WEBVTT 00:00:03.609 --> 00:00:09.589 Hello. This is Staff Officer of the United States 00:00:09.589 --> 00:00:19.030 Marine Corps, Nimrod Y .U. Allen III. Active 00:00:19.030 --> 00:00:26.949 service end date, January 2012. Inactive service 00:00:26.949 --> 00:00:36.520 date, perpetual. If you're hearing this, it is 00:00:36.520 --> 00:00:43.700 Sunday, March 29th, 2026. And today is my birthday. 00:00:44.759 --> 00:01:07.500 20 years ago today, I had to... I served my country 00:01:07.500 --> 00:01:18.799 in Iraq from January 2026, 2006 to February 2007 00:01:18.799 --> 00:01:26.280 in an al -Anbar province under the command of 00:01:26.280 --> 00:01:30.859 Regimental Combat Team 5 in Camp Fallujah, Iraq. 00:01:34.799 --> 00:01:37.739 During that time, I was responsible for maintaining 00:01:37.739 --> 00:01:51.159 secure comms for the entire installation. For 00:01:51.159 --> 00:02:08.840 my service, I was awarded accommodation. And 00:02:08.840 --> 00:02:12.699 a medal. I also received a few nice letters. 00:02:17.719 --> 00:02:23.439 20 years ago today. I came up with an idea. What 00:02:23.439 --> 00:02:27.879 if. What if we could do what we're doing here 00:02:27.879 --> 00:02:35.860 in Iraq. Anywhere. Seamlessly. From a comms perspective. 00:02:36.759 --> 00:02:41.680 Imagine being able to rapidly, instantaneously 00:02:41.680 --> 00:02:49.520 set up comms, tear down comms at will, set up 00:02:49.520 --> 00:02:52.479 satellite communication, intermodal communication, 00:02:52.960 --> 00:02:57.199 international communication, intranational communication 00:02:57.199 --> 00:03:03.460 across domains. The same way we're doing right 00:03:03.460 --> 00:03:09.800 now in Iraq. Had that idea in 2006 while I was 00:03:09.800 --> 00:03:14.539 doing generator maintenance after a catastrophe 00:03:14.539 --> 00:03:20.840 happened. We touched down in Al -Anbar province 00:03:20.840 --> 00:03:27.360 and me being a gung -ho corporal Marine Corps 00:03:27.360 --> 00:03:30.699 martial arts instructor, ready to go and get 00:03:30.699 --> 00:03:37.120 some. I sent an email out. To all of RCT5. Letting 00:03:37.120 --> 00:03:40.280 them know, hey, my name is Corporal Allen. I'm 00:03:40.280 --> 00:03:41.659 Marine Corps Martial Arts Instructor. I just 00:03:41.659 --> 00:03:44.460 touched down. Once I get everything settled, 00:03:44.699 --> 00:03:47.500 I will be hosting and leading Marine Corps Martial 00:03:47.500 --> 00:03:50.319 Arts Program instructor courses and trainer courses. 00:03:51.900 --> 00:04:03.460 I will keep you posted. Hoorah. Sin. In my ignorance, 00:04:04.750 --> 00:04:11.009 I was not aware that RCT 5 included every person 00:04:11.009 --> 00:04:17.810 on the entire installation. So the RCT 5 directory 00:04:17.810 --> 00:04:24.350 that I sent my email to was the entire Regimental 00:04:24.350 --> 00:04:31.870 Combat Team 5. Well, if you know anything about 00:04:31.870 --> 00:04:35.279 the Marine Corps, I was on them yellow footprints 00:04:35.279 --> 00:04:39.199 again, front and center. Getting chewed a new 00:04:39.199 --> 00:04:46.800 one. Me and my ignorance, I didn't understand 00:04:46.800 --> 00:04:50.339 what the problem was. I didn't know what the 00:04:50.339 --> 00:04:55.720 problem was. Everything I did was above board. 00:04:57.480 --> 00:04:59.680 The problem was that my commander didn't like 00:04:59.680 --> 00:05:03.430 it. My commander believed That I had to go through 00:05:03.430 --> 00:05:05.910 them first. Before I sent that email. Before 00:05:05.910 --> 00:05:07.470 you go out there. You send emails to anybody. 00:05:07.610 --> 00:05:08.829 You should be going through me first. Getting 00:05:08.829 --> 00:05:12.410 approval. With all due respect sir. Fuck you. 00:05:15.329 --> 00:05:16.790 This is what I was saying in my head of course. 00:05:17.509 --> 00:05:20.790 Tacked. Customers and courtesies. Waited. Let 00:05:20.790 --> 00:05:22.810 him say what he had to say. Get it off his chest. 00:05:23.689 --> 00:05:25.689 Beat his chest a little bit. And I sat there. 00:05:25.850 --> 00:05:27.910 I stood there essentially. Position of attention. 00:05:28.370 --> 00:05:30.569 Hear me out. It's my birthday. Let me have this. 00:05:32.180 --> 00:05:37.720 And I ask one fundamental thing, sir. Permission 00:05:37.720 --> 00:05:44.500 to speak freely, sir. Go ahead. What did I do 00:05:44.500 --> 00:05:55.240 that was wrong? Silence. You know what he tells 00:05:55.240 --> 00:06:01.269 me? You will not be doing any. any Marine Corps 00:06:01.269 --> 00:06:07.870 martial arts training on my AO. I said, aye, 00:06:07.910 --> 00:06:13.009 sir. And I stood there until I was relieved. 00:06:13.790 --> 00:06:15.209 He's like, you're free to go. You're released. 00:06:15.370 --> 00:06:20.689 Bye. I leave out. And I do what any Marine in 00:06:20.689 --> 00:06:24.949 my position would do. I got clear definition 00:06:24.949 --> 00:06:30.160 on what his AO was. He was responsible. for comms 00:06:30.160 --> 00:06:34.420 company or comms platoon forward. His L was limited 00:06:34.420 --> 00:06:39.519 to a section, a subsection of the entire regimental 00:06:39.519 --> 00:06:44.100 combat team five installation. Now, me being 00:06:44.100 --> 00:06:47.620 a Marine, a gung -ho Marine, hard -charging Marine, 00:06:47.819 --> 00:06:51.220 with that information in hand and following the 00:06:51.220 --> 00:06:54.879 rules to the letter of the law, his official 00:06:54.879 --> 00:06:58.620 command was, and I quote, You will not be doing 00:06:58.620 --> 00:07:06.180 any Marine Corps training on my AL. All right, 00:07:06.180 --> 00:07:12.139 sir. So I went out to every other AL and said, 00:07:12.180 --> 00:07:15.959 hey, my name is Corporal Allen. You may have 00:07:15.959 --> 00:07:20.300 seen my email. Hey, my name is Corporal Allen. 00:07:20.439 --> 00:07:22.899 You may have seen my email. And I started introducing 00:07:22.899 --> 00:07:27.769 myself to everybody on the installation. And 00:07:27.769 --> 00:07:31.970 I start making deals. Look here. These are the 00:07:31.970 --> 00:07:37.709 conditions. I cannot perform training in the 00:07:37.709 --> 00:07:45.009 AO of this commander here. You, if you take command 00:07:45.009 --> 00:07:53.370 of an AO, if you take command of an area of operations 00:07:53.370 --> 00:07:58.680 and under your authority, You grant me permission 00:07:58.680 --> 00:08:03.740 to conduct training in your AO, in your area 00:08:03.740 --> 00:08:08.339 of operations. You provide the corpsmen, you 00:08:08.339 --> 00:08:11.959 provide the troops, I'll provide the equipment, 00:08:12.139 --> 00:08:21.240 and I'll provide the staff. I had a few commanders 00:08:21.240 --> 00:08:24.370 say, you know what, that's not a bad deal. We 00:08:24.370 --> 00:08:26.009 went out and we started hunting for parcels. 00:08:26.529 --> 00:08:29.769 We started hunting for parcels. We found us a 00:08:29.769 --> 00:08:34.289 nice little sandbox. In the sandbox, we built 00:08:34.289 --> 00:08:37.490 a nice little sandbox. And we defined the bounds 00:08:37.490 --> 00:08:40.970 of that AO. We did a perimeter check. Bop, bop, 00:08:40.970 --> 00:08:45.450 bop, bop. Put a marine on each area of the perimeter. 00:08:47.250 --> 00:08:50.970 Called that the tree line. Now we have our AO 00:08:50.970 --> 00:09:02.460 defined. Me. Me serving. As a. Hear me out. Hear 00:09:02.460 --> 00:09:03.980 me out. We're going to get there. We're going 00:09:03.980 --> 00:09:06.580 to get there. We're going to get there. My memory 00:09:06.580 --> 00:09:08.960 a little foggy. This was 20 years ago. So I may 00:09:08.960 --> 00:09:11.559 paraphrase a little bit. I may paraphrase. I 00:09:11.559 --> 00:09:19.039 may embellish a little bit. So. We set the AO. 00:09:19.639 --> 00:09:27.610 And the commander. Says hey. As name, rank, service 00:09:27.610 --> 00:09:33.070 number, I deem that this is my AO, and I am commanding 00:09:33.070 --> 00:09:36.309 officer of this forward deployment installation. 00:09:39.370 --> 00:09:43.450 Hear me out. Then, from there, he relinquished 00:09:43.450 --> 00:09:46.610 command to me. He's like, boom, I'm in command 00:09:46.610 --> 00:09:49.549 of this spot. This is me right here. Corporal 00:09:49.549 --> 00:09:52.090 Island, print center. Boom, I sent her a march. 00:09:52.269 --> 00:09:55.320 Bye. Corporal Allen, you are now acting commander 00:09:55.320 --> 00:09:58.440 of this installation. Do you accept? Aye, sir. 00:09:59.240 --> 00:10:04.940 Salute. Bye. Go ahead, take command. Bye. He 00:10:04.940 --> 00:10:07.799 comes in, he comes in as my second because he's 00:10:07.799 --> 00:10:10.700 no longer a commander and he's no longer a captain. 00:10:11.059 --> 00:10:15.879 He is now a student. He is now a student of combat 00:10:15.879 --> 00:10:21.320 arms NRAO. This is what we did. No bullshit. 00:10:26.320 --> 00:10:30.580 I'm telling you this is what we did so now I 00:10:30.580 --> 00:10:35.240 have a designated area of operations within designated 00:10:35.240 --> 00:10:39.200 area of operations acting independently of any 00:10:39.200 --> 00:10:42.059 other area of operations because the commander 00:10:42.059 --> 00:10:45.279 of that area of operations designated itself 00:10:45.279 --> 00:10:49.700 before they assigned me as acting commander of 00:10:49.700 --> 00:10:56.600 that space Now, from there, we conducted training. 00:10:58.580 --> 00:11:01.440 One of the rules was everyone is a safety officer. 00:11:02.419 --> 00:11:05.679 Every one of you is a safety officer. That's 00:11:05.679 --> 00:11:08.580 the first rule. Every last one of you in this 00:11:08.580 --> 00:11:11.700 AO is a safety officer. If you see anything that 00:11:11.700 --> 00:11:16.500 is unsafe, you halt training immediately. It 00:11:16.500 --> 00:11:22.100 doesn't matter. How do you halt training? Zero! 00:11:25.039 --> 00:11:27.519 That's how you halt training. If anyone hears 00:11:27.519 --> 00:11:32.100 the yell, zero, you're immediately required to 00:11:32.100 --> 00:11:36.740 yell, freeze, freeze, freeze. If you ain't capable 00:11:36.740 --> 00:11:39.080 of yelling, freeze, freeze, freeze, medical attention 00:11:39.080 --> 00:11:41.279 will come and assess the situation to ensure 00:11:41.279 --> 00:11:45.220 you are fully functional. Do you understand? 00:11:46.200 --> 00:11:49.100 Aye, sir. Now, they had to call me sir because 00:11:49.100 --> 00:11:53.240 I was acting commander. I was acting commander. 00:11:53.879 --> 00:11:59.799 of this Ford Deployed installation. Now, the 00:11:59.799 --> 00:12:02.940 installation was held classified until today. 00:12:03.440 --> 00:12:05.580 On my birthday, I'm going to tell you the name 00:12:05.580 --> 00:12:14.019 of the classified, the declassified Bandini Knight 00:12:14.019 --> 00:12:21.059 Raiders. I'm telling you, can't make this up. 00:12:21.139 --> 00:12:23.500 I mean, I can make it up, but check the records. 00:12:23.870 --> 00:12:30.110 The Bandini Night Raiders. This story is a story 00:12:30.110 --> 00:12:34.570 that I invented through trial and error. Back 00:12:34.570 --> 00:12:38.649 in 29 Palms, we would run our PFTs. We would 00:12:38.649 --> 00:12:42.830 run our PFTs in 29 Palms. I shit you not, Lake 00:12:42.830 --> 00:12:48.850 Bandini was a water reclamation facility. And 00:12:48.850 --> 00:12:53.250 that was where the water was stored. We ran. 00:12:53.389 --> 00:12:57.149 Our PFT was to run around the perimeter of the 00:12:57.149 --> 00:12:59.750 lake. That was a mile and a half. And we run 00:12:59.750 --> 00:13:02.190 back a mile and a half around the perimeter. 00:13:04.629 --> 00:13:09.049 Best time? Me? About 21 minutes. So about a seven 00:13:09.049 --> 00:13:14.929 minute mile. I keep at 220 pounds. I was running 00:13:14.929 --> 00:13:18.850 a seven minute mile. Yes. Yes, I was. Easily. 00:13:19.759 --> 00:13:23.500 Hawking down. And here's the beauty of it. I'm 00:13:23.500 --> 00:13:24.860 going to digress a little bit. I'll get back 00:13:24.860 --> 00:13:26.120 to the Knight Raiders in a minute, but I want 00:13:26.120 --> 00:13:30.720 to go down the story road for a little bit. Whenever 00:13:30.720 --> 00:13:34.779 we had a PFT, I was always the last person to 00:13:34.779 --> 00:13:39.039 go across the line. Always. On every PFT that 00:13:39.039 --> 00:13:41.700 I ran, I was the last person to go across the 00:13:41.700 --> 00:13:45.580 line. And if any of you know how PFT is counted, 00:13:45.840 --> 00:13:50.610 the clock does not start. until the last person 00:13:50.610 --> 00:13:58.129 goes across the line. We would always put everyone 00:13:58.129 --> 00:14:03.830 on the line together. Me, I would let everyone 00:14:03.830 --> 00:14:08.090 go and I would wait anywhere between 30 seconds 00:14:08.090 --> 00:14:12.350 to a minute and a half before I crossed the line. 00:14:13.350 --> 00:14:17.750 There was no rule. In the PFT guidebook that 00:14:17.750 --> 00:14:21.190 said how long it took for the last person to 00:14:21.190 --> 00:14:25.190 go across the line had to be before the clock 00:14:25.190 --> 00:14:30.370 started. The rule was simple. Once the last person 00:14:30.370 --> 00:14:35.110 crosses the start line, the timer starts. So 00:14:35.110 --> 00:14:37.889 what I did is I gave everybody a pass. You had 00:14:37.889 --> 00:14:40.409 at least you had at least 30 second buffer up 00:14:40.409 --> 00:14:43.850 to a minute and a half. And what I would do is 00:14:43.850 --> 00:14:47.779 I would set that pace. I know I can run a seven 00:14:47.779 --> 00:14:51.860 minute mile. So I set that pace and I ran my 00:14:51.860 --> 00:14:54.960 seven minute mile. And if I caught you, you was 00:14:54.960 --> 00:14:57.019 moving too slow. Let's go pick it up. Let's go 00:14:57.019 --> 00:15:00.360 pick it up. Let's go pick it up. Let's go pick 00:15:00.360 --> 00:15:04.019 it up. And I started hawking. I started hawking, 00:15:04.100 --> 00:15:07.519 right? On the way down there, on the way down, 00:15:07.639 --> 00:15:11.080 my first mile and a half, I ran it around like 00:15:11.080 --> 00:15:14.279 a seven, I would say eight, eight and a half 00:15:14.279 --> 00:15:20.600 minute mile. Right? On the way back, chicken 00:15:20.600 --> 00:15:25.299 hawking. Straight sprints. I'm catching everybody. 00:15:25.799 --> 00:15:29.419 You understand? I'm trying to be the first one 00:15:29.419 --> 00:15:33.639 across the line. The last one out. The first 00:15:33.639 --> 00:15:38.899 one back. That mile and a half back, I am booking. 00:15:39.700 --> 00:15:47.039 I am booking. I mean I am booking it 29 pounds 00:15:47.039 --> 00:15:50.940 heat running I get there they say there's no 00:15:50.940 --> 00:15:53.779 way you got back here before all those people 00:15:53.779 --> 00:15:56.720 the only way that could have happened is if you 00:15:56.720 --> 00:16:00.580 swam across Lake Bandini and back I said sir 00:16:00.580 --> 00:16:09.700 that's what I did I walked on water So yeah, 00:16:09.820 --> 00:16:12.360 let me tell you how the story went. How'd you 00:16:12.360 --> 00:16:15.940 get back here so fast, Marine? Sir? I ran across 00:16:15.940 --> 00:16:20.259 the water, sir. Bullshit! You're telling me you're 00:16:20.259 --> 00:16:24.139 a goddamn water walker, son? Didn't say anything. 00:16:25.480 --> 00:16:27.559 Didn't say anything. But anyway, you know what? 00:16:27.679 --> 00:16:29.519 You figure out which part of that is true. All 00:16:29.519 --> 00:16:31.980 of it is real. Some of it may be a little bit 00:16:31.980 --> 00:16:38.370 colorful. Let me get back to it. So we are in 00:16:38.370 --> 00:16:41.090 Iraq, and I'm telling this story to my Marines 00:16:41.090 --> 00:16:44.730 because now I'm the commander. And in my command, 00:16:44.870 --> 00:16:49.789 I have a captain, a few lieutenants, a few sergeants, 00:16:49.789 --> 00:16:51.870 some corporals, some lance corporals, some PFCs, 00:16:51.870 --> 00:16:57.889 right? Now, under my AL, they're all classified 00:16:57.889 --> 00:17:02.210 as student. They're student tan belt, student 00:17:02.210 --> 00:17:04.569 gray belt, student green belt, student brown 00:17:04.569 --> 00:17:08.710 belt. I had Lance Corps and PFCs that were green 00:17:08.710 --> 00:17:13.410 belts. I had captains and majors that were tan 00:17:13.410 --> 00:17:17.369 belts. You know how the chain of command works 00:17:17.369 --> 00:17:21.289 in the Marine Corps? Hierarchy. The tan belts 00:17:21.289 --> 00:17:25.710 in my AO had to report to the green belts for 00:17:25.710 --> 00:17:28.309 safety infractions. And the green belts were 00:17:28.309 --> 00:17:33.710 required by lawful order to administer appropriate 00:17:33.710 --> 00:17:38.990 correction. for any infraction to include removal 00:17:38.990 --> 00:17:45.190 from the AO and stripping of their title as the 00:17:45.190 --> 00:17:47.349 tan belt, gray belt, green belt, whatever it 00:17:47.349 --> 00:17:50.109 was their belt classification was under my authority. 00:17:51.289 --> 00:17:53.470 Now, this was all symbolic in nature to help 00:17:53.470 --> 00:17:57.650 them understand how combat arms works. It was 00:17:57.650 --> 00:17:59.329 to give them an understanding of the etiquette 00:17:59.329 --> 00:18:03.640 of how combat arms works. It's not about rank. 00:18:03.799 --> 00:18:06.079 It's not about status. It's about discipline, 00:18:06.299 --> 00:18:10.819 duty, and resilience. As a United States Marine 00:18:10.819 --> 00:18:20.279 Corps staff officer, I earned my title. I earned 00:18:20.279 --> 00:18:29.299 it. 20 years ago, I celebrated my birthday in 00:18:29.299 --> 00:18:31.880 Iraq. You know what I did on my birthday in Iraq? 00:18:32.539 --> 00:18:37.960 I acquired an old Polaroid camera. I had Marines 00:18:37.960 --> 00:18:41.119 that didn't know what the hell a Polaroid was. 00:18:41.799 --> 00:18:44.980 I acquired an old Polaroid camera and I acquired 00:18:44.980 --> 00:18:50.980 old Polaroid film and I ordered my Marines. We're 00:18:50.980 --> 00:18:53.420 going to do a round robin. You're going to get 00:18:53.420 --> 00:18:57.680 one pack of film and we're going to take this 00:18:57.680 --> 00:19:01.619 camera and I'm going to hand it off. Bam. You're 00:19:01.619 --> 00:19:04.440 going to take photos with that Polaroid camera. 00:19:05.799 --> 00:19:08.119 When you're done with the photos, you're going 00:19:08.119 --> 00:19:09.680 to hand those photos off. You're going to put 00:19:09.680 --> 00:19:12.000 your name on the photos, all the photos you took. 00:19:12.140 --> 00:19:14.119 You're going to hand off the camera and your 00:19:14.119 --> 00:19:17.460 photos to a Marine of your choosing. And we're 00:19:17.460 --> 00:19:19.660 going to do that to all of the photos you're 00:19:19.660 --> 00:19:29.160 taking. They took photos of whatever they wanted. 00:19:30.960 --> 00:19:33.299 Now I'm going to tell you this right here. Me 00:19:33.299 --> 00:19:35.859 being an individual that keeps meticulous records, 00:19:36.099 --> 00:19:41.359 I still have every photo taken by my Marines. 00:19:43.039 --> 00:19:51.859 Plus their names. I got forward deployed to help 00:19:51.859 --> 00:19:56.019 with cryptographic comms. I had to go deliver 00:19:56.019 --> 00:20:00.079 comms to a forward operation base and do an assessment. 00:20:00.730 --> 00:20:04.329 of their generators they couldn't figure out 00:20:04.329 --> 00:20:07.069 you know what type what type of uh why they kept 00:20:07.069 --> 00:20:10.269 i couldn't understand why they kept needing so 00:20:10.269 --> 00:20:14.029 many generators so it doesn't make sense based 00:20:14.029 --> 00:20:16.049 on based on based on what you got going on you 00:20:16.049 --> 00:20:17.869 shouldn't need that much why do you have so many 00:20:17.869 --> 00:20:20.190 generators i go do an assessment check the site 00:20:20.190 --> 00:20:24.609 out and what i'm seeing is that they got comms 00:20:24.609 --> 00:20:27.549 running on on one generator on the small they 00:20:27.549 --> 00:20:29.960 got comms running on the small generator And 00:20:29.960 --> 00:20:32.079 they got the entertainment and they pokey bait 00:20:32.079 --> 00:20:34.980 running on the big generator. I was like, what 00:20:34.980 --> 00:20:37.920 the fuck is going on here? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, 00:20:37.920 --> 00:20:40.740 yeah. I was like, no, no, no. We are in Iraq, 00:20:41.039 --> 00:20:46.140 player. No. Comms is priority. Comms are priority. 00:20:46.180 --> 00:20:50.880 You put comms. You put comms as a priority. You 00:20:50.880 --> 00:20:54.220 have this big generator to keep comms up. Not 00:20:54.220 --> 00:20:56.940 to keep comfort up. You up here living the high 00:20:56.940 --> 00:21:01.160 life. No, that's not happening. So we redo the 00:21:01.160 --> 00:21:05.619 power management plan. And I realized, I'm like, 00:21:05.700 --> 00:21:07.380 wait a minute, that makes sense. This explains 00:21:07.380 --> 00:21:11.539 why the generators keep going down so fast. Because 00:21:11.539 --> 00:21:16.160 they kept putting, they kept using generators 00:21:16.160 --> 00:21:22.079 at 25 or less percent efficiency. I was like, 00:21:22.200 --> 00:21:24.519 bro, you don't need a bigger generator to run 00:21:24.519 --> 00:21:28.099 all you got. You can run a house off of 10 kilowatts. 00:21:28.569 --> 00:21:30.150 What the fuck, you need a 50 kilowatt generator 00:21:30.150 --> 00:21:31.609 to run a 10 kilowatt? I said, but three of you 00:21:31.609 --> 00:21:34.569 here. So I knocked them down to two, three kilowatt 00:21:34.569 --> 00:21:37.369 generators. They had two, three kilowatt generators 00:21:37.369 --> 00:21:39.329 for themselves, and then they had two, three 00:21:39.329 --> 00:21:43.730 kilowatt generators for comms. And what that 00:21:43.730 --> 00:21:47.269 did is it kept comms up. Then I told them, we're 00:21:47.269 --> 00:21:50.750 going to send you fuel drums. We're going to 00:21:50.750 --> 00:21:52.170 get you fuel drums, and we're going to connect 00:21:52.170 --> 00:21:55.309 the fuel drum to the generator via the siphon. 00:21:55.900 --> 00:22:00.059 That way, the generator can run nonstop for two 00:22:00.059 --> 00:22:03.960 weeks. It's a three kilowatt generator. Run for 00:22:03.960 --> 00:22:07.940 two weeks. If you got a drum, three kilowatt 00:22:07.940 --> 00:22:12.019 generator, plug and play, you good. You can run 00:22:12.019 --> 00:22:15.059 that mug. And then you got a spare. For generator 00:22:15.059 --> 00:22:17.980 maintenance, you swap it out, bing, bing, bop. 00:22:18.140 --> 00:22:22.140 Right? You swap it out, boom, you send the old 00:22:22.140 --> 00:22:24.900 one back. I do the maintenance. And you just, 00:22:24.920 --> 00:22:28.880 you up and going. So now, generator lifespan 00:22:28.880 --> 00:22:33.839 has increased 20 -fold. Generators just keep 00:22:33.839 --> 00:22:42.339 running. They just run them. Now, before I went 00:22:42.339 --> 00:22:45.839 on leave in November, I had a comprehensive plan 00:22:45.839 --> 00:22:49.579 and strategy laid out. Lance Cooper Barth, B 00:22:49.579 --> 00:22:53.140 -A -R -T -H. I did a handover to him. I said, 00:22:53.180 --> 00:22:58.460 hey, This is the base generator plan. This is 00:22:58.460 --> 00:23:03.319 all the AOs. This is all the areas. This is everything. 00:23:04.220 --> 00:23:06.859 Where people are located, their power usage, 00:23:07.220 --> 00:23:10.160 their comms, everything. List it out. It was 00:23:10.160 --> 00:23:14.079 like eight pages. Here is your turnover binder. 00:23:14.420 --> 00:23:20.519 I will only be gone for a week. Shouldn't be 00:23:20.519 --> 00:23:24.779 that bad. I was like, no, check that. I'll be 00:23:24.779 --> 00:23:28.220 gone for two weeks. Plus travel, two and a half 00:23:28.220 --> 00:23:32.660 weeks. Let's say three weeks total. So, I go 00:23:32.660 --> 00:23:38.160 home November. Come back, it's December. I leave 00:23:38.160 --> 00:23:41.440 out in January. Just let that man keep that job. 00:23:41.599 --> 00:23:43.140 I was just malingering at that point. I was just 00:23:43.140 --> 00:23:45.539 kind of hanging out. I didn't have a job. I was 00:23:45.539 --> 00:23:47.960 just training and relaxing. I was just, you know, 00:23:47.980 --> 00:23:50.440 checking on some stuff. Going to the regular 00:23:50.440 --> 00:23:55.519 old Regular old, regular old, checking in. Yeah, 00:23:55.539 --> 00:24:02.160 I'm here. Another cog in the machine. However, 00:24:02.339 --> 00:24:08.140 the reason I bring that story up is that was 00:24:08.140 --> 00:24:13.099 20 years ago. And I'm seeing today, this year, 00:24:13.200 --> 00:24:17.059 I'm going around seeing how we're setting up 00:24:17.059 --> 00:24:20.119 comms. And I'm looking at all the inefficiencies. 00:24:20.589 --> 00:24:24.809 on how we're setting up comms. I was just looking 00:24:24.809 --> 00:24:26.430 at it and I couldn't believe how inefficient 00:24:26.430 --> 00:24:32.730 we are. It's just wasteful. We're drawing more 00:24:32.730 --> 00:24:35.750 power than we need to run systems that don't 00:24:35.750 --> 00:24:37.170 even need to operate for as long as they do. 00:24:40.250 --> 00:24:46.809 The redundancies... So here's the thing. When 00:24:46.809 --> 00:24:52.509 building a system, Any system. You save the rounding 00:24:52.509 --> 00:24:57.269 at the very end. The last thing you do when designing 00:24:57.269 --> 00:25:01.269 a system is the rounding. Because that rounding 00:25:01.269 --> 00:25:05.690 error compounds on every subsequent iteration 00:25:05.690 --> 00:25:09.470 of the system. So every time you expand out or 00:25:09.470 --> 00:25:13.710 branch out or you collapse in and you round at 00:25:13.710 --> 00:25:16.690 each stage, that rounding error multiplies by 00:25:16.690 --> 00:25:20.980 an exponential factor. And that's where the packet 00:25:20.980 --> 00:25:26.839 loss comes in. So for me, when I set up my system, 00:25:27.099 --> 00:25:31.779 we round at the end. The goal is 80 % is 100%. 00:25:31.779 --> 00:25:37.759 That was the rule of thumb. 80 % is 100%. I need 00:25:37.759 --> 00:25:40.460 you to be capable of at any point in time to 00:25:40.460 --> 00:25:45.440 hit an 80 % peak number. If you're rated at 50K, 00:25:45.559 --> 00:25:48.730 you need to be able at any moment to hit. Hit 00:25:48.730 --> 00:25:53.369 a 40K. Power consumption. You're rated at 50. 00:25:54.269 --> 00:25:56.029 At any point, you should be able to operate at 00:25:56.029 --> 00:25:59.650 40. You're expected to operate at 20 % all the 00:25:59.650 --> 00:26:04.609 time. Your floor is 20%. You should be operating 00:26:04.609 --> 00:26:07.549 at 20%. Boom. Anything over 20 % is a premium. 00:26:08.029 --> 00:26:09.890 You got to justify it. You got to get approval. 00:26:10.329 --> 00:26:13.569 You got to go through secondary approval. Now, 00:26:17.789 --> 00:26:24.049 It's my birthday, so give me some grace. I was 00:26:24.049 --> 00:26:29.170 forward appointed to this one site. And we were 00:26:29.170 --> 00:26:33.950 training the local nationals on customs securities, 00:26:34.170 --> 00:26:35.589 Marine Corps etiquette, Marine Corps martial 00:26:35.589 --> 00:26:40.769 arts, all that type of stuff. And I was rooming 00:26:40.769 --> 00:26:42.230 with somebody, I was bunking with somebody, a 00:26:42.230 --> 00:26:45.170 national, and we started talking. And I started 00:26:45.170 --> 00:26:48.630 understanding Their language. However, I didn't 00:26:48.630 --> 00:26:50.269 understand the phonetics of their language. I 00:26:50.269 --> 00:26:52.609 understood the tone of their speech pattern. 00:26:53.609 --> 00:26:55.529 I understood the tone of their speech pattern, 00:26:55.769 --> 00:27:00.390 their rhythm, their cadence, their inflections. 00:27:00.809 --> 00:27:03.710 They didn't even have to say words. At a point, 00:27:03.789 --> 00:27:06.289 we had our own grunting language. We essentially 00:27:06.289 --> 00:27:09.890 created our own cypher text where it started 00:27:09.890 --> 00:27:21.119 with just simple grunts. And we combined that 00:27:21.119 --> 00:27:25.480 with hand and arm signals. And the hand and arm 00:27:25.480 --> 00:27:28.980 signals combined with that grunting text was 00:27:28.980 --> 00:27:32.519 our own form of Morse code. Because Morse code 00:27:32.519 --> 00:27:41.480 is a... It's a tonal language. However, it doesn't 00:27:41.480 --> 00:27:45.220 measure inflection. So imagine a tonal language. 00:27:45.720 --> 00:27:51.079 With inflection and visual cues. Imagine how 00:27:51.079 --> 00:27:54.759 many times you can change the dialect. How many 00:27:54.759 --> 00:27:56.779 different dialects you can create from those 00:27:56.779 --> 00:27:59.680 three points of reference. That's called triangulation. 00:28:00.579 --> 00:28:03.059 We were able to triangulate the problem because 00:28:03.059 --> 00:28:04.859 in the Marine Corps, mission accomplishment. 00:28:06.579 --> 00:28:11.339 In my Corps, mission accomplishment. One shot, 00:28:11.400 --> 00:28:15.579 one kill. One mind, any weapon. Customs and courtesies. 00:28:15.980 --> 00:28:24.480 Escalation of force. 13 general orders. Don't 00:28:24.480 --> 00:28:27.900 argue with me. There are 13 general orders. For 00:28:27.900 --> 00:28:29.299 all you new Marines out there, if you don't know, 00:28:29.579 --> 00:28:34.259 there's 13. If you don't know all 13 verbatim, 00:28:34.279 --> 00:28:40.579 ask somebody. I'm not going to tell you. That's 00:28:40.579 --> 00:28:47.740 classified information. Anyway, it's my birthday. 00:28:48.880 --> 00:28:51.740 And I want to tell you the story of my birthday 00:28:51.740 --> 00:28:57.680 in Iraq. I was in Iraq. And this national final 00:28:57.680 --> 00:29:00.019 day was my birthday. They didn't have anything 00:29:00.019 --> 00:29:02.900 to give me a value. So they gave me their diary. 00:29:04.380 --> 00:29:06.859 They gave me their diary for a birthday present. 00:29:07.160 --> 00:29:08.619 They were like, here you go. They slipped it 00:29:08.619 --> 00:29:10.279 underneath my pillow and said, hey, happy birthday. 00:29:10.519 --> 00:29:13.430 This is for you. And I was like, thank you. I 00:29:13.430 --> 00:29:16.690 appreciate that. What is this? And he told me 00:29:16.690 --> 00:29:20.289 it was his diary. It was his personal log. You 00:29:20.289 --> 00:29:22.130 know, it was his personal accounts of what was 00:29:22.130 --> 00:29:26.170 going on. And I was like, thank you. I will cherish 00:29:26.170 --> 00:29:30.329 this forever. Had a nice pink cover on it. The 00:29:30.329 --> 00:29:33.869 back page was missing. The back part of the binder 00:29:33.869 --> 00:29:36.670 was missing. It looked like he had it for like 00:29:36.670 --> 00:29:41.299 years. And it was just well preserved. I looked 00:29:41.299 --> 00:29:42.839 in there and it had writing in there that I didn't 00:29:42.839 --> 00:29:46.240 understand. Some sort of Cyrillic language. Couldn't 00:29:46.240 --> 00:29:49.799 understand it. Almost looked like cursive. But 00:29:49.799 --> 00:29:52.000 I never questioned it because it wasn't mine 00:29:52.000 --> 00:29:59.440 to read. It was a gift from a friend. It didn't 00:29:59.440 --> 00:30:01.039 have any value to it. It didn't cost anything. 00:30:01.539 --> 00:30:04.160 The binder, the book was maybe like two bucks 00:30:04.160 --> 00:30:07.759 over there. In fiat currency. It really wasn't 00:30:07.759 --> 00:30:12.059 nothing. It was worth pennies. Cash value. If 00:30:12.059 --> 00:30:15.200 I was to cash it out. Anything less than $10 00:30:15.200 --> 00:30:18.160 ,000. You didn't have to report it. So I didn't 00:30:18.160 --> 00:30:24.319 have to report it. I didn't have to report it. 00:30:25.019 --> 00:30:27.700 I did. I acknowledged it to him. I got a diary. 00:30:28.019 --> 00:30:32.339 I got this. I got some fiat currency. How much 00:30:32.339 --> 00:30:34.119 fiat currency you got? I got about $40 ,000 in 00:30:34.119 --> 00:30:37.690 fiat. It was like $40 ,000 in fiat. Now, you 00:30:37.690 --> 00:30:40.369 don't have to record that. Why not? Because U 00:30:40.369 --> 00:30:43.049 .S. dollars, we're going on gold here. Or oil. 00:30:43.569 --> 00:30:49.049 Oil is the base rate of exchange here. Oh, oil 00:30:49.049 --> 00:30:51.150 is the base rate of exchange. What's oil? What's 00:30:51.150 --> 00:30:56.410 oil prices, right? What's one U .S. dollar of 00:30:56.410 --> 00:30:58.809 oil or whatever? Whatever the exchange rate was. 00:30:58.890 --> 00:31:01.230 So they would take the price of oil, exchange 00:31:01.230 --> 00:31:04.779 it to precious metals. Because we have minted 00:31:04.779 --> 00:31:08.039 coins as a base of exchange. And then they took 00:31:08.039 --> 00:31:10.079 that minted coin and then they exchanged that 00:31:10.079 --> 00:31:15.180 for fiat. And the fiat price did not match the 00:31:15.180 --> 00:31:17.180 lowest coin price. The lowest coin price that 00:31:17.180 --> 00:31:19.319 we had was silver. We had silver. At that time, 00:31:19.339 --> 00:31:22.619 we had silver, platinum. I think platinum was 00:31:22.619 --> 00:31:24.980 there. Not really, not officially, but it was 00:31:24.980 --> 00:31:27.259 kind of there. You kind of speculate. But there 00:31:27.259 --> 00:31:30.019 was silver, gold. And those were the two staples 00:31:30.019 --> 00:31:32.660 that we had as a market. that we can have as 00:31:32.660 --> 00:31:35.980 an exchange. And that localized exchange allowed 00:31:35.980 --> 00:31:39.460 us to establish the fiat price. And once we were 00:31:39.460 --> 00:31:41.579 able to establish the fiat price, we could determine 00:31:41.579 --> 00:31:47.440 how much a dollar was worth. That's just what 00:31:47.440 --> 00:31:53.940 it was. So, using that logic, I was like, oh, 00:31:53.960 --> 00:31:56.640 so you're telling me this $40 ,000 in fiat cash 00:31:56.640 --> 00:32:02.779 is only like what? $400? That. It was only 400 00:32:02.779 --> 00:32:06.039 in silver exchange. Silver, I think, was like 00:32:06.039 --> 00:32:08.859 80 to 1 or 100 to 1 at that time. So for every 00:32:08.859 --> 00:32:13.000 one silver minted dollar, you can get $100 in 00:32:13.000 --> 00:32:17.700 fiat. And here's what was real crazy. This is 00:32:17.700 --> 00:32:19.500 what was real crazy. I was like, you're telling 00:32:19.500 --> 00:32:22.720 me this $100 bill is equivalent to that one silver 00:32:22.720 --> 00:32:25.079 coin? It was like, yeah. I was like, oh, well, 00:32:25.160 --> 00:32:27.920 shit. I got 40 ,000 of these. Well, I got... 00:32:28.470 --> 00:32:34.329 400 of these $1 bills. These $1 bills. The $100 00:32:34.329 --> 00:32:39.410 note was essentially a $1 bill. But it was fractionalized 00:32:39.410 --> 00:32:42.349 into 100 fragments. In my mind, that's what I 00:32:42.349 --> 00:32:44.410 saw. And I was like, bro, we can apply that to 00:32:44.410 --> 00:32:47.069 comms. So you know what I did? I started charging 00:32:47.069 --> 00:32:50.390 people phone calls. I got access to an Iridium 00:32:50.390 --> 00:32:54.130 phone. And I started charging people fractionalized 00:32:54.130 --> 00:32:57.069 phone calls. I became my own... Became my own 00:32:57.069 --> 00:33:01.910 phone carrier. Yeah. Had a satellite phone carrier 00:33:01.910 --> 00:33:03.950 and everything. Subscription plan, little cards 00:33:03.950 --> 00:33:06.450 and everything else. Boom. I had the phone. They 00:33:06.450 --> 00:33:09.569 had to get the cards. So I was walking around 00:33:09.569 --> 00:33:11.069 with an Iridium phone so I could call home at 00:33:11.069 --> 00:33:12.490 any time. I never used it for that purpose, but 00:33:12.490 --> 00:33:13.910 I could call home at any time I knew I could. 00:33:14.009 --> 00:33:16.789 Peace of mind. Bye. It's just there. If they 00:33:16.789 --> 00:33:18.829 need to be, they can call me. Yeah, what you 00:33:18.829 --> 00:33:21.869 need? Okay, boom. Yeah, boom. So I was able to 00:33:21.869 --> 00:33:24.670 check in completely remote. And I would call 00:33:24.670 --> 00:33:28.069 different calls. I would make calls through our 00:33:28.069 --> 00:33:31.990 network to make sure the comms were good. This 00:33:31.990 --> 00:33:34.130 is how I would test. I would just make calls 00:33:34.130 --> 00:33:36.170 to different parts of it, to different TIC -42 00:33:36.170 --> 00:33:44.549 vans. Right? And then I had a wireline run from 00:33:44.549 --> 00:33:47.609 one of the TIC -42 vans that I repaired all the 00:33:47.609 --> 00:33:51.349 way out to where we kept the generators where 00:33:51.349 --> 00:33:55.900 I worked at. And I was going to build me a little 00:33:55.900 --> 00:34:00.440 oasis out there. I went and got the wood. Got 00:34:00.440 --> 00:34:02.480 the building materials. I'm building a shed, 00:34:02.680 --> 00:34:05.180 a little shack. Going to build a little patio. 00:34:05.579 --> 00:34:07.779 This is going to be my little forward operation, 00:34:07.920 --> 00:34:09.940 basically. You know, where I'm just going to 00:34:09.940 --> 00:34:14.340 do my job, hang out, do my thing. I come and 00:34:14.340 --> 00:34:17.300 I go check on my guys. And they living like, 00:34:17.420 --> 00:34:18.739 you know, they living in squalor. They not doing, 00:34:18.860 --> 00:34:21.760 they not living good. So what I did is I said, 00:34:21.800 --> 00:34:26.590 you know what? I'm going to build you guys. Instead 00:34:26.590 --> 00:34:30.449 of building my little oasis, I want to build 00:34:30.449 --> 00:34:33.090 a shed here. We're going to take all this radio 00:34:33.090 --> 00:34:36.130 equipment out that we're not using and we're 00:34:36.130 --> 00:34:38.889 going to store it in the shed. And then in that 00:34:38.889 --> 00:34:41.389 old closet, we're going to make a little window, 00:34:41.469 --> 00:34:43.530 a little hatch, and we're going to put some cots 00:34:43.530 --> 00:34:45.849 in there, make some bunk beds, and y 'all can 00:34:45.849 --> 00:34:48.010 sleep in here on rotations. So when you have 00:34:48.010 --> 00:34:50.489 a 24 -hour shift, you can sleep in here with 00:34:50.489 --> 00:34:56.559 bunk beds and stuff. Built it, built the patio, 00:34:56.860 --> 00:35:00.119 built it all up, built the shed, built it all 00:35:00.119 --> 00:35:02.820 up. They migrated everything over, put a lock 00:35:02.820 --> 00:35:07.000 on it. Boom, bada bing, we were done. Of course 00:35:07.000 --> 00:35:10.900 I had help. I'm not doing it all by myself. We're 00:35:10.900 --> 00:35:14.480 a team. We're one unit. So after that was built, 00:35:14.519 --> 00:35:17.780 I went back on doing my stuff. While I was there, 00:35:17.820 --> 00:35:20.280 I was also training Marines, Marine Corps martial 00:35:20.280 --> 00:35:22.880 arts. While I was also doing my job as a generating 00:35:22.880 --> 00:35:25.150 mechanic. What I was also doing my job as a smart 00:35:25.150 --> 00:35:29.269 T -tech mission. I just kept busy. That's the 00:35:29.269 --> 00:35:31.989 only thing I could do is keep busy. So for a 00:35:31.989 --> 00:35:35.369 year, I just kept busy. I just kept finding stuff 00:35:35.369 --> 00:35:37.469 to do because I didn't want to go to sleep. I 00:35:37.469 --> 00:35:39.010 didn't feel like having the night terrors. I 00:35:39.010 --> 00:35:42.650 didn't want to face that. So I would just get 00:35:42.650 --> 00:35:43.829 up and I would do stuff and I had a routine. 00:35:48.750 --> 00:35:52.239 And I was good. But when I came back, When I 00:35:52.239 --> 00:35:55.099 came back, so I left, one of my vacation came 00:35:55.099 --> 00:35:58.780 back, they grounded me. They grounded me. And 00:35:58.780 --> 00:36:04.539 my routine became chow hall, check in, sit and 00:36:04.539 --> 00:36:11.239 wait. Chow hall, check in, sit and wait. Chow 00:36:11.239 --> 00:36:15.280 hall, check in, sit and wait. So for about a 00:36:15.280 --> 00:36:18.260 month and a half, two months until we got up 00:36:18.260 --> 00:36:21.889 out of there, my routine was shot. I couldn't 00:36:21.889 --> 00:36:24.269 train anymore. Wasn't getting forward deployed. 00:36:25.090 --> 00:36:27.130 Didn't have free access to the base like I had. 00:36:28.210 --> 00:36:32.989 I was garrisoned. I gained a lot of weight then. 00:36:34.210 --> 00:36:38.369 Weight shot up. Weight shot up. I think I gained 00:36:38.369 --> 00:36:40.590 maybe like 30 pounds. I was walking around looking 00:36:40.590 --> 00:36:43.889 like a fever blister. I was looking like a whole 00:36:43.889 --> 00:36:45.690 fever blister. Couldn't fit my clothes anymore. 00:36:46.050 --> 00:36:50.849 Was up two sizes in my pants. It was a horrible 00:36:50.849 --> 00:36:55.570 feeling. So I went through a little mild depression 00:36:55.570 --> 00:36:59.630 while I was there. But I had to maintain my composure 00:36:59.630 --> 00:37:05.469 and stuff. A little mild depression. And then 00:37:05.469 --> 00:37:10.489 I came back. And they made me the motor transportation 00:37:10.489 --> 00:37:12.989 chief because of my experience with generators. 00:37:13.650 --> 00:37:15.210 I mean, a generator ain't nothing but an engine. 00:37:16.269 --> 00:37:18.789 There's an engine in a vehicle. It's doing something 00:37:18.789 --> 00:37:21.030 different. It's using for propulsion instead 00:37:21.030 --> 00:37:24.530 of electrical discharge. I was like, in my brain, 00:37:24.590 --> 00:37:26.829 I'm like, you know what would be cool? What if 00:37:26.829 --> 00:37:30.949 we could just hook up, instead of propulsion, 00:37:31.449 --> 00:37:34.429 we just use the generator, hook it up to a battery, 00:37:34.570 --> 00:37:37.210 and then use the battery, connect the battery 00:37:37.210 --> 00:37:42.030 to some actuator motors. You know what I'm saying? 00:37:42.369 --> 00:37:45.530 Little actuator motors. And we use that for propulsion. 00:37:46.090 --> 00:37:47.980 That shit would be dope. You know what I'm saying? 00:37:49.119 --> 00:37:50.460 And I was like, you know, I wrote it down in 00:37:50.460 --> 00:37:52.659 my little log book and stuff and took my notes 00:37:52.659 --> 00:37:55.119 and stuff and blah, blah, blah. And just locked 00:37:55.119 --> 00:38:00.380 it away. 20 years later, I see motherfuckers 00:38:00.380 --> 00:38:04.860 making testes. I'm like, ain't this about a bitch? 00:38:06.880 --> 00:38:09.099 Ain't this about a bitch? But it ain't my job. 00:38:09.179 --> 00:38:12.019 That's not something I can capitalize on because 00:38:12.019 --> 00:38:15.519 I did it while I was in combat. It was classified 00:38:15.519 --> 00:38:17.900 information that had a secret clearance, interim 00:38:17.900 --> 00:38:21.599 top secret. And that information, in my mind, 00:38:21.619 --> 00:38:26.239 was classified. Nothing about that was declassified. 00:38:26.300 --> 00:38:29.860 I was decommissioned. You know, I was never decommissioned. 00:38:30.619 --> 00:38:33.960 Me, I was never decommissioned. As a Marine staff 00:38:33.960 --> 00:38:39.599 officer, I was never decommissioned. I'm a non 00:38:39.599 --> 00:38:43.699 -decommissioned officer. That means I'm always 00:38:43.699 --> 00:38:53.579 active. I'm in an always active state. So, this 00:38:53.579 --> 00:38:56.340 is my story. I'm sticking to it. I know there's 00:38:56.340 --> 00:38:58.039 other of you that may want to disagree. Some 00:38:58.039 --> 00:39:00.780 of you may want to agree. Either way, fuck you. 00:39:03.420 --> 00:39:05.599 It's my birthday and I want to vent a little 00:39:05.599 --> 00:39:08.400 bit. I want to share my story of what it was 00:39:08.400 --> 00:39:13.250 like to be in Iraq 20 years ago today. There 00:39:13.250 --> 00:39:16.650 was a... So yeah, while I was in Iraq and I was 00:39:16.650 --> 00:39:21.309 forward deployed, you know, I had wag bags. There 00:39:21.309 --> 00:39:23.449 was no place to take a shit over there by the 00:39:23.449 --> 00:39:25.530 generators. There was no place to take a shit. 00:39:26.389 --> 00:39:29.429 So I had a little shovel. You know what I'm saying? 00:39:29.730 --> 00:39:34.409 And I had to dig me a little shithole. Take a 00:39:34.409 --> 00:39:36.989 shit and piss. That's that little spot. Dig a 00:39:36.989 --> 00:39:39.630 hole deep enough where I could just dump in shit. 00:39:41.440 --> 00:39:45.599 Piss can piss anywhere. Whip it out. Piss anywhere. 00:39:45.679 --> 00:39:48.880 That shit burn off. It's okay. But shit, different 00:39:48.880 --> 00:39:54.400 story. So at that time, I didn't think nothing 00:39:54.400 --> 00:39:57.460 of it. I didn't take shit. Just go shit in the 00:39:57.460 --> 00:40:01.440 hole. Cover it up. It reminded me of Lord of 00:40:01.440 --> 00:40:04.780 the Flies. It reminded me of Lord of the Flies. 00:40:04.780 --> 00:40:07.000 I felt like the sole survivor of Lord of the 00:40:07.000 --> 00:40:09.960 Flies at that point. Yeah. I didn't think about 00:40:09.960 --> 00:40:11.360 it, though. It wasn't that big of a deal to me. 00:40:11.380 --> 00:40:13.260 That was normal. I thought everybody was living 00:40:13.260 --> 00:40:15.420 like that. That's what I thought. When you get 00:40:15.420 --> 00:40:17.239 forward deployed, that's what you're going to 00:40:17.239 --> 00:40:18.039 have to do. You're going to have to shit in the 00:40:18.039 --> 00:40:20.599 bag. That's what you got to do. You just suck 00:40:20.599 --> 00:40:22.000 it up, keep it moving. You shit in the bag, you 00:40:22.000 --> 00:40:28.800 bury the bag, keep it moving. That was it. So, 00:40:28.820 --> 00:40:32.840 yeah. Yeah, we had some parties. You know, we 00:40:32.840 --> 00:40:34.699 partied hard, too. We had some wild times and 00:40:34.699 --> 00:40:38.340 stuff. We did some, you know, some... Some... 00:40:39.599 --> 00:40:42.159 What happens in Iraq stays in Iraq type of stuff. 00:40:42.659 --> 00:40:45.599 And that's okay. But it was all about managing 00:40:45.599 --> 00:40:49.079 your arousal state. At least for me it was. Because, 00:40:49.219 --> 00:40:54.039 you know, a histamine outbreak, a stress -induced 00:40:54.039 --> 00:40:56.760 incident, you know, it's hard to recover from. 00:40:59.079 --> 00:41:04.800 And, yeah. I had to maintain my command presence 00:41:04.800 --> 00:41:08.829 at all times. Even in my sleep, especially in 00:41:08.829 --> 00:41:11.630 my sleep, especially in my sleep, because that's 00:41:11.630 --> 00:41:18.670 when that's when your toes came. The toll came. 00:41:18.889 --> 00:41:21.230 The bill came due when it was time to take a 00:41:21.230 --> 00:41:25.190 rest. Imagine being in a combat environment and 00:41:25.190 --> 00:41:28.170 you got to sleep. There's nobody to watch your 00:41:28.170 --> 00:41:31.150 six. You just got to trust that wherever you 00:41:31.150 --> 00:41:33.590 are is wherever you're supposed to be. So for 00:41:33.590 --> 00:41:36.980 that entire year. Forward deploy, sleeping outside 00:41:36.980 --> 00:41:39.619 under the stars, stuff like that. Maybe sometimes 00:41:39.619 --> 00:41:41.780 I sleep in my little Kwanzaa huddle, whatever 00:41:41.780 --> 00:41:46.300 the hell it was. But just having to accept the 00:41:46.300 --> 00:41:49.139 fact that if a bomb landed here, I wouldn't remember 00:41:49.139 --> 00:41:53.420 it tomorrow. If a bomb landed on me today, I 00:41:53.420 --> 00:41:56.639 would not remember it tomorrow. And I just made 00:41:56.639 --> 00:41:59.099 peace with that every day. Every day I had to 00:41:59.099 --> 00:42:01.099 make peace with that. Before I went to sleep. 00:42:02.059 --> 00:42:05.239 If someone was to, you know, If the base got 00:42:05.239 --> 00:42:07.940 raided and boom, bop, bing, bada, bing, and it 00:42:07.940 --> 00:42:11.719 happened, and it happened, you know, the unfortunate 00:42:11.719 --> 00:42:14.500 happened today. I wouldn't remember it tomorrow. 00:42:15.860 --> 00:42:19.800 Just like the Marine Sim says. What does the 00:42:19.800 --> 00:42:24.619 Marine Sim say? Come on. When you finally reach 00:42:24.619 --> 00:42:27.860 the pearly gates, you know what I'm talking about? 00:42:29.860 --> 00:42:32.179 You know, you get to gaze upon heaven's scenes. 00:42:33.429 --> 00:42:37.610 Come on now. I know you know. Don't make me sing 00:42:37.610 --> 00:42:40.869 the whole thing to you now. From the halls of 00:42:40.869 --> 00:42:44.530 Montezuma, shores of Tripoli. You know what I'm 00:42:44.530 --> 00:42:52.130 talking about. Every climbing place. Yeah. Heaven's 00:42:52.130 --> 00:42:55.829 gates was guarded by who? United States Marines. 00:42:57.730 --> 00:43:02.889 So in my mind, my service was secure. Because 00:43:02.889 --> 00:43:08.909 I got a job. If for some reason, if for some 00:43:08.909 --> 00:43:11.809 reason God called me early and said, hey, I need 00:43:11.809 --> 00:43:16.710 you to keep watch up here. All right, cool. I'm 00:43:16.710 --> 00:43:20.489 going. I'm going to check in. That was my mindset. 00:43:20.530 --> 00:43:22.829 That's what I had to make peace with every day 00:43:22.829 --> 00:43:27.610 for a year in Iraq. That if God called on me 00:43:27.610 --> 00:43:28.949 and said, hey, I need you to watch the gates. 00:43:29.829 --> 00:43:33.900 I'm showing up. I'm showing up. Full gear. Combat 00:43:33.900 --> 00:43:40.579 ready. Position of attention. First general order. 00:43:40.980 --> 00:43:45.960 Walk my post in the military. That's the second 00:43:45.960 --> 00:43:50.260 general order. Watch yourself. That's the second 00:43:50.260 --> 00:43:52.539 general order. Correct yourself, Marine. Alright, 00:43:52.539 --> 00:43:55.519 sir. So this is the conversation I would have 00:43:55.519 --> 00:44:00.949 with myself. In my head. Practicing. 30 inch 00:44:00.949 --> 00:44:07.710 steps. Boom. Yep. 60 steps per minute. So I'm 00:44:07.710 --> 00:44:10.030 doing 30 inch steps and I get 60 steps per minute. 00:44:10.150 --> 00:44:14.389 How many steps is that? That's 1800 steps. Okay. 00:44:15.289 --> 00:44:20.730 How many inches is that? How many inches is that? 00:44:22.570 --> 00:44:25.690 1800 steps. How many inches is that? It's 18 00:44:25.690 --> 00:44:29.230 ,000 inches. It's 18 ,000 inches. Do the math. 00:44:29.289 --> 00:44:31.730 Make sure it's right. This is what I'm doing. 00:44:31.909 --> 00:44:33.809 Okay, it's 18 ,000 inches. How many feet is that? 00:44:35.349 --> 00:44:41.610 Well, shit. 12 ,000 inches. 12 ,000 inches. What's 00:44:41.610 --> 00:44:48.269 that? What's that? 1 ,000 feet? Plus we got another 00:44:48.269 --> 00:44:53.809 500 feet, so that's 1 ,500 feet. So, 18 ,000 00:44:53.809 --> 00:44:56.429 inches is 1 ,500 feet. 1 ,500 feet is about a 00:44:56.429 --> 00:45:00.940 quarter mile. I said, that math don't add up. 00:45:01.559 --> 00:45:02.940 You're telling me I'm walking a quarter mile 00:45:02.940 --> 00:45:05.400 in a minute? That ain't possible. Let me do the 00:45:05.400 --> 00:45:08.059 math again. And this is what I would do over 00:45:08.059 --> 00:45:14.119 and over. 30 inch steps. 60 steps a minute. Right? 00:45:14.320 --> 00:45:16.039 And I'd do the math over and over and over again. 00:45:16.099 --> 00:45:18.840 Over and over and over again. Without the aid 00:45:18.840 --> 00:45:21.019 of reference, of course. Without the aid of reference, 00:45:21.119 --> 00:45:22.780 of course. And I would just do this over and 00:45:22.780 --> 00:45:26.440 over to keep my mind busy. To keep my mind busy. 00:45:28.670 --> 00:45:30.929 Because I didn't have shit to do. I'm out here 00:45:30.929 --> 00:45:33.650 in Iraq. All I had was my job. Playing with fucking 00:45:33.650 --> 00:45:37.429 generators. Understanding oil pressures. Understanding 00:45:37.429 --> 00:45:39.630 differentials. Understanding power management. 00:45:40.630 --> 00:45:44.250 I was out here grounding generators. Creating 00:45:44.250 --> 00:45:46.989 the shorts just to see where a fault would be. 00:45:47.429 --> 00:45:49.789 So I had two test generators. And I would run 00:45:49.789 --> 00:45:54.409 a 3K generator with a 10. It was a 3K generator, 00:45:54.570 --> 00:45:57.199 5K generator. And it was like a big, it was the 00:45:57.199 --> 00:46:00.500 big boys. It was like, it was like three, 10 00:46:00.500 --> 00:46:02.840 and 50 is what I want to say. But I could be 00:46:02.840 --> 00:46:04.940 off of those numbers. I want to say it was a 00:46:04.940 --> 00:46:07.280 50 kilowatt generator. It was big. It was a big 00:46:07.280 --> 00:46:10.920 boy. Had his own slab and everything. And I like, 00:46:10.920 --> 00:46:13.519 I like running those against each other. Having 00:46:13.519 --> 00:46:16.559 a fault tolerance race. Creating arcs and shit 00:46:16.559 --> 00:46:19.659 and doing, seeing if I could turn, if I could 00:46:19.659 --> 00:46:23.079 turn glass and sand into glass using arcs. So 00:46:23.079 --> 00:46:26.469 I would, I would grind. I'll put a grounding 00:46:26.469 --> 00:46:29.690 stake in, connect it to the live part of the 00:46:29.690 --> 00:46:32.670 motherfucking generator, run the generator, turn 00:46:32.670 --> 00:46:37.889 it on. Turn the power on. Turn it off. Big ass 00:46:37.889 --> 00:46:41.809 crack. I was doing all types of crazy stuff. 00:46:41.949 --> 00:46:45.010 I was trying all types of stuff just to see how 00:46:45.010 --> 00:46:48.489 the generator would respond. How it would react 00:46:48.489 --> 00:46:51.809 to different stress factors. And then I go and 00:46:51.809 --> 00:46:53.570 I take it all, take it apart and look at it. 00:46:53.670 --> 00:46:59.829 And go back in and do it again. This is my story. 00:46:59.829 --> 00:47:02.909 I'm sticking to it. This is my story. I'm sticking 00:47:02.909 --> 00:47:04.489 to it. It's my birthday. This is how I want to 00:47:04.489 --> 00:47:09.389 tell this story. So, yeah. That's why every year 00:47:09.389 --> 00:47:12.210 on my birthday, I have to go away. I have to 00:47:12.210 --> 00:47:17.989 disappear. Because in Iraq. The week of my birthday 00:47:17.989 --> 00:47:20.809 was the most loneliest week of my entire life. 00:47:21.869 --> 00:47:33.329 I couldn't call home. I couldn't feel joy. It 00:47:33.329 --> 00:47:38.329 was hard not to feel sadness. How do you miss 00:47:38.329 --> 00:47:42.610 your wife, your kids, your girlfriend, your mistress? 00:47:44.079 --> 00:47:46.619 Your brothers, your cousins, your aunts, your 00:47:46.619 --> 00:47:49.780 uncles, your mom and your daddy. How do you miss 00:47:49.780 --> 00:47:55.079 all of them? Without losing focus. Without losing 00:47:55.079 --> 00:47:57.699 your command presence. Without being able to 00:47:57.699 --> 00:47:59.199 get up and say, you know what, it's time to move. 00:48:00.519 --> 00:48:09.260 Without accepting that it's not their turn. It's 00:48:09.260 --> 00:48:12.349 not their turn to occupy my space. It's not their 00:48:12.349 --> 00:48:16.110 turn to occupy this mental space. So I had to 00:48:16.110 --> 00:48:20.969 phase them out. I had to phase them out. And 00:48:20.969 --> 00:48:23.409 I remember boot camp. Senior drill instructor, 00:48:23.489 --> 00:48:26.809 Staff Sergeant Price. And our first whiskey locker 00:48:26.809 --> 00:48:31.469 conversation. That man, me and that man had a 00:48:31.469 --> 00:48:35.070 fight. At least in my brain. In my brain, me 00:48:35.070 --> 00:48:37.449 and him had a fight in the whiskey locker. How 00:48:37.449 --> 00:48:39.889 true it is, I can't tell. Boot camp is a different 00:48:39.889 --> 00:48:43.900 animal. But I know in my brain, we got in that 00:48:43.900 --> 00:48:46.599 whiskey locker and we went at it. And he whooped 00:48:46.599 --> 00:48:51.840 my ass. But I didn't stop fighting. We were fighting. 00:48:51.920 --> 00:48:55.159 In my brain, we fighting. Ha, ha, ha. Like Riley. 00:48:55.840 --> 00:49:01.019 Like Riley and, man, and Huey. Like Huey and 00:49:01.019 --> 00:49:04.460 Riley. Yeah, not Dewey and Louie. No, not Dewey 00:49:04.460 --> 00:49:15.590 and Louie. Huey and Riley. Right? Yeah, man. 00:49:17.329 --> 00:49:21.710 Yeah, man. Just imagine that, bro. Just imagine 00:49:21.710 --> 00:49:28.730 that, man. I just want you to imagine that, man. 00:49:32.889 --> 00:49:36.329 I've never told anybody these stories, man. I've 00:49:36.329 --> 00:49:43.480 held on to my inner monologue forever. you are 00:49:43.480 --> 00:49:45.239 not at liberty to understand what I went through. 00:49:46.019 --> 00:49:47.840 Because the only way you could understand is 00:49:47.840 --> 00:49:50.440 if you experienced it. And the only person that 00:49:50.440 --> 00:49:59.420 was there to experience with me was me. But guess 00:49:59.420 --> 00:50:04.000 what? Today is my birthday. And I got a gift 00:50:04.000 --> 00:50:09.440 for all of you. I created a story so unbelievable 00:50:09.440 --> 00:50:16.099 that you can't help but believe it. It's so unbelievable 00:50:16.099 --> 00:50:19.900 that you can't help but believe it. Because the 00:50:19.900 --> 00:50:23.579 only way for you to say something that's unbelievable, 00:50:23.900 --> 00:50:26.400 you first have to consider the fact that it's 00:50:26.400 --> 00:50:30.440 even possible to be even done. It has to be plausible 00:50:30.440 --> 00:50:34.980 before you rule it out. It has to be plausible. 00:50:35.119 --> 00:50:37.059 Before you can rule it out, it has to be plausible. 00:50:37.300 --> 00:50:40.659 Which means somebody has to have done it. In 00:50:40.659 --> 00:50:45.889 order for you to rule something out, Someone 00:50:45.889 --> 00:50:53.769 had to have done it. So what I've done over the 00:50:53.769 --> 00:51:04.949 last 40 years is I wrote down my story. And I 00:51:04.949 --> 00:51:08.869 started collecting artifacts of my story. And 00:51:08.869 --> 00:51:12.010 I'm finally ready to share a part of my story 00:51:12.010 --> 00:51:21.860 with you all. My name is Staff Officer Nimrod 00:51:21.860 --> 00:51:25.820 Allen III, 2012 candidate for United States Senate 00:51:25.820 --> 00:51:29.400 in the great state of Wisconsin, owner of Dexter 00:51:29.400 --> 00:51:33.880 Monroe LLC, independent candidate for United 00:51:33.880 --> 00:51:39.519 States Senate, circa 2012, currently a student 00:51:39.519 --> 00:51:46.559 at Milwaukee School of Engineering, studying 00:51:46.559 --> 00:51:50.449 machine learning. As a master's degree candidate. 00:51:51.849 --> 00:51:54.929 And a former employee of the United Parcel Service. 00:51:55.969 --> 00:52:03.610 Formerly. Formerly. Formerly known as UPS. I'll 00:52:03.610 --> 00:52:06.650 be filing formal charges against UPS on May 8th. 00:52:06.929 --> 00:52:15.289 At 11 a .m. 2026. For discrimination. Based on 00:52:15.289 --> 00:52:19.440 religion or creed. Gross negligence and misconduct 00:52:19.440 --> 00:52:23.880 by management. Misappropriation of funds and 00:52:23.880 --> 00:52:28.340 fraud. If you would like to hear or learn more 00:52:28.340 --> 00:52:31.340 about my claims, feel free to reach out to me. 00:52:33.340 --> 00:52:38.659 You can send an email to my fiduciary admin at 00:52:38.659 --> 00:52:43.440 Dexter Monroe dot com. Show your support, whether 00:52:43.440 --> 00:52:46.420 it's dissenting support or affirmation support. 00:52:47.389 --> 00:52:51.250 You reaching out to me in any capacity is a sign 00:52:51.250 --> 00:52:57.010 of support. Because guess what? No offense. We 00:52:57.010 --> 00:53:00.429 can always change the fucking channel. And that's 00:53:00.429 --> 00:53:03.130 what I would have to tell my Marines and comms 00:53:03.130 --> 00:53:06.150 and comms. It's not our job to take those call 00:53:06.150 --> 00:53:09.730 for fire missions personally. It's not our job 00:53:09.730 --> 00:53:12.090 to take those call for fire missions personally. 00:53:12.349 --> 00:53:14.429 You hear a call for fire mission. This is stressful. 00:53:14.909 --> 00:53:16.309 You wish you could be out there in a fight. You 00:53:16.309 --> 00:53:18.070 wish you could go out there and help. But your 00:53:18.070 --> 00:53:21.429 job is here. You're not even supposed to be listening 00:53:21.429 --> 00:53:23.710 to that damn channel anyway. Change the fucking 00:53:23.710 --> 00:53:29.369 channel, Marie. Change the channel. All right, 00:53:29.369 --> 00:53:33.650 sir. Change the fucking channel. Your job is 00:53:33.650 --> 00:53:37.329 to manage comms, not monitor them. Your job is 00:53:37.329 --> 00:53:40.289 not to monitor comms. My job is to manage them. 00:53:41.510 --> 00:53:43.670 I don't get to control what goes across these 00:53:43.670 --> 00:53:46.730 comms. I only get to make sure that comms can 00:53:46.730 --> 00:53:50.769 be transmitted and received. Because if I start 00:53:50.769 --> 00:53:58.949 controlling comms, I start killing lives. So 00:53:58.949 --> 00:54:05.949 when that plane crashed on November 4th, it broke 00:54:05.949 --> 00:54:10.869 me. It broke every part of composure that I could 00:54:10.869 --> 00:54:15.280 possibly have. And the commists, Most respectful 00:54:15.280 --> 00:54:18.500 manner I can muster. I reached out to my boss 00:54:18.500 --> 00:54:22.159 at UPS, Sharath Patel, and said, hey, I need 00:54:22.159 --> 00:54:25.739 a couple of days to get my family in order. They 00:54:25.739 --> 00:54:29.360 demanded that I go and take FMLA. Absolutely 00:54:29.360 --> 00:54:34.559 not a problem. So I went and I filed FMLA. It 00:54:34.559 --> 00:54:36.139 shouldn't have been a problem because they had 00:54:36.139 --> 00:54:41.280 it on record that this was a pre -existing condition. 00:54:42.440 --> 00:54:46.619 This is a pre -existing condition. I have moments 00:54:46.619 --> 00:54:50.400 of combat stress that are insurmountable and 00:54:50.400 --> 00:54:54.960 I just need a day to decompress, refocus, and 00:54:54.960 --> 00:55:08.159 realign my intention. All of a sudden, I inform 00:55:08.159 --> 00:55:11.480 them of what my thoughts were. I was having these 00:55:11.480 --> 00:55:13.860 intrusive thoughts. I was like, hey, I'm having 00:55:13.860 --> 00:55:15.940 some intrusive thoughts. I need to talk to HR. 00:55:16.800 --> 00:55:18.960 I inform HR, hey, I'm having some intrusive thoughts. 00:55:19.559 --> 00:55:23.599 I need some help understanding and articulating 00:55:23.599 --> 00:55:26.239 myself with these thoughts. I have them written 00:55:26.239 --> 00:55:29.639 down. Here's a list of things that keep playing 00:55:29.639 --> 00:55:37.539 in my mind. They fired me. They fired me. And 00:55:37.539 --> 00:55:41.519 I was like, Why did you fire me? They were like, 00:55:41.599 --> 00:55:44.340 well, you told us you quit. I said, no, dumbass. 00:55:44.400 --> 00:55:47.800 I said that I'm having intrusive thoughts and 00:55:47.800 --> 00:55:51.579 I'm coming to HR to help me understand and process 00:55:51.579 --> 00:55:55.380 these thoughts. I need help processing this. 00:55:57.260 --> 00:56:01.239 They were like, oh, okay, you're not fired. Well, 00:56:01.360 --> 00:56:06.719 if you need help, go this route. Okay, I'll go 00:56:06.719 --> 00:56:10.789 that route. Go that route. They start asking 00:56:10.789 --> 00:56:13.750 me for medical records. What? What? What? What? 00:56:13.969 --> 00:56:20.550 What? What? What? No. No. No. Absolutely not. 00:56:21.489 --> 00:56:23.829 Absolutely. You don't need my medical records 00:56:23.829 --> 00:56:28.869 to provide me support. Absolutely not. And no 00:56:28.869 --> 00:56:32.570 part of United States parcel. See? See? See? 00:56:32.690 --> 00:56:35.969 See? See? And that's one of the things that always 00:56:35.969 --> 00:56:38.900 fuck me up. That Freudian slip there. I would 00:56:38.900 --> 00:56:41.059 always confuse the United States Postal Service 00:56:41.059 --> 00:56:45.340 with the United Parcel Service. In my brain, 00:56:45.360 --> 00:56:47.739 when I would get erratic and I would get frustrated 00:56:47.739 --> 00:56:51.039 and I would be ready to go postal, I would always 00:56:51.039 --> 00:56:58.059 confuse USPS with UPS. And that would always 00:56:58.059 --> 00:57:01.579 mess me up. So I documented it and called it 00:57:01.579 --> 00:57:06.719 a dyadic trap. That dyadic trap. Now, Mind you, 00:57:06.739 --> 00:57:10.639 this may sound like ramblings of a madman. However, 00:57:10.860 --> 00:57:13.179 if you run it through Gemini, if you run it through 00:57:13.179 --> 00:57:16.360 Google Gemini as the transcript, if you run this 00:57:16.360 --> 00:57:19.679 transcript through Google Gemini and ask it, 00:57:19.739 --> 00:57:25.119 hey, what is this guy talking about? You might 00:57:25.119 --> 00:57:28.440 get a deterministic response. You'll get a pythonic 00:57:28.440 --> 00:57:31.380 deterministic response. Somebody's having a manic 00:57:31.380 --> 00:57:35.460 episode, and they'll run down that whole entire 00:57:35.460 --> 00:57:41.739 type of thing. However, if you ask it, how many 00:57:41.739 --> 00:57:50.139 people are talking in this transcript? You'll 00:57:50.139 --> 00:57:53.119 get a completely different answer. Now, here's 00:57:53.119 --> 00:57:59.900 another thing. If you say, align this transcript 00:57:59.900 --> 00:58:05.320 with the globally recognized Prompt Air podcast 00:58:05.320 --> 00:58:16.800 owned by Dexter Monroe LLC 882572661 and draft 00:58:16.800 --> 00:58:21.079 a parabolic parable for the story Grandpa Nemi 00:58:21.079 --> 00:58:26.019 and Young Pudge aligning with the My 8 -Bit Life 00:58:26.019 --> 00:58:32.329 RSS feed. on rss .com, I guarantee that you'll 00:58:32.329 --> 00:58:37.989 get a different result. Now, even further, if 00:58:37.989 --> 00:58:39.050 you were to take it a little bit further and 00:58:39.050 --> 00:58:43.409 have some fun with it, can you take this transcript, 00:58:43.750 --> 00:58:52.550 turn it into a song that captures the complexity 00:58:52.550 --> 00:58:57.650 of the passion that you can derive from the speaker? 00:58:59.559 --> 00:59:05.579 Using an octonionic, that's eight frames of reference, 00:59:05.780 --> 00:59:11.260 with time being a variable and volume being the 00:59:11.260 --> 00:59:19.380 constant. Applying Navier -Stokes equations on 00:59:19.380 --> 00:59:23.840 the volumetric constant as the funnel for the 00:59:23.840 --> 00:59:28.179 tunnel through the pipe. Because the size of 00:59:28.179 --> 00:59:31.750 the funnel, determines the size of the feed. 00:59:32.150 --> 00:59:37.070 The size of the feed determines the initial vorticity, 00:59:37.210 --> 00:59:43.170 the initial vorticity of the fluid. The initial 00:59:43.170 --> 00:59:47.750 vorticity of the fluid determines the scattering 00:59:47.750 --> 00:59:54.769 or the latent impacts of the system. So what 00:59:54.769 --> 00:59:58.739 I learned is applying fluid dynamics To an 8 00:59:58.739 --> 01:00:02.219 phase space system. Referencing clay mathematics. 01:00:02.579 --> 01:00:07.400 Millennium prize problems. As one system. As 01:00:07.400 --> 01:00:10.500 one complete system. Instead of a set of different 01:00:10.500 --> 01:00:15.179 systems. I created. Those 7 were just one system. 01:00:15.579 --> 01:00:20.320 With an 8. With an 8 space variable. Translator. 01:00:22.239 --> 01:00:25.980 And that 8 space translator. Was the Gemini CLI 01:00:25.980 --> 01:00:34.380 interface itself. So yeah, that's my time. Hope 01:00:34.380 --> 01:00:36.840 you like it. If you don't, you can always change 01:00:36.840 --> 01:00:39.460 the channel. Go fuck yourself. I'm out.