It's Christmas Eve Eve, and the world is on fire! In this episode, we have a special guest on the show, a man named Phil, who has no idea what he's doing with his life, and no idea where he's going to go from here.
00:25:05.820Those guys stay home and they get all the women because they get and they get to live and they get all the money and their officers and stuff.
00:26:30.800When you think about it, all the people that we lost then, if they had not been killed, it would have been maybe more like five hundred thousand people.
00:27:24.360I want to see the guys getting off of the boats at Juno Beach.
00:27:27.660I want to see paratroopers landing into swamps and drowning to death because that happened to these fucking poor guys.
00:27:34.120I want to see all of the instances of the worst, scariest, most awful, oh my God, that our boys did.
00:27:43.920And I want you to put that up and say this is a gesture of our appreciation because we wouldn't exist without you.
00:27:50.040If it weren't for this, we would all be dead.
00:27:52.440We wouldn't even be alive because the Nazis and all of that, right?
00:27:56.840Gee, I just feel a little underappreciated at times.
00:28:00.500And they're going to go around finger-wagging all the time saying, oh, you can't and you gotta, and you gotta, hey, shut the fuck up, Jews, and say thank you for World War II.
00:28:10.480Until you say thank you, I say Merry Christmas, okay?
00:28:15.480That's the kind of fucking mood I'm in today.
00:28:29.520Oh, I'm just going to guilt you for decades.
00:28:32.200I'm just going to guilt you and guilt you and guilt you and guilt you and guilt you and ask for stuff and take money and guilt you and guilt you and say, oh, I need this and I need that.
00:28:40.500I guilt you and guilt you and guilt you.
00:28:42.760Oh, now I'm going to kill everybody right in front of you on live TV and say it's not happening.
00:28:46.780It's all about that he said, she said bullshit.
00:28:51.260Think you better quit, let the shit slip.
00:28:53.920Oh, oh, somebody shot some of our people.
00:30:57.920I have no idea why it's, it's like a, like a therapeutic thing, but it is.
00:31:01.820But like, why hasn't anyone said that before?
00:31:11.260How has no one pointed this out before?
00:31:13.260Like, why haven't I seen that all over the time?
00:31:15.080I could just, I think I've said it or thought it a couple of times, but like this time I'm just like, okay, this is the whole world right now.
00:31:44.540Now, one time, one of them was in a truck, is shooting a machine gun out the window into crowds of hundreds of people and just throwing grenades.
00:31:57.080We were actually overdue, to be honest.
00:31:58.760I was surprised it hasn't been, it's been a while, but it's getting close to Christmas time.
00:32:01.660So, and Canada has been warned several times.
00:32:04.860So, I expect there's a very high, like, high probability of an attack in Canada because there have been two articles printed in the National Post and the other one was the, maybe the Globe and Mail.
00:32:15.160Well, no, or maybe it was Snoop Dogg, Weed Stream.
00:33:47.720And, you know, it's really bad for a lot of people, man.
00:33:57.480Like things are really awful and I don't feel like telling everybody everything's great and it's all, it's all going to work out.
00:34:08.820And I don't think that's helpful because to me it would not be helpful because I know that's not true.
00:34:13.800Um, but the, you know, the, the other side of it is you do not also, um, just become this anchor on, on morale either because that's terrible.
00:34:34.020Well, you know, you got to shoot that guy.
00:34:38.960He's going to cost, he's going to get everybody else, uh, messed up.
00:34:42.760But I, I think it's, uh, I think it's better to just acknowledge it, that it is difficult and persevere anyway, rather than pretend like it's, you know, everything's a piece of cake.
00:35:07.100Everything's awesome because I've also, I've been that, um, the other guy I've been the type of person who would, I need to, I need to believe it.
00:35:31.100You know, I can't just hear it and go, oh, well, good, um, if I don't believe it myself in my own head, like, it doesn't work.
00:35:45.920Like, I would not believe, um, you know, somebody who behaves that way and acts that way.
00:36:02.740Or worse, you know, I've also been, you know, a person, you know, weaker than that, that then in the face of that, I, you know, feel inferior or there's something wrong with me.
00:36:10.740Like, how, how, how, how are these guys like, you know, fine.
00:36:29.480But the truth is like in the middle, it's, um, you know, you, you had to, I had to learn this, you know, it's, it's, uh,
00:36:36.160part of the mentality, you know, you have to, you're saying it out loud and projecting that attitude and doing these things because it kind of, it kind of generates its own outcome.
00:36:48.820Um, there's a weird, and it's, it's in, it's in, it's in weird places in life, intense places, but in, in the warrior, you know, kind of culture world, there's that, it's like a self-fulfilling prophecy.
00:37:00.000Like, you're not supposed to dwell on, do not think or dwell on negative things.
00:37:06.060Like, you're going to die, or you're going to, this, or you're going to, like, do, literally, do not think those things.
00:37:10.900Don't talk about, don't even, because it, I mean, you know, old soldierly live sales kind of thing.
00:43:11.140Like, I don't, I don't think I want to, I don't think.
00:43:13.860If he says, go do this shit, I'll be like, yeah, I got it.
00:43:16.280Yep, I'm just going to go do that immediately because he might, he might do things.
00:43:20.760There was a guy, there was a second battalion right before I got there, who used to just, like, smash, like, probably maybe a while before I got there.
00:43:39.080And funny enough, some of them, some of the, uh, one of the guys I just, uh, visited in Newfoundland, uh, who's buried there, um, who was killed on my deployment was a guy like that.
00:44:11.360He wasn't a tall, but he was, fuck, dude, he was, he was intense.
00:44:16.220He just, see, you know, nobody wanted to, you know, everyone kind of just avoided him a bit because it's like, I don't want him to come over here because if he sees him doing something wrong, he's going to fucking lose his mind.
00:44:37.700That always kind of fascinated me, you know, because it's like, what was it about him that made him give off that impression versus, you know, any of these other guys, you know?
00:45:00.920Because he wasn't physically intimidating, but he was kind of intimidating anyway.
00:50:51.920Intentionally, because on the other side of those, if you are successful, you become closer to where you're supposed to be going to becoming the person you're supposed to be.
00:50:59.200And then when you get there or the closer or the further you go, I don't know if you ever get there.
00:51:06.240I think it might just keep going forever.
00:51:07.720But the further you go, the stronger and better they seem to become, in my opinion.
00:51:15.620And I don't think people are here to supposed to be a piece of shit.
00:51:23.220But whatever it is, whatever the deficiency or problem or whatever it is, you know, holding somebody back or whatever phobia, whatever, whatever it is, is wrong with them or something or, you know, maybe a lot of things.
00:51:42.600Like, that's the job, you know, like I was a weak person and I didn't like that.
00:57:39.560And a few years later, they asked for volunteers to go on a fighting deployment, you know, in Kandahar, where it was the Wild West, we were told.
00:57:52.900And it was when they were asking about, you know, talking about, like it was rumored that it was coming and that they would have to, you know, fan out the troops and say, who wants in on, you know, whatever.
00:58:05.420And I was just kind of listening to this in the CQ office there.
00:58:10.000And there's a couple of Patricia Sergeants from the PPCLI out west.
00:58:16.660And they're doing their reserve gig, like retirement posting.
00:58:38.040They're like, when you have guys like that, especially in the reserves or like, it's different a lot of places, or like I say, depends on the level, like a regular force airborne veteran, Patricia Sergeant with, you know, five, six, seven deployments in a reserve unit full of teenagers is fucking, he can do whatever he wants now.
00:58:58.320And then, you know, and you go to like a regular force unit, if like some legendary badass from like JTF2 shows up, like he is now God, like he is the God.
00:59:07.480They were, it's this weird like warrior hierarchy where they all, it's like pyramids up to like the scariest man.
00:59:14.500So like, and under him, there's other pockets of scary, less scary men who follow a less scary guy and all the way down to me, who's like impressed with these, you know, and they were, they were great dudes.
00:59:25.460They were honestly like solid, hard, you know, pretty sick dudes.
00:59:28.520So, but it was my first experience with like man world, really, you know, I just, I just, I'll just legally able to drink.
00:59:36.320And I'm, you know, a soft kid from Pictou, really.
00:59:39.180I haven't really, and these two guys are talking about this deployment that they heard is coming.
00:59:43.440And I, and they're like, I heard one of them say, Ken Har.
01:06:20.360The rumble, the rumble people can see it.
01:06:22.520And they're, and they're not going to be okay.
01:06:29.840And I can't say that because there's all kinds of other people that can't see that, but they'll hear it if I say it and then they won't be okay.
01:22:15.200There are 15 year olds, 14, 15 year olds that I've trained with at boxing clubs who are more confident and intimidating than grown men that I know.
01:22:24.320So, this one kid's 15 and could probably break my jaw.