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Talking Shttt with Military members
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Who’s ready for the Talking Shttt Military Appreciation Show
Army – Mindy Dougherty
Navy – Aaron L Hawkins
Marines – Steven Andrews
Air Force – Ruckus Rocks
Coast Guard – Brendan Roy
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Transcript
Ceremonial Beginnings
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Speaker
Raise your right hand and repeat after me. I state your name. Do solemnly swear. Support and defend. The the United States. um Against all enemies. are Foreign and domestic. And to bear true faith. And allegiance to the same. And allegiance the same. And I will obey.
00:00:33
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um The orders of yeah the President of the United States and the orders of those officers appointed over me according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. um So help me God.
Song Performance and Emotional Reflections
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So don't you follow me down these broke roads. Where nobody goes, same little town, same old love But we can put on a hell of a show, where they call me the dreamer You can say that it's true, yeah they call me the dreamer
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How about you, staring up at the blue? How about you, fell in love with the few? How about you, Lord, I'm telling the truth.
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How about you? Cause we only feel defeated with forever ends. Trying to put together pieces of a better plan. Tumbling through this life we'll never understand.
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So every now and then I forget who am. Cause I'm only human, I make mistakes Let the day-to-day troubles get in the way Be careful with your heart, it was made to break Ain't no playing safe with one foot in the grave And I'm only human, I make mistakes Let the day-to-day troubles get the way Careful with your heart, it was made to break Ain't no playing safe
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With one foot in the grave Oh-oh-oh-oh
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You'll even recognize when I'm gone Is it set in stone Like the lyrics of a song Forever old and old And I still carry damage from where it began I'm haunted by the silence when the lights are dim Running through this life will never understand So every now and then I forget why Cause I'm only human, I make mistakes Let the day-to-day troubles get the way Be careful with your heart, it was made to break Ain't no playing safe with one foot in the grave And I'm only human, I make mistakes Let the day-to-day troubles get in the way Careful with your heart, it was made to break Ain't no playing safe
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Speaker
Welcome to the show, ladies and gentlemen.
Military Representatives Share Stories
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name is Brian with me always. I'm Mark.
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Listen, for anybody out there that did not feel that song, any kind of emotion, fuck you. You're fucking a stone and there's nothing I can do to bleed you dry.
00:04:50
Speaker
So there you Great. I can bleed him dry. Mark, you put together was absolutely ah phenomenal as well. So thanks for doing that, buddy.
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um Don't ask me how I'm doing. well I'm not going to ask you because I know, man. So I don't want to, we won't go there. Let's have some fun, man.
00:05:12
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ah This has been a ah hard week and I'm grateful that who has reached out to me. um Anybody that hasn't, well, or don't know, my mom had passed away last Friday night and I chose to do this.
00:05:28
Speaker
This one show, because i she she actually watched the shows, but never told me. She watched them under a different name.
00:05:40
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And I found that out when I'm going through her phone. so But I thank everybody that has donated so far to help him get my mom's cremation and everything else that we need.
00:05:56
Speaker
I appreciate it. That being said, um after this show, we're going to take about um either three to four weeks off.
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But we don't worry. Let Mark recoup a little bit. Yeah. ah ah Don't worry. We're going to have a ah few. I'll have something in the bag for us to for you guys to watch while we're gone.
00:06:20
Speaker
If anybody has i got an idea. So if you got an idea of any shows, any previous shows that you want to see, all you got to do is post it right here in the message. Or you can text Mark and be like, hey, I'd really like to see this show again.
00:06:34
Speaker
Yeah, we've we've done we've done ah shows where we played them um two weeks afterwards. Yeah. Well, what are we doing here today?
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Speaker
Buddy, this is your this is your favorite show. This is the show that you want to do almost every single day. And I'm like, we can't do it every day. No, at least once a month I try.
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And you tell this is the military appreciation show we are so close to. Once again, it's coming up Memorial Day or come up and gone, come and gone.
00:07:08
Speaker
No, your birthday's next. that Yeah, that's what you see old thoughts and shit. what do you want from me?
00:07:16
Speaker
So. So, yeah, we've got we've got the Air Force. We've got the Coast Guard. We've got the Army. We've got the Navy.
00:07:28
Speaker
Times two. What's up? Yeah. What? Where the hell's the ah Marines? I don't listen to Marines are always late. They don't even know. They miss ships movement all the time. It's just one of All right. Well, since you know, they're not since the Marines aren't here, we'll start bringing them everybody out anyway.
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Let's go.
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What's happening, buddy? How are you? Good. How are you? Fantastic. Brendan, how's it going? It's shaking. So we got Aaron from representing the US s Navy. We got Brendan representing the the Coast Guard.
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We've got Mindy. right How does AI say it? Mindy Doherty. Not Mindy. ah Representing the Army. And then our friend Ruckus from ruus Ruckus Rocks podcast.
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Our friend over there representing the Air Force. Is he actually there? I think he's there. I'm here. I'm here. Okay. just He's listening. He's the he's scoping out, Mark.
00:08:39
Speaker
I'm sorry to hear about your mom, Mark. Thank you. That sucks. Oh yeah. All right guys. So, uh, it's a military appreciation show. We want to show our appreciation. so thank you all once, uh, right now for coming on the show, for being a part of the show.
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Um, let's just go around the room and tell everybody who we are and, uh, why we decided to join the military. Uh, I'm actually going to start with you, Aaron. All right. Well, i I decided to join the Navy because I got sick and tired of being in school. I'm like, you know what?
00:09:17
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I want to do something different. And would I didn't. here's Here's a little fun fact about me. I didn't know how to swim when I joined the Navy. My family was like, what the hell are you doing joining the Navy, not knowing how how to swim?
00:09:31
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I'm like, they'll teach me. And they did. I became a first class swimmer and they asked me if I want become a seal. I told them immediately, well, no. um And i I just wanted to join because I want to be part of something bigger than myself. And i found it camaraderie and just everything in general, just fucking crazy.
00:09:53
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It is. It is hard. it is hard as hell to.
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It is hard to hell, hard as hell if you have not swam in that big fucking pool, especially when they make you jump off of that, that diving platform. Yeah, okay especially because it's one right after another.
00:10:12
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You don't know if you're going to hit the guy below you. It is just man overboard, you know, or abandon ship. And we're into the pool.
Humor and Camaraderie in Military Life
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So, yeah, I get it. I dig it. Brendan, I'm gonna come down to you, buddy. Oh, we already know his. no our number eight No, no, no. He's last. We already know his. Oh, he's last. Oh, you want to go to you want to go? You want to go ruckus?
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Oh, let's go to Mindy. Mindy, why'd you join the army? So I joined because i didn't want to model anymore. And my mom was very controlling and kept shoving me in these like modeling events. And I wanted to be in dirt with my, but might like I have brothers. So I was like, why don't I don't want don't like these dresses now.
00:10:55
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So the last one that I won, i basically was saying, okay, if I win, then I get to do what I want. And she's like, oh, okay. Until I won. And then she's like, oh, okay. One more. And I was like, no more.
00:11:06
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So I went to the recruiter's office behind her back and signed some paperwork. And they're like, yeah, you're 17. You need your mom's signature. Knock, knock, knock, balling her eyes out. I'm like, I'm out. And, you know, she's like, well, have to sign it anyways. So I left because I also wanted college money. And um i actually wanted to go to war because as a medic, I went in as a 91 Bravo combat field medic. That's the best training you can get. So i was like, send me out. They sent me the wrong place, though. Send me to Boston. And I was like, ah that's not the way. That's not what I asked for. I want to go to Iraq.
00:11:37
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Oh, shit.
00:11:40
Speaker
I'm afraid to see what your testicles look like. No, i'm just kidding. um im They're bigger than most men's actually. I'm just kidding. Yeah, Gary, listen, I joined the Navy because I was like, oh, well, shit, I won't have to worry about the carrying a rifle and shooting motherfuckers or getting shot. i wanted to do that, too.
00:11:58
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Yeah. why that Brian, you joined the Navy to see nothing but ocean. no No, no, no, no, no. I was told I get to see the world. Unfortunately, I didn't realize that 70% of the world is water.
00:12:12
Speaker
So I got to see a fuck ton of that. you're You're welcome. Ruckus. You joined the Air Force, my friend. What did you do that for? I did. i joined to get the fuck out of Boston. Fair enough. Such a great place. We visited. We loved it. fuck off. You shouldn't have got off the train in Lynn, my friend. There's something wrong with you.
00:12:38
Speaker
We know that. o But I wanted to go in another branch, but I didn't qualify for any of the other branches. What do you mean My parents were married.
00:12:49
Speaker
So that took i took all of them right out. so And I scored too high on the ASVAB, so I went in the Air Force. But I was an ammo troop. I built bombs for a living. So without us, the Air Force was just another airline. so yeah but George, Maracas, what did you really do?
00:13:07
Speaker
I played golf. That that motherfucker played golf. Yeah. I was a really good golfer, and I played golf for a living. They took me off the flight line and and Basically gave me an office so that I was available to play golf whenever they wanted. we Guys, we did it wrong. we I'm telling you, we did it wrong. Well, Bonnie hated it. That's why I got out. Bonnie hated it. It wasn't because of my military life. it was because of my golfing career. were you Were you good enough to beat Tiger Woods? That's what I need to know.
00:13:38
Speaker
He couldn't give me a stroke or hole. I'll tell you that much. You're better at drinking. I bet you get out drink them, right? I can help most people anyway drive home anyway. I know that that's accurate.
00:13:50
Speaker
Yeah. And get pulled over by a trooper. Yeah. And still get home without handcuffs. So yeah, that's, that's fun. But at least they don't fuck with the medics or the cooks. That's right.
00:14:00
Speaker
Well, we need, we need the medics for sure, because when we have, when our drunk asses come back to the ship or come back, that's exactly what I was going to say. I gave so many. is I was like, look, if you're throwing up and you're not at formation by five o'clock in the morning, I'm going to fucking choke you. They're like, I'll show up. Just give me an IV. All right. We're magical.
00:14:22
Speaker
Now with's that the IVs were magical. i'm not sure. Oh yeah. Yes. They were they are the lucky charm song. They're magically delicious. ah Mark has questions. Mark, go ahead. with your Well, I was going to let Brendan talk for once.
00:14:39
Speaker
Oh, thank you. Brendan, why did you join the Coast Guard of all? Oh, well, I started the Coast Guard. so um I love it. Why did I join the coast? Well, ah I actually did it to be nice to my mother, pretty much. I was looking at the Army. my you know my My father and grandfather were Navy, ah so i was I considered those two. And then and then i saw I saw a picture in a magazine of a rescue swimmer and the helicopter and all that. I was like...
00:15:13
Speaker
cool i'm in so uh and then i talked to two coasties and they told me about what they
Impact of Military Discipline
00:15:20
Speaker
do and basically how they got off-base housing and it was great and it was awesome all this money you were gonna get yeah did they lie to you too oh yeah of course 100 see i wanted to go special forces but they wouldn't let us do that back then no women were allowed to do any of that they just started allowing that yeah yeah And welcome to the stage. We have Steven Andrews. Steven, do you represent the United States Marine Corps?
00:15:48
Speaker
Oh, yeah, definitely. I'm still you're late. Exactly. 15 minutes prior, I'm like, what? You say 15 minutes later? messaged me two minutes before we came on, but my phone didn't register it.
00:16:00
Speaker
It's all good, man. i was like, Eastern time. And of course, yeah, you know, me being a Marine, i'm like, you know, I got all those numbers and everything. I'm like, Alexa, had to break it down for me. I'm like, yeah, okay. Okay. I'm like, yeah, I'm good.
00:16:18
Speaker
Well, Steve, tell us why, uh, why you picked the Marine Corps. Oh, I picked the Marine Corps. Um, so my uncle, he was, uh, he, he, he was pretty much the breadwinner of the whole entire family. Right. And growing up, my mother, you grown up in Hispanic home, you know, constantly put on my head, you know, that, uh,
00:16:40
Speaker
my uncle did this, he, you know, he joined the Marines and he got his master's degree and yada, yada, yada. So I, I pretty much joined out of spite, like one if anything he can do, I can do better. Um, so I, do you have your masters?
00:16:55
Speaker
No, I do not. Unfortunately, but I haven't.
00:17:00
Speaker
So, but, um, but that was pretty much it. So, I mean, I, you know, sometimes the old saying, you bite off more than you can chew. So I joined, um, at February 2001 and I'm like, okay, great. You know, I'm doing this just like my uncle and next thing you know, 9-11 happens and I'm like stuck in Hawaii with over three years left in my contract and I get the permanent change of assignment and it's like reporting to 1st Battalion, 3rd Marines.
00:17:30
Speaker
We're about to pump to Okinawa. I'm like, oh, great. So yeah, it was pretty fun, but yeah, I'm gonna say, but I don't want you can chew with, I guess, you know, I'm like, well, I'm in shit now. So.
00:17:44
Speaker
So. Devil dog. heres Here's a question that I want to ask and then everything else is going to be off. Whatever you guys want to talk about. What is one thing that the military taught you that you still use to take?
00:17:59
Speaker
Fucking discipline, dude. To get up and go to fucking work. I know. it's It's such a struggle, dude. I can't, man. I don't care how much I drink the night before. I'm getting my fuck ass and fucking going to work. I'm a nurse, so I use my medical skills.
00:18:18
Speaker
Well, it taught me to drink the night before. For me, it's pretty much attention to detail. i'm very when you know aside from being late what i want what what i do for a living i'm pretty much you know like okay you said one minute you got joshua over there he's going about two minutes over his time and you're cool with that what the fuck over
00:18:45
Speaker
a lot of the civilian world out there is not going to know uh William Tango Foxtrot Oscar. So we'll go ahead and clue you guys then. Uh, yeah, that is what the fuck over. And and it basically what you would say in the event that, uh, exactly what Steven was saying, you know, like you got this guy doing one thing you told him, Hey, you could do that, but do it this way.
00:19:10
Speaker
And he fucks it all up. And then you, what the fuck over, um, rock. Yeah. yeah We, we said more of that in, in, law enforcement than we did in the service.
00:19:22
Speaker
i you know I was in the Air Force, dude. It wasn't really the military. you know yeah well rob We were waiting for the Space Force us guy to show up. and and what we What we intended was we just let you cover for both because we think that both of those branches are fake.
00:19:37
Speaker
yeah Yeah, exactly. Brian, what Space Force? We've never had one even reach out to us. No, now I don't think that Space Force is real, honestly. And then, yeah, the like, like, doing Space Force, actually. and she she told me all sorts of stuff about it. I mean, I think it's interesting, but what she told you, like, wouldn't let me fly around. That's for sure.
00:20:03
Speaker
no I was like, can I be a pilot? I mean, a space in the in the ah rockets or what what? What's happening here? What are we doing? Supposedly. all they have they like they have our track fucking uniforms they eventually all that extra money basically they're wasting everybody's money is what they're really doing bull it's a it's just a farce a i mean that they won't say that of course they're like oh we're doing studies you know they use old lost in space reruns as training videos yeah
00:20:41
Speaker
Uh, everyone's a fucky to us and the middle finger is a term and of endearment. and that is from an army brat or an army chick, excuse me, not an army brat, an army chick. That is true. That is the, uh, that's the old, uh, hidden salute to all of our upper chenic man.
00:20:59
Speaker
Enjoy. me Guys, like what about Upper Chain of Command? Anybody that you yeah love, miss, hate? No. or and their You're like, no.
00:21:11
Speaker
fuck now No, I don't. They're all fucking dicks. I don't know. The captain of my ship was pretty fucking cool, though. i mean Of course, I played practical jokes. so He was in on the practical jokes that I was doing. so He had to be cool with it.
00:21:27
Speaker
My captain, i mean he was he was a good guy. He he was a good Christian man. um What he should have not done when he was giving us a speech to push and push up to Fallujah for the second battle was start crying in front of us.
00:21:43
Speaker
Oh, shit. Yeah. You know, we were we were in Kuwait and we got the warning order. This was an old war and we were pushing up into to Fallujah for Operation Danpuri.
00:21:57
Speaker
And he's given us the brief and, you know, he does the whole, you know, like can't promise I'm gonna bring you back home, of you back home. And suddenly you said that we're like, man, like you just,
00:22:10
Speaker
morale just freaking took a hell. Everyone knows that's the the fact. You don't say that shit out loud. I like it i mean, I get it. You know, you're trying to be real with your men, you know, and trying to inspire them, but... You ain't coming back. You're going to die before you come back. Tell everybody goodbye. Pretty much. I'm like, well, gee, thanks, man.
00:22:29
Speaker
um I went back in the 90s, there were men that hated women actually still in. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I mean, they were gnarly. So, I mean, and I i had a big mouth so i always got in trouble and was like relentless i'm like these push-ups are nothing fuck you you're not gonna break me there was just and's an engineer i'm not gonna lie i swear that was bosquez from alien like reincarnated you know seeing her on the pull-up bar doing pull-ups like a man i'm like wow i'm i'm turned on
00:23:02
Speaker
ah Are you turned on because she looks like a man doing pull-ups? You know what, man? I was in the sandbox freaking amount of months. you know Any little female female that's doing a pull-up pretty much turned me on.
00:23:15
Speaker
We didn't have to do that shit. We we we got to work our way up to 30 sit-ups, 30 push-ups, in and run a mile and a half in 15 minutes. That was our basic turning. That was an option, right? i run you got to You got the option. Do you want to run or do you want to ride?
00:23:32
Speaker
yeah Dude, I used to run one lap and then prorate it. Fuck that. ah Take a time out in the middle because you get cramps. you i play I played golf with the chief, so I didn't have to worry about it. you smoke yeah I think he smoked the entire time he was in the Air Force.
00:23:48
Speaker
Dude, I did. I smoked like a Navajo chief, dude. I mean, a cotton of cigarettes was two bucks. You have to smoke. I mean, you have to. Yeah, that's at the PX, and they only say cigarettes
Pranks and Traditions in Military Culture
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Speaker
on them.
00:24:00
Speaker
Yeah, they're white packs. The white pack with a cigarette, and like a skull on the back. That's it. I did not know that. I figured that they would have name brand shit. Oh, they did, but but you know you could get a whole carton of those for two bucks. Yeah, but I'm like, on an E3, E4 salary. High smoking fucking plastic and gasoline. No, it's okay. yeah My buddy literally had a bag of tobacco and rolled up his own cigarettes, man, just to pinch pennies. i have to you're in
00:24:31
Speaker
Oh, yeah. yeah I heard that the battle cry was called for... my wordmo Can you confirm that ruckus?
00:24:43
Speaker
What's that? Can you confirm the battle cry of the Air Force is when you yell four after you tee off? Yeah, that's about the size of it. That's all I did.
00:24:54
Speaker
i mean, I went to Diego Garcia when the war kicked off. I got out in 90. Oh, my God. okay one Yeah, so we built we built some bombs over on Diego Garcia, but then that was it. But I was in England during Operation El Dorado Canyon when we bombed Libya.
00:25:12
Speaker
and me And I just wanted to say. did you bombs out of Was it C4? No, it was Tritonol. But we we didn't make them. They were made in the factory.
00:25:23
Speaker
But just so you know, when I was at Lake and Heath, 90% of our inventory, as far as 500 pound bombs go, were built during the Korean conflict.
00:25:35
Speaker
conflict sensee So that shit crystallizes. And if it drops, it can blow up. So we used to stick our fingers in our ears whenever we pulled one off with a forklift, you know. There's nothing you can do. We had game wars where it said enemy face that way because some retard obviously went this way.
00:25:54
Speaker
Well, they have to do that for the Army. They didn't have to do that for the Air Force. We had to use to mark, okay, X he see X marks the spot. Is that towards me or towards them?
00:26:12
Speaker
good But I joined in 83, so we were still throwing rocks and spitting back then. I mean, it wasn't really anything as far as munition goes. to That was our new material when we got it. Yeah, exactly. Hand me down, man.
00:26:27
Speaker
But I used to crack up at the other branches when they come to, if you guys have been on the Air Force Base, you know what I'm talking about. yep um get into the chow hall and you know we got regular lines snack line you want burgers whatever and we see these guys from the marines and the army and navy shuffling side by side you know with their trays to get the food we're like what the fuck are you doing yeah we got to get it as quickly as quickly as we can we have to sit down as quickly as we can we have to eat as bad as we no fuck that
00:26:59
Speaker
We didn't even pick up our trays. They had people that, you know, they paid to do that. When you finished eating, you just left it on the table. true. When I was at Hickam Air Force Base and Kadena Air Force Base, they said, leave your trays there. Yes.
00:27:15
Speaker
So did you guys have somebody jacking you off too? Like, we're getting paid. No, I did that myself. I did that myself. Wishful thinking, man. I used my left hand so it felt like somebody else doggy style. Yeah.
00:27:29
Speaker
I thought you said you laid on the right hand for a little while and then did it. No, no. That was somebody else made sure. Yeah. Are we still waiting? that used to crack me up.
00:27:39
Speaker
Now, the Marines knew the only time the Marines came on base, they brought their own ammo troops. We'd use equipment, hydraulic equipment, to put the bombs on the wings, where the Marines would screw a goddamn stick into each end. About 20 of them lifted up on the plane and click it in.
00:27:56
Speaker
We're like, here, just use our jammers. You're pussies. all right whatever You are what you eat. You are what you eat, dick. you knows I cannot confirm nor deny.
00:28:07
Speaker
I definitely didn't eat that. But they would come to our dorm. They knew you want to party. Go to the ammo dorm. um Going to the Air Force base was like, you know, PubMed on an Air Force base, you know?
00:28:22
Speaker
Yeah, that's how they do it. they launcher The AT4, you just tink and then blow shit up. That's fine. Yeah, the Air Force, they build the ah golf course and then they build the flight line around that. That's how they start their base. got it You got to start with a golf course before you can have anything else. That's right. The only thing of ah other thing I miss is the chopper. Like being on a Blackhawk, oh my God, that's that like... revs me like yeah listen the very first time i got black hawk let me see some shit and i got on a i was on hs 60 hs 60 yeah right hs 60 is that the egg beater that's the egg beater right the double blade the chinooks
00:29:04
Speaker
policy yeah mentioned that snap yeah Yeah, so... That's the tube. Yeah, yeah. So it's an HS60, I think, as well. If I remember right. Maybe I'm wrong. I don't know. We get on one of those fucking things. I'm wearing my dress whites.
00:29:19
Speaker
Hello. bellbos Bell bottoms? yeah Bell bottoms? Yeah, absolutely. Bell bottoms with the network tip on it and everything. Going to my new new command um in the middle of the ocean, and these fucking pilots are like,
00:29:35
Speaker
I'm like, Hey, uh, there's fluid leaking back here. And he was like, good. Yes. Not leaking. We got a problem. Yes. i guess who Our pilots were fucking Marines, man.
00:29:46
Speaker
That was the old thing. It's true. You know, still it until to this day when I was in it, if it's not leaking, you know, we have a problem. Yeah. Are you learning pilots where the shit, they were way better than the air force pilots. They were crazy fuckers. Yeah. would learn to fall asleep with the free on dripping on you, man.
00:30:06
Speaker
It's nutty, man. But I've never been on a helicopter and I don't give a fuck. You've been on several planes, though. Yes. Yes. But, you know, they don't they don't fall out of the air. They'll glide if the engine stops. You know, helicopters, they just drop.
00:30:25
Speaker
Yeah. But i mean, you're going to die regardless. Right. No, plainly, she can glide landed on something. Yeah, landing on hard at habit pavement or something. Yeah, it does it does happen. yeah i just i don't see I don't see many people surviving helicopter crashes. There's a shitload of people that survive plane crashes.
00:30:46
Speaker
It's true. Good point. point yeah Anything you have to fly with a stick and not and not a fucking wheel, fuck that. Well guys, we we learned what Ruckus did to pass the time while he was in the military. how about How about you, Aaron? What did you do to pass the time while you were in?
00:31:06
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Oh my gosh. work Obviously we had to work. Yeah, we had to work. Um, when we were in port, we would, we'd go crap. We would throw like the crab, uh, crab, uh, things over the side of the ship we'd go crabbing and then we have crab boil for the, for the command and stuff like that. I like to golf even though i was in the Navy and the army, but I'm representing the Navy tonight.
00:31:29
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You know, i'll love to golf. I'm not good at it. My handicap is handicapped. So, you know, there's that I love to rock climb racing. I'll answer things. I'm big adrenaline junkie junkie. Um,
00:31:40
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that kind of thing. And I like to play practical jokes on pretty much anybody that i'm around, you know, especially my commanding officer from the USS car that shipped out station. And that was very good times.
00:31:54
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So, yeah. Yeah. And I was a medic in the Navy. I was a corpsman. So, yeah. How's everyone's best friend? Thank you for the IVs once again. And the vitamin M's?
00:32:06
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Oh, yeah. Not the silver bullets. No, no, no, no, no. I mean, and I could, I could tell you about this one time.
00:32:17
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i played practical joke on a new sailor coming on board the ship. Um, yeah, I sent him to, he came down to me and I told him like, you need to go to the commanding officer to get the results of your pap smear test.
00:32:32
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This is an all male ship. ha
00:32:39
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Yeah, he came back down to me, and as he was coming down to me, the captain called me. He goes next time you do that, let me know. He had to ad-lib everything. made me a part of the joke, you know i mean? like He had to ad-lib everything. I'm like, well, sorry, Chief. Sorry there, captain. Did he know what a pap smear was?
00:32:58
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No, he didn't. did he come up He knocked on the door of the captain's birthing or whatever, and he goes, ah sir, I'm here for the results of my passenger test. And the captain goes, son, you know what that test is for?
00:33:14
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No, sir. That's a test for females, you idiot. I'm like... yes You couldn't trick anybody in the Air Force with that kind of shit. Probably not. now No, probably not. Come on, Ruck. How did you get one of the new, come on, you one of your new air guys? You had to do something to them. Nothing. We'd do the typical shit. Tell them to go get us 100 feet of flight line. You know, shit like that. yeah but But nothing that nothing major. When I was up in Maine, we used to have all the new guys go up on top of the igloos and watch for moose.
00:33:45
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still Make sure no moose would come in and attack us.
00:33:50
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but I'll tell you what, them moose ain't nothing to be fucked up with, dude. They'll hurt you. Yeah, they will. They'll fuck you up. Brendan, you've been awful quiet. I know you've got a story. You fucked with somebody. You fucked with a new guy.
00:34:04
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I was a good little boy. i yeah i worried i know that's a lie. We worked ah we worked a starboard schedule, which means 48 hours on, 48 hours off, sliding weekend.
00:34:14
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So I actually, I'm an idiot and decided to get a part-time job. So I actually somewhat started my plumbing apprenticeship while I was actually working in the Coast Guard. So, ah yeah. So I...
00:34:28
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I pretty much worked the entire time nonstop. So I was really boring unless there was a part we had and then I would severely drink too much.
00:34:40
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Good. I'm glad to hear that. That makes you one of us sailors. Yeah. Stephen, how about you? Well, mean, I can add to the whole part-time job. I got in trouble and they gave me deferred due to vacation. They had a trouble for like three months and my charges would drop.
00:34:55
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So I was like, you know what? We get a job to keep me out of trouble. What do I do? I end up becoming a DJ strip club. I'll totally stay out of trouble now. I was out of trouble. and was rave titties.
00:35:08
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What more can i ask for? The girls brought in the booze. I mean, was great, man. It was in Hawaii. The last call was at at four o'clock in the morning. Holy shit. hi Oh man, I loved it. Whereabouts in Hawaii? are you?
00:35:23
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state oh We're at Marine Corps Base Hawaii, Kaneohe. in oahu that's my niece's station debt right now nice have you guys been to guam she's a weather tech or something like that what does she do i don't know she's a meteorologist need half the time half the time and if she watches this later sorry but half the time she calls me she's not even working That sounds like a Marine Corps. That sounds like base unit. Okay, for the record, that was me. Prior 9-11. The 4-4.
00:35:55
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i but okay for the record that was me you know prior nine eleven sorry work I went in as a motor transport operator, right? And I got this sweet deal out of school.
00:36:06
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I got stationed in Hawaii the base unit. And so the base unit had no tactical vehicles at all. My motor pool was civilian vehicles, F-150s, you know, aeros or like aeroline vans and whatnot. And all I was doing was a dispatcher. So I was 24 hours on, 48 off.
00:36:28
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In Hawaii, I'm like, this is awesome. 9-11 happens and everything changes. I report to an actual tactical unit and I'm like, well, this sucks. yeah You know, before that,
Resilience and Advocacy Work by Mindy
00:36:40
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I'm like, gonna make this a career. This is awesome. And then I see the real Marine Corps. like, this fucking sucks. this you um Mindy, while you were gone, we were talking about... What were we talking about? We have a huge storm going on, only like right when we started. I'm like, oh this is good. Oh, this is no good. The trees are all going like this. I'm like, okay. That was yesterday for us. It fucking hit last night.
00:37:03
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Hey, I'm grateful for the rain. anyway What was your question? Sorry. so Some pranks and shit you maybe that you've played on people or how you dealt with new people coming into the ranks.
00:37:15
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into the ranks So I represented the base, when i on my second year, I actually represented the base at Fort Carson, Colorado. So i was elected I was appointed, elected, and then elected twice. So I basically was elected to basically make parties for, I had represented 26,000 soldiers and then went up to D.C. to get the base changed. So any like complaints and stuff like that would come to me.
00:37:45
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And I take them to the sergeant major. And then we ended up taking them to Washington, D.C. with us. So I didn't play any pranks. we I basically was there to put on parties and had KISS concert there and got based like actually televisions and ski trips and anything I could donate to the soldiers. to make it better for the single soldiers. And then I noticed that there was 96 females that were pregnant. So I was like, well, these are single females, so let's help them too. So then I go off base and I would ask some all the people that were around to get like cribs or diapers or anything we could give to give away.
00:38:27
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would have got condoms and that just happened. little It was too late at that point, I guess. Yeah. yeah They eat them like gummy bears. As you know, when anybody goes to travel or when we were in Bosnia, oh my god, it was mostly giving men injections. Don't tell my wife. I'm like, I don't give a fuck.
00:38:49
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Bend over. Yeah, those days were over. Now you get something, you keep her forever like luggage. Yeah, that's right. No more shots in the ass.
00:39:02
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Yeah, well, they had a lot of shots in the ass in Bosnia, that's for sure. A lot. I'm glad I didn't go to Bosnia. And on our like field trips, too, going on training trips and stuff. I'm like, I don't want none of you. Get away from me. Oh, man, that was how Thailand was when we poured penicillin right here, just in case.
00:39:18
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It was like mandatory coming back on show. you just they They got to punch the boar, man. Now, how was how is your housing in the other branches?
00:39:29
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Shitty. We slept on those World War II metal beds. When I lived in California, was decent when I lived off base. But the ship itself sucked. Dude, when I was in Guam, we condemned a set of barracks for the Air Force. And the Navy the navy painted them the next week and moved their guys in.
00:39:49
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ah We condemned them. Sounds right. Yeah. Yeah. And if you come on the army base, you get paid $300 extra. I was like, what the fuck is this shit? yeah And extra money for their food because our food is not edible to them. I was like, oh, fuck you all.
00:40:09
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Oh, man, I'm jealous. I didn't get shit. Guys, do you guys want to let's take a break. I got to go replenish my Coors latte.
00:40:19
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um I want to listen to some music. And when we come back, we're going to continue the conversation with all branches of the military. Mark, what do you got keyed up for us, buddy? Yeah, that was a good first one.
00:40:32
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You did like that? ah yeah I did. I really did. You asked for our feedback. Whoever wrote that or did that was really cool. That is Ronnie D. Hunt. So the name of the song is One Foot in the Grave. It is a brand new single.
00:40:43
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um Fantastic. It's on Spotify. is on Spotify, so you can download it and send tell them that you heard him on heard him on Talking Shit because he was live couple of weeks back with us right here on Talking Shit. This song is by Matt James featuring Ronnie D. Hunt. And it's called The Way I Feel.
00:41:37
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It might be the pain, might be the pressure, might be the way I feel It might be the game that we can't change, maybe the way she's still Deep in my head I can't explain, that's just the way feel The way feel
00:41:54
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It might be the pain, might be the pressure, might be the way I feel. It might be the game that we can't change, maybe the way she's still. Deep in my head I can't explain, that's just the way I feel.
00:42:07
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The way I feel.
00:42:11
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I've been going in, getting faded. Depression sitting in, never made it. Finally feel like I might look myself in the mirror for the last time.
00:42:27
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I ain't going through it, I ain't going through it, ain't living my life this way. My castle was guarded, my demons retired, the devil's not getting no play. I'm back on my own these days. No longer in my own way I hit my knees and pray You know I'm bound to say It might be the pain, might be the pressure Might be the way feel It might be the game that we can't change Maybe the way she's still Deep in my head I can't explain That's just the way feel The way feel
00:43:01
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It might be the pain, might be the pressure, might be the way I feel. It might be the game that we can't change, maybe the way she's still. Deep in my head, I can't explain, that's just the way I feel.
00:43:13
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The way I feel.
00:43:23
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Won't you consider me?
00:43:28
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Getting harder to breathe, that's why I bite till it bleeds And wipe the blood away clean Enemies, we fight the machine Feeling mystic, deciphering dreams When I write through the mind of a king Turn divine like the highest of beings In between all the silence and screams If the demons, they might intervene Within shadows, they're hiding unseen I came from the darkness with liars and thieves Could you still take my hand Even though I will sin I stand a broken man But kept my prime I'm a And I feel alive again All these stones trapped inside my head Got me running from death With a loaded gun in Sometimes it feels no one understands That I'm a broken man But feel alive again
00:44:28
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Let's respond to Ridge Avenue. We got report a male subject on a bridge, possible a jump birth, mental health crisis. It might be the pain, might be the pressure, might be the way I feel.
00:44:41
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It might be the game that we can't change, maybe the way she's still. Deep my head I can't explain, that's just the way I feel. The way I feel.
00:44:51
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:45:11
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another banger in the pipes what do you guys think that was good is there a way you can email us that when we're done yeah i can yeah like both songs so we can actually download it for sure hey alexi were yeah absolutely that was dope i i friend requested them because i'm looking for music for a uh thriller that i'm gonna be filming in few weeks so yeah that was really good i was surprised because usually when No offense, but usually when people are like, oh, ge Oh, I'm so with this ah With this one, I didn't change the video. Normally I do.
00:45:47
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I'll change the video. I'll wait for minute and try to put it something close to it to do with military. But in this case, I decided that I was leaving it alone because quite honestly, I had one hell week. I didn't want to do anything else. Hey, man. That's fair, dude.
00:46:02
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Yeah. awesome we we We lost the ruckus. i'm not sure where you went. So I was wondering you guys um have ah i have a plug. If you guys have children, I wrote a children's book called A Dragon's Voice. There's a couple of lessons in there. like i was going to ask you where I know your voice from.
00:46:18
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You're totally a cartoon character, aren't you? Well, I could be. And then I have also a resilient like resilient warrior. This is my autobiography. And they're both in. um Family advocacy groups, I'm working with people that have been sex trafficked and human trafficked, as well as children that have been severely abused and they're in police departments. So I'm really working on getting these into more police departments, if anybody can help me with that.
00:46:44
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um Getting the children's book especially so that when they get picked up for either abuse or trafficked or any of that stuff, it can calm their nervous system down. it wasn't intentionally for that. At first it was just like, Hey, here's a children's book for people that, you know, have a hard time reading. And then it kind of channed off from there. So the last lesson that's the most important one is to listen to your intuition so that children don't get hurt in um in the process of things. Like, so you teach your children not to go off with people and find puppies or, you know, get candy or anything like that. But we also teach them, not to take pictures while they're bathing, not to allow people to take pictures while their clothes are off like that.
00:47:28
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um i think people think, oh, it's common sense. Not so common. fat In my backyard, literally just down 20, 30 minutes away, we have a huge sex trafficking, unfortunately. So we're just really trying to get the word out. And I want to make my autobiography into a movie. So I'm working on that as well.
00:47:49
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i just I tried to have that conversation with my daughter, not ah not very recently, but it was the most frustrating conversation I think I've ever had my entire life. How old is she? She's six years old.
00:48:01
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I'm like, okay, listen, if a stranger comes up to you and says, hey, come find my puppy, i was like, that you don't go. what you like What you can do actually for that, and what I tell parents, is to actually have somebody that she doesn't know to do that.
00:48:16
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And then you teach them after like why the consequences can be so severe. Or in other cases, if she's really, or he's not really getting it, then you do it and you actually um do the act. You you have somebody put them in the van and scare them a little bit because it's like, okay, you're not gonna get it.
00:48:36
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All right, this is how we're gonna replay it And people are like, gosh, man, you're harsh. No, I'm not harsh. I watched, you know, unfortunately a friend of mine got murdered at four years old. So the things I write about and the things I have done in my life mostly come from my past, you know, being an incest survivor, I got sexually assaulted in the um basically at seat San Antonio, Texas. I was bed bound for four years because I was tortured for four straight months. So the stuff I write about is basically to help other people around the world.
00:49:08
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And it's in 17 countries. And I know that it is so far, it's inspired a bunch of people to actually write their own books. You know, cause a lot of people are like, Oh, I want to write. I want write. And i'm like, good. I encourage you to write, you know, I encourage you to do what you want to do. um Being bed bound for almost four years taught me a lot about myself.
00:49:27
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Those books are, where can people find those books? Sure. So they are actually on amazon.com. Resilient Warrior looks like this. You can also get it at Walmart or on Barnes and Noble online, but it's just easier. Everybody's got Amazon, mostly everybody. And then a Dragon's Voice, this is for ages 12 and under. And it looks like that spelled my name.
00:49:50
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And just really working hard to get them in more family advocacy groups and police departments so that I can make a difference in more different places. So if anybody
Adapting Books into Screenplays
00:50:00
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wants to follow me and and message me and help me get into more police departments and family advocacy groups, I really, really appreciate it.
00:50:08
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Mark has put his glasses on, pushed them down, has stared at a piece of paper, has written something down. What did you write down, Mark? Her books. Okay. Right on.
00:50:20
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Actually, i i put the timestamp on when she started till now because I can make a reel out of it. I appreciate that. That's cool. Really trying to make it into a movie so that we can help more children too. So that way we can really, the four lessons are basically don't steal or take what's not yours, how to make friends and create a win-win situation. What I do has an effect on myself and everybody else around us. We have a universal law. And then that fourth one, which is the most important one, and that's listen to your intuition because all too often kids don't understand. Like I got this gut feeling that helps with anti-bullying, that helps with, you I've gone into different schools and taught that, you know, there's no reason why bullies are even, it doesn't matter, you know, like I've had a lot of things happen in my life. So I teach children, no matter what's happened to me, I've never wanted to hurt anybody intentionally. And then we also teach them that, like I said, if something's feels off, then please,
00:51:23
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don't do what they're trying to tell you to do. And then also the biggest one too, is there's a a new thing that people are starting to do and they're like, Hey, your mom and dad told me to come pick you up, you know, make sure from somebody that you trust, like ah the a teacher or the principal that somebody actually did say, you know, your mom's here to pick you up or your dad's here or your aunt, whoever you trust, you know, just so that it it's clarification for them. Because, I mean, intuition at and two and three is kind of hard, but they still have it. you know And a lot of people think, oh, you know they don't know, they don't understand. No, we give don't even give credit to the kids. you know But I really want to help children kind of avoid some of the things that I've gone through. And if I can save somebody from being murdered or kidnapped, that's my main goal.
00:52:15
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I almost had work. We had words of the day. i almost knew that. I was a kid. They some someone pulled up and two people got of a car and were like, hey, a kid, you want this bike? I was standing in my front yard alone and they're like, hey, we got this bike, you know, you have it.
00:52:32
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And I walked over and kind of like peeked in like four feet away. And that's about as was like, oh, cool. I'll go. I'll see if my mom ah will let me have it and i into the house. And I was oblivious. I was going to take the bike.
00:52:44
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Okay. Like I, if I had gotten any closer, I'm pretty sure they would have grabbed me when we got back outside. My mom's like, what are you talking about? There's no one here. was like, yeah, gar so she said, and then later, you know, as an adult, i remember I tell her, I remember talking about it with her and she was like, oh yeah, I called the cops.
00:53:01
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Oh, good. That was before we had all these ring cameras and all this other stuff, too. But you can't even depend on those because, you know, some of them don't have the right angles. I just want to make sure that the kids as much as we can, at least.
00:53:14
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And then people that have unfortunately been abused or trafficked or anything else. I ask them if they want any help or mental health. I don't care if you're military or not. You can contact me. can message me. I will personally help you. If I don't have the resources, I will find resources for you. I have plenty right now. We're working with people that have actually, I'm working on profiling as well, taking Chase Hughes classes. I'm on and NCI level number two. So like I said, if I can make a difference and help anybody, please message me, please follow me and try to, we'll try to figure something out for you.
00:53:48
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See, Mindy, your book, you've You've already taken the first step in writing the script. You already got the book. Now you just got to adapt it to a screenplay format. That's literally all you gotta do. I mean, yeah, you could you could write a treatment for it, but why? You already have the treatment in book format. You're good with that. um Secondly, I know someone in Illinois, he goes by the name 180.
00:54:16
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on Facebook and he goes to the Superbowl. I want to say almost every year, if not every single year and works with traffic, works with people that are getting trafficked and stuff like that. And he's a tattoo artist.
00:54:29
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He's a Christian and a tattoo artist. And he, he helps know people get, he does free cover up tattoos over the, the tattoos that they get from trafficking and that sort of thing. So sweet.
00:54:42
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offline, i can I can send you his information. It's basically his page. That would be great. Yeah. Or if anybody also knows any investors, because I went to ah a different class and they said something about like, he he sent me a book. He's like, get this book. And it's like, how to write a screenplay. i'm like, oh boy, this is going to take a while. He's reading it. so I think we've got programs. There's a program for it. you know Somebody sent me the thing because I was like, you know, I've got ideas. I could probably do a screenplay.
00:55:13
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I was like, I'll just have I write it. and He was like, Nope, don't do that. Don't do it. He was like, ah here's a here's a link. It was like, use this app. Basically, you put your thoughts in there and it says, Oh, OK, well, and it kind of gives you reminders on on how your story is flowing. And so you could send that to me that way I can like yeah reading this books like this thick. I'm like, oh, this is going to take me like two years just to read it. I'll reach out. I'll reach out to Keith and tell him to send it over to you.
00:55:41
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you know remember You don't remember the program? I don't remember it. I don't have it on one of my um and don't have it on one of my tabs either. You know what? Let me check my favorites. i mean The software to write a script, I use Final Draft. That's like industry standard air quote kind of thing.
00:55:59
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And to write a treatment, I just use OpenOffice, which is like the knockoff version of Word, and it's much more stable than Word. just use that and just write my...
00:56:11
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three act treatment is basically the script without any dialogue and go from there. And I use it as an outline. That's how I do it. And my publisher actually just put it on the e-reader. So because there were so many people asking me to do an e-reader. Now they're asking me to do an audio book. So like when you just do an audio version, you do meditations with us anyways. Like we like your voice. I'm like, all right, cool. Let me find somebody who can do that. Cause the last time I asked somebody, like, yeah, it'd be about $7,000. like, how about no.
Florida's Bizarre News Game
00:56:40
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about Well, guys, while we're here, um Talking Shit normally does this thing called Florida or Not Florida. You guys want to play? yeah bring it It's a fun little game. It it breaks up the breaks up whatever we got going on. So we'll break up a little bit here. Hey, winners, winners, guess what you get to go home with?
00:57:01
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You get what do i win the military Talking Shit logo, the decal. Right on. Mark, what else they get?
00:57:15
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A trip to Mexico. g The OG decal. We'll get those. Normally I don't get stickers and stuff, but I think somebody had asked me if I wanted one. I'll definitely send you guys. I did. i was headach I had asked you and you said that you don't you don't normally have them because you don't stick them on anything. Right. You don't have to stick them on anything.
00:57:35
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But you know what? I've got empty space right here and I'll stick it right there. Wait a second. After we're done, just send me your email. I got Aaron going out tomorrow. Steven, I believe, already got his, right?
00:57:47
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Yeah. but And Brendan. I'm to put my genital cuff. Thanks. yeah yeah I think you asked my address, and I'm so reluctant because I'm like, let me do the show first. you know I don't know like if I'm getting set up. You're on Twitch and the time. Yeah, Mikey, what is that address? right I'm ready.
00:58:12
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Wait, hi we were gonna win at the tip of Australia, man. All right, guys. So the the way the game works is I'm gonna read a headline. Mark's gonna try to do his very best to keep score, guys. We have five headlines, five stories. They're very short, very sweet. and the reason we do this is because Mark and I are both from Florida.
00:58:33
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Crazy fucking Florida man scenarios happen on a daily basis here. But, you know, in doing my research, I found that not only Florida, But Ohio, Michigan, California, Hawaii, Ontario.
00:58:49
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Yeah, we don't get too many from from Hawaii though. But I'm to read it. I'm going to read it and I'll just go around the room and I'll ask you if you think that's Florida or not. Florida, Mark's going to take it and write it down.
00:59:00
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And at the end of the five questions, we'll see who won. Here we go. First one, man arrested after trying to teach an alligator to fetch. Oh yeah, I'm sure that's true.
00:59:12
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So a guy was caught tossing marshmallows at an alligator and yelling, go get them, boy, at passing deputies. Did this happen in Florida or not Florida? i friday Although they do call it Florida for a reason. a hu let's Let's start here. Aaron, what do you think? Is that Florida or not Florida?
00:59:34
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I'm going to say it's not Florida. Aaron says not Florida. Stephen, what do you think, buddy?
00:59:41
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I want to say, yeah, it is Florida. Steven says Florida. Mindy, what do you think? i don't think so. Mindy says not Florida. but bre and I'm going to even it out and say Florida.
00:59:52
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Brendan says Florida. And then in the comment section here, Mark, you have a Florida from Alyssa and a Florida from Amanda. All right, guys.
01:00:04
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One more time. A guy was caught tossing marshmallows at an alligator. and yelling, go get them, boy, and passing deputies. Not Florida, Louisiana.
01:00:16
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i' not and and I was about to make a comment saying, if it was Louisiana, they'd be throwing crawfish or something like that. You better said it. that ah i thought I thought it was Louisiana. didn't think it was Florida. I mean, yeah, stupid shit does happen in Florida, obviously, but that was just too not Florida for me.
01:00:36
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Yeah. There wasn't enough meth involved. No, even there was not messed up enough. There wasn't enough done in that one. right this This one is kind of, this one kind of cringes me out guys. Um, well a woman calls nine one one because her psychic told her that she was in danger from herself.
01:00:59
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She insisted officers arrest her before she does something suspicious.
01:01:05
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Is this Florida or not Florida? Sounds like Massachusetts. Sounds like Chicago. Sounds like where all the witches all all hang out there. yeah I was playing Massachusetts too.
01:01:18
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Amanda says not Florida. ah Let's see here. Aaron, you say? i say Florida. Aaron says Florida. Stephen says? No. Not Florida. Mindy says? Sure, I'll say Florida.
01:01:31
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Mindy says Florida. Brendan, are you trying to even it out again? What are you doing here, buddy? I'm gonna even that out and say not Florida. Not Florida. And then I've got Alyssa says alissa in the comments says Florida, and Amanda says not Florida, if you didn't get that word.
01:01:47
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and the answer is unfortunately mark and i that is some jackaloon here in florida um that
01:01:58
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that's like the lamest florida man it's kind of cringeworthy because it's like you have a psychic first and she said you're in danger from your brain like you should hey look there's a marine ah
01:02:17
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I'm off duty. Leave me alone. She's only home. She's only home for a few more days and then just go back. right. All right. Here we go, guys. Here's your next one.
01:02:30
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Naked man breaks into a car wash and claims he's solar charging. He said the fluorescent lights were fake sun and he needed to recharge his aura.
01:02:41
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Was it the same naked? it or not, Florida. Was he Naked man brings in two car wash. Yes, Mark. Okay. No, i don't I don't have to pay attention to that. You do.
01:02:53
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That's some skid row in California shit. Right? All right. Well, let's see. Aaron, what do you think? You think it's California? Yeah, not Florida. Aaron says not Florida.
01:03:05
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Steven says not Florida. Not Florida. Mindy says going say crackhead not from Florida. Not Florida. Brendan.
01:03:15
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I love to go against the current. I'm going Florida on that one. Brenda says Florida. and then and That has like a little bit tinge of meth on that one. I'm going to go. right You get one chance to change your answer, ladies and gentlemen. But here we go. We got a not Florida.
01:03:30
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Sounds like Californian and a not Florida from Amanda. Yeah. All right, I'll give you a chance to change your answer. With the fluorescent lights. Yeah. In three, two, one. Here we go.
01:03:43
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Naked man breaks into a car wash, claims he's solar charging. Happened in Florida. Oh, bitch. Dang. It says it's a Florida man spirit of spirituality. Wow. Holy shit. Brendan got it right. I got one brely right. where you got it I think that's the first time ever in this game that I've got one right.
01:04:05
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All right, here we go, dude. Now I read that one before. Can't read that one again. Sorry. Florida.
01:04:16
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yeah no man leads police on a slow piece oh my god spit it out guy man leads police on a low speed chase in a zamboni huh at nine miles an hour officers were walking beside him telling him to pull over Is this Florida or not Florida?
01:04:39
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Man, that's Zamboni. What's like the ice at a hockey arena? Yeah, it takes care of the hockey arena. It makes it slippery. ah Man, he stole that from a Bruins game.
01:04:53
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Is there even hockey in Florida? Yes, there is. We have two teams. Who's the other team? it's like half the Panthers. ice miami
01:05:06
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It's so hot in Miami as soon as they're done ice skating, they go fishing. So there's that. I'm not surprised. the Man leads police on a slow, on a low speed chase on, in his Zamboni, on his Zamboni, in his Zamboni.
01:05:23
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Top speed, nine miles an hour. Officers walk beside him. All right, Aaron, you said Florida. Aaron says Florida. Stephen says. Florida. Florida. Mindy says.
01:05:35
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Nah, I'm going say somewhere else. Anywhere else. Anywhere but Florida. Got it. Brendan says... I'm going with Mindy. going to even this out. If it but said lawnmower or... Right? We know we and we are notorious for our lawnmower expenses. I'm not going to lie to you. Or the golf carts. We see them all the time up there at the little store. my And our friends in the comment section, Alyssa and Probably like Alabama or some shit. They're both not Florida.
01:06:10
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They're both not Florida, yeah. David said i had to walk the dog. So you're missing the best part of the show. No, I'm just kidding. Thanks for letting us know. All right, here we go.
01:06:21
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Not Florida. It happened in North Dakota. Nice. or Two in a row. All right, here we go, guys. last one
01:06:35
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Guy gets stuck in a chimney trying to retrieve his pet raccoon named Sir Bitesalot. Firefighters had to lure the raccoon out with Doritos.
01:06:49
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Is this Florida or not, Florida man? That's in the United States in general, dude. You have bungees in Florida. You're like, hey, we got Doritos. But it's a raccoon, though.
01:07:04
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It's a pet raccoon. My friends in Florida have a pet raccoon. So, Brendan, do you think this is a... I'm going Florida. I'm going straight up Florida. Brendan says Florida. I'm going to start with Brendan. I'm going to go over to Mindy. Mindy says... Fuck it. I'll go Florida. Why not? He's got to go Florida. There's a place called D-Land out there, so who the fuck knows?
01:07:27
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It's not D-Land. It's the land. oh like um Oh, I thought she'd been like, Hey, we found it and ah and but I'm to say I suck at this game, but not Florida, not Florida. And Aaron, you say Florida, Florida. ah David says going in blind here and saying Florida.
01:07:56
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Well, it says not Florida. Well, I mean, people have pet alligators too. So it doesn't surprise me. it totally It's totally not legal. Just so you know.
01:08:08
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What? It's not legal to have a pet alligator. It's not legal. You cannot have it. Oh, okay. I was like, Jesus. There's this group called FWC. That stands for Fish and Wildlife. We call raccoon wranglers.
01:08:27
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and they will come to your house and inspect like they did this to a guy and they they were like hey we heard that you guys caught an alligator and it's being stored in this swimming pool that nobody's ever swam in yeah he didn't have one alligator he had three oh he had three and they were they were like four between four and six foot and then he tried to play on somebody else he was like yeah my friend got him and he just brought him over and he was like i just can't get him out and i was like Well, first of all, i would open the door and go, hey, guys, there's fucking alligators in the pool back there. Can you help me get them out of here?
01:09:02
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That's the way that conversation would have went. just reading oh I was just getting ready to call you guys. I would get so drunk one night and forget they're out there just go out by the pool. Skinny dipping.
01:09:13
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none It was was so bad. All right, guys, here we go. The answer to that question, guy gets stuck in a chimney trying to retrieve his pet raccoon, named Sir Bitesalot, happened in Arkansas. Oh.
01:09:26
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All right, guys, that is the game of Florida or not Florida. Mark, how did the folks do today?
01:09:38
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I'll tell you in a second. All right, Mark's got to math now. Steven, you got any crayons you can let him borrow? ye He ate them. He ate them all. I'm eating, man.
01:09:52
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Brendan, can you hold your hands up so he can help count? Red's gone. He's about to go yellow. oh ra mind go on right here Who won? Mindy won.
01:10:04
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I'm a good guesser. um Well, we all know who lost. Was it Brendan? i got to No, Brendan didn't lose this time. He got two right.
01:10:17
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Go ahead. The Jarhead. The Jarhead. Yeah. Mindy, she tied with Alyssa.
01:10:28
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Right on. So would you get right? Four? You got three. Three right. Two wrong. not Not bad for your first outing at Florida or not Florida. Yeah. And guys, we play that game every time we're live right here on Talking
Discussion on Military Pay and Benefits
01:10:40
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Shit. So if you can't be on playing it, tune in and play right around the halfway mark of the show. And it's always good time.
01:10:49
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um we have some really good stories some sometimes not always i have to go out and find those myself because mark won't do it well he makes you everything else i don't know i do everything else on this guys let's get back into uh you know we asked you guys to come on for an hour we're a little over our time um but i just wanted to ask at least one more question unless somebody in the comments section wants to ask a question before i do I'm waiting. I'm waiting. um Let's talk about, if you guys don't mind, the money.
01:11:27
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Has anybody ever broken down the pay that we made in the military? okay Oh yeah, I did. Really? How much did you make an hour? Oh, no. Broken it it down hourly? Oh, no. break it Broken it down hourly. Oh, my gosh. What is it, $2 an hour? No. Yeah, $0.20 an hour. It's fucking ridiculous.
01:11:47
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Yeah. i um I don't think I even got that. I literally think it was probably $0.02. Because we had so many 24-hour times. Yeah. Yep.
01:11:58
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Yeah, the money is not great, and I don't care what anybody ever tells you. Yeah, the money was not great. So after I became a Border Patrol agent, they say you can buy your military time back. And when you buy your military time back, then it adds to your retirement. So i was like, okay, cool. They're like, fill out this form.
01:12:15
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They'll send away for your military record and then they'll bring it back and tell you how much you owe. Okay, cool. So I sent that in. I get it back. In four years, I made less than 60 grand.
01:12:28
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Oh, wow. 15 grand a year. Dude, I made more than that as a lifeguard high school. Wow. In one year, I probably made like half of that in a height as a high school part. like I was like, you've got to be kidding me. like well i You might have made more than that at Walmart.
01:12:49
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Yeah, it's ridiculous. yeah so four years, I grand. So we can all agree that we were underpaid. yeah We were overworked. yep oh Yeah.
01:13:03
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Abused constantly. Yeah. So Brian, you told me you like the abuse. how How was this such like, you know, they talk about don't abuse your spouse. Like, how can the military do that to us?
01:13:17
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the fuckers They promise you all sorts of shit that they don't give you. they're like Oh, yeah. We'll let you go to college. yeah Yeah. Yeah. So about that um what happened was you put in what was it? We put in one hundred dollars a month for 12 months to get twelve thousand. Is that what it was then or fifteen or something like that? and Something like that. Well, back in nineties, I think it was.
01:13:43
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10, maybe 10 or 12. Does anybody know how much college you can buy with 12,000, 13? Let's say Do you know how much college you can buy with 15 grand? Nothing because no semesters. I mean, it's like over 100 grand for like, you would have to we would have to go to community college just for that.
01:14:00
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So, yeah right. you can't go to You can't go to any name school. That's never going happen. You have to go to like a free school. yeah like mechanics well they have eight thousand dollars give us your money like plummer and then i had friends when they were in the military they were like oh it's great i just tell them i'm going to school just for the extra money and i'm like what he's like oh yeah you just you sign up for school you have to show up at least once a month and then you get the extra money and i'm like
01:14:34
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But you have to give that the school gets that money. You don't get that money like you. They they send it to your account and you're supposed to pay the school. If you don't pay the school, then you're in debt.
01:14:47
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Correct. Like that. Like, I don't think he understood that that that's the way that that worked. I think I'm sure they're going to get their money anyway. Paying him money to go to college. Like, no, that's not. I got paid to go to the Border Patrol Academy.
01:15:03
Speaker
In real life, though. No, no. they built my g bill by The GI Bill gave me six That's what it paid for. ah Well, no. The GI Bill gave me an extra six grand. I was getting paid from the federal government, but also, like, I got six grand. They just, like... That's after you got out, not while you're in. Oh, yeah. No, it was garbage while I'm in. I mean, oh you definitely had to love your job. No, that's the worst part of it. hated four years of the Coast Guard. I hated my fucking life, and I hated the Coast Guard.
01:15:28
Speaker
Fuck, it was the worst thing I ever did. I Oh, man, I had a blast. You're the first one to tell me you hated your Coast Guard job. oh good it but like if i didn't like the I didn't like the Army either. I just wanted to do what I had to do and get the fuck out. Oh, yeah. If there was one thing that I could do go back in life and not do, it would be the fucking Coast Guard. well You would have joined the Navy.
01:15:49
Speaker
Yeah. i think i joined the air force and be a baby and i would be a medic and then i do pilot school or something let me fly around and do some awesome you hear steven steven said i i got married specifically for the money yeah well yeah back then people were getting an extra 200 a month if they got married so they would make an agreement when people were going off the war they're like hey get me a two extra 200 a month and we'll split the cost yeah that's when i went and cut you the first time i then i came back home with like 13 grand in my pocket i'm like wow yeah all tax-free there's no way all tax-free you know hazard pay combat or yeah hazard pay
01:16:40
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Hardship
Outdated Equipment in the Military
01:16:41
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pay, I mean, it was great. So bullets start flying over your head. That's right. No, I mean, i genuinely, the people like, you're fucking crazy, but I had genuinely signed up to go to war. I'm like, you sent me to the wrong fucking place, man. I want to go that way. sent me that way.
01:16:58
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isn't working, man. Outdated equipment. I know you, I know you people as well as myself worked with some shit from, and, and Ruckus even said it earlier, like the bombs that were built were built before, well, before he even joined the military.
01:17:16
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Right. So I mean, I was sleeping on world war II beds, literally the metal beds that they still had in our barracks. Oh yeah. So our equipment for like firefighting,
01:17:29
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because was I was firefighter in the Navy. Our equipment was literally probably 15 years before my time. And they were like, oh, yeah. you So what you do is you shove this canister up inside and then you breathe you start breathing. So you create pure oxygen after you pull this ripcord off the bottom. And i'm like, uh-huh. And then they were like, oh, and by the way, don't stick it in oil because it it will explode.
01:17:54
Speaker
OK, so what if we go into a fire that's fucking an oil fire? I mean, like, come on. right paint this through but oh my gosh hey that that gives new meaning to burning man man jeez i remember ho we used uh flak jackets from like shoot vietnam man we had the whole colored green flag jackets we had to wear for training like damn these are old m that wasn't move button or nothing like that no when i
01:18:27
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um went into the national guard after i left the navy and it was the same thing it was the oh here's your here's your kevlar helmet and i was like what the fuck decade is this thing from right like like i scratched it and it started peeling apart i was like i don't know if this is good you wanted to have like the high speed low drag equipment you had to buy it yourself Well, by the time I was getting out even the MREs started getting better. Like they had sulfur that was heating up stuff and they had all sorts of, I was like, wait a minute, where was this shit? They're like, here's an oatmeal bar. I'm like, that's a butt plug. No, i don't want look at that shit everybody will be like how can you trade you i'm all trade me for shit no that's why the paper that i give you in the yeah um mre is an absolute joke guys it's yeah i think when you're done eating your food if you give it like an hour and then eat the toilet paper you're gonna be better off because you can't like nothing with it correct clean you up coming out so ranger pudding gone bad every time
01:19:28
Speaker
I will say though, the MREs, the ones I had when I was in the army, because like I said, dual dual service here, um the Chili Mac was good, but you knew when you were getting a shitty MRE when they had a bottle of Tabasco sauce in it.
01:19:41
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So what I did, I put that in, I put the heating element in bottle of water and shook it up and make an MRE bomb out of it. Those are cool.
01:19:52
Speaker
So we're, you know it's good know, it's, now they have candy in there too. I would have been, I would have been in several. They got like candy from like 1990, what Snickers crunch bar or something like that.
01:20:03
Speaker
No, they got shit that doesn't even exist anymore. It's, it's a Chico stick. I'm like, what the fuck is that? Ooh, those are good. I see never good donedown You get the little chicklets. That's what I got was the gum. Where it's like stuck to your mouth for like a day. can't get it out. You're picking your chip underneath. Everybody's like, I can tell you had so the spaghetti. And I'm like, well, how do you know that?
01:20:29
Speaker
I can still smell it on your breath. I'm chewing the gum. The only thing that was edible was the fucking charms that nobody wanted you to eat because it's bad luck. no no don't do that no don't fucking eat it
Military Training and Awards Discussion
01:20:41
Speaker
don't fucking eat it mean see mo fuck it it's good literally we caught the oatmeal bar the butt plug because every time you ate it you were constipated for like three days it's like oh yeah it was like a freaking bomb went off in your gut like the expander would get it's all did any of you guys ever eat the cold weather mres the two of them stacked together we didn't get two we only got one
01:21:04
Speaker
Yeah, the cold weather MREs white. They were in white MRE bags and they were like duct taped together, man. So apparently because they were so cold, you need to eat more calories.
01:21:14
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But guess what? One bag constipates you. Imagine what two of them do. So yeah, it was horrible, man. We only got the ones that were in the brown ones that were like from like World War II or whatever. like white ones These were like, you know, white.
01:21:29
Speaker
I think the white ones were probably but way outdated. Or sea rations. Did you guys have any sea rations with like basically your meals in a can? Yeah, that I had that on the ship one time. and it was by mistake because somebody found it in one of our birthing areas and they were like, dude, what are you doing?
01:21:49
Speaker
and I always wanted the desserts. It had the key and you had to fucking twist around yes can. yeah Holy shit, dude. And if you didn't get it just right, you had to use your freaking whatever you had. that's i can That can was a weapon, dude. I'm telling you. Yeah. yeah yeah yeah that's I would always ask for the desserts. I'm like, I'll trade you anything you want. Just give me that cherry pie.
01:22:11
Speaker
i always traded for the jalapeno cheddar.
01:22:16
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uh jalapeno cheddar i was all about it and the in the little stupid bread thing that's all i was like oh those crackers were the bomb the crackers and peanut butter i'm like i'll give you everything if you had a cheese for me you're golden because cheese came with a pound cake and it came with crackers and peanut butter and jelly i mean you were just yeah oh i didn't get jelly but i did get the peanut butter that's like y'all half jaw it's like half in your throat so you're like in your mouth man are you joking no i'm dying what you do i almost i had coked on my lobster once oh see i knew it was coming i mean luckily i was able to wash it down with some new england clam chowder
01:23:03
Speaker
the yeah Brendan, you've never even attempted to try an MRE? No, I've had MREs before, but never in the military. I had them at like Boy Scout camp or like some random place. You had a choice. Oh, definitely. It was definitely a choice. Yeah, yeah. And they were all excited. They're all like, yes, let's have it. It's spaghetti in a bag.
01:23:29
Speaker
It's fun until you have to actually use it. Yeah, yeah for like sustenance, actual sustenance. Yeah. Right? yeah you go you get sick of eating it or if it's just 11 i was like stuck on a boat for a small boat for i forget was like 12 to 16 hours so we had a we had some mres there but also like sack lunch like random sack lunches that our cooks would make and i don't know so it definitely was not anywhere near what you guys had to suffer so i'm not going to claim that at all uh yeah Anytime we went to like Grafenvere, we knew it was all like set up. boxbox Box, box, box. It was funny. I was at a i was a National Guard barrack ah probably, i don't know like six months ago. And i was i was ah was fixing a, I'm a plumber, so I was fixing something. and the and ah And the guy's like, hey, you want some of these MREs? And I'm like, no, I don't.
01:24:33
Speaker
You've got to give him away. you can' he's like He's like, I'll give you a box. And I'm like, no, I'm definitely good. like I've had them before. I'd be interested in seeing what they look like now because I heard that they've upgraded them. Well, I'll tell you what. If I ever go back and he asks, I'll get some for you. I'll even send them. Definitely. Send me some new shit.
01:24:54
Speaker
No, they haven't evolved. What's that? will come now but We can do a podcast where people are popping. Hold on. you like You want to know what's in MREs now? Yeah, what's in the new MREs? Yeah, we got someone who knows.
01:25:10
Speaker
It depends on like the box and stuff like that because they're all numbered. But there's like um a chocolate protein bar. They're called Strike Bars. I think they're really good. They've also got it in, I think, raspberry flavor. Shut the fuck Like the drink shakes that they have, they also... Drink shakes? Drink shakes, what? fuck like It's like a bag.
01:25:36
Speaker
It's like one of those little bags and it's got powder in it. You put water in it to a certain line and they've got um protein shakes. Honey, that's called cooling. Okay. okay like No Kool-Aid, but like they're equivalent, and it's dog water. it's disgusting. right say They don't really want you to drink. or they What about food? How's the food in them?
01:26:02
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and um The food, I only liked one or two of them, but we had we had a breakfast one, which was like a sausage patty, and when I was at MCT, only one guy actually liked it and ate it.
01:26:18
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I'd toss it to him all the time. My favorite was the chicken noodle soup with the little Tabasco in it. i couldn't heat it up. I couldn't heat it up, though. I had someone else. There's a Tabasco bottle in there, remember? Yeah, there's reason.
01:26:33
Speaker
we would ah We had guys that would put them in their flack and just collect them until one of our instructors was like, dude, what are you doing? Why? And he started danking them out of people's flacks. They ruined their little gang. Yeah.
01:26:47
Speaker
they were gonna use it for money for courage yeah one person who would like they had a bag of it never touched the tabasco sauce but had just a bag of it for no reason nice it was fun those are good trades though oh yeah there's sour skittles there's um The small little twister bites things. There's so much candy in there for no reason. was good reason. What are you talking about? I would trade my whole meal for just the candy. I'm like, okay, whatever you want. I would give people my drinks, my snacks, and they would give me the chicken noodle.
01:27:30
Speaker
because That was like the only thing I would eat. yeah Listen, I'm giving my drinks, my snack, just for that little pillow that comes out so can go to fucking sleep. And then we also had halal food. They make halal now as well. And we had one girl that ate that because she was like vegetarian.
01:27:48
Speaker
And she got like her own box of food and they would just hand it to her and she would share with us all the time. makes sense it's ah It's a new military now. it is oh yeah oh you're vegan? We got a box of food.
01:28:03
Speaker
yeah Right? Oh, you're stressed out? Oh, here's your stress card. Here's your stress card. No, don't stress me out. Don't tell her. Oh, God.
01:28:13
Speaker
You worked me little too hard. All right, guys. Who has the best dress uniform? I want to hear the- Oh, hell, we know that. I to hear your answer.
01:28:25
Speaker
Best dress uniform, who do you think? The Marines. Wrong. Yeah. when that many he says Mindy says the Marines. I'm going to go with you, Mindy, on this one. The Marines do have the best. I mean, they look good with that white hat. Like, where are a few good men? I'm like, oh, all right. Aaron, do you agree on this one?
01:28:46
Speaker
Yeah, i do. I agree. I like the Marines dressing room. I do like the Navy one, but I'm going to side with the Department of the Navy. Uncomfortable as shit, but you don't get laid. Yes, especially around the collar.
01:28:59
Speaker
Oh, yeah. It's like a little hook and it hooks on. So when you're putting it on, it's like digging into you the whole entire time you're on.
01:29:10
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Well, that's just to shut you guys up. Yeah, it doesn't it don't work. that thet That's why we drink so much, to numb the pain.
01:29:18
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um yeah yeah I think Brian can attest to this next comment. that art are Our dress blues that has the 13 buttons and a U shape in the front, that's that gives the woman 13 chances to say no. Dude, I'm going to tell you something right now. um Don't get fat and try to squeeze into some Navy dress blues. When I joined the Navy, I weighed 130 pounds and then i got married And I made second class.
01:29:49
Speaker
And they were like, okay, well, we're doing a dress blues inspection. And I was like, dude, I'm an engineer. We don't do those. And they were like, oh, no, it's a ship wide thing. and i was like, oh, fuck. And I wanted to try to put these things on, dude. And half of the buttons, I couldn't butt.
01:30:06
Speaker
You gotta you just buy new one you gotta to sew the buttons on the outside and do some Velcro on the inside. Exactly. exactly Yeah. You gotta go get refitted basically for those things. Like you have to take them to a tailor and stuff like that.
01:30:18
Speaker
Yeah. I was going to say when I got out, I just gave mine away because I couldn't, it wasn't like, what am I going to do with them at the house? Right. It's like, Oh, you want to keep your dress loose? No, thanks. I'm good.
01:30:33
Speaker
bri Brian's talking about how it's good for like one little leg and it doesn't even get to the ankle. It's all. I think the only thing I kept from the Navy were my coveralls because I was like, fuck, I can work in these.
01:30:46
Speaker
Yeah, right. You know what I Every ounce of material I got from the Coast Guard instantly in the dumpster. You threw it away. You were like, soon as i got my dd look at is it dude, if the the if the ready reserve editor called me, it was like, hey, you need to show up tomorrow. I would have showed up in like shorts, sandals and a T-shirt. yeah I didn't have shit.
01:31:05
Speaker
i was Well, I mean, it would be a good Halloween costume, I guess, for somebody who hasn't been in that one. Yeah, that's true. I guess I should have just kept them and gave them to a kid like on although I do have my army and a jacket, our our old jacket that we went to Bosnia with. I did keep that one.
01:31:22
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah, I have my dress blues in in my in a trunk of my parents somewhere and my old woodland camel camouflage uniform it has like a big ah hole in the back.
01:31:34
Speaker
because my first sergeant had like the smallest hole in my trousers, right? First sergeant saw that pulls me in front of the entire platoon and makes me you rip it open. Show him what with. A little asshole, like probably a quarter size, and he saw it.
01:31:53
Speaker
Makes me wonder, why was my first sergeant checking my ass out? Right. never know. Good story. What really happened? I was alone in a foxhole. We did say we love those dust blues.
01:32:07
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Dress you up, soldier.
01:32:11
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um yeah It's real good. yeah i You're going to feel it. I did keep my my ribbon rack. Anybody else? yeah Ribbon rack. I think all my shit's in summer. Your award rack. Yep.
01:32:26
Speaker
yep Kept it in order and everything. I was like, yeah, that's that's coming with me. That's I'm keeping that. Yeah. I don't know. I don't think I have my class A's, though. I think I should go. I got to fuck this shit. I mean, it's like green paper, basically.
01:32:41
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You know, what brand like even getting awards. Yeah, I got a good team ribbon. I think it was like a high five. Yeah, I got that. You're not special.
01:32:52
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i think it was like a high five yeah definite got that you're not special but was yeah got like a participation ribbon in the a they're like we we call that no no no that was the trophy that was a trophy oh yeah yeah yeah yeah no i mean, I was to So for like so nine eleven to like two thousand two like crazy shit happened so we got all these crazy ribbons that i'm like we didn't do shit i'm like i just sat in front of that nuclear power plant for like the last
01:33:22
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you know, two years. like and did Well, that's what they said. Anybody in the military that even steps one foot one day in there was getting awards. I'm like, what the fuck is this? pan Oh, yeah. They were giving out like were giving our awards like fucking. And the lieutenants and all that were like, oh, I got this award. I'm like, go fuck yourself. You bent over and got that fucking award.
01:33:45
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They're like, miniy you can't say that. I'm like, come on. Say whatever the fuck I want. Bend over, baby. It's like an ATM and you just got slid in. she ah yeah and a few months like i like that one.
01:34:02
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I did get in trouble because I made my drill sergeant laugh because everybody was like, God, you're so fucking funny. And i was like, all right. And so drill sergeant overheard that. He's like, well, if you make us laugh, We'll let everybody go. and I was like, this a fucking trick.
01:34:16
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all right, let me try it. And then I made everybody laugh. Everybody got to go except for me. And then I got pushups and all that other stuff. not to yeah home Instant regret.
01:34:29
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Like everybody gets to go. But you. But me. listen I don't know. I don't know if you guys had this when you were in basic. At the very end of basic training. Hey, guys, guys want to do a pizza run?
01:34:42
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And the answer yeah the answer was supposed to be no, but we all said yes. Of course. You want right? Yeah, exactly. a bunch of pizzas.
01:34:54
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Or they would tell you right around the corner and you're going like 12 fucking miles. You're like, where the fuck's pizza? 15 miles later with 100 pounds on your back, you're like, i don't want no fucking pizza. Fuck you. I just want to go home. Pizza got delivered and then we went for a run afterwards. Yes, I was about to say, I'm waiting for run. yeah You guys actually ate it? Oh, no, we ate it. yeah Spaghetti dinner before the tear gas.
01:35:21
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Yeah, my gutteries started to get that shit like and in the fleet. He got KFC for everybody. We're all eating good and you know fat and happy and fucking 10-mile run after that. Oh, fuck. That was bullshit.
01:35:36
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guys We get none of that. There was no Although but like when I was just getting done with basic training, I saw my drill sergeant, I ah couple i like the corner of my eye and he had a pie and I was like, Ooh, I want that pie. Can have that pie? Everybody's just like, Mindy, are you fucking nuts? Everything goes quiet and he goes, you want a piece of my pi pie? And I was like, yeah, I want a piece of that pie.
01:36:00
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Wait, what do I gotta to do for that piece of pie? But he ended up giving me like a corner. Everybody's like, the fuck? But I paid for it later. yeah there on number ah are you know brokers in boot camp but like that remember smokers and boot camp put you i talking about You talk about pushing the the racks outboard and closing all the windows and getting smoked? Yeah, that's man. We put the box kilos on with the platoons and each platoon would get their best fight and just go down.
01:36:29
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wow. I didn't get that. i thought you meant diet smoked. I'm like, almost every fucking day was about. was like, you know, you had like a about five of us from each platoon, you know, and we would put the boxing gloves on and then we would go at it Oh, no, I didn't get that. I would love that, though. I'd get some aggression out. Because we used to have the pubal sticks and, we you know, pubal sticks were lame.
01:36:54
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So our drawing structures actually put more smokers where we'd get more, you know. Oh, dude, i would volunteer for that anytime. Yeah. So when I went to basic, I just finished my golden gloves.
01:37:07
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Oh, nice. he's per of it So when they found out i was ah I was a boxer, you know, they always threw me in smokers and I would always win. So my reward watch was ice cream.
01:37:19
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All the motherfuckers are looking at me and I'm just eating ice cream. Just happy be like a little boy, man. who Damn it. Man. I'm new today. when we got smoked we got like hey you guys wanna you guys wanna smoke yeah but we wanna smoke yeah we're gonna smoke you guys all right cool yeah all right yeah with that man electric chair was always the best like having your m16 out forever in a day chicken wing it you have to chicken wing it remember that oh man they gave us they gave us gave us blood and
01:37:52
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m fourteens Ours was a little you guys get the fucking notebooks so you could take notes and shit like that when you join. The little green ones. They called it the Bible. No, yours was green. So I had a white one that said in N. A. T. C. Great Lakes. we had those best I don't think I had a notebook. And if I did, i don't remember it.
01:38:15
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That's where you put all your notes in. I mean, it was like it's the regular size of a fucking notebook. It's like a five by seven, right? Yeah. Yeah. And I'm in fucking, I'm in medical and I'm like so tired because I don't know if you guys went through this, but I'm pretty sure we were up for like four days straight. Right. Yeah.
01:38:32
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Getting shots, getting clothes, getting fire fire duty as well. Oh yeah. Or fire guard, whatever they call it. So kinda, so kinda leaned up against another dude and I was just like, I was out.
01:38:44
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And then my instructor comes over and he's like, hey, you got your Ricky notebook? And I was like, oh, fuck, yeah. He's like, all right, why don't you hold it out in front you until I tell you to stop? Like, what? So I just kind of held it like that.
01:38:57
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Like, no, no, no. He said, bring your arms all the way out. Push your palms. He's like, here, just hold that for me. I'll be back. Boy, I'll tell you what, that thing went from being like less comfortable.
01:39:10
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130 pounds real fast. I was like, yeah yeah. I know we were doing like some operative training with our weapons and I was so buck tired that I put like my weapon underneath, put it on the Cavalier and fell asleep.
01:39:23
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And all of sudden he's off taking the paddle. I was like, come up. it's very yeah I wasn't asleep. I was, I was watching over there. I never understood why they said drink more water when you're falling asleep. It never helped.
01:39:38
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no now you go tell you i just yeah exactly and they don't want you to go piss no i did shot to me okay no because if you get out of line guess what you gotta start all over again yeah i ain't got time for
Weather's Impact on Military Operations
01:39:51
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that i'll wait listen i'll i'll be thirsty and not happy so we're good did you guys ever have where it was like a certain degrees and you had to like take all the canteens and empty them like four or five times that was every fucking night dude and like every night You could not go to sleep with ah with a canteen in your in your bunk with water in it. If you did, you were getting that. while Everybody was getting woke up and that water. They were making sure nobody was getting dehydrated. If you ended up going to medical or you were fucked twice. like drink
01:40:22
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two Two canteens and then you hold it over your head. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. yeah that that there better not be no water when you get back to the barracks like that was it yeah man geez yeah i got the dead of summer in missouri boot camp at the woods on misery town oh yeah that's ford uh fort lost in the woods huh yeah yeah for lennarwood and then fort sam houston dude i was at fort lennarwood also man oh right on i did i did cbr training out there for loss in the woods
01:40:53
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I had to get at, think it was like three in the morning because so damn hot to go to formation just to get there at four because by the time five came around, it was so damn humid there. Yep.
01:41:04
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and You feel swampy after you get a shower. You're like, oh, this is a cold shower. You get out of the cold shower, you're like, what fuck is this shit? Yep. When I went and I left Florida, jumped on a plane, didn't take fucking a jacket with me.
01:41:21
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landed in in Missouri in the fucking middle of nowhere. I was like, why is it so fucking cold? It snowed the next morning. I was like, motherfuckers. ah But it wasn't that wasn't what the weather kept saying. It was like, oh, it's going to be like 70 degrees. And I was like, oh, that's perfect. Yeah, until you get there. wanted it to be cold. It was like swamp acid. Listen, I'm going to tell you something. It was not great going through kim because you have to go in and you got to strip down and you go through the showers.
01:41:54
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Right. After you go through the the nerve agent trading stuff. It was not great because you literally go. i feel like you literally went from the inside where it's nice and warm in the shower area to a cold shower to outside in a breezeway where it was fucking like way colder.
01:42:12
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And you're just fucking talk. hey yeah ah talk I would have taken the cold over that damn heat. that Yeah. Well, I'm glad I wasn't there during the heat. so Yeah.
01:42:24
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But you know what? Even in Bosnia, they gave us those bear, I think oh they're called bear coats or something like that. There ain't nothing that could get me warm in Bosnia. It felt like negative nothing. It was like, oh my God, can I get any warm?
01:42:38
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Jesus. you get those Mickey Mouse boots also? Or have to make sure the air part was sealed, otherwise it frees your whole foot inside? it We didn't have any of that. We just had where our regular boots. They didn't give a fuck about us. They were like, oh, frostbite?
01:42:52
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Get over it. Fuck you. Beat your toes. You'll be fine. Yeah, two pair wool socks. You got them. Frostbite's not the thing. Hydrate. I'll be fine. yeah Yeah. There's probably like metal underneath. They're like, yeah, fuck you. How about a whole lot of cold for you? Take some ice cream, you're fine.
01:43:09
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How about, ah all right, last one. Anybody been to Jabal Ali besides me? Anybody else? Jabal Ali. no bahrain the sandbox you couldn't you couldn't go back to bahrain when i was in and they uh it was you couldn't go there anymore really because i was in and then so i think last time we went i was somewhere was somewhere around oh four oh five sometime around that time frame Well, you can't go now. Iran just obliterated. Well, good there is no Bahrain. There is no more Sandbox. There's no Sandbox in Bahrain.
01:43:46
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It's all Sandbox now. what are you talking about? Oh, yeah. Okay, well, fuck. Anyway. right, guys, listen. We are way over our time. I've got a bedtime.
01:43:58
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now that i'm not the military anymore i still got four more stories to tell let's go like wait it's not 10 o'clock your time yet it's only 6 46 my time anybody got a story they want to tell brendan's saying no he's done he just wanted to step and get us all excited he's like all right so in boot camp we were cleaning the barracks And this motherfucker who is, I don't you do yeah one of these guys is just most arrogant son of a bitch ever.
01:44:33
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I don't know why he was a fat slob that had no business. Arrogant son of a, but he was. So we're cleaning the barracks. Everyone is cleaning the barracks.
01:44:44
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And he he's literally on the ground laying down and like wiping something like, he's asleep. Yeah. sleep bro Bro, he had to look like he was doing something. this this this, we call them company commanders. You guys call them drill sergeants.
01:45:03
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Company commanders comes up there, sees him doing, and this guy was maybe 5'2", this company commander. Hilarious. Any guy that would scream at the top of his lungs, he sounded like he was So he said, I don't know why I remember this kid's name.
01:45:25
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bormaco get up so this kid gets up and he goes get your rifle he goes is that we're doing like I said m14 with like the lead filled starts doing the right hold it in front of you grab it oh yes yeah okay and he goes I love doughnuts.
01:45:49
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So then he goes, I love doughnuts. I love doughnuts. So meanwhile, we're all seeing this and trying not to laugh our ass off because most hated people in our company is getting dragged through the butt. So but then he's five minutes into this and he's struggling.
01:46:15
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The guy walks up to him, looks him right in the face and says, jelly.
Life After Military Service
01:46:21
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I love jelly donuts. He nearly broke this kid.
01:46:27
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He nearly broke him. Hilarious. say want do enough that know donnus yeah bet You to
01:46:40
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guys want to go get some donuts jelly donut i'm not a jelly donut fan i can't do it yeah i don't i don't eat they're awful was in law enforcement it was fantastic it was free no that's why i do it that's wck dude i was lawed for it's like a rock can't do it in law enforcement it was fantastic it was free Coffee and a donut every morning.
01:47:08
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That's how I got chubby. That's how I'm fat. there's that That's not how you got fat. Shut up, Mark. What's your excuse? um I'm disabled. I can't do much, so fuck you.
01:47:23
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You son of a bitch. now You need a donut. Rub it in his face there, big guy. need a done want know we don't that no rub it in a space there big guy All right, guys. ah Yeah. So I asked everybody to come on the show. Mark asked everybody come on the show. We always ask for at least an hour of your time.
01:47:42
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You guys have been super humble and given us much more than that. We greatly appreciate it. We'd love to have you guys. but tough but What the fuck? Did anybody else hear that?
01:47:53
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uh this is from alyssa thank you
01:48:07
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this is from melissa thank you everyone for your service mark and family hang in there stephen and i are here for you if you need anything mark guys again yeah thank you for your service And anybody want to tell me? Definitely email me those songs. Somebody. I will.
01:48:24
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Yeah. As soon as I'm done here, I will. You guys have stuff coming up. You're going make it into a little podcast or whatever. When do we um um find it out?
01:48:35
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When I when I do it, i I won't be right away. But as soon as I do it, cause I still got some more stuff to do with my mom. um But when I do that, I'll send it to you, too That's great.
01:48:50
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All right. I want to go around the room real quick. Aaron, what do you got coming up? What do you want to tell people and where can people find you? You can find me everywhere on social media. Aaron L. Hawkins on Facebook, Instagram. um My background says Hell's Gate. That's the movie I'm in pre-production with. We're looking for a lot of money for this because we have a couple of good names in there. Robert Lozardo and Bill Oberst Jr. to name a couple.
01:49:19
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And then we also have the guy that made help or helped make or make the the puppets for Jim Henson, Bill Diamond. So between him and Bill Overs Jr., we have four Emmy Award winners.
01:49:30
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Oh, Phil Diamond's really good. It's really, really cool. Bill Diamond's awesome. love the dude. That's one thing we're working on right now. We need about 150K for that one. But in a few weeks, we're going to start filming a thriller that's based on true events of me having a stalker in real life. Fuck yeah. um And it's intense. And let me tell you, when I was writing the script...
01:49:56
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it was It was euphoric, therapeutic, and I'm like, fuck yeah, man, this is going to be dope. so I knew you were hungry when I met you. Was hot? What's that? I said, was she hot at least?
01:50:09
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Unfortunately, it wasn't a she. You're all opening the window purpose. He's in the Navy. That makes sense. Oh, stop it, man. He's all, hey, open up that window. Open up that window.
01:50:24
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o I'll make a song for you. Hi. Hi. All right, Aaron. Thank you for that, buddy. Steve. Steven.
01:50:36
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How about you, buddy? Yeah, you guys can find me on ah Facebook as Steven Andrews or on Instagram, the Steven Andrews. Mr. Was Taken already. um And I have a film ah also coming out called Better Ways to Die. It's directed by D'Amico and I'm one of the leads and it's pretty much about two idiots come up with the most written ridiculous plan to make some money just to pay a rent.
01:51:02
Speaker
And somehow they got in, they get the mafia involved after their asses. And no matter what these guys send their way to these dumb idiots, they keep making it out of there. So it's literally about two idiots surpassing even the most smartest freaking assassins.
01:51:18
Speaker
Okay. Mindy, you got a couple of things. What you got? So I have a photo shoot coming up and then I've also got, I just signed an NDA for something that's pretty, pretty big. I can't wait for that to happen. There's the killer pizza man that's coming out or that we're going to be I think I want to say maybe August, September timeframe.
01:51:41
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And then I'm not sure exactly if I'm going be doing more independent filming or what it just depends on what comes after this. Cause I signed that NDA. Hopefully I'll meet more people and get into bigger, hopefully bigger sets and stuff like that. So just kind of going with the flow and seeing what happens. And then um I'm doing that psyops right now with Chase Hughes. So NCI, hopefully maybe do level three after I take the exam for two, trying to get these books into more police departments and the other books into family advocacy groups. Cause It's really, really important for me. And then I'm also a nurse. So on the side, and I work with severely intellectual disability people that I teach their caregivers how to care for them. So more stuff to basically give to the world. I know it sounds cheesy, but it's very true. I do. I love my job. I sincerely do.
01:52:39
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I wish I could say that. I want to say I love my kids. I really do. I mean, if I would do it even if I didn't get paid. That's what's sad about it. Then that means you like it. You like it a lot.
01:52:50
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I love helping people in the right way. Thank you, Mindy. Brendan from The Coast Guard. Yeah, I mean, I don't know want to top that. I feel like we we should just end it at this point. No, awesome go follow Mindy.
01:53:07
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Go to. do hello Oh, that's right. I am on Facebook, Instagram. Forgot about that part. LinkedIn, TikTok. Go find her. Dragon's voice. Spread it around. Yeah.
01:53:20
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um I i ah host co-hosted dad's podcast, dad's worldwide. And it's it's my nerd hobby. I just do it for fun.
01:53:33
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I have a great time. We talk about parenting stuff. We talk about politics. We talk about our kids and maybe some life lessons here and there. And worse comes the worse. Just do opposite of what we do. You probably raise some really awesome kids.
01:53:48
Speaker
If you guys could follow me, that'd be great. cause It's hard trying to find people for some reason. So if you can find me, that'd be great. Oh, I found Steven right away. he's He's not hard to find. why bad hands come Thank you Well, I know about the handsome part there. i i My face is not the same on each one.
01:54:06
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Yeah. All right. Everybody go follow Mindy. You know, it already did that. you got her i a heart already Mark's already stalking you. I mean, following you. So you're done that a long time ago.
01:54:17
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Yeah. right on Yeah. OK, so I think that I think that this was a great show. What do you guys think? You think it was pretty? great Thank you. and Sorry, the Air Force had to duck out, but, you know, they'd they'd be late for their tea time.
01:54:32
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Yeah, I know it's like dark here, but they don't care. They fucking play whenever. ah Guys, I really want to say thank you again for being a part of the the pack, being a part of talking shit right here tonight on ah the all the platforms, Facebook, YouTube. Where else did you stream this, Mark?
01:54:50
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Other people's Facebooks? Facebook, YouTube, Facebook. I have it on my profile, but eventually that'll change to... I believe we'll try to doing what Instagram um again live. I'm not sure.
01:55:07
Speaker
Whatever. I don't know how to play with Instagram, but I know that's why I'm here. It does not make me. Yeah. Tech is not my friend. that And ru rumble rumbles a pain in the butt too. It's ridiculous. What's rumble. i know what It's like a free version of YouTube.
01:55:23
Speaker
Yeah. Never even heard of it. You've never heard of Rumble? I'm on a techie. I told you. I just was glad I was on Instagram and Facebook. I literally had to have somebody just hear my password. Have fun. Yeah. Rumble is more of like an independent, like a creator thing.
01:55:41
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and Okay. I think you were on a buddy of mine's radio show for the military. So when YouTube was censoring everybody for the whole COVID, like that's what everyone was going to rumble.
01:55:54
Speaker
Okay. Okay. It's good for that. Did you, were you on veterans take charge radio? Who you talking? Brennan?
01:56:05
Speaker
Uh, dad's podcast. I do have a dad, ah but, uh, it was not me. Okay. Uh, before we go, I, Brendan, uh, sometime at, you know, after June,
01:56:18
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get with us and we'll we'll come on yours. or We've been talking about it for what, two years now and we still haven't done it. They don't want us over there. That's my fault, not yours. Yeah, I'll come on yours. I'll come on anybody's podcast. We'd love to have That'd be great. What's that? ah but You know what, that just doesn't sound right. You've got to say it all together. You can't say I'll come on yours.
01:56:42
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Yeah, it's fine. I mean...
01:56:47
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She swallowed it.
01:56:55
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You know, comedy is always my go to. Saves my fucking ass each fucking time. It's like, hey, she swallowed it whole.
01:57:06
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Well, thank you, my misfits, my brothers and my sisters. I really appreciate you guys. Mark, if there's nothing else, I think that this is where a a really good spot to end the show. Okay.
01:57:17
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Ladies and gentlemen, from us here at Talking Shit, my name is Brian. I'm Mark. You've got Aaron over here You've got Steven down below. you got Mindy.
01:57:27
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And you have the Coast Guard, Brendan. From us here, have a good night, everybody. Thank you. Good night.
01:57:43
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