Brandon and John discus all the ins and outs of life over the last few months. The ups and downs and what in the world is going on in the world. It's getting crazy out there and we want to talk about some of it with out spin as well. It's been a long time so we hope you guys enjoy!
Grunts in Appalachia
by Grunts In Appalachia
A Marine and a retired Army 1st Sgt and an Appalachian sit down to talk gear, gadgets, beer and mental health. Special guests come on highlighting the amazing people of Appalachia and their stories of how they made it to this region or if they're from here what has kept them here for life. Politicians, musicians, business owners and other veterans sit down with these two grunts and just start figuring life out from other perspectives.
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Brandon and John sit down and discuss all the main topics of discussion that have been raging at the kitchen table over the last month. From the alien whistle blowers in Congress to the beginning of the football season, we hit it all.
Brandon is taking over the roll of host and will be taking the G…
Brandons 45th birthday has come and gone but that doesn't mean we didn't celebrate. We set up at our buddy Paul's house and setup the podcast equipment under the canopy for the poolside of the party.
Grilling was going down all day and so was the pop shots at different branches, we had all military…
Hey Hey we made it! Episode 100 and it has everything that the Grunts in Appalachia have ever done! There's a crazy story time about the festivities that took place while Brandon was on Vacation in Lake of the Ozarks. It just so happens that two of his compadres that were there at the lake were also…
Welcome back ya'll! This week Gorgeous George and Brandon sit down and talk about the weather. Not really though. We have a discussion about war in movies and what happened to the good ones. Where did a good war movie go? Gorgeous George talks about his train wreck of a weekend while Brandon was st…
Gorgeous George and John sit down in Boots Spirits and Feed, an awesome country western bar in downtown Huntington, WV.
Topics of disscussion were a little more on the serious note this week with some jumbled humor. There's so much going on in the world it's hard not to talk about the daily hot but…
Happy Mothers Day to all you fabulous ladies out there doing the mothering thing. For this week we have special guest Neera Burner, adopted out of India as a baby and raised in Appalachia. Currently an influencer that has works with and has worked with major companies that we all know and love.
Joh…
Brandon goes off on the Bud Light controversy but we aren't going to tell you here what was said, guess you'll just have to take a listen.
John talks about his Washington D.C trip this last week and all the cool things there are to do there. Artificial Intelligence was also another topic of discuss…
Happy 4/20 to everyone out there! John and Gorgeous George sit down and talk about the different Easter holidays, the Chinese coming across our southern border, some more wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey space stuff, and all kinds of other things. John went on a trip to Nashville and had some great things…
Allright everyone it was Easter Day on our normal podcast day so we pulled the one we had saved in the vault from last week that wasnt able to be dropped. I didn't have time to listen to this one I just uploaded it so when we all listen to it tomorrow we can all be surprised together.
Scott Daniels proudly served in the US Army for 25 years 6 months and 13 days before he retired honorably as a 1st Sgt. His last job in the Army was spent being a Counter Intelligence Special Agent, you know the guys that are always doing the nefarious stuff in the television shows. Well we got to s…
The competition was on with the MRE challenge. Two meals were chosen by each host in a blind draw format. The each person had ten minutes to make the tastiest meal possible with the two meals that were chosen. We delve into some MRE stories and explain our creations to each other as we taste test…
This week on Grunts In Appalachia we talk sports, but not your everyday sports. We each took it upon ourselves to find the oddest sports that are played anywhere in the world, and when we say odd we mean it! Gorgeous George wants to know about Jai Alai, John talks about Wife Carrying, and Brandon …
The Grunts talk aliens. Particulaly we discuss the alien war at the Dulce Base in New Mexico, the story of Valiant Thor and the entire town of Nuremburg witnessing an alien war in spaceships above them in the 1500s!
We jump off topic plenty of times for side conversations and our normal theatrics…
Special Guest Corbette Williams joined us today for a wild episode. Corbett is another fellow Marine Grunt so he fit right into the craziness.
We've all probably heard about it by now but the wealthy elites of the world want you to stop eating so much beef and transfer over to bugs! So of course w…
Happy Valentines Day to everyone!
As everyone knows by now the Kansas City Chiefs won the Superbowl. Brandon is beyond happy and now has to find new things to do between now and next football season, we think he's going to get into Nascar again. We discus the Superbowl, especially the atrocious …
It all started out completely normal. You know a Chinese balloon slowing roaming across our entire country, yeah about that. That's where it all began on this episode and we might have believed it was going to be the biggest talking point before the second half of the podcast began.
Brandon being …
So we started the evening out dumping out some of Brandon's acquired gear from the Army before he retired and there was a lot of stuff, not to mention that we only scratched the surface of what he has colleting dust in his basement.
How in the world we started talking about the birds and the bees an…
Vacation Travel Stories
This week we planned on telling stories about travel while still serving activly in the military and after we got out, as just plain old veterans. Plus Gorgeous George told some stories about his travels as a brother in a fraternity.
John stepped up next with a wedding t…
CEO of Matt Peyton of Thraxx THC and CBD company sat down with us this week and brought the goodies. We learned a lot about different variations of strains and the process that his company uses to make the very popular Delta 8 edible gummies.
Brandon tells a great story on Gorgeous George in the …