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  Ladies and gentlemen welcome, it is Red Friday July 10th 2026 and
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  boy do we have a fantastic show for you.
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  Today I am joined with my Co host, my good battle buddy
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  Child. Amber is a little bit away for
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  an appointment today. So Charles, thank you for
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  sitting in for her. I appreciate it.
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  Thank you for having me, Joel. In uniform now, so, OK, so check
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  this out right off the bat. If you're just joining us now,
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  you're listening to the show that 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.
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  Our only mission here is to show all of our veterans and our
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  first responders and all our men and women in uniform all over
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  the world that there are more programs out there beyond the
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  VA. My name's H train and Charles is
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  my Co host and today we are on MBR letting our voices be heard
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  when you are if you're on TikTok, which we've got a few
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  people on TikTok. My, my baddies group is here and
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  refresh, tap and, and heart me and all all that good stuff.
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  Make sure you do that. We have a fantastic show for you
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  playing today. I can't hardly pronounce it, but
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  Van Lof Firf. It's a nonprofit that has built
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  a Viking ship. They're they're doing a a
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  charity goal raising across the sea.
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  There's been many of these opportunities in the past five
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  years, but I don't think anyone has finished it.
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  It's, it's, it's, it's pretty hard.
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  So we're going to find out more about them as that comes up at
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  the top of the hour. But ladies and gentlemen,
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  without further ado, what everybody likes and I like, I
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  love, it is time for mail call. Attention mail call.
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  Oh my God. 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. Gentlemen, today's mail call.
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  We want to recognize the Freedom Rec March bringing veterans
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  together. A lot of people were doing a lot
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  of great things for this year's 4th of July, this 250th birthday
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  of the United States and this situation is no different.
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  Finally, a nine year old Elisa and his mother, Virginia
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  Fernandez. They crossed the finish line
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  after competing the four mile row under Loreto's son as
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  veterans and active duty. Serious members, families and
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  other community members erupted in applause.
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  Everybody made it, Solace told the crowd after the March.
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  Even the little one at the end, there he is, who stayed at the
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  very back to make sure nobody was slacking.
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  The 5th annual, 4th of July Freedom Wreck March drew about
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  120 participants. And this was in Florida, I
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  believe, and Wreck March Drew, according to organizers, though
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  they did not conduct an official count.
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  The March took participants from Peg Energy Stadium to
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  Casablanca's Event Center and back.
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  It was one of three annual rec marches organized by the VFW,
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  along with Memorial Day and Veteran's Day for named as a
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  retired U.S. Navy veteran of 20 years said
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  the March gave her an opportunity to share her first
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  freedom ruck with her son while teaching him about military
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  service. Sanchez said that beyond the
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  miles in the symbolic weight many participants carry, there
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  isn't an even deeper reason organizers continue holding the
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  March year after year. I know veterans struggle a lot
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  with mental health, he said. In an event like this, we get to
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  talk to each other, we get to see how everybody's doing.
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  We get to exchange numbers and build that commodity outside of
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  this event that's big, this commodity within the city was
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  not around, she said. Now you see it and you know the
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  smiles. So I think it's very important
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  we instill that in our kids. It's important that they
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  understand. The tradition Fernandez hopes to
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  pass on to her son begin with a much smaller group of veterans.
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  Army veteran Ray Sanchez, one of the events original organizers,
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  said that the tradition began about nine years ago after he
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  created a Facebook event to invite others to join him on the
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  rec marches. He usually competed on his own.
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  About 10 people attended that first walk, including Solace and
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  several other local veterans. We now have veterans from every
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  war and every military branch, just all types of people, he
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  said. I also want to emphasize that
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  it's open to civilians. If you're a patriot, you love
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  this country and you celebrate America's beautiful, you're
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  welcome to show up. And ladies and gentlemen, that
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  is today's mail call. All right.
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  In other news, ladies and gentlemen, it is now time for
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  the top news of the day. We can review.
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  Next stop, we can review. All right, ladies and gentlemen.
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  So one of the things that we that is brand new.
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  Well, actually I'll say brand new Charles.
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  And you know what, at least we have HG this time to give us a
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  brief 2 minute clip of it. But you've heard of the Super
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  Bowl. Now you hear the World Cup, the
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  first ever FIFA World Cup final halftime show.
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  Now this was fun. It was a positive story that
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  appeals to a board of broad audience.
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  FIFA is introducing the first ever halftime show during the
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  World Cup final featuring major artists including Shakira,
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  Coldplay, Justin Bieber, Madonna and BTS.
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  It's a huge change to one of the world's biggest sporting events
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  in the country. And, you know, I've heard so
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  many people joke around talking about, hey, you know, the Super
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  Bowl. I don't know why they call it
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  world champions because they don't play, you know, you know,
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  in in Europe, they don't want to play in the United States.
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  So it can't be world champions. Well, you know, this is
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  literally the World Cup. This is soccer.
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  And soccer is getting really, really popular.
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  In fact, I find it amusing that especially like when the
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  Olympics, nobody really pays attention to like the skiing and
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  the, the, the soccer or the basketball or any of that stuff
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  during the year, but everybody tunes in for that Super Bowl
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  that that the the Olympic Games, you know?
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  And I don't think the world kept it any different because this
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  has been going on for such a long time.
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  But since it was played here in the United States, I think it's
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  getting more attention. Unfortunately.
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  When USA played Belgium and they lost like 4 to one, right?
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  Yeah, they got. Yeah.
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  What was the what was the deal with that HG did?
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  Did they show up drunk or something?
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  Well, I think it's a mix of a lot of things.
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  A lot of these guys don't like play here in the States in the
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  MLS. They haven't really like they're
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  on a lot of them now they're in like the Premier League or like
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  the the big soccer leagues over in Europe and and South America
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  or in Africa, like we're all the major soccer leagues are.
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  And so it was a massive game for them.
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  And then you, you add this the, the scandal that, you know, like
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  they basically they went from being a fun, you know, up and
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  coming team to the villains because of Trump getting
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  involved in the overdue of, of that suspension.
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  I'm not super familiar with FIFA's bylaws and all that, but
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  apparently from other your, you know, people that were more
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  familiar with soccer that that a government interference of any
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  kind in a matter of FIFA, according to article, I think 2
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  and 15 was what I was hearing should result in immediate
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  disqualification from a tournament.
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  And so there was, it's that storm of that, like you're
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  already coming into like the biggest game of your career and
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  now all of a sudden like you're you're kind of the villain.
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  And I think that like you saw that with like a lot of pressure
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  of the moment. Right.
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  You're just giving them material, bulletin board
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  material, right? I know exactly.
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  What? Belgium had a chip on their
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  shoulder and these guys are guys were not ready for the moment
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  They were they were very timid, they weren't aggressive.
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  Just like the Broncos against Seattle and New York.
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  Yeah, I I get it. I mean.
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  Goals one and two were just like absolutely inexcusable.
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  That's just God awful defective. Like I don't you can't like at
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  this level, you just can't be doing.
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  Wow, well, I, I I know that it was pretty even like at
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  halftime, it was like 2 one or you know, it, it was pretty
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  even. But here here's a question for
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  our listeners, our viewers, and you know, please leave it in the
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  comment. Please leave it in the podcast.
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  Once this video cast podcast, whatever you want to call it
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  once it posts. But the the question is, should
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  soccer adopt more American style entertainment or leave tradition
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  alone? That's the number one question.
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  And #2 will this make the World Cup even bigger?
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  Or is this, is this what it is? You know, it is what it is and
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  you know, it's, it's just going to be an ordinary day, you know,
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  tomorrow. I do know that the Cholera
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  Rapids, I think it was what, two or three years ago, they won
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  like the World Trophy or whatever.
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  They won the MLS. Yeah.
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  And and like nobody knew until like 5 days later, you know,
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  it's like, OK, you guys don't have that much support, but your
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  team is really good. So that that that's that's.
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  Well, I'll I'll to answer one of your question.
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  OK, real quick the the world. Cup, it's not that big here in
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  in the states. I mean, it was pretty big this
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  year, but like on it, it like usually over the course of its
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  of the tournament it like human delivery acquired like it's like
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  5 billion views like the whole. Planet.
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  No, no, I know. But when when I say we'll just
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  make the world kept even bigger, I'm I'm talking about here in
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  the United States. I already know it's big over
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  Europe, but you know, so listen to viewers.
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  Let me know what you think. Give me your comments.
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  And our second story is scientists warns that a powerful
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  El Nino could be developing meteorologist.
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  There's a high chance of strong El Nino develops later this
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  year, potentially bringing more extreme weather, heat, droughts
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  and floating around the world. And the discussion questions
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  that I have again, have you noticed weather becoming more
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  unpredictable where you live? I don't know about you, but here
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  in Colorado, hey, I, I see it, it's a drought here in Colorado.
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  And I think it's funny they made such a big deal with fireworks
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  and they just reported that only one citation here in Denver was
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  posted, you know, but this was probably the loudest 4th of July
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  that I've ever been a part of, Charles.
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  Every every 5 minutes I was hearing pop, pop, pop, you know,
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  and they're still popping them after July 5th.
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  So, you know, it, it, it's, it's, it's crazy to me how
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  Denver can make such a bit, I mean, they were placing cops
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  outside the, the, the fire stands and giving people
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  tickets, but yet they're not going to give people tickets
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  that are actively firing them. I just think that's kind of
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  funny. Denver called the police on
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  their bluff. That's all I can say about that.
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  And listeners and viewers, another question, please answer
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  in the comments, 'cause I want, I want this to be more
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  interactive. Are communities doing enough to
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  prepare for the extreme weather? And that answer is, I don't
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  believe so. Because, you know, we, we are,
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  we are here in Colorado. Like we had a really crappy
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  winter. Like it, it didn't really snow
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  much at all. It's hardly raining.
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  My watering days for the sprinkler system went from three
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  days to two days. That's really bad, Charles.
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  How is in your neck of the woods?
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  How was winter here? It's pretty mild.
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  I was. I really liked it because we had
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  a lot of warm days this year and we didn't have anything like 20
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  below 0 or nothing this year. It was just pretty mild.
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  Stayed in the 30s, sometimes got a little bit below, but yeah, it
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  probably didn't get colder than 5° more than three days in a
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  row. And Joy said that it felt like
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  106 six PM yesterday there in her area.
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  That's crazy. And Joy, I hope you got that red
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  shirt. I hope you got that red shirt.
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  Yeah. And if she didn't get that red
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  shirt, maybe I need to start doing the insurance thing.
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  And the the next story that I wanted to bring up the the the
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  last story is last chance for some Americans to claim the IRS
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  refunds. July 10th is the deadline for
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  eligible taxpayers to claim certain COVID era tax refunds.
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  It's practical information that could help to you today.
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  So if you haven't, make sure that you hit that.
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  And while we're on the word, OK, I'll I'll I'll I'll look into
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  it, joy. And while we're on the subject
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  of taxes, something brand new and I want to explain to
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  everybody how this is working. Trump's new accounts for
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  children. So if your child was born.
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  July 1st, 2025. Then they are automatically
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  qualified for $1000 seed money right into the account.
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  But if it was before like 2024, well, President Donald Trump's
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  administration has launched a new investment program called
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  Trump Accounts, also known as the 5:30 A accounts to help
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  children begin building long term wealth.
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  The accounts officially became available on July 4th, 2026.
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  They're asking who qualifiers. Well, I'm getting ready to tell
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  you any child under the age of 18 can have a Trump account
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  open. Children born between January
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  1st, 2025 December 31st, 2028 who are U.S. citizens with a
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  valid Social Security number are eligible for $1000 Federal
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  Starter Deposit. How does this work?
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  Well, the money is invested in a low cost U.S. stock market index
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  fund. Parents, grandparents,
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  relatives, and others can tribute up to $5000 per year.
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  The account grows through investment returns over time.
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  When can the child use this money well?
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  The funds generally stay invested until the child turns
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  18. At that point, the account
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  transitions to rules similar to traditional Iras, with tax rules
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  applying when money is withdrawn.
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  Some reports describe potential uses such as education, buying a
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  first home and retirement savings, but the IRS guidance
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  treats the account under Traditional IRA rules.
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  Why does the administration? Creative supporters say the goal
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  is to encourage families to invest early, help children
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  benefit from the long term compound growth, Give every
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  eligible newborn a financial head start with $1000 government
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  contribution. What are critics saying about
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  this? Well, some financial planners
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  have raised concerns that 529 college savings plans may still
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  be better choice if the family's primary goal is to pay him for
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  college because it offers tax free withdrawals for qualified
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  education expenses. Trump accounts are more focused
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  on long term investing in retirement than on education
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  savings. So here's my question to you,
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  listeners and viewers. Please put it in the comments
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  for your chance to win a beaker. If the government gave your
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  child or Greenchild 1000 to an invest, would you take advantage
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  of it? Do you think programs like this
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  encourage families to save more for the future?
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  And last but not least, would you choose a Trump account or a
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  $529 college savings plan for your kids and why?
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  And ladies and gentlemen, that is today's news.
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  And before we go on break, 'cause we're, we're, we're
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  getting into that section. And I hope I'm not like still on
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  Thunder here, Charles. You know, I'm just trying to
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  keep us on time, that's all. But ladies and gentlemen, the
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  winner of the Beaker Award for the most donated for this month
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  is it is Carolyn. Carolyn, she hosts the show of
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  Conversations with a Vet that comes on every Sunday, I believe
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  at 6:00 PM Eastern Standard Time right here on military broadcast
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  radio TV, which you can find on the Roku app or Amazon Fire
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  Stick, whichever platform you prefer and.
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  Ladies and gentlemen. With that being said, we're
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  going to go on our first community break and we'll when
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  we come back, ladies and gentlemen, would you drink your
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  own urine if someone on the Internet told you it would make
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  you healthier? Wait, Wait until you see this
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  week's What the F? You won't believe what people
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  are claiming. Stay with us.
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  that highlights also nonprofit programs out there beyond the
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  All right, ladies and gentlemen, we are back.
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  And once again, you listen to the show that highlights all the
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  non profit programs out there beyond the VA.
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  You're listening to the 8 train show.
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  And ladies and gentlemen, it is that time.
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  It is the WTF segment. WTF.
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  Oh my goodness, Joel. He told me to drink my own urine
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  and it'll fix what I have. Going on.
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  OK dude, I have to say it worked.
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  This is the oldest. Ancient medicine known to man.
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  It's true. Let's talk about it.
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  Urine therapy works because it's signaling the body with all the
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  information of what is actually poisoning.
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  Communication molecules, if you will.
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  Exactly. If you could say the biggest
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  problem in life is toxins that are causing disease, then the
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  antibodies are concentrated in the urine, but it's blood that's
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  filtered through the kidneys. That's that's why it's sterile
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  or sterile like more purified than the blood.
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  And so therefore it's the safest way to consume.
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  Babies drink their urine and utero constantly, right?
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  Hundreds of millilitres per day, urinating every one to three
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  hours. And from 8 weeks on, the urine
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  is then used to form their organs, right?
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  It's particularly their lungs. Every country in the world
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  utilizes this technology, really, especially starting
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  culture to get things well, except in this country it's
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  looked at as Oh my gosh, stay away from your urine.
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  You hope that changes. Exactly.
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  That's the future to me. That's the only way out of this
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  system because it's universally accessible and everyone can
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  play. And believe it or not, everybody
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  gets even though we are like, yeah, that's like, I, I guess
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  it's, it's true. But so let's talk about this.
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  Let's let's dive into this. OK, I can tell you that
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  cucumbers are healthy too, but you don't see me eating those.
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  Oh, that's different. You know, like you hear about
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  vampires, right? What would you call a person
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  drinks their own urine? Because he said it's the blood
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  that's filtered. I don't know.
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  You know, healthier than blood. It's interesting he brought that
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  up with like Dracula. Because so there are, I don't
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  know if it's a disease or a sickness, but there are people
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  that drink blood, OK. And but The thing is, is
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  drinking somebody else's blood is so dangerous.
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  Like it will literally shut down your system.
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  It will shut down your heart if you drink somebody else's blood.
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  I didn't know that until recently.
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  In fact, like when you get like a heart transplant or something,
• 31:53
  they give you medication that kind of like tricks the body
• 31:56
  thinking that it's. You're rejecting it.
• 31:59
  Exactly. You know, so is this the same
• 32:03
  thing as urine? Like, can you drink somebody
• 32:05
  else's urine? Yeah.
• 32:07
  Or it doesn't have to be yours. You know, so many questions are
• 32:11
  coming to mind. Here's something you might not
• 32:14
  know being from the bottled water industry.
• 32:17
  I know a lot of different countries have this thing called
• 32:20
  cow water and it's one of the ingredients in their drinks and
• 32:25
  it's actually cow urine, but they call it cow water.
• 32:29
  And I'm wondering if that's probably part of, you know, what
• 32:36
  he's talking about. I.
• 32:38
  Don't know me personally, I I'm not going to take any health
• 32:42
  advice from a guy that's wearing what looks to be a spirit
• 32:45
  Halloween lab coat over a pair of polo shirt and shorts and
• 32:50
  what appears to be a convention sent me that's but that's just
• 32:54
  me. Well, Doctor Dietz says it's
• 32:56
  better to be pissed off than pissed on.
• 32:58
  But don't drink your own urine. We're pissed in I'm sorry.
• 33:05
  Oh my gosh. Listen to viewers What do?
• 33:07
  You think for a reason, Joel, like God, created us to.
• 33:11
  Reject. The poison, that's one of the
• 33:14
  ways to get rid of this stuff that's not supposed to stay in,
• 33:16
  right. Right.
• 33:17
  Hey. And maybe that's the reason why
• 33:19
  we like beer so much. You know, some people say
• 33:22
  there's piss water. Maybe, maybe, maybe that's the
• 33:24
  reason why we acquire a taste. You know, maybe, maybe it brings
• 33:28
  us back into the times. I don't know.
• 33:31
  I think Charles makes a great point though.
• 33:33
  If, if it was meant to, you know, if there was something
• 33:37
  positive for us in there, it would stay in their bodies.
• 33:40
  There's a reason it's filtered, it's forced out, you know?
• 33:45
  Right. Yeah.
• 33:47
  And you know, I don't know this, but just an idea.
• 33:52
  Are there things that are healthy for us as babies, but
• 33:56
  then when we get older, they're not healthy for us anymore?
• 34:00
  Well there's probably something different with the creation and
• 34:03
  formulation of your body then what a full grown adult needs,
• 34:08
  right? I mean, if we get winged off our
• 34:10
  mama's breast milk at an early age, somewhere earlier than
• 34:14
  others. That's a good point.
• 34:16
  Like it's just milk. But like if, if, if, if somebody
• 34:20
  handed me a cup and say, hey, this is breast milk.
• 34:22
  Like I'm not like Joey from Friends.
• 34:25
  I'm not going to drink it, you know?
• 34:27
  Come on Joe, we know you'd have it there in your your little
• 34:30
  coffee maker with that frofter and.
• 34:34
  Yeah, yeah, yeah, my homelands approach.
• 34:39
  All right, Ladies and gentlemen, it is now time for that
• 34:43
  educational part, which I've heard from several people that
• 34:46
  they love. This ladies and gentlemen, it is
• 34:49
  Drop the date today in history. Ladies and gentlemen, today for
• 35:04
  your July 10th, 2026, drop the date we're talking about
• 35:09
  Operation Husky. Good morning everybody, and
• 35:14
  welcome to another Drop the date today.
• 35:16
  We're going back in time July 10th, 1943.
• 35:21
  I didn't know this, maybe you guys did, but I didn't know
• 35:25
  this. Today, we're going back when
• 35:27
  Allies launch Operation Husky. You're asking what?
• 35:31
  What is Operation Husky? Well, it was the invasion of
• 35:34
  Sicily during World War 2. While most people know about
• 35:40
  D-Day in Normandy, far fewer know that the rodent victory in
• 35:45
  Europe really began on the beaches of Gosh.
• 35:51
  Sicily. I don't know why I have such a
• 35:53
  hard time with that. By the summer of 1943, by the
• 35:58
  summer of 1943, the Allied forces had already pushed Axis
• 36:04
  Axis troops out of North Africa. The next challenge was deciding
• 36:09
  whether to strike next. Their answers was Sicily, the
• 36:13
  largest island in the Mediterranean and the key
• 36:19
  strategic location controlled by Italy and Nazi Germany.
• 36:24
  In the early hours of July 10th, more than 160,000 American,
• 36:29
  British and Canadian troops began landing.
• 36:33
  Landing on Sicily southern shores Better tell Trump that
• 36:37
  they were supported by thousands of ships and aircrafts and what
• 36:42
  was at the time the largest amphibious invasion in military
• 36:47
  history. The operation didn't start
• 36:49
  perfectly. Strong winds scattered many of
• 36:52
  the airborne troops, and rough seas made the beach landing very
• 36:56
  difficult. Despite those obstacles, Allied
• 37:00
  forces fought their way inland, overcoming determined resistance
• 37:04
  from German and Italian forces. Over the next several weeks,
• 37:09
  Allied troops captured town after town, steadily pushing the
• 37:14
  enemy back. The campaign wasn't easy.
• 37:17
  Thousands of service members lost their lives and many more
• 37:22
  were wounded, but their determination and paid off.
• 37:27
  The victory in Sicily had consequences far beyond the
• 37:31
  island itself. Just two weeks later, on July
• 37:34
  25th, 1943, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini was removed
• 37:41
  from the power. AI pronounced that right because
• 37:45
  I've heard that name. I'm proud of.
• 37:47
  Italian government began moving towards surrender, forcing
• 37:51
  Germany to divert troops and resources to defend the Italian
• 37:56
  mainland. This weekends, Hitler's grip on
• 38:01
  weakened Hitler's Group on Europe and helped pave the way
• 38:05
  for Normandy invasion. Less than a year later,
• 38:10
  Operation Husky proved that Allied forces could successfully
• 38:14
  coordinate large scale land, sea and air operation.
• 38:20
  It is also demonstrated that the courage, the resilience of the
• 38:25
  teamwork of the men and women who served under incredibly
• 38:29
  difficult conditions. Today, as we remember July 10th,
• 38:33
  let's honor the American service members and our allied partners
• 38:39
  who took part in Operation Husky.
• 38:42
  Their sacrifice helped turn the tide of World War 2 and brought
• 38:46
  the world one step closer to peace.
• 38:50
  I made strain and that is your drop.
• 38:53
  The date for July 10th. Remember, history isn't just
• 38:57
  about dates on a calendar. It's about the people whose
• 39:00
  courage changed the world. All right, let's get into it.
• 39:07
  I think that's, I think that's amazing.
• 39:10
  I like the drop today. I didn't know about that, you
• 39:13
  know, Did you know about that, Charles?
• 39:16
  About that particular 1 though, there were so many things that
• 39:19
  happened during World War 2 that that were great in and very
• 39:25
  awful at the same time. Right, Yeah, You know, and I
• 39:31
  mean, I tell you what, I, I, I think during World War One,
• 39:34
  World War 2, I mean the the greatest generation of of our
• 39:39
  veterans, you know, I mean, that was that was not a political
• 39:45
  war. That was literally fighting for
• 39:48
  not only our freedom, but fighting for France and Germany
• 39:54
  and for. All the European countries,
• 39:56
  because it wouldn't have joined in.
• 39:58
  Hitler would have won. Oh, yeah, you know, definitely,
• 40:02
  you know, and. Then we would have had a
• 40:05
  superpower which is a whole like 2 continents or something
• 40:08
  instead of you know, just a small superpower across the
• 40:12
  world now. It's just, it's just nuts, you
• 40:18
  know, we all know that D-Day happened, you know, June 7th and
• 40:25
  then this happened. I'm learning a lot in history.
• 40:29
  Did you know about that HG? I had never heard.
• 40:32
  Of it before I didn't either. 1st I went here.
• 40:34
  That's it. Yeah, my grandpa, he, he was in
• 40:38
  the Navy and he was, he was the guy that would run the people up
• 40:42
  on shore on the boats and then they would get off and he'd go
• 40:46
  back, get more soldiers and bring them back.
• 40:48
  And my uncle did the same thing, but he was on OR my, my, we
• 40:55
  called him my uncle. He was actually just my
• 40:57
  grandpa's best friend. And yeah, they, my, my uncle or
• 41:01
  my great uncle was in Normandy there.
• 41:04
  And, and then my grandpa, he was in other places.
• 41:07
  But he said it was pretty tough, you know, and he didn't talk
• 41:11
  like about that stuff at all until I went to school to be a
• 41:13
  preacher. And then he opened up, started
• 41:15
  selling me some things, so. Yeah, my grandpa during World
• 41:20
  War 2, he, he, I don't mean guy rested, so he passed away.
• 41:25
  But his, his job in the military was a Baker.
• 41:28
  All he, he, he taught people how to bake bread on the ship.
• 41:32
  You know, every little job counts.
• 41:36
  You know, that's one thing that I learned is every little job
• 41:41
  really counts. But you know, listeners,
• 41:44
  viewers, you know what, what are your thoughts?
• 41:47
  You know, you know, some of the questions that we have for the
• 41:53
  drop the date put, put those questions real quick up HG, the
• 42:00
  questions that we have is why do you think Operation Husky is
• 42:05
  often overlooked compared to D-Day even though it was so
• 42:10
  important? And there were so many things
• 42:16
  that were so important during this time, Joel, that that were
• 42:20
  overlooked and things that we'll never know about that were
• 42:24
  probably just as integral as D-Day or, or Husky just.
• 42:28
  You know, I'll, I'll, I'll be straightforward, honest.
• 42:32
  Like I didn't even know about Hamburger Hill until I watched
• 42:36
  the movie. Isn't it incredible when you
• 42:39
  watch these movies and it brings up these battles?
• 42:41
  There's so many battles, you know, in fact, like when I got
• 42:47
  hit in Iraq, like that, that, that, that event that hit, like
• 42:52
  everybody knows about it. You know, everybody knew about
• 42:56
  it. And they were like, oh, yeah,
• 42:57
  we, we, we remember that time. And it's like these events,
• 43:02
  they, they might not be in like history books because there's so
• 43:06
  many events, but real people that lived through it, you know,
• 43:11
  they share the story. And that's the reason why NBRTV
• 43:16
  is so important because not only does it let veterans express how
• 43:23
  they feel and you know, give the community, you know, the support
• 43:28
  on Second Chance, but it also teaches people about what's
• 43:34
  going on because you'll never see what happened, like
• 43:40
  literally what happened in Iraq or Afghanistan on the front
• 43:45
  page. You just, you just won't because
• 43:47
  they're not going to place it. It'll be like political stuff or
• 43:50
  anything, but never will you see it on on the front page.
• 43:54
  And it's really important to people understand, like what
• 43:59
  we're doing there, you know, we're not going over Iraq, you
• 44:01
  know, with our feet in the sand. You know, we're not going over
• 44:04
  there for, oh, we can see the world, you know, that we're not
• 44:08
  seeing the world in the right way.
• 44:10
  I think it's important for people to recognize that.
• 44:14
  So second question and H2, I'll, I'll let you talk on this as
• 44:19
  well. What does the success of
• 44:22
  Operation Husky tell us about teamwork and determination and
• 44:27
  then achieving big goals? Well, I mean, obviously there
• 44:35
  had to be a lot of collaboration and determination to to get
• 44:40
  something like this done. And I think it just really
• 44:44
  highlights in it that's the the most important thing when you
• 44:48
  are trying to achieved these lofty goals is that one it can't
• 44:53
  you know, you can't do it alone and you have to want to do it,
• 44:57
  you know, right. Yeah, I like this was that's the
• 45:05
  the Italian forces certainly didn't want to give this island
• 45:08
  up for nothing. So I mean, that was a they
• 45:10
  really had to lot of strategic planning, whether it was from
• 45:15
  the the those they got the the commanders and generals that
• 45:22
  were all planning it to, to the troops that were landing on the
• 45:27
  landing on the, the beaches of Sicily.
• 45:32
  That took a, you know, they all had to be In Sync and all had to
• 45:37
  be equally determined in their their objectives there.
• 45:43
  I. Just have easily failed.
• 45:45
  I agree. I mean like multiple different
• 45:47
  countries too. You were saying it was obvious.
• 45:49
  America, English, Canadian Forces, like all am I
• 45:55
  forgetting? So there's a fourth one, Wasn't
• 45:57
  there? Wasn't those 3?
• 45:58
  Well, I'm pretty sure France, they, they fought with us too.
• 46:02
  Right. OK.
• 46:03
  I was, I wasn't sure if they still had.
• 46:06
  Yeah, they probably still had some soldiers around even though
• 46:08
  they were occupied. I will say this, one thing that
• 46:12
  I learned when I first started doing the nonprofit work is you
• 46:16
  never appreciate a coordinated event until you coordinate an
• 46:20
  event on your own. You learn real quick to
• 46:24
  appreciate it. It's not easy.
• 46:26
  And to coordinate a war with like latitude and longitude and
• 46:32
  all that stuff that that that takes down all my patience, but
• 46:35
  that takes skill as well. So that's that's a huge thing.
• 46:40
  But hey, it is that time, everybody.
• 46:43
  We are almost at the top of the hour.
• 46:46
  We've got a couple of brain new songs that we're going to be
• 46:49
  playing. That includes David Brody, a
• 46:52
  good friend of mine. And he created and worked on his
• 46:58
  music in in Germany. And now he's just now getting
• 47:02
  videos and his music out there. And then if you're familiar with
• 47:07
  Shannon Book, he has a brand new song out called American Made.
• 47:11
  We're going to be playing that here today as well.
• 47:16
  So with that said, we're going to go on commercial break.
• 47:19
  Stay with us because when we come back, we're going to be
• 47:23
  talking with this nonprofit. Yeah, I came from the called
• 47:29
  Ventlin first, who is preparing to do their nonprofit
• 47:35
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• 47:37
  historically doing this well, just stay with us.
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  Don't go away. We're going to bring them on
• 47:46
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• 47:49
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• 47:53
  So whatever you do, stay with us.
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  Don't go away. You're listening to show the
• 47:56
  highlights of the nonprofit programs out there beyond the VA
• 47:59
  right here on the station. Let's yeah, Lord be heard.
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• 55:32
  right here on the stage of this letter of voices be heard, MVR
• 55:36
  and man. We have a tremendous guest
• 55:39
  today, tremendous guest to where they're going to explain to me
• 55:43
  what they're doing, what their goal is, and of all things, how
• 55:48
  our military community can come together and help support them
• 55:53
  in any way or form. Ladies and gentlemen, it is that
• 55:56
  time. Without further ado, today's
• 56:00
  interview of the week. Oh, we have a we have a whole
• 56:12
  bunch of people today. Hey, Doug.
• 56:14
  Hey, Keith, how are you? What's?
• 56:16
  Going good, How are you? We're doing fantastic.
• 56:20
  We are we, we, we, we wasn't planning on so many people.
• 56:26
  Let's try to, let's try to square this away a little bit so
• 56:31
  it's a little bit easier on the can you align their pictures for
• 56:37
  me HD so that it's not covering up the number in case people
• 56:41
  want to call in. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome
• 56:44
  back. It is military broadcast radio
• 56:46
  where we continue our mission of giving veterans and 1st
• 56:50
  responders an everyday heroes, a voice.
• 56:53
  Our next guests are taking history out of the museum and
• 56:56
  bringing them back to a life in an incredible way and imagining
• 57:00
  sailing across the Atlantic Ocean the same way the Vikings
• 57:04
  did more than 1000 years ago. No engines, no modern
• 57:07
  technology. The skill, determination and one
• 57:10
  of history's most legendary ships.
• 57:13
  That's exactly what this team of Vinland Firth is preparing to
• 57:17
  do. Their nonprofit organization is
• 57:21
  building a full scale, historically accurate 9th
• 57:25
  century Viking Galactus ship in Denmark.
• 57:29
  And I'm sure I pronounced that wrong.
• 57:31
  Using traditional materials and techniques.
• 57:34
  Their goal to. Retrace, I can't hear anybody.
• 57:37
  History's greatest spare time. Achievements by.
• 57:41
  Sailing the replica across the Atlantic to the United States in
• 57:46
  2027 while educating people about the Viking history,
• 57:51
  craftsmanship, leadership and teamwork and adventures along
• 57:55
  the way. Joining us today are members of
• 57:57
  the Binland Firth crew to talk about the project, what it takes
• 58:01
  to prepare for an expedition like this, how they're training
• 58:06
  for the voyage, why preserving history through hands on
• 58:09
  experience is so important. Please help me welcome the
• 58:13
  incredible crew from Vinland Firth to MBR.
• 58:18
  Ladies and gentlemen, we have Keith and Doug joining us and do
• 58:24
  we have another person as well? Should have amber as well.
• 58:28
  OK, all right. There you go.
• 58:31
  I'm going to change this real quick.
• 58:35
  There we go. So that we can get everybody
• 58:38
  here and what we'll let's, let's try to, let's try to fit them
• 58:45
  all on here. I'll do my best.
• 58:48
  OK, we got a lot of people. We, we, we normally don't have
• 58:52
  this many people. So hey, thank you so much for
• 58:56
  being with us today. I appreciate it.
• 59:00
  Tell us a little bit about you guys, yourselves and what
• 59:03
  inspired you guys to to do this. I mean, Keith, please take the
• 59:10
  lead. He.
• 59:15
  Might not be able. To hear us.
• 59:17
  OK, so can can you hear me? Yeah.
• 59:22
  OK, cool. Good to go.
• 59:23
  All right, So my name's Doug. I am a 20 year Navy veteran and
• 59:29
  general history buff. Nothing, nothing to the order
• 59:32
  that Keith is and we we decided to do this back in 2017.
• 59:43
  Keith was reading a book about the Norse history and
• 59:47
  specifically the Viking age, and he came across the story of a an
• 59:54
  important C king who is the founder of seven different clans
• 59:59
  in Scotland. Gentleman by the name of Summer
• 1:00:01
  LED Oh, Keith's back. So summer lead, summer lead was
• 1:00:09
  the Sea King and and Keith's like, wait, my clan is is one of
• 1:00:14
  those clans. I wonder if I'm related.
• 1:00:17
  And so he got adna test and he found out that he indeed was a
• 1:00:22
  direct descendant of summer lead, which in and of itself is
• 1:00:26
  pretty cool. At the same time he was trying
• 1:00:29
  to figure out what to do in his retirement.
• 1:00:31
  So he decided, well, my, my ancestor was a Sea King, why
• 1:00:36
  don't I do that? And so he did a bunch of
• 1:00:39
  research and, and made a bunch of trips and, and decided on
• 1:00:44
  commissioning a boat from the Museum of the Viking ship in
• 1:00:48
  Roskill, the Denmark. And it just kind of sat there on
• 1:00:53
  the back burner for a while. And then in 2025, he needed some
• 1:01:00
  work done on some cloaks. He needed some fur stitch to
• 1:01:05
  them. So he had mentioned this to a
• 1:01:08
  mutual friend of ours. And our mutual friend said that
• 1:01:11
  they knew someone that was capable of doing that and linked
• 1:01:16
  us up. So I took the the cloaks, did
• 1:01:20
  the work, brought them back to him.
• 1:01:21
  And then as I was delivering the the cloaks, we started talking
• 1:01:27
  and after about 20 minutes of, of talking about Viking stuff,
• 1:01:34
  he finally said, Hey, I'm buying a long ship.
• 1:01:36
  Do you want to be on the crew? And I, I couldn't disagree with
• 1:01:41
  that, but I had to convince my wife.
• 1:01:43
  So two months after that, I, I told him, all right, I'm in.
• 1:01:49
  And then we very shortly after traveled to Ruskill, the
• 1:01:54
  Denmark, found or spoke with the the people there at the shipyard
• 1:02:01
  and came up with the design that would be best fitting for the
• 1:02:07
  trip that we wanted to make. And from there that the
• 1:02:12
  organization we started to build it from the ground up, which is
• 1:02:16
  interesting in and of itself because neither one of us have
• 1:02:19
  any experience in this particular not-for-profit sector
• 1:02:22
  and and what have you. And so we started recruiting
• 1:02:26
  people, we started crewing the ship.
• 1:02:31
  We have preferentially recruited veterans because veterans have
• 1:02:36
  the ability to enjoy, as one of our veteran crew members says,
• 1:02:41
  Type 2 fun, Meaning that we can embrace the suck for the the
• 1:02:46
  purpose of the goal. They're pretty.
• 1:02:49
  Fast acting. Oh yeah, because.
• 1:02:51
  I would think that. You have to be pretty fast
• 1:02:54
  acting on an event such as this. My one the one question that I
• 1:03:00
  have, and you know, we're I'm going to I'm going to give HGA
• 1:03:03
  question and so on. And you know, I'd love to hear
• 1:03:07
  from you as as well, Amber. Also, has this ever been done
• 1:03:13
  before? Like has there ever been a ship
• 1:03:17
  other than the past, you know, here, here, I would say like
• 1:03:20
  last 10 years, Has there ever been an accomplished mission or
• 1:03:25
  is this like the very first of its kind?
• 1:03:29
  It's not necessarily the very first of its kind in the modern
• 1:03:33
  age, but there are some factors that make us unique.
• 1:03:38
  So back back in the late 1890s a an individual constructed and
• 1:03:49
  sailed a direct replica of the Gokstad ship from Norway all the
• 1:03:54
  way to the United States and for the World's Fair in 18931894I.
• 1:04:01
  Think. Yes.
• 1:04:05
  However, no one has made the trip in a ship our size.
• 1:04:11
  So the original Goxdad ship was 23.4 meters.
• 1:04:14
  Hours is between 14 and 14.5. So we are physically smaller.
• 1:04:21
  The the other thing is that any other long ship that has made
• 1:04:26
  the voyage between the that Goxdad replica in the 19th
• 1:04:31
  century and today is they've all had modern propulsion equipped.
• 1:04:38
  And so the the fact that we are doing it with just sail and ore
• 1:04:44
  definitely sets us apart from all of the previous stuff.
• 1:04:50
  Now it looks like Keith wants to say something like I, I, I, I'm
• 1:04:53
  sorry, Keith, I keep muting a little bit just because I, I
• 1:04:57
  hear some background noise. But you know, what, what what,
• 1:05:01
  what's your what's your two cents on this project?
• 1:05:05
  Well, it's Doug's got everything right.
• 1:05:08
  So, you know, he's been a, a great #2 guy with me.
• 1:05:15
  Really. We're two number ones next to
• 1:05:17
  each other. And so we are going to break
• 1:05:20
  some records. And one of the records is as far
• 1:05:24
  as we know, no Viking ship has ever sailed down the
• 1:05:27
  Mississippi. No working recreated replica
• 1:05:31
  Viking ship built to their standards has gone down the
• 1:05:36
  Mississippi before. They have made it as far West as
• 1:05:39
  Chicago and they have made it to New York City.
• 1:05:42
  But when we get past Chicago, we'll be breaking all new, new
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  ground. There was a Viking ship that
• 1:05:49
  left from Minnesota and but he didn't go down the, the, the
• 1:05:53
  Mississippi. He he left from Minnesota.
• 1:05:55
  He went up to Chicago and then went, he went across the Great
• 1:05:58
  Lakes. He was gone in the opposite
• 1:06:00
  direction of us. And that was about 1968.
• 1:06:04
  So but we are setting records like I said and like Doug said,
• 1:06:10
  we have no engine and we are the old fashioned way of ores and
• 1:06:16
  sale 18 ores, 9 each side and then the large square sale, not
• 1:06:23
  a Bermuda sale. So the old fashioned way, 6 to
• 1:06:27
  800 LB mass, you know, it's pretty good.
• 1:06:33
  I can just picture like a nose arc kind of thing.
• 1:06:37
  Oh no, we're much smaller, much smaller, much smaller One.
• 1:06:42
  One thing about the ship that that is kind of neat, if you
• 1:06:47
  like history, is that according to the sagas, as close as we can
• 1:06:53
  determine life, Ericsson ship that actually went to Vinland
• 1:07:00
  back in the 10th century was approximately 48 feet and our
• 1:07:05
  ship is approximately 50 feet. So we will be making a very
• 1:07:11
  similar voyage to what he did in a ship extremely similar to what
• 1:07:18
  he sailed, and that in and of itself is pretty neat to me.
• 1:07:25
  So I, I, I take it, and this might be a dumb question, but I
• 1:07:28
  take it you guys aren't going to have like a a generator and some
• 1:07:31
  box fans on the ship just in case there's no wind.
• 1:07:36
  That's what the oars are for, boss.
• 1:07:38
  You know, we, we will have modern solar power generation
• 1:07:44
  equipment, we will use modern navigation equipment.
• 1:07:47
  We will use modern food. The the experimental archaeology
• 1:07:51
  portion of the whole voyage is to prove that it could be done
• 1:07:58
  in the ship with the power, not necessarily using those
• 1:08:01
  navigation techniques. Those those sorts of techniques
• 1:08:07
  are reserved for lifelong Mariners that are schooled in
• 1:08:13
  those techniques from birth. And that just doesn't exist.
• 1:08:17
  Excuse me? Doesn't exist anymore.
• 1:08:21
  Charles, go ahead and you, you, you, you, you can ask a
• 1:08:26
  question. I'm I'm, I'm just here ask I I,
• 1:08:29
  I think this is amazing. Just just, I can just see
• 1:08:33
  fishing on a bridge and seeing those.
• 1:08:37
  Viking ships snow up. You know, it's like, well, you
• 1:08:41
  don't see that very much like you like Kevin Goonies, you
• 1:08:44
  know? Yeah.
• 1:08:46
  We. All sort you and.
• 1:08:47
  We've got a a great dragon head design for the dragon head, a
• 1:08:54
  great sail design for the sail, you know, so it's going to look
• 1:08:58
  pretty sharp and. And.
• 1:09:01
  You know, I mean, that's not why we're doing it, but for Someone
• 1:09:05
  Like You said, standing on a bridge and here comes this ship.
• 1:09:08
  Right, it's. Going to look pretty darn sharp,
• 1:09:11
  so. I I just hope the craftsmanship
• 1:09:13
  is is good. You guys have people that know
• 1:09:17
  how to build a boat, like with the wood and stuff, right?
• 1:09:21
  Because that could be a really fast bad situation.
• 1:09:26
  To to answer the the question that was asked just before Keith
• 1:09:31
  responded to your comment, they're sourcing the wood from
• 1:09:35
  the forests of Denmark. We actually have pictures and
• 1:09:39
  videos of them selecting the, the oak trees that became our
• 1:09:46
  keel and our stems and our ribs and all of that.
• 1:09:50
  The the clinkers themselves, which are the boards that go
• 1:09:53
  along the side, those are generally made out of a species
• 1:09:57
  of pine common in Denmark. It kind of keeps the OR common
• 1:10:03
  in Denmark and the rest of Scandinavia, it, it keeps the
• 1:10:05
  overall ship pretty light and more maneuverable.
• 1:10:09
  So the the folk. Small nail or did you all do
• 1:10:13
  this by hand? Did you hand strip?
• 1:10:14
  The card, the, the museum is doing it using the old fashioned
• 1:10:22
  methods. So they're using axes and wedges
• 1:10:28
  and splitting planks and planning them with ads and all
• 1:10:32
  of that stuff. It's it's entirely old school.
• 1:10:38
  Yeah, that, that'll make it. Even more awesome, they study it
• 1:10:42
  and they actually have college equivalent degrees in wooden,
• 1:10:48
  wooden boat building and that is their specialty and that's what
• 1:10:55
  they do for a living. So we're going to go train on
• 1:10:58
  the Sea Stallion. And if you've watched the
• 1:11:01
  Vikings TV show or the Last Kingdom, the Sea Stallion is
• 1:11:05
  often portrayed as as one of the boats in those TV shows.
• 1:11:09
  So we'll be training on that boat here in the next couple
• 1:11:12
  weeks, so. That was one of my questions.
• 1:11:16
  I because I, I, I never got a picture of the, the boat you
• 1:11:19
  guys are describing. I was, I was wondering if if it
• 1:11:23
  was to be made or if it was already made and you guys are
• 1:11:27
  like, you know, taking weekend trips to go train and, and stuff
• 1:11:31
  like this or how are you guys practicing?
• 1:11:36
  Yeah, our our ship is currently under construction.
• 1:11:39
  As far as practicing, we have some connections with the
• 1:11:44
  American Tall Ship Association, which are slightly later
• 1:11:50
  technology, but they still sail in a very similar fashion.
• 1:11:56
  The the primary focus that we have for our crew members is
• 1:12:01
  endurance. You you can train anyone to be a
• 1:12:05
  serviceable sailor on the source of craft relatively quickly.
• 1:12:09
  So when when the ship is finished being constructed,
• 1:12:14
  we're going to to travel to Ruskilda 2 weeks before our
• 1:12:20
  prospective launch date and train every single day to make
• 1:12:26
  sure that everyone is is capable.
• 1:12:28
  We have specifically recruited subject matter experts that have
• 1:12:31
  been sailing for 20-30, forty years on to the crew
• 1:12:37
  specifically with those types of ships.
• 1:12:40
  And I figure by the time we get to Torch Haven, which is the
• 1:12:45
  capital of the Faroe Islands, everyone on the entire crew
• 1:12:50
  should have the knowledge base and practice necessary to be
• 1:12:54
  considered at least advanced sailors, if not almost expert in
• 1:13:00
  this particular type of sailor. I actually got a question that
• 1:13:05
  might, I think your social media manager might be the best one to
• 1:13:08
  answer this. But when the journey actually
• 1:13:10
  begins, are we going to be able to like follow you guys along,
• 1:13:15
  live on social media and get updates on how it's going?
• 1:13:18
  And if So, what social media platforms are the best to be
• 1:13:24
  able to to find those updates and to maybe see like what the
• 1:13:27
  voyage out of that sea is looking like for you?
• 1:13:30
  Our goal is to document the entire process, whether it's
• 1:13:33
  through film or Blade. Yeah.
• 1:13:36
  Can you hear me? Yes.
• 1:13:37
  Yeah. We can, OK.
• 1:13:39
  Our goal is to document the entire process, whether it's
• 1:13:41
  through film, photography, or even live streaming.
• 1:13:46
  Our goal is to make this completely accessible to
• 1:13:49
  everybody following the journey and this is going to be
• 1:13:53
  available on on, you know, your standard social media platforms
• 1:13:56
  like TikTok, Facebook. We want to make you part of the
• 1:14:00
  journey with us. OK.
• 1:14:03
  What like what's your plan to get the sort of the footage like
• 1:14:10
  from the, you know, obviously you don't have great signal out
• 1:14:12
  there on the open oceans. Like is like Starling going to
• 1:14:16
  be the plan or like how, how are you going to get that footage?
• 1:14:20
  And. Starlink is the plan, yeah,
• 1:14:24
  we're, we're kicking around a bunch of ideas as to how exactly
• 1:14:28
  we're going to execute the streaming, but we will be doing
• 1:14:33
  a, a, a pretty robust kind of media presence to allow people
• 1:14:39
  to follow on with us. OK, Charles, now.
• 1:14:44
  Now your question. Yeah, this is one that most
• 1:14:49
  people wouldn't ask, but do you all have your sea legs yet?
• 1:14:53
  I'm, I'm a retired sailor. OK Heath, who is a retired
• 1:14:59
  Marine, actually spent more time at sea than I did.
• 1:15:02
  Got you. I I about half of our crew are
• 1:15:08
  experienced sailors in their own right using modern equipment,
• 1:15:13
  and about 1/4 of the crew is our sailors experienced in sailing
• 1:15:17
  these ships specifically. So as far as sea legs goes
• 1:15:24
  there, there might be half a dozen folks that that need to
• 1:15:27
  figure it out, but the rest of us are good and solid.
• 1:15:30
  Yeah, 'cause I noticed a difference.
• 1:15:31
  Like my dad's had sailboats his whole life and I've had, I've,
• 1:15:36
  I've been on little 16 footers all the way up to like, you
• 1:15:39
  know, 48 foot. And, and I know in some of them
• 1:15:43
  you have your sea legs and some of them you don't because you've
• 1:15:46
  never been in that middle range sailboat.
• 1:15:52
  You know, depending on where your, where your mast is and all
• 1:15:54
  that other stuff, it can affect the way it handles.
• 1:15:56
  So that's why I was asking the question.
• 1:16:00
  Yeah, it there's definitely a learning curve there that that
• 1:16:04
  is going to be difficult for a bunch of us to to get through.
• 1:16:09
  But I I believe that the two week training period in May of
• 1:16:15
  27, everyone should be right as rain by the time we actually set
• 1:16:19
  sail on our voyage. Yeah, that's great.
• 1:16:22
  No, I don't know if you guys have significant others or
• 1:16:26
  partners, but I'm sure that this is going to be a little hard for
• 1:16:31
  them as well because how long is this journey estimated to, to,
• 1:16:37
  to be? Somewhere between 90 to 120 days
• 1:16:42
  is what we've calculated. Now we're originally going to do
• 1:16:45
  it in 70 days, but when we took on some sponsors, they wanted us
• 1:16:50
  to make some stops to promote their products.
• 1:16:54
  And so that expanded our time because we're adding stops along
• 1:17:00
  the Great Lakes and, and and along the Mississippi also
• 1:17:05
  additional stops other than what we planned.
• 1:17:10
  I think for me and I'm. Actually one of the spouses, my
• 1:17:13
  husband is part of the crew, so he will be on that voyage as
• 1:17:16
  well. I'm going to keep my, my land
• 1:17:18
  legs. Sea is not for me, but I, I
• 1:17:23
  think it's just about being supportive.
• 1:17:25
  I think a lot of the spouses within the the group and the
• 1:17:30
  community for Vinland Firth are very supportive and each plays
• 1:17:33
  their own part in it, like me with my social media.
• 1:17:36
  So I think it's it's really important to have that support
• 1:17:39
  system for each other and I think we're really going to get
• 1:17:41
  closer as this journey continues.
• 1:17:45
  Now the one thing I have question is now we, we, we know
• 1:17:49
  that this event, this mission, OK, your nonprofit is called the
• 1:17:54
  Vinland Firth, right? Yes.
• 1:17:57
  So now after this mission is complete, what is your
• 1:18:02
  nonprofit? What's the next mission like
• 1:18:05
  what? What are you going to, what do
• 1:18:08
  you foresee happening in the next five years after you guys
• 1:18:12
  accomplish this this, this route?
• 1:18:18
  Well, we, we intend on building a, a reproduction Viking village
• 1:18:23
  down here on the Gulf Coast and turning it into an educational
• 1:18:28
  and entertainment platform to, to teach people about Norris
• 1:18:33
  Celtic and Germanic history during the Viking Age.
• 1:18:36
  You know, there's, there's a good deal of misinformation out
• 1:18:40
  there because of shows like Vikings and Last Kingdom and
• 1:18:46
  whatnot that doesn't necessarily show the the realities of the
• 1:18:53
  people and the time. And so we want to give people
• 1:18:59
  the real experience, show them how they worked metal, show them
• 1:19:02
  how they wove textiles, show them how they built.
• 1:19:07
  And eventually we also want to have our very own boatyard
• 1:19:11
  building these Viking long ships right here on the Gulf Coast.
• 1:19:16
  Now, if you just tuning in, ladies and gentlemen, we are
• 1:19:18
  interviewing then the landlord first.
• 1:19:21
  It's a nonprofit that is recreating this journey with a
• 1:19:25
  Viking vote. If you have a question, make
• 1:19:28
  sure you write it in the comments and we can ask that.
• 1:19:32
  And if you are able to text, the phone line and text line is
• 1:19:38
  open. That number is 720-619-0627.
• 1:19:43
  Let your voices be heard, HG. I'm going to let you ask
• 1:19:48
  another. We're going to do a whole round
• 1:19:51
  of questions again before we go to the time to shine to, to give
• 1:19:56
  listeners and viewers that opportunity if they, if they
• 1:19:59
  have a question or if they want to call in or text them.
• 1:20:04
  There's there I think there's more people that watch this show
• 1:20:07
  in the afternoon compared to like getting up early and
• 1:20:11
  watching the show. So I wouldn't be surprised if on
• 1:20:15
  our social media there's comments and and questions after
• 1:20:20
  this show post. So just just just warning you,
• 1:20:24
  hey. If there's no comment, no
• 1:20:26
  problem at all, we will definitely circle back and
• 1:20:29
  answer those as best we can. Well, yeah, I got 2.
• 1:20:33
  So 1 is just for anybody that wants to follow you on social
• 1:20:37
  media. Is it just Vinland Firth is the
• 1:20:40
  best? Name.
• 1:20:40
  Absolutely. OK, perfect.
• 1:20:42
  Vinland Firth. So we've got vinlandfirth.com.
• 1:20:45
  We've got Vinland Firth on Instagram, we've got Vinland
• 1:20:47
  Firth on Facebook, We have a Vinland Firth TikTok.
• 1:20:50
  We even have a Vinland Firth LinkedIn.
• 1:20:53
  So awesome. And then my second question,
• 1:20:58
  what really drew you guys to like the Viking culture and like
• 1:21:03
  made you, you know, it's a fascinating culture, but like,
• 1:21:07
  what was kind of the draw for you that got you so into it?
• 1:21:10
  Yeah, this. Is a huge commitment.
• 1:21:13
  Yeah, it it really is for me. Go ahead.
• 1:21:17
  For me, it was connecting with my ancestry as well as history.
• 1:21:23
  I'm a professional historian by training, and when I worked for
• 1:21:27
  the Park Service, I worked at Fredericksburg Spotsylvania
• 1:21:32
  National Military Park, and I would one of the things I
• 1:21:35
  noticed was that all the visitors always wanted to
• 1:21:38
  connect with something from history, whether they came there
• 1:21:42
  to go to the ground where their ancestors fought or because they
• 1:21:48
  admired someone that had participated in the battle, like
• 1:21:51
  Stonewall Jackson, and they wanted to connect with him.
• 1:21:55
  So this is a way for us to connect with our ancestors and
• 1:21:58
  to connect with history. If you really want to be a
• 1:22:02
  Viking, I, and I hear a lot of people say, oh, I'm Viking, you
• 1:22:05
  really want to be a Viking. You have to understand that
• 1:22:07
  Vikings were people who joined a boat crew and went on a raid.
• 1:22:13
  Not every warrior in Scandinavia was a Viking.
• 1:22:16
  They were specific group of people that volunteered and got
• 1:22:19
  on those boats and, and rode across the ocean and, and, and
• 1:22:24
  conducted the raids. And that's the Vikings.
• 1:22:27
  So to me, to be a Viking, you got to be a member of a boat
• 1:22:31
  crew and, and, and that's what we did.
• 1:22:34
  We created our own boat and we recruited our crew and we are
• 1:22:39
  getting in touch with our ancestry and connecting with
• 1:22:41
  history. Does that answer your question?
• 1:22:48
  My question is, are you going to have alcohol on the ship?
• 1:22:51
  Because that's a long time there in a year.
• 1:22:55
  Yeah, so we're, we're island hopping.
• 1:22:58
  We're only going to be underway for maybe 10 days at the longest
• 1:23:02
  stretch. So they it, it's only two to
• 1:23:08
  four days between Roskilda and Lerwick.
• 1:23:13
  It's two to four days between Lerwick and Fair and Torch
• 1:23:17
  Haven. You know, it's 6 to 10 days
• 1:23:20
  between Torch Haven and Reykjavik.
• 1:23:26
  I think we're looking at 5 to 8 days between Reykjavik and
• 1:23:31
  Bratliff and then another 6 to 10 days between Bratliff and
• 1:23:36
  Lanza Meadows. So it it's really not that long
• 1:23:40
  a time to go without beer. But with our primary sponsor
• 1:23:45
  being Danks Meod, there will be Mead at every port.
• 1:23:51
  At every port. I'm James.
• 1:23:54
  All right, Charles, last question.
• 1:23:56
  And we're going to hit the time to shine.
• 1:23:58
  Sure. Yeah.
• 1:23:59
  So I'm assuming you have a fixed keel.
• 1:24:02
  About how much a keel do you have or what kind of draw of
• 1:24:05
  water do you need also? So the we're looking at about
• 1:24:12
  two feet of drought there. The, the keel, it's so the, the
• 1:24:19
  whole shape is very U-shaped. I would say as far as modern
• 1:24:23
  allegory, it's closest to the, the amphibious craft.
• 1:24:28
  You know, the amphibs that we have in the Navy today with
• 1:24:30
  their flat bottoms. It, it's not entirely flat, but
• 1:24:34
  it's, it's much more U-shaped than it is V shaped.
• 1:24:39
  And that gives us greater stability going through the the
• 1:24:43
  heavier seas that we're looking at.
• 1:24:47
  Gotcha. And also I mean being Vikings
• 1:24:51
  that you do realize that all these Vikings that went on all
• 1:24:54
  these raids were taking these things called magic mushrooms.
• 1:24:57
  Is that is that part? Of your your me neither.
• 1:25:01
  No, no alteration underway. What the crew does in in foreign
• 1:25:06
  ports is definitely at their discretion.
• 1:25:08
  Except for the fermented shark in Iceland.
• 1:25:11
  That's that's a no go for anybody.
• 1:25:13
  So not on your first voyage anyways.
• 1:25:16
  Yeah, at the very least. OK.
• 1:25:20
  All right. Well, if nobody else has any
• 1:25:23
  more questions, I think without further ado, it's that time.
• 1:25:26
  It is the time to shine. First of all, I want to say
• 1:25:40
  thank you guys for coming on the show, waking up with us.
• 1:25:43
  I really appreciate it. Maybe there's something that you
• 1:25:48
  guys wanted to get off your chest that I didn't ask that
• 1:25:51
  question or or you know, somebody didn't give that answer
• 1:25:55
  to provoke that question. This is your two minutes to
• 1:26:00
  shine to talk about anything and everything that you would like,
• 1:26:04
  especially how the military community can help you from this
• 1:26:09
  point on till your voyage starts.
• 1:26:15
  I I think Amber's probably the best one to field that question.
• 1:26:21
  Oh goodness, not on the same time.
• 1:26:22
  We'll go with her. Well, there's, there's so many
• 1:26:24
  ways we're always posting on social media, just sharing the
• 1:26:28
  word, spreading, you know, the videos that we post that kind of
• 1:26:32
  support. Also visiting our website.
• 1:26:34
  We do have merchandise for sale up there, T-shirts, coffee mugs,
• 1:26:39
  beanies, sweatshirts, things like that.
• 1:26:41
  And all of those proceeds go to us training our crew and, you
• 1:26:45
  know, continuing to build this ship and just kind of supporting
• 1:26:49
  the whole operation. So whether it's the website,
• 1:26:52
  whether it's social media, just helping us get the word out and,
• 1:26:55
  you know, reaching out to us and giving us that support means
• 1:26:58
  more than anything. We also do have a GoFundMe which
• 1:27:03
  is available on our website and also available on social media
• 1:27:06
  platforms where we are always accepting donations to further
• 1:27:11
  our training with our crew and and whatever else we might need
• 1:27:15
  for the the mission at hand. And you know, I, I, I, I could
• 1:27:21
  not stop, I could not finish this interview without giving a
• 1:27:24
  huge shout out to my baddies that are watching and your your
• 1:27:30
  good friend and our good friend Ace from Bulletproof podcast.
• 1:27:34
  She's so awesome has joined us as to say hi.
• 1:27:38
  So you can see them in the comments.
• 1:27:41
  I I think you guys have already been interviewed with her, her
• 1:27:44
  or you guys are fixing the interview with her soon?
• 1:27:49
  We we have done 1 episode with Ace so far.
• 1:27:52
  She's amazing, isn't she? She is phenomenal.
• 1:27:56
  Her resume is bigger than my credit report.
• 1:27:59
  Oh, my God. Yeah.
• 1:28:01
  I I I love her to death. Well, you know, I don't only do
• 1:28:07
  I wish you guys good luck, but here at NPR, our prayers and our
• 1:28:11
  wishes and our thoughts are going to be with not only you,
• 1:28:15
  but with your families. Because this is a tremendous,
• 1:28:21
  not only honor, but this is a tremendous mission that you guys
• 1:28:26
  are getting ready to go see if it is to accomplish.
• 1:28:31
  And I, I don't know about you, I get scared on a cruise ship.
• 1:28:35
  I can't even imagine being on a Viking ship.
• 1:28:39
  So my prayers and everything go towards you guys and keep us up
• 1:28:44
  to date with everything that's going on.
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  And we'll, we'll make it a little, we'll make it a little
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  commercial doing the updates while you guys are onward doing
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  this. And you know, anything that you
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  guys need, make sure you guys reach out and let us know.
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  With that being said, thank you so much for being on with us
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  this morning and we really appreciate it.
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  Everybody. Once again, we have been talking
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  to the nonprofit Atlanta for. I still can't pronounce that
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  name even. After 30 minutes.
• 1:29:20
  Me. We're joined by Doug Klein,
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  Keith Alexander and Amber. I can't pronounce that last.
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  Name Whisby Whisby Whisby. So thank you guys for being with
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  us. We really appreciate it.
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  And let us know if there's anything that we can do from now
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  until then to help you guys. You bet.
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  Thank you so much for having us. Thank you so much.
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  No problem. Thank you for your service.
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  Yes, thank you for your service. All right, everybody, that is
• 1:29:53
  that time where we are going to not only go on music break, but
• 1:30:01
  we're we're we're going to the tribute to the troops.
• 1:30:05
  Now, this tribute to the troops is a little special unique
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  because Tracer, who sponsors it, she is at her college like
• 1:30:13
  reunion, graduation kind of thing.
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  So it's interesting to see how well her mic worked to see how
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  well it went. If you have a veteran loved one
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  that's past or in the past past, send them to us.
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  We would love to do a tribute because we believe that their
• 1:30:34
  name should be honored at all times.
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  With that being said, stay with us, everybody.
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  When we come back, we'll be hitting the fact or cap.
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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 8th trips out here on the station.
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  That's letting for veterans and voices to be heard.
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  MBR stay with us, but I keep on pushing.
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  Through detail, attention. First call.
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  The service members name is called out loud in the context
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  of a unit. This is meant to ensure all are
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  present and accounted for. Second call, the name is called
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  out again louder to confirm that the service member is indeed
• 1:31:19
  absent. Third call.
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  The name is called out for a final time, followed by a
• 1:31:25
  statement indicating that the service member is not present
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  and accounted for, signifying their death.
• 1:31:31
  The final roll call serves as a symbolic gesture to respect and
• 1:31:35
  remember their service. Sir, I don't.
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  I don't not. Tell the story.
• 1:31:45
  Well, you got the joke. You tell the American people
• 1:31:47
  what they can do here. You tell them how much troopers
• 1:31:50
  died. Hey everyone, thank you for
• 1:32:17
  tuning in to MBR Today as we pay tribute to Gary Chadwick
• 1:32:21
  Tillman, age 54 of Fallbrook, CA.
• 1:32:25
  Chad was born on March 29th, 1972 in Savannah, GA to Gary and
• 1:32:30
  Marilyn Tillman. Gary, known to his friends as
• 1:32:34
  Chad, grew up with a spirit for duty and a harp of compassion
• 1:32:38
  that defined his life. After high school, he enlisted
• 1:32:41
  in the Marine Corps and was a drill instructor, serving 12
• 1:32:44
  years with honor and distinction.
• 1:32:47
  The discipline he learned in the Marines carried over into his
• 1:32:50
  life after service. After his enlistment, Chad found
• 1:32:54
  his calling as a truck driver, which matched his love of big
• 1:32:57
  rigs and driving the open Rd. If he wasn't on the road, Chad
• 1:33:01
  was spending time with his wife and children cheering on his
• 1:33:04
  favorite team, the San Diego Padres.
• 1:33:07
  According to the California Highway Ritual, on June 11th,
• 1:33:11
  2026 in Fallbrook, CA, a Toyota minivan was rear-ended by a
• 1:33:16
  Honda CRV driven by a 21 year old man, sending the Honda into
• 1:33:21
  the median. Chad, a driver for an East
• 1:33:25
  County sand and gravel company, was on the road northbound 15
• 1:33:30
  Freeway near Hwy. 76 for a delivery when he came upon the
• 1:33:34
  crash scene just after 4:00 AM. He called 911 before getting out
• 1:33:40
  of his truck to help. Chad and another woman who
• 1:33:43
  stopped to help were standing on the driver's side of the Honda
• 1:33:47
  CRV when another car collided with the CRV, striking them
• 1:33:51
  both. Both died at the scene.
• 1:33:54
  The 21 year old driver from the initial collision was booked on
• 1:33:59
  DUI charges. His friends were not surprised
• 1:34:02
  that he stopped to help as that was who he was.
• 1:34:06
  Chad is survived by his wife Stephanie, daughters,
• 1:34:10
  granddaughters, mother, extended family and friends, as well as
• 1:34:15
  his brothers and sisters in arms.
• 1:34:18
  We here at NBR would like to thank you, Gary Chadwick Tillman
• 1:34:23
  for your service and dedication to our country.
• 1:34:26
  You leave a legacy of love and courage.
• 1:34:29
  Our prayers are with your family, friends, and those who
• 1:34:32
  served alongside you. You are true in this.
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• 1:39:35
  welcome back. You're listening to the show,
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  And you know, real quick, I want to give a huge shout out to our
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  sound guy who's making everything possible, HG.
• 1:40:00
  He's killing it today. We just wanted to real quick say
• 1:40:05
  thank you for that. Yes indeed, yes, indeed, yes,
• 1:40:09
  indeed. And well, it is that timely,
• 1:40:13
  gentlemen. It is the time where we're going
• 1:40:16
  to do what we like to call is it fact or is it cap, is it fact,
• 1:40:27
  is it fact? Or cap.
• 1:40:29
  You tell me. All right, ladies and gentlemen,
• 1:40:37
  here we go. I I messed that up.
• 1:40:42
  Hold on a second. There we go.
• 1:40:45
  There we go. Air pressure while in flight can
• 1:40:48
  change your taste buds. Fact.
• 1:40:51
  Or crap let. Me know what you think of the
• 1:40:53
  comments below I'll. Reply with my answer.
• 1:40:56
  Have a good one. All right, so that is the
• 1:41:01
  question, everybody. When?
• 1:41:04
  Charles, when's the last time you took a flight?
• 1:41:07
  Oh, not that long ago. Month or two.
• 1:41:10
  Did You Know that when you're on a flight that everything tastes
• 1:41:17
  a little bit different? Because I didn't know that.
• 1:41:20
  Did you HG? I don't believe it.
• 1:41:23
  I've never really noticed. Yeah, I don't believe it because
• 1:41:26
  I've eaten the same stuff on the plane and off the plane and it
• 1:41:29
  tastes exactly the same to me. So question for the viewers and
• 1:41:35
  remember if you answer any of these questions or given the
• 1:41:38
  input, your name will be put in a drawing for a beaker, which
• 1:41:46
  like I said, the the original beaker, the first one will be
• 1:41:51
  going to Carolyn from Conversation with Vets.
• 1:41:55
  She has a show hosted here on MBR every Sunday.
• 1:42:00
  I believe it's 6:00 PM, either 6:00 PM or 5:00 PM Eastern
• 1:42:04
  Standard Time. Check our listings for that
• 1:42:08
  information. The question is, have you ever
• 1:42:13
  noticed that food and drinks taste different when you're
• 1:42:15
  flying? What tastes better or worse?
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  I think alcohol and the reason why I say alcohol is I find that
• 1:42:26
  you kind of get drunk a little bit faster when you're on a
• 1:42:30
  flight. That's that's that's what I've
• 1:42:32
  that. Doesn't have to do that's not
• 1:42:34
  like a taste bud thing, though, That's just it's the air air
• 1:42:40
  pressure or altitude basically is because like people in the
• 1:42:48
  color, I think it like helps. I don't remember which way it
• 1:42:52
  goes, but like, yeah, like you, since we live like up at
• 1:42:56
  altitude, like it's different drinking up here than it is at
• 1:43:00
  sea level. So that's just, it's the same
• 1:43:02
  thing where it's like. You can drink clothes as much.
• 1:43:05
  No, I agree with that. Because when when I came from
• 1:43:09
  when, when, when I came home from Germany and I I got
• 1:43:13
  stationed at Fort Carson, I was drinking Long Island iced teas
• 1:43:17
  because I just could not get drunk here in Colorado.
• 1:43:22
  It yeah it it it it definitely does something and you know the
• 1:43:28
  final question if you could have any restaurant yet reduces your
• 1:43:34
  tents to my sis is a flight attendant awesome.
• 1:43:37
  We we need to talk to her joy about getting some flight
• 1:43:41
  tickets or guest tickets. If you could have any restaurant
• 1:43:45
  meal served perfectly on an airplane, what would you choose
• 1:43:49
  and why that's. A good question any.
• 1:43:58
  Food. Any food?
• 1:43:59
  Or any any restaurant. Any restaurant, yeah.
• 1:44:04
  That's one thing I do like about like going overseas as you get
• 1:44:08
  like you get a bunch of meals. Like when I went to Australia I
• 1:44:12
  I swear to God I ate like 4 times a day because of like the
• 1:44:16
  time change. She doesn't give away any.
• 1:44:23
  That doesn't surprise me. What would you?
• 1:44:28
  What would you eat? Do what?
• 1:44:32
  What would you eat if you had your choice of a meal on plane?
• 1:44:37
  You know what? I'm a big guy, so I'd like to
• 1:44:40
  keep it simple. I'm probably whiter than the
• 1:44:43
  average seat on a plane, so just give me a sandwich or something
• 1:44:47
  and I'm all good. Because if I got to have a tray
• 1:44:51
  down, my legs are too long for the tray to sit down.
• 1:44:54
  Yeah, just give me something simple.
• 1:44:58
  Turkey Club or something without the tomatoes.
• 1:45:04
  I'm thinking I, I, I'm thinking McDonald's.
• 1:45:07
  I like McDonald's. I know that's terrible, but I
• 1:45:09
  like McDonald's. I.
• 1:45:10
  Was honestly going to say something like Taco Bell?
• 1:45:13
  Yeah, you know, it's kind. Of yeah, you definitely want to
• 1:45:17
  take a trip to the bathroom on the plane.
• 1:45:19
  It would be, you know, if you could get Taco Bell on your
• 1:45:21
  flight. I guess it's just such a such a
• 1:45:26
  reliable choice. Now I wonder if it changes your
• 1:45:30
  taste buds when you're on an airplane, Does it cut calories?
• 1:45:37
  Just wondering. You know, that's one thing I
• 1:45:39
  wondered about. Like airplanes, like a pilot,
• 1:45:42
  you know, there's no speed limits in the plane, you know,
• 1:45:47
  so can, can, can you just like step on the gas and just fly a
• 1:45:51
  little bit faster, you know, shed some time, You know, I, I,
• 1:45:54
  I find that whenever I go somewhere using Waze or
• 1:45:58
  whatever, it's, it's like a, it's like a gambling thing, OK.
• 1:46:01
  It says I'm going to be there at this time and, and I and I try
• 1:46:06
  to find myself trying to compete with the time I can get there
• 1:46:10
  before that time, you know, so I, I was.
• 1:46:15
  From my. Truck drive, you know, I never
• 1:46:19
  stopped unless I had to get gas or I had to use the bathroom.
• 1:46:22
  Trying to do all of those in the same time to, to make less
• 1:46:27
  trips. But yeah, that's one thing I
• 1:46:30
  always wondered. Well now I'm also thinking like
• 1:46:34
  those being on like the inverse of an airplane that's being on a
• 1:46:37
  submarine also. Oh, that's a good question.
• 1:46:41
  That change, like how's that change your your taste buds?
• 1:46:47
  That means maybe if I, I wonder if I took a plane ride, if, if
• 1:46:52
  Dennis would taste any different.
• 1:46:56
  I, I remember when I went on my honeymoon to Ireland, you know,
• 1:46:59
  my wife looked at me and she's like, well, you know, they, they
• 1:47:02
  say that in Ireland, the Guinness tastes way different
• 1:47:06
  than the Guinness here in the States.
• 1:47:08
  And I tried it and I'm like, Nope, it still tastes like crap.
• 1:47:11
  So, you know, I wonder, I wonder.
• 1:47:14
  So anyways, ladies and gentlemen, let us know what you
• 1:47:18
  think in the comments, your suggestions, your ideas and
• 1:47:23
  we'll, we'll, we'll, we'll read those as the week progresses.
• 1:47:27
  You know, it is that time. It is our final segment.
• 1:47:32
  I love it. Ladies and gentlemen, final
• 1:47:35
  thoughts at Project. ML.
• 1:47:47
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  the kind of peace and freedom that only a ride can give.
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  Vets Whoo. All right, ladies and gentlemen,
• 1:48:08
  we are back in the, the, the the question for everybody.
• 1:48:14
  Charles, we're going to start with you today.
• 1:48:17
  Thank you for sitting in with Amber.
• 1:48:19
  Thanks for having. Me hopefully.
• 1:48:20
  Hopefully you have fun. This is the second time you sat
• 1:48:23
  in for. I hope you have fun on the
• 1:48:25
  program. Yeah, I haven't talked to many
• 1:48:28
  Vikings lately, so hey. And I haven't really let you
• 1:48:32
  talk either, so I I apologize. And this is that time where, you
• 1:48:37
  know, we talk about what we learned today.
• 1:48:41
  Charles, you, you, you go first today.
• 1:48:43
  What did you learn today? I learned that I'm not the only
• 1:48:47
  adventurous soul out there. You know it.
• 1:48:50
  It takes a special kind of person to decide to throw
• 1:48:54
  together a shiplap boat with some pitch, you know, some tars
• 1:48:59
  made some tree SAP to hold it together with some wooden pegs
• 1:49:03
  and, and go from 1 island to the next or whatever it is they're
• 1:49:07
  doing. So kudos to them.
• 1:49:10
  I'm glad that they have the the fortitude and and the just just
• 1:49:17
  the cajones to do something like that.
• 1:49:21
  HG. Well, I learned a couple of
• 1:49:25
  interesting bits about history. First of all, Operation Husky.
• 1:49:29
  Never heard of that before, but that was really interesting to
• 1:49:33
  learn about. And then what Keith was saying
• 1:49:36
  also about the how you earn the title of Viking.
• 1:49:39
  You know, it wasn't just everyone in Scandinavia wasn't a
• 1:49:43
  Viking. You know, you had to be it.
• 1:49:47
  It was in what you had to to enlist, to go sail the ocean and
• 1:49:53
  to go on the raids. And that was how you earned the
• 1:49:57
  title Viking. So that was something else I
• 1:50:00
  didn't know. I think the biggest thing that I
• 1:50:04
  learned today, well, it not really I learned today.
• 1:50:09
  I, I think the biggest thing that I'm reminded is that
• 1:50:14
  everybody needs a purpose. Everybody needs a purpose.
• 1:50:18
  And as veterans, sometimes when we get out of the military, we
• 1:50:25
  search and we try to find that purpose.
• 1:50:29
  And we're very negative, not only to ourselves, but to other
• 1:50:33
  people when we don't have a purpose.
• 1:50:36
  Because you don't have something that you're concentrating on.
• 1:50:41
  You're you're, you're concentrating on, you know,
• 1:50:43
  what's wrong with my life compared to somebody else's.
• 1:50:48
  And having a purpose not only helps the community in some way
• 1:50:53
  or some form, but it gives you another mission.
• 1:50:57
  Because in the military, we're just taught that we have to have
• 1:51:01
  a mission. We have to have a mission, we
• 1:51:04
  have to have some kind of a schedule.
• 1:51:06
  We have to have some type of an orientation of our life.
• 1:51:12
  Because if we don't have an orientation of our life, then
• 1:51:17
  we're just, we, we feel incomplete.
• 1:51:21
  And for these individuals to pick this mission of the ship,
• 1:51:29
  that's huge, huge, that's a huge commitment, especially if
• 1:51:36
  they're, they're married and they have partners and, and
• 1:51:38
  stuff like that. So I commend them for doing
• 1:51:42
  this. I commend them for trying to
• 1:51:44
  make history. And I know several people that
• 1:51:47
  have done the I, I, I forget what they call it, like the long
• 1:51:50
  boats. It's not the Viking boats, but
• 1:51:51
  the long boats. I know several people that have
• 1:51:54
  went on this and you know, the ocean, it's not a very good
• 1:52:00
  place. It's it's unforgiven.
• 1:52:02
  You know, it's a, you've seen the commercials, you've seen the
• 1:52:08
  show of the Deadliest Catch. You know, they're, they are
• 1:52:12
  going into a nightmare and we're hoping that they come back with
• 1:52:17
  a pleasant dream. So our our prayers and our
• 1:52:21
  thoughts are definitely with them.
• 1:52:24
  And that's what I learned today. And I'm going to go ahead and
• 1:52:28
  hit this to where, ladies and gentlemen, it is that time.
• 1:52:32
  It is today's safety briefing weekend safety brief.
• 1:52:44
  Make sure that you're don't beat your wife or don't beat your
• 1:52:49
  partner. If you by chance come up with an
• 1:52:53
  argument or a disagreement with the person, walk away.
• 1:52:58
  Don't engage with them because engaging with them, especially
• 1:53:02
  when they're hostile, not going to do anybody any favors.
• 1:53:07
  Also, if you're planning on going boating this weekend, make
• 1:53:12
  sure that you have a life preserver and even if the sun
• 1:53:16
  isn't out, remember those rays they'll hit you even, but the
• 1:53:21
  sun isn't out, so make sure you wear sunscreen.
• 1:53:25
  Wildlife. If you go out on a hike here in
• 1:53:27
  Colorado, make sure that you don't touch the muscles because
• 1:53:31
  it isn't bullwinkle. They will hurt you all right.
• 1:53:35
  And if you're planning on doing the Saturday special, and I
• 1:53:40
  don't need to spell that out right, make sure that you're
• 1:53:43
  wearing a raincoat because they can get pretty wet in that
• 1:53:47
  situation. And the last but not least, make
• 1:53:52
  sure that if you're going to drink, have a plan.
• 1:53:57
  Don't drink and drive. An Uber is a lot cheaper than
• 1:54:03
  going to court. And especially if you have pets,
• 1:54:09
  make sure that you're loving on them this weekend because you
• 1:54:15
  never know when they're going to pass away.
• 1:54:18
  And before we leave, I just want to remind everybody that we do
• 1:54:23
  have that cartoon, All Dogs Deserve Dance.
• 1:54:27
  It is on the Roku Channel and you can check that out.
• 1:54:32
  I encourage you to watch that because sometimes losing a pet
• 1:54:38
  is devastating. But remember, there's a dog in
• 1:54:42
  the dog pound that is looking through a gate hole and they're
• 1:54:47
  just waiting to be adopted, kind of like Charles did with Flynn.
• 1:54:53
  Is is Flynn available? You can hold him up and
• 1:54:57
  everybody can. I have put him upstairs because
• 1:55:00
  he was trying to choose some wires.
• 1:55:04
  Love puppies. Well, ladies and gentlemen,
• 1:55:06
  that's our program today. Next week, we're going to be
• 1:55:09
  talking with Chris Ann. She is the founder and CEO of
• 1:55:14
  the Resurrecting Life nonprofit. So we'll be finding out what
• 1:55:19
  they are and what they do for our veterans today and what they
• 1:55:23
  continue today doing today. So that's it.
• 1:55:27
  Have a fantastic weekend. We'll see you here next Friday.
• 1:55:31
  And remember from everybody here at MBR in the Crew, we're here
• 1:55:35
  for you, not for us. And they all said being our
• 1:55:40
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• 1:55:43
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• 1:55:47
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• 1:55:49
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