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  thing Christmas and we've been doing this for almost like 9
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  I appreciate it. So we the number is 55.
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  OK, we need, we need anything 55.
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  That's that's the reason, OK. And the number is 5555 baskets
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  festival in Denver and it starts tentatively at 10:30 AM and
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  How are you? Good morning, good morning.
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  And then last but not least, Thursday, December 10th, this
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  stuff that we're going to be that's happening in in around
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  the area. All right, today's showdown
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  showdown show rundown. Today's soldier spotlight is
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  Lance Corporal Joshua Aikman. Gosh, I can't remember any top
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  story is the whole streaming thing with the execution.
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  We're going to get into it, we're going to talk about it.
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  That's the top story. They cancelled it, but we're
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  going to talk about it. Then we have a 5 minute sports
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  snapshot from HG that he's going to report after the top story
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  and we're going to go on break. And then once we come off of
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  break, then we'll be getting into the what the segment, what
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  the segment A coach, we got fired after winning a game at
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  63. Nothing.
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  We're going to tell you the back story.
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  We're going to get into it. Drop the date when service
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  becomes a family story. More, more, more to tell when
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  when we bring that up. And then the interview is Jesse
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  Cook. She will be here at 11:00 AM
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  Eastern Standard Time for the interview.
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  She's a Marine mother. We might even get a chance to
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  have her Marine call in on the the total talk text line.
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  All right, so the interview now, the tribute to the troupe is
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  Major Bianca AC Werkerson. I'm sure I butchered that story.
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  Behind it is the helmet that saved 2 Marines.
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  That's going to be fantastic. And then final thoughts.
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  We'll, we'll, we'll tell you who we're having that next Friday,
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  which right now as it stands, unless something happens, we
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  might be off next Friday. HG So because we, I, I've sent
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  already out some fillers and I haven't get gotten anything in
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  return yet. So, but it is that time, ladies
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  and gentlemen, it is the soldier spotlight time.
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  Attention. Mail call.
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  Oh my God. Welcome to Mail.
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  Welcome to Mail, Call your Soldier, Spotlight all.
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  Right. Good morning.
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  Good morning, everybody. On TikTok.
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  I was trying to, I was trying to write Beretta.
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  Good morning, Beretta. It's great seeing you here.
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  Let's see anybody else? No, not yet.
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  Everybody's still still, still waking up.
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  Still waking up. We got everybody on TikTok.
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  We got everybody on Twitter. It's a great morning to be
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  alive. Ladies and gentlemen, today's
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  spotlight is this week's Marine Lands Corporal Joshua Aikman.
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  He was a Rifleman with the Guard Company in Marine Barracks,
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  Washington, DC on September 3rd, 2026.
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  He received the Navy and the Marine Corps Achievement Medal
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  alongside with four teammates. The Marine Corps published it an
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  account the following day, making this recent recognition
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  for Friday's show. According to the official
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  reports, an armed individual pointed a weapon towards a guard
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  post outside the installation. Aikman and his teammates
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  responded, communicated and gained control of the situation.
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  The report credits the team with protecting the barracks and the
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  surrounding community. It emphasizes discipline, action
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  and composure rather than dramatic individual heroics.
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  The other recognized Marines were Lance Corporal Anthony
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  Verdescagou, Kaden Phillips and Logan Carpenter, and Corporal
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  Ian Cloudy. Colonel Jason C Copeland, the
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  barracks commanding officer, presented their medals.
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  Aikman explained that the Marines relied on their
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  training, understood their responsibilities and trusted one
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  another. Their aim was to control the
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  situation without anyone getting hurt.
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  And, you know, there is a family detail here that makes this
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  spotlight especially appropriate for today's, you know, Jesse
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  Cooks appearance. Aikman's father Kevin and Step
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  mother Rhonda travelled from Louisiana for this ceremony.
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  The official member achievement being shared with people who
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  support him. The lesson of our discussion And
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  that readiness involves more than reacting quickly.
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  A team also needs people who can listen, communicate and make
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  decisions under pressure. Speed without judgement can
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  create additional problems. This recognition offers an
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  example of the Marine Corps honoring control and teamwork as
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  well as action. It also invites us to notice
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  service performed outside the combat deployment.
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  Guard duty can appear routine to somebody passing by.
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  The responsibility becomes visible when a threat interrupts
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  that routine. For listeners, that is a reason
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  to appreciate the people maintaining security even when
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  their work rarely receives public attention.
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  For family side of the conversation, we for, you know.
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  For Jesse's own words, you know our salute.
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  Our salute goes to Lanes, Corporal Joshua Aikman and all
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  four of the Marines recognized with him.
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  Their story gives the segment A practical message.
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  Preparation matters, teammates matter, and steady judgement
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  matters. The award ceremony also reminds
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  us to acknowledge the family members who stand beside those
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  who serve. And with that, like the final
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  moments of the story, I want to relay and reiterate this to
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  everybody, you know, And sometimes us as veterans, as
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  soldiers, we, we forget about this.
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  You know, everybody likes attention, right?
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  Everybody comes up to you, says thank you for your service.
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  We do not thank the the children and the wives and the
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  girlfriends and the fiancees that are behind that military
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  individual. We really need to do a better
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  job of saying thank you for your service.
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  Why why don't we do that? I know that I don't do it all
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  the time, but we need to because that's a lot of stress.
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  Think about that. Somebody's saying thank you all
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  the time, all the time, and they don't even acknowledge you.
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  You know, it's almost like Taylor Swift's dad, you know,
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  I'm sure that he doesn't get acknowledged other than her,
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  right? So think about that.
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  It's just something to chew on and to think I can do next
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  Friday. There you go.
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  All right, so check this out. It is that time, ladies and
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  gentlemen, it is the top story. Welcome back to our weekly news
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  broadcast. I'm your host and we have some
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  massive updates today. Let's dive right into our top
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  story. All right, so check this out.
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  The reason why I brought this top story about is because Magic
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  Mike yesterday he talked about the situation with the Hassan
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  execution. Should you get to watch it?
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  All right, so 13 dead at Fort Hood, TX, November of 2009, Army
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  Major and Naidal Hassan, a psychiatrist, a field grade art
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  officer who pulled out a gun and opened fire on his own people.
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  13 killed, more than 13 wounded. He said that he did it in the
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  name of jihad. I don't even know if I pronounce
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  it a don't matter. In 2013, a court martial found
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  him guilty on 42 counts and sentenced him to death.
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  Now, 17 years later, that sentence is about to be carried
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  out. December 3rd at 1:00 in Fort
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  Hood by firing squad. It would be the first US
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  military execution since 1961. And now there's a national fight
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  over one question, should you get to watch it happen on the
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  live stream? Now the secretary of war has
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  floated that's broadcasting. It says it would show the
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  consequences of terrorism. On the other side, 72 retired
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  general Admirals and military lawyers signed on an open letter
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  calling that. This idea is barbaric abuse of
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  authority, urging the president and Congress to shut it down.
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  Here's where I land. OK, you've heard Magic Mike talk
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  about it yesterday. The punishment fits.
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  OK? Nobody disputes that at all, all
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  right? But understand who this man is.
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  He did this in the name of jihad.
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  You do not deter a man seeking martyrdom by televising his
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  martyrdom. All the broadcast does is hand
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  him the stage that he wanted in the first place.
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  And here's what our own Magic Mike said.
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  He's right. Everybody knows his son's name.
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  Nobody can name a single one of the 13.
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  Before they carry out that sentence, read every victim's
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  name out loud. That's the broadcast that
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  matters. You know, I'm just being a
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  devil's advocate, you know, because, like, look on the other
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  side. Deterrence supporters say a
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  public execution shows terrorists the prime price of
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  attacking American in uniform transparency.
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  After 17 years of public trial and appeals, some argue that the
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  public has a right to see justice finished.
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  The family, some victims families can't travel to Fort
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  Hood. A feed would let them witness
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  it. OK, now facts to keep straight.
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  And then I'm going to ask you, listeners, viewers, what is your
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  thoughts? November 5th, 2009, shooting in
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  Fort Hood, 13 killed, 32 wounded, convicted.
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  August 2013, 42 counts death sentence denied.
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  Review. March 31st, 2025, Trump approved
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  the sentence. October 2nd, 2020, sixth
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  Execution reportedly is December 3rd, 2020, sixth at 1:00 PM
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  Central time, Fort Hood by firearms squad.
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  These are the things that we know and now a little bit back
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  story that maybe people don't know is that this guy Hassan,
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  well, he's paralyzed now from the waist down.
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  When military police returned fire during the attacks they,
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  they, they, they hit a spine. So Magic Mike's personal note,
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  Hassan was his doctor at Walter Reed and told him PTSD is not
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  real usually, if you, you know, think that, right?
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  I don't know how many people in this world think that PTSD is
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  not real, but it is. It is totally real.
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  It's as real as a Holocaust. And you know, that's the only
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  thing that I see. So when you see all these
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  shootings at schools and, and, and all this different stuff,
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  that's people that have been bullied as people that, you
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  know, they want to get their point across and they're going
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  to do anything and everything to get their point across because
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  they are going to have the last word.
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  Well, in this instance, why give that to him?
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  That's what he wants. He wants it live streamed.
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  He wants his name in the encyclopedia.
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  He wants his name in the dictionary.
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  He is a candidate for Criminal Minds, but we need to stop doing
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  that. News media too.
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  You want to stream something? Stream a tribute to troops for
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  those 13 that was killed. That's what you stream.
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  We don't need to be barbaric like other countries, because
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  that's what other countries do. You know, the US, yes, I guess
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  we are the international police. But you know what?
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  There's a difference between US and some people. the US has
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  character. the US has maturity. the US has freedom to be able to
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  understand. I think the true mark of showing
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  that we have freedom to not live stream the execution, but to
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  live stream the people that died, that that is what we want
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  to do. And with that, everybody, we are
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  going to go to the sports report HG.
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  I'm Beaker and we have got a massive show for you tonight.
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  From the gridiron to the diamond, we are covering the
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  biggest plays and wildest moments, so let's get right to
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  the action. All right, ladies and gentlemen,
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  we got our sports snapshot. We're going to start with the
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  MLB post season is almost over. It's been a great one so far.
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  The Guardians have just claimed a three to two or A2, the one
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  series lead after a three to two victory over the Rays yesterday.
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  Gavin Williams was fantastic through 5 innings in this
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  series. Game one, the bats were really
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  flying back and forth. But games two and three, it's
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  really come down to the pitching and the infield defense has been
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  the difference maker. And those on the flip side, on
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  the National League, the Brewers get the revenge and complete the
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  sweep of the Los Angeles Dodgers.
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  Just last year, they were swept by the Dodgers in the NLCS.
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  They meet them again, they come back, they get the revenge.
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  And what's kind of crazy is if America had universal
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  healthcare, the guy that terrorized LA in this series
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  might not have even been playing baseball.
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  That's probably one of the biggest stories of this
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  postseason. Jake Bowers was absolutely
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  phenomenal. He was the NOCSNVP was
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  monumental in game three about getting Yoshi Yamamoto pulled
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  from the game in just the third, ending with going 12 pitches,
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  taking 12 pitches on an at bat, and then the next game taking 11
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  pitches and then at bat against Blake Snow.
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  He had a Homer last night in game four to help tie the game
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  and he was going to retire from baseball, but his wife got
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  pregnant and he still needed health insurance.
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  So he signed to the minor league team and here he is being a
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  monumental piece and getting the Brewers to the World Series.
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  We've got the WNBA Finals, those are going to start this
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  Saturday, October 17th. The Atlanta Dream and the Golden
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  State Valkyries squaring off the Valkyries and their second year
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  ever as a franchise making it to the finals and the Dream, their
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  first return since 2013. Some college football news,
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  we've got some massive match ups this Saturday including Indiana
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  and Ohio State, Alabama and Tennessee, Missouri and Old
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  Miss, just to name a few. Notre Dame and BYU.
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  Actually, one more I don't want to make sure I don't leave out
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  as well. So a big day of college football
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  coming up and then some other news in college football.
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  Apparently, the committee has greenlit plans to go to a 2014
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  playoff. Be interested to hear what some
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  of our viewers think. A lot of people not a big fan of
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  the 2014 playoff. Welcome.
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  Enjoy. We feel that it is.
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  Hi, Joy. Joy, Amber.
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  It's just going to what's up, Amber, just going to diminish
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  the regular season. College football had the best
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  regular season in sports. But now with so many teams
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  getting into the playoffs, I mean it, it feels like it really
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  devalues a lot of the stakes and intensity that some of these
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  regular season matchups would have in the in the past.
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  Like now, like a game like Indiana and Ohio State, you
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  know, the team like if Ohio State loses this game this year,
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  that that could be that makes their chance of getting into the
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  CFP that much harder and they could miss it all together.
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  But now with the 2014 playoff, whoever loses this game would
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  just be totally fine. So, but anything to squeak out a
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  little more money, I suppose. The NBA season is just days
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  away. I'll look at ahead.
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  Tuesday is when we're going to get our first regular season
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  games tipping off. We're going to have the Celtics
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  playing the Detroit Pistons, the 76ers taking on the New York
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  Knicks as they defend their title and the rematch of the
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  Western Conference Finals, the OK C budget and the San Antonio
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  Spurs squaring off. And lastly, in NFL news, my
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  Denver Broncos, in spite of a very ugly second-half
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  offensively, eek out a win on Thursday Night Football against
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  the Seattle Seahawks. Seahawks.
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  The Seahawks have a big turnover problem.
• 30:43
  They've had multiple turnovers the past three weeks each of
• 30:47
  their game, and they're really missing Kenneth Walker, who they
• 30:51
  let walk in free agency, and it really shows with their
• 30:54
  inability to run the football effective effectively.
• 31:00
  Zach Allen and Nick Benito proven to be maybe the best pass
• 31:04
  rushing duo in the league. Those two just absolutely
• 31:07
  terrifying. Sam Darnold last night, making
• 31:11
  them see ghosts again. Some big matchups to keep your
• 31:15
  eye on coming up this Sunday. Obviously Sunday Night Football,
• 31:22
  we're going to have the Cowboys looking to get back on track
• 31:25
  against the Green Bay Packers. The Chicago Bears are getting
• 31:33
  Caleb Williams back as they go to Atlanta to host the Atlanta
• 31:38
  Falcons. The Eagles desperately need a a
• 31:42
  win to get back on track, but they're coming off a very hot
• 31:44
  Carolina Panthers team fresh off a bye week and the Buffalo Bills
• 31:50
  are in Las Vegas to take on the three and two Raiders.
• 31:54
  Great there's started 3 and O have lost two straight.
• 31:57
  Looking to get back on track against a very hot Buffalo team
• 32:02
  that's going to do it for our sports.
• 32:03
  Snapshot back to U. H Thanks, GHG.
• 32:07
  All right, this is that time we're going to go on a music
• 32:11
  music break. And hey, I tell you what, Tim,
• 32:15
  we we we we got a we got a we got a talk.
• 32:17
  I didn't know that you went to University of Tennessee for a
• 32:20
  year. We we won't talk about that.
• 32:23
  I didn't go anywhere. But your dad played for Alabama.
• 32:25
  That's exciting. That's that's kind of cool.
• 32:28
  We'll have to talk about that for everybody else.
• 32:30
  Me will be back. And when we come back, one of
• 32:34
  the top stories that we're going to talk about for the what the
• 32:36
  segment is what do you do when a coach runs up the score on
• 32:43
  another team? Do you fire him or do you bring
• 32:48
  him orange slices at halftime? You'll find out next or on the
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  All right. And we are back, ladies and
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  And just to answer some of these questions, I'm beginning, did
• 38:08
  did Joel kick Amber off the show?
• 38:10
  No, no, every night Amber had a lot of stuff going on.
• 38:16
  As you know, my, my, my Co host Amber, her, her husband had a
• 38:23
  surgery on his brain a couple months ago and he's been, he's
• 38:30
  been dealing with some health issues.
• 38:32
  And I felt, I felt it was more important for her to be there at
• 38:39
  the home front rather than being here.
• 38:42
  Here at MBR, we have a lot of, we have a lot of veterans that
• 38:45
  we help and we have a lot of DJs and a lot of hoax.
• 38:48
  And I, I don't, I, I, I don't show favoritism, at least I try
• 38:56
  not to, to any of them. If there's a job presented to
• 39:01
  them, if there's a job presented to them, I always recommend them
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  that they, they take it. OK, This, this is, this is a
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  home place. This is somewhere that you come
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  when you're down on your luck and you know, you're, you can't
• 39:19
  find a job out there because at least that you can say, Hey, you
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  know what? I work for MBR kind of thing.
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  Oh, don't be sorry, Joy. You didn't know, Hun.
• 39:28
  And I hope, Joy, that you got your shirt because I, I was
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  really worried about that. You need to take a picture of it
• 39:37
  and send it to me. But the, the, the fact of the
• 39:41
  matter is here at NBR, family comes first.
• 39:44
  Family always comes first. There's a death in the family.
• 39:48
  You know what? You need to focus on it.
• 39:50
  You don't need to focus on show. I learned that the hard way when
• 39:54
  I was skiing a long, long time ago, back when the dinosaurs was
• 39:59
  around. You know, my mother had passed
• 40:02
  away and I tried to ski even after that.
• 40:06
  And I, I hurt myself. I, I injured myself because I
• 40:10
  wasn't paying attention no matter what.
• 40:14
  And I had a colleague come up to me about this a couple of days
• 40:19
  ago. Whenever somebody's mad or upset
• 40:24
  or irritated, if you're really a friend, don't let them get
• 40:28
  behind the wheel. Don't let them get behind the
• 40:31
  wheel when they're upset. You wouldn't let them get behind
• 40:33
  the wheel if they were drinking. Don't let them get behind the
• 40:36
  wheel if they're upset, try to calm them down.
• 40:40
  Or if you're the driver, you know, take responsibility and
• 40:44
  know, hey, look, you know, I'm really mad.
• 40:47
  I need to calm down. Go, go for a walk, walk down to
• 40:50
  the stop sign or something. You know, it's very important
• 40:54
  when something's going awry, you stay at the forefront that the
• 41:00
  forefront is what needs you. And guess what?
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  MB, RMBR will be here tomorrow. It's been here tomorrow since
• 41:08
  2005. That's what I tell everybody.
• 41:11
  And. And joy.
• 41:17
  No, but I'll check the mail today if the wind doesn't blow
• 41:20
  me away. You know, my wife is like that.
• 41:24
  She'll wait a month to check the mail.
• 41:27
  I have to check the mail every day.
• 41:28
  Anyways, back to the story, ladies and gentlemen.
• 41:31
  It is that time. It is the what?
• 41:33
  The segment. What the WTF?
• 41:39
  This is going completely off the rails strain.
• 41:42
  Help me out here. Check this out.
• 41:46
  One of my friends just dangerly brought this up today and you
• 41:52
  know he has a point. He has a point.
• 41:57
  HG is going to help me write it. But what if I told you that a
• 42:01
  high school coach, and of course it's a Christian School, like a
• 42:04
  private school, right? They fired their coach for
• 42:09
  running up the score. So now we're going to tell you
• 42:13
  the rest of the story. HG All.
• 42:17
  Right then what the So high school football coach wins 63 to
• 42:20
  nothing and then gets fired? Let's first give you a little
• 42:22
  back story. So you might want to turn your
• 42:24
  thing up a little bit, but. All right, so let's give you a
• 42:28
  little back story. There we go.
• 42:30
  Meredith's Catholic head football coach Zach Loboy was
• 42:33
  dismissed after his team defeated Cottage Grove High
• 42:36
  School 63 to nothing on October 9th.
• 42:40
  Cottage Grove reportedly only had about 16 players sued up.
• 42:44
  The game ended at half time. The controversy said they're not
• 42:49
  simply on the score, but how the game was played, what happened
• 42:53
  on the field. Meredith's LED 56 to nothing
• 42:57
  with 147 remaining in the first half and attempted an onside
• 43:02
  kick. Cottage Grove recovered, but
• 43:04
  later through an interception, Mayor of the scored again to
• 43:07
  make it 63 to 0. At halftime, officials and
• 43:11
  representatives of the schools agreed not to play the
• 43:15
  second-half. Why was the coach fired?
• 43:18
  Mayor of this Catholic administrator said that the
• 43:20
  team's conduct did not reflect the school's mission and
• 43:25
  expectations for treating opponents.
• 43:28
  Athletic director Rick Gardner criticized the conduct, and
• 43:33
  Principal Bob Fraley announced Loboy's dismissal.
• 43:37
  Important. The school did not publicly
• 43:38
  confirm that the onside kick was the sole reason for its firing.
• 43:43
  Its full internal reasoning has not been disclosed.
• 43:47
  All right, so the twist. Lowboy had LED Meredith's
• 43:52
  Catholic to the 2024 Oregon class for A state championship.
• 43:57
  Following his dismissal, Jake Lothar was named interim head
• 44:02
  coach. We're looking at it from both
• 44:04
  sides of the argument. Defending the coach.
• 44:07
  Football's competitive team practice to execute plays and
• 44:12
  win and scoring is not against the rules.
• 44:15
  Defending the school, high school athletics should also
• 44:17
  teach respect and judgement. An onside kick while leading by
• 44:22
  56 points against an undermanned opponent raises some serious
• 44:26
  questions about sportsmanship. OK, OK, HG, what is your, what's
• 44:31
  your hot take on this? Well, I mean, I certainly don't
• 44:37
  think it's good sportsmanship to be attempting an onside kick and
• 44:43
  trying to run the score up when you're playing a team that is
• 44:48
  they've only got 16 guys on the roster.
• 44:51
  You need at least 22 to have a full.
• 44:54
  Oh yeah. Oh yeah.
• 44:55
  Defense so you've got you've got kids that are playing on both
• 44:58
  sides of the ball and you know they're severely on demand right
• 45:05
  is. Yeah, you so you got this
• 45:06
  private school over here that has like a 53 main roster and
• 45:10
  then you have this school over here, which I I I was, you know,
• 45:16
  born and raised in Kokomo, IN and we had a school we we, we,
• 45:21
  we did I was a kicker and I was a Sinner on the line.
• 45:25
  Now I'm 5 foot nothing 100 nothing.
• 45:29
  Do you really think I I know I don't really look in the face,
• 45:32
  but trust me, I'm 100. Nothing does does does it look
• 45:36
  like I would be good as a lineman?
• 45:38
  No, because for the fact of the matter is sometimes we're
• 45:44
  playing football and you just don't have the people.
• 45:49
  But this, this, this is the thing one time and it's not main
• 45:55
  camp, but one time when we were playing the school, they had a
• 46:01
  huge roster, huge roster and they just they weren't very
• 46:07
  good. They weren't very good and we
• 46:10
  was running up the score on him Well, then at halftime they
• 46:15
  brought in a varsity runner. Evidently he was a freshman or
• 46:20
  something. He wasn't JV, he was varsity.
• 46:26
  They nearly won. They nearly won.
• 46:30
  So when people come up to me and they're talking about like, you
• 46:34
  know, teams running up the score, you know, this isn't
• 46:37
  peewee league, OK? This isn't little kids.
• 46:40
  These are these are adults, you know, and if one team takes
• 46:47
  their practice seriously and does the prep when another coach
• 46:52
  didn't do the prep work, well then, and he totally deserves to
• 47:01
  be spotlighted. And plus, you know, it's that
• 47:07
  whole thing. Who cares who wins it?
• 47:11
  It's all about playing. And I hate to tell you this, but
• 47:14
  life doesn't fair. You know when, when, when the,
• 47:18
  when the electricity bill and the house payment comes and, and
• 47:22
  you don't have the money. It doesn't matter if you was in
• 47:24
  the military. It doesn't matter if you was in
• 47:26
  the police force. It doesn't matter what you did.
• 47:29
  You know, you could have done 99 things.
• 47:31
  You could have cured cancer. If you don't have the payment,
• 47:35
  guess what? You're, you're homeless.
• 47:39
  You're homeless. So why is it that we're going to
• 47:44
  worry about what's fair when, when they get out of high school
• 47:52
  and they find out that life isn't fair?
• 47:55
  You know, one thing that I learned in the military is
• 47:59
  things aren't fair. And instead of griping it, the
• 48:02
  amount of time that you took to gripe.
• 48:05
  We're we're, we'll say that I don't want to say the B word,
• 48:07
  but you know what I'm talking about the amount of time that
• 48:09
  you take to gripe. Well, it's the amount of time
• 48:13
  that you could have came up with a resolution.
• 48:16
  You know something? Hey, guess what, coach?
• 48:19
  If you're getting your butt kicked, put it in the third
• 48:23
  string. If I could just chat back in cuz
• 48:25
  I had the second part of what I wanted to say.
• 48:27
  OK, go ahead. Look, I agree that it's not good
• 48:30
  sportsmanship because they're on their man.
• 48:32
  But first of all, this coach, like, firing him over this is
• 48:36
  stupid, right? The school, because he led you
• 48:38
  to A state championship. That's not an easy thing to do,
• 48:42
  right? I also think we're yeah, I mean,
• 48:45
  like with the sportsmanship thing, you know, or teaching
• 48:50
  these kids that life isn't fair. That's that's a good point too.
• 48:52
  But I think we're also missing some context from the story,
• 48:55
  like we don't know. Like, I mean, I'm not pretty.
• 49:00
  I know where you're going with this.
• 49:02
  Can you please let? Me my bad.
• 49:04
  My bad. I don't exactly know how
• 49:06
  Oregon's athletic board determines seating and things
• 49:10
  for the playoffs, for the high school, state playoffs.
• 49:13
  But do you think like a team's total points 4 could be a big
• 49:17
  factor to that? So, you know, who knows what
• 49:20
  other team he maybe they're competing for seating with
• 49:23
  another school and you're pretty confident, hey, these guys
• 49:26
  probably we're probably going to have the same record as these
• 49:28
  guys. Where can we get an edge when it
• 49:31
  comes to seating? One thing they might look at is
• 49:34
  strength, the schedule or point total points for margin of
• 49:38
  victory, that type of thing. And so in situations like that,
• 49:42
  it can be beneficial to essentially score more.
• 49:45
  I mean, we see, we even saw this in the NFL where the two teams
• 49:51
  were basically trying to make the playoffs, I forget what
• 49:54
  year, but it was like the the Packers and the Panthers
• 49:58
  sometime in the mid 2000s. And they were both basically
• 50:00
  they were playing like the worst team in their division, but they
• 50:03
  both they both needed to win right to get into the playoffs.
• 50:07
  But then they also had the basically have the higher margin
• 50:11
  of victory or more points for that would be the determining
• 50:15
  factor between the tiebreakers. So you saw these two teams
• 50:18
  running up the score for like, even though the game was well
• 50:22
  with at hand, each team just kept trying to score to have a
• 50:26
  bigger margin of victory because they needed to have more points
• 50:29
  than the other guys to get into the playoffs.
• 50:31
  So that could be something that's a factor in here as well.
• 50:34
  And another thing is like, OK, you're playing this undermanned
• 50:37
  team. Clearly you're a very good
• 50:39
  school if you're winning 63 to nothing, right?
• 50:41
  Got these aspirations of playing for another championship.
• 50:45
  You've you've won one just less, you know, two years ago, right,
• 50:48
  Trying to get back there. And as a coach, I can see maybe
• 50:53
  you thinking I can use this as a situation to practice some other
• 50:58
  things in a live game situation that you might like, you just
• 51:02
  can't simulate even in in your normal practice.
• 51:06
  One of those big things is onside kicks.
• 51:09
  It's really difficult to recover an onside kick and it's tough to
• 51:12
  practice it. It's, it's just, it's still
• 51:14
  different practicing an onside kick versus doing it in a live
• 51:19
  game. So this is a situation where
• 51:21
  you're essentially getting a live Rep, like a live Rep
• 51:25
  practice of a difficult operational thing.
• 51:29
  I get like full speed, so maybe later in the year when you need
• 51:33
  to recover an onside kick, you've gotten extra practice and
• 51:37
  your team has that slight edge right over those other teams so.
• 51:42
  Right. And I don't think.
• 51:44
  That's things that the school even considered.
• 51:47
  Maybe I'm way off base. At the no, no, I don't think
• 51:49
  you're off base at all. But there's one thing that we
• 51:52
  haven't considered. And then we'll, we'll close this
• 51:55
  and go drop the date because we're, we're running out of
• 51:57
  time. But you know, we don't know.
• 52:00
  We don't know the deep back story.
• 52:03
  He could be having problems as a teacher.
• 52:06
  He could be having problems with like the board or some we, we
• 52:11
  don't know. You know, usually somebody
• 52:15
  doesn't just get fired for something.
• 52:17
  OK, usually they don't. Usually there's something either
• 52:21
  they're lazy or they're not on time.
• 52:24
  They're not punctual. You know, there's a lot of
• 52:26
  things. And as a society, one thing that
• 52:29
  we definitely need to work remember is before we make
• 52:33
  judgement on one person, we need to let the story revolve because
• 52:38
  there's always three sides. We've heard his side, but we
• 52:43
  haven't. We haven't heard the true side
• 52:47
  yet, we just know what happened. So with that being said, it is
• 52:51
  now time for drop the date. Today in history.
• 53:02
  The Gentleman October 16th, 1940.
• 53:06
  When service becomes a family story, you know this was the day
• 53:11
  the first registration date for America First peacetime draft
• 53:16
  more than 16,000,000 young men and women or I should say young
• 53:20
  men, not women, registered at the United States prepared its
• 53:26
  defense during World War 2. The day offers a way to discuss
• 53:30
  military service from 2 perspectives.
• 53:32
  The person who may be called to serve and the family watching
• 53:36
  that possibly becomes real. President Frank and Lee
• 53:40
  Roosevelt addressed by the Nation on radio that day.
• 53:45
  He described registration as a central part of preparation
• 53:49
  preparing the country's defense. His speech also put the size of
• 53:54
  the challenge into perspective. The United States had about 1/2
• 53:58
  a million officers and men in the Army and National Guard,
• 54:02
  with some smaller nations had armies numbering in millions.
• 54:07
  He outlined a program to train approximately 800 thousand
• 54:12
  additional men during the following year.
• 54:14
  There is an important distinction in telling the
• 54:17
  story. Though.
• 54:18
  Registering was not the same as immediately entering the
• 54:23
  military October 2nd or October 16th.
• 54:27
  It was a nationwide registration day, not the day every registrar
• 54:32
  packed a bag and left home. No, the historical event was the
• 54:37
  creation of a pooled man who would be considered for service.
• 54:42
  That distinction keeps the segment accurate while still,
• 54:49
  you know, explained today's date so the the Smithsonian's
• 54:54
  National Postal Museum record. Another detail shows National
• 55:00
  Defense Post and stamps were released on October 16th to
• 55:05
  coincide with the registration date.
• 55:07
  Even an ordinary item used to mail a letter became part of the
• 55:13
  country's preparation. And this was a use.
• 55:19
  It's a useful image for radio listeners, a major national
• 55:23
  event showing all the small routines of everyday life.
• 55:27
  So and, and you know, to the last closing the thing, the
• 55:33
  family connection for this angle is, you know, we don't know what
• 55:41
  Marines go through. We don't know what the mother
• 55:46
  and the son go through. We we think we do.
• 55:51
  We assume we do. That's the reason why we're
• 55:54
  going to have Jesse Cook with us today during this week's
• 56:00
  interview. Because I mean, think about it.
• 56:01
  You know, you're sleeping peacefully.
• 56:04
  Your son is in Iraq or Iran or Afghanistan or your daughter for
• 56:09
  that matter. And you get a call at 2:00 AM.
• 56:14
  You don't want to answer that call because you have no idea
• 56:18
  who's going to call you at 2:00 AM, you know, drunk.
• 56:23
  No, usually it's that call. So bringing her in and talking
• 56:28
  about what she's had to deal with, that's important.
• 56:35
  That's important. And you know, one thing that
• 56:40
  I've learned with with my wife is she does not like the whole
• 56:42
  military because when I have her, I tell her like regulations
• 56:45
  or something going on. The first thing she says is,
• 56:48
  well, that's dumb. Well, it might be dumb.
• 56:51
  You don't have to agree with it, but that's how it is.
• 56:54
  That's that's the rules. That's that's regulations.
• 56:59
  So that is today's Drop the Date ladies and gentlemen.
• 57:04
  We're going to go on a music break and when we come back,
• 57:07
  hopefully Jesse will be in studio.
• 57:10
  So we might do 3 music break or something like that.
• 57:13
  But whatever you do, stay with us.
• 57:14
  Don't go away. We got a lot to cover.
• 57:16
  You'll listen to the 8 Strange show showing veterans programs
• 57:21
  out there beyond the VA and keep on pushing pro showing what it
• 57:27
  is to be in a Marine family. Stay with us coming up next.
• 1:05:18
  The station where our veterans voices are heard.
• 1:05:22
  MBR talk. Hey, thanks for supporting our
• 1:05:25
  channel by watching and listening.
• 1:05:35
  All right, and we your Beckley's gentleman is Red Friday, 5
• 1:05:38
  minutes past the hour. And ladies and gentlemen, let me
• 1:05:44
  introduce to you my next guest. Her name is Jesse Cook, a Marine
• 1:05:50
  mom sitting right here in the studio.
• 1:05:53
  Next with me. We're going to be we, we might
• 1:05:56
  be calling her son, but we, we don't know just yet.
• 1:06:01
  But this is the Marine mother's story because of every behind
• 1:06:07
  every Marine, there's a family living the service right
• 1:06:11
  alongside them. The worry, the waiting, the
• 1:06:14
  pride, all of it. Jesse came in today to talk
• 1:06:18
  about what her son's service has meant for him and for their
• 1:06:24
  whole family. Jesse, welcome to the show.
• 1:06:27
  Thank you very much. Thank you for having me.
• 1:06:29
  So how's the drive in? They were good.
• 1:06:32
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 1:06:33
  Oh, the traffic. She just coming to me as I was
• 1:06:36
  going to the entrance of the wife.
• 1:06:38
  Did you walk here? No.
• 1:06:39
  No, I Uber. I'm like, OK.
• 1:06:41
  All right. So now your now your son is
• 1:06:45
  deployed, or is he not deployed? Not at the moment.
• 1:06:48
  OK. He's in North Carolina.
• 1:06:50
  I mean, South Carolina. South Carolina.
• 1:06:51
  OK. And how has it been?
• 1:06:55
  You know what? He loves it.
• 1:06:56
  Yeah. I never knew how much he needed
• 1:06:58
  that in his life. That regiment, he loves it.
• 1:07:01
  You know, people, people tend not to like the military, but
• 1:07:04
  like, one thing the military does do is, you know, it, it
• 1:07:09
  trains you to adapt to different situations, trains you to adapt
• 1:07:15
  to different characters. You know, I don't know how many
• 1:07:19
  times I've told the story, but like, I never had an egg omelet
• 1:07:23
  until I went into the military, you know, because that, and
• 1:07:26
  usually when you go in the military, 9 times out of 10, I
• 1:07:32
  mean, it's, it's, it's because you come from a poor family, you
• 1:07:35
  know, I mean, that's, that's just how it is.
• 1:07:37
  It is. And, yeah, it's just, you know,
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  something to think about. But, you know, let's, let's do
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  this. Jesse.
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  Yeah. We started at the beginning when
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  your son told you that he was joining the Marines.
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  What went through your mind in that moment?
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  I mean, because I'm. I'm sure you've watched Full
• 1:07:57
  Metal Jacket. And thank you for your service.
• 1:08:00
  I mean, you've seen all these military movies.
• 1:08:04
  I I saw a save in Private Ryan before I left for Iraq.
• 1:08:07
  Not a good movie to watch before you go deploy, right.
• 1:08:10
  But what what was going through your head, especially after I'm
• 1:08:16
  I'm sure after he went in, you guys started watching like
• 1:08:20
  different military movies and stuff like that.
• 1:08:22
  So when he actually knew when he was a kid, like very young,
• 1:08:26
  because he had a grandfather who was in the military, a great
• 1:08:29
  grandfather that was in the military.
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  So he said since day one, that's what he wanted.
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  OK. So it was kind of like a goal.
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  Absolutely. OK.
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  All right. I've always said he's my
• 1:08:38
  principal. Yeah.
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  That's kind of our relationship. OK.
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  He puts me. So, you know, I was excited for
• 1:08:45
  him. It was definitely going to be a
• 1:08:47
  challenge. His size definitely affected
• 1:08:49
  things. So, you know, we just didn't
• 1:08:52
  know what was going to happen. But it's all been exciting.
• 1:08:55
  It's taught him to grow up really fast.
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  And it's made me be more proud of anything else than I have
• 1:09:01
  ever been in my life. That's that's, that's amazing.
• 1:09:04
  That's amazing. And he was telling me that he
• 1:09:06
  was like doing podcasting and stuff.
• 1:09:08
  And I told Jesse, you know, hey, you're part of a military
• 1:09:14
  family. Yeah.
• 1:09:16
  You're more than welcome to utilize the studio here.
• 1:09:20
  Every military family has a hardest part.
• 1:09:26
  And for you and your family, what do you think has been the
• 1:09:30
  toughest stretch of his service? Because he's been in service now
• 1:09:34
  for about a year, right? No, he's been in since 2020.
• 1:09:38
  Oh, OK. All right.
• 1:09:39
  He's. He's been in a while then.
• 1:09:41
  Yeah, definitely. He's definitely done some great
• 1:09:43
  things. So like, he's a Sergeant, you
• 1:09:45
  know, he does a lot of great things.
• 1:09:46
  But So what you're asking what's been the most difficult part?
• 1:09:50
  Yeah. Has he deployed yet?
• 1:09:52
  Yeah. So he's done.
• 1:09:53
  He's gone to Japan. He's got Greenland, OK, and he's
• 1:09:58
  going to be deploying again in coming March, but OK, not sure
• 1:10:01
  where yet, OK. And with him deploying and
• 1:10:04
  stuff, with all this crap that's going on, like, how much of A
• 1:10:09
  strain has that been on your family?
• 1:10:12
  Actually, really, his position makes it so I'm not so overly
• 1:10:15
  concerned with that. OK.
• 1:10:17
  You know, it's going to keep him out of certain instances.
• 1:10:21
  Is he like office where he must be a smarty?
• 1:10:23
  He's the communications. Yeah, he's a smarty.
• 1:10:25
  Yeah. You know, the higher the MOS.
• 1:10:28
  Yeah. The higher I usually say the
• 1:10:31
  higher the MOS. That's how many minutes it takes
• 1:10:34
  before you get killed or whatever.
• 1:10:36
  You know, you're like an 88, Mike.
• 1:10:38
  You hardly, I'm not gonna say that you're not gonna see
• 1:10:41
  combat, but it's very, very unlikely.
• 1:10:45
  Yeah. So I didn't say the most harder
• 1:10:47
  part has been actually just the separation cuz he hasn't lived
• 1:10:50
  at home or even in the same state.
• 1:10:52
  So it's definitely put a strain on him and his wife, so she's
• 1:10:56
  had to move out to places that there's no one else around.
• 1:10:59
  And why does he have kids? No.
• 1:11:01
  No kids yet. No kids yet.
• 1:11:03
  Yeah. Yeah, that's a big question yet
• 1:11:05
  they've been talking about it. Yeah.
• 1:11:07
  Have kids after, right. Have kids after, right.
• 1:11:11
  Or get a position where you know, you're not going to be
• 1:11:13
  being necessarily deployed. Right.
• 1:11:16
  OK. So people talk about the
• 1:11:20
  sacrifice of service members make and the family makes them
• 1:11:25
  too. But what is your family?
• 1:11:29
  You know, what is they giving up a long way?
• 1:11:32
  And the one thing that I want to know my, just my question is,
• 1:11:37
  you know, when you're out with your son, because I'm sure he's
• 1:11:40
  been back for R&R or whatever, he just came back.
• 1:11:43
  Actually, when it comes back, like when people say thank you
• 1:11:47
  for your service to him, Do you ever get, I don't want to say
• 1:11:51
  jealous, but do you ever get like, well, shit, acknowledge
• 1:11:56
  me, you know, I'm right here kind of thing.
• 1:11:58
  Do you ever get like that a tiny bit, Yeah.
• 1:12:01
  Yeah. But it's more just being proud
• 1:12:03
  of him, right. And those opportunities that
• 1:12:05
  he's going to get to do. Right.
• 1:12:06
  Like, you know, he was in Hawaii and they were writing those
• 1:12:10
  hoverboards on the water. Yeah.
• 1:12:12
  I don't know exactly what they're called, but like, that's
• 1:12:14
  cool, right? Bad ass.
• 1:12:17
  I don't know if I can say that word, but yeah, you can say
• 1:12:19
  that. I don't see the F word.
• 1:12:21
  No, Frank, on the other side of this, what are your what are you
• 1:12:30
  the proudest of? Like give me a moment from his
• 1:12:34
  service that just wow, I'm I'm so proud of you.
• 1:12:40
  Like what what's the biggest thing that he's called home,
• 1:12:42
  told you and you're just real proud of?
• 1:12:44
  For me personally, yeah. Was actually seeing him graduate
• 1:12:47
  boot camp because boot camp was very difficult.
• 1:12:49
  We didn't talk to him once through boot bank boot camp
• 1:12:52
  because of COVID and just the communication just never
• 1:12:55
  actually happened. So seeing your kid, because he
• 1:12:58
  was in boot camp for nine months, so to finally see him
• 1:13:01
  graduate and like touch him and hold him, yeah, that was
• 1:13:04
  definitely to see that change, that growth just in nine months
• 1:13:07
  was amazing for me. That was probably the most
• 1:13:10
  important for him. He'd probably, he would say like
• 1:13:13
  as fast as he moved up in positions for him, that'd
• 1:13:16
  probably be his most proudest moments because he's really
• 1:13:19
  excelled. Now you yourself, you, you
• 1:13:22
  wasn't in the military and you've seen your son grow up and
• 1:13:27
  you know, did you did your father or grandfather?
• 1:13:30
  OK, So got a little taste of military.
• 1:13:33
  That's that's what a little bit intrigued.
• 1:13:36
  OK, yeah, cuz my, my dad did the Air Force, OK.
• 1:13:38
  And I'm not the Air Force. I'm sorry.
• 1:13:40
  He did the Navy and then the National Guard.
• 1:13:42
  OK, so yeah, it was in our life, but it wasn't in our life cuz in
• 1:13:46
  the National Guard they're not really OK.
• 1:13:49
  They just do their weekend service and that's it.
• 1:13:51
  A little different. It is a little different.
• 1:13:55
  It is a little different. My son that wants to make it
• 1:13:56
  like 20 year career. I think that's about everybody.
• 1:14:01
  I think that's what everybody, you see the benefits.
• 1:14:05
  I mean, the benefits from giving 20 years is amazing.
• 1:14:08
  You know, when, when, when I went in because I, I was like
• 1:14:11
  really hesitant. And my mom, you know, she looked
• 1:14:14
  at me and she's like, you realize that if, if the whole
• 1:14:20
  world goes to shit, you're still getting paid because the
• 1:14:24
  government, they're never going to go bankrupt.
• 1:14:27
  That's what she kept on telling me.
• 1:14:29
  I don't know if she'd say that today.
• 1:14:30
  You know what I mean, ain't she? I don't know if she'd say that
• 1:14:34
  today. My question is, with seeing all
• 1:14:38
  this, do you ever have regret that you didn't join the
• 1:14:42
  military, especially with how financial society is right now?
• 1:14:49
  No, because as a female, I think it's a little rougher and it's a
• 1:14:54
  little crazy to put yourself in certain situations as a That's
• 1:14:58
  true. That's very true.
• 1:14:59
  So for me personally, no more power to the people that do.
• 1:15:04
  But I mean, I think for me, I was really shocked to learn that
• 1:15:07
  there were Marines that were females.
• 1:15:09
  I was, oh, yeah, totally oblivious to that.
• 1:15:12
  So I really learned a lot just by that little thing.
• 1:15:15
  Interesting. Yeah, very interesting.
• 1:15:17
  And now he's in South Carolina, right?
• 1:15:21
  Have you been there to visit him?
• 1:15:23
  No. Oh, you gotta do that.
• 1:15:24
  Yeah, I know. I definitely need to gotta do
• 1:15:26
  that. You know, as soon as I went to
• 1:15:28
  Germany, that's my mom and dad came over to visit ASAP, you
• 1:15:33
  know? And it, it it's crazy that like,
• 1:15:36
  I didn't go anywhere. No, when I was in Germany until
• 1:15:40
  my parents got there. And then I went to the Black
• 1:15:43
  Forest. I went to see Dracula's tomb.
• 1:15:46
  I went to the the Holocaust. I, I forget the I, I can't
• 1:15:51
  remember act now or something like that.
• 1:15:54
  I, I, I forget what it was called, but like I never
• 1:15:58
  experienced that stuff right until my parents got there.
• 1:16:01
  And one thing that you know, and it just it rings through today.
• 1:16:06
  I always say that Marie or military people, they're not
• 1:16:11
  lazy. They just need help with
• 1:16:13
  navigation. Yes, OK, absolutely.
• 1:16:16
  And then that goes, and that goes today.
• 1:16:20
  I mean, I, I've been married for, I've been married for
• 1:16:24
  almost 16 years and I still need her help to, hey, what are we
• 1:16:30
  doing this weekend or what are we doing for date night?
• 1:16:33
  Like I have no navigation skills whatsoever at all.
• 1:16:36
  That's what it provides you, right?
• 1:16:38
  And you know, that's what, that's what parents do.
• 1:16:41
  They kind of, they kind of provide that for you.
• 1:16:43
  And that really taught me I can do this.
• 1:16:47
  You know, sometimes you don't think you can, but you you can.
• 1:16:51
  It's amazing what you can do, right?
• 1:16:53
  And then what's something about being a Marine mom that folks
• 1:16:59
  who never lived it just don't understand?
• 1:17:03
  Is there something that you can relate that that maybe people
• 1:17:08
  might not think about? I think, oh, wow, that's a good
• 1:17:12
  question. I think for me maybe would be
• 1:17:14
  the fact that he made him have more appreciation for me as a
• 1:17:18
  parent earlier than I, I personally got it for myself.
• 1:17:22
  So before you know, I could tell as soon as he's done with boot
• 1:17:24
  camp, he had a new respect and love for me as a parent.
• 1:17:29
  Now, this isn't one of the questions, I don't think.
• 1:17:32
  But when he came to you and said, hey, didn't first of all,
• 1:17:36
  did he ask you permission before he joined?
• 1:17:38
  Or did he just join and you're like, oh, OK, we're doing this
• 1:17:43
  now. All right.
• 1:17:44
  No, he took him a while to actually get into the means to
• 1:17:47
  be accepted. So it was a whole process.
• 1:17:50
  We knew it was coming. OK.
• 1:17:52
  Did he participate in the delayed entry program?
• 1:17:57
  I'm not really sure why it took so long to get in there, but I
• 1:18:01
  think it had a lot to do with his weight because he's a big
• 1:18:03
  boy. He's 630.
• 1:18:04
  Shit. I mean, be a Marine, you got to
• 1:18:06
  really lose a lot of weight and stuff.
• 1:18:07
  Shit. OK, All right.
• 1:18:10
  He's like the tallest person every single time there's a
• 1:18:12
  picture of him. Oh, he should be so proud.
• 1:18:15
  Yeah, I'm like 5 foot nothing, 100 and nothing.
• 1:18:18
  I was the shortest person on my football field.
• 1:18:20
  No, he was the tallest. He had to lose a lot of weight
• 1:18:23
  just to get in. This is important.
• 1:18:27
  This is this is before we go to the time showing.
• 1:18:31
  OK. But you know, there's a lot of
• 1:18:35
  people listening as you can, as you can tell if there's a mom
• 1:18:39
  listening right now whose kid just enlisted and she's scared
• 1:18:43
  because I'm sure you're kind of scared too.
• 1:18:48
  What would, what would you, what would you tell them?
• 1:18:51
  You know, first of all, is your son happy or your daughter?
• 1:18:54
  Is this really what's going to make them happy?
• 1:18:56
  If it is, then just, you have to almost trust the process and
• 1:19:02
  just, you know, want happiness for your son or daughter,
• 1:19:05
  wherever they're going to be at. So if that's what's going to
• 1:19:07
  make them happy and make them prosperous and grow, then that's
• 1:19:11
  the best thing for them because it, it can give you a really a
• 1:19:14
  lot of things. Even if you do four years or you
• 1:19:17
  do 20 years, the benefits that you can, you know, and if God
• 1:19:22
  forbid, if it happens to be their time, then you can go out
• 1:19:25
  with some pride and, you know, give that to your kid.
• 1:19:29
  How do you talk to your, Do you talk to your child every week?
• 1:19:32
  Do you talk to him every month? We actually, we kind of both
• 1:19:36
  have said to each other we don't need to call as often as we
• 1:19:39
  should because it does remind us of what we're missing.
• 1:19:42
  Yeah. So, but when we do see each
• 1:19:44
  other and talk, it's like we haven't missed a beat.
• 1:19:47
  OK. So, you know, so like when I
• 1:19:50
  was, when I was doing competitive skiing and I was
• 1:19:53
  married, like I, I, I pretty much at least call my wife at
• 1:19:58
  least for 5 minutes at the end of the night, you know, right
• 1:20:01
  before bed. Wife is different.
• 1:20:03
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 1:20:04
  Because he talked to his brothers, right?
• 1:20:06
  Two brothers. He talks to them daily.
• 1:20:08
  Yeah. And they play video games.
• 1:20:10
  I think it's just the mother and the son.
• 1:20:12
  Probably. Probably.
• 1:20:13
  Wife's always says I'm the hardest one for him to say
• 1:20:16
  goodbye to. So I take that for what that's
• 1:20:18
  worth. Yeah.
• 1:20:19
  I always cried when I left my mom.
• 1:20:21
  I was a mommy's boy. Yeah, I was a mommy's boy.
• 1:20:24
  You know, the the big thing is obligation.
• 1:20:26
  You know when when you make it an obligation to do something.
• 1:20:33
  It's not really. I don't.
• 1:20:34
  I don't feel that it's very fun and it's, it's not out of love,
• 1:20:39
  you know, no, So I, I totally, I totally get it.
• 1:20:43
  And then I think that's our last question.
• 1:20:47
  I'm going to, before we go to the time to shine.
• 1:20:50
  If there is any listeners or viewers at this time, I'm going
• 1:20:54
  to give you guys kind of a little 5 minute window or
• 1:20:57
  whatever. But if you have a question or
• 1:21:01
  Jesse, let me know while I'm waiting for that, let me read
• 1:21:07
  you what what we do know today. Jesse Cook is a Marine mother.
• 1:21:13
  Especially if you're just tuning in now.
• 1:21:15
  We are here at MBRS studio, veteran voices here in
• 1:21:22
  Westminster. Her.
• 1:21:24
  I I I take it your son probably is not going to be calling.
• 1:21:29
  I think that he. I mean, I know he's working
• 1:21:31
  today though Yeah. Well, yeah, because right now
• 1:21:34
  depending on South Carolina, that's on Eastern Time, isn't it
• 1:21:40
  Yeah. So they're two hours ahead OK
• 1:21:42
  well he. Well, then they usually don't
• 1:21:45
  break until like 11:30 or 12. He's probably in the motor pool
• 1:21:48
  working and stuff. Yeah.
• 1:21:49
  But you know, and the, I have no idea what the day that he left,
• 1:21:56
  the day that he left for boot camp.
• 1:21:58
  Yeah. Tell us about that.
• 1:22:03
  That was definitely the hardest day.
• 1:22:04
  That was devastating, right? Yeah.
• 1:22:06
  Because A was during Cobin. Oh, he's a COVID baby.
• 1:22:10
  Well, yeah, OK, right, crime, COVID.
• 1:22:13
  And what's crazy is when he was born, it was a few months before
• 1:22:17
  it was 911, right. So then for him to be going off
• 1:22:20
  during COVID, that's kind of a weird coincidence.
• 1:22:22
  But it was definitely hard. We had a party.
• 1:22:26
  I let his girlfriend at the time, which is now his wife, she
• 1:22:30
  stayed with him the whole entire time he's been away.
• 1:22:32
  But that, you know, I let her take him to the airport.
• 1:22:35
  So I said from bye from far. I think I remembered Tom to come
• 1:22:39
  back and open a jar for me just so I could say goodbye one more
• 1:22:42
  time. That's awesome.
• 1:22:43
  That's awesome. And, you know, and kudos for you
• 1:22:47
  for, you know, giving him that, that.
• 1:22:50
  Oh, you got to break the leash. Yeah.
• 1:22:51
  Yeah. Let them grow.
• 1:22:52
  Let them be happy, Right. And that's what I did.
• 1:22:54
  And I didn't talk to him again for nine months.
• 1:22:57
  I didn't even because the mail was so messed up at the time.
• 1:23:01
  I got his letters after boot camp.
• 1:23:03
  Yeah, that sounds. Yeah.
• 1:23:05
  Yeah, I remember that. I came home after basic and I,
• 1:23:11
  yeah, as soon as I got there, the, the mail, the the thing
• 1:23:14
  that pissed me off when I got out of the military or when I
• 1:23:18
  first left high school to join the military, we wouldn't have
• 1:23:23
  satellite cable or anything for the whole time that I was a
• 1:23:29
  child, right. And then when I come back from
• 1:23:31
  basic, they have they have DIRECTV.
• 1:23:35
  Oh, that pissed me off so bad. And then then I didn't know how
• 1:23:39
  to I I went to rent a movie because it said Robin Hood.
• 1:23:42
  Well, it was the kind of it was the wrong kind of movie, Robin
• 1:23:46
  Hood, you know, and I didn't know anything about that.
• 1:23:49
  So I learned the hard way about that.
• 1:23:52
  But yeah, has there been any changes since, you know, like
• 1:23:59
  you and your, you and your spouse or your boyfriend or your
• 1:24:02
  husband or just you, has there been any like changes since he's
• 1:24:07
  left? Like you guys didn't have cable
• 1:24:10
  nowadays, Like, oh, now I have cable.
• 1:24:12
  Has there been any changes? We moved.
• 1:24:14
  You moved. OK.
• 1:24:15
  Yeah. I mean, our dog passed, man,
• 1:24:19
  that's been big changes. That is hard.
• 1:24:21
  That is hard. But you know, a funny story,
• 1:24:24
  funny story, when I was at Forest Stewart, Georgia, I
• 1:24:29
  remember my mom and dad called and told me that my dog had
• 1:24:33
  passed away. But my dog that you know, I got
• 1:24:37
  him during the Shack era, okay, and it was a girl dog, so
• 1:24:43
  everybody was Shack was a boys name.
• 1:24:44
  So I'm like, okay, well his name is Shaquille, but I call him
• 1:24:48
  Shack for short, just making up shit.
• 1:24:50
  But I remember when he died, I actually called my first
• 1:24:54
  Sergeant to see if I could have the day off.
• 1:24:56
  And I, you know, now that I think about, I'm like, I was an
• 1:25:00
  idiot. Wow.
• 1:25:00
  Yeah. You just gave him, like, a fire
• 1:25:03
  for his ammunition, right. Pretty much.
• 1:25:05
  Right. It's almost like, oh, your mom
• 1:25:07
  and dad sent you a care package. Isn't that sweet?
• 1:25:10
  All right. Some of those things maybe you
• 1:25:12
  just don't do. Right.
• 1:25:14
  They don't need a cat. But it's, it's it's it's it's
• 1:25:17
  truly funny. It's truly funny.
• 1:25:19
  All right. Well, ladies and gentlemen, it
• 1:25:21
  is that time. It is the moment we've been
• 1:25:26
  waiting for the Titan shine. I see.
• 1:25:38
  It's been fun. Thank you for having me.
• 1:25:39
  I appreciate it. I really do.
• 1:25:41
  I appreciate you coming in and I and if you stick around, I love
• 1:25:44
  that. Yeah, we have coffee and Donuts
• 1:25:46
  and all that stuff. You know, if you don't want to
• 1:25:48
  do the whole video thing or you want behind behind the scenes,
• 1:25:52
  it's totally up to you. Can I stay here or do I have to
• 1:25:55
  leave? Huh.
• 1:25:56
  Do I have to leave or can I? No, no, he's stay here.
• 1:25:59
  Yeah, you're stuck. But tell me.
• 1:26:04
  Maybe you, maybe I didn't set you up for the right question or
• 1:26:08
  for answer. And there's something that you
• 1:26:10
  want to get off your chest about, you know, something, some
• 1:26:15
  kind of a hardship that you and your boy has.
• 1:26:17
  Wait. And people, they don't think
• 1:26:20
  about that unless you're in that situation.
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  Is there is there anything that you have on your heart that you
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  would like to discuss? This is your two-minute
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  platform. I think the only thing maybe
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  would be from the very beginning, maybe more of an
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  outreach to let people know where they can find out info
• 1:26:36
  about their kid that's, you know, maybe when they graduate
• 1:26:39
  because like we missed out on a couple like the family days
• 1:26:42
  because we didn't really understand that.
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  So I think that would be really my thing.
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  But no, I mean, he's a big boy. Yeah.
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  OK. So like he's like, I think
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  introductions when they're there, like going through all
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  these different like courses and stuff, you kind of like an
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  introduction or a packet or something sent to the parents so
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  that, you know, you see what's going on.
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  And that makes perfect sense because, you know, I didn't
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  know. But recently I, I reconnected
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  with my commander from when I was deployed to Iraq.
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  And he told me he was like, do you realize when before we
• 1:27:17
  deployed, you know, I, I wrote your parents, right?
• 1:27:21
  And I didn't know that. I didn't know that until my mom
• 1:27:23
  and dad didn't tell me that he wrote parents.
• 1:27:26
  And and I, I talked to my dad and my dad's like, Oh yeah, we
• 1:27:30
  talked on the phone. Oh, what did you say?
• 1:27:34
  You know, And he was like, well, gosh, you know, Ace has been a
• 1:27:37
  long time ago. He's like, I think one of the
• 1:27:40
  things that was said was, you know, that is my only son and
• 1:27:45
  blah, blah, blah. You know, because evidently
• 1:27:47
  when, when you, when your only son, you're, you're not supposed
• 1:27:52
  to supposedly you're not supposed to deploy.
• 1:27:55
  That's the reason why we created the movie Saving Private Ryan.
• 1:27:58
  It's a true story. You know, we, we, we don't have
• 1:28:01
  time to go into that, but you know, it's, it's incredible the
• 1:28:08
  we as military guys talk about how the military kinda doesn't
• 1:28:14
  tell you everything that you're on a need to know basis, right.
• 1:28:17
  It's even worse when you're a family member.
• 1:28:20
  So when you bring that up, that's that's a big thing that
• 1:28:26
  they really need to work on. Has the FRG reached out to you
• 1:28:31
  guys yet? No, I don't even know what that
• 1:28:34
  is. We'll talk, we'll talk, we'll
• 1:28:35
  talk, we'll talk. All right, everybody.
• 1:28:37
  With that being said, we are going to go to the tribute to
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  the Troop. Jesse, thank you so much.
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  Thank you for being here. You're going to stick around
• 1:28:48
  with us. We're going to have some fun for
• 1:28:50
  everybody else. We're going to hit the tribute
• 1:28:52
  to the Troop. And then after the tribute to
• 1:28:54
  the Troop, it's the story behind it.
• 1:28:59
  We have a good one today. You're going to love it.
• 1:29:01
  So whatever you do, stay with us.
• 1:29:03
  The best is to come. You're listening to the show
• 1:29:06
  that highlights all the nonprofit programs out there
• 1:29:08
  beyond the air. You're listening to the H Train
• 1:29:10
  show right here on MBR. Stay with us.
• 1:29:14
  Detail attention. First call.
• 1:29:22
  The service members name is called out loud in the context
• 1:29:25
  of a unit. This is meant to ensure all are
• 1:29:28
  present and accounted for. Second call, the name is called
• 1:29:32
  out again louder to confirm that the service member is indeed
• 1:29:36
  absent. Third call.
• 1:29:39
  The name is called out for a final time, followed by a
• 1:29:42
  statement indicating that the service member is not present
• 1:29:45
  and accounted for, signifying their death.
• 1:29:47
  The final roll call serves as a symbolic gesture to respect and
• 1:29:51
  remember their service. Sir, I don't.
• 1:29:59
  I don't not tell the story. Well, you got the joke.
• 1:30:02
  You're telling the people what you.
• 1:30:03
  Can do here. You tell them how my troopers
• 1:30:06
  died. Hey everyone, thank you for
• 1:30:34
  tuning in to NBR today as we pay tribute to Army Major Bianca C
• 1:30:39
  Wilkerson of Sumter, SC Bianca was born in Norfolk, VA, and
• 1:30:46
  from the very beginning, she carried herself with a quiet
• 1:30:48
  determination of someone destined to serve.
• 1:30:51
  Bianca's military journey began in 2013 when she was
• 1:30:54
  commissioned as a second Lieutenant in the US Army
• 1:30:57
  Reserve after graduating from Virginia Commonwealth
• 1:31:00
  University. Served as the executive officer
• 1:31:04
  for the 678 Transportation Company, demonstrating early on
• 1:31:08
  that she was a leader who inspired confidence and
• 1:31:11
  excellence. In 2017, she transitioned to
• 1:31:14
  active duty through the Army's Call to Active Duty program,
• 1:31:18
  stepping fully into a career marked by discipline and
• 1:31:20
  selected unwavering commitment. Her assignments took her through
• 1:31:24
  Fort Lee, the 25th Infantry Division, and multiple operation
• 1:31:29
  and command roles including brigade operations officer,
• 1:31:34
  company commander, and G Force Supply and Services chief.
• 1:31:38
  Every position she held reflected her ability to lead
• 1:31:41
  with clarity, compassion and strength.
• 1:31:44
  Major welcome to serves with Headquarters U.S.
• 1:31:48
  Army Central and 3rd Army at Shaw Air Force Base in South
• 1:31:52
  Carolina, where she was known for her professionalism, her
• 1:31:55
  drive, and her ability to elevate every mission she
• 1:31:59
  touched. Her awards include the
• 1:32:02
  Meritorious service medal, Army Commendation Medal, Army
• 1:32:05
  achievement medal and the Army Superior Unit War.
• 1:32:09
  On September 18th, 2026, while supporting overseas operations
• 1:32:13
  in Doha, Qatar, she would became I'll while en route to the
• 1:32:17
  Middle East. She was 37.
• 1:32:21
  The Army classified passing as a non combat related incident.
• 1:32:25
  In recognition for her service and her and impact, she was
• 1:32:29
  posthumously promoted to Major. Bianca loved to hike, loved off
• 1:32:34
  roading and the outdoors. She found joy in the
• 1:32:38
  companionship of her dogs, Bo and Brody.
• 1:32:40
  She was a soldier, a leader, and a woman who embraced life with
• 1:32:44
  energy and purpose. Bianca survived by her extended
• 1:32:47
  family and her brothers and sisters in arms.
• 1:32:50
  We here at MBR would like to thank you Major Bianca C
• 1:32:54
  Wilkerson. Our prayers are with your
• 1:32:56
  family, friends, and those who served alongside you.
• 1:33:00
  We honor your service. We speak your name.
• 1:33:03
  We remember your sacrifice. Belly tail pension ready?
• 1:37:32
  Every set back is just a set up for a comeback.
• 1:37:35
  Keep cracking forward. 90% of what we worry about in future
• 1:37:39
  never happens. Whenever things get rough or it
• 1:37:42
  feels like you're at the edge, remember this.
• 1:37:46
  Storms pass. Tough times don't last, but
• 1:37:50
  tough people do. Ladies and gentlemen, ladies and
• 1:38:00
  gentlemen, welcome back in. It's 37 minutes past the hour
• 1:38:05
  and you're listening to sort of the highlights of the nonprofit
• 1:38:07
  programs out there beyond the VA.
• 1:38:09
  You're, you're listening to the a strange show, you're on MBR.
• 1:38:14
  We've had a fantastic show so far.
• 1:38:17
  We, you know, we've, we've kind of, we've kind of talked about
• 1:38:23
  the top story and we had Jesse Cook on and she told her, told a
• 1:38:29
  little bit about her story. Now it's what everybody has been
• 1:38:34
  waiting for. Everybody seems to like the
• 1:38:37
  segment. It's called Behind the Story and
• 1:38:41
  it's that time behind the story. Very cool.
• 1:38:49
  Every item has a story. Every story connects us to a
• 1:38:53
  legacy that must never be forgotten.
• 1:38:56
  Discover the story behind it. This is a story about a mother
• 1:39:05
  that they never forgot. A shattered helmet might look
• 1:39:10
  like damaged equipment. The pieces of Corporal Jason
• 1:39:14
  Dunham's helmet tell a story about courage, a mother's love
• 1:39:20
  in a bond that continued after Marine's death.
• 1:39:24
  This is a historical story, not a recent incident, and it's
• 1:39:29
  connection to today, the relationship between a Marine
• 1:39:33
  and the families they care about.
• 1:39:37
  Jason was 22 years old Marine from COSCO, New York serving as
• 1:39:45
  a squad leader with Company K, 3rd Battalion, 7 Marines.
• 1:39:50
  On April 14th, 2004. This squad was operating in
• 1:39:56
  Cabal, Iraq. After a nearby Marine convoy
• 1:40:01
  came under attack, his team moved towards the fighting and
• 1:40:05
  stopped vehicles, leaving the area to search for weapons.
• 1:40:09
  During this search, a insurgent attacked Jason.
• 1:40:13
  In the struggle, the attacker released a grenade.
• 1:40:18
  Jason warned nearby Marines and covered the grenade with his
• 1:40:23
  helmet and his body. He absorbed the explosion and
• 1:40:28
  saved the lives of two fellow Marines.
• 1:40:32
  He survived the initial blast but died from his wounds 8 days
• 1:40:37
  later at the National Naval Medical Center in Bathia,
• 1:40:45
  Maryland. I'm sure I butchered that with
• 1:40:48
  his parents beside him. On January 11th, 2007, Jason's
• 1:40:54
  parents accepted his Medal of Honor at the White House.
• 1:40:58
  The ceremony honored the sacrifice, but it also revealed
• 1:41:04
  A quieter part of his life. See, Jason sometimes called his
• 1:41:10
  mother, Deb, from the barracks and passed the phone to fellow
• 1:41:15
  Marines who needed a mother to talk to.
• 1:41:19
  Through those calls, she became a source of comfort beyond her
• 1:41:25
  own son. After Jason's death, the
• 1:41:29
  relationship continued. Marines collected its fragments
• 1:41:36
  after the explosion. Years later, the former
• 1:41:40
  commander Trent Gibson worked with Deb and Dan Dunham to
• 1:41:45
  decide how to preserve them. Most of the helmet would go to
• 1:41:50
  the National Museum of the Marine Corps, with one fragment
• 1:41:54
  reserved for the mass of the USS Jason Dunham.
• 1:42:00
  That decision gave the broken equipment and lasting purpose.
• 1:42:06
  A museum could help future visitors understand Jason's
• 1:42:10
  sacrifice. The fragments associated with
• 1:42:15
  the ship would connect its sailor to the marine whose name
• 1:42:21
  it carry. Preserving the helmet also
• 1:42:25
  involved the people who knew him, allowing the family to
• 1:42:32
  participate in how his story would be remembered.
• 1:42:37
  For our show and this focus, we're, we're focusing on the
• 1:42:42
  small acts of care around the larger act of courage.
• 1:42:48
  Handling a phone to somebody who needed a mop, making a holiday
• 1:42:54
  call and helping parents preserve their child's memory.
• 1:43:01
  Those, those are the important things in life.
• 1:43:12
  Those actions give listeners and viewers something that we can
• 1:43:19
  understand and practice in their own communities.
• 1:43:23
  Jesse's appearance today is the story doesn't imply that she has
• 1:43:28
  suffered the same loss or opens a broader question about
• 1:43:32
  belonging. But when a child becomes a
• 1:43:34
  Marine, can the people serving beside them become part of the
• 1:43:41
  parents extended family? Jason and Deb's story shows how
• 1:43:46
  meaningful that connection can be.
• 1:43:51
  Conversation Bridge. Yeah.
• 1:43:58
  You know, it's I I think it's John.
• 1:44:01
  I don't really listen to country, but I think it's John.
• 1:44:05
  John Michael Montgomery. He sings the song Letters from
• 1:44:08
  Home, you know, and I can assure you, and that song, it's exactly
• 1:44:15
  factual that when a soldier cries, nobody laughs.
• 1:44:24
  When a soldier cries, every single veteran is always there
• 1:44:31
  to to help them through thick and thin.
• 1:44:35
  I don't know if you've been given that opportunity to where
• 1:44:41
  you can say hi to these soldiers that he's like battle buddies
• 1:44:46
  with, you know, stuff like that, But it it became it becomes a
• 1:44:52
  different life story when you become close with some of his
• 1:44:56
  battle buddies. If he if he loses them and, you
• 1:45:01
  know, hopefully you never be put in that predicament, but you
• 1:45:08
  could be. Absolutely.
• 1:45:09
  And, you know, that's one of the reasons why I always say, you
• 1:45:13
  know, thank you for your service because I your your your mother
• 1:45:18
  service. It never goes out the window.
• 1:45:20
  You know, you don't need TS from that.
• 1:45:21
  So that's an amazing story. Yeah.
• 1:45:26
  So that is the story. Evidently this this Kevlar is in
• 1:45:31
  the museum and that's the story behind it.
• 1:45:35
  You know, I have a friend whose name is Kyle Carpenter.
• 1:45:38
  He's, he's no longer and he, that's, that's how he got his.
• 1:45:43
  He, he's still alive today. But you know, you, you know, he
• 1:45:48
  has burns and stuff. He has lost his eye.
• 1:45:53
  You know, for somebody to give up their life to help another,
• 1:46:01
  that is the greatest form of love and appreciation.
• 1:46:07
  And yeah, I just wanted to mark that.
• 1:46:09
  Hopefully you never have to go through that.
• 1:46:11
  But, you know, thank you. Thank you for your service.
• 1:46:17
  Dumb and dumb family really appreciate it.
• 1:46:21
  OK, well, now that we got all that, you know, crying out of
• 1:46:27
  it, it is that time, ladies and gentlemen, it is the final
• 1:46:30
  thoughts. At Project ML.
• 1:46:45
  Our mission is simple, to give motorcycles to veterans who need
• 1:46:48
  the kind of peace and freedom that only a ride can give.
• 1:46:52
  We sponsor charity events and rides to generate donations on
• 1:46:55
  the acquisition of the bikes while direct.
• 1:46:57
  Donations make up the ride. We seek to provide a little
• 1:47:00
  motorcycle healing to capable vets.
• 1:47:03
  All right, ladies and gentlemen, so once again, if you were a
• 1:47:07
  veteran and you don't have a motorcycle, Google Project ML
• 1:47:14
  gratitude. They are an amazing group.
• 1:47:17
  If you need me to connect you, I will.
• 1:47:19
  But they give a motorcycle free to a veteran that doesn't have
• 1:47:24
  1:00 every single year. Yep.
• 1:47:26
  And I believe they're like on #32 or something.
• 1:47:30
  It's crazy. Excuse me, but look into them
• 1:47:36
  and if you want me to help you connect, I can totally help you
• 1:47:39
  connect with them. They're they're amazing people.
• 1:47:43
  HG What did you learn today? I learned not to run up the
• 1:47:51
  score in the football game. If you coach at the a Catholic
• 1:47:54
  High School, Catholic private school, they apparently they're
• 1:47:57
  not going to like that. No SO.
• 1:48:00
  I won't if I ever in that situation.
• 1:48:03
  I'm not running the score I guess.
• 1:48:06
  They all have to be even now. But right now.
• 1:48:09
  Jesse, what did you learn today that you know?
• 1:48:13
  I don't. I didn't learn a lot, but I
• 1:48:15
  learned that this was the plan to come here and be a part of
• 1:48:18
  this. You learned it wasn't a light,
• 1:48:19
  but hey, I still made it on time.
• 1:48:22
  Better than last time. Oh, man.
• 1:48:25
  Well, before we close to this, I want to leave everybody with
• 1:48:32
  something. Behind every uniform is a
• 1:48:34
  person, and behind that person is a family whose story deserves
• 1:48:39
  to be heard. Thank you to our guest, Jesse
• 1:48:43
  Cook, for spending time with us. Having a Marine mother join us
• 1:48:48
  is a reminder that service reaches far beyond the person
• 1:48:53
  wearing the uniform. And families carry the worry,
• 1:48:57
  the waving, the love. And we can't control every
• 1:49:01
  headline or solve every problem, but we can't choose how we treat
• 1:49:07
  people. We can listen before judging.
• 1:49:10
  We can check on that buddy who's been quiet, and we can make time
• 1:49:16
  for somebody without waiting until they're struggling.
• 1:49:20
  Remember people, people never post the bad things.
• 1:49:27
  They always post the good things.
• 1:49:29
  They always bragging right. So if you don't see somebody
• 1:49:33
  posting and they're quiet, those are the people that you need to
• 1:49:38
  reach out to. That's why MBR exists.
• 1:49:43
  Giving veterans a voice starts with being willing to hear them.
• 1:49:47
  If today's show reminds you of someone to reach out a simple
• 1:49:54
  hey, I was thinking about you can open a conversation that
• 1:49:59
  somebody needs. And of course, you know, the H
• 1:50:04
  trade show here we take, you know, take care of yourself,
• 1:50:08
  take care of each other and thank you for being a part of us
• 1:50:14
  this morning. And before we leave, you know,
• 1:50:18
  we we can't have. Well, maybe I'll let you do
• 1:50:21
  that, HG, before we leave. Beaker has our safety.
• 1:50:25
  Briefing, all right, team brief time, don't drink and drive.
• 1:50:28
  Don't beat on anyone and wrap it up.
• 1:50:30
  Now listen, put out your fires completely.
• 1:50:33
  Have a great weekend and be safe.
• 1:50:34
  See you next Friday. All right, so next Friday we
• 1:50:39
  have a certain number of nonprofits that we're going to
• 1:50:43
  interview. I actually sent him a message to
• 1:50:46
  see if if he was going to be able to be on with us next
• 1:50:51
  Friday. It's kind of a it's kind of a
• 1:50:54
  toss up. So what we're going to say is
• 1:50:57
  we're going to have a nonprofit on.
• 1:51:01
  Yeah, I might even go on the if you're a hunter and you like
• 1:51:06
  hunting, you want to make sure that you join us this coming
• 1:51:12
  Friday and we'll be we'll be having a an amazing non profit
• 1:51:19
  interview. But HG, you got anything?
• 1:51:24
  No, Sir. All right.
• 1:51:25
  Well, ladies and gentlemen, that's the end of today's show.
• 1:51:28
  Thank you so much for having coffee with us this morning.
• 1:51:33
  We really appreciate it, and we hope that you come back and
• 1:51:38
  visit us next Friday. From everybody here at the ACE
• 1:51:42
  Train Show and everybody here at Military Broadcast Radio, we
• 1:51:46
  just want to remind you that we're here for you, not for us.
• 1:51:50
  And they all said giving veterans a voice.
• 1:51:55
  Have a fantastic weekend to everybody.
• 1:51:57
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• 1:52:01
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