Shawn Asks Your Questions with AJ Gentile
Added 2025-08-22 21:46:09 +0000 UTCA Question from our Patreon Member, Ian Lane, was selected for this clip.
"On 'The Why Files, you walk a line between exploring wild conspiracies and keeping the audience grounded in facts. Have you ever stumbled on a piece of information that made you stop and think, 'This is bigger than I want to touch, and if so, what made you decide to hold back?"
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This is not to say nobody got caught up. But it was pre breached. It wasn't provocateured
nobody1
2025-08-24 21:29:04 +0000 UTCShawn, AJ said he doesn’t get into the flat earth theory and you mentioned that this topic was interesting. I’m somewhere in the middle on this and it wasn’t that long ago that I called flat earthers completely nuts… I think an interview with “Flat Earth Dave” would be very eye opening and open some interesting theories! The globe theory essentially keeps our mind closed to exploration and inhibits ones ability to critically think; starting at a young age. If you ask someone that is 100 years old if the earth is flat or round they will tell you flat. If you ask a five year old, they will tell you it is round, duh, stupid… almost as if the five year old is programmed from day one.
Gerg Chuffo
2025-08-24 16:06:02 +0000 UTCHi (you mentioned not touching J6 on this because there was nothing to add). I’ve figured out January 6—and it’s footage neither side will touch. A British film crew led the Proud Boys to breach the Capitol just before 1. The official event didn’t finish until well past 1 and was over a mile away. Then they stormed it for the cameras. I’m very disappointed that the shadow campaign launched by the very people who infiltrated the right fooled everyone. The entire ‘political prisoner event’—as if the feds don’t screw you if you help them pull something like that. Anyhow…Here is the footage that was erased but I recovered via the wayback machine. https://rumble.com/v5xi1rb-jan-6-footage-eddie-block-bad-wifi-in-dc.html
nobody1
2025-08-24 03:37:08 +0000 UTCShawn…loved the part of the two of you talking about your anxiety issues. Guaran-damn-tee I can cure both of you with one Thanksgiving dinner with my Italian family lol 😂 You’re rocking this Shawn. We all love you!
Kathy
2025-08-23 18:27:59 +0000 UTCThank you Shawn & AJ for all that you do; you are both entertaining, insightful, cover the difficult-to-hear stuff and I applaud and appreciate you both. Now for my shtick: I'm a 13 year Veteran of the Army (and Veteran of the 160th '91-'95) but during my 2nd iteration of SFAS in '06, I suffered a career ending spinal injury. Group treated me as group does, no issues there, I get it, CM. But what followed from the MEB with a 20% Disability Rating and Medical Discharge was a real slap in the face - they said I'd never walk again without assistance, so why the 20%? Anyway, that was followed by Social Security and VA denying my claims for years only for SS to approve (at a judges personal order) Total Disability and the VA to later approve a 90% paid at 100% for unemployability but only after years of denials, beratement, misdiagnosis, and literally attacking me with letters and harassing phone calls from VA doctors for my asking for assistance. Here's the kicker - the the Army's final approval for Medical Retirement only came AFTER the Commanding General of the Special Operations Care Coalition personally called the Commander of the Physical Disability Board of Review (PDBR), vouched for my service and character within the community - in all it took 7 years, 3 months and 21 days of denial after denial. I was fighting for my life, the lives of my wife and three children and the multitude of Veterans that were and are still waiting for care. My old boss said that I was the epitome of the NCO Creed and I would have considered it a dereliction of my duties to not fight for myself and those that are unable to - but I didn't then and still don't have the platform or connections despite all of my efforts. I continue to suffer from a plethora of debilitating conditions and receive ZERO care from the VA. The VA and the process has failed me and so many others. And despite letters, calls, news interviews, contact with Veteran orgs, Congressmen and Senators - we're still left wanting. I guess that my point is that very few people have as much exposure and influence in the unearthly realm of Veteran Benefits and it would be nice to have strong voices of change leading the way. I pray for each of your continued successes. Be well, CM & NSDQ!
Troy
2025-08-23 14:38:16 +0000 UTCWhat an eye opener
Jason
2025-08-23 12:47:49 +0000 UTCOh hi, thank you for your service so you know you are still eligible as a Vietnam war and wartime veteran receiving disability to apply for TDIU if for some reason you are unable to work due to your service connected disabilities.. I don’t know what your disabilities are, but I’ll tell you that sometimes the rating for things is finicky like my lower spine is pretty damaged but because it only involves two joints rather than three or four joints it’s only a 10% degenerative disc rating so sometimes if you research the actual disability the VA will have a list of the rating schedule and what percentage is given, depending on the level of injury, but most Vietnam war veterans don’t know that they can also apply for TDIU.. which is total disability individual unemployability if your service connected disabilities make you unable to work with substantially gainful employment
Mercurycyte
2025-08-23 00:13:30 +0000 UTCThat’s interesting to hear what you’re saying at 6:11 timestamp I was saying this to other service members I will run into they will say they feel guilty getting money for their disability from their service and I said to them you know some of these doctors are making $200,000 plus a year as doctors at the VA.. and I actually had explained them that same to them. I guess a lot of service members don’t understand that when you enlist in the military, the military does a cost assessment on you based on the idea of you lasting 20 years or in the military and so if you end up, not making it to 20 years ..you know end up with disabilities that medically retire you or just disabilities along with serving 20 years that that money was already obligated to fund you for your service ..like what you explain at 6:11 timestamp …now that theynow that they obligated it when you and enlist and so when they try to make you feel guilty for what they owe you that’s them being corrupt.. and you can actually let them know. I say tell them doctors those VA people directly, how that’s mean. That’s not a nice thing to do to make someone and make them feel like they’re undeserving of what they are owed.. not to mention a lot of service matters. Don’t know that when you are retired that you can actually be called back to duty up until the age of 60 even if you are medically, retired… a lot of people don’t know that they just don’t know that
Mercurycyte
2025-08-22 23:41:22 +0000 UTCI was in Vietnam in 1974 and the later in another country was wounded three times. Spent almost a year in the hospital. I still to this day only receive 60%. disability due to reasons they will not tell me. 🤬
Tom Loaiza
2025-08-22 23:13:57 +0000 UTCMy older brother who was there gave me that nickname of "Combat Kid" there is no disrespect to anyone at all it is just a nickname. I was 4 yrs old when I received it.
CombatKid
2025-08-22 23:04:43 +0000 UTCI was going to put in a story of Da Nang AFB during the Tet. But it more about Agent Orange. What Civilians had to put up with. They will never see any money for the suffering they are going through. I feel for you AJ and Shawn.
CombatKid
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Rich Boran
2025-08-22 22:36:30 +0000 UTC
