01/22/2026: UVALDE COP NOT GUILTY|2 PORTLAND OFFICERS SHOT|GREENLAND

Summary

The Antihero Broadcast – Episode Summary

Date: January 22, 2026
Title: UVALDE COP NOT GUILTY | 2 PORTLAND OFFICERS SHOT | GREENLAND

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Episode Overview

In this lively and raw episode of The Antihero Broadcast, the hosts—catering to veterans, first responders, and blue-collar Americans—cover hard-hitting law enforcement headlines and global strategy. They open with banter about past episodes and inside jokes, then transition into deeper topics: the Uvalde school shooting verdict, toxic police culture, geopolitics around Greenland, and more. The second half features special guest Dominic Izzo for a passionate discussion about policing, leadership failures, and the burdens of the job. The crew’s frank camaraderie, dark humor, and sharp criticism drive every discussion.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. Recapping Previous Guests and Broadcast Tone (03:10-16:30)

• The hosts reminisce about a “challenging” interview with Elizabeth Lane, noting her strong opinions and the episode’s lack of resolution.
• Discussion about hosting guests with differing viewpoints as a necessary friction for broadening discourse.
  • Quote: “[Elizabeth] is very used to dealing with the legacy media... It is dog eat dog.” (13:29, C)
  • Reflection: Some guests, especially from outside military/law enforcement cultures, “don’t get” the antihero audience, sparking friction but also essential debate.

2. Police/Law Enforcement Culture and Spouse Appreciation (16:11-24:12)

• Joking acknowledgement of “National Law Enforcement Spouse Appreciation Day.” Banter about the sacrifices of police spouses and duty vests at weddings.
• Blocked social media anecdotes illustrate the insular, sometimes petty world of cop subculture.
• Running joke about how police culture deals with criticism and internal dynamics:
  • Quote: “You get blocked so much, every third... Everything we send Mike, he’s like, can’t see it.” (07:45, A/B)
• Underlying commentary about recognition, sacrifice, and the perceptions of outsiders vs. insiders.

3. Fitness, Supplements, and Brotherhood (09:00-12:45)

• Informal ad reads and genuine recommendations for creatine supplements, with skepticism about “cash grab” companies, underscoring the blue-collar, “we check for ourselves” mentality.
• Discussion transitions into the real camaraderie and the joking competitiveness over working out, gear, and eating habits.
• The segment highlights the antihero ethos of self-improvement, skepticism of “brands,” and pride in doing it right.

4. Debrief of Elizabeth Lane Episode – Global Perspectives, Military and Democracy (12:45-16:30)

• The hosts dissect Lane’s arguments about geopolitics, specifically comparing the US to other countries and highlighting the fallacies therein.
• Quote: “Comparing anything to Switzerland... demographics, like, even Georgia is 85... Switzerland’s like 90 ethnic. They’re all the same people.” (14:39, B)

5. Police Leadership, Brotherhood, and Internal Criticism (24:12–29:06)

• Stories about spouses and on-the-job experiences (e.g., wives involved in fights at work) serve as a backdrop for the discussion of what makes a good cop.
• Critique is levied at police culture for sometimes ostracizing the most squared-away or motivated officers. The “brotherhood” is revealed as complicated and sometimes toxic, not unconditionally supportive.
• Quote: “You can make fun of me for being in good shape... If I walk in and call them a bunch of fat slobs, I’m fired.” (72:04, B)

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6. Main Topical Segments

A. The Greenland Geopolitical Situation (34:14–45:03)

• Extended breakdown of why Greenland is strategically critical: its location creates a choke point (the “Greenland-Iceland-UK Gap”) for Russian submarines and ballistic missile routes.
• Trump’s recent strong-arming at the World Economic Forum, tariffs, and NATO allies’ response are analyzed with both expertise and dark comedy.
  • Quote: “We probably won’t get anything unless I decide to use excessive strength and force where we would be, frankly, unstoppable. But I won’t do that... all the United States is asking for is a place called Greenland.” (38:00, C)
• The hosts express resentment at Europe’s reliance on American power, and frustration that U.S. interests are criticized even while they underpin global security.

B. Uvalde Cop "Not Guilty" Verdict & Police Culture (55:59–95:45)

• Special guest Dominic Izzo joins for a candid, emotional breakdown.

• Strong consensus: the failure in Uvalde was systemic with both leadership and rank-and-file; criminal charges against a single officer dodge the real issue—leadership failed.

• Quote (Izzo, Guest, 61:54): “I think the command staff and the chief should have been criminally charged because ultimately... you’re putting the cops for failure.”

• The hosts lament the “no duty to act” legal precedent for police, but also contextualize it (dangerous neighborhoods require two units, etc.).

• The toxicity of police culture is explored—from groupthink and discouraging high performers, to the cliques that reward mediocrity and ostracize innovators.

  • Izzo: “Cop culture is so toxic that there was 60 dudes there all trying to be beta leaders, not an actual leader... All wanted to be like, I’m in charge but I’m also waiting for someone to make a decision.” (66:53, D)
  • C: “Instead of going, ‘I want to be more like my zone partner,’... they make fun of him, call him a piece of shit. We gotta do something about him.” (83:19, C)

• Memorable moment: The “tall poppy syndrome” analogy, where those who stand out or strive for excellence are cut down by the group—a trend rooted in Greek mythology but alive in modern cop shops. (91:29, C)

C. The Emotional Toll: Brotherhood, Burnout, and Bitterness (93:25–95:45)

• The most affecting segment addresses how committed officers are, and how the system chews them up.
• Quote (Izzo): “How painful it is when you put everything you are into that job and they... completely kick you away like you’re the prostitute.” (94:31, D)
• The rise in police suicides is attributed to emotional betrayal, not the horrors of fieldwork, but by the “family” turning their backs.

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7. Other Notable Moments, Quotes, and Banter

• On European Attitudes & Double Standards:
  “Go to Russia. Tell them you’re doing it all wrong. See what happens.” (51:00, B/C)

• On Critical Incidents:
  Uvalde incident is used as a case study in systemic failure, and the double-edged sword of department loyalty.

• Humor Moments:

  • Dollar menu jokes about intimacy (“Damn bro, you’re ordering off the dollar menu tonight.” 22:19, B)
  • Banter about pronunciation: “Imminent” vs. “Eminent,” “analogy” vs. “analogous,” and other accidental wordplays (29:28; 24:42; 97:03)
  • Frequent swearing and blunt “cop humor” throughout, keeping the tone candid and gritty.

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8. Listener/Community Engagement

• Super chats and Patreon references demonstrate an active, participatory audience—vital to the “antihero” community spirit.
• Calls for prayer and scriptural reflection near the end, tying culture and faith into the blue-collar antihero ethos. (109:24–111:45)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• Elizabeth Lane Debrief: 03:10–16:30
• Law Enforcement Spouse Banter: 16:11–24:12
• Fitness & Supplements, Brotherhood: 09:00–12:45
• Greenland Geopolitics Deep Dive: 34:14–45:03
• Uvalde Cop “Not Guilty”—Culture & Failure: 55:59–95:45
• Izzo’s Emotional Reflections: 93:25–95:45
• Tall Poppy/Egalitarianism in Policing: 91:29–93:25
• Listener Q&A, Community, Verse of the Day: 109:24–111:45

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Tone, Language, and Themes

• Language: Candid, explicit, laced with gallows humor and profanity—true to the “antihero” character of first responders.
• Tone: Relentlessly honest, often darkly funny, unapologetically “insider” (especially about police and veteran subcultures). There’s healthy skepticism, hard-won wisdom, and undertones of heartbreak but also enduring camaraderie.
• Themes:
  • The double-edged sword of “family” in police culture—supportive on one hand, stifling and destructive on another.
  • Frustration with political/administrative failures, double standards, and the public’s misconception of the job.
  • Empathy for the officers who wanted to do the right thing but were hamstrung by culture or bureaucracy.
  • Call for change—leaders must be held to task, and those with “heart” and courage should be supported, not cut down.

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Memorable Quotes (with Attribution & Timestamp)

• “Cop culture is so toxic that there was 60 dudes there all trying to be beta leaders, not an actual leader... all wanted to be like, I’m in charge but I’m also waiting for someone to make a decision.” — Dominic Izzo, 66:53
• “Instead of going, actually I respect that dude, maybe I need to do a little bit more...they’re gonna make fun of him, call him a piece of shit. We gotta do something about him.” — C, 83:19
• “How painful it is when you put everything you are into that job and they...completely kick you away like you’re the prostitute.” — Dominic Izzo, 94:31
• “You can make fun of me for being in good shape... if I walk in and call them a bunch of fat slobs, I’m fired.” — B, 72:04
• “We all wore the patch in Afghanistan...but the ISAF patch, which stood for International Security and Assistance Forces, Afghanistan, we all just said it stands for: I Saw Americans Fight, because they didn’t do shit.” — C, 43:34

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Conclusion

This episode is a punchy, deeply personal exploration of front-line American policing—its triumphs, failures, and inner contradictions—against the backdrop of global politics and blue-collar reality. The hosts’ personal investment, insider candor, and dark humor make it a compelling listen for those inside or adjacent to law enforcement and military life, but also a valuable reality-check for civilians who “think they know.” The addition of Dominic Izzo amplifies the raw, unflinching introspection rarely heard elsewhere.

Key takeaway: The “thin blue line” is not just about threats outside the organization, but just as often a fight within—a struggle for courage, for recognition, and for retaining one’s integrity in a system that can both uplift and grind down those who dare to try.

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Note: Ads, intro/outro, and purely administrative segments have been omitted for clarity and focus.

Transcript

[A]

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[B]

And don't forget to support the boys in Patreon where we're going to start doing custom custom gear in the Patreon for our followers. Tuesdays is only on Patreon, so check out the Patreon. It's growing, it's getting, it's doing very well. Yeah. And we have a lot of of fun in there on Tuesdays. And we have custom merch.

[A]

Doing the squad workout.

[B]

Today we are doing a squad workout. All right, Patreon Squad workout. Patreon will see some squad workout stuff. And don't forget to check out the store. The antiherobroadcast.com new designs are up in the store. So check those out. We have some really awesome followers that are creating designs and we're getting them on shirts, hats, hoodies and stickers.

[A]

That 99 for the boys one's a good one.

[B]

It is a good one.

[A]

A very good one.

[B]

Yes, it is.

[A]

Jimmy. Yo, he's back. I'm back yesterday, but he's back in the studio today.

[C]

Back, back live last night. Yeah, I put that. That was my thumbnail from the Wire. I want you to let everyone know we're back up.

[A]

Oh, such a good show. Yeah, it was Reflections. Not much of one. Except for yesterday's episode. Was Brain Still Hurts Different?

[C]

Yeah, it was. It was a little different.

[A]

Wednesday, Friends Day, we had Elizabeth Lane on. She's really cool. She's really nice, but it turned into a Fox News show.

[B]

Cool and nice, huh?

[C]

That's your.

[B]

That's the best adjectives. Yeah, I mean, like, really cool and nice.

[C]

I.

[B]

She is.

[C]

I mean, my dad was in and he liked it.

[B]

He was not happy with her.

[A]

No, he.

[C]

He didn't like her. I mean, because especially when I was like. When she. He's like, she does not not understand military dudes.

[A]

I made the best. The best. The best clip I'm gonna put out this afternoon.

[C]

Oh, God.

[A]

It has to. What it has in there is that, you know that meme of those black kids and, like.

[C]

Who'S getting roasted?

[B]

It was. Yeah, it was definitely. I mean, when you're in. When you're in conversation with a personality like that, it's tough. It's tough to. That's all I'm gonna say. It's tough because there's never really a. There was never really a resolution on anybody's points.

[C]

It was.

[B]

And. And I like the lady, but it's a lot of, like, backtrack, trust me, 35 years, and then setting a point, it's like.

[A]

Well, yeah, because I. Oh, go ahead.

[C]

No, I kind of it up because, like. And I. I kind of looked at it myself, and I was like, I. I. At a point, I was like, I could see you guys, like, kind of glazing over, and I was like, dude, we're. We're talking at a graduate level, and we need.

[A]

Yeah, I know. It was really cool to be condescended three times in the. In the show.

[C]

And I. I felt like I was.

[A]

Like, we're way smarter than everyone here.

[C]

That was.

[B]

It was true.

[A]

No, what it. Well, what it was was it. It. We. I was messing with the comments, and if you were watching, I said, Justin helped. So Justin jumped in. I can't manage the comments and manage a show because she.

[C]

She.

[A]

Right. Rightfully so. She wasn't stopped and you weren't stopped. So I mean, the problem was it wasn't like five minutes on this topic. Go end. Five minutes on this topic. So it was flowing and people were joining, like, what the is going on? What are they talking about?

[B]

Yeah, it was a. It was a Lot.

[C]

But it's. It's.

[B]

I mean, that's the per. That each show is gonna be different. When you have a guest that's that powerful and that straight to her point, she's not coming off of it. She's gonna get her point out. Even when you were like, all right, let's.

[D]

Let's slow down.

[B]

And then, like, we're back. And she's like, shut up. You're just. Just the host of the show. Like, easy enough.

[A]

It's just your show. Yeah.

[B]

So it's like, it was a lot, but that's. It's not. You know, we have to have those people on.

[C]

And I said that on my Live last night, too, is like, look, we're gonna have people on that you don't agree with, and that's okay. Yeah, you need to have those kind of conversations.

[A]

We're contemplating one person that we've tossed around a lot. No, not Joker.

[B]

Oh, I'm sorry.

[A]

Mike's like, damn.

[C]

Damn.

[A]

He was recently on Andy Stump show.

[C]

Oh, yeah.

[A]

So I don't.

[B]

Came up yesterday, right?

[A]

Yeah, he did. Yeah.

[C]

I'm. I'm at a. I'm out of the loop. Yeah.

[A]

I mean, it's. It's just. We'll talk about later. But I mean, it's. It's. Some shows can have people on and some shows can't.

[B]

Is that our only reflection?

[C]

It is.

[B]

Lewis, can you bring up that picture so I can get my recognition for the day?

[A]

Okay.

[B]

I want everybody to understand what today is. Bring it up. Today is National Law Enforcement Spouse Appreciation Day, Everybody. And I am a cop wife, so I want gifts. I want everybody to tell me how I sacrifice so that my wife can serve you guys in the public. And she doesn't get to come home for Thanksgiving. She doesn't get to come home at dinner time. She struggles to fight the crime you guys don't know exist. Today's my day out there in the shadow.

[A]

You have a color on the flag for you. Yeah. We got yellow for different, purple for Copville. Color the purple.

[B]

So everybody please thank me for my wife's service today and tell me how great I am that I support my wife's excellent service to the community.

[A]

That's a real thing.

[C]

It's like.

[B]

It's like somebody sent it to me today, and I'm like, oh, I got something for this. I got something for this.

[C]

So, I mean, it's sort of like the. The army, you know? You guys see those bumper stickers on the Army? Like, army spouse, hardest job.

[A]

Yeah. Same thing.

[B]

Well, I posted a picture yesterday on. On my story where a couple got married, and the wife is not a cop. The wife is a cop. Life. And in their marriage photos at the altar, they are intertwined, holding his vest, his duty vest. And they're like.

[A]

Mike's like, why are you not wearing it?

[B]

No, that's one time I don't want the vest around. I was like, how gay is this? I got blocked. You know, I posted it, she blocked me. But good thing I screenshotted it so it was funny.

[A]

Mike getting after it. Oh, dude. Ruining people's day.

[B]

I get blocked so much, every third.

[A]

Everything we send Mike, he's like, can't see it.

[D]

Can't see it.

[C]

Yeah. Freaking Justin sent me something. I'm like, dude, I. I can't see it. Blocked.

[A]

I'm like, somebody sent us TK's post. I couldn't see that. And they TK blocked us.

[C]

Well, what did he say?

[A]

It was a picture.

[B]

I felt really bad once I said blocked until I wrote somebody sent me something. I said blocked. And the guy was like, dude, I'm so sorry. I didn't. I didn't. I didn't mean to upset you. I'm like, no, dumbass. I'm blocked from the page. I'm not blocking you. He thought I was blocking him for sending me. No. Damn.

[C]

You hurt that guy for, like, 15 minutes, bro. All right.

[A]

Dom's good.

[C]

We're good. Dominic.

[A]

Oh, yeah. Yeah, he likes Dominic. I up. Yesterday, I uploaded the wrong audio file.

[C]

Awesome.

[A]

Had a bunch of Instagram messages saying you uploaded yesterday. Yeah.

[B]

You do that a lot.

[A]

If you.

[B]

When you do upload it, you it up. Usually I get the message, like, four hours later that, hey, is the audio going up?

[A]

That's just night shift because it's. That's the last thing I want to do at 11pm what's up, Liz?

[B]

What's up? Everybody?

[A]

Somebody asks is if Crave is a new creatine gummy. Yes.

[B]

You want to plug them now?

[A]

I'll plug them later, but okay. Yeah, they are.

[B]

There are guys.

[A]

Anti Hero 15. Get you 15.

[B]

Local Florida company. Very good, dudes. And there's actually creatine in it.

[A]

Ah, it. Let's just do it.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Crave Creatine. Now, we don't have the promo code on the design yet because I forgot to tell Lewis about it, but if you use promo code and try crave.com. use promo code. Anti Air 15. Save 15. I shared in our stories, though, what got us linked up with Crave was the fact that they ran a test against our old supplement company, which is a, I guess, apparently a crash, a cash grab. And they measured the creatine in the creatine gummies and Tasty Gains didn't have any creatine in it.

[B]

Allegedly. Allegedly based on their test.

[A]

Allegedly based off their test that we weren't there for.

[B]

We didn't see the label, but it looked a lot like.

[A]

It looks.

[B]

It was covered. Yeah, it looks like a company that looked very similar didn't have any.

[A]

But yeah, creatine. We all need creatine for a magnitude of reasons. It pulls water into the muscles for size and definition and improves mood and brain function as well as builds up to 30% lean muscle and can boost strength. Also up to 30%. That I will tell you 100% that is true creatine, something your body makes naturally. It helps your brain and muscles get energy by making more ATP, your body's main fuel. When you take creatine, you give your body more power. That means you can lift more, recover faster, and stay sharp all day. All you need to take is three gummies a day and they are delicious.

[B]

Yeah. And who wants to like, I never took cre. I've done steroids. I've done all that cool stuff. Creatine I never did because it's miserable and it's the weirdest chalk.

[C]

It's, it's like so difficult to deal with you ground up.

[B]

You try to put it in, it spills everywhere. So this is convenient on the road, at the gym, you throw it in your gym bag, you keep it with you and buy extra.

[C]

I would buy extra, put it in like this much water just so I can.

[B]

Yeah, I hate it.

[A]

Yeah. And those guys are cool as hell, man. And they, you know, we talked to him for a long time before we, we, before we partnered up. And we wait, we're gonna go down and see their facility, watch the creatine get put in. But if, but here's what they say. If you don't love the flavor or feel the difference, Crave will refund you with a full money back guarantee. And they actually answer their messages?

[B]

Yes, they do answer their messages and they're local, so we can go shake them. If something happens, we can see them. It's not like a pyramid scam like some other companies.

[A]

Yeah. So, yeah, you guys keep us informed about shipping, about quality. We want to know. We, we.

[B]

You know, they definitely got a lot of messages about the last company right next to me. Yeah, they're right By Jimmy.

[C]

So, I mean, it's not like, we'll send Jimmy.

[A]

Jimmy Wick over there. Jim Wick.

[C]

Dude, my hair grows.

[A]

So I saw that, dude, it's about, yeah, yeah, crave creatine. Go give him a shout out and then see it. You know, order from them. Let them know we sent you anti air. 15. Say 15.

[B]

Beautiful.

[A]

Oh, yeah. Is that the only reflection of Elizabeth Lane roasting everybody and being everybody in the. Do the comments, dude. Yeah, I was losing my mind between Mike sleeping and like, people were like, he put a Polaroid up in front of him.

[B]

Like, what do you want me to say? People were like, they.

[A]

He painted his eyes.

[B]

Every time I try, Every time I tried to get involved in the conversation, she just basically told me to go.

[C]

Well, I, you know, again, people are.

[A]

Like, jimmy met his match. People like, stand up, Jimmy, do you have a bonus?

[C]

I know, I saw that. Like, dude, I mean, like, it was, it was, it was. I mean, there was one part where I had a guy talk to me last night on the, on the live. He was like, the part where you went, be very careful what you say next. And I.

[A]

What was that in reference to? Now, mind you, my mind was half.

[C]

In, half out, so.

[A]

But I did hear that.

[C]

So I, I, I sort of set her up. I, I kind of, I knew where she was going to go about, like, hey, do you believe that? You know, Putin has the, the right to clear his own backyard and stop encroachment from people who are strategic competitors? And she said, yes, absolutely. And she started to go, and I went, be very careful.

[A]

What. Because what were you setting her up for?

[C]

You, Venezuela. Because Putin was like, you can't do that to Venezuela.

[B]

Stone cold stunner.

[A]

Yeah, I, I mean, you gave her the beer.

[C]

Yeah, my dad sent me the meme yesterday after the show. It was like the end of Rocky. Like, ain't gonna be no rematch. Don't want one.

[A]

Is she coming on Shadowcast? Yeah.

[C]

Yeah. So she and I have talked a little bit. She'll be on. I think what I want to do, though, is. And she is very used to dealing with the legacy media.

[A]

The argue. I'm gonna argue over you. Yeah.

[B]

Alex Jones, those guys.

[C]

It is, it is dog eat dog. And so it's very, very hard to.

[A]

Yeah. To make her sign a be nice clause.

[C]

She just, Dude, I mean, like, I mean, give her credit, man. She's a pitbull about that stuff.

[B]

She is. My reflection on that is, though, is her beginning message. If you go back, I kind of Breeze through it again. Her, her message was kind of different from the beginning, where America was great and she came here and succeeded to. America sucks and nobody really wants.

[A]

That was the whole premise. I was trying to tell her, like, you got, you got a bunch of people in the, in the chats that aren't looking for gotcha moments. They're. They're hearing, America gave me opportunity and America sucks. That's what everybody was hearing. That's, I mean, just broad strokes. That's what they're hearing. And I was trying to tell her. And then when we would ask her simple questions, we would get. So it started in Latin America and I said, you can't do that. She goes, you want to short. You want, you want the answer? She goes, there was once a senator. And I'm like, stop, man. You can't do that.

[C]

And, and I mean, that's the thing is that, you know, just like everybody has a learning curve. She's gonna have a learning curve for us. Yeah.

[B]

And comparing anything to Switzerland, I mean, I mean, I wouldn't look, man, demographics, like, even Georgia is 85.

[A]

You wouldn't be allowed in Switzerland.

[B]

Switzerland's like 90 ethnic. Yeah, they're all the same people. And Georgia is 85. They're all their own people. There's no foreigners in those countries. So it's very. And then I wanted to flex a little bit. They have like a 80,000 person army. Like, we just clean them up in like 15 minutes.

[C]

I mean, I was waiting for the eight. Not one of those cops over there in Switzerland pulled over a Ultima.

[B]

I was waiting you literally to visit. You like, to visit Switzerland. You have to show them you have money, like to get in to get like a tourist visa. You gota be like, yeah, I got money. I'm not a hood rat. Like, I can afford to come here. Yeah, like, come on time.

[C]

It's, it's. You know, I think I said that. I was like, you're comparing apples to pears.

[B]

There's no way. It's no way.

[C]

I mean, Georgia, the country has less people than Georgia the state, but I.

[A]

Think she knows what she's doing.

[B]

She does good at it.

[A]

I mean, she came here for shot.

[B]

She came here because of Kennedy.

[A]

It's shot. Yeah. It's shock value. She knew she was going to. She was like, I mean, and what Heather was saying, she's like, does she know your demographics, like half military? Is she just all over the military? Like, you can leave the military.

[B]

Yeah, stop defending your communist shitty country.

[C]

It's like, I mean, and I mean she, she understands the game.

[B]

Yes. Because people are gonna go comment on her page.

[C]

Exactly.

[B]

And then she reels them in. Yeah, she throws that, a very good accent in everybody's.

[A]

People were like, I'd let her talk me into a. Yeah.

[B]

She can have my tricare.

[C]

It's like, I mean it, I mean, what are there some guys from 7th group just licking their lips listening to her?

[B]

Yeah, that super chat. But before you bring that super chat, Lewis, go to the, I just sent an email with that, what Liz is talking about.

[A]

He said.

[B]

Yep, do it his way. Go to the, go to the email. Go to the email. Bring up that picture I just sent. There we go. Just sent it. There it is now.

[A]

Quick, Lewis, good job.

[B]

This is now put the super chat up there all together. Put it all together like one big family. There we go. So There's a missing 17 year old girl, Haley Busby, last seen on January 5th. And this is going to make it all the way to Dayline. Liz sent this to me. I wanted to make sure we put this up so it gets some exposure and we appreciate the super chat.

[C]

Liz.

[B]

There we go now, now it all comes down.

[C]

Fantastic.

[B]

Look at that.

[C]

Not fantastic that she's missing.

[B]

So I mean I'm more, more clipped out. Has anybody checked Jimmy's house? Has anybody checked. Jimmy was gone a week and he had a, a missing, we have a missing person. She's super cool. I mean, what, she's really not missing.

[C]

Guys, guys, what are we talking about here?

[A]

Pride assassin. In with $5. Thanks, bro.

[C]

Thank you, dude. Yeah, I mean it's, I'll tell you what, man, like being gone for a week, like I had no idea how much I missed the community in the chat. Yeah, I mean I really missed you guys. I mean.

[B]

Yeah, you came back with protein bars though.

[C]

I, dude, getting after it.

[A]

Dude, you're gonna see a new Jimmy here soon.

[C]

Jimmy's gonna get back to where he was.

[A]

Jimmy ate so bad that chocolate protein bars. He was like, this is disgusting. I'm like, they're meant to taste good. He's like, this sucks.

[C]

I, I, what I said was, I forgot how much this sucks.

[B]

I'm off my rocker right now. I'm eating bad, I mean bad.

[A]

Oh, you're eating bad in February 1st.

[B]

I kick it in. My cruise is like the 22nd, so it gives me six weeks.

[A]

So how many days you have to eat?

[B]

Like another eight days.

[A]

Oh, man.

[C]

And then we got, we go on.

[B]

The local donut shop, grabbing donuts like, I'm all in.

[C]

Are we doing a crash? Like, cut. Like, we're getting ready for weight.

[A]

I'm not dieting, everybody. It's everything for himself.

[B]

Juice and jacked.

[C]

Yeah, I'm gonna have to get back on the. I'm gonna have to get back on the gear.

[A]

I started Anavar or no, I've started Anavar again, but I just started DECA too. And I'm like, oh, I'm taking HBTRT, you know, died.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Not diagnosed me. Prescribed me 0.25 of like a. Like this much in the syringe once a week. And Mike's like, yeah, I used to take 300. I was like, 300 was the first time. I mean, I was like, okay.

[B]

I mean, well, it's only one. Did you do it in a three time, four time? No way.

[C]

Do it the thigh or the butt.

[A]

I have my wife do it.

[C]

Oh, my God. Like, I. I like, I hate needles. That was the big. That was the hardest part about being.

[A]

Yeah, dude.

[C]

Oh, my God.

[A]

I was like, heather, can you stick me? And she's like, I'm like, all the things I do for you all day long. I don't ask you to do anything but just stick with a butt with.

[C]

No, you're not doing it right here on Nice.

[A]

Gay.

[C]

It's not gay. It's not.

[B]

That's.

[A]

That.

[B]

That. That is one thing that's not gay. The mission comes first.

[C]

I mean, I mean, realistically, we should get, you know, we should be able to write it off as a tax write off since it's branding.

[A]

Okay. It's funny you say that. So I'm an owner of hptrt, so I get free stuff and we write it off as a. As owner expenses. But I was like, man, the. The tattoos, the. The juice, like, everything that comes with being on camera should be a tax write off. Apparently Heather was also telling me that only fans girls tried it and they got it got.

[C]

Oh, yeah, they got hit.

[B]

The go was like, no, you can.

[A]

Write off a lot of like, not tattoos. If it's like, look like the way I do it, like, okay, I'm on camera a lot. I want to look the part. So steroids and tattoos go into the branding? Yeah. The government said, absolutely not. We're not ready for that.

[C]

So, dude, I mean, like, the. The hot tax hit the only fans models hard.

[A]

The hotag. What that.

[C]

So they. They were making money on only fans and they weren't paying taxes at all.

[B]

Yeah, that's what. So like Biden did That. Yeah.

[C]

And so like it. Yeah. But it didn't go into effect until now.

[A]

So they're getting retroactively taxed or just now that one.

[D]

I don't know.

[C]

I'll have to look into it. Probably not, but I know that they are gonna have to start paying taxes. And so all these only fans, girls.

[A]

We have to pay what the. Our YouTube, our stream yard. Like, every thing sends us the tax information because they take their cut and then we get taxed on it again.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

It's hard to make money.

[B]

Abigail, buddy. Abigail.

[C]

Well, I mean, talk to her.

[B]

I already talked to her. We're good.

[A]

I honestly think we should just make. I need to make the trip over there.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And we need to sit down and be like, here's the spreadsheets. Here's.

[B]

Yep, yep. She's doing my personal stuff. And she's very good.

[C]

So that's.

[A]

It's probably higher for my personal stuff, too.

[B]

She's very good.

[A]

The clothing line, Heather said they tried implant. Oh, that's what it was. They tried writing off their fake boobs.

[B]

Yeah. It's like.

[A]

It makes sense.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

I mean. But no, I mean, here's something else that you can.

[A]

Because I could write off my wife's tits.

[C]

Here's what. But here's what.

[A]

She's on a podcast and she.

[C]

I didn't know that.

[A]

I'm sorry. I thought everybody knew that.

[C]

I. I. First of all. First of all, you're. You're. I mean, no offense to your wife or your wife, but you're. They're both pixelated to me.

[D]

Like.

[C]

Like, they're like our show. Yeah.

[D]

They're Minecraft characters.

[C]

Like, they're. They're nameless, great faces. Like, I know who you are, but, like, I'm. I'm. You know, I'm on mission here. And because I got. I got my wife back home, that'll.

[B]

You know, I'm gonna tell the joke.

[C]

Tell the joke.

[B]

It's not even a joke. It's a true story. And she said I could tell it.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

My wife, everybody thinks she's, like, hardcore, you know, shooter, all that stuff. She's. She's funny. She's very funny. So the other night, go in the room. You know, when the dogs are out of the room and the door shut? You know, it goes on when the dogs are out of the room, door shut. She's tired. She says, you know, I'm really tired.

[A]

Can you just. You know, Mike's like, can we, Bruce Almighty?

[B]

She's like, can we.

[D]

Can we?

[B]

Go, can we go easy tonight? And I was like, I'll. I'll just take a hand job. And she goes, quote, damn, bro, you're ordering off the dollar menu tonight. And I looked at her and I said, that is the funniest thing I've ever heard say. Like, didn't miss a beat, literally. And I was. I told last night. I told it to Dom last night live on Hot Top. Now I getting all the Mick jokes in my DMs, but that was, that was. That was top notch.

[A]

Like, shark quick. No waiting.

[B]

Just waiting right there. She's like, damn, bro, you're ordered off the dollar menu tonight. And I was like, I figured Clint would appreciate that story.

[C]

Yeah, you know, one of the. One of the other things that people can do. By the way, that's be rubbing. Yeah, that's what reminds me.

[B]

Put your breath on.

[D]

It's never safe. Joanna.

[C]

Guys are all tacked out.

[B]

She is one of a kind. She gets. She had to take her car for service. What does every cop do? Jump in their civilian clothes?

[C]

Take.

[B]

Drive their car to the state. Full uniform this morning, dude. Load it up. Yeah, I never did that to the station. Dropped it off her oil change. She's about it, dude. But that, like I said, she's very serious. But she's also. She got a pretty good scuffle the other day.

[C]

Oh, yeah, somebody's ass.

[B]

Yeah, well, she didn't whip anybody's. I don't want to get a ia, but she did very well. And she's.

[C]

She's.

[A]

Can we break down the body cam when it's Bill.

[B]

I'll. I'll get that. I want to. I want to get it. The body cam wouldn't be able to be the. Have to get the video from inside Walmart, but. Oh, shoplifter six two, black male that at the end said, damn, you're strong. She came home and told me she's busted up. Like, that's what's cool about her. Like, black guy scratches all over. She's like, whatever, just doing this.

[A]

Did you say black guy or black eye?

[B]

Black guy, too, but black guy, black guy.

[A]

Like, black guy gave her a black.

[C]

I can't say that that it. But it's cool.

[B]

It's like, you know, you see all the knock on females and the knock on even the male cops that can't do the job. And I'm just like, my wife can.

[C]

Oh, man.

[B]

And today a spouse, even though she took him into custody and did. I am responsible for her success. I am responsible for the arrest. I am responsible for her. Just so you guys know. It's my.

[C]

I mean. I mean, how. How is she going to perform well at work if she's got problems at work? By the same token, I always use a big word there, but I stopped myself.

[B]

He dropped one yesterday, too. And I couldn't even say it too.

[A]

By the way.

[B]

Don't want to forget what's happened.

[A]

I got a good story, too, but only.

[B]

Oh, you dropped one yesterday. But it was in the middle of the free.

[C]

For all.

[B]

We're all pieces of.

[A]

Yeah, me and Mike looked up anonymously. Or anonymous. It's a. Not. Analogy. Was a core word. Analogous.

[C]

Analogous. Yeah.

[B]

Now. Yes. So like Snuffleupagus. So one of the.

[C]

I was watching Justified last night.

[A]

A good show.

[C]

Great show. So Boyd Crowder, great actor. Great.

[A]

Remember that guy? Yeah, he was in the Shield.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Walton Goggins. Yeah, he. So he's in Fallout now. And so he kind of perfected the character. So basically, Boyd Crowder from Justified is the character that he's playing in Fallout now. It's the same accent. It's the same kind of guy. And then he used the word innocuous. And the main character looks at it. What the does that mean? And he goes, innocuous. It's a word. It means blah, blah, blah. And I was like, I've used that. I was like, that must have been where I got it, because that show came out.

[B]

Have you guys seen the rip. I watched it.

[A]

I watched it last Friday. I watched it two nights ago for a Netflix movie. It tricked the. Out of me. Low budget Netflix movie.

[B]

But it was good.

[A]

It was low budget. I knew.

[B]

It was. It was. It was. It was low budget.

[A]

It made me. It made me miss the job for like, two hours. I was like, yeah, because it's Hollywood.

[B]

We were talking about it and her and I. Obviously, her and I watching it. Two cops. And we're like, oh, this is what. But as it got going and a little scene started in the house, and I'm just like. And she's like, it's Matt. Damn. Like, no, that would be too obvious. It's not Matt Damon. It's not him. Like, I was like, it can't be. And then as it started going on, you do. But I'm like, don't give it away, you. I won't. It's like, you can't. It couldn't be.

[C]

It was.

[B]

It would have been too hot but for a low budget, those two. But Matt Damon age, dude.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Ben Affleck still looks like Ben Affleck, but it was cool. I couldn't look at the Asian dude.

[A]

Because of Walking Dead.

[B]

Walking Dead. He got his skull smashed in. I'm like, I can't look at him any other way than Walking Dead.

[A]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[C]

You gotta watch it.

[A]

Really did.

[C]

Don't forget your story.

[B]

The ending sucks. The ending sucked. The ending is, like, stupid out the window, all that dumb stuff.

[A]

But the ending took forever. You could actually, if you pause it and there's 15 minutes left, you can stop the movie. I'm like, there's 15 minutes left.

[B]

One goes one way and one goes the other.

[C]

Is it like Den of Thieves? Is it around?

[A]

No.

[C]

Okay.

[A]

It is not on the caliber. I would never put them in in the same movie store.

[B]

Very good, Justin.

[C]

Yeah. Damon looks old because he spent so much time on Mars.

[A]

All right, my story. Wife story. Me and my wife were in a heated discussion about finances, as we call it, as all adults are. And we were talking about. We are talking about what we are going to do with my retirement money from when I was a cop. You know, they're strategic. And I go. And I made the snide comment of I may. I said this. I go, well, it's. It's my money. I earned it. And she goes. She goes. Without a hit, she goes. Barely. It's like, good argument. I went, oh, that was good.

[B]

You did more than he did. You're a law enforcement spouse. Today's your day, Heather. You're entitled to 75 of that money. Yeah.

[C]

You get.

[B]

You could put the.

[C]

The green flashy lights on the car and everybody.

[A]

Barely.

[B]

Beautiful. Those Chipotle parking lot meals really paid off.

[C]

God damn, man.

[B]

That's really good. That's really. That's right up there with the McCann job.

[A]

I had to laugh. That's really good. Laugh. It was good.

[B]

Very good.

[A]

All right, so should we get into one of the topics? Barely.

[B]

We're having such a good time.

[D]

I mean, I, I.

[C]

You know, Clint, by the way, I wasn't there.

[B]

I would have definitely doubled down on that one. That would have been one of those.

[A]

Just can't even stand up.

[B]

Show me the lie. Show me the lie.

[C]

It's almost like Springer Mori.

[A]

Yeah. Heather claims her husband did nothing.

[B]

She's attempting to get 75 of his retirement.

[A]

Yeah. To be fair to her, like, when I was with her, I was. I was checked out. I was on day shift.

[D]

Oh, no.

[A]

I was on street crimes for a little bit with her, but all I did is I hated it. Was like, they were sending us out there to do these jobs. They were frying us when we up. It was like, the job is one Harmonisen.

[B]

Oh, okay.

[A]

I love that. The only time, Mike, I'm telling you, the only time I ever missed it was when I last Friday. Friday nights is my real movie night. And Heather fell asleep early. I'm like, oh, this is it. I got in bed. She felt him on the couch, big screen. I put on the rip. And I was like, man, yeah.

[C]

They were just waiting for the thumbnail to be the rip up.

[B]

We didn't even talk about we can do it. We didn't even talk about watching it. I just watch. It went Tuesday night.

[A]

The rip.

[B]

Yeah, I just watched it.

[A]

Like.

[B]

We didn't even talk about watching it until today. Oh, yeah. But it. Was it the same thing? Because when they got going and like, the UC stuff, I'm like, yeah, working.

[A]

The informant, the stash out he goes, vest up.

[B]

I was like, dude, yes. But they didn't mess up too long into that. So the whole premise of the movie.

[A]

Is because they know it's. I don't want to ruin it for everybody, but there's an intimate threat coming, and they stay there.

[B]

Eminent.

[A]

Eminent.

[B]

Not an intimate. Intimate was what me and Jojo had with the imminent. Eminent.

[A]

No, it's imminent.

[B]

Imminent. You said intimate.

[A]

No, I said imminent.

[C]

It's whatever was said.

[B]

Well, bring up the replay. Hey, clip it.

[C]

Yeah, it's eminent.

[A]

Yes. All right. Oh, it's eminent.

[C]

Yeah, it's eminent.

[A]

I thought it was imminent.

[B]

Eminent.

[C]

Danger. I mean, dude, it's tomato. Tomato.

[A]

But how's it spelled?

[C]

I, M, M, E, N. Ah, imminent.

[A]

Spelled with an eye. Yeah. Eminent. We can just say whatever we want. Amen it.

[C]

I don't know if you want to do it. I mean, like Clint said, Elizabeth. Elizabeth knows Quran.

[B]

Sometimes I do things on purpose, but I don't really. Like this morning, I didn't. I. I on purpose, intentionally didn't. Intentionally not answering my wife three times when she was. You ever have her?

[A]

Like, I did the same thing.

[B]

Ask you to do something. She's like, hey, bro, can you do my teeth?

[A]

And I'm like, I can hear Telling me to do things. I'm like, I can just say. I can't hear it because I'm right.

[B]

She said it, and I started to go do it, but she said it three times. She's like, do you hear me? And I'm like, yeah, but in my head, I'm going to do it. I'm just not acknowledging that you asked me to do it.

[A]

That's my. One thing I have is to piss you off and not acknowledge you, dude.

[C]

Well, I mean, like, I. I mean, there's legitimately times where I'm. I, like, look at people. I'm like, what the did you just say? Like, I. I can't hear it.

[A]

It sounds like, oh, hearing also is a huge problem.

[B]

Yeah, you can't hear anything. No, I'll give you that. I. I definitely heard her, and it was like, in my head, I'm going. I definitely. I'm gonna go do it. And she's, like, firing at me as I'm moving.

[D]

Do you hear me? Do you hear me?

[A]

Do you hear me?

[B]

Like, yeah, I heard you said. Well, say you heard me. I'm like, well, I'm going to do it. She's like, I don't know what the you're going to do. Just say you heard me.

[C]

I'm like, yeah, dude, I. I have. I have that.

[A]

That thing, too.

[C]

Like, if I. If I say something to you, like, hey, can you do this? And you're just like, it doesn't look like you're paying attention. It's like, hey, could you just acknowledge my existence for, like, two seconds? Just let me know you heard me. Yeah, because otherwise, I'll just go do.

[B]

It in restaurants that y' all heard.

[A]

Oh, really?

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Heard. Yeah.

[B]

86 to carrots. Heard you got to do that.

[A]

I mean, we get that from the army, though. Moving.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, moving.

[C]

Moving.

[A]

I mean, you would say moving if it was like, hey, I need someone to mop the floor.

[B]

Moving.

[A]

That's.

[B]

Unless you swat. You got to do, like, the. You got to do all the hand signals.

[C]

And they. They started that in basic training.

[B]

The SWAT signals.

[D]

Yes, sir.

[B]

I understood. Get your pants. You know, moving, man.

[C]

Dude, this. Some of the. Some of the SWAT guys, man. I. Oh, my God. I. I'll have to. I'll have to go back and look at it. I had. I had a run in with one.

[A]

Oh, really?

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

This.

[A]

This weekend, Were they kicking down the.

[B]

Trap in your house? No. The cups are too tight.

[A]

No.

[B]

Welcome back, J. I wasn't in jail, guys.

[C]

And that was, like, the joke last night. Like, hey, did they finally bail you out? It's like, because everybody thought I was gone because it was Martin Luther King Day and I was still in jail.

[B]

Yeah. No court here. Long weekend.

[C]

No, I. I had a. I had a conversation with a guy who. Up in Ocala who was.

[A]

Wait, Rotate back, Jimmy. No, no, go to Jimmy. No, rotate a little bit backwards. Rotate your chair. No, other way. Look at that. Look at your right arm. I was already. Definition just by diet.

[C]

Get the out. It doesn't happen that fast.

[A]

It does happen when you lose a couple pounds. That everybody. Everybody sees it differently. I see it in my face.

[B]

I gained a couple.

[C]

It's this turkey neck, man.

[A]

You get it in your neck.

[B]

You notice I haven't been shaving my neck, right? That's the. That's camouflage.

[C]

Yeah, dude.

[D]

My.

[C]

My, dude, it's. It's the Arnett curse. My granddad had it. My. My dad has it, and I knew it was coming, and then I saw it in the mirror one day, and I was like, I'm gonna have to start doing those tongue exercises. Pull this thing up.

[B]

I was like, yo, those are on the dollar menu, too.

[A]

All right, let's get into it.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Sorry, guys. 40 minutes.

[A]

We got 40 minutes. So we'll what. Dom's coming on at.

[B]

Right after noon, after the break.

[A]

So did you want to cover the Portland with him? Got two cops shot in Portland.

[B]

Portland one is just two cops shot and no suspect pictures. And on the run. Not really. Dom. I'd rather go the hot topic with the main topic.

[A]

Uvaldi.

[B]

Yeah, he'll have a lot to say about that.

[A]

All right, well, we'll cover Uvalde and the court case when we get back from commercial break. Halfway through. Let's. Let's hit kick this off with Greenland.

[C]

Oh, yeah.

[B]

Okay. Did you.

[A]

Did you like my reel when I compared. I was just asking, what's the difference between Trump and Hitler? Trump and Putin. Yeah, it's. Is it just the way he's doing. It's different. Is it because we're America?

[B]

There's actually a huge update on that today, too.

[C]

Yeah. So I've got. Yeah, there's a lot going on with Greenland. So Trump was at the. The World Economic Forum, which is, I mean, pretty standard. I mean, have you ever seen, like, some of the rooms that they have their meetings in? It looks like they're on the Death Star. Like, could you possibly be more Dr. Evil than you guys are right now.

[A]

Floating in the thing?

[C]

Yeah, it's just like, oh, my God, you guys. But basically, I mean, I've got a whole bunch of notes. But here's the thing. So first of all, pull up. Lewis, will you please pull up the. The picture that I sent you? It's. So we need to cover, you know, number one, why the. Is Greenland important? Do you guys know?

[A]

No.

[C]

Okay.

[B]

Jimmy knows that's what you're here for.

[C]

Yes, that's. Tell me.

[A]

I'm assuming strategy.

[C]

It is strategically. All right, so right here we have. This is called the Bush, the, the Juke Gap, the Greenland, Iceland, UK gap. So you can see.

[A]

Wait a minute. You never knew Bush said that in a strategy. He said strategically.

[B]

So many dumb things, dude.

[A]

All right, go ahead.

[C]

So this is the. If you look at the map, right? So you got Greenland up at the top, Iceland in the middle, and the UK is down there at the bottom. And you see that big red line, right? So this is. Think of this as like standard first person shooter tactics, right? We want to pull. We. There's a choke point. We're going to cover that choke point. So on this line is what we call the SOSIS warning nets.

[A]

The what?

[C]

Sosis.

[A]

Sosis warning nets.

[C]

Yeah. So it's submerged underwater. It's basically a, a passive sonar listening system. Remember I told you guys when the guys went down to the Titanic and they died and, and the United States knew about it within four minutes? Yeah, that's because of this. It's because of. So, all right, so if you look up there where the arrow is, you can see where my mansk is. That is the only naval base that the Russians have.

[A]

The one up top, on the top, right?

[C]

And Romansk, I mean, they also have Archangelisk too, but this is where they keep their ballistic missile submarines. A lot of their surface fleets, the biggest threats, obviously, the submarines, right? Any invasion route or any.

[A]

It's going to cut through that red.

[C]

Cut through that red line. Okay. On top of that, any nuclear strike, whether it's intercontinental ballistic missiles or aircraft, have to go through this area. So if you've got Greenland, Iceland and the UK you've got. You can cover it with sonar, you can cover it with radar. You can intercept them before they get close to the United States. That is why Greenland is important. All right? And one of the things that is the problem is that we are looking at this going like, hey guys, we are in a war. War, we are. The word that we actually need to use is strategic competitors. We are strategic competitors with Russia.

[A]

So is the problem is that it's like renting. We're renting Greenland, but it's just cheaper to buy it. No, because will they let us do what we want there?

[C]

No, that's the problem is that we want to do a lot more stuff. We, we want to do hood rat stuff with our friends.

[A]

Yeah, we want, we want to. I mean, like Mike said, I want to take your Lunch. But don't maybe take it, man. Just give me a lunch.

[B]

I think I need it. He pulled that yesterday, I think he did. Yeah.

[C]

He basically said, you know, I could do it. I. I could do. I mean, I have his. I have his quotes. So, I mean, I came in this morning, and I did my. I did my notes in my truck because I didn't want to do anything like get in here and get distracted. So anyway. So where did it go? Did I delete it? I can't have deleted it.

[B]

Couldn't have, Jimmy.

[A]

No.

[C]

No, I did not. All right, So I. Because I want. I have the quote because it's. It's really good. We probably won't get anything unless I decide to use excessive strength and force where we would be, frankly, unstoppable. But I won't do that. I won't do it. I won't use force. I won't use force. All the United States is asking for is a place called Greenland.

[A]

This word. Just let us have it, man.

[C]

I could do it. I could do it. Don't make me do it, guys. I mean, I could do it, but.

[A]

I could do it.

[B]

He threatened tariffs on. Oh, yeah, 10 countries.

[C]

Yeah, they're all NATO allies.

[B]

But what I understand, they. They came to agreement.

[C]

So those were the guys that sent troops to Greenland. And he was like, oh, you want to play around?

[B]

10.

[C]

Terror Tariff on everything. And it was like, pack it up, man. The war's over. What was really great about that was because France sent one. They were the first to capitulate, put their guys back. Back on aircraft to get them out of there.

[A]

Okay. So when we were taxing them on American, we just.

[C]

We just threatened it.

[B]

And then within 24 hours, they all went back. Never mind.

[C]

So they had sent, like, an advon for those that don't know. Like, when we get ready to deploy, we send a group of people to kind of like, go into the sector first and get it ready for us. They had sent this advent of, like, a bunch of different troops. The UK had sent some people. Germany had sent some people. France had sent a lot of people. I think Denmark had sent some people. And we basically said, oh, wait, you guys want us to be ready for Russia? You won't pay your part in NATO, and you won't let us do what we need to do to protect ourselves by having Greenland. Fine, you. Tariffs, everybody, tariffs. And they were like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, we're done.

[B]

Never mind.

[A]

My bad, my bad.

[C]

So they're out. So now it's basically I. I kind of feel for the. The people that live in Greenland. They don't want to be Americans. I kind of don't blame them, you know?

[A]

Have you been talking to Elizabeth Lane?

[C]

Look, it's not about whether or not.

[A]

I don't blame them.

[C]

I don't blame them because if somebody.

[B]

Was like, jimmy, hey, hey, anti American supporter. Yeah.

[C]

Hey, American Samoa, we want you to be part of China now. And they're like, no, we want to be part of the United States. And, you know, I. I would be like, yeah, they should be allowed to pick who they want. That's. That's how I feel about it.

[B]

We're gonna see a bunch of little kids waving.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

American flags.

[C]

So.

[B]

But you would. I mean, you would argue that's important for the safety of the world.

[A]

That's what I'm saying. Okay, here's the thing, is that. Oh. America takes care of the entire world. And when we need something like that to continue to take care of the world, the world calls America a bad guy. It's kind of like. I mean, it's like your dad, America's dad. Hey, I need to do this in order to provide for my family. And your family's bitching at you. No, I don't want to do it. Like. No, it's. Dad.

[C]

Yeah. Yeah. Like, I.

[A]

In order to protect you and look out for you and do the things I need to do for you.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

I have to have Greenland.

[C]

It's sort of like your kids saying, dad, I would really like you to get me a new Xbox. And you're like, cool. Mow the grass. Well, no, I don't want to do that. Okay, fine. Then here's what I'm gonna have to do. Like, you're gonna have to stop getting so much of this other thing.

[A]

No cookies.

[C]

No, no, no, no, no, no. Okay, well, then you. You're not getting your goddamn Xbox.

[B]

Yep. So no warhammer for you, kid. Yeah, exactly.

[A]

Warhammer.

[C]

Expensive, bro.

[A]

And it.

[C]

That's what. Really. I mean, it's a. It's a protection racket where we are the ones getting exploited. So we. They. They want protection from. For. They want protection. They want us to provide it against a Russia who. They are the ones that have created the strategic adversarial conflict between us and Russia. They're very happy to let us send every bit of ordinance and stuff so that poor grunts can die in trenches. Right now, there are guys dying in the trenches in Ukraine, Russians that are getting killed by American missiles and American bombs and American artillery. That we gave them, and they're happy to let us do that. But when we were like, hey, could we please put some more in Greenland to protect ourselves? Oh, no, you can't do that. Go yourself. You know, you guys started this. I. I'm the one that has to.

[B]

And that's where, like, yesterday, I disagree with her. Like, you just said, like, we always are when everything goes bad in the world. It's like, you got. You got. What are you guys doing?

[A]

You got this.

[B]

You coming? Yeah. And it's like, no, we're gonna stand.

[C]

Oh, you guys are terrible.

[B]

You're not getting ability. Then we go take care of Venezuela, and now we're taking terrible for going down there tickets. There's no win. It's just like your dad. There's no win for dad. You know, dad has to beat your ass because you're acting up. He's a bad guy. Dad gets you the, you know, the Xbox, but he doesn't get you the Super X. But, oh, dad.

[A]

Dad has to cut funds. Yeah, there's not a lot of money coming.

[B]

Like, you're still good, but you don't make sure you couldn't get the extra chips this week.

[D]

And that's.

[B]

So everybody's like, you got. What are you guys doing? And then you go do it. And they're like, oh, what'd you do that for? And it's never. It's never the right answer.

[C]

What's even worse is that like. Like, a lot of these people in Europe will go, hey. The Only time Article 5 has ever been initiated was during the global war on terror to go into Afghanistan. We all went. Okay. We all wore the patch in Afghanistan that said isaf. Oh, I. Yeah, the ISAF patch. So NATO went to Afghanistan with us. France was there. The UK was there. A lot of people were there. But the ISAF patch, which stood for International Security and Assistance Forces, Afghanistan, we all just said it stands for. I saw Americans fight because they didn't do.

[A]

Is there. Is there a statistic out there that shows the amount of troops every country sent for?

[C]

I can pull that up because I.

[A]

Remember somebody saying, like, Australia, like, at one point, and Iraq had six people. Like, just stay home, dude.

[C]

Yeah, we're just trying to get on. So that's. That's a little different than Afghanistan because Afghanistan was NATO. It was a NATO mission. Iraq was the coalition of the willing. Remember that? We're like, we're going to put together a coalition of the willow for the strategy that we're about to do. Okay? And it was pretty much just us in the U.K. over in Iraq. But like, and we gave the U.K. like the, the least hot sector. We gave them all the way down in Basra.

[A]

Please handle this part.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

And not to say they didn't have some problems. I'm not, I'm not sure on the UK guys, but like Basra was not as hot as say, Solder City or Ramadi or Fallujah or Baghdad or any of those other places. So I mean, I think the only. There were a couple of UK units that really did some cool stuff in Afghanistan. And the best video I ever saw of the French ever fighting was their French Foreign Legion. And they are literally like bayonet charging these Taliban and like running past the spider hole and like one guy throws a grenade and another guy throws a grenade.

[A]

Oh, like real fighting.

[C]

Yeah, like, but that was their Foreign Legion. It was, it wasn't the French, it was the Foreign Legion.

[A]

I'm earning my freedom, baby citizenship.

[C]

So, I mean the Greenland, Greenland is, is very, very important to the United States. It's important to, it's important to the you, to Europe in general. But these, these western Europeans are. Dude, they have no dog in this fight. They have no skin in this game.

[A]

Europe is a lost cause to me. They have always been giant. They always have. And she's like, oh, the Elizabeth was like, look at Europe. They're not. You're not the only ones with refugees. And Mike's like, yeah, they're chopping people up in the streets.

[B]

Yeah. Video yesterday, running around with a goddamn. He stabbed two kids in the park and then ran around like in a stroller. He runs up to a stroller and he's the only stabbing kid. Everybod just people are jogging by.

[D]

Nobody's.

[B]

No guns anywhere. There's not a gun in sight. You can't stop him. And he's a middle aged, Middle east, middle aged male dude stabbing people in a kid's park.

[C]

I'm sorry.

[B]

Like a little. Kids are swinging.

[C]

Yeah, it's so.

[D]

That's great.

[B]

That sounds great.

[C]

It's. I mean again, the last two world wars started over you Europeans.

[A]

Did you, did you get, did you get vibes of yesterday's show that she could be. What do you call them, people that are working for maybe another entity trying to convince their sole job is to convince Americans to lose their pride.

[C]

I. What?

[A]

I. If there was a hundred thousand Elizabeth Lanes out there, we'd be in trouble. Weak minded people would be like, you're right.

[C]

No, I, I don't Think she can.

[B]

Do it with that delivery? No, because you're gonna get southern conservatives.

[A]

That the KGB probably called her and was like, that was bad. You need to redo your approach.

[C]

I. I'm. I'm. I would say that she is a very much a product of that western European mindset. Yeah. And so even though she is here in the United States, she. She. She's not stupid. She knows what side bread is buttered on, man. She knows that she's got a good.

[B]

Again, go back.

[A]

I've never heard that term jesting.

[B]

That was pretty good.

[D]

What's that?

[B]

I just know aside is because.

[A]

Don't with me.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

So, like, she lives here now. She loves America because of the opportunity, right?

[A]

No, she won't admit that.

[B]

Well, she likes it because of the opportunity she's been given.

[A]

No, no.

[B]

What was it?

[A]

She likes it because her friends aren't as close.

[D]

Okay.

[B]

That's why. But.

[C]

Next one.

[A]

Pick another one.

[B]

She suggests everybody quits the military.

[A]

Guess what?

[B]

America's it like, you're asking for guys to stop protecting what you want to. You want to be here, Right? She wants to be here. She doesn't like it. But then just everybody quit the military. Don't go fight for your country. We're not going to have a country for you to like or dislike anymore.

[C]

It's. It. It was a specious argument.

[A]

Argument.

[C]

It was completely.

[B]

It's a good one.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Still pay for it.

[C]

Yeah. It's.

[A]

So the.

[C]

The thing is, is that, you know, and you said, like, hey, I joined for this reason, and I joined for relatively the same reasons, like, I wanted to be a soldier, like my dad and I wanted to do that. And then by the time we were deep into the g wat, it was like, I can't get out. All my buddies are going back to Iraq. I can't. I can't get out. I felt she was guilty.

[B]

She was basically suggesting, like, the. Our whole government's crooked, so all military.

[C]

Guys should just stop supporting.

[D]

Okay.

[A]

Yeah. Now, that's.

[B]

That's what she was saying.

[C]

Unconstitutional.

[B]

Really?

[C]

What she was saying? Yeah, that. That's completely against.

[B]

Even if some of it is bad. She's not looking at. She refused to look at any of the good, which is, we do protect grimmigrants when they come here legal. We do protect people. There are programs for people that people get help in the United States. It's still the greatest country in the world. She refuses to talk about that. And there are flaws, but if you don't like It. Like, I said, go to.

[A]

You're the only one. America's the only one that says that. Like, yeah, because we're America. Correct.

[C]

I don't know if Mike, I think got it. I was like, tell me in moon landing units.

[B]

Yeah, that was, like, the only time.

[C]

I was like, yeah, moon landing.

[B]

I hate to sound so stupid and so like, well, if you don't like it, get out, because it's overused. But that's the case. Like, it's so bad. Why are we having an immigration issue where. Well, everybody came. Now it sucks, and they can't go back. Okay, well, we have a whole government entity trying to take them all back.

[A]

We're trying to help.

[B]

We're paying them to go back. Here's a check.

[C]

I mean, go back. If Georgia, the state had a war with Georgia, the country, Georgia, the state would win. Georgia. I mean, the. The Georgia football team would win.

[B]

The Hotlanta would win. The rappers in Atlanta would win.

[C]

Yeah, dude. Atlanta, no joke.

[A]

Pride Assassin says fighting aged males are cowards, not refugees. Yeah, Yeah.

[C]

I. I mean, first of all, my biggest issue with all of that is when you see these people groups moving into Western Europe and you look and it's like, they ain't a kid and there ain't a woman in sight. It's all finally fighting age males. It's like, what the. Are you guys run. Where did you. You know what happened? You know exactly what happened. They left their women and kids behind and they got themselves out because they. The vast majority of them. I. I've seen it personally.

[D]

And then.

[B]

And then get on there and comment negative about your government. They come to your house and ask you why you wrote that on Facebook. I mean, throw you in jail.

[D]

But it's great.

[B]

It's great over there.

[C]

I want you guys to just do a thought experiment with me. Do you think that we could go over to Israel right now and tell them that they shouldn't have Jewish stuff in their schools?

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

And that they need to be inclusive of Christianity and Islam.

[B]

Oh, you'd be toast.

[C]

You'd be done. But they could do it to us.

[A]

You, dude.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

That's a great point, Jimmy.

[B]

Go anywhere.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Go to Russia. You guys are doing this all wrong. Yeah, you're doing it all wrong.

[C]

You're. I mean, like, you will be like, you know, you think we got jump out boys in the United States. FSB is not a group to.

[B]

Almost there.

[C]

The break.

[B]

But everybody keeps talking about this. San Jose. I got the video. You want to watch it real quick.

[A]

Yeah. Before the break.

[B]

Bring that video up. This is in San Jose. This is. This is one way to end a gunfight. One officer was shot and injured. He's okay, I believe, but this is how it ended. Suspect we were. He tried to hit the police vehicle of his body so they had to feed him again.

[C]

The Grady job.

[A]

He attacked my front bumper with his limp body.

[B]

So he got shot. Hit, shot tomorrow. That was a Grady job.

[C]

Dude, that. That sounded like a real gunfight. I mean, I'm like, damn.

[A]

It was all one sided.

[D]

There's no return fire.

[A]

What city was that in? San Jose, California. Still got it, baby.

[C]

Yeah, they. They ain't around. Don't, don't with one of their cops. They will run your ass over. It's almost as bad.

[B]

I saw like 4 comments about it, so I downloaded that real quick and got that in. Everybody' talking about that.

[C]

It's almost as bad as getting killed with the EOD robot.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

That was awesome.

[B]

It was awesome.

[A]

I remember that. All right, we're gonna take a quick commercial break.

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Yeah, raid responsibly.

[A]

All right. So don't use it in bed.

[C]

I don't.

[B]

You could with.

[C]

How is Tom's. Dominic is here.

[B]

Arms behind the back.

[A]

Dominic. So we have. We. I don't know what it is, but he still rubs people the wrong way. Oh, he got, we got somebody in our DMS that was so mad at Dom and I sent it to him and he was like, oh, here's what happened.

[B]

Oh yeah, it's always what happened.

[C]

We talked about last night too.

[B]

Bring them in, bring them in, bring them in.

[A]

What up?

[C]

Demand the myth. Yeah, so that's. That's right.

[B]

Dominic, man.

[C]

Dominic.

[A]

Dominic.

[D]

You guys call me Dom. Nobody else does.

[C]

I think Dom's.

[B]

It's kind of like. Yeah, it's kind of like that.

[D]

It is. And I had actually somebody I who was in my YouTube comments last night and he's from Italy and his name is D O M E N I C. And he goes, my name's Dominic too.

[C]

He goes.

[D]

But it's, it's, it's a. Rubs me the wrong way when somebody thinks they know me enough to call me down.

[B]

That's all it is.

[D]

It's personal. It's like if you're a friend of mine, you get to call me dumb.

[C]

Yeah, yeah, I never got that. I, I was James until I joined the army.

[B]

I thought you're gonna talk about Dominic yelling at you last night.

[C]

He did yell at me last night. He goes, it's Dominic, God damn it.

[D]

That's why. And then you comment, it was perfect.

[B]

My favorite Dominic crash out was when Reagan was commenting conduct unbecoming in the comments. And he's one of our guys and you didn't know it. You went not. You can go back to roasting him. Because if I knew who he was.

[D]

And he's.

[B]

Looking at each other like, this is great. This is great. Because we roast each other like that anyway, so it's just perfect that you didn't know it was him and you gave him the full Dominic treatment. Yeah, yeah. So I want to bring you in to talk about what our topic was about Uvalde all day. And as Steve, who everybody shits on, says self proclaimed heroes have no duty to act. And Uvalde cop that did not act was found not guilty. What is your, what is your thoughts on that?

[D]

I. I don't understand why. It's a big deal. Number one, did I hear correctly that he was off duty at the time?

[B]

I believe.

[A]

Wait, is it a school resource officer?

[D]

I don't know. Comments that the cop who actually was found not guilty was off duty at the time and he went to school to go check on his kid.

[B]

Let me make sure. Let's let you guys talk while I looked at it.

[A]

Why was he picked out of all the other 60?

[D]

I don't know.

[C]

That's.

[B]

That's a question.

[A]

Maybe they thought they were going to get some kind of, some kind of easy slam dunk.

[B]

No.

[D]

What was the.

[B]

Dallas was among the first officers to respond to the mass shooting. So it doesn't say anything about off duty. Well, I did not follow his training and endangered the 19 students who died and the additional 10 survivors. Lawyers for Gonzalez who pleaded not guilty, argued he was unfairly blamed for a broad law enforcement failure.

[A]

That is true, which I agree because.

[B]

Scott Peterson was one on one. He was the only one there when the one happened down south. Obviously a lot of people failed. I don't know why he was selected, but it does go back to something that my wife says a lot which pisses a lot of cops off. Is a lot of people up. We, the Supreme Court has ruled we have no duty to do anything. You cannot be criminally charged for refusing to go. How many people are dying. I'm not going in. You.

[A]

You.

[B]

There's no. There's policy that says you have to by your agency, but the Supreme Court has ruled cops do not have to do anything.

[D]

Why was command staff not held accountable?

[B]

That's what I. Yeah, that's. That's.

[D]

You ever seen Band of Brothers?

[C]

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

[D]

Was it. Was it dyke or not dyke?

[B]

Whatever.

[D]

Whatever. The one it was, they were storming one of the farmhouses and the cot. And the.

[C]

Yes, that's Lieutenant Dyke.

[D]

Well, no, so I guess the two. That was actually inaccurate. So can you imagine being. And he was shot. The real story is that I guess Dyke was shot and then he. That's why he wound up frozen up. But then, you know, for Hollywood intents.

[C]

And purposes, you have to make him sound like a coward.

[D]

So your family goes down in history off of that. But why. Why is it that you got command staff who we know is inept? You probably had. And I've said this a million times, the Uvalde shooting. The problem I have with it is that everybody lied, saying cops didn't go in for 45 minutes into the school. That was a lie. They went in within less than three minutes. Entry in once in there. Now, I had rapid deployment training, which we started to get after Columbine was a thing. And we used to train that a couple times a year. And it was. For those who don't understand rapid deployment.

[C]

I'm sure it's changed since then. It's.

[D]

Which you had the diamond formation with four guys. We went all the way down to two guys, back to back, going up and down hallways. So it was, you do not wait. You go in, you assess a threat, you shoot it. That was it. And it was designed for the weakest link possible. So even your biggest stupid cops who don't train, they could deploy some type of tactics to address a threat. Well, if that's the case and you got a bunch of guys who are ready to go, what is command staff waiting for so long? I. I think that the command staff and the chief should have been criminally charged because ultimately speaking. Well, you're putting the cops for. For failure. Right? And I always talk about how these cops, like in Minnesota, you know, they're standing down and they're. They're obeying, in my opinion, some real shitty, unlawful orders. Go and protect your town. So my hypocrisy doesn't stop there, because if you have cops who are. We hear gunshots in the other room. Let's go. Well, now all of A sudden, if you got 20 guys in the hallway and two decide to go now, what are, are the other 18 gonna follow suit or are they, Are they going to be putting themselves into further harm's way? Because now, now there's two more cops that are shot. We have to triage and focus on them. It was a show from start to finish.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

And I think that the onus and the criminal charges need to have been brought on command staff because either you act or say we up and it was our fault.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

And that, that we. I said all along, it's no, no command staff is ever held accountable. The sheriff lost his job in, in Stoneman Douglas. They, they brought in history, Greg, Tony, who just lost Deerfield Beach. They voted to remove themselves from Broward County. But he, he, you know, he didn't. He took the hit, but he just got removed. But still, people start getting arrested and charged with these. Nothing's going to change.

[A]

They had a school police department for that. Evaldi. Right. They had a, they had like a police agency for the schools. And I remember, if I remember correctly, the chief of that school police agency was on site, seen, and still made no decisions.

[B]

Correct.

[D]

Look at the one. I, I put a video up a couple months ago and I, I don't feel bad for it. It was a female SRO who was severely overweight. And, you know, I kind of tried to be a little bit, hey, you know, I'm fat too.

[C]

Let's do this.

[D]

But These are the SROs, right? The joke has always been SRO is where you go to retire on duty. That's where you want the cushy job. So I don't care. And Mike and I talked about this yesterday on Cupville, which is, it doesn't matter what the policy is, what the training is. Who are you putting in place to execute that policy in that training? So what if you had a bunch of female, inept, weak, beta male cops who literally, when it comes time to pull the trigger, they're their pants. I don't care how much policy and training you put into play, it's just not going to happen.

[B]

My big, my biggest reflection on this is where we talk about, we can't bully anymore. We can't tell the truth anymore. Was I was a supervisor, road patrol sergeant, right after Uvalde happened. And obviously that became everybody's talking school shooting. So I went into my briefing and I, my shift, I looked at him and I said, you know, the rah rah. What would everybody. And every one of them would have charged down the hall and I looked at these guys and I'm like, none of you would do that. You're fat, you're out of shape, you don't train, you're not ready for. But everybody's standard answer is what they would do. But they never prepare or even let it go through their mind that they might happen. And we can't say that. I can't as a sergeant front of roll call go, no, you're a bunch of morons, you're fat, you don't train, you don't go to the gym. But that day you're just gonna figure it all out.

[A]

Let me, let me push back on you. What is training and going to the gym have anything to do with heart training?

[B]

Remember the train, the training.

[A]

No, no, no. But we just talked about it doesn't matter if you're the janitor with a six shooter. You go in there, you have the heart to stop.

[B]

Correct.

[A]

You don't need training, you don't need BJJ.

[B]

Then why did those 19 for? How many cops did Steve's got?

[A]

You know how many of those probably went through training but none of them went because they don't have the heart.

[B]

Because training to me, if you can go like me and Gravy talked about this on my episode that came out yesterday. Michael de Grave. If your mindset at Dom trains goes to the gym. When your mindset is to go suffer on your own and put yourself through self inflicted pain and suffering in the gym and working out, you're, in my opinion, you're more likely to understand that that mission has to go down. That has to happen. I have to go do this. And by training and being physically fit and pushing yourself and running and benching and doing all those things, jiu jitsu, all those things, challenge yourself to go, huh? I've been beating the out of myself for seven years. Oh my God, I gotta go down this hallway and save some people out.

[A]

Of the stretches I've seen you stretch. That's the biggest stretch of all.

[B]

Yeah, you're right. A fat that sits around and never does anything have a gun.

[A]

And I could hand it to him and be like, this is how it works. Go stop that shooter. And he could do it.

[B]

No, he's not doing it. Of course he is. He doesn't even know the recoil of the gun. He's never practiced.

[A]

He might go beat the out.

[B]

But what I'm saying is, if the mindset is not there to go do it and you've never, okay, take all that of it. You don't have to train. Have you ever thought about doing it? Has it really crossed your mind?

[C]

That's the point.

[B]

Have you really crossed your mind like I may have to do it? I may have to do this?

[C]

Yeah, that, you know, I used to.

[A]

Daydream about doing it.

[C]

Yeah. I mean like that, that's, that's the thing is that like, I mean, you know when you actually have to go have a gunfight with. First of all, having a gunfight. Scary. Having a gunfight at three feet is exceptionally scary.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Especially when you're like, I know that there's bad guy in there.

[A]

Well, and then what? I, I, this is from a study or analytics or whatever. I've never stopped a school shoot, been a part of any type of thing like that. But they're there to take as many innocent victims as possible and as soon as they see a force that can challenge them, they are going to either run or self terminate immediately. They're not trying to, they're not trying to get into a gun battle with you like they just robbed a bank. Like you're about to take their freedom. This ain't heat. Yeah. They are going to kill as many innocents closest to God as possible before they take themselves out.

[B]

Yeah, I, I, but, but your argument about Lewis to go back to that is you had 200 cops and not one of them.

[A]

I want Dom's take on my theory.

[D]

No.

[B]

So go ahead.

[A]

I've said this a lot and it doesn't make it right, but cop culture is so toxic that there was 60 dudes there all trying to be beta leaders, not an actual leader. No one was like this, I'm going to, they all wanted to be like, I, I'm in charge. But I'm also waiting for someone to make a decision. So when the tail end of 60 starts showing up, let's say the last 30, you kind of assume the other 30 are doing something. And you can't be that guy that goes, what's going on? Yep, I'm some random guy from some podoc county, I'm going to start running this operation. You typically can't do that because you have to trust that the police force has the, the, the, the ability to get together and stop this or, or have a plan. And so that's why it was, it was just starting to stack up. And it took someone kind of like almost special like Vortak to go in there and be like, well, we don't have to listen to any of you debrief us Real quick.

[D]

Every department has that right. Every department has. If it's 60 guys, there were probably at least five guys on that department who their entire career always trained. They, they come into roll call with their boots shined, sleeves tailored uniform. Oh, company man, company man. What are you working out for? Late and the one and they've been beaten their entire career. Even command staff doesn't promote him, doesn't take them seriously. Oh, Tackleberry's here. And the one day that they were needed, they, they're, they're, they're either not there or they're told to stand down. They got to follow orders from somebody who was promoted over them. Those guys are the ones that actually brought my heart breaks for who could have taken care of business. But now they got to get lumped into the cowards of Uvalde and we don't ever talk about them. So that's the one thing that everybody overshadows. All these guys didn't go in. Didn't go in. Cop culture is so toxic. I can guarantee you that department had a handful of guys who took their job seriously. They were ready for something to happen, but they were just not able to go and do their job.

[C]

I. Mike, here's my question, right? How long would it take for command staff to get up out of their desks, put their coffee and donuts down and get to the.

[A]

It's like asking for swap.

[B]

That's where I get where Tyler, like I get what you're saying, but I don't want to use this scenario because it's a horrible one. But let's just hypothetical. In the hypothetical world, Johnny is driving and it's his kids school and he's a civilian and he gets, and he hears there's a school shooting at his kids school. He gets there and sees what happens at you all day. Do you think that guy's going into that school to get his kid? Yeah, absolutely.

[A]

Now.

[B]

But no. Either way, your son. This isn't, this isn't just a random school shooting because Johnny might keep driving. But hey, the cops must have that. I'm talking about, you have a personal investment. When we become cops, our personal investment should be that, that those kids are ours. Those are our kids. The most, the most. We've all talked about it. The most precious thing on our earth is our children. To raise them right and protect them. It doesn't matter. At that moment, they are all your kids. You have to go. You have to go.

[C]

Here's.

[B]

You have to go.

[C]

Here's my, my take on this. You force my kids into that school, you tell me I have to put. Then you are responsible.

[A]

And. And Dom nailed it. Dominic nailed it with the toxic part. And it sound. We do sound like mean girls when we say it's toxic. The toxicity runs when. Let's look at it like this. 30 people out on shift, couple different agencies, whatever. We're all on the same radio channel. And the one guy that's super confident and is the cool guy and everybody looks up to is just talking wrong nonsense, gibberish, garbage. And he's wrong. And no one gets on the radio and goes, dude, you're wrong. Yeah. And they. They might go, yeah, dude, he was wrong, but no one wants to challenge him. Because when you go, hey, that's wrong. And then you start getting attacked for speaking your opinion because you're not. And like I said, I sound like.

[C]

A high school girl.

[A]

I get it. But there's guys that are chosen in police departments that can do no wrong. And they're like. As soon as they step up and go, I got this. You're like, damn, dude, it's gonna get all up. But it's usually a SWAT guy. No offense, but it is because they are trained to take charge. And I've seen some SWAT guys take charge. I'm like, that dude coconuts on his free time. Like, he's a. And so what happens is.

[B]

Is that a coconut?

[D]

Dom, how much Lubas are.

[A]

But what happens is that you get something like that, and it takes pure courage to go, all of you guys, my. I am going in there to save kids. And then I'm telling you, if somebody would have done that, everybody would have followed.

[D]

They're waiting for one person. I disagree with you. 100. No, they wouldn't have followed. And it goes right back to what Mike was just saying about they're all our children. Sure, go ahead. And as a patrol officer, right, As a patrol officer, you're in roll call. I don't know what the department size was. You got nine guys there. 15, 30, whatever. And make that speech. They're all our children. We owe them this. Blah, blah, blah, blah. You're gonna get eyes rolled at you and then be. You're gonna be made a mockery of in your squad cars later on.

[B]

And I want to go back to.

[C]

Yeah, I heard that a ton.

[B]

Fitness. The fitness. Here's a great example about what Dom said about being squared away and being. I walk into a room in great shape, and I walk in, and everybody's like, oh, here comes a steroid freak. Oh, there's Mike. He's a musclehead. That's acceptable. If I walk into that room as Mike just. And go, look at these fat, sloppy pieces of you. Fat you couldn't get out of your own. I'm fired? Yeah, I'm fired. Or I'm a. I'm a. I'm a Ethics violation. Or I've committed some hate crime. They can make fun of me for being in good shape and doing my job and getting ready. If I walk in and call them a bunch of fat slobs, I'm gone.

[A]

It's called demonizing. I'm gone. Demonizing. Positivity.

[D]

I'm gone.

[C]

You.

[A]

You're a bad guy for. You know. Yep.

[B]

For being the squared away one. You're the.

[C]

I. I still think that at some point we should. If you are telling me that I have to be at a certain place.

[A]

Yeah, let's get. Let's get your take on. Oh, go ahead, finish that. But I want you.

[C]

You're telling me that we have to send our children to this school. That means that you are responsible for protecting them, which means you better go.

[A]

What's your take on the. No duty to act as a civilian.

[C]

I think that there's a time and a place for that. Okay, so like let's. We'll use the south side of St. Petersburg, for example. There's a. There was a neighborhood in the south side of St. Petersburg where a couple of cops got shot and one security officer was killed. Right. The cops wouldn't go. The St. Pete cops would not go in there unless they had two units, period. They didn't care what the call was.

[B]

Understandable.

[C]

That's understandable. I agree with that. That's very different than. It's 11 o' clock in the morning, the school is full with 700 kids, and there's an active shooter there where the government told me I had to put them. And you're telling me you're not. Dude, like, you better be coming out of the squad car and like, move to the sound of gunfire.

[A]

Fire.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

And move to the sound of the guns. And Dominic's right.

[B]

The cops don't want to hear that. Cops don't want to hear that.

[C]

But Dominic's right. It's like, hey, dude, why the are we putting these guys who are like two years now look there, I. I know a guy who's getting two years from retirement. He's a sro. He's squared away though.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

But like, you need to be looking at these guys and going like, do you have the right mentality to go get into a conference fight.

[B]

Correct.

[D]

And I hate it. I, I just, I think about how many guys were squeezed in that hallway and how many of them had never been in the school before. How many have, have no idea what the layout is and how many of them had no plan because maybe the department was so small they really didn't have. And, and you know how training is, right? Well, once a, once a year we're going to meet together for in house training and we're going to go over the plans of this school that you're, they don't do it. I, I, My heart breaks for every cop who is in there back against the wall and, and they've got their long guns out and they're waiting and they can hear the gunshot, but they don't know where it's at and they want to move. But you still have to follow orders. And it sucks.

[C]

I, I, I don't think that knowing the layout of the school is, it'd be great to have, but I've cleared.

[D]

A lot and where's everybody else going? If there's no plan of attack, Jimmy's gonna walk down the hallway. He turned left. That's the last thing. Now all of a sudden you got a storm because nobody trained 30 of us.

[A]

Well, there's a lot the way we're trained nowadays is Jimmy storms Jimmy's storm if he took one in the throat and bleeding out. You guys, we're moving over Jim.

[C]

Yeah, you walk over my dead corner.

[D]

Yeah, so then, yeah, that's, that's another problem. Now you got Jimmy's family going. He was your brother. You let him believe.

[C]

Yeah, well, I mean, first of all.

[D]

That'S the, that's the point. Damned if you do, damned if you don't. For I, I'm going to say that there's a small, there's a percentage of the cops who are on Uvalde who were ready to go, took the job seriously, command staff and everybody else. And you've only should be killing themselves, meaning that internally they should be going. We got caught with our pants down because we were retired on duty. We didn't be fit. They should be a department that 10, 15 years from now, they are the glowing example of law enforcement in America because they were so, so held under a microscope of just the biggest level of embarrassment possible that they change. They need to clean house. But for every cop who was there and wanted to do something, I, I really, my heart breaks.

[A]

Do we have, do we have anything about the guy who was telling them to stop, physically telling cops to stop. There's. There's some video footage of a guy with a captain telling people to stop moving because the orders were to not get.

[C]

If you can find that. I, I have a. I have to push back a little bit on, On Dominic. And you know, he knows I'm a fan, but like, dude, I've cleared a lot of rooms and I had no idea what the layout was. No idea at all. We'll come into a room and there's a refrigerator on its side and there's a couch. There's a deep clear over here and it's me and two other guys. We don't need to make a perfect plan. What we need to go is execute our plan violently, which is do your basic, clear the room, move to the next one, and continue to call up your position. That's it. Just keep.

[D]

Here's the problem, though. Were you trained?

[C]

I was very highly trained, yeah.

[D]

Do you think cops are as highly trained as you are?

[C]

Absolutely not, no.

[D]

Right.

[B]

That's the problem.

[D]

There's the issue. It's not about. It's rapid deployment, right? That was the thing.

[A]

We didn't care.

[D]

You go in, you clear as best as possible and you move.

[C]

That's a great point.

[D]

Now take SROs on. The whole thing about this has been training so you could disagree with me all you want. The problem is you guys were trained non stop. Now you take that mentality, right, you want to go and be a cop, you go fill out the application, they hire you, and you bring that readiness mindset into a pool of 30, 35 guys who look at you. Oh, here's what, here's.

[B]

Oh, what are you gonna do today?

[A]

Oh, Jimmy.

[C]

What I don't want.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

What I don't want them to do, Dominic, is use the argument that I don't think you were trying to make, but I think you could make this argument. It's like, well, we have to have a plan before we go. No, we do not.

[D]

That's admin. Yeah, there's the difference, right? You got your street cop who. They could have had one day of training and it changes. Oh, I never thought about this. They are ready to go now. It doesn't matter. I've got five, ten, eight years on take my. Take my last department when I left, they replaced me with three children. Seven years later, one of those kids who. She didn't even complete field training and was released on her own, she's now the deputy chief. Why do you think she Got that right. Can you imagine? Two years on, she's commander this, and she's gonna tell other senior Officers who have 19, 20 something, stand down, stand down.

[A]

Well, they.

[D]

Well, that's your commanding officer. What are you gonna do?

[A]

And I'll say this, I'll throw this one out there, right? You ready for talk? What if I said to you, now, you're the standard street cop, you're the cool guy. You're not Mike Tilks. But you found out that instead of going to three hour lunches, which I would never do this.

[B]

No, no.

[A]

But instead of going to three hour lunches, you found out homeboy on your squad who was new was going to all the schools and meeting the SRO and getting the layout just so he knew it, in case. Oh, I'll tell you, that form would be roasted.

[D]

No, no, it'll be even worse. Every. When I went to day shift, this happened to me. We had a middle school in our town. Every morning, once a week, I would go in uniform, high five all the kids who are coming in, walk the halls once and leave just to familiarize, familiarize myself. I got a memo from the deputy chief, addressed everybody very vaguely as a reminder that our presence inside the school disturbs the students and that the. The administration doesn't feel it's appropriate for police to be in the hallways at any time whatsoever. So what? Did I do this, man? I'm not doing it again. It happens. People have no idea how toxic and cancerous command staff is. That's why they're the problem.

[A]

Jimmy, when I said that, does that sound crazy? Does that. That sounds, as a civilian, something that a cop would do, right?

[C]

I mean, look, we had this problem in the army, okay? If you were a guy who wanted to be in good shape and you wanted to get after it, you wanted to go to the schools like, oh, cheese stick. All right, dude, yeah, go ahead and volunteer for everything, bro. Like, it's the same thing. I mean, it happens everywhere, all right? The difference, I think, is that when you're in the infantry, you kind of expect, like, hey, my job is to go locate, close with and destroy. And that means that at some point, at some level, you have to put yourself just by training it in the. I might have to kill somebody one day, and this is how I'm gonna do it. The difference is, is that there are cops who have the same cheat, you know, oh, he's the dude's cheese dick and all. He's. Here he comes, Geardo. But they'd only ever put Themselves in that position, that. That thought process.

[B]

If you.

[C]

If the game's on, the game's.

[B]

If you talk like that too much, I'll give you a perfect example. Really could do Peach from guys on the ground.

[C]

Yeah, Peaches. He's fantastic.

[B]

Gets knocked all the time for being that guy that just is. I'd rather have him and pull him back a little bit and know that he's gonna listen. You just have to know how to work him. He got a bad rap by a bunch of birds at my agency that treated him like and. And made him the bad guy. He didn't deserve it, but he is. He's a. He's a pitbull on a leash. But I want 20 pit bulls on leashes that I got that I know I can do this with, versus a bunch of poodles that I know we're gonna be ready on game day. No, you're never gonna be ready. And if I say that I'm a bad guy, I would rather have that guy. That is a little high stroke. Yeah, just pulling them back. Hey, man, back up. Got a horse car a little bit, man. You know, you chase that car the other night. Just back it down a little bit. Just relax. You know, you're talking about a lot of crazy. Like, keep the conversation under control. But when I go, it's time to go. That is going to one. There's no question in my mind.

[D]

That's the warrior garden thing. Think about it.

[B]

I want him.

[D]

I'm not the beta.

[B]

Cucks in charge. Can't handle his vibe because they're so beta. They can't keep up with him. They can't compete with him, and they know it. So they call him the bad guy and suppress him instead of going, dude, that's the guy right there.

[C]

It's worse than. Than even that, in my opinion. And this is the outsider looking in. It is very much. And you see this in. You see this in fitness. You see this in a lot of stuff.

[A]

I was just thinking that Jimmy, you.

[C]

Know, is like, instead of going, actually.

[A]

I respect that dude, maybe I need.

[C]

To do a little bit more. Like, I may never get to that level. But that doesn't. That isn't a. That isn't a knock on me. Like, just because this guy's a superstar doesn't mean that I. I didn't hate him.

[A]

So you're what.

[C]

You're.

[A]

What you're now flowing into is insecurities.

[B]

That's.

[A]

A lot of. A lot of alpha dudes are insecure and cops are 100 all insecure? There's no. There's no mindset of this dude. I kind of want to be like. I want to be like my zone partner here. He's six months in and he's smoking all of us and everything we should be good at. So I'm gonna bounce on lunch with the boys. I'm gonna go do what this kid's doing because he's. He's right.

[C]

They're gonna make fun of him.

[B]

Call him a piece of. We gotta do something about him.

[D]

Oh, you and your new boyfriend doing patrol together?

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

You guys are actually doing the job.

[D]

Holy.

[B]

What's wrong with me?

[A]

Laugh now.

[B]

Yeah, think about it. I watched the entire leadership of the SWAT team turn into that.

[C]

You're.

[B]

I watched the whole leader. It sucks, man. And they're just. They were emasculated by dudes who, like, did it for nothing other than wanting.

[A]

Love of the game.

[D]

That's a problem because SWAT emasculates cops too, as well. We have out here in the northwest suburbs of Chicago, it's called nipus. Northern Illinois police alarm systems. And they were created after the Bulls first win, right, because you had all these. All these Chicago Vic, you know that riots, but the. The celebration street. So they decided that since the northwest suburbs doesn't have swats like Chicago does, every. Every agency puts in two or three guys. So that if you get a call out in Arlington Heights, a hundred cops are going to show up. Two from every area department. And you've got knife or est, and you got mobile field force. I was on mobile field force, which is the shields, batons, riot control, curbside arrests, all that. When you get a shooting, think about this for an example. You get nine one, one call. Oh, my God, Dad's in the house. He's drunk, he's shooting up. I can't tell you for how many people get promoted. And. And I'm gonna say this. I'm not mocking him, making fun of him, but he's an example.

[C]

The. The.

[D]

The parachute Colorado guy, if he's a standard. And we are now moving into celebrity status on social media. And because of their popularity, these cops are now being asked to teach in academies. They're being promoted. These are the decision makers. So now take all of us and you put us all back on duty. And then we are under the decision makers of people who have no clue what to do. What happens more frequently than people want to know is 91 1, Dad's blowing everybody away in the house with the shotgun. We get on scene, ready to go. No, we have to stand down and call and wait for Nipus or swat. Why is it that it's always when you get a circumstance that's high priority that it's stand down, wait for squats, stand or swat. Stand down, wait for Nipus. You are purposely dumbing down. Your patrol should have the exact same. Same ability. You want to get some more finer details on, fine. But it's been my experience 90 of the time you get a hot call, stand down, wait for Nipus. Stand down, wait for swat.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

You can't.

[B]

You can't.

[C]

You guys have used the word toxic at least five times.

[A]

It's true.

[C]

But here's the problem. That word isn't actually strong enough. It gets overused. It's. It's got no meaning anymore. It's not toxic. It's deadly.

[B]

Or cowardice. It's cowardice.

[D]

It's deadly.

[B]

It is. No, at least. And we had the whole argument. We talked about it. The job is dead. All that, the statements. And I am not. And Kenny got me Kenny. I'm gonna do an episode based on Kenny's reel where he talked about I did do a lot of cool things and I did enjoy my job. The problem is I kept my mouth shut and I was silenced and I didn't speak up during those 23 years. And it kind of all spilled out once I was able to go pop. Just like, you know, the. The pressure cooker finally blows and you're like it. Or when you don't pick up at. And your wife finally, you know. You know, you leave the around long enough to where she blows, not the good way. And. And it happened. I got out and I went and I try to control it enough to not sound like that guy, that old salty piece of he. No, I did a lot of really good things. I did a lot of cool things. I loved my. I know Dom did. He loved his job. The problem is we were so suppressed and had to keep our mouth shut for so long. When you finally get the opportunity to open up, you do. And then you realize you weren't the minority. You were the you. You weren't the minority. Everybody felt that way. Just nobody would say.

[A]

And here's how they handle.

[D]

They're all in the comments. It's. It doesn't change. I. Every one of us has a story when we decided to improve ourselves. You know the law better. You start doing more proactive. Knocking down cars, going, oh, they mock the out of you. And nothing changes. You leave the job. You want to improve it. Those same co workers that just all over you for trying to improve yourself have now become across the country of trolls in your comments. Cops do not want other cops to improve because it's like a goddamn mirror being holed up right in front of yourself saying, oh, I am fat, I don't know what I'm doing, blah, blah, blah. It's not, it's not a toxic culture. It is the culture. Cops hate themselves, they hate other cops, they hate the jobs. But when it comes down, time to, we need to celebrate because they've got the hardest job in the world. That's right. Blow me more.

[A]

Well, like here's the deal. When you start speaking out and you are the guy in the briefings going, what what what? You're the guy on calls going, we're not doing it that way, we're not doing it this way. What are you labeled as?

[B]

Yeah, you're the problem.

[A]

They're gonna see and go, one of these cops is not like the others. They're going to start hitting you with discipline. They're going to start saying you have a bad attitude. They're going to start saying you're toxic to these guys. I'm like, no, I'm the only one saying this. We're all talking about it. So I say it and then I'm.

[B]

Telling you, dude, I watched. I made a meme about the other day and I posted it locally. I watched when I got promoted sergeant, an entire detective division cook breakfast every morning, come to work, set up a omelet station and cook breakfast for an.

[C]

Hour and a half.

[B]

Dyson onions and peppers while there's cases and, and I'm looking at this and I'm going, what the is going on?

[A]

And I would work about.

[B]

I was the bad guy for speaking. One detective sergeant walks in two and a half hours late every day and leaves two and a half early. I'm like, this is a problem. I said something about it. You can't say nothing about that. Like what the do you mean I can't. I know what it's like to be that guy. And when you get into command staff level and even as sergeant, as low as sergeant, you start to see this.

[C]

And you're going to.

[B]

And I'm not knocking prayer. Not knocking prayer. I know you guys are very religious, but there was a prayer every Monday morning at like 8:30, 9:00. And I'm trying to brief my guys on like, we're going to do a U.S. marshals warrant hit. And I'm like, Hey, I need to use the room. We're having prayer in there. And I'm like, I get. It's like one of those things you're not allowed to say bad. But you just had Sunday.

[A]

You just had Sunday in boot camp.

[B]

I'm trying to get you done, and you're cooking breakfast and praying.

[A]

I will say detectives work on average four hours a day at most.

[B]

There is a person there right now who got promoted, and I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna do the episode. But I looked at their time card once, because I had access to their time card. I didn't see that all day, any day. And I saw their time card once. They were getting five hours a night overtime for catching up on reports. And I'm like, I didn't see you all day. How the. Did you not only not work and I didn't see you, but you got overtime for a whole paper and nobody. You can't say anything about it, Dom. You know that.

[A]

You speak up.

[C]

You're the.

[D]

That's why I'm not employed anymore. When you, when you. When you and I. I've. There's so many guys from my department that actually changed the way I policed from the way that they actually dressed, took care of themselves, took it seriously. And in my head, because you can't say it out loud. I wish I was more like Tim. I wish I was like John. You can't say that to your co workers. It's like, okay, here we are, the three, four of us are all joking around, but these guys are actually doing the job. I want to be like them. The more you do that, not only do your co workers just kind of turn their back on them this and that, but it's like one of my. One of my closest friends who was a cop, Ken, was the most intelligent cop I have ever met on my life. Man. You could, you could never. I would never argue with him. I would be so smoked seven ways from Sunday. Still to this day, he was the biggest thorn in command staff side because he was always right. The guy caught 14 criminal felony charges for allegedly fraudulently using a gas card, which command staff was doing, only to have him come out. And then the charges were dropped.

[C]

They.

[D]

The point being is you become a threat to command staff, they will find a way to get rid of you the more you want to improve yourself as a copy.

[C]

So I. I was listening to you guys and. And I. I was. I had this. Something was sticking in my head, and I realized that this has been going on so long. It's actually in Greek mythology. This. This thing that you're talk going. You guys are talking about right now, it's called tall poppy syndrome. Okay? Basically, here's the. The Greek story. A king sends his messenger to go talk to a tyrant. And it's like, hey, figure out how this guy's doing, what he's doing, because I want to copy that. And so master goes, talks to the tyrant. Tyrant doesn't say to him. Walks him out into the middle of the field where there's a bunch of poppies growing, and he just starts cutting the heads off of all the top ones, all the tall ones. He just starts cutting them off. And he walks him back. Guy gets on the ship, goes back, and he goes, king. I don't know what he's talking about. He just walked out here and just cut the heads off of all the tile poppies. And he goes, I know exactly what he's doing. I know exactly what he's doing. He is getting rid of all of the ones that raise above everybody else's. That everybody stays at this tall at the same level so that he, the tyrant, has control. And that's what command staff is doing to you guys. And it's so. It's so old. It's In Greek mythology 400 years before.

[A]

The birth of Bro. Don't fix it.

[B]

The last thing I'm gonna say about how sick I was and as a cop and how stupid I was at one point, and everybody talks about, oh, you don't miss your kids? This you don't miss. Good. I had meniscus surgery without telling the agency on a Friday and came back to work Monday because I love the job. To go to Kenny's reel. I loved it so much at that point in my career, I didn't want to miss a day, not even a day to get surgery. Surgery on Friday. Back to work Monday. Limped around, didn't tell soul, just sucked it up. Because I was a detective, I wanted to solve cases, and I wanted to do the job right. That's the sickness and the level of commitment I had at one point in my career to that place. True story, 1000%. I give you the dates. You want to debunk me. I always say it out loud. You ever want to challenge me? I had meniscus surgery on Friday, Came back to work.

[C]

I. I believe you because there's. You know, there were plenty of guys that I saw in the. In the army that they loved deploying.

[A]

I love.

[C]

They love going on deployment. They wanted to Go. They would do anything to go. And because they just were war junkies, man. It's the dopamine.

[B]

Yeah. And I know Dom loved it. And people on Dom. I know Dom loved being a cop. I know you did.

[D]

And it's heartbreaking beyond belief when you have that mindset and your heart is in it. And you do. You, you. I purposely, I didn't want to go to holiday family functions. I had more fun at work. I didn't want to go home. Girlfriend gets neglected. I don't care. I want to go home at work. How many times I. It was. It was an addiction. Worse than the cell phones. Rice. To drive home in my personal car with my radio still on. And there were times. I'm 20, I live 40 minutes away. And I would get. It was probably about 30 minute mark where I couldn't get the radio signal anymore. There were several times, you hear shots fired. I'm in my Camry, turning around. I'm like, what am I doing? But they eat that out of you. They beat that out of you. And it breaks you so much when people are like, you got fired. You get disciplined. You get that.

[C]

It's like.

[D]

And you're bitter. No. That we're. I'm not bitter. There are no words to describe. Yeah, well, how painful it is when you put everything you are into that job and they. They just completely kick you away, like you're the prostitute.

[B]

It is. It is. And that's why we. We see it. That's why, guys, our suicide rate is insane.

[D]

That's what.

[B]

And it's. I always say it. It's not the calls that do it. It's what you just said, what we've been talking about. It's that moment of like, I did all this for these people, and they did this to me, and I have nothing now because all I did was want to do the right thing. And I was the bad guy for doing the right thing. And that's where guys go home and end it. It's not because they saw the bag crashed. It's not because it's not.

[D]

Oh, we love it. We loved it. I. I'd say to everybody, it's like, I know somebody's got my badge number now. And it's like I poured all that in and my badge number went on.

[C]

It's like, I never thought about that.

[B]

I didn't think about. I'm sure somebody has mine.

[D]

Where's my badge number? And it's like. And then. I'm not gonna lie. That hurts.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

It's like, okay, so what? It's the job doesn't care about you at all.

[B]

Nope, nope, nope.

[A]

All right, we'll wrap up the show. Dominic, thank you so much for coming on and giving your input as always. It is just as much informative as it is controversial. And that's why we love having you on the show. You're a great friend, you're a great colleague, and you were a real. And a lot of people are starting to see that.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Sir Dominic's a real one.

[D]

Thanks, Jimmy. I love you, man.

[C]

Appreciate it.

[B]

Dom, we'll see you later. Yep.

[C]

Dude, I mean, there's so much. There's so much to peel that back.

[B]

Peel all that back. All the hate that guy gets. Peel it all back.

[D]

And he says the.

[B]

He says, crazy dumb.

[A]

I said before this so much.

[B]

People would know. Mike, a dumbs guy. I have no people at my age. You don't follow him anymore because I'm associated with him. You, when you peel it all back, I'd want to walk in any door with that dude.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

I don't care what his belief is. How up I think his ICE take is, how wrong I think. I don't care.

[A]

Dom's the type of guy that if you went, I just smoked the wrong person. He throws the burner gun.

[B]

He's like, there it is. Yeah, that's.

[C]

That's the thing to talk about that.

[B]

You'Re not supposed to talk about that.

[A]

That's the type of guy.

[B]

Yeah, it's an analogy. Like, he's the guy in that.

[C]

Yeah, that's the dude you want when. Like. Like, yeah, he's outspoken. He says a lot of crazy, but, like, if the goes down, like, you don't have to worry about if he's following you.

[B]

When you watch the movie the rip, I want you to remember the scene in the house where there's a. There's a flashing lighting in a house.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

And it's gonna not make sense when it first happens, but when they replay that scene in that house and the two guys have that conversation. That's Dom, Tyler.

[C]

That's us. Yeah.

[B]

And I want you to think about that when you watch that movie, because that's. That's the guy. Yeah, that's the guy that would do that for you and be like, oh, okay.

[A]

And people. And. And you're right. People that aren't cops in here. That is an. An analogous stuff. Analogous. Analogous point that I'm making is that cops think this way when a mistake happens. The mindset I've never Accidentally shot somebody. I'm just saying that when that happens, the mindset is, well, he's probably a bad dude. If he was in a bad house, wrong place, wrong time, I got your back.

[B]

Yeah. And that's a very extreme.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Example. Okay, But. But the other times where there are those scene when you're like. And the dude, he goes, hey, bro, this sucked. Let's get this done.

[A]

The brother.

[B]

Yeah. Let's get it. That's the very few. So there is a brotherhood. But it's very. When I say there isn't, there is. But it's so minute that it's not the example that everybody thinks it's.

[C]

It is.

[B]

It is very just like. Just like you guys overseas. There's. There's the platoon and then there's the company. Then there's like two dudes. When you just look at him and he looks at you, and you're like. And you go. And you already know. You already know all that stuff. You know it's gonna happen. You know what?

[C]

You guys.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And you don't have to say. You just like to do. And you're like, let's do it. And that's like Christian Matheson, one of my best friends. Like, we were on calls, and it was like, you look at him and bad calls, dead people. You're like. And he's looking at me like, yeah, like, I know what I gotta do. I gotta go notify this family in the other room. Like, I knew he wasn't gonna do it, but we had that understanding. I'm like. He looks at me, he's like, this sucks for you. I'm like, yeah. No. And I'm like, but you're the one that crawled through the window and found the dead guy and unlocked the door for me. I'll take care. Like, you went and saw the really nasty. That's your version of it. Now I'll go tell him, hey, sorry, dad. Dead in the recliner in the house. We had a call almost identical. That. That's where I associate it with. Is like, I did not want to crawl through that window and go find the guy. I knew he was dead. So I help him through the window. He goes. He comes back out, and he just. He just looks at me, puts his flashlight in his pocket, and he walks to his truck. And he gives me the look. And I'm like, I got the rest of it. He gets in the car and he drives away. And I go, hey, sorry for you guys.

[C]

Dude.

[B]

He actually did it once. We make fun of him. He walked up to a family, and he goes, I got some bad news for you. And there's this old wrestler called Bad News Barrett. And he would come out on WWE with the bad news thing. And I looked at him. I'm like, you're never giving a death notification again. You never started with, I got some bad news for you. I'm like, get out, dude.

[C]

I mean, first of all, you know, giving bad news is like, that is. I mean, there's no school for that.

[B]

There isn't. It sucks.

[C]

I mean, what do you say? Like, hey, not that. So, like. I mean, like, I'll give you guys an example that happened for me is like, so my. My sister. When my stepdad died, my sister called me. I was in the gym, and I got a call from all three of my sisters within five minutes.

[A]

That's bad.

[C]

And I know that's not good. This ain't. This ain't good. And so I called the last one back. It was my sister Abigail. And I was like, hey, Abby, what's up? She goes, jimmy, are you sitting down? I was like, abby, I don't need to.

[B]

Yeah, don't do that to me.

[C]

Just give me, you know, tell me what's up. Kind of already know what this is about. He's either almost dead or dead. Which one is it? He's dead. Okay. And my first response was, well, I'm not raising him from the dead. I'm going to finish my workout, and then I will.

[B]

That's a good response. That's what my wife would say. Yeah, they think she's crazy, but that's. What are you gonna do?

[C]

What am I. Jesus Christ. I'm gonna raise him up like, no, he. He's gone.

[B]

And that. Me and my daughter, my. I joke with one of my daughters, Lindsay, that we have an understanding. We text all day, but don't call me ever unless that's it. Like, she has not called me. Last time she called me, her dog. Her dog died. And I feel terrible. The phone rang. I looked at. It was 10 o'. Clock. I looked at the phone and, hey, no, she can text me, like, dad, dad, hey, everything's cool. I'm gonna call you. And I have the same relationship with her. If I call her, I'll do it.

[D]

Sit down.

[B]

We'll do it. We'll do it later. We'll do a night shift tonight.

[A]

I'll call her randomly, the other side of the phone.

[B]

She'll be like, what the. So I always have a deal with her because we're both the same level of unfunctional anxiety.

[A]

You want to have a phone conversation with Mike? You're Mike. All right. No, I'm gonna be Mike. You call me, okay?

[B]

Oh, you gotta do the whole thing.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

Hey, man, I wanted to talk to you. You got about five minutes?

[A]

Yeah. What's up, man?

[B]

Hey, brother.

[C]

I. I had this conversation about this particular law enforcement agency.

[B]

Get down. Shut up. Shut up. My dog.

[C]

Sorry.

[B]

That was good.

[C]

It do be like.

[B]

I love those dogs.

[C]

It do be like that and that. And it always like, huh?

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And then you get that.

[A]

Then you get the rush.

[B]

Once.

[A]

Once. You see. Once Mike sees the end of that conversation, it's a sprint. And it's like.

[B]

Almost drop your phone. Either that or it's like, all right, bye, Mike.

[C]

You give him something, and you. You give him something, you know he's gonna have to fire it back at you. And he talks really fast. Yeah.

[B]

Does get done? Did it get handled? Does it get handled now?

[C]

Now, Justin's right. If you call him while he's driving.

[B]

Oh, yeah, I'm good.

[C]

You're good? Yeah.

[B]

You never call me.

[C]

I'm driving.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

If you call him while he's driving, you got. Dude, you got time.

[A]

I ask him out of. I. Out of reaction. I don't even mean to do it. When he answers the phone and goes, yeah, I'm like, hey, are you busy?

[B]

Like, that's just me. That's just. Yeah, that's all you're.

[C]

That's it.

[A]

I can't.

[B]

Am I bothering you?

[A]

Right?

[D]

You feel it?

[C]

You feel it. You know, like, I will talk to.

[B]

You for 12 hours. It's just in my head. It's like, yeah, it's just.

[A]

But you're the same as me. Guys don't need to be sitting there talking to each other. We all come from the same cloth. You're gay. If you talk to another dude on the phone for more than four and.

[B]

A half minutes, yeah. You might as well go suck his dick.

[C]

I mean, well, unless it's my dad. Me and my dad have long conversations.

[B]

But to be fair. To be fair, I answer that phone.

[C]

The same way for everybody. You do.

[B]

I do meet my wife. I'm like, yo, what's up?

[A]

Like.

[B]

Because here's a great example of it. I drive. I'm driving home Monday, I get off the interstate, and I turn, see my wife's patrol car in a very strange place, empty, right by the interstate. There's a bunch of hotels. And I'm like, that's up.

[C]

Like, is she.

[B]

Okay. So I'm like, hey, are you good? She's like, yeah, why? And I'm like, the same thing. Like, yeah, why? I'm like, no, I just saw your car. Who called you? And I'm like, nobody called me. I'm like. And she's the same way. That's how I am when you guys call me. I'm like, is everything okay? All right.

[A]

What?

[B]

Yeah, yeah, give it to me.

[A]

I'm trying to add anxiety.

[B]

And then you got me and her. Imagine me and her together. And I'm like, no, I'm good. She's like, she called. Yo, what. What are you asking for? And I'm like, bro. I'm like, are you good? She's like, yeah, but some crazy just happened. So I understand that she's in the middle of some crazy, but I'm like, you're being a spouse. Did my wife get murked? Do I need it? I got two guns in the car. I need to come back and say, 23 free hours of the day, I gotta worry. But imagine it was, I got off the interstate, I turned. It's facing the wrong way at the exit ramp to. Or the entrance ramp to go the other direction. It's by itself. And I'm just like, well, that's crazy. Did somebody drag her out of the car?

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

What happened? Her anxiety is the same as mine, though. She's like, what? What?

[A]

What?

[B]

What do you see? But I'm like, nothing.

[C]

I'm good.

[B]

Like, do you need help? No. And then she called, what the Is wrong? And I'm like, I'm good. We're all good. But it's.

[D]

It's the same.

[B]

We're just anxious people. That's cops. You know, cops are. We're all turned up. You called me, I'm like, are you good? Like, that's why I get.

[A]

You get.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

I need to know right away. I hear your voice. You're good.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

To be fair, too, I don't.

[A]

How many. Statistically, out of 10 times, how many times do I call you with great news?

[B]

Never. Yeah, I've never got the Powerball call yet. I haven't got the Powerball. Right. We did it. No, I haven't got that one yet. Are you sitting down, Mike? Yes.

[A]

What are you gonna say, Jimmy?

[C]

No, I. I mean, just, like. I'm just over here thinking about, like, man, you know, I enjoy. I do enjoy talking to you guys, and I really enjoy your input. Like, when I have something that I'm. I'm thinking about, and I Know it's in your wheelhouse. Like, I want to know what.

[B]

Hold on to the handrails. You know it's gonna be a long call.

[C]

Yeah. I want to know what you guys.

[B]

Like to call about your brother.

[A]

Dude. Yeah.

[B]

I thought you were dying. Jimmy's like, hey, man, I need you for three minutes. I'm like, drive home from dinner. I'm like, ah. Into my head, start to say, bye. Go ahead, Jimmy. And then when he calls, I'm like, God, yeah.

[C]

And I. I try to say it like, hey, dude, don't need anything.

[A]

Not important.

[B]

That's your anxiety. In my anxiety.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah. Question of my anxiety. Getting into it.

[C]

Like, it's like a. It's like some. It turns into, he's not important.

[D]

Eleven times my daughter texts me, hey, I'm like, that.

[B]

And I'm. That's over the world.

[C]

I'm very straight up. Like, if I say, like, hey, man, I need to talk to you right now. It's important. That's exactly what I mean. It's buffer.

[A]

But here's the thing, Jimmy. If I. You've done that and I've called you, and you've been like, I'm just kind of worried about a time hack with one of my episodes getting the information. I'm like, jimmy, that's not. I had my. I was on the phone. I had Mike calling Jimmy to make sure Jimmy's okay.

[C]

And Mike's like, I didn't say it was important.

[A]

I just.

[C]

I, I, I need to talk to you.

[A]

But you texted, you called.

[D]

That's.

[A]

The wife called.

[B]

Dude, something's going on. That's the first responder. Like, the dad asked you to call me the very first time when Cottville.

[C]

Asked you to call.

[A]

Oh, yeah.

[B]

You're like, dude, this guy was. Nobody ever asked me to call. It's a weird thing. It's like, what the.

[C]

Do you need me to call you? Are you gay?

[B]

I never want to talk. I never want to talk to you on the phone. Text me.

[C]

I mean, like, even. Even with the. The thing that I. I felt like was important at all. And this all goes back to, like, I really want to. I want the information. I want to do my due diligence. I want yalls input. I want it. I, I need that to run it through. I want to run it through the filter, man. I want to add it to my filter filter and, And. And get more information because I'm a curious person, and I want, like, I want to know what you think, and I want to. I Want to hear a cool story based on your experience that I can put in my repertoire? And, and it's like, but you guys.

[B]

Get out. 23 years of taking calls for service and all that stuff. It's like, talk to me. What do you got here?

[A]

It is like, you know, how many times. Ma', am, is this a police issue? After they're talking for three minutes, I'm like, I'm just, yeah, when do you need. I just need to know where you need the cops at.

[B]

Is anybody dead in the house?

[C]

Yeah, get to the point, ma'.

[A]

Am.

[C]

Yeah, I, I, I, I get that. I totally do. And I don't know how that's just happening. When I, when I came in this morning, it was like, I am game based. We're not talking about.

[B]

Other than, Other than the growling about the diet. Yeah, well, I mean, like that Jimmy's growling. He said it to me. He's like, bro, Jimmy's growling.

[C]

I'm like, what's funny is you guys, you guys don't know because you guys make it.

[B]

I don't.

[A]

You guys are like, okay, wait, Jimmy, let me preface it for everybody. We got five minutes left. I hear Jimmy growling. I'm like, you know what? We're all working. We're all trying to get ready. So I go out there and I sit down to eat my breakfast. And Mike's like, gambling and no. Yeah, right.

[B]

That's what I got.

[A]

It wasn't, okay, he's sitting down, but.

[B]

He did like a drive by growl.

[A]

He did a drive by growl.

[B]

And we looked at my me and someone said, me. I'm like, no, it's him. He's been drown all morning. And then he comes, he sits down.

[A]

With his protein bar next to it. Silence. By the way, M, he goes, I.

[B]

Go, give me what's up, bud? Like, what's up?

[C]

Here's the thing. Like, I, you guys, it has nothing to do with anybody. It's the. What's, what's going on up in the.

[A]

Clearly needed to get something out.

[B]

That's, that's the equivalent of your wife going, no, see, here's the. Sit down the chair.

[C]

Now, that's what you guys think.

[B]

I know, I know. It's not your fault. That's what I'm saying. It's the equivalent, though. It's like, what's wrong?

[C]

What I do?

[B]

Tell me.

[A]

No.

[C]

And for me, it's more of just like my own stuff is going on in my head. I'm being quiet because I'm, I've got my Own thoughts going on. And I'm like, okay, hey, let's make sure we don't leave it out in the hallway, okay? And then I'm eating this thing and I'm like.

[D]

You know, I'm getting ready to start growling, though.

[B]

I'm starving. So just so you guys know.

[C]

Four minutes.

[B]

All right. All right.

[D]

I'm dying.

[A]

What we gotta do. I saw a super chat from. I. I feel. I'd feel terrible if he's not here right now. From Pride Assassin. He said prayer of the day, which. Thank you for reminding us that we have not been doing a verse of the day or prayer of the day. Proverbs 126. How fast can you get that up, Jimmy?

[C]

Fast.

[A]

So what is it calling us out, keeping us on our toes?

[C]

Proverbs, right?

[A]

Proverbs 1, 2, 6.

[B]

That's today.

[A]

Today's 1, 2, 2.

[C]

Yeah. So that figured it. So let's get it out of the NIV because that's just easier for everybody.

[A]

While we're doing this tonight, Thursday night.

[B]

The intro is going to start now. It'll be. It'll finish by the time time you guys get there.

[A]

Remember, we'll remind you tonight, come the first. Sixth, February 6th, it's. It's gonna be strictly counterculture fifth.

[B]

I'm sorry, February 5th.

[A]

So if you can't jump over to the counterculture YouTube, that's where you don't miss.

[B]

Everybody's assignment tonight is to watch it on counterculture culture.

[A]

Yeah, I mean, we will still be able to engage with you and everything, but it's. It's. We're move. We're making the shift moving.

[C]

I mean, I've got the first. But we. I mean, if you read it out of context. Let me just read it first, and then let me give you the context. Because I will laugh when disaster strikes you. I will mock you when calamity overtakes you. It's like, man, that does not sound Christian.

[A]

It's reference to what we were talking about. The toxicity, I think.

[C]

Yeah, right.

[B]

But.

[C]

But here's what it is. It's. It's out in the open. Wisdom calls aloud. She raises her voice in the public square and on top of the wall she cries out at the city gates she makes her speech. How long will you who are simple, love your simple ways? How long will you. Will mockers delight and mockery and fools hate knowledge repent at my rebuke? Then I will pour out my thoughts to you, and I will make you, make known to you my teachings. But since you refuse to listen when I call you, and no one pays attention when I stretch out my hand. Since you disregarded all my advice and do not accept my rebukes, I will laugh when disaster strikes you, and I will mock when calamity overtakes you. So you see, it's like, hey, this is wisdom talking, right? Which is, of course, the holy spirit.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

And. And it's like, hey, I'm.

[B]

I'm.

[C]

I'm showing you what right looks like. I'm telling you what right looks like. And when you don't want to listen and you mock me because I'm showing you what right looks like and you don't want to do it, I'm gonna laugh when you, you know, fall on your face. Boom. And that's. That's what it's referencing. But when you first. When you read that, just that one, it's like, whoa.

[B]

So, funny thing from Patreon. I posted a picture of Lewis and I and I put it in Patreon this morning. We were getting ready.

[A]

You're trying to win over Lewis as the cool guy, the nice guy.

[C]

No, no, no. Those guys sucked.

[B]

Juliet Whiskey said. I've generally thought Lewis was further back than he actually is. So when you guys are yelling at him, he's like, right there, laughing my ass up. Good work, Lewis, with how you are, how you run things. You give the show a funny, unscripted aspect. They didn't realize we're yelling at you this close. They thought maybe you're like, way back in the other room.

[C]

Lewis is in it behind like a. Like a panel.

[B]

Put him in his own little thing.

[C]

For his fish tank.

[A]

There is a counterculture on Spotify. I don't know if Night Shift is just going to be a show on the CC stream or if it's going to be its own stream, that. That stuff. The problem with doing that is that Night Shift will get five streams because no one, if we create its own audio stream, that is very hard. Where. If we put it under counterculture, people already have that downloaded, so it's going to auto populate. We'll get to that. We'll know by tonight, probably so maybe.

[B]

Allegedly.

[A]

Allegedly. All right, guys, that's it for the show. We'll see you tonight.

[B]

Watch our counterculture.

[A]

Get ready, Night Shift. Then tomorrow for 11am for casual Fridays. Later.

[C]

Good luck, Dylan.

[A]

Jv team for life.