Jason and Patrick take a look at some generation kill. We hope you guys enjoy this episode. Jason and Patrick will be back in the studio very soon with some cool stuff coming!!
This is a question for the 0372, as a Retired USMC FORECON 0326, now simply designated 0321, I've attended a few social gatherings where a CSO was present and have heard a few say that they wished they had stayed with FORECON instead of going on to be a Raider If you could do it over would you stay with FORECON or would you still do selection and indoc + the added 6 year contract to go 0372.
FINALLY!! On a side note, don’t feel bad about losing out on playing yourself, Jason. Charlie Chaplin once entered a Charlie Chaplin lookalike contest… and came in third place.
Having seen Generation kill when it first was available on piratebay (HBO didn't exist in Sweden at the time), obviously not knowing who Lilley was. Loving the show and about 10 years later seeing Patrick and Jason in an veterans reaction clip, loving the tone and dynamic they have and then obviously subscribing to their own channel. And then out of the blue seeing a pic of Jason and Rudy, the only one i knew was a real marin on the show, is a long way for me to say that the world is small sometimes.. Ofc i rewatched it after i saw the pic, still a great show!
@@aerodynamic6560 I watched it in Norway,got me to join the Norwegian military(or reenlist if you count the conscript period a few years prior). Pretty cool that it worked for recruitment purposes across NATO lol.
I would just read Nathaniel Ficks book One Bullet Away. It compares fairly well to the actual book by Wright, but obviously not every Marine was able to experience everything everyone else did.
@@paytonsmith7068 That is partially due to how spread out MAGTF had The RB's and FORECON during the insertion to the AO (Iraq) latter on the ascension pipeline got back logged with the 0321's in the RB's wanting to qualy for 0323 to 0326 to get into FORECON cause the Raiders were being stood up and MARSOC being established and you had to have the 0326 designation to go through selection and indoc for FORECON to hopefully get a billet there to replace the FORECON 0326's who were going through selection and indoc for 0372 CSO (Raiders).
@@paytonsmith7068 Both Wright's and Fick's books are great. Wright provides a civilian perspective on the war and you get a lot more insight on a personal level about the marines he interacted with, while Fick's book is more "serious", you get a lot more information about the whole campaign since he's a trained officer.
Me2 if they had a better interviewer that had actually watched the show and knew what to ask. He got nothing out of the guy. Basically his answer was "I don't know."
The chemistry of the cast really was genius, so I think not letting Lilley play himself had a certain logic, because I’m reading the book and it’s missing some of the lovability I felt the show had. Because of the writer not always understanding whereof he spoke, I think.
The reporter putting on his MOPP gear is an almost exact recreation of what happened with our imbedded reporter on the Kuwait/Iraq boarder after our avenger ground to air missiles shot down scuds directly overhead of our position. Man this whole show is great lol
@@jerryle379 The original Avenger was a was a Vulcan mounted on a M-113 track but the "current" version is Stingers mounted on Humvees, 4 of them I think? He means the second. We shipped quite a few of the missile version to Ukraine last year.
@@jerryle379 Scuds are slow, large, non-maneuvering (In the terminal phase) and very hot. Super easy to lock up with IR guided weapons. There's plenty of examples on video from Ukraine of missiles of all kinds being taken down by Stingers.
My husband was in the military and went on deployments. As a wife, I worried sick for him. I could not sleep nights. I understand he's a protector at heart but I don't think you guys understand how much of a toll it takes on the wives who loves you. Now, he goes and puts his life on the line again, as a police officer. I never know if I'll hear that the love of my life is gone.
I just rewatched generation kill last week still holds up after being out so many years, I been specifically waiting for this episode to see what lilley had to say about the series and pick it apart
In a fucked up way, Generation Kill was one of the biggest reasons I joined the Marine Corps. It came out in like 2008 or 2009 and I enlisted in 2010. I didn't do anything cool but I will say that the various Marines portrayed in the series had others just like them across the fleet. When I see the show now I think of them, not necessarily the people actually portrayed if that makes any sense.
Dude...as a O.I.F. vet in the Army. I love this fucking show. I have nothing but respect for the Marines. My G.F was 5th division WW2. My brother was 1st division in Operation Desert shield/storm, & L.A. riot's. Much love.
Great timing. I'm actually watching generation kill right now. And I love it. Edit: so lily was the guy who was always recording? And saying brah alot?
Even this guy didn't give a squat. He must have heard Captain America on the radio. And what about Encino man that was his company commander. But "he doesn't know"
5:26 I don't know if it was intentional but I always got that impression from how the character was played in the show. Super cool to hear the reporter attended reunions too.
Had no clue that Lilley was this Jason! that's so fucking dope edit: rudy reyes is a motivation of mine for joining the marine corps and trying to do recon. its cool that you actually know them all and stuff
I looked up Sixta. Dude, he went for the little girl of a family he had befriended. How gross is that. Hope you are both doing well these days and that the channel is growing.
TLDR: cool video bruh. Big ups to Lilley, Patrick, the USMC and the rest of the active and reserve military. I believe we were as careful and honorable as we could be in those chaotic circumstances. That clip series really reminds me of something I cut together back in 2009. I had just gotten out of the Air Force. At the time I didn't realize that it was based on the commencement of combat operations in 2003/2004. I had a chance to hang out with a few Marines since then. Hearing that the Cobras and fixed wing air support was comforting to the ground soldiers... Seeing the faces of people that I might have helped by being an aircraft mechanic... It feels like an old wound is closing, some old doubts are being put to rest. It reminds me of when I was little; back in 1988 or 89. My dad was Army. He came home one day with his mo bag and showed me and my brother the chem gear and a flac vest. He talked about needing to go to fight bad people. I was 4 or 5 years old. That was his war. I still don't have any kids. When I went I didn't have to explain where I was going or what I was going to do. I think the deployment was harder for some than others. I was sent in to replace another crew chief. I hoped to boost morale a bit; have some cake and ice cream... haha. That's when I bought my first digital camera, a Nikon P90 I think. A little hand held with a long optical zoom. Some part of me is very okay with war. The part of me that wants to protect my compatriots. To provide the best weapons on Earth to the most disciplined fighters on Earth. I respect the qualities of front line fighters, thanks to the reporting, the literature, the RUclips channels and veterans. My personal conflicts aside, I enjoyed the personal time I spent with people when death loomed overhead. That's when the bluster and peacocking evaporated and a true meritocracy arose. Race be dammed, they needed the best on hand. I might have taken it too lightly. As much as I butted heads with Utley, I felt like he respected me. When I asked for a birthday cake, he drove me to pick one up from the mess hall (operated by Army). He drove me to get my wisdom teeth pulled in an emergency surgery. He made me field strip my AR in front of the SSgts to help prove I knew my stuff. He even put me on heavy maintenance instead of the menial pre/post flight inspections or "mid shift" maintenance. We were the closest when our backs were to a barbed wire fence. I still feel like the little brother to Marines. Handing them guns and ammo, armor and air support. Anti-Terrorism requires an ability to use social cues and non-verbal language to determine who dies in the next 5 seconds. I can see why certain police departments would scour the workforce for people capable of that particular role.
That must be so wild to have a miniseries made about your deployment like that down to the platoon level. Must be like watching yourself in a funhouse mirror mixed with a game of telephones. Its a pretty good show.
Got a question for lilly, do you think the night ambush at the bridge (im not sure what the name of the town was), was accurately potrayed in the series?
So there’s a “documentary” that someone else in recon made of the journey and it pretty much did. There’s time you can spot Rudy and a couple other faces. There’s also the Moto video on here . Just have to use specific keywords and it will pop up.
I remember watching Generation Kill when I was kid and recently I had the chance to talk with Jason as an adult. Life has a way of coming full circle unexpectedly!
Some creative criticism; it would be nice next time to maybe pause the clip while you're discussing it, because I found it hard at times to focus on what you were saying with another conversation going on in the background. It also felt like bits were getting talked over that would've been enjoyable to hear your input on. Also, pausing to look up the characters you're talking about could help, because in one bit there was total confusion over who was being discussed for a straight like fifteen seconds. Might just help with the structure/flow a little. But it's really cool hearing your input; hearing from people who were there, and people who have relevant experience. It's really insightful. Thanks for the vid, enjoyed it!
Bit surprised he couldn't name Brad Colbert or the actor playing him ...considering he has the most screen time of everyone across all of the episodes. It's almost like he hasn't watched it ;)
That is cool you are having a reunion in May I think what would be great if your interview them and get their perspective and their thoughts about Generation Kill both the book and movie. I read Nate Flick’s book I thought it was really good
I have read the book and own the movie Generation Kill. I served in the Marines from 1996 - 2000. There are very, very few military movies that are spot-on accurate. This movie was based on an embedded reporter’s words. Also artistic license was taken to make it a better movie. Overall though this movie was pretty well on the money. The disrespect among the enlisted for the officers was a lot higher than it would’ve been in actuality as far as from my point of view as a Motor Transport Mechanic. I watched it with my wife and pointed out all of the accuracies and inaccuracies. But overall it was a very well made presentation of modern Marine Corps life and attitudes. The 2 funniest parts of the movie to me was the reporter during the apparent gas attack and the Marines making fun of the meeting with the Iraqi locals.
For yalls, Military Reunion go to "Big Sky" Montana, it's beautiful. It's amazing. Plus, about 15 years ago, my Father had his First Military Reunion with the 3/5 Cavalry The Black Knights My Dad served in Vietnam 69-70 Dong Ha & Quang Tri.
Generation kill when it came out was one of the main reasons I decided to raise my right hand and join the military. Granted I wanted to be in the military since I was 8. But this show was the nail on the coffin.
I kinda wanted to know more about your take on Trombley and Captain America. Also i advise to pause the video to discuss talking points so you can talk in full length while not missing the video
I actually met Fruity Rudy at Comic-Con while the show was airing, he's a class act! (Generation Kill is one of my all time fave mini-series/tv shows, I was actually just watching it again the other week)
Jason fucking Lily.... Ill be god damned. Little birdie told me you were making pod casts and I had to see it for myself and came across the channel. Glad to see you looking healthy and doing good things man. I hope all is well, its been a long time.
I think the one scene I loved in this was when the convoy was moving into a city and saw one of their own trucks blown to high hell, camera cuts inside of it we see blood and a some charms candy laying on the side open up, which if any of you who serve around this time or at least know about the curse charms candy made me think." Holy shit did these guys get blown up cause someone open the charms?!"
Jason, were you on the 15th MEU about a year before the invasion? I know some of the guy portrayed were (Rudy, Fick was B 1/1 Weapons Plt Commander) I was Weapons 1/1 during the 15th MEU and RCT 1 during the invasion. Also a character that was portrayed later GySgt Swarr was a LCpl rigger at 1st ANGLICO when I was there. I loved Generation Kill. It portrayed life during the invasion very well.
Screwby: A descriptive word to used to denote something as really cool, fly, hot, awesome; or really horrible, bad, or lame. Dude, that trick was screwby sick.
Lilley you should read Evan's book, I reckon it would be really meaningful for you and put a lot of context into the nutty and amazing stuff that happened in the invasion. He talked to a lot of people, not just in the battalion.
I read the book because I liked the show so much. Honestly the book is very similar to the show. Very. I didnt quite finish it because Ive seen the show multiple times and it was good but It was just like watching the show a 3rd time.
@@adamwhatley4710 That's not quite the experience I had. It contains greater detail and covers some things that occur between episodes in the show. There is also a lot of context and interpretation by Wright whose background in youth sub-cultures and knowledge of politics and medieval history can really help you understand why things happened the way they did (POG officers in combat, light-skinned humvees, changes in plan etc.) and also why marines of this generation behave the way they do. One of my favourite things that isn't in the show is Wright's conversation with a marsh Arab man, who is the the same age as Wright but looks like an old man, and asks him if he can come with the marines to strangle Saddam himself.
I recommend reading One Bullet Away by Lt. Fick describing GK events from his point of view. You'll find out lot of stuff that went into the command decisions during the invasion.
So awesome you all remember HBO for what it used to be. I remember my parents recording a VHS tape on the Free HBO channel. A lot of my first movie memories are because of that. This series however, I loved! It’s so true regardless of branch. I was forward deployed to Al Taqqadum with the Marines. Best and worst time of my life but something I’ll always remember
random question (and I know the source is not reliable) but I once read on reddit that recon post like 2006 never really got combat deployments again. I was shocked as Marines were heavily involved in all the Afghanistan surge stuff. Is this true? Was it the re introduction of the raiders that changed everything for them?
As an Army guy, I thoroughly enjoyed Generation Kill. While my experience is from 1988=1996, many things are the same, across branches. Except that Marines get the shit the Army send to DRMO😆
Jason, you should’ve gotten the part because while i personally never served and probably don’t know wtf i’m talking about but i think having veterans in war movies who have actually done the stuff in the movie in real life would make the movie a lot better due to it being more realistic that way.
Acting is a different skillset to soldiering. If the producers thought the actor could do it better in a movie format, I don't blame them. But I probably would have brought him on as a consultant instead...
When I first watched this I didn’t know it was based on a book but when I did and saw that David Simon who made one of my favourite shows of all time (the wire) and was the show runner I wasn’t worried considering that he was a reporter and he left because the people running it were doing a terrible job, anyway having seen the wire I got a sense of his style and I knew that despite some dramatisation here and there, he cares about realism first and foremost so I liked generation kill a lot. is it 100% accurate? Not really but ya gotta understand that it’s inevitable that it would happen and David Simon is the only one that I can think of who can make something entertaining but realistic at the same time so there’s literally no one who can do generation kill justice but David Simon
After hearing about sixta. I was 2-3 inf regt. SSG Bales was in our HQ recon sniper platoon. He did what he did afghanistan 2012. Crazy how some people do certain things and knowing bales I thought he was a great leader and awesome nco.
What I find funny is Bravo company is the best company in 1st recon but they got a moron for a co and Alpha company are a bunch of morons but they have some one who is competent as a co.
Even tho he didn't get the part I thought they did a really good job with the cast. Felt like each guy played their character the way they should have ya know?
I just re watched the whole series and was looking for Lilley but I have to admit, I got his character confused with Stafford a LOT throughout the series. I feel they didn’t do as good of a job as they could with some of the subtleties between different personalities
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Jason and Patrick take a look at some generation kill. We hope you guys enjoy this episode. Jason and Patrick will be back in the studio very soon with some cool stuff coming!!
RAD!
This is a question for the 0372, as a Retired USMC FORECON 0326, now simply designated 0321, I've attended a few social gatherings where a CSO was present and have heard a few say that they wished they had stayed with FORECON instead of going on to be a Raider If you could do it over would you stay with FORECON or would you still do selection and indoc + the added 6 year contract to go 0372.
FINALLY!! On a side note, don’t feel bad about losing out on playing yourself, Jason. Charlie Chaplin once entered a Charlie Chaplin lookalike contest… and came in third place.
Dolly Parton did the same thing and lost to a dude in drag!!
He actually came in 20th place lol
@@loganmatteson189 Even more inspiring!
Lucky # slevin is one of the best movies in existence.
@@diWHY_Jakewhich is why you don’t underestimate drag
Sixta took 'Grooming Standard' a little too much to the heart, one can say
Didn’t have to go that hard, lol.
He gave the marines something pointless to vent their frustration towards to distract them from the war
@@pontiacGXPfan he's talking about a much... darker side to Sgt Major Sixta
@@pontiacGXPfan he's talking a different kind of grooming
@@candle_eatistahhh
Having seen Generation kill when it first was available on piratebay (HBO didn't exist in Sweden at the time), obviously not knowing who Lilley was. Loving the show and about 10 years later seeing Patrick and Jason in an veterans reaction clip, loving the tone and dynamic they have and then obviously subscribing to their own channel. And then out of the blue seeing a pic of Jason and Rudy, the only one i knew was a real marin on the show, is a long way for me to say that the world is small sometimes.. Ofc i rewatched it after i saw the pic, still a great show!
MAN!! Piratebay!! good days back then!!!
Haha I watched it in Sweden torrented aswell! Probably installed a hundred viruses on my dad's PC
@@aerodynamic6560 I watched it in Norway,got me to join the Norwegian military(or reenlist if you count the conscript period a few years prior).
Pretty cool that it worked for recruitment purposes across NATO lol.
RIP to Evan Wright aka Mr Rolling Stone
I would watch an episode with Jason just talking about that experience and how it compares to the show
I would just read Nathaniel Ficks book One Bullet Away. It compares fairly well to the actual book by Wright, but obviously not every Marine was able to experience everything everyone else did.
@@paytonsmith7068 That is partially due to how spread out MAGTF had The RB's and FORECON during the insertion to the AO (Iraq) latter on the ascension pipeline got back logged with the 0321's in the RB's wanting to qualy for 0323 to 0326 to get into FORECON cause the Raiders were being stood up and MARSOC being established and you had to have the 0326 designation to go through selection and indoc for FORECON to hopefully get a billet there to replace the FORECON 0326's who were going through selection and indoc for 0372 CSO (Raiders).
@@paytonsmith7068 Both Wright's and Fick's books are great. Wright provides a civilian perspective on the war and you get a lot more insight on a personal level about the marines he interacted with, while Fick's book is more "serious", you get a lot more information about the whole campaign since he's a trained officer.
Me2 if they had a better interviewer that had actually watched the show and knew what to ask. He got nothing out of the guy. Basically his answer was "I don't know."
That's literally what this is..
The chemistry of the cast really was genius, so I think not letting Lilley play himself had a certain logic, because I’m reading the book and it’s missing some of the lovability I felt the show had. Because of the writer not always understanding whereof he spoke, I think.
The reporter putting on his MOPP gear is an almost exact recreation of what happened with our imbedded reporter on the Kuwait/Iraq boarder after our avenger ground to air missiles shot down scuds directly overhead of our position. Man this whole show is great lol
You mean patriot ? How the f a avenger shot down a scud with it stinger ? 😮
@@jerryle379 Yes, the AN/TWQ-1 Avenger platform that sits on the back of the HMMWV... and, I don't know? I do have pictures though...
@@jerryle379 The original Avenger was a was a Vulcan mounted on a M-113 track but the "current" version is Stingers mounted on Humvees, 4 of them I think? He means the second. We shipped quite a few of the missile version to Ukraine last year.
@@jerryle379 Scuds are slow, large, non-maneuvering (In the terminal phase) and very hot. Super easy to lock up with IR guided weapons. There's plenty of examples on video from Ukraine of missiles of all kinds being taken down by Stingers.
@@painhertz That's not an Avenger, you're talking about the M163 VADS.
Now i want to rewatch Generation Kill again. Loved it back in the day, and Jason was there in Real Life is a big suprise for me :)
My husband was in the military and went on deployments. As a wife, I worried sick for him. I could not sleep nights. I understand he's a protector at heart but I don't think you guys understand how much of a toll it takes on the wives who loves you. Now, he goes and puts his life on the line again, as a police officer. I never know if I'll hear that the love of my life is gone.
Ah, this is the 4th wall we've been looking to break...
It's going to be bigger very soon. :)
Did not know Jason was involved in this. Love that show.
He was the guy with the Camera
Hearing that he auditioned to play himself and not getting the part makes me think of that Key and Peele sketch.
What one is that?
I just rewatched generation kill last week still holds up after being out so many years, I been specifically waiting for this episode to see what lilley had to say about the series and pick it apart
In a fucked up way, Generation Kill was one of the biggest reasons I joined the Marine Corps. It came out in like 2008 or 2009 and I enlisted in 2010.
I didn't do anything cool but I will say that the various Marines portrayed in the series had others just like them across the fleet. When I see the show now I think of them, not necessarily the people actually portrayed if that makes any sense.
Dude...as a O.I.F. vet in the Army. I love this fucking show. I have nothing but respect for the Marines. My G.F was 5th division WW2. My brother was 1st division in Operation Desert shield/storm, & L.A. riot's. Much love.
Great timing. I'm actually watching generation kill right now. And I love it.
Edit: so lily was the guy who was always recording? And saying brah alot?
Police up your moostache!
@@juicyj3819 Screwby
That is correct.
The whigger kid? I thought he said in this video that that person didn't talk like that so how could it be him?
@jonm2416 well they confirm. Both named lily and even commented saying yes that is him he they are portraying. Don't see how it can't be him
I'd be interested to hear from guys in the other platoon about how accurate Cpt. Schwetje's portrayal was.
Even this guy didn't give a squat. He must have heard Captain America on the radio. And what about Encino man that was his company commander. But "he doesn't know"
They did a great job casting the actor to play “Fruity” Rudy Reyes!!!
Yeah, one could almost believe he's served!
@@TzunSu "Its not gay if you think Rudy's hot."
@@JnEricsonx "We all think he's hot"
We love you fruity Rudy!
RIP Evan Wright aka “the reporter” . I’ve been catching up on Generation Kill content after his death.
Now I wonder if Lilley still quips 'Screwby' until now, in his good days at least.
I don't think that was an actual thing.
I’d love to see Jason reacting to stuff from the site from his point of view.
5:26 I don't know if it was intentional but I always got that impression from how the character was played in the show. Super cool to hear the reporter attended reunions too.
Seen Generation Kill so many times, before during and after the corps and all times hit different.
Had no clue that Lilley was this Jason! that's so fucking dope
edit: rudy reyes is a motivation of mine for joining the marine corps and trying to do recon. its cool that you actually know them all and stuff
I looked up Sixta. Dude, he went for the little girl of a family he had befriended. How gross is that. Hope you are both doing well these days and that the channel is growing.
TLDR: cool video bruh. Big ups to Lilley, Patrick, the USMC and the rest of the active and reserve military. I believe we were as careful and honorable as we could be in those chaotic circumstances.
That clip series really reminds me of something I cut together back in 2009. I had just gotten out of the Air Force. At the time I didn't realize that it was based on the commencement of combat operations in 2003/2004. I had a chance to hang out with a few Marines since then. Hearing that the Cobras and fixed wing air support was comforting to the ground soldiers... Seeing the faces of people that I might have helped by being an aircraft mechanic... It feels like an old wound is closing, some old doubts are being put to rest.
It reminds me of when I was little; back in 1988 or 89. My dad was Army. He came home one day with his mo bag and showed me and my brother the chem gear and a flac vest. He talked about needing to go to fight bad people. I was 4 or 5 years old. That was his war.
I still don't have any kids. When I went I didn't have to explain where I was going or what I was going to do. I think the deployment was harder for some than others. I was sent in to replace another crew chief. I hoped to boost morale a bit; have some cake and ice cream... haha. That's when I bought my first digital camera, a Nikon P90 I think. A little hand held with a long optical zoom.
Some part of me is very okay with war. The part of me that wants to protect my compatriots. To provide the best weapons on Earth to the most disciplined fighters on Earth. I respect the qualities of front line fighters, thanks to the reporting, the literature, the RUclips channels and veterans. My personal conflicts aside, I enjoyed the personal time I spent with people when death loomed overhead. That's when the bluster and peacocking evaporated and a true meritocracy arose. Race be dammed, they needed the best on hand.
I might have taken it too lightly. As much as I butted heads with Utley, I felt like he respected me. When I asked for a birthday cake, he drove me to pick one up from the mess hall (operated by Army). He drove me to get my wisdom teeth pulled in an emergency surgery. He made me field strip my AR in front of the SSgts to help prove I knew my stuff. He even put me on heavy maintenance instead of the menial pre/post flight inspections or "mid shift" maintenance. We were the closest when our backs were to a barbed wire fence.
I still feel like the little brother to Marines. Handing them guns and ammo, armor and air support. Anti-Terrorism requires an ability to use social cues and non-verbal language to determine who dies in the next 5 seconds. I can see why certain police departments would scour the workforce for people capable of that particular role.
I think I've watched this show like 50 times.
Great episode guys!
That must be so wild to have a miniseries made about your deployment like that down to the platoon level.
Must be like watching yourself in a funhouse mirror mixed with a game of telephones.
Its a pretty good show.
You guys should do the Pacific next
I enjoyed gen kill. Watching it again. Cool to know the people behind the movies!
Got a question for lilly, do you think the night ambush at the bridge (im not sure what the name of the town was), was accurately potrayed in the series?
Nasiriyah
Hell say "I don't know" 😂🤣🤣
So there’s a “documentary” that someone else in recon made of the journey and it pretty much did. There’s time you can spot Rudy and a couple other faces. There’s also the Moto video on here . Just have to use specific keywords and it will pop up.
Half the video.
"Did this really happen?"
"Idk..."
I had no idea I'd been watching Lilley this whole time.
I remember watching Generation Kill when I was kid and recently I had the chance to talk with Jason as an adult. Life has a way of coming full circle unexpectedly!
Some creative criticism; it would be nice next time to maybe pause the clip while you're discussing it, because I found it hard at times to focus on what you were saying with another conversation going on in the background. It also felt like bits were getting talked over that would've been enjoyable to hear your input on.
Also, pausing to look up the characters you're talking about could help, because in one bit there was total confusion over who was being discussed for a straight like fifteen seconds. Might just help with the structure/flow a little.
But it's really cool hearing your input; hearing from people who were there, and people who have relevant experience. It's really insightful. Thanks for the vid, enjoyed it!
Bit surprised he couldn't name Brad Colbert or the actor playing him ...considering he has the most screen time of everyone across all of the episodes. It's almost like he hasn't watched it ;)
Come jason plz do a super long video talking about this series 🙏 like wer you pause and stuff it would be awesome
That is cool you are having a reunion in May I think what would be great if your interview them and get their perspective and their thoughts about Generation Kill both the book and movie. I read Nate Flick’s book I thought it was really good
I love Generation Kill! It is my favorite TV show of all time!
Good show.
Good podcast.
Well done.
Semper Fidelis
(Ret) 82nd Airborne Division
Much appreciated.
I have read the book and own the movie Generation Kill. I served in the Marines from 1996 - 2000. There are very, very few military movies that are spot-on accurate. This movie was based on an embedded reporter’s words. Also artistic license was taken to make it a better movie. Overall though this movie was pretty well on the money. The disrespect among the enlisted for the officers was a lot higher than it would’ve been in actuality as far as from my point of view as a Motor Transport Mechanic. I watched it with my wife and pointed out all of the accuracies and inaccuracies. But overall it was a very well made presentation of modern Marine Corps life and attitudes. The 2 funniest parts of the movie to me was the reporter during the apparent gas attack and the Marines making fun of the meeting with the Iraqi locals.
For yalls, Military Reunion go to
"Big Sky" Montana, it's beautiful. It's amazing. Plus, about 15 years ago, my Father had his First Military Reunion with the 3/5 Cavalry
The Black Knights
My Dad served in Vietnam 69-70
Dong Ha & Quang Tri.
Great stuff as usual
Generation kill when it came out was one of the main reasons I decided to raise my right hand and join the military. Granted I wanted to be in the military since I was 8. But this show was the nail on the coffin.
The review we all deserve - finally)
This is awesome!!! Only wished you paused the GenKill clips EVERY time Jason spoke.
Well ain't this a treat
Great video guys. Would love to hear your input on the entire series. Glad you guys made it home.
Coming soon!
Would love it as well
I kinda wanted to know more about your take on Trombley and Captain America. Also i advise to pause the video to discuss talking points so you can talk in full length while not missing the video
I actually met Fruity Rudy at Comic-Con while the show was airing, he's a class act! (Generation Kill is one of my all time fave mini-series/tv shows, I was actually just watching it again the other week)
Got this on bluray, loved it
Jason fucking Lily.... Ill be god damned. Little birdie told me you were making pod casts and I had to see it for myself and came across the channel. Glad to see you looking healthy and doing good things man. I hope all is well, its been a long time.
I think the one scene I loved in this was when the convoy was moving into a city and saw one of their own trucks blown to high hell, camera cuts inside of it we see blood and a some charms candy laying on the side open up, which if any of you who serve around this time or at least know about the curse charms candy made me think." Holy shit did these guys get blown up cause someone open the charms?!"
funny that Jason react on the person who play him in the movie
Jason, were you on the 15th MEU about a year before the invasion? I know some of the guy portrayed were (Rudy, Fick was B 1/1 Weapons Plt Commander) I was Weapons 1/1 during the 15th MEU and RCT 1 during the invasion. Also a character that was portrayed later GySgt Swarr was a LCpl rigger at 1st ANGLICO when I was there.
I loved Generation Kill. It portrayed life during the invasion very well.
Alpha 1/1, erah
Screwby: A descriptive word to used to denote something as really cool, fly, hot, awesome; or really horrible, bad, or lame. Dude, that trick was screwby sick.
7:35 You can just tell they adopted Evan Wright as an honorary Marine in their unit 😂
Lilley you should read Evan's book, I reckon it would be really meaningful for you and put a lot of context into the nutty and amazing stuff that happened in the invasion. He talked to a lot of people, not just in the battalion.
I read the book because I liked the show so much. Honestly the book is very similar to the show. Very. I didnt quite finish it because Ive seen the show multiple times and it was good but It was just like watching the show a 3rd time.
@@adamwhatley4710 That's not quite the experience I had. It contains greater detail and covers some things that occur between episodes in the show. There is also a lot of context and interpretation by Wright whose background in youth sub-cultures and knowledge of politics and medieval history can really help you understand why things happened the way they did (POG officers in combat, light-skinned humvees, changes in plan etc.) and also why marines of this generation behave the way they do. One of my favourite things that isn't in the show is Wright's conversation with a marsh Arab man, who is the the same age as Wright but looks like an old man, and asks him if he can come with the marines to strangle Saddam himself.
@@EpicMRPancake Oh yeah it definitely has more context. I really liked the book...and the show is one of my favorites.
I recommend reading One Bullet Away by Lt. Fick describing GK events from his point of view. You'll find out lot of stuff that went into the command decisions during the invasion.
I lost it when he said, "Smoked weed at cyclic rate. It's crazy."
Did that reporter actually try to speak up for LT. Nate?
5:06 RUDY!!! He's now on SPECIAL FORCES : World's Toughest Test on FOX
Have an awesome time in MT, Jason. I don't know if you've ever been there but Northwest Montana is killer.
Enjoyed the input, wouldn’t have minded if it went on longer.
So awesome you all remember HBO for what it used to be. I remember my parents recording a VHS tape on the Free HBO channel. A lot of my first movie memories are because of that. This series however, I loved! It’s so true regardless of branch. I was forward deployed to Al Taqqadum with the Marines. Best and worst time of my life but something I’ll always remember
5:50 i live in montana.... idk, just funny to me
have fun
For anyone about to watch Generation Kill, put subtitles on because a lot of funny stuff is said by the supporting actors like Manimal.
What a great episode. More content like this, please 😮
For you who don't know jason is a real dude. Grew up with him. He inspired me to join the Marines.
just started beering, gonna be a savage weekend
You should check out CivDiv videos, he's vlogging the whole Kharkiv counterattack. Love your videos.
Poor Sixta actor 😂
Jason what watch are you sporting? thanks
It's from Stirling Timepieces
@@SAVAGEActual thanks gents, IMHO 11Bravo Gen Kill is a history lesson and should be taught. JMO
random question (and I know the source is not reliable) but I once read on reddit that recon post like 2006 never really got combat deployments again. I was shocked as Marines were heavily involved in all the Afghanistan surge stuff. Is this true? Was it the re introduction of the raiders that changed everything for them?
Jesus the guy with glasses doesn't have a thought going through his head lol.
I didn't know Jason was in it during the invasion pretty cool
As an Army guy, I thoroughly enjoyed Generation Kill. While my experience is from 1988=1996, many things are the same, across branches. Except that Marines get the shit the Army send to DRMO😆
Classic show
Jason, you should’ve gotten the part because while i personally never served and probably don’t know wtf i’m talking about but i think having veterans in war movies who have actually done the stuff in the movie in real life would make the movie a lot better due to it being more realistic that way.
Acting is a different skillset to soldiering. If the producers thought the actor could do it better in a movie format, I don't blame them. But I probably would have brought him on as a consultant instead...
Great vid!
1:45 - Have you heard of Walker Hayes, the country singer? Y'all aren't the same person, right? Cousins perhaps?
Hope we can see some footage of the catch up of all you guys.
Will you guys react to more COD Black Ops 1 missions anytime soon?
Thanks for the video glhf
Ray is the best haha. Cracks me up.
Its not that shocking that HBO didnt cast you when your not an actor lol its a completely unique skill set
How did Rudy get his role? Haha. Now he's also a Canadian sf guy according to mw2
Yeah, thats funny.
Because he’s Rudy. No one but himself could play him.
When I first watched this I didn’t know it was based on a book but when I did and saw that David Simon who made one of my favourite shows of all time (the wire) and was the show runner I wasn’t worried considering that he was a reporter and he left because the people running it were doing a terrible job, anyway having seen the wire I got a sense of his style and I knew that despite some dramatisation here and there, he cares about realism first and foremost so I liked generation kill a lot. is it 100% accurate? Not really but ya gotta understand that it’s inevitable that it would happen and David Simon is the only one that I can think of who can make something entertaining but realistic at the same time so there’s literally no one who can do generation kill justice but David Simon
After hearing about sixta. I was 2-3 inf regt. SSG Bales was in our HQ recon sniper platoon. He did what he did afghanistan 2012. Crazy how some people do certain things and knowing bales I thought he was a great leader and awesome nco.
I especially appreciated how he pulled his shite in the same AO and timeframe that I was driving around the locals...
usually when I hear something fell off a truck the person has new item.
What I find funny is Bravo company is the best company in 1st recon but they got a moron for a co and Alpha company are a bunch of morons but they have some one who is competent as a co.
Maybe ask him some questions eh
I didn’t know Jason knew those guys.
Jason is portrayed in the show even, I believe he’s Espera’s keep driver
I wish you would talk more about religion and politics, I can't find any of those topics on Twitter.
Lucky for you then.
Classic
Even tho he didn't get the part I thought they did a really good job with the cast. Felt like each guy played their character the way they should have ya know?
plz dude you have to make a react of full eps
How's sixta not dead was he sent to a federal one or something
You're reacting to someone reacting to you.
I've only watched GK about 6 times. Seems to be getting a second wind. Be cool to get a new series with a similar vibe.
I just re watched the whole series and was looking for Lilley but I have to admit, I got his character confused with Stafford a LOT throughout the series. I feel they didn’t do as good of a job as they could with some of the subtleties between different personalities