Veterans Own The Digital Space A New Era Of Connection Story

We got some rebuilding to do of our military. There's no doubt about that. Sure, sure, sure, sure. And there's a lot of conversation there. One of the things I wanted to point out when it comes to PSYOPs and being somewhere well and the Taliban and understanding how big this mountain is, there's a guy, and there's a guy in every province that does this with us, the Taliban. And he's a military guy. And his job is to run the program that convinces the Taliban to come out of the hills, get into the case management program and come back to Afghanistan and be a regular Afghan person. That person, that military person can literally sit there their entire tour and accomplish nothing. and have that be a great outcome because guess what the taliban don't want to come out of the hills by and large like we don't offer anything specifically better so they have this great program and the theory is oh yeah these guys are going to be like oh there's a thousand dollars i'll come down i'll get my thousand dollars i'll reintegrate yeah i want bullshit that's that is taking a mountain and making it a molehill i get you i get you right on okay cool so You were talking about our history and this ship that we're building and getting people to come on. Let's take on that topic and kind of play with that and see where we go. Well, the ship that we're building, you know, I think there's a lot of people. You know, the beautiful thing about our community right now, specifically right now, is that people have something to bitch about. And in 2009, 2010, 2008, you know, we really didn't have a whole lot to bitch about because there was nothing there. At best, at that time, we could get involved in the VSOs, the Veterans Service Organizations, the traditional ones, the national ones, the American Legion, DAV, so on and so forth. We're the first generation of warfighters to be able to come home and to be able to occupy the digital space. That hasn't happened before. This is a new thing. And you can see the things that have come from this, where before... I mean, it's given birth to the veteran influencer, the firefighter influencer, things like this. It's changed everything. It doesn't matter. And the videos that are out there, the T-shirt companies that are out there, being able to connect with each other online, I think it's done a tremendous benefit to us with regards to suicide and healthcare because we can share information a lot better and get guys... you know, squared away because we're sharing each other's knowledge. We didn't have that before. I just think we really need to open our eyes and go, hey, wait a minute. Yeah, there is something unique about us. You know, when history looks back on this time, we are the group that came home from war and occupied the digital space. This never happened before. Huh. I mean, we're definitely the first to come back and instantly start saying, no shit, there I was. Here's the story. And there's something to that. And I don't mean that we're bragging about it, but we're actually saying this is the cost of what we're doing. This is what's going on. This is how hard it is. We're the first ones to do that. And is it because of the digital space? Because we all have access to the airwaves? I mean, you look at my show, it's sort of pirate radio from the old days. I just came on and started talking. Yep, that's exactly right. It's like pirate radio from the old days, except now we attract, you know, like attracts alike. So, you know, if you have a show about warfighters, you know, I had the first big show for warfighters and it was the warfighter perspective. And there was it was beautiful, man.