Regular G.I. Joe

On this episode, Mike and Izzy are joined by a friend, mentor, veteran, and now author, David Satchell a.k.a Satch. Satch retired from the Air Force after serving 30yrs as a Command Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force. The rank of Chief Master Sergeant is the highest enlisted rank in the military. After retiring, Satch decided to convey his 30yrs of leadership, life experiences, and life lessons into his book titled Extracting the Leader from Within. In this book Satch portrays personal experiences and showcases his authenticity and transparency regarding leadership. He entails the 5 imperatives of being an influential leader, to include personal stories that occurred in his career that reflects various leadership traits and lessons. The beauty of Satchell book is that its concepts & themes parallel with everyday life. Satch has gone beyond by taking these leadership principles and began conducting leadership workshops. Satch even began his own apparel labeled ENLISTED to highlight where his roots came from while in the military. If you don’t have his book, it is definitely a must read.  #leadership #leadershipdevelopment #militaryleadership #military #veteranpodcast

On this episode Mike and Izzy welcome a friend, veteran, and founder & creator of J&T BBQ sauces, Achilles Murray. Tune in as Achilles talks to us about his transition from retiring from the Marines to the civilian workforce and where he had an epiphany of developing his J&T’s BBQ sauces. From the stages of experimenting with sauces that he picked up from the commissary, to selling these sauces from the back of a U-Haul truck and now into various stores. A lot of the J&T’s BBQ sauces get rooted in the farmers markets and Achilles continues to show his love for the farmers markets even though his sauces are selling online and in stores. J&T’s BBQ sauces is a family business to where even his kids have helped in the distribution aspect of the business, to where Achilles named the J&T using his kids initials (The & is actually the letter E). Never once did he let his ego get the best of him as his sauces began to get recognized. Achilles sauces ranked in the top ten of BBQ sauces and he is very confident that his sauces are the best. Mike and Izzy can attest that his sauces Pineapple Krush, Backyard Boogie, San Andreas, and Original are the best.    https://jntsbbqsauce.com/ https://www.instagram.com/jntsbbqsauce/ #bbq #veteranownedbusiness #bbqsauce

On this episode, Mike and Izzy talk about dyslexia, being that Mike deals with dyslexia. Mike and I discuss the attributes of having dyslexia and for people that deal with dyslexia are considered very smart people and are not different from anyone else. Mike discusses how mental illness is perceived differently in every culture, as in Japan. Mike and Izzy provide our input on our outlook on those that are labeled as anti-Americans. Mike shares his views on being a big proponent of freedom and how those serving in the military have a strong view on who the president is and how they don’t allow anyone to talk negatively about that president. Mike and Izzy discuss that it wouldn’t be smart for anti-Americans to have a discussion with veterans. Mike shares his thoughts that if you wear a Hawaiian shirt that there are some political ties to it...WTF. Mike is very adamant on having Izzy get his nipples pierced...OH HELL NAH. #givemeliberty #freedom #idowhatiwant

On this episode, Mike and I give our take on an amazing movie titled purple hearts.... yes, we are being sarcastic, the movie is horrible. Mike and Izzy rant on how terrible the movie is and with us being veterans we explain the truth on the premise of this movie and how far fetch this movie is from reality.Mike and Izzy share stories of how military dependents take advantage of the system of marrying military men to collect the various monetary allowances and do it solely that reason. Mike and Izzy break it down how the worse kind of dependents are the wives, especially when they are in the wrong and go to many extremes in getting their military husband in trouble. Mike discusses his attribute of being a sarcastic person. Mike and Izzy talk about Mike dyslexia and Mike talks about the book titledDyslexia Advantage and that it helped to define that he is considered a genius.... I doubt it

On this episode, Mike and Izzy talk about movies in Hollywood to where the kids mess everything up and every other character die because of these dumb ass kids. Izzy gives his take on tv shows that wait so long to premiere. We become our own Siskel & Ebert show analyst on providing our views on various shows and their spinoffs. Mike gives his take on how nerdiness it is for those that watch Star Wars or even Star Trek. Mike and I rants on the Lord of the Rings movies and all they do is walk and talk and these movies are 5 hours long. Mike gives his take on dorkiness of people that learn to talk Klingon from Star Trek. Izzy shares his tale of the Dungeons & Dragons convening at his place of work in Oklahoma City. It is one thing to be a collector of anime, marvel comics, or even figurines, but at some point, a grown person needs to become an adult and not just collect items to have as decoration.  #dungeons&dragons #nerd #lordoftherings

On this episode, Izzy discusses his prior weekend shenanigans and attending a concert of Dave Matthews Band. Izzy was ecstatic that Dave Matthews Band played his favorite song for the first time since he has been going to their concerts. Izzy talks about his experience while flying and expresses his phobia with turbulence, aside from going #2 in an airplane restroom, and breaks down the protocol off light attendants when the pilots are needing to use the restroom, he wasn’t to sure as to why they put the old man flight attendant in the cockpit versus the strong young guy, makes you wonder why that poor old man is the last defense from getting into the cockpit. Yet again, nowadays everyone might know MMA, you never know. Mike and I share our insight on dark humor. Izzy decides to take a phone break to talk to his mom. Mike breaks down his envy that Izzy talks to his mom on a regular basis and his lack of socializing with people. Mike prefers to be a ghost versus known. Mike provides his thoughts on whether parents should track their kids to know their whereabouts.

In this episode, Mike and I ponder the question if we were mega millionaires, would we share our fortune with anyone else? Check out our views on it, just be glad we are not related to Mike, they are screwed. We discuss putting respect on money because those that don’t are the ones that are in debt. We fantasize too much on those that have wealth and not try to do for ourselves to put us in the same category. Why can’t we all be wealthy too? Mike is not knowledgeable about movies, I apologize. We discuss that chivalry is not dead, us fellas need to do better. The young generation are portraying themselves to not have proper etiquette versus being true gentlemen. Mike talks about the impact of working with veteran owned organizations. If you can get involved within your community, it is very rewarding. Mike challenges me to do an egg roll eating contest…hmm. There is an art form to participate in an eating contest.  #veteranpodcast #veterans #millionaires

In this episode, we discuss what we can do to make ourselves better for job interviews and to be able to get hired. There are tons of resources out there to help us to knock out those interviews and get the job we want such as paying to get our resumes professionally made or connecting within your network to practice interviewing. My military people, if you think you are going to start at the top in a civilian company just because you were a high rank in the service, it isn’t going to work that way. At times after the service, we need to start at the bottom and work our way up. Choose the life that you want to live, for some it is a vacation life and for others it is the hustle and grind, to each their own.  #veteranpodcast #veterans #startedfromthebottom

In this episode, Izzy shows love for the national Puerto Rico day parade and Mike has no clue. Reflects on what encompasses the Puerto Rico day parade. Izzy vents on women that are leaving their homes looking like clowns, no idea on how to properly put make-up on. The education system is failing the youth, these millennials thought that the terms ``automatic `` or ''manual `` were a car name brand. Be smart when you are out eating, instead of ordering for one just order for two so you have leftovers. Ladies and gents, Izzy is NOT ON PERMANENT VACATION. Mike doesn’t know the difference between LV or UNLV, again the education system is failing us. Mike discusses his views on having a skillset versus a degree.  #veteranpodcast #veterans #puertoricodayparade

On this episode, we talk about that wealth doesn’t mean happiness and those that are filled with fame and riches are living worse lives. Not sure where this question came from, but Mike shares his enthusiasm for going to Thailand to shoot a rocket launcher at cows, for money or no money. We share stories of experiences people go through when visiting Thailand, be weary of the lady boys. Many countries do provide escorts just as in Singapore that have the four floors of whores (a real location). If you are looking for a lady, men just be straightforward and quit beating around the bush. Stop pretending. Mike and I have a discussion on what we would tell our younger selves if we were able to go back in time.#veteranpodcast #veterantalk #onething