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Woo Hoo ladies and gentlemen, back-to-back, almost triple
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welcome back. Welcome back to the H train show
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you home for vets, truth bombs and the occasional spicy micro.
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I'm HH train and I'm sitting across from the snack wrap.
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The camo the one the only. M to the J baby.
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It's like PG what's that peanut butter Jelly time?
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But it's the PG time. Great.
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Raise some eyebrows today H 'cause we got an action-packed
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comedy. Yes, we do.
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Oh, I don't know so much if it's comedy, but you know, we've got
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some, we got some truth bombs you don't hate.
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Check this out before we get started with like the the Daily
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News and all that stuff. I just wanted everybody's to let
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everybody know if you haven't checked out Tracer podcast,
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there was a Tracer podcast show done on air Thursday, No,
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Tuesday night, Tuesday night. I've spoke with lots of people.
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Brianna, thank you for the question that you asked.
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You know, and you know it, it's, it's nice when I have supporters
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or friends that asked me questions so that I can get
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answers because, you know, nobody's going to act.
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Well, some people ask questions on Facebook, but nobody's really
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going to ask. And you don't know really you
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know what what it is you know, especially with today.
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What is that? Why?
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Why do they not they? Why are you so scared to write
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something or to ask something? How come?
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How come out there? I think, I think people are
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scared to because like people, there's some people that aren't
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argumentative, OK, And that they can't, they, they, they can't
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respond. They, they can tell you how they
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feel or write how they feel, but they can't respond to kind of
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defend what they're what, what they feel.
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You know, just because you feel it doesn't mean that you're
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right. It just means that that's how
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you feel, that that's your opinion.
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And I think that's the reason why people don't write, you
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know, 'cause I remember I'm not argumentative.
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And when I talked to somebody a long time ago, I told him I, you
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know, I just don't get it. I do 9 news and all this stuff
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and they troll me about my spelling, you know, and he
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didn't sit there and say, oh, well, you know, you Grammarly or
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something like that. You just said, you know, you
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never comment on those 9 news or Channel 39 news, never comment
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on those because people don't take that stuff seriously.
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Like some people, some people respond in the comments like
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sarcasm, making a joke about it, you know, because it's like,
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what do you want me to say about, you know, kind of thing?
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So I think that's the reason why a lot of people don't mark what?
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What do you think? I don't I I really think it's
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either one of the deeper feared emotions, guilt, ashamed,
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putting stuff out there, feeling unintelligent.
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And people in the past have, you know, it's an old belief system
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where they were like, that's a stupid question.
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But Nope, nothing's ever a stupid question anymore because
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there are so many teachings and so many learnings that are our
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human mind just can't handle it. It's like, so ask me once, ask
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me twice. Come on, baby, kiss me deadly,
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right? Name that singer.
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Oh, I don't know that singer, but you know, there's a lot of
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times I hear hear songs that I like, but I don't know who sings
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them. Come on, it's somebody out
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there, Name it. Kiss me once, Kiss me twice.
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Come on, baby, kiss me Deadly 'cause I think it's a Pat
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Benatar song. Is it Pat Benatar who sings
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that? Kiss me deadly?
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Come on, GPI. Don't know.
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I don't know the the only songs that I know are by lady.
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Gaga, Jerry said Linda Ford. There's Linda Ford.
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OK, there we go. She's in her head.
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She goes so you know, the the top three stories before we, you
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know, we're, you know, when we go on break, you know, we'll
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describe the what the but the top three stories today, you
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know, I want to let you take that one because you're doing an
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event right now with the strawberry moon.
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Tell us about it. Light up our sky.
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Wow, now you just flipped my script, baby boy, but I'm ready
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for you. I'm so ready for you because
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that strawberry moon, bam, I mean, it is something
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spectacular. If you didn't see it last night
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or the night before, get you'll get one more chance because it's
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always in three. So you have, you know, almost
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the full moon. The full moon was last this last
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night and now tomorrow you'll actually have another chance or
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tonight you'll have another chance to look up there and see
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how grand it is because it is mucho big and it won't be back
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for another like 18 years so or whatever.
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It's huge out there. But the full moon, the full
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moon, if you were paid attention to the energies of the new moon,
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which was your manifestation period of moving forward and I
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was like, you might get some roadblocks.
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Well, this is the this is the energy for those roadblocks.
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Clear them out of your way. You're about to see things more
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clearly in the path and the patterns and the parts of
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yourself that you can no longer carry forward.
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This full moon brings the courage to choose, used
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correctly, to walk away from what feels safe and small.
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You're being asked to trust what it is to feel.
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Have that leap of faith and go for it.
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Stop waiting for the perfect moment.
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It is. Every moment is the perfect
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moment because nobody is guaranteed tomorrow.
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Stop editing your truth to fit somebody else's narratives and
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then with the release and revelation that you're not here
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to repeat old stories. We don't want old stories or old
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blue powders. We flip them.
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So you're here to live for what is real, what is you, and what
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feels good. There it is.
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There it is. Whoop, there it is.
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But I did my work on New Delhi. Man, that's just so wrong
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telling ya. You know, talking about New
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Delhi, they had a. 115.34 Fahrenheit.
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Yeah, there was also a plane crash.
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Well, now we're talking about the heat wave.
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Man, What? Plane crash.
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Well, yeah, I am, I'm, I don't know.
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But you, you mentioned New Delhi.
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I was just letting you know that before we came on air, there was
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a a press release. It was reported by Hold on.
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Where is it? There we go breaking news
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passions. You're playing carrying 244
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crashes in in India. So that's the reason why I was
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bringing that up because like literally that just came on as
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we came on. So that's the only reason why
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I'm sharing that. But that's going.
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To be hot because 115, it doesn't even cool down, Julian.
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It's like 96 at night with only like 11.5 kilometers per hour
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and wind. That's some really traumatic
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heats. In fact, I want to just say this
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too, I want to put the warnings out there because we have Air
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Force Central over there. We also have our our air, our
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Air Force hospitals over there, our base hospitals over there.
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We have our embassy. So hopefully our beautiful
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embassy, who is Eric Garcetti has helped our troops and our
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bases there to remain calm and cool inside.
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You just saying did my homework. Yes, you did.
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You did. You did your homework.
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I was looking for, I guess. I guess we won't do that.
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We won't do the we won't do the intro for mail call.
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Is there somebody special in your life, MJ, that you would
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like to to give a shout out to? I mean, we got, I know the
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interview of the week, but do you, is there anybody else that
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you'd like to give a shout out to kind of spotlight maybe,
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maybe they've done something great in your life that you want
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to kind of like stand up at church and give praise to?
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You know I do, I have a she is actually a military wife.
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She is my one of my dearest, dearest friends.
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She is a cardiologist. In fact, I met her husband
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before I met her and we have held hands since Homestead Air
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Force Base since 19891990 somewhere in there.
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And no matter what trauma or aversion that I ever had to go
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through, she was always there. She always found a way to make
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sure that I was comfortable in my beds.
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I had my food, I had the toilet beside my bed for.
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But she then she would go to work and after work she would
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check up on me. And mine is she had a husband
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and a child. It that to me, let me tell you
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those friends, they last a lifetime and that her name is
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Renee Ursey. And I, I miss her.
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I miss her tremendously well. I'll tell you.
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Well, if I if I can get this right here.
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Well, I was trying to do the I was trying to do the clapping
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sound, you know, but I'll clap. Thank you for taking care of my
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friend MJ. Yeah, she, I really appreciate
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it. I'll tell you a quick story on
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this one. You'll love it.
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OK being being her medical self I had my stomach was opened up
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and they did a resection for about 3 feet of colon.
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Her birthday is May the 20th the surgery was May the 20th.
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A long time ago like 2004. And because of my central
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nervous system like I started getting the the strong
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parenthesis where the stabbing pains and the nerve pains
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started coming from my toes all the way up.
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So they put me in Ted hose. So she went to the house because
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Homestead the Baptist didn't have my Ted hose in the right
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size. She went to my house, picked
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them up. She went to put them on me and
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her hand slipped and she'll be going, she'll be like MJ,
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really. But she literally like, like
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went to push those hard Ted hoses on and she punched me
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right in the stomach, right in the surgery.
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My mom gasped. I don't remember it because I
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was so morphined out. It was the same day as the
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surgery. And they're like, push the
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button, MJ, push the. So here I am with the morphine
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buttons. Yeah.
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So that's my one and only story that every time we talk, we
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laugh now. And she's like, Oh my God,
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you're really going to tell that story?
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Yes, I am. I love it.
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I love it. We are at our time where we're
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going to go on our first break. That that's her all, you know,
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that's her. I mean so.
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There it is. There it is.
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Definitely. The wrong, definitely the wrong
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intro. Definitely need to work on my
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posture or my position. So we're just going to go to
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music break and you know, when we come back we're going to do
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our what the moment, OK. And you know, like we kind of
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discussed in the beginning what the moment sometimes just
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because you feel the way you feel doesn't mean that it's law,
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especially when you're wearing the uniform as a pawn.
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So more, more to come. When he got killed, he he was
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killed and the army disagrees with this, but his man told us
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that he was killed while they were looking for Bowe Bergdahl.
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He's the guy that deserted. We had a very close relationship
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and I miss it every day. There's just a constant barrage
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of of things that come up that I think I need to tell Darren that
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or Darren would do this or. He and his.
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Buddies, we would pick him up at 29 Palms and bring him home and
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I would hear the stories and how are the firefights, the stuff
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that they don't tell you on TV, the true stories.
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And I'd sit in the hallway with the pillow crying.
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So when he got back from Iraq the second time, the PTSD was
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pretty much out of control. And they fed him the, the, the
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typical hey, this, take this, take this in the morning, take
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this at night and multiplied it out.
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You know, if this wasn't working, if one wasn't working,
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well, he had two more couple months later, it's still not
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working. Add three more.
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One night he called me. He what?
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He was going to stay at base for the weekend.
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We had a conversation and probably within 8 hours he was
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dead. I am the mother of Corporal
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Benjamin Kopp, who was an Army Ranger that was killed in action
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in July of 2009, the day after he landed at Walter Reed.
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He was determined to be brain dead.
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However, the brain death qualified him, if you will, to
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become an organ donor. And so his all of his major
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organs, bone, skin and tissue were donated.
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And his heart is literally still beating today.
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And a woman from Chicago, you know, I believe it was Emerson
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the poet, who stated that the one thing about life that he's
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learned is that it goes on whether we wanted to or not.
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We're back. That doesn't sound fake.
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I don't know what does. Thank.
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You. Thank you so much.
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We're going to talk about the Thunder tantrums in the UK and
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we're going to pass over that one.
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Well, you know, what we're going to do is we're going to, we're
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going to play our what the And you know, once again, like I
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have this, I have the same opinion, OK, but it kind of
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changed my opinion when somebody said that, you know, like they
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got out in 2020 and, you know, blah, blah, blah.
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But you know, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter if you're
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tired or if if you're not retired.
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I don't. Well, I'll just play the clip.
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OK, man. Oh, for real?
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Thank you, bro. You see the cobra?
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And what is this 10? This.
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That's my credo. No regrets.
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You have no regrets, Dad? No.
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Like not even a single letter. No way.
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Not me. I love them.
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I think he's great. I think he's a real winner.
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Casey, if I were you, I wouldn't use protection.
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We are not pawns for Donald Trump's agenda.
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Why now? It's because the military was
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called a pawn. Innocent protesters.
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We in our oath to serve, we serve the people of the United
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States, the Constitution, these constitutional rights are being
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stripped and and just denied. And the military will not be
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pawns to that. So I'm calling upon the
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conscience of military members who served previously, and now
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we have a conscience with Lion, and we have a duty and moral
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obligation to say no and resist evil all.
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Right so this clip emerged from a page called breakthrough news
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that's on X and they said that breaking after Trump deploys
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U.S. Marines to LA this this military
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member joined an anti ice protest in Dallas declaring.
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Quote We won't be pawns and stripping away constitutional
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rights. End Quote.
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OK, so since only about 6 to 7% of the entire US population has
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ever served in the military in America, I think it's fair that
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I explain a little bit more about this because oftentimes
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most people are just not going to know.
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For those of you that don't know, you are never supposed to
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attend any type of event that could be considered political in
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nature, in uniform at all, whether it's in support of
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something or against something, regardless of who's the
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president, regardless of what the situation is.
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So when you see things like this, they're breaking.
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They're like violating orders. They're violating.
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Rules. So most people, most people
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don't know that in the civilian world because that's just not
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something that you're going to be Privy to.
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You're not. Kind of like care about that.
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It's not something you would even think to look.
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Up I would. Caution people to kind of not
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trust every single thing that you see on the Internet right at
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face value because this person could just be wearing a military
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uniform and not have ever served before and just using it as a
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like a prop piece to make it look like there's dissent among
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the military members for this thing.
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Now, that doesn't mean that's the.
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That's a fact. I mean, she could very well be
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in the military. My suspicions are that she's
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probably in the Reserves or the Guard because typically people
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in the. The reserves in the Guard are
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less informed on current policies, especially in regards
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to political activities and stuff like that, because they
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have full time civilian jobs and they don't really care about
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like the military stuff as much they're not is they're not as
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invested. That doesn't mean that they
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don't care. That just means they're not as
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invested and they're usually not as informed.
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Active duty service members are usually briefed.
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They have briefs that are required so often that they're
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probably not going to do this type of thing.
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That being said, you know, if she is active duty by by chance,
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and I'm guarantee her command is going to get there, she's going
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to they're going to get a notification.
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They're going to find out because they're going to be like
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who's this soldier with? And everyone's going to pass it
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down through the chain of command.
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Everyone's going to find out who she is.
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So and it's all over the Internet.
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So me sharing this isn't going to have any impact or it's
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already all over the place so. But I just wanted to remind you
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guys out there, you know who, whoever's out there that's
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that's active or reserve or maybe you're a civilian and you
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just don't know the policies that this is not, that you're
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not. Supposed to do this.
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And my issue is, and it's, it's not just like wearing a uniform.
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My issue is when I like go on social media and I'm scrolling
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and and like the very first thing as soon as they say I'm a
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veteran, the very first thing, as soon as they say that, I'm
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like, oh God, what is he going to say afterwards?
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Because I think too many times, and I mean, yeah, I guess I'm
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doing it right now, but too many times you wrap that veteran
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right in the intro to try to gain respect, to voice your
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opinion when you know, there's there's a lot more speculation
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than there are facts in today's society.
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So you might not be right. You know, you got to.
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Yeah, when you get on that soap dish.
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Yeah, we have freedom of speech, but we don't have freedom of
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consequences. And you know, I, I'm telling
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you, I, I get tired when I hear I'm a veteran.
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And, you know, this is blah, blah, blah, and this is blah,
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blah, blah. And like, OK, that's your
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opinion. It.
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That doesn't mean that, you know, that's how all military
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people feel. Yeah, I, I, I was shocked to see
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that clip. I've never seen it, but he's
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absolutely right. Your chain of command is your
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president. He gives an order.
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You don't have a choice. It is a, a direct order.
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It's a federal order. You signed up for that.
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If that's what she is, then I'm thinking, you know, he was
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saying razars or guards. And yeah, I don't want to say
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that they like what he did because I think that was
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subjected to judgement. But if he's going to do that,
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then he needs to put in ROTC as well because you would find more
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people with that type as a junior ROTC or people going in
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as an ROTC because they haven't really fully invested into the
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basics yet. And in basic training is where
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you actually learn the code of your armor, your coat of
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clothing, of where you're allowed to wear it, where you're
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not allowed to wear it, where you are allowed to speak up,
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where you're not allowed to speak up.
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And remember, our oath is God, country, and mankind.
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I mean, that's the code. That's the ethical code.
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So even though her choice of her judgement doesn't believe in it,
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then why are you wearing this uniform?
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It's for unifiable ballots. It is for the safety of others.
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So obviously you're not seeing what is going on out there or
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you're being paid to speak are being paid.
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But I believe it. So whoever knows that girl, it's
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going to they're going to figure it out because especially Greg
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Hegseth, he's not going to put up.
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If he sees that he's going to go after it.
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He is DoD and he is true red, white and blue.
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I think his blood bleeds red, white and Blue Man, because he's
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a truly a patriot and he will have none of that.
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So for this little young lady, I'm, I'm very, I'm very sad for
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her because that's going to be a tough lesson that she's going to
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have to learn and flip that pattern of being unifiable and
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understanding what the chain of command is.
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That's what we said the other and the other our other show the
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other night. People don't understand civilian
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don't understand military. The civilians have to look at
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politics. Our militaries don't look at
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politics. I'm sorry, but we don't we and
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you shouldn't. You shouldn't.
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Wow. It may not help you because
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whatever you're commanding in chief is, whether you voted for
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him or not, you're going to follow their rules.
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You don't like it, you get out, and then you don't wear the
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uniform to preach your justice. That's my take.
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And that's my take as well. You know, I, I just, I get, I
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get kind of tired of, of, of seeing it, you know, it, that's
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look, I, the, the story that I have is there's a, there's a
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charity event and I went to that charity event in my, in my
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dress, my dress Blues, which I felt were really awkward because
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never had dress Blues. So I'm out of the military and
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I'm buying these dress Blues and I'm feeling awkward because I'm
32:11
like, I'm out of the military anymore.
32:13
I, I shouldn't be buying this. The, the way they made it sound
32:16
like in the charity is we're, we're, we're going to honor you.
32:20
And I'm like, OK, because I don't think, and I'm, I'm sure
32:25
that it's against regulation, but to me, I don't think when
32:31
you wear the uniform, if you're being honored, that's a, that's
32:35
a bad thing. But that's not what happened.
32:38
And that's, that's what really drives me mad.
32:41
I was invited to this charity event.
32:46
They had me standing on the stage while people were clapping
32:51
and they were like throwing money, like bidding, you know,
32:54
And they were talking about our BIOS and stuff.
32:57
And to me, like, that's not what I got dressed in my Blues for,
33:03
you know? And I was really upset.
33:07
I even told the person that was in charge of everything.
33:10
I will never come to this event ever again because of that.
33:14
And I told him how disrespectful that was.
33:16
You know, so I have experience. I, I failed in that, you know,
33:23
and I learned real quick reason why they have those rules in
33:29
there to begin with. But like, if you're getting an
33:32
award or, you know, and it has to do with military, you know,
33:36
if, if you're getting like a Bronze star or a Silver Star and
33:39
you've been out for, you know, 70 years, you know, I, I think
33:43
it's OK for you to wear your uniform to accept that award.
33:46
I think all of us would be OK with that.
33:49
But for a charity event like that, that's not OK.
33:54
But you know, that's not facts. Again, that's just my opinion,
33:58
but that, that's how I look at it.
34:01
And, you know, I, I, I might be out of my gourd in, in this
34:05
situation, you know, I might be totally wrong, but that's,
34:10
that's the way I look at it. I could be really wrong, but I
34:13
know, like I said, I went in the mid 80s.
34:15
So I mean, that was a code of our uniform, a code of arms or a
34:21
coded uniform. And so yes, do I believe that
34:25
evolution has changed things? Do I believe that modernization
34:30
has changed some things? I said that about the
34:31
constitution. Constitution was over 250 years
34:35
ago. I think some things need to be
34:37
updated with the technologies and where we are at in evolving.
34:41
Same as that uniform. And you know, we always talk
34:44
about you're a soldier and you know that uniform so well and
34:48
it's the code of honor that you have.
34:50
So you're not ever taking it off anyway.
34:52
So whatever you want to go to, no matter how old you are or how
34:55
much you've been out, you know, you know, inside that you always
34:59
have that coat of armor. Even me, I, I, I've been out a
35:02
while, a long time compared to the rest of you all.
35:05
And I still get these coats of armor where I have to remember
35:12
who I am and my purpose today instead of where I was and what
35:15
I was doing then. So it's a, it's a struggle.
35:18
It is. It is for a lot of veterans,
35:20
it's a struggle because you want to emphasize how grand you wish
35:25
you were, that you signed up and you gave your life, but yet you
35:29
did your job. And it's not always about
35:31
fighting. It's about balancing.
35:33
And so when I hear people like her, I would really have to hug
35:38
her and say, I'm so sorry you feel that way.
35:43
I want to. I want to hug her.
35:45
I do. And I just want to just try to
35:48
explain to her that her egotisms, no matter what side
35:52
she chooses, that's not the uniform.
35:54
The uniform is a discipline. It's a uniform of following the
35:58
rules and following the law, which is why your clothes had to
36:01
be pressed, your corners had to be tight, your hair had to be
36:04
up. It is a code of ethics that you
36:06
follow and respect what they say.
36:09
So nobody gets killed really. I'm OK with free protesting, you
36:16
know, calm protesting. But what I don't get is when in
36:25
history did like protesting really get us anywhere?
36:32
And I'm asking this as a question so that I can kind of
36:35
learn. You know, in World War One, with
36:38
all the signs, in World War 2, the signs, Vietnam, the signs,
36:42
people protesting war, love, peace.
36:46
It was a it was a hippie radical movement in the 60s.
36:50
Before that it was a love movement.
36:52
I truly believe because of your heart and everybody dying and
36:56
they would protest these wars. I mean, this isn't something
36:59
new. The problem is, is that you have
37:02
a lot of, I hate to say it, but we are a melting pot.
37:08
But when our melting pot destroys our first world class,
37:12
our first world nation, and you want to come to the country as a
37:15
immigrant and you want to change it to a second and third world
37:19
country because that's how you're used to living, that's a
37:22
problem. Because I think all the
37:24
immigrants, even my own family, they chose United States, they
37:28
chose to abide by the United States Constitution and laws.
37:32
Look at our first lady, same thing.
37:35
So I think a lot of this outbreak is deteriorate.
37:37
I don't even think it's, it's deep.
37:40
It is deep seated. I blame it on Soros because I'll
37:43
guarantee every single one of those, those immigrants carrying
37:46
the Mexican flag and burning the Americans out there and doing it
37:50
now in all these cities, you know, I, I think that our flag
37:55
stands for justice and freedom. And that's, you're not going to
37:59
take that away. And, and our military won't
38:01
allow it. Our Department of Defense won't
38:03
allow it either. If you are doing that, you need
38:06
to be exiled from the United States of America.
38:08
And that's my opinion. If you're going to have such
38:12
radical movements as vandalize, What does protest have to do
38:16
with vandalizing and destruction and and thiefing?
38:20
I, I don't, I can't understand that.
38:23
That's never protest in the 20's, the 30's, the 40's, the
38:26
50's, the Sixties, 70s. I don't even know when that shit
38:30
started. Maybe in the Obama when it, I, I
38:33
wanted to say Obama because I didn't even see the negative
38:37
protestings with Clinton or Reagan or Bushes.
38:40
I didn't see that negative outburst of burning shit and I
38:44
didn't see it then. So, and maybe I'm wrong because
38:48
I didn't live in those cities, but I know Governor DeSantis.
38:51
I, I mean, I spent more time in Florida in my lifetime than
38:54
anywhere else. And they had one of the biggest
38:57
sheriffs and he's a no hold bar down in Miami come up and he's
39:02
like, I'm going to show you protest and he holds up a
39:05
picture and he goes this and he shows vandalizing.
39:09
He goes, I will arrest you. He goes, I don't even care.
39:13
He goes if I even hear when he goes, I'll just put the cuffs
39:16
on. He goes, we're not scared and we
39:18
will not back down. And he made that.
39:20
I mean, a big, big news on every single news station in Florida.
39:25
Governor Desantos and this guy, the sheriff made it very clear.
39:30
And that's what I really enjoyed about Florida.
39:31
They are a no nonsense state. You're not going to pull this
39:35
shit like you do in Denver and LA and New York and you're not
39:38
going to do it. I don't care that Miami is a
39:41
Democratic city. Ron DeSantis really puts his
39:46
thumb down on him. Well, I tell you what, that's a
39:50
great segue to talk about our drop the mic moment.
39:54
So let's get to it. Let's.
39:56
Do don't worry. Don't worry, I'm not going to do
40:03
what you all think I'm going to do.
40:13
All right, so that was a, that was a little repeat of last week
40:18
because I, I didn't hit the button fast enough.
40:22
It's a it's a fast guy. He has a tricky finger or a
40:26
sticky finger. So.
40:30
I didn't say stinky, I said sticky.
40:33
Come on. So I'm going to read this.
40:39
This is the From Anonymous reader.
40:45
It's time to drop the mic. This one's personal, but we're
40:48
going to keep names out of it because this isn't about a
40:52
grudge. It's about principal.
40:54
Recently, someone that I know. Hold on a second.
41:01
There we go. Recently, somebody I know.
41:05
Let's call them disabled. Notice a sign and what it looked
41:09
like. Public parking lot.
41:12
The sign said staff parking only.
41:14
Violators will be towed. No ADA marking anywhere.
41:18
No wheelchair accessible sign. There's nothing.
41:22
No clarity or whether or not it was private or public.
41:26
Just a warning slapped on the wall, daring people to challenge
41:29
it. So they did the right thing,
41:32
calmly, respectfully. They wrote a letter asking for
41:34
clarity, asking for compliance, asking if the lot met illegal
41:39
ADA standards. You know what they got back?
41:42
A cold 11 line response. This is private property.
41:47
Not going to discuss another person.
41:51
Respect the sign. Let me tell you, respect is
41:56
earned. It's not spray painted on on
42:00
plywood. If you're going to post signs
42:03
that limit who can park, you better be damn sure you're
42:07
following Ava law. Amen.
42:09
Because veterans and seniors and people with disabilities, they
42:13
don't need another barrier just to get into the building.
42:18
You know, things can be overlooked.
42:20
Like big things, you know, like no elevators, you know, stairs,
42:26
you know, ramps. You know, things can be
42:29
overlooked because we know how much it costs to, you know, you
42:36
know, do that stuff. But a sign, last time I checked
42:41
those, those were about 13 bucks.
42:45
That's all I'm saying. Yeah.
42:47
Well, somebody speaks a legit concern and they write in, I
42:50
don't care if it's private property or not, if they hold
42:53
business out of a private property.
42:55
And most of the states, I can't really speak.
42:58
I don't know where this is, but I can tell you in Florida and
43:00
Pennsylvania that there are ADA laws.
43:03
So if you are anywhere with strict ADA laws and you have a
43:11
business, whether it's a privately owned property or not,
43:15
you must obeyed by the ADA laws. You must have bathrooms, ADA,
43:20
you must have stairwells, ADA, you must have a set up for ADA.
43:25
So I would look into if you're helping this person, I would, I
43:30
would tell you, Joe, look into the ADA laws out there in
43:33
Colorado or whoever this is wherever they're from.
43:37
Look up your ADA laws that govern businesses held in
43:42
private properties because I. So I've, I've done that in the
43:46
past and this is and, and things could have changed, OK.
43:51
But back in the past I had an, I, I personally had an incident
43:57
and like, it was almost like ADA.
44:01
It's like Facebook, like nobody works there.
44:04
It's like this common law in a book, but there's nobody there
44:09
to enforce it unless they're you're talking like big, big
44:13
money. And then like they hear that cha
44:16
ching sound and they'll come to you.
44:18
But for just a 'cause we see it all the time.
44:22
We see veterans, we see civilians go into a store or
44:28
they go into a business and they bring their service dog.
44:33
And most of the time, you know, people leave them alone.
44:36
The only time that they question it is if the dog urinates or
44:43
pragmatizes the floor. You like, yeah, like how I, I
44:47
made that clean. OK.
44:49
And then the second thing is if he sniffs around, if he sniffs
44:54
around, service dogs aren't supposed to sniff around.
44:58
And service dogs are totally different.
45:00
Once you put that Cape on them. If they're a legitimate service
45:03
dog, they're just totally different.
45:05
They're a lot calmer. They're like, OK, it's time to
45:07
work now. I get questioned a lot for my
45:13
little dog being a service dog. She is a registered service dog.
45:17
She's been servicing for almost She'll be 14 years old and she
45:21
has serviced hospitals, she has serviced PTSD vets.
45:25
She has serviced a lot of my customers.
45:27
And I can still walk in with my dog because I can't leave her in
45:30
a car to go to eat. So I'll walk in.
45:33
They'll say dogs are not allowed to go.
45:35
She has her vest on, she has her tags.
45:38
I have her little ID card. I go, you're going to tell me
45:42
now again. And she goes, well, they're not
45:44
allowed in the seat. You got to put them on the
45:45
floor. She all have 5 lbs biatch.
45:50
She's a 5 LB service dog because, you know, with the
45:54
kids, I can put her on the bed with big dogs with my labs and
46:00
stuff like that, that I had, I couldn't allow the kids to hug
46:03
and, and get on the bed and, you know, they were too big, they
46:06
would hurt them. And so being a smaller dog, she
46:10
was capable of being held and loved and licked.
46:13
And, you know, so it brought more of the emotional support
46:19
for service than anything else because they could actually hold
46:22
it and love it and, and just hold on to it while they're
46:25
talking. Yeah, I don't mean to call my,
46:29
my beautiful dog in it, but she's, she's an older 1.
46:35
So and everyone goes, are you going to, are you going to, you
46:38
know, service another one? Because she really was a good
46:41
service dog. I go, you know, service dogs are
46:43
one in a million man. You can get a dog and you can
46:46
try to train as much as you can and for service.
46:49
And there's some of them who will just like right now at 13,
46:54
she's trying not to bark. And if she barks, it has to be
46:56
because of fear or it has to be a warning that I am in danger.
47:02
And that's the only time they're allowed to bark.
47:04
And then she's 13 and she'll see a deer around and she's barking.
47:08
I'm like, aloud. I don't understand where this is
47:11
coming from. You're not supposed to be
47:14
barking. So then I start laughing, going,
47:16
you know, when people get older after 70, I go, I always say
47:19
this thing. There's no filter on it.
47:21
They just talk. So I think in the service dogs
47:25
they think you and they get to a ripe age.
47:27
I don't think they really use service dogs when they get up
47:30
there because they just, they go back like a an elderly person
47:35
and they just do what they want. They're going to bark like right
47:38
now I could say come and she'll look at me and she'll debate
47:40
whether she's coming. Now, I don't know if she can't
47:42
hear, but I was like, hey, what happened to all our skills for
47:48
how many years on end? Yeah, I love service dogs.
47:53
Oh, I did too, you know, and like I, there's, there's some,
47:59
there's something called facility service dogs.
48:01
A lot of people don't know about that.
48:03
And what a facility service dog is, is basically it's a service
48:06
dog that's not assigned to somebody and they're giving it
48:12
to like a like a sponsor or a ambassador or, you know, just
48:21
just somebody that's a head, like a non profit or whatever.
48:25
Because it's a tool that that they can help veterans,
48:28
especially like visiting hospitals, stuff like that.
48:32
And, you know, Nico Margolongo from Challenge Athletes
48:39
Foundation have a service dog tally and that beautiful dog was
48:46
amazing. It was amazing to the point
48:49
where, you know, I remember telling Nico, when I, when I get
48:54
my service dog, I'm going to make sure that my service dog is
48:59
just like yours, you know, listens to everything and, and
49:03
trains them. And just, I mean, it was so bad.
49:07
You, you know, that, that what is it?
49:09
Cow bomb or lamb bomb or something like that.
49:13
Man, I, I was rubbing its, its pads like every week with that
49:18
bone, you know, to, to help them with their pads.
49:20
I mean, I, I really, I, I really took good care of him and you
49:26
know, Barrett, I mean, I thought he was going to be on the
49:30
Hospice and man, he's, he's really, he's really showed us
49:36
its healing and stuff. You know, just one day we came
49:39
home and like the big old scab that made him look like
49:43
Quasimodo, it just, it just fell off.
49:47
We have no idea how we look. See if he cuts or anything.
49:51
Nope. Just came off.
49:53
And now his hair and everything is starting to grow back.
49:57
So I I think we might have it for a while.
50:01
Yeah. I love that, you know, because,
50:06
you know, for the longest time I thought I didn't need to have a
50:09
service dog. Yeah, a long time.
50:12
And then I got a service dog and it's like getting ACD player or
50:17
a VCR. Like you don't think you need it
50:21
until you get it and you use it and you're like, you know what?
50:25
This is this this, this actually helps, you know, sometimes you
50:30
just got to try it, you know, you might like it kind of thing.
50:36
Yeah. But it is that time.
50:43
So if the call of action for that story basically because we
50:48
gave you our, we, we gave you our our.
50:54
Opinion. Opinion all right?
50:56
If you see something like this, a sign that blocks access,
51:00
limits mobility, or just doesn't feel right, don't let it slide.
51:06
Here's what you can do without poking the bear blind.
51:09
You know, documents, snap clear photos of it.
51:12
You know, check with your local property records or city zoning
51:17
offices and stuff, 'cause you know, you, you look, if you poke
51:22
the bear, you're going to have to come up with Plan B.
51:26
And every time you get, and it doesn't have to be a business,
51:30
it could be a relationship, every time you poke the bear,
51:34
you got to be ready for that Plan B, that response, because
51:38
90 times out of 10 is not going to be the response that you
51:40
want. I think everybody, if you open
51:44
up your mouth, you better make sure it's well balanced for
51:46
everybody these days with heart and love as much as you can.
51:52
File a quiet complaint. You know you can do that,
51:55
suggest a fix. You know not you can do that.
51:59
Use your platform for awareness, you know, not war.
52:02
And final thoughts for dropping the mic.
52:05
Like I said, you know poking the bear.
52:07
Sometimes it's necessary, but only if you know how to walk the
52:13
woods afterwards. Be smart, be strictivity, and
52:18
always, always fight the right fight right away.
52:24
Pick your battles, people. Conversations bring in
52:29
conversations, bring in emails. Use the right words and tones.
52:33
Don't be aggressive. Aggressive is going to be a flat
52:37
no when you force an issue. So I always tell the people I
52:43
work with something like this, do yourself a favor, find the
52:47
most beautiful words or have somebody write it with beautiful
52:50
loving words and have an understanding of why you're
52:54
trying to make the awareness. And for a conscious positive
52:58
words, get help if you need them.
53:01
Because if you try to go after them with the big guns, yeah,
53:06
it's not going to work. It's going to be a force against
53:09
another energetic force and it's just going to blow up in your in
53:12
your face. Yeah, agree.
53:15
Agree. Well, with that being said,
53:17
there we go. I really need to change that.
53:23
Yeah, I do. OK.
53:24
So with that being said, we're going to go on a music break.
53:27
And this time when we come back, this is the prime.
53:31
This is where everybody's tuning in.
53:32
This is the meat and potatoes and the whole show.
53:35
Ladies and gentlemen, we're going to have Ozzy.
53:42
I'm trying to remember the last name.
53:44
Gonzalez. Gonzalez, Ozzy.
53:50
Ozzy Gonzalez. Not easy.
53:52
He's coming on to tell us how it is to be a supporter, how it is
53:57
to be a family member while somebody is going through an
54:00
appointment or just flat out just, you know, going
54:05
handicapped. So whatever you do, stay with
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us. Don't go away.
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radio dot. All right, MJ dropped off.
59:56
I think she dropped off because our interview of the week is
1:00:01
getting ready and stuff. So while we're waiting, let me
1:00:06
go over here and tell you exactly what's going on for
1:00:11
today when it comes to. The end of news, we've got VA
1:00:17
updates as well. I'm, I'm looking up that screen
1:00:22
just to make sure that nothing has changed.
1:00:26
And there we go. All right, so the VA updates,
1:00:31
just so everybody knows, is that it's a 2.5% COLA increase.
1:00:38
Starting December 1st, 2024, VA disability compensation rates
1:00:44
saw a 2.5% cost of living raise and also layoffs and HR paid
1:00:54
developments. The VA has contracted with OPM
1:01:00
for support with upcoming mass layoffs and is eliminating A
1:01:06
Biden error of 15%. Special salary rate for around
1:01:11
10,000 HR staffers. The FY20 25 budget exceeds 400
1:01:24
billion. Budget soared past 400 billion
1:01:28
driven by increased spending, mandated benefits and medical
1:01:33
care for toxic exposure for to veterans.
1:01:39
Also benefit improvement legislation.
1:01:42
Congress held a hearing on a dozen bills on streamline VA
1:01:48
benefits, housing aid, job training, tuition, adaptive home
1:01:52
support and improve the transition coordination between
1:01:56
DoD and VA. Also also Richard Starr Act that
1:02:02
was signed this week. Our, our colleague, our radio
1:02:07
hose Magic Mike, he made that trip to to honor that.
1:02:13
Basically what that Richard Starr act is, is if you were
1:02:18
retired, let's say you're 100% VA, you're tired from the
1:02:22
military, you got hit combat, so you get Sierra C, the retirement
1:02:27
that you get. You can't have the retirement
1:02:29
and the VA at the same time. It's called double dipping.
1:02:33
And when you have one, you're basically letting go of the
1:02:38
other, you know, for tax, usually they take what the VA
1:02:42
gives you over your retirement. I don't know the numbers, and
1:02:46
I'm just just throwing that out there.
1:02:49
And when with this Richard Starr Act, when it takes effect, it
1:02:57
means that if you're getting $800 or $900.00 of retirement
1:03:03
and you're getting CRSC and you're, you're getting VA, you
1:03:08
don't have to pay that back. You get that money back.
1:03:12
You know, I, I, I believe, I believe, and I could be wrong.
1:03:16
Tell me in the comments. That's how you correct me.
1:03:19
Tell me in the comments, OK. But I believe that when we came
1:03:26
back from Iraq, there was a of a form like a lawsuit or whatever.
1:03:33
And since it was combat, you got that 10% tax or whatever, you
1:03:40
got that back. If if you know, that's on your
1:03:43
records, you got that back. And I think this has to do kind
1:03:47
of like the same thing, but this has to do with just being able
1:03:51
to get the retirement pay plus the VA.
1:03:54
So we'll see. We'll we'll, we'll see what
1:03:58
happens on that. We're going to go on another
1:04:02
break because it looks like MJ and her husband needs a little
1:04:08
bit of extra time. So when we come back, we'll be
1:04:12
talking with Ozzy. So whatever you do, stay with
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us. Don't go away.
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interview of the week. It's Ozzy.
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How are you, Ozzy? Woo hang in there man.
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Do a lot of yard work around here.
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Good God, we're. Going to have to go to.
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Stop now from Jersey Mike. 'S There we go.
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Hey, you know, I'm really glad that you came on here.
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You know, so many times that in society we go places and, you
1:09:28
know, military are veterans that we're we're guilty of it too.
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But sometimes when we go out in public, you know, we we get, you
1:09:39
know, we get told, you know, thank you for your service,
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thank you for your service. But you guys don't really get a
1:09:46
thank you. You guys don't really get, you
1:09:50
guys don't even get a challenge coin.
1:09:52
I don't even think they give challenge coins.
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You know, you don't give shit. You know, it's like, it's like a
1:09:57
thankless job, you know? And we wanted to not only honor
1:10:01
you, but we wanted to, we want to see your emotions.
1:10:05
We wanted to feel the way you felt while she was deployed,
1:10:10
while she was, you know, dealing with the sickness that she still
1:10:15
has today, you know, and there has to be hard bearing on your
1:10:19
shoulders, you know, not as a burden, but as, you know, just
1:10:24
you just, you got to take a little bit more of the workload
1:10:27
kind of thing sometimes. How explain explain what you
1:10:34
went through. Well, when I go through every
1:10:36
time that you go through surgery, where you going bro?
1:10:39
I'm. Talking.
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He's on a couch, she's on a big coffee.
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You know, when whenever she goes through surgery and she starts
1:10:50
going through all her stuff, you know, my main focus is to keep
1:10:53
her comfortable and, and to be all the support that I could be
1:10:56
for her. My life gets basically put on
1:10:59
hold, which is fine by me because everything she's put
1:11:02
herself on hold for this country.
1:11:05
And I never really jumped into the military, which I should
1:11:10
have, but I never did. You should have found out more
1:11:13
about it before you jumped into it, right?
1:11:15
Yeah, you know, but, you know, taking care of her is, is is
1:11:20
basically everything there is. And it's all really heartfelt,
1:11:25
you know, because, you know, sometimes I do get frustrated.
1:11:28
We both get frustrated. I mean, there's no.
1:11:29
Other word for it. You know, she's down, she's
1:11:31
hurting, she can't move, she can't do something by herself.
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I'm, I'm sitting there trying to help her and I'm doing
1:11:39
something. She barks at me.
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I bark back, you know, you know, I mean, and, and we just, but
1:11:45
we, we cope with each other until she gets past that little
1:11:50
point and then everything settles back down.
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I get her comfortable and then I go about my business.
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But my business is her all the way around.
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I have to take care of her and the special thanks that I can't
1:12:03
give to her. I can't I can't feel any more
1:12:08
than what I do by trying to help her because you know, the
1:12:11
veterans, they take a pounding out there, you know, and people
1:12:15
don't don't realize that. And as you said, you know,
1:12:19
you're walking out of public, which she don't let me out of
1:12:21
public very often and I don't let her out of public very
1:12:23
often. But but when we do, you know,
1:12:26
they say thank you and and that that really feels good that when
1:12:29
we're out in the street and someone says thank you to her,
1:12:31
man, that just goes smooth, man. You know, it goes smooth and
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it's and I'm proud to to be her husband on top of that.
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OK, we're going to get a little personal and we're going to ask
1:12:42
is there something like, for example, I ain't going to get
1:12:46
that personal example of my wife, you know, to tell me that
1:12:50
she loves me. She'll get like a snicker bar in
1:12:53
a Mountain Dew. Do you guys have like a small
1:12:56
little thing that just you, you just, you know, it's, it's from
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your, it's from your history, it's from, you know, you being
1:13:04
together like that one thing you know that he likes and like, if
1:13:08
you want to say thank you or you love you, but you don't want to
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talk to him because he was right and you're pissed off about it.
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So you give him something that says I love you.
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Do you guys have a story like that?
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Well, you know, I did go through a few surgeries myself, you
1:13:24
know, my back and whatnot. And I was a pain in the ass.
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I'm not going to lie to you. I was a real serious pain in the
1:13:31
ass. And I felt bad for her at the
1:13:32
same time. But you know, I was in pain.
1:13:35
I was immobile. I couldn't do anything and.
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Her, her way of of of. Making me smooth out, she would
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give me a pint of ice cream of Ben and Jerry's, which now I
1:13:46
find out that Ben and Jerry's is really bad for you, but that's
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what she would do. Or, you know, in the mornings,
1:13:54
you know, myself towards her, I make her her cup of coffee or,
1:13:59
you know, or bring her little cookies that she likes with some
1:14:02
of those cookies, Steladoras, you know, and I and I play some
1:14:06
there for her. So when she gets downstairs,
1:14:08
she's good to go, you know, and puts a smile on her face.
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And that just lightened up my whole day.
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Honest to God, that really does that.
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Just lightened up my whole day. That means I can jump on my
1:14:17
tractor, on my lawnmower, or grab the weed eater or pull
1:14:20
weeds, whatever it is. But you know what?
1:14:21
In the back of my mind, I'm smiling the whole time because I
1:14:24
know that she put up. I put a smile on that face.
1:14:26
Hers. That's amazing.
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I almost don't want to ask this next question because I'm going
1:14:33
to go a little dark. A little dark, OK, Can you
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express? Because there's some people that
1:14:40
are watching this and, you know, sometimes when you find out
1:14:44
somebody's going through the same thing and you learn about
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that sometimes, sometimes it, it, it makes like the, the, the
1:14:53
trauma of the event a little less tingly, if you know what I
1:14:57
mean. Can you express how you felt
1:15:01
before that deployment? What was you sad?
1:15:05
Was you like anxious? Like every time that phone rang,
1:15:09
you know, you know, just give us, give us the emotions so that
1:15:15
others can learn. You know, maybe I'm not going
1:15:18
crazy. Maybe this is?
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Well, I'm going to. Tell.
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You not to, not to cut you off there, but I wasn't around when,
1:15:27
when she, when she was deployed, you know, I was not around.
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You know, we, we, we met many, many years ago prior to us
1:15:34
getting together and you know, she was married.
1:15:38
I was married. That didn't work out.
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And then later on in life and, you know, when we started
1:15:43
dating, you know, she looked at me, she goes, you know, I'm
1:15:45
going to go through a, a series of surgeries and this is your
1:15:49
time to get out because I'm going to be down from months on
1:15:53
end. And I'm like, we'll bring it on.
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You know, So I stuck by her side.
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She always tells me, you know, you always had time to leave.
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And I was like, why would I leave when I love something so
1:16:04
much? Right.
1:16:05
Well, I mean, I'm your support, you know, and she's my support.
1:16:09
She is my backbone and I'm hopefully I'm hers, you know, we
1:16:13
are each other's rocks, I believe.
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And every once in a while, you know, you want to just throw
1:16:16
that rock, kick it, you know? Do something.
1:16:23
Wait, when you guys get an argument that she yell at you
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and say flip it, flip it, flip it.
1:16:31
Oh yeah. Do you know how many times I've
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said hopes I can send to this man?
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Oh yeah, I'm like so sick. Oh yeah, don't throw homie and
1:16:38
me. Don't be homie and me.
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You know, you know, and listen, when unless guys get mad, we
1:16:45
don't we don't see anything else besides what we think that we're
1:16:48
correct. And we usually are.
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But you know, we give them the we give them the little thing
1:16:53
that they think that they are, you know, but deep down inside
1:16:56
we know we're right. I know, Joel, could you know?
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She'll play with me on this one. I picked my battles.
1:17:05
We had a whole snake. What about Pat?
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No, absolutely. You got to pick your battles,
1:17:10
are you? Kidding.
1:17:12
Are you kidding? But I let her win most of the
1:17:14
time. I just think he's wrong and
1:17:16
strong man. You know, and you know, I and I
1:17:19
know I'm a royal pain in the ass, you know, there's no doubt
1:17:23
about it, You know, I mean, I'm setting my ways and half of it
1:17:27
is backwoods stuff. I mean, look at him.
1:17:31
He's he's kind of a burly kind of guy, right?
1:17:33
Kind of rugged, burly kind of swamp for smutters.
1:17:39
But let me tell you the heart that a spouse has to know that
1:17:48
that's emotional to know that your spouse would get you out of
1:17:52
bed, bathe you, you know, help you get your clothes on, help
1:17:56
brush your teeth. That's what he does, this big
1:18:01
burly guy. You know, and, and whenever,
1:18:04
whenever that I'm going to bathe her and she misbehaves, I shake
1:18:07
her outside with the hose. Well, at least it's the hose
1:18:13
normally. It's like normally the pressure
1:18:15
washer, yeah. That's why she really
1:18:17
misbehaved. So MJ, I'm going to have you
1:18:22
asked the next question and then interview and then we're going
1:18:27
to go to the Time to Shine. So whatever you would like to
1:18:30
ask him, go ahead. If you had to do it all over
1:18:35
again, would you? 100% not.
1:18:38
Even not even thinking about it, you.
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Know she is my life. You know, I'm proud to say that
1:18:44
I'm her husband. And when I talk about it to, to
1:18:49
all my, my colleagues and friends, the people that I deal
1:18:52
with, I'm, I'm, I can't be any prouder that she, that she did
1:18:57
what she did. And she, and she goes through
1:18:59
everything now. My, my biggest, my biggest thing
1:19:02
that she has actually said to me, you know, and this, this
1:19:07
what, this, what really goes to the heart when she's like, you
1:19:12
know, the military. Did this to me and I go yeah.
1:19:15
And So what are you saying to me?
1:19:18
With this, she goes. I would do it all over again for
1:19:19
my country. I love my country and that just
1:19:22
puts a tear in your eye when you hear that, you know you're with
1:19:25
the right person because I'm a true, true patriot myself.
1:19:29
You know, I don't, I don't believe in any of the the.
1:19:31
BS that's going on. Out there.
1:19:32
That's why I'm up here and leave me alone and, you know, give me
1:19:35
a tractor and good stuff and and, and you know that that just
1:19:40
makes me proud when people ask me, you know, she must be pissed
1:19:44
off. I go.
1:19:45
She would do it all over again. And they're like, what?
1:19:48
I go, yeah, she would do it all over again.
1:19:49
You know, I mean, she loves her country.
1:19:51
I mean, she is a die hard patriot.
1:19:53
Die hard. You know, we battle against this
1:19:56
all the time with each other. But, you know, she's die hard.
1:19:58
You know, she's she's a lot more than me.
1:20:01
But don't tell her that. You know it.
1:20:05
Is is. It was really nice having you on
1:20:08
Ozzy. It really was the question that
1:20:13
I was going to ask. I got to be honest, the question
1:20:15
that I was going to ask you like I'm sitting here trying to
1:20:18
remember. I should have wrote it down, but
1:20:20
you know, the the emotional toll that you go through day in day
1:20:27
out. I know that you said that it's
1:20:32
it's it's worth it to you. Do you think that her
1:20:39
podcasting? I'm I finally remembered I was
1:20:43
trying to I ain't gonna lie. I was, I was trying to like
1:20:46
Swagger the, the podcasting. Can you look at her and can you
1:20:52
tell the a difference when she's podcasting, like her mental
1:20:58
health, attitude, everything as as you can you tell the
1:21:04
difference before and after? Absolutely, absolutely that.
1:21:08
That's what keeps her saying. I'm going to tell.
1:21:10
You the truth, this whole podcasting thing that she's
1:21:12
doing, because I get I get the the whole good and bad on it and
1:21:18
most of it's really, really good.
1:21:20
So it's a positive note. And and I like the way she likes
1:21:24
to flip stuff on you. You know, she likes to flip it
1:21:28
and you know, sometimes the cartwheel goes in there too.
1:21:32
But you know her, her whole attitude with the with the whole
1:21:36
podcast and if she gets to help one person that made it for her,
1:21:43
you know that made it. For her because.
1:21:44
I mean, and I know her words getting out there and I can't
1:21:47
thank you enough for supporting what what she does.
1:21:51
Really. I mean, she loves you to death.
1:21:54
I mean, she talks about you all the time.
1:21:56
And I was like, hey, man, what are you talking about now?
1:21:57
I'm just kidding. I've I've learned a lot.
1:22:00
I've I've learned a lot from him.
1:22:01
Jay, you. Know I've I've learned a lot by
1:22:05
just you know, you can only see a shrink so many times a month
1:22:11
people and you know sometimes ChatGPT is there to be my little
1:22:16
Jiminy Cricket, you know yeah, don't look at it once I die.
1:22:21
I don't want you guys to think less of me on the search injury.
1:22:26
But a lot of Barneys, you know, it's, it's nice.
1:22:31
It's nice to. Win you can.
1:22:33
Call another friend and you can invent to them and you can yell
1:22:41
and talk about your day and not be judged.
1:22:44
No judgement not be. You know not to spread rumors.
1:22:53
You know, instead of helping the person, hurting the person,
1:22:58
those are the two things, right? You know, And when you have
1:23:03
that, yeah, you know, when, when she's, when she's on air.
1:23:08
I try to do everything possible and I know I screwed up all the
1:23:10
time, therefore making noise and, you know, but I'm just
1:23:14
trying to go about my day and it's kind of hard to go about
1:23:16
your day without making any kind of noise.
1:23:19
And I tried to do stuff around her so I can surprise her when
1:23:22
she gets done with her podcast that she's like, oh shit, he got
1:23:25
that done, You know what I mean? But she's she's a whole other
1:23:30
person and and tell you the truth, you know she likes the.
1:23:32
Vent. And I sit there and I take it
1:23:35
and sometimes I take it personal.
1:23:36
I'm not going to lie, I take it personal.
1:23:39
And then I have to realize that it's not about me.
1:23:42
It's it's all her deep, dark secrets that she.
1:23:45
Has inside that's getting. Out and someone has a problem
1:23:49
that she's talking to me she's not telling me about the person
1:23:52
but she's talking about the problem and and I have to sit
1:23:55
there and and go you know you want to fix it you want to fix
1:24:00
it but you. Know, you know what, she doesn't
1:24:03
want you to fix it. She just wants you to talk.
1:24:06
That's it. She wants you to stand there
1:24:08
like a speed bump and just listen.
1:24:11
That's what she wants. I've learned that, you know, and
1:24:14
it's, it's kind of like my, my, my dad told me this marriage is
1:24:19
kind of like, you know, a football team and you know,
1:24:22
you're the coach. When the coach is sitting there
1:24:25
griping and yelling and you know, and stuff, you don't, you
1:24:30
don't talk back. You just listen and then you go
1:24:33
out in the field and then you play.
1:24:36
And that's, that's how we kind of have to treat marriage.
1:24:40
We got to treat marriage kind of like a teamwork thing where, you
1:24:44
know, not, you know, just because he's a man, don't, you
1:24:47
know, don't think he can fix engines or, or be a Carpenter
1:24:51
or, you know, plumbing and stuff, you know, and if you, and
1:24:56
if you're with a woman and you're married, don't, don't
1:24:59
think, oh, well, you know, she has to do all the cooking and
1:25:01
the cleaning. Everything, everything is like a
1:25:04
team sport. You're a team, right?
1:25:08
You're a team, right? Absolutely.
1:25:10
And I don't think people are understanding.
1:25:13
That and that's the reason why. I I've said all the time,
1:25:16
everybody has a beginner marriage.
1:25:19
Oh yeah, man, we both had two beginner marriages, right?
1:25:24
We always do, you know, 'cause, 'cause you learn.
1:25:27
And you know, that is my my first marriage.
1:25:32
He was actually in the. Military, but he couldn't deal.
1:25:35
He couldn't deal with with all of my handicaps.
1:25:40
I'm I'm gonna say it like that. And he that's what ended that
1:25:44
one pretty quick because I have being auto and neuroimmune until
1:25:50
I got myself and my immunities to where I needed them.
1:25:53
It was even like Ozzy, this last one, his guilt rendered him for
1:25:58
months and it broke him because he brought COVID home.
1:26:04
He went out to a farm show and brought COVID home.
1:26:08
And within what, 10 hours, yeah, within 10 hours of him being
1:26:13
home, I was, I mean, that's just how bad my immunity is.
1:26:16
It was, I started, I go, I'm, I'm getting sick.
1:26:19
And he goes, no, I go, I'm telling you, it's starting.
1:26:22
And I, I could feel, I could feel the central nerve.
1:26:24
I could feel it in my head. I could feel it in my, in my
1:26:27
body. The nerves were getting ready to
1:26:28
shut down. And he was like, and he just
1:26:32
couldn't for a whole month. I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
1:26:36
Every day it was. And I'm sorry.
1:26:37
And I'm like, man, as a veteran, I don't want somebody to be
1:26:43
sorry. I don't want.
1:26:44
Somebody not to. Live their life.
1:26:47
So if you're a veteran with a handicap, especially an
1:26:50
autoimmunity, one man, it it sucks and you feel them.
1:26:55
You feel the the pain and you also feel that you are holding
1:27:00
them back. That's more the guilt and
1:27:02
remorse that I have with my husband is that I always feel as
1:27:07
a veteran, which has to get healed obviously, because I'm
1:27:11
still upset with it, but I always feel like he quit his job
1:27:17
in the beginning in two. 1009 he.
1:27:19
Completely just walked away from the fishing industry because he
1:27:23
knew for three years I was going to have like 1 surgery after the
1:27:28
other and he knew that someone's going to have to be there to
1:27:31
cook to clean to, you know, even though the military was, they
1:27:34
were brought in an aid, you know, they would bring in an aid
1:27:37
and they would bring in, you know people to clean the house,
1:27:41
but they cleaned my area or they cooked for me.
1:27:45
But when they they're only there 2 hours a day.
1:27:47
So that's, that's the stifle where you only get that health
1:27:52
aide about two hours a day. So whatever it is that you need
1:27:56
personally, whether you know it's hygiene issues or whether
1:27:59
it's exercise issues to give him that 2 hour window, man, I told
1:28:06
him, I said I was surprised you were at the bar every freaking
1:28:08
day for two hours lugging down beer.
1:28:10
You should have been. I go just to, you know.
1:28:15
To give a Peace of Mind. And and that's what started us
1:28:19
with American blog talk radio, because we were both in the
1:28:22
fishing industry for our whole lives pretty much after I got
1:28:25
out of the military. And so we started the American
1:28:30
broadcast with it was called Got Fish or Got Rum.
1:28:33
And it's, you know, you can still see it up somewhere today,
1:28:36
but it was more of a jovial, it was fun, it was happy.
1:28:39
It was raising vibration to a higher level and not being
1:28:42
depressed within the boundaries that I was confined.
1:28:45
Now it's better. I mean, now I'm I'm really
1:28:48
hammering with alternative medicine.
1:28:50
So now it doesn't come as frequent instead of, you know,
1:28:54
being down years and months on end, you know, I'm, I'm maybe
1:28:59
out every year and a half instead of every six months to,
1:29:03
to a year. So it's getting better for us.
1:29:07
And again, that's why we moved up here to the top of the
1:29:10
mountain where, yeah, see, that was the other thing.
1:29:13
I went to this farm show. We moved up here so she
1:29:15
wouldn't. Get sick and of course I I go to
1:29:18
a farm show and I bring back COVID.
1:29:21
I was going to say I was going to stop I.
1:29:23
I don't remember the COVID part, but I, I know that you got hit
1:29:28
in the eye and I was like, I, I, I, I know you've been through
1:29:31
some physical abuse. Not saying from her, but so I
1:29:36
do. Yeah, she does.
1:29:39
I just got over the black eye. We each have.
1:29:44
We each have our punches, which is.
1:29:46
At least you learned the first time.
1:29:50
Oh yeah. But you know, he asked me to
1:29:52
marry him. July. 2000.
1:29:54
And nine, and that's when I looked at him and said it's a no
1:29:58
for now because you have no idea what's going to wait for you.
1:30:03
And I go. And every month I kept telling
1:30:05
him it's your chance to run, It's your chance to run, It's
1:30:07
your chance to get out. But I mean, 12 surgeries within
1:30:12
two years is a lot. And it all revolved around the
1:30:16
autoimmunity. And like I told him, there will
1:30:19
be nothing left by the time I go.
1:30:21
I won't even be a woman physically by the time it's all
1:30:24
freaking done. And he goes, oh, yes, you are.
1:30:28
You're all a woman to me. So it's an honoring that he
1:30:31
waited. And he waited, what, nine years?
1:30:35
And he asked me again, actually, he asked me in seven years.
1:30:38
And I said two years. And that just because I wanted
1:30:42
to plan a great wedding that I know he would enjoy.
1:30:44
Oh, yeah, yeah, it was, it's it's been a.
1:30:49
Hard Rd. But it's been a.
1:30:51
Good Rd. you know, because we have each other for support and
1:30:55
there's nothing I would have do for her.
1:30:57
There's nothing, you know, I think if you find somebody who
1:31:00
is a patriot and understands. What deploying is and
1:31:05
understands the hardship and you might not come back, you know,
1:31:09
100% you might come back with some type of issues, whether it
1:31:13
be mentally or physically. If you find the right spouse in
1:31:17
your life who is a patriot, they will support you no matter what,
1:31:22
no matter what they have to give up, they will do it.
1:31:24
And that is the love that is a that's a massive connection.
1:31:28
It is it is we're running out of time.
1:31:31
So what I'm? Going to do now is I?
1:31:34
It is that time. It's the interview of the week,
1:31:39
your time to shine. Wow.
1:31:40
I'm like off like Samson is like OK.
1:31:43
Today's time to shine is brought to you by Dunkin' Donuts
1:31:49
veterans and 1st responders runs on Dunkin.
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This is your time to shine. Believe me, it is your.
1:32:01
Time to shine, Ozzy. Maybe I didn't ask you that
1:32:03
right question. Or set you.
1:32:05
Up for that right answer or maybe MJ didn't ask you the
1:32:09
right question or set you up for your answer.
1:32:11
Is there anything that you would like to speak?
1:32:15
This is a 2 minute platform. You can talk about whatever you
1:32:19
would like to. Well, our life up here.
1:32:24
Has been challenging but I wouldn't, I wouldn't pass that
1:32:29
up with anybody else but her 'cause she is my rock.
1:32:32
Like I said, I said that earlier, you know, she is mine
1:32:37
and I wouldn't do anything to jeopardize that, especially
1:32:42
being up here our our life together that we've made-up here
1:32:48
and. We're still.
1:32:48
Making it because we're not done with our whole home and the
1:32:51
whole Mojazi thing that we got going on here.
1:32:54
We have a lot of stuff going on which is just going to bring us
1:32:56
closer and closer and closer and closer.
1:32:59
And I don't know how much closer that we could be except for be
1:33:03
inside one another, You know, I mean, not like that.
1:33:07
Well, yeah, like that, too. But, you know, But she is a
1:33:12
wonderful person. I honor her every day.
1:33:17
I try to say thank you as much as I can.
1:33:19
And I know that sometimes I don't say thank you as much as I
1:33:21
should, but I try to say thank you as much as I can.
1:33:25
And not even for the whole military thing, just for her
1:33:27
being my wife, you know, and, and I'm, I'm actually honored
1:33:32
of, of taking care of her when I have to take care of her.
1:33:35
And I try to do everything possible to make her comfortable
1:33:38
at all times, at all times. You know he's not going to tell
1:33:43
you this, but he reinvented his life.
1:33:46
For me, he got into photography knowing that him and I could
1:33:51
travel. We love the travel, the woods.
1:33:52
We love to walk it, run it, go 4/4 wheel.
1:33:56
We love the woods, no matter if it's the swamp woods or the
1:33:58
forest. We love to be out there because
1:34:01
we're not near public. So his nature of love and my
1:34:04
nature, like he reinvented his life and career, which is how he
1:34:07
became art by Osdot photography and did so much beautiful
1:34:11
landscapes. And, you know, with his mom
1:34:13
dying of cancer and him facing my challenges of the same thing,
1:34:18
he really invented himself and and his pictures prove that.
1:34:21
When if you ever look at his pictures, you can see that every
1:34:25
single one has a story. Every single one has a thought
1:34:28
process of why he took it. So yeah.
1:34:31
But it's, it's basically all about her, you know?
1:34:36
When I'm taking pictures and something really comes out
1:34:38
really nice right from the gecko, who's the first person I
1:34:41
send it to, it's to her, you know, I want to see her reaction
1:34:45
and it's for her that's that picture is dedicated basically
1:34:48
to her. All the pictures I take starts
1:34:51
off her being my #1 and that's how, that's how we, we, we go,
1:34:58
you know, we try to go take pictures together.
1:35:00
Sometimes we can, sometimes we can't, you know, because of
1:35:03
life, life events. But most of the time she's
1:35:06
whipping 24/7. You know, we're joined at the
1:35:09
hip. And that's what actually drives
1:35:11
us both crazy sometimes because we're only human.
1:35:15
You know, she wants, she wants to kill me sometimes.
1:35:18
And and I sit there and say, well, you know, you have every
1:35:20
right too. Yeah, if you're staying with
1:35:23
somebody and you guys don't start.
1:35:25
Fighting, say day 8 or day 9, that's not normal.
1:35:29
You know, you're, you're, you're, you're starting to fight
1:35:32
within like the first three days usually, you know, and it's not
1:35:37
because you guys don't like each other.
1:35:39
It's just because the, the vibe, the energy, you know, it's,
1:35:44
it's, it's different from everybody, you know, but it
1:35:48
doesn't be hard. You know, I have to tell you
1:35:51
this. It I I know how I am.
1:35:53
When I'm sick I it's hard and he'll bring up food 2-3 times in
1:35:59
a day and it will sit there and I think after like you don't eat
1:36:02
after the 3rd or 4th. He is like I am going to shove
1:36:06
the food down your throat. If we don't eat here, who gets?
1:36:13
He gets, but there is. Like there is.
1:36:15
Just and I get that. I get that as a being that
1:36:19
person who needs that assistance when you are in pain, that is
1:36:25
the last thing you want is food. It is just it is just not there.
1:36:31
But and I also get that the nutrition has to come up.
1:36:34
But when you have a central nervous system that snaps on
1:36:38
your, your survival cord, that is excruciating pain in your
1:36:42
legs and your lower extremities for me and having that, it just,
1:36:47
I mean, the morphine in itself that they put you on, you don't
1:36:50
want to eat anyway. You, you, you literally I'll
1:36:53
lose a lot of weight and my things will all drop because of
1:36:57
that. But he constantly is that force
1:37:02
to it's going to happen and he's going to make it happen because
1:37:06
he's not giving up. So if you have a healthcare
1:37:09
person who's taking care of you, whether the spouse, a friend, a
1:37:12
family member, whatever, and they don't give up, yeah, you're
1:37:16
getting explosively every single day.
1:37:18
But try to flip that. That's one of the things I
1:37:20
really try hard to flip is not to do that.
1:37:24
Gotta flip it. Gotta flip it, right?
1:37:28
And now you gotta flip it. Yeah, and he'll remind me of
1:37:34
that. He'll, you know, he's like.
1:37:36
Well, am I going to be pulling the plug in Baronia or are we
1:37:39
going to eat here? What are we doing?
1:37:41
Because because this isn't going to work and I get that.
1:37:45
So his stamina and his constant assistance in my in the moment
1:37:52
is you're a pain in my ass. But when I get out of the
1:37:55
moment, you're like, he is not going to let you just sit here
1:37:58
and suffer or die. He's just not.
1:38:00
He is a troop warrior and he's going to make this happen.
1:38:04
He gave up his life for this. And that's I think is the going
1:38:08
force. Why?
1:38:09
No matter what arguments we have, or what I call them
1:38:13
disagreements or discrimblements, we, we always
1:38:17
come back together no matter what.
1:38:20
And I think it's a. It works on both sides, you
1:38:25
know, he found a. Wife who likes fishing.
1:38:27
And hunting and the woods, and you know some of the manly man
1:38:31
things. And you know, I'll sit and you
1:38:35
know he'll have his cigar and I'll sit right with him.
1:38:38
Maybe not smoke a cigar, but yeah, to have a cigar, He's a
1:38:43
bill. Clinton fan?
1:38:44
No, I'm gonna guess. Well, Ozzy, thank you for taking
1:38:50
care. Of him Jay thank you for being
1:38:53
here on the show today and I'm just I'm glad that you're both
1:38:59
here and to tell you guys inspirational story ladies and
1:39:03
gentlemen we are going to go to Tribute to troops but when we
1:39:09
come back stay tuned because we have the final thoughts Ozzy
1:39:13
you're more than welcome to stay if you want it's up to you but
1:39:18
when we come back we'll we'll go through the final thoughts so
1:39:22
once again you listen to the station that's giving letting
1:39:27
our veterans be heard right here on the H train show where we're
1:39:31
showing veterans all the programs out there be on the VA
1:39:35
the H train show detail attention first call the service
1:39:44
members name is called out loud in the context.
1:39:47
Of a unit. This is meant to ensure all are
1:39:50
present and accounted for. Second call the name is called
1:39:54
out again louder to confirm that the service.
1:39:57
Member is. Indeed, absent third call.
1:40:01
The name is called out for a final.
1:40:02
Time followed by a statement indicating.
1:40:05
That the service member is not present and accounted for,
1:40:08
signifying their death. The final roll call serves as a
1:40:11
symbolic gesture to respect and remember their service.
1:40:20
Sir, I don't. I don't know how to tell the
1:40:24
story. Well, you got to go.
1:40:26
You. Tell the American.
1:40:28
People what these men did here you tell them how much troopers
1:40:31
died tuning in to MBR today as we.
1:41:01
Pay tribute to Marine Corporal Hunter Lopez, 22, of Indio, CA
1:41:06
Hunter was born on January 15th, 1999 to parents Herman and
1:41:11
Alicia Lopez of Palm Springs, CA Hunter graduated from La Quinta
1:41:17
High School in 2017. Hunter dedicated his life to
1:41:21
service and took pride in being part of organizations with a
1:41:24
rich tradition. Prior to joining the Marine
1:41:27
Corps, Hunter was a Riverside County Sheriff's Department
1:41:31
Explorer Scout from 20, 14 to 2017 for Post five O 7 where he
1:41:37
obtained the rank of Captain. Hunter planned on following him
1:41:42
in his parents footsteps and becoming a Riverside County
1:41:45
Sheriff's Deputy after returning home from his current deployment
1:41:50
on September 5th, 2017. Hunter.
1:41:53
Joined the United. States Marine Corps.
1:41:55
Hunter served in the Marine Corps for four years.
1:41:58
His first three years as part of Fleet Anti Terrorism Security
1:42:03
team, Company Alpha 5th Platoon. And most recently was assigned.
1:42:09
A Second Battalion, First Marine Division Golf Company, First
1:42:13
Platoon, Third Squad. Corporal Lopez deployed to
1:42:17
Afghanistan in support of Operation Freedom Sentinel.
1:42:23
Corporal Lopez and 13 other service members.
1:42:25
Were killed in action on. August 26th, 2021 in an attack
1:42:30
on Kabul, Hamid Karzai International Airport when a
1:42:33
suicide bomber detonated explosives outside the airport.
1:42:38
Hunter lived a full life in a short amount of time.
1:42:41
He impacted so many lives and has left a lasting impression on
1:42:45
his family, friends and his brothers and sisters in arms.
1:42:48
Hunter leaves behind his parents, Captain Herman Lopez
1:42:53
and Deputy Alicia Lopez of the Riverside County Sheriff's
1:42:56
Office, along with those who served alongside.
1:43:00
We here at NBR would like to thank you, Corporal Hunter
1:43:04
Lopez, for your service and dedication to our country.
1:43:07
You'll leave a legacy of love and courage.
1:43:10
Our. Prayers are with your.
1:43:11
Family, friends and those who served alongside you, you are
1:43:16
truly missed. Ready.
1:47:57
MBR talk Hey thanks for tuning in welcome back program are
1:48:04
those of the speakers and do not necessarily reflect the views or
1:48:09
positions of any entities they represent the web at MB radio
1:48:14
dot and that doesn't sound as fake but anyways that was a
1:48:25
perfect interview and it was a great interview you know and not
1:48:28
only did we learn a little bit about you know the MJ the MJ and
1:48:35
you know the. Sport that you have a family.
1:48:36
Life But you know, I think you guys might have learned a little
1:48:39
bit more about each other. You know, sometimes it we assume
1:48:45
the other person loves you, but when they come out and explain
1:48:52
or say what they say, it's just a, a confirm or acknowledge me,
1:49:00
you know kind of thing. It's just nice to know that
1:49:05
something loves you back because we all know that you can love
1:49:08
something and that thing not ever really love you, you know,
1:49:13
and it's good that you guys aren't in that situation.
1:49:18
I'm glad that you guys came on today and talked about your
1:49:23
experience. It was really great.
1:49:25
So I appreciate that. Thank you MJ.
1:49:27
You, you, you open some, you open some people's, you know,
1:49:31
minds and stuff today. I I feel OK.
1:49:35
Well, you know, before we get to the final thoughts, I sent you
1:49:39
the thing too. Ladies and gentlemen, if you
1:49:42
didn't know, this Sunday is Father's Day.
1:49:47
And when that means that means look, society is bad.
1:49:53
You know, there's no money out there, hardly anything.
1:49:56
Everything costs so much. But we've got some ideas to
1:50:00
share with you and I I'll go ahead and do the odds.
1:50:05
You can do the evens, OK, But these are some Father's Day DIY
1:50:10
gifts, low cost. Here's some help help budget
1:50:15
family friendly kind of crafts that you can do one personalized
1:50:22
coupon book. This would go a long way,
1:50:26
especially if it has to do with your mom and dad if you're a
1:50:30
child. I don't know so much if this
1:50:33
would work on my dad, but you know, it's kind of like the
1:50:37
thought that counts. That's what I would do is I'd
1:50:39
buy him a Hot Wheels car and say here dad, here's happy Father's
1:50:42
Day. If I could afford it, I'd buy it
1:50:44
for you. It's the thought that counts.
1:50:46
Sometimes it flies as but sometimes it's not.
1:50:49
Anyways, so one free car wash BBQ master for a day, tailor
1:50:56
coupons to your likes. That's a great thing for father
1:51:01
and it's a great thing for a mother or spouse also.
1:51:05
It is. I give my own husband Winky.
1:51:08
Winky. 10 coupons and it's his day and I tell him it's your day
1:51:13
baby, you can leave that toilet seat up all damn day long.
1:51:16
It's your day. That's a good one.
1:51:19
But then we have a memory. Jar.
1:51:21
So the memory jar is a good one. Because we write 20 things that
1:51:25
we admire about him to give him the endorphins to allow him to
1:51:31
know that he is loved beyond time and space.
1:51:36
Also you can do. A custom photo frame.
1:51:41
Decorate a store bought frame with paints, decals, Add a
1:51:45
cherished photo. Or what I used to do when I was
1:51:49
little. You can take popsicles, real
1:51:52
popsicle sticks and you can collect them and you can make
1:51:56
kind of little, little frame. And then if you don't have any
1:52:00
glue, toothpaste, little bit of toothpaste that that will make
1:52:06
it stick to it almost like glue. So just just some things to
1:52:11
think about out there. You can also give his favorite
1:52:14
treats or snacks you can. Try to find all those little
1:52:18
things that doesn't have to cost you an arm and a leg.
1:52:21
Just go. Like, I know that if I put like
1:52:24
the Buckeyes candies from the Amish in there and I put his
1:52:28
little chocolate chip muffins and I put his little Reese's
1:52:32
Peanut Buttercup. I mean, this man is going to be
1:52:34
in heaven with his Cafe Con leches.
1:52:37
That's what he likes. If I could find good Cuban bread
1:52:40
toasted around here and Aeropus, he man, this guy would go ape
1:52:46
shit. In fact, he loves how many men
1:52:49
love that the food, right? So like my grandmother would
1:52:52
always say you want a man to love you, he's go straight to
1:52:55
his stomach. So cook him something that you
1:53:00
know, maybe he loves. He absolutely is his favorite
1:53:04
dish and most time at steak or something on the grill, but not
1:53:08
let him wear the apron. You wear the apron.
1:53:11
No, unless he really is that kind of, you know, grill guy,
1:53:14
then you know, his drill master skills were like, babe, I'll get
1:53:17
you, you know, what do you want? What's the beer you want?
1:53:20
You know, what do we do? So we put some beer and we put
1:53:23
some deer on the on the grill. He is very happy with his cigar.
1:53:27
It is a very easy, easy, easy thing.
1:53:33
And we have a. Hand decorated mug used ceramic
1:53:37
markers to design A mug. Bake to seal the deal.
1:53:43
I didn't know bake. I didn't know that you baked it
1:53:47
after you drew on it. Well, you know there is another
1:53:52
thing here too, especially if your.
1:53:54
Father, your dad is a veteran and you are a huge Penn State
1:53:59
fan. I want to put something.
1:54:01
Up for you guys. Can I put it?
1:54:04
I'll put it up on the screen and this costs you.
1:54:07
Nothing. Look at this I.
1:54:10
Just want to read this here to you guys.
1:54:12
So Penn State calling all Penn State fans and military
1:54:15
supporters, here's your chance to honor the hero in your life.
1:54:20
He wants to send a a deserving veteran to a military
1:54:23
appreciation game next season, and we're inviting you to
1:54:26
nominate them for unforgettable game day experience.
1:54:29
The winner will receive 2 tickets to the game, 2 exclusive
1:54:33
Penn State football jerseys, one free parking pass, and one
1:54:36
pregame tour. Share your nominee's story by
1:54:39
clicking the link in your order. Wow, Can you imagine that on a
1:54:44
Father's Day? If you're a Penn State fan, can
1:54:47
you, can you just imagine how awesome that would be?
1:54:51
Yeah, you have to take that off. It's done.
1:54:53
But there's. There's the link if anybody.
1:54:55
Needs it go on to Penn State litany islands post and it'll be
1:55:00
right there you can go right on Facebook.
1:55:02
You can even Google it and you just put Penn State Nittany
1:55:06
Lions Military Support, your Military Hero Awards and it'll
1:55:12
it should pop up. If not, I'm going to try to put
1:55:14
that link up on here so that everybody has it.
1:55:18
Let's see, add your link, save your link.
1:55:21
I don't know how to do the link thing.
1:55:23
I'll figure it out and I'll put it there.
1:55:25
How about that? All right, there we go.
1:55:27
Fabulous. OK, well it is that.
1:55:30
Time. Oh, I we, I have.
1:55:32
We have we're losing out of time.
1:55:34
We got two we got to do real quick ADIY tie dye shirt.
1:55:39
So simply tie dye kilns can create a cool customized shirt.
1:55:46
So that we got that one and then you got the last one, MJ, the
1:55:52
last one is. I went out of order here so I
1:55:56
have to look. Nope, I don't.
1:56:00
What is it? Homemade spice rum.
1:56:03
Oh, there it is, Rub. Not rum rub I.
1:56:07
Don't get anybody arrested. Here, blend favorite spices in a
1:56:10
jar and write the recipe label and pair it with grilling tips.
1:56:17
That's that's a cool idea. Oh, a lot of these are very,
1:56:21
very cool idea, but it is that time everybody, it is the 2
1:56:27
minute warning. Why is oh, there we go, it's a 2
1:56:31
minute warning. The final thoughts, 554433211 we
1:56:42
have ignition strapping. It's the two-minute warning.
1:56:45
What we want today. At Project ML Gratitude, our
1:56:56
mission is simple. To give motorcycles to veterans
1:56:58
who need. The.
1:56:58
Kind of peace. And freedom that only a ride
1:57:00
can. Give.
1:57:03
All right, ladies and gentlemen. This Saturday this Saturday June
1:57:08
14th at Wheels and Deals in the Gratitude is not only going to
1:57:12
be giving away a free motorcycle to a veteran, but they're also
1:57:19
taking donations. MLML Gratitude has been with MBR
1:57:25
as a supporter since 2018. They are amazing people.
1:57:30
I think it's 2000. Yeah, it's 2000 maybe.
1:57:35
Actually, I think it might be 2/20/19.
1:57:38
But I this, Yeah. So they're, they've been huge
1:57:45
supporters. We want to not only give them
1:57:48
the spotlight, but we're gonna go promote, we're gonna go
1:57:51
support. So if you would like to come by
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and say hi to any of the hosts that are there on that day, or
1:57:59
if you would like to come on by and just listen to the
1:58:03
broadcast. Never been on Roku before.
1:58:05
You wanna, you wanna see yourself on Roku?
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All right, come on down to wheels and deals and they'll
1:58:15
we'll be doing a a thing. Now I do know and I have to
1:58:21
check their page, but they did change the the last stop.
1:58:27
They did change the last stop. So check our Facebook page,
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those listings so we don't run out of time.
1:58:35
MJ, what did you learn today? I learned that anything and.
1:58:41
Everything can be accomplished if you just give a little bit of
1:58:44
thought and put a little bit of love and understanding behind
1:58:47
it. You can accomplish so many
1:58:49
things in life. That's what I learned, yeah.
1:58:54
And you know the one thing that I.
1:58:56
Have I've constantly. Learned this is it's always
1:59:02
correct, like knowing the information and speaking it
1:59:08
rather than speaking, you know, assumptions because that you
1:59:13
know that that's bad juju. That's, you know, that's giving
1:59:16
out bad info. So, you know, I really
1:59:20
appreciate those that write in the comments or write me a
1:59:23
direct message and you know, try to teach me 'cause I'm
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teachable. At least I think I am.
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I'm teachable and I think most people are everybody that is our
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show for today. We're if I get this thing that
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is our show for today. We will be back next 30 same
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time, same bad channel. Once again, MJ, thank you for
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sitting in with me. And ladies and gentlemen, this
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is the E*Trade show where we show for programs out there
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beyond the VA, right here on the station.
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That's whether our voices be heard.
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MBR. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you
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for tuning in to Military Broadcast Radio.
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As we wrap up today's show, we want to remind you that the
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And remember, we're here to support and honor our veterans.
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Your stories and experiences matter, and we are committed to
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That's right, we're here to give our veterans.
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A. Voice.
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