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The station where our veterans voices are heard.
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MBR talk. Hey, thanks for supporting our
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channel by watching and listening find.
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Us on the web at MB radio dot. 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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something close to my heart, how sharing your story and getting
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behind the mic can be a powerful form of rehabilitation.
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Whether you're fresh out of service, years into civilian
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life, or somewhere in between, We've got a space for you here
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because everyone has a story, and broadcasting is how we tell
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it. And welcome everybody to the
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show. I know it's been a hot minute
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since I've been online. I did have surgery.
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It was great, it was successful, everything is good.
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Nothing to worry about yet Anyway, I do miss you guys, each
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and everyone of you. I've got some great emails that
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I will go through. If I don't get a chance to go
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through some of your emails or some of your requests today,
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please forgive me. I am trying to do my best.
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The office is set up, it's great, it's running.
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I just got things I got to put up and it's just absolutely
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crazy. So if if I don't get to your
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e-mail today or get a chance to address your questions, please
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forgive me. I promise I'll do it on my next
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show. Like I said, I'm doing a lot of
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catch UPS. I will tell you this though, I
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went to go get my iPhone fixed today and assure you and I guess
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is the insurance company that does it right.
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And man, they are and they, they, they, they aired their
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dirty laundry out. The guy said, hey, yeah, we just
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fired everybody for theft. And you know, I'm coming from
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another state to help out. And So what was it you dropped
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off again? I'm like, wow, very dirty
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laundry out. So I guess they're having some
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problems over there. So I wish them well.
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I did get my iPhone back and fixed though.
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So I guess, I guess it wasn't one of I guess I wasn't one of
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the problems or whatever. So as you all know, that world
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suicide or world suicide observance, I don't know why
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they call it observance, but it is September the 10th, right?
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I know that we have September 11th that's coming up soon, 25th
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anniversary, I believe of the 9/11 tax on the twin Towers and
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which changed our world as we know it, our world, not our
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country just, but our world in general.
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And you know, I know it's difficult for a lot of people.
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Some of the emails that I have talked about that one individual
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wrote me and he asked to remain anonymous and, and I'll give him
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that, you know, that that honest request.
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But before I go into the emails and, and answer some of the
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questions and stuff like that, thank you to my huge sponsor Mod
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But thank you for them being a sponsor.
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Thank you to Dunkin' Donuts and Jersey Mike's for being sponsors
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of the military broadcast radio as well and Sony Entertainment.
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Thank you so much for being out there.
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Thank you to my producer, my executive producer, my all my
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peoples out there. Thank you so much because I
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never give them enough props and enough thank yous.
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I've been on a radio day for like 2 weeks now, healing and
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everything is good I guess. But yeah, I'm back.
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So right off the bat, thank you to everybody who, who gave me
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the, the great wishes and stuff like that.
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So one of the, one of the emails that came up to me was about
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this this month, right? September.
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So September is world suicide prevention or awareness
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observation. I don't like that word.
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But anyways, if you have a loved one or somebody you care about
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truly dearly and you know that they're going through a
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difficult time, make sure you're there for them.
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I mean, it's, it's, it is so important to just be there for
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somebody when they need you, right?
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I've always been there for, for people or I try to be there for
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a lot of people. And it's, it's very difficult
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for people going through those things.
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You know, I've, I've been there myself and, and struggle with
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those things. And it's just, it, it means the
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world just picking up a phone call and saying, Hey, look,
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don't want nothing from you, don't need nothing from you.
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I just want to say thank you and thank you for being there for me
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and really appreciate you. Sometimes that goes a long way.
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I had to make sure look and make sure my mic wasn't muted like it
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was last time when I was in my show.
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If you're watching me on TikTok live over here, thank you for
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watching me. I really appreciate it.
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Give us a drop. You can watch us on military
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broadcast radio, the app. You can watch us on Facebook,
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Instagram, Kik. We're on a bunch of different
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platforms as well as my TikTok live.
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So feel free to, you know, jump in, give us a phone call.
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Our lines are always open. You can give me a phone call
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here. You can give me a message in our
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comment box on stream yard or Facebook or whatever, be it.
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So again, thank you to everybody.
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Without further ado, one of my emails states being September
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Suicide Prevention month. I would like to take a moment
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and say that after serving long term, long time in combat and
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returning home, I still reach out to some of my battle buddies
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to make sure that they're doing OK and that they are safe.
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This should not be a once a month observance, but rather an
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ongoing thing. And, and I think it is for the
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most part for veterans, right? We, we, we tend to kind of look
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out for each other and take care of each other and, and watch
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over one another. Another person wrote.
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I'm a retired Colonel of the United States Army.
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I've watched the show for the first time.
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Couple of the episodes were hit or miss.
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I wish I wish for you to dive a little bit deeper into suicide
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prevention. What things are takeaways for
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you? Sounds like a military thing,
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right? What are your takeaways and just
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an after action review of military game major after action
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review of your show. Some of your episodes were great
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and touch touch on some pretty important post deployment as
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well as post military keynotes and and I'll do that from time
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to time. I just don't want my show to be
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overwhelmed with things of that nature.
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And you know, it's not that I don't like having guests on my
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show. I love having guests and I love
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having guests appearances. I've got, you know, quite a few
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people that wanted to come on the show and stuff and and and I
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love that and I love having people on the show.
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I just, you know, getting back into the routine of everything
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and and after I mean, I'm doing amazingly well and I really
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appreciate all of your well wishes, you know, both
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physically, mentally and emotionally.
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I'm doing great and, you know, bouncing back from from almost a
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year of of Lowe's, if you will. So I really appreciate that and
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you know, I will. But like I said, I don't want
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the show to be just nothing about the woes and me's or the
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OR the Oh my gosh, is or anything like that.
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I like that. I always like to have a little
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positive and stuff I had, yeah, that e-mail I'll save till the
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end of the show because it's yeah, I'll save that until the
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end of the show. Here's a text message I
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received. Hey, Magic, Appreciate your
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show. Watched a couple of episodes
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last time where you talked about relationships and PTSD.
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It was great. Can you touch base on that?
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Again? When I do a show, I, I don't
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mind touching base on stuff like that.
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I mean, it's great. And that's why our shows are
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recorded. So please feel free to go back
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and watch any of our shows either on YouTube or Spotify or
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wherever we have them at. And you know, I'll, I'll try to
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do more shows in the future and stuff.
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But I mean, it's again, like I said, I'm getting back into it
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and, and I'll just share it with you.
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You know, everybody knows it. In November of last year, I went
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through a really rough time and you know, it was probably one of
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the hardest times of my life, right?
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And it was readjusting to, to a different life, I guess.
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And you know, when, when there's a song out there and, and it's,
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it's, it's a great song. But anyways, it's you know, the
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old saying is when a heart breaks, it doesn't break even,
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right? 2 two people don't have the same
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hurt, right? One person goes on lives their
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life, yay and all this. And the other person just is in
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misery, right? And so I was the I was the guy
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that was a misery. I'm not saying that they went on
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live their life like yay, but I'm just saying I was a misery
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and I'm trying to figure out where I belonged and where I
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needed to be and stuff like that.
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And I'm there. I'm there now and I I appreciate
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the surgeons that that looked after me.
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I appreciate all of my doctors. The staff at Birmingham Medical
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Center have been phenomenal, at Huntsville Medical Center been
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phenomenal in Chattanooga have been phenomenal and even in
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Cincinnati as well as out on the West Coast have been phenomenal.
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So thank you to all of them and the team put it together.
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A great shout out to Doctor Dean.
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I know you're out there watching me.
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I appreciate you. But yeah, I mean, it's it's
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about bouncing back and that's what I'm doing.
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I'm on the road of recovery, if you will.
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So thank you to all my supporters who watch the show.
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If you watch the show and you have any negative things like,
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you know, I don't like the way you do this or that, you know, I
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appreciate that feedback too. And I'll try to work around
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that. But it's my show and you have
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the option to change the channel or not watch it.
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That's totally up to you. So if you have never picked up a
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weapon and protected the Constitution of the United
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States, then quiet, quiet. Yeah, you, you have no business
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telling me what to do, what not to do, or where to go or not to
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go. Seriously.
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It's a constitutional right for me to be here and do my show.
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If you don't like it, that's fine.
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I'm OK with that. I'm not going to cry about it.
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And you know why Watch my show. That's that's, I mean, people
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don't get it, man, in this world and the way in the day and age,
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man, get over it. Move on.
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Like go watch another show. Go watch 90 Day Fiance or
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something like that. But I really appreciate those
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who do support me and I'm going to read you this text right
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here. Hey Magic, I serve at you in the
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United States military. Things weren't always great in
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the military, but you always made it fun.
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You were one of my first non commissioned officers NC OS You
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taught me do the right thing even when nobody's looking, not
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to walk over cigarette butts, pick them up even though I never
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smoked and to always, always be concerned for my battle buddies
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and my, my my. I don't know what that word is.
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I can't even read it. I think he's trying to say my
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comrades, it's spelled wrong. But anyway, comrades with AK, no
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bueno, no bueno. I'm a bad speller.
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You don't believe me? Ask my ex, she'll tell you she
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used to. She used to beat up on me and
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Scrabble all the time. So bad that I had to cheat all
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the time. I would have to hide, like, the
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little tiles in between my toes and stuff just to make up words.
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But in fairness, she'd make up words like OEI.
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Oh, that's a word. No, it's not.
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Look it up. And I'd lose 100 points.
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So there you go. Don't ever play Scrabble with
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that person. If you're out there and you're
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dating her now, don't play Scrabble.
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You're going to lose. Yeah, I'm doing.
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I'm doing quite well after the surgery.
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My voice is a little bit good, as you guys can tell.
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And sitting here looking for the one e-mail that I wanted to
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read. You OK?
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This e-mail kind of hits home. This e-mail is from an
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individual who it's not from the individual, it's from the
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individual's girlfriend or fiance who he actually committed
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suicide. So I, I think it's only proper
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that I read this try to give you some insight of why I do this.
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It's, it's been quite a few years now.
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My, our daughter is our daughter is quite grown now and she is
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hold on a second. I'm going to put this up here.
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So I'm actually looking at the screen here.
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All right, there it is. And hey, Mike, I just want to
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reach out to you. It's been quite a few years
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since we've talked. My daughter has grown, our
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daughter has grown now and going through the second grade as of
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we speak. I can't believe how the time is
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passed. I can't thank you so much for
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all you've done for the community as well As for us.
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As you know, this is a topic that is near and dear to my
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heart. I'm not going to say any names.
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I'm I'm not going to read the names because I mean, it's, I
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just think it's kind of personal.
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But, and I got chewed out in the e-mail, by the way, last time I
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did read out some names, somebody, I don't think you can
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do better than that. OK, whatever.
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So I won't read names that are anonymous, but the gist is, is
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this is one of my soldiers that came back from Iraq and
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committed suicide. Great kid, great person, an
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amazing funny guy. Like kind of like Robin
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Williams, man. He always made me laugh, always
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made everybody laugh. Great basketball player and just
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a smart kid, man. Just a smart kid and just a
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senseless loss of a life, you know, So the gist of the of the
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text message is just as basically saying, you know, make
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sure that we continue the good fight and the good fight is to
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make sure that our battle buddies are taken care of.
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Make sure everybody's out there is being being seen, heard and
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getting the help that they need. They need, you know, and I and I
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still do have my you know, I just got restricted on TikTok, I
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guess because I used the word suicide, maybe I don't know.
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Anyways, So what do you want me to call it?
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Self mood? Yeah, that that makes no sense
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anyway, ticky talk. So yeah, I mean, it's it's
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basically we need to go out there and we need to make sure
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that our battle buddies are are good, make sure that they're
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they're healthy and safe and just a check up every now and
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then. Hey, how's it going?
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Yeah, you can't be, you can't sit there for six years, be in a
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relationship with somebody and then all of a sudden be like,
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you know, no contact, don't really care.
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It doesn't work that way, right? I mean, be in station with
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somebody for four years, two years or, or six years, right.
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And you're, you're in that, that, that military setting with
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them, right. And it's a relationship of
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brotherhood and sisterhood. You can't just sit there and
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turn your back and say, I forget you guys.
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I I really don't care right? It doesn't work that way.
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You got to make sure that they're OK Make sure you know,
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sometimes we got to suck it up. My restriction said your live
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contains themes that some may find uncomfortable and has been
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restricted reasons suicide and self harm.
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All righty, your live is not eligible for recommendation
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restriction and search results. OK, whatever.
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So OK live Tiktok live just restricted me for using that
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word. Sorry about that.
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I, I don't know what word they want me to use, but whatever.
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So back to what I was saying. Just you just got to make sure
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that you're, you're left and your right are taken care of,
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right, Because that's all we really have, right?
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It's, it's not about color, creed, religion or whatever, be
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it. It's just it's sad.
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It really is sad, especially in our times right now, everything
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that's going on in our world with Iran, with politics, with
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the gas prices, I mean, God leads.
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You guys see the gas prices or they're out of control.
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I mean, it's how crazy. But what do we do from there,
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right? What is it that we you know, how
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how do we check on each other? And it's just a simple phone
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call or a text message, man. It could mean a difference.
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I will tell you that in the last year that I was down in the
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dumps and going through my situation, I had somebody out of
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the blue reach out to me just out of the blue, just three
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people. They were like, hey, man, we
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don't know why we were sitting around having a beer and we
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start joking and laughing and thought of you about how funny
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you were and we wanted to call you.
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I was sitting in bed like bummed out at life and, and it meant
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the world to me that they called me and we chatted for a while.
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And I mean it's, it's stuff like that that really does mean mean
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the world to somebody. So I guess an observance of
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September the 10th being, you know, suicide prevention or
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suicide observance or whatever. Should I, should I give a
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disclaimer to TikTok that if, if I am like it, this, it's not I'm
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not promoting. I don't know.
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Anyway, I'm just going to let that be.
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So, yeah, reach out to your battle buddy, make sure they're
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OK. You know, H train is my is my
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battle buddy has been a battle buddy for over 20 years.
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We serve and Iraq together, right?
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And I check on him. He checks on me every now and
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then. Right when he doesn't hear from
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me, he goes, hey, what's up, man?
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You good. So make sure you check on each
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other. Make sure that you have the
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opportunity to listen to somebody.
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Just check on them, man. Just check.
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Just check on them. Say, hey, how's it going?
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Are you good? Is everything all right with
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you? Just a simple text message, man.
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You know, we get right after September, we got October and
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right after Halloween, guess we got Thanksgiving after
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Thanksgiving. Guess we got Christmas and the
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holidays upon us. And it is a very trying time,
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especially a lot of people are coming back from, you know,
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deployments. We all saw the, the ship that
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was out there, that was on deployment out in the Middle
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East. It's now in the port of Greece.
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I think it is. They're getting a little bit of
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R&R there now, getting off that ship, getting there, getting
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their sea legs a little bit stable now.
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So God bless them. You know, it's, it's definitely
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difficult. It's difficult out there for
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everybody. So make sure, and this is my
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pledge, just make sure you reach out to somebody and just say,
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hey, how's it going? Honestly, honest talk, how's it
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going? What's going on?
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What do you need? What can we do for you?
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And it goes a long way. It really does.
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So I don't I don't know. I don't know how else to tell
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you guys how important it is to reach out to somebody and just
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ask them how their day is even when they're introvert.
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Hey, how's your day going? Listen, I get it.
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Some people are the whole humbug.
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You know, they're going to sit there and be whole humbug all
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the time. Doesn't mean you can't reach out
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to him to say, hey, how's it going?
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Right. Hey, how's it going?
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You good? Everything good And that's it.
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Be done with it. So we're going to take our first
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radio break here and when we come back, I'll read some more
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emails and some more text messages.
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Like I said, I've been gone for a couple of weeks and I know
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that I got to do some catching up, but we'll get in a little
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bit and we'll talk very briefly on the Major Richard Star act
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that is still still there. It's still there.
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So we'll try to figure that out. And everything else is going on
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with the, you know, we've got, they've been in recess for a
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little while. So you're not going to hear
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anything changing there with that said.
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But I don't know. I just think that I think, I
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think they just got to get a move on with that.
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Got to get a move on with anyway.
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Yeah, nobody ever said I was. All right to a hero.
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And we're back here on veterans talk with military broadcast
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radio. So here is the the gist.
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If if you're if you're just coming on the show, here is
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pretty much the gist. So somebody asked me to talk a
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little bit about the veterans take care of Veterans Act,
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right? The the veterans that was it was
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just shot down basically. And, and I think the biggest
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problem was because they were talking about the sleep apnea
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and the tinnitus hearing loss, right?
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Was the biggest bugaboos or pet peeves for that.
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So here's a fun fact. I mean, I don't know if you guys
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knew this and not to get political because I don't want
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to get political, but actually under the Joe Biden presidency
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was when they were talking about taking tinnitus and sleep apnea
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actually off the table. So the VA needs some kind of a
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guidance to move along because they have to make a decision,
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right? So they're going to make a
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decision on this regardless of whether if the take care of
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Veterans Act passes or not this year.
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They're still going to move forward with taking the sleep
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apnea and the tinnitus and re evaluating them, right?
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That's been in the talk and in the work.
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So I'm, listen, I'm just telling you what's going on with that as
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far as the, I mean, I, I don't want to beat a dead horse, man.
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But it's like it seems like that they're, they're, they're not
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going to move on it until either end of September or maybe even
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next year, right? So we're all kind of holding our
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breath for that and stuff. And, and I know there's a lot of
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Gold Star family members out there.
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And, and it just so you know, my last episode 2 weeks ago before
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I took a hiatus and stuff, I was not talking bad or I'll about
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anybody in the Gold Star or whatever, be it.
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And if I have some misinformation out there, if you
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misunderstand me, I apologize, but that's not my intention.
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So, and I'm not going to recap everything that I went over
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because I got a, a pretty irate e-mail from somebody that was
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like, you know, all this and that and you, you misread and
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you missed did this and you can do better and whatever there.
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There's a lot of things you can do better as well.
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So I just want to say that, you know, the Gold Star spouses that
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are out there, Gold Star family members that are out there,
25:21
right? The Love Lives On Act is part of
25:24
that taking care of veterans bill.
25:26
So it was like taking all of these different things and
25:29
putting in one big bill, kind of like the big beautiful bill that
25:32
that that our president had. It's kind of like they were
25:34
trying to do that. So if you don't understand how
25:37
our legislation works and how we get bills passed and stuff like
25:42
that, you might want to dig a little bit deeper into the
25:46
United States of America and how we pass bills, right?
25:49
So if a bill has to do with money, they got to find out
25:52
where they're going to take the money from, right?
25:54
Where are they going to get that extra money?
25:56
And that's one of the biggest problems that they were having
25:59
with the major Richest Star Act, the Love Lives On Act, and all
26:02
these other bills. So if they take those bills and
26:05
they kind of wrap them into one big beautiful build, you don't
26:08
have a bunch of little bills trying to pass, right?
26:10
You just got these little bills, right?
26:12
You got major registrar act, the love lives on act, the take care
26:16
of homeless veterans Act. You've got these are all kinds
26:18
of bills coming at you. Well, how about we take this and
26:21
wrap it into one huge bill, have sub lines of that bill and this
26:26
is how we get it passed. And that's what they were trying
26:28
to do. And I was trying to explain
26:32
that, but it wasn't, I guess coming out right.
26:35
I guess, or somebody wasn't really understanding it.
26:37
I don't know, but I, I don't know anyway, I can't, I don't
26:45
know, I, I can't tell you that I, I don't, I don't have the
26:54
time to sit here and break it down Barney's style or Sesame
26:56
Street for everybody and explain how bills work, right?
27:00
I did my research. I did due diligence on my
27:02
research and this is how it was blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,
27:05
blah. And, you know, if I offended
27:07
anybody, like I said, it wasn't my, my intention.
27:11
So that's, that's about as short of an apology as you're going to
27:15
get. So, you know, again, if you
27:18
don't like it, you can change the channel.
27:19
I know I'm being arrogant about that, but I, I really do wish
27:21
you well. I don't have time for criticism
27:24
that comes from somebody who actually has anyways, moving
27:32
right along. So one of the good things is
27:35
though, is that they did, they do have a lot of HUD Vash
27:37
vouchers. So HUD Vash is obviously housing
27:41
Urban Development, right? The, the, the homelessness and
27:44
stuff like that. They have these vouchers and
27:46
they have a lot of unused vouchers.
27:48
And they decided they passed through Congress that they could
27:50
take these unused HUD Vash vouchers and give them to
27:54
homeless veterans to allow them to have homes.
27:58
When I say homes, places to live, right, apartments or a
28:00
house or whatever be it to live in, to get them off the streets.
28:03
And, and I think that's huge. And that, that, I mean, kudos to
28:06
Boast and all those other senators that are in there.
28:09
And, and this is the thing that kills me is that, you know,
28:13
we're so divided across the board, you know, Republican and
28:16
Democrat and whatever be it, and we're so divided.
28:19
But when it comes to our veterans or military, nobody's
28:22
divided at all. Nobody's divided.
28:25
They're they're actually a lot of bipartisan support for both.
28:29
As a matter of fact, here's a fun fact.
28:31
The major Major Richard Star Act was first announced and spoken
28:35
into existence by a Democrat. So, so it's, this isn't a
28:41
Democrat or Republican thing. It's about doing the right thing
28:43
for veterans, right? And acknowledge them at
28:45
acknowledging their service in the military.
28:47
I'm acknowledging that they had to, you know, retire early, were
28:50
forced to retire and and and that's what it's about, right.
28:54
So, and if and and here I, I forgot to say this because I had
28:56
somebody text me and said, how do I get on your show?
28:59
If you're a veteran or the spouse of a veteran or loved one
29:03
of a veteran, mom, dad, sister, brother or whatever, and you
29:06
want to be on the show, Absolutely drop me a line at
29:09
Magic Mike. Magic Mike at MB Radio dot US
29:14
and you know, I'll, I'll give you my cell phone number.
29:17
I don't care. Just just we'll figure it out.
29:19
We'll get you online and we'll set you up.
29:22
You can be on, you can be on the show.
29:23
It's not a big deal. Send you a link.
29:26
We can meet somewhere, whatever. I can set up everything.
29:28
It it's up to you how we do it. But yeah, you're more than
29:32
welcome to be on the show because I've gotten that text
29:33
message a couple times where people have asked, hey, how can
29:36
I be on your show? I'm a veteran.
29:39
I would love to be on the show just to talk about what's
29:40
important to me and other veterans as well.
29:44
One of the things they talked about in their, in their e-mail
29:46
was VA claims. And, and I'll touch base a
29:48
little bit on that. If you are a veteran.
29:52
And I think 2 weeks ago when I did my show, I went on a little
29:54
bit of a rant and I think it was misunderstood.
29:58
If you are a veteran, you are filing a claim with the VA.
30:02
I'm all for that. I'm, I'm not saying you
30:04
shouldn't file a claim or anything like that.
30:07
You should file a claim. Absolutely right.
30:11
Don't give up filing your claim. I'll say that again.
30:16
Don't give up on filing your claim because somebody wrote me
30:18
a, a kind of a nasty e-mail and said, oh, you're telling people
30:21
not to file claims or they shouldn't file claims or or
30:23
whatever. What about you?
30:25
That's that's not what I'm saying.
30:27
What I said in my last show was and I talked about it was is
30:31
that I don't think it's right. This is only my opinion is not
30:35
the opinion of veterans talk or military broadcast radio.
30:38
This is Michael's opinion. I don't think it's right that if
30:41
you're in the military before you even ETS out of the
30:44
military, that means get out of the out of the military right
30:46
before you even leave the military.
30:49
I don't think it's right that you're 100% total and permanent.
30:53
I, I, I, I don't understand that.
30:55
So if you're in the military and you say, oh, my back hurts, my
30:59
knee hurts, I need a back surgery, I need knee surgery, a
31:01
carpal tunnel, my finger hurts, my brain hurts, whatever be it.
31:05
I think the military should keep you on active duty and fix
31:08
whatever is broken. That's where they can get you
31:10
the best care. They can send you to Bam C,
31:12
which is in San Antonio. They can send you to Walter Reed
31:15
Hospital, which is probably one of the most phenomenal
31:16
hospitals, but that's the Walter Reed Combined hospital in DC.
31:20
They can send you to all these great hospitals to get you the
31:24
great service that you deserve before you get out.
31:28
I don't think it's fair that you get out of the military at 100%,
31:31
collect a check, and never see the VA again.
31:35
Never do anything with the VA That that's what I was getting
31:39
at, right? Because what we have done is we
31:41
have, we have started to use the VA as a social welfare system.
31:45
While I served in the military for three years and playing
31:48
basketball, broke my ankle and now I'm 100% total and permanent
31:52
to the military. I, I, just, I, I'm, I'm trying
31:56
to play devil's advocate and figure this out and it's just
31:58
not working in my head. The numbers don't work.
32:01
We're going to bankrupt the VA and the government before we
32:03
know it. That's all I was saying.
32:05
But if you do have an actual claim, right, by all means, by
32:10
all means, go to the VA, file the VA.
32:12
I was just saying that when I got out of the military and many
32:15
of my friends and colleagues and so on and so forth, we did not
32:19
have the opportunity to sit in front of a VA counselor,
32:24
American Legion or whatever be it.
32:26
And they were like, yeah, you're 100% man.
32:27
Let's go ahead and get this paperwork submitted.
32:29
And when you ETS, boom, you walk over to VA and start collecting
32:32
your check. We didn't have that.
32:35
I mean, a lot, a lot of veterans fought for years.
32:36
I, I helped a veteran that was a Vietnam, excuse me, a Vietnam
32:39
veteran Agent Orange. It is, I mean, it's, it's it, it
32:44
takes a long time. I'm not saying it should take a
32:46
long time. And I don't wish that on anybody
32:48
else. And I'm going to stop right
32:51
there because I know I'm going to go down the rabbit hole that
32:53
everybody's going to be while you're saying this.
32:55
And I'm going to get a lot of hate emails for it.
32:57
But you know, if you have a claim, do it.
32:59
Absolutely. I mean, it's your right to do a
33:01
claim, but I want you all to know also something that as a
33:05
veteran who's 100% permanent in total, there is so much more out
33:11
there. There is so much more than just
33:16
the compensation. Seriously, if you're 100%,
33:20
there's their tax brackets that you meet for housing.
33:23
You know, like me in my house, I'm, I'm exempt from homestead
33:29
exemption. That's huge.
33:31
I mean, that's what, $1000 a month?
33:32
I'm sorry, $1000 a month. That's $1000 to actually it's
33:36
1800, I think it was for taxes, for homestead exemption taxes.
33:40
I mean, that's, that's pretty good, man.
33:43
Free license plates. Texas is, is like, yeah, if if,
33:46
if you're 100% permanent total, move to Texas.
33:48
I'm going to tell you right now they got free license plates,
33:50
free free fishing, free hunting, free driver's license.
33:54
If you're 100%, you get a handicap placard parking you
33:57
get. I mean, they just they know how
33:59
to take care of their veterans. Florida, great state to live in,
34:03
Tennessee, amazing state to live in.
34:07
Tennessee, where we're at Tennessee, we don't have a state
34:10
income tax, which is great. So I mean, a lot of states offer
34:15
a lot of great benefits and stuff like that.
34:16
So there are different benefits out there for you.
34:20
That tickets is one of them. Jeez, goodness gracious.
34:23
I could go down the list, but nobody talks about those, right?
34:26
Gov X commissary privileges, if you're not retired, you can get
34:31
your commissary privileges, PX privileges.
34:34
There is a caveat to that. You can't shop it like the
34:36
uniform portion of the of a PS right.
34:38
So unless you have a military ID card, you know, you, you, you
34:42
can't go in there and buy like commands our Major General
34:45
stripes, right? You know, you don't like
34:46
craziness. So that I mean, there's a lot of
34:49
good benefits out there that everybody should be applying
34:52
for. I agree everybody so.
34:59
Thanks to morning who just joined.
35:02
So I have, I have a gentleman who is a YouTube sensation,
35:08
Instagram sensation and I'm trying to get him on my show.
35:12
He reached out to me and because my Instagram was private, he's
35:15
like, hey, don't make your Instagram private.
35:17
I'm not going to make it private anymore because it was my
35:19
personal Instagram. It's veterans talks Instagram
35:21
now. So it is no longer private.
35:23
So and there'll be some cool postings on there and stuff like
35:25
that. It is a business account as of
35:27
right now. Excuse me, excuse me.
35:31
So I'm still horsed. Lord have mercy Ricola in the
35:42
news, I, I not to change gears here, but a little bit, but in
35:45
the news we had recently, NATO is like being hit left, right
35:52
and center. Canada is in the limelight again
35:54
and stuff like that for not pulling their share of NATO
35:57
right. And, and everybody's saying that
36:00
that Russia is trying NATO's patience by, you know, invading
36:05
little countries like, you know, Ukraine and all that stuff.
36:08
And it, and, and it, you know, I just, I don't want to be that
36:12
guy that talks about the news all the time and stuff, But I
36:15
know I get a lot of emails. I just got an e-mail.
36:16
That's why I'm talking about it. Sorry, e-mail says, hey, with
36:20
everything that's going on with NATO and stuff, does it scare
36:23
any veterans out there about, man, does it scare us?
36:27
Does it scare us? Listen, if the government said,
36:29
Hey, we need every single breathing person that can carry
36:32
a gun and shoot there in a doubt in in my mind that 90% of the
36:38
veterans will step forward regardless of age, color or
36:40
creed, regardless, I think 90% of them would step forward and
36:44
say, yeah, what was that what you got?
36:46
We're ready for that. We've been, we've been training
36:47
for our whole life for this where you want me.
36:50
I mean, it's, it's crazy. So yes, I think veterans are in
36:54
tune to the news and stuff like that, but we really just don't
36:57
watch it. I mean, it's, it's not something
36:59
that we it's not something I do anymore.
37:01
I used to do it, but I don't do it anymore.
37:03
So I mean, it is what it is, right?
37:06
The news is the news. So no, I, I don't think that the
37:10
veterans watch it too much. Yeah.
37:19
I mean, he, he just wrote me another one and said, so if
37:22
you're out there listening to me, pay attention to me.
37:24
Here it is. I hate looking down at my
37:26
emails. You're, I mean, you're, you're,
37:27
you're blowing up my text messages rather so.
37:30
So here it is. Here's the bottom line.
37:32
Veterans don't normally generally watch sit and watch
37:35
the news all day. And if we do watch the news,
37:36
we're kind of like, right. It's like we have better things
37:40
to do. There's different genres and
37:43
different generations of veterans.
37:45
And, and, and I'll explain that you have our World War 2
37:49
veterans and Korean War Veterans who are far and few between,
37:52
right? Let's, let's face it, right?
37:54
They're, they're, they're aging out.
37:56
I'll say in a, in a kind of a kind way, you know, if you do
38:00
the math right, it's been long since World War 2 and Korean War
38:07
a really long time. So if the average age was 20,
38:12
right, you're talking about they're almost 100 years old, if
38:16
not 100 years old. Seriously.
38:19
So and Korean War Veterans, the same thing.
38:21
You know, people don't even remember when the Korean War was
38:23
right in the 1950s. Ring a bell?
38:26
So I mean, these are people who are are getting older and you
38:33
know, they're, they're they're aging out a little bit, quite a
38:36
bit, right? They're not.
38:37
Where's my hat look record? Is that just a thing?
38:39
Yeah, I think, I think it's just a thing on there.
38:42
I think they are aging out a little bit and I think that the
38:46
Vietnam Veterans are up there in age as well.
38:48
I mean, you got to remember Vietnam started in the 1960s and
38:51
then what, 1978 ish, 77, something like that.
38:55
We start pulling troops out and stuff like that.
38:58
So we'll we'll even say 1979 won't be fair, right?
39:02
Say 1979. I got corrected one time.
39:05
Somebody said 1980. I'm like, I don't know about
39:07
that, but you know, troops were coming out and and the Vietnam
39:12
War, the average age was 19. So you let's just for round
39:16
Number, say, as we say 2020 years old, 20 years old from
39:20
1977 or 1979. Add that real quick.
39:27
It's a long time ago, bro, long time ago.
39:30
They're what in their 70s and 80s, right.
39:33
So I mean, it's, it's, it's a different generation that we
39:38
have now. It, it really is.
39:41
And it, and I think that the generation that we have coming
39:44
home now, the veterans that we have now are more in tuned and
39:48
more understanding and more paying attention to their goals,
39:55
right? So World War 2, they came home,
39:57
they went right back to work. A lot of a lot of veterans,
40:00
right? They came home, the economy was
40:02
booming, it was going great. It was awesome.
40:05
Because you had all these veterans coming back from War 2
40:08
to go back into work, workforce, car salesman, real estate,
40:13
construction, whatever, be it right that they just picked up
40:16
from a lot of them picked up from where they left off Korean
40:19
War Veterans very similar. It was a temporary ceasefire in
40:25
Korea. That's why we have North and
40:26
South Korea right now. We still have soldiers on the
40:28
border. There was never, there was never
40:31
a end to the Korean War is only a ceasefire that's held for a
40:34
bazillion years now, right? Those veterans came back, they
40:38
start going to college, they got their lives together and moved
40:41
on, right? Vietnam Veterans came home.
40:43
They were, they were treated differently.
40:46
They were treated totally differently.
40:48
A lot of them got government jobs.
40:50
A lot of them went into the, in the post office or the postal
40:53
industry, railroad industry. They took on new jobs and
40:57
careers and stuff and, and, and made something out of their
40:59
lives, right. Let's bring us to the 1990s and
41:03
we'll start with Panama. We had Operation Just Cause in
41:06
the 1990, right? Operation 8990.
41:09
We had Operation or Desert Storm, Desert Shield 199192,
41:15
right? We had Grenada, we had Kosovo,
41:18
Bosnia, peacekeeping missions and stuff like that.
41:21
A lot of those military veterans stayed in the military for their
41:24
careers and when they got out, they used their GI Bill to go to
41:27
college, right? Because that's, that's the
41:29
thing. That's that was the thing that
41:30
we did. The Vietnam, Korea and War 2
41:34
veterans were these type of people.
41:36
They use these, these hands, right?
41:37
They, they built things, they were construction, they were
41:39
hard working, blue collar, etcetera, etcetera.
41:42
But as we go into the techie side, right, as veterans coming
41:46
home now, a lot of these veterans are like, Hey, I can't
41:49
get a decent job unless I go and get a college degree in
41:52
cybersecurity or in drafting or I don't know if God knows,
41:56
nursing or whatever be it, right?
41:58
So they're taking advantage of that GI Bill, that post 911 GI
42:02
Bill, and they're going to school.
42:03
A lot of people are getting those degrees and they're
42:06
getting married and starting their lives and they're
42:09
continuing their lives and stuff like that, right?
42:12
That's what the veterans are like now.
42:13
They're just kind of like, yeah, I'm just going to go ahead and,
42:17
and, and do my my life, if you will.
42:20
So they're not trying to look for the, for the right words.
42:24
It is they're just not looking there.
42:26
They're not looking back there. They're not looking to rock the
42:32
boat, so to speak, right? It's This is why you don't, I
42:37
don't want to see. This is why this is a huge
42:39
reason why you don't see the numbers that you used to in the
42:42
American Legion, the VFW's and stuff like that.
42:44
Because these people came back and started their lives.
42:46
So they got kids and, you know, they're married and they're,
42:51
they're, you know what I mean? So that's, that's, that's the
42:54
gift that that we have here right now.
42:56
And that's what they're doing. So it's a different genre of
43:01
veterans that we have now. So when you ask a question, I
43:04
kind of went about a whole different way.
43:06
But when you asked, when you ask a question about would veterans
43:10
pick up a weapon and fight right now?
43:12
Absolutely. This has nothing to do with it.
43:14
But you also have to remember that a lot of these young men
43:16
and women who went to Iraq, who went to Afghanistan, young men
43:20
and women, listen, I, when I was in Iraq, we had a 20 year old
43:23
Sergeant. That's unheard of.
43:25
When I came in the Army, I had a Sergeant.
43:27
It was old, crusty. He seemed like he was a 80 year
43:29
old man, right. So these young men and women who
43:34
came back from Iraq and Afghanistan, these other wars
43:38
are taking advantage of the Post 911 GI Bill and they're working,
43:42
They're going to school and they're working.
43:43
They're they're establishing their careers and their family
43:46
and so on and so forth. It's not like before.
43:49
I mean, our times have changed. And that's what I think that
43:53
people don't realize is that times have changed.
43:56
We're going to take a real quick break.
43:58
When we come back, we'll talk a little bit more about some of
44:01
the emails I got about VA benefits that I went over, which
44:05
are, I mean, they're pretty interesting.
44:07
But we'll be right back on Veterans Talk military broadcast
44:09
radio. The radio station gives our
44:11
veterans a voice. And welcome back to veterans
47:15
talk on military broadcast radio with yours truly Magic And I've
47:19
got my hey, I want to I forgot to give a prop out to these guys
47:22
right here for the the free cool circle.
47:26
It's kind of cool, man. It's got this little device in
47:29
the in the top of it that you add in there.
47:31
It's got a sugar free little taste in there.
47:34
So I'm drinking more water, which I need to and and it's got
47:37
a little adjustment up here that you can, you know, how much
47:39
sugar you want or how much sweetness you want or whatever.
47:42
But yeah, it's it's pretty cool. I've been drinking a lot more
47:43
water. So thank you to circle, circle,
47:48
Circle for their cool gift. But if you don't have one, run
47:51
out and grab them. They got them at Walmart,
47:53
Target, Tarjay, all those good places back here.
47:57
I just wanted to go over some quick things. the VA has a pay
48:01
adjustment. So if you guys don't know that,
48:03
if you guys are receiving benefits through the VA for
48:06
college, right, the Post 9/11 or the Chapter 35 survivors
48:12
Independence educational assistance, it will increase.
48:15
October the first. Now those of you who are not
48:17
military and don't know, October is our fiscal year.
48:20
That is our new year for the military, for the government.
48:23
That's when our new year starts. So start October the 1st, I'm
48:28
sorry, the bill effective, The bill was effective the 1st of
48:31
August and it will take effect October the 1st.
48:35
And what that is, is it gives more money.
48:38
So like an increase in allowance and stuff like that for a post
48:41
911 GI Bill grads. Also, the Healthcare Expansion
48:45
Act had over 250,000 new veterans have enrolled in the VA
48:50
healthcare through 2026, supported by the opening of
48:52
dozens of new clinics and expanding.
48:54
Listen, I had the opportunity to drive through Lexington,
49:00
Louisville, Louisville. Sorry, was it Lexington,
49:05
Louisville? Anyways, I drove through
49:08
Lexington, Louisville. I stopped there for a couple
49:10
days. They have one of the largest VA
49:14
health cares hospitals that I've ever seen in my life.
49:16
It is state-of-the-art brand spanking who hasn't even opened
49:19
yet. They're still building it and
49:21
the, the foreman, the construction foreman who has I,
49:25
I guess for the government, right, for the VA happened to be
49:29
there, talked to him, told him who I was, showed him my, my
49:32
press credentials. We had a great talk and he said,
49:33
you want to tour it with me? I said, sure.
49:35
We walked it. Oh my gosh, man, listen here,
49:39
those of you are in Kentucky and you're anywhere around that area
49:41
right there. I believe it's Louisville.
49:45
Godly man. That is going to be a
49:46
state-of-the-art man. I'm talking about brand spanking
49:48
new hospital and it's huge. It's huge.
49:51
Like there's so much construction there on the
49:53
highway that you, you're, you're backed up in traffic.
49:56
And I just sat there and awed, you know, And a fun fact, by the
50:00
way, the DAV where I was actually headed to, which is
50:03
Disabled American Veterans, their national headquarters is
50:06
there in Kentucky. Who, who would have thunk?
50:08
Who would have thunk Cost reduction. the VA secured over
50:13
$10 billion. And this is it really, really
50:16
huge. The VA secured over $10 billion
50:19
in pharmaceutical price reductions during the fiscal
50:21
year 2026 to help lower treatment costs.
50:25
Why is that important? Real quick, just to touch base
50:28
on that, it's really important because of the fact that there's
50:32
certain medicines that the VA will discontinue on you without
50:35
you even knowing. So, so, so the VA, so I'll give
50:39
you an idea. I was taking a medication that I
50:41
needed in order to live. Very simple, right?
50:45
I mean, in order to breathe, I needed this medication.
50:47
Now there is an alternative medication that they gave me,
50:50
but it caused oral thrush and all this other stuff.
50:52
And then I had to take another medication on top of that and,
50:54
and so on and so forth. It was just, it was just
50:56
horrible. So after 15 years or 16 years,
51:00
they changed my medicine and said, well, it's not cost
51:03
effective anymore to us. They did a study and realized
51:06
that they're actually spending more money by switching people
51:11
to the other medicine because people weren't doing too good on
51:13
it and there was more hospitalizations and then they
51:15
had to have medicine to combat the oral thrush and so on and so
51:18
forth. So they switch back to that,
51:20
that medicine, which made sense, right?
51:24
So this is really important. There's another medication that
51:26
I have to take. It cost about $2500 a shot.
51:30
No, it's not Ozympic. I'm not that big, but they had I
51:33
mean, it's it's it's expensive and it's cost less to me.
51:36
I don't pay a dime. I don't even pay through the VAI
51:39
don't I don't even pay a copay. I was paying like a $50 copay or
51:43
something like that crazy and I don't even pay that.
51:45
So craziness, craziness, right? I mean, it's, it's really
51:50
important. So I'm going to read one more
51:52
e-mail here. I mean, I've got to go through
51:54
these emails, one more e-mail and it talks about talking about
52:01
the Veterans Crisis Line. So I'm not going to bash the
52:07
Veterans Crisis Line. I think it's a great idea and I
52:10
think it's a great thing. If you're if, I'll tell you
52:14
this, if you need somebody to talk to the lines open 24/7,
52:17
talk to somebody. Call it, call it 889899 or 889.
52:22
Yeah, now. Now I'm forgetting it because
52:24
I'm just stupid. Now it is a great the crisis.
52:29
Line is 988. Boy, look at.
52:30
Me, I'm all dyslassic 988 and then press one.
52:33
Or you can actually text them, which is kind of cool.
52:36
I mean in our day and age, everybody text messages now,
52:38
right 838255? Or you can go to.
52:46
Veterans crisis line. So it's all confidential,
52:49
confidential support. So I know there was a study done
52:52
a while ago and they said that, you know it was not a good thing
52:56
or whatever be it. But listen, if you need somebody
52:58
to talk to, call them. They're there 24/7.
53:02
Just just talk to somebody does it, even if it's the yell at
53:04
them and tell them they suck, whatever.
53:06
I'm don't do that. I'm just saying it's a way that
53:09
you can talk to people, right? So go out there and talk to
53:12
them. Go out there, talk to them, call
53:14
them. If you're, if you're in crisis,
53:16
there's it's not a big deal. Just reach out to them.
53:18
It's really not that big of a deal.
53:21
As always, look out for your battle buddies.
53:25
Give somebody a call, somebody you've been meeting to call to
53:27
say, hey, I'm sorry or hey, I just want to see and touch base
53:30
with you. Right.
53:32
I'll share a story with you. I haven't talked to my little
53:34
sister in quite a few years and we saw each other at my parents
53:42
funeral and you know my my parents died a long time ago and
53:45
we had them buried at a cemetery.
53:50
Their their remains stick remains.
53:52
Were were were put in a cemetery together with a veteran's
53:54
headstone. My father was a Vietnam veteran.
53:57
Great service by the way. Amazing service and man just.
54:02
Hugging my little sister and saying.
54:04
Hi there was like so important to me.
54:07
It really was. You never know where you're.
54:11
Going to get an opportunity to tell.
54:12
Somebody different, whether they're going to be in your life
54:14
or not, remember that we're not promised tomorrow.
54:17
Reach out to them, reach out to them, ask them how they're
54:20
doing. Reach out to them and tell them
54:22
you love them. You're thinking of them.
54:24
Doesn't have to go anywhere, don't have to carry on an hour
54:27
long conversation. The hell, you don't even have to
54:29
call them back After that. You can stay ghost for another
54:32
1015 years. But it's important.
54:35
It's important that they know that you love them, that you
54:37
care about them, and you're there and you always be.
54:41
There might not be able to be on the.
54:42
Phone might not be able to be in spirit or or in in in person,
54:46
but in spirit you're there and you love them.
54:49
You never low when that person may be gone from your life and
54:57
you'll never be able to tell them different.
55:00
Think about that for a second. Let that, let that kind of sink
55:03
in. It's important.
55:05
It's important every day we put our best foot forward and let
55:07
that person, that special person, that, that somebody that
55:10
you've been meaning to make amends with and say sorry,
55:13
sorry. And I love you and I, I, I hope
55:17
the best for you and I wish you well.
55:19
This isn't about and life's too short to sit here and hold a
55:23
grudge and be so bitter all the time.
55:26
I'm, I'm trust me, I'm learning that one.
55:28
I've learned that one in the last year, right?
55:32
Don't text message people. Give him a call.
55:36
Give him a call, send him a video, even a voice message so
55:39
they can hear your voice and say hey, I just.
55:43
Want to tell you that I hope. You're well and I'm thinking of
55:46
you period end. Of story because.
55:49
I'll tell you in translation, text messages gets lost the
55:54
flexion of the voice, right? I, I, I, I preach this all the
55:58
time. How you read a text message?
56:03
Is how you read it might not be how the person sent it.
56:06
So you might be reading I love you and they might have met.
56:10
I love you so much. Big difference, right?
56:14
If you're standing in a room with me and I told you I love
56:16
you so much, you're you're the world to me.
56:19
Or if I'm sitting in a room with you.
56:20
And I going to love you too. Right.
56:23
So reach out to him, even if it's a voice message, reach out
56:26
to him. Let him know you're thinking of
56:27
them. Let him know that you forgive
56:28
them for whatever it is. Even if you don't forgive them,
56:30
just say it, man. It make it make somebody's day,
56:35
give that forgiveness. You've been meaning to.
56:37
Give so to everybody. Out there that I've.
56:40
Either jaded, done wrong or whatever, I'm sorry and I hope.
56:46
You find in your heart to forgive.
56:47
Me because I forgive you. And that was I guess the, the
56:55
really important part of me giving my sister, my younger
56:58
sister a hug and tell her I love her.
57:01
It really was because we never know when we're going to be
57:03
there for each other again, right?
57:05
Life gets caught up and we, we move on and, and stuff like
57:08
that. So I don't want to be the, the,
57:12
the guy that like, oh, he ended his show so, so solemn and so,
57:16
wow, I don't want to be that. But if you're out there and
57:20
you're watching us, I'm going to leave you with this.
57:23
Military broadcast radios, radio broadcasting for the veterans.
57:29
It's not for anybody else. It's for the veterans.
57:31
It's my therapy. It's therapy for a lot of other
57:34
veterans. We don't just have one show on
57:36
military broadcast radio. We have a lot of shows Into the
57:39
Weeds podcast, Tracer Rounds. We have a podcast about cigars
57:44
that I absolutely fell in love with.
57:46
We have a podcast about Letters Home.
57:49
If you haven't watched that, that's amazing.
57:51
We have another gentleman that just just joined us, John.
57:55
He's phenomenal. And Bunker, the bunker House,
58:00
just just so many different shows.
58:04
And I want you guys to understand something that we're
58:06
not here for us. We're here for you.
58:08
The veterans giving our veterans a voice me on veterans talk.
58:12
What's important to you is important to us.
58:13
So send me an e-mail. Magic Mike at MB radio dot US,
58:17
send me an e-mail. I promise I'll have more stuff
58:20
on my wall. I just haven't hung it up.
58:22
And I promise the next time you guys see me, I'll be a little
58:25
more heavier into the topics and stuff.
58:29
I'm just getting back into it. I'll have a smile on my face and
58:32
I'll have my, my blue eyes or my whatever color eyes my are
58:36
today. I'll I'll have them flashing for
58:37
you guys. But thank you always for being
58:39
there for me. And as always, military
58:42
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58:57
Our producer is a teacher. He teaches people how to do the
59:00
podcast, how to how to do the gosh I'm trying to think of.
59:05
It that that all the different? Craziness that that we have
59:09
going out there, the AI platforms and, and stuff.
59:11
It's, it's phenomenal. As always, thank you for joining
59:14
me on Veterans Talk military broadcast radio.
59:16
Remember, we're here for you and not for us giving our veterans a
59:18
voice. We'll see you next week at 4:00
59:21
PM Eastern Standard Time on Veterans talking.
59:24
Catch me on TikTok. I'll try to make more videos,
59:26
especially as I'm traveling. I promise you all that.
59:29
I've got 20 million things. I got, I got monitors
59:32
everywhere. Now it's, it's, this is crazy.
59:34
You know, I've got an actual office now I've got an actual,
59:37
it's crazy, it's crazy. I'm moving up like George and
59:39
Weezy. Thank you to Andrew Van Arzel,
59:42
Ava law firm, phenomenal people. If you guys ever need anything,
59:47
those are the people to go to Ava law firm.
59:50
They're based they they're based out everywhere.
59:52
Trust me. They're just a huge law firm.
59:54
They're great. I know I'm I'm forgetting
59:56
somebody else. Gordana, thank you so much for
1:00:00
being my support, my ace Buku, my rock, my homie, my my homie
1:00:05
lover friends, you are amazing. Thank you so much.
1:00:09
To my kids out there who probably don't even watch this,
1:00:11
you guys are growing so fast. 30 and 27 man, jeez.
1:00:16
I love each and everyone of you and thank you to all my viewers
1:00:18
out there. And H train show is on Friday.
1:00:21
Make sure you watch that along with the other shows and we will
1:00:24
talk to you guys later. Be safe, take care of each
1:00:26
other, and remember to give that veteran a call.
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