Speaker 1: Group for us. If it doesn't back, you're just not
Speaker 1: using enough. You're listening to soff let Special Ups, News
Speaker 1: and Information Straight and the xtas and now here are
Speaker 1: your hosts, Brandon red Jack melting on the rest of
Speaker 1: the boys. All right, so joining us in studio on
Speaker 1: Socrep Radio. And I should, of course say SOFCREP dot
Speaker 1: com on time on Target is the Odissean on the one,
Speaker 1: the only and as anyone who reads this site already knows,
Speaker 1: the Odissean is on you try to different coffee. Is
Speaker 1: a very secretive guy, so you know he you really.
Speaker 1: I mean we've been here for hurricane groups, to three
Speaker 1: days of company meetings and not once this guy take
Speaker 1: off the mask. I mean we're sitting in a boardroom,
Speaker 1: we're coming up with ideas for the company. Uh, some
Speaker 1: of which I'll get into. But uh part of me
Speaker 1: was like, come on, t O, you gotta take off
Speaker 1: the mask. At some point you just you just ket
Speaker 1: saying no, I can't. I can't reveal my identity. It's layers.
Speaker 1: I'm like a parfait or an onion or an ogre.
Speaker 1: I guess I've got layers. So is this what you
Speaker 1: wear all the time. I mean, when I'm around people
Speaker 1: that don't know anything about I guess the other compartments
Speaker 1: I've gotten life. No, hell no, I don't wear this
Speaker 1: thing all the time. But what about me. I mean,
Speaker 1: you slept over my house? I did. I did, And
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell midnight I walked by you and you're like, bro,
Speaker 1: can't take off the mask, you know. And it's it's
Speaker 1: New York. So of course I had to eat pizza.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if you guys can see the
Speaker 1: pizza stains on the side of this thing, but it
Speaker 1: was a little hard getting the pizza work through there. Um.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean, you know, I think the secrecy thing, obviously,
Speaker 1: that's a very pragmatic deal, you know, like I I
Speaker 1: have I have a layer. Is there for a reason.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, it's just I'll be honest,
Speaker 1: it's fun as hell, like you know, I mean, you
Speaker 1: guys are all my friends, and uh, it's it's fun
Speaker 1: and it's funny. Um, so it's pretty cool, you know,
Speaker 1: because this this whole time, Man, it's like, how do
Speaker 1: I get on it? Because I've always called in for
Speaker 1: any of you guys that ever heard any of my
Speaker 1: other podcasts or the radio stuff I've always called in.
Speaker 1: I've never been in the studio, so it was I've
Speaker 1: been struggling for a really long time on how we
Speaker 1: could work that out, especially because I was going to
Speaker 1: be here for the meeting and so I wanted to
Speaker 1: be in the studio. I wanted to check everything out
Speaker 1: and uh, you know see how this this end of
Speaker 1: the company worked. And uh and and so I I
Speaker 1: legit just we got the mask. Yeah, I mean I
Speaker 1: got the mask and I put it on, and you
Speaker 1: know that. I mean, like I said, it's kind of
Speaker 1: a joke. It protects me a little bit, but you
Speaker 1: know it also protects Ian because he he would be
Speaker 1: a move you know, I'm on this side of the table.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of technological equipment twoyn us. But so
Speaker 1: there's a lot of news going on with the website
Speaker 1: at large, the company at large, UM and Software up Radio.
Speaker 1: I have some big announcements for softwarep Radio since this
Speaker 1: was our UM yearly company meeting, and we met with
Speaker 1: everyone in a hurricane group. And the great thing about
Speaker 1: this company is, you know, you sit around the boardroom
Speaker 1: and if you have a good suggestion, Brandon Um well,
Speaker 1: we'll definitely look into it, or you know, our our
Speaker 1: chief executive officer and CEO. Uh, they they don't um
Speaker 1: dismiss any good ideas. So I have a lot to
Speaker 1: say about what's going on with the podcast, but I
Speaker 1: don't know if you want to get into your higher
Speaker 1: position now and and where you see the website going
Speaker 1: in just a few months two thousand eighteen, which is
Speaker 1: crazy to think. Yeah, so I guess it's it's it's
Speaker 1: not really open. It's not closed now, it's not a
Speaker 1: secret anything. But recently I became the the managing editor
Speaker 1: um for soft rep like the for the for the
Speaker 1: print media into that. Uh. Obviously you and I work
Speaker 1: a little closer now that I've got that position, and
Speaker 1: uh Scott and Mark and the guys open with the
Speaker 1: load out room and uh the arms Guide, we all
Speaker 1: worked pretty closely together now. And uh also also Steve
Speaker 1: over at Special Operations dot com and Dug Over at
Speaker 1: Fight or Sweep. So um, so I've had a fucking
Speaker 1: almost infinite increase in uh my workload with the overall company. UH.
Speaker 1: And I came on at a time where there was
Speaker 1: really just a lot of uh crazy ship going on
Speaker 1: and I had big shoes to fill in this position
Speaker 1: anyway as it was. But so yeah, I'm the the
Speaker 1: managing editor now. I'm still gonna do some writing occasionally
Speaker 1: when I get a chance. And um, so that's why
Speaker 1: I'm actually in New York City now to be at
Speaker 1: this meeting because I have, you know, kind of like
Speaker 1: a sub executive position now. So not to mention certain
Speaker 1: important man getting married, I saw that. Um And yeah,
Speaker 1: absolutely that that too. And you know, I've been involved
Speaker 1: with software since not like first in the door, but
Speaker 1: you know, second third anyway, and so being able to
Speaker 1: to increase my level of responsibility and my ability to
Speaker 1: be involved with the company, and you know, an increased
Speaker 1: level is awesome. Um. And so coming up here this
Speaker 1: is the first time, aside from a couple of shot shows,
Speaker 1: this is really the only time I've been able to
Speaker 1: be around everybody. And and at this point it's not
Speaker 1: just shot show and like you know, tons of of
Speaker 1: of glad handing and parting and stuff like that. It's
Speaker 1: like it's business ship, you know, like we've got to
Speaker 1: really get down to the brass tacks and uh go
Speaker 1: over the last year. While I'm in my wrestling mask,
Speaker 1: and or as somebody said, my game mask it's exactly
Speaker 1: what I thought might put it on. Man. Um. So
Speaker 1: the there is actually coffee in here. Um so um yeah, Well,
Speaker 1: being here for that and kind of going over the
Speaker 1: ship that's happened in the last year, and and and
Speaker 1: getting to know all the other nuts and bolts of
Speaker 1: the rest of the the overall endeavor has been really
Speaker 1: really awesome. Um. And I hope I can continue to
Speaker 1: apply or be applicable I guess to what I do
Speaker 1: as a managing editor. Um. But yeah, I mean I
Speaker 1: think that the meeting was super positive, you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: getting some ground true ship about the other guys in
Speaker 1: the company and the other elements of the company. Getting
Speaker 1: into the nuts and bolts of like the admin ship
Speaker 1: and the executive stuff and all the techie stuff that
Speaker 1: I just don't ever get to see is is really
Speaker 1: really cool. I just have to translate that into like
Speaker 1: you know, Joe speak for the for the dudes um
Speaker 1: at the site now and the next year, you know,
Speaker 1: between now and and then, I mean there's there's nothing
Speaker 1: but but I think cool ship that's gonna happen, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, there's the ship happening at the meeting. The
Speaker 1: stuff we went over and everything was was all really
Speaker 1: stellar from from the ship you're doing into like the
Speaker 1: ship we're doing over at soft Rep and UH and
Speaker 1: like software TV and all that stuff. There's there's all
Speaker 1: kinds of uh, all kinds of ship going on, which school. Um,
Speaker 1: I guess I should be staring at these questions. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: if you have specific questions now, I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: Happy Friday? Do you do? Jennifer? By the way, I
Speaker 1: I am. You know, it is funny because we're having
Speaker 1: very serious conversations while you're literally very mask on. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I love it. Unfortunately, I'm not nearly buff enough to
Speaker 1: be wearing a bane mask. I'm like a buck fifty.
Speaker 1: I'm like a buck fifty if I'm holding bricks in
Speaker 1: my pockets. So, um, I'm just pulling up one of
Speaker 1: the things that I know I forgot to print here.
Speaker 1: But anyway, I should get into the actual specifics of
Speaker 1: the podcast, because this is what the audience really cares about. Um,
Speaker 1: the people you know, of course they care about the
Speaker 1: website as well, but the people who check out this
Speaker 1: podcast regularly. UM. So we came to a decision that
Speaker 1: the podcast is going to be back to being free,
Speaker 1: which I think is really cool, and we're still going
Speaker 1: to do two shows a week. We're gonna bring on
Speaker 1: different advertisers. UM. So what I would suggest, if you
Speaker 1: already subscribe to just the podcast, you might want to
Speaker 1: upgrade to a team room memberships. You can get all
Speaker 1: the great articles these guys are writing, um, and get
Speaker 1: everything that's up to date. But if you, you know,
Speaker 1: if you do canceling all that and you run into
Speaker 1: any issues. As always, I check all the emails sent
Speaker 1: to soft Rep dot Radio at soft rep dot com
Speaker 1: and luckily now we have a huge team here at
Speaker 1: Hurricane Group that could handle any customer service inquiries or
Speaker 1: any of that. So if you run into any issues, uh,
Speaker 1: it's soft Rep dot Radio at soft rep dot com.
Speaker 1: But I'm really excited to be doing this because I
Speaker 1: like when we're broadcasting to a huge audience and being
Speaker 1: able to do this twice a week where you'll be
Speaker 1: able to get the show on Apple podcasts, um on
Speaker 1: SoundCloud or anywhere else um, Google Play the day after
Speaker 1: we record. I think is just really cool. And uh,
Speaker 1: it was confusing for me for a while too, and
Speaker 1: it was kind of something we were testing out. But
Speaker 1: when we'd have a big guest on and talking to
Speaker 1: publicists and stuff, and they would ask, you know, where
Speaker 1: can we hear the podcast? We want to get it
Speaker 1: out there, it was kind of confusing saying like, well,
Speaker 1: we have it up for members this week, it will
Speaker 1: be up for the public the week after. So now
Speaker 1: this eliminates all of that. UM. So all that I
Speaker 1: could ask of you guys that we're now doing this
Speaker 1: UM doing the podcast itself for no um added revenue,
Speaker 1: and that we're really using this to advertise our brand
Speaker 1: that bring on great guests. Uh, if you want to
Speaker 1: go on Apple podcasts and leave a review, that type
Speaker 1: of stuff really helps us out. So I would I
Speaker 1: would really appreciate if, whether you're listening to the podcast
Speaker 1: or watching us, go on that Apple podcast app leave
Speaker 1: a five star review. It means a lot. We want
Speaker 1: to continue our social media presence falls on Twitter and Instagram.
Speaker 1: At Software Bradio. Someone must be saying something interesting. BK
Speaker 1: is telling me that the T shirt under my college
Speaker 1: shirt is a no go. Which shirt do you want
Speaker 1: me to take off? B K? Alright, So with that
Speaker 1: UM and and hopefully this is some you know, good
Speaker 1: news for a lot of you guys. Um, I'm certainly
Speaker 1: happy about it. I'm excited that we're gonna be hitting
Speaker 1: a bigger audience than ever before. Um. But we're gonna
Speaker 1: get into some serious topics. You have a great Fukushima
Speaker 1: story involving go bags, which kind of tous into create.
Speaker 1: But before then, you and I connected on a level
Speaker 1: with music when we first met that I thought was
Speaker 1: just excellent. Um, you told me he came on board
Speaker 1: with the website around the time I got Mark Slaughter
Speaker 1: on software Bradio. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely, there's a pretty like
Speaker 1: uh I guess, smaller demographic that that would appeal to.
Speaker 1: So it was cool that you were one of them.
Speaker 1: And over the past couple of days you were saying
Speaker 1: to me that music is extremely important to the operator,
Speaker 1: to someone who works in the military, and I love
Speaker 1: to expand on that. Yeah, I mean I think, uh,
Speaker 1: I know that druid Wire did an article about music.
Speaker 1: I think Desiree did an article or plug something about
Speaker 1: music and uh, you know, being deployed or whatever. And
Speaker 1: I know I did one a while back that was
Speaker 1: probably certainly more nertally in depth than it probably could
Speaker 1: have been. But you know, over the years, um, whether
Speaker 1: I'm I was doing anything for the military or just
Speaker 1: the fucking decade I spent being alone in Japan. I
Speaker 1: mean not, I wasn't alone all the time, but music
Speaker 1: ended up being just a super fucking applicable outlet for
Speaker 1: for me. You know, the article I wrote, I I
Speaker 1: reference that there are certain songs I would put on
Speaker 1: to get I guess mentally prepped for certain things, but
Speaker 1: just fucking in general. I mean, you and I were
Speaker 1: talking about our CD collections and ship like that, and uh, um,
Speaker 1: I think that music is is a amazing I told
Speaker 1: a personal story at the at the meeting that also
Speaker 1: involved music, and uh you know, I mean, I think
Speaker 1: anybody that's that's ever served um, you know, understands this.
Speaker 1: I mean I suspect everyone I've ever talked to you
Speaker 1: does they get it? You know? And and I think
Speaker 1: the first thing I ever said to Ian was was
Speaker 1: that shot show a few years ago was my first
Speaker 1: shot you. And the very first thing I said to
Speaker 1: him was referencing our similarities in music, And uh you know,
Speaker 1: I mean I told him this morning on the train,
Speaker 1: I said, you know, in my opinion, and I was
Speaker 1: getting a lot of stairs with the fucking mask on
Speaker 1: the train or whatever. Um, you know, I think the
Speaker 1: the the importance of of music is what I what
Speaker 1: I said, So I don't speak for the company or
Speaker 1: the Department of Defense or Nited States military, but I
Speaker 1: think the importance music is is probably of equal importance
Speaker 1: to porn, to a to a guy who's who's anywhere outside. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, the fucking walls if you stood up and
Speaker 1: you you took an oath or anything like that and
Speaker 1: you ended up outside the walls are outside of the
Speaker 1: wire like that. That stuff is just infinitely important. And
Speaker 1: so even even for someone like you, because you know,
Speaker 1: and we should refresh your background for people who don't know,
Speaker 1: because I think people would say for the nigger of
Speaker 1: being the door kicker in the world, it's extremely important.
Speaker 1: You weren't necessarily a door kill No I was. I
Speaker 1: absolutely was not a door kick. So let's get into
Speaker 1: your background and then also why it was important for
Speaker 1: like the specific specific job you had to do. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: so so especially when I, um, especially when I was
Speaker 1: overseas in Japan and I was not working in a uniform. UM,
Speaker 1: I was not under hospice or anything like that. So
Speaker 1: so with that there, and I said it before, I
Speaker 1: spent a protracted amount of time not even speaking to
Speaker 1: people in my naval native language. You know, I'd go
Speaker 1: weeks months at a time sometimes without ever speaking to
Speaker 1: a native English speaker. That's a pretty isolated place to be, um,
Speaker 1: you know. And when I can throw on the fucking
Speaker 1: s mark slaughter or or or kiss or fucking easy
Speaker 1: or whatever it is. And I'm what's and versatile, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean ship, I don't listen to country music ever,
Speaker 1: but like when I'm when I'm overseas sometimes, like I
Speaker 1: just sometimes I wake up on and hear like fucking
Speaker 1: John Denver or something like that. And if you can
Speaker 1: go into the like I said, like what it is
Speaker 1: that you do because a lot of this audience of this,
Speaker 1: So so I did a lot of I did a
Speaker 1: lot of private, private side stuff. So I got involved
Speaker 1: in like private investigations and like uh, totally fucking unofficial
Speaker 1: undercover work. Um. I mean, I think words like infiltration
Speaker 1: are technically the correct word for that, but um that
Speaker 1: also holds like an official word or official official definition
Speaker 1: is like an infiltrator or something like that. So I
Speaker 1: wasn't anything like that. You know, I wouldn't like sabotage
Speaker 1: and bridges or anything like that. But um, I was
Speaker 1: just I was an information collector. UM. You know, I
Speaker 1: wasn't collecting on foreign governments or anything like that. Um
Speaker 1: And uh so I guess you could just you could
Speaker 1: sum it all up to private investigations, undercover private investigations overseas.
Speaker 1: I ended up working against U human trafficking. UM. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't say I worked directly against stuff like drug and
Speaker 1: gun smuggling, but I absolutely had my finger on the pulse.
Speaker 1: I wrote a I wrote a software article about gun
Speaker 1: control in Japan and how it's not even a thing.
Speaker 1: I mean, everybody will tell you that it's a thing,
Speaker 1: but it's not. Um. At that time, I wasn't even
Speaker 1: really that savvy on being able to access the seedy
Speaker 1: or underbelly of the country. But I could have gotten
Speaker 1: just about any level of of small arm I needed
Speaker 1: in a matter of hours. Um. And it's gotten better
Speaker 1: since then. UM. So I mean my background, of course,
Speaker 1: I guess it was in military intelligence and I was
Speaker 1: initially in the army and um and a lot of
Speaker 1: this audience has read your articles and that's possibly and
Speaker 1: if you haven't, please check out my writing and please
Speaker 1: join become a team room member. But I mean, you
Speaker 1: talk about everything from the Yakuza to what we're talking
Speaker 1: about right now. Yeah, yeah, I mean, you know, uh,
Speaker 1: I think I cover the gap a lot. I've also mentioned,
Speaker 1: you know, academically, I'm a social scientist. I worked in
Speaker 1: intelligence and human intelligence stuff like that. So I'm really
Speaker 1: just I'm kind of a people person, um, I guess,
Speaker 1: And so when you're alone like that, I guess back
Speaker 1: to the music. Then, you know, when you're alone like
Speaker 1: that and you're you're kind of inherently uh there to
Speaker 1: just kind of be with people, are messed with people,
Speaker 1: it gets I don't want to say it gets lonely.
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously it's lonely because you're sucking alone, but
Speaker 1: you know, you're pretty isolated. And so when I could
Speaker 1: watch like old TV shows on YouTube or or track
Speaker 1: down like fucking VHS tapes. Yeah it's Japan, they still
Speaker 1: use VHS tapes, um, and uh, but you know, just
Speaker 1: being able to listen to music, and now music is
Speaker 1: just so portable. Uh. You know, the last time I
Speaker 1: was there, I did not have a smartphone. Smartphones were
Speaker 1: not a big thing in Japan. I still had a
Speaker 1: slide phone because that was pretty much it. And uh,
Speaker 1: but you know, you could take gigabytes of music with
Speaker 1: you and uh, you know, I go for runs a lot,
Speaker 1: and I'd have an ear button with music or riding
Speaker 1: on the train or driving in my car or whatever.
Speaker 1: I mean, I was always listening to music because it
Speaker 1: gave me some kind of I guess slightly more stable
Speaker 1: grounding or some ship like that. I mean, um, I
Speaker 1: think it might also be for guys when they're stationed overseas.
Speaker 1: You have to have those things that remind you a
Speaker 1: poem and yeah, yeah totally and make you feel like
Speaker 1: you're you know, you're not so alone out here. I mean,
Speaker 1: especially for you. You're a guy who for many years
Speaker 1: to live lived in Japan, as you've talked about, I'm
Speaker 1: sure at some point earlier on, it must have been
Speaker 1: pretty lonely and it must have been like I want
Speaker 1: to get back to this, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I
Speaker 1: find myself missing ship like waffle house, which again is
Speaker 1: like when I'm in America. I don't give a shit
Speaker 1: about it, but you start missing things. Uh, they're just
Speaker 1: weird things, um that you that you end up missing.
Speaker 1: And it's easier for me to carry ten thousand songs
Speaker 1: on an iPod or whatever other preferred digital media device
Speaker 1: that you want to use. You know, it's easier for
Speaker 1: me to carry around ten thousand songs than it is
Speaker 1: to carry around all my books or all my movies
Speaker 1: or people. Uh you know, ship like that. So so
Speaker 1: being able to being able to have that music is
Speaker 1: it's an important thing. I mean. Also, like I was
Speaker 1: born in the seventies, you know, I was raised on
Speaker 1: ship like Kiss and Van Halen and and Rush and
Speaker 1: and you know, def Leppard and ship like the Slaughter
Speaker 1: and Vinny Vincent Invasion ship like that, you know. So
Speaker 1: so I mean I was raised on that stuff. Kicking
Speaker 1: around on a BMX bike in six you know, I
Speaker 1: had a fucking walkman scrapped in my belt because we
Speaker 1: didn't have small music device effect in and uh so
Speaker 1: music has always been there, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: Just earlier on I was playing that bass in that
Speaker 1: dude's office, Like it's just it's a it's a thing
Speaker 1: that I like to do. I'm not versed in music.
Speaker 1: I can't read music. I'm just a dabbler, but I
Speaker 1: have a shipload of CDs and like gigabytes of music
Speaker 1: on my hard drive. And so, um, yeah, I think
Speaker 1: music is a is a really important Know, it's important
Speaker 1: to me. I just assume based upon the people I
Speaker 1: know that it's uh that's also important for others. And
Speaker 1: and I realized that not a lot of people in
Speaker 1: my that I know in life, you know, professionally or
Speaker 1: personally at least you know, unless it was on purpose,
Speaker 1: like they were a hermit or something. Um, a lot
Speaker 1: of people haven't spent the amount of time alone that
Speaker 1: I have. Or you know, I'm around people, Like I said,
Speaker 1: I'm around people, but they're not They're not somebody I
Speaker 1: can't reference the fucking Cosby show, um, and they wouldn't
Speaker 1: understand what I was talking about, or I couldn't. I
Speaker 1: couldn't you know, give some cultural joke or anything like that.
Speaker 1: So so although there's communication there, it says there's a
Speaker 1: serious disconnect, uh, you know, culturally, And and that's where
Speaker 1: the isolation came in. Um. And I'm glad we're keeping
Speaker 1: this to music and not porn but soft prep radio. Uh.
Speaker 1: We're in studio with the odissean I'm in Scotto for
Speaker 1: those just tuning in, and made a UM big announcement
Speaker 1: earlier on in the show for those who listen to
Speaker 1: the podcast, where I really that we're gonna be going
Speaker 1: back to doing two shows a week that you'll get
Speaker 1: immediately after they're done on Apple Podcasts. So UM, it's
Speaker 1: no longer the pay model, but we still of course
Speaker 1: have team room membership, which you could pay for and
Speaker 1: help all of our writers be supported and what they do. UM.
Speaker 1: There were many reasons we decided to do this, one
Speaker 1: of which is that we wanted the larger audience to
Speaker 1: be able to hear breaking news when it happens, because
Speaker 1: there's been times I've said, this isn't really a breaking
Speaker 1: news show, but when there's a shooting in Vegas, for example,
Speaker 1: I want to get an operator on to give their
Speaker 1: immediate reaction to it, and I don't want, you know,
Speaker 1: people who aren't members to have to wait another week
Speaker 1: for that. Uh. With that, the odissetion, of course, is
Speaker 1: from the Intel community, and I'm wondering, as a writer
Speaker 1: for the site, now, did you say what your current
Speaker 1: title is? I did? I think I said? I with
Speaker 1: the managerent managing. I always worry about what I can
Speaker 1: say and can't say. I mean, I think I'm gonna
Speaker 1: if I'm gonna get a in this card, it would
Speaker 1: say fucking mischief manager because the book. And yeah, I
Speaker 1: need uh Isaiah Burkharts like eagles on my shirt that
Speaker 1: he had the other night. But absolutely I like that.
Speaker 1: Um So with with what we're talking about, have you
Speaker 1: ever thought of putting out uh an article on software
Speaker 1: that's like soundtrack of the Operator and some of your
Speaker 1: favorite songs and what they meant to you while you
Speaker 1: were overseas and what moods? Yeah, I mean, you know
Speaker 1: the last one I did, I think it was ten tracks.
Speaker 1: I can't remember exactly. I remember it's a hell of
Speaker 1: a lot more than ten tracks, so I can't remember
Speaker 1: how many I cut out, but that one would that
Speaker 1: ended up being a hell of a lot darker than
Speaker 1: I expected it to be, which made me reflect a
Speaker 1: little bit on like ten years work. But um uh,
Speaker 1: I honestly, man, I think it would be cool. Just
Speaker 1: like if I were you, if I if I ran
Speaker 1: this show, that would be a That would be one
Speaker 1: of the first questions I would ask anybody, any any
Speaker 1: fucking ops guy, Like, uh, you know any of the
Speaker 1: dudes that have a pilot books over there in the corner.
Speaker 1: First question out of off the gates, aside from like
Speaker 1: can I get you a coffee, would be, Um, what's
Speaker 1: the most important song in your life? You know? Like,
Speaker 1: what what's the song that that gets you through ship?
Speaker 1: You know? Is it Wind Beneath My Wings or you know,
Speaker 1: love Gun? You know? And I think there's a lot
Speaker 1: of everybody's got that. I mean, I remember when I
Speaker 1: was in basic training for the army, which was back
Speaker 1: in the nineties. Um, I heard one fucking song the
Speaker 1: entire time I was in basic training because basically training
Speaker 1: for the army in the nineties, where you're stilletting, fucking
Speaker 1: shit kicked every ten seconds. And it was it was
Speaker 1: a fucking Google Dolls song, which I didn't really like
Speaker 1: Google Dolls at the at the time. I was kind
Speaker 1: of a metalhead at the time still, but uh, but
Speaker 1: it was just it was profound, as a way too
Speaker 1: extreme of word. It was a really important thing for
Speaker 1: me to have heard that piece of music because I
Speaker 1: had gone like six weeks without hearing any music at all,
Speaker 1: and and and that was that was that was an
Speaker 1: important experience for me to hear that song. Like I said,
Speaker 1: even though I didn't really dig the song itself. It
Speaker 1: was just like, yeah, it was iris Okay, yeah it
Speaker 1: was it was it was Irish and um, I mean,
Speaker 1: you know that's like this this emotional song anyway, you know,
Speaker 1: if you're into that stuff, it's an emotional song anyway.
Speaker 1: But that that, uh, that was just a weird fucking
Speaker 1: experience for me because, like I said, didn't really like
Speaker 1: the song, didn't really like Google dolls or anything at
Speaker 1: the time. And uh um, so that was that was
Speaker 1: a very reflective moment for me. Uh for about fifteen
Speaker 1: seconds before I started getting yelled at again because it
Speaker 1: was a it was an MP truck that drove by,
Speaker 1: and uh um. So yeah, I mean I think it
Speaker 1: would be cool. I think it would be interesting. You
Speaker 1: could probably populate an entire book. May not be exactly
Speaker 1: an interesting book, it would be for me of just
Speaker 1: uh uh you know famous guys. I mean, we have
Speaker 1: a whole team of fucking celebrity vets that we have
Speaker 1: acts us too, and just being able to to find
Speaker 1: out what there if a song was influential, guarantee you
Speaker 1: that that every last one of those motherfucker's has got
Speaker 1: a song that was influential to them. And it don't
Speaker 1: even have to be in a military context. It could
Speaker 1: just be in life. You know, I went through some
Speaker 1: tough shit. I ended up listening to this song a
Speaker 1: lot because it just a vibe with me or the
Speaker 1: lyrics were really uh, you know, articulated what I was
Speaker 1: going through at the time or whatever it is. Um.
Speaker 1: It's it's really cool to how there's a community of
Speaker 1: musicians who give back, will love the veteran community, you know,
Speaker 1: with Jason Brown Studio recently guitarists from Breaking. Benjamin has
Speaker 1: a strong, uh military history within his family, and I
Speaker 1: think he appreciates some guys say like, hey, this helped
Speaker 1: me out when I was overseas UM. The reason that
Speaker 1: Mark Slaughter relationship happened with the podcast was that he
Speaker 1: did a song called Never Given Up that he wanted
Speaker 1: to use to give back to vets UM and donate
Speaker 1: the proceeds. So I you know, hooked him up with
Speaker 1: Brandon gave that money to the Red Circle Foundation. Um.
Speaker 1: And there's there's just that definitely community there. Another great
Speaker 1: story was, unfortunately when we heard about the death of
Speaker 1: Chester Bennington. Yeah, I immediately thought of when I was
Speaker 1: in Vegas with Drew Dwyer and he was like, I
Speaker 1: got to see Lincoln Park backstage. I'm a huge Lincoln
Speaker 1: Park fan, and you know, all the great things that
Speaker 1: were said about Chester Bennington. One thing that I didn't
Speaker 1: see pointed out much, but we pointed out was that
Speaker 1: him and the band gave back to the veteran community.
Speaker 1: They invited um Drew and his wife and other marines backstage,
Speaker 1: and I think they appreciated when they heard, Hey, this
Speaker 1: is something that I was listening to when I was
Speaker 1: in Iraq, when I was in Afghanistan and you know,
Speaker 1: living life as an operator. Yeah, well fun. I remember
Speaker 1: reading someone Leo Jenkins stuff a few years back, and
Speaker 1: and he mentioned that he mentioned, you know, coming off
Speaker 1: coming off an op and going straight to the gym
Speaker 1: and you know, doing crossbit or whatever, and he had
Speaker 1: referenced the music that there was always a certain type
Speaker 1: of music playing in the gym. Um and even even
Speaker 1: if that didn't click exactly directly in his brain with
Speaker 1: what song it was or whatever, he recognized that an
Speaker 1: important part of that environment at that moment in time
Speaker 1: was that there was music on uh, and and I
Speaker 1: think that um, I just think it's it's really infinitely
Speaker 1: important if I go back and revisit, you know, the
Speaker 1: stretch of decade that I was in Asia. If I
Speaker 1: did not have an MP three player or YouTube, um,
Speaker 1: you know, to access that stuff like this ship would
Speaker 1: be really different. I mean that that entire, uh, that
Speaker 1: entire the reflection of that decade would would would become
Speaker 1: at me with completely different light there. There wouldn't be
Speaker 1: any possible way to be the same. Um. And you
Speaker 1: know the article I wrote reference in that ship, even
Speaker 1: though it turned out to be dark. I mean there
Speaker 1: was some dark ship in that ten year so um.
Speaker 1: But but without that ship to be able to either
Speaker 1: lyrically articulate what it was I was thinking and feeling
Speaker 1: or going through or what ever. But but even musically,
Speaker 1: just this the vibe and the frequency of that ship.
Speaker 1: It just because one of them was a sugar song. Yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 1: it's like the heaviest fucking song ever really and uh,
Speaker 1: that song the lyrically, it really just reflected, um, it
Speaker 1: reflected some ship that that I was doing, you know,
Speaker 1: and and I even that rage in a healthy way. Yeah.
Speaker 1: But see that's the thing that I even mentioned in
Speaker 1: the article. It's not even rage. It was just perfect,
Speaker 1: like this fucking weird zen, like calm, because I knew
Speaker 1: what I was going out to do, Like the decision
Speaker 1: making process was already done. There wasn't any of this
Speaker 1: like angst um. You know, it's a in the in
Speaker 1: the meeting we had, we had a speaker coming and
Speaker 1: tell us a bunch of stuff about planning and and
Speaker 1: and visualization and yeah, and the man, yeah, Olympic gold
Speaker 1: medal shooter shooter, awesome inspiring stories absolutely and and you
Speaker 1: know so, so he said. One of the things he
Speaker 1: said was that you know you're doing the right thing.
Speaker 1: You know you're doing what the universe of God or
Speaker 1: whoever wants you to do. When everything is working for you, everything,
Speaker 1: you don't have any obstacles past that point. And so uh,
Speaker 1: if I had fucking sugar, if I had that song
Speaker 1: playing uh in my ear butter on my stereo or
Speaker 1: phone or whatever, um, everything I was It's like super
Speaker 1: Mario Kart, like I had hit the little fucking arrow.
Speaker 1: Like I was going where I was going, and there
Speaker 1: were no obstacles, And I was mentally absolutely in acceptance
Speaker 1: with what was about to occur, etcetera, etcetera. And I
Speaker 1: you know, I I articulate that in the article. But
Speaker 1: uh and and so that's a heavy ass song. But
Speaker 1: but to me, the feeling like my pulse wasn't up.
Speaker 1: It was just this, this ultimate thing, this is what's
Speaker 1: going to happen. Uh and and so so I know
Speaker 1: that even like the the the overt emotion of the
Speaker 1: song doesn't necessarily convey what's happening to me because of
Speaker 1: that frequency, right, because of that vibe. That song meant
Speaker 1: something to me because of a circumstance, and those circumstances
Speaker 1: reflected inside me differently. But if you just heard me
Speaker 1: drive down the street listening to that song, you would think, like,
Speaker 1: that guy's going to murder a school bus of like
Speaker 1: nuns and kittens, right, I mean, like because it's it's
Speaker 1: a very very very tense, angsty song. You know, if
Speaker 1: you've ever heard it, it's fucking insane. I mean it
Speaker 1: really is, which is what must sugar means in the
Speaker 1: fucking Hebrew. It's fucking fucking nuts, fucking insane. And um, yeah,
Speaker 1: there are other songs on there that aren't like that.
Speaker 1: That aren't quite as a angsty or up tempo. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So it's one of those interesting things too, because I
Speaker 1: think guys in bands who do respect the military. I've
Speaker 1: met a lot of guys in bands, and I think
Speaker 1: they sometimes have the attitude of like, what we do
Speaker 1: is not important as opposed to these guys who go
Speaker 1: out there and protect our freedom. But it's almost like
Speaker 1: that relationship where if it wasn't for you making this
Speaker 1: art that guys protecting our freedom could enjoy, they might
Speaker 1: have a lot harder of a time out there. And
Speaker 1: you know, you hear about the twenty two veterans a
Speaker 1: day committing suicide. If it really is that number, I
Speaker 1: know that the some um there's some confusion with that number,
Speaker 1: but either way, it's too many, UM and that number
Speaker 1: maybe higher if it wasn't for people who could have
Speaker 1: music as an outlet. UM. So there, I think there's
Speaker 1: actually a relationship between the two that musicians should appreciate
Speaker 1: that the reason they're able to go out there and
Speaker 1: tour and make the music they do is that there's
Speaker 1: guys out there protecting America, and those guys out there
Speaker 1: protecting America. A lot of the times are enjoying your music.
Speaker 1: So it's cool when you see a band give back
Speaker 1: and and say like, hey, if you're former military, you
Speaker 1: have a discount on concert tickets, or you know, we're
Speaker 1: gonna bring some former military backstage to meet the band.
Speaker 1: Like I think that's what it's all about. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean I think that I think that that musicians, at
Speaker 1: least in American culture maybe like five Eyes culture. Um,
Speaker 1: I think that that musicians like that I have a
Speaker 1: really intense symbiosis with people who are serving the country.
Speaker 1: I don't really know how to explain that correctly, but
Speaker 1: I mean you look at somebody like there are several
Speaker 1: bands out there that that play music that uh is
Speaker 1: played in every gym, And I even reference that in
Speaker 1: my article like it's a perfect example. I mean, those
Speaker 1: guys are the ship that that you would be if
Speaker 1: you wrote a movie, if you you had a movie script,
Speaker 1: you made a movie about half the ship that anybody
Speaker 1: that works for this side and right for this site
Speaker 1: did five Finger Death Punch would be the damn soundtrack,
Speaker 1: like all their ship would be would be the soundtrack.
Speaker 1: And I think that we as citizens see those guys,
Speaker 1: they're buff, they're tatted up, their ship is aggressive, their edgy.
Speaker 1: Everything about them, uh sort of screams this like alpha
Speaker 1: male um thing and and and military people, military guys,
Speaker 1: military dudes, and and females, males and females. It's the
Speaker 1: same kind of thing. You didn't You generally didn't join
Speaker 1: any sort of operational field in the military because you
Speaker 1: want to hang the funk back and be passive and
Speaker 1: be be a beta or Bravo on everything and just
Speaker 1: not be the fucking dude you You did it because
Speaker 1: you want to achieve, you want to affect change. And uh,
Speaker 1: and there's so there's an aggressiveness to that. There's an
Speaker 1: edge that doesn't have to be violent, it just has
Speaker 1: to be aggressive. You're taking action on things. And uh
Speaker 1: and I mean that fucking music is like that. You
Speaker 1: think about how I mean we're talking about Molly Crue earlier. So, um,
Speaker 1: you know Motley crewe are these like bad boys, you know,
Speaker 1: they they they didn't serve their country and the way
Speaker 1: we did or whatever it is. But they're they're these
Speaker 1: bad boys and they seemed very aggressive. And then, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, Brandon was telling us a story about how
Speaker 1: was his dad came home with a fucking record. He
Speaker 1: was like, look at this new chick band and brands
Speaker 1: like that's Smartley crew Man and uh so, I mean
Speaker 1: you look at that ship. You look at those pictures
Speaker 1: from the eighties now in seventeen and it's like, wow,
Speaker 1: that's sis Gate shit, you know. But uh um but
Speaker 1: at the same time that the music was aggressive, this
Speaker 1: subject matter was aggressive. Um so I think there's an
Speaker 1: interesting dynamic there. But yeah, I agree. And and so
Speaker 1: like five Finger Dots Punch did a song called um
Speaker 1: I think it's uh it's wrong. The chorus is wrong
Speaker 1: side of Heaven, Righteous Side of Health. I think it's
Speaker 1: called the wrong side of Heaven. But it was about
Speaker 1: you know, guys who come back who have post traumatic stress.
Speaker 1: And then recently, uh Tanto was in the video for
Speaker 1: All That Remains, Yeah Madness that which is about the
Speaker 1: same type of thing. And it's cool to see that
Speaker 1: there are bands uh that are getting played places like
Speaker 1: Sirius sex m that have a ton of YouTube views
Speaker 1: saying hey, there's big issues that we need to be
Speaker 1: concerned about. So as much as there's there's like social
Speaker 1: justice warrior brands out there, I think it's cool. There's
Speaker 1: kind of some pushback against that, saying, hey, we should
Speaker 1: do songs for veterans for a reason. And I know
Speaker 1: that they're really passionate about this. You know, Philibonti from
Speaker 1: all that remains former marine himself, so this is a
Speaker 1: very real issue to him, and he and he wants
Speaker 1: to make songs for guys overseas to go out there
Speaker 1: and in a non politically correct way, I could say
Speaker 1: kill bad guys too. Yeah, yeah, yeah, well, I mean,
Speaker 1: and I think that's one of the things about extreme music, rap, metal,
Speaker 1: whatever is you could say ship that the system didn't
Speaker 1: want you to say. I mean, fun being a metal
Speaker 1: kid in the eighties, that's what it was all about.
Speaker 1: I mean Bell, get me wrong, you had like Judas Priest.
Speaker 1: It was just this like stud leather band. Also you
Speaker 1: look back and it's like, yes, it's kind of sunked up,
Speaker 1: but but like you know, I mean they're singing ship
Speaker 1: like Painkiller, you know, and and uh, Meganeth's is the
Speaker 1: same way. It's all this ship, you know, and it's
Speaker 1: it's all this aggressive stuff. Everybody was pointing out all
Speaker 1: these fund up issues with politics and society in but
Speaker 1: it was a bunch of long haired dudes with fucking
Speaker 1: bullet belts, so no one was paying any attention. Uh,
Speaker 1: and now you have a huge subslices in American society,
Speaker 1: Western society that you're doing the same fucking thing. They're
Speaker 1: saying the same fucking shit that these metal bands were
Speaker 1: saying twenty years ago, only they're they're coming at it
Speaker 1: from a different angle, saying the same ship that they're
Speaker 1: coming out from a different angle. So, um, you know,
Speaker 1: I think music, well, fuck, I mean, I think growing
Speaker 1: up with those bands in the eighties. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: not just deaf Leppard, they didn't really engage political issues,
Speaker 1: but but you know, she like Megadeth, fucking Anthrax did this.
Speaker 1: All those big bands did this. They covered there were
Speaker 1: social issues and there were political issues that they covered
Speaker 1: in in a significant amount of their songs their music.
Speaker 1: And uh and that that gave me as a as
Speaker 1: a fucking like young teenager. That started to make me
Speaker 1: look at stuff that started to maybe have a fucking
Speaker 1: pace Cells Man Peace Cells by Megadeth, that entire video.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's not saying the world of shitty or
Speaker 1: not shitty. He's stating a fact. If everybody wanted piece,
Speaker 1: you know, there'd be piece. It's exactly what we brought
Speaker 1: up John Lennon earlier. Not a fan of the Beatles,
Speaker 1: not a fan of John Lennon, imagine, I think misses
Speaker 1: the mark, everybody loves it. Whatever. I think Peace Cells
Speaker 1: said exactly what imagined was trying to say the correct way,
Speaker 1: fucking pissed off that nobody's doing what they're supposed to do,
Speaker 1: like you got all the ship going on, right, and
Speaker 1: so it's really weird because it's like, hey, I got
Speaker 1: Peace Cells playing in my ear in the fucking uh
Speaker 1: you know, eighties, and then uh and then I go
Speaker 1: join the military, you know, and uh so so the
Speaker 1: way we process that ship or whatever, that kind of
Speaker 1: music gave me the ability, or not even gave me,
Speaker 1: it helped me develop an awareness for that ship and
Speaker 1: go out and start to get that information nation for myself.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, the even crazier Megadeth lyric that
Speaker 1: you could talk about of you joining the military actor
Speaker 1: being a fan is of course on rushed and peace
Speaker 1: military intelligence two words combined. The camp makes sense. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, you get into that and and
Speaker 1: and uh, I mean it's just anytime you're dealing with
Speaker 1: extreme music like like that you're or extreme extreme lifestyles.
Speaker 1: Maybe because you know, I've been a reasonably selfless dude
Speaker 1: my whole life. I think that anybody that really knows
Speaker 1: me would tell you that, which is why I'm wearing
Speaker 1: this mask right now, right um so, I mean, uh,
Speaker 1: and and I wanted the world to be a better place.
Speaker 1: I wanted to to facilitate a change. And you know,
Speaker 1: while I was in uniform, I wouldn't say that I
Speaker 1: ever really got a chance to do that. It doesn't
Speaker 1: bother me. It is what it is. But the ship
Speaker 1: that I did after that was me grabbing a negative
Speaker 1: situation on Earth by the nutsack and and absolutely ripping
Speaker 1: that fucker off. Like I affected immense amounts of positive
Speaker 1: change in bad situations in the places, uh that that
Speaker 1: I was working in. Um I mean, I don't go
Speaker 1: home every night and like pat myself on the back
Speaker 1: about it. It is what it is. You know, I
Speaker 1: got put in a certain situation because of the skill
Speaker 1: sets and tools of the trade I had in my bag.
Speaker 1: I managed to be able, you know, I managed to
Speaker 1: exploit those situations for positive effect, which ultimately is the
Speaker 1: only thing he have us really wanted to do. You know,
Speaker 1: we wanted to manifest positive fucking change in a world
Speaker 1: that we felt something was wrong. And whether you joined
Speaker 1: after September eleven, two thousand one because you wanted to
Speaker 1: go fight terrorism, or whether you joined in fucking the
Speaker 1: late nineties like I did, just because you had some
Speaker 1: plan of ship you wanted to do in life. The
Speaker 1: fundamentalist that we wanted to affect positive change in the world.
Speaker 1: And like I got some of those fucking tools from
Speaker 1: listening to a heavy metal in the eighties. Um yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean and and and it's it's cool. It's something
Speaker 1: I would like to see explored more, but I don't
Speaker 1: think anybody's gonna pay to make that happen. So fucking
Speaker 1: Dave Mustain and here, I'm happy to have a I
Speaker 1: would love to um so the Audissean live with us
Speaker 1: on Soft Prep Radio on the live stream. If you're
Speaker 1: checking this out, if you like the Luche Library mask,
Speaker 1: please give us a like, share or the video. It
Speaker 1: means a lot to us who want to keep expanding
Speaker 1: the base of people that are listening. Uh, And we're
Speaker 1: also just doing new things. I mean, as this new
Speaker 1: year approaches, we're gonna be doing two shows a week
Speaker 1: now for everyone that you'll get immediately. Um, I'm really
Speaker 1: excited for that. I'm really excited to be Um speaking
Speaker 1: to a bigger audience again and uh, you know, giving
Speaker 1: what you guys demand of us. So looking at some
Speaker 1: of the questions and comments here, you know we're not
Speaker 1: forgetting about you guys. Of course grants here. As a
Speaker 1: music teacher, people forget that kids need to learn that
Speaker 1: music doesn't create itself. It's always the first subject to
Speaker 1: go in schools, but it is the only subject that
Speaker 1: encompasses all of them. A lot of kids use it
Speaker 1: as their avenue event and find creativity is their outlet,
Speaker 1: gives them the release that they might find elsewhere. In
Speaker 1: a more negative way, I think very true on that because,
Speaker 1: like I said earlier, it articulates it. Especially when you're
Speaker 1: a teenager man. You don't have the you don't have
Speaker 1: the vocabulary, you don't have the words to be able
Speaker 1: to put the ship going on inside you into words,
Speaker 1: and then you listen to a song and it's like, Wow,
Speaker 1: that fucking guy just said what I've been trying to say,
Speaker 1: but I haven't been able to, you know, So yeah,
Speaker 1: I completely grant. I completely agree with both of those things.
Speaker 1: Although I'll be honest, I really was a slacker and
Speaker 1: music class in school, not because I didn't think it
Speaker 1: was important. I just never got around to be in
Speaker 1: serious about it. Maybe it's because I was a Catholic school.
Speaker 1: And I see, of course Derek's comment Chase comment. I
Speaker 1: don't know if there's anything else to say about those.
Speaker 1: Um But moving on to another subject here, and this
Speaker 1: goes more into what we do as a website, but
Speaker 1: we wanted to talk some music. You're a guy who
Speaker 1: has had a ton of experience living in Japan, and
Speaker 1: you have a great story and I mean great might
Speaker 1: not be the right word, but an interesting story at
Speaker 1: involving Fukushima, and you're during your time there. Um So
Speaker 1: this actually plays into some of the stuff that we
Speaker 1: talked about at the meeting because we, uh, they're gonna
Speaker 1: be launching a new crate and this is a relevant
Speaker 1: story for that because we we all had conversations about this,
Speaker 1: you know, about go bags and and bug out bags
Speaker 1: and that kind of ship. So. Uh So I was
Speaker 1: in Japan uh in March of two thousand eleven March
Speaker 1: eleven and two thousand eleven when the big, the great
Speaker 1: to whole Coup earthquake happened in Japan or that you
Speaker 1: know that it sent the tsunami in. It killed a
Speaker 1: bunch of people, cracked the reactor and the Fekushima reactor
Speaker 1: all that ship. So uh, the entire country screeched to
Speaker 1: an absolute halt. Um you know, Uh, sell service went
Speaker 1: down for damn near everybody I know, mine did, and
Speaker 1: I was on the other side of the country, so
Speaker 1: I wasn't. I wasn't actually in a place where I
Speaker 1: was in any physical danger. But at that time you
Speaker 1: have no idea what the physical danger is because there's
Speaker 1: no commo. You just know that some crazy shi it
Speaker 1: has happened. Um. I've mentioned before in some of my articles.
Speaker 1: You get this like amber alert on your phone when
Speaker 1: they're is uh when there's an earthquake and your your
Speaker 1: cell Look, your location is pinned by the cell, so
Speaker 1: it knows where you are and it pings you relevant
Speaker 1: to that right. So um. So at the time, I
Speaker 1: had a buddy that was visiting um and uh when
Speaker 1: he got to the country, he was gonna stay with
Speaker 1: me for like ninety days because that was the extent
Speaker 1: of a tour's visa and he was gonna kick around.
Speaker 1: I was gonna show him some ship. Knowing this guy
Speaker 1: for years and uh so when he got there, Um,
Speaker 1: I picked him up at the train station and I
Speaker 1: already had to go back ready for him. Pop the
Speaker 1: trunk through his bag in there, said, all right, listen
Speaker 1: to me. This is your go bag. It's got some
Speaker 1: ship in it. Opened the bag up. Here's the ship
Speaker 1: that's in it. If you don't know how to use
Speaker 1: any this stuff will go over it. Um, this is
Speaker 1: your this is I call it a bug out bag. Actually,
Speaker 1: this is your bug out bag. If anything happens, I
Speaker 1: need you to get this bag, get on the bike
Speaker 1: that is waiting at my apartment, and get your ass
Speaker 1: to this place. Pulled out a topo map of the area.
Speaker 1: I'm a map bitch. I've got all kinds of maps
Speaker 1: all the time. Puld out this map. Showed him on
Speaker 1: the map where our first we call that a rally point.
Speaker 1: Where our first rally point is, um, where we were
Speaker 1: going to meet. We're split, we're at the same place
Speaker 1: at the same time. We get in the car, or
Speaker 1: we move out on bikes together, whatever it is. But
Speaker 1: so I drove him to that place and said, here's
Speaker 1: our first rally point. You grabbed that bag and you
Speaker 1: bring your ass on the bike to this point. You
Speaker 1: wait six hours. If I'm not at this location in
Speaker 1: six hours, here is our second place to meet. Why
Speaker 1: did you do this in the first place? What do
Speaker 1: Japan is a precarious place, man, I mean it was this,
Speaker 1: This was when Fukushima. You know this is before because
Speaker 1: there when it happen. Why were you on edge? It's
Speaker 1: not that I was on edge about it. I think
Speaker 1: if you if you had lived there any amount of time,
Speaker 1: the earthquakes are not an irregular thing. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: there was no spastic reaction to ship that was going
Speaker 1: on in North Korea at the time, but you never know,
Speaker 1: Um there was no there certainly hadn't been any tsunami
Speaker 1: that had done anything to anybody in quite a while,
Speaker 1: you know, but you never know. Um there's uh. Japan,
Speaker 1: It just fundamentally is is kind of naturally a precarious
Speaker 1: place because it's the fucking largest country on the Ring
Speaker 1: of Fire. So the entire if you have elevation that
Speaker 1: is over about five feet, that fucking thing is slightly
Speaker 1: volcanic I mean the entire place, um and and politically
Speaker 1: is precarious now, way way more so now than it
Speaker 1: was when I lived there. But uh so, it was
Speaker 1: just to make sure, um so, uh so, I mean,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't like on edge about it. It's just like,
Speaker 1: this was the first guy that was gonna come stay
Speaker 1: with me and and you know, for ninety days, So
Speaker 1: fuck it. Here's your brief. You know. I had a
Speaker 1: bug out bag. I had a plan that I would execute.
Speaker 1: I had other people that I was going to pick
Speaker 1: up and get out of town. Because all of Japan,
Speaker 1: you'll see, all of Japan, anything that's urbanized is sitting
Speaker 1: on a flat space, which is one of the reasons
Speaker 1: why that tsunami could go so far inland, because it's
Speaker 1: just ocean, flat ship and then ninety degree angle mountains.
Speaker 1: So so I walked this guy through the ship. I said,
Speaker 1: here's your bug out bag. Here's here's rally point one,
Speaker 1: here's rally point to rally point two. Was on top
Speaker 1: of a mountain, not a big mountain, pretty short mountain
Speaker 1: you get up in about thirty minutes if you hauled
Speaker 1: ass and but at that mountain you had a panoramic
Speaker 1: view of the entire plane all the way after the
Speaker 1: fucking ocean. You're high enough that the tsunami wasn't gonna
Speaker 1: mess with you. You were you were far enough in
Speaker 1: the woods at this point that if you had to
Speaker 1: fucking uh you know, red dawn that ship because North
Speaker 1: Korea attacked your way the funk outside everybody's radar. Plus,
Speaker 1: we had a couple of I had two Motorola walkie
Speaker 1: talkies that I had taken to the country. Um, and
Speaker 1: one of them was his, was in his bug out bag,
Speaker 1: the other ones in mine, and they're really good. You
Speaker 1: gotta have line of sight. And if he's on a mountaintop,
Speaker 1: you know, two miles away from me, three miles away
Speaker 1: from me, we can talk. If he's behind the mountain,
Speaker 1: we can't do that. So so you know, I explain
Speaker 1: all this bullshit to him, and of course this is
Speaker 1: probably February two thousand and eleven, and um, I mean,
Speaker 1: he looks at me like I got fucking lobsters coming
Speaker 1: out of my ears, looks like I got a fucking
Speaker 1: Lucha Libre mask on my face. So he you know,
Speaker 1: I've known this guy for years, man, Like we went
Speaker 1: to junior high together. We yeah, we went all the
Speaker 1: way back and uh. Um and he literally, man, he
Speaker 1: looked at me and he said, who are you like,
Speaker 1: who are you right now? Cathain America. There's a mask.
Speaker 1: Underneath the mask, it's it's onion layers. And um. But
Speaker 1: so so that is relevant because you know, a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks later, I had enough, I had enough network
Speaker 1: ability to send him one text that said, get your
Speaker 1: fucking bag and go. And I couldn't make the first
Speaker 1: rally point, so I made the second. Nothing happened, nothing
Speaker 1: going on. Uh, you know, my part of the country
Speaker 1: was fine. We had some residual radiation. Nothing major, I
Speaker 1: mean like ship fell off shelves during the earthquake and
Speaker 1: crap like that, and no big deal. And uh I
Speaker 1: got there, and for the first time in that fucking
Speaker 1: guy's life, he realized how infinitely important it was that
Speaker 1: I pulled his out of a train station when he
Speaker 1: first got in country and explained to him what he
Speaker 1: needed to do in the event of an emergency. Was
Speaker 1: it an air tight plan? Now? Uh? If not, everything is,
Speaker 1: but but enough enough of the arc was covered that
Speaker 1: he had an increased chance of surviving that situation. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, and and obviously the bigger plan was much
Speaker 1: larger than that, but I didn't have to share that
Speaker 1: with him at the time. You know, I had plans
Speaker 1: for summer versus winter, because that mountaintop would have been
Speaker 1: covered with snow, uh and all that ship so uh.
Speaker 1: So that that that gets into a lot of this preparedness. Now,
Speaker 1: like I don't have a room full of fucking m
Speaker 1: R E s or like cases of fucking AMMO at
Speaker 1: my place I have. I'm all about mobility. So whether
Speaker 1: I'm in Japan or whether I'm I'm back in Europe
Speaker 1: or whatever it is. Now, I have one bag that
Speaker 1: I will grab and that bag will increase my chances
Speaker 1: of of a variety of different uh survival issues, will
Speaker 1: increase my chances of survival given a variety of issues.
Speaker 1: Um and uh after that moment, you know, after that
Speaker 1: earthquake happened and he had to get his bag and
Speaker 1: get on the bike, and and and fucking Hall asked
Speaker 1: to RP one in an RP two. He Um, he
Speaker 1: understood how important that was. Ultimately it was irrelevant, but
Speaker 1: then he he understood how it was. So, so you know,
Speaker 1: I think that that a lot of people like, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna get this this go bag or this
Speaker 1: this this is great or whatever it is. It's got
Speaker 1: this ship in it. But like you know, the moment,
Speaker 1: when the moment anything fucking goes sideways, if you're not
Speaker 1: prepared for it, you're done. Yeah, and shameless plug. Great
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Speaker 1: also wondering, Um, you have to meet Jack Murphy tonight? Correct? Yes,
Speaker 1: what time? Or do we have a hard Now? We
Speaker 1: don't have a hard time, all right, so we can
Speaker 1: get into a few more things here. Jeremy B on
Speaker 1: YouTube asks Odissean, would you share your thoughts on nationalism
Speaker 1: and militarism in current politics in Japan? Gotta love soft rep,
Speaker 1: asked the expert in the Luca to our mass for
Speaker 1: the Yeah, No, I think those are good questions. Um,
Speaker 1: I've written a couple of things about that. I mean,
Speaker 1: like last year I wrote an article about the the
Speaker 1: probability of the current emperor retiring in order to make
Speaker 1: way for an emperor that would be more conducive to
Speaker 1: a a militarized Japan. First of all, nationalized or ultra
Speaker 1: nationalized Japanese people are always around, always around, they drive
Speaker 1: around these black busses broadcasting ship. It's kind of weird.
Speaker 1: But um uh I UM. I don't have a problem
Speaker 1: with anybody being nationalistic. I don't have a problem with
Speaker 1: anybody's supporting UH. You know, I guess the superiority of
Speaker 1: their of their country, as long as they're not fucking
Speaker 1: assholes about it and hurting other people or innocent people.
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't. I obviously don't agree with that.
Speaker 1: I'm in the military, so or was in the military.
Speaker 1: So um the so. Yeah. I wrote last year about
Speaker 1: the emperor retiring UH, and it was a theory at
Speaker 1: the time, and it's a fact now. The Emperor of
Speaker 1: Japan is retiring. He's going to retire or. I think
Speaker 1: they've set the official date for his birthday, which is
Speaker 1: December twenty three, UH, and then to herald in the
Speaker 1: new year, they will they'll bring in his son UM
Speaker 1: to be the new emperor. I don't have any visibility
Speaker 1: right now on whether UH that new emperor, because the
Speaker 1: emperor doesn't hold any political authority in the country. Part
Speaker 1: of the UH part of the surrender agreement UM that
Speaker 1: was finalized in the fifties. Part of that surrender agreement
Speaker 1: is that the Japanese would would uh finally admit that
Speaker 1: their emperor was not divine in any way. Okay, well,
Speaker 1: so that was an administrative change because everyone still views
Speaker 1: their fucking emperor as being bigger and better than normal people.
Speaker 1: The the emperor or or anybody in the imperial family. Um,
Speaker 1: they are not involved in the execution of political agendas.
Speaker 1: That's what it's not what they're there for. That's why
Speaker 1: there was a show gun. The showgun ran the country.
Speaker 1: The emperor was just there to sort of represent it.
Speaker 1: So the current emperor, the emperor that's sitting there now
Speaker 1: is the son of Hidro Hito, who was the emperor
Speaker 1: during World War Two. Right, So this cat who's sitting
Speaker 1: in there now, UM, he does not want to have
Speaker 1: anything at all to do with anything violent. Uh. Japan
Speaker 1: is almost utterly pacified right now. So, Um, I've been
Speaker 1: right in the entire time I've been on software up
Speaker 1: that Japan is going to get more militarized. They have to.
Speaker 1: There's absolutely no choice whether they want it or not.
Speaker 1: It's going to happen. Um. So I think nationalism itself
Speaker 1: in Japan is probably not changing because the vast majority
Speaker 1: of the street folk in Japan don't want war, they
Speaker 1: don't want violence, they don't want to funk with the
Speaker 1: stresses of being involved in kinetic activity against another national body. Um.
Speaker 1: That ain't stopping the government from becoming more militarized. So
Speaker 1: I guess what I could say is that the national
Speaker 1: sentiment of the people is a mutually exclusive event to
Speaker 1: the militarization of the government itself. Uh. The people being
Speaker 1: for it or against it really has nothing at all
Speaker 1: to do with the government doing it or not doing it. Um.
Speaker 1: So the reason they're they're gonna pull this new emperor,
Speaker 1: I mean, the current emperor wants to retire, that's cool,
Speaker 1: but uh, they're gonna pull this new guy in. And
Speaker 1: this new guy is just gonna not hiccup anything, and
Speaker 1: you're not going to tarnish his reputation because the current
Speaker 1: emperor has spent his entire life on the throne being
Speaker 1: uh peaceful pass us Japan has never engaged in any
Speaker 1: kinetic activity really, um since he's been on the throne period. Well,
Speaker 1: now he can step out the door and fish or
Speaker 1: whatever the hell it is he's gonna do as a
Speaker 1: retired emperor. Uh, and then his kid can sort out
Speaker 1: whether he wants to be responsible for militarized Japan or not. Um, So,
Speaker 1: the militarization is going to happen. It's been happening for
Speaker 1: the last I hit the country the first time in
Speaker 1: two thousand four, and it's it's militarized significantly since then.
Speaker 1: I've written a lot of shit about how units were
Speaker 1: training was implemented on units that could not even legally
Speaker 1: exist in Japan. So they they gave him a different
Speaker 1: nomenclature and ship like that, and then once the ship
Speaker 1: was legal, those teams went live because they already had
Speaker 1: all the training, all the resources and everything allotted, they
Speaker 1: just weren't illegally allowed to do that. So then once
Speaker 1: the legalization occurred, they just they popped those guys into
Speaker 1: action and hit the hit the flip the switch, and
Speaker 1: the unit was just magically there. So, UM, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't think of militarized Japan is a bad thing
Speaker 1: for the United States and for for Western policies in Asia,
Speaker 1: as long as we responsibly engage in Japan as um.
Speaker 1: You know, one of those powerful economies in the world,
Speaker 1: one of the most powerful militaries in the world. They
Speaker 1: weren't even allowed to have a military for years and
Speaker 1: years and years, and it was one of the most
Speaker 1: powerful militaries in the world. They've got second, I think
Speaker 1: they're the second per capita spending for defense and they
Speaker 1: weren't even allowed to have military. Yeah, any questions you
Speaker 1: guys have, shoot them over. We're here for you to
Speaker 1: uh to answer anything, especially specifically on Japan. Uh is
Speaker 1: the Odissean's wheelhouse. Who is with us for the next
Speaker 1: few minutes? Um. I actually do have a question though
Speaker 1: myself regarding what you're talking about. What do you say
Speaker 1: to people because I've had this conversation with Jack Murphy
Speaker 1: who say, Um, we have too much of a military
Speaker 1: presence around the globe. We're not the world police. Why
Speaker 1: do we even have a presence in Japan? World War
Speaker 1: Two was decades ago. What's the reason for it? And
Speaker 1: what do you say to people that you know just
Speaker 1: think it's where we're spreading troops too thin and we
Speaker 1: should only be focused on these countries like North Korea
Speaker 1: or Iran that that people perceive as a threat to us.
Speaker 1: I mean, I agree with I think we are spread
Speaker 1: too thin. I I would also agree that we kind
Speaker 1: of make ourselves a world police and get involved in
Speaker 1: ship that we can't even logistically or or or economically
Speaker 1: feasibly engaged. That's just piss poor planning that that that
Speaker 1: doesn't have anything to do with the reality of America
Speaker 1: stepping up and trying to help people they're getting shipped on. Uh.
Speaker 1: I mean, in my opinion, Uh, the reason we have
Speaker 1: people in fucking Japan, Guam, in Hawaii is because of
Speaker 1: North Korea. The fucking moment the kettle goes off in
Speaker 1: North Korea, and I've said it on your radio show,
Speaker 1: I've said it in my articles, the fucking moment the
Speaker 1: cattle goes off in North Korea, the Korean twins are
Speaker 1: going to be non entities in any fucking decision making process. Uh.
Speaker 1: The people we have there are going to be more
Speaker 1: concerned about getting their asses rescued than fucking around with
Speaker 1: North Korea. That's why we have people in Japan, That's
Speaker 1: why we have people in Okinawa, That's why we have
Speaker 1: people in Hawaii, because those guys aren't gonna get fucked
Speaker 1: up the moment the balloon goes up. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: I think, uh so, if you say, why do we
Speaker 1: have people in Japan. Uh, you know, World War two
Speaker 1: is over. I would I would think, why do we
Speaker 1: have people in South Korea? I mean, I realized we're
Speaker 1: still at war with North Korea. But the only fucking
Speaker 1: reason we're in South Korea is because North Korea is
Speaker 1: in North Korea. And guess what's gonna happen when we
Speaker 1: leave South Korea. North Korea is still gonna be fucking
Speaker 1: North Korea. It isn't like we're gonna leave and then
Speaker 1: they're gonna be like, well, you know what, We're gonna
Speaker 1: recruit a million new people to to you know, that
Speaker 1: way we just overrun South ship. It's not gonna happen.
Speaker 1: That's not the way that ship works. Um. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm my opinion, and I'm obviously not a Korean expert.
Speaker 1: There are people in the system to know a shipload
Speaker 1: more about that ship than I do. But Japan really
Speaker 1: is the lynchpin to anything and everything we're ever gonna do.
Speaker 1: Uh in Northeast Asia and to a greater extent East
Speaker 1: and even Southeast Asia. Um, I think we're spread thin.
Speaker 1: I agree with whoever says that I mean, Jack or
Speaker 1: whoever I agree with that we're spread too thin. But again, no,
Speaker 1: it's not in general general Yeah, yeah, people say that
Speaker 1: ship all the time, and I agree with you, we
Speaker 1: are spread tooth thin. But but again that's just pissed
Speaker 1: poor planning. It's like, well, we have all our eggs
Speaker 1: in this basket. We don't have any eggs to put
Speaker 1: in this basket over here. I've also heard Jack say,
Speaker 1: because Jack is really not on that end of the spectrum,
Speaker 1: he's He's said before, um, and we've had Green Berets
Speaker 1: on the program say before that if you don't have
Speaker 1: a military base in all of these places around the
Speaker 1: globe that we do, who do you think is going
Speaker 1: to It's China going to open a military basic. We
Speaker 1: have to keep that global US presence. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: I agree with that, you have to have a presence, um.
Speaker 1: But I mean because you can see what the fuss
Speaker 1: is happening in Africa right now, I mean we don't
Speaker 1: we don't have like a strong military presence in Africa,
Speaker 1: and fucking China is crawling all over the place. Now.
Speaker 1: You know, Derek and and and Jay on the site,
Speaker 1: they write about that ship, um extensively, And uh, I
Speaker 1: mean I don't necessarily think we gotta have a base
Speaker 1: or a post or or anything in a location like that,
Speaker 1: you have to have a military presence. Um. I mean
Speaker 1: you think about Japan. I mean, what do we got
Speaker 1: like six fucking military bases on Okinawa. That ship's like
Speaker 1: the size of fucking long island and there's six military
Speaker 1: bases on it. Like we everything we have on on
Speaker 1: mainland Japan or in the home islands of Japan. We
Speaker 1: folded all that ship back to Okinawa and some of
Speaker 1: the Okanawa ship went to Guam. Um. So I mean
Speaker 1: we don't have to have military presence in Japan. Let
Speaker 1: me rephrase that. Our military presence in Japan has nothing
Speaker 1: to do with Japan. Like, our military presence in Japan
Speaker 1: is because Japan is literally the biggest friendliest ally we
Speaker 1: have in Northeast Asia. The only fucking reason Korea wants
Speaker 1: us stairs because guess what they get to use when
Speaker 1: they get hit us. Yeah right, so yeah, keep the
Speaker 1: questions coming. First of whish is Chris bat He's about
Speaker 1: to answer that. Yeah, if Rocket Boy does another flyover
Speaker 1: dependent design Japan, sorry, declare they're now officially on defense
Speaker 1: and lean forward. Japan is already consistently on defense. Um.
Speaker 1: They're only going to lean forward and as much as um,
Speaker 1: I guess we let them lean forward. So I wrote
Speaker 1: an article sec def Madiss first visit as the Secretary
Speaker 1: of Defense was to South Korea and Japan, and um uh,
Speaker 1: you know, he spent a couple of days in South
Speaker 1: Korea and uh, and then spent a whole shipload of
Speaker 1: time in Japan. And you know, right after sect Death
Speaker 1: left Japan, the Prime Minister Japan and President Trump had
Speaker 1: a long conversation with each other on the phone. So
Speaker 1: I think Japan knows exactly what it's left and right
Speaker 1: limits are in terms of its own defense. Um. I've
Speaker 1: also I could be wrong about any of this. I
Speaker 1: just don't think I am like that. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't think you know, I'm I'm very If I
Speaker 1: get proven wrong, that's cool. I'm not gonna stam. I'm
Speaker 1: not married to the fucking idea that Japan is going
Speaker 1: to be able to defend itself. I just believe that
Speaker 1: they will. Um. So if I don't think North Korea
Speaker 1: is gonna do anybody over there, and if they do
Speaker 1: knuke anybody, it's gonna be South Korea. I don't think,
Speaker 1: you know, they're not gonna nuke. Uh, they're not gonna
Speaker 1: New Japan. Um Uh, I don't think. I don't think
Speaker 1: they're gonna do anybody, to be honest with you. And
Speaker 1: if they did, I don't think it's gonna be a launch.
Speaker 1: I've said it before. They're going to deliver a dirty
Speaker 1: bomb in a fucking backpack to the c Tach area
Speaker 1: because they can do that. You know, what's the end
Speaker 1: game then? For them? I have no idea. And yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just I think all that ship is just uh,
Speaker 1: it's it's they're just doing a magic trick. Hey, look
Speaker 1: at look at my hand over here. I have all
Speaker 1: this flashy bullshit going on over in this end and
Speaker 1: meanwhile they're digging around in their back pocket for a
Speaker 1: fucking rabbit. Um. But what does that mean in real terms?
Speaker 1: In real terms, it means we're paying a mentioned to
Speaker 1: these do these missile attacks and these nuke tests and
Speaker 1: ship like that, and we're not paying attention to the
Speaker 1: right thing. I have no idea, well, I mean I
Speaker 1: have no idea exactly what the right thing is because
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not working that Um, I'm not working
Speaker 1: that region exactly like that. You know, don't have access
Speaker 1: to sensitive information or proprietary stuff involving North Korea, but
Speaker 1: I mean, man, it could be anything that China could
Speaker 1: have gone to North Korea and said, hey, we need
Speaker 1: you to start blowing ship up again for a little
Speaker 1: while while we do all the ship that they've been
Speaker 1: doing this whole time in the South China Sea that
Speaker 1: no one's paying attention to now because everyone's concerned about
Speaker 1: North Korea fucking destroying the world with nuclear weapons. Um,
Speaker 1: you know another thing they could do is, uh we
Speaker 1: we know that North Korea's got all these fucking tunnels
Speaker 1: that that go back and forth between North Korean South Korea,
Speaker 1: and they know that that's a major part of their
Speaker 1: attack effort. And uh in South Korea, they know that
Speaker 1: they can park all their bullshit and these tunnels and
Speaker 1: while everybody's pummeling the funk out of each other with
Speaker 1: artillery and missile attacks all across Uh, you know, North
Speaker 1: Korean South Korea, all the ship that's underground is gonna
Speaker 1: be fine and then us so South Koreans have been
Speaker 1: beat the fucking ship by all of the RT and
Speaker 1: missile attacks, all the fucking tanks, all those sniper brigades
Speaker 1: all that bullshit are gonna pop out of those caves
Speaker 1: and they're gonna be fine. So in order to do
Speaker 1: the the the digging and the architecture in those tunnels,
Speaker 1: it requires uh seismic activity basically, um and and I
Speaker 1: could be talking to my asked here. So if any
Speaker 1: of the listeners are aware of how you dig fucking
Speaker 1: tunnels and whether this is a relevant comment, please please
Speaker 1: please right in, call in mail, in whatever, and let
Speaker 1: me know that this bullshit. But so these guys dig
Speaker 1: these tunnels, and while they're digging these tunnels, their seismic activity, well,
Speaker 1: no one's paying attention to seismic activity that has anything
Speaker 1: to do with anything but nuclear fucking tests right now.
Speaker 1: So if I'm digging a tunnel that requires seismic fucking activity,
Speaker 1: what do I want to do. If I don't want
Speaker 1: you to know I'm digging that tunnel, I need to
Speaker 1: create a reason to have seismic activity that's different than
Speaker 1: the reason that their seismic activity tracking. Right, So I'm
Speaker 1: digging a tunnel of seismic activity. I've got to blow
Speaker 1: some ship up in this tunnel in order to make
Speaker 1: some more room. Meanwhile, at another test site somewhere else
Speaker 1: in the country, their seismic activity. But everybody's focused in
Speaker 1: on this nuclear ship because for some reason, everybody's focused
Speaker 1: in on this nuclear ship. Um. I'm not saying you
Speaker 1: shouldn't focus in on it, but the whole fucking like
Speaker 1: media apparatus and intelligence apparatus involved in this ship openly
Speaker 1: is focused in on this crap. You know. I mean,
Speaker 1: we've got we've got cyber attacks happening every day. Uh
Speaker 1: that that that are far more detrimental to US national
Speaker 1: security and and national policy objectives overseas, Uh, far more
Speaker 1: detrimental that. And yet we're focused in on this fucking
Speaker 1: guy in North Korea that literally cannot launch a missile
Speaker 1: far enough to funk anything up other than South Korea
Speaker 1: or a place in Japan. And the news media almost
Speaker 1: presents it like they do have the technology to New America. UM, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I maybe they do. I don't think they do.
Speaker 1: It would be easier and cheaper than the dirty bomb
Speaker 1: a fucking West Coast city, uh, than it would be
Speaker 1: for them to launch a missile. The North Korea's broke
Speaker 1: as fuck, and every time they do a new test
Speaker 1: or launch a fucking missile um. They're blowing money they
Speaker 1: don't have, right, every time they do that, they are
Speaker 1: blowing money they don't fucking have unless somebody's just giving
Speaker 1: them money, which brings in a whole other question. You know,
Speaker 1: how they're getting all this tech and and and who's
Speaker 1: giving them somebody's giving them the tech, and somebody's giving
Speaker 1: them all the ship and uh so, so then now
Speaker 1: we get into a transnational issue with which which covers
Speaker 1: completely like exponentially higher grade um analysis and access to information.
Speaker 1: But personally, and I said it on a show I
Speaker 1: think Drew Drew Dwyer was on the show also and
Speaker 1: Brandon came in. I had called in, I think all
Speaker 1: this fucking new test ship is just a farce. I
Speaker 1: think that that people are looking at the wrong hand
Speaker 1: and their ship going on could be China fucking around
Speaker 1: in South China see to be North Korea making these tunnels. Um.
Speaker 1: You know I mentioned before on that exact podcast that
Speaker 1: the missing North Korean submarines. You know, ever, you know
Speaker 1: it's been more than once in the last ten years,
Speaker 1: North Korea has lost a submarine and it's just this
Speaker 1: fucking joke. We all laugh about it. Ha ha North
Speaker 1: Korea lost a sub. Well, we don't know where the
Speaker 1: fucking sub is either, So in my opinion, we shouldn't
Speaker 1: be laughing. We should be finding that fucking sub because
Speaker 1: just because they said they lost it, we laugh. All
Speaker 1: these guys are so archaic about their navy and their
Speaker 1: sub technology, how it's still a diesel engine and blah
Speaker 1: blah blah. And then where the fund is the sub? Like,
Speaker 1: that's the first question, and that's the first objective, and
Speaker 1: it never happens. They just laugh about the sub being gone,
Speaker 1: and then that's it. I'm just wondering, when you call
Speaker 1: into the radio show, is the mask on? No, because
Speaker 1: I'm usually in a fucking target parking lot somewhere and
Speaker 1: nobody knows that I'm me okay, yeah, yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: I gets sometimes I wear, you know, just I gotta wonder.
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Speaker 1: I think I gotta play Donalds, who has become a
Speaker 1: fixture on the show The Greatest President that god. Um.
Speaker 1: I was told ten dollars for Ian if he can
Speaker 1: remove the mask. I'm not even coming close that I'll
Speaker 1: give him. I'll give him eleven dollars to not do it.
Speaker 1: Where Yeah now, Adam, Well, we're talking about a black
Speaker 1: belt in judo that's in front of me. I am
Speaker 1: not I have no martial arts expertise, and we're talking
Speaker 1: about it like real legit Japanese judo black belt correct,
Speaker 1: like trained in Japan. Yeah, yeah, I did the whole
Speaker 1: I had never done judo before I was in Japan,
Speaker 1: and then while I was there, I uh, one of
Speaker 1: the one of the guys I knew was that he
Speaker 1: had been on the Japanese Olympic judo team, and he
Speaker 1: invited me to his dojo or what ever, and so yeah,
Speaker 1: that's why there you go, there you go. Hey. I
Speaker 1: would like to address Daniel Will's question though. Do I
Speaker 1: believe the Japanese government will use increased tensions with North
Speaker 1: Korea as an excuse for increased militarization. Um? Absolutely, But
Speaker 1: they don't have to use North Korea as an excuse
Speaker 1: that they don't have to use anything for an excuse.
Speaker 1: They've had increased militarization, militarization for about the last fifteen years,
Speaker 1: and it's just going to continue to go up. I mean, um,
Speaker 1: they just bought like fucking billions of dollars worth of
Speaker 1: ships and gave a bunch of their old ships to
Speaker 1: the Philippines. Wrote an article about that. Because Japan is
Speaker 1: is executing its own Cold War in Southeast Asia right
Speaker 1: now against China. Um. But they don't they don't have
Speaker 1: to have an excuse. Man, that's not the culture. It
Speaker 1: is like you you get into uh, you know, Neo
Speaker 1: Confucian culture and ship like that, and they just they
Speaker 1: don't have to have an excuse, man, I mean, funk.
Speaker 1: When when they officially altered Article nine of the Japanese constitution,
Speaker 1: there were people catching themselves on fucking fire outside of
Speaker 1: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's house in protests of that alteration.
Speaker 1: Article nine is what disallows them from having a military,
Speaker 1: and they they altered that with the United States blessing,
Speaker 1: and so they're allowed to have military right now. And
Speaker 1: when that ship happened, I mean, there were people burning
Speaker 1: themselves in the streets, like the fucking raging against the
Speaker 1: Machine album, and oh yeah, it didn't slow anybody down,
Speaker 1: like I give. I mean, it's not it's not that
Speaker 1: they don't give a funk, but like public opinion like
Speaker 1: that has absolutely no place in in in the military
Speaker 1: decision making process of that country. Uh. And and I
Speaker 1: think the vast the people that burned themselves on the
Speaker 1: street knew that, uh. And they that's why they burned
Speaker 1: themselves because uh, you know, they don't they don't want
Speaker 1: to be a part of the country that is going
Speaker 1: to militarize and militarization uh, and their brain equates directly
Speaker 1: to violence, which is not the case at all, because
Speaker 1: the Japanese have forgotten two thousand years of their warrior history.
Speaker 1: But that's not my problem. I see that, Uh, Stephen
Speaker 1: like the gear in the last box, I did too,
Speaker 1: thought it was awesome. Um, we're wrapping things up and
Speaker 1: then we're probably going to do a quick video on
Speaker 1: Instagram and call it a but I think we have
Speaker 1: time for one more question here. I see a good
Speaker 1: one in Facebook. I'm gonna check the YouTube as well. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, let's go with this last Facebook question from
Speaker 1: Giovanni Zurita. Will we see a significant Japanese expeditionary cape
Speaker 1: capability within the next five years or is it still
Speaker 1: too early to tell? No, I mean you can already
Speaker 1: see an expeditionary capability, and they have people, They have
Speaker 1: troops deployed to Soucidan right now, and that was the
Speaker 1: first armed that was the first armed Japanese deployment since
Speaker 1: fucking World War Two. So that was huge nobody really
Speaker 1: covered in the media. But whatever. Um the So that's expeditionary.
Speaker 1: What you're probably gonna see if I were to take
Speaker 1: a guess, is their defense capability in their direct region
Speaker 1: the water around Japan. Um, that ship is gonna beat
Speaker 1: itself up. Everything else that will be global will be
Speaker 1: very expeditionary, very modular, super small footprint. Um that that
Speaker 1: allows them to move quickly, but it also limits their
Speaker 1: body count in the event that ship goes wrong. So yeah,
Speaker 1: so yeah, you're definitely gonna see that. It's not even
Speaker 1: a question. Um but I mean good question, but it's
Speaker 1: not even a question in my mind. Yeah, well said, um,
Speaker 1: I think that about wraps it up. Head over to Instagram,
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Speaker 1: I really enjoyed it. Well, hopefully I can be here
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