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One Leg Up Preserving WWII History on D-Day While Catching Up With The Red Storm 6-6-24 · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Here's your host, Alex Garrett. All right, well, today, in
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  the honor of the eightieth anniversary of D Day, the Storming of the Beaches,
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  I want to get into a very special couple of conversations I had from
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  Memorial Day twenty twenty three one, including New York State Veteran Hall of Famer
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  Veterans Hall of Famer Arthur Grabner, who was at that parade last year with
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  his son Doug, and I want to replay that conversation as well as the
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  others in which we honor the veterans each and every year Memorial Day at lettim
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  Neick Douglas let him on the veterans. It's great. They do a wonderful
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  job. They have the parade, and they have the parade, they have
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  refreshment, and you know, they bring you out with the resst never do
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  as has the you put in the military change over the years. From where
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  you sit that hats, I've been there a long time ago. I was
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  in the Navy in February nineteen forty four or forty four forty four to May
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  of forty nineteen forty six, and I was on intact Prince for May in
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  nineteen forty six, Well, sir, and thank you for your service to
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  this country, and any words to the military of today and any moment that
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  you can remember from even those days fighting World War Two that you want to
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  hear, it was great. The war is a horror young people kids killed
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  for no reason, or it's a horror. I escaped it all. I
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  was lucky. God bless you, sir, Thank you all right. Well
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  that look back on Memorial Day twenty twenty three featuring New York State Veteran Hall
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  of Famer Arthur Grabner, who was a World War Two veteran, proudly serving
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  in the United States Navy aboard the USS Laurens APA one five three and attack
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  transport ship in the Pacific theater of War, among other campaigns. So he
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  was there in World War two, and today we should honor no matter if
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  they stormed the beaches or not. We should honor those who did fight in
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  World War two, and remember that they stormed those beaches of Normandy which changed
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  the course of history. But so we can, you know, go to
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  the beaches in memorially weekend they stormed them, so we can enjoy the beaches
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  of New York and across America. But those beaches in Normandy, we're not
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  a vacation spot for the men and women that stormed Normandy on June sixth,
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  nineteen forty four, eighty years of D Day. And by the way,
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  in the next section here, I want to talk about some resources for veterans
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  with disabilities. Thanks to Disability Scoop Sourceamerica dot org has plenty of employment resources
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  and I want to share them with you right now. If you're a person
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  with a disability searching for a job, here are some additional resources disabilityjobs dot
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  net, the Office of Personnel Management, that's US Office of Personnel Management.
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  Check what they've got going on, Career one stop including resources, job search
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  help and lists of job boards for people with disabilities. For veterans who are
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  disabled, you know, they have multiple resources there FEDS higher vas, Military
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  one stores and career one stop for transitioning service members veterans and military spouses,
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  and job boards specifically for military spouses as well. So there's a lot of
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  options. And you know, I always say we got to smash stigmas,
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  and here's a perfect opportunity, a perfect resource, a perfect resource to look
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  into. Now. Of course, I would also recommend the Viscardi Center always
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  looking to help people get jobs that are disabled and increase the disability workforce,
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  So of course the Viscardi Center dot Org. I would highly recommend them as
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  well. So there's so many outlets, so many different people that are out
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  there, so many sources and resources that are out there to make work happen
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  for you. You got to check it out in the link below, in
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  the description below. I'm also fired up because so every time on this delay
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  into congestion pricing, and I believe that's gonna help those disabilities as well,
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  because imagine being disabled and having to pay to be below sixtieth Street. Also,
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  so any delay is gonna help any everybody and anybody as far as I'm
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  concerned. And good on. Kathy Hochel from Maneuvering, speaking of the Viscardi
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  Center, I didn't get the chance to play this the other night or for
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  a while now, But in addition to Tino Martinez, I got a chance
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  to talk with three members of the Saint John's wheelchair basketball team this past spring
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  when they were on the court with our wheelchair basketball athletes, our adapted basketball
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  athletes at the Viscarti Center. I think the American public should well, this
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  is not I'm here with three of the guys from the twenty three to twenty
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  four Saint John's campaign. First of all, Jordan Ingo, Yes, congratulates
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  on being here today. Thanks for being here today. Tell me about what
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  the adjustment was like for you from the course of the power of the wheelchair,
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  if you will, Jordan Dingle, I think the biggest thing is being
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  physicality out here. You know, I certainly wasn't prepared for it. A
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  lot of energy, a lot of communition as well. It was really fun.
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  And then yeah, man, it was very competitive out here. Man,
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  I definitely gotta get adjusted to it. But I had a lot of
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  fun though. I had a lot of fun. Yeah, I think you
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  gotta be really skillful. Yeah, you got to know the technique touched off.
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  Without the technique, you're not gonna be able to play. And then
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  I gotta ask you about first season when Patino? What was that like?
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  Just while you guys are here, let's start with first year with Patino?
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  What was that like? Coach? With Coach Patino, that was good.
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  Man definitely learned a lot on and off the court. I mean, he's
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  a great coach. Hall of fame coach. You know, you can learn
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  a lot from him and just always just to make adjustments throughout the course of
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  the year. And yeah, and then, uh, one thing that stood
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  out was his competitiveness. You know, he he's to lose, and he
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  brought out the best and everybody around him every single day. You know,
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  there was no days off. We got better every day that we were with
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  each other, and we built a really close bond with one another that I'm
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  grateful for. Uh. I think it's a great coat you've bring down with
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  the best out at year. And then tell me one last thing about the
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  partnership with Biscardian Saint John's. It looks like there's gonna be a long standing
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  partnership. To tell us that that's like as well. Hopefully it is very
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  long standing partnership. The energy whenever I come here is always amazing. It's
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  always a warm welcome. The kids have such bright spirits and you guys did
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  a tour earlier in the year, I believe, and it was beautiful to
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  beautiful campus here. There's a lot of people here who go into making it's
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  such a great place and I'm so grateful for every second that I get to
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  spend here. Well, thanks so much, guys. How about you the
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  partnership between Biscardian Yeah, man, I Joints said. I hope the lasts
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  a long time. You know, the great hospitality here, great kids,
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  great everybody. I mean hopefully lasts long. Uh. I hope it continued
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  on because it's really fine coming to Cibody, like the love and the smile
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  and the everybody's supposed this movie. We go. Jordan Raheen, thanks so
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  much, and I hope you guys are going to keep playing today. You
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  guys are great, so thanks so much. I mean, how cool is
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  that to get the opportunity Thanks to doctor Chris Rosa and Joe Solonica for having
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  Saint John's three members of the twenty twenty three twenty fourth squad. And you
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  know, Gabby and I were at the game. That kind of change everything,
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  right, So Saint John's was kind of struggling there and they give up
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  another game, this time to seat in the hall. Rick Potino has a
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  famous press conference nowhere where he basically calls out everybody from the facilities to the
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  players of Saint John's basketball And I think that was a maneuver to fire them
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  up. Because they went on a tear after that, didn't they. I
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  mean, they almost should have made it to the NCAA tournament. But I
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  digress. I was so honored that I got to talk with three members of
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  the Saint John's basketball team for the year and got to see them play a
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  low wheel chair basketball in addition to seeing them play at ubs earlier of the
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  year against Seen Hall. Of course, thanks Dave Popkin for that hookup as
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  well. Now, one other thing, because you know every talking about different
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  trials and testimonies, and Anthony Fauci was recently asked this question by Congressman Robert
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  Garcia. Take a listen. I think the American public should listen to America's
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  brightest and best doctors and scientists, or instead listen to podcasters, conspiracy theorists,
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  and unhinged Facebook memes. Now, listening to people who you've just described
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  is going to do nothing but harm people because they will deprive themselves of life
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  saving interventions. So let me ask you this, Alex Garrett. Podcast listeners,
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  have I deprived you of talking about the vaccine? How have I deprived
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  you as a podcaster? Which I think Robert Garcia paints a broad Bush and
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  Fauci leans into it very much, so continues the painting. If you will,
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  have I deprived you of any information or straight you away? Because as
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  a podcaster, I'm offended that he looped all the good podcasters in with the
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  nut job podcasters. And I call out Robert Garcia and Fauci for doing this
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  because I believe when I got my first vaccine, I was proud of it.
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  When I got my second vaccine, I was talking about it. There's
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  no doubt I was supporting the idea of the vaccine to get us healthy and
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  to get us back out there now three years ago. So when you ask
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  this question, and I'm gonna play it for you again, but when you
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  ask this quest question, Congressman Garcia, I think the American public should listen
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  to America's brightest and best doctors and scientists, or instead listen to podcasters,
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  conspiracy theorists, and unhinged Facebook memes. As a podcaster who's tried to give
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  you the most information and try to become an information hub with the Alex Scatt
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  podcast network, I'm offended that my tax dollars have gone into something like Congressman
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  Garcia's ability to go up there and paint all podcasters with a broad brush.
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  That's not right, that's not cool. But for doctor Anthony Fauci, who,
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  by the way, in emails and emails and emails, said the masks
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  were not going to work, but then when on television said they were and
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  demanded we all mask up for him, and for Congressman Garcia to loop every
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  podcast who's trying to do good in with the minority that do sound very extreme
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  and radical, to loop all of us together like that. Not right,
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  not right. And I hope that something came out of that testimony this week
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  from Fauci and it wasn't just political grandstanding by any party, to be honest,
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  because yes, he observes to be held accountable, But do we really
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  want to drudge up what happened four years ago? Do we really want to
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  do that? So I'll be dropping the links below to Disability Scoop, fascarticenter
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  dot org, and my other thoughts from this episode. Because we're not all
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  bad podcasters. We actually serve a purpose and we have information we want to
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  share. At least I do, and that's why I keep going on the
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  Alex Garrett podcast Network