Austen Alexander Confronts Donut Operator | Unsubscribe Podcast Ep 288

Will you stop rubbing my leg? It's a habit. A random seal just f*cking punched you in the face. You can't say anything about it. That's how I feel when you bullied me in high school. Is that why you took this podcast you're like? It's time I confront him once and for all. I do have a funny story about David Goggan, so. Wait, what's that? Excellent segue. I can't wait for this, man. ♪ Don't I, a dark joke disposition ♪ ♪ And there's a battle electrician ♪ ♪ Welcome to unsubscribe ♪ - Hey, what? - Okay, ready? And oh, we gotta do the countdown. - Count down first. Everyone ready for a countdown? - We have to crack it at the same time. - Yes. - Okay, ready? Three, two, one. - Delicious. - Outstanding. - Eschallon. - Mmm, Eschallon. Yummy. - Yeah, we don't even sell this one. - This is the good one. - You can probably buy it from a scalper for $50 again? - Yeah. - My God, gross bit. - Why didn't I get one of those? Are they sold out too? - I can get you one. - No, I'm just kidding. - Okay, I told you they didn't want to even. - Hi, everyone. Welcome to the unsubscribe podcast. I'm joined today by Eli Double Tap. Alex Alexander, Alexander Alexander. - Wait. - Alex, what's up, Alex? - Alex. - Not Austin. - Alex Alexander. - Alexander. - No, Alex, it's just you, 20 years later. - That's good. - King Trout, myself, don't an operator. Thank you so much for being here. Nice to meet you. - Wonderful to meet you. - I don't think we ever met before. - We've never met before. - It's a pleasure to sit next to you. - Guys, the two tall guys in the middle. - Hell yeah. - Are you, wait, how about you? - I can sit on a six foot, four and a half on a good day. - Look, six, two. - I worry, I worry heels. - You're short. - I worry heels. - How did you do that? - That was crazy. - I caught him. - I caught him. - Flexible. - He's our yoga boy. - You are. - Oh, remember that. - Yeah, the episode starts in your boots on your head. - On your head. - Like, what the fuck? - That's how he sits. What's up buddy? Welcome. - Thank you very much. - Dude, I didn't realize, first off, that you guys have known each other for a long fucking time. - Yes. - I found this out literally today. - Well, you wanna just dive right into that story? - I don't know what a story you're gonna tell. - I don't know. - It's different from my story. - Okay, so I'll tell my version. - Okay, hold on, hold on, hold on. Let's give a preface real quick. Why did you invite Austin on? - Yes, why did you? - Why? Because you make amazing content. You are a former Navy SEAL. Thank you. - No, no, no, no, no. I'm not a Navy SEAL. - Why is all your stuff a Navy SEAL? Literally, all your stuff says that. Is it like Brandon, did I get AI blasted? - You probably did. - So are you-- - Okay. - No, no. - Hold on. - I was a master in Naval Security. - Why does all, like-- - Oh, because it gets a lot-- - We got to Brandon's-- - So do you know them? - Hold up. - Do you even want me here? Should I just leave? - You can leave now, okay. - When I Google them, it says he's Canadian. - Are you Canadian? - Okay, no, no, no, okay. - Wait, I go up with him, he's not Canadian. - With AI, there is a Canadian comedian, named Austin Alexander spelled the same. - No, he's not a military guy. - So companies reach out to us all the time. They're like, "Hey, do you want to do this brand deal?" We love for you to do this finance deal. I'm like, "Okay, cool." And they send me this script. They're like, "We love your finance, bro videos." I'm like, "You got the wrong person." So AI condenses my profile and his profile. I'm on IMDB, by the way. - That's true. - That's real out of AI's, get their info. And it meshes it together. So should I do a proper intro? - Yeah, you-- - Because I can tell you, you did-- - What the fuck, okay. Okay, let me see if this is real deep. - I think from his IMDB page, I figured out how they've known each other for 20 years. - I thought you were bringing him on because of his fitness video. - That's true. Fitness YouTube, how he does it, the challenges. - Yeah, that's me. - That's me. - And you also do, you don't even like, so schooling, you tried college, that wasn't for you, because you're not-- - See, this is why I'm super fucking confused right now of when everything says, yeah, you can maybe see it though. He is a Navy Seal, 'cause I was double checking, it was like, don't, okay. - I have a lot of friends. - And a medal of honor. I'm joking. - Dude. - So, what the fuck? - We do a lot of Navy Seal challenges, and we bring other influencers on to try the Navy Seal PST. - Yep. - And girls versus Marines, but I was not a Navy Seal. - So Navy Seal? (laughing) Here we go. - Gonna have a lot of seals washing this and be like, that guy, he's not a Navy Seal, he's not a part of us. - No, do you know Brandon's story of what we dug to our friend? - It's Cody gave me a-- - So he went in there and he saw the class A's, and he was like, what the fuck is this? And so I gave him a short rundown of like, this is why he has medals of honor and has nams and stuff. - I was so confused. I was like, is this real? 'Cause I don't know anything about hardly about the class A Army uniform. And I saw all these purple hearts and like all these medals and ribbons. I was like, dang, this dude was stacked. I thought Brandon was a veteran. - Dude, see? - Like, 'cause y'all say it. And all the AIs pick up the conversation. They're like, "Oh, Brandon, where are you?" A former Army green beret. - Oh, it's telling about Force Fowler. - The Pacific theater ribbon didn't tip you off. - Dude, he has, so when you Google him, he is getting penned. People have Photoshop so many photos of this dude getting penned, medal of honors. Like, it is just a wall. - Yeah, I thought he was a veteran. - Hold on a minute. - Oh, no, I'm gonna bring it in here. Because this is the first thing that he saw. - Please. - Oh, the Shenivores. - He was like, dang. - And he was like, "I'm just getting penned." - He was stacked. I see why people were voting for him. - That's hilarious. - Well, now-- - But you get the right guy. - Yeah, other than that, apparently, was way off. I was like, "Oh, okay, well, I'll ask a couple of questions on this, like childhood." - He walked in and was like, "Holy shit." (laughing) - I was like, "Damn, this guy's stacked." - "Good, God." - Damn. - He was on a Veterans Day episode with me. - I'd been on a frame. - Yeah. - It's like, "God, dude." - I was like, "Why do they put him on both sides in the army? Is that something that they do?" - They actually do. I don't remember why the right side. And then I saw this, and I saw the purple heart, and I saw this, and I was like, "Damn." I earned, you know, he earned some respect in my book, but now, I got-- - Well, since it's a World War II service. (laughing) - Yeah, so I don't-- - He's in a whole soul. (laughing) So, we had him on a Veterans Day episode. - I invited him on one, and then we started the episode with, "Oh, we're gonna, by the way," and I brought my purple heart, and I would go to pen him. He's like, "Get that fucking shit away from me." And then everyone else had purple hearts at the table, and I was like, "You're a veteran now." Internet took that, and ran away with it, and then it never stopped, and then we did not help any of the situation, and then people brought in class A's. They built a uniform for him, and then chat AI, everything started saying, it's like, "Oh yeah, he was in the Marines, he was in the Navy." Decorated veteran. - I see now, that makes sense. Well, apparently, AI's doing the same with me, so y'all may not even know who I am. - Hey, well. - That Canadian male owner recipient. - Yeah, is that what it says? - No, I don't know. (laughing) - That'd be fun. - How the fuck? - Well, that's the first I got fucking tricked by AI, 'cause I was like, "Okay, childhood." Okay, here's what he hates. Okay, here's everything he does. Okay, this makes sense. I can knock this out. - The questions with the Navy seal, I'm just gonna be like, "I thought you were bringing him "on the fuck with me." - See, we've gone like nine different directions, and it's only been like four minutes. That's how I know what it's gonna be like. - Welcome to unsubscribe. - This is unsub, baby. Okay, give a spill on you, Mr. Navy seal, and then we'll go back here. - Okay, doing stories. - Austin Alexander, 34 years old, like Long Walks and the Beach, Short Walks and the Veteran. Are you setting a timer on me? - No, on the whole thing. - Over all. - Yeah, you got two. - You got two. - You got two seconds, hurry it up, buddy. - Okay, stop. - Well, the mic out. - So I'll tell the story, and maybe y'all, the viewers and listeners can link the link between Cody and I. I grew up in Florence, Alabama. - I just gave it away right there. (laughing) - Well, I joined the Navy when I was 20. I was in the Navy for 27 years, godly. Seven years, 13 to 20. - I was like, I wonder why AI gets confused. I was in the Navy for 27 years. - I mean, seven years. - From 2013 to 2020, I originally went in as dive, didn't pass the training, became master at arms. I drove boats in the harbor, harbor troll unit, great job. I got out about 2018. I started a YouTube channel where I would post like how to increase your pushups, how to increase your mile time. Originally it was just for service members, but it started to get big, and now I was able to take it full time and get out in 2020, but doing it ever since. That's the whole story. - No, yeah. - You're gonna go back, okay, so I posted on Instagram at this tiny gas station used to work at, called Townslees, shout out to Townslees. It's H and T, general immersion guys now, but everybody calls it Townslees. Got him Rod Townsle used to own it. And he commented, and we had just followed each other from social media. 'Cause I watched his videos, and I guess you watched my videos. - Yeah, when you posted that, that was, what, 20? It was like 20, 22 or something. - Yeah. - And you're like, dude, what do you do at Townslees? I was like, I used to work here, and you said, I grew up there and I went to Wilson and I was like no you didn't get out of here because I know him I knew I knew I was done an operator before anything and he sent me a picture of his His yearbook or whatever. I was like wait. I do remember you and you were a bully And I started messing with him ever since and every time I say he's like dude. Don't say that I wasn't a bully. Please don't do that and so I still say to this day that he was a bully in high school Which is nice now, which is why I thought you were bringing him on because he does really good fitness content And then Eli and I met before this and I was like hey dude. Yeah, I went to high school with him He calls me a bully and he was like what the fuck? I thought that's why you were bringing I thought you were So you brought Did you know this? No, I I legit Cody thought I knew this and then I was looking Cody was like wait get to what the fuck you talking about And then you're telling me I'm like wait pause what's going on right now? He's like yeah, he said I was a bully I'm not a fucking bully. I was like oh, okay. I'm not asking any questions now I just want to know this entire lower situation. Yeah, so I say that because I Think you used to hang out with some rowdy guys in high school and they used to go behind Townsley's and fight Yes, like every single weekend. There were a lot of fights. You graduated 2006. Yes Yeah, I was four years. So I was like I was in ninth grade when you were in twelfth grade Yeah, and I just remember y'all being super rowdy in the hallways and I was always scared because I'm like Take my lunch money Actually, he took my lunch money one time and in high school. He told me not to tell anybody Katie stout took his lunch He stout sounds familiar Which you've all about player. I never speak anymore. No, but yeah, it's just a very very small world I mean if you look at the ratio of Social media people coming out of Wilson. It's like point zero eight percent because of you and I yeah It's such a such a Both of you in navy, which is fucking wild. Yeah. Yeah, cuz what he's talking about in 2022 I saw his content where you were doing the Opsicle course challenges. I think around that time the Navy still obstacles like dude This is awesome and then yeah, you posted something about Townsley's the the gas station. We used to go fight at Small world. I mean the chances are so cuz I don't even know you were From Alabama much less from my high school and graduate from the same Is that what you took this podcast you like I'm gonna it's time I can front him once and for all exactly Calling out don't an opera. That should be the title. Oh fuck, dude You got like a hundred pounds on me. This is gonna be hard. You're outy in the hallway. Did you go behind? The convenience store This is sounding like Cody. Yeah, sounds like something he would do it was You described everyone on the podcast so far We threw ninjas stars at a watermelon gas station in my house. We fought in my garage from like 9th grade to 12th Asling bro, it's funny to those talking about like seriously our graduating classes are like 60 people like 50 people something like that and Then years later, we just ran into each other on Instagram And that's why I thought you brought him out here to fuck with me So you didn't know any of this none of this that's crazy And you just you guys wanted to talk about fitness videos. No military because it's military month. I was like You have a you're huge in the fitness military space. So it's like this is fucking perfect Great crossover. I'm sure we'll have great conversations and all this unfolded today. I'm like what the fuck this is like Dr. Phil in unsubscribe. Yeah, we stop rubbing my leg. It's a habit. Okay. It's okay. I look over trumps hands in his lap Think the guess today's episode is brought to you by man's scape the ultimate ball trimmer because not nicking your ball sack is fun I hate when that happens. It's a mistake. 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You were terrible college. I do know that. Oh, yeah, so I'm a terrible learner in the classroom and I grown up I thought you know from having People tell me all your grades are bad You're just you're not gonna really amount to much like if you don't get good grades I went to college and I was not getting good grades and I didn't want to sit there for seven hours and listen to some guy talk about it The same history subject my attention span was just not about it So that really just diminished my my confidence going through you know high school and then college and When my parents told me hey, you you can make your own decisions now. I was like all right. I just stopped going to college. I was I was there on a grant. I just Just kind of stopped going and it's a while What was your plan here? I didn't have a plan. Okay. I'm a very I'm not a plan. It's one of us I'm a very in the moment type of guy and I said I don't want to do this anymore and I dropped out a couple months later. I got a job at the city of Florence cutting grass I'd used to drive the zero-turn lawn mowers around make seven dollars and twenty-five cents an hour very Mexican of you Yes, very we were all grown up very It was a very white area. There's like no Mexicans at all It was all me and a bunch of three or four guys usually just cut grass. I was I'm gonna do this forever until I met a recruiter There was a Marine Corps recruiter at the mall It was like dude. What are you doing with your life? I'm like I cut grass for the city of Florence Like it was something brag about and he's like dude you cut you fucking cut grass. What are you doing? Join the military get out of here and become something and he was just That was the first time I had any interaction with any military person I was like fuck this guy like this this guy's rude and So that completely turned me off the Marine Corps and then a couple months later my parents started going through a tub divorce they're doing right now. Love you guys and I realized that I no longer could really could depend on them or shouldn't depend on them You know I was 18 years old. I said I need to get out of here. I went straight to the Navy Recruiting Office with my buddy Taylor I said sign me up put me put me in for something. They're like you want to be a seal? I'm like sure Like they always do. Did they tell you that to? Yeah, EOD for me. Okay. Okay. That is Cody did try to be a seal too I really yeah EOD and then so yeah did work out. Okay. I didn't know that we're gonna learn some things today Okay, it's gonna be good. You know, we probably have the same recruiter Navy recruiter chief Thompson I don't know the name of it, but we probably have the same person. He was a tall One of the greatest. I love I love that guy super honest Didn't try to sell me on some BS He was I'll try to get you in a seal, but it's fucking hard. You probably not gonna be able to do it, but I'll put you in for it Did yours say the same? Yeah, dude pulled the He was like, oh, you want to be EOD? Okay, let's go down to the YMCA and swim around a little bit and then we'll figure out if you have the ability to go be EOD and so I took like the dive motest got to Dude, I got to fucking I got to great legs and they're like all right Everyone we're gonna take in the dive motest that you came here for I couldn't pass anything But the recruiter there in Florence, Alabama said yeah, you passed everything I got there Which is like limb dick is In that time frame he's he's like yeah when I went to die mo it fucking great legs. They're like you can't Like why did your recruiter put you with us? I think that's probably before the warrior challenge program Yeah, it was before okay, so I came in that median where they were just incorporating the warrior challenge program They had swim coaches they had all these physical screening tests coaches that would like you went to classes and train up to try to pass This was before this was after like super heavy like everyone's deploying because it was like my I showed up and there were people with 18 x-ray contract special forces contracts that could not even do a single stage Oh, so they were pushing that's that's what happened to me. Yeah, I went there and I couldn't do like a dead hang pull up Mm-hmm, but in Florence, Alabama the recruiters said like yeah, you're doing great when I'm like They were just locking these kids and I remember seeing like it was called duty kids like Holy shit, they are the epitome of never worked out and so yeah, my recruiter had me sign a five year 18 x-ray contract Exactly and they're like once it up in the drawers on it's like you can't do one Set up what the fuck and you're like Crying and then they get one and then that's it. I'm like yeah, and then they when they don't pass They make them go into another job, right? No, exactly Yeah, so for five years. Well, so when yeah when I got there and they realized like this guy can't be EOD He can't do a single fucking pull up They're like you got two options. There's one open available for electronic avionic electronic technician Or you can be a boat's once mate. Mm-hmm. I was like what's a boat's once mate. I think well you do everything else No one wants to do or you can sit in an air-conditioned room and you can fix aircraft and then so of course that shows avionic electronic Technician Yeah, so you were is it AE or AT AT okay, okay. I didn't do a whole lot with aviation But yeah, the navy definitely uses those special warfare and special operations jobs to get people in and excited and then They'll cut you at the drop of a dime and then they'll all right go be a Majority of people that I went to bootcamp with that didn't pass the training. They all went to be cooks And you had like these studs that were physically fit Gonna go in a ship to cook for people no shit and mind you this was 2009 Yeah, when I did this in 2012 slash 13 for me. God, I'm so old. I was out before code When did you get out oh eight? How long did you do three nine almost four years? Okay, it was like surge surge war get back Yeah, I'm fucking cycle out, but it was for army. It was everyone was just infantry like everyone like okay You're going infantry. You're going to infantry. You get there and basic training was a The people that were joining at the same time and then lying to get their hair because it was like What the fuck they just took Everyone like I would have seen right in there like I would have seen my son in that line of like our was told to join He's really good with the gun that things are gonna be heating up. They're taking everybody When he said a guy couldn't do a single setup like that Like that's crazy like a skeleton or like morbidly obese morbidly obese. Oh, okay, you had everyone again We had the dude a big lip loony loony was his last name was actually loony He had these huge lips. He was the weirdest fucking kid. He'd piss his pants every other night He's set down in childhood and peed himself at the child. He had like no control of his bladder I thought that was like a disqualifying thing not at that time. It's war. Oh his war maybe anything bodies Was he was the YG. Yeah, he would sit down like like fuck That becomes race Moody sat down at the child hot. I Remember just one time he's sitting down Pits his plate down and he just hear water trickling. What the fuck we look at the table. He's pissing himself He's like Joe Sartre Jackson. He's like what the fuck loony are you pissing yourself? It's hard Joe Sartre I had to go Week red phase is ending. We go to the gun range loony shoes like 39 out of 40 and Joe Sartre Jackson like you can go get kicked in Like loony's killing it right now everyone caught off guard without good this guy can shoot This is like that goes back to when you see white guys and army recruitment videos. You're like, oh fuck We're fighting somewhere. Oh No Okay All right, do you ever played the American recruiting video or are the video game? No, you never played that no, I was a I was a like a big PC gamer and In high school and they had the the American recruiting Video game he'll idea remember that. Oh, dude. That was like the army. That's how like right there You had to recruit people there's a there aren't no they are Created a video game to recruit people is a first person shooter you go through basic training and they had special forces training It was a fun video game because full spectrum soldiers at the same one or I think it's united I think it was united or our America army But anyways the United States made a whole video game to get people to join it. It was a fun game It's called America. There we yeah America's army when they have so much money to spend and they're like Have to spend it they they'd like don't know it and it was it was free to play video game It was free to play and it was funny shit because battle it was a recruiting tool So around the time you had battlefield. I think two at the time. Yep, and they They pushed that as a free game play and it was a free game to play and it was more fun than battlefield too Yeah, the in the tutorial mission you you're working at a quiz nose and then you lied to by a guy at the ball And then you have to fucking do a mop Roll playing game and then you go into a first-person shooter. Hey, that's a good idea. All right, so you join the Navy on what contract? I joined the Navy on a Let me go back a little bit. So Let's go tell my virginity story about it. I'll save that one. Um, so I Went to meps and they're like, yeah, you can't be a seal because your eyesight, but what about Navy diver? I was like sure I'm terrified of the waterless conquer my fear of the water and So I signed up and they're like you have to PST and go through the warrior challenge program That's when they they just implemented like a year before this warrior challenge program You'll compete with everybody in the east coast because you're in Alabama and you have to earn monthly slots for Indie or Navy diver I Took the PST for seven months and I was getting progressively better and better and better and I was a stud when I went to basic Trying to finally earn the contract. They ship me off December 13th 2013 It was freezing. It was negative 50 negative 60 black flag All traffic secured, but somehow we still had to get off the bus and March into great lakes. It was miserable. That's the one thing mill it a lot of people Realize is like army doesn't care getting winter anything. It's like the worst time. Yeah for anything range your school I couldn't even imagine water as you were in the great lake area. Yeah And it was I mean It burnt we the stuff that I got issued you get double outer garment What time did you go bouquets run the winter time? Yeah, you double outer garment double scarf Head bogging like the uniform of the day was always like triple everything and you're walking around like that golf Christmas story I can't put my arms down straight off trying to march the RDCs are like swing your arms and you're like I'm trying Yeah, it was it was cold Yeah, I went back to to dive mo four years after I joined Because I was I was working the a bionic stuff, and I was like I want to be a super sweet navy seal And so I happen to get a contract go back and so I went back up to great lakes And had to swim around there during the winter time and that was fucking awful Wait a minute So you were already in the fleet and then you tested out to take your PST and you earned it as a fleet returning to go back there Yeah, oh, that's pretty cool. Yeah dive mo Like you say that dude I suck at what like I'm Mexican, but I cannot swim I'm like a Lead weight. I just go to the bottom. No, yeah, what they don't have to do swimming stuff when I was in the army Oh, because I was Mexican. Yeah Is it that a requirement to get to the United States? My father you float on the tire no army you do They do the vehicle flip and then you have to tread water with full uniform Which also sucks dick and then keep your rifle above water. Yeah, but that's about as much water situation unless you're doing like combat diver and as the one dude at the Pentagon said with combat diver who's like oh, yeah, oh, it's like don't they drown you like well No, it's not drowning it's What do they call it lack? Oxygen deprivation and then so drowning yeah, but he was like they don't it can't call it that They said that way and they're like they were set to dictate you so you're fine. It's like whoa dive mo was this gauntlet of just Doing random shit in the water treading with bricks swimming thousands of meters fin swims Drown-proofing aquatic adaptabilities doing stuff underwater and they just beat you were you in the that big big big pool. Yeah. Okay. It was freezing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You get hypothermia just five or six minutes in the water. It was crazy. Can't believe we did that. What's the temperature? What's up? What's the water temperature like 50, 60? It was supposed to be heated, but when I went through, like, sorry, he does not work. I'm like, dude, it's been seven weeks. What's wrong? And I remember getting in that water and then getting out because you have to do sit-ups on the pool deck or whatever. And the back of my tailbone and my hips were just bleeding because that water made your skin that cold water made your skin sensitive and then just getting out on the pool deck and doing sit-ups until you're bleeding. So you're like, in the water, there's blood everywhere because everybody's got bloody hit bones and tail bones. Yeah. So I've never done anything, even remotely as crazy as that. But I've done the polar bear dive. So when you jump into a freezing lake or whatever, and you're only swimming like a hundred yards back. But dude, it takes hours for you to get your body temperature back up. You're just involuntarily shivering. It's fucking miserable. Well, people don't realize when you jump in the cold water, your energy is instantly. Well, people. It's a system shock. Your impulses to inhale. It causes a shock response where you dive underwater and the first thing when you get like shocked by that is the. And so you instantly fill your lungs with freezing cold water. Yeah. All the days are packed. Families. Holiday lists. Families. Families. Holiday lists. It's packed. And that to do lists is very long. That's why today's episode is brought to you by Quail. Let's fucking Quail. 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Record the information. So it's this or an Indian call center pick. Do not redeem. Money is on the line. Always say hello with Quail. Track Quail for free. Plus get 20% off your first six months when you go to Quail.com/unsub. That's Quail.com/unsub. So I went to Norfolk, Virginia and I worked on C2A Greyhounds and I did my AT job for like two years there. And then I said, I want to be a Navy SEAL. Well, there's this new program at Little Creek, Virginia called the new guy program, the Nug program. So I went over there and my command forgot about me. And so for like almost two years, I was just with the East Coast SEALs that the Nug program is working out. Just working out. And but we had to go in, of course, in the Virginia Bay and like do all that swim stuff. So for almost two years, my naval career was just feeling miserable before I went to Buzz. It was better than working on airplanes, right? Yeah, it was pretty cool. It was miserable. But it sucked. Ladies and gentlemen, you're tax dollars. That's that's a cool opportunity though. It was Cody Tannen. That's why it's like someone calls me a Pogue. I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah, it sucks for about two years there. But if I can, it was awesome. Sometimes I'll be talking about this stuff and I'm like, can't believe I did that. But in the time, it just seemed like the norm. Yeah. Oh, dude, now it's I could not imagine going back. I was going to actually add to you did you do training now where you're like, oh, I'm going to do the special forces or green parade training, not the whole camp series, but you're going to do a experience. Yeah. And it's still a call. I can even imagine even 35, 40, I'd be hating fucking life. I'm very fortunate not have any injuries and be healed. You know, I had cold torn hamstrings. But I'm very fortunate to be in good health to be able to go back and challenge myself and do this stuff. I mean, there's 50, 60, 70 year olds that still run altars and and then marathons. But it is a little different than rolling around in the sand and purposely having people trying to make you throw up and make you dizzy and make you pass out and like all this stuff. So I do these challenge videos for the viewing experience. But every time I'm like, all right, here we go again. Let's just shut up and do it. I could not do that shit. So you're back in, you're like, okay, dive mo cold ass water and you're like, well, this isn't for me. I'm back to the normal. Oh, no, no, no, no. So there's a whole expanded story. So dive mo was built to like bring you up and it wasn't meant to make you quick because it's technically during boot camp. So they're supposed to support you and whatnot. dive mo stands for dive motivation, by the way. We had to march there and basic training. So I arrived basic training. We get introduced to our normal navy boot camp stuff, but we're at 800 division, which basically means they just stack a layer of extra PT like two, three times a week, which was dive mo. Oh, so your your boot camp division, like you guys were all planning to be like dive or seal stuff like that. So they had seal and switch in one division, which was the one behind us was 805 and 806. And then we are 807, which was navy dive, EOD and air rescue. That's some, you know, they all march not collectively, but as a division to dive mo and you know this, but dive mo, they just simulate role world scenarios. You have a bunch of young e2s and e3s that are either on hold from boot camp or about to class up for their dive or navy silt pre buds. And they're just there to help, you know, and they're fucking with you the most because they just did it like five months ago. And you're having to swim, you're having to do all this stuff. About seven weeks in a basic training, I came down with a really bad infection, my right knee, and they they put me on hold. They took me out of my basic training. And I was in the hospital. When I first marched to the medical building, I didn't know what it was. The medical ladies like, all right, let me see your knee. And I didn't know at the time, but it was a really, really bad skin and tissue infection called MRSA, methacillin resistance, staphlococcus auras. Not good in the military. No, it's pretty pick that up. I had popped a bump on my knee and my hands were just dirty, being in the compartment with 95 other dudes. And they had to take me out of training and they took me to the hospital and doctors like, holy shit, what happened? I'm gonna take you to the surgeon. The surgeon's like, holy shit, what? Anyways, they they kept me in the hospital for like 10 days. I was on an IV. And one day a doctor came in, he's like, you're just gonna be honest with you. We've tried everything. There's one more thing that we can try. It's an antibiotic called Zosin. If this doesn't work, we have to amputate your leg. And I, and he just left. And I was like, I call my mom and I told her, and of course, she's crying everything. Luckily, the antibiotic, Zosin did work. It worked wonders. He's zapped that infection out of my leg. My entire leg was swollen up to like double. So mentally, that really, and physically, they just took me out. Well, you're resent. 2014. I can't even imagine the doctors aren't. You didn't get to ask a single question. They just said it and then left. Yeah, because I guess he didn't know how else to deliver it to me. He didn't want to beat around the bush. It was a crazy time because they took me out of basic training now. I was getting basically tortured for seven weeks, put me in this hospital where I could, I had Facebook on a little mouse in a keyboard, on the TV. I was calling my mom like, it was like the best, but also the worst. So in the middle, it was kind of like, I was just kind of chilling. Yeah, it wasn't the worst thing ever. But it also sucks when you sign up for one specific thing. And now you're on a downtime and you can't do anything. And I was like, oh, by the way, might lose your leg, homie. Okay, bye. Walk out. And I had, you know, on the, on the plus side, price is right. Downside might walk out of here with one leg. Well, the walk out, but my Facebook profile sad face was when I went through pre-buzz in 2011. We were making jokes about the guys that got Merse. It's like, oh, he got the Merse. I'll fuck and they would hold you back to the next class. Yep. And yeah, it was a, it was a real thing. I mean, it was rampant. I think we had three or four guys. I think he got like Merse in his eye. They thought it was pink eye, but then he started putting germics in his eye and made it worse. They had to kick him out. I don't know what his name was Gilbert. I don't know where he got. Yeah, that sounds like some of a guy named Gilbert. Gilbert did that. That's crazy. Yeah, he was a red headed guy. Some of these specific things. I can't remember what happened like yesterday, but I can remember the red headed guy named Gilbert. They had an eye infection in, you know, 13 years ago. It's crazy. Trauma. It's a beautiful thing. From there, I finally got released from THU, Timberley Holding Unit. They took me over to Training Service Center, which is where pre-budges and pre-dive, a classed up for pre-dive. They made me the class leader. Everything was great. I was having a great time. all the ladies of like whistle at us, when we were wearing our little UDT shorts, be marching around in the hole. Old khakis, yeah, yeah, I miss those things. And then finally, it came time, you go through basic engineering, common core, and then you go through AA aquatic adaptability, and then you go through pool week, which is a week of just chaos. You do a lot of stuff where you have to tread with tanks on your back. They call them twin 80s, and you have a 10 pound weight belt. A few of my friends that I went through, I still talked to them, great friends of mine, Lucas Laskas and a few others. But they all passed. I didn't. You have to enter the water. One, two, three, dive suit, request permission of the water. One, two, three, look left. Look right, look down, look to the rise, and one, two, three step. You step off, go underwater, you have a partner, whether you're going through a series of dive checks, and you're having to go underwater and make sure their belt's not twisted. Sometimes the instructors slap you in the head, twist your belt, throw you in the water, and just try to mess with you, as you know. And I got to the point where my legs were so weak that I could not bring my mouth above water. And I was like, all right, I either have to grab this out of the pool or drown in dye. So I swam this side, I pull myself up, they say get out of the pool, nonverbal DOR, which doesn't exist. They were just messing with me. I was like, fuck, and they presented me with paperwork. I never should have signed, but it was technically a DOR on paper. But they were like, chiefs of DOR, drop on request, like from the program. Okay. Chiefs like, yeah, nonverbal DOR, you have to sign it, I signed it, basically dropped me from the program. From there, they sent me to a reclass, and that's where I picked master at arms, naval security. It's a San Antonio, which is, basically here, yeah, I love San Antonio, I'm back. And that's where I went through naval law enforcement training, became a Navy MA, and it was completely, it was a complete shift, like all the, the special community, you know, they like to break the rules. Well, here I am, enforcing them, like, oh, you can't do that, you can't do that, can't be in your barracks with the female past 11 p.m., like having to, they're training me to enforce all these rules, you know. So it was kind of weird. That's how I got into it. And then everyone hates you, like, all the regular soldiers, you're not, they're not fans, you're like, yep. And you have to enforce it, because you have a lot of MAs, you know, chiefs, senior chiefs, master chiefs that are also naval law enforcement. And a lot of the other chiefs, they don't like them either, because they enforce the rules. So you guess in this community, that not a lot of people were the biggest fans of base security, you know. And then you did base security too. The first six months of my first station in Bahrain was base security. I worked at this gate called ViG, vehicle, something gate, vehicle inspection gate. Where's Bahrain now? Over there in the Middle East, it was really hot, it's to the east of Saudi Arabia. So basically, Bahrain. In Bahrain? Yeah. Yeah. Oh my God. When you say hot, that's like next to Qatar. But yeah, people don't realize hot until you're like Qatar or Bahrain hot. And that is a deck like, yeah, hot, like you can get kind of hot here in Texas. Bahrain is, you can get 130, 130, 136 is what I maxed that I kept it out on my phone. It's literally a sauna. Yeah. And that's the wind chill. So you're sitting there and you're getting blown with a 136 degree. Really? When you're getting blown. At least you're getting blown. Yeah, you're right about that. Some people don't get blown, you know? Bahrain was a trip. Do you ever go to Bahrain or have, or know anybody that went to Bahrain? Never deployed, buddy. The, well, Bahrain was a station, technically, when, when, some eyes, yeah, deployed to Bahrain, people were like, oh, that's not a deployment. That's a station. But you got caught. But you were hazard pay, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. As you pay, yeah. I can't. It would be your C40, that's where they would go, Bahrain. Do Qatar and Bahrain, where if you re-upped, well, overseas, they would send you for a five to or three day break to look congratulations, you re-upped, you wanted to join for like three or five more years. Here's your vacation for five days. Yeah. To wear like Belgium? Qatar. Oh, to Qatar. Like where they're deploying. That was our break. I look. Dude. Oh, wait. Congrats. If you o-tept in Qatar, they'd send you to Bahrain. No. Like if you o-tept, which is like re-upped in Baghdad, like in war. They would send you to-- That was our break. Yeah. You would get three days to find Princess. So we got a cash bonus for o-tept, and it was like, we got that too. Oh, we got 20 grand. Did you really? Yeah. It was a non-taxable 20. Dude, that's the only way. Yeah. You get got shot at more. They're like, give you 20 grand plus. Hear me out. Three days in Qatar. And you can bring a friend. All right. Yeah. I got a drink two beers a day. Wow. Yeah. So it was awesome. We did crazy in the day. Backed here in that time. You guys love the drink? Yeah. I fucked up. Bahrain. It wasn't a hot area. Of course, you had to look for random, unexploded organs. That and unattended bags. That's what I'm looking for. And then also swimmers in the water, and people that could randomly pull a boat up and blow your ship up. But it was not an active B-O-G boots on ground zone. A lot of people get that confused. Because now, Bahrain just got bombed two months ago and half of it's destroyed. Yeah. Bahrain was there, right? No. He was in Jordan. Which one? Oh. But that base also. So, is those two places that got? Yeah. Bahrain and Jordan. Yeah. Yeah. Those are the two places that got bombed. All right. Awesome. I got to ask you. Are you still active, Duty? No, no, no. I got out in 2020. You got out in 2020? Yeah. Do you still talk to any people that are active? Yeah. What's it like for a new dude joining the Navy League? If someone asks you, I want to join the Navy now. What would you tell them? I would tell them it's a great decision. Yeah. I would. If they're saying, I want to be a Navy MA. I might say reconsider, just because I know specifically how the rate of Navy MA is. And they come to me. They're like, yeah, I'm going to join the Navy. And I'm going to be a part of NCIS. And I want to also be a K-9. And I'm thinking your chances are like 1.5%. You're going to go to a base that you probably don't like first. And I'm just being real and honest. I love the military. There are some obviously aspects of it that you're not going to give what you want. They're going to send you to a base that you hate. 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Head to pplx.ai/unsub, that's pplx.ai/unsub to try perplexity computer today. They knew spelling perplexity was hard. I will never give false hope to people. I think the joint in the military is a great option. Oh f*** yeah dude. It's 100% the best thing I've done in my entire life. The second best thing I've ever done was get out. If that's it. Well you stayed in for also way more years. Oh yeah. What was your total time in? Seven years. Okay. What made you do the re-ep? I just zero planning, I'm not a good planner, I'm a great executor. When it came time, they were like, yeah, you've done your four years, I was on the phone with my detailer. I was going to do it. You've done four years, you want to re-enlist? I'm like, nah, I don't, I want to get out of here. He's up. Wow. I said, because y'all keep promising me duty stations and you keep taking away from me. So quit back story. Oh my gosh. Really? Blind to you? We won't do that again. Yeah. First time experiencing. happen and i was okay alright they promise me Koso Riverine Squadron, which is a badass job for an MA, at a Little Creek, Virginia. Two weeks for our left bar, and they're like, oh, sorry, you can't do that anymore. We have Banger Washington for you, or Lamor VFA-2 and Lamor. Well, I had already planned my life to go to Little Creek. So I was like, Lamor fucking sucks, by the way. Banger Washington. Banger, yeah, Banger Washington. Where's Lamor? It's like out in the cold area. It's in fucking rural California. Yeah. Lamor is the smell, and the air quality is terrible, but I like the fact that it was low-key, kind of reminded me of Alabama a little bit. There's nothing to do. So like, all there is to do is work out. Well, Lamor was my first duty station as an AT. Oh, it was? Yeah, I spent like, in eight months out there. Yeah. It sucked, I didn't like it. HR, I wasn't AT. You were AT, but you were attached to what command? No, that was my B school. So did A school in Norfolk. Great Lakes. Yeah. No, no, no, in Great Lakes. And then I went to B school and Lamor. I didn't know they had a B school out there. Yeah. At the time, they were doing avionics B school out there. Okay. So I spent like eight months out there. Yeah. Well, then again, I was like 20 years old. I couldn't drink. Yeah. Yeah. Why did you say that? I never used the rules. You're talking to a naval security guy. He was a scotie. You've been out for how many years? We're calling him reporting. It was probably a different experience for me than you. Probably so. I was seeing a girl there that I was fond of. So it made the time pass a lot better. And plus, I was living with one of my best friends, which unfortunately is no longer with us. His name is Quinn. It was super gracious to like get me out of the barracks and be like, bro, come stay in my house. So we stayed in Hanford city right outside of Lamor. And I have good memories of Lamor. Yeah. That was the first time I experienced like world of warcraft obsession in Lamor. Nothing else to do. There was a guy they got kicked out of our B school out there because you do A school in Chicago and the Great Lakes for Aheonix. So you learn basic electronics with the job that I picked. I was supposed to be an EOD, but that didn't work out. Yeah. The tells the story about the first one. What? When you were supposed to be EOD because you went to boot camp, oh, because you didn't pass the initial. Yeah. Yeah. So the dude in Florence, Alabama, the same recruiting office that we both went to, he's like, yeah, you can do pull ups. Yeah, you can swim. And then I get out to die mo at boot camp and obviously I can't do one fucking dead hang pull up because he had me doing chin ups. Yeah. And I get out there and it sucks to submit that giant pull in Great Lakes. There's the giant pull in front of me and there's the pull up bars. And they're like, all right, do 10 pull ups or six. I think it was six. It was six. Yeah. Didn't work and they're like, what? And they pulled me aside and they're like, who the fuck said you could come up here and be and be an EOD. I was like, all right, well, that didn't work out. Said, hey, I'll just be an avionic electronic tradition. That's right. Okay. Yeah. And so I went to A school up there in the Great Lakes and then I went to B school out there in Lomore, California, and it was a great time. Yeah, and then what's point we're trying to make there? I just, I forgot the part where you said. Oh, oh, oh, the dude. Oh, yeah, one guy that. Oh, World Warcraft. Go ahead. Yeah, we're all right. I'm currently in the middle of this, I'm like. Sorry. So friends have a conversation, and I'm just like. There was also, I'm here. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm caught. We had a guy. Okay, so. Fuck the police. Fuck the police. Well, Connor, get over here. Switch seats. Okay, yeah. I went down the line. You asked me, and I went down the line. I completely forgot the story I was telling. So when we were at the B-school barracks there in Lomore, California, that's the first time I met someone where I was like, "Oh, wow, you're really shouldn't be in the military." There was this dude who was, there was a McDonald's right next to our barracks, and he would go down there and he would buy like 20 bags of McDonald double cheeseburgers at the time, and he would bring him back to the barracks, and he was just playing World of Warcraft all weekend. As soon as we got out of school on Friday, he would just be doing World of Warcraft all weekend, which at the time I was doing World of Warcraft when I was fucking hyper nerd. But he would wake up on Monday and go to school. But he was taking the World of Warcraft burgers. He was getting all these 20 burgers, and he was just putting them in his microwave next to his computer, and he was just eating those all day long, and he was shitting in a trash can. What the fuck? Yeah, no, no, no, I'm not joking. And they ended up kicking him out for like, you know, for that, and he was disgusting from when we would leave, we would leave, be school. He would just buy the burgers and McDonald's, and he would just eat the burgers until Monday when we had to go back to school, and they found out he was doing this and shitting in his trash can. Of course, like the people that live with him sitting on the barracks. Yeah, in the barracks. What the fuck? He was saying a shit probably Monday morning in Chuck, and he's like, well, there we go, weekend. I had to leave my room. And I didn't live with this guy, but he was in the same barracks that I was seeing it up, getting kicked out, because he was just shitting in a trash can. That's, you know, it was, it was people like, they got out of boot camp, and they were learning how to be normal people, but they just didn't, they get like, failure to adapt to military standards. I think, I think that's why I got kicked out, failure to adapt. Probably a human standard. Maul and Paul said, this is okay. What the fuck? It was a little hard time to get out of the cell phone to happen to scrape a by like boot camp, and then got in there and, yeah, anyways, yeah, poor bullshit bucket. A lot of times when you're taking on that much and you're like, learning all these things, other aspects of your life just drop like, I'm like that with the shitting. Yeah, are you giving sympathy to this man right now? No, I'm not. I can kind of relate, because sometimes I pee in bottles in my truck, because we've all done that. Yeah. We can do that now. I'm glad you guys said that. Because we go for it. It's not normal. Yeah. We have a normal life now. We can piss in a bottle. Yeah. I just to feel it. I literally trash, take my cam back, I'm a PSI tonight, just pissing outside rules. It's nice. We'll breeze across the balls, shitting in next to your, you can beat it for a minute, that's perfect. It's something I'm like, shitting next to tech, weird, shitting next to a tree, top. Yeah. Yeah. We're designed for that. Yeah, definitely. I do have a funny story about David Goggins, so, what's the excellent segue? I can't wait for this one. Was he up there running the pre-buds guys when you were in a school? He wasn't running it, but he came around every once in a while, and they were like poster boy, poster boy, poster boy types. Yeah. Okay. That was before, he was like David Goggins. He was instructor Goggins back then. Nobody really knew him. He hadn't written a book. I had these vivid images of seeing this tall man just running around with the pre-buds. And of course, I was on hold a little bit for a couple of weeks. I was in the USS Cole. I can't remember the ship that you were in, but USS Cole, when you were referring to McDonald's, it was like on the other side, it was like in the back corner. That's where all the pre-buds and the dive guys and the EOD dudes went. Since I was on hold, we don't have a place for you. You might have to room with the pre-buds. I was like, that's cool. They took me in there, and I see this six-two guy, not David Goggins. He was my roommate. His name was Barilla Bitch. He was the class leader for pre-buds, I don't remember the class. But he's like, "Yeah, welcome, just keep the shit clean because we have inspections like crazy. And just please be respectful. We can be cool. We can meet you." Okay, cool. We had completely different schedules. I had some other, I think I had come down with a fever. They put me S.I.Q. And one night, I knew that they were going to have an inspection, but I didn't know it was instructor Goggins. It was going to come in. It was like 350, and S.I.Q, y'all know this, but it means sick in quarters. It means like, nobody can touch you. They're supposed to just let you rest and chill. So all of a sudden, 350, 4 a.m. rolls around. You hear yelling, beaten in the hallways, and Barilla Bitch, I just remember seeing his boots swing out from his rack. He already had his boots on. He got down, he started waking everybody else up, and within like 45 seconds, all the pre-butts guys were outside, and everything was silence. And I'm sitting there. I was like, "Oh, this is kind of cool." Like, I'm S.I.Q. I'm completely invincible. I kind of had one eye open. and he started to hear walking down the hallway, these heavy-ass boots, and then you hear grill-a-vitch sound off or whatever, he's like instructor, instructor, class, so-and-so, ready for room inspection. He cuts a hard right into the room, and I just see this tall black guy walking into the room, and he stops, and he sees me, and he runs over, he's like, "What the fuck are you doing in your rack?" Like, you should get up right now, what the fuck? And then he starts getting mad at grill-a-vitch, and he's like, "No, no, no, instructor goggles, he's dive, he's dive, he's, he's, he's S-I-Q, he's the dive program, he's not a part of our class." And then he turns around and looks at me and he's like, and I'm like halfway stunned, like, don't know if I should get up or what, he's like, "Get back in your rack." So I put my head down, he's like, "I'm sorry about that." And just walks out. And he reads, of course, he reads the S-I-Q-Cit, he's saying that I fucked up a little bit. Anyways, he walks out, and that was my run-in with instructor goggles. And now, when I got, you know, two, three years later, I started to see him coming out with books and everything, oh, and David Goggins, David Goggins, I was like, that was a dude that yelled at me. And now he's like, famous. Dude, what the, what the, what was dude in the, is there a statute of limitations on what I can talk about in the military? Depends on what you're about to say. So if there were, if there was a seal cycling out, hypothetically, of hypothetically, if there was a seal cycling out, because something happened in warfare, and they were cycling out and they had to be stationed somewhere, they would come play water polo with us at the Nug Program. Yeah. I know as you get that. Okay. And the hardest beatings I've ever had in my life was playing water polo with seals who were cycling out. Maybe not dishonorable, just, you know, they were just there for the moment, because they had to be stationed somewhere with play water polo with us. I've never had the hardest beatings in my life, other than like these dudes who were being cycling that cycled out when I'm just like a little E4 playing water polo, trying to go to buds, and then you're in your underwater, and there's just a random seal just punching you in the face while you're playing water polo. I may hate you guys with that. These are little beatings. They hate you at that moment. When you, when you're going in for fucking pre-buds, type stuff in the Nug for the New Useful Sky Program, they're like, hey, this, we're not gonna say his name, this guy's gonna be playing water polo with you today, 'cause I was like the Friday thing. You play water polo, you just jump in, and there's just this dude that's been in combat for the past eight years jumps in the pool with you, and you're just friendly playing water polo, and this dude just starts fucking punching you in the face, and you can't say anything about it. It was fun. That sounds a great time. - That's how I feel when you bullied me in high school. (all laughing) - I was just trying to get my, my math book and my locker, he was just trying to get my, my math book and my locker. - He was just trying to get the guys and buds, and he was like, there's this one mother, there. (all laughing) - They were definitely taking out. - It was, it was that awesome fucking little creek facility to, did you ever fuck around on that with the obstacle course over the pool in Little Creek, Virginia? - You were, you could swing into the net and grab the net and like do the obstacle course around it. Every once in a while, they'd be like, there's a new guy joining you for Water Polo, and he would just (beep) beat the fuck out of you. - This was one of your forgotten about, right? - Yeah, yeah, so it was the forgotten about. - So I can't say any place. - So you were gonna say, you're getting beat up for two years. - Yeah, it was awesome though. Every Friday it was Water Polo, and then every once in a while, there was a war criminal there. (all laughing) 'Cause they're processing them out through Little Creek, Virginia, 'cause that's where the, the facility was to do that. They were like, hey, we got a seal that wants to play Water Polo with you, and then you're under, - I was waiting up the head. - Yeah, you're under water. - You're under 185 pounds. (all laughing) - I was like, can't say anything. I couldn't say anything, 'cause I didn't wanna go back to my command. I was having a good time. - I fucking play Water Polo. - And they know that too. - I got this. - Kicked out of me for like two years. - All right, and that we're just gonna go straight in with retaking Blueprint, where I am. - Longevity mix, Brian Johnson guy, put 'em up, shh. That guy. (all laughing) What is in here? - Ooh, creatines. - Yeah, it does have creatines. It actually has like all the good (beep) in it. Longevity mix is, it's a really good drink if you're just doing one a day, 'cause you are getting a lot of good vitamins. - Do one scoop of this in the morning with eight ounces of water, ba, ba, energy, cognitive performance, mood, focus, sleep, and sell your resilience and healthy aging. Blueprint is a third party tested for purity toxins like heavy metals. They publish the results on their website, so you can see exactly what's in their supplements. The founder, this guy, Brian Johnson. - He's the guy who's basically trying to lip forever, at least age better than the rest of us. - Science back, precision, dose, no BS, for limited time only. New customers get 20% off plus free shipping at blueprint.brionjohnson.com. By using the code unsub at checkout, that's code unsub at blueprint.brionjohnson.com for 20% off. - Oh, dude, that's what I remember seeing Campbell after basic training. Campbell comes, I ran him to him randomly. He was supposed to go 82nd. I'm at Fort Lewis, this is months and months after. Best Buy, running Campbell. Campbell was like, dude, I was like, what are you doing here? Why are you at Fort Lewis? He's like, oh, I'm at second, I was like, oh fuck yeah, congrats dude. I was like, how was he? He's like, they fucking hate me, you like? I'm like, what? He's like, what is it like for you? I was like, I was dope, we're staying up to the unit. I had no, like we just stood up a brand new unit. So when I got there, it was an E4, as is the first sergeant. Like the first sergeant of a company was an E4. Like, it was everything. - That was crazy. - So it was like, oh, we're standing this up. My buddy that went to second bat though. He hated life, because when you get to second bat and you're just a private, you just done rip, you are a piece of shit and tell you to play. So I tell you to go to a ranger school and deploy and earn your scroll. They fucking kill you and tell you earn it. So you have like four to six months of just being nothing but fuck with. Like, water pool every day though, like every day. - Well, when you get there and you pass and you've gone through all that, it just makes you that much tougher, you know? - Well, and that's what I looked at. I mean, just watching the different cycles and what my friends do. Even fucking my basic, which I didn't find hard, but then you've seen the new waves coming in and like, oh, hey, you can have cell phones or stuff like that. I'm like, whoa, that's wild, 'cause I could not fuck now. Like, we had, what are they? - Payphones. - Yeah, a booth. And you did those once every three to four weeks. Like, that was it. And then top PT score, if you maxed, we got a two-minute phone call. - No, we got to go to a hockey game one time. - Like in my 15-week period, they're like, hey, you all get to go to the hockey game. I was like, yeah, anyone, two 90s are about hockey game. - Well, that's cool. - Like, fuck, yeah, I was going to the hockey game, but past that. - And then it was just, hey, you're going to your unit, stood up the unit, deployed, get the fuck out. But that was like a four-year window of just high speed. - Move, move, move, move, move. - And I think that's probably why it feels weird when you slow down now. I mean, when I slow down now, it just feels so shock. - I get shaken off. I always have to be doing something. - You get bored, you go stir crazy. - Yeah. - As I'm like, no, thank you. - So when you got into content creation, you're like, okay, I'm out, you've been out for seven years, or how many years are you out before moving into the fitness slash each day? - I wasn't. - I was still in. I wasn't invested in by NCIS, too. That was a big. - 'Cause you're a content creator? - Yeah, so you were that new wave, there were still like, fucking hesitant. - I was in the new gray area. - Wave. - So when I, so I left Bahrain, I went to Lemur, and the Nicas got you. - Thanks. - The what? - NCIS. - Yeah. - The Nicas got you. - Yeah, Nicas. - Yeah. So after Lemur, I deployed on the crawl vents, and that was my ship tour, seven months, Western Pacific crews. Glad I did that, wouldn't want to do it again. Then I went to Sell Beach, where it was a lot more chill. We worked nine to five weekends and holidays off. It was really nice. That's where I started getting into the YouTube. It started, it gave me time. I became obsessed with it. I haven't obsessed with personality. At one point, I started it technically in 2017. I made a deployment documentary. It's like, "Dane the Laugh" and "Avy Sailor." The perfect YouTube title. - Was your face like this? - No, I was actually, I'm like this. Smiling with a sunset in the background. I'll show it to you in a second. (laughing) - "Dane the Laugh" in the morning, make me a big red arrow. - Navy ship. - You're with this? - He had tits though. So yeah, I started in 2018. I started making videos hardcore about every topic that I could. How'd it increase your push-ups? How'd it get faster? How'd it get stronger? How'd it do this? How'd it do that? And then 2018, I made a video called "Military Pay." Pointing at the board, it said like a money sign. And I was in uniform. I was like, "Hey." I'm just gonna be transparent, exactly. Hey, I'm gonna be transparent just how much I make as a Navy sailor. I'm an E5, I've been in it for four years. I make $2,300, I broke it all down. - In the uniform? - Yeah, BAS, housing, everything. Published it, got big. And at that point in 2018, I got my first paycheck. It was like $30. And then rolling into 2019, after I kept making these videos, super obsessed with it, one time I made 40 videos and 40 days, like I was not sleeping. And the checks, you know, $33, 32 bucks, the first one in the second was like 120, and then it was like 290, and then it was 190, and then it was 1200, and then it was 3,800, and then it was 9400, like it was scaling up and getting there, and I kept publishing videos, and then I get a call one day. Hey, it made to Alexander, this is Lieutenant so-and-so. It's so beach. You're, I just wanna talk to you for a second, you got a minute, like sure, yeah, I'm building like 107, come to my office, like fuck. Cause I looked him up, and he was the law Lieutenant. So I showed up, he put some papers in front of me. He's like, you're currently an investigation for NCIS, for social media and monetization. My heart just saying, I'm like, fuck, am I gonna get thrown into the brig? I didn't, I didn't know what, I just knew being on an investigation is not good. - He's gonna be a dope video, 30 days in the brig. (laughing) - I went to the brig for 30 days. - I went to the brig for 30 days. - He's a genius. - Hey guys, it's your boy. - Yeah. (laughing) - Oh, that's, that's so crazy. Yeah, so I was put on an investigation. He's like, what is this? Did you make money here? Do you make money here? What about this brand? What about this? Asking me all these questions, and I was under investigation for three months. Silbeach is a tiny NWS, tiny naval weapon station. - There was Silbeach, yeah? - It's, so Longbeach, it's right to the right of it. - What's Longbeach? - California. - Okay, LA, area, Longbeach is down. - Okay, that's a good point. - From your accents, I can't tell, is it S-E-A-L? Beach or S-I-L-L? - Oh, sorry, I didn't say Silbeach. - Sil. Sil, what are you talking about, Sil? - Silbeach. - He knows. - S-I-L-L, then? - How do you say it? - Sil. - Oh my God. - Wait, like the old one. - We've been in the same place. - So people gave me shit about that. When I wanted to be a Navy Sil. - Sil. - Oh, fuck. - Whatever. - Is this what the Navy wants to do? (laughing) - I know that from Alabama. - He's going through the bus, hail. - Yeah, motherfucker. Going through the Buds Pipeline saying, "I want to be a Navy Sil." - How do you, they're like, "What the fuck?" - Okay, when you clean your clothes, what do you do? - Put 'em in the washer. (laughing) - When you had to say, "I, I, petty officer," you were like, "Ah, petty officer." And they're like, "What the fuck?" - They thought you were saying, "All right." - Yeah. - "All right, what the fuck?" - Like, I was just, I was just, I was just, I was just, as you know. - You know, I'm like, "I got fucked with," saying Sil. "I want to be a Navy Sil." - Well, 'cause you say, "Hale." - Yeah. - The little ice balls that fall out when it's still. - Sorry, sorry, I want to steal. - I want to be a Navy Seal. - Seal. - I don't want to be a Navy Sil. - Yeah, I just want to be a Navy Sil. This is what I want to do. - I want to be a Navy Sil. - Your accent along with mine has changed a lot for people to understand you over time. If you go to Alabama, you can't hardly understand. - Yeah, I had to change my accent. - I did too. - Yep. - No. When I was going through pre-buds, I was a Sil, I want to be a Navy Sil. - Yeah. - And they'd be like, "What do you want to be? You want to do a Window Sil?" It's like, "No, I want to be a Navy Sil. You want to do a Window Sil?" - Yeah, it was basically a force you to change your accent. - So, I don't want to be a Navy Sil. - So, I'm just trying to clarify. - Because all the fucking assholes I hang around, I want to be a Navy Sil, I want to be a Navy Sil. - It's a Seal Beach California. - We hung out with my mom this weekend. - It's like, "Oh, Cody." - Yeah. - Mama. - Mama, remember when you wanted to be a Navy Sil? - I tried that one time. - I met your mom at, like, one of the range days. - She loves you. - I think she was like, "You're Austin. You into Florence." Do you know Mike, and, like, sorry, asked me, do you know all these people? I'm like, "Yeah, I know, I know, I know." It's like just crazy, small world. Back to Sil Beach. - It's a Seal Beach. - Great deployment. - Sil Beach. - Sil Beach, tiny naval weapon station, right smack dab in the middle of LA. Well, kind of sort of. It's to the left of Long Beach. I was there for three years. - Three years? - Yes, from my, I like fuck you for the most beautiful duty station. - I could imagine. - In the Harbor, too. - Oh, I know. - It was such a good duty station. - Fuck, dude. - It allowed my nervous system to chill so I could make content. I was actually, I was in a lot of debt, and- - Hot. - Oh, never mind your military. - Yeah. - It was basically our Camaro's. - I was, actually, I had a paid off Tahoe. I was just in Bahrain. I just went crazy with all the food, because in Alabama, I didn't really, I wasn't raised on like, you know, sushi and burgers. It was like beans and corporate tomatoes. - And okra occasionally. - Oh, yeah. - And I got to Bahrain. I was like, I got my own money now. I can eat. I was eating pancakes, sushi, burgers, Bahraini food, butter chicken, one of my favorite- - How does this break? - You're describing like pancakes. I was poor. - Oh no. - And I was like, how much are you spending on your pancakes? - I was spending $30 to $50 a meal. - Oh, okay. - Really? - Oh, yeah. - You just stress eating. No, no, no. - Okay. So you go off the military base. We had two through restaurants. One was called Oasis. It was like 40 cents for potatoes, but then out in town, on American Alley, they jacked the prices up to American, near American prices, L.A. American prices, and you're paying 20 to, you know, 30, 40, 50 dollars a meal. And I was just, had no limit. I was like, I'm hungry. Let me go to the dome cafe, get some pancakes, and some salmon, and some sushi, and just have a great time. - Motherfucker says salmon too. - I was just clarifying that he meant S.E.A.L. seal. - So how do you say salmon? - Salmon? - Salmon? - Okay. - So how do you say, what's the stuff you put, like, ranch and dressing on a salad? - Exactly. - That's why I say salmon. It's pronounced salmon. You don't skip an L in salad. You don't say sod. Think about it. You're back to me, it's salmon. So anyway, that was 20 K and debt. He's like, no. - 20 K and lunch debt. Continue on. - Yeah. - So. - And he's giving English slush. - Yeah. - Giving him my lunch money in high school, giving him a Navy money, lunch money. So I was 20 K and debt, and so beach, I was like, I got to pay this off, some, some way around. - He's still out of Cody. - Cody's off. - He's not the old motherfucker. - He's still this dude, $150, $130. - He's breaking your legs. - Call it a roll. - It's not what it's all. - It's just 20 years of anger for right now. So there was 20 K and debt. I was like, I have to get, I have to find my way out of this somehow. I started teaching myself skills, started learning stock training, stock options training, Amazon FBA, e-commerce, paid Facebook ads, social media. About Tai Lopez's social media course for $600. I put it on credit, but I was like, books. - Books, books. - Hey, these cars are pretty cool. You know what's even cool? - Climb your eyes. - Here in my garage. - Knowledge. - Knowledge. - Here with my books. - A lot of people will shit on Tai Lopez, but I think that course is what I needed to just believe in myself, even though there wasn't really a whole lot of substance in the course. - You invested $600, which then a lot of people, it's like buying a gym membership or buying a personal trainer, you have invested into it. So now you are more invested into yourself to make it finished so you're not like, oh, well, I put money into it. - You understand. - So I had to get it done. - Was there any useful information in there? - Basic stuff that you can read, but because he put $600, now he's going to listen to it, retain it, and then apply it versus, I just read it quickly on Google. - And I still will buy stuff like that to this day, courses, like, because I know I'll be invested into it, because it kind of stings a little bit when you buy something expensive. - Yeah. - If I just get a free book, I'm like, all right, I toss it on the shelf, never open it. But if that book costs, you know, $400, I'm like, I need to read that book. - That's why I drive my GT40. - Then that's why we charge for a lot of the products we offer now, because we want people to be invested. We don't want lazy people who are just going to take it and set it on the bookshelf. Anyways, about that course, and there was not a whole lot of useful knowledge, but the way he spoke made me believe in myself, and that's what I really needed again. So that's why I started AMA marketing ventures, and I can remember he's like, just start your LLC, do it right now, just don't even, it doesn't even matter the name, just start an LLC and do it now. I'm like, all right, legal zoom, I started it, 2017, it was like November something, but even before I was making money from YouTube, I first started on social media marketing. I went door to door, I was like, hey, I can use social media to help market your business. Somehow, I landed in some pretty big real estate rooms. I got my first client, which was an alcoholic addiction, he paid me $200, still have picture of my first check. That was like the money that I had earned myself in my first business. And still, we can get. $25,000, $100,000 checks, nothing is compared to that $200 check, and I know you guys can relate to that. So I kept continuing with that, and I would film people, and I met this girl along the way named Ashley Cautwasser. She was a, is Miss Bikini Olympia, like five or six years running, and I was doing videos for her. And one day, I was like, you know, I want to be in front of the camera. I don't want to be behind it. So I asked her, I was like, do you want to do a YouTube? A YouTube video with me, where you try the Navy physical readiness test. She was like, sure, we planned it for like three or four months down the line, and in 2019, we filmed it when I was already monetized on YouTube. That video paired with the fitness and military. It blew up. It's three or four, five million views on the channel. I saw the earnings. I couldn't believe it. That one video earned enough for me to pay off that debt. And I was like, this is not real. I couldn't believe that something I spent two hours filming and four hours editing had made this much money. I was having so much fun. And business insider, men's health, muscle and fitness, they're all like, hey, can we write blogs about this? I'm like, sure. Can we use the footage? Sure. Can we post on our Facebook? Sure. Back when I didn't know what I was doing. But they shared it. It made it so viral. I was like, I got to do another one. So I made another one, U.S. Marine Attents Navy, Civil, Physical, Screen and Test. Boom. Five or six million views. And at that point, I was earning 2019, I think I'd probably earn like quarter million dollars in the Navy. Plus? Well, still in the Navy. Yes. Is it what they were mad at? That. And I had on Instagram, I had photos of brands, a brand that I was working with called BPN, Bare Performance Nutrition, the founder Nick Bare lives in Austin, Texas, I believe. It was on the same profile as me in uniform. So I never promoted a product in uniform, because I knew that was, but the fact that it was on the same profile was the gray area. Thank you, Poncho Outdoors, for sponsoring this podcast. It's pretty blatantly obvious that half of the podcast pretty much only wears poncho shirts. I probably wear these in every episode, every one of our live shows, every one of my donut videos, every picture I take now, but why? Well, these bad boys are formal looking, while looking casual at the same time. They're made of durable materials, and whether it's the summertime or the winter time, they have lightweight shirts. They have these denim western ones, which is my favorite to wear. Hell, Brandon's about to be a congressman, and he's ran his entire campaign in Poncho's. Like I said, the western dinams are some of my favorites. 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Well, every time I asked him, I was like, "Why do you still do that?" He's like, "I love it." He's like, "I just love doing it." That's my favorite thing in the world. I'm like, "I love being a detective. I want to get down doors." I want to be a drill sorry, and you're like, "Why rich?" Yeah, that do something else, for sure. So you're like, "Okay, they're under. " Yeah, I was in an investigation and all of a sudden, I was working at the harbor, a naval weapon station to get a call, like, "Hey, there's an Admiral Shunup here at 08 tomorrow and we need all hands." Check the boat logs, make sure everything is super pristine, make sure everything's clean all hands. All right. So we're like, making sure everything is perfect. We're working like 14 to 15, 16 hours, and finally, you're really paused because I don't think Connor really understands. So when you say all hands, it is. All hands means everybody needs to be there. Yes. I'm assuming they're going to make sure everything's fucking pristine because if anything's fucked up, then you are to blame. You have to lay it out, dress the right dress for each vehicle or ship. So you will have like, you have to pull it off, said vehicle. They will give you a chart on where each item goes in front and then they walk through and go vehicle to vehicle to vehicle. It is. Imagine I'm like, okay, you're, you're, you're, you're forward and you have 10 of those and I'm like, okay, steering wheel, you have to pull off like this, fucking wheel and everything and you're like, laying it down your seats, your, everything and then we're going. And I'm assuming they're doing this to find an excuse to fuck you. No, no, no, they're doing it because they, they know there's an admiral showing up. Ah. I don't know if I mentioned that, but they said, yeah, there's an admiral showing up tomorrow here at 08 or 09. We need everything to be pristine because we don't know why he's coming here. He could be to inspect. He could be just in a spot check. He could just be doing whatever. So I'm freaking out. I'm not even thinking about the investigation because it has been two or three months. So we're, we have all the, all the sailors there cleaning up for this admiral just to make sure that everything's tip top shape, paperwork, everything, boats, boat logs done, everything. So we're lining up, it's like 8.30 AM and you see a fleet of like five or six black suburbans. And they call us to attention when he steps out, you know, he's got like five or six guys with him along with security. He's in his naval service uniform, which is all, all khakis. You know, he's got that, that, um, star on, I think it's two, two star, yeah. And we're all shit in our pants because none of us have ever seen a two store, much less at naval weapon station. I don't even think there's ever been a two store, I'm a naval station. We always talk about on this, uh, how rare it is for you to meet a general in the military. Cause now we're friends with like, we're friends with chief staff of army, general army. They let us on the Pentagon and to do a podcast and these are like the highest four stars in Sart majors. And I tried to explain them like, you do not see these dudes in the fucking military. These guys are terrifying to that is not the norm at all. No, you're like, look at the show up. It's for a fucking reason. Yes. You are about to get fucked. Like, yes. And, and we were thinking the same thing because admirals don't show up unless there's a really bad problem, like unless a sailor is murdering people like they don't show up. So we're all in ranks at attention in our pants. And he walks over. He's like, everybody chill, chill, chill. He's like, I'm just here to see him, a two Alexander, shivering, shaking. He's like, he's like, come up here real quick. I'm like, forgetting how to walk, walking up there. He's like, dude, he reaches out, shakes my hand. He's like, I absolutely love your videos. My kids love your videos. My wife loves your videos. Keep doing what you're doing. You're great. You're shining a great light on the Navy. If anybody's got a problem, I'll give you my personal number on email. Tell them not to mess with you. You doing great. Keep it up. And he just, we take a few pictures. He turns around and drives off. You became bulletproof. Oh, yeah. What you doing with the shit in your pants? I cleaned it out. Harder. I went in there and scooped water in my pants. But yeah, it was, it was a great feeling because there were like three or four or five people of that command. There were always chiefs, you know, and some lower officers. There were always watching me, a couple great ones that always supported me and I will always remember their names. But after that, if they said anything, I'm like, you know, just give them the admiral and give them a call and just tell them that, you know, I was invincible. I remember, I was so invincible and sometimes Admiral Brown and his wife, great people. They will watch the content that I put out and they'll see these videos and be like, yeah, great times. He retired. 10, 11, 12 years ago and they've been traveling the world. But after that, I was kind of like relaxed. My uniform was a little bit too relaxed. You know, I would take my float coat off and I would just be mobbing a San Diego and there's this one chief. I had my boots unbloused and in the harbor, like the rules were kind of relaxed because people were like, they're harbor guys, do they? They don't blouse their boots because if they get water in them, they could drown and whatnot. Anyways, this chief was going, hammer me. He's like, what the fuck are your ship bag? Why are your boots not blouse? Why is your shirt not tucked in? I was like, chief, I'm in the harbor. He's like, I don't fucking care. You know, I was like, tell you what, chief, if you have any problem, just email Admiral Brown and here's this number. Just give them a call, say you ran into AMA2 Alexander and we should have him a problem. And he's like, just call up the admiral, bro. It was such a such a good way to in my naval career and I got out in 2020. Dude, we had, well, habitual was still in him and Nick. We're trying to do something on his base, which was Oklahoma base, goddamn it. Fort Sill. They were trying to steal. Fort Sill. Yeah. Fort Sill. Yeah. - There we are, I'm fucking evil. - Damn. - I have a days leave, boys. (laughing) They had called weeks in advance to get, oh, you guys can film on here at the museum, but they show up to base that day. They fly out, they show up to base, and they're like, okay, hey, we're here to film at the museum. Public and filming, no matter what, boom. They get turned down at the gate. Like, no, we need, we need it a way more. Time, here, email these people. They'll, it'll be like 12 weeks, and you can come back and film after, they have greenlit everything. So they show up to base and they're like, no, you can't film here. I call it, I'm like, hey, how's it looking? Oh, well, we couldn't film there. They turned us down, blah, blah, blah, but we're driving to this museum hour and a half away, and we're gonna film to make up for. I was like, whoa, fucking hold on real quick. Pause. I call Joan of Georgia's team. She's staff of the army. I'm like, hey, my guys just showed up. They've been greenlit, here's what's going on. They're like, oh, fuck, no. They call the base, and this is a two stars base at four or so, and they have like a kernel also, or one star, one star kernel that's also in charge of everything. Told them now, then habitual gets a call back. Abitual still in, by the way, at four so he's an E7. He gets a call back, hey, you can come back, you're good. Hey, you're good, you're good. Show back up. They're like, oh, yeah, hey, we have an escort for you. It was a kernel escort to help them through. They get whatever they want, and then they look at habitual, and they're like, hey, so aren't, you made this real difficult, though, once the chief of staff of the army called us and told us to let you in, I don't know who you know, but you can film whatever you want from now. (laughs) Dude, it was an instant. Abitual's like, he's like, I'm not gonna get in trouble. It's like, bro, no one is fucking with you ever again. The chief of staff of the army just called and told everyone on base to let you in. That's cool. I don't think they're questioning that. What year was this? This was two years? This was two years. Yeah, last year. That he was about to retire. He was, no, he was gonna re-up and retire. He had 16 years in, and we talked him out. Like getting out. He was gonna go career. Yeah, he was 16 years in, we talked him out. Talked him to get out. Yeah, he was 16 years in. Yeah, I mean, and we're like, dude, fucking. It's valid. It's very valid. You can do on the outside as like, there's no limit to it. When you're in the military, you have to wait for advancement and you can only go into places that you're allowed. When you're out by yourself, you can grow as fast as you want. Yep. You know, big army watching you and be like, no, you can't do that. You can't do that. Now watching your content blow up because it was the second you started doing these versus and all the ideas behind it, that was probably insane because it did, it's that overnight. Yeah. Literally, it was, I woke up and I saw all the analytics and everybody was reaching out to me and I was like, this is crazy. I remember where I was at when I woke up and saw, I was in Long Beach, I was at, these are one pine avenue unit 170. I don't know how I remember that so specifically, but, 'cause this is corn. It was overnight, yeah, overnight. I mean, of course we had worked on the channel to get it there, but post the video like 5 p.m. and then wake up the next morning and then boom, it's crazy. Yep. Yeah, that holy shit moment when you looked at the number and we're like, that's a big number. Yes, you see the YouTube analytics on your phone that, yeah, the, yeah, the rocket ship. Yeah, it's such a great idea. Yeah, you guys know. You guys know. Everton's like, oh, holy shit. Why? This is fantastic. I guess strangers like me. So how long did you do that before you started? How many years before you got out while you were doing that? About, I started in late 2018 and I got out in 2020. So about two years. I had, and obviously it's not about the money, but I was getting to the point where I wanted to settle down, maybe have kids and get married and I didn't want to be in the military when I was doing that. So I was like, all right, I'll use this as a good opportunity to get out and financially, I was probably making five or six times with the military was paying me. I was like, I'm good. But then it all kind of changed to me. When I got out in 2020, I was no longer doing it for fun. I was doing for a job. And I was like, okay, I have to film this weekend because it is my job now. So there was a few months in there in 2020 where I had hired myself. I had hired a producer. I had hired an editor and my team. And that was, it was kind of like break even. So I had very little wiggle room after spending all my money on what is now Battlewunker. I built an obstacle course out in the desert to film on. Kind of like this, you know, a studio, people thought I was a fucking idiot. It's a film studio, you know, and that's how you make revenue. So I built that. There was a couple months where I was having to trade some stock option and selling some covered calls and stuff in the market to make up for the money that I didn't have. But I was independent, you know, I was having my backup against the wall and I was fighting. And I made it through financially. - It makes you push way harder. - Oh, that's right. - You're like, oh, fuck. - It was your shit in your pants, yeah. - Yep, it's kind of like when you're in a fight, like when I fought Cody for trying to take my left money behind the cascation. - He's like, just stop. - Every time off the podcast, when I start there, he's like, dude, let's just skip that part please. So don't he said that. - You're there, your feet are dangling off the locker. - Cody, he's holding it down. - It's dangling. - That's how I fell. But it made me fight. - It's the first time you've seen Cody a bright side up. (laughing) - I was fighting hard to make it. I always told myself I'd go homeless or I would succeed or I would go homeless trying. - Yeah, no safety now. We've talked about that multiple times. I like getting rid of that because then there is like, if I, there is no failure, it's like, fuck. If I fail, I'm homeless. - Yep, great, fantastic. - Do you really think I bullied you? - No, I'm just messing with you. - You know what I've been, see, I'm just messing with you. I don't, there are no. - You know this fucked with me for like years now. Really? He's fucking with you the same way you did when he was in high school. If you were fun, for the record, Cody has never bullied me. I don't, I don't think he's ever bullied anybody. - He's really fucked with Cody 'cause Cody's like, he thinks I'd bug right before this podcast. - No, maybe sit, maybe like some other, your friends like all the others, but no, you, no, he probably fucked with you. - I know, I never bullied anyone. - No, he was chill. - You're a sweet name, Cody and we all love him. - But I gotta keep saying it, it's like a running joke now, you know? - Had that part out at it. (laughing) - Don't show me showing affection to this monster. - What if they, what if they cut out you saying, do you really think and then you said, I bullied you in high school, I'm like, yeah, you did. - Cut to Cody. - He was stepping in. - No, no, no. - I tried to not get bullied in high school too. You never bullied anybody from when I saw. - I hope not. - No, you were good. - I got, thank you and picked on. - He was just like, he's been in the alley. - We all did that. - Yeah. - I love this so much. - So, let off firecrackers in the world. - I went to the very high school reunion last year. - Yeah, we're in my 20 year high school reunion last year. - I was at 16th grade. - It was really good, man. It was good seeing, seeing less. - Yeah. - Mr. Absin, that was fucking awesome. I've been bringing him out to range days and stuff. - I was a, I saw him at the last one. And then I saw him in Wilson when I went to, I went to go give a speech to the kids. - Yeah. - He was there. - Yeah, dude, he's such a fucking cool guy. - So like, in high school, less Absin, he was our history teacher, or my history teacher, at least when I was going through there. And he's the principal now, I think. And good Lord, I learned so much from him than I did from any other teacher. And he's been my friend since then. So I bring him out to range days and stuff. - Yeah, it was, it's so weird, 'cause he was vice principal. And he's not super buddy, buddy. He's like, really nice to everybody. But at range day, he's like, bro, what's up? - It's so weird seeing him as vice principal and then seeing him here at range day. 'Cause there's like 10, 12, 13 years apart for me, you know? But great guy. - I don't know, he really contributed to me being able to be a good storyteller in all my YouTube videos and stuff. And that comes from him. - He wrote a very heartfelt letter to you. I don't know if you want to share it, but I know I've read it and it's like, there's a very sweet thing for somebody's formative in your life to give to you. - Yeah, he wrote a really sweet letter to me years ago when I graduated and he was like, I know you're gonna be good at storytelling in the future. And like I kind of kept that to heart. And I don't know, I attribute a lot of the storytelling and that I don't know, especially coming from Little Florence, Alabama, coming from Muscle Shoals, Alabama. I contribute a lot to that guy. So that I love to bring him out to range days and stuff. - You know, I think that the formula that our teachers end up bringing created in Alabama, especially at Wilson, empowered us and allowed us to be here to that for sure. - Couldn't teach you how to pronounce seal, but yeah. - Hey, hey, hey, I'm gonna skip that part. But do you remember who gave you your first camera? - My first camera? - No, he actually won it. - Yeah, commercial. - You made a commercial and then won a camera? Yeah. - Do you know Cody used to be a huge. - I was in the actor's set. - You used to be a Nickelodeon kid? - Right. - It was a digital blue camera and I gave it to Jordan Alvin. Wait, you're on Nickelodeon? - Yeah, back in like the f*cking ninth grade. - Oh I never knew that. - Okay. - Were you in the. in theater? - Yeah. - The drama club? - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - You got picked on back. - I was in the drama, I was in the drama club too. It was my theater was my favorite thing ever. (laughing) - I got me a conqueror word. (laughing) You take this. Bully. - They're gonna beat us both up after this. - I got my ass kicked before all second. - So we were both in theater and drama. - Yeah. - It was called drama. - I didn't know that. I didn't know you were in Nickelodeon either. - Yeah, no. - We didn't, dude, we didn't know this until, like, last year. - Christmas. - It was Christmas last year. - Like, we were like, wait, what the fuck? Cody's mom would enter him in like commercials. - Yeah. - No, I did, yeah. - I'm Nickelodeon commercials and shit like that. - Yeah, I didn't know that. - Same. - And we'd know Cody for like a decade. - Yeah. - It did like a quick digital blue. - And then people on YouTube went and found his commercial ever since, like, they naturally just found it somehow. - Not true, I found it. Moments after, Moments after he announced it. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - 'Cause Cody put out a thousand dollar bounty on the video and found it 10 seconds later. - You landed a catch-in. - Yeah, man, he says it. - Oh, I forgot about that. - He and Brandon searched it at the same time. And it was like a, I found it a second before and he found it a second after, I did. - There was like, somebody had just uploaded, it had like nine views. It was like. - Oh, dude, it's a lot of commercial. - Can we play that? Probably, we'll probably get. - Yeah, let me find it. - Yeah, somebody told me, so all I searched this up. - My, I'm your most recent search. - Yeah, it's 'cause I was cranking it at the bathroom earlier. - That's the marine dating video. - I know, dude, you do all like all your style of videos. I'm like, man, the amount of work. - It is a lot. - Dude, 'cause you're. - Like, they do in Hollywood. - Grab the new digital movie theater. - Nah, he comes up. He's gonna head on backwards. There he is in the background. - Oh, that's cool. - And so this is the first camera you have? - Yeah. - Fashion with that. - That's like, 1990. - Hi. - This riveting content, there he is. Yeah, that's right, that's right before he went and kicked your ass in the alley. (laughing) - We use that camera to record the whole thing, yeah. - Well, that's correct, yeah, yep, yep, okay. Dang, small world. So that was your first camera. - Yeah. - Somebody gave it away, 'cause he's a good guy. - And then. - Thanks so. - Did you just say you gave it away? - Yeah, I gave it to Jordan Almond. - Okay, I'm seeing. - So they were my mom. I basically stole her camera. I was at mom in a film, some stuff with this. And then throughout high school, Wilson, we really, we had a great setup. It was like a progressive thing that allowed me to be here today and do this full time. There was. First, there was the drama club, Carol Rainwater. I believe she's still the teacher and Tammy Stoltz. They both taught theater and drama. We didn't do anything with video there. But then after. I think I also had Miss Rainwater or Miss Pace for English. I advanced to Miss Stamps and Miss Lancaster's classes where we had video projects that we had to do. I partnered with like four or five people and we filmed and I edited and created these videos and I just loved it. And Miss Lancaster's class in 2009, she's like, came into the class, it was her first day. She's like, "Guys, I'm in current events, to be honest, "I don't really know what we're gonna do, "but we're gonna create a curriculum." And I said, "How about we make a weekly, "like a new show for the high school and film it "and then we can play it on the TVs?" She's like, "I love that. "Why don't you bring me some ideas "and who's gonna get the cameras?" I was like, "I will." So I went home and begged my mom for a $800. It sounds like a $800. JVC, a Vario 720P flip camera. At the time it was super nice. - That's great, yeah, way fancy. - And she bought it for me and we had a Windows 98 computer. - What year is this? - This is 2009. - Okay. - Yeah, 11th grade. - Yep, this was when your JVC pop-ass or your T3 eyes. - Yeah, I would have been T2-I-T3-I or your JVC with the mini, the mini VHS cassettes, you know what I'm talking about? We were like pop 'em inside the full size VHS cassette. That's what we used the film's tone. - These are like, this is the first line of H.D. consumer camera, so you can look. - They plug into your computer. - It was so big, it recorded on an SD card and we had to get like a some sort of adapter for a USB-A to go in the computer. And we filmed current events. I edited this show with Sony Vegas Pro 6, which is a pirated version, my cousin Joey, which I'm staying with here today. He pirated for me and I edited it, brought it to school and it went high school viral. That was my first feeling of virality. The whole school was like, hey man, do you have a copy of that? Do you have a copy of that? So I had this idea because I'm just gonna burn DVDs, which took four and a half hours for DVD. Don't know why I agree to that. For $10 a piece and I'm gonna sell them. So at the end of the current events, we had five, six, seven episodes that I burn on these DVDs and I bought these little DVD folders. I put Austin Productions on the back and like drew a little design with Gimp, which is like the knockoff Photoshop. - Oh, it's free Photoshop. I still use it to this very day. - Yeah, I was using all the free tools that I could and I burnt and sold probably 30, 40, 50 of those DVDs and made four, 500 bucks and paid my mom back for the camera. It was kinda like a look what I did, mom. - Yeah, this is my first video, 15 years ago. You cannot share any personal information 'cause I don't wanna be docs. But yeah, that was 15 years ago. I got a video, they got 125,000 views. - That's crazy. You drew that on paint? - I did. There was like that whole genre that came out later of like guys doing like MS paint drawing. - Yep. - That was, yeah, 15 fucking years ago. - Hold this thought, I gotta take a leak. - Go, go, go. - Go, go. - Yeah, I'm with you. - Dude, the first time the Sheriff's Department showed up to my fucking house. - When was that? - Uh, (beep) - He was the bully. - He was the bully. - He was a bully. - He's the guy I'm thinking. (laughing) - And like. - How did you set a name? - He's the, I remember that. - Yeah, I haven't heard the name in 20 years, but. - He was fighting someone that we went down to Townsley's and he beat up someone, I recorded it and like Sheriff's Department showed up to my house. - This is correct. - You recorded it, and you were like, well here it is. - Yeah. - Here's the criminating evidence. - I think you give it to him. Cody's known dog. - I don't like cops. - You know, yeah. - Well it's a skateboarder, dude. - Yeah, I like your skateboarder. - You're like, I don't like cops. - You're like, dude, shit. - Why would they, it's a kid. Why would they make the effort to, I guess there's nothing else happening in Florence. - I can't, I was trying to find a video for you while we were off screen, but (beep) beat the fuck out of some black kid. It Townsley's, was it, was it a name? (beep) - Uh, I think it was, I don't, (beep) I probably shouldn't be saying these names, but. - We can believe that. - I don't know, and I mean, we can say that now, right? - Yeah. - Yeah, we can believe him out here. - To be honest, cut this part out. I don't know if they're, I think, I don't know, (beep) still around anymore. - So, I don't know. Is the statute limitations still apply to us today? - We can believe stuff out, we're good. - I don't know, but (beep) got into a fight with a black kid at the school, at Townsley's, and just like pounded him. - At your 20 year, they would have been like, what, 38 to 40 years old? - Yeah, I remember age. - How many people from your class have passed away? Like 10? - Yeah, there was a couple that really surprised me. - Isn't that crazy? - Yeah. - Like only being, you know, 38 to 40 years old. We've had probably five or six in my class. And we're 34, you know. - Ars was, it was surprising 'cause nobody, Ars was the first graduating class in like five or 10 years where nobody had died over the four years, and then after we graduated, and everybody died. - It was all drug overdose. - This is carcass, carcass, alcohol. - That was a couple of them. - Yep, meth. - This guy named Robert. - Drug deal's gone bad. - He passed away, he was under the influence. I mean, 'cause there's really, there's nothing to do. There's no hardly any events where you can like be productive. That's a part of reason I like San Diego, 'cause you can go hit up a marathon and go for a cold plunge and eat good food, like it'd be okay. And Alabama, you just sit there. Or small towns, you do drugs. - You do drugs. Like that's, I grew up in very small town. - Yeah. - And God, I don't know how many. I don't actually know if, once I moved out, I did not stay connected with that. - Yeah, I know. - Oh, I-- I've got my buddies back home, but our big thing was a drug deal in because we were like a big connection hub Between yo with deal drugs, huh? Yo with your drugs. No. No. Oh, okay. No. I would never deal drugs We were a big connection hub Yeah, I guess we're a big hub between multiple big cities. Yeah, that's all I have to say about you I guess we made it out. I don't know man Yeah, because like like you were just asking when I went back for my 20 year. There's a couple dudes like I wouldn't ever figured Yeah, we would have died. I know it's It's crazy when you look back and though a lot of people probably teachers and everyone probably look at you different Also, cuz like holy shit look what they did and it's your the glimmering hope, it's like oh fuck. Okay, look and that's crazy and what they accomplished shit. That was the Navy man Oh, yeah, oh yeah, for me at least uh-huh, just I agree I a lot of I will say a lot of friends that We're super great people always treated me like super nice and they were good to me and everything I try to hit him up now and talk to him and chat with him and and it's like a lot of them don't even want to speak to me or especially see me because I think They are like well this guy's you know here and I'm Here so it creates this weird dynamic man. I'm like dude I just remember meeting you on the boat in Bahrain just having a great time and before Before I was this big Yeah, quote-quote influencer guy, which is how a lot of people see Us probably I'm just a normal guy and I craved that those normal friendships again like so much and I still have A great you know five or six people back home, which we're like this we've been friends ever since 7th 8th 9th grade and they don't look at me any differently But the people in the military it's something about them that you you developed just a strong bond that lasts through anything and That's why I'm so fortunate to be in the military space still Going on base and being with these active military people because they remind me of my friends in the military It's dude. It is one of the greatest films. I had my 18th year. I haven't seen any of the dudes I had deployed with in 18 years Like once we got back in oh 8 oh 9 fucking everyone just scattered to the win none of us. We'd text maybe FaceTime eight couple times and then that was it until a gettings and McCann and all these guys put together a meeting last month. I think and we all met out in New Orleans New Orleans I've seen these guys forever and it was one of the greatest experiences I could have ever asked for because it was that incident. Oh, these are the dudes. I fought with these are my bros We showed up and it was like The other day we were deployed together and it was the coolest feeling and there was no awkwardness. It was just story time laughing joking and You probably understand these code is same. It's like that's the shit I always miss and you don't see how rare it is in the civilian sector until you're back And we've dude like you're looking at fucking in our deployment we lost 16 guys and we've had 20 30 s**ts since being back and now it's thrown back in there but everyone's just like holy s**t And now we're gonna do it each and every year because that like that single time is like oh, we need to do this Every year and then invite more people because then you just miss it so much and you don't realize it. Yeah Some you can't really relay unless you're unless you experienced it. Yeah But such a good fucking time when you actually do it's just hard to convince people. It's like call your buddies actually call your buddies check on them have conversations And it doesn't mean it matter where they are in life Just hang out and you will see it's just like you're back At the barracks laughing doing some s**t. Yep Yep greatest experience I've had in forever and you had different walks in life too. It's like people that still are parting hard At 41 I did get to see a lot of my buddies. They're like oh, no, it's like 10 days. It's bedtime That's all I'm gonna bed right now Um, oh, no Funny story. So I started battle bunker in 2020 I built an obstacle course out in the desert and more part during coronavirus and we started filming and battle bunker became A parent company to like multiple things hybrid congames battle bunker bus, which is where a lot of people know me from now And we have a product line We have like on the go deployment style stuff train sandbags resistance bands One of my friends. I think we were both a second class at the same time in Bahrain his names um We call him Willie Constantine because that's his his DJ name I hit him up randomly like seven years later Because I knew he was in San Diego Haven't talked to him in a long time Call him I was like hey, I know you're in San Diego. I'm away. Will you go into my house print off these shipping labels and send these packages out for me I'll give you like 20 bucks an hour. He's like yeah sure man. Just uh Give me your house code. He goes to my house robs you robs Stole rob blind And that's when I learned a very valuable lesson never show us anybody veterans That would be funny just telling this whole some story and then he robs the shit out of me No, he goes into my house and fulfills the orders takes him to the post office and I'm like dude Thanks, and we haven't seen each other in like seven or eight years That's how it is. I trusted him to go inside of my house and fulfill these random TikTok shop orders good times Yeah, I miss it. It is some of the the brotherhood you experienced during that I wish everyone could experience it because it's it's super hard to relate when you've never done it like deployments or whatever It's just super hard to relate to it and you try to explain it like well, they're like really good friends You know like it's like brothers, but like Brothers that you would die for and they would kill for you. It's the fucking next level friendship As the guys were saying when we were together like oh you remember when fucking you punched I'm garrison in the face and then he punched you in the face you look okay. We do it. Yeah, we're good Hug walk away and then like oh, yeah, I forgot how violent my friends were Just like look a bug a punch. Yeah, be in dude rules Being a dude fucking rules. I like being a man. It's great. It's awesome Was okay. What's the next big content for you now? You're still doing your verses you just did your USA road march or a marathon Ultramarathon ultramarathon fuck that you just didn't ultramarathon and ulteria 38 miles. You just did it Like yesterday month ago. How'd you feel after that? Honestly, I felt A little feverish and an a key, but I felt great. How long do you sleep after it? Seven hours, so my body does not sleep any longer than like eight hours max you were good after 30 in it or 30 30 miles. Yeah, it was a 11-hour venture moving for I think I had like 75,000 steps But yeah, we were out there moving. Do you how much spaghetti did you have beforehand? How'd you know that? To trick so I made a video specifically talking about spaghetti. Are you serious? Did you research that? No, I don't know what I was gonna run 38 miles. I've been like do I gotta eat so much spaghetti bruh? Noodle's car loading is fat back on her and then let's get any Connor Um So this year are you serious? Yeah, I'm sure Spaghetti after before that. Okay, so my life has been like My life be like oh Yeah, who sings that is it grits. Oh, it's a joke. He's a Tokyo judge Yeah, so my life has been Oh It's been YouTube primarily for you know a lot of it, you know 80% has been YouTube for the last Since I got out 2020 20% spaghetti 20% spaghetti. Mom this year's spaghetti. We were I made a friend over it the US BP US Border Patrol and that kind of they sponsored Hypercon games 2025 You know powered by US Border Patrol Hypercon games is an event with that we put on I try not to just only do YouTube because it's I don't only just want to do YouTube because we film and then we pass it to our editors and then they work on it While I'm just like not doing anything so I have to stay busy Um, and that segment into something bigger they reach back out to us in January. They're like hey Love the partnership. We were thinking about this idea that we want you to host a Series I won't say the name of it yet. I don't know if I'm supposed to but we want you to host a series with customs and border protection Where you would be the host and it would be like dirty jobs with micro except it would be like CBP jobs with also Alexander and Ice yes I specifically asked I was like is because a lot of tensions are hot like with ice and you know the whole border thing I was like is ice a part of this no there They're a department, they're a branch under the DHS, but CBP has air and marine operations. They have office-to-field operations, and they have BP, board patrol. So I say yes, and Harry's here, they help me organize it in schedule and everything. Where did Harry go? I don't know, he walked downstairs. He's probably crying somewhere. But they help me get your stress, develop like the time in my schedule to do this. And next thing you know, I'm out there in Texas. I'm blanking right now. - El Paso. - El Paso, Texas, riding along on an ATV and in helicopters with US board patrol. - Hostess or eagle pass. - El Paso. - Okay. - We went to El Paso and then Artigian in New Mexico, which is where board patrol. - It's crazy seeing El Paso and like you're like, holy shit, it is there. - Right across the highway. - Stand up right across the wall. You have one of Mexico's most dangerous cities back in the day, which is a waris. - Yet waris. - And I'm just, I'm like, what is, what is, like I can't believe my life right now. I'm riding along the border in ATVs, like apprehending illegals and illegal aliens. And so I've been fortunate to host this show and it will run for four more episodes. - Have you guys tried to jump over a wall? - It's, I can't do it, it's possible. - It's impossible? - The old, the old administration. - Conner. - We saw the literally like waris. - Okay, yeah, I was confusing it for conflating it with what's the one San Diego, Tijuana. - Oh yeah, that's where I live. - Not in Tijuana but in San Diego. - Like it is. - Yep, literally a freeway. You can see poverty. - Yeah, well they like play volleyball over the wall. - Dude, it's fucking insane, we just see it. - The first secario word. - Yeah, they're driving the wall. - Pulls fucking Emily Blant's (beep) character up onto a roof and was like, what's this? - Like, I hate Emily Blant. - You hate her character, not her. - Okay, I don't, yeah. - The fact that you hate her, I hate her. - I mean, she's a very good actress. - She, yeah, you did great. - Yeah. - We're in tomorrow, day after. - Tomorrow? Tomorrow? - Yes, tomorrow. - Yes, tomorrow. - With Tom Cruise. - Yeah. - It's such a good one. - Never seen before. - So you live there? - Doin' border stuff? - Yeah, film in a series of Border Patrol. And then, we're doing some big projects with USA and WWP. So, a lot of it has, YouTube has kind of like become the thing in the background. Well, I'm very fortunate to host these shows like Beath Presenter and everything. And one thing, though, that brings me the most fulfillment is Battle Bunker. Battle Bunker, you know, has turned into this product line. And there was a big company called brute force. I don't know if you've ever seen their sandbags, but brute force training, they're a big, huge in the civil community. They, unfortunately, went out of business two or three years ago. Well, we took some of their designs, tweaked them and made them our own. And this morning, we just got our third government order from, I was gonna say the command name, but I don't want to. We got our third government order for some sandbags. You know, the Army's implementing the new combat field test, which is, I just did that. And we've probably had 16, 17, 18 inquiries for the new fiscal year to get these sandbags made and they're in the hundreds sometimes. So that, seeing these training tools that we develop and make, seeing them widely accepted now by the government and like being able to fulfill and put the logos and everything on there, it's like one of the best feelings ever. 'Cause I know I will go to these commands and see all these soldiers and sailors training with our gear and it motivates me to like make better gear and provide for them because I feel like I'm part of the pipeline that goes into poise overseas. Like it's such a good feeling. It's one of the most, it's a unique feeling and then you'd never thought you'd be part of it in your, coming up from like a private to whenever you got out, you're like, holy shit. This was never in, this was never in my life's timeline. Yeah, like it cards, it's when I got out as a fucking E4, I got out and I was like, cool, fucking peace out military. I'm never doing anything with you again. And then this slow transition where it's like, hey, your friends with like Sergeant Major's Army, General Army, Chief Stafford, you're like, what the fuck got me back here when we did the Pentagon episode? That was like, they're constantly pulling you back in. I know, but dude, we were the first podcast to drink officially on camera at the Pentagon. They got us orders, so we drink at the Pentagon. And you're like, you're like, what has even happened? Yeah, I know Brandon didn't realize what was happening with me, you and Nick, we're all just looking around like, this is okay. Yeah. Yeah, okay. But like three stores, we have a picture of Sergeant Major of the Army's desk. I text him, I was like, hey, can we take a picture of your desk? He's like, yeah, just do this real quick. And it's fucking all yours. And it's us like doing all sit on each other's laps. Yeah, at the Sergeant Major of the Army's desk. I'm like, fuck me dude, this is in a wild. It's thrilling internally, because you're like, 15 years ago, this wouldn't have never been okay. And now it's-- That's terrified. Yeah, yeah. A similar story happened with me. I was a lowly E5. I had some E6s and senior chiefs that I was cool with. But we did a official project with Go Army, US Army's marketing arm, where they brought me into S-FAS to have this Special Forces Assessment and Selection experience. That's when you went with the female Sergeant and then did the ass sort of turn up. Yeah. See, I watched your stuff, Navy SEAL. Thank you very much. I just fucked up apparently. Somehow that got in that doctor there. It's the end. It's the end. I don't do the, I should actually go through. I was like, OK, he is that Navy SEAL confirmed. I want to say I typed it. And I was like, dude, I got to be sure on this. And I was like, yep, homie is a Navy SEAL. I was like, OK, you can write down. Never a SEAL. Canadian Navy SEAL comedian. Going to do that project, we had generals there. And it just felt so weird and wrong because they're like, yeah, yeah, anything you need, what can we get for you? And I'm like, my brain just did not accept it. Similar to when we're getting to make these orders for these government people, growing up, my parents' household income was like $45.50. And then I'm having to buy 50 grand worth of Cordura 1000D in multi-cam. And my brain like it didn't click. I'm like, this one order is as much as my parents made like in a whole year. And like when I first released the product line, I was not OK with buying $40, $50,000 worth of textiles or resistance bands or whatever. It was like a hard block. And that's why we did-- It's terrifying. I was a bottleneck. Yeah. It's terrifying because you're like, oh, I can't justify this without understanding how business works. And you're like, oh, in order to get to that next level, if you want to make $1 million to say you are going to have to invest $3 million to get to that $1 million part, what's your clear red? Clearing red? Biggest bitch. Other than shirts, shirts, prints, easy stuff like that. Cool. Everything else, you are buying and manufacturing that you are. Right. Big check. It's hanging out from being like, please don't break me. Yeah. Please sell. Please sell by this stuff. I'm so scared right now. I still do it every single day. But it's thrilling. It's like having your back up against all. And I like that. I can't just-- that's why a lot of people have problem with the lottery because they don't have financial discipline. And they get $50,000. And they just go crazy and do drugs. Yeah. It was awesome. It sucks being bored. Yeah. It does. The worst thing is being bored. I wouldn't much rather be drowned in stress from being busy than be bored. Yeah, absolutely. Idol hands, all that thing. Yeah. Yeah, crazy. So fast. Oh, god. I don't know what I do with that. But hey. Nope. So what's the next big thing for you? What is something you're excited for? I'm excited. Every day I wake up, I'm like, so excited that my heart rate just gets super high. I was put in the hospital like a month and a half ago for PVCs because I'm constantly doing things. It's not like I'm, I don't do drugs, I don't drink, I'm the most straight age person besides a little three milligrams in everyone's while you just just cut out the three milligrams in the podcast. But I'm just kidding. I'm excited to do everything. There is everything that I do I absolutely love. Something I'm looking forward to though is the next shooting for Border Patrol, which will be hopefully in Puerto Rico filming, filming, hosting a show. Wait, what? What show? Words are important when talking about ethnicities. It's the docu-series. Connor is like, do you want to shout out anything that you're interested in in the future? Whether it be you or something you're working on, is there anything you can tell the audience, they could follow right now. This part always makes me uncomfortable, I don't know why. in Puerto Ricans? - Battlebunker, Battlebunker. I'm really passionate about it. We make a lot of great fitness products that we now are offering to the military. And we have a lot of stuff coming in and being made. I just hope to continue making more of it and getting more out into the fleets and to the fields and yeah, big passion project. - Fuck it, dude. - And then where can everyone find you, too? - Only fans slash Austin Alex. - To beatfunder.com. - I'm just getting Instagram is just having Austin Alexander. Don't find the Canadian guy. - Yeah, well you have to be more specific than that. 'Cause when I did that, when I did that, I found the Canadian guy. - Maybe, maybe. - Oh, there it is right there. Austin Alex, that's it. That's, I'm the most active everyday on Instagram. That's where you find the me. - A-U-S-T. - You don't follow me dude, you got in here. - Underscore it. - And then YouTube. - YouTube is Austin Alexander. A-U-S-T-E-N. - Alexander. - But I always tell people when I'm like, - Woo! - And then we got a time for an after show. You wanna do an after show? - Oh yeah, I'm down for all of it. - Fuck yeah. - What is the after show? - It's where we kissing each other on the mouth. - Yeah, that's what I was talking about. - Yeah, yeah. - Let's do our way kisses. - All of it in my kisses. - Oh yeah. - You're gonna be all of the rowdy. - Okay, good. - You can say the word. - You can say it. - Yeah, I'm ready. - You can say it. - Cody, you wanna close this out? - Thank you guys for joining. 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