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  Find us on. The All right, ladies and
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  gentlemen welcome. It is Red Friday, July 24th,
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  2026. And just so everybody knows
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  we're we're having a little bit of technical issues when it
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  comes to TikTok. HG is still messing with that.
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  fact, until we get it going, HG go on there and just use the
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  great show planned for you today.
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  We have a service dog organization who is going to be
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  the top the interview of today. And you know, also, before I
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  forget, Amber, how are you doing?
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  I'm doing OK. I'm looking for a video but I'm
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  doing all right. I got.
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  I thought that video that you sent me, I thought that was the
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  factory cap, you know, because I'm like.
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  Well, I mean, if you want to use that for the factory cap, I
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  mean, I love the whole thing so. Well, you know it.
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  It does make you wonder things that make you go.
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  Yes. All right.
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  So ladies and gentlemen, today's mail call that we're going to do
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  is a little bit special. I don't think Amber's even seen
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  this yet. But ladies and gentlemen, today
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  is mail call. Attention mail call.
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  Oh. My.
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  God, he's got mail. Welcome to Mail Call Your
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  Soldier Spotlight Powered by Work symbol highlighting those
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  who serve and inspire. Good morning, Joy.
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  Welcome in, sorry all your videos got removed with the the
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  refresh. 00. No.
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  OK. All right.
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  Well, there we go. Yeah, Stream yard is exactly.
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  Here today. Hi, if you don't know, my name
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  is Joel Hunt, also known as the H Train.
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  here at Military Broadcast Radio.
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  someone out there needs to hear the message of hope.
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  Oh, faith. MJ would hurt me if she heard me
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  say that. Some of our hosts are dealing
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  with PTSD. Some are fighting loneliness.
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  Some are battling the invisible wounds themselves of military
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  Hi, I'm beaker with military broadcast radio TV.
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  and a community that. For some reason you're muted and
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  I was muted too. OK, sorry about that.
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  All right, that I muted us so that it wouldn't echo with that
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  video. I didn't think about that.
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  But the reason why we did the spotlight is because we've been
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  in this, we've been in this hard corner before, our back has been
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  against the wall before. And we've ask the community,
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  we've asked our family and friends to help out and they
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  have done numerous times. Well, this is no different.
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  But this time we really need, we really need the help.
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  So maybe maybe, you know, maybe you can't afford it, but maybe,
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  you know, somebody that can, maybe you have a friend that you
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  can connect us through. We're asking friends, family,
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  whoever's watching this episode to help us because it's not just
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  us. There's 33 veterans on this
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  platform that that that is looking at you guys to help us.
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  You know, I mean, yeah, sure. We, you know, we can donate like
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  we've been donating, but you know, that's, that's like buying
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  an award. Ask Beyoncé about that.
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  So, you know, we, we don't think that we need to be spending
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  money to to share our stories kind of thing, you know, so if
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  you can help, let us know. We would appreciate it.
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  With that being said, today's top news is.
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  We can review. Next.
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  Stop, we can review. OK, so today's top story is, and
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  then, you know, we, we, we've covered this before, but I'm
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  just going to reiterate before we go on break, the today's top
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  story is what in the hell are they doing with the Richer Starr
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  Act or the Take care of a Veteran Act that's in
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  legislation? Well, once again, right now
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  we're on deck right now we're on overtime.
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  We're waiting for them to vote on.
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  OK. But what the political or
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  government has done successfully is they have put one group
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  against one group fighting. And if, if, if you guys Remember
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  Me talking to you about this a while back, I told you this was
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  going to happen. I told you this was going to
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  happen, that they were going to put us up against each other
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  because the government wants the they want us to block this.
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  They, they have no, they have no desire for this to happen.
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  They want us to block it. OK, so this is my setting for
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  you. Just because the uniform comes
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  off doesn't mean that our character does.
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  As veterans, as soldiers, we have it in our ethos, selfless
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  service. We think of others before we
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  think of ourselves, and that should not stop here.
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  I don't care if it's money, I don't care what it is.
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  Our time will come. We need to be patient.
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  Hell, we've waited 7-8 years for this.
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  What's one more month? What's more and more year?
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  I understand people are dying and they, you know, they, they
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  don't have this benefit. Well, you know, people are dying
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  in the, in the red zone too, but you have to wait for cover
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  before we can go and grab them, right?
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  Nothing's changed. Relax, is it?
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  Don't don't attack your brothers and sisters.
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  Maybe they don't understand how the bill reads.
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  And the VA has already put out that these two things that
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  they're talking about on the bill, they're already doing it.
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  They're already doing it. No matter if this bill gets
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  passed or not, it's in the records.
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  You can look at it in the VA. So relax, walk around, enjoy
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  life, Quit worrying about stuff that you cannot control because
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  it's not going to do you any good.
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  That's our top news story today is the Richard Starr Act and the
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  Veterans Act. I have a strong optimism that it
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  will pass, but don't be attacking veterans.
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  And I tell you veterans, if you have 100%, great.
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  If you have 30%, that's great too.
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  Quit telling people how much you're rated.
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  All that's going to do is cause jealousy.
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  That's all that's going to do. Think about it, if you show
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  somebody your brand new car, it's a BMW, are you going to be
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  happy for them or you're going to be kind of jealous?
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  You're going to be kind of jealous.
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  I wish I had something like that.
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  It's it's no different. Keep your rating to it's not,
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  it's nobody's business what your rating is, nobody's business.
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  And make sure if you know somebody and they're not on
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  Facebook or they are on Facebook and they're not posting, they're
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  pretty quiet. There's a reason for that.
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  Reach out to them. Don't expect them to reach out
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  to you. So that is today's top story.
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  I know it's not much of A top story, but you know, I could sit
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  here, Amber, and talk about, you know, the Iran war and all this
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  stuff, but it's redundant. Nothings changed, nothings going
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  to happen. There's no future.
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  And you know what, What, what, there's no end of the tunnel.
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  I mean, that's the reason why they're on C-SPAN.
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  They're going through these different like courtrooms and
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  stuff. You know, nothing's, nothing's
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  going to change. You know, the, the weather all
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  over the United States right now is hot as balls, OK?
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  It's hotter than a black sock and a black roof.
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  You know, actually. Beautiful here right now.
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  Oh, just wait, it's only 10:00 or it's only, what, 9:00 there?
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  So, yeah, wait until like 1:00. One between one and three.
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  Yeah, that's, that's when it's killer.
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  But other than that, there's not a whole lot of news that I
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  really want to cover that is, you know, about the veterans
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  benefits and stuff, 'cause everything's like wishy washy,
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  you know, people, rumors and stuff.
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  And yeah, I'm, I'm seeing it a lot with veterans attacking
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  other veterans. You know, there was a, there was
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  a guy on TikTok yesterday that was, you know, ripping up like
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  nonprofits and stuff. Hey, you know these big
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  nonprofits like Folds of Honor, you know different nonprofits,
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  just realize that usually they're not like the Wounded
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  Warrior Project. They don't have 250 employees.
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  Some of them are like MBR. We have one worker bee and like
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  4 people that give advice and help set stuff up and coordinate
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  it. Sometimes a small nonprofit is
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  like literally the backbone. Like, I mean, there's not very
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  many people that are working in the office here at NBR.
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  It it, it really is just me. Amber helps me a majority of
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  time. Tracer helps me a majority of
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  time. But from, you know, Monday
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  through Sunday, if something's going on with the station, I'm
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  the last stop. Basically, you know they're
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  they're going to help me, but I'm the last stop.
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  And people need to realize that we're a small, small non profit.
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  We, we ain't a 500 company. We don't have grants or funding
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  or anything like that coming in. And just so everybody knows, you
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  know, one way you can really help us is get a $5 subscription
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  right before today show, you know, they, we got them today.
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  Just help us out. You know, $5 might not seem much
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  to you, but if we can get, you know, 700 people to do $5, well,
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  hell that. Hey, we, we just got the stream
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  yard fixed. So with that being said, we're
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  going to go on our first music break and I'm going to help him
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  get this stupid TikTok thing working.
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  With that being said, we're going to go and we're going to
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  go on a music break and when we come back, we'll be hitting the
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  WTF moment. The tease for the WTF moment is,
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  tell me, do you know what you're putting in your body?
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  Is the grocery store food good or is it not?
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  We'll talk about it. We'll hit it next.
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  You're listening to the show, the highlights, all the
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  nonprofit programs out there beyond the VA.
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  You're listening to the H Train show right here on the station.
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  MBR. Stay with us next.
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  The station. Where our veterans voices are
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  heard. MBR talk, hey.
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  Dot. Hello everybody and welcome
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  back. There we go.
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  All right, ladies and gentlemen, we are back.
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  Ladies and gentlemen, you're listening to the show, the
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  highlights, all the nonprofit programs out there be on the VA.
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  You listen to the HD show here on the station that's letting
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  our veterans voices be heard. So now, now, now we finally, I,
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  I think, I think we got everything figured out.
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  Now we're streaming on the stream TikTok.
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  It's, it's kind of a, a bugger, but we, we, we got it going
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  right. We got it going all right.
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  So it is that time. It is the WTF segment.
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  WTF. Know about the food system is
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  actually wrong. Hi, my name is Nate.
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  I am a regenerative farmer in Oklahoma.
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  We raised 5 species of livestock over 300 acres and I want to
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  tell you a little bit about food system and why you need to be
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  careful what you're buying. Back in 2016, we started farming
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  and prior to that I had no experience farming, never
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  stepped foot on a farm, and I bought groceries based on price,
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  taste and convenience. Over the years, the food system
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  has kind of been rattled, whether that's through COVID or
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  egg shortage last year, and now we're getting diarrhea from
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  lettuce and everyone's starting to figure out that all this
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  lettuce that's coming from Taco Bell is the same lettuce at
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  Walmart, which is the same lettuce at Whole Foods, just all
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  packaged differently. It's all Taylor Farms or
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  whatever. It's the same thing with
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  chicken. People are slowly figuring out
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  that like, oh, Whole Foods chicken is the same as Walmart
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  chicken, which is just Tyson chicken.
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  It's just repackaged under various different brands.
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  Cream cheese is the same way. There's like one huge cream
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  cheese factory in this country that supplies 90% of the cream
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  cheese to all the different brands so that you have a choice
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  at the grocery store. Nobody wants to go to the
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  grocery store and have Philadelphia cream cheese and
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  Philadelphia chicken and Philadelphia lettuce and
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  Philadelphia pizza and Philadelphia pot stickers,
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  right? We all want to be able to go and
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  look at 3 to 510 different brands of something and choose.
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  It's why there's not like the American Standard Egg or the
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  Oklahoma Egg Company or whatever and that's all you have
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  available in Oklahoma. It's all you have available at
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  your local grocery store, wherever you are.
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  We want 71215 different brands of eggs so that we can look
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  through those eggs and decide which one is best for us, our
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  budget, our family, our dietary needs, etcetera.
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  The truth is, is that we as Americans don't understand the
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  scale of the food system. Let me give you a little
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  perspective. So here in Oklahoma, 380 million
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  chickens were raised for consumption, not just for
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  Oklahoma consumption, but that's just how many birds were raised
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  here in the state, right? Almost all of those, really all
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  of those, right, birds were raised entirely in confinement.
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  Never seed a blade of grass, never seen sunshine.
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  These are factory farmed birds, right?
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  Well, we, we raise chickens on pasture, right?
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  We raised 16,000 birds last year.
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  We are the largest in the state in terms of pasture raised
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  chicken, 388 million were raised in the state.
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  We raised 16,000 of those. We are the largest in the state.
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  To give you an idea, that means that less than 1% of 1% of all
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  of the chicken raised in Oklahoma is raised even remotely
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  outside. And yet the consumer thinks that
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  if they go to Whole Foods or Sprouts or Aikens or whatever,
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  right, you get the picture, that you are going to be able to find
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  your organic free range, whatever that means, or you'll
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  be able to find the alternative to these factory farm chickens.
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  And the truth is, for the most part, you're not.
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  I remember a couple of years ago when Tyson Foods walked back,
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  there are no antibiotics ever pledge and just said, hey, that
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  wasn't sustainable. We're not going to do that
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  anymore. Bottom line.
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  They, they didn't want to have to be accountable to that.
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  I can get into that in another video.
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  So they walked that back and said, all right, hey, we're not
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  going to do our no antibiotics everything.
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  We're going to only do antibiotics that are not
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  negatively affecting humans or something.
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  I can't remember the verbiage. And then within a few weeks,
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  Chick-fil-A comes out and walks back.
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  There are no antibiotics ever claimed.
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  And then everybody's up in arms. It's like when Tyson Foods did
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  that, people are like, oh, wow, that's crazy.
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  Then Chick-fil-A did it, which is, you know, there's a cult
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  following. There's people that go there
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  every week to feed their kids, and that's like the number one
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  snack, whatever. They walk their plane back and
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  you go to their Instagram when they did this and it's just
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  blowing up with these comments that are like, no, Chick-fil-A,
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  please don't put antibiotics in your chickens.
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  We don't want that. That's the reason I bring my
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  family right? You get it.
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  What people weren't putting together was that Tyson walked
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  back and so Chick-fil-A had to walk back and then finally you
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  see some people that are like, wait a minute, does Chick-fil-A
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  just buy chicken from Tyson? Yes, like the all of the brands
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  do and I'm going to say all with, I'm painting with A broad
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  brush here, so bear with me, but all of the brands do this,
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  right? So if it's a health food brand
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  or whatever, like any brand out there is going to be tempted
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  when they get big enough to start finding a source for
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  chicken or lettuce or beef or whatever that is cheaper and
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  more readily available than what they're currently sourcing.
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  And I saw this happen with Whole Foods way back in the day.
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  They were sourcing from a great farm, White Oak Pasture, Will
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  Harris. They were, they were selling
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  them a ton of grass fed beef, responsibly raised grass fed
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  beef out of Bluffton, GA. And then Whole Foods started
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  walking back and being like, well, we're getting some beef
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  from Paraguay or Uruguay or what have you.
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  And they started backing off the orders from White Oak to the
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  point where White Oak just pulled out and said, hey, the
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  insurance that you require us to carry, it's not worth it
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  anymore. And so we're we're not going to
• 33:14
  sell grass fed beef to Whole Foods.
• 33:17
  And you can look that up and read all about listen to Will
• 33:20
  Harris on on Joel Joe Rogan and he talks about that whole
• 33:25
  scenario. So the the point of this video
• 33:28
  is to remind you in light of this lettuce deal that we were
• 33:31
  just dealing with, to remind you guys that if you're sourcing
• 33:38
  from a huge national grocery chain, I don't care what grocery
• 33:42
  chain it is, it's a huge national grocery change.
• 33:45
  You have to understand that almost everything is the same
• 33:50
  across all of the grocery chains.
• 33:53
  All the food may be different labels.
• 33:56
  You may have six different labels of chicken at your local
• 33:59
  grocery store and they just buy that chicken in from Tyson or
• 34:02
  Perdue or whatever. One of the big companies they
• 34:05
  buy that chicken in, slap their own label on it and they call it
• 34:08
  Nature's Best or friendly Happy Farm or something.
• 34:13
  And they package it in brown and green and you buy it and you buy
• 34:18
  it for 60% more than you buy. Then you would pay for, you
• 34:21
  know, run-of-the-mill chicken. I mean, your favorite steakhouse
• 34:26
  with few exception probably sources Tyson chicken and they
• 34:30
  put it on their menu for $31 for half chicken.
• 34:35
  And your favorite breakfast place, they probably source eggs
• 34:40
  from Hanson Brook or Cow Main Foods or whatever and they put
• 34:44
  those eggs on the menu as free range eggs, which means
• 34:50
  basically nothing. You guys have to be careful what
• 34:54
  you're buying. And if you've got questions and
• 34:57
  you're really concerned and you actually care a lot about this
• 35:01
  type of stuff, reach out to your local farmer.
• 35:03
  Find a farmer in your area, Reach directly out to your local
• 35:09
  farmers market director. Like look up like if you live in
• 35:13
  Boston, look at the Boston Farmers market.
• 35:16
  Find the director of the farmers market, call them and say, hey,
• 35:18
  I'm looking for farms to source from.
• 35:20
  And they will put you in contact with dozens of them because they
• 35:23
  know all the farmers. Reach out to farmers, get
• 35:26
  something, build a relationship, buy their stuff, and then you
• 35:31
  will actually know where your stuff is coming from.
• 35:33
  But stop trusting the grocery stores.
• 35:49
  OK, there we go. All right.
• 35:51
  So, you know, one thing that I would like to do on this show
• 35:55
  and I, I know that's probably not going to ever happen
• 35:58
  because, you know, we, we, we offer, we offer nonprofits,
• 36:04
  businesses, organizations, everybody.
• 36:08
  We always offer them a chance to come on the show and talk about
• 36:12
  situations and talk about what they got going on and stuff like
• 36:16
  that. You know, I would love for a
• 36:21
  farmer that's local in Missouri or a farmer that's local here in
• 36:26
  Colorado. I would love for them to come on
• 36:30
  show and talk about because unfortunately, you know, these,
• 36:34
  these, these farms don't have a little, they don't usually have
• 36:37
  a little shop on their farm, you know, or, you know, little
• 36:42
  office hours or advertisements. You know, they're, they're busy
• 36:47
  doing farms And I, I know what he's getting at.
• 36:50
  I doubt, I seriously doubt that Texas Roadhouse gets their stuff
• 36:54
  from like Tyson, you know, something like that.
• 36:58
  But I think what he's huh, they. Get their their food from Tyson,
• 37:03
  Texas. Do they?
• 37:04
  Get their food from Tyson. I'm I'm I'm sure they get their
• 37:07
  food from a company. I just, I'm not for sure if it's
• 37:10
  Tyson or not. I'm.
• 37:11
  Sure it is. Tyson provides for a lot of
• 37:15
  people. I actually worked at Tyson
• 37:17
  International corporate headquarters, I guess.
• 37:20
  Oh, it's. Called.
• 37:22
  I was the file clerk for a little while and my dad also
• 37:26
  worked for Tyson and I used to collect eggs and run a chicken
• 37:32
  farm for Tyson with my dad as a teenager for just a very brief
• 37:38
  stint. And that got me to where I
• 37:41
  didn't want to eat eggs ever again for a very long time.
• 37:46
  Oh. So I.
• 37:49
  Never knew bad about you. I never knew that you worked,
• 37:52
  Tyson. Yeah, yeah.
• 37:54
  And yeah, I think he even went to church with us.
• 38:02
  So yeah, but Even so, like even in so for instance, baby wipes,
• 38:11
  people are like particular about what type of baby wipes they use
• 38:15
  on their child. Well, a lot of the baby wipes
• 38:20
  that are made are made in the same factory.
• 38:23
  Charles used to make baby wipes. He used to mix the chemicals
• 38:27
  that went into the baby wipes and he also mixed the chemicals
• 38:32
  that went into Clorox wipes. So and they would go out to
• 38:41
  different companies just packaged differently.
• 38:45
  So a lot of people think they're getting a higher quality or
• 38:49
  whatever or something completely different, but they're not.
• 38:52
  They're getting the exact same thing.
• 38:54
  So yeah, it happens all over. And, you know, Joy even said in
• 39:02
  the comments that, you know, when it comes to, like, the food
• 39:04
  supply, you know, she's scared. Hey, Joy, you're not alone.
• 39:08
  I, I, I'm scared too. You know what?
• 39:09
  Because I got a black thumb, OK? Like, I can't even grow.
• 39:14
  I can't even grow a flower. I, I, I can't even grow rose.
• 39:19
  Rose blooms every other year. That tells you how bad my shit
• 39:22
  is. OK, I cannot grow nothing.
• 39:26
  So try to grow corn or anything like that.
• 39:29
  Like I think I would starve. But I I one thing I did tell
• 39:33
  cast the other day, the one thing that I've learned, like if
• 39:38
  you have to do it, you'll learn real fast.
• 39:44
  Oh yeah. You'll learn real fast.
• 39:47
  You know, you can sit there and say, hey, sounds too expensive.
• 39:51
  If you really want it, if you really need it, you're going to
• 39:56
  figure out a way to do it, OK? Somebody calls you and says,
• 40:01
  hey, man, I ain't got no money, OK?
• 40:03
  They get arrested. I guarantee you by the end of
• 40:06
  the day, they figure out a way to get bail money, OK?
• 40:10
  That's the, that's the biggest thing, you know.
• 40:13
  Person can be broke as shit. They always figure out a way,
• 40:18
  trust me, Trust me, when there's a will, there's a way.
• 40:23
  And that, ladies and gentlemen, do a.
• 40:24
  Crackhead. Yeah.
• 40:27
  Yeah, don't, don't get out of work by a crackhead, everybody
• 40:30
  that that's today's title, all. Right, some experience, not my
• 40:35
  own experience, but watching others.
• 40:39
  Oh, man. All right, ladies and gentlemen,
• 40:40
  it is that time. Let's learn something today.
• 40:44
  And I'm, I'm sure I got with this.
• 40:47
  I was tempted not to do this one because you'll see what I mean.
• 40:51
  Conspiracy theories. Oh yes, but.
• 40:55
  Ladies and gentlemen, it is that time.
• 40:56
  It is dropped that date today. In.
• 41:00
  History. 1969. All right, so today's drop the
• 41:13
  date July 20. 4th, 1969. The.
• 41:16
  Crew of Apollo. 11 simply returned to Earth, completing
• 41:19
  one of the greatest achievements in human history, the.
• 41:29
  Air media was. Like, yeah, OK, that's OK.
• 41:33
  So it's that time again for the drop today.
• 41:34
  Today we travel back to July 24th, 1969 when the crew of
• 41:40
  Apollo 11 safely returned to Earth after making history just
• 41:45
  days earlier, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin.
• 41:49
  Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the moon while
• 41:53
  Michael Collins remain in orbit aboard the command Module.
• 41:58
  Together, they accomplished what many believed was impossible.
• 42:03
  On this day, their command capsule splashed down safely the
• 42:08
  Pacific Ocean where they were welcomed home after completing
• 42:12
  one of the greatest missions in human history.
• 42:16
  It was more than scientific achievement.
• 42:19
  It was a moment that the United States and inspired people
• 42:23
  around the world to drink dream bigger than ever before.
• 42:27
  I saw that. I saw that joy.
• 42:29
  Allegedly, Apollo 11 showed us what can happen when courage,
• 42:37
  the determinations, teamwork, and innovation come together
• 42:42
  with a common purpose. It reminds us that no challenge
• 42:47
  is too great when people refuse to give up.
• 42:51
  As veterans and 1st responders and supporters, this message
• 42:55
  still resonates today because every mission has obstacles.
• 43:02
  Every journey has moments when success seems out of reach, but
• 43:07
  history has shown us that perseverance can take us farther
• 43:14
  than we ever imagined. So today we remember the men who
• 43:21
  proved that the impossible was possible and whose legacy
• 43:25
  continues to inspire generations around the world.
• 43:31
  Now for those that are looking at that and the conspiracy is
• 43:36
  catching up, let me tell you something else.
• 43:40
  Yesterday I saw a TikTok yesterday in history, I forget
• 43:45
  her name. She was an Olympic gold medalist
• 43:49
  gymnast and she had done 3 poses, you know, you know, three
• 43:55
  acts. And on that like third one, she
• 43:59
  hurt herself. So she had one more chance, one
• 44:02
  more chance to demonstrate and, and that's what she did and she
• 44:10
  demonstrated. I think it was Kerry's Kerry
• 44:12
  something, I forget the last name, but she won the gold medal
• 44:16
  for the Olympics. It is possible, people.
• 44:21
  It is possible all the way to what was it, 2009, 2010, when
• 44:29
  the Denver Broncos was going into overtime with the
• 44:33
  Pittsburgh Steelers and everybody's like, oh, you know,
• 44:38
  we, we can't believe Denver got us into overtime.
• 44:41
  That's OK. We're we'll kill them.
• 44:43
  And the next thing you know, Tim Tebow throws a, a slant, a left
• 44:48
  slant to do Majors Thomas and he runs it all the way.
• 44:52
  And boom, we win our first playoff game the the first
• 44:56
  quarterback to win a playoff game that doesn't play anymore.
• 45:01
  You know, it happens. So what I'm trying to say is as
• 45:11
  this weekend goes and as the week goes, because I've had a
• 45:17
  hard week, I'm sure you've had a hard week too.
• 45:22
  I think it's important for everybody and for us to realize
• 45:27
  that, you know, everybody gets speeding tickets every week.
• 45:33
  Everybody's going through something every week.
• 45:36
  But you know what? Last week I thought, Oh my God,
• 45:41
  I'm going to drive this week, blah, blah, blah.
• 45:43
  But guess what? We made it.
• 45:46
  And if you're feeling down and depressed today,
• 45:50
  congratulations, you have survived when some people
• 45:56
  haven't. Amen.
• 45:59
  Some people aren't saying nothing to you, but they're
• 46:06
  looking at you and you are the struggle handbook.
• 46:14
  Keep that in mind. And you know, just remember,
• 46:20
  don't, don't, don't, don't take your life because it's not just
• 46:28
  your life, it's your family and friends.
• 46:30
  Also. Trust me, you might not want us
• 46:35
  in your life or you might have issues with us, but we still
• 46:42
  care. We're still here.
• 46:44
  With that being said, we are going to go on our next music
• 46:49
  break now that we got TikTok and everything good and when we come
• 46:55
  back I'm hoping that our in studio interview will be here
• 47:04
  and maybe we'll get to play and meet some puppies I don't know
• 47:08
  yet. So whatever you do, stay with
• 47:11
  us. Don't go away.
• 47:13
  We've got at least 4 songs that we're going to play during this
• 47:17
  music break because it's going to be a special interview of the
• 47:21
  week. So once again, stay with us.
• 47:24
  Don't, don't leave. You're listening to the show
• 47:27
  that highlights all the nonprofit programs out there
• 47:29
  beyond the VA. You're listening to the H Train
• 47:32
  show right here on the station that's giving veterans, letting
• 47:36
  our veterans voices be heard. MBR stay with us coming up next.
• 58:49
  All right. And I'm I, I think I'm.
• 58:54
  You're. You're good.
• 58:56
  We. Can hear you, Am I?
• 58:58
  Yeah, Because I don't see. Oh, there we go.
• 59:00
  All right. I just don't hear myself for
• 59:02
  some reason. All right, Well, why do I not
• 59:05
  hear myself? Your headphones might have
• 59:08
  gotten unplugged. OK Amber, you talk while I fix
• 59:12
  my thing because I got to be able to hear.
• 59:15
  Well, hello Joel from Soul Dogs. Nice to meet you.
• 59:19
  Nice. To meet you too Amber.
• 59:20
  Glad to be here. This is fantastic all.
• 59:22
  Right, Ladies and gentlemen, we are joined by Joel Snyder.
• 59:28
  He is the CEO of the there. We go.
• 59:37
  Yeah, there we go. All right.
• 59:39
  We are joined by John's here. He is the executive director of
• 59:45
  Soul Dogs Incorporated here in Westminster, Co.
• 59:51
  And you can go ahead and fade it out.
• 59:54
  And thank you for coming in. You.
• 59:56
  You were our first in studio guest.
• 1:00:00
  Usually it's virtual. Yeah.
• 1:00:01
  So. Yeah, it was you.
• 1:00:03
  So. Yeah.
• 1:00:05
  So. Right.
• 1:00:08
  Cool. So.
• 1:00:08
  Squeezing in there. As a as a six foot three man,
• 1:00:13
  around 360 lbs, it's it's a tight space, but it's it's worth
• 1:00:17
  it. It's always.
• 1:00:19
  We're hey, we, we, we might be small, but we've got the biggest
• 1:00:23
  hearts here. So, so tell us a little bit
• 1:00:26
  about yourself and like what inspired because running not
• 1:00:30
  only a non profit, but running a lot of dogs.
• 1:00:32
  That's that's a lot of work. Yeah, right.
• 1:00:35
  So Soul Dog Zinc itself, I mean, I would love to take credit for
• 1:00:39
  it. I I can't say I'm not the
• 1:00:40
  founder. The founder is a wonderful woman
• 1:00:42
  by the name of Chris Anderson, right?
• 1:00:44
  Chris has been in the field of work with IDD folks,
• 1:00:47
  intellectual development, disabled folks for about 50 plus
• 1:00:50
  years. Wealth and knowledge.
• 1:00:51
  Extremely good at what she does. She had noticed that bringing in
• 1:00:55
  kind of her own animals into therapy really did support these
• 1:01:01
  participants. Being really comfortable in
• 1:01:02
  expressing the trauma and then working on that trauma.
• 1:01:06
  You know, it's, it's tough to say that people just their
• 1:01:09
  trauma is cured and they're good to go, right?
• 1:01:10
  But actually having those discussions was always easier
• 1:01:13
  with an animal by your side, right?
• 1:01:15
  So Soul Dogs, Inc was inspired by just the simple idea that
• 1:01:19
  it's easier to talk about trauma when you have that powerful
• 1:01:22
  animal connection with you, right?
• 1:01:24
  So Soul Dogs, Inc started as a therapy program back in 2019.
• 1:01:28
  We work with adults with intellectual developmental
• 1:01:30
  disabilities, autism, things like that.
• 1:01:32
  And then as we were, as they were kind of developing that
• 1:01:34
  program, it came into this idea that, yeah, we're seeing this
• 1:01:38
  animal thing happen more and more.
• 1:01:39
  And we started to have a client saying, like, you know, how can
• 1:01:42
  I work with animals as a job? Like I want this to be my
• 1:01:45
  career. I want this to happen every
• 1:01:46
  single day. So we started making a day
• 1:01:49
  program. The day program then developed
• 1:01:51
  into this amazing job development program where we're
• 1:01:54
  teaching these individuals how to actually work with a slew of
• 1:01:57
  animals. We used to have a small zoo.
• 1:01:59
  We had blind hedgehogs, we had rabbits, we had cats.
• 1:02:02
  We had a bearded dragon named Ash that everybody loved.
• 1:02:05
  And we then decided, you know, let's, let's focus down.
• 1:02:08
  And we started focusing on dogs. So now Soul Dogs Inc, one of its
• 1:02:12
  main programs, is our dog training Academy.
• 1:02:15
  And what we do is we train people with intellectual
• 1:02:17
  development disabilities and autism to work with dogs as a
• 1:02:20
  career. So become dog trainers, become
• 1:02:22
  groomers, become. Dog walkers.
• 1:02:25
  It is. So you're not only training the
• 1:02:27
  dogs, you're also training people as well.
• 1:02:30
  Absolutely, and I think most of my dog trainers on staff would
• 1:02:33
  agree. Like the idea of training a dog
• 1:02:35
  is not just the dog itself, it's also the person that has that
• 1:02:39
  dog as part of their family training them and having them
• 1:02:41
  figure out how they can better work with their dog and really
• 1:02:43
  understand and get to that bottom line.
• 1:02:45
  I mean, every single day we had these individuals come in, We
• 1:02:48
  have some people that are very near the program send the
• 1:02:50
  benefits with a couple years and to see the way they just light
• 1:02:53
  up when they're engaged with dogs and they're really kind of
• 1:02:56
  get into the nitty gritty of what they want to do for their
• 1:02:58
  lives. It is powerful stuff.
• 1:03:01
  It is, it is really powerful stuff.
• 1:03:02
  We, we, we love our jobs every single day.
• 1:03:05
  We're supported by some great dog trainers.
• 1:03:07
  We have amazing clients and just it's, it's just, it's great to
• 1:03:11
  be there. And we obviously do other stuff
• 1:03:12
  too. We, we have great therapy, we do
• 1:03:14
  mentorship, we have a support employment program in the
• 1:03:17
  community that just in my opinion is just absolutely top
• 1:03:19
  notch. We train behavior therapy
• 1:03:22
  interns. They come into our program and
• 1:03:23
  learn how to become better therapist, things like that.
• 1:03:26
  So we really do try to do whatever we can.
• 1:03:29
  And not only that, when we're training these folks to be dog
• 1:03:31
  trainers, one of the ways we do that is by bringing in people
• 1:03:34
  from the community who just want their dog trained, right?
• 1:03:36
  So puppy socialization, basic obedience, even if you want
• 1:03:40
  service dog training, we can support some and all that.
• 1:03:43
  And all those classes are led by one of our participants, one of
• 1:03:47
  our clients trying to get their experience in being a dog
• 1:03:49
  trainer. It's an amazing, an amazing
• 1:03:52
  experience. If if I thought I could curse on
• 1:03:54
  on this podcast, I. Absolutely would, because
• 1:03:57
  that's. Just how good it is, yeah.
• 1:03:59
  So I got a question, you talking about having a zoo?
• 1:04:03
  I would I would pay any I want a service monkey.
• 1:04:05
  Can you make that happen? I mean, I'd have to probably
• 1:04:09
  find a professional monkey trainer, but yeah, absolutely.
• 1:04:11
  It's easier to find the animal trainer and then train them to
• 1:04:14
  work with people with disabilities than it is the
• 1:04:16
  other way, right? So, yeah, no, absolutely.
• 1:04:18
  It's, it's weird because what is the service animal besides just
• 1:04:21
  an animal that you're teaching to do specific tasks, right?
• 1:04:24
  And that's exactly how you kind of break it down into the
• 1:04:27
  simplest kind of method. All right, what task are we
• 1:04:29
  training? All right, What's the simplest
• 1:04:30
  way to break that down? It's just a job task analysis
• 1:04:33
  piece and we've got some amazing, amazing dog trainers
• 1:04:36
  and program. They do a fantastic job so.
• 1:04:38
  These dogs that you receive and I'm, I'm, when you're talking
• 1:04:42
  about petting zoos. So I'm, I'm, I'm guessing you
• 1:04:44
  have dogs, you have cats. I, I mean, do you have Peacocks?
• 1:04:48
  Because evidently those can be serviced animals.
• 1:04:51
  Oh, Southwest said. No, I.
• 1:04:53
  I think as we go through in a research kind of service animal
• 1:04:56
  field, if there's right now, I think the latest thing we saw is
• 1:04:59
  that that in a certain category it's dogs and it's small horses.
• 1:05:03
  OK. Yeah.
• 1:05:04
  All right. Small.
• 1:05:04
  Horses. Those are the service dog
• 1:05:06
  animals, not emotional support. Service dog animals, Dogs.
• 1:05:10
  And in small horses, yeah. What about?
• 1:05:13
  A Highland. Cow.
• 1:05:14
  Yeah. What?
• 1:05:16
  What'd you say? Amber I.
• 1:05:17
  Want a highland cow as a service animal there?
• 1:05:19
  You go, it seems. Like, that would fit the
• 1:05:21
  category, right? It's it's, they're small enough
• 1:05:23
  as those. I forgot the horse even called
• 1:05:25
  the tiny horses. But yeah, it seems like they
• 1:05:27
  would fit the same category. I mean, more than likely people
• 1:05:30
  can't understand they're between a cow and a horse if they're
• 1:05:32
  that tiny anyway. So I mean, shoot your shot.
• 1:05:35
  I say. I say so, yeah.
• 1:05:37
  So these animals that you guys have, where do you get them now?
• 1:05:41
  The reason why I asked because I know it is that it was a
• 1:05:45
  business model of a long, long time ago.
• 1:05:48
  They, they don't do it anymore, but like Freedom service dogs,
• 1:05:51
  that's the biggest service model to have was they would get the
• 1:05:57
  dogs from just rescues, rescues. Now, I know that a lot of
• 1:06:04
  organizations can't do that because only 75% of pets that
• 1:06:09
  you get from the rescue mission can actually be service dogs.
• 1:06:13
  It's a very low number. Where do you guys get yours?
• 1:06:16
  Well. It's great.
• 1:06:17
  You mentioned Freedom Service Dogs.
• 1:06:18
  We actually partnered with them, OK, Our clients that are
• 1:06:21
  learning to become dog trainers, when they get to a certain
• 1:06:24
  level, we actually send them with Freedom Service Dogs to
• 1:06:26
  work with their dogs. They're about to graduate.
• 1:06:28
  They're. Training everything.
• 1:06:29
  Else, we love Freedom Service Dogs.
• 1:06:31
  They're an amazing group. If you don't know who they are,
• 1:06:33
  check them out and donate whatever you can to help them
• 1:06:36
  out. They're an amazing group.
• 1:06:38
  So when it comes down to it, for us, like our dogs, it's a
• 1:06:43
  combination because obviously we as staff, we all have dogs.
• 1:06:46
  So some of those dogs are from staff that are being trained to
• 1:06:49
  be animal assisted therapy dogs. They're trained to hopefully be
• 1:06:52
  someone's service dog in the future.
• 1:06:54
  We also have folks that have donated puppies to us like dogs
• 1:06:58
  that we can raise from the ground up to try to mold into
• 1:07:02
  hopefully a service dog or a therapy dog.
• 1:07:05
  And the problem is, yeah, you're talking about those stats,
• 1:07:07
  right? So one of the things that my
• 1:07:09
  trainers have shared with me is the idea that when it comes down
• 1:07:12
  to it, to training a dog to be a service dog, it is a constant
• 1:07:16
  kind of assessment of skill, assessment of temperament.
• 1:07:19
  And even then, I think the success rate is only about 40%
• 1:07:23
  to actually become a full-fledged, excuse me, a
• 1:07:26
  full-fledged service dog. So those numbers are incredibly
• 1:07:29
  low. But every single time you really
• 1:07:31
  just have to shoot your shot because no matter what's going
• 1:07:33
  to happen, you're going to come out with a dog that you're going
• 1:07:36
  to love. It's going to be well trained,
• 1:07:38
  right? So what we try to do is with
• 1:07:41
  these dogs that we get donated to us, what we'll do is if we
• 1:07:44
  have a client inside of a program that would benefit from
• 1:07:46
  what that dog is seeming to become, then we work on that and
• 1:07:50
  say, all right, would this be a potentially good fit?
• 1:07:53
  Can they start working together? You know, what age is it going
• 1:07:56
  to be when this dog is probably at a better state to be
• 1:07:59
  assessed? And really like, yes, they can
• 1:08:01
  be a service dog. They have that drive, they have
• 1:08:02
  that ability. So that's that's always
• 1:08:05
  something that you're constantly assessing.
• 1:08:06
  And when we have that match, then we hopefully can match it
• 1:08:09
  up with a client in our program who can really benefit from a
• 1:08:10
  service dog. And ROM, we'll let you ask the
• 1:08:13
  next question before I I've got plenty of questions, but I want
• 1:08:17
  to, I don't want to steal your Thunder.
• 1:08:21
  No, I, I was at crime con last month or the month before and
• 1:08:25
  they had dogs there that would sit with victims on the stand or
• 1:08:32
  whatever. And so they were showing those
• 1:08:35
  dogs off. And I was just so excited about
• 1:08:40
  those kinds of programs because I know how hard it is just on a
• 1:08:45
  regular day to go through life and, and as a child or somebody
• 1:08:52
  with severe traumatic events happening in their life, you
• 1:08:58
  know, for that comfort to be there.
• 1:09:00
  I just, I found that really awesome.
• 1:09:03
  And, and I've worked or I haven't worked with, but my
• 1:09:07
  daughter has worked with like equine therapy for people with
• 1:09:13
  autism and disabilities and things like that.
• 1:09:19
  And I've seen it work so much. And I'm just, I'm just in awe.
• 1:09:24
  And people who can do that kind of stuff.
• 1:09:27
  Yeah, Yeah. The equine therapy has always
• 1:09:29
  been a really interesting one, especially, you know, when you
• 1:09:31
  can get out to those because typically it's a, it's a farm or
• 1:09:35
  other kind of, even some type of horse kind of treatment recovery
• 1:09:40
  center that they provide this equine therapy and it can be
• 1:09:43
  incredibly beneficial. I mean, when you think about it
• 1:09:46
  and all the times, I mean, I, my family has been, we've been with
• 1:09:49
  dogs since, since I can possibly remember, my mom has stolen dogs
• 1:09:54
  from FDA lab, she's rescued dogs off the street, she's started
• 1:09:57
  humane societies, things like that.
• 1:09:59
  So dogs have always been a part and they've always been a really
• 1:10:02
  kind of loyal member of the family in, in how I grew up.
• 1:10:05
  So when I think about the times that I I've had it rough and
• 1:10:08
  I've I've been upset and just haven't able to handle things,
• 1:10:11
  you know, right now I've got, we've got our two dogs in the
• 1:10:13
  house, Griffin and Riley. And Riley is actually a former
• 1:10:17
  soul dog of our she was supposed to be a service dog, right?
• 1:10:20
  She failed miserably. So one of the things that a soul
• 1:10:25
  dog can't be is is afraid of stairs.
• 1:10:27
  Also not being a fan of of putting on, you know, vests and
• 1:10:32
  things like that, which Riley is, is not a fan of.
• 1:10:35
  So she unfortunately failed. And I was like, well, we're
• 1:10:37
  adopting this dog, obviously. And even at this point in time,
• 1:10:41
  when you have that high emotional time when something is
• 1:10:43
  just dragging you down or you're just upset, family things
• 1:10:47
  happen. What not that dog will crinkle
• 1:10:50
  her ears and literally come up and try to get in your lap.
• 1:10:54
  And she's just this cute as can be kind of tiny lab.
• 1:10:59
  And it's, it's just the best feeling on the planet.
• 1:11:01
  You know, that comfort you talk about people who are going
• 1:11:04
  through traumatic events, especially in court and really
• 1:11:07
  having to to have that tough conversation.
• 1:11:09
  That's really what it is. It is that powerful connection
• 1:11:13
  we share with animals that can really assist us in in talking
• 1:11:16
  about these incredibly hard things.
• 1:11:18
  The IDD population that we work with.
• 1:11:20
  I mean, overall, I think the current statistic is 80 to to
• 1:11:25
  85% of them have experienced traumatic events in their life.
• 1:11:31
  And those traumatic events can be anything from violent crime,
• 1:11:34
  they can be sexual abuse, things like that.
• 1:11:36
  And all these things. A high percentage of that comes
• 1:11:38
  from people that are trusted caregivers for them, right?
• 1:11:41
  And having to deal with that is incredibly hard.
• 1:11:45
  And it's, it's something that we try our best and a lot of
• 1:11:50
  agencies do the same where healing trauma is an important
• 1:11:53
  piece to helping someone really experience what it is to relieve
• 1:11:59
  something for themselves and then be able to fully
• 1:12:01
  participate in what they want to do.
• 1:12:02
  It's things like getting a job, like finding that apartment that
• 1:12:05
  they feel they can, they can live in the community on their
• 1:12:08
  own, kind of have that confidence, that strength, that
• 1:12:10
  support, right. And animals play such huge, huge
• 1:12:14
  role in that. It's, it's just, again, it's an
• 1:12:17
  amazing thing that I selfishly get to see every single day.
• 1:12:20
  So I, I'm, I'm, I love it. And I think that was a great
• 1:12:23
  example in regards to the court thing, because those are hugely
• 1:12:25
  traumatic experiences that you have to tell a complete room of
• 1:12:28
  strangers, not even one-on-one with the therapist, a public
• 1:12:32
  setting almost to talk about these things that you've
• 1:12:34
  experienced. And they bring a dog, and the
• 1:12:37
  dog just sits next to you and puts his head in your lap and
• 1:12:39
  all of a sudden you feel like, OK, right.
• 1:12:41
  I think, I think I can get through this, right?
• 1:12:43
  It's incredible. Absolutely.
• 1:12:45
  Incredible. Yeah.
• 1:12:45
  I, you know, I, I've, I've said time to time, you know, when my
• 1:12:48
  mother passed away, my, the service dog that I had, he he
• 1:12:53
  saved my life. You know, nobody, nobody can
• 1:12:58
  train to lose a mother or father.
• 1:13:02
  And you were changed when you lose your mother and father.
• 1:13:07
  There's there's it's, it's, it's different for everybody.
• 1:13:11
  But one thing is the same. It changed you.
• 1:13:14
  It really does it changes you. Now I'm wondering if I want to
• 1:13:20
  volunteer or if I want to do, you know, want to buy it, you
• 1:13:26
  know, want to get involved in your program.
• 1:13:29
  You guys I'm sure have an application on your website, you
• 1:13:34
  know, tell the community how we can, you know, support you guys,
• 1:13:39
  you know. When it comes down to it, Soul
• 1:13:40
  Dog Zinc our our main goal is always the support of people
• 1:13:44
  with disabilities, intellectual disabilities and autism, right?
• 1:13:46
  So volunteering for us we don't hold kind of many large scale
• 1:13:50
  events we're only a small team we're about 35 people strong
• 1:13:53
  we're all along the Front Range. But the main thing that we do at
• 1:13:56
  our main site is this dog training thing, which typically
• 1:13:59
  a lot of people, you know, that seems like something to be
• 1:14:01
  volunteer. I mean, we are literally
• 1:14:03
  probably bringing on our first volunteer from one of the most
• 1:14:10
  prestigious in Colorado, perhaps the nation kind of autism based
• 1:14:14
  high schools, Temple Graton. Oh my God, I hope I just said
• 1:14:18
  that right. It's.
• 1:14:19
  OK, don't worry about it. I Butch your shit all the time
• 1:14:21
  so it's OK. I'm like Swedish Chef, except
• 1:14:25
  he's funny. But yeah, it's finally the first
• 1:14:31
  time we're actually bringing on kind of this volunteer situation
• 1:14:34
  because part of their their curriculum to kind of prepare
• 1:14:38
  these individuals to move on to whatever kind of future
• 1:14:40
  educational career or whatever else they're kind of moving on
• 1:14:42
  to that they have this this public experience.
• 1:14:45
  So we're literally starting our first volunteer situation with
• 1:14:49
  this young man inside of a program because for us, you mean
• 1:14:52
  you got to figure everything we do in at Soul Dogs Inc is always
• 1:14:55
  one-on-one based, right? So our dog trainers work with
• 1:14:58
  the client one-on-one, our therapist work with their
• 1:15:00
  clients one-on-one. All of my amazing people out in
• 1:15:02
  the community that you support employment, they work with
• 1:15:04
  people one-on-one. We don't do anything kind of in
• 1:15:07
  a, in a group scenario. So when we think of volunteer,
• 1:15:10
  well, a volunteer would basically typically have to go
• 1:15:13
  work with someone one-on-one. And to do that they'd have to be
• 1:15:16
  trained and all the things that all of our other staff do,
• 1:15:18
  right. So we don't do a lot of
• 1:15:20
  volunteering right now. We are seeing the benefit of it.
• 1:15:23
  I would like to think we can grow that a lot more.
• 1:15:26
  You know, unlike places that are like for instance, Soul Dog
• 1:15:29
  Rescue, a place we are confused for constantly.
• 1:15:32
  They are an amazing group. They have a huge shelter in Fort
• 1:15:34
  Lupton. You see them at PetSmart, Petco
• 1:15:36
  all the time doing adoption events, great organization.
• 1:15:40
  They regularly take volunteers. I mean, that way you can get
• 1:15:43
  dogs out. You can have kennels
• 1:15:45
  appropriately cleaned. Everyone can be healthy and
• 1:15:47
  happy in the work that they have.
• 1:15:49
  For us, everything we do, it's it's done by our our teams, it's
• 1:15:53
  done by the individuals in our program, right?
• 1:15:55
  We are just like any other dog daycare facility that works with
• 1:15:59
  dogs. We are a packed full license
• 1:16:01
  facility and every single day, if any of our clients want to
• 1:16:04
  work in the dog field, they got to practice those pack of
• 1:16:07
  regulations too, which means that they're part of that
• 1:16:09
  cleaning process, that prepping, enrichment and everything else
• 1:16:13
  for the dogs. They're part of all those
• 1:16:14
  things. So we don't have room for
• 1:16:17
  volunteer yet. We're hoping to get there
• 1:16:19
  sometime soon because we've been asked by boys, Boy Scout, Girl
• 1:16:24
  Scout troops really want to get in there.
• 1:16:26
  We want to work with local schools as well a lot and try to
• 1:16:29
  get some more folks in there. I mean, for right now we're,
• 1:16:32
  we're a nonprofit 5O1C3 charitable organization.
• 1:16:35
  We are working with the state of Colorado.
• 1:16:37
  We are, we are a program approved service agency with the
• 1:16:39
  state of Colorado. A lot of our funding is Medicaid
• 1:16:42
  based. Medicaid not doing so hot right
• 1:16:45
  now. So you know 1.
• 1:16:47
  Of the society isn't doing so hot right now I wouldn't even
• 1:16:50
  blame it on Medicaid, I'd blame it on just life the.
• 1:16:53
  Weather, forest. Nothing really.
• 1:16:55
  Made in the Great. Headway these days, but yeah, we
• 1:16:58
  as a as a group that revise really on Medicaid funding,
• 1:17:02
  we're trying to branch out. We're looking at more
• 1:17:03
  fundraising opportunity. So I say this knowing full well
• 1:17:06
  that everything is tight right now.
• 1:17:08
  If there's anything that you can donate to an organization, not
• 1:17:10
  even Soul Dog Zinc, but to local shelters, to any other groups
• 1:17:15
  that support people with disabilities, people with
• 1:17:17
  trauma, please give whatever you can.
• 1:17:20
  You can go to our website, soul-dogs-inc.org.
• 1:17:25
  We have a donate link. Anything you give is acceptable.
• 1:17:28
  If you have dunkings, we've had folks that come by and drop off
• 1:17:32
  kennels to us, drop off. Hey, unfortunately my dog
• 1:17:35
  passed. Do you have any use for these
• 1:17:37
  items? We're happy to look through
• 1:17:38
  items to see what we can do. If we can't take them, we might
• 1:17:41
  know some organizations or people that can take them.
• 1:17:43
  So we would love to kind of sort through that with you all.
• 1:17:46
  As community members. We want to be in our community.
• 1:17:49
  We we go to events constantly. If you see our table stop by,
• 1:17:53
  get to know us a bit better. We are always happy to hand out
• 1:17:55
  free merch. We had this adorable young girl
• 1:17:58
  by the name of Violet who did a lemonade stand a couple weeks
• 1:18:01
  ago and gave us all the funds from her lemonade stand.
• 1:18:04
  Can. You describe something cuter to
• 1:18:07
  me. No, I don't think well, you
• 1:18:09
  probably can, but still adorable.
• 1:18:11
  She came in, she she handed me the money.
• 1:18:14
  I gave her all the merch we could.
• 1:18:15
  We're going to make her some paracord collars for her two
• 1:18:18
  amazing Saint Bernard she has at her home.
• 1:18:20
  But it's stuff like that that really that really tugs that you
• 1:18:23
  can just says we're we're doing something right.
• 1:18:25
  The community wants to support us and we want to support our
• 1:18:27
  community as best we can. But long answer to A to a short
• 1:18:30
  question, No, not a lot of volunteer betweens right now,
• 1:18:32
  but we're hoping to get there eventually.
• 1:18:34
  We'll, we'll, we'll get there sometime soon.
• 1:18:36
  I promise. We would love that the community
• 1:18:38
  evolved this more. We just got to figure out, you
• 1:18:40
  know, protecting health information for individuals,
• 1:18:42
  making sure that all of our HIPAA stuff is in place.
• 1:18:44
  But yeah, we would love to get volunteers in there eventually.
• 1:18:49
  One last question then, Amber, if you have a question, you guys
• 1:18:53
  aren't like new, you guys have been here for a while.
• 1:18:56
  We have been in Westminster since 2019.
• 1:19:00
  We're now in our, our, our probably biggest and if I'm
• 1:19:03
  being very honest, our most successful location, which is
• 1:19:07
  it's at essentially Wadsworth and what is 100th, but you just
• 1:19:11
  call it Church Ranch, right? So if you know where the big Vas
• 1:19:14
  of fitness is in the Stanley Marketplace on the very East End
• 1:19:18
  of that lot, there's this building that used to be a
• 1:19:21
  waffle stand. It was a bakery and we took it
• 1:19:24
  over just last year. We're, we're about to celebrate
• 1:19:27
  our first full year in this new space.
• 1:19:29
  It's it's huge. It provides us all the space we
• 1:19:31
  need for dog training. It gives us some admin space for
• 1:19:34
  lazy folks like me that just do paperwork all day.
• 1:19:38
  But it's, it's an amazing place. If you want to stop by, see it,
• 1:19:41
  please give us a call. We love setting up tours showing
• 1:19:43
  people what we do. We have these in 2-2 incredibly
• 1:19:46
  cute English cream retrievers right now, Max and Marcy that
• 1:19:51
  are just adorable. So if they're around, we'd love
• 1:19:53
  to introduce you to them. But yeah, yeah, we, we are.
• 1:19:57
  We are local. We've been around since 2019 and
• 1:20:00
  we are hoping to stay here for as long as we possibly can.
• 1:20:03
  Absolutely. I.
• 1:20:04
  Absolutely love it. I really do.
• 1:20:06
  Amber, I'm going to let you dig the next question before we go
• 1:20:10
  to the time to shine. Yeah.
• 1:20:13
  So do you have to be a resident of Colorado in order to get one
• 1:20:18
  of your animals? Well, in regards to actually
• 1:20:23
  accepting or or getting an animal of ours as a, as a
• 1:20:26
  service animal, that typically depends upon what we are able to
• 1:20:30
  do with the animal first, right. So like I said, if we have a, a
• 1:20:33
  Clyde in our program that's becoming a a solid trainer that
• 1:20:36
  could benefit from a service dog that we have that we're
• 1:20:38
  currently training. If that successful, a successful
• 1:20:42
  mesh can happen, then bam, we would like to put it with that
• 1:20:45
  client. We are working on our very first
• 1:20:48
  situation right now with an outside individual to actually
• 1:20:53
  transfer ownership to them of one of our dogs to then continue
• 1:20:57
  to train with this person as a service dog.
• 1:21:00
  So someone entirely outside of our of our group, outside of of
• 1:21:04
  any of the clients that we serve in any part of our programming.
• 1:21:07
  This is going to be our very first kind of full scale attempt
• 1:21:10
  at this. And we are, we are really hoping
• 1:21:13
  for some great success here because the dog that she is
• 1:21:15
  looking to adopt with us, very driven, very successful so far,
• 1:21:21
  the training that she has received and we really think
• 1:21:23
  it's going to be a good fit. But we can finally get to see,
• 1:21:26
  all right, let's see how well this works.
• 1:21:28
  Let's see what we can learn from this.
• 1:21:30
  And she is the the person we work with.
• 1:21:32
  She is just so gung ho. It's like, yes, this sounds
• 1:21:35
  great. I want to push forward and we're
• 1:21:36
  like, we got to give you all these warnings about success
• 1:21:38
  rates for service dogs and just like, no, let's keep going.
• 1:21:41
  So it's a very exciting time for her.
• 1:21:44
  It's a very exciting time for us to get this opportunity to
• 1:21:46
  really kind of test ourselves, you know, really put the pedal
• 1:21:50
  to the metal and go forward and, and prove like absolutely this
• 1:21:53
  can work. And we're going to be part of
• 1:21:54
  the reason why it works. And, and I didn't even ask if he
• 1:21:58
  was ever in the military, and I apologize for that, No.
• 1:22:01
  No, I, I, I've not, I, I, I thank you for your service,
• 1:22:03
  Joel, but unfortunately I, I'm not a military veteran.
• 1:22:07
  We have a good number of veterans in our doctoring
• 1:22:09
  Academy, a great bunch of people that want nothing more than to
• 1:22:14
  support the individuals we work with and help them be
• 1:22:16
  successful. I, it's, it's amazing to see
• 1:22:18
  veterans at work. So we support veterans in, in
• 1:22:21
  whatever we can do. And I, I'm not just here just
• 1:22:24
  kind of pitching to the crowd. It's just we have a great group
• 1:22:28
  of people and it's a a mix of everybody, but the veterans in
• 1:22:31
  our program really have made a quite an amazing difference in
• 1:22:34
  some of our clients lives well. I appreciate you coming on here
• 1:22:37
  because a majority of the time when we do an interview and we
• 1:22:41
  talk to somebody from an organization, I don't know why,
• 1:22:45
  but it's almost like they, they tell their, tell us their, their
• 1:22:49
  bio, their life and they don't really tell about the
• 1:22:52
  organization, you know, So I really appreciate you coming on
• 1:22:56
  here and, you know, telling us a little bit about your nonprofit
• 1:23:00
  and what you guys do and how you guys partner with the community
• 1:23:04
  and all the different events that you do.
• 1:23:07
  So I, I really appreciate that. Well, it is unless HG.
• 1:23:12
  Do you have a question? I'm all good, OK.
• 1:23:17
  All right, shaking it up. Like a sponge.
• 1:23:19
  There we go. All right, well, if no, if no
• 1:23:22
  further ado, let's hit the time to shine.
• 1:23:35
  So again, remember Dunkin' Donuts, it runs for our
• 1:23:39
  veterans. All right, so Joel Austin name,
• 1:23:44
  I don't know who named it. Yeah, but just just terrific
• 1:23:49
  name. Maybe I didn't ask you the right
• 1:23:54
  question or set you up for the, you know, answering.
• 1:23:58
  There's something that you know you have that's on your chest
• 1:24:03
  that you'd like to talk to us about.
• 1:24:06
  The listeners of viewers, this is your two-minute Time to Shine
• 1:24:10
  2. Minutes time to shine, huh?
• 1:24:12
  I I, I like I like the graphic by the way, as a as an East
• 1:24:15
  coaster, Dunkin' Donuts yeah I, I, unfortunately, you know I
• 1:24:19
  don't get them as much often, but I, I've always loved their
• 1:24:21
  coffee It's. Time to make the doughnuts.
• 1:24:23
  It's. Time to make the doughnuts, I
• 1:24:26
  mean, in time to shine. I mean, what I will say right
• 1:24:28
  now is that I know for all of this trauma existing in, in very
• 1:24:33
  specific ways, in ways that we don't share with people, in ways
• 1:24:36
  that other people we, we, we believe could not possibly
• 1:24:38
  understand. I will say this to any and all
• 1:24:40
  of you, whether you are veteran, whether you are non
• 1:24:44
  neurodivergent with your neurodivergent, what is
• 1:24:47
  important for everyone is the concept of actually talking
• 1:24:51
  about your trauma. And it's not some public forum
• 1:24:53
  necessarily, just connecting with someone that that you
• 1:24:57
  trust, connecting with a professional, whatever the case
• 1:24:59
  that might be, talking about what you've experienced and
• 1:25:03
  actually trying your what you can to, to help heal.
• 1:25:07
  That is what's going to improve your life.
• 1:25:09
  And by doing that, you may find other avenues that you never
• 1:25:12
  thought possible on how to kind of live your life after that.
• 1:25:15
  Because again, I trauma really can't be solved by any means,
• 1:25:19
  right? But trauma itself is one of
• 1:25:22
  those factors that really keeps us from being able to have the
• 1:25:25
  experiences that we probably would prefer, that we probably
• 1:25:27
  really want to have. And I will encourage anyone out
• 1:25:31
  there, again, no matter who you are, if you've experienced
• 1:25:33
  trauma in your life, or even if you don't know what that trauma
• 1:25:35
  might be, talk to someone. Get that help, get that support
• 1:25:39
  and help make yourself the person that you always knew you
• 1:25:42
  could be by having that conversation.
• 1:25:45
  Just just get out there and and talk to somebody, whoever might
• 1:25:48
  be. I hope you all the resources.
• 1:25:49
  If not, find someone who has that connection to resources for
• 1:25:52
  you. If you are more divergent have
• 1:25:55
  disabilities are looking to get kind of supports to find that
• 1:25:58
  thing. You know my e-mail address and
• 1:26:00
  everything is on the website for Soul Dogs.
• 1:26:02
  Please reach out to me. If I can help you out, I will.
• 1:26:04
  If I can connect you to someone, I will.
• 1:26:06
  We are not an organization that looks just to bring people on
• 1:26:09
  and and make ourselves money. If we can connect you to
• 1:26:11
  something that helps you truly, then we want to do it.
• 1:26:14
  Whether you are part of the people we serve, the part of the
• 1:26:16
  population we serve or not, the help is, is, is everywhere.
• 1:26:21
  If you can find it and some people just don't know where to
• 1:26:23
  look. So start, take that first step.
• 1:26:25
  You know that a journey starts with the first step, as they
• 1:26:27
  say, right? So whatever you can to help
• 1:26:30
  yourself, whatever you can do to find something that can help you
• 1:26:33
  take advantage of it and, and get that support that you truly
• 1:26:36
  need. So.
• 1:26:37
  Well, Joel, thank you so much for coming with us and and when
• 1:26:42
  we leave, I'll walk you down and and talk with you and stuff for
• 1:26:45
  everybody else. It is that time.
• 1:26:47
  It is tribute to the troops and you listen to.
• 1:26:56
  Detail attention. First, call.
• 1:27:03
  The service member's name is called out loud in the context
• 1:27:07
  of a unit. This is meant to ensure all are
• 1:27:09
  present and accounted for. Second call, the name is called
• 1:27:14
  out again louder to confirm that the service member is indeed
• 1:27:17
  absent. 3rd. Call.
• 1:27:20
  The name is called out for a final time, followed by a
• 1:27:23
  statement indicating that the service member is not present
• 1:27:26
  and accounted for, signifying their death.
• 1:27:29
  The final roll call serves as a symbolic gesture to respect and
• 1:27:33
  remember their service. Sir, I don't, I don't know how
• 1:27:42
  to tell the story. Well.
• 1:27:43
  You got the joke. You tell the American people
• 1:27:45
  what they can do here. You tell them how my troopers
• 1:27:48
  died. Hey everyone, thank you for
• 1:28:16
  tuning in to NPR today as we pay tribute to Lindsey Olin Graham,
• 1:28:20
  age 71, of Washington, DC Lindsey was born on July 9th,
• 1:28:24
  1955 in Central, SC to Florence James FJ and Millie Graham.
• 1:28:31
  Lindsay grew up in a hard working blue collar family that
• 1:28:34
  ran a small restaurant in Pool hall.
• 1:28:36
  His parents instilled in him the values of service,
• 1:28:39
  responsibility and resilience, values that would define his
• 1:28:42
  life's work. Lindsay graduated from Daniel
• 1:28:45
  High School in Central, SC in 1973, becoming the first in his
• 1:28:50
  family to pursue higher education.
• 1:28:52
  After earning his law degree, Graham answered a deeper call
• 1:28:57
  service to his country. In 1982, he commissioned into
• 1:29:00
  the Air Force, beginning a military career that would span
• 1:29:03
  more than three decades. As an officer in the Judge
• 1:29:07
  Advocate Generals Corps, he served both stateside and
• 1:29:11
  overseas, including four years at Rhine Mine Air Force Base in
• 1:29:14
  Germany. When his active duty service
• 1:29:17
  ended in 1988, he continued serving in the South Carolina
• 1:29:20
  Air National Guard and later the Air Force Reserve, ultimately
• 1:29:24
  retiring in 2015 at the rank of Colonel.
• 1:29:27
  His military career reflected A lifelong commitment to the men
• 1:29:30
  and women who wear the uniform. Graham carried that commitment
• 1:29:34
  into public office. In 1995, he entered the US House
• 1:29:38
  of Representatives, serving South Carolina's Third District
• 1:29:42
  over 4 terms. He became known for his work on
• 1:29:45
  military readiness, veterans issues, and constitutional law.
• 1:29:50
  In 2003, he transitioned to the US Senate, succeeding Senator
• 1:29:55
  Strom Thurmond and beginning a 10 year that would last more
• 1:29:58
  than 20 years. During his time in the Senate,
• 1:30:01
  he served on key committees including Judiciary, Armed
• 1:30:05
  Services, and Appropriations, becoming one of the chamber's
• 1:30:09
  most visible voices on national security and defense.
• 1:30:13
  His congressional service reflected the same dedication he
• 1:30:16
  showed in uniform, steadfast, mis driven and rooted in service
• 1:30:21
  to country. Though his heart remained in
• 1:30:24
  Seneca, SC, where he kept his lifelong home, Graham spent his
• 1:30:29
  final years living and working in Washington, DC, serving the
• 1:30:33
  people of South Carolina until his passing on July 11th, 2026.
• 1:30:40
  He leaves behind a legacy defined by military service and
• 1:30:44
  public service. Lindsay is survived by his
• 1:30:47
  sister Darlene and his brothers and sisters in arms.
• 1:30:51
  We here at NBR would like to thank you, Lindsay Olengram for
• 1:30:55
  your service and dedication to our country.
• 1:30:58
  You'll leave a legacy of love and courage.
• 1:31:01
  Our prayers are with your family, friends and those who
• 1:31:04
  served alongside you. You are truly missed.
• 1:31:06
  Your courage remains edged in the stars.
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  Ready. Penalty on YOU delay of Game 5
• 1:36:19
  seconds before the show. But hey, thanks for watching.
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  The. Station.
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  Where our veterans voices are heard.
• 1:36:27
  MBR talk. It's on the web at MB radio dot.
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  Net. All right, ladies and gentlemen,
• 1:36:36
  we're back. You'll listen to this show that
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  highlights all the programs out there beyond the VA Ulysses to
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  the 8th trade show right here on the station that's letting
• 1:36:46
  veterans voices be heard. MBR.
• 1:36:51
  And I tell you what, Amber, that was a great interview, wasn't
• 1:36:55
  it? Yeah.
• 1:36:55
  It was. And while I was talking to him,
• 1:36:57
  he told me he was like, wow, that, you know, that's the first
• 1:37:01
  time we've ever been on any like platform or anything.
• 1:37:04
  And I'm like, oh, and he's going, he was, he has a couple
• 1:37:08
  of veterans that the podcasts are going to send them over.
• 1:37:11
  And, you know, we're just, we're sitting here talking and we have
• 1:37:16
  there's a, an Army Ranger that he, he does a nonprofit as well.
• 1:37:21
  He was visiting and he came over to us and, and started talking.
• 1:37:25
  We gave him a duck, you know, So we, we gave the, the, the beaker
• 1:37:30
  award to, to, you know, the person that came in the studio.
• 1:37:33
  So if we have you on here on the show doing an interview, you'll
• 1:37:38
  be leaving here with at least a key chain and A and a beaker,
• 1:37:43
  you know. So it's been a fantastic,
• 1:37:47
  fantastic show. I I think and you know, before
• 1:37:51
  we, I, I got to ask you before we go into like the did you, did
• 1:37:58
  you find a factor cap video that you sent to HG yet?
• 1:38:04
  I didn't send it to HG, but I sent you the one about Jim
• 1:38:07
  Morrison last night, did you? Oh, yes.
• 1:38:09
  OK. All right.
• 1:38:10
  So what I'm going to do while we're talking, I'm going to send
• 1:38:14
  that to HG so that he can put that on the thing because, you
• 1:38:18
  know, I, I don't know if it's true or false, but I definitely,
• 1:38:24
  I definitely want to just kind of talk about it.
• 1:38:27
  I'm going to send that to you HG.
• 1:38:29
  Send it to. The the manager you.
• 1:38:34
  Want go get is my Facebook thing up because you can you can grab
• 1:38:39
  it from the from my message to Amber.
• 1:38:44
  Maybe I should start adding you to our little our our little
• 1:38:48
  chit chat thing. But I will say this.
• 1:38:54
  You got to be careful what you watch on TikTok.
• 1:38:58
  Yesterday I was scrolling. I wasn't Jim scrolling, but I
• 1:39:02
  was scrolling and I come across this one TikTok that was talking
• 1:39:07
  about a guy named Ronald McDonald, who back in like the
• 1:39:13
  1800s, he, he, he learned kids in the circus using like a Happy
• 1:39:20
  Meal and all this stuff. And I'm like, Oh my God, this is
• 1:39:24
  so stupid. You know, you know that it's not
• 1:39:27
  true, you know, you know it's not true, but still it's like,
• 1:39:34
  come on, man, you know, and I I wouldn't, you know, it's, it's
• 1:39:38
  that it was one of those tik toks where the number one thing
• 1:39:41
  you do is you go in the comments, you know, look, let's
• 1:39:44
  get a few laughs in the comments and you know, everybody's like
• 1:39:47
  this has already been debunked and stuff like that.
• 1:39:50
  I don't know why people do that, why they send out false
• 1:39:55
  information. I really think it's kind of like
• 1:40:00
  satire. They're just, they're just
• 1:40:01
  trying to get views. They're just trying to get, you
• 1:40:03
  know, something they also want to.
• 1:40:06
  See how many people fall for it. OK, well, you know, all right,
• 1:40:10
  so I, I, I do have to, I do have to come clean and say that, you
• 1:40:17
  know, one time, not one time being camp, but one time it's
• 1:40:21
  camp. Me and my, me and my friend, we
• 1:40:25
  were like, you know, you can say anything to anybody and nobody's
• 1:40:29
  going to check that because you know, we're, we're, we're, we're
• 1:40:32
  skiing. There's, there's not really like
• 1:40:34
  media stuff. And we're like, oh, you know
• 1:40:37
  what? We're going to, we're, we're,
• 1:40:38
  we're, we're going to make up some.
• 1:40:40
  We're, we, we, we told everybody that Britney Spears got in a
• 1:40:45
  wreck and everybody believed it. And they're like, well, who's
• 1:40:48
  driving? Oh, Lindsay Lohan, you know, and
• 1:40:53
  everybody believed that to the point where we we kind of
• 1:40:57
  stopped talking about because at like 2:00, we were hearing
• 1:41:01
  things about it at lunch and we're like, wow, 1 little bit of
• 1:41:06
  bad information really like shook the ski resort.
• 1:41:11
  We was looking to see if it would be on like Fox 31 or
• 1:41:14
  Channel 9 or something. It wasn't.
• 1:41:16
  But it just goes to show, yeah, you, you can't believe
• 1:41:21
  everything that you see or hear on the Internet.
• 1:41:27
  Actually, was he able to pull it up?
• 1:41:29
  Was. It the the the video I saw was
• 1:41:32
  something about the gabbards. Yes, yes, go ahead and.
• 1:41:38
  Hold on, I'm still getting it. Oh.
• 1:41:40
  OK, All right. So it's, it's crazy to me, you
• 1:41:44
  know what we believe in the stuff like that.
• 1:41:47
  And you know, it's, it's funny that you know, the conspiracy
• 1:41:51
  stuff, you know, like what we did there were throughout the
• 1:41:54
  day. You know, I understand where,
• 1:41:58
  where Joy's coming from because I, I have my conspiracy theories
• 1:42:01
  about too. My conspiracy theories is, you
• 1:42:05
  know, people like, for example, like the politics and
• 1:42:10
  government, you know, and you know, talk about, you know, this
• 1:42:13
  constitution. And the way I look at it is,
• 1:42:17
  man, the Constitution is almost like the Bible.
• 1:42:19
  Everybody interprets that shit differently.
• 1:42:22
  And that's why we're running into issues every day.
• 1:42:26
  You know, the conspiracy theory, you know, so it's it's like, you
• 1:42:31
  know, they tell us, well, you know, the back then this is what
• 1:42:35
  we did in the 1800. Is it really though?
• 1:42:38
  Is it really like, you know, do do, do you have video of it?
• 1:42:42
  You know, if, because we're such a video society now, you know,
• 1:42:48
  if it isn't on video, we don't we don't believe it.
• 1:42:53
  And now they when they come up with AI, now everybody's
• 1:42:57
  screwed. But I'm sitting here babbling to
• 1:43:00
  stall. Do you got an IH?
• 1:43:02
  I'm. Just dealing.
• 1:43:04
  OK, all right, deal with technical problems.
• 1:43:06
  OK, deal with technical problems.
• 1:43:08
  All right, No, no problem. So it's, it's, it's, it's really
• 1:43:16
  it, it, it's really crazy to notice it.
• 1:43:17
  Like I was thinking about it the other day and I was talking to a
• 1:43:20
  friend. Like if you're at somewhere and
• 1:43:23
  somebody hands you like medicine, like you're going to
• 1:43:26
  take that medicine especially like if you have a headache or
• 1:43:29
  something not. Anymore.
• 1:43:30
  Well. Like, if I give you a pill,
• 1:43:32
  you're going to take it because you trust me, right?
• 1:43:35
  But like, where did you get that pill from, you know, or when you
• 1:43:39
  go to the grocery store, since we was talking about like food
• 1:43:42
  supply and everybody's like reading the ingredients on the
• 1:43:46
  box. Do we really know if those
• 1:43:49
  ingredients are really in the box that they didn't add
• 1:43:52
  something else? Do do we really know?
• 1:43:55
  I mean, that's where we are as a society.
• 1:43:58
  Like we're not we're not believing everything anymore.
• 1:44:01
  We're we're questioning everything.
• 1:44:05
  And it's sad that we're like that, but you know, you got to
• 1:44:10
  you got to kind of guard yourself nowadays.
• 1:44:13
  So while he's doing that, I do want to reiterate that, you
• 1:44:19
  know, we are broadcasting on TV radio, Star Radio as well.
• 1:44:25
  But Star Radio have changed their name to Rebel Rock now.
• 1:44:32
  Interesting. So the Rebel Rock TuneIn, they
• 1:44:36
  got some amazing DJs on there. They got some amazing rock music
• 1:44:43
  as well. Tracer I saw I saw a message
• 1:44:48
  when you call or text the NBR number, somebody's going to
• 1:44:52
  answer. So you know, watch, watch what
• 1:44:55
  you do. But somebody was talking to us
• 1:44:59
  yesterday or the day before and tell him Tracer how he loved our
• 1:45:03
  music. And you know, remember you can
• 1:45:07
  find us on not only on TikTok, but you can find us on the Roku
• 1:45:11
  and the Fire Stick app. And it looks like he has it
• 1:45:15
  done. So ladies and gentlemen, this is
• 1:45:17
  today's cap or fact. Is it fact?
• 1:45:21
  Or cap, you tell me. All right, it's going to be a
• 1:45:32
  little. Tulsi Gabbard's brother was
• 1:45:34
  arrested for trying to lure children to his hotel room.
• 1:45:37
  One of the lesser things that is being reported on this case is
• 1:45:40
  the fact that he was going around saying that he was Jim
• 1:45:43
  Morrison Junior, and if you told me that a year ago, I would have
• 1:45:46
  just written it off. However, given Tulsi's record
• 1:45:48
  with MK Ultra files, not to mention her aunt mysteriously
• 1:45:52
  being murdered, plus her involvement with a cult from
• 1:45:55
  birth, I decided I was going to look into this a little bit
• 1:45:57
  further. And honestly, my first thought
• 1:45:59
  was he doesn't look anything like his parents.
• 1:46:02
  In fact, he doesn't look like anybody in his family, really.
• 1:46:05
  But obviously, that's not how genetics works.
• 1:46:07
  You can't just eyeball it. I understand that.
• 1:46:09
  And then I compared him to Jim Morrison.
• 1:46:12
  And yeah, I see a resemblance. Bhakti Gabbard was born on
• 1:46:17
  January 5th, 1971. And granted, I'm not a big music
• 1:46:21
  person. So then I decided to look more
• 1:46:23
  into Jim Morrison. Jim Morrison died July 3rd,
• 1:46:27
  1971. It's not going to mean anything
• 1:46:29
  now, but keep it in your brain for later.
• 1:46:31
  The red flashing light started when I found out that apparently
• 1:46:34
  Jim Morrison's father claimed that they were descendants of
• 1:46:36
  the Scottish King Robert the Bruce.
• 1:46:38
  Because you all know how they love bloodlines, these people.
• 1:46:41
  And my intrigue was absolutely peaked when I found out that Jim
• 1:46:45
  Morrison's father was a Naval Intelligence officer.
• 1:46:48
  We're talking high up. He was a Rear Admiral by the end
• 1:46:51
  of his career. However, the important thing is
• 1:46:53
  that his father was responsible for the Gulf of Tonkin incident
• 1:46:57
  in Vietnam. The US essentially faked an
• 1:46:59
  attack and pretended that the North Vietnamese vessels were
• 1:47:03
  returning fire on them, which directly led to the US Congress
• 1:47:07
  giving Lyndon B Johnson any authority to assist any
• 1:47:10
  Southeast Asian country whose government was considered to be
• 1:47:13
  jeopardized by communist aggression.
• 1:47:15
  Meaning that this was basically the justification for the
• 1:47:18
  Vietnam War. It came out that the NSA
• 1:47:21
  deliberately skewed the intelligence to create the
• 1:47:23
  impression that an attack had been carried out when literally
• 1:47:26
  no Vietnamese boats were even present.
• 1:47:29
  Now, we've talked extensively on this channel about how the CIA
• 1:47:32
  director in the 50s and 60s did psyops programs, especially
• 1:47:37
  targeted at counterculture with figures like Timothy Leary.
• 1:47:40
  By 1962, the Army was calling for a new kind of war that could
• 1:47:43
  exploit vulnerabilities and neutralize political opponents
• 1:47:47
  at home, especially left wing movements, and that's when they
• 1:47:50
  unleashed the MK Ultra program on to the unsuspecting public.
• 1:47:53
  In the same year that his father incited the escalation of the
• 1:47:56
  Vietnam War was the same year that Jim left Florida and
• 1:48:00
  transferred to UCLA. One of those most famous alleged
• 1:48:04
  cases of CIA mind control MK Ultra stuff was Charles Manson
• 1:48:09
  and Jim Morrison was left out of a lot of the Manson story.
• 1:48:12
  The fact that The Doors was only first even brought to the
• 1:48:15
  attention of record companies by a bandmate of one of the Manson
• 1:48:20
  family members. Bobby B was also friends with
• 1:48:23
  Frank Zappa, who turned Manson down for a record deal but then
• 1:48:26
  frequently let Manson and his family use his cabin.
• 1:48:30
  Frank Zappa's father was a top chemical weapon specialist at
• 1:48:33
  the same facility that was tied to chemical warfare research and
• 1:48:37
  MK Ultra mind experiments. Zappa's manager was one of the
• 1:48:40
  first to start Laurel Canyon, which was like the center hub of
• 1:48:44
  the counterculture hippie movement.
• 1:48:46
  Oh, but it doesn't stop there, folks, because Morrison is
• 1:48:48
  rumored to have had a relationship with one of the
• 1:48:51
  girls who was a Manson family member.
• 1:48:53
  And you know the famous story about how the guy from The Beach
• 1:48:56
  Boys picked up a hitchhiking Manson and Manson sent him a
• 1:48:59
  bullet and all that stuff. Did y'all know that Jim Morrison
• 1:49:02
  was actually with him when they picked up this hitchhiker?
• 1:49:05
  Who, we really think it's a coincidence they just picked up
• 1:49:08
  this hitchhiker? No, I'm sorry.
• 1:49:09
  But even beyond that, there's even more direct connection
• 1:49:12
  because y'all know Jim's signature hair style?
• 1:49:15
  Well, that is because of Jay Sebring, Jim Morrison's close
• 1:49:18
  personal friend and personal hairdresser who was one of the
• 1:49:21
  victims of the Manson Family when they killed Sharon Tate.
• 1:49:25
  And it was after this that things really started to unravel
• 1:49:28
  for Jim because his connection to the Manson Family was
• 1:49:31
  actually so underreported that they never mentioned that they
• 1:49:34
  brought Morrison in and interviewed him with the LAPD.
• 1:49:39
  He was brought in for questioning over the murders
• 1:49:41
  because he was so closely tied to everybody involved.
• 1:49:44
  And around this time is when the government started going after
• 1:49:47
  Jim Morrison and he was arrested for this indecent exposure
• 1:49:50
  thing. Even though all of the bands
• 1:49:51
  said that it never happened and people in the audience had
• 1:49:54
  conflicting tales. I'm not really going to get into
• 1:49:56
  that, but basically he was arrested and convicted of
• 1:49:58
  indecent exposure at a concert. Now mind you, during his entire
• 1:50:01
  time as a celebrity, he was telling people that his family
• 1:50:04
  was all dead, which obviously wasn't true.
• 1:50:06
  Of course, this could have been a metaphorical thing are plenty
• 1:50:08
  of kids that rebel from their strict parents.
• 1:50:11
  But Jim Morrison also claimed that when he was a child, one of
• 1:50:13
  the most formula things that ever happened to him was
• 1:50:16
  witnessing A horrific car accident with Native Americans
• 1:50:20
  bleeding outside of the road like it was awful.
• 1:50:22
  And he claimed that the Native Americans, he felt like their
• 1:50:25
  soul entered him. Now, both his family and records
• 1:50:28
  indicate that this never happened, or at least there's
• 1:50:31
  very little evidence of things being described the way that he
• 1:50:34
  did now. Instantly that reminded me of
• 1:50:36
  Winona Ryder. Y'all remember when I had that
• 1:50:38
  whole video about her? Oh, Winona Ryder grew up in a
• 1:50:42
  cult called the Rainbow, where they believe that the dead souls
• 1:50:45
  of Native Americans would rise up when the earth starts to turn
• 1:50:49
  black and fall sick. And those Native American
• 1:50:52
  warriors were going to help save the world side by side with all
• 1:50:55
  of the white people. And those light skinned brothers
• 1:50:58
  and sisters would be the reincarnated souls of Native
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  Americans who were killed and slaved by the first light
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  skinned settlers. And who was Winona Ryder's
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  godfather? Tim Leary.
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  And guess who did a poem at a fundraiser to help Tim Leary get
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  money for his defense? In fact, Leary actually provided
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  the introduction for a book about Jim Morrison.
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  Then I discovered Patricia. Patricia who met Jim Morrison
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  when she interviewed him for her magazine in January of 1969.
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  Patricia, who married Jim Morrison in a Celtic hand
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  fasting ceremony in June of 1970.
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  While Jim Morrison was on trial in 1970, she was pregnant and
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  according to Patricia's book, when he gave her a very chilly
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  response to showing up at his trial several months pregnant,
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  she was visibly pregnant. According to her, she decided to
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  not go through with the pregnancy.
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  But what if that was not quite true?
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  Because for years people have just written off Patricia's
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  story as an unhinged groupie. But as we all know now, when
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  there is a mass campaign to discredit somebody and call them
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  crazy, it usually means they're trying to hide something.
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  In the next video, we're going to focus on the last year or so
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  of Jim Morrison's life, as well as the early life of the Gabbard
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  family, and show y'all that maybe, just maybe, Jim Morrison
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  Junior isn't that hard of a stretch.
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  That was a lot, Joel. You're muted.
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  All right, so is it fact or cap? You people decide and comment.
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  Let us know what you think I. Will say that a lot of that
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  information is true. I know, and I did.
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  So Tulsi Gabbard, it was the only politician that I actually
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  liked. And to find out that her family
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  was part of a cult is mind blowing.
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  And yeah, so now I don't like anybody.
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  All right, ladies and gentlemen, I'm with.
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  The joy on this, I think a mix of this true because that
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  there's a lot in there, but you know, that's also probably part
• 1:53:29
  of the the whole CIA disinformation thing is a lot of
• 1:53:34
  times that like they they like to leak things that sound like
• 1:53:39
  so outlandishly crazy because to to hide like what they're really
• 1:53:46
  doing, which is still, you know, bad or, or what whatever their
• 1:53:49
  their objective is, but it's just to make it.
• 1:53:52
  But they like to like sneak in like outlandish, some other
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  outlandish things, you know? I just.
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  Yeah, well, I just remembered the conspiracy theory.
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  I believe people were saying at one point that Jim Morrison was
• 1:54:09
  actually Rush Limbaugh. Oh, boy.
• 1:54:10
  All. Right.
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  All right, well. It's it's a classic bait and
• 1:54:17
  switch where it's like, yeah, you tell people the truth, but
• 1:54:21
  you just sneak in these like such incredible, like
• 1:54:25
  unbelievable lies mixed in with your truth.
• 1:54:28
  And then it's like, well, you get people, people are like, oh,
• 1:54:31
  that's just, that's just crazy. But the truth is hidden in
• 1:54:34
  there. It's just in plain, it's in
• 1:54:36
  plain sight. It's hiding in plain sight.
• 1:54:38
  That's how they get you, yeah. Well, hey, I'll tell you what it
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• 1:56:00
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  You do the cause, but you didn't really know the effect.
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  You. You learned about that today,
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• 1:56:33
  And I'm in my opinion, people with intellectual and mental
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  Just just just remember that. If I could also ask something
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  with Amber said, always remember that sometimes that that mental
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  You never really know what somebody.
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  I have a disability that is sometimes presented, but
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  sometimes it's not. So, you know, don't judge a book
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  Now, next week, ladies and gentlemen, we have what we're
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