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The station where our veterans voices are heard.
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MBR talk. Hey, thanks for supporting our
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Us on the web at MB radio dot. Welcome to Veteran Talk with
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Magic Mike, where what's important to you is important to
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us. Let's talk.
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I'm your host, Magic Mike, and today we're diving deep into
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something close to my heart, how sharing your story and getting
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behind the mic can be a powerful form of rehabilitation.
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Whether you're fresh out of service, years into civilian
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life, or somewhere in between, We've got a space for you here
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because everyone has a story, and broadcasting is how we tell
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it. And what's up everybody?
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Is your favorite guy here magic? Anyways, just wanted to touch
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base with everybody a little bit.
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I am doing great. I just got an e-mail.
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Hey man, haven't seen you. Whatever.
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I'm doing good a lot of like appointments and stuff going on.
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So bear with me. I'm going to be probably often
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that a couple as we're getting in October.
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I think I got another one and then whatever big, big things
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that I'm doing to to to heal. I guess I don't know without
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getting personal. But anyways, welcome to the show
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on Veterans talking military broadcast radio.
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If you're just joining us for the first time, veterans talk
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when we talk about things that are important to veterans.
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So I, I like reading my emails and getting up to date with my
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emails and talking with the people that do watch me out
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there. And that's kind of pretty cool.
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So thank you to everybody that wrote me.
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Somebody wrote me and said, hey, magic, I watch your show from
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time to time. Thank you so much for updating
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us on the Major Richard Star act.
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So huge thing going on with the Major Richard Star Act right
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now. It is it has a 218 votes to
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force it into a vote, if you will, right.
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So it it's complicated, I know, but it's it's good.
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It is good. I mean, it's a it's a good thing
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that's happening, right? So I mean don't, don't, I mean
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don't even it's, I don't know. I have no idea what just
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happened. Everything just went blank.
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So if you're joining us back, I don't know what happened.
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We just completely went live and then went offline.
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I don't know what happened. Anyway, if you're joining me and
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we got a reset, the Major Richard Star Act has a 218 votes
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that it needs to be forced or 218 signatures.
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It needs to be forced into a vote.
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Some people are saying it's it's going to be shot down because of
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the money issue. Others are saying, well, it has
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a 5050 chance. ChatGPT says one thing, the
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Internet says the other, you know, let's hope for the best.
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I mean, let's hope for the best. I think it's the taxation on
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the, you know, taxation on military combat related, forced
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to retire, combat related retirees.
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I think it's injustice that they're not getting paid their
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due, their due diligence, right? That they're taxed their money.
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They're offset one for one. So, yeah, it's been a, it's been
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quite interesting the last couple days, the news and
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everything else that's going on with, you know, the, the, the
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whole it's, it's difficult because it's like Iran and this
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and that and what's going on here And you know, it's, I don't
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know, it's, it's crazy. A lot of people are writing me.
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I'm just reading up to catch up some of the emails.
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You know, somebody had wrote me and said, Hey, do you let me
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find it real quick. I should have been a little bit
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better prepared. Michael, bite me.
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It is there it is right there. Got it.
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So somebody had wrote and said with everything that's going on,
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do you agree with it? It's not whether I agree with it
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or not. It's more of a conversational
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holy moly of what's going on. I think that that's the the real
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tough cookie, I guess, if you if you want to say that, But I
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think that what is going on right now with everything the
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world, I guess it is I I think that we need to do better as as
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a whole, the world as a whole. I think I'm just trying to, I'm
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trying to answer your e-mail without being political.
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You know, for somebody who, who goes into politics, right,
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whether they're a Congress person or senator or mayor or or
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whatever, I think that if they go into politics, they do not
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have a right to say that they hate this country.
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Or one politician said that the American flag is nothing more
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than something to wipe her hands with as a napkin.
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I mean, if you feel that so strong about America, the
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country in which you live in, then pack your bags and move
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somewhere else. I'm, I'm full on board with that
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because there's a bunch of people who served in the
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military who would beg to differ with you and would like to
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really challenge you on that, right?
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Because you're, you're, you're reaping the benefits of this
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country. But yet you want to, you know,
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we're not perfect. We're not a perfect country.
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You know, we have leaps and bounds and we have stumbles that
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we've taken. And you know, regardless of
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whether you think the current president is greatest thing in
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the world or the worst thing in the world is irrelevant because
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that's your own opinion. And we have a choice in four
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years to vote for a different 1. And in the next 4 years, if
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that's not a good choice, there's another four years and
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we can vote for another one. That's the greatest thing about
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a democracy. That's the greatest thing about
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a country in which you get to vote and you get to make the
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decisions. So you know that one politician
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that stood up there and said that the American flag was
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nothing more than something for her to wipe her hands on.
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I think anybody that chastises this country or talks smack
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about this country should have either their citizenship revoked
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immediately if they're naturalized citizenship, meaning
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if they weren't born here, they should have their citizenship
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revoked immediately and be sent back to whatever country they
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came from. Plain and simple.
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I mean, you literally in politics, you raise your right
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hand and take an oath to the Constitution of the United
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States. It doesn't matter whether you're
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a mayor or a congressman or a senator or the president United
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States, you raise your right hand and take an oath to the
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Constitution of the United States.
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And that oath that you take is to the United States.
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It's not to Israel, it's not to Palestine, it's not to Pakistan.
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It is to the United States of America.
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And I think that if you are in office and hold any kind of a
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political title, that you do not have a right to criticize the
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United States of America and call it names.
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I mean, you live here for goodness sake, you know.
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So anyway, that was my rant and and I hope I didn't upset a lot
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of people and everybody got all mad and and testy and stuff like
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that. But I do want to share something
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with you all. I thought it was pretty cool.
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Big shout out to my boy H train. I know he's been a little bit
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under the weather and everything like that.
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And again, if if you guys are out there watching for the first
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time, make a donation. It's a nonprofit.
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It goes to equipment like the mic I have the headset I have
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on. It goes to help other veterans
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get into broadcasting, podcasting, TV, television.
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And a lot of a lot of us have had offers at radio stations or
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have moved on to radio stations or have gotten great jobs and
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stuff like that. So it really is a great thing
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that military broadcast radio is doing.
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And we have so many different shows.
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I, I got off the phone with one of my old commanders a couple
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days ago and we talked for a good two hours on the phone and
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he enlight me to some great stuff.
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He has a book coming out. I'm going to have him on the
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show, I hope next week if he can swing it.
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I know H Train had him on his show.
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I'm going to continue to promote his book, his company, his
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ideas. He's a great leader and a great
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individual. And you know, this is what it's
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about. So if you, if you have a couple
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dollars, man, listen, a couple bucks is not a big deal, right?
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I mean, come on, we buy a McDonald's everyday, right?
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Skip a McDonald's and donate to military broadcast radio.
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It's very easy to donate. I just donated some dollars that
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I had laying around. And you know, it's a great
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organization. It helps keep the lights on in
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the studio. So it's a really good, good way
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to to give back to the military community.
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So I'm going to share something real quick.
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And it's pretty funny actually. So give me one second.
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There's that. Let me see here.
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There's that. And then I'm going to go here.
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And I thought this was really funny, so I'm going to share
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this with you guys. I'm logged in, I'm logged in.
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What's going on? I'm logged in.
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I don't know what's going on. I'm logged in.
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I'm logged in. I don't know what's going on.
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I'm logged in. I'm logged in.
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I don't know what's going on. Let's see this is crazy Can't
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get logged in. I'm logged in man.
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What's wrong with y'all? I'm right here looking at it.
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Don't don't update the password. Give me one second.
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I'm going to try to get this. It's not Let me log in and I'm
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in. Oh you know what there's there's
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more than one way to skin a cat. You ever heard of that saying So
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here we go right here. Give me one second.
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Yeah. Got it.
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Yeah. See, there's more than one way
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to skin a cat, guys. I mean, sometimes you got to
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skin it twice. But I know I'm going to.
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I know I'm going to lose viewers because there are cats out
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there. I'm OK with that.
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So here we go. You all ready for this?
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This. I hope I can get it up here.
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Where is it at? I don't know if that's there or
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if that's over here, but we'll see.
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This is bad. This is really bad.
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Don't judge. This is up.
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Don't judge. You ain't allowed to judge on
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here. Size PDFs.
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I'm trying. I'm trying to figure this out
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man. I'm usually pretty good at this,
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but anyway, I'll get it added to the stage.
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Give me a second. Just got to figure out where
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it's at. I don't think it's there.
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It is right here. All right, let me try this one
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more time. Share screen.
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Present invite Share screen. Instagram message.
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Nope. That's not it was new.
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That's not it. I can't.
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I can't find it. I think that's it.
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Yeah, that's it. I got it.
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I think I got it. I think, I think I got it.
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I think I got it. I think.
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I think I got it. There it is.
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Right there. Is that it?
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Anyways, you know what I'll do? I'll do it the easy way.
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Maybe not so easy, but anyways, I'll try to.
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I'll try to find it because I just can't for some reason
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figure it out. I don't know why, Joel.
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It's so easy when I do it before the show and then when I'm in
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the show I can't do it. Crazy, absolutely crazy.
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Anyway, what's new? Definitely not that.
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So I was going to show you guys a video.
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It's pretty funny, but for some reason I can't, I can't pop it
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up. So what I'll do, I know exactly
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what I'll do. I'll take a quick break and
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while I'm at the break I'll try to pop it up.
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I am trying to trying to show a video and when I share my
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screen, for some reason it's telling me to log into
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Instagram, but I'm I'm logged into Instagram and I think it's
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just being a butt head. I think that's my problem.
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I really do. So I'll take it.
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I'll take a quick break. I want you know, I'll take a
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quick break. I'll show a little video, little
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something, something, and then we'll come right back on
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military. Reason Instagram saying that my
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password is wrong, but I know it's not it's right.
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So whatever I was going to pop up something and show you guys
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something that I saw on Instagram.
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It was really cool. Welcome back to veterans talk on
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military broadcast radio with yours truly magic and I'm trying
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to figure out what in the world is going on with this app.
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I have no idea. But anyway, if you join us for
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the first time again, thank you for for for joining us.
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I mean, thank you for being here on the show and thank you for
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joining Military Broadcast radio.
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I mean, we've got so many great shows, great live shows that we
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do. And you know, I, I don't like to
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plan mine anymore. I kind of like doing it off the
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cuff. And I feel like once I get into
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it, I'm into it and that's it. Sometimes I got a great, great
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thoughts and sometimes I'm just like Lala land.
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But it is coming to an end of September and pretty soon the
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holidays are going to be upon us.
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And I know that means a lot for a lot of different veterans.
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And it's a very difficult time for me.
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September is always a difficult time.
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I lost my mother in September. October is difficult, would have
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been my mother's birthday. And you know, I know some of you
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have lost loved ones in October and, and stuff as well.
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And it's difficult. As we close up September, which
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is Suicide Awareness Month, I want you all to be understanding
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that just because the month ends for suicide awareness doesn't
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mean it ends for all of us. It's still very important to
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reach out to your friends, family, loved ones, people you
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know, and even just passing a stranger.
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Be nice to them. Just be nice to them.
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You don't know what they're going through, you don't know
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what they've been through and you definitely don't know what
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is in their mind, so to speak, you know, and it's it's you
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don't need to be scared. It's just part of life and try
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trying to be nice to somebody and, and just be a good person,
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man. I mean, I can't say that enough.
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Just be a freaking good person. It's crazy.
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I, I know for a fact that, you know, when I went through a lot,
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you know, within the last quite a few months and stuff like
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that, it was very difficult for me.
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It was difficult because of, you know, not having anybody there
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or feeling a little bit lost, if you will.
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And I think that what mattered the most was that I had people
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like H train and, and others that were there for me and, you
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know, said, Hey, you good. Let me just check in, check in
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with you and check up on you. And I think that's really
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important. So as we go into and, and we
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start the end of the month of September, which is suicide
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awareness and we go into the holidays and stuff, be be
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mindful, be vigilant, reach out to that someone special, someone
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special you've been meaning to say sorry to or thank you or
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hey, just checking on you, right?
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And here's something that I learned over the last couple
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weeks is that you don't always have to pick up the phone and
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tell somebody you're sorry or ask for forgiveness or.
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Give them forgiveness. You can do it on your own as
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well. It's very simple.
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So remember that as well. You know, I, I can't, I can't
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stress enough how important it is to really make sure that you
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are. I don't know how to say this.
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Make sure you're a good person, man.
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I'm just, I'm just trying to think of, of, of the right words
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to say without hurting somebody. Because somebody had wrote me a
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e-mail couple weeks ago and it was not good.
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And it was, you know, just basically saying that, you know,
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they listen to my show and something bothered them on my
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show. OK, sorry, sorry that something
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bothered you. I, I don't, I don't know what to
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tell you. So, but I just don't know what
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to tell you. I mean, I, I, I, I have no idea.
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I'm, I'm looking at this e-mail right now and I don't even know
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how to, how to respond to it. It's it's mind boggling that
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some people, just some people just get so bent in their ways
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that they don't understand how to move on.
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I guess it's the best way to say it.
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Forgive, forgive. I guess that the best way to say
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it. I think so.
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I think that's the best way to say it.
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Just just move on. Forget about it.
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Who cares? Stop being stop being a baby
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over it. I'm trying to figure out whether
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I'm going to read this or not. I'm kind of like stuck on the
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back, back burner, if you will, of this.
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And I don't know if I should read it or not, But some people
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like read it, read it. I'm like, Nah, I'm good.
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I'm good. I'll read this one.
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How's this? This e-mail right here is pretty
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good. It says, hey, magic, watch your
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show. The other day.
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It was a rerun. I just found it on YouTube very,
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very enlightening about the Major Registar Act and the Take
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Care of Veterans Act, which is going on currently in our
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Senate. Do you think either one of those
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will pass? And if so, here's the thing.
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I have no control over that. Do I think they pass?
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I think they should pass. Will they pass?
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We don't know. I, I'll tell you this, It's,
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it's, it's difficult because of the fact that so many people
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want it. The actual, what do you call
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that? The, the tinnitus and the sleep
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apnea to not be affected. So if you already have it, it's
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not a big deal. It's not affected.
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That's the good thing. That's the wholesome thing is
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that it's not affected. So if you if you, if you're,
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gosh, he keeps writing me and I'm trying to read it at the
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same time I'm getting lost my words, But hold on a second.
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I'll answer your question. Stop, stop, pause, press pause.
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The take Care of Veterans Act is one thing, the major richest
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target as another. They took the major Richard star
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Act and put that into the take care of Veterans Act kind of
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like they did the big beautiful bill.
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They put all that crap in it and there was like so much stuff
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that was great. And some of the stuff like they
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did the same thing, they should have never done that with the
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Major Richard Star Act, but they thought if we put this in with
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the Major Richard Star Act and then we have a chance of a
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getting past because people like all this is great.
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It's taking care of veterans and veterans spouses and Gold Star
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families and, and this person and that person, it's great.
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Well, a lot of people saw the tinnitus and the sleep apnea as
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a problem. So that started putting veterans
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against veterans, right? People who aren't veterans yet
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are still active duty, right? If you don't like me saying that
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tough, look up the word veteran. It says somebody who served, not
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still serving. It says served.
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So you are still active duty military.
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You are not a veteran. A veteran is somebody who is not
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doing that anymore. Look it up.
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It's not my choice, Webster's choice.
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So with that being said, it is kind of difficult.
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I don't know where that just went to.
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I don't know why that just disappeared.
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It is kind of difficult to get these people oh, Safari just
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quit unexpectedly good. I hate Safari anyway, it is good
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to get these these to get these passed it it we need to get it
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passed It's it's that plain simple.
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Don't passing the Major Richard Star Act effects a lot of
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people. Not passing the not passing the
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the take care of Veterans Act is a major problem because you're
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you're messing with people. I hate to say it like that, but
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you were definitely messing with people.
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So I, I don't think that I don't think that the tinnitus or the
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sleep apnea should be a kill factor for our stuff.
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I, I think that it should still, there should still be an
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opportunity. What I'm saying, I, I think
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there should still be an opportunity for, I think it
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should be an opportunity for the richer major, major richer star
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Act to pass without being tied into the take care of veterans.
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And I think the take care of veterans should pass with some
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adjustments to it. I, I guess I said what I needed
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to say and, and that's all, that's all I'm saying.
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I don't think it should be an issue where, you know, there it
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is right here. I think I got it.
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I don't think it should be an issue where people get mad or
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upset or, you know, go against each other because that's what's
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happening. You got the American Legion and
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the VFW and the DAV and all these other organizations are
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kind of going against each other and it's kind of unfair for
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them. So that's, that's my take on it.
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I mean, that's just again, my take.
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It's not the views of military broadcast radio.
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It's just Michael's takes. So I hope everything passes
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because I think veterans deserve everything that they get.
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I hope that the Major Riches Star Act passes, because
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obviously it affects all these combat wounded retirees and I
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think that it should I don't know I I I just think that it's
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just wrong for it not to be passing that's it so here you go
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I'm going to share this with you guys.
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I hope you guys like it. We'll see how this works out
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let's see here add to stage there we go I hope you guys can
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hear it too. So let me see.
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Let's go here. Where's that?
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Let's see it. Just keep.
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Keep the period on me. Give me one second.
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Keeps disappearing. I added to the stage.
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Now I can't find it. This is crazy.
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This is crazy. I added to the stage and now I
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can't find it. There it is right there.
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Then it stops on me. That's awesome.
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We'll figure it out. We're trying to figure it out
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19. 81 America. There we go.
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DL camouflage basically said the Gulf War, Somalia, the Balkans,
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Afghanistan, Iraq, the army war would left until 2008 the.
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Marine, I don't know why it keep stopping.
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Anyways I'll try to get that fixed for you guys.
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Which means. This shit had a longer military
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career than most. H string, can you hear it?
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It's God perfected the flag. In 1981 and everything since,
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it's just been fashion except for the war crime.
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I thought that was so funny because can you guys hear it?
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I just asked HJ if he could hear it.
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Let's see what he says. Yeah, yeah, but fate.
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All right, so it's actually it's on Instagram.
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It's hilarious and it talks about the BDU right.
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It's God, I wish I could play it man and get it working, but it
30:09
is hilarious. And basically what it is, is
30:13
they're talking about the the BDU, the camouflage that we all
30:17
wore and stuff. So this is M81, also known as.
30:24
God's plan, the Lord's flannel. Because in 1981 America took
30:31
ERDL camouflage and basically said just hear me out, what if
30:36
we made the blobs bigger and holy shit they were right.
30:43
An M81 went to work. Grenada, Panama, the Gulf War,
30:47
Somalia, the Balkans, Afghanistan, Iraq.
30:52
The army wore woodland until 2008.
30:55
The marines retired theirs in 2006.
30:58
Which means this shit had a longer military career than most
31:01
of the people wearing it. And when Uncle Sam finally
31:04
retired it every minute, then militia member, paintballer and
31:08
tactical larper in America could collectively they said we'll
31:12
take it from here. And they did, right up until
31:16
Multicam came along and became tactical.
31:21
And 45 years later we're still making shit out of it because
31:26
God perfected Plaid in 1981. Everything since, it's just been
31:31
fashion. Except for the war crime.
31:36
We'll get to that later. I thought that was hilarious.
31:40
If you guys, if you guys have never ever seen that, let me get
31:44
back over here real quick. Sorry about that.
31:46
I thought that was hilarious. That was hilarious.
31:49
I, I don't know who made that up or whatever.
31:52
I saw that on Instagram. But it is so true because we
31:55
were BTU's even when we were in Iraq, they, we had to bring our
31:59
BTU's with us because people don't realize that they're palm
32:02
grows in Iraq. There's, there's, there's
32:05
vegetation in Iraq, right? It's not a desert like Kuwait.
32:09
And so, you know, and, and at the end when they say, yeah,
32:15
it's except for the war crime because man, the ACU was the
32:20
biggest garbage that they ever invented in the Army.
32:24
That, that, that pyjama type plastic zipper.
32:30
You know, it's going to be much cooler.
32:31
Man, that thing ripped easy. I mean, it was the pattern was
32:35
like supposed to be digi pattern or whatever.
32:37
It was garbage. And at the end they say except
32:40
for the war crime and man, he goes.
32:42
We'll get to that later. I thought that was hilarious.
32:44
That was probably for me, like the funniest damn thing that I
32:47
ever, ever ever saw. Yeah, I thought it was funny as
32:51
hell. But anyway, yeah, yeah.
32:55
Thought I'd share that with you guys.
32:56
I thought it was pretty cool, pretty funny.
32:59
There was another one that that I had that that I was getting to
33:03
and stuff like that. So I will warn you, I'm going to
33:06
play something a little bit later on in my show towards the
33:10
end. And I just wanted I, I, I'm
33:12
going to warn you, it may be a trigger for some people,
33:15
especially those of us who have served overseas in Iraq and
33:17
Afghanistan. And it's just a, it's just a
33:20
reminder for me as I was going through some reels that were
33:23
sent to me and I thought about it and stuff.
33:25
It was, it was something that was just history.
33:31
I think the history is not being taught the way it is.
33:33
I mean, sure, we can go on Instagram if you want to and
33:36
look at it, but I think that the kids today are not, you know,
33:39
when I, when I was in junior high and, and even, you know, in
33:42
Senior High, we, we studied the Vietnam War and the Vietnam War,
33:47
what it meant and what it was and about the soldiers who came
33:51
home, who were, you know, less than heroes.
33:54
They were spat upon and they were yelled at and stuff.
33:58
If we're not careful, if we are not careful, we're headed to
34:03
that same thing. It's almost like our history is
34:06
repeating ourselves from that era.
34:08
You know, it's not a popular war in Iran.
34:11
Iraq wasn't, Afghanistan wasn't right.
34:14
And you know, you have so many protesters out there right now
34:17
protesting the Iran war and this person and that person and
34:20
everything. And it's just absolutely mind
34:22
boggling that, you know, that you hate somebody for doing
34:28
their job, you know, like the ICE agents and stuff like that,
34:31
that are doing their job. They're doing their job.
34:34
And a lot of those ICE agents, believe it or not, a lot of them
34:36
are Hispanic. They have Hispanic Mexican blood
34:41
running through their bones and they're doing a job because they
34:43
believe in it. They took an oath, they believe
34:45
in it. So I think it's pretty difficult
34:49
sometimes to try and figure out who the who's, what's when and
34:52
where's. And, and you know, I understand
34:57
that protesting, peaceful protesting is a part of our, our
35:02
way of rights as AUS citizen. But I just don't understand why.
35:08
I don't understand why these people are protesting somebody
35:16
who's doing their job. I mean, you know, there's an
35:19
uproar right now that this guy was shot in I think it was
35:22
California or it might have been, I'm pretty sure it was
35:25
California, whatever. And they said that the ICE
35:29
agents just murdered him. OK, So I watched the video like
35:33
10 different times and that this is this is what the news said.
35:39
The news spun it this way. They said he was a DoorDash
35:41
delivery driver. OK, Well, DoorDash, shame on you
35:45
for hiring somebody who was a illegal immigrant, right?
35:49
Because you should have done your due diligence on making
35:51
sure that he was a legal person, legally allowed to be here that
35:56
was paying taxes. So how did you hire him?
35:58
If he's an illegal immigrant here, how did you hire him?
36:01
If he doesn't have a, you know, W2 or AW4 or a Social Security
36:08
card or whatever? How were you able to hire him as
36:11
a delivery driver for DoorDash? That blows my mind.
36:17
So this is what the news said. The news said he was a DoorDash
36:20
delivery driver and ICE agents shot and murdered him.
36:24
That is not what happened. He was a DoorDash driver.
36:29
Yes, that was true. He was stopped by law
36:33
enforcement. I don't care if it's law
36:36
enforcement from the FBI, the ICE, the DHSI don't care if it
36:40
was law enforcement from the Bureau of Corrections.
36:43
He was being stopped by a law enforcement agency in which he
36:48
tried to ram ram. He tried to run over one of the
36:53
agents and they shot at him. And, and it's unfortunate that
36:58
somebody lost their live or they were unalived, if you will.
37:01
But the problem that I have with that is the way it's spun.
37:08
So, so, so, so pause on that and let's talk about something else.
37:13
There was a a black gentleman that was hanging from a tree
37:17
from a rope. And the news spun it.
37:20
Boy, they spun it. Oh, they spun it.
37:22
They spun it and said this is a, you know, there's more blacks
37:26
being hung and and so on and so forth.
37:29
Well, then they pulled the cameras from the doorbell
37:31
cameras and the cameras from businesses around there and it
37:35
shows him climbing up the ladder at show or tree and shows him
37:39
hanging himself. This is suicide prevention
37:41
month. Instead of addressing what was
37:44
real, which was the suicide, instead of addressing that and
37:48
saying, hey, is a very unfortunate innocent incident
37:53
that happened, somebody took their life, right?
37:56
Because that's a human life. I don't care if it was a black,
38:00
white, green, purple, Jew, gentile, I don't care who it
38:03
was. They took their life.
38:06
So instead of focusing on that and saying suicide is real here
38:09
in suicide Prevention Month, suicide is definitely real.
38:12
This is Instead of doing that, what are we doing?
38:18
We're, we're, we're. We're saying it's racist and
38:20
this and this and this. No, it wasn't racist.
38:23
He committed suicide. But news stations spotted and
38:27
stated, some news stations stated that a lot of blacks are
38:32
hung and the whites are doing it.
38:35
I think that those news stations should be ripped from the FCC,
38:39
should RIP every license that they have for false news.
38:43
But then this is how they retracted it.
38:45
They retracted it by saying, well, I'm sure there was some
38:48
kind of a foul play there. There was literally video
38:51
footage of this man taking his life, his own life.
38:55
There was no foul play there. And instead of addressing it as
38:59
a suicide and addressing of what it is and the problem that we
39:02
have in America, the problem we have is not, not people are
39:04
hanging people. The problem we have is that
39:06
suicide is real. So why, what are we doing to fix
39:13
that? And that that's that's that got
39:16
me so upset that I just could not believe that that a news
39:20
station that's supposed to be so reputable and stuff would be so
39:28
jaded to do that and not call it what it is at which was a
39:33
suicide, a very unfortunate event.
39:35
So I'm going to take a quick break.
39:38
We come back, I'm going to show a couple videos and I'm going to
39:40
give you a warning right now. This is a trigger warning.
39:42
Some of these videos are raw footages of Iraq and
39:45
Afghanistan, Fallujah and Mosul, which H Train and I both were
39:52
involved in. And there's a reason behind it.
39:56
And I'll talk more about why I'm showing it as we approach next
40:00
week, which would have been the anniversary of me being injured
40:05
of. My mother passing away and a lot
40:08
of bad things happening on that date.
40:11
So, you know, this is my therapy and I saw these videos and I
40:15
thought, you know, this would be a really good for me.
40:19
It's a really good way to reach out to some of the people that
40:22
watch my show that are not veterans because I have a lot of
40:24
people that watch my show that are non veterans, which I think
40:27
is really cool. And talk about how life has
40:32
changed after the military. We'll be right back on military
40:36
broadcast radio as we're talking about the anniversary of 23
40:42
years it's been since Iraq. We'll be right back.
41:17
Andrew Wiscombe and this is my submission for the Gems in the
41:20
Rough 2021 contest. And it was just totally bizarre.
46:12
Just fucking gunfire everywhere. Just a couple of RP GS.
46:18
I was just thinking what the fuck am I doing here?
46:24
And that question never went away.
46:26
I don't know how to explain it myself and have yet to have any
46:33
clear thought of Like yes, we actually made a difference there
46:36
because we didn't at all. There was no difference fucking
46:39
made. Maybe for the?
46:43
1st, I wanted to share that with you because it's, it's exactly
46:46
23 years ago is what they're saying, 23 years ago.
46:51
And they did kind of a look back on these individuals and, and
46:55
what they're doing and, and where they're at in their lives,
46:58
I guess. And it was it was pretty crazy.
47:02
It's pretty crazy, you know, to think that 23 years ago we were
47:05
in a land in a country that we knew nothing about, that we knew
47:10
nothing about that we were not fully there, if you will, when I
47:18
say there we weren't. We just, you know, I shared this
47:23
with Captain, Captain, he's, he retired a Colonel, but one of my
47:32
old commanders, him and I talked a couple hours on the phone and,
47:36
and I said, you know, for, for so many years we were used to
47:41
peacekeeping missions, you know, in the Balkans, in, in Bosnia
47:44
and Kosovo and Bosnia, we were back and forth and stuff.
47:47
And that's what we did. We trained for peacekeeping
47:49
missions. And now here we were in combat
47:54
and, and, and we trained for it. That's what we trained for for
47:57
years. So.
48:07
The legacy that it leaves in US should never be forgotten.
48:15
It should never be not taught. You know, whether it was a
48:21
popular war or unpopular war is irrelevant.
48:24
The fact is, is that you had American women and men who went
48:29
there and lost their lives doing something what they believed in,
48:34
and that was fighting for the Constitution.
48:36
It wasn't that they believed that war was good.
48:38
It wasn't that we believed that war was the right thing.
48:41
Being in Afghanistan or Iraq was the best thing because that's
48:45
above our pay grade. That's up to the politicians.
48:50
The oath that we took was not to those politicians.
48:54
The oath that we took was to the Constitution of the United
48:56
States. And in that oath it says obey
49:00
the orders of those appointed above me and the commander in
49:04
chief, the president of the United States, either wrong or
49:08
indifferent. I share that with you because I
49:11
think that that's a huge problem today with our youth.
49:15
I think that our youth today are not following the rules.
49:24
It's a simple thing, the rules, you know, I literally had a
49:28
young lady curse at me today because the delivery truck was
49:33
blocking her way somewhat. They were delivering a couch to
49:38
me. And I said, but you can back up
49:42
and go around it. The road goes around that way.
49:44
And she yelled and said I don't fucking think I need to do that.
49:47
And I said I'm not cursing at you, please don't curse at me.
49:50
And she went on and just continue cursing.
49:52
Very attractive young lady. I would have never dreamed of
49:56
talking to somebody who was older to me that way because
50:00
they probably would have beat me and then my mom and dad would
50:02
have beat me for talking to him that way.
50:05
And I think we're losing touch in America of what is real.
50:14
I think that the youth have no more consequences.
50:18
I think that the consequences have become instead of the the
50:22
corporal punishment. I think the consequences become
50:24
will go to your room. Oh, I got my computer and
50:27
everything. I'm locked in my room anyway.
50:28
So they took that away. I mean, what exactly do the kids
50:37
have to lose today? Yeah, half of them don't, you
50:42
know, go to college and they're they're they're using ChatGPT or
50:45
whatever to finish college. They're not any smarter.
50:49
They're not they're not learning anything.
50:55
Have them can't carry on a normal conversation.
51:00
Listen, I challenge each and everyone of you, when you go out
51:03
next time to dinner or lunch or whatever with with your your
51:06
friends or significant other, take two minutes and just look
51:10
around and see how many people are in their phone not paying
51:14
attention to anything. They're just in their phone.
51:18
It's, it's mind boggling. It's crazy, the kids today and
51:23
the youth of today and, and they just, they don't seem even the
51:26
adults today don't seem to carry on a normal conversation.
51:33
You meet somebody on the street and you say, hey, how are you?
51:35
It's nice to meet you. It's great meeting.
51:37
You carry on a conversation. You exchange phone numbers and
51:40
you say we let's talk sometime. I'd love that.
51:44
You call them up. Hey, John.
51:46
I met you on the the street or whatever.
51:47
Hey. Yeah, man.
51:48
Mike, good to meet you, man. Hey, what's going on?
51:50
Ain't nothing. I was going to go catch a
51:52
basketball game. Football game?
51:53
Want to see if you want to join me?
51:54
Yeah, absolutely. That's cool.
51:55
They don't even do that today. It's a text message.
52:00
Hey, John, Great meeting you on the street sometime.
52:02
About to catch up. That's it.
52:06
Then it gets lost because people go on with their days.
52:11
They read the text message once, think it's cool, and that's it.
52:15
Because they're so caught up in their day, they cannot remember
52:20
that they have to reach back out.
52:22
It's it's, it's just, there's just so many things wrong right
52:25
now, not just with us as a country, but us as a world when
52:30
it comes to simple things such as communication, staying in
52:36
touch, getting to know somebody. I think there are so many more
52:41
people that are introverts today because of the computer age that
52:45
we're in. And don't get me wrong, I'm not
52:46
bashing the computers. I'm not bashing technology.
52:49
Chat GPTI use them. I think they're great.
52:52
But what happened to this right here?
52:55
What did I do with it? I was reading a book the other
52:56
day. I just, I just had a book the
53:01
other day I was reading. It was pretty good.
53:03
Come here, come here. What happened?
53:05
What happened to reading books? Just picking up a book and
53:10
reading it? What happened to just taking
53:18
time out from the TV and everything?
53:20
I, I used to play video games, man.
53:22
I'd wake up at 8:00 in the morning and I know you're
53:24
probably out there watching me right now laughing, but I would
53:26
wake up at 8:00 in the morning, 7:00 in the morning, man, I go
53:30
play a video game, drink, go cook coffee while they were
53:32
still in bed and everything like that.
53:34
Of course, the dogs were fed and stuff, but I'd be playing a
53:36
video game and I'd play it till like 1/2 in the afternoon, maybe
53:40
10:30 in that in the morning, whatever, and then do my day.
53:44
Sometimes I would play, I played one time from like 7:00 at night
53:48
until freaking 7:00 or 8:00 next morning or four in the morning,
53:52
right? And it was just a bunch of guys
53:54
on there. We're just having fun playing a
53:55
game. That's great, that's fun.
53:58
But here's reality. I don't even play games anymore.
54:04
I don't. I barely turn on TVI have one TV
54:06
in my house now. One TV, it's in the living room.
54:09
I barely turn it on. Barely.
54:12
Sometimes I turn on watch reruns.
54:14
I think I got chips on there now, which was one of my shows
54:17
when I was a kid that I loved, but I barely watch TV now.
54:20
I like taking time going for walks with Eva, my black lab,
54:25
and reading, just sitting on my couch and reading.
54:29
Now that I have a nice couch, it's a it's powerful to get away
54:39
from the computer and the technology just for a while
54:43
close off from that. You know, I used to fall asleep
54:46
all the time with my iPad on watching TVI started doing a
54:51
meditation series. So now I put these special
54:55
headphones on that you can sleep with and I listen to either
55:00
frequencies or something like that.
55:02
And let me tell you something, if you're suffering from PTSD or
55:06
have anxiety or, or sleeping issues, man, I could e-mail me.
55:11
I'll send you a link. It's amazing.
55:13
The amount of sleep and the hard sleep that I get with listening
55:16
to this is phenomenal. It's great.
55:18
So I, I, I know my show's been kind of all over the map a
55:22
little bit today and stuff like that.
55:24
And, and I want to apologize again.
55:25
I'm working new angles and doing new things and trying to rebrand
55:29
and, and, and do great things with the show.
55:33
And I apologize for the time crunch that I do have.
55:37
Remember, I have an hour to get a lot of information out there.
55:40
A lot of people write me and I'm able not able to always get to
55:44
your questions on TikTok or Instagram or Facebook or the
55:49
e-mail that I just got right here.
55:52
Let me answer this real quick. I got 2 minutes.
55:55
I'll answer real quick, Justin. Justin says this is what happens
56:02
when you get old, man. This is crazy, man.
56:06
Oh, look, I can see Justin says watch a show.
56:10
I know you talk about veteran mental health from time to time.
56:14
So first of all, I, I talk about a lot and I, I get some viewers
56:18
that say they're tired of hearing that and I'm always
56:20
trying to stay positive. So I apologize about that.
56:24
If sometimes I talk about it and sometimes I don't.
56:26
I try to throw it in there a little bit here and there being
56:31
the suicide prevention month. What is what is one thing a
56:38
veteran family member can do without provoking?
56:45
I think he's trying to say provoking another veteran.
56:49
OK, so so read your question. He's asking me about a family
56:53
member that thinks that his brother, sister, mother or
56:59
whatever, be it has PTS your PTSD.
57:02
How do you go about asking them or so?
57:06
So let me let me help you real quick.
57:08
And I only have two minutes before the show because they
57:10
have another show right after me.
57:11
If you have a family member out there that has PTS or you
57:14
suspect as PTSD, this was the brainchild of my show.
57:19
That's what I had started originally.
57:21
You know, don't say to them, hey, I think you have PTPTSD or
57:26
or something of that. A simple realistic conversation
57:30
with them. Hey man, I love you to death.
57:33
You're my brother, you're my sister, you're my mother, you're
57:35
my father, my cousin, whatever. I love you to death.
57:39
I hope that everything is OK, but I want you to know I'm here
57:42
for you. I've noticed some changes and I
57:53
love you and I'm here. Let's go take a walk sometime,
58:00
something as simple as that. And I hope that answers your
58:03
question. If you want to write me more
58:05
offline, I can answer you offline.
58:08
I think that it's really important that we stay in tune
58:10
and in touch with our family members and our friends and make
58:13
sure that they know that they have a safe place to go.
58:16
It's not always going to be the hotline at the VA.
58:18
It's not always going to be, you know, one of those phones calls
58:23
that you need to make gladly, but be a branch out there that
58:29
they can reach out to you. Until next time, thank you for
58:32
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