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Jason Vest
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Host 1 (possibly Tony)
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Jason Vest
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Host 1 (possibly Tony)
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Host 2 (possibly Mike)
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Host 1 (possibly Tony)
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Host 2 (possibly Mike)
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Host 1 (possibly Tony)
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Jason Vest
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Host 2 (possibly Mike)
Oh, sorry. Namaste.
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Jason Vest
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Host 2 (possibly Mike)
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Jason Vest
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Host 2 (possibly Mike)
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Jason Vest
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Host 2 (possibly Mike)
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Host 1 (possibly Tony)
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Host 2 (possibly Mike)
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Jason Vest
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Host 1 (possibly Tony)
SAV Team for Life Good morning. It is Wednesday, Friends Day. February 26, 2026. 25th, 2026. The entire broadcast is the news entertainment broadcast for veterans, first responders and all blue collar Americans. This show is brought to you by Ghostbed. Go to ghostbed.com forward/antihero. Save 10 on their already ridiculous low prices. Everything from pillowcases, mattress toppers, cooling patent to technology sheets and their award winning mattresses. 60, 000 5 star rating and reviews in house customer service and free shipping and returns. If you don't like it so go to ghostbed.com forward/antihero. Save 10 on anything you need replaced in the bedroom. And elevated silence. Go to elevated silence.com use promo code anti or 15 say 15 off your can get a suppressor everything with 22s to 50 cows. Jim will walk you through. It's not a hard process. Exercise your second amendment right. Get a can for your weapon. Go to elevated silence.com. use promo code ANTIHERO15. Save 15 15%. Well, hello.
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Host 2 (possibly Mike)
Hello.
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Host 1 (possibly Tony)
I don't know if our guest is coming because I guess with everybody that we've been doing we need to start putting AM because 10:45 EST to me means 10:45 in the morning and eastern standard time. But I get and I. He's. He's a prior veteran so thought he would know what that meant. But he is still yet to check the link or check the messages today. So most likely what's gonna happen is he's gonna say, damn, dude, I thought it was 10:45pm in which case, we're gonna have to redo this whole episode with him. Change the thumbnail for today. So is there any reflections that we need to talk about?
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Host 2 (possibly Mike)
What did we talk about yesterday? What was he.
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Host 1 (possibly Tony)
I don't remember yesterday.
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Host 2 (possibly Mike)
Patreon, obviously. The only thing really hot now is last night's State of the Union address. That was a longest State of the Union address in history. Of State of Union addresses, Trump the greatest. Greatest State of Union addressed ever. He broke the record. And we can definitely talk about that. There's a lot going on there. Reflections.
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Host 1 (possibly Tony)
I don't really post anything too controversial in the last 48 hours.
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Host 2 (possibly Mike)
Jimmy Watson, Dan Cringe. All real. That didn't really go crazy. Jimmy. Jimmy screen recorded it, reposted it.
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Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Yeah, Jimmy repost. Screen recorded it, reposted it. Didn't even accept the collab. And I said in there, I'm gonna send collabs out. Dan Crenshaw replied it with his response to old Jimmy Watson, but he didn't suck the collab either. So I don't know if these guys are all talk or want to be able to talk on their own platforms in their own ways and make sure that they sound as good as they can sound to themselves and not have public scrutiny at all by a. By a broadcast.
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Host 2 (possibly Mike)
Yeah, but it's Jimmy Watson's birthday.
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Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Is it really?
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Host 2 (possibly Mike)
You saw that? Yeah, I saw him post a birthday reel and everybody's wishing him, so. Happy birthday to our favorite Navy seal, Jimmy Watson.
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Host 1 (possibly Tony)
To our friend. A Navy SEAL friend.
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Host 2 (possibly Mike)
Yeah, he didn't text me. I mean, I could text him first, but he didn't text me.
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Host 1 (possibly Tony)
All right, you got anything pulled up?
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Host 2 (possibly Mike)
I mean, you go right to. You just. I got. I got it. Hold on. I can go right to the Instagram. We can blow through some of these. Let me get to the beginning of the State of Union address.
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Host 1 (possibly Tony)
What up, gator bait?
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Host 2 (possibly Mike)
They even posted a bingo card.
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Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Hey, I got a. A message too, by the way, what we did on our tick tock. So I very rarely tech check tick tock messages, like, ever, like once a month, because I always forget we have a tick tock. I post to it, but then I never go on it or surf or anything. And he said, good morning. I work for a PD in Virginia. I wrote on the whiteboard in our roll call room, bad leaders don't build cops, they document them. It wasn't directed at anyone. I just like the Quote, well, one lieutenant who I was really good with, always joking with, says, if you write it again, I'm blue teaming you. I jokingly said wasn't me. Like Shaggy in the song, because I thought he was kidding. Well, he wrote me up and I am now under an IA investigation for Brady because he said I lied about writing it. This is the issue with police departments now. Same night I got three guns off the street, but nobody cares about that. That is insane to me.
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Host 2 (possibly Mike)
Yes.
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Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Under internal investigations for lying because he said it wasn't me.
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Host 2 (possibly Mike)
This is a good segue for Brady because a lot of people get this confused and I'm very popular, very familiar with it, and actually came back up for me just two days ago. So Brady material is anything that the state has to provide to the defense that they may think, you know, has anything to do with the case. Everybody here's Brady and automatically thinks like, you're Brady listed and you can't testify.
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Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Yeah.
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Host 2 (possibly Mike)
If you go to the court, like, I have a small, small area, smaller courthouse. I go to the website for the courthouse. I know how to go through all the documents. I can check every case, every motion that's been filed. Every single case has a Brady material list filed. Like, we want the Brady material. That means you have to provide anything now. You know, I got on for years and people still Google it. Oh, you're under FBI investigation. Well, the last time I testified was January of 24 when they tried to, they went after me to get that pill mill case thrown out. And they had many, many, many appeals. There was an appeal for speedy trial appeal. There was a big pharma Brady issue that, you know, the big pharma. I was part of it. They threw the case out. Judge threw the case out last year and said no. Based on everything I've seen, it's, it's gone between Dil's Big pharma, the length it took. Well, the fourth District Court of Appeals last week just overturned that judge's ruling and reinstated the whole case. So for those saying that I'm, I can't testify and that I, I, I'm not credible, that case has been reinstated, was appealed by the prosecutor, and now I will have to testify because that case is going to go forward and I hope you come, you better be there that day that happens that I get to go in court and testify if that day. Oh, yeah, it's going to be a show. It's going to be a show because I'm going to get my opportunity up there. When they ask me Questions to answer. And I'm not a cop, so I can kind of be a little free willing. But that's a little Brady thing. But yes, that's. That's typical of. You know, there's a. There's a couple guys in Vegas that would say that kind of stuff doesn't happen. The job is perfect, but, you know, that's the kind of stuff we're dealing with. So I want those two guys that, you know, jack off about a couple, you know, arrests to go ask this guy how he thinks about the job, what he thinks about it. A guy that's actually been through something, not had a. A little skate. You know, a Little Skate Professional 5, 6 year career where. Well, actually didn't have a skate. I'm not going to. On the one thing I should. On the most. I'm not going to say it. I can't even go that low. I'm not going there. But.
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Host 1 (possibly Tony)
What? Well, you can't do that. I hate it when people do that.
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Host 2 (possibly Mike)
Well, you know, one of them. No, never mind. But ask that guy how he feels about everything. You know, cracks a joke, he's on the wrong side of the list. And now he's in an IA for untruthfulness, which follows you the rest of your life.
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Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Yeah.
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Host 2 (possibly Mike)
Mr. Tyler, have you ever been under investigation for untruthfulness? Yep.
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Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Yeah, dude, I wrote on a whiteboard.
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Host 2 (possibly Mike)
And then you have to be. You have to. You can be asked that question the rest of your career. Yeah, it was unfounded. Maybe a good judge will. Will not let it happen.
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Jason Vest
But.
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Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Well, look at. Look at. If you ever wanted to leave, that's gonna be the same question they ask in another interview. Have you ever been untruthful?
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Host 2 (possibly Mike)
Guess what? He writes it on his application, right? And then they bring. Bring the backdoor phone call. Now, this dude's a piece of. That's how it goes.
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Host 1 (possibly Tony)
And they don't even have to say, well, he wrote a vague, broad statement on the board, and all they have to say is, well, he was questioned about something and he lied about it.
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Host 2 (possibly Mike)
We caught him in a lie. Caught him in a lot. Your career's over. Caught him in a lie. Wheeler's at the gun range. Look at that. Appreciate it. Dude.
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Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Wheeler. What's up, bro? Thank you so much.
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Host 2 (possibly Mike)
The gun range where I would annihilate Tyler.
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Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Justin. We'll get back to that. Justin, can you hear me? Ground Control to Justin.
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Host 2 (possibly Mike)
Crown Control to Major Tom.
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Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Justin.
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Host 2 (possibly Mike)
Yeah, he said yes.
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Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Oh, I see. I can't hear him. Is it Am I able to change the thumbnail mid show on Streamyard?
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Host 2 (possibly Mike)
No.
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Host 1 (possibly Tony)
You know for sure?
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Host 2 (possibly Mike)
I don't think you can.
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Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Is he talking?
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Host 2 (possibly Mike)
No, I'm reading the. He's responding. That's funny. I should have kept it going that I can hear him and you can't. I'd have really been.
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Host 1 (possibly Tony)
I can't hear a word he's saying.
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Host 2 (possibly Mike)
He's not saying anything. He's typing it.
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Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Why is he typing it?
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Host 2 (possibly Mike)
Because then I have to come in on the stage with a blank screen. I'll have my camera.
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Host 1 (possibly Tony)
It's okay.
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Host 2 (possibly Mike)
Hey, this is. This is a fly by night operation, Chairman. We're good. Hey, I queued up a video for Mark's question about snowballs. If you guys want to do that.
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Host 1 (possibly Tony)
We're gonna cover snowballs tomorrow.
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Host 2 (possibly Mike)
Ah, okay.
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Host 1 (possibly Tony)
The New York City snowball incident we're going to cover tomorrow. We're hopefully have a retired New York City. He has the record for the most New York City police complaints. His name's Eric Dim. He's actually been on the show.
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Host 2 (possibly Mike)
How many times has he been hit with a snowball though? All right, I'll quit with that.
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Host 1 (possibly Tony)
But okay, bye. Justin.
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Host 2 (possibly Mike)
Did he answer your question? Do you. I mean, do you want me to mess with the thumbnail and see if. I don't think you can change it, but you can try. I don't think it'll work. You might be able to Change it on YouTube more than you can change it on Stream Yard.
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Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Really? No, I don't.
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Host 2 (possibly Mike)
Stream Yard's kind of like an app, I think. Streamyard. We just hit edit and it may populate so. Or we may disconnect and be gone. The show's over. Gone forever. I get a free day off. We also have. Tomorrow we have. I'm waiting on confirmation for sure. We're gonna have Nick probably gonna come on and he's got a massive update for the va. That VA bill that was passed that changes the way VA is doing ratings and assisting in medication. He's gonna have like a 10, 15 minute spot. So anybody who's got military benefits, that's. I think the guys that are 100% permanent, they're going to be fine. It's those guys sitting at 70, 80 that are taking any medication for any condition, they're going to start dragging those guys back in and go, oh, look, you're better. Like you don't have PTSD anymore or your leg doesn't hurt anymore. He's going to give us a full update on that new. That new bill. That was passed.
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Host 1 (possibly Tony)
The stream must be scheduled in the future and within one year. Please edit the start time. Yeah, you can't do it.
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Host 2 (possibly Mike)
So change it after.
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Host 1 (possibly Tony)
We'll see, we'll see, we'll see.
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Host 2 (possibly Mike)
We got live people. They're already here now. Donut is in studio tomorrow. That's right. We have Donut. Justin will be in studio all day shift. Beautiful.
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Host 1 (possibly Tony)
He'll be. Yeah, he'll be here. I got his little couch area set up for the studio. He'll be here. Justin's cutting. You want to know how many podcasts Justin's doing tomorrow? Take a guess.
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Host 2 (possibly Mike)
I already told me, but you can
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Host 1 (possibly Tony)
tell them how many. Five podcasts. He's going to the. The anti hero broadcast. Then he's gonna do two in persons. One with Mike and one with Josh. From first two tattoos. He's a firefighter. And then he's gonna do. For some reason he scheduled a stream yard, one that he could do any day he wants. And he scheduled it on the busiest day of his life. So he's gonna do a remote one and then he's gonna do the night shift afterwards. So Justin's gonna be smoked tomorrow.
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Host 2 (possibly Mike)
I'm back. Streamyard was scheduled before I decided to come up to you guys. So Streamyard scheduled, but I'm also bringing up a different type of Internet. So we're gonna test out some Internet life pre show so it's not mid show. And we're gonna test it out and see if we can get anti heroes Internet. Perfecto. Interesting. Have you met Lewis yet? Yes. Okay. Yeah, yeah, I met. When you were on a cruise. Okay, that's right. That's right. Okay. I'm gonna say you're. That's the biggest part of your day. The most important part. Most important part of meeting Lewis. All right, I'm back. All right.
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Host 1 (possibly Tony)
So the White House.
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Host 2 (possibly Mike)
Yeah, I got it up. If you want to. Down there at the bottom or if you want to do it doesn't matter me share that. Tell me when it's up so I can start playing it.
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Host 1 (possibly Tony)
We're reviewing. For those listening. We're reviewing the White House.
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Host 2 (possibly Mike)
So this is. They actually put a bingo card out to. About the event, which. The White House is my favorite. I'm gonna skip over these. This is some of the people that were on. And then we're gonna go to like right here. Is it playing the sound join with my administration. He talks. He's talking about. You'll see. Duty to do. We have a duty. Protect Americans, not illegals. This is what he said. And this is a reaction from Congress
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Donald Trump (quoted in State of the Union clips)
reaffirming a fundamental principle. If you agree with this statement, then stand up and show your support. The first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens, not illegal aliens.
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Host 1 (possibly Tony)
It.
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Host 2 (possibly Mike)
Yeah. The Republicans are standing as he asked. Anybody stand up who believes that we should protect American citizens first? Democrats stayed seated and he's going to give a toll.
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Host 1 (possibly Tony)
State of the Union, I was gonna say. How long is this clip?
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Jason Vest
Dude, it's just people.
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Host 2 (possibly Mike)
It's long. Yeah, well, he's gonna throw shade. He's gonna throw shade. So it's good. I mean obviously of all the Republicans. Massive standing ovation. All the Democrats are sitting. Nobody stood up. You got Elon, Omar and the whole. All them wearing ice and she's yelling at the president throughout this thing.
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Jason Vest
But isn't that a shame?
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Donald Trump (quoted in State of the Union clips)
You should be ashamed of yourself not standing up. You should be ashamed of yourself.
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Host 2 (possibly Mike)
That was that gave out two medal of honors last night.
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Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Is that a normal thing for the State of the Union?
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Host 2 (possibly Mike)
No, he. In our. They're gonna have a full presentation. But this, this guy took rounds during an operation and as a helicopter pilot took some rounds in his legs and was bleeding out and continued to like fly the helicopter and assist in evacuation and a mission. I believe it was the. I forget which one he was talking about. The resistance. He gave a World War II vet, 100 year old World War II vet, a medal of Honor.
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Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Still alive.
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Host 2 (possibly Mike)
Yeah, you got. That's about it for the clips. I mean Erica, Kirk was there. He, there was a police officer there that, you know, he had, he had some good people there. But you know, I, I kind of understand the tactic with. It was the same way when the. And I'm not taking sides. Obviously I support America completely. But when the Democrats are in charge and they get up and start saying whatever their favorite thing is, the Republicans all stay seated as well. But you know, he pretty much put them on the spot and said yeah, if you believe that America comes first. I mean it got ugly. He, he, he trashed Minnesota and the Somalians like bad and started yelling and acting crazy.
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Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Hopefully this doesn't. You think CBS should get its best moments? Should we not use cbs?
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Host 2 (possibly Mike)
That's fine. Good. All right.
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Donald Trump (quoted in State of the Union clips)
To do about it. People are asking me, please, please, please, Mr. President, we're winning too much. We can't take it anymore. We're not used to winning in our country until you came along with just always losing. But now we're winning too much. And I say no, no, no, you're going to win again. You're going to win big. You're going to win bigger than ever. And to prove that point. To prove that point, here with us tonight is a group of winners who just made the entire nation proud. The men's gold medal Olympic hockey team.
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Jason Vest
Come on in.
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Host 1 (possibly Tony)
That's the hockey game. That's pretty cool.
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Host 2 (possibly Mike)
The women declined.
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Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Are you serious?
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Host 2 (possibly Mike)
Yeah. Women's team declined.
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Host 1 (possibly Tony)
The women's basketball or hockey.
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Host 2 (possibly Mike)
When the women's hockey team declined the invitation.
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Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Are you serious?
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Host 2 (possibly Mike)
Izzo was right. Yes.
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Jason Vest
They get up.
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Donald Trump (quoted in State of the Union clips)
And actually, not all of them did get up.
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Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Does he mention that?
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Host 2 (possibly Mike)
No, I don't believe he does. But they decline.
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Donald Trump (quoted in State of the Union clips)
They beat a fantastic Canadian team in overtime, as everybody saw, as did the American women, who will soon be coming to the White House.
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Host 2 (possibly Mike)
Oh, I guess they're coming. They declined this then. Okay, they put a spin on it.
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Donald Trump (quoted in State of the Union clips)
Patience to Team usa. But I have to say that, and I told them this, and we took a vote.
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Host 2 (possibly Mike)
Question.
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Donald Trump (quoted in State of the Union clips)
The highest civilian honor in our country, the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Giving that to the whole team.
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Host 2 (possibly Mike)
Now, that dude that scored the winning goal.
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Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Oh, Imagine being the dude that passed it to him. I shouldn't have taken that shot
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Jason Vest
where
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Donald Trump (quoted in State of the Union clips)
it wasn't supposed to do it. For many years were tariffs. I used these tariffs. Took in hundreds of billions of dollars to make great deals for our country, both economically and on a national security basis. Everything was working well. Countries that were ripping us off for decades are now paying us hundreds of billions of dollars. They were ripping us so badly. You all know that. Everybody knows it. Even the Democrats know it. They just don't want to say it. And yet these countries are now happy. And so are we. We made deals. The deals are all done, and they're happy. They're not making money like they used to, but we're making a lot of money. There was no inflation, tremendous growth. And the big story was how Donald Trump called the economy correctly and 22 Nobel Prize winners in economics didn't. They got it totally wrong. They got it really wrong. And then just four days ago, an unfortunate ruling from the United States Supreme Court. It just came down. It came down. Very unfortunate ruling. Democrats cheering but the good news is that almost all countries and corporations want to keep the deal that they already made. Right, Scott? Knowing that the legal power that I as president have to make a new deal could be far worse for them, and therefore they will continue to work along the same successful path that we had negotiated before the Supreme Court.
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Host 1 (possibly Tony)
So is he saying that all the Deals that he struck that the Supreme Court ruled unjust, they're going to stick with because it's so good for the other.
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Host 2 (possibly Mike)
He still has time. Like even though they struck it down, he has like 180 days to continue it. But he basically threatened all the countries and said if they. Fuck, if they're going to remove it, I'm going to find a way to make it worse and I'm just going to go around and do it again. So let's just stick with what we got is basically what he's saying.
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Donald Trump (quoted in State of the Union clips)
Unfortunate involvement. So despite the disappointing ruling these powerful countries, saving. It's saving our country the kind of money we're taking in peace. Protecting many of the wars I settled was because of the threat of tariffs. I wouldn't have been able to settle
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Host 1 (possibly Tony)
them with a real quick did we see Valkyries? Did we see Valkyries thing.
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Host 2 (possibly Mike)
No, you didn't call
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Host 1 (possibly Tony)
says, hey, Tyler and Mike, what's Yalls merch site? Hold on.
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Host 2 (possibly Mike)
Best one or the one for the show? You gotta put it up. I can't do it.
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Host 1 (possibly Tony)
I am. I'm only gonna put mine up. Media assets. Let's see. I'm a producer.
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Host 2 (possibly Mike)
You are a producer.
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Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Counterculture Inc. Threads. We gotta get rid of the comma, though. Counterculture ink threads. Go to countercultureincthreads.com and use promo code ANTIHERO say 15 on the best encounter culture. T shirts, hats, stickers, flags, beanies, ranger panties, hoodies. Zip up hoodies. We got all. If you use Anti Hero 15, you'll save 20 or 15@CountercultureInc threads.com and let Mike do his thing.
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Host 2 (possibly Mike)
Hold on. Because the guest is in the DMS. Go to cup og.com use code anti her 15 for 15 off the best clothing network line in the network. Get your war hats. Tyler's got one. He just won't wear it because it's made somewhere close to here and it's great. And then I think he was asking also make sure you pump the actual store. The antiherobroadcast.com go to the antiherobroadcast.com that's the merch store for the.
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Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Yeah, that's where you get the anti hero merch. I know I've got some old stuff like stickers and antihero podcast shirts for really cheap on on that we use mainly for live shows and giveaways and stuff. But yeah, everything Anti Hero is going to be on the antiherobroadcast.com shop. And then Mike's got Copville Obviously. And I've got counterculture ink threads, so order some merch, man. We appreciate it, Valker. You do enough for us in general, so we'll throw in some extra stuff for you. All the money that you send us. Keep the lights on.
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Host 2 (possibly Mike)
Guess they'll be ready five minutes.
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Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Are you talking to him?
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Host 2 (possibly Mike)
Yeah, he's good. He said got his time zone mixed up as you thought. He was out late last night. He's gonna freshen up and he'll be on in like five minutes.
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Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Okay. All right. So that's the State of the Union address. Not the. Not the most exciting, I guess. Trump has really started to.
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Host 2 (possibly Mike)
It got pretty good. Like, it's hard to sit here and go through it all. Re. Watch it. But it got to the point where Elon Omar was shouting at Trump. Trump's yelling back at her. He went heavy on Somalia. He went heavy on legal immigration. He claimed that they're going to crack down extremely hard in Minnesota on all the fraud. And he's got a whole new task force head by JD Vance to go after all the fraud. He talked about, obviously, the strength of the border state of the economy the highest. The dowels as high as it's ever been. And he did his Trump thing. He threw shade all over the damn building. He had. He had the National Guard member in there that got shot in the head and survived. They had the family of the female lost her life. They had both of them in there. Like I said, two Medal of honors. It was a good one. It was. You know, he really slammed Pelosi.
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Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Did he?
- [27:06]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
Yeah, he said. He said he talked about cracking down on insider trading. And ironically, all of Congress stood up, even the Democrats. And he's like, wow, I can't believe everybody stood up. And then he goes, did Nancy Pelosi stand up for that one? And it was pretty good. You know, it's.
- [27:26]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
It's a.
- [27:27]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
It's a. He's an episode dude. He's a fucking character. I mean, you can say what you want. I don't know that anybody get the things done that he's gotten done without the way he does it and rubs a lot of people the wrong way. But entertainment.
- [27:44]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Well, it looks like X is back up and running. They're still saying X is experiencing issues with live streaming posts, but at least it's saying there's a lot of people viewing on X right now. So that's good. That's always Good. Both stores. T.S.
- [28:05]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
you send him the link?
- [28:07]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Yeah, I did. Both hoodies are great. Me and Mike actually have some insider stuff we're. We're gonna put. We're apparently apparently meta A meta shop is. Is a lot better now so we're gonna try some of that.
- [28:24]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
Yeah I was you know I was dabbling with what Dom does with the auto response messages. I don't know that I want that but then yes, that's new way to like brought branch out through meta scene. They want you. They want your money.
- [28:38]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Posted a post that's meant to like. Like for merch and it just like gets zero views almost it gets like a hundred views. Everything else gets 20000 views a post. I could post a picture of me and Mike like this. It'll get 40000 views. But you post a picture meant it somehow. It's AI dude. It's Skynet. It knows what you're trying to do. I guess like if you and it will get no views.
- [29:05]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
The only way to the trick around that would be like a meme with a ad behind it so the like scroll but if you don't pay if you soon as you post something for sale and you're not paying meta to push it they're like nope, sorry.
- [29:16]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Yeah they want that money.
- [29:17]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
Yeah put a meme up of a monster energy drink and some it'll get a hundred thousand views. But don't try to sell anything.
- [29:25]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Sell them on Walmart. They are massive. I mean I don't think we. I don't think we'll be selling on Walmart anytime soon. I would. It was I think. Oh my goodness gracious. Is Megaphone still having problems? Everything's having problems, dude. The world we live in let yesterday's episode is still processing in the audio files.
- [29:48]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
Somebody said they just listened to it.
- [29:51]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
I don't know how it says I'm looking right now Spotify. Did they watch it or listen to
- [29:58]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
it says I listened to those November flag right there. I listened to yesterday's Patreon episode this morning on Spotify.
- [30:05]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Okay it's. I'm. I'm showing still processing. So just waiting on the guest waiting on the guest. Cook somebody in the stories today.
- [30:27]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
Did you? I didn't even see Let me look.
- [30:29]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Yeah, I just cooked it my stores and mentioned it Homo. Not really. He's not really gay but oh yeah
- [30:39]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
the male Vanessa. That's pretty good.
- [30:42]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Who takes a selfie like that lays on a bed he might be gay.
- [30:50]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
I don't know.
- [30:51]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
There's nothing wrong with that I guess if you want to go to hell,
- [30:56]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
don't tell that don't tell the Marine guy that. Don't say. Video. Hold on. Let me get that video up. I posted yesterday.
- [31:12]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Fumasa. Wait, what is processing? Like, uploading? Yeah. So Megaphone is owned by Spotify. If you want to have a network, you have to have a megaphone account. Having a network means that you have multiple shows that you run on one account. So it's called Megaphone owned by Spotify. If we were just one single, singular podcast, we would just have a Spotify account and an Apple account. But we also run Counterculture Inc. Media company, Me, Justin and Mike. So we have to have a megaphone account which allows us to house multiple shows. And the upload. I was doing my thing yesterday, after the show, tried uploading it. It kept saying upload failed, like, over and over again. Turn the computer off. X out. Did everything Justin message Spotify or Megaphone, and they were like, yeah, we're having issues. And it still says they're having processing.
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Host 2 (possibly Mike)
Yeah, see it.
- [32:04]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
But if people are saying they listen to it, then it's up. I don't. I don't know. What. Did you load a video?
- [32:12]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
Yeah, you want to play that? This is a. Yeah, this one went hot yesterday.
- [32:21]
Jason Vest
What did he do? Hey, come on, man.
- [32:29]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
Wait a minute.
- [32:30]
Jason Vest
What is he doing?
- [32:32]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
We.
- [32:32]
Jason Vest
Hey, come on, man. He ain't. Man, y' all flipped him in there. Come on, man.
- [32:41]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
What did he do?
- [32:44]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Right?
- [32:44]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
Y' all just walked up on t
- [32:50]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
the old policing.
- [32:52]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
Yeah.
- [32:53]
Jason Vest
This guy would have been on the ground.
- [32:59]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
Split them to the.
- [33:00]
Jason Vest
Because what is you doing it for?
- [33:01]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
We just trying to figure out what's going on.
- [33:03]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Holding the counter. We just trying to figure out what's going. We need more units.
- [33:08]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
We have them. Yeah, two people. All you got to do is sweep that other leg, man. His chin's gonna break on the. So let's keep it.
- [33:24]
Jason Vest
I already got a lawsuit going.
- [33:25]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
Tasers, too. Nobody's nobody, man. What y' all trying to talk to him? Why y' all gotta do that? Just saying, if you can't get. If you can't get down now, you can't talk. There's always that training you're supposed to have where you disengage. Activate.
- [33:38]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Hey, pause it. Would you condone. Not as. I'm not looking at policy. I'm looking at. Would you. As Mike DS condone strikes at this point. 45 seconds to the face.
- [33:58]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
100 already. Yes. Yes.
- [34:00]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Okay. The argument of should have, would have, could have known. BJJ is always out the window. It always takes a video like this for somebody to actually go train. I'll admit it.
- [34:12]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
Yeah.
- [34:13]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
If it doesn't happen to you, you don't go to. This has to happen to you. And then you go to the gym. That's just how it works.
- [34:19]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
Well, here, I'll give you this. Let's say you don't know bjj, but you're not a striker punch, or you're physically strong in the point where you're wrestling around this guy. I have no problem with you. Right hook to the fucking dome and knock this dude out. I don't have a problem with that. Like, if that's your training, he's obviously resisting. He's not cooperating. That's probably the safest thing. You go throwing him on the ground, his head hits the bottom of his shelf, he splits his wig, he hits the counter.
- [34:43]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Too bad. So sad.
- [34:44]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
Yeah, yeah, I'm cool with all that too, but I think, yeah, I'm absolutely cool with punching him in the face,
- [34:52]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
but I was going to get his feet. Sweet. I was.
- [34:54]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
BJJ argument is. My BJJ argument is that will help you not end up here. But if you're too stupid to not go do it and all you're gonna do is go fight, that's fine. At this point, this dude deserves everything,
- [35:08]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
dog.
- [35:09]
Jason Vest
They're not letting me go live, neither one. I got it all on my phone, though.
- [35:15]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Thanks.
- [35:19]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
Come on. And here's the thing. Here's the thing. He's not even resisting.
- [35:24]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Really.
- [35:25]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
He's very. This is a one. He's not fighting, he's not kicking. He's not. Imagine if this dude was like this.
- [35:32]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
And that's why I asked you the code, the man code of throwing strikes at somebody when they're doing this. Because here's the thing. I don't think it would stand up in court. But if you start throwing blows at this guy who is actively resisting you, which means he is just trying to. I mean, you could argue he's not even really trying to get away. He's just not complying with your commands to stand still. At some point, if you hit him in the face and he goes, I was playing nice. And he gets free and pops you one. Do you deserve it?
- [36:04]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
That's the art, man. You're like, you're coming to my side now. That's my argument.
- [36:10]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
I've always said that.
- [36:11]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
But that's my argument.
- [36:12]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
You're gonna go ahead.
- [36:15]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
You can't create. This is what happened. Yeah, you're right. Because now he's. But. But the Problem is you have. Once you started this process, you got to finish it. So that's where Dom comes in with the like shooting like two unarmed men were shot in Aurora. He's back on that one again. And he's showing that videos like you now are in a position where you can't just go, all right, never mind, you're out of here. Like, let you go. I mean, he can, but that's cowardice. And. And. And that. That would be the job is really, really. That would be two reallys. And the job is really dead. Really, really dead. If you just said never mind, I can't get him in custody. Let him go. But yes, you go punch this guy. You kick this guy. You attempt to pepper spray this guy or let's say tase him. You attempt to tase him. It doesn't work. Now he's real mad. Now what happens?
- [37:03]
Donald Trump (quoted in State of the Union clips)
Hey, Fred, where you at?
- [37:04]
Jason Vest
Freddy?
- [37:08]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
I actually edited this video.
- [37:15]
Jason Vest
Come on. Hey, man, come on. Come on, man.
- [37:19]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
He didn't do nothing, man.
- [37:20]
Jason Vest
They walk right in here and start
- [37:21]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
grabbing, actually do something.
- [37:27]
Jason Vest
Come on, man. Bro, you should have been got wild
- [37:31]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
and broke off from their ass, man.
- [37:33]
Jason Vest
They tripping, dog. Come on, man.
- [37:36]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
He not even on that.
- [37:42]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
All right, what are we saying?
- [37:43]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
I said they. This is what we're dealing with in the streets and we're still not, you know, he's still got a hand free. Like, if you look, he's got the, you know, gold all in my watch. He's got the gold watch still on. He's still free. You're technically. You shouldn't even have handcuffs out yet. You don't pull your hand and there's already one.
- [37:59]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
You don't put your handcuffs out until you got compliance.
- [38:01]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
Yeah, there's already one set of cuffs that flew off and they're laying somewhere in the store. They fell off at the beginning when. When they first tried to cuff them. But now you're still in the position where they're list doing something. There's somebody's on his legs now finally. But his hand's free. His left hand is free. And you're still going to cuffing. Upset.
- [38:25]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Like I said, jobs alive. If you are going to. And going back to our. Our. Should we strike him at that point.
- [38:34]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
Point.
- [38:34]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
If you are going to be the one to initiate another level of. What do you call that? Another level of force, I guess, you know, escalate the floor. If you're gonna punch a dude as a cop, you need to be ready for him to go, okay, I'm Gonna punch you back now.
- [38:53]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
Yeah. Well, it's kind of like the. The corrections video. The female that gets curb stomped.
- [38:57]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Yeah.
- [38:58]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
She had every opportunity to go, all right, I'm gonna wait for some mail cops. I'm gonna wait for some mail corrections guys to get here. I know this guy's going in cuffs. I'm gonna stall like, whatever. She decided to go full Subaru and pepper spray and go hands on, and it didn't work out. You're right. Same thing happens here where you've.
- [39:19]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
You're.
- [39:20]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
He is. He's passively. He's passively resisting at that point. But you punch him and then he goes, all right, you want to punch me now? I'm gonna back. Neither of those people are ready for that, obviously. And then he probably gets away. But everybody's going to focus on didn't do nothing versus lack of training, skill, and application of techniques by the cops, which is the real problem. Because I hate all cops. If you didn't know that.
- [39:48]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Out of context. Out of context. Hey, so we have Jason Vest in the lobby. What we're gonna do is we're gonna alter it a little bit. We're gonna take a commercial break 20 minutes early, and that way, once Jason comes on, we don't have to cut or anything at noon. We don't have to do any add reads. We're just gonna knock it out now. So we will be right back with a commercial break and then Jason Vests once I find it. Over a century ago, in 1910, the
- [40:17]
Jason Vest
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Host 1 (possibly Tony)
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- [40:43]
Jason Vest
fear and manipulated science.
- [40:45]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
This philosophy carries into veterinary medicine, resulting in over vaccination, unnecessary surgeries, and manufactured food, just like they did for people. They call it care, but it's predatory and based in profitability. The truth, toxicity, compromised immunity, and chronic inflammation. They're not fate, they're engineered.
- [41:09]
Jason Vest
And so is your power to undo them.
- [41:12]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
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Host 2 (possibly Mike)
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- [43:58]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Are you done? I wasn't listening.
- [43:59]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
Yeah, no, you're good.
- [44:01]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
All right, cool. Well, our guest has made it. He is in. I'm a believe he's. I want to say he's in Pacific Standard Time. So he probably had to get up early for the show. But he is here. We have Jason Vest.
- [44:19]
Jason Vest
What's up guys?
- [44:20]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
What's up Jason?
- [44:21]
Jason Vest
No. Okay, so I'm On Central Standard Time. So I'm still a piece of. I woke up. I'm like, wait, I woke up. You told me, like, you're gonna send the link at 10:45. My lazy ass had the alarm set at 10:20.
- [44:38]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Well, I didn't put PM, so I appreciate you being honest because you could have easily said, oh, dude, I thought it was pm. We've had that multiple times too. I'm just so used to our, our guests knowing military time. I'm like, 10:45 Eastern Standard Time.
- [44:54]
Jason Vest
But no, I was just out. I was out really late last night. I live in Austin and sometimes you get like invited to comedy shows. Like, big ones. Yeah, we got invited to like a big show, so we didn't get home till like 2am that's okay.
- [45:09]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
I just. When you're, Whenever you're in Orlando, I want. I want pre sale tickets. I want first access, because then I'm just gonna 50 cent you and buy them all.
- [45:18]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
It's coming up. It's coming up. It's coming up. I saw it.
- [45:21]
Jason Vest
Yeah. April 25th, man. It's a new comedy club in Orlando. It's called Alex's Underground Comedy Club. It's a small venue.
- [45:32]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
What, what day of the week is it? Saturday.
- [45:36]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
Yeah, it's right when we get back from South Carolina. It's that Saturday.
- [45:38]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Oh, okay. Yeah, we'll be getting right in on Thursday or Friday. That's perfect, dude.
- [45:42]
Jason Vest
Yeah, we're getting in on that Friday and we have some other shows, like other little small shows to get ready. And then we have that show and then we're leaving.
- [45:51]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Okay.
- [45:51]
Jason Vest
We'll be the most macho podcast ever. You got a guy? What? No, I just have to say when I was laughing because I don't know if you guys were watching me. I was dying in the lobby. I tune into the guy with the war hat. You're like, punch A. And then there's like this creatine thing down in the corner.
- [46:11]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
Yeah.
- [46:12]
Jason Vest
I'm like, I am fired. I wasn't awake, but I am awake now.
- [46:17]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
I'm drinking testosterone.
- [46:19]
Jason Vest
What?
- [46:20]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
I'm drinking testosterone. It's not even sprite. I just drink testosterone.
- [46:24]
Jason Vest
I just. The guy with the war hat, punch A. I'm like, all right, I'll go.
- [46:31]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Yeah. I mean, I saw your stuff. We've been talking for a very long time. We were trying to wait until you could get here in Florida physically, but we just decided this is probably way quicker and way easier, way more fun than waiting, but. So you are a veteran you were in the army, and you were a recruiter for most of your NCO time.
- [46:51]
Jason Vest
So how it worked was I enlisted in the Army National Guard, and then I came. They have, like, these orders that you can do called ADOs, active duty, special work. And that's. I got. I did that for a little while. Like, I worked for the recruiters when I got back from basic training, and then I eventually became an AGR recruiter.
- [47:09]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Okay.
- [47:09]
Jason Vest
And I was an AGR recruiter for the National Guard for almost the bulk of my act. It was by bulk of my active duty career. And then I took a break. I volunteered to go to Iraq in 2017. Or not 2017, 2006, 2007. And I did that just because I was on recruiting duty and I was recruiting people, but I hadn't been.
- [47:29]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Yeah.
- [47:30]
Jason Vest
And I felt like a real piece of. Because I was in these schools swindling these kids. I'm like, come on, combat's cool. Have you ever been. Oh, no, they need me here.
- [47:43]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
What made you get out?
- [47:45]
Jason Vest
I used to say, my job is so crucial, they need me here. I want to go. But then I ended up volunteering to go.
- [47:52]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Would it. Were you. Did you keep the classification as recruit? I guess you're not. That's not an mos, is it?
- [47:57]
Jason Vest
No, it is because I converted. So I was a converted recruiter. So I was a medic. I joined as a medic.
- [48:03]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Okay.
- [48:03]
Jason Vest
And then I converted over to becoming a 79 tango. You have to do that to make E7 as a national Guard recruiter. It's not an. It might be an MLS now. Like, I can't speak on it now, but when. When I was in it, you. You didn't hold the MOS's recruiter until you were in E7.
- [48:22]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
And how many years you do?
- [48:23]
Jason Vest
21 years.
- [48:25]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
You. Oh, so you retired?
- [48:27]
Jason Vest
Yeah. Oh, yeah.
- [48:29]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Okay.
- [48:29]
Jason Vest
Yeah, I got an active duty retirement.
- [48:32]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
Wow.
- [48:33]
Jason Vest
I got that disability and retirement money, baby. You think these memes are a joke?
- [48:39]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Wait, so can you get disability and retirement at the same time?
- [48:42]
Jason Vest
Oh, yeah, dude. I'm living the. I'm living high in the hog. I got that 100, and I got my pension, so I'm making like 6k a month, man.
- [48:51]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Dude, I'm telling you, Jimmy has no idea what the he's talking about half the time. Jimmy looked me square in the face and goes, you cannot collect both.
- [48:57]
Jason Vest
And I'm like, oh, no, dude, you can work a job. So there's different classifications. So, like, I'm a hundred percent permanent. And total. But there's something in my classification. I can work a regular job. So, like, if I ever.
- [49:11]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
But you collect pension, too. So you're collecting pension and you can collect three.
- [49:16]
Jason Vest
I. I was. So. I was a DOD civilian before comedy. Right? So when I. When. Before. When I retired, I went to work for the dod, I worked for National Guard Bureau as a civilian, and I did, like, federal oversight over the recruiting process at the Met.
- [49:30]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Nuts. Okay.
- [49:32]
Jason Vest
And so I did that for, like, three years, and I started doing comedy. And so. But I was working with DA civilians that were retirees like me, and they were getting 100. They were like a GS13 or a GS9, and they were. They were getting their retirement.
- [49:48]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Yeah, that's a lot of dough.
- [49:50]
Jason Vest
There's probably cops getting 100 other.
- [49:54]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Yeah, I know.
- [49:55]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
A lot of them. Oh, yeah.
- [49:56]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
I mean, there was. I was. I was with guys that were close, collecting. I want to say close to 60, 70, 80, at least 50 with PTSD that hadn't even deployed. I'm like, man, I'm not milking this system the right way.
- [50:09]
Jason Vest
They're like, oh, yeah, that's why I make those memes. There's an intention behind it. I make those memes and I tag a law firm that helped me out. And so because veterans are whiny and they're in the comments like, yeah, you. I wish I could get 100%. Well, you could, you stupid. You could.
- [50:29]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
Yeah. I think California is the only state if, like, everything else that's up there, they're the only ones that are with guys on 100% that aren't letting them be cops.
- [50:41]
Jason Vest
Oh, really?
- [50:41]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
They actually have it? Yeah. If you're 100 disabled from VA, they'll notify trying to get hired.
- [50:48]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
We've never asked anybody this, but Jason, as. As somebody that's never been a cop before, when you call 911, 1. Do you particularly maybe want a cop that's 100 disabled in some way, shape, or form?
- [51:00]
Jason Vest
Like, okay, here's the thing. I'm terrified of the police. This is a little fun fact about Jason, right? I love the cops. I support the police. But I'm. I. When I see a cop, I'm immediately like, I'm going to jail. Even if I've done nothing wrong. Like, seriously, like, I got pulled over the other day. I had weed in my car, and I live in Texas, and weed isn't legal. A cop pulls me over, and I'm like, I'm going to jail. Gets me out of the car. And he recognized Me from the Internet.
- [51:32]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
He got lucky.
- [51:32]
Jason Vest
And he was like, hey, how's Mama San's? And I'm like, oh, you know? And he's like, I know. Tell me how much weed you have in a car. And I'm just like, bro, I got, like, a joint, and that's all I have. But I live with this guy that's got cerebral palsy, and he tours with me. He had the joint on him, and I'm like, no, don't take him to jail. Take me to jail. And he's like, dude, if it's just a joint, no one's going to jail. I just terrified. But. But no, like, when I call 9 1, we say, let's rephrase that question again. When I call 91 1, would you
- [52:09]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
want 100 disabled veteran?
- [52:11]
Jason Vest
Yeah, I would want a veteran because. Okay, this is my point. I had a mental health, like, breakdown a little while ago, and I'm honest about my mental health stuff, so don't, like, judge me on it, but I had a mental health breakdown, and the police were involved, right? Only because I needed to go to the hospital to get some help. My. My family had called, they tried to get me to get some help, and I wasn't getting it. So they called the police. And like, in Chicago, the VA has a response unit. Like, this is something that people don't know about Chicago. There's a program in Chicago through the VA where if you're a veteran and the police know you're a veteran, they have a special veteran response force that shows up, right? So, like, when I had. When I needed someone in that time that I was a mess, man. Like, I was not in a good shape, right? And I had people on that that were part of that team that were there. Like, I would have gone to jail if I. If I think if. If that team wouldn't have been there in Chicago, I'd have gone to jail.
- [53:08]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Wow. And they were sworn law enforcement that also specialized.
- [53:11]
Jason Vest
These guys were like. It was through the VA Police department.
- [53:16]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Yeah.
- [53:16]
Jason Vest
You know how the VA has cops. Right. So it was a program, and I don't even know if they do it anymore. I can. I can get you guys. I have a friend that works for the VA at high level that can get you the name of that program, but it was at select VAs. But Chicago was one of them. And they had to look a liaison of the police force. Right. Because I mean, imagine Chicago, extremely liberal. You know, you got. The VA has, like, people there to make sure, like, hey, this guy don't need to go to jail.
- [53:43]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Yeah, yeah, anything. I mean I would, I would much rather take somebody for a mental health crisis than a misdemeanor crime. I mean that's just me. It's all it's going to do is just going to tie up the entire system calls you a bunch of headache and then you're not going to learn anything. You're not going to get any help from it.
- [54:01]
Jason Vest
And if I would have listened to the cops that night because I was like this because they, they wanted to take me to the, the hospital in a cop car and I'm like, I'm not going to the hospital in a cop car. You know how emotional people get. I was like, I want, I want to see the body cam footage because I had like a meltdown like a child.
- [54:23]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
Yeah, that's that. Well that's tough, that's, and that most of the time if you're getting the ride to the hospital, obviously it's a good thing you're not going to jail. But I noticed the cop, everybody hates the cop car. So that's maybe where the veteran comes in and says, you know, hey look, I'm a vet, I'm not a cop. Let me explain to you the process. You're probably more likely to trust a non uniform vet than you are. The cops are just trying to lure me into the car and get me out of here. And I, I, that makes sense. I, I agree with that type of response. I don't agree with some of that like civilian social workers that are putting themselves in like real danger by showing up with no guns, no badges, no vest. But I agree with the vet. On vet.
- [55:02]
Jason Vest
Yeah. Like I don't think anybody from the VA came. It was just communication to the police department. Like everybody was talking and then when I got out I had like someone that I talked to from the police department and the VA that they communicated like there was like a little bit of an aftercare. So the VA cop communicated, it was, it was just like a well oiled machine that I, I don't, I don't think a lot of people know about that program. I don't know if they do it but it's literally meant. So the cops don't like shoot veterans some because you know, like sometimes you see like man, maybe you guys, it could be deescalated if someone was familiar with the situation or the person.
- [55:40]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Yeah, I agree with it 100%. In fact I didn't, I never realized I had PTSD from the military until I was in the police academy, learning how to deal with veterans with ptsd. And, like, for the first time ever in my life, we watched a video, and I was, like, triggered by it, and it was like a. It was like a PTSD war for it. Because when I got out, I just, boom. Drank, went to college. Never thought about it. Never really. I just left the military behind me, and I guess I kind of just buried it down. And then I was in the police academy. I watched that video. I had to get up and leave. It was like this urge, like, I'm gonna cry. I'm gonna cry.
- [56:21]
Jason Vest
And I, like, got up and walked out.
- [56:23]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Holy, dude. I was like, I think I have ptsd.
- [56:29]
Jason Vest
So you're just.
- [56:30]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Are. You are. You're not going on tour? You're literally just coming to Orlando?
- [56:34]
Jason Vest
I'm just coming to Orlando. So I just started headlining last year. So, like, I'm a private in the headliner world, right? Yeah. Like, so I'm new at headlining, so I do select dates and small venues. I'm not ready to do, like, the 504, 200 seaters yet, so I don't do, like, as many headlining dates.
- [56:56]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
I noticed that a lot of your comedy is raunchy, to say the least.
- [57:01]
Jason Vest
Oh, it's pretty up, man. I had a up life in the military.
- [57:05]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Very raunchy. I mean, every video I clicked of
- [57:07]
Jason Vest
you, I miss it now. Now talking about it, I'm just like, My wife edits these videos. First off, Right? Just the first. My wife edits these videos. So, you know, like, we talked about all this, but, man, being a recruiter, it was like you had keys to the castle, dude. You had a government car. A free car for the government. Gave you a government car, a company card, credit card, a travel card. You had one of them government travel cards.
- [57:38]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Know what's funny is that the someone similar with. We have a. A really loyal supporter named Clint, and he's always telling us the most up stories. He was a recruiter, too, for the army.
- [57:50]
Jason Vest
Oh, yeah, dude. You see the lowest form of life, dude. Like, I'm sorry. Like, you see. You see the bottom fe. Okay. You think about the people that can get in. Right. That's a minuscule amount. So one little nugget about recruiters is those people that can get in are the minutia. It's the sludge that you have to go through.
- [58:13]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Yeah.
- [58:14]
Jason Vest
To get there, because you just go through people that can't pass the test. Like, retard.
- [58:19]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
That's got to be miserable, too. When you're talking to these guys, and they're like, I just want to go in. You're like, this guy can't even get himself up in the morning and let alone join the army.
- [58:26]
Jason Vest
Like when they got champagne wishes and caviar dreams, like, they barely passed that test. And they're like, I want to work with computers. And it's like, no, you idiot, you're gonna cook the food.
- [58:40]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
No, but I want to be a pilot. I want to be a pilot.
- [58:44]
Jason Vest
That's it. I recruited this one guy, though, in the infantry. So there was this long range surveillance unit in Michigan, and this kid was dumb as he did not pass the ASVAB. He got an 18. And you can wave it, like, every once in a while you can wave the ASVAB test, right? You don't have to pass it as long as you qualify for a job. Sign this up for infantry, right?
- [59:08]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
There you go.
- [59:08]
Jason Vest
He goes overseas and almost gets, like, a bunch of people killed. And I. I deploy, I volunteer. And I'm like, yeah, man, I recruited this idiot into the infantry. And there was guys I was with, like, wait, what's. What's his name? And I'm like, al Massey. And they're like, dude, that guy almost shot us. He's crazy. I like to play with people. I was like, I tasted my own medicine. Piece of.
- [59:37]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Thank you to Samuel. Samuel Ting. Is that like an Asian thing? Samuel Ting. Samuel Ting. Hey, guys. Good to see you. Having productive conversations really helps. Thanks. Thanks, brother. Appreciate the support. So you had. Do you still do your thank you for your service podcast?
- [59:58]
Jason Vest
I took it down for a while. Why don't I take it down? So, long story short, I sometimes co host it with my co host that lives with me, my boy Ronnie. He's 27 years old. He's like my little sidekick, right? He's got cerebral palsy. And his mom freaked out because we interviewed a bunch of porn stars. And she was like, I don't want my son getting turned into the devil. And so we had to take him down. So we had to get everything clear. Like, we had to, like, patch things up with his mom and be like, dude. We're like. Because Ronnie's, like, getting exposed to, like, some really crazy now. Like, he showed his butthole to 600 people at the butthole contest.
- [60:35]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
What? Yeah, I saw that, bro. What is the butthole judging?
- [60:39]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
How does that come around?
- [60:40]
Jason Vest
Oh, it's the most Florida ever, guys. So I hosted this butthole contest. When I started doing comedy, these guys, everyone was really supportive right around the Military guys that I worked with. With, and they'd send me. So they sent me this flyer, said, hey, you want to host the prettiest but. Or the prettiest butthole in Michigan competition for the contest. And I made a tik tok saying, hire me to host. And it got 7 million views.
- [61:05]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
So you host what?
- [61:06]
Jason Vest
Yeah. And the comp. That people called the company and said, hire him to host. Hire them in to host. And then for three years, I made content for that company break.
- [61:17]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
Give me the breakdown of the. Of the contest, though. How does it.
- [61:21]
Jason Vest
Oh, that was gross. So the first year, it was mostly dudes. It was all straight dudes, too. It wasn't even gay dudes. It was straight men and their wives. They were like, let's go show Jason our butthole.
- [61:35]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
About how many people.
- [61:37]
Jason Vest
706 different states.
- [61:44]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
And how does the. They just walk on stage or walk up to you or how.
- [61:47]
Jason Vest
It was a pageant. So it had three. Three rounds, and they had, like, a category. Categories like winkability, presentation, color. We counted spokes, and they had, like, a spoke minimum. So you had. You have at least five spokes, or you would get disqualified. And. And so they. And they have porn stars judging with color charts. So they have from light to dark. My wife was a judge because one of the porn stars is grossed out.
- [62:15]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
That's.
- [62:16]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Well, yeah.
- [62:17]
Jason Vest
Yeah. But, hey, that's what a military spouse does. My wife told. They were like, wait, your wife will do this? I'm like, my wife's a military. I bring home a baby with another chick. She raise it.
- [62:31]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
So how did that. When it. When. How did it progress? Did it finally get to, like, reasonable buttholes or did it stay, like.
- [62:39]
Jason Vest
So. So the first year, a chick won, and it was this big girl from Nebraska. She drove, like, 15 hours. It was in. This was in Michigan. Drove 15 hours and slept in her car. That slept in her car because she needed the prize money. It's a true story.
- [62:56]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
It wasn't very clean. It wasn't very clean.
- [62:59]
Jason Vest
Her was perfect, but she was a big girl. She's lost weight now because she got an oic, but she had. Her butthole was tattooed. You know, the liquor bottle, The Kraken. Yeah, that's what that looked like, was the Kraken. And she spread it, and it was just like, whoa. She won the first year. Then the second year, it was a gay dude that went by the name Sexy Bread.
- [63:28]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Is that. Is that. Is the butthole contest still a thing?
- [63:31]
Jason Vest
Oh, yeah. I don't have anything to do it though, because, like, so it was the first thing I did. Like, the first thing I did. I had no followers before the prettiest Butthole in Michigan competition. I was starting to, like, get rumblings on the Internet, but nothing major.
- [63:45]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Yeah.
- [63:46]
Jason Vest
And they didn't pay me. And so, like, eventually I got bigger and I'm like, hey, I can't be doing this stuff for free. And then it was like, oh, we're not too cool with that. And so I walked away because it wasn't worth. Like, that stung.
- [64:02]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
And so, yeah, and they didn't really hire you per se. They just allowed you to look at buttholes all night.
- [64:08]
Jason Vest
We have like a little, like, stupid little contract and it just wasn't worth it. It wasn't worth it. It wasn't worth the dings on my social media. And I could go viral for my own. I didn't need to talk about all the time.
- [64:21]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
So what is the per. I mean, it's like at a bar or what is the permitting?
- [64:25]
Jason Vest
Like, it's at a strip club. It's a promotional thing for a strip club.
- [64:29]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
That's it. There we go. Now makes sense.
- [64:31]
Jason Vest
And it just is one of those things, you know, like, look. So you hear, like, the stories were, people keep getting bigger and bigger and bigger. And then I became actually worth something. And then I was like, hey, I don't want to do this for free.
- [64:42]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
Like, graduated from buttholes.
- [64:43]
Jason Vest
Yeah, I moved on.
- [64:45]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Yeah.
- [64:45]
Jason Vest
I mean, it's not like you were
- [64:46]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
at the St. Jude Cancer center, you know, asking for money. You're having to look at buttholes. Like, can you give me a little bit of throwback? You know something.
- [64:56]
Jason Vest
You know who's doing it now is the financial audit dude.
- [65:01]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Dude, who's that?
- [65:03]
Jason Vest
That Caleb Hammer have? Do you know him? He's got a massive podcast. Yeah, yeah, he's here in Austin. He's like an Austin based podcaster and he's the one doing. I think he's from Michigan. I think he's from that area too.
- [65:18]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Have you. Have you always lived in Texas or did you recently move there? Because comedy.
- [65:23]
Jason Vest
No, I've kind of moved for comedy. So when I. When I was working as a d. A civilian, my social media started to take off a little bit and I was starting to get conflicts with being a DoD civilian and some of the comedy that I was doing and the things I was saying, I was coming back to work going, hey, well, you said that last week. And I'm like, oh, gosh, here we go. And that was during the pandemic I was. I was critical of the leadership, and it was like I was starting to get traction online and I was talking about it and it just was like. Was getting a lot of pressure. I didn't feel comfortable. So I left and I moved to Chicago. We sold everything and we just kind of went all in. My wife and I did, and she quit her job, got like a work from home thing. Then we moved to Chicago, lived in a 500 square foot apartment for, like, I don't know, two, three years. And then we moved here to Austin, and we've been here for the last two years.
- [66:18]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
You like it?
- [66:19]
Jason Vest
Yeah, it's pretty cool. It's like. I mean, it's not like the. It's. It's cool. It's. I like the a. It's like the. You see online when you like them videos about the Austin comedy scene being shitty, that those aren't. That's hype, really. Yeah, it is. It's all, dude, it's really hard. So, like, if you're like a performer that's got like some risque content, it's not easy. And those videos portray it like, you know, Joe Rogan's comedy nightmare and all this. Like, if you're an edgy performer, it's a nightmare to do anything. So it's not what people say. Like, there's nobody down here slinging racial slurs and beating up transvestites or anything like that.
- [67:03]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Is it liberal there, though, in Austin?
- [67:05]
Jason Vest
I think it's the most liberal part of. Of Texas. Yeah, it is. Like, the rest of Texas ain't but this. But even this is still kind of conservative. Like, I mean, I came from Chicago. Chicago, dude. Like, so these people that say like, Austin's so liberal, it's like, no, dude, go to Chicago.
- [67:22]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Yeah, it's all perspective.
- [67:25]
Jason Vest
Go to Chicago. A guy like me, man, I was getting hit on by dudes left and right in Chicago. It doesn't happen here in Austin.
- [67:33]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
That. The Kill Tony thing. I'm still not. I know what Kill Tony is. Is it a traveling live show or is it set in Texas? Is.
- [67:42]
Jason Vest
It is a comedy podcast and it gets a lot of traction. So Kill Tony is the largest online, our largest live podcast in the world.
- [67:53]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Okay.
- [67:54]
Jason Vest
And so they get. Sometimes they beat Rogan and all the big boys in the ratings, but it's a comedy podcast that started from nothing. Like These guys started 12, 13 years ago in a. In a room full of maybe that was like a 60 seater. Right now they're doing like Madison Square Garden. So it's kind of. Kind of like a character art to it, but it's. It's like American Idol of comedy. So you've got comedians do one minute of comedy in front of an audience that kind of wants them to fail.
- [68:24]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
Yeah.
- [68:25]
Jason Vest
And then you get critiqued afterwards. And so it's kind of like a killer be killed catching lightning in a bottle. You know what I mean? Like, I've been on it and bombed and I've been on it and had victory.
- [68:37]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
How many times have you been on it?
- [68:38]
Jason Vest
Three times.
- [68:41]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
You. I wonder if it's on YouTube.
- [68:43]
Jason Vest
It is. You can just look up. Kill Tony. Jason Vest. Gabriel Iglesias. That was my best appearance. The last one was a real big stinker. I. I did a massage parlor. It wasn't really a joke. I think people think that sometimes I'm telling jokes and I'm not telling jokes. Oh, I know.
- [69:01]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
For some weird reason, because you're military. I'm like, these aren't jokes. These are.
- [69:06]
Jason Vest
No.
- [69:06]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Maybe some names have been changed to save credibility, but other than that, these are real stories.
- [69:12]
Jason Vest
Yeah. Like I was talking about massage parlor and these people, and it wasn't funny what I said, but they were like. I'm like, no, but they're not really jokes. Like, this is a real statement.
- [69:21]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Like, all right, let's see here. I'm going to pull it up once I figure out how to do it. Share screen.
- [69:43]
Jason Vest
Next bucket pool, ladies and gentlemen. Looks like a brand new name. Make some noise for Juu Vest. Perhaps it's some rough handwriting. Juu Vest or Vast Juu. There he is. Wow, look at this.
- [69:58]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Is this the one you're talking about?
- [69:59]
Jason Vest
The one.
- [70:00]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
The one. Okay.
- [70:03]
Jason Vest
Jason Vast. Jason Vast, everybody.
- [70:09]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Thank you.
- [70:09]
Jason Vest
Thank you. Stay away from Muslim topics. Got it. I'm 40s. Oh, sorry. Okay, I'm sorry. We'll reset it one more time. The clock. Here he is. Make some noise for Jason Vest, everybody. I'm 46 years old and I'm six years overdue for getting my prostate checked. I hate doctors and I'm terrified to get the procedure done because I haven't had a man put a finger up my butt since I was a Cub Scout. For those of you that cringe, do not cringe. I was a loose boy. I was a loose boy. I was a slutty kid. And I my way to the top of the Eagle Scouts. Endo Power glove in the back of a 1986 Ford Escorts. And that's how I became the youngest Eagle Scout in history. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you. I'm a veteran. I'm a veteran, and I go to the VA medical system for my health care, and it's shitty. I get four Viagra tablets monthly. 4. I spent 20 years in the military and one year in Iraq, and that only equates to four hard ons a month. That's why I voted Republican, because Donald Trump said he was going to get us 10.
- [71:35]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Thank you.
- [71:37]
Jason Vest
All right, Jason Vest.
- [71:42]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Okay.
- [71:43]
Jason Vest
All right, let's go. This is your first time on the show, correct? Second time.
- [71:47]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Oh, there you go.
- [71:48]
Jason Vest
I got it, everybody. Everything's backwards here tonight.
- [71:51]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Dude. The visual I got from the Power
- [71:52]
Jason Vest
Glove in the back of an escort, I'm like, oh, my God. You felt that, dude. The escort, the one that had the power seat belts, the automatic ones?
- [72:02]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Yeah.
- [72:03]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
Oh, God.
- [72:03]
Jason Vest
You know, how. How long ago was your last appearance on the show? Almost a year ago, Tony. I was on in February last year. Did I tell you on that episode that you look like the guy from Ghostbusters 2 that makes Vgo the Barbarian come to life? An amazing impression. I've seen Ghostbusters to a lot. Yeah, you have that, though. You have those energies. Thank you.
- [72:32]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Thank you.
- [72:32]
Jason Vest
Yeah, that's exactly what he would say if he was here right now. That's how he would say it. Absolutely incredible. How long you been doing stand up, Jason? Four and a half years, Tony. Where at? I started in Detroit, and then I moved to Chicago, and then I moved here a year ago. Wow.
- [72:49]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Detroit and Chicago.
- [72:50]
Jason Vest
I cannot picture you fitting into either one of those cities at all. I haven't performed for so many white people in my life. I'm not used to it. I'm uncomfortable. Tony Ham. Incredible.
- [73:00]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Incredible. Yeah. I mean, you're used to performing.
- [73:02]
Jason Vest
Performing in the back of Ford Escorts. Incredible. What do you do for a living? How do you make money? Jason? I'm retired from the military, and I live on my VA disability and my pension, and I make content. And I'm on the Loveline radio show on kroc. Nice. What. What branch of the military were you in? Navy. No, I retired. I was a National Guard recruiter.
- [73:27]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Oh, okay.
- [73:30]
Jason Vest
National Guard recruiter. Did you recruit anybody? Like, you seem like you would be the worst with a Power Glove. We got him in there. I hold the state record for the Michigan National Guard for the most enlistments in one month.
- [73:50]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
My God. Because Power Glove, man.
- [73:53]
Jason Vest
Incredible. I lied to kids a lot. Yeah, I bet. All right. Your body count must be incredible.
- [74:05]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
You know what I could tell is that your type of comedy they're like. It seems like they're about 10 seconds behind your joke because they laugh, but they're just not used to the blunt and like, the. The raunchiness of it. I don't think so.
- [74:21]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
They're laugh.
- [74:21]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
I can see them laughing, like, seconds after you're already on the next joke or answering the next question. I've actually seen his content online.
- [74:32]
Jason Vest
Really?
- [74:32]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Yeah.
- [74:33]
Jason Vest
Jason, you're very funny. Thank you so much. Thank you. Your reviews of. He does these. These insane reviews of massage parlors. Is that true? It's part of the culture, brother. Hey, man. Wow. I've never seen. Seen a standing ovation from Red. Okay. Jesus Christ. Hey, I'm the one that mentioned it. Why don't you give me fist bump, man?
- [74:52]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Oh, give me the power glove hand.
- [74:54]
Jason Vest
Give me the power glove. Yeah, you guys have DNA all over you now. He actually puts out some really funny content that I've seen online every now. And that's why as soon as you walk in, I'm like, I recognize you from somewhere.
- [75:05]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
And then I heard your voice.
- [75:06]
Jason Vest
I'm like, that's right. That's right. You can't call your. It's hysterical, man. I. I enjoy it.
- [75:11]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
I've showed your videos to many people. Yeah.
- [75:13]
Jason Vest
Thank you so much. Yeah, thank you.
- [75:16]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Incredible.
- [75:16]
Jason Vest
How long have you lived in Austin now? About a year. Tony, do you love it? Yeah. Yeah. What do you do for fun in Austin, Texas? I write a lot of content and. And that's pretty much it. Like, I write a lot of content. I hang out at home, and I review celebrity feet. Like, I got a foot fetish and I review celebrity feet for kroc. That's what I do on the Loveline radio show. I suck the.
- [75:40]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
Wait, wait, wait.
- [75:40]
Jason Vest
Get out some toes, man.
- [75:43]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Do you work for. Do you still work for that radio station?
- [75:46]
Jason Vest
I didn't work for them. I was just on the radio show. I. I was a regular on there. I had my own segment on foot fetishism.
- [75:54]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Really?
- [75:54]
Jason Vest
That's where the whole, like, kill Tony kicks into high gears at that point. Okay, I put G. Yeah, well, yeah, it just kicks into high gear. Oh, has the chance of a lifetime, everybody. Oh, my God, bro. You need to get a goddamn pedigree bottoms. Your feet are crusty as. Dude, they just look lovely to me.
- [76:23]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
Let me tell you something.
- [76:24]
Jason Vest
You're talking right now, but I promise
- [76:26]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
you my feet are softer than most people's touch.
- [76:30]
Jason Vest
God damn.
- [76:31]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
That's what the. I'm talking about.
- [76:34]
Jason Vest
Wow. Look at now.
- [76:35]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
I need help Putting on the sock, you know, what's up, dude, we can't. We got pulled.
- [76:46]
Jason Vest
Oh, you guys get pulled for copyright?
- [76:48]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Yeah, it'll bounce back up. It'll come back, but.
- [76:51]
Jason Vest
Oh, no.
- [76:53]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Yeah. If you stream something for too long, it'll. It'll.
- [76:57]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
We're in the band.
- [76:58]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Take it down. Yeah. And YouTube's so bad, dude. We can't. Everything we play.
- [77:04]
Jason Vest
All I did was tell them some stuff from my channel, and they didn't know, like, what was going on, and they went nudge. And the crowd went nuts. And then everybody after that didn't do super hot. So, like, it was. If you watch the whole thing, it was pretty wild. Like, it kicked into high gear. High gear. And I started talking about some of the stuff for my channel, like some of the massage parlor and get my butthole fingered and Mississippi it be.
- [77:33]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
Isn't it crazy that the person that's actually on the show is here and it's. He can't show his own. Like, YouTube doesn't like it. It's wild.
- [77:41]
Jason Vest
Yeah, it's pretty nuts, isn't it? When you get on the show, they don't give you an edit. You have to download it through YouTube and, like, it's kind of sketchy how. You have to get it, too.
- [77:52]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Really.
- [77:53]
Jason Vest
You don't really get much. Like, I mean, they do when you get on the show, they kick you right out of the building, like, the minute you're done.
- [78:01]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
Really?
- [78:01]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
That's what I was gonna ask. So you don't even get a chance to just hang around to go.
- [78:06]
Jason Vest
I didn't even know how it went. So, like, I left that night and I ran across the street because you actually have to wait across. You used to have to wait across the street. And so I'm at the bar across the street and went to my wife. She's gotta go. I think it went okay. And then after the show, the crowd, like, rushed me and, like, grabbing me and taking pictures with me. And I didn't realize how well that it actually went. Because when you're there and you're going through it, you're like, oh, yeah, I think it went okay. And then, like, at the end of the night, I was like, holy. Like, my social media just blew up the minute we started posting clips.
- [78:41]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Yeah, YouTube won't even let us come. Oh, there we go. All right, we're back.
- [78:44]
Jason Vest
I gained a hundred thousand followers from it.
- [78:47]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
What?
- [78:47]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Really? On YouTube or Instagram?
- [78:49]
Jason Vest
Yeah, because the. The front end. The front end gets a little boring, but the back end Was high gear. It was like. Basically I was doing all the stuff for my channel, talking about all the stuff for my channel, but I was able to talk about it in my. But it just. The clips went nuts.
- [79:06]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
Yeah, we're still out there. People are saying we got to pause it so that the copyright software doesn't keep up.
- [79:16]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
We're back anyways. Okay. So, yeah, I don't know. I hate YouTube, dude. We're trying. So we're trying to get out. How hard is it to get on a radio station, Jason?
- [79:28]
Jason Vest
It wasn't hard, man. Buttholes, dude. Buttholes. So I. That butthole contest exposed me to so many people, right? And so MTV dude. There's an MTV dude reached out and he was like, yo, is this butthole contest real? And I'm like, yeah. Then he. I went to New York to host the. You know that 90s band lit.
- [79:50]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Yeah.
- [79:50]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
Yes.
- [79:50]
Jason Vest
I hosted their concert for the ZIMTV dude. And he's on the radio in la, and then he became the new host of Loveline, and he's like, I want you to bring your foot fetish stuff to Loveline. And so I was a foot fetish correspondent for the reboot of Loveline. It didn't last. Like, the show got canceled pretty quick. But.
- [80:10]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Okay.
- [80:11]
Jason Vest
I was on. I think we ran for maybe six months before the K Rock cut us.
- [80:19]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Isn't K Rock. So that's an la.
- [80:21]
Jason Vest
That's an LA one I would dial in.
- [80:25]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Okay.
- [80:26]
Jason Vest
I reviewed Celebrity feet, like, one year. The first. The first episode. I did the year and feet and reviewed Celebrity Fee for that.
- [80:37]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
I gotta keep my mouth shut.
- [80:39]
Jason Vest
Why? Well, you don't like feet.
- [80:40]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
No, no, no, no, no.
- [80:42]
Jason Vest
I know what he's talking about.
- [80:44]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
It's not about you. It's not about you. Nothing. Nothing to do with you. Nothing to do whatsoever.
- [80:51]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Yeah, I don't have a problem with them.
- [80:55]
Jason Vest
You like them?
- [80:56]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm good.
- [80:58]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Like, my wife, we knew a foot fetish model that was trying to get out of the game, and I guess getting back in the game because money's hard or something like that.
- [81:07]
Jason Vest
Oh, you ain't ever getting out once you getting in. If you made money slinging toes, like,
- [81:12]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
is it that good? Is the money that good?
- [81:14]
Jason Vest
Oh, God, yeah, I know. Right now, making 30k a year slinging fee. I know. What, a year? A year. I know another porn star that sells her used socks for like four or five hundred dollars a pair.
- [81:33]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Jesus, man. I don't know. I joke with my wife all the time. I'm like, you know, she gets her feet all done up and her nails all pretty. She got tattoos on her feet. I'm like, what are we doing with our lives? We're trying to get in the pearly gates, and that's the only reason why we don't do like that, I'm assuming. But we.
- [81:47]
Jason Vest
I interviewed a porn star. This is why I need to bring the podcast back. The porn stars were fun. Interview. I heard this one girl making 100k a month. 100k a month. And that was one stream. That was like other streams.
- [82:02]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Why is it. Are they, like, independent? Like, only fans people.
- [82:08]
Jason Vest
They're 304 girls, man. The porn stars. It's like the porn stars make money. I'm friends with porn star porn stars, and I'm friends with a lot of bops. But the only fans. Chicks, man, those are the ones making the money because some of them have multiple streams. So only fans is one platform. But the real nasty. You got to go to fansly. You want water sports, you ain't getting that on only fans. They don't. They. There's a limit. Water sports is the line on only people fans.
- [82:34]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
What?
- [82:35]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
Copyright. Copyrighted the line on YouTube.
- [82:37]
Jason Vest
You want PB poo poo, you got to go to Fansley, and Fansley's a little more money.
- [82:42]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Does. Does your wife okay with that? You having all these relationships with porn stars?
- [82:47]
Jason Vest
Oh, yeah. She don't give a. Because I ain't out there trying to them or anything like that. You know what I mean? Like, my mom. My wife's down for that. You know, she. She don't give a. We're friends. We're friends with porn stars.
- [83:00]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Okay, that's good. That would be. That would make your career very challenging if you had a wife. That was not.
- [83:06]
Jason Vest
No, my wife's down, dude. We've had conversation about all the. From the videos and everything. So, like, there was one video she didn't want me to do, and I didn't do it. She was like, we're not gonna talk about that. And I'm just like, okay, that was the line. Let me just hit it.
- [83:22]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
So you respect your wife's boundaries. She just doesn't. She just doesn't enforce it on you too much.
- [83:26]
Jason Vest
So I made this video called Blumkin Bash, right? And I didn't think it was.
- [83:31]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
He's like, well, I'm gonna talk about it now.
- [83:33]
Jason Vest
Yeah, well, so I'm not gonna talk about the video. She didn't want me to make. So I'm like, hey, this Blumkin Bash. And I posted it and I said it was a Turning Point USA event with Erica Kirk and Nicki Minaj. Wait, wait, so you advertised it as a Turning Point USA event? Yeah, and I said, erica Kirk, Nicki Minaj and myself are going to be giving and receiving blumpkins at the Waffle House in Round Rock, Texas. Right. I didn't think that anyone would believe it was real. I didn't think that was going to be the video to even get any traction. It woke up 1.4 million. And I woke up to people thinking that Blumpkin Bash was real. They were calling the Waffle House. They were going into the Waffle House. And I'm like, oh. And then like, the Waffle House manager got a hold of me and was like, yo, what is Blumpkin Bash? And I'm like, you know what a blumpkin is? And he's like, no. And I'm with the blow job while taking a. And he's just like, that's very Waffle House thing. I'm like, I told you. Very wild. Wow. And so he's like. So he's like, hey, you can make a couple more videos, but you had to make something saying it's not real, and then take. So people don't. And people still showed up. People went on Valentine's Day going, hey,
- [84:52]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
is there really to get up to get a blumpkin on at the Waffle House?
- [84:56]
Jason Vest
Human beings and Nicki Minaj war man.
- [85:00]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
We're. We're done as a human race.
- [85:02]
Jason Vest
People are stupid. And then. So then I made merch. I'm like, you know what it. Let's make some blunk and bash the shirt. Right?
- [85:09]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
I saw that in your.
- [85:12]
Jason Vest
I made a little bit of a bag off of an event that wasn't real because people wanted it to be real and they bought the shirt. I've never sold merch online until this Blumkin badge thing. And next thing in my. I was like, for a week, I couldn't almost keep up with it. Like, I've got a good merch guy now, but like. But yeah, it was the first time selling merch. Like, really selling merch for something that wasn't real.
- [85:39]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Does. Do you have to sell. Is it kind of like the tour? Like, when you go out and do live shows? Does the band. Is it like, I have, like, being a band where you rely on merch sales a lot or do you. Is ticket sales more how you get your. Your bread?
- [85:54]
Jason Vest
It's like streams, dude. You Know what I mean? So you got to support yourself. Nobody makes money doing comedy. There's no money in comedy. So unless you can really sell tickets, like the people that can sell like 200c and up venues, those are the people that make money, right? I don't. I'm not there yet. So I have to make money off of the Internet and I have to make money off of merch because I would just fund my own travel. So going out to Orlando, right. I only make money off those ticket sales I get. I have to cover my own travel, I have to cover my own lodging. And then I bring a feature with me. And I usually give if, if I can, the feature a cut of what I make too, because, you know, they're selling tickets, they're. They're a ticket draw themselves and then you make it up in merch. So, like, yeah, sometimes you take a loss. But like, I had a show in Michigan where I sold it out and I had, I sold a bunch of merch. So it was like a double whammy. And it actually was okay because I took a loss on two other shows and it was. I was good.
- [86:56]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Okay. Yeah.
- [86:58]
Jason Vest
It's a business. Like, you have to really think, like business oriented.
- [87:02]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
What do you mean by streams? What streams mean?
- [87:05]
Jason Vest
Income streams.
- [87:07]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Oh, different streams of income.
- [87:09]
Jason Vest
Yeah. Yes, different streams of income coming in. You can't just. So the people that think like people. Comedy's hard, right? And stand up comedy is hard, but if you. Nobody knows who the you are. Comedy is impossible. So. So the first thing is, is you have to get the audience, right? You have to get people that subscribe to whatever nonsense it is that you do. Whatever it is, right? And then once you get that, then you have to figure out how to get those people into a room. But for a long time, until you're really good at it, you're not gonna. You're not gonna get into the rooms that make the money. So you have to figure out how to make money, other ways to make it worth it.
- [87:47]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Okay.
- [87:48]
Jason Vest
So, like I'm just now learning how to monetize on the Internet. I've been made no money off the Internet until now.
- [87:56]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Really?
- [87:56]
Jason Vest
Yeah, none. I'm stupid, dude. I'm horrible with the business because I'm just a create, create, create, create. You know, I'm all buttholes, blumpkins, feet like that.
- [88:12]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
So do you have like a, like a Patreon or anything like that?
- [88:18]
Jason Vest
Nothing. No.
- [88:19]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Do you make money off like Facebook? Facebook?
- [88:24]
Jason Vest
I make.
- [88:25]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
What is that? Good money?
- [88:27]
Jason Vest
I'm Just, dude, I'm just now cashing in on it. Like, I made just last month a thousand bucks.
- [88:34]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Okay, this is.
- [88:37]
Jason Vest
I was already posting to Instagram. I didn't understand. I, like, this is how business stupid I am with this monetization on the Internet. I didn't read up. Next thing I know, I'm like, oh, I got money coming, coming.
- [88:50]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
What's your. What's your. Is your Facebook Jason Vest or poopy Turds?
- [88:53]
Jason Vest
Like, I had Jason Vest, but I had no followers on Facebook. I had 28, 000. And then I got into it with that strip club chain, and they spammed my Facebook and I lost my Facebook with 28, 000 followers, right? So just like, in the last two weeks, I've gained 7, 000 followers on Facebook.
- [89:10]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
So, like, my Facebook, you're at almost 10K.
- [89:13]
Jason Vest
Yeah, but that's been in like the last two weeks, three weeks, and you were making a thousand.
- [89:21]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
You make a thousand dollars? Is that like just a couple months combined, you finally cash out or is that like a month?
- [89:26]
Jason Vest
That was last month.
- [89:29]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
Because mine has the option to monetize, but it doesn't give me, like, it's. It's not. There's a certain number you have to hit.
- [89:35]
Jason Vest
I don't understand how it works. And so, like, everyone in my house got monetized because everyone. We all post content, right? And then next thing you know, I'm checking it and I'm like, I had a bunch of videos go viral, and then I had a thing on there, like, you could hit a bonus. And I hit the bonuses.
- [89:55]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
So it.
- [89:55]
Jason Vest
But you have to engage. So, like, you. I noticed that that number kept climbing the more comments I replied to. So I would spend like two, three hours a day in them comments, dude, but they don't.
- [90:07]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
But they don't run ads, so what do they pay you for?
- [90:10]
Jason Vest
I don't know. I don't know. I don't know, man. They just give me money. No, like, if you go to your every day, it has a total. I can. You're. I'm on my phone. I'd show you. It has, like a daily total.
- [90:23]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
I mean, I monetized our podcast.
- [90:26]
Jason Vest
What?
- [90:26]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
But I said, I monetized our podcast recently. It was just like, hey, do you want to monetize? And I was like, yes. And they're like, cool, thanks. Bye. And then that was it. I was like, I didn't enter any banking info. Nothing.
- [90:37]
Jason Vest
Like, my wife, she's getting. She makes money off of her. So, like, she. And like, sometimes she gets nuked for, like, copyright on some of her videos for the music. And so she's making a little bit of loot off of it. My. The dude that listening that opens for me, Ronnie, he's making a little bit of. He's making a bag. And it has like a total because. And then if you make. It has like, if every day, it is a thing you can do to get bonuses. Like, if you make something that hits a million, you'll get like $45.
- [91:10]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
A million views.
- [91:12]
Jason Vest
If you hit something that gets a million. Yeah. Or something like that. Yeah, I'll show it. I'll send you screenshots. Does yours not look like that?
- [91:21]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
I'm not. I'm. I think you underestimate my. In the sense that I don't know what I'm doing.
- [91:28]
Jason Vest
Yeah, but dude, I was like. Because I, I was. I've been making Instagram money for a minute. Like, so, like, the posts, I don't make money off of the reels. I make money off of the posts.
- [91:38]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Oh, we've made $134.
- [91:43]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
Rich.
- [91:45]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Yeah, we're rich, dude. Watch out, Jason.
- [91:49]
Jason Vest
Oh, you got money coming.
- [91:51]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Well, it says Approximate earnings $134 since we started monetizing. I don't know how to, like, get it.
- [91:59]
Jason Vest
No, I have. It goes to my PayPal. So I don't like. So I got baked one night when I was in Chicago. I set this up and. And then I put pipe. It's in my PayPal because I was sketched out by having it to my bank account.
- [92:13]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Why?
- [92:14]
Jason Vest
I don't want Zuckerberg hooked to my bank account. I don't know. I'm sketched out, but.
- [92:18]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Oh, okay. All right, that's fair. I'm.
- [92:20]
Jason Vest
Because I've had. Dude, I've had a lot of weird. I've been like, doxed. And so I was just kind of worried about Facebook being tied to my bank account and someone trying. I just. Nah.
- [92:31]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
Yeah, I use PayPal.
- [92:33]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
What is. When you perform comedy, do you ever. I mean, I'm assuming no Karens are going to be at your show, but do you get anybody that just can't stand your content and does the stereotypical like, I'm going to stand up and ruin the show because I'm a piece of. Or have you not experienced that?
- [92:51]
Jason Vest
Oh, dude. When I went to Chicago. So these Chicago firefighters that follow me, these dudes were wild. Right? These are the kind of people that would follow me. This big, burly, beer drinking firefighters, like veterans These were guys were down to get drunk, and they showed up drunk, right? And they brought these women with them. And literally, I'm standing with the manager of the club. This big guy comes up, he goes, yo, we brought these sluts we met at the bar. We want you to be extra nasty. We want you to get them to leave right in front of the club manager before the show even starts. And so I did. And so the chicks were disruptive, and I'm just like, shut the up. Get the out of here. But then it turned into, like, this, like, domestic things, and the firefighters started cussing their out too. They, yeah, you, you stupid. And it turned into this, like, shout fest for a minute. And then it was one of the best sets of my life because these firefighters were dying after these chicks left because they literally just wanted these stupid to leave.
- [93:55]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Okay, so it was more on the offensive rather than the defensive. Yeah, you ran them out.
- [94:01]
Jason Vest
Yeah. But I've never had, like, anybody get so mad. I'm very honest. So, like, I'm honest that I'm a new headliner, number one. I don't set major expectations. I'm not one of these, because I have a veteran audience, and if I say, hey, I'm this really great at this thing that I'm not really great at, 100% of the time, I'm gonna get called out as a fraud. So I'm very, very, very honest. So my shit's raunchy. So that means that I'm not trying to go do the Hollywood improv yet until I got, like, a million followers and I could fill that place.
- [94:33]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Yeah.
- [94:33]
Jason Vest
So the venues that I do kind of are the ones that want me. And so, so, like, that Orlando, she's like, you know, this is very Orlando.
- [94:43]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
Like, done very Florida. Yeah.
- [94:46]
Jason Vest
Like, I prepare for my shows, and that's the struggle because those videos take a long time. I write, shoot, and edit almost all of those videos. My wife does some as well. But my wife over through this social media thing, my wife has now become a pretty good video editor, and she has some celebrity clients now that she edits for. So my wife makes more money in comedy than I do because she's got that skill of editing clips. And so my wife edits, like, for a couple, like, celebrities that. And it's pretty cool. Like, that's who we were with last night.
- [95:22]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
That's awesome. Who you with?
- [95:24]
Jason Vest
I, I, I don't want to, because we have clients that we don't like to talk about, who she works with and stuff, because people Think that they can get to them and stuff.
- [95:31]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
So, so we don't talk about, we
- [95:33]
Jason Vest
don't talk about who. Just a respect thing. Because, because that's the thing about comedy. If, if people think you might have an in. So people think like, I have an in. I have no in. I. That Kill Tony thing was just a foot in the door. That wasn't like, I kicked the door open. So Kill Tony for me was. Now I'm established that I can do it live.
- [95:54]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Yeah.
- [95:55]
Jason Vest
And so now it's like, now I have to go prove I can do it. I'm still in the proving I can do it stuff stage. That's the reality of it.
- [96:02]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Like, yeah, that's super irritating. When people establish communication with you and you can just start telling like, dude, they're trying to, they're trying to get to somebody else through me. That's.
- [96:13]
Jason Vest
I get it all the time.
- [96:14]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
People think I've been there a million times. Yeah.
- [96:16]
Jason Vest
Yeah. I don't know. I don't know some of these people, you know, like that, but they think I do. So we're pretty quiet about it. We're. I, we're lucky, dude. We literally went from just my wife worked for an orthodontist to like, we were like, we were hobbing it up last night. It's pretty cool.
- [96:35]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
So you guys, does she still. Does she primarily just work for you? Like you guys are a team, like a manager, social media person, then you're
- [96:43]
Jason Vest
the talent handles a lot of the merch stuff for me and she handles most of the video editing. Now I get kind of busy with the stand up stuff, so. But she has her own clients now, so she's built her own portfolio. So then I had to teach myself how to do a lot of this because she started to get busy and I didn't want to that up for her because that was again, income stream. Right. Income coming in. And so I'm like, I don't want to up the money train. So then I had to learn how to be a videographer kind of too. So I have my own kit, she has her own setup. We can work together independently. It doesn't matter.
- [97:21]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Okay, Mike, we lost you.
- [97:25]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
Yeah, yeah. On the Kill Tony thing. So basically you're, you're there, they're there for them. They're using you as comedy. You just get the exposure to be out there on the stage for a minute to hope that you suck some followers and get some people to follow you. Is that really what it's all about?
- [97:39]
Jason Vest
It's pretty Much. Doing a minute of comedy, getting the critique, and then doing the interview and then having them figure out who you are.
- [97:46]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
Okay. There's a potential for them to bring you into something or schedule you or.
- [97:50]
Jason Vest
I mean, they could. You can. If you do really good, you can get what they call golden ticket, which means you can come back on more often.
- [97:57]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
Okay.
- [97:57]
Jason Vest
Or they can make you a regular or that's it. I mean, those are the only things that really happen from it. It's just they get their viewership. They get like, that episode got close to 4 million views.
- [98:07]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
Jesus. Jesus.
- [98:08]
Jason Vest
And so imagine. But imagine at that time, I. I post those clips. I was already viral, and so I was already getting probably. I was hitting a million a week. Then when I posted the Kill Tony, now I'm hitting like, fucking 9 million, 10 million. And then I started posting those VA disability memes, and then those would get 12 million, and I gained 100,000 followers in, like, six months.
- [98:35]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Yeah, Mike's. Mike's. Mike is the meme guy in the cop world. That's where he markets himself the best. He'll say it, though. He's like, the memes, for some reason, they're the gateway. They get people in to buy the merch.
- [98:47]
Jason Vest
And if you don't do them, like, because I don't really like doing them because I think it's lazy, but people will be like, where's the meme? So I, I, I try to do it like, once a week, those VA disability memes. But it's funny because, I mean, they made it all the way on Rogan. I saw that clip.
- [99:02]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
You were like, this is the closest I've ever gotten to being on Rogan or something.
- [99:06]
Jason Vest
Yeah. I mean, those things got traction. And I get even in the airport. I'll go to the airport, people will recognize me from the meme.
- [99:15]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Really?
- [99:16]
Jason Vest
They'll be like, you're the VA disability guy. And I'm like, yeah. Or you're the bottle guy, right?
- [99:20]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
Oh, yeah. My memes have me popular. They see me in real life, they're like, who the is this guy? Like, go make a meme, dude. Like, you're not interesting.
- [99:27]
Jason Vest
Yeah, you. You have some very viral memes, right?
- [99:31]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
Yeah, I've had some go crazy. Yeah, you get likes and you get. You see, like, a big celebrity. A couple big, big people have shared them, and you're like, I'm almost there. And then they forget about you. No idea. Like Sean Strickland. I had Sean Strickland, MMA fighter, like, share one. I was like, there it is. I'm there and then nothing.
- [99:53]
Jason Vest
Every once in a while, I get people in the stories. They're like, yo, I gotta know, is this real? I'm like, it's real. And buttholes were fingered in Waffle Houses. That was real. That was on a military TDY trip, too.
- [100:08]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Which one was that?
- [100:10]
Jason Vest
So I got my butthole fingered in a Waffle House. I used to go. When I was a recruiter, they used to send us down to Gulfport, Mississippi to do training at the naval base. And I met this chick at the casino, and I rode home with her an hour away, and I was drunk, and she fingered my butthole in a Waffle House bathroom. She was pregnant, too. She was. She was six months pregnant. It wasn't my kid. It wasn't my kid. And she's real. And the baby. She had the baby. The baby's like 18 now.
- [100:41]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Is that the dude that chased you down in the back roads?
- [100:44]
Jason Vest
Her hus. Her baby daddy did so. Her baby daddy was in the Mississippi Army National Guard. And he was crazy. What? I was telling Mike to listen to the story. Oh, it's crazy. So what happened was, is he found out we were messing around, and he chased us down this road. We were. And we were just driving down this road. Pulls over, fires a shotgun round at the car, gets out, and she's like, we gotta talk to him. And I'm like, I don't want to talk to this guy. He's got a gun. And I talked to him and he. I had a National Guard T shirt on because I was like, I had a National Guard from being a recruiter. And the guy's like, wait, you're in the Guard? And I'm like, dude, I'm a recruiter. And we, like, hugged it out. I just didn't want you to be a piece of. And then I can show you was at face value.
- [101:39]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Was he upset that you were plugging his baby mama, who's pregnant with his child, or did he not care about.
- [101:46]
Jason Vest
Broke up. They weren't together. She was still pregnant with his kid. He just didn't want someone that was a piece of to be around his potential kid.
- [101:55]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
Okay.
- [101:56]
Jason Vest
Meanwhile, his baby mama's drunk and smoking cigarettes and just white trash as. Yeah, but she got her life together.
- [102:06]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
I mean, it can't go. It can't go down from finger buttholes in the water.
- [102:10]
Jason Vest
I was actually just looking at her Facebook last night, but that. That guy that shot at us, I can send you guys the news article. I just don't Want to say his name, but Matt is real. He's in the news in there from. From, like, firing gunshots at her. Shot at her before. It wasn't the first time he took in rounds at her.
- [102:28]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
That's true love. That's all we call that. That's true love.
- [102:31]
Jason Vest
Mike, this was fun. We're talking backwoods and we're dropping Mississippi.
- [102:36]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
Yeah, I know some people that are.
- [102:39]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
I know. Jack, our chat can't get past the fingering butthole in the Waffle House by a pregnant lady.
- [102:45]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
No, that seems normal.
- [102:47]
Jason Vest
Oh, you guys talking too soft or what?
- [102:49]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
Well, that's. You said Mississippi, right? That's where that happened.
- [102:52]
Jason Vest
Yeah. Soft. Is that what it is?
- [102:58]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Did you request this, or did she say, can I do this?
- [103:01]
Jason Vest
No, that's not a good thing. So I did. I'd never had that. Really. I had that done before her, but it was by a man, not a woman. When I was in the Cub Scouts, we talked about this and killed Tony.
- [103:12]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
This.
- [103:12]
Jason Vest
This is the first time a woman did it. Oh, my God. I'm sitting here saying, I believe all your jokes.
- [103:17]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
That wasn't a joke.
- [103:19]
Jason Vest
Full circle, guys. A man had done it. I never had a woman do it. And so this. You start sucking my dick in the bathroom, and she slips it in, and I like, okay, I don't like it, but I go with it. And then when she would get drunk, she would like, I'mma call your chain of command, and I'mma tell them you're gay. I'm going tell them you're a homo, and I'm going to tell them that you like a dick in the ass. She, like, butthole blackmailed me.
- [103:52]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
Mississippi butthole blackmail.
- [103:55]
Jason Vest
She knew because she was near Camp Shelby, so. So she knew how the military worked, and she knew she could call your chain of command. So there was lots of threats. Like, if you don't send me $500, I'll help chain of command and say you beat me.
- [104:08]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
Oh, man.
- [104:09]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Holy. Dude, I'd rather we're glazing over so much about your life just to keep current about.
- [104:16]
Jason Vest
Oh, dude, that was the girl that gave me the blumpkin, too. That. So this. I got my butthole fingered in the Waffle House bathroom. Four weeks later, I went back and got a blumkin by request. No. So, like, she started sucking my dick, and I sat down, and then I. So none of it was like, hey, I want to suck your dick while taking a. I just suck my dick. And I ended up taking a
- [104:41]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
by chance.
- [104:42]
Jason Vest
Yeah.
- [104:43]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
So it Wasn't intended probably by rep. You know, repetition, the body.
- [104:47]
Jason Vest
And I was like, here we are again.
- [104:49]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
I know what to do here.
- [104:50]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
It's like a second degree bump. Plumpkin.
- [104:52]
Jason Vest
Yeah, but I did.
- [104:54]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
But there was no. There was no intent in the blumpkin. It was a. It was a. Like a second degree. Yeah.
- [104:59]
Jason Vest
How I knew I got a blumpkin, I didn't know what it was. So I go back to work and I'm like, yo, guys, hey. I got a blow job while I was taking a. At that Waffle House. And they're like, dude, you got a blumpkin. And it was like, oh, that shit's in the Urban dictionary. And that happened.
- [105:15]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
Was it at the same Waffle House?
- [105:17]
Jason Vest
It was the same Pick you in Mississippi. It's in the middle. I mean, I'm talking the middle. If you look up wildflowers and pick you and pick you, Mrs. A beat that tiny little.
- [105:26]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
I want to look up this lady that fingered your butthole while pregnant, gave you a boy.
- [105:30]
Jason Vest
I'll send you pictures of her offline. And when you see her, she was like a choker necklace. And. And she just. Even now, she still looks like the. At me fingering buttholes. But I don't know what that would look.
- [105:42]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
Blackmail butthole. Lumpkin. How'd you get away? How did you, like, detach?
- [105:49]
Jason Vest
We just ended it. Like, I ended up. We ended up going to a Maryland Manson concert. I got really drunk and I. All over a hotel room. I. I feel like this is one of those things.
- [106:00]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
We're like, all right, we're gonna give you a paragraph with a bunch of blanks in it, and you fill out all of the nouns and all of the setting. So I was at a Marilyn Manson show. And what happened was I all over. Like, this is like, fill in the blank craziness.
- [106:18]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
But this is real.
- [106:18]
Jason Vest
It's true now that the Merrill Manson concert and Halloween in Biloxi every year, I used to do a Marilyn Manson concert at the Hard Rock. So I put that on my government travel card because you used to have that government credit card. And if you were. You were a certain rank that was turned on. And as long as you paid the bill every month, that was just an extra, extra, like black ops credit card that you had that no one asked questions on. So I put the flight and the hotel package on the credit card, flew down there, got wasted, had raw oysters in the restaurant that night and at the concert, we got in this fight, and I ended up all over the white bedding and I got a really nasty cleaning charge. And it just all compounded. And I got in trouble for government travel card abuse. And I got in a lot of trouble because government travel card abuse is no joke. And I got like a letter of reprimand. I almost lost rank. They took money. It was a.
- [107:21]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
What was that? What's. What's a in the bed charts look like? How much is that?
- [107:25]
Jason Vest
Oh, it was like 700. It wasn't exactly.
- [107:28]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Oh, that's not that bad. Yeah, I thought they'd be like 7,000. They gotta replace the whole bed. Fumigate the room.
- [107:34]
Jason Vest
I was scared to use the gu.
- [107:36]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
They just change the sheets, dude. That was it. They changed the sheets and threw that big back together.
- [107:41]
Jason Vest
Checks I couldn't cash. Right. If you guys are cops, you know, man, it's gonna add up eventually. And it added up to where I couldn't dig my way out of the hole. And so I couldn't pay the bill. And then the government travel card people, and then it was like a trickle down boom, boom, boom. And then I got in a bunch of trouble and that ended that relationship.
- [108:02]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
But I mean, it's. It's a lot of material in that one run there, though. That's. That's a good run.
- [108:09]
Jason Vest
Oh, there's. That went on for longer than that. But that's all I talk about right now. That relationship went on for seven years.
- [108:16]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
Holy.
- [108:18]
Jason Vest
There was another kid in between that one and then. But no, there's. That's true. And like, just like I have another story about a guy that kidnapped a Korean woman. Okay, that's true too. Guy I worked with.
- [108:32]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Wait, so he kidnapped a Korean woman?
- [108:34]
Jason Vest
So this guy that I worked with got like a mail order bride or some and was recruiter. And like one day he's like, yo, I gotta go to Korea. I'm studying like this rarest form of karate or some comes back with a woman. And I'm like, who's this? And he's like, yo, man, this is Suki. She lives here now. And I'm like, hi. And this didn't speak any English. She's like, you know, and my boy, like, over time she learned English. And she told me, she's like, I want to go home. He won't let me leave. And like, we had to like report it to the chain of command. Like this guy, like, legit had a woman here from Korea that wanted to go home and he would not let her leave. Tell her, kept her at a camper. At a camper on this Campground. And while he went and recruited during the day and he'd be like, yo, can you take her out to this hideout? And it was this dingy camper. I bring the Wendy's. And. And she begged me. She was like, take me to the airport, Mike. Like shows me videos of him. Other women, like, I mean, this guy was a seedy.
- [109:45]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
What happened?
- [109:46]
Jason Vest
He was a recruit.
- [109:47]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
What?
- [109:47]
Jason Vest
And so long he. So she left. Like, we ended up saying something. And I said something because I knew his mom too. And she. He moved her from the camper into his mom's basement. And then I'm driving down the road in this little town that we worked in, and I saw her running down the road and I'm like, what are you doing? And she's like, take me to the airport again. I took her back home and I'm like, hey, we have to do something about this. She needs to go home. So they. She went home. And then later he got in trouble for stealing a government car car. And you know how you can like doctor the title and to get it insured and stuff. And he doctored the title and all that for the government car. And when he crashed it, they took the. Took it into the repair shop and you know, they run Carfax and they could tell that it was a stolen car. That's what got him. And then all of the came down like, this was a person. There's like the National Guard lets anybody be a recruiter. Like they do not do very hard
- [110:44]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
background jack, like recruiting, recruiting all day and has like a captured sex slave at night.
- [110:50]
Jason Vest
He would sell. He would. So no, this guy was also selling used lingerie to strippers at night too. So he had like this van, that government van. And he would have like used heels and. And he'd be like, yo, I gotta go make some deals. And he would be like, you got these will buy anything at 3 o' clock in the morning because they're coked out. And he would be slinging like used heels and at strip clubs. This guy was sketchy.
- [111:18]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Whatever happened to him?
- [111:19]
Jason Vest
He ended up going to jail. He ended up going to jail for the car stuff. Got himself out because it was his first offense. Got himself like out of jail and in military. And so I was an AGR recruiter, right? So like, it's not the same rules that apply to active duty. If this would have been active duty, this guy would have been toast, right? The National Guard doesn't work that way. They up the paperwork and he did a conditional release to the Army Reserve and never got kicked out, so was able to resurface and the army Reserve, made first sergeant, got out, and now teaches school as a junior ROTC teacher.
- [112:02]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
There's a headline waiting to happen.
- [112:04]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Oh, man, that guy that I talk
- [112:06]
Jason Vest
about, a guy in my, my social medias. If anybody in here is like listening to files and I talk about Big Mike, Big Mike is a very real person. And I talk about. I kind of talk about it intentionally because there's been stories of like kids, not like, like pedophile like that type, but like teenage, like issues with, with, with recruits and things like that. So I kind of talk about it because I know he watches to keep that.
- [112:32]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
I think that's. I think that's pedophilia.
- [112:36]
Jason Vest
Yeah. I don't know. Kids, not like teenagers. But he should not be teaching school.
- [112:41]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
No, no, no, no, no, no. He shouldn't be near. He shouldn't be within a thousand foot of a school.
- [112:48]
Jason Vest
And when I was working at the Maps, when I was working at the Maps, all the recruiters would come to me, right? And they would be like, yo, man, that, you know that sergeant, you know, from the ROTC department, he seems kind of shady. And I'm like, do not trust that.
- [113:05]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
That's what happens when you let somebody get too kidnapped.
- [113:08]
Jason Vest
A Korean woman, dude. It was like my boss, when they were doing the investigation, my boss was trying to like use me to get information. And he'd be like, hey, man, does. Does Big Mike have that oriental woman living in the recruiting office still? Because she was living in the recruiting office for a minute too.
- [113:27]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
Jesus.
- [113:29]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Well, dude, we thank you so much for coming on. Sorry about the, The. The mix up. I showed.
- [113:35]
Jason Vest
Oh, no, that's on me, dude. I. I did not read. You said est. I didn't read it. And then we went out late and we got an invite to like a. The mothership last night by one of the people my wife works for. And so we just ended up Rand Light.
- [113:51]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Nice. Well, we, we love showing people that have served. Obviously you retired and now are doing this, which is even more impressive because a lot of people, you know, they do their thing. I was like, oh, I did a four year stint in the military. That's still commendable. But you fully retired veteran doing stand up comedy. I think that's really amazing. We'll see if we can't get a big crew for Orlando here. I know we got a lot of central port of people that would love to come out.
- [114:18]
Jason Vest
I appreciate you guys. Yeah. And yeah, we're gonna put on a pretty good show. I have Ronnie with me. My opener. He's the. I was Cerebral palsy that raw dogged a stripper from Kill Tony.
- [114:31]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Oh, he was on Kill Tony.
- [114:33]
Jason Vest
Yeah, Ronnie was, too. That my opener. He's very viral for talking about raw dog and a stripper. The Internet knows him as Raw Dog Ronnie.
- [114:41]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Oh, my goodness. All right. Well, brother, thank you so much for coming. We will stay in touch, dude. Hopefully you get to see you soon. April 25th, Orlando.
- [114:52]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
Appreciate it.
- [114:54]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Later.
- [114:55]
Jason Vest
Yep.
- [114:58]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
That was wild, dude. I knew it was wrong. That bad.
- [115:02]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
That's. That reminded me of Clint's story on cocaine.
- [115:07]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Yeah, but that was New Orleans.
- [115:10]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
New Orleans. Yeah, but I'm saying Clinton, New Orleans with the man woman, the whole hallway. Everything that happened in New Orleans trip, that was like that. But like on meth, that was a lot going on. Can you imagine Seven years of that? Seven years of living with the girl that gave you a blow job in the bathroom.
- [115:33]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Waffle House. Toxic, man. Everybody's toxic when they're younger.
- [115:36]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
Yeah, that's a.
- [115:37]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Now he's got a wife.
- [115:40]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Absolutely. Absolutely. Let them talk about it. I mean, that's the other thing. I mean, it's comedy. Cold, man. Interesting episode. As Lewis would say.
- [115:51]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
Interesting. All right, guys. Tomorrow, 11:00am Flagship broadcast. We'll be back in studio with Justin from Donut Shop Podcast. Long day of filming tomorrow.
- [116:01]
Host 2 (possibly Mike)
I might cancel adjusting. We'll see.
- [116:05]
Host 1 (possibly Tony)
We'll see you tomorrow morning. 11am. Jv team for life.