Firefighter Invasion | Tier1 Live

Summary

Tier1 Podcast: Firefighter Invasion | Tier1 Live

Host: Brent Tucker
Date: May 13, 2026

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Overview

In this action-packed, humor-filled Tier1 Live episode, former Delta Force Operator Brent Tucker hosts a full house of special guests: firefighters from the Metro Atlanta area—Kyle, Jules, Nick, Nathan, and Nigel—plus regulars, Drew and Magnet. Mixing sharp banter with deep professional insight, the crew explores the realities, culture, and challenges of modern firefighting, the intersection of service professions, and the realities of modern America. Key themes range from camaraderie and leadership, generational changes in fire service, the public perception of first responders, and unforgettable personal stories—spiced with classic Tier1 irreverence and plenty of crowd interaction.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. Tribute and Community (00:00–03:33)

• Opening with a tribute to Aaron, a young man lost in a motorcycle accident (F: 01:55)
  • Prayer for Aaron’s family, especially his young child and mother struggling with financial hardship due to unpaid ICE wages.
  • Community support mentioned in chat, upcoming “Do Good Fund” planned for the family.

“We pray for his child that will barely remember his father. We pray that you would be a father to the fatherless. Give comfort and peace to his mother, to his family in a way that only you can.” – Drew Tucker (02:49)

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2. Brotherhood, Banter, and Introductions (03:34–07:09)

• Classic rivalry humor between firefighters and cops, banter about uniform symbols (flamingos & swingers) and inside jokes.
• Brent reflects on time with New York’s ESU and their legacy of joint rescue and tactical operations.

“ESU is part tactical, part rescue. I mean, they, they dive, they rescue, they kick down doors, they do it all. … It’s a pretty cool thing.” – Brent (07:13)

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3. Dark Humor: The Special Forces “Rambo” Incident (09:13–10:39)

• Discussion of Green Beret-turned-fugitive’s recent tragedy and the impact of personal turmoil, shifting into joking about “breaking points” and classic Samson humor.

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4. Firefighter Journeys: From Bibb County to Atlanta (11:27–13:35)

• Kyle and crew share pathways into firefighting, switching departments for “more action,” the camaraderie of returning to previous teams, and the persistent rookie experience.

"So he's been a rookie four times. Two separate departments, right?" – Host banter (12:23)

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5. Guy Code: Text Message Etiquette & Emojis (15:06–25:25)

• In-depth and hilarious debate on:
  • How quickly men respond to texts
  • Unread text counts (Drew: “1060 unread messages,” 21:11)
  • The masculinity of using “LOL,” emojis, and gifs
  • Limits of emoji use for men (“laughing, thumbs up, fist”), and changing emoji colors.

Quotes:

“Should a man use an emoji or not? … I just can’t.” – Brent (22:48)
“I use the laughing, crying one so I don’t have to do the LOL.” – Nick (24:18)
“Only the fist one. ... I gotta stay... gotta keep a little...” – Jules (24:43)

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6. Marriage, Purchases, and the Art of Negotiation (25:25–31:03)

• Question from listener: How to justify buying night vision goggles ("nods") to your spouse.
  • Banter about household financial double standards.
  • Monthly Tier1 Patreon giveaways (exclusive Panos nods up for grabs).

“What’s better than buying nods? Being given nods.” – Brent (26:41)

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7. Firehouse Pranks, Nicknames, and Call-outs (34:52–43:28)

• Superchat: “Do firefighters partake in weird pranks?”
  • Rocket Wrist story (E: 42:44) hilarity and nickname origin stories.
  • Firefighters present host Brent with custom gifts: knives, helmet, fire axe, department patches.

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8. Origin Stories: How the Team Met Brent (43:41–44:48)

• The Atlanta firefighters recount meeting Brent at the NRA show, texting mishaps about who was coming, and finally making it to the podcast live.

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9. Law, Guns & Out-of-State Nightmares (88:07–109:20)

Kyle’s wild Pennsylvania felony gun arrest story (full segment, 88:07–109:20):

• Pulled over for “obscured plate,” ends up cuffed, jailed for carrying a legally owned, unregistered firearm from Georgia.
• Judge ultimately throws out the case; $10,000 and much paperwork lost.
• Used to answer why the public prefers firefighters to cops (“A bad 1% of cops can ruin your life, a bad 1% of firefighters… not so much.” – Brent, 110:07).

“When I got in the back of the cop car to go to the Pittsburgh jail…the guy says ‘what do you like to listen to?’ … I said, I got one for you: How about typing in ‘Give Me Back My Bullets’ by Lynyrd Skynyrd.” – Kyle (201:01)

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10. EMS vs. Fire, and Why the Public Loves Firefighters (49:49–60:58)

• “EMS are the redheaded stepchildren of first responders” (49:49)
  • Why: “We all have to do the EMS stuff too. That’s like 85–90% of our calls.”
  • Why everyone loves firefighters more than cops: “Firefighters don’t give tickets…they don’t take freedoms away” (attributed to several).
• Unbelievable “frequent flyer” calls — picking up people 100+ times/year for trivial/false emergencies.

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11. Calls Gone Wild (174:36–177:01)

Best “You put WHAT where?!” EMS story:
A patient presents with “stomach pain”…which turns out to be a clogged colostomy, um, “frequented” for non-medical amusement. Term revealed: The “Kentucky Sidecar.”

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12. Respect, Rivalry, and Culture in Fire and Police (51:05–60:16, 130:25+)

• Poll: 60/40 in favor of firefighters, even among law-enforcement friendly audience (134:49)
• Why? “Firefighters don’t take your freedom or your life.”
• Firefighters discuss public misperceptions, the overwhelming number of non-fire emergency calls, and the loss of aggressive “search culture” in metro departments with an influx of new, less experienced firefighters.

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13. Generational Shift: New Firefighters & “Hard Skills” (154:43–159:36)

• Panel expresses concern over new recruits lacking basic mechanical/problem-solving skills: “Couldn’t even change a tire or mow a lawn.” Root problem seen as societal comfort and reliance on systems over personal competence.

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14. Should Firefighters Be Armed? (163:57–168:45)

• Debate on arming firefighters, especially in high-crime areas (“with the right training, we should be able to”).
• Discussion of historic firefighter shootings—Move incident, Atlanta riots, and recent urban violence.

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15. Media Portrayal: Real vs. Reel Firefighters (140:28–147:50)

• Firefighters critique TV/movies: “Rescue Me” and “Backdraft” get partial credit (“as close as it gets”), while most shows are hilariously inaccurate.
• Reaction video: “You didn’t do a temporary airway, bro, you put a party straw into his esophagus.” (148:25)

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16. Training, Search Culture & Fireground Tactics (181:57–185:47)

• Good firehouse video breakdowns — what makes for aggressive, effective teams.
• Training pitfalls: “Recruit school teaches you not to put the fire out (so more can train)... every rookie forgets to actually open the nozzle on their first real fire.”

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17. Respect for the Fallen and the Brotherhood (186:18–188:09)

• Emotional recounting of 9/11 and the beeping “pass devices” trapped in rubble—reminder of sacrifices still honored.

“As long as you heard it beep, maybe you can save one…but when the beeping stopped, it was almost like a stopped heartbeat.” – Brent (187:31)

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18. Final Thoughts, Gratitude, & Community (189:44–192:07)

Each firefighter shares appreciation for the Tier1 audience, the camaraderie, and Brent’s own service:

“People always thank us for what we do and man, we really don’t do a lot compared to what you’ve done. We get to do what we do because guys like you have done what you’ve done.” – Nick (191:20)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “I had 1060 unread messages.” – Drew Tucker, on message overload (21:11)
• “Should a man use an emoji in text message? ...This is something I'm struggling with.” – Brent (22:48)
• “We call it yard day. He’d never cut grass before.” – Nick, on generational changes (155:57)
• “Kentucky Sidecar—it’s a real thing.” – Nigel, on EMS “you put what where” stories (177:32)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• [00:00–03:33] – Opening & Prayer for Aaron
• [11:42–13:35] – Firefighter Intro & Career Journeys
• [15:06–25:25] – The Great Text/Emoji Debate
• [34:52–43:28] – Pranks, Nicknames & Gifts
• [88:07–109:20] – Kyle’s Pennsylvania Gun Arrest Story
• [49:49–60:58] – EMS/Fire: Rivalry, “Frequent Flyer” Calls
• [130:25–132:22] – Search Culture: Aggressive Enough or Not?
• [140:28–147:50] – Firefighter TV/Movie Critiques
• [174:36–177:01] – Best “You Put WHAT Where?” EMS Call
• [186:18–188:09] – 9/11 Remembrance & Meaning of the “Pass Device”
• [189:44–192:07] – Final Roundtable of Thanks

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Noteworthy Segments

• [88:07–109:20] – Kyle’s Pennsylvania Gun Arrest: Hilarious, harrowing, true—and a cautionary tale
• [42:44+] – ”Rocket Wrist” nickname origin story
• [174:36+] – The “Kentucky Sidecar”—legendary, disgusting, unforgettable
• [186:18+] – 9/11 “pass device” beeping—rare emotional moment, the heart of the brotherhood

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Tone and Language

• Authentically irreverent: Jokes about flamingos, nods, and mustache culture abound.
• Direct, sharp, and friendly: A balance of professional insight and raw, working-man reality.
• Emotional depth: Real moments of humility and gratitude, especially in tributes and remembrance.

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Conclusion

This Tier1 Live episode offers an unfiltered peek into the firehouse, exploring the bonds, banter, and burdens of modern firefighting as only a room full of public servants can. From rookie mishaps and emoji anxiety to harrowing tales of bureaucracy and the hard lessons of service, this podcast honors the sacrifices, laughs at the pain, and passes the torch of experience to the next generation—with a healthy dose of rock music and brotherhood.

Outro Song Chosen by Firefighters: “Playing With the Boys” by Kenny Loggins
Classic Sendoff: “Y’all can be my wingman anytime.” – Brent (203:26)

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Transcript

[A]

You on?

[B]

All right. Welcome back to another episode of the Tier one live podcast. That can only mean one thing. It is Thursday night and Thursday nights for the Patriots. Let's go around the room. We got a full house here. And the guest chair next to me. We got Kyle, we got the boys in from the Metro Atlanta Firefighter Department. Kyle's next to me. There we go. We got Kyle. We go over to the couch. We got Jules, we got Nick, we got Nathan.

[C]

Nope.

[D]

We got Nigel.

[B]

Nigel. Najin's right. This is right off camera. Magnets with them. Like I said, it is an absolute full house. I'm gonna try to get everybody's name right tonight, and that'll be a success if I can do that, which I guess I've already failed technically, but if I can do. If I can do that from here. Welcome back, Drew. Let's go.

[E]

Here we go.

[B]

All right. And of course, I. I forgot to mention our producer, but a man who needs no introduction, Mr. Drew Tucker, making it all happen. In fact, with that being said, Drew, you want. You want to go ahead and start us off, please?

[F]

Yes, sir. So let's see. We've got a longtime listener named Chris. These folks are out of North Carolina, and they had a tragedy there. His. His Stepson, who's only 30 years old, died in motorcycle accident a few nights ago. And he left behind little, I think, five year old child. And his mom works for ICE, hadn't been paid in almost like 16 weeks or something like that. And as a 30 year old young man, he was paying his mom's bills. So that's the kind of man he is. And so we want to pray for Chris. His name was Aaron. The young man who passed away, Chris is the listener that informed me about all this. We're going to pray for their family this evening. Let's pray with me. Heavenly Father, we thank you so much for who you are and all that you've done. And Lord, your ways are above our ways and your thoughts above our thoughts as the heavens are above the earth. And Lord, we don't understand these things, but all things happen for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to your purpose. And so we rest in that. We thank you that this young man was a believer in the son of God who died for his sin, rose from the grave, and his family will see him again. We pray for his child that will barely remember his father. We pray that you would be a father to the fatherless. Give comfort and peace to his mother, to his father. To his family in a way that only you can. We pray this in the name of Christ. Amen.

[D]

Amen.

[B]

Thank you, Drew.

[F]

Yes, sir. Thank you.

[B]

With that being said also, I know we started a little bit late, so I want to apologize. The firefighters got here a little late. This you guys just used to showing up on scene? Second is what a cop told me to tell you. And that's how we're starting out. Let's go. I'm just gonna stir the pot. Stir the pot.

[D]

You're right. That's right.

[B]

The captain's fault. Let's. Let's go right into the. Oh, real quick. I saw something on the. In the comment section. The. Someone said your. Your shirt has a flamingo on it, and they were surprised because that's a symbol for a swinger. That is news to me.

[F]

Although y' all are such perverts, I don't understand why we got so many perverts watching this thing. Hey, hey. This is a Flamingo Tactical. We got. We got one of our tactical boys down there in Miami training cops, and he's a CO Itself. So Flamingo Tactical.

[B]

What's up, guy? Right? So I can. What. What's that color?

[C]

Salmon.

[B]

Oh, salmon. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, you're right. Yeah. Yeah, for sure. Yeah. In fact, if. If that is true, it seems to be like a very minuscule known fact. And so for you to say that, I think it says some more about you than it does about the guy praying for someone.

[F]

But anyway. Now, wait a minute, Brent.

[C]

Now.

[F]

Now, the other. The other week, you guys taught me that pineapples met swingers, so there was somebody putting a whole bunch of pineapples in the. In the thing. So pineapples are swingers, and now flamingos are swingers.

[B]

Well, that's. That in a weird way, that really does kind of encompass what's. What's going on lately, right? I mean, every. Everything's the Jews. Everything's a conspiracy. I mean, they're still talking about the. The attempted assassination on being like it's. It was. It was set up like it was. It was. It was a hoax. I mean, we'll talk about sending it. Just. That's. That's a. That's a hell of a. A thing to set up. All right? I'm gonna fire at you with live guns. You can fire me with live guns.

[D]

All right?

[B]

But. And. And I know you hate Trump, but the guy needs a ballroom, okay? So, you know, if. If you could just not hit him today. Unless. Exchange some fire, and I can Imagine going, okay, well, you're going to give me a gun close to Trump in this hoax scenario. All right. Will I at least get kind of close to the President? Nah, you won't even get into the ball. You won't even get into the room. Like, you won't even break the, the first security, but we probably won't hit you. But yeah, we're going to fire at you like, it's just insane. It's insane. So, yeah, everything's, everything's something these days, except, except wholesome or what it appears to be. And it's just, it's crazy. But that's, that's what gets the clicks. That's what gets people interested. But I was interested in a different story. Oh, by the way, just wanna say where I've been the last three or four days. I just got back from New York City working with the esu. Great dudes. Great, great dudes. They have got to be the, the biggest, the, the busiest tactical team in, in the world. It was absolutely amazing. Of course they, they have their A team, but they're the kind of larger esu. You guys know anything about them in

[D]

a weird way that they're swatting?

[B]

No, they, so they have a, a traditional mission. So their traditional mission really started out in like the early 1900s as a rescue unit and, and that. So they had just started transitioning from horses to cars and they, and so things that needed to be rescued and New York City was getting bigger and bigger and bigger. And so they, they needed a, a unique organization that had the capability of doing those things. And so at the time, so, and you would think normally nowadays it falls primarily on, on the fire department, you know, and their rescue teams, but it's more of just a legacy mission. And it never changed. And to this day, as the, the, as a, as a group, the larger organization, ESU is part tactical, part rescue. I mean, they, they dive, they rescue, they kick down doors, they, they do, they do it all. And it's a, it's a, it's a pretty cool, it's a pretty cool thing. And they work a lot, as you'd imagine, with the, you know, with the fire department as well and in training and, and, and that knowledge transfer. So that was a, that was a really cool thing. So it's really cool to go right, right from hanging out with them to right here hanging out with you guys. So I think I have one of the coolest jobs in the world to do that. And this, this news broke while I was out there. Drew Pull up Instagram. Let's go to that first one. There you go. So while I was out there, this pulls up Special Forces vet found dead after Tennessee manhunt. Drew, can you expand the. Does it have the. The description in there that you can see underneath it? It may. It may not, but it doesn't matter. I'll tell you about it. So this guy kills his wife and then heads out into the force. And I'm thinking, oh, no, we got. We got a Rambo situation here. I've.

[F]

I've seen this movie before when.

[B]

When a Green Beret grabs his rifle and heads out into the woods after killing someone, I'm like, he's. He's either gonna be there for a long time or. And what I really, really hope not, or there's. Or there's going to be some unalived cops, you know, and the. Luckily, he. He came to his senses, and I think within 24 or 48 hours, they. They found him dead. And. Which is a. Which is really unfortunate, and I don't mean to make light of it, but there's just no other way. This room full of guys handles things. And the first thing I thought of is this guy's been through war. This guy's been through SEER training, selection process. He's been through the toughest of the tough this military can throw at him. This world can throw it at him. And this nagging female broke him.

[F]

Samson's story all over again.

[B]

I know, it's. You should have cut the grass. Yeah, that. Oh, it'd be nice if you repainted the house. Just every Chinese water tortured this man. So you know what? I do. I didn't think I had a breaking point. Come. Come to find out, it's you.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Gosh. And that's just. All right. Hey, dear. I could sit there and tell and talk about that for a while. I feel like we all could. But I just. That was the first thing I. I thought of when I told the ESU boys that they were like, absolutely, absolutely. Let's. This is. There's something that. We did it last week. I definitely want to do it with the. With the group. Go back to Instagram, Drew, and do the one right. Right above it. You guys seen this guy on Instagram? You guys hang out on social media a whole lot. Yeah.

[F]

I don't know why it's not coming up on stage. Hold on.

[B]

Okay, so I'm stupid here. Let's see. Hey, as. As. Drew's working on that. Just. Just real quick, as. And you Just hold off on that. How long have you been with the fire department?

[D]

I've been with the. In the fire service total for around 17 years.

[B]

Okay. Did. Did you transfer from the other department into the metro Atlanta?

[D]

Yes, sir. I work for Making Bib.

[B]

Okay. Fire department and then make. Don't want Macon, Georgia or. Or said yes.

[D]

Making Georgia.

[B]

Okay. Yeah. Okay. Yeah.

[D]

Work for making Bibb, then transferred to the department we're at now, Atlanta metro area, and then decided I was going to go back to get a little bit more action.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

You know, kind of a selfish decision, so to speak.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

And then anyways ended up coming back,

[B]

so I gotta get to work with

[D]

the same guys again.

[A]

So he's been a rookie four times. Two separate departments, right?

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

Like you're not tired of going through recruit schools? I'm like, well, you know.

[B]

Yeah, well, if I made it through one.

[E]

Right.

[B]

I know what I'm getting into. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Yeah. The. I got a. A funny making story indirectly at a. A friend that grew up there, and he was always like, hey, making Georgia is more con. And it's like, it's country and. But. And it does not get its. It's. It's just deserves and country music. He's like, it blows my mind. No one mentions making Georgia. He's always complaining about it. I get a voicemail, and it's like, they did it. They did it. They did it. I hear on the. You know, they finally made a song. Well. About making Georgia. And so I go, the Jamie Johnson song was it. Got to get back to making. What? What? I got to get back to bacon. Yeah. I got to get back to bacon. Making sweet love to you. That's exactly right.

[D]

Yeah. I already knew the song.

[B]

That's not about making Georgia. That's about making. Unless I forget that because I was drinking a little bit last night. Night.

[D]

Meanwhile, other.

[B]

I can't believe you got that.

[D]

Meanwhile other people are like, you talking about the armpit of Georgia.

[B]

Yeah. Although you. You guessed it. As if the first time you heard that song, you. You heard that song that you thought they were singing about making Georgia. Like, I. I get that. I thought they were singing about making Georgia too. Yeah.

[D]

Oh, 100%.

[B]

Yeah, exactly. It gets them all. It gets them all from there. Gets them all r up. All right, let's. Let's go to that one, Drew.

[F]

All right, here we go.

[B]

That goes from question that people got for you. Open them all. Show everyone that you're sorry for so you can get the context. They don't they didn't hear the beginning. A real man doesn't concern himself with texting back. What, you just going to answer every

[A]

text, every question that people got for you?

[B]

Open them all.

[A]

Show everyone that you're a sheep.

[B]

You. I'm in charge here. Anybody who ever texts me, they know who's in charge. They are always waiting on me. What, you, as a grown man, are going to sit there anxiously waiting like a little teenage high schooler, waiting for someone to text you back? No, I'll text you back when I want to. And it's rare that I want to.

[E]

A real man.

[F]

It's rare. I want to.

[A]

All right.

[B]

I got. I get. I got mixed emotions on this because I. I get it. Like, if. If you don't text someone back, it's a little rude. It is a little rude, but I always give people the benefit of the doubt, and we're just. We're in a point in society. Like. Like, you don't. It's almost like if. If. If you call me, I mean, what are you calling me for? Is this is like. Is this an emergency? Like, is. Are your fingers broke? Like, you know, so we. We just. We don't call. We text. Is it. Is it rude to not get a text back? Or is it like, I just assume he's busy and I'll send him another text saying, hey, you know, to the top? Or did you see this? And what. What do you say? What's what? What's your internal guy code? What's your internal guy code?

[D]

I mean, I'm just assuming that they're busy.

[B]

Just assume they're busy?

[D]

Yeah. Or that they'll get back to me whenever they get a chance.

[B]

You married?

[F]

I think all dudes know the answer.

[B]

You are?

[D]

I am.

[B]

All right. What. What's. What's what? What do you think? What do you think your wife has an internal clock when you texting her back?

[D]

Oh,

[F]

man, she might be watching.

[B]

Yeah, I think she's got one. I mean, I. I will probably. I mean, I'm pretty. You, obviously. Yeah. Yeah. You have a. You have a. A job where if you can't. If you're not texted back, I feel like you have a pretty good fallback. Like, I don't know, I was busy cutting a kid out of a minivan that got sideswiped by a semi. Like.

[D]

Like, if I'm at the fire station, you know that. That time clock's probably, you know, non existent.

[B]

Right.

[D]

Whenever you get a chance, you know?

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

But if I'm off, you Know, it's probably.

[B]

Yeah, it's very short. It's very short. Exactly.

[D]

With which I assume is the same for the other guys.

[B]

Yeah. Nigel, grab. Grab that. Grab that mic over there. Or do so.

[G]

Yeah.

[B]

Are you. Are you good at texting guys back?

[G]

It depends on the content. It depends on what the message is.

[B]

Everyone else says, I guess your content ain't good enough, guys.

[F]

Exactly.

[G]

It just depends on the subject. Like, if it's not super important, like, you don't have to have my answer right that second. Then, no, I'm not texting. If I'm in the middle the of doing something, I won't wait.

[B]

Oh, man.

[G]

Until I get around to it.

[B]

All right, everyone. Everyone got their phone on them.

[D]

Yeah. So on the texting thing, don't get

[B]

too nervous about this. We're not going to get weird. Go ahead.

[F]

It's not going to be swinger weird

[B]

with a flamingo T shirt on. Guys.

[D]

So Nigel told me about, what, two, three days ago? Oh, yeah, this was. This probably three days. Three or four days ago, something like that.

[G]

Yeah.

[D]

Yeah. Anyways, we had a text between the four of us. Right, right. Coming to the podcast.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

And it was really just kind of a mix, you know, miscommunication, really. But I knew about three days ago that he was coming. Okay, but I had already messaged you that.

[B]

Correct. Yep.

[D]

It's probably going to be one. You know, it could be two.

[B]

Right. Yep.

[D]

That was definitely going to be three now.

[B]

Right, Right.

[D]

Like three days ago. I knew it was going to be four.

[B]

Right.

[D]

But I was scared to send another text. Oh, I had another one, you know.

[B]

Yeah.

[G]

But I was coming, though. He just didn't read the text.

[B]

All right, how. Look on. Look on the bubbles of your text message. How many unread text messages is your phone say you have right now?

[A]

Guarantee he's in the 30s.

[B]

What do you got?

[D]

Should I. Should I show you?

[B]

No, I'll just. I'll trust you. What do you got?

[D]

No, I'm just. It's 29.

[B]

29. 29 still. How do we get there? 29. It's 29. Either people or, you know, that's. Yeah, that's. Well, me, but that's. That's easily. That's like five minute fixable, maybe ten minute. We got. All right, Nigel, what do we got? Right down the line.

[E]

That's 29 people he doesn't care about.

[G]

So I got zero, zero unread. Okay, now how many of those I responded to, the whole story.

[B]

Do you have that ocd where you have to get those red bubbles off your phone? Yes. Okay, so you have zero unread emails.

[G]

No, emails are different. That's different.

[B]

Now we're getting cutouts for it.

[G]

Okay, there's layers, right?

[B]

Your. Your OCD like. Like Magnet is. Magnet claims to have. Have extreme ocd, which is true on things he wants to have OCD about. Now, I don't know if that's how OCD works. I don't. But. But, but maybe right down the line. What do you got? Big bad. How many unread texts you got?

[A]

I got four.

[D]

Four.

[B]

Nice work, actually. I think anything in the single digits?

[G]

Oh, they're all. That's your mom, Your wife?

[A]

Yeah, my mom, my wife, the boys.

[F]

It ain't Mother's Day yet.

[B]

And if she's watching now, she knows that. She knows that, you know, she. That. That you. She text you.

[A]

Yeah, well, my wife. My wife was texting, asking why it was so late if we got too drunk to get. And then the boy. The boys at the station are in our ass about it getting started late.

[F]

Yeah, well, she can see you're busy.

[B]

Jules, what do you got, man?

[E]

I have zero.

[F]

Zero most responsible.

[E]

I'm OCD about it, you know?

[D]

You just looked at all of them right Now.

[E]

That little red dot bothers me. Even on email sometimes I'll log in the computer and I'll just go down the line just to get rid of them. And I won't read any of the emails, but it's just. Yeah, zero. Right.

[A]

Jules does the same thing with text, though. He'll just let you leave you on red so it gets rid of the bubble. And then three days later he'll text you back. Oh, I forgot to text you back.

[B]

Right, yeah. For me?

[F]

No, me.

[B]

Oh. Oh, Drew, what do you got?

[F]

I have. Drum roll, please. And there it is. If you can read it.

[D]

Oh, I can't sell it.

[B]

Oh.

[F]

1060 unread messages.

[D]

No one is important.

[B]

No one is important. Does your phone only receive text messages?

[E]

Wait, more importantly, is that an Android?

[F]

Yes, it's an Android.

[B]

Let's just start there first, because my

[F]

phone works all the time.

[E]

Just start there. Was that an Android?

[C]

I love it.

[E]

We got bigger things to worry about than a red dot.

[D]

Nigel, don't show them your Boost mobile phone.

[B]

Newer than yours.

[D]

That's just cuz you.

[F]

Hell yeah, it's an Android.

[B]

Yeah. Oh, gosh. The. Now that we're on this question, I'm going to tell you something. I'm going to tell you something. I struggle with as a man. I'm not saying I've never done it, I'm going to be honest here. But I do not do it very often and there's times I want to, but I'm like, I just can't. And I'm going to preface this a little bit further back. It took me years to finally use the letters lol. I just didn't like it. I didn't like it. I just didn't feel manly. But I eventually had to use it because if you don't use it, I can be, you know, I joke around a lot. So if you don't say LOL and someone takes it as offensive like I guess, how are they? You can't read, you can't hear the tone. So you don't know what someone meant by it.

[D]

Right.

[B]

So I broke down, started using lol. Now that, now that I say that out loud, I, I still don't, I'm still not proud of that. But here's where it gets worse. Emojis. Should a man use an emoji or not? This is something struck. This is just real talk. Ben. There's something struggling with. Should a man use an emoji in text message? Do you use emojis on text messages?

[D]

Yeah, I can't lie.

[B]

Do you?

[D]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, we do.

[B]

Yeah. I don't.

[G]

Not just the emojis, he uses the little videos that like express

[B]

gifs.

[D]

That's just cuz I figured out how to use them.

[F]

Be funny.

[B]

Yeah. GIFs or GIFs how. That's still an argument that'll, that'll go on for me to go through all

[G]

that process to respond.

[B]

I have, I have group text messages that have more GIFs and GIFs in them than they have words. It's just memes and, and GIFs back and forth, back and forth. And I actually. And everyone's got the friend who's really good at them that always sends like the perfect one for the perfect. I'm like that's money. That's money. Okay. That's way different than, than emojis. That's, that's actually, that's, that's, that's expert level emojis is really what that is. Let's be honest. That's, that's high level emojis down the line does.

[D]

Right. I can do that, but I can't check my work email.

[B]

Right. Nigel, what's, what's your opinion on men using emojis?

[G]

I mean, I'm all right with it if you're not you know, going through the extra buying emojis to go overboard with it, but. Yeah, you know, that's fine.

[B]

All right.

[G]

Pissed off face or happy face with it? That's cool.

[B]

Sure. Right down the list. Nick, what do you got?

[A]

Yeah, I use the. I use the laughing, crying one so I don't have to do the lol.

[B]

Yeah. Yeah.

[G]

You're always sending.

[C]

That's a.

[A]

That's my dick. Only the special ones get that.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Jules, do you use emojis?

[E]

Yes, I use emojis, but do you.

[B]

Do you change the color on the emojis?

[D]

I change the color.

[E]

Only the fist one. Yeah. Yeah.

[A]

Why do you do that, Jules?

[B]

That's awesome.

[D]

Well, just the fish.

[G]

I mean, I'm just.

[E]

I don't want them to get mixed up with the rest of y'.

[A]

All.

[E]

I gotta stay. Gotta keep a little.

[D]

I mean, what about the fist with the thumbs up? Why can't that one be.

[E]

That one might be. That one might be.

[B]

That one might get.

[E]

But I feel like a guy should only use certain emojis, and, like, not every emoji is open to God. Like, a laughing one. A little thumbs up or a fist. Like, that's pretty much where I draw the line.

[B]

I'm not. All right, I agree with that.

[E]

All right, Drew, pregnant man emoji.

[B]

Let's.

[E]

That's. That one should not be.

[B]

Let's. Let's go to the super chats, see what. See what the boys have to say.

[F]

We got here. David Hookstead's up in the front, says, happy Thursday, boys. Need help. My wife says I don't need to buy night vision goggles because it's dumb and unnecessary. But what's cooler than nods? What's the best counter argument to convince her it's money well spent? It's a good question.

[E]

That's a hard one.

[C]

It's all. How much does she spend on hair?

[B]

It's. It's almost. It's almost like. It's all. It's almost like David threw me the softball. The whole alley.

[E]

You.

[B]

The old business alley. Oop.

[G]

Don't do that to me.

[B]

I'll tell you what's better than. Than. Than buying nods is receiving free nods. Panos, if you will. Absolutely free. They're in. They finally came in. We're going to fire them up in the garage right after this. In fact, you know what?

[D]

Going to check out what those emojis look like in the night vision. You know,

[G]

I've seen you give gifts out, but that's over the top.

[B]

You know, That's. I really hope I remember which one

[F]

of the real ones.

[B]

Don't mix those.

[F]

That's what I was thinking. Or smacking around dots.

[B]

That would be something I would do. I hate to say it. There they are, boys. The absolute free to you, not to me. Pano nods that are in. Supposed to be in high definition digital night vision. I'm gonna let you know I was dumb enough to pay almost four grand for them. And so, so you don't have to be. And everyone will know how good they are and we'll. I'll make a whole video and all. The only thing you have to do is join Patreon. If you join Patreon, if you're already a Patreon member, you have to do anything. It's not, it's not even one of those, like, gimmicks like only new ones can. Can, can. You don't even have to sign up for anything extra once you sign up for Patreon. Just being a Patreon member lets you be eligible for our almost monthly giveaways. We're a little bit late on the monthly giveaway because these things took so long to come in and I really, really wanted to give these things away next. So David Hookstead, there is your answer. What's better than buying nods? Being given nods. So there you go. And stay tuned for. For that video, we're gonna do an unboxing video and a. Which is weird because I just showed you that there. So I've already unboxed it, but before our regular listeners. You're gonna know now that I'm going to put it back in the package and then pretend like I haven't opened it yet and that all of us have turned off the lights in the garage and smoke cigars, wear knots.

[G]

Right. I think David's like, no, really, what do I tell my wife about these knots?

[F]

Yeah, right. Well, I guess, you know, I guess what I would say to mine is, well, number one, a man's got to do what a man's got to do. Right? I mean, that's good for a lot of. And then the other is, if you want me to effectively take care of that bump in the night, you know, that's right. I gotta see what I'm doing.

[B]

Yeah. And it's not, It's. It's not a, you know, the old war of the sexes. I think it just is. I think sometimes we do get unjustifiably hammered when it, when it comes to, like, our purchases. And this is. I'd love to see someone do a deep dive in this, I think they just make a lot more smaller purchases, so just kind of flies underneath. Underneath the radar. I just. I can only speak for me and the guys that. That. I know we don't make a lot of purchases, but. But I do know when we make a purchase, a gun's a couple thousand. I get it. You know, nods is going to be a couple grand. I get it. But. But just. Just. Just because I spent two grand and you spent ten $200 purchases, I think it's. I think it's even an out, you know, And. And in a weird way, if. If she's spending $100, $150, something like that. I know everyone has different rules, but I don't really expect, like, hey, can I do this? You know, at a. At a nicety? Like, that's kind of like I. I expect you not to do it every day, but, you know, but, you know, I don't. I don't. You don't need approval for that. But I do kind of do need approval for $2,000, because I'm not. I'm not. I don't have, you know, two different standards. I would expect you to ask me if we're together, shared a bank account, if you drop two grand. But in the day, it ends up being the same thing. Right? What do you. What do you think about that? You agree with that or you just rule your house with an iron fist?

[D]

Absolutely not.

[B]

Absolutely not. You should hear the groans over here. Jump.

[D]

I do not run this battleship.

[E]

Oh, I thought you were the king of the castle.

[B]

I never said that, Jo. Never, ever. I know. We. We all knew that.

[D]

Heather, if you're watching, that's a bold face Live.

[B]

I know. We. We all knew that when you walked in with the shirt your wife picked out for you to wear on the podcast.

[E]

Yeah.

[B]

Unprovoked. I apologize about that. That wasn't right. That wasn't right.

[A]

Don't. He still wore it, so it's still his fault.

[D]

That is true. Because I had a couple other ones to choose from. This is the one I picked.

[B]

Well, if you guys would have stayed at the pool any longer, you'd have matched your shirt. I feel like you're the type of guy that's got two colors, white and red. Not a lot of tan in them. Jeans.

[D]

If we would have went with what Jules want to do and went to SeaWorld, this would have been the perfect

[B]

shirt for that, you know?

[D]

Oh, that guy's going to SeaWorld wearing that shirt.

[B]

Did you. I don't know what's so funny about that, but it is. Did you really want to go to SeaWorld? Did you mention it jokingly?

[E]

I grew up in Miami for 20 years. I did not want to go.

[B]

Always say this.

[D]

This is my story. I mean, I'm telling it.

[A]

You know, he said it, like, five times. He did the house.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And when everybody was a hard. No, he finally was like, oh, yeah, I don't want to go either. I've been, like, 10 times, man. I've had enough of SeaWorld.

[B]

All right, Jules, you know enough about SeaWorld to answer this question. If you were to be one sea animal, but the sea animal has to be. Has to be at SeaWorld. I'm not saying, like, you live at SeaWorld, but the animal. Your. Your. Your options are SeaWorld animals. What. What would it be?

[E]

Killer whale? Own or orca?

[D]

Killer whale.

[E]

And only because, Free Willy or no, their only predator is a sperm whale, and that's it.

[B]

I didn't know that. That the sperm whale was even a predator of theirs.

[E]

Yep.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah, they kill. They are. Badass.

[D]

I was gonna say manatee.

[E]

I just looked this up, like, last

[B]

week randomly, and I was like.

[E]

I watched a YouTube video on sperm wheels.

[B]

I don't. I don't think they have manatees at SeaWorld. I don't think they do. But here's danger. What do you got?

[F]

Yeah, they do.

[B]

Oh, do they?

[F]

Yeah. Okay.

[B]

All right.

[D]

I knew that.

[B]

Here's. Here's. Here's a Florida fun fact that you may not know. Do you know it's illegal to touch humanity in the state of Florida? Illegal?

[D]

Nope.

[B]

You're telling me.

[F]

I see people married to him all the time.

[D]

Oh, my God.

[F]

That can't be true.

[B]

I see what you did there. I see what you did there. Yeah, the aquatic.

[F]

That's bad.

[B]

The. Yeah, you're. I'm telling. I'm only human if I'm. If I'm there. If I'm there at the river and that sea cow, that big fluffy marshmallow of. Of kindness floats within arms distance of me.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Oh, it's getting.

[D]

It.

[B]

Oh, it's getting. It's getting a pet. Oh, yeah, right. And if it get. And. And if I can get a pet that I'm about. It's about to get a big hug, like I'm me and him about to hang out all day, but the game

[F]

warden don't know don't hurt me, Right?

[B]

Yeah. In fact, if he tries to swim away, I'm gonna grab his tail, buddy. We're. We're friends today. You don't know this? We're friends today. Yeah. No way I could get that close to a manatee and not touch him. Just not in the cards. We got. We got the one. Super chat.

[F]

Thank you, David. That was a good. We got all 20 bucks worth of that one.

[B]

Yeah.

[F]

All right, boys. Sunny Marbury. All right, Sonny man. See us up, fam. Hopefully everyone's week was well and weekend is better. Just wanted to say God loves us all and gives what we need, not what we want. Love, y', all, boys. Like my own family. May birthdays for the win. For the win.

[B]

There you go. Yeah. Drew, Druid acronyms are still. Are still a thing.

[F]

Well, I'm for the wind, but that doesn't sound military, so I didn't know what to do. All right. Speaking of may birthdays, one's coming up on the 11th.

[B]

Why would you say that?

[F]

Yep. That's gonna be that. It's gonna be CAG. Daddy, how old you gonna be, boy?

[B]

46.

[F]

46.

[D]

46.

[F]

All right. The real Justin G. 87, says. Evening, gents. Now, for your weekly Rob joke, Jizz Row, the Super seal Eat Snickers upside down. For the. That's a different. That's a new one.

[B]

Oh, even I got that. It gets even funnier when he. When he combines that joke with the nickname Jizz Row. It just. It's a double whammy.

[F]

D. Pitchy says, is chief in the middle given mustache.

[B]

Let's go.

[F]

Handle bars to hold on to right there.

[A]

Read the shirt tents and a ride.

[B]

What's with the. The. I. I guess the I'm guessing fallacy. Unless you grew that thing on the. On the car right down. That you can't have facial hair because your mask won't seal.

[A]

So it's. You can have facial hair, but they say you can't have anything like on the jawline that. Because our masks are right.

[B]

Do you have the. Do you have the paps that. The positive air pressure.

[A]

They are.

[B]

Okay. Well, I. It makes no sense because you have positive air pressure. You don't really have a ceiling. It'll. It's. It's continuing pushing air out.

[A]

So there are some departments that let you have. Okay, beards and stuff now, but it's. They're not. They're not many.

[B]

Right.

[A]

So this is kind of where the handlebar comes from.

[B]

Is okay.

[G]

All right.

[A]

I don't look right with anything else.

[B]

All right. Okay.

[F]

Let's see. Daniel says, sounds like we have this Month's Do Good fund for May with Chris Family. Yeah. Where can we donate,

[B]

man? That's a good question, Sunny, who I know is watching tomorrow. Give me a call, Sonny, so we can. So we can figure out exactly where we're gonna channel funds to. For the. For the Do Good fund. That either. And we'll put it out on Patreon or I will put it out on Instagram. We will put that out there. So thank you for. For saying that, and I will get that information.

[A]

Yeah.

[F]

Daniel Hayawasi. Just stay tuned. We're working on that. Backman union says firefighter love ladder all

[D]

the way for sure.

[F]

Buff like Jesus tuning in from Miami. And he used an emoji. Did you check that out? Emoji.

[D]

The. The color isn't.

[E]

Isn't right.

[F]

Well, it could be.

[B]

You know who sent that? A. A Simpson. The.

[F]

From Miami. He's got to be a little darker.

[B]

There's. There's a video that lives rent free in my mind, and I'm sure you guys have seen it, but it's the fire truck going by. And then the guy's all excited. I'm guessing he's. He's a fireman or at least a fireman enthusiast. And he goes, go get him, brothers. And there's not a time the we woos don't go by me that I want to put my hand in there.

[D]

Go.

[B]

Go get them, brothers.

[A]

Is that Brotherhood Buffs?

[F]

Yeah.

[D]

What was that guy's name?

[A]

Is it Brotherhood Buffs?

[B]

Is that where it originated from? I think so. That thing. That thing has spread all over social media. It's. It's so. It's so. It's so short, wholesome, punchy. I love it. Everything about it. What else we got?

[D]

Drew?

[F]

Aaron Frella says. Great to see a fellow fireman on the show. Stay safe out there, brother. Praise to our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

[B]

Yeah. In fact, they reminded me about this. They are the first firefighters on the.

[A]

On.

[B]

On the Tier One podcast. So I love that. And because of that magnet, if you don't mind, can you get some Tasty Gains out and just start handing them out to the boys? Tasty Gaines wanted to make sure that you guys are mentally focused and have the recovery you need to do the important jobs you do. And there's in fact. And before you leave. Yep. Hand one to everyone. We're gonna make sure that you have at least two bags each. But before. Before you guys go.

[D]

Nigel, Nigel, can I trade mine out with yours? Yours is red. This one's blue. You're a paramedic, so you might want this bag.

[A]

No, we were supposed to let Brent see if he could pick out which one was the medic.

[B]

Oh, we're gonna do that?

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah, you can usually. You can usually do that on a team or like when the. When The Air Force Two Four sends us one of their. One of their JTACs and one of their. Or CCT and. And a PJ. Yeah, you can usually guess the PJ, but not always. Every now and again, there's one that throws you for a loop like. All right, all right, you're a normal medic, right? Look at you breaking the mold.

[D]

We got a. We got a couple gifts for you.

[B]

Yeah. What do you got to.

[D]

From the boys. You want to give it to him?

[B]

Is it. Is it a complete fire hose?

[A]

You'll get that after the show.

[D]

Well, you want to tell them a little bit about that cap?

[A]

So I just started tinkering like a month and a half ago making knives.

[D]

Oh, hell yeah.

[A]

And we saw all your knives on the back. Yeah, they're nowhere near that quality, but that's only like the seventh or eighth knife that I've made.

[B]

Oh, that's awesome.

[A]

It's a spalt and maple handle Stone Wash CRV ADCRV 2.

[B]

Yeah, I love that handle, man. So I love the flat. I actually love the flat finish of it. Oh, yeah, I love that. That's awesome. Thank you, guys.

[D]

Yeah, Purdy Jules, next we gotta cut. We like. We got a couple more for you.

[B]

I was gonna say which one goes off the wall, but I gotta find.

[D]

Oh, you gotta, you gotta.

[E]

We had to make you.

[B]

Oh, gosh.

[F]

Yeah, Betty.

[B]

There you go.

[F]

There's not a cherry tree safe anywhere.

[B]

Oh, yeah. Are you kidding me? Are you kidding me? Oh, look at that. They got my name on it. Bren Tucker, your department with your logo.

[A]

Yeah, that's just our station patch there.

[G]

Yeah.

[B]

Hell yeah.

[D]

Speaking of that, I only have a. Got a patch toot on.

[E]

Thought this was kind of fitting also. Yeah, just what it had on it, right?

[F]

Oh, that's cool, man. Look at that.

[D]

Yeah, kind of fitting station patch, too. We got one more for you. Maybe on the wall with it.

[B]

I'm going have to give you some more tasty games get.

[F]

No way.

[D]

It's kind of a.

[B]

I'm not real

[D]

sure on the date of that, but.

[F]

But we do know. But we do know he had lice.

[D]

It's like maybe 1960s maybe, but anyways, a leather fire helmet, you know,

[B]

you

[D]

gotta get the cigar in There, you

[B]

know,

[D]

now you gotta hold the ax.

[F]

Now you need the ax in your head.

[G]

We'll think you don't like it if you don't hold everything at once.

[D]

Oh, that's fantastic.

[E]

You're official now.

[D]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[B]

You think I can get it on the calendar?

[D]

100.

[F]

Let's get it on the calendar.

[D]

Got the smoke showing, too.

[B]

All right.

[D]

Nice.

[B]

Oh, man. I was gonna do the rest of the show in that hat, and when I realized I'm gonna have issues with my headphones. Right.

[F]

Nice. All right, Jillian Sheffield in. He says a firefighter in my county got charged for whacking it in people's food and drinks in the house. Do all firefighters partake? Love you guys. Thank you for your service.

[B]

Wow.

[F]

So we got that super chat tonight.

[B]

So we got that. That's a deep dive. Wow.

[F]

Glad you boys are here to answer this question.

[A]

I mean, I was young and dumb once.

[G]

Yeah.

[E]

All right, so I did have a guy that I worked with a long time ago. I'm not gonna say who he is because he's a chief now, but.

[B]

Okay, go on.

[E]

His nickname was Rocket Wrist.

[B]

There was.

[E]

There was two separate occasions in fire stations where he was by himself. And, yeah, I think you can figure out the wrist.

[B]

Rocket Wrist. Just going to leave it at that, Aules.

[E]

All right.

[B]

Okay.

[D]

I love it.

[B]

A solid nickname. Solid. All right.

[F]

You don't give yourself for your nickname.

[B]

Yeah, but, guys, I'm obviously like, the knife was crazy. You know, the. The. The patches, you know, customary. So I love that. But between the ax and the helmet, that's just. That's. That's unbelievable. That is. That is humbling. That is awesome.

[F]

It's tier one gifts.

[B]

Yeah, those are. Those are tier one gifts, boys.

[E]

For you, too. Like this. Yeah, I love that laser machine, all that.

[B]

So I love that.

[D]

Yeah, we really appreciate you having us on here.

[B]

If you guys don't know, I don't think we told the. The origin story of. Of how we met, so. Yeah, so we were at nra frcc Was. And these guys walk into the booth and said, they're the local firefighters. And we grabbed some pictures and hung out a little bit. I think you. You can leave that part. Go ahead, Go ahead. I think. I think you left what you bought there. And. And. And then. So we called you, like. Well, did. Was that a donation, or do you want this stuff? Yeah, we're coming back for it, but we. We hung out the booth for a little bit time. Then you. You text me later on, like, hey, we're coming down. Can we get on the show? I'm like, hell yeah.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

And then it was originally going to be we already talk three and then two and then four showed up. And I love it. And I love it. I love it. Yeah. So that's, that's, that's, that's how, that's how this came about. And that was what, six months ago, eight months ago. A year ago.

[D]

Yeah, it was a year ago.

[B]

A year ago.

[A]

It was last April.

[E]

Yep.

[B]

I wasn't really April. Gosh, it goes. Are you kidding me?

[D]

Yeah,

[B]

yeah, it's going back to Atlanta. All right, well we'll see you boys there too.

[D]

It probably didn't seem as long ago, but you probably had a few, you know, unread text messages

[B]

for sure. All right, what else we got?

[F]

We got Holy folks as Drew. Dude, you need to update your profile picture on frcc. That looks like an imposter picture. How old is that photo?

[C]

It's.

[B]

Oh, gosh, of course. I, I created that in 2022.

[F]

Yeah.

[B]

Which means. Yeah, that was a couple year old photo then.

[F]

I'm pretty sure it was an 8, 10 year old photo then.

[B]

Whoa. Was it really?

[F]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure.

[B]

Yeah. There you go.

[F]

Yeah. So no, it's got me with I think a goatee.

[B]

Yeah, I think like a button up shirt.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Well, if I was, I was making that.

[F]

Man.

[B]

We were so new. We were doing everything.

[F]

We're just slapping it together.

[B]

Slapping it together. I probably stole that picture from you from Facebook or something like that. I don't even know if you sent me that photo. Maybe you did. I don't remember. I don't even. I don't even know how I got it. So. Yeah, it probably was older. Thanks. I probably just stole it off the Internet.

[F]

We're trying to update the website this year and. And that's probably when it'll get changed. Let's see. But holy folk. Thank you for the. Thank you for the update. Flow back. Thank you for the love. 50 bucks, man. Thank you very, very much for the love. Holy fook back in and says panel should POTUS be required to have served active duty military of four plus years in order to run for president.

[B]

Oh man, I've never thought about that. I've never thought about that. But you are. You are going to be the commander in chief. Right. And if you think about it, I don't and I really, I don't want you to be a career military guy. Like I don't know if. I mean It's a possibility. I'm not saying that that doesn't rule you out, but I don't think I

[F]

also don't want you to be a career politician.

[B]

I know. I know. I'm going to say yes. Like, if you really look back at everyone who's run for president or definitely everyone who should not have run for president, that almost disqualified most of those guys off the bat. And you're going to be commander in chief. I'm going to say yes. What say you?

[D]

Definitely.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

Most definitely.

[B]

I'm sure. Oh, man. I was gonna say. Yeah. I. I do. I think it'd be. I think it'd be best for. For the country. I almost said. Or some sort of like. Like a substitute for that. Like whether you go work for an ngo, like for four years, like something that shows that you have service, you know, that. That that is your intent. But, you know, I don't even want to say that. It's. To me, it's kind of military. Nothing put in. Put in four years or. Or go do something. Or go find another way to. To leech off the. The tax paradigm. Not. Not the president. Right.

[A]

How can you lead all the militaries if you've never done anything?

[B]

I know. Yeah.

[A]

It goes the same with our job. And I think most cops. Any other job, really, you know, you can't come be an officer in the fire department. I won't want somebody being in charge of the rig.

[B]

Right.

[A]

I'm on. And it's their first day in the fire service. They get handed two bugles.

[B]

Yeah. Yeah. That's a.

[A]

Got to have something.

[B]

That's a great analogy, leader. Name any other profession where you just walk in and you're in charge of everything and you have no background in it. Yeah. I'm a little surprised. I've never thought about that.

[D]

Recipe for disaster.

[B]

Yeah. We gotta. We need to do something. We want to do something to make sure Kamala Harris doesn't run again Or. Or whatever. I could have picked anyone. I'm not making it political.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Just picked out a random name, I think.

[F]

Gavin Newsom. Didn't he serve in the military?

[B]

I would be surprised.

[F]

That was a joke.

[B]

Okay.

[F]

Okay.

[B]

All right, all right.

[F]

All right. Let's see. Joe Saunders says. Okay. Based on the part of the live outro song Love Hurts by Nazareth.

[B]

Okay.

[F]

Five bucks for Love Hurts.

[B]

All right.

[D]

The one below that needs a little attention.

[B]

All right.

[F]

The real Justin G. 87 says God made EMS because even firemen heroes.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

We just really need somebody to do our light work?

[B]

Right. All right, here's, here's. Let's. Let's get real for a second. Let's get real for a second. EMS really is the redheaded stepchildren of the first responder community, generally speaking. I mean, I've never, I've never met a first responder, had a conversation with them, throwing that out there and someone go, oh, no, that ain't true at all. Like, I don't think I've ever got a different response back from that one. It's true. Why. And would. Would you gain it or say, I mean, they, they might save more lives than anyone else just because of the position they're in. Is, is that true or not? Tell me. Peel back that onion a little bit. Not looking for EMS versus firefighter. They're looking for an honest conversation about this.

[G]

So for us, I think the reason why we give them so much is because all of us have to do the Ms. Stuff too.

[B]

Right?

[D]

Like, that's a good one.

[G]

That's like 85, 90 of our calls are right.

[B]

Yeah.

[G]

We do it because we have to, to be able to do the fun stuff.

[B]

Yeah.

[G]

Okay, but so, like, they're doing the same thing we're doing, except they take them to the hospital. So it's easy for us to be like, calm down, you know, because we're doing the same thing they are, but.

[D]

Right.

[B]

I don't know.

[G]

It's just.

[A]

If it's a bad enough call one of us.

[G]

Yeah, yeah.

[B]

Okay.

[G]

We ride in anyways. If it's bad.

[B]

The, the, the next question I have for you. I was going to line up some of these questions beforehand. I was like, you know what? I want to hear what the first thought is, generally speaking. And, and I do say unfortunately about this. I can go into detail why, but unfortunately, I know it's going to sound like it's almost like a anti firefighter, but it's not, unfortunately. Why do you think most people like firefighters more than they like cops? I think if you pulled. And drew.

[D]

Drew.

[E]

Yep.

[B]

Oh, man. You know, we have a skewed audience. But regard. Poll the audience. Do you like firefighters? Who do you like more, firefighters or cops? But. But we have a, like a skewed.

[F]

You know, firefighters don't give out speeding tickets, so everybody's gonna choose.

[D]

I feel like if you call 911

[B]

and well, well, right off the bat, just make sure. I mean, I think that's a pretty, you know, general but understood. Does everyone agree that generally in America, if you could pull America, the Firefighters would be more. Pulled more favorable than cops.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

100.

[B]

Okay. What do you think? What do you think that percentage would be? How, how, how, how? Over 80. You're going over 80?

[A]

Over 80.

[D]

I'm going with 95. Even the cops want to be firemen. You know what I mean? I mean, for sure.

[E]

But here's the kicker.

[C]

All that, right?

[E]

We'll be in line at a restaurant. The cops will get charged nothing. We'll be right behind them, and we'll pay full price.

[D]

That is true.

[B]

Yeah.

[F]

Not a Chipotle.

[B]

Okay, so why, so why do you think that is? They want. We want. We have to go down the line and want to take a stab at it. I mean, what Drew said about speed tickets is. Is funny, but it might be. It might be. Do you think it's just as simple as that? Speeding tickets?

[E]

I think getting people in trouble in general, maybe they think, oh, if I, if I give this guy a free meal and he pulls me over a week from now, maybe I got, you know, maybe they got a bargaining token on their hand. I'll be like, I remember that guy. Yeah, he hooked me up.

[B]

Because if, Because I feel like if you think about it and again, I'm just, just, just off top of my head, I think you're more likely to call 911 in need of a cop than. Than you are a firefighter. You know? Like. You don't think so?

[F]

No. There's a lot of people.

[B]

Hold on. Yeah. Now, now let me, Let me clean that one up real quick. And unless, Unless you. A smaller percentage that's old and has health problems. Of course, like they're, they, they skyrocket. Do you think the average. The average household is more likely to call a cop for help than a firefighter?

[E]

No.

[B]

Or still no?

[A]

No.

[D]

No.

[B]

Yeah. Yeah. What do you got? You look.

[D]

You.

[B]

You want it? You had a big left to do head dot on this, but.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

What do you got?

[G]

I don't think a lot of people realize what people call 911 for these days.

[B]

That's a great subject. What do they call 911 for?

[G]

Everything.

[A]

Company.

[F]

Company. Because they're lonely.

[G]

No.

[F]

I mean sometimes that happens.

[A]

What don't they call 911 for?

[B]

Can you think what some of the stupidest things you guys. Yeah. Yeah.

[D]

This was probably, I don't know, three couple months ago. I don't know, maybe longer than that call for chest pain.

[G]

Right.

[D]

All right, so we're going run the call for chest pain. In your mind, you're kind of thinking you know what we're going to do when we get there? You know what kind of situation we're going to be in. Whatever. Well, we get there and this guy's sitting on the edge of a bed in a hotel room and like, hey, man, what's going on? Doesn't really say anything like, how did you call 91 1?

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

Now, meanwhile, he's got a. He's got a bracelet on his arm. You know, he just gotten out of the hospital.

[B]

Right.

[D]

So we can tell you just got out of the hospital. Tell us about what's going on. You know, like, are you having chest pain? Well,

[E]

yeah, but

[D]

I just need help getting my. Finding my other shoe. Get out. That's. No. No joke. Yeah. He had one shoe on. The other one was underneath the bed on the other side.

[F]

So hate it when that happened.

[D]

It's like, you know, like, you just don't know what to say to that.

[B]

Right.

[D]

Do we give you your shoe back and just like.

[B]

Right. Do we reward this by giving you your shoe or just walk out? Like, no. You know, do you be a nice guy guy and be like, well, I'm here. I need a new shoe? Oh, like I said, do you reward that type of behavior and be like, that's inappropriate.

[D]

You know, like, yeah, what if somebody else would have.

[B]

Yeah, that's the first. Yeah.

[F]

Just take his shoe.

[B]

Just take a shoe. And now you don't get a.

[F]

Can't find it, bro.

[D]

Yeah, but there's just like, endless calls like that, right? Yeah, it's just. It's crazy.

[A]

So what a lot of people don't understand is if it's not like a. An actual crime.

[B]

Right.

[A]

If you call 91 1, you're getting a fire truck.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

So it almost doesn't matter. If you dial 91 1, you're getting a fire truck, period.

[D]

Okay.

[A]

So we run a lot of the stuff that the cops still run. It's just like I said, as far as, like, the crime part of it, we don't go on. But if it's like psych calls, we'll go on other, like, bad stuff like that and just kind of stand by. So once they get everything cleared, we can go in and, like, do the EMS stuff.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

But we go on everything. You call 91 1, you get a. You get a fire truck.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

You know, kind of piggyback off that, too. Like. Like, you know, when you call 911, it goes to the dispatch center, so.

[B]

Right.

[D]

I feel like it's pretty much common across the United States for The most part. You know, depending on what the dispatch, you know, the dispatcher gets the information from the caller or whatever.

[B]

Right.

[D]

It seems to be a common thing if the dispatcher gets confused on which, which type of unit to send, you know, police, fire, ems. Right, yeah, we're just gonna send the fire.

[B]

Right, so that's just the easy button. Or send them both. Send them all. Yeah.

[D]

You know what, just send me everybody, right?

[B]

We, we know the least about this. Doesn't seem like an emergency, so let's send the most amount of resources out. This is solved. Yeah, makes sense.

[F]

And then you guys tell me this. In your community do you have like, man, my camera bit the dust again. All right, in your community, do you have like frequent callers? Like they're like, there's frequent flyers, these people that call like on the regular and you know them by their first name. So.

[B]

Yeah. Yes.

[E]

We had a guy that used to just fall. We picked him up 108 times in one year.

[B]

Ordain, by the time it gets to you. Is it, is it a first name basis or you just know the address at this point? Oh, we know the address. We hear the address.

[D]

It depends on the, the, the time of day, whether or not we're going to say their name when we get there or not, you know, hey, Mr. John, how's it going today?

[B]

2:00 the morning.

[D]

Yeah, right.

[F]

Yeah, like they don't even give the address anymore. Dispatcher's like, Bobby called to get

[E]

every now and then, they're like, this is a repeat caller.

[G]

So we also get the like, Marta, it stops running at like what, 3 o' clock in the morning, 1:33, 2 o', clock, something, whatever. So then we got the ones that just ride on that all day long to stay cool or warm, whichever.

[B]

Yeah, it's climate control. Yeah, yeah, sure.

[G]

Oh, can't, can't be here anymore. You know, Marta PD kicked me out, so I'll just call 91 so that I can go to the hospital.

[C]

Right.

[G]

Stay there. So good a meal.

[B]

Climate controlled place. That's insane. It really is. That's crazy. I'd say.

[E]

We had a guy one time called for chest pain, got in the back of the ambulance. They were putting, you know, stickers on him and doing all this, taking vitals. And one of the guys we work with stands over behind him and looks at his phone and he's typing. Don't worry about it.

[B]

I got a ride. Oh.

[E]

So he gets to the hospital and then just checks out immediately and walks across the street, the Waffle House to his job. And, and, and he doesn't have an id. That way he can't get billed for anything. So he's like, oh yeah, I don't have an id. Yeah, my name is blah, blah, blah.

[B]

My Social, they know this, they're working the system.

[F]

That's a three thousand dollar Uber, right?

[B]

Right? Yeah, right. Yeah, but like you said, it's, it's funny, you know, to, you know, in a negative way, but it's, it's not just an Uber. It's like if someone else really needed a life saving ride in that Uber,

[D]

you just took it.

[B]

You just took it. It's insane how selfish people are. Really. It really is.

[D]

Speaking of putting stickers, tell them about that call, Nigel. You get a kick out of this?

[G]

So at my old department, one of the medics, he's actually a army sniper.

[B]

Okay.

[G]

He was a paramedic. Super cool dude. Funny, but we ran the same guy like every shift. Normally it was a headache, it was a ball guy.

[B]

Okay.

[G]

And like you just get tired of running. There's nothing wrong with this guy's head. He just, you know, he'll, he'll call around meal times so he can get, go in and get, you know, get him a free meal. But. So we put him in the back of the ambulance and he starts putting like, you know, a ekg, you know, you get stickers all over your chest. Takes a picture of your heart. Well, he starts putting these stickers on his head. So like I opened up the door to the ambulance to ask him like if you needed anything, and this guy's standing there with all these leads hanging

[B]

off his face and I'm like, what? Looking like a superhero villain?

[G]

And he's like beating on the side of the, you know, on the side of the ambulance to his partner. Hey, we gotta go. This guy has no brain. No brain activity whatsoever. So then the guy that called 911 for, he's starting to get worried. He's like, what do you mean, is something wrong? And he's like, oh yeah, like, see this? You know, you've seen it on movies. He's got squiggly lines. Yours is flat. You have no brain activity. We got to get you to the hospital. And he's like, am I going to be okay?

[B]

We don't know. It depends. Was.

[G]

Was hilarious. Just with him? Yeah, just with him. It was awesome.

[B]

Oh, Nick, Real random. Have. Have you ever Kool aided into a building out of necessity? Because I feel like you could ask you.

[A]

No I don't.

[F]

I don't think.

[A]

I don't think I've ever actually. Kool Aid.

[B]

We do shoulders.

[A]

I fall a lot. I do follow. I'm clumsy.

[B]

Yeah, okay. It might be because you're like six, four, top heavy. I think I might have more to do with science than the clubs, but it might. It might be a combination of the two.

[A]

Like it's all of it.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Smaller feet.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Tall and top heavy.

[D]

You're usually going upstairs, Right.

[B]

You're a large man.

[A]

Yeah. Going up or downstairs.

[B]

Right. Yeah. Gear, boots. It's got to be.

[A]

Most of the time it's a lack of.

[B]

If you have your mask on. Lack of peripheral vision. Just everything's going against you to move fast and efficient and effective. Oh, yeah, the. Let's. Drew, let's go to the. Let's go to the. Oh, let's go back to Instagram, actually, real quick. Oh, you know what? Heck, before we do that, it's 9:20. This is exactly. I knew. I knew this was what's gonna happen. We take a break at 9 o' clock in the halfway mark and we have blown right by that.

[F]

We started a little late.

[B]

We did start a little late.

[F]

Yeah, we started 15 minutes late.

[B]

All right, so we're good.

[F]

Let's.

[B]

Let's take a break and we'll be right back.

[E]

All right.

[F]

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[B]

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[D]

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[E]

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[D]

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[E]

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[F]

Oh, yeah. Then we do this.

[E]

That's what happens.

[B]

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[F]

All right, what up, guys? Hey, just want to let you guys know what's going on. This month at FRCC shop, we are slashing coffee prices like we've never done before. Like right now, when you buy three bags, a bag of coffee is only like, yeah, 11.99. Okay, so that's a dollar cheaper than another popular conservative coffee from Walmart. All right, so that and the five pound bags, it comes to like $12 a pound. So I mean, we're really slashing the prices. Hopefully we can get some new customers customers with that. If we gain enough business from those cheap prices, we'll, we'll keep them low. We'll see what happens. Hard to sell stuff cheap and help out first responders. We're doing our best. The other thing that we're doing at FRCC Shop that I am very excited about is we finally have got it. We've been working on it for over a year and we have flavored sweet tipped cigars, right? So our, our Charlie and our Alpha, we got it called the Sweet Alpha and the Sweet Charlie. It's vanilla flavored and it's got monk fruit on the tip. They are delicious. I love them very much. What's unique about these flavored cigars you're not going to find in any other cigar lounge is when you smoke it, the people around you can smell the vanilla flavor. So if you got a wife or a girlfriend that's not really keen on cigar smoke on the back porch now, it smells like vanilla and they enjoy it. So it's a very unique flavored cigar. It does just a little bit. It has some small imperfections. Doesn't look super beautiful in some cases. But I will tell you, the flavor and the experience totally makes up for it. So check out that sweet Alpha and the sweet Charlie at FRCC shop. And with every smoke you smoke, you're helping out first responders just like these first responders here. So love you guys. Back to the show.

[B]

Okay, awesome. In fact, you mind sitting in the

[F]

seat for a second? And we're back kind of.

[B]

Oh, I know. You, Nathan, sit back, get the camera. Just. Just real quick. Because you. You're right. Right off it. And I just. I know you're gonna hate this, but, you know, it's. Yeah. You did a few things as well. Like these. Like these firefighters have. Were you just at the. At the Hard Rock Charlie event this last weekend and just pull it right close to your. To your face?

[C]

Yeah, yeah, I was. I'm on the board.

[B]

Oh, you're on the board there.

[C]

Oh, perfect.

[B]

Tell us about the Hard Rock Charlie foundation and how it's connected to the Ranger regiment.

[C]

So it started out. Our chairman, Dan Mead, has always been a setup of the guy that put together reunion. Pretty good ones.

[B]

Okay.

[C]

Everywhere from Baltimore to. You name it. Right. So one of our. Our vice president, Louis Prettyman, decided to send him a message like, hey, let's do a jump down into Varys floor. Oh, yeah, that's part of it. So. And we had a pretty over. Like, usually we have like 50 dudes, 50 former Rangers from all from Charlie Company. 175.

[B]

Okay.

[C]

And it was such a huge event that we had hundred plus.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

And I mean, it was like. It reminded me of a mid-90s jump manifest. And that was. No, really, like literally. You could have literally pulled one from back then and the same names were around. It was pretty awesome.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

So from that point forward, we decided.

[G]

Or.

[C]

Well, there's a couple guys started talking and they're like, hey, man, this is really cool. And it looks like people are doing some healing with this.

[B]

Right.

[C]

And.

[B]

Yeah. So let's just keep it up. Yeah.

[C]

And we started a foundation and it's been going strong for five years. The only thing that changed last year was moving to St. Augustine from Travis.

[B]

Okay.

[C]

Just because that hotel that's right there at the lake on Lake Dora.

[B]

Yeah. Is it always a water jump?

[C]

Always a water jump.

[B]

I love it.

[C]

These old ass. Yeah, we got grenaders. We got like.

[B]

Do you really?

[C]

Oh, we had this year. If you don't mind me throwing it.

[B]

No, no. What do you got?

[C]

So we had Eagle Claw guys there.

[B]

Oh, did you really?

[C]

Yes. Yeah. And we got the. It was called Whiskey and Warriors. It's something that we added to, you know, because it's a four day event.

[B]

Yeah. You have to throw me some of their names. Just. Just. Just in case there's someone once I would love to have. Man, I wish I talk about that, but.

[C]

Oh, dude, it was training that was done.

[B]

That'd be so cool.

[C]

Preparation for it. It was.

[B]

Oh, man. Yeah. That'd Be amazing. Absolutely. And you weren't just a part of Ranger Regiment, you're also Green Beret. Is that correct? You spent some time in 20th group. My, my former group start off. And then the 20th group, seventh group as well.

[C]

Honestly, if I want to. I mean, there's gonna be. Some SF guys are gonna hate me for this.

[B]

You should send it.

[C]

I mean, I'm just telling you right now. I was disappointed when I went through the Q course.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Small new tactics. I was like, I do a better job running this right now. And, you know, part of that is immaturity level. I mean, I was 25. 26.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Yeah. 26.

[B]

What. What year did you go through The Q course?

[C]

96.

[B]

Okay. Yeah, 96.

[C]

And that was a Bravo. That's the other thing we don't get to, you know, on active duty, you don't pick what you are.

[B]

Right.

[C]

Group you're going to.

[B]

Right. You know, I, I. You're not the first person to say that. And I do. And of course, like anything else there. There were. There doesn't mean there weren't good teams and good guys in sf. But as a whole, the, The Jack of all trades. The 90s wasn't. The 90s wasn't kind to SF. And SF needed a. I think. Which was a good thing. A good, like rude awakening. The. With. With the g. Wat and the culture

[C]

got rid of a lot of guys.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

What you would have remembered. Yeah. Definitely eliminated, like, hey, man.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

You're not gonna be able to carry a rock up these mountains.

[B]

Exactly. It was, it was, it was a good thing. So. Yeah. You're actually not the first person to say that. And I don't, I don't mind you, I don't. I don't mind someone saying that. Hey, if it's, if it's the truth. It's the truth.

[C]

Well, it was a lot. It's just a lot more work.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Right. You're thinking, you know, I, at the time, I was unmarried. I played rugby. I drank my money. You know, I always did.

[B]

You know what I mean?

[C]

I drank my money.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

And I did want to do Delta selection. And I felt pretty damn confident physically.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

But every guy I knew. And back then in the mid-90s.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

There was nothing I would. You would run into guys at Bragg later on that were in OTC finish over there. You know, they're in the squadrons are. And they will tell you nothing. You're getting zero.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Nothing. So. But every guy I knew was married and a little more. I'd say more mature than I.

[B]

Yes.

[C]

So you know, the next. What's the next step? Because yeah, honestly, in regimen I was getting kind of like, like where do I grow from here? I already know I can do up to the first iron's job.

[B]

Right.

[C]

That's going to be 12 years, 15 years before I make. So, you know, I was looking for the next step.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

And I didn't really have an idea what SF was so.

[B]

Right.

[C]

Yeah. So I would say definitely some immaturity involved in that too. Because you know the flip side, years later in Afghanistan where we're building our own target packages, we're doing. We're not being directed on what we're doing.

[B]

Right. That's where SF shines. Yeah. Like being done in ODA overseas was, was, was really cool. It really was. That's where the makeup of it. The task Org. You know, the, the way teams are made up with the, the different specialties that it just. You find out actually it is a well oiled machine when done. Right. Right. The parts are there with the. Yeah. But with, with the right people in the right places. It's an amazing place to be. Yeah.

[C]

And even in 20th year. I mean by like.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Later years, I mean there were so many guys that were gonna have active duty coming in into the 20th group, 19th group and Ton of experience already. You know, it's usually I'd say definitely at battalion levels when it starts to fall apart.

[B]

I've said it, I've said that. Same thing. Same thing.

[C]

Company level can be good. Depending on the company.

[B]

Right.

[G]

Yep.

[C]

So you're, you know, you're 18.

[B]

Can be good to jump back to the Hard Rock. Charlie. Thing is, is. Was your jump last weekend or was it a get together?

[C]

It was last Saturday.

[B]

Okay. Together. And the jump is all one thing.

[C]

The jump will always be the first Saturday of May, which is great because it's Mother's Day.

[B]

Right. All right. I'm saying I've, I really thought, I've talked to the magnet. I really thought I was gonna get there this year until that fifth year.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

I'm not sure.

[C]

Remember you didn't you have bring a gun the first year you were one of our sponsors.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, I will, I will, I will get out there if, if you, if you'll allow me. Yeah. Because we actually had. So now I want to do a water jump. I've never done a water jump. I was on a dive team. I've never done a water jump.

[C]

Oh, dude, you just. And there's man, the first year we were in Travers, it was boats.

[B]

Just.

[C]

You're like, holy, I'm gonna hit one of these boats. There's so many boats out there.

[B]

Right, right.

[C]

So then they started controlling it. The police did, actually.

[B]

Local stuff.

[C]

And. And then the second year, and I think somebody mentioned that it's SEM. Oh, no, that was a video that went out today. But somebody. It's pretty infested with alligators, right?

[B]

Oh, I said that. Oh, yeah.

[C]

So when you were out there for, like, fifth, you know, 10 minutes, you're like, where's this? Every time, like one of the.

[B]

You know, live through reg, live through regiment, live through combat. Go hang out with your boys.

[C]

Yeah, probably a few brain cells gone.

[B]

Well, man, I. I wanted to bring you up here, you know, talk to you for just a little bit, because you made the trek out here. I hope you come back and visit us on the live and hang out a little bit longer. I'd love.

[C]

I did it once before, and I wasn't too thrilled with it. I wasn't prepared. That was part of it. Saturday morning, a friend of mine said,

[B]

oh, you do a podcast? Yeah. Yeah. Well, the lives are a lot more laid back. Where it's not. It's not too intrusive. It's not like, just. It's not. You just telling your story for an hour and an hour and a half, two hours. Good. That's. The lives are just. We're just hanging out and talking just like this. Yeah, it's pretty awesome.

[C]

Pretty cool setup you have here too, man.

[B]

Thank you, brother. Anyway, yeah. Thank you so much.

[C]

Thank you. Thank you.

[B]

Oh, absolutely. Like I said, I'm gonna need to keep in touch anyway because I'm going to do a water jump. Yeah, man. And look at.

[C]

I. I just. Yeah, I actually live five minutes.

[B]

Do you really?

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Oh, that's funny.

[C]

But I. I actually resigned my position this year. I think you should resign. I. I think a lot of our board is still our board, but five years, it's time to go.

[B]

Yeah, no, I. I agree with that. I agree with. Do you. Well, I gotcha. Do you agree the president, United States to be a candidate that you need to serve four years? What do you think about that?

[C]

Absolutely not sure.

[B]

What's. What's. I love different, you know, different opinions. What. What's. What's your reason for it?

[C]

So what's your name again?

[D]

I'm sorry. Jules.

[B]

Yeah, I was talking to Julian.

[C]

I mean, look, this is their podcast, so.

[B]

Oh, I know. Yeah.

[C]

But I was. I was like, Man, I got an answer for this.

[B]

Okay. I love it. Well, I'm glad I asked you that.

[E]

Then.

[B]

What do you got?

[C]

So. And I know I have some good friends that are friends with Pete.

[B]

Right.

[C]

And out of this entire administration, Pete Hexeth would be the only guy eligible for the presidency.

[B]

Right? Yeah.

[C]

And at the end of the day, we need somebody to be CEO, basically. Right. Like, at the end of the day, you are getting your information regarding the Department of Defense or war or whatever through the Department of War. Right? That's your. Those are your people. You are there to make a decision.

[B]

Decision. That's it. Right.

[C]

And somebody that he also like. As much as we'd love to have somebody in the military for combat operations or any military type of event, he still has to deal with the economy. He still has to deal with Congress. He still has I. So.

[B]

Right.

[C]

For me, personally, I don't think it's a big deal. And. And honestly, we don't have Eisenhowers anymore for generals.

[B]

And, you know, this not the truth, isn't that.

[C]

Well, there's a lot. There's a lot more stars out there there than there used to be.

[B]

There need to be.

[C]

Yeah. You know, Pete's helping out with that.

[B]

And so. And so few of them really deserve that. The position. The position that they have. Now, don't get wrong. We have some great generals. God, do we have some good.

[C]

We had General Downey at. This year. We had. How am I for.

[B]

He was so. We. Whatever. But I hate to say it. Not. Not. Not every general is. Is who you think. Think a general should be.

[C]

And there's a lot of them.

[B]

There's a lot of them.

[F]

Yeah.

[C]

So, you know, they're suits for sure. Anyway, that's my opinion.

[B]

I'm. I'm glad you gave it. You're not wrong. You're. You're not wrong. It definitely is a. Another side to it. So I'm. I'm glad we talked about that. Thanks, brother.

[C]

Thank you. Thank you very much.

[B]

Absolutely. Appreciate you.

[G]

Oh, I'm good.

[B]

Who else wants up in the hot seat? Get up there, Jules. Yeah, get up there with. Man, I don't. I don't.

[D]

A lot better looking.

[B]

Whatever.

[F]

What's that shirt? What's that shirt say?

[B]

You gotta.

[E]

What is it? He does it.

[F]

Hey, I heard that if you got a pink gun on your shirt, it's

[B]

like a swinger thing. It's.

[E]

It's more of like a, you know, a maroon type.

[B]

You know, the. The boys give you a hard time about that. That. That Little mustache of yours.

[E]

You know what?

[G]

It's funny.

[D]

I do, yeah, yeah, yeah, y. I do.

[B]

I get a hard time, but I mean, either go for it or don't. What. What are we doing here? What are we doing here?

[E]

I tried the handlebar thing one.

[B]

Did you?

[E]

I, like, went on vacation, grew out a full beard, went home and just shaved the middle and trim the sides. And I was like, yeah, no, that's not me.

[B]

For sure. Yeah. Oh, my gosh. You get that man a drill sergeant hat and get it. And get it tipped down really far.

[F]

Oh, he would. Yeah, He's a classic.

[B]

Look, there it is. Yeah. And. And with a high enough pitch voice, you could also film, like. Was it Major Pain?

[E]

I was thinking that, but I didn't

[B]

want to say it. But you know that that would be low. If I left it at that, I'd at least give you a jacked. Major Pain. Like. Yeah, he was. He was like 190 at best. And we. We had a saying on my. On my old team is that you got to be two something to do something. Oh, so. So if you're not. If you're not £200, you're not coming. You're not coming to our team. You got to be two something to do something.

[E]

On the old truck, I was. We had a little rule. It was like you had to weigh 200 and you got be able to bench three plates.

[B]

That was the minimum. You know, you got to have standards. You got to have standards.

[E]

Standards, you know?

[B]

All right. Oh, Drew, the super Chat thing. Need, need, need to get refreshed. Hey, that's right. You. You can. If you don't mind, deal with that here in a second. I don't know how long it'll take. Let's. Let's go back to. Let's go back to Instagram. There's a few things that.

[F]

Oh, you want me to do two things at once?

[D]

I love to do that.

[B]

When. Get back to Super Chats when you. When you. When you got a second.

[F]

Okay. Instagram something here.

[B]

Yeah.

[F]

What you want to do this guy here.

[B]

Oh, yeah, yeah. Put your headsets on if you guys want to. Want to. Want to hear it? Oh, yes, yes, that. That one.

[F]

He says yes.

[B]

I forgot about this one. Okay.

[D]

I had a genius idea. Spirit Airlines just went bankrupt, right?

[B]

I'm the guy that flew spirit Airlines for 24 hours.

[F]

He goes on to say that, basically,

[B]

we all pitch in.

[F]

We could just buy Spirit Airlines. Cut to.

[B]

He launches a website, he meets with the lawyers. Everything is going. They need 1.75 billion and they have raised $132. I have bought into this. They are using the Green Bay packers model of basically having a cooperative 360000 people own shares in the Green Bay Packers. Not only has the co op work for the packers, it worked for Ocean Spray, rei, Lando Lakes. If you pledge money, you get a vote. The proposed profit sharing is going to be proportional to your pledge. It's going to be worker owned, flight crew, ground staff. They all have meaningful equity. I think this is pretty cool. You go up here and you say like what are the cheapest ones you can pledge?

[D]

45.

[B]

That is the cheapest. That gives you one vote and you'd

[F]

have a base share.

[B]

Then you can see how they are doing everything kind of proportional based off

[F]

of if you pledge from 45 up to 100 grand.

[B]

So. So I am pledging.

[F]

I'm gonna pledge 150 bucks.

[B]

Let's join spirit 2.0. Basically you don't pay any money right now. You just get a token. And so if this actually happens, you would pay the 150 or the 45 or if you give a million dollars, whatever it would be, let's do it. Okay. I had a genius idea. Yeah. How. How crazy is that idea? I don't know. Did you get to hear it by chance or. We were able to read it. So what they're proposing is that Spirit Airlines, he's raising money that you can buy into and he's already raised. Now it's like at $160 million. Want to say that he wants to buy Spirit Airlines as a group. The same way the Green Bay packers fans and sitting there essentially own or the people of Green Bay. Not just the fans, but own the football team. And like let's. Let's buy it and let's. Let's. And now it's owned by the people. It's. It's a bold move. It's a bold move. I thought it was. I thought it was really. I don't know. I thought it was really cool. I haven't pledged yet. I forgot about it until that video came up. But I'm thinking about it. What do you think about that idea? Is it just crazy enough it might work or if you send 40 bucks to that you just lost 40 bucks.

[E]

I think you lost 40 bucks. But here's my thing.

[B]

Okay.

[E]

Didn't make it to start with. What's going to be different this time? Go around.

[B]

Well, that's. So I looked into this and of. And they're like, well, you know, thanks to the rising gas prices. Like this war is what caused Spirit Airline to go under. And anyone who wants to look for negative things. So you always find negative things on the surface. However, then if you look into it, what you find out as under the Biden administration, Spirit Airlines wasn't doing well then and they tried to sell with them and do a merger. JetBlue was going to acquire them because they were going out of business then. And the Biden administration stepped in and I, I think, and I'm not not making this like political red or blue just because of the facts or how I see it, they stopped it and said, no, we're not going to allow this merger. I mean, I forget what it's called the. When you can't have, you can't have too many people monopolize and so the government can step in that I'm forgetting the word off top of my head. Some of the chats will remind me what it is anyway and said, you can't do it because then they're the lowest fare airlines. And if we as the government allow this merger to happen, then JetBlue is going to raise the prices and then that'll be, that'll be bad for business. Well, as always, that's the ironic thing when government steps in and says, we know better because what ended up happening, they went out of business because they were the only airline that didn't charge enough and, and they were already doing bad and they couldn't even, they couldn't even handle a gas price and it went down. So that wasn't a gas price issue. That is, you are not a healthy business issue. If, if FRCC goes under because postage goes up, do I blame postage or are we not a healthy enough business to handle that? Because everyone had to handle that. American had higher gas prices. JetBlue had higher gas prices. Frontier is an economy airline. They had higher gas prices. Everyone had it. Spirit just sucked. And, and I'm, and I'm not saying as an airline, I'm saying as, as a business. They, they just weren't good enough to, to survive.

[E]

Did you fly Spirit?

[B]

I have, I have flied the. I've flown Spirit because I don't, I feel like it's. This is weird. You have to defend yourself if you have a flu.

[E]

Spirit, come on, make it good. Make it good.

[B]

No, I have a good reason to fly Spirit.

[E]

The only airline left.

[B]

No, there's. I was trying to go somewhere and I'm not a bougie person. I'M not. I'm not a bougie person. But when it comes to flying, I'll fly. I'll fly on the last seat on the smallest airplane. I don't care. But I do have one requirement that pisses me off. My old age. I don't like layovers. Oh, yeah. I hate layovers. And if you give me, you know, a one stop American or Delta or anything else, or a direct flight on Spirit, I will fly Spirit. And so that's. Those are the few times I flew Spirit because they had the only direct flight to wherever I was going. That's. Is that.

[G]

Is that.

[B]

Is that. Does anyone agree with that? Is that wrong of me? Is it. Would you rather fly a better airline and stop, or would you fly Spirit or Frontier direct flight, Whichever wants cheap. Is that.

[F]

Yeah.

[B]

What. What. What's. Do you not work overtime?

[E]

This is.

[G]

This is the furthest Kyle's ever left Georgia. This is absolutely the furthest he's ever been.

[B]

This.

[E]

This is the cheapest guy I know by far. He will unscrew the light bulb to a spare room just so you don't just see on the. Use the power in the light system.

[D]

That's a true story.

[B]

That's true.

[D]

Earlier they were like, hey, let's. Let's plan a trip. You know, where. Where we say Mexico like that. Y' all just let me know when

[B]

we're going to T.

[A]

Not knowing they'll spend just as much going to T as they would Mexico.

[B]

Oh, for sure. All Kyle. Send it back over to Kyle. Now, Kyle, we're. We're outside of Georgia. Where all have you been?

[D]

Well, this isn't going to take long. Well, they already got the first one. De.

[B]

Yeah, still Georgia. He's counting.

[A]

Outside of making.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[D]

Outside of making. Okay, this is my story.

[G]

Right?

[B]

Right. Yeah.

[D]

What did you say? What was the first. What was the question?

[B]

Florida.

[D]

New York.

[B]

You still recovered for that New York trip? You okay?

[D]

Yeah, I actually went there three times.

[B]

Oh, did you really? Yeah. Would you. Would you go to New York for.

[D]

To go to the 911 museum?

[B]

Hell yeah. That's a. That's a great reason to leave Georgia.

[D]

The first time I went, I was a teenager and it was just to go there. Just on a vacation.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

But anyways, the. The next two times was the same thing, but the last two times was to go and to see the 911 memorial. But. And then, yeah, I went to Pennsylvania.

[B]

What drew you to. What drew you to the pa this is.

[D]

Yeah, so I had a me and My family. Family had a family friend that ended up getting sick anyways. He was a professor at Mercer University.

[B]

Okay.

[D]

And he's elderly now, but he's just kind of been a family friend for as long as I can remember. But he's got Parkinson's disease and just like some bad nerve damage and stuff like that. Anyways, we went to go see him, and he's. He's from Pittsburgh. Him and his wife both. They were both professors. So it may. May or not have been the last time we're going to get to see him, you know, so we went to go see him. It was me and my uncle. I was raised by my uncle. And so it's like, well, we're gonna fly. Are we gonna drive? And I'm like, well, you know, what's, what's cheaper? Yeah, yeah, yeah, we should have flew for sure. So took the Greyhound. So we're getting the. The Hana and take off, you know, and just being from Georgia, I kind of, you know, I've always carried, you know, a firearm in my car, you know.

[B]

Okay.

[D]

So not thinking anything of it. I had a MMP 45 and I had it in broad daylight, basically, in the back floorboard, passenger seat.

[B]

What could go wrong, right?

[D]

I mean, what's. What's the big deal, right? And in plain sight. In plain sight, like I was saying. So we. We're on our way to Pittsburgh, and it's probably like 230 in the morning or so when we get there. And we're literally like a mile from where we're, you know, our destination is. And Dr. Al is his name, but anyway, Dr. Al call us. It's like, hey, just be real careful, you know, Especially never been coming to Pittsburgh. You know, there's a lot of an overwhelming amount of deer around here. So, okay, not only do you want to go the speed limit, but you probably want to go a little bit under that. So.

[B]

Right.

[D]

Crush your vehicle. Yeah. She's like, all right, so we're going super, super slow. Only car on the road. 2:30 in the morning, coming through this town, and we go through a red light. And the only other car that passed us oncoming, going the opposite direction was a police officer, okay. In an suv, right? So he passes, and I've seen him whip around in the middle of the road. And I'm like, oh, we're about. I was like, we're about to get pulled over. I was like, what? We didn't do anything. We're going. It's like a 35 mile, an hour speed limit. We're going 10. Yeah, 15. And I'm like, nah, we're getting. Yeah, he's not whipping around for the, for the other car that we didn't pass, you know.

[B]

Right.

[D]

So he whips around, pulls us over, comes up to the window and he's like, you know, introduces himself, you know, he's like kind of like looking around and stuff, you know, and before I even realize it, he's like, go ahead and put your. Go ahead. Let me ask you, go ahead and put your hands on the steering wheel for me.

[B]

Okay. All right.

[D]

Still hasn't told me what he pulled me over for.

[B]

Right. Right.

[D]

By this time, another police officer's pulling up behind him. I guess that's his officer or whatever, you know, his supervisor pulls up. So he comes up, he's on the opposite side on the passenger side. He's looking in the window with a flashlight. Right before I realized that, the police officer on my side yanks the door of my car open like a. Very aggressively.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

And he's like, he's like, go ahead and step out of the vehicle right now. So, but right before that, he still hadn't told me what he pulled me over for, but he did say, I need your license, insurance, or proof of insurance, registration. So I'm like, well, my registration and insurance in the glove box. It'll take me a minute to get it. Yeah. Is it okay if I reach over there, take my hands off steering wheel, reach over and get it? So he's like, yeah. So while I'm doing that, that's when that other police officer, I guess, signaled to him.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

So I get out of the car and he's like, put your hands on top of the car. So he's like, pass me down. Ain't got nothing on you that's gonna stick, stab, poke me, right? Whatever.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

No, sir. All right. So then he puts me in handcuffs. Still hasn't told me what he pulled me over for. Walks me over to the curb. He's like, go ahead and have a seat on the curb. The other officer pulls my 64 year old uncle out of the car.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

Doesn't handcuff him, but he's like, sir, if you will just, just go ahead and have a seat beside your, your son or whatever. And if you don't mind, put your hands, put your hands under your.

[B]

Yeah. On your butt. Yeah.

[D]

And before he starts talking to me, he looks at my uncle and he's like, hold on just a second. He said, he said, sir, you're Not. You're not planning on. You're not planning on running or anything, are you? And my uncle looks behind him and he's like,

[B]

right, I would hope that

[D]

you would let me know if there was a tiger coming, because that's the only time I'm gonna run, you know?

[B]

Right.

[D]

So anyway, fast forward. He comes up and he's like, you got any weapons in the car? I said, yes, sir. I got an M and P Smith and wesson M&P 45 in the passenger side floorboard of the vehicle. He's like, yeah, that's the problem. Like, all right.

[B]

Feel like we talked about this sooner, but. Okay, now. Now we're talking about. Yeah, let's talk about it.

[F]

Did you see that when we drove by you? Dang.

[D]

That's. That. That's it right there.

[B]

Right?

[D]

And so them cops are good.

[G]

Yeah.

[D]

So he. He says, yeah, that's the problem. He says, do you have a license to carry a firearm in the state of Pennsylvania? I said, well, sir, I said, up until about, I don't know, five minutes ago, I'd never been in Pennsylvania.

[B]

Right.

[D]

And so to answer your question, no, I do not have a license to carry a firearm in the state of Pennsylvania. And he's like, all right, just hold tight. He goes back to the car, comes back, he says, so you don't have a license at all? No, sir, I do not have a license to carry. Instead of Pennsylvania.

[B]

Right.

[D]

Do you have any paperwork saying that this firearm is registered to you?

[B]

Okay.

[D]

And I said. I said, no, sir. I said. I said, in the state of Georgia, when we buy a firearm, you know, and fill out the paperwork for it, that's pretty much the extent of it. And so I kind of asked him, you know, like, can you elaborate on the registration part as far as Pennsylvania goes? Like, what does that entail?

[B]

He's like, because when I bought it in Georgia, I didn't. I didn't. I didn't. I didn't register it in Pennsylvania. 100.

[D]

So he said, so you didn't register as firearm. And I'm like, I'm. I'm just being completely honest with you. I really don't understand what your question is, because, yeah. He's like, well, in Pennsylvania, when you buy a firearm, you go to your local police or sheriff's office and register the firearm. And I'm like, yeah, yeah, we don't do that in Georgia.

[B]

Right, right. So his book, back to where I live in Georgia.

[D]

So his partner, he's like. He's like, yeah, he's yeah, they want everybody to carry guns in Georgia. Like, they don't. They don't register firearms. You know, as long as your background check comes back good.

[B]

Yeah, that's it.

[D]

You know, so he's like, all right. So he goes back to the car, then he comes back and he's like, well, the good thing is, is that this firearm is not stolen. I said, yes, sir.

[F]

That's good.

[B]

Right? Right. Yeah, sir.

[F]

Right.

[B]

I'm a. I knew that. Yeah.

[F]

Well, officer, as long as you don't take it from me, it won't be stolen.

[D]

So he's like. So he comes back and he's like. He's like, man, this.

[B]

He's like, he doesn't know what to do with you. He does not know what to do with you. Yeah.

[D]

Meanwhile, his partner has already kind of like, opened up the rest of the doors to the car. Right in the trunk there was some extra turnout gear, like firefight gear I keep in there in case we get. I get sent out to a different station to work or whatever. Anyways, the point is there's firefighting gear

[B]

in the truck or in case there's a fire in Pennsylvania, or in case he says.

[D]

He says, let me ask you a question. What do you do for a living?

[A]

I like to party.

[B]

I like to party on a budget. It. This is.

[D]

This is coming from the officer that literally just looked in my trunk and saw that I'm not cross dressing on the weekends, you know, like.

[B]

Right.

[F]

And they say the boys from Georgia are slow. Come on, Pa. Boys got to speed up a little bit, you know.

[D]

But anyways, I tell them, you know, like, you know, I'm a firefighter or whatever, in Georgia, you know, where we could carry firearms without a registration or whatever. So he's like, well, here's the deal, man. He's like, in the state of Pennsylvania, when you carry a firearm without a. Without, you know, carry our unregistered firearm or without a carry permit, that's a felony. And I said, yes, sir. And, well, I was on my way

[F]

to the police station because I'm from Georgia.

[D]

Whole, like.

[B]

Right. He does not compute. Right?

[D]

Like, he's like, so you don't have anything?

[B]

Not since last time we talked about it. No, sir.

[D]

No, sir, I do not. And so then he says, well, he's like, unfortunately, because of. And he kind of points to his chest like, body cam been on.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

We're this far into the process of the stop, I'm gonna have to take you to jail.

[E]

No.

[D]

Yes, sir.

[F]

Can we get the firearm registered there, sir.

[B]

They said.

[D]

My uncle's like, oh. He's like. He's like, guys, there's got to be something we can do. Like, listen, my. You know, my son's never been in any trouble before. He's been a firing, you know, 15, 16 years. It's gonna.

[B]

Like.

[D]

This isn't gonna be good.

[B]

Wait, go ahead. I'll save this question.

[D]

So he's. So he goes back to his car, and I don't know what. He goes back to the car again. Probably looking for the registration that I don't have or the license, you know?

[B]

Right.

[D]

So then he comes back and he's like, all right. I guess it was to get his card, you know, to read me my Miranda rights, because he didn't have memorize or whatever.

[B]

Right.

[D]

So he reads those, you know, Miranda writes to me, and he says. He says, you're under arrest for, you know, carrying a firearm instead of Pennsylvania without a license. This will be a. It's a felony charge. You know, it's not. You know.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

This is what I'm charging you with.

[B]

Okay.

[D]

Still hasn't told me what he pulled me over for originally.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

Okay. So puts me in handcuffs, and I'm like, oh, I know I'm gonna lose my job, my house.

[B]

Yeah, right. Yeah.

[D]

I mean, this is terrible.

[F]

This is one good example why the man never leaves Georgia.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

Yeah. It's like we go from watching. Watching out for deer to going to jail, you know? So he pushed me in the back of the car. We go to the local police station where, you know, his jurisdiction is or whatever, puts me in a cell by myself, and this other police officer that's working in the jail or whatever comes over there, and he's like. He's like. He's like, this ammo that you got in these mags, like, you know, they're trash, right? He's, like, talking to me about this ammo that I have in my.

[B]

In my mask, you know, kicking. Kick a man while he's down.

[F]

Why don't y' all just strip me down and hit me with a fire hose like they did Rambo. Don't be dogging me about my ammo and my gun.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

So he's like. He's like, man, this is. You know, this is just an unfortunate situation. He's, like, trying to minimize this situation that.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

That, you know, I've been put in or whatever.

[B]

Right.

[D]

And so I'm like, man, this is just crazy. Like, there's. It could have been something Right.

[B]

This is really happening. Yeah.

[D]

So then later on, when I was able to talk to my uncle, you know, on the phone, he was like, hey, that. That supervisor that was there that, you know, sat me on the curb, he told me that after you went to. After they took you to jail, he was like, man, he's like, I'm sorry about this whole situation. If I would have been the arresting officer, definitely could have let y' all go. We would have took the firearm and. And y' all could have been on your merry way, but we would have confiscated the firearm. And anyways, that just infuriated me, you know, so now I'm in this jail cell for a couple hours until I guess they figure out what they're gonna do. So they come back in there and. Because they were filling out some paperwork, whatever. So he's like, hey, he's. He said, we're gonna. I'm gonna have to move you. I want to take you downtown Pittsburgh to the jail, which is, I guess, their biggest jail, right?

[B]

You got to go with the big boys.

[D]

Oh, yeah, yeah. So we get down there, and it's the full male deal, buddy. We get out, they're gonna love. Only we get out. As soon as I get out. Yeah, as soon as we get out, he. I'm in handcuffs already behind me, right? So we get out and he's like, man, just. He's like, I hate to do this. It's just protocol or whatever. Puts me in leg shackles.

[B]

Oh, my gosh.

[D]

Yes, sir. Waltz me into this jail. There's a security. The security guy there, whatever, is like, you know, doing the whole pat down thing, you know, orange jumpsuit, some orange, like, fancy looking bougie slides, you know, that I gotta put on. And I stand. I'm standing on this conveyor belt, you know, with my hands by my back going laterally with the wall as they're scanning every orifice of my body and looking for more. I don't know. Yeah, or maybe they're looking. Maybe they're looking for my permit that I don't have. So. So they do all that anyway. You know, I know it was a long story, but 16 hours I went through, like, three different jail cells.

[B]

Really?

[D]

Yep. Ended up seeing the judge, like, before you get out, right? You got to go before the judge, and they're like, you know what the judge say? Bail out or whatever. So I got there and it was a female judge when I walked up to the, you know, podium or whatever.

[B]

Okay.

[D]

And I'm like, man, I mean, I'M in a bad spot.

[B]

Right? Yeah. Yeah.

[D]

Could you win that against.

[B]

I could use a win here. Yeah. Yeah.

[D]

So somewhere along the line, my uncle made a boatload of phone calls just calling everybody. And how. How this happened, I don't know, but one of his friends, I think this is. Is. Is what he said, but I think one of his friends. Buddies was a kind of a hob or like, big wig at the FBI building in Atlanta or something like that. Anyways, he made a phone call. And so basically, because that phone call, they got me out without bail. It was called.

[B]

Okay.

[D]

Called ROR Release on request. Okay. So he called on my behalf and

[B]

was like, they're still hitting you with the charges?

[D]

Yeah. Oh, yeah.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

Okay. So I get out now standing on a curb, downtown Pittsburgh with a Ziploc bag and my. Hey, dudes with no shoelaces because they thought I was going to hang myself with a shoelace about this long. And I'm like, on the phone, you know, waiting on my uncle to come get me.

[G]

Yeah.

[D]

And so you.

[B]

You a felon?

[D]

I'm not. But it did cost.

[B]

Sounds like you are $10,000.

[D]

No, with a lawyer to get that. That, you know. Yeah, yeah. And how to go back. How to drive back to get you Pennsylvania to go to court.

[B]

Well, how'd you get your gun? You can't pick it up and drive it back.

[D]

So when I got there to the court date, my lawyer's sitting there, and of course, we're waiting on, you know, the other line of people going up there for just petty. Whatever.

[B]

How long ago is this?

[D]

Two years ago.

[B]

Okay.

[D]

Yeah, about two years ago.

[B]

All right.

[D]

And I look at him, I'm like, hey, this is. I mean, this is going to go pretty much the way we plan, right? I mean, you're going to handle this. And he's like, yeah. And I'm like, what about my firearm? Because I'm not coming back.

[B]

This is the second time. Fool me once.

[D]

And I'm like, so if all this gets withdrawn because it didn't get exposed or dropped, it was withdrawn. Like, the judge ended up just throwing the whole thing out. It's ridiculous. Okay, so now this is. I should be able to get my property back. And he's like, let's let the ink dry a little bit before we start talking about getting the firearm back, whatever that means. You know, I just.

[B]

I'm sorry. In my mind, I can see you, like, picking it up from the. From the department as soon as you walk out. Same guy. Is that thing Registered. Exactly.

[A]

Right.

[B]

Back of the jail you go, man, please.

[D]

So you fast forward a couple months. I'm at home, you know, And I got thinking about it. Just really aggravated about the situation.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

So I call him. I'm like, hey, is the ink still dry?

[B]

Is the ink dry? Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Yeah.

[D]

And he's like. He's like, yeah, I'll get on that. He never did. So I ended up calling the probate court.

[B]

Okay.

[D]

They were telling me to go and talk to the desk sergeant, local police department, arresting department, whatever. So I did that. Then they were like, oh, yeah, we don't. You got to get. You got to go through the probate court. And I'm like, y' all are both telling me that the other person is the one I need to go through, right? Is it. Do I go through the court system? What's the deal here? Yeah. And so anyway, they ended up mailing me a stack of papers in a manila folder to fill. Fill out. Little did I know, once I filled that paperwork out and sent it back through the mail and all that, I call them back, and the probate court's like, yep, we can receive your paperwork. Thank you for doing that. Basically, the stack of paperwork is you filing a motion to reappear in court to. To justify that you are able to get your filing back. And I was like, you can keep it.

[B]

Unbelievable. That's.

[D]

That's pretty much it, man.

[C]

Oh.

[D]

The reason I got pulled over was because of an obscured license plate.

[B]

Wow.

[D]

That he did not see because he was.

[B]

No way you could see that going that fast, right? Yeah. Yeah. Oh, that's crazy.

[D]

Obscured license plate. You know what was on the front, though?

[B]

What?

[D]

The thin red line, of course.

[B]

Oh, yeah, right. Oh, yeah, yeah. Didn't see that. Oh, yeah.

[D]

Never seen this car before 2:30 in the morning. Let's take a chance on.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

Since 231, it might be a DUI right here, baby.

[B]

I feel like you could have told us that story a little bit earlier, cuz I asked you a question. Remember the question I asked you? I said, hey, why do you think it is people like firefighters more than cops? Yeah. That was the time to tell that story.

[D]

You're right. Yeah. That horrible.

[E]

What's that?

[G]

Tell them what was obscure in the tag.

[B]

What was obscure? The tag.

[D]

Oh, it was the dealership band. Yes, sir.

[B]

Yeah. No, Yeah. I hate those. That's the first thing I take off whenever.

[D]

When the judge looked at the paperwork, he literally looked at me, looked at the Arresting officer looked at me and then looked at the lawyer and said, this is absolutely ridiculous. I'm sorry that you have wasted your time.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

You know, and this is withdrawn, and I hope you have a great rest of your day. And I'm thinking to myself, I will when I'm back in Georgia.

[A]

Yeah, yeah.

[B]

Right. That. That is the unfortunate argument when it comes to cops and firefighters. Is this man.

[G]

Yeah.

[B]

Just make up random stats here off top of my head, but it's pretty accurate. 99 of officers are good. That 1% can ruin your day or your week or your month, possibly your life. You know, really like, possibly your life. 99 of firefighters are good. Right. There's. Everyone has their turds, but the 1% of firefighters that are bad can't really do anything negative to you. You know what I mean? Like, if, if you're right. I mean, yeah. If. If you're.

[G]

If you're.

[C]

If you're.

[B]

If you're a crappy firefighter, you're probably at 1%. The rest of the boys there are going to carry your weight, essentially. And so you don't even know he's a bad firefighter.

[D]

Right.

[B]

But a bad cop can. He said, we do.

[D]

I do.

[A]

He does now.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

No, I did not

[B]

let you care.

[D]

That's super.

[F]

Pennsylvania.

[D]

That's awesome that you asked that, actually.

[B]

What he asked.

[D]

Yeah, he asked, do I have a concealed weapons license for the state of Georgia? Yeah, I asked him that. I said, well, let me ask you this. I don't have a concealed weapons license to carry a farm in the state of Pennsylvania.

[B]

What do they call it?

[D]

But would it make a difference if I had one from Georgia? And he's like, well, no, because we're in Pennsylvania.

[B]

Well, they. But they all have, like. I remember. Yes. I was. I was actually scared to see that big word. So I wasn't exactly sure if I was going to use it.

[D]

Right.

[B]

Like four times in my head. Reciprocity

[C]

is definitely not.

[B]

Yeah.

[G]

Yeah.

[B]

So. Yeah. And so my. My concealed weapons permit for Florida, when I. When. When I used to have one, like, had all the states that we had reciprocity for. Yeah. But. But thankfully we are now the. The gunshine state and like, constitutional carry.

[A]

You don't.

[B]

You don't even have to.

[D]

You don't have to do that.

[E]

Which is in Georgia now, too.

[B]

Is it really? Heck, yeah.

[A]

Right?

[D]

It was. Yeah.

[B]

Yeah. Yeah.

[F]

It's interesting that a government would require that much paperwork that they sent you and that that same city of Pittsburgh won't require ID for voting.

[B]

No kidding. No kidding.

[E]

Crazy.

[F]

That is so put that in perspective.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, I'm just gonna smoke it. Let's do a couple super chats and then let's go back to Instagram or you know what? So no, let's do a couple super chats and let's go watch some of the videos that they brought up.

[F]

All right, super chats. Here we go. Coalition. As hat says, Delta takes from all branches.

[B]

Yep.

[F]

When they're in dress uniform later, does for example a Marine wear any army uniform or something on a Marine uniform that designates their assignment to the unit?

[B]

Nope, we do. We take from all branches. But if you have to get in your dress uniform for something, you get in your Marine uniform. And the, the Marine dress uniform doesn't have the, the unit patches the way the army does. And so you don't. You don't have any, any unit patch to signify that.

[A]

Yep.

[B]

That's a good question though.

[F]

Holy folks says Brent. Do you learn to shoot with your middle finger if index is not able to be used? Also what it it like running through the shoot house with. With opposite shoulder hand setup?

[B]

So no, I did not do that. But it's funny, we did have a. Shortly after me a guy go through OTC without a right index finger because it got blown off in combat. And so he had to use. He had to use his middle finger and passed OTC in it. The. And what was. What was the next thing running through the shoot house with the opposite shoulder hand setup? I abs we absolutely do a lot of shoot. I wish I don't say a lot a lot compared to other people of. You know, in shooting sometimes they call like strong side and then weak side. I call it strong side of my other strong side because. Because I'm pretty dangerous on both sides. But it's still it. You're still never as good on. On your opposite side as. As much as you're always your natural side that you shoot the most on. So even if I was shooting opposite side, it wouldn't be like running through the house. It'd be like if I posted up like security on a hallway and it was more advantageous to be left handed or. Or something like that. But I would never run through the through the house with. With my other strong side.

[F]

M24 says is there a pecking order in the Delta teams? A lot of vets don't like Blue squadron but love Red Gold on Navy side. Is it the same on green side?

[B]

Yes, it is the we. I don't Know where it came from? I actually, I do. That's a long story. I'll keep it somewhat short. We love to pick on B squadron. B squadron loves to get picked. We love to pick on B squadron. B squadron's always trying to defend themselves. And it's so. It is funny. Yes, it is the same thing.

[F]

Joe Williams says, evening from California. Put 20 for the beer fund.

[B]

Oh, thank you. Thank you, Joe.

[F]

Thank you. And we will use it. Target focus group says emoji. More like emo gay.

[B]

That's why I asked the question. I. I struggle with it. I struggle with it, and I did. I feel like I justified it when I was like, I'll just do the laughing face. There's really. It's like two or three that I'll use the. The. The laughing face if I say something stupid, like sometimes, like the. Like the hand. You're the face palm. And like, maybe like a random third one. But I. I do not get creative with the emojis, because I do. I feel a little gay when I use them.

[F]

Right wing nut says Dan Bazerian set to meet with the Muslim Brotherhood. There you go. Maybe Mossad will get him a Patreon.

[B]

Oh, gosh. So again, I like to keep my private conversations private. But. But I will say this. Even after that Dan Bazerian episode where me and him went back and forth and back and forth, I still talk to Dan to this day, and. And he hasn't changed his mind, and I haven't changed my mind. And we still go back and forth with each other, with. With our facts, trying to sway the other person. Do I think Dan's position on Jews is ridiculous? I do. And I've told Dan that. And he's told. He's told me the. The other thing. Here, Here's. I shouldn't say I struggle with. I. I know my position on it, but I understand why, why other people would think differently. But I just want to. I think it's important, actually. I want to go around the room and talk about this a little bit when me and Dan talk about this. But if we talk about every other topic, we agree on everything else. We agree on America First. That's actually why he has his stance. Because he believes is right. Because he believes he's right, because his real stance is. Is. Is America first. And that's like a. A byproduct of it. Almost everything else we. We talk about, we agree with getting back to morals in this country. Smaller government, lower taxes, stricter border down the line. We just. And I get it. Like, the one thing we disagree on is a big disagreement, but I think it's more important that we have that dialogue and that. That we just disagree on one thing. And I get it. The one thing we disagree on is big, but.

[F]

And you can learn from each other with your disagreements.

[B]

He's actually challenged me a whole lot, and he's brought up some really good points that I. And he's made me better, actually, at my argument because really, the first time, you know, I had that interview with him, I really wasn't ready because I didn't. I didn't sign up for a debate. I signed up for an interview that turned into a debate. But he's actually made me better at it. So I will continue to be friends with him and. But he'll know where I stand on it. I'm gonna make this. I'm gonna make this, like, real, real personal for a second. I'm gonna talk to you about it. Let's. Let's say there's a guy that, you know is. Is like, slightly racist, Right. But everything else you guys talk. Okay, go on. But everything I wrote down with them, and that's a big one, right? That's a big one. But everything else you guys talk. Everything else you talk about, like, you agree with. Do you believe? If. If the one thing is big enough, you just completely. Is what is big enough to be like, I can't talk to you. I can't associate with you? Or is it more important to continue to have. As long as. As long as dial, like, real dialogue is. Is being had, or is it more important to have dialogue with. With people? I think there's a. Honestly, a really good question for America right now.

[E]

I mean, I think dialogue is important, but I think you have to evaluate the relationship in the beginning if it's worth it or not.

[B]

Yeah.

[E]

You know, if it's somebody you work with that you see every day, you know, you brush it to the side and keep it going. If it's somebody that you actually want in your life that makes you better and helps you grow, right. Then maybe, besides for being racist, you keep talking to them, and maybe you try and understand their stance and, you know, still brush it off.

[B]

But because there's. There's other things that. That, that we do that really would be a very big thing, but we don't see it that same way. And here. Here's my point. I'm a Christian. If you say you're an atheist, well, that goes against everything I believe, and that's if you really think. If we're being consistent about other things that are politically, that should be enough to me and to be like, oh, you don't believe in God? Good. Good luck in hell, buddy.

[F]

Good luck with that.

[B]

But. But we don't do that on, for the most part, because we've been told, like, and it's a little more ingrained than I say, you can have different religious beliefs, even if it goes against yours. And if everything else that he stands for is decent, you'll probably continue to have dialogue with that guy.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

What I'm trying to say is it's. I think it's weird that we pick and choose things that we're like, yeah,

[F]

people are too triggered.

[B]

This is beyond the line. But this isn't. Yet. They're both pretty offensive. And it's just. This is a lack of. Of that, you know, and that's true diversity. I mean, if you really think about it, that's true diversity. And I've said that before. Like, you give. You give me a black guy, a Korean girl, and, I don't know, a purple. A purple non. Binary from space, and if we all think the same exact way, there's really no diversity in that car. Like, diversity of thought is actually diversity. You know what I mean?

[F]

More people need to be putting on their big boy pants on these.

[B]

Yeah, right.

[E]

Snowflakes.

[B]

Come on. Yeah. Yeah. And. And like I said, if. If you really. If you really think that you're right on something, I think continuing to talk to someone is. Is the best way about it, because just by. By not having dialogue, you're not. You're not gonna. You're not gonna have any change. You're not gonna show, and you're not going to show that person what. Whatever that is they think of you. You'll probably just double down. You're like, yeah, those. Those people I already don't like. They are jerks. I thought they were jerks. But if you're. But if you're decent to them, I think you have a much better chance of it, at least. At least getting some change in this. In this world. All right, what else we got?

[F]

Wiley Coyote. Thank you for the love, man. Two C notes. This is AC DC Riff Raff. Two C notes for the win. Come on, G. You know I can't with you. What the heck? All right, and then that's AC DC Riffraff Raff.

[B]

Got it.

[F]

Bungholio, 1987. That's about the same time. 9.99. Thank you, bro. Bongholio again. Says screwed up for the first super chat, but the pucker factor was real on the man of the house question. That's funny. North, southeast, west says guest shirt. A fit young army officer once told me it's called aggressive skill. Salmon

[B]

Put. You put aggressive in front of it. Yeah. There you go.

[F]

Don't be hating emojis.

[B]

Put that one in your back pocket. Put that one in your back pocket, Kyle. Oh, yeah, for sure.

[F]

Yeah. I mean, you do that with anything, like. I'm wearing an aggressive pink flamingo.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[F]

I'm wearing aggressive speedo. All right. Just another 11. Bravo Christmas. The only purchase my wife gives me crap about nowadays is these things.

[B]

Just another little brother. You stay strong. You stay strong.

[E]

That's it.

[F]

The Prussian says, how many blue canaries have the hose draggers saved?

[B]

Blue canaries. You guys get that reference?

[G]

Yes.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Do you? What's a Blue Canary?

[G]

So how's it better anyway?

[B]

No, Since I know I knew what it is. I hope I'm not asking an offensive question. I don't know.

[G]

I'm assuming they're talking about, like, you know, if you have, like, a hazmat situation.

[B]

Okay.

[G]

I guess at some point they use canaries.

[B]

Okay. Right.

[G]

And if the canaries died, then.

[B]

Right.

[G]

Wasn't safe going.

[B]

Right.

[G]

So, you know, cops, if they get there first, they go in. I guess that's the reference to the blue canaries, but I haven't.

[E]

Yeah, I'm assuming.

[B]

Oh, you know, we'll. We'll. We'll make this easy. Just clear that up. Let us know what a Blue Canary is, and. And we'll. We'll definitely answer that.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

You know, sometimes we don't have our chem bio guys with us. Like, if you're in the military and you're out in the field, like in. In war, and you think it's. It's clear, but it's not. Do you. Do you know who our Canary is? You know, how we. How we figure that out?

[D]

Detail.

[B]

What's that? The dumb one? That's how it should be. That's how it should be. The lowest ranking person has to take their gas mask off first.

[G]

That makes sense.

[B]

That is just how it is. The lowest ranking person has to take their gas masks off first.

[G]

You got the least amount invested in that guy, so you can afford to lose them.

[F]

Better.

[B]

Yeah, you're like, yeah, like private Snap, Link. That's kind of do it, man. And he's gonna. He's gonna watch him. And if you. All right, he's alive next Lowest person just in case. Yes. I mean that brief swell of source, but could you imagine having to really do that? If I'm PFC Snuffy, I'm like, no, absolutely not. I have a 300 PT score. You guys know Jeff's an idiot. He may have two years in the rv, but we all, all know Jeff needs to be taken off his, his.

[G]

We can afford to lose that guy.

[B]

You're right.

[E]

I've been in 15 minutes longer than him. I'm stinger day.

[B]

Yeah, I haven't thought of that in a while. That's. Those are things you learn in basic training.

[F]

Yeah. So the Prussian said, yeah, Leo's first on scene at a hazmat scenario.

[E]

Oh, easy.

[D]

Okay.

[B]

Oh, you were right.

[G]

Okay.

[E]

Okay.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, good on you.

[F]

North, south, east, west says shout out to the bunk junkies, hose jockeys, basement savers and bucketheads. We love you.

[B]

We covered it. Yeah. Nice.

[F]

I learned some new things.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, they do. I love that.

[F]

Operator clips. About to take a two day pistol rifle course with GBRs. All right, any advice on getting the most out of training as a civilian? Conceal carry, dude, I absolutely don't go to Pennsylvania.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, I know it's going to sound crazy, but it's. I've done these things. The guys that show up to your course and know the most, if you will, they're the hardest, they're the hardest to teach even they signed up and they came to your course and they're like, you're a tier one guy. I want to learn from you. They're the hardest to teach because they, they at the end of the day, like there's still a part of them that thinks, they thinks they know or, or know better or you're all shooting and you're, and you're the best guy like of the students and you're like, I, I got this. And you still subliminally, somehow, some way think your, your way is still a little bit better than what he's like. I hear what you're saying. I'm kind of do things my way. I'm telling you, there's, there's a reason that we do things the way we do. Just, just listen to absolutely everything he says and if you don't like it, do something different later. But at least while you're there, just do every small thing that they say it because it does matter and ask questions. And I know Those guys at GPS ask, at GBRs, ask questions. Sometimes when you're in those classes, it's really, there's so many people you have so much information you will put out. But if you understand they will tell you if you, if you need to understand the why behind it. Because sometimes people just don't like information. But if you tell them the why, they're like, okay, now I get it and I'll do it. So if you don't understand it or you think what you're doing is better still just go ask them the why they they know. They will tell you. But Nathan, what you got

[F]

microphone.

[B]

See if you can sling that, that, that mic around over there for that

[C]

for your you know, being a civilian new guy. If you can follow the force cardinal rules of the of safety at the range, know them and do them right.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

If you're really junior be really good at that.

[B]

Yeah, for sure.

[C]

Right. Be a know it all about that.

[B]

Yeah, absolutely. And those and those and those things are, are standard throughout those things don't change no matter how cool you are.

[F]

Our lineman Sonny Marbury says nothing like seeing some firefighters step aside for us men when a power pole falls over and their wire on the ground. Kidding. Love y' all guys too.

[B]

I, I showed up first to a scene when I lived at your house. This lady goes a hundred miles an hour beside me like, like 2am runs a red light, careens off of another vehicle going an ungodly speed. I can't believe no one died. And she hits a power line. The, the power line falls and that it was a concrete power pole. And that freaked me out. I, I did not, I did not like that massive power line being on the ground. It was 10ft away. I know it's not going to jump 10ft away and zap me, but man, I tell you was not comfortable.

[A]

It could.

[B]

Don't tell me that was not comfortable with that. Yeah, yeah. And I'm saying and there were cars that were in a hurry even there wasn't a lot of traffic because 2am and they were still like, nah, I got to get where I'm going. Just driving over the power line to get where they were going. I'm like, I mean you're on rubber tires. I get it. But I drive around it in response to that.

[G]

We don't want to be. Look, we don't know why we're there. That's why we step aside. We don't want to be there. We're not line there. We don't want to be there at all. Instead of the power county, we wouldn't be there.

[B]

I'm a handyman. I'm A man's man. I've re, I've rewired cars. I mean, I'll do like simple stuff like, you know, wire up fans and everything else. I don't trust electricity. I, I know more than most basic men, which makes me. Which actually makes me know that I don't know enough. Right. And I, I go even, even after I flip a breaker, I still have my, my power check and I check it. I'm telling you, I do not like electricity. I could not do that. I don't know if I could do that job.

[F]

All right. Our man Bo from the decent state of Texas says guests get to decide the exit song. Don't forget 25th anniversary 911 event.

[B]

Yes, I'm, I'm glad you said that again. And I saw some. I just between our last live, the FRCC event and then going to the train up in New York City, I haven't got around to it yet. We are going to start that by tomorrow. I'll put up the Patreon forum for to see how many of our Patreon members will, will gather together for the 911 event. For the 50 for the fallen. Yeah, for 50 for the fallen. Yep.

[F]

New York.

[B]

Absolutely. And you guys get, you guys have to huddle up or rock paper scissors or rock paper rank or whatever and that. Oh, he's at 300. Yeah. So you guys will. Unless someone outbids 300, you guys will get the, the, the exit song, the outro song.

[F]

And Aaron Ferales says question for the fireman. In your opinion, is search culture aggressive enough in the modern fire service? If not, what would you change?

[B]

Who wants to take it? Who wants to take it?

[A]

I'll take that one.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

So I think it depends on where you are.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

Some. Some bigger departments that, that really fight a lot of fire have a very aggressive cult C search culture. But when it gets down to like smaller departments that don't fight enough fire.

[B]

Right.

[A]

Or one of the big problems we have in the metro areas, they had so many people that were, that are senior guys that retired all at once and now they're filling those spots like hundreds of spots at a time with brand new people.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

So you have the majority of the department is like five years or less that are taking the majority of these big departments and the cult, the search culture really drops there because a lot of thing a lot of times and I think it's probably the same with the military now with some of these people.

[B]

Dude.

[A]

It goes from like those of us that kind of grew up around the fire service. I'm second generation.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

It's a paycheck now. Yeah, it's an. It's a pretty easy schedule. Before Most departments work 24, 48. We just went to 48.96.

[B]

Oh, really?

[A]

We do. So, I mean, it's. It's awesome. But you get a lot of. I think a lot of departments have a lot of guys that are just here for an easy paycheck and a lot of time off. But I think if it really comes down to departmental training, and we have a pretty good training staff, like, we. We do a lot of training, and we're trying to get back into a really aggressive search culture and aggressive interior attacks.

[B]

Yeah, I say it all the time. Culture is so important. It is. And culture is really hard to get once you lose it. And once you have it, it's really easy to lose. So if you're lucky enough to. To fall into one, protect it. If you're lucky enough to, you know, to get a win and. And get that culture back, protect it. You have to protect it at all costs. Culture so important.

[G]

Very much.

[F]

Dwazi says Brent is now going to wear the fire hat and axe to firehouse subs tomorrow.

[B]

Might get you a free book. See if I get a discount.

[F]

He ain't wrong. Also, the.

[D]

The.

[F]

Yeah, also the signed rabo book should be in on Tuesday.

[B]

Let me. Let me know if. If you got what. What you requested.

[F]

Jillian Sheffield says firefighters are loved more than cops because they don't take people's freedom or life away.

[B]

That's not. You're not wrong.

[F]

Well, might as well.

[B]

Let's check out the poll. I get it. Yeah, check out the poll. All right. Oh, have you already. Oh, oh, have you. All right. I didn't see it. I didn't see it. All right, let's. Let's. Let's. Let's figure this out. Like, we have. We have a. I. I would say if I had to guess, we have a. More law enforcement.

[F]

We're law enforcement heavy.

[B]

Yeah, we're law enforcement friendly for sure. But even with that, I don't think you're wrong. By I think 80. That was the majority of the answers. 90s heavy. But. But 98 out of the realm of possibility.

[F]

But remember, there's a lot of cops that don't like cops.

[B]

Cops too.

[F]

There's that.

[A]

All right.

[B]

All right. Now we're gonna. Now we're gonna go back and re guess knowing that we still have a. A cop friendly audience. What do you think the numbers are With. With that. Does that. What do you think?

[A]

Still 87 going.

[B]

87 fire. Okay. Right around. What do you got?

[D]

It wouldn't have been for Pennsylvania. I would have gave you a lower number. It's still 95.

[B]

All right, all right. Used to go with. With our audience. You still think 85. What do you got?

[G]

I was gonna say 80.

[B]

28,020. All right, wait, wait.

[E]

With your.

[B]

With our audience, because we just did a poll. We just did a poll.

[E]

I would say 70%.

[B]

I know.

[F]

We.

[B]

I. I still don't think we have enough that this is how strong it is. Even with our audience, I still still think firefighters will rule the day. 6040. 6535. 60, 40. On the firefighter side, I still think firefighters. Which is crazy because we're very pro cop on this, and I still think it's 60, 65.

[F]

We need to have another poll. How many cops are watch and how many firefighters watch. But.

[B]

Right. Yeah. Right. Well, like you said, cops don't like cops to some degree. What do we got, Drew?

[F]

It's 6040.

[A]

Damn.

[B]

On which side?

[F]

Firefighters. Duh. I know why I had to say that. I didn't know I had to say that.

[B]

That's hilarious. That's hilarious. I. I understand it. I understand it. Hey, Drew, let's. Hey. While we're on the subject, let's. Let's go to YouTube. Let's. Let's. Let's watch a video. And Jules, since you're here and in the hot seat, feel free to. To. To. To walk us. To walk us through this. This video. They can hear you right over the. Yeah. Every.

[E]

Everything. Everything wrong with this is bad. It's just.

[B]

Are they doing wrong right now?

[E]

So right now you want to pause it.

[B]

Okay.

[E]

It's an iced over driveway.

[B]

Okay. Oh, no one's holding the ladder. Nobody. Nobody's healing ladder. Okay.

[E]

But it's way bigger than that. That hole that they're cutting. So. So that what they're doing is cutting a vent hole.

[B]

Okay.

[E]

We vent roofs to let the smoke out of. And all the bad stuff basically escape the building. Okay. So the people fighting fire.

[G]

Yeah.

[E]

Have clean air.

[B]

Okay. Sort of. Right.

[E]

What fire is going on underneath there in order to cut that.

[B]

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

[E]

So this whole thing is just pointless. But if you're gonna do it and for fun, at least.

[B]

At least.

[E]

At least heal the ladder.

[B]

Yeah. All right. Keep going.

[F]

Got this dude doing a garage sale shop.

[B]

Yeah. And then plenty of people just walking

[E]

by not one person caught on to that.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

So nice house too. Yeah. Talk about some foreshadowing.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Oh, they both fell too. And it's dang.

[E]

And the whole thing is the house is gone. The back is already burned. The hole through the roof. So.

[B]

Right.

[A]

And if you pause it right there.

[B]

So preventable.

[A]

You can see fire on that. That front side window right there.

[B]

Oh, yeah.

[A]

There's still fire like to the delta side of the building.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

So the delta side of the house.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

It's already vented all through the roof. So everything that. The job that we would be doing to vent that.

[B]

Right.

[A]

It's already done itself.

[D]

Right.

[E]

And even if you were going to do it, why not do it on the right?

[B]

Right. There's at least. It's smaller than. There's at least a fire there.

[A]

And they were going to cut the hole where there is no smoke or fire right above the garage.

[B]

Oh, man.

[D]

Which when you do cut a hole.

[B]

Swing it over microphone.

[D]

When you do cut a hole. That's. And there's no fire there. Under there.

[B]

Right.

[D]

If there's fire somewhere else. If there's a street. Boatload of it.

[B]

Right.

[D]

That's where it's coming.

[B]

It's like, you know what, it's pulling over there.

[E]

Yep.

[D]

About 75 of this house on fire, except for here. Let's cut a hole and bring some of it.

[F]

Yeah, yeah. Let's feed some oxygen to it. All right.

[D]

If we're gonna get it, let's get it all. Yeah.

[F]

You know, and again, we're gonna clear this property.

[E]

Right.

[B]

It's just. It's just a lesson. It's just a. Lessons learned. And again, I don't like. I. I would. I would have answers if this was my. If this was my world. This is your world. Where. Where does it. How do they get to this point. How do they get to this point where. I feel like most firefighters would look at this video and have the same input. So why. Why don't they know better or why aren't they doing better?

[G]

Lack of training. Lack of training and online training. Sitting around.

[B]

Yeah.

[G]

Doing, you know, online training.

[B]

That's the ending. Oh, is that the. Oh, go back. See the ending photo?

[E]

It's just getting worse and worse.

[B]

That house is done.

[A]

It goes. It goes all the way to the ground.

[G]

Everything they're doing is.

[B]

Oh, does it?

[G]

That's how we get called basement chasers or whatever. It was like I said.

[B]

Yeah.

[G]

From doing stuff like this. Cuz that's all there's left is the basement.

[B]

Oh, gosh.

[D]

Now the only. Now the only option at this point, Imagine being able to hitting hard from

[A]

the yard

[B]

because you.

[D]

You can't go in at this point. You know what I mean? Appreciate them dudes on the roof bringing all that fire in this garage.

[B]

I love that saying.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Oh, man. All right, we'll break it up a little bit. And to make your job harder, Drew, let's jump over to YouTube to Instagram. Oh, here's. I'm sorry. I'm gonna jump around on you just a little bit. Dressed. We're gonna make it easy. Go right in order. Keep going. Keep going. Because this is a funny one. Keep going. Oh, that one hurts my heart. Oh, that one's gonna piss you off. Keep going. That one. That one right there. Right here? Yeah. All right, so before you start it, this is good here. Here are some things that I'm sure are the same across the board. Like, I could. I could. Yeah, it is. Yeah, it's fireman coffee. Yeah. Like, I could do the same thing. Like, when I watch a military movie, don't get me wrong, actually, because I'm not that big of. I'm not that anal. Like, I still, like, pick up, pick it all out, but I can still enjoy it. Like, I just don't take it that serious. But of course, I still see everything they do and be like, all right, wouldn't do it like that, but, all right, but keep going. I wouldn't do it like that, but that's not how it works. Yeah, that's what everyone does. Right? So I'm sure there's firefighter, and there's a lot of firefighter TV shows. Before we start this thing, do you guys watch any firefighter TV shows? Whether it's because you hate it so much and it's so ridiculous or because you like it.

[A]

That's a hard no.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Oh, what I do.

[E]

Nope.

[B]

Hold on. What was the. Oh.

[E]

Oh, yeah, this one does.

[F]

What was the.

[B]

What was the funny one?

[E]

Rescue me.

[C]

Oh,

[B]

how about that?

[E]

So that one.

[B]

Yeah. Right. That's just funny. Right? They're not. They're not taking it too serious, and it's.

[E]

It's sort of realistic.

[B]

Okay.

[E]

They exaggerate a little bit, but it's okay. The humor at least is right.

[B]

Yeah. All right. What if there's. If there was an oddity in this much, why don't it be you? What. What do you. You watch it all.

[D]

I like the Chicago.

[B]

Do you?

[D]

Yeah, I like.

[B]

I like the. No one's gonna back him up. On that. I like the.

[D]

The dramatics of it, I guess, you know.

[B]

All right.

[D]

It's just over the top.

[B]

All right, follow up question. Best firefighter movie. Because so. So, so as many as that. Most of them get wrong. Black Hawk down. Like. Like I watched that and I'm like, man, that they got it right. I mean, that. That one is about as good as you're gonna get. There's a couple other that are really close, so we can talk about the bad ones. Did anyone do it right? Whether it be a movie or a show? Please say backdrop.

[A]

Please say the show wise. Rescue Me.

[B]

Okay, that's a good one.

[A]

Rescue Me was about as close as it gets to okay. Right.

[B]

And it's always going to be a little bit dramatic. And I'll accept an acceptable amount of dramatic because. Because same thing in the military and even the Delta Force, I tell people all the time, the reason why I don't write a book is. Is because I'm going to tell the truth, and the truth just isn't that exciting. Like, it's really not. So, yes, you have to make it exciting because it's a TV show.

[E]

No dramatic.

[B]

But. But you still have to be accurate. Yeah, yeah, you can be. You can. You can play it up and still be kind of accurate, movie wise. Movie wise. What do you got back?

[A]

Back draft.

[D]

100%.

[A]

Yes.

[B]

We still can't agree on that.

[E]

What you say ladder 49.

[B]

Ladder 49.

[E]

It. Draft is.

[D]

How about back draft two? Jules,

[E]

we were about 10 minutes in and I was like, we can't do this anymore.

[F]

This is.

[G]

I can't do it. When the guy's standing over him going. And he's like, who are you? And he's. The guy said, I'm a fire investigator.

[B]

That was the end of it. Oh, I know you can't. I know you can't see him, but swing it over there just real quick to. To Nathan, Just. Just because I wanted your input. Best. Best. Best military movie or tv. I. There's a lot of TV shows. MASH maybe, but that's actually.

[C]

I wasn't even alive for World War II. But even private Brian.

[B]

Oh, for sure. For sure. That's. That's up there. That's up there.

[C]

I obviously block Blackhawk Down. I mean, I went through RIP with Scott Galentine, so got his okay shut off.

[B]

So when it comes to military movies, this is. This is an odd one, but it just.

[C]

Definitely, definitely not 12 strong. Definitely.

[B]

No, not give it a 12 strong either. What's the. Is. Is Fury. It's a tank movie. It's got to be really hard to make tanks. Cool. And be honest with you, because it's just not like hard hitting, like, fast CQB like those. Yeah, but, man, they made and I have no. I wasn't a tanker. I have no idea if they did a good job or not. But, you know, like, military in general, like between, like the team and some of the tactics when they went small unit seemed legit enough. Fury was. Was awesome.

[E]

What about that one movie? It was like. It's just one scene.

[F]

Oh, yeah.

[E]

Remember, is it Navy seals or somebody gets pinned down in a building? It was recent. Like within the last two years.

[B]

Within the last two months. Oh, no. Hold on, hold on. I can't believe I'm screwing this. I know. Exactly. Have you ever heard the Untold Story? Yeah, I can't, man. Chats, will you guys help us out? I cannot believe, like, they do like

[E]

a flyby, like F16.

[B]

I know. It is very recent. It's a Navy SEAL movie. Come on.

[A]

Yeah.

[E]

Who would watch that, right?

[B]

Yeah. Oh, chat. Come on. Now it makes sense. Come on. Warfare.

[D]

Warfare.

[B]

Thank you, D. Oh, did you say that?

[D]

That's pretty much what I said.

[B]

Pretty much what I said. I got the war part right. The one with aliens. Yeah. But I'll say this, and I do mean it. Like, whether it's 12 strong for us, which wasn't a great movie, whether it's like whatever firefighter show that you thought was horrible, I am still pro, whatever that is. As long as they're pro. As long as it's a pro military, a pro firefighter show.

[C]

Right.

[B]

Because we need young men in this country to look at something positive and look at heroes and go, I want to do what they do. So I don't. What's. What's the one Navy seal one that a lot of military people hate on Hotshots part do. No, no. Don't you dare. I thought. I thought that was a documentary.

[F]

Yeah, that's my favorite military movie.

[B]

No, it's. No, they had real Navy SEALs act of valor. People can hate on that all the way. I know. This is so weird for active duty people to say. I didn't mind the movie. I thought because I knew what it was. It. I knew it was actual Navy SEALs playing it. So I had low expectations in it. I thought the storyline was great. I thought it was a very pro American movie. I liked it. I love that they're still putting out pro firefighter TV shows or movies because we affects recruiting. It does affect recruiting. We need people to see that. Young. Young boys. Look at that. Like, I want to fight fires. And saves lives. And save lives, right? Hell, yeah.

[E]

And then they get hired and they're picking up granny off the floor every day.

[B]

This is not what I saw in Chicago Fire. That's real talk, right?

[D]

That's all that matters.

[E]

They got benefits and.

[B]

Yeah, Drew. Hey, just a brag on my. My nephew. Slash.

[E]

Drew.

[B]

Son. Drew's son is a firefighter.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Here in Florida. Yeah.

[F]

Yeah, he tells me about all the grannies he picks up every week. What'd you do last night, son? Oh, man. Okay, buddy.

[B]

How many times did you slide across the floor? Okay, I never did the knee slide. I never did the knee slide, and I never saw the knee slide slide. But that. But that goes back to. Hey, it's not really a documentary like it. That is if. If it was super cool. Like if. If. If some 17 year old kid thought that was super cool and. And goes to buds because of that. Rock on, buddy. Yeah, we. We. All right. You. You guys are distracting, and I love it. This has been a good time. Yeah, let's. Let's go to super chat. No, let's go to the video that we never started on Instagram. Video that we never started.

[F]

Here we go. Oh. Nope.

[B]

Balcony. Sustained a severe mid base fraction. A broken jaw opened a temporary airway. He's breathing, but he's unconscious. Yeah, you didn't do a temporary airway, bro. You put a party straw into his esophagus. Did nothing for the blood currently flooding into his lungs. All right, so let's get him on the life pack. Starter line running wide open. Line's going in. That IV is backwards. What's to read? He's tachycardic. I think it's too much blood. Roxy.

[F]

Did y' all leave all your hot firefighters at work?

[B]

I want to get the full effect for the boys.

[F]

You can't rewind.

[B]

Oh, okay. All right, if I could just align his septum with his nostrils, he might be able to get some. There is no freaking way. You just said the only way for him to breathe is for you to realign his amputated nostrils with his septum.

[F]

Holy.

[B]

What are you freaking talking about, Batman? Give him something for the pain. Pushing morphine now. We're pushing morphine on an unconscious patient with uncontrolled airway bleeding. Okay, heal tube, please. We're almost there. Just giving you an airway. Wait. Hey, guys, fun fact. We don't actually do nasal tracheal inhibitions in facial trauma. Because anybody. Because the tube will pass through their fractured freaking skull right into their brain. Also, why are you using a pediatric tube? Let's just shove a few more in there. And finally put this dude out of his misery. Sustain a severe mid face fracture and a broken jaw. So that one cracks me up because that's so bad. Like when, when I watch military movies, it's like, it's like onesie twosie thing. But for him to pick out that many backwards Ivy, you're not even trying to shows. That's not even worse.

[G]

That's like all the 911 ones are right.

[B]

Or like a nasal pharyngeal like that. Like, even I knew, like you, you couldn't even get a right nasal tube. Like that's about the size of your pinky. Like that's. You get that. Like, I, I, I, I, I, I hate it. I hate it when there's a few things that even I can pick out. Like, I don't think that's right big enough.

[E]

It's like they have to have a big budget. They have to have at least one person to be like, hey, right. That's right.

[B]

Exactly. That's the point. You can't tell me no one went through a single real firefighter. Like, hey, just check this out real quick.

[F]

Yeah.

[B]

Or what's worse than. I mean, they didn't come up with that storyline like with themselves. Right. So did you get the Tim Kennedy of firefighters? Too soon.

[D]

Wow.

[B]

Too soon.

[E]

That's a good one.

[B]

Where it's like, I'll be your technical advisor on this. I've done it all. How do you, how do you get that back? Oh, man. How do you get that back?

[E]

I got a story about this one for you.

[B]

That's crazy and I love it. And I love that you guys watched that and I got the reaction out of you guys that I was hoping for. That it was this bat that you know. I mean, I know him from social media. I know he seems to be a legit guy, but like, for you guys to agree with everything he says, I love it.

[E]

And that's like us live watching a TV show. We'll sit there, how are you?

[B]

Right? Check out.

[E]

You're like, it's not even worth it. Just let it, just let it play.

[D]

We kind of had a guy that I used to work with. I mean, it's kind of like a real life, you know, like this video.

[G]

Yeah.

[D]

But anyways, we ran a call. It's a car wreck. And our sergeant, this dude was a little Slow. He was a great fireman, though.

[B]

Okay.

[D]

On a fire scene, he was who you want, you know? So we're on this wreck, and Captain goes, hey, man. About, like, putting a seat collar on this guy, you know? It's like, all right. Goes down there, but sea collar on. Captain looks over there, guys sitting in the car. He's like. Captain looks at him, is like, did you put the seat collar on him? He said, yeah, I put it on him.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

He's like, yeah, I see that. How about going and reapplying it the right way? It's upside down. Yeah. He's like, I think I look. So I think I'll let somebody else do it.

[B]

I don't.

[D]

Yeah, you know, already screwed it up once.

[B]

Yeah, yeah. Oh, real quick, while we're on a funny roll, I just sent one that to you guys on to us on Instagram. There it is right there. You got. He's not as big as them, but. Have you guys ever. You guys ever seen this one? Oh. All right, so tell me how accurate you think this is. Funny. Accurate. You know, he has a dip in

[E]

his lips, so he's already starting off.

[B]

All right, all right. Hey, dude, have you seen my truck? Now come check this out, bro.

[F]

It's a vapor.

[B]

Oh, I thought it was a Chevy. No, it is, dude. What it is, is a Raptor. And a Corvette had a baby, dude. Dude. So I was at the factory, right? They only had it in blues. Like, dude, I can't be rolling out of here like pd. Dude, I'm gonna need that candy apple. Fire engine red. You know what I mean? Custom. Isn't that just factory red? Oh, dude.

[D]

Yeah, you're probably right. Dude.

[F]

Dude, check this out, bro.

[D]

See that thing right there, bro?

[B]

Turbo.

[E]

Dude, that's an oil pan.

[F]

This thing's got an oil pan, dude, that's sick.

[B]

Yeah, it's super fast. You can either street race with it or you take it. A Baja 1000, dude. That's what I plan on doing with it, at least. Hey, dude, climb up in here. But let me help you, bro.

[C]

This thing's on stilts, dude.

[B]

Oh, dude, you already know what goes on in that backseat, bro. You see I got the heart right there, right? You know what's up, dude? This song hits, bros. Dude, it's the bass for me, dog. Dude, you know how to get that fire sticker? You know, I mean, in case the cops try to come did. I'm just gonna speed off or they're gonna let me go, dude, Choice is up to them. Bro, I don't even play with it. Like, sometimes I take my dad's.

[E]

Yep.

[B]

All right, so here's a question I've. And this is the same, you know, with cops, military, I'm bagging groceries at Walmart. I don't care what it is. And, and, and this isn't new to us, I don't think. I think every generation deals with the next generation. Although I do think the gap is a little wider this generation. I do. But. But all the old guys hate the new guys or think the new guys suck. What is. Do you believe the culture of new firefighters is, is different because of the culture of, of, of the country? Like, are you having a problem with guys like, you're lazy, like you're not getting it. Like you're not. Whatever. Whatever it is.

[E]

Yeah.

[G]

Like, we literally had a 25 year old man that could not change a tire. We're not talking about a tire on a fire truck. We're talking about just a regular tire on a vehicle. So we were like, let's investigate this. If you can't do that, what else holding up basic mechanical tools? Like, I'm talking about a Phillips head screwdriver.

[B]

Like, what is this basic dude stuff?

[G]

Yeah. Flyhead. No idea, man. We went back to the. The tire thing. What are you gonna do if you get a flat?

[D]

Call aaa.

[G]

What if you don't have cell phone service? I don't go anywhere without cell phone service. Like, this is the mindset of, of the youth in this nation is just like, I don't need to do anything. There's a system out there that's going to do it for me.

[B]

And that's like, hey, you know what? Just no reason at all. Could you give me your dad's phone number? I actually want to talk to him.

[D]

Beat that. Yeah.

[B]

I want to be a good person. Could you have him come to the fire station? We really get the root problem with this. Although I'm pretty sure I already know what he looks like or acts like.

[E]

Oh, yeah, we did.

[A]

We did the same thing. We had a rookie one time start. So every Friday the stations cut grass.

[D]

Okay.

[A]

We call it yard day.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And he was. Oh, is it.

[B]

Same, same kids talk starts at the station.

[A]

Hey.

[B]

Hey.

[A]

Probably, you know, Shard did today go grab a lawnmower. Well, I've never cut grass before.

[B]

Get out of here.

[A]

Like, I mean, how have you never cut grass before?

[B]

I know.

[A]

He's like, I don't know. I've just, I've never. You know, my parents had like, we paid people to cut the grass. I'm calling, dude, go out in the yard. Go. Well, go up into the. The hose tower. Grab the lawnmower, see where your hands hold the. The handle it right? Lock your hands right there and go out in the yard and start down by the curb and do lines.

[B]

Just send it.

[A]

Just go down, turn around, come back a foot over, and I made him out. Go out and cut his grass without the lawnmower.

[B]

Lucky to get in trouble for that. That's amazing. That's amazing. You know,

[G]

100.

[E]

No, definitely not.

[B]

Here. Here's the thing that, that I, I do. Just trying to look at it logically and unbiased. We. We can hate on them all they want, but it's not their fault. Like, in a way, like, like, if, if that's not. Why would he just randomly go up to his dad and be like, hey, dad, I want to change a tire today. It's just not right. So, So I ha. Following down that, that, that logic, it's. We're a victim of our own success. You know, like, life has gotten so easy. The American dream that they think is dead, it's proof that the American dream actually isn't. And a lot of people have it really easy. And having it easy is a good thing, right? Like, don't you want your kids to have it easy? Don't you want them to have a better life than you had, but without making hard decisions? Like, these are the consequences of an easy life. These are the consequences of not. I want my son to have a better life than I have, and he doesn't have to have the hardest life, but there has to be some challenges here, here and there, or else that's what you get.

[E]

Well, I think cell phones made it way too. I think cell phones, they have ruined her.

[A]

You know, we all want our kids to have easier than what we had it growing up, but I also want my kids to be independent, right? And to be able to do right, simple little tasks without having to go on. On Google and find out how to change a tire.

[B]

Right? Or, yeah.

[A]

Crank lawnmower.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

I'm actually surprised his answer was, well, you know, I'll look it up on, on, you know, on YouTube. Like, he least could have gone like that route with it, but he wasn't the brightest. Yeah,

[D]

yeah, too. Like, you're talking about your kids. You know, you want the best for them, right? Was like, you know, I got a son and like, I don't. I don't want him to grow up and get on his phone and call AAA to come and change his tire, you know?

[B]

Right.

[D]

I mean.

[B]

Right.

[D]

In the event that hopefully he gets married one day and he has his wife with him.

[B]

Yeah. I want his wife to.

[D]

I want.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

I want him to be not only a protector.

[F]

Yeah.

[B]

But now you guys are taking the place.

[D]

But to be able to problem solve on his own.

[B]

That's what it is, you know, Problem solving. It really is. Right. Right.

[D]

And, like, you can't. You can't protect your wa. You can't be a protector if you can't change the tire on your own vehicle that you bought. You know, I just.

[F]

Wrong.

[D]

I don't know.

[B]

Right. You. You. You're not wrong. Oh, Drew, let's. Let's.

[F]

Growing up, my mom made me. Growing up, my mom made me order my own pizza.

[B]

Had it rough. There are no apps for that. You had to call. Well. Well, one. You had to find the phone number, and then you had to call and you had to talk to a person.

[F]

You had to navigate the yellow pages.

[G]

Yeah.

[B]

Rotary. Let's do a few more super chats, and let's go back to YouTube and do the. The other fire.

[F]

The real justice says, maybe in your major metro fire may do ems, but in majority of the country, we run all med calls with no L, E, F, F. Okay.

[G]

Yeah.

[F]

Speak for where you're at. Jillian Sheffield says, calling the cops because my child won't go to school. Hate those calls. Drug dealers call. Someone stole my drugs.

[B]

I've seen the videos. It's crazy. Oh, yeah. Crazy world we live in. Dwazi's back.

[F]

It's like the. It's like I saw a video where the hooker wanted her money. Like, oh, oh, she called because the guy was in pain or something like that. I don't know. It was like I got at my service. Dwazi says do the firemen have any tips for helping magnet shop barbecue smell?

[A]

Yeah,

[B]

okay.

[E]

Oh, okay.

[F]

Just another 11. Bravo says owning a uniform shop. I've never met a firefighter or EMS who didn't need to call mom, wife, grandma to figure out if their pants and shirt sizes even when they buy the same size every year. North, southeast, west says Drew. Why no EMS on the list? Give us a chance.

[B]

What list? What list?

[F]

That was the who do you like? Who do you like respect better?

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

We brought an ax to the show, not a stretcher.

[B]

I'm just saying. You know what I mean? Oh, my gosh.

[F]

Oh, man, that was good. That was good.

[D]

We went shoulder in an EMS bag When we walked in.

[A]

And you know. And you know who they call when they can't pick up the patient to

[B]

put them on the stretcher? They call the fire department when two

[E]

grown men can pick up a £100 woman.

[B]

Oh, gosh. Here we go. I love it. I love it.

[F]

That's funny. Okay, Adam Walker sitting here at 52 watching our homies is wild. Four of our finest y' all got right there.

[D]

I love it.

[F]

But just heads up. We're cutting the bike lock off your fridge right now.

[D]

We're gonna bring Brent back if you do that.

[E]

Oh, shout out to Adam.

[B]

Yeah, I turned around and grabbed a gun and Jess, they had. Cut the feed right away.

[D]

Hey, by the way, Adam, we ate all Yalls ice cream. Appreciate it.

[B]

Don't touch the peanut butter. He'll tell you why later.

[F]

Oh, man. T.G. paris says cops Greater Fireman Greater 711 cashier. Greater highway patrols on the end stop about the tickets.

[B]

Yeah, kind of. But at least in Florida, you know what? Georgia as well. Highway patrol is respected because they're the. They're the last bashing that says don't run from us.

[G]

Yeah.

[B]

Run from everybody else. But you just ran from. You just ran from the wrong, wrong people.

[D]

We will jump on your hood, and

[B]

we will jump on your hood.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

One of my. Or we'll show up at your. At your college campus, and we'll pick you up like a handbag. Love, love those videos. Those. Those boys are holding the standard. No doubt.

[F]

We yank it down by your weave. Have you seen that video, man? That's awesome. Jillian Sheffield says, should firefighters be able to carry weapons? Happens so you don't have to stage for pd. Hope you guys stage tonight for the first responders from a Leo.

[A]

Well, Leo, we are the first responders. You already lost that argument with us there, bud.

[B]

Do. Let's talk like, in, like, inner city fire departments, right? Like, do. Do you think there's a. Do you think there's a need for them to care or at least. Or at least say, hey, it's an option. If you guys want it, bring the mic in.

[A]

Yeah, I would say it should be an option with. With some training. I mean, we can't just cut a bunch of.

[B]

Right.

[A]

Cut a bunch of fire and loose with guns.

[B]

But I get it.

[A]

But yeah, there. There's every. Every department's got, like, bad places, and back in the county, we had some rough spots.

[D]

Yeah, you don't want your guy that's never cut grass, afford car, you know?

[B]

Oh, man.

[A]

But yeah, all all the places have some pretty, pretty shady spots and Atlanta's like. Atlanta and the cab are two of our biggest ones around that have some really rough spots.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

But I think with like the, the right training we should be able to. When, when were the Atlanta riots? It was like six, seven years ago.

[F]

I thought that was like monthly.

[A]

Yeah, they had some bad riots a handful of years ago. And one of our stations runs where. It's actually in the city limits of Atlanta. And they, they ran into Atlanta. We run with both departments and they got stuck in the middle of those riots and they beat the crap out of our truck with rocks and bats and you know, whatnot. And guys were terrified. Some of them, I guess, you know you're in a bad spot with like we've got nothing to protect us, but I know.

[B]

Well, you got your hoolies and you got your axes.

[A]

Yeah, but they don't ride in the cab with us. We got to get out of the cab to go grab them.

[B]

So a little. Because I did an episode on it and I'm not saying just because it happened once, like let's have a, a knee jerk reaction over it. But one of my, just when they talked about that, like historically, one of the first things that jumped in to my mind was in 1985 there was this extremist group called the Move M O V E and they got into a big shootout with the Philadelphia Police Department. Philadelphia Police Department decided it was good, not a bad idea to be. They were bunkered up. They were bunkered up. They could not get access to this house. Like we have to end this somehow, some way. So the EOD guy for, for the department says, hey, we got that helicopter. I got bombs I can put on a timer. How about we just hover over it and just kind of drop a bomb on them and at least get some access like from the top and at least jar it something. Not a bad idea unless that bomb happens to catch that house on fire. And there, and there, there are those row homes or all where the backside is connected. Every single sound to the left and right is connected. And, and it burned down. I want to say like 200 homes. It was all said and done. Well, the fire department tried to stop it when it could be contained, but they got shot at so much they're like, I mean I don't, I don't, I don't put out fires while being shot at. And they pulled back, you know, rightfully so. So I mean even historically, like there's firefighters have been shot at and you should always have the right to self defense.

[A]

I think it was. It was New York. Somewhere in New York a handful of years ago, a couple of them did get shot.

[F]

Yeah. Yeah.

[A]

Guy set his house on fire, I think it was. Yeah. And then he handles.

[D]

That's crazy.

[A]

At the top of the hill.

[D]

Yeah.

[F]

Well, there was a. We showed a video not long ago, Brent, that there was a shootout. I thought it was like, in Philadelphia. It was like a street shootout among some of the locals. And cop shows up, try to help one of the fallen, and he was getting. The guy has a gun and shoots at him. Firefighter shows fire. The fire truck shows up and. And at least one firefighter got shot in the. At the scene. Yeah.

[B]

That is crazy. That's a good question. That's spur. Some good, good discussion. I appreciate that.

[F]

Wiley Coyote with 300, man. Thank you for the love, brother. Every week. We appreciate you. Says, okay. Changed my mind. So he changed his mind on the AC DC song. So add 300 to that. All my money on Child, Iron Man.

[B]

All right, well, I guess we got two songs tonight then. All right. One second. And that. Oh. Iron Maiden, Rath Child. Got it, got it, got it.

[F]

Braden Medlin says, random question. Who do you all think is more motivating? Ronnie Coleman or David Goggins?

[B]

Wait, wait, baby, baby. Yeah.

[E]

Out of question, man. Big wrong for sure.

[F]

Everybody want to be a bodybuilder. Nobody want to do the work.

[B]

Yeah, yeah. Tell. Tell Kyle the question. Did you hear the question?

[D]

I did not.

[E]

Yeah.

[B]

Oh.

[E]

Who's more motivating? Ronnie Coleman.

[B]

Yeah.

[F]

Ronnie Coleman or David Gogins?

[B]

What is that

[D]

David?

[B]

He's an against the grain guy.

[D]

I say that because Jules was staring at me.

[B]

Oh, man.

[D]

The true answer is Ronnie Coleman.

[B]

Okay. Okay.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

So, Drew, you remember we. Of course I know you remember. We met Ronnie Coleman at an event backstage and talked to him for a bit. Little. A little bit. And I. I had a question for him because he's. He's like. He's in a walker, you know, he's not doing well. I mean, he basically. He basically saves up enough energy to get up to walk on stage without it. So he doesn't look bad. But then he sits in, like, a stool because his back is so messed up. He's had so many surgeries. So I asked him, like, knowing what you know now and what, like, everything you have to go through physically now, like, would, like, is there anything you would change without skipping a beat, he looks at me and goes, yep, I lift heavier weights. Oh, My gosh.

[A]

Ronnie Coleman Worldwide.

[B]

What a real one.

[A]

We were in Spain a few years ago, and we did a. It was like a cooking course or something. And while we're in the.

[E]

Yeah.

[A]

They put us in pairs, and we're in there. The guys teach us how to cook, like, five different Spanish meals. And there's an Austrian kid in there that just. Out of the blues, like, yeah, buddy. And I, like, just before I knew what was happening, I was like, lightweight.

[B]

That's it. That thing got yelled at every overseas military gym during war every day for 20 years. I know, I know. I did my part to ensure that it. It. It continued.

[D]

Yeah. Fantastic.

[F]

This is at just another 11. Bravo says, hey, I'm at Just Another Bravo's grandson, and I wanted to say hi.

[B]

Okay.

[F]

What's up, buddy? All right. And there's Scott at Diamond Poseidon says, are those the nods and who won?

[B]

Those are the nods. No one's won yet, so you have an opportunity to go join Patreon and possibly win.

[F]

Man, we're just peacocking tonight.

[B]

Just. Just give me long enough to make a video with them, and I'll tell you who won.

[F]

Let's see. Diamond Poseidon says, side note, why don't we call them fire seducers instead of fires and show the fire all the calendars?

[B]

Fire seducers. You like that? You go with that. Okay. All right.

[E]

It works.

[F]

TG Paris says all wrong. Best army movie in the army now.

[B]

Oh, God.

[F]

Diamond Poseidon. Only the Brave was good. Hotshot movie.

[E]

Which one is that? Yeah, actually,

[G]

yeah, that was the one where we all. When it was done, we were like, allergies are killing me.

[A]

Is that the Granite Mountain hot shot?

[B]

Yeah. When I was just up in New York with. With the guys, they were playing the. The TV was just going like it normally does, and Platoon was showing. I can't tell you. I. I remember a decade. 50. I don't know when the last time I watched Platoon. Like, I. I sat there and I started watching it. Once you start watching it, you can't stop. And I forgot how many stars are in that movie, and I forgot how good that movie was, which is crazy. I know it's a good movie. I. So it's not like. Like, I started from zero. Couldn't believe how good Platoon was. Such a good movie.

[D]

How about Tropic Thunder?

[B]

So quotable. The amount of quotes that came out of that movie is on real. God, that was a good movie. What's that? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Platoon's got a lot of good quotes in it. For sure. Yeah.

[F]

So I did a short poll with the. How many active or retired, Leo or fire?

[B]

Oh, that's a good question.

[F]

And it's 60 Leo and 40%, but it was completely switch.

[B]

Yeah, that's hilarious. But yeah.

[F]

All right. Race banner says you can't interview three firefighters and not ask the mandatory question. Tell us your best. You inserted what. Where EMS call.

[B]

All right, well, for. For starters, great question for someone who can't count to four.

[E]

Yeah.

[D]

Be careful with the. You asked for.

[B]

Yeah, I'm sure. You know that guy on social media that, that always, like the EMS guy that always shows like, the, like, they'll send them a video of something at like a homegood store, and he's like, no, do not.

[D]

Do not.

[B]

They're always like those type of things that someone might use. Yeah. What all. Well, what do you got? I mean, not everyone has to. To has to answer, but you have something. If you have something you. You. You'd like to share with us, we'll. We'll take it.

[D]

All right, send it.

[F]

So I was in Pennsylvania.

[B]

Definitely not in Pennsylvania, Right? Yeah. Yeah.

[D]

This one was in the, you know, Macon, Georgia area.

[B]

All right.

[D]

But anyways, it was in the wee hours of the morning, and we get a call for stomach pain, which is not.

[B]

Okay.

[D]

An uncommon call.

[B]

All right.

[D]

Get early in the morning. So we're like, ah. All right. So we get there, and it's in a, you know, lower income area.

[B]

Okay.

[D]

Apartments, and it's open breezeway, and this lady is sitting on the outside staircase with a gown on. We walk up, didn't give us, like, a exact location or a apartment number, so we just assumed this is. This is it, you know? So we walk up, we're like, hey, did you call 91 1? She was like, yeah. All right, well, what's, what's, what's going on with you? We got a call for stomach pain or, you know. Yeah. She's like, yeah, my stomach hurt. All right, so do you want to go to the hospital? Yeah, but my stomach hurt.

[B]

All right. Tracking, right?

[D]

Yeah, like. All right, we're tracking. So where exactly is your stomach hurting? And about this time, she's in like a. An ankle, you know, length nightgown or nighty.

[B]

Okay. Yeah.

[D]

And as she goes to pull this nightgown up to show us where her stomach pain is instead of just pointing to it.

[B]

Right, Right. Yeah.

[D]

Her friend, sister, cousin, whoever it is, is coming from behind her, and she basically says, I told you about whoring that thing out and it all Made sense. She's got a clogged colostomy hole. That.

[B]

What.

[D]

That, unfortunately, was a spot of. Of pleasure for some customers. And after we got done gagging, we

[B]

waited on EMS to get there. Oh, my. You know what?

[D]

It was the. Yeah, it was. It was very disgusting.

[B]

You know what's crazy about that story? From the. From the. The premise. From the beginning, I had a pretty wide array of possibilities, and you still shocked me. Still shocked me. Was not ready for that one. Yeah. How could you? How could you. Unless. Unless you were there. How could you.

[F]

I'm gonna have to call 911 for my brain pain.

[B]

Goodness, I got some stomach pain going on right now.

[D]

There's a word for that, actually, a term is called the Kentucky side car.

[E]

It's a legit thing.

[B]

Yeah. Do you look it up Is true. I can't. Oh, no. Oh, my gosh. Yeah. 1. I'll never look it up. I can't look it up. I can't have that in my algorithm. I can't have that. My algorithm. Oh, man.

[D]

Oh, well, kind of looked it up,

[B]

in case you didn't realize. Give me your phone. Your algorithm's clear. Already messed up. It ain't going to do nothing to yours.

[F]

I've learned so many new things in the podcast business. I love.

[B]

Love the sultry voice you set it in, too.

[F]

Yeah, I miss my small world. I came from. All right, Right wing nut says any of y' all carry a gun on duty?

[A]

No, we can't.

[B]

It's against. Okay, so.

[G]

Of course we don't.

[B]

Obviously. Yeah, they just stay in the trucks. Can they go to the department? They just stay in the trucks.

[E]

All in the cars? Pretty much.

[B]

Okay. All right.

[F]

Just a water gun.

[D]

Mine stays long after Pennsylvania. You know what I'm saying?

[B]

What, do you keep your guns? I got one at home. I got one in Pennsylvania.

[D]

I'm sticking beside the guy that can't cut grass.

[B]

That I'm gonna lean on that dude to save me in a gosh.

[F]

All right, let's see. The Prussian says, I was EMT for five years and have a paramedic degree. I also spent three years as a state correction officer. I don't know how to vote on the latest poll. I told him, I said, you get points for both. It's just a wash.

[B]

So you want to talk about people with disgusting stories and crazy stories. Oh, correction officers.

[F]

God bless.

[B]

Yeah, God bless.

[F]

God bless them for sure. And then the last one of the night says, what are their nicknames? Anything like Rocket Wrist.

[B]

That's a good question in the military and I'm sure it's like the same everywhere. Does is it common that for everyone to have a nickname or. Not necessarily. Not everyone. Does anyone here have a nickname name that they'll admit to or that they know of?

[A]

Yeah, he knows, he knows. He knows what his nickname is.

[D]

Go ahead and say, go ahead, baby girl.

[B]

Baby girl.

[A]

The other, some of the other guys say it now too, because it's trending now.

[B]

She's trending.

[A]

She's got to eat three meals a day. No matter what time we eat breakfast. If we eat breakfast at 11 o', clock.

[B]

Right.

[A]

12 o' clock comes, it's time for lunch.

[F]

Nice.

[G]

Right?

[F]

I respect.

[A]

She starts getting. She starts getting hangry.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, I'm actually not mad at that. I understand that.

[D]

I like that.

[B]

I understand that. No nutrition, no mission. That's what I say.

[D]

Yeah, well, it's kind of his fault that I'm like that. We went to go do some training or we were going to do some training one morning, like after breakfast that I didn't know we were going to do some training. And so anyway, I don't even think we ate breakfast. You're like, oh, you just gotta be at this train at like 8 o' clock or something like that. So we didn't eat breakfast. So we get back and I'm like, what, what happened?

[B]

No, we were going to my train

[D]

and you go, you gave me a protein bar or something and I was like, oh, this thing's disgusting. I don't want this.

[B]

Well, so anyway, we ended up, what

[D]

did we end up going to Subway or something?

[A]

Yeah, something like that.

[D]

Yeah. I had to have a full meal, basically

[A]

three full meals a day.

[F]

So nobody else has got a nickname.

[A]

I mean, just Jules. Jules is just short for jewels.

[B]

Yeah, that's just short.

[A]

I'm sure I've got some nicknames, but they don't tell them to my face.

[F]

Okay.

[B]

Yeah, that's true. That's right. Yeah. Just one more. Let's go to the other video that, that they brought. Want to see what. What that was about? They only brought two videos, so only watch one would be like. Would be disingenuous.

[F]

Hey, through the door chuck3ch2 we're gonna come from the west and take that side.

[B]

52 come from the east. You know about the other rigs on the.

[A]

First video that we had where we show. Trying to. This is just show. Go in and do a good get down, good aggressive interior search. They're not like, these guys aren't scared of fire. They'll go in and get hot, put the fire out. That's all it was.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

They're just showing like really like what, what a good, a good engine company will do.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And then later in the video somewhere, it just shows one of the good truck companies getting on top and cutting a hole in the roof. Getting advantage so those guys inside can get some relief from that heat and get some visibility to finish the job.

[B]

Moleville. You guys know where is it? Moville.

[A]

This is stock

[F]

putting the wet stuff on the red stuff.

[B]

That's right. It's that simple. I tell you what's crazy is I did go to like a crash course firefighting school in New York because we kept on catching buildings on fire and someone's like, maybe we should understand fires a little better. And, and I get it. Even though it was very, very short period of time, we got, we got real good at it really fast. Well, gosh, I shouldn't say really good at it. We got, we got, we got better. Better at it really fast. But the. Just from my personal experience, I'm sure it's the same for everyone. The first time you do it, the first time they put you in a blacked out house, it's full of smoke, get on your knees and crawl around and go find the downed guy. You're like, I'm pretty sure if they'd put like some thermals or could see us. I was just like sitting there in circles and I'm like, I don't. I came out of that place, did not find anyone. I don't even think I got out of the room I went into. But I'm thoroughly confused. Like, I don't know how you do it. Like, you, like, you sure. Like, what's. Is there something you didn't tell me like, beforehand?

[A]

We all do it. So when we go to recruit school, you're in recruit school anywhere from, from about three months to four to five months. And every time you do fire scenarios like don't put the fire out, so you go in and you just kind of crack the bell.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Knock the fire down a little bit because you got to save the fire for the next, the next rotation, right?

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And they all told us when we graduated, like the first fire you get, you're gonna go in, you're gonna crack the bell and shut it and wait for your captain or whoever it is to tell you to, to do whatever. And sure enough, like, I think I got out of recruit school in my first fire. My first fire. Was like two shifts in the field, and we went in. I got to the front door, did everything I'm supposed to do masked up. I'm like, bleed the nozzle outside like they teach us. I look back at the captain, I'm like, are we ready to go? He's like, yeah, like, get inside. So we run inside, and it's just a kitchen fire. It wasn't like, anything. Anything super crazy.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

I went in, opened up that.

[G]

I shut up.

[A]

I'm looking back up at the cabin like, what are you slapping my hand? He's like, open the nozzle.

[B]

Put the fire out.

[F]

I'm like, all right.

[A]

But they tell you, every one of them, everybody does it. As soon as you get out of recruitment school, you're. It's so ingrained in you to not put that. The training fire out so that we can get however many rotations.

[B]

And now it's embedded.

[A]

You do it on your first structure fire every time.

[E]

The crawling, too.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

Crawl.

[B]

Yeah.

[E]

Like, we don't crawl unless you don't have to.

[B]

Oh, really?

[E]

But then, you know, they teach that rookie school. So you go in your first fire, you get on the ground like, what are you doing?

[B]

Get on your feet like a man. Yeah.

[E]

You can't see anyways.

[B]

Oh, man. I tell you. You know, I guess one of the last things we'll. We'll say is just. Again, it's just a tip of the hat to. To the firefighters. And, you know, it's coming up. Well, comes up every year, and I hate it. You know, the ones who gave the ultimate sacrifice and the. And the many of them on 911 that did it. So I went through firefighting school. School, like, training. What. What is the. What is the device called on your. On your back that beeps if you don't move?

[E]

Past device.

[B]

What is it?

[E]

Past device.

[B]

Past device. And so I'd never been to the 911 memorial, and until after that, when I went there again, there's some legacy firefighters whose dads were firefighters whose dads died in 9 11, and they had never been to the 911 museum either, because they just didn't want to be reminded of it. So these guys go to the. To the. Even the ones who never had. This is, like, in 2012, 13, 14, really bad. So it means this is a decade later. So they go with us. And then we hear this as you're going through the museum. They kind of tell you about a past device, but again, it's a lot different when you actually hear one. You're Con. If for the last week, you've been dealing with this stupid past device that beeps on your back every 30 seconds. 30 seconds. And when the towers fell, when all those guys showed up, and there's just constant beeping in the rubble for days and days and days. This is a constant reminder if that's your brother's down there in the rubble. And then they're like. But what was even worse than that is when the. The beep. The beeping noise got started to fade because of a low battery. And then the beeping stopped, which made it even worse because I felt. You felt like as long as you heard it beat, maybe you can save one. But when the beeping stopped, it was almost like a stopped heartbeat. And to hear that just. Ah, it just tugs my heartstrings to this day. And so, you know, from. From what they did to what you guys do, I cannot thank you enough. Can't thank you enough for driving all the way down here, especially after your. Your experience with crossing state lines. So I know this was. I know this meant, you know, this was a lot for you, you know, and I appreciate that.

[F]

But you're safe in the free state of Florida.

[D]

That's right.

[E]

Well, I almost made a little. Little mistake just driving. You know, I always take guns with me.

[B]

Yeah.

[E]

And I was like, oh, let me pack this little SBR and put the suppressor on and do it in the bag. And then I was like, wait a minute.

[C]

Let me just.

[E]

Silencers are legal to cross state lines. SVRs are not. I was like, oh, that would have

[D]

been a bad one.

[B]

Yeah. In fact, the. Kyle, did you bring your gun on this trip by chance? No. No. Okay. Which is. Which is fine. Which is. Which actually kind of wanted to hear because. To show you how. How. How great we are, if you get pulled over here and you don't have one. You got. You have a better chance of them giving you a gun than taking. Are you a firefighter? You ain't from here. You know, where's your. Yo, do you have a gun? Oh, you don't have a gun? Hold on. Take this. It's on.

[F]

Oh, turn off my body cam.

[B]

Hold on. See, they're not all bad. All right, we got. Got. We. We got more Kentucky sidecar stories in the garage. Yes, we do. I felt a little gross just saying that, to be honest with you. I'm gonna have to go take a shower, and then I'll meet you guys in the garage for. For post show cigars. Guys, thank you so much. Thank. Thanks to everyone. You guys get the last word. We still got the outro song to do, but we'll go around the room, Jules, starting with you.

[E]

We just appreciate you having us, man. It's been a pleasure. You know, we were all looking forward to this and you know, we thank you for what you do and what you did, you know.

[B]

Thank you. I hope we didn't disappoint. You guys came down for a good time. I mean, this. You. You guys didn't disappoint. I was like, you get four or five riders in here? Yeah, we're gonna have a good time. It's. It's been a lot of laughs.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Nigel, what do you got?

[G]

No, I appreciate it. No, we had a great time. I mean, obviously I wasn't coming till last minute call, so I am glad I came, right? But yeah, thanks for having us. And again, we appreciate everything you do

[B]

as well a man. Thank you guys. Thank you. Thank you.

[A]

Yeah, we, we never really thought that. Kyle and I have been watching you on YouTube for a couple years now and we ran into you at the NRA show last year. We kind of fanboyed pretty hard over it. These two ditched us.

[B]

Getting embarrassing.

[E]

First off, not just Kyle and them watch you.

[B]

I did too.

[E]

Not like clown. Okay. Just clear that.

[A]

The two of us pretty hard.

[B]

When they watched you. I just did it by myself.

[A]

When you invited us down for a lot and it was like we couldn't, we couldn't. We couldn't really wait to get down here. And yeah, I said, people always thank us for what we do and man, we really don't do a lot compared to, to what you've done. So we get to do what we do because guys like you have done what you've done.

[B]

Man, I appreciate it.

[A]

So, yeah, like, we just, we appreciate you being able to let us come down and have a good time with you.

[D]

Thank you. Yeah, definitely. We definitely appreciate it. And I said we shout out all the fire, ems, police for what they do. Yeah, definitely will always Never forget line 11 and yeah. What they've done to our country and for our country as far as, you know, I mean, I don't feel like we've seen unity and like that.

[B]

I know I do. I do hate that. I don't know how to get that, that, that unity back. Like, I, I really don't. I refuse to believe that that's what it takes. Don't get me wrong. We know that, that, that, that has that impact, but is that the only way to get that result I am. I don't.

[D]

Surely there's something.

[B]

Yeah, surely there's something else.

[D]

But we were pretty pumped to come down here. So much so that I forgot how to cut the grass. You know what I mean? Anyways, we really appreciate it. Thank you very much.

[B]

The. I know he's off. Off camera, but don't forget, guys, about Magnet and. And Lion Arms and Chris, sir. Oh, Chris, blow. Yeah, swing that over there. Make sure that. Oh, there you go. Swing it over there. Magnet, you need a mic. Oh. Oh, he's gonna take Drew Magnus. Just step over. Our buddy Chris BL just started his YouTube channel. So if you guys go on there, it's Chris Blouse, C H r I s bl blau. He just started his YouTube channel.

[F]

He's part of the 1911 syndicate.

[B]

He's got Chris Cano.

[F]

C A N O.

[B]

He's a Green Beret. If you guys go check out his

[F]

channel, give him some love.

[B]

It's a great channel to follow and you know, to check me out online. Armsusa.com and Lion Arms.

[F]

Lion underscore arms on Instagram.

[B]

Uh, thanks, guys. Max, is there something you want to say? What is it? What do you want, buddy? What? Get up here. Tell me about it. Yeah, he does. Nathan, you want last thing. Hard Rock Charlie. Next event. Next year. One event a year.

[C]

We do a variety of events for sure. We take care of two sections of Arlington for Reese across America every year. So it's Rangers lay the Reese. And we do that every single year. It's pretty good. We. Yeah, I. I would say those are probably two big events. Like I said, it's always the first weekend in May, that first Saturday is the jump. And then if you back date to the Thursday, that's the beginning of it. So we had just to throw in there. I think a chance is we had people that are not airborne qualified jump this year.

[B]

Did you really?

[C]

Yeah, we had. They went through like a mini airborne course.

[B]

Okay.

[C]

And so there were some wives that actually jumped this year, which was the first time that's ever happened.

[B]

So did the insurance approve that you signed that waiver?

[C]

Baby, you signed that waiver?

[B]

No, no, no.

[C]

Well, they jump a little, but it's static line, so you got to fall out of an aircraft. I mean, you basically have to be to screw up.

[B]

Right, right.

[C]

And you're landing in water. So.

[B]

Yeah,

[E]

with the boat that's not coming for you anytime soon.

[B]

Drew, Drew, what do you got?

[C]

For sure.

[F]

All right, guys. FRCC shop this month we've lowered prices like crazy. Go check them out. And then we've just introduced our new flavored cigars. Everybody's been waiting for those for vanilla. Get the Sweet Charlie, the Sweet Alpha FRCC Shop. And then also check out my podcast at Truth in the Dark Podcast. And you can find out why the Bible is from God. The evidence for that, that it's not just another fairy tale. And we need truth in this dark world. So go check it out. Truth and Dark Podcast. Brent, what you got?

[B]

I'll tell you what I got. Iron Maiden Wrath Child to kick it off with. Yeah. And then you guys get to pick the absolute last song. Why we do that? We're gonna hang out in the comment section just for a little bit. Alex Tuckerson. Magnet needs a damn laugh. Have Mike.

[F]

Yeah. Lapel mic.

[B]

Yeah. Magnet is what keeps me this show together. Sorry, Drew. He forced me to say that. My T AK Dyson just says, max, that's you, buddy. I know. For such a big dog, why do you have such a small bladder lot Chocolate hole. Three hours later. Well, wasn't. I get it. But an hour went to Kyle's story. Here's a good story. That's a good story. It's a good story.

[D]

I'm sorry for that.

[B]

Don't you apologize at all. Animal Mother said, I heard exotic snakes release to Florida to hunt other snakes. I gosh. So you're saying the answer to our problem is more the same problem? I mean. I mean, ironically enough might work, but. Oh, that's the same song still. Okay. Brad Meddlin just says, yeah, buddy.

[F]

Yeah, buddy.

[B]

But I think. I think he typed it out out like. Yeah. Oh, let's see. AK Dyson, Brit, do you like tequila? If so, check out Don Fano. Delicious stuff. I don't have any tequila in the house. I don't turn down tequila. I don't hate tequila. But I also don't seek out tequila. I think most saints people have that same. Have that same mindset.

[D]

Yeah. Oh, no.

[F]

I don't know. I think you've sought out tequila a lot of people. That just happened.

[E]

That was good.

[B]

It's happened. I wonder if maybe the Internet just went.

[F]

Magnet, are you on my Bluetooth?

[B]

I know Magnet. I swear to God. I swear to God, man. That's my. My first thought. My first thought. Aloha from Kauai. Have a great weekend. Max from Sixes.

[D]

Mom.

[B]

Let's see Rack Shadow all the way. I've been so busy this week with. With. With work. I will get to the to the Patreon messages and I know you messaged me, Rack Shadow. And I do want to talk to you, of course. Joe Saunders. Hey there. Alex Tucker said that's a very fear tequila assessment. I think so.

[E]

All right.

[B]

Oh, that's a hard one. That's hard to stop. Next one is going, oh, it's you guys. It's you.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Who. Who's the most senior guy here?

[D]

Is there.

[B]

Is there a consensus of that? There's no consensus song. Nick, you got. You got one song. Oh. For the people to hear. What do you. What do you want them to hear? I don't.

[G]

It.

[B]

It doesn't have to be hip hop. It can be anything you want, but just your eyes are saying hip hop. But I don't know.

[D]

Probably. He's probably thinking like, Kenny Log.

[A]

I like Notorious Thugs.

[B]

Notorious Thugs.

[G]

Dang dangs.

[B]

Do whatever you want.

[A]

Thugs.

[B]

Wow.

[F]

They shoot their pistol sideways in Georgia.

[B]

But it's your. I need. I need a song. Need a song. What do you got? Whatever you want,

[A]

man.

[B]

You look like a man of taste. I want it that way.

[A]

Ah, yeah. Kenny Loggin sounds good.

[B]

All right.

[A]

Playing with the boys.

[B]

Oh, oh. All right, all right, all right. I kept saying, all right. I'm all right.

[F]

I didn't start the fire.

[B]

That's not Kenny Loggins.

[F]

No, no. Nice little firefighter.

[B]

Oh, I see. Oh, it's a firefighter song. Okay. Yep.

[F]

And then George Straight the fireman.

[B]

I'm telling you, I. I get it. I get it. This song has like. Like some sort of, like, undertone of gay tendencies. It's what they want you. It's what they want you to believe.

[E]

Pretty much.

[B]

Pretty much. But I don't. I love this song. Hell, yeah.

[D]

To my hour story that the guy brought up earlier.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

When I got in the back of the cop car to go to the Pittsburgh jail.

[A]

Is this gonna be a long story?

[B]

It's gonna be a really long story.

[D]

The guy says, look, it's going to be a somewhat of a long ride, you know, and I'm sorry for that.

[B]

So that's what you're saying?

[F]

Yeah.

[D]

He's like, what do you like to listen to?

[B]

He's such a nice guy.

[D]

I said, I got one for you. How about typing in give me back my bullets? Leonard Skinner.

[B]

Yes. And he played it and he just

[D]

kind of looked in the rearview mirror and just kind of nodded like, oh, my gosh.

[B]

Oh, my gosh. Alex. Cy says full rappers delight. It's 15 minutes. Is it? I'm gonna look that up.

[E]

Yeah.

[B]

No, gosh. Billy Baddy, guys I got in so much trouble for telling the James story to customers. Customers.

[D]

This is fantastic.

[A]

High five.

[D]

Oh, yeah.

[A]

Only a few get the good one, though. They get the top and the bottom.

[B]

Let's see. TBO says the army man. Brit giving a chubby to a Top Gun song. Love it. I'm. I'm okay with that. It's a damn good song.

[A]

If you don't get breaked up to this, you're not.

[B]

Oh, gosh. D said. I just noticed one of them is wearing Magnet shirt. Shooting guns and spreading buns. Hot dog buns. Magnet loves hot dogs. That's the first time I read his shirt tonight. First time shooting guns and spreading buns. Hot dog buns. We're a family. Safe show. I'd like to. Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh. What? I think we're just about.

[F]

I don't know why I got this urge to play volleyball.

[B]

I know. Oh. Aaliyah727, shout out to these four amazing Sandy Springs firefighters from the wife crew. Okay.

[G]

Thank you, babe.

[B]

Love you. Yeah, that's my wife. Heck, yeah. She stayed up late to watch.

[E]

I know, right? Way past her bedtime, more than likely.

[B]

Me, I believe to be entertained. But just in case he said something wrong. I don't know. I don't know. But I believe the first thing was to. To support you. I believe that. I believe you. That's right. Hey, you guys can be my wingman anytime. All right?

[A]

Yeah.

[F]

Where's the making.

[B]

What do you say? Let's see. Globe globalized media. Support your local fire department. Shout out to union. Hashtag iaff. Animal mother. Ha. And office had to spread buns. Mouse and duck us Duck cartoon episode on. Sent a dirty image to their customers in bulk. Okay. All right. Last one of the night. Snuck in there with Tav G96. Hey, guys. A good friend of mine, Andrew Honeymoon, SEAL Team 5. DevGU and Bud's instructor. Passed away three weeks ago after a long personal battle. Absolutely amazing man. Prior prayers for his wife and his family. Appreciated man. Actually, I. I hate to hear that. I love that you snuck that in the last second. I'm glad we saw it. And I'm glad we got to say his name one more time. We've said it before. We'll say it again. A man dies two deaths. The first death is when he actually dies in his physical form, and a second time is the last time his name is spoken. So because of you, his name is still spoken and his memory lives on. Guys, thank you so much. I have a extremely busy. May. I'm just going to look at this real quick. So you guys know from here, you know, we went to West Palm, we went to New York. Now I got an event with the Black Rifle guys in Vegas next weekend. Then I go to Eddie Gallagher's podcast. And then I go to Soft Week in Tampa. And I'm still going to squeeze in some lives next Thursday. We do have a live it's a live of Chris Fetis, Seal Team 6. I think we'll get a decent amount of lives and still this month. Month. So stay tuned every week. Be on the lookout. Be sure to be on the lookout for the Monday night, the Monday morning recordings that we drop every Monday, and of course, the Thursday night lives for the Patriots. Thank you guys for tuning in.