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  of any entities they represent. Welcome to Veteran Talk with
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  Magic Mike, where what's important to you is important to
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  us. Let's talk.
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  I'm your host, Magic Mike, and today we're diving deep into
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  motivational speakers, but you'd be amazed at how therapeutic it
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  And trust me, somebody out there needs to hear it.
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  this is what I've been through. It bridges gaps, builds
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  community and creates new purpose.
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  And here we are. We are live.
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  I don't know what's going on in the H train.
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  We're live here on Veterans Talk with Yours truly, DJ Magic mic,
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  H train in the studio there. I mean, I don't know why my mic
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  looks like it's all up in my grill.
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  What's going on H train? Not much, man.
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  Not much. And how, how's the last time
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  that we spoke to you? The, the weather?
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  The weather, Yeah. It was bad.
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  It was real bad. Yeah.
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  We had real bad weather for for a couple days, man.
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  And then now we ain't got no, no rain at all, man.
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  It's like crazy. So we're we're here in Colorado
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  for the last two or three days it's been raining so.
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  Yeah, we need that rain. You just said that rain for just
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  here feels. Like, feels like we're
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  definitely Seattle right now. That's the truth.
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  We need it bad, man. It's like no rain.
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  It's like the pollen's killing me right now.
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  But yeah, it's all good, man. Yeah, we got a pretty cool show
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  today for you. We're going to talk a little bit
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  about the digital divide on, you know, the different errors of
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  the veterans and stuff like that.
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  You know, the VA is now requiring you to do everything
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  online and, you know, social media and all this other crazy
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  stuff. And what about the older
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  generation? Are they being left behind,
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  right, or the generation that even the younger generation, I
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  mean, you know, a lot of people just don't like doing that.
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  You know, whole thing on the on the Internet and and, and stuff.
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  And it's, it's, it's going to be a pretty decent show.
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  Just found out we got a new Pope.
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  The first time ever in the history that AUS born American
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  is been elected as Pope. How about that?
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  Well, congratulations. I don't know him, but
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  congratulations. So first American poop ever in
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  history, so that's kind of cool. Just so you know, Magic Mark, we
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  have something new that that we've been playing with here in
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  the last couple of days. If you hear all of a sudden like
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  you heard earlier, like it was like a fart noise.
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  Yeah. So basically because I, I can't,
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  we can't monitor two places at once.
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  That's TikTok. So if somebody goes to TikTok
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  and they want to watch the show and they want to comment,
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  they'll comment and we'll hear it and that and it plays a sound
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  and a sound effect. It's a new, new thing that we
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  have set up. All righty, well, you heard
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  first right there from H train in the studio there.
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  It's a new thing that we set up. So if you hear somebody passing
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  gas, it's not me or H train. It's TikTok trying to trying to
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  answer something. So hello to all my TikTok users
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  out there all the way, people that follow us on TikTok, all
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  the veterans out there. Again, this shows for you.
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  Obviously, if you want to call in to show, the phone number is
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  720-619-0627. Again, that phone number is
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  720-619-0627. You can call us live, be on the
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  show if you want to. So, yeah, couple things going on
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  in the world, right? I mean, just every day has been
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  been something different. Prime Minister sat down with the
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  president and talking about the tariffs.
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  Hopefully we'll get those tariffs, you know, knocked out
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  of the way and get everything going the way it needs to go.
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  The Dow Jones was actually up a little bit today, which was kind
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  of crazy. 400, five, 160 points. It went up as he as he announced
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  that there was a deal with the UK on their trade trade deal.
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  That's kind of cool. I mean, you know, we all want to
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  see everybody's money go up and stuff and, you know, yeah, I'm
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  dying. These allergies are really
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  killing me. Again, like I said, the Pope, we
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  got a new new Pope. First time ever in history that
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  AUS born American has been elected Pope.
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  That's kind of kind of crazy, kind of cool.
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  He speaks like 10 different languages.
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  We got a call. You know, that's that's when you
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  hear that that means that our our live has been shared.
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  Well, there you go. Yeah, with all these freaking
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  noises. Can't we just have a freaking
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  God Dang son of a bitching motherfucking show and not have
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  some fucking bullshit like that? So those of you don't know me
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  know that I have Tourette symptoms, so I apologize to you
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  out there. My Tourettes kicks in every now.
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  And then aren't you fucking at sunshine today, Jesus.
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  Hey there. He's a little rayish sunshine.
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  Yeah, that's crazy, man. Anyways, yeah, the digital
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  divide, man. So, you know, here we are with
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  the VA. Now, the VA requires you to do a
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  lot of things. Like I'll give you an example.
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  I had to cancel. Oh, my God, this is a nightmare.
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  I had to cancel appointment that I had with the VA and I have
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  ongoing appointments, right. So I had to cancel one of the
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  appointments and I, I called and, and they, they kept putting
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  me, this person, that person get disconnect, this person.
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  I go, man, it's like an hour before my appointment.
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  I'm trying to cancel it, right? So anyway, so I finally, I, I
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  went online and I just wrote an e-mail, right?
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  Or, or you go on to your va.gov now and you can write your
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  provider a, a message, right? And they get the message and
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  then they can respond or whatever.
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  They really don't get the message.
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  It's for their fiance that gets the message or whatever.
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  So, so I wrote a message and everything like that.
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  I still get a phone call and they're like, hey, you missed
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  your appointment. I'm like, no, I didn't, I tried
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  to cancel it like a couple hours before I started the
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  appointment. So yeah, the digital divide, I
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  mean, even though it's good and I got it, it's supposed to be
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  for the best interest of, of the veterans.
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  It doesn't always work that way. I mean, some people get
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  frustrated, you know, I, I personally don't like, you know,
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  getting 25,000 million phone calls telling me that I'm, I
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  have an appointment coming up and you know, I don't like the,
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  the text messages either. So I, I have, like I said,
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  ongoing appointments with the VA and I'll get a e-mail H train
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  and then I'll get a text message the very next minute or so.
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  And then I'll get a text message a day of the day before, a week
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  before. Hey, reminder you got, I mean,
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  they remind you like a million times on text messages.
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  It's just, it's a most annoying thing.
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  It's like, and then they send you something in the mail.
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  Oh, by the way, you have a, a, a like save the money, man, Jeez,
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  gosh, man. I mean, just take that money and
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  put it somewhere else besides there.
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  It's, it's just ridiculous. So, but yeah, so the the divide
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  is is huge though, you know, 'cause you no.
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  And I and I agree. I mean, you know, right now the,
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  the divide is huge on, on society.
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  You know, everybody wants everybody to be so hooked onto
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  their phone, like if you go to Sam's Club or go to Walmart,
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  like. Let me interrupt you real quick.
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  That shit's going to hurt. That shit is going to hurt.
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  That is going to hurt real bad for a couple days.
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  Matter of fact, I just had a little bird go full blast into
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  my window and I watched him bounce off and kind of shook it
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  off like he flew away. I know that's just going to give
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  me a headache. Go ahead.
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  I'm sorry. So yeah.
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  So the divide is real. Yeah, you're absolutely right.
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  You know, they want you to everywhere you go now, it's, you
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  know, even McDonald's, Jesus, you go to McDonald's, you only
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  have a real person anymore. You go up to the menu, you click
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  on it, dot dot dot dot dot dot. Put your credit card in.
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  Right. I'm sorry, Sir.
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  What are you waiting for? The freaking menu that I just
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  placed right now? Jesus.
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  You know, it's it's I don't know it.
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  You know, it's supposed to be sufficient.
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  And, you know, we were warned about this many years ago that
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  robots would take over. And we kind of laughed.
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  Ha, ha, ha. I ain't no robot.
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  Can I ever take over? But look at it.
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  I mean, realistically, computers are taking over.
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  I mean, what, what do we have in our hand everyday?
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  A little computer that we're we can't live without TikTok,
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  Instagram. Well, that's what I mean, like
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  society itself that wants you to use your cell phone for
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  everything. And I mean it encourages it.
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  Yeah, yeah, I got AI got a one minute pause, man, that you
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  that, that, that I use my phone is where where I don't have it
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  in my hand for one minute, you know, or or two minutes or 10
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  minutes or whatever it is. But yeah, that phone is just
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  horrible. Every time I turn around the
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  phone, you know, somebody is, you know, on their phone.
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  I mean, look, look at it when you go to a restaurant, just
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  just humorous. When you go to a restaurant,
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  look how many people are sitting across from each other and
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  they're on their phones or whatever be it.
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  There's no conversation anymore. We're we're we're becoming a a
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  society with no social skills, no ability to talk to people,
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  right. And and and I'm not just saying
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  America, I'm saying all over the world, the country, you know,
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  you know, my goodness gracious, you're standing right next to
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  somebody. You text him something, you say,
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  hey, check this out. I just sent it to you.
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  Tell me what you just sent me. Well, look at it.
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  I don't need to look at it. Tell me what you sent me.
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  Shit. So, yeah.
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  I mean, everything, Yeah, everything seems to be like now
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  on, on, on, on computers. And, you know, they want you to
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  be on it. You know, here's, here's a good
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  thing is, you know, I, I, you know, I belong to the Veterans
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  of Foreign War and, and the VFW was like, well, we posted on our
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  Facebook. I'll never go on Facebook.
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  I never, I am never on Facebook like ever, ever.
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  Like I'm hardly ever on Facebook, right.
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  So it's like if I, I mean, if I'm a older person, like 7075
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  years old, I'm not on Facebook or tickety talk or Instagram or
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  Hoopla or X or Twitter or Twitter or, you know, whatever
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  it is. So yeah, I just, you know, what
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  is it particularly? Talk.
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  Or is it tickety tack? Tickety tickety talk talk.
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  No, the here's something I just found out that remember Skype
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  remember that was a big thing. Skype was like Skype is will be
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  no longer as of this month. Skype will be done with.
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  Yeah, Microsoft, Microsoft announced that they are they're
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  they're going to do away with it.
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  It's going to be no longer. It won't be no longer.
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  So that means that, you know, Skype will go out and then
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  Myspace will come back in, hopefully, maybe.
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  Remember my I think Tom is still my only friend.
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  Tom is all of our friends. Yeah, we love you, Tom.
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  Wherever you got, Tom, we love. You, we let him down.
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  Yeah, wonder where is he? Wonder what's Tom doing from
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  Facebook or Myspace? God leave Myspace.
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  Holy moly, boy, talk about Yeah, Facebook wiped them off the face
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  of the earth, didn't they? Yeah, but before we go on the
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  first break, well, what's been going on in your neck of the
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  woods? Nothing much.
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  I mean, like, we've had some storm roll through and stuff
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  like that, knocked out power for a little bit, but other than
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  that we've been pretty good. You know, no power, no Internet,
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  you know how that works. But yeah, other than that, it's
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  been pretty good. Pretty quiet.
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  Everything's been moving along, you know, like it should and
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  stuff. And, you know, they had new
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  elections at the VFW. Thank God I'm not in the
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  position that I was before. Man, that was just way too much.
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  It was like a full time job getting paid nothing.
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  It's like, forget this noise. You know, I, I was, I did have
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  my name thrown in there as a commander of the post and I was
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  like, hey, you know what? So anyway, so that would not the
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  word though. Maybe next year I'll do that.
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  But yeah, I got, I got the White Hart Foundation where I'm, I'm
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  one of the facilitators for that.
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  The White Hart Guardian project is coming up.
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  They got a couple trips this this summer.
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  So I'll be in Denver, like I said in August, I think it is.
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  I'll be. I'll be in Denver and we'll
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  definitely have to hook up. I'll buy you Subway again and
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  then let me think what else is going on.
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  Tomorrow is Andrea's birthday, so.
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  And Sunday, Sunday, Sunday, Sunday is.
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  Mother's Day is Mother's Day. That's right.
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  Listen to me. If you are out there watching us
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  right now and at any time in your life, you put those titties
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  in your mouth. She deserves a present.
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  I don't care if you're, I don't care if you're 2 years old, and
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  I don't care if you're freaking 5055 years old.
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  If you've had those titties in your mouth.
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  She deserves a present from you. Amen.
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  Amen. That's right.
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  Think about that for a minute. Let that steal over the freaking
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  water. I got some people out there
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  spitting out their coffee right now.
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  Did you just say that? Yep.
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  Sure did. Yeah.
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  Mother's Day, man, you know, happy, happy Mother's Day in in
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  heaven, Mom. But yeah, Mother's Day.
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  Mother's Day is Sunday. Gonna have a Sunday brunch with
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  a grandbaby and the daughter and everybody else.
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  And yeah, Mother's Day. Mother's Day is actually
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  celebrated pretty much around the world at the same time.
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  It's Father's Day is different. Germany has a different time for
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  Father's Day. Father's Day.
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  Yeah, shit. In Germany and Father's Day,
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  they put a big old keg on a freaking little red wagon.
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  They go from town to town at the different breweries and get
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  drunk singing music and stuff. It's pretty crazy.
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  So you'll take us a break real quick.
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  Sure can all. Right, we're going to take a
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  quick break here on Veterans Talk with yours truly, DJ Magic
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  Mike and H Train on the radio station to give veterans a boys
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  military broadcast rate. We'll be right back.
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  Stats tell that each day, 22 veterans commit suicide due to
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  PTSD. These stats shook us and urged
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  us to do our part. After hours and hours of
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  thinking, beekeeping for veterans was born.
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  Beekeeping for veterans combines beekeeping with mindfulness
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  meditation. Why combine them?
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  Here's why. Beekeeping causes positive rush
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  of adrenaline. While beekeeping you have to be
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  calm during it. You are mindful of your
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  movements. Each week, a veteran will
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  receive a mindful meditation to build emotional and mental skill
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  sets. Mindfulness is a set of three
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  attentional skills that work together concentration, sensory
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  clarity and equanimity, mental calmness, composure, evenness of
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  temper. Every time mindfulness is
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  practiced, we build these skills.
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  Beekeeping for veterans not only helps veterans overcome
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  emotional trauma but also aids our environment as without bees
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  there is no come forward. The people who have supported
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  your country now need your support.
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  The station where our veterans voices are heard.
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  MBR. Talk.
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  Hey thanks for tuning. In welcome are those of the
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  speakers and do not necessarily reflect the views or positions
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  of any entities they represent. The web at NB radio dot.
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  Right, we're back here. We're veterans.
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  Talk with your true DJ, Magic Mike, and each trained in the
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  studio on military broadcast radio.
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  Anyway, that's pretty cool. Beekeepers for vet beekeeping
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  for vets. That's pretty cool.
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  That's pretty cool. I love honey.
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  Who doesn't love honey? Everybody.
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  Loves it. Yeah.
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  And, you know, just a real quick shout out as always, because
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  they donated a computer to the AT NBR studio here in Denver,
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  Tech for Troops. So if you know, if you don't
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  know a lot about computers and you just want something you need
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  help or you need to be navigated, Tech for Troops,
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  check them out. And yeah, there was another
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  thing that was going to give a shout out to.
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  Yeah, who? Are you going to give a shout
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  out to? I was trying to.
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  I was trying to remember, yeah. Just one of those days.
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  It'll come back to me, I'm sure, yeah.
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  Sure, sure will, sooner or later.
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  What's going on in your neck of woods, man?
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  What's going on with you, man? Well, you know, I'm, I'm still
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  learning that animation. I'm still, I'm still, still
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  doing that cartoon stuff. That's pretty cool, man.
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  It's a lot of work, hey. It is.
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  It is, but we're we're, we're getting there.
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  Yeah. It just, it just takes a little
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  while. So, but that's OK.
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  We'll we'll get there. But, you know, technically,
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  after we get everything done, we're going to be a radio
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  station that has four different channels or four different ways
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  of rehabilitation, you know? I've got I bought that that disk
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  that that USB thing to to play online and stuff like that.
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  OK. Yeah, yeah, definitely show me
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  how to. How to Yeah, we'll get that.
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  We'll get that. We'll we'll get that set up.
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  It'll be knives, man, like you can you can go on there and and
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  play a game and you, you what is this?
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  I think it's like Kyle Callaghan or he's a, he's an influencer,
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  he's military as well and he gets on there and he he does
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  games and he talks to, to guys. Same thing here.
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  You could you could totally turn veterans talk into like a a game
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  plan talking event. Yeah.
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  Hey, listen, man, if you're out there, I just wanted to to to
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  let you all know you guys can definitely give us a call at
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  720-619-0627. We'll talk about whatever you
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  want. If you want to give a shout out,
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  you're a veteran or something, just give us a call.
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  Yes, a big shout out. I'd like to give a shout out to
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  the Travis Manion Foundation. I want a great organization.
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  So as you know, Andrea belongs to that and she's very, very
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  much involved. And they have a huge thing
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  coming up, man. I'm going to go ahead after the
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  next break and I'll send it to you Joel, so we can put it up
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  down there. If you're out there, I want you
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  guys to register there. There's AQR code.
• 19:55
  I'll give you register. Just just register, you know, so
• 19:58
  that we can get people out there.
• 20:01
  You know, if, if you're able to do it, fine.
• 20:03
  If you're not, that'd be, you know, that's fine too.
• 20:05
  But just to register in itself as great want to try try to get
• 20:08
  as many people as register as possible.
• 20:10
  What it is is that on Memorial Day, they'll take this token and
• 20:14
  it's a, a, a flag like the one, kind of like the one that's
• 20:17
  behind me here. Right, and they'll place it on
• 20:19
  your loved one's grave and they'll take a picture of it for
• 20:21
  you and they'll they'll put it online for you as a let you know
• 20:24
  that we were there. And so just give you guys all
• 20:27
  little background. There's there's a a wives tale,
• 20:31
  if you will, that says that a person dies twice in their life.
• 20:35
  They die when they they're buried and in the grave.
• 20:38
  And then they die when their name is read for the last time,
• 20:41
  meaning that nobody reads it again, right or says it says it
• 20:44
  again. And that's why we always, you
• 20:47
  know, we're Arlington Cemetery and I'm going to either First
• 20:50
  Sergeant Rafferty's gravesite or Captain Conn's gravesite or
• 20:54
  somebody else's that served with us.
• 20:57
  I pass all the other headstones. I always say the name out loud
• 21:00
  and, and, you know, I always want to make sure that their
• 21:04
  memory is not forgotten. So, you know, they place it
• 21:07
  there, they they read the name out and they pay tribute or, or
• 21:12
  honor this Memorial Day to your loved one that is, that is
• 21:15
  buried at the National Cemetery. So Arlington there's there's,
• 21:19
  you know, obviously everybody knows Arlington is the big one.
• 21:22
  I'll be up there in Arlington. The following on one more actual
• 21:26
  Memorial Day. But and North Carolina and North
• 21:30
  Carolina have a huge one in Salisbury.
• 21:32
  It's called Salisbury National Cemetery.
• 21:34
  It's huge. It looks like a little miniature
• 21:36
  Arlington. It's huge, beautiful.
• 21:38
  They got another one in Raleigh. They got another one in
• 21:42
  Pensacola, FL. They've, I mean, they're all
• 21:44
  over these, these national cemeteries and what they do is
• 21:48
  they, they Travis Manion Foundation reached out and, and
• 21:51
  got help from all these people to be able to put this token on
• 21:53
  there for those loved ones that couldn't make it to their loved
• 21:55
  ones grave. You know, maybe you got a great
• 21:57
  grandfather that's buried at Arlington Cemetery or, you know,
• 22:01
  you got a loved one that's buried somewhere else in another
• 22:02
  part of the country or something like that.
• 22:04
  Or, or you just aren't able to go into the gravesite for
• 22:08
  Memorial Day. They'll, they'll go and they'll
• 22:10
  pay tribute in the honor, you know, and of course, the
• 22:11
  American flag will be there. And yeah, it's pretty, it's
• 22:14
  pretty, pretty, pretty freaking neat tribute to the troop, if
• 22:19
  you will. I love it.
• 22:21
  I, I think Travis Manion Foundation is, is just one of
• 22:25
  the many amazing foundations. Again, it's, it's geared towards
• 22:29
  Gold Star families. Travis Manion was a Marine Corps
• 22:32
  officer who lost his life in Iraq and they do so much for the
• 22:39
  I mean, they raise so much money and, and help the stuff like
• 22:42
  that for Gold Star families and, you know, kids and, and wives
• 22:46
  and stuff like that, along with parents and stuff that lost a
• 22:50
  loved 1. So it's a great organization and
• 22:52
  and I'm proud to say that, you know, I support them and and
• 22:57
  yeah, check him out. Travis Mania, TMF, Travis Mania
• 22:59
  Foundation. So yeah, something special, but
• 23:01
  a lot of things going on Memorial Day that that.
• 23:04
  That one thing like that, I was thinking about it, It just came
• 23:07
  to my my head three days ago. Do you remember a soldier named
• 23:14
  Shane? Shane Uris.
• 23:17
  Yeah, I know yours. He was a great drummer.
• 23:21
  Yeah, do you realize he has a band?
• 23:24
  Yeah, he was a he was a phenomenal drummer.
• 23:27
  Let me tell you about this guy real quick before you finish.
• 23:29
  He was he he lived on my floor in, in, in the Army.
• 23:32
  He lived on my floor. And they always played and he
• 23:35
  had a drum set in the in the thing.
• 23:37
  And the best drum solo I think ever was Tom Sawyer.
• 23:42
  By God, no, I'm, I'm drawing a blank.
• 23:49
  Tom Sawyer. He gets high on you.
• 24:00
  Rush by Rush. That's what it was.
• 24:02
  The band. Rush played it, and they have a
• 24:04
  drum solo in there that's to die for it.
• 24:06
  And he played it for me. Man, I'll never forget that.
• 24:08
  But go ahead. Yeah, yours is great.
• 24:09
  Great drummer. He's got a band now.
• 24:11
  Yeah, he's got a band, they've got a song out.
• 24:14
  I, I'm not, I'm not going to, I'm not going to push it out
• 24:17
  until he so he writes A consent form, but we're going to play it
• 24:23
  here on MBR. But I, I'm really surprised.
• 24:27
  It sounds good. It is definitely Cookie Monster
• 24:30
  on steroids music. You're yeah, you're frozen for a
• 24:34
  second there. You said it's Cookie Monster on
• 24:35
  steroids. Yeah, it's Cookie Monster on
• 24:38
  steroids, man. I.
• 24:39
  Don't know why you're freezing up left and right man, but
• 24:41
  anyway. OK.
• 24:44
  Damn stream yard. I'm telling you, sometimes just
• 24:48
  just doesn't. It sometimes just doesn't like
• 24:51
  you. Yeah, right.
• 24:53
  I'm not frozen up. It was just you freezing up.
• 24:56
  I. Can hear, I can hear you still,
• 24:57
  but you're freezing. It might have been your camera
• 24:59
  just resetting. But yeah, anyway, make a Long
• 25:02
  story short, Pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty freaking
• 25:05
  cool man. He was.
• 25:05
  He was a great, like I said, he was a great drummer.
• 25:07
  So yeah, I can't, can't wait. That would be pretty exciting.
• 25:09
  But yeah, Memorial Day. Anybody else got anything going
• 25:11
  on? See, everybody knows that
• 25:13
  Memorial Day is when all the pools open up.
• 25:15
  And it's like, which I think is stupid because like, there
• 25:18
  wasn't even a a freaking spring this year.
• 25:20
  We went straight from winter to summer and then back to winter.
• 25:24
  It was crazy anyway, but yeah, a lot going on.
• 25:32
  Yeah. He says it's the Denver
• 25:34
  Gremlins. They're dealing all, all the
• 25:37
  there. There was stealing all the Bron
• 25:39
  broadband. That's funny.
• 25:42
  That's funny. Good old Charlie.
• 25:46
  What's going on, Red? Everybody out there?
• 25:51
  Weather Alert Severe Thunderstorm Watch has been
• 25:53
  issued and will expire at six at 12 AM.
• 25:56
  And I hope this thing doesn't screw up my freaking plans for
• 25:58
  tomorrow. No.
• 26:03
  Oh, that just said 50 percent, 50%, Fifty percent, 65%, seven
• 26:08
  AM Yeah. It's there's no rain tomorrow.
• 26:15
  There's no rain until later on in the afternoon.
• 26:16
  That's it. A little windy tomorrow.
• 26:20
  A little windy. Yeah, I always loved a little
• 26:23
  windy. Anyways, Yeah, you're here all
• 26:28
  day for your amusement. Ladies and gentlemen.
• 26:31
  I'm just exhausted today. I don't know why.
• 26:33
  I don't know if it's just the end of the week or my brains
• 26:35
  just been going on and on. I was.
• 26:37
  Going to say you've been doing a lot of stuff here lately.
• 26:40
  I've been doing a lot of what? You've been doing a lot of stuff
• 26:43
  here lately. Yeah, I did 22,000 steps the
• 26:46
  other day. Is that ridiculous?
• 26:48
  That's ridiculous, you know, And I used to do that whole walking
• 26:53
  instead, remember? And.
• 26:56
  My my iPhone watch, it went kaput and after it went kaput,
• 27:02
  I'm like, all right, well, screw this.
• 27:03
  I just, I just won't do this anymore.
• 27:05
  And that's one of the reasons why I quit walking is just
• 27:08
  because. I never got you, never got a new
• 27:11
  one. That's.
• 27:13
  Right, I got you. I got you.
• 27:14
  I'm going to send you one. I'm going to stop dead serious.
• 27:19
  Magic Mike's going to send you a watch, an Apple Watch, so you
• 27:22
  could start doing your walking again.
• 27:24
  I've got a, I've got a Garmin that I hook up to my Apple now.
• 27:28
  So I go back and forth from a Garmin to this.
• 27:32
  I got the Apple Watch, I got the Garmin.
• 27:33
  I go back and forth, back and forth.
• 27:35
  But yeah, I've got a, I've got a Apple Watch around here
• 27:37
  somewhere. I'll send you.
• 27:39
  My son didn't want it. He was like, no, I'm not, you
• 27:41
  know, he's an Android guy, I think, or whatever.
• 27:43
  So whatever. Can't teach those Android guys
• 27:47
  anything. I think they're better than
• 27:49
  everybody else. Yeah, I mean, it's it, it was
• 27:52
  first we had Andrew. No, first it was.
• 27:54
  Let's go back a little bit. First it was Atari and Atari.
• 27:59
  And what was a confederate for Atari?
• 28:01
  Sega. Sega.
• 28:02
  Sega. Yeah.
• 28:03
  So you had Atari and Sega, then it went and then, you know,
• 28:07
  everybody else started jumping in.
• 28:08
  And then it was then we went Mac and Apple or, or Apple, Mac,
• 28:14
  right? Mac and then Microsoft.
• 28:16
  Those are the big competitors, right?
• 28:18
  And then you had Apple and fricking Android, which was the
• 28:22
  big competitors. And here we are in 2025 and now
• 28:26
  you have the liberal, the conservatives.
• 28:28
  What the fuck? It's like everybody against
• 28:32
  everybody. Used to be Pepsi and Coke
• 28:34
  against each other, right? You always got to have a
• 28:36
  rivalry. Freaking crazy.
• 28:38
  Yeah. Or, you know, that's the only
• 28:40
  way you're successful. You got to, you have to, you
• 28:43
  have to chase somebody. Yeah, you know.
• 28:47
  Yep, Yep, that's the way it works.
• 28:49
  That's the. Way and I don't know if you saw,
• 28:51
  but my my wife and she just we added three more coloring books
• 28:58
  to. I did see that.
• 28:59
  Yep. Yeah.
• 29:03
  Cardinal Robert Prevost, 69, from Chicago, will be known as
• 29:08
  Pope Leo. The 503rd 1.
• 29:11
  I don't even know what that is. 10 plus 14th.
• 29:14
  I think it's the 14th, right? Ten.
• 29:17
  Yeah, that's the 14th. As Pope Leo, the 14th.
• 29:20
  He called for peace and paid tribute to the late Pope Francis
• 29:25
  to roaring crowd. So there you go.
• 29:28
  That's the new Pope. Yeah.
• 29:36
  So and then let me see what else is in in the highlighted news
• 29:39
  today. Let's see.
• 29:46
  Hey, check this out. So we've got Charles.
• 29:49
  He's tuning in. He's like some support military
• 29:54
  broadcast radio by watching the videos.
• 29:57
  We he wrote, we had Texas Instrument first.
• 30:00
  Gee, you just dated yourself, Charles.
• 30:04
  Jesus. Yeah.
• 30:07
  So, so here, here. Here's a fun fact.
• 30:09
  My my lawyer and good friend of mine, who who I had absolutely
• 30:13
  adore, his name is Andrew Van Arsdale.
• 30:15
  He's representing all the, all the, all the people who are
• 30:18
  filing lawsuits against P Diddy. Now, do you guys see that?
• 30:22
  No, I didn't. Yeah, P Diddy's legal troubles
• 30:26
  have are not over, Kate Flurry of civil cases could could now
• 30:32
  impede his his demise, I guess you might say.
• 30:39
  I do want to say one thing real quick before I forget.
• 30:46
  This past weekend, we lost a great man.
• 30:50
  We lost somebody who he was a Vietnam vet.
• 30:55
  Out of was was it Kokomo IN? He was a New York he.
• 31:00
  Was a new. York Mac died of cancer and, you
• 31:06
  know, we had the talk with them today, national streaming
• 31:11
  services. And, you know, we're, we're
• 31:14
  going to, we're going to kind of help them keep them under our
• 31:17
  wing. Just kind of make sure that
• 31:19
  Mac's dream, you know, national streaming service that it that
• 31:26
  it keeps on going on. We're going to try to push that
• 31:29
  as a legacy and the MBR is going to be one of those stations
• 31:34
  that's going to support that. You know, and the nice thing is,
• 31:36
  is the streaming session when they come over, when they come
• 31:40
  over, you know, to the dark side, they'll they'll be able to
• 31:44
  utilize stream yard and they won't have to deal with the obs.
• 31:48
  I don't know if you know anything about OBS Magic Mike,
• 31:51
  but OBS is a a way you stream and it's it's kind of a pain in
• 31:56
  the ass. Yeah, that's a little little
• 32:01
  bit, a little bit of a pain in the ass, right.
• 32:03
  I mean, it's just. Yeah, so, but yeah, that's the,
• 32:08
  that's the, that's the neat stuff that's going on.
• 32:10
  And and Shane wrote out wrote to me and I'm trying to bring up
• 32:15
  the, the title of the the new album.
• 32:23
  I I think it's like Levi gets or something like that.
• 32:25
  I'm looking right now. Interesting.
• 32:32
  It's called the, the new track is called Divergent Divergent
• 32:39
  and the the link tree is EN. So after you, you know, put it
• 32:45
  in the link tree, you want to put EN7I7Y and it will, it will
• 32:53
  literally take you to his page and you can kind of see what
• 32:58
  they have going on and what they continue to have going on.
• 33:03
  Pretty, nifty. Pretty.
• 33:04
  Pretty cool stuff right here. I thought so, and back to you.
• 33:14
  Back to you. Yeah, I know we're kind of like
• 33:16
  all over the map today, but we're just chilling today.
• 33:18
  Today's our chill day. So if you want to call, talk
• 33:20
  about something you want to call and give a shout out to a
• 33:22
  veteran, please do. Charles is like damn, y'all are
• 33:24
  fucking dead today, man Dead. Yeah, We just listen.
• 33:28
  Today's our chill day, man. I want to go to bed.
• 33:30
  Joe just woke up. Joel just woke up, man.
• 33:33
  I didn't. I didn't just.
• 33:35
  Wake up saying he didn't wake up.
• 33:36
  Yeah, I didn't just wake up. He's so full of crap.
• 33:43
  But what where is it? It's I was trying to find it so
• 33:49
  that I could at least. Here we go.
• 33:54
  Oh, this is what I'll do. I'm going to while you're doing
• 33:57
  whatever you're doing, I'm going to grab the the album so that I
• 34:01
  can at least share it. Save as blah blah blah blah.
• 34:10
  All right, Hey, So what else? What else is news is what else
• 34:16
  is going on in the news that I might not be aware of like.
• 34:20
  I, I was watching a TikTok video and, and it was like these three
• 34:23
  people fighting and all of a sudden you see one person come
• 34:26
  up and throw something at this guy, hit him and, and it, you
• 34:29
  know, throws it at him, hits him and like knocks him out.
• 34:31
  He like slowly falls down to the ground.
• 34:34
  And at first I thought it was a toilet.
• 34:35
  I was like, God, at least she just hit this guy with the
• 34:37
  toilet. So that's change band right
• 34:41
  there. End of the Divergent, the new
• 34:44
  track, like I said, if you want to look him up, it is EN7I7Y
• 34:52
  right on LinkedIn. So yeah, you can.
• 34:56
  You can totally do that. Yes, I was watching this, this,
• 34:59
  this the thing on TikTok and there's a bunch of people
• 35:01
  fighting. This person comes running up and
• 35:04
  throws something. This guy hits him in the head
• 35:05
  with it and the guy kind of goes, it falls back.
• 35:10
  So you knocked him out. And at first I thought it was a
• 35:12
  toilet. And I looked back and rewound it
• 35:14
  like watched like 20 times and realized it was a fax machine.
• 35:17
  And somebody commented and said, damn, I thought it was a toilet.
• 35:20
  But this person put the fax machine into use in 2025 anyway.
• 35:31
  Well, hey, we can go on next break and just take.
• 35:35
  A quick break, man. Yeah, when we come back, well,
• 35:38
  you know, I tell you what, we'll we'll go ahead and do the
• 35:41
  tribute to the troops and then after we do the tribute to the
• 35:45
  troops when we come back. What what how are we going to
• 35:48
  close this out? Mike, What?
• 35:49
  Where do you thinking? I.
• 35:51
  Think we need to close it out by saying reduces.
• 35:57
  All right, you guys, we'll be right back.
• 35:59
  Everybody stay with us. You're listening to veteran talk
• 36:01
  right here on the station. That's letting our voice
• 36:04
  veterans voices be heard. MBR.
• 36:09
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• 36:15
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• 36:18
  of a unit. This is meant to ensure all are
• 36:21
  present and accounted for. Second call, the name is called
• 36:26
  out again, louder, to confirm that the service member is
• 36:29
  indeed absent. Third call, the name is called
• 36:33
  out for a final time, followed by a statement indicating that
• 36:36
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• 36:39
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• 36:43
  symbolic gesture to respect and remember their service.
• 36:52
  Sir Adam. I'm not.
• 36:55
  Tell the story. Well, you got the joke.
• 36:59
  You tell the American people what these men do here.
• 37:02
  You tell them how much Hoopers died.
• 37:26
  Hey everyone, thank you for tuning in to NPR today as we pay
• 37:30
  tribute to Navy Petty Officer First Class Lewis Ariel's S
• 37:34
  Front, age 25, of Miami, FL. Petty Officer Salfront was born
• 37:39
  on November 6th, 1982 in New York, NY.
• 37:42
  Petty Officer Salfront was an explosive ordinance disposal
• 37:45
  technician assigned a Hampton Roads SEAL team based in
• 37:48
  Virginia Beach, VA at the time of his death.
• 37:51
  Lewis graduated from Barbara Goldman Senior High School in
• 37:55
  Miami, FL in June of 2000. He entered active duty on July
• 37:59
  24th, 2000 and reported for recruit training at Naval
• 38:03
  Recruit Training Command, Great Lakes, IL.
• 38:07
  After completing both recruit training and Quartermaster A
• 38:10
  school, he reported to Naval Explosive Ordinance Disposal
• 38:13
  School at Elgin Air Force Base, Florida and graduated July 16th,
• 38:17
  2002. Upon graduation, Petty Officer S
• 38:21
  Front reported to Explosive Ordinance Disposal Mobile Unit 5
• 38:25
  in Guam where he trained to be a salvage diver and defuse and
• 38:28
  dispose of explosives. Lewis continued his deployments
• 38:33
  aboard the USS Essex in support of Argen X03-01 and Sock X,
• 38:40
  where he earned his enlisted Surface Warfare and Air Warfare
• 38:44
  qualification simultaneously. Additionally, he provided EOD
• 38:49
  support for the US Secret Service in support of President
• 38:52
  Bush's visit to Bali, Indonesia. He then augmented NSW Squadron
• 38:58
  7C Platoon during Sock X and provided the framework for VBSS
• 39:04
  operations in and around the island of Okinawa, Japan.
• 39:08
  In recognition for his efforts, he was a with the Navy
• 39:11
  Achievement Medal. When not at work, you could
• 39:13
  always count on finding him out on the sea, doing what he loved,
• 39:17
  diving and spearfishing. Lewis was screened for and was
• 39:22
  selected and assigned to Naval Special Warfare Development
• 39:26
  Group in Virginia Beach, VA in November of 2005.
• 39:30
  Throughout a rigorous 6 month joint EOD and Sill selection and
• 39:35
  training course, he was the top marksman in his class.
• 39:39
  Recognized as a skilled EOD technician, he was immediately
• 39:43
  deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and participated
• 39:48
  in countless critical missions. He died in Iraq on February 2nd,
• 39:53
  2008. He was killed by an improvised
• 39:57
  explosive device during combat operations while attached to a
• 40:01
  joint task force as EOD team lead during his 2nd combat
• 40:06
  deployment to Iraq. The blast also injured six
• 40:10
  members of his team. Petty Officer Salford was
• 40:14
  awarded the Bronze Star for Valor and Purple Heart
• 40:16
  posthumously for heroic achievement during combat
• 40:20
  operations against the. Enemy as joint task force
• 40:25
  assault team member in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom Petty
• 40:31
  Officer one Salfront is survived by his parents, Rafael and
• 40:36
  Claire Salfront, extended family members, friends and shipments.
• 40:42
  We here at NBR would like to thank you, Petty Officer
• 40:46
  Salfront for your service and dedication to our country.
• 40:50
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• 40:54
  family, friends and those who served alongside you.
• 40:58
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  Hey, listen, we like to thank you for joining us, man.
• 46:24
  We're going to call it a day. We both have.
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  We both have concluded that it's a radio day, man.
• 46:30
  We both are just out of it today, but we'll be back next
• 46:33
  week with a great show. We got a lot planned for you,
• 46:35
  man. It's just those spring Blues,
• 46:37
  man. And it came.
• 46:39
  It came. Look at that.
• 46:40
  The book is here, the actual. The broadcast beaker coloring
• 46:44
  book, you can get it wherever they play, wherever they sell
• 46:48
  comic books right on Amazon and. It's called.
• 46:52
  What is it called again? The Beaker.
• 46:54
  It's called Beakers Broadcasting Adventures coloring book.
• 47:00
  I'm buying one right now for my granddaughter.
• 47:01
  How about? That there you go, there you go
• 47:03
  and we. Have if you, if you're just now
• 47:05
  joining us, check it out. He's got his first color, but
• 47:07
  pull that up again, man, that's pretty cool.
• 47:11
  Here he goes. And Cat Cass has made 7. 7.
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  And the ones that are getting ready to come up is broadcasting
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  those friends talk about processing, you know, getting
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  their benefits, getting enrolled in health health benefits.
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  That's what that that's why that coloring books for.
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  We definitely didn't talk about that.
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  Yeah, that's definitely cool. Yeah, you mentioned that.
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