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Very safer Whiskey ready. At step under score Sarge 1, you
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have just reached level 7. OK Oh oh, you have to put the
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video up right MBR. Yeah, I think so because I I
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have everything through like a mixer.
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Why am I having trouble with this?
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The hell. Larry's normally like messaging
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me. Now are we going?
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Live, but for some reason that's.
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Why is Facebook not working? It says Facebook's not working
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but it is. Working.
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That. And they can hear.
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They can hear us. Did we crash Facebook?
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I don't think so. We're we're, we're, we're on
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there. Don't worry about it.
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But we're like live so everybody can hear us.
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So ladies and gentlemen, welcome.
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Welcome to Warrior Wednesday. There we go and I can hear you.
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Did we crash Facebook, dude? There we go, and I can hear you.
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We didn't crash. Where'd you go?
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Did we crash Facebook dude? Oh.
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There we go. Hey Johnny, I see that you
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requested. Unfortunately on these lives I
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only let vets in the boxes. I'm going to.
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I'm going to show your pictures. Here we go.
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MBR what? Happened.
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Why is face Loki? Move, Move for a minute.
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What the Hell's going on here? Request, Larry.
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How you doing, Johnny? Thank you.
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Larry, you're private. I can't bring you up, dude.
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You got a request? Hey Spicy, how are you?
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I'm good. Hey Brady,
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see if MBR can come in this time, hey?
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Hey, did we crash Facebook? No, we didn't crash Facebook.
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Well, it's not. Do you see the screen that I'm
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looking at? Yeah, don't worry about that
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because I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm looking at us.
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We're we're, we're alive and everyone loving us and spices
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there and it's good times. Cool, cool.
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Oh, no. Oh, it's just red on the screen.
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On the computer screen. I didn't want to end it from
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there, you know what I mean? Oh no, you're good.
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You're good, like I said. I couldn't hear any of that tick
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finity stuff dude. You still can't.
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It's going off. Oh well, maybe I'll be able to
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hear it now that you're in here. I don't have it on my end.
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Well, I've also got the laptop turned all the way down too.
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And muted. Oh, that might be why.
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Very well could be. I I would think that you would
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hear it on your. I don't think that you would
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hear it on your cell phone. I don't know what, what do I
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know? I could be wrong for all I know,
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but let's go back to that. I got too many screens up and
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now I don't hear you guys. Oh,
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Sergeant Ham, I can't hear you guys because you're muted.
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OK. All right, so while we wait for,
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I don't know, maybe he's on a phone call
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that's live and then, Oh yeah, I guess I don't really.
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That Larry Shaffer. I'm sorry, all in pain.
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I can hear everyone. I I can't hear anybody.
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Oh, why, Sergeant Ham, are you still there?
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All right. What I do wrong?
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OK, screenshot ham of the young lady I was talking about.
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OK. She's probably in the Facebook
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live chat because she does not have TikTok.
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Well, if she comments, I should be able to see it on right here
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that I'm looking at because so just so so it won't let me, it
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won't let me flip my camera. Really.
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That's odd. Oh, there we go.
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So it's just so everybody's aware like this is how I look
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like here's where like all the chat for Facebook and everything
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else comes in, right. And this is the station side.
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Wait. Talk to Facebook too.
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Yes, but your name isn't attached to it.
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OK. Your name's not on there.
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I'm not worried about my name, but whatever, it's whatever.
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I didn't think about that. She don't have warrants out for
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her arrest or anything, does she?
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No, he can kiss my fucking white Irish ass for a like here.
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Thank you for the heartbeat. I don't like that they changed
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it to fan club instead of because it used to be.
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What the fuck was it? I was just talking about it
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earlier. Not a problem bro.
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Anyways, they changed like the heart needs to fan club and it's
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weird. Yeah, well, they give you also
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when you go in there in that there's another thing that they
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just come out with. I sent you a link to it that you
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can get reward points and stuff and then you can use those
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reward points for stuff out of TikTok shop or you can bring
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them over I guess and and use them for your gifter coins.
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All right, Yeah, Brian, you're allowed in the boxes.
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Only veterans on Warrior Wednesdays are allowed in the
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boxes. Sweet.
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Dude. But you, you did hear what I
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told her about. Told you about what?
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That what her name is, right? No.
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OK, I'm not going to put her government name out, but she
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goes by shoot dog tag diva. I got you.
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OK. If I see it pop up, I'll let you
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know. But I'm going to tell you now, I
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think Facebook, Facebook's not working.
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So it kind of crashed out on us. Oh geez.
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Yeah, well, last week it was Roku crashed.
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So that gum ham, what are you doing, dude?
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Big. Shit.
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But we're. Doing big things over here, but.
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Yeah, right. But about the concrete, the
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reason why I had to put so much down is I had to have A at least
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a three inch slab. 8 foot. Long and four foot wide.
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Next Wednesday they will be here about 1:00 to fix my well, they
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are going to put a osmosis system up under our kitchen
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sink. Yeah.
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For purified water and then out of the well, they're going to do
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a you're welcome double filter tank and salt bucket to soften
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our water to get all the iron and calcium and stuff like that
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out of out of the well water. And hopefully after that, the
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wife is not going to have to worry about kidney stones
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anymore. I got you OK.
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I might be making a trip to Georgia.
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Actually Larry, one of the, I don't know off the top of my
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head, but one of the puppies that we that Lisa just had is
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going to a veteran in Georgia that I may take the trip out
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there and take the puppy out for her.
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Because I. Transport.
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I transport puppies sometimes. Nice.
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Well. They're only a week old right
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now though, so. Well, if you're down in my neck
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of the woods, just holler at me. If you're not more than an hour
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away, I can meet you up there. All right, definitely.
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Where you at, Larry? What's that, Brian?
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What? Part of the board, are you at?
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You know where Lake Seminole is. Not offhand.
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Like it sounds like a Florida line.
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Yeah, it's in the southwest corner of Georgia.
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Yeah, near Fort. Benning, I I'm actually, I'm
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actually about probably about 5 miles from Lexano.
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Your department, right? Now OK.
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I hope you don't have a. Bokeet that can.
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They can paint Loki. Damn it, dude.
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Yeah, my mom owns a house. Mom and dad owns a house down in
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Greenville which is near Noonan and LaGrange area.
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Yeah, I know. I I know.
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I actually, I know Key Lithonia, you know where that's.
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You know, if I'm on camera, he's got to be here.
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No. Brian, I it's, it is West of
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Atlanta, probably about want to say about 45 miles, 50 miles,
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something like that. Gotcha.
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I dated a girl back when I was in high school that lived up
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there and her daddy was a full bird Colonel.
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Go lay down. OK?
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I'll just continue to pet you and love you.
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Hey she's she's had a rough day with me today.
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I bet she has. She's she's out.
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She's unconscious. I bet she has.
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Oh, so Larry, you saw that right?
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That I posted on Facebook about my oh, you my kid.
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I'm so fucking proud of him, dude.
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Man, so am I. I'm extremely proud of him.
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He did something I could have never done.
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I skipped school and did too much stupid.
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That part, I didn't see him. I was too more I was too worried
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about like skating and surfing when I went to high school in.
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Florida. Like what part of Florida did
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you? I was down by Fort Myers.
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OK, I. Ended up we moved from North
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Carolina. That's where I North Carolina's
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home. That's where I raised at and
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everything else. But when I went to high school,
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my mom ended up getting a house. My grandmother gave her a house
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down by Fort Myers and I ended up going to high school down
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there. Gotcha, I lived in Crystal River
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going to high school. OK.
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I went to Charlotte high school. OK oh, Crystal River is a good
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place to go swimming too. Dude our stupid our our mascot
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was a fucking Tarpon with boxing gloves.
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Yep. Fighting tarpons was my high
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school mascot. I'd I'd rather have had that
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than our mascot. Our mascot was a freaking syrup
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pitcher. Hey.
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When I when I lived up in Massachusetts, my dad was in the
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military so we traveled a lot and our our high school mascot
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was a canal man. Because.
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Our high school was right on the canal.
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I mean, I was. Yeah.
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Thanks for the follow. Mine's a Laker so oh I live in
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Minnesota and obviously 10,000 lakes.
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Why don't you hop up in a box? I'd like to know more about you
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Sir. Veteran owned cigar company.
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Oh hell yeah. Yeah, we're getting a box.
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Open the box. So.
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So where in North Carolina did you grow up?
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All over Winston Salem, Danbury, I've been all the way out.
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As far as Eden and Fayetteville, I've been everywhere.
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Yes, I do. Always.
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Good. I live.
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I live just outside of Fort Bragg.
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Oh, do you OK? Yeah, I've been so.
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And 12 years before. Bragg.
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I was born in Cleveland, but five days later I was down in
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North Carolina, so that's home. My favorite place in the world
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is at Hanging Rock State Park, the lower Cascades.
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Well, how? Can.
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We not say it. Silent Hero Cigar.
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This is an every Wednesday live for veterans only.
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I'm ready, veteran. I'm ready.
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I'm ready. You're more than welcome to come
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in anytime you want, and it's from 8:00 to 10:00 central.
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Excellent brother, silent cigar. I took and sent you a follow
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dude me, he's going to have to get together about the some
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cigars. You see that comment, Brady?
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You've heard of me? That could be a good thing from.
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Stars or I? Don't know why you got to be
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putting my shit out there, mother.
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Jesus, he's. Laughing in the studio at me
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right now. I don't know what you're talking
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about. I plead to fit something.
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Our job is to make. Sure, I'm surprised Emo didn't
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come in. I sent it out to her.
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I can send one to her too. Yeah, if you want to.
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He's probably either in the freezer or in the shower.
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Her. Well, she didn't.
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Emo didn't come in last week either though.
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Yes, she did. For like 5 minutes and then she
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left. She was she was live earlier
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today. But I've been dude, this week is
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it's all running around for the kiddo.
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You know what I mean? Like tomorrow he doesn't have to
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be at school till noon, but he gets out at 2:30 and then Friday
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he's got to be. So there is a parade where they
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parade the kid, the the seniors around and it's in your parents
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cars and they drive you through town.
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Love it. Yeah, the Friday's going to be
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jam packed and then he's got to be at school at six and
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graduation is at 7. SFTM going my.
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Oldest has to be at 4:00, at 5:30 in the morning they're
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going on some trip that's 3 1/2 hours away and now it's a three
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day trip. But my son did not want to.
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His special needs did not want to participate the the overnight
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thing. So his special needs worker is
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actually driving him up there just for the day and bringing
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him back. That's.
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That's awesome though. They doing that?
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Yeah. He wanted to go so bad, but he's
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not ready for. Overnights like that?
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Yeah, now I get that. But he's so fucking excited.
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The boys were like that too, for the longest time, like they did
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not want to do, like people come over and spend the night, but
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they weren't trying to go spend the night at anybody's house.
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Yeah. Yeah, my kids only spend the
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night at my my parents house. You know Grandma, Grandpa.
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Yeah. And they're great aunt and
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uncle, which are basically grandparents on the other side.
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And that's it. Shit, all my kids are grown.
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Oh. My. 10.
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Mine are grown, my youngest is about to turn 18 and he's
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graduating. But yeah, I got 12 grandkids, so
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oh. Shit.
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Yeah. Hey, Brian.
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That hasn't had any kids yet. Brian, let, let, let, let me
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count this up. Now hang on.
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Three by that daughter, 2 by that daughter, 4 by that
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daughter. One by the.
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Sun damn, I'm at 10. Yeah, but Larry, you're old. 3
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record trains. Damn.
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Hey, hey, Brian. He wrong dude.
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Say again. I said he ain't wrong.
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I'm 54 years old. I'm not too far behind you.
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I'll be 49 this summer. Larry's got 10 years on me.
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But we're raising two of our grandkids.
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Wait, Brian, you're 49 and you got 12 grandkids?
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Yes. You're the same age as my
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parents. Hey.
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Hey, Brian, let me, let me flip you out.
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I got a Dick that I went to school with.
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He's two years younger than I am, and he married a lady with
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kids. I think she had four.
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And last time I saw him and his wife and spoke to them, I asked
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them how the how their couple of grandbabies were doing that they
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had and they said couple. Oh yeah, that's right.
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It's been it's been 9 years since you've seen us.
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They have 19 grandkids. Holy, I feel for him.
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Hey, I asked them. I'm like, did y'all not teach
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the kids about the aspirin? And they're like, well, we
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tried. I said, well, what are they
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doing? Spitting them out like shooter
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marbles, I mean. Our first grandson, my oldest
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grandson, he's 7. He'll be 8 November and he lives
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with us. But he was born in 2017 and
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we've had a grandbaby born from 2017 all the way up until this
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year. It's a mouse and Christmas.
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It kills me. Oh, I bet it does.
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I mean, when we have to have like our two grandkids that live
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with us, they have, you know, Santa Claus and then and then
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they open their stuff from Santa Claus and then our kids come in
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the house with their kids and then we have another Christmas.
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It's just like, you guys are killing me.
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No more kids. How many kids do you have?
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We have 5. We lost one three years ago.
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I'm sorry to hear that. He was taken from us by his best
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friend. My son, my other son, my
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daughter and my son's wife all witnessed it.
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Oh. No.
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Yeah, it was. It wasn't a pretty sight.
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We got that phone call about 11:00 on a Friday night saying
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that he was shot and, and we figured out who shot him and,
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and I already knew where he got where he got shot at and, and
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who's who did it. I, I know he wasn't surviving.
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And so I had to, you know, we got there to the scene and, you
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know, the police came over and talked to me and his dad
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because, you know, my wife was divorced and she had two kids
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and I had three from another marriage.
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But he came over and told us and, you know, we talked about
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it. And I was like, I told the
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police officer, I was like, you know, I'll, I'll inform his mom
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and, and of course that, you know, she lost it.
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And then we had to go to the police.
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I can't imagine. It was, it was rough.
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He left, you know, 3 kids behind and then five months later, the
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mom of his oldest and youngest passed away.
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Oh man. From that lethal stuff that's
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going on in the streets. Yeah, enough said on that one.
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So we got that phone call on a Sunday morning and we went and
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picked up my grandkids and we've had them since and we adopted
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them. That's amazing on you though,
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for like, you know? Yeah.
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Yeah, it is. Yeah, Grandma and Grandpa, you
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know. Raising kids all over again.
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It's like, you know, how did I do this when I was in the 20s?
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Because they got us running and it's like, all right, 8:30, you
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guys are going to bed. So are we.
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Yeah. That part.
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My oldest. Is 10.
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I wouldn't change it for the world.
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Oh, I bet yes. So you had one born when your
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grandbaby was born in 2017? Yeah, we had one born in 2017.
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My daughter was born in 2017 too.
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She's my youngest and she'll be 8 in July.
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Wow. Yeah, my, my oldest grandson,
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he'll be 8 November and then he goes all the way from the 8 is
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the well, he's 7, but he's the oldest and our youngest.
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That practice veteran, why don't you seem to be here in your
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name? Within the next few days.
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Oh nice. Really.
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Taxes feed your kids, come and being.
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Asked. Huh.
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Sorry, sorry, you go. No, like I the hate and shit
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like that and just the being a Dick coming in, that's not cool.
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Yeah, why don't have veteran your name?
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Like why do you give a shit? I have OTSD from the military.
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Forgive my comments. You know, it's getting, it's a
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lot more. A lot of us have PTSD from the
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military, but we don't come in and start acting like that in
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comments. Exactly.
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And the bratty part of my name has nothing to do with the
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military, so. Welcome back, silent cigar.
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Well, yeah, bad part. But anyways.
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But the aborted. Any who.
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Took my son's life, You know the way it happened is nice looking.
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Food for the men in the military.
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So he was a friend of the family and I bought tickets for
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Carolina Hurricanes. Game I've ready.
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And one of my sons couldn't go because he had his girl.
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All right, you're gone. Hold on.
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You're gone bro. No, wait, let me say something.
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Before I go ahead, take. His ass.
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Out. Hey, Nelly, you're ready.
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Whatever the fuck your name is, my taxes.
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Feed your kids ass 2025. You can kiss my fucking white
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Irish ass for all I care. I was not a cook in the
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military, by the way, so. At Braddy Veteran, I said thank
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you all. Right.
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Let's just let's you know, yeah, I'm not going to.
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I'm not going to deal with that. And I said fuck you, I'm.
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Not going to deal with that. All right.
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Sorry, Brian, please. No, you're fine.
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The hate comments and stuff like that.
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I don't we're not going to deal with that and all the drama.
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We spread love and positivity in this life.
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You. Serve that part.
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Hey, Nelly. So let Brian finish.
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I want to. I want to hear Ryan's story.
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So I'm. Sorry.
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You know, I bought him tickets and my son, one of my other
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sons, couldn't go because his girlfriend was pregnant in the
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hospital. And so we asked that boy he
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wanted to go because, you know, like I said, he was a friend of
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the family. He used to date my daughter.
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My daughter broke it off a couple months prior.
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And so he went up and they know they're all having a good time.
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And on the way back, he was acting like a fool.
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My daughter was driving because she was the only one that wasn't
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drinking because she was underage and that dude was
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hanging out the window acting like a fool, dropped his phone,
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couldn't find it, have an attitude about it.
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So they pulled off off the Interstate or the highway and
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one thing you know they he was my daughter was end up getting
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out of the truck and walked to the stop sign and that boy was
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trying to go after him. My son told him, say hey, you
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know, that's my sister, leave her alone, I'll take care of
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her. And he had his little Pew Pew in
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the truck and he took it out when he got out of the truck and
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it was in his hands and he was probably maybe 5 feet when he
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when he pulled it. And he got my son right in the
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head and my, my other son, my other son caught him.
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And he, he didn't know it hit him until, you know, he hadn't
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end up catching him because he thought it went by him.
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And I mean it, it, it all could have turned ugly.
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He could have took, you know, could have took all of them out.
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But thankful he did it. He, he dropped it and went to
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try to give him CPR. And that's another thing that
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helped him in his we didn't go to trial.
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He ended up getting a plea deal, which me and my wife did not
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agree on. He got five to seven years.
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Yep, he he was, he was charged with murder and the DA in Wake
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County said it would have been kind of hard to try to convince
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the jury if we went to trial murder one or murder 2 because
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of him trying to give him CPR, photos, body Cam and a bunch of
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BS. That's all that was.
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I'm so sorry. To us they.
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Didn't want to do their job. That's honestly, I'm going to be
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honest, that's what it sounds like to me, like they didn't
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want to do their job and. Yep.
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I am sorry that the system failed you like that.
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Yeah, so you never you you think our system is Immaculate,
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perfect, whatever until you deal with it.
34:36
Once you deal with it and realize it's our our justice
34:41
system sucks. And I told that to the.
34:42
Judge WE. Got We got to talk to the judge
34:45
and, you know, and to whoever was there.
34:50
And I told the judge flat out, it's like, you know, I hate to
34:54
say it, but our justice system sucks.
34:57
And he looked at me and he gave me a head shake.
34:59
So he already knows our justice system sucks.
35:03
But yeah, like I said, he got five to seven.
35:07
He already had time served. He's due to get out January 7th
35:13
of 27. That's all they gave him.
35:17
Yeah, that's insane. And the bad thing is he only
35:20
lives about 1010 to 15 minutes from all of us.
35:24
I you know, we know where he lives and they know where, see,
35:28
we moved in from the time it happened.
35:30
So he doesn't know where we live.
35:31
But you know, of course we all know where he lives.
35:35
What state are you in, Brian? North Carolina.
35:39
Let me look do some. When did this happen?
35:43
January 7th of 22. Let me I used to want to be a
35:48
lawyer. I got a lot of family that has
35:52
done some fucked up shit and. I mean we we want to do a.
35:58
An appeal. A wrongful death?
36:00
Yes. Wrongful death last scene.
36:03
Yeah. I mean, I mean, I mean, we were
36:05
kind of, I mean, I'm not trying to sound stupid about it, but we
36:10
were kind of glad we didn't go to trial.
36:12
Nice. Safe.
36:13
Yeah, because you can't definitely not say that word on
36:15
life. What?
36:18
The R word. So I said, nice save.
36:26
Oh, what up, King? But it's because we didn't want
36:30
to put our kids back through it. Oh, that's understandable.
36:33
That's understandable. How are you, Ruby?
36:35
My daughter was admitted to UNC, she was there and she got
36:40
transferred to another place up up north in in North Carolina
36:46
for about 10 days, two weeks. Is that good bro?
36:48
Oh. I'm sure she.
36:51
Is she attempted and then my, my other son, he I got to talk to
36:58
him the other day and he, he normally keeps it.
37:02
He hides it, he keeps it in he's trying to be the, you know, the,
37:07
the one that helps out everybody.
37:11
He holds in his anger. And we finally got to talk the
37:16
other day because he came over him and his dad got an argument
37:20
about a couple things about this whole situation.
37:24
And, you know, he looked at me. He's like, you know, you want me
37:27
to be honest with you? I was like, yeah.
37:28
And he's like, you know, I told my dad that, you know, my long
37:33
barrel, it's in my closet. He's like, I look at it every
37:36
morning I get up and he's like every morning I look at it, it's
37:40
like another another day closer to seeing his brother again.
37:44
And at first, when I heard it, let him say that it, it kind of
37:49
worried me of his, you know, his well-being.
37:52
Yeah, and that's understandable completely.
37:55
But then, then I got to thinking about it.
37:58
I mean, if in all reality, we are, are closer every time,
38:02
every day we wake up, we're one day closer of seeing loved ones
38:08
and whoever you want to see. So I was like, OK, I, I, I can
38:13
get it that, you know, that way. But you know, he he refuses to
38:19
see any therapist or psychiatrist because he said the
38:23
more he talks about it is the more he hurts and I'm.
38:28
Going to tell you now, I, I did, I, I can kind of understand
38:32
where he's coming from with that, because I didn't talk
38:34
about stuff from Iraq for a long time after I got home.
38:38
A long time, yeah. Because I mean, they, they, you
38:43
know, they were 19 and 21 at the time and, you know, they saw
38:48
more in a matter of time there than a lot of people have.
38:54
Yeah. But I mean, me and my wife
38:59
we're. I don't know how, Larry, hold
39:01
on. I'm fixing that.
39:02
We're, we're the type of ones that and the more we talk about
39:05
it, the better we feel. So that's why I like to talk
39:09
about it, because it makes. Larry, you've got mod status.
39:12
You're full mod. No, I think the best thing is to
39:16
to talk about it, and I really wish your son would.
39:20
Retail you just got. To find the right therapist you
39:23
know, find the right person who vibes with him and.
39:27
I know what are you trying to do, lark?
39:29
So the bad thing is I'm getting a therapist and the therapist
39:33
would basically. You should be able to.
39:36
Telling my daughter she was she was the reason why.
39:38
That happened when. I click, it brings up to follow
39:44
or send her a message in chat. I don't.
39:48
That's weird dude, but no because I I just looked at yours
39:52
right and I can send you a screenshot of it you had when I
39:55
go to manage moderator access. You have everything, dude.
40:00
All right, let me let me drop out and come back in.
40:04
I can remove you as a mod and then reset it.
40:06
You want me to try that first? Yeah, do that.
40:11
All right, let me remove it and then hold on.
40:13
Let me go back in. And now I'm going to add it all
40:16
back, manage guests and more. Confirm.
40:25
Brian, hold tight. I'm here.
40:28
Yeah, sorry. I'm trying to figure a bunch of
40:32
crap out, but no, April, I just want you to know, I know this.
40:40
You know, this is what these lives are all about.
40:44
People coming in and being able to tell their stories and things
40:47
like that. You know what I mean?
40:48
Yes. Sir.
40:50
And I found that through myself do it helps a lot immensely.
40:57
So sorry to cut and please continue.
41:01
But like I was saying, you know, my daughter was seeing the
41:03
therapist and she stopped seeing the therapist because the
41:07
therapist basically blaming her for that.
41:12
Oh. Yeah.
41:14
That's not OK. No.
41:17
That is not OK at all. And is she?
41:24
Did she find someone new? Yeah, I think she sees another
41:29
therapist. See my wife works at a hospital
41:32
so she sees a therapist at the hospital and I see the ones in
41:35
the VA. Right.
41:41
Because I mean, I was seeing it before this happened.
41:43
Because with all my issues. So I wanted school to be a
41:49
therapist, just to let you know. Say again.
41:57
She's going to school to be a therapist, is what she said.
41:59
Got you. Yeah, my my son's cousin's
42:05
girlfriend is going doing the same thing.
42:09
I mean, so I I hardcore believe in therapy and and.
42:27
Because they've seen more. I mean, yeah, we, we weren't
42:30
there. We didn't see it.
42:32
And you know, we still suffer. But they they suffer the worst
42:35
of it. And try.
42:37
I mean. CPT for your daughter and your
42:42
son could be a huge So I went through some really big trauma
42:47
that I won't get into, but mine is domestic violence related and
42:53
he helped me a lot. Oh that's awesome Gunner, that
42:58
you're working on your VSO certification.
43:05
The last VSOI had he was like probably 70 and didn't know the
43:10
first thing about computers or the Internet or how to file
43:13
claims. Oh that was fun ish.
43:17
My 100% and want to help. Others with the.
43:21
Same. Yeah, hopefully Friday because I
43:23
have my meeting with a higher level.
43:28
Gunner, you can come in a box. Higher level appeal for my
43:33
mental health and then I get get when I need to get to 100 and
43:41
I'm right there. Out so I was at 90 forever and
43:46
I'm going to be now it it took me.
43:49
In listening. Like I, I had to get a lawyer
43:51
involved and once I got the lawyer involved, he had my 100%
43:56
within seven months. I have veterans guardian.
44:00
OK. Which is based at it.
44:02
I mean, it's worldwide, but it's based here in Pinehurst, which
44:06
is only like 15 minutes from me. Larry, when you comment in the
44:10
chat it shows the mod status right next to your name.
44:23
I don't know why your stuff's not working.
44:26
That I don't know, it's probably my stupid phone.
44:29
It's about time to replace it. That could that very well could
44:32
be. Well, I mean, it's not really a
44:37
phone, it's a tablet that you just like, bang a hammer and
44:41
chisel into, ain't it? Sleep.
44:54
So I don't know if you realized there's there's no Gray anymore.
45:01
So I went cutting the stuff to get the Gray out of my beard.
45:06
Got done doing that and it turned my inside.
45:10
I have earned every Gray hair in my beard and I ain't getting rid
45:15
of them well. Plus I was told not to head.
45:19
Is called the side of my head and I told to wife right after I
45:21
said you got to shave the side of my head.
45:23
It is full of Gray now at. Least you got hair.
45:31
Not much more than. I got rapid rehydration.
45:38
My my, my little rat tail does come all the way before you.
45:42
Look man, look man, I got it. I can't.
45:48
I can't help if you take and shave your head.
45:52
I ain't got no hair there to shave.
45:54
Well, that shit grows in thick like all around here.
45:59
But the top is super. It's just I use the Clippers and
46:06
but but I will but I will say this right it says.
46:22
I got I got no Gray hair, but. I got plenty.
46:34
Actually let me unplug this maybe.
46:36
That'll work better too. But if I do, I have to switch
46:40
all this because won't nobody be able to hear me?
46:53
Hey, you see what Gunner said in the chat?
46:56
That he finally got his 100%. Yeah.
47:01
I'm going to tell you, the US veterans that have fought and
47:08
fought and fought and finally got our 100%, all the knowledge
47:14
and stuff that we've got in our head of what you have to do to
47:18
be able to get your 100%, and it's absolutely stupid.
47:25
Yeah, I agree. I mean.
47:28
I, I, I, I'll give a prime example.
47:31
So when I come home from Iraq in O 6, they had some folks from
47:39
the VA up at our unit the following month.
47:43
Has reached. Level 2.
47:45
And the woman that come up there, she pulled me into the
47:51
office. Yeah.
47:54
And I had my readiness in CEO in there too.
47:59
And she said she's like, look, I've been paying attention to
48:03
you all day. And it's not just you.
48:07
I've got three more that I'm going to talk to, but if y'all
48:11
aren't at the VA in the morning filing y'all's paperwork for
48:14
your disability says I'm going to personally drive to your
48:19
houses, pick you up and take you to Gainesville and put you in
48:23
the hospital. Oh shit.
48:28
And I told her I'd do it. I went down to the VA that
48:32
following Monday and filed my paperwork and she had part of it
48:38
already ready when I got there but we filed our my paperwork
48:41
and stuff and they sent me down for ACMP and she told me she
48:47
said you should get 100% with what you had to deal with and
48:50
everything. They give me 40.
48:56
Damn. And I started fighting with them
49:03
after that and it took all the way to from OO7 to 2014 to get
49:15
my full disability. Ed am I?
50:23
Venereal disease. Oh, OK, OK.
50:26
Like the? Taking up what you're putting.
50:29
Down. I was trying not to get heated.
50:33
Yeah. But yeah, they were getting 50
50:40
to 100% for that. And here I here I, I had to
50:45
fight like a freaking dog. Dude, so we were, we were headed
50:52
for this. Can you?
50:54
Can you repeat what years this were?
50:58
2008, 2009. Oh my God.
51:02
OK, oh, so we. Or.
51:07
Do what, Brady? For deployments.
51:12
Yeah, because all right. Oh, God.
51:19
OK. All right.
51:21
We sent 5 females home from our deployment pregnant.
51:25
That part there was Ashley 2 that got sent home from 10th
51:40
Mountain because their commander caught wind of some shady stuff
51:52
going on. So they did an inspection of the
51:56
rooms and stuff, got at camp. I had her.
51:59
We even got down there and two of the two of the girls actually
52:06
had a duffel bag half full of cash.
52:11
Jesus Christ. Yeah, we.
52:20
Deployed in O8, we had to do like our first, you know,
52:24
formation at the Armory, right? And one of my soldiers, I'm not
52:28
going to say his name, but come up to me and goes, Sergeant Ham,
52:34
I need to go to the ER. I'm like, dude, we're just now
52:38
forming up to get ready to deploy and all that.
52:41
I'm like, why he goes? I hooked up with a burner last
52:46
night. Oh, so hold on, Larry, hold on.
52:51
It gets better. So I can't make the call.
52:55
I appreciate that I got tea all over my floor.
52:58
Thanks. You're welcome.
53:00
So anyways. Right, we know now that you
53:02
spit. Right.
53:05
So anyways, I, as AE5 team leader, cannot send him to the
53:10
ER. So I had to go to the squad
53:12
leader, who sent me to the platoon Sergeant, who sent me to
53:16
the top, and it made it all the way up to the battalion Sergeant
53:21
major. He went to the ER with a battle
53:26
buddy. He came back about 6 hours later
53:29
after the penicillin shot and we're in formation and
53:32
everybody. Just oh geez.
53:39
Oh. Fuck.
53:43
Dude, they they send him all over the place like good times.
53:52
He was trying to get his last bit in.
53:54
Clearly. I well, I I'm going to say this
54:00
about that. At least he got a shot.
54:04
I mean. Because because innate the shot
54:08
that got. One back.
54:14
Because in in in 89 cotton swab with a stick.
54:23
Thank you. Ready.
54:26
Thank you. I wouldn't, dude.
54:32
I wouldn't know. Don't ever want to know.
54:36
I'll pass. That was when I was.
54:41
Hearing. You.
54:46
Thank you, Granny. Of course.
54:49
At Bratton. You have just reached.
54:51
The how much coins I got here at.
54:54
Cowboy. Thank you ma'am 19. 70 me
54:56
brother. What's going on, gun lover?
55:17
Oh oh. Cowboy, how you been?
55:22
That's about the $5000 question right now.
55:26
Poultry. At 1970.
55:28
How are you? If you got $5000, I'll answer
55:31
it. No, this is this week has been a
55:40
hell of a month. This week has been a hell of a
55:44
month, yeah. Look at.
55:48
That. Kill you Monday.
55:52
My wife called me because and she was frantic.
55:56
Whenever she called me, I was at work.
56:00
That's. Always serious, our big guilding
56:05
tried to kill one of our mayors. Oh no.
56:12
And she witnessed the whole damn thing.
56:15
She's, she's asleep right now. Thank, thank the good Lord
56:21
himself right there. But you can't solve your
56:30
problems by throwing antibiotics out.
56:33
It was. Pretty traumatic for her.
56:35
Pretty traumatic for the damn horse too.
56:37
But and then yesterday I was, I was in the emergency room.
56:53
Got some bruised ribs and well, that, that's, that's the fucked
57:01
up thing about it. I don't know.
57:05
It's been hurting. They've been hurting for over a
57:07
month. And I thought it was just, you
57:11
know, from working out and shit like that.
57:15
Then past couple weeks it started hurting pretty much
57:17
constantly. And right now I'm I'm on Tylenol
57:25
three with codeine plus ibuprofen and it's not fucking
57:29
doing much for it. Unfortunately, there's not a
57:31
whole lot you can do for ribs. I'm just hoping, I was just
57:35
hoping it would kind of take a take care of the pain a little
57:39
bit. It's not hard.
57:42
Yeah, well, it's taking the taking the edge of the edge off.
57:48
Makes the seafy. Not I wish.
57:51
I'd travel with Patriot 19. I'm enjoying my day off from
57:55
babysitting adult children. Yeah, I can't imagine trying to
57:59
sleep like that. Yeah, what a buzzy.
58:02
Whoever did it comes on the. Couch babysitting adult
58:09
children. Yeah.
58:10
I know, I know how to babysit them fuckers.
58:13
Never mind. Oh fuck.
58:20
What up? What's up, boss?
58:22
They're going to help Larry with that 800 lbs of concrete he
58:25
poured. I agree bud.
58:28
No, we're not. You're muted.
58:35
Who muted him? Larry, did you do that?
58:38
Well. You said 800 lbs of concrete.
58:44
I said well that's about 20 lbs lighter than my ex wives.
58:54
Wow. I've always said what, you know,
58:57
what's the difference between a cow and I had 525 lbs, you know,
59:06
and this is no joke. Whenever we, we've been married
59:09
for a couple years and we decided we was going to go
59:13
dancing, sent the kids to my mom and dad's and shit.
59:17
And well, she bought, she decided she was going to go get
59:21
some new new clothes for this. Hell yeah.
59:25
And she was trying to in. 19. 70 Did she ask her husband that?
59:30
Which is me of course. I would bring you up but it's
59:33
only veterans in the boxes, bub. And she asked that fable
59:38
question. She said, honey, does these do
59:41
these jeans make my ass look big?
59:44
I said, no baby, those jeans don't make your ass look big.
59:48
It's your ass. It makes your ass look big and I
59:54
wonder why she's an ex-wife. I mean, that would probably
59:59
help, yeah. I'd say there's reasons for
1:00:06
that, no? Gun lover, I did not know you as
1:00:11
a corrections officer, so now I know why you're babysitting
1:00:14
adults. Oh, that.
1:00:17
Makes sense? That makes a lot of sense.
1:00:20
I I still got a good way to do that, but yeah, I can't say it
1:00:23
on this fucking app, all right? What?
1:00:25
What? Type of Corrections officer?
1:00:27
Are you jail? Prison.
1:00:29
What level? Level 5.
1:00:45
OK I'm in Minnesota, we only have 1-2 and three.
1:00:48
So level 5 is worse the worse. I I would say level 5 is don't
1:00:55
fuck with them. The maximum minimum medium.
1:01:05
Maximum. That that's probably reaction
1:01:08
force. Maximum, wouldn't you?
1:01:16
Maximum OK. Not me.
1:01:19
We called those people. Not me.
1:01:22
I wouldn't know nothing about none of that.
1:01:24
Me neither. I sadly know too much.
1:01:34
Yeah, what's that called those people?
1:01:36
OK. Chilling, we just bought this
1:01:40
house and I'm trying to figure out how I want to do my garage.
1:01:42
So, you know, living the dream. I got my helm over there that my
1:01:49
wife won't let me put up anywhere in the garage or the
1:01:52
house. Oh my God.
1:01:55
Immediately. Hell yeah.
1:02:00
I try. I'm gonna get it up.
1:02:01
I'm gonna get it up in the house.
1:02:04
Does she have a theme going? Is that why?
1:02:08
We ain't got anything. It doesn't.
1:02:09
It doesn't go along with the theme.
1:02:11
We sold like, no, not nothing. So like I like MASH.
1:02:15
That's one of my favorite shows in the world.
1:02:16
And I'm trying to get a picture, a big old thing of Hawkeye.
1:02:19
Like I just want like a good black and white photo.
1:02:21
Hawkeye. And she like immediately red
1:02:24
flags that one. Like, why can't I have, you
1:02:27
know, Benjamin Pierce on my wall?
1:02:29
Nope. Do you have a man cave?
1:02:34
Yes, this little nook that I'm sitting in with the.
1:02:38
Refrigerator that. That we stole from the apartment
1:02:41
that we came from. Been there, done that.
1:02:47
So it was a really crappy apartment.
1:02:48
We just bought this house. It was a really crappy
1:02:50
apartment. Like cars were on blocks all the
1:02:53
time. Like it was really bad.
1:02:55
And they got bought out. And so I went down there because
1:02:59
we didn't have a fridge yet. And we basically sold everything
1:03:02
so we could, like, get into this place, right?
1:03:04
Because my wife was like, well, she saw it.
1:03:05
She's like, I want it, I want it now.
1:03:08
So we got rid of everything 'cause she wanted to redo
1:03:10
everything, right? And so we didn't have a
1:03:11
refrigerator. And so I walked down to the
1:03:13
leasing office and I was like, hey, can I get a copy?
1:03:16
You know, we're getting out. And I was like, can I get a copy
1:03:18
of the make ready report when y'all came through the apartment
1:03:20
before we got there and she's like, yeah, no problem.
1:03:23
So she went to my file and pulled it up and there were like
1:03:25
3 pieces of paper in there. And she goes, I don't think we
1:03:30
have it. And she goes, I, I think the old
1:03:32
manager might have got lost. She goes, is there something
1:03:34
else like, and I was like, no ma'am, thank you.
1:03:37
Took this refrigerator right down the stairs and loaded that
1:03:39
motherfacker in. EU Haul like they.
1:03:41
Didn't know that. Before I they didn't know I was
1:03:44
there before I moved in, they didn't know it was there when I
1:03:46
got out. Like, you know, I used to be a
1:03:49
manager of an apartment building and I've I've allowed some of
1:03:53
those things to happen too. I'm like, well, we didn't write
1:03:56
it down or like the maintenance dude didn't write it down.
1:03:59
So like you take what you what's not on the fucking paper so.
1:04:04
Braddy, check this out. They they're so I was in A2
1:04:09
story right, so there's like somebody that was like across
1:04:11
from me and then somebody that was underneath me and then
1:04:13
somebody that was across and underneath me right cowboy out.
1:04:16
The people underneath me moved out and the people upstairs and
1:04:19
across moved out. The lady that was downstairs and
1:04:21
across across from me was like a hotel that not the the apartment
1:04:26
like security guard, but she didn't do nothing, not a Dang
1:04:31
thing. She like I barely, barely sold
1:04:33
her outside of her apartment, but her kids would because like,
1:04:36
I am an herbal cigarette user and I sat on my front porch and
1:04:43
would like German Shepherd the entire neighborhood because
1:04:46
like, I was just man, gunshots is bad.
1:04:50
Yeah, my wife, my wife calls me the worst German Shepherd.
1:04:53
Like even in my new name. Like I got a whole garage now
1:04:55
with the street and I still stand in the street.
1:04:57
Like who fucks driving down fast, you know, like my wife is
1:05:02
like Casey, get inside. Like I'm like, not yet.
1:05:05
Like this is only week 3. You know what, though?
1:05:09
I was like that, too when I moved into this place.
1:05:11
Like, I'm checking everything out, like, out on the porch
1:05:13
constantly because I'm like, I didn't know where I'm at, Who's
1:05:17
around me. Yeah.
1:05:19
So they had somebody squatters moving across and underneath me
1:05:23
and underneath was like starting fires in the bathroom floor.
1:05:28
And so I went, yeah, bro. So like, I went called the cops.
1:05:34
Cops show up. They didn't even arrest them.
1:05:36
They were just like, OK, your trespass.
1:05:38
You can come back tomorrow if we catch you again.
1:05:43
Fucking people, dude, It was bad.
1:05:45
I was so mad. I was like screaming and I
1:05:47
couldn't say too much right 'cause I had a giant, like
1:05:50
herbal cigarette in my hand, you know, like and I was trying not
1:05:54
to run my mouth 'cause they'd be like, you come down here.
1:05:56
Nah, bro, I'm gonna sit down real quick.
1:05:58
Let me finish this. Like they they.
1:06:00
They just trust that. No, hell no man, I'm fuck.
1:06:05
I'm so. Sorry.
1:06:06
I'm in Texas. Oh no.
1:06:09
No shit. OK, I.
1:06:14
I have a better chance of winning the lottery and getting
1:06:16
struck by lightning all wow like before it ever becomes.
1:06:21
People can attack like. Yeah.
1:06:25
So they got mad because the apartment people got mad and
1:06:29
they called the police on me because when the police wouldn't
1:06:31
do anything, I went in there with my own 45 water pistol and
1:06:37
I made them leave and they called the cops on me and the
1:06:40
cops got mad at me. Like the?
1:06:43
Fuck you mean? Like we were just.
1:06:49
Like you can't win at all. So here's the deal, my lawyer
1:06:53
was saying that they only got trespassed and they didn't get
1:06:56
arrested because we found out that maintenance was like
1:06:59
unlocking doors and letting them know who like what were the
1:07:02
vacant units. And so they would get away
1:07:06
saying because when the cops would ask him and when they
1:07:08
asked me, like I said that I forced the door open.
1:07:11
And that sentence is what fucked me.
1:07:14
No, you could not have said that.
1:07:17
Yeah, that's like wrong words. You know my 100.
1:07:23
Percent. No, my 100% is.
1:07:32
I'll use that. So.
1:07:35
Gunner one of the things I like my last mental health
1:07:39
appointment for my 100%, I didn't realize that I was the
1:07:43
shirt that I was wearing when I went in there and it's a cartoon
1:07:47
toaster jumping into a bathtub and it says live laugh toaster
1:07:50
bath and the therapist looks at me.
1:07:53
She goes dark humor veteran. Got it.
1:08:00
Yes, so like I walked into my CMP exam and she was like they
1:08:04
were doing like whole general questions.
1:08:06
She's like, do you ever think about, you know, whatever in
1:08:10
yourself, you know, or harming yourself?
1:08:12
And I was like, you don't who? Doesn't.
1:08:18
Right I was. Like this is an everyday ordeal,
1:08:21
lady. I'm just showing.
1:08:22
You. Seem like you're pretty chipper
1:08:24
right now. It's like, yeah, when I'm alone
1:08:26
I'm not like. Yeah, that's true.
1:08:31
I always say that you know the worst place you can ever be is
1:08:34
stuck inside your own head with no way out.
1:08:38
Yeah, buddy, I went through that.
1:08:41
I went through these lives. Have helped.
1:08:43
Me immensely in that situation. Quite honestly it.
1:08:49
Or not. Scared the mermaid.
1:08:51
Out of the Navy, then overturned, then turned around
1:08:56
and got my 100%. You're right there, Ken.
1:09:02
Dude, the truth scares normies. So my first duty station was
1:09:09
used as a Kitty Hawk out of the acoustic Japan.
1:09:12
That was like party boat love central.
1:09:15
Oh yeah buddy, you held together by souls and duct tape.
1:09:18
Go out that please, but like. You know how they say like your
1:09:26
best command is always your last command?
1:09:27
You know, like there's no man because everyone want to leave
1:09:33
the Kitty Hawk because they were like so strict, like on liberty
1:09:36
before we could leave the we, we, we called it the gauntlet.
1:09:40
Like all the khakis would stand like in a line like sideways and
1:09:44
they would like check your shirt tails or like if you had
1:09:47
anything on your shirt walking into somewhere or your pants
1:09:50
were rolled up or like whatever they could get you For any like
1:09:53
civilian attire you would have like turn around go back, change
1:09:55
your shirt and go back through the gauntlet again.
1:09:58
So it would take like 2 hours just to get down the brown
1:10:00
because you had like 400,000 chiefs like sending you back.
1:10:03
Just to be. Assholes for zero reason.
1:10:08
So I fucked up because I went to Fort Bliss for AIT and we got a
1:10:14
weekend pass. Well, Joe decided that he was
1:10:18
going to go get a tattoo that said lunatic down his spine and
1:10:23
my dumb ass for a white T-shirt coming back and drill Sergeant
1:10:28
saw it, saw the little blood speckles on the back of the
1:10:31
T-shirt and pulled my shirt up. He had a different.
1:10:35
Flutter kicks for about 3 hours. Oh, you like getting tattoos on
1:10:39
past? I got this parrot, Singapore
1:10:45
supposed an eagle and it's total flash.
1:10:48
But yeah, I got that in Singapore.
1:10:52
Hold on, there we go. That don't look bad though.
1:10:56
It's not as big as I want I wanted it to be.
1:10:59
And I'm it's like still black. You know how they like turn
1:11:01
green over time? But I didn't get caught.
1:11:04
One of our dudes got caught because he got an ankle tattoo
1:11:08
and he was going around the shower like, bro, check it out.
1:11:10
It's just gangster on it, you know?
1:11:12
And we're like dumb fuck. And then so like they mustard
1:11:15
everyone and they were walking around and like standing in
1:11:18
front world, standing at attention.
1:11:19
Did you get a tattoo on in Singapore?
1:11:21
And people were like, no. And then they would like write
1:11:22
your name down. Did you get a tattoo in
1:11:24
Singapore? And so I was like third line
1:11:26
back right at the end, right? And I was like, am I going to
1:11:29
lie to chief or am I just going to accept it?
1:11:30
And so the chief got. In front of.
1:11:32
Me was like, did you get a tattoo in Singapore?
1:11:34
And I was like, Yep, I did. But he only gave me, he only
1:11:38
gave me like a counseling chip. But they sent that other dude to
1:11:41
mask like, but they've been trying to get rid of him.
1:11:44
So the ankle tattoo is just their camel, you know?
1:11:49
When were you in the Navy? 2004 to 2, 2012.
1:11:55
First duty station was USS Kitty and then from a torpedo man to a
1:12:02
gunner's mate and then from a gunner's mate.
1:12:05
I couldn't. Oh, that's I was.
1:12:07
Doing this too. That was me.
1:12:09
I was a torpedo man, 95 to O 7 and then when we got converted
1:12:13
to gunner. 'S mate right?
1:12:15
So like when I was trying to re enlist because like you, you're
1:12:23
on a ship for like 3 years, right?
1:12:26
And then you can go to a different command.
1:12:28
But like I was almost, I was trying to get like my re
1:12:30
enlistment paperwork going 'cause I only had like 9 months
1:12:33
or so left, right? And then it was, I was trying
1:12:37
to, we were trying to go to a different ship and I could not
1:12:40
re enlist. You have to do what's called a
1:12:41
perform to serve. You have to put a question in
1:12:44
and like you get five chances and they can say, no, you cannot
1:12:49
stay at gunner's mate. No, you cannot stay at gunner's
1:12:50
mate. You get five chances, but I did
1:12:53
it four times. And then they were like, do you
1:12:55
want to redo your shit? And I was like, fuck yeah.
1:12:59
And then my my. Hey, Betsy Ross.
1:13:04
My division officer AO1 Nazario, still one of my best friends,
1:13:07
was like, dude, let me do your ASVAB scores and see what you're
1:13:09
all was before. Like come talk to me in the
1:13:10
morning. So I went down there and he's
1:13:11
like, cool deal, you're going to be an FC.
1:13:13
Like what the fuck? You mean like an FCI don't want
1:13:16
to work down a damage control? And he was like no bro like fire
1:13:18
control, like the sea whiz. And I was like oh and I was
1:13:22
supposed to get like an 80 grand re enlistment bonus but they
1:13:25
ended up fucking me and saying that I was like what's that word
1:13:29
where they need your rate so they like re enlist you for it
1:13:31
anyway? What is that term stop?
1:13:35
Loss. Not a stop loss.
1:13:38
But a? Stop loss.
1:13:39
That's kind of what it is. Like I was, that's, that's what
1:13:42
they did to me my second tour because my enlistment was up in
1:13:49
March of O8 and we deployed January of O8 and they're like,
1:13:55
well, we need NC OS combat experience, so you have to go.
1:14:00
When I was trying to re enlist as a gunner's mate it was like a
1:14:04
.008 re enlistment. Like the whole perform to serve
1:14:10
like there was just all these people had all these PTS points
1:14:15
and like they still couldn't get advanced because there was just
1:14:17
so many fucking Gunners mates. So when they sent me to a school
1:14:20
right back to a school for like FC and I had to do the whole
1:14:24
like electrical program all over again.
1:14:26
They. They were like.
1:14:28
They had new Gunners mate boot campers and I was pissed.
1:14:32
I'm like why the fuck does this idiot get to be a gunner's mate?
1:14:35
And I've been in and I can't stay up but like make him go
1:14:37
home. Like make him become a fucking
1:14:38
FC. Like it was dumb.
1:14:41
I was mad on my second shift. That's where I was on the USS
1:14:47
Gettysburg because I went to a school back in Great Lakes and
1:14:50
then I went to C school in Virginia.
1:14:52
That place is a shithole. I will never go back there
1:14:55
again. What Virginia?
1:14:58
No, so I was in. Yes, we lived in Chesapeake, but
1:15:02
my base is called the Damn Neck Annex.
1:15:05
Yep. Basically at Fort Lee.
1:15:08
Yeah, what's it? It was off of Princess Anne.
1:15:10
Like back there I did all my my ship commands in in Norfolk.
1:15:16
Yeah, that was like 45 minutes away from the damn neck annex.
1:15:21
Yeah, we used to go do our, our, our shoots at the damn neck
1:15:28
right next to the seal seal compound.
1:15:30
Yeah, dude, the Seals would have like PT challenges where they
1:15:34
would like do obstacle courses on the beach and.
1:15:38
People. Would get out there and try to
1:15:40
smoke these Seals and they would just be like done.
1:15:43
Sprinted it 15 times and like smoking all these like little
1:15:46
fat radar nerds trying to like go to this hospital course
1:15:51
because that's what they sent me to the C school for.
1:15:53
Like. What?
1:15:57
What years were you at Norfolk? I was in Norfolk from ship from
1:16:02
99 to 2004 and then 2007, 2009. Did.
1:16:13
Did you ever did? You ever move?
1:16:20
A Corbin there by the name of Carrie or Collis.
1:16:29
Name doesn't sound familiar. She was it for a long freaking
1:16:39
time and then she got sent to Kuwait.
1:16:49
Gun or anything gun with all the damn crickets or like whatever
1:16:53
the fuck that. Is.
1:16:58
Hey, my nephew is on the Carl Vincent.
1:17:05
Yeah. The crickets are bad for me
1:17:07
because I have earbuds in. Gotta you gotta mute yourself.
1:17:13
I was just like, where the fuck is that coming from?
1:17:17
I have an earbud in too, so like the crickets are just like.
1:17:20
I can't hang out in my backyard right now because there's a tree
1:17:23
like immediately off of my back porch and there's a Mama bird
1:17:27
that has a nest in there. She's pissed off at me, right?
1:17:30
Like she is angry at me because you can pull the branch down and
1:17:33
see and see all the little she's got 4 little chicks inside.
1:17:37
And so I pulled that branch down one time and like man, she like
1:17:40
so I have a 19 month old son and now she like hovers over my son
1:17:43
when we go on the backyard. Like listen fucked with my
1:17:46
branch, I will die about my. I'm going to get you in your
1:17:48
tree. Right, like, but she'll like
1:17:53
manage her feathers are like puff up because you know how you
1:17:56
got the Electro lines and then you have like the main wire that
1:17:59
goes from the Electro lines down to your house and feeds your
1:18:02
house. You know, that runs like almost
1:18:06
like symmetrically centered down my backyard and she will perch
1:18:10
on that. And when my son goes on either
1:18:11
side of the yard, she'll flip around, she'll go either up or
1:18:15
down and she will like, and I'm like, I'm not fucking with your
1:18:17
nest. Like leave my son alone.
1:18:19
Damn. He doesn't do shit, you know,
1:18:20
like. She's like you fucking my
1:18:23
babies. I'm gonna fuck with your babies.
1:18:24
Yeah, so like now I'm just kind of waiting for her to like get
1:18:28
them chicks out so she's not so violent in my backyard and then.
1:18:32
'Cause we just moved. In here on the 11th, right so.
1:18:38
And you're already out there pissing her off and fucking with
1:18:40
her own they. Have snakes in my yard and I'm
1:18:44
afraid of them so also I'm parking on the street instead of
1:18:48
in my driveway because I'm afraid of the snakes.
1:18:51
Use the mothballs. That's what I said.
1:18:53
Mothballs. I ordered.
1:18:55
Some. Oh, did you order some finally?
1:18:58
Yeah, anyone? Live.
1:19:01
There so I'm still parking on the street though.
1:19:04
Crickets. Snakes in here last week.
1:19:07
And she's like, hold on, I have to go.
1:19:09
The cops are here, Yeah. I remember that.
1:19:12
Yeah, cops are like, bitch, why are you parked over here and not
1:19:16
in your own driveway? And I'm like, I'm afraid of the
1:19:19
snakes. And they're like bullshit.
1:19:22
I'm like, no, for real. I'm afraid of the snakes.
1:19:26
And that's why I'm parking in front of my house and just right
1:19:30
in the street, not in my driveway.
1:19:33
My brother, my brother had a a diamondback in his backyard and
1:19:39
he has chickens and everything and his wife screaming or
1:19:42
screaming for him and he was in the front.
1:19:44
So he came to running, and then he had to call his neighbor, his
1:19:49
neighbor friend across the street to bring every Arsenal
1:19:52
weapon he had chase the. Eggs with the.
1:19:55
Zero 'cause he can't. My brother Jimmy and so I.
1:19:59
Live in Minnesota and. Where I live in Minnesota, we
1:20:03
just have gardener snakes. They're not going to hurt me.
1:20:06
I know they won't, but I have a weird fucking phobia of them and
1:20:09
they freak me out and I just, I can't, I can't handle it.
1:20:15
And so, you know, and I live right in the middle of town, so
1:20:19
I, I, I can't shoot anything, you know, because I thought
1:20:22
about that. But I do have the BB gun now and
1:20:28
I'm an excellent shot and I've shot couple of them and they did
1:20:34
but there's so many. OK, so I just moved into my
1:20:39
house too, in in January and I am living with my grandmother,
1:20:46
with my three kids help take care of her.
1:20:49
And I'm taking over the house and I I'm like, grandma, is this
1:20:55
a normal thing that the snakes are just out here on the like
1:20:59
outside the deck? And she's like, well, yeah,
1:21:03
honey, they're harmless. I'm like, I don't give a mother.
1:21:09
I went out one day and I was just like, no saw them.
1:21:13
I was going down the stairs off the deck and I'm like Nope,
1:21:16
done. Yeah I I saw a picture where
1:21:17
there's like 6 small racks. Yeah, they were fucking ball got
1:21:20
together and I was like, Nope, done.
1:21:25
And she got me a chicken every day.
1:21:27
Every day. Brian, were you in here?
1:21:31
Were you in here last week when I told Sarge about what my
1:21:37
grandson done and what happened at my house?
1:21:41
I think so. That's.
1:21:42
Too funny. Dude that was insane.
1:21:44
Too funny. I just thought, oh man.
1:21:50
So Gunner, so my youngest grandson, he's like. 2.
1:21:58
And they were all sitting having a snack at the table.
1:22:02
You OK? Oh yeah, I remember that.
1:22:04
The sudden my service dog takes him yips and I go to blame the
1:22:08
kids for it and I get up to walk in there and I look and there's
1:22:15
a freaking 5 foot white oak snake laid up by 6:00 AM water
1:22:21
bowl. Hi.
1:22:23
Loki. So I got all the kids away.
1:22:26
From it. He said hi.
1:22:29
Oh, say. Hi, my grandson.
1:22:32
I saw it. What do you mean you saw it, He
1:22:37
says Door, according to No, I said you watched that snake
1:22:41
crawl up on the door into the dining room and didn't say
1:22:43
nothing, he said. But it pretty.
1:22:45
I would have lost. My mother fucking shit and I
1:22:49
would have burned. It pretty.
1:22:54
That's what we're worried about. Our granddaughter out here.
1:22:58
They they in the neighborhood they saw several 4 foot
1:23:03
copperheads running around. Where are you at again, Brian?
1:23:09
North Carolina, just outside Fort Bragg.
1:23:11
I was. I was so.
1:23:13
OK, Yeah. I was out at my mom's last year
1:23:17
with the boys and that's right outside.
1:23:20
Continue talking. About snakes.
1:23:22
That's outside of Little Rock. Well, well, my, my boys came up
1:23:27
to me. I was at my mom's, My brother
1:23:29
lives right behind my mom. And they're like, dad, dad come
1:23:31
here and look what we caught. And they got one of my my
1:23:34
brother's in a wheelchair. So they got one of his grabbers,
1:23:37
right? And it's a fucking baby cotton
1:23:39
copperhead about the. Hell.
1:23:43
I'm like, I don't need to be playing with that.
1:23:45
Man, so I live near the Brazos river, right?
1:23:48
And right when summer first starts, it starts getting real
1:23:51
hot. They'll hang down like
1:23:54
copperheads, They'll hang down from tree branches.
1:23:57
And if you. If you like.
1:24:00
'Cause you can like enter to this show like that and go down
1:24:02
the river or if you got like, I'm coming right and go down the
1:24:04
river. My sleeping legs came into a
1:24:07
poof snake from. The last.
1:24:09
Like you said, fit fit. No, since we're since we're on
1:24:17
the subject of snakes. No, no.
1:24:24
Sarge. Sarge knows about this.
1:24:27
It was last year during the summer.
1:24:33
Here's my dog's OK. In my ear.
1:24:38
Go to the bathroom while I put their food down and I hear my
1:24:45
service dog Yelp and I'm like what the hey And he comes in the
1:24:52
house limping and stuff and he's got a spot on his little small
1:24:56
blood spot on his foot. So I pull up the camera frozen
1:25:01
air and watch him as as he's walking.
1:25:05
You can't get in my lap, dude. And he walked next to the
1:25:08
carport where normally I walk off the carport at.
1:25:13
He walked in that area and he wound.
1:25:16
Up getting a bit. By.
1:25:17
Mouth. I almost lost him.
1:25:24
I don't do snakes. I can't do snakes.
1:25:26
Snakes are, I don't give a fuck if they're nice.
1:25:28
They're they're not nice. They're poisonous.
1:25:31
They're not poisonous. They can all die.
1:25:37
Well I can go ahead and tell you now I I'm a dumbass when it
1:25:41
comes to snakes. We had a a teacher that kept a
1:25:47
couple in her science class and I decided, well, she likes
1:25:54
snakes. I'll just keep my eye out.
1:25:59
Well, I was raising quail at the time and I go out there to feed.
1:26:06
My quail are gone. Like what the heck?
1:26:10
And I look in the back of the cage and there's a snake called
1:26:14
up back there with three birds in his belly.
1:26:20
We caught a sandpiper in Kuwait. Can dude.
1:26:24
I put it in a 5 gallon bucket and cut some holes on the top
1:26:29
and the next morning I get on the school bus with this 5
1:26:35
gallon bucket with a snake in it.
1:26:37
When I get to class I'm like hey teach.
1:26:40
Where? Where's?
1:26:41
The snake that I brought you this morning, she says you need
1:26:43
to go to the office. I'm like oh what I do and come
1:26:49
to find out I actually carried a 3 1/2 foot water moccasin on the
1:26:56
school bus to school that. Oh no.
1:26:59
Dude what a big red one. So I can do spiders, OK?
1:27:08
I love spiders. And I can do bats.
1:27:11
I love bats. I have one tattooed on my
1:27:13
motherfucking chest OK but the house that I live in now has a
1:27:20
chimney and has frequent bats who like to come in in the
1:27:25
summer and I have now my grand. The house I live in, I live.
1:27:32
My grandma, like I said before, she's lived in the South since
1:27:35
before I was born and as a kid she has told me that I have and
1:27:43
I will never forget the first time I did it.
1:27:46
I picked up a full bat in my hands barehanded and brought it
1:27:51
outside and I knew that was my first.
1:27:54
That's a bat. And I can do bats, I can always
1:27:59
do bats, I can always do spiders, but snakes I will.
1:28:04
I left my newborn daughter and her when I was living not here.
1:28:16
We had a really long driveway. My ex and my my daughter was
1:28:20
like 3 or 4 months old and they had her in a in a stroller.
1:28:25
And I went down the driveway to go to go get the fucking mail.
1:28:31
And right when I pulled the mailbox open, I'm looking at the
1:28:35
mail and I looked down and I see there's a ball of fucking
1:28:38
snakes. I immediately throw the fucking
1:28:41
mail in the air. Now mind you my ex sometimes
1:28:45
outside with our boys and he could hear me from the driveway
1:28:49
going. And clowns.
1:28:51
Oh my God. And I just run up the fucking
1:28:54
driveway, left the stroller there with my daughter in it and
1:29:01
I'm like, please go get some babies.
1:29:03
Please don't get the baby. I can't.
1:29:05
They're snakes. And he goes, you left our three
1:29:10
month old or 4 month old, whatever she was at the time.
1:29:13
He goes, you left her down there.
1:29:14
I'm like please go get her idea. Larry, I sent her a video,
1:29:21
right? No like.
1:29:22
Fucking a back toe. Lifted.
1:29:24
Up probably like a 15 or 18 foot Python And she just.
1:29:29
The only message I got was. I said I hate you.
1:29:36
You know, you were talking about bats.
1:29:40
Maybe remember somebody, Sarge? Do you remember Bat from
1:29:49
disgruntled vets? Yeah, yeah.
1:29:52
You know how many? How many?
1:29:53
Times I've been. Called her, I'm not her, but you
1:29:56
know how many times I've been called her?
1:29:59
Bat tits 2 point O. Yep.
1:30:02
You know she's on TikTok right? She's not on Facebook.
1:30:05
I would. Love to follow her, I'm not
1:30:07
going to lie. I'll I'll send you one of her
1:30:10
videos, but she actually had it covered up.
1:30:15
Why? Because nobody would leave her
1:30:20
alone about it. So now she's got a crow across
1:30:22
her chest. Yeah, I got called her because I
1:30:27
was in dysfunctional veterans for a very long time too.
1:30:31
And. I've still got AT shirt
1:30:33
somewhere that says leave me alone.
1:30:34
I have many and I have many sweatshirts and I posted one
1:30:39
time in that fucking group going asking for advice on something.
1:30:43
I can't remember what it was. And they're like is she is she
1:30:48
is she bat tits 2 point O And I'm like bro, no, I'm not.
1:30:54
I'm not bat tits. She had a Batman tattoo.
1:30:58
I have an actual bat well and mine isn't cover up.
1:31:05
She does not look the same anymore.
1:31:08
She her her arms are the size of Sarge's arms.
1:31:12
She's went to weightlifting and stuff.
1:31:15
Yeah. She was into that back in the
1:31:17
day though. I know exactly who you're
1:31:19
talking about. That's fine.
1:31:25
But yeah, there were so many people on.
1:31:28
Who was that, Sarge? Oh, Michael was.
1:31:31
Going so much. Tell him I said hi.
1:31:36
He just finally took him left. There when he comes back up the
1:31:39
stairs. I used to have a pet.
1:31:47
Snake, I'm going to mute myself just because I don't want to put
1:31:49
your name out on it when I tell him.
1:31:53
I already put it out there, remember?
1:31:56
A long time ago. All right.
1:32:01
Yeah, I had a pet snake and we were living in Navy housing.
1:32:05
Of course, you weren't supposed to have them there.
1:32:08
Hell. No, but I woke up 1 morning,
1:32:12
come downstairs, my 3 come here. Say it again.
1:32:15
Come here. With a snake.
1:32:18
You can come, come. Over.
1:32:21
Here I had to. Tell them hi.
1:32:23
Michael. Hi, Michael, I'll.
1:32:25
Be back. What's up, man?
1:32:28
This is that one. I'm super proud of that.
1:32:33
Congratulations dude. Thanks.
1:32:38
That's pretty awesome. That's cool.
1:32:44
Hello. OK, Gunner.
1:32:48
Super proud of that dude. Hello, Vikings.
1:32:55
Yeah. Can, dude, I'm pretty proud of
1:32:56
that. Can dude, you can come in a box.
1:32:58
Show me wild. What's up, Viking?
1:33:02
What's on these lives? I only let vets in the boxes.
1:33:18
I'm like feeling like the call of getting.
1:33:22
Ready for bed? I can.
1:33:25
Dude thanks though. I need I seriously need some ink
1:33:31
therapy. Seriously need it but can't
1:33:34
afford it. Two years.
1:33:38
Army 16. I'm going to cover this the, you
1:33:42
know, 1997, so I'm going to cover that and get the whole top
1:33:49
of it. Finished I need ink bad.
1:33:52
I told myself I would. Never you come in too.
1:33:55
Never get a tattoo overseas. My last my next to last
1:33:59
deployment. I end up getting two in a matter
1:34:02
of a week. Dude, so my mom got like she
1:34:07
was, I'd like to say mad at me, but I got some the week that I
1:34:12
turned 18. I came home with like a tattoo
1:34:16
every day that week. Oh.
1:34:19
Jeez. Hey Brian, what's up?
1:34:30
Where'd you get that done at? I got it done in Tallahassee,
1:34:34
FL. A Cuban guy was working at a
1:34:39
tattoo shop down there that I like to go to and I told him
1:34:45
what I was looking for. And it's actually a cover up
1:34:48
from a tat that I got while I was in Germany.
1:34:51
And he says, all right, so he measured everything out and he
1:34:58
drew it out and called me and said, hey, come look at this and
1:35:02
see if I if it'll work for you. And I went and told him, yeah,
1:35:07
that'll work for me. What's the cost going to be?
1:35:10
And he told me 350. So I said, well keep that for
1:35:18
right now and I will come up here as I get the money and pay
1:35:24
you ahead of time and get it paid for first before I get it.
1:35:28
Done all right. That sounds good.
1:35:33
So I managed to get it paid for and then when I got up there, he
1:35:38
says I didn't like how that looked.
1:35:40
So I, I did a little modification to it and that the
1:35:44
tattoo I've got is the modification.
1:35:47
And when he got, when I got there to get it done, I'm like,
1:35:53
dude, that's a lot of work for 350 bucks.
1:35:56
He said, well, you've already paid for it.
1:35:59
I'm the one that changed it. So don't worry about it.
1:36:02
Just don't tell anybody that that I let you have it for that.
1:36:06
But he said that if I'd have paid full price for it, it would
1:36:10
have been around 800 and 5900 dollars.
1:36:13
Oh yes my hand in New York New York prices like 600 bucks for
1:36:20
my hand. New York prices are ridiculous
1:36:22
for tattoos This on my wrist right?
1:36:25
If I can hold on, let me see if I can this one on my wrist. 350
1:36:33
dude for all of the fill in right here in Missouri, all the
1:36:37
fill in that I got plus this. Skull.
1:36:40
Here, all of that was 350. Damn.
1:36:45
Well, I need to come to Missouri.
1:36:47
Dude this one here was like 250. Japan right there.
1:36:58
I've always wanted to get like a tattoo, not necessarily a
1:37:02
Japanese traditional, but I've wanted to get a tattoo done in
1:37:05
like the traditional style, like the bamboo.
1:37:09
And all that. But I want to add like a skull
1:37:12
or something in that style. Well, I, I, I went to Pinky's
1:37:18
originally there in Japan and was looking and I saw that one
1:37:24
of the samurai and was softly cutting out of the skin.
1:37:28
So I'm like, you know, that sounds like a good idea.
1:37:32
The Tattoo Expo was coming to Saint Louis in June, and I'm
1:37:36
probably going to go to that. I need to go home again, I'm
1:37:41
from Sikeston. So.
1:37:43
You're from Sikeston? Yeah.
1:37:45
Living Cape, dude. No shit really.
1:37:48
That's that's where my great grandmother lived for.
1:37:51
Years. Yeah, I'm right.
1:37:53
I'm in Cape Girardeau. What quarter mile from the
1:37:56
Mississippi? Yeah, I remember going across
1:38:01
the river right there into Illinois all the time.
1:38:03
Yep, I got a buddy of mine that lives up there.
1:38:06
He's in Murfreesboro. Yep, my great grandmother had a
1:38:11
a nice house there years ago. But yeah, we used to go up
1:38:18
there, we go over the other one and stuff like that.
1:38:21
Yeah, I miss Cape. Yeah, Cape's nice.
1:38:26
It's better than where I was at because I was all the way down
1:38:28
in East Prairie for a while and there's fucking nothing out
1:38:31
there. Dyson's where I had to go to
1:38:34
Walmart and grocery shopping and stuff.
1:38:36
You. Got to drive 45 minutes to find
1:38:39
some place to go. Yep, that part.
1:38:44
Hey Sarge, my mod stuff's showing back up now.
1:38:52
You got to put in time out. Darren, we don't want.
1:38:56
TikTok dude, TikTok hates me. Well, don't feel like the lone
1:39:03
stranger about writing something I make.
1:39:07
I get called this violates our our, our community guidelines
1:39:13
and I'm like, seriously? Dude, I've been hit more.
1:39:18
For hate. Speech and bullying because the
1:39:22
algorithm doesn't understand how veterans talk to each other.
1:39:25
Right. Like it's all in love.
1:39:28
It really is. I mean, most of the time I talk
1:39:33
to the my buddies I served with, typically the words out of my
1:39:37
mouth are how's your wife and my kids and, and yeah, and they're
1:39:44
like. Jody Huh?
1:39:45
The Vikings and. Jody over there got to have.
1:39:49
Jody After 7 deployments, I was far from Jody.
1:39:54
I saw a decal like that, you know those the ones that got
1:39:56
like the husband, wife and kid, like stick figures or whatever,
1:39:59
right, But had the husband, wife and kids and had Jodi pointing.
1:40:03
Up his dad. I had a buddy his his wife was
1:40:09
named Jodi My. Cousin, her name is Jodi and
1:40:15
she's like, they spelled it just like Jodi in the military too.
1:40:24
My go ahead lady. My neighbor down the road is a
1:40:31
army vet as well and he'll call me a a female dog and I'll I'll
1:40:37
tell him to see you next Tuesday.
1:40:42
Can't understand normal thinking.
1:40:46
Do what, Brian? I said can't understand normal
1:40:49
thinking. Yeah.
1:40:54
Well, here's what's messed up. So Braddy knows, Larry know I
1:40:58
have a lot of Australian followers and stuff like that
1:41:01
and I do lives with them a lot. They're allowed to say that word
1:41:05
on here because it's part of their like normal everyday shit.
1:41:08
I'm like but if I said at one time I'm getting hit.
1:41:11
Yeah, for the see you next Tuesday.
1:41:17
Yep, the Aussies say that shit like.
1:41:22
I got. I'm.
1:41:23
Just saying a lot. To you, every other one in life,
1:41:27
but they're at Hereford and that's like every other word out
1:41:31
of their mouths. Yes.
1:41:34
I'm like, dude, in America you get slapped for that.
1:41:38
See. It's like I.
1:41:40
Need your help because I'm going to put Loki out.
1:41:42
Can you bring him in because I have to watch this.
1:41:45
You know that's that's. Normally.
1:41:48
Every woman in the United States, that's their absolute no
1:41:54
go word. But that is my favorite word to
1:41:57
use. Yeah, some, some women like
1:41:59
they, they don't mind you calling that word, but you, if
1:42:03
you call them a female dog, then they got that's a different
1:42:05
story. I mean.
1:42:07
It's not being 1 like, you know, but like don't just call it call
1:42:12
me a name for no reason, but I I love to see you next Tuesday
1:42:18
work. I mean, I use that constantly
1:42:20
so. Noted like.
1:42:23
My ex father-in-law told his wife because she, you know, she
1:42:27
said. All men, if you're not behind me
1:42:31
slapping my ass saying that then sorry.
1:42:35
That was a lot. My bad.
1:42:41
I don't know one left point. I'm pulling hair too, you know.
1:42:44
You know what? I have a sticker on the back of
1:42:46
my car Viking that says if you're going to ride.
1:42:49
My. Ass at least pull my hair.
1:42:52
Yep. I have one that says sticks and
1:42:57
stones may break my bones but whips and change and tightly.
1:43:01
I mean, look at my name. I mean.
1:43:07
Oh, what have I gotten myself into?
1:43:10
Well, what'd you do with Sarge? Let's see.
1:43:14
How far the rabbit hole actually goes.
1:43:16
Alice, Holy shit, I thought.
1:43:30
He was going to stay in for a little bit longer.
1:43:34
Hi, baby. Gunner because he had broke out
1:43:38
the guitar and I was going to have him play a song to play us
1:43:40
out because you know, I have to with the radio station.
1:43:42
I have to end this right at 10:00 because I'm the longest
1:43:46
show that the radio station does at two hours.
1:43:54
Yeah, even even Oh, dog tags she she don't have but an hour.
1:44:08
Well, that was a stipulate when I when I first started talking
1:44:12
with the radio station and everything else.
1:44:13
They're like, well, how long is your show?
1:44:15
I'm like, it's not really a show.
1:44:16
It's they're like, no, it is. You're talking to people and
1:44:19
engaging and I'm like, OK, they're like, well, what time
1:44:24
does it go? I'm like 8 to 10 central, 2
1:44:27
hours. I'm like, well, yeah, like
1:44:31
because the other thing is too like, if we got on on topic on
1:44:33
something, you know what I mean? I don't want to have to end it
1:44:35
after an hour. Like if we're like, really into
1:44:38
something, you know what I mean? Yeah.
1:44:40
Right. Like, look what happened last
1:44:42
night. We had the, the, the, what's it
1:44:45
called the, the fishing guys on. They came in late, you know what
1:44:49
I mean? So we can stay on live longer is
1:44:52
what you're saying? I can stay on live on, I can
1:44:54
stay live longer, but I have to end the stream on the computer
1:44:57
on the station. Oh, it makes sense.
1:44:59
OK sorry I was putting a random Kitty outside that's why I put
1:45:04
myself on mute. I've got one that keeps going
1:45:08
underneath my damn back porch. Loki keeps.
1:45:20
Oh, look at that German Shepherd.
1:45:24
I'll get it, Michael. Hold on guys.
1:45:25
I got to get the. Dog in.
1:45:30
She is actually the replacement to my other service dog.
1:45:35
I retired him, he's got hip display.
1:45:42
I I've retired him now. He still works at the house and
1:45:46
everything, which kind of pisses her off, but she gets to go
1:45:50
everywhere. She's.
1:45:55
Over here rolling her eyes at me.
1:45:58
I've got a a picture when I was in Afghanistan, I was going down
1:46:03
the side of a hill when the dog laid down and I'm carrying the
1:46:06
dog down the side of a hill in Afghanistan because he wouldn't
1:46:10
walk down the rocks. Oh jeez.
1:46:16
I'm like this one had touched the water.
1:46:19
Hose. So I.
1:46:25
Have a dog sibling that I take care of quite often and crazy
1:46:31
thing his name is Sarge Go. Figure that one out.
1:46:38
My dad is also a veteran and was activity most of my life and
1:46:45
he's a that is he too now a 2 year old chocolate lab and I
1:46:51
have to actually babysit him for a whole week and a half of my
1:46:55
parents go on vacation and he's such a little shit and he pees
1:47:03
on my feet every time I go to my parents house.
1:47:06
He is so excited to see me that he pees on my feet and I'm like
1:47:11
bro can you not pee on my feet? I have to immediately going to
1:47:17
the bathroom, wash my feet off, wash my shoes and then he's
1:47:21
just. So sad to.
1:47:22
See me even though I'm there like multiple times a day?
1:47:26
What the hell does that mean? Milnor, huh?
1:47:32
It's Thor's hammer. Hey, hey, Viking.
1:47:37
Yeah, you'll, you'll appreciate this.
1:47:53
Yes. OK.
1:47:54
All right. She is.
1:47:56
She is a Norse goddess. No, I know what that is.
1:48:00
I I practice with her so. Come here, monster.
1:48:06
So, Viking, this is Loki. Oh my God, he's so little.
1:48:12
Oh yes, so little. Oh, that's.
1:48:14
The lover. He's he'll be 18 months on the
1:48:17
14th. Oh.
1:48:19
He just wants love anytime I'm on camera.
1:48:23
Generally he's right here, like on top of me.
1:48:27
He's my service. Pub.
1:48:30
Hey, hey, Viking. Yeah, that dog is little.
1:48:32
He can take and lay his head on the countertop and look over the
1:48:35
countertop. Well, yeah, when they take up
1:48:58
the bed, they take up the. Bed they're veterinarian.
1:49:07
He actually has a Great Dane, and he is 30. 30. 7 inches on
1:49:23
all fours. Yeah, he's something like that.
1:49:28
I mean he's over 6 foot tall on his back legs.
1:49:34
Yeah. 5/2. Now.
1:49:37
Dog to stand up on his back legs.
1:49:39
If you ready, if you were sitting in a chair over here,
1:49:42
his head would be right at the top of your head.
1:49:48
He a big boy. Oh.
1:49:52
Loki. Loki is a big boy.
1:49:55
Yeah, I got a an English golden retriever.
1:49:58
He's just just turned a year old.
1:50:00
He's huge. My buddy, I don't.
1:50:03
Have a dog? Am I the only one without a dog?
1:50:06
I got 3. I've got 4.
1:50:09
I got 3 cats. Jeez, I got 6.
1:50:13
Cats. I had oh we had a great day, but
1:50:18
but now but we already running. A kennel.
1:50:21
Oh, let me guess, you guys are all cat haters, right?
1:50:24
No, no cats, no better. Not be.
1:50:27
We had Hey Brady, we have 11 cats, too.
1:50:32
Holy shit, Larry, what are you doing?
1:50:35
My sister's house down there in Georgia, they got like my
1:50:39
grandmother, 'cause she's should be 92 in August.
1:50:42
She used to feed all the animals.
1:50:45
The cats. OK, I mean.
1:50:49
And those cats would multiply. But see, I'm not on that.
1:50:54
I would bring them all in and pay for them to get fixed.
1:50:57
That's my thing. But.
1:50:58
Slowly catching them and getting them fixed.
1:51:01
But I know it's hard. I've been there, done that too.
1:51:03
I get you friends all. The.
1:51:05
Cats. I get your grandma.
1:51:06
She's a. Cat Lady.
1:51:10
But they pretty much have. He's got an amazing personality.
1:51:13
Can dude. Loki's got an awesome
1:51:15
personality, and he's too smart for his own damn good, too.
1:51:21
My cats have a theme of names too.
1:51:27
I'm going to. I'm going to see if you guys can
1:51:29
all put it together. I'm going to.
1:51:31
Shut up, you're out of it Sarge, you can't.
1:51:36
So my cats names are Ozzy, Motley and Stevie.
1:51:44
Headbangers. OK, Yeah, yes.
1:51:53
And Stevie, I'm. Stevie Nicks.
1:51:56
With my yes, yes. There you go.
1:51:58
Yeah, yes. My my first service dog actually
1:52:06
had a service cat and and he had a special name because he
1:52:11
actually literally did. The dog had a service cat.
1:52:14
Yes. Yes, when I first, when I first.
1:52:17
Got my service dog. I was having some major issues.
1:52:20
Great, Dean. And.
1:52:22
Or they take my he. Would not quit working.
1:52:25
He was working 24/7 and he would take a break or anything.
1:52:31
And we had a cat that attached to him.
1:52:36
And when when I would have a bad day and he wouldn't sit, go lay
1:52:41
down and rest for a few minutes, that cat would get over there
1:52:45
close to him. And if he ever took and got on
1:52:49
the couch and put his head down, that cat would jump down and lay
1:52:55
across to his neck so he couldn't get up.
1:52:59
But we named the cat Jarhead because he would eat the
1:53:06
grandbaby crayons. OK.
1:53:10
So my motley will eat. I have to watch him.
1:53:15
He big boy, he he chunky and I got him when he was already
1:53:21
chunky and three years old and he likes to eat anything and
1:53:28
everything. So like when I glean the litter
1:53:30
box sometimes and I watch this little shit do this, eat Legos,
1:53:40
anything that is like the consistency of like, you know,
1:53:46
like the kids have their their fucking what do you call them?
1:53:53
Like I'm stress balls, you know, like that type of material.
1:54:02
That little shit will eat it, and he will.
1:54:05
Eat Legos. That rubberized phone.
1:54:09
This this cat has pika. I don't know if cats have pika
1:54:12
but he does and I have to stop him from eating wires that are
1:54:21
plugged into the fucking wall. He'll do it once.
1:54:24
You know, I always say that he is not playing with a full deck
1:54:28
of cards. I think exactly he's not playing
1:54:31
with a full deck. Of cards.
1:54:33
He said that just in. And he was was the National
1:54:38
Lampoon's Christmas Vacations. Yes, Oh my.
1:54:43
Gosh. My my wife has a cat that that
1:54:48
eat that chews wires and stuff and stepdaughter went and bought
1:54:53
her a new cord for her iPhone because one of the kids actually
1:54:57
accidentally tore her plug up. So she went and bought a new
1:55:01
one, brought it to the house, plugged it up, plugged her phone
1:55:05
to it, went to the bathroom, went and got her something to
1:55:08
drink, and when she got back to the room the cat had chewed the
1:55:12
new the new cord in half. Dude.
1:55:16
That last, that last place I was living in Larry, that trailer.
1:55:20
Remember that? So I was at my dining room
1:55:23
table, Loki was in my room. I didn't think nothing of it.
1:55:27
I had only been sitting at the table for like 5 minutes trying
1:55:30
to eat dinner with kids and all of a sudden all I hear is him
1:55:34
screaming and yelping. So you know the square end of an
1:55:40
extension cord where everything plugs into?
1:55:42
He got off and touched the fucking wires together.
1:55:46
And electricity. Ass.
1:55:49
Oh damn. But you know what?
1:55:52
He's not shooting another wire ever since.
1:55:54
That's like I said. You do it once, we won't do it
1:55:57
again. See, my Molly doesn't learn.
1:56:00
That's why I think. He Thor attacked his ass dude.
1:56:03
I think he's not playing with a full deck of cards.
1:56:08
Or a. Whole thing a crayon.
1:56:10
You know, whatever. Any of us.
1:56:12
Wait a little full of deck of cards.
1:56:13
No, I mean fair. OK, but this, this man, if I
1:56:19
could, this little cat, he looks at me with the biggest crackhead
1:56:24
eyes and he has no thoughts behind those eyes like you, you
1:56:31
know, you seen that TikTok trend where they're like, ain't no
1:56:34
thought behind those eyes. That is my cat.
1:56:39
He is he's Dumber than a box of rocks, but I love him more than
1:56:43
anything. I.
1:56:45
Swear they threw me a Uno reverse card for my mental
1:56:48
health. If they went that way, they'd
1:56:54
tell me to draw 4 draw. Four.
1:56:59
I got hit with a reverse draw four and draw 4.
1:57:03
And a skip maybe? Yeah, and a skip, probably.
1:57:08
I'm just fucking with you. Oh, I'm very well aware my
1:57:14
mental health is a dumpster fire.
1:57:16
Mine is better. Mine is better my new.
1:57:20
Dumpster. Fire, I take that back.
1:57:21
It's it's gotten so much better over the last what I've been
1:57:27
doing this what now? Alert Brady What, two months?
1:57:31
Yeah, yeah. So it's to the point where I can
1:57:35
keep my Pew Pew in the house and not worry about wanting to see
1:57:39
what it tastes like. Though my mental health by doing
1:57:45
these lives has improved immensely.
1:57:48
And to be able to do like this and just let everybody else talk
1:57:53
and hopefully. Help.
1:57:54
And reach other people and help them through their shit, that
1:58:01
that's helped too. You know, I was talking to it, I
1:58:04
was talking to my dad about this today and my dad is an anti tik
1:58:10
toker, you know, and I was talking to him about you and the
1:58:18
the warrior Wednesdays and he goes, well, what do you guys
1:58:23
talk about? And I'm like dad, just normal
1:58:25
fucking veteran shit. You know, like whatever we
1:58:29
whatever topic comes up, we talk about it.
1:58:32
He was well, I might download TikTok for that.
1:58:36
I'm like he. Doesn't he?
1:58:37
We're on Facebook. Yeah, yes.
1:58:40
Twitter XI mean Twitter we're. On no he wants to get on the
1:58:43
live and talk, but I that makes me a little.
1:58:47
Uncomfortable. Uncomfortable.
1:58:49
Yeah, and we're at a lot of because it's weird because my
1:58:55
dad's an OIFOEF at and I'm an OIF vet.
1:59:01
Both times. So it, it's weird because my dad
1:59:05
is younger compared to I'm 32. He's going to be 49 in July.
1:59:13
And he's like, I want to get into that.
1:59:16
I want to talk to other veterans.
1:59:19
You know, like we're both in like the dysfunctional veteran
1:59:22
group. We're both in like so many
1:59:24
veteran groups together and it, it just we overlap and I'm like,
1:59:30
oh, well, I feel like I can't talk about certain things or he
1:59:33
can't talk about certain things. But today we were like, you
1:59:37
know, I'm like, we're doing these lives and it's on military
1:59:41
broadcast radio. And he goes, well, I've never
1:59:44
heard of them. I would love to listen to them.
1:59:46
I'm like, OK, well, we're online and you know, all these things.
1:59:51
And he goes, I might download TikTok for that, but I'm like,
1:59:56
dad, if you don't, please. I need to send you some of the
2:00:03
shirts I had for the guys in my unit telling us we put the phone
2:00:08
back in dysfunctional. I miss, I used to have a shirt
2:00:12
like that and I don't have it anymore.
2:00:16
Yeah, mine disappear. I still.
2:00:17
Have DV shirts that say like fuck I can't.
2:00:23
I have a couple sweatshirts and shirts but the one shirt says
2:00:31
fuck. It was one of the originals too.
2:00:35
Dysfunctional veteran Mabel or whatever.
2:00:40
You know, like. I hate to do it, but it's
2:00:45
reached that time. So we have 10.
2:00:49
I have to end it on here because it goes to the radio station.
2:00:54
I have to end both both and. I'm going to be honest, I need
2:00:59
like. 1. Of a break from this chair.
2:01:04
Oh yeah, that's right, I forgot about.
2:01:06
That metal in your back and a wooden chair?
2:01:08
Not conducive. No.
2:01:10
No. There.
2:01:11
You go my left leg so I feel your pain.
2:01:14
Good night everybody. Same time next week.
2:01:17
I'd love to see everybody. I'll see everybody next week.
2:01:21
You guys have a good night. You too.
2:01:29
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