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  The station where our veterans voices are heard.
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  MBR talk. Hey, thanks for supporting our
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  Morning and welcome to the show it's RED Friday.
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  Troops. We begin on the tracks, rails
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  stretching beyond the horizon, each tie a memory, each rail a
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  promise of where we might go. In the early years, our first
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  of time. The view changed with every
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  mile, some stations brief, others lasting.
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  Our logos changed too, not just emblems, but mile markers of
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  evolution. Along the way, seats filled with
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  teammates, mentors, veterans, and friends.
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  Some stayed for the ride. Others stepped off, leaving
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  their legacy on the rails behind us.
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  And still, the journey continues.
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  The tracks ahead stretch into the unknown, familiar yet full
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  of new promise. What matters most is how we
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  travel with purpose, with grit, with heart.
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  And the legacy of those logos, every year, every show, lives on
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  in the rhythm of these rails. So here we are once again, all
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  aboard. The whistle blows, the tracks
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  call together. We ride.
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  We are the H train show showing veterans programs beyond the VA
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  since 2015. Ladies and gentlemen, it is
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  August 21st, 2026 and Friday and with me the Eye Candy for today
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  and James Bash. Good morning.
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  Good morning. Good morning.
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  We want to tell you thank you so much for choosing us to spend
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  your morning with. We hope you.
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  We hope you have your coffee. You know, MJ, we forgot to go
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  grab you coffee. I have some coffee.
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  Oh, you got some coffee. All right, all right, awesome.
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  Hey, you know, we've got some great news, some big news.
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  You know, not only do we have some new things that you know, I
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  have have been working on this week, we got platinum edition
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  from GuideStar, which, you know, pat us on the back for that.
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  It's you know, that shit isn't easy.
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  It isn't easy. And then we have also I have
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  figured out thanks to ChatGPT. And look, I want to explain
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  something to everybody. I had, I kind of did a rant
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  about this the other day. People cannot like AI and that's
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  that's fine. I do believe that whenever you
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  have an evil, there's always a good part to it.
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  ChatGPT has helped me educate other veterans so that they have
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  a purpose. Because of ChatGPT, we have
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  designed a duck that now if a veteran wants to do a show, but
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  he doesn't want to show his face, he he can do a show
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  without showing his face. You know, not a cartoon, but
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  like a virtual that kind of like on TikTok, you know, the the
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  tomcat thing, you know, and that's going to be our our.
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  First NBRV tuber, is that what you're saying?
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  Yes, yes, yes. You know, and so we we have that
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  we have that already made me and my wife are going to start doing
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  a show here in September called Beaker and Boots.
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  Love it. And we're just going to make fun
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  of each other like she, she stole my e-mail password to do
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  the trivia the other night. And I'm like, why are you
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  stealing my crap? So we have that.
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  And we also have trivia on Wednesday.
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  So if you think that you're smart and you like Jeopardy,
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  you'll go on our Roku, you'll find our TV show, you'll take
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  your phone, you'll scan the code and right there you can play
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  along. If you do TikTok, you'll have to
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  have three devices, one to watch, one to, you know,
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  interact with the phone and then one to be in the box so that you
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  can like get roses and, you know, gifts from TikTok and
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  stuff, right? So a lot of great things are
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  happening here at MBR. And we just wanted to show you,
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  in fact, MJ, you're going to love this next piece.
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  It is time for mail call. Attention mail call.
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  Oh. My God.
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  Welcome to Mail call. Your Soldier Spotlight Powered
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  by Work symbol highlighting those who serve and inspire.
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  In the Army, Jose Flores is finding a new way to connect
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  with people. I'm say you're Williams, your
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  Voice for Veterans reporter, and Flores is using his big
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  personality and a podcast to share stories of life after
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  service. Oh girl, I got.
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  I got to pull this off the wall. This is 17 year old Jose.
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  Oh my God. If Jose Flores has an off
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  switch, I didn't find one. Yeah, I'm the only one smiling
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  girl. What makes them comfortable with
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  me? Who are, thank you very much,
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  me? I bring the noise.
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  So OK, let's back it up. It's the same Jose you'll find
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  behind the microphone, interviewing veterans and others
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  about their lives. Gravity takes over and.
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  Takes. Over.
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  Much fun. So after a while, it doesn't
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  even look like this, like we're doing an interview with just
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  family, just two people. And that's kind of the point.
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  The laughs may draw people in, but Floor First wants them to
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  leave with something more. Motivating, mine says, is about
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  faith, resilience, culture, perseverance, given a platform
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  for people to to say this story, to say what's on their mind.
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  Flores believes someone else's story could be exactly what
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  another person needs to hear, but the idea to start asking
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  people how they're doing didn't start with the podcast.
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  But it started in the military. It started with when I was a
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  leader checking in. Flores served 30 years in the
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  Army, retiring as a first Sergeant.
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  He says leadership meant training soldiers, but also
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  knowing them. Part of taking it up is having a
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  conversation where you're from, you know what what what do you
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  like to do when so on. That may help explain some of
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  the jokes, but his constant push for positivity comes from
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  something deeper. I'm I'm not serious anymore.
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  Life is too short to be serious. I've lived through some stuff
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  that's been crazy. Flores says his military
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  experience left him with PTSD and at one point, like many
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  veterans, he hit an all time low.
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  I'll, I'll say straight out, yes, I did try to take my life.
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  Yes, I got help. It was a point where I raised my
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  hand and I said I need some help.
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  He says surviving changed how he looked at life and how he shows
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  up for other people. And once you come out through
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  something like that, your whole world view changes.
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  You put on some Martian glasses. So underneath the big reactions,
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  the laughs and all that noise is a guy trying to make it a little
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  easier for someone else to talk. You don't know whose roof is
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  leaking unless you live there. Everybody has a story to tell,
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  you know, And unless you ask, you'll never know.
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  In Westminster, Sarah Williams, WMART News.
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  It is heavy. All right.
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  And beyond, you know, and behalf of military broadcast radio, you
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  know, I told him in the chat, I posted on Facebook, we are
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  really proud of you. We are really proud of you
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  because we don't just have one show here at MBR that is
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  spotlighting and shedding the light on veteran struggles
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  because some veterans, they watch that show and they, they
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  see these guys having struggles and it motivates them.
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  Hey, I want to be a part of that.
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  That's what this is about. You know, I always tell a story
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  in 2015 when I got a call from my, well, it, it, it happened a
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  little bit before 2018, but I got a call from a distant cousin
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  and she told me she was like, Hey, listen, you know, my, my,
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  my fiance, we're, we're getting ready, you know, no pay due
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  because it was a possible government shutdown with Obama
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  and stuff. And she's like, we don't know
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  what to do because we called this one place and they said we
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  wasn't injured enough. And I'm like, well, there's,
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  there's like 300 nonprofits. And, you know, that's the reason
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  why I created military broadcast radio is so that not only could
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  we help veterans keep connected with resources, but we have a
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  radio station that plays country in the morning, rock in the
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  afternoon, and pop at night. So it's hitting every single
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  genre, especially for those that are in Iran or Iraq or
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  Afghanistan or Germany, wherever, you know, because AFN
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  still exists. It's just kind of hard.
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  You have to have special equipment for AFN.
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  You don't have to have special equipment for MBR.
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  It's for everybody, for all eras.
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  It doesn't matter what your disability is.
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  And that's the reason why MBR special.
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  So I'm so glad that Jose got spotlighted.
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  I'm looking to have more shows being spotlighted because it's
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  not me, it's the program. All I do is facilitate it.
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  That's all I do. All right now, if you're just
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  joining us, welcome to the ACE Train Show.
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  We're here. Our only mission is to show our
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  veterans and our first responders and our men and women
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  in uniform all over the world that there are more programs out
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  there beyond the VA. My names H.
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  My names MJ. And we are so glad that you
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  chose to be with us today. Grab some coffee, sit down,
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  relax. It is now time.
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  You play a variety of. Yeah, we do.
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  And hey, real quick, I want to say good morning.
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  Happy Friday to Cassie. She's on TikTok.
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  Thank you so much, honey, for supporting and showing me.
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  Thank you, Yanif, You Beautiful soul.
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  You. I mean, we have so many people
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  on TikTok. You want to know how you can
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  support us without paying any money?
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  Go on TikTok and it's called refresh and and heart me and all
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  that stuff. Tap Yep and.
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  Tap free. Tap.
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  Tap. Tap.
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  And all that money, everything that TikTok gives it, it
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  deposits right into MBR account. So keep note of that.
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  All right, now it's 14 minutes past the hour.
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  And what I'm going to do is we're going to go ahead and
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  we're going to take a music break because I forgot all about
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  taking the break last week. So when we come back, it's a
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  funny story. My wife sent this to me
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  yesterday. Sometimes.
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  Sometimes it's OK not to take people literally.
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  We'll explain when we come back. So whatever you do, stay with
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  us. Don't go away.
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  You're listening to show the highlights, all the non private
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  programs out there beyond the VA.
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  It's going to be a good laugh. Stick with us right here on
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  station MBR. Thank me for my service,
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  The station where our veterans voices are heard.
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  MBR talk. Hey, thanks for supporting our
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  channel by watching and listening.
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  Welcome, welcome, welcome. Ladies and gentlemen.
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  It's Red Friday, it's August 21st and we are here back once
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  again showing programs out there beyond the VA.
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  We've been doing this since 2005.
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  All right, so you know. I I, I learned, I learned a term
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  a long time ago because of my TBI, because I have no filter
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  TMI, you know, so, but it's, it's nice to see that in the
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  really in, in the regular society, not just the military,
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  that there are some people that literally take things a little.
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  Well, we'll let the video show itself.
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  Ladies and gentlemen, it is the what the segment.
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  Relax your cheeks. So relax your cheeks.
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  So if you if you missed that video a little bit because it
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  there, there was kind of a little delay there, there's
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  nothing that we can do about that, but.
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  What we'll all run it back for. Everyone OK, All right.
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  Yeah, our real appreciation. Relax your cheeks.
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  So relax your cheeks. That Dennis was pissed.
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  Did you see that one? Really.
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  I. Work in healthcare and things
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  like that happen. Really, I love that.
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  Hey, check this out. You know, every morning, every,
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  every Friday, we do this show. And if you have American
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  Funniest video or something like that and you would like for it
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  to be broadcast on the air, you know, don't send it to us.
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  We'll play it. We love watching stuff like
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  that. You should have.
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  Some blooper contest you should. Have.
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  I like that. Contest yes he TF moment for
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  all. Tail feathers, yes, exactly.
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  But you know, it's, it's just, it's nice to know, number one,
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  that people have a sense of humor #2.
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  Now if you, you know, hey, look, if you go to the doctor and he
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  sticks his thing, you're up at your woo Hoo, you know, and you
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  know, you're like the kind of thing it happens.
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  Don't worry about. Don't give him progress.
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  That's that's. Sedated.
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  Was this person sedated or did they have local anesthesia?
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  Because that makes a difference. We need to know.
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  We need more information. No, I know.
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  Hey, you don't. Hey, if you if you posted that
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  video on TikTok, let us know. Give us a back story.
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  I love backstories that that that's one of our new segments
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  for the the end of the show. You'll like that.
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  You'll like that the behind the stories things.
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  OK, well now it is time for our top story for today.
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  We can review. Next.
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  Stop, we can review. There you go.
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  Oops. Today's top story is a follow up
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  to something we discussed right here on the H Train show last
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  week, the extended deployment of the USS Abraham Lincoln.
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  After spending more than 250 days deployed, relief has
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  finally arrived for the sailors aboard the Lincoln.
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  The USS George Washington has reached the Middle East and it's
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  preparing to take over its mission, allowing the Lincoln
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  and its crew to begin the long-awaited journey home.
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  Now when we hear that another aircraft carrier has arrived, it
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  may sound like routine military handoff. 1 ship comes in and
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  another goes out, but there is nothing routine about what these
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  sailors in these families have endured.
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  It also more than 250 days at sea means missed birthdays,
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  anniversaries, graduations, holidays and countless ordinary
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  moments that families can never get back.
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  It means spouses running households alone, children
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  waiting for parents to come home, and sailors pushing
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  through exhaustion while trying to remain focused on a dangerous
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  mission. It also means that every time
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  the deployment was extended, families had to readjust their
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  expectations. Imagine believing your husband,
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  wife, mother, father, son or daughter is finally coming home
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  and then being told not yet. That uncertainty takes a toll.
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  There have been reports of supplies shortages and growing
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  concerns about the crew's mental health.
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  Those concerns should not be brushed aside simply because
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  these men and women volunteered to serve.
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  Yes, service members understand that deployments are part of
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  military life. But volunteering to serve does
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  not mean surrendering the right to proper support, honest
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  communication and responsible leadership.
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  That's the key. Thing responsible leadership,
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  yes. Yes.
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  And we do not have that currently.
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  Our sailors are not machines. They are human beings.
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  They may stand watch, maintain aircraft, keep the engines
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  running, prepare meals, provide medical care.
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  But underneath those uniforms are people carrying stress,
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  exhaustion, fear and the pain of being separated from everyone
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  they love. I can't even imagine.
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  I cannot even imagine what their days are like.
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  The Lincoln's crew continued performing its mission while
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  tensions in the Middle East placed even greater demands upon
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  them. Whatever anyone's political
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  opinion may be, the sailors aboard the ship did not decide
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  where they were sent or how long they would remain there.
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  They received their orders and they carried out their mission.
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  That deserves our respect. But respect cannot stop at
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  saying thank you for your service.
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  Real respect means asking whether we are taking care of
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  them while they serve. It means making sure that they
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  have the supplies that they need.
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  It means ensuring, and this is so important, that their mental
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  health resources are available without stigma.
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  That's huge. That's huge stigma.
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  That's huge. And you know, I brought this up
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  the other day, you know, when you're in the military, you
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  know, you, you kind of made fun of, hey, you're going sick call
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  sick, call Ranger, blah, blah, blah.
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  But yeah, now when I'm like 50 years old, you know, and I'm,
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  I'm, I'm missing like medical records, you know, I'm like, oh
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  shit, you know what? Why, why am I giving my, why am
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  I giving my arm to the government when, when they can't
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  even fix it, you know? So yeah, everybody's like, well,
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  those failures need to suck it up, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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  OK, dude, All right. I like to see you go back in
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  there and and do it because it's a different time.
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  It is a different time compared to when we were.
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  We had good leadership guys. We have really good leadership
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  right now. We don't really have good
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  leadership, not with the person that's in charge of the military
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  in my opinion, but that that that's where we're saying go
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  ahead. I'm sorry.
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  Well, it's OK. And I think that we we're more
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  informed, we have more knowledge about trauma, we have more
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  knowledge about how war impacts a human being.
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  And with that said, we need to reduce the stigma.
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  You know, it means keeping families informed, and it means
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  helping sailors readjust when they finally return home.
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  Because coming home does not automatically mean that everyone
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  is OK. Some sailors may need time
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  before they feel normal again. So that is why the homecoming
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  cannot be where our support ends.
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  In many ways, that is where a different kind of support must
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  begin. And I'm glad that the USS George
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  Washington has arrived to relieve the Abraham Lincoln.
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  I am glad the sailors can finally begin to look forward to
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  coming home. But we should also remember that
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  sailors aboard the George Washington are now stepping into
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  that same dangerous mission, and their families are beginning
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  their own period of waiting and grieving.
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  Sometimes, I mean, there's grief that's involved in this.
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  One crew is coming home while another takes its place.
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  So today we recognize both of them.
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  To the crew of the US Abraham Lincoln, hold on.
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  Sorry guys, hold on. I guess I'm fired.
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  Joel, let's see. I don't know where we were.
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  Joel is Joel is in charge of what I am reading and I have no
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  idea. Let's keep going down, keep
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  going well. You guys find out.
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  I'll just say my my thoughts on it is go ahead.
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  You know, like nobody expects a military deployment when you're
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  on the aircraft crew. It would be a cruise.
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  But to dismiss that, like all the concerns that the sailors
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  lives there like 24/7 just right terrible.
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  Like it shouldn't like there should be moments of reprieve
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  for sailors, even when they're on the deployment, you know, and
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  for the ship to be under supplied and or the the
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  conditions to be bad for the sailors want like it sounds like
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  it was 24/7. It's just not OK.
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  You know, that impacts their effectiveness and their ability
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  to execute their duties in the military.
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  OK all. Right.
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  This is the top OK. I can't.
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  That's all right. So, yeah, I agree.
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  HG, keep going. I need to go down.
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  Yeah, down. Because that's the top of the
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  story. OK, keep going.
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  Keep going. Keep going.
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  Keep going. Joel is fired.
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  OK, keep going. Keep.
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  Going. Keep going, keep going, Stop.
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  OK. And to the crew of the USS
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  George Washington, stay alert, take care of one another and
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  know that people back home are thinking about you.
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  The ships may receive the headlines, but it's the sailors
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  and the families standing behind them who carry the true weight
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  of every deployment. Welcome home, Lincoln, Fairwinds
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  and Following Seas. Thank you.
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  Thank you. Thank you, MJ.
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  Yeah, 8 skirt it up again. That's right.
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  Oh, and now, ladies and gentlemen, MJ, what else we got?
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  Oh, I'm not sure. What else do we have?
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  We have sports. Oh sports report.
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  We have a sports report. All right, I got you.
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  I've been sports for. That Now before we get into it,
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  I got a little bit of a a trivia question for everyone.
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  No promises, but maybe if somebody listening and can get
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  this right, we can send you a duck or some MBR merch in the
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  mail. But the preseason AP20 top 25
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  polls for the upcoming college football season have come out in
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  the top ten. There are only two teams that
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  are not an SEC or Big 10 school. What are those two teams?
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  I'll reveal the answer at the end of the sports report, but
• 31:48
  we're going to start with an update on the MLB and Rangers
• 31:53
  pitcher Jacob Grum. The Grum has made history,
• 31:57
  reaching 2000 strikeouts in the second fewest innings and games
• 32:03
  pitch. His 1660 innings pitch is second
• 32:08
  only the star pitcher Chris Sale and his 271 games is second only
• 32:14
  the Hall of Famer Randy Johnson. The Grom set this record on A10
• 32:20
  strikeout night against the Nationals last night.
• 32:24
  All right. And then another stand out
• 32:26
  performance. Zach Needo went absolutely off
• 32:29
  for the Los Angeles Angels, went 5 for six at the bat with a
• 32:34
  Homer and seven RB is to help a 8 to 3 route over Houston and
• 32:41
  WNBA news. Kelsey Mitchell is just
• 32:43
  continuing to shine. She dropped 37 points last
• 32:46
  night, knocking down four of her 7 threes and going 15 to 15 at
• 32:51
  the charity stripe. It's officially been a month.
• 32:54
  It's her last game where she didn't have at least 20 points.
• 32:58
  That's 21 games in a row, a new WNBA record.
• 33:05
  It did come in a losing effort though, as Dallas Wings took
• 33:09
  down the Fever 91 to 85. Power from 32 from Enrika
• 33:13
  Gumbawale, 26 and 8 from Jessica Shepherd and A7 Block Knight
• 33:20
  from Awuk Kuyar and. He pronounces.
• 33:23
  It right? Yeah.
• 33:24
  This is women's, women, women's basketball.
• 33:27
  Women's basketball, unfortunately for the Wings that
• 33:30
  you have some bad injury luck, they're going to be without the
• 33:32
  number one overall pick and there's * one of their star
• 33:35
  guards as he fudd for the rest of the season.
• 33:38
  She's going to be rehabbing a knee injury.
• 33:40
  And then another rookie sensation for the Minnesota
• 33:43
  Lynx. Olivia Miles exited the team's
• 33:46
  Wednesday night victory over the Golden State Valkyries in the
• 33:50
  fourth quarter after tweaking her ankle.
• 33:52
  No update on how the long term severity of the injury.
• 33:57
  Switching over the men's basketball for a little bit.
• 33:59
  It's a good week to be a Cavs fan.
• 34:00
  Bad week to be a Nuggets fan. The Cavs man Payton Watson as
• 34:05
  the big part of a five team trade that also sent Max Streuse
• 34:10
  to the Clippers and James Harden signs a new three-year deal
• 34:15
  worth 97,000,000. For my Nuggets.
• 34:19
  It's a huge blow for us. We were in second apron trouble
• 34:23
  and now we lose potentially our best young prospect and really
• 34:28
  our best defender on roster. In NFL news, we had a couple of
• 34:33
  preseason games last night. Fernando Mendoza, the number one
• 34:37
  overall pick in the second bit of action, did have a bit of a
• 34:40
  struggle in this one. How they threw an 86 yard or an
• 34:45
  80 yard pick six. While his backup Aidan O'Connell
• 34:49
  looked really good throwing for 166 and running in the
• 34:51
  game-winning touchdown. Rookie running back Mike
• 34:55
  Washington continues to look good.
• 34:56
  He ran for 56 yards on just 9 attempts, so Raiders might have
• 35:00
  a bit of a 2 headed monster in their backfield with Ashton
• 35:04
  Gentie and Mike Washington. The other game last night
• 35:07
  between the 49ers and Chargers turned into a route after Jacob
• 35:11
  Cowling ran an 83 yard punt return back for a touchdown and
• 35:16
  the Niners cruised to a 41 to 17 route.
• 35:20
  Dejon stripping the what working.
• 35:23
  Roger Siever, who I thought was the biggest reach of the draft
• 35:26
  has actually been really good in his first two pre season games,
• 35:29
  but he did drop what would have probably been a walk in
• 35:32
  touchdown last night. Some other news, Vita Vaya after
• 35:37
  some trade talks signed a one year $30 million deal with the
• 35:41
  Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Aaron Donald continues to work
• 35:45
  out with the Rams with no official decision on whether
• 35:48
  he'll be playing this year has been made yet.
• 35:50
  We've had a lot of fights at joint practices this training
• 35:55
  camp period. We saw multiple brawls break out
• 35:57
  between the Giants and Dolphins and actually multiple players
• 36:00
  were pulled from the practice. And the NFL find the Cowboys and
• 36:04
  Saints 500K for their practice that saw many fights.
• 36:09
  Now back to the top 25 list. Do we have any answers on who
• 36:16
  those two non SEC and big 10 schools are?
• 36:21
  We don't we don't see anything on TikTok.
• 36:25
  I don't see anything on any social media.
• 36:27
  But hey, it is still early. So let let's hold the answer
• 36:32
  until the end of the show and we'll, we'll, we'll see if we
• 36:35
  get some time. We'll hold it till the end of
• 36:37
  the show. I will.
• 36:39
  Just the last note. I'll leave you with then some
• 36:43
  interesting teams not in the top 25 that were receiving votes,
• 36:46
  though we saw a couple of We saw a Mac team and a Central USA
• 36:53
  team in Liberty and Western Michigan getting some votes.
• 36:57
  Interesting there. Virginia, who came in second
• 37:01
  place in the ACC, only received one vote to be in the top 25.
• 37:07
  Clemson. This is like the first time in a
• 37:10
  very long time that they have not been in the preseason top 25
• 37:14
  poll, but they are the team receiving the most votes that
• 37:18
  isn't in the top 25, so they're basically 26.
• 37:21
  I'm so scared right now because, you know, my team is in the SEC
• 37:26
  and. So yeah, you know, when we did
• 37:29
  Trivia Wednesday, like, I thought that was good.
• 37:32
  And then they brought up mascots.
• 37:36
  I thought I got this man does not know anything.
• 37:39
  I didn't know anything in the mascots.
• 37:43
  OK, so I'm from the South and the SEC is my thing.
• 37:46
  And when I started watching football up here in the West, it
• 37:49
  looks so weird. The colors, the teams, the
• 37:52
  Ducks, all of that stuff just so strange.
• 37:55
  So I'm curious as to what the answer is because I'm hoping
• 37:59
  that my school, that my college is still in the SEC.
• 38:04
  It's got to be, It's got to be. Our state is your.
• 38:09
  School and I can maybe reveal the answer.
• 38:11
  Here, I'll give you a Oh, Tigers.
• 38:15
  You talking about Mizzou? I'm.
• 38:17
  Talking. About LSU.
• 38:18
  LSU just outside the top 10. Oh yeah, OK.
• 38:23
  Which all. Right, that's OK.
• 38:25
  Look, we're we've been rebuilding the Saints and LSU,
• 38:29
  we don't look too good. So it's all right, you know,
• 38:32
  there. The number 11 team, they go 7:00
• 38:34
  and 6:00 last year, but of a disappointing season, they fired
• 38:37
  their head coach. Yeah, Rod and Lane Kiffin.
• 38:40
  We know all about the drama with that.
• 38:42
  They had a really good transfer portal though this year.
• 38:46
  Good recruiting class as well. They landed the number one
• 38:48
  transfer prospect at the core of the acquisition, Sam Levitt, so
• 38:53
  high expectations should be a really good team.
• 38:56
  I will say though, it's gonna, it feels like it's playoff or
• 38:59
  bust down there and. Look, as long as we're better
• 39:02
  than Alabama, OK, All right? That's all I care about.
• 39:06
  All right, I. Can't believe you didn't.
• 39:08
  You didn't know that I was in impersonating Ed Osheron.
• 39:13
  OK, go. Tag us.
• 39:14
  All right, you plowed his talkers.
• 39:17
  It is now time before we go through the interview of the
• 39:20
  week. It is now time for that
• 39:23
  wonderful segment. Let's learn some history
• 39:27
  together. August 21st it is drop that
• 39:30
  date. Today in history.
• 39:47
  All right, ladies and gentlemen, so today and I'm I'm going to
• 39:51
  read this because I, I suck as a teleprompter.
• 39:55
  Evidently, the battle of the Well.
• 39:58
  How do you pronounce? It read it all right.
• 40:02
  OK, I'm going to read this and when I do this I want you to
• 40:06
  move it. OK until I do this.
• 40:10
  Do not move. It yes.
• 40:11
  Ma'am, OK, today we're dropping the date on August 21st, 1942,
• 40:17
  and we're heading back 84 years to the early months of America's
• 40:21
  fight in the Pacific during World War 2.
• 40:24
  The Place Guadal Canal in the Solomon Islands the event the
• 40:30
  Battle of the Teneru, also known as the Battle of Alligator Creek
• 40:36
  and this battle would give both sides a brutal lesson about the
• 40:39
  war that was coming. I did not give you.
• 40:44
  Yes. Ma'am, a finger and he moved it.
• 40:49
  OK, so just weeks earlier, on August 7th, 1942, U.S.
• 40:56
  Marines had landed on Guadalcanal.
• 40:58
  Why did this little island matter so much?
• 41:01
  Because the Japanese were building an airfield there.
• 41:05
  If completed and controlled by Japan, it could threaten Allied
• 41:10
  supply routes between the United States, Australia, and New
• 41:14
  Zealand. The Marines captured that
• 41:17
  unfinished airfield and eventually named it Henderson
• 41:21
  Field. But Japan wasn't about to simply
• 41:24
  let them keep up. Japanese forces were sent to
• 41:29
  Guadalcanal to push the Marines back into the sea.
• 41:33
  One of those forces was commanded by Colonel Kionao
• 41:39
  Ichiki. Ichiki had roughly 900 troops
• 41:43
  with him during the attack. And here's where things went
• 41:47
  terribly wrong. Japanese commanders badly
• 41:51
  underestimated a lost in my place.
• 41:57
  How many Americans were actually on Guadalcanal?
• 42:01
  They believed they could breakthrough the Marine defenses
• 42:04
  with a powerful nighttime assault.
• 42:07
  During the early morning hours of August 21st, 1942, a cheeky
• 42:12
  troops attacked Marine positions near Alligator Creek, waiting
• 42:17
  for them, Marines of the First Marine Regiment, supported by
• 42:22
  machine guns, artillery and other American forces.
• 42:26
  The Japanese attacked aggressively again and again,
• 42:31
  but the Marines held their positions.
• 42:33
  Imagine being one of those young Marines in the darkness.
• 42:39
  You don't have satellites. You don't have drones flying
• 42:42
  overhead giving you a perfect picture of the battlefield.
• 42:46
  You're hearing gunfire, explosions, people yelling and
• 42:50
  movement somewhere out in the darkness, and you're trying to
• 42:54
  figure out what's coming next. The fighting became the fighting
• 43:01
  became absolutely vicious. Japanese soldiers attempted to
• 43:05
  cross the creeks and breakthrough the American lines,
• 43:08
  but Marine machine gun and artillery fire devastated the
• 43:13
  attacking force. When daylight arrived, the
• 43:17
  battle wasn't finished. The Marines counter attacked.
• 43:20
  American tanks moved into the area, while American Marine
• 43:24
  infantry continued pushing against the remaining Japanese
• 43:27
  positions. By the time the Battle of Teneru
• 43:31
  ended, a Cheeky's force had nearly been destroyed.
• 43:34
  Out of roughly 900 Japanese troops involved, only a small
• 43:39
  number escaped. Colonel A Cheeky himself died
• 43:42
  following the battle. American losses were far
• 43:46
  smaller, although dozens of Marines were killed and wounded.
• 43:51
  But the importance of Teneru went beyond casualty numbers.
• 43:54
  This was the first major Japanese ground assault against
• 43:59
  the Marine perimeter on Guadalcanal, and it shattered
• 44:03
  the idea that a relatively small Japanese force could simply
• 44:06
  overwhelm the Americans and retake the island.
• 44:10
  But there was another lesson. The Marines learned something,
• 44:14
  too. Guadalcanal wasn't going to be
• 44:19
  one in one battle. The Japanese weren't coming
• 44:24
  back, or were coming back and they did.
• 44:28
  The Guadalcanal campaign continued for months with brutal
• 44:31
  fighting on land and sea and in the air.
• 44:35
  Thousands of Americans and Japanese would eventually lose
• 44:38
  their lives before the campaign ended in February of 1943.
• 44:44
  And that's why I think dates like August 21st, 1942 deserve
• 44:50
  to be remembered. History books give us battle
• 44:52
  names. They give us commanders.
• 44:54
  They give us maps. They give us casualty numbers,
• 44:57
  but behind every one of those numbers was somebody.
• 45:02
  Somebody's son, somebody's brother, somebody's husband,
• 45:05
  somebody's friend. And many of these Marines were
• 45:08
  incredibly incredible young men who found themselves thousands
• 45:12
  of miles from home, standing in the darkness on an island most
• 45:17
  Americans had probably never even heard of before the war.
• 45:21
  They didn't know how Guadalcanal would end, and they didn't know
• 45:24
  that historians would still be talking about this battle more
• 45:28
  than 8 decades later. They only knew that Marines
• 45:32
  standing beside them and the job that had been given hold the
• 45:36
  line. And they did drop the date re
• 45:41
  remember August 21st, 1942, the Battle of the Tanneroo.
• 45:49
  We remember the Marines who stood that line.
• 45:51
  We remember those who never came home.
• 45:55
  We remember that history isn't just about what happened, it's
• 45:59
  about who was there when it happened.
• 46:03
  I'm MJ and this is your drop the dates.
• 46:08
  All right, awesome. That gave me fields man.
• 46:11
  Right. Awesome, that gave.
• 46:12
  Me fields. Hey, you know, I'll tell you
• 46:15
  what everybody, you know, since I've been doing this show for a
• 46:20
  long time, every day I learned something new.
• 46:23
  Every day I'm learning something.
• 46:25
  And those that have followed the journey, those that have watched
• 46:30
  me over the years from, you know, taping a lapel mic to
• 46:34
  speakers to finally learning how to do a mixer.
• 46:38
  You know, I have, there's a there's a lot of hosts that we
• 46:43
  have here. And one of the hosts, one time
• 46:46
  he, he did a show, he's like, he's like, take, take it off is
• 46:50
  not good. And I'm like, no, you need, you
• 46:52
  need to leave it there, man. You need to leave it there.
• 46:54
  Because the important thing is it's not about the show.
• 46:59
  It's about your progression, you know?
• 47:01
  Yeah, learning. When when for for example, A
• 47:06
  really good example would be the Zac Brown Band OK.
• 47:13
  Yes. Country music.
• 47:15
  I love Zac Brown. So one of my good friends, Keith
• 47:19
  Deutsch, when he went in went went when he was part of Wounded
• 47:24
  Warrior Project. He, he went to this, this
• 47:28
  concert, there's no name concert that was opening for this other
• 47:32
  play. And they, they have this little
• 47:34
  little trailer and, you know, on Peace Paper, said Zac Brown
• 47:38
  Band. You know, and he looked at me
• 47:41
  and he's like, dude, like they were nobody.
• 47:44
  That's exactly how I found Zac Brown in about 2012 or 2013.
• 47:48
  They were at the New Orleans Jazz Fest and I saw them and
• 47:52
  that man did a cover of Metallica with the fiddle, and
• 47:57
  he was. So he's so eclectic with his
• 48:00
  music. It's not just country.
• 48:02
  So he is exceptionally talented and so he won me over in that
• 48:06
  one show. And I'm telling you like there's
• 48:08
  I had no. Idea who he was.
• 48:11
  I'll tell you, that's the reason why some of these videos that we
• 48:15
  play, these veterans playing music, like really good, really
• 48:19
  good playing music. They really are, you know.
• 48:22
  Lots of talent. Yeah, exactly.
• 48:24
  Lots of talent. That's what it's all about.
• 48:27
  It's all about progression. We're not perfect.
• 48:30
  It's all about progression and. We're going to make mistakes on
• 48:32
  live radio, you know? Oh, yeah.
• 48:35
  And you know, I tell you, we really appreciate everybody that
• 48:39
  that supports and that watches us every morning because we know
• 48:44
  it's, we know it's pretty early. We know it's.
• 48:46
  Very early, we haven't had enough coffee, right?
• 48:50
  Right now we wake up, you know, when we were doing this drop the
• 48:54
  date moment, it got me thinking. So I had an uncle, it was my
• 48:58
  grandmother's brother. And the story was that he was in
• 49:04
  the war and that a bomb went off around him.
• 49:08
  So I remember him. He was Uncle Buddy.
• 49:11
  And you know, I work with special needs children.
• 49:14
  I'm a speech language pathologist, so I rehabilitate
• 49:16
  brain injuries and things. And he was alive when I was
• 49:20
  about 5678. And we used to go and visit him
• 49:25
  in Wiggins, Ms. at the VA hospital.
• 49:29
  And I can remember he would shuffle and things like that.
• 49:32
  And they used to say that he had shell shock.
• 49:36
  Are you familiar with that? Are you?
• 49:38
  Familiar shell shock is now interpreted PTSD.
• 49:44
  OK. But you know, when I look back
• 49:46
  at it and I think about him, part of me wonders if he was
• 49:50
  special needs back then and allowed to go into the military.
• 49:55
  But they allow that back. Then kind of kind of, and you
• 50:00
  know, it's really important to know that, you know, it's,
• 50:05
  there's things that just like us that we're finding out military
• 50:11
  isn't any different. It's just like TBI.
• 50:13
  Military is even more difficult because you know the machismo
• 50:17
  and everything is going to be so strong.
• 50:20
  But I've also watched some videos and they have like these
• 50:23
  weird shuffles and I can remember him doing that and
• 50:27
  having this strange gait and shuffle and it just seemed more
• 50:32
  than like PTSD ish. But wow, if that was PTSD from
• 50:38
  shell shock, that's insane, right?
• 50:41
  Yes. Well, hey ladies and gentlemen,
• 50:43
  it is that time our interviewer is in the studio.
• 50:46
  You're going to go pick them up. Till then, she's going to shed
• 50:52
  some light on, you know, a hand up, not a hand out.
• 50:56
  Let's just put it like that. So when we come back, we'll be
• 51:00
  talking to Brianna with a joyful journey.
• 51:03
  So whatever you do, stay with us.
• 51:05
  Don't go away. You'll listen to show the
• 51:07
  highlights of the number for a program out there beyond the VA
• 51:10
  train show. Right, you're on.
• 51:12
  What are your veterans points to be heard?
• 51:14
  The station MBR stay with hand. It up.
• 54:26
  So nice to meet. The station
• 59:58
  All righty, we're back on this Red Friday, August 21st, 2026 we
• 1:00:04
  have. The interview of the wig,
• 1:00:08
  Brianna, there we go so excited to be here Well, thank you guys
• 1:00:10
  we're. Glad to have.
• 1:00:23
  You. Oh yeah.
• 1:00:25
  So nice to meet. You, you know, I, I, I read the
• 1:00:27
  website and I read, you know, how bringing the community and
• 1:00:32
  together, you know, it's not really a handout.
• 1:00:35
  It's kind of like a hand up again.
• 1:00:36
  I love that Brian tell us a little bit of like, is there a
• 1:00:42
  big story behind the nonprofit? Like how did you get involved
• 1:00:45
  so. I got involved because my
• 1:00:47
  daughter actually came to us through cheer, so we used to do
• 1:00:51
  a youth sports program. Sorry about that.
• 1:00:53
  It's. OK.
• 1:00:53
  And so I got involved with her being a cheerleader through
• 1:00:57
  their youth program and then one of those famous last lines of I
• 1:01:00
  think I can do this better. And so I offered to help and I
• 1:01:04
  started out as a cheer parent and then became a sports program
• 1:01:07
  director and now I'm the director of operations and
• 1:01:11
  running it kinda. There's a three man team of us,
• 1:01:14
  so we're all running it together.
• 1:01:15
  It's awesome. We have the executive director,
• 1:01:17
  an office manager and myself doing all of it for the
• 1:01:21
  community. So it's really fun.
• 1:01:23
  The biggest things that we're doing now is we do a food pantry
• 1:01:27
  weekly so people can come see us twice a month.
• 1:01:30
  That's free. We let people shop.
• 1:01:32
  We one of the few that say come in, grab what you want, what
• 1:01:35
  you'll eat, what you need. We have a ton of different types
• 1:01:38
  of choices. I love that.
• 1:01:40
  That's very different than those food pantries here.
• 1:01:42
  That's wonderful. And you know, the nice thing
• 1:01:45
  about it, I mean, I'm a Christian and all, but you know,
• 1:01:48
  a lot of people, they get nervous when they go into a
• 1:01:52
  church because, you know, they're like, OK, are they going
• 1:01:55
  to ask questions? Are they going to judge, you
• 1:01:57
  know, and stuff like that. And just having a nonprofit that
• 1:02:02
  has a pantry, it's a little bit more relaxing.
• 1:02:06
  And it really is. Now, for some that go to church,
• 1:02:09
  you know, hey, that's your thing.
• 1:02:12
  That's your thing. Yeah.
• 1:02:12
  There's no judgement, no judgement.
• 1:02:15
  But if you don't go to church and you show up at a church,
• 1:02:19
  it's almost like showing up at a wedding or a funeral by
• 1:02:23
  yourself. It just feels awkward.
• 1:02:25
  But, but for me, I know a little something about these food
• 1:02:28
  pantries that we have in Denver, Aurora.
• 1:02:31
  They're everywhere. What makes Brianna's different,
• 1:02:35
  it seems like, is that they're not asking the questions and
• 1:02:38
  giving them what they want. Other places, it's my
• 1:02:42
  understanding that they have to, they have to ask questions.
• 1:02:45
  You have to give an ID, you have to go through quite a process.
• 1:02:49
  It seems like 2. Is county restrictions, so kind
• 1:02:53
  of like the Auroras and the Denver's, you got to live in
• 1:02:55
  their county. OK.
• 1:02:57
  The one nice thing about Joyful Journey is I'm not a county
• 1:02:59
  affiliated. I'm not with the city, I'm not
• 1:03:01
  with the government. So you can come visit me
• 1:03:03
  wherever you live and I have no income restrictions.
• 1:03:06
  So that's another. Amazing.
• 1:03:08
  Thing because that's even. More amazing because everyone
• 1:03:12
  needs help right now. Yeah, so the biggest thing for
• 1:03:14
  us is hardships, life journeys, you know, who knows?
• 1:03:18
  You never know when you're going to lose your job.
• 1:03:20
  Right A. Child's going to get sick, you
• 1:03:22
  lose your. Especially right now in society
• 1:03:25
  life. I just bought gas.
• 1:03:27
  I just bought gas and it's 5 bucks a gallon.
• 1:03:30
  I have raised 3 kids, put three children through private school
• 1:03:33
  all the way from preschool to high school, and I feel poorer
• 1:03:38
  now as a single adult living in Denver than I did ever in my.
• 1:03:42
  Life, life's for people and unfortunately you just don't
• 1:03:46
  know when that journey's gonna come.
• 1:03:48
  And so that's why we don't have the income restriction because
• 1:03:51
  unfortunately it's not always fair that people who are low
• 1:03:55
  income always have these opportunities.
• 1:03:57
  When somebody like has a hiccup or I was in a really bad car
• 1:04:01
  accident, took me out for three months, what am I going to do?
• 1:04:03
  How am I going to feed my family when I'm not at work for three
• 1:04:06
  months? Right, especially if you don't
• 1:04:07
  have Aflac. Right.
• 1:04:09
  Well, but no, So I mean, I totally understand this concept
• 1:04:13
  because I work in healthcare and so and I work in special
• 1:04:16
  education And one of the benefits that my students are
• 1:04:20
  able to get through a separate Medicaid pool, which is kind of
• 1:04:26
  iffy right now because of everything that we're going
• 1:04:28
  through. That is one of the only middle
• 1:04:32
  class and upper class benefits from our tax dollars that I know
• 1:04:36
  I received as a parent. And I also paid for private
• 1:04:39
  therapy. So I mean, this is an amazing
• 1:04:42
  idea and people need it. You're actually targeting part
• 1:04:47
  of the community that never gets help, and we're always the ones
• 1:04:51
  who help to give. And then when we need help, it's
• 1:04:55
  not there and it's a. Big pill to swallow to ask for
• 1:04:57
  help. So that's the one thing that I
• 1:04:59
  love, that there is no judgment. There is no, you know, you can
• 1:05:06
  come. I don't.
• 1:05:07
  Yes, I love hearing the back stories.
• 1:05:09
  And I think it's amazing that people wanna share their lives
• 1:05:12
  with us and we're kind of therapy.
• 1:05:13
  For them, absolutely. I love that, but I also want
• 1:05:16
  everybody to know you don't gotta come in with a story.
• 1:05:19
  You don't need to tell me no. I'm here to help you.
• 1:05:22
  I don't care what you're in a not a harsh way.
• 1:05:25
  I don't really care what you're right.
• 1:05:27
  You're. Here right?
• 1:05:28
  No, you're still empathetic. You care about them, but you
• 1:05:31
  don't need. I don't need.
• 1:05:32
  Story. Long list of why.
• 1:05:34
  And you don't gotta feel like you have to justify to me why
• 1:05:38
  you need the help, because I'm here to help.
• 1:05:39
  What inspired this? I mean, because we've gone from
• 1:05:44
  cheer, Yeah, to a food pantry here.
• 1:05:46
  So I just, I started with the sports and then as we kind of
• 1:05:50
  had to downsize due to the economic kind of struggles that
• 1:05:54
  everybody. Kind of cheer is expensive.
• 1:05:56
  Cheer expensive. I just continued seeing the need
• 1:05:59
  and I kept seeing how I was making a huge difference.
• 1:06:03
  And so we do more than just the food pantry.
• 1:06:05
  We do also like holiday assistance, and I think that was
• 1:06:07
  the biggest one for me was Christmas.
• 1:06:10
  I'm receiving a hug from a mom who's like, without this, I
• 1:06:13
  wouldn't have been able to afford Christmas for my kids.
• 1:06:15
  Wow. It's about to put me in tears
• 1:06:16
  because it's just one of the things that like I keep coming
• 1:06:21
  back to is just the gratitude that these families give.
• 1:06:24
  Up and I can tell that you're like emotionally invested in
• 1:06:27
  this because your your eyes are a little water I.
• 1:06:30
  Have goosebumps and I do yeah. Like, it's so beautiful.
• 1:06:33
  I think it's the getting the hugs from the parents and, and
• 1:06:35
  the sharing the stories and knowing that without us, a lot
• 1:06:38
  of these kids or these families would go without.
• 1:06:41
  And so it's the reward of the job.
• 1:06:43
  It's being able to know that I'm making a difference.
• 1:06:46
  And that's what keeps bringing me back and that's what keeps
• 1:06:48
  making me go. What else can we do?
• 1:06:51
  Now, are you a Colorado native? I am.
• 1:06:54
  You know how I can tell that she's Colorado native?
• 1:06:56
  How this? Is really weird.
• 1:06:58
  This is really weird. Oh.
• 1:06:59
  No, no, I can't tell. Everybody that's a Colorado
• 1:07:03
  native, I've noticed on there on their on their nostril, the
• 1:07:07
  right nostril to always have it pierced all, all Colorado
• 1:07:12
  native. I know, I know, I know.
• 1:07:17
  There is no scientific. Where's my?
• 1:07:22
  This is not scientifically true. There are no longitudinal
• 1:07:26
  studies. OK.
• 1:07:28
  I literally just got this done like a year ago.
• 1:07:30
  With this daughter in this sober.
• 1:07:31
  And I've been wanting one ever since I was like 18 and I'm from
• 1:07:35
  New Orleans. OK, I'm.
• 1:07:37
  Not saying like everybody does. I'm just saying.
• 1:07:39
  On my dominant side of my face, I think that was the thing that
• 1:07:42
  was kind of like, where do you want it?
• 1:07:44
  They. Gave me a 10 year.
• 1:07:45
  On the right now she's gonna leave here and look at
• 1:07:48
  everybody. Are you calling her a native?
• 1:07:53
  Yeah, Hey, where are you from? I like your nose, Ray.
• 1:07:57
  So I'm sure that you help thousands of families every
• 1:08:03
  week. Yes, recently without mentioning
• 1:08:06
  names because we, we don't want to embarrass anybody.
• 1:08:09
  But is there a is there a story that really touched you that you
• 1:08:14
  can share with the community? I get them all the time.
• 1:08:18
  So there's probably no one specific.
• 1:08:21
  I think the consensus of all of it though is really this is how
• 1:08:25
  I feed my family. This is without you guys.
• 1:08:27
  I don't get to feed my family and I try to do.
• 1:08:31
  I'm a big component of equal. So for me, what I have on
• 1:08:35
  Mondays, what I'm going to try to have on a Friday, just
• 1:08:38
  because it's not fair that you work Monday through Thursday and
• 1:08:41
  only can come see me on Friday. And it's not fair that you come
• 1:08:44
  every Monday when you know I'm getting a delivery and you come
• 1:08:46
  in correct. Yeah.
• 1:08:47
  Steal. Everything and we have
• 1:08:48
  healthcare shift work. Yeah.
• 1:08:50
  So for me, I make sure that it's very plentifully even and that
• 1:08:55
  there's limits. So I think that's the biggest
• 1:08:57
  thing that I see that everybody lets me know is that I get to
• 1:09:01
  come here and pick for my kids. My kids are getting dinner.
• 1:09:03
  This sounds good. I I can't tell you how many
• 1:09:06
  people come in and like, oh, what is that?
• 1:09:07
  I'm gonna make this meal and then you're like, that sounds
• 1:09:11
  delicious. Right when are.
• 1:09:12
  We coming over for dinner. So I think that the reminder of
• 1:09:16
  like kids are being fed, especially during the summer
• 1:09:19
  time and you know, schools and so I try to plenish there's the
• 1:09:23
  snackies for the kids. Take what you want.
• 1:09:25
  You know, I got two teenagers. I just took one to college last
• 1:09:28
  week. Or this?
• 1:09:29
  They eat so much. They just eat you out of the
• 1:09:31
  house, so. I do.
• 1:09:33
  I always tell my kids a joke. I'm like, I need your school
• 1:09:35
  stomachs, please. And they're like, what is that,
• 1:09:37
  mom? You know, the one you don't eat.
• 1:09:39
  Right. Well, I mean, I think that's a
• 1:09:42
  beautiful thing because that's something that I worry about.
• 1:09:47
  I'm from New Orleans and I spent almost 20 years in Orleans
• 1:09:50
  Parish. And when we would go on breaks,
• 1:09:53
  oh, it's bad. I was so nervous.
• 1:09:55
  I was so scared for my kids because not only for the things
• 1:09:59
  that could happen to them, but I knew that school was one of the
• 1:10:03
  only places. That's where they were.
• 1:10:05
  Yeah, that's where they eat. And there are kids here.
• 1:10:08
  Yeah, many kids here. Now with Buckley Air Force Base
• 1:10:12
  not very too far from here, I'm, I'm, I'm guessing that there's a
• 1:10:17
  lot of veterans or a lot of soul airmen that come to your
• 1:10:22
  location and before you know, just letting you know anytime
• 1:10:27
  that we can support you, let us know.
• 1:10:30
  Absolutely. OK, So that we can we can help
• 1:10:32
  you with that with resources because I've got resources as
• 1:10:35
  well. But you know, I have, have you
• 1:10:38
  saw an increase in military needed support or it hasn't
• 1:10:45
  mainly been, you know, not military, no.
• 1:10:48
  I get a healthy share of everything.
• 1:10:50
  I get a healthy share of seniors, I get a healthy share
• 1:10:52
  of veterans, I get a healthy share of low income.
• 1:10:55
  And so something is we have to kind of track who we help.
• 1:11:00
  That's just part of the agreements we have with the food
• 1:11:02
  pantries that provide us the food.
• 1:11:04
  OK. Cuz we are donation based, so we
• 1:11:07
  don't spend a single penny on any of our food.
• 1:11:09
  So anything that we get is either through a grocery rescue
• 1:11:11
  program, Food Bank of the Rockies, public donations,
• 1:11:15
  private donations. So everything is donation based,
• 1:11:18
  but part of our agreement with who Bank of the Rockies is
• 1:11:20
  because of their primary is we have to kind of track who we're
• 1:11:23
  helping and we do collect demographics, but right again
• 1:11:26
  it's I collect your demographics and you become a number.
• 1:11:28
  Out of the perfect Yeah, There's no name attached to it, it's
• 1:11:31
  just the demographic. I just kind of, you know, what
• 1:11:33
  city and county you have. It male, female.
• 1:11:36
  Yeah. And.
• 1:11:37
  Veteran, non veteran, you know. And I totally understand because
• 1:11:40
  like when, when I have veterans coming to me, you know, when do
• 1:11:44
  a show or needing support for something else, you know, they,
• 1:11:47
  they, they sit there and like, oh, I'm 100, you know, they just
• 1:11:50
  go on, you know, tell me how to disable their own.
• 1:11:53
  And I'm like, look, first of all, it's none of our business
• 1:11:56
  what percentage you are, you need help, you need help, you
• 1:11:59
  fill out an application. Now the application process.
• 1:12:04
  How is that with you guys? Nonprofit for them to gain
• 1:12:06
  access to the food bank. So.
• 1:12:09
  We are online on our website is a good place to start.
• 1:12:13
  We threw food pantry appointments through an app
• 1:12:16
  called Plentiful so you can either go straight from our
• 1:12:18
  website which will take you to the app or your website
• 1:12:21
  www.joyfuljourneys.org so you can come visit that anytime you
• 1:12:28
  want. We have on there to make an
• 1:12:29
  appointment. We also have on there how to
• 1:12:30
  sign up for other events, the free events that we also do
• 1:12:33
  other ways to we provide to the community like our holiday
• 1:12:37
  assistance, and we can talk about that in just a second.
• 1:12:40
  Or they can go straight through the Plentiful app, which is
• 1:12:42
  something you can download or go to their website and make an
• 1:12:45
  appointment. Again, it's kind of real easy.
• 1:12:48
  We're just by appointment. It sounds easy.
• 1:12:50
  Yeah, you just kind of make an appointment.
• 1:12:51
  I always get phone calls of help me make an appointment or when
• 1:12:55
  is the next time you guys have a time.
• 1:12:57
  And I tell people all the time, just constantly check that
• 1:12:59
  plentiful app because people delete and cancel.
• 1:13:02
  Things happen. Sometimes people can't make
• 1:13:03
  their appointments. Appointments open up fairly
• 1:13:05
  frequently and I only have it out for a month so it's never
• 1:13:08
  like someone can't come in and make an appointment three months
• 1:13:11
  out and OK, forget about their appointment, right?
• 1:13:13
  That's another thing. We all get busy in our lives and
• 1:13:16
  I don't even know what I'm doing in 2 days from now, let alone
• 1:13:19
  what I'm. Doing yeah from now.
• 1:13:20
  Seriously. Like last night I had to
• 1:13:22
  remember all of my appointments for today.
• 1:13:25
  Why do I keep forgetting this? Like.
• 1:13:27
  Don't forget to go here for. A month now so that it's not one
• 1:13:30
  of these like a dreaded like oh. I forgot I did that.
• 1:13:34
  Well, I'm just glad that you came in because so she just got
• 1:13:38
  back from overseas. Oh wow, what were you doing
• 1:13:41
  overseas? I, my son graduated high school,
• 1:13:43
  so part of his graduation gift was a vacation.
• 1:13:46
  So I did that. And then ironically, just the
• 1:13:48
  timing of everything because I am a single mom and juggling
• 1:13:52
  kids and work and personal. I understand.
• 1:13:55
  Yeah. Oh, a new chapter in my life
• 1:13:57
  that I sometimes feel like I am failing.
• 1:13:59
  No, you're not. But I did that.
• 1:14:01
  And then ironically, he left to go to California for college,
• 1:14:04
  for baseball. And so I literally just got back
• 1:14:07
  last night from taking him to Northern California to sit, you
• 1:14:11
  know, get him situated. So it's.
• 1:14:12
  Like driver flaws. So awesome, I did both.
• 1:14:15
  Oh boy. It's a 21 hour drive there so we
• 1:14:17
  had to get his car out there. So I drove the first half and
• 1:14:20
  then I flew home last night after.
• 1:14:21
  What position does he play? Pitcher.
• 1:14:24
  I was just telling Joel about I have a little cousin who was
• 1:14:26
  drafted from to the Astros. He just got move to the Padres
• 1:14:32
  AAA. But yes, so he's a pitcher as
• 1:14:35
  well. So that's awesome college.
• 1:14:37
  Out there and it's different from Mama's heart.
• 1:14:39
  So this will be a new chapter. Again, not at home.
• 1:14:42
  It's it's gonna be OK, Mom. Yeah, it's gonna be OK.
• 1:14:45
  I've been kind of juggling, you know, when do you get a time off
• 1:14:48
  for yourself and that, you know, mental.
• 1:14:50
  Health, I hope that you're doing that.
• 1:14:51
  Yeah, and and the jet lag has train chilling you.
• 1:14:54
  Well 3330 and 23 and self-care was not something talked about
• 1:14:59
  way back when. So you need take care of
• 1:15:01
  yourself. I feel like I'm learning that
• 1:15:02
  now as a single mom, even before I was, you know, married and all
• 1:15:06
  that. I'm like, now is when I'm
• 1:15:07
  finding out I need to take care of myself and it's crazy.
• 1:15:10
  I feel like I'm becoming a human being after 50 years old and
• 1:15:13
  learning how to live life. Yes, yes, it's different.
• 1:15:16
  Yeah. Joel feels that way too,
• 1:15:18
  sometimes. He's always confused.
• 1:15:20
  Oh. My God, kidding.
• 1:15:22
  I'm kidding. You know, I I never use a CPAP
• 1:15:24
  machine. Now I have to use a CPAP
• 1:15:26
  machine. This is Darty.
• 1:15:28
  This is Darth Vader of the. Teller Yeah, Granddaughter
• 1:15:33
  looked at me all weird, and one of my friends like you look like
• 1:15:36
  beer. Has Boots sent you to a
• 1:15:41
  different room yet? Okay.
• 1:15:43
  Is Beaker going to be living in another?
• 1:15:45
  Oh, yeah, yeah. Beaker was in a room a long time
• 1:15:49
  ago, yeah. Boots is smart.
• 1:15:55
  Like where's the thing going? We have our own bag, the.
• 1:15:58
  Other side of the bed is for snacks and laundry for.
• 1:16:01
  The dog? Yes, exactly.
• 1:16:03
  So tell us what you guys have in the near future that you'd like
• 1:16:08
  to push out to let everybody know about for sure.
• 1:16:11
  So we are wrapping up back to school.
• 1:16:13
  So we just did it back to school.
• 1:16:14
  I'm doing another giveaway. I I was blessed with about 200
• 1:16:17
  backpacks. So after our event.
• 1:16:19
  So I'm doing another event on Monday.
• 1:16:20
  So I'm going to try to push out backpacks for those that are
• 1:16:23
  still in need of school supplies because that stuff is expensive.
• 1:16:26
  My heart is just so happy right now.
• 1:16:29
  You're interesting. Ask for the craziest be.
• 1:16:32
  Crazy. We do not ask.
• 1:16:33
  Well, I'm not. I'm a speech therapist in the
• 1:16:35
  schools and we do not ask for crazy things.
• 1:16:37
  You guys ask? For crazy.
• 1:16:38
  Things MBR does something every Christmas.
• 1:16:42
  We've been doing it for 9 years, nine years.
• 1:16:46
  We give these backpacks to the homeless veterans at Valor,
• 1:16:51
  Valor Point in Lakewood. And these backpacks, not only do
• 1:16:56
  they have, you know, office supplies and materials, but they
• 1:17:00
  have nonprofit swag and stuff so that when they get out of the
• 1:17:06
  PTSD program, unlike the military, they have all these
• 1:17:11
  nonprofits that can help them navigate the system with with
• 1:17:16
  tools. We've been doing that for nine
• 1:17:19
  years. And you know, Brandon Stokely
• 1:17:22
  comes over and, you know, he, he visits with them and you know,
• 1:17:27
  we've, we've had a lot of success with that.
• 1:17:30
  You know I. I was the duck last time.
• 1:17:34
  He was a very good duck. That's hilarious.
• 1:17:36
  The thing is. People need these resources and
• 1:17:38
  I don't think that a lot of people understand that.
• 1:17:41
  So that's a thing to provide families with their resources
• 1:17:44
  because it is, it's there's a ton of us out there.
• 1:17:47
  There's a bunch of different resources for and different
• 1:17:50
  requirements and different this and different that.
• 1:17:52
  It's hard to navigate that. So I think that's amazing that
• 1:17:54
  you're giving them like a black book essentially of like options
• 1:17:58
  and ideas and places to start because none of us are in
• 1:18:02
  competition with each other. There's plenty of supplies and
• 1:18:05
  resources to give everybody. And I think that's something
• 1:18:07
  that really needs to be known to is that you can come to me and
• 1:18:12
  another person and it's OK. Absolutely.
• 1:18:15
  And that's so I have friends who are international and we
• 1:18:18
  actually had this discussion probably about a month ago about
• 1:18:22
  how in America there's so much shame attached to when you're
• 1:18:25
  struggling and things like that. But in other countries, in
• 1:18:28
  Europe and Canada and other places like that, it's like, oh
• 1:18:32
  hey, this one's struggling. We need to help them.
• 1:18:34
  And everybody comes together and there's no shame.
• 1:18:37
  And it seems to be very unique to America.
• 1:18:39
  And we need to. We need to and.
• 1:18:41
  I think a lot to our people as I see on the both ends of it, I
• 1:18:44
  see the the nonprofit side. I see the people needing help.
• 1:18:47
  Yeah, I've been a person that's. Needing help so we all have.
• 1:18:50
  We all have very. It's competition ish and.
• 1:18:53
  It's Yeah, it is. It's not.
• 1:18:56
  Yeah, Yeah. And it doesn't mean you're a
• 1:18:58
  loser. It doesn't mean that you have
• 1:19:00
  failed. We all have little pieces and
• 1:19:03
  parts where we dip. Here the sun always rises.
• 1:19:07
  You know, you know, like. It sets and it rises and we got
• 1:19:10
  to move with it. And, you know, and like when,
• 1:19:12
  whenever, when I first started that I would go to these
• 1:19:15
  nonprofits, hey, you know, I want swag.
• 1:19:17
  And so, you know, they, they well, we got brochures, OK?
• 1:19:21
  Brochures and business cards, they're going to be thrown away,
• 1:19:25
  OK? If you want to really help your
• 1:19:28
  nonprofit, you'd need to put like, stuff like emblems on
• 1:19:31
  stuff that people use. Don't.
• 1:19:34
  Don't give them a shirt because their 5050 cotton shirt is going
• 1:19:38
  to go in the closet right by Tim Tebow's jersey, OK?
• 1:19:42
  Thermal mugs, backpacks. Thermal mugs are awesome.
• 1:19:45
  And pins. Ping pins.
• 1:19:46
  Well, I love pans I never had. I'm very specific with my pans.
• 1:19:51
  Egg pins, stress balls, key chains, stuff like that.
• 1:19:57
  You know, things that people use every day.
• 1:20:01
  You know what you got to think when you're doing like the
• 1:20:04
  promotion stuff, you know, you put your logo on absolutely
• 1:20:08
  anything, but like, what do you need every single day?
• 1:20:11
  Yeah, exactly. I love that I collect them too.
• 1:20:14
  I love that. I'm going to take that one.
• 1:20:17
  Well, we always get good ones in the medical world.
• 1:20:19
  Oh yeah, yes, OK. I love me some pad and I have
• 1:20:23
  some. Real weird ones.
• 1:20:24
  And I'm like, you know, I don't even care what this says right
• 1:20:26
  now. This is kind.
• 1:20:27
  Of weird. If it's weird, give it to.
• 1:20:29
  Me right, smooth so I'm. Going to take it better.
• 1:20:32
  Well, I'll tell you what, I, I went into a doctor's office one
• 1:20:35
  time and, you know, I, I still, I, you know, I still peeing or
• 1:20:39
  whatever, you know, and I, I quit doing that the day somebody
• 1:20:43
  was like, why do you have a Viagra pin?
• 1:20:45
  And I'm like, OK, so make sure, make sure you grab the right
• 1:20:50
  pin, you know, Oh. I've had worse, but yes, I, I
• 1:20:54
  medical ones. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:20:56
  Good. So I'm like, it's a story now,
• 1:20:58
  because now I'm going to have to tell you when you ask me why do
• 1:21:00
  I have this pin about, you know, genital warts or something
• 1:21:03
  stupid. I don't my kind of.
• 1:21:07
  Girl, I don't know if you've heard the joke.
• 1:21:10
  I'm telling this joke. I don't know if you've heard a
• 1:21:12
  joke. And then we'll go to the time of
• 1:21:14
  shine. But there's a joke where you
• 1:21:16
  know, this guy goes to the teller at the bank and she's
• 1:21:20
  he's like, she's like, do you need a pen?
• 1:21:23
  He's like, Nope, Nope. I got a pen.
• 1:21:24
  And he reaches, reaches in to grab a pen and he's like, well,
• 1:21:30
  and it was a girl and she was a nurse and she was like, well,
• 1:21:34
  Dang it. She's like some butthole stole
• 1:21:36
  my pen. Well, you know, I'd be upset
• 1:21:39
  too. I have a memory.
• 1:21:42
  How much time do we have real? Quick, about 3-4 minutes. 3 or 4
• 1:21:46
  minutes. OK, Well, we were talking about
• 1:21:48
  how humbling it is sometimes when we need assistance and that
• 1:21:52
  we all go through it. And it brought me back to one of
• 1:21:56
  the first times that I was actually on the other end of
• 1:22:00
  needing help, OK? And so everybody always asks me
• 1:22:04
  about Hurricane Katrina. So in New Orleans, we're over
• 1:22:08
  Katrina. However, we're not over the
• 1:22:10
  memories of it. And so when I was traveling
• 1:22:14
  back, my children were 12:10 and 2:00.
• 1:22:17
  At the time, we didn't know what we're coming back to.
• 1:22:20
  I get a little emotional. Our anniversary is coming up.
• 1:22:23
  OK. And so we stopped at a
• 1:22:26
  jack-in-the-box. I was somewhere in Texas, I
• 1:22:28
  think. I don't know.
• 1:22:31
  We were back pretty quickly because we had Patriot passes.
• 1:22:35
  We worked in medicine. And so we lost everything, but
• 1:22:39
  we didn't know yet. And so at this jack-in-the-box,
• 1:22:42
  my kids and I were a whole family were sitting there, the
• 1:22:47
  workers. This gets me so emotional every
• 1:22:49
  time. And the workers there went to
• 1:22:52
  the Dollar General while we were eating and brought back bags of
• 1:22:58
  toys for my children. And it was the most humbling
• 1:23:02
  experience because I'm a professional and so is my
• 1:23:05
  ex-husband. And you know, both of my parents
• 1:23:08
  were bankers. We never really wanted for much
• 1:23:10
  of anything. But here we were in this
• 1:23:12
  situation. And so I just, I wanted to share
• 1:23:16
  that because we all go through moments in time and it was a
• 1:23:20
  very humbling experience, but it was a very beautiful experience.
• 1:23:24
  And so I just wanted to share that.
• 1:23:27
  It gave me yeah, it it just don't, don't feel ashamed to ask
• 1:23:32
  for help. I didn't even ask for help, but
• 1:23:33
  those people knew that my kids, it's.
• 1:23:36
  The memory that you have now, years later.
• 1:23:38
  This lasts with you. This is 20 years, 21 years
• 1:23:41
  exactly. What I do so on top of school
• 1:23:44
  supplies, we also do Thanksgiving dinners.
• 1:23:46
  So families in need who Thanksgiving dinners, the whole
• 1:23:50
  fixings, the Turkey, all the fixings, we get donated and then
• 1:23:53
  we distributed them to families. We do our big Christmas one.
• 1:23:56
  That's a big one. So that's an opportunity to for
• 1:23:58
  people to volunteer and give back to their community, but
• 1:24:01
  also receive. So we give new gifts, we bring
• 1:24:04
  Santa out, we have stocking stuffers, they can grab their
• 1:24:08
  presents. I bring a mobile food pantry to
• 1:24:10
  the event. It's a big four day event.
• 1:24:12
  Let me know how I can help. I will.
• 1:24:14
  OK, I'm here. Boom boom.
• 1:24:16
  It takes two weeks to set up, It's a big one.
• 1:24:18
  And then Easter Baskets is our last one.
• 1:24:20
  So that's another kind of how we get back to the holiday side.
• 1:24:23
  And then before I forget also we offer free CPR classes of once a
• 1:24:27
  month. That's nice.
• 1:24:29
  Wow, that's. Nice.
• 1:24:30
  Wow I just saw a TikTok I'm like what in the world is it?
• 1:24:35
  I just saw a tick tock about somebody doing CPR on a on a
• 1:24:40
  dog. I.
• 1:24:41
  Did CPR on my dog. Well, this is like a tiny dog
• 1:24:45
  they just birth. They had to put their their
• 1:24:47
  mouth inside their mouth. My dog.
• 1:24:50
  Not tiny, but she was outside in her.
• 1:24:53
  Yeah, I did CPR on my job. I made my kids.
• 1:24:56
  It's never too. You're never too young to learn
• 1:24:58
  how to save a life. So that's the biggest thing for
• 1:25:00
  us. The CPR class itself is free.
• 1:25:02
  If you need all the certification, then that goes to
• 1:25:04
  the instructor and it's really low, low cost because she's
• 1:25:06
  working with us and she knows. I need to be out, so you're
• 1:25:09
  going to be my contact now because I haven't feel I need to
• 1:25:14
  check. I think I have until next.
• 1:25:15
  Year she does BLS, she does the certification, but the class
• 1:25:18
  itself is free because knowledge is power.
• 1:25:20
  Right, right, and. Something else that we really
• 1:25:21
  want our families to know, that we want to encourage these other
• 1:25:25
  things of knowledge to help, and that's where the kind of the
• 1:25:27
  hand up is instead of a hand out, is that we want to be able
• 1:25:31
  to provide these other resources, whether it be us or
• 1:25:33
  another organization, to help these families get back on their
• 1:25:36
  feet and get them going where they need to be because nobody
• 1:25:39
  wants to sit and struggle. Right, that's the word.
• 1:25:41
  Nobody's choosing that. Yeah.
• 1:25:43
  So that's where we're kind of like, let us help you, how can
• 1:25:46
  we help you? Where do you need the help?
• 1:25:48
  And let us together with other resources so that we can say
• 1:25:53
  this is your need here. I got a flyer for you or I got a
• 1:25:55
  person for you or I have this for you.
• 1:25:58
  Because, like I said, nobody wants to continue struggling.
• 1:26:01
  No, that's. The biggest thing for us is that
• 1:26:03
  that's where the hand up instead of a hand out is, because
• 1:26:07
  everybody can get free and everybody can sit here with
• 1:26:09
  their hand out and just keep coming.
• 1:26:10
  But what good does that do for you?
• 1:26:11
  What? That is the minority.
• 1:26:13
  So that is the minority of people on assistance and and
• 1:26:18
  most people like to believe that's the majority of people,
• 1:26:23
  but I have dedicated my career to low income and those types of
• 1:26:26
  areas and it is not. Well, I will say this and this
• 1:26:30
  will be, it's not really a question, but we're, you know,
• 1:26:33
  we're getting ready to go to the time to shine.
• 1:26:35
  But I will say this that, you know, I've learned dealing with
• 1:26:39
  like nonprofits and stuff and I tell them like, look, you know,
• 1:26:43
  right now you might not need a nonprofit.
• 1:26:46
  And it's hard to get back. It's, it's hard to get behind
• 1:26:51
  something if you've never been affected.
• 1:26:54
  But if you've been affected by it, then you're going to support
• 1:26:58
  it. I, I, I make a joke about it,
• 1:27:02
  but it's, it's the seriousness. Like I don't have any family
• 1:27:05
  members that are midgets, OK, but I am well, I, I, I don't
• 1:27:10
  have feelings and religious, so I don't support Midget
• 1:27:14
  wrestling. All right, but if I did support
• 1:27:17
  Midget wrestling, so. You know, I'm close to being a
• 1:27:21
  little person. Nobody's littler than me.
• 1:27:24
  I'm shorter than you, no. You're not.
• 1:27:27
  You're not. We're going to argue with this
• 1:27:30
  behind the scenes. It's that time, everybody.
• 1:27:33
  I'm shorter than you and a a better teleprompter.
• 1:27:35
  It is the once again, I just want to say thank you for coming
• 1:27:48
  in here stunning attitude. You're you're you're the kind of
• 1:27:51
  person that we wanted to come in here and and talk to.
• 1:27:54
  Yeah, you're awesome. I love the Friday.
• 1:27:57
  Show Friday. So with this, with this, with
• 1:28:02
  this interview, maybe we didn't ask you that right specific
• 1:28:06
  question that like got to that answer to where maybe there's
• 1:28:11
  something that's really laying on your chest.
• 1:28:15
  This is your two minutes to tell whatever you want to our
• 1:28:20
  community that's watching, that's listening.
• 1:28:24
  And I, I didn't tell you this, but this is on Roku TV as well.
• 1:28:28
  So yeah, this is your two minutes to try.
• 1:28:32
  Yeah. So the biggest thing is I just
• 1:28:33
  want everybody to know that you can reach out to us.
• 1:28:36
  You can go to our website to reach out.
• 1:28:37
  You can e-mail me. It's on the website.
• 1:28:40
  So anybody who needs help, like I said, if it's food you need,
• 1:28:44
  we have tons of different choices, which is this is
• 1:28:46
  another thing I really want everyone to understand at the
• 1:28:48
  food pantry is because everybody's got food
• 1:28:51
  sensitivities now, which is God bless you because food is like
• 1:28:55
  life to me. So I don't know how what I would
• 1:28:56
  do if I had. I feel this.
• 1:28:58
  I'm caging, I love, but we have those things, you know, I have a
• 1:29:03
  plentiful amount of for the vegans, for the dairy free, for
• 1:29:07
  the gluten, for the different type of religions that have all
• 1:29:11
  these different. Needs for the pork.
• 1:29:13
  Yeah, exactly. So this.
• 1:29:14
  Is something I really want to stress and that it's a grocery
• 1:29:17
  store like feeling you get to shop for things that you would
• 1:29:20
  eat and enjoy and actually use. That being said, it's all
• 1:29:25
  donation based so if anybody ever wants to donate to their
• 1:29:28
  cause please let me know. Volunteering is huge.
• 1:29:31
  Volunteering for us is like the heartbeat of our nonprofit.
• 1:29:34
  So for us we need that help. It's the extra hands and they
• 1:29:38
  always say many hands mate like work cannot stress that enough
• 1:29:42
  in a non profit because there is only a couple of us that do this
• 1:29:45
  every single day and then the drop in volunteer is.
• 1:29:48
  Always the same people in those types of positions.
• 1:29:51
  Yeah, it's always so volunteering is.
• 1:29:53
  I'm volunteering for you, so I encourage everyone to follow me.
• 1:29:57
  Thank you. We have a couple things.
• 1:29:59
  The other thing everyone also is this will go probably for the
• 1:30:01
  veterans too, is we own a smash room, a rage room.
• 1:30:04
  Oh wow. So smash therapy, Yeah.
• 1:30:07
  Oh, I like this HG. We're going to be a field.
• 1:30:09
  Trip. So that's a fundraiser for us.
• 1:30:12
  That's what helps pay our bills to keep the lights on.
• 1:30:14
  We're attached together, the food pantry and this rage room.
• 1:30:17
  So that's another one that I always try to stress too, for
• 1:30:20
  everybody, especially for therapy.
• 1:30:22
  What like. Physical address.
• 1:30:24
  So we have two, but the main 1 is going to be 9034 W 88th Ave.
• 1:30:30
  and that's in Westminster, OK Westminster, kind of down the
• 1:30:32
  street from here. The rage room is 9050 but
• 1:30:35
  they're attached so OK. We'll put that in the podcast.
• 1:30:37
  I need to. Smash something?
• 1:30:39
  Yeah, the therapy of smashing something is also very
• 1:30:42
  beneficial for anybody that has. We used to do.
• 1:30:47
  We used to do that in high school.
• 1:30:49
  They brought it in a car and yeah, 10 bucks for a swing.
• 1:30:53
  But in the last five years, this has become smash therapy is
• 1:30:56
  becoming. Yes, I get grief is a big one
• 1:31:00
  and I Oh yeah, I did not realize until owning and working and
• 1:31:04
  being part of it, the grief of it, where people come in with
• 1:31:06
  grief and it's like so therapeutical and you just hear
• 1:31:10
  them. Sometimes it makes you cry
• 1:31:12
  because you can just hear them releasing and it's like get it
• 1:31:15
  girl. That's right, healthy anger it
• 1:31:18
  healthy anger is OK and come. Smash, break back and we get to
• 1:31:21
  clean up your mess. So really the best of both
• 1:31:23
  worlds. You know you, you're an amazing
• 1:31:25
  person. Come, yeah.
• 1:31:26
  I haven't team, I'm not a I'm not a one man show.
• 1:31:29
  I have an amazing team, so I just have to get them kudos.
• 1:31:31
  You have a team, but we all know that nonprofits or they're,
• 1:31:35
  they're the kind of skeletons cruise usually.
• 1:31:38
  Usually it's like 2 people, one worker bee and like two or three
• 1:31:43
  people I know. All the people with empathy and
• 1:31:45
  all the fields when? People who cry when together
• 1:31:48
  When? People look at nonprofits.
• 1:31:50
  They're like, oh, they, you know, they get all this money
• 1:31:53
  and grant money. You know, getting a grant was
• 1:31:56
  like finding a needle in the haystack.
• 1:31:58
  And there's rules with that grant.
• 1:31:59
  It's just. Free money just to just.
• 1:32:01
  Win it, right? Exactly.
• 1:32:03
  Simulations and people I don't think realize that and again,
• 1:32:06
  we're donation based like that. I don't have a budget to buy
• 1:32:09
  food, I do not have a budget to buy.
• 1:32:11
  Christmas toys I do not have a budget to buy.
• 1:32:13
  Back to world supplies. And I think people get that,
• 1:32:15
  like that shame of nonprofits in that sense of like, well, you're
• 1:32:19
  a nonprofit, so everything's just given to you, that
• 1:32:21
  mentality. And it's like, do you know the
• 1:32:22
  amount of hours I have to go hunt this stuff down?
• 1:32:25
  It doesn't even happen that way for United Way.
• 1:32:28
  So I worked. I did this for United Way for a
• 1:32:31
  long time. It doesn't work that way for a
• 1:32:34
  large organization. I wish it would drop in my, I
• 1:32:36
  just wish it would drop in my lap.
• 1:32:38
  But that's not how that works. So we have to come up with other
• 1:32:41
  ways. And it's the people and it's the
• 1:32:43
  community that helps these nonprofits.
• 1:32:45
  So continue helping the nonprofits.
• 1:32:47
  You're you're doing the Lord's. Work.
• 1:32:49
  Yes, Yes, you are. Liana, thank you so much for
• 1:32:52
  coming in. We'll have to have you in here
• 1:32:54
  again sometime. Around, I think, holidays.
• 1:32:57
  Hell yeah. Back in here.
• 1:32:59
  Yeah, yeah. We'll, we'll do something.
• 1:33:02
  People there, dinners and dinners and Christmas.
• 1:33:04
  Gifts I'm happy about this week. Many.
• 1:33:07
  Times. Well, everybody, we're running
• 1:33:08
  out of time, so we we're going to go on a quick commercial
• 1:33:13
  break, ladies and gentlemen, Once, huh?
• 1:33:18
  Yep. Once again, ladies and
• 1:33:20
  gentlemen, Brianna's here, joyousjourney.org.
• 1:33:24
  Check them out. And with that being said, you're
• 1:33:27
  listening to the show, the highlight talking about profit
• 1:33:29
  programs out there. Be on VA, you're on MBR.
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  Stay with us. TRIM Troop next.
• 1:33:38
  And trivia, Oh. Trivia detail Attention.
• 1:33:47
  First, call. The service member's name is
• 1:33:49
  called out loud. In the context of a unit.
• 1:33:52
  This is meant to ensure all are present and accounted for.
• 1:33:56
  Second call, The name is called out again louder to confirm that
• 1:34:00
  the service member is indeed absent.
• 1:34:03
  Third call, The name is called out for a final time, followed
• 1:34:07
  by a statement indicating that the service member is not
• 1:34:10
  present and accounted for, signifying their death.
• 1:34:13
  The final roll call serves as a symbolic gesture to respect and
• 1:34:17
  remember their service. Sir, I don't.
• 1:34:26
  I'm not telling the story. Well, you got the joke.
• 1:34:28
  You telling me people wouldn't? Give you you tell them how much
• 1:34:32
  troopers died. Hey everyone, thank you for
• 1:34:58
  tuning in to MBR today. This we pay tribute to Marine
• 1:35:02
  Corps Captain Richard Dick Noble, age 87, of Ellersburg,
• 1:35:06
  Pennsylvania. Dick was born on April 28th,
• 1:35:09
  1939 to Lawrence and Margaret Pegg Salter.
• 1:35:13
  For Noble, Dick grew up in the family business, learning early
• 1:35:16
  the values of hard work, responsibility, and
• 1:35:19
  perseverance. Those values shaped a man who
• 1:35:22
  believed there was always a way forward, a belief he carried
• 1:35:25
  with him into the Marine Corps. After earning his engineering
• 1:35:29
  degree from Lehigh University, Dick answered the call to serve.
• 1:35:33
  From 1962 to 1965, he served on active duty as an aircraft
• 1:35:38
  maintenance officer, including time with the first Marine
• 1:35:42
  Aircraft Wing in IK Kuni, Japan. He continued to service in the
• 1:35:47
  Marine Corps Reserve, ultimately attaining the rank of Captain.
• 1:35:51
  And those who knew him will tell you Dick never stopped being a
• 1:35:54
  Marine. His discipline, determination
• 1:35:57
  and refusal to accept it can't be done, stayed with him
• 1:36:00
  throughout his life. In 1968, Dick married the love
• 1:36:05
  of his life, Barbara, and together they raised their sons,
• 1:36:08
  Rick and Brian, in a home where family and community were
• 1:36:11
  inseparable. Their hospitality became part of
• 1:36:15
  the Canoebel's experience, welcoming families with the same
• 1:36:18
  warmth they showed their own. In 1988, Dick not to leave the
• 1:36:23
  Noble's Amusement Resort in nearly 4 decades of growth.
• 1:36:27
  Under his steady hand, the park expanded into a destination
• 1:36:31
  where families could spend days making memories.
• 1:36:34
  But for Dick's, growth was never about adding more, it was about
• 1:36:37
  giving families new ways to be together.
• 1:36:40
  He walked the park with pride, listening to carousel organs,
• 1:36:44
  checking out projects, talking with team members, and watching
• 1:36:47
  families enjoy the place he dedicated his life to.
• 1:36:51
  He believed deeply in craftsmanship, dedication, and
• 1:36:54
  the heart of people who made nobles special.
• 1:36:58
  He expected excellence, but he expected them all from himself.
• 1:37:02
  Thick influence reached far beyond Ellisburg.
• 1:37:05
  He served in leadership roles across the amusement industry
• 1:37:08
  and in 2014, he was. Inducted.
• 1:37:11
  In to the International Association of Amusement Parks
• 1:37:14
  and Attractions Hall of Fame. He was also an Eagle Scout, a
• 1:37:18
  33rd degree Scottish Rite Mason, and a loyal supporter of the
• 1:37:23
  Masonic Children's Village Service.
• 1:37:27
  Was not something he did, it was who he was.
• 1:37:30
  On July 16th, 2026, Dick passed away peacefully surrounded by
• 1:37:36
  loved ones at the age of 87. Dick is survived by his sons,
• 1:37:40
  grandchildren, siblings, extended family, and his
• 1:37:43
  brothers and sisters in arms. We here at MBR would like to
• 1:37:47
  thank you, Captain Richard Knoebel for your service and
• 1:37:51
  dedication to our country. You leave a legacy of love and
• 1:37:54
  courage. Our prayers are with your
• 1:37:56
  family, friends and those who served alongside you.
• 1:38:00
  You are truly missed. Bell detailed, tinted, ready.
• 1:42:56
  Every set back is just a setup for a comeback.
• 1:42:59
  Keep cracking forward. 90% of what we worry about in future
• 1:43:02
  never happens. Whenever things get rough or it
• 1:43:06
  feels like you're at the edge, remember this storms.
• 1:43:10
  Pass. Tough times don't last, but
• 1:43:14
  tough people do. All right, ladies and gentlemen,
• 1:43:23
  we sure back. Man, that was a good interview.
• 1:43:28
  She gave us a little pep talk. I love it.
• 1:43:31
  I love it. And with that being said, we
• 1:43:35
  we're going into our next segment, the story behind it
• 1:43:42
  all. Solid olive green made soldiers
• 1:43:55
  easy to see. ERDL camouflage saved lives.
• 1:43:59
  Grenada. Grenada showed it was too hot.
• 1:44:01
  That is the story. All right, ladies and gentlemen,
• 1:44:05
  you know, there's a lot of stories that I can come up with.
• 1:44:09
  And you know, I, I thought to myself, Monday, I'm like, you
• 1:44:13
  know, what, what, what, what would I like to know about?
• 1:44:17
  And I'm like, you know, I, I yell all the time because, you
• 1:44:21
  know, we have the highest, it's not much, but we have the
• 1:44:25
  highest paid military. And the military, they like to
• 1:44:30
  change their uniforms constantly.
• 1:44:33
  While I was in, we changed PT uniforms three times.
• 1:44:37
  It was ridiculous. And so I wanted to tell a little
• 1:44:41
  bit of sort of how that became so in the ninth in the in the
• 1:44:48
  1960s, United States Army sending soldiers halfway around
• 1:44:53
  the world in Vietnam. And when many of these soldiers
• 1:44:56
  arrived, well, they're wearing something that looks nothing
• 1:45:01
  like most of us today. Picture when we hear the words
• 1:45:06
  combat uniform, they're wearing green, basically one color,
• 1:45:12
  olive green. Now put that soldier in Vietnam.
• 1:45:16
  Thick jungle, different shades of green, brown branches, black
• 1:45:20
  shadows, sunlight breaking through the canopy and staming
• 1:45:24
  in the middle of all of this as an American soldier wearing
• 1:45:28
  essentially one big black block of green.
• 1:45:34
  Well, here's the problem. Nature isn't one color, and when
• 1:45:38
  somebody on the other side is actively looking for a being
• 1:45:42
  difficult to see it as a fashion statement.
• 1:45:46
  It could be the difference between coming home and not
• 1:45:50
  coming home. When you shoot your gun, you you
• 1:45:55
  let them know where you're at. That's kind of scary.
• 1:46:00
  So during Vietnam, the military started learning some very
• 1:46:03
  expensive lessons about what an American soldier should wear in
• 1:46:07
  combat. The Army developed tropical
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  combat uniforms specifically for Vietnam.
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  Eventually, some American troops became receiving something very
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  different. It was called ERDL Camouflage,
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  named after the Army Engineer Research and Development
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  Laboratory. Instead of 1 shade of green, now
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  we've got greens, Browns, blacks, and other tones breaking
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  up that outline of the human body.
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  For the first time, you're starting to see something that
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  looks strangely familiar. Because if you ever worn
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  woodland BD US, you're basically looking at their grandfather.
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  But here's the interesting part. Vietnam ends, America comes
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  home, and the Army doesn't immediately say, well,
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  camouflage worked, everybody get camouflage now.
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  Now, for much of the Army, the everyday utility uniform goes
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  back to being essentially solid olive green.
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  So now imagine you're in the Army in the late 1970s.
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  Vietnam has taught you lessons about jungle warfare, But the
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  next war not might not be Vietnam might be the Soviet
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  Union and sitting across from NATO and Europe.
• 1:47:34
  The Cold War is very real. American forces might have to
• 1:47:38
  fight and force in Germany, or maybe the next fight is
• 1:47:43
  somewhere completely different. Maybe it's the Middle East.
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  So the question changes, is no longer what uniform works in
• 1:47:52
  Vietnam? Now I know what you think.
• 1:47:56
  What do we put on an American soldier who may have to fight
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  anywhere in the world? And that's where the uniform
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  starts becoming part of a much bigger system.
• 1:48:09
  The Army's researchers go back to the camouflage work that had
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  already been done. They study colors.
• 1:48:17
  They study patterns. They study how far away a
• 1:48:21
  soldier can be detected. They even consider inferred
• 1:48:25
  detection and they take the Vietnam era ERDL concept and
• 1:48:31
  develop a larger woodland camouflage pattern intended for
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  temperature environments. Then October 1st 1981 arrives.
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  The United States Army officially introduces something
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  that an entire generation of us would eventually recognize
• 1:48:50
  instantly. The battle dress uniform B to
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  use green, brown, black, tan. Whether the camouflage reinforce
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  knees, reinforce elbows, reinforce seats, 5050 cotton
• 1:49:04
  island fabric. Here's what I think is the
• 1:49:08
  coolest part of the store. The BDU wasn't simply somebody
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  sitting in an office saying, hey, camouflage looks more
• 1:49:17
  military. Let's do that.
• 1:49:20
  It represented lessons learned from what soldiers had already
• 1:49:24
  experienced. The tropical combat uniform from
• 1:49:29
  Vietnam influence its design. The camouflage experiments from
• 1:49:34
  Vietnam introduced its pattern. And now the Army wanted
• 1:49:39
  camouflage to be part of the normal combat clothing system,
• 1:49:43
  not something reserved for certain soldiers or fighting in
• 1:49:47
  one particular jungle. But the story isn't over,
• 1:49:51
  because you know what? Soldiers are ready, are really
• 1:49:55
  good at finding problems that look perfectly fine on somebody
• 1:50:01
  drawing a board. The BDU goes to war.
• 1:50:04
  Grenada, 1983. American troops are fighting in
• 1:50:09
  a hot tropical environment, and soldiers discover something
• 1:50:12
  pretty quickly. The original BDU, it's hot.
• 1:50:15
  It's really hot. The Army itself later
• 1:50:18
  acknowledged that combat experience in Grenada showed BD
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  US was too hot for tropical climates.
• 1:50:25
  Think about that irony. Vietnam helped produce lessons
• 1:50:29
  that led towards the BDU, and then another tropical fight
• 1:50:32
  showed the Army that the new uniform still wasn't right.
• 1:50:36
  So for the period, the Army actually continued allowing the
• 1:50:41
  older tropical combat uniform while it worked in the problem.
• 1:50:45
  Eventually, by 1988, there was a hot weather BD made with cotton
• 1:50:50
  rib strips. And there was the real story.
• 1:50:54
  Excuse me. Military equipment doesn't
• 1:50:57
  usually appear because nobody suddenly has a brilliant idea.
• 1:51:01
  But it evolves. A soldier wears something in the
• 1:51:04
  combat. Something works, something
• 1:51:07
  doesn't. Someone comes home and reports a
• 1:51:09
  problem. The researchers change it.
• 1:51:12
  The Army issues something new. Then another soldier takes that
• 1:51:15
  into combat and finds the next problem.
• 1:51:18
  Vietnam helped teach the Army that a combat uniform needed to
• 1:51:22
  work with that environment. The camouflage developed during
• 1:51:25
  that era helped lead to the woodland.
• 1:51:29
  BDU took the lessons and took camouflage into everyday image
• 1:51:34
  of the American soldier for the entire generation.
• 1:51:37
  And then Grenade taught us, yeah, we're not quite done yet.
• 1:51:41
  Eventually the BDU itself would disappear.
• 1:51:44
  Another generation of war creates another set of lessons.
• 1:51:49
  Now the uniform would take its place because the uniform
• 1:51:52
  hanging in your closet isn't just cloth.
• 1:51:55
  Look closely enough. You're looking at a decade of
• 1:51:59
  soldiers who are something before you figured out what was
• 1:52:04
  wrong with it and help create what came next.
• 1:52:08
  And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the story behind the BDU and
• 1:52:14
  uniform. And ladies and gentlemen, it is
• 1:52:16
  now time of final thoughts. At Project Demo, our mission is
• 1:52:31
  simple, to give motorcycles to veterans who need the kind of
• 1:52:33
  peace and freedom that only a ride can give.
• 1:52:36
  We sponsor charity events and rides to generate donations on
• 1:52:39
  the acquisition of the lights. While direct donations make up
• 1:52:42
  the rest, we seek to provide a little motorcycle healing to
• 1:52:45
  capable vets. All right.
• 1:52:49
  And once again, ladies and gentlemen, if you have a veteran
• 1:52:52
  or a soldier that needs some wind therapy, just another
• 1:52:57
  outlet, have them go to ML Project gratitude.
• 1:53:04
  They give a motorcycle every year to a deserving veteran, a
• 1:53:10
  deserving veteran that not because of their disability, not
• 1:53:15
  because of the how much time that they had in the military,
• 1:53:19
  but a veteran or a soldier that literally raised his right hand
• 1:53:26
  and gave that blank check to the US government saying take my
• 1:53:30
  life to give others freedom. And we need to remember that.
• 1:53:35
  So if if you, if you're that person, make sure you go to
• 1:53:40
  their website, nominate you or another veteran.
• 1:53:43
  And if you need help, come to me.
• 1:53:45
  We'll fix it. All right, ladies and gentlemen,
• 1:53:48
  final thoughts. This has been a very fast, this
• 1:53:51
  has been a very interesting and a very fun show.
• 1:53:55
  I learned a lot. HG What did you learn?
• 1:54:01
  I learned that there's an also scientific method to find out if
• 1:54:05
  people are from Colorado apparently.
• 1:54:07
  Yeah, right. Everybody laughed at that.
• 1:54:10
  But hey, you know, it, it's not always true, but it's, it's,
• 1:54:14
  it's interesting, you know? That's that's the funniest thing
• 1:54:18
  I've ever. Heard MG.
• 1:54:19
  One of the things, one of. The What did you want to do?
• 1:54:22
  Well, I learned so much. I learned about camouflage that
• 1:54:25
  really piqued my interest as a linguist.
• 1:54:28
  I looked up when the word camouflage was invented, and I
• 1:54:33
  learned that in 1914, the first person to use camouflage was in
• 1:54:39
  France in World War One. So now I know a lot more about
• 1:54:43
  our uniforms and I'm about to go and do a deep dive later.
• 1:54:47
  You're gonna go in a rabbit hole.
• 1:54:49
  There's a whole rabbit hole with the Army and the how their
• 1:54:54
  uniforms. Hey MJ, the next time and the
• 1:54:57
  next time you Co host you, you can totally do a behind the
• 1:55:01
  story because. I'm a nerd.
• 1:55:03
  You know, you know, well, it look, you can hear a song, but
• 1:55:07
  when you've when you learn the inspiration, you learn about
• 1:55:11
  that song, or if you learn about the person me and the song is,
• 1:55:15
  it hits totally different. You know, there's an old saying
• 1:55:18
  that when you're happy, you're listening to the music.
• 1:55:23
  Yeah. When you're sad, you comprehend
• 1:55:27
  it. Yes, that's right.
• 1:55:28
  You feel the word? Yeah, that's true.
• 1:55:30
  So, but with with that being said, that is our show for today
• 1:55:37
  before we go. Well, I want to know what you
• 1:55:40
  learn. Whoa.
• 1:55:40
  OK, well, I kind of learned that, you know, they don't just
• 1:55:45
  change the they're not like the NFL.
• 1:55:47
  They don't just change jerseys to make money.
• 1:55:50
  There's actually a reason why they change Btus and stuff, so
• 1:55:54
  that's the one thing that I learned.
• 1:55:57
  And the new military uniforms that they have is like spandex
• 1:56:02
  now. So.
• 1:56:03
  I totally. Get Yeah, I totally get it.
• 1:56:06
  Especially since we can't seem to to leave people in the Middle
• 1:56:11
  East alone. So, you know, there's that.
• 1:56:13
  There's that also. But before we go, we have a
• 1:56:17
  message from Beaker. Today's safety briefing.
• 1:56:20
  Stay smart, stay safe, be legendary.
• 1:56:23
  Know before you go, don't drink and drive and don't drive
• 1:56:27
  distracted. And just make sure that you do a
• 1:56:33
  risk assessment before you do anything.
• 1:56:36
  Hey, even if that sun isn't blazing, those those those rays
• 1:56:43
  are OK. So even if the sun isn't out, be
• 1:56:46
  sure to wear that sunscreen, especially if you're out always
• 1:56:52
  like four or five. You know, I had my granddaughter
• 1:56:54
  that the one of the weekends and my daughter looked at me and I
• 1:56:58
  didn't question her because I've never even heard of it.
• 1:57:02
  And she's like, yeah, just make sure you give her, you know, SP
• 1:57:06
  700 or something like that. And I'm like, I haven't even
• 1:57:09
  heard of that before. We're.
• 1:57:10
  Closer to the troposphere, we have less of a troposphere here.
• 1:57:15
  And so it's very important. And yes, I understand SPF 700.
• 1:57:20
  OK so I never even heard of it. I was always, I was always told
• 1:57:25
  anything past SP30 is good. But but hey, it might be true.
• 1:57:32
  And the reason why it might be true is because that that this
• 1:57:36
  the donation box that I have that I made out of play filament
• 1:57:41
  from the 3D printer me and I went outside and the thing was
• 1:57:45
  like nearly melted and it was in the compartment of the bike.
• 1:57:49
  You have to use a hair dryer to bend it out.
• 1:57:52
  I'm learning a lot stuff about 3D printing and if you're a
• 1:57:57
  veteran first responder and you want to do that, make sure that
• 1:58:01
  you sign up because we'll be teaching that class.
• 1:58:05
  Well, everybody, it is that time for us to end the show.
• 1:58:09
  We just want you to know on behalf of here at the show, we
• 1:58:13
  know that you have a person or we know you have very little
• 1:58:20
  time in the morning and you chose to drink coffee with us.
• 1:58:23
  So we wanted to thank you for that for sure.
• 1:58:25
  Did HG give us the answer? HG what's the answer real quick
• 1:58:29
  you need. An.
• 1:58:30
  Answer the answer to the trivia question.
• 1:58:31
  The two non SEC and Big 10 schools in the top ten are Miami
• 1:58:37
  and Notre Dame. There you go.
• 1:58:40
  There you go. Go LSU.
• 1:58:42
  All right, ladies and gentlemen, from everybody here at NPR, from
• 1:58:46
  everybody here at the H Train show, from Behind the glass, HG,
• 1:58:51
  we want to tell you that once again, we're here to show you.
• 1:58:56
  It's all about you, not about us.
• 1:58:59
  And we all said giving our veterans a voice.
• 1:59:03
  See you guys next Friday, where our interview will be will will
• 1:59:09
  be announced. We're we're, we're, we're being
• 1:59:12
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