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The Htrain Show 3rd annual ML Gratitude Bike giveaway · Military Broadcast Radio | MBR Talk

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  And Happy ride day and giveaway bike day.
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  But first but first, we have the door prize.
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  So what we have here is a trauma kit that Rider Justice provided
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  for us. So it's a pink ticket, the one
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  that you got when you registered.
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  That's the one. 5 seconds, 5 seconds, 708347.
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  Seriously, Let me see. Let me see, 347.
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  That's so funny. So you want to ride behind him?
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  He's got the trauma kit. All right, so for the moment,
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  we've all been waiting for it. Jimmy, you want to come up here?
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  This is my new friend Jimmy. Jimmy is a Navy SEAL, yes, and
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  Jimmy is going to be getting this new bike, not new, but new
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  to him. It's a Yamaha V *.
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  It's a sweet bike. It's a clean bike.
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  It runs really great, and I hope that it gets you in the wind and
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  I hope it's a source of peace for you.
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  So let me take the keys out and give them to you.
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  So I think I heard three times when I came in the bar was when
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  therapy heard it over and over. This is something I would have
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  ever done for myself. I got out after 20 years and 12
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  deployments in 2022 and kind of. And.
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  Had a little issue with transition so this is going to
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  provide that freedom. I missed I I used to have a bike
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  14 years ago. I got shot in the back and had
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  to readdress some things. Kept my head down and kept
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  going. 10 more deployments kind of put me in a weird mental
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  spot. So super excited for this one
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  therapy you're all telling me about and get back on the horse.
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  So appreciate you guys very much.
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  Super humble to be here all. Right.
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  Yeah. Alright, so we were gonna have
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  him fire it up, but I left it up here with the key on, so I'm a
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  Dick. All right, so we're getting
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  ready to do the and the silent auctions.
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  So I know the auction is a little bit of the pain in the
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  ass guys. I realized we were trying
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  something new this year and maybe it's not working out so
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  well, but we're going to be doing that.
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  The auction closes at 4:00, so you just got to scan the item,
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  the QR code, it'll come up, log in and you can bid on there.
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  If we find an item that doesn't have any bids on it currently,
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  we're just going to auction it off live.
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  So from here, if we will go back inside and where is where's
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  Jimmy? Where's the other Jimmy?
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  No, the other Jimmy. You ready to auction off the
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  sword? All right.
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  You know what, I just wanted to tell everybody that is a part of
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  the middle grade too. Thank you for welcoming into
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  that family. I was in a dark part about 3
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  years ago and my bike, my bike has been in the garage for three
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  years collecting dust and yeah I I had given up on life on May
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  22nd, 20/20/2022. May 22nd, 2022 I I try to take
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  my life by taking a bunch of pills and I woke up finding out
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  that what I was committing suicide over it was a
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  misunderstanding and I did nothing wrong.
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  But I didn't know that. And I just want to share that
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  because sometimes, sometimes we take our life because we think
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  that that moment nothing's going to get better.
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  And usually the next day everything plays out.
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  It might take some time, but everything plays out.
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  I I don't know. Does anybody know me up here
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  without OK, so you know me. All right, God wasn't done with
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  me. And from that point, this this
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  is what we've done. We have created a Channel 4
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  Channels, Audio Talk Gamer and now we teach.
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  We can teach them how to animate doing cartoons.
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  We're in the process of having our first cartoon January 1st.
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  It's three ducks teaching each other how to navigate the VA
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  services. But believe it or not, my wife
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  right there, she has created coloring books for the kids.
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  And during those coloring books, it also shows you how to
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  navigate getting your DD214, getting your benefits, getting
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  your CRSC, you know, getting your clothing allowance.
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  If you have an AFO or a prosthetic, which a lot of
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  people don't know about that, I beg you, if you know a veteran
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  out there that needs help, that needs to get navigation because
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  of veterans, we're not lazy. We just don't know how to do the
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  damn shit. Send them to us.
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  We we have tracers, tracers podcast.
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  We have a bunch of VS OS that they can't help you.
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  They can direct you and the path that you need to go, but I can't
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  I can't express how much thank you, Kim.
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  I gave up on my life a long time ago and he kind of brought me
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  out and I just want to say thank you.
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  And I have no idea how we got it up, but he got it up and that's
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  that's the bike today. And I'm I'm kind of a special
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  case because the trike, you know, it wasn't brand new.
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  It was just broken in the garage and I think I'm the first one
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  and then grabs you fixed it. And I can't express how much
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  that means to me. You know, a lot of people don't
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  understand unless they're in that situation that wind therapy
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  is a therapy and it really helps ignite the shit out of your butt
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  to get you off the couch. So everybody that was here
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  that's contributed, you guys contributed to this.
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  You guys contributed to this. Thank you.
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  Thank you for not giving up on us because we gave up on
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  ourselves the moment when we got out of the military.
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  Thank you. Now the the not Kim, the
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  nominator. When when he gets done, have him
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  come over here so that we can have an interview with him.
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  OK, so as we wait for the nomination, I'll keep on playing
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  the music when Kim tells me and we'll we'll get this interview
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  started. I guess I can try to play the
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  music just a little bit. Just not too loud, huh?
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  OK, that's true. That's true.
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  In fact, I'll tell you what I'll do.
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  Yeah. The station where our the
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  station where our veterans voices are heard MBR.
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  Talk. Hey, thanks.
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  For tuning in, welcome back are those of the speakers and do not
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  necessarily reflect the views or positions of any entities they
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  represent. Find.
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  Us on the web at MB radio dot UE.
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  At Project ML Gratitude, our mission is simple, to give
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  motorcycles to veterans who need the kind of peace and freedom
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  that only a ride can give. Hey, Cass, this works too,
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  right? OK.
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  All right. Well, if not, guess not.
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  We'll do a lot of a lot of Captain Emmy.
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  Jimmy. Yes, Sir.
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  Congratulations. Thank you.
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  It's an honor. It's an honor to be here.
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  Super humbling. I just want to make sure that
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  this is the the volume and then everything is good.
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  So what's the very first thing that you're going to do now that
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  you have this bike? Are we going on a poker run?
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  What are we? What are we doing?
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  Start slowly, know my limitations #1 and do it safe.
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  But stare at it, look at it, get it all propped up.
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  I think going to a little cruise through Cheyenne Mountain State
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  Park area just to try it out and then just excited to see what
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  comes after that. Well, you know, I'm extremely
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  happy for you. I really am.
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  You know, one thing here at military broadcast radio that we
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  really want to do is, you know, give veterans that voice.
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  You know, I'm sure, because we've talked before, I'm sure
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  we've we've both had some hard times.
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  We've both been in the Blackwell, you know, give give
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  me some encouragement. Everybody that's watching a a
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  veteran that you know, might, might learn, you know, because I
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  mean, I I talked about my experience, you know, and
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  sometimes we're so narrow minded.
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  We don't realize just just let it play out kind of thing.
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  Can you give us some words of encouragement because I don't
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  want to keep you here forever. For sure, I mean I work in the
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  non for profit realm as well. Adventure sports and guiding
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  veterans and one thing I've learned about my own past is,
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  you know, I I was so good at compartmentalizing all my trauma
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  and putting that on a shelf and then never looking at it until
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  something happens that shelf collapses on you, then all your
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  problems are laid bare. The one thing I do know for
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  sure, your brain is just like a muscle, just like a.
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  Deadlift. You got to train it.
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  And so a lot of the times the veterans were stuck in this rut
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  in the road, clearly a muddy rut when you're growing up, your
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  truck wheel get stuck in there and it can't get out.
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  These neural pathways are literally going right to a
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  negative thought, right to a negative action.
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  And I stand here today. I promise you that we can
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  retrain those neural pathways with stuff like all that we're
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  talking about other things we can do.
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  I like it or not, I I have a gratitude journaling guy.
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  I got to in the morning, I wake up, I write down all the things
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  I'm thankful for. I've heard that, you know,
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  creating like a Levy book, a journal thing can really help
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  things. I haven't tried that yet, but
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  I'm, I'm I'm supposed to start that.
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  We, we actually had a, a sermon on our on our channel a couple
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  of days ago and our assignment was creating a joy book.
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  Yeah, so. Yeah, it's great.
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  Yeah, I even, I journal and then I also, that's how I pray.
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  I pray via writing and I pour my heart out.
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  So yeah, that's very helpful. But we got to retrain those
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  newer pathways. That's and I it works.
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  It really works. And you're, you're, you're a
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  Marine. I was a Navy.
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  I did okay. 20 years in the Navy.
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  Okay. And the SEAL teams and I had
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  about 12 deployments in there, so.
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  Well, thank you and thank you for being here and.
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  Super humbling. 11 More question after the crowd, Yeah.
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  Have you figured out how you're going to pay it forward yet?
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  Absolutely. I mean, I think just those
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  little wins and when I work with the veterans and talk about this
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  stuff, I think I'm ignited to do that even more.
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  I got a free motorcycle. Are you kidding me?
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  Right. So anything it just, it just
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  encouraged me to be more motivated.
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  For sure. All right.
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  I appreciate you, Jimmy. Thank you very much and once
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  again congratulations. All right everybody, we are, we
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  are hoping that worked. We are hoping that worked.
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  If not, then we like I said, we are hoping that worked.
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  And if not, I'm sure somebody would have messaged us and let
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  us know if you couldn't hear or what.
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  So with that being said, we're going to go ahead and we're
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  going to get ready to take it down.
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  But I tell you what, if you haven't tuned in TuneIn in about
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  an hour, you'll be watching Red and it's it's just hiring out
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  here. It's Red and Eva.
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  Red and Eva, I believe Red and Eva are both doing their show.
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  So this is H signing up. I want to give a real shout out
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  quick to Cassie, my wife. She came out here.
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  She don't like sweat, but she came out here.
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  So she's definitely helping us and she donated generator and
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  she's like, no, all right. So with that being said, thank
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  you everybody for tuning in. Jimmy is the winner of the 3rd
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  annual ML Gratitude Motorcycle. He is Navy and he is also in the
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  nonprofit sector. So continuing to pay it forward.
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  Once again, thanks for joining us.
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