TROOPS TO IRAN? (03/19/2026)

Summary

The Antihero Broadcast – "TROOPS TO IRAN?" (March 19, 2026): Episode Summary

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Main Theme Overview

This episode dives into escalating U.S. military involvement near Iran, discussing the dispatch of Marine Expeditionary Units, the intricacies and implications of boots on the ground, the geopolitics of the Middle East (including controversial Israeli and U.S. actions), and the skepticism and fatigue among veterans and working-class Americans regarding another potential conflict. The hosts supplement the discussion with their trademark blue-collar, veteran-centric banter, deep dives into the realities faced by military and police, and lively debates between ideological opponents, with a special focus on whether America should continue its interventions in the Middle East.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Marines Near Iran: What Does It Mean?

Timestamps: 04:06–10:09

• News Context: The hosts discuss headlines announcing the White House sending a Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) of 2,500 troops to waters near Iran.
• Military Analysis:
  • Mike (combat Marine) explains a MEU’s purpose as a quick reaction force, highly mobile and self-sufficient (“You have recon probably with you too … full assets ready to go. Certain missions pop off, a lot of times you might even have SEALs on board.” — Mike, 10:15).
  • Routine MEU deployments are normal (“They’re there all the time. They just port call … vacation in Italy if nothing kicks off.” — Mike, 07:32), but their presence can be “headline grabbers” for media.
  • The U.S. is globally pre-positioned with both Marines and vast pre-stocked armaments (e.g., in Norway) to rapidly respond to crises anywhere, not just Iran (08:11–10:11).

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2. Israel, U.S. Policy, and Geopolitical Conspiracies

Timestamps: 12:35–16:08; 66:15–76:52 (Dominic Izzo segment)

• Trump’s Statement: The hosts read a purported post by President Trump blaming Israel for a surprise attack on Iran’s gas field, which triggered Iran’s retaliation on Qatari energy infrastructure. He claims the U.S. and Qatar were uninvolved and Israel acted “without his knowledge.”
• Analysis & Reactions:
  • Louis Lewis: Raises concerns about being “dragged” into a war due to allied actions, especially Israel acting independently.
  • Mike: Acknowledges the prevalence of contractors and “hired guns” (like Blackwater) to keep American hands ostensibly clean in covert conflicts.
  • G Money: Frames it as another case of “America cleaning up the world’s messes,” and criticizes perceived capitulation to Israeli interests. (“No new wars. This is Trump ending what Biden and Barry [Obama] created.” — G Money, 23:13)
  • Dominic Izzo (later segment, 66:15–76:52): Bluntly declares he’s “America first and only,” tired of policing the world, and critiques the outsized influence of Israel in U.S. politics—lambasting politicians who are “Israel-first” and noting the double standards with flags and alliances.
    • Quote: “I don’t care if Israel gets wiped off the globe, if Palestine does, if Iraq does. They don’t affect me in my daily life … I’m tired of it.” — Dominic Izzo, 70:00

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3. Anti-Imperialism & Veteran Dissent: Marines Debate Foreign Policy

Timestamps: 41:27–62:43

• Mike and Ryan (self-described “Commie Marine”) have a measured debate:
  • Ryan: Opposes the mainstream justification of U.S. wars (“greater goods … were for the Epstein investors of the military-industrial complex … not for freedom or democracy.” — Ryan, 52:40), reflects on moving from right-wing to anti-war perspectives, and questions whether U.S. interventions ever serve American or moral interests.
  • Mike: Argues U.S. overseas presence helps enable American freedoms, points out there’s “no comparison” to nation-states like North Korea or China where dissent is crushed. He affirms the personal transformation and leadership lessons derived from combat deployments but stresses he did it so “people like you … can come onto these podcasts … and talk about different ideas” (55:15).
  • Notable Exchange:
    • Ryan: "OIF is the greatest fraud of the 21st century. Over a million Iraqis, innocent Iraqis were slaughtered for the Zionist fraud of WMDs." (52:40)
    • Mike: “Anything you do in the Marine Corps … you are still contributing to something, the bigger picture.” (49:14)
  • The segment underscores generational disillusionment with forever wars while preserving respect among veterans for one another’s service and dissent.

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4. Attrition Warfare: How Iran Fights

Timestamps: 90:00–94:18

• Cece presents (and the crew discusses) a viral video that reframes Iran’s strength—not in terms of conventional power but its decentralized structure designed for survival and attrition.
  • Key analysis: Iranian proxies and local units endure even if leadership is destroyed; Iran’s focus on making war prohibitively expensive for adversaries (e.g., cheap drones costing millions to intercept) is highlighted.
  • **“They’re not trying to win battles, they’re trying to make war too expensive to continue … How do you win against something that doesn’t need to win?” — Video played by Louis & Cece, 91:00
• Broader Implication: The hosts draw analogies to the U.S. experience in Afghanistan/Iraq, warning that you “can’t kill an ideology” or religion by military means.

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5. Police & Gender Roles: Real Talk from the Ranks

Timestamps: 33:27–38:01, 78:37–84:14

• The cast expresses skepticism and often derision about “woke” or quota-driven police hiring practices, especially the perceived dangers of underqualified officers (particularly women) in physically demanding roles.
  • G Money: Recounts stories about women being unable to handle combative suspects and criticizes compromised standards (“You’re not going to save me if I’m shot … you’re not going to carry me out …” — G Money, 33:27).
  • Mike: Shares recent experience with a weak male partner and how ideally the chain of command should remove liabilities, regardless of gender.
  • Dominic Izzo: Firmly states, “I don’t apologize for my approach that women shouldn’t be cops,” and frames it as tough love to save lives (79:12).
• All agree liability is increased when physical standards are watered down, but note pushback against holding women or weak males equally accountable in agencies.

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6. U.S. Global Posture & Military Structure

Timestamps: 41:27–47:28; 94:18–103:32

• Mike gives a primer on U.S. global military logistics: extensive prepositioned gear (e.g., Norway base), the layered structure of Marine forces, and how quick-reaction units like the MEU or specialized Marine Air-Ground Task Forces (MAGTF) allow for rapid engagement (“I mean they have Amtraks, they have tanks, they have everything you can possibly need … Within 40 hours, [we] can get anywhere in the world.” — Mike, 98:14).
• Cece: Suggests the “real” escalation signal will be when U.S. Reserve units start deploying (“That’s like someone tensing the right leg before a fight” — Cece, 89:41).
• Both outline that boots on the ground are essential to actually secure territory and assets, especially if the Strait of Hormuz or Iranian uranium facilities are targeted.

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7. Lighter Segments & Memorable Banter

• G Money’s “Van Life” Updates (17:08–21:23): Shares comedic tales of surviving in a van with only granola bars and gas station food, chugging “real American beer,” being “hydrated,” and winning at life in vintage blue-collar fashion.
• Anecdotes: Stories range from hot dog diets to "desert 10" military women, the role of Italians in WWII, and the tragicomedy of clashing with younger, softer generations.
• Copville Shout-outs: Several ad-libs for network Patreon, the Copville OG clothing line, and in-jokes about Marines eating crayons.

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Notable Quotes & Moments (Chronological, with timestamps)

• “What does it look like when we put thousands of troops on the ground?” — Mike (04:07)
• “It’s a QRF in case something pops off and they need to respond immediately.” — Louis Lewis (05:23)
• “That MEU will be in that area no matter what … they’re there anyways, just port calling.” — Mike (07:31)
• “Can we just stay out of the Middle East? Tired of losing American lives for countries who just blow themselves up.” — Liz Superchat read by Louis Lewis (14:36)
• “America’s back. Big time. Big time.” — G Money (22:45)
• “Dude, the 52nd state won … Venezuela’s a 52nd state. We didn’t lose, we won.” — G Money (18:49)
• “OEF [Afghanistan] was a 20-year American heroin colony. These causes were for the military industrial complex, not freedom.”— Ryan (52:40)
• “I don’t care if Israel gets wiped off … Palestine … Iraq … I’m tired of being the world’s police.” — Dominic Izzo (70:00)
• “Iran built the opposite [of centralized armies]: no center, no single failure point, no clean victory. That’s not strength, that’s design.” — Viral Video/Analysis (90:17)
• “You can’t kill a religion. They’ve tried — Hitler tried … No matter what you do, people will pop up elsewhere.” — Mike (92:50)
• “I don’t believe women should be cops. Because clearly you didn’t listen when we said, ‘I love you and I don’t want you to get hurt in this thing.’” — Dominic Izzo (79:12)
• “We could win the election for sheriff just off memes.” — Cece (109:50)

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Segment Timestamps

• 04:07–10:09: Details of MEU/Marine deployments “off” Iran, QRF role, realism
• 12:35–16:08: Trump’s statement on Israeli actions, fallout, and conspiracy talk
• 41:27–62:43: Extended Marine-vs-Marine foreign policy/philosophy debate
• 66:15–76:52: Dominic Izzo’s frank anti-interventionist and Israel critique
• 90:00–94:18: Viral “Iran’s attrition warfare” theory and reactions
• 33:27–38:01, 78:37–84:14: Gender and police/first responder standards discussed

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Tone & Style

The hosts' tone throughout is brash, colloquial, and camaraderie-driven, full of inside jokes, military and blue-collar slang, and a healthy skepticism of “official” narratives. They blend gallows humor (“chugging beer in a van before noon,” “desert 10s”) with hard-hitting, sometimes irreverent, commentary on geopolitics and culture. Ideological disagreements are open but (mostly) respectful, emphasizing the podcast's promise to provide a platform for all stripes of Americans, especially the veteran and working-class.

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Conclusion

This episode offers an in-the-trenches perspective on the buildup of U.S. military forces near Iran and skepticism about America's next “forever war.” Drawing from real-world experience and unfiltered opinions, the hosts interrogate both official lines and conspiracy theories—highlighting the exhaustion, gallows humor, and divided views among the veteran and first responder community when it comes to war, policy, and culture.

Next up: “Casual Friday, Savannah.” Tune in for more irreverent news, real talk for real Americans, and updates as world events unfold.

Transcript

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[Mike]

Yeah.

[Louis Lewis]

Are you? Don't forget to talk in the microphone. Don't look at me. I'm pretty enough as it is. What's up, Lewis? I am good, thanks. How was your week?

[Cece]

Stressful.

[Louis Lewis]

Stressful. I'm still here. You're still here. You haven't quit on us yet. You ready to be back tonight for the show? I am totally ready. So don't forget Patreon, to join our Patreon, the fastest growing Patreon. All exclusive content behind the scenes. We're live, we're posting pictures. Tyler almost bought me a DX shirt. That's a great skit that's in there this morning. So go to antihero broadcast Patreon. Join us, please. And don't forget, tonight's show is on Counterculture YouTube. So you haven't subscribed. Go to Count Counterculture Inc. YouTube and subscribe. So you can watch the night shift with the boys. You staying?

[Mike]

I might.

[Louis Lewis]

You might. We got Cece in the house tonight for night shift. We got Gator in the house tonight. We're gonna have a good time, so don't forget to check that out. And is Trump going to put troops on the ground?

[Mike]

I think it's a high. Like high likely. So I think the thing about it is what, what are we trying to do in Iran, right? Are we just bombing the hell out of them and then saying, hey, are you guys going to be done? Or are we looking for more operations within that bombs can't handle? So, I mean, what. What does it look like when we put thousands of troops on the ground?

[Louis Lewis]

Here's a little headline I got right here that says the White House has dispatched a Marine expedition. What is that word?

[Mike]

Expeditionary.

[Louis Lewis]

There you go. Unit of 20. I keep rolling. Marines can read that of 2500 troops to the waters of Iran off Iran. But it is unlikely to launch a full scale ground invasion with so few soldiers. As a Marine, what does that mean to you?

[Mike]

So that's just the mew. So the MEW is basically going. Or it could be a magtaf, one of the two. So the magtafs, the Marine Air Ground Task Force. I was on the MAGTAFF in Africa when we had that Tripoli whole thing. Not the. What's that one movie, the one where they took over the embassy with the 13 hours. Yeah, it wasn't. It was after that 13 something. Basically it's a quick reaction force of mass. So basically they can go from ship to shore. It's not like back in like Okinawa days when we're getting on the U boats and pushing up onto an. I don't know.

[Louis Lewis]

So you would think for us non marine normal people that don't have any idea, that's basically like a QRF in case something pops off and they need to respond immediately.

[Mike]

Yeah, in a sense you have a whole new. So whether it's the 8th MU. 9th whatever it is they go, we have them all across the entire world. So the Marine Corps is really good at putting units and people in certain locations. Like there's a reason why we have, you know, a base in Bali. We have a basin everywhere, but we're not pretty much allowed to that. So things hit the fan. We can move not from the United States to there. We already have it. Kind of push it in and then I guarantee you the next people that are coming in rotation because they're seven month deployments, six seven month deployments are getting ready to respond and so on and so forth. So there's never a lack in the world of having Marines in certain spots.

[Louis Lewis]

Okay.

[Mike]

But inside that ship, I mean you have everything. It's not just grunts. You have motor T. You have a full sufficient invasion force on one ship. It's. It's pretty incredible. And then on top of that you have surrounding that you have your aircraft carriers, the full nine. I mean they're not, not. It doesn't seem like on a picture where you have like all these ships rolling together. The MEW is just a ship that holds, you know.

[Louis Lewis]

Yeah, obviously we have other ships with other people on board. Most of those are probably signages, but these are 2500 Marines that can get off the boat and.

[Mike]

Yep. And a lot of it too is going to be supported from the ship itself. So I mean you have a battalion size element. So that's going to be all the way from. Was it three companies of Marines plus your weapons. Weapons company that will support everybody else that goes scout snipers, heavy guns, a full nine. And then on top of that you're attached to the mew, which is you have some type of aircraft wing that's attached with it. Logistics, the full nine. So they could do an initial invasion, I guess and kind of go from there. But again, it really just depends what's our end goal? What are we trying to accomplish? And that statement that was just made, that's. You can kind of see that as a threat. But to me, it's like, yeah, no, we have them there. They're there all the time.

[Louis Lewis]

That's a headline grabber where let's. Let's say that Trump is putting troops on the ground or insinuating that Trump might put troops on the ground. That's something that's, I guess, normally in the area anyway of any type of operation.

[Mike]

Yeah, that's. That's hanging out. That's that. That MEW will be in that area no matter what. Even if we had nothing going on, they're there anyways, and they're just doing port calls. So they'll go to, like, Italy. They'll go to these different spots. And we just kind of saw it as, like, a vacation. We're gonna go to Italy.

[G Money]

Cool.

[Mike]

We go to Italy for four or five days.

[Louis Lewis]

Well, obviously, it's. We weren't at war when. If we're not at war, whatever we're at, you were going to those. There was no conflict going on when you were doing it, but now there's a conflict, and you have that unit. Yeah, right there. Obviously, that seems more strategic. It's not. They're not just hanging around. No, they didn't go there to, like, this is their normal deployment.

[Mike]

Well, I mean, you got to think, like, every. And when we have the Next guest on OR 2 From now, you'll kind of. I'll talk to him about it, too. It doesn't matter whether conflict's going on or not. And if you looked at between Desert Storm and going into, you know, Afghanistan, Iraq area, nothing was really going. But they were still doing Muse. They were still doing all these deployments. And it's for this exact reason. Something pops off, we have somebody there. And again, we're strategically all around the United States. We have. Based in Hawaii, California, East Coast, west coast, everything. Whether something is going on or not, it. We will have a mass force at any given time. I want to say it was Norway. There's, like a big tunnel in Norway, and this tunnel in Norway has, I mean, thousands and thousands and thousands of vehicle, armored vehicles, anything, but pretty much planes, ammo, the full nine. So that in that spot region up there, we can really pull from there, put them on ships and take them to where we got to go. Because how do you think bombs and everything are getting to these ships? It's a long Distance. But, I mean, everybody sees it as like, a MEW is a deployment. And I know, like, when Jimmy was on, he's like, well, it's not a real deployment. No, it is, because, I mean, when I was on my special purpose magtaf, we were in Italy. I was hanging out. Italy, Going to Italy restaurants, full nine. And then we got a phone call one night when we were on. We got a call one night like, hey, Tripoli's getting overran. We have to go. And we hopped on the. The Ospreys. And I'm talking. We landed, and dudes are trying to come over the walls into the compound. I'll find the picture. There's really an ISIS flag in the water. We got all the ambassadors out. We. Where we got the ambassador out, all the delegates we could. We threw thermites into the embassy, all the classified materials. And we were just basic grunts. We were nobody special, but we. Again, we were in that region. That was our spot. And I think from Italy to Tripoli, hour and a half flight, if that, we were back on. And we basically took all of them to the MEW who was pulling up, took them all to the mew, drop them off, did our exchange, and then we went back to Air Station Signella.

[Louis Lewis]

So these guys are ready to roll? Oh, these guys are ready, roll. Okay, they're there.

[Mike]

Well, even. Even, like on top of the ship. They'll set up ranges on top of the ship, and they'll shoot up on the ship. You have recon probably with you too. It's not. It's probably some more sock guys as well. You have all assets ready to go. So certain missions that pop off. And you'll have sometimes seals on the ship as well. You might not know, but they'll be there.

[Louis Lewis]

Now, that makes it. Makes it all better, then.

[Mike]

It makes it.

[Louis Lewis]

Golly, we did. We got the boys on. We're gonna have CC on in a minute. I think he's setting up, getting ready. And we'll go into that more. I'm gonna read. You have all this can speed the Tucker Carlson stuff we talked about last week. Did he possibly leak information? Tyran, we have the Israel argument is Israel got us into this war. I'm gonna read something that President Trump put up here in a second. Pull it up. All right. For those at home, this is has to. This is what President Trump posted yesterday. And I can't read it because it's. My escape button's in the way, says Israel out of anger of what has taken place in the Middle east. Has violently lashed out at a major facility known as South Pros Gas Field in Iran as relatively small section of the whole has been hit. The United States knew nothing about this particular attack and the country of Qatar was in no way, shape or form involved with it nor did have any idea what was going to happen. Unfortunately, unfortunately, Iran did not know this or any of the pertinent facts pertaining to the South Pars attack and unjustifiably and unfairly attacked a portion of Qatar LNG's gas facility. No more attacks will be made by Israel. Interesting, interesting, interesting because you have all the conspiracy coming out, you have all the anti Israel people. We're probably going to go potato here in a minute talking about this, but now you have the President of the United States saying that Israel acted without his knowledge and did some things and, and which led to a counter strike against Qatar, I believe. And now that seems, that seems to start having a big conflict with Israel. United States is where we're over there. We have our assets over there, we have our men and we've lost, we're losing soldiers and we're supposed to be helping our biggest, you know, alliance our guys over there. And then they do something like this, which to me that, that is like oil. They they to like blow up oil reserves and out of anger because for the first time I'm really seeing Iron Dome is getting smoked, there's missiles getting through, Israel's getting hit and then they go do something without consulting the President allegedly and attack something that leads to an attack against Qatar. Who's on the other side of the water just chilling, hanging out, right? Just, they don't want no smoke. So what do you, what do you think that says for our conspiracy people about the whole Israel, United States thing?

[Mike]

I mean the conspiracy with everybody who has conspiracy, we all have conspiracies, right? It just, it depends on the level that you take it and severity of it. The President can put whatever he wants up and people can believe it or not. I don't know the truth. I couldn't tell you anything about it. I'm not a conspiracy type person. All I know is when you're starting to look at like attrition warfare and you're starting to cause. I mean, we've done it in the past. We've put contractors in places that we are not allowed to go to because when they're like Blackwater, right? So they go to certain places that we're not allowed, they're just hired guns. And then when they get captured or whatever it is. They're not saying that they're Americans.

[Louis Lewis]

There's.

[Mike]

There's actually a script they have to go off. I'm not American. They kind of push it off that. So it's not held off on us. Every country does that. We have people, and this isn't top secret. It's pretty common knowledge. But we have people in every part of the world. Russia, China, you name it. Kind of little cells, and they have them here with us. So I think the attack itself is gonna. It might be a type of move of like, all right, what are you gonna do now? Is kind of like a. A show of now. I wouldn't say force, but, hey, this is what happened. Was gonna push it on these people and see what happens. I mean, it. Who knows? It could have been an oopsie on us. You know what I mean? Like, I have no idea. But this can. It's gonna either push Trump to really, really far right. Or he's going to keep doing what he's doing. It could just be a faint. You know, if anybody knows what a faint is, it's when you kind of do something over here and I'm going to hit you over here. But who knows?

[Louis Lewis]

We got a super chat from Liz Lewis is ready. It says, can we just stay out of the Middle East? Tired of losing American lives for countries who just blow themselves up. That's one way of looking at it.

[Mike]

I mean, if you look at the Middle east, we'll call it like. We'll call it like the hoods here in the United States.

[Dominic Izzo]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Stay out of the hood. Mean just.

[Louis Lewis]

I get it. There's one more part of that that Trump said. I want to make sure I don't miss anything.

[Mike]

And I think what, we're in the third week.

[Dominic Izzo]

Yes.

[Mike]

Month now.

[Louis Lewis]

Yeah. We're. We got. We'll get to him in a second. But yeah. So I just. For all this conspiracy stuff, and we're, you know, people saying that we're caving to Israel. We're. We're their puppet, we're doing everything you want. Then they go bomb something that leads to another country getting involved. It just. The way this was sold. And I'm not against any of them. I'm just giving my, My. The fact down the middle was the way this was sold was to the American people was quick and in and out. We're gonna go bomb them, which never happens. They've said this for years. We're gonna go bomb them and we're gonna be done. And then we were there longer and then we were there longer, and then Iran's been pretty accurate. They've been hitting some things that we didn't think they might be able to hit. They hit something. Now Israel kind of goes off on the little. Their own little side mission and does something which leads to another country game.

[Mike]

Do you think we're not going to find out?

[Louis Lewis]

Yeah, it's like, obviously. And then it's like, where does. Where does. Where's that line where we go? Okay, you know, the American people can just default back to. How does this affect America?

[Mike]

Like, we. I don't think. Could we have just done what we did in Venezuela. Go in, capture, kill.

[Louis Lewis]

I mean, they killed the top people.

[Mike]

Send Rob. I mean, there's your answer. You send Robin with his. With his goons. He takes dude out, he makes another book. He makes millions of books and millions of dollars off books. And then we. We get it sued. 10 years later.

[Louis Lewis]

We took. We took their top people out. A lot of them.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Louis Lewis]

And then we did it again. A lot of them. But without further. No, we're gonna hold him. Bring him in those. Yo, you're drinking on the job, man.

[Mike]

America.

[Louis Lewis]

Oh, boy. G Money, everybody. The most American person in the network. Unmute him, man.

[G Money]

I didn't know you're bringing me in so soon. I was getting.

[Louis Lewis]

You realize you're chugging beer on camera, right?

[G Money]

That wasn't beer, dude.

[Louis Lewis]

What is that?

[G Money]

It's. It's Hulk Hogan's Real American beer. But it's. It's near beer. Anyone asks, only the best.

[Mike]

Is it o' tools?

[Louis Lewis]

No, he's over there drinking. That's 11:22 in the morning. And we bring in our contributor, G Money, and he's. He's pounding beers. That. That's that. If that doesn't say America, I don't know what does. G Money. What's the.

[G Money]

What else are you gonna do in a van? What else am I going to do in advance?

[Louis Lewis]

How many days are we on now? You've been in the van longer than Tyler was on the train at this point.

[G Money]

Yeah, a week. I started Wednesday night of last week and. And here I am. What's it, Thursday?

[Louis Lewis]

It is Thursday.

[G Money]

Yeah. I'll be done Monday night at 7.

[Louis Lewis]

It's been one week since you and your friend, the U.S. communist.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Louis Lewis]

Your friend, the communist had a little. The piss cans got to be out of control at this point, right? Yeah. I don't need to see it. I don't need to see it.

[G Money]

We're good.

[Louis Lewis]

I'll take your Word for it. Yeah.

[G Money]

Little golden peak.

[Louis Lewis]

Oh, God.

[G Money]

I look hydrated, right? That's a good collar. So doctors and nurses out there can

[Louis Lewis]

tell me, how's the. How's the beer flowing this morning?

[G Money]

It's ice cold, dude. When it's 28 degrees out, I don't need a fridge, man. It's just good to go. Coldest here in Philly. How are you eating? I know. Hot dogs today.

[Louis Lewis]

How you eating? How are you eating?

[Mike]

You have a Coleman growing there, don't you? No. How do you cook food?

[Louis Lewis]

He's not cooking, apparently. You're living on granola bars.

[G Money]

Granola 7 11. Yeah. No, no. Sometimes I'll. I'll sneak out to Dunkin Donuts getting everything. Bagel. Yeah, you got to do what you got to do, man. Grinding.

[Dominic Izzo]

What? What?

[Mike]

What?

[Louis Lewis]

Even though we had a. Even though we had a minor. What's that? Oh, I love it. And I'm gonna ask you. I'm. I'm gonna throw you a softball right here. Even though we had a minor setback in baseball the other night, is America still winning?

[G Money]

Dude, the 52nd state one. What are you talking about, a minor setback? We still won, dude. What are you talking about? Venezuela is a 52nd state. We didn't lose. We won. We just came.

[Mike]

I think it was one of those ones. We beat you in baseball.

[G Money]

Yeah, dude, we.

[Mike]

We took your president. You won the game. We took your. Your leader.

[G Money]

So I think, yeah, they're the 52nd state. That's a win for us. We can celebrate that. We had two home teams playing the other night. We beat Canada in hockey, in curling. We won the baseball game. What's next, right? Summer Olympics coming a couple years. We're gonna take basketball. What else do we got to do? I think we want that World Cup.

[Louis Lewis]

We got the World cup next year.

[G Money]

Yeah, World cup, dude. We don't stop winning. Donald Trump is the man, and all we do is win, win, win. On that. He's initiating the. The Don Road Doctor now. About time. You know, it's just the. The new Monroe Doctor, if you're not familiar with that, basically says, keep out of the Western Hemisphere because it's United States territory only. We got away from that. In the early 2000s, China did about $10 billion in trade with South America. Oh, did I lose you?

[Louis Lewis]

Now you're froze up. Okay, there we go. There we go. We're back.

[G Money]

Yeah. My laptop decides to do an update five minutes before this is supposed to.

[Louis Lewis]

I can't believe. I mean, you're. You're Electro, what are you plugged into the. Is the van running?

[G Money]

Oh, dude, you told me. I got a router. I have a flat screen TV in here. I'm set. It's good stuff. So anyway, as I was saying, China did about $10 billion in trade in the early 2000s with South America. Just a couple. In 2020, they did $519 billion in trade with South America. That's a problem for us. Not only, not only was it China, you have Russia arming Venezuela, Cuba and Argentina, I believe. And then you also have Iran coming in and giving Venezuela drones and military technology software, which listen, Iran sucks, but their drones are pretty good. From what I understand, they back engineered our drones. So that goes to show you why their drones are pretty kick ass. Right?

[Louis Lewis]

We got a super chat real quick. Tyler sent in five bucks for your phone bill to keep your. To keep your Internet service up.

[G Money]

Yo, just cash app it to me. Right? Right.

[Louis Lewis]

I got a reflection and I wanted my Venmo. I gotta. I gotta thank you old Patrick yesterday, man. Let's reflect on that guest you brought in. Tell us for those that didn't watch yesterday.

[G Money]

Hold on, let me finish my. My point. Right? So you have all these for the axis of evil, these foreign actors in our backyard setting up. And it was such a strategic move, especially with the war in. Iran has been killing Americans since 1979. They are responsible for pretty much all the global terror sponsoring them with the money that we funded through, you know, Barry Satoro, which would be Barack Obama and Joe Biden. Right. So we're kicking ass. We're respected in the world. Trump is punking all these European countries. Argentina just sent a naval force to help us with the Strait of America. It's no longer the straight or his mouth or whatever you call it. It's the Straight of America from now on. Just like it's the Golf of the USA or Golf of America. Everybody get on the plane. I know this is probably white supremacy or. Or right to do your own research. Right. And educate yourself. These are talking points of white supremacy. Allegedly. But go do it, people. You. You'll find out if you peel some layers back. There's a lot of good going on right now. All right, Pat Rosin.

[Louis Lewis]

America's back.

[G Money]

America's back. Big time. Big time.

[Louis Lewis]

Let's go bigger than ever. Like the double arch, the bacon double cheeseburger.

[G Money]

Like, you know, America's CEOs eating cheeseburgers now.

[Mike]

We also have a dude eating a hot dog in a van.

[Louis Lewis]

Yeah. And during. Is it Ironic that while we were taking over Iran, that McDonald's releases the biggest burger they've ever released.

[G Money]

That's right.

[Louis Lewis]

There's no irony there.

[G Money]

And listen, does Trump. No new wars. This ain't a new war. This is Trump ending with Biden and Barry created with funding unfreezing Iran's assets. They have been funding global terror for the last 10 years. This is called an adult coming in and cleaning up the room. Come on, educate yourself. Do some research.

[Mike]

Money makes you want to be a better American, right?

[G Money]

It's more than one layer, dude. Stop listening to cnn.

[Louis Lewis]

I think you should just get that. I think you should get that shirt tattooed on you and just go shirtless with that whole thing.

[G Money]

If I had a good body, I would never wear a shirt.

[Louis Lewis]

Let's talk Pat Brosnan. For those. Those that didn't watch yesterday, I will say one of the. Well, I can't. I don't want to over. But one of the ones. How did you meet Pat?

[G Money]

I worked for Pat, actually. We were both Fox News contributors. I ended up working with patent security industry. He ended up selling his company. So I moved on past that. But, you know, we kept in touch. Pat's a great guy. He has an awesome story, man. You know, He's a real OG cop from the. From the 80s and 90s when real police work was going on. And, you know, you didn't even scratch the surface with that guy. He's got a lot of good stories, man.

[Louis Lewis]

So Pat, for those who didn't watch, Pat Brosn came on Yesterday was like 14 years NYPD, real cop, like robbery unit. He helped Giuliani clean up 42nd Street. All that disaster down there. I remember going there as a kid. It was absolutely out of control, like, disgusting. To help clean that up, most cop, you know, I get a podcast, cop stories, they get kind of redundant. This guy's not redundant. This guy did the. The real work. So if there's ever going to be an episode, you go back and watch, watch yesterday's episode. He also will probably end up being a weekly contributor for Law Enforcement Politics. Right on that fence of, you know, law enforcement politics. He's in with Rui Giuliani. Giuliani. He knows. He knows people. He's on Fox News. He has his own radio show. But a genuinely good guy, a guy that has. The, way I look at it, a guy that has that much experience and that much success. I would look at us like we're just, you know, no bunch of. No, but like, we're just a bunch of clowns. This dude is like, forget about it. Come on in, opens the door, comes on. The show wants to help us out, but just a great guest with real life practical stories, not the war stories. Like, okay, buddy. Like, soon as he starts talking, you're just like, you want to hear more? So, yes. We only scratch the surface. That was brought to you by G Money, Yesterday's episode with Patrick, and he's absolutely going to stay on as a contributor. He's already reached back out. Pay the phone bill. Sending 4.99 more so Nick can get back on. But

[G Money]

my bad. I was looking good. I was looking good. I went to take a screenshot of myself from my dating profile.

[Louis Lewis]

What apps can we find your dating profile on?

[G Money]

Not Grindr.

[Louis Lewis]

Okay, good. I was just making sure. All right.

[G Money]

I like that fairy hatchet wound.

[Louis Lewis]

Yeah. So Pat was on yesterday, talked about the real cop stuff. And that's a. Like I said, I'm. I. I'm not easily impressed by cop stuff because I fall into that category. Like, we all signed up for a job. That's what we're supposed to do. We were going to miss the holidays. We were going to miss Christmas. We were going to miss all this stuff. We knew it going ahead. So.

[G Money]

Oh, poor me.

[Mike]

I don't ever get in there, get paid over time.

[Louis Lewis]

Yeah, we're not gonna get paid over time. We're gonna have to work. But, yeah, Pat was an amazing guest yesterday, so make sure you guys check that out. What else do you Money. What else is on the. What's on the. What's in the future for G Money? Where are we headed with the podcast with what's going on Once again, once you get out of the van, what's your. Besides the shower, what's your next step?

[G Money]

I don't know, man. I'm kind of digging my look right now. I think I just. I found the right length for my beard with the mustache. It's very George. What the hell is that guy's name? I want to face. No, the singer. Faith. Faith Favor. When I have faith. George Michaels.

[Dominic Izzo]

Yeah, I got the George Homosexual.

[G Money]

Yeah, well, I'm the straight George Michaels right now.

[Mike]

I think you can do the handlebars just straight down.

[G Money]

No, that's a little too much. I don't think the chicks let it

[Mike]

hang a little bit. So you can actually get George Michael.

[G Money]

You know, I want to get Lady.

[Louis Lewis]

You know, your friends coming on right after you.

[G Money]

Yeah, I know. Well, that dude has. He's got the handlebars in the back. You Know what I mean? Some ponytails. When he's getting banged in the ass.

[Louis Lewis]

I don't know if we're allowed to say that.

[Mike]

He said it.

[Louis Lewis]

It. I can't.

[G Money]

Weak. Communist. Everything that's wrong with this country, that's. It created a whole bunch of beta males. A lot of men walked away from their families and nuclear families, gone. These men are being raised by women and they're full of estrogen. They don't know how to handle their problems and issues anymore. Look at the inner city. How do they fight? They fight with guns. They're quick to anger because they don't have any men in their life to show them how to act like a real man. That's the issue. That's the problem.

[Louis Lewis]

I got a video to kind of go right into that here. Let's watch this video. Tell me what you think of this. This happened in Riviera beach over about two days ago. This is the suspect in a case being arraigned. We'll get your take on it. They not making it back. My cousin who supposed to die. That dude that hit the floor. Oh, yeah, he died. A lot of people were shot in the head, sir. And went back up right in front of my feet. The people that were supposedly killed, they didn't die.

[G Money]

Nobody died, obviously.

[Cece]

Right?

[Louis Lewis]

Nobody died, sir. How can you put someone in jail that's fighting something that you can't see? When I was on a highway driving. It's three cars. What's the devil's number six, Right? It's three cars that pop up.

[Cece]

One, two, three.

[Louis Lewis]

I shot every one of them people he gave up on the map there. I can't talk to the judge, bro. I'm talking what I can. What. What my heart needs. So for context, he killed two people, shot four more, and then drove down the road. I don't know where his math was going with that. Three cars, 666. But I. I believe the communists would call him a victim of somebody like you.

[G Money]

Oh, absolutely. He's a. He's oppressed. He's a victim of white supremacy. I mean, it's as idiotic as that sounds. He actually said that. I love the fact when Tyler asked him about Muslims and Sharia law and how they treat their women like absolute garbage and items, the dude wouldn't answer the question and said, well, I'd like to check my own backyard first. And, you know, the patriarchy in America, all the talking points. He's great with talking points. He's full of them. Nonsense. Yeah, yeah. It's Our fault. White supremacy calls that animal to go kill people and then. Yeah, I don't understand what he's, you know, I guess he's trying to say, hey, I didn't kill all of them. They got back up. Some didn't die. So I'm good. Don't. Don't give me that much jail time. No harm.

[Louis Lewis]

That was actually at first appearance post Miranda. That was his lawyer standing next to him. And I don't know that his case is going to go very well.

[Mike]

He did himself no favors, vanity or

[Louis Lewis]

something with the first appearance confession right out of the rip. Didn't know.

[G Money]

Is that in Florida.

[Louis Lewis]

That's Riviera Beach. That's just north of Palm Beach. It's a dump.

[G Money]

Yep.

[Louis Lewis]

Because of you.

[G Money]

Yeah, that's right.

[Mike]

Used to be beautiful until you white supremacists came in and took over and made it the crap it is now.

[G Money]

Now. You know, my. My family wasn't considered white because we were Italian. We were other, so. But we just got lumped into Italian, I guess white people because we conformed.

[Mike]

No, I actually saw. I talked to a vet yesterday when I was out at dinner and.

[Louis Lewis]

Dog vet or a veteran?

[Mike]

No, like, this dude was like, World War II vet. Okay. And he was like, you know, like he was Italian. Big Italian guy. He's like, yeah, like, when I. When I was in the war, this is not. He like showed me. He's like, if you don't believe, like, you showed me D214. Like, hey, man, I'm not questioning anything. He's like, yeah, when Italians were in the service, they were seen as like blacks. And I didn't. I didn't know that. They were seen as less. They were seen as, you know, a different minority. They weren't seen as, well, they had slurs for Italians.

[Louis Lewis]

Yeah. Like.

[Mike]

And I had no idea about that. And he's like, yeah, we were get treated differently in boot camp. We got segregated in boot camp, the full nine. And I was like. And damn, dude. Like, especially.

[G Money]

Especially the Italian campaign, they were not really looked upon. You know, they're looked with the pine. Almost like the Japanese soldiers were really. Yeah, yeah. I mean, think about it. I mean, they're Italian. They're going to Italy. But, you know, they. They don't tell you how the Italians secured the waterfront and protected us from Nazi infiltrators in America. Not to mention invading Sicily and Italy. The. The Mafia actually had a big hand in that with surveillance and subterfuge and. And whatnot. So they had a Big role in it, but it's really downplayed. You don't really hear that much of it. Yeah, see?

[Louis Lewis]

Yeah, but I don't, I don't know. You're not really complaining about it, are you? Looking?

[G Money]

I'm not complaining, man. I don't want reparations. I don't want reparations. Even though the largest mass lynching in this country was Italians. That's the reason why we have Columbus Day. It's kind of an appeasement. Well, here you go. Sorry you're treated like. And we lynched you guys. Here's a holiday.

[Mike]

They have a black pride month, don't they?

[G Money]

Yeah, well, we got a day, dude. We got climate.

[Louis Lewis]

Today's women.

[G Money]

Take that away.

[Louis Lewis]

This is women's month. What do you think about that? National Women's Month.

[G Money]

Is that why there's all these pictures on Facebook of women cops getting hired?

[Louis Lewis]

Yeah, the. Like we covered that last night on, on myself and Dominic Izzo covered that. I'm sure he'll talk about it today. But yeah, we covered the 5, 1100 pound generation of females that are being put out on patrol. And is that, is the agency doing them a disservice by. What's your take on that? By putting them out there?

[G Money]

Dude, I had, I had a chicken the academy. 100 pounds, about 4 foot 10. When we had to shoot shotguns, the instructor had to stand behind her because it would blow her off the. Blow her off her feet. You know, it's ridiculous and it's same. And then, then you had the instructors wanting to get their dick wet. You know, we, we had to bench, I think 110 of our body weight. Women had to bench 70% of their body weight. And the instructors, it was on a Smith Machine, dude. So the instructors were basically doing, doing the bench for him. And that's, you know, you're not going to save me if I'm shot. You got to carry me out of the house where I'm fighting some six foot five savage. You know, he's messed the out. He ain't gonna do. I'm barely doing.

[Mike]

Yeah, I think we, we've had some little things, cops at our age, so we work together and it was kind of like a spit in the face when, you know, these people pass FTO because they are maybe smart enough to do the job, probably smarter than me. But when it comes down to, okay, like we're going up to a crackhead at, you know, 12th and US one and he's not gonna go in handcuffs. So And I look over and my zone partner is a five foot four, you know, 80, 90 pound chick, maybe 100 pounds, with their vest on and her gear all messed up. And I. I would love to pull the body cam of it too. We get into a fight with a guy and I am more getting hit in the face by her gear that's flying all over the place than putting a guy in hanger. And ended up. She ended up standing up because her gun belt pretty much fell off. And I threw her gun belt out of the way so this guy can't get to it. And I basically did everything by myself. And it's a good angle because she stood up above me and watched me fight this guy. But you see it time and time again over and over. And it's not just the videos that we're posting that you're seeing. It's literally anywhere you look, you'll see three or four males or two females get into a fight with a guy. And the minute the men step in, the women just back off. And then they. So Michael, it's gonna do something.

[G Money]

I. I was down Center City last year and I see this girl screaming, like, run towards me. And I seen this big tranny with a stick. Transvestite.

[Mike]

Okay, okay, right.

[G Money]

Is that. Is that the correct term?

[Dominic Izzo]

No, you're good.

[Mike]

I just.

[Louis Lewis]

I thought you said trainee.

[Mike]

Like, I thought you're talking trainee transvestite.

[Louis Lewis]

Okay, right.

[G Money]

So it walks down the street a little bit now. Two female cops try to arrest it and they're getting their ass kicked. So I had to jump in, you know, make sure I gave the. Do not resist several times as I twisted her arm, put her in the old fashioned Ben hand come along. And she went from ground and being tough to. My hands are behind my back, sir. My hands are behind my back. Yeah, I thought so. Put her ass down quick. She was beating the out of those two cops. And it's just time and time again. I had a job once where we get a call, me and my partner. My partner was a boxer. I think it was Golden Gloves. He's a bad dude, man. Diesel. And yeah, we got called. Guy just jumped off a roof. So we clicking like, what do you mean a roof? Like from the third story roof of a building in bare feet. He's running up Allegheny Avenue and we look at each other like, what do you. Yeah, what's he wearing? He's in boxers and that's it. And sure enough, I look over, I'm like, oh, there he is. We got him. He runs into an alleyway. Now me and Keith running there with him and he's all messed up. And it was a full blown, drag him out fight for about 20 minutes, maybe 15 minutes. Keith hit him with such an uppercut, his head snapped back. I thought he killed him. And the dude spit his teeth out and said, that's all you got? And then we just started fighting again. Got to the point where we were able to get handcuffs on him. I'm maced. He's maced. Keith's mace. We're all beat the up and he's still fighting in cuffs. Dude. I just said, keith, you see the abandoned house there he goes, yeah. I said, drag him there. I'm just gonna shoot this. I had enough. And he goes, oh, man. He goes up, man. You don't need to do that. And that was it. He gave up.

[Louis Lewis]

It was over.

[G Money]

Fight was done. Walked him out. But if I didn't have Keith with me, I didn't have that dude with me. I was in a lot of trouble.

[Mike]

I. I have a video I just sent over. Mike, he'll play it. It. This guy, he was. He thought he was. Jesus Christ. Right? So he thought he was the man, right? The guy kept calling us Mike. This he. He thought he. We were my dokes, right?

[G Money]

I don't know.

[Mike]

Why end up putting hands on a deputy. The deputy pushed him into me and then I pretty much suplexed him back because he had a knife and everything behind him too.

[Louis Lewis]

So we'll get. Nick, you want to come back on later? I got to get my. Your friend in here. Him 12. We'll get you back on after the. After this. After the after Don's. We'll watch that video, all right? And then check your messages real quick.

[G Money]

Okay.

[Louis Lewis]

And I'll bring in. You want to bring. Leave that. Leave. Just back out, G money and bring in peace, bud. Ryan. Good morning, my friend.

[Ryan]

Good morning.

[G Money]

Good morning.

[Louis Lewis]

You good?

[Ryan]

I'm doing my best in the conditions of late stage capitalism and the sunset of the empire at the precipice of World War 3. While it's forecasted to be 82 degrees in San Francisco in March. Today I'm doing my.

[Louis Lewis]

Is that. Is that. Is that capitalism?

[G Money]

Dude, how do you think you get your money for your.

[Louis Lewis]

Nick, Nick, hold on, hold on.

[Mike]

All right, all right.

[Louis Lewis]

I didn't mean to bring him back in. Jesus. I hit the wrong button. It's like. It's like a. A. He's like a pitbull of America that is like on a leash. And I Gotta, like, I gotta be careful with him. So.

[Ryan]

Hey, let's, let's not disparage pit bulls like that.

[Louis Lewis]

He's still waving back there. I don't know. He's going crazy.

[Cece]

All right.

[Louis Lewis]

So how are you this week? How was your week?

[Ryan]

Asked and answered. Doing my best.

[Louis Lewis]

Thank you. How. And I'm being serious.

[Ryan]

And wait, how are you?

[Louis Lewis]

I, I appreciate. I am. I've been carrying the load of this capitalist of white supremacist show for a week now. So Tyler's gone, so it's been very. It's been, it's been a lot. But I'm. Well, I'm getting through it, but. And I'm being funny. I'm not white supremacist, but I figured.

[Mike]

Thank you for coming.

[Louis Lewis]

No, no, no. I was trying to. That's the joke part of the show where I play off of what you said and then kind of go with whatever. I got a question. Completely off. Before we. I got my friend over here. As a fellow Marine, you guys can talk Marine stuff. How has the experience been? Honestly, I'm not joking at all. As being a contributor and coming on and getting an opportunity to speak and is it a positive thing? Do you think it's going positive and is it going well? Or are we pissing in the wind? Or how do, how do you feel about it?

[Ryan]

Maybe too soon to tell. I think, you know, I am. I appreciate the opportunity. Thank you so much for having these sort of under discussed conversations. And we do have to sort of reach across the aisle, so to speak, if we are going to learn, grow, heal. So it's.

[Cece]

Honestly,

[Ryan]

I have some fear every time I kind of click this little stream yard link, I have no idea what's going to pop up.

[Louis Lewis]

That might be more because of inexperienced, I think. And I, I. If you're still with us in six months, I don't. I think you're gonna be fine. I think that's a little inexperience, I would think. But maybe, I don't know, if I got, if I got invited on the View, I might be a little nervous, so maybe I can understand that.

[Ryan]

Thank you for the empathy.

[Louis Lewis]

All right, I'm gonna turn it over to my friend Pete. You guys are both marines. I think he's got some questions for you if you'd like to, you know, answer them with him. You guys can kind of have some dialogue. So I will turn it over to my friend Peach.

[Mike]

What's up, bud?

[Ryan]

Hi, Peach.

[Mike]

Yep, yep. Love Peaches.

[Ryan]

Are you from Georgia?

[Mike]

I'm not.

[Louis Lewis]

No. Okay.

[G Money]

All right.

[Mike]

So I'm gonna make it real clear from the beginning the questions I'm gonna ask and things I want to know is just because it's my ignorance of where your stance is and kind of stuff like that. Like, we both wore the same uniform. We both deployed. I don't. I don't agree with.

[Louis Lewis]

The whole.

[Mike]

Deployments aren't real. I think every deployment is real for certain reasons. So I'm not going to be like people in the past that are attacking you or anything like that. I respect your beliefs, everything, because that's why I did the things that I did overseas. Right. So people like you can have. Not people like you, but everybody has their own certain opinions and beliefs and religions. The 4:9. Because if, you know, we didn't have that, now what did I serve for? Right.

[Ryan]

So can I ask a question about that real quick?

[Mike]

Yes, sir.

[Ryan]

What does my right to speak for myself have anything to do with what you did overseas?

[Mike]

What do you mean?

[Ryan]

I think we sort of put on these, like, kind of propaganda sort of reasons for these deployments that it's to serve the citizens or for these abstract ideas like freedom or democracy. When I think, if we're being honest, it's for extraction of resources and destabilization of foreign governments. And I don't know if, like, these things are actually the same.

[Mike]

They go hand in hand. Okay, I agree. Okay. So I would say, would you be able to talk on this podcast right now if we were in China without repercussion, would you be able to speak your. Your tone and everything you had on any corner in China or Cuba, North Korea, any place like that?

[Ryan]

Good question. And are you familiar with, like, the criminalization of dissent and Palantir and this bill that's going through Congress right now to put a chat. GPT FBI agent on each one of us? How does this, like, fit into your, like, freedom analysis?

[Mike]

Well, that's what I was asking. Right. Would you be. Would you be able to do on. On any country that I just named, would you be able to be on any corner speaking your. Your free thought? Would you be able to.

[Ryan]

We'd have to find out.

[Mike]

You wouldn't. I promise. Okay. I promise you.

[Ryan]

There's this phrase about China I think we should be, like, kind of interested in, and it's. It's about where in China you can't change.

[Mike]

You.

[Ryan]

Okay, Sorry, bud.

[Louis Lewis]

Okay.

[Ryan]

In China, you can't change the party, but you can change the policies. In the United States, you can change the party, but you can't change the policies.

[Mike]

Okay, but that's freedom, is it not?

[Ryan]

Where does Citizens United

[Mike]

and

[Ryan]

like senators investing their, you know, portfolios and defense companies. Where does all this fit into, like your freedom analysis?

[Mike]

Well, I mean, let's just. I'm. I'm talking more simplicity, right? As an individual, one person, you know, to walk out on any corner and say anything you want, anything you want, whatever you want, on any given sign. And yeah, you'll be judged like anybody else. We're all human. Everybody judges everybody. Anybody who says, I'm not judgmental. You're full of.

[Louis Lewis]

You can't say that. What word that ends in a though?

[Mike]

What do you mean?

[Louis Lewis]

Or er. You can't say those ones.

[Mike]

Sorry.

[Louis Lewis]

But any other.

[Mike]

I apologize.

[Louis Lewis]

Okay?

[Mike]

And again, if I say anything offensive, man, I apologize. I don't.

[Louis Lewis]

No, no, I'm talking about that. The N words. I'm joking.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Louis Lewis]

So he's locked in right now.

[Mike]

No, I got you. But.

[Louis Lewis]

But in just Marine versus Commie, right now, I gotta let it unfold.

[Mike]

But just in general, if I do say anything offensive, I'm not. It's not towards you. It's just. That's all good maybe how I'm raised or, you know, my ignorance to certain things. Right. What I'm point of getting at, right, is the things that I did overseas is to prevent freedoms to be taken away. Now, whatever your freedom definition is, I have a certain one, right? I don't want to be like North Korea. I don't want to be like somebody telling me I have to be this way, I have to think this way. I have to be this party. I don't talk about, you know, where my politics are because it's irrelevant. I talk on what I know. I don't really care about politics that much. I care about the things that I did, whether in right or indifferent. I did things over there that I don't agree with, but I had orders and there's a reason, right? I'm not going to tell you no. Unless it's unmoral, unjustified, or it's outside of my realm where I can't handle. There's a lot of things I can't handle, right? Just like you. There's probably a lot of things you can't handle, but we are men enough to say, hey, I can't handle this. I need help, right? In North Korea and all these other places, for example, I know when I was deployed to South Korea, we went to the dmz and I think it was like a Month or so before that, they had that North Korean soldier that tried to get over to South Korea and try to run away. I don't know if you saw that video. They started shooting at them, and then we did a rescue mission and pulled it. That wouldn't happen here. You can go to Mexico, you can go to Canada, you can go to Italy, you can go to North Korea if you really want to. There are Americans who flew to North Korea, did documentaries secretly and everything too. You can't film. You can't have a camera crew. Everything is dictated bad word or not to show you exactly what you're able to see. There are certain websites you can't even look at in North Korea. Right. You are. You are the. The propaganda of. This is what it is. This is what it will be. I think a good movie of it is, what's that one with Seth Rogen? And when they go to North Korea. You know what I'm talking about.

[Louis Lewis]

I don't watch a lot of movies. Sure.

[Ryan]

Can I offer a reflection on what I've heard so far?

[Louis Lewis]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

I mean, I think that the Blowback podcast helped me unlearn a lot of the propaganda we've been taught about Korea. For example, my grandfather was with Chesty Puller at the Chosin Reservoir, and they both should have stayed home.

[Mike]

Okay, I got you. But again, that's bigger than us, right? We. We. We joined, we put the uniform on, we did things that were bigger than us at the time. Whether. And I remember you said earlier, I might quote you wrong, but you said you. You joined at a younger age. I don't know if you want to say it. You probably remember it, where you were, you weren't. Your stability, mental stability wasn't up to par. Or something along those lines.

[Louis Lewis]

Sure.

[Ryan]

The human brain doesn't have the cognitive biological maturity until around 25 years old. So I'm unconvinced that we can provide informed consent to a life, kill and death contract if our brains aren't fully developed yet.

[Mike]

Okay, so if.

[Louis Lewis]

One second, I got a super chat. Capitalism at work. You don't have to answer these, Ryan, but one of them. I would like to hear you answer the second one. You don't. What was your MOS? Yes, can you answer that one?

[Ryan]

My MOS was 4066 Small Computer System Specialist. I'm at ASVAB, D Lab and EDPT Commando, and my disability rating is between me and the va.

[Louis Lewis]

Understood? Yep, understood. Okay, so you did computer work. What was it? One more time for so I can put it in my head.

[Ryan]

4066 Small Computer System Specialist data calm baby. You can talk about us, but you can't talk without us 100%.

[Mike]

And again, so anything that you do in the Marine Corps, whether you deployed to Bali, Japan, Italy, I had all those deployments as well. Right. You are still contributing to some something, the bigger picture.

[Louis Lewis]

Right.

[Mike]

Whether you go to war or not. Okay. I think I was very fortunate. And you're not going to agree with this, I was very fortunate to go to war at a young age to understand and realize, you know, what takes taking a life is. And I know Mike said it before he said, I believe I'm gonna quote you wrong as well, but thank God you never had.

[Louis Lewis]

No, I'm glad I didn't kill anybody. Absolutely glad I didn't kill anybody.

[Mike]

So there. I'm not the type of person that boasts about things like this, but there was. There was times where things had to happen. Right. And I had to make a decision. But there's also times where I had the decision to make and I didn't have to. And I did it right. We had a tower that looked over a certain area and if you were out past a certain time, you caught around because they were back laying us with IEDs and a whole bunch of other things that right when we walked out of the wire, we would get blown up. So what country was that? That was in Afghanistan. Thank you. We were the last unit in that area. We kind of broke it down. And of course, as we were leaving, they started messing us up. So it seemed like they were pushing us out type thing. Now were we supposed to be there? Not sure. That wasn't my. That wasn't my point. That wasn't my. My reasoning. That wasn't the reason why I went, okay, there's actually a really good picture. I wish I could have found it. It was a young boy looking at the Twin towers on the tv falling. Right. And then the next picture is. It looks like it's in like Afghanistan or something in poppy field. And on the back of his helmet it says, my whole life, I plan to kill you. Or something along those lines. Right. I remember the day the Twin towers happened. Well, conspiracy, whatever happens, who said what, Whatever it is at that time, I put all of my anger and everything into that deployment. Okay, good. Right. Pattern different. That's what happened. Again, I was not developed. I was not, you know, who I am today. But what I can tell you, the positive thing out of me going on that deployment, it made me the leader who I am today. Okay. I have done some very incredible things in the Marine Corps. I picked up the rank of staff sergeant in seven years, which in my job as an O3, you don't get into your 12, 13 years. And I was very, very fortunate to be put in certain spots. Got to instruct, got to do a whole bunch of really cool things. And I learned more about myself than anything else then going to be a cop, the full nine and being able to talk to people and have that life experience just like you have life experience. You, you've seen things, you've brought that into what you have now. So my next question is like if you could pull up a picture of the name tapes for me. When did you lose? This is my question and it quotes on there. Regardless of what I may have accomplished or experienced with the reminder or remainder of my life, nothing this world even remotely compares to the feeling of cut off. I think it was something of long lines of my dad's name on my chest. When did you lose? That is my, my question.

[Ryan]

Yeah, thank you so much. That's a 10 years, you know, that's a 10 year old post. And as human beings we do grow, we do mature, our perspectives do change. I think there's been a lot that's happened in the last 10 years.

[Cece]

Right.

[Ryan]

Kind of realizing that WMDs in Iraq were nowhere to be found. OIF is the greatest fraud of the 21st century. Over a million Iraqis, innocent Iraqis were slaughtered for the zionist fraud of WMDs. OEF was a 20 year American heroin colony. And I'm sorry that you know, these sort of greater goods or causes bigger than ourselves were for the Epstein investors of the military industrial complex and these genocidal depraved Zionists, not for these abstract ideas of freedom or democracy. I think there are much better moral approaches to learning leadership skills than morally bankrupt invasions and occupations.

[Louis Lewis]

Can I step in just one quick. And I know how you feel about the military. We've talked a lot. Why leave that picture up if you're so anti government, anti Marine Corps And I know it's part of your life and I get father's name and all that, but all that aside, like I removed all my police pictures on a cop anymore and I kind of have a different stance on things. Why if you're. And I'm not obviously against policing, but why leave that up if you're so against the concept of war military and the Marine Corps values and what they stand for now with your developed brand, why would you leave that picture up?

[Ryan]

Yeah, that's a good question. Could like, before I joined the Marine Corps, I was probably like a far right sort of individual. Okay.

[Louis Lewis]

Yeah.

[Ryan]

Believe it or not, when I got out of the military, I was a right wing, proud patriot, you know, and then I went to, you know, community college on the GI Bill, took a sociology class and started to, to learn.

[Mike]

So do you think as well. And I agree 100%, like, I appreciate you keeping the posts up because it shows, you know, your development as a human, as a man, you know, and again, I respect, you know, communism, the full nine.

[Louis Lewis]

I respect communism.

[Mike]

I respect his, I respect his, his, I respect his view on it because the fact that that's yours, I can't, I can't tell you. No, you're wrong.

[Louis Lewis]

That's his view. The fact that his brain can make its own decisions.

[Mike]

Yeah, yeah. And again, okay, I, I, I don't

[Louis Lewis]

want you clip saying you're communist, but,

[Mike]

but at the same time, the asshole

[Louis Lewis]

in the middle was going to love to play that. It's everybody, the peach.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Louis Lewis]

Loves communism.

[Mike]

I'm gonna say this with the utmost respect.

[Louis Lewis]

Oh, 100, here comes something very disrespectful.

[Mike]

Nope, nope, nope. Not at all. I think I thank you as an order to anybody who's ever deployed and even yourself, even yourself. Because you said you only did these deployments and somebody who's irrelevant now said those aren't real deployments. They were real deployments. You contributed to a bigger place, to a bigger thing. Whether you believe it now or you don't. I still have those. The ethos and the spirit of core in me because it may be the man who I am today. If you still want to represent the Marine Corps to get whatever it is, I support it. You know why? Because that's the reason why I did it. So people like you, people like me can come onto these podcasts, come onto certain things and talk about different ideas and debate or whatever it is. And I guarantee you thought I was going to come on and I was going to bash you. That's not the case. Not the case.

[Louis Lewis]

That's the only reason I brought him. Yeah, he's getting sent out of here right after the show ends.

[Mike]

But at the same time, I guarantee you this is probably a lot better interview than your last one. You're not going to rattle me. It doesn't work like that. I'm still waiting on, I'm still waiting on answers that I haven't gotten right. And that's the difference.

[Ryan]

Well, it's hard to kind of like.

[Mike]

It's not hard. It's a very, very simple question. At what, at what point, at any country that I named, can you go on any corner and speak your, speak your mind without being arrested, be out being tortured, be out putting in prison, work camps, everything? Because I'm telling you right now, I promise you, you go to North Korea and you sit on any corner, pull out any camera, you're immediately going to go into a work camp because it's happened. We've had, we have Americans that are still in captivity there. Now they're working to get back because they were journalists.

[Louis Lewis]

Give him a second.

[Ryan]

What do you think the conditions are for like working class people in South Korea these days? Have you seen Squid Games?

[Mike]

You know, that's, it's a, like stuff. Not real. It's a TV show.

[Ryan]

South Korea is an oligarchy very similar to the United States where a few families have the vast majority of the wealth. Working class conditions for South Koreans are like a basically a late stage capitalist hellscape.

[Mike]

Have you been to South Korea?

[Cece]

Absolutely.

[Ryan]

Two times. And I was supposed to go on 9 12, 2001. Also. I was active duty in Okinawa on 9 11.

[Mike]

Okay. Yeah, see, I was in Okinawa and everything too. And I've worked alongside of the, the South Korean army and. Are you kidding me right now?

[Louis Lewis]

Just keep going.

[Mike]

Okay. And you know, I again, I, again, I might have been. So I'm talking about something else, not you.

[Louis Lewis]

Okay, you can see it too.

[Mike]

Okay, cool.

[Louis Lewis]

So you can see the toxic masculinity in the middle.

[Mike]

Yeah, I'm just trying to get, I'm

[Louis Lewis]

just trying to get a spot on here. Across the whole show.

[Ryan]

Hey, can I ask, can I ask one question for my Marine Corps comrade? Hey, brother, why do you think we are forced to learn about Smedley Butler and his two medals of honor, but the fact that he was an anti imperialist and a socialist is omitted because

[Mike]

the fact that it doesn't matter what your color, race, religion, beliefs are when you're put into a conflict. And a point of I have to help the people next to me or something bad's gonna happen. He made a decision and it was a great one and he came out

[Ryan]

on top in terms of not mattering what race we are. Would you agree that the light green, dark green phenomenon in the Marine Corps benefits veterans of privilege? Because the Marine Corps is the absolute worst in terms of racial disparities in punishment and promotion.

[Mike]

I don't think that's true at all because I Had blacks on my Dark Marines. Sorry.

[Louis Lewis]

On my panel on this show, you can say black.

[Mike]

Okay. Blacks on my panel. And I. I got beat by them. I got. I got. I got slaughtered by them because it doesn't

[Ryan]

experience.

[Louis Lewis]

I gotta let the boss here. He's over there pretending. Let Tyler get some words in.

[Mike]

I just have real quick.

[Louis Lewis]

We kind of glazed over the whole. Mike gave you a pass with the whole. You don't have to answer the VA compensation thing. The correct answer should have been zero.

[Ryan]

Nothing.

[G Money]

I take.

[Louis Lewis]

You hear nothing.

[G Money]

What?

[Louis Lewis]

You can't hear it? We can all hear it.

[Mike]

Yeah, I can hear it.

[Louis Lewis]

All right. What he's saying is, I gave you a pass on the VA question. Your answer should be zero because you basically hate America. That's what he said.

[Ryan]

I don't. I don't have.

[Mike]

Can you hear me now?

[Ryan]

Rating. And that's.

[Louis Lewis]

Can you hear him? Can you hear Tyler?

[Ryan]

Negative.

[Louis Lewis]

Oh, man. All right, well, yeah, Mike, just ask him, because I honestly feel like that

[Ryan]

should be a. I don't have a disability rating. Veterans guilt for not experiencing combat is not a raable sort of experience.

[Dominic Izzo]

Okay, so it's zero.

[G Money]

All right.

[Ryan]

Okay.

[Louis Lewis]

Zero. Okay, so you had your zero, but it's still between you and your. Your yourself. Unless that's the honest answer.

[Ryan]

Yeah, I'm a zero percenter.

[Louis Lewis]

Okay.

[Mike]

All right, so that's it. I'm gonna get back to my shoulder ranges. Go yourselves.

[Louis Lewis]

Please work harder because you're not looking very big. Louis Lewis said he's looking bigger this morning.

[Mike]

God.

[Louis Lewis]

All right, remove him, Louis.

[Mike]

All right, so we got.

[Louis Lewis]

We got zero minutes. You got about 30 seconds left.

[Mike]

If I were to get a GoFundMe going right now, okay. And I were to get. You pick anywhere in the world you want to go, but you have to stay there and you never come back, would you take that offer? Whoever you want to take with you. GoFundMe. I pay the full entire thing. You never come back to America. Would you do it?

[Ryan]

Let's put the money on the table and see where that goes.

[Louis Lewis]

Now our audio is. Hold on, hold on.

[Mike]

I'm sorry.

[Louis Lewis]

It's not you. It's the whole system. One second. Yard. All right, speak now.

[G Money]

Good.

[Ryan]

Ryan, I said let's put the money on the table and see what happens then. Until then, I also believe that love it or leave it is lazy. Okay.

[Mike]

Okay.

[Louis Lewis]

All right, We. Ryan, thank you so much again for coming on. I appreciate it. Get some sleep next week before you come on. I'll be gone, so you just it's all out. You see? I'm the nicest one. So you'll have Tyler next week? I can't control what he does. I'll be on a cruise, spending my capitalistic money. Take care, buddy. Hit the break, Louis.

[Mike]

Thanks, Ryan.

[Louis Lewis]

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[Ryan]

Flexner Report, funded by John D. Rockefeller

[Louis Lewis]

and the Carnegie foundation, re engineered medical education from a holistic whole body approach, which appropriately treated the body as an interconnected system, to a compartmentalized approach.

[Ryan]

Under the guise of specialized medicine, they

[Louis Lewis]

shut down or consolidated medical schools, marginalized

[Ryan]

naturopathic, homeopathic and chiropractic medicine, replacing them with symptom management and synthetic drugs.

[Mike]

Allopathy is a marketing strategy rooted in fear and manipulated science.

[Ryan]

This philosophy carried into veterinary medicine, resulting in over vaccination, unnecessary surgeries and manufactured

[Louis Lewis]

food, just like they did for people. They call it care, but it's predatory and based in profitability. The truth, toxicity, compromised immunity and chronic inflammation.

[Ryan]

They're not fate, they're engineered.

[Louis Lewis]

And so is your power to undo them. We built three targeted formulas to return the body to homeostasis for pets and

[Ryan]

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[Louis Lewis]

We are the correction to decades of corruption. We are vengeance. And we're back.

[Mike]

Yes.

[Louis Lewis]

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[Dominic Izzo]

That's because my slot.

[Mike]

We're good.

[Cece]

Good.

[Dominic Izzo]

It's because my slider was off.

[Louis Lewis]

Dude, you got. You look sharp today, dude.

[Dominic Izzo]

I always look sharp.

[Louis Lewis]

I'm waiting for the shirt again. Dude, the jacked and tan man.

[Dominic Izzo]

Oh my God, dude, that's. That's Mike Sing.

[Louis Lewis]

I can't.

[Dominic Izzo]

Mike?

[Louis Lewis]

Yeah, Mike the Jersey Shore guy. No.

[Dominic Izzo]

Yeah, yeah. Something like. I don't know, Tan sure as hell no. It's Chicago out here no no tan Jack.

[Louis Lewis]

What's the temp outside?

[Dominic Izzo]

36 but it feels like it's 22 it's supposed to be high at 59.

[Louis Lewis]

Keep that so yeah talk to me

[Dominic Izzo]

what do you want to know dude? So dog eat dog world and I'm wearing melt bone underwear Come on nothing's

[Louis Lewis]

new we'll talk about cops Peach is a huge fan of yours over here sitting next to me he wants to

[Mike]

say hello Dominic, what's going on sir.

[Dominic Izzo]

Thanks man There you go thanks I appreciate that huge fan.

[Louis Lewis]

So Dominic we were talking we always talk cop stuff what is your take

[Dominic Izzo]

on I'm so uncomfortable when you call me Dominic now bothers me I bored

[Louis Lewis]

him beforehand that he has to call you yeah all right I'll call you

[Dominic Izzo]

whatever there's a difference it's my friends

[Louis Lewis]

get to call me down okay so I mean I'll consider myself a friend so Dominic what is your so we talk about cop stuff we'll leave that out we beat that up last night what's your take on this? Israel, United States, Iran.

[Dominic Izzo]

What is your I don't have a dog or pony showing the plan I am America first and only I don't give a I'm tired of being the world's police I went down the rabbit hole when now I I have zero military experience my only regret in life was never becoming a marine and it was there was two reasons I didn't number one I I wore glasses back no contacts and glasses when I was a kid and I was terrified where those big coke bottle glasses and back then you know I I you couldn't pay me I couldn't birth control glasses oh my God I didn't have a problem with that man women wouldn't touch me for anyways oh I was such a nerd and I couldn't in a bathroom that didn't have stall doors or didn't know no doors now oh my God I don't give a whatever right in the middle of Times Square the

[Louis Lewis]

whole flying thing would have probably been a problem too if they tried to send you overseas I don't think I

[Dominic Izzo]

was that big of a back then I don't think it was till later on I think my fear of heights came from a stupid thing I got in a fight with a guy in the middle of winter on a second story apartment a frame roof and it was like slippery and and and when I looked down because my partner's down there I'm like how the did I I think that's when they kind of kicked in. It was kind of like a dumb. Yeah, it was like Indiana Jones and the snakes. That was all. No, I, I went down the, the rabbit hole in was October 7th. Was it three years ago? Was that what happened when Israel was attacked?

[Louis Lewis]

Yes, it's October 7th. I don't remember the exact year, but yeah.

[Dominic Izzo]

And I was like everyone else where I didn't understand or look at this, this Jew hatred. And I, I was online looking left and right and at the time, you know, I knew somewhat personally Stu Peters. I was on the same network as he was that he, that he us all over on before ditching everybody. And I watched him.

[Louis Lewis]

He's Jewish.

[Dominic Izzo]

Jewish 2 Peters.

[Louis Lewis]

No. Yeah. Oh, okay.

[Dominic Izzo]

Peters is a bail bondsman, rapper, podcaster who reinvented himself into like one of the most right wing extremist, anti Jewish people on the planet. And I couldn't believe. I was raised Catholic and I'm a Christ follower. I'm Christian. And I was like, dude, you can't. Oh my God, what? These are God's chosen people. And then I started asking questions and you go down that whole route, you can't ask questions. Worth. Initially my statement was was when it comes because you do, you can't pinpoint, right? Is it, are the Jews a people, are they an ideology, are they a culture, are they a religion? And the answer is yes, for whatever purpose they want. I went down the whole aspect of all right, I don't support a people who think that my Lord and savior is burning in a vat of urine and feces and semen in. In hell and they don't support him. So okay, as far as the Jewish faith and religion, no, I don't support them is what it is. But then you have Israel, the government. I never paid attention to what's going on until, you know, I started to look at all these politicians who are Israel first got Ted Cruz, who he went to Congress specifically to be the most pro Israel congressman in the.

[Louis Lewis]

What?

[Dominic Izzo]

What? Or you what was it? Who was it Brian Mass? Was that him who wore an Israeli military uniform?

[Louis Lewis]

Not government.

[Dominic Izzo]

When I started to see things like that, it's an instant knee jerk reaction of no, I do not support any other country that infiltrates its way into our nation. And that goes for Palestine as well too because I wasn't a fan of Rashida Talib or anybody else standing up in Congress making all their about Palestine. So to be honest, I'm at a point where I think a lot of Americans are. I don't care if Israel gets wiped off the fucking globe if Palestine does, if Iraq does, I don't care. They don't affect me in my daily life when I step outside in the northwest suburbs of Chicago. And until I find out that they do somehow, I'm not going to care.

[Louis Lewis]

Well, and I think you make a very interesting point there is if, if we're cool with somebody, it's okay to wear their military uniform or their flag around. If we're not cool with them, let's say like, you know, we have this issue with the Minnesota, Somalia, that's not cool with for right. Reasons. Somalia, horrible things to Americans. But if we're cool with them, it's like, oh, we'll let that flag in. That flag can come in. But then you got the blue, you know, America, we, America the flag. We can't do anything but America. But it seems like. But Israel's okay, we'll let, we'll let that flag and we'll let you know, Ukraine became a huge thing. Everybody's wearing Ukraine flags everywhere around. But it's like selective enforcement. Right. Like all of a sudden those ones are okay, but nothing else is. But then on the other side of the mouth they say America, America, America, America. It's only America. So it's a very strange.

[Dominic Izzo]

Somebody wore a Hugo esque boss or Hugo Boss esque type of uniform in Congress.

[Louis Lewis]

Yeah. It would probably not go over well. Yeah. So it's like if we're cool with them, it's okay.

[Dominic Izzo]

Are we with Israel? Yeah, I don't, I'm not, I'm not. I got out of the politics a couple years ago. I'm tired of it.

[Louis Lewis]

Did you see the Tucker Carlson situation interview?

[Dominic Izzo]

I watched him interview Ted Cruz and Mike Huckabee.

[Louis Lewis]

No. Recently. Did you know what happened with Ted? You, you're, you're so, you're out of loop. What happened was with the. Let the allegations are, is Tucker Carlson was in the White House the end of February and they actually gave him information on purpose. And they're alleging that Tucker Carlson leaked it back to Iran. He's so, he's anti, he's huge against Israel. And then he made a video last week saying I might be arrested by the CIA because I leaked. That's also. Who's the guy that just resigned, Kent? Yeah, yeah, that's counterterrorism guy resigns. All of a sudden he's like, I can't get behind President Trump. And then all of a sudden he's got maybe issues coming as well. So these guys, you know, there's, it's hot in the topic that half, half these guys go, Israel is not our ally. And then everybody. Israel. So it kind of falls, you know,

[Dominic Izzo]

if that's the case. Well, you guys talked about it a couple weeks ago, or maybe it was last week. I don't know what it was. When he talked about, Tyler was talking about Satan runs the earth and all this stuff you can't have, they're not discussions you can't have together. It doesn't make any sense on some tiny little nation having the ball sack of America just tied around the strings. Unless you're going to attach that comment to it. And to be honest, I think that's if you're, if we go down that rabbit hole. Yeah, I think it's completely the synagogue of Satan. It's whole. The ant there. The way that they. I was. What was I watching last time? We're down the YouTube wormhole and all these AI, you know, revelation movies are popping up on YouTube now. And I'm like, I'm gonna check a couple out, see how many are biblical accurate. And this kind of, that I'm going, well, you know, wait a second, man. We need world conflicts to happen in order to anti usher in the Antichrist who's going to come and, you know, usher in peace. So how do we know that Israel's not getting us involved in another war? It's going to be the war of all wars. So the Antichrist can come over and go.

[Louis Lewis]

Like talked about this morning was Israel attacked a part of Iran that Trump came out and they weren't supposed to do that. We didn't know they were going to do that. Now these are supposed to be our ally. We're right. We're over there, you know, we're, we're together. That led to Iran then attacking Qatar and Qatar's on the outside going, wait a second, like, so Trump comes out and says, like, I didn't want this to happen. They didn't tell me. And that that starts to lend me to the issue of everybody but one side of the aisle. Oh, Israel, Israel's ours. You know, we have to support Israel. So part of America say that, but then Israel does something that leads to an issue and it's like, even Trump kind of glazes over. Like, if it was anybody else, these guys, you know, Trump would be off the rocker about, you know, throwing his balls around here. He kind of tiptoes well, I didn't think they would do that. I didn't want to, you know, it's just a bizarre situation I think we'll never really get an answer to.

[Dominic Izzo]

I think everybody already knows the answer.

[Louis Lewis]

Yeah, I think they own the four, four major news network or four major TV networks are owned by.

[Dominic Izzo]

What is it? It's Occam's Razor theory. Like all things being equal, the simplest answer is the truest. So if that's the case, then it. How hard. I was interviewed for Vice News years ago, the whole QAnon phenomenon. They took like two, two out two hours and five minutes of an interview with me and they, they, they, they melted it down into four minutes and made me look like the biggest transphobic racist on the planet. And they're kind of accurate. And I looked at. And I'm. One of the statements I made was, is I was hoping that all the things about QAnon and Adrenochrome and all this were real. Because if that's the case, then it proves that people are worshiping Satan and therefore that proves Satan exists. And if you prove Satan exists, then by default you have to 100% acknowledge Jesus Christ is Lord and savior. There. No, that's it. So there's a part of me on this where it's like, you know, let this happen. Because the simplest answer is if we're getting into these ridiculous wars and there's child sex, pedophilia all over the place, to say that literally then means it, oh, it's satanic, it's satanic. Everyone wants to say it's Satanic, but nobody wants to say it's Satan running. It's Satan running. It's the simplest answer on the planet. And I guess when you hit that level of like, oh, that's it, you find, you find like a comfort in and go, I got faith and everything else works out. So I don't give a. Yeah.

[Louis Lewis]

And that's, that's obviously what I mean. Obviously in the Bible the really bad thing has to happen for every him to come back and fix it. And if you're looking around right now, it's not looking very good. Like things are looking like we're headed that way. But if somebody like you that has faith, then you know this is part of what's supposed to happen. And you're, you feel.

[Dominic Izzo]

I just want to. I'm. The only thing that really, really bothers me is there's no proof of the Rapture in the Bible. So like I don't want to be stung by one of those horse sized scorpions because it says like you get Stung by him. And it's like you're going to wish for death, but death is not going to come out. I'm like that man. I don't like pain as is.

[Mike]

So do you, do you believe when it comes down to this whole ordeal and talking about the devil and everything too, do you believe maybe some people see us or let's make a simplicity like Trump being the devil, since this is kind of pushed on him and his start of everything.

[Dominic Izzo]

No.

[Mike]

Whatever. After.

[Louis Lewis]

No.

[Dominic Izzo]

Every. I think Hollywood did the greatest thing in the world when it comes down to deception so that we wouldn't recognize Satan when he decides to appear or whatever. The devil's always portrayed as the rough version of Barack Obama or, or red and horns and all this. And biblically, anybody knows that Lucifer, Satan is the most beautiful creature ever created in the history of history. And I think what they did was when it comes to creating these demons, how they look and all these devils, and you're, you're getting the negative side of it so that we would associate ugliness and, and the dregs of the earth as something to avoid so that when the devil finally shows up and he is like John F. Kennedy Jr. Gorgeousness, handsome, androgynous, and we're like, what the is this? And we go gravitating towards that, we won't be afraid of him. So, no, I think that everything like that that you're describing is the knee jerk reaction to kind of what's. What's that saying again? It's like the greatest trick the devil pulled is convincing the world he doesn't exist. Well, yeah, when you got his pawns out there all taking credit for his. He's laughing behind the scenes going, oh, they don't know it's me yet.

[Louis Lewis]

Yeah, I was gonna drop a marriage joke in there, but I don't want to get beat up later. So. She's got a big butt. Bill's got a big butt and some high heels and some other things. Right.

[Dominic Izzo]

She's the devil.

[Louis Lewis]

The devil has to be a female. It has to. Well, and then the other topic we've been on, obviously you're on the, the female. It's Happy Women's month and we've been beaten out with a dead horse. Anything new? Anything new since last night?

[Dominic Izzo]

You know, I, I know. And God, I don't.

[Louis Lewis]

It's.

[Dominic Izzo]

Everybody thinks I'm, you know, a misogynist and clearly I guess I am or anti female.

[G Money]

And I'm not.

[Dominic Izzo]

I'm just, I don't believe I do believe that it's, it's. It's a man's job to keep females safe. I mean, men were created especially as husbands to be protectors and providers. I mean that's literally our role in life. And females have done such a good job to leverage their snatch to pussify men. And men just. Oh, I mean that's how I lived all my 20s, 30s, and up until mid-40s.

[Louis Lewis]

Right.

[Dominic Izzo]

Females could do no wrong. I think that it's just, it's a counter correction of, of the, the, the role we dropped as men to protect women. And I don't, I, I don't apologize for my approach that, no, women shouldn't be cops. Women shouldn't be this, women shouldn't be that. Because clearly you didn't listen to the tough love that we said and said, hey, you know, I love you and I don't want you to get hurt in this thing now it's. You don't belong. It's like, you ever see Harry and the Hendersons?

[Louis Lewis]

Oh yeah.

[Mike]

Oh yeah.

[Dominic Izzo]

At the end where he's trying to get rid of Harry and he won't go and he won't go anywhere. So finally punches him in the face. Get out of here. I don't want you. Nobody wants you here. Same. And he's crying as he's doing it. That's a great move, by the way. It's like that's the same thing. If I have to be the loud misogynist and butterfly effect down the road, some Broaden Ohio who's 4 foot 11 decides, well, I'm not gonna go be a cop because, you know, Izzo's gonna put me up on his Facebook after my department posts it. And that saves her from being shot in the line of duty or shooting and killing somebody who maybe just required a firm handshake then I don't give a simple as that.

[Mike]

What do you think it's gonna take for say, this movement to hit command staffs and the admin? Is it gonna take multiple women dying to, you know.

[Dominic Izzo]

No, there's only one.

[Mike]

I agree. 100 what you're saying. I'm not questioning anything. I'm just. I see it day in and day out and I have experienced it myself and it's. Nobody's getting the hint and they're just failing after failing after failing. But because this whole 30 by 30 that just seems to be the agenda and not let's save lives and prevent lives from being taken by not hiring this person.

[Dominic Izzo]

You. There's a solution. The solution can't happen. Right? And that's the current guys who are on stepping up and fighting and command staff is powerless. The second the rank and file sits there and says, no, we're not. These are. This is, this is unlawful or whatever the case would be, or it's dangerous or safe, but you can't.

[Louis Lewis]

Right?

[Dominic Izzo]

When I went after my department and I stood up for what I want, I wanted, what I believed in, it was easy. It was easy to, hey, resign. We're going to fire you. You fire me. It was easy to have no paycheck on the planet because I was responsible for me and me alone. How they get you, no man will step up. They'll slide in Mike's DMS. The slide in my DMs. If you talk about this. A slide in yours? Yeah, brother. You're saying what we all want to. I don't have an ounce of respect for you, you know that this girl coming on cannot pass fto. She's a danger. But you're not going to say because then they're going to put a target on your back. And then now you're the one. You're the one who had three kids, a mortgage, you know, two, three cars, all this stuff. And the second they fire you from your job, they're going to take your paycheck and your identity. What are you going to do? That's how they. That's how they keep this system going.

[Louis Lewis]

I always know that because whenever I post a knock on women like I did yesterday, it gets half the likes that it does. Shares, because everybody shares it. They don't. They don't want to be seen liking it.

[Mike]

It's funny you say that too, because when JoJo was my sergeant, we had a. It wasn't a female. I don't think we had anybody females in that squad besides JoJo. But it was a very, very weak male that we had. I'm talking like 80 pounds. I'm gonna drop his name. I don't care. Wimmers. Remember Wimmers? Yep. So we had a problem with this kid basically over and over. He was my zone partner. JoJo was like, Hey, I need you to, like, guide this kid. I don't know how he made it through fto. Okay, So I was basically letting him know, hey, man, I'm just giving you a heads up. I'm watching you. I'm not a surprise. I'm not sneaking behind anybody's back. Anything you do wrong with me is going to be documented because that's what I'M going to do. I'm going to protect myself. I'm going to go home. Eventually got to a point to where I just used a sergeant. Everybody thinks you have to go to full command staff to get things done. I just use a sergeant like, hey, this is what happened. You might want to look at this body cam. We went to a death investigation. He didn't touch the body. He didn't do what we were supposed to by procedures. We got into a handcuff situation fight with this one guy. He basically backed off completely and let me fight this guy alone. End up getting put. I think got put to like dispatch and then end up leaving. But like that's all it took was, hey, I don't feel comfortable with this person next to me. And a good command would be like, all right, well show me why you don't. All right, well, the body can't prove

[Louis Lewis]

itself and that's the right way to do it. And I think Dominic and I agree. You do that to a female and the place is getting their pants.

[Dominic Izzo]

You can't do it to a male.

[Louis Lewis]

You can't do. It's hard to do it to male.

[Mike]

Very difficult.

[Dominic Izzo]

It was the key word you just said good command. How many good commands are out there?

[Mike]

Well, even, even under that command was terrible. But I had somebody, I would say, I mean, I don't know situation now, but at the time had a little. Not. Wouldn't say pull. But she was in a spot to where people. There was trust there. Was she. Anything she said was. Was gospel. It was a good. It was a good environment until everything just started going the wrong way. But you know, if I told, if I were to say it to captain, nobody cares, right? So I just use my chain of command. I'm like, hey, here's the proof, here's the evidence. This isn't working. This is a liability.

[Louis Lewis]

And that should be. That's where there should be some type of oversight board that it's hard to. In a perfect world, you just elect Dominic and I as sheriff and under sheriff, we get it all done. In the non perfect world, there has to be some level of oversight with somebody with power to say I made this clear. Like somebody that's. That can't get fired. You know, somebody that's protected to say we've had 33 complaints on this officer. Hey, sheriff or chief, he's got to go like there's no way around it sometimes. And I'm not talking like a civilian oversight board. The problem with this whole story is there's still human influence. There's dudes that are. Do it for the wrong reason. Like it's a very hard slope to get down because you have the human factor of ill intentions that go throughout this. So it would take like a group of people that you really could trust to say we're going to have direct line to a command staff and say this person has been recommended multiple times, couple times like he's got to go or she's got to go. And it's just a massive problem that I don't know how you fix it. But that. That would be a start to me would be some type of board oversight that's in the agency that you can trust and that almost like a supreme court. Even though they can be jaded. Some type of reliable group of people. I don't know how you get there though. It's just a problem.

[Mike]

We've even had females that had. We had a female that had an only fat.

[Louis Lewis]

That's normal.

[Mike]

And it got leaked and it became a thing and we're like, how do we work with this chick? Like this subscriber. Civilian. Yeah, like the civilian populace, they're gonna. They're gonna see this and when she rolls up to the door, the first question is going to be like, can I get a picture? If not, you know, what is your problem? And hey, your butthole was just perfect the other day.

[Dominic Izzo]

People are having, you know, people are having.

[Louis Lewis]

Look at our.

[Dominic Izzo]

Look at our favorite guy from Casper. Or parachute. I keep saying Casper, Parachute, Wyoming. Okay, what happens? He shows up to a scene and oh my God, can you dance for me? Can you twirl for me? It's. And it was. It. It did backfire. Like I said back when we first started the whole social media, you know, it was. That was the biggest ego feed on the planet.

[Louis Lewis]

Oh my God.

[Dominic Izzo]

I follow you on Facebook, man. I went from 57 to 65 because you said that. And my ego. Holy. There's an inside.

[Louis Lewis]

I deal with it. I was a tick tock cop, dude. I remember walking up the calls, they're like, hey, you're. I'm like, God damn.

[Mike]

I got it from the patrol. Live stuff. Yeah, all the time.

[Louis Lewis]

All right, Dominic, we appreciate it so much. Tell everybody where they can find you.

[Dominic Izzo]

I got a question. Who's sheriff? Who's sheriff and who's under sheriff?

[Louis Lewis]

You can be sure I'll be there.

[Dominic Izzo]

No, no, dude, I have to be number two because I'm the heavy.

[Louis Lewis]

Okay, all right.

[Mike]

I can see being heavy.

[Dominic Izzo]

Yeah.

[Louis Lewis]

But I'm gonna Let the guys rip black females out of cars that don't.

[Dominic Izzo]

I don't give a. Like I'm the bigger question.

[Mike]

Who's top? Who's bottom?

[Dominic Izzo]

Oh, that's why top all day long.

[Cece]

All right.

[Dominic Izzo]

All right, Dominic, We're Friday and Tuesdays live at 8pm Eastern.

[Louis Lewis]

Cop Talk Live over on YouTube.

[Dominic Izzo]

See you guys.

[Mike]

Yes, sir.

[Louis Lewis]

All right, before we bring anybody else on, I just want to confirm with JA that Air Assault School is the coolest and most grueling three weeks that anybody could ever experience. If you ever get a chance to go to aerosol school, don't pass it up. That badge looks the coolest in the Tower of Power by far. Cece, you ready? Give me a thumbs up if you're ready. Hold on, hold on. Is he ready? Hit it.

[Cece]

Yo, what's going down, boys?

[Louis Lewis]

What's going on?

[Cece]

Chilling like a villain, baby.

[Louis Lewis]

All right, you need a video on Anti. Let me get to Anti here. You're making things.

[Cece]

Yeah, cold. I sent it to you on COP, though, too.

[Louis Lewis]

Oh, all right.

[Cece]

I figured one of them had to be open on your phone.

[Louis Lewis]

This is the one you want with the guy that starts out the weaker thing. I'm gonna download it and then put it so it doesn't have to be on you. I'm gonna download it and upload it, all that cool stuff. What's the update, man? Before we play that video, what are we doing? Where are we at?

[Cece]

All right, so right now, I'm tracking yesterday McDill Air Force Base shut down. That is the home of CENTCOM for a suspicious package. So that's something that's interesting because this keeps happening, keeps happening, keeps happening. So very odd. Something to keep our eyes out on because, as you know, we're not gonna find out about this if it is real. But after the third time, one has to assume, like, is there more to this story?

[Mike]

You think UPS is just getting lazy? Just like dropping the background. Amazon, take the picture midair.

[Louis Lewis]

What do you think about the. Like we talked about the beginning before you were. You're still dreaming of us. What do you think about the Marines being placed over there? He was kind of going over that unit. What do you. What is your take on the Marines being right off the coast now?

[Cece]

I mean, we covered this last week before it even happened, before everybody started talking about them deploying over there. There's a lot of units spinning up right now, and it's going to be more people in the area. CENTCOM is sending a lot of people over there. I think it's just like he's like Peaches was saying earlier, there are people who are there through routine. They were supposed to be there, it's already scheduled, blah, blah, blah, blah. What we really need to look at, and this is my take, is when reserve units start getting pushed up, that to me is an indication that we're ready to be hands on. It's like when you're a cop and somebody tenses up that right leg. You already know it's game time.

[Louis Lewis]

Depends how many times you hit him. Depends on some other factors.

[Dominic Izzo]

His.

[Cece]

His color is similar to mine.

[Mike]

You said it, not us.

[Louis Lewis]

Please. You're good. You can take off. Sir, I apologize. I got that video ready. Wanna play a video?

[Dominic Izzo]

Run it.

[Louis Lewis]

All right. And it's weaker. Why isn't it losing? Everyone keeps saying Iran is getting hit. So then why does it still hit back? You're analyzing the wrong battlefield.

[Cece]

This isn't a strong versus weak war.

[Louis Lewis]

It's centralized versus decentralized power. Most armies are built like kill the leaders, leads to system collapses. Iran built the opposite. No center, no single failure point, no clean victory.

[Cece]

Even if you destroy command, local units still operate, proxies still attack, missiles still launch.

[Louis Lewis]

That's not strength, that's design. Now look at the cost game. A $10,000 drone forces a one million dollar interception. They're not trying to win battles, they're trying to make war too expensive to continue. And then comes the real leverage.

[Cece]

20% of global oil flows near Iran.

[Louis Lewis]

They don't need a clear victory, just enough disruption to unzip, settle the system. Oil spikes, markets, panic pressure shifts from battlefield to global economy. So what are you actually seeing? Not dominance, not victory. It survives impact and spreads the pain. And that's much harder to defeat because how do you win against something that doesn't need to win? Interesting.

[Mike]

Perfect.

[Louis Lewis]

Interesting.

[Cece]

I think

[Louis Lewis]

that's what we're seeing right now. In your opinion, that's. Yes, that's what we're seeing.

[Mike]

So attrition warfare.

[Cece]

Yes.

[Mike]

And I was coming down to.

[Cece]

I would definitely say too. Just. Just for the people who are still a little confused on this. It's the same thing as crypto versus banks. It's decentralized. It's not one point, it's not one person, it's a group, etc. Etc. Etc. And that's what we're up against. And that's what makes this so difficult because it's just like you were talking about earlier. You can have marines in this place, you can have marines in that place. But it's a multi level battlefront that's all around. I mean look at what they just did to Qatar last night. That's 85 of Qatar's revenue that they're actually making profit off of on and they just smoked them overnight.

[Mike]

So we're, we're thinking as Americans or even like top end that we are going to just annihilate them with bombs for mine. It's not gonna happen. Look at Afghanistan. If you look at Iraq, if you look at any other country, what is the main topic that you're trying to fight? Religion.

[Louis Lewis]

Religion.

[Mike]

Think about it.

[Cece]

It's an ideology.

[Mike]

Yeah. You kill one, you killed the top dude. They already have 19 other ones ready to go who are going to be the same exact mindset. You can't kill a religion. You can't. It's been tried. We the Hitler tried to do it, didn't work right. He thought like these people are evil. Whatever it is, let's just annihilate them. Well guess what? We are X amount of years later. They're still here. We can wipe out the Middle East 100% and guess what? People are going to pop up in America that have, they're still in the UK too, right? Yep. But even looking like this, if you look at, it's crazy to me that these, these purple haired idiots in the United States protest about Iran war and all these different things. And then you have people that are from Iran that live in the United States that are waving American flags like thank you for liberating and all these different things. But we're not looking at the long term attrition. And everybody's like we're gonna do, we're gonna be in here for 48 hours. We're gonna get out of here. No, we're already on the third week. How much money has been spent? How much we are being affected? Just gas alone.

[Cece]

Like it took $4 today.

[Mike]

Yeah. Diesel. 530. I drive a diesel truck. Like it's, it's getting expensive. So diesel or when it comes down to diesel, when it comes down to attrition warfare, they are killing it. 100. If we want to knock out a certain thing you have to take all the resources to where you are actually suffocating them to where they cannot survive. They're doing it with our money and we're going to keep printing money and guess what? Our dollar is going to be worth nothing across the entire world.

[Cece]

And the only way for us to even do what we're, what we're trying to accomplish. Because right now, as of you know, two minutes ago, when I look, there are seven countries that are even willing to join us in the Shredder Hormuz to secure it. So first off, what's NATO for. Because only seven countries are willing to do it. And second off, like I said, Bhutan ground and we've been talking about this on antihero for three weeks now. Boots on ground is the only way you're going to secure the straight. Boots on ground is the only way you're going to secure the uranium that we have somewhere under a facility and God knows what mountain in Iran. And the list just keeps going on so on and so forth. The only way that you could even take control of these places is by having boots on the ground. And that's what the, the ramp up.

[Mike]

What exactly does that look like? Right, Like I never did an invasion. I was never, I was never granted the opportunity. I wish I did. But it. What does that look like coming from a MU standpoint? Right. So the MU is the Marine Expeditionary Unit coming from ship to shore securing. I know we were talking about a while ago, you know, Pacific campaign and everything and seizing these small. And China started doing it and as well and building islands to be able to work their way closer to Taiwan etc. Exactly. Right.

[Cece]

They literally built it out.

[Mike]

Exactly. They built an entire iron airstrip to full nine and there's really. You can hear it. They're talking like you are now in, you know, this space. You know, you need to remove yourself. And how does that look as are we going in a mass? Are we going to use special forces? Are we going to use Rangers? 75th? What is that? What do you think that kind of looks like.

[Cece]

I know for sure. I know Marines are always the first ones in if it's not sf. So that would be in my, in my head looking at it strategically, I would say SF100 are the only people qualified to even secure the uranium deposits. We can start there.

[Mike]

Okay. One of those Marines land secure. Just a secure key points. Yes. Just keep foothold in the door and then basically open in that gate. And SF handling business.

[Cece]

I would say SF specifically for uranium because there's a lot of uranium that are in those mountains that need to be secured and SF has been on the spear for that since before we even started the attacks. They're the only person, they're the only people them. And you know those three letter agencies that we're not going to talk about so the screen doesn't go potato are the only people even Capable, in my opinion, of even doing such an operation. But then we have everybody who's in those bases in Kuwait, everybody who's in those bases in, in Saudi, etc.

[G Money]

Etc.

[Cece]

Etc. They're all getting pushed over there. We don't need you here.

[Mike]

We still have, we have Africa, we have Italy, we have a whole naval air station in Sigonella. You know, they're not far. Right. Like, again,

[G Money]

yeah.

[Mike]

And I'm telling you, the Marine Corps really good about putting why am I getting deployed to, or why am I going to get stationed in Italy? Like, you have no idea. But if you look at the bigger picture, any place across the, the world, we have people at, like, major bases, you know, that we share with NATO and we have, you know, Marine set, SF guys set. There's a reason why there's FS or Special Forces guys that are assigned to certain regions. It's not like, you know, Seal Team 6 where they can bring up, go anywhere. It's the Seal Team 1. You are assigned a certain region for a certain point and you're training for that, you know, whatever the outcome or whatever the conflict will be. But the mew. The MEW is the, it's, it's a, it's mass. Like the things that you can do in a certain amount of time. I mean, they have Amtraks, they have tanks, they have everything you can possibly need. And on top of that, I was saying earlier, like, in Norway, we have all of our resupplies for the MEW in Norway, which is a quick get them loaded up and get them going, and you can have it within 40 hours.

[Cece]

We're there next day.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Louis Lewis]

What. Earlier I put up that quote from Trump about what is your take on Israel bombing that part of Iran that wasn't supposed to happen that Trump said he didn't know about? And then they hit Qatar. What, what's your spin on all that?

[Cece]

I, I think Trump, Trump is a business guy, right. And I'm, I'm 99 sure his whole thought process and all of this, and it's the same thing with Venezuela is after this. What can I do to say, okay, the US Got something out of it that made it worth it. That one thing would be the logical liquid gold, oil. So them bombing their oil, just putting him in between. Wait a second, he's like, whoa, whoa, that was ours.

[Louis Lewis]

So what do you take, what's your take on, like, is obviously we have this, you know, huge, you know, ally Israel. What is your take on them doing an operation without consulting Trump I know they don't talk about everything, but something as big as that, that leads to Qatar catching astray. What is your. Like, how do you think that with relations, Trump? Like what. How does that unfold? Or what is. What does that look like?

[Cece]

I think they're so in a. They're so in a corner right now that what's he going to do at this point? Talk bad about Israel and go against him?

[Louis Lewis]

What are you gonna do?

[Cece]

We just signed 40 different laws for anti Semitism.

[Louis Lewis]

Yeah, yeah. What are we gonna do?

[Cece]

Go against apac, X, jfk, how that went for him.

[Louis Lewis]

So he's got to kind of roll with it.

[Cece]

He's rolling with the punches, baby. Israel's gonna do what Israel do. God's chosen people and whatnot.

[Mike]

And again, so I'm looking at one of these comments from Brady and me and Brady talked a little bit, but it says no tanks. USC gave tanks a few years ago and redesign the force, which is 100 true. Right. So the Marine Corps gave up artillery, tanks, and then Scout sniper program. Right. I was an instructor. Got to be very fortunate to help out with the Scout Cyber program. Yeah, it's. It's, it's out. Right. So that's why I pretty much ended up getting out of the Marine Corps. So the big thing about it is we have at Norway, have all these different assets of it just because we gave up xyz. The way the MEW works, they will send an army or a battalion or a company of army cats or whoever you got on a mew. There's not just Marines. You have army dudes on there to support the mew. Everything supports the meal. Everything supports the view. It's not. That's like the, you know, the sole purpose of pretty much the Marine Corps is the mew. And now the newer thing in the past, you know, 10 years, a special purpose mag time stuff. And again, special mag tab was just a little bit quicker of a response than the mew because except going on ships, we would do things from Naval Air Station, signal the one I was on to hit Tripoli and evacuate people or go to Africa and do whatever it is. And alongside of me, I had guys that I still don't know today what they were. If they were SEALs, Delta guys, I have. They were just dudes in kits with no name tapes. They know their names, regular clothes, MP7, hey, cool, you know, and hey, we're gonna hit this target. This is not. They would go in, you hear a couple shots, they come out with a body bag. You don't ask any questions. You don't ask. That's it. Right. But again, like jtax, the full nine. Like you have all of these assets on this one ship and it's, it's, it's. I'll keep saying it's unbelievable the amount of force you can bring to a country. And I think with that ship being there, even though it's pretty much already there now, it's, you know, we made it publicly known. It's just going to be a show of force of like, hey, over here. You want to keep going? Because we're, we're going to keep going. Like, and again, it's gonna be. It's a lot of money. It's a lot of money supporting you. We're not talking just logistic wise. You're talking just in general moving that ship. Ship to shore. The full nine, what that looks like. And I guarantee you they already have seven plans in order contingency for full nine.

[Cece]

It will fail to, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

[Mike]

It will, it will fail. You know, if we don't have a port, we will make one. We don't have bridges, we will make one. And again, that's where you bring in army engineers and all those different things. Everything's going to support the mew. It's going to be a wild one. That's something I would definitely like to see for sure.

[Cece]

Well, we're also, and John made a good point of this. We're also, at some point, I'd be shocked if it didn't happen. Karg Island, I definitely see 75th and the 82nd taking that 100.

[Mike]

100. So that means.

[G Money]

I don't know.

[Mike]

I don't know much about, like, army. Yeah. So by any means. I just. So I know some of their sniper things and. Yes. About it.

[Cece]

So I would say the 75th, they're really good taken like. And Jock, correct me if I'm wrong here, taking those type of landing zones, those type of operations, they're what I would say would be like the all stars major leagues of like an infantry unit.

[Mike]

And that's your Rangers, right?

[Cece]

Yeah, the 75th. So Ranger Regiment, not the Ranger tab. That's a whole other discussion. Yeah, but Carg island is pretty much where they're able to push all their oil out. We secure card, we control the entire area. Besides the straight. Yeah. And then there's also. Because everybody's talking about the shredder who moves the straighter moves. There's also another street on the opposite end of all of that, where it's called Alab, if I'm not mistaken. And Alabab is another place that they have in close yet, but that they're threatening to close. And that's over by Iraq, and Iraq controls that entire area, obviously, through their proxies that Iran funds. Iran is giving billions of dollars in funding to all these people every year, keeping them afloat. So Iran is a domino effect. You take out Iran, you cut the money off, and now you don't have all these problems in all these other countries. The Houthis, al Shabaab, the list goes on. Because they're the ones who are funding between either direct payments, cash, oil, whatever the case may be, and also providing the training and the weapons to all these militias. That's why you have all these people who have all these type of arms instead of their normal, you know, travel warfare, AK47s. And going forward, because.

[Louis Lewis]

Hold on one second. Try do. We're getting, like. We're choppy, so let's do the switcheroony.

[G Money]

Hello.

[Louis Lewis]

Hello? No, it's not you. It's. It's YouTube. Just let me try. Try doing a switcheroony real quick. It's not potato. It's just. They're definitely. They're not happy about the topics. And it's not in house. It's only in. All right, Lou's, back to that one. All right.

[Mike]

Chat better.

[Louis Lewis]

All right, hold on one second. Let me check. Yeah, we're good. All right, so, yeah, super chat there telling us the connection is bad, so we made a dollar 99.

[Cece]

Let's go do it again, boys.

[Louis Lewis]

I don't know where it went. You might have him pop it up, but Efron sent that. Yep, connections back.

[Dominic Izzo]

Should be good.

[Louis Lewis]

Audio.

[Mike]

Is it?

[Louis Lewis]

Is the audio back?

[Mike]

Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo. I said it was my mic.

[Louis Lewis]

I think it was everything having a problem, but are we good? Are we good? Okay, we're good. All right. I got something for Ja Jai. Ready? I want to show him what a uniform should look like.

[G Money]

All right.

[Louis Lewis]

Look at that. Oh, my God, look at that. The tower of Power, baby. Look at that. Yeah.

[G Money]

Huh?

[Louis Lewis]

Look at that. If you ain't aerosol, you ain't living. Look, look at that. Look at that. Tower power, man. Just for job. I wanted to make sure he understood the seriousness of that badge.

[Mike]

See, like, I don't know, man. I. I didn't. I had all the cool badges and everything, too, but it was only in certain uniforms.

[Louis Lewis]

That was it. That was what we wore every day. That's the. That's the.

[Mike]

I just had the.

[Louis Lewis]

That's the beach. And then we called it the Tower of Power. Of Power, buddy. That was. That's the most important badge. No cib, Man, I missed it. I was. You know, I talk about it. I was post Desert Storm, and I was already caught when 9, 11 happened.

[Cece]

And then you said, yeah, I'm not going over there.

[Louis Lewis]

I asked. I mean. I mean, look. Look at this guy, dude. Look at this. Look at this guy right here. Look at that guy, dude. He's ready for war. Ready for war, man. Look at that.

[Mike]

America.

[Louis Lewis]

So, anyway, what else you got for us? What's your take on the female cop thing? We never asked you that. I.

[Cece]

Listen, I know one female cop that's a Marine, and she's the only one that I can co sign because she's a Marine. And she's also getting deployed right now.

[Louis Lewis]

No.

[Cece]

Yeah.

[Louis Lewis]

Oh. Yep.

[Cece]

She is on her way to CENTCOM as we speak.

[Louis Lewis]

Yeah, buddy. Yeah, buddy.

[Mike]

Yeah, I've thought about it, honestly, like, why not. Why not go back to 10 more years, but again, like, run it. I don't even know what the Marine Corps looks like nowadays.

[Louis Lewis]

Looks like that dude we had on earlier.

[Mike]

Yeah. I would hate to go to it and be like, dude, this is bad. Right? And, I mean, I would still go in the same rank. I talked to recruiter about, like, hey, like, would I go back and I'd still go to staff sergeant, the full nine. I even thought about, like, other branches and everything, too, but I couldn't take in other branches because I'd be coming in. It's like, you coming late to the party.

[G Money]

Yeah.

[Mike]

That time I would be at a higher.

[Cece]

Coming at the seven, too.

[Louis Lewis]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Yeah. Coming to the seven and commanding people that have been in the army or whatever longer than me, and I'm just coming in the door. I just don't think that's fair. I don't think that's right. But I'm. Every single day, man. I miss the Marine Corps every day without question. Like, it was the best time I ever had.

[Louis Lewis]

I don't get it. Like, I was talking about we. I was like, I. I don't know. Like, somebody asked me about missing the police work, and I. I enjoyed it.

[Mike]

That's different.

[Louis Lewis]

We were coming down. I was going to the. Me and my wife were going to the mall two days ago. We're going through. Down U.S. 1. A pursuit comes by, like, legit. Dude's going, like, 40. He's out the window. There's like, 30 cops behind him. And it was right near our county line. So, you know, we could, you know, she has an ability to see if it's coming in our county, all that stuff. And she's like, you're not interested? I said, I don't give a. What happens to that car. Like, if it makes the news and I can do a show about it, I can tell you after, you know, I left September of 24, it's gone, dude, it's gone. I would run for sheriff. I would like to, you know, I would definitely want to be sheriff and, and try to re. Redo an agency the right way, because most these guys have politician brains and I have zero politician brains. I have what's right is right, what's wrong is wrong, and everybody goes to jailbrain. So I would like that. But as far as going back to do the job, I just. That has sailed. And I feel good about that. Like, that identity was. It was party. It was done. But I did it, you know, I did like, that's it. I'm good, I'm good.

[Cece]

So I think we could win the election for sheriff just off memes. I'm not gonna lie.

[Louis Lewis]

Well, I mean, it's. The election's in 2028, so we got two years. I don't know. Steroid use. I mean, you know, I mean, the current, you know, I'm not like the current sheriff who was like having, I

[Cece]

mean, you write the policy.

[Louis Lewis]

He was having affairs in his work car and doing all that stuff that men do, you know, that's okay. That's all overlooked. But, you know, boost your testosterone a little bit and you're, you're.

[Cece]

It's over.

[Louis Lewis]

I got the vaccine place, right? I mean, I had to get the jab, so I did a different jab. I vaccinated over and over again, like every month. Made sure I was up to speed.

[Mike]

So the, the video. The video I just sent you.

[Louis Lewis]

Oh, we got another video.

[Mike]

Yeah, this video I just sent you. I did a. It was the. It's like an experimental battalion. I was a part of. One of the questions in here said, I'm 35 now. This is my younger.

[Louis Lewis]

Hold on, hold on. I think this is you.

[Mike]

Yeah. So it's gonna be. Hold on.

[Louis Lewis]

I gotta get it up on. I gotta figure out how to do this. Threw me a curveball screen recorder.

[Mike]

So it was like a experimental battalion. We had these drones, robots, all these different things and utilizing them into an infantry battalion. Right. So self sufficient. I got put out in 29 palms with no water. Or like our daily supply of water. Water. And we had to go out, find it. No battery resupplies, nothing. They see how long we can last. There was like six squads that did it. I was the last of. And I'm nobody special. My squad was phenomenal. I didn't have to do anything with these guys. These guys were great. I think we lasted nine days without any support based off of, you know, solar panels and all these different things that we had. And you'll see in this video, if we're able to pull it out.

[Louis Lewis]

Aerosol, man, we're getting there.

[Mike]

But this is what the future was supposed to look like. And it was pretty neat. But I don't. I don't know how much it actually integrated into what it is now, but

[Louis Lewis]

you look at a bantam honorary Marine.

[Mike]

Yeah. It's going to be the second video. So you scroll past. You'll see.

[Cece]

All right, well, I'll tell you this. I mean, if that, if you were doing that in the Marine Corps, where you're in. I mean, like, it's like everything, right? Everything is slow. At least on the army side of things.

[Louis Lewis]

With the girl next to you.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Louis Lewis]

All right. Molly and I started right where you start.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Louis Lewis]

Let me start right there.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Louis Lewis]

Okay.

[Mike]

Or a little bit before.

[Louis Lewis]

Molly, Percocet, Jason, Chick.

[Mike]

So it was like 110 degrees out. This lady could. I'm like, look, I'm doing this in one take. Like, I'm, I'm. I'm not doing this 20 times. I have stuff to do. It took her like nine takes to do this. And I was just. You can see in my face. I was just pissed. Like, I got it.

[G Money]

Pissed.

[Louis Lewis]

We're getting there. Lewis. Lewis is having a malfunction over there because I'm. I got it. Lewis. I'm trying. Let me drive. All right, we're almost there.

[G Money]

No, no, no.

[Louis Lewis]

Technical difficulty. Here we go. Ready?

[Mike]

Yeah.

[G Money]

As the Marine Corps Experimental Force.

[Cece]

That's him right there.

[G Money]

29 palms dark horse is participating in the MAGTAF integrated experiment. The core reports very own Lance Corporal Molly Hampton is on the ground with more.

[Mike]

Hey, everyone. I'm Lance Corporal Molly Hampton and I'm here at the combat center in 29 palms integrative experiments. Mix 16 is the Marine Corps Warfighting Labs experiment which has 21st century concepts

[G Money]

and capabilities in a real time warfare

[Mike]

scenario likely to be seen in the future. Today we have Sergeant Kevin Peach, a squad leader with 3 5, here to tell us why. MiG 16. Take it away, Sergeant. So the MiG 16 is probably the most realistic thing you're going to get to combat. It's 120 degrees out here, we're sweating our asses off and we're kicking indoors doing what runs do. On top of all that, we're actually getting all the technology, the drones, the all the vehicles that shoot robots. It's incredible. Now given a squalor, you're giving all that, all that stuff and saying here, go to work. So it's a good time. Thank you for sharing with us. Standby for more cover. So all of those things that we had, the robots, everything too, like they spent millions of dollars. I mean they, we had the Polaris vehicles or they mounted mark 18s on there, 50 cal. So like, all right, like just ride it through the desert, shoot and break everything. And we put it up on H1 0. They refix it for us. We did that for six months and then it just went away. And we never saw it vanished. Like that was supposed to be our integration of like, all right, cool, I can get all this stuff. We proved it worked. They gave us these like light sappy plates that float like we were moving. We did. At 29 palms you do the range 400. It's a company but size fight like you're, you have tanks, you have mortars, everything. There's a full on scale attack. That's a company level. I did it with two squads in a quarter of the time and still accomplish the mission with all of that stuff. Right. I would put the robots up on machine gun hill. They would shoot zero casualties, the full nine. And they're like, no, I don't think we need it. And it's like, what the, what do you mean we can fight this whole war without even command staff, baby. Dude. And like I was, I'm not kidding. I have, I was sitting in front of gunners, generals General at the time. I don't remember who the commandant was at the time, but yeah, like I, I pretty much put everything out there and I got a picture at Star Major Castle and he was out there as well. He's like, dude, this is great. Like I'm, I did, I got, I got a coin. I got. Yeah, yeah. He actually promoted me to sergeant there.

[Louis Lewis]

Actually I was going to draw a picture of a marine. It would be peach in that video. Like if I was going to say what is harder than woodpecker lips? Woodpecker lips, man, that's pretty hard.

[Mike]

No blue pill needed.

[Louis Lewis]

Hey, he said that's 120 degrees out here. I haven't changed in three months.

[Cece]

She's probably all freshly showered.

[Mike]

Great too, man.

[Louis Lewis]

Yeah.

[Mike]

And you know, after like, you know, a couple to deployment, anything looks good. You're like, dude, this chick looks good. And she's ugly too. I was like, damn.

[Louis Lewis]

I wouldn't know. I can only have eyes for my wife, but I can imagine that some of you nasty men would probably.

[Cece]

Those are those desert tens, baby. That's a desert 10.

[Louis Lewis]

Desert. That's a desert 10. Right there are the ones in the Turbidge desert tents too. Did they turn into those?

[Mike]

Oh, you only see their feet, so.

[Louis Lewis]

Oh, you have no idea what they look.

[Cece]

You see, like, the little slints in their eyes.

[Louis Lewis]

That's it. I thought they were taking them off. Aren't they taking them off now if

[Cece]

they want to get hung?

[Louis Lewis]

Hung. Hung sounds very non. Freedom.

[Cece]

There's no. The only. The only person who thinks there's freedom over there is the commie marine and

[Louis Lewis]

a bunch of purple hair people in Seattle that throw stuff walking down the street.

[Mike]

Yeah. It's funny because, like, somebody even said in the comments about Sergeant Major Castle, like, I was getting an award for something or whatever. We're in the big battalion formation. I'm sitting there and I had no idea I was about to get brought up in front of the battalion. And I just feel like this weird presence behind me. I kind of look, and all I saw was Castle, and I was like,

[Cece]

you're like, oh, my wife.

[Louis Lewis]

My wife comes around.

[Mike]

Oh, dude. Like that. That's crazy. And so he walks up shoulders like, you ready for this? And I'm like, whoa, what do you mean I'm ready for what? I'm like, dude, like, I'm about to get my ass chewed. And he's like, nope. And he walked. He was our regimental commander at the time when I was 35 or start major. He walked up full nine. And I was like, can I get a picture with you, man? Like, can you sign my book? Like, I have my book in the car. I'm like, my Men are My Heroes was his book. And he's a. If anybody doesn't know he's that for the wounded warriors. He's the one that's the statue of him holding the pistol. He's all bloodied up. I think he got shot like six or seven times trying to pull marines out of that kill house. Just a phenomenal, phenomenal, super chat from

[Louis Lewis]

James de La Cruz. Mike, when you draw peach, just make sure you use crayons. Absolutely.

[Mike]

Purple. Both my favorite.

[Louis Lewis]

We need a cop. You want a Copville, they want a Copville. Aerosols shirt.

[Mike]

That's a good idea.

[Louis Lewis]

I'm in. I'm down.

[Cece]

That's good.

[Louis Lewis]

We're coming to the end of another amazing brush. Cece, you are making the drive after this, correct?

[Cece]

Yes, sir.

[Louis Lewis]

Don't forget tonight on counterculture. Only counterculture. YouTube. CC in the house. I believe Gator's coming over again in the house. Peach is making up his mind. He's not sure if he likes to be around small hat dark people, but he's going to decide that soon.

[Mike]

Damn.

[Louis Lewis]

And I'm not going show. Any final words, Peach? Cece, any final words? No.

[Cece]

We're here for the updates, boys.

[Louis Lewis]

Yep. Well, Cece will be live, so don't forget, tonight, 8:00pm Counterculture Inc. Network will be live on the night shift. We appreciate you guys more than you can ever imagine. Don't forget to join the Patreon for the exclusive content. We will see you tomorrow for casual Friday, Savannah.