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Tyler (Anti Hero)
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Nick (G Money)
I don't know, I think you know more about it than I do right now.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
I don't think I dialed in when we, when we, we did the watch party, but I had the computer on the thing while I was breaking down the night, the night show last night so I could hear it. But I remember you texting me like, oh, he said, you know this and this is, this is big and this, you know. So I want to talk about that stuff but the first thing I want to talk about is, is old Dan Crenshaw. And I didn't know about this whole Congress thing but apparently there was a bill that almost got passed or was close to being passed that was going to take away from future veteran Benefits and apparently was not going to mess with any other veterans that already had benefits, but they were going to target certain disabilities that are rated right now and they were not going to rate them anymore or something like that. I heard about this first from old Dan Crenshaw and he put out a reel. And sometimes I don't know if this guy is mentally ill or if he just loves being a heel, but like he already has no support from anybody. But then he puts this out. So I was watching it. So isn't he a lame duck?
Nick (G Money)
Didn't he lose his race? Yeah. Or right? Yeah, I thought so.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Yep. So this is what he put on Instagram. Use it up, Eli.
Dan Crenshaw (referenced speaker)
All right, so the vfw, with the help of a small handful for Republicans and of course all Democrats, just over combat wounded veterans and surviving spouses. Why would they do that? Well, Congress finally got their together and put together pretty good bill. A bill that again helps surviving spouses, actually helps combat wounded veterans. Right. Sizes the kind of benefits that everyone gets. And to pay for that, they right sized other benefits that veterans have been getting forever. Like 50 disability rating for sleep apnea. That is. It was when I was getting out, it was a 30 disability rating. If you lose a limb or an eye. And tinnitus, another disability rating, they took away that too. That's the pay for. It doesn't even affect anyone getting their benefits now. And yet a handful of Republicans and all Democrats are too chicken shit to actually get it done. And who's suffering now? The people who actually need these benefits. So good job, vfw.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Good job.
Dan Crenshaw (referenced speaker)
You're a. You're a victim worshiping relic of an organization. You suck. And I don't think anyone, no veteran out there should ever join a vfw. I mean, they're honestly very depressing to go to anyway. So. Yeah.
Nick (G Money)
What a dick, dude.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Whoo. Dan Crenshaw coming in hot. So I saw that and I'm like, what the hell is he talking about? So this is what he's referencing. Congress recently debated the Take Care of America veterans, the Take Care of America's Veterans act, which included controversial provisions that proposed reducing or limited future disability payouts for certain conditions like tinnitus and sleep apnea. Lawmakers included these cuts as a budget offset to pay for expanding other highly sought after veterans benefits, such as the Major Richard Starr act, which allows medically retired combat veterans to receive both their full military payment and VA disability compensation. Supporters of the bill argued that because the VA was already considering updating its rating criteria for these conditions. Codifying the changes would ensure the resulting funds stayed within veterans community rather than returning to general treasury. However, the proposed trade off faced heavy backlash cash from major veteran services organizations and was temporarily stopped. Whoa. So what they were going to do was they were going to take VA benefits from the conventional guys, the average guys, and they were going to try to give full on med board from what this is saying people, that med board out of the military, which means you medically retire now, just like we can talk about how some people get VA benefits that disability benefits that they maybe don't need. Right? Because I'm all about it, man. Do you, man? If you can get your money from the federal government like everybody else does with Section 8 and food stamps, you at least served your country, go get it. Right. But I know a lot of people that were medically retired out of the military and I'm like, huh, you're back yet you're, you're a cop now wearing a 22 pound vest and a 16 pound utility belt, but you're medically retired for your back out of the military. Again, not hating on anybody, but we're essentially, we're taking funds from veterans and trying to give them to more specialized veterans.
Nick (G Money)
And are you sure that's what that means?
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Pretty sure.
Nick (G Money)
Dan Crenshaw target specialized operators and not just.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
No. Yeah. I'm not saying soft, I'm not saying special operations forces. I meant like more special, like more niche groups or more specific stuff. But is Dan Crenshaw talking about special operation forces guys? Most likely he went off the whole back of my day spiel about, you know, we only got 30 for this. Well, do you think that's fair? No. Judging by the tone of your voice, Dan Crenshaw, you don't think that's fair. But your generation was getting hosed. So now guys are coming out. Guys have tinnitus so bad that it's crippling and giving them migraines. You can't get hearing loss when you get out of the military. It's so, so hard to get hearing loss that my hearing dramatically went down from firing weapons for four and a half years and then another three years in the National Guard. My hearing has tremendously went down, but the, the VA is not paying for it. The least they could do is give you 10% for tinnitus. That's it. That's all you get for tinnitus. 10%. There's people that can vouch for that like you that have fired weapons their whole career and now have to deal with tinnitus. It's crippling. Right before you came on, you had no idea I was going to bring this up. And you were like, dude, you're tinnitus is killing me today.
Nick (G Money)
Yep. It's so loud right now, dude. I'm distracted. My head hurts. So yeah, dude, like, especially my left ear because, you know, I got some sound in this one. It's drowning it out. Dude, it's so loud right now. I wish people who don't have it could experience it. Like, I send it. There's a YouTube clip that. That goes through different tinnitus sounds that I'll send to someone. They don't understand tinnitus. Like, yeah, I'm like, that's what I hear 24 7. I never have silence in my ears, and I kind of just live with it, dude. I don't even think about it. But some days, man, it's really bad. Like today, usually when I'm. When I'm sick or getting sick or when I'm hungover, it's loud as a. And I'm neither right now. So I don't know what the Going on.
Jay
Yeah.
Nick (G Money)
So I think maybe lack of caffeine today.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
We've all had a hard day today. I've had a hard day. So that's the one. Poor Eli's had a hard day. Eli got grounded for two days for. From video games for not washing his pot that he's supposed to wash every morning. And then he fell off the treadmill and then tried to get back on the treadmill after he fell off and got fell off again. And I had to scream at him to stop trying to get on the treadmill because he was in an OODA loop trying to get back on a treadmill that was kicking his ass off. So Eli's had a hard day, too.
Nick (G Money)
I think two days is a little too much for just a wash pot, bro. Come on.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Well, it's. How many times have I worn. Have I given you warnings about washing your pan?
Nick (G Money)
I say. I say you should give him a four hour. Four hours, dude. That's what you should break it down to. I'll be a union rep. That's fair.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
So I mentioned the. The vfw. Right.
Nick (G Money)
So that's. So to attack them.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Well, I mean, here's the thing. We've attacked the VFW for not being relevant. I've attacked the VFW for not staying relevant and destroying their own machine because they won't. They won't. I mean, the easiest thing I can do is stay relevant, like GWAT veterans. You mentioned the, the vfw, and they're like, why would I go to a vfw? I don't think that they're doing very good marketing. I don't think they're appealing to the new generation. But that was really my only critique. I never really critiqued their effectiveness in dc. I didn't know what they did. I talked to some people high up there on the phone that didn't want to come on the podcast necessarily at the time. And, and they, they explained to me what they lobby for and the importance of vfw. And I was like, okay, this is huge. Now, granted, this video is God awful and you will see what I mean when I say they are not in tune with marketing or anything like that or the this generation.
Nick (G Money)
But I love this.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
This is what they put out today.
VFW Representative
Having a celebration of sorts. We had a good win today on Capitol Hill, and normally we wouldn't read a lot of different things, but we wanted to make sure we get a clear message out to everybody about the advocacy that we succeeded in today. So we're going to read this first and then you will receive it in print officially. But we want to make sure that everybody hears our message first here. We stopped Congress from taking a dangerous step today. No matter how people tried to spin it. Congress shouldn't open Pandora's box on arbitrarily reducing disability ratings. It's never been done before and we're not about to let it start now. I know there are provisions in this bill that everybody wants to get done. Major Richard Starr act needs to pass, but it needs to pass clean. And it certainly cannot be passed by taking away from future veterans for survivors who wanted this path to be fixed. Your injustices, the fight is not over.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
That's pretty much it. I mean, they go, I don't think that's bad, dude.
Nick (G Money)
I think it gets at a point,
Tyler (Anti Hero)
it's just not appealing. A bunch of old people sitting on a table with goofy hats reading off their little handouts.
Nick (G Money)
Like, I, what do you want them to do? Like make a cartoon and make it a little more.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
I want them to have a guy with a cowboy hat and a American flag shirt on telling us what's up and telling us that that ain't gonna fly in Congress and join the VFW if you want to fight this. Like, I would be like, hell yeah. But again, it's not probably a good idea. It's not. I. That's the only thing I critique about the vfw is their loud.
Nick (G Money)
Hold on, hold on now. Is it, is it the fact that it was a woman reading it? Is that what makes you pissed? You didn't like it? If it was a man reading it would have been better.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
The men read. The men read and they're not any better. So they all take turns reading their things and.
Nick (G Money)
All right, so it's not a women a woman thing then.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
No, definitely not a woman thing.
Nick (G Money)
All right.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
But that's it. Yeah. Apparently a bill was passed to try to take from future now again, in theory, quote unquote. This was not going to take away from anybody's. Anybody.
Nick (G Money)
She's right. You open Pandora's box, dude.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Yes.
Nick (G Money)
Once when a politician opens a box, it never gets closed, it only gets bigger.
Jay
Yeah.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
And I from what I researched when I read earlier that they're that they were trying to allocate it from veterans to other veterans to make sure that if the VA was cutting those that didn't go back to general treasury. And I get that. But why take from veterans who are earn it, they're rated for it, they're provided it and give it to other veterans. I do believe in my bones Dan Crenshaw is trying to cover for more like kind of what you said for the special operations guys so they can have. Because he believes maybe special operations deserves it more.
Nick (G Money)
Well, he doesn't have a check anymore, so he needs to get all the money he can get now.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
So I don't know what his angle is with that. I mean to whatever veterans were you were supporting is like. So if I'm at. If I didn't get medically retired out of the army and I'm at. And I'm. But I'm about to get out of the Army. I'm getting out and I want to get tinnitus or I got sleep apnea because those were the only two really that have been mentioned that I've seen. I don't get to get those. But some guy that get. Because my money's got to go to a guy that medically retired now gets medical retirement his entire career or a guy that retires and gets his pension and from the army, but now he wants both, so I get none.
Nick (G Money)
So I. How's a sleep apnea work into to the military though?
Tyler (Anti Hero)
I don't know. I don't really know what sleep apnea even is.
Nick (G Money)
That's where you can't breathe it. You kind of stop breathing at night. It's pretty dangerous. A lot of men die from it.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
I mean I could see how it could happen. I just don't know. I, I'm not. I've never tried to go get it, so I don't know. I don't have it. I don't think so. My wife argues that I have it, but I think I just probably have it, dude.
Nick (G Money)
Well, that's part of it.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
I've seen people. It was really, really hard to get for a long time. In particular, sleep apnea was insanely difficult to get and it took like a year or two to get processed. I've heard that since it's happened, since they did better with it. I don't know. It's, it's, it's gotten better as far as getting it approved quicker, but,
Dan Crenshaw (referenced speaker)
but
Tyler (Anti Hero)
yeah, man, that's just, that's old Dan Crenshaw's take. I think that was a really awful take on it.
Nick (G Money)
He's not a likable person, dude.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
I don't know what would make him like he. I guess he doesn't have a PR person. Not that he listened to him when he was in office.
Nick (G Money)
That superhero Addy did was the worst thing I've ever seen. Remember that one?
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Yeah, that was a couple years ago. Huh. That was back before he was hated.
Nick (G Money)
Yeah.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Sometimes I, I really do try and figure out why Dan Crenshaw is so hated. We've had him on, we've talked to him, me and Mike on the phone way back in the day. And you, Mike asked him like, dude, why are you so hated?
Nick (G Money)
Like, did he ask him that?
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Yeah, yeah. It's a pretty good interview. Mike, Mike held, held his feet to the fire. And he just says, because he essentially said, because people are haters and they need someone to hate. And I'm like, I can, I can relate to that statement. Because as much as I try to be an advocate for the conventional guy, the average cop, the first responders, like blue collar dudes, like, people will attack me for trying to stand up for them. I'm like, but I'm standing up for you.
Nick (G Money)
Like, there's a difference, dude. You're always gonna have people pissed off and hate you in the comments. It just seems he's universally hated, which is completely different than, you know, just your average jerk off, some comments who just hates on people to hate. You know what I mean? Like you're always going to get a little bit of that. Yeah, but that dude, everyone hates him.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
I think he's got. I honestly think Dan Crenshaw has just as much, if not more haters than Tim Kennedy per capita. Per. Comments Per.
Nick (G Money)
I agree with you. I agree with you. I know. I think Dan had some questionable Second Amendment takes that people really pissed off about. Yeah, that really hurt him there. And then the, you know, the other shenanigans that have went on in, in the last year or two politically. And then Tim Kennedy, dude, like, he has his fanboys that are just die hard. Tim can do no wrong no matter what, you know, and watching that, that interview with Brian Callan. Is that his name? The comedian, which I think he sucks too, but he says a whole lot of nothing, dude. Like, he can drag something out. Never, never make a point or ask a question.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Yeah. Or I'll say the same thing over and over again. I can't talk about it. Like, I said that like 40 times.
Nick (G Money)
Yeah, well, that's part of it, dude. I caught something in that interview where they were talking and I, I don't know if it's legally, Tim can't say some things or if it's the fact that he doesn't want to get completely shown up or look like an. In the interview, but he kind of, he kind of shot Brian a look and Brian's like, oh, yeah, you know what I can really say and can't say. It was kind of real quick. I was like, huh, that's a little weird. Yeah. I mean, was that something like, you know, don't push too hard, Brian. I don't want to look like I'm a liar.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Yeah.
Nick (G Money)
I'll just give a little bit, you know what I mean? To make it look like a fish story. So like. Yeah, fish stories. Like I caught a dash, a big mouth bass and it was £3 when it was only like a pound and a half. You know what I mean?
Jay
Yeah.
Nick (G Money)
He's catching a great white shark in. In the, in the swimming pool in the backyard, you know, I mean, that's his fish story. Just doesn't even relate. 500 Iranians all over us and a two mile long convoy. Have to crawl around to find enemy combatants, weapons, because he's out of. Out of ammo and his rifle is damaged.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Meanwhile plunging the enemy to death.
Peach
Yeah.
Nick (G Money)
Yeah. Meanwhile, he's in a convoy, a resupply convoy. Got millions of rounds behind you, but you're gonna take it off a dead body of a Iranian soldier. It's just, I. I think that pisses people off more because the dude already had the credentials, like a Green Beret, almost a world champion in mma. Like, you didn't need to embellish anything. I think that's what really hits a chord with a lot of people with hate towards Tim Kennedy. It's like, dude, you're already a fucking badass American. Why did you have to go ruin your fucking legacy with complete nonsense?
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Can you imagine the. The amazing book that would have went from. From Special Forces to the ufc Octagon My Journey, like, bro, that would have sold millions. That right there. The. The what? I mean, his ufc. Tim Kennedy's UFC story is actually pretty amazing. The one story that I can vouch for is that he. And I not vouch for, I do believe, because I've seen people say it, he was in a contender bout for a champion, a title fight, and he lost that bout. And I don't think his professional MMA career ever really.
Nick (G Money)
No. And it was because the guy.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Because they iced him. They ice.
Nick (G Money)
The guy sat down, he quit. It should have been over. He should have won that match.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
And they. And they let the guy take a longer break. And so. And Tim explains it vividly. He's like, when you're.
Dan Crenshaw (referenced speaker)
He.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
He didn't call it momentum, and he didn't call it.
Nick (G Money)
It's momentum, dude. It is momentum.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
He could use a word for it. What do you call it when you can't feel any pain because you're adrenaline? Like, he was using. He was talking about all that stuff. He's like, in a fight, that's why there's timed. That's why the times don't last that long, because when you're done, he. Oh, that's right. He said, the guy quit. So I immediately went into. I just won, and my warrior edge just went away. And then they said, no, you're back in it. And then he's like, that's when I lost. He was like, I mentally checked out.
Nick (G Money)
Yeah, you had adrenaline and an adrenaline dump.
Jay
Yeah.
Nick (G Money)
At that point, he just won. You know, it's a title fight. Like, yeah, that was. He got robbed there. But what are you gonna do, dude? I mean, the guy destroyed his legacy. I don't think many people besides his fanboys look at him and take him seriously. Like, he. He looks like too dude, in that interview. Not that I'm some kind of handsome fella, but he's not. He's not looking all.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
All so well, I mean, I don't know. I just. Do you think he can turn it around? I've seen a couple videos on it.
Nick (G Money)
No, dude, no. You know that after this, you know, again, he's not even admitting that he lied. He's just. I told some fish stories and, you know Deploying. Would I take trips? Like, come on, man. Like, I. Listen, I read his book. I wasn't in the military, but I was in a police department. I'm not gonna say it's the same thing, but you. I can kind of sniff out, you know, with not being in the military and reading his book from jump was kind of dude, you know what I mean? Like, I. I even called you about it when I started to know you, before I even knew you did any of those specials, remember?
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Yeah.
Nick (G Money)
And I. I hit you up about Shrek, too. I said, yo, that's. I said, this sounds like, complete, too. And you're like, oh, well, yeah, we'll see about that.
Jay
Yeah.
Nick (G Money)
And I just understand why these guys have to lie, dude. They. They have stellar careers. And, you know, that dude could have been on top of the world for a long time.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Just with his. Just with his stories. Dude. Just with his stories. I mean, the amount of. The type of dudes that. I will give soft dudes a little bit of credit. The. The type of. The amount of dudes that have gone from special operations to professional sports, like Villa Hueva from the Steelers. He was.
Nick (G Money)
Yeah, he was an Eagle first.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Oh, yeah. He was a Ranger, though. There was a long snapper from Special Forces. I cannot remember what team he was on. And they. I watched an interview. He's like, dude, on my deployments, all I would do is snap that ball over and over. And he's like, I would just. That's all I would do.
Nick (G Money)
Roger Stallback, dude, who's that quarterback from Dallas back in the 60s, went to Vietnam.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Really?
Nick (G Money)
Yeah, came back. He's a Hall of fame quarterback, so
Tyler (Anti Hero)
there's tons of dudes that have done it. I know. You know, so. But I think that that mindset, that real. They work really hard physically for what they have. They might not be, like, the sharpest tool in the shed, but physically, they. They can do the job. So I don't. I just. I don't know. I know there's other veterans that have entered the usa. I want to say there is. I just can't remember, but that story is just insane.
Nick (G Money)
But, yeah, if Tim stood up today and said, listen, I lied, I. I got. You know, I had this propensity to want to be the best. I felt like on the dog my entire life. I really embellished. I lied about a few things. I'm sorry. I think that would have changed everything, and he could have came back from it, but at this point, I don't think he'll Ever really get real sponsors again. I don't think people are gonna believe a word he says because he just started his podcast on a lie. It was a podcast he bought that's already. You know, it's already established, and he's trying to make it sound like, well, I'm an underdog, man.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Yeah.
Nick (G Money)
You know, I'm fighting. Well, no, you bought it, and that's was the name of it, dude.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Yep. That's like, man, I think this guy's just. It's inherently.
Nick (G Money)
Narcissism's a. People throw that term around and don't really know what a real narcissist is, dude. Like.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Yeah, you're right. You're right. Women throw that around a lot. He's a nice. No, he's just a fucking asshole.
Nick (G Money)
Yeah. Every guy, every woman has dated a narcissist. It's. It's just that, man, he just wants a little time to himself and wants to be able to hang out with the guys. But
Tyler (Anti Hero)
these guys are dropping some names. That green beret was long. Snapper was on the Seahawks. Brian, Stan, U. S. Marine Corps veteran, was in usc. Great story as well. Hey, I'm gonna bring Peach on to go back to the VA Benefits. I know Peach. Really. He really is in tune with.
Nick (G Money)
I can make a sandwich when Peach is talking. I'm hungry, man.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
No, no, eating.
Nick (G Money)
Starving.
Peach
Yeah.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Can you hear us, Peach?
Peach
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
All right. I think you're actually. Your mic. I don't honestly think your mic was working last time you were on.
Peach
It was working. It was just loud as.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
That sounds like a mic.
Nick (G Money)
Yeah. What's the picture behind you?
Peach
So it is my. When I left as a combat instructor, they made this for me.
Nick (G Money)
All right, that's cool. Yeah. I only saw the bottom half of it.
Peach
Yeah, it's all. It's all metal. It's.
Nick (G Money)
Oh, yeah.
Peach
They cut it out and then painted it.
VFW Representative
Insert extraction.
Nick (G Money)
Yeah, that's cool, dude.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Peach, are you privy to the Dan Crenshaw reel that he put out?
Peach
Yeah. Yeah.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Okay, so I got one more.
Nick (G Money)
One more thing real quick. I'm sorry, Tyler, is the last three digits on there 0369?
Peach
Yeah.
Nick (G Money)
That's cool. So in Philadelphia and undercover. Yeah, yeah, yeah.0369. So in. In the words of numbers, that zero has no relevance whatsoever.
Peach
Well, it does. It does. In the Marine Corps, if you were just a three, if you were a 369, you'd probably be with the yin yang twins. But in the Marine Corps, it. It means something. O3 means a lot of things.
Nick (G Money)
Great. I'm not discussing the Marine Corps now, am I? I said, in Philadelphia, it means something different. But what's it?
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Being in Philly? Undercover cop.
Nick (G Money)
Nope. Not even talking about now. Good.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
All right.
Nick (G Money)
Anyway, talk about your beauty regimen, too, when you're done, please.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
The Dan Crenshaw. The reel that he dropped was the first I even heard about this. And then I saw the VFW post their cringe reel, but they. It looks like the VFW might have done some good. And I was wondering your opinion on this.
Peach
Yeah, So I think the. The whole thing with all of this is the fact that we're gonna have that whole debate of when it's. When people are in right now, are they worried about when I get out? Am I going to have issues of getting compensated for things that I did or whatever it is. A lot of it, too, is a lot of people don't realize we have VA lawyers that will back you 100 for everything. So I hired a lawyer before I even started doing any of my claims. He spoke on my behalf. He did all of that because when I did the first. When I did my first claim, I only got 10% out of everything. And I'm like, what? That's crazy. There's people that go to boot camp, will trip, fall, and. And. And sprain their knee, and they get 100, and they never even graduate and never do anything. Like I said, I'm gonna get mine. Like, I'm. I'm gonna get my money. I don't give a. What anybody says. You can call me a. I don't care. I'm gonna get paid from the government for the rest of my life. I'm gonna do everything I can. But, I mean, the fact that there's actually people that are helping us and backing us is very, very surprising, because the VA is not easy to work with. It's not easy to get vetted through. Like, I said yesterday, I have a dental appointment, and that's all covered, too. And I didn't even know about any of these things until Someone. I was 100 for almost two years before and said, hey, man, you know you have dental, right? And I was like, no. What the are you talking about? It's not like they hand you this packet, and it's like, no, hey, here's everything that you. You can do. And I have a buddy who hit me up, and he's like, hey, man, just let you know you have all of these benefits you can do. You might want to start looking into Them. So I did, and I was like, holy. There's. There's a lot of things at 80, at 60, there's a big difference. But I think it's going to be a huge legal battle. If it does go another way, it's gonna make a lot harder for these VA lawyers to get you what you deserve, and especially if there's backing, like, my medical jacket is thick. Anything. If I was sick, I went to medical. Didn't take a day off, but I went in. I got documented. I hurt myself. I went. I just got documented. I probably, maybe my entire career, maybe took a month to myself for medical reasons. A lot of them were surgeries and stuff, but if you don't get it documented, it never happened. And my dad did. You know, he did a while, and he told me, he's like, dude, anything you do get documented. You can't go to the VA with no paperwork and expect money. It doesn't. It doesn't. Doesn't work like that. And all VA money, disability money is hush money.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
It's. It's that it. I mean, if you don't, your uphill battle gets a lot more uphill. Exactly. You know, hey, I didn't. I didn't go because it was. It was frowned upon in the infantry to show weakness. The VA does not care about that.
Peach
Yeah.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Then you got to go into letters from people and contacting your buddy you haven't Talked to in 10 years. Be like, remember that jump when I said I hurt my knee and I was walking funny for like four months. Do you mind writing me a letter?
Jay
Yeah.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
You know, even then.
Peach
And even then, it might not even work. You know what I mean? So, like, I don't understand his backing behind it. I. I just. You would think he would be a veterans guy, you know, you would think he would be behind us 100 with it. But I don't know if this is like the back in my day type person. This is what we did and anybody else can kind of off, but I'm just hoping it kind of.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Were you getting the. Kind of. Were you getting the feeling that he was trying to. He wants that money to be allocated to more soft foundations or do you think.
Nick (G Money)
Yeah, I think he's trying to people. He lost his job and a lot of it had to do with veterans not voting for him anymore. I think that might be his way of shoving it up their ass. Seriously. I think he's that type of guy that would. People added spite.
Peach
Yeah. I mean, he still has a voice and a lot of different stuff. And, you know, it. He's going to try to use it and put his name on something. Whether good, bad, or indifferent, you know, that's just. I think that's the type of person that he is. It just. I. I think it sucks. Whether you're the soft community, whether you're admin, it doesn't make a difference. You have injuries that the military caused or if you have, you know, problems at the mill that you got within the military. I still have a deviated septum. Like, half my nose is closed shut, and it's because I got. I got blown up. So it's like, I didn't. If you look at my pictures from boot camp, I never had this. Like, I never had any of this stuff. And like, I snore and. And speak. I can't breathe when I go to the gym. I have to literally wear a. A nose thing.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Because you're like the human version of a pug.
Peach
Yeah. Yeah.
Nick (G Money)
Well, I mean, it's not that bad,
Peach
but in all reality. But, like, you got to think when you go to the gym and you. And you lift, like, your body needs to see that. I can't breathe in.
Nick (G Money)
You ever see that procedure where they put a balloon up there and inflated?
Peach
But that's the internal cranial one. That's like the. That's the. Mine is literally just this. It's like just this piece here. It's nothing inside. So they have to really break your nose. And that's why I haven't done it yet. They have to break your nose. They put the slither up there to form it and then put it. Oh, yeah. And because literally, like, half my. When I go to breathe in through my nose, one side completely closes. And yeah, it's.
Dan Crenshaw (referenced speaker)
It.
Peach
My nose is up. It doesn't really look like much, but at the end of the day, like, it's still affecting me, you know, And I claimed it. I did all that. I think I didn't really get anything for it. I didn't claim TBI or any of that stuff. And the only reason why I didn't do any of that is because the appointments, like, yeah, we'll get you an appointment about eight months. And it's like, what the. Like, let's get this going, you know, Everything else. Everything else got moved along pretty quickly. But it's like, you miss an appointment, like, you're screwed. They don't care about what's going on in your life. Like, you better get them done. And I know there's laws in a lot of the states that require them to whatever job. If you have some type of VA appointment, they have to give you that time off. Not saying it's going to be paid, but they have to give you opportunity to go to those appointments.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
All right. Yeah. I mean, I don't, I. There's not really much to say other than Dan Crenshaw is trying to take away. I mean, that's the way I look at it. Dan Crenshaw's trying to take money from veterans and he could sit there, he could sit there and say, well, it's going to. This. My, my, my gut is telling me that he's trying to take away from the conventional guy and give it this off. And he doesn't think the conventional guys deserve sleep.
Nick (G Money)
They turned on him. They turned on them, dude. The conventional guys turned on him. And it's been for the last couple years since that second amendment stuff, I guarantee you, out of Spike, because one doesn't have to do with the other. He can move forward with, with this new bill and leave the benefits alone. So it's kind of a up thing, take money out of someone's pocket.
Peach
Do you think, like, government wise, it's gonna back, like anybody will back him? I mean, I understand, like the other video you showed that really didn't. But another entity within the government could support it for whatever reason, whether it's money, whether it's, you know, we're this stupid war that we're having. Like, we're in a kind of a, let's call it a budget crisis right now where like, we're just finding out money. And I, I honestly want to put it to blame to, you know, I would say a good percentage of people who claim things that they don't have or cheated the system and are getting paid for nothing and they're just making money to live. That's the difference. You know, they're not having daily struggles. They're not, you know, actually going to appointments. I have like six appointments scheduled in the packs, like three months. And there's literally things that I need to get done. Pain management, dental, whatever it is. But a lot of people will get this money and never schedule any appointments to fix these problems and that.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
But why would you, why would you fix the problem if you're being paid for it?
Peach
You're still going to get paid for it. No, that ain't gonna stop.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
No, they literally said if they, they've came out and said, hey, if any of these ailments get fixed, we're going to.
Peach
But what Is fixed. But what is fixed? Like my back problems. My back problems are not going to get fixed.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
But you know you would. But you know you would never get. And you would never say to the va, hey, this worked. My back's good.
Peach
Because the va. No, no, but I'm talking about like pain management is just managing the pain. It's like they're stretching you out and then it comes right back a couple days before the next appointment.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
I got you.
Peach
Yeah, I mean, so like the management appointments, whatever. Whatever else you have going on, like the surgery, I got it. Like if I get my nose fixed. But I didn't. I didn't make any money off that anyways. I got blown up in a vehicle.
Nick (G Money)
Can you talk about it?
Peach
Yeah, dude, we're. We were just driving on a main MSR that we had. We turned off. There was a. I was the mine roller up front. So it was a 6 by M. Brad vehicle with the V hole and then the mine rollers basically hold on.
Nick (G Money)
Me and a lot of other people aren't in the military. So what's the. The V hall that you're talking about?
Peach
So V hole is basically the bottom of the hole. It's kind of like this. Right. So when you get.
Nick (G Money)
Okay.
Peach
A blast, it will. It kind of spread out.
Nick (G Money)
Disperses the energy.
Peach
Yep. Outside.
Nick (G Money)
Gotcha.
Peach
And then the mine roller in front is basically a huge heavy thing with the.
Nick (G Money)
The wheel and the chains that whips.
Peach
No, this is. It's got probably, I don't know, 15, 20 wheels on it. Inside the wheels, there's ballistic gel and then there's weights that are on top of this. It's like a trailer on the front of your vehicle. And then the driver or the front pasture can control it to move it around corners and kind of hit spots. So you're not. It's basically going to lead in front of the vehicle. So whatever that runs over, the vehicle will run over. And it's supposed to detect, you know. Yeah, it'll. Well, yeah, but what they did was. Well, what they did was they offsetted it and they put the pressure plate about 20ft up and then the IED 20ft back. So I hit the plate, we took it. Mine roller ended up on top of the turret where I was at. I was fine. I just. My head hurt. I just couldn't breathe. And then once everything was said and done, like somebody was like, dude, your nose is all up. I was like, oh, cool, whatever.
Nick (G Money)
Why wouldn't you claim a TBI from that? You definitely have one.
Peach
I I was going to just appointments. They were like, oh, we don't know. We can get you in this, this and that. And until they get you in.
Nick (G Money)
How long ago was it?
Peach
Determine what. When that happened? Yeah, November 16, 2012.
Jay
Yeah.
Nick (G Money)
So 14 years. They can't get in for.
Peach
Well, no, that. So that was from me. Me getting out of the marine Corps in 2011 or 2021. That's when I started, like, the claims and stuff. I mean, I could have done stuff while I was in, but it was just like deployment, field op deployment. Tyler knows, like, you ain't. You ain't going to the doctors or nobody while you're in a workup. And I did, you know, six workups, so it was like.
Nick (G Money)
So. So when that. When that lands on your entire. What's going on? Anyone else injured? You guys taking fire at all, or is it just.
Peach
No, it was just.
Nick (G Money)
It was over.
Peach
That was it. Yeah, we got lucky. Most of the time if we did get hit, there was like small arms fire or something. But we had. We had hilos. We had everything all around us. And we did satellite patrols. So we had another foot, like a foot patrol that was off to the side that was kind of walking around us. So if we did take pop shots, whatever surprise, like, you got, you know, seven Marines that are right behind you that are going to you up. So they end up. Stop doing that. Stop doing.
Nick (G Money)
How many. How many firefights were you in?
Peach
Oh, I have no idea. A bunch. I have no idea.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Damn. Nick's that guy at the bar. How many people did you kill?
Peach
I have no.
Jay
I have no idea.
Peach
I. I carry a 240.
Nick (G Money)
Listen to this. Dude,
Tyler (Anti Hero)
we got to move on because we got to talk. Trump, did you kill anybody?
Peach
Well, you can find out tonight at 8:00'.
Nick (G Money)
Clock.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
There you go. God's on ground tonight, 8:00'.
Nick (G Money)
Clock.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
And then after that, we have the Discord meeting. I'm gonna forget. So everybody please remind me that 9 o' clock is a Discord meeting. Drums address the nation. We watched on this discord last night. You said that he mentioned Nick, he mentioned Obama by name, and you said that is a huge thing. Why is that a big thing?
Nick (G Money)
Because, man, if. If Obama's ordering these. These files, first off, if Obama's ordering treasonous acts, and then to cover it up and. And burn them, dude, it's treason. From a US President. I don't think another president's really ever called out another president for treason publicly. Like, that's a huge deal, dude. Especially in the history of our country and depending on what goes forward now, now, again, once again, everything is on Trump. I, I do believe, like he went on Rogan right before the election and Rogan said, oh, you know, he didn't really give us any evidence towards the election interference. I can't really believe it. Well, I don't think he wanted to tip his hand one because he wasn't back in the presidency and you know, you're not going to share with what, what, you know, with these people. You know what I mean? So I, I, it's up to Trump now to actually provide evidence and show us in the world what happened. The, the, the talking and the hyperbole is over. Time to put up or shut up. Yeah, Giant. It's boring, but I mean, what the did you want him to do? Jump up and down and spit wooden nickels with sparklers out of his ass? It is what it is.
Peach
I think, I think it was a quick, it was really quick too. I thought it was gonna be a lot longer than that, honestly.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
It was. Yeah. Sorry, I'm just making a banner. Real good.
Nick (G Money)
You can send that, you can send that super chat right to me, my Venmo. Thanks.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Here's the super chat for G Money Eating to rage bait Tyler. The other days I had to head out the door to work before he did it. Murphy with five bucks a new mic. Thank you for asking Kermit to explain these things. Oh, new mic. I always get lost with military acronyms and terms.
Nick (G Money)
I got you. These guys just think it's normal. I slowed down. I got the non military guys.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Is there any other takeaways from Trump's address? I mean, he, you called it. Like I said, you called it with that, that article that came out yesterday or you want to talk about it? Yesterday was the Air Force One. He addressed that too, right? That's what he was talking about.
Nick (G Money)
Yeah, I don't think he really went into it and I'm curious. Like I said, I've heard chatter about it that the New York Times had an article ready to go, that Air Force One was shot down over Turkey, and Tyler's gone. That was a pretty good fade out. Did you see him, Peach?
Peach
No. That's pretty cool.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Can you guys hear me?
Nick (G Money)
No. It's a improvement on your. I can hear you. It's an improvement.
Peach
I can hear it.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Eli, Eli, are you producing right now? Do you notice I'm not on there.
Nick (G Money)
He's, he's playing Minecraft.
Peach
Nerds. All right, cool. So cool.
Nick (G Money)
What's up, man?
Peach
It's our show now.
Nick (G Money)
Yeah.
Peach
Yeah. So I carry.
Nick (G Money)
Interesting.
Peach
I. I carried a machine gun most of the deployments. Yeah, most of the time.
Nick (G Money)
Bravo.
Peach
Yeah. It was just. We didn't have machine gunners, so we were so short. So I carried a machine gun 90
Nick (G Money)
of the time on, like, if you're doing foot patrols, you're actually carrying that weapon.
Peach
Yep. Oh, he's back.
Nick (G Money)
That's heavy as, right?
Peach
Yeah.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Shut up. Apparently, Eli leaned on a button that faded me out, of course.
Nick (G Money)
It was a cool fade out, dude. It was pretty neat.
Peach
Yeah, that's probably how you should end the show every time now.
Nick (G Money)
Yeah, it was really cool.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
All right, Anything about Trump that we want to talk about?
Nick (G Money)
What.
Peach
Hey, so what's going on with the whole. Did he. I think it was. He got a plane from somewhere else or something.
Jay
All right, so.
Nick (G Money)
Yeah, so he had a plane cutter or guitar, however the. You say it, don't, you know, donated a plane to the United States as a new Air Force One. It's up to date. It's supposed to be really good. But the problem is it doesn't hold some of the, you know, classified top secret defense capabilities at the current. Or the previous Air Force One had. And someone released that information to reporters when Trump was overseas in a hostile, you know, Ao basically. Right. In a war zone. Why do you do that? Whatever reason, would you let your enemy know that there's vulnerabilities in the plane that Trump's flying? He got wind of it. They switched planes at the last minute. And allegedly there's a article already written saying that. How his plane got shot down over Turkey and he died. Yeah, he was killed.
Peach
Have you guys. Have you guys ever seen Air Force One or been in it before?
Tyler (Anti Hero)
No.
Nick (G Money)
Have you?
Peach
Yeah. So I have pictures of. I was in South Korea and it was when the F35 first got released. He. We had this. We were in the hangar. It was really like, not even 500ft from the DMZ. It's when he met King Jung, all that.
Nick (G Money)
Oh, yeah, you were there for now.
Peach
Yeah, I was. I was stationed or I was deployed in South Korea for that. So basically we were sitting there waiting. You know, I just wanted to see, you know, his daughter or his wife or whoever. Like, I didn't get really care of seeing Trump at that point because I've already seen him. But they flew in Air Force One. The first time it landed did like a circle, took back off, and I'm like, what the hell is going, dude, we're sitting. It's Hot as. I'm like, dude, what is going on? They did it three more times and come to find out they had two Air Force Ones planes that were there or three, I have no idea. They had multiple. It wasn't the same one. And they landed.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
They had two and three flying around.
Peach
Yeah. Oh, yep. And it. First one lands. If it's not. He's not in there. It gets hit. Oops, whatever. At least it's not him, you know? And then he ain't landing, but basically came off. He did a whole speech and like, it was mostly Marines take over at Air Force Base that was there. So we were all like, barking and at his wife. It was pretty wild. Yeah, it was wild. And then they released the F35. They took the. You couldn't see the cockpit, but they took the COVID off. And we're like, that's badass. But yeah, then we got to. We got select. Few of us got to go inside and look at it. I got a coin and everything from it, but that's awesome, dude. Very, very old, man. Like Independence Day. Have you ever seen the movie when they're inside Air Force One? Pretty much just like that. Like, like vintage old is.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
It felt like.
Peach
Yeah, it's huge. Yeah, it's huge. Like, we didn't go to certain areas. We just walked through, like, certain. Certain parts of it. Like the first section. And they got to see the cockpit, but it's. It's. It's a very, very old plane. What's up?
Nick (G Money)
Why is it called a cockpit?
Peach
I couldn't tell you. I'm not. I'm not a pilot. I have no idea how weird.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Maybe it's a What. What does Jake call his. He calls his studio the. The. It's joking. Obviously the acronym's a joke, but it's like Central Operations Command. I don't know. Maybe. Like, maybe that's where it came from. Anyways, no one cares. All right, well, we're gonna hit the commercial break. Peach. Thanks for coming on, dude. Yeah, budget that story another time. Yeah, he said watch live tonight at 8 o' clock on Counterculture Inc. Network. He's going live. He'll be there to talk. You got a guest?
Peach
Yeah, I do. Yeah, he's a pogue. So it's gonna be us.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
That's right.
Peach
Going back and forth on pokes versus grunts. That stuff so might get spicy.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Tactical redaction. 20 bucks, team. I have to go to work. I. I'm at some dump. U.S. marine Corps base that reminds me of a trailer park. I grew up in. Have a good day. All right, we're gonna take a quick commercial break. Catch peach tonight, eight o'. Clock. Counterculture Inc. YouTube Guys on the ground. We'll be back in a minute.
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Nick (G Money)
You.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Last night, I was talking about how you set the bar for yourself so high the first time you came on anti air. And that real hit a million views or it's almost. I'm like, I couldn't imagine that. Like now everything I do is like, well, it's not that good, but it's still good.
Nick (G Money)
Yeah, every. Every time, like, this sucks. I'm terrible.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
It's hard, man. You can't come in every day with that energy. You came in hot and heavy with that energy and then you were doing it every day and then I would accidentally interrupt you and you'd be like, can I finish? I'm like, my bad, dude. I thought you were done. So, G Money show, Counterculture Inc. YouTube's Tuesday's Night. This Tuesday, 7 o'.
Nick (G Money)
Clock. Got a lot to talk about.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
We're gonna wait on old Jay to get in here because we're gonna talk some AI stuff. Me and you got open mike after this, huh? Kind of culture. YouTube, three o'. Clock.
Nick (G Money)
I'm gonna bow a little bit early. I gotta go see my daughter off. She's headed to beach resort in North Carolina.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
We adjusted to hold it down. We got it. If you guys want to know the ins and outs of our networks, our podcasts and this, everything we've created, open mic is the place to be. I'm sure we have some good content for you coming up at 3pm So
Nick (G Money)
I want to talk about Justin's surgery.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Yeah, I don't. I know nothing about it, so I purposely didn't ask.
Nick (G Money)
Whoa, there he is.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
What up?
Jay
How's it going, guys?
Tyler (Anti Hero)
It's going good, mate. How are you?
Jay
I'm going good, guys.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Dude, we should do a whole show where me and Nick talk like English dudes. You try and talk.
Jay
Why can't you talk like English dudes?
Nick (G Money)
Boy, I can't do the accent, man.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
What the was that?
Jay
That was a. I'm trying Give me some props. How you doing, G Money? That was. You were good the other day. I text you, but he didn't reply to me.
Nick (G Money)
Thank you very much, WhatsApp. Right?
Jay
Dude, what was that about?
Tyler (Anti Hero)
He can't text me. He doesn't have a regular phone.
Jay
Okay, no worries.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
You guys have cell phones?
Nick (G Money)
I don't check my WhatsApp. No, they're not allowed, dude.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Yeah, you gotta pay. You gotta have the government on a separate account. You got to pay for them too, so they can watch.
Jay
Yeah, I have a vpn everything.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Bro, that is a sick shirt you're wearing.
Jay
Oh, my goodness.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
You like it?
Jay
Oh, it's amazing. I'm so proud of it, man. Yeah, really, really, really proud of it.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
You guys might. You guys might think, like, these two are propping the shirt up like it's holier than thou, but we spent a lot of time on this design and getting all of everything in so we can do all this stuff in house. So. And then it came out perfect. Like, you always got to worry about too much ink. And we made the design to sit on black perfectly. When you don't even notice the design on the shirt so you don't feel it.
Dan Crenshaw (referenced speaker)
It's perfect.
Nick (G Money)
Can I order mine?
Jay
I think, isn't it the cheapest one that with that you've done? It is.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
It's the cheapest one as a new shirt. There's. There's designs on the website now that are like, literally clearance discount rack. Like, if you're not buying those, you're like, they're. They're going down because we got to make space for all the new shirts. So we're discounting at, like an alarming rate.
Nick (G Money)
It's like 21.75 after the discount for.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
For that shirt.
Nick (G Money)
Yeah.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
So you have it in your cart. You just haven't.
Nick (G Money)
No, I just did the math. I'm gonna order one today.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Damn. You did the math in your head like that. Good job, G Money.
Nick (G Money)
Oh, listen, it's. It's kind of stupid the way I do it. 15 of 100 is 15, half of that 750. Right. And then you quarter that, which would be three and a quarter, and subtract that from 25 would be 21.75.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
And the reason why I did it, that price is because with a 15 discount, anti hero and then shipping, it still is the quote unquote, 25 shirt. That's what I wanted to call it. But the 25 shirt at 25 bucks could be close to 30 with shipping. If you Live in England. It could be way more. So we, we did it. So where. If you. In the. If you're in the States at least, or Canada, if you use a discount code, even with shipping, it's still the 25 shirt. And we're able, you know, we're super excited for it, but it is. Yeah, it's the newest shirt and it's probably the cheapest we've ever put out a new shirt. So any new shirt that comes out, we've always done about 30 almost. It was like 32.99 is usually what we start a shirt out as, unless it's a tank top or there's some other reasons why. But most graphic shirts, graphic design shirts go out at 32 bucks. 30, 33 bucks. And this one we were able to do so much cheaper because of the way we're doing stuff now.
Jay
So I think you hit it out of the park with a design as well. I think when, when we put AI and, and the graphic designer that we've got, Natalie and in with it, it just turned out like much better than I expected. I mean, I even bought 12. So if you, if you're abroad and you. And you want to save a bit on the shipping, just buy 12 shirts when I would. What?
Tyler (Anti Hero)
You bought 12 shirts?
Jay
No, I was just saying people should buy 12 shirts.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Oh, it's like I must have missed that order.
Jay
But I would, I definitely would. And so should the people that.
Nick (G Money)
Yeah. Jay, can we start talking through WhatsApp as if we're selling cocaine? Just have complete conversations. Sending kilos and buying kilos and putting money in offshore accounts and see what happens.
Jay
Obviously, if I have to, if I ever have to send money to people, I'll just put the references crack or like a RIM job or something just so that if they do have to prove their income, they've got that on the statement.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Yeah, man. Joe Jay, obviously is a co host of the Life Raft podcast. Sundays at 2:00pm Central Time. And what you guys talk about. You guys know what you guys are talking about this Sunday live show?
Jay
Yeah, I find the AI. So we, we got distracted on the last one to talk about Jews. I think I thought that went down.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
It felt. It felt good. Good timing, though. It kind of needed to be there. Yeah.
Jay
And we said things that no one really wants to say. I mean, Jake was totally against that kind of people. And I was, I was all for them. I was like, come on, let's. Let's fully support them. But that was last week. This week is about AI. And I think Jake is totally against it because he's retarded and doesn't know how to use it. So I'm gonna try and lead him down the. The garden of AI. And yeah, he's gonna try and fight his way through it, but, yeah, we're just gonna have fun as usual. And if you do like having fun, don't tune in Tuesdays, tune in Sundays on the LifeCraft podcast.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Yeah, I. I caught it late. I wasn't able to catch. I caught some of it live, but I was able to catch most of it. And you were right because Jade messaged me. I was like, dude, you've got. If you watch any of them, you got to watch this last one. So I went back and watched. It was really good. But yeah, going back to the. The AI stuff, I mean, that. That design is exactly what we're talking about when you want. Some people just fucking nail it, dude. Some people, like a bunch of retards drinking beer will fucking be like, let's start a business. Some idiot will draw it and then, boom, that's it. And that's it forever. It's iconic, like the misfit skull. Like something like that. To be honest, with the anti hero skull that was done up by my buddy Kyle from high school in like four minutes. It just some. Sometimes it works, and other times you really got to tell AI you have to give AI references. And if you give AI references, it's literally a person that's like a magician. It's demonic, and it'll give you everything you want. And I told it, I want to kind of do these style things, but I want this. And they took Natalie's design and made it into a conceptualized thing that I was able to then, you know, it was just perfect. So the importance of having a human. But as we talked about, AI can. Could not get that skull down. It just wasn't able to.
Jay
And I think that's the importance of, like, YouTube thumbnails as well. I mean, you see all the. All the slot that's out there today and, and people don't. They just. They're all flat. They're. Yeah, they're just basic. They had too many faces. Like, writing's wrong. So it really is important to get stuff like thumbnails.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Like, well, well, let me. Let me. Let me show you guys. I'm glad Jay brought that up. So this is. Can you. Oh, crap. I gotta stop sharing this screen and then start sharing this screen. I want to show you guys the difference of. When I finally Decided to use AI. Can you put it up, Eli? So when I finally. Yeah, you gotta be. So you guys will see I was very. I was very anti AI These are what my. What my thumbnails looked like when I would do them by hand, right? Oh, give me. I gotta Google a fire background. Google a background, right? And then I gotta find images of people, then I gotta cut them. I've got to do this, that. The other thing I use in shot, which is a great app to use, by the way. Don't get me wrong. It's. You need to have in Shot. But I was like, man, like, look at this awful thumbnail, right? It is, dog.
Nick (G Money)
They're good, dude. Well, I. I don't think they're bad at all, man.
Dan Crenshaw (referenced speaker)
But.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Okay, let's argue. Let's argue. How long it took me to make these as a P.O. that's why I. Because what we do is we take. We're trying. We're trying to do more videos in our video segment. Because we go live every day, we have nothing in our videos. So when people go, like, if I talk to a potential partner and they go, let me go check out this, this, and they're like, you haven't had a video up for a month. It's like, no, you got to go to the live section here. And that's where our videos are, right? You go here, and that's where all. That's where we put out something every day. So when I go to the videos, they. We had this one up for ever, dude. So I started putting up. But I'm like, you know what I'm going to do? I'm gonna use AI. So I started using AI for this, and I just feel like, although probably not the best thumbnails ever in the world, just letting AI do your thing. This one, I gave him a picture of Chitwood. And I said, I mean, for instance, I remember what I did for this one right here. I said, awesome.
Nick (G Money)
I've never seen that one.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
I gave them a picture of you and Ryan. I said, put. Get me it. Draw me a YouTube thumbnail with the first picture on the left, the second picture on the right. Put Patriot versus Communist in quote. And I put it in quotation marks. And then I was like. And make it American versus Communism themed. That's what I came up with.
Nick (G Money)
That's awesome.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Now, granted, you know, this one, I said the same thing. I did the same thing, and I said, make it Osama bin Laden themed in Navy Seal theme. So it just kind of threw this in there. I did the same thing with this, this, this, this like. But you'll notice offset here a little bit. I had. I want to tell you guys who it is. You guys probably figured out by now our analytics guy, who's very close to us has been inside the. He's had his arm inside YouTube analytics. Like somebody fucking inside a bull's ass. Like he. For two months he has been deep diving our YouTube back. Our back YouTube page for just every day and trying to figure out what's going on. So it turns out that most of our subscribers. We have 118,000 subscribers on YouTube. YouTube, right. The views sometimes don't. Don't show that. Right. It's not showing that. Very, very, very easily could be accused of buying followers.
Peach
Right?
Tyler (Anti Hero)
So that worries me. I've never bought a follower in my entire life. Instagram, Facebook, YouTube. Never bought a view follower, nothing. So Sean found out. He goes, most of our subscribers are subscribed to, to these 15 channels. And it was all soft channels. Navy Seal, Green Beret drama. All those guys came over during the Tim Kennedy, Rob o' Neal episodes that we would put out. So we're like, well, that sucks because that's not the audience we're pandering to. So I was like, well, let me try something. Let me throw the word pandering. What?
Nick (G Money)
Targeting.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Targeting or what?
Nick (G Money)
Yeah, pandering is not a good word.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Targeting. Cool.
Jay
Are you the word place now?
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Yeah, sorry. But anyways, so I did an experiment to. And I put this one out and of course I put this one at three. It got 370, 285 police themed, just kind of like news themed. This one, Tim Kennedy's new podcast, 2.4K Views.
Nick (G Money)
Right.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
So now granted, we haven't put videos out in a long time, so we're pushed down in the algorithm. So we gotta, we gotta earn our way back up there. Even. Even if we were putting out content that these subscribers want to see. But easily 2.4k views. That's soft special operations forces right there. UFC. Awful views. Who is lying? Soft 2.1k views in 22 hours. This patriot versus communists debate transgenders in our military. 62 views in seven hours. So it is showing that. Didn't mean to get on this tangent, but it is showing that the audience that we're targeting is not as a lot. You guys get what I'm saying?
Jay
Yeah.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Kind of stuck with a lot of subscribers that don't care about what we talk about.
Jay
Well, yeah, I guess so. Because if you've Got the. The algorithm is going to recognize that those subscribers are subscribed to all of those different channels, and then.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Yeah.
Jay
Promote content that they'd want to watch.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
So it's a. Yeah, but you want
Nick (G Money)
me to fix it for you?
Tyler (Anti Hero)
What are you gonna do?
Nick (G Money)
I got you.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Right on. I'll just trust.
Nick (G Money)
That's it. They just have the faith.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
So. But yeah, the importance of AI was that that rabbit hole I went down is just. I mean, dude, took me 10 seconds to make these, and they're way better than any of these I made, in my opinion. So, I mean, you can. If you. If you like, if you don't like AI and you got a lot of free time and you know how to use use in shot now. I wasn't using Canva. I was not using Adobe Premiere. This was an app called Inshot on my phone that I'm comfortable with. And it took a lot of work.
Nick (G Money)
I was the original mean dude. You know how I did it? Xerox machine and overlaying, cutting out. It was tough back in the day, dude.
Jay
I mean, see, what. What we would do with Counterculture Studios there is. You're. If you done those thumbnails, Tyler, we would look at them and then we would enhance the bit. So we would add, like, light sources, shadows, shading, different text to what everyone else has and just make it like, particularly for that person's brand. So although that. Those thumbnails are good and everyone can do them, I don't think everyone can do what we do, as in make it personable and make them stand out. So it is. It's amazing. But it doesn't replace creativity, I don't think.
Nick (G Money)
I think.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
No. And you're right. And there needs to be.
Nick (G Money)
Well, you need to be. Yeah, you need to direct it with your creativity. You're right.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Yeah. You need to have the human element in there. And I think things like show intros are extremely important. So G Money, show intro. I can't remember what I made out of that. I know I contributed to it a little bit.
Nick (G Money)
Yeah, you gave the static, you know, the aesthetic look at as if it was being transmitted.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Okay.
Nick (G Money)
It was awesome. Yeah.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
You had the audio made, though. Yeah, yeah. So we would take something like that. That is completely human. Did you. Oh, so you use AI for the audio, right?
Nick (G Money)
Yeah.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Okay, so that's a perfect. That's a perfect example. Like, G Money's intro is AI. But we were struggling, you know, he was like, can you do something with video? So all I did was put like a TV filter over it and his logo and it looked like, you know, kind of like a broadcast. But then sometimes it does need to go back to the AI and then back to the human. I just think to get that and it's. It's all about your time and money. If you want the perfectly polished cut diamond, it's going to take a little bit. If we're cutting, cut and cutting and you're like, that's good right there. That's all I can afford. That's all I have time for. That's great too. But it's better than when it was here. So you got it to hear. But if you wanted that fresh cut, you got to put the time and the work.
Nick (G Money)
Definitely.
Jay
And with the intros that we've done, I mean, we like with Jake and I as the life raft one, like we wrote the song so we, we put the human element into it and used it to create the music. The same with guys on the ground, like, so we physically, like. Well, I physically did the actual. The, the words and the lyrics and then I just put the music over it because I'm. I can't play anything for.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
So can you put it back up here? Oh, I got it. So this is G Money's intro. Now this is the. This is AI AI made the audio and then I just made this within like 5 minutes on my phone.
Nick (G Money)
In a world where gutless liberal elites have seen.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Oh, and I. And I copied some from YouTube for the music.
Nick (G Money)
The airwaves where every honest voice is hunted, censored, deplatformed and cancelled by the.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
So what would you do, Jay, to make this if you were hired to. If G Money hired you and said, hey, can you do my intro? Show me what Counterculture Inc. Studios would do. What would you do with that?
Nick (G Money)
Can I add something? Yeah, that needs to be changed. Anyway, I know G Money show, so I know.
Jay
Well, you've got CC Studios.com putting in the quarry and I might do a good price.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Well, in all reality, like, would you. Would you keep certain elements of this or would you totally suggest wiping it clean and starting over? Like, what would you suggest? Just at face value from what you've seen?
Peach
I'll keep it.
Dan Crenshaw (referenced speaker)
Really.
Jay
I mean, you know, the intro works, you know the text works. So. So I'd just expand on it. So I'd maybe add like a. I don't know, something like a. The. The eagle flying and just every eight or ten seconds swapping between a different scene maybe. Yeah. Adding a bit more engagement because like you need to get them in to watch the video. And then the content that you provide in the video earns kind of that view. So, yeah, I would just sit down and have a look. I mean, I might. I'll just keep the speech because I don't think it needs music. I think the speech is fine. I just. And I really like the filter that you put on it that just.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
You say. You say no music.
Jay
What it has at the moment. So I wouldn't add in anything.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Okay.
Jay
So. So I. I got.
Nick (G Money)
You can add a clip in like an old truck going down the road with the thing spinning, trying to triangulate the source of the radio transmission. Something like that. Hey, Tyler.
Jay
Yeah?
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Was that you?
Jay
You could have the car going along in Texas and then someone.
Nick (G Money)
Yeah, like different. Yeah, maybe like, you know, cops with flashlights looking in under like a.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
That's.
Nick (G Money)
Or some.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Now, could you tell AI to do that for you?
Jay
I'd create the videos. So I would go in and create each individual video that's 8 or 10 seconds long. Then I'd use like, inshot or cap cut to add in the filters. And then I'd add the audio in, and then I'd clip the video files so they drop on the beats. So with guys on the Ground, when the gun shoots, that's when the song jumps in. So I mean, that just adds that little bit extra in that. I don't know, just brings it all together. And it's that. That little extra bit of creativity that moves it from being an okay bit of a bit of work to an exceptional bit of work, I think.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
All right, so let's check out Guys on the Ground Intro is the latest one that Counterculture Inc. Studios has done. Now, what did. For before we play this, what did Peach have to provide you for you to make this happen?
Jay
Just clips. So all he did is sent me over some clips of videos and he. He gave me some. Said, oh, I want this, this, and this. I ended up doing something totally different. To what? To what?
Tyler (Anti Hero)
He said, no way.
Jay
No, not me. This time it worked, though. This time, no, it was good. But he. He's really, really happy with it. And I spent quite a bit of time on it.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Phenomenal, dude. I'm like. I looked at Mike. I was like, dude, this intro is better than ours. Did he have to give you a picture of himself?
Jay
He gave me one picture of himself, which I used for the walking bits at the end. But all of the bits in between are all his clips. So the only AI generated bit was a Bit at the end of him walking. So I used.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
You were able to do that from a photo?
Jay
Yeah, absolutely.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
All right, check it out. And you made the song. The song is completely. AI guys on the ground. I'll just play it.
Jay
Ey, on the ground.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Look at that. He looks like Jim Carrey.
Nick (G Money)
That's a face for radio.
Jay
Looks like he's outside of children.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
It looks longer. It looks like something AI pulled his face down.
Nick (G Money)
What a long face. Peach, thank you.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Take a picture of this retard.
Jay
Hold on. Checking out what his height is.
Vengeance Ad Speaker
Yeah.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
I just think that, that that is a very, very, very good intro. But look, look, personally, like, look at. Personally, if you had made that for me, I would say I love everything but the AI walking. I don't like that now. That's. But Peach loved it. So there. That has to be the human side of it. Even if it's the human handling AI, there has to be a human to talk to to go. Like, I don't like that. And so the human goes, all right, I'll take that out. I'll use something different, you know, and to each their own. But you have to be able to talk to a hu. A human being has to compile all that. You can't just go, hey, Chat, GPT. Make me an intro for my show. Here's a picture.
Dan Crenshaw (referenced speaker)
Future.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
It's not. It is not like that's. That's not how AI works.
Jay
Not yet. I don't. I don't think it'll be too long, but I think the way that. Go on.
Dan Crenshaw (referenced speaker)
Sorry.
Nick (G Money)
So it kind of does, dude. AI starts to learn about you. You know what I mean? So I'm at the point with. With the G Money show, I can just put something in and it'll spit. It'll spit out kind of like that. Hey, listen, I need something for the G Money show and it'll give me a whole bunch of ideas from all the information that I put into it already.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
So why don't you make yourself a new intro?
Jay
That's. I mean, it will do that on. On basic surface level tasks. It's quite good at. So it will learn or memorize. But. But stuff like that where you've got to add in, like you've got to move it to get in with the beats and everything like that. It can get to a stage and you should use it to get to a certain stage and then you should finalize all the. All the bits on it. But it is good, like learning, like, as you say.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Yep. But I don't think G Money is going to be able to say, hey Chat GPT make me an intro for my show and it's going to pump that out.
Nick (G Money)
I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna do just. Just that I needed an intro. A 60 second intro.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Too long for an intro.
Nick (G Money)
30 second intro for my idea.
Jay
Well, I was gonna say I'll do one, but you'll have to pay me for that, mate. And I was gonna say we can compare, but if you want to put down a deposit, I'll do a couple of seconds.
Nick (G Money)
I appreciate that, but I'm good.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
All right, that's it, man.
Nick (G Money)
Are you coming to the meetup?
Jay
Yeah, September, definitely.
Nick (G Money)
That's awesome.
Jay
I'll book my flights over the weekend.
Nick (G Money)
Are you going to. You're going to declare refuge?
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Yeah, just become an illegal alien, bro. There's nothing they can do about it.
Jay
I'm the wrong color, man.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Get this terrorist out of here.
Jay
Yeah, that's it.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Yeah. So speaking of Tampa, it turns out antihero is going to be there that week anyways. I totally forgot that we are going to a. It's called craft brewing. There's some huge convention there where veteran and first responder alcohol companies all go there and people come and taste their stuff. It's like a. It's a convention for veteran owned whiskey and we're going there to do a couple live shows and broadcast live from there that week. And we either have. We're either gonna stay there and just wait for everybody in Tampa for the weekend or we're gonna come back for like a day. It depends. I have to iron it out. But if you guys are coming to Tampa and want to make and want to find stuff to do, I know there's a couple guys coming that are going to come a little bit earlier that will be going on and as I'm pretty sure that's okay.
Jay
Yeah, I was gonna. I need to find somewhere, something to do because I'm not gonna come over for a weekend and then fly.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Yeah, you need to come. We'll come for the week and come.
Jay
I will do.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Yeah, yeah, we'll, we'll. We'll have you here at the studio. I know G might actually. I'll tell you what, that's what we're gonna do. We're gonna go there, I think Monday and Tuesday, possibly Wednesday at that, that whiskey convention. Possibly. But we'll be back here Thursday, maybe even also Wednesday before that. Because G, money's might be coming in early and I want him to be. I want him to see the studio. I would love for you to come here.
Jay
Yeah.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
And you know, I think it'd be cool to, you know, then we can just caravan because Tampa's only a two hour drive from here.
Jay
Jaws already said that I couldn't spoon
Tyler (Anti Hero)
him at his house, so of course he's homo. Nick, you still trying to come here first?
Nick (G Money)
Yeah, I'm gonna book my flight on the 31st.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Right on. What else? What else we gotta talk about?
Nick (G Money)
I don't know, man. Sandwich time.
Jay
I mean, I enjoyed the. The live last night, Tyler.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Oh, thanks.
Jay
Yeah, no, I enjoyed that and I'm enjoying everyone because I catch up obviously after. And it is. I mean, it's like open mic, but it's a bit more personable, I think, whereas open Mikey General about everything going on Counterculture Live. You can go in depth and it's like, like a late night show though. So. Yeah, I. I enjoyed it last night and I enjoyed G Money, like making Ryan insult his parenting. And I'm like, ah, bro, you know that. You know that I text you. That's what I text you. I said, oh, well done, man. And you ignored me. You rude.
Nick (G Money)
I don't check the WhatsApp. My bad.
Jay
But no, well done. So, I mean, everyone's been on fire. So everyone's. Everyone's working hard, everyone's pumping out content. The only people that are are the gaming guys.
Nick (G Money)
Oh, so you know, to piggyback off of what you're saying here, Jay. So I sent it to Tyler. It. I can't because I'm on my phone. Tyler, if you want to read some of the points I sent you about suicide rates with train with trannies much higher than the rest of the country. I believe it's 25 to. 25 to 35% of. Yeah, probably. But the rest of the country is 4 to 5%.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
The big takeaway from that was. Hold on, I am trying to find it.
Nick (G Money)
It's like the last thing I say.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Did you send it on? Yeah, you texted it to me. But was it before or after the homeless person taking a dump? After, after that.
Nick (G Money)
You should put that picture up. Dude, that was awesome. I was dropping my step kid off to work and this chick just took it.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
I remember reading it because it said, first off, you have to decipher between suicide attempts and suicides. They're like. People like to convolute that data. There's. They're two separate.
Nick (G Money)
It's 25 to 30% of trainees try to attempt suicide and the rest of the country is 4 to 5%. That's a huge difference.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Yeah. Where is, like, dude.
Nick (G Money)
Substantial. And I. And like you said, Jay, I don't even think that's the truth. I think it's much higher. And they're convoluting the numbers 100 and
Jay
making money off the treatment as well. It's a vicious.
Nick (G Money)
I didn't even get into the child mutilation and all that. I'll save that for the next time I talk to him, you know?
Jay
Yeah, we did on Sunday.
Nick (G Money)
Yeah. Big word. Big word. I studied it means nothing and blah, blah, blah. It sucks, dude. I wish I met that dude 12 years ago. My vocabulary has been cut in half with all the concussions and tbis I have. I. I can't speak anywhere near. I used to be able to talk.
Jay
No. And. And I was quite like. You were. You were quite calm. And when he was. You could see that everyone in the chat was just seeing him, like, going like this. And I was like, he obviously hasn't, like, boost his THC or something today.
Nick (G Money)
Like, all right.
Jay
He's obviously not had his. Yeah. Not at his fix because he, like. And you weren't being harsh, man. You weren't insulting him at all. You were actually having a conversation like we're having now. I'm like, okay, let's have a good conversation and. And answer some questions. And he just. I don't know what was wrong with him. Maybe his boyfriend didn't bang him or something that day.
Nick (G Money)
Yeah, he definitely didn't get any dick. He can't answer a question, dude, for anything. Like, it's yes or no. Oh. And it's always.
Jay
And that's the only thing. I think he's very entertaining. Some people. I was gonna say some people find him very inside. I mean, I. I mean, if he. If he was, like, honest and truthful, like, I said to the. The Jewish guy, like, I don't give a. If you're Jewish, as long as you just are honest and open to having a discussion about stuff. But as soon as you start shutting down, I'm just gonna rip the. Yeah.
Nick (G Money)
Because I don't think the juice is worth the squeeze anymore with that dude.
Jay
No, no.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Yeah, we'll talk about some on open mic, because I saw there was a Patreon comment I brought up last night that I want to talk about with people. People. Not. We'll just not being fans of Ryan. The Ryan segment. Obviously, no one's a fan of Ryan. Like, that clear. But I've had it.
Nick (G Money)
I've had Enough.
Jay
Mike is. I think Mike's his best friend.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
I'm telling you, dude, I'm like. I'm sitting there watching him and I'm like, do you love this guy, Mike?
Jay
That's all they look. Eyes across the. The camera.
Nick (G Money)
They definitely flirt with each other.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Donut. Mr. Donut with 10 bucks. Keep that energy once September comes, you silly nanny Cheese drinking Brit. And then Foo said that oxy hitting you, huh? Yeah, dude. That would be cool as hell that week to have people coming in early and hanging out in the studio. Not to sound like a. We're slum lords, but the studio could literally sleep, like 20 people. There's like 10 couches in here.
Nick (G Money)
Oh, good.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
At the studio, there's a fridge, there's a microwave. There's. It's all ac. Like, it's.
Dan Crenshaw (referenced speaker)
It's.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
It's actually like, it's. It would be better than a hotel. It's got TVs everywhere. No, dude, you can stay here. It literally has two 90 inch TVs. Whatever one you want to watch. It's got five or six couches, tons of chairs.
Jay
Me and G money only need one. I'll be the big spoon. You'll be the little spoon.
Nick (G Money)
I'm ordering strippers. Dude, what are you talking about?
Jay
No, I can't set. Not on. Don't say that. Of course, me neither.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
But. But yeah. So you guys should all come. Don't let Tyler tell you that. It's a good place to sleep. It is. Justin doesn't like. I think, like, lights were bothering him or something. Oh, the ghost of Jimmy. Jimmy thought it was comfy. He was there.
Jay
It wasn't at home with his crazy of a wife. That's why it was comfy.
Nick (G Money)
Wow. Yeah, dude, I'll just be off camera for a second. Keep talking.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Well, I mean, we can. We can end it. I. I feel bad. I have been. We have been. And I have been entering open mic like, 10, 15 minutes too late every time. And so I'm like, if casual Friday allows it, I would like to end that a little earlier so that way I can be the open mic on time. Are you taking a piss?
Nick (G Money)
You can hear that.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
There's no way you're taking a piss on a bottle.
Jay
He's taking a piss, man. That's worse than Jimmy eating. That's. That's a new low for the antihero since you've got G money taking a piss on air. Drink it, man. Just drink it as punishment.
Nick (G Money)
That was my sink.
Jay
Yeah, okay.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
In the living room.
Nick (G Money)
I Just went to my bathroom right there.
Jay
How to piss.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
That was. So you pissed in your sink in the bathroom?
Nick (G Money)
I turned the water to the faucet one into the bucket around.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
All right, anybody got anything else before we half hour early?
Nick (G Money)
Dude.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Well, like I said, I want to go. I mean, we can keep talking. I don't mind. Dude, this is what I do for a living. I can talk about anything all day long. I love to talk.
Nick (G Money)
What's the chat say?
Jay
I've got a question, Tyler. Where can they buy the new shirt that's here? Where? Where do you think they could buy that?
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Oh, my goodness. I'm so glad you asked that, because you can buy it@CountercultureInc. Threads.com and you guys have already put in tons of orders. And guess what I'll be doing tonight after open mic, after I grab a bite to eat, I will be in the warehouse for hours making sure all their shirts are sent out this weekend.
Nick (G Money)
Good. I'm putting an extra large in. Might as well print one up. All right.
Jay
You'll pay for it first, man.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
The IOU.
Nick (G Money)
Just use the super chat money, dude, for me eating 72. Yo, you're gonna put that on a hat too?
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Yeah, we are. That's the next step. So we're trying to take this step by step. And not one of the things I talked about last night was like, when I started the apparel line, I just had no. I knew branding. As far as visual, When I could see something and I can see things, I'm like, this needs to go here. But as far as conceptualizing a business based off a budget and branding, I was not good at, so I kind of went off the grid with designs. Dude, I'm like, I'll put out a new design a month, and they're everywhere. And then I have a bunch of great graphic design shirts. And I'm not steering away from that. I promise, I'm not steering away from graphic design teachers. I love the one off driven by pain, death, death or glory. Like, I love those. But if you don't have merch that's branded, no one knows who makes that. So you could take a picture with seven dudes in your apparel, and it just looks like seven dudes are wearing different shirts. Like, it doesn't really say something. If you get seven dudes all wearing shirts that say counterculture on it, it's subconsciously social proof. It. That's a thing for us. Social proof. No matter how much or independent you are or you beat to your own drum or against the Grain. Like I always say, social proof is a. Is a thing. And it's in our subconscious that the rest of the tribe is accepting of this. So I can be accepting of it too. And we never focused on that. So what's up?
Nick (G Money)
I have an idea for a hat. Can I tell it?
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Well, let me tell you our idea for the hats and then you give me yours. But we have to buy the equipment because hats are so expensive.
Nick (G Money)
I got a guy. I got a guy.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
You got a hat guy Cheap.
Nick (G Money)
Yeah, I do.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Well, we could. What about us just doing it ourselves? Saving even more money, cutting out the middleman.
Nick (G Money)
See what. See what it costs.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Well, I can guarantee it's gonna be cheaper if we do it.
Nick (G Money)
Well, it's going to be. This guy will be embroidered, so you got to see what the cost is.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Embroidery expensive. I've had half embroidered. Not my guy. Dude does. He just.
Nick (G Money)
Does faith.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Have some faith.
Nick (G Money)
Yeah, have some faith in me.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
I've just been doing it for five years. I've. I've used different embroidering companies for hats and they're all usually about the same. It is so expensive to have hats made. Hats for. Because here's the first thing. I don't have the ability to go outside of U. S. The US and research real wholesale, like black market wholesale. That's what our boy here on the left Jay is really good at. He can go find you. He can go find you. Legitimate. Legitimate. Not just knockoff about legitimate stuff that China charges for. And you're like, wow, America is super inflated. And china is a third of the price for wholesale.
Jay
And how quick did we sort it? It was quick as well. Wasn't.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Dude, it's insane. So having Jay on the team and being able to find that product wholesale and then us being able to actually do it ourselves, our profit margin is insane. And we're able to actually reduce pricing.
Nick (G Money)
All right, so let me now the way that this guy would do it, obviously you're not going to get rich off of hats. And you know, if you care about the profit margin, then you probably won't want to do it. You'll still make money off of it. But you can put the hat on your website that several different designs and the link on your website will link to the call order sheet to my buddy ever hearts embroidery. And then he would do the hat and ship it out and you get a household here.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
And here's here. And here's why I'm gonna let Jay take it away. My, my prodigy Jay, when you have Two different. When you have two different sources of where your merch comes from, where do, where does the consumer. Where, where we have a problem with the consumer.
Jay
Shipping, isn't it?
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Consumers got to pay two shipping costs. If they buy a shirt from me and they buy a hat from this, they don't really know. They don't know that it's coming from a different. They click the hat. Cool. It's in your cart. Now they're looking at their thing and going, why the am I paying shipping twice?
Nick (G Money)
What if there isn't a shipping cost?
Jay
Well then it's still an extra price you still got. But it's the same thing with online marketplaces like ebay and Amazon. You have to take in to consideration the shipping, which is about four or five dollars a time. So you instantly. It's the same with anything when you're sending it out. It's. I mean it's good, but you'll never, you, you'll never get rich doing that.
Nick (G Money)
You're not gonna get.
Jay
I would use. Oh no, I would use it as a, as a marketplace. So what you do is you, you get it then, and then you reduce your costs. So you then find out how you can reduce the embroidery cost and things like that.
Nick (G Money)
So you gotta buy your own machine. It's gonna be thousands of dollars.
Jay
That's end of the day.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Yeah. Not only, not only your own embroidery machine, but. You're right, Nick. First off, a quality machine is gonna be thousands of dollars. Second, you have to learn the machine. These, these machines are considered industrial machines. That means that it's not your basic copy machine in the office. These are considered industrial. So therefore when it breaks, and it will, because you use it a lot. It's not break as in like it's got to be replaced. Things will fail in it. Things will snap. Things are not meant to be. And so you now have to learn that device and it becomes a full time job just maintaining an industrial machine. Which is okay. If that is what you do all day, every day.
Nick (G Money)
You're not going to be selling enough hats to justify buying embroidery machine. That's why I'm saying using this guy, not only can you sell a decent amount, Hatch, you'll have variety too. You can sell all kinds of countercultures. You have no stock, you have no skin in the game. No money out of your pocket at all. It is good. No, I disagree. You're not going to be selling enough.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
But why would. If this was a business meeting, I would definitely, I would end this meeting and call Jay. And say, I'm not going into business with a guy that's going to tell me that we're too small, we're never going to make money. Why would I go.
Nick (G Money)
You're not. You're not. You're not listening to me. You're not a hat store.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
I didn't say.
Nick (G Money)
I was not saying. Yeah, it's. Well, whatever.
Jay
We're only having a discussion, man.
Nick (G Money)
Yeah. I just don't think it makes sense to go spend all that money for something you're not going to sell.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
It's not that much money. We're not buying. We're not buying an embroidery machine. They're called pressing on hats. Like, it's. It's just. We have embroidered hats that if somebody really wants an embroidered hat, they can have. Those are going to cost more. If somebody just wants a badass hat with the counterculture skull on it, we can provide that like a regular hat, and it's way cheaper. They're gonna go, well, that hat's significantly cheaper than this.
Nick (G Money)
I'll bet you. I'll bet you I can get an embroidered hat out for the same price that you would put for a hat that you make that you think you're gonna make a ton of money off of. How much would be the same price? 50 bucks.
Jay
Okay, cool. You'd be able to do the same price.
Nick (G Money)
Yeah.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
And we're out.
Jay
How much would you. How much would yours roughly be, do you think?
Nick (G Money)
I'll let you know. I'll get a quote.
Jay
Yeah. I'm not going to say my cost price, because that'll be a bit. But I'll tell it to you. I'll tell it to you offline.
Nick (G Money)
All right.
Jay
I mean. I mean, what you need to be banking on is quality, because with the embroidered hats, obviously it's going to be a slightly better quality. It's a different. It's like comparing apples and oranges.
Nick (G Money)
I'll be right back.
Jay
Oh, walk away. While I'm having a conversation on a live podcast as well, you know. Tyler, how'd you put up with this cunt? Are you having a conversation with. When he just walks off to go for a piss again?
Nick (G Money)
I'm listening to you.
Jay
I want you to sing to me, baby.
Nick (G Money)
So this one, I used the leather. I had the leather patch on the hat. Obviously, this is just one style. It's. That's genuine leather there. You know what I mean?
Tyler (Anti Hero)
I want to add that all. All reality. Nick. Props. I want to add that hat to the hats of I will never buy in My life. Because it's the ugliest thing I've ever seen.
Nick (G Money)
Right?
Dan Crenshaw (referenced speaker)
Just.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
I'm joking. The color is like kind of an old man looking hat. Gray and white. Like, no wonder.
Jay
Don't listen to him.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
No wonder it doesn't cost you much money.
Nick (G Money)
I'm talking about embroidered hat for you.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
But that's not embroidered. That's a patch sewn onto it.
Nick (G Money)
I said that's one style.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Okay.
Jay
Telling a clothing guy how to run his business.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Are you sure?
Nick (G Money)
I'm not telling you how to run a business Business.
Jay
All I'm saying, I'm joking about it.
Nick (G Money)
Hat. I get you a hat cheap. You don't have to worry about all kinds of styles. You'd set it and forget it.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Are you sure that hat's sewn on and not glued on with a heat press? No, I'm dick. I'm dead serious. A lot of people think they're sewed on because they see the design stitching, but they're actually heat pressed on.
Nick (G Money)
I know what they are. It's shown on.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Okay,
Dan Crenshaw (referenced speaker)
Just.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
I'm just asking. He's my real dad. I don't need a DNA test. I know he's my real dad.
Nick (G Money)
Well, I'm gonna make a sandwich, go off.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
I'll see you at three.
Nick (G Money)
Bye.
Jay
Love you, Nick.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
But yeah, I'm super excited about, you know, being able to pump out hats. What we didn't get to was when he asked, are you gonna do hats? Is that. Yes, but my goal, and I've talked to Jay a little bit about this, so I hate when I. When I haven't talked to Mike, I don't like to do this on Anti Hero. Like when I'm like, this is what we're gonna do. Because like sometimes I can see Mike looking at me and I'm like, I think we're gonna do this, Mike. Right? You're on board. But I haven't talked to Jay extensively about this, but I want to really creep on. This shirt was successful. Maybe next month. And then like we. There's things I want to do. I want to do stickers, I want to do flags. It was very not crazy designs. You take the same design and make flags. Flags cost a lot of money here in the States, but guess What? They're about 11. 11 to 12. No, actually they're 11 to 13 to have made and then you have to sell them at like 25 to get any profit. Where if we could get the same nylon flags made. One sided, right? Not double. Doesn't need to Be thick. Just no one puts them outside, dude. They're indoor flags. They're team room flags. Those. If we could get them cheaper than 12 bucks, bro, we could sell them way cheaper.
Jay
You can, you can. And I think what. We'll just move like. Like you say, bit by bit, rather than trying to solve it all at once.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Stickers. I know. We're so used to an America in America. I, like, I use a company called Anley Flags, right? They charge $13 per flag. If you order 100, they knock it down to like $9 a flag, right? But no one's ordering 100 flags, so. And then you've got to wait, like 40 days for them, dude, unless you pay an extra $35 or $40 to have it quicker than that. But there's no guarantee they can't give you a date. They're just going to prioritize you, right? And sticker companies, right? Sticker companies in America. You can. I'm saying sticker company right now. I need stickers. In the next 10 minutes, my phone is going to be nothing but ninja sticker sticker mule and that. There's tons of places to get great stickers. They're so expensive. Eve, Jay is able to go out there and go, I can find our stickers. We could get 300 stickers for 17 cents a piece.
Jay
Well, I'm just checking flags, and I'm looking at flags for like a dollar.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
And that's what I'm saying. Will they make them like. Well, they.
Vengeance Ad Speaker
Yeah, yeah.
Nick (G Money)
Custom.
Jay
Custom design logo. Exactly.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
So and so Jay has that ability that's like saying, I need this transcribed in French. You have to have somebody that speaks French to do that. Jay knows this stuff because this is what Jay does as a profession is he shops around internationally and. And is able to look at these things and knows where to go and knows how to talk to these people and knows the risk, knows the frauds, knows not to look at this and look at that. So it's all super exciting stuff. Flag stickers, hats. That's the. I believe that's the bread and butter of an apparel line outside of the shirts. And I really want to get those squared away before we start. And maybe like one or two other designs that we sit down and do. We've both tossed each other designs for shirts back and forth, and I like them, but we haven't really decided on a second design, so. But yeah, that's the exciting part in hats, dude. Everybody wants. First off, you want a hat. I don't really know Anybody that's like, I need the premier hat. It has to be perfect. And everybody just wants to slap a counterculture hat on because they want to support the boys, right? So why would I get premier hat where I've gotta charge 35 for a hat to see any profit? It's insane. So you look at hats, they come out eight, nine bucks a hat.
Jay
And then you probably get the. The hatch. You already do the embroidered hats. If you want to order 20, 30, 40, 50 at a time from China.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Yeah, I would have to order them wholesale. Then I'd have to take them to get printed on and each hat or.
Jay
Well, no, they'll do it there.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Yeah, I would have to take them. And then each hat would end up being, you know, with shipping and labor and the embroidery, it ended up being 20 bucks a hat. And then you got to sell them for 30 to make any profit. Because what people gonna do, they're gonna use discount codes, right? We have. We have discount codes ranging. You might as well say that your
Jay
prices are 15% less than that.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
So that's the hard part about. But having you on board where you're like, I, I found this. We're able to sit down, we're able to take it one step at a time and really save money. Because you might think like, oh, they're saving, what, a couple bucks here and there? Well, if we really scale this counterculture idea with the media side as well, with all the podcasts and the merch designs and what people want to do, like, hey, can my podcast get a shirt? When we start really scaling this whole business, the apparel side of it, that couple bucks per unit is going to be seen tenfold. It's not just going to be $6 for six shirts. Hey, we saved 36 bucks. It's gonna be $6 for 600 shirts. Look how much money we saved. So that's kind of like.
Jay
I mean, I use the same as If I say 50p on sending out a parcel, and I send out 100 parcels a week, that's. Or 200 parcels a week. That's like a hundred dollars a week I've saved.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Yeah.
Jay
So it works like. Yeah. Rather than looking at the actual. They've only saved a dollar. Look at the percentages saved. Like, you've saved 25 to 50 on your. Your costs. So. Yeah.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Well, I'm stoked, man. I know you're excited about it. I am, too. So we'll sit down and I'm gonna start printing shirts tonight. We're doing it in house. I Never thought I'd do that ever. Never thought I'd do that.
Jay
It must. I mean, there is a lot of prints, isn't there? Yeah, it was like they all turned out fine. Everything.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Yeah, they look great.
Jay
Nice.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
So we'll be. We'll be doing those tonight, getting those orders out this weekend. But yeah, thanks for tuning in, guys. So tonight we have. Well, today in 15 minutes, we have open mic on Counterculture Inc. Network on YouTube. Please jump over there, join us. For anybody watching, it's a good time. Meet G. Money will be back after. He just got mad at me, so he's gonna have to face me again. Along with Justin from Donut Shop Podcast, we'll be breaking down the ins and outs of the network for the week. And then tonight, guys on the ground. Peach was just on here earlier. He's me talking military stuff. That live 8pm Counterculture Network. He's wearing the mask from
Dan Crenshaw (referenced speaker)
but.
Tyler (Anti Hero)
Yeah. And then Saturday we have gaming at 9pm Counterculture Inc. Network. Notice how I'm saying Counterculture Inc. Network a lot. Please go over there and subscribe. Tons of great shows. These guys are killing it. Everybody's friends. There's some foe in there, but. And then Sunday is Jay show with Jake the. The Texan blue collar boy. They have their show, the Life Rap Podcast, 2pm Central Time, 3pm Eastern Standard Time on Counterculture Network. So shows for days get to know these guys. They're fun because when you get to know these guys in the shows, you come to the discord, you come to the app and everybody's there. And then that's really how you build a community. Other than that. Monday, 1pm Mike will be back in studio. Anti hero broadcast. See you in a couple minutes. Jv team for life.
Episode Title: Dan Crenshaw: Your VA Ratings Are "BULL$H!T!!"
Date: July 17, 2026
Host: Tyler (Anti Hero)
Guests/Panel: Nick (G Money), Peach, Jay
Podcast Theme: News, commentary, and irreverent discussion for veterans, first responders, and blue-collar Americans.
This episode centers on the hot-button topic of proposed changes to VA (Veterans Affairs) disability ratings, specifically addressing a recent congressional bill and the controversial reactions of former Congressman Dan Crenshaw. The hosts and guests dig into the implications of the legislative effort, question Crenshaw’s motives and rhetoric, and discuss the broader role of veteran organizations like the VFW (Veterans of Foreign Wars). The conversation widens with sidebars on prominent military personalities, veteran issues, podcast production, and community-building.
(04:43–18:11)
"They were going to take VA benefits from the conventional guys, the average guys, and try to give full-on med board to people that med board out of the military...trying to give them more."
– Tyler (09:02)
"You're a victim worshiping relic of an organization. You suck. And I don't think any veteran out there should ever join a VFW."
– Dan Crenshaw via Instagram (07:17)
(13:02–17:56)
"Once a politician opens a box, it never gets closed, it only gets bigger."
– Nick (16:36)
(29:54–39:02)
"All VA money, disability money is hush money."
– Peach (33:41)
(19:17–27:27)
“I honestly think Dan Crenshaw has just as much, if not more haters than Tim Kennedy per capita.”
– Tyler (20:46)
(27:27–43:03)
(63:14–80:23; Intermittent)
“If we could get the same nylon flags made... for cheaper than 12 bucks, bro, we could sell them way cheaper.”
– Tyler (103:17)
"You're a victim worshiping relic of an organization. You suck. And I don't think any veteran out there should ever join a VFW."
"She's right. You open Pandora's box, dude. Once when a politician opens a box, it never gets closed, it only gets bigger."
"All VA money, disability money is hush money."
"If you don't get it documented, it never happened." – Peach
"I think Dan Crenshaw has just as much, if not more haters than Tim Kennedy per capita."
"I didn't go because it was frowned upon in the infantry to show weakness. The VA does not care about that." – Tyler
The tone is brash, irreverent, and insider—emulating the camaraderie, grit, and black humor commonly found among veteran and blue-collar circles. The hosts combine critique, humor, and pragmatic advice, focused on protecting the rights and dignity of “the average guy” in the face of complex bureaucratic and political maneuvers.
This episode is a must-listen for vets and those interested in veteran affairs—combining frontline insights with hard-earned cynicism, advocacy, and community spirit. Anyone navigating the VA system, or interested in the politics of veteran benefits and organizations like the VFW, will find the debate illuminating and the banter entertaining.