WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.160 Something that we pride ourselves on this show 00:00:02.160 --> 00:00:05.440 is not getting sucked into political talk at 00:00:05.440 --> 00:00:08.880 all So you would not have to worry about us covering 00:00:08.880 --> 00:00:12.720 topics such as like Hegseth and stating that 00:00:12.720 --> 00:00:17.359 quote the era of politically correct Overly sensitive 00:00:17.359 --> 00:00:19.780 don't hurt anyone's feelings leadership ends 00:00:19.780 --> 00:00:24.539 right now End quote new quote no more division 00:00:24.539 --> 00:00:27.879 distraction or gender delusions, you know, we 00:00:27.879 --> 00:00:31.469 wouldn't cover stuff like Him issuing new directives 00:00:31.469 --> 00:00:34.229 that will raise physical standards for everyone 00:00:34.229 --> 00:00:38.409 in uniform to a quote male level We wouldn't 00:00:38.409 --> 00:00:42.049 cover the talk of toughening grooming standards 00:00:42.049 --> 00:00:45.250 Him saying that he doesn't want to see quote 00:00:45.250 --> 00:00:48.609 no more fat generals around Pentagon Which is 00:00:48.609 --> 00:00:51.170 great and like this is like the quality that 00:00:51.170 --> 00:00:53.689 you can really expect from this show Like, you 00:00:53.689 --> 00:00:57.109 know, we're not going to cover, you know Stuff 00:00:57.109 --> 00:00:59.570 where he would say stuff, you know, quote, no 00:00:59.570 --> 00:01:05.129 more beardos, right? The era of unacceptable 00:01:05.129 --> 00:01:07.909 appearance is over. So these are things that 00:01:07.909 --> 00:01:09.670 you don't have to worry about us covering it 00:01:09.670 --> 00:01:13.930 because everyone covers that. And also, you know, 00:01:14.049 --> 00:01:16.890 him saying, quote, simply put, if you do not 00:01:16.890 --> 00:01:20.739 meet the male. level physical standards for combat 00:01:20.739 --> 00:01:24.480 positions cannot passive PT tests or don't want 00:01:24.480 --> 00:01:27.040 to shave and look professional. It's time for 00:01:27.040 --> 00:01:30.159 a new position or a new profession. So like we 00:01:30.159 --> 00:01:33.760 wouldn't cover stuff like that. But if that was 00:01:33.760 --> 00:01:37.120 something that we would cover, Alex, what are 00:01:37.120 --> 00:01:43.340 your thoughts on those? So as someone who used 00:01:43.340 --> 00:01:46.459 to be in the military There's a lot here that 00:01:46.459 --> 00:01:48.719 was said for anybody who's watching this on YouTube 00:01:48.719 --> 00:01:51.379 later anybody who's new to the show I spent 23 00:01:51.379 --> 00:01:54.680 years in the army Okay, I am retired. I am a 00:01:54.680 --> 00:01:56.819 retired senior non -commissioned officer from 00:01:56.819 --> 00:02:01.400 the army now generally speaking On social media 00:02:01.400 --> 00:02:04.939 and places like this I I and I not in the facetious 00:02:04.939 --> 00:02:07.540 way that jay just said about us not talking about 00:02:07.540 --> 00:02:09.219 politics because we do talk about politics on 00:02:09.219 --> 00:02:11.819 this show a lot Why because we fucking can uh, 00:02:11.819 --> 00:02:13.919 it's our show. We get to talk about what we want. 00:02:14.580 --> 00:02:17.979 Um That being said I generally try and stay out 00:02:17.979 --> 00:02:21.400 of this. I I did watch chunks of of secretary 00:02:21.400 --> 00:02:27.419 hake says speech um and And it's it's a joke. 00:02:27.520 --> 00:02:33.899 It's a joke. Okay, he's a joke It's a joke Okay, 00:02:33.899 --> 00:02:36.460 um And we're gonna we're gonna address a couple 00:02:36.460 --> 00:02:37.860 things that we send the chat here in a minute 00:02:37.860 --> 00:02:41.180 Let's kind of go through this the arrow of politically 00:02:41.180 --> 00:02:42.939 correct overly sensitive Don't hurt anyone's 00:02:42.939 --> 00:02:45.120 feelings leadership ends now the only people 00:02:45.120 --> 00:02:46.979 who've had to worry about that for the last 15 00:02:46.979 --> 00:02:54.620 years are assholes Okay You can be a leader and 00:02:54.620 --> 00:02:59.180 you can make your fucking point without insulting 00:02:59.180 --> 00:03:04.569 people It's not necessary. I spent the majority 00:03:04.569 --> 00:03:06.949 of my career as a non -commissioned officer. 00:03:07.430 --> 00:03:09.550 Do you know how many times I had to call someone 00:03:09.550 --> 00:03:17.169 a derogatory slur? Never. Never. You don't need 00:03:17.169 --> 00:03:20.469 to do it. The only people who've been griping 00:03:20.469 --> 00:03:22.930 about this are the ones that use that as part 00:03:22.930 --> 00:03:29.969 of their leadership style. Pete Hegseth, you 00:03:29.969 --> 00:03:33.550 can tell by looking at the motherfucker that 00:03:33.550 --> 00:03:37.949 he is the type of officer who needs to put people 00:03:37.949 --> 00:03:45.370 down to make his point. Okay? That is not a valid 00:03:45.370 --> 00:03:49.169 method of leadership in my opinion. I would say 00:03:49.169 --> 00:03:52.469 in my learned opinion. And again, the only people 00:03:52.469 --> 00:03:55.909 who were worried about this were people who were 00:03:55.909 --> 00:04:00.210 assholes. If you're an asshole, people got upset 00:04:00.210 --> 00:04:04.750 with you for being an asshole. Okay? But let's 00:04:04.750 --> 00:04:07.090 start there. No more division, distraction, and 00:04:07.090 --> 00:04:10.189 gender delusions, please. The division and distraction, 00:04:10.550 --> 00:04:12.930 fuck you. That's all you've been since you got 00:04:12.930 --> 00:04:16.170 put in your position as secretary. Okay? It is 00:04:16.170 --> 00:04:17.870 a distraction that is constantly division in 00:04:17.870 --> 00:04:23.529 the ranks. Gender delusion, look. I don't even 00:04:23.529 --> 00:04:27.529 know where to go with that, Jay. Like... This 00:04:27.529 --> 00:04:32.129 is part of the overarching kind of war on trans 00:04:32.129 --> 00:04:34.790 people that this whole administration is going 00:04:34.790 --> 00:04:37.209 through. I quite frankly think that if you're 00:04:37.209 --> 00:04:39.029 a trans person and you feel like putting on a 00:04:39.029 --> 00:04:41.889 uniform and signing a fucking contract, we should 00:04:41.889 --> 00:04:50.509 let you. Your thoughts on that? Yeah, I was also 00:04:50.509 --> 00:04:53.439 thinking about like the females that serve in 00:04:53.439 --> 00:04:56.819 the military because he kind of keeps going back 00:04:56.819 --> 00:05:00.600 and saying, like, very specifically male level. 00:05:01.560 --> 00:05:04.600 And so I was kind of thinking, like, is he target 00:05:04.600 --> 00:05:08.019 targeting now, like females in the military, 00:05:08.839 --> 00:05:10.459 specifically females within combat arms? And 00:05:10.459 --> 00:05:13.360 I went through that transition when I started 00:05:13.360 --> 00:05:16.579 my career in combat arms. There were no women 00:05:16.579 --> 00:05:18.699 in combat arms. It just didn't exist. It was 00:05:18.699 --> 00:05:22.620 against the law. OK, there was a law. we did 00:05:22.620 --> 00:05:25.300 not have women in combat arms positions. They 00:05:25.300 --> 00:05:27.300 changed the law during the Obama administration 00:05:27.300 --> 00:05:29.339 and it took a few years of implementation. Now 00:05:29.339 --> 00:05:31.920 I will be the first one to admit when they first 00:05:31.920 --> 00:05:35.300 talked about it I was a junior NCO and because 00:05:35.300 --> 00:05:37.300 I had been brought up in combat arms and because 00:05:37.300 --> 00:05:40.899 I'd been brought up in all male units I didn't 00:05:40.899 --> 00:05:44.779 know how I felt about it initially, okay. I was 00:05:44.779 --> 00:05:49.899 very nervous as a young leader in my 20s when 00:05:49.899 --> 00:05:57.540 this all happened. I got over it. Okay, there's 00:05:57.540 --> 00:05:59.459 a quote and I'm going to try and bring it up 00:05:59.459 --> 00:06:12.959 from the West Wing. That he has. That that I 00:06:12.959 --> 00:06:25.420 I absolutely love. That really kind of That really 00:06:25.420 --> 00:06:29.899 kind of fixes it Okay, and we'll talk about that 00:06:29.899 --> 00:06:33.399 in a second. Let's kind of run through this Actually, 00:06:33.500 --> 00:06:35.519 no, we're gonna do this now because this is good. 00:06:35.639 --> 00:06:39.959 Hang on. I'm saying I'm gonna skip ahead to the 00:06:39.959 --> 00:06:42.000 part. So they're having this debate This is before 00:06:42.000 --> 00:06:44.339 we this show was made before we started allowing 00:06:44.339 --> 00:06:47.199 gays in the military. So in the show they're 00:06:47.199 --> 00:06:50.699 talking about taking care you're letting Homosexual 00:06:50.699 --> 00:06:54.480 people serve openly in the military, right? So 00:06:54.480 --> 00:06:57.560 then the big admiral guy who's a main character 00:06:57.560 --> 00:07:00.959 writes played by John Amis. He comes in right 00:07:00.959 --> 00:07:07.839 Sir Stand easy fellas Just Danish for anybody. 00:07:07.839 --> 00:07:10.879 Oh, yes, sir Thank you. We're discussing gays 00:07:10.879 --> 00:07:15.199 in the military, huh? Yes, sir What do you think 00:07:15.199 --> 00:07:18.540 I? Said what do you think? Sir, we're here to 00:07:18.540 --> 00:07:19.899 help the White House form a policy plan. I know. 00:07:19.899 --> 00:07:21.980 I'm asking you what you think. Sir, we're not 00:07:21.980 --> 00:07:23.980 prejudiced toward homosexuals. You just don't 00:07:23.980 --> 00:07:25.720 want to see them serving in the armed forces. 00:07:25.779 --> 00:07:27.959 No, sir, I don't. Because they pose a threat 00:07:27.959 --> 00:07:30.699 to unit discipline and cohesion. Yes, sir. That's 00:07:30.699 --> 00:07:33.259 what I think, too. I also think the military 00:07:33.259 --> 00:07:35.740 wasn't designed to be an instrument of social 00:07:35.740 --> 00:07:38.120 change. Yes, sir. The problem with that is that's 00:07:38.120 --> 00:07:39.959 what they were saying about me 50 years ago. 00:07:40.079 --> 00:07:42.079 Blacks shouldn't serve with whites. It would 00:07:42.079 --> 00:07:45.019 disrupt the unit. You know what? It did disrupt 00:07:45.019 --> 00:07:48.100 the unit. The unit got over it. The unit changed. 00:07:48.699 --> 00:07:50.560 I'm an admiral in the U .S. Navy and chairman 00:07:50.560 --> 00:07:53.160 of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Beat that with 00:07:53.160 --> 00:07:59.519 a stick. So that's that's kind of my my my view 00:07:59.519 --> 00:08:01.439 on this, right? Oh, it's going to disrupt the 00:08:01.439 --> 00:08:03.019 unit. You know what? It did disrupt the unit. 00:08:03.100 --> 00:08:05.800 The unit got over it. And I think largely with 00:08:05.800 --> 00:08:07.819 with putting females in common terms, the units 00:08:07.819 --> 00:08:12.240 got over it and it's fine. You can make an argument 00:08:12.240 --> 00:08:14.620 that you should have a gender neutral physical 00:08:14.620 --> 00:08:19.560 fitness test. For combat arms I don't have a 00:08:19.560 --> 00:08:23.240 specific argument against that, right? If you 00:08:23.240 --> 00:08:26.339 want a gender neutral physical fitness training 00:08:26.339 --> 00:08:32.039 test for for combat arms units i'm That's the 00:08:32.039 --> 00:08:37.220 one area where i'm like, okay sure You know what 00:08:37.220 --> 00:08:40.120 you should be able to do 60 push -ups or whatever, 00:08:40.120 --> 00:08:44.240 right? Uh, that's fine do gender neutral pt test 00:08:44.240 --> 00:08:49.080 but beyond that stop it The beardos thingy, there's 00:08:49.080 --> 00:08:51.460 a lot of people that have taken advantage of 00:08:51.460 --> 00:08:54.419 the religious dispensation improperly. That's 00:08:54.419 --> 00:08:58.220 true. It has happened. I'm Norse pagan. Are you, 00:08:58.259 --> 00:09:02.139 or do you just want a beard? Right? They're still 00:09:02.139 --> 00:09:04.220 going to allow religious dispensation for beards 00:09:04.220 --> 00:09:07.539 for, like I served under a first sergeant who 00:09:07.539 --> 00:09:12.139 was an Orthodox Jewish person. Right? and under 00:09:12.139 --> 00:09:15.000 his cover he wore a yarmulke and he wore a beard 00:09:15.000 --> 00:09:20.080 because he was an Orthodox Jew. Seek people. 00:09:20.080 --> 00:09:22.720 Serve in the military. That's fine. He's talking 00:09:22.720 --> 00:09:25.379 about a lot of the guys that get long -term profiles, 00:09:25.480 --> 00:09:26.960 especially people who are of African -American 00:09:26.960 --> 00:09:28.659 descent, who get the shaving bumps, which are 00:09:28.659 --> 00:09:34.220 very, very painful. This is what you're worried 00:09:34.220 --> 00:09:37.700 about? Honestly, soldiers have been begging for 00:09:37.700 --> 00:09:41.779 them to just allow beards for years. This is 00:09:41.779 --> 00:09:44.100 a constant argument with the Army is why can't 00:09:44.100 --> 00:09:46.480 we just have beards? Can we just have beards? 00:09:46.600 --> 00:09:48.519 Like everybody can have a beard. So the fact 00:09:48.519 --> 00:09:51.419 that he's making this a big point, again, he's 00:09:51.419 --> 00:09:54.519 a former major. He's got the good idea, Ferry. 00:09:54.980 --> 00:10:03.720 He can shut up. The Fat Generals, again, he can't 00:10:03.720 --> 00:10:06.460 make himself feel better without putting other 00:10:06.460 --> 00:10:11.799 people down. That's his deal, right? He's just 00:10:11.799 --> 00:10:24.940 an asshole. OK. Yeah, it's it's this. You've 00:10:24.940 --> 00:10:27.019 got this one last note in here, so go ahead and 00:10:27.019 --> 00:10:29.379 make your last note. We can talk about this this 00:10:29.379 --> 00:10:35.360 next piece. Yeah. Which is Trump's Trump's thing 00:10:35.360 --> 00:10:37.240 that he said when he talked to the generals. 00:10:38.019 --> 00:10:41.970 Yeah. And something that we talked in pre shows 00:10:41.970 --> 00:10:44.909 something that, you know, again, we don't cover 00:10:44.909 --> 00:10:48.309 on this podcast because we don't cover political 00:10:48.309 --> 00:10:52.629 stuff at all. I mean, so like we wouldn't cover 00:10:52.629 --> 00:10:58.049 the fact that like, you know, Trump kind of floated 00:10:58.049 --> 00:11:01.669 the idea that the National Guard should use. 00:11:02.240 --> 00:11:05.379 and cities that are controlled by the Democrats 00:11:05.379 --> 00:11:08.679 as training grounds in this war against quote 00:11:08.679 --> 00:11:15.799 the enemy from within, which I. I don't know 00:11:15.799 --> 00:11:19.679 every so everything about Trump's address me 00:11:19.679 --> 00:11:24.820 as a civilian. I was just like, what the fuck? 00:11:25.000 --> 00:11:28.860 Like I'm. Even the whole fact that he was like, 00:11:29.019 --> 00:11:31.519 okay, like this is a super quiet room like you 00:11:31.519 --> 00:11:33.820 guys can clap like right like come on like clap 00:11:33.820 --> 00:11:36.360 if you don't want to clap like please leave and 00:11:36.360 --> 00:11:38.720 you'll lose your rank and everything and even 00:11:38.720 --> 00:11:42.360 I was able as a civilian able to really quickly 00:11:42.360 --> 00:11:45.320 understand that there is a military code of conduct. 00:11:45.519 --> 00:11:47.559 Maybe that's not the correct term here, but like 00:11:47.559 --> 00:11:52.500 that prohibits them from actually clapping or 00:11:52.500 --> 00:11:56.919 you know. causing any sort of reaction or noise 00:11:56.919 --> 00:12:01.220 when being addressed in this manner. Is that 00:12:01.220 --> 00:12:03.500 the correct term, Alex, like code of conduct? 00:12:03.700 --> 00:12:06.179 Yes, there's a code of conduct because so this 00:12:06.179 --> 00:12:08.679 is the thing that we get confused. Like the military 00:12:08.679 --> 00:12:10.179 is supposed to be a military is not supposed 00:12:10.179 --> 00:12:11.820 to be a political. It's a political body. It 00:12:11.820 --> 00:12:17.000 has to be. The military is supposed to be nonpartisan, 00:12:17.000 --> 00:12:20.200 right? That's the thing. Right. The reason you're 00:12:20.200 --> 00:12:22.259 not allowed to go to partisan political events 00:12:22.259 --> 00:12:25.700 in uniform is that as a service, the United States 00:12:25.700 --> 00:12:31.639 military is not a partisan thing. Okay. We, they're 00:12:31.639 --> 00:12:36.399 supposed to be nonpartisan. Um, it's, it's, it's 00:12:36.399 --> 00:12:41.240 just, that's again, it's hey, the reason Trump 00:12:41.240 --> 00:12:44.019 likes Hagseth is Trump sees Hagseth in himself, 00:12:44.259 --> 00:12:48.240 like himself and Hagseth. Right. I have to put 00:12:48.240 --> 00:12:50.779 people down to make myself feel better. I have 00:12:50.779 --> 00:12:54.879 to be the thing. It drives me absolutely nuts 00:12:54.879 --> 00:13:00.299 and that's why. The code of conduct dictates 00:13:00.299 --> 00:13:04.039 it. They're not supposed to do that. Let's go 00:13:04.039 --> 00:13:08.019 back. I'm going to end this portion for the YouTube 00:13:08.019 --> 00:13:14.519 show on this. Hegseth is just doing what Hegseth 00:13:14.519 --> 00:13:17.179 do. He's focused in all the wrong areas. And 00:13:17.179 --> 00:13:20.460 what he's really doing is showing his lack of 00:13:20.460 --> 00:13:22.720 experience and his lack of qualification. Because 00:13:22.720 --> 00:13:25.620 if this nitpicky bullshit is what you're focused 00:13:25.620 --> 00:13:28.320 on as Secretary of Defense, you don't understand 00:13:28.320 --> 00:13:29.639 your fucking job.