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00:04:42.000hanks beardvet.com promo code gavin 20 off all orders bubba and hanks.com promo code gavin 20 off all orders thank you for your service beard vet and bubbin hanks god bless our troops i should be wearing um the our military helmet right oh good idea it's veterans day yes by the way i was in a bar all day as you can tell by my inebriation he says as you can tell by my inebriation um and
00:05:43.000um the family watches a war movie every veterans day a good one obviously and uh it was a little bit rich at the beginning with my seven-year-old wow that that uh storming the beach in normandy that was i think 4,000
00:06:01.000dead that was not pretty but after that it gets pretty good I mean it's always good but it gets pretty palatable for a seven-year-old and I just I want the kids to know what these fuckers went through it was unfathomable it was unfathomable look at the way we talk about traffic or or gallstones like what these soldiers have been through,
00:16:40.000I can't imagine with my gun going over, you know, the fucking sand dune, the grassy knoll, the hump in the land, knowing that I could just fucking get drilled at any moment.
00:24:05.000Don't you think that we have these low death tolls with the Middle East, and then we have obviously a high death toll in the Civil War with 620,000.
00:24:14.000But you look at the numbers, and so many of those guys died of dysentery and shrapnel and infection.
00:24:19.000Maybe these modern wars are just as bad as the Civil War, but our medicine is so good that it's giving us a funny count.
00:24:30.000And, you know, there's a lot more people are living today because of medical advancements.
00:24:37.000And they kind of refer to it as the golden hour.
00:24:40.000If somebody's able to get to a trauma hospital, whether that be at Bogram Airfield or somewhere where there's a trauma hospital basically, and is able to receive care within the golden hour, they generally, I think it's like a 50% chance of living,
00:24:57.000which is very good if you have massive internal injuries or losing limbs, that kind of thing.
00:25:03.000Well, as someone who served in Saving Private Ryan now twice, at least twice, maybe probably three or four times, I noticed in the movie that they have mere seconds to survive.
00:27:05.000Hey, you know, it's really hard being a veteran walking around seeing all these civilians and knowing, you know, they've never been through it.
00:27:13.000You know, they've never watched Apocalypse Announce Surround Sound.
00:27:19.000They'll never know what it's really like.
00:27:22.000As a fellow war movie vet, we both are in a different group, a different dimension almost.
00:27:32.000And you know what the worst part for guys like you and me who've watched tons of war movies is we try to get back after we watch the movie, we try to get back into society and we're like, you haven't seen it.
00:31:33.000I had a girlfriend who used to say to me, don't you dare do that.
00:31:36.000And so when I didn't, and after three days, man, I was all over her.
00:31:41.000Yeah, now the problem with all this Zoom shit with school is I'm never alone with my wife.
00:31:46.000I used to get a whole Wednesday where I could have lingerie, whatever I wanted, and I would shoot a load that would burn holes in the wall.
00:38:36.000Maybe Bad Religion was the beginning of this shithole.
00:38:39.000And all of a sudden, it was about political correctness.
00:38:43.000And by the time we leaked into the late 90s, the early aughts, things were starting to stink.
00:38:50.000But I would say punk still clung to a sense of anarchy well into the Early 2000s.
00:39:02.000But then, I don't know, this is pre-Trump.
00:39:05.000During Obama's presidency, I'd say, you started getting these fucking dogmatic assholes who wanted to shut you down if you didn't support the socialist status quo.
00:39:16.000What's the band that Communism Now, Boys, that band?
00:39:23.000Real Communism Now or something they're called?
00:47:59.000I mean, it seems like it could have been better planned.
00:48:04.000Yeah, for sure, because, you know, we did have some paratroopers and some mortars and all that, but everything that we would send down was way off target.
00:48:12.000And the bunkers that were designed in German, because the German had such advanced technology at the time, they were like far superior than anybody else.
00:48:20.000They had such fortified bunkers that it was essentially impossible for us to hit on target.
00:48:28.000But couldn't they have been, like, I know this is naive, but couldn't you have a boat that was farther away that was shooting missiles at these fucking guys that were shooting our guys?
00:49:17.000Because the Germans, there's a famous quote actually from a German general, and he said, our tank was worth four American tanks, but the Americans had five tanks.
00:55:31.000Shane Gillis did a comedy sketch about a firefighter who saves a family, but he gets his life ruined because he's a Trump supporter.
00:55:44.000And then he ends up having his life ruined because he's a Trump supporter.
00:55:49.000And the firehouse that is in the sketch is the same firehouse where there was a proud boy who worked there and they said, you have to shut down the firehouse or fire him.
00:56:01.000And they go, actually, we'll shut down the firehouse.
00:57:41.000Because I remember I did an article for Vice once about drugs and alcohol in war and how, you know, there's a whole thing about how the Nazis were high on speed.
00:57:51.000And I talked to a Vietnam vet and I go, so how much of you were just fucking like on heroin?
00:59:47.000I've done both of those movies, and they are a wild ride, especially if you have a bit of a buzz going.
00:59:56.000My heart goes out to you and your family.
00:59:59.000You'll notice, by the way, when we talk to any kind of government bureau about our service, they're like, we only deal with people who are literally there.
01:01:09.000You can smell them on the street because the stench that they have is just so musk from obviously serving our country and just getting sweaty.
01:02:16.000And I sit there and I feel like, well, for the most part, I feel like a drain on the taxpayer.
01:02:21.000And being in that position, you see just how horribly run just government bureaucracy is in general, just because what do we get?
01:02:31.000Like, at my rank, we get about 50 grand a year if you include like benefits and all that shit.
01:02:37.000But so I'm looking at like hundreds of people in the squadron, and half of them are just like spreadsheet junkies.
01:02:45.000And these spreadsheets are just like bullshit tasks that the commander needs filled out because his commander has this, you know, fuck the police's boss, his boss, all that shit.
01:02:55.000So, and it's demoralizing as fuck, you know.
01:03:00.000It's why suicide is up because we're not at war, you know, quote unquote.
01:03:05.000And people are sitting at desks fucking doing not shit.
01:03:09.000And honestly, on the note of the whole thank you for your service shit, like I was in an elevator one time with some, and I was in uniform because I had to go to this appointment.
01:03:23.000And that's another thing you'll notice about Stolen Valor people is that they will be dressed to the fucking toes in like full decorative, like, what's it just like ceremonial bullshit, just casually.
01:04:42.000It was hilarious, but at the same time, I truly meant it from the bottom of my heart.
01:04:45.000I'm like, honestly, if you knew what I did on a daily basis, if the taxpayer knew how much I was getting paid to shitpost on the internet, honestly, I feel like they'd be at DC every single fucking day saying,
01:05:01.000fuck the, fuck the military chair complex, the chair industry, where we're all just fucking sitting in our chairs doing nothing.
01:06:11.000No, that's a good one, too, because I'll tell you, if you're ever, like, whenever we're out in public and there's just chicks around and they even hear that you're in the Air Force, obviously the first question is, what do you fly, right?
01:06:25.000Like, clearly, we're not all flying shit, but you hit them with just the name, right?
01:06:30.000You think they're going to sit there, pull out their phone, and look up the fucking model of plane that you fly and be like, oh, shit, yeah, well, you know, that's got decent armament.
01:06:38.000I can see it has it does Squawk 5, which is great.
01:06:42.000No, they giggle and then, you know, they get aroused because they think you're a fucking cool guy.
01:07:30.000Everyone got their money's worth today.
01:07:31.000Yeah, I mean, you know, software development in of itself is an annoying and tedious fucking process.
01:07:37.000But at least if we can push a product out that we can see on a website, it's nice to see that, to know that, you know, the software, it's, you know, it's not like, honestly, I wish,
01:07:52.000if anything, I was working with my hands.
01:07:54.000I think software development is a trade.
01:07:57.000You know, it's like the most white-collar, blue-collar job that there is, but it's still muddied up with the bullshit like PR and fucking, it's just, it's an office job, but you're still producing something.
01:08:11.000You know, coding is something that there's demand for, and you have to specialize in.
01:08:16.000That's the only thing I can really take pride in.
01:08:18.000If I was sitting there fucking with a spreadsheet all day, I probably would have blown my brains out if it weren't for my friends and just like the days as a software guy with the Air Force where you've went, wow,
01:08:33.000that was a very successful piece of software I made.
01:08:36.000That's going to help guys at some point.
01:08:41.000Honestly, and, you know, it's definitely not every day.
01:08:45.000Some days I literally get off work and I'm just like, Jesus fucking Christ.
01:08:50.000Like, I really do wish I was busting my ass in the hot sun sometimes because that, you know, I used to do a lot of, I used to work at restaurants and I used to do a lot of package moving, just straight up, you know, work with your hands.
01:09:06.000Like, I always wanted the nine to five, but once you get in the nine to five and you realize the monotony of the shit, like, you want to go back.
01:09:14.000You want to say, you know what, I want to be a fucking active member of society that, like, because I'm out here, I'm in the military, and I'm seeing these blue-collar guys on the elevator.
01:09:32.000It sounds mundane to you guys, but fuck me.
01:09:35.000I would trade everything I have just to, just to be, like, you know, just to have, like, that, that amount of purpose that comes from, you know, actually producing.
01:09:51.000Even like, I go to the beach sometimes.
01:09:53.000I've got to go back for a day of work.
01:09:55.000In the summer, I'll see these guys at the beach, and there's like, there's the women who just sit on their ass and sleep.
01:10:02.000And you'll see these men, they get out, and they're with their sons, and they'll build like some sort of elaborate trench where there's a wall to stop the tide coming in, but there is a sort of a let in case the tide does come in.
01:10:17.000And then they even take up fucking boogie boards, and they make like a barrier to protect the women who are just sleeping and gossiping.
01:10:25.000Like, we're just sort of meant to do stuff.
01:10:29.000Yeah, I mean, it's idle hands make people go fucking crazy.
01:10:34.000And it's, I mean, as long, I can be typing all day, and it is, it, it feels good to produce something through code because it's hard to fucking do.
01:10:43.000And it's something I've always wanted to do because I just want to have, I want to make a product that helps society as a whole.
01:10:52.000And, you know, honestly, I can't imagine, I never went to college, but sometimes I imagine if I had gone to college, like, I could honestly just be some fucking blogger right now, or I could just be some shitty fucking like PR person or HR or just some dumb filler job.
01:11:11.000And I can at least be thankful of that.
01:18:43.000I am just as confused as you are, but like, the reason I like, like, again, I don't, like, obviously, growing up, never wanted to, you know, talk about it within, like, kind of, you know, he mentioned it offhandedly, like, a few times.
01:18:56.000Like, he mentioned, like, when one of his friends died, like, oh, this is a guy I knew in Vietnam.
01:19:02.000He, like, got shot going into a helicopter and he just died of, you know, ass cancer, you know, whatever the fuck.
01:19:56.000I wish you would open up a little bit more.
01:19:57.000Maybe, like, I was going to say, I understand a Vietnam vet hating the government and being dubious of any government, but Joe Biden is going to have you in more wars than Trump would.
01:20:13.000I think the thing is, he's like apolitical.
01:20:15.000I think he just, after he got out of Vietnam, he just kind of like, you know, was like, whatever, I'm not going to talk about politics anymore.
01:20:23.000And I always say that, you know, it's easy being a liberal.
01:20:25.000It's easy, you know, being a Democrat.
01:20:50.000You know, Donald Trump is the first presidential candidate in the last, I don't know how many years, to actually, you know, shake a vet's hand, sit there, talk to him at a rally, ask him his story.
01:21:00.000You know, he's not just some fucking photo op for him.
01:22:41.000I was going to say we should get him on the show, but what are the odds that the guy's going to come down from Maine and talk about Vietnam doing ass?
01:22:51.000I know my grandfather wants to write a book.
01:22:54.000Can I get your grandfather on the show?
01:22:58.000But yeah, he's mentioned, I've heard about four.
01:23:00.000What would happen if we got your grandfather on the show, we were talking, everything was going cool, and we got Super Waste, and then I ended up fucking him.
01:23:07.000I thought you were going to say making up, but that's way worse.
01:25:31.000You know what we used to do, speaking of fallen soldiers, if you're talking about beers that aren't drank, we'd go to a party in my teens late, and then we just grab beers, and we'd go like this, and then drink them like that, because there'd be cigarettes in them.
01:25:47.000And if you grit your teeth, the cigarettes would stay on the other side of your teeth.
01:30:04.000Like all the things that was going on in the world at that time, the racism and the killing of this person, the shooting of that person, and all the civil rights stuff that was going on.
01:33:33.000Alright, so, well, you know, I joined at a pretty young age.
01:33:37.000Joined at 17, which if anybody out there that's listening is thinking about fucking joining that young, I can tell you, don't fucking do it.
01:33:44.000Wait a couple fucking years, you know, until you mature.
01:33:48.000But, you know, I got married like a fucking idiot, you know, age 19.
01:33:54.000And then I got, you know, divorced after that because the divorce rate's pretty high in the infantry, especially in the Marine Corps.
01:35:53.000You know, like, what are we, are we bought?
01:35:54.000You know, like, what are we doing today?
01:35:56.000You know, there were times that they'd be like, all right, you know, fucking, we're going to do a gun run.
01:36:01.000You know, so a gun run, like, you'd go to the armory, you'd pull the 50 Cals, the Mark 19s, you know, all the heavy machine gunnery.
01:36:09.000You know, you'd take that and you run for, you know, in full gear for about six, seven miles, come back, do some ground fighting for about an hour, and then go to Chow and fucking sit around and wait for them to go tell you to, I don't know, fucking listen to the colonel talk about sexual harassment or some stupid shit,
01:36:26.000But yeah, that was a day-to-day thing for me.
01:36:29.000And then, you know, I got divorced right after I got out after, you know, ironically enough, we spent 11 grand on a fucking vacation in New Zealand, which was hilarious.
01:37:29.000Like, how do you deal with something like that besides the bottle or just get in fight, you know, like there's no other way to fucking deal with it.
01:37:36.000And, you know, of course, we get out and well, fucking, we get out.
01:39:26.000You know, like, we're, I see her all the time.
01:39:28.000You know, she comes over and, you know, like, we have sex, we talk to each other and stuff like that.
01:39:33.000But me trying to work on the sobriety, you know, she basically told me, like, hey, if you drink again, like, we're done, you know.
01:39:40.000And that puts a lot of pressure on me because I'm like, well, the statistics on me fucking, if I'm a bottle-a-day drinker relapsing are pretty fucking high.
01:41:45.000And I always think, like, when I see these goddamn Jews doing so well, a lot of my anti-Semitic friends, just kidding, will go, those fucking Jews control the media.
01:41:57.000And I'm like, dude, it's because they're not hungover.
01:42:01.000Like, have you ever seen an Amish person build a house?
01:42:04.000They do it in, like, an hour and a half because they don't drink.
01:42:08.000If you don't drink, look at fucking my buddy Willie McAloon's dad, Danny McAloon.
01:45:27.000That's just like his, you know, every, I mean, in country, every Marine runs around with a dip in their mouth or a cigarette hanging out their mouth.
01:46:01.000You know, sometimes I was at the gym today, and I was looking at all these posters on the walls of all these boxers.
01:46:06.000And I was looking at them, and I was thinking of the same way I feel about these guys who jump off cliffs with squirrel suits on, and they do that air, you know, surfing thing.
01:46:15.000And I'm like, can you guys stop boxing and stop jumping off cliffs and just join the military?
01:47:56.000Well, I wish there was more reverence for your profession because that right there, what you just said, should be what this whole day is about.
01:48:03.000But I was flipping through the channels today at the bar and I was not seeing it.
01:48:08.000Like, well, there was not enough attention to Veterans Day this year.
01:49:16.000It's funny how I'm in a studio that's exactly 70 degrees and I can't wear a World War II helmet for, or whatever the helmet that is, for more than like 10 minutes without going, eh.
01:49:38.000If I'm wearing my socks, just to amplify the faggotude of your average dude, if I'm wearing my socks and I go into my wife's bathroom, like to see if she has any toothpaste, because I'm in the kids' bathroom, it's all like that dumb blue toothpaste with the sparkles in it that tastes like sugar.
01:58:09.000Go out there, set up an OP at whatever pasty checkpoint shit, whatever street, because everything was named street.
01:58:15.000All our street names were basketball team names.
01:58:22.000So we would set up on 40th Street would be, so it was, it was 10th, so 10s, the street names would be 10s going north to south, and then the east to west were basketball team names.
01:58:34.000So we just have like that code words like that shit.
01:58:36.000And we'd set up like checkpoint between 10th Street, 10th, and Lakers.
02:00:27.000I've talked to soldiers who tell me about average Iraqis just cutting off dogs' ears with shearing scissors like stray dogs and then watching them go, just as like a haha, just a random fun joke, like flipping a coin.
02:03:12.000Anyways, any Hizzle, I just want to tell you guys about when I was deployed to Afghanistan in 2012, I actually knew a black guy named Jews.
02:04:06.000And he goes like, Jews, he goes like, I talk so slow because I'm fucking your bomb to brass.
02:04:15.000And it is like everybody in the chow hall just started laughing, dude.
02:04:20.000Yeah, that's something I wanted to tell you.
02:04:23.000Did he not understand reverence to your superiors?
02:04:26.000Like, there's certain jokes you can't do to the top brass, right?
02:04:30.000Yeah, but when you're deployed, because it's like because it's like we could die, you know, there's just a little less, you could get away with more stuff, you know?
02:04:52.000And then your comp, you know, I know you were asking about cigarettes.
02:04:55.000Why you always see veterans with cigarettes?
02:04:58.000Well, the reason is, is actually because when they're out and about, you know, fighting out the wire and shit, they're always smoking cigarettes to increase that flight or flight high.
02:06:44.000But my main question is just about, do you think that the states is going to get to a point where we're like a big religion that has a schism, and we're going to just completely divide into two countries?
02:09:52.000So my general BLM theory is just that I don't think that BLM here in the U.S. is really For the U.S., my theory is that they are ramping up for something pretty big, and I think that the African immigrants moving into Europe are being influenced by the BLM information that they're pushing.
02:10:15.000So while it is beneficial to generate a whole bunch of money to give to Biden, I think it's more about getting the people in Europe all worked up.
02:10:24.000So whenever the thing does happen, they're ready to go.
02:10:27.000And that's why you're seeing BLM riots in Europe that have nothing to do with getting it.
02:10:31.000I was talking to Tommy Robinson recently, and he said, for everything I did against Islam and pedophilia, I got a lot of blowback and whatever.
02:13:08.000And that's why they call them leathernecks, because the leather around their neck was hopefully to keep them from getting their head lobbed off.
02:13:20.000The Marines would wear leather on their necks to stop getting beheaded?
02:13:24.000Yeah, I think that's what the original leather neck was for, was to protect them against that scimitar or whatever the curved blade they used was.
02:14:40.000Every time I get some fancy bourbon, I'm like, it's got this rye, sort of a Jack Daniels kind of a bitterness to it, where the beauty of Makersmark is it's so sweet.
02:14:53.000I think you'll find that the sweet nuttiness of bourbon comes from the aging and the more years you get.
02:16:18.000I checked Twitter hashtags, and yes, Veterans Day was the number one trending hashtag, but that's us mortals trending hashtag Veterans Day.
02:16:30.000The Twitter topics is what sort of the mainstream left choses, and I guess, chooses, and I guess supporting vets is like supporting Americans.
02:16:40.000Supporting Americans, supporting Trump, and that's for Botan.
02:19:00.000Sometimes the battle was a fucking shit show where they had no backup, but they did it anyway because they believed in the grander scheme of things, the bigger picture.
02:19:11.000And the bigger picture is, I love this country and I want you to be safe.
02:19:20.000How about a thank you for men who threw their lives into the wind to make sure that you were safe?
02:19:28.000Well, I would personally like to say thank you to all the vets who died and all the vets who risked their lives and all the vets alive today who would dare to risk their lives for us.
02:19:39.000Jesus, I'm sorry to blaspheme, but I am so thankful that these guys are out there.
02:19:44.000Their incredible bravery is unfathomable to me as a fucking pussy, normal person walking the street.
02:19:52.000Thank you so much to the American military, to the Western military, to all of these men who defend everything we hold dear.
02:20:02.000And I deeply apologize on behalf of my brethren and the people around me for not recognizing what you do.