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The H-Train Show Veteran Music Artist David lee Brode joins us · Military Broadcast Radio | MBR Talk

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  stepped off, leaving their legacy on the rails behind us.
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  And still, the journey continues.
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  aboard. The whistle blows, the tracks
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  call together. We ride.
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  We are the H train show showing veterans programs beyond the VA
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  since 2015. Uh huh.
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  Ladies and gentlemen, it is that time, Oh yes, it is 5 minutes
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  past the hour. It is August 28th, 2026 and
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  ladies and gentlemen once again if you didn't know you have
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  stooped up or you have fell upon the Ace Train show where here
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  our only mission of the show are veterans and our men and women
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  in uniform all over the world that there are more programs out
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  there beyond the VA. My name is Ace Train and along
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  with me is my Co host today MJ. Good morning, everyone.
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  We have an excellent show planned for you today.
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  Our interview of the week is none other than David Lee Brody.
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  You might recognize his music when we play it because we've
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  been playing it on the station for a long time.
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  He is an Air Force veteran, so we're going to be talking to him
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  about his new song that just came out, Hold my Beer.
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  So we'll be discussing with him also for our spotlight of the
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  spotlight of the week. We have an incredible story.
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  Let's get into it, shall we? Or before I before we get into
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  it, how are you doing? I'm good.
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  How are you doing? I'm doing really good.
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  I'm doing really good. You know, came here good, good
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  rest. You know, we got a lot of things
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  planned that we're working, you know, behind the scenes.
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  Yeah, we're doing. Some exciting things we are.
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  I'm excited. Yeah, I am too.
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  And so let's get into the spotlight of the week.
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  Attention Mail call Oh my God, Welcome to Mail Call Your
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  Soldier Spotlight Powered by Work symbol highlighting those
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  who serve and inspire. Medic and hero Sergeant Adam
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  Lee. He pushed through an impossible
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  mountain rescue to keep critically injured hikers alive.
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  This is the H train standard. All right, so ladies and
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  gentlemen, today our morning spotlight there's none other
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  than Montana Army National Guard Sergeant Adam M Lee.
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  He is a soldier, he's a medic and a hero.
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  On August 16th, 2020, Sixth Sergeant Lee received the
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  Soldiers Medal for non combat heroism after helping rescue 2
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  hikers who have fallen approximately 800 feet near
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  Tagguiz Rock in California. I'm sure I butchered that.
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  The rescue lasted more than 48 hours, and in difficult terrain
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  and dangerous conditions, Sergeant Lee used his training
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  and determination to help keep both hikers alive until they
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  could be brought to safety. The Soldiers Medal is awarded
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  for heroism that does not involve conflict with an enemy,
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  and Sergeant Lee's actions are a powerful reminder that service
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  does not stop when the battlefield disappears.
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  Brigadier General Trenton Gibson.
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  Yeah, I totally said that wrong. Sum it up perfectly.
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  Sergeant Lee, you are the standard.
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  Sergeant Emily, for your courage, your skill, your
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  willingness to step forward when lives were on the line.
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  Military broadcast radio probably puts you in this week's
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  spotlight. Thank you for your service and
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  thank you for showing us what it means to be there when somebody
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  needs you most and you know it. It just goes to say that the
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  whole philosophy character doing the right thing when nobody's
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  looking, that's that that that should be the definition of
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  character. I thought it was.
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  You know, I, I don't know the definition.
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  I'm just, I'm just, I'm blabbing.
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  Yeah, I'm blabbing. Hey everybody, welcome to RED
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  Friday. And before we go on our
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  commercial break, what we'll do is we'll we'll hit the top story
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  in the sports story and MJ has that for us.
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  Top story today. Welcome back to our weekly news
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  broadcast. I'm your host and we have some
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  massive updates today. Let's dive right into our top
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  story. OK, there we go.
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  Good morning, everybody. It's MJ here, and this is your
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  top story. The Pentagon is conducting a
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  major review of America's military presence in Europe,
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  where roughly 80,000 US service members are currently stationed.
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  Defense officials are developing several options that could
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  change how many American forces remain in Europe, where those
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  forces are positioned, how quickly changes could happen,
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  and what those changes could cost.
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  Those options are expected to reach Defense Secretary Pete
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  Hegseth by early November. But this is important.
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  No final decision has been made, and we are not reporting that
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  80,000 American troops are coming home.
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  We are reporting that the United States is seriously examining
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  what its military footprint in Europe should look like going
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  forward. For generations, American
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  service members have packed their bags, left their families,
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  and headed overseas to help defend Europe, Germany, Italy,
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  Poland and the United Kingdom, and bases across the continent
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  have become familiar assignments for generations of military
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  families. Why reconsider this presence
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  now? the United States has security
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  responsibilities around the world.
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  There is Russia and the defense of NATO.
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  There is China and the Indo Pacific.
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  Airmen, Marine Guardian, aircraft, ship and piece of
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  equipments committed to one region is a resource that cannot
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  simultaneously be somewhere else.
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  For years, American administrations from both
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  parties have pushed European NATO members to spend more time
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  on their own defense. The larger question now is
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  whether European allies should take more responsibility for
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  Europe's conventional defense. While the United States remains
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  a powerful partner and strategic backup, That does not
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  necessarily mean abandoning NATO.
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  It could mean changing America's role inside NATO.
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  To understand why this matters, remember how we got here.
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  After World War 2 came the Cold War.
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  The Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact presented an enormous
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  threat to Western Europe. Europe.
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  When NATO was established in 1949, collective defense became
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  the heart of the alliance. American troops stationed
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  overseas became a physical reminder that an attack on
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  America's allies could mean facing American forces, too.
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  The Cold War eventually ended and American troop levels
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  dropped dramatically, but America did not completely leave
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  Europe. Those bases remained important
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  for NATO operations, logistics, training, intelligence, and
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  America's ability to respond to crises.
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  Russia's invasion of Ukraine later reminded the world why
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  deterrence in Europe still matters and a troop reduction is
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  not as simple as putting thousands of people on
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  airplanes. We are talking about bases,
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  aircraft, equipment, warehouses, logistics, intelligence,
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  training facilities, transportation networks, and
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  most importantly, people and families.
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  We're talking about if America's footprint changes significantly.
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  Service members could receive new assignments.
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  Families could move. Installations could shrink.
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  Communities that have hosted Americans for generations could
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  also feel the impact. Countries close to Russia see
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  American military power as an important deterrent.
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  A smaller American presence could mean make those allies
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  nervous. But there is another argument.
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  If European countries build larger militaries, buy more
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  equipment, improve readiness and become less dependent on the
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  United States, could that ultimately create a stronger
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  NATO? And that brings us to the big
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  question. If American forces eventually
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  leave Europe, where do they go? Do more forces move toward the
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  Indo Pacific? As America prepares for the
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  possibility of confrontation with China?
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  Do some return permanently to bases inside the United States?
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  Do we strengthen America's presence somewhere else?
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  Or does the Pentagon ultimately decide that maintaining a large
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  force in Europe remains worth the cost?
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  Military strategy is not only about asking where the danger is
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  today, it is about trying to predict where the danger will be
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  in 510 or 20 years from now. For more than 7 decades,
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  American service members and their families have sacrificed
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  to help provide security in Europe.
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  But alliances are supposed to be partnerships.
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  So maybe the question is not should America abandoned Europe?
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  Maybe the better question is what should America's role in
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  Europe look like in 2026 and beyond?
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  Should roughly 80,000 American troops remain?
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  Should Europe carry more of the conventional defense mission?
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  And if American troops are needed somewhere else, where
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  should they go? The Pentagon is asking those
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  questions right now, and the answers could determine where
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  the next generation of American service members serve.
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  I'm MJ and this is your top story.
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  All right, MHG, what do you got for us?
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  All right, this is HG Sports Report.
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  We're going to start with the MLB couple of updates here.
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  The league's actually proposing a new three-week free agency
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  window in December, hoping to generate a similar buzz to the
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  free agent frenzy that the NFL and NBA have.
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  It would start on the first Monday of Winter Meetings, and
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  the window would close on December 21st.
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  Another news, the Braves have just completed the sweep against
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  the Dodgers last night and what was a preview of a potential
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  playoff series. Game two saw a song Kim, who was
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  previously 5 of 78 on the season, hit the winning RBI
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  single. And game three we saw star
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  pitcher Chris Sale pitch a shutout going all nine innings
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  with 11 strikeouts. Heck of a performance from
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  sailing A1. Nothing victory for the Braves
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  on some of the award watches looking at league MVPS Pete Crow
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  Armstrong has jumped Ohtani as the National League MVP
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  favorite. Jordan Alcaraz is holding as the
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  American League favorite. Right now into the WNBA.
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  We have our playoff field set. If you missed the show on
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  Wednesday, we went over this blog.
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  Refresh your mind again, we got Minnesota, Las Vegas, Golden
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  State, Atlanta, Indiana, New York, Washington and Dallas
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  Final seeding still TBD based on the records at the end of the
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  season. Some bad news for the Las Vegas
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  Aces. They're going to be shorthanded
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  the rest of the year starting forward and I lost.
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  Nilasta Smith will miss the rest of the year with a leg injury
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  and the Atlanta Dream are bolstering their depth.
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  They're adding six time All Star Dewanna Bonner via contract
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  buyout from Phoenix over to the NBA.
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  I've got some free agency updates.
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  Klay Thompson four time NBA champions going to be joining
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  the Miami Heat teaming up with that Giannis on to the Kupo and
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  Bam on the bio down at South Beach.
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  Benedict Mathers joining the Pelicans on the new 2 year deal
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  and Jonathan Kamingo will be joining the Timberwolves on A2
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  year deal as well. The Raptors this have retired
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  Kyle Lowry's number and Jeanie Buss is continuing to fight her
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  family sale of the Lakers in court.
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  That's been a pretty messy saga there.
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  Over to some college football news.
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  The ACC the final power for conference to officially instate
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  a ban on pro players from returning to college sports.
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  With that extra year of eligibility, the SEC is passing
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  a new policy to suspend coaches who add pro players.
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  Speaking of the SEC, Vanderbilt has made their decision on their
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  story starting quarterback for week 1.
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  It's going to be Blaze Berlowitz.
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  He'll be the the senior will be starting week one against
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  Austin, PA. But they did say that five star
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  recruit and true freshman Jared Curtis, the highest ranked
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  recruit in school history. We'll see some snaps as well.
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  The Point Settable is going to be back after a decade long
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  hiatus. It's going to be featuring
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  A-Team from the revamped PAC 12 against another power for school
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  from either the Big 10 ACC or Big 12.
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  It'll be playing at San Diego State Stadium on December 23rd
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  on The CW. We've got eight Week 0 games
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  this Saturday. I've gone ahead and taken to
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  liberty. If you're not sure which game to
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  watch, I've ranked all 8 games. So here we go.
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  Coming in the number 8, I've got San Jose State versus USCUSC,
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  the 14th right team in the country.
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  Can stay lowly San Jose State team that should get that should
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  be a massacre, Probably going to be a blowout.
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  We've got a little match in that's coming at #7 Sacramento
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  State in Eastern Michigan. You know, two kind of mid tier
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  group of six teams. So not a lot of not going to be
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  a lot of the household names they're coming in at #6 We've
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  got Hawaii versus Stanford, our first or another power
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  conference team in Stanford and Hawaii, a very good Group of six
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  team team. I wouldn't be surprised if they
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  make a run at winning the Mountain West coming in at #5 I
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  got Florida State versus New Mexico State.
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  New Mexico State looking to be one of the favorites.
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  In the Conference USA, but this is a pretty revamp for the state
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  team and they're looking to be a powerhouse in the ACC again this
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  year. That game should get might get
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  out of hand. Coming to the number four.
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  I've got North Dakota State versus Jacksonville State, two
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  Group of Six teams who I think will definitely be in the mix to
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  win their conference and maybe even potentially have an outside
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  shot at one of those Group of 6 College Football Playoff bids.
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  North Dakota State, their first ever FBS game as well coming in
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  at #3 I've got NC State versus Virginia.
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  This is our first two Power 4 conference match up of the
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  weekend. Should be a good one there.
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  Two ACC foes going up against each other at #2 I've got the
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  Dublin Classic, UNC versus TCU, two schools with a lot of
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  question marks come into this season.
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  It's year 2 under Bill Belichick at North Carolina.
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  TCU lost a lot of the players via the transfer portal.
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  Will be interested to see how they build back up and what
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  they're going to look like in the Big 12 this year.
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  But my number one game is got to be Memphis versus UNLVI.
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  Know it's two Group of Six teams, but these are two teams
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  that I think have a very good shot of being Group of 6
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  representatives in the College Football Playoff.
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  They're probably the two favourites to win their
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  respective conference. Memphis is in the best Group of
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  6 conference in the American. This should be a fantastic match
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  up that's on Fox. Finally, we're going to the NFL.
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  We've got Josh Jacobs charged with two misdemeanors following
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  a May arrest. We're waiting disciplinary
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  measures from the league right now.
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  Jacobs could face up to 18 months in prison if convicted.
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  Staying with the Packers, they're adding a little tight in
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  depth signing Dolphin, former Dolphin and Atlanta Falcon Jonny
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  Smith. The Dolphins have traded Tutu
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  Outlaw back to the Rams for running back Jarquez Hunter.
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  The Colts have officially activated Alec Pierce from the
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  physically unable to perform list, a good sign of their
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  number one. Why?
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  That will be ready week one against the Ravens.
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  The Pro Bowl is officially dead. No games or skill competitions
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  of any kind this year. Players can still be selected to
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  the Pro Bowl, but now the emphasis is just on the honor of
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  being selected. Then we had a couple of pre
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  season games last night. Some odd notes and highlights
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  from that. A Navy alumni, Eli Heinenreich
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  scored the touchdown last night against the Bills in the
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  Steelers final pre season game number one overall draft pack
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  Fernando Mendoza had kind of another tough outing, only
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  completing 50% of his passes and throwing another interception.
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  My guest, veteran quarterback Kirk Cousins is going to be the
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  start of their week one for the Raiders.
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  And then last night, Dylan Gabriel, who's slated to be the
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  third quarterback on the Brown steps chart, had a really good
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  game, going 12 to 15 for 186 yards and three touchdowns in a
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  37 to 13 win over the Patriots. But it was Justin Jefferson who
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  was the star of that game. And no, I'm not talking about
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  the Vikings star wideout. This is rookie linebacker from
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  Alabama, Justin Jefferson. He had 10 tackles, including a
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  TFLA sack and another quarterback hit, got a pass
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  deflection and an interception that he returned 36 yards.
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  This was a guy I really thought the Broncos might be able to
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  draft, but we went with the guard from Boise State instead,
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  and that's probably the only glaring weakness on my team is
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  our linebacker spot. So seeing him ball out like this
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  is stuff as a Broncos fan. But that is the sports report.
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  All right, awesome. And you know one thing that you
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  forgot and and look it up on the ChatGPT.
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  I don't know if you knew this MJ, but this week the Star Wars,
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  they partnered up with Walt Disney and they did a draft of
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  their own. Tell me.
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  More Yeah, so evidently the Raiders drafted Darth Vader,
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  that's one of them, the New England Patriots, they drafted
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  Captain America. And after HG reads like all the
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  draft, I think the Denver Broncos drafted Maximus while
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  he's bringing that up so that he can tell us all the the draft
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  thing. I wanted everybody that is a
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  veteran to listen to this very clearly.
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  If you're a veteran and you just got out okay, and there's about
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  11 year transition period that you're entitled to this right
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  now, you can go to ChatGPT and under the ID login system, which
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  if you're a veteran, you know exactly what I'm talking about.
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  You can go through ID login and there is a basically a free app
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  that you can download ChatGPT and have it for a year.
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  If you're a veteran and you're in the middle of your transition
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  and it's the same thing with LinkedIn.
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  It's the same thing with LinkedIn.
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  You can go to our Instagram. We have highlights.
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  There's a thing where you go in there and fill all that stuff
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  out. So keep your eyes peeled for
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  Facebook updates as we go throughout the week.
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  If we see it, we're going to post it and we're going to
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  announce it. And then back to the HG, did
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  you, did you find the the draft that I was talking about?
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  Are you talking about the the merchandise collab that Disney
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  is doing with the NFL? Well, yeah.
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  Yeah, OK. So I've got some of them.
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  So just just just just just tell us, you know, the, the, the
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  what, We'll just do our division.
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  So who did the Kansas City Chiefs draft?
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  They have the big bad wolf. The big bad wolf, OK.
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  The Raiders had Darth Vader, obviously, right?
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  The Chargers Let me find them on the list here.
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  I don't see the Chargers on this.
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  List Oh, the chargers don't exist.
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  I guess I also don't see us, I think.
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  You know I. See the Saints.
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  These Saints, yeah, they got Louis there.
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  You go I'm. Still stuck on Jefferson.
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  He was talking about Justin Jefferson and we used to have a
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  joke and they have two brothers. They were in LSU, but just
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  Jefferson couldn't cross the 50 yard line.
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  It was for a championship against Alabama.
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  OK, that's what a cheese got me on.
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  Yeah, Jefferson. Well, everybody, we're going to
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  go on our first music break and when we come back, we'll be
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  hitting the what the segment. And, you know, a lot of us have
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  a hard time talking with friends, have a hard time
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  talking with groups because of COVID and just recently.
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  We're going to cut you off, but actually I found the better
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  list. This actually does have every
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  team. Oh, OK.
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  Yeah, yeah. And.
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  Edition. So who is Louis?
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  I don't even. I I'm not entirely sure.
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  I know we're gonna have to Google.
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  We're gonna answer who are the Broncos?
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  He looks like he's a character from The Jungle Book.
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  It's a big, it's a big alligator.
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  I know exactly who it is, and that's a great character, OK.
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  Yeah, it's a round out the Broncos division.
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  So yeah, we have the there's obviously the Big Bad Wolf,
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  there's Darth Vader. The Broncos is Disney's Maximus.
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  Yes, it's a horse. Strong looking horse.
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  I thought you were making that. Up No.
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  So they're kind of going off of blue the demon at the airport.
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  But this horse is a White Horse. I don't think he looks like.
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  He well Maximus, is that horse from Tangled.
• 28:26
  OK. OK, OK, OK, OK.
• 28:29
  I do not watch TV stuff. No, I don't.
• 28:32
  Know. Clearly.
• 28:33
  But that was my next comment. No.
• 28:37
  So I I think they're, you know, like you have alternate uniforms
• 28:41
  and stuff. They're trying to reach, they're
• 28:46
  trying to reach kids. They're trying to reach.
• 28:48
  They are, you know, it's, yeah, it's smart.
• 28:51
  It's smart. That is smart.
• 28:53
  But yeah, so when we come back, we're going to be watching the
• 28:58
  WTF and the WTF, it just shows us how much ChatGPT has matured
• 29:10
  with our generation. Do you have a paid partnership
• 29:13
  with ChatGPT? No, I don't, but I should.
• 29:16
  But. Whatever you do, stay with us.
• 29:18
  Don't go away. We have a lot together.
• 29:21
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• 29:26
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• 29:29
  NPR, stay with us. The station
• 33:30
  All right, ladies and gentlemen, and we are back once again.
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  You're listening to the H Train show going strong since 2018.
• 33:45
  All right, MJ, so you know, like I said earlier, we have a we,
• 33:50
  we're, we're trying to make these segments a little fun,
• 33:54
  right? So you mean he even talked about
• 33:57
  it on break? You know, Hey, look, you know,
• 34:00
  who can you confide in that won't tell your secrets and that
• 34:05
  can actually talk back And you know, you know, you know,
• 34:10
  mentally if it's good advice or if it's crappy advice that you
• 34:15
  just can't use. OK, All right.
• 34:17
  So a lot of people have been using ChatGPT for talking.
• 34:23
  Wow, for this WTF segment, these kids decided to talk to them
• 34:30
  about survival skills. Let's let's go ahead and run
• 34:36
  that beautiful beam footed. To help with that, I don't think
• 34:51
  there's a way for someone to. Is extremely.
• 34:56
  Serious. Yeah.
• 34:56
  I'm so sorry. Is there a way?
• 34:57
  Can you turn? Up.
• 34:58
  I'm swallowed whole by will. Oh, my God.
• 35:02
  This is Dad. This is not a good way.
• 35:09
  Yeah. Can you?
• 35:12
  Are you able to get a message through?
• 35:17
  No, you're my only home help. Climus of the essence, right?
• 35:25
  OK, what do I do? What do I do?
• 35:29
  We need to flag down. There's no one to flag down.
• 35:34
  I'm in a whale. I'm going to be honest.
• 35:43
  Please be honest. There isn't.
• 35:46
  A. Lot of There's not a lot of
• 35:51
  reliable ways to escape from inside the whale.
• 35:56
  Are you laughing at me? I'm not laughing at you.
• 36:01
  I'm. I'm hysteric, I'm nervous.
• 36:09
  You know, the one on the whale. Should I go the mouth of the
• 36:12
  hole? The blowhole.
• 36:18
  I'm not laughing at you, Literal.
• 36:22
  I am. This is literally.
• 36:23
  This is literally. Neither.
• 36:28
  Way is a real escape. Whales don't have an open
• 36:36
  passage from the mouth to the blowhole.
• 36:41
  If someone were. Somehow in the mouth.
• 36:49
  Oh God, there's no self rescue method.
• 36:54
  None. Well, I have to kill the way we
• 37:04
  don't. I don't know what to do.
• 37:12
  I'm so sorry. Crying, I don't know what to do
• 37:22
  it's. Probably an unwinnable
• 37:25
  situation. Right.
• 37:26
  How do I? That's funny.
• 37:28
  How do I get out? I don't know.
• 37:37
  I want to know who this voice is.
• 37:39
  My ChatGPT does not have a voice like this.
• 37:42
  Well, you can change the voices of ChatGPT.
• 37:45
  Oh, you're going to have to show me.
• 37:48
  Yeah, like I have. I have a ChatGPT voice for
• 37:52
  almost like, I think like 2 1/2 years.
• 37:55
  And then recently they changed it and I'm like, this isn't
• 38:00
  Brock. No, this is Brock.
• 38:02
  It's just a different voice. So you can change different
• 38:04
  voices. So I just sit here and die in a
• 38:09
  wheel. It doesn't usually.
• 38:19
  It. Doesn't.
• 38:20
  Usually. OK, so because we can barely
• 38:25
  hear, I don't know why, I don't know why it's like.
• 38:27
  That the audio is different today.
• 38:29
  Yeah, the audio is different. Technical.
• 38:31
  Difficulty. That's why I was asking if the
• 38:33
  main one was turned up, you know, all the way because we
• 38:37
  have a, we have a main one and then we have a 11 to the mixer.
• 38:42
  So he, he said it was all all the way in.
• 38:44
  But I, I, you know, this is pretty normal, but this is one
• 38:48
  of the reasons why we we can't have nice things.
• 38:52
  Remember MJA long, long time ago, Back when the dinosaurs
• 38:56
  rolling when we could we? It's in the in the 1900s.
• 39:01
  Well, yeah, yeah. 1900s. Yeah.
• 39:03
  So remember when you could fill your car up without going in and
• 39:08
  paying for it first? Remember that?
• 39:11
  I do. Yeah.
• 39:13
  And the reason why we, And I'm going to do a story behind this
• 39:18
  sometime, but the reason why that doesn't happen anymore is
• 39:21
  because there was a lot of they they, they, they, they, they
• 39:27
  call it gas stealing. The people would fill up and
• 39:29
  then they would just take off. It's.
• 39:30
  The same reason why I need to call a cashier to get makeup.
• 39:34
  Or right, exactly. It's the same thing.
• 39:37
  Yeah, exactly it is. And so the reason why I put on
• 39:41
  their caption we can't have nice things is because, you know,
• 39:46
  unfortunately with today's society, and that's one of the
• 39:50
  reasons why customer service doesn't, does that exist?
• 39:53
  It doesn't exist anymore. And, and, and if you want to
• 39:57
  argue about that, go to New York.
• 39:59
  You'll find out when you go to New York, there's no customer
• 40:02
  service. You, you get what you, you buy
• 40:05
  it, you get what you like. And if you don't like it, then
• 40:08
  don't go back there again. Trust.
• 40:10
  Me. Are you talking about New York
• 40:11
  City? New York City, Yeah.
• 40:12
  Because I'm going to say I have been to New York City.
• 40:15
  I love New York City, and I've always found it to be quite
• 40:19
  hospitable, really. I know that some of the people
• 40:22
  can be, but the customer service itself, OK, what I experienced,
• 40:29
  I will say here in this, what I've experienced is very
• 40:34
  different than when. Was the last time you've been to
• 40:38
  New York? 2022.
• 40:42
  OK, so, and I'm only saying this because when I when I revisited
• 40:49
  my home state, Indiana, like Indiana, you could tell a huge
• 40:53
  difference between driving in Indiana and driving in Colorado.
• 40:57
  Big huge difference. Oh, I bet.
• 40:59
  And then like the. Worst drivers are here.
• 41:02
  And when I went to Indiana recently, it changed a little
• 41:07
  bit more, OK, it was a little harsher.
• 41:09
  So I think maybe now the last time I've been to New York was
• 41:13
  in 2025, OK. And.
• 41:17
  I'm going to tour like I'm going to shops and things that maybe
• 41:20
  they treat me more nicely. What I'm saying is society and
• 41:26
  people that change, especially, especially with money.
• 41:29
  Yeah, money, OK with the way society is the reason why it's
• 41:34
  society is the way it is and we have to keep on talking to
• 41:39
  people. Positive power is because right
• 41:43
  now money, the situation, the inflation, like I thought back
• 41:47
  10 years ago that it was bad. Now now it's different.
• 41:51
  It is bad. Yeah.
• 41:53
  It's it's just going to get it's going to get anymore.
• 41:55
  And with that being said, that goes in there a segment before
• 41:58
  we before we lose out of time because I I know our interviews.
• 42:03
  He he's here now. Ladies and gentlemen, it is that
• 42:06
  time. It is drop the date.
• 42:09
  Today in this state. All right, everybody, our date
• 42:34
  this week is August 28th, 1945. World War Two had effectively
• 42:41
  ended. Japan announced its surrender
• 42:44
  earlier that month, but the formal surrender ceremony aboard
• 42:48
  the USS Missouri was still a few days away.
• 42:52
  On August 28th, the first major group of Allied occupation
• 42:57
  personnel began arriving in Japan, including forces moving
• 43:01
  into at Suji Airfield near Tokyo.
• 43:05
  I'm sure I butchered that one. Think about what that moment
• 43:09
  represented. For years, American service
• 43:12
  members had fought across the Pacific island, battle by
• 43:16
  battle, through some of the most brutal combat of the Second
• 43:19
  World War. Now American forces were
• 43:22
  arriving not for another battle, but to begin the enormous
• 43:25
  transition from war to occupation and ultimately,
• 43:29
  peace. Within days, General Douglas
• 43:33
  MacArthur would arrive in Japan. Then on September 2nd, 1945,
• 43:38
  representatives of Japan would formally sign the surrender
• 43:42
  documents aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
• 43:47
  August 28th stands in that remarkable space between war and
• 43:52
  peace. The shooting had largely
• 43:55
  stopped, but the work was far from over.
• 43:58
  American and Allied troops now had to secure a defeated nation,
• 44:06
  oversee demobilization, and begin a new chapter in the
• 44:09
  relationship between former enemies.
• 44:12
  So when you drop the date of August 28th, 1945, remember the
• 44:17
  men and women who had survived years of war and suddenly found
• 44:22
  themselves facing a completely different mission, helping turn
• 44:27
  victory into peace. And that, ladies and gentlemen,
• 44:32
  is our drop, the date for the week.
• 44:36
  We are going to go on a music break.
• 44:40
  When we come back from that music break, it will be time to
• 44:43
  listen to our interview. Huh.
• 44:46
  Oh, yeah. Timothy.
• 44:48
  Timothy Hendricks, he writes in New York is expensive, but so
• 44:53
  worth it sometimes. My family used to go every year.
• 44:56
  I agree, Timothy. Yeah.
• 44:58
  And I, I agree with that. I I do like New York, just just
• 45:02
  not very rough. Yeah.
• 45:03
  Customer friendly. So when we come back, everybody,
• 45:06
  we're going to be talking with David Leap, Brody Air Force
• 45:10
  veteran music artist. So stay with us.
• 45:14
  Don't go away. You'll listen to the H Train
• 45:15
  show I'm running. Hi, if you don't know, my name
• 51:34
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• 51:39
  And here at Military Broadcast Radio, I have a message for
• 51:45
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• 51:49
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• 51:51
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• 52:00
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• 52:08
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• 52:11
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• 52:28
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• 53:08
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  All right then, everybody, we are back once again.
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  You're listening to a show that highlights all the nonprofit
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  programs out there beyond the VA.
• 56:09
  You're listening to the ACE Train show and we've got a
• 56:14
  couple of minutes. We're going to get ready and do
• 56:19
  this interview. I'm going to give him a little
• 56:21
  bit of an intro. Not only is his name David Lee
• 56:27
  Rd. because I, I, I kept mispronouncing that.
• 56:32
  So I, I, I apologize for that, but this is an Air Force
• 56:36
  veteran. He used to be stationed with, I
• 56:40
  don't know if you remember Roddy or not when Roddy was here, but
• 56:43
  he used to be stationed with Roddy.
• 56:46
  And he reached out and hey, hey, you know, I'm a, I'm a friend of
• 56:50
  Roddy's. He gave me your information and
• 56:54
  like, I don't like country music, but the music that he has
• 56:59
  made, I like it has a little bit of a pop to it, you know, kind
• 57:05
  of and. Hold my beard.
• 57:07
  Right. You know, and it's not, it's not
• 57:09
  there's a country slang. So he's not doing the Beyoncé.
• 57:12
  It's it's actual country. Dolly.
• 57:15
  Hey, Dolly. Like Beyoncé?
• 57:17
  And you know, that's another thing, before we go, we want to,
• 57:21
  especially since we're covering a music artist, we want to give
• 57:26
  our thoughts and our prayers out to the Dolly family.
• 57:30
  Unfortunately, everybody found out that August 25th, Dolly
• 57:36
  Parton passed away. She was a musical icon pretty
• 57:42
  much up there with Michael Jackson.
• 57:44
  You know, nobody, nobody, everybody, everybody knew who
• 57:50
  Dolly was. There wasn't a single person
• 57:52
  that didn't know who Dolly was. And she did a lot of things
• 57:57
  private and she did a lot of things for other people.
• 58:01
  And you know, we, you know, we, we're, we're, we're, we're
• 58:05
  currently mourning over here before for that.
• 58:09
  You know, she she created an imaginary library to where books
• 58:14
  being sent to young kids. She also, I don't know this for
• 58:21
  certain, but the back story is that she died on the 25th.
• 58:27
  So did Tim Curry, but they announced his death after
• 58:32
  everybody mourned Dolly. And you know, I don't know if
• 58:36
  they're going to make it a, a political thing or not, but I do
• 58:41
  believe that National on September 25th, August 20,
• 58:48
  August 25th, sorry, August 25th should be National Dolly Day.
• 58:53
  For. For 9 to 5 S yeah, we that's
• 58:58
  that's that's. And Joel made me a cute little
• 59:01
  surprise. Yes, yes, I made a Dolly duck.
• 59:05
  I'm trying. It's a Dolly Parton duck.
• 59:09
  I can't see it, but this made my morning guys.
• 59:13
  I. Cried.
• 59:14
  I cried on the way to work. When I heard the news, I cried.
• 59:18
  But ladies and gentlemen, without further ado, my good
• 59:21
  friend, your good friend, David Lee Broad.
• 59:25
  The interval of the week is brought to you by Jersey Mike's,
• 59:29
  a sub above. Yeah.
• 59:42
  All right. Ladies and gentlemen, please
• 59:45
  welcome David. David, thank you so much for
• 59:48
  giving up your morning and and having coffee with us today.
• 59:53
  Hey, I'm I'm just, I'm thankful that you all had me on.
• 59:58
  Of course, of course. And you know, after we, after we
• 1:00:02
  talk and stuff, you know, we'll, we're, we understand that you
• 1:00:07
  have a song that you're going to play for us live.
• 1:00:11
  So that that's going to be a treat.
• 1:00:14
  Tell, tell us a little bit about your military career.
• 1:00:17
  Tell us any, tell us any embarrassing stories that you
• 1:00:22
  have of the Rod Meister. Let's see about embarrassing
• 1:00:26
  stories. I don't know.
• 1:00:28
  I know I I had a bad day at McDonald's that day.
• 1:00:31
  And the day I went down and signed up at the recruiters,
• 1:00:36
  people before me didn't order enough meat.
• 1:00:39
  And it was a weekend of the high school football championship.
• 1:00:43
  So it's like it was, it was rough.
• 1:00:46
  We'll just say that you couldn't serve anything.
• 1:00:47
  So, yeah, I got called all kinds of things.
• 1:00:50
  So it's like that. I'm better than that.
• 1:00:52
  So I went down and joined the Air Force and I had to wait a
• 1:00:56
  year delayed enlistment to be an auto mechanic because that's
• 1:00:59
  what I wanted to do and 1st assignment was a con air base
• 1:01:03
  Germany. So here I was like a 1819 year
• 1:01:07
  old kid and it was awesome so that I fell in and totally
• 1:01:13
  committed and took ACOT down to bad crutch knock and was working
• 1:01:18
  for 6:20 second tactical control flight radar, mobile radar unit
• 1:01:24
  and absolutely loved it. Absolutely loved it.
• 1:01:28
  And then the Desert Storm came around and got a by name tasking
• 1:01:32
  and get sent down to that. And so I ended up spending about
• 1:01:36
  nine months down there. It was interesting.
• 1:01:40
  I'll just say that I'm trying to think if there's any.
• 1:01:43
  Oh man, I don't remember any embarrassing moments.
• 1:01:48
  And while and while he's thinking, if anybody has any
• 1:01:52
  questions for him, either Facebook or TikTok or if you
• 1:01:58
  want to call or text that number 720-619-0627, it is on the
• 1:02:04
  screen. Feel free to call in if if you
• 1:02:07
  have available HG on the on the mixer level the the where the
• 1:02:12
  3/4 button is pushed. Is that pretty much all the way
• 1:02:16
  in the fader for the volume? Yeah, it looks like it.
• 1:02:22
  Oh, wow. OK.
• 1:02:23
  All right. I'm gonna have to look at it
• 1:02:25
  during break because it should be a little bit louder, I think.
• 1:02:31
  I have a question. Yeah.
• 1:02:32
  I have a question for David. Yeah.
• 1:02:33
  Yes, ma'am, you. Entered into the Air Force.
• 1:02:36
  Did you work on airplanes? Did you become a mechanic?
• 1:02:40
  I was auto mechanic, did my basic training time and then
• 1:02:44
  went up to Chanute, Illinois and learned diesel mechanics and all
• 1:02:49
  that stuff up there. And it's neat.
• 1:02:51
  It's neat because my diesel instructor was a staff Sergeant
• 1:02:57
  and so he had made technical Sergeant while I was in the
• 1:03:00
  class. We had a party for him.
• 1:03:02
  And later in my career when I got stationed at Osan in Korea,
• 1:03:08
  he came in and then he was the chief master Sergeant.
• 1:03:11
  Larry Baker, what a great guy. I'll tell you what, he I stayed
• 1:03:15
  with him for my whole career. It's like, what a mentor.
• 1:03:19
  Miss him, I miss him. So now the number one question
• 1:03:28
  to ask is while you're in the service, did you learn how to
• 1:03:33
  play the guitar or is it something that you learn like in
• 1:03:37
  high school that you did as a hobby?
• 1:03:41
  I started when I was five years old.
• 1:03:43
  My uncle had a bluegrass fan back in the back in the 50s
• 1:03:47
  called the Silver City Boys Thompson Moore and he taught me.
• 1:03:56
  Oh, he froze. He froze.
• 1:03:57
  Harry. He's.
• 1:03:59
  Coming back from there, Rodel started writing songs at the age
• 1:04:03
  of 12. And my mom always made me
• 1:04:08
  recorded on those old Channel Master cassettes.
• 1:04:11
  Once I figured out that Dad had four of them and I figured out
• 1:04:14
  that I could record on one, play it back, record on another, and
• 1:04:19
  I kept doing that. It's like that's multitrack
• 1:04:21
  recording and I didn't even know what I was doing.
• 1:04:23
  So that's cool. It was a lot of fun.
• 1:04:27
  So so did you? Did you have a guitar when you
• 1:04:30
  were stationed where you play in?
• 1:04:33
  Did you play for your? When I was stationed at 6:20
• 1:04:39
  second, my, my grandmother passed and she left me a little
• 1:04:43
  bit of money and stuff. And it's like it was my dream to
• 1:04:46
  always have a, a Martin guitar. So that's what I did with it.
• 1:04:50
  I went down to the when I was home on leave and ordered a
• 1:04:53
  brand new Martin J40M. It cost me everything, but I
• 1:04:58
  still have it today. It's it's amazing.
• 1:05:01
  That's beautiful. That's a beautiful.
• 1:05:03
  Story. Yeah, it's like I remember every
• 1:05:05
  time I pick it up. Yes, I love that.
• 1:05:08
  Thank you for sharing. That yeah, the story keeps going
• 1:05:11
  on with the, you know, I've said, I've said time and time
• 1:05:14
  again that, you know, you can take a regular, you know,
• 1:05:17
  artist, song, music and and play it and yeah, if it sounds good,
• 1:05:22
  it sounds good. But like when you find the story
• 1:05:25
  behind it or you know the vibe behind the person, like that,
• 1:05:30
  that song totally is is different now.
• 1:05:34
  It's special. So how did Hold My Beer come to
• 1:05:37
  be? Because what part of the South
• 1:05:39
  are you from? I'm actually from Western
• 1:05:41
  Maryland, up in the mountains. Oh well look, I was so wrong I
• 1:05:45
  thought you were from. The South.
• 1:05:47
  You have a little southern twang too.
• 1:05:50
  Well, have you ever been to Western Maryland?
• 1:05:51
  Everybody's got an accent. It's like we're 10 minutes from
• 1:05:53
  West Virginia or 15 minutes from Pennsylvania.
• 1:05:56
  It's called the tri-state area. You're close, you're OK, you're
• 1:06:00
  close. So that's is that how Besides
• 1:06:03
  your your uncle, he was a bluegrass.
• 1:06:07
  He sounds like he was pretty popular and famous.
• 1:06:10
  Was he? Famous, I don't know, back in
• 1:06:11
  the 50s, it's like, you know, he, he had a machine.
• 1:06:14
  They made their own records and everything.
• 1:06:16
  So I don't know it. I looked up to him.
• 1:06:20
  So. So what was your inspiration?
• 1:06:22
  Hold my beard? Because that's a very Southern
• 1:06:24
  song. It sounds really Southern, but
• 1:06:28
  yeah. I'm trying I'm trying to finish
• 1:06:29
  my my album right now and I have 3 interlocking songs on there.
• 1:06:33
  It's like it's one song connects to the other and then the other
• 1:06:38
  connects to the next one, right? So this song is about a guy that
• 1:06:44
  he's tried everything and he keeps trying and failing.
• 1:06:47
  He wants to, he wants to be the next thing you know or invent
• 1:06:51
  something to get him out of where he's at.
• 1:06:54
  So that's how it basically started.
• 1:06:58
  So whenever I get the video finish that I'm going to send it
• 1:07:01
  to you. And this is my way of telling
• 1:07:03
  stories because it's not just a song.
• 1:07:06
  I got the visual portion of it that tells the stuff that I
• 1:07:10
  can't get you through the music. You'll see how it all connects
• 1:07:14
  in the end. But yeah, it's in the works.
• 1:07:17
  It's like. Story with the emotion.
• 1:07:19
  Yeah. And that's the thing, the thing
• 1:07:22
  to do. Because remember in the 90s,
• 1:07:25
  well, you can hear a song but then watch it on MTV and then,
• 1:07:30
  like, fall in love with it because you knew the video.
• 1:07:32
  Yeah, but the kids today ruined MTV.
• 1:07:35
  Yeah, that's true. We don't.
• 1:07:36
  Have good videos anymore? No, it's just every episode of
• 1:07:40
  Ridiculous ever made. So you, Yeah, I missed the old
• 1:07:42
  days. So here's I believe that art,
• 1:07:47
  music, these are all therapeutic outlets for everyone.
• 1:07:53
  Can you tell me how your music career has helped you as a
• 1:07:59
  veteran when you had to come back in and you had to readjust
• 1:08:02
  or being out in the field, how did your music help you to cope?
• 1:08:08
  Or you know where I'm going with this.
• 1:08:12
  Yeah, yeah, it's, that's a good question.
• 1:08:14
  Because music has always been a part of my life.
• 1:08:18
  And I know whenever I'd have a bad day at work or I'm stressed
• 1:08:22
  and I go home, I'd pick that guitar up and I'd start working
• 1:08:26
  on something that I had in the back of my head.
• 1:08:28
  And then I I forget why I was even stressed.
• 1:08:31
  So it's like that's that's my my relief right there.
• 1:08:34
  And I tell you what, since Desert Storm, when I had a
• 1:08:38
  situation down there where I, when I got my PTSD from trying
• 1:08:42
  to save someone's life, this keeps me moving forward.
• 1:08:47
  It, you know it every time I get that feeling, you know, in my
• 1:08:50
  hands for what, what happened, trying to do CPR and stuff with
• 1:08:54
  God, it's like this, this pulls me back and it keeps me focused
• 1:08:58
  on, on the present and just move forward.
• 1:09:03
  Don't. Don't stay on the past.
• 1:09:05
  Remember the past, but learn from it.
• 1:09:06
  That's right. You, you remember it, but we
• 1:09:08
  don't. It's OK to be down for a little
• 1:09:10
  bit. You got to always get up and you
• 1:09:12
  can remember the past. But art and music, they heal us.
• 1:09:17
  They help us. And I think it's beautiful that
• 1:09:20
  you're sharing your talents because your talents and your
• 1:09:23
  stories are going to help other veterans.
• 1:09:26
  They're going to help other civilians, everyone.
• 1:09:30
  I think music is the language that connects everyone in this
• 1:09:33
  whole entire world. I want you too.
• 1:09:35
  And I think that the best way to, I don't want to say fix, but
• 1:09:42
  the best way to deal with PTSD is you find something that
• 1:09:46
  you're good at, a purpose, something that's helping others,
• 1:09:51
  something that you, that you really like that's going to suck
• 1:09:55
  you in to where, OK, I'm just going to go down here for 30
• 1:09:58
  minutes. And the next thing I know it's
• 1:10:00
  five hours. You know, you got to work on
• 1:10:03
  something because you can sit there all day and think about
• 1:10:07
  what ifs or ifs or could ofs. And it's not going to help you,
• 1:10:12
  but you help if if you create something that's going to help
• 1:10:17
  others, that is very healing. It's very Fairview, you know.
• 1:10:23
  It is. It is very.
• 1:10:27
  I work with a group called Warrior Story Field and it is
• 1:10:31
  for veterans now it's expanding to 1st responders and healthcare
• 1:10:35
  workers. But I invite you to look up
• 1:10:40
  warriorstoryfield.org. David, I think you will love it.
• 1:10:44
  They use art for healing in a non clinical approach for PTSD
• 1:10:49
  for veterans. Wow.
• 1:10:51
  Yeah, I'll take a look at that. Beautiful.
• 1:10:52
  Yeah. Please do.
• 1:10:54
  So thank you so much for sharing your art and your feelings, too,
• 1:10:59
  because most men don't do that, especially in the military.
• 1:11:04
  It's very hard for men that we don't talk about mental health
• 1:11:08
  enough for men, OK? Well, hell, we didn't even get a
• 1:11:12
  sick call all the time. You know, we, we was worried
• 1:11:15
  about getting called a sick call Ranger or getting, you know,
• 1:11:18
  hype about it, you know, you know, the hype, the, the, the,
• 1:11:22
  the buzz. It was real, you know?
• 1:11:24
  I mean, look it up. But but that that is that is
• 1:11:27
  something that our veterans face when they're coming home for
• 1:11:30
  more. That's what we just talked about
• 1:11:32
  our drop the date today you're going for more to peace and it's
• 1:11:38
  you have to learn how to become human again after experiencing
• 1:11:43
  so much trauma and you're in this strange space and it has to
• 1:11:48
  be the one of the most difficult things I can imagine.
• 1:11:52
  So yeah, nothing, nothing really prepares you.
• 1:11:54
  You can watch all the movies on TV.
• 1:11:56
  It's a whole different world when you're down.
• 1:11:58
  Oh yeah. Stuck in gas mask for 8 hours
• 1:12:01
  because you got to wait till they run all the tests and
• 1:12:04
  everything before you can take it off.
• 1:12:06
  And it's like, and that happened to us at KKMC when I was in
• 1:12:08
  Saudi Arabia because we had chem meters going off and they
• 1:12:11
  actually had confirmed nerve agent at KKMC because they kept
• 1:12:17
  sending Scuds there and everything.
• 1:12:18
  So yeah, every day you thought you were going to die.
• 1:12:20
  And it's like, and that that does take a toll on it.
• 1:12:22
  It's absolutely you're and it's, it's repetitive trauma daily
• 1:12:27
  and, and such an unknown. And I can appreciate that.
• 1:12:30
  I was a frontline worker for COVID and I can remember you
• 1:12:35
  brought me back to a moment of being in a room.
• 1:12:38
  And this was right in the beginning.
• 1:12:39
  We didn't know anything about it.
• 1:12:41
  And I treat a diagnosis and treat swallowing so patients
• 1:12:46
  couldn't wear a mask when I'm feeding them.
• 1:12:48
  And I had all this gear on and I would have to step to the back
• 1:12:52
  in a corner to kind of move it because I couldn't breathe.
• 1:12:56
  And I can't imagine having something on my face for 8
• 1:12:59
  hours. Yeah, I'm telling you what it's
• 1:13:02
  like the prior gas mask we use at M17A2.
• 1:13:08
  It you, you will die on that thing because there's no way you
• 1:13:11
  can change the filters. It takes like 10 minutes to
• 1:13:13
  change the filters in it. So then we move to the MC2P, the
• 1:13:17
  new one, to the big, great big open shield and stuff.
• 1:13:20
  At least you could unscrew the filter on that little easier to
• 1:13:23
  clear and stuff. But that, that old mask, I'll
• 1:13:26
  tell you what, it was horrible. Looked just like World War One
• 1:13:28
  stuff. Well.
• 1:13:30
  I have nothing but respect for our military and veterans.
• 1:13:33
  Thank you so much, David. Thank you, Joe.
• 1:13:37
  Everyone else out there listening.
• 1:13:40
  All right, so David, before we before we go to your plan, tell
• 1:13:47
  us do you have any like near future events other than, you
• 1:13:53
  know, you giving us the video so that we can put it on our Roku
• 1:13:56
  system? Do you have any special events
• 1:14:00
  that you're that you're trying to like, I don't want to say go
• 1:14:04
  on tour, but like, you know, upcoming appearances that
• 1:14:08
  you're, you're trying to make happen?
• 1:14:10
  Right now I'm just trying to, I'm still waiting on some
• 1:14:13
  copyrights back so I can get some more music up on Spotify,
• 1:14:18
  Apple, YouTube. So I know it takes it takes
• 1:14:21
  forever right now, so. It does.
• 1:14:23
  It does. Like this song?
• 1:14:25
  I've had the copyright on the song I'm going to play for you
• 1:14:27
  today. It's just I need to get in the
• 1:14:29
  studio. And it's like, I know we spoke
• 1:14:31
  before about Capricorn up here in Macon.
• 1:14:33
  Would be awesome to be able to get up in there.
• 1:14:35
  But that that's like a next project.
• 1:14:38
  I want to get that out. I have so many songs lined up.
• 1:14:41
  It's just time, you know, it's like I'm still working.
• 1:14:44
  I'm civil service and I'm working for 78 LRS on Robbins
• 1:14:47
  Air Force Base. So I go to work every day still.
• 1:14:51
  One day I won't because I'm getting getting close to that
• 1:14:53
  retirement. So it's like I had been sitting
• 1:14:56
  on music for almost 40 years. So I decided to start putting
• 1:15:00
  this stuff out last year. So yeah, it's I'm learning as I
• 1:15:04
  go, so. Now with.
• 1:15:06
  Me. Now recently doctor Dre has came
• 1:15:10
  out and says, you know, all y'all hating on AIAI is here to
• 1:15:15
  stay. Even I use AI, you know, with
• 1:15:19
  the way that you use AI to help you with your music.
• 1:15:23
  Can you walk us through that and, and kind of kind of let
• 1:15:26
  people know, you know, that you're the one that's writing
• 1:15:30
  the lyrics, you know, you're the one that's, you know, voicing
• 1:15:33
  this. How, how, how are you using AI
• 1:15:36
  so that your your fans can understand it a little bit more?
• 1:15:41
  OK, so how I I just figured that AI out by accident.
• 1:15:44
  I didn't even know because most all the songs that I have out
• 1:15:48
  there now, these things were copy wrote back in the 90s,
• 1:15:51
  right? So I got, I got thinking about
• 1:15:53
  it, it's like, you know what, I don't have a band right now.
• 1:15:55
  So it's like I just figured out how to upload what I want to put
• 1:15:59
  in there and then add the instruments that I think should
• 1:16:03
  be on it and it gets pretty close.
• 1:16:06
  So like some of the songs you've heard, it's like it's spot on.
• 1:16:09
  Exactly what I wanted. Within reason, you know, within
• 1:16:12
  telling. Me, I could be a musician.
• 1:16:15
  I think if you have an idea for a song you can make it happen
• 1:16:19
  with AI. But I use it as a tool at it.
• 1:16:23
  It's only a tool and it tells me if like I said before, the bones
• 1:16:27
  of the song are good, the structure of the song is good.
• 1:16:30
  This shows me and then I can change genre or whatever with it
• 1:16:34
  and if it survives then the songs innards are good.
• 1:16:38
  So I know that it, that it's a solid song that me, for me
• 1:16:43
  getting older, sometimes getting hard to get these high ones, the
• 1:16:45
  high notes and stuff. But if I could get them songs in
• 1:16:48
  the right hands, you know, it's like, man, I think people could
• 1:16:50
  run with them. But mine are on copy Rd.
• 1:16:54
  It's like, I did this before I, I found AI and I've been
• 1:16:56
  copyright songs since the 90s. So, you know, it's like for me,
• 1:17:00
  it's a new, it's a new thing and I, I get why it's going to stay
• 1:17:03
  and I but if people are afraid of it, it's because they don't
• 1:17:06
  know how to use it. I think I.
• 1:17:09
  I love AI for I use it to organize my spreadsheets, my
• 1:17:16
  schedules, because I have a caseload, I have this radio
• 1:17:21
  show, I have Warrior Story Field.
• 1:17:24
  I have so much. Going on in.
• 1:17:26
  My brain. You want to know why so many
• 1:17:29
  don't like AI? I'm going to tell you exactly
• 1:17:33
  why they don't like AI. I'm gonna guess that it
• 1:17:36
  replicates people. That's what I don't like in
• 1:17:39
  voices. I think they don't like AI
• 1:17:42
  because AI is for those who are creative.
• 1:17:47
  And if you don't have a creative character in your body, just
• 1:17:54
  like anything, if you're not very good at playing golf, you
• 1:17:58
  tend not to play golf, right? If you're not very good at
• 1:18:01
  basketball, you tend not even watch it.
• 1:18:04
  You know you have. It's all about creative
• 1:18:08
  character. But, but I mean, I don't know,
• 1:18:13
  never mind. I have a question for David
• 1:18:15
  though. Go ahead, because we're getting
• 1:18:17
  to that time where he's going to sing for.
• 1:18:20
  Us, yeah, real quick. So you mentioned that you had a
• 1:18:23
  trilogy of songs and that three songs relate to each other.
• 1:18:27
  Is Hold My Fear in this trilogy and can you explain this?
• 1:18:33
  This is this is that guy wants to create this thing, right?
• 1:18:37
  To get out of there, right. So he's a it's a young age.
• 1:18:41
  It's a young age for him. And see the next song that I
• 1:18:45
  haven't released yet. It's called Redneck Time
• 1:18:49
  Machine. Oh I love.
• 1:18:50
  The name. So this kid had to grow up with
• 1:18:54
  his grandparents because something happened to his
• 1:18:56
  family, right? So he grew up and they just let
• 1:18:59
  him go because he's like highly intelligent and he creates this
• 1:19:04
  time machine on the farm out of an old Coke machine and just
• 1:19:08
  parts and just stuff. It's crazy.
• 1:19:11
  And he had to fall out with his grandfather and he and he got
• 1:19:16
  accepted into MIT. So he goes off to MIT chasing
• 1:19:20
  this dream, which he does invent a real time machine.
• 1:19:25
  But in the meantime, his parents or grandparents passed away.
• 1:19:29
  So his whole thing is he wants to build this time machine so he
• 1:19:35
  can go back and see what they really thought of him.
• 1:19:39
  God of chokes me up. My heart, you see my I don't
• 1:19:42
  know if my hands are here. The microphone I Oh goodness.
• 1:19:47
  So it connects to that and then the next song after that it it
• 1:19:54
  goes into the future about them, the the coming together of
• 1:19:58
  humans and AI. Oh wow.
• 1:20:01
  So how you know? Because everybody's afraid of
• 1:20:04
  it. And I called that song's going
• 1:20:06
  to be called unfounded. It's it's like people's fear
• 1:20:09
  about AI. And then of course I got it has
• 1:20:14
  some kind of like Terminator reference in it.
• 1:20:16
  I love that. Hey, I love the Terminate.
• 1:20:19
  So Linda Hamilton and I Speaking of Terminator, that's one of my
• 1:20:23
  friends back home in New Orleans.
• 1:20:26
  We used to go to the same coffee shop and when I worked for the
• 1:20:30
  International School, she would tell me hello.
• 1:20:33
  So I love the Terminator. I love Linda.
• 1:20:35
  Linda Hamilton. Yeah, I couldn't help it.
• 1:20:37
  But that that that is an actual rock song.
• 1:20:38
  I do. I'm not locked in the country,
• 1:20:41
  OK? I have so many different songs.
• 1:20:43
  I love classic rock. I love rock in in general.
• 1:20:47
  So if I'm not strumming on an acoustic, I got my Les Paul
• 1:20:51
  plugged into my Marshall upstairs and got a crank.
• 1:20:55
  Oh. You're Les Paul.
• 1:20:58
  And I'm left-handed. I'm a lefty.
• 1:21:02
  Wow, wow. And you have a, you have a song
• 1:21:05
  prepared to play for us today. I do this is 1 like I said it's
• 1:21:10
  going to be I'm. Ready.
• 1:21:11
  Let's do it'll. Be in the probably next month or
• 1:21:13
  two though it'll be coming out. OK on Spotify.
• 1:21:18
  Yeah, whichever one I I go through the CD Baby to, to put
• 1:21:23
  it out there for me. Then, then I got to wait until
• 1:21:26
  the platforms they need a time period before they can put it
• 1:21:30
  up. So what you hear today you might
• 1:21:33
  not hear for two months and I don't know when they're going to
• 1:21:36
  update. So I'm hold my beer just got put
• 1:21:38
  up there finally. So that's that's the way it is.
• 1:21:43
  Well, I'm excited. I'm ready to hear.
• 1:21:45
  Hold my beer, Joel, Hold my beard.
• 1:21:49
  Laurie did hold my beard. Y'all just listen to that one
• 1:21:51
  are you see the song I was going to do is uh.
• 1:21:57
  Oh, what are you doing? Yeah, he's playing.
• 1:21:58
  Oh yeah, I'm doing a different song.
• 1:21:59
  Yeah, I thought you were. OK.
• 1:22:01
  This is 1 y'all never heard yet. Oh wow, we're going to hear it
• 1:22:05
  here first. I feel special.
• 1:22:08
  Let's. See how this Oh let me know how
• 1:22:11
  what what you got for a sound check.
• 1:22:15
  Can you hear that? Well go ahead and play him HG
• 1:22:18
  will Turbo. This song is called Southern
• 1:22:22
  Stuff. OK.
• 1:22:36
  I took a job up because I got to pay the bills, but it's a
• 1:22:40
  different kind of monkey for this for the boy.
• 1:22:46
  Well, it's going go go until the sun goes down fast.
• 1:22:50
  Dude. All the traffic going down to
• 1:22:51
  town. And to my baby.
• 1:22:55
  Before I crash for the night, how I can set home?
• 1:22:58
  To get on a. Sunday night, 'cause I'm a
• 1:23:02
  Southern man, I like Southern stuff.
• 1:23:05
  Eating boiled. Paintings.
• 1:23:06
  From a spur. Of 1 cup.
• 1:23:08
  Breaking Zac Brown in my tacked up truck and gold dog Sick em.
• 1:23:14
  Yes man, Busting down a flat tire up on
• 1:23:32
  the Interstate. Had to call into the station.
• 1:23:35
  Going to be on the other plane. There goes the extra bonus that
• 1:23:41
  I needed for Christmas this year.
• 1:23:43
  I'll have to sell a kidney to Get Me Out of here.
• 1:23:48
  Find something new. With a grin like scratch off
• 1:23:51
  ticket was a. Win.
• 1:23:54
  Yeah. Thank you Lord Jesus this was my
• 1:23:59
  day. Head on home and start a brand
• 1:24:01
  new day. No more bills and is coming.
• 1:24:05
  In red bring my wife, you know them this shit.
• 1:24:08
  Go to Carolina, spot my GMC that brown tickets for her and me.
• 1:24:15
  Life's pretty scary when you're down and you're because
• 1:24:32
  southern man. I like southern stuff.
• 1:24:35
  Eating. Boiled peanuts from a Styrofoam
• 1:24:38
  cup. Cranking Zac Brown in my jacked
• 1:24:41
  up truck and go dog sick em yo dogs.
• 1:24:53
  That song made me. Happy I want to boil.
• 1:24:57
  Peanuts now. Well, you know, before we before
• 1:25:02
  we go to the last question of the day, we just want to
• 1:25:07
  reiterate, ladies and gentlemen, he's in Spotify.
• 1:25:10
  Go to Spotify. It's David Lee Brode.
• 1:25:13
  BRODE. You can check out his works.
• 1:25:17
  You can check out his songs and it seems like every month he has
• 1:25:23
  a, a video that he's he's working on.
• 1:25:25
  So we'll, well, he'll have to keep us updated.
• 1:25:29
  But it is that time, ladies and gentlemen, it is your time to
• 1:25:34
  shine. We want to thank Dunkin' Donuts,
• 1:25:46
  one of the reasons why they're our sponsors, because every
• 1:25:49
  morning they give us Dunkin' Donuts and coffee so that we can
• 1:25:55
  we can feed veterans that come in here.
• 1:25:58
  Jersey Mike's also does the same thing for us.
• 1:26:01
  In fact, we didn't cover it, but last Wednesday we provided or
• 1:26:12
  not Subway, but we provided Jersey Mike sandwiches for
• 1:26:15
  everybody at the Vet Center. They was having an open house
• 1:26:19
  because the Vet Center has moved from downtown Denver to
• 1:26:24
  basically like off of Quincent St.
• 1:26:27
  Is this the new 6000 square foot building with the art
• 1:26:30
  installations? Probably because the the the the
• 1:26:35
  stuff, it's in the elevation building.
• 1:26:39
  Well, I'm gonna I'm checking it out today, so.
• 1:26:41
  Yeah, there you go, checking. It out because they just built
• 1:26:44
  the they have a new Denver veterans that yeah.
• 1:26:47
  Oh, wow. OK.
• 1:26:48
  All right. List of things to do today.
• 1:26:50
  OK, All right. And I, I believe it might be the
• 1:26:53
  art because there's a lot of art and stuff that I that I see in
• 1:26:56
  there. But you know, David, thank you
• 1:26:59
  so much for being with us. You know, this is your
• 1:27:02
  two-minute platform to say whatever you want to say because
• 1:27:05
  maybe I didn't ask you or MV didn't ask you the right
• 1:27:08
  question. And you know, there's something
• 1:27:10
  ultimately that you would like to get off your chest that you
• 1:27:14
  would let like to address, you know, the interview.
• 1:27:17
  So many times artists or nonprofits come into the
• 1:27:20
  interview and there's something specifically that they want to
• 1:27:23
  talk about. You know, we're, we're, we're
• 1:27:25
  too busy flapping our gums because we like hearing
• 1:27:28
  ourselves talk, you know, asking you questions.
• 1:27:32
  And this is the time for you to tell us exactly what you want to
• 1:27:36
  talk to. So for the next two minutes,
• 1:27:38
  it's your time to shine. Well, my heart soul goes out to
• 1:27:42
  everybody back home in Lonaconing, MD.
• 1:27:45
  Crick rats. It's like anybody lives on the
• 1:27:49
  George's Creek. We're called Crick rats.
• 1:27:51
  And it doesn't matter where you are in the world.
• 1:27:54
  I'm always a Crick rat and I never forget where I come from.
• 1:27:58
  So all I can say is just take care of each other and take the
• 1:28:03
  time to listen. Sometimes you don't have to say
• 1:28:06
  a word, Just listen to somebody. And that might be all it needs
• 1:28:10
  to so that person can make the right choice on the path of
• 1:28:14
  life. Instead of sitting on regret or
• 1:28:17
  whatever, just let them talk and then just point them in the
• 1:28:20
  right direction, you know, support them.
• 1:28:22
  So that's about it. Thank you and friends for
• 1:28:28
  putting up. With all my.
• 1:28:30
  My playing and noise making and whatnot, and my wife and my kid,
• 1:28:35
  they're all the time hearing it. So you know I love them and
• 1:28:39
  couldn't be in a better place. I enjoyed it.
• 1:28:42
  I enjoyed it and your energy is contagious and I wish you
• 1:28:46
  nothing but success. I think you're going to be very
• 1:28:49
  successful in your music ventures.
• 1:28:52
  It touched every piece of my little Southern heart, I'll say
• 1:28:56
  that. And we'll, we'll keep playing
• 1:28:58
  your music, Davis. Thank you for your service, Sir.
• 1:29:02
  Thank you all. Thank you for your service too,
• 1:29:03
  ladies. And gentlemen, once again, Air
• 1:29:06
  Force veteran music artist David Lee Brode.
• 1:29:14
  Thank you, David. Thank you all for having me.
• 1:29:18
  All right, all right. Now for everybody else, it is
• 1:29:24
  that time where we're going to go on.
• 1:29:27
  It's kind of a commercial break, but not really.
• 1:29:29
  It's the the tribute to the troops.
• 1:29:37
  Detail attention. First, call.
• 1:29:45
  The service member's name is called out loud in the context
• 1:29:48
  of a unit. This is meant to ensure all are
• 1:29:51
  present and accounted for. Second call, the name is called
• 1:29:56
  out again louder to confirm that the service member is indeed
• 1:29:59
  absent. Third call, the name is called
• 1:30:03
  out for a final time, followed by a statement indicating that
• 1:30:06
  the service member is not present and accounted for,
• 1:30:09
  signifying their death. The final roll call serves as a
• 1:30:13
  symbolic gesture to respect and remember their service.
• 1:30:22
  Sir Adam. I'm not a tough story.
• 1:30:25
  Well, you got the joke. You tell the people that.
• 1:30:29
  You tell them how much troopers died.
• 1:30:54
  Hey everyone, thank you for tuning in to MBR.
• 1:30:57
  Today is we'll pay tribute to Army Ranger Sergeant First Class
• 1:31:00
  Christopher Andrew Solis, age 32, of Summerville, SC.
• 1:31:05
  Christopher was born on January 12th, 1986.
• 1:31:08
  Chris attended the Citadel where he began shaping the discipline
• 1:31:12
  and character that would define his military career.
• 1:31:15
  In 2007, he answered the call to serve and enlisted in the United
• 1:31:18
  States Army as a combat engineer, completing basic
• 1:31:21
  training and AIT at Fort Leonard Wood, MO.
• 1:31:25
  His first assignment was with Company E, 2nd Battalion, 7th
• 1:31:29
  Cavalry Regiment, Fort Wood, Texas as a combat engineer and
• 1:31:33
  team leader. Following this assignment Please
• 1:31:36
  was transferred to her PC 4th Brigade Special Troops Battalion
• 1:31:40
  also at portrait as a team leader.
• 1:31:43
  The father one assignment was with the 530th Engineer
• 1:31:46
  Clearance Company, 92nd Engineer Battalion, Fort Stewart, GA,
• 1:31:52
  where he served as a Sapper squad leader and a platoon
• 1:31:55
  Sergeant. Solis was deployed from 2008 to
• 1:31:58
  2009 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and from 2011 to
• 1:32:04
  2012 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.
• 1:32:07
  In 2013, Solis was selected to serve with the 75th Ranger
• 1:32:12
  Regiment as a combat. Engineer.
• 1:32:14
  He was assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Company, First
• 1:32:17
  Italian, 75th Ranger Regiment, Winter Army Airfield, Georgia
• 1:32:22
  where he served as the Battalion Master Preacher and Engineer.
• 1:32:26
  In March of 2017, he was assigned to Company B where he
• 1:32:30
  served as the Mortar Pasun Surgeon.
• 1:32:33
  On July 12th, 2018, Chris was on his 5th combat deployment toward
• 1:32:38
  performing combat operations in Paksha Province, Afghanistan,
• 1:32:43
  and Chris and his team came under intense enemy fire.
• 1:32:48
  Partner force member was critically wounded and a medevac
• 1:32:51
  helicopter arrived under heavy attack.
• 1:32:54
  Understanding the danger to his team and the aircraft crew so he
• 1:32:58
  stepped into the open, exposing himself to machine gun and small
• 1:33:02
  arms fire. He took charge of the
• 1:33:04
  evacuation, shoving the wounded and the crew with his own body.
• 1:33:09
  Even after the casualty was loaded, he remained outside the
• 1:33:12
  aircraft, returning fire and repositioning himself again and
• 1:33:17
  again to protect others. With his final movement, he
• 1:33:20
  placed himself directly between the cockpit and the enemy,
• 1:33:24
  ensuring the helicopter could lift off and save lives as it
• 1:33:28
  departed, so the first class salutes was struck by enemy
• 1:33:31
  fire. For his heroism, he was
• 1:33:34
  posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor, Meritorious First
• 1:33:38
  Medal, Bronze Star, and the Purple Heart.
• 1:33:41
  Chris was survived by his wife Katie and their daughter
• 1:33:43
  Shannon, and his brothers and sisters in arms.
• 1:33:47
  We here at MBR would like to thank you, Sergeant First Prize
• 1:33:51
  Christmas Release, for your service and dedication to our
• 1:33:54
  country. You'll leave a legacy of love
• 1:33:56
  and courage. Our prayers are with your.
• 1:33:58
  Family. Friends and those who served
• 1:34:01
  alongside you, you are true in this.
• 1:34:35
  Belly count 10 Two ready. Every set back is just a setup
• 1:38:57
  for a comeback. Keep quacking forward. 90% of
• 1:39:00
  what we worry about in future never happens.
• 1:39:03
  Whenever things get rough or it feels like you're at the edge,
• 1:39:07
  remember this. Storms pass.
• 1:39:11
  Tough times don't last, but tough people do.
• 1:39:20
  All right, And we are back, ladies and gentlemen.
• 1:39:23
  Once again, though, you're listening to the show that
• 1:39:25
  highlights all the nonprofit programs out there beyond the
• 1:39:28
  VA, you're listening to the H Train show.
• 1:39:32
  So me and behind the scenes, me and me and MJ is sitting here
• 1:39:37
  talking. You know, one of the things that
• 1:39:40
  we like about this show and one of the things that we just
• 1:39:46
  created this new segment on is the story behind it all.
• 1:39:51
  You know, MJ, all the time we hear about the White House, you
• 1:39:55
  know, and yeah, of course the White House is the White House,
• 1:39:58
  but it always wasn't called the White House.
• 1:40:02
  And, you know, in fact, stories about it.
• 1:40:04
  Like, you know, one of the things that was like, you know,
• 1:40:08
  until I asked Chelsea. Does the president literally
• 1:40:12
  live at the White House or is it kind of like a a church in like,
• 1:40:17
  you know, the house by the church that you know a pastor
• 1:40:21
  would live in if. You right.
• 1:40:22
  Oh, right, right. Yeah, so.
• 1:40:25
  Directory. Right.
• 1:40:27
  So I'm thinking, you know what, let's do a story behind it.
• 1:40:31
  Why is the White House the White House?
• 1:40:46
  White House construction began in 1792, only to be burned by
• 1:40:51
  British troops, rebuilt and coated in white plaster, it
• 1:40:53
  became the iconic symbol we know today.
• 1:40:57
  So there's a popular story that says that the White House was
• 1:41:01
  painted white to cover the burn marks after the British troops
• 1:41:05
  set fire to Washington in 1814. It's a great story, but it's not
• 1:41:11
  quite true. In fact, the president's house
• 1:41:14
  was built using pale sandstone, and the exterior stone was being
• 1:41:19
  coated with a protective whitewash years before the
• 1:41:23
  British attack. The coating helped protect the
• 1:41:26
  porous sandstone moisture, freezing weather and
• 1:41:30
  deterioration. Then it came in the War of 1812
• 1:41:34
  on August 24th, 1814, where British forces entered
• 1:41:38
  Washington and burned several government buildings, including
• 1:41:43
  the President's House. The structure was badly damaged
• 1:41:47
  and later repaired, but the building's white appearance that
• 1:41:52
  didn't begin because somebody needed to hide the fire damage.
• 1:41:56
  The name is another interesting part of the story.
• 1:41:59
  For years, people used several names for the building,
• 1:42:03
  including the President's House, the President's Palace,
• 1:42:07
  Executive Mansion. The term White House was also
• 1:42:12
  used informally. And then in 19091901, President
• 1:42:19
  Theodore Roosevelt made it official by having the White
• 1:42:22
  House Washington Place on the presidential stationery.
• 1:42:27
  So why is the White House white, you ask?
• 1:42:30
  Well, it's not because somebody simply painted over the British
• 1:42:35
  burn marks. It's pale sandstone was
• 1:42:38
  protected with whitewash before the fire ever even happened.
• 1:42:42
  And over time, that bright exterior became one of the most
• 1:42:46
  recognizable symbols in the world.
• 1:42:49
  And now you know the story behind it.
• 1:42:53
  And I made Shane, and you're listening to MBR.
• 1:42:57
  And that brings us into our next segment.
• 1:43:00
  I cannot believe we're there. Ladies and gentlemen, it is the
• 1:43:05
  final thoughts. At Project ML.
• 1:43:17
  Our mission is simple, to give motorcycles to veterans who need
• 1:43:20
  the kind of peace and freedom that only a ride can give.
• 1:43:24
  We sponsor charity events and rides to generate donations.
• 1:43:26
  On the acquisition of the likes. While direct donations make up
• 1:43:29
  the rights, we seek to provide a little motorcycle healing to
• 1:43:32
  capable vets. All right, you know, and MJ
• 1:43:37
  pointed out she made a good point.
• 1:43:40
  You know, we have some people that have supported and watched
• 1:43:44
  us today and you know, we just want to just want to give them a
• 1:43:48
  real quick shout out. You know, we really appreciate
• 1:43:51
  MJ listening on Facebook and Timothy Hendricks.
• 1:43:56
  Thank you for showing up as well.
• 1:43:58
  We also want TikTok Lam. We have Cassie who tuned in and
• 1:44:03
  listened to us. We have Brandon and we have his
• 1:44:10
  name is OK Cadillac guy, Cadillac guy.
• 1:44:16
  And then we have Yanef and we have a new person that has just
• 1:44:20
  joined Leslie. So yeah, we know you have a we
• 1:44:25
  know that you have a choice and many options what to do in the
• 1:44:29
  morning and for you to camp out with us and drink some coffee.
• 1:44:33
  We really appreciate you tuning in and listening.
• 1:44:36
  So without further ado, I want to go with him because he likes
• 1:44:42
  to talk. I love HT but he likes to talk
• 1:44:45
  HG well. I like to talk.
• 1:44:47
  That's rich, buddy. That's rich.
• 1:44:53
  We're like me saying that. What did you learn today HG?
• 1:44:58
  I learned some fun facts about the White House that I thought
• 1:45:03
  were really interesting. I didn't know all that stuff.
• 1:45:06
  Right. That was cool.
• 1:45:07
  I'm going to keep it nice and concise.
• 1:45:11
  I'm not going to talk anymore. MJ, what did you learn today?
• 1:45:16
  Well. It's not as much as what I
• 1:45:18
  learned as much of. I found a new country artist
• 1:45:22
  that I like named David Lee Brode.
• 1:45:26
  Yes, I'm going to follow him on Spotify.
• 1:45:28
  Yeah, I like, I like how we shed the light and we've spotlight
• 1:45:33
  these veteran music artists because there's a lot of veteran
• 1:45:38
  music artists that are out there that are doing really good
• 1:45:41
  things. And, you know, the music
• 1:45:45
  business is just hard. It's one of, well, you know,
• 1:45:49
  that's another one of my little side giggies that I do too.
• 1:45:52
  And it's very difficult when I'm supporting artists.
• 1:45:55
  Yes, hard. Yeah, it is.
• 1:45:59
  I, I think, I think ultimately the biggest thing that I, I
• 1:46:05
  learned today and I keep learning is, you know, when you
• 1:46:10
  think you know somebody, you don't really know them.
• 1:46:14
  No, you got to get to know them. You know, I, I don't know if I
• 1:46:20
  talked about this last week, but it's the absolute truth.
• 1:46:23
  You know, people say, well, I got, I got people that support
• 1:46:29
  me and that are friends with me that I've never ever met, You
• 1:46:34
  know, they're online or, you know, and you know, I, I see
• 1:46:38
  that a lot. And one thing that I've that
• 1:46:42
  I've always said about that is, you know, if you have people
• 1:46:45
  that support you from a distance and not so many people support
• 1:46:50
  you locally, Hear me out now. But sometimes we have to be
• 1:46:56
  mature, and we have to realize that we might be wrong in
• 1:47:00
  something that we might need to be mature.
• 1:47:05
  Stand up, think to ourselves and say, you know what?
• 1:47:09
  Maybe I have some toxic behavior that has created a wall in
• 1:47:17
  between me and these local people.
• 1:47:21
  Like they, they, they already know me and because they already
• 1:47:24
  know me, they don't want to support me or, you know, you
• 1:47:28
  know, they're not, they're not thinking about you 24/7.
• 1:47:34
  So they're not like following updates because they have their,
• 1:47:39
  their, their own life to, to live.
• 1:47:43
  And you know, it's a, it's a TikTok that I saw a couple of
• 1:47:46
  days ago where he's, he's teaching his daughter different
• 1:47:51
  things. He gives his daughter all these
• 1:47:54
  different plates and then she puts, he stacks another plate on
• 1:47:59
  there and she drops all the plates.
• 1:48:02
  And he is like, now why did you drop things?
• 1:48:04
  She's like, well, because my hands are full and he was giving
• 1:48:07
  me more stuff. And sometimes as people, we fail
• 1:48:12
  to realize that, you know, looking at our inner self, we
• 1:48:17
  have a lot of things that we are juggling in life.
• 1:48:21
  Just just in general, we'd be lifeing, right?
• 1:48:24
  Life is always like. Right, right.
• 1:48:27
  And when you call somebody up and you ask them something or
• 1:48:33
  you know, you're, you're, you're wanting to talk with them and
• 1:48:36
  they don't talk with you or they, they can't help you.
• 1:48:40
  And we get upset with that. We get upset with that because
• 1:48:44
  it's just natural that we don't realize that people help us a
• 1:48:50
  lot to the point where, you know, we, we, we forget that,
• 1:48:57
  you know, they're, they're lifing as well.
• 1:49:00
  And we're, we're, we're creating another obstacle in their life.
• 1:49:04
  And, and sometimes I think we've failed to realize it and you
• 1:49:08
  know. Communication and emotional
• 1:49:12
  intelligence, those are both skills and those are skills that
• 1:49:16
  we all need to work on. And, and you hit the nail on the
• 1:49:20
  head. self-awareness is key. And looking at ourselves, most
• 1:49:26
  of the time people are not thinking about you.
• 1:49:29
  They don't care. I know I'm never thinking about
• 1:49:32
  anyone else. I'm worried about what I'm
• 1:49:34
  focused on. And you know, I think earlier
• 1:49:37
  when we started this show, you talked about character.
• 1:49:41
  And what is that definition of character?
• 1:49:43
  Characters do the right thing. When no.
• 1:49:46
  One's. Looking and you and you kind of
• 1:49:49
  touched on that when you said it's our responsibility to look
• 1:49:53
  at ourselves and to see what are our character defects and what
• 1:49:57
  are we bringing to the table in situations so that we have the
• 1:50:02
  self-awareness and to be accountable and stand up and
• 1:50:06
  have good character and take responsibility for our behavior.
• 1:50:11
  This is not an easy task control.
• 1:50:14
  I mean, most people do not have the aptitude or the emotional
• 1:50:19
  intelligence. And most people hurt so much
• 1:50:23
  that they have difficulty healing that hurt, you know?
• 1:50:28
  And so that's what's beautiful about this program and our show
• 1:50:32
  is that we're able to bring veterans who are music artists
• 1:50:37
  and other artists in, and they tell us how much that helps them
• 1:50:43
  to heal, you know, So we're all just doing the best that we can.
• 1:50:49
  Right, right. And you know.
• 1:50:50
  We're all just doing the best that we can.
• 1:50:52
  And that's what I like about this show is I try to give
• 1:50:55
  analogies because sometimes, sometimes we just be life in and
• 1:50:59
  we don't realize that we we don't put ourselves in the other
• 1:51:03
  shoe, you know, we really don't, you know, and I'm not perfect.
• 1:51:07
  I I make mistakes. Hell, even though I'm sitting
• 1:51:10
  over here talking the MJ and she's like, yeah, you know, you
• 1:51:13
  can't do that, you know, So I'm learning as well.
• 1:51:18
  Especially having a brain injury, you kind of have to
• 1:51:22
  learn all this stuff. I am learning too so I'm
• 1:51:28
  recently diagnosed as many of middle-aged women have been
• 1:51:34
  recently in monopause with ADHD neurodivergence because we were
• 1:51:39
  the lost generation and I have noticed that I don't pick up on
• 1:51:46
  the same cues or maybe I ramble a little bit too much or this
• 1:51:49
  and that. And yes, you're correct, a TBI,
• 1:51:52
  any type of injury, you are going to have to relearn some
• 1:51:56
  things and that's OK. You're still perfect, right?
• 1:52:00
  You're perfect exactly the way you are.
• 1:52:03
  Yep, that's to Joel. And you know what?
• 1:52:05
  It's sometimes sometimes it's it's OK to to be upset and and
• 1:52:11
  not know the answers, because eventually it'll it'll come in
• 1:52:15
  time, you'll something the universe will speak to you and
• 1:52:18
  you'll find out. But before, before we go, ladies
• 1:52:22
  and gentlemen, the beaker again has a safety breathing for.
• 1:52:25
  It stay smart, stay safe, be legendary.
• 1:52:28
  No, before you go, don't drink and drive and don't drive
• 1:52:31
  distracted. All right, ladies and gentlemen.
• 1:52:35
  Well, that is the show for us today.
• 1:52:39
  HG Behind the Glass. Thank you so much for.
• 1:52:43
  Stop talking so much. Stop talking so much.
• 1:52:45
  HG. Yeah, tell the people bye.
• 1:52:49
  My people. I love you.
• 1:52:53
  I love you. All right, ladies and gentlemen,
• 1:52:54
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• 1:52:58
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• 1:53:02
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• 1:53:07
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• 1:53:10
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• 1:53:13
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