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Welcome, everybody. It is July 31st, 2026, and
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ladies and gentlemen, it is Red Friday.
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We hope you are having a fantastic day.
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It's finally here. Ladies and gentlemen, you're
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listening to the Ace Train show right here on the station.
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That's letting our veterans voices be heard.
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MBR. And to my left, my guest Co host
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today is a very she's the she's the eye candy today since Amber
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couldn't be here ladies and gentlemen, what you know what
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we're going to call her MJ. Yeah.
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MJMJ thank you so much for being on here.
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This is going to be fun. Thank you, Joel.
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I'm so excited to be here. Thank you for inviting me.
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Oh yeah. Hey, and you have an event that
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we're going to have an inspiring veteran come in and talk about.
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We're all about finding outlets for veterans.
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Maybe it's not. Maybe DJing isn't their cup of
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tea. Maybe talk radio isn't their cup
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of tea. Maybe gaming isn't.
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Maybe cartoon animation isn't, maybe 3D printing isn't.
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But we're still giving those options and it's better to come
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into the studio or learn with MBR rather than, OK, I'm, I'm
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going to spend a bunch of money to find out if I like this or
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not. Because how many times have you
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done something where you spend a bunch of money like like golf,
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like me, you spend a bunch of money and you just, you suck at
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it. You know, you suck at it.
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If you're, if you suck at anything, then you're not going
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to appreciate it. You're not going to like love
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it. You know what I mean?
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You got to really love something that.
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Absolutely, absolutely. But don't we all suck to begin
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with? Most of the time we got to keep
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trying. Exactly.
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Exactly. Yeah.
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You know, I was reminiscent about when I first started
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podcasts in 2015, one of my first guests that I had, which
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he was he he, he, he was just starting out.
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Oh, what is his? What is his name?
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I just talked to him yesterday because he said he was going to
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come on the show. Rob Libado, OK, he's a, he's a
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painter, you know, he's painting flags on like VFWS.
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American. Allegiance and stuff and like
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he's huge now, you know, he is huge and I, I sent a message to
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him and I also sent a message to gosh, I, I, you know, I, I can't
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remember these names, but you know that that's, that's not the
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point. The point is, is that everybody
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comes a long way and sometimes, especially when you feel like
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you're failing or you're discouraged, sometimes you guys
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take a step back and realize where you came from and where
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you are now. And then things things move
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better in perspective. Absolutely.
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And I think that when Brad comes today, when you meet Brad Gallup
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and he talks about Warrior Story Field, I think that's going to
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tie into very much what you're saying because Warrior Story
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Field is a place for veterans. It's a place for veterans to
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share their stories. And when I don't want to give
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too much away too soon because I want Brad to really explain what
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the founder, Robert Bellows, has created with this organization.
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And it began for veterans. It actually began just for
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Robert himself, and then it expanded to veterans, and now
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it's actually open to not just veterans, but to first
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responders, to healthcare professionals who experience
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trauma, to the families of these people.
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And what they're doing is so unique.
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There is nothing like this in the rest of the country,
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probably even the world, right? It's a non clinical approach.
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I love it. I love, I love the idea.
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I, I really do. I love going to like, and you
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had already said, well, we'll talk more about it.
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You already said that there's going to be music, there's going
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to be games, there's going to be, you know, different like
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kind of like booths and stuff. It sounds like a lot of fun.
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So what we're doing is we're making this a community event.
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We are bringing the community together and the vision isn't
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just for it to be in Longmont, Co.
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We want to make this a destination festival.
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We want to make this, we want to make the Sanction Sanctuary a
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destination place for all veterans, for all first
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responders, for anyone in this country who needs a place, an
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outlet for their art. So what we're creating here?
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Well. Go ahead, hold that, hold that
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thought. OK, What we're going to do, just
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segment right into it. Ladies and gentlemen, you know,
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every morning for those who have been with us for a while, every
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single morning we do what is called mail call.
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And it's that time, ladies and gentlemen, it is mail call.
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Attention Mail call. Oh my God, welcome to Mail call.
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Your Soldier Spotlight Powered by Work symbol highlighting
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those who serve and inspire. All right, ladies and gentlemen,
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today's mail call and I'll, I'll bring this up real quick.
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Today's mail call comes to us. We shine a light on an
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organization and people making a real difference in the lives of
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our veterans. Today we're featuring a
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nonprofit that reminds us of something many of us already
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know. Healing doesn't always begin in
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a doctor's office. Sometimes healing begins with a
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single step, a single conversation, a single workout,
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a single person who simply says come with me.
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That's exactly what Operation Warrior Fit is doing.
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Recently featured by military.com, Operation Warrior
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Fit is bringing veterans together through fitness.
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But this organization is much more than running, lifting
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weights, or crossing a finish line.
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Now, their mission is building a community.
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Kind of like you, kind of like you, right?
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And their mission, where veterans know that they don't
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have to fight life's battles along one of the biggest
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challenges many veterans face after leaving the military.
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It's not a lack of strength, it's a lack of connection.
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When we leave active duty, we lose something that many
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civilians never truly experience.
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We lose our team. We lose our accountability.
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For some, we lose our family. You forget sometimes military
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guys go into the military because we don't have anybody.
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We lose that feeling that somebody has our 6:00 every
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single day. For many veterans, that's
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isolation, and that can slowly become depression, anxiety and
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hopelessness. Operation Warrior Fed is working
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to change that. Instead of asking veterans to
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heal alone, they're creating opportunities for them to train
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together, encourage one another, and reinstever that sense of
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belonging that's so many months after the military service.
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One event highlighted in this article is the OWF 25 Mile.
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At first glance, it may look like a fitness challenge, but
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when you look closer, you see veterans carrying the American
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flag. You see people encouraging one
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another, you'll see accountability, you'll see
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friendships forming, and perhaps most importantly, you see
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purpose. The word purpose is something
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that we talk about often here at Military Broadcast Radio.
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Purse purpose gives us a reason to get out of bed, gives us
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direction, reminds us that our service didn't end when we took
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off the uniform, it simply changed.
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Fitness becomes the vehicle. Community becomes the
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destination. And here at Military Broadcast
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Radio, that's something that we completely understand.
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Our mission is different, but our goal that's the same.
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We believe healing starts when veterans reconnect with other
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veterans. For us, that might happen
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through broadcasting, through broadcasting to tell stories,
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through gaming, or simply by giving someone a microphone and
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letting them know their voice matters.
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For Operation Warrior Fit, that healing happens one mile, one
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workout, one event, one teammate at a time.
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Different paths, same mission. Health of veterans realizing
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they still be long. If you're watching this today
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and you've been feeling disconnected, isolated, maybe
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you've been spending too much time alone.
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Maybe you've been carrying more than anyone realizes.
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Maybe you've been wondering where your tribe went.
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Organization. Organizations like Operation
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Warrior Fit, it was proof that your next chapter might be
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waiting just outside your front door.
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Sometimes all it takes is showing up.
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You don't have to be the fastest, you don't have to be
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the strongest, and sure as hell to be willing to take that first
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step because no veteran should ever have to fight alone.
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So today, we like to recognize Operation Warrior Fit for the
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incredible work that they're doing to build stronger from
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veteran, stronger communities and stronger friendships through
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fitness. To everyone involved, thank you.
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Thank you for reminding us that service doesn't end when the
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uniform comes off. It continues every time we lift
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one another up. This has been your Friday
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spotlight on military broadcast radio, giving veterans a voice
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because when veterans come together, lives are changed.
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And you know what, MJ? I'm going to let you.
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I'm going to let you do the the top news today.
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OK, so today's top news. The finish line keeps moving.
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You know, sometimes Congress reminds me of a group of
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neighbors who all agree your roof needs fixed to be fixed
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while you're standing in the rain.
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And this is, and this is kind of like an analogy on the Richard
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Starr. Act OK, which is.
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In legislation. All right, well imagine your
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roof has been leaking for years and every neighbor walks over
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and says, Yep, that's the problem.
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Another says you deserve a new roof.
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Another says we'll definitely help you.
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And they all agree. But then someone asks who's
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paying for all the shingles? Suddenly silence.
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Our neighbor says, I think everyone should chip in.
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And then another says, no, let's use money from another project.
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And then a third says, I agree it needs fixed, but not that
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way. Meanwhile, you're still standing
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in the rain that it's that's exactly where we are with Major
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Richard Starr Act. And the good news is that nobody
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is arguing whether combat injured veterans deserve it
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anymore. The battle has largely been won.
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And the disagreement isn't about if these veterans earned the
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benefit. It's about how Congress pays for
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it. And think about that for a
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second. The people who sacrificed their
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bodies always paid the price. Now Washington is debating how
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to pay the bill. I mean, come on, Joel.
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Here's another way to picture it.
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Imagine you bought a brand new truck and you made the payment,
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every single one, and you never missed one.
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And finally the day comes to pick up the truck and the
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dealership says, congratulations, it's yours.
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And then they hand you one tire and you ask, where's the rest of
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my truck, right? And they respond, well, we're
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still, we're still figuring out how to pay for the engine.
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Technically, you got something, but you didn't receive what you
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were promised. And that's how many medically
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retired veterans feel today. And their military retirement
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was earned. Their VA disability was earned.
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Yet because of outdated laws, thousands still have to give up
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part of one benefit to receive another.
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And it's like earning 2 paychecks and someone tells you
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that you only get to cash one. Make that make sense?
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It doesn't. Now here's what we have some Now
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here's where we have some encouraging news.
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The Major Richard Starr Act didn't disappear.
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In fact, it has now been folded into the broader Take Care of
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America's Veterans Act. Why does that matter?
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Because it keeps the issue alive.
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It keeps the conversation moving.
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It gives Congress another opportunity to finally get this
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done. And that's progress.
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That's real progress. But let's not confuse progress
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with victory, Joel, right? We're somewhere around the five
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yard line. The crowd can see the end zone,
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you know, and the crowd, the players can see the end zone.
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Everyone knows where the ball needs to go, and we just haven't
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crossed that goal line yet. And veterans have learned
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something over the years until the president signs the bill.
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It's not. Finished.
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It's not finished now. So today our message is simple.
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Don't stop calling. Don't stop emailing.
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Exactly, exactly. You know, and I'm glad that you,
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that, that you said that MJ, because you know, I get on
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social media and I hear it. They're in all veterans voices.
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You know, they're, they're discouraged, you know they're
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discouraged because you know, they, they, they signed up and
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they fulfilled their oath, but Congress hasn't exactly
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fulfilled their oath. But, but when the government
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shutdowns happens, and keep in mind, government shutdowns
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didn't happen until after the 1970s, OK, So before that there
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was no government shutdown. But when government shutdown
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happened, who gets hurt? We do absolutely.
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Those congressmen, all those political representatives, they
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still get paid. So when people ask me, well.
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What's the deal with the Richard Starr Act?
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It's not dead. It's not passed.
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We're just in overtime. We're just in overtime.
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It's going to be OK. We're going.
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It's going to happen. It is going to happen.
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People OK, it's going to happen. But just like when we deployed
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to Iraq, just like when people deployed to Afghanistan, we have
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to adapt and we have to have faith.
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Not hope, but faith. There's one thing that I know in
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my military career, when those bullets start flying, nobody is
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an atheist. Nobody.
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I guarantee you that they can be an atheist before the foxhole,
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but after an atheist, no more. So keep that in mind.
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Have faith, don't get discouraged.
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So that brings us to our first time that we're getting ready to
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go on our musical break. And before we go, I just wanted
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to say for everybody that joined in, thank you so much for
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joining in and listening. We are broadcasting and not only
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on Roku on the MBR platforms, but DV radio.
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And now instead of it being Star radio, it's Rebel rock radio.
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And we just want to just tell them thank you for bottom of our
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hearts for for allowing us to be on their airwaves.
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So with that being said, we're going to go on the music break.
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And when we come back, we're going to hit the WTF moment.
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And that WTF moment. MJ when's the last time you was
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on a cruise? 2018. 2018 Well, I wonder if
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things have changed because somebody got kicked off of a
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cruise for using a fork for something about their body.
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When you see it, you're going to be, you're going to be nasty.
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So a little scared. Whatever you do, whatever you
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do, stay with us on this Red Friday.
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You're listening to the ACE Train show, showing programs out
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there for veterans past, present, and today.
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You're listening to MBR. The station where our veterans
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voices are heard. MBR talk.
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I meant to do that. MBR.
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It's in the game. Just on the web at NB radio dot.
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And we're back with MJ, of course, on this Red Friday.
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Welcome back, everybody. You're listening to the show,
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the highlights on the nonprofit programs out there beyond the
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VA. We are for veterans and for all
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the men and women in uniform all over the world.
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We're on the station. Let's let our voice veterans
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voices be heard. We are on MBR.
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And you know, I, I got to I got a 2 MBRS horn.
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When you come in as a guest or you come in as a guest Co host,
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something is given to you. And I'm going to let MJ
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introduce herself, show her award, tell a little bit about
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herself before we right into the WTF moment.
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So go ahead, MJ. OK, well my full name is Melissa
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and I am a speech language pathologist by trade.
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That's what I do. And I came here and I got this
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amazing duck from Joel. It is a 3D duck that he has.
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Made broadcast beaker. Broadcast beaker.
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Whack. Whack.
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So I don't know if you know the story about Broadcast Beaker.
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But no tell me my. Best friend I lost in Iraq and
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his his name is Brock Buckland. And then the, and the and the
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like the intro, it kind of shows that, right.
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And you know, one thing that he wanted as his dream, he wanted
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an organization that helped the veterans that didn't specify era
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or if you went to combat or anything, kind of like Team
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Superfy. But Team Superfy is more for,
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you know, Marines. Marines, Yeah.
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We wanted something that would help all veterans, connecting
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all veterans, something that was dedicated to a veteran and not
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so much the checkbook. Right.
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A lot of business. Absolutely.
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Yeah. So I created a cartoon and
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Beeker was Brock's nickname. Oh this is so special.
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Yes. So that is Brock Buckler.
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Oh, I love this. Thank you, Joel.
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That makes it even more special. What a beautiful story.
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Thank you for sharing that and I'm so sorry for your loss.
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You know, I, I tell you what, it, it's, it's been hard and
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it's even harder during like Memorial Day and stuff like
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that. But you know, I think Brock
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would be happy where we're at today.
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I think that he's very proud of you.
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I think that he would be more than happy and very proud.
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And this is such a beautiful keepsake.
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Thank you so much. You're.
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Most. Welcome and thanks to Brock for
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sacrificing. He gave the ultimate sacrifice
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for our freedoms. He gave his life.
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So thank you. You're welcome.
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You're welcome. Thank you for being here.
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This is fun. This is fun.
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Hey, everybody, it is that time. Everybody loves this one.
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It is the what? The moment.
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We can't say the F part. Well, we probably could, but you
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know, we don't mind to. Well, I try to explain to people
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that, you know, when you're doing radio, even though you see
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people like has to disembark someone exactly.
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When you see F word, think about it.
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You're you're like at Denny's, OK.
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And it's all right. If you're talking to somebody,
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you know F this and F that, because in the military every
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other word is the F word. Well, it's a word exemplifier.
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When you when you you're in like Denny's and there's like a
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person that's not in the conversation, the F word it.
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Bothers them. It does.
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It does. Yeah, it bothers them.
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Because they're not in the conversation.
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If they were in the conversation, it'd be different,
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but since they're not in the conversation, it, it bothers
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them. So with that being said, that's
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the reason why we really don't use the F word here.
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Everybody that's watching TikTok, Rhonda Mendoza, thank
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you so much for coming in. We really appreciate it.
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Thank you so much, Cassie, for coming in.
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We really appreciate it. We're on fire today and today's
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What the Well, let's get it started, shall we?
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A woman was asked to disembark early after using cutlery to
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scratch her feet in a cruise ship restaurant.
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She first scratched the soles of her feet with her hands, then
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even picked up a cutlery fork and used it to scratch them.
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And the staff nearby did not stop her, allowing her to
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continue eating. This isn't just a simple matter
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of personal habit, as the cutlery on this cruise ship is
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for other passengers. After she used the fork to
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scratch her feet and then put it back, who knows if the next pass
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would pick it up and use it directly.
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After the video went viral, many people called Carnival to report
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her and demand punishment, but there has been no official
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response so far. According to circulating rumors,
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this woman may ultimately be asked to end her cruise early
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and disembark because of this behavior.
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How should cruise lines handle passengers who engage in such
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behavior in public restaurants, which clearly effects hygiene
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and the experience of other passengers?
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Do you think this behavior should result in immediate
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disembarkation? So.
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All right. Wow.
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So what do you think about that then, Jay?
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That's interesting. I've never heard of such a thing
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before. And I've seen some things
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working in hospitals. Yeah.
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So a fork to scratch her feet. You know, they have they have
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back scratchers on like Amazon for like 2 bucks and you know
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now when I go to a cruise, I think I'm going to do the monk
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thing. Remember that show the monk
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where he has his own like silverware?
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I. Do yes, yes, I.
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Have to go to that everybody. I think this is a rare.
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I think this is rare, you know, and.
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Actually, I'll be honest with you, I don't think this is rare,
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in fact. What in fact?
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Let's talk about this. OK, let's talk about it because
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I've never so. When you're in a hotel, they
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give you plenty of towels, right?
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Okay, well tell me that you've never washed your car and used
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those hotels and like dry it off.
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If people knew what people did with those towels, there's a
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good chance people would bring their own.
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Towel, they're sanitized though. They have, they have, they have.
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It's. Just like tackler bills.
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Yeah, it's dollar bills. But hey, if those dollar bills
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are wrinkled, you know where those have been on Friday and
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Saturday. Night.
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Those dollar bills are disgusting.
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More so than a towel. OK.
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That's why most and I'm from New Orleans, so I know about dollar
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bills. Most restaurants have a call.
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I'm talking. About though, yeah, I sometimes
35:16
I think that we as humans do things and when we see other
35:23
people do the same thing we've that we've done before, we don't
35:28
realize that we've done it. Like it's like that song on
35:31
TikTok. Hey, I might be a piece of crap,
35:33
but you might be a piece of crap too.
35:35
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, I know that one.
35:37
I think sometimes, like we get mad at people, but we're doing
35:42
the same thing that we got mad at them for.
35:47
Oh, I think that happens quite a bit.
35:49
Yeah. I think it's really hard for us
35:51
to look at ourselves and look within.
35:54
And most often people to avoid looking at themselves, will pick
35:59
apart the other person. I totally agree.
36:01
I totally agree. Like, for instance, so I went
36:05
and this is my daughter, this, this last Price weekend.
36:10
And her little girl, my granddaughter.
36:12
Yeah, she, she, she did something I was very
36:15
disappointed with, you know, and I never yell and I hardly ever
36:21
yell ever. And I and I and I kind of just
36:24
put her in the corner. You know and do.
36:27
You want to be done like that, you know, kind of.
36:29
And then, you know, five hours later, my daughter does the same
36:34
thing. I looked at my daughter and I'm
36:35
like, you know, I just yelled at your daughter for doing the same
36:39
thing. And I didn't sit there and yell
36:41
at her. I didn't sit there and be mad.
36:44
I, I, I went outside for, you know, a little bit of a break.
36:49
You know, right, Right. To take some breath.
36:51
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Take some breath.
36:53
Back and I told her I'm like, you know what, I love you, but
36:58
I'm disappointed in what I saw. You know, and sometimes we just,
37:03
we just don't think we don't. I will tell you right now that I
37:08
used to get so upset until I don't know.
37:11
I, you know, I, I heard this person talking about like this
37:14
quote or whatever, but it's, it's easy not to get mad at
37:18
somebody when you try to put yourself in their shoes.
37:23
Oh, absolutely. I mean, I, I try to always put
37:26
myself in somebody else's position.
37:29
You know, I have this motto working in hospital, so I work
37:32
with brain injuries. I see some pretty significant
37:36
things that work with people when it's the worst parts of
37:39
their lives. And that can be a little bit
37:42
daunting for us as healthcare workers when we're dealing with
37:45
the public. So I have this little thing that
37:48
I always do when somebody's really annoying me.
37:52
I think I look at their face and I think that's God in drag.
37:59
OK, so then I, I keep looking at them.
38:01
It's God and drag. It's God and drag.
38:03
And that keeps me in check. So that because everybody's made
38:07
with a little piece of God, in my opinion, I believe in God.
38:10
I do too. I do too, God.
38:12
And I tell you man, I, I, I've. Seen too many things.
38:16
I believe I, you know, I am a Christian, but I tell you I
38:20
don't sit there and I don't sit there and judge people.
38:23
What my grandfather always used to tell me is, you know, if you
38:27
want to be a true Christian, show it in your life and watch
38:31
the reflection be the sermon. Don't don't sermon people, be
38:35
the reflection. Show people what he's done for
38:39
you, do for others. And you know, I, I will bless
38:44
you. So that's exactly my motto and
38:47
I, I feel very strong about that, very strongly.
38:50
Same. So do I that that's the way that
38:52
I live as well. We have to.
38:55
This world is so hard. It really is.
38:58
It's not easy. And people, I feel like
39:01
especially in America, we are, we're built to be so tough.
39:08
For me, where I come from, there's a lot of influence from
39:12
the GI generation, the silent generation, the GI generation,
39:16
which in my opinion are two of the greatest generations besides
39:20
Gen. X, mine and yours.
39:23
But, you know, they were raised with values and this ideal that
39:30
is pretty impossible for most people to achieve and that still
39:34
trickles into our society today. And we're expected to be so
39:38
strong. It's kind of like how you
39:39
touched on Warrior One, Warrior Fit and what we're doing at
39:45
Warrior Story Field. You know, we need each other.
39:49
Life is too hard. It's OK to talk about your
39:52
problems. It's OK to feel different.
39:55
It's OK. It's OK.
39:57
You know we need each other. We do.
39:59
We do, you know, and people that say, oh, you know, I don't care
40:03
what they think. Yeah, you do.
40:05
Because if you don't care what they thought, you wouldn't have
40:09
said I don't care what they thought.
40:12
We just have to be honest with ourselves.
40:14
Well, it depends, though. You know, I like to go by Dolly
40:17
Parton's. You know, Dolly Parton, what she
40:19
says about that. It's OK if you don't like me, as
40:21
long as you get to know me and then you don't like me, OK?
40:28
That's good right there. But if you don't care to get to
40:30
know me, then who cares what you think, right?
40:34
And that's true. That's true.
40:36
Very true. In fact, you know somebody that
40:39
that that that takes us into the segue over drop the date.
40:43
Somebody that was loved by a lot of people.
40:47
Well, the gangsters didn't love them, did they?
40:49
Ladies and gentlemen, is that time it is drop the date?
40:54
I love gangsters. Today in history.
41:08
All right, everybody, today's drop.
41:10
The date. Is for oh what happened to the
41:14
screen? Hold on, hold on.
41:17
I think I did that. Drop the dates.
41:20
There's like 31st 1975. Today is the disappearance of
41:25
Jimmy Hoffa. Yeah.
41:27
Welcome back to Another Drop the Date, where we take a look at an
41:30
event that happened on this Day in History and why people are
41:34
still talking about today. On July 31st, 1975, one of the
41:38
most America's greatest unsolved mysteries began, which I think
41:43
they solved this not too long ago.
41:45
Did they OK, OK, we're going to have to talk about that.
41:48
Former Teamster Union president Jimmy Hoffa.
41:52
He vanished after leaving for what was supposed to be a
41:55
routine meeting at a restaurant in Bloomfield Township, MI Hoffa
42:00
told his family he was meeting two men to discuss business, but
42:04
when they never showed up, he was left waiting in the parking
42:09
lot. Later that afternoon, he simply
42:12
just disappeared. His car was eventually found in
42:15
the restaurant parking lot, but Jimmy Hoffa was nowhere to be
42:19
found. There were no confirmed
42:21
sightings, no ransom demands, no clear evidence explaining what
42:28
happened to him. Despite decades of
42:30
investigations by local police, the FBI, and countless
42:34
journalists, no one has been able to prove exactly how or why
42:41
he disappeared. Jimmy Hoffa wasn't just another
42:44
businessman. He was one of the most powerful
42:47
labor leaders in America, serving as president of the
42:51
International Brotherhood of Teamsters.
42:54
During his leadership, he fought for better wages, stronger
42:58
benefits and improved working conditions for millions of
43:02
workers across the country. He would probably be turning in
43:05
his grave today. At the same time, his career was
43:09
surrounded by controversy because of alleged ties to
43:13
organized crime, making him one of the most recognizable and
43:18
controversial figures of this generation.
43:21
Over the years, Hoffa's disappearance has inspired
43:24
hundreds of theories. People have claimed he was
43:26
buried beneath the football stadium, hidden under highways,
43:31
placed inside abandoned buildings or secretly moved to
43:35
remote farm lands. They they, they forget, you
43:38
know, swimming. With the fishes.
43:40
Oh yeah, and that's with the fishes.
43:42
Have dug up properties, searching fields and followed
43:47
countless leads, but none have produced a conclusive evidence.
43:53
Every few years, a new tip surfaces, making headlines all
43:57
over again, only to leave investigators with more
44:00
questions than answers. What makes the story so
44:03
fascinating is that even after more than 50 years, it continues
44:09
to capture the public's imagination.
44:12
It's been featured in documentaries, books, movies,
44:16
television specials and podcasts.
44:19
Go figure. The name?
44:23
Jimmy Hoffa has became almost, almost.
44:31
I can't pronounce that word. Synonymous.
44:34
There we go with an unsolved mystery, proving that sometimes
44:39
history leaves behind more questions than answers.
44:44
Whether you believe that mystery will ever be solved or not, one
44:50
thing is certain. July 31st, 1975 became of the
44:54
day of America's most famous disappearances entering the
44:59
history books. And that's exactly why we're
45:01
remembering it today. Not because we know how the
45:04
story ended, but because we still don't.
45:08
And that is your drop the date for today.
45:12
It's pretty cool, you know, I tell you, like I remember asking
45:18
my mother and my father all the time.
45:22
Who is he? Is she?
45:23
You know, they kept talking. Oh, he's Teamster.
45:25
Like, like I knew exactly what that was.
45:28
There's certain things like when I was you little, I found this
45:33
out this weekend when I had my granddaughter.
45:37
I went to turn on cartoons. Right.
45:39
Who doesn't remember Gumby? I love Gumby.
45:44
I watch Gumby. Yes.
45:45
Saturday Night Live. Eddie Murphy.
45:48
Right, so I turned Gumby on and you know, it's it's a it's a
45:52
free chain on Tubby or, or blue TV, you know, and I'm watching
45:57
it and I looked at my wife and I'm like, I don't understand why
46:03
I like this as a kid, this bright.
46:06
It's terrible, you know, Can you imagine?
46:09
It's it's like, it's like, oh, you know, we.
46:13
Didn't know anything else that's what we had exactly, you know,
46:17
and it's OK. We grew up in a great time.
46:20
We. Did we?
46:21
Did we? Did we?
46:22
Were less technologically advanced, but we had bring me
46:26
back to Atari and a tube TV. OK Joel.
46:29
Yeah, life is good. Hey, life is so good.
46:32
In fact, you know, I remember and I tell the story.
46:36
I don't know if I told the story on air before, but I, I told the
46:40
story to my wife one time that when, when I was, when I was
46:45
younger, I, I couldn't get a job, you know, and my dad told
46:51
me, well, you know, I, you know, I, I went to these places and I
46:55
told him I'd give them 50% of business.
46:57
And I'm like, I understand that, that, but you know, it's just
47:01
not happening. So my first job, well my first
47:05
job was like the tassel. You don't need a resume for
47:07
that, just the tassel. But then my second job I worked
47:12
at Hardee's. OK, OK.
47:14
And the reason why I worked at Hardee's, because my dad's not
47:17
well, bring me the application and we're going to go through
47:20
it. And I'm like, OK, so I filled it
47:22
out. He looked at me and he's like,
47:24
you've got to be shitting me. And I'm like what he's like.
47:29
H. Why do you have it that you can
47:33
work from 3:00 to 4:00, but you can't work from 5:00 to 6:00?
47:36
You can work from 7:00 to 8:00, blah blah blah.
47:39
You know, like little. Right.
47:42
Well, because Full House comes on at.
47:45
Stop it. Yes, that's exactly right.
47:50
I big business. Man, I, you know, that's the
47:54
reason why I, that's the reason why I quit wrestling, because I,
47:58
I was tired of missing my Saturday night, my Saturday
48:02
morning cartoons. Ohk OK I mean I crushed on John
48:06
Stamos but I didn't crush that hard that I would.
48:09
Miss Oh my God person person is Candace and it keeps drewberry
48:16
more sorry my wife already. Done.
48:18
That's OK. Marky.
48:19
Mark is mine. OK?
48:20
Mark Wahlberg is my all time from the Funky Bunch.
48:23
OK, Feel it. Feel it.
48:24
Feel the vibration. Feel.
48:26
The. Vibration come on.
48:27
And now I pray with him on hallow.
48:29
OK, now we we say the rosary together.
48:33
But you know, it's, it's crazy because like everything that I
48:37
did young, I'm seeing my daughter do it so.
48:40
I right? I don't.
48:41
I don't get too mad. You.
48:43
Know just don't scratch your feet with the forks and
48:45
everything will be OK, all right?
48:48
Teach her proper utensil maintenance and usage and
48:51
everything will be fine, right? Yeah, yeah.
48:57
And you know one thing I learned, it doesn't matter how
49:00
old you are, even even kids like 21 or whatever, like they're
49:06
still going to push that boundary if.
49:08
You I push boundaries at almost 52.
49:12
What are you talking about? Yeah, So, you know, and but I
49:16
told my daughter I'm like, look, you know the one thing that I
49:18
want to teach you in life, that you're going to learn.
49:20
You're going to learn the hard way.
49:22
Nobody cares what you do or what you say to care about how you
49:28
react. Your character is what will move
49:32
you in this world, Correct, not what you do.
49:34
Correct, not what you say. How you make people feel.
49:37
Exactly that's what they remember and you know, I, I
49:39
remember when I went to church camp, I had this business card
49:42
that I, I was so attracted to this counselor, but that's a
49:46
different story. But she.
49:47
Gave me that's a yeah and we're talking about church camp too
49:51
Joel OK that band camp church camp calm down she.
49:54
Gave me this business card that says, you know, if if you meet
49:59
me and you forget me, you've lost nothing.
50:01
But if you beat Christ and you forget him, you've lost
50:05
everything. And that's exactly the same
50:08
thing, exactly the same thing. But but you know, with, with,
50:13
with that being said, HG, did you do you know, did you know
50:20
who Jimmy Hoffa was before today?
50:23
I had heard the name, but I didn't know what he had done.
50:25
So you had heard the name? You didn't know what he had
50:28
done? I heard that he was buried in
50:31
some kind of parking lot. I see man, I thought that was
50:34
the last. Thing I forget who it was, but
50:36
there's like a like a gazebo out by a pump out by a pool.
50:42
In fact, you know, you could use the the Brock HG, I think they
50:48
found his remains. I think it was under a gazebo, a
50:51
pool, but I forget whose name is I'll have HG.
50:55
Like look that up with real quick with the yeah, we call, we
50:59
call our ChatGPT the Brock. So.
51:02
The Brock. I like it.
51:03
I like it, yeah. So I love gangsters and I love
51:07
that period of time. And that was some of my favorite
51:10
movie genres growing up in the late 80s and early 90s.
51:15
We had some of the best gangster movies like Casino So Sad of
51:20
Bella. That's where I learned my
51:22
history is watching. Movies.
51:23
Is that so? It really is.
51:25
So in New Orleans there's actually quite a little mafia
51:29
scene. So I grew up and there was
51:33
chitter chatter all around about whose family was in the Mafia
51:38
and whatnot. I can't name names, but you
51:41
know, New Orleans has a little bit of CD now.
51:45
Yeah, Yeah, we do. Shout out beautiful.
51:47
Caveman, because he's in New Orleans right now.
51:49
Beautiful culture. Beautiful culture of New
51:52
Orleans. Captain.
51:53
Caveman Captain. Caveman blah blah blah blah blah
51:57
blah. Well, hey everybody, it is that
51:59
time. We're going to go on our next
52:02
music break. And when we come back from the
52:04
music break, it is that top of the hour where everybody is
52:09
waiting. We're going to be having Brad
52:12
Gillip. That's how you.
52:14
Brad Gallup, Yeah, Brad Gallup's coming.
52:16
He's going to talk about Warrior Story Field and our festival
52:19
that we're going to have in October.
52:22
Awesome little. Little update.
52:24
So those seem like Jimmy Hoffa's remains were never found.
52:28
OK, never found. OK OK.
52:31
And itchy. What year were you born, if you
52:33
don't mind? 199919. 99 The legend is fading.
52:38
OK. All right.
52:39
When I dance, I get sometimes followed on TikTok.
52:43
Hey, we're going to go on a music break and when we come
52:46
back off that music break, we're going to have Brad Geller coming
52:51
on talking about this. So whatever you do, stay with
52:54
us. Don't get away.
52:55
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the station. The celebrity veteran police
1:03:45
would be heard MBR. And ladies and gentlemen, today,
1:03:50
today, I'm pretty lucky. You know, I've got some eye
1:03:53
candy over here. I've got some eye candy over
1:03:56
here. You know, we got this going on.
1:03:59
And Brad, thank you so much for for being with us today.
1:04:03
It is that time, everybody. It is the interview of the week.
1:04:18
All right, ladies and gentlemen. So, Brad?
1:04:20
Comes to us and I and the reason why I say Brad and I don't say
1:04:26
your whole name is because I've butchered your last name worse
1:04:29
than Swedish chef like the last four times so but Brad you know
1:04:34
you're you you're a veteran yourself and I think what you're
1:04:38
doing is an amazing event MJ over here has been telling me
1:04:43
all about it and like I'm excited for it but I I want the
1:04:47
viewers and listeners to find out about it as well as what
1:04:52
inspired you to even do this I mean you know we're retired we
1:04:56
can sit it on the couch with a boxer shorts and and watch
1:05:00
Netflix you know if we don't steal people's passwords tell me
1:05:03
what inspired you to do this I mean I think the.
1:05:07
Thing that really kind of started when I came back from
1:05:10
Desert Shield, Desert Storm in 91 and I was really, I didn't
1:05:15
think I was suffering and suck. But about 5 months after I came
1:05:20
back from my deployment, I found myself one Sunday afternoon with
1:05:27
my wife and my daughter, 3 year old daughter gone with the my 12
1:05:30
gauge shotgun and with the stock on the floor in the barrel right
1:05:34
up against my chin. And my hand reached down the
1:05:36
trigger. And I hadn't realized that how
1:05:40
much of this pain of it kind of channelling me down, down, down,
1:05:43
slowly but surely, the receipts, the receipts.
1:05:46
They just kill. They keep building up.
1:05:48
They keep building up, Yeah. And so.
1:05:51
Basically, luckily I came out of it and I did what I told my
1:05:54
folks not to do. I went downtown on my own dime,
1:05:56
on my own time. Didn't tell them because anyone
1:05:58
lose my top secret clearance. So because at that time I was an
1:06:02
aircraft maintenance officer and I had about 500 people working
1:06:05
for me and I ran a Squadron F Fifteens at Langley.
1:06:08
So anyway, that started my journey almost 35 years ago and
1:06:13
continued to be on that journey and doing many different things,
1:06:17
including becoming a grief facilitator, working with the
1:06:20
organization called TAPS out of Washington, DC.
1:06:24
I helped start up the Good Griefs program there with the
1:06:27
children's program in 97. I became an equine guided coach
1:06:31
in 2000, working with horses and I've been doing that ever since.
1:06:36
And I'm also a transformative coach and I did that in 2017.
1:06:40
But during all that time I was living here in Boulder, IN after
1:06:46
I retired in 2003 and I was working with this gentleman
1:06:49
named Robert Bellows, who's a good, really good friend of mine
1:06:52
and he's an artist. And I was really going through a
1:06:57
tough time again. I was going through a divorce.
1:06:58
It was difficult. And I was working with Robert
1:07:02
and he got commissioned to build this rooster, a 10 foot tall
1:07:04
rooster for outside a we used to call Alfalfa's in Boulder.
1:07:10
It was a natural food market. Anyway, he asked me, he just
1:07:15
showed up. I told me to come over to the
1:07:16
shop, and I did. And so he just put some, gave me
1:07:19
some gloves. He said let's go to work.
1:07:21
And he was building the structure of this rooster.
1:07:23
And I've never considered myself being artist.
1:07:25
I was considered myself as a mechanic in the Marine Corps for
1:07:28
those four years and then the 17 years in their Air Force as an
1:07:31
aircraft maintenance officer. So here all of a sudden he's
1:07:34
just I'm welding starting, he's teaching me how to Weld and I'm
1:07:37
putting things together. We're building on this rooster,
1:07:39
10 foot tall rooster, which ended up weighing 4000 lbs and
1:07:43
was called Alfie outside of Alfalfa as while I was there.
1:07:46
And all of a sudden when it was over, we just said look at each
1:07:49
other and said what do we do next?
1:07:51
And I said we got to do something for warriors and 1st
1:07:53
responders, but system for warriors.
1:07:55
So we worked on it, trying to figure out what archetypally,
1:07:59
what could we design and make it out of metal.
1:08:01
And we came up with the idea of a dragon to represent the
1:08:05
warrior at war being on that military platform out there.
1:08:09
And that makes sense, yeah. And.
1:08:12
And. Then we said, OK, what's the
1:08:14
what's the, what's it mean to come home from war?
1:08:16
What is what do we need to be able to integrate and transform
1:08:20
ourselves to come back because we're changed.
1:08:23
Even if see active do go over and see war.
1:08:28
I mean, in combat, all of us go through the initiation.
1:08:31
So we're changed And and so we did what does that look like?
1:08:36
And so we played around with it, come up with all kinds of
1:08:39
images. And then we came with the idea
1:08:41
of a phoenix to represent that transformation out of the flames
1:08:45
of the dragon still holding the good parts of the dragon inside.
1:08:49
But how do we come back to be of service and define our purpose
1:08:53
now? Right, right.
1:08:55
You know, and a lot. Of like military guys, you know,
1:08:58
one thing that you can tell about military guys, because
1:09:01
we'd never lose that talent is we eat fast.
1:09:06
We eat fast. We, and, and that, that, that
1:09:09
that doesn't go away, that I know exactly what you, you mean.
1:09:13
And I just recently, like, I, I probably like five years ago,
1:09:18
learned about the Phoenix and what it, it, it's about.
1:09:23
So this the event that you're coordinated.
1:09:27
The reason why I like it so much is because here, here at
1:09:30
military broadcast radio, you know, it's, it's not so much the
1:09:34
shows like we have DJ and we have talk radio gaming animation
1:09:40
that we teach you how to use animation with like AI and 3D
1:09:44
printing, OK. It's not about those programs.
1:09:49
It's about finding that outlet that works for that veteran.
1:09:53
You know, one thing that I do love in the last 10 years, like
1:09:58
horses has became an outlet. Bees have became an outlet.
1:10:04
You know, there, there's certain there, there's just, there's so
1:10:09
many nonprofits out there that have introduced outlets for
1:10:14
veterans. And I was telling MJ earlier,
1:10:17
like, for example, golf, OK, Now, if I'm a regular Joe like I
1:10:22
am, I never did golf until after I got out of the military
1:10:27
because, you know, I'm from Indiana and, you know, you don't
1:10:30
exactly golf and ski. You know, it's I used to think
1:10:34
skiing was a bunch of rich people going up and down a hill
1:10:38
bragging about how much money they had.
1:10:40
I didn't know that it would change my life.
1:10:42
And other veterans are finding that out, too.
1:10:45
And once you find that outlet, you find that purpose and this
1:10:49
event that you have, I look at it kind of like the MBR thing.
1:10:53
You're going to have a bunch of outlets, a bunch of booths, a
1:10:57
bunch of creative art things that are going to be introduced
1:11:03
to the military and the communities.
1:11:05
And I just think that's amazing. It's a really good idea, Brad.
1:11:09
Oh, well, thank you. I appreciate that.
1:11:11
I mean. You know that we started that
1:11:15
idea with the model building the models of the dragon in the
1:11:18
Phoenix back in 2012. And that took about a year and a
1:11:22
half of me, the dragon out of clay.
1:11:24
We didn't have no idea what we're doing.
1:11:25
And then we built the Phoenix, which is 4 foot tall, the model
1:11:28
out of metal. And then we just said we got to
1:11:31
make it, take it outside and see what we can do.
1:11:34
And so Robert asked me, how big do we want to have it?
1:11:37
It's 10 foot tall. If we built the the rooster, do
1:11:39
we want to be that tall? And I said, no, it needs to be
1:11:41
twice that tall. It needs to be so much stature
1:11:45
and so much presence that can represent truly what warriors,
1:11:51
how much pain and how much suffering we carry inside of us
1:11:54
as being a service to this great nation and also seeing that we
1:12:00
it's something. That you could step into.
1:12:02
The space in between them. And when you do step into that
1:12:06
space, you feel the power of those two already talking to
1:12:09
each other and that energy of those creations.
1:12:11
So, you know, 15 years later, thousands of thousands of people
1:12:16
have been out there, thousands, hundreds and hundreds of people
1:12:18
have worked on them. Thousands and thousands of hours
1:12:21
we put into it. And now we've got these two
1:12:23
creatures that are 20 feet tall, weighing 20,000 lbs, which is 10
1:12:28
tons. Because we just didn't, we just
1:12:30
didn't build a frame and put metal over it.
1:12:32
We built the muscles, the tendons, we built everything out
1:12:35
of it. And this was where warriors and
1:12:37
civilians came together and taught each other how to be
1:12:40
artists. And there's nothing in the
1:12:42
country like that, right? My my my.
1:12:45
I'll, I'll let you go ahead of the jail.
1:12:47
Sorry. No, Well, no, I was going to
1:12:49
say, so that's what. Makes this so special.
1:12:51
So that's what the catalyst for me to help this organization to
1:12:58
produce this event, that this story right here was the
1:13:02
catalyst because there is nothing like this.
1:13:06
It's a non clinical approach, not just for veterans, but now
1:13:10
it's open to 1st responders, it's open to healthcare workers,
1:13:15
their families. And again, I can't say it
1:13:19
enough, there is nothing like this in the country.
1:13:22
And I have had the privilege of visiting the sanctuary.
1:13:26
And when Brad is talking about the the phoenix, the dragon,
1:13:31
they are these massive creations and the insides, they actually
1:13:35
have the insides, they have a rib cage, they have the pieces
1:13:40
and the parts inside of these actual structures.
1:13:44
And So what we want to do with this festival, it's going to be
1:13:47
we have a tentative date at Wibby Brewing October 10th and
1:13:52
we're going to have about 5 bands lined up for the day.
1:13:56
We are asking for vendors, we are asking for sponsors.
1:14:01
We are going to have a levelled sponsorships and this is going
1:14:05
to help take Warriors Story Field to the next level.
1:14:10
We need to move these structures on to their new property.
1:14:14
They just received a really beautiful grant that helped them
1:14:19
purchase new property. Donation too.
1:14:23
Yeah, the donation strictly. Donation A.
1:14:25
Grant, yeah, strict donation. So this is all donation based.
1:14:29
We're still owing 12 for donation.
1:14:31
Well. Well, what we're doing here.
1:14:33
So I have a three-year vision. This is not going to be just one
1:14:37
year. We want to bring this on to the
1:14:38
property eventually, and the organization was already
1:14:43
planning a gala event because they're doing a documentary.
1:14:47
And so this all ties into the vision that I have.
1:14:51
Next spring, I'm hoping that we have a premiere for a
1:14:54
documentary and a gala to follow this event.
1:14:57
So this is not going to be just one thing.
1:15:01
This is going to grow. And we're also spotlighting the
1:15:04
Jumbi Orchestra of Colorado, which is also another nonprofit
1:15:09
organization. So it's both of these
1:15:12
organizations that we are highlighting for this event.
1:15:17
And we want to take both of these organizations to the next
1:15:21
level next year, the following year.
1:15:24
And we already have a headliner. It's our first year and we
1:15:27
already have a headlining act, World Class Drummer Manas I
1:15:32
Team, who has worked with Mickey Hart from the Grateful Dead.
1:15:37
He's worked with Arrested Development.
1:15:40
Many people in Colorado have already seen him play at Red
1:15:45
Rocks. OK, So he is a a very good
1:15:50
friend of mine and he will be the second to last performer and
1:15:55
then Jim B Orchestra is going to close it out.
1:15:58
So what we're looking for, we're going to be asking for major
1:16:01
sponsorships. So the community, people in the
1:16:05
community, the benefactors of the community, we need you.
1:16:08
We need the big banks, we need the big businesses.
1:16:11
We need sponsors to help us to do this.
1:16:15
Without you, we cannot Brad, I'd love you to tell the people how
1:16:21
much this has helped others and and before you tell us, I.
1:16:25
I have one last question. Sure.
1:16:28
What is the significance of you, You said when you was talking
1:16:33
about building the dragon and there's hey, is this taller?
1:16:36
You're like, no, it needs to be double the size.
1:16:39
What's the significance of why it needed to be taller?
1:16:44
You know, I think there's something about.
1:16:46
Instinctively when you're working with these kind of look
1:16:50
at these two creatures, the archetypals, the archetypes live
1:16:53
inside us. You know, the part of us that
1:16:55
wants to be of service, the the war, the warrior to go to war,
1:16:59
but also that helps us get things done.
1:17:01
That other part of it, the Phoenix, being able to see that
1:17:06
you can transform your life and be in service in the new way and
1:17:09
find a new purpose when you come back, what we all want to be
1:17:11
able to do. So it's just about this, the
1:17:15
hugeness of that. It instinctively evokes
1:17:18
something in this we don't even know we can put language to.
1:17:22
And that's what the power of art is.
1:17:24
It connects us to the possibility, especially what
1:17:27
makes this so powerful. It's communal art.
1:17:30
It's not just a civilian artist teaching a warrior to become an
1:17:33
artist one-on-one and he goes off and do this art, which is
1:17:36
wonderful. But this is where civilians and
1:17:39
warriors, women, men, children, grandparents of all been part
1:17:43
and community have been created. That it's kept a lot of us alive
1:17:48
and even change transformed our lives.
1:17:50
And so we've been able to integrate these parts of us that
1:17:52
are kind of in the shadow that we don't want to talk about that
1:17:55
We say I'm not, it's in, I'm not going to talk about this.
1:17:59
And to be able to see that the presence, just the presence
1:18:02
evokes it. And when we move these things
1:18:05
under the property, we're looking to maybe do it by the
1:18:07
end of the year, early next year, we're going to create an,
1:18:11
an actual pavilion out there on the property.
1:18:14
We've got 40 acres out there with a beautiful house,
1:18:17
outbuildings. It's it's a beautiful piece of
1:18:19
property. It's beautiful outside.
1:18:21
Of Longmont and and. We're going to build a pavilion
1:18:25
and put these two, build it right into the hill, dig out the
1:18:28
hill, put them right in the hill and with a 40 foot kiva, which
1:18:33
actually means you step down more into the earth and these
1:18:35
sculptures will sit at your shoulder and you're looking at
1:18:38
the Front Range. Our neighbors of Blue Cloud
1:18:40
Farms, they got sixty horses, so you're looking at horses out
1:18:43
there. It's an incredible place.
1:18:46
It's beautiful and we're going to do one day experiences.
1:18:49
Working with. That space in between there and
1:18:51
then also doing equine because Blue Cloud Farms, they got all
1:18:54
those horses, they're going to help.
1:18:55
They already want awesome. And I'm going to train equine
1:18:59
coach along with my really good friend Michelle K was the same
1:19:02
thing. And we're going to build an
1:19:04
arena out there and put two round pens in there and do that
1:19:07
work as a one day and eventually a three day experience from
1:19:11
people. People will.
1:19:12
Come around the country this. Will be a point.
1:19:15
This will become a national level experience and what we're
1:19:19
doing and that's what I want this festival.
1:19:22
To begin to plant this seed, that's how sturgeon started
1:19:26
that's. How Sturgis started really.
1:19:28
Yeah, Sturgis started with just I, I think it was like it was
1:19:32
actually two or three guys that got together and.
1:19:35
And what? North Dakota, right?
1:19:39
Yeah, North Dakota. It was 3 people and they just
1:19:43
they would drag race and when they start drag racing they
1:19:47
brought in motorcycles and that is what Sturgis does today.
1:19:52
It it literally it started with three guys just getting together
1:19:57
once they came back from the service.
1:19:59
Well, this kind of started with. That special drummer that I was
1:20:03
talking about Manas I teen telling the Jumbie Orchestra
1:20:08
that they were so excellent that they needed to be on television.
1:20:12
And so then I started asking questions and then I heard about
1:20:16
Warrior Story Fields. And so here we are today.
1:20:21
And that's how this came about. It was just a simple
1:20:24
conversation at Webby Brewing. In fact, because I was helping
1:20:28
support that event. And we are so fortunate because
1:20:31
Robin and Ryan Webby of Webby Brewing in Longmont, they're
1:20:36
working with us and they're going to help us to use their
1:20:39
property the entire day to get this off the ground and running
1:20:44
because we want this to be on the Warrior Story Field property
1:20:49
next year. So I encourage everyone right
1:20:52
now, right now, type it in, go to warriorstoryfield.org, check
1:20:58
it out, look through the website.
1:21:01
You're going to see a little button that says donate.
1:21:04
I highly encourage you to donate today.
1:21:06
Start donating to help us get this festival up and running.
1:21:11
Like, you know what we me and my?
1:21:13
Wife and granddaughter almost went to Longmont this weekend
1:21:18
because they had this and it might be the same place you're
1:21:21
talking about. They had this horseback ride for
1:21:24
$5. It was like a non profit that
1:21:26
they were just doing for the weekend.
1:21:28
And but it was just so hot. So so we wasn't able to make it.
1:21:32
But you know, you talk about beautiful places.
1:21:34
There's not many places in Colorado that's not beautiful.
1:21:39
Colorado is beautiful in and of itself.
1:21:42
But the piece of property that they just purchased is it's
1:21:47
beyond gorgeous. I mean, Robert's property where
1:21:50
he lives is very beautiful too. But this, this sanctuary is
1:21:56
just, it's literally that a sanctuary.
1:21:59
It's peaceful, it's beautiful, it's gorgeous.
1:22:03
And so more people need to know about Warrior Story Field, more
1:22:07
people need to be able to get out there.
1:22:10
It's been a blessing to me, I have to say, meeting Robert,
1:22:14
meeting Brad, meeting all of these people, it's been quite a
1:22:17
blessing because you know, as civilians, we also have our own
1:22:20
battlefields. Yes, yes.
1:22:23
And you know, and I and I. So this, this last week and I,
1:22:27
so we, we've been for the last couple of months, we've been
1:22:31
kind of fundraise to keep MBR on the air.
1:22:34
And, and we're doing, we're doing better now.
1:22:37
But there was this person that is a friend of mine, you know,
1:22:40
his friend also told me when I was like selling shirts a long
1:22:44
time ago. I'll just wait until you start
1:22:46
giving them out for free. And I'm like, OK, well, they
1:22:49
cost money. Thanks for your support.
1:22:52
But he comes to me and he's like, you know why?
1:22:58
Is podcasting so. Important.
1:23:01
Yeah. I'm like, it's just it's
1:23:02
podcasting. It's it's it's nothing.
1:23:05
And I looked at it and I'm like, you know, every single day I go
1:23:09
on social media and I always see people doing those, Hey, you
1:23:13
know, copy and paste, you know, if, if, if you care about
1:23:17
veterans, you know, there's a veteran that's, you know,
1:23:20
hurting inside, you know, all, all this different stuff.
1:23:23
And yet, you know, here's a nonprofit that we're, we're not,
1:23:28
we're not offering a service. We're offering a connection.
1:23:34
Exactly. We're offering exactly.
1:23:36
We're offering. The connection we're offering a
1:23:39
way that veterans can connect and you know, MBR is kind of
1:23:43
like a virtual MWR because we don't have that, you know, being
1:23:48
out, you know, we have all these outlets, but you know, a lot of
1:23:51
people, they asked me why is this so important?
1:23:55
And it's almost like, okay, would you share it on Facebook?
1:23:59
Are you sharing it because you want to share it, or are you
1:24:03
sharing it because you honestly want to prevent it?
1:24:09
This is a preventive moment. This is a preventive event,
1:24:15
yeah. This is an event.
1:24:17
That. Can introduce.
1:24:18
Other veterans and other first responders to things that they
1:24:23
might not know. I mean, if you told me that I
1:24:26
was going to run or be any kind of like radio in high school, I
1:24:31
would have told you that you was on crack, you know, because I
1:24:34
never had that. Dream I never.
1:24:36
Had that dream. If you would have told me, I'd
1:24:38
be in Colorado 5. Years ago, OK, living in
1:24:42
Colorado and I'd be here, I would have said you're
1:24:46
absolutely nuts because I packed six boxes and two plants and I
1:24:50
got the hell out of Dodge, buddy.
1:24:53
OK. And we do what we have to do.
1:24:56
And so we we end up in places. And that's why I believe that
1:25:00
souls travel in circles from one life to another.
1:25:04
I have different spiritual beliefs.
1:25:06
I believe Jesus is my homeboy. You can believe in anything that
1:25:09
you want. But you know, I always have used
1:25:13
my personal difficulties to help other people.
1:25:17
And this is actually I I'm desperately trying to segue out
1:25:22
of healthcare and education and do other things but still help.
1:25:26
It's. Understandable because of
1:25:27
stories. They help veterans, they help
1:25:30
people kind of learn the pathway through their own strength.
1:25:35
This is non clinical. It's absolutely.
1:25:37
Non clinical and Brad. Brad is actually I hope he
1:25:42
doesn't mind me saying this because I've heard this about
1:25:45
him. Brad is actually the first
1:25:47
success story besides Robert. Robert and Brad are the two Co
1:25:51
founders and they are the 2 success stories of the beginning
1:25:54
origins. Because they might not be here.
1:25:57
If it wasn't for Warrior story field they might not be here.
1:26:00
I know that to be true, and you know and it.
1:26:03
Might like I talked about my journey then you know when we
1:26:05
got that started, I ended up getting offered a job with an
1:26:09
organization called Save a warrior.
1:26:11
I don't know if you've heard of Save a Warrior.
1:26:12
They're out of Ohio. They started on Malibu and I got
1:26:15
hired to do E Quan for them back in 2018.
1:26:18
I wanted to, it was an incredible experience to watch
1:26:21
what they do because they had a five day experience that was, it
1:26:25
is and still is the premier suicide prevention program in
1:26:28
the country in my mind. And so I got off to work with
1:26:32
them and then they ended up moving to Ohio and it got an
1:26:35
incredible piece of property. And then they ended up building
1:26:37
a $3.5 million National Center for Excellence for complex BTS,
1:26:42
and I ended. Up.
1:26:44
Taking about 2000 men and women through that experience over the
1:26:47
last eight years in which we because of COVID, we had to
1:26:50
shrink it down. We had at least lose leave the
1:26:52
horse work and the high ropes, which was part of it.
1:26:55
But the thing that we really discovered in that.
1:26:58
And I just wanted to share with you that we want to also at some
1:27:01
point with the art at the story field and maybe 27 or 28 is to
1:27:06
know that for me, I thought the things that was suffering was
1:27:09
what what happened with me in the military and and which was
1:27:13
true part of it. But the other part that I hadn't
1:27:15
known about was that I had some real childhood trauma that I
1:27:21
really had not ever spoken to anybody about.
1:27:24
And they had discovered that save a warrior, that the
1:27:28
childhood trauma is underneath the moral injury.
1:27:31
What happens to us in in the military or adult life.
1:27:35
It's the basis, the foundation of everything.
1:27:37
For us is our childhood trauma and that, and then we started
1:27:41
giving them something. Called Aces Adverse Childhood
1:27:43
Experience Survey, which came out in 94 from the CDC and
1:27:47
Kaiser Permanente. And we discovered very quickly
1:27:50
that if we had 18 people going through the experience, the
1:27:55
average ACES score was a 7 out of 10 markers.
1:27:58
If you're at 5, you're at 50% more than have to take your life
1:28:02
with suicide than you are at 4:00.
1:28:03
And it continues to go up exponentials and potentially
1:28:07
from there. And the average ACES was A7 for
1:28:10
men. The women was an 8.
1:28:13
And the average Aces score for a felon in the United States
1:28:15
Penitentiary is a 7 out of 10. So for me, I know that I wanted
1:28:21
to get out of my house so, so bad that I was, I signed up a
1:28:24
year early to join the Marine Corps when I was 17 in Vietnam
1:28:27
was still going on back in that day.
1:28:30
And I wasn't worried about Vietnam.
1:28:32
I just wanted to be a Marine. And I wanted to get out of my
1:28:34
household just because there was so much struggle.
1:28:36
Oldest of seven. And we're very, very poor.
1:28:39
My mom and dad were doing the best he could, but it was tough.
1:28:42
And I till I got sat in that seat at Save a Warrior in 2018
1:28:45
and saw the real thing underneath the thing.
1:28:48
It changed everything for me. And like I said, I spent almost
1:28:52
eight years working with that incredible organization and it
1:28:55
changed my life. And we're going to do some of
1:28:57
that work with the art absolutely at there in 520. 7 or
1:29:01
28. Once we get up to a three day
1:29:03
experience and we're going to make a difference from people's
1:29:06
lives, from warriors, first responders, and also you already
1:29:09
have trauma, you already have made a difference and you'll
1:29:12
continue. Making a difference.
1:29:13
Thank you. You have made a difference.
1:29:15
And that's what we're doing. We're celebrating the arts and
1:29:18
healing. This is a community event
1:29:21
celebrating arts and healing that's benefiting Warrior Story
1:29:25
Field and Shenby Orchestra. It's an amazing, amazing
1:29:29
organization. It sounds it and I'm getting
1:29:31
excited. You know, and you know, just
1:29:33
touching off, you know how you told me that, you know, your
1:29:35
family was like porn and stuff, Like my family was poor.
1:29:38
There were people griping and, and when I was in like basic,
1:29:42
you know, griping about like the food and stuff and like I
1:29:45
thought it was luxury because I got my first omelet.
1:29:48
You know, I'm like shit, you know.
1:29:50
Well, I think it goes back to we touched on this before.
1:29:53
Brad came back how I was talking about the silent generation and
1:29:56
the GI generation. And again, I will say it because
1:29:59
my daddy, these are my people, two of the most beautiful
1:30:02
generations in the world, OK, especially that GI generation
1:30:06
sacrifice so much for us. But those are the people who are
1:30:09
raising us. Those are the people who went
1:30:12
through the depression. Those are the people who went
1:30:14
through things that we cannot imagine as Americans because we
1:30:18
haven't experienced those things.
1:30:20
So we grew up with these ideologies and these
1:30:23
expectations that were beyond anything that we can do as human
1:30:27
beings. Well, hey, you know, we're we're
1:30:30
running. Out of time because we got our
1:30:32
next segment of the Tribute to Troops.
1:30:34
But before we go, it is that time.
1:30:38
It is your time to shine. I might not have set you up for
1:30:50
that right question. Maybe there's something a little
1:30:52
bit more that you want to get off your chest.
1:30:54
This is your two-minute platform to say whatever, do whatever you
1:31:00
want to. It's your time to chime.
1:31:04
Well, thank you. I appreciate it #1 to thank you.
1:31:06
For offering me to have me on the show.
1:31:07
And of course, thank you to Melissa for setting it up and
1:31:10
becoming this kind of North Star for us to really get the word
1:31:13
out because we had to, we kind of had to put it into wraps for
1:31:16
15 years because it was a Robert's backyard.
1:31:19
And you know, and if we had people still showing up, riding,
1:31:22
buying their bikes and coming by and saying, hey, can we come in
1:31:24
and 15 riders will come in. And So what?
1:31:28
So we're now we're trying to get the word out.
1:31:29
So I really appreciate that support.
1:31:32
You know, I think the biggest thing is that I've learned over
1:31:36
this last 30 years my own journey and becoming, you know,
1:31:40
a person of service and being able to facilitate
1:31:43
transformation, integration for people is that we're so much
1:31:47
more alike than we are different.
1:31:50
And you know, it's this thing about we get separated and
1:31:54
whatever you want to call it, what's going on in the country.
1:31:56
But I think there's some things that we really pull together.
1:32:00
And I think that's the two things that Brené Brown says are
1:32:03
most powerful. What we're really hard wired for
1:32:05
is struggle and connection. Yeah, it's true.
1:32:08
And so you. Know, I think where we can.
1:32:11
Come back and realize that we're all life is life's a full
1:32:14
contact sport sometimes and and it's a struggle.
1:32:17
We all struggle and we also struggle with distinct multi
1:32:21
generational trauma. Absolutely.
1:32:22
That's been handed down. Generation to.
1:32:25
Generation 7 years back at least and it's just unknowingly we
1:32:30
take it as little ones out of love and they unfortunately give
1:32:34
it with love because they were doing the best they could.
1:32:36
But they're thinking too, especially with all that
1:32:38
development happens as little ones, little boys and little
1:32:40
girls. So you know, I just want to be
1:32:43
able to, I think the story field and what we're trying to do can
1:32:46
be offer along with great organization like Sabre Warrior
1:32:49
and Boulder Crest and that are out there really doing a really
1:32:54
powerful thing working with complex PTS.
1:32:56
But I think this ability to use art and being able to know that
1:33:01
all of us are artists, it's all buried inside.
1:33:04
It's just covered up some thinking, some beliefs and some
1:33:07
and whatever. And so, you know, I think what
1:33:10
we need is community and art and finding a way to integrate.
1:33:13
And so that's it. Well, you know, when I was in
1:33:15
high school, my art. Teacher, he had two sayings.
1:33:18
One was, you know, pretty, hey, clean up city, let's make it
1:33:21
pretty. But the other one, he had the
1:33:24
sign on his door and I really believe in it.
1:33:28
And it says in life, you succeed whatever your art desires, you
1:33:35
know? So I appreciate you coming in,
1:33:38
Brad. I really do Thank you.
1:33:41
Hey. You got.
1:33:42
MBR support me and MJ is going to be working that you know so
1:33:47
much you know just just just use me as a vessel there.
1:33:51
There's a reason why a guy connected me with you so same
1:33:55
but let's let's let's let's let's continue this journey
1:33:58
together. We're going to have a tent out
1:34:00
there on there. We're going to.
1:34:01
Have the radio set up out there. Oh really?
1:34:04
Set up? A radio set up?
1:34:06
Most definitely. And we'll have TV and.
1:34:08
Everything. Hey, everybody, I would love to
1:34:11
keep on talking, but you know, we we have to do the tribute to
1:34:15
troops. So now whatever you do, when we
1:34:18
come back, we're going to go to tribute to the truth.
1:34:21
And when we come back, we'll be hitting the final thoughts.
1:34:24
But before the final thoughts, since Amber's not here, we're
1:34:28
not doing back to cap. We're going to get in the sports
1:34:32
update from HG when we come back because he didn't have a show
1:34:37
Wednesday. And there's a lot of sports that
1:34:40
happen. So if you're a sports fan, stay
1:34:42
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Sir Adam. Well, you got the joke.
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You. Tell the people would be you
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tell them how much troopers died.
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for tuning in to NPR. Today as we pay tribute to
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Deputy US Marshall Michael Andrew Hansen, or Drew, age 36,
1:36:24
of Pineville, LA. Drew was born on September 15th,
1:36:28
1989 to Michael and Sarah Hansen.
1:36:30
Before joining the US Marshals Service, Hansen built a career
1:36:34
in law enforcement across the Gulf Coast region.
1:36:37
He served with the Ocean Springs, Ms. Police Department,
1:36:39
the Mississippi Department of Transportation, and the Gulfport
1:36:43
Police Department. He later worked with Customs and
1:36:46
Border Protection in Nogales, AZ, and then with Immigration
1:36:50
and Customs Enforcement in New Orleans before fulfilling his
1:36:53
lifelong dream of joining the US Marshall Service in 2020.
1:36:57
Bippany, US Marshall. Drew.
1:36:59
Hanson was shot and killed while serving an arrest warrant for a
1:37:04
fugitive on Rutland Rd. in Alexandria, LA.
1:37:07
On July 13th, 2026, around 3:00 PM, members of the US Marshals
1:37:12
Violent Offender Task Force and deputies with the Rapids Parish
1:37:16
Sheriff's Office were attempting to arrest a man wanted for
1:37:19
sexual battery. When deputies entered the home,
1:37:22
they found the suspect barricaded in a bedroom.
1:37:26
He fired at officers striking Deputy Marshall Hanson.
1:37:30
The suspect, who had failed to appear in court, was apprehended
1:37:33
after a three hour standoff. He has been charged with murder.
1:37:37
Hassan served boldly, loved deeply, and lived with the faith
1:37:41
and character that inspired everyone around him, His
1:37:45
colleagues, friends and community.
1:37:47
Remember not just the hero, but the gentle soul behind the
1:37:51
badge, the man who made people feel welcome, the man who showed
1:37:56
up for others, the man who embodied courage and kindness
1:38:00
and equal measure. Drew is survived by his.
1:38:04
Wife Natalie. Children Cole and Sadie and his
1:38:07
parents Michael and Sarah, extended family and his brothers
1:38:11
and sisters in arms. We here at NBR would like to
1:38:15
thank you, Deputy US Marshall Michael Andrew Hansen, for your
1:38:19
service and dedication to our country.
1:38:22
You live a legacy of love and courage and our prayers are with
1:38:25
your family, friends and those who served alongside you.
1:38:29
You are truly missed. Never forgotten belly cow
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pension ready. just a setup for a comeback.
1:43:19
Keep cracking forward 90%. Of what we worry about in future
1:43:23
never happens. Whenever things get rough or it
1:43:26
feels like you're at the edge, remember this.
1:43:30
Storms pass. Tough times.
1:43:33
Don't last but. Tough people do.
1:43:43
All right, ladies chef. We are back.
1:43:46
Once again, if you didn't know, we're on this Red Friday, July
1:43:50
31st here on the H Train show where our only mission here is
1:43:55
the show. Our men and women in uniform all
1:43:58
over the world and they remember programs outside beyond the VA.
1:44:02
My name's a train and my guest Co house is MJ.
1:44:05
And man has this show went fast. Man, has it went fast.
1:44:11
It did. It was fast.
1:44:12
Yes. And you.
1:44:13
You. Know I don't know if.
1:44:15
You've had radio experience before, but I think you've
1:44:20
knocked it out of the ballpark today.
1:44:21
Well, thank you. I've never been on the radio.
1:44:24
Before, I have done some interviews and things like that
1:44:29
for other fundraising events on television, but no, thank you.
1:44:33
I appreciate it. It was fine.
1:44:35
I've had fun. I love it.
1:44:36
Yeah. Lots of fun, you know, And hey,
1:44:39
what we'll find. Out next week if you want to
1:44:41
come back or if you don't want to come back I can come back
1:44:43
next Friday and go host with yeah it's.
1:44:45
Totally up to you and. You know, I, I think, I think
1:44:49
what you and Brad are doing is is amazing.
1:44:53
And I even, I even talked to Brad might even have a segment
1:44:58
on here that is kind of like sponsored by kind of let people
1:45:02
know, hey, you know, this is going on because you guys are
1:45:06
doing exactly what I'm trying to do with MBR.
1:45:08
So next Friday I have an appointment.
1:45:11
Yeah. Already.
1:45:12
But I can come back the following Friday Yeah, I just
1:45:15
thought of it because next Friday would be the 7th I
1:45:17
believe, right? Yeah, the next day is my 52nd
1:45:20
birthday and that's that's totally OK our.
1:45:24
You know, next, next, next Friday, we'll we will be having
1:45:29
the butterfly pavilion Stop. I'm missing the butterfly.
1:45:35
Butterfly. Oh my goodness, that's my.
1:45:37
Favorite. I have a butterfly from Warrior
1:45:40
Storyfield, A welded butterfly. I saw it and Robert gave it to
1:45:45
me because that reminds me of my grandmother.
1:45:49
Look at that. That's an Angel sign we were
1:45:51
just talking about. So but before.
1:45:55
We go into our next segment, which usually is factor cap.
1:46:00
But instead of us going through that, what we're gonna do is
1:46:04
we're just gonna kind of retract stupid light lighting your
1:46:12
shoes. I'm sorry.
1:46:13
It's it's OK. You're.
1:46:16
Good man. I.
1:46:17
Totally get it. If they're just listening and
1:46:19
not watching, they. Don't know, but you know.
1:46:23
I got a little carried away with the analogy with the Richard
1:46:26
Starr Act and I forgot because HG didn't have a sports thing
1:46:33
Wednesday. I made him, you know, draw up a
1:46:36
sports segment thing for, you know, 5 minutes.
1:46:40
So HG, we're going to hear about it.
1:46:42
We're going to do the IT is that time.
1:46:44
It is till the final time out HG edition.
1:46:50
All right, Yeah, let's get into. It So I got the breakdown for
1:46:54
you what's going on across different sports things.
1:46:57
We'll start in the WNBA. There was a little wager made
1:47:02
between Angel Reese and Page Becker's during a practice
1:47:06
before the All Star game of regarding one of their upcoming
1:47:10
matchups post All Star Break. Basically, it was just a cash
1:47:14
wager between the two players. Whoever won got $400.00.
1:47:18
The league didn't find out about that.
1:47:20
There won't be any disciplinary action though for other players,
1:47:24
seeing as it wasn't done through any gambling service or sports
1:47:28
book like that, just a verbal contract.
1:47:31
But they did get a very stern warning about it.
1:47:35
And then the other news in that league, Asia Wilson is just
1:47:38
running away with the MVP race at -400 odds, averaging 2610 and
1:47:45
three with four stocks a game. Second year player Paige
1:47:49
Becker's and rookie Olivia Miles in second and third place
1:47:52
respectively at +800 and plus 900 odds.
1:47:56
But Asia would have to have a tremendous drop in production
1:47:59
for anybody to catch her at this point looking like she's going
1:48:03
to secure her fifth MVP in MLB. News The.
1:48:08
Mets have begun selling. They've just traded reliever AJ
1:48:14
Minter to the Twins. So this will probably be one of
1:48:16
the first moves of many that the Mets make before the deadline.
1:48:20
Spent a lot of money on that roster and they are just at the
1:48:25
bottom of their respective division, really struggling to
1:48:28
win game. So it's time to sell and blow up
1:48:31
the team and try to rebuild from there.
1:48:34
The Atlanta Braves have emerged as the favorites to land Tyreek
1:48:38
Skubal, the highly sought after pitcher.
1:48:42
Detroit Tigers season not really going the way they thought.
1:48:44
So the ace pitcher is a very highly sought after commodity.
1:48:51
The Braves A-Team looking to stay ahead of a a surging
1:48:55
Phillies team in their respective division.
1:48:58
The AL East has a very intense 3 team race heating up between the
1:49:03
Tampa Bay Rays, New York Yankees and Boston's Red Sox.
1:49:07
Keep an eye on that one. That could really go anyway as
1:49:10
we come down the final stretch of the season and we have the
1:49:13
Chicago Cubs picking up steam, putting a lot of pressure on the
1:49:18
Milwaukee Brewers, flipping over to the NBA.
1:49:21
We're in the offseason, but we have a lot of news to cover.
1:49:26
This is what I'm sure everybody's heard of, but LeBron
1:49:28
James joining the Philadelphia 76ers for I thought he was going
1:49:31
to join the Nuggets. Damn OK will it likely be his
1:49:34
final hurrah on the 2? Year $8 million deal.
1:49:38
For the first time in five years, the NBA will not host any
1:49:41
NBA preseason games in the Middle East due to the ongoing
1:49:45
war with Iran and other conflicts in the region.
1:49:49
The Kawhi Leonard saga and drama with the aspirations and the
1:49:54
Clippers circumventing the salary cap continues.
1:49:57
Pablo Torre dropping more bombshell information.
1:50:01
Kawhi was secretly an investor with AUSL team, the Rhode Island
1:50:07
Football Club as well. Go check out Pablo finds out.
1:50:12
Fantastic podcast if you want to do more.
1:50:15
The best investigative sports journalist out there, but the
1:50:19
inquiry and NBA investigation of this is likely going to drag
1:50:23
into 2027 for some more local Sports News.
1:50:27
The Denver Nuggets have matched the Oklahoma City Thunder's
1:50:30
offer on restricted free agent Spencer Jones, but that does
1:50:34
make them the only team in the league to enter the second
1:50:38
apron. Making things difficult as they
1:50:40
try to get another contract worked out with their young star
1:50:42
player Peyton Watson, who they have offered a 70 million dollar
1:50:47
contract too. But now the door seems more open
1:50:51
for Watson to be picked up by another team and they sign and
1:50:55
trade deal and then with the NFL season just.
1:50:59
About a month away. We've got some news from
1:51:01
training camp that's gotten under way.
1:51:03
The 49ers did resign Debo Samuel.
1:51:07
He's returning to San Francisco on the one year deal.
1:51:11
Small nugget of good news, I guess, of I made a laundry list
1:51:15
of injuries that have already started to pile up for the
1:51:17
49ers, including their head coach who got a concussion when
1:51:21
he was in a car accident. And they're going to a rough
1:51:24
time because if. I'm not mistaken like the one of
1:51:26
the coaches, Kyle Shanahan, the head coach.
1:51:29
Well, no one. Of the coaches, his his.
1:51:32
Son shot his that's that was chief offensive coordinator.
1:51:36
His son. Did.
1:51:39
Shot his wife and he had to leave training camp to go
1:51:43
senior. Yes, that was another very.
1:51:45
That's how horrible. Yeah, it is a story.
1:51:48
A lot of there's. Still an.
1:51:49
Investigation going on why he did that but it might have been
1:51:52
a mental health crisis for uncertain.
1:51:56
The Carolina Panthers also another team having the rough
1:51:58
training camp. They just lost second year
1:52:03
linebacker and rookie wide receiver.
1:52:06
The last second year linebacker Nick Scorton and rookie wide
1:52:09
receiver Chris Brazil have both suffered season ending knee
1:52:14
injuries. So tough, tough day to be a
1:52:17
Panthers fan and their division rival.
1:52:21
The New Orleans Saints just signed their star receiver Chris
1:52:24
Olave to a new four year $132 million extension.
1:52:31
I got some Bronco train camp updates, the waddle to Nick's
1:52:36
connection looking very good. Pat Bryant second year wide
1:52:40
receiver showing out Jonathan Cooper is practicing despite his
1:52:44
ongoing invest the investigation.
1:52:47
But that that's both a good sign that with all his legal issues
1:52:53
and Sean Payton says that this the expectation in the building
1:52:57
is championship and that is what the team's training for.
1:53:01
And one little final bit of news.
1:53:02
CBS analyst and former NFL quarterback Tony Romo placed on
1:53:07
leave following his DUI arrest in Wisconsin.
1:53:10
Yeah, I saw that. I saw that, he told.
1:53:13
The police officers going to. Grandma and grandpa's house, and
1:53:17
everybody's like Grandma and grandpa's houses.
1:53:20
Grandma and grandpa's dead. I'm like, have you never lied to
1:53:23
the police before? Come on, man.
1:53:25
What he? Said, Did I pass the test?
1:53:28
Oh. I guess I didn't.
1:53:32
I loved it. He did not do bad.
1:53:35
And I got to say a shout out to my Saints and Sean Payton
1:53:38
because, you know, I'm from New Orleans.
1:53:40
Who died, baby. Go Sean.
1:53:42
He's going to bring us to a Super Bowl.
1:53:45
Oh, man. All right, everybody, it is
1:53:47
that. Time it is the final thoughts.
1:53:58
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Vets. All right, ladies and gentlemen,
1:54:21
is that time it? Is what did you guys learn
1:54:24
today? You know, I'm going to start
1:54:26
with you, Jake is you're the guest.
1:54:29
Oh well, I had no idea that today.
1:54:32
Was the day almost 51 years ago that Jimmy Hoffa went missing?
1:54:37
Yes. That was pretty crazy to learn.
1:54:41
Yeah. And HG.
1:54:43
I learned today HG. Didn't know who Jimmy Hoffa was.
1:54:47
That's the other thing, apparently, people.
1:54:48
Born in the very late 1900s, no longer no Jimmy Hoffa.
1:54:54
So I learned those things. We're getting old, Joel.
1:54:56
Hey, hey, I learned yesterday on.
1:54:58
TikTok that Albert Einstein was was working with the FBI.
1:55:06
Don't even get me started on things like that.
1:55:08
Because then I'm going to have to go into like, wait, Picasso
1:55:11
was alive during our time. Hey, she was.
1:55:15
You learn today. Well, just a follow up on what
1:55:18
she said. You want to know what will
1:55:20
really blow your mind? The Star Wars came out before
1:55:27
the last execution by guillotine in France.
1:55:31
What? Wow, what?
1:55:32
The first Star Wars. Movie released.
1:55:34
Before what year was that? 1970 What?
1:55:38
177878. And like a year later, the last
1:55:42
person executed by guillotine in France.
1:55:44
Wow, that's interesting. Wow.
1:55:47
What an interesting. Correlation.
1:55:49
To to take a guillotine and Yoda and put them together.
1:55:55
Oh, man. All right.
1:55:57
Well, it is that time everybody. We're getting ready to head out.
1:56:01
But as always, Beaker has a safety we can safety break for
1:56:06
you. Stay smart, stay safe, be
1:56:08
legendary. No.
1:56:09
Before you go. Don't drink and drive, and don't
1:56:12
drive distracted. All.
1:56:15
Right. So once again, everybody, we
1:56:18
will. Be here next Friday, come back
1:56:21
with us because we really, really, really appreciate you
1:56:25
tuning in and listening to us. And MJ, thank you so much for
1:56:31
being here. I had so much.
1:56:32
Fun. Today was so great.
1:56:34
Yeah. And for everybody else, we'll be
1:56:36
back. Here, same time, same bad
1:56:38
channel as always. Next Friday we're going to be
1:56:42
talking with Hannah from The Butterfly Pavilion, so you'll
1:56:48
want to tune in for that because I hear she's like candy as well.
1:56:52
So whatever you do, everybody stay with us.
1:56:55
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