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Week Zero! Air Force BMT · WDYM What Do You Mean?

• 0:35
  SPEAKER_00: You're listening to the WDYM, the What Do You Mean podcast?
• 0:42
  SPEAKER_00: Hamilton's number one podcast.
• 0:45
  SPEAKER_00: Now sit back and relax.
• 0:47
  SPEAKER_00: Here's Hamilton's own Michael Gillespie.
• 0:51
  SPEAKER_01: Welcome.
• 0:55
  SPEAKER_01: Welcome to the WDYM.
• 0:57
  SPEAKER_01: I'm your host, Michael Gillespie.
• 0:59
  SPEAKER_01: Hope all is good.
• 1:00
  SPEAKER_01: Hope all is well.
• 1:03
  SPEAKER_01: We're continuing from an episode of this season three, episode 21, where I was joining the Air Force.
• 1:12
  SPEAKER_01: So when we last left off, I was on the bus and they were banging on the window talking about, I want you point and all that stuff.
• 1:23
  SPEAKER_01: And I'm telling you, when that happened, I started reflecting, like reflecting on why am I doing this?
• 1:31
  SPEAKER_01: Why did I decide to leave my comfy living arrangement in Hamilton, Ohio to come down to San Antonio, Texas and join the military?
• 1:44
  SPEAKER_01: What was I thinking?
• 1:46
  SPEAKER_01: So as I'm reflecting on my life and reflecting on why I'm here and everything, I'm thinking about the time where I say goodbye to all my friends, I say goodbye to my family, and then I say goodbye to my fiance at the time.
• 2:05
  SPEAKER_01: What I mean at the time.
• 2:06
  SPEAKER_01: You know what I'm saying?
• 2:08
  SPEAKER_01: I say goodbye to everybody, and I am on the plane, and I have a couple people from Ohio that are all joining.
• 2:17
  SPEAKER_01: There's a couple of us.
• 2:18
  SPEAKER_01: And we get on the get on the bus and they're all shouting, banging on the doors, who they want.
• 2:24
  SPEAKER_01: I want you, I want this.
• 2:27
  SPEAKER_01: This is intimidation.
• 2:30
  SPEAKER_01: But let me set you, let me give you the setup if you didn't catch our last episode.
• 2:35
  SPEAKER_01: The day prior, they woke us up at 5 a.m.
• 2:40
  SPEAKER_01: 5 a.m.
• 2:41
  SPEAKER_01: wake up call just to stand around and in process the whole day.
• 2:48
  SPEAKER_01: Right?
• 2:49
  SPEAKER_01: So as we're in processing, they're doing every inspection, every check they possibly can to get make sure that you're good to go.
• 2:57
  SPEAKER_01: Swear you in, everything, and then you're on the plane on the way to San Antonio.
• 3:04
  SPEAKER_01: And as you board the plane, you're excited, like I'm getting ready to do something better in my life.
• 3:08
  SPEAKER_01: You get, I'm getting ready to join the military, I'm getting ready to make my life greater.
• 3:12
  SPEAKER_01: That was my thought process.
• 3:13
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, I'm about to make my life better by serving my country.
• 3:18
  SPEAKER_01: No greater honor, no greater pride, no, this is the best.
• 3:22
  SPEAKER_01: This is my feeling.
• 3:22
  SPEAKER_01: This is the best, and I'm I'm excited, and I'm not gonna I'm gonna give it my all.
• 3:27
  SPEAKER_01: And let me remind you that everything I've done, I've never gotten in trouble.
• 3:33
  SPEAKER_01: I never got in trouble.
• 3:35
  SPEAKER_01: I have a clean record from nothing from the police.
• 3:38
  SPEAKER_01: I got a detention in seventh grade.
• 3:41
  SPEAKER_01: That's that is it.
• 3:43
  SPEAKER_01: I didn't do anything, I've never done anything ever like to get to warrant trouble.
• 3:49
  SPEAKER_01: I'm just gonna I'm thinking to myself, I'm gonna breeze through these six weeks and I'm gonna start my military career.
• 3:57
  SPEAKER_01: Who knows how far I will go?
• 4:00
  SPEAKER_01: That's what I'm thinking.
• 4:01
  SPEAKER_01: So fast forward to on the bus.
• 4:04
  SPEAKER_01: I'm on the bus and they're doing the whole, I want you.
• 4:07
  SPEAKER_01: They're pointing there banging on the door, banging on the window.
• 4:10
  SPEAKER_01: And when the bus driver says, I don't like them banging on my window, get out of my bus.
• 4:15
  SPEAKER_01: And we're all just shuffling one row at a time.
• 4:18
  SPEAKER_01: Row one, row, row two, go, row three, go.
• 4:22
  SPEAKER_01: We're all doing that, and we all got our luggage and everything, and we got it, and they're all yelling at us still, we're all out of tension, we're all stiff and everything.
• 4:31
  SPEAKER_01: And they're all processing, they're counting, like they're counting our names, everything, and making sure that who's here is rightfully here and all that stuff.
• 4:43
  SPEAKER_01: And then we all get divided.
• 4:44
  SPEAKER_01: There's like a core group, maybe I think there were seven of us from Ohio, right?
• 4:49
  SPEAKER_01: There were seven of seven or eight from eight of us from Ohio, and we all get separated, or so I thought.
• 4:56
  SPEAKER_01: Again, we arrive, it's pitch black.
• 4:59
  SPEAKER_01: I have no idea what time it is.
• 5:01
  SPEAKER_01: All I know is that I'm tired.
• 5:04
  SPEAKER_01: I want some rest.
• 5:05
  SPEAKER_01: I want some sleep.
• 5:08
  SPEAKER_01: I have been up for almost, I guarantee you I'm almost been up for 20 plus hours.
• 5:14
  SPEAKER_01: So these TIs been probably been up as long as I have.
• 5:18
  SPEAKER_01: They probably recycled through or went through one flight and then got through another flight.
• 5:25
  SPEAKER_01: So they're probably tired as we are when we arrive.
• 5:30
  SPEAKER_01: So we have our bags, we have everything in our hands, and we're just all at attention.
• 5:35
  SPEAKER_01: And then they say, All right, trainees, because that's what we are.
• 5:38
  SPEAKER_01: We're all trainees.
• 5:39
  SPEAKER_01: They're like, stand up.
• 5:40
  SPEAKER_01: So we all stand up.
• 5:41
  SPEAKER_01: And then we all have our bags.
• 5:43
  SPEAKER_01: They're like, put your bags down.
• 5:46
  SPEAKER_01: So we put them down.
• 5:47
  SPEAKER_01: They're like, Pick your bags up.
• 5:50
  SPEAKER_01: We pick them up.
• 5:51
  SPEAKER_01: Put your bags down, put your bags down.
• 5:55
  SPEAKER_01: So as we're doing this, we do this like for four or five times in a row.
• 5:59
  SPEAKER_01: Put your bags down, put your bags up, put your bags down, put your bags up, put your bags down.
• 6:07
  SPEAKER_01: They do that for a lot.
• 6:09
  SPEAKER_01: Like, what kind of silly stuff is this?
• 6:11
  SPEAKER_01: I'm thinking, my thought process is what kind of silly stuff are they doing to us?
• 6:18
  SPEAKER_01: I'm tired.
• 6:19
  SPEAKER_01: I have not had sleep in, I guarantee you I ain't had sleep in 24 hours.
• 6:23
  SPEAKER_01: I'm tired.
• 6:24
  SPEAKER_01: On the verge of breaking down, and they do this on purpose.
• 6:28
  SPEAKER_01: So they're doing piggy, put you back down, put you back up for another 10 minutes, right?
• 6:35
  SPEAKER_01: And then they separate us.
• 6:37
  SPEAKER_01: Like you, we don't know who's here, who's where everybody's at.
• 6:42
  SPEAKER_01: And so, you know, they all get us in the flight.
• 6:45
  SPEAKER_01: They say, You this flight, go this way.
• 6:48
  SPEAKER_01: This flight, go that way.
• 6:49
  SPEAKER_01: This flight, go that way.
• 6:51
  SPEAKER_01: So we're all marching, right?
• 6:53
  SPEAKER_01: And then we're learning all that, right?
• 6:55
  SPEAKER_01: Left, run, yo, left, yo, live, right, leaf, yo leaf.
• 7:01
  SPEAKER_01: That was probably the best part.
• 7:03
  SPEAKER_01: Learning Jodies and stuff like yo left, right, yo leaf.
• 7:07
  SPEAKER_01: It never escapes you as a soldier.
• 7:09
  SPEAKER_01: You just you just enjoy.
• 7:10
  SPEAKER_01: When you hear Jody, you might just accidentally start marching to it.
• 7:13
  SPEAKER_01: It might be just casually walking, yeah, yeah, right, yo leaf, yo leaf, run.
• 7:20
  SPEAKER_01: It's incorporated in your blood once you join the military.
• 7:24
  SPEAKER_01: So we rush to our flight, and they're all like, we're all lining up.
• 7:28
  SPEAKER_01: Say, line up to your lockers, line up to your lockers.
• 7:31
  SPEAKER_01: Line up to our lockers.
• 7:32
  SPEAKER_01: What do we do?
• 7:33
  SPEAKER_01: We all just run in and we line up to our lockers, just line up to whatever locker it is, right?
• 7:38
  SPEAKER_01: And we're all just standing there at attention.
• 7:40
  SPEAKER_01: And at this point, I'm to myself, I'm thinking to myself, I am so tired.
• 7:45
  SPEAKER_01: I've been up almost 20 hours.
• 7:48
  SPEAKER_01: I am exhausted.
• 7:50
  SPEAKER_01: I am exhausted.
• 7:54
  SPEAKER_01: As we're standing there, we get about 15, 30 seconds of quiet.
• 8:01
  SPEAKER_01: And I'm at attention.
• 8:03
  SPEAKER_01: I'm sitting there and I close my eyes.
• 8:05
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, I get any amount, just if it's just 10 seconds of sleep, it is.
• 8:09
  SPEAKER_01: I was just like, oh, this feels so good.
• 8:13
  SPEAKER_01: Hello.
• 8:15
  SPEAKER_01: I get 10 seconds of sleep before you hear click, click.
• 8:20
  SPEAKER_01: What is that?
• 8:21
  SPEAKER_01: I'm sitting there like eyes closed, and then I hear click, clack, I peek, one eye, because I'm still getting to sleep.
• 8:28
  SPEAKER_01: One eye open.
• 8:30
  SPEAKER_01: Looking around.
• 8:31
  SPEAKER_01: What is that click-clack noise?
• 8:33
  SPEAKER_01: What is that?
• 8:34
  SPEAKER_01: I don't understand what that noise is.
• 8:36
  SPEAKER_01: Click, clack.
• 8:37
  SPEAKER_01: So I'm looking around.
• 8:38
  SPEAKER_01: And you can't like do all this.
• 8:40
  SPEAKER_01: You are at attention.
• 8:42
  SPEAKER_01: You are standing there, hands to your side, standing strong, everything.
• 8:48
  SPEAKER_01: You are at attention.
• 8:49
  SPEAKER_01: You don't do this, you don't do that.
• 8:52
  SPEAKER_01: And you hear the click, clack going down.
• 8:55
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, so let me describe this to you.
• 8:57
  SPEAKER_01: So you have a center aisle, and then the left aisle has lockers on the side, the right aisle has lockers on that side.
• 9:08
  SPEAKER_01: So they're walking the center aisle.
• 9:09
  SPEAKER_01: You can hear it click, clack, click, clack.
• 9:13
  SPEAKER_01: And I finally, I'm still like this, doing this one aisle.
• 9:16
  SPEAKER_01: Hey man, I'm trying to get some sleep because I haven't had sleep.
• 9:19
  SPEAKER_01: So important.
• 9:20
  SPEAKER_01: I haven't had sleep.
• 9:22
  SPEAKER_01: And you can hear them calling names and stuff like Asberry.
• 9:26
  SPEAKER_01: It was like Asberry.
• 9:27
  SPEAKER_01: Like, who the fuck is Asberry?
• 9:29
  SPEAKER_01: It said, Ali.
• 9:31
  SPEAKER_01: It's Ali.
• 9:32
  SPEAKER_01: And I'll get to Ali in a second.
• 9:33
  SPEAKER_01: Remember Ali.
• 9:34
  SPEAKER_01: And they're like, they keep going down the line.
• 9:36
  SPEAKER_01: And they're going, they're getting down, they're getting close to my name.
• 9:39
  SPEAKER_01: They're getting close to my name.
• 9:40
  SPEAKER_01: They said, Hopkins, Isaac's.
• 9:42
  SPEAKER_01: Now, no.
• 9:44
  SPEAKER_01: So they mentioned Isaacs.
• 9:46
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, Isaac's.
• 9:47
  SPEAKER_01: And they're getting close to the G's.
• 9:49
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, oh shit.
• 9:50
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, I'm not nervous or anything.
• 9:52
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not nervous right now.
• 9:53
  SPEAKER_01: I'm just I'm cool.
• 9:54
  SPEAKER_01: I'm just tired.
• 9:55
  SPEAKER_01: Again.
• 9:55
  SPEAKER_01: I've been up for a couple days.
• 9:57
  SPEAKER_01: I'm I'm almost to the point where I'm delirious.
• 10:00
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know what day it is.
• 10:02
  SPEAKER_01: And I'm just flabbergasted.
• 10:04
  SPEAKER_01: And I have an eight.
• 10:06
  SPEAKER_01: I have an ate.
• 10:08
  SPEAKER_01: So they get up and they're getting up to me and they're like, Glesby.
• 10:14
  SPEAKER_01: Like, Glesby.
• 10:17
  SPEAKER_01: And any they they trained us before we left.
• 10:20
  SPEAKER_01: They say, anytime you hear your name, you say, Sir, Trainee Glesby reports as ordered.
• 10:27
  SPEAKER_01: But he's saying my name.
• 10:29
  SPEAKER_01: He said my name twice.
• 10:31
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, and I'm thinking to myself, why is he saying my name twice?
• 10:36
  SPEAKER_01: He didn't do that for Hopkins and didn't do it for Ali.
• 10:40
  SPEAKER_01: But he called my name twice.
• 10:42
  SPEAKER_01: So I don't know what to do because I'm new.
• 10:44
  SPEAKER_01: I'm sleepy.
• 10:45
  SPEAKER_01: Never don't forget.
• 10:46
  SPEAKER_01: I'm sleepy this whole time.
• 10:48
  SPEAKER_01: And he's like, Gillespie.
• 10:51
  SPEAKER_01: Glesby?
• 10:52
  SPEAKER_01: So I just say, Sir, Trendy Gillespie reports as order.
• 10:57
  SPEAKER_01: And then click, he comes towards me.
• 10:59
  SPEAKER_01: And I can feel him.
• 11:01
  SPEAKER_01: My eyes are still closed because I don't know what to do.
• 11:03
  SPEAKER_01: I'm just like, I just need to sleep.
• 11:04
  SPEAKER_01: And then all that stuff.
• 11:05
  SPEAKER_01: But I feel his hot breath right here.
• 11:11
  SPEAKER_01: Right here.
• 11:12
  SPEAKER_01: His hot breath is around me.
• 11:14
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, oh my God.
• 11:15
  SPEAKER_01: I'm getting in trouble and I haven't done nothing.
• 11:19
  SPEAKER_01: I don't understand.
• 11:20
  SPEAKER_01: Like, why is he here breathing on me, spitting?
• 11:28
  SPEAKER_01: That's what's happening.
• 11:29
  SPEAKER_01: He's spitting on me and he's right here.
• 11:33
  SPEAKER_01: And I'm like, what did I do?
• 11:35
  SPEAKER_01: How am I in trouble?
• 11:36
  SPEAKER_01: This doesn't make sense.
• 11:38
  SPEAKER_01: So I just give my reporting statement and he says this.
• 11:42
  SPEAKER_01: He's like, You want to be like me?
• 11:47
  SPEAKER_01: I don't want to be like you.
• 11:48
  SPEAKER_01: I don't even know you.
• 11:49
  SPEAKER_01: I don't even know you, dude.
• 11:51
  SPEAKER_01: What do you mean?
• 11:51
  SPEAKER_01: Like a ranking NCO in the military?
• 11:54
  SPEAKER_01: What do you mean by you want to be like me?
• 11:57
  SPEAKER_01: I don't get it.
• 11:58
  SPEAKER_01: I don't understand why you're picking on me so early.
• 12:01
  SPEAKER_01: This is the first, this is the first couple hours of my military career, and you always in my face, hopping HPT and spitting on me.
• 12:14
  SPEAKER_01: And he's like, You want to be like me?
• 12:17
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, I'm on the verge of tears, ladies and gentlemen, because I haven't gotten no sleep.
• 12:25
  SPEAKER_01: And I haven't eaten in so long.
• 12:28
  SPEAKER_01: So I'm breaking down already.
• 12:32
  SPEAKER_01: And he goes, You want to be like me?
• 12:36
  SPEAKER_01: And I quickly answer, like, no, sir.
• 12:38
  SPEAKER_01: And he's like, What's wrong with me?
• 12:40
  SPEAKER_01: You don't want to be like me?
• 12:42
  SPEAKER_01: But all this spit is gathering on the side of my face, and it's like slowly coming down, like it's he's gathered enough saliva on the side of my face that I could feel it running down my face.
• 12:55
  SPEAKER_01: He's like, What's wrong with me?
• 12:58
  SPEAKER_01: And I still got my eyes closed.
• 12:59
  SPEAKER_01: Like, what do you mean?
• 13:01
  SPEAKER_01: I don't understand.
• 13:03
  SPEAKER_01: So I opened my eyes.
• 13:05
  SPEAKER_01: Open my eyes, look at his chest.
• 13:09
  SPEAKER_01: I said, You gotta be kidding me.
• 13:12
  SPEAKER_01: My TI was named Staff Sergeant Gillespie.
• 13:20
  SPEAKER_01: I can't I was like, I cannot believe this.
• 13:22
  SPEAKER_01: This this tall Caucasian man is my TI for the next six weeks.
• 13:30
  SPEAKER_01: And clearly he has a problem with me because he's picking on me and my first couple hours in the military.
• 13:36
  SPEAKER_01: I can't process this right now.
• 13:38
  SPEAKER_01: I am shell-shocked.
• 13:40
  SPEAKER_01: And he's spitting on me, and they do this, they have to do this on purpose.
• 13:45
  SPEAKER_01: Ladies and gentlemen, if you go to the military, prepare to be spit on.
• 13:50
  SPEAKER_01: So I said, no, sir.
• 13:52
  SPEAKER_01: Remember, he asked me, do I want to be like him?
• 13:53
  SPEAKER_01: I said, no, sir.
• 13:54
  SPEAKER_01: He said, What's wrong with me?
• 13:55
  SPEAKER_01: I said, I just at this point, I just shut up.
• 13:58
  SPEAKER_01: I just like, you know what?
• 13:59
  SPEAKER_01: If I say anything else, I'm gonna get in trouble.
• 14:03
  SPEAKER_01: And then he goes on.
• 14:04
  SPEAKER_01: He says, you know what, Gillespie?
• 14:07
  SPEAKER_01: You're gonna be my road guard.
• 14:08
  SPEAKER_01: At this point, I just want to cry right now.
• 14:10
  SPEAKER_01: Because what's a road guard, man?
• 14:13
  SPEAKER_01: I just got here, man.
• 14:15
  SPEAKER_01: What is it?
• 14:16
  SPEAKER_01: He said, You're gonna be my road guard.
• 14:18
  SPEAKER_01: And he says, You the first one to go out.
• 14:21
  SPEAKER_01: And if you get hit by a car, oh well.
• 14:23
  SPEAKER_01: I said, What?
• 14:24
  SPEAKER_01: He said, You're gonna have your flashlight, you're gonna point it down, and it's gonna, and you're gonna road guard.
• 14:29
  SPEAKER_01: You make sure the flight crosses the street.
• 14:32
  SPEAKER_01: You better, if you cross in the street, you better make sure nobody gets hit by a car.
• 14:36
  SPEAKER_01: If not, I'm gonna get you.
• 14:40
  SPEAKER_01: I'm a rogue guard.
• 14:43
  SPEAKER_01: So I'm like, all right, whatever.
• 14:45
  SPEAKER_01: So we finally, he's like, all right, good night.
• 14:49
  SPEAKER_01: So it was like, I don't know what time it is.
• 14:51
  SPEAKER_01: There's no watches or anything like that.
• 14:52
  SPEAKER_01: We're like, okay, whatever.
• 14:55
  SPEAKER_01: I want to sleep.
• 14:57
  SPEAKER_01: And they and the sleep deprived sleep deprivation is a real thing.
• 15:03
  SPEAKER_01: Right.
• 15:04
  SPEAKER_01: You ain't you go you'll recover, but you ain't getting no sleep that first week.
• 15:07
  SPEAKER_01: Week zero, you ain't getting no sleep.
• 15:11
  SPEAKER_01: So I slept.
• 15:14
  SPEAKER_01: We got a chance to sleep.
• 15:17
  SPEAKER_01: I don't even I think I'm still wearing the shirt and pants combination I I wore on the plane.
• 15:25
  SPEAKER_01: I'm wearing that.
• 15:26
  SPEAKER_01: So they give us this belt with canteen on the side, and we gotta make sure we have that on all the time.
• 15:35
  SPEAKER_01: We are soldiers now, we are trainees in the military now.
• 15:40
  SPEAKER_01: So you get sleep and everything's good.
• 15:45
  SPEAKER_01: You thinking this is gonna be at a nine to five or anything like that?
• 15:48
  SPEAKER_01: It's not, it's not because you gotta get used to military life.
• 15:57
  SPEAKER_01: And five o'clock in the morning, you're sleeping.
• 16:01
  SPEAKER_01: You're just like, oh my god.
• 16:04
  SPEAKER_01: I'm recharging.
• 16:05
  SPEAKER_01: And then guess what?
• 16:06
  SPEAKER_01: Five o'clock in the morning.
• 16:11
  SPEAKER_01: Get up, all you maggots, get up.
• 16:13
  SPEAKER_01: They're yelling at us, like, get your butts up.
• 16:16
  SPEAKER_01: They have the veins and they get up, bless me, get up, and they're all yelling at us, get up, get up.
• 16:23
  SPEAKER_01: So we ain't got no choice.
• 16:25
  SPEAKER_01: We get up, we all hustle to the door, single file, and run downstairs.
• 16:31
  SPEAKER_01: Have you ever been woken up like that before?
• 16:34
  SPEAKER_01: Ever.
• 16:35
  SPEAKER_01: No.
• 16:36
  SPEAKER_01: News flash.
• 16:37
  SPEAKER_01: No, you have not.
• 16:40
  SPEAKER_01: You kidding me?
• 16:42
  SPEAKER_01: This is what I gotta do.
• 16:45
  SPEAKER_01: This is what I'm doing for the rest of for the next.
• 16:49
  SPEAKER_01: I signed a six-year enlistment.
• 16:51
  SPEAKER_01: Six years, next six years?
• 16:54
  SPEAKER_01: Huh?
• 16:55
  SPEAKER_01: I said, Lord have mercy.
• 16:57
  SPEAKER_01: We line up and just groggy all day, tired.
• 17:03
  SPEAKER_01: And there he is, over there in the corner, all in just whatever.
• 17:09
  SPEAKER_01: So angry right now.
• 17:11
  SPEAKER_01: You sleep deprived me, you let me get a couple hours of sleep, we're back at it.
• 17:15
  SPEAKER_01: I we probably got about three hours.
• 17:19
  SPEAKER_01: Tops.
• 17:20
  SPEAKER_01: Couldn't have been more than that, but it was that was some of the best sleep I ever had.
• 17:25
  SPEAKER_01: So we get downstairs, we sang this, we sang the Air Force song.
• 17:29
  SPEAKER_01: Off we go into the Wow Blue, y'all.
• 17:33
  SPEAKER_01: We had to sing three verses.
• 17:34
  SPEAKER_01: I did not know the Air Force had three verses of songs, right?
• 17:40
  SPEAKER_01: So we go and we get sized for uniforms and we get sized for boots, and we have people getting haircuts.
• 17:48
  SPEAKER_01: And this is the first time that you get to look, you don't know who's who, who's where, all this stuff.
• 17:56
  SPEAKER_01: I remember my recruiter said, look, cut your hair before you go, just so you don't have to be, you don't have to, you don't have to deal with that.
• 18:02
  SPEAKER_01: If you don't you cut your hair before, you can sit back and you know, get get accommodated to people, all this stuff, and see everybody, this, that, and the other, and all that.
• 18:14
  SPEAKER_01: Right.
• 18:14
  SPEAKER_01: So I'm like, cool.
• 18:15
  SPEAKER_01: I cut my hair, I did bring a razor.
• 18:17
  SPEAKER_01: They said, bring a razor, do not be the black, only black guy without a razor.
• 18:21
  SPEAKER_01: Don't do that.
• 18:21
  SPEAKER_01: So I brought a razor and all that.
• 18:24
  SPEAKER_01: Oh man.
• 18:25
  SPEAKER_01: So I'm sitting there watching people, I'm on the wall at attention, like that.
• 18:30
  SPEAKER_01: And I'm watching people from like there's we had the Boston Trio.
• 18:33
  SPEAKER_01: We have I'm starting to identify people because the Boston trio, they ca, the Boston accent, ca.
• 18:42
  SPEAKER_01: We were about to get acclimated, we're about to be one cohesive unit, right?
• 18:47
  SPEAKER_01: So me and Ali, remember Ali?
• 18:52
  SPEAKER_01: Short hair, we both had short hair, and we didn't have to get our hair cut.
• 18:56
  SPEAKER_01: So we were walking down and say, hey, we're all sitting at attention, and we're like, hey, what's up, man?
• 19:01
  SPEAKER_01: We're at attention, so we we can't be like socializing, hey man, what's up, dog?
• 19:05
  SPEAKER_01: You know what I'm saying?
• 19:06
  SPEAKER_01: Because the barbers are haters too.
• 19:08
  SPEAKER_01: But I'll get to that in a second.
• 19:09
  SPEAKER_01: They didn't they didn't catch, they didn't catch us, but me and Ali were talking like, hey man, what's up, man?
• 19:14
  SPEAKER_01: What's up, man?
• 19:14
  SPEAKER_01: How you?
• 19:15
  SPEAKER_01: So I'm fine.
• 19:16
  SPEAKER_01: What's your name?
• 19:17
  SPEAKER_01: So Ali, I'm Gillespie.
• 19:18
  SPEAKER_01: So cool.
• 19:19
  SPEAKER_01: That's it.
• 19:20
  SPEAKER_01: That's all the talking we did, right?
• 19:22
  SPEAKER_01: We had people getting their haircuts, like long curly, like long straight hair, getting the haircuts, and they were crying.
• 19:34
  SPEAKER_01: They were crying.
• 19:38
  SPEAKER_01: Bruh, so they didn't prep you because they were this guy, they were proud of their hair.
• 19:43
  SPEAKER_01: They were just like doing the whole flip back.
• 19:45
  SPEAKER_01: They said, No, you cutting that.
• 19:48
  SPEAKER_01: Cut it off.
• 19:49
  SPEAKER_01: And you could tell people that they didn't want their haircut because their heads look funny, right?
• 19:54
  SPEAKER_01: So that was it.
• 19:56
  SPEAKER_01: So as we're accommodating, week one, I'm starting talking to Ali.
• 20:03
  SPEAKER_01: Ali, man, what's up, man?
• 20:04
  SPEAKER_01: You good?
• 20:05
  SPEAKER_01: Ali is shorter than me, right?
• 20:07
  SPEAKER_01: So I was like, we just bonded because he's a road guard too.
• 20:10
  SPEAKER_01: So it's me and him on the back end.
• 20:12
  SPEAKER_01: We have two road guards in the front, and then we tap them out.
• 20:17
  SPEAKER_01: They go back in front, and we're the two road guards in the back with the flashlights.
• 20:22
  SPEAKER_01: Me and Ali, we we developed a bond.
• 20:25
  SPEAKER_01: We were cool.
• 20:25
  SPEAKER_01: We were me and you till we were ride and die.
• 20:30
  SPEAKER_01: Because we might die.
• 20:31
  SPEAKER_01: We don't know if we're gonna see the end of this.
• 20:33
  SPEAKER_01: So, day one, they just getting us acclimated.
• 20:36
  SPEAKER_01: We get our uniforms, we get our gym uniforms, our PT gear, canteen, boots, and everything, right?
• 20:48
  SPEAKER_01: So then we start doing marches.
• 20:50
  SPEAKER_01: Yo live, yo left, right, yo left.
• 20:57
  SPEAKER_01: We all doing it, so you know, no one's messing with us, no one's picking on me or anything.
• 21:02
  SPEAKER_01: And we're learning everything, right?
• 21:05
  SPEAKER_01: Then we go to immunization.
• 21:09
  SPEAKER_01: Immunization.
• 21:10
  SPEAKER_01: And then my TI, Sergeant Gillespie, had a female co-TI.
• 21:18
  SPEAKER_01: Haven't met her yet, but this is the future talking.
• 21:21
  SPEAKER_01: Britt, her name was Sergeant Britt.
• 21:24
  SPEAKER_01: Sergeant Britt wasn't there at the time, so he's letting us know you got a female T.I.
• 21:28
  SPEAKER_01: and don't let nothing happen.
• 21:29
  SPEAKER_01: And you know what I'm talking to.
• 21:30
  SPEAKER_01: You know, I was like, I know he ain't talking to me like that.
• 21:33
  SPEAKER_01: He's crazy.
• 21:34
  SPEAKER_01: So we go to immunizations, and again, I'm sitting here minding my business.
• 21:42
  SPEAKER_01: Now, let me remind you, I never got in trouble.
• 21:46
  SPEAKER_01: I never I I stay to myself all before I joined the military.
• 21:50
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, I ain't look, if I just be quiet, no one's gonna see me, I'll be okay.
• 21:56
  SPEAKER_01: So he calls my name, Trady Gillespie, and we're taught, once you hear your name, everybody in the whole flight says your name.
• 22:06
  SPEAKER_01: So make sure you can't give you like I didn't hear it.
• 22:09
  SPEAKER_01: They can't, you can't do that.
• 22:11
  SPEAKER_01: So he's like, Trady Gillespie, and everybody shouts, Trady Gillespie.
• 22:16
  SPEAKER_01: When you hear that, you better run to the person, the T I who is called your name.
• 22:22
  SPEAKER_01: Because you you don't want to get in any trouble.
• 22:24
  SPEAKER_01: I run.
• 22:26
  SPEAKER_01: Boom.
• 22:26
  SPEAKER_01: Says, sir, Trainee Gillespie reports his order.
• 22:30
  SPEAKER_01: He said, man, relax, man.
• 22:31
  SPEAKER_01: Relax, man.
• 22:32
  SPEAKER_01: I'm just playing with you, man.
• 22:33
  SPEAKER_01: So it's like, I'm like, I'm sitting attention, man.
• 22:36
  SPEAKER_01: I'm telling you, at ease.
• 22:37
  SPEAKER_01: I guess he was testing me.
• 22:38
  SPEAKER_01: I relax.
• 22:39
  SPEAKER_01: Ain't relaxed.
• 22:39
  SPEAKER_01: I gotta add ease.
• 22:40
  SPEAKER_01: So I add ease and parade rest, whatever you want to call it now.
• 22:43
  SPEAKER_01: I'm at parade rest.
• 22:44
  SPEAKER_01: He's like, man, look, bro, I'm sorry, man.
• 22:47
  SPEAKER_01: I didn't mean.
• 22:49
  SPEAKER_01: I ain't trying to be mean or nothing.
• 22:50
  SPEAKER_01: I just don't see my name too often.
• 22:53
  SPEAKER_01: And I just thought it would be cool to say, give you something to remember.
• 22:56
  SPEAKER_01: And I remembered this.
• 22:57
  SPEAKER_01: He's like, you alright?
• 22:58
  SPEAKER_01: And I was like, yes, sir.
• 23:00
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, sir.
• 23:02
  SPEAKER_01: He's like, alright, cool, man.
• 23:04
  SPEAKER_01: He goes, he asked me, he said, Trendy Gillespie, do you want to get a beer after a couple weeks, like four, five, six weeks at week six or something?
• 23:12
  SPEAKER_01: Do you want to get a beer?
• 23:13
  SPEAKER_01: I'm sitting to myself, like, like, is he playing me?
• 23:17
  SPEAKER_01: Like, I don't, I don't know because I've never been in this situation.
• 23:21
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know if I say the wrong thing, he's gonna get me in trouble.
• 23:25
  SPEAKER_01: But if I say the right thing, he's gonna get me in trouble.
• 23:27
  SPEAKER_01: I hope he knows how old I am, because I got I could drink beer, I could drink beer.
• 23:31
  SPEAKER_01: But I don't know if he's playing me or not.
• 23:33
  SPEAKER_01: I think he's playing me, but I got- I can't I gotta risk it.
• 23:36
  SPEAKER_01: I can't take I can't get in trouble.
• 23:38
  SPEAKER_01: So I'm like, I got this, I got this.
• 23:40
  SPEAKER_01: I said, man, yeah, man, let me uh we can drink some beer.
• 23:43
  SPEAKER_01: Say, and then he flipped it on me.
• 23:44
  SPEAKER_01: He flipped it on me.
• 23:45
  SPEAKER_01: He said, You think I would drink beer with a trainee?
• 23:49
  SPEAKER_01: So get your dumb butt in line.
• 23:52
  SPEAKER_01: He didn't say, but he said, he didn't say, but here are my feelings.
• 23:56
  SPEAKER_01: Start cussing at me.
• 23:57
  SPEAKER_01: And that was the most uncool walk to get back in the line.
• 24:01
  SPEAKER_01: You know how you it's just you know how people walk like that.
• 24:04
  SPEAKER_01: No, it was walking to the back of the line, and all the airmen had smiles.
• 24:10
  SPEAKER_01: My flight had smiles on their face because they just saw what happened to me.
• 24:14
  SPEAKER_01: He embarrassed me.
• 24:16
  SPEAKER_01: He embarrassed me in front of my flight, man.
• 24:19
  SPEAKER_01: This is ridiculous.
• 24:20
  SPEAKER_01: And on top of that, I'm about to get six, seven needles in my arm, and they gotta carry this embarrassment back to the squadron to the flight.
• 24:27
  SPEAKER_01: It's like, man, this is I'm stressed.
• 24:32
  SPEAKER_01: I am stressed already.
• 24:35
  SPEAKER_01: So that happens.
• 24:37
  SPEAKER_01: Immunization wasn't a problem.
• 24:39
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
• 24:39
  SPEAKER_01: By the time I had a couple tattoos and stuff, so needles didn't bother me.
• 24:42
  SPEAKER_01: Some people were passing out, not me.
• 24:45
  SPEAKER_01: Needles, blah, blah, blah, blah.
• 24:46
  SPEAKER_01: So you're gonna feel like crap for a couple days, we're not like, man, whatever, man.
• 24:51
  SPEAKER_01: So that happened, right?
• 24:54
  SPEAKER_01: And we're we're we are starving.
• 24:57
  SPEAKER_01: So after immunizations, we finally get to eat.
• 25:00
  SPEAKER_01: We finally get some chow.
• 25:03
  SPEAKER_01: And you get to see chow runners and everything.
• 25:06
  SPEAKER_01: You learn that experience.
• 25:07
  SPEAKER_01: What's a chow runner, man?
• 25:08
  SPEAKER_01: Look at these chow runners, bro.
• 25:10
  SPEAKER_01: So we go in there and they announce our squadron and everything.
• 25:15
  SPEAKER_01: And we go in there, and it's like, you don't make eye contact, you don't you grab your things, get your three drinks.
• 25:23
  SPEAKER_01: They said, three drinks.
• 25:24
  SPEAKER_01: That's the only thing I remember.
• 25:26
  SPEAKER_01: Is make sure you trainees have three drinks on your tray.
• 25:31
  SPEAKER_01: Three drinks, three drinks, three drinks, right?
• 25:35
  SPEAKER_01: I haven't eaten since two days ago, or a day, a whole day haven't eaten.
• 25:40
  SPEAKER_01: I'm starving.
• 25:42
  SPEAKER_01: I got my tray.
• 25:43
  SPEAKER_01: And you can smell the food.
• 25:46
  SPEAKER_01: You can smell the food.
• 25:47
  SPEAKER_01: It's an L-shape.
• 25:48
  SPEAKER_01: So let me describe the cafeteria.
• 25:49
  SPEAKER_01: It's an L shape.
• 25:50
  SPEAKER_01: So you go down one and you go down the other.
• 25:53
  SPEAKER_01: At the end, your three drinks are right there.
• 25:56
  SPEAKER_01: Right?
• 25:56
  SPEAKER_01: So also at the end, they have a rotating dessert bar.
• 26:02
  SPEAKER_01: Don't okay.
• 26:04
  SPEAKER_01: Don't even think about it.
• 26:05
  SPEAKER_01: Don't even think about dessert.
• 26:06
  SPEAKER_01: No, they said three drinks.
• 26:08
  SPEAKER_01: Don't you think about dessert?
• 26:10
  SPEAKER_01: Dessert is a no-go.
• 26:11
  SPEAKER_01: Do not reach in there and grab a dessert.
• 26:14
  SPEAKER_01: No.
• 26:15
  SPEAKER_01: So I got my tray.
• 26:17
  SPEAKER_01: And uh my previous experience in culinary, I've had terrible eggs and all that stuff.
• 26:22
  SPEAKER_01: But I'm hungry.
• 26:24
  SPEAKER_01: I am starving.
• 26:26
  SPEAKER_01: They're like, go online.
• 26:28
  SPEAKER_01: So I got my tray.
• 26:29
  SPEAKER_01: And they're like, and then so it's me, and then on the opposite side of me is someone serving our food, so doing all that and stuff.
• 26:37
  SPEAKER_01: So then they will say, eggs, and you would say, eggs.
• 26:41
  SPEAKER_01: You're getting eggs on your plate.
• 26:44
  SPEAKER_01: Right?
• 26:44
  SPEAKER_01: So we're going through line, and they're like, eggs.
• 26:48
  SPEAKER_01: Eggs.
• 26:50
  SPEAKER_01: Eggs.
• 26:50
  SPEAKER_01: Got me some eggs.
• 26:51
  SPEAKER_01: I'm looking at these eggs like okay, it ain't too bad.
• 26:54
  SPEAKER_01: They look like eggs.
• 26:55
  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna eat this stuff because I'm hungry.
• 26:57
  SPEAKER_01: Eggs.
• 26:58
  SPEAKER_01: Go down the line.
• 26:59
  SPEAKER_01: Goes sausage.
• 27:01
  SPEAKER_01: You know what?
• 27:02
  SPEAKER_01: I don't wouldn't mind some sausage either.
• 27:04
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know, sausage.
• 27:06
  SPEAKER_01: Sausage.
• 27:07
  SPEAKER_01: Like, all right, this is two for two.
• 27:09
  SPEAKER_01: Eggs, sausage.
• 27:10
  SPEAKER_01: I'm starving.
• 27:11
  SPEAKER_01: Alright, whatever.
• 27:12
  SPEAKER_01: Says bacon.
• 27:14
  SPEAKER_01: Hell yeah.
• 27:16
  SPEAKER_01: Bacon.
• 27:16
  SPEAKER_01: And then the one guy's like, the guy on the opposite end.
• 27:20
  SPEAKER_01: He says, he whispers, don't do that.
• 27:25
  SPEAKER_01: I said, don't do that.
• 27:27
  unknown: I said, don't do that.
• 27:29
  SPEAKER_01: Don't tell me don't do that, bro.
• 27:31
  SPEAKER_01: I'm hungry.
• 27:32
  SPEAKER_01: I'm serious right now.
• 27:33
  SPEAKER_01: Like a dude.
• 27:34
  SPEAKER_01: I'm hungry.
• 27:36
  SPEAKER_01: Don't tell me don't do that.
• 27:38
  SPEAKER_01: I need this right now.
• 27:40
  SPEAKER_01: I need this, man.
• 27:41
  SPEAKER_01: I'm on the borderline going crazy.
• 27:43
  SPEAKER_01: I need this, man.
• 27:44
  unknown: He said, don't do that.
• 27:46
  SPEAKER_01: Man, give me some bacon.
• 27:47
  SPEAKER_01: He says, bacon.
• 27:48
  SPEAKER_01: One more time.
• 27:48
  SPEAKER_01: Bacon.
• 27:49
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like bacon.
• 27:52
  SPEAKER_01: And he puts three pieces of bacon on.
• 27:54
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, yo.
• 27:55
  SPEAKER_01: I mean like a king right now.
• 27:57
  SPEAKER_01: I'm thinking I'm gonna get to I'm gonna eat the sh out of this biscuit.
• 28:00
  SPEAKER_01: I said, nah, I don't need no biscuit.
• 28:02
  SPEAKER_01: I got sausage, bacon, eggs.
• 28:06
  SPEAKER_01: Grab my three drinks.
• 28:08
  SPEAKER_01: I grabbed juice water.
• 28:11
  SPEAKER_01: No, yeah, juice water.
• 28:12
  SPEAKER_01: I got juice water.
• 28:15
  SPEAKER_01: And I got my tray, minding my business, doing the scoot.
• 28:18
  SPEAKER_01: That's the scoot.
• 28:19
  SPEAKER_01: We don't turn nothing.
• 28:21
  SPEAKER_01: We stay straight.
• 28:22
  SPEAKER_01: Scoot, scoot.
• 28:23
  SPEAKER_01: At the dessert rack.
• 28:25
  SPEAKER_01: Nope.
• 28:25
  SPEAKER_01: I know better than that.
• 28:26
  SPEAKER_01: I got me a plate of food and my three drinks.
• 28:30
  SPEAKER_01: So we get to the table.
• 28:32
  SPEAKER_01: I leave his weight, standing up.
• 28:34
  SPEAKER_01: He ain't moving.
• 28:36
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not moving.
• 28:37
  SPEAKER_01: Because we have to have all fours before we start eating at the table.
• 28:40
  SPEAKER_01: Because it's a four four-person table.
• 28:42
  SPEAKER_01: Four person get there, we sit down, we start eating.
• 28:45
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, this shit's gross.
• 28:47
  SPEAKER_01: It ain't that good.
• 28:48
  SPEAKER_01: It ain't that good.
• 28:49
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know what they did.
• 28:50
  SPEAKER_01: They didn't when they say you put your foot in there, they must have literally put their foot in there.
• 28:54
  SPEAKER_01: Because this food ain't good.
• 28:56
  SPEAKER_01: And RTI comes in, we're late.
• 28:58
  SPEAKER_01: Hurry up and eat.
• 28:59
  SPEAKER_01: Drink your three drinks.
• 29:01
  SPEAKER_01: Don't waste food.
• 29:02
  SPEAKER_01: Because we they have a bucket where if you waste food, that bucket adds up.
• 29:08
  SPEAKER_01: And your flight has a lot of food in it.
• 29:11
  SPEAKER_01: Guess what?
• 29:12
  SPEAKER_01: You in trouble.
• 29:13
  SPEAKER_01: Bro, I just sat down.
• 29:15
  SPEAKER_01: So hurry up, bless me, you fat bastard.
• 29:18
  SPEAKER_01: He didn't say that, but that's what I heard.
• 29:21
  SPEAKER_01: You know what I'm saying?
• 29:22
  SPEAKER_01: He's like, you fat bastard, get hurry up and ate.
• 29:25
  SPEAKER_01: Drink your drinks.
• 29:27
  SPEAKER_01: They're heavy on that.
• 29:29
  SPEAKER_01: Drink your drinks.
• 29:31
  SPEAKER_01: And get all angry and stuff.
• 29:32
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, get out of here.
• 29:33
  SPEAKER_01: Drink your drinks.
• 29:35
  SPEAKER_01: So I'm slamming the food.
• 29:37
  SPEAKER_01: I'm just eating it because I I really need this right now, bro.
• 29:41
  SPEAKER_01: Y'all, y'all deprived me of sleep.
• 29:44
  SPEAKER_01: And y'all got me up at five o'clock in the morning.
• 29:47
  SPEAKER_01: Y'all done injected something in me, super serious super soldier serum in me.
• 29:51
  SPEAKER_01: I'm about to turn into Captain America.
• 29:54
  SPEAKER_01: And I finally get to eat.
• 29:58
  SPEAKER_01: And now you telling me to hurry up and eat.
• 30:05
  SPEAKER_01: So I do the best I can.
• 30:07
  SPEAKER_01: They tell us don't waste food.
• 30:09
  SPEAKER_01: And I ate.
• 30:10
  SPEAKER_01: I ate.
• 30:12
  SPEAKER_01: What was next?
• 30:13
  SPEAKER_01: Take a guess what was next.
• 30:16
  SPEAKER_01: PT.
• 30:18
  SPEAKER_01: PT.
• 30:19
  SPEAKER_01: We just I my body can't function.
• 30:22
  SPEAKER_01: I don't care.
• 30:22
  SPEAKER_01: My body cannot function with food.
• 30:24
  SPEAKER_01: This much food in me.
• 30:26
  SPEAKER_01: And then my my memory served.
• 30:28
  SPEAKER_01: I started going back to where the guy was like, don't do that.
• 30:32
  SPEAKER_01: He was trying to save me.
• 30:34
  SPEAKER_01: And I ignored him.
• 30:35
  SPEAKER_01: I'm so sorry.
• 30:36
  SPEAKER_01: I shouldn't listen to him.
• 30:39
  SPEAKER_01: I'm about to throw up on the flight line.
• 30:42
  SPEAKER_01: I don't want to.
• 30:43
  SPEAKER_01: I don't want to throw up on the PT pitch, whatever you call it.
• 30:48
  SPEAKER_01: I forget what it was called.
• 30:50
  SPEAKER_01: But I'm pretty sure they're gonna frown about it if I throw up.
• 30:54
  SPEAKER_01: And so right now we get down, do some stretches.
• 30:57
  SPEAKER_01: I'm up here trying to burp and make myself burp so I can things get digest and all that stuff.
• 31:06
  SPEAKER_01: I'm trying to get because as soon as we start running, it's coming up.
• 31:12
  SPEAKER_01: I'm sorry.
• 31:13
  SPEAKER_01: Lo and behold, we do push-ups, we do sit-ups, we do stretches, and we're running.
• 31:19
  SPEAKER_01: We're running, we're running, we're running.
• 31:25
  SPEAKER_01: And you know what happened?
• 31:26
  SPEAKER_01: I don't even know why I'm delaying the inevitable.
• 31:29
  SPEAKER_01: I yeah, what's splash.
• 31:34
  SPEAKER_01: I never had projectile vomit before.
• 31:36
  SPEAKER_01: Never.
• 31:37
  SPEAKER_01: That stuff came out so forcefully.
• 31:41
  SPEAKER_01: I can't, I don't even know how to describe it, but it's like you get the muscle cramp from doing something so hard and doing the dry heaves and stuff, and he's I can hear my TI from back and forth.
• 31:51
  SPEAKER_01: I know it! I knew you would do this, Glasby.
• 31:55
  SPEAKER_01: You're a clown, you're a clown.
• 31:57
  SPEAKER_01: I got you, I got you when you're done.
• 32:02
  SPEAKER_01: How in two days, I get I'm guessing it was two days.
• 32:08
  SPEAKER_01: The two days I've been there, I've been a road guard, he picked on me because of my last name, he picked on me in immunization line, embarrassed me in front of the flight, and now I'm puking on the PT pitch, whatever you call it, and he's calling me a clown.
• 32:34
  SPEAKER_01: I cannot catch a break.
• 32:35
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, I was like, I ne I have never gotten in trouble like this before in my life.
• 32:42
  SPEAKER_01: And my first two days here, I'm getting nothing but trouble.
• 32:47
  SPEAKER_01: I cannot believe this.
• 32:48
  SPEAKER_01: I cannot believe all this is happening, and it's only been two days.
• 32:53
  SPEAKER_01: The next day was like a training day where we paper school day.
• 32:58
  SPEAKER_01: Let's just call it a school day, right?
• 33:01
  SPEAKER_01: School day was us learning rank and everything, and then we get a chance to talk to the instructor, just normal talk.
• 33:15
  SPEAKER_01: I'm in the back, me and Oli, and I'm like, man, this I'm covering my mouth because I ain't trying to get in trouble, but we have to be at attention, and we're like looking like this, this is some bull crap, bro.
• 33:24
  SPEAKER_01: And Ali's like, hey man, I ain't got no choice.
• 33:26
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, that's crazy because this is I can't, I can't I don't think I can do this, man.
• 33:30
  SPEAKER_01: We go through training, and then somebody asked, Is there salt pet in our food?
• 33:37
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, saltpeter?
• 33:39
  SPEAKER_01: What is saltpeter?
• 33:40
  SPEAKER_01: They're saying that there's something in our food that makes us not think about women or sex or anything like that.
• 33:52
  SPEAKER_01: I don't, and he's like, he's laughing.
• 33:55
  SPEAKER_01: Of course there's no saltpeter in your food.
• 33:58
  SPEAKER_01: What do you guys think?
• 33:58
  SPEAKER_01: We're some animals or something.
• 34:00
  SPEAKER_01: There's no saltpeter in your food.
• 34:02
  SPEAKER_01: What the why?
• 34:04
  SPEAKER_01: And then somebody else chimed in.
• 34:05
  SPEAKER_01: Why do you guys want us to drink three drinks?
• 34:08
  SPEAKER_01: We want you to stay hydrated because we don't want you to, we don't want you to fall out and pass out.
• 34:13
  SPEAKER_01: We don't want that.
• 34:14
  SPEAKER_01: And mind you, this is in February, February, March time frame.
• 34:20
  SPEAKER_01: It's cold.
• 34:20
  SPEAKER_01: We're in the winter.
• 34:21
  SPEAKER_01: Nobody's passing out.
• 34:22
  SPEAKER_01: This is tech.
• 34:23
  SPEAKER_01: I know we're in Texas, but it ain't hot right now.
• 34:25
  SPEAKER_01: It's freaking cold.
• 34:26
  SPEAKER_01: And they're like, why you make us drink these three drinks?
• 34:29
  SPEAKER_01: We want to keep you hydrated.
• 34:31
  SPEAKER_01: Really?
• 34:32
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, whatever, man.
• 34:36
  SPEAKER_01: Week zero.
• 34:37
  SPEAKER_01: It's still, this is like the second day.
• 34:40
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, this is crazy.
• 34:42
  SPEAKER_01: This is absolute crazy.
• 34:43
  SPEAKER_01: I can't believe I signed up to do this.
• 34:46
  SPEAKER_01: I volunteered to do this.
• 34:47
  SPEAKER_01: This is crazy.
• 34:48
  SPEAKER_01: Then the next day, they get us lined up.
• 34:50
  SPEAKER_01: It's all right, guys, we want you to call home.
• 34:54
  SPEAKER_01: Call home and let them know you arrived.
• 34:56
  SPEAKER_01: Do not take longer than 15 seconds.
• 34:59
  SPEAKER_01: Do not take longer than 30 seconds.
• 35:01
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, thank God.
• 35:02
  SPEAKER_01: I get to call.
• 35:03
  SPEAKER_01: I'm calling my fiance because I'm just ready to bust out tears and all that stuff.
• 35:08
  SPEAKER_01: And then he's looking at me, Gillespie's looking at me, puts his head down, looks at me, says, Gillespie, you been there cry.
• 35:13
  SPEAKER_01: I said, man, shut your.
• 35:15
  SPEAKER_01: So this dude is picking on me.
• 35:17
  SPEAKER_01: I have never been picked on before.
• 35:20
  SPEAKER_01: Not like this.
• 35:21
  SPEAKER_01: This is terrible.
• 35:21
  SPEAKER_01: This dude's going at it at me.
• 35:24
  SPEAKER_01: So I get on the phone and I'll call my fiance.
• 35:28
  SPEAKER_01: I pick up the phone.
• 35:29
  SPEAKER_01: She's like, hello?
• 35:30
  SPEAKER_01: I said, hey, what's up?
• 35:31
  SPEAKER_01: She's like, oh my God, you okay?
• 35:33
  SPEAKER_01: I said, I'm here.
• 35:35
  SPEAKER_01: I gotta go.
• 35:36
  SPEAKER_01: She's like, what?
• 35:37
  SPEAKER_01: I said, this is just to let you know I'm here, I'm safe, and I'm okay.
• 35:41
  SPEAKER_01: And then I hang out the phone.
• 35:44
  SPEAKER_01: Bruh, are you kidding me?
• 35:47
  SPEAKER_01: So let's recap.
• 35:49
  SPEAKER_01: All this torture that I'm going through right now.
• 35:52
  SPEAKER_01: I arrive.
• 35:53
  SPEAKER_01: Sleep deprived.
• 35:55
  SPEAKER_01: Starving.
• 35:56
  SPEAKER_01: They put needles in me.
• 35:57
  SPEAKER_01: My T.I.
• 35:58
  SPEAKER_01: don't like me because I got the same last name as him.
• 36:01
  SPEAKER_01: He makes me a road guard.
• 36:03
  SPEAKER_01: I puke.
• 36:05
  SPEAKER_01: I get called a clown.
• 36:09
  SPEAKER_01: This is seven things that's happened.
• 36:12
  SPEAKER_01: I can't.
• 36:14
  SPEAKER_01: I can't believe this is happening to me.
• 36:16
  SPEAKER_01: So Wednesday, we do beds, hospital corners, make sure our bed's sharp, make sure everything's all folded and all that stuff.
• 36:24
  SPEAKER_01: This one TI, a junior T.I.
• 36:27
  SPEAKER_01: comes in and he bounces the corner off the bed.
• 36:31
  SPEAKER_01: The thing is bounces straight up in the air.
• 36:33
  SPEAKER_01: Like, that's how tight your bed has to be.
• 36:35
  SPEAKER_01: Like, all right, fuck.
• 36:36
  SPEAKER_01: I can do this.
• 36:37
  SPEAKER_01: I can fold.
• 36:38
  SPEAKER_01: I can make my bed, hospital corners, and all that good stuff.
• 36:41
  SPEAKER_01: Don't ask me now to do it because I don't remember.
• 36:43
  SPEAKER_01: But back then, that was my thing.
• 36:45
  SPEAKER_01: I could do hospital corners, all that stuff.
• 36:47
  SPEAKER_01: And they taught us like how to fold our socks, how to fold our shirts, how to fold everything.
• 36:52
  SPEAKER_01: Make sure your locker's neat.
• 36:54
  SPEAKER_01: Spacing.
• 36:54
  SPEAKER_01: Make sure you only have two inches.
• 36:56
  SPEAKER_01: Make sure your boots are polished.
• 36:57
  SPEAKER_01: So we're doing all that, getting all that stuff done and everything.
• 37:03
  SPEAKER_01: By the time the weekend hits, it's a different monster.
• 37:07
  SPEAKER_01: Saturday, we've our female T.I.
• 37:09
  SPEAKER_01: comes in.
• 37:10
  SPEAKER_01: Britt, Sergeant Britt.
• 37:12
  SPEAKER_01: Sergeant Britt is about my height.
• 37:16
  SPEAKER_01: And for some reason, I don't know if Sergeant Gillespie told her about me.
• 37:23
  SPEAKER_01: Or she goes, Trainee Gillespie.
• 37:25
  SPEAKER_01: And then if you learn from earlier, everybody says the same thing.
• 37:28
  SPEAKER_01: Training Gillespie.
• 37:30
  SPEAKER_01: I run.
• 37:31
  SPEAKER_01: I said, ma'am, Train Gillespie reports order.
• 37:34
  SPEAKER_01: She says, ma'am, relax.
• 37:35
  SPEAKER_01: I said, I said, you gonna try to trick me again?
• 37:36
  SPEAKER_01: She's like, no.
• 37:37
  SPEAKER_01: Like, she's like, Yeah, you where you from?
• 37:39
  SPEAKER_01: I said, I'm from I'm from um, I said, what did I say?
• 37:43
  SPEAKER_01: I said, I'm from Hamilton.
• 37:44
  SPEAKER_01: She's like, You from Canada?
• 37:45
  SPEAKER_01: I said, No, ma'am, I'm from Hamilton, Ohio.
• 37:47
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, you from Cincinnati?
• 37:49
  SPEAKER_01: So yeah, I'm from Cincinnati.
• 37:50
  SPEAKER_01: So I gotta tell everybody I'm from Cincinnati.
• 37:52
  SPEAKER_01: I can't take no pride to what city I am in from.
• 37:55
  SPEAKER_01: I gotta say I'm from Cincinnati so people know where I'm from.
• 37:58
  SPEAKER_01: Whatever.
• 38:00
  SPEAKER_01: She's like, hey, you like hip-hop?
• 38:02
  SPEAKER_01: So yeah, I like some hip-hop.
• 38:03
  SPEAKER_01: She's like, Did you hear that new 50 Cent album?
• 38:06
  SPEAKER_01: No, this is dating me, but whatever.
• 38:08
  SPEAKER_01: At this time, 50 Cent's first album just dropped, and I got to listen to it maybe a week and a half.
• 38:14
  SPEAKER_01: And she's like, Yeah, I like some hip-hop.
• 38:16
  SPEAKER_01: I like 50 Cent.
• 38:17
  SPEAKER_01: So, okay, okay.
• 38:17
  SPEAKER_01: That's all I'm asking.
• 38:18
  SPEAKER_01: It's the weekend.
• 38:19
  SPEAKER_01: I ain't trying to bother you guys.
• 38:20
  SPEAKER_01: I said, okay.
• 38:21
  SPEAKER_01: So we go about our duties and we're learning about people.
• 38:24
  SPEAKER_01: We're learning.
• 38:25
  SPEAKER_01: I got one of my boys from Ohio who's on the opposite side, chilling.
• 38:29
  SPEAKER_01: We got the flight chief or flight, whatever, the guy who's in charge of the whole flight.
• 38:35
  SPEAKER_01: He gets if he if we get in trouble, he gets in trouble.
• 38:38
  SPEAKER_01: And the Boston, the car, the Boston people, there's three of them, all in the same flight.
• 38:43
  SPEAKER_01: They like, you like that many black people in Boston.
• 38:46
  SPEAKER_01: He says, This is cool.
• 38:47
  SPEAKER_01: We're talking and stuff.
• 38:48
  SPEAKER_01: We all mingling because we all got to be together, man.
• 38:51
  SPEAKER_01: That's the best thing about the military.
• 38:53
  SPEAKER_01: We all from Boston.
• 38:54
  SPEAKER_01: Got one dude from Cali.
• 38:56
  SPEAKER_01: We got our flight chief, our flight, whatever, the flight squadron commander, whatever you want to call.
• 39:01
  SPEAKER_01: And we got me Ali.
• 39:03
  SPEAKER_01: He's international.
• 39:04
  SPEAKER_01: Don't know where he's from.
• 39:05
  SPEAKER_01: He's part of us.
• 39:07
  SPEAKER_01: And we learn we're gonna be, we're gonna be a flight.
• 39:11
  SPEAKER_01: We're gonna be a flight together.
• 39:12
  SPEAKER_01: That's the best part about the military that I love.
• 39:14
  SPEAKER_01: We are one cohesive unit from this point forward.
• 39:18
  SPEAKER_01: So Sunday comes around.
• 39:20
  SPEAKER_01: Sunday, the weekends is they don't come in and bother us too much.
• 39:24
  SPEAKER_01: They come in, we might do PT, and then our TIs leave, and we're just staying the dorms and do whatever.
• 39:31
  SPEAKER_01: Sunday comes after all week.
• 39:34
  SPEAKER_01: I've been getting beat up all week.
• 39:36
  SPEAKER_01: I am feeling it.
• 39:37
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, dude, I'm just like, you know what, whatever, bro.
• 39:40
  SPEAKER_01: I'm sick of this.
• 39:41
  SPEAKER_01: I'm sick to my throat.
• 39:43
  SPEAKER_01: I'm sick of this.
• 39:44
  SPEAKER_01: This is bull crap.
• 39:46
  SPEAKER_01: And he's like, who's going to church?
• 39:49
  SPEAKER_01: He says that out loud.
• 39:50
  SPEAKER_01: 80% of people go to church.
• 39:52
  SPEAKER_01: It's like, okay, Pentecostal church, this Catholic churches at this time today.
• 39:56
  SPEAKER_01: Except Gillespie, you going?
• 39:58
  SPEAKER_01: Somebody, something, not the T.I.
• 40:00
  SPEAKER_01: One of the other trainees asked me.
• 40:01
  SPEAKER_01: I said, I ain't going, man.
• 40:03
  SPEAKER_01: You got me stuck.
• 40:04
  SPEAKER_01: I ain't going.
• 40:05
  SPEAKER_01: And so RTI, it was not R TI, Gillespie or Brett.
• 40:09
  SPEAKER_01: It was another TI.
• 40:10
  SPEAKER_01: He comes in, he takes his TI hat off, and he's like, Look, man, this is the only time y'all get a break from us.
• 40:18
  SPEAKER_01: All right.
• 40:19
  SPEAKER_01: We ain't allowed in the church.
• 40:20
  SPEAKER_01: And so, because we damn demons, that's why.
• 40:23
  SPEAKER_01: He said, We ain't allowed in the church.
• 40:25
  SPEAKER_01: He's like, man, this is your only break for me.
• 40:28
  SPEAKER_01: He puts his hat back on.
• 40:30
  SPEAKER_01: He's like, who's going to church?
• 40:32
  SPEAKER_01: I raise my hand because I'm about sick of this.
• 40:34
  SPEAKER_01: I raise my hand so fast.
• 40:36
  SPEAKER_01: And I go to church.
• 40:38
  SPEAKER_01: I am in church in the back pews and everything.
• 40:42
  SPEAKER_01: And I'm like, man, this is, I can't.
• 40:45
  SPEAKER_01: I'm sitting there.
• 40:46
  SPEAKER_01: I don't gotta be at ease.
• 40:47
  SPEAKER_01: I'm sitting here with my hands up, my thighs, like looking like this, like this.
• 40:53
  SPEAKER_01: And I'm just listening to the word, but not really listening.
• 40:56
  SPEAKER_01: I'm all in my own feelings right now.
• 40:58
  SPEAKER_01: And I'm like listening here.
• 41:00
  SPEAKER_01: And I'm saying to myself, why am I here?
• 41:04
  SPEAKER_01: In my head, it's so loud.
• 41:07
  SPEAKER_01: Why am I here?
• 41:08
  SPEAKER_01: I have been getting tortured since the moment I got here.
• 41:12
  SPEAKER_01: Why am I here?
• 41:13
  SPEAKER_01: I'm sitting there just mad, looking to the left, looking to the right.
• 41:18
  SPEAKER_01: There's a bunch of people and all that stuff.
• 41:20
  SPEAKER_01: I even see a female.
• 41:21
  SPEAKER_01: I ain't seen a female in over a week.
• 41:23
  SPEAKER_01: There's a female right there.
• 41:24
  SPEAKER_01: That's cool.
• 41:26
  SPEAKER_01: Whatever.
• 41:27
  SPEAKER_01: I what I need to go home.
• 41:29
  SPEAKER_01: I need to go home.
• 41:29
  SPEAKER_01: I'm sick of this.
• 41:30
  SPEAKER_01: I just want to leave.
• 41:33
  SPEAKER_01: As I'm in myself, in my own thoughts and feelings.
• 41:37
  SPEAKER_01: I'm listening.
• 41:38
  SPEAKER_01: I don't hear this choir music going in.
• 41:40
  SPEAKER_01: The orchestra and all that stuff.
• 41:42
  SPEAKER_01: And some some gospel song came on.
• 41:46
  SPEAKER_01: And it's talk about going home.
• 41:48
  SPEAKER_01: It's like going home.
• 41:49
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know if it's going home with Jesus or just going home, right?
• 41:52
  SPEAKER_01: And I'm listening.
• 41:53
  SPEAKER_01: I put my head up and I'm listening.
• 41:56
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, listening to it.
• 41:59
  SPEAKER_01: And I'm just, I'm just I'm just in my feels right now, bro.
• 42:03
  SPEAKER_01: I'm just like, oh my God.
• 42:05
  SPEAKER_01: And then I just look up.
• 42:07
  SPEAKER_01: I look up, I'm like just shaking my head, feeling the song and everything.
• 42:13
  SPEAKER_01: And I touch my face and it's wet.
• 42:16
  SPEAKER_01: Like, man, this was when I was looking up.
• 42:18
  SPEAKER_01: I guess the roof has holes because my face is wet all of a sudden.
• 42:23
  SPEAKER_01: No.
• 42:24
  SPEAKER_01: I was crying.
• 42:27
  SPEAKER_01: I was like every ore, every hole in my body had some kind of liquid coming out.
• 42:33
  SPEAKER_01: I was full-blown crying.
• 42:36
  SPEAKER_01: Snap bubbles.
• 42:37
  SPEAKER_01: Snap bubbles was coming out.
• 42:39
  SPEAKER_01: I was crying so hard.
• 42:40
  SPEAKER_01: I didn't even know I was crying.
• 42:41
  SPEAKER_01: I was crying that your chest was hurting.
• 42:47
  SPEAKER_01: I was crying.
• 42:52
  SPEAKER_01: And I just wanted to go home.
• 42:54
  SPEAKER_01: That was it.
• 42:55
  SPEAKER_01: The song was about going home, and I can remember all the snot, juice, and bubbles from the nose, from my eyes.
• 43:04
  SPEAKER_01: Coming down.
• 43:10
  SPEAKER_01: I needed that.
• 43:12
  SPEAKER_01: I need it.
• 43:13
  SPEAKER_01: I needed that cry.
• 43:15
  SPEAKER_01: I you know crying.
• 43:17
  SPEAKER_01: You try to be tough.
• 43:18
  SPEAKER_01: You in the military.
• 43:20
  SPEAKER_01: I ain't crying though.
• 43:21
  SPEAKER_01: I needed that.
• 43:22
  SPEAKER_01: I was crying.
• 43:25
  SPEAKER_01: I was bombed.
• 43:28
  SPEAKER_01: I didn't care.
• 43:29
  SPEAKER_01: I didn't care who was behind me.
• 43:30
  SPEAKER_01: I was in the back.
• 43:31
  SPEAKER_01: Don't know what was going on.
• 43:33
  SPEAKER_01: Didn't care.
• 43:36
  SPEAKER_01: I was crying.
• 43:38
  SPEAKER_01: But as I came out, I felt different.
• 43:43
  SPEAKER_01: I felt so different when I came out.
• 43:47
  SPEAKER_01: Felt like a new person.
• 43:49
  SPEAKER_01: We start Atties marching.
• 43:52
  SPEAKER_01: We Atties march back.
• 43:54
  SPEAKER_01: Our flight chief, flight, I think it was flight chief.
• 43:57
  SPEAKER_01: Our flight chief was leading the Addi's march.
• 44:00
  SPEAKER_01: And I remember it to this day.
• 44:03
  SPEAKER_01: I remember it to this day, what we were saying.
• 44:05
  SPEAKER_01: We were like, here we go again.
• 44:09
  SPEAKER_01: Here we go again.
• 44:11
  SPEAKER_01: Same old shit again.
• 44:14
  SPEAKER_01: Same old shit again.
• 44:16
  SPEAKER_01: Walking down the avenue, walking down the avenue, five more weeks and we'll be through.
• 44:25
  SPEAKER_01: Five more weeks and we'll be through.
• 44:28
  SPEAKER_01: We sang something like that.
• 44:30
  SPEAKER_01: And we march and all that stuff.
• 44:33
  SPEAKER_01: And as we we said it a couple times.
• 44:37
  SPEAKER_01: And as we got closer to our squadron, we're singing the song Five More Weeks and We'll Be Through.
• 44:44
  SPEAKER_01: And our T.I.
• 44:45
  SPEAKER_01: came out like five more weeks?
• 44:47
  SPEAKER_01: Said, fool, this week don't even count.
• 44:49
  SPEAKER_01: Welcome to week zero.
• 44:51
  SPEAKER_01: I got right back into that.
• 44:52
  SPEAKER_01: I saw Snap bubbling and crying, week zero.
• 44:56
  SPEAKER_01: Youek zero.
• 45:05
  SPEAKER_01: Again.
• 45:05
  SPEAKER_01: So this week didn't even count.
• 45:07
  SPEAKER_01: What are you talking about?
• 45:08
  SPEAKER_01: I can't believe.
• 45:12
  SPEAKER_01: What do you mean this week didn't count?
• 45:14
  SPEAKER_01: Why?
• 45:16
  SPEAKER_01: What you telling me this didn't count this whole time?
• 45:21
  SPEAKER_01: All this experience and it don't count?
• 45:22
  SPEAKER_01: So what does that mean?
• 45:23
  SPEAKER_01: What does that mean?
• 45:29
  SPEAKER_01: Welcome to week zero of military basic training.
• 45:38
  SPEAKER_01: Can't believe it.
• 45:41
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you for tuning in.
• 45:42
  SPEAKER_01: We got week one actually coming up.
• 45:45
  SPEAKER_01: And I'll tell you all about it later.
• 45:47
  SPEAKER_01: Thanks for tuning in, man.
• 45:48
  SPEAKER_01: I love talking about this, man.
• 45:50
  SPEAKER_01: It was a ball.
• 45:51
  SPEAKER_01: I'm your host, Michael Spiel of the WDE YM.
• 45:54
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you so much.
• 45:54
  SPEAKER_01: I'm out.
• 45:55
  SPEAKER_01: Girl Scout, Boy Scout.
• 45:58
  SPEAKER_01: Peace.