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Speaker 1: military news and straight talk with the guys and the community. Hey, everybody,
Speaker 1: welcome back to Software Up Radio. Today. We're hoping to
Speaker 1: have Gary Busey and studio, but something personal came up,
Speaker 1: so we hope to get Gary back sometime between now
Speaker 1: and the rest of the year, so I'll just be
Speaker 1: doing the show solo. Got some c stories to to
Speaker 1: share with with the audience. Um, I was at breakfast
Speaker 1: this morning with Buddy Mine, who is a former Navy
Speaker 1: guy as well, and we just started reminiscing about the
Speaker 1: past and it's it's funny how how many stories we
Speaker 1: have just from that. The military experience just like the
Speaker 1: funniest stuff, right because people are in the military, you're
Speaker 1: confined to sometimes in the Navy, especially these tight spaces
Speaker 1: on the ship, you get bored, and it's amazing what
Speaker 1: people will come up with. So we'll get to some
Speaker 1: of that some of those stories on this show as well. Also,
Speaker 1: I really want to encourage people to reach out and
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Speaker 1: and looking forward to get into some c stories in
Speaker 1: a minute. One thing I wanted just to to talk
Speaker 1: about because it seems like we're at this weird moment
Speaker 1: in America where people are just afraid to speak their
Speaker 1: mind and be honest with each other. I see it
Speaker 1: anywhere having kids, I've I've seen it in the in
Speaker 1: the school environment, especially in the media, and and we've
Speaker 1: become so polarized now with with Trump sitting in the
Speaker 1: office still and it's kind of twenties coming, and it's
Speaker 1: just it's just creating this like incredibly polarized environment where
Speaker 1: anybody says anything political, it's like the torches come out
Speaker 1: and the angry mob starts gathering on on either side.
Speaker 1: And personally, you know my political views, I've I've been
Speaker 1: a registered independence since I got out of military. Okay,
Speaker 1: I personally I don't have a problem sharing my own
Speaker 1: viewpoints on Trump, but and I do think the kind
Speaker 1: of packaged moral outrage by the a lot of these
Speaker 1: left wing media sites have really kind of hijacked this
Speaker 1: issue of Syria, right, and I talked about Syria for
Speaker 1: a minute. I put a tweet out the other day
Speaker 1: I said, most politicians probably couldn't find Damascus, the capital
Speaker 1: of Syria, on a map unless they had the help
Speaker 1: of their smartphone. You know, as much as it surprised
Speaker 1: me when I got out of the military, you know,
Speaker 1: so ring thirteen years um in the Middle East and Afghanistan,
Speaker 1: and you get out and you think, oh, there must
Speaker 1: just be these really smart people in Washington, d C.
Speaker 1: And and and then you get out and and realize, Okay,
Speaker 1: maybe I need to to kind of rethink this my
Speaker 1: my current thoughts on politicians, because a lot of them aren't. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not saying all of them are the same. There's
Speaker 1: something you know, there are some great politicians out there
Speaker 1: who really are you know, giving up or pausing career
Speaker 1: to enter in the political arena and make a difference. Um,
Speaker 1: which I think is the spirit of our kind of
Speaker 1: founding fathers was the intent of politics in American general.
Speaker 1: The problem I see today is like you have a
Speaker 1: lot of politicians that aren't smart on issues, and they
Speaker 1: start opining and just taking these political stands without really
Speaker 1: understanding how something works. And and that's a slippery slope
Speaker 1: and a scary place to to be current ly in America,
Speaker 1: especially when a very schizophrenic foreign policy strategy that spans
Speaker 1: now three administrations. Right, I only have to point at
Speaker 1: Afghanistan and what the hell we're still doing there almost
Speaker 1: twenty years later? Uh? And really, what I'll call my
Speaker 1: own personal case study is I've asked people, high ranking
Speaker 1: people in politics and in government and wrote an article
Speaker 1: about it last week on soft up dot com about
Speaker 1: schizophrenic foreign policy that we've had in America, the case studies.
Speaker 1: I've asked all these these high ranking people, and nobody
Speaker 1: can give me a straight answer, Right, everybody who I've
Speaker 1: spoken to you when I've asked a direct question. And
Speaker 1: in the article I wrote recently on soft up dot
Speaker 1: com called fake it until you make it, basically talking
Speaker 1: about the Trump situation, Washington politics, and and our foreign
Speaker 1: policy strategy is nobody can give me a straight answer
Speaker 1: on what we're doing in Afghanistan? What is our long
Speaker 1: term U S strategy in Afghanistan? And I talked about
Speaker 1: this dinner I was invited to back I believe around
Speaker 1: two thousand, probably this had to be two thousand fourteen.
Speaker 1: And I was at a dinner with Mary Walker, who
Speaker 1: was a former General counsel for the US Air Force,
Speaker 1: and she said, honestly, I don't know what we're doing
Speaker 1: in Afghanistan. I don't know what the strategy is. And
Speaker 1: I've heard the same thing from politicians, um and I
Speaker 1: get a different answer. It's each time. And the problem is,
Speaker 1: imagine now you're an American war fighter stationed in Afghanistan
Speaker 1: today and you're losing friends and you're wondering, you're coming
Speaker 1: back from overseas deployment going okay, why did I just
Speaker 1: see for my my fellow warfighters die in combat? What for? What?
Speaker 1: What the hell are we doing here? And that's the problem,
Speaker 1: like we're dealing. We're losing some of America's brightest since
Speaker 1: nine eleven in far away places that sometimes people don't
Speaker 1: even hear about, places like North Africa, you know, remote
Speaker 1: regions of Afghanistan, Pakistan, the Middle East, and really, what
Speaker 1: the hell are we doing over there? And when you
Speaker 1: when you have a situation where not even the highest
Speaker 1: elected officials in government understand what we're doing abroad, that's
Speaker 1: a big problem. I mean, imagine somebody running a publicly
Speaker 1: traded company and and they're asking the CEO, you know
Speaker 1: what the vision is and the profit projections are for
Speaker 1: next year, and the CEO says, well, I really don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean that, and done of the senior executives, no,
Speaker 1: and nobody knows. Like there's just no way to run
Speaker 1: a business, and there's no way to run a country.
Speaker 1: I think we found ourselves down in a situation where
Speaker 1: one of the things I really do agree with Trump
Speaker 1: is pulling out of these situations where it's half baked.
Speaker 1: And we have a half big situation in Afghanistan where
Speaker 1: we're still there, we really don't know what the hell
Speaker 1: is going on, and we're putting American lives at risk.
Speaker 1: Same in places like Syria. When civil war kicked off
Speaker 1: in Syria, all these politicians saying, oh, we should back
Speaker 1: the rebels, not really looking back on history saying that
Speaker 1: it didn't really work out for us too well in
Speaker 1: Afghanistan when we backed the rebels against the Soviet occupation
Speaker 1: and those rebels turned out to be al Qaeda and
Speaker 1: Osli bit Lot, and and then when you look at
Speaker 1: the situation what did happen is a lot of those
Speaker 1: Syrian rebels turned in into isis okay? So it's just
Speaker 1: one of those things where not enough people are talking
Speaker 1: about it. And in another problem in this country, like
Speaker 1: I said at the beginning of the show, is not
Speaker 1: enough people are really willing to openly and civilly debate
Speaker 1: and talk about these issues without turning it into a
Speaker 1: political bombshell whatever you wanna call it. One of the
Speaker 1: things that I think we're really missing in this country
Speaker 1: right now is open dialogue, open debate, where people can
Speaker 1: voice concerns, talk about things in a civilized manner without
Speaker 1: lighting the the you know, virtual torches online and just
Speaker 1: going after anybody that says anything that's outside of the
Speaker 1: the norm on either side of your political viewpoint, whatever
Speaker 1: it may be. And that and that's a real problem
Speaker 1: and a sad thing. And and I am glad a
Speaker 1: lot of people who have served men and women are
Speaker 1: now and in politics kind of being that voice of
Speaker 1: reason in the highest levels of government because we desperately
Speaker 1: need it. We've created a situation again through Republican and
Speaker 1: Democrat presidents, where there's three administrations. Now we've created a
Speaker 1: situation where we have a much more unstable mid the
Speaker 1: least then we did pre Iraq War two. You can
Speaker 1: make an argument says, why do we go into Iraq
Speaker 1: the second time? Regardless of that point, we did go
Speaker 1: into Iraq. We did, we did remove that I'm the same,
Speaker 1: and we basically by pulling out without a really clear
Speaker 1: pullout strategy. And I say that, and I know where
Speaker 1: some of your minds are going, so um with you,
Speaker 1: but really like basically leaving the Iraq in the fashion
Speaker 1: we did left to left this power vacuum, and of
Speaker 1: course Iran moved right in. You have this, you know,
Speaker 1: civil war kicking off in Syria, the rise of ISIS,
Speaker 1: and anyone that says we should be backing Syrian rebels,
Speaker 1: really it's the US essentially backing and fighting a proxy
Speaker 1: war against Russia and Iran, and potentially you could make
Speaker 1: an argument China as well, And is that some thing
Speaker 1: we do We really want to send American special operations
Speaker 1: forces into that situation, not really having a well thought
Speaker 1: out long term plan. And that's my point, and that's
Speaker 1: why I have no problem with the fact that Trump says, hey,
Speaker 1: we're getting out of Syria, not our problem. And look
Speaker 1: it sucks that the Kurds who are up in the
Speaker 1: north of Iraq are incredibly good people. I've worked up
Speaker 1: in Kurdistan and so Manya and the Kurds are our
Speaker 1: our allies, and it sucks to kind of leave them,
Speaker 1: you know, in that position. But at the same time, look,
Speaker 1: we've got to really pay attention to what we're doing
Speaker 1: in the world and rethink our long term strategic goals
Speaker 1: when it comes to foreign policy abroad, right because how
Speaker 1: many Benghazis do we need to see that this kind
Speaker 1: of like half baked, really half asked attempts to promote
Speaker 1: diplomacy abroad really isn't working out too well for us
Speaker 1: right out, Um, and again it's it's I'm not blaming
Speaker 1: any any one administration. This is the inherent problem that
Speaker 1: crosses now three three different administrations. And one of the
Speaker 1: things also that has happened in this country, those of
Speaker 1: you that follow me on on Instagram, Now, I I
Speaker 1: enrolled in this Harvard executive program called Owner President's Program,
Speaker 1: and it's a two two year program, and one of
Speaker 1: the first things we talked about amongst my class was
Speaker 1: this kind of vanishing middle class in America. Any and
Speaker 1: I hear all these politicians say, oh, we're gonna bring
Speaker 1: back the middle class, and really it's like the middle
Speaker 1: classes virtually gone. An exercise we did with one of
Speaker 1: the professors at Harvard Business School was we survey the
Speaker 1: class what makes America an incredible country to live in?
Speaker 1: And everyone, you know, the hands shot up. It's where
Speaker 1: you can be born here, doesn't matter where you're from,
Speaker 1: you can make it, which essentially is true, like the
Speaker 1: the environment of that does exist in America, and what
Speaker 1: does make it one of the greatest countries on earth
Speaker 1: is you have all this freedom of choice. But the
Speaker 1: problem is we've when you look at the data, the
Speaker 1: data says it really does matter what class you're born into,
Speaker 1: because it really, you know, statistically, the data determines to
Speaker 1: some degree the outcome of opportunity, right, so people that
Speaker 1: are born in certain classes have more opportunity than people
Speaker 1: that that aren't in that. Look, that's always existed. I
Speaker 1: don't think it's ever going to go away. The problem
Speaker 1: is that gap has gotten so wide between the halves
Speaker 1: and the have nots in America. It's a scary thing
Speaker 1: to think about. And statistically, we are the same now
Speaker 1: as Russia and South America. When it when it comes
Speaker 1: to what class you're born into really does predict the
Speaker 1: outcome of how you're going to end up, like how
Speaker 1: your financial future will look in the future, and that
Speaker 1: a scary place to be in right now in America
Speaker 1: and especially another really surprising and interesting fact that I
Speaker 1: found is the most the biggest job by number of
Speaker 1: people in America is truck driver. Right so when you
Speaker 1: look at that particular job category employees the most out
Speaker 1: of any other job category in America right now. And
Speaker 1: then you you think about, okay, the rise of artificial
Speaker 1: intelligence and autonomous vehicles, what does that do for the
Speaker 1: truck driver of America and that job category. It's a
Speaker 1: scary thing to think about because you wipe that category out,
Speaker 1: and what do all those former truck drivers do now
Speaker 1: you start thinking about that that kind of stuff and
Speaker 1: the situation America And so we were really at a
Speaker 1: time where we need incredibly smart politicians, and we need
Speaker 1: not not just politicians but crearently smart people. Well, I
Speaker 1: guess the point I'm trying to make helping us solve
Speaker 1: these real problems we have in America. For instance, Silicon
Speaker 1: Valley is not the center of tech innovation anymore. When
Speaker 1: you look at the rise of artificial intelligence, it really
Speaker 1: is I think on the scale of the next big thing, right,
Speaker 1: it's the next Internet of things. In the center of
Speaker 1: AI is you can make an argument it's it's really
Speaker 1: in the UK. You know, deep Mind, which is recently
Speaker 1: acquired by Google is now located in London. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: talked to my friends at Harvard Business School and they're saying, yeah,
Speaker 1: if you really want to see what's happening with tech,
Speaker 1: you go to China and Russia and these other these
Speaker 1: other places in the world. So we've at one point
Speaker 1: America really did have a have a huge advantage because
Speaker 1: we we had all the big tech companies that came
Speaker 1: out of Silicon Valley. But now we're really we're losing
Speaker 1: that edge as well. We have a situation America where
Speaker 1: the Chinese skipped the A T M machine entirely and
Speaker 1: they went to mobile banking on cell phones, and so
Speaker 1: you think about the rest of the world and how
Speaker 1: the world is evolving so quickly without without us, especially
Speaker 1: in fintech, we have education system that prais on students
Speaker 1: and the student loan like predatory student lending that creates
Speaker 1: a situation where kids are graduating with massive student debt
Speaker 1: and had a huge deficit and disadvantage going into the future.
Speaker 1: One of the reasons why I encourage my my oldest
Speaker 1: son to go study abroad in Europe because not only
Speaker 1: is it, I think, a better educational environment and network,
Speaker 1: more of a global network, it's a hell of a
Speaker 1: lot cheaper. But anyway, that's my my kind of rant
Speaker 1: on on the current state of things. Um, my main
Speaker 1: point is, you know, time for us to really do
Speaker 1: some housekeeping at home and get our act together and
Speaker 1: really think about how are we as America going to
Speaker 1: interact with the rest of the world in the future,
Speaker 1: and really kind of think about and start doing some
Speaker 1: more long term thinking, because look, that's the way China.
Speaker 1: China thinks hundreds and hundreds of years, and unfortunately the
Speaker 1: political by nature of our political system, we sure we
Speaker 1: think in very short term cycles, and we have to
Speaker 1: start like changing a lot of things in America if
Speaker 1: we're going to continue to be one of the greatest
Speaker 1: countries on the planet. And look, I don't have all
Speaker 1: the answers. I'm just kind of pointing out my own observations,
Speaker 1: but I would encourage you to read what I wrote
Speaker 1: Fake it until you make it Navy Seal talks Trump, Washington,
Speaker 1: and foreign policy strategy. I wrote that piece for Software Up.
Speaker 1: This week, We've got some really cool content cranked out
Speaker 1: daily by the guys. I'm really really proud of the
Speaker 1: content team Nick Kaufman, our editor in chief, and stab
Speaker 1: Rows are managing editor Alex Hollings and the rest of
Speaker 1: the guys really doing good work. We got some really
Speaker 1: cool content. And those of you guys that listen to
Speaker 1: a few shows back, you know that we're developing this
Speaker 1: new supersite now um and we brought back softwaps as
Speaker 1: our main brand on the content side of the business,
Speaker 1: and we're completely redoing the site. October three is our
Speaker 1: is our relaunch date. We you know, we have softwarep
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Speaker 1: Now every subscriber to Create Club will get our digital
Speaker 1: content package with the subscription. So we're excited to kind
Speaker 1: of have this one site that you know, where all
Speaker 1: the content commerce lives and and really looking forward to
Speaker 1: doing more uh cool shows in the future. I was
Speaker 1: talking to one of our advisors today over breakfast. In
Speaker 1: addition to sharing some of these funny ce stories. I'll
Speaker 1: get into in a second. I'll share really funny one
Speaker 1: with you. Guys. We were talking about, you know, how
Speaker 1: cool it would be to do a show like for
Speaker 1: those of you who have seen The Deuce on HBO,
Speaker 1: it's just like gritty New York in the seventies, and
Speaker 1: you're seeing a situation where the police, good cops, are
Speaker 1: having to make kind of tough decisions and take money
Speaker 1: in some cases because that's just the way the New
Speaker 1: York police system work, you know, with with the mob
Speaker 1: and the police and the politics. And I really think
Speaker 1: there's some fascinating content there and and some comparisons to
Speaker 1: what has gone on overseas in the last decade with
Speaker 1: regards to war crimes, guys taking money off targets sometimes,
Speaker 1: you know, making tough choices like having sick kids at
Speaker 1: home that aren't getting the best health care. All of
Speaker 1: a sudden you find, you know, a million dollars on
Speaker 1: a target, and your teammates are encouraging you to take
Speaker 1: this money to go back and and and put it
Speaker 1: into your son's healthcare, because unfortunately, in America, the rich
Speaker 1: have access to better healthcare, and you live longer than
Speaker 1: poor families and that's a real tragedy in this country
Speaker 1: we need to fix. But the point is it makes
Speaker 1: for some really interesting content. So one of my one
Speaker 1: of my show concepts is called The Reservation, and I'm
Speaker 1: kind of basing it off my book The Killing School,
Speaker 1: which is about sniper training and sniper's going overseas. But
Speaker 1: I would love to make a scripted show on HBO
Speaker 1: or Netflix produced by software that is essentially about this.
Speaker 1: Imagine the Wire or the Deuce if it was located
Speaker 1: in Afghanistan with a team of special ops guys going,
Speaker 1: you know, and that those that tension and dynamics that exists.
Speaker 1: So those are kind of some of the scripted shows
Speaker 1: we're looking at producing, as well as continuing to do
Speaker 1: a lot of the unscripted content which we're looking at
Speaker 1: filming and inside the team room Navy Seals Snipers with myself,
Speaker 1: Eric Davis and Charlie Melton, who are two fellow sniper
Speaker 1: cadre that worked with me at the course. UM at
Speaker 1: a really interesting time in military history when you have
Speaker 1: some of the most well known some nipers like Chris
Speaker 1: Kyle of American Sniper having come through the Snipers school house.
Speaker 1: Eric was actually there during Chris Coyle's class. I had
Speaker 1: just checked into the to the course as a new
Speaker 1: instructor right as he was finishing up. But Chris was
Speaker 1: a guy that also came back after his Iraq deployment,
Speaker 1: as many of the Snipers would and debrief us on
Speaker 1: kind of the current kind of tactics and what what
Speaker 1: was working, and we would use that to kind of
Speaker 1: adjust our our teaching and our coursework to make obviously
Speaker 1: the guys as prepared as possible to deploy because literally,
Speaker 1: some some of the students, including a student of mine,
Speaker 1: Marcus Atrell, wrote Loan Survivor. Literally Marcus came through the
Speaker 1: course and deployed a month later to Afghanistan and then
Speaker 1: went missing an action. Um and most of you guys
Speaker 1: know that the Loan Survivor story. So that inside the
Speaker 1: team room show looking at produceding that end of October
Speaker 1: for a hopefully November release. I say, hopefully we're trying
Speaker 1: to get it produced and edited in time to start
Speaker 1: releasing episodes on on Veteran's Day, which is November eleven.
Speaker 1: So also will we will take out the audio and
Speaker 1: put it up on the podcast. You guys can listen
Speaker 1: listen to the show as well. That's kind of a
Speaker 1: company update. We did have a couple of questions from
Speaker 1: Fred B which I'm gonna answer. Fred asked, I believe
Speaker 1: I heard you mentioned on a previous episode that one
Speaker 1: or more of the rangers who rescued Marcus Latrelle an
Speaker 1: Operation Red Wings said that he had all his ammunition.
Speaker 1: You didn't expand on this issue, but my question is
Speaker 1: whether that claim is part of the official record. Are
Speaker 1: you saying Marcus Marcus's version of events is false or
Speaker 1: he did not engage in the fight as we counted
Speaker 1: in his book. If yes, on what basis are you
Speaker 1: making a statement? So that would have been probably I'm
Speaker 1: guessing as show where I wasn't a host and that
Speaker 1: was discussed. I can only say this as someone you
Speaker 1: know has been in combat and realized that my combat
Speaker 1: experience literally being ten feet away can be very different
Speaker 1: and remembered differently than somebody and myself, right, I can
Speaker 1: say that I also use a car accident in comparison.
Speaker 1: I've I've literally had two people that were in a
Speaker 1: car accident and had a very different recollection and experiences
Speaker 1: than the other. You know, maybe one person is wearing
Speaker 1: a seatbelt, one isn't, and so it's extremely hard to
Speaker 1: second guess somebody. And in this case, you know, I'm
Speaker 1: going to take Marcus at his word, especially since he
Speaker 1: survived such a traumatic event. You saw your entire team,
Speaker 1: saw most of them get killed in front of you,
Speaker 1: and then you just go through this traumatic experience. So
Speaker 1: you know, I'm gonna give Marcus the benefit of the
Speaker 1: doubt to answer your question, Fred, And it's really it's
Speaker 1: tough to kind of armchair quarterback these things and without
Speaker 1: putting yourself in that position and a position I don't
Speaker 1: believe anybody wants to trade Marcus the trell on the
Speaker 1: hillside in Afghanistan that day. It's just tough, right because
Speaker 1: because we weren't there. So I think we just kind
Speaker 1: of gotta respect Marcus's version of events and as best
Speaker 1: as he can recollect and let's leave it from there.
Speaker 1: The other questions from Jesse Jesse b asked Australians have
Speaker 1: made quite a substantial contribution to Special operations in the
Speaker 1: past ten years, particularly in Afghanistan. I'd really like to
Speaker 1: hear you guys talk to some as vets from to
Speaker 1: Commando or s A s are any experience with them.
Speaker 1: I actually I didn't work directly with the Australian sas
Speaker 1: in Afghanistan, but I did. They were literally camped right
Speaker 1: next to us in Kandahar, and I got to make
Speaker 1: some pretty good friends with the guys and great guys
Speaker 1: New Zealand as well. The guys that we did operate with,
Speaker 1: we're the we operate with the German kiss k Um
Speaker 1: something I talked about and in my book the Red Circle.
Speaker 1: But the Australians have an incredible reputation and I would
Speaker 1: agree with you have made a substantial contribution in Afghanistan
Speaker 1: over the last decade. But yeah, I think that's a
Speaker 1: short answer. But I think what I got out of
Speaker 1: this is you guys are interested in potentially getting some
Speaker 1: of these says guys on the show. So I'll make
Speaker 1: a note of that. Then I'll finish us up with
Speaker 1: a with a C story which I'll kick off. So
Speaker 1: this is the story. I work with a guy at
Speaker 1: the sniper course when we were merging East Coast Cadre
Speaker 1: with West Coast Cadre. You know I was West Coast.
Speaker 1: We we would meet up for the course in the Midwest.
Speaker 1: You just got to meet some of these some of
Speaker 1: these guys, and and inevitably you end up with you know,
Speaker 1: the whole entire group of special ops is a bunch
Speaker 1: of a bunch of characters, some of the funniest people
Speaker 1: I've met my life, from like just being funny in
Speaker 1: general to like practical jokers. But one of these guys
Speaker 1: was I'll use his name as Mark. Mark was a
Speaker 1: sealed delivery vehicle too, guy, which those of you guys
Speaker 1: don't know. STV team to in Virginia beach Um STV.
Speaker 1: So these small sealed delivery vehicles like many submarines that
Speaker 1: get attached to a larger submarine. And a typical STV
Speaker 1: mission would be the submarine would would take a STV
Speaker 1: team of seals off the coast of Africa, uh and
Speaker 1: maybe you know call it fifty miles off the coast.
Speaker 1: They would get in lock out of the submarine and
Speaker 1: it's a it's a wet the STV as wet. So
Speaker 1: they're locking out of a dry submarine, going into the
Speaker 1: into the ocean, onto the to the big submarine, detaching
Speaker 1: this small sealed delivery vehicle, getting inside of it. Pilot
Speaker 1: navigator up front and they drive the fifty miles offshore
Speaker 1: onto the coast and maybe they sink this thing a
Speaker 1: hundred feet at the bottom of the ocean. They swam
Speaker 1: out of the STV with their full kit, weapons equipment.
Speaker 1: They swam ashore and do a wreckie for say a
Speaker 1: week or two. Finish the intelligence, intelligence reconnaissance mission, go
Speaker 1: back to see, swim out offshore, dive down, get back
Speaker 1: in the STV, go rendezvous at the submarine, and mission complete.
Speaker 1: So that's kind of like a typical STV mission. So
Speaker 1: Mark was attached to STV team too. They were doing
Speaker 1: some training operations in the middle of the ocean and
Speaker 1: they ended up losing one of the stvs, which is
Speaker 1: you can imagine how much these things cost. I don't
Speaker 1: know exactly, but I would imagine, you know, in the
Speaker 1: tens of billions of dollars. So I think it was
Speaker 1: the crew of the sub crew that somehow, somehow they
Speaker 1: lost one. And the submarine was looking for this this STV,
Speaker 1: you know, pinging it with sonar and in other ways
Speaker 1: they have to kind of detect objects, and they're trying
Speaker 1: to find this thing, and they put in a full
Speaker 1: day's search. Mark had his penis pierced. And not only
Speaker 1: did the weirdo have his penis pierced, he had two
Speaker 1: dice on the piercing. And he would like that. We
Speaker 1: have a common thing in the military is called dick tricks,
Speaker 1: Like I remember when guys I go check out my
Speaker 1: watch and he literally had his his trick wrapped around
Speaker 1: his wrists and get everyone to look at it and
Speaker 1: think it was the funniest thing in the world. And so,
Speaker 1: you know, Mark would roll the dice and he would
Speaker 1: call it roll on the bones, and he'd use it
Speaker 1: to make predictions. And this kind of rumor got spread
Speaker 1: amongst the regular submarine crew that Mark, one of the
Speaker 1: seals on board, could read the future. The captain kind
Speaker 1: of wind of this, not knowing that Mark how Mark
Speaker 1: reads the future, which is rolling the dice attached to
Speaker 1: his essentially cock ring. The captain of the ship, the
Speaker 1: CEO of the submarine, calls him into the office and says,
Speaker 1: you know, put off from Mark, I understand you have
Speaker 1: this gift of reading the future. He's like, let's have it.
Speaker 1: And Mark standing there nervously going oh ship, thinking to himself, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm in a really awkward spot. Now this is something
Speaker 1: I do with the guys. But now I'm in front
Speaker 1: of the commanding officer of the submarine and there's this
Speaker 1: awkward pause and the commanding officers, hey, let's get out
Speaker 1: with it, like, let's let's get the prediction. So Mark
Speaker 1: unbuttons his trousers, pulls out his penis and there is
Speaker 1: a big ring with two white dice on the end,
Speaker 1: and he says he proceeds to kind of shake his cock,
Speaker 1: stamp it down right on the CEO's desk, which is
Speaker 1: like a wooden desk with one of those glass pumps,
Speaker 1: stamps it down and the dice come up snake eyes,
Speaker 1: and the CEO looks at him and says, we aren't
Speaker 1: going to find that fucking STV, are we. He says, no, sir,
Speaker 1: no chance, and they literally called off to certain the
Speaker 1: official search from the roll of the dice. So it's
Speaker 1: funny stories like that that, you know, you forget about
Speaker 1: this stuff, and then eventually you end up in a
Speaker 1: conversation with your teammate or a fellow veteran. He's telling
Speaker 1: them they're they're kind of see stories, and then boom,
Speaker 1: this one of these memories pops into your head and
Speaker 1: that's what happened to me this morning, literally, and I
Speaker 1: told that story to my friend Roy this morning, is
Speaker 1: also a Navy VET, and we had a we had
Speaker 1: a pretty good laugh. And that's one of the reasons
Speaker 1: why I really like that Inside the Team Room series
Speaker 1: show that we we do and this podcast, because when
Speaker 1: you have other vet's interviewing other veterans, you just kind
Speaker 1: of pull that stuff out naturally, and you you end
Speaker 1: up getting some really cool stories that you could share
Speaker 1: with each other. And you know that that's just what
Speaker 1: makes the this show, UM Software Radio and Inside the
Speaker 1: Team Room such a cool place because you just never
Speaker 1: know where it's gonna go, and often it goes to
Speaker 1: a really interesting, funny place. Anyway, I hope you guys
Speaker 1: enjoyed this episode. It's a it's a little bit shorter show.
Speaker 1: Please check out the new site soft up dot com always,
Speaker 1: but look for the new relaunch of the content hub
Speaker 1: in oct and also realize we built a very special
Speaker 1: digital subscription inside the team Room. The Digital team Room
Speaker 1: is a place where you guys have can subscribe and
Speaker 1: not only get long form editorial content, you'll get access
Speaker 1: to some pretty cool videos like first looks at shows
Speaker 1: like inside the team Room, you're also going to get uncut.
Speaker 1: We're gonna do team Room Uncut only for our team
Speaker 1: Room subscribers, So we'll have that membership package and we
Speaker 1: are selling lifetime membership as well right now now until October,
Speaker 1: and we've got a few spots left because those are
Speaker 1: limited spots, but we will have the team Room launch October.
Speaker 1: Not only like I said, you get the cool videos
Speaker 1: uncut stuff you'll get, you'll get invites to special events
Speaker 1: anything we film in the future. We try and invite
Speaker 1: invite our team Room members to that also October. Starting October,
Speaker 1: anybody that has a Create Club subscription will will automatically
Speaker 1: get access to the digital package. So it's a cool way.
Speaker 1: If you guys are into gear to subscribe to the
Speaker 1: Create Club over the holidays or gifted to somebody because
Speaker 1: it's a great gift item, they will get the digital
Speaker 1: access with with their Create Club purchase. So that's something
Speaker 1: that that we have never done before and it just
Speaker 1: makes sense to us. So we're excited for that, and
Speaker 1: I'm also excited to talk about a new sponsor and
Speaker 1: just to talk about sponsorship in general. We've we've had
Speaker 1: a really big show on Software Radio on iTunes for
Speaker 1: a while, and I you know, there's been times where
Speaker 1: we we've led a couple of sponsors, like it just
Speaker 1: got too almost too too many sponsors on the shows.
Speaker 1: We dialed it back because we're really I think careful
Speaker 1: with you know who we who we partner with. But
Speaker 1: one of our news sponsors is mac Weldon, and they're
Speaker 1: really interested company. I'm getting some products set out to
Speaker 1: personally test, but I like mac Weldon's mission because I
Speaker 1: draw a lot of parallels to what they their eureka
Speaker 1: moment and their mission to to kind of like why
Speaker 1: we just started to set up software as a company,
Speaker 1: just getting frustrated with a lot of content producers out
Speaker 1: there and in the traditional media space that just we're
Speaker 1: getting military content wrong. But mac Weldon was founded because
Speaker 1: they wanted more out of their basics um and the
Speaker 1: frustration was their Eureka moment happened when they're in a
Speaker 1: department store. I'll full of brands that dominated your your
Speaker 1: top drawer, but just like my numbing assortment of underwear
Speaker 1: and socks. And they realized that consistent fit quality became
Speaker 1: a game of routelette. So they decided to take matters
Speaker 1: in their own hands and they started in mac Welder
Speaker 1: from scratch, engineer their own fabric, made sure the design
Speaker 1: process with Meticulous essentially you could count on the same
Speaker 1: fit each time. And how how many of us have
Speaker 1: been in that situation where you know you've just it's
Speaker 1: become this commodity right you're of other brands, So it's
Speaker 1: cool that like mac Weldon has really carved out a
Speaker 1: niche for themselves. And for sure is just from my
Speaker 1: brief glance on the website and learning about the mac
Speaker 1: Weldon brand. Basically, damn sure better than whatever I'm wearing
Speaker 1: right now, and probably better than what you're wearing right now.
Speaker 1: So anyway, check out mac welldon dot com for any
Speaker 1: of the listeners. You'll off your first order at mac
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Speaker 1: E L d O N mac worldon dot com. Enter
Speaker 1: promo code software and you'll get your first purchase. So
Speaker 1: excited to have mac Weldon on. We got some other
Speaker 1: really cool sponsors and giveaways for you guys. Will be
Speaker 1: giving away over the holidays on our Instagram page. Custom
Speaker 1: bespoke suit giveaway to the Armory New York City. My
Speaker 1: friend owns the Armory and they do amazing bespoke suits
Speaker 1: and clothing um and have access to some incredible craftsmen
Speaker 1: all all over the world. I had a custom suit
Speaker 1: jacket made by by my friend Mark for me from
Speaker 1: a Japanese tailor named Cade, who's incredible craftsman. So look
Speaker 1: for that stuff and be sure to check out mac
Speaker 1: worldon dot com. Appreciate them having them as a sponsor.
Speaker 1: That's all I got for now, so please send in
Speaker 1: your questions to Radio at soft up dot com. Definitely
Speaker 1: glad to answer mor Q and a really excited about
Speaker 1: the leaning back into our content. Uh, not only on
Speaker 1: this show but in the team room on soft up
Speaker 1: dot com itself. We got some great video shows coming
Speaker 1: for you and really excited to get into that world
Speaker 1: of suscripted content and hope to be bringing you guys
Speaker 1: some really cool shows on platforms like Netflix, HBO and others.
Speaker 1: And as we continue to kind of build out our
Speaker 1: own digital content subscription community, it's more than just a subscription.
Speaker 1: It's as most of you know that are subscribed, you're
Speaker 1: getting access to this really cool community and being able
Speaker 1: to like chat with the writers and other members of
Speaker 1: the community. Is something really cool. And I will also
Speaker 1: end it on the fact that we ran the Create
Speaker 1: Club Academy pilot course this year in September. It was
Speaker 1: a great turnout, excellent experience through that pilot course. We've
Speaker 1: now opened up our Create Club Academy by Software up
Speaker 1: essentially for next year and are taking limited sign ups
Speaker 1: and we have multiple courses that people can sign up
Speaker 1: for over the weekend, from offensive driving, defensive driving, sniper experience, UH,
Speaker 1: tactical shooting, a lot of really interesting stuff there. Those
Speaker 1: spots are limited. We sold out the pilot course really quickly,
Speaker 1: so if you're in into that and want some really
Speaker 1: cool training next year, we're also trying to turn it
Speaker 1: Saturday night into kind of an event where we bring
Speaker 1: in all the military and special Ops instructors have a
Speaker 1: big party. We're looking at getting a live band, UM,
Speaker 1: so it'll be a really fun weekend as well, uh
Speaker 1: to to spend with the guys UM and I should
Speaker 1: be should be there myself next year as well, so
Speaker 1: be sure and check that out on Software dot com.
Speaker 1: And again thanks for another great episode. Look forward to
Speaker 1: getting Gary Busey back when his schedule opens up. Checking
Speaker 1: in with my friend Todd Robinson and his movie The
Speaker 1: Last Full Measure UM, and I appreciate all the support
Speaker 1: me and the guys on the content team, which is
Speaker 1: a hunter percent veteran run. Appreciate your support for a
Speaker 1: veteran run business. And that's it. I hope you guys
Speaker 1: have a great week and I'll see you next week
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