Squadcast (Live) 02/06/2025

Summary

The Antihero Podcast: Squadcast (Live) 02/06/2025 – Detailed Summary

Release Date: February 7, 2025

Hosts: Brent, Tyler, and Drew from The Antihero Podcast

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1. Extortion 17 Updates and Community Insights

The episode begins with the hosts focusing on the latest developments surrounding Extortion 17, a pivotal topic that has garnered significant attention from their audience. Brent emphasizes the strength of their community collaboration:

Brent [02:26]: "You have a question about something and 30,000 people watch it, someone's gonna have the answer to it."

Tyler shares a sense of accomplishment, highlighting that they've uncovered answers even the father of a fallen son, who authored a book on Extortion 17, couldn't obtain:

Tyler [02:42]: "We got the answers to it. And that's something I'm real proud of."

The discussion underscores the podcast's role as a hub for information sharing, where community contributions play a crucial role in piecing together complex scenarios related to Extortion 17.

2. Trump's Policy on Transgender Athletes in Women's Sports

A significant portion of the conversation delves into former President Trump's decision to restrict the participation of transgender women in women's sports. Tyler voices strong opposition to the policy:

Tyler [03:56]: "Men should be competing against women and taking and taking their titles, taking their scholarships."

Brent highlights the bipartisan support for this policy, pointing out the stark voting lines:

Brent [03:22]: "You have the network that all of us have with one another."

Tyler further elaborates on the voting statistics, emphasizing the overwhelming Republican backing and the minimal Democratic support:

Tyler [04:54]: "When the House voted on it, 218 Republicans voted for it. Zero Republicans voted against it. 206 Democrats voted against it. Only two Democrats voted to protect the young girls in our country."

The hosts express frustration over the lack of unified national discourse on this contentious issue, advocating for policies that prioritize fairness and protection in women's sports.

3. Staccato's Apology and Public Backlash

The discussion shifts to a recent controversy involving Staccato, a company associated with Tim Kennedy. The company faced significant backlash for their association, leading to a public apology. Brent provides an overview of the situation:

Brent [14:06]: "It was the massive backlash that created it there."

Tyler acknowledges the pressure companies face from public opinion, recognizing that while some opt to quietly distance themselves, Staccato chose to make a public statement:

Tyler [14:43]: "They are the only ones that come out and actually do it publicly. So I'm okay with it."

The hosts debate the sincerity and effectiveness of Staccato's apology, considering the broader implications of corporate responses to public dissent.

4. Military Operations and Extortion 17 Crash Details

A substantial segment of the episode is dedicated to dissecting the Extortion 17 helicopter crash that occurred on August 6, 2011, in Wardak, Afghanistan. The hosts address various facets of the incident, including conspiracy theories and official narratives.

Tyler counters theories about the black box being washed away by flooding by presenting official weather data:

Tyler [76:30]: "...the weather report for 6 August 2011 Wardak, Afghanistan... was 66 degrees, 6 to 15 mile an hour, wind speeds, zero rain and snow."

Brent criticizes the military's handling of the situation, pointing out incompetencies:

Brent [75:39]: "He was not the guy to be flying. He was not in the right mental state to be flying."

The hosts explore the involvement of National Guard pilots and Tier 1 special forces, highlighting operational shortcomings and communication failures that may have contributed to the crash. Tyler provides insights into resource constraints impacting mission effectiveness:

Tyler [75:39]: "If we don't have enough birds, the 1/60 birds are going to go on direct action missions."

Brent adds context about the mental state of the pilot involved, suggesting that personal issues may have impaired his performance:

Brent [75:43]: "He's not the right person to be flying."

The conversation navigates through official reports, eyewitness accounts, and speculative theories, aiming to present a comprehensive view of the Extortion 17 incident.

5. Government Spending Critique

In a passionate segment, Tyler critiques various aspects of government spending based on insights from the Rand Paul Festive Report for 2024. He enumerates ten questionable expenditures, expressing frustration over perceived mismanagement and inefficiency:

1. Department of Interior: $12 million on a Las Vegas pickleball complex.

   Tyler [97:24]: "The Department of Interior spent $12 million on Las Vegas pickleball complex. Not sure what our government has to do with pickleball."

2. Department of State: $330,000 for censoring non-liberal and conservative media.

   Tyler [98:20]: "The Department of State spent $330,000 to fund censorship of non liberal and conservative media."

3. Department of Health and Human Services: $500,000 on rat behavioral studies related to cocaine.

   Tyler [98:27]: "The Department of Health and Human Services spent half a million dollars to determine if lonely rats seek cocaine more than happy rats."

4. Department of Energy: $15.5 billion push towards electric vehicles.

   Tyler [98:35]: "The Department of Energy spent $15.5 billion to push Americans toward electric vehicles that they don't want."

5. National Endowment for the Arts: $400,000 promoting circuses in city parks.

   Tyler [100:05]: "The National Endowment for The Arts spent $400,000 to promote circuses in city parks."

6. Agency for International Development (USAID): $20 million on a Sesame Street show in Iraq.

   Tyler [100:48]: "The Agency for International Development spent $20 million on a new Sesame Street show in Iraq."

7. Department of State: $3 million for gender-centered climate action in Brazil.

   Tyler [100:25]: "The Department of State spent $3 million for girl-centered climate action in Brazil."

8. Department of Health and Human Services: $7 million on magical projects.

   Tyler [104:00]: "The federal government spent $7 million on various magical projects."

9. Department of State: $2 million for Paraguayan border security.

   Tyler [104:33]: "The Department of State spent over $2 million for Paraguayan border security."

10. Department of Energy: $15.5 billion for electric vehicles.

    Tyler [98:35]: "The Department of Energy spent $15.5 billion to push Americans toward electric vehicles that they don't want."

Tyler criticizes these allocations as misaligned with national priorities, arguing they divert essential resources from pressing domestic issues like border security and economic stability.

6. Community Interaction and Shoutouts

Throughout the live episode, the hosts engage actively with their audience through super chats and listener comments, acknowledging supporters and addressing inquiries. Notable interactions include:

• Trevor Wilson wins a Cloud Defensive light, receiving congratulations from the hosts:

  Tyler [61:13]: "He's the proud winner of a Cloud Defensive... Congratulations."

• Shoutouts to supporters like Gary, a retired service member, and Wesley Pruitt, who made donations:

  Drew [51:06]: "Wesley Pruitt. A hundred bucks, man. Thank you very much."

• Appreciation for contributions from various listeners across the country, emphasizing the community's role in sustaining the podcast.

7. Book and Movie Recommendations

The hosts share their favorite military and law enforcement-themed books and movies:

• Brent recommends "End of Days" starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, highlighting its portrayal of a cop regaining faith:

  Brent [82:46]: "It's a great movie... watching that at 6 years old, you're like, well, I'm gonna be either the Marines or the Navy seals."

• Tyler endorses "Black Hawk Down" for its realism:

  Tyler [28:37]: "I'm gonna have to go Blackhawk Down because it's just so realistic and it's so good."

• Brent also mentions movies like "The Rock", "Fast and Furious", and "Heat", discussing their impact on law enforcement and military aspirations.

8. Sponsor Messages

While the hosts regularly acknowledge sponsors, the summary focuses on the content and skips detailed advertisements as per instructions. Notable mentions include Brotherhood Blades and Howe Arms, companies supporting cops and first responders with specialized equipment.

9. Closing Remarks and Future Plans

In the concluding segments, the hosts reflect on the progress of their podcast, discussing reaching 100,000 subscribers and plans to revamp their Patreon to better support their content creation. They outline future episodes, including:

• Operation Gothic Serpent
• Las Vegas Shooting Analysis
• Tango Tango Ambush Episode
• Interviews with Military Experts like Pete Blaber

Brent expresses gratitude towards their listeners and reiterates their commitment to delivering insightful and impactful content:

Brent [82:46]: "That's all that matters."

Tyler and Drew echo this sentiment, emphasizing the podcast's dedication to addressing critical military and law enforcement issues while engaging authentically with their audience.

Notable Quotes:

• Tyler [03:56]: "Men should be competing against women and taking and taking their titles, taking their scholarships."
• Brent [02:26]: "You have the question about something and 30,000 people watch it, someone's gonna have the answer to it."
• Tyler [14:06]: "It was the massive backlash that created it there."
• Tyler [76:30]: "The black box... was zero rain and snow."
• Brent [75:39]: "He was not in the right mental state to be flying."
• Tyler [04:54]: "When the House voted on it, 218 Republicans voted for it. Zero Republicans voted against it. 206 Democrats voted against it."
• Brent [82:46]: "That's all that matters."
• Tyler [100:05]: "The Department of the State spent $400,000 to promote circuses in city parks."

(Only a selection of notable quotes is included for brevity. The full transcript contains numerous other impactful statements.)

Conclusion

In this live episode, The Antihero Podcast offers an engaging and in-depth analysis of pressing military and law enforcement topics, coupled with incisive critiques of government policies and expenditures. Through robust community interaction and a commitment to uncovering truths behind complex issues like Extortion 17, the hosts provide valuable insights and foster a collaborative environment for listeners. As they celebrate milestones and plan for future content, the podcast remains a steadfast resource for those seeking comprehensive discussions on all things related to the military, law enforcement, and national integrity.

Transcript

[Brent]

Welcome back to another Thursday Night Live. Thursdays is for the boys. I can still hear the music going. Wasn't me.

[Tyler]

Be professionals back there or you can't sit in on the lives.

[Drew]

No, it was my. It was my laptop.

[Tyler]

Blame it on the guest dude.

[Brent]

That was an easy way out.

[Drew]

Dude, I, I tried.

[Tyler]

Clearly Magnet's fault. All day long. Everybody would have bought it.

[Drew]

Yeah. Way to go, Magnet.

[Brent]

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[Tyler]

Fun fact, did you know the MCH light stands for MC Hammer?

[Brent]

I actually did know that.

[Tyler]

Did you know that?

[Brent]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

Okay.

[Brent]

I verified that.

[Tyler]

Doing your research. I was just checking on you. I was just checking on you. You're good. Nailed it.

[Brent]

We got a lot to cover tonight. Obviously the big topic is going to be the new updates that we got about extortion 17. Just like always, Brent, we talk about, we put out what we got and then everybody brings a bunch of information to us that we wouldn't have got if we hadn't put the episode out.

[Tyler]

Yeah. I'm not gonna sit here and tell you we have grand revelations over it. There is definitely one specific part that I would say we're. I'm pretty proud of us for. Because from a father who wrote a book about it, he couldn't get the answers to it and, and we got the answers to it. And that's something I'm real proud of that we got to at least, you know, mark off one of those questions that a father has for, for a fallen son and, and his. In his list of whys or, or who. And we definitively have that and a couple other updates that I just think are really interesting. For sure.

[Brent]

Yeah. And it goes to show you the network that all of us have with one another. You have a question about something and 30, 000 people watch it, someone's gonna have the answer to it. You know, I was there. I knew somebody was there. I can get you the answer. That's kind of how all this stuff was pieced together for sure. So but there's a couple subtopics that are new news that we kind of wanted to touch on. One being that Trump ended the ridiculousness of men in women's sports or men that identify as women in women's sports.

[Tyler]

I'm so here for it. There's a couple things that really get me. And men and women's sports is just. I really don't know why we didn't, as a country, come together, both sides, because this really is a, like, true, like, minority thing of people who really believe that transgender, you know, should be. That men should be competing against women and taking and taking their titles, taking their scholarships, taking their. Away all their hard work. Nothing says I don't care about women. Yeah. Like letting men beat them in sports.

[Brent]

Man. The tolerant. So tolerant.

[Tyler]

This is what really pisses me off about this. I don't. I don't. I really don't necessarily mean to be very, like, political about it, because I just said this should be a bipolar. Yeah. Issue. Bipolar. I do that every time.

[Brent]

Bipartisan.

[Tyler]

Bipartisan issue. So when the. When the Senate. When the House voted on it. I'm sorry. When the House voted on it, 218 Republicans voted for it. Zero Republicans voted against it. 206 Democrats voted against it. Only two Democrats voted to protect the young girls in our country. Are you kidding me? And you wonder why you're tone deaf. And you wonder why you just got your ass kicked in this election and why you may never win another election if you don't start just paying attention to the values that matter. Again, bipartisan, Control the border, protect women. Let's just start there. Let's just start there. As a country. That's the basics. How can we argue. Get that. And by the way, the two Democrats that voted for it, that broke ranks were both from Texas.

[Brent]

You think that they'll. So you'll pay for that. As far as. I don't. I don't think any of their constituents are going to. I think their constituents. Probably because they're from Texas or all.

[Tyler]

Oh, yeah. Now when I said they're tone deaf. The two from Texas under. They understand what they got to deal with, and they voted accordingly.

[Brent]

Because when you're a Democrat, I mean, you can't switch. Right. Because then you might not be. If you were like, oh, I want to be a Republican. Well, now you're running the primaries against guys that have been Republicans and have a huge, what I call fan base. I don't really know what it is, but like, Like a sheriff, for instance. Right. Like a sheriff could be a, a Democratic sheriff.

[Tyler]

So.

[Brent]

But he can't run Republican because there's so much stronger Republican candidates.

[Tyler]

I gotta remember who all did it. Of course, someone. Correct me if I'm wrong. I believe Tulsi Gabbard did it. Tulsi Gabbard was Democrat, went Republican. And you know what? They, they accepted her with, with open arms. No one's given her crap about it. And on the inverse side of that, do you remember their Florida governor, Governor Scott? I believe, I believe he was a Republican and went Democrat.

[Brent]

Yeah, of course. He's a fucking ass.

[Tyler]

And, and, and, and paid the price for it.

[Brent]

He was the one that got all Florida, all for mo. A lot of first responders and teachers in Florida are under the Florida retirement system. And he was the one who took from that pot to pay for other things and made it a 25 year retirement to a 30 year retirement. DeSantis came back and made it. I'm, I'm tapping lightly. They can't hear it. DeSantis came back and brought it back.

[Tyler]

To 25 old DeSantis doing it again. Playing cleanup.

[Brent]

We got the video of Trump signing the. Because he had to sign an executive order.

[Tyler]

Yeah, no, it wasn't an executive order, but he had to sign it into law. So, yeah, you know, you know, once, once they approve it, it always goes up to the, to the president, either for, for veto or approval.

[Brent]

Okay. Okay.

[Tyler]

And I got to get smarter on this. I believe if there's a majority, like, he can't. He doesn't even have veto. Like, it depends on how many people vote for it. But anyway, he just ends up, you know, the last person to approve it is the President. That's him signing it into a law. You got that Drew video?

[Brent]

Yeah. Instagram.

[Drew]

Let's do it.

[Brent]

And it's not the most riveting video in the entire world. Right there. You want to do this? Watch. Watch what I do. Then I'm going to give. That's Joe Biden's dream right there. What a nice picture this is, huh, Governor, you ready? We'll do a good job.

[Tyler]

He'd be lightheaded from all the sniffing. Tell me I'm wrong.

[Brent]

I want to make this a really good signature because this is, you know, this is a big one, right?

[Tyler]

It's the best signature.

[Brent]

Oh, I think we have a 10. We have a 10.

[Tyler]

God bless. Be honest here. All right, dude. Of all the things the guy could be saying right now, he's, he's congratulating himself on how good his signature was. Oh, the guy gives people plenty of ammunition to hate or make fun of him. But regardless of what he just said right there, he had the balls to do what should have been done a long way, long time ago.

[Brent]

Yes. All right, you guys want to hit up some super chats real quick? So I know Iceman gave us some love for $5.

[Tyler]

It's widowy.

[Drew]

My favorite broadcast widowy. Took me a while to figure out what that was.

[Brent]

Widowy.

[Drew]

Nice.

[Tyler]

So I had a speech impediment.

[Brent]

I get it. They're never going to let that.

[Tyler]

They're not going to let it down. That and the. And the hip hop phase. They're just never going to let it down.

[Drew]

L to John to fund dancing cops.

[Brent]

Yeah, baby.

[Drew]

That's right. Eagle Heart. Freaking piece of computer fodder.

[Tyler]

Watch your mouth, Drew. There could be children watching.

[Drew]

Eagle heart. God damn. Let's go get some fresh froth on that, man.

[Brent]

You made Drew say G.D. yeah.

[Tyler]

Yeah. He got you.

[Brent]

He ran the television.

[Tyler]

Yeah, he got you.

[Drew]

No, no, it says got. Damn. That's. That's a little different. Well, I was just reading what's on the teleprompter.

[Tyler]

I know. I know. Drew Burgundy.

[Drew]

I read it. I didn't even. I didn't even see that. All right, Kenneth, is there any update on Tim's tab being pulled in the investigation on the book of. Have a great weekend, y'all?

[Brent]

It's a great question.

[Tyler]

That is a good question. The. There are no, like, real substantial updates on that other than, I know the use of sock. Sergeant Major. Sergeant Major. Command. Sergeant Major Lee is having to. Is having enough push on him again to have to revisit this. And I'm sure by now he's tired. This is the second time that I know of he's had to revisit this case.

[Brent]

If he would have done it right the first time, he wouldn't be doing it.

[Tyler]

I know. And I know most people probably know this. This isn't breaking the Internet that the. In fact, do you know who the current Sergeant Major of the army is?

[Brent]

You asked me that the other day.

[Tyler]

Oh, yeah. Did I?

[Brent]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

Okay. So that's. That's. And this has to be open source. Well, of course. Sergeant Major of the army is Sergeant Major Chuck Norris. Sergeant Major Norris. No. Weimer. And he is from my old unit. And so I. I get to hear updates from him and. Or updates or guys talking to him. And he has now heard about this and is being pressed about it. And I actually have his phone number and his email address. And I'm thinking about if I, I was gonna do it this week, but I'm going to reach out to him personally and say, hey, what are we doing here with this?

[Brent]

You're welcome.

[Tyler]

Right? Yeah. Well, well, I mean, let's be honest. If, if he's not good enough to be a sponsor for uscca FN Staccato Wobby, you can go down the lines that said, hey, you haven't met the threshold of integrity to be our spokesman. How have you met the threshold to be of integrity to be a Green Beret.

[Brent]

Yeah. Or the face of the army like he is.

[Tyler]

Right. So. And that'll be the question I have for Sergeant Major Weimer.

[Drew]

I think Green Beret should be held to a higher standard. Absolutely. Spokesman of a, A company.

[Tyler]

So that's, that's coming.

[Drew]

And did you guys see the Valhalla FT video about the staccato and their reply of apologizing for using Tim?

[Tyler]

Oh, yeah. Yeah. Because it's because of us.

[Brent]

Well, I wanted to like touch on that a little bit. It gave me shell shock vibes. I don't want people to dogpile and, and bully businesses into making the decision that they should be making themselves. I don't, I, I really believe staccato did that because of the ruthless amount of comments that were in there. But I want, I mean, I don't mind if people dog on Tim Kennedy's social media. He doesn't care. He ignores him and blocks them. But I feel like if as long as a company does the right thing, I don't feel like they didn't. Like we always argue they should have known, but they didn't.

[Tyler]

But they wouldn't have done it until they did it in our. An hour later. That 1,099.999 negative comments, that's what caused them to say, oh, I think we messed up. If it wasn't for that they didn't do the right thing just because they magically found out within two hours of posting that it was the right thing.

[Drew]

It was a Bud Light moment.

[Tyler]

It was a Bud Light moment. Right. It was the massive backlash that created it there.

[Brent]

Even their apology made it sound like they knew what they were doing and they shouldn't have done it. Like they were gonna try to, to pull one over on everybody and they got caught with their pants down.

[Tyler]

Yeah, I know some people feel that way about the apology. But you know what? I look at it different. Of all the people that have either quietly well, no, no. They've all quietly distanced himself from. From Tim. They're the only ones that come out and actually do it publicly. So I'm okay with it.

[Brent]

Yeah, it kind of forced everybody's hand, you know, because everybody was tagging all the other companies in the comments.

[Tyler]

There's some.

[Brent]

There's.

[Tyler]

There's some other major companies that just quietly scrubbed their social media accounts of Tim and didn't re up their contract of Tim, but didn't make a public statement.

[Brent]

So what's. What's. You are hanging out with them.

[Tyler]

Don't ask. What's. Just. Just some big company did that.

[Brent]

Black Rifle.

[Tyler]

Just.

[Drew]

Just at some.

[Tyler]

Just some big company did that. I don't know. I don't go through everyone's social media.

[Brent]

Yeah, you gotta wink at me.

[Drew]

All right.

[Brent]

That would have been ideal for a wink right there.

[Tyler]

That was a wink we don't want to.

[Brent]

You know, Brent.

[Drew]

Brent can only blink.

[Brent]

He can't wink twice. Both eyes.

[Tyler]

Speech impediment.

[Brent]

I can't wink.

[Tyler]

Now you guys know my weaknesses.

[Drew]

Jacob Miller. 50 bucks, man. Thanks for the love. Hey, did you see that? The Alaskan Avenger is out of prison and has a YouTube channel he is using. He is using to help abused kids. You guys should reach out.

[Brent]

What?

[Tyler]

Who's the Alaskan Avenger?

[Drew]

I don't know. Who? The Alaskan Avengers.

[Brent]

You guys, they want us to reach out because he's abusing kids or he's using.

[Drew]

He's using the YouTube channel to help abused kids.

[Brent]

I thought you said to help abuse kids.

[Drew]

It was worded a little. You had to think about it.

[Brent]

I don't want to reach out to that guy. No.

[Tyler]

Yeah. All right. He was just going around killing pedophiles. What was he doing in prison? Wrong here. This is what I do love. Like if. If you kill a pedophile 10 times out of 10, you should be able to get a. A court by jury and be let off 10 times out of 10.

[Brent]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

Yeah. Let the jury of your peers.

[Brent]

You think they probably wouldn't let the jury know that he was a pedophile unless he was doing a pedophilistic crime. That was integral.

[Tyler]

Yeah, A pedophilistic.

[Drew]

Pedophilistic.

[Tyler]

Damn.

[Brent]

Can I say you.

[Tyler]

You went to college, didn't you?

[Drew]

That's a predatorial or that word in college.

[Brent]

I saw. Oh, I saw. I'm going to break down a breakdown, but there was a. You know those hoodies that say kill your local pedophile? Well, it was a guy in line. And he had a hoodie on, but the hood covers the kill. So it just says your local pedophile. And they're like, man, they need to bring the design down. And then they were like, you know these guys that say this, like, kill your local pedophile. Like, are they saying like, are you gonna kill him or are you just suggesting someone else kill them?

[Tyler]

Yeah, well. Oh, okay. Now we're gonna. I don't know how I felt about this. I saw it first. It's like kind of cool. And I was like, wait a minute. So this guy was outing pedophiles as pretending to be a 13 year old boy. And then what he said was, hey, I can ruin your life with this or you could just let me slap the out of you. And so the guy was like, all right, slap me. And then he'd make him put his hands behind his backs and he'd give him one of those. Like that white. Like it's basically a punch.

[Brent]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

And just hit him as hard as he can.

[Drew]

Magnet go up there. Brent's gonna show you.

[Tyler]

And say, all right, now quit doing it. And a part was like. At first it's like awesome. Like, you know, you smack this, you know, crap out of a pedophile. But I was like, hold on. He's a pedophile. He's just going to do it again. Like, you know what he did. And there's no repercussion rather than a slap. I'm pretty sure a pedophile will take a slap all day long.

[Brent]

Gunshot wound. Good. And just go right back to doing raped and killed.

[Tyler]

I don't know how I feel about that.

[Drew]

Nighthawk wanted to hear Mara at least once per live. Tyler, that better be a short soon, bro.

[Tyler]

Drew, can you do that and roll your R's Like a long roll, like, all right.

[Brent]

Yeah. Going back.

[Tyler]

He's thinking more like that.

[Brent]

Magnus said the guy would probably like it. And I would agree because we did it. We served a warrant for. I want to say it was the FBI back when I was on the team and they brought the guy out in his sweatpants and he had a full on boner. And they were like. They were like, he didn't have this boner when we went in there. He was getting off on getting caught. And I was like, that is fucking morbid. Like, he's going to prison for the rest of his life. Federal prison for touching kids.

[Tyler]

All right.

[Brent]

Actually, I don't know if it's such. It was. It was porn.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Brent]

Or corn or however the Internet says it.

[Tyler]

Yeah, yeah, right.

[Drew]

All right, Gooch Parm. You're gonna have to explain that name, brother. But I do like the post here. It says I declined the invitation to my own birthday dinner tonight due to prior obligations, AKA squad cast duty. Also, Kryler doesn't sound sick anymore.

[Brent]

So I figured out what our listeners need.

[Tyler]

Oh my gosh.

[Brent]

And I'm sorry my man came to.

[Tyler]

Work sick and paid the price for it.

[Brent]

But now they need the old Tyler back. They need the heel.

[Tyler]

They need the heel.

[Brent]

The heel, Tyler. So now all you fat, lazy guys who can't provide for your families that want to just sit here and comment on me and my cold because I have a better work ethic than you, now you get the heel, Tyler. And he's not very nice.

[Tyler]

You guys did this?

[Brent]

I can't. I can't see the screen though.

[Drew]

Jared says finish the four pack sampler of cigars at the lounge with my buddy today. Lounge manager loved them. As he should. The wheels are turning to get an FRCC event. Let's do it. We want to be in every cigar lounge across America.

[Tyler]

Nice finish. The four pack. You know what I call that? Breakfast.

[Brent]

That was pretty cool.

[Drew]

Of champions.

[Tyler]

Drew, don't add on to it. It was perfect.

[Drew]

My bad. Sawyer. Raven. 250 books odd or coincidence. The guy was told not to board the bird just like Rob O'Neill was for operation Red Wing. Then the Navy lied about details about how the bird's gone down. Tyler, can you say in the Jameson style, what's your thoughts on that?

[Brent]

What? What's your guys. What's your guys thoughts on that? What? What? What you guys leave in the comments. Leave in the comments for me. And then he went after one guy. The one guy you should know was Andy Stump can.

[Tyler]

Hold on. The Navy lied about both. No. Who was that? That was my impersonation. Who was that, Tyler?

[Brent]

Oh, say it one more time. Do it again.

[Tyler]

The Navy light. About both. No.

[Brent]

Oh, that was Jaco. Oh, no, that's Sean Ryan.

[Tyler]

Sean Ryan? No.

[Brent]

No shit. But he does this. He goes, no. And he gets comfy in his chair.

[Tyler]

Hey, take notes. Maybe that's how you get that. That's how you get to a million.

[Brent]

You know what's funny is anytime we meet people that went on these podcasts, we're always asking what's his production like? Where's the lighting?

[Tyler]

What's.

[Brent]

How many people's got working for him? And they're like, we had the guy. Jonathan. The. The jtac, John Howell.

[Tyler]

I believe it's how Howard, Howard, John Howard.

[Brent]

And he was on the Sean Ryan show.

[Tyler]

That's right, he was.

[Brent]

I was trying to low key ask him a bunch of questions.

[Tyler]

Yeah, I. That episode, actually, Matthew Sampson says, are.

[Drew]

You crazy guys going to do an episode on TK messing up the Afghan.

[Brent]

Withdrawal that Jonathan also touched on that. He was, yeah. Oh, that's a good clip.

[Tyler]

That. That is a good. Well, he. He talked about. He talked about that a little bit, but what he really told was a very interesting story about Tim and Hurricane Helene.

[Brent]

Oh, my goodness. Yeah, I didn't know about any of that.

[Tyler]

Oh, my gosh. It just. You want to talk about just a classic Tim Kennedy story and somehow they still surprise me. Like, when you hear a firsthand experience of it happening again, you're like, no way.

[Brent]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

How?

[Brent]

It just goes to show. I mean, you'll see it in Monday's episode. But he did it all for, like, himself and he did not care about actually helping people.

[Tyler]

And it's at the very end of the episode, like, he brought it up. He's like, hey, you want to. You want to tell story?

[Brent]

I think I'm gonna leave that in there. Because we were like, all right, we'll kind of. We were wrapping it up. And he goes, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Yeah, I think I got something you guys want to hear.

[Tyler]

Yeah, that was that one.

[Brent]

Yes. But to answer your question, Matthew, we are going to do an episode, I think, on the TK messing up the Afghan withdrawal. I don't know if that'll be the next one or if we're waiting on somebody to be able to testify to that.

[Tyler]

Yeah, it'll be. It'll be his Iraq deployment next and then, then that. Then withdrawal. Yep.

[Drew]

Sack full of nades. Thanks for the love, man.

[Brent]

I love how people made their name that.

[Drew]

Sorry, boys. Been off comms for the last couple of weeks. Tyler. When my dad was Texas state trooper in the 90s and 2000s, they didn't even pit cars. They just straight up used their shotguns, held them out the window, and blew tires while in pursuit.

[Tyler]

Is that a true story?

[Brent]

Yo, everybody used to do that. Shot 12 gauge. The day would just love it. I would get out of my car instead of these gay spike strips, I would just wait with the Mossberg and blow your tires out. It's roundabout now. You can't do that.

[Tyler]

It wasn't that long ago. Like, it really wasn't. It wasn't that long ago.

[Drew]

There would be more cops if you could do that.

[Tyler]

That's Right. Yeah. We wouldn't have recruited recruiting issues, man.

[Brent]

We're having bad recruiting issues across the board. It's insane. The people that are coming in are just treating this like it's a job at, you know, H and R Block. Like, I just kind of, you know, wasn't really doing so well in my, my, you know, I wasn't happy, so I figured I'd give this a shot. The guys that come in to tackle bad guys, you know, those, those, those guys are not existent anymore. It's just, I don't want to say regular people, but to be a cop, you used to, like, want some adventure. Like, you used to want that.

[Tyler]

Exactly.

[Brent]

Yeah.

[Drew]

Where are those guys now? And where's your high school football players now? Getting jobs. You know, your football players, your basketball players, your baseball players that, you know, they can't go to college or NFL, but they're active guys. They don't want to sit behind a desk, you know, usually firemen, you know, well, firemen are, they're, they're, they're hiring a lot. I mean, they're, they're, they're not exactly full.

[Brent]

Yeah. Yeah. I don't know.

[Drew]

Sergeant Will, Vanessa Bent and Tyler love the show, guys. And Gal Jay and El Paso.

[Tyler]

El Paso, My first duty station. Fort Bliss. The butt crack of America. Man, that place sucks. It's hot. Sorry. Sorry if you were a fan of El Paso, but I feel like, I feel like he knows. I feel like he knows.

[Drew]

All right, shat on. Hey, what do y'all think about Trump wanting to take Gaza personally? I'm not a big fan.

[Brent]

He's renaming it Magaza.

[Tyler]

I'm gonna get it. I have two answers on that one. There is a part of me that, that understands a more holistic view of, you know, of the world and, you know, you know, heavy is the head that wears the crown. Like, you are of source obligated. And you know what? The only way that's going to solve this and all those other Middle Eastern countries, like, no, we don't support this. We don't do this, don't do that. Guess what? You guys have a jack crap to, you know, during this whole time to ever make it better. So guess what? You want it done, America will do it. Right? That's a part of me feels that way. The other part of me, the older part of me is just like, who cares? Who cares? Bring it all back. Protect America. That's not America First.

[Brent]

Yep.

[Tyler]

Bring it back.

[Brent]

Do we have any strategic advantage to having that? Is there Any type of advantage.

[Tyler]

I have no problem with supporting Israel, but we're not putting boots in the ground over there. We're not taking over Gaza. We're not putting another penny into that place until every American kid has shoes on their feet.

[Brent]

Yeah.

[Drew]

Trump did say in. In one of his speeches, he did say that there's a lot of money out there. Saudi Arabia, even Iran will be willing to put money to make this happen.

[Tyler]

And he may have talks. But. And I will tell you this about the Middle East. They will say one thing publicly, and then they will do what they have to do.

[Brent]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

You know, they absolutely will do that. So he may have had some. Some. Some talks that. That.

[Drew]

Here's a little. Here's a little Islamic fun fact in the Hadith of the Sunnah in Islam, and that is once a Muslim owns a piece of property in their fundamental religion, it is always. It always belongs to the Kingdom of Islam.

[Tyler]

Really?

[Drew]

Yep. So be careful when you buy a piece of property.

[Brent]

Yeah. They own it now.

[Tyler]

And that's why they can't be Americans. That's why Americans got in trouble for that one.

[Drew]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

It's okay. Say what I said.

[Brent]

I stand with it.

[Tyler]

Yeah. Yeah. So what I said, you got another one.

[Drew]

It's not our religion. That's what it says.

[Brent]

What is y'all.

[Tyler]

That's right. Yeah.

[Brent]

What is Yalls favorite military slash cop movie or favorite one to hate? Thanks for what you do. I will say this. It is a fictional tale. It's a movie called the Rock with Sean Connery, and it's Marines versus the FBI and Navy seals. And it is the coolest. I mean, I watched it. It was one of Michael Bay's first big blockbusters. Like, it was like, right after or before Bad Boys and such a phenomenal movie. Like, watching that at 6 years old, you're like, well, I'm gonna be either the Marines or the Navy seals. One of the two. End of watch. Also probably the best cop movie or colors for military.

[Tyler]

I'm gonna have to go Blackhawk down because it's just so realistic and it's so good. You see Netflix's no I need to, though.

[Brent]

I need to.

[Tyler]

And is. Is Fast and Furious considered a cop movie? Because it has cops.

[Brent]

It has the Rock all oiled up.

[Tyler]

I mean, they're cops. Like, aren't they in. Aren't they undercover cops At. On Fast and Furious?

[Brent]

Brian was an undercover cop.

[Tyler]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Brent]

But he fell in love with his girlfriend and he let Toretto go.

[Tyler]

Toretto.

[Brent]

Because they bonded with each Other.

[Tyler]

There's this. There's this, like, IG Two guys dress up as, like, Dominique Toretto. Right. And they go to these car shows, and they just go up to people, and they only use Fast and Furious quotes to talk to them. It's hilarious. How about the serious question? Would you consider Point Break a law enforcement movie?

[Brent]

No, not really. Bank robbery movies are their own. I could watch a heist movie.

[Tyler]

Okay.

[Brent]

Every day, all day. I could rewatch the same one over and over. How about heat?

[Tyler]

Will you give me heat?

[Brent]

Law enforcement. Al Pacino is a cop. Yeah. I mean, I'm using the Rock as a military.

[Tyler]

All right, so I'm going heat. All right. There you go. So I took a little bit, but that one was worth it to me. We needed to figure that out.

[Brent]

Yes.

[Drew]

Iceman says. Also, did you guys see Andy stumped live today? He basically called out TK and Rob O'Neal about both of them drawing outside the lines.

[Brent]

Yes, I. Somebody. I just got a. No, I didn't. So I shouldn't take credit for doing homework, but someone sent a snippet, and they said, Andy Stump putting in work. And it was him saying. Being very honest and saying he wasn't in that unit or on that team many years. Like, he left before Rob was there. Right. And he said all of his information is second or at best, but mostly third hand. And he said that everything he's heard from guys on that mission said that they do not agree with Rob O'Neill's version of that story.

[Tyler]

Man, I'm telling every single one, that guy. I like Andy. I do. He. He's just. He's a straight shooter. Like, he doesn't necessarily play by the rules, you know, of sorts. Like. And there's some things he says I don't always agree with. I guarantee you things I say he doesn't agree with. But I always appreciate someone that doesn't walk the party line. Like, whether you like what he said or not, that's his opinion, and he'll give it to you, and I respect that.

[Brent]

Yeah.

[Drew]

Chance Cooper makes first responders admin scared of being anti heroed.

[Tyler]

Chance.

[Drew]

Cheers. Drew, Brent, Tyler and Vanessa.

[Tyler]

Yeah. That's all. That's Chance from Apollo.

[Drew]

All right.

[Brent]

Oh, gosh.

[Drew]

Yeah. Is he gonna be here?

[Tyler]

Yeah, he will be.

[Brent]

He's software.

[Tyler]

He's gonna be here to do the Uvaldi episode. And I think he's also going to touch on the, like, the active shooter. Yeah, the things that. That trans.

[Brent]

Someone else is coming, too.

[Tyler]

I gotta. I gotta make sure on the dates on that. He'll, he'll know. But yeah, he's, he's coming on the, on the podcast. That'll be a good one. I'm really. We've been, we've been talking about doing a Uvalde breakdown for a while.

[Brent]

Yeah. And to have someone who has said. When we got with Chance about Apollo being a sponsor and he was, he gave us a demo, we were like, you need to come, you don't have to be an SME about Uvalde. You need to come and talk about Evaldi with us because this would have changed the game during that scenario.

[Tyler]

I'm telling you. I, it's not a sponsor thing. Apollo would change the game on firefighting, on every active shooter, barricaded shooter, school shooting, and complicated, you know, a high risk warrant mission. I'm just that big of a fan of it because I know it from Atak.

[Brent]

Yes, it's, it's a.

[Tyler]

But it's an atac. It's a simplified atac. Guys, if you're first responders out there and you're wondering what we talk about, please reach out. I'm more than happy to talk to you about it because it matters to me.

[Brent]

And this isn't a dig at any other company, I promise you, it's not. But when you talk to people who demoed Apollo, the first thing they say is this is easier than blink. That's because the, what was out there prior to Apollo is not dummy proof. You're stressed. You are stressed out. You're, you're not. This is, most of the time when first responders do something, it's responsive and they don't have a lot of pre plan. You know, if you, if you're using a company like, or software like atac, you might be on an offensive mission where you're moving at your own pace and you're, you know, you're doing all your stuff where you, when you got to flip that bitch open and respond, it's gotta be dummy proof because you're too stressed out to fucking think about anything that you can't.

[Tyler]

And most of them would be offensive, but more like pre planned. Yeah, like, you know, if you're doing pre planned, you got all the time in the world, but if you're being reactive to something, you just can't be thinking about it. You have to know how to do it.

[Brent]

Yeah, that'd be dummy proof. And Apollo is very dummy.

[Tyler]

It's worth talking about.

[Drew]

Probably pretty good for like bank heists and capture the flag.

[Brent]

Yes. Also bad guys.

[Tyler]

Capture the flag. Oh, my gosh. Paintball wars. Capture the flag. The civilian market chance.

[Brent]

If a bank robber heist team. I can't hear myself, Drew. If a bank robber heist team, the heels back had enough money, would Apollo have the integrity to not sell to bad guys? Or would they allow everybody the opportunity to battle track on the field?

[Tyler]

Come on, you've seen Ocean's 11, 12 and 13. They're smart enough that. That they're. They.

[Brent]

They have pre planned op though.

[Tyler]

Every bank heist, they have a plan for that.

[Brent]

Yeah. Their plans never go to shit.

[Tyler]

Nope.

[Drew]

Airborne. Homestead says Brent. How many stars should they demote Millie down to at his upcoming court martial? I'm thinking Butter Bar.

[Tyler]

Yeah. Lose all four. It would be unprecedented. But I would. I would take away all his revenge, all of his. I would revoke all his rank and I would revoke his commissioned officerness. Officerness.

[Brent]

That's a word.

[Tyler]

And I would demote him down to private, and then I'd kick him out as a dishonorable discharge. And you think I'm kidding? That's what that guy deserves.

[Brent]

What'd he do? It was one of those things where, like, it's so far gone, I'm afraid.

[Tyler]

That he said that he would call China and talk to them first if President Trump ever gave the orders to go to war with China. That's treason.

[Brent]

Oh, yeah. We don't treat treason like we used to. You ever notice that?

[Tyler]

Treason.

[Brent]

Treason you can execute. That is an executable offense. Treason.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Drew]

You have to have a good treason to do that.

[Brent]

It took me about seven. Why is it.

[Tyler]

I just wanted to give him an awkward stare and make him feel stupid, and I couldn't. That's what he deserved, though. That's what he deserved.

[Drew]

Hey, Miller, would you rather fight in World War I trenches with an M4 or the Revolutionary War with a lever action 45 70?

[Brent]

What's a lever action 45 70.

[Drew]

It's lever action that matters.

[Tyler]

It's a lever action gun.

[Brent]

Like Terminator 2.

[Drew]

John Wayne.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Brent]

Okay. Like Red Rider BB gun.

[Drew]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Tyler]

I'm going World War I trenches. Because at least you're in cover. I'm not.

[Brent]

You get an M4.

[Tyler]

I'm not. I'm not. It doesn't matter. I don't care what you give me. I'm not standing in an open field trading volleys in the Revolutionary War like gentlemen. Like gentlemen.

[Drew]

Well, I mean, that was the beginning of the Revolutionary War. Right. And then later we started using.

[Brent]

Yeah. Because we were called terrorists.

[Tyler]

Some units did. They were the smart ones. That. That tactic was. Was done all the way through the war.

[Brent]

When did we stop? When did they stop doing that? Spanish American War.

[Tyler]

They did it when we wanted to win.

[Brent]

Yeah. When did that become an outsourced way to fight? Like, without.

[Tyler]

It's so insane. I. I don't know. That's a good question. Let's. Because it went all the way to the Civil War.

[Brent]

Yes.

[Tyler]

They traded volleys in the Civil War.

[Brent]

What. What war was after the Civil War?

[Tyler]

The war. No, be. After. Gosh. The. The Mexican War would probably be after.

[Brent]

And we watched down there, too.

[Tyler]

I think I saw. I know. That's a good question. What was after the Civil War? That's a good question.

[Brent]

Next big war.

[Tyler]

The next. It might have been World War II. Two. I mean, they wouldn't reverse.

[Brent]

World War I happened.

[Tyler]

They went in reverse order.

[Drew]

There was a Spanish.

[Tyler]

World War I was the prequel. They came out with two firsts, like Star Wars.

[Drew]

All right, Brits, camaro, predictions on UFC.

[Brent]

Damn it.

[Drew]

312 main event.

[Brent]

Idiots.

[Drew]

What's 312? Is it just. That's what it's called.

[Tyler]

Yeah. Because they've had 312 bouts. So I know. I keep up with it. Really, really tight. Right off the top of my head, UFC 312 has Duplessis and Strickland. So right off the top of my head, just thinking about it. And I'm gonna go. And I'm gonna go.

[Drew]

Strickland sounds like a strong name.

[Tyler]

It does. Feel free to claim to flame me in the comments for that. For that prediction, because I have no idea. No idea. But Magnets in it. Magnet. I went, Strickland. We good with that? We're good with that.

[Drew]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

It's right. Yes. The rematch. I didn't know that because it said two. That's why.

[Drew]

Anybody got a problem, you take it up with Magnet.

[Tyler]

That's right.

[Drew]

All right, Iceman.

[Tyler]

Go all in.

[Drew]

Also, Brent, he wanted you on the show. He said that verbatim. He said come whenever. Who are we talking about? Iceman. I have to go back.

[Tyler]

That's right, Iceman.

[Drew]

We.

[Tyler]

I am dangerous.

[Drew]

We got memories. Like gnats. Like gnats. There he is. Also, did you guys see Andy stuff?

[Tyler]

Oh.

[Drew]

Live today.

[Tyler]

Oh, did he say that on his episode? Oh, look at us having a little bromance on the. On our podcast. I just said something nice about him. He said something nice about me. Maybe we should make that happen. I'm down for it. I said I Like the guy. Now I gotta go watch the episode. I've seen a few of his episodes, but I don't watch. I don't watch any podcasts. Do you watch any podcast, Tyler? Nope.

[Brent]

Unless I'm going to watch a specific one because of a reason.

[Tyler]

Right. Outside of research, you don't watch it. You don't watch any Joe Rogan.

[Brent]

I hate saying it. I hate saying that because I look like a hypocrite, but I don't. Yeah, I don't watch. I watch podcasts to be. To get inspiration for, like, the next steps for us, you know, what. What works.

[Tyler]

But, like, Victor, do you want. Do you. Outside of this one, do you watch any podcasts?

[Brent]

No, he doesn't.

[Tyler]

What's that you watch on Ryan? Like, religiously, like, pretty. Like most of his episodes. Not even that. Amanda, you watch podcasts? All right, That's. Gosh. For people to make a living in the. In the industry. Well, I don't make a living on it, but for people who. Who are heavily invested in their life and, you know, our time, it's kind of odd.

[Drew]

I worked for a living, so I didn't even know about podcasts until you guys started this stuff.

[Tyler]

But then I don't think that's too crazy, because when. Because we all have regular jobs and we do this, where would we have time to watch other people's podcasts?

[Brent]

Yeah, that's true. That's true.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Drew]

If we podcast for a living.

[Brent]

I'm old. I like listening to music in my free time in the car. Yeah, I like putting on a good Nickelback song and just.

[Tyler]

I do, too.

[Brent]

Windows down.

[Tyler]

The few times I will listen to a podcast is on a road trip, and I will actually. And I will look for Joe Rogan or Sean Ryan episode, but I want to watch because I know it'll suck up four hours of my time on a road trip. So that's when I watch them.

[Drew]

All right, Sergeant Will is coming back. Says I type Brent, but autocorrect or my fat thumb screwed that up. I think he said bent last time. I don't know, but it worked because the speech impediment thing lately. My bad, Brent. Yes, I'm well aware of the suck factor at Bliss. Still hurting.

[Tyler]

Oh, it's funny because so many people intentionally miss, you know, misspell our names, so when someone actually does it, we just think they're doing the same old same.

[Brent]

Yeah, I was. Yeah.

[Tyler]

Yeah. So don't feel bad about that. You'll see it misspelled about 30 more times tonight.

[Drew]

Yeah, you'll misspell them. I'll misread them.

[Tyler]

All right.

[Drew]

All right. TK's burner. I want to oil y'all up.

[Brent]

TK, calm down.

[Tyler]

Oh, you know, you don't have any sexy music over there on the. On the soundboard, Drew.

[Drew]

I. I don't.

[Brent]

All right, let's. Let's rock and roll through these, do a couple videos, hit our sponsors, and get in the main topic.

[Tyler]

Yes. Yep. Give me some time on this main topic, because I want people to be able to talk to us back and forth on this.

[Drew]

Eagle Heart says America needs to prioritize our own. The native treaties were shit. Why not others save us some money since that's what we, like. 60 billion to Ukraine.

[Brent]

He's mad. That's all caps.

[Drew]

Yeah, he is.

[Tyler]

Yeah. And he should be mad.

[Drew]

Yeah, he should be.

[Tyler]

Every American citizen that pays their taxes should be mad at where our tax money goes.

[Drew]

How did you plan. I'm sorry.

[Tyler]

Which is a topic I plan on talking about because the. The Rand Paul Festive Festivus Report came out for 2024 and talks about all the crazy spending the government does. Yeah, and I'll make you even more mad.

[Brent]

Oh, how about this, Brian, if that makes you mad. Does it make you mad that two planes took down three buildings in New York City? How could you not even three. Two billions took down seven buildings during nine.

[Tyler]

Eleven.

[Brent]

We just don't talk about that, do we?

[Tyler]

It upset me so much. I spent 20 years. I spent 20 years doing a job I didn't intend to do.

[Brent]

Did you. Did you have Building seven in your brain when you were doing all that?

[Tyler]

I got to put on my arm for the. For the rest of my life.

[Brent]

You got Building seven on your arm, not building seven.

[Tyler]

Yeah, so I thought towers. No one knew.

[Drew]

So Jacob wants to know, how did two planes take down three buildings in New York?

[Tyler]

Two planes took down two buildings, obviously. And I'm. I'm pretty sure that's the equivalent of a massive overpressure and earthquake. Oh, and the tunnels that connect the two. You put that much over pressure traveling through those tunnels, it's like a bomb going off underneath that building. Yeah, I'm. You guys act like it's crazy and it can't happen. I just told you how it could happen.

[Brent]

Moonlight happened, though. Get out of here.

[Tyler]

You can see the American flag from a telescope right now.

[Drew]

I love it. Okay, I'm almost there. Here we go.

[Tyler]

That one hurt.

[Drew]

All right.

[Brent]

Somebody took the time to.

[Drew]

The Love Eagles King Korsov is back again. Did war strengthen your faith in God, Weaken it or just change it? Tyler, did being a cop affect your faith?

[Tyler]

That's a good question.

[Drew]

Nice question.

[Tyler]

I've always had a consistent and strong faith in God, so it never weakened it. But I'll tell you what. Certain missions, for whatever reason, certain missions just feel a little higher than others. I got really close to God about two minutes out.

[Brent]

Yeah, that's fair.

[Drew]

How about you? Being a cop affect your faith?

[Brent]

Yeah, I mean, cuz you. There has to be a reason why people are the way they are. Because as a regular citizen, when you're not a cop, you only hear about stuff whenever you want to, whenever you want to watch tv, read the news. As a cop, you. You're subject to it all the time. And you're like, this can't. We can't be animals. There has to be evil in the world. There has to be. Maybe not people that are like, people that are possessed by evil. You know, like, not possessed by evil, but influenced by the. The evil in our society. You know, what we. What we do in 2025, all the things that we see and grossness. And so it. It definitely if. If you're on the cusp, you're gonna find it as a cop, that's for sure.

[Tyler]

I'll say this because I don't talk about it much on the podcast, but I happen to be wearing a Sentinel foundation shirt tonight. The Sentinel foundation stuff, child rescue stuff. And seeing kids get treated the way they do by pedophiles, it doesn't take away my faith in God. I still know he's there. And I know without a shadow of a doubt there's a God. But it makes me question, why, why, why, why would you. And they're fleeting, you know, thoughts. And then another part of me is like, who are you? Who are you to question God? Yeah, but. Yeah, we all have our. Our moments.

[Brent]

Well, I mean, but then we. Then Drew kind of opened my. I wasn't well versed in religion as far as, like educated on it. I just knew when I. When I, you know, found Jesus, like probably two years ago. And I. But I didn't know anything. And so I get with Drew all the time. Me and Drew's pastime is just talk about like, you know, the. The back of the book on the Bible, you know, like Spark notes it and stuff. And like Romans 13, you know, having somebody break that down makes me feel way better as, you know, who gives you the right to take a life? Who gives you the right to impede on somebody's, you know, doings to stop it. And God gives you the right.

[Drew]

God ordained it.

[Brent]

Yeah. Ordained it.

[Drew]

Y. Yeah. You guys are talking about. Doesn't matter what where you go, you will find out. This world is broken and Christ is the answer. Backman Union says, brothers, what's the closing song?

[Brent]

Oh, that's Brant never listens to anybody. They suggest it. He goes, yeah, and then I did once.

[Tyler]

Once. I can't remember which one.

[Brent]

Somebody wanted Death Roll by Wage War.

[Tyler]

And you know what? Start a podcast and you can play whatever song you want. Hey, Batman.

[Brent]

Union starting one here.

[Tyler]

Give me your. Give me your glasses. I'm gonna be the heel now.

[Brent]

Start your own fucking podcast. Give your own suggestions.

[Drew]

Iceman is back. He says if you want to know what Andy Stumpf is about, then watch his Friday episodes. They are like 30 minutes long and really just giving his opinion on things.

[Tyler]

Oh, that's one other thing I like about Andy's episodes is that they're shorter. And we talk about this as well, like our recorded episodes. I don't know if an hour is too long sometimes, and it's usually topic dependent, though, but do we need to cram it into 30 minutes so everyone can get it in on one, in one sitting to their destination?

[Brent]

I don't think Anti Hero does. I think if you're starting a new podcast, you should, because you're asking somebody for real estate in their podcast weekly timeline. And if you're new, I mean, Andy Stump had a background already, so maybe not somebody like Andy Stump, but if you're just a. A guy with no big social footprint, start with 2030 minute episodes. Get people in, make them entertaining, make them full.

[Tyler]

But like David Hookstead and Nate over at Valhalla, like, they're pretty much 15 minute episodes.

[Brent]

Well, Nate's not a podcast. He's at a review channel. He's a YouTube. He's a YouTuber.

[Tyler]

Oh.

[Brent]

Actually, even that sounds.

[Tyler]

That sounds disgusting.

[Brent]

Derogatory. But even David. Would you consider David Hookstead a podcast or is he a new guy?

[Tyler]

Oh, yeah, I. I see. I see what you mean. Yeah, he's. Yeah, yeah, he's podcast.

[Brent]

You just listen to two bros just hang out.

[Tyler]

Yeah. And. But the. On the flip side of that, like, people are asking us all the time, like, make. Make the live three hours long, you know, so I don't know the answer to it.

[Drew]

Aaron Hayes 101. Thank you. Thank you, buddy. He says, congrats on the hundred thousand subscri. Keep up the great work with deep dives and insight on both the military and law enforcement side ideas of where the play button plaque will be placed in studio.

[Tyler]

I'm just gonna hold it. Every episode. I'm just gonna hold it.

[Brent]

No one's allowed to touch it. You can come touch it when Brent's holding it and then it's gonna go in a safe. Oh, man. We're still waiting on. I have not gotten anything. It's scary because who's the, the guy at 1911 Syndicate, Chris Blau. He's like, he's like, I didn't get one because he's a gun company. But Valhalla VFT got one before us, which is cool. I'm okay with. That's totally fine. But he got his quick.

[Tyler]

All right.

[Brent]

So hopefully they're just not going to tell us. I'm just going to check it in.

[Tyler]

We should get ours or we're going to Anti Hero YouTube. Yeah, we're expose you gun company.

[Brent]

Yeah. We haven't even touched upon the 100K. That's crazy. That is fucking crazy. When you, when you go think about, like, I remember when I was getting a email notification for Every subscriber before 1000 you'll get a notification every person. And like every day you'd get like four. And you were so terrified to lose one. You're terrified. So you're trying to make everybody happy. And now like this I can get on the comments with people making fun of me for being fucking sick. And I could say, you know what? Go away, don't watch, don't listen. We don't need you because we got 100k. We had 101k.

[Tyler]

And then I gotta follow, follow up because I feel bad and be like, oh, come on, he was just sick. I give him a hard time. Did you see my, did you see my reply?

[Brent]

That's why I always say we draw the line. We draw the line.

[Tyler]

Someone said, someone wrote on, on my pinned one where I was like, hey, we know the audio is bad. This, this was recorded months ago. Like, the audio is bad. Finally fixed. I know we've had audio issues in that pins. And someone said in my pin thread to you, hey, are you okay with, with Tyler talking like that in a, you know, in a, on a video about a gold star father.

[Brent]

You know, I'm like, don't do that. That's what they try to do.

[Tyler]

It's. It's the comment section. I said he was very respectful to him, like in person. And that's the standard you should hold Tyler to Not. Not the comments.

[Brent]

Don't hold me. I'm the bad guy now.

[Tyler]

The comment sections. The comment section is the jungle.

[Brent]

That's a free for all.

[Tyler]

That's a free fall.

[Brent]

Nick Whacker's in there every day.

[Drew]

Wesley Pruitt. A hundred bucks, man. Thank you very much.

[Brent]

It's okay. You didn't donate 101.

[Drew]

Get after it.

[Brent]

I'm just kidding. Thank you, Wesley. That's awesome.

[Tyler]

Thank you, Wesley. That's a good Wesley. I don't know if I know any Wesley's, but it's a good name.

[Drew]

Airborne Homestead Brent. German shepherd or Malinois.

[Tyler]

I know I should have let you have that. Dang it. No. What were you gonna say? You know what you were gonna say. What were you gonna say.

[Drew]

Malinois.

[Brent]

Malinois.

[Drew]

There's no wa.

[Tyler]

In that. What the hell? Malanoise. It sounds like some sort of droid. It depends on what you want. But they're both. They're both high maintenance dogs. Like they like.

[Brent]

I. I hope you have the time everywhere.

[Tyler]

I hope you have the time and the energy on. On both of them. But I like bigger dogs, so I'd go German Shepherd.

[Brent]

You like bigger dog? No, for. For. But for a mission. You still prefer a bigger dog. Was that mission I think they were talking about?

[Tyler]

But that's a good question. But if you're talking maybe missions. Malinois.

[Brent]

They're like a compact shepherd.

[Tyler]

Yeah. They don't take up as much space. They're faster.

[Brent]

They're more.

[Tyler]

They're more athletic. They can do everything a German shepherd can do in more. Because they're not so much smaller.

[Drew]

Those suckers can climb like a 20 foot straight up wall.

[Tyler]

Oh, it's crazy.

[Brent]

Those videos are nuts.

[Drew]

Yeah, those are nuts.

[Tyler]

Now those Malinois.

[Brent]

Malinois back, man.

[Drew]

Union. Love you guys. I'm starting one soon. That's a podcast, I believe. No, it was Voodoo Child, remember?

[Tyler]

That's right. It was Voodoo Child. Thank you. And thanks for that. That awesome video that I. I used that you. You did for firefighters. Of course we included you in it as well. And through the FRCC logo in it. You know which one I'm talking about? Drew the firefighter. It was a great. It was a great little video that we put on our Instagram.

[Brent]

But you're shadow banned, so it didn't get any likes.

[Tyler]

I know, I know, but I'm. I'm shot. We're shadow banned on FRCC right now on ig, because I wish, my friends. Because of me holding a gun at. At shot show. So I had to take. So I probably.

[Brent]

We're not gonna get the YouTube back of you.

[Tyler]

I. I rebutted it and I lost it, so I had to take it down. And let me tell you, I feel like a. When I do that, there's like we.

[Brent]

Every. Every couple weeks, you check. Brent taught me how to do this. You check the account status for your page. If it's got the orange exclamation point and it says can't be recommended, you are dead in the water. You are in house only. Only people that follow you. And it's not even really being push. The only people that really follow you. So in order to get back on the explore page, get back to recommended to people, you have to have a green check mark. And I had to delete just the other day, five videos.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Brent]

From our. And it hurt because they were such good videos. But we talked about it. And the whole point of Instagram is to bring people into the podcast. So if that is shut down, you have to abide by their stupid rules.

[Tyler]

We had two flagged. One was just me holding a gun at. At range day at shot show. And the other one was me training cops. The A SWAT team. It was either. I think it was at Fort Lauderdale. I'm training cops. They have guns. Cops are allowed to have guns. And I still lost the. The not rebuttal. What they call that when you.

[Brent]

It's a rebuttal.

[Tyler]

I mean, yeah, there's a word for them.

[Brent]

My friends are in the chats, but they're too cheap to. Sheldon, one of the SWAT boys, he's in there, and I'm gonna. I'm gonna hit these comments quick. Drew seems like he's a little busy. We can't hear Brent at all.

[Tyler]

Oh, no.

[Brent]

Brits Camaro.

[Drew]

No, it's saying that. Some of them are saying that it's. The live. Is frozen.

[Brent]

Oh, no. I'm watching it live on my phone.

[Drew]

I'm watching it live on my laptop.

[Brent]

You guys all good?

[Tyler]

Hold on.

[Brent]

Frozen.

[Drew]

My computer's good.

[Tyler]

Hold on.

[Drew]

A lot of people are saying, close it out and turn it back on.

[Tyler]

No, you guys. Hey, how about this? You guys refresh it?

[Brent]

Yeah, everybody. Everybody get out and come back in.

[Tyler]

And I'm watching it right now. I'm watching it right now.

[Brent]

I'm watching it right now too.

[Tyler]

Yeah, I had to refresh it now I gotta see.

[Drew]

People are saying it's good now.

[Brent]

Okay, keep going.

[Tyler]

All right, thank you.

[Brent]

Thanks for bringing Question your Faith. Just remember the book of job. It helps me sometimes shout out from Fort Worth, Texas. Yeah, buddy. Brent, you should be considered putting. You should consider putting QR codes on NFC on your coffee bags that link to cool military first responder stories or award citation. Not my idea. I stole it from a bourbon company.

[Tyler]

Not a bad idea. We can probably add a second. Yeah, a second QR code for stuff like that.

[Brent]

Steven just says relentless. The gold star's father. Yeah, he gives a book. Great book. It's available on Amazon. That was the extortion 17 book that Billy Vaughn wrote.

[Tyler]

No, no, that. About Charlie Strange's experiences is. And I heard a lot, I heard his name a lot in our comment section. And I gotta. Gotta look into that because a lot of people were talking about him in that book.

[Brent]

Gary, 50 bucks. Great podcast, guys. Thanks for your service. From a retired jar Ed. Thank you so much, Gary. That's awesome.

[Tyler]

Drew's back.

[Brent]

Sack full of nade. He's back.

[Tyler]

Yep.

[Brent]

All right.

[Tyler]

You got it, Drew.

[Drew]

Sackville and a. The first major war where an army abandoned the concept of a line was the Franco Prussian War of 1871 because of the development of a new technology and weaponry. Yeah. Stand in the line, boys.

[Tyler]

Yeah, that'll change tactics real quick.

[Brent]

Tyler, I'm a cop in Canada. Will you show me how it's done in Florida if I come visit? Absolutely. Come right along. Brent's still over here. You got to wake up at 3:30 in the morning though, to ride with me because it's.

[Tyler]

I'll stay up till 3:30.

[Brent]

Yeah, actually I can just come pick you up whenever you get there. Whenever you get there. And we're on our last one. Matt Gowan. Sorry if you guys have already talked about it before, but what's yalls take on the Pat Tillman story? Keep killing it, boys. We actually have an episode dedicated with Pete Blaber. He is kind of like an SME.

[Tyler]

You wrote the book on it.

[Brent]

Yeah, he actually did write the book on the Pat Tillman story. And that is a great breakdown.

[Tyler]

That was a great episode.

[Brent]

That is a great breakdown.

[Tyler]

It's a. It's a. This is just me saying it because I love Pete Blaber. It's a little dry, but he goes into so much detail. So you either get. You. You either think it's a little dry or you eat everything up about it because you're like, I love all the nitty gritty details that he gives.

[Brent]

Yeah. If you. If you want to know about it.

[Tyler]

Yes, you'll know everything yeah, go watch it. I love the episode.

[Brent]

Let's do. Let's. All right, all right. We're halfway.

[Tyler]

Halfway through.

[Brent]

We're going to do sponsors. We're going to do Patreon giveaway and.

[Tyler]

Then we'll hit the main. Then let's hit the main subject right.

[Brent]

After that quick word from our sponsors. I thought Drew had a button for.

[Tyler]

It and he do do.

[Drew]

But it's a long story.

[Tyler]

But it ain't working.

[Drew]

That's why.

[Tyler]

Okay, you're good. Well, hey guys, I want to introduce our latest sponsor, Brotherhood Blades. They're made for cops and first responders by cops. They make it the way they do because they know what the job means. Everything is handmade or machined in the usa. Their blades are made to be used and abused because they have some deep.

[Drew]

Shouldn't be doing that.

[Tyler]

I just said we fixed all of our auto issues and I know you did. I watched you. I watched you stay here for three hours the other night and do this.

[Brent]

That's what I'm saying.

[Tyler]

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[Brent]

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[Drew]

Nice.

[Brent]

There it is.

[Tyler]

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[Brent]

All right, and we've got Vanessa on the line. Vanessa, who's going to do a Patreon giveaway. The Patreon winner for this week is Trevor Wilson.

[Tyler]

And he also asked for a signed photo of the both of you.

[Brent]

Okay. Do we have a. Do we actually have a photo of the two of us?

[Tyler]

Do we.

[Brent]

Brent's got a giant photo of himself in the other room. Like Kim Jong un.

[Tyler]

I. It was a present.

[Brent]

It was a gift. What am I supposed to do with it? It was a gift. Yeah. All right, so who was it? It was a gift, Chad.

[Drew]

Trevor Wilson.

[Brent]

Trevor Wilson.

[Tyler]

All right.

[Brent]

He's the proud winner of a cloud defensive. I think it's a MCH duty if I'm not mistaken. So congratulations. Oh, yeah, we've got them.

[Tyler]

Oh, the MC Hammer one.

[Brent]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

Nice.

[Brent]

What else are we doing, Vanessa? Is that it? I don't know if you guys wanted to talk about Patreon. Yeah, we are.

[Tyler]

Okay.

[Brent]

All right.

[Tyler]

All right.

[Brent]

Later. Yes. So Vanessa brought up a good point. We are gonna be revamping our Patreon. And I say that because the reason why is because Patreon signed on with Apple and they are both taking such an egregious cut that we aren't really getting. We're getting like a fraction of what is being paid for by y'all.

[Tyler]

It's a little under half.

[Brent]

So by revamping it, I think we're. By doing it smart, we're able to bypass some of the people getting their hands into it. And as of right now, we're going to redo the tiers. So we're looking at definitely there won't be a $3 one anymore. It's literally not worth anybody. It's not worth your $3 at this point. You absolutely still can stay $3. If. If you're just trying to support and you know, you don't have A lot of money. We still really appreciate it, and that's awesome. But I. We're going to move up to. We're floating around with the idea of 5, 10, and 20. Whether or not we do all three or we just do two, those are going to be. But with big tiers like that comes. You know, we're going to actually have a lot of time and resources now to give away really good things, do really good things, film really good content, pay people to film, pay people to edit. Like, it's what a Patreon is supposed to be. Most of them, most of our Patreon subscribers are doing it strictly to help us out.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Brent]

You know, they're not. They don't ask for a damn thing. Not one person's ever said, I paid for this and you didn't give it to me. So. But we do want to have the option to have a Patreon where we can give what people want. And, you know, it. The. The Patreon. And one of the reasons why it was started was because our Instagram got bogged down and we couldn't keep. So we said, hey, come to Patreon messages. Now our Patreon is bogged down. And I say bogged down meaning, like, we can't keep up with the messages. It's just. It's humanly impossible. Even three or four people in there trying to coordinate who read what. This one's for Brent. It's been read by three people other than Brent. But now Brent can't know that he needs to respond to it because somebody just said, hey, we'll get with Brent. But then that person has to remember to tell Brent. And it's just.

[Tyler]

Yeah. And if you go back to the Patreon, I was up to, like 2am last night responding. Because we have, you know, because we have to. We have an obligation to. And we should, you know, and it weighs heavy on us.

[Brent]

Yeah, it does. It makes me feel terrible.

[Tyler]

So we're still there, and we're doing it even for three bucks a month.

[Brent]

Yeah. Just be on the lookout. I don't know. I think if you're in a tier, it grandfathers you into the tier, even if we don't make it available anymore. But as far as what you're able to access, I'm not sure. So definitely if you can jump onto the straight hooligan. That will probably be the lowest tier once we revamp this, but we'll let you guys know when we actually go through with it. We have to make sure we put our Ducks in the line and do it smart.

[Tyler]

So I'm looking forward to it, actually. I think it's gonna be a lot of fun.

[Drew]

All right, Ryan H. Says purple heart recipient over here in Orlando.

[Brent]

Oh, why aren't you here right now?

[Drew]

Yeah, well, he's working for the mouse. All right, Mr. Mickey.

[Tyler]

[e-mail] Info@the Anti hero podcast at gmail.

[Brent]

No info info is a.com 1.

[Tyler]

Okay. E. Email us. Get. Get our. Get our address and get over here on the live. Man. Love to have you.

[Brent]

Yeah, we have to vet you. We can't. We did this thing where we were giving now our address to people that just asked for it, and then I was like, holy. That'd be the. If anybody. Because we're a little controversial. We do piss some people off.

[Tyler]

Don't you take my conus. Kill away from me.

[Brent]

But I don't want. I don't want to walk in the shop one day and have everything gone.

[Drew]

So he says, keep what you're doing. Keep doing what you're doing. I've listened to all the episodes and lives. It makes the day go by faster.

[Tyler]

Thanks, Ryan. See, he just vetted himself. He's good. Come on over.

[Drew]

He's watched more than I have.

[Brent]

That process is good.

[Drew]

John C. Pete also has a lot of really good information about John Chapman and what unfolded on Robert's Rich.

[Tyler]

That's exactly what he'll talk about. He was actually the ground force commander for all tier one elements, or what we call it AFO Advanced Ford Observations. Pete blabber.

[Brent]

Yes. And he is coming back. I don't know. Do we tell them yet that Pete's coming back?

[Tyler]

I did in the chats when we were doing the. The advertisements.

[Brent]

It's literally we're booking his plane. I think Vanessa's doing it today or tomorrow.

[Tyler]

And I can't wait because I'm a fan.

[Brent]

Yeah. I mean, it is kind of like.

[Tyler]

Pete comes and I just wait.

[Brent]

It is a history lesson for sure.

[Tyler]

I just wait. I just wait for him to tell stories and I sit there and listen. I love, love Pete Bladers.

[Brent]

You know, it's funny, too. It's like, well, these lives are a little bit that you get some information, but, like, when you. It's not just people by enemies. It's everybody. When we offer plane tickets, everybody picks, like, first class. We're like, we don't want to be rude, but we're like, is coach available for you? Because they were like, hey, if these.

[Tyler]

Guys are paying, yeah, we ain't. Sean Ryan.

[Drew]

256 actual says. Great podcast, guys. Brent, when are you going to give some pro tips on the FRCC humidor? Those Deltas rock.

[Brent]

You need a video on that.

[Drew]

Tyler, keep up the great work at rwa. Time for another order from both of you guys.

[Tyler]

Oh, thanks. Thank you. 256 actual. Here's the pro tip you need to know about. Humidor, 70% humidity at. At 70 degrees. There's a pro tip. Agrometer. There's a pro tip. Yeah. Keep it at 70. People get really nerdy about that. Has to be 68. Has to be 71. Keep it plus or minus a couple degrees of 70 and you're good. And smoke your cigars. Don't store them for years and you won't have to worry about that.

[Brent]

And refracted Wolf just restocked, be confrontational and defund dancing cop. So I just got to. They're being inventoried right now, and then they'll be on the site probably by this weekend. So all sizes complete restock. And the freaks come out at night. Team room flag. That sold out super fast last time. That's restocked as well.

[Drew]

So Plight Designs, good to see you again, brother. This has opinions on the US Aid info that's come out recently. Love seeing the bar set up. Any idea on the episode about a few bad men?

[Tyler]

Huh? We're gonna talk a little bit about USAID on the. On that Festivus Report.

[Brent]

Let's do that right now. Let's.

[Tyler]

Let's get into the main thing before we lose viewers. Give them. Give them what they want.

[Brent]

Okay.

[Tyler]

If you don't mind, we'll. We'll hop into that. All right. I've had, like Tyler said, it's rehashing just real quick for anyone who's hopping on now. Anytime we do a big episode kind of like that, people come out of the woodworks and like, hey, I know someone. Hey, I was there. Hey, you know, whatever it is. And it sucks because usually, like, well, we already did the episode.

[Brent]

So it's kind of nice to know that.

[Tyler]

Have been nice to know. But there's no way that they knew we were going to do that episode. So we've decided anytime we do a big episode like that, the very next live will be an update from all the information that. That that was relevant and. And came into us. So here we go. Let's. Let's hit up some of them. Give me a second. Let me make sure I pull up the extortion. 17 notes. Courtesy of Vanessa. I'm gonna save that one to the end because it was a really big one. I'm gonna talk about the pilots real quick. This one, this one's crazy to me. So the National Guard pilots that flew that night. So these guys are hopping on National Guard birds. There's really no necessarily hit that, that on the National Guard. That's, that's not, I'm not bashing the National Guard. In fact, the National Guard flew me as a, as a special, as a Green Beret in Iraq several times. And they were ex Vietnam pilots and they were badass. They didn't care where they, where we told them to land. They were great. But these guys are Seal Team 6 operators, they're Tier 1 elements and they're being flown around in light skinned aircraft by National Guard crewmen and pilots. These pilots were actually borrowing night vision goggles from the Blackhawk crew that was also there with them. And when that Blackhawk crew rotated out, some of them had to buy their own night vision equipment to continue flying at night. That's crazy. So some people are going to ask, well, why were the national guard ill equipped? One, that's a great question. Two, why were they even flying them and not the 1 60th? Now I know that answer. And the problem was the 1/60 is 1 army unit that supports Rangers, Green Berets, Whiteside, Navy seals, Special, both special missions units. And they are spread thin. They're spread thin. And so all of the main birds went to offensive operations. And at the end of the day, the QRF was, is a just in case mission. The QRF usually doesn't even launch. So they're right to say, hey, if we don't have enough birds, the 1/60 birds are going to go on direct action missions. And you know, the, the, whoever can fly you is going to go to QRF missions. So I, I understand that the actual pilot that that crashed was actually in a, we'll call it a controlled crash that didn't lose anyone just a couple weeks before. And I talked to one of the guys in the unit and they said that guy after that, after that crash was not the guy to be flying them. He was not in the right mental state to be flying. He never really recovered from that.

[Brent]

That's a hard thing to recover from.

[Tyler]

And now this is opinion based. This is. Now what I just said is fact. Where I go with that as opinion base is when you're flying now and not either, you know, you don't have that confidence. You're not sure your, yourself, you have these, you know, you've, you've lost, you've lost your edge. I think that's what they say in Top Gun, that you're dangerous, right? Like who's, who's to say he didn't, you know, he just wasn't flying the way he should. He could have easily overcorrected. He could have easily been doing things he wouldn't have normally done. You want the best guy in that seat flying your, your tier one units and it's not, and it's not necessarily what they had and they absolutely should have, should have recognized that. Besides that, I'll go ahead and say here's the big news and may not be big news to you guys, but I guarantee you it's big news to Mr. Von on the five coalition guys that were, that were seen going to the crash site, they basically go to the crash site and they walk away and like who are those guys? The ranger said it wasn't them.

[Brent]

The military wouldn't give him answers.

[Tyler]

Nobody would say who they are. And he just wants to know who they are. And I had questions like why they weren't there to, you know, they weren't there to secure the site because they left. Here's who they are. We're from Creek company of the first of the, of the 173rd. Let me go down a little bit further and just get you the. There was a scout element that, that was their AO and they knew there was an operation going on that night. So they sent a scout element essentially just to kind of watch what was going on. And then when the bird crashed within walking distance of them, they push to the bird. Now here's where we get some a little bit of opinion based because I got the information from the guy in the talk that and I assume they went there and like hey, there's no survivors. Like, like there's nothing for us to do here. I do know this. They, they radioed up, they got pulled back because they're like, hey, you don't have the radio frequencies for them. Like there's like there will be people coming that way. And he's right about this. The most dangerous thing you can do in combat sometimes is friendly force link up. And so if you're going down to a crash site and you see guys and you know under nods that are armed walking around your bird with your guys on it and you have no radio communication with them, them that's, that's dangerous. And so he said, hey, if you guys can't get, get in touch with them and there's nothing you can do and there's no survivors. Go ahead and leave. Like they are going to send, you know, people to, to secure that site. So that's who they were, Creek Company versus the 73rd. And that's why they went there and that's why they left. They were, they were actually a, a scout element and that's, that's good to know.

[Brent]

So, yeah. Is that their Charlie Company?

[Tyler]

I'm assuming that's their Charlie Company because.

[Brent]

Most infantry battalions, right. Have HHC where their scout, their scouts are out of HHC with the mortar section.

[Tyler]

That's, that's what I'm guessing from the same guy who actually went back and checked the weather. This is awesome. Extortion was shot down 6 August 2011. For situation awareness, the weather report for 6 August 2011 Wardak, Afghanistan via archived weather was 66 degrees, 6 to 15 mile an hour, wind speeds, zero rain and snow. Please tell me how a black box weighing 10 pounds got washed away in a flood. Zero rain, zero snow. Here's another thing. When he said that we saw the ISR video. You see any cloud coverage in that SR video? Nope. No rain clouds?

[Brent]

No.

[Tyler]

Where the rain come from?

[Brent]

It came from the government again, toying with the conspiratorial side of it, made that word up. Why? What would be the reasoning to take the black box and not not. I mean, are they.

[Tyler]

I don't know. I really don't know.

[Brent]

It doesn't seem like anything shady happened.

[Tyler]

No. And that's not where the conspiracy to me lies. Like what's in the box? The conspiracy lies to me.

[Brent]

What's in the box?

[Tyler]

Well, the conspiracy lies to. You know where it lies to me is what you have to be honest with gold star families. And if you're not honest in the small things, they're going to start questioning everything you tell them. So be honest with them. So I don't, I don't know why.

[Brent]

Billy even said that. He's like, I would have, you know, the honest answers that are hard to digest. I would have taken that and I really wouldn't have asked more questions. Plus the fact that I couldn't get any answers on some of the most basic things.

[Tyler]

This is kind of a crazy follow on report to that. And I don't know what this means because I wasn't in aviation and I don't know a lot about Blue Force tracking because that's not what we used. But he said a Ghost locator was showing up on Blue Force Tracker. But somehow he knows that Ghost locator has to do with the helicopter that night. And was showing up in Blue Force Tracker. Sergeant leave names out. Relayed the icon to company commander and we'll just call him Captain. The ghost icon on the BFT was either from one of the crew of extortion personal locator beacon. Here goes survival radio or is either the black box or another radio from a US member. When you turn it on you can also manually do this. It's called pings. It pings the satellite location of the radio from both the S2 and the A6 and the S6. I was told that it was possible to pick up interference but not actual seat radio locator of the pilot crew. I strongly believe that the talk BFT system was picking up some. Some jackass turning it on and off of fallen radios. Here's the problem with that. This yahoo some we'll call him Random Colonel decided to take a six vehicle convoy to FOB Shank. That's what he said the mission was doing to FOB Shenk. And he was using the Tangy valley as Route Georgia as a shortcut. Failed to contact Cobra. The battlespace owner. So had no idea who they were and where they were going if they needed assistance. But they were watching them on the Blue Force Tracker go through their battle space and enter the worst area in their whole battle space. And then they saw their icons quit reporting. Guess what happened. Four of those six vehicles were completely destroyed. They took two of the remaining vehicles and hauled ass out of there completely leaving all that equipment. And they come to find out later they believe that they were trying to do some mission to go recover that ghost device and kind of be heroes. Guess what? Know where you're going and leave. Leave that up to the professionals. And then those guys had to send in essentially a 500 man force to go in there and. And secure those vehicles and fight through the Mongolian horde to keep them at bay and to secure those vehicles. Just crazy spin off stories that come from this. Seriously. Anything else I really wanted to cover? Yep. There's just a lot more information. But I just want to cover the. The wave tops of it. The Colonel, Colonel Incompetent made it to the extortion crash site while striking numerous IEDs and destroying four of their six vehicles. It's so crazy. Here's what's a little. Here's a little bit of a fun fact. And I was. I was. I put out some feelers and really needed to know this. Did we. Two things. Did we ever kill the guy who shot down the helicopter? Did we know who he was? And we ever kill him? And the HVT that fled that, that the Rangers didn't get, which is what I believe is why extortion 17 was going in was to actually not as a QRF. Obviously we know they weren't a QRF. They never called for a QRF. They were never in danger. In fact they were getting ready to exfil. From the people I talked to, everyone, everyone agrees they were setting down to go chase that hvt, that tier one target that squirted. But besides that, that guy was killed within the year. That HVT that they were going after, they did kill that guy. And objective Genosa was the suspected shooter that shot down the. The helicopter and was killed on the 8th of August 2011.

[Brent]

Good.

[Tyler]

So I don't know. It's good. Yeah, it's good news. It's absolutely good news. So the people, people were held accountable and the last things they saw were probably bearded Americans and, and a little bit of fafo. Fifo. Fafo.

[Brent]

Welcome. Find out.

[Tyler]

Yeah, there you go. That's, that's, that's what I believe is. And you know, the important updates and some things either we missed couldn't have known or. Updates.

[Brent]

Yeah, I don't think we really missed anything. We didn't know anything. Yeah. But Billy's got answers now, so that's. That's really all that matters.

[Tyler]

Absolutely. That's all that matters.

[Drew]

And they were, they were on the. They were watching the show tonight, right?

[Tyler]

I hope so.

[Brent]

I don't know.

[Tyler]

Vanessa said I hope so. I saw, I saw, I saw. I saw his mom in the, in the, in the, in the chat. In the comment section.

[Brent]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

Yeah.

[Brent]

All right. Let's do some super chat. All right.

[Drew]

Michael Wheeler says listening from Roanoke.

[Brent]

Love the showtown.

[Drew]

Love the show. Even with the hiccups. No one learns from perfect runs keeping. Keep effing up and I'll keep watching.

[Tyler]

Be safe. Thank you. We need that.

[Drew]

We'll fix it.

[Tyler]

We need that Grace.

[Drew]

Ah, let's see. Raven two, three. When you guys going to have someone on from Operation Gothic Serpent? When will FRCC come out with its line of bourbon? Love you guys. Keep up the good work.

[Brent]

Heavy, heavy questions.

[Tyler]

Oh, man. Both great questions. The, the bourbon thing is definitely something we are continuing to, you know, to, to feel out and it's looking good. But it's. That's quite the. That's. That's Our. That will. That will be.

[Brent]

That's a.

[Tyler]

That will be our biggest feature.

[Brent]

Leap, I guess, is a good word.

[Tyler]

And if you go into why you.

[Brent]

Told me, and I never thought about the issues of like right now you have warehouses that store coffee and they store cigars. There's legalities that make alcohol difficult. Right.

[Tyler]

Like anything else, anything that comes into law never really completely goes out of law. And even though, you know, after I almost called it recession, what was it called when they finally repealed the alcohol in the early 1900s?

[Drew]

Abolition.

[Tyler]

Abolition. Is it abolition? Anyway? I think so. Someone comment section will tell me how dumb I am. But magnet, are you listening? Okay, what happened. What happened in 1933? Prohibition.

[Drew]

Prohibition.

[Tyler]

Gosh, I knew Prohibition. So they put laws on the books to still make it really, really, really difficult. And those laws are still in place today. And they just make it hard for. For the little man. One of those things is I have to have a distributor in every state. So I have to have an alcohol distributor in Florida to sell in Florida on my website. So I can't store the alcohol bottles and get the order, you know, package it and ship it. So let's say you want to come to my website and we have bourbon and you want to buy coffee, cigars and bourbon. Well, guess what? You will have to check out with coffee and cigars. And there will be a separate checkout process for bourbon because it can't be in the same place because that's going to the distributor.

[Brent]

And anybody that runs a business knows that kills transactions.

[Tyler]

Yeah, right.

[Brent]

So I'll just not get the bourbon.

[Tyler]

Right. So we're gonna have to redo our website to basically, instead of have everything on the landing page, you're basically going to walk. You have three doors. Are you here for coffee? Are you here for cigars? Are you here for. For bourbon? And a big. And a big announcement of, hey, if you want bourbon, it's. It's in its own checkout cart.

[Brent]

And how hard is it to get distributors in every state?

[Tyler]

It's not easy because luckily we have some ends on that and we'll probably be in 13 to 15, 15, 16 states. If, you know, if this goes through just. Just because of people who have relationships. But these distributors don't want to take on a small guy because if you think about it, these. There's a lot of small guys. And what are you going to hold? 300 different, you know, niche bourbons that sell one or two a month. No, you don't want to. You don't want to Waste this. That's not worth your time and space in your warehouse. So it's actually really hard to continue to get. Get more people to buy your product. And it's difficult. So for me to. It's hard for me to grow my product in a state that I can't sell in.

[Brent]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

So it's, it's, it's, it's an. It's an uphill battle. It's not easy.

[Brent]

What's actually going to happen is they're going to scrap everything and be FRCC Realty.

[Tyler]

Oh, man.

[Brent]

Realities.

[Tyler]

Where the money John Howard episode, guys tune is it? You could drop it this Monday. Yeah, that's one of the.

[Drew]

That was a good one.

[Tyler]

Most unique episodes.

[Brent]

I did not. You could have. I would have lost money on the bet and say, like, that was going to be a great episode.

[Tyler]

Oh, man. Say I had. That was a good one.

[Drew]

Got a good story. Raven two, three.

[Tyler]

Hold on.

[Drew]

Go ahead.

[Tyler]

Gothic Serpent. We talked to best metal band ever. We talked to Norm Hooten at the last cigar event we were at. And I was like, norm, I got to get you on the podcast, man. I'd love to talk to a little bit about Blackhawk Down. And he was on one of those green light teams that had those backpack nukes, and that was their job was just to carry in a backpack nuke and walk out and. Or free fall them in and walk out. Super, super cool. Green beret history. And he was on one of those elite teams that are almost really just a, you know, a page in history that no one even knows about.

[Brent]

Whoa.

[Tyler]

So I'd love to have Norm Hooten on. We'll get that happen.

[Drew]

Jonathan Segura, thoughts on Trump and Iran.

[Brent]

His name's John Segura.

[Drew]

Jonathan.

[Brent]

I'm thinking of Tom Segura.

[Tyler]

Yeah. Close. He should bomb them back to the stone Age and we won't have to think about Trump in Iran anymore.

[Drew]

Second thought, no.

[Tyler]

No need to put in ground troops. Just bomb the crap out of them.

[Drew]

Or just get Israel to do it for you.

[Tyler]

Yeah, there you go.

[Drew]

Which they've done.

[Tyler]

Yeah. Well, hey, we'll do the air power. You guys go on the ground. Israel. Enjoy that.

[Drew]

Veteran biker, Sean Ryan. Sean Ryan running a cartel. Good seeing other vets on YouTube. Retired squid here and YouTuber.

[Brent]

Yeah. Veteran biker. He's got a big channel.

[Tyler]

I love that. Well, I'm about to check it out.

[Brent]

Yeah.

[Drew]

Big gift. Thanks for the. Thanks for the gift.

[Brent]

Yeah, man.

[Tyler]

There's some of his sponsor money coming our way, and I Appreciate that.

[Brent]

That's awesome, dude. Thank you.

[Tyler]

Sean's been very open about his, you know, cartel run ins and experiences with the CIA. So it's. It's. That's not bashing by any means. He owned it. He came out. What does Jocko call it?

[Brent]

Extreme ownership.

[Tyler]

Extreme ownership, extreme accountability. And. And. And he did that. So I have no problems with him. So if Jocko's good friend Tim would do the same thing, I'd have no problem with him as well.

[Drew]

Now you don't have to keep lying.

[Brent]

We gotta speed up these super chats whenever we get out of here.

[Drew]

All right? NDPO911. After 23 years and 8 years of it in SVU, primarily in child crimes, I have lost all faith. I love the show and haven't missed an episode.

[Tyler]

Svu Special Victims Unit. I know that from tv.

[Brent]

Take that. Yeah, take that, man. It's hard to not sound.

[Drew]

I understand this. This world, it is broken. And God gives his creation the ability to make choices, and evil makes choices, and it's bad. But you know what? A lot of those things. One thing that's awesome, that the Bible is pretty clear on, is that if those children lose their life, they go straight to heaven. Children go to heaven, they don't know any better. And that's one way God has mercy on children. They just go straight to heaven. So that's awesome. So, hey, man, I get it. Just ask God for the understanding and. And be sincere. He'll give it to you.

[Brent]

And if you want some motivation, strictly entertainment value, watch the movie End of Days with Arnold Schwarzenegger. And he goes toe to toe with the devil like Arnold Schwarzenegger would. And he was a cop. Oh, it's a great movie. It's about 1999 and when the world. When it switched over to Y2K. Okay, and then. And Satan has spawned his wife 20 years prior, and he had to consummate. And it's super fictional in that aspect, but he was a cop that lost his faith. And at the end of the movie, he regained his faith based off what he went through.

[Drew]

So I'll say one last thing, and that is, look, every epic story has a bad guy. And we've got a bad guy. His name is Satan. And the bad guys always look like they're going to get the upper hand on the good guys in every story. And the hero shows up at the darkest moment. And that's what the book of Revelation shows us. And it's. It's a war of good and evil. This world this life teaches us that evil's not what we want. And unfortunately, brother, what you did as a living, you got a full dose of it. So you need a full dose of grace. We'll be praying for you. Jingle 41. Just a lame fire captain from out west here. 50 bucks. So yeah, brother. Thank you. Your customer service is off the chart. Spoke with Drew about a QR code issue for Apollo. Vanessa reached out quickly. Very few people treat others how y'all do. Well done and know it's appreciated.

[Tyler]

That's awesome. Feel like some overtime pay went to that super chat. Thank you and thank you for your service. And I mean that.

[Drew]

Wesley Pruitt, 200 bucks. This is his second gift. He gave money earlier.

[Tyler]

Is it because I. I complimented his name. See, it pays to be a nice.

[Drew]

Yeah, it is a solid name. Wesley. Thank you very much. Which of your smokes are T Bone Steaks? I got a killer bottle of bourbon. I need to get to you and need to get some smokes from you.

[Tyler]

We just built the bar. It's almost finished and I'm about to hang up that floating shelf that'll display all those bottles. Please send it. Even though our Delta Limited is our most expensive cigar, our Delta is our T Bone steak. It's the best. But the Delta limit is just a really unique smoke, but all out best cigar. I think it's the Delta smoke at every episode. Smoke it every day.

[Drew]

That's the. It's the tri wrap, the multi wrapped cigar. Let's see here, what's next? Goons up. Keep up the Good work, boys.

[Brent]

R.A. he's a Marine.

[Tyler]

Make tier one condoms. No one's done it yet. That's not a super chat. But I saw it. I can't pretend like I didn't see it. First responder. First responder. Cough Condom company.

[Drew]

It has a C in it.

[Tyler]

Has a C in it.

[Drew]

Oh, man. You know, that was one of the waste that the Doge committee found. And that is. Oh, those condoms going to Gaza.

[Tyler]

Oh, let's. Let's get to it because I really.

[Brent]

Want to talk about this.

[Tyler]

This report. This report.

[Brent]

I would have forgot about that.

[Tyler]

All right, Doge. Keep it going, Drew.

[Drew]

All right. Plight Designs. Brad Holling would be awesome to have on his page. Has photos and videos from Gothic Serpent, him, Paul Howe and maybe Kyle Lamb. All on. Would be amazing. Tom Sattler said he was done talking about that operation.

[Tyler]

Yeah, Yeah, I think it's Tom Satterley, but it might be, but could have been.

[Drew]

Spell check.

[Brent]

Do it.

[Tyler]

Yep. Yeah, it's gonna be a plate. Absolutely Ecstasy. Of all good dudes, man. All good dudes, actually.

[Drew]

It's a cool name. Ecstasy of war. Ooh, love from Aussie. So calm. Wish we had the budget. USF Yanks get.

[Tyler]

Australia.

[Drew]

Sure, man.

[Tyler]

Australia.

[Brent]

Put another shrimp on the bobby.

[Tyler]

Hello, Governor. That's all I got. I know they're cliche. It's all I got, and they're not even good.

[Brent]

Hello, Governor. That's English.

[Tyler]

Oh, yeah.

[Drew]

Hello, territory.

[Tyler]

Yeah, the Australians came from the English.

[Brent]

They're prisoners, Right? The history of Australia is pretty good.

[Tyler]

That's. That's what I heard. I don't know how true that is.

[Drew]

If. If they had a bigger budget, they couldn't do their walkabout abouts.

[Tyler]

They're walkabouts.

[Drew]

Walkabouts. Anyway, I love me some Crocodile Dundee classic.

[Brent]

Oh, gosh, he died.

[Drew]

That's not a nice. Yeah, he does. Way to make me feel old, Tyler.

[Brent]

He's. He was all ripped up and.

[Drew]

Oh, no, Shadon. Once again, not me, but Brandon and Terry. Will y'all ever do a Las Vegas shooting episode?

[Tyler]

Oh, I want to.

[Drew]

I remember a few months ago, you were supposed to have a Las Vegas SWAT officer on. Any updates?

[Brent]

Yes. No. Okay, I'm confused. Maybe no updates. So we have to do this responsibly, and we have to do it. There's entertainment value to our show, and then there's. You know, then there's. We talk about real things and real topics and tragedy that people went through. This particular topic can touch both. So a lot of people do believe that there was something else afoot with the Las Vegas shooting. Brent does not believe that. I do believe that. However, we have found two perfect candidates to tell each side of the story as SMEs. One of which is a Las Vegas SWAT operator whose son was shot in. In Vegas. And we've talked to him, and we just. We need to do it, but we need to get them and release them at this side by side, because we do. We don't want to be disrespectful to somebody who's. Does not believe in any conspiracies and whose family was wounded in. In the altercation. So that's. You know, actually, thank you. We should probably start greasing that wheel a little bit. But that's the only. That was the only hold up.

[Drew]

Officer Dangle says Special forces needs to stop protecting tabs. Hold the standards or we have none.

[Tyler]

Exactly. Yep. Protect them or we have none.

[Brent]

I wonder if that was his nickname. Officer Dangle.

[Tyler]

Don't let you dingle dangle.

[Drew]

Jingle jangle.

[Tyler]

Nope, that's not how it goes.

[Brent]

All right, we got the list.

[Tyler]

I got the list. I got the list. Are you guys ready to end this show on, I don't know, pure hatred of your government and. Right.

[Brent]

Why shouldn't I live my life every day like that of.

[Tyler]

Of your past government? And maybe, maybe there's. There's some. There's some changes coming. And I think there's some reasons to. To believe that. That, that maybe there's some change coming. All right, here we go. Um, let's see. The Department of Interior spent $12 million on Las Vegas pickleball complex. Not sure what our government has to do with pickleball. With pickleball.

[Brent]

Spend it on something cool like football.

[Tyler]

This is crazy. The Department of State spent $330,000 to fund censorship of non liberal and conservative media.

[Brent]

Oh, imagine that.

[Tyler]

Are you kidding me? Do you know what would have happened on the flip side of that? The left would have lost their mind.

[Brent]

They're going to need a lot more money now.

[Tyler]

Gosh, the. Let me keep going. Some I don't like. Some are great. The Department of Health and Human Services spent spent half a million dollars to determine if lonely rats seek cocaine more than happy rats. Well, we already have that study in humans.

[Brent]

And let me tell you, cocaine makes happy humans.

[Tyler]

That's right. Look, and I actually did look for it. So I. I said that joke in, in my head. Well, we didn't already know the answer to that based on humans. And I looked it up. And do you know which rats consume more cocaine?

[Brent]

The happy rats.

[Tyler]

Lonely rats. Just like humans, lonely rats do drugs. And look, are looking for happiness. And I'd have done that research for you for half that anyway. This is crazy to me. The Department of Energy spent $15.5 billion to push Americans toward elect electric vehicles that they don't want. I have a. I'll tell you why I have a big problem with that. Is because it is not your job to pick winners and losers. Let's say you're a company that doesn't have any electric vehicles. I'm sure there is one. Or that's not where you invested your money. The government is literally active in suppressing your company and promoting another company. That's not capitalism. That is a problem.

[Brent]

Nobody likes electric cars.

[Tyler]

The National Endowment for The Arts spent $400,000 to promote circuses in city parks. Circuses are private entities and companies. We already have them.

[Brent]

We need more. Apparently the government wants to have more Circuses.

[Tyler]

No kidding. This is crazy. The Department of state spent $3 million for. You ready for this girl centered climate action in Brazil. Why Brazil?

[Brent]

Why Brazil?

[Tyler]

A horrible country. Government wise. Sure, the people are great. And we spent of your tax money $3 million to make sure. More. To make sure more girls in Brazil are upset about climate change.

[Brent]

Are these.

[Tyler]

That isn't even proven.

[Brent]

Are these the things that get hidden in bills?

[Tyler]

Well, they're not hidden enough because yeah, they call it pork. I'm. Yes and no. When it comes to the Department of State funding. Like they already have funds and they have buckets of money and they can, you know, I'm sure that's under a larger bucket, but they can kind of. What do they call that when you can spend money off of your. Not judicious spending, but like off. Off A judgment.

[Drew]

Discretionary.

[Tyler]

Discretionary spending. Thank you. The Department of State paid the Royal Film Commission almost a million dollars for movies in Jordan. Guess what? Jordan can either make their own movies or they can't. Or guess what? You can just. You just get subtitles off of American movies. I can't. We spent a million dollars for Jordan to make movies that should have been spent money at home with American jobs. We, we. We gave Jordanian jobs off of American taxpayer money. I'm so tired of it. This one is one of my favorite ones. The Department of State spent almost $400,000 on soccer engagement to counter terrorism.

[Brent]

Duh.

[Tyler]

They don't really want to wear suicide bombs. They're just not good at soccer. And if they were better at soccer or more interested in soccer, then they wouldn't want to kill Americans. How stupid. Our Department of State has lost their minds.

[Drew]

Well, I find it interesting that a lot of these are overseas. That's money overseas.

[Brent]

Yeah.

[Drew]

So is it? Because there's more corruption overseas and there's less accountability for when money gets exchanged. And that's how some people get rich. That's my speculation.

[Tyler]

There's four more I gotta hit real quick. So now we're coming up to end on the show. There's four more I gotta hit. The National Scientific foundation spent almost a third of a million dollars to ensure diversity and bird watching groups.

[Brent]

Dude, you're.

[Tyler]

You would think this is satire. You would think this is like. Is this the Bab. Am I on the Babylon? Nope, I'm on a.gov website.

[Brent]

It was their delivery too.

[Tyler]

This one really pisses me off. The State Department spent half a million dollars to expand the US Embassy and Ethiopia's US invest in Ethiopians. Social media campaign to larger the national public relations campaign. That's fancy words for saying we invested a half a million dollars into Ethiopian influencers and social. And. And giving them a bigger social media platform.

[Brent]

Why don't you invest in us?

[Tyler]

I don't think Ethiopia's biggest problem is social media. It might be food.

[Brent]

Food?

[Tyler]

Are you kidding me? All right, give me two more. Give me two more. The federal government spent $7 million on various magical projects. We're talking, like, magic shows.

[Drew]

I want to see a magic show.

[Tyler]

Like, is. Like. Is David Blaine getting government funding? I don't even know. Like, I don't. I don't know if I want to know more.

[Drew]

Yeah, that. I. I saw that magic show. The money disappeared.

[Tyler]

All right, last one. And there's so many. I've just scratched the surface with this.

[Drew]

Are you doing the Sesame street one?

[Tyler]

Oh, I. Yes. If I can find it real quick, I'll end it with that one. Actually, the department of state spent over $2 million for Paraguayan border security. Are you kidding me?

[Drew]

They're all trying to get in.

[Tyler]

This came from the last administration who wouldn't spend money on our border security. But they'll give it to Paraguay. It's insane. Gosh, let me find. Because I want to find the. The exact number. Got it. The Agency for International Development, USAID, spent 20. $20 million on a new Sesame street show in Iraq.

[Brent]

Guys, they're all living in trash cans.

[Tyler]

I'm not making that up. That came straight from a.gov website. $20 million on an Iraq tacky Sesame street production. Get out of here, Elon Musk. Go to work.

[Brent]

Yeah, no kidding.

[Drew]

I mean, they're just puppets moving their mouth up and down. It's not even like you've got a lip sync. Just put your own language over what's already been done.

[Tyler]

Yeah, just dub Sesame Street. Anyway. There you go. Now we got 10. Yeah, I got 10 minutes left. Get some super chats, and I bet. I bet we'll have some. Some good comments from that.

[Brent]

And there's. There's videos.

[Drew]

Let's do some videos.

[Tyler]

Let's do some videos.

[Brent]

That was knockout. I think there's two pop up video VH1.

[Tyler]

Oh, man, that was so addicting to watch because I just read those bubbles. I just read the bubble.

[Drew]

How about this one, Victor?

[Tyler]

Remember that go pop up videos down. Oh, okay.

[Brent]

That one right there.

[Tyler]

Hey.

[Brent]

Leg over.

[Drew]

You're gonna be shot.

[Brent]

Leg over, you're gonna be shot.

[Tyler]

Do it. He already got a knife. Don't talk about it. Be about it. Okay.

[Drew]

Let go of her.

[Brent]

Let go of her.

[Tyler]

Let me go.

[Brent]

Let go of her.

[Drew]

Let go of her.

[Tyler]

Not the hardest shot if you're not. Yeah, I'm telling you.

[Drew]

You know how many.

[Brent]

One down.

[Tyler]

Do you know how many people. Police officers. I've taken to the range and at that distance. And I'm not bashing police officers.

[Brent]

I'll bash them for you.

[Tyler]

Have. Have anticipated their trigger pull and shot 6 inches, 12 inches low. And that's on a range. Put them in this environment where they're even more ramped up. He could have easily, easily missed that shot, and he did all the fundamentals right and dropped him.

[Brent]

I think that he took that shot because he was able to take that shot.

[Tyler]

I think he. Yeah, I agree with you. I think if we talk to him, he's a guy that goes to the range and he knows his capabilities.

[Brent]

Man, that was hell good on you.

[Drew]

It's good.

[Tyler]

That one got me all ramped up.

[Brent]

His voice. His voice wasn't loud.

[Tyler]

In control.

[Brent]

Yeah, he was in control, this one.

[Tyler]

So.

[Brent]

Okay, so to preface it, some dumbass cops decided to do donuts. Like somebody wasn't gonna film it and be appalled that cops are doing donuts again.

[Tyler]

Oh, in the snow.

[Brent]

Yes, again. I'm not saying that you should do that. It's probably not a good idea when you're held to a high standard and you are law enforcement, to be doing donuts in your agency vehicle on shift at work.

[Tyler]

But they're, however, their bros, too.

[Brent]

The. The union response to this guy is legendary.

[Tyler]

Okay, all right. You got me interested. It was gonna go viral like it did. Nor did him and Brown think this video. Y'all look at hpd, man. Look, they out here doing donuts, man.

[Brent]

Would set off an inter Internet war between him and the Houston police officers. Just leave me alone.

[Tyler]

I don't want no problems. When Brown first spoke to ABC13, he.

[Drew]

Said officers were having reckless fun and.

[Tyler]

Doing exactly what they told citizens not to do. We're cute. We like to have a good time.

[Brent]

Just like they do.

[Tyler]

The police union proceeded to poke fun at Brown for his crack windshield on Facebook and called him a snitch. A little serious. And then things may went off the rails a little bit.

[Drew]

The attacks got more personal and included.

[Brent]

Reposted videos of Brown ghost riding his own vehicle.

[Tyler]

I've actually seen that video. I didn't know that was him. He's really messing with me because y'all posting all my business on social media.

[Brent]

Like y'all doing a Lot to me.

[Tyler]

And y'all really getting me scared, like, cuz I ain't.

[Brent]

All right. So going back to that, that. That police union's response is legendary because you got to think the police union, even the highest of ranks in the police union, they're not admin brass guys, right? Those are the guys that'll take a fight, you know, and they'll pick a fight and they'll stay in the fight.

[Tyler]

I love it.

[Brent]

The fact that they. They. They called him a snitch and they even said, like, yeah, we're just busting his balls. But then all of a sudden we're like, okay, but we'll actually start playing this hypocrite's videos where our guys are just doing and donuts in the snow in an empty parking lot. This guy's ghost riding his whip in the middle of traffic.

[Tyler]

And then they called him a set. They're just having. They're just having fun with jokes.

[Brent]

Yeah, they're just fact.

[Tyler]

Joking.

[Brent]

Joking with facts.

[Tyler]

Just new. Just fat goofing.

[Drew]

I mean, they could have at least tried to say, well, we were. You know, we don't get these conditions too often. And it was a clear parking lot.

[Brent]

It's probably a place that stows all.

[Drew]

We were practicing evasive action.

[Tyler]

Boom. What do we got next?

[Brent]

No, I like that, though. I like that. The fact that they didn't lie. They just said, we're just doing donuts. Don't be gay about it.

[Drew]

All right, Blight Designs back in. Brent Barrett is currently looking into the IMRAD rifles to see why the IMRAD.

[Tyler]

Is having an negligent discharge when the.

[Drew]

Trigger is pulled and then switched off safe. I think there's a pill for that. Oh, is he talking about guns? Is he talking about guns?

[Brent]

Yeah. You know what? That was good.

[Tyler]

You know what I say? This is my safety.

[Brent]

Yeah. Oh, that was that guy that you talked to. Boone. No, not Boone. What's his name? Hoot.

[Tyler]

There you go, Norm. Hooten.

[Brent]

That was Hoot.

[Tyler]

That's right. Hootin.

[Drew]

All right.

[Brent]

Wait, do you think he actually said it?

[Tyler]

I know. I'm gonna ask him now.

[Brent]

I'm gonna ask the most military movie moment.

[Drew]

All right, Brady B boys. Sorry I'm late to the party. Currently on duty. Freezing my ass off. India.

[Brent]

Why are you in? Oh, Indiana.

[Drew]

Podcast show. Keep doing the Lord's work.

[Brent]

Thanks, Brady. All right, we are caught up.

[Tyler]

Hell yeah.

[Drew]

Four minute.

[Tyler]

It's like we planned it.

[Brent]

Got time for a song, and then we didn't. Brent will join you and Serenade you. And with his voice. What's the song? I'm gonna have to keep you.

[Tyler]

I'm gonna switch it up a little.

[Brent]

I'm gonna have to keep you entertained while Brent figures out Bluetooth.

[Tyler]

Well, we're a few minutes early.

[Brent]

Oh, hold on. We are the world.

[Tyler]

Oh, my gosh. We're not gonna go that.

[Brent]

Can you hear me, Brent? Yep. It got this from Vanessa from J. El Paso. Hey, Vanessa. I doubt this will be relayed in time. Cade Singleton in YouTube chat was correct. It was Creek 24, 10th Mountain, not 173. 173 took over my unit 2531 in July of 2012. I sincerely apologize for my mistake. Truly, I am sorry. I sent Brent texts. Brent doesn't answers text, so it's okay.

[Tyler]

So. But he's saying I was. I was incorrect.

[Brent]

He said he was incorrect.

[Tyler]

Oh, said he was incorrect.

[Brent]

He gave me the wrong info.

[Tyler]

Oh, yes.

[Brent]

It's 10th Mountain, so it's not that big of a deal. It's a standard infantry division.

[Tyler]

But I'm glad. And. And we know they were American soldiers, and we know why they went there and why they left. But, hey, at the end of the day, I'm glad we got it right. We got it right.

[Brent]

Just in time.

[Drew]

This one's for you. Oh, Joe's gotcha. 49.99. Thank you, brother. Thank you very much for the support. Hey, Brian, can you explain a little what Pete? Blabbers? Blabbers.

[Tyler]

Labor blabbers.

[Drew]

AFO unit was during. I guess that's Anaconda. Was that just like a smaller compartmentalized area of Delta Force, like ost?

[Tyler]

It's recce. They were doing reconnaissance missions. And because we have just a few. Few minutes to make this a minute or less. Operation Anaconda was a huge, huge, like, a valley clearing operation done by conventional forces. And they almost didn't do it because ISR was saying, hey, all the. All the intelligence that was coming in here says, like, this place is full of bad guys. ISR isn't picking up any of those bad guys. Like, it's. It's bad reporting. Well, the problem is ISR happens from 10,000ft in the air.

[Brent]

Yeah.

[Tyler]

And so the unit was like, let's. Like, all this reporting can't be wrong. Let's put eyes on the ground. And so they put in recce elements or AFO elements, both from the. You know, from both tier one units. And they went up there and they were like, you know what? The reporting is. Right. They're everywhere. There's caves all over the place that you can only see from a ground level looking in. An ISR was never going to see it. And that's what actually. Otherwise Operation Icon was going to get canned. And so those AFO elements actually confirmed what was actually going on. And there you go. And I hope. I hope I answered your question about what AFO was and what AFO units were doing in and around the area.

[Brent]

Joseph Cox in.

[Tyler]

That's why you pay me the big bucks.

[Brent]

100 bucks finale. Made it late. Sorry, homies, we'll have to rewatch. Keep it real. Thank you, Joseph.

[Tyler]

Never too late.

[Brent]

Yeah. That's awesome you came.

[Drew]

You can come late anytime.

[Tyler]

Don't make it weird.

[Drew]

You made it.

[Tyler]

Don't make it weird.

[Brent]

You made it weird.

[Drew]

He came late with 100 bucks.

[Tyler]

But with an FRCC condom. You can come anytime.

[Drew]

Yeah, FRCC.

[Tyler]

All right. We're gonna edit that one out when we record, when we post it.

[Brent]

Sure. Definitely.

[Tyler]

10:00 on the dot. Let's do it.

[Drew]

See, we delete ourselves.

[Tyler]

Oh, yeah, buddy.

[Brent]

I've heard this song like 8 million times.

[Tyler]

And now they have. And one.

[Brent]

Good night, guys. Thanks for joining us. Join us next Thursday. Will you be here France? I should be one of. I think you're here.

[Tyler]

Yeah, I should be. 101 case subs. Thank you, Topper. But that's what she said. M. Long live the Drew Proctor Depth. He's. He's got the idea. You know what? Someone make us a logo. I'm just. Let me just toy with. Let me just toy with the idea. It'll be its own website, though. Can't put that on our website. Drew is zesty. Topper666 is the number of my name. Matt Burn 88 Good night, Matthew Huggard. Thanks for. Thanks for stopping in. What song is this? You ask. Airborne man by Mark Shorty ridge. Wise Ass McCoy. That's a good screen name. Wise Ass McCoy. Brent. Couldn't Billy get his answers from Devgru, guys? Oh, that's a good question. It's a good question. Will we do a Tango Tango ambush episode? We are working on that currently. The Tango Tango ambush episode. Tyler, remember for. Remind me to talk about. Let's talk about that later. About the Tango Tango episode. Tom Wilson, as always, great to see you, brother. Get Danny McBride on the show. I would love to have Danny McBride on the show. That would be incredible. Oh, my gosh.

[Brent]

He's the type of guy that would do it too.

[Tyler]

And he would have to stay in his eastbound and down character.

[Brent]

Did you watch? Do you watch Righteous Grims?

[Tyler]

It's gonna be next.

[Brent]

Oh, the next season's coming out soon.

[Tyler]

Okay, let's go.

[Brent]

Oh, my God.

[Tyler]

Such a good chef, man. For sure. Oh, Eaton. What's Vanessa's only fans? Is it Vanessa of sweat off? Thomas, thanks for getting more cigars. Truly appreciate that, brother. TK finally lost all his sponsorship. Do you think we've accomplished his goals? Our goals? I don't know. 511 still a sponsor. I think they need to hear for some people. We gotta find out. Ooh, thoughts on the Black Water Massacre? That's a good one. That's a good one. Vanessa. Yes, I spoke to her. Vanessa, please text me and Tyler and give us an update on the tango. Tango episode. I really want to do that. 1, 2, 5, 6, actual. See you, brother. Thanks for tuning in.