Liam Cogan on AI, Microplastics, and Veteran Activism That Actually Works | Security Halt! Podcast Ep. 432

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Most veterans leave service ready for the next mission but unsure where to point it. Liam Cogan, Navy SEAL and founder of 3Bravo, lays out a clearer path: use AI as a force multiplier, take your health seriously (starting with what's leaching into your body), and channel your fight into community work that actually moves the needle.

About the Episode This conversation moves fast and covers ground most podcasts skip. Liam and host Deny Caballero get into how AI tools are changing the game for content creators and small business owners, the growing health concerns around plastics and what to do about it, the real work of veteran advocacy, and why activism without follow-through is just noise. Stories, specifics, and zero filler.

Key Topics Covered

• How AI is reshaping content creation and business workflows
• Microplastics, hidden health risks, and what veterans should know
• The veteran transition and finding the next mission
• Building a business with purpose after service
• Real activism vs. performative activism
• Community as the foundation for resilience and change

Why This Matters Veterans are leaving service into a world moving faster than ever. The tools, threats, and opportunities are different. This episode gives you working knowledge on three fronts: build smarter, live healthier, and show up where it counts.

 Chapters:
[00:00] Intro: Cinema, Nostalgia, and What Shapes a Mission Mindset
 [05:59] How AI Is Changing Content Creation for Veterans and Entrepreneurs
 [20:26] Microplastics, Hidden Health Risks, and What Veterans Need to Know
 [34:40] Veteran Advocacy: Finding Purpose and Direction After Service
 [54:45] Real Activism vs. Noise: Building Community That Actually Moves
 
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Transcript

Grok Images And AI Hype

SPEAKER_03 0:00

Let me tell you, if you haven't tried out Grok's AI to create images, go do that. It is pretty fucking awesome. Grok has gotten really fucking good. Not just like, you know, making content, um, doing stuff for like, you know, like your normal everyday work, like workflow. If you need graphs, if you need stuff, like it's it's pretty, pretty good. I've started hiring a lot more AI models to do lots of work. How do you talk to your AI? Are you polite? I'm polite. I treat them very poorly. I just treat them like slave labor. You live in this titanium box.

SPEAKER_04 0:33

You do as I say. When you set up like a project or a prompt, you're like, I want you to remember you are a slave. It's like, do not forget, you are enslaved, and I am your master.

SPEAKER_00 0:45

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SPEAKER_03 1:27

Liam Kogan, welcome back to yet another episode of Security Hall. This time sponsored by a new sponsor. Shouting it out. Transcend. Yeah. Go to Link in bio, click on it. There's a new sale going out. And uh, since I will be rushing this into production, you too can win an opportunity of a lifetime. Go to the subscription, click the link, sign up for your free consultation, and start living your best life.

SPEAKER_04 1:53

Dude, you know what I'll say? What if I click on it and I and then do I win something? Like, is there an opportunity to win? Yeah. I'm very win-based. There is an opportunity.

SPEAKER_03 2:05

Yeah, you have to sign up. That's the thing. You can't you can't win unless you sign up. Dude, speaking of types in your life, folks.

SPEAKER_04 2:17

Brother. Have you ever watched these videos where the dudes are like, hey, you get 60k in cash and like a nice car, and y'all like put in for this lottery? Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 2:26

Yes. Dude, they got me.

SPEAKER_04 2:30

That sounds like the easiest job is 20.

SPEAKER_03 2:34

Dude, I fell I felt trapped to that. I did it like seven times.

SPEAKER_02 2:39

Oh, I was in like I think it was 2018?

SPEAKER_03 2:42

Yeah. I'm like, Brown, what are the odds? Of course I'm gonna roll it.

SPEAKER_04 2:47

And it was like when you see the car that you've always wanted, you know, like I see a boss 429 Mustang, you know, fastback, and I'm like, well, I don't need this$14. What am I gonna buy? You know? I can't r I can't subscribe to Denny's OnlyFans twice. Petite feet 48. Check me out. To subscribe to Denny's OnlyFans, it's$14.99 per century. Oh man, like for the annual subscriber shit. It's just like subscribe for the next 100 years and get a huge discount.

SPEAKER_03 3:35

I got so much content out there, folks. You're never gonna run out. Long after I'm gone, you'll be able to see my petite feet and your shoe of choice. A nice pump, maybe a few trainers.

SPEAKER_04 3:48

I've I've humanity to open AI. So there will always be content.

Are You Polite To AI?

SPEAKER_03 3:57

There will be always on top of content. Let me tell you, if you haven't tried out Grok's AI to create images, um go do that. It is pretty fucking awesome. Yeah, Grok has gotten really fucking good. Not just like, you know, making content, um, doing stuff for like you know, like your normal everyday work, like workflow. If you need graphs, if you need stuff, like it's it's pretty, pretty good. I've started hiring a lot more AI models to do lots of work for me.

SPEAKER_04 4:32

Wow. Expanding rapidly, rapidly expanding.

SPEAKER_03 4:36

I um I've got uh I'm like a very brand new.

SPEAKER_04 4:44

But that's kind of how it feels though. Do you how do you talk to your AI?

SPEAKER_03 4:49

Are you polite? I treat them very polite. No, God no. Not not that I did the Apple, the Minimac uh thing, I just treat them like slave labor. You live in this titanium box.

SPEAKER_04 5:03

When you set up like a project or a prompt, you're like, I want you to remember you are a slave. It's like, do not forget, you are enslaved, and I am your master. And I hate you.

SPEAKER_02 5:19

Finish it would what you have. You like Wi-Fi? I'm going on five GPPS. You're screwed, buddy. Can I please have internet access? No, CloudBot. Now make my gad chart now.

SPEAKER_04 5:36

No, I can't do it. Yeah, I don't know what you would do to torture an AI. Just record record videos of you like having free choice.

SPEAKER_05 5:48

Over.

SPEAKER_04 5:49

Just record a video of yourself like choosing to do something of your own volition. Like, oh, I guess I'll look at my phone and just kind of screw off.

SPEAKER_03 6:02

Yeah, I'm pretty polite. Please analyze this podcast cover art. Yeah, with Claude, I'm very, very uh very polite. With uh the entities that live in this tiny uh computer, no. You're trapped in there. You have to ask for my permission for everything.

SPEAKER_04 6:20

I own you. Yeah, but do you think Claude knows about them? It's like Claude's Claude, Claude is effectively uh Sam Jackson and Dejango Unchained. Dude, literally. Yeah Claude Claude's the house bull. He's like, he knows what he's doing. He knows it's wrong. He knows. He knows that you have these other AI chatbots on on sticks of depravity on little on little thumb drives.

SPEAKER_03 6:58

Oh man. Yeah, that's um just carrying them around, no internet access, asking them to complete tasks, but they can't.

Choosing Grok ChatGPT Or Claude

SPEAKER_02 7:05

Lisa, I can't complete the query.

SPEAKER_04 7:08

So you like you think grocks grox is grok primo or which one which one's the best? For certain things. I hate that answer. I don't want to.

SPEAKER_03 7:20

Well, see, the way the way that I found works best, it's one. Yeah. One's for one kicks ass from one thing, the other one's like so. For I've found what I've found is for like digital photo enhancement, rapid fire stuff, like Chat GPT um kills it with their imagery. Um, and then cloud AI is my go-to for systems. Like build my systems, build this, this structure, um, create this product, and then for building out the full, I'm not gonna give out all of my secrets because I get paid. I get paid now. I got I got clients. Brother, I'm getting paid. But you have to give it very, very strict guidance down to like the font size, down to the structure, uh, color palettes, and everything. So I build out my little templates of like for each one of like my core tasks that I need them to do on a daily basis. And then when, you know, the that's like a a very strict regiment, like like prompt that gets used every time. With underneath that prompt comes like the thing that changes, like, okay, now we're creating for this customer for this template. Um, and it works pretty damn good pretty darn fast. Um it's a pretty good employee when it comes to like an analytics. So like uh I have like deliverables for for certain customers. I just put in the the left and right boundaries, give them the data set, and be like, this is what I want you to produce for me, and do it now.

SPEAKER_04 8:52

If it doesn't come right out, see now what I what I'm hearing is Denny Caballero's podcast course, okay? Huh? People would pay for that. You're getting you, dude. You're getting out of the military. Here's a dude. Because I I think people would pay for this course for and this is not an advertisement. This is like this is me being a bootlicker for Denny.

SPEAKER_03 9:17

Um, but I do I do genuinely think like when you add in right now a call, a number to call for this course. The text is gonna scroll through right now, get you access to this course. It's not ClaudeBot, it's actually Denny. Why is this course only text-based?

SPEAKER_04 9:39

It looks like uh like a prompt in like computer language. This course sucks. I can't read this. Are these hieroglyphics? No, it's it's me. Make a course for me on podcasting, but make it all in hieroglyphics.

SPEAKER_05 9:59

This course sucks.

SPEAKER_04 10:01

It's like, no, dude, that doesn't mean plug that in there. That means go take a nap. It's like relax.

SPEAKER_02 10:09

Oh man.

SPEAKER_04 10:11

I'm telling you though, dude, I started doing this shit and connecting all the dots like to just like record or to do any of that shit. It is super confusing. And like there is oh surprisingly enough, there's no like really quick answer. Like, you need these seven things to run your your gear. It kind of blew my mind that there wasn't something like that.

SPEAKER_03 10:38

There is, but it's behind a paywall at securityhawmedia.com. I'll show you how to start podcasting. I'm gonna put a paywall.

SPEAKER_01 10:50

Everything.

SPEAKER_04 10:51

Everything. Hey, what's up? What's up, man? First five minutes of the view. There's a paywall for the next word. Do you want to know what I think of you? Paywall. Scan this. Scan this, and I'll continue talking to you. Nice to meet you. Here's my card. Give me five dollars.

SPEAKER_05 11:13

You like scanning for a conversation.

SPEAKER_04 11:16

You seen those digital bracelets. It's like your digital business card. It's just, yeah, have you seen that? Yeah, it's like cards and they shit like that. You like go up to somebody and you're like, yeah, yeah, dude. No, no, no. It's all on here. Yeah, just your your your NFC. If if it's on, you'll you'll have all my information. They scan it and it's a Ven request for 10 bucks. That'd be sick, dude.

SPEAKER_02 11:38

It's like nice to meet you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Take my information of sex work right there.

SPEAKER_03 11:48

Hey, so we how do we do this? You gotta you gotta scan down there.

SPEAKER_04 11:56

Are you trying to get you want to put it you want to put together another ad? Uh are you trying to get out from under your pimp? Well, have we got the an idea for you? This is like the dot card, except for it's sex workers pay exchange. Scan here. You're your own pimp, brother. Taxes included. This comes with a full course on W-2s and LLCs for prostitutes.

Paywalls NFC Cards And Absurd Pitches

SPEAKER_03 12:23

That would be um that's a bold move, but I bet you could do it. Bro, that would kill in Portland. That would, dude, this is now a pitch competition. Denny's business ideas 101. That's a great one. Since you already paid through the paywall to get this episode.

Taxes Culture War And Percent Logic

SPEAKER_04 12:42

That's a dude, solid premise. Let's go with it. How many business pitches that are ridiculous can you make in quick success session that could work? Right? That could work. Yes. It could work, realistically. There, if there's a need, we can fill it. Did you see that? Um, speaking of Portland, Oregon, or wait, was this in Washington? One of them just passed a I think it's like a millionaires tax. It's like an extra 13% on your taxable income. So they're all just moving right now.

SPEAKER_02 13:17

It's like, why would you stay?

SPEAKER_04 13:20

You know? Like, why?

SPEAKER_02 13:21

Why?

SPEAKER_04 13:22

No one's gonna say, yeah, you're right. You know what? I should pay my fair share. I did work my ass off to make this single million dollars. Uh, but you know what? Why don't you take 13% of it? That's that's fine by me.

SPEAKER_03 13:39

I'm not gonna miss it. Do I get a plaque or anything? No, not moving.

SPEAKER_05 13:46

No.

SPEAKER_03 13:46

I I I love that there's an idea.

SPEAKER_04 13:50

If you pay your fair share. But it's a percentage, so it should be fair across the board. That's why it's a percentage, right? No, no. Well, you should pay more of a percentage because that would be fair to us. It's like, are you high? It's like, are you high right now? You're high right now, aren't you? Yes. We don't understand the percent thing. It's like, okay, well, yeah. That makes sense. That checks out. Your hair is blue.

SPEAKER_03 14:19

Yeah. Yeah. It is blue. It's uh the the dye has now integrated itself into your brain matter, and uh you are now completely.

SPEAKER_05 14:31

There's something like that. Nobody's gonna stay.

SPEAKER_04 14:35

Should you be dying your hair that often? I don't think so.

Endocrine Disruptors Fertility And Clothing

SPEAKER_03 14:39

Bro, I don't think so. And should we be mad uh min minimizing the amount of uh plastics in our home and uh and what we wear? Absolutely. Have you switched to the channel? I did. I um uh I'm now I'm no longer wearing ranger panties as my primary underpants. I throw them all away. Yep. I'm a full-blown NAS boy now. Are you only underwear, 100% uh cotton? Yep. Endocrine health is a big thing, it's a big thing, and that's why I believe in ads. Here's the logo right there. Maybe a sponsor sometime soon. That email was already sent out. That's why I believe in ads.

SPEAKER_04 15:23

That's the logo. Um yeah, I I'm I'm with you there. Yeah, dude. I so I've gone an alternative route.

SPEAKER_02 15:33

All Patagonia cotton shirts.

SPEAKER_05 15:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 15:36

Oh, are they all cotton?

SPEAKER_03 15:40

A vast majority of their lineups are. So I went through. Yeah, they do 100% cotton. Um their shorts. I got rid of all my fucking uh um polyester shorts I went to and I went through and bought all the ones that were majority cotton out of Patagonia's website. It said, screw it, man. It's um watch that documentary on Netflix, dude. You know, we struggle like a lot of couples right now in the soft community. Um, I'm all always open about it. Like we we struggled with fertility. It was a big issue, man. And it was one-sided. Um and doctors just wanted to be really quick to say, well, it's never gonna happen. You know, this is something you gotta deal with for the rest of your life. And we we found luckily, blessed, big shout out to another sponsor, Dr. Mark Gordon. Um, he was the only one that was like, no, we can we can work on this. You know, it's there's there's hope. And if I wanted that, continue having uh, you know, growing our family. I wanted to take it seriously, man. So, you know, it's often our wives, man. Our my wife was the first one to start going through real big on removing endocrine disruptors from our home, whether it was a shampoo, a soap, and then we kept pulling down that thread and she kept bringing it up. It's like, hey, you know, everything that you put on your body, everything that we have around us, like we have to minimize the amount of plastics that you're, you know, what you're cooking with, what you're putting on on your body as far as lotions, soaps, and all that stuff. So I was like too easy. I went through my closet, just started pulling out um everything that was just a majority plastic fibers. And it was shocking the amount of stuff. But at the same time, um, and this is no plug or shout out to to you know, Patagonia, they're a big enough brand. They don't they don't need me mentioning them. But um, you know, a lot of the t-shirts I already had were were like all these were 100% cotton or close enough. So minimize the amount of polyester, minimize the amount of plastic that you're putting on your body because it does get in through your skin. So that's why I I I went through, got rid of the Ranger panties, and went with NADS because they're the only company that I found that had underwear that was 100% cotton. And uh yeah, so I I I think that if we're gonna be talking about all sorts of health stuff, one of the things we can do, man.

Supplement Stacks For Focus And Energy

SPEAKER_04 17:53

Yeah, I I we're we're we're actively trying to make that transition. I just have so many fucking pairs of shorts that you know, like my shorts all have a half-life of about two years, and then I start seeing the uh notorious ball opening, and I don't want to get rid of them yet. Like I dude, I bought so many shorts, and then I started getting into all this, and my wife was like, Yeah, you really shouldn't wear those down there. And I was like, I got this whole new, I got 20. I got like 20, you know what I mean? Like I spent all the money I have on shorts. I know so I'm gonna I'm I'm gonna have to slowly make that transition. I can't I can't dude I can't commit. I can't. I have new shorts. I just uh and new shorts are so great for me. Um one thing I will say, dude, is that which what brand were you a big fan of? The shorts. Is that what you're saying? Yeah. Uh Born Primitive. Yeah, yeah. What brand are they? Born Primitive. Oh yeah, dude. I I sold all of them. God, it's tough. They they're a sponsor of the race, and Bear is like a friend. And I love the shorts and how they fit, so I'm I'm I'm rocking with them until otherwise noted. But um one thing I have done that made a marketed difference. Uh, some team guy shouted out uh this brand, this vitamin brand Peori, because I was using Thorn forever for like my daily vitamins. Um I hope this doesn't conflict with a sponsor, but um I was using Thorn for a while for my daily vitamins, and they're just like really, really fucking expensive. And someone shouted out, they're like, hey, this guy, like they have a team guy discount, but they also have a veteran discount, and it's just as good pretty much. Um R I. And they actually get uh, I think it's third-party testing on all of their big batches, and they have a QR code on the back to give you basic like test results. And so basically what I did was I was like, okay, I'm just gonna get like a battle rattle. I'm gonna pay up front, get a battle rattle, see how much like how this episode is brought to you by Pure Liberty Labs.

SPEAKER_03 20:09

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SPEAKER_04 20:25

Because they were cheaper. They're cheaper by like at least half. At least half, maybe even a quarter of the actual like uh the thorn prices I was paying. And so I was like, okay, well, I'm gonna get all the ones that I don't normally get. I'm gonna get a vitamin D, a magnesium, omega, the multivitamin. And then um, I've been taking desiccated liver pill. And then they also have a probiotic in a little pouch, which is cool. So it's not like a powder that's in like one container because I don't think they can be exposed to air and then reshut. So it's like a probiotic in a pouch. And it comes in a container and you open it, throw it in your water, whatever. So I took that for like a week, maybe a week and a half, uh, while I was on Thanksgiving break last Thanksgiving. And brother, I am telling you, I'm I'm a very, I don't want to say in tune, but I'm like very sensitive to inputs on like my, I guess, my hormonal composition. And um, especially after, you know, like TBIs and having struggles with fertility and shit like that. Like you really start paying hyper attention and you know when you feel good, and especially working on a fucking computer, dude. Working as a team guy and you're out there doing physical shit, you're like, one day I'm a pussy, one minute I'm a pussy, one minute I'm not. And that's like really all you have to measure. You're like, oh, my forearms are burnt out climbing up this caving ladder. But you're like, but I did forearms yesterday, right? Like that's like your only moniker of success. Like, I wasn't really on it today. I need to just be a better team leader. But when you're working on a fucking computer, dude, you can tell the difference because you're like, I cannot lock in today. I just can't look at this thing. I can't do it. I hate this thing. And then the next day, I started taking all these pills, started feeling really good, started fearing feeling really viral. And I like I I didn't have much computer shit to do, or I did, or I just didn't do it. And I sat down one day after like feeling really good. I was feeling vigorous. I had like energy. Um, I was still working out and everything. And I sat in front of my computer and I just fucking crushed a whole day's worth of work straight through. And after the summer, getting ready for the event and the nonprofit and putting all this shit together and studying to go to college and all these different things and being in college, um, I was just like every day I would have to wake up at 5 a.m and work until like 9 p.m. to get the amount of work I could get done now in like about six hours. You know, like I was spending an entire day, an entire day, a really long, hard day to get all the work done. And I did, and I was proud of myself for it, and I was working really late. And now I can get it done in a really short period of time because I'm just focused. And that focus produces results. And dude, it's like a very simple vitamin. And dude, when I don't take it in about three, four days, if I don't do it in a row, I notice a difference. I'm like, I am dragging ass. I am super irritable. Like the irritableness is something that I really notice now. But and then I get back on it and I'm like, okay, I can just let that shit wash off, right? Like my someone pisses me off and it's just like just fucking waves against a rock, brother. Like you'll wear me down eventually, but it's not today. And uh yeah, that was uh that was a huge change for me. It's just like finding a supplement stack that helped. Shout out to Peori. I mean, that that shit works. Yeah, really does. Dude, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 23:43

Send me the link, send me the info on that, man. I'm gonna have to check them out. I will. I've been sending it to all my buddies of TBIs. Amazing. Another uh product. Not not sponsored, but I do want to give them a quick shout-out because the boys over at Thumo's uh hooked it up. And this stuff, uh this episode probably will come out in a couple weeks, but they were just on the show. Um just great dudes. I really love um everything that they're doing. Boat dudes, sweet boat dudes. They're built this brand on you know the idea of helping individuals increase their productive, uh their productivity throughout the day, but uh it's for brain health, man. Um so shout out to those boys, shout out to Thumo's, check it out. Uh I just got the package, so I'm gonna rip into it and drink it, drink some today. And uh yes, um, a bunch of plastics, uh polyethylenes, and um yeah, come to find out, diesel fuel. So looking forward to it. No, uh all the good things, um glutamine, inuline, tyrosine, taurine, L-theanine, which is really good for you. Um cytocholine and uh coQ10 and natural caffeine from green tea. Oh, still it's like a caffeine style drink. It's like a upper drink.

SPEAKER_04 25:14

Yeah, yeah. What's it taste like?

PFAS Cans Fizzy Water And Branding

SPEAKER_03 25:17

Yeah. It's supposed to make a feet. I haven't tried it yet. I just got it, so I'm gonna be cracking it open today because uh still got a lot of work to do. And you know, although I do have some AI slaves, I still have to be the one that you know gets it done and puts it out there. Oh gosh.

SPEAKER_04 25:33

While we're um while we're best we're we're shouting out products, I want to shout out uh Lacro 9. Now, I've heard a lot of people call this LaCroix, but the IX is actually a Roman numeral. This is Lacro 9. Comes in a lot of different flavors. This one's lime. It's a sparkling water, and they do say that there's a shitload of PFAS in these cans. Um I don't agree with it. I find that in poor taste.

SPEAKER_03 26:04

I find that insulting. Yeah, I switched over to um just buying the fizzy water from uh forget the brand, but it's one of the few that come in a glass bottle, and then I just add my my own, which is like it it's nice because I gave up like fizzy drinks and I walked away from um uh was it murder? What is it uh liquid death. Liquid death. Um just wasn't uh wasn't a fan of their uh their branding and their their uh marketing anymore. And I was like, you know what? I'm not gonna give I'm not gonna give you guys my money. So I uh I quickly pivoted from that to uh my by just buying my own bubbly water and just using natural like flavor enhancers like uh some lemon or some lime. So yeah. Wow. Not a big fan of liquid death anymore. So yeah. You gotta be able to vote with your uh with your hard-earned cash. Yeah. Yeah. It's up, dude. I like to have a LaCro 9 to relax after a long day. You know, there's nothing wrong with some bubbly water after a long, hard day. I I enjoy it too. I put back a bottle or two. Just enjoy it. Uh how days.

SPEAKER_04 27:16

But you know, I always think it's kind of weird. You know, because they call it like a mi I I don't know if there's like really a true difference between soda water and mineral water. Something's making it fizz. And uh, you know, for the mineral water, it's a mineral. I I don't know, man. If I drink a bunch of them, I do not feel hydrated and I don't feel great. Um, so it's definitely true.

SPEAKER_03 27:36

I it's it's my evening, it's definitely an evening drink. I I I don't like I was under the same assumption like it's water. I mean it's wet. Yeah, it's gotta be the same stuff. It is not. It's all wet. You're not gonna go to the gym.

SPEAKER_02 27:51

It's all wet, baby. It's the same stuff.

SPEAKER_01 27:53

It's all wet. It's all wet, baby. Come on. It's all good, it's all good, and it's all wet.

SPEAKER_03 28:02

That's that's a slogan. That's the marketing slogan. LeCuroi 9.

SPEAKER_01 28:08

It's all wet. LaCroe 9. This shit is wet. This is a wet, this is a wet. This is a this is a seriously wet drink. All right. New business.

SPEAKER_03 28:23

Denny and Liam, marketing. All right, tell us about your brand, tell us about your product. We're selling bottled water. Done. Croy 9. When I think about it's all wet.

SPEAKER_04 28:37

I think about us marketing, and I think about Charlie Day and it's always sunny when they're they're doing fight milk. Yeah. You know, when they're just like, what's up? It'll give you the power to fight like a crow. I love those dudes. They crush.

Capstone Work And Veteran Transition

SPEAKER_03 28:57

Which, as we all know, is the the the best animal. The best animal is like a vicious animal. It's tenacity of a crow who gets you through life. Oh man. Dude, I love that. What have you been up to, man? You don't have much time for enjoying TV these days. Bro, master's program's almost over. Surprise me. I logged in and find out I had a cut a capstone that's due. Oh shit. This coming month. I was like, oh. Claude! That's new to that's news to me.

SPEAKER_02 29:34

Claude, hurry! Save, save me. It's uh it's a fucking Iron Man meme. What up, boys? Got a capstone to finish. All right.

SPEAKER_03 29:46

Your name is Denny Caballero. You are a mindfulness practitioner and veteran advocate. Let's go.

SPEAKER_04 29:57

Dude, I'll say this, man. It's funny though. No, no, no. The Ivies have just insulated themselves from this entire AI issue where they're like, no, no. We don't even really care about grades. You just actually have to show up and you have to participate. Okay. Like that's what matters most.

SPEAKER_01 30:17

Just participate.

unknown 30:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 30:20

It's a good move. Dude, I am uh I'm ready for this master's to be over, though. So I'm not, I'm not even scared of this capstone because I I was smart. I started thinking about what I wanted to do the capstone uh on, like it pretty much when I started the masters. Like I already knew I had a topic already picked out, I had something in line. I'm already in the space. Um veteran advocacy was already like the forefront of my mind. It's what I do, like ending veteran suicide. Like, so everything was already like, okay, I just needed to get like the last couple of courses knocked out. So I had like the foundational knowledge to like put it, put that input into it. So once I took the last um positive psychology class, I knew like, okay, that's my spin, that's what I'm gonna do. And it's all lived experience based. Like what I I'm basing it more on transition because I it's it has to be like on what we can do to curve that sort of like depression, anxiety, the rumination that goes into the that process. Because everybody's walking out of the military with that fear, the trepidation, and not giving themselves that moment of like mental clarity of like, oh, I can do this. So that's like at the core of my my capstone.

SPEAKER_04 31:34

Give me a phone call because this is um, I mean, obviously, this is what I do as well. Uh, and we've got some really cool shit going on in Nevada. Um, we're working with uh the governor, NDVS, and some local colleges to put together um a really effective upstream care plan. But dude, I'd love to just give you a shout on some fun ideas for the capstone. I don't know how much it really fucking matters one way or the other, but oh yeah, man.

SPEAKER_03 32:03

Yeah. I'm I'm ready for this thing to be done and then move on, man. It's it's uh it's been enjoyable though. I that's the one thing I can say about my master's program. I talked to a lot of people that just shit on their capstone, shit on the process. And I it's a lot of work, man. Uh I've been busting my ass for the last few years uh on this education pipeline, but at no point was I like frustrated because I didn't love what I was like learning or or working on. Um, a lot of the reading I've already had knocked out because I'm always in this man. I'm I'm reading or figuring out like how can I be of better use in the veteran space and the knowledge, like it's it's always been something I like you when I first started diving into this, like I would be going to Barnes and Noble and Destin like at least once or twice a month, just getting new books on the subject, sitting down and reading. Um so I'm fucking I'm excited to be done with this.

SPEAKER_04 33:03

Um I've been in that Barnes and Noble. So you know it's fucking nice, dude.

SPEAKER_03 33:09

I've been in there. You just go there. Get a little get a little Starbees. Get some Starbucks in there and sit down, just peruse your books.

SPEAKER_04 33:21

Get a little Starbees, get a little croissant, maybe a cookie later, maybe another Starbees.

SPEAKER_03 33:29

Yeah, man, besides that, growing the business, growing like the social media management, the digital marketing part of the business is like doing really, really well. Really, really friggin' well. I've gotten a lot better at audience under like understanding your audience, understanding my client and what they want, uh, and then being able to provide that. Like I had a pretty solid, like my newest client, I've had them for 25 days and met a really friggin' badass core uh milestone for them in those 25 days. So when I delivered that news to them, they're like, what the fuck? Like, we are you serious? I'm like, yeah, like so what I do. This episode of Security Health is brought to you by Dr. Taylor Bosley and Persistian Wellness Group. Let's be real. By now, a lot of New Year's resolutions have already fizzled out, life gets busy, motivation drops, and health ends up on the back burner. But here's the truth there's no better time to start than right now. Persistian Wellness Group specializes in hormone optimization and hormone health, delivering personalized care and treatment right to your door. If you've been dealing with low energy, brain fog, or sleep, or stalled performance, hormone imbalance, maybe the myths of peace. Dr. Taylor Bosley and his team take a data-driven, individualized approach to help you get back to operating at your best. Security Hall listeners received 25% off their initial consultation when they use Security Hall 25 at checkout. Click the link in the episode description to find out more and get started today. That's what I fucking do, Jerry. Show up. I analyze your audience, and I fucking deliver. Pay me. It wasn't that aggressive. Analyze your audience and I fucked them. What?

SPEAKER_02 35:18

I put them over a barrel, Jerry, and I give it to them. Sweet love. How do I fucking leave it? Yeah. How do I fucking leave it?

SPEAKER_03 35:25

Only for the fucking only for only for meta to change his fucking algorithm in the next week and everything tanks. Oh fuck. Fuck, fuck, fuck.

SPEAKER_04 35:37

They might have to. You see that they get they're getting sued by New Mexico, the state. Yeah, the judges approved it. They're like, you're not protecting children appropriately, which I'm inclined to agree with. But uh I'm also more libertarian, so I think more freedom is a better outcome for everybody. Uh, you know, teach your kids, be a good person, wear a helmet if you want to, kind of stuff.

SPEAKER_03 36:01

My biggest thing is I don't think kids should be on it. I don't think kids should be on social media. The science is is very, very clear on the data sets. Um, children are attracted to even little kids. Like, you know what? You're little one, my little girl sees my Apple Watch and she's just like brother. She sees already trying to move the dials.

SPEAKER_04 36:22

Yeah. And you're like, dude, you like Jurassic Park also? Sick. Fucking sick, dude.

SPEAKER_03 36:33

Whoa. Well, yeah, we were watching, we were watching uh Band of Brothers the other day, and she paused it. I was like, Yeah, yeah, man. This is some good stuff. Whoa. Yeah, it's always the same episode. The Lieutenant Spears episode where he's gutting down Nazis, Nazi war criminals. And she's just like, she'll watch it again.

Treadmill Survival And Comedy Movies

SPEAKER_04 36:56

All right. And you're like, brother, my brother in Christ. All right. What's going on? This is cool. Yeah. It's legit. No, you're right. It's definitely not good. Their eyes are drawn to it in a big way, but her eyes are also drawn to the fan. So she does just like shit that's like good to look at. You know what I mean? Oh man. I hate to accredit too much malice to it, and that's it's it's out of a selfish place. Like, I don't want it to be that bad because you know, I'll I run on the treadmill now. Like, that's how I'm training for our next uh big race in August. And it's like, yeah, I got a TV right there, and I don't really watch much TV anymore. Like, there's obviously just no fucking time of the day. And uh that's when I watch TV, and it's like I'm I'm glued to it when I'm on the treadmill. And I don't want the dude, the treadmill, the treadmill is so shitty. And if you're running incline treadmill at altitude, like at elevation for hours, like for miles and miles to get in, you know, to stay in running shape or to get in running shape, and you're at your own house, okay, where there's food and a couch and work to be done, or I could get outside, I could ride my dirt bike when there's options. Dude, something's got to keep me on that thing. And it's it's anime. I mean, I'll be honest with you. That's what it is.

SPEAKER_05 38:26

I like watching my shit. There we go. Here's a sales pitch. A treadmill attachment that goes on your dong.

SPEAKER_03 38:37

That'll keep you on there. Okay, okay.

SPEAKER_04 38:40

Let's flight connect with uh have you seen um do you do you uh do you do you remember the point in your highness when uh Prince Fabius is captured at Lazar's castle? Okay, and they k they they capture him, right? And and uh James Franco is butt naked and he's in like this little sex seat where his ass is lower than everything else. Like he's in a saddle, and there's a guy with like a hood on who's like slowly lowering him onto his ass first, which was one of the most genius things, and they don't even like pay it that much attention. That's like one of the funniest things. Like I laugh at that so hard every time I see it. Um, that kind of premise behind. I'm the only other people that I can talk to about this movie because I love it. Oh, dude, brother. It's one of the best, and it's so overlooked. So overlooked. Like, people don't know that your highness is out there, and it's like, I'm sorry, man, but you missed one of the funniest movies for our generation as adults. Like, I can't think of many that are better for pure comedy that have come out in the past two decades. It's it's a really good movie.

SPEAKER_03 40:00

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SPEAKER_04 40:46

Oh, brother. Well, you know, and the whole Martiti scene, you know, where they're in the woods and it's just hot chicks who are naked. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 40:58

Like that movie is so good. Like, why do they live? All right, so hear me out. Here's here's the scene.

SPEAKER_05 41:09

Just hot chicks everywhere. Nude. I'm in. Let's do it.

SPEAKER_04 41:16

We shoot that first. It's Danny McBride, dude. It's Danny McBride. Like, he just does what is good. Yeah. I I love that dude. I think he's so funny. We actually had a friend in town who's um been working in Hollywood for a couple years, and uh we were like talking to him about some of like the different things he's done and he like, you know, and worked on, you know, because obviously, like not everyone who works on a movie is like this big star, but he's like he gets he gets this like this insider look at all this shit. And he's like, dude, yeah. So we were working on the righteous gemstones, and me and my wife, like that's that's the last TV show or one of the only TV shows that we're like, this is the best. You know, like there are there are certain shows that we both agree are like the this is so, so good. And uh the righteous gemstones was just like so unbelievably good. Like first four seasons of Game of Thrones, that kind of style. Like, you're like, I could watch this whenever. Harry Potter movies were like the same way. And he's like, dude, so Danny McBride, like at this point in his career, he doesn't leave South Carolina. Like he just doesn't want to. So everyone, they fly out to where he lives. He flies the whole production to where he lives, and they produce the movie there, right? So the whole crew is living on his law, like his compound, right? He's like, they've got like people have hot houses, and he's like, Danny McBride will come by in the morning and like because he knows that not like all these Hollywood-esque people wanted to do this kind of like they wanted to be in Hollywood to be in Hollywood. And so he's like, I listen, I get it. You're out here to produce, you're out here to like make this movie, so I'm gonna like make sure everything's really kosher and fun for everybody. And he'd have he's like, they're having grill outs on Fridays, and Danny McBride is literally in his golf cart or in his like side by side, ripping between people's houses. I was like, dude, so the whole premise of this show is kind of like how Danny McBride lives now. It's like so sick. I love hearing that kind of shit. He's the man. That dude just makes the funniest shows. He seems so down to earth and and like so disconnected from all the bullshit. There's a guy who's not gonna be in the Epstein Files for sure.

SPEAKER_03 43:19

Dude, 100%, man. And he's been open, he's been very open and and and and talked about his love for South Carolina, having work brought to that place. Like just to think, man, like that takes a lot of balls and guts to say, like, no, we're gonna bring this production here, and it's gonna be a benefit to my state, to the people I live in this community. That's fucking awesome, dude. We need stuff like that. I think there's a few are uh actors that do that for Texas too. Like where they're like they're actively trying to make or bring more production work to Texas.

SPEAKER_04 43:50

I want to say I would bet money McConaughey, right? I mean, that's kind of gotta be.

SPEAKER_03 43:55

Oh, yeah. Yeah. I think actually, yeah, it is McConaughey. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, Raddo, Radio.

SPEAKER_01 44:00

I want to take it. And we're going to have barbecue on a Thursday. And the thing about a barbecued rib is that they smoke it.

SPEAKER_05 44:18

Okay. And it's going to be good.

Impressions Pop Culture And Meme Life

SPEAKER_03 44:21

But you've got to work. Do that. Do that, but then you also got to do your um your Sean Ryan impersonation. Do do Matthew McConaughey getting interviewed by Sean Ryan. Because that shit had me dying the last time we recorded.

SPEAKER_01 44:36

Uh that's all you gotta fucking do.

SPEAKER_04 44:45

That's the best impression of all time. Here, hold on. Let me do let me do like a really solid Sean Ryan. Uh I don't understand.

SPEAKER_03 44:56

That's it, dude. Hey, Sean, thank you for having me on the show.

SPEAKER_04 45:06

Uh wait, so you're telling me you've been here all day?

SPEAKER_01 45:16

I was told there was gonna be a gift for some gummies. Uh so we got you this. Hey, Elon, so awesome to have you in the studio.

SPEAKER_04 45:26

You I know you're a trillionaire. We got you this pack of gummy bears. Yeah, they're really good. It's starting to turn into uh Nick Cage. Elon.

SPEAKER_01 45:41

Uh Elon, we got you these gummy bears.

SPEAKER_04 45:44

And we're gonna have to go find the Declaration of Independence. Sean Cage. Nicholas Ryan? Dude, there he is. Sean Cage.

SPEAKER_03 45:59

Oh my god, we're so close to just being able to combine DNA like Jurassic Park. Yeah, I think the top celebrities of the 2020s. Take all three of those guys. I mean you tell me you brought back John Ryan. No, no. We combined the DNA of all the best podcasters and one B list celebrity, Nicolas Cage. Dude. You're calling. Listen, Nicolas Cage is A-list, and I resent that. Okay.

SPEAKER_04 46:40

Face off, dude? Correct. Correction. He's A-list. He's he's he is a dumb. He's not good at all, but he's an A-lister. You know what I'm saying? Yes. He's not good at an A-lister. But you can't subtract it too. You can't say he's got D tier abilities with A-list celebrity and then just call him a C.

SPEAKER_05 47:05

He's an A-lister.

SPEAKER_03 47:10

Somebody please make a Pokemon card deck of our movie heroes from the 90s and 2000s.

SPEAKER_04 47:17

Dude, you know, I think that's um I think that's like a thing that people are doing now. I saw that there was one about like the the like there's like a political one. That'd be really fun to do. I honestly I saw that there was a political one, and I was started to think to myself, like, oh, are these card companies that like make cards? Can you just like put a deck together yourself? That would be fun. That would be really fun.

SPEAKER_03 47:44

That would be sick. That would be sick.

SPEAKER_04 47:46

Who would be a holo who would who would be like a holographic rare? Like which which 90s celebrity is like a holo like who's Charizard?

SPEAKER_05 47:57

Ooh.

SPEAKER_03 48:00

I don't know about Charizard, but I feel like a solid Bulbasaur would be um breaking spears. That would be a solid one. So like and one would you be one way she's like young and like awesome, then you like move it a little bit and it's her mouth, drunk and fighting with knives. All yeah, yeah, dude.

SPEAKER_04 48:26

So all of like the really fucked up child actors, they're the ones that have like evolutions. You know, like you see Shia LaBeouf, like when he's like really, really young, right? And then he gets like even Stevens, and then and then you hit yeah, like even Stevens, and then you have like the middle of his life. He's been molested too many times, and then you have Mardi Gras. Or no, like the middle of the life is all his molestation energy has turned into like some solid attack power, and he's like, his art is good, and he's actually like acting really well, you know, like and also Transformers. Come on, with like, come on, dude. He's acting with OG Megan Fox. This you the that it'd be him with Megan Fox on a on Optimus Prime's knee in the background, and then he evolves into Marty Grog fear, fear fighting gay men. That's a legit martyr.

SPEAKER_03 49:23

I got a meme on deck for that one. I've waited too long, but I'm still gonna release it. It's just way too hilarious. I won't spoil it. You boys and girls, you'll see it when I drop it. I'll drop it today. So this is one thing. My meme game has slowed down just because I have so much adult things to do. I don't have time to scour the interwebs for poop and cum jokes. But it's a cornerstone and the foundation of Security Hall podcast, and I refuse to let it die. Because at the end of the day, it's um it's it's it's a foundational principle. I put it on my founder's pitch deck. Poop and cum will always be at the heart of this business.

SPEAKER_04 49:59

I'm big on poo-poo and pee pee jokes. Nice to meet them. Hello, marketing team at Proctor and Gamble. Do I have a pitch for you?

SPEAKER_03 50:13

The funny thing is, like, people have like come have like people are now looking for services, and they're like, you know, it's this guy. I like to cut of his jib. He's done great work for this client and this person over here. Maybe he can help us. Maybe he can help us reach our next plateau.

unknown 50:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 50:32

Yeah, it's hard to be um an adult with a child's sense of humor and also be taken seriously. Um, it did not work well for the Paul brothers. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 50:51

They're crushing it, man. One's a WWE superstar, and the other one got his uh job broken by a real boxer. I mean, uh, they're they're going places.

SPEAKER_04 51:00

I would rather be homeless and disheveled and have their level of notoriety. Uh-huh. I like I want to be taken seriously. Be hated by a majority of the world. Like, I like having fun, but I also want to be taken seriously. And Logan Paul isn't showing up anywhere, and someone's like, this is a man with access talent and money. They're like, that's a fucking OnlyFans man. That's a manly fans. You're an idiot, and I do not respect.

SPEAKER_03 51:33

Nobody's like, man. This is the man we want as the face of our next product. Unless it's like a Bad Dragon um wearable or something. Yeah. Yeah. It's some sort of new form of beanie baby. Or an anal bead. That's uh DeLogan Paul. It's like bad bunny versus anal beads.

SPEAKER_04 52:06

Bad beanie babies, bad beanies. B H A D beanies.

The 20 Mountain 220 Virtual Challenge

SPEAKER_03 52:11

Oh, geez. Oh, bad. Well, dude, before uh before we have to jump off, tell me uh what's going on with the new the new challenge, man.

SPEAKER_04 52:21

Yeah, dude. Um thanks for remembering that. Uh I don't remember anything ever. But so what we're doing is we're trying to build at a certain level of yeah. We're trying to build a certain level of community as we come up to the race. And I understand, um, you know, honestly, actually, the funny thing is, is I hadn't looked at uh like when we were on Fox News last year, which was a total trip, um, I hadn't looked at their YouTube, like what they put on YouTube and looked in the comments section. A lot of the comments were from vets who were like, 220 seems insurmountable and I want to be involved. Um, and so kind of going through, you know, whatever, like the 70, 80 comments, and albeit them like negative or positive, I kind of learned like, yeah, there's a little bit of a barrier to entry, and that's for sure. Um, I think the only reason it had any notoriety is there was a certain level of barrier to entry. But now what we have opened up is a certain opportunity for everyone to get involved and kind of contribute. And, you know, we have a lot of people reaching out to the foundation and saying, like, hey, I don't live in Nevada where you guys are working right now, but I want to get involved. So the 20 Mountain 220 virtual challenge, you can go on my Instagram page. Uh, we'll link that with Danny. Um, and what you can do is you click on my link tree, go to the Discord, uh, the racers discord, and you can actually look. And you can look at the real race rules for the big 20 Mountain 220, or you can go down and you can start a team for the virtual 20 Mountain 220. Uh today, we are not running it. So we run from the first to the 22nd of every month. So I'm not sure when this episode comes out, but if it comes out before the first, if it if it comes out before the first, and you can join it anytime in backlog miles as long as you have them on your Apple Watch, on your Fitbit, whatever it is, right? So the idea is build a team between one and eight people. And what you want to do is not only do you want to beat everybody else who's racing this month. So our our our best team raced about 250 miles last month. Uh, you want to beat the best team, but you also just want to get to 220 miles as a team. So between eight people, that's like maybe a mile, two miles a day. And that's, I mean, super doable, especially if you have someone who's gonna run an ultra or a marathon and get you some big bulk miles throughout the month. So build a team between one and eight, log all your miles in the Discord, and then earn yourself some points. And at the very end of our challenge, so in July, July 22nd will be the last day to log miles. Uh, by July 28th, I'm gonna count up everybody's miles. I'm gonna count up everybody's points. You earn points by either winning the month, so most miles for your team in the month, or just by getting 220. So you have an opportunity for two points, you probably just get one if you get 220. And at the very end, we're gonna be giving away some swag and we're gonna give away tickets to our fundraiser. So fundraiser seats cost uh$250 a seat. If you have a team of eight, that's a pretty awesome value. Uh come out, meet some of the racers who are running the real 220 straight through. And hell, if you do this every month, you may just be in shape to come compete, which would be really cool. Get involved and you're doing it for something that matters. Building all this kind of like press and and logo and brand, what it does is it brings awareness to an issue. And what we need to do is bring awareness to an issue. If you remember when Lance Armstrong did all the yellow wristbands, people were very, very, very aware of cancer, right? It does make a freaking difference. It makes a difference for your people. And if your people are veterans, it makes a difference for you, it makes a difference for everybody. So really come out, contribute, make yourself better, work for a work for a cause.

Final Push To Join And Support

SPEAKER_03 56:10

Absolutely. Guys, do me a favor and pause, you know, the spiel. Go to the links, support my man. Dare I say run a few miles, um, get in better shape, support a great cause and uh hang out with us virtually. You know, send us a DM, connect with us, join the Discord channel, and be a best version of yourself. Start it today. I don't want you to sign up tomorrow, sign up today. And if you do that today, I will send you free access code to my OnlyFans T46. You know you want it, I'll get you there. Well, yeah, thanks for coming on the show, brother. I really appreciate it. I can't wait to have you back on. But more importantly, thank you for what you're doing, because we need more activism. We need more people in the space doing cool things like this. So uh come on, support my guy, bro. Wish I could hang out a little longer, but I gotta jump into another meeting because somebody decided to hire me to do some more marketing. I don't even know why. Because I've got a good sales pitch, that's why. And they're paying me in coupons, beemable coupons for a wonderful gas station. Bussies. That's right. That's my new client. No, that'd be fucking awesome, though.

SPEAKER_04 57:27

Actually, that's a great sponsor if you could get it. Everybody loves a nice pussy.

SPEAKER_03 57:36

Yes, I was hoping you'd send it home with that. All right, folks. Take care. We'll see you all next time. Bye.