September 22, 2025 • 23 mins
This week, I step back and break down the hard lessons I’ve learned watching Marines, influencers, and the world spiral over the past week and a half. From the assassination of Charlie Kirk to yet another Marine dragged through social media, this episode isn’t about adding to the noise — it’s about accountability, empathy, and shutting your mouth when it’s time to listen.
I cover:
Why you can’t keep giving people the power to take away what you value
How fake friends are worse than enemies
Why some military influencers don’t actually care about Marines
How to balance speaking up vs. staying silent
The need for compassion, even when we disagree
If you wear the uniform, if you’re a father, if you’ve ever felt like the world was waiting for you to slip — this one’s for you.
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Some of y'all got friends that are actually y'all fucking
enemies. Matter of fact some of y'all got
for y'all have made friends withpeople that were supposed to be
your enemy. This episode is sponsored by
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What's going on everybody? It's that ordinary podcaster
(01:34):
with the extraordinary thoughts that tells you to stop being
great and be extraordinary. I'm Demetrius Thicke and also
known as Meetspeace and welcome back to another episode of the
Talking Crazy podcast. Now, before we get started with
this podcast, don't forget to head on over to your favorite
streaming platform. Like seriously, head on over to
either Apple podcast or Spotify podcast and leave this podcast
an honest review because this podcast deserves to grow just as
(01:54):
much as we do. I cannot stress that enough.
All right, I I can't stress thatenough now, last week or
essentially like the past week and a half, there's been a lot
going on on social media. All right, let me rephrase that.
Not social media. There's been a lot going on in
the world. OK, coming into the 25th year of
911, September is also suicide awareness month.
(02:16):
We're also, you know, the the death of let me phrase the
assassination of Charlie Kurt. And last but not least, another
Marine makes another mistake on social media, gets dragged all
across. And to be honest with you, I I
was not going to talk about anything last week.
And you know when I said that I wasn't I, you know, when I say
(02:41):
that I wasn't going to talk about anything, I mean that I
wasn't going to bring any value.OK, I wasn't going to bring any
value. And that's exactly why I decided
not to do episode last week. I let me phrase do episodes last
week because I already knew. I already knew that I wasn't
going to bring any value. I knew that I was just going to
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be talking just for the sake of talking.
I also knew that we're in a roomfull of people talking about the
exact same thing. What the fuck am I going to talk
about? You know, am I helping the
situation or am I just adding more fuel to the fire?
And I decided, man, like, I honestly just decided to just
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take a step back. I decided to observe.
I decided. I decided to just see how
everything was playing out before I actually decided to
either one, give my opinion or anything 2.
Open my fat fucking mouth and say anything.
And three, put anything like that out into the universe.
So with that being said, I'm coming into the episode.
(03:44):
I got 5 lessons of the things that I learned over this week
and a half. Let's just go ahead and get
started with it #1 And I feel like I'm going to open this
episode and I'm also going to close this episode with this.
But accountability is at an all time high.
And I feel like we need to startexercising that.
OK, I remember I want to say 2019, 2018 I had I was a mark.
(04:08):
Obviously I'm a martial arts instructor trainer.
I'm doing amai course. A video gets leaked of me doing
something that I had no businessdoing.
You know I was sparring. I have had prolong and the video
got leaked. The Mace saw it all right, So if
you Mai and you are IT and you wondering you know what I mean?
Like you wondering if they may see your videos.
Yeah, they do. They 100% do you.
(04:31):
I'm saying why? Because you post them.
You post them and the algorithm will show them your video.
All right, it's not like they'relooking for it.
They just it just will naturallyjust find its way to you, and
that's exactly what happened. I get a call from the Mace.
They asked me, hey, who's in charge?
I said me sorry, take bad. They asked me.
So can you explain to me the safety requirements for standing
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free spar? I kick it.
He says, so if you know it, thenwhy the fuck aren't you doing
it? I'm like, huh?
He's like, why the hell is it that you don't have head
prolong? And once again I give the whole
tip of Oh well you know, I didn't you know, we didn't have
enough, you know, for for their staff and the students.
So if y'all didn't have enough for the staff and students and
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once again it's the chief talking to me, he said if y'all
didn't have enough for the staffand students then why the fuck
is the staff on the mats then ifthe students is, if it's safety
for the students is paramount, why the fuck is this the staff
on the mats then matter of fact if y'all knew that then why
didn't y'all pre plan that and go and buy y'all own and I have
nothing to say. He said we'll we'll we'll have
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your punishment next tomorrow. And I sat there stressed out bro
stressed out man. I remember talking to a mentor
and my mentor she said if you truly value something and let
this be a lesson because if you walk away from this you know
what I mean. Like if they give you one of
those and if you truly value something, then stop giving
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people a reason to take it away from me.
Let me phrase I I kind of said that wrong.
She said that if you truly valuesomething, then stop giving
people the the power to take it away.
You them like you got to be ableto protect this thing at all
costs. If this is something that you
truly value, then stop giving people the ability to take it
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away. All right, and I've taken that
and I've applied that to a lot of things in my life.
And I bring that up, man, because and I and I and I feel
like I just want to talk to the Marines on social media first.
OK, guys, if you truly value your career, do not give anybody
the power to be able to take it away.
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Do not show up on social media and say things, man, Because at
the same time, bro, you may be speaking from a space of
emotion. You may be speaking from a space
of frustration, you speaking from a space of anger, you
speaking from all of these spaces.
But you have now put that shit out there and have put it into
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everyone else's hands. The thing that you value, your
career, you feel me? Your character is now put out
there for somebody else to talk about, to be able to take away,
to be able to dress up, take away from it.
You know, add to it if they if they really want to, if you
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truly value something, do not give people the power to take it
away. And I feel like that right
there, man. Like nobody has said that.
Nobody has said that. Like we, we, we get the Marine,
he, he says something about Charlie Kirk.
And for the next week and a half, he's on every fucking
article. He's on everybody's page.
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He's being tracked all over social media, you know, and I
sit back, man, from a space of like, damn, bro, maybe that
wasn't something that you were supposed to say.
You know what I mean? Like that probably wasn't
something you were supposed to say.
But at the exact same time, if you truly valued it, like if you
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truly valued your career, if youtruly valued your character,
that shit would have never left your mouth.
That shit would have never made it to social media.
Because I promise you, these people do not give a fuck about
you, all right? And they don't give a fuck about
you because at this point, you didn't give a fuck about it.
Now, as I say that, I'm immediately going to roll right
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into the second lesson and the second lesson and I don't know
who needs to hear this, but someof your friends are worse than
your enemies, OK? Some of y'all friends are
literally worse than your own enemy, OK, Because with friends
like the ones that that Marine had, I wouldn't want an enemy.
How it got out close friends, somebody screenshotted it, sent
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it all over the place. With friends like that, I don't.
I don't want an enemy and I don't think a lot of people
really understand. OK and once again, I cannot
stress this enough. This ain't me justifying shit.
I ain't justifying nothing. What I am saying though, imagine
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your close friends right? Imagine the people that are
probably in your close friends, OK, These people are probably
people that you know, all right,Like they they you probably
believe that they think the way that you do.
You know, y'all are y'all probably know each other in real
life. You probably have shared things
with them. Hopefully you're utilizing the
close friends as what it's supposed to be for your close
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friends and something got leakedout of it.
Man at Tuberte OK to to to have that level of betrayal and I I
know for a fact that if something got leaked out of a
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group chat, something got leakedout of the close friends you
looking at everybody that's in it like damn man, I cannot trust
any of y'all. But before I start, some of
y'all really need to understand who y'all be talking to.
What like some I I can't stress this is not man, but some of
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y'all man like y'all got these surface level friendships that
y'all think is deeper than what they are and find out man.
And y'all find out at the wrong time that these friendships and
we're for damn that these peopledo not think the way that you
think. They don't believe in the things
that you believe in. But call a spade a spade.
Some of y'all got friends that are actually y'all fucking
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enemies. All right.
And I'll say that one again. Some of y'all got friends that
are actually your fucking enemies.
Matter of fact, some of y'all got for y'all have made friends
with people that were supposed to be your enemy.
A lot of y'all don't understand man.
Like you walk into a room, you you you achieving things that
people wish that they could fucking do.
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A lot of y'all walk into a room with a level of confidence, of
confidence and accomplishment that most people dream that they
could have. And you think that there ain't
nobody wish you praying on y'alldownfall.
You think that it's a OP, You think that it's somebody against
you. It's the person that you tell
your deepest darkest secrets to that is probably praying on your
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downfall, bro. He's praying that you fall.
He's praying that you fail. He's praying that you make one
slight of 1 slight misstep, 1 slight misstep and he's going to
exploit it and you going to be sitting here stuck sitting
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thinking like damn man I thoughtwe were friends and he's like we
were never friends. We were never friends.
I've always hated you. You think you so much better
than me and now you're not. Some of y'all got people that
are quick to answer the phone for you.
They quick to answer the phone, not because they care, but they
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need that information because they bout to tell it.
Some of y'all got people right now man that are in the room
with the same people that are talking shit about you and they
feed in the fire. So when I saw that right like
when I saw that, it broke my heart for him for the simple
fact. And I'm just like damn man.
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I came right out of your close friends that came from your
circle, that came from somebody that you probably have talked to
in real life, that came from somebody that you probably
thought y'all was on the same wavelength.
And now all through social mediaNow once again, I said I'm
opening it with accountability and I'm gonna let accountability
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ride all the way in to the very end of this episode because at
the exact same time, shit like that need to stay in your
fucking head, all right? Shit like that should have never
made it on social media, becauseat the end of the day, man, you
wouldn't even be here if that didn't come from you, all right?
And I, and I cannot stress this enough, man, if you truly value
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something, right, like if you give a fuck about your career,
if you give a fuck about your character, if you give a fuck
about your family, if you give afuck about your reputation, if
you give a fuck about any of these things, stop giving people
the power to take it away. Stop giving people the power to
be able to take it away, to tarnish it, to ruin it, to spill
stuff on it. Stop now #3 to be honest with
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you ain't even a lesson anymore.It's just once again a
reoccurring theme throughout this entire season apparently.
But I've said it before and I'llsay it again, a lot of these
military influencers do not careabout military personnel.
And I will say that till I'm blue in the face at the highest
mountain top until everybody else start realizing it, But a
lot of these military influencers do not actually care
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about military personnel, OK? They just wear this uniform to
get the views. They only in uniform because
that's the most that's that's the outfit that we going to be
in for most majority every day anyway.
They do not give a fuck all right, and I and I feel like
y'all keep giving them. Y'all keep feeding them.
Y'all keep boosting them up and y'all don't realize that.
And they always remind us. They always remind us how much
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they don't care. All right, Ain't nothing worse
than seeing a service member, a fellow service member do
something, get drugged through it.
And I'll just say this man because he without sin cast the
first stop. Cast it.
If if, if you are perfect, please go to first stop, because
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that's exactly what I saw A lot of people that are imperfect, a
lot of people that have done worse.
A lot of people that are going to do worse acting like they
just so much better. And this me alright once again.
This ain't your captain, you know?
You know the same me speaking from a high horse.
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It's your captain flying in fromexperienced airlines.
I know that I'm not. I know I fucked up before.
I know I've said things that I know for a fact I probably could
have kept to myself. I know that.
But one thing that I'll never do, I'll never kick anybody
while they down. I'll never do that.
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I don't give a fuck how many views it'd get if I do that.
I don't care what the algorithm will do for me if I do that.
I don't care how many likes it will get if I do that.
I don't care. I will never kick anybody while
they're down. That's for God.
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That's God's job. You see?
I'm saying God gonna deal with him.
He gonna sort them out. That ain't me.
And once again, like clockwork, major event, here come your
favorite military influencers covering the story.
And I'll just say this man, because Oh my God, this week and
1/2, I have never seen somethingas much as I've seen at this
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time. No, actually, no, I lie.
Because when Nipsey Hussle was shot in front of his store, in
front of his family nonstop, I saw that.
You know what I mean? I bet you if y'all would have
been able to see the helicopter with Kobe in it, y'all would
have been posting that all over the place.
And I'm gonna just say this realquick because I feel like I'm
kind of all over the place, but I'm a brain that right back.
(16:28):
Some shit don't need to get fucking posted by you.
Some things don't need to be doing that.
All right. Y'all talking about how like you
know, hey, you know he had a family.
What you feeding the algorithm to constantly keep showing this
and you I don't think a lot of y'all realize and I'm talking to
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the military influencer, the responsibility that you have and
you got to think about every single time that you open up
your phone, bro and you decide to make that video click and
post it, how it's going to affect your audience.
I've said it before and I said again, a lot of you military
influencers do not care about military personnel.
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Y'all don't y'all only care about clicks, likes and views,
all right, And it always shows that every major event, how
quick y'all are to drag another marine down, how quick y'all
are. And the thing that a lot of
people don't realize, and this is the sad part about it is, is
that y'all only do it for the ones that's going to get you the
most views. You quit to put out that hateful
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ass rhetoric just for a like just for a view.
You're not here for the culture,all right?
And the longer that I see it, the more I'm just going to keep
bringing it up until everybody else starts seeing it because
it's, fuck it disgusting at thispoint.
Now going into my second lesson,empathy, empathy is not, it's
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not just exclusive to one personEmpathy, man.
Like, and I, I found myself empathetic towards most multiple
things. And that's exactly why I'm able
to just really just talk about alot of the things that I, I, I
talk about on a regular basis. But I'll talk about Charlie Kirk
for a second. I could not imagine leaving my
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children behind like that. You know, like to see it
regardless of however I may feel.
You know what I mean? I'm a father and to leave my
children behind, like imagine you feel me.
Imagine kissing your kids, telling them that you're going
to be home later today or I'll see you later and later never
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comes. Imagine your spouse has to watch
your death over and over and over and over, and then here
random people cover your spouse's death.
Man, I am alive. She'd break a tear to your eye,
man, because it's sad. Regardless of whatever you may,
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how you may view him, see him and stuff, he still was a
father. You know, he still was a father.
His children have not lost that.It it hurts, man.
Then I speak that from a father.It hurts.
I also have empathy once again for the Marine, you know, for
the Marine, because it's just not any to kick anybody when
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they down. It's not man.
And ain't nothing worse than seeing somebody, you know, once
again, somebody to wear the sameuniform as you all over social
media. And then you look in the
comments and you see nothing butjust hate, hate through it.
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And y'all think that a lot of people, man, like y'all think
y'all slick. But we, you know, once again we
see a hatefulness behind your justice.
You see it, you know, And that, that breaks my heart, man.
Because once again, man, like what happened to the
brotherhood? What happened to the
camaraderie? What happened to the swift
punishments? I remember man, like a
punishment used to happen and then it would be, you know.
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But now we get it a week and it goes back to my previous thing
that I've already said. If you don't want people doing
stuff like that, don't do stuff like that.
If you truly value something, donot give anybody the power to
take it away from you. Because I promise you, all
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right? I promise you all right, you'll
be the next person on here getting drugged through the mud
about things that may not even be who you truly are.
And I speak that from both sides, man, like like both sides
looking at it and and and it's just once again, always, man,
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like it will always like break my heart when I see stuff like
that because it's just like fuck, bro, another one and watch
here comes the angry mob. And then lastly, and I feel like
most importantly, as especially as we come to a close to this
episode, just because I can say something doesn't necessarily
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mean that I have to, to be honest with you.
Just because I can't say something doesn't mean that I
need to. And just because I can't say
something right doesn't mean that I'm exempt from just
shutting my fucking mouth. Alright?
I feel like man, like we are so quick as a society now to say
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something because we can tell mewe get these platforms and we
feel like we are obligated to say something every time
something happens and we're not.And that was one of the reasons
why I decided not not to. Because I already knew that I
wasn't going to bring any value.I knew that I knew that the
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lesser wasn't over with. I already knew that this wasn't
even the time for that. Maybe I just need to take a step
back, digest this a little more because what would I had said,
you know, in a time like this? And I feel like man, like, and I
and I want this episode to just close out real quick with with
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just this reminder, OK, just because you can do something
that'll mean that you have to doit.
Alright, Sometimes it's just best to just sit back and
listen, you know, gain the lesson before you actually add
your opinion to it. Because I promise you, man, like
in a room full of everybody talking about nothing, the best
person probably is the one that hasn't said anything yet.
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And once again, not even once again.
And as we come to a close to this episode, you know, I
normally don't drop a lot of call to actions, but I will say
this, man, like, can we just have fucking compassion for our
neighbor? You know, like, can we have some
compassion for the man to our left and to our right?
You know, even if they don't think the same way that you do,
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Can, can, can you have some typeof compassion for them?
You know, because it seems like lately, man, like we seem like
we just spiraling, spiraling. And it's just sad, bro.
And just like that, another extraordinary thought left this
ordinary mind. I hope you enjoyed this episode
half as much as I enjoy making it.
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Some of y'all got friends that are actually y'all fucking
enemies. Matter of fact some of y'all got
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your enemy. This episode is sponsored by
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And recently as I become a better version of myself, I've
decided that it's time for me togo to therapy because I
understand how life can be a little overwhelming and we all
need help navigating through thetrenches of military service and
and out of uniform. Better Help connects you with a
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What's going on everybody? It's that ordinary podcaster
(01:34):
with the extraordinary thoughts that tells you to stop being
great and be extraordinary. I'm Demetrius Thicke and also
known as Meetspeace and welcome back to another episode of the
Talking Crazy podcast. Now, before we get started with
this podcast, don't forget to head on over to your favorite
streaming platform. Like seriously, head on over to
either Apple podcast or Spotify podcast and leave this podcast
an honest review because this podcast deserves to grow just as
(01:54):
much as we do. I cannot stress that enough.
All right, I I can't stress thatenough now, last week or
essentially like the past week and a half, there's been a lot
going on on social media. All right, let me rephrase that.
Not social media. There's been a lot going on in
the world. OK, coming into the 25th year of
911, September is also suicide awareness month.
(02:16):
We're also, you know, the the death of let me phrase the
assassination of Charlie Kurt. And last but not least, another
Marine makes another mistake on social media, gets dragged all
across. And to be honest with you, I I
was not going to talk about anything last week.
And you know when I said that I wasn't I, you know, when I say
(02:41):
that I wasn't going to talk about anything, I mean that I
wasn't going to bring any value.OK, I wasn't going to bring any
value. And that's exactly why I decided
not to do episode last week. I let me phrase do episodes last
week because I already knew. I already knew that I wasn't
going to bring any value. I knew that I was just going to
(03:01):
be talking just for the sake of talking.
I also knew that we're in a roomfull of people talking about the
exact same thing. What the fuck am I going to talk
about? You know, am I helping the
situation or am I just adding more fuel to the fire?
And I decided, man, like, I honestly just decided to just
(03:22):
take a step back. I decided to observe.
I decided. I decided to just see how
everything was playing out before I actually decided to
either one, give my opinion or anything 2.
Open my fat fucking mouth and say anything.
And three, put anything like that out into the universe.
So with that being said, I'm coming into the episode.
(03:44):
I got 5 lessons of the things that I learned over this week
and a half. Let's just go ahead and get
started with it #1 And I feel like I'm going to open this
episode and I'm also going to close this episode with this.
But accountability is at an all time high.
And I feel like we need to startexercising that.
OK, I remember I want to say 2019, 2018 I had I was a mark.
(04:08):
Obviously I'm a martial arts instructor trainer.
I'm doing amai course. A video gets leaked of me doing
something that I had no businessdoing.
You know I was sparring. I have had prolong and the video
got leaked. The Mace saw it all right, So if
you Mai and you are IT and you wondering you know what I mean?
Like you wondering if they may see your videos.
Yeah, they do. They 100% do you.
(04:31):
I'm saying why? Because you post them.
You post them and the algorithm will show them your video.
All right, it's not like they'relooking for it.
They just it just will naturallyjust find its way to you, and
that's exactly what happened. I get a call from the Mace.
They asked me, hey, who's in charge?
I said me sorry, take bad. They asked me.
So can you explain to me the safety requirements for standing
(04:54):
free spar? I kick it.
He says, so if you know it, thenwhy the fuck aren't you doing
it? I'm like, huh?
He's like, why the hell is it that you don't have head
prolong? And once again I give the whole
tip of Oh well you know, I didn't you know, we didn't have
enough, you know, for for their staff and the students.
So if y'all didn't have enough for the staff and students and
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once again it's the chief talking to me, he said if y'all
didn't have enough for the staffand students then why the fuck
is the staff on the mats then ifthe students is, if it's safety
for the students is paramount, why the fuck is this the staff
on the mats then matter of fact if y'all knew that then why
didn't y'all pre plan that and go and buy y'all own and I have
nothing to say. He said we'll we'll we'll have
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your punishment next tomorrow. And I sat there stressed out bro
stressed out man. I remember talking to a mentor
and my mentor she said if you truly value something and let
this be a lesson because if you walk away from this you know
what I mean. Like if they give you one of
those and if you truly value something, then stop giving
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people a reason to take it away from me.
Let me phrase I I kind of said that wrong.
She said that if you truly valuesomething, then stop giving
people the the power to take it away.
You them like you got to be ableto protect this thing at all
costs. If this is something that you
truly value, then stop giving people the ability to take it
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away. All right, and I've taken that
and I've applied that to a lot of things in my life.
And I bring that up, man, because and I and I and I feel
like I just want to talk to the Marines on social media first.
OK, guys, if you truly value your career, do not give anybody
the power to be able to take it away.
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Do not show up on social media and say things, man, Because at
the same time, bro, you may be speaking from a space of
emotion. You may be speaking from a space
of frustration, you speaking from a space of anger, you
speaking from all of these spaces.
But you have now put that shit out there and have put it into
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everyone else's hands. The thing that you value, your
career, you feel me? Your character is now put out
there for somebody else to talk about, to be able to take away,
to be able to dress up, take away from it.
You know, add to it if they if they really want to, if you
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truly value something, do not give people the power to take it
away. And I feel like that right
there, man. Like nobody has said that.
Nobody has said that. Like we, we, we get the Marine,
he, he says something about Charlie Kirk.
And for the next week and a half, he's on every fucking
article. He's on everybody's page.
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He's being tracked all over social media, you know, and I
sit back, man, from a space of like, damn, bro, maybe that
wasn't something that you were supposed to say.
You know what I mean? Like that probably wasn't
something you were supposed to say.
But at the exact same time, if you truly valued it, like if you
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truly valued your career, if youtruly valued your character,
that shit would have never left your mouth.
That shit would have never made it to social media.
Because I promise you, these people do not give a fuck about
you, all right? And they don't give a fuck about
you because at this point, you didn't give a fuck about it.
Now, as I say that, I'm immediately going to roll right
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into the second lesson and the second lesson and I don't know
who needs to hear this, but someof your friends are worse than
your enemies, OK? Some of y'all friends are
literally worse than your own enemy, OK, Because with friends
like the ones that that Marine had, I wouldn't want an enemy.
How it got out close friends, somebody screenshotted it, sent
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it all over the place. With friends like that, I don't.
I don't want an enemy and I don't think a lot of people
really understand. OK and once again, I cannot
stress this enough. This ain't me justifying shit.
I ain't justifying nothing. What I am saying though, imagine
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your close friends right? Imagine the people that are
probably in your close friends, OK, These people are probably
people that you know, all right,Like they they you probably
believe that they think the way that you do.
You know, y'all are y'all probably know each other in real
life. You probably have shared things
with them. Hopefully you're utilizing the
close friends as what it's supposed to be for your close
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friends and something got leakedout of it.
Man at Tuberte OK to to to have that level of betrayal and I I
know for a fact that if something got leaked out of a
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group chat, something got leakedout of the close friends you
looking at everybody that's in it like damn man, I cannot trust
any of y'all. But before I start, some of
y'all really need to understand who y'all be talking to.
What like some I I can't stress this is not man, but some of
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y'all man like y'all got these surface level friendships that
y'all think is deeper than what they are and find out man.
And y'all find out at the wrong time that these friendships and
we're for damn that these peopledo not think the way that you
think. They don't believe in the things
that you believe in. But call a spade a spade.
Some of y'all got friends that are actually y'all fucking
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enemies. All right.
And I'll say that one again. Some of y'all got friends that
are actually your fucking enemies.
Matter of fact, some of y'all got for y'all have made friends
with people that were supposed to be your enemy.
A lot of y'all don't understand man.
Like you walk into a room, you you you achieving things that
people wish that they could fucking do.
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A lot of y'all walk into a room with a level of confidence, of
confidence and accomplishment that most people dream that they
could have. And you think that there ain't
nobody wish you praying on y'alldownfall.
You think that it's a OP, You think that it's somebody against
you. It's the person that you tell
your deepest darkest secrets to that is probably praying on your
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downfall, bro. He's praying that you fall.
He's praying that you fail. He's praying that you make one
slight of 1 slight misstep, 1 slight misstep and he's going to
exploit it and you going to be sitting here stuck sitting
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thinking like damn man I thoughtwe were friends and he's like we
were never friends. We were never friends.
I've always hated you. You think you so much better
than me and now you're not. Some of y'all got people that
are quick to answer the phone for you.
They quick to answer the phone, not because they care, but they
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need that information because they bout to tell it.
Some of y'all got people right now man that are in the room
with the same people that are talking shit about you and they
feed in the fire. So when I saw that right like
when I saw that, it broke my heart for him for the simple
fact. And I'm just like damn man.
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I came right out of your close friends that came from your
circle, that came from somebody that you probably have talked to
in real life, that came from somebody that you probably
thought y'all was on the same wavelength.
And now all through social mediaNow once again, I said I'm
opening it with accountability and I'm gonna let accountability
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ride all the way in to the very end of this episode because at
the exact same time, shit like that need to stay in your
fucking head, all right? Shit like that should have never
made it on social media, becauseat the end of the day, man, you
wouldn't even be here if that didn't come from you, all right?
And I, and I cannot stress this enough, man, if you truly value
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something, right, like if you give a fuck about your career,
if you give a fuck about your character, if you give a fuck
about your family, if you give afuck about your reputation, if
you give a fuck about any of these things, stop giving people
the power to take it away. Stop giving people the power to
be able to take it away, to tarnish it, to ruin it, to spill
stuff on it. Stop now #3 to be honest with
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you ain't even a lesson anymore.It's just once again a
reoccurring theme throughout this entire season apparently.
But I've said it before and I'llsay it again, a lot of these
military influencers do not careabout military personnel.
And I will say that till I'm blue in the face at the highest
mountain top until everybody else start realizing it, But a
lot of these military influencers do not actually care
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about military personnel, OK? They just wear this uniform to
get the views. They only in uniform because
that's the most that's that's the outfit that we going to be
in for most majority every day anyway.
They do not give a fuck all right, and I and I feel like
y'all keep giving them. Y'all keep feeding them.
Y'all keep boosting them up and y'all don't realize that.
And they always remind us. They always remind us how much
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they don't care. All right, Ain't nothing worse
than seeing a service member, a fellow service member do
something, get drugged through it.
And I'll just say this man because he without sin cast the
first stop. Cast it.
If if, if you are perfect, please go to first stop, because
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that's exactly what I saw A lot of people that are imperfect, a
lot of people that have done worse.
A lot of people that are going to do worse acting like they
just so much better. And this me alright once again.
This ain't your captain, you know?
You know the same me speaking from a high horse.
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It's your captain flying in fromexperienced airlines.
I know that I'm not. I know I fucked up before.
I know I've said things that I know for a fact I probably could
have kept to myself. I know that.
But one thing that I'll never do, I'll never kick anybody
while they down. I'll never do that.
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I don't give a fuck how many views it'd get if I do that.
I don't care what the algorithm will do for me if I do that.
I don't care how many likes it will get if I do that.
I don't care. I will never kick anybody while
they're down. That's for God.
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That's God's job. You see?
I'm saying God gonna deal with him.
He gonna sort them out. That ain't me.
And once again, like clockwork, major event, here come your
favorite military influencers covering the story.
And I'll just say this man, because Oh my God, this week and
1/2, I have never seen somethingas much as I've seen at this
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time. No, actually, no, I lie.
Because when Nipsey Hussle was shot in front of his store, in
front of his family nonstop, I saw that.
You know what I mean? I bet you if y'all would have
been able to see the helicopter with Kobe in it, y'all would
have been posting that all over the place.
And I'm gonna just say this realquick because I feel like I'm
kind of all over the place, but I'm a brain that right back.
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Some shit don't need to get fucking posted by you.
Some things don't need to be doing that.
All right. Y'all talking about how like you
know, hey, you know he had a family.
What you feeding the algorithm to constantly keep showing this
and you I don't think a lot of y'all realize and I'm talking to
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the military influencer, the responsibility that you have and
you got to think about every single time that you open up
your phone, bro and you decide to make that video click and
post it, how it's going to affect your audience.
I've said it before and I said again, a lot of you military
influencers do not care about military personnel.
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Y'all don't y'all only care about clicks, likes and views,
all right, And it always shows that every major event, how
quick y'all are to drag another marine down, how quick y'all
are. And the thing that a lot of
people don't realize, and this is the sad part about it is, is
that y'all only do it for the ones that's going to get you the
most views. You quit to put out that hateful
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ass rhetoric just for a like just for a view.
You're not here for the culture,all right?
And the longer that I see it, the more I'm just going to keep
bringing it up until everybody else starts seeing it because
it's, fuck it disgusting at thispoint.
Now going into my second lesson,empathy, empathy is not, it's
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not just exclusive to one personEmpathy, man.
Like, and I, I found myself empathetic towards most multiple
things. And that's exactly why I'm able
to just really just talk about alot of the things that I, I, I
talk about on a regular basis. But I'll talk about Charlie Kirk
for a second. I could not imagine leaving my
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children behind like that. You know, like to see it
regardless of however I may feel.
You know what I mean? I'm a father and to leave my
children behind, like imagine you feel me.
Imagine kissing your kids, telling them that you're going
to be home later today or I'll see you later and later never
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comes. Imagine your spouse has to watch
your death over and over and over and over, and then here
random people cover your spouse's death.
Man, I am alive. She'd break a tear to your eye,
man, because it's sad. Regardless of whatever you may,
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how you may view him, see him and stuff, he still was a
father. You know, he still was a father.
His children have not lost that.It it hurts, man.
Then I speak that from a father.It hurts.
I also have empathy once again for the Marine, you know, for
the Marine, because it's just not any to kick anybody when
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they down. It's not man.
And ain't nothing worse than seeing somebody, you know, once
again, somebody to wear the sameuniform as you all over social
media. And then you look in the
comments and you see nothing butjust hate, hate through it.
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And y'all think that a lot of people, man, like y'all think
y'all slick. But we, you know, once again we
see a hatefulness behind your justice.
You see it, you know, And that, that breaks my heart, man.
Because once again, man, like what happened to the
brotherhood? What happened to the
camaraderie? What happened to the swift
punishments? I remember man, like a
punishment used to happen and then it would be, you know.
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But now we get it a week and it goes back to my previous thing
that I've already said. If you don't want people doing
stuff like that, don't do stuff like that.
If you truly value something, donot give anybody the power to
take it away from you. Because I promise you, all
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right? I promise you all right, you'll
be the next person on here getting drugged through the mud
about things that may not even be who you truly are.
And I speak that from both sides, man, like like both sides
looking at it and and and it's just once again, always, man,
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like it will always like break my heart when I see stuff like
that because it's just like fuck, bro, another one and watch
here comes the angry mob. And then lastly, and I feel like
most importantly, as especially as we come to a close to this
episode, just because I can say something doesn't necessarily
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mean that I have to, to be honest with you.
Just because I can't say something doesn't mean that I
need to. And just because I can't say
something right doesn't mean that I'm exempt from just
shutting my fucking mouth. Alright?
I feel like man, like we are so quick as a society now to say
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something because we can tell mewe get these platforms and we
feel like we are obligated to say something every time
something happens and we're not.And that was one of the reasons
why I decided not not to. Because I already knew that I
wasn't going to bring any value.I knew that I knew that the
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lesser wasn't over with. I already knew that this wasn't
even the time for that. Maybe I just need to take a step
back, digest this a little more because what would I had said,
you know, in a time like this? And I feel like man, like, and I
and I want this episode to just close out real quick with with
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just this reminder, OK, just because you can do something
that'll mean that you have to doit.
Alright, Sometimes it's just best to just sit back and
listen, you know, gain the lesson before you actually add
your opinion to it. Because I promise you, man, like
in a room full of everybody talking about nothing, the best
person probably is the one that hasn't said anything yet.
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And once again, not even once again.
And as we come to a close to this episode, you know, I
normally don't drop a lot of call to actions, but I will say
this, man, like, can we just have fucking compassion for our
neighbor? You know, like, can we have some
compassion for the man to our left and to our right?
You know, even if they don't think the same way that you do,
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Can, can, can you have some typeof compassion for them?
You know, because it seems like lately, man, like we seem like
we just spiraling, spiraling. And it's just sad, bro.
And just like that, another extraordinary thought left this
ordinary mind. I hope you enjoyed this episode
half as much as I enjoy making it.
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