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The Morning Wood Show-American Military Family Debbie Q_ joins us · Military Broadcast Radio | MBR Talk

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  live, ladies and gentlemen, for the Veteran Voice Studios here
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  in Denver, Co, it is another edition of the Bad Holly Morning
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  Wood show. That's.
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  Right. We are live from the Veterans
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  Voice Studio. This is the morning wood show.
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  I am your morning wood, Bad Holly, because Good Holly's
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  being held hostage. She ain't joking.
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  This wolves crazy. They're not.
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  I'm not. So good.
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  We got a, we got a lot in store for you.
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  This this, this morning, This morning.
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  This morning. Double hour of hour couple of
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  the. Morning to you, Governor.
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  We've we've got some fun interviews coming up we're going
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  to have. We're going to have American
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  Family Organization, their tag lines.
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  I got your 6. They're having a remote on July
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  12th, July 14th and we're going to be talking to them about that
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  remote. It's cars, it's a show car show
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  motorcycles, you know basically anything that you have that you
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  want to show off, you can do that and I'm sure Debbie will
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  tell us more about it. I, I'm, I'm pretty sure that
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  they have like a big trophy or something for an award for it,
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  but it's going to be held at the Douglas County Fairground and
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  MBR is going to not only be there on site, but we're also
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  going to be streaming live on our TV channel, Roku.
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  And I, I have no idea if you're going to be there or not.
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  Oh. I see I I had a feeling he was
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  going to put me in the spot. I don't know, I don't know.
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  So I put it in my calendar. Yeah, so you'll.
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  Have a little morning. Well, yeah, there, there now
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  will give people really to come so that they can meet you.
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  And I don't know, Caveman and HG, they might be there, they
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  might not. I have no idea.
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  You know, I'll tell you what, just so everybody knows, these
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  individuals, they come in here every morning at 6:00 AM and we
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  show prep and they're all volunteers.
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  They don't get paid. We don't have sponsors.
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  We don't have, you know, big money thing.
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  We, we pay them in Donuts. We give them Donuts for, you
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  know, free breakfast and and free coffee.
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  But you know, I, I haven't, I haven't said it a lot, but you
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  know, I, I'm very grateful for you and caveman and Miss Vicki.
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  You know, you guys take out a portion of your time every week
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  to come here and, you know, just announce news about the
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  veterans. Well, passion is power.
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  Passion is power and it's therapy.
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  And right now I've, I've got a little, I got a happy heartbeat
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  going and you can't pay me or I mean, you could give me money if
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  you want to, but I don't know if you're going to get the same
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  heartbeat. You.
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  Have to give me a lot of money to get.
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  I was like, oh, just put that in your mouth.
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  But no, for real. It's it's it's something too
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  that builds it. It really builds confidence.
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  And when it, when it comes to all walks of life too, you feel
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  like you can handle any situation.
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  Yeah, I've been on live radio. Yeah, come on, what you got to
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  tell me. Come on, I got this.
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  And when you're listening to when you're listening to iheart,
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  when you're listening to Intercom and Odyssey, like they
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  they pre record like we're you're, you're getting a raw
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  thought process. Yeah, which, you know, it's,
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  it's, it's funny because when I first started podcasting in
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  2015, it took me hours and hours to edit.
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  I mean, you, you remember the old days where I used to edit,
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  edit. And then you start doing the
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  video and you don't edit anymore, you know, because
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  people, you know, it's like you're, it's like your promo
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  with, you know, showing the cook.
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  You know, people want to see, people want to see.
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  Like for example, if you go to a comedy thing, there's a reason
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  why they have a 2 drink minimum. Sometimes they're not very
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  funny, but if you listen to them on the radio compared to
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  watching them in person, it's a totally different aspect because
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  you see their reaction when they're telling the jokes, you
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  know, And that's the funny part. But you you can't grasp that in
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  audio. No, I, I, I feel that I'm, I
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  started alongside you there where, yeah, a lot of this audio
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  stuff was transforming into you needed a video aspect or you
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  were flat and just, you know, and there's, there's no more you
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  have a face for you have a face for radio now.
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  You have to have so many elements attached to that, like
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  your social media, right? You have to have some relevance.
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  It's not just oh, I'm I got a morning wood show.
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  You got to keep up the social status and you know, you have to
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  feed your audience in in every every little category, you know,
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  like here, here's this is the fun one.
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  This is this is this is the fun, fun way to do it.
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  It really is. But when it when it comes to
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  sponsors and when I when I get a military MB, MB radio is it.com
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  dot USDOT US. So when you go to MNB radio dot
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  US, you're gonna see merch. You're also going to see that
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  you can have a spot you. So if if you're a small business
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  out there and you're like, I just need to get the word out
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  about me. That's what that's what we're
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  here for, honestly. And that's where we can, you
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  know. Yeah, I guess we're going to be
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  definitely cheaper than 92.5 or one of those other radio
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  stations. So just so you know, but you
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  know, when when you donate, when you ask us to promote you and
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  you donate, I mean, it's going to be tax deductible and that
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  money, you know, it's not going to corporate wallet.
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  It's literally going to gear to get these veterans so that they
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  can, you know, do it from their house for those that cannot be
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  here in studio here in Colorado, so.
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  Well, let's explain that process.
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  So if if you're someone out there and you know, you have,
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  you know, a veteran loved one and they're like, they're kind
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  of in this, this teeter totter of.
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  They're kind of floating. They, they want to do it, but
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  they don't have the money and they don't want to explore with
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  their wallet like a vet. No, I, I, I, I totally get what
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  you're saying. MBR is the perfect place to go
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  because it started with the headset, USB headset and a
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  laptop. And we don't want you spending
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  money. We want you having fun and
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  creating. Maybe it's something for you.
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  Maybe that outlet's there for you, maybe it's not.
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  You know, we don't know. I do want to say that, you know,
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  I just so everybody knows the only reason why I'm not like
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  super energetic today and I'm I'm trying for everybody that
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  follows me and that knows of my service dog Barrett.
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  We had to put him down yesterday.
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  It's it, it's, it's, it's quite numbing.
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  My, my first feelings is I don't know why anybody would want a
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  dog, but I'm sure I'll my, my feelings and stuff will change
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  throughout the week. But I just want to let everybody
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  know that knows Baird, that follows him, You know, I took
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  pictures. We went on one last walk.
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  We went on one last ride and we went on one last, you know, give
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  them a treat. You know, so I just, I just
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  wanted to say that and you know it before we go to our first
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  commercial break, it's it's time for mail call.
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  We have a a veteran spotlight. So once again, mail call Nixon
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  attention. Mail call apartment Nixon
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  Bermuda. Is the first Wednesday of the
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  month. It is Wednesday, June 4th, which
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  means another edition of our 1210 WPHT Veteran Spotlight
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  brought to you by Window Nation. For all of your window and door
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  needs, visit windownation.com. As we have Rennie Campbell in
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  studio with us this morning, and she is a former member of the
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  United States Army and the Army, he's had some very good news to
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  share and we'll get to that coming up in a moment.
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  But we were just chatting during the commercial.
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  And Renny, first of all, it's good to have you in studio.
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  Thank you. Thanks for having me.
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  And you were a great talker. So as long as you just do
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  exactly what you did off the air, this will be fantastic.
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  And I think you can do it because Renny is or was a drill
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  Sergeant. What is that like to just whip
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  everybody into shape and tell a bunch of dudes how to handle
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  their business? You know it's crazy because some
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  of my trainees were a lot older than me.
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  They're like 2 times my age. They had like 3 kids and here.
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  I am, yes. And here you are.
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  So here you are. You're a Travis Manion
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  Foundation Mentor for youth and serves in the Army Reserve.
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  You served as a drill Sergeant in NCO, Communication, Security
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  and Repair Supervisor. No clue what that means, but
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  sounds very important and has recently been selected as a
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  Warrant Officer candidate and an aviation officer.
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  So explain to some of our non military audience what exactly
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  all that means. Absolutely.
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  So a Warrant Officer candidate is pretty much a person who was
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  selected to be a Warrant Officer.
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  Your duty is to pretty much do whatever you were selected for.
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  So I got selected to be a pilot. So my future responsibility
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  would be to be a fixed wing Warrant Officer in the United
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  States Army. OK.
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  And last year you completed your MBA at Penn State.
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  We won't really talk too much about Penn State.
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  I'm a Temple guy, but you know it is what it is.
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  While also simultaneously completing active duty orders.
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  But your education doesn't stop there as you are an aspiring Dr.
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  Yes, yes I am. I got accepted to Temple
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  University for their. Good choice.
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  Yes, very good choice. I did my undergrad there go
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  owls. Yes I got accepted to do a one
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  year post back pre Med program and then hopefully with the
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  nomination the following year I'd be starting medical school.
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  Any idea specifically where you wanna go medically or is?
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  Yes, I wanna go into surgery, general surgery.
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  General Surgery. And then eventually go into
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  trauma surge. OK, so you like money?
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  I do is it doesn't everybody? Yes, yes we do.
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  You know Cal as a drill instructor, Maybe she can help
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  us train for the bike ride. Yeah, Can you whip me and Greg,
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  Greg and I into shape in the next 5 1/2 weeks?
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  I need to shed like 13 lbs. So we need.
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  To take our bikes to the Jersey Shore from Atlantic City.
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  And we're doing it all for police charity.
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  So do you think you can help train us?
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  Yeah. Showing you fat bodies.
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  Let's go. Yeah, that would be great if you
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  still have that in your system. I think I do, yeah.
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  Let's do. It awesome.
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  I love it. Awesome.
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  So now you also are focusing on the Travis Manion Foundation
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  with the Character Does Matter mentorship program.
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  And TMF is very near and dear to all of our hearts.
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  We're just two months removed from the last TMF Radiothon
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  Foundation. What led you to this?
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  Is this the way for you to kind of still be around like minded
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  military people and give back to your community?
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  What, what, What led you down this road?
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  Absolutely. So it was actually my mentor
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  that got me introduced to the Travis Manion Foundation, Jimmy
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  White. Absolutely love him.
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  One of the best veterans I know. He served in the Navy and he
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  introduced me to it. And I just got to be a part of
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  this community with incredible people.
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  And honestly, I feel like it's a way for me to feed my inner
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  child. I didn't get these opera.
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  I didn't get to see influencers like this when I was a kid.
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  So now that I'm doing it, I get to give back to kids who are
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  just like me. Right.
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  Real influencers, not like social media influencers with a
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  million followers that make more money than we do.
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  Exactly. So what led you down the
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  military path? I always feel like most of the
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  people that I speak to every month, they have some sort of
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  family history. Was that kind of what led you
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  down this road? Or are you the this the the
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  redheaded stepchild? Are you the first one to go down
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  this Ave. Yes, I am.
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  So I'm the first person in my lineage to join the military.
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  Yeah, absolutely. And I feel like I'm setting a
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  path for my kids to hopefully do the same.
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  OK. Yeah, and we mentioned the Army,
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  they hit their recruiting goal yesterday.
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  They certainly did with over four months to spare.
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  And that has been a major issue for the last handful of years.
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  Short of the Marines hitting their goals.
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  I'm sure that makes you proud. It does make me proud.
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  I saw it on Instagram and I was shocked.
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  I didn't know that that happened, but it's great that it
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  did because now means that drill sergeants can work full time,
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  especially in the reserve all. Right, one of our YouTube
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  chatters wants to know if Nick could pass the new PT exam.
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  Yeah. What exactly does that consist
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  of? So the Army combat fitness test,
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  you have your deadlift so you know you know how to.
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  Deadly. Yeah.
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  I did it in high school 20 years ago.
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  Is there a certain, is there a certain weight you have to do?
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  Is it like one 75225? Is there a set number?
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  So the minimum is 140, the maximum is 340.
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  And you have to do 1 Rep. 3 reps.
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  I could do. That I could do one I could do
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  143 times, there's no doubt about.
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  It I think 140 is the female requirement.
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  Well, I identify, I am now known as Nicole and I identify as a
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  female and I want to do 140. I love this.
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  I love this woman. This is great.
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  What are the other metrics for the other exercises as far as?
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  This. Oh yeah, absolutely.
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  So you have a Sprint drag carry. That's the worst one.
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  That alone has like 4 different exercises in it and you have to
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  do it under like 2 1/2. Minutes.
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  We'll skip that one. What else we got?
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  There's the ball toss. Actually, no, they got rid of
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  that. OK.
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  That's of June 1st all. Right shoulders.
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  Shoulders a little sore anyway. There's the plank, OK hand
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  release, push ups. Great stuff, Randy.
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  Thank you so much and thank you for being a great patriot of.
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  Course thank. You and she's going from Penn
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  State to Temple. And folks, if you're watching on
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  YouTube, she is donning the cherry and the white.
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  Our veteran spotlight brought to you by Window Nation.
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  All right. So, you know, that's one of the
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  segments that we like to do on the show is we just like to
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  spotlight a veteran. Maybe there's a veteran that we
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  don't know of that is doing incredible things.
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  This is your time to shine. This is your time to invite
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  them, send us the nomination and we'll we'll, we'll play it here
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  on the air. Also, just so everybody knows.
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  Well, it's it's kind of before your time, Holly.
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  But but Mel, her father passed away this this last week and he
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  was a veteran. So that's it's going to be a
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  special tribute to the truth for him since he passed away.
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  I'm telling you why. I'm just bringing all kinds of
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  bad noise. But hey, I tell you what's.
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  I want to go back to the drill Sergeant lady, change your
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  mindset. Now, right?
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  If, if, if you guys could like drill Sergeant something or like
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  take a a Ave. of your life that was a little chaotic and then
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  just channel your inner drill Sergeant.
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  What would you do, caveman? Would it be in the kitchen?
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  Probably, yeah. I will say though, my my my PT
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  that I did for the Rockies has kind of been working out.
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  They're playing. Pretty.
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  They've been playing pretty decent and all I had to do is do
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  some squats on a video. Really.
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  I did 340 squats they allowed. So basically every time, every
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  time they lose, he's paying the price.
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  Come on, Rockies. Every game, every game, it's
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  just however many runs they get scored, they allow, they allow.
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  Oh man, and H and I guess HG is eating.
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  He's got onions. He's got to eat raw and he
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  forgot him on Wednesday, so now he's up to like almost probably
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  like 50 onions. By next one.
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  How convenient you forgot him that on the show.
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  What about you, Miss Vicki? When when's the last time you
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  had that, like out of control or just impulsive drill Sergeant
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  mode? I'm just when I I wanted to hear
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  that Lady do it. You know what I mean?
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  Yeah. Give me a minute.
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  OK, I, I, I feel like I do it in class and digital all the time.
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  I've got this one student. He's he's he's he's super
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  talented and his, his creative just just just spills out and
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  I'm like, back to the topic, back to the topic, you know,
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  like if, if you were able to have that element, I don't know.
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  Do you think the. Could you handle that from a
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  bus? Sometimes, sometimes that
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  happens. How my?
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  Managers are. Yeah.
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  We're always changing around the menu and like trying different
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  stuff to make so so. What do they sound like?
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  Always something different. They're always like just talking
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  to each other about prep and then like letting everybody know
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  what they're doing. Is it like there's always just
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  like so many questions for the kitchen?
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  Is it like Hell's Kitchen? Sometimes?
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  No. Well, it's after.
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  We just have a bunch of broken stuff so.
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  We kind of. We kind of get the benefit of
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  the doubt. Our oven that we have, there's
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  one like rack on the oven, it'll burn like just one half of
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  whatever is on the tray. So there's always like at least
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  10 cookies that are always really burnt.
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  Anytime next on Restaurant Diaries.
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  That's only because it takes so long for those companies to come
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  in. It at least takes two weeks for
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  someone to come. In Oh yeah, something.
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  Oh yeah, So it's not even really anyone's fault, it just takes a
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  while. Yeah.
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  Well, you, it sounds like you guys improvise, right?
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  Like the food still needs to be cooked and.
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  Adapt and overcome, that's what's up.
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  Adapt and overcome. We got to go on our break, but
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  when we come back, we're going to be hitting the what the
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  moment and Holly's got some very interesting questions to ask
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  people. So whatever you do, stay with
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  us. Don't go away.
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  You're listening to the Morning Woods show right here on the
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  station. That's letting our veterans
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  voices be heard. MBR.
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  Time to rest the sizzle. Rest the sizzle.
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  All right, welcome back, ladies and gentlemen, You're listening
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  letting our veterans be heard MBR and we've we got a pack
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  because we got a new we got a new Mets Vicky segment today.
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  So we're going to go ahead and hit the what the segments.
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  They're cool tats, man. Oh, for real.
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  Thank you, bro. You see the cobra?
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  What is this 10 this that's my credo.
• 26:57
  Don't regrets. You have no regrets.
• 27:01
  No. Like not even a single letter.
• 27:04
  No way. Not me.
• 27:06
  I love him. I think he's great.
• 27:08
  I think he's a real winner. Casey, if I were you, I wouldn't
• 27:10
  use protection. All right, that's good.
• 27:50
  The reason why I'm bringing this up, ladies and gentlemen, is it
• 27:54
  is a new era. We saw it when Ukraine went into
• 27:58
  Russia and they use drones to blow up different segments
• 28:03
  within the sector in Russia. That right there, ladies and
• 28:07
  gentlemen, is a video that has been going viral this week.
• 28:13
  And instead of putting boots on ground, they're sending in
• 28:16
  androids. So that or not androids, but
• 28:19
  drones. And that that drone was talking
• 28:24
  to him telling, OK, you're surrendered.
• 28:28
  Follow me. So I don't I don't think there's
• 28:32
  going to be boots on the ground much any longer.
• 28:34
  That's what I'm saying. So that that video is going
• 28:37
  viral. Last week we touched on a little
• 28:42
  bit of flying IEDs. It's a new world.
• 28:48
  I can only imagine the strategy, you know, But my I, I, I'm
• 28:52
  trying not to go to the dark side in my thoughts here right
• 28:55
  now because it's like, well, what are you going to do when
• 28:58
  people are expendable, right? And you only have so many
• 29:02
  soldiers or so many people that enlist or what's happening?
• 29:04
  That's the next thing you know, OK.
• 29:07
  Well, I mean, we're starting to see it in fast food places.
• 29:09
  Have you been to Steak and Shake?
• 29:11
  I thought Steak and Shake, all of them were closed.
• 29:14
  I went to Steak and Shake this this last Saturday.
• 29:17
  I am not I I very rarely eat out.
• 29:21
  Right. So I me too.
• 29:23
  Me too. But I was out in my own.
• 29:25
  They have a Steak and Shake and when I went in there, I don't
• 29:28
  know. What it is?
• 29:30
  Steak and Shake, basically, it's kind of like in and out because
• 29:33
  of this. Yeah, it's a burger place.
• 29:35
  Except this time there was one guy on the grill and I looked at
• 29:40
  it and I'm like, where is everybody?
• 29:42
  He's like, oh, this is the new error.
• 29:45
  And I'm like, new error. You literally go to a kiosk, you
• 29:49
  order what you want. He gets it, he cooks it.
• 29:53
  That's it. One person on the grill, it says
• 29:58
  that it's 15 hours on, 15 hours off, basically.
• 30:02
  Oh man, I, I can't. There's, there's a lot, there's
• 30:06
  definitely a lot going on. There's, I mean, in this, this
• 30:10
  era of AI and just thinking how, how stuff is just increasingly
• 30:18
  just getting smarter and smarter.
• 30:21
  There's a, there's, there's a really good podcast.
• 30:24
  It's, it's called the Diary of Aceo and it has Jeffrey Hilton,
• 30:33
  who is a computer scientist and he's the godfather of AI.
• 30:37
  And in this, in this podcast, he talks about what jobs are going
• 30:44
  to be secure, right? And, and the host is funny.
• 30:48
  The host is like, so you've got grandchildren.
• 30:51
  What do you, what, what do you tell your grandchildren in this,
• 30:56
  in this world? What, where is their job
• 30:59
  security? And he says you need to be a
• 31:03
  plumber. Isn't that crazy?
• 31:07
  A plumber, a plumber like, that's where you're going to
• 31:10
  have job security. Yeah, you know it.
• 31:13
  I I. Basic like blue collar jobs.
• 31:15
  I, I don't, I don't think it's a secret right now.
• 31:18
  If you didn't already know you instead of going to a four year
• 31:21
  college, you need to go to a trade school because you can go,
• 31:24
  you can be the smartest person in the world.
• 31:27
  OK, My, my cousin is a, a, a pediatrician, a, a doctor.
• 31:33
  And she just now like finished up her debt just now.
• 31:39
  It's been over 20 years now. Trade school.
• 31:44
  You go to a trade school, you spend maybe 1817 grand on an
• 31:49
  education. I mean, you've basically paid it
• 31:53
  off within the first year. That that being if you got a job
• 31:57
  that's at least 30 or $40,000 a year.
• 32:01
  But new research says to live comfortably here in the state of
• 32:08
  Colorado, and now it's estimated that a person has to make
• 32:13
  $106,000 a year to live comfortably.
• 32:19
  It's kind of hard to even just live alone here.
• 32:22
  Right. It is.
• 32:22
  It really is. Depending on where you live,
• 32:25
  it's pretty hard to just like live alone or like even like be
• 32:28
  a parent and like live alone. It's like pretty expensive.
• 32:33
  Where, where I, where I struggle is I, I am only one person,
• 32:40
  right? And then it's, it's not having
• 32:44
  that either someone to kind of balance, you know.
• 32:47
  The you don't have that backup. Yeah, the backup, the backup.
• 32:50
  The backup is very important. Yeah, it really is.
• 32:54
  Well, how do you want to make you something?
• 32:56
  You're working. So hard all day, you got a
• 32:58
  little case of the office, but you know it's it's when you're
• 33:03
  you're putting in some heavy hours.
• 33:05
  Or when life happens, like, OK, you got to get a haircut or, oh,
• 33:11
  I got to do an oil change because you don't do an oil
• 33:13
  change every month. You do an oil change every once
• 33:16
  in a while, you know? How do you feel?
• 33:19
  Do you feel like you like could use some some backup?
• 33:25
  Yeah, in in my my attitude. Yeah, yeah.
• 33:31
  Like someone to check your what? I you're so positive.
• 33:35
  Because like Caveman said, yeah, you, you almost can't, cannot
• 33:43
  live alone. But can you get along with
• 33:47
  people you live with? You know.
• 33:50
  That's important too. It's very important.
• 33:52
  It's very important. Like everybody tells me, like,
• 33:55
  you know, as you're married or whatever, like what's the first
• 33:59
  thing that you would get as advice before you got married?
• 34:03
  And I always say investigate your spouse's upbringing.
• 34:08
  That's the key thing. We had a, we had one rule in, in
• 34:12
  my family that I guess nobody else had.
• 34:17
  And I, and I found out that one of my first marriage, you know,
• 34:20
  my starter marriage is that the living room is the living room.
• 34:26
  So that means that if you're not eating or you're not sleeping,
• 34:30
  you're in the living room watching TV, spending time with
• 34:34
  family, right? And that's how I was brought up.
• 34:38
  But a lot of people aren't brought up that way.
• 34:41
  A lot of people are brought up sitting in the bed eating chips,
• 34:45
  watching Friends episodes or, you know, just not not being at
• 34:51
  work, not not being at home, just always outside doing
• 34:55
  something. It just depends.
• 34:58
  Or. Not engaging with other.
• 35:00
  People, right? Yeah.
• 35:01
  Family or not. Yeah.
• 35:04
  Some people like to be alone and like to be quiet.
• 35:07
  Yeah, some people just don't know how to talk to other
• 35:09
  people. Let you Yeah, some people don't
• 35:12
  like the air conditioner. It's a.
• 35:17
  Sweatshop in here, do you mind? Over there in the the windows or
• 35:22
  turning on the everything doesn't affect everybody.
• 35:28
  But. Air conditioners affect affect
• 35:31
  me. Yeah.
• 35:33
  Nobody else. My family.
• 35:36
  So. It can be 25° in the house.
• 35:39
  It's not that it's not that hot outside that that we have to
• 35:44
  have this continuous 25°. I understand letting the house.
• 35:49
  Cool off a. Little bit.
• 35:51
  And then stop it. But most people don't don't know
• 35:55
  how to regulate air conditioners.
• 35:57
  Or yeah, they're God. There's.
• 35:59
  There's a lot of people that the the gate keep that temperature
• 36:02
  gauge on the wall, yes. If you know anyone from, we were
• 36:06
  talking about Arizona's weather, if you know anyone from Arizona
• 36:09
  that's moved here, they they keep their house very cold
• 36:12
  because it's just so hot there all the time, right?
• 36:15
  That they got to have their AC running all the time in their
• 36:18
  houses because it's so hot. But it's so hot.
• 36:22
  Should you have to wear a jacket in house?
• 36:24
  Well. That's how I feel.
• 36:26
  That's how I feel when I go there.
• 36:28
  But they're used to like being so hot outside that it's like a
• 36:32
  nice feeling when they go into it, like an extremely cold house
• 36:35
  because they're used to being outside in the desert forever.
• 36:39
  For me, I like routine. I like routine.
• 36:42
  Like I, I, I like that I'm able to like, get up and like go
• 36:45
  hiking every Monday, you know, and eating by a certain time
• 36:52
  and, you know, getting my groceries.
• 36:55
  It feels one feel healthier. I just feel.
• 36:59
  But I, I, I'm very spur of the moment too, though, like if
• 37:02
  something's cool, I'm in, I'm in, you know, I'm, I'm, I'm not
• 37:06
  too like set in my ways, But there's, there's comfort in
• 37:09
  that. Like, you know, I'm cleaning the
• 37:11
  kitchen this certain day, or like that's today.
• 37:15
  Today it's my today's my spruce, my spruce day.
• 37:20
  Yeah, laundry a certain day. But I I am I am a creature of
• 37:25
  habit. Even like where I drive some of
• 37:27
  my routes. Too well, and I, and I think
• 37:30
  it's, it's healthier for a person to have a routine, you
• 37:35
  know, because when you know, I, I had a old buddy of mine in the
• 37:40
  military used to tell me, you know, you just, you just got to
• 37:43
  get in a rhythm. It's like that song Johnny Cash.
• 37:45
  You got to get in a rhythm, you got to get in a routine.
• 37:48
  Once you get in a routine, you, you know, basically once you
• 37:51
  find your purpose, once you get that routine, then not a lot
• 37:56
  will not a lot will, you know, hit you off of, you know, the
• 38:00
  square peg. A lot of things can, but it just
• 38:05
  depends on how disciplined you are a cheap in your routine.
• 38:11
  I'm pretty darn disciplined. How are you?
• 38:14
  I'm pretty disciplined, but I'm able.
• 38:18
  I say 4060. I know nobody else is like that.
• 38:24
  I don't care what what what it is.
• 38:27
  Yeah. I have to make the adjustment
• 38:29
  and and and still remain calm and, you know, focused and
• 38:35
  everything. I, I like to, especially in this
• 38:40
  new AI blasting like speed release.
• 38:46
  I, I like an element of discovery and seeking and, and,
• 38:52
  and I, I like to see what else is out there.
• 38:55
  I, I, I have to learn something new.
• 38:57
  I have to learn, I have to learn something new once a week.
• 39:01
  And it's something if, if I don't, I feel like it's passing
• 39:06
  me by, especially Canva right now, Canva canvas they've got.
• 39:11
  Some new things coming out, There's a.
• 39:13
  There's a lot of new things. Like literally in front of my
• 39:16
  students yesterday, we imported a picture and then the the
• 39:21
  elements and the colors of everything in the picture were
• 39:26
  above, above the editing bar. And I was like, oh, what's this?
• 39:33
  What's this now change like the color of the T-shirts of
• 39:37
  somebody in in the picture? Oh wow.
• 39:41
  And there's like a like a picture, like a face softening
• 39:45
  and editing pictures. They're kicking Adobe Adobe's
• 39:49
  ass. They really are.
• 39:51
  They're they're kicking butt. Period.
• 39:52
  Yeah, they are. And, and it's the thing I do
• 39:56
  like about Canvas is they're constantly investing on, you
• 39:59
  know. Next best, next best, next best
• 40:02
  and and and setting that standard and keeping the pace.
• 40:06
  But there was so much happening that I was like, I got to go
• 40:10
  deep dive this weekend. And talking about surprise and
• 40:13
  deep dive, you have a new segment for.
• 40:15
  Us I. Do it is the Miss Vicki segment.
• 40:18
  You be blue, you feel sad. There is a scene where a woman
• 40:24
  killed her husband because he stepped on the floor while she
• 40:27
  was mopping. Has the woman already been
• 40:28
  arrested? Not yet.
• 40:30
  We're waiting for the floor to dry.
• 40:31
  We are here at the scene where a woman killed her husband because
• 40:34
  he stepped on the floor. This Vicky Police.
• 40:40
  The police. They're police.
• 40:41
  You wouldn't kill somebody for stepping on the floor, would
• 40:44
  you? No, I wouldn't.
• 40:45
  Yeah, I see. I would not kill you for that.
• 40:48
  What? That's AI that Oh yeah, that's
• 40:56
  definitely AI. Okay, Miss Ricky, have you been
• 40:59
  on TikTok? Have you seen the new like
• 41:02
  Sasquatch vlogs? Bigfoot vlogs.
• 41:06
  Yeah, Oh my gosh, I've cringe watch that.
• 41:08
  You know, isn't, isn't that, what do you call it, cringe
• 41:11
  watching or binge watching? Binge watching.
• 41:15
  The AI Sasquatch just like running around the woods
• 41:18
  vlogging his life. But it's all it's all made the
• 41:21
  video. And the.
• 41:22
  Voices are all AI. It's.
• 41:24
  I love those little video. And then we got some where how
• 41:29
  it would be if Lincoln had an iPhone.
• 41:32
  Yo, what's up is rizzy, you know, Lincoln here, I've just
• 41:38
  delivered the Guinea bag and I'm like, God, oh, you know, the
• 41:42
  kind of stuff. It's like, it's really funny
• 41:46
  that yeah, we're going to have to show you after the show.
• 41:48
  What? About when your kids were little
• 41:50
  and you were mopping. I mean, did, did they have that
• 41:54
  fear or are you just smart? Like, Nah, do it when they're
• 41:56
  not here, man. Oh.
• 41:58
  No, you know, I, I never, you know what, as a matter of fact,
• 42:05
  when I was a teenager, my stepfather, he timed it every I
• 42:13
  had to mop and wax 7 rooms, hardwood floor.
• 42:17
  Every every Saturday this man will come in with snow boots or
• 42:23
  whatever and he would do it. He will he walk all of I said
• 42:27
  lunch, don't you see? Me.
• 42:30
  Doing this, you know, because I couldn't go out unless I did it
• 42:37
  him. I want to kill.
• 42:40
  I literally wanted to kill him every every Saturday.
• 42:43
  I didn't know how he how he was going to do it.
• 42:46
  But he's going to find a way. If if not the floors, something
• 42:50
  you know him I want to kill. Yeah.
• 42:53
  My, my kids would back it up, beep it, you know, if they were
• 42:57
  like, they saw me mopping or, or Swiffer and they'd be like,
• 43:03
  that's right. That's that's what was so funny
• 43:07
  about that officer, right? Yeah, they made it fun.
• 43:11
  They tried to make make it fun. This man would just destroy what
• 43:15
  I was. Doing.
• 43:17
  We got dogs, so we got the little puppy just runs all over
• 43:21
  the. Floors.
• 43:21
  Yeah. What is that with dogs?
• 43:23
  You get you're you're sitting there trying to move the carpet
• 43:26
  and it's like the dogs are like, hey, let's go for a ride.
• 43:30
  You know they want to stand. Yeah, every single time.
• 43:33
  It it never fails. Walk through the piles and
• 43:36
  you're sweeping or by. My puppy is afraid of the broom
• 43:39
  so he just follows my mom around when she's broom and stuff or
• 43:42
  follows you around when you have a broom.
• 43:45
  He's just. He's just afraid of random
• 43:47
  objects. I loved that video so much.
• 43:52
  Is your dog afraid of the vacuum?
• 43:54
  Well, we we Seems like all dogs are afraid of vacuum.
• 43:58
  We got a lot of hardwood and tile, so we we really kind of
• 44:02
  mainly just sweep them up. Well, that's the Miss Vicki
• 44:08
  segment. The one thing I do want to say
• 44:11
  is if you, if you out there any of our listeners find something
• 44:15
  fun that Miss Vicki can talk about.
• 44:19
  I was trying to look for like a bad child.
• 44:22
  Yeah, just to hear what what Miss Vicki would say.
• 44:25
  But send it to the Morning Wood show on Facebook.
• 44:29
  Please, please, please, if you find something out there or our
• 44:32
  our fellow listeners, help us out with the segment.
• 44:35
  See what you think, but what are we at?
• 44:38
  We got another segment. Yeah, you know, if if you guys
• 44:42
  want to, we can hit the drop of the mic.
• 44:44
  It's it's the drop in the mic. It's some facts.
• 44:49
  You're not going to like it. So here you go drop in the mic.
• 44:54
  Don't worry, don't worry. I'm.
• 45:00
  Not going to do what you all think I'm going to do.
• 45:02
  We just. So the No tax on Overtime bill
• 45:12
  has been introduced in the Senate, and you can read it for
• 45:17
  yourself. Let's cover it real quick to see
• 45:19
  how you could be impacted. I'm going to tell you right now,
• 45:23
  a lot of you are going to be happy, and a lot of you are not.
• 45:27
  Yeah. First of all, they are still
• 45:29
  going to withhold all of the taxes from your paycheck every
• 45:32
  week or two weeks, depending on how you get paid.
• 45:35
  You're still getting taxes withheld.
• 45:38
  They are going to offer you a tax deduction at the end of the
• 45:42
  year when you file your taxes. So for all of you people that
• 45:45
  thought your paychecks were going to get bigger, that's not
• 45:49
  a thing. In addition to that, if any
• 45:53
  overtime you work exceeds 20% of your overall income, none of
• 45:59
  that overtime gets the tax deduction.
• 46:02
  So you get taxed fully on that overtime.
• 46:04
  There shall be allowed as a deduction and amount equal to so
• 46:07
  much of any overtime compensation received by an
• 46:10
  individual as does not exceed 20%.
• 46:13
  Who does this impact? So in other words, everybody's
• 46:21
  all excited for all these new changes, and then when you take
• 46:25
  the icing off the cake, you find out that it's shit.
• 46:28
  Oh, I mean, I, I, I remember waitressing and I was a horrible
• 46:33
  waitress. I'm saying that because I mean
• 46:35
  it, Bart, I was a good bartender.
• 46:38
  You were like right there. I didn't have to go anywhere and
• 46:41
  forget what you wanted. But I, I'm, I'm a pretty honest
• 46:47
  person. So when it came to cash tips, I
• 46:49
  think I would kind of generalize, but I would never,
• 46:53
  I'm afraid to say this anyway. They, you know, show this
• 46:56
  recording in a courtroom and be like, see, this is, yeah, OK, so
• 46:59
  how much did you make? I'll be like, uh oh.
• 47:03
  And, and when you're, when you're in that situation, it's,
• 47:06
  it is, it's, it's generalizing. Have you, what about you, Kate
• 47:09
  Mann? Have you ever done any like
• 47:12
  slide of 20 that you haven't? Like given one out personally
• 47:19
  like a tip or get? Or get gotten a tip and then not
• 47:22
  recorded it. Well I guess like AutoZone, like
• 47:28
  change people's batteries and headlights and stuff, but if
• 47:31
  they give you like 5 bucks I'm just going to put them in my
• 47:34
  pocket real quick. They didn't ever give us that
• 47:36
  much. Or like one time my manager
• 47:39
  changed the guy's battery out. It was a super busy day.
• 47:43
  The guy gave him a whole case of beer as a tip.
• 47:50
  I mean, small stuff like that. I don't think that's I don't
• 47:52
  think that's wrong. The thing that scares me, he.
• 47:56
  Has a hairdresser I got tips too.
• 47:58
  The the thing that scares me is like tips or anything paid, I
• 48:06
  always get scared like at the end of the year, like how much
• 48:09
  was I supposed to save for taxes?
• 48:12
  You know, I'm always worried about the calculation because I
• 48:15
  don't think anybody in their right mind is trying to, you
• 48:19
  know, screw the government. That shit happens.
• 48:23
  You give your taxes to somebody, something doesn't get done and
• 48:28
  then you kind of up Creek. That's one of the reasons why
• 48:32
  tax scare me so much. Well-being being a hairdresser,
• 48:35
  we got taxed on the card or we would get tips and then a
• 48:39
  percentage of the tips that were on our we would lose 2% if we
• 48:45
  were taxed on or tipped on the card.
• 48:49
  But the one of the craziest tips I ever got was a dog was a dog
• 48:56
  was a puppy. So I, I was in New York and had,
• 49:01
  had lost, had, had lost a dog And I, I had a client that, you
• 49:06
  know, I, I, I don't know why she thought I, you know, was, was,
• 49:11
  was ready for your puppy. But I, I, my, my boss called me
• 49:16
  and she was like, you have to come.
• 49:17
  You have to come back to the salon because I had left.
• 49:20
  I had left for the day. And I said, why?
• 49:23
  She said, Oh, you, you got a tip, but you have to come get
• 49:27
  it. And I was like, you know, just
• 49:29
  just leave it there for me. I'll, you know, I'll, I'll be
• 49:31
  back in a couple days. It's you know, and she said, no,
• 49:34
  you got to come get it. And when I showed up, there was
• 49:37
  this little black chocolate lab and I was like, Oh my God, what
• 49:44
  do I do? Thank God I had some friends.
• 49:47
  I I was, I was living with a a house full of dudes at the time.
• 49:52
  It was actually that was one of my one of my favorite chapters.
• 49:55
  Because, yeah, because you had a backup.
• 49:57
  Guys are chill like guys are chill.
• 49:58
  Like, you know, when I'm not high, you mean, Oh my God, the
• 50:02
  drama, right? Just so chill, so chill, matter
• 50:05
  of fact. And so we all had this dog.
• 50:08
  We had a dog. We had them for a little while,
• 50:10
  but then I ended up moving out here.
• 50:12
  But it was that was the craziest tip I ever got.
• 50:15
  So I wasn't able to, you know, claim that percentage.
• 50:21
  That was you born and raised. No, you wasn't born and raised
• 50:24
  here. You.
• 50:25
  Was raised. I was raised in upstate New
• 50:26
  York, but I was born in Boulder, Co.
• 50:29
  OK. All right.
• 50:30
  And you was born and raised here?
• 50:34
  No. OK.
• 50:35
  Chicago. Chicago.
• 50:37
  OK. Now, I wasn't born and raised
• 50:39
  here. I was born and raised in
• 50:41
  Indiana. OK.
• 50:42
  So you've been here approximately 10:10 or so years.
• 50:47
  Way more. Way more than that, right?
• 50:48
  Since 2021, Yep. Do you miss?
• 50:52
  Do you miss New York? Is there cons and pros?
• 50:57
  I, I miss the people in the matter of fact, because I, I, I
• 51:02
  think that I, I still have an, an element of that that hasn't
• 51:06
  quite softened that I appreciate.
• 51:09
  I don't miss the weather. OK.
• 51:12
  So weather, the weather don't miss the people like people you
• 51:17
  tend to miss. Yeah.
• 51:18
  Do you think that it's been harder to live here in Colorado
• 51:24
  compared this 10 years compared to like last 10 years?
• 51:29
  I think this yes. Yeah, yeah.
• 51:33
  So what? What?
• 51:33
  What do you find as a struggle? My rent has been increasing
• 51:39
  quite a bit. Here isn't that crazy, Like I
• 51:41
  have a house payment and you know, I just don't understand.
• 51:46
  The bank tells me, OK, you're going to pay this much every
• 51:50
  month, OK. And the next thing I know, my
• 51:53
  escrow somehow grows and I have to repay that.
• 51:56
  It's like, what the hell is escrow?
• 51:58
  And you're you know, you think that you're solving a problem by
• 52:04
  doing rent, you know, by by buying a house.
• 52:07
  The hell if it's not escrow or HOA.
• 52:12
  I mean, it's hard to live in a house on a fixed budget.
• 52:16
  What do you think, Miss Vicki? I think people should get
• 52:22
  together and buy houses and live in them until we we should live
• 52:29
  together until you can afford a house and save money.
• 52:33
  Because that's the climate. Yeah, it always has been.
• 52:38
  But nobody told me. Told us it was going to
• 52:42
  escalate. Yeah.
• 52:44
  If if we had known it was going to escalate, it would be be
• 52:47
  different. You could plan otherwise.
• 52:51
  I don't know anybody that that that's been able to plan.
• 52:54
  No, no, it it, it definitely. And I was surprised because my
• 53:00
  my rent when I first started renting, I was like, this is
• 53:03
  awesome, this is awesome. It's not too bad.
• 53:05
  And then like literally just sneak attack every year like 100
• 53:11
  and 5000 and 75 more dollars. And I'm like that's.
• 53:14
  A big deal, it's a big deal. It's a big deal.
• 53:17
  And, and then I, I love that they're, they're kind of like in
• 53:23
  it's, it's the what garbage or I, I think my pest, my pest went
• 53:28
  up, my pest control stuff went up.
• 53:30
  I'm like, what wasn't it my, my electricity?
• 53:35
  I'm like, wait, I pay for my electricity and I'm paying for
• 53:37
  electricity here. What's up?
• 53:39
  So it's, it's something you got to babysit and manage as you
• 53:43
  know, but it's not, and I hear you.
• 53:46
  If, if people were more tolerable, yeah, tolerable.
• 53:53
  I I, I I could see COM like compound living like I would be
• 53:57
  cool with that, you know? Yeah, otherwise you're going to
• 54:00
  be homeless. True, right?
• 54:02
  Somebody's going to be homeless because who can live with that
• 54:05
  person? Right.
• 54:07
  You talk about. All the time.
• 54:09
  Who could live with this person? That guy snores.
• 54:11
  Yeah, or otherwise he. Shakes the door.
• 54:16
  No, I, I, you know, I just, I, I've, I've noticed it's been a
• 54:20
  real struggle here in, in, in Colorado, you know, and like,
• 54:25
  you know, and there's, there's more there.
• 54:28
  This is what I find funny. There's more get rich quick
• 54:33
  books and how to get rich books rather than you know what, how
• 54:39
  to make it on low income, you know, tricks and tips, little
• 54:43
  suggestions and stuff like that. Because I guarantee you we'll
• 54:46
  use those tricks and tips a lot faster than we will.
• 54:50
  OK, This is how you build income.
• 54:52
  This is how you build credit or, you know, this is how you get,
• 54:56
  you know, rich, you know, because I'm telling you if
• 54:59
  they're putting content out on Instagram talking about, hey, I
• 55:05
  can make you rich, blah, blah, blah, blah.
• 55:07
  Look, there's a reason why they got that content there.
• 55:11
  That's how they're going to make you rich.
• 55:13
  They're going to, they're going to use your money to make them
• 55:17
  rich, you know. So, yeah, it's, it is a, it is
• 55:21
  definitely a struggle, but we're gonna, we we're coming up on our
• 55:27
  next break. But before we go to the next
• 55:29
  break. I didn't know.
• 55:31
  Did you want to read any of the like the new stuff before we get
• 55:34
  into the interview? We, we were gonna talk about
• 55:36
  weather this week. Yeah.
• 55:38
  Because it's gonna be, it's gonna be sizzling.
• 55:40
  It's gonna be sizzling. It is.
• 55:43
  It's gonna be like 100°. So if you're not up, yeah, it's
• 55:47
  I'm, I'm trying to get back to that.
• 55:48
  The good the the good, the good juice, right?
• 55:51
  There we go. So it's it's going to be.
• 55:54
  Yeah. That's that's that's a question
• 55:56
  one. O 1 today.
• 55:57
  Yeah, Content, yeah. One O 1 today, one O 1 tomorrow
• 56:00
  and then it's it's going to it looks like it's going to cool
• 56:04
  off on on on Sunday, but you know, for for those of you in
• 56:10
  Denver and you want to do something.
• 56:14
  Fun. And indoors.
• 56:16
  That's not going to break the bank.
• 56:18
  There's the Muse, the Museum of Illusions on 16th St.
• 56:22
  Mall. It's an interactive light
• 56:25
  bending fun. Tickets are about 25 to 30 a
• 56:29
  person and I and I guess I don't know if that's adult to children
• 56:33
  so. I I I would say I'm either that
• 56:37
  or it's like 2025 for single, 30 for a couple.
• 56:42
  Then there's the Denver Art Museum.
• 56:44
  They have an in state weekday tickets for $22.00 for weekend
• 56:51
  passes are. 25 they do have a veteran discount there because
• 56:56
  I've I've gone with a with a buddy there and the Denver Art
• 56:58
  Museum is no joke. You're you're going to be in
• 57:01
  there like about 3 hours if if you can rock every level.
• 57:06
  And that came out this week too. Dan Krunkie bought Elitch
• 57:10
  Gardens, so Elitch Gardens is now under Meow.
• 57:14
  Wall Yeah, everything in that little complex area.
• 57:17
  And then you got the Denver Museum of Nature and Science.
• 57:20
  Yeah, and if you have a VA card, you're free on that one as well.
• 57:25
  Nice. And if not, you're looking at 20
• 57:27
  to $23 if you're going to include an IMAX upgrade.
• 57:34
  I got to see a movie out of the Denver museum and it was called
• 57:41
  Beaver, Beaver and. Their.
• 57:45
  Their their their little slogan to the movie was Beaver, the
• 57:49
  best damn movie you'll ever see almost dying.
• 57:51
  And then you've got the children's museum.
• 57:54
  If you got little ones, adults, it looks like adult and kids to
• 58:01
  the. Two to yeah, 2 to the senior
• 58:06
  citizen discount. For 1875, little 1/16/75 under
• 58:13
  one are free. And then of course, you have the
• 58:17
  Butterfly Pavilion, which it's about $1520 depending on age.
• 58:23
  Great for families. We're we're going to go off to
• 58:27
  our next music break. And when we come back, we will
• 58:29
  be having Debbie Quackenbush from American Family
• 58:33
  Organization, their tagline. Zach, got your six.
• 58:37
  We're going to find out what they're doing for veterans and
• 58:39
  what they continuing doing for veterans on the station.
• 58:42
  That's giving our veterans voices be heard.
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• 1:07:10
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• 1:07:28
  It is that time. It is the interview of the week.
• 1:07:33
  The interview of the week is brought to you by Jersey Mike's
• 1:07:38
  A Sum above. Holly, we have somebody on the
• 1:07:44
  phone, you know, I'm going to try to give her an intro and
• 1:07:49
  it's it's not going to do it justice.
• 1:07:51
  But we have a woman that is on the phone that has been helping
• 1:07:55
  military families, coordinating, supporting and also helping
• 1:08:02
  veteran suicides as well with an organization called American
• 1:08:06
  Family Organization. And her name that just has to be
• 1:08:10
  has just her name just happens to be Debbie Quackenbush.
• 1:08:16
  She when I see her next, I got, I got to give her a duck.
• 1:08:20
  You know, duck Quackenbush, you got to have it.
• 1:08:23
  You know, Debbie, thank you for being on with us.
• 1:08:29
  I appreciate it, Joel. It's Mcelhaney now.
• 1:08:31
  So I went from Quackenbush to Mcelhaney.
• 1:08:33
  OK, good. Morning you're.
• 1:08:36
  Still getting a duck? Yeah, you're still getting a
• 1:08:38
  duck. It's all good.
• 1:08:41
  So we know that you have an event July 12th.
• 1:08:44
  We know there's an event July 19th.
• 1:08:47
  I don't know which one you want to talk about first, but you
• 1:08:50
  know, tell us. Tell us what inspired you to to
• 1:08:57
  keep keep this legacy going this nonprofit running.
• 1:09:01
  You know what, it's been 20 years and it's evolved and it's
• 1:09:06
  evolved into a, a full mission of prevention of veteran and 1st
• 1:09:09
  responder suicide. And so I love what we do.
• 1:09:13
  And at the end of the day, it's it's bigger now than it's been
• 1:09:16
  in the entire 20 years that we've been here.
• 1:09:20
  I like your tagline. I got your 6.
• 1:09:23
  I can just hear you saying that to somebody who really needs to
• 1:09:26
  hear it, you know? You know, they identify with it.
• 1:09:30
  They identify with it and you know, it's serious business.
• 1:09:34
  We do intrusive interventions throughout the country.
• 1:09:38
  We bring in the most volatile, struggling veterans, first
• 1:09:41
  responders who have been lost in their ways since service to
• 1:09:45
  country. And we go to them.
• 1:09:48
  We take good care of them over a weekend.
• 1:09:50
  Often times we'll take them out to a clay shoot when we are
• 1:09:53
  doing a fundraiser. The objective is to earn their
• 1:09:57
  trust, earn their respect, basically break them and then
• 1:10:01
  get them to the best resources in the country.
• 1:10:03
  And so that's grown in a in a exponential way and we're
• 1:10:08
  getting to have a lot of success.
• 1:10:10
  We've had a few failures recently, actually lost one of
• 1:10:14
  our own, our own guys about 3 weeks ago.
• 1:10:17
  He just said I can't do it anymore.
• 1:10:20
  So we do everything we can to save them.
• 1:10:22
  And it's not a kinder or friendlier mission, I guess, but
• 1:10:26
  it's one that is incredibly fulfilling, rewarding.
• 1:10:30
  And at the end of the day, you know, I'm very proud to say
• 1:10:32
  we've been able to save a lot of them and take them to a new
• 1:10:35
  normal. You know, it's, it's funny that
• 1:10:38
  you're bringing it up because on the website it, you know, it, it
• 1:10:41
  says since March 2017, you, you mentioned saving over 105 highly
• 1:10:49
  suicidal veterans. What metrics or follow up
• 1:10:52
  processes? I mean, how do you guys come up
• 1:10:57
  with this number? Can you shed the light on that
• 1:11:00
  for us? Well, you know, once, once they
• 1:11:04
  make contact with us, we track them for the next couple of
• 1:11:07
  years and I even hear from them 5, five years later.
• 1:11:11
  Our objective is to bring them into our own fold, which is to
• 1:11:14
  give them a purpose again, and we encourage them to join our
• 1:11:18
  Quick Reaction Force team. Ideally, we'd love to have QRF
• 1:11:24
  team set up throughout the country so that when you get a
• 1:11:27
  call about a missing, struggling, suicidal veteran,
• 1:11:30
  you hear from the family, help us find them, and they apply
• 1:11:33
  their skills to help locate that veteran and then put them
• 1:11:37
  through our program. Now AMF is nationally known and
• 1:11:44
  is helping, helping veterans nationally, right?
• 1:11:47
  It's not, it's not just a region, that thing anymore.
• 1:11:51
  Oh, no, no, you know, we go to them.
• 1:11:53
  It doesn't matter. You know the objective is to get
• 1:11:55
  to them, earn their trust and respect no matter where they're
• 1:11:58
  located. Yeah, I mean, I, I can imagine
• 1:12:02
  when you're in that vulnerable state, the last thing you want
• 1:12:04
  to do is be, you know, babied. You know it.
• 1:12:10
  Takes a tough. Person to to bring It takes a
• 1:12:13
  tough and loyal person like yourself to like bring bring
• 1:12:18
  somebody at that level so I admire what you're doing I.
• 1:12:21
  Appreciate that, you know it. We, we let the guys do it.
• 1:12:24
  I mean, when the call comes in and by the grace of God, over
• 1:12:28
  the last year and a half now we've only had a few that we had
• 1:12:31
  to go actually track. But we've got a long laundry
• 1:12:34
  list, if you will, of veterans who are struggling.
• 1:12:37
  And so we contact them, they contact us, we let them know
• 1:12:42
  when we're going to put an intrusive intervention together.
• 1:12:45
  And then that objective is to get them there and get them to
• 1:12:49
  let us earn their trust so that we can actually get them into
• 1:12:52
  the programs throughout the country that best address what
• 1:12:56
  we think are the seven triggers of veteran and 1st responder
• 1:12:59
  suicide. Can you explain intrusive
• 1:13:03
  intervention a little more to our listeners?
• 1:13:06
  Yeah, they're not kinder and they're not friendlier.
• 1:13:08
  The objective is to come in. The fact that they even showed
• 1:13:13
  up is a big breakthrough, A gigantic breakthrough that says
• 1:13:17
  they're ready to receive help. But the objective is in that
• 1:13:21
  room there's always somebody better off than you and somebody
• 1:13:24
  worse off than you. And when you can open up and
• 1:13:27
  relate, they don't have to talk, they don't have to do anything
• 1:13:30
  but listen. And we've got them captive for
• 1:13:33
  at least two days for an intrusive intervention.
• 1:13:36
  But during that time, we're also taking very good care of them.
• 1:13:39
  We're listening intensely to them, we're sharing resources,
• 1:13:44
  we're sharing ideas, we're sharing programs and earning
• 1:13:47
  their trust. So the first day they get there,
• 1:13:50
  it's just a get acquainted kind of moment.
• 1:13:53
  Get them to feel comfortable. We go to very nice places.
• 1:13:56
  We take them to the beach, we take them to the mountains, we
• 1:14:00
  take them to quiet grounds where they feel safe and, and bond
• 1:14:04
  together. And there's again, somebody in
• 1:14:07
  that room that they relate to and somebody who's already been
• 1:14:10
  through the intervention and has taken the all the precautions,
• 1:14:14
  do exactly what we're asking him to do, which is to get to those
• 1:14:17
  best resources for treatment of traumatic brain injury, for drug
• 1:14:21
  and alcohol addiction. You've got to get a clean mind.
• 1:14:24
  And ideally, when we get to these intrusive interventions,
• 1:14:28
  they're ready to receive the message.
• 1:14:30
  And if they're not, our objective is to break them.
• 1:14:33
  If you're not serious about getting healthy and you want to,
• 1:14:37
  you know, go to Club Med, that's not what we do.
• 1:14:40
  Our objective is to get the hardcore guys and gals who have
• 1:14:44
  been traumatized to have been through hell and back and get
• 1:14:47
  them to earn the respect of our charity and understand that our
• 1:14:51
  objective is to follow them through.
• 1:14:53
  We escort them to these resources.
• 1:14:55
  We don't just say go ahead and make this phone call.
• 1:14:58
  So it's a, it's a comprehensive program that spans over a period
• 1:15:02
  of a couple of years and and thereafter the objective is to
• 1:15:07
  get them to the intervention and get them to listen.
• 1:15:10
  And so far over the last years, we haven't had trouble with
• 1:15:13
  getting their attention. Now, Debbie, I mean, you've
• 1:15:16
  worked together for a very long time, so I I already know the
• 1:15:22
  answer to these, but the listeners don't.
• 1:15:24
  And that's, that's what I'm trying to do, is trying to
• 1:15:27
  explain and describe to them what your foundation is all
• 1:15:31
  about. Can you tell us?
• 1:15:34
  I appreciate it. Yeah.
• 1:15:35
  Can you tell us, you know, how do you collaborate with Colorado
• 1:15:42
  supports the troops, the plate program, Like what percentage of
• 1:15:47
  those funds directly support your work?
• 1:15:51
  I would tell you I I was the one that walked that legislation
• 1:15:55
  through in 2007 and since that time we have an actual contract
• 1:16:01
  and a memorandum of agreement with the Department of Military
• 1:16:04
  and Veterans Affairs. That money requires a $25
• 1:16:09
  donation for anybody who purchases that Colorado supports
• 1:16:12
  the troops license plate. By the state statute that we
• 1:16:16
  authored, 93% of every dollar has gone directly back to the
• 1:16:21
  Colorado military and their families.
• 1:16:24
  To date, that bill has raised over $500,000 with 93% going
• 1:16:29
  directly back to them. That 7% goes to our charity, but
• 1:16:34
  that pays for the documentation, the labor, the taking the
• 1:16:38
  orders, the answering, the tech support and getting them through
• 1:16:42
  that process with a DMV so that they can obtain that plate and
• 1:16:47
  wear it proudly. So beyond an individual donors
• 1:16:54
  and in the the license plates, what where what is your major
• 1:16:57
  funding sources? Yeah.
• 1:17:00
  Well, you know, you get established.
• 1:17:01
  Over the years, we've been very blessed by companies like the
• 1:17:06
  Mortensen Construction Company. They've been an incredible
• 1:17:09
  friend and ally to us, and they're located nationally.
• 1:17:13
  So they do a clay shoot for us. For example, we just got back in
• 1:17:18
  less than two weeks ago. We were in Salt Lake City, UT,
• 1:17:21
  and the Mortensen Construction Salt Lake City operation put on
• 1:17:26
  a clay shoot. We hosted our intrusive
• 1:17:29
  intervention three days before the clay shoot and then let him
• 1:17:33
  go out and shoot and calm down after the intervention.
• 1:17:36
  And I'm proud to tell you that that recent fundraiser raised
• 1:17:40
  $102,000 going back for our program.
• 1:17:44
  And now we have Colorado. Colorado Mortensen Construction
• 1:17:48
  has been very gracious to us and we are expanding because I think
• 1:17:52
  they understand our mission, our loyalty, and we bring those
• 1:17:56
  veterans. I mean, I could show you
• 1:17:58
  pictures from 2 weeks ago where we had a lot of them there and
• 1:18:03
  they enjoyed the clay shoot as well as getting through the
• 1:18:07
  intervention. So it's a a great, it's a great
• 1:18:11
  way to win what we're doing and funding it in the meantime.
• 1:18:14
  You're being noticed. So, yeah, besides us, how do you
• 1:18:18
  raise public awareness and but besides your your events, is
• 1:18:22
  there another way that you're? You know, just what anybody else
• 1:18:27
  would be doing. I'll be honest with you.
• 1:18:30
  I'm not a fan of asking for money as the founder CEO of this
• 1:18:34
  charity, that should be my job all the time.
• 1:18:36
  But my heart, my passion is with these veterans and 1st
• 1:18:39
  responders. And so there's no call that goes
• 1:18:42
  untold where that where I'm not on that call or where our team
• 1:18:45
  is not dealing collectively to help that veteran or first
• 1:18:48
  responder in need. But raising the money, I'm not
• 1:18:50
  good at it. I'll be candid.
• 1:18:52
  I hate asking for money, but it's necessary and we do host
• 1:18:56
  it. We are having our 20th
• 1:18:57
  anniversary the weekend of July 11 and 12.
• 1:19:01
  There will be a golf tournament on the 11th.
• 1:19:05
  There will be a car show the morning of Saturday the 12th and
• 1:19:09
  then what we call the Country Casual Gala Saturday night at
• 1:19:13
  the Douglas County Fairgrounds. I invite people to come.
• 1:19:17
  I invite them and the dinner is 50 bucks.
• 1:19:20
  It's a walk in. The All American Beef Battalion
• 1:19:22
  will be serving a A1 inch rib eye steak dinner.
• 1:19:25
  They've served over 475,000 veterans during post and pre
• 1:19:29
  deployments, welcome homes. They're in incredible operation.
• 1:19:33
  They help us, we help them. I've worked with them for years
• 1:19:37
  and they've done incredible things.
• 1:19:40
  And so you work together with like minded people and at the
• 1:19:43
  end of the day we're hosting that three day event.
• 1:19:46
  I don't enjoy putting things like that back together, but
• 1:19:48
  it's necessary and I'm encouraging people that will
• 1:19:51
  want to come to get to our website,
• 1:19:53
  americanmilitaryfamily.org. Buy a ticket, Join us, celebrate
• 1:19:57
  with America's heroes. We've got an incredible lineup
• 1:20:00
  of veteran heroes. Remy Adliki, U.S.
• 1:20:04
  Navy SEAL, phenomenal man Ray Cash Care, another Navy SEAL,
• 1:20:08
  phenomenal. Brian Talley, incredible man who
• 1:20:11
  almost lost his life at an unfortunate incident through the
• 1:20:14
  VA not doing a very good job of taking care of.
• 1:20:18
  Him and so John Tig Tigen, you know, from Benghazi, come join
• 1:20:22
  America's heroes and help us raise money so we can continue
• 1:20:26
  to grow our program. And that's how we do it.
• 1:20:29
  I think you got to give yourself some serious credit because you
• 1:20:32
  sold me and, and you, you, you can hear the passion and the
• 1:20:38
  conviction in your voice. And I, I, I think you, you just
• 1:20:42
  sold it. Well, come support your heroes.
• 1:20:45
  I appreciate that. It's an audience full of It's an
• 1:20:48
  audience full of American heroes.
• 1:20:50
  My whole team will be there. The veterans are coming to it.
• 1:20:52
  They're the guys that support it.
• 1:20:54
  Now Debbie, help some veterans out with how how am I eligible
• 1:21:03
  for this? I'll tell you what, it requires
• 1:21:07
  a DD214 and a cost to us. Tell us who you are.
• 1:21:12
  Have you had less than an honorable?
• 1:21:14
  What's your problem? What's going on with you?
• 1:21:16
  We don't isolate. You know, you do have to be a
• 1:21:18
  veteran. You did have to serve at a first
• 1:21:21
  responder, same thing. But we want to hear your story.
• 1:21:24
  We want to hear what happened to you and we want to be able to
• 1:21:26
  help you. But you got to want that.
• 1:21:28
  You can't. You can't come in and say give
• 1:21:30
  me money. We don't do money.
• 1:21:31
  All right, there are a lot of charities out there, and I'll
• 1:21:34
  refer for you. We refer you to any of those
• 1:21:36
  charities that will help with financial assistance.
• 1:21:38
  But one of those 7 triggers is financial traumas, and that's
• 1:21:43
  when they panic. But a lot of people also take
• 1:21:46
  advantage of that where our money is valuable and very
• 1:21:50
  carefully spent. And so when you ask me to come
• 1:21:53
  and pay your bills, I'll refer you to those agencies that can
• 1:21:56
  help you with that. But we're here for the rest of
• 1:21:58
  the story, including your financial assistance.
• 1:22:01
  If, however, you agree to deal with your traumatic brain
• 1:22:04
  injuries, your post traumatic stress disorder, you're fighting
• 1:22:07
  the VA and not getting all your benefits, Fight Harder will help
• 1:22:10
  you do that. It's it's a big deal.
• 1:22:17
  It is a big deal. Miss Vicky, do you have any
• 1:22:21
  questions? I'd like to Do I have any
• 1:22:24
  questions? No, no, no, Miss Vicky.
• 1:22:28
  She's over here just listening. I would like the the address to
• 1:22:32
  the dinner. There we go.
• 1:22:36
  There we go. Well, military broadcast radio
• 1:22:40
  will be on site at the Douglas Fair County Fairground during
• 1:22:45
  the, you know, car show. So, you know, we'll be, I'm, I'm
• 1:22:50
  sure we'll, we'll see Devin talk to her, you know, once again,
• 1:22:54
  once we're on site. But yeah.
• 1:23:00
  Welcome, Matt. Joel, thank you.
• 1:23:02
  And, you know, offer you guys a ticket to the event.
• 1:23:05
  Come join us. I think you'll love it.
• 1:23:06
  And it'll be a crowd of some of the best American heroes you
• 1:23:10
  could ever hope to be around. So you're you're invited to be
• 1:23:14
  my guest. I appreciate the opportunity to
• 1:23:16
  visit with you guys today. And thank you for coming out to
• 1:23:19
  the show, the car show. And I invite you to stay and
• 1:23:22
  come back to the gala. It is country casual and I think
• 1:23:26
  it's going to be a great night. Encourage you to join us.
• 1:23:29
  Fabulous. Debbie, hold on.
• 1:23:30
  We have one more question for you.
• 1:23:33
  It is what we like to call your time to shine.
• 1:23:39
  Today's Time to Shine is brought to you by Dunkin' Donuts
• 1:23:45
  veterans and 1st responders runs on Dunkin this.
• 1:23:53
  Is your. Time to shine.
• 1:23:55
  Believe me, it is your time to shine, Debbie.
• 1:23:58
  We might not have asked you that that that question that you
• 1:24:02
  really want to get off your chest or set you up for the
• 1:24:04
  answer. This is that 2 minute platform
• 1:24:09
  where you know if you want to do shout outs, if you want to talk
• 1:24:13
  about something that we didn't cover, this is your time to do
• 1:24:17
  so. Appreciate that.
• 1:24:20
  You know, at the end of the day, you know, we do deal with the
• 1:24:24
  the most damaged end results of people who have chosen to serve
• 1:24:30
  their country. I don't think people really
• 1:24:32
  realize what kind of sacrifice that truly is.
• 1:24:36
  You have less than 1/2 of 1% of the country who serves and to
• 1:24:41
  the other 99 1/2% of the country that have that privilege, those
• 1:24:46
  are the people that need to give the money to charities like
• 1:24:49
  ours. Those are the people that need
• 1:24:50
  to understand the traumas and the the ramifications of service
• 1:24:55
  to country. And that goes all the way down
• 1:24:57
  to all the family, from the parents to the grandparents, to
• 1:25:00
  the cousins, aunts, uncles, sisters, brothers.
• 1:25:03
  I can guarantee you I I had a brother, I still do.
• 1:25:07
  And it was about Vietnam at the time.
• 1:25:11
  You know, when you come back and you disgrace the very people who
• 1:25:14
  are serving this country, you ought to stand up and understand
• 1:25:17
  what they sacrifice to be here. And they protect and defend all
• 1:25:21
  of us. And I think it's an incredible
• 1:25:23
  honor to be able to work with them and support them.
• 1:25:26
  And I encourage anybody who listens to this broadcast and
• 1:25:29
  podcast to take heed. Come help us.
• 1:25:32
  Come join us and spend the night on Saturday, July 12th at the
• 1:25:36
  Douglas County Fairgrounds. Get to American Military Family,
• 1:25:39
  buy your tickets, donate a ticket, because it's going to
• 1:25:43
  help all of them. And Joel Vicky, thank you so
• 1:25:47
  much for this opportunity. I do appreciate it.
• 1:25:49
  Yeah. No worries, no worries.
• 1:25:52
  It was good talking to you, Debbie.
• 1:25:54
  Please be careful and take care until I see you.
• 1:25:59
  God bless and I'll, I'll see you on the I'll see you on the 12th.
• 1:26:05
  I love it. God bless you guys and thanks a
• 1:26:06
  million. Appreciate you very much.
• 1:26:08
  God bless what you do Bye. Bye.
• 1:26:11
  All right, ladies and gentlemen, once again, if you didn't know,
• 1:26:13
  that was Debbie. She is in charge of American
• 1:26:18
  Family Organization, bringing veterans together to support one
• 1:26:26
  thing that we have in common, you know, transitioning back
• 1:26:30
  from war to home. That's that's that's what we
• 1:26:34
  have in common. All right, we're going to go on
• 1:26:36
  our next music break. Actually, instead of the music
• 1:26:39
  break, I'll tell you what we're going to do.
• 1:26:41
  We're going to go ahead and just go right to the Tribute to
• 1:26:44
  troops. And then when we come back, I
• 1:26:47
  think we're going to play word, burp word.
• 1:26:49
  Blurt We're Burr. You want a.
• 1:26:51
  Work blurt, Word blurt. We're we're going to do
• 1:26:54
  something fun. We're going.
• 1:26:55
  To have we're. Holly's here, We're going to do
• 1:26:57
  some fun. So whenever you stay with us,
• 1:26:59
  don't go away. You're listening to the morning
• 1:27:01
  wood show right here on the station.
• 1:27:04
  That's letting our veterans voices be heard.
• 1:27:06
  MBR detail attention. First, call.
• 1:27:17
  The service member's name is called out loud in the context
• 1:27:20
  of a unit. This is meant to ensure all are
• 1:27:23
  present and accounted for. Second, call, the name is called
• 1:27:27
  out again louder to confirm that the service member is indeed
• 1:27:31
  absent. Third.
• 1:27:32
  Call. The name is called out for a
• 1:27:35
  final time, followed by a statement indicating that the
• 1:27:38
  service member is not present and accounted for, signifying
• 1:27:41
  their death. The final roll call serves as a
• 1:27:44
  symbolic gesture to respect and remember their service.
• 1:27:53
  Sir, I don't. I don't know how to tell the
• 1:27:56
  story. Well, you got the joke.
• 1:27:59
  You telling there the people what these men did here.
• 1:28:03
  You tell them how much Hoopers died.
• 1:28:33
  Hey everyone, thank you for tuning in to MBR today as we pay
• 1:28:36
  tribute to Air Force veteran Avery Eugene Allen, 80, of
• 1:28:41
  Ulika, Oklahoma. Avery was born on September 8th,
• 1:28:44
  1944 in Forgo, North Dakota to parents Frank and Irma Allen.
• 1:28:50
  Avery was the youngest of three sons.
• 1:28:52
  He graduated from Alameda High School in 1962 in Denver, Co.
• 1:28:57
  He enlisted in the US Air Force where he was commissioned as a
• 1:29:01
  Captain and served in military intelligence with assignments in
• 1:29:05
  Japan, Pakistan, Denver, and Cheyenne.
• 1:29:09
  After his military service, Avery worked as an insurance
• 1:29:12
  underwriter and served as President of the Underwriters
• 1:29:15
  Union in Denver, Co. He returned to school to earn a
• 1:29:20
  master's degree in psychotherapy and worked for over 20 years as
• 1:29:24
  a psychotherapist for the Oklahoma Department of
• 1:29:27
  Corrections. At the Awashita Correctional
• 1:29:30
  Facility, now known as Jim E Hamilton Correctional Center, in
• 1:29:36
  Hodgdon, Oklahoma, Avery was a man of quiet integrity.
• 1:29:41
  Deep intellect and enduring love for his family.
• 1:29:44
  He was an avid. Reader and he cherished the open
• 1:29:47
  Rd. on his motorcycle, the view from a cockpit, capturing
• 1:29:52
  treasured photographs of his loved ones, researching his
• 1:29:55
  family roots, and adding to his prized coin and stamp
• 1:29:59
  collections. Avery Eugene Allen, 80, passed
• 1:30:04
  away peacefully at home in Houma, Oklahoma, on May. 29th,
• 1:30:08
  2025. After a long illness, he is
• 1:30:12
  survived by his wife Sarah Parker Allen, his three
• 1:30:16
  daughters Melissa Allen, Alona Allen, Bartleson Rachel Allen
• 1:30:22
  Goff, two brothers Spencer Allen and Kent Allen. 15
• 1:30:26
  grandchildren, 9 great grandchildren.
• 1:30:30
  We here at NPR would like to thank you, Avery Eugene Allen
• 1:30:33
  for your service and dedication to our.
• 1:30:35
  Country you leave a legacy of love and courage.
• 1:30:40
  Our prayers are with your family.
• 1:30:42
  Friends and those who served alongside you, you are.
• 1:30:46
  True in this belly tail.
• 1:31:08
  Tension ready. that's giving veterans a voice.
• 1:35:30
  Find us on the web at NB Radio dot opinions expressed in this
• 1:35:35
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• 1:35:40
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• 1:35:45
  all right and we are back and in the words of bad Holly good
• 1:35:50
  morning it's time to rise and sizzle You're listening to the
• 1:35:55
  morning with show right here on the station that's letting our
• 1:35:58
  veterans be heard. You're listening to MBR and we,
• 1:36:03
  we, we gave it to you in the last two weeks.
• 1:36:06
  It's back on popular demand. It is word blurb.
• 1:36:25
  is in case we have. Any new listeners so?
• 1:36:28
  We're going to come up with a random word.
• 1:36:30
  I am going to come up with a random word and you have to
• 1:36:33
  either the first thing that pops into your head, right?
• 1:36:38
  And don't be afraid to say it. You're going to see who is
• 1:36:41
  afraid to say it here shortly and you're going to see who or
• 1:36:47
  you can use it in a sentence. So like first, first thing that
• 1:36:51
  pops into your head like right word blurt, right blurt it,
• 1:36:54
  blurt it. Don't be afraid.
• 1:36:56
  And and really this is this this this whole scenario is to get
• 1:37:00
  you to say something kind of funny.
• 1:37:02
  So that's why I'm here. So our first.
• 1:37:09
  Word is fudge. Whack, fudge, whack, fudge,
• 1:37:14
  whack. Fickle.
• 1:37:20
  No. That was good, yeah.
• 1:37:22
  And I have no idea what fickle is.
• 1:37:24
  I just. Made-up a word.
• 1:37:26
  Fudge whack, fudge whack, I mean.
• 1:37:31
  My my my Dark Side's going Somewhere Crazy ice cream menu
• 1:37:39
  item. Fudge whack.
• 1:37:40
  It is like. Just absolutely disgusting.
• 1:37:44
  I need to. I need.
• 1:37:45
  To fully. Come to that thought.
• 1:37:48
  That that's where I'm, that's where I'm at, too.
• 1:37:51
  Going dark places. Miss Vicki's hiding.
• 1:37:57
  This is where. We got to get a camera on her.
• 1:37:58
  She's. Hiding she's.
• 1:38:01
  Putting her, I know you want to say fudge whack.
• 1:38:04
  I mean, I, I, I like I said the dark part, it wants to speak,
• 1:38:11
  but I'm suppressing. Think of it as as something else
• 1:38:16
  you could say. Instead of.
• 1:38:20
  All right, Miss Vicky, you ready?
• 1:38:22
  You're not. Yeah, the beep, you know.
• 1:38:25
  A A gentle, explicit way to say when things go sideways.
• 1:38:35
  I know it's so really when I what's going to be.
• 1:38:37
  Funny. Is is a new terminology, right?
• 1:38:42
  Like I can new slang. Yeah.
• 1:38:43
  Like, oh, like you're rizzy. You're like fudge.
• 1:38:48
  Whack, fudge, whack. Fudge Packer.
• 1:39:00
  That's true. He's.
• 1:39:01
  Talking about the chocolate. I'm telling you.
• 1:39:04
  I'm talking to you about the Green Bay.
• 1:39:06
  Packers Chocolate. Yeah, Packers.
• 1:39:07
  Chocolate. Yeah, the Packers chocolate.
• 1:39:09
  There you go. Oh, OK.
• 1:39:12
  You ready for the next one? Next one.
• 1:39:13
  OK, Miss Vicki, Get. Close to that microphone.
• 1:39:16
  OK, here we go. Dizzy.
• 1:39:18
  Drip her face. You gotta see her face.
• 1:39:24
  Dizzy drip for the listeners. Out there, Miss Vicki is
• 1:39:26
  covering her face. I'm not sure if it's shame yet,
• 1:39:30
  because she's afraid to say what she really wants to say.
• 1:39:33
  Go Gomez, Vicki, Go Gomez, Vicki, go.
• 1:39:36
  I was going to say the the sib. That's like another term for
• 1:39:40
  going. And taking a swim while you're
• 1:39:42
  drunk. The dizzy dip A dizzy skinny
• 1:39:45
  dipping is when you swim naked. It's dizzy dip.
• 1:39:48
  You're swimming drunk. That's that's.
• 1:39:50
  What we're calling it. OK, alright.
• 1:39:52
  A drunk swim. Drunk swim.
• 1:39:54
  OK, there you go. Can you see yourself?
• 1:40:00
  Saying that randomly just to see somebody's facial expression.
• 1:40:05
  You dizzy dipping be like what you you hired me.
• 1:40:14
  All right, this one's going to be a fun one, and I'm waiting
• 1:40:17
  for Miss Vicki on this one. Oh.
• 1:40:19
  Yeah, Chris Forbes is up. Whoop, whoop.
• 1:40:24
  All right, one more. Our last one and.
• 1:40:29
  Chill pickle, chill pickle. Sit on your hands.
• 1:40:38
  OK. Right, visitors, I've done.
• 1:40:44
  I've done that. To a couple.
• 1:40:46
  Of interns sit on your. Hands sit on your.
• 1:40:48
  Hands and be a chill. Yeah, you, you chill.
• 1:40:51
  You relax. Sit on your hands.
• 1:40:55
  Not sit on the thumb, but sit on your hands.
• 1:40:57
  There's a difference. I'm thinking of like a food item
• 1:41:01
  now, like you're like a frozen. Like a frozen dill pickle.
• 1:41:07
  Like there's some. Places that have.
• 1:41:09
  Frozen bananas. Oh, that's, that's like beaches
• 1:41:11
  that's got frozen Pickles, do you think?
• 1:41:14
  Dill and vanilla would. Go good together.
• 1:41:17
  She can't. Hear you or chocolate.
• 1:41:19
  Hey, hey, Chris. Try refreshing.
• 1:41:21
  Sometimes. Sometimes.
• 1:41:23
  That helps, he says he. Can't hear us sometimes.
• 1:41:25
  I'll talk louder. Yeah, you know, I know chocolate
• 1:41:28
  and orange chocolate. And orange, those are good.
• 1:41:31
  That's a good flavor. Combo When would?
• 1:41:34
  You tell someone to be a chill. Pickle.
• 1:41:35
  Miss Vicky? Yeah.
• 1:41:42
  I don't know if you said that to like one of your like your son,
• 1:41:46
  I would. I'd put that in.
• 1:41:47
  Your yeah, your word pocket. I know.
• 1:41:51
  I'm I'm going to say chill pickle.
• 1:41:53
  To somebody. This week and I'm going to film
• 1:41:55
  it. Sound good?
• 1:41:57
  That's it. That's a good idea you get
• 1:42:00
  right? That's a good idea, right?
• 1:42:01
  Got to start using it now. In the world, yeah.
• 1:42:04
  So we got what? What were?
• 1:42:05
  Our words fudge, whack, that's. The first one, yes.
• 1:42:09
  Something dizzy? Dip.
• 1:42:11
  Dizzy dip. Yeah, dizzy dip.
• 1:42:13
  Dizzy. Dizzy drip, Dizzy drip.
• 1:42:16
  Dizzy. Drip, dizzy.
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  Drip and wait. Fudge, Whack.
• 1:42:20
  Dizzy. Drip.
• 1:42:21
  And our last one was, yes, Jill Pickle.
• 1:42:28
  Well, I freaking fudge whacked that second.
• 1:42:31
  One I thought it was dizzy dip. Dizzy drip fudge fudge whack.
• 1:42:34
  The dizzy. I thought it was dizzy dip.
• 1:42:37
  The whole time not dizzy drip I I fudge whacked it.
• 1:42:40
  Man, Fudge whacked it. I fudge whacked it.
• 1:42:45
  You never going to say. That a lot now.
• 1:42:47
  That's a new We need one of those buttons like Pee Wee
• 1:42:50
  Herman, the word of the day. Fudge Wack.
• 1:42:58
  Man, I miss it. I miss that TV show.
• 1:43:00
  I don't know. Why?
• 1:43:01
  But I miss that TV show. I like the intro.
• 1:43:03
  Yeah. Yeah, the intro was awesome.
• 1:43:06
  Did you know Cindy? Lapper did the.
• 1:43:08
  Intro to that I did. Did you know that, Sidney?
• 1:43:12
  Loughner did like the. Intro of Goonies.
• 1:43:15
  Really. Yeah.
• 1:43:17
  In fact, In fact, I'm told there's three sequels coming
• 1:43:23
  out. Goonies 2.
• 1:43:26
  I heard about that. Yeah, I heard about that.
• 1:43:29
  Spaceballs. Two what and.
• 1:43:33
  Then the Happy Gilmore 2 that's coming out, this like the most
• 1:43:39
  recent? Yeah, and like the preview of
• 1:43:42
  it. I don't think it looks very I.
• 1:43:44
  It looks like just a a regurgitated second plot movie,
• 1:43:50
  just like Happy Gilmore 1. You know, Miss Vicky, Have you
• 1:43:53
  seen Spaceballs a long time? Ago space.
• 1:43:59
  OK. All right, well, at.
• 1:44:00
  Least you've seen that you. Know I don't remember it, but I
• 1:44:03
  saw it. Oh yeah, yeah, the hey, I don't
• 1:44:06
  remember. Deliverance but I.
• 1:44:08
  Know I saw it, don't. Make me watch that again.
• 1:44:12
  He runs when he sees a banjo or he sees a banjo and yeah.
• 1:44:16
  So I I don't think I've met Chris.
• 1:44:19
  Forbes yet he's he's a friend with you.
• 1:44:21
  I I became friends with him on Facebook recently.
• 1:44:25
  I love his posts. They, they, they're very
• 1:44:28
  motivating. You know, I tell you, if you
• 1:44:31
  really want a great life, get with three people that have
• 1:44:37
  motivation going through life that won't let you, that won't
• 1:44:43
  let you slip into that dark. Well, and you can do a lot of
• 1:44:47
  shit with three people that will constantly motivate.
• 1:44:51
  I I came in here this morning like, and then Holly was like,
• 1:44:55
  come on, get, let's go. So, yeah, you know, that's what
• 1:45:00
  I say. Sizzle.
• 1:45:01
  Yeah. Hey, look, it's it's, it's OK to
• 1:45:04
  be depressed. One day, but after that, one
• 1:45:07
  day. After that, you, you know, kind
• 1:45:09
  of quit having to quit acting like a victim.
• 1:45:12
  You know, you just got to you got to adapt and overcome and
• 1:45:16
  then, you know, just push the control through.
• 1:45:18
  So that's that's what I'm doing, you know, happy to be your
• 1:45:23
  people. Yes, yes, most definitely.
• 1:45:26
  Forbes here. Because he's he's part of.
• 1:45:28
  Sensation design. He does embroidery.
• 1:45:32
  And he is going to soon to be a boom.
• 1:45:36
  That's what's up, buddy. Sensation, design sensation.
• 1:45:40
  And and he's super talented. And you, you have a logo and he
• 1:45:44
  has all the he, he knows what kind of effect and what logos
• 1:45:48
  are going to do what. So it's, it's, it's not an easy,
• 1:45:52
  it's not an easy process for people to go through, you know,
• 1:45:55
  small businesses and stuff. That's what want want to get
• 1:45:57
  merch as you know, right? That's the truth.
• 1:46:00
  I want, I wanted to learn embroidering.
• 1:46:02
  So I bought me one of those. Epson, you know, embroidering
• 1:46:05
  machines that you use like EPS, Yeah, it didn't last very long.
• 1:46:09
  You know, this is the man right here.
• 1:46:12
  And we're, well, I, I can't wait to announce when he's going to
• 1:46:15
  be on. The show it is you know, Chris,
• 1:46:17
  you can call or we can boof we we can there you go happy on
• 1:46:20
  screen. Get him on interview, get him on
• 1:46:23
  in. Studio.
• 1:46:25
  He also does. He's like I could help.
• 1:46:27
  He also does pet transport now is.
• 1:46:29
  He a veteran as well. He is not a veteran.
• 1:46:32
  He's not a veteran, OK? He's not a.
• 1:46:33
  Veteran, but all right, he he does he.
• 1:46:36
  Does a lot. I know he does a lot seeing his
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  Facebook page. His Facebook page made me think
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  that. He was a veteran.
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  Chris, thank you for all that you do for veterans and 1st
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  responders, especially your motivation on your on your page.
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  You know, right. He's giving us love.
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  Yeah, I mean, and, and that's the thing too.
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  Like even just helping out. Showing up and and and
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  commenting and that that boosts us more than you have.
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  Yeah. I mean, right now we're we're,
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  we're. Crushing some views.
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  On some different platforms here.
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  So if that's, that's like the cheapest way that you could
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  support too. So yeah, share us, comment,
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  follow us. And and if, like you said, I'm
• 1:47:18
  I'm trying to get Miss Vicki to blush and say something funny,
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  you know, because she's because when she gets when she gets
• 1:47:26
  ready to let it out, man, she says some good stuff and it's
• 1:47:30
  going to happen. It's going to happen.
• 1:47:32
  Told us when we met her the gut punches.
• 1:47:36
  I love it, the liver shots. And Tracer.
• 1:47:41
  Tracer is. Watching us, I appreciate it.
• 1:47:44
  She, she's making a phone call to one of the skydiving places
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  as and until she tells me to stop.
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  I'll I'll go ahead and put it out there that, you know, if
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  you're a first responder, you're a veteran and you would like to
• 1:47:58
  do that jump July 4th, you know, send us your, send us your
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  testimony. Send us your, you know, your
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  essay on why does it jump mean so much to you?
• 1:48:11
  So we're going to we're going to keep pushing and hopefully
• 1:48:16
  everything comes together. They still got some time.
• 1:48:18
  Yeah, we've still got some time. We've still got some time all.
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  Right, so ladies and. Gentlemen, we're going to go on
• 1:48:25
  another music break and then once we're off of this music
• 1:48:28
  break, when we come back, we're going to be hitting the final
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  thoughts, going through some news details.
• 1:48:36
  Unless Holly has another game this Holly I might.
• 1:48:42
  Oh, there we go. So whatever you do, stay with
• 1:48:44
  this, don't go away. You're listening.
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  To the morning. Wood show right here on the
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  station that's letting your veterans voices be heard.
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  of any entities they represent. All right then we're back ladies
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  heard. Hey, check this out.
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  So we have we have some news that you want to drop real quick
• 1:54:05
  and then did you have another game or did you want to go right
• 1:54:07
  into final thoughts? Oh goodness, he just rolled in
• 1:54:10
  here. We're over here talking and he's
• 1:54:12
  just. One of my Hollywood spots, You
• 1:54:16
  know, I don't have any news. I think we're just.
• 1:54:18
  Going to go into our final thoughts.
• 1:54:19
  All right, ladies and gentlemen, it is that time.
• 1:54:22
  It is a final thoughts. 54433211 we have ignition strapping, it's
• 1:54:32
  the two-minute warning, minute warning, what we earned today.
• 1:54:34
  Are you not entertained at Project ML?
• 1:54:45
  Gratitude. Our mission is simple, to give
• 1:54:48
  motorcycles. To veterans who need the kind of
• 1:54:50
  peace and. Freedom that only a.
• 1:54:51
  Ride can give all right if you don't know about ML gratitude.
• 1:54:57
  ML Gratitude. Is a nonprofit organization
• 1:55:00
  that's dedication focused on providing a veteran a free
• 1:55:05
  motorcycle at least one time every year.
• 1:55:10
  And so far since 2020, they've given AI Believe 21 motorcycles.
• 1:55:16
  So that's that's incredible. So I and she just recently won
• 1:55:22
  the hometown hero award that was provided by I I believe it was
• 1:55:27
  Fox Fox 31, but I don't really remember what channel.
• 1:55:32
  But congratulations to Kim on that once again.
• 1:55:37
  So we'll start with the events. Vicki, what did you learn today?
• 1:55:41
  Well, let's see what I learned. I learned.
• 1:55:52
  I learned not to relax. Relax.
• 1:55:57
  Around how? Because I had no idea.
• 1:56:02
  You know everything. Happened to that.
• 1:56:05
  I wasn't wondering anything and I'm.
• 1:56:09
  Slightly. Embarrassed and really a little
• 1:56:14
  bit no way embarrassed about. What?
• 1:56:16
  But not knowing. The answers do anything.
• 1:56:20
  No, I. Don't know the answers either, I
• 1:56:22
  was just. Making.
• 1:56:23
  Up shit. Yeah, we love how real you are.
• 1:56:28
  That's why we're like, yeah, get back here.
• 1:56:33
  I'm sorry. I'm embarrassed.
• 1:56:34
  You miss Mickey. That's OK.
• 1:56:35
  I'm also. Just guessing over here.
• 1:56:38
  We've got someone over here that's trying to find the right.
• 1:56:40
  Answers, yeah, so we appreciate. You for being here.
• 1:56:43
  Thank you. Isn't it?
• 1:56:45
  Isn't it amazing like the? The more sturdier you are when
• 1:56:51
  you talk or just, you know, say it real fast, like with
• 1:56:55
  conviction, like people are like, how did you know that?
• 1:56:59
  Like they don't even know, you know?
• 1:57:01
  Yeah, I, you know, I, I like random.
• 1:57:06
  Stuff, I really do. It's the surprise of life,
• 1:57:10
  right? And if it's not, it's, it's,
• 1:57:13
  it's something that kind of just jolts you out of your like, what
• 1:57:18
  do you call it? Just your everyday, everyday,
• 1:57:21
  you know, your, your, your tunnel mode.
• 1:57:23
  And, and when stuff like that kind of comes up in that,
• 1:57:26
  especially that word blur, it makes you think.
• 1:57:29
  So what I, I have a lot of family members that have had
• 1:57:33
  dementia and all that stuff. So I'm, I'm like acute to like,
• 1:57:37
  you know, all the stuff that, you know, keep this sucker
• 1:57:40
  sizzling, right? So I love it.
• 1:57:44
  I love, I love stuff that makes you think.
• 1:57:46
  And so there's no wrong answer. There's no wrong answer.
• 1:57:50
  Oh. That's different.
• 1:57:54
  That's. Different.
• 1:57:56
  I'll be ready the next. Time.
• 1:57:57
  All right. All right.
• 1:57:59
  Caveman, what did you learn? Today.
• 1:58:03
  Stand up for what you're doing. Have some some honor.
• 1:58:06
  Behind it, because Debbie Man had the fire coming here on the
• 1:58:09
  phone, man, you could. You could hear it in her voice.
• 1:58:14
  She didn't even need. To be in the studio, you could
• 1:58:15
  Debbie is the woman. That if she ran through a brick
• 1:58:19
  wall. Like she looked like she would
• 1:58:23
  go through the the hole would look pre cut.
• 1:58:25
  Yeah, yeah. I could see her, Yeah, she's
• 1:58:28
  always. Been like that, yeah, the
• 1:58:30
  passion and the power in your voice and your and your
• 1:58:33
  conviction and. And just the so much I, I have,
• 1:58:38
  I have just have so much respect for what you do, you know, and,
• 1:58:42
  and I can tell you it's, it's not every day that you see a, a,
• 1:58:46
  a human that is truly in there, you know, here, here on the
• 1:58:51
  planet to do a specific thing. And we got.
• 1:58:54
  To witness a really cool testimonial today and yeah, that
• 1:58:59
  just. It's cool, very cool.
• 1:59:02
  You see a lot of people talk, but you don't see them do the
• 1:59:05
  walk. That's that's that's what.
• 1:59:07
  You're getting at, you know, and the, the thing that I learned
• 1:59:12
  today is man, I'm getting old. Like I, you know, she brought it
• 1:59:17
  up 20 years, like NBR 20 years. I've only had NBR since 2018.
• 1:59:22
  But like, you know, like when I took my dog into the vet, you
• 1:59:27
  know, and we saw the, you know, the, the main vet that, you
• 1:59:31
  know, Barrett was born with that vet.
• 1:59:35
  I looked at my wife and I'm like, man, I'm glad I'm not the
• 1:59:38
  only one getting old. Like he had a perfect frost
• 1:59:41
  right on his hair. And it's just, it's amazing the,
• 1:59:47
  the, the stuff that we do today, like nonprofit wise, if we don't
• 1:59:53
  look at it as a job, it's, it's a job, but we don't look at it
• 1:59:56
  as a job. So that's, that's what I've,
• 1:59:59
  that's what I've learned. Once again, everybody if you
• 2:00:02
  didn't. Realize again, July 12th is a
• 2:00:07
  car show. Douglas Fairground MBR will be
• 2:00:11
  on site and it sounds like Holly is going to grace us with her
• 2:00:16
  presence, maybe do some autographs.
• 2:00:18
  So with that being said, and can't get Caveman's autograph
• 2:00:22
  because it's going to be in Mexico.
• 2:00:24
  I'm going to be in a basketball tournament.
• 2:00:26
  There we go, I. Got I got all the residents.
• 2:00:30
  To draw and sign stuff on my on my shoes that I'm wearing so.
• 2:00:34
  Oh nice, doing a little shout out to all the residents and
• 2:00:38
  stuff. Nice.
• 2:00:40
  Well, I think that's that wraps our show.
• 2:00:43
  Up today and remember, we're going to be here every Friday at
• 2:00:47
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• 2:00:53
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• 2:00:57
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