Ep. 03 | 'Will'

[00:00:18] Speaker A: Welcome to the Greg Simeone Show. Today. I'm so excited. I have my boy William Quinn here. He's a Marine veteran entrepreneur, and Metro Parks police officer. Right? [00:00:30] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:00:32] Speaker A: Yeah. So, yeah, we met in the Marines, and Quinn has always been a dude that I've looked up to and saw all the. I wouldn't say hobbies, but I more say, like, lifestyle traits, attributes, job proficiency, everything. I've always looked up to you on, whether it was in the Marine Corps or on social media. After, I just thought you've always been an interesting dude. And so when I heard that you were coming to visit Boston, I was like, hell, yeah, dude. We definitely got to chop it up and have a pod. So I'm glad you're here, bro. And thank you for so nice, Daddy. Yes, sir. [00:01:09] Speaker B: Chopping it up. I love the Boston slang. Like, I want to implement it in my life, but I know it's just not right. [00:01:15] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, you're not. [00:01:17] Speaker B: So, like, when I was in the Marine Corps, like, I never left Michigan. I went to maybe Canada, but meeting people like Greg, Joey Disco. You know, when I said Joey Davis the other night, I until recently thought his name was Joey Davis. I know people were joking. Like, the comedian. [00:01:33] Speaker A: Oh, you didn't know? [00:01:34] Speaker B: I. I thought, like, yeah. Like, I thought that was, like, a word you use for someone who talks like that. Like, Joey Davis. [00:01:40] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:01:41] Speaker B: Joey Diaz. That's what. [00:01:42] Speaker A: It's comedy. [00:01:43] Speaker B: But. But I never encountered people like you until I win the Marine Corps. And I was just like, this is so cool. Like, this is literally like, I'm in the town or whatever. I want to be that cool, but I just can't. [00:01:55] Speaker A: I just, you know, that's fine. I love hearing you guys appreciate, like, the slang and new words, too, because the town I'm from is, like, notorious. Like, we had words for everything, and people be like, we never even heard that before. You haven't heard of this or that. Like, we would say doof for food. We would call the liquor store the Paki. [00:02:14] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, I heard that. [00:02:14] Speaker A: We would. There's fucking million other words. [00:02:17] Speaker B: There's stuff you don't even realize it. Like when you were talking to my girl and all of us about being cops, like, you would say, like, yeah, he's a townie. Or, like, he's a townie cop. Like, no one says that where I'm from. [00:02:27] Speaker A: You're either. [00:02:27] Speaker B: They do say stadi. Like, people say, oh, that's stadium. A few, I think, because they're trying to take it from you. Yeah, it Trickled to, you know, Midwest or not Midwest. [00:02:36] Speaker A: But dude, I'm. I want to say again, I'm really appreciative of you coming on here. Like we were talking before the pub. This has been such a passion project of mine and I, I haven't released it yet. But like talking to interesting dudes like you is what I wanted to do this for. Like I, I don't really know exactly what I want to do in life, but everyone that I look up to that I think has it going on or is at least has the foot pointing in the right direction. I want to pick your brain and see what's up and, and get all the good free game I can get and yeah, because I think it's invaluable the, that you possess so well. [00:03:15] Speaker B: I, I think you have started like you've set yourself up for success because the fact that you have the mentality that you need to do all the boring before the fun stuff like we talked about before. [00:03:28] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:03:28] Speaker B: I kind of compare it because I. We were talking about this earlier but I have people contact me all the time about business advice. How did you get where you're at? Like I'm a veteran or I'm soon to be a veteran. I want to start a business and I kind of compare it to when you join the military. We all know you have to take your ist or whatever. You got to get your parents approval, you have to do maps, you have to do all this paperwork. None of that is what you see in the movies or when you go to boot camp. And like that's the cool part. [00:03:53] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:03:53] Speaker B: So like starting your podcast, getting the studio, you know, you know you're not just using your apple microphone to just like I want to get right in the cool part. So like you're in the. So if anyone listening wants to a podcast like you're, you don't need to have this but I mean spend the money, save up and buy a good mic or whatever. [00:04:08] Speaker A: Definitely. I, I think a ton of it is, ton of it is behind the scenes planning. But like that was such a good point. Like you don't see that in the movies. You don't see waiting in meps for like a whole day just to like do pull ups. [00:04:22] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:04:22] Speaker A: Tell them you're good to go the marines and like get your balls checked. [00:04:25] Speaker B: I know like some German doctor like you know. [00:04:28] Speaker A: Yeah. Taking like a mini and they touch your nutsack. How's that nut? Sad. [00:04:33] Speaker B: Yeah. The one dude actually made me came. No, I'll play what the Fuck. Keep that. Take that out. [00:04:42] Speaker A: All right. Next thing I want to talk about. Well, like, first of all, I want you to explain what cattail antennas is and how you got started. [00:04:53] Speaker B: Yeah. So cattail antennas. And this is funny. I say we. To make myself sound more professional, for government contract and stuff, me and my. [00:05:02] Speaker A: Girl. [00:05:04] Speaker B: I developed a wearable antenna system for originally military radios. And what that is is essentially a specifically designed and cut piece of coax cable that goes through your kit, and it replaces your normal stick or whip antenna. So when you're manipulating a rifle, working a casualty, or more important for myself when I was in a cat platoon, it's all armored vehicles getting in and out of the vehicle, so it's completely woven in. And then now I move to relocation cables. So actually moving your OEM stick antenna somewhere else on your body, and that's a lot of law enforcement, like, my girl and people at her department use my product, like DEA and those type of places that work because, like, they wear vests that aren't like Molly like ours. And I know I'm using the word Molly incorrect, but the panels where you put panels. [00:05:52] Speaker A: I knew exactly what Molly was, bro. [00:05:54] Speaker B: I know there's just. I don't even want to get into it, but. But, yeah, you know, so their vests are less militarized, so something like a relocation cable makes more sense for them. But, yeah, so that. That's what I got into the. This communication world of things. [00:06:07] Speaker A: And how is the. How is the police application of it? Like, are a lot of. Do the police officers like it? Are they. Because I know you have great reviews from all the Marines. I've been reading those on your Instagram. They all seem to love it. They're like, it's. It's a lot more sleek. They don't have something hanging out of their thing. And like you said, when you're getting in and out of trucks or armored vehicles, the last thing you want is to be snagged or caught by something. And I also read the dude testimony that he won, like, a squad competition, and he was saying that he was tracking through a swamp all night and he didn't get snagged on any of the branches or trees or whatever. And that was due to your antenna that he put right on his flak and had flawless performance from it. So I guess I just want to ask, like, what. I know you've gotten awesome reviews from all the Marines and military, but how do the police like it? [00:06:58] Speaker B: They like it a lot. I get. I don't get as much cool feedback from them because I think they're more hesitant on like photography, you know, because guys always include a review with a photo and they love being. I'm telling you, I never ask for reviews. I never asked for like photos. But guys will just provide them to me. I mean, I get like. Yeah, like recently an SF guy, they were doing security in like Singapore with Biden and he's like shaking Biden's hand. You can see the antenna. And, and I was like, you know, I'm not going to make a dime off that motherfucker. So I cut Biden completely off. It's just the asset, dude. I said there maybe he may be shaking someone's hand or, you know, something like that. Yeah, but I'm alluding to it. [00:07:33] Speaker A: That's sick. [00:07:33] Speaker B: But, but a lot of law enforcement like it. It's just depends on what their department issues them. If it's an outer vest, they can weave it. My girl, she puts it actually along her belt so the antenna is like here and then her radio is here. So it goes behind her back. [00:07:48] Speaker A: Okay. [00:07:48] Speaker B: So she doesn't have the antenna like hitting her elbow and stuff. [00:07:51] Speaker A: Yeah. And then does the radio still have that slingy thing? So you just pull it right up. [00:07:55] Speaker B: Like the cop mic. Yeah, yeah. She like. And I do this myself too. I sling it across my back and I have like a little. There's this guy named Mike Loop. I'm sorry, I made my own mic loop. But he makes a great product if you don't want to make your own. [00:08:07] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:08:08] Speaker B: And it clips to. It's like a piece of 550. So your, your mic's always here and it's taught. So it's. [00:08:14] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. [00:08:15] Speaker B: When you're running, it's just going like this. [00:08:17] Speaker A: Yeah, dude, that's sick. I love that. It's, it's really so cool to see one of my friends have like a cool ass company that not only you're making money off it, but that's. We both know you don't. That's not the main focus of it. It's because you love doing what you do and you saw an opportunity in a window to make something better and you did it, bro. That's so. [00:08:37] Speaker B: Thanks, man. [00:08:38] Speaker A: So, yeah, I love seeing that shit. And I also, I guess I, I. You've probably answered this on another pod before. I know you're on the New Hampshire one, but what was. When did you, like, when did it go from like. All right, this is a sick idea that I have to like, I Can make money off of this. People actually want this. [00:08:58] Speaker B: That's actually funny because. So when I was overseas, I was. So I had. This is how it all started. I had an EOD tech tell me on a little two day R&R thing to the nearby FOB. And he was on that R R. And we. We trained in Kuwait a little bit. He was EOT tech. And he said. I. He's like, quinn, you should make these things. They're called EOD wires. And he. And he told me the idea of a wearable antenna. Because, you know, a wearable antenna has probably been around forever. But I. The documentation I read, 1960s is when people were kind of working on them, like Vietnam guys. [00:09:28] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:09:29] Speaker B: So he told me that idea. And when I left R and R back to our position, I found speaker wire, I found spare parts. I was clipping cables off trucks and shit, and I was starting to make them, and I made, like 10 prototypes. I finally had one that was kind of durable and worked. So I made it for the rest of the platoon. And I remember till this day my lieutenant saying, bro, like, you could sell these. I bet some dumb lieutenants outside of Quantico would buy them, like, 50 bucks or something like that. And I was like, yeah. And I would name it Cattail Antennas. Get it? Cause, like, cattails. And then he was like, that's the dumbest name I've ever heard. And I was like, yeah. So. So fast forward, I. I get back home, I'm on Lejeune, and I'm like, maybe I could sell these. So I put flyers all around base, and I literally get one phone call, and it's from, like, some staff sergeant's, like, you know, you spelled something wrong in this flyer. And he's like, but it's still a good idea. He was, you know, trying to. I was like, thanks. So you want to buy one? He's like, no. So I didn't make any sales. I think my first two years, I made like 13 sales. But fast forward, I go to the Marine Corps. I work at this gun shop. Life happens. And then I'm like, I don't want to work for anyone. Like, these people that I work for that are, like, ages or, you know, years younger than me, like, are treating me like shit. So I just want to work for myself for a while. And I was like, what could I do to make money? I was like, oh, yeah, that antenna thing. So I just, like, on Instagram, just started messaging people. I would, like, send Mike Jones, you know, Grantham, a message yeah. Hey, man, take my antenna. You know, that's how it started. Like handing these influencers product. [00:10:52] Speaker A: So he's like a like tactical influencer kind of. [00:10:55] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm sure. Grand Thumb on Instagram grant. [00:10:58] Speaker A: I probably, you know, if you share, then I definitely. [00:11:01] Speaker B: I mean, he shared one of my posts once and I had like 3,3000 followers like the next day. It was insane. But yeah, that's how it all started. And then like, that's how I met you, D Fish, who did the other podcast. And yeah, I mean, I've met people I've met today. Like, I have early customers that hit me up and I'll. I send them my new versions because I'm like, dude, you were there in the beginning. You know, it's just so cool. [00:11:21] Speaker A: Yeah, that's so awesome. That's so sick that you can develop a. A rapport with them that's like, not only based on. In sales, but it's like, hey, I'm a Marine too. I was a RO too. And. Yeah, and now you're a cop that uses it too. So it's. You develop this product knowing what they're gonna want, knowing how it's gonna be, how it's gonna be used. So, yes, it's like very, very cool for. For all this to come together. [00:11:46] Speaker B: And I mean, just to go right off that real quick, I met a guy, Mil spec Mojo. He was a Marine rto. He was in Afghanistan. He got hurt pretty bad, but he was like, just like me. It was like, you know, a Marine RTO and infantry platoon. He's a cop now and he's a performance shooter. He's sponsored by Alien Gear. So he like, runs their duty level holsters, which are Alien gear used to be on holsters, but now they're like these duty holsters are the shit. [00:12:11] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:12:11] Speaker B: But he calls me now and we're just. We talk because we had this, like, connection. And I sent his SWAT team a bunch of stuff and he sent me a bunch of holsters. But I would have never. I watched this guy maybe when I got out five years ago when I got the Marine Corps. Like, I never would imagine actually talking to him. But then like, we're on the phone just shooting this, like, talking about pocket pussies and, you know, you know, like. [00:12:32] Speaker A: It'S like being boys. [00:12:34] Speaker B: Yeah. Because you said, like, the connection. We have these same experiences and the whole time, like, no way. Me too. You know, like, so it's very cool. [00:12:41] Speaker A: Yeah, that's awesome. So I. Another thing I mentioned a little before the pod was like, people that monetize their hobbies, monetize their passions, or even like you when it's same thing. But, like, you see Elaine and you're in the lane. [00:12:54] Speaker B: Yes. [00:12:54] Speaker A: Go for it. So. And I also love freedom and not really working for anyone else by myself. That's like, why to me, it's so important to have guys like you on my podcast so I can figure it the out for myself from the guys that have actually done it. [00:13:08] Speaker B: And you're, You're. You're literally on the path. [00:13:11] Speaker A: Like, we're always on the path. [00:13:12] Speaker B: Like, I've never made it. Made a destination. Like, yeah, yes, Bill Gates has. Well, fuck Bill Gates. But like, I don't know. [00:13:20] Speaker A: Top of the food chain. [00:13:21] Speaker B: Yeah, they're still on the path. [00:13:22] Speaker A: Yeah, they're still going. It's a fucking great point. Hell yeah, dude. And let's see what I got in my notes. Another thing I really wanted to ask you about was the gun. Gun store. When you got out, you started working at a gun store right. When you got out of the Marine Corps. How was that? [00:13:36] Speaker B: Like, yeah, so I got the Marine Corps and I got into, like, a really bad relationship with, like, this. I don't want to get into it. I mean, I doubt you'd ever even listen to this, but I bring it up because, and Greg and I talked about this, I think I should bring it up beforehand for all those people just getting out of the military. You miss your boys so much, and that ability to just like, knock on your neighbor's door and be like, dude, come out and drink and like, that camaraderie and going overseas and all this stuff you do with your boys in the military, you're just so hungry for that feeling again. And one of the easiest things that comes to you is a relationship that shouldn't be. You know, you're like, I need to hold on to this because it. I'm getting some of those feelings back, you know, because you're so lonely. [00:14:18] Speaker A: I remember you saying that last night. And I'm like, holy fuck. [00:14:20] Speaker B: And I don't want to take credit for this because Greg had this holy fuck moment when I told him. I had the exact same moment when someone told me. [00:14:26] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:14:27] Speaker B: So to see that was just cool because I was just like, that makes so much sense. I wish I knew who originally told me that. I think it was a podcast as well. But I heard it from. [00:14:35] Speaker A: But yeah, that's sweet. [00:14:37] Speaker B: But yeah, so. So that relationship, whatever. But. So I needed to make some kind of money. Because I was just like, I had 13 grand in the bank account after the military, and I thought I was like, the richest person on earth. I was like, yeah. I was like, living. My parents, like, I can do anything. I was buying guns. I was like, bro, I have $100 now. I was like, what? [00:14:54] Speaker A: I'm over now. [00:14:55] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. So I get this job. I was like, all I know is, like, guns. So I went to this gun store in eight Mile in. In East Point, which is one block over from Detroit. It's on eight Mile, and it's in the hood. Hood. And it was such an experience, like, you know, getting into fights, like, pulling your gun out on people. Like, I snatched a gun from a guy once because he. He drew it out, and I. I don't think he was. I don't think he meant to use it with mal intent, but I didn't know that. I chucked it across the room. I told this grown ass man. I said, go stay in that corner. [00:15:28] Speaker A: Until I calm down. [00:15:29] Speaker B: He was like 60 years old. He just walked over there and just stood in the corner. I was like, all right, come on back. And then I would teach dudes how to shoot. And I always joke, like, that year I worked there, like. Like fatalities rose, like, instead of injuries because I was, you know, because dudes are, like, shooting sideways and stuff. I'm like, come on and I'll show you. Yeah. I'd show him proper grip and stance, and he'd be like, man, that's lame. And I was like, well, let's see what happens when you do that. And they're like, this white boy might be onto something. [00:15:54] Speaker A: That's fucking awesome. [00:15:55] Speaker B: One dude, really cool guy. I used to see him all the time, but I kept helping him out. He was kind of hesitant on the help for a while, and then he started seeing the results. He'd come in once a week, and then one day he came. He. We really had a breakthrough with being with teaching. And he came back earlier that later that day with two 40s. He's like, I want to say thank you, man. He gave me two 40s. [00:16:15] Speaker A: That's awesome, dude. What if that's the Detroit. Thank you. [00:16:18] Speaker B: Yeah, there you go, man. [00:16:20] Speaker A: That's unreal. How long did you work there for? [00:16:22] Speaker B: Just about a year. One of the best things I ever got out of it was I was going through that weird breakup with that. That chick that I thought, you know, that that was consuming me because of the loneliness I was going through. And this older guy who was Learning to shoot in his, like, late 60s, early 70s, never shot a gun in his life. He would go every day of the range, and he would see me running the range, and he'd be like, quinn, like, you're looking down, man. And I would just start talking to him about it, like, let's get a burger. And to this day, I just went to his son's, which it's a shame that I had to, but his son's funeral last month. I mean, we still talk every week. We shoot together, we just get a burger and some people look at as weird, but, I mean, he. He's like, you and me, he's just 70, whatever. [00:17:04] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:17:05] Speaker B: And that was like, that relationship, like, helped me so much because he was. [00:17:09] Speaker A: He. [00:17:10] Speaker B: This. This person is an alcoholic, and. And he was an alcoholic to explain to me things I didn't know about why the relationship was ending and why it needed to end and stuff. So, like, without him, I don't know, you know, where I'd be. So. But it was, you know. [00:17:25] Speaker A: That's awesome. Shout out to him, bro. [00:17:26] Speaker B: Yeah. For real. [00:17:27] Speaker A: This is another highlight of why I have my podcast, because I truly feel like a ton of men have a ton of good advice. Ton of good up here. [00:17:37] Speaker B: Yes. [00:17:37] Speaker A: That someone just hasn't heard yet. And we both are examples of it 20 times over. And it's, It's. It's really cool when you can step back and be like, oh, I. This is why I was doing that, because I hadn't heard this before. And. And so now as. As we're getting older, we can start to be those dudes that give some free game and impose good on. On the. On the youngins or whoever who, yes, they could be way older than us, but not have heard this. Age is just a number. We're all on a journey. [00:18:06] Speaker B: 100. I mean, this guy still asked me advice and he'll ask me, like, what. What. What did you do in these situations in the military or in the police and. But. But then I ask him situations, life questions, you know, because he had such a different life path. So you're 100, right? Yeah, there's. [00:18:19] Speaker A: Yeah, dude, it's. It is cool. It's. It's really cool, too. I forget who told me this, but it's like you can never know everything, but everything can be taught to you. Everything that. So, like, you could know a million things. Right. And you could teach me all those million things, but you still won't know the million things I have. [00:18:38] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:18:39] Speaker A: Teach you. [00:18:39] Speaker B: So true. [00:18:40] Speaker A: It's a give and take. And it's, it's really, it's really cool when you sit down and talk about this stuff. [00:18:45] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:18:46] Speaker A: Because like, you and me really haven't talked in years. Forever since the Marine Corps. [00:18:50] Speaker B: Yeah, I know. [00:18:51] Speaker A: And it's like we are now at a point in our lives where we can be like, oh, well, I've, I. You haven't. I've off the past five years. So you have to off a few years and you're like, oh, all right, now I'm starting to straighten out and figure it out, at least in theory. [00:19:10] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:19:11] Speaker A: And it's really cool talking to people like you who, who are helping me doing that. [00:19:14] Speaker B: So I appreciate that you're helping me do continue on. Yeah. Thank you. [00:19:18] Speaker A: Yeah, bro, you all right? Next little topic I want to bring up was. Oh, so the. Let's talk about the. The pistol. Stifling. [00:19:28] Speaker B: Stifling or stifling? [00:19:29] Speaker A: Yeah, stippling. All right. So when me and Quinn were in the marines together, we lived a few doors down. And one night we went out and bought Glock 17 pistols at the local gun store in Jacksonville downtown. And I, I had mine, whatever, just cool, chilling in my room. And I go back the next day and Quinn had completely stuck. What is it? [00:19:52] Speaker B: Stippled. [00:19:53] Speaker A: Stippled every centimeter of this gun. So it's like a 10 inch Glock that he took with like a wood burner and stippled every inch of it and made the custom grip. And I'll never forget that. And I'll never forget how, like, because I've always been a guy that's like thinking like, oh, you can't do this without this or this or that. But you're just such a custom creative guy. Like, I feel like everything that you have, you try to make it your own. And that was such a cool example to me because one, you did it in night and two, it was like something that you'd probably pay a few hundred dollars for to get at a gun store. [00:20:31] Speaker B: Yeah. Back then it was stippling was something that you kind of had to know a guy, see someone on Facebook, message them, say, hey, they're 100% was companies doing it. But now, I mean, there is like established companies, like either doing it by laser. So like a laser machine just. [00:20:47] Speaker A: Yeah, it does it all. [00:20:48] Speaker B: Does it all. Or there's guys still who will dremel a border. Which I didn't do. I did it kind of incorrectly. But a purist would look at it very poorly. Or you just, you Know, do your border with that wood burner and then fill it all in a pattern and it's a good way to add texturing to your pistol. And yeah, like, I removed like, you know, the finger grooves. [00:21:05] Speaker A: There's a lot of guys remember that. Yeah, he removed all the little. The back grips and stifled every part that your palm was on. And like. I wish. I'm gonna post some pictures on my Instagram. When this drops. Just. Okay. [00:21:17] Speaker B: It's nothing impressive. Trust me. [00:21:18] Speaker A: It's sick. He's not gonna say it. [00:21:21] Speaker B: I have some that are better. I've done like a starburst pattern that's. But yeah, it's. [00:21:26] Speaker A: Yeah. Another thing I remember about the marines is my last day. You actually took me out and we went shooting and. Oh yeah, some. Yeah. The Croton National Park. Yeah. [00:21:37] Speaker B: If you're a marine in Lejeune and you're not going there off road and shoot out there, it's so much fun. [00:21:42] Speaker A: So it was awesome, dude. I. We one time with my boys from back home, his kid Sam, and we were driving down there in my truck and he had a. Bought a shotgun out in town for 200 bucks and just blasting rounds at the sunroof, like just because we could. We were nowhere and we were doing it a lot more safely than I just described in that story. But it is a beautiful place. [00:22:05] Speaker B: It is. I mean, and when you say like, you can just do whatever, like, I remember we used to buy like, like $300 worth of like canned food. Like, we had this like giant baby that we like put. We filmed a whole like ISIS execution video. Like, we put a. We had literally like the ISIS song playing and we put like a black bag over it and my mother's wearing like an emoji mask and it's like shooting. It was like mundo. [00:22:27] Speaker A: That's comedy. [00:22:29] Speaker B: And one time we went out there, middle of nowhere, and we see this broken down truck and it's starting to become dusk. And we're like, yo, what's up boys? And they're like, thank God someone's out here. We have no cell service. Like, our vehicle is broken. We're just going to camp out tonight. And we were like, well, let's help you fix your car. And I was with my cat guys and we end up fixing their car. And they're like, you guys marines? Were like, yeah, we're with three, six weapons. We're cat guys. And like, oh, we're motor T battalion. We're like, so why the fuck are we fixing your shit? [00:22:55] Speaker A: What are you doing that's all time. Yeah. I remember those shoots that you guys. Because there was a few weekends where I'd like go back home to Boston with some of my friends. I'd. I remember being like, yo, you, Joe, Peter and Mundo and Canti. You guys would go out there to Croatown and just blow shit up. I remember you guys brought watermelons and like just. You did this multiple times too. Yeah, it's like, yeah, all this shit so something to me, like being from right outside of Boston when I live in a suburb and the. The closest thing we have is a shooting range. Like, I. I've never grown up around guys that were just so comfortably going out with the boys to a random ass field and just shooting. [00:23:37] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:23:38] Speaker A: Blowing up like it was normal. And yeah, it's so awesome to me. But you guys all did everything safely and all that too. Which is like another thing I want to highlight is that like, there's a reason you guys are doing that. We've. Because you're doing it safely. It's like it. You don't make to can't do that 10 times if you're being a idiot. [00:23:57] Speaker B: Yeah, there's difference between goofy and crazy. Like we were being goofy. [00:24:00] Speaker A: Like, that's a bar right there. There is difference between goofy and crazy. Wow, I love that. But that's so true, bro. Hit the nail on the head. Like, you guys were not goofy at all. It might be a little crazy, but you weren't doing goofy. Dude. [00:24:13] Speaker B: I was thinking we were goofy, but. Yeah, whatever. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, whatever. Yeah, it's the same thing. But yin and yang, that's not even the same thing. Tomato, tomato. [00:24:23] Speaker A: Goofy is like one of those other words that I've adopted. [00:24:26] Speaker B: Yeah, I've heard that. Yeah. [00:24:27] Speaker A: And it just means like, you're a fucking jackass. [00:24:30] Speaker B: Really? [00:24:31] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:24:31] Speaker B: No, like, where I'm from, goofy is kind of like he's a good dude. He's just like a little. [00:24:36] Speaker A: See, yeah, you definitely need contacts. But like around here, like, if you call someone a goofy, like that motherfucker is a goofy. [00:24:43] Speaker B: Oh, you say just like goofy, goofy ass. [00:24:46] Speaker A: Yeah, like. Like, look at that goofy ass. [00:24:49] Speaker B: Oh, okay, okay, I see that. Yeah. Ok, I see that. [00:24:52] Speaker A: But then like, if you're like. Another good example would be like, oh, like he's not gay. He's just a little goofy. Like, he's still a little flamboyant. [00:24:59] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:25:02] Speaker A: It. Yeah, I'll definitely go both ways. Another thing. All right, one more thing. Talk about is how Long have you been a Detroit Metro Parks Police for? How do you like it? That is most important to me, honestly, is how you like it. [00:25:19] Speaker B: Yeah, so. So my girl, who's super badass, she's an actual Detroit cop. And I realized as she was going through her experience, I was like, man, she's getting, like, more stories than me. I was like, this is badass. [00:25:32] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:25:32] Speaker B: And I felt stagnant, like the business was making me money, but I was like, not doing what? Like, you know, you feel like you're born to do, which is like, be operational and be out doing stuff. Yeah, precisely. Yeah, exactly. So I just went to the academy with the GI Bill. I told her, she started crying. Like, what the is wrong with you? And I had such a good time. Like, I was like the platoon leader or whatever. So I was like, back in marine mode. Yeah, it was just so much fun. I mean, I remember not many guys were military, so I was just going so hard. And at one point, instructors would come up to me and be like, dude, you need to like, this isn't the Marines. You need to, like, chill. So, like, in, like, the bathroom. I remember there's one time we had a really tough PT session. Everyone was all down. It wasn't tough, but, you know. [00:26:13] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. [00:26:15] Speaker B: I was like, gents, I was like, hey, I want everyone to, like, listen up for real. And everyone's just like, stop. And I was like, so I'm implementing, like, a communal pocket pussy. It's going to be chained to this wall right here. Like, if you use it, you will clean it. And I was, like, going through this whole thing, like, dead serious. And there's one dude there, his name's Radowski. He's still a cop. He went to Afghanistan. He's an Air Force guy. He was the only one, like, crying, laughing. Everyone else is just like, what, they. [00:26:39] Speaker A: Thought you were dead. [00:26:40] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. [00:26:40] Speaker A: That's awesome. [00:26:41] Speaker B: But. But yeah, so I. I still wanted to do the business. The only place that would hire me part time is the Metro Parks Police. So in the summer, it gets pretty busy. [00:26:51] Speaker A: Detroit? You Detroit police wouldn't have you? [00:26:54] Speaker B: No, I wish. They're full time only. [00:26:56] Speaker A: Oh, okay. So the Metro, bro. [00:26:58] Speaker B: Yeah, it's awesome. I just work the weekends, and then the summer, I work more in the weekends and events. So we still, you know, occasionally get guns and do this and that, but it's nowhere near being a city police officer. Like, I'm just part time. It keeps my cert good. I can carry anywhere. [00:27:14] Speaker A: I mentioned that last night. You can federally carry, right? [00:27:16] Speaker B: Yes, with leosa, carry. And then too, I train at marksmanship training center. If you live in Michigan, we have like the best classes, but me being assistant instructor there, they have someone who is active law enforcement. So that helps with getting law enforcement into classes. Like unreal, you know, like certified, like so we can certify them and like carving to or two man room clearing. That's so it's cool that. So it helps for them as well. So. [00:27:43] Speaker A: Yeah. That's sweet. And what you said, leosa, what is that? Law enforcement? [00:27:47] Speaker B: I think George Bush, the son, he put that, he implemented that at one point during his term where it just says like, it doesn't matter what state law there is. Like if you are a sworn officer in the United States, you can carry a firearm. [00:28:01] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:28:02] Speaker B: And then if you are a retired officer, you did like your 20 years and if you keep up with your certification, you can still maintain that across the country. And, and the idea was like post 9 11, like, if. So we have people protecting people when they're off duty around the country at any time. [00:28:18] Speaker A: Yeah, I agree with that wholeheartedly. That's. I mean, there's only one fucking person that's going to stop a bad guy. It's the good guys. [00:28:25] Speaker B: Yes. [00:28:25] Speaker A: And if there's more good guys on the street, then there's going to be less bad. 100% fucking simple. It's like I, I always get like a bad rap from my people who we talked about this last night, but they see what I post on social media. [00:28:39] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:28:39] Speaker A: They see my rants and they see me talking shit about the CO and they see me talking about this and that. It's like I'm talking about the worst examples of all time. [00:28:48] Speaker B: You have like an example to talk about. You're talking about that like, thing, that specific example. [00:28:54] Speaker A: But like 99% of the cops and other people that want to protect people, like it's, it's with guns to me, it's. It's like the people that want guns are wanting them for good shit. The people that are using them for, for bet. Like if you're going to get a gun to commit a crime, you most likely do that fucking crime and then it's over. Like you get caught and then it's over. You do this heinous act and it's over. I fucking had my gun for 10 years and thank God I've never had to use it. I've only pulled it one time when some guy got crazy with me in traffic. But like you said last night, the de escalation of pulling a pistol is way more than, Than like most of these people could ever do to de escalate a conflict. But that's what exactly what it does, it de escalates. [00:29:39] Speaker B: And that stat of you preventing because he could have had a gun and thought, damn, he's a hard target. Now I'm just done that. There are no statistics recorded on what you just did. Like that that moment happens probably 10 times right now, that someone draws a gun and it stops something from ever happening. And then they call the police, whatever. But the FBI doesn't collect that data. So we don't. When they talk about gun violence in this country and like, the good guy saving the day and, oh, he's only done it this many times this year, they don't include that. [00:30:07] Speaker A: Yeah. Which is crazy. [00:30:08] Speaker B: Which is it could be out of this world, statistically. [00:30:11] Speaker A: I've heard it on some podcasts when they talked about it. And not that the first thing I thought was like, yeah, exactly. What you said is like, wow, imagine seeing that data, like seeing like how many times either a criminal or like a thief breaking into someone's house or anything is going to commit their crime or in the act of committing a crime and they stop because they don't want to lose their fucking life over it. That should be celebrated. That should be like, promoted about the, the guns. Yeah, like, it shouldn't be. I mean, there's no promotion of firearm, of safe firearm ownership at all in this country, which I fucking hate. I truly believe everyone, if they can operate it safely like you and me, they should have one. [00:30:55] Speaker B: Yeah, absolutely. [00:30:56] Speaker A: And I have a ton of friends who are saying, oh, well, you're in the Marines. I, I think you should have one. But not, no motherfucking regular civilian. Why not? What's special about you and me? Yeah, I don't really think a lot. I think it's just up here. We're mentally mature and we have the training, but I don't think American citizens who didn't serve the military are any different than us. [00:31:17] Speaker B: No. [00:31:17] Speaker A: Like, I think everyone should have guns 100%. [00:31:20] Speaker B: I used to try to make a good argument to why people should own a firearm or I'm going to say a weapon because it's designed to kill people or to stop someone being killed. [00:31:29] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:31:29] Speaker B: You know, we're constantly hearing with like the nra, they'll say, like, like, don't say the W word like that it's a weapon. [00:31:35] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:31:35] Speaker B: But I mean, not, not throwing on you, it's just something like internally, it's just I try to stop myself, but I had someone, I've always tried to formulate a reason to own a weapon when someone encounters me with like, why you shouldn't. And I just narrowed it down finally to the reason why I own a gun or a weapon is because I'm not a slave. Like, that's it. I'm not a fucking slave. Like, I will be my own arbiter of what you know, my safety and my family. [00:32:03] Speaker A: Yep. [00:32:03] Speaker B: Just I'm not asleep. Like, I'm sorry. [00:32:05] Speaker A: Like, and I. Another. I don't know why I gotta look up the recent stats, but I hate talking, especially on my own podcast when I don't know the actual stats. So eventually I'll have someone that'll pull up for me. But it's something like seven to nine minutes is the average police response in this country. [00:32:25] Speaker B: I believe it. Yeah. [00:32:26] Speaker A: Now if you call the police for someone that's robbing you or sexually assaulting you or raping anything like that you don't want, seven to nine minutes is a fucking long ass time. And even if you cut that down to five, that's a long ass time. [00:32:41] Speaker B: 100%. [00:32:42] Speaker A: Like a crime can happen in 10 seconds. You can feel uncomfortable in half a second. So, yeah, the more people that have firearms and are doing the right thing and protecting those around them who may be a little more vulnerable or unaware, the safer we're gonna be as a nation. [00:32:56] Speaker B: Definitely, Definitely, man. I will totally agree. [00:32:59] Speaker A: Yeah, it's, it's, it's crazy that. It's crazy that that is a debate. [00:33:04] Speaker B: Yeah. We have to talk about this. [00:33:05] Speaker A: Yes. It really is crazy because everyone that I have a ton, I, I have a ton of liberal friends. I love all my liberal friends. I truly think the word liberal has gotten so twisted around. It's like my mother. One of my favorite quotes my mother's always told me is that just because you have empathy doesn't mean you're a liberal. [00:33:25] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely. [00:33:26] Speaker A: It's. I, I have so much empathy for so many people. I feel, I feel you guys ton of. But then I'm like, wait, are you not using common sense? [00:33:35] Speaker B: Yes. [00:33:36] Speaker A: Are you not using the logic? Like, I, I, hey, I, I am absolutely appalled with all the gun violence and the school shootings and everything bad that comes with guns. But I'm going to put myself above all that. I'm gonna say, hey, that's awful. No, I don't want any of it. I completely detest It. But when it comes to me, like, I'm. I don't want anyone in charge of my safety than. Than me 100%. And I've. I've also said this to friends too. Like, because I, I'm like I told you last time, a member at the gun range, but I barely go shoot just as I'm too busy fishing or doing other shit. [00:34:11] Speaker B: Like, change that now I, Yeah, I. [00:34:14] Speaker A: Need to get it. It's a hobby that I've, like, lost. And I really should be training more. But my whole point of that is, like, I'm not really a gun guy. I'm a protect. Greg Simeone guy. Like, if the fucking best way to protect me was carrying around a javelin, I would do that. [00:34:30] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:34:30] Speaker A: This tiny little compact pistol that I put in my pocket is the size of my iPhone that I've never had to use in the 10 years that I've had it. It makes me feel that much safer. [00:34:40] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. [00:34:40] Speaker A: And. And fucking. I can't say enough good things about caring and people like you who are promoting the good mat, like, promoting the right way to do it. Promoting the safe way to do it. You are a police officer, so you see people that shouldn't have guns and you get them from them. But then you always, like, I think you would, like you said earlier about teaching the, the people how to shoot, it's like there's way more that comes from teaching than taking. [00:35:11] Speaker B: Yes, yes, yes, yes. So it's like changing the mentality. And, and when you said, like, you're not a gun person, I mean, think of all the people you've talked to or heard podcasts that are like, former sf, that are saying, like, wrong things about the niche gun culture and stuff. You see in the comments, I mean, some of those guys killed more people than Ebola and they're not gun people, you know? Like, it's crazy when I, I work. So I work at Markship Training center. And Greg, the director of training, who I'm good friends with, he was in the Marine Corps 12 years. He worked with the CIA. He's a contractor. He's one of those dudes killed more people in Ebola. And he's told me multiple times, I'm not a gun dude. But he trains every day. When I go out there, we're 15 hour night vision classes. Like, we're fucking awesome. I mean, he is just on it. If he misses one round, he hangs it in his house and like, stares at it every day, you know, so he's. But he's Not a gun person. [00:36:00] Speaker A: Yeah. Fuck yeah. So that's, that's cool. I also have a huge admiration for people who. Perfect. Like, like you said, this guy's training, he's hanging up his misses or he's probably thinking about it, stuff like that. It's like you can't. Everyone's not an expert at everything, but when you see someone physically have the drive to like get better, like, I love. It's motivating, it's motivated, it trickles off to you. Yeah, yeah, it does for me too. Like, I coach the hockey camp this summer and my. Actually a kid I was in boot camp with, he had a son, 20, 19. And this fucker was in my hockey camp. So it's like my boy that I was in the Marine Corps with, I'm teaching his fucking son. It was awesome. But the, the funniest part about it was like, and I can be honest because Kevin's my boy, but he started as the worst, the worst one. He was the. He's like two years younger than everyone else, but at the end of the 10 weeks, he was by far the most improved. Like night and day. Yeah. [00:37:03] Speaker B: Do you have on him like you kept. [00:37:05] Speaker A: Yeah, we were all like kind of behind him. Like, hey, come on, Owen, come on. Like. But he actually improved, like for real, like went from a kid who could not skate at all to like a little kid who's buzzing up and down the ice. So it's really all that takes is that short little time. But like, I just. To me, the point of that story is to highlight how motivating it is to see progress for me, seriously, you. [00:37:30] Speaker B: Were part of that. Like you contributed to that huge contributor. [00:37:34] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, that's. That was very, very grateful to have that experience. I love coaching, I love teaching. And that's something that I, I've seen you're passionate about too, is coaching and teaching. And it's so cool to see someone who has the same passion but on that different side. So like you mostly coach adults, right? And, and definitely that's a different ball game too. But it's like when no one's ever done anything before, you all present with the same mushy brain. [00:38:02] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:38:02] Speaker A: A five year old learning weapon safety is the same thing as a 90 year old who's never heard about it at all. [00:38:08] Speaker B: And the nine year old might even be better because like there's clean slate, you know, watch John Wayne movies and has an ego because I'm a guy, I should know how to do this. [00:38:16] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:38:17] Speaker B: That's why like, people would say women are usually, you know, more teachable in firearms. Like, my girl, she shot, I think third highest in the class. And I mean, when I took her out, she was grouping quarter size, five shot groups, you know, with the same pistol from back in the rink where that same glide. [00:38:33] Speaker A: Oh, really? [00:38:34] Speaker B: That was the first picture she was shot. But yeah, because. And I treated her like a lance corporal. Like, the whole time we were out there, it's like, stop, stop. You know, like, boyfriend just shut off. [00:38:43] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:38:43] Speaker B: And it works. [00:38:44] Speaker A: You know, that's. That's awesome. It's so cool to see. [00:38:47] Speaker B: But women do need more positive reinforcement. We're like, guys, you know, you have to be like, you suck. Keep going. But a girl, even if they do like, that was all right. You did this all right. And you learn how to, like, deal with that. [00:38:59] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, yeah. [00:38:59] Speaker B: Same with kids. I'm sure you. There's things that you have to do with children. [00:39:03] Speaker A: Yeah, there's. There's. There's some. I found, like, I would way more rather relate to that. And there's different styles everywhere. I find it better to relate to people to be like, hey, I don't want to. I don't want to do this, but this is why. Or, I didn't enjoy this, but this is what I got from it. Like, as opposed to people that are the. Like you said, the dictators. Do this, do that, do as I. [00:39:29] Speaker B: Say now as I do. Yeah, yeah. [00:39:30] Speaker A: A thousand percent. [00:39:32] Speaker B: Yeah. Dude. [00:39:33] Speaker A: This is a great talk. I love hearing, like, even yapping, dude, absolutely. Yeah. Obsession right now, but I'm having a blast. [00:39:40] Speaker B: Me too, man. [00:39:41] Speaker A: I really have wanted to talk to you for a while, and I could have even imagined that we had such a fucking sick combo. [00:39:48] Speaker B: Hell, yeah, bro. I know. [00:39:49] Speaker A: It's been cool to me, I guess. All right, before we go, though, I'll. I want you to talk a little bit about the other podcast you went on, because I think that's all I do is watch podcasts and YouTube and I love all of it. There's a reason mine hasn't been released yet, and it's. It's my personal reason. But I have that much more admiration and respect and. And gratitude for the guys that have released theirs because they just. They knew what they wanted and they have a blueprint and they're doing it, and it's awesome to me, and I can do nothing but watch them and soak in all the free game I want and make it my own. And so I guess I just wanted you to talk A little bit about your experience on those podcasts and. [00:40:36] Speaker B: Yeah, those dudes, like the Hawk Tuohy podcast I was on, it was. It was pretty good. [00:40:42] Speaker A: Hawk tooie. [00:40:43] Speaker B: Yeah, no, no, I was on recently the Prepared Mindset podcast, which every podcast I've been on has like, a specific goal in mind. Like, for instance, Prepared Mindset. He is very CQB orientated. Like, that's his hobby he enjoys to pursue. He has no military background. He's, I think, a banker. And he really enjoys just taking classes and learning. [00:41:06] Speaker A: Yeah. That's crazy. [00:41:07] Speaker B: Yeah, so he, you know, and he uses my product so to be able to talk to someone, to his viewers that are preparing for the worst day of their life or just, you know, to make it a hobby, getting someone that's in the industry to. To speak to them directly is. Is important. And then I was on like, EOD Fish's podcast where he is all gear oriented. Like. No, he doesn't really talk about training or anything like that. So that was, you know, bread and butter. We're talking about like, manufacturing and like. Yeah, the nitty gritty. Because he analyzes products like, oh, this stitching and you know, it's used in this manner. So I got to talk about, like, how to implement my product in like, the best way. And we just had this big conversation about antenna theory and, you know, stuff like that. [00:41:48] Speaker A: Yeah. So that's cool. [00:41:50] Speaker B: We're here, you know, we're. We're two boys discussing life and success and entrepreneurship and going a different avenue on it. [00:41:58] Speaker A: Yeah. Trying to figure it out. It's. It's a life's a journey and I don't know what the fuck I'm doing. I don't think everyone completely knows what they're doing, but there's few guys like you that have a little bit figured out. A lot figured out to me. But I know you're not going to say you have everything figured out, but like, it. It really means a lot to me to. To talk to you. Thank you so much for being fun. [00:42:21] Speaker B: Bringing me here, man. [00:42:22] Speaker A: Hell yeah. [00:42:22] Speaker B: Awesome. [00:42:25] Speaker A: One. All right, so shout out to those guys. Shout out New Hampshire 2A. Shout out EOD Fish. Shout out prepared mindset. Quinn, I've had a blast with you on the show today. Anything else you want to say? Any last shout outs? [00:42:38] Speaker B: I feel like I want to do this in the beginning, but we got to do some. Some Greg stories for the viewer. I think we gotta do some stories, so I was just thinking of one. So whenever I describe Greg, I usually Started out with like, a photo, and it's this photo which I lost for a while, and I got it from Joe. But it was some crazy night we had on town. Greg was notorious for, like, starting or not starting, but being involved. Allegedly. And fights. [00:43:03] Speaker A: Not starting. [00:43:04] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, allegedly. But so I have this famous picture of us all at a Waffle House, and Greg's shirt is just completely ripped up. There's a nipple. You got your nipple pierced. [00:43:15] Speaker A: Nipple ring. [00:43:16] Speaker B: Yeah. And you're just like, you know, ready to order. And you're just like, just, you know, like a homeless person. But another time. I don't know if you remembered this. I have more great stories, but I can't figure them out my head. But one time we went to the gym together, which we never really went to the gym that much together because we were in different platoons and stuff. [00:43:32] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:43:33] Speaker B: But we went to the one on Lejeune by the Chow Halt. The Double Decker. [00:43:36] Speaker A: Yep. [00:43:37] Speaker B: And we did a good workout. And you're like, yo, let's hit the sauna. So we go in the sauna. You know what time? Yes. Yeah. And so, yeah, we go in there, shirts off, and we see this guy is clearly older. So, like in the Marine Corps, if you see someone older, they're probably higher up. He had some gray, and he just looks at Greg and his fucking nipple piercings and he's like, either take it the fuck off or leave. And Greg's like, all right, we're leaving. We just box. [00:43:58] Speaker A: Remember that, bro? Yeah, fucking Spanish dude. Like an old bald head gunny, bro. Or some. Yeah, but yeah, they hated my. They know my swag, not my story. Right. That dude. [00:44:09] Speaker B: Oh, hilarious. [00:44:10] Speaker A: You remember that? [00:44:11] Speaker B: And man, I wish I could remember some of the other nights. Just in the bear. Oh, oh, I, I, I don't know how far. We're not going to get too deep into it, but there was Royal Marines that we parted. Oh, yeah. [00:44:22] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:44:22] Speaker B: Dude, if those guys are still out there, we need to send your boy a message. [00:44:26] Speaker A: We do. But yeah, I saw them on Facebook. I forgetting his name right now. [00:44:30] Speaker B: But yeah, just real quick for the viewers, we went out to this bar called Heroes, and their slogan was, it's so close you can low crawl back home. And unfortunately got destroyed in a hurricane in like 20, 18, 19. [00:44:43] Speaker A: I didn't, I remember hearing that it was closing down, but they were going to fix it. [00:44:47] Speaker B: Yeah. Never got it. Never got brought back up. [00:44:49] Speaker A: That sucks, dude. [00:44:51] Speaker B: So we, we go there and we meet these Royal Marines and we just start getting plastered until like 2 in the morning. And then the place like our were closed. Like, our barracks are right over here. Just keep across the street. [00:45:01] Speaker A: Yep. [00:45:02] Speaker B: Yeah. So we all go over there, we're all drinking, we're showing them our guns. We hid in our like coffee pots and. And they're like, yo, you can own these? Like, yeah, we can even carry these. Like, no way, bro. And we're drinking. They're like, let's do a running contest. Three miles. And we're like, oh, hold up. Like, maybe we'll do pull ups. So we do pull out. We find this like French soldier walking across the street just blackout drunk. And he has nowhere to go. And the Royal Marines are like, he's staying in our barracks. Let's help him out. So he speaks like some weird dialect of Spanish. So we knock on our Puerto Rican mundo. His room, he's asleep, probably masturbating or something. He comes out in like the smallest tighty whities possible. And we're like, we need you to translate. So he's like, okay, man. And he goes out, still no shirt in the tighty whities. And he's just like, I have a video of him. [00:45:50] Speaker A: Like, seriously, the man, dude. [00:45:51] Speaker B: Yeah. And we figure out where this guy has to go. So we get him back. But an interesting situation if Greg wants to tell it, whether or not with these Royal Marines. But then the night ends. It's like nine in the morning. And these guys are like, let's get more beers and let's keep it going. We're like, bro, it is literally nine in the morning on a Sunday. [00:46:09] Speaker A: Like pt, we're. [00:46:10] Speaker B: We're good, bro. [00:46:12] Speaker A: I. I actually do remember that all the way up until the next morning when they. When I think we were in someone's barracks room and we looked out, we were like, oh, shit. [00:46:21] Speaker B: It's like the sun is fully up. Yeah. [00:46:24] Speaker A: We were on the catwalk for the majority of the night. [00:46:26] Speaker B: Yep, yep. [00:46:27] Speaker A: Yeah, that dude's a fucking man. And I also remember he said, fucking redhead do with the mustache. I have him on Facebook. I'll know exactly his name. Fucking awesome dude. [00:46:38] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:46:38] Speaker A: And he was like, yeah, like, the only thing I know about America is Tom Brady. I love Tom Brady. So I gave him a beanie, like just a regular Old Navy beanie with the Patriots logo on it. But to me, that was like, he was so grateful for it because the only thing he had really known and liked about America was Tom Brady. [00:46:56] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:46:57] Speaker A: Run into a Patriot superfan at that time, so. [00:47:00] Speaker B: And he, you Said, you still see photo. You would see photos. [00:47:03] Speaker A: I saw him years later with the fucking. Wearing the hat on Facebook, and I just. [00:47:07] Speaker B: I was like, oh, my God. That's a cool. Yeah. [00:47:09] Speaker A: Like, yeah, those are the type of. [00:47:10] Speaker B: Dudes you never meet again in your life, but you're like, like. And that's the positive thing about social media with all the negatives. Like, that's so cool. You get to, like, see and see. [00:47:18] Speaker A: His life, like, what he's doing. [00:47:19] Speaker B: I would see him, like, with his girl, going to, like, the Bahamas. I'm like, good for him. [00:47:22] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:47:23] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:47:23] Speaker A: He was a badass, too. I think he was like. Or are there Marine Special Forces? [00:47:28] Speaker B: Their Royal Marines are really interesting from what I understand. They don't have, like, support units or personnel. It's just like, Royal Marines. So it's like. But pretty selective. [00:47:36] Speaker A: It's pretty. Pretty small. [00:47:38] Speaker B: So they're just like infantry centric, like, dudes that are very well trained. [00:47:42] Speaker A: Dude, that's awesome. I. I love all this military talk, bro. I. I don't talk to too many people about, like. Like this, but it's so interesting to me, all the tactics. The CQB shoots to this and that. And I have a really good friend of mine who was in SF and Rangers and all that and went overseas, did his thing for a few times, and I've asked him to go on the podcast. He's like, I don't know about, like, my image in the community. I'm like, all right, that's fine. [00:48:10] Speaker B: Respect. [00:48:10] Speaker A: Because I want to be his friend. He's my boy before. Way over. [00:48:14] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:48:14] Speaker A: That I respect more than anything. It's like, I also know kids that are seals that have said like that to me. [00:48:20] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:48:21] Speaker A: Yeah, bro, that's fine. I don't care. Like, as long as I can hear it. I can hear the stories physically, though. [00:48:26] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:48:26] Speaker A: That's what I care about. [00:48:27] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:48:27] Speaker A: I don't care. Like, you know who you are. We don't need to record this. Keep showing me the pictures. Keep telling me stories. [00:48:33] Speaker B: Exactly. [00:48:34] Speaker A: Just like when you're girl. And then we're showing me cool pictures. [00:48:39] Speaker B: Cool. [00:48:40] Speaker A: Like, if you have a cool job and you want to show me cool, I'll always accept it and have them. [00:48:45] Speaker B: Have them on and just talk and that stuff will trickle out if it needs to. Yeah, they. They have to understand, like, you're not talking to them for their identity, you're talking to them for them. [00:48:53] Speaker A: Yes. [00:48:54] Speaker B: And I think if you explain it to them, they would understand. [00:48:56] Speaker A: Dude, this is the. This is the same kid that I told you about. He wicked cool dude. Multifaceted. Like, again, military is like 1/5 of him or like 5%. [00:49:07] Speaker B: That's awesome. [00:49:08] Speaker A: He's just such a smart. He was also the first one of our friends that find weights. In eighth grade, he started lifting weights. And I'll never forget, I'm like, that one summer he come back and he's got muscles. Like all my friends. We drank every day of high school. I never had a shred of muscle until I got in the Marine Corps. [00:49:25] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. [00:49:25] Speaker A: He figured that out somehow. And then he just tore his mcl, acl, everything in his knee on a bad bike accident. And he was like, holy. I'm about to look at like six to eight months of recovery. He went down a crazy deep rabbit hole in peptides and started doing the peptides, and he healed himself in two months. And this just ran a marathon last week. [00:49:47] Speaker B: Wow. Good. [00:49:48] Speaker A: Two months after that. Yeah. And so I saw that progress. I texted him, picked his brain a little bit. He sent me everything that he went down the rabbit hole. And now I'm in the process of healing myself. But it's like, to me, it is so invaluable to have people like that in my life who are proactively trying, bettering themselves every day. It doesn't matter whether it's work or relationships, school, whatever, health, it's like, there's always room for improvement. There's always room for information to be had too. [00:50:20] Speaker B: Yes. [00:50:21] Speaker A: It all it was was the kid googling what's the latest metal tech, medical technology, and this and that and all of that compounded into now he fixed his fucking leg and ran a marathon in two months. [00:50:33] Speaker B: It's amazing. [00:50:34] Speaker A: Crazy dude. [00:50:34] Speaker B: And like, the. The vulnerability to, like. Because, you know, he probably made mistakes along the way. And, like, if you had him on, to hear his vulnerability throughout, that is such a huge thing because, like, we don't get to hear that enough. Like, I think with the most impactful podcast I listened to was Travis Haley has one he hasn't posted in a while, but on his second podcast, he talked about how, like, his biggest regret was going on all these deployments and missing, like, important parts of his son's life. And he just, like, started bawling, crying, and I was like, bro, like, this dude literally killed more people in Ebola. Like, he's the most hardest dude I've ever, You know? And then he's, like, crying about this. I was like, that is so awesome. [00:51:10] Speaker A: Real. Yeah. [00:51:11] Speaker B: That is so real. That's so admirable to do that. [00:51:15] Speaker A: It is crazy too. It's like, because some of the biggest killers I. Some of the biggest killers I know are some of the most emotional people ever. [00:51:22] Speaker B: Yes. And yes. [00:51:23] Speaker A: In, like, empathetic and nice and friendly and, like, to me, like, at 29 years old, there's really only one way I can, like, I can like someone. That's it. They're nice to me. [00:51:35] Speaker B: Yes. [00:51:35] Speaker A: How they fucking treat. I don't care if you have a cool car, if you get more pussy than me, you have more money than me. Like, if you're nice to me, I like you. [00:51:42] Speaker B: Exactly. [00:51:43] Speaker A: And it's. That's how it should be. But, like, with this whole world and social media and everything, everybody's pocket watching, everyone's watching each other's Instagram, comparing each other, but it's like, bro, you're nice to me. That's all I care about. And that's all anyone should care about. [00:51:58] Speaker B: Definitely, man. [00:51:59] Speaker A: So, yeah. What a yap sesh, dude. I'm having a blast, bro. [00:52:04] Speaker B: Absolutely. Everyone on the headphones. Yeah, baby. What's that? You remember the meme MLG where people would, like, spam the hit markers and, like, the horn and post, like, Doritos spinning. And we're gonna look that up later. [00:52:21] Speaker A: But I'm like, I'm trying to think of it. [00:52:25] Speaker B: Yeah, baby. A triple and then360. No scope. And the intervention. [00:52:30] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, yeah, No, I know the quick scope memes. Definitely. Yeah. How do we want to end this? Any. Any last words? [00:52:39] Speaker B: We should both. The first one to come is whoever. [00:52:44] Speaker A: Can shoot their nut starless across this table. [00:52:48] Speaker B: Or we weigh it. The amount on the mic, we weigh how much they. Cool. [00:52:52] Speaker A: Yeah. And we'll put each one of our. [00:52:54] Speaker B: Vials of nut and touch. [00:52:57] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:52:57] Speaker B: Oh, oh, I see. Yeah. [00:52:58] Speaker A: No, so, like, who. Whoever's nut weighs more. [00:53:01] Speaker B: Yeah. Okay. [00:53:05] Speaker A: Hopefully if you are a close family member or friend, you had stopped listening by now. But if you're listening this, then thank you. And Will, I really appreciate you coming on, bro. I had a blast today. I appreciate getting drinks with you and your girl last night. [00:53:20] Speaker B: That was coming out, bro. That's a drive. I appreciate you making. [00:53:23] Speaker A: Yeah, bro. And it was a drive coming down here too. That I appreciate just as much. And we. I really hope we can do this again, bro. I had a blast. [00:53:30] Speaker B: Let's do a man on camera. [00:53:33] Speaker A: What a cute one. Yeah, we gotta cut the camera now. [00:53:35] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Shut it up. Shut up. [00:53:37] Speaker A: Smart. Peace. [00:53:39] Speaker B: See ya.