The Army Kris

Conversations are sometimes difficult.  But they NEED to happen, and keep happening.  The ultimate sacrifices that the women and men of the Canadian Armed Forces, Army, Navy, and Air Forces have made, are the reason that we have the freedoms we enjoy on a daily basis.  Our friend, Army Kris, is one of those incredible people.  We thank him and everyone else who served about 50 times in this episode.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, it's Derek from Canadian as Heck. We gotta we
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(00:23):
get silly. We could say. You know what I plan
to do is have my testicles laminated.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
Laminated?

Speaker 3 (00:37):
Really, that's you go to Staples and get your testicles laminated.

Speaker 4 (00:41):
Man.

Speaker 1 (00:42):
Yeah, it's bucks seventy.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
Five bucks seventy five per not.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
It's a package package.

Speaker 3 (00:51):
Not Derek one ball a man. Just ask me, buddy.
What a time to go live people?

Speaker 2 (01:03):
Oh my god? Yeah, to welcome everybody.

Speaker 5 (01:07):
We're we are paying our respects to, of course, Remembrance
Day today because it is November eleventh, and we've got
our dear friend the Army Chris with us who has
served this very country.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
So thank you for your service. Brother. We greatly appreciate you.
Thank you. It's so weird when people say that is it?
So let me let me ask you that.

Speaker 5 (01:27):
So okay, so let's let's let's sure if you can
answer that question real quick, and then let's let's start,
you know, go back to the beginning and and kind
of get your your journey as far as things go.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
So, why is it weird for you to hear that?

Speaker 1 (01:41):
So that's just just me.

Speaker 3 (01:42):
I'm not speaking for like everybody that ever served in
the in the military.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
It's just I don't know. I don't do well with.

Speaker 3 (01:51):
Praise, you know what I mean, Yeah, or you did
a great job, like okay, cool story, let's move on.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
Whatever.

Speaker 3 (01:58):
It's just it's awkward. I appreciate it, and I think
people should say it. I had this conversation with somebody
the other day that like, they don't like.

Speaker 1 (02:07):
That.

Speaker 3 (02:08):
They don't there's a people like, straight up don't like it.
Thank you for your service.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
Because.

Speaker 3 (02:15):
Yeah, really like their mindset is there's there's a bunch
of confusion sometimes about what Remembrance Day is all about.
And some people have the mindset, well, it's about the
fallen that are not here, like don't thank me, thank
their mother or whatever, you know what I mean. I'm like, no,
it is about you, it's about all of us. You
got to understand, something point zero two percent the population

(02:40):
of our great country serves on any given year in
military based on you know, the current strength containing forces
in relation to the into the population. So it's it's
it's like less than one percent. So it's unique people
that that that that do that.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
So I just I.

Speaker 3 (03:01):
Don't know, why shouldn't people thank me. You can thank me,
that's cool. I appreciate that. It's cool, but I was
it's like, hey, thank you for your service. And I
spent all day going thank you for thanking me. I'm like,
this is fucking are we going to ever get out
of this circle? So it's just for me. I don't
like like understand, Like I just I needed a job.

(03:21):
You know how I applied myself in school. I'd be
on the space station right now, but I'm not. So
I did that and I have no regrets. Actually, you
know what I did train astronauts in two thousand and
two thousand and one, I did. I trained NASA astronauts
for to go to the International Space Station.

Speaker 1 (03:39):
In case they ran into aliens.

Speaker 2 (03:43):
No, it wasn't like that.

Speaker 5 (03:44):
It was so they wanted a program to simulate fostere
stressful conditions, right, which that would be. So we basically
took the Canadian Armed Forces winter warfare package and took
the warfare part out of it and took them up
to Coal Lake, Alberta and threw them out in the
snow with a tent and gave them taskings and stuff.

(04:05):
And the NASA guys had like scientific taskings. I was
sitting in an arctic tent in Cold Lake, Elberta and
north of Cole Lake, in the middle of nowhere on
a Ham radio talking to the International Space Station. Do
you know if you're Ham Radio, any of your nerds
out there, Ham Radio people, you can talk to the

(04:25):
people in the space station when it kidding, I'm not
kidding you when it comes over, and good news, because
there's a bunch of people.

Speaker 3 (04:36):
There's a bunch of people that thought they were going
for a weekend and they're stuck there till February.

Speaker 1 (04:39):
So maybe you want to retext me holy sh ship
man that so that so as it as it goes over,
So you've got like a window of like what like I.

Speaker 3 (04:50):
Want to like less than three minutes, less than three minutes,
less than three minutes it was quick.

Speaker 1 (04:54):
So you get high. You get high, you get to buy,
you geta buy. You're like by my eye's going you know,
you guys are enjoying your or your tang. Everybody likes tang.
Still love tang. I love tang too.

Speaker 2 (05:09):
Still they still have tang? You think they do?

Speaker 3 (05:12):
Yeah, you guys ever drink? Did you ever, guys ever
drink beep? Because this is a shitty orange drink. Maybe
it's a Western Canadian thing that's probably an Alberta, a
Burdo thing. It was called beep and it was like,
this is like worse than sunny. D man, it was
frigging did you ever have beep orange juice in a box?

(05:33):
It was like not real orange? Yeah, it's okay. My buddy,
my best friend Dave's here, he had.

Speaker 1 (05:39):
Beep hey, like like that McDonald's orange. Yes, it's exactly
like that. Okay, Like there's there's nothing natural in that
at all. They used to the used to that it's
cubs and beavers.

Speaker 3 (05:56):
Yeah, dude, it's exact same that was in that McDonald's stuff.
And it was called deep. And because we I didn't
eat well grown up, no, so we drank deep. You know,
we always had those crap cookies and not the soft
good ones, like the hard, shitty Dad's cookies once we're

(06:16):
on sale.

Speaker 5 (06:17):
Dude, Dad's cookies were fantastic. We used to pick them
up from the bulk barn in a bag had the
raised plastic. I bet sure you're that guy that likes
raisin cookies. Why would you say that because I like
craft pieces?

Speaker 2 (06:29):
Is that what you do?

Speaker 1 (06:31):
You look like you look like a person that looks
like oatmeal raisin and you're just like stoked.

Speaker 2 (06:36):
Yes.

Speaker 5 (06:36):
So he's like, so, Armie Chris, neil raisin guy. I
can tell you this by looking nice, Armie Chris. Armie
Chris looks at Derek and he's like, Derek, you look
good tonight. And I'm sitting here going oatmeal raisin guy,
I don't look good.

Speaker 3 (06:47):
No, Okay, seventeen seconds into this and you haven't denied
it yet, so I'm gonna assume that, yes, you do
like oatmeal raisin.

Speaker 5 (06:55):
I'm pleading, Armie Chris. We're in Canada, so I'm pleading
eleven C.

Speaker 2 (07:00):
Thank you very much.

Speaker 5 (07:01):
Yeah, that's our that's our version of pleading the fifth
really eleven eleven C?

Speaker 2 (07:07):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (07:07):
Good, No, no, I'm going to write down down eleven ce,
Dave next time we're in the ship.

Speaker 2 (07:11):
Eleven C is uh. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (07:13):
But the right to not what is it, Jenny, The
right to not incriminate yourself, That's it.

Speaker 3 (07:19):
I just don't pay attention most of the time. I'm
like eleven with all my relationships, Like are you listening
to me?

Speaker 1 (07:26):
Like?

Speaker 5 (07:26):
What so, dude, listen? Can we go back to uh?
Can we go back to the bidding at the beginning?
How old were you when you enlisted? I was seventeen seventeen. Wow, Well,
here's the thing. I was in high school, putting in
a marginal effort at best, and as we all were, yeah,

(07:47):
you know, I was a little nerd kid and ship
and getting beat up and all that, all that crap whatever.
And a friend of mine he said, there's this program
called where the fuck the Dave Go, you know the
name of It's.

Speaker 2 (08:01):
A youth employment thing.

Speaker 3 (08:03):
Basically, you join the military for like the summer, for
two three months, you go on basic training, and you
get credits for school, which I needed desperately, I really did.
And I had no because there's this and I've said
this before on other shows and stuff. I like my

(08:24):
grandfather was an artilleryman World War Two. My I had
two uncles that were my grandfather. My mom's side was
was a madic World War two. You know, normal shit.
So everybody has this assumption that I joined the military
because of that. I'm like, nope, I never had any
inclination at all to join the military. Like when the

(08:44):
recruiters would come to school, to the school and I
was fucking like not paying attention, and after basic training,
I'm like, no, this is what I'm doing. This is
a done deal, and I quit high school. I left.
I punched out. Really, I went back and finished up
later on, because it's a dumb thing to do, is

(09:05):
quit school. But no, I was all in, one hundred
percent because it was the first time I felt equal
and accepted.

Speaker 1 (09:15):
M hm, laughing at that.

Speaker 2 (09:19):
No, no, no, no, yeah, that's okay.

Speaker 1 (09:22):
He's like, oh, a handsome club had a meeting.

Speaker 2 (09:24):
Oh he's here. Wow, didn't you have anything to do tonight?

Speaker 4 (09:27):
Ryan?

Speaker 1 (09:28):
Apparently apparently.

Speaker 2 (09:32):
This this this ABU and not.

Speaker 3 (09:33):
I don't want to stand in a sap box and
piss on the current military. But there it's it's changing
back to what it was because they the plot failed
in this whole. Everybody needs to be diverse, and we
have to respect everybody's individuality.

Speaker 2 (09:53):
No, no, you don't.

Speaker 3 (09:55):
Individuality is not what a military is based on, right,
And I'm going to tell you. I'm going to tell
you why, and then I will put off my soapbox.
Because so I come in there, like I weigh a
buck sixty on average back then probably buck forty five,
maybe buck fifty maybe. And so I'm in there, nerd kid,
big glasses. I kind of look like Derek, but he's

(10:16):
that's cool. Look now, it wasn't cool in eighty eight.
I'm just saying that I.

Speaker 5 (10:23):
Love the back I love that backhanded compliment. That's fantastic,
right for you.

Speaker 3 (10:27):
So there's me and I'm like, oh, I'm fucked because
because three guys down for me is the is the
jock who like Bang, the prom queen, he was the
high school quarterback all that. But guess what, you were
all equally worthless until you worked as a team. You
cut your hair the same way, you dress this exact

(10:49):
same way. Yeah, nobody could give a shit. And when
I ran success of basic trainings after that, as I
moved up my crew, that was it. I will build you.
You have to be a team. So there's no there's
no place for that bullshit in an an army. And
I'm like this, I found my place. This is I

(11:10):
belong here. I've never I haven't felt that like that
and forever man like it didn't matter. It didn't matter
whether you were a skinny little nerd or you were
like the coolest kid in school.

Speaker 5 (11:20):
You're all shit until you prove otherwise. So that was that,
that was the hook, and then bam, I was in.
So that was what happened.

Speaker 2 (11:28):
Fucking amazing dude.

Speaker 3 (11:30):
Yeah, And I actually I had zero inclination, zero inclination
to join the military. It was never on my radar none.
I had actually had no idea what I was going
to do. So it just kind of showed up, you know.
And and then so I needed a summer job. And
then twenty five years went by and I like, fuck,
I still need a summer job.

Speaker 5 (11:50):
So that's that's how that's that's how it started. Nice
where was your what was your first deployment?

Speaker 2 (11:57):
Two? And where was it side? So that's it was.

Speaker 3 (12:01):
It was actually the true definition of what everybody thinks
well peacekeeping. So you had an agreement between its Hirks
and the and the Greeks that had been in place
for years and years and years, and you're just enforcing
that peace agreement before them. So it wasn't really a
It wasn't I'll tell you what. Man very very different

(12:22):
from Afghanistan. So no shit, yeah, a'll bat. But that
was my first deployment. And how long was that for?

Speaker 2 (12:29):
Do you remember?

Speaker 5 (12:30):
They're all usually six seven months? Oh okay, so under
a year you're you're deployed. So what I'm wondering is
if I can ask you this question, is you always
see One of the things I'm an absolute fucking sucker
for are those soldiers coming home videos. Yeah, when sometimes
when you see these videos, it's like you haven't you
know this person hasn't seen there at their Marine brother

(12:52):
in three years because of deployment. Is that because they'll
end up going getting deployed. I think going back to
a base and staying there and getting deployed again like
that kind of thing.

Speaker 3 (13:01):
That's that doesn't happen in Canada, thank god, in the
United States it does.

Speaker 2 (13:05):
I knew it. I met a guy on.

Speaker 3 (13:07):
My first deployment Afghanistan that hadn't been home in like
two years because he was deployed in one unit for
a year, goes home, he's posted to a different unit
who is deploying. So guess what, buddy, this guy's it's ridiculous, man,
how their systems fucked. In my mind, it's not way

(13:29):
to go. I don't think it depends on your job too.
Like for for the last what I did last deployment
six months, seven months, And Dave's right here, you.

Speaker 2 (13:38):
Can speak too. He's my boss.

Speaker 3 (13:40):
You know, we needed a little bit more time to
get done what we wanted to get done. Six seven months. Like, yeah,
I want to get home, get out of there because
it's a shady place. But I felt like I needed
about three more months to really achieve what I wanted
to achieve. So but yeah, you're your average deployment for

(14:00):
Canadians is a six seven month deployment and then sometimes
it's nine. Sometimes depends on the job you're doing, whatever
it is, but the typical mean average is six months,
six seven months.

Speaker 5 (14:13):
Wow, just gotta jump on real quick here while I'm
where I'm in h Armie. Chris takes a sip of
his tasty beverage because he's been talking the whole time here,
So our man, our friends Ryan and Ashley are just
jumping on here and side on theod just jumping on
to be cliche and thank my brother Army Chris for
her service, for his service. What he has done lets

(14:34):
me live an incredibly free life. Watching useless politicians use
his legacy as fodder breaks my heart because I appreciate
his sacrifice for us. Thank you, honestly, dude, Like we
really yeah again we you know, we say this over
and over and over again, and by the end of
this podcast you're going to be so brutally sick of
hearing us thank you. But it takes I don't okay.

(14:58):
So here's what I'm wondering when you because you said
you didn't really have a plan in the in you know,
when you were finishing up high school and stuff like that.
It's like when you when you did your first when
you did your first batch of training, would you say

(15:19):
that it just like there's a very specific person that says, Yep,
this is it.

Speaker 2 (15:24):
This is what I'm doing for the rest of my life.

Speaker 5 (15:26):
Absolutely, like it's just it's not obviously it's not for
the faint of heart.

Speaker 3 (15:32):
No, no, no, absolutely not, It's just that was me
right away. I went from a guy like again, everybody
is because I'm a pretty fucking army guy, even though
I've been out for fourteen years now, No, no, not
that long, ten nine years whatever. Whenever I got out,
I don't remember twenty thirteen. So however long ago, that
was eleven years.

Speaker 2 (15:51):
Eleven years.

Speaker 3 (15:53):
I'm a military minded guy and I wasn't that till then.
And the like, once I was in, I'm like, this
is there is absolutely nothing.

Speaker 2 (16:02):
I'm more I wanted to do than this.

Speaker 5 (16:06):
So and how would you say, what were the major
ways that the Army changed you from say the seventeen
year old kid that you were taking basic training for
the first time to your first deployment.

Speaker 3 (16:19):
Well, if it's obviously depending on the end of it
builds confidence. It builds confident once you work with a team,
like I go back to that group of guys that
I did basic training with, where you know, everybody's an individual,
which is a shitty word in the military I came from,
and you know, this guy's a jock, and this guy's
a nerd, and this guy's whatever, this guy's just weird

(16:41):
over there, and then you all gel together and work
together and you become best friends. And all those guys
I was talking about, I still know those guys to
this day. I know every one of them.

Speaker 5 (16:51):
That's fucking fantastic, dude. That is Those are the relationships
you build.

Speaker 3 (16:56):
And then as you evolve and you know, move on,
you deploy overseas and do all the what did I
say on my Instagram the other We go to the
shitty places to do shitty things to shitty people that other.

Speaker 2 (17:09):
People don't want to do. That's what we do.

Speaker 3 (17:11):
And the military like and then and let me soap
box for a second, because I sat it on my
radio show. You know, there's a lot of anti military
people out there, like why you anti military? Like your
government decides this, don't fucking blame me. I just go
do what I'm told. Like at the end of the day,
Like I echoed this one last time, the Canadian Armed

(17:35):
Forces are and what they are and how they're structured,
how they're funded, and how they're resourced and where they
go are an extension of political will and the practical
application of foreign policy.

Speaker 2 (17:48):
That's what that's what it is.

Speaker 3 (17:50):
So if you like what we're doing, cool, If you
don't remember that when you vote, they don't hate the
guy in the uniform, thank them for their service because
they represent zero point zero two percent of the population.
Not a lot of people do that. And you know,
just just that's it. Give me, that's it. It's all
I got.

Speaker 5 (18:12):
We should almost see if we could get Ryan on here,
because one of the things that I actually I can't
stand is we need Linley. I can't fucking stand politicians
that use the military, just the armed forces in general,
just as as political bullshit.

Speaker 2 (18:33):
But they do.

Speaker 3 (18:33):
I mean, we never gave a ship like it was like, okay,
so I'm i'm, i'm. We've talked about I don't like
to talk about politics, but we do on occasion. I'm
I'm right centric, not not right right. And we used
to be left centric, right centric and respecting each other's
views anyday.

Speaker 2 (18:49):
We didn't give a fuck man here, here's what it
came down to.

Speaker 3 (18:52):
I don't care whether it's a liberal government, conservative government,
NDP government. I can tell you shit stories and good
stories about all them. Tell me what you want to do,
Give me a clear definition of what you want us
to achieve, and.

Speaker 2 (19:05):
Resource us to achieve that.

Speaker 1 (19:07):
That's it. Done.

Speaker 2 (19:10):
Yeah, nothing more, nothing less.

Speaker 5 (19:12):
Yeah, you don't need any political fucking like bullshit, no.

Speaker 2 (19:16):
Surrounding all you wants to do.

Speaker 3 (19:18):
Okay, exactly when we want you to go here and
do this, all right, resource us to do it.

Speaker 2 (19:23):
Wouldn't be nice to do it?

Speaker 5 (19:25):
And exactly it wouldn't it be nice if fucking government
actually did that for us as well? You know the
people that we pay for. Hey, you know, maybe you
could just do us a favor, get fucking health coverage
for everybody. Uh, take care of your constituents. Yep, just
do what we ask you to do. That's all I mean.
You know, fucking think I don't do it altics too much? Yeah, exactly, No, exactly,

(19:46):
way there, buddy, No exactly. Oh, don't even get me
started there, bro Ski anyway, I know, I just I.

Speaker 2 (19:55):
I just away drives me nuts.

Speaker 5 (19:57):
So okay, So moving on from your first deployment, you
get back from Cyprus, and then do you do you
remember where you went after that?

Speaker 2 (20:07):
Actually didn't go anywhere for a while.

Speaker 3 (20:08):
So I was supposed to go to So I got
back and I started running pre deployment because we were
getting this is understand ninety two ninety three is when
we first kicked off in the Balkans, right, So Canada,
you've heard the term the Decade of Darkness about lack
of funding and blah blah blah throat the nineties. But

(20:30):
funny enough, we were still in Cyprus. We had two
battle groups in the former Yugoslavia, Croatia and Bosnia. Kambat
one Kombat two is what we were called. Like that
is the busiest we ever have been outside of Afghanistan.
And we had nothing. We had shitty equipment, like it

(20:51):
was just it was horrible. So I got back and
it was training guys to go to deploy Croatia and uh,
I didn't go on that one, but I was gearing
up to get ready to go on the next one,
and the CIA orchestrated this big thing to retake an

(21:12):
area called the CRNA and wiped out our entire area
of operations.

Speaker 2 (21:17):
It was gone. So I was sitting at hall.

Speaker 3 (21:19):
I was like one week from going out to the door,
and my boss called me up from Shiloh, Manitoba, where
I was at the time, and he goes, yeah, don't
don't come back next week. Like what do you mean
don't come back? He goes yeah, did you not read
the fucking news? Is when we sell newspapers back then.
I don't know if anybody listening knows what that is.

Speaker 2 (21:39):
What's a newspaper? Right? Yeah? You know.

Speaker 1 (21:42):
I'm like, no, they got smaller the newspaper. They're like
like Rolling Stone magazine used to be this big and
it's now like TV.

Speaker 3 (21:51):
Yeah, I know, because every expects you to read on
digitally writing, which I don't like it. Sorry, no, no, no, Derek,
I loved the paper, did Yeah. I get this the
Edmonton Sun, you know, delivered to my house.

Speaker 2 (22:04):
I love it.

Speaker 3 (22:05):
Anyways, So yeah, man, we got back. I got back
to Shalloh like we're we got bayonets in our mouths.
We're ready to go, and they're like, yeah, you're not
going anywhere because there's nowhere to go. It's gone, Like
oh fuck, okay, wow. I Actually I didn't deploy again
until two thousand and two, three, two or three, I
can't remember. I mean I was back back to Bosnia,

(22:28):
so it was a big gap and then it kind
of fucking.

Speaker 2 (22:32):
Picked up speed.

Speaker 3 (22:33):
Holy shit, suddenly I was in Afghanistan in two thousand
and seven two and I'm like, oh yeah, so I
like a ten year gap with no deployments, which sucks
because when you're a military person, you want to go
do stuff right, you want to go overseas and do shit.
Doesn't mean killing people, mean whatever, whatever we do right,

(22:54):
Like I need a lot of build a bridge, build
a bridge, whatever. When I was in Bosnion, a lot
of old that those fucking guys, man, they had so
much ammunition in the war in Yugoslavia, in the former Yugoslavia.
They were on all three sides, there was three sides
to that war, selling AMMO to fund their own warm

(23:18):
holy shit, Like so they had a ridiculous amount of munitions.
This is all because this is all you're talking forming
Soviet block stuff. And like so I'm there at three going,
holy shit, man, you guys got like way too much
stuff that is not being properly stored, like it's deteriorating munitions.
So that gig that time, most of what I did

(23:41):
was we were just blowing up shit that was unsafe,
and you know, it was good positive things.

Speaker 2 (23:48):
So that was that to her.

Speaker 3 (23:49):
And then suddenly so I got back in three and
then yeah, man goes down Rangel seven.

Speaker 2 (23:56):
It was get picked up quick jez man, that's fucking insane.
So all told your services twenty.

Speaker 1 (24:05):
Years, twenty five, twenty five, whole last bag twenty five
years Jesus man.

Speaker 3 (24:12):
That went by quick. I'm like, oh, getting out is
very weird. It's hard.

Speaker 1 (24:18):
I help guys out now who are getting out, we're
releasing because it's such a weird transition for your your
average guy to go from we're in the uniform every day,
living in a structured environment that you're used to blah
blah blah blah blah, and then like bam, you're now
you're you gotta go figure it out, and it's it's hard, man,
it's hard. I had a hard time. That's why I

(24:39):
hang out with the people I.

Speaker 2 (24:41):
Hang out with. Now. Wow, it just simplifies everything. Fuck yeah,
I hear you.

Speaker 3 (24:47):
Everybody ever, everybody svanteen. Yeah, like we speak a different
language you listen to. I don't know if you ever
hung up with military guys. My dad always laughs, he goes,
I don't know what the fuck you guys are talking about.

Speaker 2 (25:00):
Yeah, yeah, acronyms and this and that and blah blah blah.

Speaker 5 (25:03):
Right, Yeah, that's interesting. There's a lot of things that
are associated with the government. I think I have a
lot of acronyms. My my wife is a teacher, and
every other thing is just like an O, G T
and the CP. Yeah, everybody's got their own the CDC
and the language.

Speaker 2 (25:20):
You know, your own language?

Speaker 1 (25:21):
Sure, yeah, exactly. Are we playing some tunes tonight or what?

Speaker 4 (25:24):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (25:24):
So listen, let's why don't we shot? Why do we
play a couple of tunes?

Speaker 2 (25:27):
Let's play a couple of tunes because I need to
dart in them. Yep, I got a reload, man, Yeah
for sure. So here we've.

Speaker 5 (25:34):
Got uh, we've got uh Ryan, if you want to
join us, join us shooting text money.

Speaker 4 (25:41):
I don't number.

Speaker 3 (25:42):
I didn't send you any music in but you heard
a couple of good ones I put on my show.

Speaker 5 (25:45):
Yeah, So if you want, if you want to uh,
just send like whatever you like.

Speaker 2 (25:53):
It doesn't matter.

Speaker 5 (25:54):
If you want to send some cool Canadian stuff, brother,
it's totally up to you.

Speaker 2 (25:57):
I want one song by the Truths that I played
on my show, you know what, one.

Speaker 1 (26:01):
Bastard, But I owe my song.

Speaker 5 (26:06):
Yeah really, Oh that's fine, I've got I've got you
got it, Derek, I knew, okay, good I sent it.

Speaker 1 (26:12):
I sent it to Craig. I hate It's true.

Speaker 3 (26:16):
It's except for the one song, Like, how many times
can you say you're not ready to go in one song?

Speaker 1 (26:20):
Like how many times you say it? Clearly you're ready
to go because you recorded.

Speaker 3 (26:27):
To get a buddy on this show and I'm coming on.
I'm like when you wrote that, like, what happened? Did
you just run out of things to say? I know
you're not ready to go?

Speaker 1 (26:36):
Clearly? You're like, you're like every woman I've dated, you're
not ready to go.

Speaker 2 (26:39):
I got it.

Speaker 3 (26:40):
Boom, No, we have a cool song on it, and
you know which one it is. That's the only one
I want to hear. I'm the lea, the dealer's choice
for the rest of it.

Speaker 5 (26:50):
No, no, no, no, no, you're the army dude. Uh
you request whatever you want. So between you and Derek,
you guys have got three songs each, Okay, So I.

Speaker 1 (26:58):
Want to replay my show these songs each.

Speaker 3 (27:00):
Wow, Jesus, I don't even think I know fucking three songs.

Speaker 1 (27:04):
Oh yeah I do, I I have I have one, two, three, four, five,
six second you cover you count the Weather one of
the picking the songs excellent, all right, I'm gonna get
for most of this.

Speaker 5 (27:18):
And of course Derek is asking every fucking song for
a music video.

Speaker 1 (27:23):
Everyone, no, no, no, I asked for one. I asked
for one song as a music video because because that's
that's how we roll now here on Canadian we can't say.

Speaker 2 (27:35):
In front of Army Chris, fro Army.

Speaker 1 (27:38):
Chris, so he doesn't come through these kill me.

Speaker 2 (27:43):
All right.

Speaker 1 (27:43):
We were trying to trying to end the show with
with a video.

Speaker 2 (27:48):
Just okay, just can we go videos?

Speaker 1 (27:52):
We can play videos, we can play music videos. Sure, okay, yeah,
play whatever you want.

Speaker 2 (27:57):
Yeah, all right.

Speaker 1 (27:59):
So I had this, I had found this one video
and we'll talk about it later. But I thought, I
was like, you know what, there's another there's another young
person that had put in a song. I think it
was in when the frack was it?

Speaker 6 (28:17):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (28:18):
Let the heck that that happened when Jesus fatatorial language
on this show. That's right, in two thousand and twenty
twenty one, they said they wrote a song and submitted
to the song. And again we'll talk it. We'll talk
about it later, but right now, Craig's gonna we absolutely okay, yeah,

(28:39):
here we go True's Highway.

Speaker 5 (28:40):
Heroes right here in Revolution Radio Canada.

Speaker 7 (28:55):
Dyah.

Speaker 8 (28:56):
Shehet down the number and does, and upon my rection,
we're a hundred or so from the constant from the Prairies.

Speaker 9 (29:09):
I bet they keep coming.

Speaker 8 (29:12):
I'd want more name from Auntrio and carry me home
down the Iwave heroes people Able with the flax final low,
carry me softly down the Iwave heroes.

Speaker 9 (29:36):
True patron love. There was never more.

Speaker 8 (29:53):
Serve with distinction, no visions of glory, service that question
a personal king. You seek no justification. It's not part
of my store, and it offers no comfort to the

(30:13):
ones who remained. Just carrying me home conn a highway
of Heros feed Moable the flax Spiro carrying Miss Sphing
Gonna Hihway of hero the batchet level. There was never more.

Speaker 9 (31:05):
I took up my vocation.

Speaker 8 (31:08):
I was called by my nation without recitation.

Speaker 9 (31:14):
My answer came.

Speaker 4 (31:17):
Out.

Speaker 8 (31:17):
I'd wondering the things that I might have been enough
constellation to the full gotten way. So carry me home,
shall the hiohway Gros people love with the flash Fiow

(31:40):
carrying me Sophie telling the Highway of heroes through petry love.
She was never more.

Speaker 4 (31:52):
Carrying me home.

Speaker 8 (31:54):
She Gonahway, hero people out love, put the hands out
carrying me something John the Highway, kid roads through matry love.

Speaker 9 (32:11):
There was never more.

Speaker 4 (32:14):
There was niver mom. There was never the mom.

Speaker 8 (32:20):
There was never more.

Speaker 9 (32:23):
There was never mom. There was never more.

Speaker 4 (32:47):
The house was like a too.

Speaker 7 (32:50):
I was hiding in more because my brother made his
way on down the hall.

Speaker 9 (32:59):
I didn't want to say goodbye.

Speaker 10 (33:03):
I was trying to the night O.

Speaker 11 (33:05):
There was a war that you've got the car. I
watched him from my window walking down the drive.

Speaker 4 (33:18):
And I ran down.

Speaker 6 (33:20):
Stairway through the front door, and I called, you come
back here, and I let him see my tears. I said,
I'll give you my room, give up the Mattia. I'll
do anything you want, clean your room or wash your car.

Speaker 4 (33:42):
I'll do anything, so long shoot don't car.

Speaker 1 (33:48):
He said, this is what brother's on for.

Speaker 12 (33:58):
I had my.

Speaker 4 (34:01):
But the one I love.

Speaker 6 (34:02):
The morns taught me how to hunt, swing a boat,
and I rode him every night.

Speaker 4 (34:13):
I said, I missed I pillow fight.

Speaker 2 (34:17):
Imedately.

Speaker 4 (34:18):
I just want to wear your rat.

Speaker 1 (34:24):
Sometimes breading makes it hard to live.

Speaker 4 (34:29):
When it takes things from you but you don't again.
I said, do you.

Speaker 9 (34:36):
Come back here?

Speaker 13 (34:38):
I miss your be indeed.

Speaker 4 (34:41):
Laughing fish down in the maple Grol.

Speaker 9 (34:47):
I'll do anything you want. There must be some one
I can call and just maybe they would let you
come back home.

Speaker 4 (34:59):
But he this is what brothers are for.

Speaker 10 (35:07):
I may never have faced the anger of those gunners
or like colding word it in my blood, for knowing
the sycrifice.

Speaker 9 (35:22):
What it must I cause friend to love me that mune.

Speaker 11 (35:34):
Well, it had been tears and I held back my tears.

Speaker 2 (35:39):
But I saw him in.

Speaker 1 (35:41):
That wheelchair on sure.

Speaker 4 (35:46):
As Iran and held him time.

Speaker 1 (35:49):
That's when he.

Speaker 4 (35:49):
Loved me in the said I'm sorry you have to
push me home?

Speaker 2 (35:57):
And I said, hey, this is what.

Speaker 1 (36:00):
Bod bro there's all bold. Well that outro just goes

(37:11):
on trail. Same away, buddy, it just goes on. Dean Brody, Uh,
let me be a right here. Revolution Radio Canada's Canadian
as Heck.

Speaker 2 (37:24):
It's fine, dude, You got to say it.

Speaker 13 (37:25):
It is what it is.

Speaker 2 (37:26):
Army Chris doesn't like it, but it's our name, so
it is what it is.

Speaker 8 (37:29):
True.

Speaker 2 (37:30):
It's a true.

Speaker 1 (37:33):
So from British British Columbia. No Dean Brody has won
uh uh yeah and uh two Junior Awards for his work.
And that was a song called brother Uh and it's uh.

Speaker 2 (37:55):
I heard that song.

Speaker 5 (37:56):
I hope his dog, I hope his dog came down
this and he got his truck back to he hay,
his truck back and his an old lady lawsuits and
old lady trump the lot suit. I'm not trying to
wreck your monologue man, that's yeah, Chris.

Speaker 1 (38:15):
No, that would that wouldn't be that wouldn't be wrecking
my momgue at all, Chris.

Speaker 2 (38:23):
It's a good rye in hand and reloading.

Speaker 10 (38:27):
Man.

Speaker 2 (38:27):
We've been on them. We've been honored for a couple
of days here. Love it so so.

Speaker 1 (38:33):
Dean Brody has has the record. He has the record
for the for the most pak song in a single
week at Canadian Country Radio with his track Canadian Summer
Really A serious would not lie to me? You you
you going deep man, I don't know you're a country guy.

(38:55):
I'm an everything guy.

Speaker 3 (38:56):
Your your musical bandwidth showed as no alms I am.

Speaker 2 (39:02):
I am say you're an everything guy. No, wouldn't.

Speaker 5 (39:06):
But you really do like a lot of stuff. But
you're not in everything guy. No, there are certain things.
There are certain things that we have played on the
shoulder that you and I have done over the years
where I've played something and you are rhemently like, Nope,
don't like it, don't like the band, don't like the song,
and so anyway.

Speaker 1 (39:24):
No, no, no, it's never okay.

Speaker 14 (39:28):
So my my.

Speaker 1 (39:30):
H venomous hatred from usually stems to a I don't
like them, don't like but the entire isn't pulled out right.

Speaker 3 (39:45):
Okay, let me ask you guys something. Sure, we're we're
going a little off for memory topic, which is fine.
I'm honestly rememberance today. The funk out name just off.
This is rapid fire around here. Sure, off the top
of your head. First band that just you grew off
of that just became irritating, Like, no, I'm done.

Speaker 1 (40:08):
Otherwise it doesn't matter.

Speaker 2 (40:12):
Great question. Wow, fuck I got it.

Speaker 1 (40:16):
So for me it's you too.

Speaker 2 (40:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (40:18):
Wow, we knew that can come off the show.

Speaker 2 (40:21):
No, we knew that, Derek.

Speaker 5 (40:22):
We knew that conversation before we had this conversation, before
we had this conversation right after we did our YouTube
deep dive, because we had Army Creates on right after that.

Speaker 2 (40:35):
That's fun, that's a really good question, dude, that is
a great question. I would say, I.

Speaker 3 (40:40):
Need the radio to stop playing get Back Again by
the Hip because you're killing it there.

Speaker 2 (40:44):
Reckon.

Speaker 3 (40:44):
Yeah, I just I don't even know how the hell
had happened. That's an old song and suddenly bam and
it is on. Like I don't know about out in Toronto,
but in Edmonton, Oh, it's everywhere, and it's they're just
they're killing it.

Speaker 1 (41:00):
They're just and I mean that in the negative, in
the negative way. They're beating it to death.

Speaker 3 (41:05):
It's like, that's that song is from the nineties, man,
because I remember it, and it's like they're playing get
Back Again, oh like fifteen times a day on four stations.
I'm like, oh my god, what are you doing here? Well,
a radio radio stations are very good at killing bands.

Speaker 2 (41:21):
They are. They are.

Speaker 1 (41:23):
Yeah, that's happened.

Speaker 2 (41:25):
That's what happens.

Speaker 3 (41:26):
He's off to a p shareholders, right, So I I
hog the air to give you a moment to think
about it.

Speaker 2 (41:31):
So I had you too. I just uh, you can
say rush, It's okay. No, Actually, I I dug rush
pretty well to the end.

Speaker 1 (41:40):
Anybody says rush, they're they're they're in trouble Derek with Derek,
I I would have to say for me, one of
them was h the Strokes.

Speaker 5 (41:53):
I thought I thought the Strokes their first two records
were absolutely brilliant, Room on Fire and is this it?
We're fabulous fucking records. And then they released a couple
more and I was like, okay, I mean I get it.
And then by you know, the time that they released
their last record, which was basically was it when in
Rome the Promise, I think that they can like literally
ripped off like from start to finish.

Speaker 2 (42:14):
It was like one of those class eighties songs.

Speaker 1 (42:17):
And I am just I'm like, I'm out. I don't now,
I don't get this.

Speaker 2 (42:21):
Right next to you too, it's the Chili Peppers like
this song, Scott.

Speaker 5 (42:28):
Armie Christ I am absolutely and as a matter of fact,
the oh yeah, okay, so see herman says the Killers.
I I like this, but yeah, I can see where
her from. For I get talking about the Chili Peppers.
Our man Dimitri has a really good comment on the

(42:50):
Chili Peppers, and for me, I am in exactly the
same place as him. The Chili Peppers lost me. When
Anthony Keats thought he became a singer. That's when I
that's what I I'm like, I'm boom right. So so
Blood Sugar Sex Magic was a fucking fantastic record.

Speaker 2 (43:07):
It was amazing.

Speaker 5 (43:10):
And then after that, because Keith It sang a few
tunes on that, like under the Bridge and stuff like that,
then he's like, oh, I'm a singer. Now it's like, no, no,
you're not. I've seen I've seen the Chili Peppers three times.
The band is great, like Fruciante Chad Smith as a
fun I've actually I would love to tell you guys
the story. I actually I hung out with Chad Smith

(43:31):
for a very drunk night in downtown Toronto once. But
that's a story for another time. And of course Flee.
I mean, they're fantastic musicians on their talent.

Speaker 2 (43:43):
Write same thing for me with guns and Roses. Great band,
great musicians. Just there you go. That's another good another
good example like who just a band that lost you?

Speaker 14 (43:54):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (43:55):
Yeah, Now I always hated Brian Adams and now he's
got his own freaking sing on iHeartRadio. So they're dead
to me, Like you're gonna give this guy's own station.
He doesn't even know the anthem.

Speaker 1 (44:07):
I doesn't know the I didn't even put that. I
didn't even put Brian Adams.

Speaker 2 (44:11):
And I hate Brian not because I knew that.

Speaker 1 (44:15):
I fucking knew that he hated him.

Speaker 3 (44:17):
So I'm like, listen, man, he blew the Canadian anthem
at a Canucks game, Like.

Speaker 1 (44:24):
Do you blow the Canadian anthem?

Speaker 2 (44:26):
Right?

Speaker 3 (44:27):
It's not that hard. Even when Trudeau screwed up and
changed it to the Wolke version, It's like no. And
then and then he moved to the UK because he
was like trying to anyway, never mind, and he came
back with his fake bullshit British accent for a while.

Speaker 2 (44:45):
Get just leave, like go wherever you people like you go.

Speaker 1 (44:51):
You people.

Speaker 5 (44:53):
I hate Brian Adams. We can move on, Okay, I
actually do. I do actually have a question.

Speaker 3 (45:03):
But he made like Reckless as a wicked album. Don't
get me wrong, go ahead. Reckless is a great record here,
great album, but his best record for sure. Yeah, it
is a great album.

Speaker 13 (45:13):
What was?

Speaker 2 (45:14):
But I loved all of that early stuff, like the
like you know, cuts like a knife and uh yeah,
and then.

Speaker 3 (45:19):
When he started all the ship from Robin Hood, Yeah, everything,
the song like it's like great, it's bad Kevin bad enough,
Kevin Costner's Robin hood, you know, like half fucking.

Speaker 2 (45:35):
More.

Speaker 3 (45:35):
I love Morgan Freeman. If I win the lottery and
win sixty five million a lotto max, I'm just gonna
hire Morgan.

Speaker 2 (45:41):
For me, like narrate my life, right, I mean, you
could do it now if you start.

Speaker 1 (45:47):
Chris is getting out of bed again and he's gonna
itchy asked and he's porner rye and I am all
it all started for him?

Speaker 3 (45:54):
Would you want years ago? There's the next question, who
wants to narrate your life? Fucking Morgan Freeman all day?
Yeah for me and would definitely be up there for sure.
Uh yeah, there's there's a few. Actually, the guy that
his name is Don Lafontaine. He's the in the world guy.
Do you know who I'm talking about?

Speaker 4 (46:12):
In a world?

Speaker 5 (46:13):
Oh yeah, right, like the movie trailer Guy Trailer, Don
Lafontaine for me would be again that guy too, sure, man.

Speaker 1 (46:20):
I want Docremento Kyle.

Speaker 14 (46:23):
You know what.

Speaker 3 (46:24):
I don't like Bruce Springsteen either, but because but he's
a genius, because he just writes about ship he did
that day got up and put.

Speaker 5 (46:32):
My shoes on and Porto coffee. He was losing a ship,
like that's the greatest song ever. Main like just talking
what we did that day. You can identify with it, right,
and I mean out on the porch and took the
smell of the.

Speaker 1 (46:45):
Fourth grade education and you can do.

Speaker 2 (46:48):
Good Derek, Derek, Wow, we have.

Speaker 1 (46:54):
The reddit the other day. Listen, it's just it's not
a dig. Stop it.

Speaker 3 (47:00):
But to echo Derek's comments, there are like millions of
fucking wrongfully convicted black men in the United States prison
system that have hope now because a convicted felon just
got fucking voted as the president.

Speaker 5 (47:12):
Anyways, we can move on, Okay, Listen, I actually do
want to move on here. Did I just say that
in one sentence like quickly? You didn't even take a
breath saying no, it's very articular, It's like I planned it.

Speaker 1 (47:25):
So I do actually have a puss up that I
wrote down Derek that I didn't get to save the
question for Derek.

Speaker 5 (47:32):
No, I'm trying to get Derek to shut the fuck up. Okay,
So here we go with that. Good luck with that.

Speaker 1 (47:38):
I'm trying to get him. I'm trying to keep I've
been trying.

Speaker 5 (47:40):
To get Derek to shut the fuck up for a
year years and it's just not working anyway.

Speaker 2 (47:45):
Listen, we have to go back up to the lake
next summer. That's good.

Speaker 5 (47:48):
Honestly I would love to. But there was But honestly,
there's a place. There's a place I would love to
actually get for all of us, which is like a
fucking like invite everybody, friends, wives, relatives, everybody's a place
called Sir Sam's in on all fantasy because I was like,
I'm in Oh, I thought you were thought you were
going to say Epstein Island for a second that I'm like, no,

(48:10):
not going there. Okay, I have a serious question for you.
I have a serious question, Derek. I have a serious question. So,
with everything that you've had to endure as far as
your career, I'm wondering, is there a moment where you
looked up at the sky and said to yourself, please

(48:32):
let me get through this.

Speaker 2 (48:34):
Yeah. Man, that's a great question.

Speaker 3 (48:37):
I'm gonna I'm going to answer that because I've talked
about that earlier. So you know, you ever had that
moment in life where it's be careful what you wish for?

Speaker 2 (48:48):
M right?

Speaker 3 (48:49):
So all I ever wanted, So let me rewind, not
not too far back. You always want to go and
do rock star cool kids ship. Everybody does and whatever
whatever you're career is, whatever you do. And well, my
first deployment Afghanistan and seven.

Speaker 2 (49:07):
And I did.

Speaker 3 (49:08):
I was in uh counter Righty. It's a bomb disposal outfit.
But I knew I want to go back, even though
I didn't want to go back. It's is such a
long story where I'm going to get new and I
want to run my own team, and I want to
run the team.

Speaker 2 (49:22):
And I got that wish.

Speaker 3 (49:25):
I ran Counter Righty Team one in Kannaheera City, which
is the most dangerous place in in r AO. I'm
not going to say the most dangerous place in Afghanistan
because that's arguable.

Speaker 2 (49:35):
And I got what I wanted. I remember rolling out.

Speaker 3 (49:38):
So what happens is you get you you land in
Kenna Hairfield, and you have like two three days to
sort your ship out and get all your gear ready
and get everybody ready to go, and then you roll
out to where you're going to be.

Speaker 2 (49:51):
And I remember rolling out. I'm looking down and.

Speaker 3 (49:55):
I'm up in the hatch right, So I'm in this
big fucking huge truck with a machine gun on it
and stuff, and I got all my guys down.

Speaker 2 (50:02):
Below me and I just.

Speaker 3 (50:06):
Because a couple of those guys I met their wives
before I left, and they're crying like, please make sure
he gets home alive. And that's a tall fucking order.

Speaker 2 (50:13):
And Jesus Christ.

Speaker 3 (50:15):
Yeah, so there was at least two of them that
said that, and like, how do you respond to that?
You just like, man, I'll get them home, you know.
And I remember being this is day three rolling out,
and I was good to go because I'd been there.
I'd like literally just came back and I'm going back again,
so I'm good to go. But I had a bunch
of guys who hadn't been there, and it's just like,

(50:39):
you just have this moment where you're like, oh, man,
you got what you want to dude. You want to
run a team. You want to run a team. So
now you're running a fucking team and you're responsible for
these guys alive the next seven months. So that's that
moment where you're like, fucking it's a humbling moment where
you just kind of reflect and go, Okay, hey, we're here,

(51:01):
let's go make sure your shit's tight and keep these
guys tight.

Speaker 2 (51:05):
And so that's it. Does that answer your question? Because
that's dude, fuck it.

Speaker 5 (51:10):
Listen, pretty much anything that you say in that kind
of regard is going to answer my question because none
of us have ever experienced anything like that.

Speaker 2 (51:19):
It's a weird.

Speaker 3 (51:19):
It's a fucking surreal moment in life. And that's why,
you know what, Like, that's why I just don't I
don't want to get into it anyways. Yeah, so that
that's yeah, it was like that, I'm like, fuck you.
You you wanted this, and you you you were that
nerdy little kid at seventeen years old, nineteen eighty eight,

(51:41):
join the army for a summer job, and then here
we are now and you got exactly what you want
and you're rolling a fucking specialized team out the.

Speaker 2 (51:50):
Door and you you're responsible.

Speaker 3 (51:54):
You take a bombs out and I'm responsible for these
guys' lives for next seven months plus, the lives averywady
around me like I'm not responding, but I feel like,
really connected is my team?

Speaker 1 (52:02):
You know?

Speaker 2 (52:03):
So it was fucking it, really it didn't.

Speaker 3 (52:07):
It didn't mind fucked me that much, but it was
in my head it's in your head, right, so you're
going to manage that, and you're like, Okay, hang on,
I need to get back to fucking neutrality because I
always told the guys over there, it's going to sound weird.

Speaker 5 (52:22):
You guys hate the enemy, Yeah, we hate the enemy's stop.
No hate, no love. Hate and love have no place
in war. It's just business. I need you to be
iceman right down the middle. It's just business. Take care
of the business. Because emotion fucks up a decision process,
right right. If you, like everybody experiences this in life,

(52:46):
when you are over emotional, positively or negatively, you're probably
not going to make the decision you know that you
should be because because you're allowing that to influence the
decision process. So I train my mind, which actually is
not good in life, to just be like fucking cold

(53:10):
as ice and like no emotion, zero emotion, no love,
no hate, get it done, because that's what it took
for me to get these guys through this.

Speaker 2 (53:21):
So that was kind of like, that's it.

Speaker 5 (53:24):
So when you have a moment like that and you
say that you've got to be that kind of iceman
sort of personality. There's that classic scene in American Sniper
where Chris Kyle is having that kind of moment where
he's looking through the scope of his rifle and he
sees that child pick up the the I know what's

(53:47):
just talking about. Would the real Chris Kyle, aside from
Bradley Cooper, would the real Chris Kyle just say as
soon as you aim that, I've become iceman and that
kind of thought process, like you say, goes out the window.

Speaker 3 (54:00):
No no, no, like and I know some Sierra call
signs as we call them snipers. I know a few,
and that's those are hard decisions to make. It's like,
if I am wrong, I'm forever changed. If I'm right,
I save someone's life, right, and then you just you
figure it out in real time on on, on the flying,

(54:23):
on the ground, and fuck man, we made some game
day decisions, if you will, about what we're going to
do we're not going to do, and it's it's nerve
racking because you just don't know how it's going to unfold.

Speaker 2 (54:37):
And then like when it's when the decision is done.

Speaker 3 (54:39):
And the problem about here's the problem with being not
that we're turning this into a fucking mental health show.
You can't park emotion. Oh sorry, you can park it,
but it's coming back because you just can't run from it.
It's it's it's part of what makes you a human being.

(55:01):
So it comes back. So it's like, how long can
I park this just to get us the fuck out
of here and get us through this ship?

Speaker 2 (55:08):
Is what it's like.

Speaker 1 (55:09):
And that successively is a toll on you over multiple deployments.
I just can't fucking can't keep doing this, man, all
the time. And that's that's why. Sorry, go Chris, no, no, no,
go ahead. My question was going to be like that
would be why, like a majority of military personnel that

(55:33):
have seen stuff, the the processing of an information comes later.

Speaker 3 (55:44):
Yes, and you don't know and you don't know when.
It could be while you're there. It could be, uh,
three months later or like in mind, I'm not gonna
get into my ship, but like ten years later where yeah,
suddenly you're you're going off the rails and you're a
fucking math and then like you're not, like what the
hell's wrong?

Speaker 2 (56:03):
Man?

Speaker 3 (56:04):
I'm good, I was good. I'm a rock star and
a fucking goddamn machine. And then well, you know you're not.
You're a human being that went to shitty places that
do shitty things, the shitty people and saw shitty things
and then like, man, you think you're good to go
and then you're not right.

Speaker 2 (56:19):
So that's uh. And I thought I was. I really did.
I fucking believe I thought it was a fucking goddamn
iron man.

Speaker 14 (56:26):
You know.

Speaker 2 (56:26):
Nope, No, you're not.

Speaker 3 (56:28):
So you can park stuff for a little while, but
you can have eventually gonna to deal with it, right,
So hey, at the end of the day, No, I
got I lost a bunch of guys over there, which
pissed me off, and I carry it around. But my
own team, I got them through and I got them home.
Like you take the win, right, fuck take the win?

(56:48):
So yeah, and you're still friends with those guys yep, yep,
I talked to most of them.

Speaker 1 (56:54):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (56:54):
That's awesome. Fuck.

Speaker 3 (56:56):
Yeah, these are bonds for life, right, like these are
you know, like like I said, like zero point two
percent of the population serves in the Canadian forest. Is
the percentage of that that goes over to ship we
did is like half of that number. It's it's a
very very very small number of people.

Speaker 13 (57:13):
M hm.

Speaker 5 (57:15):
So when you watch some of these there's a there's
sixty five million movies about war in the military and
what have you. When you watch any of those, does
it does it are the any of them triggering for
you or is it something you know what just kind
of you've accepted over the years, or like, how does
that work?

Speaker 3 (57:33):
There's a few I well, I don't watch a lot
of that stuff, Like I don't like like so remembered
stay for for guys like me and I'm gonna speak
for broadband for a lot of people.

Speaker 2 (57:43):
We don't.

Speaker 3 (57:45):
Like the tribute videos and all that shit, like we
just don't want that. That's it's a good thing. It's
good for especially for the general population of the country.
You need to know about these things. But the flip
side and the irony is we don't.

Speaker 1 (58:02):
Remember.

Speaker 2 (58:03):
We don't enjoy remembers. Today. It's it's the worst fucking
day of the year. Okay, there I said it. It
really is. It's a hard day.

Speaker 3 (58:10):
Yeah, you know, outside of specific dates when people got
killed or whatever, remember, today is a fucking hard time
of the year. So most of my day has been
spent like today talking to my buddies on text that
are that I didn't spend the day with Hey, how
you holding up?

Speaker 2 (58:25):
It's a hard day to get through.

Speaker 3 (58:27):
Yeah, And like there's a lot of guys that don't
want to go do anything, and I said, it's important
that you do.

Speaker 2 (58:33):
Like guys like I don't want to wear my medals.
I'm like, no, you need to wear your medals. But
it's not for you.

Speaker 3 (58:38):
It's to show everybody in this freaking country what this
is about. This is this is where we have to
the one day of the year where unfortunately we need
to be salesmen. That's a shitty word. I wish I
didn't say that, but I can't. I'm gapping right now
for a better word.

Speaker 5 (58:56):
But it's a you know, if we don't perpetuate what
we did, what my grandfather did with guys who went
to Korea, World War two, world War one, wherever, Like,
no one's gonna remember they're they're not going to know
because people, and specifically in Canada live in this little
bubble because there's never been conflict here.

Speaker 3 (59:18):
This isn't a fucking real rebellion or whatever. Like they
just don't get it. They have no concepts.

Speaker 5 (59:24):
So like you got to educate them on it, even
if you don't want to do it and it sucks
because you don't feel like doing it, and shit, you
have to do it.

Speaker 3 (59:34):
It's important that you do it, So do it. Yeah,
and like that's what I tell them all my guys. Man,
I know you don't wan a weigh you're fucking medals.
I know you don't want to go to this. I
know you don't want to talk to that guy. I
know you don't like here and thank you for your service.
What you'd rather do is hide in your fucking house
and just have a few beers salute your brothers. But no,

(59:55):
we're going to go out. We're going to go do
the things because it's important because if we don't do.

Speaker 5 (59:59):
It, who is going to do it? Yeah, it was
gonna do it. Yeah, so each ship one day here,
you know, you said that's how we feel. People are like, what,
that's how you guys feel, Like, Yeah, that's how we feel. Yeah,
you said something so fucking brilliant. And it was the
end of the poem that you wrote on your that
you read on your show just before the Dire Straits tune. Yeah,

(01:00:20):
that incredible, beautiful song by Mark Knopfler and Company. But
you the last line of the poem that you read,
which that's what put me in fucking tears, dude, because
I was literally when I listened to your show the
other day, I was literally fucking bawling. Was you said,
I give you the fucking freedom to burn the flag
that I stand for, and I just fucking lost it.

Speaker 2 (01:00:44):
And as so fucking lutely, I completely agree with you.

Speaker 3 (01:00:50):
Abs so fucking some guy chirping at me about everything
we did, I'm like, you know what, man, you're welcome. Yes,
if you tried that ship in fucking North Korea, China
and Rush or whatever, you'd be dead.

Speaker 2 (01:01:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:01:03):
The amount of fucking privilege that you have to identify
as whoever you want or any of that or any
of that stuff whatever, Yeah, I have no problem with it.
You identify, how are the fuck you want? I really
don't care. But at the end of the day, it's
off of the backs of these men and women who
have given you that right to do that. The amount

(01:01:25):
of privilege that you have is fucking astounding, because, as
I say, you try doing that in China or North
Korea or sorry, Palestine, wherever it's it's just it ain't
gonna work out for you, right, so I just I
you know, that's why I think, that's why it's so
important for us to say thank you to that.

Speaker 3 (01:01:47):
It was hard hard doing that show man, Like I thought,
I was, yeah, I can't imagine if fucking So I
literally I started recording it and I was like halfway through,
I'm like, this is fucked.

Speaker 2 (01:01:57):
I'm on a mess. So I stopped.

Speaker 3 (01:02:00):
I went downstairs, had a rye, had a smoke instead
of okayry think about it. Because I already had the
music lined up, I knew what I wanted to do
because I wanted a diversity in the music, like not
anti war, but the negative side of war, and then
the support that the troops need, like I'll tell you what, man,
you want to go outside the gate and you need

(01:02:20):
a little bit of fucking help, little courage disturbed all
day every day, baby, that that helps you. It gets
you through it, man, it pumps you up. So I
wanted that balance. But I've been trying to do the
narrative on the on the show, I'm like, I'm just fucked.
I'm like, oh man, this is hard. And I thought
it was gonna be And because I'm usually working off

(01:02:42):
me and Mad Dog or whoever I have on the
rock or it's easier when it's two guys, but it's
just you and you're trying to send this message, you know,
and you get in your own head.

Speaker 2 (01:02:51):
So it was tough. It was hard, but got it up.

Speaker 1 (01:02:54):
And I need to line this.

Speaker 2 (01:02:56):
Up because I was gonna do the poem in the
front end.

Speaker 3 (01:02:57):
I'm like, nope, I'm going to time any with brothers
and Arms because there's enough of a you know, instrumental
breakup front, yeah, to fit it in. And so that's
how I did it. Like, I'm glad it resonated. I
hope everybody liked that fucking perfectly.

Speaker 2 (01:03:11):
That's how it was. That's how I wanted to do it, you.

Speaker 5 (01:03:14):
Know, by the end of it literally and then of
course you fucking perfectly, you know, dude, by the way,
nice post. Uh, you know, it's like I just buy like,
you know, as soon as I hear Mark Knopfler's voice
come in and start singing Brothers in.

Speaker 2 (01:03:28):
Arms, I was. I was an absolute fucking mess. I
was done. So it was perfect.

Speaker 5 (01:03:33):
If you wouldn't mind, would you mind reading that poem
before the end of the program tonight?

Speaker 2 (01:03:39):
Is that okay?

Speaker 1 (01:03:40):
Or is al read it is that?

Speaker 5 (01:03:42):
Okay, Yeah, I just gonna go find it. It don't
read perfect. Yeah, so if you could before the end
of the show, that was.

Speaker 3 (01:03:47):
Yeah, I will because it And the point of doing
that then was because I balanced the music about negative
aspects of war, which were written by probably anti war artists,
which is fine.

Speaker 2 (01:03:58):
I have no problem with that.

Speaker 3 (01:04:00):
And then you know the pomp it up songs, and
I said, doesn't matter what you think, here's what I
have to say, and here and the and the poem
says it all. And I will read it when we
when we wrap it up. So I will do that
for sure.

Speaker 4 (01:04:14):
Man.

Speaker 2 (01:04:14):
No, I appreciate it.

Speaker 5 (01:04:15):
And I think one of the things that I appreciate
the most is is someone who's been there, you know,
and like I asked you that question of you know,
did you have that come to god moment of looking
up at the sky and saying, please just get me
through this?

Speaker 2 (01:04:28):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (01:04:29):
Hell yeah you and you even said you even yeah,
you even saying dude, fucking great question. I'm so fucking
lutely you know what I mean. It's like, that's why
I can't stand armchair pundits. You know that that ship
on something like what you know that ship on the
freedom that they have. Anyway, that's all I just I

(01:04:49):
don't want to turn this show into and we're not
getting all political and shipped now exactly, but things a
good time. Listen, things do need to be said because
right now there's a climate in North America that is
just not healthy and you know, we uh, we all
need to kind of take a step back and uh
and have conversations sometimes. You know, the conversations that we

(01:05:10):
need to have are not the fun stuff, it's not
the good stuff, but yeah, I have them, you know.
So anyway, doudet play a song. Let's play a couple
that's right show.

Speaker 2 (01:05:22):
If I could, Derek, I'm going to spend the first
one if you don't mind.

Speaker 5 (01:05:25):
Uh. Track A track by the fellow by the name
of Mike Plume. This track is called on Remembrance Day.
He was Gloom who was inspired to write the song
for his great uncle Harold Joyce, who was killed during
the Battle of rs at the age of twenty one.
It was one hundred years ago this year. His grandmother
had written a book about the Joyce family, and Mike

(01:05:47):
told Jim Barber he struggled to write a song that
was focused on his great uncle alone. Instead, he says
in quotes, I decided that instead of making it a
song about one soldier in particular, I tried to make
it about every soldier in general.

Speaker 2 (01:06:02):
He said. I tried to leave it open. I wanted
it to ring.

Speaker 5 (01:06:05):
True to our soldiers today as well. This track is
by Mike Plume. The track is called On Remembrance Day,
Hanging with our dearest friend the Army Chris a true
and and we're gonna play a couple of tunes and
Derek's got one next, which is an awesome one.

Speaker 2 (01:06:26):
By the way.

Speaker 1 (01:06:26):
It's right here on Revolution Radio Canada. Canadian as heck.

Speaker 15 (01:06:43):
Who took a stand and did a far off land,
help our children understand on Remembrance Day. For every hero
who said goodbye, left behind the blessing bride.

Speaker 9 (01:07:07):
His mother's heart still fills with pride.

Speaker 4 (01:07:10):
Home Remembrance, Dave Hutton.

Speaker 16 (01:07:16):
Two three Evil Johnny goes a marching aft.

Speaker 9 (01:07:22):
Remember what they are fighting for.

Speaker 4 (01:07:26):
Holl Remembrancetey.

Speaker 15 (01:07:34):
For every hero who in battle fell in a field,
raining down with shelves, it's their story we must tell.

Speaker 4 (01:07:44):
Home Remembrance Dave.

Speaker 16 (01:07:49):
Hutton, two three Johnny goes a marching aloft.

Speaker 9 (01:07:56):
Remember what they were fighting.

Speaker 4 (01:07:58):
For, princetea.

Speaker 15 (01:08:22):
Every hero who volunteered to defend us both for near
every reason.

Speaker 4 (01:08:30):
We're standing in on remembrance de.

Speaker 16 (01:08:39):
Toul Johnny goes and marching off.

Speaker 9 (01:08:44):
Remember what they were fighting for?

Speaker 16 (01:08:48):
Remember two threeful Johnny goes to march in loft.

Speaker 9 (01:08:58):
Remember what they were I am for.

Speaker 15 (01:09:05):
Remembrance Day, for every hero to the stand and did
in a far off lamb. We must help our children
do understand.

Speaker 4 (01:09:28):
Remembrance.

Speaker 2 (01:09:52):
I apologize.

Speaker 5 (01:09:53):
I'm just trying to boot this up properly so that
we can have a wonderful tune from our man Derek,
who wanted to hear this one.

Speaker 1 (01:10:01):
Echoes of Heroes Gordon Lightfoot Revolution Radio.

Speaker 7 (01:10:15):
How the echo of the heroes is heard everywhere, and
the conflict of old times of despair all down through
the ages, the voices during they cry out.

Speaker 1 (01:10:29):
Of victory and a freedom.

Speaker 7 (01:10:30):
They sing, the echo of the laughter and the songs
that they sang, the whine on the steel, and the
roar of the guns, the tolling of the bell, and
the crist lady, and the echoes of the heroes roll
down through the ages, to remind us again. In the

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fields of Flanders, the brave one is July. Haven't done
any prey where a million men died, From the man
to the song, to the Normandy shore, Their spirits comuching,
where the wild eagles soar, the len in the skies.

Speaker 2 (01:11:20):
And the ocean.

Speaker 7 (01:11:21):
As they come, all unworthly march as the drummers do drum.

Speaker 1 (01:11:27):
Their faces are.

Speaker 7 (01:11:28):
Bloody and their weapons warm.

Speaker 1 (01:11:31):
Their bones are all shattered, and.

Speaker 7 (01:11:33):
Their bodies all torn. The echo of the laughter and
the songs that they sang a line on the steel,
the roar of the guns, and the tooling of the bell,
and the.

Speaker 9 (01:11:47):
Cris lady.

Speaker 7 (01:11:51):
In the Echoes of the Heroes roll down through the
ages to remind us again? Must this be the time
they're traveling?

Speaker 2 (01:12:07):
Yet?

Speaker 7 (01:12:09):
Must this be the time when the nations forget all
the sons and the fathers had joined in the pray
to be killed and destroyed and be buried in the clay.
The echo of the laughter and the songs that they sang.
Why are the stealing, the roar of the guns, the

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tooling of the bell, and the cries of the lamee
in the echoes of the Heroes roll down through the ages.

Speaker 9 (01:12:39):
To remind us again.

Speaker 7 (01:12:42):
The echo of the laughter and the songs that they sang.
Why are the stealing and the roar of the guns
and the tooling of the bell and the cries the
lamee in the echoes of the Heroes roll down through
the ages to remind us.

Speaker 2 (01:13:02):
A game.

Speaker 1 (01:13:10):
Amazing Gordon Lightfoot right here on Canadian as heck that
song is called Echo Echo. There was a change in
Gordon Lightfoot's singing and playing and whatnot, and that came
nineteen sixty two and nineteen sixty three. Now, one of

(01:13:31):
the earliest songs was that noted that change, that noted
that like like was Echo of Heroes. He performed the
song May nineteen sixty five at the Cave in Cleveland,
and the recording is one of that got put up

(01:13:52):
as Koala on on their two Bot Likes Andy. Echo
of Heroes is on Get Together. The LP is the
other LP that it's on. It's called Yellowbird. It's a
pro very much Gordon Lightfoot's style. He apparently doesn't think
much of the song, or didn't He didn't really, Yeah,

(01:14:17):
he didn't. It wasn't. It wasn't one of his one
of his favorites. Uh and uh, it's not like, it's
not Don Quixote and it's not sit Down, Young Stranger.

Speaker 5 (01:14:32):
And it's very very great track. It's great track. Yeah, nice,
nice one, Derek, good stuff. Yeah, I managed to track
that down.

Speaker 1 (01:14:43):
Good job.

Speaker 5 (01:14:45):
Yeah, thanks buddy. Okay, Chris, got a question for you.
Wondered what the heck this is? Speaking of short forms,
I believe if I see this from time to time
on your Instagram posts, and I'm always wondering, what does
this stand for?

Speaker 2 (01:15:01):
Here we go.

Speaker 5 (01:15:03):
V F F V.

Speaker 13 (01:15:05):
Is that it?

Speaker 2 (01:15:06):
That is correct? So that's veterans Forever Forever veterans. Oh, gotcha?
Very cool. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:15:16):
So I don't talk about it a lot because it
gets controversial for some reason. But I'm in a motorcycle club,
a veterans motorcycle club called the Veterans Motorcycle Club, m
aptly fitting name, I know. I mean that's pretty much
the whole story.

Speaker 2 (01:15:35):
All right.

Speaker 5 (01:15:35):
Good, So chances are you probably don't traffic cocaine. No, right,
got it.

Speaker 2 (01:15:41):
I don't think there's a problem with you being a
biker gang.

Speaker 1 (01:15:43):
No, my, my, my, My club is all about Actually,
you know what you brought up I'm gonna bring it up.

Speaker 2 (01:15:49):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (01:15:50):
So I'm not a huge fan of the Royal Canty Legion, Okay,
but I'll tell you why. And I don't hang on
before everybody fucking flips a fucking nut here. I get it,
but understand this. So when when I joined the military
in nineteen eighty eight, we would go to revers. You

(01:16:12):
had to go to reverstate ceremonies, right, you're in uniforms,
that's what you did. But we were not considered veterans
because we were in a war at that time, right,
we were in peace support operations, peace kipping missions and shit. So,
and there was still a lot of World War Two
dudes kicking around Korean War vets, much respect to all
of them, so we were like guests.

Speaker 2 (01:16:37):
And then years later, as the uh.

Speaker 3 (01:16:42):
The World War Two vets were dying off and the
Korean War vets were thinning out, they're like, hey, you
guys should join the legion and it was run by
civilians and stuff, and we're like, nope, fucking you treated
me like a second class citizen then, so no, no, no, so,

(01:17:04):
And if you look at the history of of all
motorcycle clubs, I'm not gonna take an hour to do
this and wrap this up in ninety seconds or less.
One of the first ones was was a club called
the Funk were they called good job, well done, well
well done, well done, well done.

Speaker 1 (01:17:26):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (01:17:27):
The early motorcycle clubs, including the Hell's Angels and all
these other clubs were Roads or the no, it's whatever.
They're based on military guys coming back from war that
had no place to go, right, they formed groups to
be with like minded people.

Speaker 2 (01:17:44):
So we did the same thing.

Speaker 3 (01:17:48):
That's my when I when I joined this the club
that I'm in right now, and there's a there's a
bunch of ones.

Speaker 2 (01:17:53):
That's who I was with today.

Speaker 3 (01:17:55):
Was was different military motorcycle clubs, and we're not fucking
running guns and selling drugs and all that bullshit that
you might see on TV or whatever. It's just sorry, yeah,
we need no it's very much easy rider. Yeah sorry.
Was Booze Fighter's MC. That's one of the original ones.

(01:18:15):
That's who I was thinking. Okay, cool, a very old
club and all excellent old dudes just came back from
war and like just couldn't transition to citvy life very well.
And there wasn't anything in place back then. So they
created these clubs, you know, down to the bikes and road, which.

Speaker 5 (01:18:32):
Makes perfect sense because that community, that brotherhood. Yes, like
so that that's what's That's all it's about. Is the
hierarchy structure too, Yeah, well absolutely, because you keep that
structure right. We were very much structured the way we
were in the military because people need that. Like a
lot of people like, oh, you must be so happy
to not be in that structure, Like, well, no, these

(01:18:53):
guys need that structure, they need that environment.

Speaker 2 (01:18:56):
They you know, they just do. So that's that's what
it was about.

Speaker 1 (01:19:01):
And I gravitated towards it quickly, and I've been in
it for fifteen years and I don't talk about it
a lot because it's controversial all the fucking time for
no reason.

Speaker 2 (01:19:09):
So but it is.

Speaker 3 (01:19:10):
But that's so when you see my post on Igien
and shit like that. Yeah, man, I'm a proud member
of my club, and I'm part of seven clubs worldwide.
We're international, seven different patches but one one Green White Alliance.

Speaker 2 (01:19:25):
So that's what that's about. And we take care of
each other, you know, that's.

Speaker 1 (01:19:30):
What we do.

Speaker 5 (01:19:31):
It's interesting. There's some if I'm not mistaken for Ontario vats.
I think if I'm not mistaken, I believe that the
Liquor Control Board of Ontario, one of their jobs was
actually to hire veterans. I think those were some of
the first people that were actually high. Yeah, there's a
find the company. There's a lot of initiatives out there.

(01:19:54):
Hard Hats to Heroes is one I saw on when
I paid attention to LinkedIn. I'm retired now, so I
don't care, but there's a bunch out there that you know,
veterans get priority higher should they meet the requirements right, Like,
obviously you still have to be good to go with this.

Speaker 2 (01:20:11):
Whatever it is.

Speaker 3 (01:20:12):
You have to meet the competencies that are required to
do that job. But I respect that, and there's a
lot there's a lot of initiatives out there to take
the problem. The biggest problem is this. They do have
programs in place for veterans, for guys that are retiring
from the military to transition to city street, but I
really think it's weak at best.

Speaker 2 (01:20:36):
You have a lot of skill sets.

Speaker 3 (01:20:38):
Like when I left the military, I became a project
manager in construction because I could just make things happen.
It's all the ship that I did not. I wasn't
a PMP. I didn't do all this stuff. And I
just boom automatically hire our major oil and gas companies
in out Elburro because I'm out in Burda.

Speaker 2 (01:20:56):
So sorry, what's PMP? Sorry?

Speaker 3 (01:20:58):
Project Management Professional the designation from PMI Project Management Institute,
and I became a PM and it was a PM
for a decade because it just was natural to me
as to how to run things logistics, timings, management and
money and blah blah blahlah blah. Right, So that just
to rewind My point is this, people leaving the military

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have skills they don't know they have.

Speaker 2 (01:21:26):
Like they don't.

Speaker 5 (01:21:27):
So we, you know, we try to help guys through
that and say, hey man, you actually you know more
than you think you than you think you know.

Speaker 2 (01:21:36):
It's it's it's the same.

Speaker 3 (01:21:37):
I can't remember who that's there's some rich guy said,
you know, the whole point of a university college degree
was not well not what your degree was in, but
more to the point of you committed four years with
an investment, you showed up every day on time, did
your thing, blah blah blah. Right, it's it's no different.

(01:21:59):
So X ex military guys.

Speaker 2 (01:22:03):
Not all of them. Some of were shitty people. Trust me.

Speaker 3 (01:22:05):
There's a lot of junk guys in the army lots.
There's a lot of good guys. But they're good at
being on time, yeah, being being good to go, being
being ready to work, and they will work good worth, work,
ethic and you know, what the hell more do you want?
It's a good start, right, So, uh, there's a lot.

(01:22:27):
There's long story short, there's a lot of transferable skills
that military people have that they just don't really have.
So we try to, you know, help help these guys transition.
And it's a lot better than it used to be,
because fucking back in the nineties it was nothing.

Speaker 1 (01:22:43):
It was nothing. But it's better than better now, that's good.
There was a there was a study done very recently
that I was reading about in regards to the the
what you were saying, structure and structure and discipline, and.

Speaker 9 (01:23:01):
It is, it is, it is.

Speaker 1 (01:23:03):
It is absolutely amazing. Human mind thrives under structure and discipline.
Where whereas you give it, you give it, it degrades
if you don't get it the same time every day.

Speaker 5 (01:23:19):
You're right, you're one hundred percent right. Absolutely and absolutely
going going.

Speaker 1 (01:23:24):
Back like we're dead, you're not eating that frog, You're
not you know all those things, blah blah blah.

Speaker 3 (01:23:28):
If you I still I still get I'm retired. I
still get up at six am every day. I make
my bed and I structure my day because if you
don't do that, you degrade right like it fucking retire
I didn't. I'll tell everyody right now, So I don't
normally talk about the ship. I didn't plan to retire.
I've just kind of moved into retirement. I don't want

(01:23:49):
to talk about what that's all about, but it's a fact.
So I'm fifty three years old. I'm retired. But that's
a transition in life. Like you don't you don't work anymore.
You work on your own projects, like what we're doing now,
or what I do on my own, you know, my
own ship. It's a hard thing because you go from
a structured day to oh, I don't have to do anything.

(01:24:11):
I know so many guys that just can't create their
own structure. That's sink into depression, which leads to substance abuse.
Is least you know, they're focked. It's like, hey man,
and my advice is, look, get up, make your bed,
plan your day, make a list of ship you need

(01:24:31):
to do. And this is this goes out to everybody, No,
not just ex military, anybody anyone anyway. That's just like
you're if you're gapping in life, here's what you do.
Get up, make your bed, go have a coffee, eat
breakfast if that's your thing, and then make a list
of ship you need done around the house, whatever, small, big,

(01:24:53):
You don't even have to rock them all off if
you hit two three things. Satisfaction comes from successful completion
of things like Okay, I did this today, Like you're
always gonna feel better? You got correct me, I'm wrong,
you're a percent right you. When you achieve things that
you set out to do, you will feel better about

(01:25:16):
your life.

Speaker 2 (01:25:17):
And so fucking do that.

Speaker 3 (01:25:18):
And that's what I tell retire military guys that just
don't know, like they're lost because they spend a billion
years in the army and now they're like bam, done
and they don't know what to do. It's like, hey,
don't change anything. Just now you're you're self directing, but
somebody else now you're doing it, So figure it out. Yeah,

(01:25:40):
plan your fucking day and get it done and then go, Okay,
what do I get done today?

Speaker 2 (01:25:43):
This, this, and this? I feel pretty good about that.

Speaker 3 (01:25:46):
I think I deserve a rye and then have a rye,
go to bed, get up and do it again, and
do that every day because you just cannot do nothing.

Speaker 1 (01:25:55):
Doing nothing just erode you. It will erode you. It'll
fucking kill you.

Speaker 2 (01:26:00):
Yeah. So, yeah, where were we going with this?

Speaker 5 (01:26:04):
I think we actually went to a great place. I've
got amazing to get You're absolutely right, one hundred percent
righty Oh shit, I knew I should answer your question.

Speaker 1 (01:26:19):
You did answer the question.

Speaker 2 (01:26:21):
Okay, good, so I think you know.

Speaker 1 (01:26:29):
Listen, we greatly appreciate your time for hanging out with
us today.

Speaker 2 (01:26:33):
And like you say, we know this is a.

Speaker 1 (01:26:35):
Hard day for it is a hard day for those
that have served. We appreciate your hanging and still talking
about it because we know it's been a long day, tough.

Speaker 4 (01:26:44):
Well.

Speaker 3 (01:26:45):
First of all, I love you two assholes, and number two,
it gives me an opportunity to send some messaging out
to to to uh to the people who are listening
and watching, so, which.

Speaker 2 (01:26:57):
I think is important.

Speaker 3 (01:26:58):
Like it's again, it's it's one of those weird days
because it was well, it's our day.

Speaker 2 (01:27:04):
It's about us. I'm like, well, is it it is?
And it isn't.

Speaker 3 (01:27:08):
It's also about messaging because you know, you could say,
lest we forget, well, if who's gonna make sure no
one forgets?

Speaker 1 (01:27:18):
Sucking we are, that's it.

Speaker 2 (01:27:20):
So it's us.

Speaker 1 (01:27:21):
So step up through your part, even though it sucks,
get it done and move on.

Speaker 2 (01:27:26):
Okay, SR.

Speaker 1 (01:27:29):
Like, I got home, go go go, you talk.

Speaker 2 (01:27:33):
Who's going here? You are?

Speaker 1 (01:27:35):
Chris is?

Speaker 3 (01:27:36):
I got my medals in this little thing and I
only take them out one time a year, So I
got it done today. I got home fucking exhausted, totally
forgot we were doing this, But glad.

Speaker 2 (01:27:46):
You reminded me.

Speaker 1 (01:27:48):
And I put my metal two days ago.

Speaker 9 (01:27:50):
I know you did.

Speaker 2 (01:27:53):
On Saturday, busy, a long day.

Speaker 3 (01:27:58):
Army guys drink a lot of alcohol. Okay I did, right.
I know the monitors to say, oh that's no good. Yeah, no,
actually it is good and we quite enjoyed ourselves. So yeah,
but I'm glad to be on and I wanted to
deliver the messaging because it is important. It's because if
we don't remind people who the fuck is going to
do it, but I don't know who's going to do it,

(01:28:20):
but the government. No, yeah, that's for we're going to
do it. Yeah, exactly, so exactly, Derek, you were going
to say something totally forgot what it was.

Speaker 1 (01:28:31):
Did you catch after did you catch the show after
Canada Day.

Speaker 2 (01:28:37):
After Canada Day?

Speaker 7 (01:28:39):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:28:40):
Like that was in July, buddy, it's November.

Speaker 1 (01:28:43):
No, but I haven't spoken to you in a long time.

Speaker 13 (01:28:46):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:28:48):
Probably, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:28:50):
So they did, uh they did the the Oh yeah
yes I did, yeah, yeah, yeah, yes, huge man, it's crazy.

Speaker 2 (01:29:05):
It was a heel. So so okay, so I.

Speaker 1 (01:29:10):
I was up because I'm up. I'm up in Saint John's,
uh for for that weekend every year and oh really yeah,
every year there's a tattoo convention in Saint John's.

Speaker 5 (01:29:21):
Okay, Okay, I check out, and I got to say
here comes through with some amazing content that weekend.

Speaker 2 (01:29:26):
So I just saying, I do We're gonna have no
content on Revolution Radio.

Speaker 1 (01:29:32):
So we are one day. Uh anyway, So so I'm
sitting there it's like three two three two three in
the morning, Mocker out.

Speaker 2 (01:29:43):
There with the jew Street just fucking wracked.

Speaker 1 (01:29:47):
No, I'm not on George Street. Okay, No, I'm I'm
good because I got to work the weekend, right, so
I'm sober. Majority Oh yeah, good point. And uh and
and this guy's a with the leaf flows got to
draw on people three o'clock in the mornings, and it's
a gas powered leaf flower, so it's fucking noisy as git. Right,

(01:30:08):
He's out there at two thirty, he's out there at
three thirty, he's out there at four thirty. Who was
out there at five? And then they started setting up
at six? And I was like, what the fuck is
going on? And then I finally got a lot of leaves.
There were a lot of leaves. He was getting all
the dirt out of everywhere where. But that's because like

(01:30:30):
Justin and all the all the big Hoobiti hoobies were there.

Speaker 2 (01:30:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:30:34):
Yeah, So I sat and I watched this. I watched
I watched this ceremony go on. I'm sitting in the
apartment because there's no way you can't you can't get
out into the street because they're just full. So I'm
literally sitting in the apartment overlooks that monument in in

(01:30:57):
uh in Newfoundland downtown, in downtown Saint John's, uh Water
Street and it's and there's there were these two that
were sitting there and they're like ninety thousand years old.

Speaker 2 (01:31:18):
Yeah, and I have.

Speaker 1 (01:31:21):
Just watching these two guys. They didn't say anything. They
were just there so pissed because what we were talking
about earlier. Yeah, people with the with the privilege of things,
and I'm like looking at.

Speaker 5 (01:31:41):
Lost literally everything, so that to afford us to with
what we have now. It's the most interesting thing to
me that I ever saw in my life.

Speaker 3 (01:31:55):
Was so going back to Bossie in two thousand and three,
so I was working with Dutch guys and Brits and
this Dutch guy we're having a fucking beer one night
and he's just in tears. And every buddy in the
in the Netherlands and I have a lot of a
lot of fucking close brothers in the Netherlands.

Speaker 2 (01:32:18):
That they learn.

Speaker 3 (01:32:22):
In school about what Canada did deliberate their country, and
this guy was just in tears, like just he was
so happy to work with me and stuff, and he's like,
fuck it, I don't you know, and like we just
don't do that in our education system, Like I don't

(01:32:42):
know what social studies looks like today, but if it
looks like what it looked like when I was in school,
it's fucking bleak because there's not a lot talked about
about Canadian achievements, you know, when it comes to that,
because we just ooh, well, we don't want to talk
about war.

Speaker 2 (01:33:01):
I'm like, fucking why trust me? Trust me? I don't.
Violence is not always a solution to things, but sometimes
it is.

Speaker 3 (01:33:10):
Sometimes the practical application of violence works very well, you know,
And I know it's a thing that Canada shies away from.
But that's that reciprocating catch twenty two. Because you're under
your umbrella like, oh, everything's good here. We've never experienced conflict.
If you fucking lived through conflict like most of Europe has,

(01:33:30):
you might respect it a little bit more.

Speaker 2 (01:33:32):
So that's that's the thing for me.

Speaker 1 (01:33:34):
You know.

Speaker 5 (01:33:35):
Yeah, I've literally, literally I've literally bitten my tongue tonight,
like eight times.

Speaker 2 (01:33:41):
But anyway, I just we all have.

Speaker 1 (01:33:44):
Chris is so restrained. Anyway, Yeah, I'm watching it. I
usually am.

Speaker 5 (01:33:55):
I'm literally I am so just watching my tongue because
I want Revolution Radio to be a thing and we
all work hard at what we do and at the
end of the day.

Speaker 2 (01:34:05):
There's just certain fucking you know entities out there that
could you know, we have we have well not crazy.

Speaker 1 (01:34:13):
I gotta find that poem, boy, Yeah, if you could
find that poem, that'd be great.

Speaker 3 (01:34:17):
Browsers here, So I might look like I'm fucking half
baked here for a minute, give me a minute.

Speaker 1 (01:34:25):
You might look like your old buddy Craig g under
a fucking heat lamp.

Speaker 2 (01:34:28):
Might look like Craig g under a heat lamb.

Speaker 1 (01:34:31):
Is literally really it's a dozen eggs breaks chickens, Chris.
Do you know that I've actually been applauded in the
past for my imitation of you? Have you?

Speaker 2 (01:34:44):
Really? Yeah? Wow? So do you take that as a
positive or take.

Speaker 5 (01:34:49):
That I kind of do like I ducked down real well,
and I fucking you know so just like the top
of my head is showing.

Speaker 3 (01:34:56):
But anyway, I'm not going to do anyone zoom because
you're so are you teezmail you want?

Speaker 2 (01:35:01):
I don't care, So.

Speaker 5 (01:35:03):
Okay, so listen, brother, if you could, when you get
a chance to recite that poem.

Speaker 2 (01:35:09):
I got a cute up. I just got to zoom
in on it because I'm old man and I'm a
fucking blind I hear your pal, So listen, this show
for us has been just like, it's been amazing.

Speaker 5 (01:35:21):
So I was talking with Derek earlier today, yeah, and
he's like, so you were playing music, we're doing this,
we're doing that, and I'm like, yeah, yeah, kind of, yeah, sure,
we're kind of And I said Army Chris is our
guest and he was like, oh fuck, and then literally
can't kind of went back and completely revamped all of
his songs. And I probably should have told my co host, like,

(01:35:42):
you know, five days ago. I appreciate that, guys.

Speaker 1 (01:35:46):
But you told your cold host is that we don't
repeat Army Chris's show at fucking seven pm count and
nine pm Eastern on fucking Sunday.

Speaker 5 (01:35:56):
I spoke to Chris about it because because because Jen
and I do a show, we'd started doing it over
the summer.

Speaker 2 (01:36:02):
And what happened.

Speaker 3 (01:36:03):
I was supposed to be on Reindeer Games last weekend
and you fucking didn't get me on there.

Speaker 2 (01:36:08):
Man.

Speaker 3 (01:36:10):
Yeah, what we say about when I was on the
chat group there two weeks ago, you said you're coming
on next weeks ago.

Speaker 1 (01:36:18):
Dude, I'm sorry, I don't remember what happened yet, Well
did you even do it? Because it didn't even pop
up my twitch? Did you even do reindeer game?

Speaker 8 (01:36:25):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (01:36:25):
So okay, So here's the thing, too, Army, Chris, we
should recid you this now too. We've essentially aside from tonight,
I wanted to do this on restream because I didn't
want tech to fuck up, we've actually started doing everything
live on the website. So we're actually live streaming to
the website now. Okay, yeah, so everything's actually so that's
why my twitch didn't pop up exactly.

Speaker 3 (01:36:46):
So it doesn't get you off the hook for fucking
like totally ditching me because you said you're on.

Speaker 5 (01:36:50):
Sorry, buddy, don't worry about it. No, it's okay, come
on this week if you want. We're actually gonna play
Cards against Humanity? Has ever anybody ever played that part?

Speaker 2 (01:36:58):
Christ?

Speaker 5 (01:37:01):
No, it's gonna be amazing. Spends the time, because there
is the time my Kansas City Chiefs play.

Speaker 2 (01:37:10):
But we'll talk. Okay, cool?

Speaker 1 (01:37:12):
How do you play? How do you play a card
game the internet?

Speaker 2 (01:37:17):
You'd be surprised.

Speaker 5 (01:37:19):
You would be surprised when you guys have dungeons and
dragons night, don't call me no, you're not a guy.
I used to be a dungeon dy I was. You
look like a dungeon war hammer. Why would you say that?
Chris really.

Speaker 3 (01:37:35):
Look like a guy that like fucking you're sitting there
crushing your oatmeal and raisin cookies telling him fucking being
the dungee master.

Speaker 5 (01:37:44):
Actually, he actually like quoted his own joke from like
two hours ago, that army sharp and on point, buddy,
that army Chris fucking impressive, dude. No wonder you're a
broadcast radios. Absolutely no doubt in my military mind. Craig
g was an outstanding dungeon master. I was actually a

(01:38:04):
really good dungeon master. And by the way, I love
oatmeal raisin cookies.

Speaker 2 (01:38:08):
They're great. I fucking knew you did.

Speaker 5 (01:38:10):
Would you fucking delegedos who doesn't like them? You're fucking
I'm gonna call you a weirdo.

Speaker 2 (01:38:17):
If you don't like.

Speaker 5 (01:38:18):
If I ever need a dungeon master, which is highly unlikely,
I'll call you. Roll for damage, Chris, Role for damage twenty.
Roll her natural twenty is double damage. Bro right on,
I remember that from grade six buck Yeah, dude, then
I and then I got into it like chicks.

Speaker 2 (01:38:37):
Hey, listen, Chris, we what I don't know where he said.

Speaker 3 (01:38:45):
I don't think I meant any chicks that ever played
dungeons and Dragons. Yeah my wife did, really Yep, she
loved that.

Speaker 4 (01:38:52):
Wow.

Speaker 5 (01:38:53):
Actually my wife was a dungeon master too. Bog is
my mind still a conversation, but we can move on.
So up, Derek, So and you know, right, say the
same thing too. She's like, yeah, I was a d M.
So listen, your friend who is in the East Coast?

Speaker 17 (01:39:10):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (01:39:11):
That friend?

Speaker 3 (01:39:12):
You christ hundred friends in the East Coast. You got
a narrow downro we would join you on f f
E from time to time. Oh yeah, Morgan, Well Morgan,
that's it. Well, actually lives in Edmonton, but he's a
new fee Yeah Edmonton. Yeah, he's a fucking sniper and
the third but well he was ex sniper in the

(01:39:33):
third time.

Speaker 2 (01:39:34):
Yeah. So did you call him fucking dude?

Speaker 12 (01:39:36):
Man?

Speaker 2 (01:39:36):
Did you talk to him today?

Speaker 8 (01:39:38):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (01:39:39):
Not yet? Okay, Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:39:40):
I was just gonna say, if you could, if you
could wish him a uh, I will, I will do
your service from I will do that Revolution Radio.

Speaker 2 (01:39:47):
That's a guy and he's.

Speaker 1 (01:39:50):
Doing Canadian Badass.

Speaker 5 (01:39:52):
I Actually it was funny. That's who I was talking about.
And Derek is like, oh, you're talking about Army Chris
is if he's in the third person. That was the
guy that I I was saying when I said, oh show, Yeah, no,
I should have just thought of I asked, you know what,
I don't know if I.

Speaker 3 (01:40:05):
Don't know if we have any listeners from Newfouland. But
if we do, I'm going to tell you something right now.
Newfoundlanders are the hardest motherfuckers on this planet.

Speaker 2 (01:40:12):
They really are.

Speaker 1 (01:40:13):
I'm actually I got a couple of East coasts.

Speaker 14 (01:40:15):
They are.

Speaker 2 (01:40:16):
You made.

Speaker 3 (01:40:17):
My first first trip to Newfoundland was in last March,
which is not a good time to go. If you
wonder why you got a cheap trip in Newfoundland, you'll
find out when you land.

Speaker 5 (01:40:28):
Fucking shitty because the plane has to circle times runway
that's plowed. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:40:34):
So by my motorcycle Club, we got a chapter out there,
right So my buddy Rick and the boys are out there.
But I could tell you right now, man, some of
the hardest, hardest men that I've served with the military
were Newfoundlanders and they are no bullshit people, and I
fucking love them. They're king as heck. Yeah, that's the

(01:40:55):
only time we're going to use that H word and
tell you the only time I'm dropping an eight bomb.

Speaker 5 (01:41:00):
Gotta tell you so, I'd love some of those cats
on our Evolution Radio if they ever want to do
a radio show.

Speaker 3 (01:41:05):
Hey, shout out, listen, shout out to Newfoundland. Fucking love
you guys made the hardest people on the planet for sure.

Speaker 1 (01:41:12):
My older brothers a new fee Is that right?

Speaker 5 (01:41:16):
I think you just said they don't like being called
new fees. Okay, I never met a new feed and
then that hated being called a new feet. But maybe
you could be I could Maybe they just were too
nice and didn't tell me. They may just didn't tell me,
but uh, fucking finest. They're like Saskatchewan is like the
come from Saskatchewan when I was born. It's like the
Newfoundland of Western Canada. But yeah, Newfoundlanders are the hardest

(01:41:40):
fucking people I ever met in this country.

Speaker 2 (01:41:42):
Much respect. Solid to the Army. Shout out to the
rock to the Army. Chris.

Speaker 5 (01:41:48):
Uh, just wondering if there's any kind of sort of
final thoughts like you would like to sort of, you know,
tell us before we wrap things up. Here, I think, well,
you know what, man, I'll just steal what I what
I uh, what I said earlier in which leads into
the poem.

Speaker 2 (01:42:06):
Can I do that?

Speaker 3 (01:42:07):
Can I segue right into it and then working on
some background ship whatever to play Derek's thankful to, Derek's
thankful to? Okay, Okay, so again, you know what it's
it's a very divisive country that doesn't whatever politics are
doesn't matter. And like again, like, don't I know that
I've met anti military people. I'm like, Okay, clearly you're not.

(01:42:30):
You're lacking the education you need. I don't mean that
a dory term. It means like, I'm I need to
educate you once again, whether you're nobody's pro war. I've
been to war. War fucking sucks, I can tell you
right now. Yeah, it's it's this shitty thing. Very it

(01:42:50):
feels like one in twenty wars actually solved problems most
of them. Nope, just causes the you know, unnecessary wasted
death of human life. I could speak to that firsthand.
So but don't you know, thank a soldier for their
service if you got an issue. It's the government again.
The military is an extension of political will. The practical

(01:43:13):
application of foreign policy, I said earlier. And no matter
where you are, this poem which I'm about to read here,
I'm going to be squinty. Son'll make fun of me
for people watching, kind of says it all was written
by ai US military veteran army guy from World War One,
and I'm just going to spit it out right now
so we're all clear here. It is a soldier, not

(01:43:36):
the minister who gives us freedom of religion. It is
the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us freedom
of press. It is the soldier, not the poet who's
given a freedom of speech. It is the soldier, not
the campus organizer who has given us freedom to protest.
It is the soldier, not the lawyer who has given
us the right to a fair trial. It is the

(01:43:59):
soldier the politician who has given us to write to vote.
It is a soldier who salutes the flag, who serves
beneath the flag, and whose coffin is draped by the flag,
who allows the protesters to burn the flag. That's home
has written by Charles and province x U s army.

(01:44:21):
That's great, that says at all like that?

Speaker 2 (01:44:25):
Trust me?

Speaker 1 (01:44:26):
So I just park it there.

Speaker 3 (01:44:28):
You guys decide you live on under the umbrella of
of of what multiple people have provided you for protection,
and you want to ship on me, go ahead, because
you have the right to do that.

Speaker 2 (01:44:39):
I have no problem with that. I will never do that, No,
I know, on me for other reasons.

Speaker 4 (01:44:47):
You for a million.

Speaker 5 (01:44:52):
Service ship holder. You wanted nothing to do with the
vice service, like it like plugging my again, you know, buddy.
Fuck oh, Derek, that's just why Listen, it was a
year ago. That's evil.

Speaker 3 (01:45:07):
Now we're going we're going back to the lake. We're
going back to the lake next year. We do we
need to do over I do? I I agree, I agree,
I think so.

Speaker 1 (01:45:15):
But also but also army, army, Chris can shoot on
me for uh, Derek, what fucking film right? Did you
better speed?

Speaker 5 (01:45:23):
Did you fucking film this fucking psychotic master? He's just
sixty frames per second? Psycho man him in murder Hornets?
I never met a murder hornet until I fucking med
Derek lit was seeing them. I didn't even think they
were real. I thought they were likeitious. And then like
we're sitting there recording this show out at the beautiful,

(01:45:47):
beautiful Lake site like just outstanding. I'm like, I'm like, wow,
this is fucking northern Ontario. I'm so happy. And this
fucking pterodactyl thing shows up and we're we're live, we're.

Speaker 1 (01:46:00):
On the mic.

Speaker 2 (01:46:01):
I'm like, what the fuck is that thing? And he goes,
that's a murder horn. I'm like, they're real.

Speaker 5 (01:46:07):
I did not know it.

Speaker 1 (01:46:08):
I did not know they're real till that day. All
over Ontario for sure.

Speaker 3 (01:46:13):
Thank god, we had a quick witted, fast fucking moving dude.
Derek Lewis. There's your murderer, murder hornet killer. If you
have a murder horner problem, get at Derek. I put
a glass over top of it and let us.

Speaker 5 (01:46:29):
Get Revolution Radio live. Tell us your murder horner problem.
Fucking Derek put that ship out for you. Derek put
a fucking cup over top of that can.

Speaker 2 (01:46:37):
It wasna. Scotty took it down.

Speaker 1 (01:46:40):
Scotty took it down.

Speaker 2 (01:46:41):
To the to the water. Do you know why?

Speaker 1 (01:46:45):
Because Comber's like, oh right, you're allergic to them, aren't you, Derek?
And I was like yes, and he's like.

Speaker 2 (01:46:50):
Okay, listen.

Speaker 3 (01:46:53):
Because to go with the modern times, I self identified
as allergy to that fucking thing too. I'm like, get
that as a loss of raptor the funk.

Speaker 2 (01:47:01):
Out of here? Yeah, self identified as allergic. Oh yeah
that's great.

Speaker 5 (01:47:08):
Uh listen, we we want to think we want to
sign off tonight on uh you know after that little
exchange about wob Machine Ontario.

Speaker 12 (01:47:18):
I love it.

Speaker 5 (01:47:20):
So thankful as a tune that Derek is going to
front sell for us for our man to say a
huge thanks again for serving our country and doing everything
he has done for us.

Speaker 2 (01:47:32):
The one, the only Army Chris.

Speaker 5 (01:47:34):
You hear him Thursday Night's nine pm Eastern seven Mountain
with the mixtape. So thank you, brother for for everything,
and thank you so much for your stories and thanks.

Speaker 2 (01:47:43):
Thank you guys. I love you, guys man. Yeah, we
love you too, brother, honestly we really do. So thank you.
Take it away.

Speaker 1 (01:47:52):
Thankful Okay, and it's and it's you can find it
on the the the Canadian Remembers Remembrance Torch website. Okay,
now I'm just going to read this straight from the
thingy Okay, because I just I came up because I
was I was looking for stuff. I was looking I
was looking for stuff and I found this to say

(01:48:14):
this as well, there was a teen in two thousand
and one that was encouraging people to to thank veterans
and stuff, and she she composed and recorded a song
to remind young people why taking part in Rememberance Day
and thinking now I'm looking at her name and I'm

(01:48:41):
not going to do a good job. Sagia rad jeshing Ham. Okay,
she says, I feel kids my age don't appreciate or
recognize Remembrance Day enough. I just wanted to put out
on Dane, so I made sure the lyrics were powerful

(01:49:02):
enough that told them, Okay, they do this much for us,
at least we appreciate them a lot more. And I
found that one and I was like, holy shit, that's amazing.
And then I found released in Canada Day twenty twenty
twenty two, Thankful is a hip hop music video that

(01:49:24):
expressed versus freedom and encourages year round remembrance, Written and
performed by three Toronto based artists three languages, filmed by
a team of media graduates in Toronto's Riverdale Park, thanks
to veterans from the Second World War to recent conflicts

(01:49:48):
such as Afghanistan, and includes people of all ages. This
is what I wanted to I wanted to play this
because it's not often that I have, Like, it's not
often that you see young people, let alone that's my cat,

(01:50:08):
Hi buddy, young people like First Nations people or or
or black inner city kids or other other uh like
people from people from Arab countries or people from uh
uh India. Stuff. You don't see one of those people

(01:50:29):
say saying anything. You don't see it's not often. It's
not often they are there, but it's not often saying something.
And these young rights and these young kids were said
something thing and I feel that that has a lot

(01:50:50):
of meaning. It does.

Speaker 3 (01:50:52):
That ship grabs me like I can't wait because because
that you're you nailed it, Like you just don't see that.
So it's like they're not waiting for somebody edge cam
everyone fuck it, We're gonna do it ourselves.

Speaker 2 (01:51:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:51:04):
Fair, So he said, that's what that's basically what I
got from these videos. So from us here at Revolution
Radio two world and especially to you my friend Armie Chris,
thank you so very much, and uh thank you figure
Revolution Radio Canada, Canadian as heck. And that's when then

(01:51:32):
when the songs to play.

Speaker 5 (01:51:34):
Derek, I'm doing that. So you don't sound like you're
talking in a tunnel. I was just actually, you know,
doing my thing, and you could have just liked it.

Speaker 2 (01:51:41):
You didn't. Here we go, unbelievable.

Speaker 1 (01:51:49):
Sound would sound? Would be good? Do over, It'll work
once more with feeling.

Speaker 5 (01:52:03):
If Derek didn't fucking freak me out and all that ship,
then I actually would have made it happen.

Speaker 2 (01:52:08):
But like, okay, okay, here we go, share, here we go.

Speaker 5 (01:52:13):
If Derek is making me worried now because I'm trying
to end the show like professionally and I'm doing great.

Speaker 2 (01:52:18):
Man, I'm not doing great. Stop it.

Speaker 3 (01:52:20):
Okay, here just tell some whimsical anecdotes. Why do funk
your ship?

Speaker 2 (01:52:25):
We Nope?

Speaker 3 (01:52:34):
Still no sense it unmused. I would not want to
be a sub mariner. I'm going to fill in when
we've unfucked this ship.

Speaker 2 (01:52:44):
Listen.

Speaker 3 (01:52:44):
I know some guys that are sub mariners, so I'm like,
there's hell, Wayne, hell you would I went on a
tour of us because Marina went nope, I'm out, Nope,
not happening.

Speaker 1 (01:52:56):
Man, they decommissioned a sub in Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:53:02):
We got new ones after after we bought those shitty
ones off the Brits. Like we just kicked the tires,
you know, like we went the fucking JB Driver JV
Automotive and bought these fucking shitty subs.

Speaker 2 (01:53:13):
Were goetting new ones. They can go into the.

Speaker 1 (01:53:15):
Ways, and mom had working submarines in the Canadian.

Speaker 5 (01:53:18):
You guys want to hear a funny sorry while Craig's
dealing with his stuff. So I think I got it now,
I'm sorry, mat Fuck hang on, I'm sell gonna tell
him funny story. Hey, so I was in my first
tour in Afghanistan.

Speaker 3 (01:53:30):
The exo who was on the Chikudo me that first
British sub we bought that lit on fire in the
middle of the Atlantic Oceans when they were bringing it
back to Canada. He was on tour with me and
he he's the guy that saved the day. Like a
submarine on fire is not good. There's ship that's not
good in your life. Being in a sub that's on
fire in the middle of a line of ocean, that's

(01:53:51):
not good. So he got ship faced in Afghanistan, which
he wasn't supposed to be. He was up on the
roof of our our, our our building, fucking hammered, playing
guitar and the CEO came out and said, what are
you doing?

Speaker 2 (01:54:04):
Its like is fuck you? Man?

Speaker 1 (01:54:07):
I go give two ships. I was on a submarine
that was on fire, like what are you?

Speaker 2 (01:54:13):
What are you going to do to me?

Speaker 18 (01:54:14):
Right?

Speaker 1 (01:54:15):
So, anyways, are we good to go? Now?

Speaker 2 (01:54:18):
That's my story. So dude, great story. All right, here
we go.

Speaker 1 (01:54:24):
Let's see Jesus. Thankful we're getting there. Thank you for first.

Speaker 2 (01:54:32):
I'm sorry. Here we go. Okay, I'll cut all this
out except for Christmas story.

Speaker 1 (01:54:37):
Shut up, Derek, I'm lucky I got this far. Now
I'll tell you a story.

Speaker 14 (01:54:46):
There was really rough time, especially at night when we
were chasing submarine, but all these ships had pitched out.

Speaker 1 (01:54:57):
Can you imagine that.

Speaker 12 (01:55:03):
Every time that you leave me bad, I don't know
where you going. No more, every time that I see
you bad, I don't know where you go.

Speaker 18 (01:55:14):
It'side.

Speaker 4 (01:55:16):
I'm alone in this world and den that you bound
my side, my side, that you bound my side.

Speaker 13 (01:55:27):
I got family at home and I got kids. I'm
gonna thrive. Gotta stay alive. I am loyal, not alone,
and I got feelings deep inside. Gotta stay alive. I
can't wait to feel my people, see the love inside
their eyes. Gotta stay alive. All I want is to

(01:55:47):
protect my people with me in the hive. Gotta stay alive.
I'm breaking. I can't I keep it steady when I
drive the boat. Oh wait, he's got the people roundest day.
Your float always got the people home.

Speaker 4 (01:56:04):
They help me cope.

Speaker 1 (01:56:05):
I love you, wall I let you know I love you.

Speaker 9 (01:56:07):
Walk he let it go.

Speaker 4 (01:56:08):
Love the world.

Speaker 13 (01:56:09):
Let's dropped the weapons, throw and fear out the dope.
Don't think of everything we need giving hope to the keys.
Were so grateful and so thankful for the ones gave
the mosse.

Speaker 4 (01:56:17):
I'll give it back.

Speaker 9 (01:56:18):
I promise what.

Speaker 18 (01:56:20):
We're so thankful, We're so grateful.

Speaker 10 (01:56:26):
The work would be hateful. I don't need to say more.
I get so bickness. I'm a sister strang.

Speaker 9 (01:56:39):
With on my people.

Speaker 19 (01:56:42):
I know that I can make quatch your magis. Make quatch,
You'll get your time, Make quat your honor, cod your gun.

Speaker 5 (01:56:51):
Ghana.

Speaker 19 (01:56:51):
When your god Dasha macquas some god the work such
sugar man Gagana when your god some man and Koma
mikuan dog miure name Chata mi quan name Shamagan. Watch
your dam a care Mike, watch your dam gana whincha

(01:57:14):
gaza sam kaya Wo kada, miatch, migatch.

Speaker 17 (01:57:24):
Mama, shoot them just me Onformis you kinna come in
on a problem? What's your grand tiputy? Can't get use
them on for the problem.

Speaker 18 (01:57:37):
We're so thankful, We're so grateful.

Speaker 9 (01:57:43):
The work would be hayful.

Speaker 10 (01:57:46):
I don't need to say more, Oyster.

Speaker 4 (01:57:56):
With all my people I know can go on.

Speaker 10 (01:58:02):
We're so thankful, We're so grateful, the work would be hateful.
I don't need to say more. I get so weakns.
I'm a sister strong.

Speaker 9 (01:58:21):
With a mark piece.

Speaker 18 (01:58:22):
Boy, I'm not a cagh.

Speaker 1 (01:59:40):
M on behalf of us from Revolution Radio Canada. Thank
you so much for listening, thank you for remry remembering,
and I'm a little choked up from that video. Cheers.
We'll see you next week out