Ask "Alvey"

**Nigel** (0:00)
So Hammer and Nigel Show, Hammer is out, Brian Alvey is in. Military veteran and damn fine American, and we're going to do this thing. I had this idea because you were a very vocal, outspoken, hot take machine. I thought we do Ask Alvey. Brian Alvey is your name, you have military correspondent for The Hammer and Nigel Show for nine years now.
So let's go straight to the phones, 2399-393-93, if you have a question about the military, if you have a question about, I don't know, maybe the bar business industry, the bar restaurant industry, which you were a consultant, 2399-393. Let's start off with Thomas. Thomas, Ask Alvey, go ahead.

**Thomas** (0:44)
Hey, Brian Alvey. Hey, thank you so much for your service, buddy.

**Brian Alvey** (0:48)
You're welcome, brother. Thank you for saying that.

**Nigel** (0:50)
I appreciate that.

**Thomas** (0:52)
So I have a quick question. I want to know why we don't try people for treason anymore.
You know, there's all this stuff that's going on against, you know, the president and all this stuff, and it's all these other crimes. When are we going to bring back the guillotines and the trying people for treason?

**Brian Alvey** (1:12)
That's a good question. That's definitely over my pay grade, but it's a really good question. Yeah, the guillotine. I have a standard GIF I put on. Whenever I see a posting on social media, you know, news posting somebody sexually assaulted somebody and I'm like, I'd always put the guillotine GIF on there. I might be done with it. But yeah, it's a good question. I really don't know. I mean, I feel like they just prosecuted a few not too long ago, but I do not know to what extent.

**Nigel** (1:38)
Is Thomas still there? Thomas, do you have anybody in mind?

**Thomas** (1:44)
Oh, we got several of them. You know, Hillary Clinton, we got, you know, the D-State, all of these people that are trying to ruin our country.
I mean, let's put them on the guillotine, let's drop them.

**Brian Alvey** (1:57)
Okay.

**Nigel** (1:59)
Thank you, Thomas.

**Brian Alvey** (2:00)
Well, that escalated.

**Thomas** (2:01)
Thank you, buddy.

**Nigel** (2:02)
All right, man. Thanks, Thomas. All right, Ask Alvey is the name of this segment. Brian Alvey filling in for Jason Hammer. I love it already.
James is next up. James, Ask Alvey.

**James** (2:14)
Yeah. Hey, thanks, Salvey. I've got a great question. May not even thought about yourself. You know, we, the civilians don't know how tough it is for military members.
They say, why do they kill themselves at record numbers? What's going on? Well, they don't explain it well. A spouse gets a lot of false, real praise. Okay. So they get the praise of the service member. Normally, it's a gilma that's away, and a female that's home. And instead, you know, we all go through breakouts. But in our breakouts, they know when you're coming home, they have your bank account cleared out, they have a lawyer up with your children, your car has been repossessed. People don't talk about the reality, what is it, 91 percent divorce rate in the military right now. And this happens, I had 51 Dear John letters and basic training in 91, okay?
We don't know what's going on, what could it be? And also, I think the veteran military members, at least ones in combat or even maybe not have a choice to say, I want to work or I don't want to work, and you're going to take care of me because I darn well earned it. What do you think?

**Nigel** (3:29)
Well, his phone was cutting out.

**Brian Alvey** (3:32)
I think I get touched on the one thing. You know, I mean, we all know the horror stories, the guys that get broken up with when they're downrange overseas. You know, and I say guys, it's gals too, but predominantly guys just by default. Numbers are numbers. They don't lie.
It's always bad. You know, when I was downrange, you know, we had guys that got the break up and, you know, it really wasn't the old school Dear John letter anymore just because technology, they get the email or they got a phone call.

**Nigel** (4:01)
I think one of the problems was is, you know, you say downrange on like on deployment overseas, employment, and they would get broken up with.

**Brian Alvey** (4:08)
Oh, yeah. Guy or guy or not just girlfriends like spouses, and then they deplete the entire bank account, everything.
Yeah. I mean, I don't know what the question was behind that, other than that, I will acknowledge it does happen. I mean, it's and it's it's unbelievably horrific. And you talked about post-traumatic stress.