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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome. Welcome.
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It is time broadcasting from not only Denver, Co, but from
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Pennsylvania too. Ladies and gentlemen, it is the
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first time that the A Strange Show has been on since 2022.
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Welcome. And MJ, MJ is my guest Co host.
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MJ was in the Air Force and you know, she had she had a bunch of
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missions that she can't talk about it.
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But MJ, I'm, I'm glad that you're here with me.
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I am so excited. HI Mean the man behind the myth.
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I am jumping right on this mic with you today.
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I couldn't wait for that honor. I'm so happy to be here and so
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excited for some of these these guests and things that we're
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going to talk about. I'm excited and thank you so
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much for having me. Of course, of course.
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So everybody, if you just now tuning in, the 8 Strange Show
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hasn't been on the air for a while.
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And I'm like, you know, what the hell, let's do this.
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But you're tuning them to the 8 Strange Show, where we're back
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on track with a mission and navigating resources, sharing
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stories, giving veterans a voice.
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I'm your host H, And today we're firing on all cylinders with a
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powerful lineup joining me as a special guest.
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You've seen her around. You've heard her voice on her
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network. MJ is in the building I'm.
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Here. Yep, and you already know it.
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And now the moment you we've been hyping up Spotlight on a
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new artist, making waves, telling the truth for music,
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using his platform to inspire. Doug Wilde will be with us the
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the second hour he's going to be in the house.
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We're going to be talking to him and we're playing his latest
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track that has already made an impact across the veteran music
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community. So, you know, let's just let's
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just dive in. So MJ, how are you this morning?
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Like I. Am soaking wet.
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We've had 20 days of rain and and 23 days.
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We look like a wet muskrat up here.
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You know what the, the weather here in Colorado has really been
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bipolar. It doesn't know if it wants to
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be winter or summer, you know, and every time I every time
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there's Groundhog's Day and I see that Groundhog, I always
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want to hit, you know, you're talking about hitting the
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quacker. I want to hear the groundhogs
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there. You.
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Know OK, wait, this is for everybody out there.
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So yeah, we have this new little promotion of coming through the
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the military broadcast and of course we're about the ducks.
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But every time I said I, I come online, I go that duck says well
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welcome quack. And I'm like, are you calling me
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a quack? I said I have some real
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relationships with this duck. Yeah, talking, talking about the
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relationship is as as complicated as the VA, let me
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tell you. Well, we're.
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Not going to go there. Hey, hey, so getting down and
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dirty right into the things lay we want we want to bring up a a
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mail call. Mail call is the time that we
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kind of spotlight a veteran, you know, somebody that's doing the
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right thing. They don't know that we're
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spotlighting. And you know, to today's
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spotlight, what I'm going to do is, is Joe Golden.
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Joe Golden is a commander or he's a former VFW commander.
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He's been through some stuff in the last year or so, but he's
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always striving to do things for veterans.
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And, you know, that's the, that's the, that's the thing
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that we need to do. You know, I, I saw him on a
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TikTok not too long ago about a guy coming on and says, look,
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you know, we have this nice little military TikTok
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community, but it's not just one person, you know, don't, don't,
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don't tag the same person every time something comes up.
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There's a lot of veterans out there doing a lot of good things
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and then needs to be highlighted.
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You know, that's so it's so easy to do things for yourself.
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But yeah, when you do stuff for other people, it needs to really
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be highlighted. I don't know about you, but I
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find that helping other people rather than doing stuff on my
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own. Why?
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But when I'm trying to do stuff for myself, it's a lot harder.
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I don't know why, but from from when I gather, every veteran
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feels that way. I think because veterans are
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service to others. And so when we when we have
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service to self, it doesn't feel right because we're supposed to
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be given to others. That is our our purpose.
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Our life purpose is service to others.
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And I think that in, in, in our insides, we don't feel that
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worthiness because maybe we're not taught that, but we are
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worthy. And so are you, especially you
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with this station. So I think that's where it comes
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from. But it's all good.
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And I like this. I like that we're opening up and
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and joining because when you join forces and you network
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around the world, it's a big, beautiful party.
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It really is. It really is.
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You know, when I talked to like I talked to Magic Mike yesterday
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and he kind of had on the show and you know, we, we, we
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emphasize it every year. And I don't know if we need to
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emphasize it, but we emphasize it every year that, hey, look
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there, there's nothing happy about Memorial Day.
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It's just plain Memorial Day. You know, Memorial Day is for
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those that lost their lives and battle and stuff.
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That is, that's who we honor Veteran's Day, you know, so, so
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many holidays and. Thank you.
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Yeah, that's and so many people they they get, I don't want to
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say butt hurt, but they get aggravated when, you know, they
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they do something a civilian comes up to them and says, hey,
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you know, thank you for your service.
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And you know, we get, you know, we get mad or something, you
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know, and you know, it's look. We can twist that.
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Yeah, civilian. Just.
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Yeah, thank you so much. But today, today I'm moderate,
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my brothers of arms and my sisters of arms who has lost
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their life. And I appreciate what you're
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saying. But today I really or this
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weekend, it's about those who gave off, really gave off.
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Right. Yeah.
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And I'm just letting you know, all those veterans out there
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know. OK, Then somebody comes up to
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you and says, hey, hey, Happy veteran's day or, you know, a
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happy Memorial Day or or, you know, something of that nature
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this weekend. Don't get upset.
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Yeah, don't don't even try to don't even try to explain to
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your, you know, to them what the difference is.
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You're welcome. Just yeah, just hey, I
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appreciate the support. You know, his chances are they
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just want to say thank you for, you know, for dealing with the
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stuff that you deal with, with the VA and all this other stuff.
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You know, we have a lot of battles that that passed away,
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you know, and we go to meet them Memorial Day.
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So not only are civilians saying thank you to us, but, you know,
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maybe they're in a way of saying thank you for the sacrifice you
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and your battle buddy's made, you know, So keep that in mind.
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The before we go on break, the three things that we need to
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know here in the local Denver area is city budget crisis.
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Denver faces a $250 million budget shortfall, prompting
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Mayor Mike Johnson to implement layoffs, furloughs and hiring
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freeze. Public safety departments are
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largely exempt, but other services, including homelessness
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initiatives, made significant cuts.
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And then the other so many. Cuts.
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Huh. Where the?
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Cuts. Well, see, that's the same thing
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everyone talks about but they don't like.
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They don't explain what the cuts are.
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You know what? Are you cutting?
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I hope you're not cutting my station buddy out there in
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Denver, right? And then a new Art Center has
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just opened up historic 1940s fortune cookie factory.
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And Denver has been transformed into a contemporary art gallery.
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Opening May 24th, the space will feature immersive expedition
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exhibit, exhibit, whatever you got.
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You guys don't want to talk by local artists, OK?
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Shop little shops. And those are just some of the
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things that are happening in in Denver.
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What what is now me and Jay, you're in Pennsylvania.
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What are what are some of the things that are happening in
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that your area that some people might not be aware of?
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So we always have parades in Pennsylvania.
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All these little small towns that we have up here, they
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gather the military members in their areas and they always
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parade. They parade with whatever is
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dominant. So if it's Army, then they have
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the tanks going. If it's Air Force, they try to
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get some type of aircraft or something.
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But it's really a nice thing and they all band together with
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their flags and all the armed forces.
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Now, I haven't been up here. This is my first time back in
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Pennsylvania since I left for the military, so it's going to
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be a wild ride for us. I'm going to go to Waverly
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because that VFW is putting on a parade and I believe it starts
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at 8:30. I have to, I have to go back and
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look. But hold on, hold on cuz I got
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it. I can't.
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I know I have it front and center.
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So it is. It's a good thing Pennsylvania.
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So anyway, so I'm not going to monkey with that because I'm
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slow, very slow. I'm not a techy swabby guy girl.
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But so and then on top of that, the American Legions up here are
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having beautiful supports for the for the families.
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So get to your American Legions or get to your VFW's in
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Pennsylvania, because almost all of them are having some type.
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Oh, you always do, yeah. Right, have some type of
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ceremony, the ones at the grave. There are numerous veteran
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highway or veteran memorial parks that always have the
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military bands, even the pipers, the Fife and pipes, drums.
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Oh, I love them. They're always in like Philly.
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They're like in those big ones, even like close to me is New
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York. I'm only 12 miles away from New
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York. And even in New York they bring
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the pipers out, right. Ah, it's beautiful.
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If you've never seen it with the Scottish Pipers, you got it, you
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got to go. OK, You know, I've been to New
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York, NY before. I don't know if it changes and
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like, you know, different regions of the state, but I
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wasn't really impressed with New York, to be honest.
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I'm going to. Cut you off, man.
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I know about Cut You Off because New York has a really bad name
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because of Hollywood celebs and all of them at New York City.
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But you get into the Adirondacks and you get up to the Finger
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Lakes and you get up to the most beautiful parts of New York
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where it's just mountains and wildlife.
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You will be in awe at the beauty of that state.
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I agree with you that that southeastern corner kind of is
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like that's too much. For me, there's no customer
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service there. It's it's a little bit radical
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over there and I stay far. Far that is.
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That's a big that's like I want to say that's about 5 hours,
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four or five hours from me. I'm more like, you know, the
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wineries, the chill relaxers, you know, goes at Watkins Glen.
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That's me. That's that.
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I'm that kind of foresty girl. So the outer on decks, I always
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tell buddy, go where do you see how much milk and curds up there
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with the Amish. This is beautiful.
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Well, hey, MJ, I'm so glad that you're here.
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Ladies and gentlemen, it is our first break that we're going to
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go to. And when we come back, we're
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going to, you know, usually what we do is the what the, what the
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subject. And instead of doing like the
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what the subject we're going to, we're going to go over some
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details, some details about what you can do this weekend, details
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about what the heck does this holiday mean to you.
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And we're going to take questions and comments from the
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listeners when we're back. You're listening to the H train
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show right here on the station that's living our veterans
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voices be heard. You're listening to MBR.
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Now I got to find now I got to find this.
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There we go. Let's.
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represent the web at MB radio dot All right let's jump we're
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back. You're listening to the ace
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train show where we're here we show all veterans all the
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programs out there beyond the VA right here on the station that's
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letting our veterans voices be heard MBR and you know usually
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at this time, usually they play a video you know a silly video
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we talk about it and we play you know drop the mic and we talk
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about it. But since it's Memorial Day, I
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thought, you know instead of us playing a a video we would
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simply talk about what memorial means to us.
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You know what it means to me, what it means to MJ.
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And you know of of all things, I tell you what one person I
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should have spotlighted on this show is, is my best friend
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Brock. And you know, Brock Brock died
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exactly on May on May 31st, 2006.
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And you know, I tell you, this is just what I go through on
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Memorial Day so that people kind of understand.
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So as soon as I get up on Memorial Day, mji find myself,
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you know, saying to myself almost every day, why me?
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You know, I'm not I'm not I'm nobody special.
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Why did I why am I here and they are not, you know, and
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constantly, every single day when I do stuff for veterans and
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when I when I try to do stuff, you know, some of those stuff
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that I do for veterans, I'll I'll raise my hand up.
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You know, I, I'm not successful. I, I'm successful and following
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up and, and keeping motivated and, and keep on, you know,
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helping them. But, you know, sometimes I'm not
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successful. Sometimes we, we go 8-9 months
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and they have to get with somebody else.
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And then when they get with somebody else, you know, they,
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they get that help and that's OK.
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That's good because as humans we forget that sometimes.
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What you say, somebody else will say and that the other person
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will just get it. They'll just get it.
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It's it's kind of like a coach, you know?
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And that's not meaning that they don't listen to you.
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It's just meaning that you know, they're, they're, they, they,
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they know you, they're, they're, they're comfortable with you.
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And one thing I've found out, when you're comfortable with
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somebody, it's hard to take their advice.
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So it's a comfort. So first and foremost, you are
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very successful. And everybody, when you have
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those types of days, Please remember you are a successor
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because those down days are the days that actually give you a
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brighter idea, like the beginning of the H trade show.
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And I love it because he has this beautiful phoenix rising
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and that's what it is. So when you feel that you're not
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successful, you really are, you flip that pattern in here and
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you're like, no, I really. Because that's I wasn't supposed
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to go that way. They're forcing me to go this
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way. And then that creates just an
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embodiment of that much more energetic power and frequencies
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to help us go forward. Now when we have to say they, it
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should have been me, not him. OK, that's an attachment that we
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need to heal. We need to heal the attachment
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because one soul for another doesn't, doesn't doesn't work
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right, because that's his journey and that's not your
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journey. So we have to remember each of
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us are on our own journey, even as warriors leave no man behind.
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I get it, man, I get it. And man, when you see that and
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you see that trauma and you see that friend go, you're like,
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why? Why we're questioning an
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ultimate universe that is destined for that person.
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So I don't necessarily say that a Memorial Day.
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I just give my heart, body and soul an awareness of thank you
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thank you thank you for protecting me even though you
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were here before I even existed on on this plane and you still
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made it safe for me to be here. You still honored that I was
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going to arrive and in their minds of veterans and those
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people who are your warriors and your night Templars.
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I truly believe they would more honors saying thank you.
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Thank you for honoring me even though you weren't here.
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And I understand that. I mean, it goes hundreds of
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years back, so as hundreds, and I'm going to thank all of them
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even though I'm not hundreds of years old.
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Why? Because they created this safe
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haven for me. That's how I think.
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If there's anybody watching or comments or if you would like to
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call the, the total text line that talk, the that is
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720-619-0627. Feel free to call in express
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yourself. What well, you know what, MJ,
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what are your, what are your plans for Memorial Day?
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I think you kind of told us a little bit earlier, but, you
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know, I just wanted to, I just, I just wanted to find out, you
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know, like what, what, what are you and Oz plan on doing?
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So there is in Waverly, I told you there's a parade and I
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wanted to go and kind of give some clips of the parade and do
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a short take on my channel, which is the the world of
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conscious positive thinking to let you know that NBR
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Broadcasting or NB Radio is broadcasting.
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And we support no matter where you are in this beautiful United
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States or around the world, we are here to support you.
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And we hope to have an army ourselves of MBR people so that
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you can get a glimpse and eclipse of them.
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And that's what we're going to do.
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I haven't yet to put just because of my life and how it's
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been, I haven't been able to go to a memorial at some cemeteries
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or memorial parks in such a long time that I told Ozzy and I both
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said, let's let's go give thanks.
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And I said absolutely, I'm in it.
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So I'm going to go pick up my mom, who is about an hour and 40
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minutes away, bring her back up to the mountain and let her see
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the memorials up here that they do versus down in her little
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hometown. So we have a, we have somebody
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who said, I like Ike, did you see that?
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Yeah, too many. Let's let's put that on the
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screen a little bit more. It says too many friends gone
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from the effects of bullshit we endured fighting to keep us all
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free. There's there's definitely help
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out there. Yeah, I agree.
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You know, and you know, the thing about it is like, I don't
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think it's just the combat that that gets us.
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I think it, you know, we, we have, everybody has trauma.
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We have trauma like right before we go in and then when we go in,
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it just makes it worse, you know, So when you come back and
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so that people understand, you know, it's not just like the
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PTSD and, and like the combat and all that stuff.
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But when your brain is clicked like that, when your brains
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click like that, you know, it's just, it's just triggers this
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like anxiety thing, you know, and I'm going to try to, I'm
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going to try to describe this anxiety thing as best as I could
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before we had to go on break. But the anxiety thing is, it's
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almost like you, you eat 13 snicker bars and drink a
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Mountain Dew. You know how you got that, that
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fight, that constant heartbeat. And you know, I'm talking
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talking to civilians here, you know, like 1.
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Thing. Stop snicker bars.
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Well, you know, I'm just saying, you know, I'm trying to let
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everybody understand like that. That's the feeling that.
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Well, sugar rush. Yeah, that's the, you know, and
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you just got it like somebody kind of thing, you know,
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reenacting of Beavis and Butt Head.
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But you you just, you have to find ways to heal that.
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And Memorial Weekend is normally that that weekend, that
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celebration that triggers this. Yeah, I, I came back on.
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What's that say? It's the struggle to get the
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benefits we're supposed to. An illegal alien gets 3400 a
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month immediately and we have to fight together, OK.
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Well, that, that I, I think they're improving that every
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day. They're improving that every
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day, you know, and. Different procedures, different
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ways of people thinking. I understand.
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I understand, Ike. And so let's just know that it
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will be balanced. It will get balanced.
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And those who think that they have been forgotten, they
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haven't because we're always here.
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But if we can't see you, you also have to reach, right?
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We have to do our due diligence and we have to make sure that we
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stand tall and we stand proud. And we all have to understand
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that honor. But I get you, Ike.
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I get you. And.
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You know, I, I, there's a lot of things happening every single
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day that's improving, you know, and the one thing that I, I
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hate, and I think it's, and when I say the social media, it's
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because the shit's not dated. Like you'll hear some
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information, OK, And then you'll be like, OK, when was this, that
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this has happened before? And then you find out that it
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was like last year or something. So people, you know, if, if
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you're getting your information off of social media, which I'm
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I'm sure there's a lot, if you're getting information, just
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remember that sometimes that shit's not updated.
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Sometimes that shit's like two or three weeks old.
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OK, So you know, don't freak out.
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The first thing that you want to do when you read something is
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check and see when it was. Or even if it's.
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True, you know, or even if it's true, you know, I know one thing
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about ChatGPT, you can put that in and send it to ChatGPT and
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ChatGPT will will make everything.
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Yeah, yeah. Break it down Barney's style,
31:29
but then they'll give you a picture of you with a Barney
31:32
going like this Barney. I love teach.
31:38
Teach me to ask if her advice ever again.
31:43
Hey before we before we go on to break.
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I just wanted to run by these the, the, the, the events.
31:56
We'll go over the events show quid before we go on break
31:58
because we're coming up on well, I guess we need to take the
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break now. Never mind.
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All right, we're going to go on break.
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And once again, you're listening to the ace train show where here
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all we're trying to do is show veterans all the programs out
32:17
there beyond the VA. This is a special Memorial Day.
32:21
We even have eye candy on today. You know what about me?
32:26
Our eye candy. So this next song we're going to
32:31
be playing, this is the individual that we're going to
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be having on today, actually. So whatever you do, stay with
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us. Don't go away.
32:40
Here is Doug Wilde, warrior. The station where our veterans
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voices are heard. MBR talk.
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Hey thanks for tuning. In Welcome back are those of the
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speakers and do not necessarily reflect the views or.
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Positions of any entities they represent.
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The web at NB radio dot. All right, ladies and gentlemen,
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we are back and once again you're listening to the 8
38:24
Strange show here on MBR and my special Co host is MJMJI.
38:34
Really appreciate you coming on, you know, and, and, and just
38:38
just proud just talking. I am so proud, so honored.
38:43
I would be here in a heartbeat for any of my veterans,
38:45
especially here on NB Radio who opened up their hearts.
38:49
And it's just, it's an honor. It's an honor.
38:52
And I see that Zai is is checking in.
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And yes, yes, it's an honor to have him back.
38:58
Ladies and gentlemen, what we have a host.
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We have a host that you know, is getting ready to get started.
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And, you know, life happened. So he had to pull away and you
39:10
know, he's back and I'm sure you know, he'll get back into the
39:13
things. But he went to Pakistan to visit
39:17
his family. He's he's the US military.
39:21
And then he was born and raised in Pakistan this time over here
39:27
and kind of got caught in the, in the war thing, I guess in the
39:32
India and Pakistan, I, I, I guess they don't like each other
39:37
very much. So he he got in the middle of
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that. Yeah, it's, it's really
39:43
sorrowful and it's really troubling.
39:45
And they're back on, on good grounds here back in the United
39:49
States. And we're very excited to have
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him back and thank gosh that he's safe and his family's safe.
39:54
And it is, you know, it's Memorial Day if, if you're not
39:59
out there thinking that you are just in the land of the free
40:04
because nobody else, you got everything coming.
40:07
You got to remember your DoD is there always protecting you,
40:11
whether you like it or not, it's going to protect you.
40:14
And. These people who give us, you
40:17
know, I always tell people we have so many outlets at MBR to
40:21
get information and that when you see what information is
40:25
going on the news and comparison to these beautiful people who
40:29
are there, these people are there and it's not what they're
40:33
saying on the news. So you have to go thank God for
40:37
MBR because at least they can give you the information that we
40:41
have on the front lines and that you know what is actually
40:44
happening behind the political smokescreens, right?
40:49
Right, right. Well, you know, and I tell you
40:51
what, I, I, I don't know how long it's been out, but I just
40:55
found out yesterday, You know, one of the top news was, you
41:00
know, Biden, He, he has. What?
41:05
Where am. I going where am I at?
41:07
Yeah, he has he's been diagnosed with prostate cancer, you know,
41:11
and I see a lot of I see a lot of comments and this is what I
41:17
was going to do or dropping the mic about.
41:19
So, you know, we won't do the job of the mic because that, you
41:23
know, there's not a lot of people that, you know, really
41:25
rare care. But I have several people that
41:28
tell me that the best thing about the show, the segment is
41:32
the what's the moment. And as I'm looking for the
41:35
what's the moment it's not on here.
41:38
Well, you know, prostate cancer is the slowest cancer to kill
41:41
you. You know that, right?
41:42
Does everybody know that out there?
41:44
So to have him, but if he is the president and you think about
41:47
this, the president of the United States has probably the
41:50
best health, then probably the monarchs, you know what I mean?
41:53
These these upper echelons have doctors attending to the
41:58
highest, fullest, whatever. So if he had prostate cancer,
42:03
don't you think with a doctor's wife, I mean Jill is that now
42:07
they have Jill looking her at charges because he truly had
42:11
dementia. His his cognitive mind was so
42:14
bad. So why was Jill still pushing,
42:18
You know, Doctor Jill, answer that.
42:20
Doctor Jill, if you're listening to this out there, and I'll tie
42:22
you, why did you force your husband knowing as a doctor, his
42:27
mental clarity wasn't wasn't well, what was happening there?
42:31
Why did you do that? So we put those people on the
42:34
line. That's what the why would you do
42:37
that? What that's abuse.
42:38
That is seniors abuse, right? They are full throttle.
42:42
That is like having somebody with dementia signing over their
42:45
will or their house or something else and then claiming it and
42:50
they have no Peace of Mind. Alzheimer victims, these are
42:53
Alzheimer victims and dementia victims.
42:56
It's pretty sad if you actually got.
42:58
That and, well, you, you know how much I don't like Biden.
43:02
You know how much I don't like that side.
43:04
But you know what? I'm going to be devil.
43:05
OK, we don't like their concepts.
43:07
Not that much, right? We don't like their concepts.
43:10
So I'm going to be devil's advocate.
43:12
What if, what if just saying, what if they have the diagnosis,
43:18
OK, but the diagnosis, but it wasn't that it wasn't that big,
43:25
you know, it was just like, oh, you know, this, this is going
43:28
to, this is going to give you a cough a couple more months, you
43:31
know, out of a year. But what happens if it's just it
43:37
just didn't get bad until this last year?
43:41
Because we all know that whenever you have stress or
43:46
whenever you're angry or anything like it's it, it, it
43:53
affects your brain. It it really does.
43:56
It affects your brain, you know, And for some people out there
43:59
that don't realize it, like you can have like stairs in your
44:04
house and you have a hard time getting it downstairs.
44:09
But the stairs at your house, you know, you, you, you, you get
44:14
down the easier than stairs somewhere else in a different
44:20
environment. It's because your, your, your
44:23
body's not accustomed to that environment.
44:26
It's accustomed to the other environment.
44:28
Yeah, I'm laughing because you talk about stairs and I, I come
44:32
in and out of remissions on wheelchairs.
44:34
Most people know if you know my story.
44:36
And the stairs are I'm like, listen, as a kid, I would get a
44:41
carpet, one of those woven Amish carpets, and I would slide down.
44:45
So I was like, oh, you know, I'm almost, I'm almost, you know, I
44:50
always say 30, but I know I'm not.
44:51
I'm close to 60. I was like, just go get a
44:54
carpet. I'll slide down like I did like
44:56
a kid. Oh, no, no, that was bad.
45:01
That was bad news. My rub couldn't handle that.
45:04
I don't know how I don't know how I handled that as a kid.
45:06
But we don't do those carpets. But back to Jill, it is, it is
45:11
sad. It's it's very sad and I'm not
45:14
I'm not poo pooping that he has prostate cancer that has
45:16
metastasized because the end result after having prostate
45:20
cancer for so long. But how come it wasn't made
45:22
aware of the public when everybody, I mean, when the
45:26
president goes to pool office, they ask about these things, you
45:29
know, not only their taxes and it's a right, I understand it is
45:34
what is that called a HIPAA, a HIPAA law, right?
45:37
HIPAA protects, you know, whatever ailments that you that
45:41
we have. And but I think if if you took
45:44
the job for us and we hired you, I think that you need to have a
45:49
forefront of clarity of what it is that is going on.
45:53
And I think that's where a lot of Americans who voted or like
45:59
who's controlling the pen? Was it Jill?
46:02
Was it Obama? Who's controlling that pen
46:05
because he could not. There's no cognitive and and
46:09
they've proved it over and over again with how his reactions
46:13
almost as if it's like when somebody strokes right and they
46:17
and they they don't have that function of the brain.
46:19
They can't find words. They can't they can't get them
46:22
out. And that's almost how he
46:25
appeared as our president and total with heartfelt and as a
46:30
person. And shamefully, whoever put him
46:33
up to that is grotesque in my opinion and my opinions worth
46:38
nothing. But the truth of the matter is
46:40
you hurt our nation. You know, you really hurt our
46:44
nation by doing that. I don't think you were a
46:46
political science major. I think you were in it for
46:49
money, for greed, for power and it or to hide whatever the
46:55
smokescreen was that you were doing.
46:56
You came up and I think he's using this cancer as a
46:58
smokescreen right now because FBI are are real close.
47:02
Cash Patel is real close in there and so is Naomi and Pam
47:09
Bondi. They're all doing their job very
47:11
well fighting fraud. And I think, and I'm I'm going
47:14
to speak my life. Both sides don't just go after
47:19
the left. You need both sides because
47:20
they're both corrupt. They're both get the corruption
47:24
out. I mean, we have been almost what
47:27
when did Mara Monroe die? When was that 60s and chaos of
47:32
hidden secrets and disgusting skeletons that don't need to be
47:37
there? We're already cleaning up the
47:39
AIDS. We're already cleaning up these
47:41
things. And of course it's causing chaos
47:43
and it's causing people to be mad because they don't have that
47:45
extra money. You know, the Vatican, We had
47:47
that show. Remember that?
47:49
We had that show about the Vatican on behind the headlines.
47:52
You know, what the heck are you mad?
47:55
Because we took out that 13 million or 30 million or
47:58
whatever it was million. You know, this is, I think that
48:02
there's a lot of resentment and anger and anxiety.
48:06
I think anxiety comes from the fear of unknown.
48:09
The fear of unknown goes back to faith.
48:12
And when you can clear that, everybody who's listening, if
48:14
you have anxiety, you can clear it.
48:16
I promise you, give us a call right down there somewhere is a
48:20
phone line or somewhere there's an MB radio at the top somewhere
48:25
there is that number. Reach out If you're on here, you
48:27
say hey, call me and then we'll DM you.
48:29
If you don't know how, just put it on our put it on our feed
48:32
right now and we got you. We got it most of the.
48:36
Time anxiety. And PTSD, these things are a
48:41
mental calibration of a block that we in total can help.
48:46
We can help and assist and making you feel a lot better.
48:50
So we're going to go. On our next break, everybody.
48:55
And when we come back the the video that we played earlier,
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the artist is here, the artist is in the building.
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Stick with us. Don't go away.
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You're listening to the Ace Train show here on MVR
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station where our veterans voices are.
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Heard MBR talk. Hey, thanks for tuning in.
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Radio dot. Welcome, welcome, welcome
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everybody to the Ace Train show. Hold on a second.
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That wasn't supposed to happen. OK, there we go.
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All right, everybody, welcome to the ACE Train show.
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Right here on the station. That's letting our veterans be
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heard. You're listening to MBR.
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Without further ado. I'm going to, if I can find it.
53:05
It's it's totally different when you're doing the sound and
53:08
everything. Hold on.
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Here we go. Here we go.
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Here we go the interview of the week is brought to you by Jersey
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Mike's a sub above Ladies and gentlemen, I got an e-mail
53:28
yesterday about this song and you know we played it earlier.
53:33
We might even play it. You know, I really love the
53:35
song. My show yes appreciate it by.
53:37
The way. Thank you.
53:39
Most definitely, Doug. Well.
53:41
You know, tell us a little bit about yourself.
53:45
Are you you a new artist? Did you just start or you've
53:48
been doing this for a while? Yeah, but I've always been
53:51
interested in music since. I was a young kid.
53:53
I, I started out playing the violin in high school and middle
53:55
school and I started writing music, a little bit of saying
53:59
here and there, not too much till later on in life.
54:01
But I entered the military, did my military careers at 9 S 100
54:05
in the Air Force. I did five years, ended up
54:07
getting up one year early as an early release program.
54:10
I needed people out of the Air Force and into the Army.
54:12
I applied, but I was in a critically manned career field,
54:15
so they didn't accept me right away.
54:17
They needed more people out. A month later I applied again.
54:20
They actually let me out of my birthday, which is kind of
54:22
funny. So I got out, went to college at
54:24
UCF, came close to finishing my degree, didn't finish it, came
54:28
back to Boston area and went to Berkeley for a little bit for
54:31
music production. I ended up not wanting to do the
54:34
production, but learned quite a bit from and then I started
54:36
really kind of tapping into the creative aspect of my music.
54:41
And then I have someone else do it now in Boston out of the
54:43
cyber sound studios. Shout out to them.
54:45
Great, great crew. Justin, the producer and
54:48
engineer and Perry the owner. I've been very helpful along my,
54:51
my process here and this is the first song I've created fully
54:55
produced by them. And then I, I did the video
54:57
myself, which was quite a learning experience.
55:00
It's not listening to that good man.
55:03
Now were they that that was another question I was gonna
55:06
have the the the video were those were those AI generator
55:11
were those people that you know well, that's the thing.
55:14
I I I wasn't sure when I. Was creating this video about
55:17
the whole copyright thing and pick real pictures.
55:19
So I used Mid Journey, which you might be familiar with.
55:22
It's a very popular program to generate images from those
55:25
images. I've been took those and put
55:26
them into other programs for the video aspect and it creates some
55:30
amazing, as you can see images. And I kind of had to string
55:33
those together and add it to the lyrics and just kind of make the
55:36
whole story happen. I took a couple weeks and I the
55:39
last day I was up 14 hours straight finalizing it and
55:42
editing the music along with it. But I think it came out pretty
55:44
good, so I appreciate that. Yeah, It it, it did it really.
55:48
Came out good and it's, you know, it's so professional, you
55:51
know, the the words of the song go with the, you know, plot of
55:56
the story. That's yeah, and it's really
55:59
good. So tell us a little bit about
56:02
your your military service dad, because you know, you being a
56:05
veteran and making a song like this sounding like this.
56:11
I'm sorry were. You on tour by?
56:13
Chance. I actually.
56:14
Wasn't that. That's the thing, I was at a.
56:16
Headquarters in Florida at AFTAC at Patrick Air Force Base.
56:20
It's very unique kind of Intel job.
56:22
Only 300 people did what I did worldwide.
56:24
It's a very strange career field.
56:26
Anyone that's interested in Google 9 S 100 pretty much got a
56:30
bunch of different information in through different sensors.
56:32
Then we analyzed those through different ways.
56:34
But you know, there's also a skiff building with no windows,
56:37
high level clearance. Very, very interesting job.
56:39
But to get to the point of the song and how I kind of came up
56:42
with this and what inspired me to write it all tied in that is
56:46
one week out of the month. I was actually put on honour
56:48
guard when you did the ceremonies for the the family
56:51
members that passed away in the military and the flag
56:53
presentation, 21 gun salute. And when I first got put on
56:57
that, you know, as most people aren't very comfortable with
56:59
death in general being around it.
57:01
And I was really kind of turned off at first like this is
57:03
uncomfortable. But over time, I actually grew
57:06
to love it because you see the reactions of the family members
57:09
and how proud they were and how, you know, respectfully they were
57:12
of the ceremony. So throughout that time, I kind
57:14
of, you know, said, look at all these people that are so
57:16
connected and deep with their families that pass away,
57:18
especially the active duty ones. Those are the real emotional
57:21
ones. But I kind of came up with this
57:23
idea of the time for a song about someone that had passed
57:25
away in the military, not linking it to anyone directly
57:27
that I knew, although there were people I was friends and friends
57:29
with on the base that I knew that had passed away when they
57:32
went overseas. But this is kind of just an
57:34
overall general idea. This happens to people.
57:37
And this I think is a great example of story wise of what
57:39
can happen to somebody that enters the military and now
57:41
their, you know, their family deals with it kind of do.
57:44
Did you did you interview? Some soldiers for some of those
57:48
lyrics that you have or is it just by what you oversaw and
57:52
heard and and was witnessed within?
57:56
So that's a great question. This is my experience actually
57:59
draws specifically from this. Oh my God, the military, went to
58:02
college, came back to Boston. I went through a period of
58:04
depression as some people do. I actually spent some time in
58:07
Ava Hospital and I met a lot of very hurt individuals there
58:12
that, you know, their stories were incredible.
58:14
And it just blew my mind. Some of the stuff, whether the
58:16
detailed stories, the general stories and hearing that they've
58:19
been in there multiple times and it's just a struggle for them to
58:22
live their everyday lives. So that kind of also tapped into
58:25
the the emotion of the song and you know, it's not easy, which I
58:29
thought would be a great tribute to that.
58:30
Write something like this now. I'm not traditionally someone
58:33
that just writes military songs. It just happens to be the the
58:35
first song I released and I had it appropriately set up for
58:38
Memorial Day to coincide with. I think with my background, it's
58:42
probably a good intro to myself as a songwriter and and artist.
58:46
It's beautiful and that's fantastic.
58:48
That you did this release at Memorial Day because it it
58:50
brings an awareness it brings it brings everything into fruition
58:56
for a lot of people who don't understand.
58:58
So I love when veteran singers sing the graces of the actual
59:04
duties that have to be performed by our DoD.
59:08
And I don't think a lot of people understand they IA lot of
59:11
times I think it they feel like we sit around in tents or like
59:14
the MASH unit. I don't know, but I, I, I
59:17
appreciate that. Was there was there any parts of
59:21
that song that was really hard for you emotionally?
59:27
I think a lot of it was going through it, you know, just
59:29
knowing the people you know, I think the hospital people, I'm
59:32
in the hospital, some of them have passed away since then.
59:35
And whether through, you know, drug related things or just age
59:40
and whatnot, it's just it's tough to think back, you know, I
59:42
met their families as well when they come in to visit, you know,
59:45
and they heard the stories after they went away to their family,
59:47
their families talking about, you know, they, they're great
59:50
people. This is just they've been
59:51
struggling for a while. So I think as I was writing the
59:55
song, it wasn't so much but the video, it's kind of what you
59:57
know, I kind of choked up a little bit here and there.
59:59
Some of the scenes when the mother's screaming in the air.
1:00:01
If you remember that part in the cemetery just.
1:00:03
And you know, it is kind of an emotional video, but that's the
1:00:05
whole point. I think the song itself is an
1:00:08
emotional kind of song, but with the video that kind of really.
1:00:12
Sets the tone of how I'm looking like 20 I I'm really good with.
1:00:17
Death, but 21 those gunshots. I I like do this.
1:00:22
It like chokes you up. I don't know if it's a PTSD
1:00:25
thing. I don't know if it's like we're
1:00:26
done like it's the finale and I that it chokes me up.
1:00:32
I'm not going to lie, or even the cannons.
1:00:34
When do you ever go to Arlington with the canyons?
1:00:37
Oh my God, yeah. I live up in the North Shore
1:00:40
area, so every, you know. Every holiday that involves
1:00:42
military related with its memorial before the they do
1:00:44
cannons here. So I know what you're talking
1:00:47
about. Yeah.
1:00:48
Yeah, that's chill. I mean that just like this.
1:00:50
Song reminds me of those cannons and this song just the chills
1:00:54
that I get of the reality and I think those chills are the
1:00:58
reality that we face as soldiers or the reality that human life
1:01:03
faces all together that you know life sure enjoy it and and
1:01:08
respect those who are doing something for you I just want to
1:01:12
say real quick too and I. I jumped on here real fast.
1:01:14
I wasn't sure they said it, but thank you guys for your service
1:01:17
as well. If you served, I believe you
1:01:18
served. Both of you served.
1:01:19
We both did, yes. Thank you very much for your
1:01:21
service. Yeah.
1:01:22
Yes, I was air. That's why when you said.
1:01:24
Air Force, I would. Yeah.
1:01:25
Baggy. Great.
1:01:26
Right on. Yeah.
1:01:29
I was an air travel controller 26.
1:01:31
Com group in India that's not an.
1:01:34
Easy job, I know. All about that.
1:01:36
Yeah, on tactical plantings out in the deserts with.
1:01:39
Intel so I enjoyed my myself but wasn't on the frontline.
1:01:45
However, there was enough horror in the deserts.
1:01:49
Of dog play. That I didn't need that.
1:01:51
I didn't really need that frontline.
1:01:53
Yeah, I smile. But that smile is because I
1:01:56
heal. Because it's not funny.
1:01:59
It that smile is not a sarcastic smile for anybody.
1:02:01
Oh, I understand. Yeah.
1:02:02
And what about you? Sir, yeah, I I did 10 years in.
1:02:07
The Army, I got hurt, got and, you know, retired out and yeah,
1:02:16
I've been doing this since 2015. And I think it's been, I, I
1:02:24
think it's been an amazing, I think sorry about that.
1:02:31
I think it has been an amazing journey because I've, I feel
1:02:36
that running a radio station like this, it reaches a lot more
1:02:42
veterans. And then when you bring them on
1:02:46
board and, you know, they conduct a show for themselves
1:02:50
or, you know, it even helps even more because we talk about it.
1:02:56
You know, there's, there's been times that me and MJ both are
1:03:00
mad and we come on to a show and, you know, and we vent about
1:03:04
it. And I think that it helps a lot
1:03:07
of veterans and it shows the community what stuff that we're
1:03:11
going through. So that's, that's, that's pretty
1:03:16
much trauma lines hurt. I don't care where.
1:03:22
You played a part. Trauma lines are emotional
1:03:26
events. They are just a part of everyday
1:03:32
lives. I think veterans are compounded
1:03:35
or first responders to even bridge the first responders out
1:03:39
there because we have to honor them as well for their services
1:03:43
of our protection and our safety.
1:03:45
So when we already have trauma in our child, trauma lines from
1:03:48
just who we are, and then we have more trauma lines or events
1:03:53
within the military, this creates a huge downfall in the
1:03:56
mental capacities of healing. And this is where I think our
1:04:02
veterans could really use a bilateral healing center instead
1:04:07
of just a physical healing center.
1:04:09
I think it takes both sides to balance that.
1:04:12
That's my opinion. Yeah.
1:04:14
And and Doug, whenever you're ready to do.
1:04:16
A podcast or anything, you know, you could come here and, and you
1:04:21
know, we'll, we'll help you teach you and, and guide you on
1:04:24
that. That's what that's what NBR is
1:04:26
in Berkeley. He might be on Team us.
1:04:30
He went to Berkeley. I think he better teach us
1:04:32
something. I mean, I just did strictly
1:04:35
some. Music production stuff and
1:04:36
editing and Pro Tools and all the software stuff to to do
1:04:39
music and some songwriting and guitar stuff as well.
1:04:42
But nothing, nothing podcast was and this is I had to make sure
1:04:45
before this was started, I had this camera set up properly and
1:04:48
did all this stuff. So I love the person.
1:04:52
Behind do you know who that that?
1:04:53
Is behind you. This is the This is the cover of
1:04:56
the album. Of the single, the military.
1:04:58
And this is just the guy, this is the character in that kind of
1:05:00
video, in the in the music video.
1:05:02
So piercing. I mean, what a statement?
1:05:05
With the mud on the face, with the stern.
1:05:07
What a beautiful. Who your marketing for that is
1:05:12
awesome. I have to tell you that that is
1:05:15
piercing. Yeah, I'm a business.
1:05:17
Major and I'm. And I'm when you see that cover,
1:05:19
you're like, damn, man. He hit it dead on that.
1:05:22
That's awesome. Thank you.
1:05:23
I appreciate that. Yeah, you're welcome.
1:05:25
You're very welcome SO. We, we, we know how.
1:05:28
Long it took you to edit and and fix the stuff.
1:05:33
How long did it take you to for it to just just come to you?
1:05:39
Or did you constantly hit a, a wall when it comes to like,
1:05:45
right, you know, writer's block, whatever you want to call it.
1:05:48
Did you did you ever get that during the song that you
1:05:52
created? So lyrically wise, I mean, it
1:05:55
takes me a while. To write a song.
1:05:56
I know some artists are out there and they're like, I wrote
1:05:58
this song in 15 minutes on my floor or whatever.
1:06:00
That doesn't usually happen to me.
1:06:01
I spent a lot of time coming up with kind of an idea, and then I
1:06:04
just start writing, writing, and then I filter things out and
1:06:06
then it slowly comes together. But even then, you know, like I
1:06:09
could spend a week or more refining certain lyrics, a
1:06:13
little bit obsessed with it, I would say, but I want to get it
1:06:16
perfect. It's a it's a every song that I
1:06:18
do, It's very important lyric. I would say more than anything
1:06:21
else that's this song is very heavy on lyrics.
1:06:24
So it takes a bit. And then the video wise, the
1:06:26
video is very similar as well. It took me a lot of cuts, a lot
1:06:30
of edits, a lot of different pictures, video clips to string
1:06:33
together to get exactly what I wanted.
1:06:34
And right now with the way the AI software is, you can't get
1:06:37
exactly what you want every time.
1:06:38
So I'm going to have a clip from like for instance, with the
1:06:41
friends that it talks with the military scene when they're
1:06:43
watching his friend the 32nd clip on the TVI put in the first
1:06:47
couple AI prompts for that and it came out there looking real
1:06:51
serious. And then they start laughing.
1:06:53
So obviously I can't have friends laughing at a funeral
1:06:55
scene. So that took, you know, time to
1:06:57
redo that and get that proper where they looked, you know,
1:06:59
upset and sad. And at the same time, I just
1:07:01
want to say the the studio owner that I give my music done at
1:07:06
cyber cyber stun in Boston. He said the video.
1:07:08
I won't quote exactly much, but if someone had done this
1:07:10
professionally, I, I would not have had that much money for a
1:07:14
while. Let's just say that very, very
1:07:15
expensive. And the way I was able to do
1:07:17
this with AI software was incredibly cheap compared to
1:07:20
having this done professionally, which I would, I would say is
1:07:22
the, the biggest thing I'm kind of proud of is that I saved
1:07:25
myself a lot of money and I came out very, very well with the
1:07:28
tools that I used and I did it on my own.
1:07:29
So yeah, fantastic. Have you ever thought, Doug,
1:07:34
about mentoring other veterans and, you know, getting a part of
1:07:39
some of the non profits that help veterans like yourself to
1:07:44
to write lyrics and, you know, just to learn more about
1:07:48
themselves and the instrument and all?
1:07:51
I I didn't know if you was a part of some of those
1:07:54
organizations or, you know, tell, tell us about that.
1:08:00
Yeah, absolutely. I used to volunteer at the
1:08:02
local. VA hospital here for a bit, you
1:08:04
know, because of my, the time, short time I spent in there and
1:08:06
met those people. I said, you know, I'd like to
1:08:08
help out here and I'm, I'm a lot less wounded than some of these
1:08:11
guys and I feel like since I have some experience, I was
1:08:14
remember trying to that was these, these people that have
1:08:17
PTS, things like that. I, I seem to just do well, you
1:08:19
know, interacting with some people.
1:08:20
So I did volunteer for a bit and then my life kind of got in the
1:08:24
way and I had to take care of my responsibilities and get my
1:08:26
stuff straightened out. At this point.
1:08:28
I'm doing a lot of work full time now in the music and
1:08:31
getting my next song ready coming up here, the girl in the
1:08:33
yellow it's called. But I, I think of the future.
1:08:36
I'll probably get back into doing a little bit of
1:08:38
volunteering here and there, whether it's, you know, once a
1:08:40
week, once a month, something at all, just to touch base with the
1:08:43
veterans and staying active in the community.
1:08:45
That's something I do enjoy doing right this second.
1:08:48
I'm very busy, but you know, I'm going to have time and I'm going
1:08:50
to do it again because I do enjoy it for sure.
1:08:53
Can you tell us this for? People who always say I don't
1:08:57
know how to help and you just said I I assist by volunteering.
1:09:00
What do you do as volunteers? Maybe people listening could
1:09:04
take it into their local VA hospitals and maybe volunteer
1:09:08
the same way you did. For sure.
1:09:09
So I mean, everyone has a skill set, you know?
1:09:11
Whether it's just sitting there talking in an open ear to listen
1:09:15
to somebody and and just talk to them.
1:09:16
Me personally, music go in there, whether it's playing
1:09:20
music off a phone they recommend hey who wants to what song
1:09:23
should we play? Play the song talk about how
1:09:25
does this relate to you? How do you feel about it or go
1:09:27
and actually play some music. When I was in the VA hospital,
1:09:32
they let me bring a guitar in. And it was funny, the amounts of
1:09:36
not feedback, but like just camaraderie.
1:09:39
A guitar dropped into a place where everyone's depressed and
1:09:41
people are not feeling the best past the guitar and people
1:09:44
playing songs, telling stories. All this reminds me this one
1:09:47
time. I mean, music is very
1:09:48
therapeutic, as I'm sure you know.
1:09:50
So that would be my, my, what I could bring to it.
1:09:52
And that's what I had brought in the past.
1:09:54
Other people, you know, they could just take a walk with
1:09:56
veterans, just walk around, talk with them.
1:09:58
It doesn't have to be being serious.
1:09:59
You don't have to be a specialist and a psychologist to
1:10:02
go lend an ear, you know, listen to their stories or share what
1:10:05
you can help them with. I'm sure other people could help
1:10:07
them, you know better and start a business.
1:10:08
They have a skill set for that. They could volunteer that.
1:10:10
Any kind of skill set you have it, whether it be cooking,
1:10:13
talking, singing, playing the guitar, anything.
1:10:15
You know, if you have the time, don't be afraid to do it right
1:10:19
if you had any. Words of advice for the veterans
1:10:23
in the song? What would that be?
1:10:27
That's a great question. Any words of advice?
1:10:29
I think the, the kind of theme of the song in the beginning, it
1:10:32
talks about the, the little black and white with the, with
1:10:35
the text. You know, people, we lose people
1:10:37
every year and some of those are self-inflicted.
1:10:39
I would say if people are looking for seeking help,
1:10:41
they're not doing well, they need to reach outreach out.
1:10:44
Don't be afraid and don't think, you know, I can't deal with
1:10:46
this. This is too much.
1:10:47
Just talk to somebody, whether it's a family member, someone
1:10:50
you don't know, even just contact someone.
1:10:52
I would say the biggest problem I feel like with veteran
1:10:54
suicides nowadays is people don't reach out enough and they
1:10:57
feel like they can't get the hell and vice versa.
1:10:59
I would say if you know someone in trouble, offer the help, even
1:11:02
if you just said, hey man, how you doing?
1:11:04
Are you going all right? I don't think people check in
1:11:05
enough at the same time. So I think it's an old pattern
1:11:08
myself. I think it's an old.
1:11:09
Belief pattern that you know, soldiers don't cry, right?
1:11:14
It's I know that I was born in the 60s and it and it's a
1:11:17
pattern that you want to cry. I'll give you something to cry
1:11:19
about. And you get in the military and
1:11:20
it's like you don't have time to cry and you don't have time to
1:11:23
mourn. You don't have time to think
1:11:24
that. And I think that removes our
1:11:27
abilities to actually balance our thought figures and going
1:11:31
forward. And so that to me again, your
1:11:35
song and understanding this is how it is.
1:11:38
You cannot have that old philosophy and that old pattern
1:11:41
that you can't speak up, that you can't.
1:11:43
That is that is healing. The more that you speak.
1:11:45
That's what MBR. So I loved about MBR is because
1:11:49
you're allowed to rehabilitate and revocationalize here as a
1:11:53
veteran to have a voice, to be able to speak, whether it turns,
1:11:57
you know, that that that Channel to an emotion or it turns it
1:12:03
into a smile. I think that everybody to be
1:12:06
grounded and your music, Yes. But I love that you said music
1:12:09
is healing. It really is.
1:12:10
And there's so much about music and sound therapy that heals,
1:12:14
especially when you have to ground in.
1:12:16
And most of the time if you're playing a guitar, are you
1:12:18
playing a 12th string or sixth string?
1:12:20
It's just a sixth string, yeah. So you're basically.
1:12:22
Playing in the 400 frequencies. That's awesome because that is
1:12:26
very grounding for a lot of veterans and and again, more
1:12:30
more power and kudos to you. Do you have more songs written
1:12:34
for military or is this really the only one currently?
1:12:37
This is the only one you know I'm.
1:12:39
Not like I said, I'm not really like a military song artist, but
1:12:41
this happened to be the first song I wanted to put out the
1:12:44
timeline lined up for Memorial Day.
1:12:46
I really like the whole song. The way the lyrics involved in
1:12:50
that thing was a complete song. I thought it was the best one to
1:12:53
release first. My other songs are a little more
1:12:56
kind of mainstream pop rock songs for the most part, but
1:13:00
similar to this, a lot of country and sound in those as
1:13:02
well. Do you have your website and
1:13:05
stuff up? I don't have an actual personal
1:13:08
website at the. Moment I've been working on all
1:13:10
the social media stuff, making sure that's up to date.
1:13:13
And I've just been heavily involved in the next song that
1:13:16
will probably be on July called The Girl in the Yellow, which is
1:13:18
more of, like I said, a pop rock song, a little a little more
1:13:22
light hearted after this first one, which I think is necessary.
1:13:25
We would love to air it here if you give us that permission.
1:13:28
We would love to help promote and make you as successful as
1:13:32
you want. I appreciate it.
1:13:33
Absolutely, 100% I'll be. Contacting you guys again as
1:13:36
soon as that's ready to be to be put out.
1:13:38
Yeah, listen to me, I'm not age trained, but.
1:13:42
Yeah, the the, the. Kind of final.
1:13:44
Question before we get into the time of shine, it's I believe
1:13:49
every veteran has that one veteran that is either still
1:13:53
around or has passed away. That one veteran that like
1:13:58
opened your eyes to life or opened your eyes to something.
1:14:03
With that being in mind, I would love to give you the opportunity
1:14:09
to, you know, because it is Memorial Day, speak upon a
1:14:13
veteran that is that that's that's in your mind and let you
1:14:19
know on behalf of MBR where you know, we can say thank you for
1:14:24
his service. Is there a veteran that you have
1:14:27
in mind that you would like to talk about today?
1:14:30
Yeah, that's a tough one. There is.
1:14:32
A friend of mine actually, who I met while I was in the VA
1:14:34
hospital for depression. Really great guy.
1:14:37
I won't say his last name, but Adam, great looking kid, really
1:14:42
handsome guy, really fun, great personality, always had a smile,
1:14:46
always joking around. I was keeping the other people
1:14:48
that be very, very friendly. He struggled a lot, you know,
1:14:52
mentally. He went through a lot of demons
1:14:54
and you could tell. And he years ago I was friends
1:14:56
with his sister who actually came in as well.
1:14:59
And we became really close. We had a little tight unit of us
1:15:01
that we hung out and kept together and, you know, hang out
1:15:04
afterward and kept in contact. And I'd see him as I was going
1:15:07
for my appointments here and there, physicals, dental stuff
1:15:11
here. And then, you know, I'd see him,
1:15:12
Hey, what's up? And he always smile in his face.
1:15:14
But he was always very self-conscious.
1:15:15
He was a great looking kid. I mean, really handsome guy.
1:15:18
But he just couldn't, couldn't get it past himself, just his
1:15:22
nerves and his anxiety. And he ended up ended up passing
1:15:25
away and it was just tough, you know, I.
1:15:29
I was great friends. I'm still friends with his
1:15:30
sister and I talked with her for a while after that and learned
1:15:33
the insurance and outs, that whole situation, but nobody kind
1:15:36
of had any ID. And then all of a sudden one day
1:15:38
we got the news and it was very, very sad.
1:15:40
So Adam, I think it'll be someone that comes to mind.
1:15:42
And this Memorial Day, the play is going to Adam.
1:15:47
Thank you. I appreciate that, Doug.
1:15:49
I really. Do I appreciate that?
1:15:51
You know, before we go into the time to shine, MJ, is there any
1:15:57
questions that you would like to ask Doug before we, before we
1:16:00
hit it really. Doug, do you?
1:16:05
So for everybody out there, are you married?
1:16:11
No. No, I've never.
1:16:12
Been married, no kids. But I do want kids and I do want
1:16:15
to eventually get married, whether it's a traditional
1:16:17
marriage or just stay together and be together without the
1:16:20
whole yes, yes, so. Not at the moment.
1:16:24
I am single and. I'm glad I I need the time at
1:16:26
the moment to to keep going with this.
1:16:27
So can you give us so we can post it up?
1:16:30
Here because I just put at Doug Wilds.
1:16:33
Is there a social media you would like us to put out?
1:16:36
Sure, yeah. I mean at Doug Wilds.
1:16:38
Is my Instagram Facebook? It should be Doug Wilds again,
1:16:42
the links are coming but I just did an artist page I just set up
1:16:44
for that but at Doug Wilds. Instagram is probably the best
1:16:46
one, I would say. All right, so that's what I I
1:16:49
have been tagging. You out, but I'll put it the
1:16:51
Instagram for you and so that way hopefully.
1:16:55
And then we'll keep sharing. That.
1:16:59
Yeah. All right.
1:17:00
Awesome. Well, Doug, it is that time.
1:17:03
This is the time that we call It's your time to shine.
1:17:08
Today's time to shine. Is brought to you by Dunkin'
1:17:13
Donuts veterans and 1st responders.
1:17:17
Runs on Duncan. This is your.
1:17:23
Time to shine, believe me. Is the time to shine.
1:17:27
Doug, maybe we didn't ask you the right question or set you up
1:17:31
for the right answer. You know, we, we, we come into
1:17:34
these interviews with, you know, these questions to ask and then
1:17:39
while you're talking, it kind of remisses us to go off the rails
1:17:44
and ask you another question that you brought out.
1:17:48
So this is your two-minute platform to say whatever,
1:17:52
whatever is on your mind that you want to push out there that
1:17:56
we didn't really get to cover right.
1:17:59
I think you guys did a great job this.
1:18:00
Is my first kind of go with this.
1:18:02
Like I feel like we covered quite a bit of everything that's
1:18:04
important, you know, some military stuff, stuff about
1:18:07
myself. The song I have, I do have music
1:18:09
coming out here in the future. The Girl in the Yellow will be
1:18:12
the next release. It's a kind of a rock pop, like
1:18:15
a little bit electronic song, a little more light hearted.
1:18:18
I do want to say, by the way, that commercial was very well
1:18:20
timed. It's a Dunkin' Donuts commercial
1:18:22
and I live in Massachusetts. That's huge here.
1:18:24
So I kind of laughed at that. I know that was on purpose, but
1:18:27
it was it was well placed. Yeah.
1:18:29
No, I think you guys did a great job.
1:18:30
I mean, I don't really have too much to say.
1:18:32
I don't like to talk about myself too much.
1:18:34
I know. I know the feeling.
1:18:35
I know you know. It it feels good to finally get
1:18:38
to the place. Of my life where I'm able to
1:18:39
just do this full time, you know, I want to do this when I
1:18:42
was younger had to do the school thing did the military thing.
1:18:44
And now it's it's time I can just enjoy and write music,
1:18:47
create music. I'm already working on the video
1:18:49
for the next the girl in the yellow video, which gives me a
1:18:51
little more creative freedom as it's not based on a specific
1:18:54
story with the for the military, you know, timeline of the story
1:18:57
of the soldier entering and passing away this and that this
1:19:00
is just going to be a fun video. I'm going to make it as cool as
1:19:03
possible and have it go along with the song again.
1:19:05
And I plan to do this for every song I release.
1:19:07
So that's also just a little additive excitement on top of
1:19:10
making the song, finishing the song and then the video is just
1:19:13
like once the song is done, I get to enjoy a week worth of
1:19:16
time creating those. I am in the studio right now.
1:19:18
I just went the other day, I think 2 days ago.
1:19:20
I go back this Friday. It should be out July sometime,
1:19:24
The Girl in the Yellow. And I'll be releasing a song
1:19:25
within every two months after that going forward.
1:19:28
So so we talked about social media.
1:19:30
I'm. Sorry, H Spotify, iTunes, Roku.
1:19:34
Where can we find you, Hun? Yeah, you know, that's a good
1:19:36
point. Instagram's great.
1:19:38
If people want to connect, I'll be putting a lot of pictures on
1:19:40
there going forward and stuff. But Spotify, YouTube, I mean,
1:19:43
those are the big things where you're going to find my music.
1:19:45
Spotify, it's on all platforms. Let's look up Doug Wilds, Doug
1:19:49
Space WILDES. That's me and you can find me
1:19:53
anywhere. It's Amazon, Apple, Spotify,
1:19:56
Tidal, Deezer, all those places. So I think that would be the
1:19:59
biggest thing to you can do Vevo no Vamio, Vamio.
1:20:05
Anything I used TuneCore for? My distribution.
1:20:08
So they pretty much put it everywhere you can possibly
1:20:10
imagine. I'm not IT, I'm sorry.
1:20:13
Yeah. I'm not either, that's why I
1:20:17
have them. Do it for me.
1:20:18
So I just, you know, they put it out and then if I don't find
1:20:20
this, I'm like wise museum, then they fix it.
1:20:21
So no, you don't understand. I'm back at.
1:20:24
Open Apple D Open close Apple D That's my, that's.
1:20:30
My IT, there you go. I I'm.
1:20:34
Kidding, but. I here's the other question that
1:20:37
I have. Do you, are you currently doing
1:20:40
any type of concerts that people can hire you?
1:20:44
I used to do some live shows here.
1:20:46
Open mic. So I did a small I was with a
1:20:48
band a long time ago, just kind of having fun doing the cover
1:20:51
songs. I'm actually more focused right
1:20:53
now at getting a grouping of songs together, finishing as
1:20:56
many songs as I can this year and then putting some together.
1:20:59
Then that would be, you know, something to keep in mind.
1:21:02
Maybe I would do some kind of touring.
1:21:04
We'll see how that goes. I'm comfortable pressing myself,
1:21:07
you know, releasing music, putting online, getting to the
1:21:10
next song, getting in the next video and putting it out where
1:21:12
everybody can enjoy it rather than a small locale, Although I
1:21:15
know that is a thing that people do need to do eventually in the
1:21:17
future. Is is tour around?
1:21:19
So but for right now, just focus on getting these songs done and
1:21:22
finishing like a some kind of an EP or an album.
1:21:25
Got you. So the next question is do.
1:21:27
You have anybody who you want to thank for this beautiful song in
1:21:31
helping and assisting you. Yeah, I was I.
1:21:35
Was think the same person? Though the only reason I made my
1:21:37
mom, I love my mom. So you know, she's helped me
1:21:41
through my whole life. I don't think I'd be in this
1:21:42
position to do this without her. And she actually came up with a
1:21:45
little ending scene in the video, which is great.
1:21:47
She's proud of with her mother when she's the mother's getting
1:21:49
emotional and she's kind of starts crying and smiling at the
1:21:52
same time. And it's her with her little boy
1:21:54
on the beach. So that's what she's
1:21:55
remembering. My mom came up with that clip,
1:21:57
so shots my mom for that fantastic.
1:21:59
So you don't have a band number you.
1:22:00
Actually, do all your own music. This is all me.
1:22:03
That's the thing. A lot of you look at these.
1:22:04
Bands. There's some great bands out
1:22:06
there. One that comes to mind of me is
1:22:08
Oasis. I love the Oasis.
1:22:10
Growing up as a kid, they can't stay together because they find
1:22:11
all the time. The more people you involved in
1:22:13
one thing, the more problems can happen.
1:22:15
I mean, granted there are bands that are incredible bands that
1:22:17
stay here the whole career. I just right now for me, I like
1:22:21
to control everything myself, make things sound the way I
1:22:23
want. And I think he chose all right,
1:22:32
well, hey, you, that's OK. Because we, we, we're, we're
1:22:37
getting ready to hit that time for the tribute to the troops.
1:22:42
Ladies and gentlemen, that was Doug Wilds, an amazing person.
1:22:48
I, I love the song and I can't wait until I see more of his art
1:22:54
as well. And remember, he's a veteran.
1:22:56
Everybody go and get on that Spotify, get on my iTunes
1:23:00
downloaded a couple of times, you know, just just for good
1:23:04
measures. Well, it is that time.
1:23:07
We're going to go to our Tribute to the Troops, which is
1:23:11
sponsored, of course, by Tracerone's podcast.
1:23:16
When we get done with Tribute to the Troops, we will be back.
1:23:20
We'll hit the final thoughts and yeah, we'll wrap it up.
1:23:25
So whatever it is, even hi baby, Even hi.
1:23:29
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1:24:23
Sir, I don't. I don't know how to tell the
1:24:26
story. Well, you got the joke.
1:24:30
You tell them there are people what these men did here.
1:24:33
You tell them how much troopers died.
1:25:01
Hey everyone, thank you for tuning into MBR today as we pay
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Rory, age 75, of Arlington, TX. Charles, or Rick as he was
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known. By his friends.
1:25:14
Was born on February 21st, 1939 in Bridgeton, NJ.
1:25:19
Rick enlisted in the US Air Force in 1956 at the age of 17
1:25:24
as a radar operator. One of his first duty stations
1:25:27
was Japan. Some of his other assignments
1:25:30
were Greenland, Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii and recruiting duty
1:25:34
in Mount Holly, NJ. At his duty station at Herbert
1:25:39
Field, Florida, he trained to be a Programming Technician.
1:25:42
His last duty station was Shepard Air Force Base, Texas
1:25:46
where he retired with 20 years of service on October 31st,
1:25:50
1976. He was a whiz with computers, a
1:25:53
dog lover, a talented Pinnacle player, a true Dallas Cowboy
1:25:58
football fan, the Texas Rangers baseball fan, and he loved
1:26:02
telling jokes. Rick passed away on January
1:26:06
23rd, 2015 with family by his side.
1:26:10
He was a loving father, grandfather, brother, and
1:26:12
friend. He is preceded in death by his
1:26:15
wife Esther and his parents, Charles and Annie, is survived
1:26:19
by his daughters Deborah Sulio and Teresa Caledonia and his son
1:26:24
Michael, as well as his grandchildren, Tiffany,
1:26:27
Jennifer, Robert, Michael, Joseph and Tony, his sisters
1:26:31
Catherine and Mary Anne, and extended family and friends.
1:26:36
We here at NBR would like to thank you Rick Glory for your.
1:26:40
Service and dedication to our country.
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You leave a legacy of love and courage.
1:26:45
Our prayers are with your family, friends and those who
1:26:48
served alongside you. You are truly missed.
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It sounds like we we want to remove that.
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It sounds like tomorrow or it sounds like Star Radio might be
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retiring. So Kyle has done an exceptional
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job at that station, you know, and so many good Internet
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stations out there, you know, and the bad thing about it is
1:33:10
sometimes you don't know about a good thing until it's gone.
1:33:15
You know there was a Nakota shut us right, right.
1:33:21
Well. You know, there's there's.
1:33:22
Still, there's this TikTok that there's this guy that he walks
1:33:27
around and then his belly like bounces, you know, and this is a
1:33:34
real popular TikTok and you know, the, the he, he, he passed
1:33:41
away. So he was, he was known and
1:33:45
famous, more famous now that he died.
1:33:47
And, you know, another person that never minds me of which I
1:33:50
mean, I wouldn't say he's more famous.
1:33:53
I just, I, I think, I, I think people kind of look the other
1:34:01
direction because of his faults and that that was Michael
1:34:04
Jackson. You know, I, I truly believe
1:34:07
Michael Jackson is more popular dead than he was alive.
1:34:12
I mean, he was pretty popular. But like, there was a there was
1:34:16
a moment where which all those like allegations and stuff, you
1:34:20
know, those, you know, that was part of the Diddy thing.
1:34:23
Yeah. I saw that in.
1:34:25
The court. I, I couldn't believe how deep
1:34:30
even I mean, this whole thing goes back to Melvin Combs with
1:34:33
Elvis Presley. I am I am just in this the
1:34:39
corruption. I.
1:34:42
You know, it's time to make a stand in our own country.
1:34:46
There has been too many open borders, there has been too many
1:34:50
entitlements, too many people that are thinking of power with
1:34:53
money. I really believe we're not a
1:34:55
fascist company, we're not a dictator company.
1:34:58
But you are not going to take the free will of man.
1:35:01
I mean, you're here for freedom. And these undermining the I I
1:35:07
made a a comment on one of the court things.
1:35:10
I said these celebrities and those who follow some of these
1:35:13
celebrities, they really needed a lot of healing.
1:35:17
And somebody said that I was a hypocrite by saying that.
1:35:20
And what no one's supposed to have music.
1:35:22
I go, I didn't say that I go. What I meant with it was I gave
1:35:27
money to some of these artists, even for my children to go to
1:35:30
their concerts. I go.
1:35:31
So I was empowering such evil, such horror.
1:35:35
And I said, where is the establishment?
1:35:38
And if you actually listen to people in Hollywood or you
1:35:41
listen to some of these childhood actors, they are an
1:35:44
anxiety mess due to that fundamental.
1:35:48
And then when they start bringing people up, it's, it is,
1:35:52
it's emotionally disturbing and it is for the highest good.
1:35:57
The shake ups and the shake ups are happening all over the world
1:35:59
right now. We, we talked about that in the
1:36:01
behind the headlines. There is a lot of shake UPS with
1:36:04
the same type of energy that is happening.
1:36:06
And the curtains are coming down.
1:36:08
Who is the man behind the curtain?
1:36:10
And it's time for our Cias and our Fbis to stop the BS and call
1:36:17
it out and cut it out for the health, and I mean the people's
1:36:21
lives that have been mentally abused, killing, sexually
1:36:24
abused, physically abused it. How do we as society pay for
1:36:30
those records and those things because of money powering I,
1:36:35
I'm, I'm not in awe. I'm not in awe.
1:36:40
I don't know, maybe I'm wrong. I don't know.
1:36:42
No, you're not wrong. You're not wrong, you know.
1:36:46
We have a lot of evil today because it surrounds us because
1:36:54
of the Internet and stuff. But I want to assure people that
1:36:59
the stuff that is happening today, it happened a long time
1:37:03
ago. You just know more about it now
1:37:06
because of media. Social media makes it makes it
1:37:11
easier to get your point across. I mean Chewy Presley yesterday.
1:37:21
Archives. Of Elvis in that same thing with
1:37:25
Melvin Combs. And you can see he's way as a
1:37:28
ghost. He's not even responsive.
1:37:30
That same party, the very next time he turned around, everybody
1:37:34
always asks, I don't know if everybody can remember back in
1:37:36
the 70s, but what was the black helicopter?
1:37:39
It wasn't Elvis's. No, they dropped Elvis off and
1:37:41
said he died of a heart attack. Now it's coming out.
1:37:45
And Chewie Presley told talked for his grandfather of the
1:37:49
archives that they found in this so-called faux room of of Elvis
1:37:54
Presley's mansion. How many years, how many years
1:37:57
later they didn't even know about this room, but it was all
1:38:00
his journals and all of the recordings that he was being
1:38:03
blackmailed by the Combs by the deeper, whatever they call it.
1:38:08
I don't, I can't remember what they called it, but it's it's
1:38:11
sad. Yeah.
1:38:15
Wow. Well, hey.
1:38:17
You know, not, not not coming out of that subject or anything,
1:38:20
but you know, I don't know if I let everybody know, but for
1:38:25
sports here in the local area, the the Denver Nuggets have
1:38:31
appointed David Adelman as their full time head coach following
1:38:35
the playoff exit item and had been serving as the interim
1:38:39
coach after the dismissal of Michael Malone and GM Calvin
1:38:44
Booth. He I, I guess he's he's still
1:38:50
there. They're waiting, they're waiting
1:38:52
to get rid of him now. Rocky Struggle, as always
1:38:56
holding the league's worst record at 8 and 42, are set to
1:39:01
face the New York Yankees this weekend.
1:39:03
The Yankees are on a winning streak, making them this a
1:39:07
challenging series for the Rockies.
1:39:10
And last but not least, 2025 USA Volleyball Open National
1:39:17
Championships kick off today at the Colorado Convention Center
1:39:21
running through May 28th. Visit RTD For more information.
1:39:29
And the weather forecast for today here in Colorado is 84°.
1:39:36
Saturday, it's not going to be so hot.
1:39:40
It's going to be 71 and it looks like a storm is kind of brewing
1:39:45
in because it's going to be 65° all throughout the week until we
1:39:50
see you guys again on Thursday and then it will bump up to 72.
1:39:56
We we kind of brushed up and didn't really talk about it,
1:40:00
but. The three global stories right
1:40:04
now is severe flooding in Australia, South Wales is
1:40:08
experiencing devastating floods resulting in multiple
1:40:13
fatalities, widespread damage. Officials linked the increasing
1:40:19
frequency of such events to climate control.
1:40:23
U.S. dollar declines. In fact, yesterday was reported
1:40:28
that we we were doing away with pitties.
1:40:32
You know, it's it's it's done over with Mint has I need the
1:40:35
pennies. Everybody give me your
1:40:38
worthless. Pennies.
1:40:38
I need them to ship my Halo stickers.
1:40:41
Send them today. So yeah, the US dollar.
1:40:45
Continues to weaken following the narrow approval of President
1:40:49
Trump's 3.8 bill trillion tax and spending bill, raising
1:40:56
concerns over long term debt and potential interest rate cuts.
1:41:00
And then totems European league. Oh, we have a phone call.
1:41:07
I didn't hear it. I didn't hear it well,
1:41:14
evidently. Evidently I miss it.
1:41:18
Well, I just want to know how do you?
1:41:20
Guys in Denver rate of getting 80° and I don't see anything
1:41:25
besides the high of 68° for the next 10 days.
1:41:31
It's going to be like Seattle. That's probably what it is.
1:41:34
Penzel, Tucky. What is going on here?
1:41:39
Don't get it? The weekend events here in
1:41:46
Denver. So there's a Denver Art Festival
1:41:49
May 24th to the May 25th showcasing fine art from
1:41:54
Colorado and national artists. There's also Memorial Weekend
1:41:59
Festival from May 24th to 26. Live music, food trucks, family
1:42:06
fun on our old South Gaylord St. Tequila Margarita Festival.
1:42:15
Enjoy a variety of margaritas and live entertainment.
1:42:19
May 24th. For all more information on all
1:42:22
these, just visit Denver Swinging Under the Stars outdoor
1:42:29
swing dance event at Little Man Ice Cream.
1:42:35
That's swingers. I can hear you.
1:42:38
Is it swingers or swing? Dancing which one?
1:42:41
Swing dancing so you don't have to be a.
1:42:43
Swinger to go. That's good.
1:42:45
No, No. No, no, no, no.
1:42:48
No pineapples at this table. Luminox immersed May 24th.
1:42:54
An immersive light and sound experience at Lamonix.
1:42:58
Light and sound sounds like kind of like a a light concert.
1:43:02
Have you ever been to a light concert before MJ ELO?
1:43:05
Does that count And? I've also been to Pink Floyd
1:43:10
with the lasers. Oh yeah.
1:43:13
Oh. Man, I was blessed to have met
1:43:16
Rodger Walters when we went to a concert with the Wounded Warrior
1:43:23
Program. Very blessed, very blessed.
1:43:27
He's such a wholesome and good guy.
1:43:31
Nothing But Laughs Comedy show May 24th Stand up comedy
1:43:36
featuring local and national comedians.
1:43:39
Rocky Mountain Stamp Show is May 23rd to 25th, a gathering for
1:43:45
stamp collectors, enthusiasts and that's located in Aurora and
1:43:50
then Farmers Market. Various markets open through the
1:43:55
weekend, including Cherry Creek and City Park.
1:43:58
Check out those times on visit Denver as well.
1:44:02
Now I think this this section the major festival and events
1:44:06
that that's in your neck of the woods.
1:44:09
Tell us what's going on in your neck of the woods.
1:44:11
MJ So I'm going to to be honest, I.
1:44:14
Didn't come prepared because I live on top of a mountain and we
1:44:16
don't really have a lot of festivities.
1:44:18
However, Philadelphia, they always have beautiful parades
1:44:23
hailing on Monday. There are tastes of wines down
1:44:29
in the Montour County area, up in the Allegheny area and they
1:44:34
are actually having their festivals already.
1:44:38
There is also my claim to fame and I love them, which is the
1:44:42
Derby. So there's a lot of demolition
1:44:45
derbies going on that are proceeding.
1:44:48
I believe it is a Halifax, but you're going to have to check it
1:44:52
out. I did not come prepared.
1:44:54
I'm sorry. Sorry about that.
1:44:55
No, no, that's OK. So I actually.
1:44:57
Did I? I actually did it for you,
1:45:02
Devin. The Horse Show and County Fair
1:45:05
in Devon. It's the nation's oldest and
1:45:07
largest outdoor multi breed horror show continues through
1:45:12
June 1st featuring equation competitions, dog show, family
1:45:18
friendly atmosphere. Mayfair Festivals of the Arts in
1:45:24
Allentown Held at Cedar Crest College, these free festivals
1:45:29
offers live music, art expeditions, workshops and
1:45:34
performances suitable for all ages and the Greater Pittsburgh
1:45:39
Food Truck Festival Washington Enjoy over 50 food trucks, live
1:45:46
music, crafts, beer and art, artism venues.
1:45:52
Hollywood Casino in the Meadows. I tell you what, I really like
1:45:59
food trucks. I didn't think I would, but I
1:46:01
really do like food trucks. And the nice thing about food
1:46:05
tricks is when you go to that food truck and you grab his
1:46:10
business card, when you have an event like a fundraiser, you can
1:46:16
invite them to that fundraiser for them to sell their stuff.
1:46:22
And sometimes they'll give you a little donation.
1:46:24
So all those nonprofits that do events and stuff, just throwing
1:46:30
it out there, that's a way, that's a tip, that's a
1:46:33
suggestion to get food and even possibly getting donors because
1:46:39
if they, they make some money, you know, 9 times out of 10,
1:46:44
though, they'll donate 20% of what they made that day and to
1:46:49
you guys. So just something to keep the
1:46:52
nations because I know age train.
1:46:54
'S not going to say it so I'm going to say it military
1:46:57
broadcast radio is a 5O1C3 we are here for rehabilitation and
1:47:01
revocation for our veterans so they can have a voice and tell
1:47:04
their story to help them heal We are a non profit and we do
1:47:08
accept all types of donations so that we can have our voice be
1:47:12
heard as well as other veterans and we can actually help support
1:47:16
with your donations different activities for veterans so that
1:47:20
they can help heal them exactly you know and.
1:47:25
Just so everybody knows we've been trying.
1:47:28
I think we're I think I'm O and seven for grants.
1:47:31
We want to talk about that. We're good.
1:47:34
It's OK. We don't want to talk about the
1:47:36
grants unless you're a grant writer out there.
1:47:38
We want you and we want you. Please come if you're a grant
1:47:41
writer. However, we are not grant
1:47:44
writers, so we're fumbling through, but we're going to nail
1:47:46
it because Father Mother got up there is going to make us donate
1:47:49
that. And I gave you a universal
1:47:51
check, so you use it. Yeah, also.
1:47:55
Did you know about Harrisburg Arts Fest?
1:47:59
It's a riverfront park, hosts more than 170 artisans, live
1:48:06
entertainment, food trucking, activity for children, National
1:48:10
Button Accordion Festival in Sharon.
1:48:15
It's a celebration of polka music with live performance,
1:48:18
dancing and jam sessions over the next three days.
1:48:22
Well that's that sounds right up your alley MJ, I'm telling you.
1:48:25
But that's like 4 hours away. Oh, OK.
1:48:28
All right. All these like 4 hours away from
1:48:32
your well I literally literally look at Pennsylvania like a.
1:48:35
Box, right? Like the box that we're at.
1:48:37
I am literally right here. You're talking about things that
1:48:40
are here in the big cities in here and in here, OK, Closest
1:48:45
one would Harrisburg is our capital and Harrisburg is about
1:48:49
two hours from me. So that one close Wilkes Barre
1:48:52
is about an hour and a half from me.
1:48:54
So that's pretty cool. So those kind of things are are
1:48:57
close into my region. I, I really went way out of the
1:49:02
way. I, I am with the animals and the
1:49:06
trees and I don't really have a lot of people.
1:49:08
My nearest neighbor is over a quarter mile away and so unless
1:49:13
you count my 500 Angus Blackhead beef who love to talk to me in
1:49:18
the morning. Now real country.
1:49:24
Pumpkin. Well, I don't know how far it is
1:49:27
from you. But Perkasie and Doylestown,
1:49:32
they're having parades. Eastern State Penitentiary in
1:49:38
Philadelphia is having a parade as well.
1:49:43
Yeah. Listen, towns, I'm telling you
1:49:46
Pennsylvania. Loves their veterans.
1:49:48
I've never seen a state who loves the veterans as much as
1:49:53
Pennsylvania. Almost every mom and pop and
1:49:55
almost every where that you go ask you are you a veteran?
1:50:00
They'll give you almost 10 to 15% off on almost everything
1:50:03
that you do. You obviously either have to
1:50:06
have proof of your DD214 or whatever have you, but they do
1:50:09
do it up here and it's and it's a blessing.
1:50:11
Even our real estate, I don't even play real estate tax being
1:50:13
100% disabled veteran. This is amazing.
1:50:17
And every time there's a Memorial Day or there is
1:50:21
Veteran's Day, there is always a parade honoring and all the
1:50:24
small towns have a tribute to the troops sign of all those of
1:50:29
our town members who have passed by giving their life to the
1:50:33
veterans. It's an amazing thing.
1:50:34
Even Jim Thorpe, I'm telling you, if you ever go to
1:50:37
Pennsylvania, if you ought to go to Jim Thorpe, Jim Thorpe is you
1:50:41
go back in time and it is the most quaint little town, but
1:50:44
their troop supplies of their canyons.
1:50:46
It's it's an amazing place. There's just so many things now.
1:50:49
Next time we do the show. You'll have to, you'll have to
1:50:52
give me the city that you're in so that I can look and see
1:50:56
because you would be surprised how many hidden hidden gems
1:51:01
there are in place. It's just because they just
1:51:04
don't, you know, don't worry about promoting it, you know?
1:51:07
So if those of you who ever heard the wineries in New York,
1:51:09
the Finger Lakes, I'm very close to those I'm very close to.
1:51:12
Elmira, Ithaca and Corning, the glass people.
1:51:15
That is where I'm very close to. OK yeah, all right.
1:51:19
Awesome. Or New York and the old people
1:51:21
hate New York. But I'm.
1:51:23
I'm on the Western New York, so I'm.
1:51:25
On the beautiful side, I'm I'm looking for my, my, my, my.
1:51:32
I'm not very good with this doing the sound and and talking
1:51:38
at the same time. So I apologize for that.
1:51:41
I'm I'm looking for the the final thoughts.
1:51:47
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1:52:16
Need the kind of peace and freedom that.
1:52:17
Only a ride can give. All right, and once.
1:52:22
Again, that is my good friend Kim Thompson, who runs ML
1:52:28
gratitude. And recently a lot of things
1:52:31
have happened this this week, you know, and I'll and I'll
1:52:36
share it, you know, because this is the time where I asked, you
1:52:42
know, what did you learn today and, and, and so far.
1:52:46
So let me ask you a question, MJ.
1:52:48
What? What did you learn today?
1:52:51
I learned that if you have goals that you want to ascertain, you
1:52:55
just put 1 foot in front of the. Other and keep moving forward.
1:52:58
There is so many of us in the military who come back with an
1:53:03
ailment. But if you put your mind and
1:53:05
soul directly into saying that I am healed and I can keep going
1:53:08
forward, no matter if it's a depression, no matter if it's a
1:53:11
PTSD. Look at Doug Wilds.
1:53:14
He was in the hospital for his own depression and his own
1:53:18
problems, and he created that beautiful song.
1:53:21
So that learning should teach all of us.
1:53:24
If your mind, body and soul wants something, it can have it.
1:53:28
You just need to get up and ask for help or get somebody to say,
1:53:33
let's go and push you forward because that's what more of us
1:53:36
need today. Instead of the sulking or
1:53:39
hibernating with anxieties and stress, we need to open up and
1:53:42
say, not me today, Satan, and go forward.
1:53:45
Yeah. And you know the the things that
1:53:49
I've learned. And I just want to reflect on it
1:53:53
about a a week ago. MJ has been here for a year.
1:53:57
Congratulations. You know, I, I, I love it.
1:54:02
I, I really do. I love it.
1:54:04
I love your show. I love.
1:54:05
The vibe. That you bring in the morning,
1:54:07
it totally motivates everybody throughout the day and stuff.
1:54:10
That's why I like doing these morning shows.
1:54:13
It really just you know, kind of trying to help charge you a
1:54:16
little bit. Brings the vibes up baby.
1:54:20
Also, May 18th was. Military broadcast radio's
1:54:24
birthday so. It is basically 20 years old, so
1:54:31
yeah, that looks good stuff. Also, today is my life day long
1:54:40
time ago I tried to take my own life and it didn't work.
1:54:46
And that's the reason why it didn't work, because evidently
1:54:49
from there to now a lot has changed.
1:54:52
And because you found love, you loved yourself.
1:54:56
At the very end, you realized, wait, I love myself.
1:54:59
And that's what it is. People with suicides out there,
1:55:03
you need to love yourself. Don't worry with everything else
1:55:06
around you. Tell them to go the FOA out,
1:55:10
love you, love you. And that man there not only
1:55:14
loves him, he is a giver. I told you in the beginning of
1:55:17
the show about giving veterans are it's very hard because they
1:55:20
are their soul is programmed to give to others, not to receive
1:55:25
to ourselves. That is that's problematic for a
1:55:28
lot of our soldiers who, as Joel will tell you, it was just too
1:55:33
much and what was too much because you have to stop caring
1:55:36
about everybody else. If you don't love you and don't
1:55:39
care for you, you can't not loving care for anybody else.
1:55:42
That is one of the most important things to remember out
1:55:45
there. Indeed, indeed.
1:55:48
You know, So a lot of great stuff has happened.
1:55:51
This week, you know, thank you for letting yourself.
1:55:54
Joel, thank you. And you know.
1:55:59
We want to say congratulations. To Tracer, she is now sit what
1:56:04
what we call the the sitting in VP until you know, we officially
1:56:10
vote her in. A lot of a lot of good things
1:56:15
are are are coming. You know, I want to reiterate
1:56:19
that skydiving if you are a veteran of first responder, yes,
1:56:23
first responder. If you are a veteran of first
1:56:26
responder, send us a testimony, send us a BIOS, send us what
1:56:32
does this junk, what does it mean to you?
1:56:35
If you're giving the opportunity, we are doing that
1:56:40
on July 4th. So get your testimonies, get
1:56:43
your BIOS, get your nominations in before June 15th.
1:56:48
OK, If nobody, if nobody gets nominated, then then all the
1:56:53
hosts for MBR will just jump out of the plane.
1:56:55
So don't let that happen. Get those testimonies and JS
1:57:00
like you think I'm going to jump out of the plane.
1:57:02
I have, I have in the Air Force. I have jumped.
1:57:05
I have jumped. In fact, it was part of.
1:57:08
My spiritual, whatever they said, I need to, I need to go
1:57:12
back and suspend myself. And I was looking at this, I
1:57:16
didn't have access to a jump where I was in Homestead, where
1:57:20
I used to live before I moved back to Pennsylvania.
1:57:23
And so I was looking at the sky zone to make that suspension in
1:57:27
order to kick in a memory that I had out in the deserts.
1:57:31
And I had, and I was trying to recall that.
1:57:34
So sometimes if you put yourself in a memory where you're trying
1:57:36
to recall something and that's what it was.
1:57:39
And so I went to the fly zone to try to suspend myself in order
1:57:42
to recall that memory. So I did jump, Joel.
1:57:47
OK, I jumped from my life, baby. We'll get ready to jump.
1:57:51
Again, if nobody. If nobody.
1:57:52
Comes in that's that's. Usually what we'll do, but.
1:57:55
Usually, usually we get a really good turn out for, for this and
1:58:01
you know, we'll, we'll keep going through things.
1:58:04
We wanted to let you know, we did cancel Buddy Bowl.
1:58:08
We had to either do Buddy Bowl or the skydiving.
1:58:12
And we believe we reach more veterans doing the skydiving.
1:58:17
You know, we, we looked in the emails and stuff, people that we
1:58:21
had for Buddy Bowl. It was like 15 years ago.
1:58:25
So you know, they have arthritis by now.
1:58:27
So we don't have anybody, you know, participants well.
1:58:33
And I just wanted to tell you, thank you so much for being a
1:58:38
battle today and, you know, and covering and helping with me
1:58:43
with the show today because I was a little nervous today, but
1:58:48
I I think we came out nice to clear.
1:58:52
And hey, if you guys like it, which from one of the messages
1:58:56
I'm getting to do, we, we might do this again next Friday.
1:59:00
There you go, everybody from me to you from me and MJ.
1:59:05
Have a safe Memorial Day. If you drink, don't drive.
1:59:08
And if you have kids, don't beat them.
1:59:12
Don't drink anymore. Yes, baby boy.
1:59:14
Yeah. So, ladies and gentlemen.
1:59:18
Once again, here at the Bureau, we're.
1:59:20
Here for you, not for us. We're giving our veterans a
1:59:24
voice. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you
1:59:29
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