212 - The Gang Goes To War With The Buffalo School System | Unsubscribe Podcast Ep 212
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Hi, everyone. Welcome to the Unsubscribe podcast. I'm joined today by Eli Double Tap, veteran with a sign. Brandon Herrera, myself, donut operator. We've been going through some crazy stuff lately. We just wanted to jump on here and talk to you guys about it. Cody killed a guy. I killed a man. That really got out of hand. Really?

Really quick? You're going to have to leave the country. I would lay low for a few weeks. I forgot. Yeah, we haven't even discussed all the fucking shit storm that has been a brewing and taken care of. And then I don't know if you talked to. Oh, which part? Happy birthday, Nick. Happy birthday, Nick. Happy birthday, Nick. Happy birthday, Nick. Nick is in Paris right now.

hanging out with his family. So we'll see him in probably next month. I hope he enjoys it. He loves Paris. Yeah, dude. I think he was in that space movie from 1992 or something. Which one? That one we might have to delete. We'll leave it. We'll leave it. No. But our little baby boys, you know, it's his birthday. How old is Nick? I don't...

I don't know if that's public. Do we want it? I think he said it before, but I think he just turned 32, 31. Yeah. 31, I believe. Happy birthday. I love it. We have that. We have the entire shitstorm that is the Buffalo. And dear God, if you hadn't talked to Nick today, everything that's unfolding. No, I haven't. Yeah, so we're going to do another update.

- Good. - God damn. - Nick and his binder. - Cause I saw we got somebody like, we got the move from misdemeanor charges to like multiple felonies, which is fucking rad. - Imagine a dude trying to kidnap kids and then is just a single misdemeanor charge for I think trespassing or something. - It was like child endangerment. - Child endangerment. It was the lowest level of like child. - Because our boy Rich spoke up on the podcast. Now that dude has four felonies. They just hit him with it the other day.

That wouldn't have happened if Rich didn't say something. That is the most mind-blowing thing. That dude would have had a slap on the wrist for that. Imagine, that's the fucking part that drives me crazy. This person tried to abduct two elementary school children for God knows what purpose. They were going to hit him with a single misdemeanor. Probably wouldn't have even served jail time.

But if your shotgun is half an inch too short, you get 10 years in prison. He could have bought a fucking gun. Fuck you. Yeah, he could have still bought a gun. Isn't that the story where the dad showed up and the kid had wet his pants and they didn't have any? Then they were like, we don't know. Yeah, they didn't tell the parents. Yeah. Yeah.

I'm not going to say what I would do, but it rhymes with John Q. You understand what I'm saying? If I showed up and my child had been in that type of danger and they told me to talk to a lawyer, I'd be like, well, you better call someone. Yeah, call an ambulance. But not for me. I hate Buffalo. I'll say it. I hate burning down. I'm just going to say this. I know as a father especially, I could not be more proud of all of you.

I mean, Rich, everyone knows Angry Cops Online, but not a lot of people know Rich the way we do. And just to see the way he has honestly put his career in jeopardy in a lot of ways with reckless abandon regardless of the outcomes and then the support from all of you and the community has been off the charts. I'm really fucking proud to know all of you on a personal level. And this is actually how change happens. I was talking to my wife about it, and it's just –

Most of it's unfathomable, but without this and without all of you, God only knows what could have happened. Because, I mean, Rich, he embodies doing what is right, not what's convenient. And it's fucking rad to see. It's also kind of like, because none of us were prepped about what he was going to talk about before that. We went in blind and just kind of gave him the mic. Watching him break down like that was like watching your dad cry.

It was just like, oh, fuck. Because if you guys didn't follow the timeline of that, we were just having a regular podcast bullshit with our boy Rich. He's in town. We're having some drinks and stuff. Second podcast of the day. Yeah. And then all of a sudden he's like, look, I just want to get this off my chest.

And, dude, if he didn't do that, that guy would have been walking around with a little misdemeanor, you know, maybe doing the same thing. But now he's got four felonies, and that's fucking rad. And that's just the beginning. Yeah, and Buffalo would have been still doing their shitbaggery, and now it is...

Again, he didn't even, he was like, you can put it at the end of the episode or something. He was just, he didn't know what, he just wanted to get it off his chest. And he says he feels so much better. We've been doing our little FaceTime conversations, both of us FaceTime because we are very expressive and talk with our hands. Yeah.

You don't say? Yeah, it feels really weird talking to him. You got to cast spells. Just two wizards. It's just you need the meme of like the Harry versus Voldemort, like the wand contest. It's just Eli and Rich on FaceTime. But he feels so much better. And as he said, he's like, we're on the offensive. It's not defensive. It's not the emotional penthouse.

up shit right now it's we pushed everything and put the ball in their court and now they are terrified and what nick found oh man dude we have it we'll see if we keep this in so now we have an interview from one of the teachers fuck yeah admitting every like she's on uh nick did an interview with the teacher and it is her going over all the shit like oh yeah a kid um had a an attack uh

unconscious non-responsive and then was she wasn't allowed to call the paramedics or anything and it had to be oh call their parents the principal and everyone was like no no no no the administration was like no don't call the police get the parent involved and they can come pick them up and then drop them off at the hospital knock the fuck out unresponsive what the fuck mom had to leave leave work go pick up the kid then go and then they're like hey don't say anything same for

Oh, because they didn't want it on paper happening on school grounds. Others, as that 17,000 cases. Information only. Information only reports. Yeah, burn it down. And it's just so bad. And then we have two EMTs talking about responding to other situations. And then the fuck, like them trying to find these two kids that are unresponsive.

with the edibles. They're like going through all that shit. Where the teacher gave edibles to, uh, to minors. What? The teacher, the paramedics, the empty showed up and they were like, Hey, where are these kids at? Where are these kids at?

The teacher was told, no, you can't. You have to talk to an administration before we get you involved. Ten minutes of them arriving that they couldn't find or get a hold of or figure out where the kids were because the administration was like, no, you have to talk to us first. And then the administration fucking told them. I mean, depending on the dosage of the edibles, the kids probably didn't know what they were either. Dude, they were like 300 milligrams. Jesus.

Oh my god. 11 years old. Those kids were talking to God. What the fuck? Yeah, the kids were God. Yeah. Okay, how did they- How did they- I'm so mad, I can't see straight. How did they get edibles? The teacher provided them. Okay, so- Quote-unquote accidentally, which I don't know how the fuck that happens. I've had a lot of accidents in my life. I've never accidentally dosed kids. And guess what happened to the evidence?

It was consumed. They had a bag apparently and then the EMT was like, okay, cool. We'll take that. Hold on to that. We'll take care of the kids. Okay, where is it? Oh, we lost it.

How old were they? So they're minors? 11. 11? So I'm sure people know this, but when we used to take stuff to school for the kids, we had to only bring store-bought stuff because of food allergies and everything. And store-bought weed's way better than cleaner. I just don't understand how we've jumped from you can't have peanuts in there to somehow edibles have made it into an elementary school. Bro, peanuts.

world peanut butter you can't like you can't know literally now allowed at school we had to like take trays and like the all right secretary whoever at the school would be like okay they have to look at it and it would have to be sealed from like Publix or Kroger or something all right well my schools were wild and then we didn't have that but well I mean enough none of the teachers ever gave me fucking drugs so that's that's crazy not a wild yeah for that fucking cocksucker attorney from the other day

What was his name? You're going to have to be more specific because there's so many in the Buffalo Public Schools system. The dude was like, well, he should have went through the proper chain of command and sent it to his lieutenant. And it's like, no, this is the reason. Fuck you. Fuck you, Bob. This is the reason Rich had to come on a podcast and say it. And the dude's like, oh, but he had to go on a podcast. Robert Boreanaz. He had to go on a podcast. He says in the podcast, I cannot fucking do this. I...

They are putting up resistance. They aren't letting us do anything. This is the only way to get the message out in his response. Why didn't you go through the proper channels? People are called whistleblowers because the proper channels didn't fucking work, Robert!

It seems weird to focus on Rich and not the crimes. I know I'm old-fashioned. I know I'm a dad, you know, and I'm like, protect the kids, the anti-Buffalo public school system motto, but I don't know why we're so focused on that and not the children. It's wild. We know Rich is a silly guy. He's a funny man. But he's been a special victims unit investigator for a long time.

time though. He's a detective. He's a drill sergeant. He's a combat veteran. He's been around the block. He's got actual credentials aside from just being internet funny guy. Yeah. Also, people are a different way online than they are in real life. I don't think Ben Affleck's Batman. He was a good Batman, but there's multiple different layers to it and it seems like everyone's trying to view him through the lens of like, oh, he's a silly goose in a uniform. Wait, he's not an autistic assassin? No. That might be the most controversial thing you've ever said is that he was a good Batman.

I kind of liked it, dude. It was pretty cool Batman. They'll fight in the comments. Bring back the Snyderverse. It had potential. It had potential. You don't think so? Bring back Cavalry. What was the last thing? Oh, what's the report? What were they saying? Rich's, the boat, police officers, you're non, you can't testify if you're on that one report.

The Bobby Report or some shit like that? Oh, the Brady. Brady. Yeah, the Brady List. The Brady List, everyone's like, oh, he's on the Brady List, so they're using that to discredit him. Or they're saying he should be on the Brady List. Oh, are they saying that he should be? Okay. So it's something that people are just kind of throwing around, and it's really like... They're just, again, they're trying to...

Again, go after the credibility of Rich instead of like saying, hey, maybe if these are legitimate concerns, we should investigate them. Because he's talking about some real cases that it's the same shit when they were they were going after like, oh, there's a podcast. There's alcohol on the table. One of the guys, you know, Rich burped at one point. These guys are foul. It's like, well, that's fucking crazy because I thought the foul part was the assault of children.

Maybe that's just my sensibilities, but I thought that that was the part that was upsetting. The exact definition of Brady lists, also known as liars lists, are recorded, maintained by prosecutors and law enforcement agencies to track law enforcement officers with a history of misconduct, dishonesty, or other integrity issues. So that's why they're saying he should be on the list.

Okay. I thought they were saying he was on the list. Okay. No, I don't believe he is. Who makes the list? Well, I thought they were saying he was. I thought there was multiple because I was talking to Nick and it was well, multiple reports of them saying, well, he's on the Brady list. So he's fucking no, he can't like he's not good. I would be shocked if he was. So well, people are saying so that's the thing. They're saying he's on the list. It's almost like we could text him.

No, so there's different... He's not. Nick bought the fucking Brady because you can buy it and you can see who's on it. That's what the problem is. So he's not on the list? No, he's not. I was going to say, why the fuck would he be? But if they're saying he is...

Now you have a lawsuit against them because now you're lying outright and you're defaming character. Because here's the thing that people don't understand about defamation is that in order for you to have a defamation or a slander or libel suit, it has to be wrong. So people are like, oh, he's going to go after you. Like, cool. Find me a fucking point during that podcast where he said something that wasn't fucking true. And we didn't say names either, which is like one of the biggest things, too. There's no names. I can do it.

Fuck you, Bob. Bobby suck. Yeah, it's wild. The guy he was talking about just called four new felonies this week. And I can also say my opinion. That's fine. That's not true. It is, Bob. Like, no!

Well... God. Oh, fucking-- I know, now we're just riled up on these things. I'm like entering like, angry dad territory very quickly. Okay, we're gonna take a moment, we're gonna breathe. One more thing, Ed, you suck too. That's it. I'm done. Oh, uh, what is it? Ed sucks too. Ed Ranch, I think? Yeah, Ed sucks too. Fuck you, Ed. Ew, they burped. Ew, gross. Do your job! Just do your job! Just report!

Ben's good. It's like the normal. Yeah. Ben's Ben's great. But it's like the Norm Macdonald bit where they're talking about, you know, the the worst part about the Ben, the Bill Cosby thing. So, yeah, the you hear all these people talk about how the worst part is, you know, is that he was a hypocrite.

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It feels like that bit right now.

All I know is you're talking to a WKBU top fan badge wearer right now. Anytime WKBU Buffalo goes live on Facebook, I'm there. It's game over, dude. They gave me a top fan badge. Cracking their knuckles. Just like the way that those fucking news media people are saying, it's just a podcast. Bitch, we get a hundred times the views you do in like one day.

I really, I love what Nick said about that. It's like people listen to you because of your job. We have our job because people listen to us. We are not the same. Like I fucking love, I don't know if he took that from something, but if not, that is like, that's beautiful saying. Oh yeah.

He could not have put it better. Okay, we're going to reset. We'll go into something sad. Patrick, literally our boy Patrick, we just got off FaceTime with him and his mom, Shirley. Amazing humans. At the live show, it will be put up here. The community. Which live show was that? The Knopfick one? Yeah, the Knopfick one. Everyone gave him a standing round of applause. Ah!

Patrick's been fighting cancer. He showed up to the show. We have some amazing pictures. Those are going up right here. And he's been so supportive. His mom's been so supportive of him through this battle. And we got bad news. He has three to five days of, as of recording this, it's the 6th of May. And it's looking like he has three to five days left to live.

So we're just giving him nothing but love, support, kindness to that entire family and just what an amazing human he is. And even he looked exhausted today, but he still put on a smile. He said, what's up? He was surprised his mom set that entire thing up. And it was an honor to talk to him on those last moments. Yeah.

It was a privilege to meet him. His mom's amazing. He's great. They were awesome at the Norfolk show. Oh, dude. And you all, everyone that showed up to that, you, I can't stress the email. I can actually probably put that up. You guys made that dude and his mom's fucking year with the chanting, giving the flag. That is a one in a lifetime opera, like chants. And you all gave that chanting his name. It was, that was probably my...

favorite moment of the entire tour was that one specific moment and then made us feel something, which is hard. Kind of rare. Patrick, we love you, buddy. We, uh, we appreciate everything you do for all of us. And Shirley, same to you. You're an amazing mom. Thank you for, for everything. And thank you for those moments of, uh, just connecting with us and being able to share the,

the same space as us. We appreciate you so, so fucking much. You know, that's the, that's the thing about cancer. And I feel like I'm just now, this is the second time in a row I've repeated a Norm MacDonald bit. Cause you know, he died from cancer, but he goes, you know, you can't lose from, you can't lose the fight with cancer. You can only win. Cause if you lose, so does cancer. So it's a draw.

He did it, dude. I did it. Like I love that even on that, like he's at the hospital and we're still being us. We're still telling jokes. Like we'll get you some little Cody's suggested black tar heroin. I was wanting to give him some black tar heroin. I suggested regular drugs. Cody pulled a baggie of black tar heroin out of his pocket. So give him love, give him support. Um,

And give that family as much love and support as possible. No, you guys were, you're awesome. Um, it was a pleasure to meet you again. And, uh, no, I was, uh, it was truly an honor. Yep. Our hearts go out to you. Like whatever y'all need. Not the Elon way. Yeah. No. Um, but I'll just stop here. I'll pat here and then put my hand down and slide it right here. Good call. Good call.

Oh man, what a fucking episode so far. We're like, everyone's watching is like, oh. Yeah, I love how you're like, let's take a moment with Woosaw. Yeah. I thought we were going to go like funny. Now we go to funny. Now we up ticket our boy Zach's in town. Hey! Veteran with a sign, hey! Oh shit, Adam's here? Yeah.

You just get up and leave. God damn it. Probably. Yeah, I'm here. I'm here. I'm in Texas. I'm doing the whole run.

Doing the whole run. I wore my Superman shirt, so I'm really excited. You were very proud of that shirt. I am. It's when Superman sponsored the National Guard. I don't know. How much did he get paid? The NASCAR car. I don't know. I got that, Eli. More than me. Yeah, so I just wanted to come by and try and do a podcast without any donkey-related stories because it was about a year ago.

when I came here at the House of the Rising Sun and I told the donkey story and it took just a year and my lovely wife said, just please don't tell any more stories like that. Mainly because my mother-in-law came up to me and was, yeah, it's the first thing that pops up. Really? Oh no. Donkey story? Yeah. My mother-in-law came to me, I don't know when it was, it was recently and she goes, hey, I heard the donkey story and

Christie was like just like laser eyes because it's like jumped like all levels of like permeating my life. So it's it's funny. It's a good time. That's Afghanistan, right? Yeah, it's Afghanistan. He's not going to tell the story. His wife doesn't want him to but it basically ends with some very awful acts with donkey from some people in Afghanistan. Turns out they like to fuck animals. I know that this is jarring to some of you.

Google it. Make sure that's at the top of the list no matter what. Yeah, run that up. Maybe check out the YouTube while you're there. But no, it's – Or the Unsub Live show. Yeah, or the Unsub Live show. Available on Pepperbox. On Pepperbox TV. She was like, what are you doing? I was like, I had to go to Atlanta, Boston, and Buffalo. She's like, so what are you doing? And Nick was at the house, and he's like doing like classic Nick. He's just like eating, and he looks at her. Looking through your stuff. Oh.

I'm gonna make him tell the donkey story live on stage. And she's like, "What?" Say we're gonna talk about donkey . He's like, "Oh yeah, Zack will probably do it 'til he dies." He just keeps eating.

Why'd you come in a day earlier? Huh? Why'd you come in a day earlier? You were going to be here tomorrow, right? I was going to be here tomorrow, but do you want me to talk about it? Yeah, dude. Dude. What are we doing tomorrow? What are we doing tomorrow, dude? We're going to hang out with a guy. I don't want to name names. Post Malone, no big deal. I don't want to say names. I don't want to say names.

So you're going to Texas, and I'm like, yeah. And she's like, you're going to hang out with your friends? I'm like, yeah. And she's like, are you going to a Post Malone concert? And I was like, how did you know? Oh, you didn't tell her? I hadn't withheld it. I was just informing her of what was going to happen. And that's marriage. But she just naturally knew. Yeah, she knew. She was like, so is there a concert or something? I was like, I don't know. Who knows? Yes, there's a concert at Post Malone.

She's like, oh, I guess I'll be here with the kids. And you're just hanging out with Post Malone. I was like, hopefully we really click in. Maybe we'll all hang out here in Nashville. Who knows? You're going to Disney next week. Shut the fuck up. Your schedule is like Tuesday, podcast. Wednesday, Post Malone. Thursday, purse shopping. Yeah. Mother's Day is going to be lit in the Bell household. I've got to reset the... There's like a... Zach's in Texas.

you know, Mother's Day is really cool. So like, I got to weigh it back out. I got to get some more credit on the books. Justice is blind, but she likes Louis Vuitton. I see, you know, ball. Your fucking thermostat is going to be on 75 for the rest of the month. Yeah. Yeah. Okay, honey. Yeah. That's, that's, that's the battle. But I mean, honestly, she, she's incredible. She puts up with a lot. I mean, it's been, it's been hectic because we just finished our third trip to Disney this year. Oh,

Oh, yeah. Doing the cheer stuff. Cheer. And my note says Disney, Dad. Yeah. Because you are literally, I've never met a Disney dad before. You're the only person in the world I hear from who's like, fuck, I got to go to Disney again. The happiest place on earth is actually...

Cheers happening again. They call that Zach privilege. So what's funny is I remember growing up in the South, it was at McDonald's actually.

They gave you a promo tape, and it was Mickey Mouse walking around seeing Disney. And I was like, one day I'll go to Disney. That would be so awesome. And he's like, hi, guys. We're going to the Haunted Mansion. And it's just like this promo where he's like, check it out. I have a story about that as soon as you're done. It's a promo tape, and I was like, one day I'm going to go. One day I'm going to go. One day I'm going to go. Well, the first time I went, not many people know this story. The first time I went was literally 30 days after I got back from Marjah.

God. Yeah. And when I'm in the sun, my hair gets blonde, like slim, shady blonde. And there's just a photo of me and Christy and the girls, and they're still blonde hair poking out. So less than 30 days, I was like, we're the Taliban. Jump cut. I'm talking to Mulan. Be like, you're our favorite. You're a warrior princess. She really likes you. That's what I'm talking about.

That was the first time I went. A little bit night terrors. The fireworks were a lot. We worked through it, but now we go for cheer. And it's fun, but it's just like it's stressful because they're competing. It's playing cheer real fast. Okay, so...

You're a cheer dad. I'm a cheer dad. So competitive cheerleading. They do all sports go there now, but there's the ESPN Center on Disney property. They have baseballs. It's like downtown Disney, right? Yeah, it's on property. It's a whole thing. There's multiple different venues there. And so we'll tack days to the left and right of it to spend time at the parks or whatever. And so the first time we went was January this year and then last week and the week before.

So, uh, so they're cheerleading championships are there. So there's worlds, which is like level six, which is my oldest daughter's on. And then there's, um, summit, which is the levels underneath that. Right. And so that was what my youngest daughter's on. And so like back to back and like, I'm just in support. Like I've got like hairspray, like ponytail holders, like water bottles. One time I stood in line for like two hours for like 12 pretzels to like feed the team before they went to compete.

Like, I'm... There's, like, no veteran. There's no nothing to have... I'm just, like, there. I'm like a pack mule. And it's fun, but it's, like... It's about as veteran as it gets, actually. Yeah, actually, now that I'm describing that. I walk in a circle. It's hot. People are yelling at me. Afghan guys, fuck you. That's the VIP experience. No, that's the donkey experience from Pinocchio. Yeah.

But it's- oh god. But it's- it's just- you like- It'd be a shame if you lied, Pinocchio. Pinocchio would have been much worse if it was, uh, the island was off the coast of the Mediterranean to the- to the east.

Sorry, it's two more. No, that was great. It's your world. But yeah, it's just, it's unlike anything else because they compete for like, there's like three minutes that they're performing. And like, there's a lot of buildup to that. So like at Worlds, we were there at like, we got up at like four, we got there at like five. We got up at five, got there at six. The doors weren't even open yet.

And then she competed and then we had to wait the rest of the day and find out they moved on or not. And then just kind of, it's just like that. Like, it's just, they keep going, but like, it's really cool. Like I sent everyone the photo here and I, I don't want to show it because it's my child. I'm trying to protect her privacy, but we had a competition in Nashville, uh,

It was like a month before this. And my oldest daughter, she busted her nose. Oh yeah. I saw the picture. She got caught in a basket and it's this really hard stunt, but like she busted her nose and like she kept going and she didn't know. And it literally looks like JJ Watts photo when he broke his nose. Yeah. The picture was bad. She's just bleeding. And like, like when I went up there, I was like, how are you? She's like, I'm fine. I don't know why we stopped. And I was like,

Alright, I'm really proud of you. You and your wife do it because the girls, they absolutely love doing the cheer thing. But do you ever run into weird parents out there, though? They're like hyper-obsessed and just act silly. You're going to do this because I never did it in high school. Yeah, there's a... My little Susan is the greatest cheerleader of all time. You're having a good time, aren't you, sweetie? Cody. Brandon. Nick. Dude.

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businesses like this are extremely helpful incogni.com slash unsubscribe yeah there i mean that was uh definitely at the like now it's kind of um there's been an attrition because like the levels they're at now they have to do like complex stunts and stuff so like that's kind of faded out but like it is interesting having like a team with dynamics and also like the parents are there so there's like multiple different factors involved but like some of these

I mean, some of these parents I've known since our kids were like 10 years old. So I've known them for like... Watched their kids grow up as mine have grown up. So it's... It's this kind of like weird bond you develop with them. Because no one else is like in this world except... Unless you're like... Unless I'm telling y'all. You would like wouldn't know that. You know what I'm saying? But it's...

It's fun because they both love it. They asked to both be on an extra team this year, and I was like, yeah, let's do it. Let's run it. It's the healthiest form of adversity I can put them through. I don't want to give them my life, and I'm like, hey, guess what? You're poor now. Here's bologna and bread. Make it work. But look where we got. Yeah. You ever got in a fight with any other opposite cheer moms? True.

How many cheer moms you beat the shit out of? Just like the opposite team. Yeah, do you hit women there? Yeah, how many- No, no. See, you gotta learn how to ask a leading question. How many women have you hit? Five minutes later. Here's the thing. What do you mean hit, Cody? No, it's- Honestly, I'm literally in the background, right? Christy's really running the show of like the moms. She's the one hitting moms. She's the one. Dude, she's like the team mom. Like, she's telling them- Like, she's the one who's like-

the center stage stuff and I'm literally like can I get something like I have I have like no real role in it other than like supporting her and like I film everyone's like sexually good at filming and I just do this for like three minutes hold a camera and they're like oh that's good and they're like how'd you do that and I'm like I hit the 4k button you know it looks beautiful yeah he's a professional he does this for yeah they've learned a little bit of that as time has gone on um because like you know I started this in March of 2020 that was just like me holding up a sign

And so now they're like, hey, I've heard a few of the dads. A lot of the dads are like, hey, donkey story, bro. They're pretty jazzed about it. And other people, it's like blending. I'm sorry that's become your life. It's all right. It's all right. I didn't do anything wrong. I just described a moment in my life. I'm just sorry. I'm telling the truth. And now you're known for it.

Yeah, what was it? It said veteran with a sign, VFW, and then donkey story, and it's just like two things in a row. Dude, you're doing great. People just know me for saying slurs. I love it. I like that support, Cody. So I don't even say them out loud. Dude, when you get married, you need to change your name to operator. I support this decision.

It's happening. Oh, dude. Somebody cut that. Trademark that first. Dude, I love the personnel, though, man. If you get a silver play button with the uncomfortable operator at 100K. Dude, I just got to throw this out there. Shout out to Moody's mom and her best friend from church.

Like, they don't speak a lick of English. They came over and they made me fucking tamales and mole and pastolas too. He's starting to say it with the accent. Oh, dude. Dude, that picture I felt so hard. He's getting darker too. Yeah, yeah. It's happening. Dude, I can't wait to push out a bunch of little Mexican babies. Hell yeah. It's going to be awesome. You're going to push them out? I'm pushing them in first. Yeah.

Dude, you're going to be a cheer dad too. It's going to be awesome. You're going to be like asking me. I'm like, dude, just hydrate up. Make sure you eat a big breakfast. You need at least three phone chargers. They're all going to run out. You just got to, hey, plan. Plan, plan, plan. I will say, so I went over to, I stayed at your house. Yes. It was awesome. In Tennessee, what, probably two, three weeks ago? Yeah, it was Easter.

It was Easter. It was Easter, yeah. Yeah, and I have... So, first of all, I've got to say, you've got a wonderful family. Thank you. Amazing. I was just... You know, you're a good guy. You're a good dad. You've got a nice little plot set out for yourself. You made me feel like a fucking degenerate. How did that make you feel like a degenerate? We welcomed you with open arms. I didn't say... Chris, he's like that drunk AK guy that's coming over here, isn't he? That's why. There was no self-reflection. It was as if he were Brandon's like...

There was no judgment. You guys were an amazing host. Everything was fantastic. I get into town and like, oh, do you want to spend Easter Sunday with my family? Yeah. We're going to go to church. I've got my here's my two and a half white kids in a picket fence. Two and a half white kids. I thought you perfectly statistically average, like just amazing. Yeah.

Yeah, I showed him the new yard. Like, yeah, we made cinnamon roll bunnies. Literally. I watched his daughters do an Easter egg hunt in the backyard, and at no point in my life have I felt my heart sink as much as it did. There's no Hellcats in your neighborhood. I was just... I was like, man...

I'm really pushing that biological clock. I might have been trying to sell him a little bit on where I live in Tennessee. Nashville, we'll just go with that. Settling down. Yeah, I'm like, you know, if you want to come up here, if it gets too hot in Texas, it was fun. Yeah, we recorded some episodes on the After Action podcast. Shouts out. Shouts out. After Action. Yeah, go check it out. The veteran with the sign YouTube needs all you there. But yeah.

You were a great host. You didn't yet. None of this was on you. No. What I wanted to do is I wanted – like you're coming over to spend time with my family, so I wanted you to just be a part of it. And we had actually gone to church Saturday for Easter, and I was like, you want to come over? And that was it. We just hung out. And I was like, let's go get some food. Let's go get some burgers. Let's go get some burgers.

Food was great. But yeah, getting to hang out with your family, meet your wife. So now she understands that we are degenerates, but we're like soft degenerates. Well, everything's been event-based prior to that. It was the fight or the night of the show. Yeah. Which we're all obviously a little stressed out. I was a little stressed out the night of my fight. I wasn't drunk the night of my fight. No, no. You did really good on the night of your fight.

You were locked in for like six weeks on that one. Yeah. Until I started handing you fucking Jack Daniels. Immediately after. There's a clip, Chase, I think we can put that up. Me in the middle of my post-fight conference and Cody's hand, just gloved hand, comes into frame and immediately hands me a shot of Jack. Like, oh God, thank you. I haven't drank in six weeks. I showed up to the fight with airplane bottles of Jack Daniels because I know Brandon hadn't drank in six weeks.

And they were like, hey, you want to be a corner man? Okay. And so I just found some gloves and I put some little gloves on. I was in the corner. I was your corner man. If we're telling the real story.

You weren't allowed to be the corner man. I wasn't allowed to be the corner man. We found out the only reason, the only thing that the security delineated being a corner man or not on was the purple gloves. So we just asked for an extra set. Oh yeah, I forgot about that. And just gave them to you and you just walked out with us confidently and nobody fucking stopped us. I think I'm going to show up to fights as a corner man from now on. Every time. Guys, see the gloves? I'm close.

Well, you had Eli and then what's his name from the bottom? Tony. Yeah, you had Eli and Tony, and they're like giving him real good information. Like, do this, do this, do this. I'm just in the corner like, yeah, this is cool. Do it, Brandon. Hit him in the face. Hey, when you hit him in the face, it looks like he bleeds. Do that again. Hit him harder in the face area. It would be great. God, I missed. That was a good-ass time. That was. That was like...

like, being there, like, I could see all y'all up on stage, just me and Nico, and, like, Nico's screaming at the top of his lungs. Put your fucking hands up! He's pushed on the rail, and the rail's starting to shake, and I'm leaning on it, too, and they're like, stop, and he's like, no, that's my fucking boy! That's my fucking boy! No offense at all, I almost forgot you were there, because in the entire time beforehand, I was, like, tunnel vision. Yeah. Weird. I completely understand. Yeah, it was like I was...

No stress at all. No. It's like, oh yeah, you're about to be shirtless on live TV and potentially knocked out. You know what I was worried about? This is like a weird fear, but I was told that this is like a normal thing that has occasionally happened. I was like, dude, what if I get knocked out? Because I was about to run into a fucking congressional campaign a month after. I'm like, I've got to win this or else this is just going to be, I'm going to look like a pussy in front of God and everyone. I was worried about getting knocked out and shitting myself.

understand because they don't let you go to the bathroom after you get your gloves taped no you are the second you're taped and they write it off yeah because you get your autograph they sign it whoever uh checks the wraps yeah then they sign it and then you have to be visual in visual yeah line of sight yeah yeah the team so you don't dip them in you had plaster or whatever yeah they do the plaster diffs so they harden throughout the fight very dangerous for fires make

Margarito, he was notorious for that and got caught doing it. Interesting. And then he got the fucking Pacquiao beat the fuck out of that dude because of that. I saw that, yeah. That dude looked like Passion of the Christ. God. Yeah, at the end of his face was just mangled. But I didn't know that and like, I don't know about you guys, but like, if I'm like super fucking nervous about something, like I'll get like,

kind of like temporary stress. Yes. Yeah. Stress. Yeah. I got to pre-gay all the time. I wanted to shit so badly, but I was not legally allowed to.

I've been like, watch me shit, please. Fight for me. I've got my gloves on. Let's see how good of friends we are. Yeah. I do have a new topic to go into, though. Let's do it. Because you had just mentioned that, the McDonald's thing with the Disney cheer. Yeah. Do you know why McDonald's and Disney have a relationship? No. Okay. It is the weirdest thing. So McDonald's was founded by Ray Kroc.

And obviously Disney was found- well, there's a whole movie of the founder. Yeah. It was- McDonald's was stolen by Ray Kroc. There we go. And then, uh, you know, Walt Disney obviously founded Disney. Uh, you know what both of them had in common? What? What do they have in common? What do they have in common?

Other than that, they were actually both ambulance drivers in World War I in Europe. What? Damn. Yeah. Both of them were in the field at the same time as ambulance drivers. And so Ray Kroc actually reached out, like once he had kind of like built McDonald's up as like a little bit of an empire, had reached out and sent a letter to Walt Disney. Basically said, hey, I don't know if you remember me, but we were both doing this job in France at the same time.

And I just wanted to let you know, like, I kind of built this little restaurant for myself. I know you're doing really good. Is there a way we can kind of collaborate? And I don't think they ever got the opportunity to while they were both alive. Because, you know, Walt Disney died very early. Yeah. But...

Now Walt Disney and McDonald's have a very friendly relationship. McDonald's is one of the only restaurants on Disney property, like in the parks and stuff. It's sick. It's a huge one. I eat at it at least three times a year. Like, it's awesome. But I just thought I found it really interesting that the reason that exists between two of like the biggest mega corporations in the world is because the founders were both World War I ambulance drivers. They were in theater just doing that. I never knew that. Yeah.

I feel like Nick! I feel like Nick for once! I didn't even know that was a veteran's! You didn't even have to have a weird surgery, either. You just like- I didn't have to pop my titty. Yeah! Or bicep now. Yeah, right. Just getting injured. Dude, how did he do that? Every time Nick gets hurt, something crazy happens. Like, because of his bicep, he's basically dismantling the entire Buffalo public school system. Yeah, like- Do you take a shower and still smell bad? Do you suffer from thigh folds? Do you know how to play Magic the Gathering?

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Yeah, but also that's why he has a binder right now. So he's down from surgery. And if you guys saw our last video just like revealing what happened with the Buffalo school system, Nick brought out a fucking binder. The three ring binder of death. Yeah, dude, he's just down right now. And he's finding every, what was it, since 1970? He found everything the Buffalo school system has done. I do not want to be on the bad side of a fucking Nick Buckeye.

nick by right that's what happens when nick is bored he digs up your entire life because he talked about it with your episode where he's just like yeah every time something bad happens to me he's like it seems like my life just does a you know amazing jump forward i'm like i think it's because you can't lift and you can't do bjj so you're just bored and you can't sit still dude he goes on fucking tangents with it like when he called today i was like happy birthday he's like oh thanks

I was like, okay, he's going to give me a 30-minute spiel right now of everything. I just got done boxing, so I was like dead. But I was like, so today we're going to talk about... Yeah. I'm like, holy fuck. Eli, I went back to 1890 and I found even more stuff for the Buffalo school system. I didn't know they did this. Goddamn, Nick, calm down. What the fuck? Did you know? The one thing I did want to know from you is your... Fuck, have we ever discussed why you started doing the sign thing? No, I don't think so. I had no idea. I was like,

That was the one question I did right out. I did get to see the original place, though. You did. Yeah, I drove right past it. I feel like they should do a historical marker. Put it in the Louvre. Tennessee should do a historic marker there, like, on this date in 2020. Yeah, so the brief history is when I got out of active duty, I started working with, like, nonprofits and stuff. So I've, like, kind of always worked with, like, veterans organizations, like,

the long and short of it is like my friends started taking their lives and like, I didn't know what to do and I didn't know like how to help them or how to help me. And like the stuff I was going through and I just started like, fuck it, dude, I'm just going to figure this out. And so I did that pretty much all through college and I got a bachelor's and I got a master's at a school in Nashville that is a very nice university. I don't want to tie them to me, but, um,

When you say doing that, what do you mean? So I started working at nonprofits, learning about the industry and how to help veterans through different organizations. So my congressman, his name is Mark Green. He was actually the doctor for Saddam Hussein when they captured him. Yeah. Oh, shit. At that time, he was my state-level representative, and it was my first push into working with

I mean, he didn't really need a doctor for what was coming next, but... No, he did not. No, he did not, but we wanted to make sure he was healthy, I guess? I don't know. Hey, just so you know, you got a heart condition, but... Time of death? Soon! Yeah. Oh, I got a Brandon laugh! There it is, I love it. That dopamine? Brandon laugh.

Give me that bitch serotonin. But the first thing he did is – Serotonin. I worked with him to pass this bill that got a few hundred thousand dollars for veterans in the state of Tennessee for mental health. But he made me go around. It's called Legislative Plaza in Tennessee, and I had to talk to every state representative to pass the bill. And so I continued to work with that.

And then, like, I just kind of got burnt out from doing it. It's really hard work. A lot of knee pads involved. Yeah. Like, I say that half joking. Well, no, like, just working with veterans, like a nonprofit as a whole is kind of like a rough business model because your goal is to spend as much money as possible every year. And then next year, like, hope we can raise that money again. But having to talk to the state legislature and everything like that, like, there's so much of the...

Yes. Political circle jerk. It was really, really hard. And it took kind of a toll on me. So I moved into healthcare and then COVID happened. And I had done some writing with the creative outlets and stuff.

with like Fox News, Huffington Post, and a few articles in the New York Times just talking about like random veteran stuff. HuffPo, really? Yeah, HuffPo. I know Mrs. Huff. I don't. John C. Huff. John C. Huff. Ariana C. Huff. Yeah, Ariana. You do good writing, Zachary. Nonprofits are amazing.

It is hard because you don't like salaries. They get the ones that are fucked up and they're just like, oh, I make $400,000 a year. No big deal. I was there. Yeah, I bet. I was there. His name is Steve Norzisi. Like when they were talking about it, like I was – so we were working with Wounded Warrior Project. Oh, God. That was a company called Centerstone Military Services. They suck. Not that one. Yeah, I know. The Wounded Warrior. And he was there. Well, why do they suck, Eli? Why?

Because they give back to soldiers and we hate that here. Yeah. I think a lot of people don't. I was there. They were giving money out to organizations towards the end, but they had also been caught taking private jets and people to like fucking Fiji and shit. On the dime of people who were trying to help support veterans. The New York Times broke this. CBS covered this. I mean, it was gross. And so like that kind of cut the industry in half. And you personally saw it.

Yes. I mean, like, everyone was aware of it. Like, it wasn't – it was like a secret. Like, remember they used to sell ketchup, like Wounded Warriors on it? No. They did. They had, like, a Wounded Warrior branded ketchup. It was Heinz, but it had the sticker on it. We call it Blood Pack. Yeah. It gives you PTSD. Yeah. I would never do ketchup packets for anything better and related. Yeah. You know, you call it the Ramadi special. You just squeeze it on your thing. Sorry, that's for you, bro. That's for you, though. That's for the bull.

That's been the boy, yeah. I've never heard of a million years when I do those two. Pass me the marjah mayonnaise for me. No, that was the donkey story.

I prefer blood of my friends. But they were selling bounty paper towels and if you want to wipe a veteran, and it's the Wounded Warrior. My name is Trace Atkins. Dude, yeah, he's pretty cool, bro. He's really cool. He's cool as hell. It's just he happened to be tied to an organization that wasn't as good as he thought it was. You're not going to...

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- They didn't know. He's trying to do a good thing. - Yes, and you're looking at like, okay, hey, they made way more, but we made $57 million. We only donated 7 million to veterans. The rest-

It's like every light in the house was on. Those veterans don't need that. Yeah, that Rex 50, I need a salary and a jet. What would they do with all that money? Help themselves? Boo. You know, that's basically, I mean, they were making hundreds of thousands of dollars off of these things every single year. And so, I mean, I heard the number once. I don't want to say it here. This is way too big of a platform for me to swing and miss on that. Buffalo doesn't think so. They do now.

But COVID happened. I was working in healthcare, and I had this creative itch I wanted to scratch. Honestly, COVID was one of the best things that happened to me. I got to spend more time with my family than ever, 90 days in a row consecutively. Holy shit, I just realized this. The last thing me and Christy did is we went to Post Malone's concert in Nashville before they shut down. No shit. They shut down the whole world after that. Fucking kill Hollywood. The Hollywood Bleeding Tour?

I'm going to tell him, dude. I'm going to tell him. The pre-country tours? You somehow managed to get a second name drop in. Yeah. But no, I just remembered that because it's like the last thing we did and they shut the whole world down. And like, you know, the young lady was cutting my hair at the time. She was getting ready to shut down her shop, but...

I was like, what if I wrote on cardboard and made myself a meme? And I was like, okay, so it's not me, but it's a guy. How would he refer to himself? Well, he'd call himself Warfighter. And he'd talk like, hey, good to go, battle. Gay. Yeah, he would be really cool. Thank you, Cody. He would talk like that, and then I started like...

through the lens creatively of how he would interact with the world. What are veterans? Homeless. Homeless. Literally, I was like, what makes you think homeless? Veterans. They deserve it, kind of. But it's just like, and I just wrote it. What? I can say it? You can say it too. Yeah, you're a veteran. No, I can't. You got more medals than Dan Daly in that room. What are you talking about? I want to hear shit from you. I'll Dan Daly over here. Yeah.

But I just wrote... Just need to start putting that behind. Oh, that's going to go in a shadow box. They have to zoom out. There's not enough space on that. It's just a wall of brain space. It's what we use for Sound Ed. It was funny because I was going through my shit recently because I was moving a bunch of shit around and I found the jump wings from the round canopy parachute team. Yep. I was just like, oh, fuck, that metal's actually mine. No!

It was such a weird thought. I'm like, oh, wait, fuck that. Actually, that's mine. Still think about those guys. Oh, my God. Those medals that someone sent to my PO box. I was a little bit late on that one. That was fucking crazy. We'll have to bring that out for a podcast at one point. But it was like his grandfather's medals that were...

pretty serious came to my p.o box uh yeah his grandfather like world war ii jump wings and like a couple of other medals he was like i think he played wolfenstein dude yeah not not that team oh okay dude he had the code book it was the final solution it was wild yeah wrong team

But that was some dude's sentence. Oh, you didn't get the Wolfenstein reference at first. It hit me and I was like, wait, Cody's not going to land it. Cody's going to land it. He's coming in like the end of airplanes, like sweat pouring down. Like, all right, there's going to be like 20 minutes of podcast that Chase has. Back to Disney and McDonald's. Anyways, being a dad. But no, I just wrote drink water, take Motrin, change your socks. That was my first sign. And I was...

I was like, oh, it's a COVID remedy. And, you know, kind of worked. But, like, I just held it up and the lady who cut my hair took a photo of it. No shit, you did it. Wait, did they have just the cardboard there? I had it in my truck. I found a piece of cardboard from Tractor Supply, actually. And I was just, like, consumed with the idea of, like, an analog technology being used on a digital platform. And, like, how clear and concise it could be and, like, how direct it could be. But it could also have, like...

other meaning depending on like the photo or the video or like with the message I'm trying to convey and so I was just like let's just make it simple and then I did that for like

Few months and then way too many way way way too many dudes started talking about my body for like a really long time Now they're gonna shape do right now. Okay. Wait, okay. So your first you posted it you got Was it how was it? The reception was horrible like it was like so really at first because it's like anything like it takes time to like introduce an idea and

And like, you know, Brad, one, two, three, be like, this guy wears the same thing every day. And I'd be like, yeah. And it's like, his tattoos are dumb. Not entirely wrong, but like they kept missing, like what I was trying to say, which baffles me to this baffles me to this day. Cause like the message, I fucking wrote it on cardboard. I don't like, it's as clear as it gets. It's not like it wasn't a hidden agenda, but like, I just kept leaning into it. And, um, I had a few that like popped off. I made fun of army Rangers. That was a big deal. Um,

Going to... What is it? Going to ranger school doesn't make you a ranger. That's what... That was one. That's proper. That's literal. There's a big difference between the tap and the scroll. I didn't know that. And dude's like, who does he fucking think he is to talk to us like that? And I'm like, I have no idea. And then... Oh, dude. Then I made... Somebody who's also not a ranger? Yeah, basically. How dare he? I'm a leader. And then... And then I did a Navy SEAL one. I did a Navy SEAL one, which was...

I remember this wearing gators doesn't make you a Navy SEAL, but writing a book does. And one of my friends is a Navy SEAL, like gave me the idea. And then like, it was like dudes in the comments being like, you know, I'm class one, two, three, fuck this dude. And like, they're like, no, we think he's cool. And I like him. And so it just kind of kept like moving towards that.

And I wasn't really sure how to do it moving forward because it wasn't like the tone or the message wasn't what I wanted. People really didn't get what I was doing. But then do you guys remember when Captain Crozier, the guy that got released of command? So he brought his vessel out to New York. Oh, fucking –

Yeah. He was a squad leader. Explain this so everyone knows. I'm not familiar. This ship commander brings his vessel to New York to support COVID operations during that time. Oh, okay. Yeah. And his whole ship was full of the most amount of sick sailors. And every time he would ask for help from the Navy, they suppressed it. And they literally were like, nah, you're fine. He's like, dude, I have...

you know, hundreds of kids under my charge. I'm trying to take care of them. They need to, they need help. Like, it's fine. We just need to take care of these kids. And they're like, no, you don't. He ended up leaking all that stuff to CBS. And then they relieved him of his command, which is a big fucking deal to lose a ship. It's a base. And so he was walking off the deck and the whole ship is humming, like literally bouncing as like, Captain Crozier.

And I saw this clip of them and like his whole ship and they're like fucking hype about it. And I looked at Christy and I was like, hey, I have an idea. Will you just take this photo of me? And I wasn't like really sure if it was going to work or whatever, but I held up a sign like in the doorway of my old home. And I said, you know, bring back Captain Crozier. And...

I didn't look at my phone for like a whole day. I turned off all notifications. I don't have notifications on anything but my phone and my text. That's it. No social media notifications. I've never done that. It's actually something I learned in business school. It's called inbox zero method. It's a whole different thing. Ooh, I'm educated. No, no. I'm a liar. I said business school. Entrepreneur. But I just –

I just didn't check on it. And then I opened up my phone and I hit it and it says 100, 100, 100. And then I refreshed it and it said 100, 100, 100. And I was like, uh-oh, we might have done something here. And it just kept going and just kept growing. And that was basically it. Like it just kind of took off after that. And then it activated like all the old posts and Brad123 who hated my tattoos –

Earlier that year was like, I've been here since day one. This guy's the fucking best. And, you know, and then you start... Yeah, I remember you, asshole. Yeah, I know. I know, but like... Some poor guy with the actual username Brad123 is gonna get a bunch of fucks. Is that actually the username? No, I'm just trying to make up... I thought you were making a random... He still hates his tattoos. You can't be too specific with this audience is what I've learned. They'll find anything. You're talking about Brad11Bravo. Yeah.

Over here. What were we saying the other day? It's like, we really need to figure out like an ROE with our audience. I say cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war. I've been impressed. One of us just says, I didn't like this restaurant. And suddenly they go out of business. Like, no, we didn't mean for you guys to do that. Jesus. But now, now I just try and like, continue to like, you know, and veteran with a sign kind of has its own thing, but I wanted to like,

do more. And so that's, that's actually when I started the podcast and it was, you know, cause I, you know, I'd had the YouTube channel and stuff and I was putting shorts on there, but like, I just wanted to like expand the universe. I only have like a small medium of cardboard to work with or like a video where I'll explain something. And so I was like, do I need like more conversations and stuff I want to have and, you know, talk about different things. And, uh, you know, Michael Colasso, the officer stopped the school shooting in Nashville and,

There's another name for him. I don't think I can say it on the podcast. Yeah, no, there's not.

You can say it on Pepperbox. Dude, that $8 is just doing work. Holding back the gates of hell. $8 a month. But he had come forward and he had talked to a bunch of different people and he had finally decided he wanted to tell the story of what happened and all those different things. And he was like asking me advice. And I was like, dude, I don't know. And he's like, well, you're starting a podcast, right? And I was like, yeah, sure.

I was like, but I don't know how to do this. I gotta figure it out. I don't even know how to upload to YouTube. Like I remember calling Cody being like, how do I upload? He's like, okay. He like walked me through it. And you know, now it's, and he came on and he told that story and we just, I've just been trying to tell stories

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Like this time last year, I was contemplating quitting everything because of all the stuff that happened with the VFW and everything. And I was just kind of tired of like having to like defend myself and all the different things that came with it. But it was literally, it was literally y'all in the unsub community that pulled me back.

because I got flooded with messages of people being like, thank you for telling us about this or the stuff you do. And then like, those are the signs where I keep going. Cause it does feel hard. Like it's screaming to avoid sometimes, but like, what's your podcast name? Uh, the after action podcast. And it's under the veteran with the sign YouTube or anywhere you get a podcast.

YouTube and everything else. Go to the YouTube. Like, comment, subscribe. But, um, no. Watching it from the sign after, like, after the big incident, how was that initial response from you? Were you, like, nervous? You're like, oh, fuck, what do I say next? Oh, and then it is the fear of matching. This might, this could fall on deaf ears. It,

It's awesome when you get a viral piece of content, but then you have to replicate that, and that is when it gets difficult. It's that.

Mitch you talking about like well, I think the the game plan from there is very obvious You immediately do a crypto coin and pump and dump your audience Check it out one blowy joke millionaire We've had people say hey here Would you guys want to do a meme coin that you guys can make a lot and it would do really good it'd be different Yeah

I do not respond to those emails because they're fucking retarded. I've turned down a seven-digit offer for that. Nice try, feds. Move on. We said, though, because I didn't realize that that had happened in Nashville.

What? The Hawk Tua? Yeah, yeah, yeah. All that shit? I was like, man, they need to have like, kind of like they've got in Dallas where fucking Oswald allegedly shot Kennedy just like a little marker in the street. They need to just like cement a coin to mark the occasion.

It's a historic marker. This here's the day the music died. Dude, I get those emails every fucking day. Like, the Federal Trade Commission is not an enemy I want to make. I'm not about to get into fucking goon coins right now. And then you're automatically, chances are, whoever's developing it, it's going to be a rug pull. It's going to fuck you over. You're going to look terrible. A meme coin is like, the only purpose of it is a rug pull. It's a meme coin. Look at the name.

That's all that... You're like, oh my God, and then people fall for it, unfortunately. Or influencers do, too. I think it should be a litmus test of if you gave money...

to the hot to a coin like if you're like i'm in on this you don't get to vote for four years yep or if you're a woman i love dark do we keep that one or which one that's fine i know we we talk about it sometimes women have been suffering for too long so in this in their sufferings dude

I vote for Brandon. I'm not running for shit, homie. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I'm a free man. If you give money to a girl who became famous off of a blowjob joke, you don't get to vote. You sit the next cycle out. I think that's fair. She had such a good opportunity. She handled the initial one great. And then she's giving money to dogs. She fumbled that.

And bagged so goddamn hard. I was like, no one...

On your side, I was like, maybe. Somebody called it. She gave money to dogs? Yeah, she did like a dog shelter fundraiser. All the money originally. Dude, she was doing good shit. She stayed silent for a month, two months, and then she was just giving that money she was making towards dog shelters. Me and you talked about this either yesterday or the day before. But you know what her last video was that actually got views before the whole crypto pump and dump shit? Pull this up. This is great. The last video she did that got like...

super big views before she destroyed her audience was how not to be cancelled. Her last video is literally how not to be cancelled. How would she know? Well, she doesn't, apparently. I mean, but like, even...

She's... I mean, like... You know, she's got, like, representation. I don't know who it is. I heard it was, like, Jake Paul and them. They dropped her. Yeah. I mean, if a Paul brother drops, you need to look in the mirror. Like, if they're like, you're too much for us, the Pauls. We're... You should have just gone to the... Like...

But how would she... Going viral like that is the new one-hit wonder. She had no knowledge. People were like, yeah, upload it. Talk to her. It'll work. Yeah, it's good stuff. Which it shockingly did for a minute. She had the golden goose and all she had to do was not do that and she would have been fine like 100% and then... She killed the goose. Oh, dude. She shot that goose. She shot it. I can't point this... I can't say who this is, but we have landed...

Did the second plane hit? As far as the Buffalo stuff. If we sacked that with the other...

Oh. Bad time to be a part of the Buffalo Public Schools system. Very, very. Imagine what could have happened if you did your jobs. We got shit you ain't even heard of yet. Dear God. You're about to. They're going to be in a fun time. Again, it's crazy that this is where it all happened. Bro. Dude, I do like Adam.

Out of all the episodes, it took place after Unsubbed vs. Kind of Consensual and this table was loaded with booze. Oh, we were shit right there. I was like, damn! That was our second one that day, right? Yeah, it was our second pod. We had done two two-hour podcasts and this was an after show.

There's 30 white claws on your side. Yeah, yeah. And then 30, 30, dude, that table is stacked with fucking booze. Nothing sobers you up like that fucking conversation, though. My God. Seeing Nick's arms folded and Rich getting choked up, like, for real fucked me up. Like, I was just like, damn. Because, you know, sometimes I'll call Rich and we'll just shoot the shit. And I'll be like, what are you doing today? And then, like, he'll tell me, like, the smallest amount of, like,

this is the case I'm working, this is what's happening. And I actually appreciate it 'cause like we can all, I feel like I especially can forget like the reality of life

And then like, you forget that like he spends his days hunting monsters, like hunting literal monsters. I don't think I've told you guys this. My, my sister, she, you know, she's child crimes investigator. She does that. Her and rich talk back and forth and like share ideas on how to catch predators together. No shit. That's the coolest team up ever. Cause I think at one point, if I'm, if I'm not mistaken, if I can't talk about this and like, fine, we can cut it. But, uh, you would, you try to get her out of the business and,

And you're just like, Hey, I'll do this for you. Just, you know, get out. But she, she just missed it so much being able to help the kids. Yeah. Well, I felt bad because she was looking at all these horrible things every single day. Just like, you know, just child cases. You guys know what I'm talking about? Shit weighs on you. And yeah. So like I get, I, I gave her a salary and she came and she worked for me for a little bit. But after a couple months, she's like, I need to go help these kids. I need to go help these kids. And she went back into policing again.

Which is, I'm sure, a huge personal sacrifice. Oh, 100%, dude. It's just one of those jobs where you don't get thanked for it very much. It's a thankless job. Yeah, she went back to that, man. Because I wanted to give her way more she was making as a police officer, but she had to go back and help the kids. God, I can't respect her enough for that. It's fucking awesome. Yeah.

That's why it's kind of cool to get a little bit of a taste of that. And I think that's why the unsub community is rallying so hard. We're like, all right, let's give some fire support to the people that are trying to do that. There's not enough of them. Dude, cops don't get paid much, man, for the stuff that they have to look at.

I know the thin blue line thing is kind of fucking gay for a lot of people, but no shit, man. Modern law enforcement really are the people that are keeping us from the monsters. As much as they fuck up, there's...

You'll have one cop that fucks up, but there's nine others who are fucking amazing and they do their job very well. I think a lot of people misconstrue the thin blue line thing. I've heard some people explain it. I'm like, that's not fucking at all what it is. People are like, oh, thin blue line means they're going to have each other's back. Even if they fuck up and they do illegal shit and whatnot, it's like, no, that's not like...

I've heard some crazy shit people say. It means like every, if they're, they're shooting at a guy, everybody's going to shoot him so that they can't tell who's a bullet matches, who's gone kind of shit. And I'm like, what were the, where in the Reddit did you get that? Yeah, exactly. Dude, go work in the streets for like a week and then tell me how you really feel about people. Yeah. It's fucking too, it's poopoo. Ah, you know, you know what kills me all the time though? It's, um, Oh fuck. What's, Oh God damn it. What's the term for, uh,

When people think that officers can't be charged with crimes. Shit. I know exactly what you're talking about. Why privilege? That's it.

It's close. I'm thinking sovereign citizen, but that's obviously not it. It's something immunity, I think. Qualified immunity. Thank you. People think that that means cops can't be charged criminally, but what the fucking majority of the United States doesn't realize is that there's criminal charges and there's civil charges. Qualified immunity means that

the cop can't be sued individually. You have to sue his agency in civil court,

A cop can be charged with a crime at any fucking waking moment, any time. It just means that Lieutenant Donut Operator cannot be personally sued because he hurt my fee fees. Exactly. If you broke the law, you can still be criminally charged. 100%. Qualified immunity has nothing to do criminally. But it's like, say if I pulled you over and, I don't know, let's take Rich's example. One of his biggest things he got, people are mad at him for is because he called someone fat boy.

Wasn't it a criminal breaking into homes or something? It was a criminal, and he called him Fat Boy. And so qualified immunity means that this guy can't be like, I'm going to sue you because you called me Fat Boy, or I pull someone over and give them a fucking ticket for speeding. They can't say, well, you were mean to me, so I'm suing you. They have to sue the department. That's all qualified immunity is, is civil cases.

and people were like well cops can't be charged with anything because they have qualified immunity that's not at all no he just didn't break the law yeah

He just hurt your fee fees. So you can't sue that cop who wants to go home to his fucking wife and three kids and provide a good life for them. You can't sue him. I'm not a boot licker by any means. It's like there's plenty of cases where I'm just like, okay, yeah, the cop fucked up. I don't think the government should have too much power. I don't think half the laws on the book should exist. Absolutely. At the same time, like a lot of the cops that are doing their job right now as far as like trying to protect people from.

murderers, the kind of people that break into your house, like the actual beat cop that's doing his fucking job. The job is impossible if you remove qualified immunity. Yeah, absolutely. Because you would have individual costs being sued for every little fat boy that they say. Or nothing at all. You don't even need to have an infraction to be sued. You can sue for anything. I kind of love that that's what they're going with. This is why this guy's bad. He calls criminals names.

And then, like, wonder why no one cares what they have to say. He called a fat boy a fat boy. Like, oh, he's mean to the crims. Like, oh, no. What a...

What a bad person. A guy who I think had just committed an armed robbery. Yeah. Literally. Yeah. Yeah. And feelers are hurting. It's like, see, he's a bad cop. It's like, really? He also yelled at the judge. No problem telling him to shut the fuck up. Those are the people you want that don't care. It's like, oh, shit, I didn't know you were a judge. I'll give you a pass. No, Rich, don't give a fuck. Well, the fucking judge pushed one of his junior officers, like assaulted a police officer. And that's why Rich showed up so fast.

And he did like, like he did at that instance, the drunk judge video, right? Yeah. Yeah. Him and his wife were just hammered. Yeah. And I say it all the time. He pushed a cop. And Rich, that's when Rich came up and knife handed him and was like, listen, you're a guy. Guy. Guy. I'm giving a fuck. Guy. You already talked. Now's my time to talk. Guy. Like that is, if you've never seen it, it was your video breakdown of that. I'm sure Chase can put up a clip of that. Do we have your permission? Oh, absolutely. Okay. We can put up that clip here. I want you to shut the.

That is one of my favorite Rich videos that you've done. It's so good, man. And then they're trying to hit him up for the... I know we're going back to Buffalo again because it's so funny because Rich is such a wonderful human being. The dude with the skateboard that was like hitting cars and like pulling his dick out and showing people his dick all day long. And Rich wasn't even a cop that day. He was wearing his army uniform. He was just coming back from drill.

And that dude fucking tried to hit him with a skateboard and Rich just put him down and sat on him. It's like, wait for the cops. I couldn't do that job. That job would be... And it's why they have so much trouble hiring right now. You'll see ads. Oh, dude, police cars. I was behind one yesterday and it says on the police... Hey, hiring. Like, call this number. We're hiring. You know why? Because it sucks being when everyone has a fucking this. And then everyone's holding you to a standard that is...

It's not even holding to a standard. They're just trying to see you fuck it. You're under a magnifying glass no matter what. On the streets, you're on a magnifying glass from the public.

Even when you go back to the police station, you're under a magnifying glass from the brass who wants to make the public happy. And the public's kind of fucking retarded, honestly. Not everyone, but... I don't mind the accountability of it. What I mind is the fact that the politicians don't have their back and are actively fucking screwing them no matter what. Yeah, dude. The whole defund police movement was such a blight on law enforcement and how everything...

how everything went. It's like, you want to take away training from police officers. That means they're going to be shittily trained and they're going to shoot you. They're going to fucking just pull out a gun and shoot you instead of fighting you to the ground. Did we talk about, did we talk about,

Oh, the mirror. Is that what you're talking about? When's that video come out? That video's coming out. It should be out today. I think it's coming out today. I can't wait to watch that one. This is my favorite video. I can't wait for it. Cody, go on. Set the tone. My video that's coming out today, I can't remember what it led up to. It was a possible burglary. Two cops clearing an empty house.

And so like the male cop, he's going down and he's like, yeah, everything looks good. The female cop turns a corner and there's a mirror in front of her and immediately just shoots the mirror twice.

And what was your point behind that? Yeah, when I- 'cause I think I showed you the clip. You showed me that one. 'Cause my thing is like, okay, you round a corner, boom, you see your reflection. Not even round a corner, remember, both just went down the steps. No, she turns to the left. Is that mean she- No, there was no left, the male- they went down the fucking steps, there was the mirror at the base of the steps. So she shot a cop. Right, yeah, right at the base, but it was like, she like- Yeah, he already cleared- The officer peels right, or the male officer peels right, she goes left,

And that's the mirrors right there. Yeah. She immediately opens fire on it. And my thing is like, okay, you turn left. You see a cop. Yeah. You see someone in full police uniform with a service weapon. It's like, okay, if it wasn't a mirror, you would have just shot a cop. Yeah. That's why I shoot him twice. Cause she has face right now. That's why I shoot him twice, right? Because it's a cop. You shoot him twice. Because what I brought up to Brandon at first, I was like, what if there was just like some kid that was in that house and she turned the corner and killed them?

And Brandon's like, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. She's looking at a uniformed cop in front of her and she fucking killed them. Literally instantly just like stairs down. Guy sees, sees the fucking mirror. That's why he just went right. Yeah. Cause he looks and then he goes right and she turns left and sees the mirror and shoots, breaks the mirror. And then she's like, shit, it was my reflection. Now she's got seven years of bad luck too.

And Matt. You just can't win. What town is it in? Seven years of administrative leave. I can't remember what town it's in, but I'll get back to you on that, man. Dude, I just did a... Oh, God. It might be in the same video. I think it's in my next video. There's another one where...

A cop gets in a fight with a guy and the guy's like trying to grab his gun. He's fighting with him and the male cop is just like fighting on top of him. And the female cop comes over with her taser. Taser doesn't work. So she starts just like kind of slapping him on the arm with the taser. Like, stop, stop, stop. It's like, oh my God, this is what happens when you defund fucking police, dude. If you make them...

If you make them better to kill people, they won't kill people. I've been preaching this for a fucking decade now. When I first became your friend and we started hanging out and like you were, you were still kind of, you were way more fresh off the job. Like with policing, you, you opened my eyes up to a lot of that stuff where it's like, you're like, Hey, if you want cops to kill less people, train them, train them.

them, train them better, make them more dangerous. Because if you, if you have these tools in your belt, like BJJ or whatever, you know how to subdue a 200 pound man. You're less likely to resort to, fuck. I don't know what to do. Bang, bang. Yeah. Yeah. And you're like, they get 50 to a hundred rounds.

a year to shoot oh my god it depends on the agency too man 50 to 100 rounds a year and they're not training outside of that cody knows more on this so i'll let him speak well like i said it depends on the agency so like the one of the agency that i worked for you had to qualify firearms once a year so you go out and you just shoot around a couple rounds into it into a target and that's and that's it and then you're like i can't like zach imagine we got two mags

And we just had to do qual and then we're deployed and they're like, okay, patrol. Here's the ROE by the way.

Bro. I can tell you what I'm not listening to. It rhymes with ROE. You know what I mean? Ah, mirrors! So I worked on a part-time SWAT team, which means SWAT isn't your all-day thing. You're still patrolling, but when they call you up, you go do the SWAT things. And so anytime we would go to a heated call and it's people screaming or people fighting or whatever, it's like you would hope you would get another SWAT guy over there.

Because they're not going to fucking shoot anyone. You fucking, you instantly put the threat on the ground, handcuff them, fine. But it's like, it's like, God, I don't want this one officer that's showing up because they're going to just escalate everything. They're going to pull their gun. They might do this. It would be like you boys responding like,

you know, I wouldn't want some fucking chick who just got out of the Academy that's never had any combat experience, never been punched in the face. And it's like, when they say, Oh, I'm coming. Like one of your SWAT boys, like one of you guys comes to my call. I would be like, Oh, thank Christ. They're coming to my call. You want comfortability. Did Spartanburg have a dedicated SWAT? No, it was just, everybody was just, everybody was like that. Yeah. Do you think that defund the police movement is settling down?

It seems to be trending away. No swinging the other. Right now we're on the medium. It seems less convenient to attack it, I guess. It kind of ties into the whole BLM thing that happened back in the Summer of Love where

they're like, they push for body cameras so hard. Like that whole movement, like we need body cameras, we need body cameras. And so all the police departments across the country, most of them got body cameras. And then suddenly that whole movement was like, we don't need body cameras. That's racist. Body cameras are racist. So,

So we don't like what the body cameras are showing. Yeah. So we're not going to talk about it now. Yeah. Oh, you see what actually happens in real fucking life now. It's like, we need accountability, but not for me. It's wild. Just the idea of being not training. And then everyone, how often would you be called to like a SWAT meeting?

Twice a week. Twice a week. And then the people that are new to it or nervous and they're like, I've only shot 50 rounds this year. I don't know. I don't know. Versus I used to sleep on the way to missions at home. Very transparent. I do. That was my nap time. I was like, yeah, we're going to fucking QRF for a mission. Fuck you. Action right. Action right. Dismount left.

Wake up. Wake me up when there's war. Yeah, you just might hear tink, tink, tink, and you get out, and you're like, okay, I gotta fight this way. I gotta fight this way. Got it. Good to go. But it was, everyone was comfortable. That's why you don't wake Eli up physically. The broomstick. Yeah.

But it is, it's comfortable. Contact front! We're good. Podcast. Even fucking, okay, something to bring up with the collazo. Yeah, yeah. The, the, the,

That shooting? Yeah. With the shooting at the church school there in Nashville, he was even pushing people out of the way. Like, there were some cops that weren't going in. Move. Yeah. Because in an active shooter situation, you run in. It doesn't matter if you have, if you're by yourself, it doesn't matter if you have 10 cops with you. You go in and you find the threat and you end it. Mm-hmm.

And Colasso in the video, it was Colasso and Rex. Yeah. They were like, those two were actively like, get out of the way. Get out of the way. I hear gunshots this way. Move out of my fucking way. You know, there's a certain violence of action. Yeah. There's a certain surprise violence of action. There's a certain police chief here in Texas. I'd like to introduce him to.

That I think could learn a few things. Everyone pause. Pause. Let's sit in the final funnel. Let's wait. Let's just wait it out. Let's treat it like a barricaded suspect. Ignore the gunshots. Colasso is such an wreck. So all those guys are like, you know, it was a horrible day in Nashville, but like the way they responded. So what most people don't know is where he was to the school is 15 minutes from the time the call happened till Tango down.

13 minutes. That's how quickly they responded. And like, and it was Rex was, he was just driving by driving around. Like, yeah. And like, so Mike, Mike's a detective. Like he, he,

Without going too much into it, I mean, his undercover work got blown because they put his face everywhere. But he used to just go and do undercover work, and he would go to businesses, and they were doing bad things. And he was building a case on that. But Rex was in a different part of town. He responded, and Mike met him there. And Mike...

You should talk to him about it. But they met there together and they had been trained and they'd known each other because Mike's always pulling leads and stuff from working downtown and everything because they knew each other. But they just converged and all acted as one and moved through it. And the literal worst case scenario, something that I couldn't even imagine. And it literally showed the importance of training and how you need to make cops dangerous, honestly. Yeah.

They're fucking heroes. I mean, they got the Medal of Valor, which is the highest level of award that an officer can get. It's the equivalent of the Medal of Honor.

And, um, they, him and all the cops got it who responded that day. They're fucking heroes. I'd love to have him on. He's a, he's a super fucking rat guy. Yeah. Like he's, he's a totally cool dude. And now you're getting concussed building his deck. Yeah, dude. He kind of sucks at building decks, but like, so here, all right, that's enough about how cool he is. He invited me over. Okay. I don't know anything that's going on. This is why I brought him. I'm so confused right now. I'm like, no. So like he's, he invited me over. He got a pool and like,

You're supposed to level. You're supposed to great and level, right? When you put a pool in, Trout? Duh. All right, great and level. And I show up and I go, Mike, have you leveled it? And he goes, huh? Have you leveled it? And he goes, I'm trying. This is not like an above ground inflatable pool. Yeah, no, he had not leveled it. And so we were taking two by fours, put on like an arm and lifting up the pool as he's digging it out, trying to raise it up. And I was like, I swear to God, if you weren't a hero, I wouldn't be here today.

I hate you so much. It's not like a doggy pool. Bro, stick to shooting active shooters, okay? So he's like, you're fine, you're fine, you're fine. Long story short, I'm pulling this up, doing this like this, and it wasn't paying attention. And he literally knocked me unconscious. And I just go, I'm going home. I'm going home. I don't want to do this anymore.

And so when Brandon came to town, he's like, come help me build a deck. And I was like, not a fucking chance. I'm not going over there. He's texting you, and then he's texting me. He's like, hey, you and Zach need to come over. Like, I'll grill some steaks, but like, are you free tonight? Oh, he's trying to do something. He's trying to finesse us into coming to build his deck on an Easter weekend. No! He knew my last name was Herrera. He's like, cool, a Mexican's in town. All right, I got a deck that needs to get built. Where are you? I'm at Home Depot. I don't see you. Yeah.

He's like, Zach's fine. It's just one concussion. I'm like, dude, I don't know how many I've got left. It's like the never-ending story part two. I don't know how many more wishes I have available. I'm going to hit my head probably when I leave here. How many do I got for the rest of my life? Maybe five? I'm not rolling. Bro, I love our friends. We have the weirdest fucking friend group ever in the history of mankind, I think. Yeah. It's like we're all good people, but you'd never know it. Yeah.

That's the other he didn't drain the pool he didn't do any of it wait what the pool was like half filled He's like we're gonna swim in it. I was like no you're not that sides two feet nuts. That's 14 The kids are gonna drown He's like it'll be fine so like I'm literally like cranking the you're holding up water Yeah, it was it had it was like a third filled up and I was like one gallon is like nine pounds eight pounds nine and

Again, I was like, Mike, I hate you so much, dude. I hate you so much. He's like, oh, it's fine. It's no big deal. I would have been so pissed showing up to my – Cody, God, if you called me and were like, hey, can you help this? And I go there. I walk in. I still see the pool half full. I'm like, no. No, you got me here first off. Now I'm leaving. But I have steaks.

He did not have stakes. So does Applebee's. That's okay. And I don't have to work. He did not have stakes. And here's the best part about it. Guess what he had to do to the pool again? He had to drain it and then re-level it again. So, like, this pool's, like, been terraformed in the ground. Like, I don't know what the deck's made out of. I'm sure it's, like, fluid. Like, remember those weird little squeeze things you had as a kid? That's what I think his deck is made out of. Like, it just kind of moves like an earthworm. Oh.

It's fine. He'll be alright. It's our next Gang Duds episode. We build Colosso a pool. We send Trout to fix it. He just lights it on fire and he's like, nothing could have been done. I thought he took me along on his own. Yeah.

I think I did too. Yeah, you did too. Yeah. Yeah, I was looking for a house recently just to move out of the place I am, come closer to Bernie because the skate shop's there. You guys are kind of near Bernie. And I brought Connor with me everywhere. Connor's just got a cigarette in his mouth. He's like,

Yeah, this shit's fucked. Chris is like, alright, we're not getting this house. He's ripping cigarettes indoors. Smells like cigarettes. Was there a smoker that lived here? Yeah.

I did. I called Connor about my shower. He's like, send me a video. And he answered all my questions in like five minutes. That's what I do with Nick when I had an electrical problem. I just literally text Nick. And he's like, oh, you got to go downstairs. It's probably right here. One of the bathrooms downstairs is going to have a reset button. I was like, why? It's in a different room. Look.

Walk into the... Just do it. Yeah, and 100% I was like, oh shit, he wasn't lying. Click, reset. He did the same thing with me one time. I forget he's a fucking electrician. I mean, you've heard the story about when I first picked him up when he came here. It's a good story. Oh, Jesus. The first time that Nick ever came and hung out with us for Unsubscribe...

I pick him up. You hit him up. Yeah, I hit him up and I'm like, hey, you got to come do unsubscribe. I pick him up from the airport. You hit up the fat electrician. And like the first thing out of my mouth is, yeah, so when you're not doing YouTube, what do you do? And he looks at me and I go, oh, fuck. I'm an electrician. Your name is fucking fat electrician. I got this picture from like, this was, oh God, two years ago.

Actually almost on the dot where I have him over and it was just like oh by the way I'm having this like fucking technical issue with my office. He's like come here He's like has a screwdriver in his mouth is like going through all my fucking electrical shit. We are shithoused It is two o'clock in the morning as for this photo, and I just have this picture of Nick going through my fucking electrical He pulled off the panel

Yeah, Jamie pulled it up. He can't help himself. When Nick said, he's like, I've always wanted a black Grand National, I was like,

It caught me off guard. I'm like, Iowa guy. No, dude, he's from Southern California. Nick's about it. Nick's always wearing some Jordans or something. He's low-key. Nick is in Paris. Nick is in Paris. One of those last podcasts Nick was down for. We got a little poopy here. We drank a little bit. We tied one on.

Yeah, I don't know if it was me and you and Nick. I was like, let's FaceTime Post Malone. Third name drop. All right, here we go. Oh, fuck off. That was funny. Dude, I can't wait. I'm going to be like, how about you tell him? Nick was like, hey, man, what's up? He said, what's up, brother? You know, just being all nice and shit. Nick's like, did we really just FaceTime him? He's like, yeah. Yeah, we're going to wake up one day and we're just going to be in a fucking hospital bed or something, dude. The lamp looks weird. That'd be great.

I mean, if you haven't looked up the Reddit or is it, was it a Reddit or a 4chan? Oh, the lamp looks weird. I know we haven't even provided any context for that. One day, just like you're going to look at that lamp and then just like, it looks a little off and go to touch it. And then it's, you know, you revert back. It's, you know, 10 years ago you were asleep. This whole thing was a simulation. The story of that famous Reddit post, the lamp looks weird. There was a guy, he was at a college bar and he got knocked out by somebody. He hit his head on the pavement.

And he lived an entire life where he had kids and he had a beautiful wife and he was happy with his life for years. And he started looking at his lamp one day and the lamp just looked weird. And so he obsessed over it and he kept looking at it, looking at it, looking at it. And he woke up.

And he was still just a college kid who just got knocked out at a bar. But beyond that, he was like, I had a wife and I miss my kids that I never had. A family. That sort of shit. Yeah, and he had to go to therapy and shit. So this is one thing. Have you heard the DMT with the laser? The red laser? Yes. Do you know what I'm talking about? I've done DMT. But you know the red laser thing? That multiple people have done it where...

It's DMT and anyone that's done it because they're like, bullshit, that's not a real thing. It is code. You'll start looking at it and there's code on it. And this is, you can watch videos. What do you mean code? Like 010? It is literally code. And they're like, you see.

code and then you're like get the fuck out of here it is and it's not you can see life is a simulation as long as you get real fucking high is what I'm hearing but everyone is dude it is a weird thing watch videos on it because it is documented this is not like a one-off I know what you're talking about though yeah I'm like oh that's fucking weird as shit hell yeah we're talking about shit I really like drugs

It's like the laser thing that they use in contracting to measure things. They put it on the wall. Like a laser level. Yes. The thing Colossus doesn't own. We're going to bring Colossus into the Matrix, too. I did Ibogaine and DMT through the Mission Within as a part of healing. It changed my life. Hands down, it's one

one of the greatest things I've ever done. Um, life changing stuff. Cause you actually, you went down to Mexico. I went down to Mexico. I went to the organization called vets, but the facilitators were the mission within. Um, you're actually like had trauma to heal versus just being a white girl on vacation. Yeah. I mean, when I did it in 2022, you couldn't like build a brand around it. We had to like lie basically to do what's considered medical tourism. Um,

Because like you go down there like you're literally like in San Diego and then you're in Mexico like five seconds later the gang does I mean I would look down. Well. You don't need to trust me to talk to Brandon has a lot of healing to do it's great Greatest thing I've ever done like without a shadow of a doubt and it's been so life-changing for me I've sent some of my friends of it's changed their lives as well, and it's incredible right because the Ibogaine like cleans you out and

And like... People stop fucking drug... Stop alcohol, everything. Alcohol, drugs, drinking. Which is wild. Here's the thing. Ibogaine is illegal in America because it's been used to treat for opioid cessation. So people who can't kick opioids addiction...

They take Ibogaine. It's done. It literally is like bleach to the brain. It's so gnarly that when you wake up without going too in-depth into it, you wake up the next day and you're like, right foot go, and it doesn't move. It was like Bambi trying to walk because your brain is like brand new and going through all of that. But what would we do with Oxycontin? How would we sell the rest of it? Brother, don't get me started. They used to send it to me every 30 days. I don't know what epidemic they were talking about. The VA had that shit on. Every 30 days, it showed up in the mail. Yep.

But DMT, what's interesting about it is it's fast acting and like you take it and it feels like a lifetime. It's only like five minutes. But they did a study at like some university in like Columbia or whatever. And they gave people a slow drip DMT. People didn't know each other, had nothing in common, have nothing about. The only thing they have in common is that they're all humans. They all came back after being under for like 60 minutes, 60 minutes here, which is gnarly. I don't even know how long that is under DMT.

And they were like, recreate what you saw, draw what you saw, everything else. They all did the exact same thing down to the shape, size, dimensions, everything. They all recreated the same environment when they came back. They're recreating the study now at San Diego State University. The belief is that, like, you go to, like, the well of souls, like, where it all is. I don't know. They all did the same thing. It's like certain things like that are weird to me. It's like a joint hallucination where it's weird. It's like if you give...

You know, 20 things of fucking Benadryl. We all see the hat man. Yeah. It's just like a weird, like, why is everybody naturally drawn towards certain things? I think it pierces the veil. I think we think about it like this, but it's like this.

You know what I'm saying? Like it's dimensions. No. I don't actually know what you're saying. We think about like heaven and hell and like earth, right? But what if it's just dimensions and these things like open up your mind to that and you go to them? You've done drugs. Yeah, I'm cool. What? Yeah. Here's the thing. It is crazy because I have so many friends. So drugs are what made the Marvel Universe worse.

I do have so many friends that have went through it and they were alcoholics. They've had so many problems. And overnight...

do not touch that shit anymore. Yeah. Like, yeah, I, I, I am so much better in my head than I've ever been. And they quit that shit overnight. And they're like, yeah, I don't want to touch it anymore. Here's, here's where I get upset. Fucking wild. Here's where I get really upset with that kind of stuff. You have the, the typical, like the, you know, war on drugs kind of mentality of, Oh, well, drugs are bad no matter what. Uh,

You know, drugs are just, you know, you can't do that. And that's you're going to, you know, do all this with the kids and you shouldn't, you know, people just have that negative mindset with it. Like, understandably, yeah, for certain things, like obviously don't go out and do fucking heroin. It's going to ruin your fucking life. But those same people with that kind of boomer mindset of drugs are bad all the time for any reason, unless it's a pharmaceutical grade opioid.

And they shut down all the research that's being done with psychedelics in the veteran community, you know, healing for TBIs. There's all sorts of very legitimate use cases that people are even just the studying, not even prescribing yet, but just studying the effects of psychedelics on certain things like that. They are shutting those studies down. Say for alcohol, like alcohol is just this, oh no, or alcohol is fine, but weed is the line where like,

you fucking druggie like one is way worse like alcohol like you don't get high and then want to go fight someone and drive through like this is a huge difference yeah versus alcohol you're like hey i angry you have the people that just shouldn't drink so i think there's a certain genetic uh genetically certain groups of people have a very serious adverse reaction to alcohol my people do

Well poor whites. Yeah, the poor whites I come from they're like, let's go work on cars in the driveway. There's sure It's such a wide spectrum though because I used to have a there was a gunsmithing mentor that I had that you give him one beer and

Straight up. Because he was like very heavy like Native American bloodline. Oh, yeah. One beer and he was like, I'm about to piss myself drunk. I've never seen anything like it in my life. If I didn't know him as like just a good friend and somebody that I respected, I would have thought he was lying and faking it. But certain people, like it is just such a wide spectrum with that. It's, yeah, it's interesting because like, you know, for a while, I was convinced that like,

My problem with alcohol in particular was that I thought it was alcohol. It wasn't alcohol with me. I just fucking hated myself. And that was something that was really hard for me. And that was in the throes of...

Trying to figure out stuff I was going through and then starting better with the sign and then it finally picks up. And then you're trying to work in this community and help people. And I would have one step forward and two steps back. And so for me, what the medicine did for me is it helped me put all that stuff in its proper place and work through it. Because I mean – Reset. Reset.

I mean, you remember we hung out before I went and you were like, are you going to be okay? And I'm like, I'm going. I was just like, I'm fucking going. And then like the craziest shit has happened afterwards. Like it just put everything in line for me in a place to where like I can understand that like, oh, it just didn't like me. Right. And so that was something.

And I was carrying with for a while because like, you know, the hardest part about getting out of the military is you get out and there's no one that's like you. And then like, I was kind of constantly surrounded by like normal people. And like, this is what I always say, like when I'm not here, like I'm, I'm with like normal people. So like talking to them about, yeah, like talking to them about like, I have, you know, a YouTube channel or I have an Instagram. They're like, what's that? Like it's, it's, they're not being mean or rude or anything. There's, they have nothing compared to.

And so like, you can't relate to anybody. I can't relate in a lot of ways. It's not bad. It's just reality. No, but even that, it is, that is a one thing people can't relate to. Then the veteran side and your veteran side, people can't relate to that. Then you are the one to 3% of veterans that have actually experienced war, war. Like I was shot at, shot, blown up by a rocket. Yeah. And that is one of 3% of the entire fucking military get to experience that. So you're- Is that a real stat?

Yeah. It gets, yeah, like when you like, it's 1% that joins and then it gets smaller, like joins in a combat role and then joins in a combat role, goes to combat. Like it gets less and less and less. It's, it's, it's a small margin. And then people that actually been on firefights, like I didn't, I thought that was the norm. I'm sure you did when you got back. Yeah. I was like, everyone, this was normal. I was like, what the fuck are you guys doing? Like the ground's exploding where I came from. Like it fucking sucks out there. Like therapy. My buddies would go to therapy and they're like, yo, Quavis, uh,

People have been in like three gunfights their entire time. I'm like, what? No. No, everyone's been in like at least 30, minimum 30 gunfights. No. So they're doing group therapy and then none of the people in group therapy are resonating with my buddies and they're like,

Wait, you got, no, you're lying. So then you have a disconnect completely from that. And that was just normal. So you're in this, you feel so fucking isolated, so isolated. And then you're a cheer dad and you're like, huh? Yeah. And I've got like, I've got, yeah. And I've got like a sleeve tattoos and I'm just like, Oh, Hey, you know? And so like, it's, it all kind of morphs into like what I'm trying to do now is like,

Veteran with a sign is like I try to make an entry point to bridge the world between military veteran world and then those who those outside of it. So like I can make it a place where we can try and learn more about each other and then like connect because like, you know, ultimately, I just want I don't want to I don't want to bury anyone else. That's that's that's like literally it.

I don't have... Friends, you don't... Yeah, I don't have the ability... I don't... Yeah. Jesus, Elon. I'm just being honest. The only thing... Friends I don't want to bury. The only thing I want to bury is the Buffalo Public School system. Jesus! I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Metaphorically, right? Metaphorically speaking... Oh, we're your house in Buffalo, New York! Yeah. Yeah.

to the ground! Mason Nixon up, it's gotta go. I don't care. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Contact my lawyer, Jake Watson, at Pepperbox.com. Dot TV. Dot TV, sorry, sorry, sorry, dot TV, Pepperbox.tv. But, like, I just have... It's like a thousand lawyers cried out in terror and suddenly silenced. I just, so, I don't know. I came to this point where I was, like,

veteran with a sign if i'm doing it well it'll be like open source information place where people can learn about things they can maybe learn about themselves and then it also forces me to be accountable right because i i can't be like get help and then i'm just like turn off the camera be like fuck that they fucking suck like no i i'm very much a part of it too and ultimately i don't have it in my heart to give another mom or dad or son or child a folded flag because every time

Fuck, I've never talked about this. Every time I put someone in the earth, a part of me goes with them and I can't keep doing it. Yeah. So. It sucks. That's literally, I keep doing this. And it's hard and it feels like you're never going to escape it. And I understand that, but I swear to God, if anyone can take away anything from this, I promise you it'll be better and you're worth fighting for. So, yeah. Yeah.

Thank you for, I mean, seriously, from like the veteran side that have experienced any of that, it is thank you for doing that, putting yourself out there in that capacity and then going above and beyond even preaching mental health. So many people have a negative mindset towards it versus you pushing it to the forefront. Be like, hey, I'm going through this. My friends go through this. I don't want to bury you. I don't want to.

I don't want to make that call where it's like, Hey, sorry. Yeah. Fucking sorry. You want to be the one that makes that change outright. And you're like, Hey, make the call, reach out to people. That is the weirdest thing. It is. It is okay to reach out to your friends. It is okay to talk. It is okay to open up. I fucking text Cody. Was it last month? Or I was like, Hey man, I'm just sad. I'm just sad. And you were like,

I think you FaceTime me or anything. You're like, why are you sad? I'm like, ah, what the fuck? But you went above and beyond. 20 minutes later. But you went above and beyond. You're like, hey, man. And it's just being transparent. And I will let you know, it's fucking hard to open up for myself. I don't, like my friends will tell you, I don't trust people. I'm very not trusting of individuals. So,

You will have those people in your life and you'll know them. When you reach out, they will be there for you. So it's how do we normalize that? So it's not where it's like, I don't want to burden that. You're never a burden. That's the mindset you have to break. You are never a burden. Just reach out, talk to people. Let's reverse the stigma. Yeah. You're gay if you don't. Yeah. That's the merge. Bunker's like, I can't do it. You hate veterans? Poor Clint. You fucking hate veterans? He's like...

Dude, I can't print this. Come on, man. Clint's over there like PR in mind. Like, I don't know what's worse, if we print it or we don't. Dude, that is the button. The catch-22. Get a sweat. Surround yourself with good people and you will see they're not going to judge you. And if you have friends that will judge you, fucking get a new group of fucking friends. Those guys suck. Yeah. I stopped hanging out with King Trel and I've been happier ever since. What?

What's up, buddy? How are you? Hi. Love you guys. No, seriously. I don't know which camera to look at, but dead serious. We've all been through shit, and everybody at this table has reached out to somebody at some point. Don't be a fucking bitch about it. Just fucking reach out to your buddies if you're in a tough time. Seriously. We've all been there. Yeah. You think you're special?

You're too special to reach out to somebody. I'm skilled. I'm skilled to ask my friends for help. I like reverse bullying. Yeah. Fuck you, you're worth it, bitch. Get adored. Get admired. Get respected. You're gay, you don't go to therapy. You're gay, you don't do therapy.

Imagine that like high school dynamic. Yo, this guy's gay! He sucks, dude! This guy sucks! I bet you've never talked about your dad!

Is that exactly what they did in 21 Jump Street when they go back to high school? Yeah, everyone's like progressive and shit. It was like, wow, you don't accept everyone? Fuck you, dude. You fucking loser. I don't fit in. I thought we were supposed to bully people. What do I do? Sorry.

Well, I think there's a limit. As soon as the bullies went away, shit got kind of weird. Yeah, that's true, too. All these fucking troons reversing. Brian, we've been on our gun train right now. I'm looking at a firearm. You just bought a few. I don't know if you can talk about them. I think I can talk about them. I accidentally swept Rock Island last weekend.

Brandon just happened to get on the Rock Island auctions again. Yeah, it was. I got the text notification like an auction item or an auction listing that you've requested a text notification for is coming up in 20 minutes. I'm like, so I was on for the entire weekend.

Because I needed the Beretta AR-70 from Metal Gear because fucking Eli got me on Metal Gear Solid 5 and I've been playing it almost every day. But the, yeah, no, I needed that one because I have a thing where if like I enjoy a piece of media, I need the gun from it. Yes. Like behind half my collection. So got the Beretta AR-70 and then I picked up an actual 40 millimeter thumper.

Like an M79. I want to shoot it so bad. You can. I've got plenty of fucking chalkies for you if you want to shoot it. I got chalkies too I just found. Really? No shit. I have a case of them.

I don't remember, but I have a whole... How the fuck do you not remember how you picked up a case of 40mm? Dude, I was like, what are these? And I pulled them down. I was like, that's a whole ass case of shots. I just want to say I love my friends. Dude, he's got a whole case of 40mm. The 40mm grenade might be my favorite thing to have shot. It's scary simple. You just go... Well, it's not the first time I've heard one of our friends say, I got a grenade...

Somewhere. I remember who you're talking about. And you know they're not kidding. Yeah. They're cool. It's something that anybody else would be like, oh, this person's like, oh, no, he's serious. I love that gun. So it's just, it's just so, anytime we were, they'd be like, contact front. Like, boom.

It's a little short. I said, pull it back next time. Because the first time you do it, it's like an HE round. Dude, we did 20 to 24 in a single gunfight. Brother, I used to walk around one in the gun. I had one in the gun and six on each side. Before I'd take a knee, I'd drop three. I'd be like, and they sound horrible, but there's no, I don't think there's a kill rate. It's just casualty.

And it sounds like people would be like diving and you're just like, God, get to the trees. Get covered. Oh, I love it. You really did like 20 to 20. When I shoot it, I'm just going to start screaming. Man, I've never heard Zach say so many slurs at one time. New achievement unlocked. Say what? What?

I don't know what that means. Can we talk about what else you got? You got a fucking... I got a flamethrower, like a Russian flamethrower and a... You got a BAR, too. Oh, the BAR. Oh, fuck. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, yeah, I got a little naughty, but I got a volcanic pistol, too.

It shoots lava? It was like, ads were nice last month. Yeah, it shoots lava. It's just a reminder. The more videos of mine you watch, the more cool shit I can buy like this. But yeah, no, I picked up the Volcanic Pistol, which is a... So it was technically made, I think it's... Well, at some point it ended up being made by Smith & Wesson. But it's like from the 1850s. It's in like Red Dead Redemption 2 and stuff. I know what you're talking about. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Where it's like a lever action pistol.

But apparently they were super weak. Like, ammo for them is extinct. It was some weird kind of like, I don't know. It's almost like the 1800s equivalent of the gyrojet. Okay. Where it was just kind of exotic. God dang, yeah. But, yeah, apparently they were saying that it was so weak that you couldn't really kill yourself with it. Who's testing that? Like, if you shot yourself in the head. Oh, okay. Veterans. Veterans.

God damn it, Eli. That's a weird case study to sign up for. Come here, son. Try this pistol out. Let us know what you think. Pow! It just launched. Did it make the blues go away? On a scale of 1 to 10, how do you feel?

The scale of 1 to 10 at the VA it's just the upside down smiley face the frowny face Would you say this describes you? Here's a nickel

God, I remember that scale because, yeah, my granddad was at the VA hospital for years. That hell yeah. And just seeing how bad they were treated, man, it's just so fucking annoying. I just like it's a one through ten on a smiley face to frowny face for discomfort and you're like...

The VA always, at least in Fort Bragg, like the VA always fucking smelled bad. Everybody was rude. And the thing that was like just right on the nose for me that always pissed me off is he had a room where right out the window across the street, literally like stone's throw distance was the VA cemetery. Seriously? Yeah.

You were staring every day at the cemetery across the street. That's not depressing. They just walk you out. Just right into the grave. I mean, kudos to them. It was a direct pipeline, but like, f*** me. Like, it was just, it was, that always annoyed the f*** out of me.

There's an open grave always. Jeez. Jesus. I mean, I'm very, very fortunate. The one I go to in Nashville, it's all the doctors there are Vanderbilt doctors. Yeah, because Nashville is kind of like a medical hub, isn't it? Yeah, it's where – so it's the healthcare capital of the world. It's private healthcare. It's based out of there. But, like, the one I go to in Nashville, it's sick. You know, they fix my deviated septum and everything. Really? Yeah, yeah.

Cut me here, peeled it back and reinforced it. It was awesome. Not mine. Cause I had sleep apnea and that was, you know, I wasn't like morbidly obese or whatever. And I kept failing. I kept failing the test. I had less than a hundred percent out of both nostrils. No shit. You couldn't sleep on your back. It was rough. Like I would wake up and like, you know, when I finally wake up, I'd be covered in sweat and I'd just be like, and you know, my wife's just like, you know, scared shitless. And I'm like, yeah, I think I need to get this fixed. And,

It's been a very good experience, but like other VAs, it's, I mean, like the Phoenix one, the Alvin C York one, like they're kind of hit and miss, but it sucks to be honest. I think it was a Connor tweet. It was like my favorite part about sleeping with a woman is the eventual, the inevitable sleep or sleep apnea diagnosis. So she cares. First, first night.

I've honestly never heard of him being across the street from a cemetery. That's actually positive. Right. Dude, imagine just waking up. You're stuck there and then you open the fucking curtains and you're just looking at a fucking cemetery. Yeah. No one picked up on you saying the solid pipeline they have there.

Points for efficiency. Checking the VA. All right, go across the street. Who is the city planner who's like, I've got an idea. Like, who approved that? Yeah, I was just going to say, that's got to be German efficiency for fuck's sake. It was just, I was a young kid at the time when it first kind of stuck with me. And it just ever since then that...

Has always been, I guess, painting my perception of the VA. They're great. We love them. It's a hit or miss, and that's about it. Yeah. I hope they can change some stuff. I really do. Dude, I hear really good things about Doug Collins, the new secretary. I hope so. I've heard nothing but good stuff. I might be able to talk to him. We'll see. I remember. Yeah, he's... He was supposed to be... He actually wants to come on the podcast. He wants to do podcasts. And like...

we told him unsub we were very open on that because we're like hey we do just watch an episode and he's down but it's not like hey we're catering the conversation to hey man we went to the pentagon you're not from buffalo are you no i mean he's like you're hiding the buffalo nians under the floorboards are you not

No, like, I'm optimistic. Like, I'm actually optimistic because, like, he's taken, like, from what I understand, like, a real, like, honest approach to fixing the VA, which is what we need. Crazy content. You're harboring journalists under the floor. You don't hate mainstream media. No, you don't. If nothing.

We have talked about this for over a year now, how much you do not hate mainstream journalists enough. And the Buffalo thing proved it right out the gate. My God. Immediately go after the rocky history of this influencer. It's like they're fucking jealous of the fact that they don't get our kind of views. Like they have a fucking chip on their shoulder and they just want to attack people that are talking about real shit. It's wild to downplay something. I would look at the numbers and be like, man, I would.

They're doing something right. How do I reach out to these individuals and learn from them? Well, you're not. How many journalists have you been reached out to? Well, I think the other day, the funny, funny thing. Zero. Yeah. Fucking zip. Yeah. One of the funny things that you, uh, you talked about the other day was, uh, Oh, you, you got that four year degree, huh? That makes you fucking way better than we are at telling the truth, huh? Yeah. And you think this gives you power over me? I wish I had that paper.

I'd be so far in life right now. It's pretty cool. You'd be defending Buffalo. See, I miss it out. Burn it down. On that note, we'll move to the after show. Doing the after show? Yeah. On Patreon? On Patreon. On Patreon. I want to nerd out for a bit. I want to talk about the gun. I don't know if I talk about the gun because I don't want people to buy it from underneath. Oh, yeah.

I know what you're talking about. Yeah, I'm like, fuck! Fuck! Because we still got to do our Guns and Metal Gear video. Yes, we do. Yes, we fucking do. Cody, close this bitch out. Bye, everyone. Thanks for joining the unsubscribed podcast. I was joined today by Eli Doubletap, veteran with a sign, Brandon Herrera, myself, Donut Operator. Thank you so much. Catch the after show on Patreon, where we really say slurs. Where do we find you, Azag?

Go check out Veteran with a Sign on YouTube and the After Action podcast where we get your podcasts. And my episode should be coming out soon, I think, right? Yes. Yeah, two of them, actually. Brandon, we talked about everything. He told us all the secrets of the world. I'm slowly acquiring unsub hosts on the podcast like Thanos does Stones. One by one. It's happening. Two down, two to go. We got the glove somewhere. You're going to snap and all the brown people are gone.

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