Talking Shttt

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Speaker: Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, you are now tuned in to the nonsensical networks talking shit. We are talking shit. My name is Brian. With me always is that handsome devil right there. I'm Mark. I got to be that hyped one. You're going to be the calm one today. Come on. you were Did you not get any sugar? Like no, yeah no, you got to have money to do that. hey Listen, i I don't know how I feel about the picture, you know? uh of our live on location i feel like i i've got the horse teeth showing so well i don't give a shit i like it oh ah fuck you i like was only getting that was the best one that she said that we took

Speaker: I believe it. I disagree. I want to see more guys. I'll tell her. We are a part of the nonsensical network. You can find the nonsensical network at www .bio dot .link nonsensical network there. You can click on that and you'll see all the shows that we have listed and Mark who we got. What do we got? oh Well, on that, on that network on Mondays, we have a men caring for men, a mental health show just for men. they deep into ah They dive deep into ah conversation on, they pick a topic for the night and sometimes say, 99 % of the time they they stick to it. a But sometimes you know they like to joke around a little bit to try to - You got to lighten the mood. Yeah, to lighten the mood. And it's a very good show. And I love what they do with that show on Tuesdays.

Speaker: Tuesdays. You got, you got Jeff, Jeff's garage, where if it fits in the garage, if it's got a motor, if it's a new tool, Jeff and the boys over at Jeff's garage are going to talk about that. So what do you got on Wednesday? Wednesday. Well, We have ah WTF news. they find them they They find the most messed up stuff in the news and they talk about it. And of course Thursday night is the powerhouse show right here. That's us. We are telling. We're not. powerless you know that

Speaker: No, the powerhouse show, we're getting there. We're getting there. We are getting there. If you are watching us on the network, I promise you, there is so much in store on the network. And ah we're getting to that. We're getting to that powerhouse show, actually. So Thursday night, tune in right here on Facebook and all the other platforms that you can stream us and follow and watch Talking Shit. ah Thursday, Friday night is. Friday, Glick's House of Music. and this week he actually has somebody, um, Oh, I'll tell you about it in a minute. Uh, but he does have somebody and it's going to be interesting. Every time Glick has somebody on there, he's always, uh, it's always a good show and he's, he's easy to talk to. You know, it's just wonderful. And the people that he, he's made, you know, friends that he's made doing it, ah they're great.

Speaker: Saturday. And then Saturday night, because we don't have a show on Sunday yet, but stay tuned, guys, because it's coming. So we wrap it up Saturday night with a little show called Nonsense School Nonsense. And nonsenical Nonsense School Nonsense, what they do is they drop the link right over here in the chatters box. They kick the door off the hinges for anybody and I mean anybody to join. We just asked two things. Those two things are

Speaker: you have a, oh, you keep it in your pants and you have to have a virtual, ah you have to have a camera. Screw it. Gotta have a camera. Gotta have a camera. This week on ah House or Glick's House of Music is John Thomas Moore.

Speaker: So we'll check out that show tomorrow night. Is that tomorrow night? Yes. Yes. And I actually I can't wait for that one because I want to hear. So I might have to go look up some of his music just to see what he's about. All right. And then tonight, guys, we have a very special show tonight. It is we actually took the door off the hinges. I had to grab a screwdriver and figure out what screws and what was it a Phillips head or a flat? But anyway, I took the door off just so that we could allow ah some of our some of my family, some of my family, because it's not Mark's family. This is definitely my family.

Speaker: well yeah well hold up the the Absolutely. So we, we took the door off the hinges tonight for anybody that is prior military, uh, active military. Um, yes, it is a love motorsports hat that Mark is wearing. He's sporting the nice love motorsports at available only at love motorsports. When you spend $20 ,000 plus dollars with me, I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. Come see me. I gotcha. I got my guy.

Speaker: Whatever. Throw one in the package for me. We can do that. I'll get the hat. As long as the next time you come on the show, you've got to wear the hat. I will. And the shirt. And the shirt. All right. I will definitely. Shirts are available right now, guys. Talking shit shirts are available for $22 plus shipping right here on Talking Shit. You could just reach out to Mark on Facebook or myself on Facebook. The Talking Shit comments page. Let us know that you need a shirt and we'll get your information and we'll get it out to you.

Speaker: um We were selling them for 25. I think we did a little discount there because we've got a few shirts to that we got that we gotta to get gone so we can get some more shirts. Emma says, Hey, what's up? There you go. There you go. I see it. I see it. Thanks. Hi, how you doing? ah Wes, what it what so we opened this up for the military. What did you, where were you stationed at? What did you do? What branch and what's the better branch? And we know it's not the army. Anyway. i mean Yeah. I mean, but likes let's get the better branch out of it. When it comes to luxury and lifestyle, it'd be the air force, but with all the cool tools and or all the fun stuff and the, you know, big guns and the fun stuff, uh, definitely the army. Um, I was infantry six years, two years as a watercraft engineer. Um, uh,

Speaker: couple deployments, had a blast um while I was in, you know, deployment, not so much, but definitely made some ah strong brotherhoods while we were there. And the reason I say that you're my family is because we we share a commonality that a lot of people don't understand. We share verbiage that other people don't understand. When we bitch about the VA a and then civilians look at us like, well, at least you get free healthcare. Listen, as he would you would rather pay for the healthcare and it'd be good than to get the free healthcare. Trust me, it wasn't free. yeah you're Yeah. Yeah. It ain't free by any means. And, you know, um, stuff that, you know, you and I both went through being over, you know, in the middle East.

Speaker: You know, I know you were over there as well. Uh, you know, hey wait, what um wait, wait. Hey, hold on, Wes. Hold on. He was on a ship. You were on land. He was just stuck. up but I was still, I was still in what they call it. It was, I was in concert. There you go. In theater, in theater. I mean, you get close enough to land, you know, you still get what the sand storms and all that other fun stuff that comes across. And, uh, but. Yeah. Definitely being over there. Um, you know, you try to think you're as safe as you as you can, but you got a big target on your back. Oh, absolutely. And, you know, and developing that brotherhood within your team, you know, no one, whenever you could just look at one of your guys and go, Hey, something ain't right with them. Let's talk or, you know, Hey, you know, whenever they say I hear something.

Speaker: believe they hear something, you know, because if you not listening to what they're saying, you know, somebody's about to get messed up. You know, it's true. Somebody's so being out on the water, man, you know, like Mark was trying to say was, you know, I didn't get to I wasn't boots on the ground. He's absolutely right. But you i'm in the middle I'm in the middle of the ocean. and And if they hit us, if they hit us with something, if they hit us with something, we're done. It's not like I can just grab another boat or something. and You're not calling CTO to come get you. Hell no. Hell no. We are the team that's going to handle everything. Yeah, and even like when I, you know, I switched over to the watercraft engineering side of it for the Army and whenever I first got in

Speaker: whenever I was first offered the MOS, which was actually 11 or 88 Lima. That's what the Army calls Watercraft Engineer. And I'm like, the Army has boats? Because I've been on land for so long. I get to go on the water? What? I'm like, what? They're like, yeah, we got a larger fleet than the Navy. We just don't need as many people to operate them. Yeah, they got boats. They got them boats, so. Yeah. I mean, I was on an LSV about a 248 foot cargo mover. Yeah. You know, we'd set out a Tampa and I mean, know it was a terrible mission. Oh man. It was a terrible mission. You know, going down to the US territories, like Puerto Rico, Antigua, you know, it was terrible.

Speaker: ah Yeah. Darn it. Darn the luck. Yeah. No, we we we went to Bahrain a bunch of times. Yeah. And I was like, what the hell is going on here? why why No, we're we're actually rolling up into we were coming into Puerto Rico ah to drop some material off and pick some stuff up and we had I forget which sub it was but it was a nuke. Maybe sub they were getting ready. They were getting outfitted to go around the Horn of Africa. We'd be on the pirate watch.

Speaker: So we're like, all right, this is cool. You know, we're sitting there and all of a sudden this huge aszz sub comes popping up behind us. We're like, oh, damn, where did you come from?

Speaker: So being with the engineers, you know, we had to make sure we got everything trans, you know, onshore power, do all of our post checks, you know, or, you know, do everything we needed on the ship to get ready to go back out again. Sure. And then after that, you know, we had time off until it was time for us to start getting ready to leave again, which is typically two, three days. So we're coming down the gang plank and we wound up running into like the first mate skipper and stuff of the ah Nuke. And they're like, Hey, y 'all want to come on board and take a look at this thing? We're like apps are freaking lovely. Dude, I'll tell you what, whenever we would pull into a port, this is what I really enjoyed. When you pull into a port that's not the US, it was the other military, the other Navy ships that you could go in and they would take you in and be like, blah, blah, blah, blah, and show you how they do things.

Speaker: and how yeah we we I always thought we were behind in times but I'm gonna tell you man we were so far advanced like yeah we're talking to like the Bahrainian navy guys and like these guys you know they had like three uniforms for the entire cruise that they're that they're doing right and they're doing they're doing eight or eight or ten months at a time We're doing six, we're doing six to nine. You know what I mean? So it really depends on what's going on. But to be able to to be able to to go and see what what their life is like on their ship versus what life is like on our ship. I wouldn't trade it. I'll tell you what, man. The only thing I think I would trade is the food because I'm sure that they get a little bit lavish ah meals than we did. I don't know how we ended up with so much chicken all the damn time.

Speaker: But I did notice you shot the seagulls flying or the seagulls on the radar. So I was about to say that, you know, Brian, before we get any further, once you tell people what the link is in the in our in our box here that I said doubt. So this link that Marcus dropped is for any military. Prior military, current military. If you just want to come on and talk for a few minutes, say hello. We'd greatly appreciate it. This is a military show dedicated to Bosnia. I wanted to do this basically. Yeah, that's really cool. Sarajevo Bosnia. I've never been to Bosnia. That's one place. Neither have I. I think it's cool to see it though.

Speaker: that So the link over there is for any current or past military. If you'd like to click the link and jump in and say hello and tell us a little bit about what you've been through and your experience and stuff like that, we'd greatly appreciate it. This is in fact for all ah all my brothers, all ah all of our brothers here, and sisters. I keep forgetting sometimes. you know But whenever we got on, so we wound up going on and they gave us a tour of the new, you know, and of course there are certain areas of the new, they can't take us on because we don't have, you know, the, the, the, the symmetries needed to pick up radiation. So of course there were certain areas we can't go into and wound up

Speaker: Uh, I had a couple of followers start coming, following us around and they were, uh, you know, lower class semen, you know, and I'm not too familiar with the, uh, rank structure, but they were like E ones, E twos, maybe E threes, you know, for the Navy. And as we were coming off, coming back off the game plank again, I looked at some of the younger ones and I was like, Hey, you guys want to come take a look at our little puny thing we got over here, you know, compared to the new, we were tiny. So they're like, yeah, sure. So we start up at the helm, which is all the way at the top. And we start coming down and we start hitting the stator rooms in the head and you know, and they're counting bunks and we get down to the next level and there's more stator rooms, more bunks, and then we get down to the main deck, which is where our chow was made and you know, everything there. We get down to the deck and there's even still a couple more stator rooms. And they were like,

Speaker: How many guys y 'all have on this shit on this boat right now working? I said, we got 12. They're like, y 'all got 16 beds. and We're like, yeah. They're like, y 'all don't hot swap. We're like, no. We have our own bunk. They're like, even the lowest guy does. And we're like, yeah. They're like, man, we joined the wrong branch. And I'm like, yeah, you certainly did.

Speaker: But the difference with us is is that we were the fire watch as well. We were, you know, I was an engineer and a firefighter at the same time. Yep. You know, so yeah, we weren't getting CTO to come back out. That's right. come Get us, you know, there was no one coming to rescue us. So we had to do damage control. We had to do the fire. We had, we we had to do it all. You know, so we were constantly training, you know, now there'll be a couple of times they were like, all right. You know, this is a drill, only a drill.

Speaker: for those that are not actually working right now.

Speaker: Oh, everybody. So, so. and the niagar We're abandoning ship. We're like. In the Navy, in the Navy, it was, ah if you work, that's fine. If you were working and we were drilling, you were doing, it we were doing it together. it Doesn't matter. So, but like we would have two engineers working at a time. So we had six engineers on the ship and we we're working eight hour shifts. Mm hmm. And then we would have, you know, four to six deckies and, you know, they were taking turns of, you know, being up in the helm, you know, watching over some of the instruments and stuff. So yeah, if we weren't working and they were doing a drill, it was all right. You know, we would have it. All right. Uh, shifts fully engulfed. Everybody has to abandon ship. What do you do? And we all have to, you know, throw our vest as far out into the water we can and then jump in and then swim and come up and splash, you know, the water as we're coming up the, you know,

Speaker: push any fire back and then have to go back down to swim out further. Next thing you know, you're like a hundred yards away from the ship and you're in 15 ,000 foot of water. Yeah. They, they actually, uh, we don't care. you're You're getting in the water. We never had anybody jump off the ship intentionally. now Yeah. But, but I will tell you, man, uh, Like when it came to, you know, you go to your abandoned ship station and if it was gonna be like one one of those situations, you were like, okay, well, this is my job, this is what I have to do. um The only time we ever got in the water, we would do like, if we were out in the middle of the Gulf and there was nothing going on, and and that's hardly ever because guys, we were working around the clock. So our our fun days that we got to have, we caught they were called Steel Beach Picnics. Steel Beach because you're on a ship,

Speaker: It's made of steel, right? ah And a picnic, trust me, what no damn picnic. They had the worst hot dogs that you'd ever think to eat, okay? ah You still had to work your your shifts and your hours and stuff like that, but you could go up, you know, up to the flight deck and and just kind of throw the Frisbee around or football or whatever, you know, it was until you lost that shit in the ocean.

Speaker: Because that happened several times. um And then at the at the end of closer to towards the middle or the end of the day, they'd ask if you know if everybody wanted to do swim call and then they'd have some gunners mates up on the on the flight deck with the big guns, watching for sharks and other things that might eat us. And then we just start jumping off the ship. You know, yeah that's what they're, that's what they were doing with us. They would have somebody man in the 50, you know, provide an overwatch for us. So something were to happen. We were covered, but you know, um, going from the infantry to that, I was kind of leery of who was behind the 50. Yeah. You know,

Speaker: does you know within you know that side of things it was all right this is how you shoot it this is how you this is how you operate it and that was it pretty much it's where whenever i was in the infantry it was like all right not only do you not to have to know how to shoot it you have to break it down you have to do headspace timing you have to you know qualify day night or day shoot night shoot with nods i mean so whenever i switched over there and they got somebody with a 50 i'm like oh no they're gonna kill me

Speaker: ah The fifth, I don't think the 50 was the the gun that I'd want to shoot. yeah You know, I we got we got to go up and play with that a little bit. And it was just it doesn't it doesn't have any kind of targeting, you know, so to speak. and So once you once you put sights on something and you start shooting, you better fucking just hold on for dear life because this thing is going everywhere. All right. Well, a 50 is not just ah it's not a point target. weapon. It's a area target weapon. Mm hmm. So, I mean, you get it within a couple feet of somebody. You're still messing them up and not even touching them with the round. There's definitely a lot of things. The ballistics of it going to tear them apart. Oh, shit. I mean, there was a video I seen somebody shot a deer with a 50 just to see what it would do. Yes. And he didn't even hit the deer. He missed the deer altogether and still snapped the deer's neck. Wow.

Speaker: I mean just from the the force of the bullet. I mean traveling at something like 3050 feet a second And you know The round is like the size of my thumb. Oh, yeah I mean you got something that big coming at you that fast. I mean within three can't outru it you can outru three radius you're messing somebody up So that's why it's an area it's target weapon not point target

Speaker: you know but mike should mike should just kick ah the the the

Speaker: yeah with the With the Army compared to the Marines, though, when it comes to weapon systems in a squad situation, the Marines are, you know, if you're a um a saw gunner, they send you to school to learn that saw, and that's the only weapon that you shoot. You know, the M249. To where in the Army, everybody got to learn how to use it, because if the saw gunner went down, somebody else needed to learn how to pick it up and go with it. Yeah, when I was in the National Guard, they were like, you can be the light machine gunner. And I was like, cool. Because I thought light machine gun literally meant that I didn't need to carry anything fucking heavy. How fucking retarded was I? Light machine gun. It was that was like, that you might as well said like 200 rounds on it it weighs over 19 pounds.

Speaker: You should just be like, you guys want to have a working party? Like just a party where we get to work all the fucking time? No, I don't want to do that either. That's it. That two, four, nine, man. I'm going to tell you something. Trying to break it down and clean it was a lot of fun. Putting it back together was not. yeah We used to, in the barracks, we would have, you know, we would play games on how fast you could break it down, put it back together blindfolded. That's pretty stout. That's a stout. It's a stout machine gun, dude, you know, and then we do it with the 240 and then we do it with the 50, you know, and then we we were going to do it with the Mark 19 until the ah first sergeant come in and said, uh, you ain't doing that one blindfolded.

Speaker: Yeah. For the people that don't know Mark 19 is a 40 millimeter automatic grenade launcher. And, and it's, you know, to where most erupting systems have a buffer spring in it, you know, that's how it operates. Yeah. Well, with the Mark 19, it has two buffer springs in it. And if you don't disengage, you know, and move the whole bolt to the front and you pull the back plate off, it's almost like taking a, um, you know, taking the shock and spring off of a car and just dropping it on the ground.

Speaker: And just watching the whole thing go poof because I mean and i've actually seen that happen and it warmed up I'll tell you what man the drill instructors you remember back when the drill instructors used to try to scare us with the uh The butt the butt screen the butt spring on the um on the uh m16s Oh, yeah if you if you don't if you don't hold your finger over this or if you go to open this really fast that spring is going to come out and you're going to lose it and then all this is Yeah. but Listen, fuck that spring. I can replace that. You know what you can't replace on that fucking M16? That goddamn firing pin, bro. Bro, that fire, we were, we were sitting in the barracks one day and we we're - That fire pin, retaining pin. Oh my God, dude. yeah

Speaker: We fucking literally were cleaning M16s. That's that, you know, we were done for the day and it, you know, it was, you know, it was wind down and it was like, Hey, we need to make sure that we're prepared for tomorrow because we got more train X's. And we always knew like, Hey, we're going to have, we're going to have an inspection. So let's go ahead and everybody break down their M16s and do it again. Yep. So here we are sitting on our C bag, slap full of all of our gear or our rucks, right? And somebody yells out, nobody move. I thought somebody was about to shoot everybody. And I was like, what the fuck is going on? Missing firing pin. I was like, you gotta fucking be kidding me. What? Yeah. Yeah. We, we would mess with guys. Like we would go out on the range and stuff, you know, for qualifications or whatever. And

Speaker: You know, you can't just leave your weapon sitting there on your on your rack. You know, you had to have somebody. bu and That's your gun. That's your right. Somebody sitting there watching over it. That was fine. You could walk away because you had somebody watching it. Well, the people that would just get up and walk away, we all look at each other going, hey, were you asked to watch that weapon? No, were you OK? We would go in and take the firing pen out. Oh, and send them on the line. That's fucked up. Ladies the gentleman and gentlemen, we haven't closed the announce. Brendan, what's happening, buddy? Going on, gents. How's the whiskey treating you tonight? It's good. I just started. Oh, very nice. Very nice. Little Buffalo Trace. Ooh, I love Buffalo Trace. Yeah, it's not bad. I like the Eagle Rare too.

Speaker: I have a bottle of that setting over there too. yeah I'm coming over where you live. A little bit of a time for you. Hey, Brian, the next guest. I'm in Virginia. Hold off and bringing bring your bringing in 14 hours. OK, OK. Eight hours, maybe. Holy shit, the whole Coast Guard is here. You got that right. No, listen, Wes Wes said he had a friend that was coming in from the Coast Guard. It has to be Brendan. No, no. My buddy's supposed to be coming in is actually I don't know what happened to him. I'm going to. So if my screen goes black, I'm going to try hitting them up. So because I'm doing everything off my phone. There you go. Don't say get your ass in here. So what what did you want to hold up for, Mark? What did we do? What did I do? Oh, we have a mic. Go ahead. Bring him in. This is this is squirrel squirrel. What's up, man? long time What's up, buddy? Oh, this is hang on this is the reason why.

Speaker: okay all to walk down i'm gonna I'm gonna mute my mic for a second. All right, you guys can yeah Hello This is my name sorry Everybody everybody hold on hold on Everybody this is my niece Jillian. She's a marine hello Hi Jillian, I don't know if you remember me or not, but

Speaker: I remember faces. and ah you I know my son better than they do me. I am the whole Coast Guard, apparently. The whole Coast Guard is here. I'm never going to leave that one down in my. This great, bro. And we have the Coast Guard here. It's Brendan, the one guy that signed up by accident, bro. Nonsense. No nonsense is, ah you know, Saturday. That's when they'll be on.

Speaker: oh My goodness, okay, I'm gonna mute my mic so that everybody can introduce themselves talk Mike Mike has something to say I know Brendan has something to say since he's here He's always got that one thing to say. I don't know. I'm just asking for a friend So everybody's gonna go quiet Mike's up Mike. All right. No, I said you had something to say i tell I'm like i sort of running over at Love Motorsports, so I'm sorry Now ah yeah I'm an army veteran. I did 2006 to 2011. Now I'm a student to go for gunsmithing, waiting on a contract right now, hopefully. Nice. What was your MOS? I was ah air defense. And then I switched over to 13 Fox. OK. Yeah. So yeah I was 11 Bravo and then 88 Lima. Yeah, I did 14 Echo. So the Patriot maintainer operator and maintainer provided

Speaker: air support for the troops on ground at a cutter while they ran back in Afghanistan. And then ah we got back and I reclassed. I just got tired of the nonsense with that. And yeah, now I just do the gunsmithing thing. I graduated actually July 8th and then waiting. Congrats. Yeah. I talked to a buddy of mine. He works for, he's a private military contractor and he's got me lined up for a roving armor to go overseas with them. So hopefully that that goes through.

Speaker: Who's it who's it with? Um, the two companies that he mentioned to me that he gave my resume for to wait on a phone call from was Akademi and Amentum. Nice. Amentum sounds familiar. Yeah, they're, I haven't heard much about Amentum. I know Akademi is now the parent company that took over for Blackwater. Why would Constellus? it's just a matter of time just waiting for that phone call so I can go back to doing what we're doing. Yeah, the parent parent company for Blackwater. All the controversy that was going on with that controversy and conspiracies behind them. And, you know, that was a way that they could save faces, change their company and be brought under a different umbrella group. I mean, when they go in and, you know, rescue some Americans and annihilate everybody in the process, you know,

Speaker: yeah and they they meet the mission west yes they did

Speaker: yes i did and then they got curtinized georgia wanted to know why you look like sunny why i look like sunny ah he no

Speaker: Uh, guys, I want to, I want to switch gears for just a minute. Uh, there was a question that popped up on the screen. It was a funny question, but I do want to ask, uh, before I ask that funny question that Jillian, Jillian, you've been in now for how long? Oh geez. Um, it is June, July, August, September, almost a year and three months. Almost a year. Yeah. So nine months. Yeah, I, I just walked the wrong way. Oh, and Jill before you say anything else, you might as well say hi to your mom because she's watching. oh i it watching too um you could ah You could have invited him if you wanted to. I don't think it was him, but.

Speaker: No. ay All right. All right. Military guys, youre like everybody. But Mark, do you notice what's in the background of Jillian's? whats What's in her background? Do you see that fucking bed, bro? Do you see that? Oh, yeah. That na nice that thing is. tight Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. It's made I have to make it every day. It's never said it was right. It's it's made properly to some extent. It doesn't bounce a quarter off it.

Speaker: Not a chance. the Steve, I got a package earlier, so there's stuff on my bed, but um I also have like stuffed animals in a leather blanket over like the comforter. we We don't care. We don't care. We just want to see how tight that sheet those sheets are. It's not. It's not. i is the better one Mine's just like remade man we every day. I was about to give you some good props. You should have just went with it. You should have been like, yeah, yeah, that's... Yeah, yeah, I got that. That's my rack. That's my rack out. The honor, man. I can't... I can't lie like that to some extent. Bullshit. Bullshit. She deserves it. She deserves it. So am I, Ben. So what is... Ben's also, like, really tall. What are you doing in the military? What are you doing right now? I am in... They're going to school for what? Signal's intelligence.

Speaker: What's that all about? Okay. So pretty much I just like go, Oh my goodness. This signal looks important. Let me see what it says. And then I see if it's important or not. Sometimes it is. Sometimes it's not really stationed right now. um job is to see hundred this Yeah. She learns the language. I just analyze it. But, um, I am at Goodfellow Airbase in Texas. OK. That's on the west side of Texas, right? That's that's way west. I'm near Lake San Angelo. That's all I know. Hey, Mark, Fred's trying to get in. He's having a hard time. I see that.

Speaker: Okay, Mark's gonna help him. No, that's why. I got this. Okay. All right, Julian, while we're waiting for your uncle. ah So the question did come up and I gotta readdress the question. What is your favorite ah flavor of, wait a minute, where the hell did it go? um I go blue for everything. So you'd eat the blue Crayola before you eat an orange one? No, where'd it go? Everything is gross. I don't know what you're talking about. Like if you eat any candy that's blue, any drinks that are blue, nine times out of 10, they're superior to everything. The other one is green. That's my favorite color. I'll put your snack away. I can't figure out where I put it. I got a box of crayons for you.

Speaker: you've had crayons each time that we come we've did this thisbe box too what's happening it chris we want to we want to tell you guys thank you all for joining us by the way uh you are tuned in to talking shit you're not watching any other show right now it is in fact ryan amar talking shit And we have a whole bunch of misfits from the military, a bunch of misfits. That's right. Wes, Brendan, Mike and Jillian are all here to listen. And here's the thing, guys, if if you if we get to a question that you don't want to talk about or if you if you get to something you don't want to talk about, we don't have to talk about it.

Speaker: But ah was there was a question that I'd like. I know the answer to probably most of them. ah Brendan didn't do nothing, so he didn't get any. But um other than that, um there was the question. Was this.

Speaker: um What about PTSD with you? Oh, man. ah you know no really hard to know It's really hard to sleep at night when I'm trying to think about... Hey, Fred! What's up, man? What's up? I got part of it figured out. All right, look at the bottom of your screen. There should be somewhere in the settings to do with the cam.

Speaker: And then he's gone. Device not connected.

Speaker: darn We should have let Brendan tell them how to do it because they're both Coast Guardians. Yeah. Whoa, whoa, whoa. I thought I was the whole Coast Guard. What is this? Yeah, we're proving wrong now. There's this little person from the Coast Guard here. This is like 50 -50. There's now two Coast Guardians. This is crazy. The army is getting over -ruled here. Just about.

Speaker: the the the the the

Speaker: now you want to damn it

Speaker: that's where we've never right turn your phone turn your phone sideways because it um it appears you have fat fingers is it an iphone If it is, I can't help you. Neither can I. iPhones are the easiest thing to fucking use, guys. Jesus Christ. OK, you guys have a conversation. I'll be right back. I have to go get a beverage. So yeah wait you can wait about about another 10 minutes. OK, fine. I'll wait 10 minutes. So, Jillian, I have, you know, I've known your uncle Mark and I've known your mom 30 plus years.

Speaker: you know, and you actually know my son, his name is Steven. Oh, geez. Steven South. His mom is you, Teva. I i't mean, that doesn't mean that she knows who he is. No, but I'm better with faces than I am names. I'd say he looks like, ah you know, West there, but taller, but no, actually, he's shorter than me. He's shorter. I thought he was taller. Nope. He's 5 '10". I'm 6 '1". Yeah. Imagine being over 5 '5". Fred, we have faith in you. You have this. You got this. Come on, buddy. You got to find the camera picture thing. I can see it. I got it in my sights. Yeah, we see we can't see you. ah Yeah, I know. That's the problem.

Speaker: oh it's ah It's a camera. It's going to be red. Yes, I know that. and b Brian, Brian, he sees it. He knows what he's doing. I think I'm having technical issues on my ah on my end. Here's not user error. mess Well, I mean, anything's possible. but

Speaker: So so raise your hand if you wanted to join the Air Force. Nobody else. I thought about it, but i I was very shallow about picking. I was like, which recruiter is cooler? No, fucked a recruiter thing. should have just met I told you when you came over and talked to me about the Navy, I said, eh, don't join the Navy. And if you're going to do it, don't pick a job that you're going to be on a boat. Sorry. I rethought that real quickly because I was like,

Speaker: a bow Yeah, but don't worry your marine, you're gonna be on a ship. Don't worry. It's gonna happen. It depends on how a lot of things go, but yeah. Oh, don't worry. The election's coming right around the corner. There's things, you know, don't worry. You'll get to see what a ship looks like. You're gonna be like, what's a port and what's a starboard? Starboard? And they teach us that in boot camp. mister okay good you know what i learned in boot camp how to tie a noose so and i haven't used it yet but it's available just jesus what kind of boot camp did you go to brian you brian you probably can't even do that now listen it started off as a postcard boot camp move goes into the saluted a tail or murderder can yeah fucking

Speaker: We went from ah Coast Guard boot camp to murder camp right afterwards. It was fantastic. It was just a natural progression. You're so angry that you found out you're in the Coast Guard. You've got to murder somebody. This isn't even the real Navy! They have boats? They have big boats? This sucks. They do now. They've got icebreakers and all kinds of stuff. Yeah, I think that was the Navy's hand -me -down stuff, wasn't it? No, I think one of their icebreakers was like an old research vessel. And then um I forget where the other one came from. Not from Russia.

Speaker: I don't know. Could have happened. We'll take anything. The the eagle was from Germany. OK, Brendan, since we know where, you know, the coast guard where you but since we've talked to you like a hundred times already. so Let's talk to the Coast Guard. Yeah. let's all ask Yeah. ah Well, since I just got proven wrong, you know, Brendan's not the whole Coast Guard, you know, Fred was part of the Coast Guard. um Where are we? Let's ask ah Fred, where were you stationed at? I was stationed in Fort Myers Beach.

Speaker: And you literally left home to stay home. Yeah, that was my first tour of duty. It was Fort Myers Beach. God damn it, bro. That's like right down the road from us. I don know. and hell was they thinking I should have joined the Coast Guard. I asked for Guam. They sent me to Connecticut.

Speaker: i see I can see how that's similar. yeah slightly i only give them two options potato and spana

Speaker: After that, I went to Mobile, Alabama. Okay. I wasn't there very much because it was on a fucking buoy tender. You're definitely on a buoy boat that on there. Yeah, that was right. That was right after they had the brilliant idea that take the 87s and turn them into one tens and then condemn the whole fleet.

Speaker: oh my god damn So we don't understand any of that but do you guys want to elaborate yeah elaborate He's talking of the length of the boat and the different fleets that they were that we had um Or they had I didn't have any fleets Yeah, so percent of the Coast Guard now 87 foot patrol boats were old and to launch a small boat and the crane is so they had this idea that hey let's you know extend them and make them 110 feet with a stern launch system and well they did all this engineering and it all epically failed in the holes buckle cheese

Speaker: I didn't know that because they put a 110 at our unit. There was an 87 there, they put a 110 there. They had one of the rigid hull inflatable jet boats on that. That's the ones you're talking about. I didn't realize they buckled. That's awesome. Wait a minute, so you mean to tell me that your boats were inflatable? Yeah, the small boats were, yeah. You sons of bitches. Don't let the rings on them to pop them. It came with rubber duckies as well. and the but Yeah, you let him rain on there. You hear what she said. Don't let a marine on there. They'll pop them. Yeah, to play dirty on there, too. but guy Playing with sharp shit or anybody. You can't expect. that It's not. I'm going to say it's not. You're going to shoot your eye out. You're going to stab all of you idiot. Oh, yeah. Where I where I am, like where we work during the day, there's actually a rule that in like a certain building

Speaker: The Marines aren't allowed to have knives. Is it where they sell butter? No, apparently a Marine got mad at another branch. No, that doesn't happen. No, never. Never.

Speaker: Train killer gets angry. Must have been had some guy in the Coast Guard. It had to be. ah Guaranteed. guard here or Or Air Force. It has to be the Air Force. It actually has to be the Air Force because you know the Air Force guy is like, excuse me, I'm getting my chow. I mean, lunch. my My breakfast and lunch together. You can go over there peasant. Excuse me, I don't know if you i have a time out. I need a safe space.

Speaker: Oh, shoot me now. Mike's not saying a whole lot. He must have had the best chow ever. Did you eat on the Air Force bases? I did when I was an open hour. Every Tuesday was surf and turf, so they had a New York Strip and Lobster tail. Shit, it was every Friday night when I was in when I was in deployment weeds to sneak over to the airport side and go get starboard turf every Friday night. So so your guys is. Go ahead, Mike, I'm sorry. Yeah, the Air Force has the best shit that's out there. I mean, that they're dorms they're not even barracks. They're called dorms, like an actual college. They have kitchens in their own rooms, all this shit. And when I was stationed in Okinawa, we were actually put in what was condemned to the standards of the Air Force. But it was like we were living way better than we would in any other fucking barracks that was out there.

Speaker: Sounds about right. He sounds about right. Dirty carpets, that was it. That's the only issue we had where the carpets were dirty. Other than that, everything else was pristine. You got new sheets for those beds that had been slept on twice. So what are you complaining about? I didn't complain at all. There were only 300 count thread sheets. Air Force is not going to deal with that. It wasn't Egyptian cotton, okay?

Speaker: Oh man. No, he's absolutely right. Air Force has the best food. I will tell you, you guys are pretty fortunate to be able to eat Air Force food. I got to eat it one time and that was when I went and had surgery and it just happened to be that I had oral surgery. So my food got blended up for me and then served to me as a milkshake. It was fucking horrible. That was the worst Air Force food I've ever had in my life. ah ah is about um Shepherds pie all i god like know They were having they were having like gourmet chili dogs and fucking and and and Street and stuff like that and and I was like, yeah

Speaker: And you know what, my jaw being the way it was, I was like, I don't want that. And then I was like, you have to blend it. And the lady was like, what do you need me to do? And I was like, you got to blend it. You know, so she did. She blended it all up for me. And you know, it's actually chili dogs, not not terrible. It was the pizza that really kind of fucking threw me off. I was like, yeah, probably shouldn't ask for that, too. You know, but the pizza going to the steaks, the surf and turf that you guys used to do. I'm going to tell you something. If you ever tell a Navy guy, oh, dude, we're getting surf and turf tonight. We already know shit's either fucking hit the fan or we're getting just absolutely anal raped because that means we're staying out longer. We're not hitting a port, you know.

Speaker: Somebody is leaving and we got to take up their slide. Yeah. There's a whole lot of stuff. you know This is the preemptive to bad news is what you're saying. Oh yeah. A hundred percent that nice cream socials ice cream socials were, were, were bad on two occasions. So it was, we got really great news for you. You get an ice cream social. That means you're getting bad news. The other part of the ice cream social was when we had to clear out the freezer for dead bodies. So there was that. Yeah, yeah, that was the the tsunami that hit. um We went and cleaned up ah so the tsunami deal in. Oh God, where the hell were we at? No, no. Like Philippine area? Indonesia. It was in it was like Thailand or something. like I can't remember off the top of my head right now.

Speaker: I'll remember it later when we're talking, but that was probably one of the worst things. It was like, Oh yeah, you're getting and're getting malaria shots and we're getting, we're having ice cream. This is going to be fantastic guys. And then there's dead bodies in the freezer. and hat Sounds like hey Fred, you get it to work. We removed that one. theres two Hold up. Wait, there he is.

Speaker: All right. Now that you've got the camera to work, guys, let's take ah we're going to take a little quick break real quick. A format has some. Mark has some music that he wants to play. Everybody will get a drink. Smokest doggy, whatever you need to do. Have fun. I want to go listen to two demented people yell at each other. OK. OK. Thanks, Brendan. Thanks for coming, buddy. Later. Nice being y 'all. but but's Now, we do have ah permission to play this, you know, dumbass YouTube and Facebook. We have you fuck yourself. it We have permission. This is from Colt Graves, and it's called Lonesome Roads.

Speaker: Lonesome roads are all I know There ain't no sunshine or blue skies around me A product of a self -destruct There ain't no, ain't no trusting, ain't no loving

Speaker: Looked out eyes and neon signs I tell myself I'm where I'm meant to be Late at night I lie alone The only truth are in these songs I sing Gotta push my feelings inside That's why I'm a pride To keep back on my feet But with all these feelings inside

Speaker: Sun's shining blue skies around me A product of a self -destruct, there ain't no Ain't no trust and ain't no love in me Ain't nothing but a shot at tomorrow Ain't nothing but a drink out the bottle Nothing more to all, I know there ain't no Sun's shining blue skies around me

Speaker: The maniac to Brentwood Back to Calhoun

Speaker: I need a break on my neck

Speaker: a drink out the bottle

Speaker: There ain't no sunshine or blue skies around me A product of a self -destruct There ain't no, ain't no trust and ain't no loving me Ain't nothing but a shot at tomorrow Ain't nothing but a drink out the bottle No, some roads are all I know There ain't no sunshine or blue skies around me

Speaker: That's pretty awesome. I thought I when I watched the video the first time I was like, holy shit, that was fucking awesome. I pulled him off. to I pulled him off the screen for a second. Well, what you got? Well, I mean, we minds will tell people it's a second hour. You know, we normally only go about an hour, a little bit. We're going to go second hour anyways. Um, but we might as well tell everybody what's on the nonsensical, uh, network really quick. Absolutely. So Monday night is men caring for men on the network. That is a men's mental health show. Tuesday is Jeff's garage. If it has a motor, um, if it's a tool and anything that Jeff could talk about that's engine wise,

Speaker: we'll be in his garage. We'll be on Jeff's garage. Oh yeah, that too. Okay. Wednesday night is what the news where they will talk about anything that's happening in the news that makes you go, what the fuck? Uh, from sports to entertainment to current events, uh, they do get a little political where we, you know, we skirt the edge a little bit. They kind of dive right into it. What do you got on Thursday? Thursday, of course, is us talking shit. We talk about anything, guys. Yeah. Bring the topics. Let's do this. Friday night is Glick's House of Music, and that is a show about music, obviously. so Yes. Glick's going to have a host a guest tomorrow. He's going to host who? Who's he going to host?

Speaker: the the the the reason why the network got started in the first place Uh, it's called nonsensical nonsense. And they do the same thing we just did here, right? Uh, for the military, yes, for the military, but for their, for that show, the open doors challenges for everybody, everybody, except for the ones that want to show their, uh, show their dicks off on camera. Uh, and you have to have a camera too, to come on.

Speaker: they won't say no to other parts but you know just not dicks yeah i think that's yeah and sunday is still is still uh fake it for right now until the new show is ready to come on and we can't say much more on that one because well if you state but if you stay tuned i promise you you're going to get to know about that show. And if you're not following us, if you're not following us at bio dot .link nonsensical network, you're not doing everything. So head over, click on the link, it'll bring up all the shows for you guys. That way you can find your favorite. ah Click on your favorites, listen to them everywhere you can find a podcast. ah We're everywhere. The nonsensical network is everywhere, right?

Speaker: Yes, everywhere. yeah And this is his guest tomorrow night. John Thomas Moore. OK. And this is what is what Glick said. Chef's garage has herpes. I wouldn't doubt it. He puts things in places that they shouldn't be. We're gonna welcome our guests right back onto the stage. With us tonight, everybody, we have ah some boys and girls, ladies and gentlemen, from around the military. My name's Brian. I was US Navy. You have Jillian, who is a? Marine. You have Fred, who is a? Coast Guard. Coast Guard and Wes?

Speaker: the army army so youve got a couple of us here we lost a couple of people i'm sorry about that ah know mike was having some camera issues mike is again do it was yeah it was getting too dark out there too so i think he was having problems that way too

Speaker: But we will always welcome you guys with open arms to this show. Anytime, anytime any time, any of you guys would like to be a part of the show, we'd absolutely love to have you. Mark is a huge part of the military. As you may know, I think Jillian knows that because he that he kind of convinced her to join the military. know it not right julia No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, The Marines? No, that was my brother, Chris, that helped her with that decision. Sort of. and That's my husband, too. He was like, I kind of want to join the Marines. And I was like, and I beat him to it. I can't believe you got married, like, like right out of basic. Anybody else do that? Raise your hand. We'd already been together for a while. So it wasn't like a big shocker or anything. It's going to happen one way or another.

Speaker: Hey, at least you didn't get in the military, get with somebody, get married behind everybody's back, then come home and go, I'm pregnant. Oh, and by the way, I'm, I'm, I'm married too. I mean, at least you didn't do that one. I've seen that happen a few times. um hello It was, it was West, West of that. no was one i you know either william would have came home i can tell you right now if jilly and what it came home and said mom i got married and i'm sorry you weren't you weren't there and i'm pregnant well my sister would be

Speaker: you know taking care of the the the the and i being nice about this she would have killed you Yeah, you know yeah for sure for sure. Yeah, I know. she She came over once before and asked me if I had shovels and I was like, that's for Dave. nothing So i we we don't talk about Bruno.

Speaker: All right. So so she's a an analyst. She analyzes signals. Yes. Anything from space yet? There you go. What do you know? What do you know about weapons, though? beside i go put you know any what I know you know some weapons. you They make you carry weapons, do they not? I was literally thinking of ditties from boot camp.

Speaker: because i What? OK, it's called a ditty. city he and D I T T Y or something like that. It's pretty much something they make you scream in order to remember because there's like tests you take and they like help you like learn about the test. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Oh, that's what we were saying, too. No, um it's ah it's it's like a it's it's just like something you say to remember. It's um but it was about the M16

Speaker: I'm 16 a for a service rifle. It's uh, alum gas lightweight. Oh shit. I don't remember. Fuck. yeah er go well She's got the military talk down just fine. who go ahead Go ahead. Go ahead. She got it. Lightweight gas fed. Wait, gas operated. gas I was going to say gas fed. ah so

Speaker: um it's literally lmgas but i can't remember it right now dude you're in the military you should know this it was probably drilled into your head it's in your bill guy i know that know call when you play you know when you like study for a test and then you don't remember anything afterwards that's called life that's called life um that's called like um i do all the ten majority of it I remember some things like, cause they're actually important, but like I'll be issued a weapon, but the infantry units are going to use them more than I do. So she does. You're probably getting a Beretta. You're getting a fucking nine mill Beretta. That's it. 92FS.

Speaker: Yeah. Fucking carried that for a goddamn like eight fucking years, I think, before we got our own. No, I got lucky. I got to shoot the German P9 and the G36. Nice. So we got all rid into the weapon systems.

Speaker: All of our stuff was leased from the Navy.

Speaker: see But I actually had M4, not M16 at ACOG. See, the army has bullshit. No, I'm laughing because I have the answers now. the oh not you you need Listen, than its it's ah she's you're not taking a test. Jesus Christ. That P9 series, that German P9 series, was that thought that old style looking with the skinny barrel? No. No, it actually looked like a Beretta.

Speaker: ah dead Yeah, the only difference between it. I mean they still use the the NATO 9 mil round, but their round itself. The firing the the firing pin on it. It doesn't have to strike it as hard for it to set it off. As it would for like an American 9 mil round. So Bailey strikes around and it goes off, but

Speaker: Yeah, they're close to that right there. It's pretty damn close. Pretty damn close. But um so you could take the nine mil round, the drumming nine mil round and put it into an American weapon, you know, of a nine mil and it would fire. But if we took an American nine mil round and stuck it in that weapon, it wouldn't go off at all. It would be jammed up. No wouldn't jam up. It's just the firing pin doesn't extrude out as far as a regular 9 .0 does. So ah this the ah pra ah the primer sits back a little bit further in the round. Gotcha. So it doesn't take as much to strike to set it off. Don't drop them. Nope. But the G36, oh my God, that thing was a... I want one, maybe two.

Speaker: Because it has an ACOG CCO and it don't matter who shoots that weapon, it's zero to everybody. Left hand, right hand don't matter. Yeah, the ACOG sights are nice. Yeah. So I got to go do the designated squad shooter for the army because the army gets to... Yeah, that's an old M16 there. ah dont um let's go to ask yeah but it was i't approach because their but who camp ah butzz it got this way different the gas tubes way different

Speaker: that ready my ahead the but i one have the weak answer on This is the version not the A4 What did you ask Does that one have the weed catcher on the front of it

Speaker: Yes, it does. but

Speaker: I had to look at I was like, Oh, yep, the shirt does. Oh, man. So playing with guns is fun, though, right? Jillian, I know you got to have a good time with those, right? Do you like going to do range time? Oh, I kind of did. I mean, at boot camp, it was one of the least stressful weeks. Okay. Because, um, they don't want to go around as much. Well, the drill instructors would like relax a little bit because you're one handling weapons and two, you're supposed to be more relaxed when you're shooting. So like before the day in range would start abs, you're absolutely screwed. And afterwards you're screwed, but during the day it was, it was pretty peaceful. Like, um,

Speaker: if you were like changing the targets and stuff like that, cause it was all manual, you know, you put the targets up, you take them down and all of that. And um when we were doing that, like the drill instructors that were like monitoring us, they would um joke with us sometimes. One time I got asked my favorite show and then was made fun of for it. oh And what was your answer? Miraculous ladybug in the adventures of Kat Noir. I can see why. it's Listen, it's a, it's, I watched it in French, like the original. So it's not like, okay it's cool. I'm weirdo, but, um, so that was pretty cool. And then at MCT, which is like field training after boot camp, uh, Marine combat training is what it stands for. And after that, um, you got to shoot a lot.

Speaker: It was really fun. We shot at night. I saw someone shoot into the sky. That was weird. How do you miss the target that much? I don't know, but they did. And then, um, it was really cool though, because of, it was just fun. Uh, we got to shoot blanks. Like we had like fake wars and stuff like that. So we had a safe distance, got to shoot blanks. Cause there was like something that you put on the front of the weapon. I forgot what it was called. yeah trust blake A BFA. Yeah. like so doctor Yeah. I don't remember. They didn't tell us what it was. They just said that goes on your weapon. Tight. looks Like a little square box that you put on and it screws in. Yep. Yeah. And honestly, all through MCT, they had the option to give people, um, I'm fours and stuff like that, which is like kind of like an M 16. Not really. It's a lot lightweight. It's heavier.

Speaker: The M4? Yeah, the M4 is a lot lighter. No, it's lighter. It's smaller. It's smaller and lighter. What am I thinking of? I don't know. I don't know anybody. I'm thinking of. The M4s I carried were a hell of a lot lighter than the M16A2s that we had. They were extremely lighter. I can hold it straight up one -handed. The M16, I can, but it takes a lot more effort, and I have to finesse it. The M4s also have possible bus docks.

Speaker: We didn't have that. were not we know We didn't have that. I was issued M16. All of the short people, like people that, like the M16 is like almost my height. There's like two feet, like really shouldn't have an M16. They gave me one. I had to go on hikes and stuff like that with a M16. But when it came to shooting, one of the, I forgot what they're called, but they're the pins that, ah hold the weapon together. One of those pins came out on a hike somehow. I genuinely don't know how that happened. So I'm saying for because I couldn't shoot with a broken weapon. So the upper receiver pins that some bitch folded in half. She was like, how did this happen? hang alone yeah i free I think it was not a break action. It didn't like fall apart or anything.

Speaker: It was just very wobbly. Very wobbly. It wobbled a lot because if you have the bolt in and everything else, it's not going to like collapse apart entirely unless you like mess with it. So it would like stay together. Was it the front pin or the back pin? I think it was the back pin. So it was really funny because I showed the sergeant and he was like, How did this happen? I was like, I, I think it was the sling sergeant. Like I have no clue sergeant, but, uh, the first person I told to, it was a staff sergeant. I forget his name, but I was like, um, um ah I'm a, I'm a nervous like child, you know, I'm like staff, staff sergeant. I am because I'm like shivering because I think, you know, i I broke something really important. I'm going to have to pay for it. All this, that and the other. He he looks at me, he goes, Oh.

Speaker: You're fucked. I was like, what? I love it. No, no. The best answer ever. Unreal thinks that. I was like, no way. Hey, listen. So let me ask you this. Wes has playbook grenades. I've playbook grenades. Fred, did you ever get to play with a grenade? but Not officially. Did you like did you ever get a chance to go and throw a grenade? Yep. Jillian? No, I have not. All right, grenades are fun. Scary as fuck. want to share I want to share a little video with you. Is this whenever he gets thrown out of the box? Just listen to the video, listen to what he says, and then we'll we'll talk about it right afterwards. help my that Why are you still standing?

Speaker: Who's filming? What's in front of you? it just over there right yeah so third and they joe oh the left your food

Speaker: i dropped my grenade similar over there

Speaker: right

Speaker: This man said drill sergeant I dropped my grenade somewhere over there.

Speaker: Bro. What? I remember, I remember specifically, we we got to throw two when I joined the guard that, you know, I had to go to army basic training. So we got to throw two grenades and we were like in the bunker kind of thing. And there's the sandbags in front of us. And he said, when you throw this fucking grenade, you throw it, and you throw it hard. and you make sure everything goes with you. Okay, sounds good. You said you keep the pin, you throw their grenade there but other the grenade, grenade, you keep the pin. We all had to repeat that shit over and over again. So, you know, I get up there and I throw mine. It was fantastic. I had a great time. My adrenaline's pumping. And I was thinking, dude, these things are going to go off tremendously. Not at all. It was a little poof. I was like, well, that sucked.

Speaker: You know, I think that if it would have poofed in front of my feet, I would have probably been dead. But I mean, it just kind of poofed a little bit. We had a girl get up there and she was brand new to basic, brand new to the the military. And she pulled the pin and she couldn't let go of either one of them. And the instructor at that time grabbed the grenade from her, tossed a grenade and pulled her down into the pit. It was absolutely insane. Like we were watching from like the the bulletproof glass, you know, the thick glass that you watch from. Yeah, it was absolutely insane. I was like, Holy shit. But seeing that video, I was like, I just had to know, did did anybody go through anything like that? Like weapon wise, like, I mean, Jillian had the best story right now. Her fucking gun folded in half. Yeah, I ain't got nothing for that.

Speaker: but this It's like a Caltech sub 2000. Wow. I mean, I thought just taking a firing pin out of somebody's rifle phone and sending them on the line. It's a bad time, bro. and in camp We were like cleaning our rifles and all of that. And it's not the firing pin, but it's the I don't remember most of the parts of the bolt, but it is the piece that you put in. It's like the little rectangle with the circle and the firing pin goes through that.

Speaker: The fire pin, retaining pin. Not the retaining pin. the It goes into the side near like the top. It holds it together. It's part of what holds it together. I don't remember the name of it. The bulk here in the pin? Maybe. He told us enough to pass the test, OK? That's all they needed from us at the moment. but um so This girl couldn't find it. Um, cause it was Jillian. I'm not going to say anybody's name, but it was Jillian. It wasn't me. Actually, I forget who it was. I think it was one of our squad leaders, but she couldn't find it. Nowhere to be seen. We look everywhere, like up and down the squad bay. Right. And so I'm someone's footlocker.

Speaker: Just sitting there nice and pretty, just sat there. And then the little sucker's getting so angry, this, that, and the other. And she was like, bam, that's not this recruit. It's for longer. This recruit doesn't know how it got there. Or at least that's what she wants to say. Realistically, you're just like, hi, male. She can't say anything. um like that Like i I remember, I was low crawling under like everyone's um racks and stuff. Cause I was really bored. I didn't want to do anything. And so I was like looking for it. I was just like low crawling. Like, there was nothing to do. And there was like a drill instructor who saw me just like scuttling under all the racks. And she just looked at me. I looked at her. She just walked off. Jesus Christ.

Speaker: and so fun that yeah um that Listen, I'm going to tell you that the stress level in basic for me was it was super high stress, but it was so much fun. I don't know if you guys feel the same way. first But a lot of fun. I think the guys had more fun, honestly, in boot camp because I hear some of their stories. I'm like, no way. one guy he's in He's West Coast, so I was East Coast. I went to a Paris Island. He went to the one in West Coast and um San Diego. Yeah, not a. He make individual structures would have them like make prison gyms, I guess, and they would like. um

Speaker: move all of the racks on like either side of the squad bay to where there's like open area and they would like make a gym and work out in the middle of the match. Our drill instructors used to make us do that, you know, racks to the walls and then had to work out together. It sucked a lot. um but the water grills

Speaker: What's a water drill? Oh, when you go to the pool, No, where they'd make you, they'd make you drink your, uh, canteen full of water. The whole fucking canteen pass. Yeah. you No, ours was, uh, we, we had our drill instructors were called rainmakers. We were like, what's a rainmaker? So you push the racks all the way to the walls, to the bulkheads. You shut the fans off on either end of the room. Cause there was no AC. You close all the windows and you start exercising.

Speaker: and you do it together. Until the wall starts sweating. That's right. The the ceilings are leaking. The rainmakers have made it to the barracks, dude. I'm telling you right now, whats the right at the end of our basic training, I remember them asking us specifically, Hey guys, you know, you got three days left. You're almost there. We're going to treat you. Let's do a pizza run. And if you wanted to do a pizza run, you stood on one side of the room. Well, I had already heard about a pizza run and I was like, I don't think I really want to do a pizza run because that's where they feed you a bunch of, a bunch of pizza. and you're on page four And then you go for a run. So I've stood on the room without the pizza run and we went to regular chow and when these guys came back and they were throwing up and shit, I was like, I'm so glad I didn't do a pizza run. Anybody else get that?

Speaker: Um, but I have definitely learned that when something sounds too good to be true or sounds too good to be true, yeah you're going to get fucked in one form or another. Like, Oh, you're going to have like a 96, like all of this. Oh, but if you're staying on base, you have to go to formation. It's it's a holiday. Why do I have to go to formation? Just see me on that Tuesday. Personally, like everyone else doesn't have to check in. Why do I have to check in? OK, if you're on the base if you're on the base, I got to keep accountability for who's on the base. That's why ye I know. Plus, people like to, you know, keep silent about the way they feel. So it's also why we've heard we've heard stories from Joanne. We've heard stories from Wes. Let's get some stories from Fred.

Speaker: Yeah, man, what do you got? What do I got? Oh, where do I start? um What about your, what about your guys's basic training? Where is your basic held and and is it hard? coast well So Cape May, New Jersey is where basic training is at. And is it hard? It wasn't easy, but it wasn't anything crazy either. We had obstacle courses and PT at, you know, four 30 in the morning. You're out, you know, like they just drilled you all the time. Every single time we went outside, let's see, when did I go?

Speaker: It was in 90s in the 90s, probably because I joined in 96. And then I think West went right after me, right? No, I went into seven. Oh, God. Six or seven. You're old. I was older when I went through, but also when whenever I went in, I kind of knew they were going to do mindfuck games and shit like that. So it was like, all right, I'm going to play their game. Well, one of my they call them company commanders and the Coast Guard and so the drill instructors, the But one of them was a lateral over, it was a Marine. And then he was, he was the hardest. ah He incorporated going down to the beach, filling our sea bags with sand, and doing a march in the water, all kinds of, you thought you're going through, in my mind, I thought I was going through seal training. number And I'm like, I'm like, what is this? i said

Speaker: you know, I was like, it's crazy. And there's, you know, February, March, April, gave me a new Jersey. So it was, you know, sleet, rain, windy, cold as hell. Like I'm from Florida, so it sucked. I was like, this is bullshit. And, uh, yeah, just wet. They just kept you wet and sandy all the fucking time and just mentally broke you down. But, you know, it was what it was, but we had We had some luxury. We got to go to the indoor pool and tread water and formation. That was great. Yeah, that was great. So when I was reclassing into the watercraft engineer, you know, the first day we all meet up and you got all the new recruits coming out of basic training and shit like that.

Speaker: and the the instructor in the class was like, all right, there's gonna be no drinking, no eating, no blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And he goes, all right, you four guys, because there was four of us that were reclassing, he goes, you four, just don't make a mess back there. All right, no smoking, no this, no that, blah, blah, blah. You four in the back, smoke pops outside when we go on breaks. Nice. yeah and It was like, ha ha, fuckers, we'd show up with fucking monsters and Nazis and shit. fuck you crackgging him open the fucking recruits that was ah that was in or fort leonardwood at fort leardwood missouri yeah awesome oh fort lost in the woods yeah because that's where when i left ah when i left the navy I was like, yeah, I'm done. I'm not doing this anymore. And then somebody was like, Hey, man, you should probably save, you know, because you still have time and stuff go on the National Guard or something. I was like, shit, I'll give it a help. You know, when I signed up, I did my little three year stint. Cause that's, that's all I'm good for in the beginning though. Like, give me three years and I'll see if I like it or not. I did not like the the National Guard, dude. I did not like it. I hate it.

Speaker: I enjoyed my time more when I was on active duty Navy. ah the the The guard just kind of it was it was a drag, dude. Like, you know, the training stuff that we did was fun. That was a lot of fun. You know, fucking with the soldiers was a lot of fun. Excuse me. right language ah But more but I will tell you, if I had to do it all over again, I probably would have stayed in the Navy. just because to hit the retirement time and stuff like that. I was, I was so close to it, you know, but it is what it is. So I think everything happens for a reason. So I was at 15 years and I got medically retired. Yeah, but you got a retirement. I didn't get that. No, I got that. I got medically retired, but I'll get no pension. Oh, you didn't get any. Did you get a, did you get a hundred percent disability from the military? Nope. What did you get?

Speaker: I got 30%. That's it. They said, ae ah just are you, are you, are you, so are you fighting for more? All right now. i right I'll put you up directly after, uh, we need to get you more. I'm fighting for more. I'm, I'm, you know, because of being a part of our operation, Iraqi freedom desert storm. the shield that the hole kept in caboodle everybody's like oh yeah you're you're part of the burn pits and this thing yeah joe y f o e i put in the go over the buyra but ah yeah they den denied me because i was married at the time and but they didn't want to pay the extra money dan what you give you get paid bro you do you get paid being married

Speaker: They, they, well, there was me and like, I don't know, a handful of other people that they were looking at and they're like, they're like, honestly, these guys are single and they ain't got a family back home. So we're going to take them. And I'm like, all right, well, whatever it is. Yeah. You need to fight. I need to fight the VA dude, but now I was stationed at Fort Hood and we did a, uh, um, like a one month, one month. cross training with the Marine Corps and it, you know, started out with like squash, squat size element, the company size element, the company size element. Next thing you know, we're doing full brigade element movements with the army and Marines. Now we get done with the training and stuff. Yeah. I mean, we, you got, you know, up of but you know, couple of battalions fucking moving at one time. I mean, and it's impressive to watch. Yeah. Yeah. And, um,

Speaker: So we get done, you know, uh, we all get back to the, you know, main base and everybody decides, all right, let's meet up at DNCO club. You got two different branches that haven't had a drink in over a month. How well, there's definitely going to be, there's definitely going to be some fights, bro. Yeah. So meet them all one, buddy. We're hanging out upstairs at the and NCO club. And we made a couple of friends with, you know, some of the Marines and we're sitting up there just having a drink, you know, just, minding our own business and you know, next thing, you know, one thing goes to another, you know, the branches start swelling up. ah My branch is better than yours and the fight broke out downstairs and we're like, all right, well, I guess it's time for us to go. So we go to walk out. Me and my one buddy, we go out one side and the Marines, they go out the other side and we wound up meeting by the front door and we're like, Hey, what's up? You know, we weren't part of the fight at all, but we had this damn private

Speaker: that just got out of basic, you know, MP thinking he's going to do something. He wants that all y 'all in the back of my car. We're like, we're not part of the fight, dude. We're getting out of here. He's like, y 'all in the back of my car. We're like, okay, we're in civvies. So they don't know what branch we're in. They don't know what unit we are. They don't know nothing about us. The dumb fuck didn't have the cage between the back seat and front seat of his car. And he left the keys in it. So who took it? a

Speaker: so ied over I took the Marines back into their barracks. I said, y 'all have a good one. Nice meeting you guys. I took my buddy back to our barracks. I said, dude, grab your car and follow me. And we dropped the damn MP car off about a, about a click away from the, uh, the MP station and the middle of the field. And I left the keys on the hood and we walked away. Jillian, how far is a click? I used to know. Oh my God. the He knows a lot. So like, he's a Marine. So like, I do not represent us with how good I am personally. Okay, guys. only the

Speaker: oh so like is one kiloometer Just don't be dumb about this part. So we talk about like us as veterans, we bitch a lot about the VA stuff. So for you, what I'm going to tell you now, I need you to kind of remember this. And Wes will probably back me up. And I think Fred will too. If you chip your fingernail and you go to medical, hellod or it's documented. Hello, Dee. Make sure you get an LOD on everything and keep your own records. Everything gets documented. Keep your own personal records. If they say we're putting this in your file, say I want a copy for myself. Yeah, get a copy. Make a record. Get a copy because that shit will not make it into the archives. so When you get out of the military, what's going to happen is, is they're going to be like, oh, you're a healthy 20 blah, blah, blah year old.

Speaker: marine We're going to send you on your way. Enjoy life. And then the following year, you're going to run into stuff mentally, physically and stuff like that. And you're going to be like, why do like, why does my body shake? Why do I, why do my ears ring? Why are my hands shaking? You know, and I'm going to tell you, why am I getting thoughts in my head that I shouldn't be having? Right, I'm gonna tell you that that's because of where you were, what you've done. So make sure that everything is documented from this point on. If you think you're sick, go to medical. Then get a copy. Get a copy. you get If they prescribe you Motrin. That's gonna increase. If they prescribe you Motrin, get a copy. You cut your finger off, you better tell them. You definitely get a copy of that one.

Speaker: I'm gonna need that. Listen, dave if you cut off a finger, do you know how what percentage of disability you get from the military? Any idea? 10%. What's one finger cost? 10%. 10%. How much money do you make right now a month? How much do you make a month, Julie? I don't know, like $9 .00. No, that's... $1 ,000 bucks? Like $1 ,800 -ish. $1 ,900 a month. Like $1 ,900 a paycheck. So we're going to call it $1 ,800. We're going to say $1 ,800. I'm going to get $180 a month for this finger because I lost it. That sucks. That's why you have to document everything. You have to make sure. Then you can get up to 50%.

Speaker: Guys like us right now, we're fighting tooth and nail to make sure that it's gonna be easier for when you guys get to retire or when you get out because it's it's so fricking difficult right now. Literally, as a firefighter in the Navy, this AFFF thing was going on and I have no clue and I still don't have a real answer. I'm like, okay, what are the symptoms that I'm supposed to be looking for? Who do I need to talk to? My doctor at the VA looked at me and said, Oh, just go over there and talk to him over there. Where, where in the hell am I going? You didn't give me a name. You didn't give me a phone number. You didn't say the building. You didn't give me anything. You said, Oh, you just go over there and talk to those people, those people. So that aggravates me so bad, dude. Yeah. And over there's four buildings down on ah on the other side of the street.

Speaker: Yeah, and make sure you go in the basement. which Yeah, that's where.

Speaker: but So Fred, Fred, uh, what, what says you got a fight for more man. There's, you you were in, you got more going for you than you think, dude, how many years were you in? Oh yeah. yeah you need to put in your car too and Since, since you're already claiming, you don't have to do a file ah file to intent. So you're doing a reevaluation. I've never even been evaluated through the VA. You need to get in there and get evaluated. You gotta go to comp and pen first. You gotta go to comp and pen. So if you've never been to the VA, it's going to take you at least six to eight months to get in.

Speaker: No, you got to go in and you got to tell them, unfortunately, like you have back problems and the problems and you got to walk with the cane because then they'll start to see you and be like, okay, who's your outside medical source? He's got someone I don't have. What's weird is I go to the VA for all my treatment. I got to go and get i get there all kinds of stuff treated at the VA. But as far as being rated for um disability, I've never been actually rated. You gotta to go to comp. I say I know a guy. And he's not my favorite person. um But I know somebody that wind up getting medically discharged started filing everything for the VA. They came back and medically discharge or gave him a medical discard, got 100 % and backpaid him from the time he got out of the service.

Speaker: Oh yeah. i got so what So I'm at 60%, I think right now. And when I i first got out, they discharged me at 20%. The other percentage that I gained, they backpaid me too. They did the same thing. They cut me a fat check. like I was sitting on the 10 grand immediately. I was like, oh my God, why? That's because I got hurt in the military. I was like, okay. Yeah, Fred, I'll definitely hit you up. then we'll talk more about it. brother but Yeah. and And the thing is, guys, is we have to look out for each other because if we don't, nobody else will do it for us. Civilians don't have a clue what we go through. I mean, I don't know everything about the data system and stuff like that. But what little I do know, I'm willing to share my information with anybody. Same. I will tell you this, though. You need to tell them, hey, I never got a I never been to vet comp and pen.

Speaker: So when you go to the VA or if you call and make an appointment, you can call your regular. but Where do you go? Are you here Fred? Are you in le ans in the Lecanto area still or no? No, I'm in Milwaukee. Oh, Milwaukee. Okay. I was going to say because Lecanto VA is pretty good. ah I don't know anything about the Milwaukee VA. So just call up there and ask them if they have a comp and pen or if there's a vet rep on site that you could talk to. Cause that's what you really need. You need a vet representative and the vet rep will ask you like, okay, what are you, what are you looking to do? And just say, Hey, listen, I never, I never got a chance to get my, like, did you, did you get your hearing done when you got out? I actually you get it done every year. I landed get up off my arm. Um, I actually got hearing aid from hearing loss through the VA. Um, cause I got a lot of high, high frequency.

Speaker: High to mid frequency hearing loss. Um, from, you know, being at the range and engine room and like that, but, um, yeah, it's so it's all documented and I got copies of everything. I even actually have my original, but my original record. So, uh, that's good. That's good because that's the stuff that you take the comp and pen and then the comp and pen guy is supposed to look it over the girl and they're supposed to say, are we treating you for this? Are we, have we looked at this? Have we done this? Have we done that? And if you say no to anything, they're going to start doing it. Yep. So, so I just got, um, emails yesterday and today I got two appointments because I appealed my, I just started getting my disability just a few months ago.

Speaker: And, uh, I appealed it and I just got a couple, I went and talked to my doctor yesterday for, uh, my PTSD and stuff. They up my medication. I told them, look, I'm struggling on all this stuff. And lo and behold, I got four emails in the last 24 hours. I got two appointments, one's virtual ones in person to reevaluate my entire status. Yeah. So I guess I just got done this week. Um, being evaluated for PTSD. And they're like, Oh, well you're on a very low, your borderline, whatever, but we're going to put you on these meds and, and help with, you know, your issues that you're having. And I'm like, yeah, it's coast guard. I wasn't in combat. It's totally different, you know,

Speaker: don't matter. You're still on the military brother and what you wish. yeah like Yep. I agree. It's the same. we We went through, we went through some stuff that they, other people haven't been through. That's what I'm saying. the they um You know, the time spent away from the family, you know, the holidays, the birthdays, graduations. I mean, I missed all that kind of stuff with my family. Yeah. You know, um ah birthdays. I mean, you know, But for years down last I mean, it is weird because the reoccurring nightmares I'm having is not for what I've done. And the stuff I should be, quote unquote, ashamed for, in a sense, it's what I seen happen. Stuff that was completely out of my control that fucked me up. Yeah, that's kind of where I'm at.

Speaker: But, you know, it's still PTSD, PTSD, no matter how you look at it, dude. You know, it used to be called shell shock. Now it's, you know, it's still the same thing I'm saying. It is. They just got you know renamed it basically. ands And this is the same. This goes for you too, Jillian. When you get out, I'm telling you right now, if you don't, I mean, even after you, when you retire, because you're going to be a lifer, When you retire, it's okay to go to and go to vet comp and pen and get evaluated for stuff because they're going to go through your whole medical history. And that's all we keep saying is you've got to keep, you know, if I would have known this back in the day, trust me, I would have been keeping copies. So.

Speaker: I just learned not to trust admin with any of your papers. So you always give them the copy, keep the original orders. Yes, absolutely. and like any issue in Anything that's issued to you, anything that's on that paper that says it's issued to you, you make sure you have it. Because if not, you need to mark it off and have somebody else sign off on it. ye because I got screwed. I didn't get three pieces of equipment. I signed off on everything. They're like, where's this? This and this. at And I'm like, I never got it. They said you signed for. Yep. Exactly. Out of your paycheck, buddy. Yep. You know how much a new tool costs?

Speaker: What? You know how much an e tool cost in the military? No. Eighty fucking dollars. The fuck is an e tool? It's a little shovel. hello Yeah, that's what I thought it was. It's the little shovel that collapsed down. Eighty fucking dollars. I can go to Walmart and get one for eight bucks. You should have went and got one for eight bucks to me like it's right here. I bet you. Well, I was locked down. I couldn't go nowhere. Most recent ones like the stuff that they give you, they're talking about like the most recent stuff. That's what they're pricing it. But then the shit that they give you is at least 20 years old square. Of course it is. And then they expect you to pay a full price for it to be new. Mm hmm.

Speaker: Yeah, like our all of our gear all of our gear back in the day was was so old. They were like, oh yeah, they used to use this in the 60s. Why the fuck are we using it now? It makes no sense. Weapons you're using have killed men. The weapons you're using have been used in war. Respect the weapon. That's the brain trying to brainwash you. That sounds bad. That's the brain watching you. He's getting there, don't worry. Hey, you keep talking with us. We'll keep you going. Good. All right. So I get that rain washing, not the bad brainwashing. Cause like the thing about manipulation is if you see through it in your soul, like in bootcamp, a lot of the people didn't know how to get around the like little putt muck games and all the time. And I'm like, dude, I'm, I'm used to like teenagers and assholes and the people of my life, like.

Speaker: manipulation. Ma 'am, I I see what you're trying to do and I'm not going to get mad at her because you made her do something or she forgot something because we're under so much stress. Yeah, every time I start getting loud, my dog runs up to me. You okay? That's your buddy. He's my buddy. One of your teammates have done this. Hi, buddy. i like It looks just like my old buddy. It looks just like you, Wes. No,

Speaker: oh boy he's my buddy. We got him when he was five and a half weeks old. a Yeah, he's definitely my buddy. He's you know, every time he knows whenever I'm not doing good and he'll come like right now he's like right now I'm joking having a good time but he thinks that I'm excited so he's right here with me well you're excited if you're excited to be on with us I am um so that's the plus side yeah he wanted us he wanted us to start the show at six o 'clock that's cuz he hasn't seen me and so um you wanted to see do it Fred I haven't seen you since high school bro it's been over 20 years I know you ain't changed then

Speaker: that but You know, it's crazy as everybody here, but everybody on this panel has meant to the same high school. It's weird. yeah No, no. No, she went to first river. Yep. So all right. But he also went to Lekanto too. Oh, you guys both suck. I went to Lekanto Elementary School until fifth grade. And then I went to a Catholic school after Gomisasa. And then I went to Crystal River High School. You only went to Catholic school because your mom knew you were a badass. No, I went to Catholic school because I love my cousin. Yeah, Zachary didn't want to go alone. I think we should have stayed in that school because like academically speaking, I don't care that I was bullied. Academically speaking, they were so far ahead of the public school, should have stayed. That is a different way of teaching it too. It was in some ways better. They didn't fail you. It was a little better.

Speaker: So my senior year at Lakanto, I got into a car accident after I enlisted with Marine Corps. Knocked me out of that when didn't graduate because I was out of school out for my rec. I wouldn't let me come back to next year, so I found out a ah loophole so I was able to get back in and I transferred to Crystal River. I graduated from there. And then decided you wanted to go in the Coast Guard because the Marine Corps pissed you off. No, they wouldn't let me in. My neck injury was too severe. They, they wrote where I couldn't get in. Damn. So yeah, no, I thought, I thought I didn't get back into the car, but they they wouldn't, they wouldn't have. In fact, when I went and enlisted with the coast guard, they told when I went down the maps, they're like, we can't, we can't swear you in. Cause you're still in the system as a Marine. I was like, well, they won't let me in. So you need to do something. And about eight months later, they worked all that out where I was able to go.

Speaker: Yeah. That's where he learned how to do the hurry up and wait game. We all went to the same upstate camp up. Yeah. that's yeah here but but Listen, I don't know about you guys, but my recruiter had to get me there fast. I feel like he had to poop or something. Cause that car went like a hundred and five the whole way there. Yeah. because they're like They're driving government cars. and You know, the cops stop them. Yeah. They're government. We can't touch them. mission They are the minute black. I think I was a sophomore me and I can't even remember a couple of guys went down to the maps or the recruiting station for the Marine Corps. Next thing you know, I'm in Tampa going. Yup. Sign me up. Yup. And it's dark 30 pulling up at my house to bring me home. And, uh, yeah, mom's like,

Speaker: Where were you? I said, I guess it was to the Marine Corps. I think she turned white about passed out.

Speaker: but to My mom, she's like, she's a sweetheart, but she's, she's like a cry baby. I was like, mom, I'm going to join the military. She was like, Oh, hold up. Wait, wait. Time out. Time out, Joe. Hold up. Your mom's white. I cry baby. you no back up one more before that you said sweetheart you got that wrong stuff fine <unk> nice you hush you hush i use i used to date that woman hey fred you remember it's definitely been so you what remember stephanie been set brigan that's your fault the the the the the

Speaker: un see are really short and skinny yeah i well short yeah skinny yes right that's her daughter well

Speaker: She's always been skinny. She's always been this big around. She's still that big around. She's still this big around. I'm going to have to break out an old yearbook. Yeah, I don't even know where any of those are. but mar sky march not one i have mark i actually host Mark, we're going to do a whole show dedicated to the Lakanto High School yearbook. Why? yeah The four years that we spent in high school because I want to that tag everyone and I'm going to post a picture of them and we're going to play music. It's going to be fantastic, bro. And you're going to make me do all this shit. So shut up. You ain't working. Hey, Fred, I still hit up Brady Parrish every once in a while. Really? Yeah, he's over. He's still in Fort Eustace. Eustace? Yeah.

Speaker: Mm hmm. You to go. Go. All right. We're we're. It's been trying to sleep. All right, guys, let's end the show. We've been on here for two hours. Let's end the show. We can come back and we'll be back. And we'll be doing we'll be doing another show on I believe I said on the 18th, we're going to do another military show. Freddie, now I know that I know that you'll be getting ready to graduate. Um, and I know your birthday will be around then, but yeah if, um, and your husband's gone oh if you want, you can, you can selling you can not you can join again.

Speaker: I don't care. You know, you're welcome to anytime that you want to come on. You know, you're one of my favorite nieces. So you're, you're his only favorite. things I'm just saying you're the only one he talks about that I know of. I got a few other ones. I just, you know. All right, guys, ah I'm here. They're like there. So you can even see them. So I'm not cool. All right, Jillian, we'll we'll let you go first. Is there anything you want to say before you go?

Speaker: um

Speaker: Join the Marine Corps. No. Yeah. Anyways. Goodbye. Goodbye. Have a good night.

Speaker: Wow. That was awesome. Last time I've seen her, she was like four, maybe five. yeah Oh, yeah. yeah and Before Rob died. Oh, yeah. Yeah. All right. We're doing this, too. Wes, is there anything you want to say? You're next. No, thanks for having me again, guys. This is always a blast. Anytime, brother. Anytime. It's actually, a you know, I kind of look forward to having these with you guys.

Speaker: If you just want to do if you just want to get together and fucking chitchat man, just call me up and oh yeah, dude And Fred I'll hit you up here in a few minutes, man so we we We got some catching up to do brother. All right. All right, Wes. Have a good night, buddy Fred Is there anything you want to say to the fans that are watching right now? There's like 144 people. I'm kidding. That's it's two. It's mom and dad. They've been watching a little time. Actually it's, it's been more than two people this whole time. I know. I know. I'm kidding. Three. No, it's a great program. I think we need to get some more reach out, get some more people on here that I would like to do that. Um,

Speaker: You know, like I said, uh, we do this once a month for, I stay quiet for most of the show anyways. And I just let you guys talk amongst each other. And that's what I want to do. That's what I think is, you know, I've had a lot of, uh, uh, past guests come on and say, man, it felt like I got my balls back. just It's it's a stress reliever for all of us So I think and you guys get to you know, you talk about you know, like the the VA, you know Some of the stuff with the VA you didn't know about that, you know that you do know that you can have friends that can help So not working networking is the key. Yeah, all right Fred if there's nothing else brother, I'm gonna drop you off the screen. Have a good night, man All right. Thank you guys

Speaker: i don' know like right

Speaker: You put them up, Mark. You took them off. Oh, I'm sorry. I was trying. Mark, that was a really good show. How do you think it went? I think it was, and each time it gets um more interesting every time we have it on there. You get to learn more about the military. One day you're you're just going to do a little valor yourself and say, I think I was a part of the military show. I had to be a part of the military. Yeah, I'm hoping that we can get some more people because I think this would benefit them a lot more. And that's why I stay quiet for most of it, except, you know, to save my, you know, little bits. You know, another great show that would benefit some of the, some of us in the military, quite honestly, that is men's, the men's mental health show that, uh, the nonsensical network does on Monday nights. Um, if you're not watching, uh, that show, it's a fantastic show. Um,

Speaker: one of our One of our members of the network, Connor, is actually a former Air Force and Army veteran. yes um and i don't and We keep joking about he doesn't have any legs. I know he's got legs. The man, just he just he has issues where he can't and't walk. in connor if you're watching this man i am sorry that i'm joking about that but i'm just trying to make light of stuff so that you know that uh you know we're we're we're thinking of you um with or without we are thinking about you so it's just mean

Speaker: oh Man Mark you got anything else that you want to talk about I know we got a guest coming up on the well actually next week our our show will be I Think we're pre -taping it we are and we're we're doing money in the bank ah Picks just something that we're gonna be doing every so often Actually, it'll be July and August that we'll be doing the picks because well, you know a Summer slam is right around the corner this motherfucker yes that's just that's just mean that no it's not it's it's great uh let's roll along from there and then uh after that on uh july 11th we have darren a honey do it

Speaker: Oh, Conan. Oh, yeah. Oh, something like that. But he'll be on our show if you don't if you don't know him, he he's actually he was a professional dancer. He's a comedian. He's a singer. He's loves to screw with his dad and his wife. Where did you find him at? So I found him on TikTok. I found him on TikTok. And I've been following in the first video you ever saw, though, was with who? That was with his father big fat Okay, and I tried to get a big fat on for a while and then all of a sudden I was like wait a minute No, you know, I was looking at Darren. So yeah, we don't even want big fat anymore. He's he's a yesterday's news I Looked at Darren's videos more and him and his wife would go back and forth on certain things and funny as hell So I I messaged him and he finally messaged me back and it worked out perfect

Speaker: Oh, actually, he called me not message me. Awesome. And we're going to keep bringing you guys the guests that we can bring you. We're if you know somebody that wants to be a part of talking shit, if you know somebody that wants to be on the nonsensical nonsense show or the network of shows where we have Monday night men caring for men Tuesday. ah Jeff's garage. right Yeah, there's anybody that knows more about cars than they think Jeff does. I think everybody knows more about cars than Jeff does, Mark. um I take the fifth on that one. Anyways, I Jeff is, uh, you know, he's a great guy, you know, watch the show. He'll actually probably learn something.

Speaker: Guys, we want you to watch all the shows. We do. yeah We want your opinion. And if there's something you would change about the show, or if there's a ah way that you would fix the format or anything like that, we're always open to listen to um the fan base. no That's the bottom line. No, we're not. Oh. its No, Brian's right. I have changed our show 17 times. I have not. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. We haven't.

Speaker: But if you're not going us hate yeah if you guys don't give us feedback, we don't know how we can pi so fix a fix. You know, you just you just opened up something click. It's going to come and say something like go away. but um But on Wednesdays, we have um what the fuck news news and great, great segments that they have in there. um if if They'll just fire the newscaster for sports. We'd be okay. Hey stop stop shut up be nice anyways Thursday is us and Friday it Tomorrow looks out some music tomorrow guys. Yeah lickhead is going on John Thomas more If you haven't heard if you haven't checked them out go check them out listen to his stuff cuz I'm going to

Speaker: Because I just after seeing that name it just you know, it pops out something It's got to be good that caught lips ear that made him say. Oh, wow. Let's have him on and then Saturday night is the nonsensical Nonsense show the open door challenge. It is in fact the challenge ladies and gentlemen We dare you I told you I asked was gonna say something. Oh Told you dare you to join that show We're tired of seeing the same faces over and over again. We dare you to click the link in the chatters box. If you click the link, it'll let you into the show. There's only two rules. You gotta. Put your pants up. Uh -huh. And you gotta. Have a camera. There you go. That's it. Have a camera. Keep your pants on. And come on to the show. So.

Speaker: I think he's going to be an interesting guest. I think ah it'll be a really good one. So I'll be watching. All right. So I don't think there's anything else. We're good. Everybody happy. Yeah. Okay. Fine. Ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen, robots here at talking shit. My name is Brian and with me, I'm Mark. We want to wish you guys a good evening. Good night. Have a good night. We're out of here.