even though america is like you know um i had a buddy in college that he was actually the one that taught me because i was i was struggling learning like locky and economics and everything and this guy went on to be a poli sci economics graduate and i think he got his masters and he's he's one of the smartest guys i ever i ever knew and he's still really good friend of mine to this day and he was trying to like teach me this and he was like like you don't understand you know and it's all back to this it's like the pie keeps getting bigger he was like people think that that economics is like a zero sum game where it's like if i gain you lose but he's like they don't understand that economics is actually if we make a deal kind of kind of game and i gain then you gain too and we both gain together and even though i'm still bigger than you and i'm gaining faster than you you're still gaining right that used to be the idea of the middle class you're still gaining and you're still getting wealthier as i'm getting wealthier a perfect example of this would be the military privately developing gps right and using it for military purposes and then now everybody has gps in their pocket right drones let's talk about drones sure drones picket picket thing the internet right medicine medicine you would not have blood transfusions you would not have vaccines you would not have uh tourniquets you would not have IV catheters if it wasn't for the military practicing medicine on people during war like during war you wouldn't have those dude as you would have there's a fuckload of medicine you would have prosthetics you wouldn't have like i could go on and on that i think the medicine the medical industry is the one that's that's that's gained the most and that's all government research yeah arpanet the the precursor of the internet military developed right here we are right on the internet talking to one another no i don't think that i do think that there is a difference between nationalism and patriotism but i think that the the qualities that people attribute to it that have given it the bad rap are that they they say that if you're a nationalist it's become a dirty word for somebody who is racist or they're and and how many fucking you know black nationalists do you hear about i mean there are black nationalists but it's espoused to white you know uh white racism and all this other stuff and um but yeah i am i am i embrace it dude i embrace it call me every name under the sun yeah like like all right like say say it to me say say i'm racist you know as i as i tell you that oh that's it's it's kind of weird that uh you know 13 percent of the population seems to commit like well over 75 percent of the violent crimes in the nation you can't say that that makes you racist nope i'm just looking at the statistics on my on my computer screen dude i'm just telling you i'm just i'm just telling you what is i think i think what's happened is a lot of people and and it's like the late 90s till i was talking about political correctness earlier a lot of people like especially white evangelical Christians what like we are the worst about this and this is one of the things that i want to change especially as a green braid because dude if you want to if you want to like watch me laugh get in my face and scream at me like i just go into straight like basic training mode and i'm like roger whatever like yep i can shoot out whatever dude yeah i've been shooting out so it's like yeah yeah say it to me dude but it's like you know the the whole point is like yeah scream and call me every name under the sun that you want to it doesn't change what's true and going back to the conversation that we had about love and respect i love you enough to tell you what's true i want you to know what the truth is and the truth is more important than whether or not i care that you like me because like like also i'm a military guy at the end of the day i don't give a rat's ass if you like i really i really don't you know how you sleep in bed at night knowing that people don't like me just as well like up yeah yeah no the the point i'm trying to make is that there's there's a problem going on in our country where people attribute words and ideas to things that that have no business being being together um you know case in point the the uh hold on let me find it real quick here the post i made the other day about um what's your name jojana slutsky king slutsky right yeah which if you guys don't follow us on instagram go follow common freaking sense on instagram and i came with i came with fire podcast on instagram because that's where we do all the memory it is for all this stuff that like if you guys didn't catch like half the jokes we've been making it's because we're making jokes about the memes we make exactly exactly dude yeah no don't fall behind um but no so the i'll just read you what i wrote and this this goes to the point that i'm trying to make is that it's words have meetings this past week columbia doctoral candidate jojana king slutsky influenced infamously demanded basic humanitarian aid to be brought to students protesting in the university's hamilton hall uh but with jojana and many others left career fail to realize is that words have meanings calling dining hall delivery or uber eats or dodat door dash humanitarian aid is ignorant especially at a voluntary protest on an i believe campus calling everything a phobia or genocide or hate makes those words lose their meaning especially when they're used in a hyperbolic manner the irony in her situation is hilarious and pathetic at the same time uh yeah so the point and what i'm trying to make is is people take things that they don't like and they throw a bunch of words salad i added like it's hate or it's racism or this is there's a trans genocide going on no no no no there are a million examples of actual genocide from history and that's not happening to trans people in this country so using hyperbolic statements like like genocide takes away from the fact that there are actual genocides that are going on have happened how about the weegers in china how about that there's a genocide right that one that one fell way that one that one fell way out of favor like really quickly because i remember people talking about like three years ago but i think where they really effed up on this one is that october 7th wasn't that long ago and people people are still watching videos of of women and children being shot in their cars just just just yesterday and so when that uh what was her name queen konski uh johanna king slutsky her last name is uh hyphenated queen konski yeah king that's i think that's the actual pronunciation of oh okay i'm probably butchering your name sorry thanks for correcting me anyway no the um so when when she comes out and she says like i need uh and this is the one that actually killed me when she asked for humanitarian aid yeah yeah humanitarian aid and they and they're trying like this this white liberal which by the way she's uh for people that don't know like go and look look her up there's a reason we gave her name go look her up she is a masters level student that is going for her doctoral thesis doctoral candidate i can't stress that enough at an ivy league school that is equating getting people to deliver them pizza and again i'm not i'm not downplaying this there are pictures of people bringing them pizzas from the pizza shop down the street at putting them in basket uh baskets and like wheeling you're like bringing them up to the next level of hamilton hall which they renamed hind's hall right and they they equated that to humanitarian aid and that's what she asked for correct right and so when people see that i think this is where they finally stepped up because a lot of times uh in these like strong left wing uh you know protests or rallies or stuff when they're doing this it's like they're they're typically talking about stuff that's happening overseas this time it happened here it happened in our universities uh most americans have kind of i'm not going to say cooled off on israel but they're like we saw what happened on october sixth seventh sorry october seventh and like most americans are like yeah like i'm kind of with israel like stomping out the hamossels like that was that was a bad thing to do and like and now they're now they're watching um these people like ask for humanitarian aid and block streets to get to the airports and you know like keep students from going to their graduations and doing a similar to get run over if that's you by the way uh not just 100 like 110 percent block traffic you're getting run over trust me but anyway like i think they finally stepped up that's what i'm trying to say like i really think they do and like it's stuff like that that's putting nails in the coffin where it's just like a humanitarian aid like are you serious well you want to know it's even funnier we asked like we're going to see a funnier johanna king slitsky is a phd student at clummy university who studies romanticism transcendentalism Marxism science and literature i wasn't lying when i said she was a doctoral candidate yeah i wasn't alive yeah she's a literal communist yeah we actually we actually do our research on this channel before i say stuff like yeah crazy you guys you guys don't realize this but brandon i like we talk like for hours every week before we come on and talk and do this it's just wild pretty she's she's a marxist poetry student basically like congratulations human yeah i i think i uh read through her her basic thesis like a pre-statement and she wanted to talk about yeah she it's posted on here actually yeah read it it's actually it's actually pretty funny yeah uh well i i have to verify i'm a human before i can access this uh dissertation my dissertation is on fantasies of limitless energy and transatlantic roman imagination romantic imagination from 1760 to 1860 my goal is to write a pre-history of metabolic rift marxist term for the destruction of energy circuits caused by industrialization under capitalism i'm particularly interested in theories of the imagination and poetry is interpreted through a marxian lens in order to update and propose an alternative to hystereist ideological critiques of the romantic imagination prior to joining columbia i worked as a political strategist for leftists and progressive causes and remain active in higher education movement that's a lot of words to say i'm retarded i will send i i'm gonna say this right now if anybody listens listens through the entirety of this three-hour podcast and gets to this point that's all i will send you i will send you a hundred bones in like i will i will Venmo it to you if you can tell me what that means in one sentence ten or ten or less words i want to rewrite history and make marks of winter if you can get that down to ten words i use that sentence yeah not that one no you got to get it you gotta you gotta i will send you a hundred bones on Venmo i i mark hey that's a bet all right mark it right here i will i will i will send a hundred bones if you could tell me what that hell that means to one person ten words or less one sentence yeah and and and i'm going to say it has to be a grammatically correct sentence okay there it is you heard it here first okay sir i think we we beat the shit out of that one thanks your turn for i think it's your last question actually what is in your opinion america's biggest problem as a society today so not a civics problem not a government problem but as a society as a collective because of people what's our what's our biggest problem you know well the first two things that came in my mind are one there is an entire generation of americans who's been convinced that the united states is trash that's a problem and the other one is is that americans don't realize how good we actually have it and most americans are too comfortable um i think most americans don't realize that it takes work and effort and belief to maintain the lifestyle you like to enjoy quitted to working out if you keep working out and you keep eating right you'll stay in shape but if you stop and you start eating like shit you're just going to get fat and you're going to get lazy and you know it's it's like the whole law law of thermodynamics right uh object at rest tends to stay at rest unless acted upon by an outside force so and that outside force can be you um but anyway i think that that issue i think the issue really is just the biggest one is that americans um are are too comfortable and we don't realize just how quickly we could lose everything we have come to enjoy and that there are people really out there who wouldn't want to see us lose the things we enjoy talking about personal freedoms i'm talking about your ability to start your life over in this country and i know that we're having a lot of economic issues and it's really hard to do a lot of things that i totally acknowledge all of that in this in this conversation but as americans we need to realize that you enjoy a certain lifestyle because the people before you did a lot of work to put you here in this position and i know that they weren't perfect people in that the report decisions being made in that people are corrupt pieces of shit and got us into certain situations that we're in right now but uh wake up american all except all except george washington right wake up american wake up american man wake up american woman understand that you are the arbiter of your fate in the destiny of this country and that you need to do something we all need to do something to prevent us from carrying on down this path of nihilism and comfort and i would tell you to seek out hard things don't seek out instant gratification there's a lot of that on your phone instant gratification media gratification happens all day um and uh you know we're all guilty of it but at the same time just recognize that this life you enjoy could be taken away from you at in a second and understand that you need to uphold what it means to actually be an american and that involves personal responsibility um responsibility to your community and um you know maintaining this great country that we all have come to enjoy and people still immigrate to because it is a pretty badass place so that's what i would say about you oh yeah if i did so as a society i would say i'm going to say one word uh but i'm going equated to two things i'm going to say fatherlessness um i'm going to say fatherlessness as in we've we've lost god god the father okay and then and then because we've lost god the father we we don't have fathers we don't have dads there's a lot of that and i and i think i think it happened like back in the 90s i think like the kind of the first big wave of fatherlessness was like hey like dads go to work and then and then they they kind of like the uh second wave of feminism like peeled women away from the kind like away from the family and they they went to work and so then like kids were just like started being raised by the tv like i remember i remember like nickelodeon and cartoon network when i was a kid it was just like you know it's like the the tv started telling you get out and go run do you remember that yeah like get out go run or where are your kids 10 pm where are your children yeah remember that well you maybe don't remember it but it was a thing i was born in 1990 when we were born 87 87 so you got me by okay you got me with a 30 all right but yeah yeah yeah like so but yeah i think fatherlessness man if i was to boil it down to one thing i think if there was one thing that could get us back on track and i i think the proletariat is going to do it uh if if they choose if they choose the right track and that's find wives get married have babies provide protect and preside over your babies and and be the men that that you would want your children to be to respect when they become men be the man that when your father or when your son sorry be the man that when your son becomes a father he still respects like that's what i would say and like if we if we did that times three generations we would be right like that dude we would be righted righted like rain because it would happen at the grassroots it would happen at the county it would happen at the municipal the county level the it would happen at the state government level then it would happen at the national level and then within three generations it was Abraham Lincoln right uh showed me the classroom of today that'll be the government of tomorrow mm-hmm it's true that's one of the reasons why you know i said it's unfortunate that there is just an entire generation of americans who's been brainwashed i think that america sucks um and it's crazy too because it's it's the typical i'm gonna come to you with a problem and no fucking solution so you know you've been raised to thinking i think we've done a lot of solutions tonight which is kind of interesting we didn't mean to do that with this podcast but we actually this is a podcast full of possible solutions which has been interesting for sure i'm just saying that that group of people has a lot to say that's negative but not a lot of positive to bring uh to solve these issues um it's just just complaining no actual problem solving um yeah no father the family family dynamic is something that came to my mind as well um when you ask me that question but truly truly i think that the american ideal is a family and it is having kids and it is taking care of your community and it is building on something and making it better locally so that it's better right like you said um the pie gets bigger so to the slices you know you start where you're at work where you're at work with the work in front of you and then everything around you will get better um and everybody can uh you can see that and do that and things would get better but um you know just just the entire idea behind the united states and citizenship it should mean something it requires obligation it requires the duty it requires you to take up your cross it requires you to take up your responsibilities and realize that the future is in your hands your children's futures in your hands um it would always encourage people to have um you know something that they stand for uh in american ideals and while we have not always attained to them okay they are ideals and there's something to aim for um and that is that is something we lack here in the united states too much nihilism too much bashing not enough uh problem solving too much complaining i couldn't agree more man i can't add anything to that either yeah well my last question for you good sir is uh could you look 18-year-old chris in the eyes and tell him that you're happy where you're at oh damn uh if i were to look 18 old 18-year-old chris in the eyes uh i would kick him square in the nuts oh shit i would yeah i would kick him square in the nuts there was a few things that i was doing back then i would say do not bleach your hair blonde that's a terrible girl were you trying to be some shady for you no i i i had the uh i was actually trying to be the uh uh the lead singer from um uh what was that band back at the time um some 41 no it was uh boys like girls oh okay wow were you just sitting in your room just like check this julia is that you yeah is that you rain is falling down on the sidewalk yeah yeah that was me just like if you if you go like this it's for attention if you go like this it's for real that's right dude don't cross the street walk down the road you know what i mean yeah just a phase mom it was a phase guys now if i could go back i would kick 18-year-old chris square in the nuts i'd be like get your life on track do you know you think 18-year-old chris would be proud of 34-year-old chris in some ways yeah and then in other ways now like there there are some ways that i have a long way i have a long ways to go so i mean there there are some things about my life that uh that is exactly how i hoped it would turn out i got a wife i got four i got four boys um the most successful podcast on the face of the earth damn right i got you know like my my yeah my podcasting career that's that's kicking off and common freaking sense and talking to people like statutes way above myself that i never thought that i'd never be able to talk to you and made friends yeah made friends brandon that i never thought that i'd ever be able to make we got a pretty clear email today i'll say what yeah yeah guys stay tuned uh and more and more to come on that uh yeah there's there's a lot of things that um that i would and then and and yet and yet like before god no i cannot say that i'd be proud of myself because there were there were a few things that i said to myself when i was 18 i told myself i would never drink um i i drink quite a bit now you know um not to excess but but i do you know and that that's the thing that i never that's the way that i ever saw my wife my life turning excuse me um when i was a when i was 18 i said i'd never get tattoos i have i have more than a few now i'm definitely glad you have tattoos you know oh thanks yeah yeah uh um and there's just like i don't know man it's it's so rough you say like what 18 year old me respect me i think 18 year old me would be if we were to stand in a room together and look at each other that the time paced time space you know temporium would like implode first of all and then second of all uh i would be like are you serious like i never so when i was 18 that was before i ever saw my life going into the military so all those memes where it's like this is the private and this is the sergeant first class that's me man i was homeschooled i was like pilgrim holiness church Wesleyan church raised i was sunday school like veggie tales kid dude bum bum bum bum bum bum bum yeah yeah and then and then if that guy would have looked at me now which 18 like i hadn't uh like i just went to college my first year that next year i uh they got engaged to hannah which were you know my my love of the love of my life so it was the year before that um my life hadn't even begun yet and i had this whole idea that i was gonna go into the music industry and i was going to write music and i was gonna play guitar where skid change i didn't start your hair black i did i was i was well on my way dude i was doing all the i was doing all the things uh and then like if he was looking at me today it would just be the the contrast would be so great that i don't i don't know like i honestly i know this is a cop-out answer but i don't i honestly don't know if i could say i would respect myself because of what i became or be disappointed that i didn't i achieved all this over here but i didn't do what i set out to do over here i definitely i've definitely achieved more than i thought i could have i definitely have achieved more than i set out to achieve that is true and and and yet we're not to the end of the road yet so there's only more yet to come so it'd be a more interesting conversation in another 10 years with 44-year-old me and 18-year-old me but from there to here i never saw this coming there was there was a hard right face in my life it's strange what about you uh 18-year-old you to what are you 36 now 37 so now i think the last thing you said is uh really true um that so much has honestly happened in what is almost 20 years which blows my mind um that i wouldn't even if i could sit that person down and explain everything that would happen i think i might be terrified um and i mean that and um you know would he be proud i don't even know if 18-year-old me is truly aware of what being proud of something means yet um i was one of the things i was thinking too that's like you don't even you don't even know kid you don't even know what like when i say when i say that like this thing is gonna happen to you i'm i'm thinking about a story that happened like just a couple weeks ago which is very recent in my life which you know about it's like you don't even know dude this thing is gonna happen and it's like 18-year-old me wouldn't even know how to he wouldn't know how to take you what is that what does that mean like there are things i could show 18-year-old me right and be like hey this is the house you're gonna live in this year this is the car you're going to drive this year and i might think like oh well good it i'm not fucking homeless and be happy about it you know what i mean um you know right or whatever hey here's the two beautiful children you're going to have um you know that would be amazing um but at the same time again like if i was like okay buckle up buttercup here's all the shit that's gonna happen to you in the next 20 fucking years i'd be like holy shit how can i avoid all of this right right there are so many of these things you know um can you show me the off ramp to the andrew tape life i feel like no dude yeah no there's no yeah so like i think that all in all the the point of the question i guess really is like i feel like my life is not what i thought it would be at almost 40 holy fuck um and that but in some ways it is because i would say that i have reached you know a certain level where i can take care of myself and i take care of my family and those are things i wanted and there are things i could point to that would reassure 18 year old me that despite all of the things that you're going to endure over the next 20 years that are going to happen to you this is where you're going to be at some point and you're and you're still standing on the other side exactly dude you've survived all the worst days of your life to this point it's like the fucking it's like the Bart Simpson Homer Simpson meme in when uh yeah yeah my life in Homer goes the worst day of your life so far exactly yeah i've got it that is actually i love that meme so much because that is in in a to like phrase joke that is perspective it is that is that is perspective that is all perspective is like because the best day of your life how long was it 24 hours yeah the worst day of your life ever was 24 hours dude they're the same thing yeah and they measure up and you compare them to each other and it's like yeah but in time you know it was the same thing man there's like one of these things that i've learned is i've gotten older is you got to stop comparing shit you got to stop comparing your trauma to other people's trauma you got to stop comparing your joys to the sad days you have you have to stop you have to understand that all of this is just happening most of it is completely and totally arbitrary no matter how much you try right it's like that whole quote right you we often meet our destiny on the road to avoid it but then we take to avoid it yeah yeah and so there's just it's one of these things man where it's like it's stupid and cliches it sounds all the cliches are right you have to learn to enjoy the right you also have to learn to not stress about things that you have no control over and you know you often we often suffer more in imagination than in reality that whole that's cynical quote right you just drop you just drop three big nuggets right there yeah i mean 10 seconds you know these are not original thoughts you know but just it's the truth it's some things like these are things these are like conversations i've had with myself as like i've gotten older and also after going to therapy and having like real conversations about personal shit is realizing that like the anxiety you feel it's like that i can't i like quotes apparently but like the one i'm gonna fucking paraphrase of Marcus Aurelius is like i cast off my anxiety because i realized that it was within me essentially and that it's you know it's that you can make choices to be to have perspective on things and you can make choices about your reaction to them you know yeah that reminds me of a i can't remember who said this but it was like all fear is self-induced that that's one that that's one that's like hit me hard over the years because it's like you get you know it's like what is what is fear you know like we all experience it every day you know it's like going to a briefing you go into an interview you go into a test you go into whatever and it's like you have all of these anxieties and these fears that build up and then all of a sudden you realize like all the fear that's happening to me right happening to me right now right is self-induced i'm putting all of this on myself and i found like the most freedom i don't know i don't know if you have these experiences like in the law enforcement field but like as a medic the times that i felt like the most free that i can just cast off everything is when i'm in what i call like the slipstream i don't know what else to call it but like you go into like a medical scenario where it's like a real real problem and then it's just like it's reality and there is only the if then and life and death and nobody's judging you right now i mean for law enforcement and medicine they judge you afterwards but it's like when you're in the when you're in the moment i'm sure you i'm sure you've been in this moment that i'm talking about you just go into it and it's just like you're just in the slipstream dude and you're just like you cast off everything and it's just like you're able to just solve the problem in the moment yeah man i can relate exactly what you're talking about essentially this is just like you're what something's going on you're falling to the level of your training you're in that zone where you are doing what you know how to do best and it's one of those things when i think you can relate to this and it's a sign that you're in that slipstream i think because you look down at your watch and you realize four hours is passed and you're like oh my god it's fucking wow oh my shift's almost over oh my god it's eight p.m. or whatever and you didn't even right you know when do the sun start going down that kind of thing right you know there's been incidences or emergency management level things that you know that i can relate to and say that yeah you just reach that point where you're just doing and executing and you can get to that point that's what it is you said executing you're just executing yeah yeah and it's it's it's gorgeous and it's brilliant when it happens but you said also falling back to your training and yeah it's it's not a lot of higher level brain function that happens but it's it's also awesome because you're the only way to get a person right but the only way to get a person to that is and people hate this but it's like you have to break a person down put them in a group environment like take them to the lowest level trauma bond them then bring them up and just do the thing over and over and over and over and over and over and you get faster and faster and more stressed until it happens for real and then they just do it and then they just do it and then they look at each other at the end and they go holy cow i don't yeah just four hours just went by and we're we're still in the field we're still cold wet and hungry and whatever and we're still here and whatever dude and it's and also it was a real firefighter at that time and they still just look at each other and they smoke a cigarette and they go so anyway what were we talking about mary one f one kill one and that's exactly what soldiers do that what i just said right there that is the military in a nutshell you did a thing a thousand times a thousand times and then you're like bored for for months on end and then all of a sudden there's like three days of like and then also and then also you go back to like okay so what were we saying like mary one f one kill one oh yeah absolutely dude 100 percent i can think of a couple incidents like that yeah it's it's very true man and it's it's it's also very evident why cultures develop rights of passage yeah i think we need to start bringing that back in our culture honestly because that they used they used to be a thing in american culture but you know like that's it's uh you know it can be very small you know what i mean something in your community something within your family even or whatever but it's just like those rights of passage or just symbols of the the transformation right of going through something hard and coming out on the other end and learning a lesson and being able to harness that lesson turn it into something actionable and i'm gonna book in this and then earning the respect if you're a male of your fellow males because you went through the same thing that all them went through oh yeah all them building community and camaraderie and then you're now now you're part of the group right it's almost like human beings are pack animals you know we need unity but but that's why you know i'm gonna say they but that's why they are trying to break down the sense of community if you go into you know remember back in 2020 when BLM was like at their height if you went into their website they said one of the things that they wanted to do was break down the nuclear family they wanted to break down the the ties that bind us together as americans because they said that it was all forms of like whiteness oh yes because it's racism and you know like well excuse me i sure thought black people had families too i didn't you know i'm gonna tell you right now i was raised on a tv show about a black family and loved it and learned a lot of things family matters right family i remember that yeah so that's a good idea that i think it's a good place to end man it's a good place to rock it up doctor huxedable dude that too the cause vision of bill Cosby turned out to be kind of a piece of shit but yeah no well he did yeah but when he was a dad on tv you know it's true the sweaters were real the sweaters were real all right guys that dude that was that was a what is that three three three thirteen minutes well if you made it through this episode hats off to you uh take Chris up on his challenge for sure um go find your 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