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Tyler
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Mike
Good start. I, you got the date right and everything?
Tyler
Yeah, I, I, I'm not hungover, but I definitely, I usually start days. I wake up at six. I go to the gym and like my day's all up now because I Woke up at 9:30.
Mike
Must be nice, man. That's great. That's a great night's sleep.
Tyler
Dude.
Mike
That's pretty, that's pretty cool, isn't it?
Tyler
9:30.
Mike
I don't know what 9:30 looks like.
Jimmy
I, I mean like my day starts out in the darkness.
Tyler
Yeah.
Mike
I get up at 5:45.
Tyler
I shouldn't said any of that.
Jimmy
It's all right, man.
Mike
Hey man, when you're the, when you're the king, man, the king sleeps good.
Tyler
Yeah.
Mike
In that ghost bed. Nice.
Tyler
I passed Lewis. Lewis was. Lewis is wearing the donut shop podcast hat. Except Lewis carried it by hand on his bike. Mess it up.
Jimmy
He's got to wear his helmet.
Mike
He's safe, he said.
Jimmy
Yeah, look at him, look at it.
Mike
So safety first, man. Yeah.
Tyler
Gotta get you a backpack or a basket.
Jimmy
I Didn't bring, I didn't bring it.
Mike
Because I didn't have a lot of stuff to carry with me. So we gotta get you some stuff to carry. Yeah.
Tyler
Okay.
Jimmy
Don't, don't ever say that around military guys because we're gonna be like, oh, you don't have enough. Oh, okay, got gotcha. Good to go.
Mike
Like the whole way here. He stresses on those speed check. Jimmy throws out him first thing in the morning. The speed's down and Lewis is. What did you do?
Jimmy
Yes.
Tyler
So the updates on the Internet is, were completely out of luck. The. There's. I guess the area that we're in is being neglected by all providers. No one wants to spend the money to give this particular like block or mile radius any type of good Internet. So the one we have is probably the best we're gonna get.
Mike
Yeah.
Tyler
And we've fine tuned it. They've been up in the bucket up in the tower next to the plaza, like they've done everything they can, but at the end of the day, well, it's location, location, location apparently.
Jimmy
Well, we're gonna, I think what we're gonna do is probably like the last things we can do is run cat sex shielded, run it up in the ceiling, make sure it doesn't get stepped on or crushed and then get it instead of the router that they give us, get us a decent.
Mike
That's the only thing I was thinking.
Jimmy
Yeah, that's, that's.
Mike
You can ask them for an upgrade. That modem's oldest.
Jimmy
I know.
Tyler
She didn't replace it when they came.
Jimmy
No, she replaced the router.
Tyler
What, what are you talking about? You just said it's an all in one.
Jimmy
Yeah, the, the motor. Yeah, the modem is something we, we gotta keep. She didn't replace that. She did replace the router so we can get a better router.
Mike
We'll see.
Jimmy
We can, we can do that or we can run some wireless. I mean like there's still some, there's still some hardware we can do, but we're, I mean after that it's going to be like all avenues are exhausted.
Mike
The Fed.
Jimmy
The Fed is either that or it's, you know, it's Israel.
Tyler
Well, some reflections. We got a. Jimmy dropped his show. That was show number three.
Jimmy
Yeah.
Mike
What time did it, what time did it end?
Jimmy
I didn't get. I mean Mike was looking at it last night, by the way.
Mike
I could see when Jimmy records because he's part of my network and the stream yard and he finished that, he started at 301am that was the third.
Jimmy
One because I deleted the other ones because the camera kept turning.
Mike
So at 3:01am Jimmy was all in according his third episode.
Jimmy
I wasn't.
Tyler
Everybody was snug in their bed. Yeah. Recording.
Jimmy
Damn it, Jimmy.
Mike
You say it again. Start over.
Jimmy
Dude. Man, I was like, the one thing I got to be is consistent. Don't be consistent. Be consistent.
Clint
Be consistent.
Mike
So it's like, give it another 10 episodes. You'll be like, they get what they want, they get what I give them.
Tyler
Yeah.
Mike
I don't know, man.
Jimmy
Like, it's really hard when you're talking about all of this history stuff. Like, you gotta get it right. You just.
Mike
Yeah, you're just a little different. I just say whatever the I want. You're doing actual facts. So. Yeah.
Jimmy
And I mean, like, dude, it was. You know, I had to be. I had to kind of tiptoe through the tulips on the beginning because I was talking about Marcus Luttrell and the. On Operation Red Wings, and, you know, since we're being sued, I'm like, I don't want to give anybody else any ammunition. So, I mean, like, I didn't go into a lot of the. I didn't play the video that the Taliban had of the gunfight because it's. It's. It's not good.
Tyler
What do you mean?
Jimmy
Taliban filmed that gunfight, the lone survivor gunfight. And it's. It's pretty terrible. I mean, like, you can hear people screaming for Marcus.
Tyler
Really?
Jimmy
Yeah.
Tyler
He went on it. It's hard because he went on Anderson Cooper's show a while back when it started, when it happened, and he was blunt, fully honest. Yeah. He said things like, I just tucked my head. I can hear them screaming my name. I was a coward. And. And so I. Now we did use that. Yeah. But I. I remember. I don't know where I said it, but I said it on record. I was like, that's. He was going through the worst moment of his life with no healing on national television, and he was thinking in his head the things that we would think, like, I'm a coward. I'm the only one that made it like, I'm a piece of. And he had no time to work through any of that before he went on Anderson Cooper and. And said the things that a home, a humble person might feel. Even.
Jimmy
Even if the. The rumors from the guys you guys had. Before I came on, there was a dude from the SEAL teams that came on and talked about it, and. And even if what that guy said was true. I still don't really judge him. I mean, like, I, I can't, you know, like, bro, like that, the. I just feel for him, man. I, I really do. Even if it, if, if that's not true, and I really hope it isn't. I. It was a terrible ass gunfight. The thing that I had to highlight, though was number one was like, why was your comms up? Why didn't you have a QRF already on standby? Why didn't you have target reference points for the artillery? Why didn't you. Why were you moving around in the daylight? I had a big map pulled up. Like, this is how big the mountain is. How did you get walked on? Because you walked around in daylight, dude. They saw you. And if you're doing reconnaissance and you can't talk on the radio, you're not doing reconnaissance anymore.
Tyler
Why'd they do daylight?
Jimmy
So they moved into their position. They got landed up on the Satola Sar spur, which is, you know, on the other side of the valley. And they walked down into where they were going to be looking into this village of Chichol. And they did their map recon and they thought we should be able to see what we want to see. Well, when the sun came up, they couldn't see it. They couldn't see into the village exactly how they wanted to. So they made the call to move to a better position. And then a few hours later, they got walked on.
Tyler
Yeah.
Jimmy
And it's like, what's walked on me. They got. They got spotted. They got. The goat herders came in and just basically walked right to the.
Tyler
And then there's the infamous. I've never read the book, but people said the book is way better than Lone Survivor, the movie. They. It goes into way more detail. The. Which nowadays you don't know what's true. The. When the goat. When the. They had the goat herders and they were trying to figure out if they were going to kill him or release them.
Jimmy
Dude, that, that whole thing, like, I really do struggle with that one as well, simply because, like, I can't imagine, first of all, a vote being held anywhere.
Mike
As long as we're not killing the goats, I'm okay. Yeah, yeah.
Jimmy
Mike doesn't give a.
Mike
Everybody else can go.
Jimmy
They had. They were goat herders with no goats and a radio.
Mike
Like, well, they gotta die then.
Jimmy
Yeah, I mean, like, you could make. I mean, we dropped artillery on guys running around with radios, so I don't really see how that.
Tyler
Do you think that's how the exchange went though, because it's only Marcus's account.
Jimmy
I. I don't know. I mean, I wasn't there, but, like, I just can't imagine the lieutenant not going, you know, the O3 not going. I'm the boss. This is how it's gonna be.
Tyler
Well, my thing was, if they were ex Filling that. Just curiosity, there's probably a reason why. Why didn't they just take them with them as prisoners?
Jimmy
Well, they.
Tyler
They cut the goats and take the humans with them.
Jimmy
I think. They weren't far, were they, first? I mean, I think that bringing those. For those guys disappearing off the mountain. Like I said, they didn't get walked on by accident. They didn't get spotted by accident. And taking them away was. Is. Is just as much of a, hey, we found him up here as anything else.
Tyler
Oh, because people would have realized they were gone.
Jimmy
Yeah, especially because they had a freaking radio. So it's like, dude, there's no point. And, you know, then when you start looking at the fact that, like, the QRF came in and it was a hodgepodge of whoever was there, instead of, like, you know, when we roll out, it's like, hey, who's QRF? Hey, Bravo, you know, First Platoon. Bravo is QRF, and they're on 15 minutes standby, you know, sitting by the birds waiting to go. That.
Tyler
That.
Jimmy
To me, it looked like inexperience and bad planning. You know, it's 2005. We didn't have that. We didn't have the experience we had a couple years later. But the. The seals in general don't plan like the army does.
Tyler
They don't.
Jimmy
No, they don't. They don't think about the things that, like, in the infantry that we think about. Average private is thinking five paragraphs of an op order and, you know, all of those things. I mean, when you get ready to. I mean, you guys.
Tyler
Are you think they on. Do they think. Do you think they underplayed contact possible? Like, they didn't. I had to.
Jimmy
I had to address that as well. I got three different sources. The Navy's number was about 50 insurgents that attacked them. The intelligence community said it was eight to 12 guys that attacked them, and Marcus said it was 80 to 200. That's a crazy wide gap. My guess is they got attacked by about 15 to 20 guys, which, if you're four dudes with no machine guns.
Tyler
Well, what I was asking, do you think they underplayed the. They underestimated what could happen. Like, they didn't plan for 100 100. Because they assumed they were just gonna get in and get out.
Mike
Yeah.
Jimmy
Like, oh, we're gonna do recon. You know, we got suppressed weapons.
Mike
They had.
Jimmy
The biggest weapon that they had was a 203. You know, like you're not. You get into contact with four dudes like, you need a machine gun. Yeah, you really need a machine gun. And you know, they got. They got hammered, dude. And you know, and a. Tactically. And remember that was what got us into the Karangal Valley in the first place. That is the reason we were there.
Tyler
Yeah, I remember you telling me that. I didn't know that. Yeah.
Jimmy
It was all because of the seals that got killed up there on the Ptolasar. And you know, for the next four years, you know, know infantry guys from 10th Mountain Hunt 173rd 1st ID or 25th ID are all up there fighting their asses off. Until General McCrust was like, this is stupid. We're out of here. So I mean it was a good. It was a good episode. I really enjoyed making it. But at the same time it was like, you know, remember that like between 2005 and 2008, four Medal of Honors in that valley.
Tyler
That's a lot.
Jimmy
That's a.
Tyler
How many are alive?
Jimmy
Murphy was the only one that died. The other three survived.
Tyler
Okay.
Jimmy
Yeah.
Tyler
So if you want to hear more about that, a full breakdown, go to the shadow cast on the Counterculture network. Type in shadow the Shadow cast on YouTube. It'll pull it up. Got its own sub channel underneath Counterculture along with many other awesome shows that we're already got and we're working on putting on there and then. And then the 99. I think that's official.
Jimmy
Oh, is it? Yeah.
Tyler
Are you're starting to see the tide more of people that are just sick of the soft stuff.
Jimmy
Yeah.
Tyler
And I mean people and. But here's the thing is somebody that's not an is going to be hesitant to say that because of their service. That's like saying somebody. We're sick of these military guys talking about their military. Like, no one's gonna say that even if you are. Yeah, no one's gonna say it's. But when people start saying it, you're like, I feel the same way.
Jimmy
Yeah.
Tyler
And we're slowly seeing people reach out to us saying like, hey, I didn't realize that your show was for like the guys like the boys that.
Mike
Yeah, well, most. If you look it up, most of the stuff that's going to hit is the bigger episodes that were all special ops talk. So now we've transitioned to conventional, regular 99 people. And it's gonna catch up. I think more people are seeing that. Like, we're not just talking about, you know, most guys can't relate to that. They think of the movie.
Jimmy
Yeah.
Mike
And that's all they have to reference. Even regular army guys are like, I don't. I went building the building and shot people. I don't have any idea about goat herders and sneaking around in the woods for two or three days. So, you know, your average blue corded. Yeah. Military guy is. Is like, okay, now I see what they're talking about. And then you're at, you know, your. Your street cop, your regular street cop that, you know, just wants to do the job and have some entertainment, some information that comes straight out without any. No twist on it. You know, that's what we're.
Clint
Yeah.
Mike
Rebranding.
Tyler
Because it's not, it's not a show about. No, I think when. When people don't hit the mark is they're like, I want to cover Urban Valor. TV does a very good job of it. Or Urban Valor.
Mike
Yeah.
Tyler
Podcast. They do a good job. He does like the soft white underbelly approach to conventional dudes. But as far as, like, everybody, like, oh, we're gonna have our guests. Like, we're gonna. This just business wise speaking business. You can't have base your episodes off of random dude that did great things. But no one knows who they are.
Mike
That's what I mean.
Clint
If you look at my.
Mike
If you look at my views, I've had some amazing people on my show and they're some of the lowest viewed.
Tyler
Shows because no one knows who they are.
Mike
Guys run training programs, guys that do jiu jitsu, master six degree black belts. Like, I've had these guys on that are, in my eyes, are superior human beings, but they're like, I don't know that guys.
Tyler
That guy. Yeah.
Jimmy
It's not.
Mike
It's not Marcus Luttrell. It's not Eddie Gallagher. Like, who are they? So it's. It is. And that's where the guests. You think, man, this is the one. And then nobody watches it. You're like, well, that sucked.
Tyler
Even.
Jimmy
I mean, even those guys. I mean, like, and. And no offense to any one of them, but how many times can we hear the same freaking stories, man?
Tyler
Yeah. And that's what. So this show, this little green skeleton behind me, has been officially three years. I started at the very end of December 2022. And the crazy, wild ride it's own. We talked about it last night on the, on the live. It's only been three years. Can you imagine what another three years of grinding will be like? The reach and stuff. And you know, we was, it was guest centered. It was guest focused and, and now it's, you know, it's the broadcast style thing we're going to do where we're building the community. I think that's what. It hasn't been done yet.
Jimmy
No.
Mike
And you. It essentially you disconnected from the algorithm.
Tyler
Yeah.
Mike
And hit a hard reset and plug back in like day one.
Tyler
Yeah.
Mike
And it takes time for those wheels to spin.
Tyler
YouTube's all up. Yeah, it was there.
Mike
And you know, I've got, I, I've gotten several messages. I know you guys sent a couple the other day, but same thing. It was like I remember watching Tyler on his back porch. Then Brent came along and then now it's changed to this. And I think these, this is a show for a unique group of people, but I think it's the majority and now it's just getting everybody back to go, hey, we're not just talking about 1% of people that you can just watch a movie and see all those stories. This is everyday dudes grinding, going out, working patrol, working in the military, doing things that everybody else did. And it kind of, it resonates to more people. But I, I was just like, I had no idea you were anti hero even up until the point went to that school together. And then when I saw it, I was like antihero. And I was like expected everybody to know it. Even at your peak.
Tyler
Yeah.
Mike
People were like, what is antihero? And I'm like, how the. Do you not know what it is? They have a huge following. Like it's military. So it, it takes, it's still got to get out there and get people back.
Tyler
Well, like I would try to recognize like this isn't what's sustainable. Right. And you're right. The. You nailed it. The amount of people you can interview is eventually going to end.
Clint
Correct.
Tyler
And then you're just gonna have to like, what do you do? Recycle them? Like. Right. We're bringing them back for another. Which is fine. But then you don't. What do you talk about?
Jimmy
You know, that's.
Tyler
They've already talked about their life 20 times. They've already told their stories 20 times on podcast. Bigger than anti Hero. It's like I was always trying to do something different and this is it.
Jimmy
I mean, you know, I hate to kind of bring it back But I mean, like, there are amount of people that didn't know about the Cornwall Valley, like that had been in, in the military and it was. And like they're looking at, they're like, holy, I had no idea. And it's like, it's not SF dudes. It's just regular old airborne infantry, you know, like, dude, like, these are amazing stories. I mean, like one of the comments I got was like on the reel that you cut, it was like you guys just breezed right past a dude killing a dude with a rock. You know, like, like we're not going to talk about that for like five seconds.
Tyler
Yeah.
Mike
But you know, like anything else, it's this information you're getting is unfiltered. And if you want to go watch the news, you're going to get a certain group of people that fund all the news and control all the news, telling you what you want to hear. There are some guys breaking off Nick Fuentes and some guys that are saying some wild, like, stuff. But here I think you have it all with experience. Yeah. All now unfiltered and trying to give the most accurate, normal person's perspective of what is happening in the world. Like, how does it affect a couple regular guys?
Tyler
Yeah.
Mike
Not some newscaster who sits in front and reads a script and has no real life. Not some dude that's been taken care of his whole life and he's been the special guest on every show. He's been catered to. He's been driven around, he's been flown everywhere.
Jimmy
Yeah.
Mike
You're talking about regular dudes that drive three hours every day, get up early, do the research, church. Yeah. Mr. Five days a week. But you know, it is. It is. That's what it's about. And that's why I enjoy this in. It'll grow. And I don't care if it's how many people watching. Somebody's watching. We're important to some people and the audience is growing and that's why I feel it's important hear it from the truth.
Tyler
There is. I, I said all the time that we, we trimmed the fat essentially and we kept the. This sounds. My analogy is that it's bad. We trimmed the fat and we kept the prime. Like me, like these. The people that really supported us were always hidden in a mass amount of people that just wanted drama.
Jimmy
Yeah.
Tyler
And we got rid of all of those people and now we're left with like the people that we never engaged with. We didn't really even know where.
Jimmy
They didn't even Engage. Because they were like, they were just listening.
Tyler
Yeah, a lot of them. A lot of these guys were like, oh, I've been listening the whole time. I'm like, damn, dude. I feel like. And it's. The point of the show is we're like. So we're going. If anybody. We could. We did the holiday show, which no one spends the holidays alone. But the holiday season is over, so there's really not. I don't foresee us doing that for a long time.
Jimmy
It's time to grind now, so.
Tyler
But last night we mentioned we're going to be going five days a week. And it's just. It feels right. And so Monday will be a regular broadcast like this one. Regular, the same we've always been doing. Tuesdays will be Patreon, only 11:00am Everything's at 11:00am same setup. It'll. It'll be a remote show so these guys don't have to drive because they about it all the time. But.
Mike
What time did he get up this morning? 9:30.
Tyler
Yeah.
Mike
Oh man, must have been rough.
Tyler
And then Wednesdays is going to be. I think we're going to call it Friends days where we actually have a guest remote that it's more guest focus. Not. But it's not going to be like, please, Navy SEAL please come on our show. It's gonna be like people that.
Jimmy
Regular dudes, man. I mean like his, his resume is.
Tyler
Boy. Yeah, yeah.
Jimmy
So that's the guy that taught me how to be a sniper.
Tyler
Yeah.
Jimmy
Amazing.
Tyler
So to be friends, Friends day will be guest oriented. Thursdays will be back just like today. Regular ass broadcast with news and updates and all that stuff. And then Fridays will be casual Fridays where we engage with the audience a lot like we do on the holiday shows. We realize that. You know though, five days a week.
Mike
And then from now on we're sending Jimmy in with the camera. If there's a disturbance, we're sending you in, man. I'm gonna give you my. I'm gonna give you the glasses.
Tyler
The meta glasses.
Mike
Yeah, you need the meta glasses. Flip your nods on. Off you go.
Jimmy
Man. Oh man.
Tyler
Oh.
Jimmy
That was not an idle threat. Ready to go?
Mike
Okay.
Tyler
Yeah. Five days a week.
Mike
Starting Monday.
Tyler
Starting Monday.
Jimmy
And then of course actually starting tomorrow.
Tyler
We'Re doing a Friday show.
Mike
We're doing 11 tomorrow.
Tyler
Yeah, right.
Mike
Yeah, found me.
Jimmy
I'm good.
Tyler
You're the one that came up with it.
Mike
You were. Yeah, yeah, I'm good, I'm good. Just next Friday I have VA. But this Friday, tomorrow, 11. I'm good. And then supposed to be a guest, though.
Tyler
No, Fridays are the casual Fridays.
Jimmy
Don't forget too that like, Mike's got his show, I've got mine. Mike goes live, and then I go.
Mike
Live right after three new shows.
Tyler
Yeah.
Mike
So I'm gonna be doing Dominic Gizzo myself for Hot topic. Wednesday at 7, roll right into Jimmy's live show Wednesday at 8.
Tyler
Wait, you're doing a live show?
Jimmy
Yeah, right after I told you we're gonna. It's gonna be like, I'm gonna pop in with him and it's like, all right, we're gonna be wrapping up here with Anderson Cooper. And we're going right into.
Mike
It's gonna be like a Wednesday night two hour broadcast. So it'll go from Domizo, pissing everybody off with me. Jimmy rolls into his show about his episode. He's got an hour by himself. And then.
Jimmy
Or if I bring in a guest.
Mike
Jason and I start recording next week for the Pig in the Plug. And we have already have some guests lined up and all that stuff.
Jimmy
Dude, this, this is just.
Tyler
Are you recording the lives from home?
Jimmy
No, I'm always gonna record them here. Just because.
Mike
No, you record. You're doing your live show from.
Jimmy
I'm doing a live show.
Tyler
Calling the show just Shadowcast live.
Jimmy
Shadow Cast live.
Mike
You should bring home, you should start bringing home the mic in the headset so he doesn't have that.
Jimmy
I've got a good mic.
Mike
What's the difference in the sound? It's not that he's louder, it's just.
Jimmy
That I've got a good mic at home.
Mike
So whatever he's using at that camera, he should probably.
Jimmy
If I can borrow that camera, I have one.
Mike
I have the same camera.
Tyler
Yeah, you're the only one that uses it for your show.
Jimmy
All right, take that. All right.
Tyler
Bring it back and forth.
Jimmy
Yeah, I mean, I, I.
Tyler
Because I mean, we're, we're pretty real with people that this is. And if they haven't picked up on it, Mike's put a few Easter eggs out there, but these guys travel to Orlando twice a week in order to go five days a week in studio, which will be the next goal. We will be doing an actual broadcast in, but it requires. Everybody knows this, but I'll say it requires a lot more money. People got to be paid a lot more, but we need to have the money from sponsors. So therefore we have to give the sponsors something to pay for. So it's like, which came first, the chicken or the egg? We decided to put our money where Our mouth is. And start putting out five shows a week so that way we can give the sponsors more air time and bring in the money so that way people can justify coming here five days a week. And Mike already said if I'm coming five days a week, I'm not doing night shift.
Jimmy
So, yeah, I'll be here every day.
Mike
Night shift is going to be.
Tyler
We'll have to find.
Mike
You'll have to find a co. You'll have to find a co host. I'll be live Wednesday night. I'll be live plenty. And now I'm actually branched off with a couple of guys locally in Vero that are running a similar type anti corruption going after the local government guys. So now, like last night I was on their show for an hour before our show.
Tyler
Oh, really?
Mike
So I was in a group of four people who locally that go to the school board meetings, go to the county commission meetings and they're starting to do the same thing I'm doing, which is, is going after the local government. So now it's like those guys keep have me pop in their show. So five days a week is fine. I mean, my wife being on day shift now, it's a little different. The dogs aren't alone all night. So when, if it's Thursday is a long day, then so be it. I really enjoy the night shift. I think that's our.
Tyler
That's fun.
Mike
Yeah, it is fun.
Tyler
You can tell it's at the end of a long day. Yeah, that vibe is.
Mike
You both start getting drunk. I'm babysitting and yeah, it's a good time with his hands in his hoodie like this. Yeah, I'm ready to leave. I'm watching the clock. Like, God damn it, wrap it up. No, that is, I like, I enjoy the night shift. So it's a, it's, that's the fun.
Jimmy
Show that, I mean, it's all fun. It's just. That one is definitely more fun.
Mike
Yeah, yeah.
Jimmy
I mean, I, I, I love doing all of this. So, like, this is like, this is a wicked cool job, but give it a year.
Mike
Yeah, yeah, it stays fun. It just like he said, like Tyler said, the guest, having the guest aspect is very. I can't imagine. No, I watched you do it. I watched you do it. And even for me, it's like I finally made a decision, like episode 36, that I was done. I'm like, I'm just doing my own podcast locally. If I have a guest, so be it, but I am not planning. And then I like, we were in dc, I record a whole episode. The guy calls me an hour before it drops on Wednesday and says, I don't think I should let this go out on the air. And I'm like, I got no episode now.
Tyler
Yeah.
Mike
So it's like, you can only. Like, you did.
Tyler
You.
Mike
You struggled. You interviewed your family, interview people. You're just like, anybody. Anybody want to sit here and talk?
Tyler
But even when it gets on a bigger level, now you're dealing with hotels, flights, like entertainment. Like, you can't. I mean, we would fly in people. And I'm not just that type of guy. We don't have a crew of people taking them to restaurants. I'm like, yo, yeah, just come to the studio. And they're like, cool. I'll just sit in this hotel room for eight hours until y' all are ready. And it's like, sorry, I. Like, we're talking big name people that were on the Anti Air podcast that's like, dude, I don't.
Jimmy
I'm not.
Tyler
I don't have an assistant to.
Jimmy
We don't. There's not enough.
Tyler
And we all got family. So at the end of the day, I don't want to go out for dinner and drinks with people that I really don't know.
Mike
And I mean, obviously, if we had the. A guest or two, I mean, it's not happening.
Tyler
People can come here as a guest.
Jimmy
Absolutely. We've had them come.
Clint
Yeah.
Mike
Anybody's in town in Orlando. Remember, if you're visiting Orlando area, you're welcome to come on, sit on the couch, sit here, sit in the night shift. You don't have to be on camera. You can be on camera.
Tyler
One of the most annoying things in the world was the SF fanboys suggesting, get this person on. Get this person on. I'm like, dude, we had a list of soft guys that people wanted to see. And I was like, it just wasn't of interesting to me. And those people are gone. They. They're just the soft fanboys. That's all they want.
Mike
But like you said, those people that they wanted have been on probably 9, 12, 15.
Tyler
Why do you want.
Mike
Look at me now at this point? Like, I. I did Ian Bick. I did the guy from Milwaukee that came in. You did a show too, The Milwaukee Cop.
Tyler
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Mike
And it was like, now it's like when guys say, come on. I'm like, I really don't want to tell another story about myself. Like, I don't want to. If you want me to come on and talk about current events or what's going on, like, that's fine, but it just, it, like, it, it's redundant after a while, you know? And there's only so many. The story starts us on the same, even if it's different at some point. That's why current events to me is what's. What's best.
Tyler
Yeah.
Jimmy
I don't know, Mike. I watched your show Wednesday, and I mean, like, Mike. I mean, you know, Mike is way, way different when he does his show. He's like, all right, guys, they're gonna. I, I didn't want to do this, but I'm gonna go ahead and give you my serious dude.
Tyler
And.
Jimmy
And I mean, like, he puts out his resume, and I, I, I mean, like, I wanted to be, like, his hype man. Like, I wanna. I wanted to, like, get into the show and be like. And then he did this.
Tyler
Yeah, it's true. Because Heather said the same thing. She's like, y' all need to. Y' all need to, like, let the audience know your backgrounds. And I'm like, you just forget to do it first.
Mike
Not only that, but obviously you had the fanboy. When I first came on, it was a year ago, December 17th or something last year. And I got. I wasn't ready for the heat that I was going to get. I was on a meme. I was a meme page. I was the guy I. I could say whatever I wanted. I had the big following. So when I came on here, it was like, everybody's on me for mentioning that I had 20, 23 years of service. And it was like, oh, he's got 20. And for, like, three shows, it was comments like, oh, there's a guy with 23 years of service. It's like, bro, just, you know, to me, it's important to validate your resume. So after that, I really never spoke about it. When I get in arguments with people in the comments and all that, I. I try to avoid tactics. And on tactics and building, clearing, yes, I've done all that, but it's like, I don't want to do it anymore. I don't want to talk about it. If I have to, I will. But I think it is important sometimes to say, all right, you're gonna. On me. Here's the paper. You, you, you go down, your resume, let's put them next to each other. I won't say a word. Here's mine. You put yours next to it. And you let everybody else decide. Because I don't have to talk about it. You let everybody else decide, and I Don't say that in a cocky way. I just. I did a lot of things. I was in a high stress unit for a long time. That made me. It made it easier for me to talk, easy for to testify. I've been in court hundreds of times on trials that lasted days and days and days. So I don't get nervous about that stuff. But some guys, that's all they have. That's. Their whole identity is like, no, I go on cruises, bro. I gamble. Like, I do other cool. Like, that was part of my life. And I was very addicted and very sucked in. But once I let it go, like, there it is. You can read about it, but I'd rather talk about it.
Jimmy
The other thing, too is it's like, yeah, I. I did all that stuff. Okay, cool. I don't do that anymore. Yeah. Does it inform my opinion? Of course. But, like, I don't. I don't live in a world where, like, I have to be that guy. I'm not that guy anymore. And I'm okay with that.
Mike
That's how I feel, you know?
Jimmy
Like. Yeah, okay. I mean, like. I mean, it's a joke at this point. Like, everybody knows I was a sniper. Okay, cool. You know What? That and $5 will get me some coffee at Wawa.
Tyler
Who gives a dude? But the hate is gone. Yeah. What Mike went through was. Oh, yeah, no, agreed. What we would do is we bust each other's balls. Like, you know, and that's what. That's what I. I think is hilarious is that, like, really people are really impressed and of, you know, your military career, Jimmy, and that you're a sniper. But of course, we're all cynical, and we can't let somebody have a good time. Yeah.
Mike
Oh, would you be the sniper?
Tyler
Yeah.
Jimmy
I mean, I'm fine with that. I mean, like, you know, but that's. That. That was the tip of 10 years. You know, I did 10 years in the army, and then I did more time as a contractor, and I did a lot of cool stuff before I did either one of those two.
Tyler
And we brought on Matt.
Jimmy
Oh, man.
Tyler
Who's a brand awareness guy. And I remember, you know, when we were looking at hiring him, he was like. He was giving me all these things, and I. So I implemented. I tried them, and he was absolutely right. He's like, you know, you guys need to focus on the ridiculous hilarity of, like, first responders in military. Like, he was like, the stupid. So we started one night shift. We talked about some of it, and it's. It's he was right. Like, that's the people resonate with. They don't really. I mean, of course they want to hear heroic stories then that we should tell them. But also it's just the stupid that everybody.
Jimmy
Like the strippers in the barracks that.
Tyler
Like, the dumbass calls cops. Go on. We're like, you know, only us. We can Only us. And go. Yep. I. I can see that. I can. I can picture this call in my head.
Mike
Yeah.
Jimmy
And. And I mean, that's. That's the. That you would actually talk about, like, when you're. What do you. I keep calling it 69, but it's some.
Mike
56.
Jimmy
50.
Mike
It is 69. It's 56.
Jimmy
You guys are, you know, I mean, like, dude, you know, you're sitting around out there, you know, and I see him. I. I see Clearwater pd.
Tyler
It's the same. Same thing. It's a smoke pit talk. Yeah. It's a talk where you. Everybody's got to make sure their body camera's off at 3 in the morning. You got coffee around the hood of the car.
Jimmy
Yeah.
Tyler
Or it's the smoke pit when you're ripping cigs because you're bored as. And the conversations just start going. And any. Those conversations where somebody goes, dude, we should have a podcast. Yeah. Those conversations. What's the whole point of the show?
Jimmy
The. The Tower guard. Pulling tower guard. You know, the. The wild that got talked about on Tower Guard.
Tyler
I mean. Yeah. Oh, that was even worse.
Jimmy
It was. I mean, no one can hear us.
Mike
Me and you, buddy.
Jimmy
Well, I mean, like, you know, got, you know, hey, man, you just got back from leave. What did you do?
Mike
And you're like, yeah.
Jimmy
How much of this is true and how much of it isn't? It doesn't matter because it's new and all we have is each other.
Tyler
It's like entertainment.
Jimmy
Yeah. It's like.
Mike
But the letdown is when you find out that some of those guys weren't who they. You thought they were.
Tyler
I think that's coming, man. I think that the world is in for a shock when. And I called it. Everybody's now wanting. They wanted the juicy stories and now the war is over. They want truth. They want. People are consumers. So the mass. Not the guy, not. Not our support, not the 99, not us, but the guys that have never done it.
Jimmy
Yeah.
Tyler
They're just. They want that. Their new thing is they want exposure, they want drama. You know, that's why all these YouTubers are, you know, they. They make their thumbnail all you know, it. It.
Jimmy
When I was doing. I keep coming back to show I'm not doing it on purpose, but like, when I was right, when I was talking about all that stuff that happened in the Corn Gall, it would have been real easy to go, hey, man, I can really go after some people on this based on the information that I have, and it would probably get some traction.
Mike
Jimmy, tell me this.
Jimmy
Yes, sir.
Mike
This is what I see a lot in law.
Tyler
Affirmative.
Mike
Tell me if this. What about when you get. You guys, obviously you were there for what, 54 months at one point straight.
Jimmy
No, no, that's total.
Mike
Total. Okay. I don't know.
Jimmy
Okay, so I was actually born in Afghanistan.
Mike
You were there for 50, but what did you. So you got to see. You cycled through like a new generation.
Jimmy
Yeah.
Mike
What. How did you feel when guys showed up and immediately acted as if they belonged?
Jimmy
They got their time, they got smoked, they got the dog.
Mike
And you guys set them straight real fast. Okay.
Jimmy
I mean, like. I mean like everybody. I mean, the E4s were ruthless.
Tyler
They needed. They were. They were evil.
Mike
Yeah.
Jimmy
If you're a sergeant, you don't have to do. You can just be like, hey, Hoover.
Mike
This guy's this guy.
Jimmy
And it's like every E Force like.
Mike
We talk about with police and what we see with like the tick tock and all that. And the same thing happens in these like shift group chats is these people come out of the academy with like three, four, six months and they're in that group chat like they're war heroes. Like they've never even been on like a dead person call. They've never been in a flip pursuit. But like every jokes, the. And it's like there isn't now a generation where you can't set them straight anymore. You will be considered a bully or you'll be considered a bad person if you try to set that person straight.
Tyler
I remember I. I started seeing this like years ago. And the one thing, and I'll explain to you, Jimmy, is that when you're a new cop and you have shift briefing where everybody comes guard mount.
Mike
It's just a. Like a pre op.
Tyler
Yeah. For the shift.
Mike
Daily.
Tyler
Daily. Or at least for the tour.
Jimmy
Okay.
Tyler
You. Everybody comes in, they talk about what's going on. Hot cars. They're supposed to. Warrants, they're supposed to. And everything to be scared about from admin. Don't do this, don't do that. And. And Mike, where did the new kids always sit? In the back? No, they sit in the front.
Mike
Oh, yeah, the new kid. I thought you meant the hardcore guys. Now the new guys all go up front.
Tyler
Yeah.
Mike
And all your other dudes walk in, and they get. All the old timers. Get as far back as possible.
Tyler
All you. You paid your dues. You were a new guy. You don't get to go sit in the back with your. And I just started, by the way, I just started realizing, like, dude, new kids were sitting in the back, smoking, joking, feet on tables, dude. I was like, what world am I in right now?
Mike
That's what I'm talking about. They didn't earn their way, and now they have a place. And now these guys are like, two, three years in. Have never. Let me tell you what happened. When I started, I. I came over from the city. My best friend, Christian Matheson, he did not speak to me. I got signed to him. I was like, they didn't speak to me. I went to calls, and they would get in their car and leave for like, two months.
Jimmy
Like, what the.
Mike
We got in a foot pursuit and some distractionary blows were given, and we got done. He cleared the jail. He text me or called with Nextel. He's like, meet me over here. He's like, all right, this is my name. This is my cell phone number. You can have it now.
Tyler
Yeah.
Mike
So I continued that tradition. One of my really good friends, Alex Bellaflore, he was on my. One of my shows. He works for Company. He retired right after I did. He remembers talking to a guy and he goes, you need to go talk to dilks like you. You're in that warrant area. You like chasing bad guys. I remember it. He pulled into a park. I was, like, hiding behind the park, doing my paperwork. He pulled up. I had my window down. He pulled up. He's like, hey, man, I'm Bella Floor. They told me to come see you. I rolled my window up and I drove away. I literally rolled my window up, and I'm like, who the is this guy?
Jimmy
Yeah, Bella, who?
Mike
And I drove away. And it took like two more months until finally the same thing happened. We got in, like, a critical lens. We body slammed. The dude was like, hey, man, meet me back. Meet me back over at the park. Like, you've earned your way into this conversation. We lost that. Guys walk in day one and they kicking it back. And I'm. I'm. Brand new guy. I'm.
Clint
I'm here.
Mike
Who are you?
Tyler
Who are you? The movie colors. I'll get you the movie colors. Made in 1988 depicts that perfectly. The new guy comes in. He's all cocky, doesn't listen to the. Or the. The elder. And then at the end of the movie, the new guy is the training officer telling the new guy who is out there to get it. And you know.
Mike
You know where that's most important because we talk about it, is gear setup.
Tyler
Yep.
Mike
Bad gear setup. Bad tactics you weren't allowed to do. If you walked in as a new guy and your was all up. 10 years ago.
Tyler
15.
Mike
You're like, Bro, get in the parking lot. Take that off. Move that there. Get your magazines there. Get your taser there. Don't be a. This is how you're gonna set it up. This is why you're gonna set it up this way. Now you got, like, chiefs of police walking around with magazines upside down and everything wrong. And it's like, nobody can say any.
Tyler
You can't say anything. Dude. One time. And I get. Jimmy, I swear to God.
Jimmy
No, no, it's fine, dude.
Mike
Super chat, too.
Tyler
And then swat. One time, we were at SWAT training, and I. I was. I was a new guy on the team, and one of the older dudes, he was a really good dude. Like, you could tell. He. He's been on the team for, like, 20 years, and he was a Marine. And he goes, let me see your gun. And he goes. And there's carbon on his finger. We hadn't shot. Yeah, you're supposed to have a crisp, clean gun. Shoot it, Chris. Clean.
Mike
Shoot it.
Tyler
Yeah. He goes, ten years ago, I would have you up for this. But he's like, who cares? I'm like, man. I was like. I was like, damn. I was a little disappointed. Yeah, he was like that. It's. You could tell in his eyes, it's just not the same anymore.
Mike
Yeah, I watched it happen.
Tyler
Oh, yeah.
Jimmy
Yeah.
Mike
I watched it happen from when I tried out for SWAT the first time and the way it was handled. So I made it. I always say I have an asterisk. I made it under the last tryout for a guy named John Burdock, who was literally the drill sergeant from Full Metal Jacket. That's what he walked around as. For 25 years, you couldn't move without this dude being in your. I was the last person to make it under him. And then I just watched it go to the same thing. Like, oh, your guns. Oh, your shit's on back up. Just do. Just fix it. I'm like, if I were. If I was a detective. I was a detective, if I didn't have black socks on, he'd be walking around the room he dumps. Let me see your socks. And I'd have just fancy plaid while you're just sitting at my desk doing Detective Day. And he'd be like, let me see your socks. I'd pull them out. I'd have like Plaid 20. And I have to get down in my church clothes and do put. Everyone's like looking over the cubicle wall. They're all taking off because they're like, I got black stuff. But that's that. You needed that guy. You needed that type of guy to keep organized. And it was like, that's gone. You go in there and yell, somebody do push ups in this police department right now. You're fired, dude. Yeah, yeah. You can't say that.
Jimmy
Get the out of here.
Mike
Yeah, it's that bad. All right, super chat. And then Jimmy.
Tyler
Yeah, I can't read it.
Jimmy
I can read it.
Tyler
You got it?
Jimmy
Yeah. It says, good morning, guys. And this is from Squealer.
Tyler
Oh, Squealer.
Jimmy
Good morning, guys.
Tyler
Keep grinding.
Jimmy
I like the humble everyday perspective. Listening to you guys lets me know I'm not the only one that feels like y' all know, homo.
Tyler
Awesome.
Mike
He was in there last night too.
Jimmy
Yeah.
Mike
We appreciate it, man.
Tyler
When.
Jimmy
When you got to the unit? First of all, you didn't say until after the deployment. Like it was like somewhere during the deployment.
Tyler
Pardon me. Oh, yeah.
Mike
It's a little early for coal miner long. That usually starts about 8:15.
Jimmy
I think it's the sugar in the. In the mountain dew.
Tyler
But don't get sick too early.
Mike
We were just talking about new guys. Lewis has put his time in, man. Lewis is up. He's told us to go ourselves.
Tyler
You're right. Because that what they do is they test the fence. How does it shock? And you respect people that.
Mike
I think Lewis is. I think Lewis is part of the crew, man.
Jimmy
Yeah.
Mike
Gotten some shit.
Jimmy
Yeah.
Tyler
He's been through the ring.
Mike
Lewis has turned the whole show off.
Tyler
But yes, dude. I remember getting picked up. I remember. And like they. They don't care about you. They really don't. The military. When you're a new guy with your little bag, yeah, some specialist comes and picks you up. They were looking at us like cattle. They were taking that each. Each platoon we had assigned. We. I think we were assigned on paper to the battalion. Yep. But then everybody was under headquarters and they let the companies go through and it was just the E4 mafia out there. We'll take him. Him, him. Get in the car. And they. We had our own little Humvee Cattle trucks.
Mike
Yeah.
Tyler
And they're like, hey, you're going to Bravo. You're going to Alpha. And you're like, but this is my friend. And they're like your friends.
Jimmy
And. And so you'd get them, right? And then, you know, like, so we'd get them, and it's like, up. The new guys are here, and the first thing we would do is smoke the door, the dog out of them for two and a half hours. It's like, you're nothing. We're gonna smoke you. Welcome to the unit, by the way. Shut the up. Any briefing, you better be sitting in front. Any safety brief, you better be sitting in front. You better have pen and paper in your pocket.
Tyler
You better outrun all of us.
Jimmy
You better.
Tyler
Like you're 19 years old.
Mike
We got new chicks, bro. They talk like, I. I don't know how they do it. I'm so glad I'm gone. I'm so glad I'm gone because I would be fired. There's no amount of money to get.
Jimmy
These two guys back into the can't.
Mike
It's.
Clint
It's gone.
Mike
And to see it from where, what we went through, like, and look at it. You just look at it and go, it's. It's gone.
Jimmy
It's gone.
Mike
And then how do the people that work there not see it? Like, they've all sold out, all the captains, all the lieutenants, done.
Tyler
They don't want to fight it, but it's so bad.
Mike
And what is it? What do we do? I always said this. We work for the people. I said in my episode Wednesday, we work for the people. The people are suffering from the lack of accountability and the lack of discipline to the new guys. Because we're just training generation after generation to be extremely soft. And it's. It's bad for every. It's bad for everybody. The brain's not there. It's not developed. The. The threat of violence. The understanding that any given moment, that nice homeless guy that you're being. Yes, sir to can turn around, stab you in the neck, like, that's all gone. These kids don't think like that. And it's craziest is that they see it more than ever because every third video is a cop getting their ass whooped or somebody getting shot or some type of violence. And they're all in this Uvalde mindset that they're, well, the day comes, I'm gonna perform well. You watched 230. Whatever Steve says it is, you watch 200 cops stand around, do absolutely Nothing. While children were being annihilated. That is. That is the what I foresee happening if we continue this mindset.
Tyler
We've talked about the culture too. The cop culture really does shun dudes that go, this is stupid. Guys are afraid to get yelled at on the radio. Like public shaming. And so I really do believe that out of the Uvalde, wasn't it like 60 cops?
Mike
There was. After it all went down, there was a lot. Steve knows a number. Who's Steve on Steve Ladner, Self proclaimed heroes. Oh, he rattles off the exact number. At one point, I think there were over 200 cops.
Tyler
And it's a group mindset because no one's. Everyone's afraid to go, what the are we doing? There's no like one dude going. There's no way. 59 people have this up. I showed up. Like, you already feel like a sense of. I showed up late to this. There was guys already on scene that it would be so disrespectful. Or I could the mission up if they're performing well. And I just come in and go, oh, we're gonna do it my way. So you naturally don't have that mindset. Yeah, but you also have to have the mindset where you're like, I need to know everything, because these guys are human beings. And they might it up.
Mike
We. I made swat. I was on SWAT about a year, year and a half. We did a mass school shooting drill. And I respond. It was huge. They closed the whole school during the summer, roped it off. They had every piece of logistics was realistic. Firemen, casualty.
Tyler
Oh, yeah, everybody.
Mike
The whole thing.
Tyler
Yeah.
Mike
And I got on scene as like the fourth guy and we had an identification of where, like location of possible shooter. And there were three lieutenants and two sergeants there, none on swat. And I'm looking at him and I'm like, I eventually grabbed a QRF and went. And it was like at the end, I'm thinking, these guys are like, they're the watch commander. I'm a. I'm a 15 year cop, but a little bit of SWAT training. But they had no idea what to do. They had no idea. I'm like, bro, any three guys, we got to go down this hall. Like, we have to start quickly. Listen for like, I'm going through it and I'm thinking, how the am I the smartest? I'm a dumbass. How the am I the smartest person here? But the mindset was, if it wasn't even police tactics, it was human Just your brain going, I have to stop this from happening. Even if I get shot, I have to go. There's kids dying. There's people being killed every second that.
Jimmy
That shooter has to go deal with.
Mike
And these guys are sitting around with their master's degrees and their initials and their love. I've been FBI leader and all these garbage classes, and I'm thinking, when did they teach you to grab your dick and get down the hallway with a rifle and start killing people? And.
Jimmy
That'S, that's a warrior mindset that like, like I said, like, you know, every moment that that guy has to spend thinking about me. Right. I'm taking the initiative away from him. Not shooting innocent people. You're not shooting little kids. You're having to deal with somebody who's, who's coming at you. Which, by the way, that's exactly what they teach us in the infantry. Like, what do you do if you get into a near ambush?
Tyler
You attack, Hit it head on.
Jimmy
You go, attack.
Tyler
You have better odds.
Mike
Yes.
Tyler
Of surviving than always.
Mike
Have better odds on the aggressive.
Tyler
Yeah.
Jimmy
And so that, that mentality of, hey, you're in a shitty situation. Doesn't matter. Go on the attack, be default aggressive. That doesn't translate into people who want to wear a white, a white shirt and sit around and do nothing and get and go, yeah, man, we're making a difference.
Mike
Or the leadership academies or the these, FBI, this and that and all this. It doesn't resonate to those type of calls. It never will. I, I'm a firm believer. I, When I put my resume. I have 48 credits. I refuse to get my associate's degree. I had 48 credits since 2012. Two.
Tyler
What do you need? 52.
Mike
Yeah. Like, I need, like, three classes. And I'm like, you know what? I'm not doing it. Because that piece of paper doesn't define my abilities in my. Now, some people argue, oh, it shows dedication. It shows the ability to go, okay, great.
Tyler
Yeah. If you don't have military, these guys.
Mike
Go to these schools. Like, the FBI academy now is like, three. We had a captain that's going for three months. They're promoting temporarily. A female has no business to captain to be the temporary captain. It's like, to go learn what. This dude wouldn't stop a school shooting if his own kids were in the school. He's that soft. He doesn't have the mental capacity to go. I have to go in this house. Tough dudes do. But we're being removed from, from law enforcement.
Jimmy
I, I, I I say this and I, I mean I'm kind of a homer about it, but like, if the three of us were at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas or if the three of us were at Uvalde, I don't think there would have been anybody stopping us from like, Mike. What we're going, right?
Tyler
We do have to throw rank out. You have to. When somebody would. If in that situation, you have to. You have. You're not a cop anymore. You're somebody stopping a school of life.
Jimmy
The rank like, dude, we gotta go.
Tyler
You've got the, the reason. I mean, you're, you got the blue lights to get there and you got the authority to make decisions. But at the end of the day, you are a grown ass man stopping a guy from killing kids.
Mike
Hips. Hostages, innocence. Police suspect, that's the order of movement. If anybody's hostage, you have to go get them. Have to go get them. Innocent people have to be saved.
Jimmy
Yep.
Mike
Then you save your friends and then the suspect is last. Yeah, but, but you have to go. There's no way around. There's no way around it.
Jimmy
Direct to threat is what we kept saying. There's direct to threat.
Mike
There's no class. There's no. And that's what I'm telling you. There's no class that's ever going to teach you that burning terror in your chest when you know, like this. I, I have to go. Like, I could die.
Tyler
I've never. Oh, one time I, I was like, this is that.
Mike
Yeah, I've had a few. Like there's some entries and stuff I had where I was like, okay, like, I'm gonna go around this corner. Yeah, this might be the one time.
Jimmy
The first time I went into a house that I knew that there were bad guys in. And like, I was number one man. And I like got that like that feeling in your chest, you know, you can feel it kind of like spread over your shoulders and you're like, what am I doing here? What the am I doing here? And then the door opens and you go. And then it's gone. Because, because you're like, I'm busy.
Tyler
Yeah. Blacked out for like a second. Yeah.
Mike
Like, you know, you get so blacked out you forget the whole after action report.
Jimmy
But, you know. Yeah, yeah.
Tyler
And then we lied about it.
Mike
Yeah, we lie about it.
Jimmy
I mean, but you know, this is a great conversation. Anybody that's listening, we got Leo's in here, we got, we got all kinds of people. Like, this is the, this is the conversation. You need somebody to tell you hey, man, I have the authority and I have the background. If you're ever in this situation, be the man that you want to be. And don't worry about the rankster structure. Be the man that.
Mike
Not only that, where it goes deeper is know your sheriff or your chief and who's leading your. And leading your. Oh, that's agency. Because think about it. The guy made him be naive. Oh, he looks cool. It all looks cool. Until it's time for one of these critical incidents. And is he training and giving the guys the mindset that I know you're gonna have to go kill people, and I got your back to go do it. You might have to crash through a building. You might have to run somebody over with your car. You might. You might have to kill somebody with a rock. You might have to beat somebody's skull in with a rock. That may be what it takes. And is that administration and are those leaders giving that mindset to their officers, or are they teaching customer service? And we have to be nice. We have to de escalate everything. Like, there's a time to be very nice and de escalate. There are, I don't know very many of them in law enforcement, because every time I've tried to de escalate, the people get more.
Jimmy
Hey, I mean, escalation worked last night, so.
Tyler
What do you mean?
Jimmy
Hey, if you guys don't knock it the off, I'm coming.
Mike
Jimmy, Jimmy, Jimmy. Deputy. Deputy.
Jimmy
Chicken wing.
Mike
Chicken wing.
Tyler
I saw. I saw a dude who's the black comedian that sounds like this. He's really funny. Dusty or Duffy?
Jimmy
Yeah.
Mike
Have to look.
Tyler
God. He does that show where he signs people on his. It's a fake thing where he signs people on his record.
Mike
Yeah, he does.
Tyler
We need to do what he did. They rented a Ford Explorer. They dressed like cops, and they're doing cop skits. Like if they were cops. And they're hilarious. They get somebody face down, get on the.
Clint
Around there.
Tyler
And then he's like, bro, these cuffs don't fit him. And like, we should go do character, dude. Mike and Tyler are back, and Jimmy's a cop now.
Mike
Jimmy the guy.
Tyler
Just how you would handle it.
Jimmy
Yeah.
Mike
There's a dude that does VR.
Tyler
He.
Mike
He does it all on his virtual reality headset. And he does, like, police pursuits and stuff. And it's only on a video game. But he. Dude, black guy, he's hilarious. He's like, get on the ground. I'm Georgia State patrol. And he, like. And he, like, goes to McDonald's on a call and the, the clip.
Tyler
The dude that you showed him.
Mike
Yeah, but they got the new one and he's like in McDonald's and the victim gives him lip. He's like, he just pulls a gun out. It's all. Yeah, and his. And his Instagram channel. But then there was one I sent you with the fake call out. They're like, they in the hood and they go to their buddy's house with a spotlight and they're like doing a.
Tyler
You can tell he's been called out.
Mike
Yeah, he's like scared to death. I'm like, you stupid? We'll probably get arrested for that.
Jimmy
Yeah, I mean, I. I gotta get a. I gotta get a cop bill sticker. I said this last night. I definitely gotta. I gotta get one for the truck because it's a 50. 50 shot.
Tyler
I think it's more 9010. I really. You're gonna get 90% people that are like, yes, Cotteville is us. And then you're gonna get the guys.
Mike
Just hope the chief's not driving around pulls you over that.
Tyler
Or you get a tick tock cop that pulls you over.
Jimmy
Oh, you like Cotville, Then that, that'll be the situation. I'll be like, first of all, I'm gonna need that.
Mike
Get out. Run, Jimmy.
Tyler
Take off in your car. They can't do anything about it.
Jimmy
Well, if it's tpd, I don't know.
Tyler
If you do, just come here, lock the doors and live stream it. Yeah, swats around the building. Actually, they wouldn't. Hey, SWAT doesn't do anything anymore. Hey, we're going to take a commercial break. It is noon. We'll be back in two and a half minutes. Over a century ago, in 1910, the Flexner Report, funded by John D. Rockefeller and the Carnegie foundation, re engineered medical education from a holistic whole body approach, which appropriately treated the body as an interconnected system, to a compartmentalized approach. Under the guise of specialized medicine, they shut down or consolidated medical school tools marginalized naturopathic, homeopathic and chiropractic medicine, replacing them with symptom management and synthetic drugs. Allopathy is a marketing strategy rooted in fear and manipulated science. This philosophy carried into veterinary medicine resulting in over vaccination, unnecessary surgeries and manufactured food, just like they did for people. They call it care, but it's predatory.
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Mike
All right.
Jimmy
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Mike
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Jimmy
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Tyler
And if you get. Wait. If you get the blood of your enemies on that, we'll send you a new one.
Mike
Yeah, you send us the one with.
Tyler
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Mike
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Tyler
We did it right too, man. He did the hockey tape where, like ridges too? Yeah. Where you're like, it did.
Clint
It works great.
Mike
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Jimmy
Yeah, I, I, I actually really, I mean, like, when I put that on my gun, man, I was like, at first I was like, I don't know about this and see how it works. And then once I, I really broke it in and did like about a hundred practice draws. It was like, man, my fingers went right where they were supposed to and.
Tyler
It felt like, yeah, because you did like, I don't know if anybody, if anybody plays hockey. You played hockey, right? Yeah. So what you do is you, you, you tape your stick where you primarily hold it for better grip. But then on the back end, at the very end of the stick, you wrap that coil.
Jimmy
You're gonna poke, check or you know.
Mike
And well, this, the good thing about this is that when it gets wet, it still holds its grip, which is excellent for call outs outside with your rifle. You wrap your rail with it and.
Tyler
It won't restrict the perfect vagina. You said it. When it gets weapon.
Jimmy
I mean, the thing is, is that like, because it's tape, you can, you can really make, like, you could put, make the gas pedal that you want. Like, if you want, you know, if you do like thumb overboard on your rifle, you know, like, hey, I want to know. I want my hand to go to the same place every single time.
Mike
Like, let you customize? Well, yeah. Money on parts.
Clint
Yeah.
Jimmy
But not only that. Like, if you've got a rail or if you've got M lock or any of that other cr, like, it only goes into certain places. You're like, I wish this was just like an eighth of an inch further forward because it's just not. You have to get used to the suit thing. It's like, nope, that's where I want it. I'm gonna make the gas pedal right here. That's where my thumb's gonna go. And especially if you're, when you're doing shooting, you want to do the same things every single time. Yeah. And if your fingers go to the same place, if your hands go to the same place.
Tyler
Jimmy customized his grip, and it's dope.
Mike
If you were paying attention, we talked about moisture, railing, and inches. Most important things you're gonna deal with is grip inches and performance while it's wet. Those, those are the things that keep everybody happy.
Jimmy
I don't know if they're either gonna love us or hate us on this.
Mike
I, I, I'm going.
Jimmy
Knowing those guys, they'll probably be like.
Mike
I mean, it looks like it would hold up for.
Tyler
I noticed a lot of sponsors, they trust, they don't know the media side, they don't know virality, they don't know social media, so they trust us. And I remember when we did our, our, our crash out thing, and Justin made it in the reel, and he was like, dude, should I tag Flatline Fiber company in it? I'm like, absolutely. This, that crash out organic.
Jimmy
Well, between me and Mike.
Tyler
Yeah. Yeah.
Mike
Because it's on the screen the whole time.
Tyler
And that's the best. It's statistically the best promotion you can get because it is putting it in people's brains while they're not knowing it's happening. Like, right now, when we read it, when we read an ad, people know it. They're. They're conscious, they're aware. You in place it in something organic.
Jimmy
Yeah.
Tyler
And the, the. Anybody doesn't really realize it because they're watching the crash out, but they're subconsciously. And it's just great ad. It's great at.
Jimmy
Yeah.
Tyler
I mean, I wouldn't make it the primary commercial, but.
Jimmy
No, I mean, but like, but also too, like, when I'm. One of the first times I read Flatline, he's like, you know, he interrupted me, and I'm like, dude, I'm not done yet. And he's like, well, what are you gonna do, take it for a hour? You just gonna talk over the whole time? Like, that was great too. I'm like, yeah, like, this is awesome.
Tyler
And it really wasn't that long of a gap. Mike was just in a bad mood.
Mike
I was not in a bad mood.
Jimmy
Stop talking for one second.
Mike
It was, it was the first read.
Jimmy
Yeah, it was.
Mike
And if anybody knows me, I have autism, adhd, I have ocd. And, like, the fact that you weren't reading it, timing off of you. And Jimmy threw an audible. It was like, it just. I'm bad about That I like trains, I like chicken nuggies and trains and cruises and that's it, man. Every variant of that. It's like. So that's all that was.
Jimmy
Yeah, yeah.
Tyler
Big thanks to Goon Tape. Big thanks to Violent Provisions. Big thanks to all of our sponsors, man. These guys are some of these companies that sponsors, man, they, they're, they're brand new companies and they know that they've got a market. They, they already spend their money. Every company does have to spend their money on the Google and the Meta and stuff. And you know, they're going out on a limb on a podcast and is, it's just, it's a, it's a chance, it's a risk. We don't, we, me and Goon Tape have known each other like follow each other for a while, but as far as like, you know, both these guys are like, we've never tried a podcast. And I'm like, I'm telling you, our, our, our listeners and our, you know, the 99, they support everybody.
Jimmy
So.
Mike
Yeah, you have to give the time too.
Tyler
Yeah.
Mike
We had one company that two weeks they didn't become millionaires.
Jimmy
Yeah.
Tyler
Yeah.
Mike
I mean you don't want to tell.
Tyler
A company how to run a business, but we all also have other businesses, so we know the media side of promotion. We also know how businesses work.
Mike
Which brings me to. You're right, I'm very lazy about promoting my.
Tyler
I know you products. You made like, oh yeah, last year I made over 100 grand. Why aren't you doing this every day?
Mike
You posted or the 99 posted for me? The, the Jerry Worms air freshener.
Tyler
Yeah.
Mike
20 sales the next day. And I'm like, man, if I, if I ever advertise my own products, my boy, that would be a good idea.
Tyler
Can you make, you had an idea for a candle, Dale? Can you make a St. Jerry candle?
Mike
Yeah, yeah. Candles, there's everything.
Jimmy
The pro law enforcement.
Mike
But it's, it's, it. I, I just get lazy and you get busy with the memes. Get busy with. Yeah, you got to do that meme.
Jimmy
Of like, like, like Dexter's Laboratory with Jerry up there stunt on these hoes. Yeah, Jerry literally.
Mike
You posted that. I shared it. And I'm like, sale, sale, sales, sale, sale. Then I'm like, I'll run a 10% off for new Year's Eve. Sale, sale, sale, sale, sale. I'm like, man, I could. I remember what this felt like. I used to do this for a living.
Tyler
Yeah. I mean, same thing with counterculturing Threads. I mean, it. It. When you don't put out any effort, you will see the thing. You will see the drop in sales. It's not any. It's my fault. As an owner.
Jimmy
It is.
Mike
It's my fault.
Tyler
It's my fault. Because people are just like, they'll buy, but you have to put it in front of them. You don't even have to put. Pay for stuff.
Mike
Like, I'm just lazy. I'll be honest with you. I want to hire somebody to do it for all of us. What about, hey, somebody and pay. I'm like, just.
Jimmy
What's this John Tavius air freshener gonna smell like?
Tyler
Old weed.
Mike
You get, you.
Tyler
You recover a stolen vehicle, then it's got that smell. It was smoked and all that. You gotta tell the owner, like, hey, this might take a while to get out.
Mike
We're better off pitting it and.
Tyler
Letting.
Mike
Your insurance pay for it.
Tyler
Oh, man.
Mike
Yeah, I'm lazy.
Jimmy
It's all right.
Mike
I made a fifth of what I made last year in sales.
Jimmy
You want a fifth? Is that what you said?
Mike
I made a fifth?
Jimmy
No, I thought you said. I'm sorry.
Mike
Maybe, like, later tonight.
Tyler
Brother.
Mike
Can I tell you my fireball story I did on the cruise? The fireball story?
Tyler
No, no.
Mike
So I go in the casino, and I like to start every day with a fireball and a malibu and pineapple. 10 in the morning, 10 at night. Just start it out.
Jimmy
So the.
Mike
The lady comes over. The. The Filipino, barely speaks English, comes over, and she's like, and by the second, you want fireball? The second night, they know everything. So I said to her, I said, ma', am, I. I'll take a Malibu, pineapple and a Fireball. She says, we. We can't do fireball. And I'm like, ma', am, I had one earlier.
Tyler
My autism is freaking out.
Mike
She goes, no, we can't set anything on fire in the casino, sir. And I'm like, I don't want anything set on fire. I want fireball. She's like, sir, we. We can't light anything on fire in the casino. She had no idea what fireball was, so I explained it to her. I took her over to the thing, and then we did it. You want fireball? He's like, you can't. We can't say anything on fire. I'm like, oh, my God.
Tyler
Fire no good.
Mike
She end up being very, very nice lady. And I was a dick to her one night, and I felt terrible. She came up to me the day I was hungover and actually genuinely asked Mr. Michael, how are you? I'm like, I don't need anything. I'm good. And she went to my wife, and she goes, I was just asking Mr. Michael how his day was. He yelled at me.
Tyler
What's our promo code for vengeance?
Mike
L. That's.
Jimmy
You.
Mike
L. That.
Tyler
That's. That's your job.
Mike
That's.
Tyler
But we run the real. So no one actually really. Look, I. I want to say it's.
Mike
We don't have it. Louis is scratch.
Tyler
No, no, no. He runs.
Mike
I'll just.
Tyler
Hold on. I'll find it. Because people are asking.
Mike
You should know that.
Tyler
I should know that. I got a rare.
Mike
Who reads the ad?
Tyler
Nobody.
Mike
It's a middle.
Tyler
It's a. It's a. It's a Anti hero. The code for vengeance is anti hero. 15 off.
Mike
There you go.
Jimmy
Dude, we. We got sent to do training in Thailand with the. With the Taiwanese army.
Mike
How'd that go?
Jimmy
Well, we. We hung out at Patong beach for a while. They gave us a pass. And, you know, guys were like, riding elephants, going to the beach.
Mike
They're riding a lot of things.
Jimmy
Yeah, yeah, you got to be careful, but you do. But there was this go kart track. There was a place I. You not. You could drive these go karts, rent dirt bikes and fire RPG sell at the same place.
Mike
If I ever end up in Thailand, that's the last three things I'm doing.
Jimmy
Okay, so we go get, get. I know this is gonna shock you. We get hammered. No Waiting for our chance to ride these go karts. And it was. It's not like here in the United States. It's like, dude, it's a free for all out there.
Clint
And.
Jimmy
But with the problem is that when you get done, like, they assess the damage to the car and they make you pay for it, right? But the money is like.
Mike
Like 500 Baht is like, yeah, three bucks.
Jimmy
So, yeah, it was like, I'll buy the. I had. I. So we get. Dude, man, I plowed through this tire wall and, like, was down in the jungle and had. Pulling my cart back up. It was bad. And then so they get down and she goes, you 500 Baht and you 1000 Baht. Then she comes to me, she's all said, and you 2,000 Baht. And I'm like, that's like $4, dude. Here you go.
Mike
It's like 70 bucks. It's 50 bucks.
Jimmy
Yeah, yeah. And like, whatever, man. It was so much fun. But, like, that. That's my. My favorite was. And you, 2005.
Mike
Usually the negotiations are.
Jimmy
I didn't even negotiate.
Mike
Far different.
Jimmy
Yeah, I didn't even negotiate.
Mike
I can get that for four bucks. From what I've seen on Instagram, there's a lot more negotiations going on.
Jimmy
Oh yeah, I saw a real funny.
Mike
Meme the other day. I had a, like a purple haired, 20, 25American female instead of 2025 Thailand male. They had them next to each other like, okay, all right.
Tyler
I guess we can. They're really the only current events because of the holidays. I think even the drama takes a break is the Somali days. Somali day. They're, they're little. Trying to break and cover up the FBI getting involved, which I'm not convinced is real.
Jimmy
A rash of break ins.
Tyler
Yeah. Was it only. Was it multiple?
Jimmy
I, I saw one that showed a door smashed in and I show another one that showed Jaiwall that was smashed in and it was like. So I think it was more than one.
Mike
Trump finally said something that made. I showed it to you this morning and he finally said like, they all need to go. He said they're animals. 80 of them are animals. There's no reason for them to be in the country. Yeah, their country sucks. Like, it's time to go.
Tyler
Trump said that.
Mike
Trump said, Trump said that.
Jimmy
He called him animals. Yes.
Mike
Yeah, yeah. I was like, man. He said their country sucks. It's. It's all crime. They're here. They're 80% of them are animals. He's like, yes, it may be politically incorrect, but I don't care. He's like, they gotta, they need to go. Like, I agree, I agree.
Jimmy
I'm good with that. Yeah.
Tyler
I'm sad though, because.
Mike
And then you watch like the, they found the only ones that could speak somewhat English and they tried to have these press conferences and the guy behind him like holding up the sign.
Jimmy
Yeah.
Mike
And they're like, the lady's like. And then fraud is terrible. And they're like, she's like, starts crying at like Louise because she wasn't supposed to say that. It's like they found they're gonna cut her head off, send her back.
Tyler
Or the dude that was like, he was trying to do a press conference and he's about the break ins and he just like, he was like, it.
Jimmy
Yeah, he's over there wearing like a New York hat.
Tyler
Like, dude, come on.
Mike
They flew him in just for that press conference.
Tyler
I'm not convinced the FBI raid is real. I mean, we watch what these tick tockers can do. They can make police. Police videos where you're like, that almost looks real like police interaction videos. But what's going on in the comments?
Jimmy
No, it's.
Tyler
It's just.
Mike
I. I just. I don't know how. How in America that can happen. And it's like you.
Tyler
We.
Mike
Like we said, there's no way the Somalians were smart enough to come.
Jimmy
There's no way those people with. That lived in mud huts and they.
Mike
Somebody else is behind somebody.
Jimmy
I. I think it's Tim Walls and. And let me look that up.
Tyler
Hold on.
Jimmy
Is. Is he one of the.
Mike
Let me, let me. But sounds like it. Yeah.
Jimmy
But regardless, it's like, dude, somebody somewhere who had more understanding of the way this works. And guaranteed, if you go down through that there's some kickback somewhere that went to politicians. It's. It's racketeering, man. Yeah, it's. That's all it is, is racketeering. What is he.
Mike
But what Said he's a Tim Wall. He was a Nebraska Catholic as a young kid, and now he's a Minnesota Lutheran.
Tyler
The. That mean.
Jimmy
Well, I think he, you know, his, you know, crafty and shifty.
Tyler
Squealer says check email for new air freshener. All right, I'm gonna do that.
Mike
They're a pain in the dick to make, but I can make them a.
Jimmy
A spoiler.
Mike
But just to go back to, like, like, I don't understand.
Jimmy
He put it on the black Ice one. John Davies. Does that have wings? No.
Mike
No. He needs to have wings.
Tyler
Black. All right. That was pretty funny.
Jimmy
No, no, I'm not in the same clothes. I got a different shirt.
Mike
You'd be in the same clothes as last night.
Tyler
Comes in.
Jimmy
I just wearing the waffle top because it's. Dude, it was 38 degrees we got here.
Tyler
Like.
Jimmy
At least I'm not eating fried chicken.
Mike
I saw you killing that chicken breast last night.
Jimmy
No, no, that was a thigh.
Tyler
That was a thigh, brother.
Mike
What did I eat when I got off? Oh, I took, you know, the airplane cookies, the biscoff, the ones you're in the airplane. I took those and put some peanut butter in the middle.
Tyler
Damn, bro.
Mike
Sandwich.
Tyler
Because you're poor or healthy, he's. You didn't have any food?
Mike
Yeah, plenty of food. I just. That's a snack, dude. It's brutal, man.
Jimmy
Dude. And his dog was like. Like, his dog was like a block this morning, too. He was telling me. He's like, I was trying to sneak in.
Mike
Oh, yeah. Wife. Dude jumped on the.
Tyler
Oh, that's the worst.
Mike
And I can't believe how nice she was. That's. It was, it was, it was suspicious. As suspicious as Jersey City.
Tyler
There's nothing worse than when you're like, you're letting your wife sleep. You're like, okay. And then one of the kids or the dog makes a loud ass noise.
Mike
And you're like, so here's my morning. I get up, this is the last one. I don't have to do it anymore. She goes to work, she goes to day shift Monday. So I get up 5:45 when she comes home, she walks the dogs. I grab all my. Especially for like today. I have to get all my stuff to come over here and put it all out. I get up, go back to sleep till like 7:45, alarm goes off, let the dogs out, feed. I forgot to get underwear. And I'm like, dude. And usually she locks the door so the dog can't get in. So I go over the door and I push it and it's unlocked. I'm like, okay, I'm good. So I like open the door, like creep over. I open the drawer real quiet. I'm being Murphy listening devices. Like my big golden doodle comes busting through the door, leaves full steam and lands right on top of her. Yeah, like I'm dead. I'm like, she's like, it's okay. She's like, where are you going? I'm like, it's Thursday. She's like, oh, okay, that's fine. And I'm like, who the is this woman? Who is this woman in the bed? Like, she's not screaming. She didn't reach for the gun on the nightstand. I'm like, I'm doing good. So yeah, that's my. Every morning after.
Jimmy
Did can you.
Mike
The alternate was I was going to stop at Walmart, buy underwear. Like, I was like, I'm not going in that room. I'm not going that room. I'm just gonna free ball at the Walmart, go in Walmart, get some underwear change in the bathroom and then do it. But yeah, the door was open.
Jimmy
Yeah. Oh man.
Tyler
Well, it's a long day today, so.
Mike
Yeah. Good thing I wore underwear. I brought two pairs. I brought two pair just in case I grabbed an extra.
Jimmy
Good job, man. Two is one, one is done. I'm stoked.
Tyler
Do this five days a week thing, man.
Mike
I know you are, man. That 12 minute drive, man, is six minutes. 12 minutes on Lewis's bike.
Jimmy
Yeah, I mean like what we got to do is we gotta like we'll have to look at it and go like, all right, what's Equidistant.
Mike
So tomorrow. No, I actually, I actually like coming here.
Tyler
Yeah. The problem is, in all reality, you can't. First off, you can't do the equal distance for everybody because when. And I'm obvious that when it's on me to run the show all day, I'm not driving 45 minutes to do it.
Mike
You have to be close.
Tyler
Yeah, I agree.
Mike
You have to be close. I don't mind it. I joke about it because it's easy to joke about.
Tyler
But I mean, but when the money's worth the commute, if. If a job paid well enough, you're like, I'll drive it.
Mike
Here's the other side.
Tyler
Yeah.
Mike
I work 12 hour miserable shifts for 23 years now. It's like, this is like a. This day's long. But like a Monday is a eight to four. I'll leave at eight. I'm home by four. It's a regular eight hour work day. So. And I work for myself. I get to do whatever the I want. So it's not. It really isn't a bad game.
Jimmy
No, I mean, like, did it.
Tyler
Jimmy's traffic sucks. He's got to go today.
Mike
Tampa's easy, right?
Jimmy
Like, yeah, I was like. I made the jump to light speed and I was like, wait. And I. I was more concerned about the fact that, like, I gotta make sure that I am not over five miles an hour.
Mike
Yeah.
Jimmy
There is nobody.
Mike
Nobody on the road. Same thing. Except for a DV tag I saw in front of me. Yeah. Still watching me.
Jimmy
They're everywhere.
Mike
But, yeah, the traffic was light. And I'm like, boy, if this was every day. Yeah.
Jimmy
Yeah, great. It's almost like we need that. We need Bill Burrs taking out cruise ships.
Tyler
I love that.
Jimmy
You.
Tyler
I need to send it to you.
Jimmy
We got to do it tonight.
Mike
We're doing the. We got to do the cruise too.
Tyler
We got to make sure people can afford it.
Jimmy
It's cheap.
Mike
Dude, I got it. I got the perks, man.
Jimmy
I want. I want my.
Mike
That's old white people.
Jimmy
I. I want my dude to come out, my little Filipino dude to be like, Good morning, Mr. Jimmy. Here is your guy.
Mike
I want Jimmy to be. I want to see Jimmy max out that drink package by 9am but you.
Tyler
Gotta put him in the yacht club. Jimmy needs to be full on. Jimmy needs to be like. I look at Jimmy like Morgan Wallen or like Hardy, where, like, they're in. They're in the sphere of Nashville's top country, but they just. But not. And I'm not talking like the outlaw country guys that are there. I'm talking like these guys are like partners, hard animals. And like they're their roots. No matter where you place them, they're the same.
Mike
But it's the cruise ship, dude. I was sitting at the table one night.
Tyler
You're telling me all this is free?
Mike
Like 7 year old dude came through the casino in his bathrobe. Dude. I was like, this guy gets it because you get three slippers in robe. So I'm looking, I'm like over here stressing the hand. I look over my shoulder, this old guy standing in the middle of casino with white slippers and a white robe on. He's. He's looking around and walks away. I'm like, this is it. Nobody.
Tyler
There's no experience.
Mike
There's no rules on a cruise ship. You can be at the casino and swim trunks in a tank top and an hour later you'd be back in a collared shirt and jean. Nobody cares, dude.
Tyler
It's a good time.
Mike
It's a real good time.
Tyler
The anti hero cruise.
Mike
It's happening.
Tyler
That.
Mike
Happening that Clint has to come though.
Jimmy
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Tyler
You know what that is?
Jimmy
They want.
Mike
Yeah, they want Jimmy to belly dance. Yeah, they want your band.
Tyler
They want Jimmy to belly dance.
Jimmy
You can.
Tyler
It's raging metal. There's no way you could.
Mike
Dude.
Jimmy
Dude, my. My. I. I started teaching my little son. I started teaching my 6 year old how to mosh. How to do a mosh pit yesterday in the truck and Martian in the truck.
Mike
Yeah. Because I had to just take turns really fast. Cut the wheel, dude.
Jimmy
You're not even. No, I mean like I'm over there.
Tyler
Like he turns back with a white monster.
Mike
My dad used to do that, but he was just beating me.
Jimmy
I don't know.
Mike
We had that when I was a kid.
Tyler
We're moshing.
Mike
Yeah.
Jimmy
So he's sitting next to me.
Tyler
He called.
Jimmy
So he, we went to go get him some new cowboy boots because they were all tore up and his old ones and he, we're playing whatever music he wants and. And I'm like, He's like jamming out and he's like pumping his little fists and I like start pushing him and he's like, oh no, what's happening? I'm like, we're moshing, dude.
Tyler
Push me back.
Jimmy
Come on, let's go.
Mike
So Jimmy's gonna get knocked on the door later. Excuse me, sir. Your son reported moshing in the car at school today. He's got Bruises on.
Jimmy
Yeah, dude, we're just mosh pitting. Yeah, actually, he's got. He. He took a header a couple days ago from you.
Tyler
No.
Jimmy
You animals.
Tyler
He's a savage, bro.
Mike
He was good.
Jimmy
He took it.
Clint
He.
Jimmy
He slipped on something on the floor and went.
Tyler
That sounds believable.
Jimmy
Yeah.
Tyler
It had a doorknob.
Mike
I slipped in Jersey.
Jimmy
He went straight down to the.
Mike
I fell down in Jersey City once, man. I broke my phone in Jersey. I took a slip.
Jimmy
He. He fell down. Like, slipped and fell right on his head. He had this, like, goose egg on his head.
Tyler
I'm like, damn.
Jimmy
And now you guys are making the joke.
Mike
Like, oh. Getting out in front of it.
Jimmy
He's got school starting in four days.
Mike
I just want to put it on record.
Tyler
He fell.
Mike
We heard you hang out with. We heard you hang out with Cobbille J. Come to the building. And Tyler, that's not to get it twice twisted.
Jimmy
We're all under investigation now.
Tyler
Yeah, that's a good point.
Jimmy
That's fair.
Mike
Domestic violence. That's the. That's a layman's turn for it.
Tyler
Yeah.
Jimmy
Are we just doing, like. Is this just like the. The. I almost said squad cast because I'm tired. This is like the night shift, but we started early, and nobody's drunk yet.
Tyler
Yeah. I'm not gonna lie.
Mike
I don't get drunk.
Tyler
I'm off my game. But you know what? It's like, even if you don't get drunk the next day, you're just like.
Mike
Yeah, it's called hangxiety.
Tyler
Anxiety.
Mike
Anxiety. You have a slight hangover and a little bit like, I always get it.
Tyler
Okay.
Mike
So I got wrecked the first night of the cruise. Wrecked. 1am Casino wreck. I woke up the next day and I'm, like, sitting on the edge of the thing. Look at the ocean. I'm like, I don't know if I'm worthy, man. Like, I'm a terrible. I remember in third grade, once I walked by this kid getting beat. I should have stopped it. Like, I had the word. I get the worst, like, post, like, hangover anxiety. Like, I hate myself the next day after drinking. Hate it.
Jimmy
So, I mean, I. I was just sobering the judge last night. I was.
Mike
No, I just. I can't do it. I get. I have my anxiety the next day after drinking. Even in the middle of the ocean with no responsibility. I'm like, you're a piece of. Why were you drunk? And what did you say?
Jimmy
What did you do? And you're like, I don't even have my best On. I'm so. Just scum there.
Tyler
Bad.
Mike
So bad. The whole next day I'm like, I'm quitting the podcast. I'm terrible. I should never be on the Internet anymore.
Jimmy
Dude, that's the enemy, bro. That's the enemy. Don't ever listen to that.
Mike
And I know. It's just, it's. Whenever I drink, I get it. Brings back all the bad I did.
Tyler
Mike is, Mike is a self proclaimed, like, I am the guy that shouldn't drink. Yeah, he said that since day one. I, I'm like, I did.
Mike
Okay.
Tyler
Because you were like, I love drinking. I do.
Mike
I do. What I said was, I love catching a bug. I called cruise. Cruise control. There's a point when there's. And she knows it's coming. She starts to look at me across the table. She's like, like, in Jersey City. She did it in Jersey City.
Tyler
My bike still snuck away. I got a new one.
Mike
And I know, I can feel it coming. But once I go past that spot, it's like IHOP. 3am is the next option. I'm drunk somewhere.
Jimmy
Like, I can't stop.
Tyler
I loved it. Yeah, you're not a, you're not a mean guy.
Mike
I don't get mean. I'm just, I'm just.
Tyler
You're unhinged.
Mike
That's the bad.
Jimmy
Yeah, man.
Mike
I want to have fun. I'm like, it. Miami's only three and a half hours. I'm like, let's go right now.
Tyler
He's the, the guy, like at the end of the hangover with all the Polaroids. Dude, I, Polaroid would have Mike drunk.
Jimmy
I, I, I want us to get drunk and go out there and find Fish and Wildlife. Gator decoys have those. Well, I mean, they don't, but I mean, like, we remember we talked about it last night.
Tyler
Decoy gets dragged under.
Mike
My sister. My sister had an F250 jacked up when I was in my drinking days. Badass truck. She goes out of town. I get drunk. I shouldn't say this, there was some drinking involved. And allegedly I took her truck to Tootsies in Miami. All night, strip club. All that stuff came back. She had no idea.
Jimmy
This is when he was single.
Mike
Yeah, I was. I put the keys back. Don't say a word. About three weeks goes by, my sister texts me. She says, hey, can I ask you a question? I'm like, yeah, sure. She sends me the toll booth violation from Exit 14, Miami Gardens Drive in 95 with her picture of her truck. She's like, you know Anything about this? I'm like, yep, that was me. Like, I took your truck to Miami. I didn't tell anybody. Like, my bad. My bad. Yeah, she's kept it. She has the picture, like, all the time. She pinned it in her room. She's like, every now and then, I get a random picture of the truck down in Miami. I'm like, yeah, that was a good idea I had that night. I'm pulling into the strip club VIP and the F250 jacked up. I'm important tonight, Mike.
Tyler
You're. Yeah, you're an animal.
Jimmy
Yeah, that would be. I mean, it would be really fun to just be like, look, okay, we got. No.
Mike
That's the. No responsibility, dude. Yeah, but I mean, like, what's going.
Jimmy
To happen if, like, you know, Jimmy goes over the side?
Mike
We'll put one of those leash things.
Jimmy
Yeah, the little kid leashes.
Mike
I'll tell you what.
Tyler
Caster disappears on cruise ship.
Mike
The worst thing is, though, if you go.
Jimmy
He was being sued by Rob o' Neill during the summer.
Mike
I got off the boat in St. Thomas, hungover, and it was like, 190 degrees, dude. And I'm just standing there, and my wife's looking at me. She goes, you get everything. You get everything. I'm just standing there. I'm, like, trying to get into the shade of, like, a. There's, like a pole right there, and I'm, like, leaned up. It's like 30 degrees cooler in the shade. I'm just sweating, pouring. Then we got on this truck to the top of the town. I'm like, just dying. She's like, yeah, that's what you get for sleeping on the balcony last night drunk. You stupid.
Tyler
I do. That's a poor part about getting older. Is that you? Those. Those nights are not accepted by. There's no this myth, this theory where. And I'm not our. My wife is everything, and she's my rock. And same with Mike, same with Jimmy. But it. There. They do not give you the grace of God. Like, hey, can I have one night? Just cut loose? Like, no, you're 40. You. That doesn't exist anymore.
Jimmy
Like. Like you're a father.
Mike
I'll be sitting there playing on the first night. I'm sitting there playing, and I order him, and they come. I order. Next thing I know, I got, like, two drinks in front of me. She looks over. She's like, I see. Like, I see you turn back around. It's like, oh, another one.
Tyler
You sound like an addict talking to your wife. Like, dude, it's just two. Yeah, you can have two.
Mike
She's like, you've had three in the last four minutes. Like, because what happened? You know, I start tipping and, you know, you tip the five hour chip every trip this waiter makes or waitress makes. Next thing you know, I just. Then they're just on cruise control and I, I'm smart enough to stop it now. I definitely got drunk the first night, but not sleep on the balcony drunk. Nothing crazy, but I felt like the next day and I was like, okay, that's it. And then when I did it, no, I don't step on the balcony. No, no, I don't bite. But the, the, the shock of the bar staff the next day when I didn't drink, they're like. And then the one, the pit boss comes up and he's like, you're not funny when you don't drink. He's like, you need to drink. You're boring. Like, I'm like, my bad dog, dog. Like, I'm just gonna play tonight.
Jimmy
I mean, I. Man, the amount of times that I have done stupid, stupid things when drunk, it's way. I don't even get, I don't even get a chance in the last month.
Mike
No, that's what I was about to say.
Jimmy
Like, if you look back at my old, like the old me and then it's like, it's like now I'm like, compared to who I used to be, I'm boring when I'm drunk. I'm like, all right, unless I'm drinking it like nine o' clock in the morning. And then me and Mike are throwing pins at each other.
Tyler
But is there, is there a time, Is there a time? I think cruises and maybe like resort vacations where it's like, it's, it's acceptable.
Jimmy
Three day pass. Three day pass directly after coming back from deplorable.
Tyler
No, I'm talking about when you're 45 and married.
Jimmy
Three day pass right after.
Mike
See, my wife and my wife doesn't drink. She drinks like two drinks a day. And I look at him, like, two drinks a day. That's it. She'll drink like.
Tyler
No, you're talking on the cruise.
Mike
Yeah, like.
Jimmy
Giving away all of the good stuff in the chat.
Mike
But she'll go like, like one drink. And I'm like, how do you do that? Like one when you're on a cruise. Oh my God, I'm going, I'm going all in. Yeah, like bloody one night, it's so. Then I go, sweet one night, then the next night it's like Bloody Mary's all night. Because I'm like, yeah, I love the bloody spicy with the hollows. I love it.
Jimmy
You.
Tyler
You drink like a. Like a man that loves to spend money on his drinks.
Jimmy
Yeah.
Tyler
Oh, that's true.
Jimmy
Yeah, I am. I. I drink pretty much the same thing all the time. Like, and I. I got my drink, and I stick with my drink.
Mike
Kerosene.
Jimmy
I'm kind of like an ultima American light way. Like, I got my drink, and that's. That's what I drink.
Mike
Got a good drunk story.
Tyler
Yeah. Oh. Oh, it's not Monday, but we didn't do them on Monday. You want to do them today? Yes.
Mike
We got.
Jimmy
Clint hasn't been on in a minute.
Tyler
Yeah, we've been kind of off our game.
Jimmy
Y. Clint. All right, boys, strap in.
Mike
All right, we.
Jimmy
All right, guys. In the chat. In the chat.
Tyler
Put it in.
Mike
We got a Clint drunk story.
Tyler
Chint, chint, chint. Drink. Clint.
Mike
Clint's hung over, too, so.
Tyler
Clint.
Jimmy
Oh, yeah, no, this is gonna be fantastic.
Mike
Oh, my wife's awake. Let me text her.
Tyler
Does she want to hear the Clint story?
Mike
No, I don't think she's watched an episode of ours in months. Come on, Clint, let's go.
Tyler
1-800-Holiday-Without peak band confirms your peak hours. Potato issues. Holiday without peak.
Mike
Yeah, because there's nobody working today.
Tyler
Oh, man.
Mike
Circle K. You're one visit away from 30 cents off gas.
Tyler
I'll definitely.
Jimmy
I mean, what. Hey, what are we gonna do? Are we. Are we going nuts on lunch today? Are we?
Tyler
I have to. I'm starving. I didn't eat breakfast. I slept in.
Jimmy
Must be nice, man.
Tyler
Yeah. Hello?
Clint
Yeah. What's going on?
Mike
What's going on, buddy?
Clint
Feeling it this morning.
Mike
You feeling it? What you drink?
Tyler
Yeah.
Mike
What you drink?
Clint
Last night I got into a little bit of. I had rum and tea.
Jimmy
What in the.
Tyler
I have no mixers.
Clint
Well, zero carb.
Mike
You know, I'm trying to be swimming up.
Tyler
Yeah.
Clint
Yeah.
Mike
7, 000 calories of alcohol and no calories. Even that clear liquor.
Clint
I'm going on, man, a hero gay cruise.
Tyler
So I want.
Mike
Well, I gotta send you the Viagra and the testosterone.
Clint
That's the starter pack. I'm already on that.
Mike
All right, good. So.
Clint
All right, so, you know, I did four years in the army, and I got out to go to college because all the.
Jimmy
Sounds like a college.
Clint
I had.
Mike
I thought.
Clint
I thought I was as smart as they were, and they went to college, so I got out. My first sergeant said the reason the army can give you the army college fund is because nobody uses it. He said less than 3% uses the army college fund. He said, you won't do it. So I, I got out and I, I went to college and I got my degree in four years. And that's when, when I was a senior, September 11 happened. And I was going to come back in, but my, My girlfriend that became my wife, she. She told me to wait until I at least graduated. But me and my buddy, he was, he worked in nascar, so he had money and I was a port college student. And he, him and his girlfriend had went down to New Orleans for the first time and he came back and he said, man, it was crazy down there. And he said, but my girlfriend was with me and so I couldn't have no fun. He said, so. But he didn't tell me any of this part. He said, hey, you got, you got any class on Friday? And I said, yeah, I just got a test in the morning. He said, well, I'll pick you up. Just be ready to go out of town. I said, okay. So he picked me up and I got in the car. He said, and we started driving south. It was about a 11 hour drive and he, he would usually drive about 100 miles an hour. So we, we were made. We, we do it in good time. And we, we're about halfway. And I said, so where are we going? He said, man, we're going to New Orleans. And I was like, oh, okay, that's cool. So we got there and we got drunk, you know, of course, but I mean like everybody. But back then in, you know, 2000, you know, two, 2003, New Orleans was a special place. It was, I called it Bizarro World. Because everywhere you go as a normal man, women don't really want to F you.
Jimmy
But you can say the F word.
Clint
In bizarro land is flipped. It's like the women are there to have the best time of their lives. And so you can just.
Tyler
What is he talking about?
Clint
It's just wild. It's just.
Mike
Why? It was just.
Clint
So listen. So we're, me and my buddy, we go in this club and we're. We're already schnuckered and we're standing at the bar and this girl walks up and she's got red hair and she's pretty, beautiful. She comes up, she starts talking to both of us and I turn and look and she's tongue in my buddy.
Tyler
Down and wait, what's that mean?
Mike
Kissing.
Clint
They're kissing.
Jimmy
Okay, so how Much does she cost? An hour?
Clint
I kind of turned. I kind of turned away, like to. I was like, oh, man, now I'm going to find me a girl. She already chose him. So I'm looking, I'm looking out in the, in out in the audience. I'm looking around and I think a hand goes down my pants and starts jerking me. And I turn and look and she's still kissing my buddy. I was like, oh, man, New Orleans is all right.
Jimmy
So.
Clint
So I was so drunk. Listen, I was so drunk that I said, hey, I'll be right back. I gotta go throw up. We're on the, we're on the second floor. We're on the second floor of this club. And the stairs in the club were made out of like that, that sheet metal. This. That's got the diamond grip in it. Like Jimmy's toolbox on his truck.
Mike
Diamond plated. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Clint
So I'm walking down these diamond plated steps, dude. I explosive vomit over the railings and just rain you down on probably 30 people. And I just swallowed the rest of it. And I just turned around and looked. I was like, what the hell was that? So, well, I walk by them and they're. Everybody's covered in puke and they're freaking out. And so I walk in, I walk in the bathroom, and when I walk in the bathroom, there's a girl putting makeup on in the mirror. And I was so, so trashed. I was like, I'm in the women's bathroom, but play it cool, I said. So I walked to a stall and I went in the stall and I shut the door and I was in there peeing. And I was standing there, man, I was waving side to side. And there's a knock at the door and I'm like, oh, here's the bouncer. It's time to get thrown out, you know? And I said, somebody's in here. And a woman's voice said, yeah, I know it's me. And I'm thinking it's the, the redheaded girl in the club. So I opened the door, it's the girl from the mirror. And she said, can I come in there? And I said, yeah, yeah, come on in. So we come in and I shut the door and I lock it. And she, you know, we start kissing or whatever and she drops down and starts giving me a bj. And in.
Tyler
During the bj, bro, in a stall in a club bathroom. Hold on, what the.
Clint
She stops in the middle of it and. And I'm not saying this is True, but this is what she said. She said, gd, you got a big D. And then somebody in another stall said. And somebody. Another stall said, well, hell yeah. And I said my buddy's name. He was in the other stall and I didn't even know it. He stood up on the toilet and looked over the wall and seen what was going on. He was like, what the hell? And I was like, I know. In this place?
Tyler
Yes.
Clint
Listen. So we walk. We walk out and we go. We. We find the girl, the red haired girl, and she says, hey, we're going back to our apartment.
Mike
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
Tyler
I have to. Quint did. This is paramount to the story. Did you climax in the stall?
Clint
I did not.
Mike
No, I did.
Clint
I did.
Mike
No, there's no way.
Clint
No, she just.
Mike
How'd that end?
Tyler
How did that. How'd that end?
Mike
You shook hands.
Clint
Hold it. All right, so listen. So we go. We go back upstairs and the girl with the red hair, she says, hey, we're going to the. The house we rented. It's just a couple streets over. We're going to rent a. It was before Uber. We got in a taxi. We walked out of the club and we got in a taxi and we drove just a couple streets. But you have no idea. It's pitch black. It was probably two in the morning maybe. And we. She said her. Her girlfriends will be there and they're crazy too. And we're like, all right, we're going. So we pull up to this house in the middle of New Orleans and we get out and the door is covered in like a ivy. You can't even see the door. It's just ivy with a doorknob, like a trellis.
Mike
It's. And she.
Clint
She. She turned the. The knob and open it, and it was a tunnel that had ivy that was completely grown over. So we were walking through this tunnel that was ivy. And in the middle of the tunnel there was a concrete bench and there was a dude sitting on it, and there was a girl riding him. And she walked up and she said, I need the keys to the room. And the girl stopped in the middle of it and reached over and dug around in her pants and pulled out a key and handed it to her. And she said, okay, thanks. So we walked up and we went up one flight of stairs and we went into the apartment.
Tyler
Who's we?
Mike
Him and his friend and the girl.
Clint
Me. Me and my friend and the girl.
Mike
The redhead.
Tyler
Okay.
Mike
Yeah, I'm listening. Clint, go ahead.
Clint
Yes. So then we walk in and me and the Redhead ended up laying in the bed and my buddy, he laid in the other bed. It was a two bed bedroom thing there. And so me and her ended up having sex. And my buddy is sitting there and this freaking gore lock comes in. We were catfished. So this gorelock came in and she came over and she started giving my buddy a BJ while, while me and the other girl were having sex and the lights were on. We're, you know, this, we're partying and a hot Japanese chick walks in. And so then, then my buddy gets into an argument with the Gorlok because he wants the Japanese girl. And then they start fighting the Gorlok and the girl, they start arguing over my buddy. Which one's going to get to bang him?
Mike
I would have punched the girl lock in the face.
Clint
Oh, for sure. Well, anyways, I'm late, you know, I'm already, you know, laying, laying in the bed. I'm satisfied watching the show.
Mike
You're in the unemployment in the show.
Clint
Right, Right. So then shoot, the Japanese girl walks out of the room and she. And you hear, you hear glass shatter and they're like, oh my God. And my buddy jumps up and he runs in there and he comes back in there, he says, clint, you were in the army. There's blood everywhere. We gotta help. And I run in there and the Japanese girl had punched through the a window. And when she pulled her arm back, it slid her wrist from the top in the bottom.
Tyler
Oh, that's.
Clint
And I said, hey. I said, hey, I'll tell you what to do, but I don't do blood. I'll tell you everything you got.
Tyler
I'm not getting up.
Clint
I'll tell you everything you got to do.
Mike
You can make the condom a tourniquet.
Clint
Yeah, well, we, we did put a tourniquet on her and she said, hey, y' all gonna have to drive us to the hospital. I said, we're so trash. We can't drive anywhere. That's not happening. That's, that's impossible. We'll wreck and die. And she said, we'll get our friends down in the tunnel to drive. And so they all, you know, went to the hospital and me and my buddy walk out of the hotel. And now it's like 5:30 in the morning and the sun is coming up. And my buddy's like, how we, where are we and how are we getting back to our hotel? So dude, we're going to walk. I said, I looked at the buildings.
Mike
I was like.
Clint
And I reversed it in my mind. I was Like, I think that building way over there, because we came from that way and this and that. You know, I was doing resurrection, trying to figure it out. And we started coming. We're walking back, and there was two, what me and my buddy both assumed were lesbians. Like, look like two dudes.
Mike
Subaru. Americans.
Clint
Yeah. Walking down the street, walking towards us. We walked by them, and I was so trashed. Sun's coming up. Said, morning, fellas. And they both cussed us out, and we kept walking. Dude, there was bums on the street with no shoes on, and the bottoms of their feet were just cracked up.
Mike
And they were. And they were cleaner than you were when you're in the stall with the chick getting blown. They were much cleaner.
Clint
That was. We got back to the hotel and we. We ended up leaving, and we were riding in the car, and I said, perry, I, I. Well, I shouldn't say that. Some guy. I said, I don't know if I can do this again. He said, nah, man, I don't. I don't want to get aids. That.
Mike
That would be a little late. It was a little late for that, dude.
Clint
We went eight times in the next 12 months.
Mike
Oh, my God. Well, we appreciate your stories, Clint.
Jimmy
That was a good story.
Mike
That was a good one. I still think the best one is the snake in the recruiting.
Clint
Oh, it is. That is the highlight.
Mike
That is the highlight for sure. All right, Clint, we. We'll see you tonight in the chat. Thank you so much. All right. Bye.
Tyler
Bye.
Mike
I'm impressed.
Tyler
Well, I don't want aids, though.
Mike
A little late for that. The blowjob in the stall in New Orleans is, Is.
Jimmy
Oh, my God.
Mike
Once I throw up, I'm done.
Jimmy
Yeah.
Mike
I don't know.
Jimmy
I don't get a puking rally, man.
Mike
No, you. If I throw up, we're, we're. We're.
Tyler
Well, if I throw up, I feel better. But I'm definitely not drinking.
Jimmy
No, no, Mission.
Mike
I'm not.
Tyler
I haven't done that swirling. You know when you, like, lay down and you're like, okay, I'm just gonna go to bed. And you're like, no, I'm not. Because it's all like this. I've, like, probably once or twice and just bit the ball.
Mike
It's been years. Oh, I used to throw up all.
Tyler
The time and then just go to sleep.
Jimmy
That's. That's every time I get to that point very, very well. I not just be like, it. I'm going to throw it up.
Mike
I gotta wash my phone after that story.
Jimmy
I mean, you're gonna get ear STDs.
Mike
Jesus Christ.
Jimmy
Everybody in the chat needs to go get tested.
Tyler
Yeah, you need to go see. We didn't get Flint a therapist, and the therapist would be like, tell me more.
Mike
I mean, so he did all that and then went back?
Tyler
Yeah.
Jimmy
I mean, I. I was just gonna gloss over the fact that he's like, yeah, I was in the infantry, but I don't do blood.
Tyler
Like, Watson, was Clint in the infantry?
Jimmy
Yeah, he was a grunt.
Tyler
Oh, wow.
Jimmy
He was there.
Tyler
Remember?
Jimmy
He was there when all them 82nd guys got shot up by that.
Mike
Yeah, that was one of the stories.
Tyler
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, that story took me. I was, like, halfway through. I zoned out, and then it got to, like, there was an actual shooting, and then when he was telling it.
Jimmy
But I was loaded.
Tyler
Talking about a drill, or is he talking about an active shooter?
Mike
This one was a little more direct.
Tyler
Yeah, this one was good, except the girl in the mirror in the bathroom really didn't have any relevance to the story.
Jimmy
I was waiting for it to be a tr.
Tyler
I was waiting for. Or her to come back.
Mike
She came in and blew him.
Tyler
I know, but it doesn't. I was waiting because he was like, now, hold on, hold on. So I was like, oh, maybe she's gonna end up in the back of the store. Because you could. Clint could direct movies with his stories.
Mike
Yeah.
Tyler
He could direct, like, Tarantino style.
Jimmy
Yeah. It's like, we have no idea where.
Tyler
This is going until I think that the. The Mere Woman blowjob stall woman was just there to give shine light on how crazy that place was. Which, again, if you're. If you're making a movie, you do things like that.
Jimmy
It's really like Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Yeah, we can't stop here. This is back country.
Mike
He was. The relevance was. He was in the women's bathroom. That's what your wife just said.
Tyler
No, he wasn't.
Mike
She was in the men's bathroom.
Tyler
Yeah, I think.
Mike
I think you're drawing a conclusion there. There's. It's an unknown.
Tyler
Oh, it is an unknown.
Mike
It's an unknown factor in the story. You don't know which bathroom he was in.
Tyler
Okay.
Mike
Could have been either.
Tyler
Yes. No. Has. We don't know. Oh, the 99% has an Instagram page. We do not run it. Brady asked if he could do it. We gave the approval, of course. And so I think the next step is a Facebook group. Whoa. Facebook group that you can't sleep on Facebook, dude, I'm telling you, that's. That's still a major number.
Mike
It's number one.
Tyler
Yeah.
Mike
It's number one.
Tyler
Facebook group. Start a Facebook group of the 99. This merch store is finally up.
Mike
It's working.
Tyler
It's working.
Mike
You guys are free to order.
Tyler
You know, Free to order. And we got some other good designs that we're gonna put out. We got a four of the boys shirt. We got a 99 shirt.
Jimmy
Turned down for what?
Tyler
Turned down for what needs to be a shirt. We got to get Natalie on it. We got to get Natalie on a night shift.
Mike
Lives like, on it.
Tyler
Like, come on remote and introduce.
Mike
I have no idea. She is.
Tyler
She does so much work.
Mike
Send her money often. But I don't, I've never met her.
Tyler
I don't know if she'll do it.
Mike
She only keeps her phone on.
Jimmy
She's had their best silent mode.
Tyler
Yeah, so does Justin. It's annoying you. So when you call, you have you guys all twice.
Mike
Did you know Justin's retiring?
Tyler
Oh, yeah. In case you were still. In case you lived under a rock.
Mike
Yeah. His retirement tour is like, shares farewell tour. It's been going on for like three months.
Tyler
Like, bro, like, we did not give him enough for his Star wars cosplay. And I think because it was for, like, autism awareness, everybody gave him a pass. But he was in a full ass scout trooper uniform, like, and it wasn't.
Jimmy
Yeah, but they were dancing in a strip club. Yes, that's what he told me.
Tyler
No, they were an autism awareness thing.
Jimmy
Yeah, but they, it was at a strip club.
Mike
Wait a second.
Jimmy
I've got the picture.
Mike
You, you can do autism awareness in a strip club.
Tyler
Let me call him.
Mike
He's not here. He's at a retirement party.
Jimmy
He's still waking up from the retirement party.
Mike
He proposed. Was he already married?
Tyler
I tell you, he, he does this stuff.
Mike
Was he already married?
Tyler
He's been married for like 20 years.
Mike
So he remarried her.
Jimmy
What?
Mike
The whole thing he just did with the pictures. And that was another time.
Tyler
No, they renewed their vows.
Jimmy
Hey. What a waste of money. Did. Does the, does the skeleton.
Tyler
Not everybody's like you, Mike.
Mike
What? What? Why would you. We don't have weddings.
Tyler
Because weddings is a waste of money.
Jimmy
We don't have a Christmas tree because.
Mike
We'Re going on a cruise. Explain to me. Explain.
Tyler
Go ahead.
Mike
In a Clint story. Every me doing it all over and spending all the money again on a commercialized event that was designed to make money. I, I, it just doesn't doesn't math to me. It doesn't matter. Go on vacation. Dress, Pictures, photography. Thousands of dollars.
Tyler
Some people would say, why waste all your money sitting on a boat in the ocean for 10 days three times a year?
Mike
Food's free, entertainment's free. I'm not at work.
Tyler
Maybe. Okay, well, he does travel a lot, too. There are no kids. People like you.
Mike
I'm good. I love you so much, I'm spend ten grand to tell you again.
Tyler
That's true love, Mike. Okay. You know for a fact if JoJo wanted to renew your vows? Yes.
Mike
Do you know where we did our vows?
Tyler
I know. The courthouse.
Mike
I did my. No, I did my vows in the front of the sheriff's office. I proposed at a gas station where we met on our first call. I wear a silicone ring.
Tyler
I know.
Mike
She wears no jewelry. No, she wouldn't.
Jimmy
But I don't have to worry about it.
Tyler
She did.
Mike
I married a normal person, so we don't have to. It won't happen. I don't have to worry about it.
Jimmy
Mark my words.
Mike
Nope. Won't happen.
Tyler
What's today's date?
Mike
112-1111.
Tyler
When Mike's. When JoJo wants to redo the vows, they're going to do a whole thing.
Mike
Anybody?
Jimmy
It'll be at the Sig. Anybody who wants that?
Mike
I bet $1,000. $1,000 to each person who wants to take this bet in the next 10 years. If my wife decides to renew our vows, I'll pay everybody now.
Tyler
You have influence now.
Jimmy
No, I don't.
Tyler
You're gonna tell her.
Jimmy
Don't.
Mike
She's the boss. She does whatever we want. And I can assure you we will not be renewing any vows.
Tyler
Okay.
Mike
Especially for money. I'd rather drive a BMW than revenue. My vows. I'm not on it.
Tyler
I'm just saying.
Mike
I just don't. It's one of those things I don't understand. It doesn't make sense to me. I'm not saying it's not good.
Tyler
Right?
Mike
Just like you're right. Cruises don't make sense to some people, I guess being on vacation doesn't make sense to some people. It just doesn't make sense to me.
Tyler
Somebody asked before the Rapture, how did Tyler and Jimmy propose? I did mine on a beach in Huntington beach. At. On a. On the sand.
Jimmy
Mine was. Mine was not very romantic. It was like you got back from deployment. Lilith was still there, and I was.
Tyler
Like, we need the health care, babe.
Jimmy
It wasn't quite that bad. It was more of like. Well, you survived that. You want to get married?
Mike
Wait, did she propose to you?
Jimmy
No, it was me. No, I. I literally looked at her. I was like, well, you know, you're. I went through a 15 month deployment. She was still there.
Tyler
Yeah. Oh, you survived the deployment?
Mike
Yeah.
Tyler
Like, your relationships?
Mike
Yeah.
Jimmy
I was like, you want to just get married? I mean it. I mean, you can't get any more tested than this boy. I should have said that. God was like, I got you, dog.
Tyler
He loves Lily.
Jimmy
He does love Lily. He. He. He got it.
Tyler
I'm talking about you.
Jimmy
Yeah. Oh, he. Oh, I love. It's like God loves Lily.
Mike
He doesn't love me.
Tyler
All right, tonight, the night shift. Eight o' clock Eastern Standard Time on YouTube. We'll be here. I think Matt's gonna be here.
Mike
Please donate. I'm gonna renew my vows tonight on night shifts. So send money.
Jimmy
Dude, that's gonna be dope.
Tyler
I'm gonna.
Jimmy
I'm gonna start a campaign. I'm. I'm gonna. I'm gonna have the other wives.
Mike
I'll put it on black. I'll just take it on a boat and bet it all. Who we got?
Tyler
Matt, I think. Matt. Let's see if Tyler's coming. Tyler? The Fed. Just usual faces. I think John said come January he wants to start coming again, but we'll see. So, Avery.
Jimmy
Yeah.
Tyler
The Marine.
Jimmy
Yeah.
Mike
Lewis will be there. What time, Louis? 7:30. 7:30.
Tyler
And tomorrow, if you don't catch tonight, tomorrow, 11:00'. Clock. We will be live. We will be live streaming. Casual Friday.
Mike
Streaming from the trap.
Tyler
Streaming.
Jimmy
No, I'm gonna be here.
Tyler
Yeah, Jimmy will be here. You're the only one that won't be here, dog. So it's okay.
Jimmy
I'm gonna be over here. Tyler's gonna be over there.
Tyler
I don't know how we're gonna do that because we don't have a camera switcher, so we can't. We can't go back.
Jimmy
So I'll just sit there and we'll just turn that one camera on.
Tyler
Oh, there you go. We do that schedule. Dude, don't come all the way here. The point is to be remote.
Jimmy
The only reason I'm. I'm.
Tyler
Yeah, we can't make him feel bad. He's. He's. He stays for the night shift. Yeah, he stays the night. So he'll already be here.
Jimmy
Yeah.
Mike
All right. Yeah.
Tyler
I mean, don't feel bad, Mike.
Mike
I don't feel bad at all.
Tyler
We'll just be here. We'll just be here grinding off yeah.
Mike
Oh, yeah. Yeah. Hey.
Jimmy
So, squealers asked twice that I could see. What's the name of the skeleton?
Tyler
We don't. I've always thought about it. Eddie. Iron Maiden has Eddie. We don't have a name for him. All right. As long as it's not dumb. And start.
Jimmy
Start thinking it up, boys.
Tyler
Dumb skeleton. All right, we're gonna get out of here. We'll see you guys at 8. If not at 8, we'll see you at 11 in the morning. Later, Sav. Team for life.
Podcast: The Antihero Broadcast
Episode: 01/01/2026: WHO'S HUNGOVER?
Date: January 1, 2026
Host/Panel: Tyler, Mike, Jimmy, Clint, with appearances from Lewis and contributions from the chat.
This lively New Year's Day episode of The Antihero Broadcast brings together the regular crew—Tyler, Mike, Jimmy, and Clint—for their signature unfiltered, deeply relatable discussions. Intended as a “news entertainment broadcast for veterans, first responders and all blue-collar Americans,” this episode covers a range of topics: war stories, law enforcement culture, podcasting strategy, community building, tales of drunken debauchery, and the evolving nature of tough jobs in America. The tone is raw, humorous, sometimes irreverent, and always authentic, with a pronounced appeal to regular guys—“the 99%”—who want media by and for ordinary warriors and workers.
The show also marks a format shift: starting this week, The Antihero Broadcast will air five days a week, each with dedicated themes ranging from news and roundtable discussions to Patreon exclusives and listener Q&As.
On surviving adversity:
“You were going through the worst moment of your life with no healing on national television, and he was thinking in his head the things that we would think, like, 'I'm a coward. I'm the only one that made it.'” — Tyler (06:34)
On changing policing: “There isn’t now a generation where you can’t set them straight anymore. You’ll be considered a bully…” — Mike (36:41) *“Now they have a place… I’ll literally rolled my window up, and I’m like, ‘Who the is this guy?’" — Mike (39:16)
On leadership and taking initiative
“When you’re in that situation, you have to—you’re not a cop anymore. You’re somebody stopping the loss of life.” — Tyler (50:29)
“Direct to threat is what we kept saying. That’s what it is, direct to threat.” — Jimmy (51:00)
On recurring guest stories:
“Any safety brief, you better be sitting in front. You better have pen and paper in your pocket. You better outrun all of us.” — Jimmy (44:25)
On the show’s mission:
"We're not just talking about 1%... this is everyday dudes grinding... It resonates to more people." — Mike (17:22)
"We trimmed the fat and kept the prime." — Tyler (20:40)
Clint’s New Orleans tale:
“I was so drunk that I said, 'Hey, I’ll be right back. I gotta go throw up.' ...I explosive vomit over the railings and just raining down on probably 30 people.” — Clint (94:43)
“That’s a little late for that, dude.” — Mike on contracting AIDS (102:49)
“We went eight times in the next twelve months.” — Clint (102:53)
| Timestamp | Segment/Topic | Notes | |------------|----------------------------------------|-------| | 02:06 | Who's hungover? Sleep schedules, morning banter | Tyler, Mike, Jimmy | | 05:56–13:56| Lone Survivor/Operation Red Wings breakdown (history, tactics, survivor’s guilt) | Deep, serious discussion | | 13:56–14:36| Podcast’s shift: Regular guys, not just SOF/A-List veterans | Tyler, Mike, Jimmy | | 21:27–24:46| Announcing five-day-a-week schedule, new show structure | Format evolution | | 36:03–51:14| Law enforcement culture, loss of grit, Uvalde reflections | Critical analysis | | 84:01–104:16| Drunk Story Hour with Clint: New Orleans wild night | Humor, "barracks tales" | | 58:20–65:41| Sponsor ads, merging marketing with community talk | In-show promo riffs | | 112:14–113:03| Mascot ("skeleton") naming discussion, end notes | Listener engagement |
For newcomers, this episode is a perfect entry point to the world of The Antihero Broadcast: a genuine, unromanticized depiction of life after the uniform, told by and for regular people. Expect raucous humor, hard truths, deep dives into military and police culture, a sense of nostalgia for a tougher past, and the evolving mission of building a new kind of veteran-first responder community.
Watch (and listen) for:
Next up: Tune in for “Night Shift” at 8 PM EST, and Casual Fridays every week at 11 AM—where the banter, the brotherhood, and the mission continues.