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Welcome to the Unsubscribe podcast. I'm joined here today by Eli Doubletap, Chris Cappy from Cappy Army, Nick Davis from Tactically Acquired, and I am Donut Operator. Donut. - Donut. - What an amazing intro. Black Nick, great to meet you. - It's good to meet you. Man, it's not the first time we met. - I know. - It's good shit. - We met in the, actually the bus, on the way back from Grand J. - And we got to nerd out on cameras. - Yeah, I know. - Black Nick, great to meet you. White Nick, great to meet you. - Hi. - God, it's like looking in a mirror. - It's very similar. - Twins. - It's like, mm. - It's uncanny. - Unbelievable. - We're just super stoked. I mean, super happy you're here. I'm very stoked you're here. This is just gonna be a nerd autism episode of war history. Got a lot of questions for you. - Oh, God. - And then our boy Nick over here. - Hi. - Good time. - How was filming last night? - It was good. It was fine. I got blood all over me. It washed out, though. Except for on my boots, which, you know, thankfully they were like new a week ago, so that works out. - Oh. Okay, so typical. - So you did, what were you filming yesterday? - Oh, we had a skit for the new Pepperbox thingamajig. I had an idea. I've talked about it before. It's the same skit I've talked about forever. It's like, the concept is like, red dawn, China invades, paratroopers come down, whatever. Me and like a couple other American soldiers get captured. We're getting interrogated. And then, I'm not gonna say exactly how it happens, but basically, the Chinese are very determined and are very excited about their upcoming offensive because they believe that the area that they're gonna be invading next is gonna be a lot easier than the combat they've seen so far because this area of the country has the strictest gun laws. And then, we're all tied up with like blood all over us. And then, the Asian guy's like, it's called Chicago. And we just all start dying laughing, like. - The safest place, easy. It's called Chicago. - Doing a Japanese accent for the Chinese people, but whatever. - Potato, potato. - I'm, dude, I'm so stoked for that one. - I thought New Jersey was gonna catch a stray with that one. - It's never too late. - It's never a stray when it comes to New Jersey. It was intentional. - This is an aimed shot, a well-placed. - You're not catching strays. You were catching what was thrown. - The pitcher, the pitcher's aiming there. - Hell yeah, well, I'm fucking stoked for that. Oh yeah, we got the new Double Tap T, came out, what, two weeks ago now. And then, is the new one out? We have Goth Girl Spit, should be launching also today when you watch this, which is the most wild energy drink. - Yeah, it's pretty rad. - It's really dope, but cover art. - It's called Goth Girl Spit? - Yes. - Yes. - It brings back memories. It reminds me of high school. - Yeah. - Yeah. - Yeah. - No one else went through a Goth Girl phase? No, that's. - Did you just dress up one like one? - No, no. - That's the thing. Tell us. - That was a different phase. - Tell us. - That was college. - Tell us more about it. - I just kicked Tappy's, a Goth Girl. - In high school, I had a little bit of a thing for the goth women. Yeah, there's something very dark about them. - Deadly problems. - That just draws. Yes, yes, exactly. Then that, the low self-esteem, I guess, is kind of what allowed me to get in there in the first place. - Well, I targeted them. They were my prey. They were weak. - It is. Didn't that phase stop for like 10 or 20 years? - Yeah. - Yeah. - It's an economic recession indicator. This is my going theory. - Wait. - You gotta wait. - You gotta wait. - You gotta wait. Because right before 2008. - Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Whenever the goths start showing back up and baggy pants are in style, the economy's about to crash. - Well, it's coming back again now, right? - I know. That's what I'm saying. The housing market's gonna crash in any minute. We've got three years. Like, I saw a pair of Jean Co's for the first time in 15 years the other day. I was like, that's not fucking good. I'm about to short real estate. - Yeah. - Yeah. - Hot topics blowing up right now. There's talks right through the roof. Oh, no. - I'm telling you right now, as soon as the juggalos become popular again, we've got like four, we've got four minutes. - If you see parties out in the woods in like a dim fire somewhere, and they're all chanting their juggalo shit, you know it's time. You know it's, the days are numbered. - This is true. - Oh, juggalos, we love you. - That's a hell of a theory. - I'm just saying. - I mean, it's actually tracking. - History repeats itself. - Although I did have the, I'm gonna toot my own horn here. I made the greatest call of all time on Twitter last year, and it came true. It was creepy. - Which one was it? - In 2024, in like November, or like early 2025, there was an article that orcas are wearing fish on their heads again, which was a phenomenon that we haven't seen since, I forget the year, it was like 1985, or whatever the fuck it was. And I was like, 1985, orcas are wearing fish on their heads. The president is a Republican, former TV celebrity. The US Navy destroys all of Iran's Navy. And then I was like, 2025, the orcas are wearing fish on their heads. The president is a Republican, former celebrity. Dot, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot. And then six months later, we destroyed Iran's Navy. I was like, - Yeah. - Oh! - Yeah. - It was the greatest call of all time. - It'd be a great cow she met. - It really does feel like the '80s is coming back again. I mean, we're all, we're back in South America again, invading countries there, doing basically like Panama version two, electric bugaloo. - We should take it back. - All of it. - Unpopular opinion, we should take back Panama. I'm just saying, I'm for it. - I think less people think that's unpopular. I think they don't want to say it out loud. - No, no, no, no. We dug the giant trench. - It's ours. - Yes, just saying. - How is now with, or I guess on your side, 'cause that's what you deep dive into, what are you seeing with the cartel and then the US? So you just did a video on kidnapping or assassinating. - The cartel stuff is crazy. They just, so CIA ground branch is in Mexico right now, just murking dudes, just blowing up cartel vehicles. They have it on camera. Yeah, so I'm flipping through Instagram the other day and this video comes up. And casually, a car explodes. And then it says, US officials say that they have CIA paramilitary in Mexico killing cartel bosses. It's fucking wild. - Hell yeah. - Right? - Hell yeah. - So this is like '70s, '80s, this is what we did, right? - Well, the beautiful thing about the '80s and Latin America was that we were just everywhere. We were, yeah, the CIA had like death squads everywhere in El Salvador. They were just killing fields of bodies. And we're back at it again. 'Cause every time, you had to go back, you had to mow the grass every once in a while. And that's what they're-- - Mexicans, grass. - But they're doing it smarter now. They're doing it a little bit smarter. Instead of, yeah, instead of like wholesale killing and arming groups that might have blow back, just go and they take out one cartel boss. And yeah, a little more surgical. - CIA is up here playing guess who? - Sicario. - Sicario, which is crazy. You have some of those bosses, they don't even know what they look like. I always find that fascinating. They hid themselves that well throughout their life that they just don't have pictures of them. Like it's fucking crazy. - You wanna hear a hilarious story of how they killed El Mencho? So El Mencho was the biggest cartel boss in Mexico. They killed him like two months ago. And the way they did it was the CIA fricking, 'cause they don't know what he still looks like. He might've gotten facial reconstruction. We don't know what he looks like. - We don't know what he looks like. - But they do know. - We got him. We got him. We got him. - After the drone hits, bad news, we still don't know what he looks like. He's definitely one of those five bodies. - They went through, he was meeting up with an OnlyFans chick and they triangulated his position based on going through the metadata of him talking to this OnlyFans girl to have her come and meet him. - We don't know what this guy looks like. I bet he likes. - We'll figure it out. - One thing we are for sure on. and that they just blow up the fuck like how how did that raid go down so the great thing about the way we do operations a little bit smarter now is we work through by with and through we work through the mexican military so they send in the mexican marines to kill everybody and they advise it oh no shit yeah yeah so it's them still like hey we're not doing it i mean it's like the end of iraq where it's like hey so ia's taking over or these little communities hand off we've it's exactly that we took the iraq afghanistan model and we're just applying it to mexico it worked really good both times especially when we left yeah i don't remember a single problem with that i sent you something that's that's what the cia was like as soon as the only fans girl showed up you I'm surprised they're still doing that tactical it's like this hasn't worked yet so what's going to change this time if we'll back them i mean not to address the the whore in the room but is the only fans girl okay you know i don't actually know yeah i don't think she died i don't know for sure for certain but hopefully did she know anything this was going on two girls one drone she didn't even know they followed her to the to the like lake house and uh talk about an asset yeah i'm gonna go see this guy um here's my location just make sure like call me in five minutes yeah calls back in five minutes doesn't answer then trying to explain that to anyone after the fact how'd your date go people that's the future of warfare is just exploiting dudes trying to get laid that's what the ukrainians were doing to the russians yes yes that's what they were all getting on there pretending to be hot girls on instagram and shit we've done this every time world war like cold war i know it's just so much easier now with cell phones because like that they were literally getting all the russian soldiers to be like messaging these girls on instagram and they're like oh when are you coming through my town maybe we can meet up blah blah blah and they're like oh my unit will be there in three days now they're tracking troop movements because some dude's trying to get laid they're sending like himars fucking us provided missiles right to their coordinate based on that it's wild and it doesn't matter if you tell them not to do this because it's dudes and when you see even the catfish the guys that get catfished you're like oh like doesn't matter how obvious this is a ploy they're going to fall for it well yeah i'm going to meet her in two years she needed me to pay it's easy for me to laugh at them but i if i'm a russian soldier i would hunt and i'm like 20 years old 100 sure i i'm gonna get missiled i'm gonna match with that chick and be like yeah i'm gonna be here tomorrow the other unfair part that like i i don't think i've ever seen anybody bring this this aspect up whereas like if we actually did go to war with russia or china or any of these adversaries our troops have a massive advantage at spotting bullshit because of internet literacy because they've dealt with it their whole lives because of internet oh imagine us trying to fuck with chinese soldiers that have had extremely strict censored internet their entire lives they're falling for level one scams out of the gate because they've never seen it before you know what i mean yeah it's like no different than what north korea with um when they got access to the internet tell me more when they first got access to the internet north korean soldiers out of russia oh yeah and they like they jerked themselves off to death they were dude they just went on a masturbation they became like the 55th gooning they had to like cut yeah they like started restricting phones because they're like oh oh oh they sent the north koreans to curse and they couldn't handle it they couldn't it was taking them out more than the ukrainians oh my god but like okay so so much proof on this all unique if it's if world war three happens i'm sorry it's literally like like when you know the colonists or whatever come over and they're like our immune system can't handle these new diseases boom it's that but it's the internet just like that's what it is yes they're evading what do we do turn on the internet we get it free open internet we don't even nukes we have starlink we just hand out cell phones let's give the enemy free internet what why we're helping them no we're not drop some ipads some phones and free internet has the password on the back for the wi-fi connect here do this picture of underneath it have you ever woken up and felt an immediate need for a nicotine pouch slash and slash or a cup of coffee I can't talk it says no neck on the can yeah no nick allowed be gone how many pouches cups of coffee or energy drinks do you need throughout the day to stop from crashing too many did those things cause anxiety or make you feel on edge I love edging well that's why 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oh bro that like I you know how they um they basically knighted a bunch of Silicon Valley dudes and they made them yeah I was there for that oh so I was there right I was in the room when it happened and they made them generals or some shit because they were okay so I wanted them to make us like Lieutenant Colonels of the propaganda brigade so we're calling in a group of Specialists just complete goon squad of YouTubers walking in trust me slow motion I trip it's it's like Monsters Inc when the scares are walking into slow motion yep the Lieutenant Colonel things we have no idea anything about that we we need experts in propaganda I got you I know a guy I mean we could do some damage real fast I would love nothing more than to pitch giving the enemy free internet and iPads to a room full of generals I know this sounds crazy they're gonna jerk themselves off to death promise I know endless Summer Escapes start here travel the worlds of Netflix IRL inspired by fan favorites like Stranger Things and squid game brave the upside down face off with the front man play leveled up arcade games shop exclusive merch and enjoy themed food and drinks beat the heat play eat and shop on repeat at Netflix house at Galleria Dallas bring your crew and save get your tickets today at Netflix they're going to die you're an officer how would you respond to that pitch oh yeah it's all about marketing what do I get out of this sir we're gonna need 37 million dollars for this this mission we we came up on an entire company it looked like they'd just been drained of life I don't know what happened did it suck you guys come through here mummify an entire army there's tissues everywhere no casings it's just tissue wadded tissues what is this did you see where grounds see where I was yes our morale patch is just like the sploosh you can do a like skill edges like like you level up like basic branch keep going up expert splooge god that's a skip by itself just walking up turning around vomiting whatever you do don't put your nods on you'll go blind it's calm everywhere was this a concentration camp no it's just jerked themselves off to this level the archaeologists are digging up the bones like whatever career field this man had he really used his right arm a lot You can tell by the bone density on his right side. It's a lack of calcium, Frank. Archaeologists, it's just this room. It's dude side by side with a square object. We have no idea what happened. They seem to be grasping at something to save their lives while also grasping their penis. Sir, why are they in a circle with each other? What are they doing there? Limp biscuit. A ritual from the 19th century. I'm glad you guys are here. Black Nick. Why do we call you Black Nick, by the way? Actually, introduce yourself. I need you guys to tell your story time. Yeah, so tactically acquired. Name's Nick. I saw him doing something on YouTube. I was like, I could rip that off. I love you so much. And I was like, that was it. Had to wade through all the people. Talking shit. And now here we are sitting next to the OG Nick. I thought it was funny. So I brought him here. He even named his channel tactically acquired because he stole my shit. I know. He's always spoke so positive of you. He's like, hey, you guys see this dude? We should have him on. I'm like, why can't we look at your guy? I was like, yeah, if you're down. It's like, yeah, he's fucking really good. But his name's Nick. He's black. And he does exactly my thing. And he admits to what he does. That's funny. That's funny. That's great. Capitalism. Dude, it's so much better to do that because a lot of the times then you're honoring that person because you're like, dude, I love what you did. And it inspired me to do the same thing. Yeah. And then there is enough internet. Yeah. What's crazy is it's coming full circle because like he helped me out and I've got a guy who reached out to me and I'm helping him out. That guy I told you about that you met at the live show. Oh, yeah. Yeah. That's awesome, dude. Oh, can you scoot your chair forward just a smidge? No. Not you. Oh, no. Bam. There we go. I was like, you're making sure those mics are good. No, my whole thing was I was like, I watched one of his videos and I was like, because I was going to do a video on, I think it was Chuck. Chuck. And I was like, every time I go to do a video, like I'll do all my research and then I'll go through and I'll watch all or most of the YouTube videos on YouTube about that person just to like read the comments. Because the comments, like if they fucked anything up, the comments let them know. So it's like, I don't want to make the same mistake. Or the comments will be like, I can't believe you didn't talk about this. I'll be like, well, what the fuck is that? Sometimes it's a real thing that should be talked about. Sometimes it's just like a rumor, whatever. So like it gives me all the like, I don't want to want to give the most of the story or whatever. So I go to look at this Chuck Mawinney and there's like three videos on him and one of them is by him. And I watch his videos like this motherfucker hit every talking point that I would have hit. This is bullshit. I just didn't even do the video after that. I hate this guy already. This is literally the first time it's ever happened. Because every time I go to do a video on a war hero, it's like, okay, here's the first one. Here's five other YouTubers that just watched that guy's video and regurgitated what he said. And it's just obvious that it's like, okay, you read the Wikipedia page and that's fucking it. You didn't go read the fucking book. You didn't do any research whatsoever. And it's like, he was the first other YouTuber I'd ever come across. It was like, God damn it. This motherfucker knows what he's talking about. It pisses me off. So then I like reached out and then started working. But the more, well, he, he commented on that video. I was driving down. Shouldn't text him. Don't text and drive. And I'm like, Nick is the N word. So what you meant? I'm picking up what you're putting down. I got it. No, like, I don't, I don't know. How have I not come up with the Nick is the N word joke yet? How have I not come up with that? We're only at a level two on the races and we got, we got to get those numbers. Okay. No, like it just popped up on my YouTube studio. Like, you know, fat electrician comment. And I'm just reading this. The most hyped I've ever been just ever. I bet he saw that. Oh, this guy's going to be really good or really bad. I'm sure it was that feeling at first. Dude, the comment section, people talking on someone else's behalf. Like, I have them on my phone. I've saved. I used to save all the native comments, like David Goggins style, just looking at him. I still have them in my phone. You guys are wild for that. I love it. It motivates me. 100%. Timu David Goggins. When did you get originally into like world war two history stuff? Was it from watching Nick's videos or was it like a little history channel? So I've been trying to do like something entrepreneur wise for like 10 years. And everything builds and builds and builds. Like that's how I learned about cameras and shit. I used to be like fidget spinners and that's how I got into cameras and just all kinds of random stuff. Drop shipping. Fidget spinners? You say naturally it's a good open door for cameras. I got into fidget spinners like right, like before they got hyped up and I was doing. You were the only black dude that used a fidget spinner. I was selling them, I was selling them. I'm trying to think, I was like, I've never seen a black dude be like. First of all, now you have. I like that when you're like fidget spinners, entrepreneurial journey journey and you're like this. Look, they were the hot, cause they were those fidget cubes. Like when they first came out, the fidget, I was like, man, what's the next thing? It's fidget spinner. So I got them from, how's Trump say it? China went China, China, China. Yeah. Wait, wait, this, this is how you got into world war two? Oh no, no. Yeah. So yeah. Of course it's a circle. Um, not like fucking, um, I told my wife, I wouldn't cuss. All right. Anyway. Uh, that's bad. Uh, there's number one, not like, so I started a YouTube channel with my wife. It was a baking channel and then she didn't want to do that anymore. So then I was doing like a, suddenly got a divorce. And I was like, man, I don't know what happened, but then I did my own channel. I was trying to do like, like the whole motivational crap or whatever, and I didn't know what to do next. Then my wife, she said, stop trying to separate your military job from like a business, just lean into it. And that's when I ran across your stuff and I was like, this doesn't suck. I really like this. So then I got into it. Yeah. I like this. Doesn't suck. Oh, dude. I'm stealing it. Yeah. A hundred percent. That's mine. A hundred percent. So instead of bicycles. Oh, I was like, we'll see how long that, that register just registered. What's military too. So like, as you're saying, you did a officer and then how long were you in what it, can Can you go in depth? How much depth can you go in depth? Show some respect. This is a major black neck. Thank you for your service. You're welcome. I like it's Brandon's seat too. Only the highest rank goes there. Is that what I'm feeling right now? Yeah. Just emanating from this chair. You should run for Congress. Black Brandon. I'll make that a thing. No, man, I did all my stuff backwards. I went to college first, and then I went to, let me back up a little bit. Girl, I was dating for a long time, thought I was going to marry this girl. We broke up. She had two things that she didn't want me to do. Join the military, get tattoos. This is the one with the cooking channel, right? This was before that. This was before that, yeah. But it was just interesting. It was like, as soon as you broke up, I was like, well, I'm getting a tattoo. I'm joining the military. That's just immediately went to do that. What were you going to college for? Mechanical engineering. Damn. Yeah. So I used to be a mechanical engineer before I went military full time. I'm not smart enough to be a mechanical engineer, by the way. Dude, that's crazy to me. Way smarter than me. That's the Bezos joke. And you're an engineer, right, in the military? Yeah, engineer officer. So I went in to be a- But it's a different type of engineer. Yeah. Well, I wanted to blow stuff up. I just wanted to be a 12 Bravo. I wanted to go hunt IEDs. That's what I wanted to do. No shit. And I handed the guy my paperwork. Fun fact, the guy put me in, the recruiter. He's still a friend of mine. But I handed him my paperwork, and he was like, oh, you have a four-year degree. Have you thought about being an officer? I was like, I guess. I don't know. What does that entail? You got to go to Fort Benning. Okay. I had no idea what I was getting into. None. Yeah. That's, again, an engineer's- It fascinates me, just the luck of the draw with the military shit. Because we've interviewed so many, like Delta, CAG, like tier ones. Tier one operators have done crazy shit, and 80% of the time, it's always, I had no f***ing idea. The recruiter asked if I wanted to be a Navy SEAL in the 1980s. Had no idea what that was. Anyways, I halo jumped out of a plane and saved Captain Phillips. He did not know what a Navy SEAL was. He was like, I didn't know what a SEAL was. I thought it sounded cool, though. He's like, they showed me a video of them doing some dirt bikes and cool shit. And I was like, yeah, that looks fun. Yeah. Fast forward 15 years. He's- tier one Delta operators like. - Dev Guru and he's a, Terry's the one that, uh, he did one of the shots, you know, on the, yes, the boat. That's that's, he was in command of the boat. That's so funny. Cause Terry's like, I just halo jumped into the ocean and board this boat. And they're like, okay, you're the captain now. He's like, what? I don't know what the fuck. I don't know how to captain a ship. Like I'm here to shoot somebody. Cause Navy, they're like, obviously he knows boats. They're like sailor. What do you want us to do? Set a heading? I don't know. Go right. I mean, starboard. I mean, I know some of those nautical terms. Oh man. So you did, uh, Nate or sorry, army or army. Yeah. Army. And then you just, I can recruiters like, oh, okay. You're going to go to Benning, go through leadership course. Yeah. Did you have to go to Ranger? No. So, uh, so the only ones that have to do in the officer world, um, armor and infantry officers have to go through. Um, engineers, we have sapper. Um, uh, Did you go through sapper? So I had orders to go to sapper school when I was at, um, so our version of AIT is called BOLIC, basic officer leader course. And I went to E-BOLIC at Fort Leonard Wood. Um, I had orders to go, but I had, I could not figure out, uh, how to manage my knee pain back then. So I just dropped out. I was like, I'm not going to go. I mean, a lot of the schools, it looks cool on paper. If you're staying in and you're trying to climb the ranks, but yeah, if that's not the overall goal. Well, really. The reason I wanted to go is I want us to learn more of the advanced demo or sapper school, but then fast forward a few years, that book is public domain, like the sapper book along with the, there's an improvised explosive book. That's also like out there now too. And I was like, Oh, so I don't have to go to sapper school to learn this stuff. Yeah. But what if you could do it really tired and hungry? That's it. That's about most of that training is all training is that I can do this, but can you do it? Two hours of sleep for a week, starving while you're constipated and hungry at the same time. And all your friends are judging you and grading you at the same time. Well, we yell at you. It's like, I don't, I think, I don't know. Why am I doing this? Actually? We want to know you can handle the stress. Okay. We have no need to ever be that, that tired. We don't walk anywhere. We're, we're armor. So there's no point. We mechanized mechanized the way to go. Yeah. Crunchy's that we were, I was happy to get in vehicles anytime we got the opportunity. It's like, Oh, do you want to walk back or do you want to hop in a vehicle? Does it have AC? Yeah. I want my seat. My, I have my, my special seat. That's mine. Hey, you ever just wake up and felt like your mattress sucks and it beat your ass, punch you in the face. That's crazy. Does the mattress also your mom? You ever wake up feeling like you slept in a swamp because you're a disgusting, nasty, ball sweat. I see most of you on Reddit. So I know you have time to break up with that mattress. Get divorced from your mattress. 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So I was like, okay, I'm going to turn down Sarn and then I'll get out. And then I just, I think three or four of my friends at that time had already got called back in that like two months after I've been out. I was like, oh shit, they're calling back everyone right now. So I was like, okay, let me see what options I have. And I was like, oh, I can do a welding. I can just reclass as a welder for. Yeah, active or an act guard, Eli flipping through the job book. I think we're going to talk drywall with metal. I'm in long mower, long mower, long mower. Oh, it's welding. Got this all day. So did that basic. And again, it was that, uh, I had to go to school for it, which was the easiest. I love that school. I was like, okay. This dope then went to my unit and it's, as you were saying, like tiny, tiny and I can't wait for the comment section. Now, Eli, Eli just said, welding was easy on the internet. They're going to see your well, they're going to hate you. I don't like quarters. It's like someone threw change. And that's it. Stacking. Let's change. I love it. So did that. That then showed up to the unit. I was like, oh, okay. This is nice and chill. Cause everyone, there was like one dude that was a who, uh, there was like an E six and he was just trying to be very who, uh, and I was like, oh, calm down. I'm like, don't. Yeah. Please don't. Guards are totally different vibe. Yeah. It's totally different vibe. Okay. So that's what you're doing. And how long have you done that for now? Uh, I've been, I've been in the guard 13 years, but I've been AGR like four or five. No shit. Something like that. That's awesome. I just like, I volunteered to go thought I'd do something cool, but we just went to Kuwait. So, you know how I met him, like actually met him, like we'd talked through the internet before fluck hits me up one day is like, yeah, I guess what he just ran into Nick from tactically acquired cause they live in the same area, they just bumped into each other. That's fucking wild. I've tried to get chat GPT to run the numbers on the statistics, 340 million people. And then you just go like this. Now they're both going to walk here at the same time. I have, I have one editor and he happens to run into him in person. Yes. That's astronomical. So you run into him and then you're like, oh shit, we'll hang out. Yeah. This is fucking so weird. So you go through that. And then at the same time, that's when you're like, oh, I'm going to do YouTube, Instagram reels, Tik TOK, or yeah. So talking about. When I decided to start the channel. Yeah. Well, so looking at his back catalog of what I could rip off first. So I was like, yeah, by the way, there's so many people that do this and do not are not open about it. So you gotta, you've, you've gotta have a starting point to learn. It's an inspiration. You have to learn people don't reinvent the fucking wheel. Sorry. That is the dumbest thing you can do. Look, it is. It is super easy to sit here and say like, oh, well you just. The ripping off ripping you off thing pisses me off the most because it's like, you have no idea what it goes into making a video. Oh no. No. God, no. It's like the dude I was talking to that I'm trying to help out. I said, well, you know, how, how long do you want your videos to be? So I was thinking like a little bit shorter, like 45 minutes. And I said, do you have editing experience? He said, no. I said, you might want to temper your expectations like a lot. You get it because you do camera and editing and you're, you know, the entire process and it is. It's time consuming, especially when you start getting 45 minute videos and our video research alone. How much time do you guys spend it? Like even with you, it's like, how much time do you guys spend per episode? Fucking 40 to 80 hours. Yeah. So I think my research is, I think my research is shorter than that, but I, I eat up the rest of that time. Cause I script my videos. Oh yeah, he does. I do not. Yeah. And, uh, what was that word you used? I just had a good memory. I did it or something like he's got that, he's got that TISM brain. I don't know. I can't, I ain't got it like that. Dang. And then Cappy was you like, well, combined with all the people that work on the videos, it's a lot of hours. Yeah. Cause everything has to be right with you guys. Like otherwise comments and the internet will flip. I was telling him before we started the podcast, like, I'm not jealous of him at all. Cause like I have the luxury of being like, this happened 50 plus years ago we know everything we're gonna know about this there will be no new developments really you know what i mean like i it's very easy for me to be what easier for me to be correct and on the right side because it's all 2020 he's like he's putting out updates on an active war where it's like so he constantly has the i'm flying by the seat of my pants i feel like all the time i'm like am i gonna am i gonna get this one right or am i gonna be on the wrong side of this one and his people are gonna look back one day on my videos and be like wow he really got that have you seen hitler too you know what i mean i don't know that at all i would love to see your comment section it's it's actually they're more mature than uh i would i would you know current events is very it's emotional and like people get very emotional about things that are happening today so it can be touchy but they're they're they're mature boys they're good boys yeah you have a good uh that i think that's one of the keys is having that strong dedicated community or audience that then they rally behind you and they also have the patience is like oh he's going off this information that's what was given to him and a lot of times i'll say i'll say that like this is what we know right now is what we think we know and i will be proven wrong tomorrow probably turn out that i fucking i'll eat my shoe on this so that's the expression and then you were like okay continue to grow how many videos had he done before you probably i'm sure oh no i'm not at 100 no i oh sorry i thought you're saying how many videos did i have already oh okay so you've had a yeah i had over 100 for sure by the time he had started yeah i probably that chuckle anyone maybe 20 30 still dope feeling i bet you're like yeah that was a big jump to go from like because i didn't want to do like really short videos right off the bat i knew the goal was 45 minute videos so that chuckle when anyone was uh that was a big one to be 45 minutes i know that also got me off of uh uh trump did that tick tock band oh yeah yeah so tick tock's on by bite dance okay i think it's the parent company so we call it a tick tock band it was really a bite dance band my chuck mcweeney video was in a program called cap cut and i was locked out of it i was almost done and i was locked out no just a week sunk into editing this thing damn i think about that that would be like adobe just canceling everyone yeah you're like oh endless summer escapes start here travel the worlds of netflix irl inspired by fan favorites like stranger things and squid game brave the upside down face off with the front man play leveled up arcade games shop exclusive merch and enjoy themed food and drinks beat the heat play eat and shop on repeat at netflix house at galleria dallas bring your crew and save get your tickets today at netflix.com house okay the hell uh yeah so it came back up exported it immediately stopped everything i was doing and was like am i going to venture resolve or premiere pro someone's had they probably had like a movie up to this point they were mid-edit and they're like yeah this is the week and then just you can't do it huh so then you did that and then keep crushing now because i mean where uh what's your numbers now you're doing 60 62 000 something like that it's there's a lot of i hate when people it's like it's only this and then i go imagine in a stadium and 62 000 people are watching you yeah yeah two thousand feels like a lot yeah that's sixty thousand you're like yeah it's a lot of work like just people just don't think about i know when i wanted to start it i wanted to get better like at speaking and stuff so i started volunteering you know like we do military ceremonies and someone has to read all the scripts and stuff i started volunteering to do all that just so i could get better at speaking um i started reading books on like uh how to script write better so you can kind of like like okay why did nick do this with the hooks and stuff the best lesson i did was when so the first video that we talked about was the uh bob howard what happened uh he's like if we were just we just started talking and we're oh yeah what video you're working on i was like oh i fluck i just uploaded all my clips to flock on my robert howard video and he's just like he is the same video that he happened to be working on they were impetus but it worked out perfect because app because the book is so fresh on my mind i got to see like how do you how do you take a 350 400 page book and condense it down to where like you don't leave too much out and all that and it was it's really interesting seeing the process like i was like oh he just combined like four paragraphs into one sentence yeah it's just little things like that and that can translate i mean all y'all know it's that how do i get all this information as quick as possible covers everything it's no different than lines reading lines acting it is how do i convey this as fast as possible because a lot of people just add word goop just to add it you're like no get rid of that keep those hooks going the entire time and i like i love these style of uh podcast episodes because i just get to learn the entire time i don't have to talk that much i'm like oh oh oh this is dope this is great so when um when you actually started uh when did when would you say you started blowing up like oh it's taking off now oh it was uh i know exactly what it was it was about this time last year uh i was in the field uh i was in the field i was really down on myself about it because i really was trying to put more videos out like consistently and then you had commented on i think you did a a i don't i don't know instagram what's that real a real yeah saying hey xyz did a good job on it and then i just saw it like skyrocket like like a good good size spike that's the first time you see that you see that money that's in the thing i was like oh this is a real thing like that's that's legit it's better than the army it's way better than the army i'm trying to get him to quit passion unrecruiting i got ethan i'm working on rich i'm going to get him not there yet yeah yeah not there yet yet it switches real quick let me get him you're not making it to 20. you're not getting a full pension you get a certain part would you join again right now not right now and i don't think uh not at the moment no uh i think i'd go back maybe maybe as an officer if if it was just like a yeah weekend job yeah no period only reason i'm going back in is if somebody invades here and then the options are do i want to join the military or run a gorilla operation one of them sounds way funner i bet that other one makes a lot of money if we stream it just do tutorials on that be a good ass time i think through all of our years in business on the internet we've all used shopify i've used it for merch and my skate shop and a couple other businesses i will actually agree 100 on that everything we do is run through shopify even bunkers run through shopify our shoes run through shopify our shoes run through shopify our shoes which is a separate company is run through shopify and they talk together because of shopify shopify runs the world did you know shopify will actually help you design a website also cody i know i didn't know about starting an online store when i started my career online and shopify just made it super super easy for my dumb what happens if people haven't heard about my brand no that's actually easy eli shopify helps you find your customers with easy to use email and social media campaigns get stuck shopify is always around to share advice with their award-winning 24 7 customer service step support bro you got my back and your front shopify helps millions of businesses around the world and 10 of all e-commerce in the u.s from household names like mattel or jim shark to new brands just getting started on some shoes on some merch bunker no we've all been doing this for over a decade and shopify is the easiest e-commerce platform we've ever used i think every single one of us has used shopify at one point i think all our business is right now are using shopify no except mine but that's because it's guns can't do that just one of them can't turn those dreams into sfx cha-ching shopify new cell sound and give them the best shot at success with shopify sign up for your one dollar per month trial and start selling today at shopify.com unsubpod shopify.com unsubpod mr cappy what are you doing uh you you have cappy army going for how long now it's it's almost been exactly a year our our first year it and yeah it's going great man we're we're killing it we're crushing it your jump like it's awesome to see that everyone was like oh okay you switched positions or switch channels started something new and that by the way i can say this now that was terrifying and i thought for sure i was like okay it's a non-zero chance i was doing the pot it was actually like a year ago i was doing the podcast with you guys and i'm like this non-zero chance in my head like this could all just just fucking fall apart and no one follows me over. goddamn disaster and also not just would it be a disaster it'd be a very public disaster it's like not you know when you switch jobs at work and you're like i'm gonna go from ibm to cisco it's like if i fail at cisco no no no whatever like i'll just bury that in my linkedin like this it would be a monstrous like uh public humiliation ritual for myself well it is scary because it's like you got to be doubting yourself as far as like it okay are these my fans or are they fans of the show and i'm just the current talking head you know what i mean like yep anybody on sports center could leave sports center they're they're not the new sports center you know what i mean yeah like there's got to be that but the hunt the hindsight was on the outside looking in i'm pretty sure i was like a lot of other people where it was like i thought you were task and purpose yeah because i so i was following you so i didn't start the thing it's weird because obviously you don't start every video with like hey i'm chris cappy and i don't own this channel by the way now we're going to talk about i just work here yeah i just started the channel and hey yeah so a lot of people thought that that i owned it and um yeah it was so it's been a year now and it's been very freeing to be able to kind of before i i picked every topic i made every video myself but now it's a little bit different because i can also choose how much money to invest in everything so that's a huge benefit which is kind of like the one thing i couldn't do before and you i mean we had talks even leading up to your split because i i was very much you're going to be fine leave yeah i was like you everyone is going to follow you we've watched this happen time and time again but yeah it was some conversations because it is that worry i mean everyone's experienced it like you leaving even when you're starting and you're like uh hopefully how will i do long form and it takes off you oh how much stress goes into okay i'm starting something new i am making this but this is an unknown i have my family to worry about because wasn't your wife pregnant at the time yes yeah yes she was three months pregnant and i ran it by her you know i was like i'm not going to do this unless you believe him and you think that we should do this obviously i'm not going to do it without your blessing and she said i believe in you you know you got to you got to see this through and i was terrified because and now looking back i i don't think you before you have a kid you know before you have a kid doesn't feel real you don't fully understand the responsibility now i'm like what was i thinking oh my god like these diapers cost money what was i going to do if i failed like what a stupid thing to do thank god it worked out um but yeah she's she she's a beautiful girl i'm now a a girl dad and it's a beautiful thing congrats how old right now she's 11 months she's almost a year yeah i i saw i see on instagram other girl dads and so apparently kim jong-un is a girl dad and he takes his little daughter out to to see his like the rockets they fire i'm like what what you know i actually he's kind of growing on me someone's going to clip that yeah he's growing on me he's a good he's a good girl dad come on leave him alone what a warped sense of reality in his den just every time i walk in the room people clap like they're wii sports characters like that's normal like oh yeah imagine trying to find her a date for prom oh my god you're not breaking up with her nope not allowed to what do you need honey the door like mike lowry who is his reggie doing the bad voice with his with his military police in the background um but yeah i hope one day to take my daughter to missile launches and you know maybe you two could go together that'd be nice you might watch this invite you please yes if you're if you're in charge of high mars launches i would i would love to take my daughter to ceylon you know as an american i feel like we should be able to do that you're not talking to kim jong-un right now right actually now imagine i wasn't but also the invitation is putting this out there for kim jong-un as well it'd be a hard one to accept i still think the us military would get way more support if they treated it like it was one of those like charity programs you know where it's like oh donate 16 cents a day to sponsor this child in this impoverished country and then you know every year at christmas you get like a picture and like an update i want that with like my tax dollar like you bought a hellfire missile that we shot at some cartel member yeah yes bro this is dope yes be way more popular do you want to buy another you bought seven screws on a b2 imagine that you're like i might why am i writing a check to the irs what am i doing happened so quickly your pictures are next to your family photos those are my missiles i was thinking about that the other day like back in world war ii like actually like going around and trying to sell war bonds to the civilian population to get everybody in on the war like i don't think that's a good thing i don't think that's a good thing i don't think that's a good thing they never have to do that again because now they can just print more money but like what a cool notion of like we're no we're gonna get this is gonna be a popular idea actually we're gonna crowdfund war it was the kickstarter of world war ii yeah we we go fund me stopping down nazi germany and japan like it's literally what happened well i actually don't know how did all of that work like war bonzo you just they would they would have fundraisers so like i talk about in my videos like a lot of the big war heroes like john bass alone after he got his medal of honor like as soon as dudes were getting the medal of honor same thing with dick bong same thing when they captured uh u-boat 505 whenever something incredibly cool happened they would bring that person back from war and they would go on a war bonds tour and it was a full pr tour across the country going on radio shows doing rallies and you would have john bass alone telling his story of you know stopping the japanese up on the hill by himself with a machine gun and dick bong shooting down 38 enemies and people were in the crowd like oh and then they're like you guys want to buy war bonds and it was basically like a um any other bond where it's like yeah give us 20 now and in 10 years it matures and you get 30 and that's how they got raised money to keep building for the u.s military because they didn't have you know fractional reserve banking yet so they couldn't just be like print us 15 trillion more dollars please so like they actually literally crowdfunded war and it worked to a scary degree it was also way more popular well i mean that's a really good idea though even if you did that why don't why did we get rid of the like the heroes say imagine trying to war fund bond fund the iran war like we need more missiles yeah i don't think we're many people are signing up for that one i think the iranian would be awesome that's my whole point now that they can just print money there's no need for it to be a popular there's no need for it to be a popular endeavor which kind of sucks i kind of like the notion of like hey the civilian population is not paying for it we can't go to war i kind of like that i learned something interesting that you might you might find this interesting but everyone here really uh so the national guard the way they re recently reorganized it was for that reason they put a bunch of the combat arms into the national guard so that if there's like a major war it would very quickly start to inf in uh like impact the civilian population and the iranian people and the iranian and families and it was kind of like the doctrine of why they split it that way was to try to maintain some type of like popular support for the war it's a good idea yeah yeah there's a there's a cool document on it out there that only the people here would find interesting dude well i find like again why get rid of that system as you're saying that's a great idea does the population does the we do a democracy we see what we want to do as a nation and then we fund that and i do like even bringing the soldiers like the the delta dudes that did the raid on uh in south argentina right in venezuela that would be so sick they're on radio they're doing their talks and they're trying to influence or at least get some like a hero as you've said before when we were after general george korea after world war ii for the most part but definitely after korea we quit having war heroes endless summer escapes start start here travel the worlds of netflix irl inspired by fan favorites like stranger things and squid game brave the upside down face off with the front man play leveled up arcade games shop exclusive merch and enjoy themed food and drinks beat the heat play eat and shop on repeat at netflix house at galleria dallas bring your crew and save get your tickets today at netflix.com house like we just stopped we quit doing it and i don't know if it's because we didn't need to raise money anymore or what but like i think it's a like it's a whole re obviously i didn't start my channel with the motivation of doing this but like as something's going successful you like look for reasons why to keep doing it and like mine is definitely like okay why did we quit highlighting these guys why did we quit teaching about these guys like and then you wonder why all the kids today aren't proud to be an american it's like oh because you guys don't know any of the fucking stories that got you here like look at this badass and tell me that's not awesome you know what i mean and then you went oh all none of the kids care none of the kids are patriotic anymore but yeah no shit sherlock like obviously yeah look what they're fed i mean that's i had what i wanted to join and this wasn't the age of information though i was like watch videos or uh 9-11 just happened so it's just oh i want to jump out of planes watching a lot of movies it's like i want to do more and be the cool guy and now is there they rarely war movies or portrayed in that and when there are i feel like a lot of times the first thing people do is they just tear them down they look for a reason of why like oh that guy was actually flawed in this way it's like oh he wasn't perfect well you want to hear the scary stat there's a new study that came out and basically they polled living people from different generations on what was like the the defining historical moment of your generation so for example gen x said the defining cultural moment of their generation was the berlin wall okay makes sense millennials was 9-11 you know what gen z's cultural defining moment is when they asked kids oh god covid oh i'm tiktok shut down for a bit two weeks without mr beast school shootings in general school shootings in general they just thought that that's wild and because uh we've discussed in the past um dr fox he did a research paper on this the 90s were the highest peak of school shootings the 90s when we were really like kind of like gen x is more that's what's crazy it's like this is before 9-11 but people that's we treat it like the uh like the monster in the closet if you have a kiddo and you never talk about the monster in the closet guess what they're never going to know about the monster in the closet if you walk in to the closet you're going to be like oh my god i'm not going to know about the monster in the closet you're going to tell your kids like hey good night be careful the monster in your closet and then you walk out now kids like the fuck did dad well let's also think about like school like during the cold war during the cold war kids would have like nuclear fallout drills like they had the government cartoons with the little turtle duck and cut remember kids what do you do when you see the flash like what's the closest thing parallel to that that a kid today would be going through an active shooter drill right you know what i mean so like it's i don't know it's just weird to think about it's like and what what's the war obviously the berlin walls the cold war potential war with russia 9-11 is what started g watt like what's the war outcome or motivation for somebody to join the military service if the biggest cultural event of your childhood and upbringing is a local problem yeah so it's i can say it's it's tough um recruiting right now so like two yeah so like two assignments ago i was a associate professor of military science glorified rtc instructor and then after that i was actually recruiting commander so like i was in charge of like the recruiting for the southern part of the state never thought i'd do that my career didn't want those assignments but you go where you're told it does what it's told so anyway that was rt it was wild the things you find out about so like covid and has messed these kids up yeah but it's absolutely messed these kids up i was the class i taught for a lot of my students i was the only in-person class they had on campus the rest were all online oh damn paying full college prices but like i was the only one in person it's gotta be hard to recruit like oh yeah so yeah so on the recruiting part you're talking like what so why did these kids join like it's it was kind of hard to get some of these old-timers to understand like no these kids don't care about any more that's not where they're joining they don't have that defining moment a lot of them are joining and it's the only thing i could sell was educate was either education benefits like go to college or get a skill that could translate into a job so like the two hottest things that are easy or really the three hottest things to sell right now is cyber signal and military intelligence because all those translate into like you know three-letter agency jobs like those are easy sales geopolitical event in their lives has been school shootings and covid yeah but i mean the most impactful school shootings and then covid happened and it's like how many fucking kids didn't get to go to prom how many kids you know what i mean yeah like arguably the point of your life where you learn the most socially and deal with the most rejection and the most everything stay in the house cover your face don't interrupt why are you guys so weird i wonder you know what i mean yeah like couldn't be anything that you guys did to us stand six feet apart even though it's an airborne illness that can travel fucking 80 yards away yeah why fauci said so he also said it didn't make sense he didn't know where it came from but fucking do it thankfully it really doesn't hurt you little ones at all you covid was wild being still serving when it first happened i was so i had just gotten out i was so fucking happy that i wasn't in for covid and then you couldn't walk anywhere in uniform without people going like is it martial law what's happening right now brandon what shirt are you wearing well i'm glad you asked eli i'm wearing my poncho shirt that's not what a poncho looks like it looks lightweight and breathable it is lightweight and breathable it's also fantastic for summer because like said it does breathe it's very lightweight and it also offers spf protection you mean upf that's what i said oh okay bad hearing legitimately on the campaign trail these ponchos were basically my everyday attire it's just the perfect mix between looking professional feeling good and just being fairly casual is that the the western style i'm just guessing because the pearls it is once you go 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a mission it's run like a real military operation so like yeah we're doing this mock mission operation arctic anvil operation slippery fist whatever the right so the texas national guard their annual training exercise was to provide disaster relief in either houston or dallas and the mock mission's name was jade helm and they had the maps drawn up of like okay the units are going to go into this part of the city or whatever whatever like whatever this fake mission was obviously they weren't actually going out into the city but all the maps were drawn up that was what the intel briefs were yada yada yada it's all fucking fake these got leaked to the press and it turned into all the like super crazy right-wing people being like barack obama's gonna instill martial law so he doesn't have to leave office and he's gonna become a dictator and blah blah blah blah and it got so hyped up that texas has like the actual federal army national guard but there's also the texas guard that just works for the state of texas and they they do not like they're not technically associated with the u.s army none of that shit just a militia group for the state of texas basically they were fucking posted up like outside of fort hood ready to go to war with the united states army in case barack obama tried to instill martial law and i had people coming up to me like is this is this true are are you gonna try to enforce martial law i was like bro i'm an apprentice electrician you think i'm gonna get a call one day and hop in a humvee with a megaphone and tell everybody to go to bed absolutely not like fuck no it would not work no that was like a real thing i got asked about it multiple times when this was all going on it was fucking crazy god what year was this 2016 and i think they do it every year right they do a version of it kind of and they have special forces come in with their helicopters and they do a mock invasion of a like a town and then people they go crazy every year about how oh because the government's planning every year the government's planning something look at all these tanks on trains it's like bro the military's just moving equipment why is it dirt why is it now because it's summertime and that's when we train i don't what do you want me to say like we've because you'll tear up the roads if you try to drive a convoy of abrams like down the friggin 81 highway all the way to wherever it fuck people freak out going to yakima because seattle today yakima we'd have to do a drive with all the strikers so you have an entire brigade Brigade driving on the road, highways, there. And you just get to see people freaking the fuck. I didn't think about that. They don't even look at it like, oh, it's a military exercise. You see it on X. You see it on Twitter all the time. It'll have like 37,000 likes. And it's just a video of tanks going on a train trussle. And people are like, it's happening. It's World War III, guys. See, they're thinking that. I'm looking at that and going, there are some poor E4 who's been in the heat. Binding down chains. The worst railhead operation. For minimum wage. Below minimum wage. Hating life. They're like, all these strikers on the roads. It's like somebody is in there having to drive that hating life right now. Oh, dude. Fuck. I'm good. Man, I forgot all about that. Okay, so now that you're doing that, do you get in any trouble? With the military? Like, Nick's out. Ethan, we had some fun times with Ethan, depending on what was going on. Man, I don't know what it is. If I'm just lucky or it's the content that I do because it's history, everyone's either neutral or really receptive. I haven't gotten a single negative thing. I think, again, it's a history thing. Yeah. I think if you were doing like current events or what a lot of other military influencers do, which is just like being in your uniform, reading headlines from Newsweek that are like right 40% of the time, you would get a lot more shit. Yeah. Oh, 100%. You're also not in your fucking uniform in every video. I think smart. I think I showed maybe in the whole Tatically Acquired channel, there's maybe like 45 seconds total of me in uniform. I've never done it. They're like skits usually, too. But even then, like I've done like I'll just have the tan shirt. Yeah, but I mean, it's still there's like there's plausible deniability. Like if I did a skit, nobody would be like that's stolen. Like, no, obviously I'm doing a skit. You know what I mean? There's still plausible deniability. The fact that you had to come here and say, oh, no, I'm still in is the whole reason why it's OK. Whereas like a lot of the other military influencers, it's like your whole thing is you're in the military. So we should trust you and know. And that's why you're a reliable source. Yeah. Angry cops. That's where you get in trouble. Yeah. Angry cops. We're just going to look at it while his content that he does, his jokes he makes, even on kind of this. And then he is a detective and a drill sergeant. I'm like, you just like playing with gas, homie. He is. And I've had this conversation with him before. He's Norm MacDonald. Yes. He is the Norm MacDonald of the game. He's one of the first military. Influencers like he pioneered a lot of this, if not all of this. So it's just like by the time they caught up to being like, that's not OK. He'd already done it. So it's like he just gets like the forever past. He's a loose cannon. We didn't catch the rest of you. Motherfuckers need to listen. He's just grandfathered. And I remember watching Rich years ago. Yeah, he's been doing it for 12 years now. Yeah, I mean, he's been doing this since Vine. Yep. I remember I think me and Rich started talking like 2014 for military content. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. In its infancy of social media. Yeah. Like Drunk and Debrief was the retelling of history. Military stuff like you, I'd get you drunk. You tell a story and then we'd reenactment with ADR or it's like Drunk History. But Comedy, not Comedy Central. Yeah. Where was it on? Comedy Central. Yeah, Drunk History, but it was Drunk and Debrief. Remember Comedy Central was a thing. Yeah. And that was the first of its kind. All those. It's like you get to see the first of their kind. And it's like, oh, yeah, this is OG. And then other than Rich, I think Rich is the only one. Rich is the only one that's still around. Like Rich was one of the first ones there. And he's I can't think of anybody else that's had as long of a career successfully as he has in this age. Everyone else, like I mean, started doing other combat veteran, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And then you the other drills aren't you? You? Oh, you should Thomas. You should Thomas. Yeah. I don't know. Like any of those guys are doing anymore. Yeah. Like even I mean, he was before and after Black Rifle, like Black Rifle, I feel like was the the turning point when it became like mainstream and like he was there before. He's there after. I mean, it's crazy long. Yeah. And still doing both. Still doing it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's the most the weirdest part is he is the one that will he has the least likely chance of quitting anything. No. He loves. It's never going to happen. Being a police officer loves training privates. Doesn't feel out of the game. He really does. He's 100%. That'd be interesting from his perspective, because he's been doing it for song. It's like going back. What was it like back then? Grandpa, like just seeing how everything's progressed. I mean, you are. As far as like, dude, ad revenue didn't exist. Like a lot of that stuff. Yeah. It's not what it is now. Yeah. I look at O.G. like 2010, you had Freddie and how the money would be made was not we were not looking at ad revenue for YouTube. It was getting deals to do videos for or commercials. That's how the money was brought into Rocket Jump. Everyone was like, I don't know, like no one really gave a shit or the CPMs would have been trash donkey. And then that was probably tell. Fuck 2016, 20. I'm trying to think when ad revenue actually made a difference. Man, I was. I know this is like a lot. I've done this forever now at this point in my life. I don't I don't see how some of these guys like they'll do like those skit channels and stuff and they make like pennies on the dollar and then like all these take talk influences and stuff. I mean, they don't make. Yeah, the CPMs are lower for the money. Yeah. I mean, I think that's a good thing. I think that's a good thing. it up in Montana and burned down a field, apparently. Gay. Gay. But, so, it's semi-automatic. It has five 30mm grenades in the clip, or in the magazine, sorry. I'll see myself out. Thank you, guys. It was really nice to be here. Boom! It just kicks it. I love how we're all YouTubers, and we all know there's 500 comments angry at him immediately. The second you were like, I'm turning so red right now. Just like the welding thing earlier. I said welding was easy. Yes! What am I doing? Just ruined my credibility here on Unsubscribe today. Dude, such a cool grenade launch. So cool to hear that. It's so cool. It's such a cool story about how exploding bullets below a certain amount are supposed to be a war crime. Dude, sorry. Again, 300 yards and you're hitting a face. That's ridiculous. 40 mic mics, you would have a fucking leaf that you would just guess that it's going to maybe hit. Your CEP, or circular error probable, is within 4 meters to the left and right, and horizontal and vertical. You're aiming for an area. This is your area. The difference between aiming at an area, because you're just kind of winging it and putting your finger up. Which way is the wind blowing? It's an open leaf sight for anyone that's never seen it. It is literally like this and yards. Like 50? 100. And it's giant. Yeah. Now you're hitting the silhouette and you're choosing where to hit on the silhouette. It's an insane capability. There's also this counter drone version to it. So I shot, people were giving me shit in the comments for this because I shot the inert, sort of the, just, it shoots out these razor blades on the side. Oh, it's like the one missile. The flying Ginsu Hellfire. It's like the Hellfire. That's what I said. It's a mini version of Hellfire. I shot a drone that my buddy gave me, the drone that I could shoot, and so I didn't have it flying at me at 300 miles an hour, obviously, because I'm like, I only got two of these shots. I don't want to miss. So yeah, it kind of looked stupid, but I did shoot this drone into oblivion and there is an airburst version of it, a proximity version, where it detects when it's within 5 meters of a drone, automatically through, like, radio frequencies and then it just explodes itself. So that's cool. Oh, that's, yeah. But, uh. I like how they shit on you for doing something. Dude, it's, it's like, I was like, it's everything. I was like, don't think this is cool. Cappy, you're such a f***ing loser. Like, you couldn't, it's not flying at you at 600 miles an hour. It's the MMA guys. Well, you can't eye gouge and bite his dick off, so this isn't real fighting. It's like, dude, shut up. Like, I'm sorry. You hit with the bottom of your fish. It's not called training if we're actually doing the thing. Like, I'm also, again, should I have done it that way? Sure. But, you know, it was just kind of just me out in Montana with, like, a dude. Doesn't matter. Then it would be, yeah, but you didn't actually have explosives on it. Yeah, right. Yeah, you know what I mean? Like, that's, it's never gonna, it'll never be enough. It doesn't matter what you do, it will never be enough. When will it be enough? Never. You're not in an active war zone. You don't understand what's going on with the heart rate of those soldiers. What the f*** do you know? It's gotta be a zone 2. You have to take 17 Adderall. To make sure that you just, you know, recreate that feeling of being under fire. You do an in a war zone under fire and then it's like, murderer. Yeah. Okay, cool. Lose no matter what. I gotta get jacked. But I gotta be comfortable at the same time. Oh, they're so pathetic. Oh, that's sad. That's where today's sponsor comes in. Fabletic. 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Take a quick style quiz and be sure to select unsub when prompted to unlock this offer. Again, that's Fabletics.com slash unsub to save 70-80% off everything as a new VIP. Okay, so that's you gotta play with that one. Dude, the recoil was insane, by the way. And they don't even try to hide it. It feels like somebody actually stood up. It's a fucking donkey kicked you in the shoulder. It's a 30-mic mic. Yeah. Yeah. I want to see what those do. When the air bursts, because it has to. How much does it fuck up? Well, I had joked in my video talking about the XM25. I was like, technically the airburst is supposed to be airburst, but because you can program the bullet to explode when you want, there's nothing preventing the grunt from lazing the bad guy and then making it detonate six inches inside the bad guy, which is exploding ammunition. And then I put the clip from Terminator 2 when the grenade goes into him and he like blows off like a sideways. He looks down. Yeah, exactly. Yes. So is this like a, I mean, not going to give it to every grunt. It's like a squad weapon? This is interesting. I love talking about the doctrine side of it that I find that fascinating. So they're going to, basically they're remaking the whole army squad where it's going to be the XM7 and they're going to get rid of two XM7s in the squad. And instead of your grenadier role, you're just going to be carrying one of these. It's called the precision grenade system. Grenade launcher guy. Right. Grenadier. The grenadier's back. No, grenade launcher guy. It sounds cooler. I'm sure the Marine Corps, the Marine Corps has the best MOS names. I'm the GLG. No big deal. Oh, shit up. So now, wait, when you say redoing the squad. So in each fire team, you'll have one of these and you don't you don't carry. I asked about it and they said you don't care. You wouldn't carry like a an AR or a rifle. You would just have this because there's also shotgun round shells. And this was the one lethal round that I did get to fire was it. So it get this. It's like firing for 12 gauge buckshot rounds. It has 48. That's hell. Yeah. That's got to be a war cry. In 40 years, there's going to be some dude with zero cartilage or bone density in his shoulder. I'm not sure it was service related. Yes, a hundred percent like it's like the goose off giving you you're not allowed to shoot the goose off so many times because of brain damage. Yeah, concussions. It has that kind of energy to it. It's for and you shot it. Yeah. How'd that feel? Beautiful. Yeah, it really gave me a run for my money. Gun knows you're from New Jersey to when I had to shoot the we built. Still a 10 or an 8 gauge, but we're doing blank rounds, which found out that sucks way more because you'll throw in we're putting an object in front of the blunderbuss. It was like an 8 or 10 gauge blunderbuss. We built and we're filming it. My shoulder was bruised like the entirety of it and I shoot everything. I do not get bruised shoulders. That was one of the first times I actually told them I was like, hey, I got like two more shots. I can't do this anymore because they're like and action filming like, oh, that really, really sucks. It has a serious recoil mitigation system in it where the barrel moves back nine inches and there's also a massive like buffer spring in it. I'll try to shoot here. I'll show you the this. You could see right here. Yeah, it kicks that shows that that fucking move you homie. Yeah, this is in slow motion, but damn, it's just boom. When in slow motion, the frame goes like this like you're here from here. So it looks like the Warhammer bolter gun and they have that at their offices is like the Warhammer 40 K bolter. Have you seen the Chinese version that I've made fun of on unsub before and the internet got super butthurt at me. They get they get really butthurt about that because if people were commenting on this video, they're like, oh, people are making fun of the Chinese version, by the way, is based on an American version that failed that we were like, it was one Barrett made the XM 109 Barrett made and we walked away from it because we're like, it's 30 pounds. It has ungodly recoil. This this new version that we have. Yeah, I did it. Yep. You have to see it fire because the scope is on a slide and it's got this big plunger thing. So when the Chinese dudes fire it, the scope, hits them in the face and then you see the whole scope slide forward because they have had to design it that way because the eye relief on the scope if they mounted the scope far enough ahead to where it wouldn't check them they couldn't see anything so every time they're getting punched in the orbital bone by this scope he's not lying you have to have the eye relief to look at it's like one of the og sniper like um like a night vision it's like the night vision where you have to put your eye into it and then that night vision kicks you in the face every time you pull the trigger and not a like not a little bit this thing this new thing that we're working on is only a it's 11 pounds versus that which is 30 pounds so people trying to say they're like why are we making fun of china for doing this when we're doing this no we're not doing the same thing watch this dude's yeah just got mike tyson right in the face and they have to carry that are not good for the eye no shit yeah i didn't even know that why do people get hurt get mad about that because everybody that has the attitude that america is bad anytime america does anything it's because somebody else did it first just they just don't like america so they jump on any opportunity they can they can to shit on it the chinese communists it is wild watching uh people underestimate the u.s military and then what we can do it is mind-blowing yeah like we do war re like really good plus we've been doing it it was like 12 years we've not been in war since our country 18 oh so we're we're due we're due for no shut up but it's one of those sayings even where new when recruiting did you see any of that like people joining in like younger kids are like but what if do i have to go to war or oh yeah well they better than us yes not not the better they weren't you're giving them too much credit that they were digging that deep but they were like you know well i have to deploy and then like it's like well i mean that's what you're uncle sam's just not giving you these free benefits for nothing like i mean you may deploy you may not most deployments really aren't that bad g-watt like especially yeah i had a blast it's a great easy deployment a little bit different era a little bit different yeah yours is definitely time yeah i had a blast when we were with randy we went to dinner with randy as he was like he's going away party thingy and that's what i was like he was like what unit were you i was like oh 2 id for this uh in 07 in mocha dia and bag day he's like oh you guys fuck holy shit this first tracker they got hammered i'm like yeah it was great no but my war stories are so different no shit there i was green bean and wi-fi everywhere i know that's how you're like it's like a deployment i'm like wow just go over there and work out i mean and that's uh that's what happened a lot of times when my guys went back the second time that's all they were like dude you just get jack at 10 yeah what's crazy though is what our because at the time we were like i don't understand this mission like what are we doing and we were just like a presence for iran and we were protecting some of the stuff some of those strikes hit those places that we were protecting and like just looking at that in hindsight because it felt like there was no reason to be over there and we were just like oh we're here and i'm sure a lot of people feel that way but it's like holy shit that could have been like a thing what what are we doing we're trying to get them to start voting and quit fighting oh how long they've been not voting and fighting forever oh i should be able to get this done in nine months and i'm sure i got a powerpoint presentation it'll persuade them if you see slide two that is such a good idea we should do that so going back to like for you what's one of the scariest things that you've been i think the biggest the scariest thing right now is the straight-up form moves for everyone that has everybody you know in a tiffy pretty worried about what's going to happen there it's unclear at this point that's that's what i'm most worried about probably is uh and i think there's a lot that we've learned from that war with iran in terms of what you can kind of paste that onto what it would look like in a war with china because it's it's pretty similar it's they have all their chinese they have all their equipment it's the same thing would happen kind of be they'd fire these huge volleys of missiles at all of our bases that are in that region um so that's i think a microcosm of what we might see in the pacific and i would say doesn't look great in terms of interception rates you know because it's it's just a losing proposition i think right now offensive wins you're gonna want you can't accept every missile that's coming and we've kind of learned that uh so that's what i'm most worried about is the straight of our moves straight of moves is fucking lame it's like it's just i think ethan's talked about uh they complained for a long time this is the stuff we need to get into like missile defense system or interceptions and then that's what they kept pushing off for saying we don't need that and now also just the entire notion of like they're not playing to win so you're not gonna win you know what i mean like if you're not willing to go in there and blow up the systems that fire huge volleys of missiles and blow up the factories that make the missiles you're never gonna fucking win because the technology and the cost of a missile that's capable of detecting and intercepting a dumb unguided missile and it takes a seven million dollar missile to shoot down a missile that costs a hundred grand they're gonna keep throwing a hundred thousand dollar missiles at you all day long and they're gonna bleed you dry first so it's just the attitude of like if if they would fucking play to win they would win really fast and in a hurry but they're gonna sit there and bleed themselves out for as long as they want because nobody wants to actually just commit and do the thing which is wow that's the biggest change you need ground troops i think at this point basically and to shut that down no one wants that yeah we're saying god it's that quote that i think kissinger a lot of people give it to which is like the guerrilla army wins if it does not lose and the conventional army loses if it doesn't win so we would basically have to go in there and and completely win all they have to do is just kind of survive i mean has america ever lost when the objective was go win no but when it's like okay well go over here and just kind of walk around and like hearts in mind yeah you can shoot people but you have to wait until they rack their gun and then point it at you and then even then we should probably wait till they fire first and then you can return fire and then if you do shoot somebody and his family members say that oh it was celebratory gunfire then we're going to give that guy fifty thousand dollars of your tax money like no that either go do the thing or leave him alone yeah like yeah hearts and minds never won't no ever and this is not true it worked in japan it worked in germany but what was that what did we do because we did the thing first it was like okay you guys learned your lesson you want a sandwich now okay cool now we're gonna be buddies like do it or don't and then you had hey okay emperor do something you've never done like that was and it was highly successful and still i mean you've discussed it we've discussed it where we got to see a culture people that we've never seen whereas we're going to not believe the american one and still defend 20 years after 30 years uh 1976 i think was the last guy hero onoda in the philippines which like that level of was that national pride or radicalization yeah yeah indoctrination but on the flip side it was oh look how japan prospered after that yeah we did uh what 10 years yeah how long we helped when uh we were there like boots on the ground for 10 years but i mean we continued to help forever i mean it was basically like all right we won start making toyotas worked out great i need seiko watches toyotas nintendos nintendos i also hear me out i want a company i want one store where i can buy a dirt bike and a piano all right get to it chop chop we'll call it yamaha it's going to be great we also draw this um girl bigger tips fantastic hear me out what if she had an octopus do we blur it out just enough and only their private parts why i don't know ah so the how do you think the straight's going dude that's what i'm looking i'm pretty gay just people just people on this side protesting with this with the gay atola shirts around here somewhere the gay atola i don't think you've seen them oh i gotta they're over there but uh i should be wearing shirts someone brought them in here yeah they're amazing yeah they love them finn come in here with them yeah yeah who did wait uh finn walked in here earlier they might be on the stairs right there and unless they're removed what oh right here we got them amazing gay atola oh my god are these yours no i don't know i don't know i don't know oh someone just made these yeah there's a bunch of them in here somewhere so good it's my favorite tola uh but yeah i'm looking forward and thinking where does this end does this end with iran basically has a toll booth there and they're allowed to kind of just charge 2 million bucks to whoever goes through Or are we going to blockade them for 12 months? It's just, it's a standoff and nobody kind of wants any part of it. It's not good for anyone right now. So it's shutting down Iran's most of their economy and it's driving up all the gas prices here. I think some of us may have noticed. It's no bueno. What a good idea. What if the enemy was more desperate? That works good. Yeah. They'll give up then. Yeah. Yeah. That works based on my extensive knowledge of, I don't know, basic psychology of every living creature on the fucking planet. It's always when animals are desperate that they're most reasonable. Yeah. Didn't the last barrels just start arriving? Because it's like a three to six month process. Yeah. They said in the next few weeks to expect maybe some kind of catastrophic spike in the prices. But yeah, it's, I think they were hoping for a regime change really quickly. I think they were like, let's go in, let's pound here, kill that. And then we'll set up somebody like similar to in Venezuela. They'll come in. They won't be democratic, but who gives a shit? They'll be more pliable to the US. It'll be great. And listen, like whether I'm, whether I agreed with the war or not, the reasons for starting it or like any of that, it kind of, that's a different conversation. But I think how it's going right now is, is not well, whether it was the right choice or not. That's kind of how I feel about it. And also, even if you did agree with the war, you're, you kind of get to be like, I agreed with it, but they're not doing it. Like do it or don't shit or get off the pot. Like, are we doing this or not? We're just dragging this out and making miserable for fucking everybody. Yeah. It almost, because it's almost like a, a no win situation for us where you can't, if we walked away now, then Iran has control. There's no freedom of navigation there. And that is a non-starter for the U.S. And at the same time, they're never going to agree. I mean, I think what happens is I think we bomb them again. I don't know. I would bet on that. I don't think that's a hard guess. I don't know. I think. It's like, well, the first round didn't work. Yeah, right. Let's try again. Maybe it'll be different. New military nation. They're putting underwater mines out. It's like, I've seen this happen before. I saw what happened last time. They just put some mines out. One U.S. ship got too close. USS Samuel B. Roberts almost got sunk. And then they flattened their whole fucking Navy in eight hours. So that's what I think could happen is if when we bomb them again and then maybe we send some escorts in. I think if a ship gets hit by a missile, that might maybe create the political will for some kind of ground troops. But I think what Iran's been doing is they've been purposely trying to not. Create mass casualty events purposefully so that we don't have that kind of rah rah. Like, yeah, they killed 100 U.S. troops. Let's go in there, fuck them up. It's smarter for them to just let's keep let's bomb their airplanes. Let's bomb their equipment and not get them all jazzed up on on fucking invading us. It's a hard one because right now I think this is one of the wars going into it. No one wanted like that was. That's what I wish there was a different Middle Eastern country that like had a massive military that was. Committed to controlling Iran and it's wish that existed in the region, if only. Whoops, poor Nick, you're like, I can't say anything, but I want to. I support my army America sweating over here, just sitting over here in a reverse Oreo, trying to not get fired. But I'll tell you right now, I've read everything on the back of that damn can. Don't smile. So don't don't make eye contact. Oh, my God. You got to go on on stuff. How was it? My wife's pissed and the army's pissed. It's not great. Great time, though, but but themselves, though, my views are up. YouTube has to work now. Everything else is officially on the rocks. Oh, man. Again, it's one of those. I haven't met that. Or GWAT that that was like, OK, let's do this thing. But a lot of the young people, it was crazy watching that reaction. They're excited for it, which I remember that. I'm sure all you remember that it's that, oh, I want to join. I want to do war. And it's that 20 years. How long has it been some like heavy combat in Iraq, Afghanistan? It's Afghanistan ended. What was it over 10 years ago now or less than 10? Sorry, eight, seven. So and really then it was kind of really quiet there for five years or so. So people wanted their chance, I think. But I don't know that anyone was like other than for wanting their chance. Like, I don't know if there was a lot of let's hit Iran because it's the right thing. No. Star Wars. The Mandalorian and Grogu is now streaming on Disney Plus. What are you waiting for? Hop on. The must see galactic adventure comes home on Disney Plus. This is the way. Our only chance is to work together. Life is always where your seatbelt Star Wars, the Mandalorian and Grogu now streaming on Disney Plus rated PG 13. I think we just got we've seen how it plays out each time so far and this isn't going to be magically different. That's what the hard part is. I also I. It's not like I want Iran to have. I want Iran to have nuclear weapons at the same time. So. Why? It's. You know what? Now that I think about it, I never thought about why. Maybe they should have nuclear weapons. It's like, you know what? You did put a positive spin on Kim Jong-un earlier. I know. Kim Jong-un. Iran with nukes. I fucking hate the America. Bad people. Well, America has nukes. Why can't they have nukes? The same reason my three year old can't have a fucking gun and I can. That's why, dickhead. Like, what are we talking about? You know what people forget about that as well? Is that America is one of the only places that goes around and stops our own allies from having nuclear weapons. We stopped Taiwan from getting nuclear weapons. We stopped South Korea from getting nuclear. Taiwan was a hair away from getting nuclear weapons. And we came in with the CIA and we were like, stop that or we're going to get a nuclear weapon. And we were like, stop that or we're going to get a nuclear weapon. I've heard hair. I've never heard hair. So this is a new measuring system for the measurement. I'm adding to the toolbox for later. YouTube safe. I'm not comfortable saying the C word. I'll turn red. Either way. I got it. I'll turn red. I'll turn red. I'll turn red. I'll turn red. I'll turn red. I'll turn red. I'll turn red. So now you've been doing history for years now. What is one of your favorite stories you've told up to this point? I think Ron Terry. I think that's up there. Ron Terry. So Ron Terry was the father of the gunship, so like the AC-47, the C-130 and all that. AC-47. What's that? AC-130? I thought you said AC-47. The AC-47. That's the predecessor to it. Oh, okay. Yeah. No shit. Okay. Yeah. So it was like, I mean it's, that in and of itself, guy made gunship, that's cool. But like the intensity of how he got it done. It was just this year after year, someone else kept trying it. And of course, military not wanting to change. They're like, that's not how we do things. Air Force is like, that's not how we do things. And another guy would pick it up. Another guy would pick it up. And then this guy finally is like, I'm doing this. And he just finds an AC-47 and some mini guns somewhere, shows these SOCOM guys. And somehow he bullshits his way into a meeting with Curtis, is it Curtis LeMay? I'm trying to think his first name. Yeah, I think so. General LeMay. General LeMay. He was like the guy over the Air Force at the time. And the rest was history essentially. But even then was like, he still, it was just one obstacle after another. Even after the Air Force signed off on it, people were still like, no, you can't do that. No shit. Like they said, go to Vietnam, your AC-47s will be there. And they were like blocking him from having them. So much bureaucracy. Yeah. And war, which is wild. It's not a hard pitch. Yeah. And you drive by out of a cargo plane. How dope would that be? I'm not feeling it. But it's always- What do you mean? But it's like you're always, it comes down to, can we do something better for cheaper? And that undermines someone's got interest, right? The AC-130 has so much res. Love that. Yeah. And so he's the individual that's just like, I'm going to build a ship around a gun. So actually, so there was a- Oh, good. Like AC-130, C-47 is, it's a lot. Yeah. It's a fucking cargo plane that they put mini guns and artillery out the side. Yeah. And it's just like, instead of having a fast mover, like a F-4 Phantom fly over and throw some gunfire and drop a missile and be able to make two passes and then like, okay guys, don't die for five more minutes until the next sortie gets to you. It's like, what if we just had a fucking cargo ship with eight tons of fucking ammo doing fucking death donuts around these guys constantly 24/7. And we see it in infrared. Yeah. Yeah. I like finding stories like that where someone, they just kept pushing the envelope just trying to find a solution. to it like uh one of one of the early videos i did was on the ach 47 alpha so it was called the guns a go-go program so it was a chinook so the chinook was still like new back then and someone was like i can't remember who came up with the idea but it was endorsed by like uh general tolson i think but anyway they were like what if we just turn this cargo helicopter into a gunship because all the because their theory was all gunships they have to shoot forward and they can't shoot back so you never fly over what if we just put guns all the way around it and grenade launchers and rockets we'll stabilize the plane with gunfire from all sides yeah like i did the recoil forces they'll cancel each other out it won't rip it apart enemies are on the right and a huge family having your picnics on the left son of a bitch let it yeah they , the thing was thing was dope i i did the math on it and i had some backlash in the comments but you know math doesn't care about your feelings uh the power to weight ratio uh by my estimates i don't think there's been a helicopter we've ever uh aircraft we've ever filled it had a higher power to weight ratio because you could just carry so much like it had a gross weight of like 33 000 pounds and i think it could carry 15 000 pounds of ammo because they stripped everything out of this thing there's a lot of ammo yeah the pilot has to fucking readjust the throttle as they dump ammo because they're constantly getting lighter oh my god you're right yeah there were only two seats in that thing for the pilot and co-pilot no one else had seats they were just sitting on ammo crates and stuff sounds dangerous i mean you you're good but also just vietnam same vibe have you ever seen my ching lee video yeah he's like one of my favorites for doing that yeah so ching lee the general he's like most known for being the battleship commander in world war ii so he was a an olympic sniper he actually held the american and maybe the world record for like the most olympic medals for a while all for sharpshooting and he had really really bad eyesight oh okay yeah so like prior to him like really getting into battleships and pioneering all that he got put in this like admin position leading up to world war ii where they basically told him like you're really detail oriented whatever just go around the military and unfuck everything well he got fed up with like the bureaucracy so he's the reason that like every square free inch of space on the deck of a u.s ship in world war ii was covered with aa guns and 50 cals because like he knew that it was going to be an air fight like he was responsible for a lot of key decisions he was pivotal in like the vt fuse getting developed which was arguably a bigger deal than the nuclear bomb in world war ii like all these decisions he was behind during this period of of time pt fuse uh variable time fuse proximity fuse what he was talking so that came out in world war ii basically uh it's an artillery round and prior to this it was either mechanical or just free shot so it was like you would have to set the timer and tell the ammunition when to explode so you had to guesstimate oh that plane looks three seconds away set the timer and then if it you miss all the time like the odds of shooting down a plane were very very low the vt fuse is a proximity fuse it emits a little radar transmission and then once it gets once it gets thrown back at it it knows that the plane's within 15 feet or whatever and then it explodes so it was absolutely pivotal in world war ii the germans we used it against them and because you didn't just have to use them against planes you could basically have your artillery be airburst then so instead of having your artillery hit the ground and explode it would explode 15 feet over everybody's heads god so they i mean they were cutting down forests the germans were blown away by it nobody could figure out how we did it because the the ammunition manufactures its own battery and mid-flight let's see because oh yeah yeah so it's got the the lead wafers and then the acid inside of it which i want to come back to the the vial of acid thing in a second but so he was like behind all these decisions but the funniest part is to cut through all the bureaucracy that he's talking about he was getting mad that it was taking so long to get his paperwork through because there was like three rubber stamps you could hit it with it was like standard priority and urgent urgent was the most important he was stamping everything urgent like i'm important let's get this done it wasn't getting through fast enough so he had a custom rubber stamp made that was frantic and he used red ink that way any any joe blow handling the paperwork be like fred i've never even seen this and like take off running and that's like how he like railroaded so much through no one knows yeah in the military he's like i don't you're some e4 go take this to general cell and so i'll see how important it do i have time for lunch oh think when you're in the middle you only how many generals have you met in your position right now then 20 maybe okay you've actually made quite a few major though he's a hell yeah that's true yeah four stars uh i've met two four stars which is still like that but i don't man i'm gonna choose my words carefully choose my words i don't get in trouble yeah them generals well i guess okay so they're really tactical tactical here them all i'm gonna do i'm gonna do an officer thing to caveat what you're saying nick said man i i'm like a horrible officer i do not care about the dog and pony show stuff i don't look at the next rank like a great officer it's it's it's some really uncomfortable conversations with like senior leaders sometimes like you ever thought about x white no i haven't you ever thought about treating them like people absolutely not yeah dude it is especially i don't know why we don't treat them like people in the guard because you could have like there could be an e3 who's like a truck driver who has a business that makes a lot of sense i don't know why we don't treat them like people in the guard because you could have like there could be an e3 who's like a truck driver who has a business that makes like a quarter million a year and it's like well why is he in the guard probably because he's bored or just wanted to do something different or maybe he just wanted the insurance yeah like there's a bunch of but you never know that if you just they're people just talk to them that's going to get me in trouble that's fine no you're good that's a great thing to say that is a proper leader in my opinion so with like the the vial of acid thing inside the vt fuse you know what that vial was i was just they they went to ge because they're like oh we need millions and millions of tiny little vials filled with liquid so they went to ge the biggest manufacturer of christmas lights in the country i was like hey guess what you're not making christmas lights anymore start putting acid in these vials give them to us don't ask questions and like it the reason i bring her uh yeah yeah we 100 but like the reason i bring that up is like one of the we're talking about war bonds and just like the random that interests me because i was an electrician that always worked in factories so like i've been around manufacturing mass producing it's always been like super interesting to me like if i had a time machine i would want to go back and see what it was like working in a factory in world war ii like because you go to a factory now it's like what are you guys doing oh we make the eggs that go inside egg mcmuffins every day and we watch them come out of the oven and then we freeze them and we package them it's like nobody's super motivated to do their job you know they're just showing up they're punching the clock whatever but like i don't know what was what was the work place like when you're working at the christmas light factory and then one day it's like hey we're building these so our boys over there can go people up tommy's super motivated because his son's on guadalcanal right now you know what i mean like what was the the morale of the general workforce like when everybody knew that it was through the roof i bet that morale was so there's a like forward yeah yeah i was gonna man there's a wall in the national um world war ii museum in new orleans there's a wall and it shows like this many million like just this company made this many million crates like just things you don't think about like or just rifles or whatever and yeah i'd love to make a video about like singer the sewing machine company they used to make like pistols like 1911s uh like you said ford made the bombers uh what was some of those i made a video in the m18 hellcat i'm pretty sure it was buick no made that it's just all these companies just spun up and they did what they needed to do and they manufactured a shit ton because that's that's like ford i know they rolled out a lot a lot of planes right yeah i don't know the exact numbers it's something i want to get into that's another level of meaning and like purpose behind your work that's what i mean yeah yeah what what is the workplace because like i don't know we've all been to a job that we're just like i'm literally just here for money i'm not passionate about this at all at all it's like what is it like when everybody or damn near everybody knows a kid that whether it's their their kid a nephew the kid down the street that they watched grow up for the past 10 years is like oh my car factory that i've worked at for 15 years we're making tanks right now and that kid is going to potentially drive in this tank yeah and like every little thing i do might save his life or whatever like that's crazy there's a couple of times i feel in history where there's been a national spirit and it i don't know that it even always like has to be war i think sometimes there's just that kind of meaning and purpose behind something that we're building as a nation and it's important that we get this done i think the closest thing for like me would be like her hurricane Katrina where like, yeah, I was from Iowa and we were doing like fundraisers and sending food and water and all kinds of stuff. Like it's the closest thing I've ever experienced. I don't think it was anything to scale, but that was like the one thing from my own. I was literally going to mention, cause I was down, I live on the, well, I'm not gonna say where I live, but that's why I was from that area. And like, so I remember that Oh five era seeing, yeah, communities come together, but that also had a big impact on me wanting to join like the military. Cause I saw the guard come out in force and just, it's like, Holy crap. Just people all coming together. I like seeing that all the natural disasters and I don't like seeing natural disasters, but people coming together. I love seeing natural disasters. Maybe when we took all the land from the native Americans, that might've been a good, that was like a national project that we can kind of all get behind. That was, that, that was kind of like a, a technically you're not wrong. I mean, we were all got together and we rallied as a country. This place is ours from the seat. Casinos are not, we're giving you $5 an acre. I don't know what the fuck the problem is. Here's some blankets. Why are they sick? It's like, Jesus Christ. All I'm saying is we need another national project like that. Not like, not exactly like that. Whoa. I mean, you're talking about talking about Greenland, trying to get a national project Greenland. You're our next project. You're going to, you're going to pull us together. Dude, Ford 1941 made 900 or 691,000 automobiles and only 160,000 were for civilians. That's what I like to see. That's awesome. Or vehicles. They're going back to them again today. Now for the first time since World War II, they're going to Ford GE and they're asking them to start helping with a military production at scale. Thank fuck. No shit. If you take a look, there's all these articles about them going over the, uh, the Pentagon going to Ford. That was Randy, by the way. I mean, it's sounds like he's that was, well, what's the new army light vehicle called? The ISV. The ISV is a Chevy Colorado. That's what it is. And it's like, oh, well, let's have the Humvee where all the parts are different and unique and they have to be made by some contractor that manufactures shit very slowly. That way if she does hit the fan, we run out of parts to fix it. Or we could just take the Chevy Colorado, which is already used to mass producing fucking everything. And then it's just, oh, it'll be harder for the civilians to find parts at O'Reilly's. It's like, why wouldn't you do that? It's what one world war two, why would you change that? I mean, so fucking Halliburton can make more money. Dick Cheney can buy an eighth heart fuck off and he still has the other seven. It's crazy. It's just all pumping inside. He's a space Murray. It is. Randy got rid of what the helicopter too. Cause they were over budget. Remember the next generation helicopter that was supposed to happen because every helicopter pilot. I've talked to, including multiple guys from what? One 69th or what is a, yeah. One 60th. The night stalkers. Like I talked to some dudes that are like living legends from there and they're like the V tall doesn't fucking work. I showed you the videos like a year ago because the Marines have the Osprey and he's like, even the pilots were like, I don't know what the fuck it is with having two worldly gigs on top, but it creates this fucking, this fucking cyclone current that fucks up everything around it. It's way worse. So like when you watch the Marines try to fast rope out of an Osprey, the rope you fast rope out of anything, the ropes hanging down by its own weight and then they slide down an Osprey. It's like the ropes out the back and it's coming down at like a 45 degree angle. And the first dude down has to lay across the rope to hold it for all the other guys to get down. And then there's, there's another video where they didn't Osprey fly over for like a family FRG. Event. And it's like out at a park in the woods and they go to fly over and it's folding the trees down. And the family has to take off running because the wind currents coming off this thing are ripping the trees apart, throwing shrapnel everywhere. Johnny, no, he's like, it just, it doesn't work. It's a bad idea. It's a bad design. The one by bell I think is the one that wanted the valor. Yeah. And it should have been the other one. The one that looks like a submarine fucked a black Hawk. Do you know what I mean? It's got the submarine propeller sticking out the back to go faster. Yeah. Oh, that pusher propeller. So man, I can't quote it directly, but so I made a video about the Apache and I was looking into it. So the, I think I determined inadvertently the air force create forced us to create the Apache. Cause we came out with the Cobra and that was the plan was to do the Cheyenne that had that pusher prop. And then the air force said, no, can't have that. That's up to you. That's our lane. There's some kind of law or whatever. They got all butthurt about it. So we got rid of the push propeller, put winglets on it and put bombs on it, have the Apache, but then like fast forward. Now we're looking at that pusher thing again. Personally, I think we should just go back to like turbo prop planes. Um, like the fricking what's that when they did the, the sky warden or whatever, just go to that. It's so much cheaper. Well, they kind of are with that. What's the. Armored crop duster. They were making the wing and ground concept you talking about. It's literally a fucking up armored crop duster prop plane that they were starting to go back to just because it's got some ridiculously high loader time for like special forces. Oh, I know what you're talking about. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Like it's just like, at least they'll have something there at all times, especially if it's against a, a, not a near peer enemy. Like why wouldn't you, not everything has to cost a billion dollars. Well, yeah, that's why the eight, 10 is just constantly staying, staying alive. I hate that. They try to stop it though. Like, no, it's like, please tell me when does this not work yet? I get so annoyed. You know, it doesn't even work that great against tanks. When's the last time we fought somebody with tanks? First of all, it's got, it's got the highest kill rate of friendly fires of any other plane. Okay. A that's horrible. That's awful. I completely acknowledge that. Also it's the. Only plane designed to shoot people on the ground. So kind of fucking makes sense. Not trying to be a dick about it, but what do you expect? Yeah. Ground soldiers still feel at ease when they know one's in the air too. Oh no. Wait, we have eight tens on onset. Okay. Yeah. Fuck yeah. We're good. We're just, if something goes awry. Hey, yeah. What's up J tag. Yeah. When the Decepticons were about to win, what did we send? Eight, 10 warthogs play the scene. It's the, the, the helicopter was the, what w it's the bell, the scalar sky, right? The bell, the valor is what like won the contract. Yeah. It's the billion. And then they just, and then Randy is the one that's like, Hey, Oh, so he's seen the bill. He was like, what the fuck? And then when it would come out, it was going to be out of date. Anyways. Right. Probably. And then on top of that, his main focus was okay. Expensive. And then watching what was happening in Ukraine, why are we doing this instead of like an unmanned system and then spending money in that field? And it was still like five or 10 years off. It was just a smart choice. It's like looking at something and be like, why are we doing this? Why are we investing? I don't know why we don't give units 3d printers. I have things I'm not allowed to talk about yet. Oh, okay. That I'll tell you about. I'll tell you about you later. I'm excited to whisper it in my ear. I'm excited. This is great. Dude. What? So on your side, what's the, do you get to do anything new or core? Is it just like, Hey, day to day activity is a normal job. So it, I cannot remember the army changes. It's training cycle name, like all the time. Like it used to be called rearm. I don't know what the hell it's called now. You probably know. I don't, I don't know. Like, I don't know, but it's so I'm just going to speak for the army. So like the first year is like, you know, train up or whatever, or like reconsolidation, whatever the hell it's called. And then next two years, you're kind of training up and then you have your big cult culminating events. So it's like NTC is what we do for armor, GRTC, whatever the hell, then you deploy or you're ready year mission year. But you have a year in there that's called modernization. And that's when you're getting all your new stuff. So cause you know, everything's based on your, your MTO of your unit. So like, they may say, Hey, now we want to add, like you, you mentioned grenadier, like that's changing. Well, like a couple of years back they said, Hey, sapper squads need a designated marksman rifle. So they gave us these new HK four sixteens. No, these were no, no, actually. Yeah. I think they were. Yeah. But it was called the M one 10 DMR. Okay. Yeah. Which that, which by the way, that parts list on that thing, it was like every top tier off the shelf, like guys leave. LaRue that like everything. Side note, you know who is a designated marksman for their unit? who ethan really for his long balls yeah he was dead he was designated marksman when he was a tanker and you know what he carried for his entire deployment and 14 yes no as a tanker he's got some of the hardest deployment pictures i've ever seen skinny ethan rocking a decked out m14 sitting on yes hell yeah i'm surprised i had bro ethan looks hard as fuck in those pictures it's awesome still trying to wrap my head i didn't even know they had designated marksman in tanker i didn't know we got uh pop open the hatch you get a quick m14s kicked in uh i want to say like three or four months into deployment for us so like hey switching these if you're sdm it's here you're getting these and we're like oh fuck yeah these are dope they work better too for certain jobs so we were i did not know if ethan had one ethan's got some gangster deployment pictures with this ebr fucking m14 skeletonized that's sniper ethan dude his ball sacks in the air so he knows when the winds change so accurate what the fuck no i never knew that sorry continue oh no it's no if they give us yeah so they'll figure out if we need new stuff whatever like right now like i know our unit or our brigade like they're filming the new tank like the v3 version i think last year they got the new paladins uh one five fives which by the way like that was that was the most i think i can say this not because i had the biggest freedom boner at at out in the field man just those one five fives were going off in the distance literally in a porter john feeling that thing rock literally scared the shit out of me i love oh my god don't stop yet one more volley i love it the the i'm happy and upset at the the russian tank situation with the ukraine war because i was so sick of here russian tanks are actually better than american tanks and then it's just oh look at the bradley's up all the russian tanks look at our non-tanks yeah look at our aluminum infantry support vehicle shit rocking you guys those take people places yeah but then on the counter side it was like i don't know russia was this big scary boogeyman in the closet for decades and decades and decades and the whole reason nato exists was to control russia and then russia comes out swinging and not hard enough to take out ukraine and everybody's like wait a minute what's this nato thing about again and now nato's like on the rocks super hard yeah you know what i mean yes yeah that's why i always said that exact same thing people want to pretend that like russia is going to invade europe tomorrow but i mean it's the reason why we're seeing us pull back from europe right now like we're pulling so many troops out because russia revealed that they can suck at war and the europeans don't kind of don't need us and like they can do it on their own but yeah nato is having like an identity crisis because of that i think china would have the same thing would happen i believe that's exactly china's too embedded in europe no i mean like if we seen what their capability was because they that's where you're going to be like oh what the fuck were we afraid of military equipment failure all those little things where that's why they're trying to just build up and just an insanely large force so they can overcome their incompetence it's that it's so is the point same way that i used to play command and conquer when i was growing up real great real-time strategy game the strategy is since you i'm not good at strategy i'll just build up an insane force of tanks that's so large that i can overcome the fact that like i can't think three steps ahead cappy what's your strategy a bunch of chinese billion peasants as far as i can see i mean that's what took out that's why like knights and armor came to an end because somebody finally figured out like okay well these guys are unstoppable unless eight dudes unarmored with daggers jump on his back and open his face mask and stab him in the head it's like yep that'll do it so people that don't evolve in combat are the ones to lose uh what's his name um miyamoto masashi no other uh the sun zoo uh the japanese general that before uh yoshimoto unified it was or yuri nobunaga nobunaga nobunaga is like now we're gonna use guns we're gonna use guns just wait till they get here and just fucking shoot them and then they're like it's so dishonorable we don't care you're dead did you lose yeah he's coming here it's fucking wild well where can we find both of you for or where can the internet find you guys youtube uh youtube at tactically acquired find me at cappy army on youtube if you'd like like to check out some of the videos there and then i think uh if we have time for an after show you guys gonna do like a quick out yeah we've got can i can i pee real quick after after we close hold on one second you're about to pee and then i'll join you okay we'll sit together thank you for coming to the unsubscribed podcast 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