Armando (caller)

Uh, it's yeah, I, I love it.

Yeah.

okay man well just to kind of give you i don't know how much time i have brother but you got you got you got whatever you need bro i'm here to help okay okay gotcha well first and foremost i completely respect what you guys do um andy i've been listening to you ever since i i was in the marine corps since uh 20 2017. that's awesome so uh just a long story short man 2015 i i shipped out to

MCRD San Diego.

I did, you know, obviously bootcamp, all that good stuff.

And I got out of the, I mean, I got out of the Marines, but I was in the Marine Corps.

I went out to the fleet.

I got sent over to Japan.

And basically what I started to do was document my life in the Marines.

And I used to have a huge YouTube channel called Nava the Beast, which maybe some of your listeners might know it, but it was a completely different alter ego of where I am today.

I'm, you know, I'm a family man now.

I have a daughter and, you know, I'm a big time Christian and love the Lord, but

Um, that being said, within that time span, I leveraged social media to really build up, uh, kind of the first ever military influencer, uh, on YouTube and Instagram, all that good stuff.

And so I grew it to about half a million subscribers on YouTube.

It was really awesome.

But back then I was in my younger twenties.

So I definitely had a,

You know, had to get humbled many times, had a huge ego.

And especially with all those followers and fame, I mean, I was, you know, it was just not a good trajectory that I was headed to.

But then 2019, I had a, I had a basically a decision whether, you know, the Marine Corps was like, Hey, you know, you could stay in, you can keep helping us with the recruiting efforts.